Joseph Gerald “Gerry” Hagey (September 28, 1904-October 26, 1988) was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario by Menno Hagey and Esther Cornell. Hagey’s great-grandfather was Mennonite Bishop Joseph B. Hagey, an early settler to the Waterloo area from Pennsylvania. Hagey attended Waterloo College (later Wilfred Laurier University) completing his high school and University education there. After graduating he took a position as a sales clerk with B.F. Goodrich in Kitchener. After working for B.F. Goodrich for many years, he eventually rose to the position of National Advertising Director by the 1950’s. Throughout this time he was still actively involved with the affairs of Waterloo College, then a small church college affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. After sitting on the board, he was asked to be the president of Waterloo College in 1953.

During his time at B.F. Goodrich, he had become interested in the idea of students working in their respective industries while studying believing that it would provide experience and revenue for the students, revenue for the college, and assistance for the company. Although a controversial idea, in four years Hagey and his supporters had established a co-operative school of engineering. In the summer of 1957 the Waterloo College Associated Faculties opened, with Hagey as the president. In 1959 Hagey decided to resign his position with Waterloo College and devote his time to the Associate Faculties, which separated from Waterloo College and incorporated as the University of Waterloo. Hagey spent the next ten years developing Waterloo from a two portable school with 75 students to a multimillion dollar university with over 9,000 enrollments.

In 1969 Hagey retired from the University of Waterloo due to a battle with cancer that resulted in the removal of his larynx. In his later years he re-taught himself to speak after his surgery, and was awarded numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Order of Canada in 1986. Hagey died of pneumonia on October 26, 1988.

Erneset (Ernie) S. Lucy was a university administrator who served as Dean of Students at the University of Waterloo from 1987 until retiring in 1991. Born September 23, 1923 in Rochester, New York he served in World War II as a member of the United States Air Force. Following the war, he studied Hobart College and completed graduate studies in social psychology, sociology and industrial relations at the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois, where he obtaining a PhD. After several year working in industry, Lucy joined Waterloo in March 1963 as assistance to the director of Co-ordination and Placement, which would later become Co-operative Education and Career Action. He worked as an adjunct professor in Psychology and a Sociology lecturer in the University's academic program in personnel and administrative studies (PAS) before being named was named Director of the program in 1981. Named Director, Personnel Student Services in 1983, he went on to serve as Dean of Students in 1987. Lucy died at home on October 14, 2014.

Dennis Huber was a university administrator who upon retiring in 2022 was the University of Waterloo's longest-serving vice-president.

David Lloyd Johnston is an academic, writer and former Governor General of Canada who served as the president of the University of Waterloo from 1999 to 2010. Born June 28, 1941 in Sudbury, Ontario, Johnston completed his studies at Harvard (A.B. 1963), Cambridge (LL.B. 1965) and Queen's (LL.B. 1966).

Known for work related securities regulation, corporation law and communications law, Johnston taught law at Queen's University (1966), and the University of Toronto (1968), and was the University of Western Ontario's Dean of Law (1974 to 1979). In 1979 he was named Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University and in July 1994, after stepping down as Principal, returned to McGill's Faculty of Law as a full-time Professor. Johnston took office as Waterloo's fifth president on June 1, 1999. A member of the Order of Canada, Johnston holds honorary doctorates Among the many honours accorded Professor Johnston are honorary doctorates from higher education institutions across the country.

In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous books, Johnston has played active roles in a variety of associations and organizations in educational and governmental settings. He was President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Conférence des Recteurs et des Principaux des Universités du Québec, the founding Chair of the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy and chaired Harvard University's Board of Overseers. For the federal government, he has chaired the Information Highway Advisory Council, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Smart Communities, the Advisory Council on Online Learning, the Committee on Canadian Information Systems for the Environment, and the National Broadband Task Force. He has also chaired the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and The Neuroscience National Centre of Excellence. Professor Johnston has served on many other provincial and federal task forces and committees and is on the boards of a number of companies including CGI Group, Masco Corp., Fairfax Financial Holdings, ARISE Technologies Inc., and is a founding trustee of the MasterCard Foundation.

James (Jim) Keron is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo. Keron graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) in 1970 and a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology in 1986. Keron also received a Master of Arts (MA), Archeology in 2003 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioarcheology in 2015 from Western University.

During his time as a student at the University of Waterloo, Keron was actively involved in various clubs and committees, including the Folk Music Club and the Federation of Students (now known as the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, WUSA).

Keron served on the Orientation Committee in 1967, where he played a key role in coordinating events and activities for incoming students. He also helped organize the Homecoming celebrations in 1967.

In 1968, Keron took on the role of Chairman for Summer Weekend 68, a multi-day event featuring activities and musical performances for the university community, which was organized by the Federation of Students. Additionally, he served as the Co-Chairman for Homecoming ’68.

By 1969, Keron had been appointed Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Student Activities within the Federation of Students.

The Campus Shop was a store open to all students on the University of Waterloo campus in the 1960s. The shop was run as a service by the Circle K Club and profits from the store were used towards specific projects on campus. The store was located in the Student Federation Building (also known as Annex I) that was located by Laurel Creek. Examples of items sold in the store include jackets, sweatshirts, running shoes, toiletries, candy, pipes, cigarettes, and cards.

Annex I, also known as the Student Federation Building, was the original prefab building built in 1957 in the parking lot at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) as part of the newly established Waterloo College and Associate Faculties. The building held the first classrooms for students until construction began on campus. The building cost $19,000 to construct. By 1967, the building was repurposed and held the offices of the Federation of Students and the student newspaper, The Chevron, as well as the Campus Shop, and health services. The building was demolished around 1968.

Burton Clare Matthews was a professor and university administrator born December 16, 1926 in Kerwood, Ontario. Matthews received a B.S.A. from the University of Toronto in 1947, a A.M. from the University of Missouri in 1948, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1952. From 1961 to 1962, he studied at Oxford University as a Nuffield Foundation Post-Doctorate Fellow. Matthews began his academic career at the Ontario Agricultural College as an assistant professor of soil science in 1952 becoming an associate professor in 1956 and a full professor in 1958. From 1962 to 1966, he was the head of the department of soil science.

In 1966, he was appointed Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Guelph. In 1970, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and was reappointed for a second six-year term in 1975. From 1982 to 1984, he was the chairman of the Ontario Council of University Affairs. From 1983 to 1988, he was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guelph.

Dr. Matthews died January 2, 2004 in Waterloo.

Brian P. Hendley is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo who served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts Dean, Faculty Of Arts from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 1999.

Alan George is a computer scientist and university administrator.

Alan Kenneth Adlington was an economist and university administrator born January 30, 1925. He emigrated to Canada from England in 1930 and served in World War II as part of the Royal Canadian Navy. After the war, he pursued undergraduate studies at from Western University. Adlington served the University of Waterloo from its beginnings in 1957 until 1970. He was the first Business Manager of Waterloo College and Associate Faculties and Secretary to the Board of Governors. He became Vice-President, Administration November 18, 1965 and served in the role until October 12, 1966, when he was named Vice-President, Operations. Adlington's tenure at Waterloo ended June 30, 1970 with a move to the University of Western Ontario to serve as Vice-President, Administration & Finance and later as president (1984-1985) until being named Ontario Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities. Adlington died in London, Ontario on September 30, 2017.

The Bombshelter Pub, commonly referred to as "the Bomber," opened in January 1975 inside the Campus Centre (now the Student Life Centre) at the University of Waterloo. Initially known as the Campus Centre Pub or CC Pub, the establishment briefly underwent a name change to the "Orange Bombshelter" on May 29, 1976, before adopting its contemporary name.

The pub was initially owned and managed by the University of Waterloo. The university's leadership had expressed interest in establishing a campus pub as far back as the 1960s. However, regulations at the time prohibited universities from obtaining permanent liquor licenses, limiting alcohol service to special occasions. In 1969, the University formally petitioned the provincial government to revise these regulations. By 1975, the legislation was amended, and the University was granted a permanent license. This license permitted the serving of alcoholic beverages exclusively to students, faculty, staff, and registered guests. An area inside the Campus Centre was renovated to create space for the pub, which was scheduled to open on January 20, 1975.

Ownership of the pub was transferred to the Federation of Students (now the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, WUSA) sometime between 1976 and 1978. Throughout its years of operation, the pub hosted many musical performances, became well-known for trivia nights, and served as a popular meeting place for members of the university community.

In 2018, WUSA announced that the pub was not financially sustainable, and the business was closed permanently after more than 40 years of service.

Watfor is a character and cartoon strip created for The Chevron by Don Kerr in 1966. The character appeared in The Chevron until approximately April 1968.

Watfor was inspired by the Fortran computer program called WATFOR which was developed by a group of University of Waterloo undergraduates in 1965. Watfor lived in the campus pond in front of the Health Services Building. It is unclear exactly what type of character Watfor is. The character refers to itself as a tad, fish, troll, and pond denizen. It may be part computer, part fish. In the comic strips, Watfor commented on campus happenings. The character was also printed on some ephemeral items such as ribbons distributed to the Orientation Committee on campus in the late 1960s.

Don Kerr was a graduate student at the University of Waterloo in the department of design when he created Watfor. He had recently graduated from the University of Manitoba as an architect and came to Waterloo to further his studies, specifically around experimental colours and architectural illumination.

Cartooning was a hobby for Don Kerr. He created the FDU cartoon strip which ran in the University of Manitoba's newspaper, the Manitoban, as well as the Winnipeg Tribune. He also created Lapinette, a cartoon ad for the Bank of Montreal that ran in the majority of campus newspapers across Canada.

Don Kerr married Mary Robinson, a fellow graduate student in design, in the Conrad Grebel chapel on May 20, 1967. The wedding was featured in an article in The Chevron titled, "This doesn't very often happen: Watfor sees his father married." The article includes a photograph of Don Kerr and Mary Robinson at the wedding ceremony.

The origins of Imprint, University of Waterloo’s student newspaper, are rooted in Waterloo’s start as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, a semi-autonomous and non-denominational entity affiliated with Waterloo College (present-day Wilfrid Laurier University). Waterloo College’s two student newspapers, College Cord and Newsweekly were merged in 1958 to form The Cord Weekly, now called The Cord, which remains Laurier's student newspaper.

Engineering students at the Waterloo College Associate Faculties started their own newsletter in early 1959 shortly after the formation of the Engineering Society. The newsletter was dubbed Enginews and was originally published as a mimeographed sheet of foolscap. By late 1959, Enginews joined The Cord Weekly and appeared as a special section with its own masthead within the newspaper. The collaboration between The Cord Weekly and Enginews ended in the spring of 1960.

Enginews continued to publish issues in the spring and summer of 1960 until a new, initially nameless, newspaper was released in the fall of that year. This new newspaper was named The Coryphaeus, the Greek word for leader, in the second issue. Early issues of The Coryphaeus looked like The Cord Weekly, and Enginews continued to appear as a separate section with its own masthead in the paper. However, this special section slowly disappeared as the paper focused more on engineering.

The dominance of engineering news in The Coryphaeus disappointed many arts students who slowly organized and took over the newspaper. The Coryphaeus was renamed The Chevron in 1966, and as times changed, began to take a more radical editorial slant as the activist student movement of the 1960s got underway. Focus shifted away from engineering coverage to reporting on issues of the day such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement.

Believing they were no longer represented by The Chevron, a group of engineering students relaunched Enginews with a crude and irreverent style in July 1967. Publication of the new Enginews stopped in 1985 after the Iron Warrior, a paper with a more professional, serious-minded profile launched in 1980, proved to have more appeal with students. The Chevron*’s continued promotion of what was viewed as a radical left-wing agenda continued into the 1970s and resulted in a lack of confidence from the Waterloo’s student body. In November of 1978, after an extended dispute with the Federation of Students executive, now the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, the newspaper’s budget was frozen and The Chevron was overwhelmingly rejected by students in a referendum, leading to its removed as Waterloo's official student newspaper.

In the spring of 1978, the University of Waterloo Journalism Club, made up of former Chevron staffers and other Waterloo students, started its own weekly publication called Imprint. Initially funded solely by advertising, the paper won the support of students in a referendum held in March 1979 and the Imprint was named Waterloo's official student newspaper. Publication of the award-winning newspaper continues today with a large circulation in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and a six-figure operating budget.

The University of Waterloo Tiddlywinks Club was formed in the Student Village at the University of Waterloo in October 1965.

Charles McLeod, a graduate student in mathematics, was one of the founders of the group and applied for a grant from the Federation of Students (now the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, WUSA) to start the club. Initially, the Federation of Students did not take this grant request seriously and laughed at the proposal. However, McLeod was able to convince the committee of the merits of tiddlywinks and was given the grant.

The club had approximately 80 members in 1966. All members were issued membership cards that showed an affiliation to the English Tiddlywink Association and the International Federation of Tiddlywink Association.

The club imported equipment from England however the items were held by Canadian custom officials who suspected the parcel labeled “tiddlywinks” contained something sinister. The parcel was eventually released when a university official explained the game of tiddlywinks.

On February 12, 1966, the University of Waterloo won the Canadian championship in a 16-game playoff with Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University), the only other team in Canada. The final score was 80 to 26 with the University of Waterloo winning 14 of the games.

The University of Waterloo team travelled to Harvard University to compete in the North American Tiddlywink Championship on February 25, 1966, and won. The team had ambitions to then travel to England and compete in the World Championships at either Oxford or Cambridge University. The prize was a trophy donated by Prince Philip known as “Silver Wink.”

In October 1966, the University of Waterloo team staged a marathon to set the world record of 56 hours of continuous tiddlywinks at Waterloo Square. This event was held to draw attention to the team’s need to raise $4,400 for ten members to travel to England and complete in the World Championships in February 1967. The team successfully set the new record by beating the previous record of 55 hours of continuous play by the Lanchester College of Technology (now Coventry University). However, the club was likely unable to raise enough money to attend the World Championships as there does not appear to be any mention of this event in local or campus newspapers.

On October 28, 1967, the University of Waterloo hosted the North American Tiddlywinks Championship, the first time this event was held in Canada. Five teams challenged the defending University of Waterloo Tiddlywinks Club. The University of Waterloo lost to Cornell University in the final round by a score of 61 to 51. Despite this loss, the team was still eligible to compete in the World Championships at Oxford University in Spring 1968 if they could raise the money to go. Lord Thomson and Coca Cola declined to sponsor the team. It was suggested that the Athletic department help finance the team through the $22 athletic fee charged to students, since this was the only team at the university with world championship caliber at the time. The club was likely unable to raise enough money to attend the World Championships as there does not appear to be any mention of this event in local or campus newspapers.

Although the University of Waterloo Tiddlywinks Club continued to host campus tournaments in 1968, it appears the club's popularity declined. It's unclear if the club was active beyond 1968.

Known members of the club include: Marie Kennedy, Ihor Gawdan, Paul Gardner, Barry Gillespie, Ronald Rumm, Tony Riggs, Charles McLeod, John Kohler, Ross Bell, Paul Freeman, Bill Webb, and Rosie Wain.

Elsie Hooper was born in Udhagamandalam, India to David Hooper (1858-1906) and Hannah Hooper (nee Evans) (1868-1948). Hannah Carr Evans and David Hooper met and were married in Udhagamandalam in 1886. Hannah's parents Rev. Thomas Evans and Rhoda Helen Rowe were both Baptist missionaries, as were Rhoda's parents and grand-parents. Hannah was born in Prayagraj (then known as Allahabad). David was born in Wales and after attending seminary traveled to India in 1855. Elsie was sent to school in England and remained there. She married Herbert Prior Boulton (1884-1960) in 1915.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Academy of Medicine is a networking organization for physicians in Kitchener-Waterloo.