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Dr. Ronald Bayne was born on January 25, 1923, and became a pivotal figure in advancing care for older adults and geriatric medicine in Canada. Following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Henry Douglas Bayne, Ronald graduated from McGill University’s medical school in 1947. After completing his internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he pursued advanced training at the New England Medical Centre in Boston (1950) and at the West Middlesex Hospital in England (1951-1955), where he worked with Dr. Marjory Warren, a leading pioneer in British geriatrics.

Bayne returned to Quebec in 1955, practicing as a general practitioner in Sherbrooke before moving to Montreal in 1959, where he became Chief of Medicine at Ste. Anne’s Hospital for veterans. His academic career flourished when he joined McGill’s Faculty of Medicine as a lecturer in psychiatry un Dr. Travis Duncey. In 1970, Dr. Bayne transitioned to McMaster University in Hamilton, becoming a professor of medicine, a role he held until his retirement in 1989.

A dedicated advocate for gerontology, Dr. Bayne co-authored a monograph on patient-directed care with sociologist Joseph Lella in 1986 and led the Canadian Association on Gerontology from 1983 to 1987. He was instrumental in founding the McMaster Office on Aging (1979), later known as the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies (1985), which merged with the Department of Health, Aging, and Society in 2006.

Dr. Bayne’s legacy includes innovative contributions such as the Assessment and Placement Service (APS), which laid the groundwork for Ontario’s Community Care and Access Centres, providing essential care for elderly and chronically ill populations. Dr. Ronald Bayne passed away on February 6, 2021, at the age of 97, leaving behind a lasting impact on the field of geriatric care and education.

Terry Bellavance was born in Follyette, Ontario, in 1950 and moved to Lugama at the age of 2, before settling in Geraldton. At the age of 5, Terry suffered a severe burn injury, which was initially treated by two doctors on a train before being transferred to Sudbury General Hospital for further care.

By the age of 14, Terry was working as a bull cook, and at 16, took on the role of a fireman for the Ministry of Natural Resources. Terry began studying Structural Engineering at Lakehead University but later decided to switch majors. On June 15, 1968, a car accident resulted in spinal cord damage, leading to an 11-month recovery period at St. Joseph's Hospital, following initial treatment at Port Arthur General Hospital. Terry was then transferred to Lyndhurst Lodge before returning to university to study General Arts, while living with a family friend.

During this time, Terry underwent an ileo conduit operation. Terry then secured a position as a Research Assistant or Coordinator at the Lakehead Social Planning Council. It was in 1969/1970 that Terry met their future spouse, and the couple moved in together, eventually marrying in 1972.

In the 1970s, Terry was actively involved with the Handicapped Action Group and successfully secured Local Initiative Program grants. Additionally, Terry played a key role in organizing a conference with the Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA). Due to an infection, Terry had a leg amputated, resulting in a year of bed care in 1979, followed by the amputation of the other leg in 1981.

Professionally, Terry contributed as a development consultant for Castle Green Co-op and Spiritview Housing Co-op and later became the Regional Director of March of Dimes. Terry and their spouse adopted children, enriching their family life.

Terry passed away in 1999.

John Bienenstock (1937-2022), born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936, was an internationally recognized physician, scientist, and academic.

Bienenstock earned his medical degree from King’s College London and Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1960, followed by a postdoctoral term at Harvard University. In 1968, he joined McMaster University’s new medical school, where he played a pivotal role in its development. He served as Chair of the Department of Pathology from 1978 to 1989, co-founded the Society for Mucosal Immunology in 1985, and served as Dean and Vice-President of the Faculty of Health Sciences from 1989 to 1996. Even after his official retirement in 1998, he continued his research as Director of the McMaster Brain Body Institute at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton until his death in 2022.

Bienenstock became a prominent figure in mucosal immunology, introducing the concept of a common mucosal immune system. He also made significant contributions to neuroimmunology, exploring the interactions between the brain and nervous system. His prolific career included over 500 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books, including a standard textbook on mucosal immunology and allergy. He mentored over 60 postdoctoral fellows and 10 doctoral students.

Bienenstock’s achievements earned him numerous honors, including becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992, a McMaster Distinguished University Professor in 1999, a Member of the Order of Canada in 2002, and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2011. He also received an honorary MD from Goteborg, Sweden, and joined the Faculty of Health Sciences Community of Distinction in 2014.

Elisabeth Dorothea Bing (nee Koenigsberger) was born 8 July 1914, in Gruenau, a suburb of Berlin. She trained as a physical therapist in England after her family fled Nazi Germany due to her Jewish ancestry. Her interest in obstetrics began after working with new mothers.

In 1949, she moved to the United States to practice and promote natural childbirth methods. She co-founded the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics (now Lamaze International) and is known as “the mother of Lamaze”. Bing advocated for the importance of mothers to make informed childbirth decisions and was regarded as a pioneer in pregnancy and childbirth education. She wrote several books, including “Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbrith”, and she was featured in the 1975 documentary “Giving Birth: Four Portraits”.

In 1951, she married Fred Max Bing and had a son, Peter, at 40, to which she wrote about her experience as an older mother.

Elisabeth Bing passed on May 15, 2015, at the age of 100.

Dr. Karolina Borman was born on Apr. 9, 1922, in Warsaw, Poland, to Jan Borman and Rinka Dobrejcer, and has a younger sister, Irena Bakowska. Dr. Borman went to science lyceum at the age of 15 and received a matura in 1939. After the German invaded Poland, she and her family lived in their original domicile in what had become the ghetto, where she worked in her father’s dental laboratory. In 1940 she went to the underground medical school in the ghetto and finished two years of medical study. In 1942 the ghetto was burned, and her family was arrested and taken to the Umschlagplatz, where they escaped from being sent to the concentration camp and went back to the Warsaw ghetto. She lived in hiding in the ghetto until she managed to work on a German farm as a Polish worker till the end of the war. Liberated on Nov. 13, 1944, in France by American troops, she stayed in France and worked in the Red Cross. She resumed her medical education in Poland and acquired her diploma in 1950. She married to an American citizen, emigrated, and practised medicine in the United States until her death in 1987.

Mark Brodsky was born August 25th, 1937, in Kharkov, Ukraine, to his father Boris Brodsky and mother Theresa Brosky. Brodsky spent his youth in Kharkov, and at the age of seventeen applied and was accepted to attend a medical institution in Lvov, Ukraine, under the jurisdiction and government control of the former Soviet Union. From 1954-60 Brodsky studied pediatric medicine and went on to do placements and practical training in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, 100km north of Lvov. Brodsky was one of 3 staff physicians in the village, and managed all aspects of outpatient services, emergency services, and hospital services. In 1962 Brodsky completed his placement and returned to Lvov to live with his family. The following year Brodsky was assigned a position at the Children’s Hospital in Lvov and practiced pediatric medicine until early 1977. That same year Brodsky emigrated to Canada and would go on to intern and study at McMaster University Medical Center.

Miriam Brysk was born on March 10th, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland to Chiam Noah Miasnik and Bronka Zablocki. Her father, also known as Henry Mason, was a prominent gastric surgeon in Warsaw before the war and was referred to as the “king of the poor” by the poor Jews. After Germany invaded Poland, Miriam and her parents escaped to Lida, where her father worked as the head of surgery at the municipal hospital. In the summer of 1941, the Lida ghetto was established, where Dr. Miasnik was forced to operate on wounded German soldiers and Bonka worked in a leather factory run by the Germans. Having survived the slaughter of Lida Jews on May 8, 1942, Miriam and her family joined the underground Russian partisans in the forests in Belorussia. Dr. Miasnik was assigned to build a hospital on a small remote island surrounded by swamp where he operated on wounded partisans as chief and the only surgeon of the hospital. After their liberation by the Russian army in 1944, Dr. Miasnik was made chief of a hospital run by the Russians in a small town in Belarus before the family managed to get away from the Russian control and escaped to Poland. They travelled as refugees through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Austria and finally reached Italy. In February 1947, the family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York where Miriam’s parents established their medical practice. Miriam finished her high school and went to New York University, where she met her husband, Henry Brysk. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.

Dr. Beverley Burns was born on October 25th, 1895, in Orillia, Canada. He attended Jarvis Collegiate in 1910 and graduated in 1913. From 1913 to 1919, he studied medicine in the medical school at the University of Toronto, during which period of time he joined the British navy and served as a doctor for three years. After graduation, Burns got a job with the Pas Lumber Company in the Pas in Manitoba, where he worked for R.D. Orok in a hospital built by the company, taking care of indigenous people there. He also worked with SickKids Hospital and Western Hospital as an intern in the early 1920’s. In 1924, Dr. Burns joined the Imperial Oil Company and went to La Guintos in Peru, where he was in charge of the medical services in the hospital there. Dr. Burns got married in Peru. In 1945, he left Peru and retired from medicine.

Edward James Moran Campbell (better known as Moran) was a physician, scientist, and educator. His career spanned decades, and he was considered the foremost clinical respiratory physiologist of his generation, and directly influenced how respiratory medicine is taught in England and Canada.

E.J.M Campbell was born August 31, 1925, in Yorkshire, England, to father Edward Gordon Campbell, a general practitioner; and mother Clare Irene O’Callaghan. Campbell’s early education took place at Clifton High School, a private preparatory school in Harrogate and at King James’ Grammar School in Knaresborough. Campbell would later attend the Harrogate Technical College night school where he became a pathology technician. After working as a technician, Campbell attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he completed a BSc in 1949, his MD in 1951, and a PhD in 1954.

From 1953-1954 Campbell was the Registrar at the Middlesex Hospital and following that became the Comyns-Berkeley Fellow of the Middlesex Hospital and Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, which he held at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1955, Campbell would be appointed an assistant professor at the Post Graduate Medical School (later the Royal Postgraduate Medical School) while also being a practicing physician at the Hammersmith Hospital. In 1957 Campbell married Diana Mary Elizabeth Green (1931-2021), who was a nurse at Middlesex Hospital. The two would eventually have four children: Fiona, Susan, Robert, and Jessica.

Campbell would publish the book “The Respiratory Muscles and the Mechanisms of Breathing” in 1958 which was based on his PhD thesis on “The Muscular Control of Breathing in Man”, and in 1960 would submit a paper that would lead to the creation of the Venturi mask. The following decade would see Campbell become the Editor in Chief of the “Clinical Science” Journal and would go on to edit the “Clinical Physiology” textbook with John Dickinson. In 1965 Campbell would deliver a lecture (on “Respiratory Failure”) for the Goulstonian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, London; and in 1967 would be the youngest scientist to give the J. Burns Amberson Lecture of the American Thoracic Society.

In 1968 Campbell was approached by John Evans, the founding Dean of the McMaster University Medical School, to become a R.S. McLaughlin Professor of Medicine, and the founding Chair of the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Realizing that he would rather create something new then staying in England, Campbell would accept the position and moved to Hamilton with his family that same year. From 1968-1975 Campbell would be the Chair of the Department of Medicine and was known as an incredible recruiter and resource for the department. After ending his seven-year run as Chair of the Department, Campbell would continue as Professor of Medicine. Campbell would become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983 and would also publish a memoir in 1988 called “Not Always on the Level”, which detailed his life and work while living with bipolar disorder. In 1991 Campbell would retire from his position at McMaster University with his achievements being honored at the “International Breathlessness: Campbell Symposium”. From 1991-2004 Campbell would be designated as a Professor Emeritus of the university, and in 2001 was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada by then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

Campbell was an avid cyclist, picking up the hobby while moving to Hamilton, and was a vocal supporter of cycling tracks and lanes in the city. Throughout the span of his life, E.J.M Campbell would write a multitude of scholarly articles and had many of his opinion pieces published in various newspapers.

Campbell would die on April 12, 2004, from colon cancer.

Francis Chisholm was born in 1926, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. During his adolescent and teenage years, Chisholm attended the nearby Dollar Academy, an independent day and boarding school located in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. At 17, Chisholm joined the British Army for three years, where he became a sergeant with the Seaforth Highlanders, and participated in the tail end of the Second World War. After returning from the Second World War, and after his time serving with the British Army, Chisholm decided to follow in his fathers’ footsteps to become a minister. To aid in this effort Chisholm enrolled at Edinburgh University in 1948, where he received a Master of Arts degree, and then enrolled at New College, Edinburgh, where he received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree specializing in the New Testament in 1951. In the same year, Chisholm married his partner, Connie.

In 1952, Chisholm was ordained into the Church of Scotland. Chisholm’s first pastoral job was ministering to two small churches with a combined total of three hundred parishioners- the hamlet of Enzie, and the fishing village of Portgordon, located in North-East Scotland.

From 1952 to early 1955, Chisholm had two daughters with his wife Connie. In 1955, Chisholm and his family moved to Canada where he was ordained into the United Church of Canada. For the next 3 years Chisholm served in the Pastoral Charge of Willbrook-Cavan, Peterborough Presbytery. In July of 1958, Chisholm accepted a position at St. Andrews United Church in the city of St. Catherine’s and was ordained as minister of the church. In 1964, Chisholm moved to Hamilton, where he worked full time as the chaplain at the Mountain Sanatorium (Chedoke Hospital) and served as the associate pastor at Stewart Memorial Church, and volunteer associate Minister at Linden Park United Church. During the year of 1990, Chisholm wrote his first book, titled “Prayers and Services for Use Within the Royal Canadian Legion”. In 1991 Chisholm retired from working at Chedoke Hospital. In 2002 Chisholm’s wife passed away from Kidney failure.

Chisholm has spent his post retirement days acting as the Grand Chaplin of Canada for the Knights Templar of Canada, and as a chaplain supporting the Mountain Legion and conducting Remembrance Day services. Chisholm also ministers to and supports the Dutch Legion, the Hamilton Artillery Association, and the Steel City Chapter of the North Wall Riders Association, and still preaches at Stewart Memorial Church and Linden Park United Churches. Chisholm has ministered worldwide, from Vimy Ridge to Rome to Jerusalem, and has also met with the Royal Family of the United Kingdom. Chisholm is currently in the process of writing a commentary on the book of Psalms, called "One a Day Psalms: A Cantina of Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes".