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Wilhelm was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on October 24, 1928 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Karl, and Peter.

Wilhelm was recruited as a secondary student to be a helper in the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force during World War II. He was involved in the German retreat from East Prussia to Berlin, Germany in 1945. He landed near Berlin, Germany and was taken to a Russian prison camp. In the prison camp, he was reportedly treated relatively well because of his young age and was shortly released. Afterwards, he worked as a manual labourer. Wilhelm met with his mother in Neuhaldensleben, Germany (now Haldensleben, Germany) in September 1945. Wilhelm and his mother then met with his brother Peter Höpken and together they all travelled to Lüneburg, Germany. They travelled to Lüneburg, Germany because Wilhelm's father was working there at the time.

Wilhelm finished his secondary school education in Lüneburg, Germany in 1948. Afterwards, he studied law in Göttingen, Germany. He wrote his exams in Celle, Germany and then accepted an articleship in Hamburg, Germany. He stayed in this articleship until he graduated from his civil servant exams in 1957. By the end of 1958, he accepted a job as a legal official with the revenue office in Hamburg, Germany. He eventually became a Senior Executive Officer with the Office of Finance for corporate bodies. He enjoyed his career and particularly like to work with large corporate bodies in trade and industry.

Wilhelm married Helga Grotefend in 1953 and together they had four daughters; Elisabeth (b. September 18, 1957), Ulrike, Stephanie (b. March 29, 1965) and Christine (b. April 20, 1966). Wilhelm was regarded as a quiet, level-headed and smart individual.

Albert (Bert) W. Hopton was a vice-president and director of the Dominion Rubber Company Ltd. and was one of the original members of the University of Waterloo Board of Governors.

Hopton joined the staff of Dominion Rubber in 1917 had moved to Kitchener-Waterloo in 1935. He served as the president of the K-W Rotary Club, Westmount Golf Club, and the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce. Hopton also served as the chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the vice-president of the Athletic Association of Kitchener and Waterloo, an honorary director of the Y.M.C.A., a director of the Freeport Sanatorium, and an elder of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

Hopton was married to Marjorie Brown and had three children.[1]

Constance Hoster was a women's educational pioneer and founded Mrs. Hoster's Typewriting, Shorthand and Translation Offices. She was also the first woman to be elected to the London Chamber of Commerce.

The Howe Candy Company was acquired by Dare Foods Limited in 1942. The Howe Candy Company Limited charter was surrendered and the company merged with The Dare Company Limited in 1958. The plant was closed in 1991.

Eva Marian Hubback was a British suffragist and campaigner for birth control and eugenics. She was Parliamentary Secretary of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship and later President after Eleanor Rathbone. She was director of economic studies at Newnham and Girton, Principal of Morley College for Working Men and Women and a member of the executive committee of the Eugenics Society. She founded the Association for Education in Citizenship in 1933. From 1946-1948 she was member of parliament for Kensington North. Eva died in 1949.

Dr. S. Dana Hubbard was born in Montgomery Alabama to Samuel and Mary C. Hubbard. He attended the University of Alabama, where he graduated in 1887. After this, he attended medical school at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating in 1891. He worked as a dermatologist at both Bellevue Hospital and Riverside Hospital before going into private practice. Between 1891-1898 he was a surgeon in the New York National Guard and the United States infantry volunteers in the Spanish-American War. Dr. Hubbard served as a medical inspector for the New york Health Department, and was a member of the New York Board of Health for over forty years. He was also an instructor and diagnostician for the New York hospital department. In 1922 Dr. Hubbard published a series of booklets on sexual hygiene. He was particularly interested in quackery and investigating violations of medical practice acts. Dr. Hubbard died in New York in 1937.

Dennis Huber was a university administrator who upon retiring in 2022 was the University of Waterloo's longest-serving vice-president.

Photographer in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario from 1891 to 1897. His studio was located on King Street. He later appears as the proprietor of the Huber Studio, located at 108 King Street West, Kitchener, from 1921 to 1925.

Harry Huehnergard was born February 13, 1921 in Kitchener, Ontario to Alister Ezra Huehnergard (1897-1946) and Gertrude Pollakowski (1896-1974). The middle of the three children, his siblings included older brother Carl and younger sister June. In 1933, at the age of 12, Harry began working for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record as a carrier, going to the main Record offices on Duke Street to pick up the newspapers. By 1937 Harry had graduated to working as a proof runner, pastepot filler and accounts collector at the rate of 10$ per week. The Record took a chance on Harry in 1939 when he was made the first staff photographer. He would take the images for the newspaper, have them developed by William Cochrane and then engraving plates made by MacPhail Engravers. The Second World War interrupted Harry's photography career when he enlisted in 1942, joining the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Harry was stationed in Gander, Newfoundland and while there became the Associate Editor and then Editor of "The Gander" which was the magazine for RCAF troops.

After the end of the war Harry returned to Kitchener and to working for the Record, with some key changes made to the photography department. He installed the first darkroom at the record in 1946 so that photographs could be developed onsite. He was also involved in the founding of the Commercial and Press Photographers Association of Canada (now Professional Photographs of Canada) serving on the executive committee. In 1948 Harry married Sylvia and the couple had two children, John and Mark. The next decades would bring changes to the field of photography including the installation of a wire photo machine in 1953, and a laserphoto receiver in 1977. Harry also helped to establish the Waterloo Regional Police Department's photography department.

During the course of his career he wrote a popular photography column for 25 years, and by the time of his retirement he was the Manager of the Photographic Department. Towards the end of his career at the Record Harry began to search for a permanent home for the Record's negative collection and was the person behind the collection being donated to the University of Waterloo. Harry retired in 1986 after a 49 year career at the Record. He died January 9, 2006 at St. Mary's Hospital in Kitchener.

Alice Riggs Hunt, journalist and activist, was born in New York City June 14, 1884. She was educated at private schools in New York City, one being Graham's School for Girls from 1895-1898. In 1907-1908 she attended Columbia University as a student in the School of Journalism. Later she attended the Drake Business School. She was organizer, speaker and writer on both New York Campaigns for Women's Suffrage and in several other states. She contributed to the New York Evening Post, New York Tribune, New York Evening Mail, New York Call, London Daily Herald, La Vie Ouvriere (Paris), The Workers' Dreadnought, London, Bulletin of the Peoples, Council of America, and Bulletin of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as special correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She attended the International Congress of Women in Zurich, 1919, as part of the American delegation. She was a member of Colonial Dames of America, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America and Huguenot Society of New York. She died August 21, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta. (Description from original in-house finding aid)

In 2022, Camille Huo was a fourth year student at the University of Waterloo's School of Pharmacy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille held a co-op work placement in a Toronto hospital pharmacy that was one of the first to provide the COVID-19 vaccine. During this time, Camille created a handout about pain management for children and was responsible for the pharmacy's COVID-19 clinic scheduling and inventory. Camille's achievements earned her the 2021 Co-op Student of the Year Award.

Frank Hurndall was in business from 1900 to 1904.

Kieth Reinhardt Hymmen was a Canadian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented the Waterloo North electoral district from 1965 to 1968, and Kitchener electoral district from 1968 to 1974, in the House of Commons. The son of Horace Hymmen and Clara Dunke, he was educated in Kitchener and at the University of Toronto. Hymmen became a chemical engineer in Kitchener. In 1940, he married Ruth Amelia Iredale. He served on Kitchener city council and was mayor of Kitchener for six months in 1958 and again from 1963 to 1965.

Hugh Bernard Noel "Noel" Hynes, BSc, PhD, DSc, ARCS, FRSC, was a biologist and professor at the University of Waterloo credited with founding the field of lotic limnology, the study of flowing fresh water. Internationally renowned, Hynes published over 190 papers in the course of seven decades, and two of his books became classics in the field: The Biology of Polluted Waters (1960) and The Ecology of Running Waters (1970). Known for launching the field of modern stream ecology and he was the first to show how food webs in streams depend on the surrounding landscape and how pollution changes them.

Hynes was born in 1917 in Devizes, England, and studied biology at Imperial College in London. After graduating in 1938, he enrolled at the University of London as an external student to study at the lab of the Freshwater Biological Association in the English Lake District. He graduated from the University of London in 1941 with a PhD in entomology; his thesis was on stoneflies (plecoptera).

During World War II, through a British government program to employ scientists in their professional capacity rather than as soldiers, Hynes was sent to Trinidad for six months to study tropical agriculture. In 1942, he married Mary Hinks and was sent to East Africa to work in the locust control program of the British Colonial Office. He spent the rest of the war attempting to eradicate locusts in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. After the war, he accepted a teaching post at the University of Liverpool. By the end of the 1950s, had established a solid reputation as an aquatic biologist; part of his work during this period related to river pollution.

In 1964, he came to the University of Waterloo to establish the biology department. He was its first permanent chair and spent the rest of his career there. He also spent two sabbatical years studying stoneflies in Australia. When he retired in 1983 he became a distinguished professor emeritus, but continued to work at his lab and with graduate students until 1993. In 1998, he was awarded the Naumann-Theinemann Medal from the Congress of International Limnological Society in Dublin, the highest honour available in the field of aquatic biology.

Hynes died March 4, 2009 in Knowlton, Quebec at the age of 91.

Walter Idington was born in 1846 in Puslinch, Ontario. He married Marion Eskdale on October 17, 1878. He died November 29, 1882.

Alphonse Illig was born in 1889 and married Rose Mehlman on July 27, 1921. Alphonse worked for Bauer Limited. Their son Joseph Illig was born in 1924. Joseph joined the Canadian forces for the Second World War and served on the HMCS Kirkland Lake. He was later a founding member of the K-W Naval Veterans Association and a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. Joseph died in 2012.

The origins of Imprint, University of Waterloo’s student newspaper, are rooted in Waterloo’s start as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, a semi-autonomous and non-denominational entity affiliated with Waterloo College (present-day Wilfrid Laurier University). Waterloo College’s two student newspapers, College Cord and Newsweekly were merged in 1958 to form The Cord Weekly, now called The Cord, which remains Laurier's student newspaper.

Engineering students at the Waterloo College Associate Faculties started their own newsletter in early 1959 shortly after the formation of the Engineering Society. The newsletter was dubbed Enginews and was originally published as a mimeographed sheet of foolscap. By late 1959, Enginews joined The Cord Weekly and appeared as a special section with its own masthead within the newspaper. The collaboration between The Cord Weekly and Enginews ended in the spring of 1960.

Enginews continued to publish issues in the spring and summer of 1960 until a new, initially nameless, newspaper was released in the fall of that year. This new newspaper was named The Coryphaeus, the Greek word for leader, in the second issue. Early issues of The Coryphaeus looked like The Cord Weekly, and Enginews continued to appear as a separate section with its own masthead in the paper. However, this special section slowly disappeared as the paper focused more on engineering.

The dominance of engineering news in The Coryphaeus disappointed many arts students who slowly organized and took over the newspaper. The Coryphaeus was renamed The Chevron in 1966, and as times changed, began to take a more radical editorial slant as the activist student movement of the 1960s got underway. Focus shifted away from engineering coverage to reporting on social and political issues of the day.

Believing they were no longer represented by The Chevron, a group of engineering students relaunched Enginews with a crude and irreverent style in July 1967. Publication of the new Enginews stopped in 1985 after the Iron Warrior, a paper with a more professional, serious-minded profile launched in 1980, proved to have more appeal with students. The Chevron*’s continued promotion of what was viewed as a radical left-wing agenda continued into the 1970s and resulted in a lack of confidence from the Waterloo’s student body. In November of 1978, after an extended dispute with the Federation of Students executive, now the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, the newspaper’s budget was frozen and The Chevron was overwhelmingly rejected by students in a referendum, leading to its removed as Waterloo's official student newspaper.

In the spring of 1978, the University of Waterloo Journalism Club, made up of former Chevron staffers and other Waterloo students, started its own weekly publication called Imprint. Initially funded solely by advertising, the paper won the support of students in a referendum held in March 1979 and the Imprint was named Waterloo's official student newspaper. Publication of the award-winning newspaper continues today with a large circulation in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and a six-figure operating budget.

Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations during World War II.

Mary Quayle Innis was an economist, writer, editor, and academic administrator, born in St. Mary's, Ohio on April 13, 1899. From 1915 to 1919 she attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a Ph.B. in English. There she met a young Canadian economics instructor, Harold Adams Innis. After their marriage on May 10, 1921, she joined him in Toronto where he had started teaching in the Political Economy Department at the University of Toronto, and where he remained for the rest of his life.

Quayle accompanied her husband on research tours until their children were born: Donald Quayle (April 21, 1924), Mary Ellen (Sept. 5, 1927), Hugh Roderick (Nov. 17, 1930), and Anne Christine (Jan. 25, 1933). Innis continued writing while at home with her family and published a number of stories in the Canadian Forum. She also wrote An Economic History of Canada (1935; revised and enlarged, 1943) which became a standard university text, followed by two other history texts for use in the schools: Changing Canada (2 volumes, Fish, Fur and Exploration and New France and the Loyalists, 1951-1952) and Living in Canada (1954), written in collaboration with Alex A. Cameron and Arnold Boggs. In the 1940s most of her short stories appeared in Saturday Night (forty-five stories between 1938 and 1947). Several of these were rewritten for inclusion in Stand on a Rainbow, (1943), an autobiographical "novel". For ten years Innis was editor of the YWCA Quarterly, and in 1949 she wrote a history of that organization, Unfold the Years, a survey of the growth of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada from its inception in 1873.

After her husband's death in 1952 Mary Quayle Innis entered a more public life. In 1955 she became Dean of Women at University College, where she served for nine years. She was a Canadian delegate to the Commonwealth Conference on Education held in Oxford in 1959. After her retirement she became vice-chairman of the Committee on Religious Education in the Public Schools of the Province of Ontario. Innis received an LL.D. from Queen's University in 1958 and one from the University of Waterloo in 1965, in recognition of her literary and academic achievements

During these years, Innis continued to write and publish stories and also worked as an editor. Travellers West appeared in 1956 as well as a selection of her husband's articles and addresses, Essays in Canadian Economic History, followed by Mrs. Simcoe's Diary in 1965. Innis also worked with two university groups to edit commemorative anthologies, The Clear Spirit (1966), the centennial project of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and Nursing Education in a Changing Society (1970), for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto.

Mary Quayle Innis died suddenly on 10 January 1972, the day before her revised edition of Harold Innis's Empire and Communications appeared.