In Remembrance: James T. Lemon ’58BD Died on January 2 2012

Professor James T. Lemon, professor emeritus of geography, passed away early on Tuesday, January 31. Originally from West Lorne in southwestern Ontario, he received a BA from the University of Western Ontario (with the Gold Medal in Geography), an MA from Yale (in Divinity), and then a Masters and PhD (both in Geography) from the University of Wisconsin (1964). Lemon was a highly respected and often controversial scholar of historical and urban geography, a Guggenheim Fellow, a mentor for and friend of several generations of students and colleagues, in Canada and abroad.

A full obituary appeared in the Toronto Star on February 4, 2012.