Morley Thomas
On who was inspired him to be great
research council in Ottawa. He was Scottish, civil engineer, and he inspired me. I applied for, and got the job, was to them for a couple of years and I was working on things like snow loads, wind loads, that type of thing, for the national building code. There hadn’t been a national one before. It was kind of a mish mash across the country. So he inspired me especially in both publishing and writing things. And so he was on the writing stage. And of course I owe a lot to George [?] who was a principal in St. Thomas who got me on to these, to the scholarships that I got. KPR Kingston, who was the head of math at Western at that time, yeah I liked him very much. He was called the silent executioner. And he would cut you down. That fall of ’39 we won the championship, I missed two subjects. So I’m going to see him, trembling. “Now Morely, let’s see. This one, you can repeat it again. You’ll be able to take it again in the spring. You can take it then. Now the other one you’ll have to study in the summer. We’ll give you a sub in the summer.”