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Dr. James C. Masson
GCI student went to the top;
head surgeon at Mayo Clinic
William James' and Charles, he
performed all the surgery at Ste
Marys Hospital in Rochester. A
co-operative group clinic, which
came to be known as the Mayo
Clinic, evolved from the
"1 think about 90 percent of
surgical partnership of the
brothers, Dr: Wm. J. Mayo died the men on the streets of
in 1911, his brother in 1939. Dr. ,Moscow wore army suits.'There
Charles Mayo's son 'Charles' ' were 300 soldiers sitting in the
was a surgeon of the Clinic. front three rows at the hockey
Dr. James' Carruthers 'coliseum, of
at the end of
Masson was one of the .last of each row of seats, among the
the young surgeons attracted to creiw%dm'icr nd around the exits",
the Mayo Clinic in the days , Marian'ccainmentedsod added,
when Dr. Wm. J. Mayo and Dr. ..
C.H.- Mayo personally trained "One young womanfrom
likely beginners in surgery. He Toronto' was arrested for
went to 'Rochester as an intern picking up • some pretty 'stones
,-, in St.,_Maus. Hospital, where, r 9..n'the ground,, I,t took'an._haur
..from 1913 to 1915 he was 'a for a tourist guide to secure her
first assistant in surgery. In release. Our guide told us if we . were sitting behind it and the so far behind compared •to
1915 he was appointed head of were caught doing anything red light definitely went' On",, '� Western things - , worse than
a section in surgery', and in , wrnng'he would be punished as she said. • our bargain basement stores.
1935, on the death of Dr. Ed- well•"• She priced a pair of "stylish"
ward Starr Judd, Dr. Masson "All the games were shown Russian shoes (popular here 15
to us later in the women
room
was named chierof the, surgical: years ago) with. pointed toes
staff of the Mayo Clinic, a post- The womn n said they on colored television except the and high heels and said they
$50.
he held until retirements - one game in which the con. cost about
thought they got the best ac- troversial goal . was made.
Patients came to" Mayo from comnodation in Moscow Marian laughed. Maureen added, "The fur
all over the world, and with ,because they were on the first - hats, the furs, all • very
'many ailments. Enlisted in prane load. Maureen, a London engineer, beautiful. The jewelry is nice
•their battles for life, Mayo spoke admiringly of the toobut the craftmarship is°not
surgeons worked four or five "W.e at. an Tntourist technological achievements goo,d „
hours at a time, on thele 'feet, Hotel (Russstayedians not allowed) they viewed when touring 'the
working with the most intense with 3,000 rooms", Mariana Exhibit of Economics and The Dublin travellers said it
• concentration. When • Dr, said. "It 'took • us about 15 Agriculture. was difficult to find good
Masson began to practise minutes to get from .coat roam souvenirs, most wares were
general surgery, he entered i` to the elevator. Our room was - "Very impressive. Something• txash,,, They found only one
like .Fie Toronto l�.xhibition but
what seems ►.o have been the .\nic•er than mos.. we have had in store that carried gifts they
it makes the'Ex look like the
heroic age of surgery.- Blood ' ,ryther countries' in Europe. would buy. They displayed a
Seaforth Fair. Every so often
transfusion was .known, but lovely triple leaf, light yellow
methods of carrying it. out were an engineer is returned to this" pip-
M.P. for North Grey. Upon ap= gClean and beautifully polishedcourse." . amber i and- a •Babushka
pointment as counter judge of primitive, or even theoretical:•' exhibit fort a refresher doll the small wooden doll
wood in the furniture,
Huron, he moved -to Goderich There were no drugs to prevent especially the desk. The:view "With all that show of • with other identical smaller
and occupied the k."Shaw the formation of blood clots af- over the river was lovely. The technology and the $250,000 dolls inside.
house", later known as The ter operations, no swift -acting cost of 'our diiuhle room was Olympic clock for_the. hockey "A true Babushka has to
House of Four Judges. Judge compounds to prevent- o� treat- ir-• ' have 12 .dc►11s' Maureen said.
gp p about $50." games not working, when it
Masson; not in good health, . postoperative , infections, and . 0 �• might favor the Canadians!!".
found' the daily walk from postoperative 'care. was in a Maureen added, "We had a she, hooted. _ -TRADING PINS
•
Dr.
Essex street to the courthouse relatively beginning stage. . radio in our room which you r
,uncomfortably long, and the , Masson married Alice couldn't turn off - no music - Marian spoke of the Marian displayed one')f her
beautiful scenery and the lovely
'family removed to that • Marion Knowles, of Worcester,• just someone talking in sweaters with the front covered
Acheson t,o,�Qal;n Nelson street Russian." autumn colors in Russia. with .;mall trading pins. She
Mass., on Octoljer'15, 1914. She
ions •is ow a "I've never •, seen so many said she got' most of them from
: people on the streets as in
small boys who traded them for
Moscow", she said. "Perhaps a. stick of gum.. The boys
its the apartment living. There became a nuisance eventually,
are no houses in Moscow, only coaxing for gum and any
Government subsidized apart- Canadian insignia.
County visitors
Moscow likecity
FROM
THE HURO,y cFXPQSITOR
Marian and Maureen Looby
of Dublin, who returned from a •
visit to Russia a week ago, said
Moscow looks just like a city at
war.
The voting "women Were
among the first group of•bpckey
fans. to arrive iri Moscow to
view the recent Canada -Russia
hockey games., .�
"Soldiers are everywhere.
They surrounded our plane on
arrival., Thev were. there as we
spent a half day getting
• through custom.s,'q , they said.
BY W.E. °ELLIOTT
•Jim enjoyed fishing and hun-
ting, and with friends used to
Jim Masson, 19, closed his ,, camp out on the creek at.
desk in Goderich Collegiate, Charley Naftel's farm. •A
checked out • of the football recollection of his own is that
team and cadet company, he once set off.a 'firecracker in
disposed of his pigeons, school_ and was expelled.
slingshot and shotgun, and . Mr. Salkeld named eight
headed for a medical course at students who were in Form I
•the University of Toronto. In a with •Jim: Elise Tye, Albert
dozen years he was a trusted _ Dickson, Cora Vivian, Harry
surgeon' at the Mayo Clinic in Wiggins, Evelyn Craigie, May
Rochester, Minnesota. He rose Newton, Ethel.Vannatteia and -
steadily to, the top, and for 14 Arthur Carrie.' Carrie .became
years was Chief .of the surgical foreman of the Signal com-
staff. Upon his retirement, at posing room before taking em -
the beginning of 1949, the title ploynient in ,Toronto.
'was discontinued. In football or Dr. Masson's 93rd birthday
hockey, terms, nobody was anniversary was August 24. He
going to wear hid number. has been in a wheel chair' for
Chief of the surgical staff at three years, unable to walk a
Mayo rates as top drawer of the step. He can no longer read,
y which- was one- of his -greatest' , -
profession on this continent. pleasures. He is very tired, .and,
Dr. Masson's recognition by the sometimes � sleeps night' and
profession is expressed in a list', '
of nineteen professional bodies, day•
of which 'he was a member, in On his birttiday, the ad -
some instances president. He is ministrator of Saint Mary's
a Fellow of the 'American Hospital and many' other
College of Stirgeons. He was a . friends dropped in to say
professor of .surgery in the "Hello" and Dr. Masson's
Mayo 'Graduate School of room was full of flowers. There
Medicine. When the American were many gifts. -
Board of 'Surgery was founded Dr, Masson was much in -
in 1937,.Dr. Masson was im- terested recently on learning
mediately certified • as a that someone in Goderich was
'specialist. The University- of interested in his story.
Minnesota conferred a cer- "He looks fifty and 1's so han-
tificate of merit. In War I he •,
dsome , ,his wife reports. "He
was in charge of a special co.tt-siders himself lucky hi spite
surgical school at Saint Marys of one illness after 'another. I
Hospital, Rochester, for mem- wish I had a tape recorder,
bers of the armed forces. so vont could hear hiswise and
A citizen of the United witty remarks."
States, his name and fame are Jim was interested on lear-
not inscribed in Canadian . Hing recently that someone in
'•biographical works, but he"was Goderich was interested in his
war
Sisters Marion and Maureen Looby, daughters of Mr.'and Mrs. Clayton Looby of Dublin went
to Russia this month to see the Team Canada Russia Hockey Series tare. The girls showoff.
their collection of pins which were traded with Russians they met on their travels. (Expositor
Photo.)
which with addi`t died December 18, 1950. Three
nursing home. a- •, children survive: Dr: James K. Maureen said it was great to
Judge and Mrs. Masson had
n' Masson, a member of the staff' l'watch the hockey games but
eight children, three or four of • of the Mayo Clinic; Helen "Very frustrating"_.
who,rn attended Goderich Louise (Mrs. H.J. Copeland, of
Collegiate. Harold Strand • Charlotte, North Carolina, and ^ "There was ' no way'the
Masson, a lively• lad, popular Stanley F. Masson, Rockford,, Canadians could, have won.
with his schoolmates, died here II'liinois. One son, Williafri, The' Russian officialk made
on•Sept. 21, 1899, at'the age of • Bigelow Masson, • of Los - sure of that - just a matter 9f
sixteen.,Angeles, died in a sailing ac- handing out penalties to the,
_ . g r nationo poor'n his ,.... •
Due to Jude Masson' 's cident some ve'ars ago
health and resig .
office, the family removed to Dr. Masson married Mrs.
,Toronto, and Jim had to Ruth - Charlton Mitchell, of
-assume,a. great deal of respon Acoaxet ;and Boston, on
sibility just when he was ready November 24, 1965.
for university. After graduating A brother, Dr. D. Morrison bachelor, of medicine in 1906 Masson, Was a fellow in
he interned at' the Hospital For surgery and then medicine in
Sick Children, Toronto,' at sur g
Toronto General, and the the Mayo Graduate School of
Manhattan- Maternity Hospital Medicine from 1921 to 192.5,
in New York. and a consultant in medicine in
i-„
To Mrs.. Jessie Strang
Hewson, of Niagara -on -the -
Lake, readers -are indebted for
a • most interesting account of
valuable guidance • given Jim
Masson by 'Dr. F.N.G. Starr,'
• who at the t(ime was the leading
. surgeon in Toronto and dread of
Toronto General. • • . `
"Jim's earnest application
developed his talents", she
recalls, "and Dv. `Starr took a
.born. in Grey county, spent his story, and' his 'wife says he great interest in him. Qn his
- schooldays in Huron, and would be very pleased if• advice, Jim took a G.P. practice
neither county'is•.iikely to claim . anyone remembering him in Dunnville for a few Years af-
an expatriate son more would send a card. The ad- ter he graduated, and then,
distinguished in his special dress is 724 SW. Fourth again on Dr. Starr 's . advice,
field. Street, Rochester, Minnesota' took a tour t4 in surgery at the''' •
u Even after three -quarters' -of 55901. Mayo Clinic. He never, came
a century, there are former hack -- stayed on to become a' 4
O.C.I. students who remember FATHER WAS M.P. valued member of the staff and
Jim Masson, iiow 93, George The" Masson lmily is of eventually a prominent
Salkeld, Bayfield Road, also English origin. Janes Masson, surgeon, well known in the
93, was in Form I (Grade 9)' Dr. Jim's father; was horn at United States and Canada for
with him. The writer of this ar- Belleville, and after graduating his able work and pleasing per-
ticle, 91, sat behind him in., from Osgoode Hall practised sonality. He has a very sue -
Form III. law in Owen Sound. There he ce lsful family; of course they
"Jim and I kept pigeons", married Jessie Morrison, ar United States citizens." i
Mr. -Salkeld recalls; "we ex- daughter of the Rev. Duncan 1- ' j
changed our fantails and Morrison. A sister, Elizabeth THE MAYO CLINIC
homers and so on. There was a Morrison, was the wife of Hugh
Founder of the famed Mayo Owen Sound
barn al their place, now Judge I. Strang, a
Hays' residenam residence. Jim came out teacher who was later for many Clinic was Dr. William Wnrrall
,1-.
to the farm, a few times.' I stip-j years principal of Goderich Mayo, horn in 1819 near Man- r
le late. Frorn" 1887 to 1896 Chester, England.. He came to
ments with the average rent, I Marian remarked on' —the
understand,: about $112 a cleanliness of the streets - lit -
month for a• person .with a tering is a crime, a person can
he jailed for dropping even a
' cigarette butt. • .
Maureen 'said if a •person is
a black suit and women s unemployed they arc given jobs
clothes were ,nondescript. She such as sweeping the , streets.
"'.ti`Y�id at the games it was an odd She said women retire .at .40
GOOD LIGHT feeling to look at the rows and from their laboring joh5 such as •
• row of dark clothes with the road building and are given
• white faces looking •out, tike a lij;'ht work -scrubbing and
Discussing the controversial funeral. Only about three per- kweeping.
goal the .Russians said thep g•
"cent. of the Russian, spectators
Canadians didn't make, •-the were women, she estimated.' Maureen admired the ease of
Looby girls were positive it
the Mayo Clinic •trom 1925 un- should have been counted.
til his retirement 'in 1957 `
salary of about $210.
- Canadians. They ignored trip-_
ping,- spearing and such when She said .the Russian men
done by a Russian player", she: seemed to wear either a grey -Or
. 1
paid.
rrave°I in Moscow,' where a per -
Marian said they visited the son could cross the city of seven
famous Gum Store in Moscow million persons in 20 minutes
"The goal light went on We
hut said they found the goods because there were no street- .
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*as,.soon to Ieave...Thov hhe'7 .
morniwahereo :.Lad. , r eeauwo o
„,
dull and gloomy. Soon, the
engine returned, with a discor-
dant puffing, like a fiery dragon
crossings or pedestrian
crosswalks, only underpasses.
She said cabs were cheap too
and cabbies 'took no tips, but
would' accept chewing gum'.
-� The women found the of-
ficials ,of the American Em •
•bassy ..friendly . but the
Canadian . Embassy never
recognized the Canadian fans,
only the hockey players.
Marian said she Lost -seven
pounds because of the meals.
"Lots of fish, and I don't care
for it. The potatoes and the
•
very tough steaks were fried in
heavy oil :which made them
very greasy. 'caviar, vodka and
beer were served, with their
meals", she said. •
They travelled 400 miles
mirth to L-eni•ngrad, the main
port on the Baltic Sea, which is'
noted for its architecture• and
as a centre for literature.
°A , pleasant contrast to
Moscow, more modern, more
like other 'European can cities we
- have visited", they said.
BALLET
In Moscow they went _to the
ballet and saw "Swan Lake" in -
an impressive" building, ap-
parently used mainly for ballet,
• well designed to' give best view
of the dancers. They said it was
the only building in which they
-iawi carpeting -- thick grey -
and red plush seats.
Maureen said there were no
playgrounds:in the •city. Sports
are regimented.
':They seem interested in •
making a master race", she
said. ,.
Children of officials at the
American Embassy were not
allowed to use some. va-cant,
land hack of their building as a
playground, for their • own
children.
All mn all though, "A
fabulous trip", they concluded.
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Harold Strang Masson, a
younger brother of Or. James
Masson, died at the age of six-
teen, while enrolled as a
student at Goderich Collegiate
Institute. He had submitted a
• compcisiticin, describing the..
scenes on a morning walk from
his home, the present Judge
Hays residence, along�'the lake
hank. The fanily has made
available the following copy:
Ili "Clouds of all tints and hues
lay in a path of shining heats.
Standing a' a golden sentinel!,
the mighty standpipe�,which
during .the night is our. sole
water supply reflected the sun's
rays, -While like a dark path ifs
shadow extended to -the lake.
Smoke from the salt factories of
Saltford gleamed and glistened
in the sun, trying to rival in '
beauty those of Goderich, From
the hic,N'cle factory arose one
dark pillar even as sin the sun,
_until, lost in space, its funnel -
shaped top gradually disap-
peared°
"The air was fresh and cool.
Tho grass and trees, still wet
with dew, flashed in the light.
The dust on the road was un- °
disturbed, and everything was
the picture nf peace. As, we
reached McDermott's steps and -
centered t ht' glades of the forest
of cedars, loud and shrill a.blue
jay broke into song. As if a
signal had been given, from
neighboring boughs and
thickets was heard an endless
chorus.
.."Through the houghs 'ot" fhe
trees, glances we gained of the
- deep, living blue of the lake. A
silvery .haze rested on the op-
posite side of the Maitland
valley, through which, the At -
trills' mansion stood out,
reminding us of east`les' in
Fairyland. With a rasping and
scraping, 'the engine suddenly
passed down the tracks for its -
morning Iliad. Like a mount of
silver stood the elevator, its' top
glittering in the sun but its base
with a load, anxious to ascend
the height. ;As it crosses under
the roadway at the top if gives
vent to a piercing shriek of vie- -
tory.
"When we arrived at the Big
Mill, the boat we found 'had
gone: Time quickly passed as
we had beheld Nature's views.
Weary with „waiting,' the' cap -
tarn had left, Far" out could be .
seen a white speck, like a" bird
resting on the water. "Although
we had no sail, neither of us
regretted it very much."
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