Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Ceremonies Office fonds
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:University of British Columbia. Ceremonies Office.
  
• Published/Created:1931-2022
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:80
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 15 Requested
    c.1 Box 18 Requested
    c.1 Box 45 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-36.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:University of British Columbia. Ceremonies Office.
  
• Description:19.92 m of textual records and other material.
  
• Terms governing use:Fonds consists of institutional records -- access requests must be reviewed by the University's FOIPOP Coordinator.
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of records generated through the various activities of the Ceremonies Office. Included in the fonds are administrative records (1964-1984) as well as records that document the activities associated with Congregation (1950-2006), building openings (1951-1986) and numerous functions sponsored by the University (1962-1995). The fonds also include information about honorary degree recipients, congratulatory greetings to Presidents K. George Pedersen (1983), David Strangway (1985) and various other ceremonial activities. There are also audio recordings of special events around the University campus.
  
• Biography/history note:From the time of the University of British Columbia's first Congregation, a Ceremonies Committee was appointed from faculty by the President to assist in staging the event. The committee chairman supervised the Congregation activities while other ceremonial activities were handled by ad hoc committees. In that the ceremonial functions of the University fell primarily within the mandate of the Chancellor, the committee worked closely with both him and the President. The Ceremonies Office evolved slowly beginning with the arrival of Sir Ouvry Roberts in the President's Office. He began as Director of Traffic and, in the early 1960s, gradually assumed responsibility for staging the public functions of the University. The Ceremonies Office was first located in the Wireless Station. Malcolm McGregor replaced Roberts as Director of Ceremonies in 1968. The Office moved to the Old Administration Building in the late 1960s and assumed responsibility for staging the public functions of the University. McGregor characterized the role of the Office as the "University on parade". The Ceremonies Office has prepared material for memorials, tributes, obituaries, honorary degrees, plaques and dedications, and sponsored special luncheons and dinners, hosted royalty, and directed Congregations. In 1977, Benjamin N. Moyls succeeded McGregor as Director of Ceremonies. Moyls was, in turn, succeeded by J.K. Stager (1985-1990), C.E. Slonecker (1990-2004), and Eilis Courtney (2004- ).
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
  Includes: 58,169 photographs, 596 audio recordings and 586 video recordings.
  Four bankers boxes of negative 35 mm photograph reels are located in the photograph section of the archives vault (Box 1: 1986-93, Box 2: 1994-96, Box 3: 1996-97 & Box 4: 1997).