Dare We Dream: An Exhibition for the Osler Society's Centennial Year

Elizabeth Sloman grew up on the CNR Railcar School, as her parents Fred and Cela Sloman taught children in remote and rural areas of Ontario, as well as trappers, miners, railway workers, and recent immigrants. Lisbeth's last stop was in Clinton, Ontario, before she left to pursue her dreams of becoming a doctor at the University of Western Ontario. After graduating with her MD in 1951, Lisbeth left for McGill University, where she met her husband Dr. Donald Hillman. Lisbeth and her husband became an unstoppable team for the next 50 years as they traveled the world advocating for children's health and setting up international health programs in Kenya, Uganda, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The pair are also considered pioneers in the field of telehealth. In 1981, Lisbeth also became the first female president of the Medical Council of Canada. After the death of her husband in 2006, Lisbeth settled in Newfoundland. 

After the end of the Second World War, Margaret Jean Hardie left her home in Vancouver, BC for an education across Ontario. Haride received her undergraduate eduation from McMaster University before attending the Medical School at the University of Western Ontario and graduating in 1951. Hardie completed one more degree at the University of Toronto before returning to Vancouver where she met and married Dr. Richard Edward Beck in 1954. 

Elizabeth Jean Andrews graduated from the University of Western Ontario's Medical School in 1951. During her time at school, Liz met and married a fellow classmate in her program, Howard Edward Vernon, in 1949. After graduation, the couple moved to Howard's home neighborhood of Clarkson, Mississauga to open and operate a private practice across the street from Howard's family home for thirty years. 

During the Second World War, Elizabeth Quarles Harrison of Lucan, Ontario, worked as a W.R.N.S. at the HMCS St. Hyacinthe base in Quebec. After her time with the navy, Harrison attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving a B.A. in 1944. Harrison returned to Western and graduated from the Medical School in 1952. Harrison was part of her class executive and won the 2nd place Rowntree Prize in Medical History in her final year of Medical School. After graduation, Harrison took an internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in London. In 1958, Harrison registered with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons with a specialty in ophthalmology. 

Carol Kathleen Whitlow was born in London, Ontario in 1925. Before graduating from the Medical School in 1947, Carol married her classmate Robert Buck, graduating as Dr. Carol Buck. While completing her PhD, Buck was a brief member of the Osler Society, recording her name in the attendance book at the same meeting as Andrews and Harrison. Buck was also the first female PhD graduate at Western. After completing additional schooling in the UK, Buck returned to Western to teach epidemiology for 37 years, and serve as the first female department head. After Buck's passing in 2004, the Carol Buck Graduate Scholarship in Epidemiology was established in her name.

Catherine Elizabeth Musclow, originally from Beamsville, Ontario, received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1962. She later returned, enrolling in the Medical School and graduating in 1966. By 1968, Musclow was head of a research department at Toronto General Hospital. Musclow married fellow Westerm alumni Rev. Earl James Lackey. In 1977, Musclow registered her specialty as Hematology Pathology with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, later working in Pathology and Lab Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.