F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Cyril H. Goulden during Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Cyril Harold Goulden was born at Bridgend, Wales in 1897. He took the course for farmers at the University of Saskatchewan and earned a PhD in plant breeding before becoming chief cereal breeder at the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory at Winnipeg in 1925. In 1948 he became Dominion cerealist and later became assistant deputy minister for research in the Department of Agriculture. In 1937 Goulden wrote the first North American textbook on biostatistics. He received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1954. Goulden was for many years in charge of the breeding of cereals at the Federal Rust Research Laboratory in Winnipeg. Goulden became known internationally as an investigator and author in the field of statistics particularly as applied to biological and agricultural problems. As Chief of the Division of Cereals of the Canada Department of Agriculture, Goulden directed research on cereal crops conducted by that department throughout the country, and influences all similar work in other institutions. He also developed six varieties of rust-resistant oats. Goulden died in Ottawa in 1981.