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Mark Abley is a non-fiction writer, journalist, travel writer, and poet. He was born in Leamington, England, on May 13, 1955, and grew up in Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. He now lives in Montreal.
Abley studied literature at the University of Saskatchewan, obtaining a BA in 1975. He continued his studies as Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a second BA with first-class honours in 1978 and a Master’s degree in 1983, both in literature.
After his studies, Mark Abley and his wife Ann moved to Montreal, where he began to work as a freelance writer. His first book, Beyond Forget : Rediscovering the Prairies, was published in 1986.
With the birth of his first child in 1987, Abley joined the Montreal Gazette, where he worked as a feature writer, book-review editor and literary columnist for the following sixteen years.
During his career at the Montreal Gazette, Abley won the National Newspaper Award for critical writing (1996) and was nominated for a National Newspaper Award for international reporting. In 1995, he received a “Dateline Hong Kong” fellowship sponsored by the Canadian Association of Journalists. In 1997, he received a Maclean-Hunter Fellowship in arts journalism from the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Mark Abley left The Gazette and returned to freelance writing in 2003 with the publication of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Language. In 2005, Abley was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which he used to write The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From the Future of English, published in 2008, as the second of three books about language. Abley also wrote a memoir of his father, The Organist : Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind, and a book about Indigenous and colonial history, Conversations with a Dead Man : The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott. In his book Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail, published in 2023, Abley is reflecting back on his travels through Asia as a young man, in spring 1978. Abley also wrote the text of a children’s picture book, Ghost Cat.
In 2022 Mark Abley received an honorary doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan for his contributions to the literary community.

Abley was a participating member of poets’ workshops during his time in Oxford and later in Montreal. He has published three books of poetry, Blue Sand, Blue Moon (1988), Glasburyon (1994), and The Silver Palace Restaurant (2005), as well as the chapbook Dissolving Bedrock (2001). He received the QSPELL awards for poetry in 1989 and 1995.

Mark Abley has taught writing and literature at various writers’ workshops, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, at the English Department of Concordia University, and he has guest lectured in Concordia’s Journalism program. Abley has also served on juries for the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec, and the Quebec Writers Federation, of which he is a member. He is also a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Canadian Association of Rhodes Scholars, and PEN Canada.

Desmond Adams, photographer, was born on November 14, 1922. He died in Montreal on November 25, 2007. He was the fourth of six children, all born in Montreal, to Caribbean immigrants, Edith Nanton of Nevis and Herman Adams of St. Kitts. He attended Royal Arthur Elementary School where he discovered his musical ear and learnt to play the accordion. He joined the Canadian army in 1939 and served two years overseas in England and continental Europe during World War II. He was discharged on November 19, 1946. During the late 1940s and the 1950s he performed with his accordion in many cafes in Montreal, and found work as a railroad porter for the Canadian Pacific Railways. While performing with Olga Spencer's Rainbow Revue, he met Jean Peters Gordon, one of the Revue dancers. They married in 1949 and had two sons, David Desmond and Rodney Gordon, now renamed Sur Rodney (Sur).

After being given his first camera, Desmond Adams left his work with the railroad and no longer worked as a musician. Photography became his ambition and he was successful with it. During the 1960s he separated from his wife Jean and divorced her a decade later. During his separation he moved into a Linton Street apartment in the area of Côte-des-Neiges where he lived for many years, and where he built his first darkroom, before moving to LaSalle in the 1980s where he bought his house.

He worked professionally as a freelance photographer and portraitist, and was part of many communities. He began by photographing scenery and then portraits, and eventually established himself as a photographer of events and weddings, while at the same time experimenting with his own distinctive photography. For a short period he experimented with producing and editing short videos recorded with his video camera, and also produced small editions of his poetry illustrated with tipped in reproductions of his photographs. As early as 1972 he began presenting his photographs in solo and group exhibitions, several of them hosted in his home studio. During the 1980s he was employed with the School Board and started a photography club at École secondaire Saint-Laurent, in St. Laurent during the mid 1980s, where he assisted with the photography for the school's yearbook. He retired in 1990.

Kenneth D. Adams was born in Montreal on October 10, 1923 and died on July 30, 2003. He attended Sir George Williams College in the 1940s and obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1947. In 1944, with help of other students, he created the Music Society and was its first president. He was also elected chairman of the Student Undergraduate Society 1946-1947. This society organised social activities during the school year.

After obtaining a licence in music from McGill University, in 1950 Ken Adams joined Sir George Williams University as a music teacher. He also worked part-time in the bookstore, the accounts office, and the office of Convocation and Examinations.

In 1965 he was named assistant registrar, joining the University administrative staff full-time. In 1968 he was named associate registrar and the following year he was promoted to registrar. After the 1974 merger of Sir George Williams University and Loyola College to form Concordia University, he became registrar of Concordia University. He retired in 1988 after working for 19 years as registrar, the longest term in Quebec for that position.

Ken Adams continued to teach the music course Understanding Music as long as he worked as university administrator and after retiring.

Heather Adams-Robinette started her career at Concordia University in 1991 as a Secretary. She occupied key roles in the administration of the university as Secretary of many committees such as Advisory Search Committees, Evaluation Committees or the Graduation Ceremonies Committee. She was the Coordinator of university policies and student tribunals at the University Secretariat in 2003 before becoming the Assistant to the Dean of Arts and Science in 2006. She became the Director of Administration of the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies in 2013.

Christine Hope Allen, known as Sister Mary Prudence Allen, R.S.M., was born July 21, 1940 in Oneida, New York. Her father was Henry Grosvernor Allen (d. 1997) and her mother was Mildred Beatrice Gorman (d. 2007). Her family was descended from the Oneida Community, a utopian religious community of the nineteenth century. Married in 1965, she has two sons. In May 1972, her marriage was ended by physical separation, religious annulment and divorce subsequently followed. In 1983 she became a Roman Catholic nun with the Religious Sisters of Mercy. (Her sister, Elizabeth Bethany Allen joined the same community, and is called Sister Lydia Allen, R.S.M.) In 1967 Sister Prudence received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in California. She began to teach philosophy at Sir George Williams University in 1969 and became full-time assistant professor in 1972. In 1974, Sir George Williams University merged with Loyola College to form Concordia University. Sister Prudence Allen was promoted to associate professor in 1977. She became full professor in 1993. She retired and was named professor emerita in 1996. She then moved to Denver, Colorado where she was full professor and held the Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM, cap Chair of Philosophy at the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. She has been reassigned to Lancaster University Chaplaincy, Lancaster, UK, in November 2013. In 2014, she was appointed to the International Theological Commission by Pope Francis for five years (2014-2019).

At Concordia, Sister Prudence Allen helped develop the interdisciplinary pedagogical basis for women’s studies and helped found the Working Women’s Association for faculty and staff. She co-coordinated the committee that established a women’s college, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She was also involved with the interdisciplinary Lonergan University College, serving as its principal from 1992-1995.

Her book The Concept of Woman (Volume I): The Aristotelian Revolution (750 BC- 1250 AD) was published in 1985. A revised edition appeared in 1997. Volume II, The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Revolution (1250-1500) was published in 2002 and Volume III, The Concept of Women: The Search for the Communion of Persons (1500-2015) was published in 2016. She is also the author of numerous articles, and has lectured widely.

Professor Emeritus Anastasios Anastasopoulos started his career at Sir George Williams University as assistant professor of Economics in 1967. Anastasopoulos retired from Concordia University in 2003. He passed away in 2024.

• Anastasios Anastasopoulos was the director Concordia University’s Institute of Applied Economic Research in 1979.
• In 2002, Anastasopoulos was awarded a 35 years Long Service Award at the 37th annual Long Service reception.

Steven H. Appelbaum started his career at Concordia University as an Associate Professor, teaching management at the Faculty of Commerce and Administration in 1979. He was Acting Chairman of the Management Department in 1982 and became Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration the next year, a position he would hold until he stepped down in August 1990 to return to teaching and research. He would retire in 2023 after 44 years of teaching in the Department of Management. Appelbaum passed away on June 7, 2024.

• Steven H. Appelbaum was instrumental in the creation of the Executive MBA program in 1985. He’d taught in a similar program at Pace University in the mid-1970’s and pushed to establish Concordia’s version. In 1986, Appelbaum would receive the Guinea Pig Award presented by the alumni of the first graduating class of Sir George Williams University, in recognition of his efforts in the launch of the program.
• He was elected to the Executive of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Federation of Deans of Management and Administrative Studies in 1985.
• In 1986, Appelbaum was the honorary chairman at an alumni event at the University of Ottawa, where he’d obtained his PhD in 1972.
• Appelbaum led three of a five-session Health Care Management Program organized by the Directors of Professional Services Committee of the Montréal Joint Hospital Institute in 1990.
• In 1990, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
• He was the workshop leader at the Canadian Federation of Deans of Management and Administrative Studies on ‘Privatized degree programmes’, presenting Concordia’s Executive MBA programme, in 1990.
• Appelbaum received a plaque for his collaboration on the ‘Top Canadian Book’ used in Canadian universities in 1991.
• He was accepted as a member of the Corporation professionnelle des administrateurs agréés du Québec in 1992.
• Appelbaum was presented with the Faculty of Commerce and Administration’s Distinguished Teaching Award at the Spring 1994 Convocation ceremonies. He would win the title again in 1999.
• Appelbaum was the first consultant brought in on the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) project in the 1990’s, a proposed superhospital who would merge five different partners. From 1994 to 1999, he was asked to present at seminars and retreats to the MUHC managers on how to make the human resources aspect of mergers work.
• In 1998, he was one of four Canadian business academics to receive a Leaders in Management Education Award sponsored by the Financial Post and Bell Canada.
• His paper titled ‘Empowerment: A contrasting overview of organizations in general and nursing in particular’ received a citation of excellence from ANBAR Electronic Intelligence in 1999.
• Appelbaum was the keynote speaker of the Soap and Detergent Association conference in Florida in 2000, talking on the topic of ‘Confronting the Challenges of Managing Changes’.
• In February 2003, he was honoured with a Concordia University Research Chair in Organizational Development, a five-year appointment to study client-consultant relationships.
• Appelbaum’s paper ‘The Client-Consultant Relationship: A Case Study of Critical Success Factors in a Telecommunications Organization’ won the Best Paper award at the IBER Conference held in Las Vegas in 2003.
• He was invited to join the Emerald Group Publishing Limited as an International Advisor in 2005.
• At the 2004 Economics and International Research Conference held in Miami, Appelbaum’s paper ‘The Effects of Communications and Culture Upon NPO Merger: A Cross Method Analysis’ (written with Barbara T. Shapiro) was awarded Best Paper award.
• Appelbaum was invited to join the editorial boards of two publications: Management Research News at Clark University and the Journal of the American Academy of Business in 2006. He had been on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Development in the past.
• Appelbaum organized the Research Chair in Organizational Development Speaker Series that welcomed guests such as psychologist Warner Burke or crisis-management expert Ian Mitroff, among others in 2006.
• In the Spring of 2006, Appelbaum conducted a transformational management program for Concordia’s Human Resources and Employee Relations department.
• Co-written with Miguel Valero, Appelbaum’s paper titled The Crucial First Three Months: an Analysis of Leadership Transition Traps and Successes’ published in March 2007, won the Best Paper award from the Journal of American Academy of Business.
• Appelbaum was inducted into the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2012.
• His media impact was recognized in 2023 when he received the President’s Media Outreach Award.

Professor Muriel Armstrong, after pursuing undergraduate degrees in Arts (1943) and in Education (1947) from the University of Alberta, obtained an M. Sc. degree in Economics from McGill University in 1954. Professor Muriel Armstrong joined Sir George Williams University in 1957 as a part-time lecturer in Economics. She was then hired full-time as an Assistant Professor in 1961. She became Associate Professor and then Professor in 1965 and 1969 respectively. At the beginning of 1969, she was part of an ad hoc discussion group of students and faculty on the events that were happening at Sir George Williams University which led to the Computer Centre Incident. Along with their discussions, the group published five issues of a small newspaper called “Statement”. Apart from teaching, Professor Armstrong was also active in numerous administrative capacities, such as Chair of the Department of Economics several times and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts, from 1972 to 1976. Professor Armstrong’s academic research focus was the Canadian economy, she published a book in 1970 entitled “The Canadian Economy and its Problems” (Toronto: Prentice Hall) which was re-edited various times. Professor Armstrong retired from Concordia University in 1991.

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker are writers, lecturers, and editors in the area of technology and contemporary culture. Arthur Kroker studied at McMaster University where he received a Ph.D. in political science in 1975. In 1975 he became an assistant professor, and in 1980, an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. He joined Concordia University's Political Science Department in 1981 as associate professor. In 1988, he was appointed professor of political science.

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were founders and editors of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory (CJPST), in 1976 at the University of Winnipeg. They and the CJPST moved to Concordia University in 1981. The aim of the CJPST is to provide a gathering-point for political, social and cultural theory, both in Canada and globally. It aims to synthesize theoretical reflection and analysis of the public situation, to mediate theory and contemporary history. In 1993 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker relaunched the journal in electronic format on the Internet under the name CTHEORY: Theory, Technology and Culture (http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/home/). Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were also publishers of the New Worlds Perspectives series of monographs in which they were editors of the CultureTexts Series.

Kenneth John Arthur attended Sir George Williams College from 1952 until 1956. While he originally pursued a Bachelor of Science degree, he switched to commerce in 1953. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He received the Charles E. Frosst medal, awarded annually to the 'Top commerce graduate'. Kenneth John Arthur died on February 8th, 2022.