Abstract

The death of Professor Morven Brown on 9 years later in 1960, Morven was made the Dean October came as a profound shock to everyone. of this faculty, a position he still occupied at Those who were close to him knew that he had his death. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir been living in recent years under a threat, Philip Baxter, paid eloquent tribute at the but since his return from his U.N. assignment memorial service to the contribution Morven in Ceylon last March he had seemed to be has made in the shaping of the programme of functioning with full vigour and to be truly teaching in Arts and Humanities in the Uni­ at the peak of his powers. versity of N.S.W. Morven Brown came as an undergraduate in His contribution to social work was also con­ Arts to Sydney University on a Teachers' Col­ siderable. Apart from his work at the Univer­ lege scholarship in the depression years of the sity of Sydney, he was the President of the thirties. He did an Honours degree in Psycho­ Australian Social Welfare Council during its logy and a Master of Arts degree. When he difficult early years. He was a