“Chris Labelle, BCom'14: Winning the pitch competition validated all of our hard work.”
Mosaic
Ecovention: Jennifer Wright, BCom'93
“Dave Wilson, BCom'64: I didn’t care much about getting into Berkeley, but I did care about marching at half time.”
Tricolour Award Winners
Student Spotlight: Dakota Lavery, Comm'20
“Bram Warshafsky and Rachel Zimmer, BCom'10: Marketers were being asked to do more with less.”
5Crowd Inc
Student Spotlight: Heather Evans, BCom'16
Warner-Lambert pledges $1 million to the Commerce program
Halfpipe hopeful: Jeff Batchelor, BCom'12
Change agent: Tanya van Biesen, BCom'91
MobyTrip travel app: Misha Plotkine, BCom'10
Favourite professors from the 40s
“One of the highlights of Peter McConaghy's, BCom'07, work was seeing directly how the people of Tajikistan benefited from the bank’s microcredit activities.”
A year in Tajikistan
Goodes Hall Expansion
“Merv Daub, BCom'66: We were just in front of the more radical wave of the sixties. Guys were starting to grow their hair long. I wore a beard, which was unheard of in Commerce, and certainly unheard of on the football team.”
Memories of the 60s
On October 1, 2015, the School adopts a new name – Smith School of Business.
Smith School of Business
Big League CFO: Erin Crowe, BCom'93
“Nancy Jenkinson, BCom'82: I’d never really lost the dream that I was going to end up in the mountains.”
Reigniting career passion
Launch of the MBA program.
MBA program launches
ICBC: five years of tradition
An unexpected career move: Eva Wong, BCom'00
Up and away: Doug Wightman, BCom'04
The computer lab opens
The evolving news business: Michael Nowlan, BCom'82
Niu Body's natural, vegan skincare: Connie Lo, BCom'15
Capitalize for Kids: Jeff Gallant & Kyle MacDonald, BCom'11
Games that teach: Jane Wu, BCom'12
Smith School of Business Announcement
Lloyd & Co. Bespoke Tailoring: Talon Lloyd, BCom'15
“Commerce students were encouraged to vote in a referendum asking students to support the levying of an optional fee that would raise $1.2 million in support of the Goodes Hall building expansion.”
Commerce students support Goodes Hall building expansion
Marilyn Shurtleff and Marjorie Peart retire
Student Spotlight: John Sibbald, BCom'18
Inaugural ICBC
25 years of ComSoc
60s Snapshot
Dean: Margot Northey
A gap year in Africa: Clarisse Lau, BCom'09
"Master Teacher" Bill Cannon
White hat brigade
“Helen Bronskill, BCom'48: The war was over, the world was our oyster, and everyone was going to be alright.”
Memories from a women in Commerce in the 40s
Frosh week changes
The class of 1948
Student Spotlight: Erin Palmeter, BCom'18
The great British bake shop: David Caldana, BCom'99
Goodes Challenge kicks-off
The 1920's were a period of growing pains for the newly formed School of Commerce and Administration.
BCom convocation hood is bordered with green silk
“Bob Shoniker, MBA'70: Up to 1968, Commerce was part of Arts and Science. I was part of the group that created the Commerce Society.”
Creating the Commerce Society
Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (and Centre for International Management) are established.
Two new centres are established
Memories from the 90s
Student Spotlight: Bonnie Zhang, BCom'19
Better medicine: Carolyn Snider, BCom'96
AutoShare: Kevin McLaughlin, BCom'89
“Time Auction makes it 'more enticing for people to get involved and help others.'”
Time Auction
Commerce's first home: 75 Union Street
Vacation Fund: Erica Pearson, BCom'14
Pursuit of happiness: Neil Pasricha, BCom'02
“One of Gannon Jones', BCom'94, proudest accomplishments was SunChips' involvement in rebuilding the sustainable community of Greenburg, Kansas, after a devastating tornado in 2008.”
Working for the greater good
Memories of the Thrifty 30s: John Welch, BCom'38
Award winning teacher: Yolande Chan
A new home for the School of Business
Case competition team to Dallas, TX
50s Snapshot
Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition (QEC) celebrates 25 years
Fun in the craft brewing scene: Ryan Peterson, BCom'13
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1949
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum
Queen's Small Business Consulting wins big
1984 crest painting
RateHub on Dragon's Den
Marketer, mentor, legend: Ken Wong inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends
“Douglas Peters, BCom'63, a future cabinet minister, did not go to university directly out of high school.”
Better late than never
COMMitment dinner 2005
Time capsule dedication
Making waves: Janet Longmore, BCom'79
A master of reinvention: Gord Ray, BCom'93
John Purkis, BCom'48, on the Class of '48
Student Spotlight: Kanak Nagee, BCom'18
Celebrating Dan Monieson
Management simulation lab at work
437 Swimwear: Hyla Nayeri and Adrien Bettio, BCom'17
Commerce founder: Professor O.D. Skelton
Getting an edge: Emmanuel Genene, BCom'20
“Though it originally started as a fun side project, Derek Szeto, BCom'05, ran RedFlagDeals.com throughout his undergraduate degree and decided to pursue it full time after finishing school.”
Group buying power
“Inspired by his time working for his dad in real estate after graduation, Sam Battista, BCom'16, launched PropertySpark with two friends, including Matt Graves, BCom'18.”
PropertySpark
Business Graphics Centre opens: Michael Organ, BCom'88
Memories from the 70s
Going global
Student Spotlight: Zain Safdar, BCom'18
Unata: Chris Bryson, BCom'06
“I found that once I started thinking about how economic growth can transform societies, it was difficult to think of anything else.”
International changemaker
Mel Goodes and Warner-Lambert pledge $1 million to the School of Business
Dr. W. A. Mackintosh succeeds Dr. Clark as the Director of the School of Commerce and Administration.
Dr. W. A. Mackintosh becomes Director of the School
“Its innovation, CNC Assembly – a flexible, high-speed assembly technology – was the subject of an episode of ‘How It’s Made’ on the Discovery Channel.”
Transformix, from humble beginnings to manufacturing success
Launch of the first business degree program in Canada – Queen’s three-year Bachelor of Commerce – the genesis of Smith School of Business.
First business degree program in Canada launches
The Lawrence legacy
A vintage summer
Chefs Plate finds success: Patrick Meyer and Jamie Shea, BCom'11
Young Urban Farmers: Chris Wong, BCom'07
“A single course in Commerce by visiting professor Vladimir Popov inspired a lifelong fascination with Russian history and culture in Jeremy Estabrooks, BCom'98.”
A Russian detour
Due to postwar growth and financial assistance to veterans, the School experienced record enrolment, and professors were required to teach special sessions during the summer months to accommodate the large contingents.
Postwar growth
Student Spotlight: Aysha Tabassum, Comm'22
30s Snapshot
“When she heard Jeremy proclaim that electric bikes were the next big thing, she immediately got to work.”
Amego Electric Vehicles
Between the years 1908 and 1914, the Department of Political and Economic Science at Queen's consisted of two men, Dr. O. D. Skelton and Dr. W. W. Swanson.
Banking courses launch
Career Mashup: Vanesa Cotlar, BCom'15
Gerald Sutton's 40s snapshot
“The difference with the 30% Club is that it’s a campaign.”
A seat at the table
If you don’t succeed at ICBC, try try again!
Remembering Bill Miklas
Inaugural QBET
O. D. Skelton convinces Queen's alum Dr. W. C. Clark to join him in the Department of Political and Economic Science.
Department of Political and Economic Science grows
First Chartered Accountant extension courses are offered, making Queen’s the exclusive provider of CA education in Ontario and elsewhere.
Chartered Accountant extension courses
Frosh week cheer
New technology supports BCom Plus
Open for business: moving into Goodes Hall
Digital nomad: Vanessa Cotlar, BCom'15
“Within six weeks, Michael Organ's, BCom'88, website had more online traffic than the United Way.”
Helping busy people make a difference
Early Nineties Memories from Commerce: Tracy Jenkin, BCom'94
Bella bikes: Helen Vasilevski, BCom'92
Ice Storm '98
70s recollections
Teaching award winner "energized": Peggy Cunningham
Prof. Frank Collom with School of Business secretaries
70s Snapshot
Memories of the 80s
From accounting to the CFL: Danny Brannagan, BCom'09
Goodes Hall opens, named to recognize benefactor Mel Goodes, BCom’57, LLD’94.
Goodes Hall opens
Neil Pasricha remembers The Commerce COMMrade
“His on-air talent combined with his business acumen eventually attracted the attention of producers for the Oprah Winfrey Network.”
Ready for his close-up
ICBC 20 during Ice Storm '98
Frosh week chorus line
Although the forties began with rising enrolment numbers, the war soon took its toll.
War took its toll
90s Snapshot
In and out of hot water: Dave Jackson, BCom'91
Concussion recovery technology: Colin Harding, BCom'17
Across the continents: Rahim Lalani, BCom'11
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1998
80s Snapshot
Opening of 'The Commons'
Considering different perspectives: Stephani Kingsmill, BCom'88
“David was given the opportunity to choose one of three 'once in a lifetime' experiences.”
Gold Business Winner
#StillHaveMyFroshWeekTee: Peggy Steele, BCom'99
“Forever glad that I was 'Feeling fine in '89' as a Commie.”
Pat Baldwin, BCom'89, remembers his days in Commerce.
Queen's Marketing Association's Resource Centre opens
Parallel paths at Loblaw
The School of Business officially becomes a separate faculty with its own Dean.
School gets its own dean
CBC's Next Great Prime Minister Competition: Robert Marsh, BCom'07
The Donald Gordon Centre for Continuing Education opens.
The Donald Gordon Centre opens
Dunning Hall opens on the corner of University Avenue and Union Street.
Dunning Hall opens
The Gist: making sports inclusive
John Abbot, BCom'72: My BCom made me a better artist
Message from Commerce Department Head W.A. Mackintosh
What women want: Joanna Griffiths, BCom'05
Dean, teacher, researcher, leader: John Gordon on over 25 years at the School
Canadian Art Magazine’s Top 10: Scott Lyall, BCom'87
“Jonathan Suter, BCom'05: I believed there had to be a better way.”
SimpleTax
Commerce Alumni: Smith staff and faculty
At the close of the decade, Senior Matriculation followed by four years of study were required in the Commerce program.
Four years of study is required
Student Spotlight: Hannah Gardner, BCom'18
Foodies without borders: Erin Maynes, BCom'07
‘Water Bowl’ of ‘38
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1976
Hayley Rushford, BCom'15, and Prof. Kate Rowbotham
Memories of the 50s
Student Spotlight: Paul Vollmershausen, BCom'18
Queen’s Board of Trustees votes to create a separate School of Commerce and Business Administration.
A separate School of Commerce and Business Administration is created
Student Spotlight: Shirley Lin, BCom'18
Flight to freedom: Miriam, Humaira and Trina Ghiacy
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