Ontario Agricultural College - OAC Bulletin Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE Zin jllllemoriamn A LIFE of unusual service to the agriculture of Canada came to an end with the death of PROFESSOR GEORGE E. DAY in his 87th year. His passing was sudden as he was seized with a heart attack while completing some duties for the Ontario Shorthorn Cluh of which he was an organizer. Professor Day was horn in 1863 on his father's farm in Eramosa Township. He took his schooling near Rockwood and at the Guelph Collegiate. He entered the Ontario Agri- cultural College in 1891 and graduated in 1893, soon after which he was appointed head of the Animal Husbandry Department at the college. ln 1918 he hecame Secretary of the Canadian Shorthorn Association which he served for twenty-two years. For more than half a century he was one of the most outstanding livestock authorities in Canada and was much sought as a judge of livestock in the major shows in Canada and the United States. lin jlilemuriamn DEATH Came Suadeniy to wittifuvi MCPHERSON GAM- MON on june 12th, while operating a radio set. Assistant Professor of Botany at the Ontario Agricul- tural College, he was a well-known amateur radio enthusiast. His death occurred in the modernly appointed building equipped with all the facilities for full radio reception in the rear of his mother's residence in Guelph which accommodated his amateur radio station VE3ZM. Mac Gammon ohtained his first license in 1934 and his contacts had become so wide that his communications covered all continents and over 106 countries. From almost all over the world came messages to the Guelph Radio Cluh expressing sympathy on the passing of Mac Gammon. He could thus be classified as a universally popular figure. His local popularity is attested by the large group of close friends that he has left. William McPherson Gammon had reached the age of 43 and was unmarried.

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ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE Zin 1HlIemnriam R. FRANCIS NATHAN NIARCELLUS, l3.S.A., D.V.M., A.I.C., died at St. Josephs Hospital, Guelph, in his 64th year. An active worker in the Canadian poultry industry, Dr. Marcellus graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1911 and the Ontario Veterinary College in 1925. He was horn at Nlorewood, Ontario, in 1885, In 1912 he was appointed director of poultry extension at the Ontario Agricultural College where he developed the Ontario poultry hreeding station program. Dr. Marcellus left the O.A.C. in 1919, and returned, after two years ahsence, as professor of Poultry Hushandry. He hecame head of this department in 1940. Ill health hrought ahout his retirement in'luly, 1948. Dr. Marcellus took a prominent part in numerous agricultural organizations. The Agricultural Institute of Canada, of which he was a memher of long standing, honoured him hy making him a Fellow in 1948. For many years he was a memher of the Poultry Science Association. having served on the executive as a Director and as President in 1936. He was a memher of the Worlds Poultry Science Association, serving as a Canadian Director. He was also a memher of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Ontario Yeterinarv Association, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of.Animal Production. He was verv active in the work of the Poultry lndustry Committee of Ontario, heading numerous committees, particularly during the war years. I . . - . . . , Dr. Marcellus was most active in Church and fraternal organizations in Cuelph. He was an elder I in St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and was a life memher of the three Guelph Xlasonic Lodges. lyvr-I N

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ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE 3, . 'X f' 'i an 3- bfi ' M 1 Zin ifillemuriamn .C O RECALL the pearls of character and accomplishment of a friend is a dithcult task - not because one fails to recognize his many outstanding qualities, but because standing in the very presence of our erstwhile companion one finds that he has taken for granted the magnitude of qualities that will spring into life to the last day when Wilfred D. Tolton's name is mentioned. We knew him but a few years, but long enough to be impressed with the breadth of his interests. We remember him iirst for his mechanical genius - how he used to encourage the boys with their aeroplane models - later the quite unusual ability he developed in the held of construction of exhibits. I-le saw beauty in the skies. and the hills and the waves, in the flowers and fields and livestock. We do not know - nor will we ever comprehend what charms of the Creators handiwork he saw in the sunset and the landscape, but he has left not a few paintings and kodachrome reproductions that are a memorial to him. A But great and good as were these interests, they are but the habiliments of the line personality that seems to have been snatched from earth at the very time of its fruition. He was a man of honesty and industry, a man of vision and determination. His kindly heart had room for the problems of the discouraged boy or girl and man or woman, be they students or fellow travellers on the road of life. l-lis cheerfulness was infectious especially when the skies were cloudy. The crowning gem of his character was his unwavering loyalty to his Family, his College, and his God. Through years to come the memory of Wilf. Tolton's life will continue a prized treasure to .ill who knew him. lim-I