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Alumni Association at the , Bulk En Nombre Third Troisi&Me Class Classe 4311 VANCOUVER Crossroads: Page 14 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C Volume 45 • Number 3 • Winter, 1991 INSIDE Bus Phillips Vancouver: lWW A Pacific Rim City The UBC Caucus Nitobe Autumn Do Not Forward: Return Requested with address if known (see CGP). Canada Posies I* Post Canada Alumni Association at the , Bulk En nombre third troisi&me class classe 4311 VANCOUVER Crossroads: Page 14 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Can You Think of an Easier Way to Support UBC? Apply for the No Fee UBC Bank of Montreal MasterCarcPcard. As part of a special arrange­ ment, a percentage of every puchase you make using this card is returned to UBC. 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Government is filled with UBC grads Martin Glynn, BA(Hons)'74, MBA'76 Past President Mel Reeves, BComm'75, MSc'77, LLB Nitobe Autumn 20 Treasurer The Gardens from a different perspective Ron Orr, BComm'80 Members-at-Large 1990-92 James Stich, BSc'71, DMD'75 Louanne Twaites, BSC(Pharm)'53 Vancouver: A Pacific Rim City 22 Jim Whitehead, BA'62, MA'68, Vancouver is making a big splash across the Ocean MSc, PhD'87 Members-at-Large 1991-93 Stan Knight, BEd'62, MEd, PhD Mark Kurschner, LLB'80 UBC's Non-Stop Bus 26 Joan Webster, BEd'80 After 35 years, Bus Phillips straps on the cleats (golf, that Is) The UBC Alumni Chronicle is published 3 times annually by the UBC Alumni Association ,6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Departments Vancouver B.C., V6T 1Z1. It is distributed free to all graduates and donors of UBC. News 4 Member, Council for the Advancement Branches, Divisions, Reunions 6 and Support of Education. Indexed in Campaign News 10 Canadian Education Index. ISSN 0824- Alumni President's Column 16 1279. Opinions expressed in The Chronicle Class Acts 28 are not necessarily those ofthe editor, the Association or UBC. Books 36 Acrostic 38 On the Cover: Main Library by Anne Adams, Editor Gouache and ink with Chris Petty MFA'86 illuminated border. The Library Assistant Editor, Class Acts was once known as% King John's Dale Fuller Castle' after first librarian, John Contributors Ridington. See page 13 for more Michael Goldberg, Pearl Roberts, Marjorie Simmins, Mary Trainer, UBC scenes. Don Wells Executive Director Printed In Canada by Agency Press Deborah Apps possible to offer goods and services Heppner Sings at produced by Canadians. In many cases, Editor's Box however, either no Canadian company the Met exists to offer the service, or, if one does exist, it cannot deliver the service ad­ W hen a small group gathered at UBC grad and international opera star Ben Heppner will sing at the Met­ equately to an organization as large as the UBC campus on Fairview slopes ours. in 1917 to form the Alumni Asso­ ropolitan Opera in December. He will ciation, they had two things in mind. sing the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo, Their first was to stay together. replacing Luciano Pavorotti who had They had all finished their degrees to drop out due Nominations and were busy tending to the needs to scheduling of a growing, bustling city. But they conflicts. Sought for Alumni missed the camaraderie ofthe class­ Heppner, room (crowded though it was), the whose final per­ Board late evening discussions, the stimu­ formance De­ lation. cember 21 will Ballots and nominees for next year's Board of Directors will be They formed an association to be broadcast live by CBC included in the Spring Chronicle. The stay in contact with each other. It Senior Vice-President, Treasurer and gave them a sense of belonging, a Stereo, received the Alumni As­ three Members-At-Large will be sense of permanence. elected. The other reason was to stay in sociation's Outstanding Young Alum­ touch with their university. They nus Award in 1990. He has had an were interested in maintaining and extremely successful year, and is con­ The Senior VP serves for one year supporting a place that had shaped sidered one of the finest of a new then becomes President for a one year their lives. generation of heroic tenors on the op­ term. The Treasurer serves for one The Association is huge now, eratic circuit. Bravo, Ben. year and Members-At-Large for two with over 100,000 grads, and the years. intimacy is gone. But the feelings Any UBC grad is eligible to run for for UBC remain the same. Grads Alumni Directory in office. If you are interested in running still want to see their old class­ for any of these positions, please send mates, and they are still interested Production us your name, address, degree and in what the university is up to. Production ofthe 1992 Harris Di­ year of graduation, and a short state­ Things have changed, though. rectory of UBC Alumni is underway. ment about why you wish to serve. The The modern university is no longer The directory will be ready for distribu­ nomination must be accompanied by the clubby, tweedy, ivy-clad place tion in the Spring of 1992, and will the names and signatures of five nomi­ of dim memory. It's a fast-moving, include information on those men and nators who are also grads of UBC.
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