E. Carey Fox graduated from McMaster in 1906 with a mathematics degree and began a life long relationship with McMaster culminating with his appointment of chancellor in 1950. Dr. Fox served five years as chancellor but had served as a member and chair of the Board of Governors for over forty years. Fox was an important person for many of the critical decisions facing the university its early history including the move to Hamilton and the secularization of the University in 1957. A modest man who declined the naming of the administrative building, now Gilmour Hall, he is remembered on campus with the E. Carey Fox sculpture in the Arts Quad.