Gerry Hagey

Joseph Gerald "Gerry" Hagey was a marketing and public relations executive with B. F. Goodrich Canada before becoming president of Waterloo College in Waterloo, Ontario in 1953. He became the founding president of the University of Waterloo in 1957, when the science and engineering faculties he had established broke away from the rest of the college, which later became Wilfrid Laurier University. He retired in 1969.