John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, makes presentation of a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Medicine degree to Edith Bernardine Murray during Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.
Bio/Historical Note: Edith Bernardine Murray was born 3 November 1933 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and after a childhood of sports and academics, trained as a physiotherapist. She worked originally at Stoke-Mandeville Rehabilitation Centre, an International Spinal Cord Rehab Centre and saw the U.S. She acquired a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Manitoba, then an MA at the University of Saskatchewan. She devoted a gait research lab at the U of S; her work led to a teaching position as assistant professor at the U of S. She then joined the teaching staff in the program of Health Sciences in Hamilton, Ontario which culminated in a position of associate professor (tenured) at McMaster University. She moved from the academic world to the country and took on sheep farming and gardening, while being the director of Physiotherapy at Enderby Hospital. She took up the challenge of starting things: The lab in Saskatchewan, the Research Section at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, one of the first physiotherapists in Canada to get an MA, and the sheep farm in Enderby. Edith Murray died 6 January 2017 in [Vernon, British Columbia].