A brief list of meetings, speakers, and topics of the 1980s.
| No. 20 |
14 February 1980 "The McGill Architecture of Percy Erskine Nobbs" Mrs. Susan Wagg & "Arthur Eustace Morgan, The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time" Miss Eleni Bakopanos |
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| No. 21 |
17 April 1980 The Chancellor and McGill-Queen's University Press invited the members to a reception to mark the appearance of McGill University: For the Advancement of Learning, Vol. I, 1801-1895 Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 22 |
4 June 1980 "Leacock and the Ladies of R.V.C." Dr. Margaret Gillett |
| No. 23 |
2 October 1980 "Cyril James as I Knew Him" Mr. Colin McDougall |
| No. 24 |
27 November 1980 "Those Were the Days: A Study of Student Revolt, 1965-1970" Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 25 |
5 February 1981 "McGill and the Media" Mr. Andrew Allen |
| No. 26 |
2 April 1981 "The History of the History Department" Dr. Michael Maxwell |
| No. 27 |
3 June 1981 "Seven Years of Plenty" Dr. Donna Runnalls |
| No. 28 |
18 September 1981 "Law at McGill: The Past and the Present" Principal David Johnston |
| No. 29 |
1 October 1981 The McGill Alumnae Society, Eden Press Women's Publications and the James McGill Society joined in a reception to celebrate the publication of We Walked Very Warily: A History of Women at McGill Dr. Margaret Gillett |
| No. 30 |
10 December 1981 "McGill at Play: A History of Sport at McGill" Mr. Tom Thompson |
| No. 31 |
11 February 1982 "The Many Careers of Henry Marshal Tory" Dr. Walter Hitschfeld |
| No. 32 |
22 April 1982 "Portrait of a Country: The Artistry of William Notman" Mr. Stanley Triggs |
| No. 33 |
18 May 1982 "Bellairs and Barbados" Mr. Graham Gooding |
| No. 34 |
14 September 1982 "Dawson, the Man behind the Myth" Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 35 |
29 November 1982 "The Rare Book Room and its Treasures" Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis |
| No. 36 |
27 January 1983 "McGill University and the Montreal Veterinary College" Dr. Philip Teigen |
| No. 37 |
26 April 1983 "Three Radar Echoes of McGill" Dr. Robert Bell |
| No. 38 |
6 October 1983 "Where have all the flowers gone? The Evolution of the Study of Plants at McGill" Dr. Gordon Maclachlan |
| No. 40 |
26 January 1984 "John Grierson: Filmmaker, Artist and Much More" Dr. Hans Moller |
| No. 41 |
5 April 1984 "McGill in the North" Dr. Maxwell Dunbar |
| No. 42 |
10 May 1984 A reception hosted by the Principal and the McGill-Queen's University Press to celebrate the launching of McGill University: For the Advancement of Learning vol. II, 1895-1971 Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 43 |
7 September 1984 Book launching of A Fair Shake, Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women Dr. Margaret Gillett & Professor Kay Sibbald |
| No. 44 |
4 October 1984 "McGill and Its Museums" Dr. Alice Johannsen |
| No. 45 |
29 November 1984 "Curiouser and couriouser: The Brain of the Lobster" Dr. Valerie Pasztor |
| No. 46 |
31 January 1985 "The Joyce Hemlow - Fanny Burney Story" Professor Lars Troide |
| No. 47 |
21 March 1985 "Between the Crosses: Canadian General Hospital No. 3 (McGill)" Dr. Faith Wallis and Mr. Brian Owens |
| No. 48 |
23 May 1985 "The Idea of Nature in Some French Romantic Authors" Dr. Gabrielle Pascal-Smith |
| No. 49 |
31 October 1985 "The Cyril James We Did Not Know" Dr. Stanley Frost, Presidential Address |
| No. 50 |
12 December 1985 " 'Willie: A Dream' A dramatic monologue portraying Sir William Osler" Dr. Joseph W. Lella |
| No. 51 |
26 February 1986 "Three Questionable Men who built the McGill Libraries: Gould, Lomer and Pennington" Professor Peter McNally |
| No. 52 |
6 May 1986 "The Return of the Peregrine Falcon to Eastern Canada: The Role of McGill University" Professor David M. Bird |
| No. 53 |
6 October 1986 "A Founder of McGill: Sir William Dawson" Professor Susan Sheets-Pyenson |
| No. 54 |
26 November 1986 "New Directions at Old McGill: Reminiscences of Student Life in the 1960's" Professor Julius Grey |
| No. 55 |
5 March 1987 "What Does the Donner Do?" Dr. Deirdre Edward |
| No. 56 |
7 May 1987 "The Enigma of Peterley" Professor Peter McNally & "The Unprincipled Principal: a delayed tribute to John Bethune" Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 57 |
6 October 1987 "R. Tait McKenize: Athlete, Physical Educator, Physician and Sculptor" Professor A.E. Wall |
| No. 58 |
24 November 1987 "The Founding of M.A.U.T. and its role in the Founding of C.A.U.T" Dr. James Mallory |
| No. 59 |
7 March 1988 The Canada-Australia Connection "Sir Joseph Banks: The Global Naturalist" Ms. Eleanor MacLean & "The Bicentenary of Australia" His Excellency, Robert Stephen Laurie, Australian High Commissioner to Canada |
| No. 60 |
25 April 1988 "The Three Bares and all that - the story of the Visual Arts Collection at McGill" Prof. David Farley |
| No. 61 |
3 October 1988 "Psychiatric Hubris: Dr. Ewen Cameron and the Allan Memorial Institute" Mr. Don Gillmor |
| No. 62 |
28 November 1988 "Precarious Freedom: The Social Sciences at McGill, 1918-1939" Professor Marlene Shore |
| No. 63 |
16 January 1989 "McCord Museum: Montreal's Best Kept Secret Unmasked" Mr. David Lank |
| No. 64 |
13 March 1989 "McGill, Geology, and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation in Victorian Canada" Professor Suzanne Zeller |
| No. 65 |
8 May 1989 " 'No Fool She' . . . the Life of Carrie M. Derick (B.A. 1890)" Dr. Margaret Gillett, Presidential Address Jointly with the McGill Alumnae Society |
| No. 66 |
2 October 1989 "Cyril James - The Principal Years" Dr. Stanley Frost |
| No. 66A |
5 November 1989 Choral Evensong Sponsored by the Society to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Christ Church Cathedral congregation |
| No. 67 |
13 November 1989 "Hugh MacLennan: The Author and his Work" Dr. Elspeth Cameron |