JANUARY 1955 THE CHRISTMAS DINNER AND FESTIVAL ...

7.ethical standards and was one of the leaders in endeavouring to maintain the advertisingbusiness on a professional basis.During the second World War he gave much time in assisting the NationalWar Finance Committee, and to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the variousLoan campaigns.The funeral service was held at St. Johnls Church, York Mills, conductedby Canon A. A. McCollum, assisted by Rev. E. W. Fuller.The Club was represented by many of its members, W. F. Prendergast beingone of the pallbearers.The Club has lost a valued member and expresses its sympathy to the survivingmembers of the family.DR. H. W. BEECHER LOCKEWith sincere regret members learned of the death on June 1ath last ofDr. H. W. Beecher Locke, a member of the Club since 1936 and a distinguished memberof the medical profession. Formerly a resident of Toronto he had.latterly been livingin Thornhill.WDr. Locke was a member of the Academy of Medicine, Toronto, The OntarioMedical Association, The American Urological Association, the Socitde d'UrologieInternationale; and was certified as Specialist in Urology by Royal Canadian College.He was medical examiner for the Travelers Insurance Company and had served asMedical Officer to the Queen s Own Rifles and the 7th Toronto Regiment RCFA.He enlisted for service in the first war in August 1914; served inEngland and France; graduated in Medicine from University of Toronto in 1918 anddid three years post graduate work in surgery in London, Edinburgh and Vienna. Onreturning to Canada he was appointed to the active surgical staff of Toronto WesternHospital and had professional offices in the Medical Arts Building, Toronto, practisingas an Urological specialist.From 1942 to 1946 he served with the Canadian armed forces at No. 2 D.D.,Toronto, as President of Induction Medical Boards and as President of DischargeMedical Boards, the while acting as urological consultant to the Depot Boards.It was a matter of great regret to Dr. Locke that he was obliged to abandonactive surgery because of disability in the right arm due to active military service.THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, Mus.D., F.R.C.O., F.T.C.L.The death of Thomas J. Crawford which occurred on July 5th has saddenedhis innumerable Club friends. He died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie frominjuries received in a motor car accident a few days previously. The circumstancesof his passing were particularly tragic. He was in good health and after a busylife as a musician had settled down to peaceful retirement in Barrie, where one of* his married children was living. He had become associated with the musical life ofthe community and was acting as organist and choirmaster of St. Andrew's PresbyterianChurch. He was much loved by the Barrie people and his death was a great shock tothem.He and Mrs. Crawford had just acquired a new car to celebrate Mrs. Crawford's