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Hollis-Hallett, Archibald Cameron

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Title Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
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Birth 05/02/1927 Death 00/00/2003
Place Pembroke Place (nk)
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Country Bermuda Country (nk)
 
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Honours OBE;
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Qualifications PhD;
 
Biography
He attended the University of Toronto. He was the son of Rupert Carlyle Hollis Hallett D.C.L., Assistant Chief Justice, and Jessie Wales (Cameron) Hollis Hallett, M.B.E. His early schooling was obtained in Bermuda at the Saltus Grammar School and in 1943 he attended St. Andrew's College in Ontario, Canada for one year to obtain university-entrance standard. In 1944, he entered the University of Toronto from which he took his bachelor's degree in experimental physics in 1948. He obtained a scholarship from the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 with which he enrolled as a Research Student in King's College, University of Cambridge in England, and did research into the properties of liquid Helium for which he received his PhD in 1951. In 1951,He joined the staff of the Department of Physics in the University of Toronto as a Lecturer, and taught physics and supervised graduate students. He progressed through the academic ranks at the University of Toronto, becoming full Professor in 1963. In 1966, he was appointed Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science in the same university, and in 1970 he accepted a seven-year appointment as Principal of University College there. At the conclusion of this appointment, he accepted the position of President of Bermuda College which position he held until mandatory retirement in 1992. He continued on as a part-time Consultant to Bermuda College. While Principal of University College in Toronto, he devised and directed the plan for the restoration and renovation of the College building which had been built in 1856, gutted by fire in 1892, and had received designation as a National Historic Building. This plan was in five phases, and he completed the first three before the end of his term there. While President of Bermuda College, he developed and supervised the construction of the campus at Stonington in Paget. His work in education was recognized by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the award of Officer of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list in 1992
 
Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1944. In 1944 he served in HMCS York for UNTD. (He was demobilized.)
 
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Anecdotes
Bill Clearihue reports: "A native of Pembroke, Bermuda, he entered U of T and was attested into the UNTD in October, 1944. He would have had at least one UNTD summer in 1945, but there is no indication of any subsequent Naval service, or whether he remained in the UNTD post-war. "
 
References
Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD);
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