One of the giants of neurological surgery has left us. Although he will always be identified with taking posterior fossa aneurysm surgery from the realm of the daring to the domain of the routine, his contributions were much broader. He realized early on that there was synergy in bringing neurology, neurosurgery, and all the disciplines dealing with the brain under one roof. He did this with his colleague, Henry J. M. Barnett, by becoming the first chairman of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, in 1969. They put London on the international map through recruitment of individuals who have excelled in fields beyond those of the founding fathers.