Series includes materials relating to academic conference attendance, school visits, and research activities of Ronald Harrop. Topics and activities documented include his attendance at the meetings of Canadian Mathematical Congress, Computing Society of Canada, Canadian Learned Societies, American Mathematical Society, Logic Colloquium; participation in the UBC/TRIUMF program on Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and various visits to secondary schools in Burnaby and universities throughout North America in connection with recruiting and computing.
This series includes invitations, lists, itineraries, and journal articles.
Fonds consists of records relating to the academic and professional life of Ronald Harrop as well as materials documenting the opening of the university and its early history. Record types include brochures, bulletins, calendars, correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings.
Harrop, RonaldSeries consists of materials collected by Ronald Harrop in the course of his academic career as Head of the Department of Mathematics (1965-1969). As one of the original department heads, Harrop collected materials that documented early SFU history such as the opening ceremonies, department descriptions, and faculty requirements.
Materials include department brochures, university stationery, outline of faculty benefits, cost study analysis for a teaching semester, official opening invitation, blank application for admission, local newspaper clippings, bulletins, and variant editions of early academic calendars.