File consists of two programs for the Celebrating the Lives and Legacy of Benno and Marge Friesen Homecoming 2023 event hosted by the TWU Alumni department.
The fonds consists of records that document the activities and functions of the Alumni Relations Department, including correspondence, minutes, reports, financial and personnel records. Series within the fonds include the following: 01: Minutes of meetings; reports, proposals 02: Correspondence 03: Events and Public Relations 04: Personnel 05: Financial Records 06: Papers of Alumni
The series consists of records documenting various events planned and/or sponsored by the Alumni Relations Department, including reunions, Homecoming, fundraising events, etc. Types of materials filed here include alumni directories, lists of alumni, promotional brochures, newsletters, surveys, information regarding Alumni Association Chapters and awards.
The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches, articles, notes, minutes, photographs, scrapbooks and other records relating to Thompson's personal life, his involvement with various organizations, his military career and work in Ethiopia, his political career as MP and national leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada, and his work as an educator.
Note that in addition to these textual records, the RNT Fonds is also comprised of the following:
A large number of artifacts, many of which are on display in the RNT building on the TWU campus
Audio and video cassettes, filed in the database with Coll. 02, the A/V collection; also physically filed with other A/V materials
Scrapbooks containing news clippings and personal memorabilia sorted in chronological order (from 1960 to 1996)
Scrapbooks containing political cartoons clipped from newspapers, sorted in chronological order (1963-1996)
Object is a framed facsimile of the Order of Canada awarded to Robert Norman Thompson. The certificate features the badge of the Order of Canada on the top centre, which is a stylized snowflake bearing the crown, a maple leaf and the motto. The frame stain is cherry.
The certificate reads: "The Governor General of Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada to Robert Norman Thompson. Greeting: Whereas, with the approval of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Sovereign of the Order of Canada, We have been pleased to appoint you to be an Officer of the Order of Canada. We do by these Presents appoint you to be an Officer of the said Order and authorize you to hold and enjoy the dignity of such appointment together with membership in the said Order and all privileges thereunto appertaining. Given at Rideau Hall in the City of Ottawa under the Seal of the Order of Canada this twenty-fifth day of October, 1990. By the Chancellor's Commands [signature] and signature of Secretary General of the Order of Canada." The following text is duplicated in French.