McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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1 ilu illllrmnrmm WI I. l.lA ll EY ER I-I'l l' ADAMS William Everett Adams, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., came to McMaster as Assistant Professor of Political Economy for the 1955-'56 session, having previously held similar rank at the University of Manitoba. Iiuring World War II, Dr. Adams served with distinction both in the Canadian and American Armed Forces. As an R.f'.A.F. pilot atttached to the Eighth Bomber Command, he was shot down over France and escaped through the underground to England, then returning to active combat. Ile was awarded a D.F.C. for his services. His university education delayed until the end of the war, Dr. Adams received both his undergraduate and graduate training at McGill University, in the city which remained his home. During his brief term at McMaster, he impressed colleagues and students alike with his keen intellect, scholarly potentialities and his unfailing op- timism and good humor. Ilr. Adams is survived by his wife and three children, and lying beyond the personal tragedy of his early death at the age of thirty-five years is the loss to his profession of an unusually promising and inquiring mind. Q II 'Q 'N, FRICIS GULBIS Coming to Canada as a Lady Davis Fellow in 1948, Fricis Gulbis left behind him the presidency of the Baltic University in Exile, Pinneberg, Germany, of which he had been chief organizer, and a teaching career of twenty- three years in the University of Latvia, where he had become Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and vice-rector of the university. Dr. Gulbis received his early education at Liepaja, Latvia, and then proceeded to the University of Petrograd, where he became a Master of Science in 1916. Advanced study at that institution was followed by research at the University of Berlin. In 1920 he returned to his native land and began a distinguished academic career at the University of Latvia in Riga. Following the war, he organized the Baltic University in exile for Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian refugees. Under his presidency, the University grew to 1300 students, tutored by a faculty of 250. Dr. Gulbis had hoped to transfer the whole institution to Canada. Respected at McMaster for his personal charm and his cheer-fulness in enforced exile, he was also highly regarded by the whole Latvian community here. He leaves us a legacy of loyalty, probity, courage, and love of learning and teaching.