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Vice-president: David Swartz

Treasurer: H.R. Elliott 

Secretary: Jean Charbonneau

 Members-at-large:

J. Kenneth Sullivan

W.Ed Collins

N.E. Berry

Arthur Bédard

William E. Ortved

Local Organizing: F.Gordon Mack, W. Alan Ernst

Scientific Program: C.L. Gosse, F. Gordon Mack, W.E. Ortved J.K.Sullivan

Historian: Walter P. Hogarth

Dr. Gosse was born in 1912 in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1939 and served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps where he was one of the members of the first surgical teams in the invasion of Normandy. After the war, he became professor of urology at Dalhousie and chair of the Urology Department at the Victoria General and Camp Hill Hospitals. He became Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1973 to 1978, and was made an Officer of the Oder of Canada in 1982.

Vice-President: J.P. Bourque

Treasurer: H.R. Elliott 

Secretary: Jean Charbonneau

Members-at-large:

J. Kenneth Sullivan

14th annual meeting held in Halifax, NS

Dr. Balfour was born in Vancouver and graduated from the University of Alberta before interning at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal and training in surgery at the Memorial Hospital in New York. He served overseas during the Second World War and, on his return, set up practice at the Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital in Montréal. He then returned to Vancouver as a clinical associate professor, and head of urology at UBC where he established the first urology programs.

Vice-president: W.P. Hogarth

Treasurer: H.R. Elliott 

Secretary: Jean Charbonneau

 Members-at-large:

J. Kenneth Sullivan

Historian: Walter P. Hogarth