McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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fzdfate... Qfwvs Xi W'--5-was-w-'sq Uv Dr. Norman Macdonald, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., F.R. Hist. S. It is with regret that we mark here the retirement, at the end of this session, of Dr. Norman Macdonald, Messecar Professor of History and Head of the Department from active faculty duties after twenty-four years at McMaster. Born in Scotland, Dr. Macdonald studied for his B.A. at Queen's University, for his M.A. at Harvard, and he received his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University. This was followed by a period of study at Cornell. After lecturing at the University of Manitoba, Cornell, and two smaller American colleges, as well as serving as a tutor at Edinburgh University, he joined the McMaster faculty in 1930 as Assistant Pro- fessor of History. He was subsequently promoted to Associate, and then Professor of History. In 1951 he was appointed Messecar Professor and Head of the Department of History. Dr. Macdonald is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. It gives a great deal of pleasure, this year, to extend congratula- tions to Dr. G. P. Gilmour and Dr. C. H. Stearn on this, their twenty- ftfth year as members of the University faculty. Dr. G. P. Gilmour, B.A., B.Th., B.D., M.A., D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. Now President and Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Gilmour was born in Hamilton and educated at McMaster, which was then located in Toronto. While at McMaster he obtained the degrees B.A., B.Th., and B.D. He continued his studies at Mansfield College, Oxford, and received his M.A. from Yale. From 1923 to 1928 Dr. Gilmour was the minister of Baptist churches in Montreal and Toronto. In 1929 he was appointed Lecturer in Church History here at McMaster, and when, in 1941 he was appointed chief executive officer of the University with the title of Chancellor, he was Professor of Church History. In 1950 Dr. Gilm.our's title was changed to President and Vice- Chancellor with the appointment of Dr. E. C. Fox as Chancellor. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred upon him by both Victoria College of the University of Toronto and by St. Andrews College in Scotland. Acadia University has conferred the degree Doctor of Civil Laws, while both Laval and Queen's Universities have granted the degree Doctor of Laws. Dr. C. H. Stearn, M.A., B.D., Ph.D. Professor C. H. Stearn, scholar of Queen's College, Cambridge, graduate in Honour Classics from that University. He obtained his Honours Degree, Bachelor of Divinity, in Oriental Languages at Lon- don University after two years' further study in Leipzig. Returning from Germany just prior to World War I, he served as an Army Chaplain from 1916-1919 in Egypt, East Africa, and France. After a ten-year period of teaching in Bishop's Stortford College, England, he came to Canada in 1929, since when he has received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. Since 1929, Dr. Stearn has been Professor of Classics and Head of the Department here at McMaster, and since 1942 Director of Extension and Summer School.