McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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GORDON SINCLAIR JURY, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Q Jin Hlvmnriam ZBIGNIEW LELIWA SUJKOWSKI B.Sc., Ph.D., ll.Sc. CWarsawJ Associate Professor of Geology Dr. Gordon S. Jury, of Year 1909, was born in Bowmanville in 1885, and after his McMaster years took his M.A. at Yale, com- pleting the Ph.D. in Philosophy there later. A veteran of World War I in the C.A.M.C., he went to Burma under the American Bap- tist Foreign Mission Board, to teach in Judson College, Rangoon. Of that historic college he was later Principal. The Japa- nese invasion in World War II drove him from his beloved work, and he and Mrs. Jury distinguished themselves as leaders and medical attendants of the Burmese trekking overland to India. From India he came to less heroic service at his Alma Mater, and taught part-time here as Pro- fessor of Philosophy from 1947 to his death in May, 1954. Dr. Sujkowski was born in Poland in 1900 and received his education there. He was Professor of Geology at the University of Warsaw before the war, and a member of the Polish Geological Survey and head of the Survey for East Poland. In 1944 he went to England and served in the Polish Army, attaining the rank of Major. He taught at the Polish College in London, which was associated with the University of London, and at the same time carried out research in the British Museum on the geology of deep ocean sediments. He came to Canada in 1952 and was engaged in geo- logical field work in Labrador and the Northwest Territories for private com- panies until he joined the McMaster faculty in 1953. He and his four-year old grandson were drowned in the Saguenay River on September 9, 1954.

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Dedication ALFRED Iinwzxiin .IonNs, MA., I'li.IJ. la'nu'rifus I,I'flf-INNIII' of .lI11fln'nnrf1'r.w, 1955 The retirement ol' Professor A. li. Johns this year has been marlwd by his appointment in May as Iimeritus Pro- fessor of Mathematics. A stall' mem- ber here from 19231 to 1955, first as Lecturer, then as Professor, then as Chairman of the Department of Mathe- matics from 1947 to 1952, he has been known as a dedicated teacher ol' un- usual ability and as a warm l'riend ol' undergraduates. One of his sons, Ur. Martin W. Johns, is Prol'essor ol' Physics here, and another, Dr. Harold Johns, is a Professor of Physics at Saskatchewan. His four sons are McMaster graduates, and his daughter, Ruth, is married to a McMaster gradu- ate, A. F. Vogt. Born in Exeter, Ontario, he was an Edward Blake Scholarship holder at the University of Toronto, and gradu- ated with the Gold Medal in Mathe- matics and Physics in 1907, taking his M.A. ill 19024. After theological studies at Victoria University, Toronto, he was ordained as a Methodist minister, and from 1910 to 1925 served as a mission- ary Professor of Mathematics in West China Union University, Mrs. Johns being also a teacher and founder of a day school for girls in Chengtu. He taught at Brandon College, Manitoba. from 1927 to 1931. He is now to be Assistant Minister of St. Giles United Church, Hamilton.

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Th President' essage A rggqgnt Story is oi' gr yollllg' Wrllllilll who attended a discussion group on in- ternational trade, and whose grateful comment afterwards was, Of course. l'm still confused, but on a much higher plane. l suppose one effect ol' a college education is just this elevation of confusion to a higher plane. We all have to learn that we are dealing with insoluble problems, which are to be ameliorated rather than given neat and final solutions, with incomplete knowl- edge in areas where research has not brought all the truth to light, and with the ultimate mystery in the presence of which we tread softly and walk by faith rather than by sight. We are more concerned to clarify the questions than to learn dictated answersg but that is not always what the under- graduate expects or what the world demands. In the realm of social questions, in- cluding economics, politics, education, sociology and psychology, we deal with conditions that are constantly chang- ing, not only because new circum- stances arise but because new people are forever growing up to face them. So the problems cannot be solved, but they can be ameliorated. ln science and history we deal with incomplete evidence, even though what we seek is evidence and not immediate practical application. ln literature, philosophy and religion, we deal with ultimate mysteries. To these our answer may be an unsympathetic dogmatism, a ready cynicism, than which nothing comes more cheaply, or a patient faith, that is not unexamined optimism but conviction born of agony and trust. These are things to which no exam- ination marks can be assigned, but they are the things that divide the basically educated from the expensively unedu- cated. My hope is that McMaster has added both to your high confusion and to your deep faith. G. P. GILMOUR.