Item A-6542 - Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Max Milner

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Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Max Milner

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1 photograph : b&w ; 11.4 x 8.6 cm
1 negative : b&w ; 6.1 x 6.3 cm

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Emmett M. Hall, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Max Milner at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, University Registrar, hoods the recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Max Milner was born in 1919 in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Later he received a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota. In 1944 Milner became a U.S. citizen. Early in his career, he was a research chemist for Pillsbury Mills in Minneapolis, where he specialized in the development of military field rations. Later, he was a professor of cereal food sciences at Kansas State University. As a senior U.N. food technologist, he advised U.N. agencies on child nutrition and supervised projects in tropical countries. He was a consultant to the government of Israel in the upgrading of wheat imports and in cereal foods and industries. From 1966-1968, he worked in Washington, where he initiated an AID nutrition program. Later he served on AID advisory committees. From 1975-1978 Milner was associate director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's International Nutrition Program. He then returned to the Washington area as executive officer of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences. He received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1979. Dr. Milner organized and chaired several national and international symposiums on nutrition-related issues. Milner died in 2003 in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Photographer: Gibson

Other terms: Copyright: University of Saskatchewan

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