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_ KlNtFsToN,oNTAmorMoNtoNf, FEBRUARY”, 1979 a""""'""""-'"""-""""""'""-"'"-"""'"-""'"--"-""-"-- f li . h Ill By CLIFF BOWERING _ L Staff Writer _ l --.t.-----...--_-.-_... l Outside of his scholastic interests, two important This is the story of two courageous people. i things happened that were to change the course of , It is the story of Wilfred (Bill) and Evelyn i, Bill's life: He joined the Queen's contingent of the Maynard and of their love for each other which saw i, Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) and he them through 35 years of what often was a living hell. 2 met Evelyn Campbell, a happy young woman who The ingredients of this story are many and hailed from the Godfrey area, north of Kingston. varied: Agony, medical bafflement, priyation, Bill, who roomed in a house on Division St, near frustration, sorrow, bewilderment, worry, political Princess, breakfasted daily at the lunch counter of the indifference and stupidity, bureaucratic ignorance,- old Wrrd and Hamilton‘: drug attire near the comer, bungling and cynicism, despair, hopelessness, It was popular with university students in those days. friendship, human frailty, anxiety, setback and It so happened that Evelyn Campbell worked as a blessed relief. l clerk tn the drug department, and by and by, they It is a story, also, of a devoted family and , becarne acquainted, 6s steadfast friends, of people who cared and of people One day, she recalls, he asked me for a date. who tried, of a politician and his staff who wouldn't And‘ do you’vknow what happened? He stood meip,, quit, of doctors who looked far beyond the surface that s what. . and of bureaucrats of a new era who finally came to They laygh happily when they recall that the only decent conclusion.' .' meniorable event. _ _ .. . Above all, it is a s,tory of a man who wouldn't Fm: the life of me, Bill says, “I can't remember give up and of the woman who stood by his side _ why l’didn t show up that first time. Honestly, I through the grimmest of years, with little or no can t. concern for her own well-being. But the young student asked for and was granted _ a second chance. Bill and Evelyn, began to go steady. Storyan inspiration to all _ They. fell in love and eventually began to talk of F marriage. It is a story which should' be inspirational to all . Meanwhile, Bill W35 forging ahead. in his studies, who read it, especially to those who have suffered, or ( maioring m industrial and organic chemistry. The are suffering, adversity of any kind. i brilliant scholastic record which began in Orillia It is a story about two very nice and very special continued atQueen s during the war years and he l people about whom it is a pleasure to write. "isttl"ate,1'vith his Bachelor of Science degree in . all , it is a r . i . C , happrIEndii/ig. sto y which, thank God, has a i. Appointed a Melton Hersey Fellow in chemistry, The story has two beginnings: One with a' _ he‘went on tovgraduate studies and his Master of brilliant young science student with a great future '1 Seience degree m 1943. _ ahead of him; the other with a mysterious explosion . l a fat-31:; ot:,"/etyty, r:,(,,t,t'c'rt,c;l:.d World War was to - . a ' . - a F _ " e o . itaiac.l',t/',,rftaye." t an artillery explosives testing site in It begani very hayppily. On Jan. M Bill and Evelyn In his hometown of Orillia, Ont. ' ", were mama . t . . F found school to his liking. As he was 't'oiv,1taiytngrf, Then came the seriesof events which were to recent interview, "I always Iovisd school . . . enjoyed end III tragedy. every minute pf it." Through high school he was a top . ' student and science, especially chemistry, was his forte. Upon graduation, he enrolled in Queen's University in 1938. e .