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Wilfred N. Hall was born in Vancouver July 29, 1908. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1929 with a B.A.Sc. in chemical engineering with first class honours. He worked for Canadian Industries Limited (C.I.L.) for 15 years. In 1945 he moved to what would become Domtar Inc. A few months later, he was appointed vice-president for production and development. In 1950, when Domtar Inc. was created, he was appointed vice-president, operations. In 1955, he was appointed executive vice-president. In 1957 he was appointed president and CEO of Domtar. He worked as a private consultant following retirement in 1967.

He was involved in various groups and associations, serving as president of the Montreal YMCA, among other positions. Hall was active in the language debate in the Quebec through his participation in organizations such as the Quebec Committee for Language Regions, the Dual Language Communities Research Association, and the Positive Action Committee.

He was a long-time member of both the Corporation and Board of Governors of Sir George Williams University. He joined the Corporation in the late 1950s, becoming chair in 1968-1969. Mr. Hall chaired the committee of the YMCA Board of Directors that was responsible for the capital campaign for the erection of the Henry F. Hall Building, known as the Sir George Williams University Building Fund. Mr. Hall was also involved with the official separation of SGWU from the YMCA. (The Y was responsible for the financial and property aspects of SGW until the 1960s. The official separation took was finalized in 1968.)

On October 22, 1965 the SGW Association of Alumni conferred their highest distinction, Honorary Life Membership, on Mr. Hall, for his outstanding contribution to the life and growth of Sir George Williams University. He was awarded an honourary doctoral degree by Concordia University at the convocation at which the Hall Building was officially opened in 1966.

He died in Kitchener, Ontario on November 16, 2006.

Dr. Norma Baumel Joseph is the Director of the Women and Religion specialization. She is also an associate of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1966 and M.A. from the City University of New York in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Concordia University in 1995. She first started teaching at Concordia in 1975 as a Part-Time Lecturer and obtained her Tenure-Track position in 1998 in the Department of Religion. She is the founder of the Women and Religion specialization.

Norma Joseph is an Orthodox Jew and an active feminist. In 1996, she and her colleagues organized the first all-Canadian Jewish Studies Conference. In 2012, she was the co-director of the Azrieli Institute Academic Faculty (she would later be part of its Advisors Group).

• In 1989, she worked on the documentary Half the Kingdom on Jewish women and Judaism.
• She is an activist who raised awareness for the thousands of women with problems getting religious divorces in the Orthodox and Conservative Jewish traditions. In 1990, she successfully worked with the Canadian government to protect Jewish women in need of a get (divorce).
• In 1996, her article “Jewish Education for Women: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's Map of America”, published in American Jewish History, won the Leo Wasserman Prize for best article.
• In 1998, National Council of Jewish Women (Montreal chapter) chose Norma Jospeh as its Woman of Distinction.
• In 2000, the Montreal Jewish community presented Norma Joseph with the Jacob Zipper Education Award.
• Since 2002, she writes a column on Jewish life for the Canadian Jewish News.
• In 2002, which she received the Leading Light, Woman of the Year Award from the Jewish Women International.
• She is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition of Jewish Women for the Get.
• In 2019, she received the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award.

January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman, C. Stephen Casey for the merged department of Classics. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses.

December 18, 1996: Merger of the Department of Classics and the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and therefore the establishment of the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics.

January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman, Roderick E. Townshend for the merged department of Chemistry. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses (Mark Doughty and Roderick E. Townshend, respectively).

January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman for the merged department of Political Science. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses (Ronald C. Coyte and Horst Hutter, respectively).

January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman, Robert M. Roy for the merged department of Biology. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses (Richard T. Cronin and Hildegard E. Enesco (Biological Sciences), respectively).

Frank Barry was born on April 16, 1913 in London, UK and died on July 31, 2013 in Mississauga. During the war 1939-1945, he served in the Royal Air Force, where he contributed a number of witty cartoons to the squadron newsletter. He met his wife, Patricia Rawlinson, in 1944 (while in he was in the RAF) and they married in northern India in 1945. They had two children, Ailsa and Christopher.

After the war, he studied painting and teaching at the Ealing School of Art in London, UK from 1946 to 1950. In 1950-51, he studied at Hornsey School of Art, also in London, England. From 1951 to 1963, he was an Art Master at the Carisbrooke Grammar School on the Isle of Wight, UK. He moved to Montreal with his family in 1963 and taught art at the Northmount High School. He entered Sir George Williams University and graduated with a MA in Art Education in 1969. He was appointed lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at SGWU in 1967-1968 and was promoted assistant professor of Fine Arts (Art Education) in 1973. He retired in June 1978 but continued teaching as part-time lecturer until 1981-1982.

• Frank Barry was chairman of the Association of Art Specialist of Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal in 1965 and 1966.
• He moved to Missisauga in 1984.
• Barry was elected Mississauga Senior Artist of the Year in 1995.
• Frank Barry was one of the first artists to exhibit at the recently opened Distillery Art and Culture Centre in Toronto, in 2003.
• He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and the Ontario Society of Artists.

Frederick H. Krantz started his career at Concordia University as an Assistant Professor at the History department of Sir George Williams University in 1969. He was appointed associate professor of history in 1973. Krantz was instrumental in the foundation of Concordia University’s Liberal Arts College in 1978 where he taught and was made Permanent Fellow. He got his full professor title in 2010 and retired in 2019. Krantz’s fields of expertise are the European intellectual history with emphasis on the Renaissance and Florence and anti-Semitism.

• Frederick Krantz was the Director of the Interuniversity Centre for European Studies in 1974.
• Krantz was one of the 8 Concordia professors to receive a leave fellowship from the Canada Council in 1976-1977.
• Krantz published ‘History From Below’ in 1985, a collection of articles written by distinguished historians in honour of George Rudé. The profits from the sale of the festschrift went towards the creation of a scholarship in Rudé’s name.
• In 1987, he was named Quebec Regional Director of the Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle-East Association.

Harvey Schulman graduated from Sir George Williams University in 1965. He would be return to SGWU in 1969 as a lecturer in Political Science.

October 1977: The Liberal Arts College Working Committee is formed, representing both Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses and drawn from all Divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to elaborate a dossier containing the core-curriculum of a Liberal Arts College.

March 9, 1978: Concordia University's Board of Governors approves the establishment of four units following a Senate recommendation: the Institute for Women's Studies, the Centre for Mature Students, the Liberal Arts College and the Lonergan College.

1979: The Liberal Arts College appears for the first time in the 1979-1980 Undergraduate Calendar.

1980: Stan Tucker offers a cheque of $3,000 to Principal Frederick Krantz to start the Rita Tucker Library in honour of his deceased wife. The Library collects the great works of Western civilization.

September 26, 1985: The Liberal Arts College is hosting the inaugural the George Rudé Inaugural Lecture featuring professor Eric Hobsbawm presenting on the theme of 'Bandits and Historians'.

George Rudé was born in Oslo in 1910. He died in 1993. In 1919, his family moved to England. He completed a degree in modern languages in 1931. Following a trip to the Soviet Union, from 1935 to 1959 he was a member of the British Communist Party. During the 1930s, he held teaching posts at Stowe School and St. Paul's School in London. During World War II Rudé worked with the London fire service and pursued a part-time degree in history at London University. In 1956, he was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize for his article The Gordon Riots: A Study of the Rioters and Their Victims. (The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots occurred in London in 1780 when Lord George Gordon incited a mob to rebel.) George Rudé took up research on urban insurrections in the French Revolution, which led to a Ph.D. (London) in 1960. Frozen out of British universities by the climate of the Cold War, he departed for Australia in 1960 to teach at the University of Adelaide and then at Flinders University. In 1970, he moved to Canada and taught history at Sir George Williams University and, following its 1974 merger with Loyola College to form Concordia University, at Concordia until his retirement in 1987. In Montreal, he was instrumental in the foundation the Inter-university Centre for European Studies. He was named professor emeritus in 1988.

He held visiting professorships in Tokyo, New York, and Virginia. In honour of his many contributions, his former Australian students established the George Rudé Seminar which meets every two years. He was the author of some 15 books and editor of several others.

Kenneth Arthur graduated from Sir George Williams College with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1956.

• Arthur obtained the Charles E. Frosst Medal for 'Top commerce graduate' in 1956.