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Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) Alain Benedetti graduated from Loyola College in 1970. A member of the board of the Loyola Alumni Association since 1982, Benedetti served as President of the Association from 1986 to 1988. Benedetti represented the Loyola Alumni Association on the Board of Governors from 1990 to 1996 and served as representative of the community-at-large and Chair of the Board of Governors Audit Committee from 1996 to 2003. He was first elected Chair of the Board of Governors at its June 18, 2003 meeting and was re-elected at its June 17, 2004 meeting. Benedetti stepped down from his Chair role in 2005 and was then named Governor Emeritus and a lifetime member of the Corporation of Concordia University.

• Benedetti chaired the Advisory Search Committee that would elect Claude Lajeunesse President and Vice-Chancellor in 2004 and 2005.
• Benedetti won an IBM Thinkpad laptop at a Shuffle raffle in 2003 and donated the computer to student Maria Hunt through a raffle.
• On November 27, 1997 Benedetti’s volunteer work was honoured at the Awards of Distinction of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration ceremony.
• January 19, 1995 Benedetti received the Distinguished Service Award at the Concordia University Alumni Awards dinner.
• While president of the Loyola Alumni Association, Benedetti inaugurated the Loyola Educational Grant I 1987 to provide funds to deserving Concordia students.
• Benedetti chaired the 1996-1997 Annual Giving campaign.

P. André Gervais earned his Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College in 1954. Gervais joined the Concordia Board of Governors in June 1983, was elected Vice-Chair in 1985, Chair in 1987, and stepped down in September 1992. He continued to sit on sub-committees of the Board of Governors, namely the Personnel and Communications committees. Gervais passed away on August 14, 2016.

• Marc Gervais -P. André Gervais’s bother- graduated from Loyola College in 1950 and went on to become a Communication Studies professor at Concordia.
• Gervais chaired an ad hoc committee that reviewed the search for and evaluation of senior Concordia administrators and produced a report that was approved in May 1984.
• Gervais read the citation at the spring 1986 convocation ceremony for honorary degree recipient Robert Choquette.
• Gervais was the special guest at the reception following the annual general meeting of the Toronto chapter of the Concordia University Alumni Association on May 5, 1988.
• At the April 1992 Senate meeting, Gervais was asked to answer questions about the much-argued rejection of a candidate chosen by the Advisory Search Committee for Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Mohsen Anvari had then been “officially informed” that the committee had “unanimously recommended” him as Dean before Christopher A. Ross was announced as Dean. Gervais explained that the delay in making the announcement had been caused by an “unprecedented” review of the findings of the Advisory Search Committee.
• Gervais was behind an extensive review of University evaluation and search committees that was launched in the fall of 1991 and chaired by then Vice-Chairman Reginald K. Groome. The Ad Hoc Committee on the Revision of the Composition, Rules and Procedures of Evaluation Committees and Advisory Search Committees published its report in December 1992.
• In 1991, Gervais completed the first major revision of University by-laws.
• During his tenure as Chair, Gervais chaired the ad hoc committee in charge of examining revisions to the Board of Governors standing committees. As a result of Gervais’s recommendations, the number of committees was reduced from 18 to 13.
• Gervais received Concordia University Alumni Association’s highest honour, the Award of Merit, at the Alumni Recognition Awards reception on January 19, 1995.
• Gervais received the honour of Governor Emeritus in June 1996.
• Gervais was named Trustee of the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation in 2001.
• The P. André Gervais Graduate Scholarship in Theological Studies was inducted at the Graduate Awards Breakfast on December 2, 2003. The award was one of 10 named endowments in the Gold Scholarship Bank created by Harriet and Abe Gold in honour of several of their friends.

Peter Kruyt graduated from Concordia University in 1978. As President of Power Technology Investment Corporation, Kruyt served on the Concordia Board of Governors since 2000 as representative of the community-at-large before being elected Vice-Chair in 2003 and appointed Chair on June 8 2005 for a one-year term ending June 30, 2006. Kruyt was subsequently reappointed Chair until he stepped down in 2012.

• At the June 12, 2012 Board of Governors meeting Kruyt was presented with a memory book of photographs documenting his 7-years as Chair.
• Along with other Concordia representatives, Kruyt was part of the Team Canada Mission, a Canadian delegation that traveled to China in February 2001 to create new partnerships opportunities.
• Kruyt chaired the 1999-2000 Annual Giving program that raised $1.26 million for Concordia. He had previously been a special gifts canvasser for the 1998-1999 Campaign for a New Millennium.

Reginald K. Groome held a Concordia Board of Governors seat as representative of the community-at-large from 1980-86, when he was elected and served as Vice-Chair until 1991. After retiring as President of Hilton Canada Inc. in 1990, Groome was elected Chair of the Board of Governors in September 1992, a role maintained until 1999. Groome chaired the Search Committee for a Rector in 1994 and 1999. He died on September 20, 1999, in his seventh year as Chair of the Board of Governors. A memorial for Groome was held at the Loyola Chapel on November 17, 1999.

• Groome received the Order of Canada in 1980.
• In 1991 Groome was appointed Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Revision of the Composition, Rules and Procedures of Evaluation Committees and Advisory Search Committees. The Committee (often referred to as the Groome Committee) produced a report in December 1992 that was widely regarded as a significant step toward demonstrating transparency from the University in that it presented shortlisted candidates to the internal community before candidates were finalized by the Board.
• On November 13 1992, Groome was invited as a keynote speaker at the Commerce and Administration Awards of Distinction Luncheon.
• In 1996 Groome received the award of the Bronze Wolf from the King of Sweden. The award is considered the highest honour given by international scouting, an organization for which Groome volunteered for many years and from which Groome received his first scouting award -the Boy Scouts of Canada’s Silver Acorn- in 1964.

A 1949 attendee of Loyola College, Donald W. McNaughton joined the Board of Governors in 1974. As President and C.E.O. of Schenley Canada Inc., McNaughton was elected Chair of the Board of Governors in 1981 and served until 1987. McNaughton maintained a seat on the governing committee as a representative of the community-at-large until he was named Governor Emeritus at the Board of Governors dinner meeting on November 17, 1999. McNaughton had retired from the Board of Governors in June of that year.

• On June 19, 2007, McNaughton received an honorary doctorate at the Engineering and Computer Sciences Spring Convocation ceremony.
• At the 14th Annual Alumni Recognition Awards banquet held November 18, 2004, McNaughton was awarded the Humberto Santos Award from the Concordia Alumni Association for his exceptional service to the University and community at-large.
• In 2004 McNaughton and his wife Erin created the Donald W. McNaughton Fund for Theological Studies to assist selected students with their pastoral activities.
• On April 17, 1991, McNaughton was awarded the Loyola Medal by the Loyola Alumni Association for outstanding leadership and contributions to society.
• On April 26, 1984, McNaughton introduced Rector John O’Brien at a dinner honouring his 20-years of service as head of the institution.
• From 1983 to 1988 McNaughton chaired the Capital Campaign Stewardship Committee.
• On October 12, 1983, McNaughton was guest speaker at the annual Wine and Cheese Party organized by the Friends of Concordia University and held at Quebec Government House, Rockefeller Center, in New York City.
• In 1971, as member of the Loyola College Board of Trustees, McNaughton joined the committee that negotiated the merger between Loyola College and Sir George Williams University.
• McNaughton was president of the Loyola Alumni Association from 1965 to 1967.
• From 1944-46, while a student at Loyola College, McNaughton was actively engaged with the Loyola News and became the first advertising manager at the paper.

1983 Faculty of Fine Arts graduate, artist, and long-time community volunteer, Lillian Vineberg was elected Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors in July 1997 for a one-year term, having served since 1996 as a community-at-large representative. Vineberg assumed the role of interim Chair of the Board of Governors in 1999, following the sudden death of then Chair, Reginald K. Groome, before being elected Chair of the Board of Governors at their November 17, 1999 meeting. Vineberg stepped down as Chair in 2003 and was soon re-elected to the Board of Governors as community-at-large representative until her retirement in 2011.

• Vineberg served on several Advisory Search Committees: in 1996 she represented the community-at-large on the Advisory Search Committee for the Dean of Engineering and Computer science; in 1997 she was a member of the Advisory Search Committee for the Director of University Libraries; in 1999 she represented the community-at-large on the Advisory Search Committee for the position of Rector and Vice-Chancellor; in 2003 she represented the Executive Committee on the Advisory Search Committee for Provost; in 2004 she represented the community-at-large on the Advisory Search Committee for the Dean of Fine Arts.
• In 1998, along with other 35 prominent Montrealers, Vineberg was a member of the External Advisory Board of the Faculty of Fine Arts, which was created to publicize faculty accomplishments.
• In 1998 Vineberg also chaired the Task Force on the Revitalization of the Loyola Campus, created to find solutions to Loyola’s longstanding identity crisis. The Force’s final report was submitted to the Board of Governors at their April 15, 1998 meeting, after seven months of intense work. Richard J. Renaud paid tribute to Vineberg at the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex opening ceremony on September 2, 2003, citing her work as Chair of the Force.
• Vineberg raised $7,200 in pledges at the 2000 Concordia Shuffle.
• Vineberg spoke at a February 20, 2001 ceremony unveiling two large installations in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall lobby in acknowledgement of the generosity of donors to the recent Capital Campaign. She was appointed Chair of the Installation Committee in 2005.
• On May 11, 2006 Vineberg received the Humberto Santos Award of Merit at the 15th Annual Concordia University Alumni Association Recognition Awards banquet for her work with the Board of Governors, Fine Arts Advisory Board, and Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery Board.
• The Lillian Vineberg Graduate Award in Painting and Drawing was created in 2010.

W. Earle McLaughlin was appointed Chancellor at the September 17, 1981 Board of Governors meeting. His five-year term began on January 1st, 1982. A former chief executive officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, McLaughlin was installed as Chancellor at the Spring 1992 Convocation Ceremony. He was a member of several Board sub-committees, including the Executive, Finance, Audit, and Graduation Ceremonies committees. Citing health reasons, McLaughlin stepped down from his role at the end of his term, on December 31, 1986. He was named Chancellor Emeritus at the inaugural induction ceremony of the honorific title held October 18, 1989. McLaughlin passed away in 1991.

• W. Earle McLaughlin received an honorary Doctorate of Law degree (LL. D.) at the Fall 1988 Convocation ceremony.
• In 1991, W. Earle McLaughlin was honoured by a plaque placed in the Concert Hall foyer that reads: The Foyer of the Concert Hall was made possible through the generous contribution of Royal Bank of Canada in honour of W. Earle McLaughlin (1982-86). McLaughlin was unable to attend ceremony due to illness.

Alan B. Gold was named Chancellor at a special meeting of the Board of Governors on February 5, 1987 with a mandate set to end on December 31, 1991 that was eventually extended into the Fall of 1992. At the time of his appointment, Gold was Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.On June 12, 1987 he was installed as Chancellor at the Engineering and Computer Science Spring Convocation. In July, 1992 Gold stepped down from his role as Chief Justice and on September 30, 1992, handed down the chain of office as Chancellor, following which he became Chancellor Emeritus and an Honorary Life Member of the Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA). Gold passed away on May 15, 2005.

• At the June 17, 1987 Fine Arts Spring Convocation, Gold gave an address to honour Leon Bellefleur.
• During the Oka/Kahnawake dispute in 1990, Gold was named a mediator by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
• At the Fall 1992 Convocation, Gold received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) and gave the convocation address.

On December 19 2005, Chairman of the Board of Governors Peter Kruyt and University President Claude Lajeunesse announced that David P. O’Brien, a Loyola College graduate, had been named Chancellor for a three-year term, effective January 1, 2006. O’Brien was installed as Concordia’s sixth Chancellor at the June 12, 2006 Spring Convocation. He was then Chairman of both the Royal Bank of Canada and EnCana Corporation. O’Brien was honoured as outgoing Chancellor at the Fall 2010 Convocation ceremonies.

• In 2008, O’Brien made a gift of $2 million towards sustainability. His donation assisted in establishing the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE) and the David O’Brien Distinguished Professorship. DOCSE was inaugurated on November 16, 2009 by the Chancellor himself.
• In 2009, O’Brien was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada for his contribution as a respected corporate leader and his generous support of post-secondary education in Canada.
• O’Brien was appointed to Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year Advisory Board in 2009.

Victor Teboul, écrivain, journaliste et enseignant, est né le 9 mai 1945 à Alexandrie, en Égypte. En 1956, avec ses parents et sa sœur Flora, il quitte ce pays pour la France à la suite de la guerre de Suez lorsque de nombreuses familles juives sont expulsées d’Égypte. Sa famille,
comme quelques centaines de réfugiés juifs, est hébergée au couvent de Notre-Dame-de-l'Osier dans l'Isère, avant de gagner la région parisienne où Victor Teboul fréquente de 1958 à 1962 l’école privée The English School of Paris située à Andrésy en Seine-et-Oise. Il poursuit ensuite à Paris ses études à l’École supérieure de journalisme (1962-1963).

La famille Teboul immigre au Québec en 1963. Victor s’inscrit à l’école de journalisme, Studio 5316, à Montréal. En 1965, il poursuit ses études d’abord au Sir George Williams High School, puis en 1966 à l’Université Sir George Williams (aujourd'hui Université Concordia) où il obtient un B.A. en 1969. Il s’inscrit la même année à l’Université McGill où il obtient en 1971 un diplôme de maîtrise en lettres françaises et québécoises et où il est chargé de cours de 1971 à 1973. Il est ensuite professeur invité au Collège universitaire de Hearst, affilié à l'Université Laurentienne, aux sessions d'été de 1974, 1975 et 1976 ; il y enseigne la littérature québécoise et les communications. Durant les 30 années suivantes, soit de 1977 à 2007, il enseigne la littérature au Cégep Lionel-Groulx de Sainte-Thérèse. Tout en menant sa carrière d’enseignant, il poursuit sa spécialisation en littérature québécoise à l’Université de Montréal où il complète en 1982 une thèse de doctorat sur l’hebdomadaire libéral Le Jour, fondé en 1937 par Jean-Charles Harvey. Il est également chargé de cours en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) entre 1989 et 1997.

À la fin des années 1960 et au début des années 1970, Victor Teboul est journaliste-pigiste auprès du Nouveau Samedi, de La Patrie et de la revue L'Actualité. Il collabore aussi au magazine Perspectives et au mensuel Nouveau Monde, premier magazine juif de langue française publié au Québec, dont il devient le rédacteur en chef en 1972. Il écrit également de nombreux articles dans le journal Le Devoir et également dans le quotidien anglophone The Gazette, dans lequel il signe une chronique sur l'éducation à la fin des années 1980.

Comme écrivain, Victor Teboul publie en 1977 Mythe et images du Juif au Québec (Éditions Lagrave), un essai qui provoqua un débat public puisqu’il remettait en question la représentation des Juifs et d'Israël dans la littérature québécoise et les médias. En 1984, il publie sa thèse de doctorat sous le titre : Le Jour : Émergence du libéralisme moderne au Québec (HMH Hurtubise). Plus tard, en 1999, il publie son premier roman Que Dieu vous garde de l'homme silencieux quand il se met soudain à parler (Les Intouchables), où est décrite l’intégration d’un jeune Juif sépharade dans la société québécoise. Suivront par la suite d’autres romans et essais tels que La lente découverte de l’étrangeté (Les Intouchables, 2002), et Les Juifs du Québec : in Canada we trust : réflexion sur l’identité québécoise (L’ABC de l’édition, 2016). De 1981 à 1986, Victor Teboul dirige la revue Jonathan, publication mensuelle qu'il a fondée au sein du Comité Canada-Israël, organisme dont il est le directeur régional. Cette revue visait à faire connaître le pluralisme de la communauté juive et de la société israélienne. Dans le cadre de ses fonctions de conseiller en communications au ministère des Communautés culturelles et de l’Immigration du Québec, poste qu’il occupe de 1989 à 1991, il réalise la publication «Une femme, un vote» parue à l’occasion du 50e anniversaire de l’obtention du droit de vote par les femmes québécoises.

En 1979 et 1980, Victor Teboul participe activement à la conception et réalisation d’une série d’émissions sur la communauté juive intitulée « En tant que Juifs » diffusées dans le cadre du programme « Planète » de Radio-Québec dont il est l’animateur et le recherchiste. En décembre 1981, il réalise une entrevue diffusée en mai 1982 à la radio de Radio-Canada, avec René Lévesque, alors premier ministre du Québec, portant sur les rapports entre Juifs et Québécois. L’entrevue fait partie d’une série de 14 émissions sur la Communauté juive du Québec, dont Victor Teboul est l’auteur, qui a été diffusée sur la chaîne culturelle de la radio de Radio-Canada en 1982. L’intégralité de l’entrevue avec René Lévesque est publiée en 2001 dans René Lévesque et la communauté juive (Les Intouchables). Victor Teboul est également l'auteur d’autres séries radiophoniques diffusées sur la chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada, notamment d’une série sur le 40e anniversaire de l’État d’Israël, diffusée en 1988, et d’une autre sur la diversité intitulée «Le Québec au Pluriel» diffusée en 1989. Il est enfin l’auteur d’une série de 8 émissions radiophoniques sur le libéralisme au Québec, diffusée à la radio de Radio-Canada en 1988, inspiré de son ouvrage Le Jour : Émergence du libéralisme moderne au Québec.

De 1983 à 1987, il est membre du Conseil supérieur de l’éducation et de 1987 à 1989 du Conseil de presse. En 2005 et 2008, il est membre du jury des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada pour la catégorie Essai ainsi que du Jury du Conseil des arts pour l'attribution des bourses d'écrivains dans la même catégorie.

Victor Teboul est le directeur du webzine Tolerance.ca qu’il a fondé en 2002 pour promouvoir un discours critique sur la tolérance et de diversité.

Russell Whitton Breen was born April 20, 1925 and died June 26, 2005 in Montreal. He attended Loyola High School and graduated with a B. A. in Arts from Loyola College in Montreal in 1946, where he was interested in skiing, boxing, and hockey. He went on to study theology at the Université de Montréal and the Grand Seminary. He was ordained into the priesthood by Paul-Émile Léger on June 3, 1950. He was a chaplain at McGill University for 14 years (1951-1965), and was involved in Newman Clubs. He got a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Education at Fordham University in New York (1958) and he spent four years in France, completing a Doctorate in Religious Sciences at the Université de Strasbourg. In 1968 he returned to Loyola to teach. In 1970 he became Loyola Dean of Arts, and in 1973 Dean of Arts and Science. He was involved in the merger negotiations with Sir George Williams University as a strong advocate for Loyola College. After the merger and the creation of Concordia University, he became Loyola Dean of Arts and Science, and from 1977 to 1985 he was Concordia’s Vice-Rector Academic, Arts and Science. Dr. Breen retired from Concordia University in April 1985. He was appointed Monsignor by the pope in 1981 and in 1986 he became Pastor of downtown Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Basilica, where he undertook a major renovation and revitalization of the church.

The first YMCA-the Young Men's Christian Association-was founded in London, England in 1844 by George Williams, age 23. It was a religious (Evangelical Protestant) movement for young men who had left their families and migrated from outlying areas to jobs in London. Its goal was their character development. It provided fellowship and opportunities for constructive use of leisure time.

At the world's fair that took place in London in 1851, YMCA pamphlets were distributed to visitors from all over the world, including a number of Montrealers who judged that it would fulfill a need in their city.

An inaugural meeting of the Montreal YMCA took place at St. Helen Street Baptist Church in November 1851. The Montreal YMCA can claim to be the first in North America, although YMCAs started up in Boston, New York, Toronto, and other North American cities about the same time.

The North American YMCAs formed a confederation in 1854. The World Alliance of YMCAs was formed in 1855.

In 1853, the Montreal YMCA hired its first paid employee, Samuel Massey. He worked as a missionary to young men in Montreal. As an adjunct to its religious mission, in the 1850s the Montreal YMCA created a social centre in rented quarters where young men could gather. It included a library and reading room. The Y began offering lectures, an employment service, and charitable relief to the indigent.

The first Montreal YMCA building was erected in 1873 on Victoria Square.

That year, the first evening educational courses were held, in French and shorthand. Services were added for younger boys and immigrants. Sports were added in the late 1880s. War work-services to military personnel-was first undertaken during the Boer War. Foreign service-outreach to other countries-became important early in the twentieth century.

Expansion was rapid, and in 1892 the Montreal YMCA created new quarters on Dominion Square, where the Sun Life building now stands. In the Dominion Square Y building there were meeting rooms, a reading room and a library, club and class rooms, an auditorium, a gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a dining room.

In 1894, a boys' summer camp was opened in the Laurentians north of Montreal. Outdoor programs have been part of the Association's programming ever since.

In 1912, the Central/Downtown Branch of the Montreal Association moved to new quarters on Drummond Street. That year, the Association opened the Westmount Branch and the North Branch (now YMCA du Parc). Other branches and various satellite units have existed at various times throughout the Metropolitan Montreal region.

In 1931 the Downtown Branch was remodeled and a 500-room residential annex was added to provide low-cost accommodation and meals for men. The residence would later serve as accommodation for refugees. (In 2001 as part of a major renovation of the YMCA Centre-ville, the downtown residence was demolished. The Y opened refugee accommodation in the former Reddy Memorial Hospital on Tupper Street.)

The Montreal YMCA has offered many programs, including physical and aquatics programs and social programs. The educational programs grew to become one of Concordia University founding institutions, Sir George Williams College/University. In the 1970s a shift in government policy in Quebec meant increased emphasis on community recreational programs, and the YMCA provided input and management services for these programs. Community development programs, including immigrant, crime prevention, and offender rehabilitation programs, were added.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Metropolitan Montreal Association included the YMCA Centre-ville, the du Parc YMCA, the Guy-Favreau YMCA, the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve YMCA, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA, the Pointe Saint-Charles YMCA, the Saint-Laurent YMCA, the West Island YMCA, the Westmount YMCA, Kamp Kanawana, the YMCA residence for refugee claimants, and the YMCA International Language school and the YMCA Foundation and Metropolitan services offices which were located in the same building as the YMCA Centre-ville.

Succeeding David P. O’Brien, Loyola College graduate L. Jacques Ménard was named Chancellor in December 2010. His installation took place at the June 20, 2011 Spring Convocation Ceremony. A Chicoutimi native and former President of BMO Financial Group, Ménard sat on the Board of Governors as of 1994 and served as Vice-Chair from 1996 to 1999. He was named Deputy Chancellor in 2009 and stepped down as Chancellor after the completion of his term in December 2014.

• L. Jacques Ménard was named Commander and a Great Montrealer to the Order of Montreal in 2016.
• Ménard received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in November 2012.
• Ménard was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in November 2013. In 1995 he was named Member and was promoted to the rank of Officer in 2000.
• In 2010 Ménard was named an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec.
• At a 2007 announcement of BMO’s $2.5 million gift to Concordia, Ménard was introduced to Gabriel Bran Lopez (Concordia graduate and creator of the Youth Fusion Project), which inspired Ménard to later become Chair of the Project.
• On June 13, 2006 Ménard received an honorary doctorate at the John Molson School of Business Spring Convocation ceremony.
• At the October 1 Rector’s Dinner during 1999 Homecoming, Ménard received the Loyola Medal from the Loyola Alumni Association Inc. from then Rector Frederick Lowy.
• Ménard generously hosted in his firm’s offices the March 10-11, 1996 Concordia Phone-a-thon fundraiser.
• Ménard was Chair of the Campaign Leadership Gifts Division of Concordia’s Campaign for a New Millennium from 1996-1999.
• From 1993-1994 Ménard chaired the Alumni Division of the Annual Giving Campaign. The following year he accepted the position of General Chair of the Campaign.
• At the 6th Annual Faculty of Commerce and Administration Awards of Distinction Reception on November 12, 1993, Ménard was honoured for 23 years of professional accomplishments and community service.
• Ménard was president of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce in 1990.
• Ménard obtained an honours degree in Economics from Loyola College in 1967.

Tom Gibson was an artist and an associate professor at the Studio Arts department of Concordia University. Born in Edinburgh, he spent the beginning of his adult life travelling before moving to Montreal in the mid-1970s. His first artistic practice was painting but by the mid-60s, he had already made photography his main media. Gibson started teaching photography at Concordia University in 1976. He created the first photography MFA program at the Faculty of Fine Arts - the first of this kind in Canada. In 1982, the Gallery II at the Sir George Williams Art Galleries presented the show ‘Tom Gibson: Selected Photographs 1965-1980’. In 1985, he was Director of Graduate Studio Arts at Concordia University. He sat on the Council of the Faculty of Fine Arts from 1985-1986 to 1988-1989. Gibson was a member of the Board of Graduate Studies in 1986-1987 as a representative of the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1993, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) organized a retrospective exhibition and catalogue of his work titled ‘Tom Gibson: False Evidence Appearing Real’ at the Saydie Bronfman Centre. Gibson retired from Concordia in 1996. In April 2006, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery presented the show ‘Collection 2: Sur le vif’, featuring works by Tom Gibson and Sam Tata. The McClure Gallery in Montreal presented his last exhibition ‘Three Montreal Photographer’ in May 2021. Tom Gibson passed away on June 1, 2021. His works remain presented in many collections including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).

• Tom Gibson received his first Canada Council of Arts award in 1968 to photograph in Mexico.
• Gibson was also instrumental in the creation of the undergraduate program in photography, along with Gabor Szilasi, Katherine Tweedie and Tim Clark in 1982-1983.

Mel Hoppenheim was the founder, President and CEO of the Cité du Cinéma Mel. Hoppenheim attended the evening courses at Sir George Williams University. In 1996, he headed the Cinema Advisory Board, a group that aimed to address the long-term issues the cinema department was facing at the time. During the launch of the Campaign for a New Millennium on October 29, 1997, Hoppenheim pledged $1 million on his and his wife’s behalf to create the School of Cinema. Following the gift, the Department of cinema was re-named the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in December 1997. The Faculty of Fine Arts awarded Hoppenheim an honorary doctorate at its Spring 2009 Convocation ceremony. He passed away on July 27, 2022.

• Panavision (now Panavision Canada), a company Hoppenheim founded in 1965 as a movie equipment rental service, won an Oscar in 1982, the first-ever award for technical achievement.
• Since 1985, the annual Year-End Screenings of the cinema department is awarding the Mel Hoppenheim Award to the outstanding performance in film production to a student.
• Hoppenheim was awarded an Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Fine Arts at their inaugural presentation ceremony, held on May 7, 2002.
• In 2005, Hoppenheim was the special guest of the first edition of the Art Matters festival. He lead a panel of discussion on the future of Quebec cinema. He was presented with an Achievement Award (Builders Category) at the same event.
• Mel Hoppenheim was presented the Motion Picture International Business Leader of the Year Award at the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles, in 2006.
• Hoppenheim was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.

Frank Guadagni was an associate professor of mathematics, physics and engineering. He taught at Loyola College from 1942 to 1964. Guadagni graduated from McGill university in 1937 in metallurgical engineering with highest honours and was awarded the Governor-General’s medal. After five years working in the industry, Guadagni joined Loyola’s faculty in 1942 and contributed to the establishment of the Engineering faculty. Until 1959, he was the sole Engineering professor taught all the Chemistry classes from 1942 to 1953. Frank Guadagni passed away in 1964.

• In March of 1962, Guadagni attended the Canadian Conference on Education as a delegate from the National Conference of Universities and Colleges, along with the Legal Advisor (Slattery), the Rector and the Dean of that time.
• The Guadagni Lounge was given its name in honour of professor Guadagni shortly after his passing.

William Buxton was a professor at the department of Communication studies. He first graduated from the University of Alberta in 1969, before completing his MA in Philosophy at Oxford University and a MSc in Politics at London University. Buxton then obtained his doctorate from the Die Freie Universitat Berlin in 1980 and his post-doctorate from Harvard University the following year. Buxton joined Concordia’s Communication Studies department in 1990 and was promoted to full professor on June 1, 1992. He became a Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs and Lonergan University College shortly after. Buxton retired from Concordia University in 2017. He’s the author of more than 50 books, articles and papers.

• While studying at the University of Alberta, Buxton Obtained the MacEachran Gold Medal in Psychology.
• Buxton organized the Harold Innis and Intellectual Practice for the New Century: Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies conference held at Concordia in October 1994.
• Buxton was scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Archive Centre, a division of Rockefeller University in the summer of 2004 to work on his research on the educational radio projects of the Rockefeller Foundation/General Education Board.
• In 2008, Buxton was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for his work ‘Civilizing Canada, Enacting Space, Binding Time: The Possibilist Practice of Harold Adams Innis 1920-1952’.
• William Buxton was elected Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee for Quebec in 2008.

The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall was built in 1990 as part of the revitalization of the Loyola campus. Since opening, the hall has hosted many internationally renowned artists, comedians and musicians, including Wynton Marsalis, Arlo Guthrie, Roger McGuinn, Kitty Wells, Stompin Tom Connors, Tommy Hunter, Richie Havens, Theo Bikell, Max Amini, Maz Jobrani, Orny Adams, Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones. The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall is also used for recordings.

Originally named the Concordia Concert Hall the venue was renamed for acclaimed Montreal pianist Oscar Peterson in 1999.

Viviane Namaste has a BA from Carleton University, an MA in Sociology from York University and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She began teaching at Simone de Beauvoir Institute in July 2002 and was Interim Principal from August 2006-May 2008 and Acting Principal from September-December 2018. Namaste was Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health from June 2008-May 2018. In 2016, Namaste was awarded an FAS Curriculum Innovation Fund grant to develop new interdisciplinary teaching for Humanities students. She is the founder of the Quebec Health Action, which began in the 1990s to improve health for Montreal’s transvestite and transsexual community. She was the principal investigator of Projet Polyvalence, which ran from 2004 to 2007, a community-based action research project seeking to contribute to HIV/AIDS and STD prevention of people with bisexual practices. The project resulted in a book “HIV Education and Bisexual Realities” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

• Namaste received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.  Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science in April 2015.
• She also received the Prix Honoris of the Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes in October 2013.
• Namaste was inducted in the Provost’s Circle of Distinction of Concordia University, in June 2012
• On October 25, 2010, she received the Grand prix du Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
• Namaste was the recipient of the Award for Action on HIV/AIDS 2009 handed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch, on June 12, 2009.

Namaste is the author of three books about transsexuality:

• Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) for which she won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2001
• Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto : Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005)
• C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal : McGill Queen’s University Press, 2005)

Elizabeth Morey’s first employment at Concordia was as Student Advisor in the Sir George Dean of Students Office from 1980-1984. In October, 1985 Morey was appointed Advisor to the Rector on the Status of Women by the Board of Governors with a mandate to conduct research and make recommendations on all matters affecting women on campus, including students, faculty, and staff. Subsequently, a 10-member (all female) Committee on the Status of Women was established and chaired by Morey and her term as Chair was extended to May 1, 1992.

From November 1, 1988 to 1994 Morey served as Coordinator of Special Projects in the Office of the Rector. In June, 1989 she was named Acting Director of the Council for International Cooperation, following Martin Singer (the position was filled in April 1991). Morey left Concordia for Marianopolis College in 1994, followed by a term at a university in the United Arab Emirates. In Fall, 2002 Morey returned to Concordia temporarily, as Communications and Special Projects Officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2008 she was named Dean of Students. She served as Dean for a three-year term and retired in May, 2011.

• In 1983 Morey was named to the Board of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• At Forum ‘85 in Kenya, Morey was selected by the Women’s Program in the Department of the Secretary of State to be a representative of the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
• On March 4, 1987 Morey was a panelist for Do They Want Us There?, a discussion on employment equity at the School of Community and Public Affairs.
• Morey was a member of the Consultative Committee on Employment Equity, established in early 1988 with a mandate to formulate goals and regulations for the future Employment Equity Program.
• During International Women’s Week in March 1988, Morey participated in the panel discussion What’s Happening for Women at Concordia University?.
• In 1991 Morey co-chaired with Corinne Jetté the Concordia Task Force on Multiculturalism with a mandate to prepare recommendations on classroom, workforce, and community cultural diversity.
• Morey was Chair of the Native Research project, which submitted a December 1991 report addressing the experience of First Nations students within university economic, social, and political conditions and systems. The report led to an implementation plan supporting First Nations communities and the opening of the First Nations Student Centre in September 1992.
• In 1994 Morey was chosen by Oxfam Canada as International Observer of South African elections.
• In Spring 2009, Morey accepted the role of university representative on the Board of Directors of Dawson College, a three-year appointment from the Minister of Education.

June 1, 1975: Prof. Sean McEvenue assumes the duties of Chairman of the Department of Theological Studies.
May 26, 1978: The B.A. Specialization in Theological Studies Programme is approved by the University Senate.
May 26, 1989: The M.A. in Theological Studies is approved by the University Senate.
1992: Prof. Russell Moroziuk is invited to attend the University of Kiev for one year to develop the first curriculum in theological studies at the university.
September 15, 1995: The ministerial approval of the M.A. in Theological Studies is announced at the University Senate.
November 2005: Studia Theologica, the newsletter of the Theological Studies department, is launched.