Atkinson College

Passings: Professor Delmar McCormack Smyth was former dean of Atkinson

Professor Emeritus Delmar McCormack Smyth, dean of Atkinson College from 1963 to 1969 and past director of the Centre for Continuing Education at York University, died peacefully at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton on Feb. 21. He was 88. Prof. McCormack Smyth, or simply “Mac” as he was known to his family, colleagues and friends, was […]

York remembers Professor Emeritus Victor S. MacKinnon

York Professor Emeritus Victor S. MacKinnon, who retired from active teaching in the Department of Administrative Studies in Atkinson College in 1994, has died. Left: Victor S. MacKinnon in 1969 Professor MacKinnon died in the early morning hours of March 9 in Augusta, Maine. An accomplished academic and administrator, Prof. MacKinnon's successful tenure at Atkinson included […]