McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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The Marmor 1956 EDITOR: Barbara Schatz ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Mary-Jean Bolsby John Fleming Bill Morris Shirley Parker ASSISTANT EDITORS: Roy Brillinger Helen Geiger Ron Hagan Marion Hall Maria Puz Diana Webber EDITORIAL ASISTANTS: Charles Bidwell Marion Cayley Robina Christian Carol Jones Jayne Kurtz Jane McDonald Val Mulkewieh Erle Neff Nadya Pohran Norma Sherman Betsy Stager Don Summerhayes Monica Taylor Gary Thaler .Iohn Woelfle The Twenty-fifth volume of the MARMOR is published by the Board of Publications, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. .Iohn Woelfle, Chairman of the Boardg David Innes, Business Managerg Brooke Townsend, Ad- vertising Manager. Photography by Don Bender, Man- ager of the Board of Publications Photography Department, assisted hy Roy Brillimzer, Jack Hanna, Donalda llunt, Joe McKenzie, Bob Millard, Sid Morehouse, Malcolm Todd and .Ion Weber. The profes- sional photography is by Hubert Beekett, Carey Studios and Cun- ningham and Reid. We also wish to acknowledge the use of photo- graphs taken hy the llzimilton Speetntor and Superior Engravers. Thanks ure also due to Miss Jean Montgoniery, Mr. Doulflns Allaliy, the Athletie Department and Bill Jones of the Divinity School, for their kind eo-operation. Table of Contents Dedication . The President's Message . Editorial . . In Memoriam . Faculty List Graduates Under Graduates . Administrations . Anniversary Features . Organisations . Residence Events Sports Parade Advertising . Students' Index .... Advertising 8: Marmor Index Page 4 5 7 8 9 15 45 59 69 77 97 111 137 153 154 174 176

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The Presidents Message Automation is a lively topic, pe-o-ple hailing its approach with joy or fear: joy, because things can be done which have been impossible or impossibly tedious, fear, lest machines increase man's output without proportionately increasing his purchasing power. For the university man, however, auto-mation cannot inspire any hope of endless leisure, because a few of us are the people who must design and operate these machines, and most of us are people who must work in society at tasks no machinery can do. The fields of human relations, human motives and resilient faith lie outside the area of the machine, and may be more difficult to make fruitful because of it. Just as the Apostle Paul came to see that the real problem was that of what the law could not do, so the university man must be chiefly aware of what automation will not be able to do. A machine will be able to inform but not to teach, it will give some kinds of answers but it cannot frame the questions, least of all the troublesome questions to which it can give no answer. When Tennyson in 1854 celebrated The Charge of the Light Brigade, he sang that all the world wondered. He had in mind men's admiring wonder at the stubborn discipline and reckless courage of a small group of misdirected men wastefully expended. But we have come to wonder .about a lot more things, such as the executive failure that produced that futile manoeuvre, the crass stupidity that characterized the direction of the Crimean War, and the ugly politics that precipitated it. So if we wonder at the machines we may design and command, it will be a childish wonder unless we give thought to the non-mathematical and non-mechanical problem of the spirit and the flesh that will go on troubling us. To those problems men address themselves best if they work in the faith of Christ, with disciplined intelligence and moral responsibility. G. P. GILMOUR.

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Qclitoricil The name Marmor, meaning milestone, seems particularly appropriate for this twenty-fifth edition of the McMaster Year Book. For the graduates, of course, this year is undoubtedly one of the major milestones in their lives, - one that marks entry into a completely new and unknown territory. But for all McMaster students, past, present and future, this particular mile- stone marks a quarter century of M cMaster's progress in Hamil- ton - the perwd in which it became of age in its new sphere and began its growth to an influential maturity. In this quarter century McMaster has increased in size, has improved and expanded its facilities and has enhanced its reputation in the educational world. We have been among those fortunate enough to grow in and with the university during this period. It will continue to grow as we shall. Such an in- stitution is not an inanimate object - it is a living body of students and faculty members and others associated with it, all of whom give something of themselves to it and receive something of value from it. We have learned at McMaster not to worship the past but to learn from it that we may better serve the present and the future. The words of Lord Tweedsmuir on a similar occasion seemed to us suitably to express our feelings in respect both to our university and our selves - 'No man or institution can live on the past if they desire to endure. If they lose touch with their age it means that they have lived too long. A University such as this which looks forward to a long career of usefulness, can never afford for one moment to get out of terms with the present. Its task is to interpret that present as a bequest to the future? BARBARA SCHATZ.