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Wall of Fame Inductees

052414_GCVIsaturday_9468e The inductees are listed in alphabetical order.

Cardillo, Dominic V.P.
Date(s): 1930-2013
Notes: educator, alderman, Mayor

Craig, Margaret
Date(s): 1911-1994
Notes: gifted artist and teacher

Cutten, Arthur William
Date(s): 1870-1936
Notes: financier and philanthropist

Doyle, Terry
Date(s): 1933-2005
Notes: actor, business

Drew, George Alexander
Date(s): 1894-1973
Notes: Mayor, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Canadian Ambassador to London, England; George Drew married Fiorenza, only daughter of Dr. Edward Johnson

Farley, The Honourable Justice James M.
Date(s):
Notes: Judge, a Rhodes Scholar

Fox, Charles (Charley)
Date(s): 1920-2008
Notes: WWII Hero, Spitfire pilot

Goobie, Beth
Date(s):
Notes: author

Guthrie, The Honourable Hugh K.C., M.P.
Date(s): 1866-1939
Notes: politics, law, K.C., M.P., P.C.

Hales, Alfred Dryden
Date(s): 1909-1998
Notes: business, politics, community worker

Hamilton, William Ernest
Date(s): 1902-1985
Notes: Mayor, known as “Mr Guelph” for his service to the city in politics, and in community affairs

Hanna, John (Jack) Roe
Date(s): 1937-
Notes: university teacher, researcher, administrator and consultant

Hill, Christina E. M.D., F.R.C.S.
Date(s): 1945-2004
Notes: urology medicine

Hill, James Jerome
Date(s): 1838-1916
Notes: James Hill built the first railroads in the USA from coast to coast.

Jeans, Mary Ellen
Date(s):
Notes: nursing and medicine, psychology

Jewell, Theodore
Date(s): 1932-2008
Notes: teacher, Chancellor and Mayor

Johnson, Edward
Date(s): 1878-1959
Notes: operatic tenor, music educator, Manager, Metropolitan Opera in New York

Letheren (Wood), Carol Anne
Date(s): 1942-2001
Notes: athletics teacher, business woman, writer and President of COA (Canada Olympic Association)

Little, Jean
Date(s): 1932-2020
Notes: literature, an author and poet

Macalister, Kenneth
Date(s): 1914-1944
Notes: WWII Hero, Captain, a Rhodes Scholar

MacDonald, Andrew
Date(s): 1958-
Notes: university professor and composer

Macdonald, Evan
Date(s): 1905-1972
Notes: army artist, artist

McCrae, John
Date(s): 1872-1918
Notes: physician, soldier and poet

McIntosh (Mahaffey), Clarabeth
Date(s):
Notes: 40 years mission work in Japan

Mills, Fred
Date(s): 1935-2009
Notes: Canadian Brass trumpeter, freelance musician, professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music

Milne, Dr. Conrad         Milne, Dr. Conrad – Wall Of Fame Speech
Date(s): 1935-
Notes: teacher, founder of Winter Special Olympics of 1972, sports adviser

Ouchterlony, David
Date(s): 1914-1987
Notes: famous musician

Schroder, Jim
Date(s): 1918-2013
Notes: Liberal MP, community service

Sibbald, Dr. William (Bill) John
Date(s): 1946-2006
Notes: Physician-In-Chief, researcher, author, lecturer

Sleeman, George
Date(s): 1841-1926
Notes: business man; brewer (Sleeman Brewery)

Slinger, Joey
Date(s): 1943-
Notes: newspaper columnist

Smith, Effie
Date(s): 1867-1960
Notes: commercial artist and studio painter

Strickland, Dr. Donna
Date(s): 1959-
Notes: physicist in the field of short-pulse laser and laser-mater interactions, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018

Torrance, Brigadier-General Kenneth
Date(s): 1896-1958
Notes: war Hero, awarded Military Cross in WWI and awarded the Order of the British Empire for bravery in WWII

Ustrzycki, Bishop Matthew Francis
Date(s): 1932-
Notes: Bishop

Whale (Jones), Deborah
Date(s):
Notes: Deborah Whale is an achiever, feminist, explorer and leader