John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, makes presentation of a Doctor of Philosophy degree to Dr. Franklin M. Loew at fall Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Franklin Martin Loew was born in 1939 in Syracuse, New York. He received his undergraduate degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell and a doctorate in nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan. During the 1970s Dr. Loew was one of the many members of the research team that developed canola oil. In 1977 the Governor-General of Canada awarded Loew a Queen's Jubilee Medal. In the same year, he became the head of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Loew died in 2003 in Boston.