Dean: Margot Northey
Early Nineties Memories from Commerce: Tracy Jenkin, BCom'94
Across the continents: Rahim Lalani, BCom'11
Prof. Frank Collom with School of Business secretaries
Smith School of Business Announcement
ICBC: five years of tradition
Inaugural ICBC
Gerald Sutton's 40s snapshot
50s Snapshot
A gap year in Africa: Clarisse Lau, BCom'09
25 years of ComSoc
Goodes Challenge kicks-off
A vintage summer
Commerce Alumni: Smith staff and faculty
“The difference with the 30% Club is that it’s a campaign.”
A seat at the table
AutoShare: Kevin McLaughlin, BCom'89
“Jonathan Suter, BCom'05: I believed there had to be a better way.”
SimpleTax
Memories of the 50s
Foodies without borders: Erin Maynes, BCom'07
The Gist: making sports inclusive
Better medicine: Carolyn Snider, BCom'96
Games that teach: Jane Wu, BCom'12
Lloyd & Co. Bespoke Tailoring: Talon Lloyd, BCom'15
Halfpipe hopeful: Jeff Batchelor, BCom'12
“Nancy Jenkinson, BCom'82: I’d never really lost the dream that I was going to end up in the mountains.”
Reigniting career passion
Pursuit of happiness: Neil Pasricha, BCom'02
Teaching award winner "energized": Peggy Cunningham
60s Snapshot
Commerce founder: Professor O.D. Skelton
“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
Young Urban Farmers: Chris Wong, BCom'07
“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
"Master Teacher" Bill Cannon
“Chris Labelle, BCom'14: Winning the pitch competition validated all of our hard work.”
Mosaic
Business Graphics Centre opens: Michael Organ, BCom'88
Memories of the 80s
#StillHaveMyFroshWeekTee: Peggy Steele, BCom'99
“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
Case competition team to Dallas, TX
‘Water Bowl’ of ‘38
Fun in the craft brewing scene: Ryan Peterson, BCom'13
Queen's Marketing Association's Resource Centre opens
Digital nomad: Vanessa Cotlar, BCom'15
Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition (QEC) celebrates 25 years
Management simulation lab at work
Marilyn Shurtleff and Marjorie Peart retire
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
Frosh week changes
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
Student Spotlight: Bonnie Zhang, BCom'19
Queen's Small Business Consulting wins big
Inaugural QBET
Student Spotlight: Kanak Nagee, BCom'18
Ecovention: Jennifer Wright, BCom'93
1984 crest painting
Student Spotlight: Erin Palmeter, BCom'18
Student Spotlight: John Sibbald, BCom'18
Unata: Chris Bryson, BCom'06
437 Swimwear: Hyla Nayeri and Adrien Bettio, BCom'17
“Time Auction makes it 'more enticing for people to get involved and help others.'”
Time Auction
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
Time capsule dedication
RateHub on Dragon's Den
The great British bake shop: David Caldana, BCom'99
Marketer, mentor, legend: Ken Wong inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends
Flight to freedom: Miriam, Humaira and Trina Ghiacy
Favourite professors from the 40s
Going global
Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (and Centre for International Management) are established.
Two new centres are established
Memories from the 70s
Award winning teacher: Yolande Chan
New technology supports BCom Plus
What women want: Joanna Griffiths, BCom'05
Change agent: Tanya van Biesen, BCom'91
White hat brigade
Niu Body's natural, vegan skincare: Connie Lo, BCom'15
Up and away: Doug Wightman, BCom'04
The School of Business officially becomes a separate faculty with its own Dean.
School gets its own dean
Celebrating Dan Monieson
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1976
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum
ICBC 20 during Ice Storm '98
70s Snapshot
The Lawrence legacy
Frosh week chorus line
The computer lab opens
Goodes Hall opens, named to recognize benefactor Mel Goodes, BCom’57, LLD’94.
Goodes Hall opens
“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
Vacation Fund: Erica Pearson, BCom'14
Student Spotlight: Aysha Tabassum, Comm'22
John Purkis, BCom'48, on the Class of '48
“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
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
“Bram Warshafsky and Rachel Zimmer, BCom'10: Marketers were being asked to do more with less.”
5Crowd Inc
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1998
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
Making waves: Janet Longmore, BCom'79
“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
Frosh week cheer
Launch of the MBA program.
MBA program launches
Warner-Lambert pledges $1 million to the Commerce program
Opening of 'The Commons'
Message from Commerce Department Head W.A. Mackintosh
“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
A master of reinvention: Gord Ray, BCom'93
First Chartered Accountant extension courses are offered, making Queen’s the exclusive provider of CA education in Ontario and elsewhere.
Chartered Accountant extension courses
John Abbot, BCom'72: My BCom made me a better artist
The class of 1948
Dunning Hall opens on the corner of University Avenue and Union Street.
Dunning Hall opens
Ice Storm '98
Dean, teacher, researcher, leader: John Gordon on over 25 years at the School
Memories from the 90s
“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
CBC's Next Great Prime Minister Competition: Robert Marsh, BCom'07
“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
Student Spotlight: Paul Vollmershausen, BCom'18
Chefs Plate finds success: Patrick Meyer and Jamie Shea, BCom'11
Bella bikes: Helen Vasilevski, BCom'92
“I found that once I started thinking about how economic growth can transform societies, it was difficult to think of anything else.”
International changemaker
If you don’t succeed at ICBC, try try again!
Goodes Hall Expansion
In and out of hot water: Dave Jackson, BCom'91
Open for business: moving into Goodes Hall
On October 1, 2015, the School adopts a new name – Smith School of Business.
Smith School of Business
Mel Goodes and Warner-Lambert pledge $1 million to the School of Business
Memories of the Thrifty 30s: John Welch, BCom'38
The Donald Gordon Centre for Continuing Education opens.
The Donald Gordon Centre opens
“Forever glad that I was 'Feeling fine in '89' as a Commie.”
Pat Baldwin, BCom'89, remembers his days in Commerce.
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
“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
Bachelor of Commerce Curriculum, 1949
90s Snapshot
Big League CFO: Erin Crowe, BCom'93
Student Spotlight: Heather Evans, BCom'16
“When she heard Jeremy proclaim that electric bikes were the next big thing, she immediately got to work.”
Amego Electric Vehicles
Student Spotlight: Zain Safdar, BCom'18
An unexpected career move: Eva Wong, BCom'00
“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
Neil Pasricha remembers The Commerce COMMrade
“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
From accounting to the CFL: Danny Brannagan, BCom'09
Career Mashup: Vanesa Cotlar, BCom'15
Student Spotlight: Hannah Gardner, BCom'18
Concussion recovery technology: Colin Harding, BCom'17
MobyTrip travel app: Misha Plotkine, BCom'10
“Douglas Peters, BCom'63, a future cabinet minister, did not go to university directly out of high school.”
Better late than never
Student Spotlight: Shirley Lin, BCom'18
Remembering Bill Miklas
Considering different perspectives: Stephani Kingsmill, BCom'88
Hayley Rushford, BCom'15, and Prof. Kate Rowbotham
Parallel paths at Loblaw
The evolving news business: Michael Nowlan, BCom'82
“David was given the opportunity to choose one of three 'once in a lifetime' experiences.”
Gold Business Winner
COMMitment dinner 2005
Capitalize for Kids: Jeff Gallant & Kyle MacDonald, BCom'11
Student Spotlight: Dakota Lavery, Comm'20
30s Snapshot
Commerce's first home: 75 Union Street
Getting an edge: Emmanuel Genene, BCom'20
Canadian Art Magazine’s Top 10: Scott Lyall, BCom'87
A new home for the School of Business
Although the forties began with rising enrolment numbers, the war soon took its toll.
War took its toll
“Within six weeks, Michael Organ's, BCom'88, website had more online traffic than the United Way.”
Helping busy people make a difference
70s recollections
80s Snapshot
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
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
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60s-70s
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