Dr. George M. Brown, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, speaking from podium during Convocation ceremony held in Physical Education gymnasium. Dignitaries on dais in background.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. George Malcolm Brown was born in 1916 in Campbellford, Ontario and was educated at Queen's University and Oxford University. Malcolm Brown served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in Europe. He was a professor of medicine at Queen's from 1951 to 1965. He served as president of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1956 to 1958 and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 1962-1964. Brown was a committee member of the Medical Research Council of Canada from 1953-1965 and served as its first full-time president from 1965 to 1977. Dr. Brown died in 1977. He was posthumously entered into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2000. The G. Malcolm Brown Memorial Fund was established in his memory to promote health science research in Canada.