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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.

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.

Eric H. Molson began his five-year term as Concordia University Chancellor on July 1st, 1993. Past President and Chairman of the Board at Molson Inc., Molson was installed as Chancellor at the November 9, 1993 Fall Convocation Ceremony. Molson was also a member of the Concordia University Board of Governors. He was replaced as Chancellor by David P. O’Brien on January 1, 2006.

• Eric H. Molson was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (Honores Causa) at the Fall 2006 Convocation ceremony.
• The Concordia University Faculty of Commerce and Administration granted Eric Molson an Award of Distinction on May 17, 1988. The award was presented to five members of the business community in recognition of their contributions to the social and economic development of Montreal.
• Molson’s donations to Concordia were instrumental in the construction of the John Molson School of Business building, inaugurated in 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Loyola Alumni Association was known until 1935 as the Loyola Old Boys' Association; its first meeting was held June 17, 1906. F. McKenna acted as chairman, and the Founders Committee was composed of Leo Mason, L. Ryan, F. McKenna, R. McIlhone, W. Cummings, C. Bermingham, and T. Tansey.

In 2014, the Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA), Association of Alumni of Sir George Williams University and Loyola Alumni Association have united. On May 28, at special general meetings, the associations unanimously approved amalgamating into one organization.

Pauline Morier, Canadian visual artist, was born on July 3, 1942 in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, as the daughter of Guy Morier and Béatrice Painchaud. In 1960, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She briefly lived in France before moving to Montreal, Quebec, in 1965. From 1979 to 1994, Pauline Morier was member of the Conseil de la peinture du Québec. She was also member of La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in Montreal during the 1980s and 1990s. Morier participated in various exhibitions at La Centrale, Véhicule Art and many other galleries. She also contributed to art magazines and radio broadcasts.

Bellelle Guerin was a Canadian writer and the founder and first president of the Catholic Women's League of Canada. Bellelle Guerin was born as Mary Ellen Guerin on September 24, 1849 in Montreal. She was the eldest child of six and only daughter of civil engineer Thomas Guerin and Mary Maguire, both of Irish descent. Guerin spent several years of her education at the Mont Sainte-Marie Convent in Montreal. During this time, she became renowned as a writer and poet. It was then that she adopted the name Bellelle Guerin.

Guerin never married, but raised her brother’s two children, Thomas and Mary Carroll, after the death of their mother in 1888. Her brother, James John Edmund Guerin (July 4, 1856 – November 10, 1932), was a physician and politician. When he was elected mayor of Montreal in 1910, Bellelle served as mayoress. During the following two years, she accompanied him to civic functions and participated in such events as the International Eucharistic Congress, held in Montreal in 1910, and the visit of Earl Grey in Montreal.

In 1917, Guerin became president of the Catholic Women’s Club, formerly the Ladies of Loyola Club. In November 1917, the Montreal branch of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) was founded, with herself as first president. Under Guerin’s initiative, the Catholic Women’s League of Canada was created in June 1920 to unify the various branches of the CWL, and once again, she was elected first president.

In 1922, Guerin was honored with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice cross from the Roman Catholic Church. In 1923, she was made honorary president for life of the Catholic Women’s League of Canada. Meanwhile, the national membership of the CWL had grown to 50,000.

Bellelle Guerin died at age 79 on January 28, 1929, in Montreal.

Charles Cavell was appointed a member of the Board of Governors in 1999. He also sat on the Board of Governors’ Collective and Bargaining and University Advancement Committee. Cavell was appointed Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors during its meeting of June 18, 2003. He stepped down from this role in June of 2009 but continued to serve as an external community member until 2012.

• As president and CEO of Imprimerie Québécor, Cavell won the $250 000 Abitibi-Consolidated gift during the Campaign for a New Millennium in 1999.

The O’Farrell Family owned and operated a general store in Saint-Malachie, Quebec. James O'Farrell (1846-1893), merchant farmer, operated the general store. He also served as the Secretary Treasurer for the town of Saint-Malachie. James O'Farrell was married to Catherine Reid (1849-1910). Their son, James T.A. O’Farrell (1886-1973), was a farmer. He was married to Susan Cassidy (1887-1946). Together they had four children, Francis (1919-1992), Norman, James J., and William. Francis O’Farrell was married to Berthe Renaud (1923-2010). Together they had three children, Kevin, Glenn, and James. Francis O’Farrell was elected as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly in Dorchester, Quebec, in 1964. Norman O’Farrell was married to Mary-Sarah Paulmert. James J. O’Farrell was married to Madeleine Selway. William O’Farrell was married to Ruth O'Rourke. Mary Bridget O'Farrell was the niece of James O'Farrell and cousin to James T.A. O'Farrell.

In 2004, Kathy Assayag was appointed Vice-President, Advancement and Alumni Affairs for a five-year term, beginning January 10, 2005. Her title was changed to Vice-President, Advancement and Alumni relations at the Board of Governors meeting of May 19, 2005. She stepped down from her dual position as Vice-President, Advancement and Alumni Relations and President of the Concordia University Foundation in 2010.

• In 2005, she was responsible for the creation of the Leave a Legacy Adopt a Student program that enabled individuals and corporations to sponsor a student for three years.
• Assayag was also behind the creation of the high-visibility fundraising event Hitting the High Notes, an opera benefit concert first held on May 10, 2005 at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall.

Peter Madden was born October 14, 1939 in the Toronto area. Between his 12th and 31st birthday, he spent many years first in reformatories and later in prison. He wrote his first play, Criminal Record (1971), while incarcerated at Collins Bay Penitentiary. The production of this play was invited to the Dominion Drama Festival in 1971. Later, it was adapted into a film, Cell 16, produced by the National Film Board (NFB), and Peter Madden was paroled from Collins Bay Penitentiary as a writer for the NFB. Since his release in 1971, Peter Madden committed himself to writing. In 1974, he wrote the script for the NFB-film One Man and the play The Night No One Yelled, which was produced by Beggars’ Workshop in Montreal. Peter Madden’s script Leave my Kids Alone was released by the NFB in 1990 under the title The Ticket Back. Peter Madden worked as a writer, playwright, screenwriter, and poet for the remainder of his life. He predominantly wrote about prisons, crime, and incarceration. Some of his plays were produced as radio dramas for the CBC. From 1972 to 1977, Peter Madden was Artistic director at the Beggars’ Workshop Theatre in Montreal. In 1977, he was awarded for the screenplay of the NFB-film One Man. Peter Madden lived in Montreal from 1971 until his death on September 9, 2006. He had two sons.

The St. Ann's Young Men's Society was founded in Griffintown, Montreal, in 1885. The Society was located on Ottawa Street and contained a library, gymnasium, and concert hall, and had programs in theater, athletics, and debating. The St. Ann's Young Men's Society participated in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Norman (Norm) Marshall Villeneuve was born in Montreal, Quebec, on May 29, 1938. His mother is Adeline Villeneuve. From age 7, he was raised by foster parents, Alonso and Josephine Griffith, in the Little Burgundy area of St. Henri in Montreal. He is married to Louise Artibello-Villeneuve.
Norman Marshall Villeneuve first learned tap dance from his foster brother Charles. He began his career as a tap dancer and singer at age 8. At the same time, he began to teach himself how to play drums, and received piano lessons from Daisy Peterson-Sweeney at the Negro Community Centre. By age 14 he was a professional drummer. He has had a successful career as a musician for more than six decades. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked at Montreal clubs, including Rockhead’s Paradise, Chez Paris, the Black Bottom and Café la Bohème. From 1965 to 1968, he toured as a drummer with his cousin Oliver Jones throughout North and South America. In 1974, Norman Marshall Villeneuve moved from Montreal to Toronto, where he played in several jazz clubs, including Bourbon Street, The Senator, The Pilot and The Rex. Under his banner “Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message”, Villeneuve has mentored many young jazz musicians and has provided emerging musicians with the opportunity to perform. He relocated to Montreal in 2013.

David Clark, a musician, was born in England around 1947 to a musician father.

Clark moved to Montreal in 1968. He received a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from McGill University in 1972. As a student, he played with the McGill Jazz Workshop. Adept in both classical music and jazz, Clark worked as a saxophonist, clarinetist, orchestral arranger and conductor, performing with various well-known orchestras, including the Canada Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Andrew Homzy Jazz Orchestra, and others. Clark was a member of Walter Boudreau’s Quatuor de saxophones de Montréal / Montreal Saxophone Quartet for 15 years, until the 1990s. During the 1990s, Clark spent several summers working as the musical director and bandleader on the cruise ship Amerikanis. Clark also worked as a music teacher at both Vanier College and Concordia University. He taught at Concordia University until 2009 and at Vanier College until 2014. In the 1980s and 1990s, David Clark was a member of the Fossils Club of Montreal, which was founded in 1926 by a group of Westmount High School graduates. Its annual musical productions allowed the club to raise money to allow for underprivileged children in Montreal to attend summer camp. During the 1980s and 1990s, Clark created arrangements and served as conductor for several of the Fossils’ productions. The club existed until around 1996. Clark also played with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at Carnegie Hall in New York City, a performance that he considers to be the apex of his career.

David Clark died on September 4, 2015, at the age of 68.

Russell (Russ) Dufort was born in 1923. His musical career began as a teenager when he played drums with The Stardusters, a local big band. Later, Dufort played with the renowned Johnny Holmes Orchestra. He also sometimes played as part of Oscar Peterson’s trio. He was part of an early recording session at R.C.A. Victor. During World War II, Dufort was a drummer with the Royal Canadian Air Force, in Ottawa, Saskatoon, and Vancouver. He played drums at the Bombing & Gunnery School in Dafoe Saskatchewan.

Dufort left the Johnny Holmes Orchestra when family obligations required him to get a more steady job, first at Canadian Pacific, then at Canadair Limited, where he worked for over 40 years. He continued to play on weekends, first with Montreal musician Bud Hayward, and then forming his own quintet, the Russ Dufort Orchestra. A significant moment in his career was leading a band which played between sets at a Duke Ellington concert in the 1960s.

Dufort was present at the inauguration of the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall at Concordia University, where he was reunited with his old friend Oscar Peterson. Dufort became an honorary lifetime member of the Montreal Musician's Guild in 2003.

Dufort continued to play drums with visiting musicians at the nursing home in which he resided. He passed away in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, on May 23, 2017.

Dora Pleet, sister of the Canadian poet Irving Layton, was born as Dora Lazarovitch. She was the daughter of Moishe and Keine Lazarovitch. She was married to Penny Pleet. Dora Pleet died on August 19, 1999 in Montreal.