McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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I I Ill To a, cl1fsfing1n'sh.efI Hfzrmrilfon filzlrnczfnzm celebrating, this year, his forty-fifth anniversary of graduation, we dedicate this, the twenty-third volume of the MARMOR. Extremely active in manv fields Slu er Jackson, as he was known to his contemporaries at 1 . 7 college, has always been a faithful alumnus of this, his alma mater. Forty years ago Lloyd Jackson, then a cereal chemist and a member of the alumni group in Win- nipeg, promoted and wrote the first resolution to the Board of Governors, urging that the University be moved from Toronto to Hamilton. He is now President of Jackson's Bakeries Limited and is in his fifth term as Mayor of the City of Hamilton. ln the intervening years Mayor Jackson has been very active in the alumni organiza- tion, and served from 1950 to 1953 on the Senate of McMaster University. Last year he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the University, and as Mayor, he is also a member tex-officio! of the Board of Governors of Hamilton College. Always willing to give generously of his time and energy to projects for the good of the com- munity and the nation, Lloyd Jackson has served on many community and civic bodies as well as trade organizations. Furthermore, during the war years he was Assistant Director of Bakery Products on the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. As a leader in the commercial, educational, cultural and general community life of the City, and as a good friend of this University, we salute His Worship Mayor LLOYD DOUGLAS JACKSON, '09.

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De. 5 24456 ' Dr. Steward Basterfield C1884-19543. Professor of Chemistry in Hamilton College. Dr. Basterfield came to McMaster University less than four years ago, following his retire- ment as Dean of Regina College in Regina, Saskatchewan. Although his appointment was on a part-time basis only, he made a most valuable contribution in his work with junior classes in chemistry and particularly in his course for seniors in the History of Science, which he initiated at the University. Born in Halesowen, England, and educated in Birmingham Cat whose university he received his B.Sc. degree in 19081, he came to Canada as a young man of 26. He was appointed instructor in chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan in 1914, just two years after its first building was opened. After receiving the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1920, he was made Professor of Organic Chemistry at Saskatchewan and remained there for twenty years. Then, for ten years, he was the able and beloved Dean of Regina College. Dr. Basterfield was a man of diversified gifts. He was an excellent teacher, thoroughly com- petent in his subject and deeply interested in his students. His research work at the University of Saskatchewan was published in a score of scientific papers and was of such high quality as to win for him election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 119335 and a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. But he was no narrow specialist. His interests extended to the other sciences and, further still, to the history of the sciences and to their relation to such other studies as history, philosophy and religion. After coming to McMaster he had time and oppor- tunity to cultivate these interests more intensively. His unusual breadth of interest and scholar- ship and his skill as a writer and speaker not only benefited his students and stimulated his colleagues but brought him recognition far beyond the University. At the time of his death. he was on a lecture tour through the Maritimes for the Chemical Institute of Canada. He was particularly concerned to bring together the interests of the sciences and the human- ities. In recently published articles he spoke out against any perversion of science by undue em- phasis on purely material values and declared that in spirit, science is akin to the humanities in its love of truth and its recognition of what is of permanent value in human life. Short as was his period of service here, it was long enough to bring honour both to the University and to himself. In his passing we have lost a thinker competent both in science and philosophy and a distinguished champion of an outlook which combined both devotion to truth and the highest human interests.