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Title: Interview with James Allan Cheyne
Description: Professor James Allan Cheyne took his first academic appointment in the department of Psychology at Scarborough College in 1969. While only teaching and researching at Scarborough College for a year, the building architecture, the valley land, the TV studio, and experiences with fellow Psychology faculty members marked Prof. Cheyne's experience. Prof. James Allan Cheyne is Professor Emeritus (Psychology) of the University of Waterloo.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Kim McLean
Description: Interview with a woman who was formerly a part the senior executive leadership team at utsc, she recounts her work in helping build the pan/am center serving as the chief administrator officer. Additon to this she talks in depth about her experiences being a young mother with a demanding career.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Tavila Haque
Description: Tavila Haque, a UTSC student from the 2012 graduating class, reflects on her time spent at UTSC. She looks back at her five years here with fond memories and notes how her experience here differed from the misconceptions that she had heard about UTSC. She discusses the numerous supports available to her as a student, providing advice to future and current students to take advantage of them. She specifically touches on her close relationships with her professors and how their support has allowed her to become more confident in her own work as a photographer.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Yvonne Garson
Description: Yvonne, a Polish resident of Guildwood Village, speaks about her journey to Canada and her experiences, particularly in Scarbourough. Explaining the reasons behind her parents' decision to come to Canada after World War II, Yvonne mentions how she moved around the GTA and finally settled in Guildwood, and she appreciated the close-knit community that it fostered. She elaborates on the early days of Guildwood Village and how the community members add value and take care of it.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Karen Aboud
Description: Karen Aboud talks about her experience as an active UTSC student, both academically and in her extracurricular activities. She discusses topics ranging from her professors and classes to her involvement in student council and rallies. As a student from the first graduating class of Scarborough College in the 1960s, Aboud relays the impression she got of the layout of Scarborough in the early years of the College.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Frank Prato
Description: Frank Prato talks about his experience living in the Scarborough community and attending Scarborough College.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Shirley Criscione
Description: Shirley Criscione shares her student experiences as one of the first graduates of Scarborough College in 1968. Shirley highlights how the campus culture was during those years, particularly the impact of having such a small student body (less than 200 students). The campus community was tight knit, where "everybody knew everybody." Shirley also recalls how the larger society was reflected on campus, particularly the roles that women took, the demographics of the student body, what students were expected to wear, and even the normalcy of smoking at the time.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Elliott Schwartz
Description: Elliott Schwartz, a graduate of UTSC (1969), discusses the social, academic and administrative culture of the campus.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC