Voices from the Footnotes

So what happened after the fun and festivities of McGill's winter carnival were over? We hear from Rae Rambally, Carnival queen in 1958, about her experiences both before and after her time at McGill.

· Host & Editor: Jacquelyn Sundberg

· Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

· Transcription & Research: Labiba Faiza

· Rae Rambally

· Title song: Happy Sandbox, by Mativve, sourced from Freesound.org, CC BY 3.0

· End credits: Happy-music, by monkeyman355, CC BY 3.0

So what happened after the fun and festivities of McGill's winter carnival were over? We hear from Dorothy Baxter, Carnival queen in 1951, about her experiences after the pageant and her time at McGill.

So what happened after the fun and festivities of McGill's Winter Carnival were over? We hear from Beryl Rapier, Carnival Queen in 1949, about her experiences after the pageant and her time at McGill.

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This episode we speak with royalty, McGill royalty to be precise. Step back in time to 1949, 1951 and 1958, as Beryl Rapier, Dorothy Baxter and Rae Tucker Rambally bring us back to mid-century McGill Winter Carnival days. Relive their days as campus royalty. 

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Credits

· Host: Sheetal Lodhia

· Producer and Editor: Jacquelyn Sundberg

· Transcription & Research: Labiba Faiza

· Research Assistance: Michelle Macleod

Guests:

· Beryl Rapier

· Dorothy Baxter

· Rae Tucker Rambally

Music

· Title song: Happy Sandbox, by Mativve, sourced from Freesound.org, CC BY 3.0

· Transitions:

o It’s Winter Carnival Time. Merry Martlets. Presented by the Graduates' Society of McGill University, the Merry Martlets appeared courtesy of the McGill Choral Society under the direction of Gifford Mitchell. Copyright McGill University.

o Hail Alma Mater. Presented by the Graduates' Society of McGill University, the Merry Martlets appeared courtesy of the McGill Choral Society under the direction of Gifford Mitchell. Copyright McGill University.

o Old Fashioned auto Piano, by Razzvio, Sourced from Freesound.org, CC BY 3.0

· End credits: Happy-music, by monkeyman355, CC BY 3.0

A cataloguing librarian with a love for medieval manuscripts, archives, and Star Trek’s Beverly Crusher. Meet Anna Dysert in this week’s short episode.

Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Host, Associate Producer, and Technical Assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

What has changed since the 1940s for Black students and staff at McGill? In part 2 of the Generations episode, we shift to more contemporary perspectives. We hear mostly from the daughters and learn about their experiences as former students and current staff at McGill. They discuss community, belonging, and safe spaces on campus. The episode also focuses on the fight for equity, and the institutional challenges/obstacles that come with it.

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Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Associate Producer and Technical Assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

What does an assistant curator do? Find out this week as we meet Michelle Macleod, assistant curator at McGill’s Visual Arts Collection (VAC) and a PhD candidate in Art History. We learn about her love for the city and photographs, her current research on 19th-century illustrated journals, and the benefits of digitization during a pandemic.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Associate Producer and Technical Assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

What has changed since the 1940s for Black students and staff at McGill? In this episode, we talk with Beryl Dickinson-Dash (now Rapier) and two pairs of fathers and daughters who were students, faculty, or staff – or all of the above – at McGill. Hear about a lot of firsts and the unique challenges faced by Black students and staff in the first half of this two-part episode.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

Research Assistance: Michelle Macleod

Singing in the stacks! In this episode we meet Leah Weitzner, a former student staff member at ROAAr and a talented singer. With a fascination for performance practice and an interest in music from between 1500 to 1700, Leah brought her skills, curiosity,and enthusiasm to ROAAr for the past three years.

Read more about Saints Alive, when Leah sang from a 500 year old manuscript with a group of other McGill singers.

Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Production and technical assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

En écoutant ce balado avec Alexandre Soucy, vous y découvrirez que les employés, archivistes et bibliothécaires chez ROAAr ont des chemins uniques qui les ont apportés à travailler avec les collections à McGill. Pour Alexandre, son parcours jusqu'ici était pavée de musique et de littérature.

By listening to this podcast with Alexandre Soucy, you will discover that the employees, archivists and librarians at ROAAr have unique stories that have brought them to work with collections at McGill. For Alexandre, his journey so far was paved with music and literature. – Note this episode is entirely in French.

Animatrice & Productrice: Sheetal Lodhia

Production et assistance technique: Jacquelyn Sundberg