BRILLIANT CAREER

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12039, 17 January 1925, Page 15

BRILLIANT CAREER

MELBOURNE'S NEW PROFESSOR. ADOPTED NEW ZEALANDER.

Fortunately, for Melbourne ’University its new Professor of Pathology 'is largely a pre-war product. Dr. Peter MacCallum was horn, in, Glasgow in 1885, and was brought up and educat--oq in New Zealand. At Christ’s College ho won an entrance, junior and senior Somes scholarship. In 1901 he. entered Canterbury. University College with a Camrofick Scholarship, and subsequently won an Inhibition in Biology. From the University of New Zealand, he obtained the degrees ,of Master of Arts, Baohelqr of Science, and Master of Science, and was also chosen by his oollege as their , candidate for the New Zealand Rhodes Scholarship, though he did not prove to be the finally selected candidate.

Like so many New- Zealanders, Dr MacCallum elected" to-gof or his medical education, to that, great school, the University of Edinburgh.. Arriving there is 1910* he ..quickly established himself as a man of mark. He wop the John Althea- Carlyle Bursary in Anatomy, a Vans Dunlop Scholarship in physiology, the Buchanan Scholarship in Midwifery,, and-, Gynaecology, .ana Be&nev Prise in Anatomy, Surgery and Clinical Surgary—jind; no won these things in open competition against many hundreds of other students. Even these did not ’ satiate Dr MaoCallum'a appetite for academic distinction. He annexed 14 class medals, took first place in pathology, and graduated with first class honours throughout the whole of hia course as a medical stuir\ 7.914. Then- came; the war- Four and a half years’ tervioe op the Somme end Ypree fronts, Twice mentioned in deapatches, awarded the Military Cross at Ypres in 1917. Dr MacCallum obviously did his hit. On returning t* academic life Dr MacCallum annexed the Diploma oi Public Health of the Edinburgh Royal Colleges, and passed the qualifying clinical - examination for the 'degree of Dootor of Medicine in the University -"-the thesis hae yet to be presented, He. is a double blue, Rugby football and athletics, a half-mile record holder, and champion therein for four successive. yearn, and in addition a half blue in, cricket.