Dr. Joseph F. Morgan, director, Saskatchewan Research Unit of the National Cancer Institute and Professor of Cancer Research. speaks from podium during Convocation ceremony at Centennial Auditorium. Dignitaries seated on dais include John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Joseph Francis Morgan was born in 1918 and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He earned BA, BSA and MSA degrees from the University of British Columbia, the last in 1942. Between 1943 and 1962 Dr. Morgan worked alternately at the University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratory and the Department of Health and Welfare; during this time he also earned a PhD. He eventually was appointed Research Chief of the Department of Health and Welfare's Biochemical Laboratories in 1959. Dr. Morgan came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1962 as director of the Saskatchewan Research Unit of the National Cancer Institute and professor of Cancer Research. He published numerous papers in such areas as enzyme isolation, tissue cell nutrition, cell metabolism, tissue culture, and cancer research. He also served as editor of the "The Canadian Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry" and "Cancer Research." Dr. Morgan died suddenly in Saskatoon on 2 May 1976 at age 57.