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Taantʼa Ḵwáan

The Taantʼa Ḵwáan, or Tongass, are an Indigenous people and a Tlingit ḵwáan (tribe). The Taantʼa Ḵwáan community is located primarily in Ketchikan, Alaska formerly Fort Tongass.

The name Taantʼa Ḵwáan in the Tlingit language translates to Sea Lion Tribe.

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Sweet, Brandon

  • Person

Brandon Sweet has worked at the University of Waterloo since 2001 and is the Associate Director, Internal and Leadership Communications, a role that includes the editorship of the Daily Bulletin. Brandon co-hosts the Behind the Bulletin podcast. A former speech writer for Waterloo's senior leaders, Brandon continues to ensure that the communications needs of Waterloo's President are met. Brandon completed his MA in Political Science at Waterloo in 2002 and is passionate about the University's history.

Sutton, Richard

  • Person
  • ?-1976

He was married to a journalist at The Record, Frances Denney. He was the chief photographer at the time and died of cancer in 1976.

Suits, Bernard

  • Person
  • 1925-2007

Bernard Herbert Suits, philosopher and professor, was born November 25, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. Suits attended Denby High School in Detroit and went on to receive his BA at the University of Chicago, his MA in Philosophy also at the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Illinois. Suits' area of philosophic inquiry was games and gaming and he would go on to become an authority in the field. In 1957, Suits began teaching at the University of Illinois and moved on to Purdue in 1959. In 1966, Suits became an associate professor at the University of Waterloo where he would remain until his retirement in 1994.

While teaching at the University of Waterloo, Suits would hold such positions as Chair of the Waterloo Philosophy Department, Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Suits was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and was appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 1995.

Outside of teaching Suits published essays in a number of journals and is best known for his book "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia." Suits was also a visiting professor at the University of Lethbridge and the University of Bristol. In 1982, Suits was a special guest star on the TVO special "The Academy on Moral Philosophy."
Bernard Suits died in 2007.

Sturm, Henry W.

  • Person
  • 1884-1977

Henry William Sturm was a barber and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of Kitchener from 1933 to 1934. He was born in Waterloo and was educated locally. He apprenticed as a barber and worked at J.J. MacCallum's News and Barber Shop until 1918. Sturm served on Kitchener council from 1924 to 1926, in 1928, from 1930 to 1932, from 1936 to 1942 and from 1944 to 1953. He helped promote the construction of the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium and served on the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Commission. The Victoria Park neighbourhood of Kitchener holds a Henry Sturm Festival each year. Henry Sturm Boulevard in Kitchener was also named in his honour.

Student Wives Club

  • Campus group
  • 1962-[1973?]

The Student Wives Club was a club for the spouses of students at the University of Waterloo.

The club was established in 1962 by Mickey Hackney, Agnes Olive, and Colleen Grierson, who shared an interest in connecting with other wives in the campus community. Numerous students and spouses encountered a considerable financial challenge when attending university, as households often relied on a single income. As a result, students and their spouses frequently found that they could not participate in social activities like dining out or attending the theatre. The club primarily arranged social events for spouses to connect and share their experiences that aligned with their availability and budget.

Initially, the club was primarily composed of the wives of engineering students however, members hoped to recruit more wives in the arts and sciences as well as post-graduate students. Members handed out pamphlets at registration day and placed advertisements in the student handbooks.

Examples of social events held by the club include makeup demonstrations, wiener roasts, card parties as well as tutorials in millinery design and how to make inexpensive Christmas decorations.[1] Occasionally, the club invited guest speakers to talk to members about various topics such as when Dixie Guldner, family counsellor at the university, was invited to discuss sexuality in the home in 1973.[2]

In 1964, Pat Belyea was the Club President. Members were charged $1.00 in annual dues.[3] Some members of the club created a cookbook which is now held by Special Collections & Archives.

Following the fire at the School of Optometry (located in the old Waterloo post office) in 1969, the club donated $200.00 worth of children’s furniture and toys to the new waiting room for the school.[4]

The Student Wives Club was hosting events until at least 1973.[5] It is uncertain if the club remained active after that time.

Strohm, Adam

  • Person
  • 1870-1951

Adam Julius Strohm was born in Sweden on February 16, 1870 and emigrated to the United Sates in 1892. He was chief librarian of the Detroit Public Library from 1912 until 1941. He died October 30, 1951.

Strasser, Salome Sarah (Sally) Anthes

  • Person
  • 1839-1921

Salome Sarah Anthes [Sally or Sarah] was born August 8, 1839 in Wilmot township, Ontario to parents Martin Anthes and Catharina Schmitt. She was married to Christian Feick in 1862 and the couple had two daughters: Catherine M. (later Liebeler) and Hannah Adeline (later Christner). Christian died June 18, 1870 at 30 years old and is buried in Port Royal, Norfolk County, Ontario. Salome later married John George Strasser on November 5, 1872 in Guelph. The 1881 census has the couple living in North Perth with Salome's daughter's from her first marriage and her three children with George: Mary, William and Carloina [Carolina?]. Salome died March 9, 1921, George died June 12, 1927 and they are buried in Sebringville Cemetery, Ontario.

Strachey, Ray

  • Person
  • June 4, 1887-July 16, 1940

Ray Strachey (born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe) was a British writer, artist and politician. Born in England, she attended Cambridge and sat the mathematical tripos. She spent the majority of her life working towards the cause of Women's Suffrage and wrote extensively on this topic. She was the Parliamentary Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and worked closely with Dame Millicent Fawcett Garret. After the First World War and the passing of laws allowing women to stand in Parliament she ran, unsuccessfully, for Brentford and Chiswick in 1918, 1922 and 1923. When the first woman was elected to parliament (Nancy Astor), Ray became her Parliamentary Secretary. She also served as the head of the Women's Employment Federation and was a frequent contributor to the BBC. She was married to Oliver Strachey and together they had two children, Barbara, a writer, and Christopher, a computer scientist. Barbara studied in Vienna before taking her admittance exams for university where she was watched over by Irene Hancock. Ray's circle of friends included other women's rights activist such as her mother-in-law Jane Maria Strachey, as well as members of the Bloomsbury Group including her brother-in-law Lytton Strachey and her younger sister's husband Adrian Stephen and sister-in-law Virginia Woolf. Ray died in London in 1940.

Stowell, Thomas Pollard

  • Person
  • 1819-1896

Thomas P. Stowell was born to Hezekiah Stowell and Anna Pollard in 1819. Thomas attended Alexandria Boarding School in Alexandria, Virginia. While there he studied mathematics and astronomy before returning to New York where he settled in Rochester and worked as an insurance agent. He died February 28, 1896.

Stopes, Marie

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1880 and died there in 1958. Educated in Edinburgh, London and graduated with her Ph.D. from Munich, she was the first woman appointed to the science staff at the University of Manchester in 1904. Jointly with her husband H.V. Roe she founded the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control in 1921. It was the first birth control clinic in the world. She also published two books, "Married Love" and "Wise Parenthood: a Book for Married People."

Stone, Lucy

  • Person
  • 1818-1893

Lucy Stone ,suffragette, was born August 13, 1818 on Cory's Hill Massachusetts. At the age of sixteen she began teaching at the district school and then enrolled at Quaboag Seminary and Wesleyan Academy. In 1839 she entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and in 1843 she enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio. When she graduated in 1847 she was the first woman from Massachusetts to obtain a college degree. Stone was appointed a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1848 which allowed her to meet reformers within the Garrison wing of the abolition movement. In 1849 she conducted the first petition campaign in Massachusetts for the rights of women. The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in 1850 and Stone was one of the organizers, later being appointed to the central committee of the convention. In 1851 Stone became an independent women's rights lecturer speaking at various venues throughout the United States for the next seven years.
During the course of her lecturing Stone met and married Henry Brown Blackwell, although she continued to be known by her maiden name. Stone and Blackwell's daughter Alice was born September 14, 1857 and Stone spent less time on her political activities and more time raising her daughter. Alice would later become a leader of the suffrage movement.

By 1866 Stone was involved again in politics and helped to organize, and served on the executive committee of, the American Equal Rights Association which was to press for both African American and women's rights. In 1870 Stone and Blackwell moved to Dorchester Massachusetts to organize the New England Woman Suffrage Association, and Stone founded "The Woman's Journal", a voice of the suffrage movement.

Stone gave her last public speeches in May, 1893 at the World's Congress of Representative Women. She died October 18, 1893.

Stoll, Oswald

  • Person
  • 1866-1942

Born on January 20, 1866 in Melbourne, Australia, Oswald Stoll was a theatre entrepreneur. Stoll was known for promoting a new direction of leisure entrepreneurship. Along with theatre, Stoll dabbled in establishing distribution companies for cinema such as renovating the London Opera House into a cinema in 1919. As well, Stoll founded Stoll Picture Productions in 1920 and became one of the prominent makers and distributors in the British film industry. He died in Putney, London on January 9, 1942.

Stewart, Rella May

  • Person
  • 1877-1947

Rella May Sims was born January 11, 1877 to Peter Harvey and Jemima Sims. She married John Ross Stewart on November 6, 1907 and died in Hartford, CT on November 13, 1947.

Stewart, Peter Ross

  • Person
  • 1914-1980

Peter Ross Stewart was born in 1914 to John Ross and Rella May Stewart. He died in 1980.

Stewart, John Ross

  • Person
  • 1878-1940

John Ross Stewart was born ca. 1879 in Uxbridge, Ontario. He married Rella May Sims on November 7, 1907. They lived in Hartford, CT where he was in insurance. He died there August 22, 1940.

Stewart, Elizabeth (Betty) Clement

  • Person
  • 1916-1977

Elizabeth (Betty) Clement Stewart (1916-1977) was born to William Pope Clement and Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement in 1916 in Berlin (Kitchener). Betty won the Bishop Strachan Scholarship and was awarded a full scholarship the University of Toronto. In 1940 Betty wed alderman and investor Peter Ross Stewart (1915-1980) of West Hartford. Together they had children: Janet and Stewart. Betty died in 1977 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Stephens, Harold

  • Person
  • September 12, 1921 – June 14, 2017

Born in Scott, Saskatchewan on the family farm, Stephens went into engineering and worked for Dominion Rubber (later Uniroyal). He retired in 1986 as Head Engineer.

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