McGill University - Old McGill Yearbook (Montreal Quebec, Canada)

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Cardinal Villeneuve Hon. Vincent Massey Dr. Chipman 21 Dr. Dresser Dr. Lafleur

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DOCTORS OF LAWS, HONORIS CAUSA Spring Convocation, 1933 W. W. CHIPMAN, B.A.. M.D. Edin.. F.R.C.S. Edin.. F.A C.S., F.C.O.G.. LL.D. Walter W. Chipman was born in BridEetown, Annapolis County. Nova Scotia. He attended Acadia ColleKe. and took his B.A. degree therefrom, with Honours in Philosophy. After gradua- tion in Arts, he at once went to Edinburgh, and began there in the University the study of Medicine. He took his Medical degree in 1895, M.B.C.M.. and two years later was given his M.D. Degree, with a Gold Medal. He served as an interne in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and in the Simpson Memorial Hospital. Edinburgh, and afterwards spent a year in the In- firmary at Bolton, Lancashire. England. He returned to Edinburgh to become the private assistant of the late Professor Freeland Barbour. At this time he became a tutor in the Extra- Mural School of the University. In 190() he came to Montreal, succ?eding J. Clarence Webster as Assistant-Gynecologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He soon was appointed lecturer in Gynecology at McGill, and at the time of Dr. WiUiam Gardner ' s retirement in 1910, he was made Professor of Gynecology. In 1912. at the death of Professor Cameron, the Chairs of Obstetrics and Gynecology were united, and Dr. Chipman was appointed to the post. This professorship he filled until 1929, when he relired. He is now Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill. and Consulting Obstetrician and Gynecologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. Last year he was appointed a Governor of both these institutions. Dr. Chipman is a Past President of the American College of Surgeons, of the American Gynecological Society, and of the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society; a Master of Mid- wifery of the Society of Apothecaries. London. England; a Foundation Fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a Charter Member of the Canadian College of Physicians and Surgeons. An LL.D. degree has been conferred upon Dr. Chipman by the University of Acadia. Dalhousie University. University of Pittsburgh, University of Wales, at Cardiff, and by McGill. J. A. DRESSER. M.A.. LL.D. John Alexander Dresser was born in the Eastern Townships, received a B.A. degree from McGill in 1893. and his M.A. in 1897, after studies at Harvard University. For a number of years Mr. Dresser was connected with the Geological Survey oi Canada and for shorter periods was engaged in teaching work at St. Francis College. Richmond. Que., and McGill University. He has been occupied in commercial work as consulting geologist for the past twenty years in a wide practice that has brought him into touch with all parts of Canada. In 1929 he was named director of the new division of geology of the Bureau of Mines of Quebec, which he organized and still conducts. Mr. Dresser is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Geological Society of America, a member and past president of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a member of the Mining Institute of the United States of America and of various other technical societies. Mr. Dresser has received the honorary degree of LL.D. from McGill University (1933). HENRI A. LAFLEUR. M.D.. LL.D., F.R.C.P. (C). Born in Longueuil, P.Q.on July 13th, 1862. Dr. Lafleur received his early education in the public and high schools of Montreal, and later studied at McGill University, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1882) and Doctor of Medicine (1887). Upon graduation from McGill, the young doctor served two years as an interne at the Montreal General Hospital, and from there went to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore. Maryland, where he was Chief Medical Assistant to the late Sir William Osier, M.D., from 1889 to 1891. Returning to Montreal, he entered upon a general practice of internal medicine, which he still maintains to-day. In addition to his private practice, however. Dr. Lafleur served as physician on the staff of the Montreal General Hospital from 1892 to 1921. as well as teaching for over thirty years as professor in fhe Faculty of Medicine of McGill University. Dr. Lafleur is now consulting physician at the Montreal Children ' s Memorial Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital, the Shriners Hospital, and the Women ' s General Hospital. He is a member of the Canadian Medical Association, the Province of Quebec Medical Society and the Association of American Physicians; was for thirteen years a governor of the Provincial Medical Council. Quebec, and is now a governor of the Medical Council of Canada. Dr. Lafleur has received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Queen ' s University, 1929, and McGill University. 1933, and is also an F.R.C.P. (C), the last mentioned honour being awarded to him in 1930. HON. VINCENT MASSEY, M.A.. LL.D. Born Toronto. 20th February, 1887. Educated St. Andrew ' s College, Toronto; University of Toronto. B.A.; Balliol College. Oxford. M.A.; Lecturer in Modern History, University of Toronto, and Dean of Residence, Victoria College 1913-15; in charge of Musketry Training. Military District No. 2 (Canada). 1915-18 (mentioned); temporary Lieut-Colonel. 1916; Associate Secretary, War Committee of the Cabinet (Ottawa). Jan. -Dec 1918; with Government Repatriation Committee as Secretary, and later Director, 1918-19; President, 1921-25. Massey-Harris Company. Toronto, and Director, Canadian Bank of Commerce and Mutual Life Assurance Company; resigned directorship on entering Dominion Cabinet; sworn of Canadian Privy Council and ap- pointed Minister without portfolio, 1925; contested (Liberal) constituency of Durham. 1925; attended Imperial Conference, London. 1926. with Canadian delegation; H.M. Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Canada to the U.S.A., 1926-30; Hon. Col. the Durham Regiment (Canada); a Trustee, National Gallery of Canada; a Governor. University of Toronto and Upper Canada College; Chairman. Massey Foundation; Hon. LL.D., Kentucky. Princeton, Toronto. California, New York. Columbia, Yale, Michigan, Dalhousie, McGill Universities and Dartmouth and Hobart Colleges. Publication: Good Neighbourhood and other Addresses, 1931. SON EMINENCE LE CARDINAL VILLENEUVE. ARCHEVEQUE DE QUEBEC Son Eminence Ic Cardinal Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. O.M.I.. Archeveque de Quebec, est ne a Montreal, paroisse du Sacrc-Cocur. le 2 novembre 1883, du mariage de Rodrigue Villeneuve et de Marie-Louise Lalonde. Son ancetre paternel s ' etait etabli a Charlesbourg. pres Quebec. Apres ses etudes, a I ' Ecole Plessis et au Mont -Saint-Louis, le jeune Rodrigue Villeneuve entra au noviciat des M issionnaires Oblats de Marie Immaculee. a Ville La Salle, le 14 aout 1901. De la il alia au Scolasticat Saint- Joseph, a Ottawa, faire ses etudes philosophiques et theologiques. Le 8 septembre 1903, il y faisait son oblation. Ordonne pretre par Monseigneur Thomas Duhamel, en la cathedrale d ' Ottawa. le 25 mai 1907. il enseigna, de 1907 a 1930. les sciences ecclesiastiques au Scolasticat. dont il fut le superieur de 1920 a 1930, Le Pere Villeneuve devint doyen des Facultes de theologie et de droit canonique de I ' Universite d ' Ottawa, et titulaire de la chaire de droit ecclesiastique a I ' Ecole superieure de theologie. La grande activite du Pere Villeneuve debordait dans des oeuvres exterieures de toute sorte: religieuses, missionnaires, sociales, etc. Le 3 juillet 1930, le Pere Villeneuve etait nomme premier Eveque du nouveau diocese de Gravelbourg, dans la Saskatche- wan, et sacre le 11 septembre suivant. en la Basilique d ' Ottawa. par Monseigneur Guilleume Forbes. Sa prise de possession du siege episcopal de Gravelbourg eut lieu le 17 septembre de la meme annee. Le 28 decembre 1931. Monseigneur Villeneuve etait transfere au siege metropolitain de Quebec. II avait ete moins d ' un an et demi a Gravelbourg. et il y avait deja accompli une oeuvre tres considerable. Le nouvel Archeveque de Quebec fut intronise le 24 fevrier 1932, au cours d ' une ceremonie que marcjua une rare splendeur. Ses except ionnelles qualites eurent vite conquis I ' admiration et I ' affeclion du clerge et des fideles de cet ancien et important dioc se. A I ' automne de 1932. Monseigneur Villeneuve fit un voyage a Rome. Au Consistoire secret du 13 mars 1933, il etait cree Cardinal par Sa Saintete Pie XI. et regevait le chapeau cardinalice au Con- sistoire public tenu a Saint-Pierre de Rome, le 16 mars. Ce meme jour, le Saint-Pere lui imposait le Pallium, en la Chapelle Sixtine. Le nouveau Cardinal arriva a Quebec dans I ' apres-midi du Samedi Saint, le 15 avril. De grandioses demonstrations mar- querent le retour du Prince de TEglise dans sa ville episcopale, et la multitude de messages re us de tous les points du pays et des articles parus dans les divers journaux atteste I ' unanimite de la joie qu ' a causee a tout le Canada, sans distinction de race ou de croyance, I ' elevation de Monseigneur Villeneuve a la dignite cardinalice. Son Eminence le Cardinal Villeneuve est docteur en philosophie, en theologie et en droit canonique. II est chanceher de I ' Uni- versite Laval, president general de 1 Union Missionnaire du Clerge au Canada, chevalier grand ' croix de I ' Ordre equestre du Saint-Sepulcre. 20

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PROFESSOR NEVIL NORTON EVANS, M.A.Sc. AUTHOR OF ' RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF AN UNDERGRADUATE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO ' 22