Elmore Reaman
Inducted In
1985
G. Elmore Reaman was born at Concord, Ontario, and earned degrees at the University of Toronto, McMaster University, Queen’s University and his Ph.D. at Cornell. He was founder of the Training School for Boys, Bowmanville in 1925 and organized a private school, Glen Lawrence, in Toronto.
He established the first courses in Canada for life insurance, radio broadcasting and announcers.
Reaman was head of the English Department of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph from 1939 to 1954, Dean of Men at Waterloo Lutheran University and director of extension at the University of Waterloo for ten years where he set up the department of design in engineering and marketing seminars for businessmen. He was the author of at least twenty books.
He was founder and first president of the Pennsylvania-German Folklore Society; founder of the Waterloo-Wellington branch of the English-speaking Union; founder and first president of the Hugenot Society of Canada.