Background on McCutcheon lectureship
Lydia Catherine McCutcheon was a tour de force who loved children. She lived in Kitchener-Waterloo for most of her adult life where she had a successful career in banking and later with the Board of Education. She bestowed her estate to the Kitchener-Waterloo Rotary Children’s Fund and Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.
She would be proud to see the plaque in the emergency area of SickKids Hospital, in memory of two children she loved so much, son John Robert McCutcheon, who drowned at five years of age and her brother John Nicholas Meyschein, who also died at a young age.
Ms. McCutcheon’s endowment has made possible the annual Lydia Catherine McCutcheon Lectureship on Injury Prevention. The Lectureship series began in 2001 and has brought together respected international injury researchers to SickKids Hospital in order to advance research and understanding in the field of injury prevention. Past topics have been in the areas of helmet safety, school bus safety, fire prevention, young worker safety, and child passenger safety.
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