Roy Hamilton was first director of Presbyterian Men.(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Roy Alguire Hamilton, a man who left a lucrative business career to become a full-time lay worker with The Presbyterian Church in Canada, died peacefully at Lakeridge Health centre, Whitby, Ont., on April 28. He was 96.

Mr. Hamilton was a sales promotion specialist with General Motors, a company he had worked with for 29 years, when he resigned to become director of a Synod of Alberta initiative called Program for Progress in 1955.Two years later, he became the first national director of Presbyterian Men. At the organization's first conference in 1957, Mr. Hamilton told…