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FEATURES 4 JACK HODGINS: STORY-TELLER Convocation Golden Boyof Canadian Literature Senators Viveca Ohm 7 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS Students in the Legislature 1981 Daphne Gray-Grant UBC Alumni 10 BIRDS AND BRAINS Bird-based Researchat UBC Board of Management Tim Padmore 12 SUMMER IN THE FOREST Alumni Award Industry and Academe Produce a Co-operative Education Experience of Distinction Liz Pope 16 THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE Alumni Honorary A Bridge BetweenTown and Gown Merrilee Robson Life Membership

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Postage pald at the Thlrd Class rate PermltNo 431 1 Member, Counctl for the Advancementand Support of Educatlon Indexed In Canadlan Educatlon Index ChronicleWinter 1980 3 elusive as Joseph Bourne himself, saying he likes to challenge the way people look Jack Hodgins: at thingsby raising “questions thatI don’t think the author has the obligation or even the right to answer.” In other words,fill in Story-teller yourown blanks. If thatsounds like a cop-out, Hodgins has one he likes better: “Sometimesthe writer can answer the questions without letting the reader know Golden Boy he has answered them... .” A dreamlike quality weaves in and out of Canadian Literature of Hodgins’ novels and even appears in onespit Delaney story. But Hodgins is one Viveca Ohm It’s no problem for Hodgins, who sub- of thosepeople who claims he doesn’t scribes to the writer’s maxim that the best dream, or at least rarely remembers if he does.He considers the thought that t’s notan easy place to find. The bookis always the next one. But the maybe writing itself is his formof dream- gravel driveway, hardly more than a Canadian literary establishment likes neat ing. “There is the freedom of a dream. path, meets the road at an oblique andtidy slots for its authors. Margaret I The physical laws are not suspended, but angleand quickly disappears into the Laurence writes this kind of book, Mor- trees. The numbers on the wonky post aredecai Richler that kind. What does Jack I will push against every limitation I can find.” same color as the wood (deliberately, I’m Hodgins write? told). Spit Delaneyi Island was a collectionof Criticshave finally found a label for The house is dwarfed and hidden by shortstories set on Vancouver Island, Hodgins - magic realism. A combination of the real and the impossible, it is honor- trees - arbutus, hemlock, spruce. The dealing with ordinary people - loggers, light filters in dimly through the leaves. farmers, mill-workers, small shop-owners ableterritory, shared with such Although we’re minutes from Nanaimo - whose mild eccentricities made them luminaries as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and andpractically in sight of theGeorgia all the more real. The title character, who Jorge Luis Borges. Hodgins freely admits Straight, we might be in the middleof the appears in the first and last stories, is a being influenced by these South Ameri- forest. former engineer whose passionate devo- can writers but doesn’t see the connection DoesJack Hodgins livehere? Who? tion to his steam locomotive, old Number as particularly exotic. The writer ... 1979Governor-General’s One, breaks up his marriage. Lonely and “The coastline that runs past me here Award .... Nobody like that aound here. bewildered, Spit, normally moreof an ob- goes all the way down non-stop past Gab- Then a light dawns. Oh, you must mean server than a joiner, finds a of sort comfort riel Garcia Marquez’ house. Surely that’s the school-teacher! in the insights of awoman poet whose aslegitimate a connection as the 49th JackHodgins chuckles appreciatively outlandishappearance (in Nanaimo, parallel to Toronto. I think the west coast at his neighbors’ refusal to be impressed. anyway) he would have preferred to stare of South America has much in common His privacy is safe a little longer. at from a safe distance. with B.C.; it’s the newest partof the con- There was a time Hodgins had never With his next book, a novel entitledThe tinent, a coupleof generations away from left Vancouver Island except to go to UBC Invention of the World (1977)Hodgins’ the frontier. in 1956in becometo teacher. a He scope had grown as ambitiousas the title. “I felt justified when I read that Mar- was in the firstclass of the then brand-new Legend jostled with fiction, history with quez and the other South American writ- education faculty. There was also a time fantasy, as Hodgins embroidered on the ers I like in turn looked to William Faulk- whenhe was growing, a literary black demented 1920s cultof Brother Twelve to ner, who was also my great hero. It’s a sheep in a family of loggers, (“Nobody tellof a wild Irishman, supposedly vision of theworld and of literature, even knew I read books, let alone tried to fathered by a black bull, who founded the ratherthan a region. With the South write them.”) convinced no one would be Revelations Colony of Truth on the out- Americanwriters you get a sense of interestedin reading his closet scribbl- skirts of Nanaimo which is later revisited energy, of exuberance you don’t get that ings. Now at 42 the golden boy of Cana- and mulled overby local characters almost often with North American writers, and dianliterature, Hodgins spends a good as outrageous. thesense that a novel has the right to part of his time travelling across the coun- Twoyears later a second novel ap- include a cast of thousands, a whole vil- tryand abroad, giving readings, work- peared, The Ressurection ofJoseph Bourne, lage, a whole town, or the whole world if shops, lectures. People laugh at his jokes which won the Governor-General’s Award you want, whereas most North American and feel reassured by his Joe Next-Door for 1979. It takes place in a remote and writers will concentrate on one person for solidity. rain-sodden mill-town patterned on Port a whole novel... .” The recognitionwhich started in To- Alice. As in a prosy “Under Milkwood,” Ahyes The Me-and-My-Soul-in- rontoafter the publication of SpitDe- each of thetownspeople voice their Light-Disguise formula we’ve come to ac- Ian& Island in 1976 gradually travelled thoughtsand dreams, from the ex- cept as the contemporarybasis of fiction. westward and only recently reached Hod- stripper raising somebodyelse’s eight kids Magic realism or not, the thing that makes , gin’s own island (he was born on a Comox to the fearfully dignified East Indian pat- JackHodgins stand out isthat he is a Valley farm). That’s soon enough for him. riarch. story-teller.He writes about everybody If being well-known ever interferes with It is a funny book, richly and riotously excepthimself. With his early timidity being able to sit in a pub or cafe quietly written. More than that it is a spoof and a about writing, he should have plenty of filingaway overheard conversations for fantasy overlaid with impossible happen- remembered turmoil to work out in print, future use, that’s when Hodgins will want ingsand maddeningly unsolved mys- but Hodgins isn’t interested in that. He to take his privacy back. teries, not the least of which is the actual prefers to imagine how he wouldfeel if he That may be too late. For Hodgins who resurrectionfrom death of Joseph were other people- characters who fas- thought a writer that hadn’t made it in hisBourne. And how on earth did someone cinate him. twenties was a lost cause, success keeps like him end up in a place like Port.. .um, “The modern attitude that the only per- snowballing. If your first book is nomi- Annie, and what exactly ishis hinted con- son you canreally know is yourself - nated for the Governor-General’s Award, nection with the muddy finale? that’s baloney.” He tells about the model and three years later your third one wins Asking Hodgins to unravel these mys- forSpit Delaney - anuncle Hodgins it, where do you go next? teriesis fruitless. He suddenly turns as didn’t know very well but whose love for 4 ChronicleWinrer 1980 hislocomotive was afamily joke. Ap- prehensive over what he saw as “an inva- sion of privacy” Hodgins asked the uncle, through his mother, to read the story first. “Tell him if it offends him I’ll change it to atugboat, or I won’t publishit.” The uncle’s startled response: “How in hell did heknow what it feelslike to be me?” Hodgins calls that “one of the trulv excit- ing moments of my writing career.” For a long time, Hodgins felt like an outsider in the writing world. “The geog- raphical barrier (between the island and the mainland or the restof Canada) can be so profound.” Invited to attend his first meeting of theWriters’ Union in Van- couver, Hodgins was so unnerved at the prospect that he nearly backed out. It was Margaret Laurence who took him under her wing (“she’s a mother figureus toall”) and made him feel that “maybe I do be- long here after all.” “Thelonger you can protect your anonymitythrough isolation, the safer you are. There’s nothing more terrifying than having a first book come out. I used towake up in a cold sweat before Spit Delaney’s Island came out, thinking so- and-so’s going to recognize himself.. . if I had been able to pass a law that no one on Vancouver Island could read my book, I would have. It was OK for faceless stran- gers out there readto my work and to have their own opinions of it, but for living, breathing people that I saw every day on the streets and that I knew were really in those houses.. . the notion was terrifying. “I gotover it when I startedgetting some positive feedback. Now I know I’m vulnerable, and I’ve learned more about protection. I have the confidence to say no, not to careas much as I used to about reviews.It’s impossible to write some- thing that everybody in the world is going to like.” It was as a student at UBC that Hodgins met two people who would make a differ- ence in his life. One was his wife, Dianne Childs,also an education student. The other was Earle Birney, the grand old man of Canadian letters. In Birney’s creative writing class, Hodgins found the idea of writing - and his own “ridiculous ambi- tion” - taken seriously for the first time. On returning to Nanaimo to teach high school, Hodgins introduced creative writ- ing classes which he taught in addition to English and math (Math? Hodgins has a fondnessfor geometric patterns, which hasbeen made much of inhis books). Some of his students went on to win liter- ary prizes. It’seasy to imagine Hodgins, a lean, curly-hairedfigure with an infectious smile, in frontof a tugh school class, draw- ingout reluctant students with his en- thusiasm.It’s also easy to imagine him puttering around the fairly ordinary house that he built for his growing family (“My one shot at carpentry”), settling down to write after his wife, who teaches elemen- tary school part-time, and Shannon, 17, Chronicletwinter I980 5 Gavin, 14, and Tyler,__. 12, have all left for school. Taking it easy, blessing the silence of the hllside and the relative infrequency of reporters beating down his door. A RHOSP But if writingis his favorite way to spend his energy, teaching is a close sec- Education ond.His recent decision to resign the teaching post he has held for more than15 years did not come easy. It grew outof the Opens necessityfor more writing time and an “act of faith” that royalties, readings and Your Eyes lecture fees would be enough to support a family of five.But Hodgins still main- If you are looking for an education on howto save money to buy a home tains, “I am a teacher.If I’m not teaching or cottage and reduce current taxesat the same time, a Registered high school, I’ll find other ways of teach- Home Ownership SavingsPlan (RHOSP)will give you the best education ing.” Such as writing workshops in Sas- of all. A RHOSP is never taxed as longas you use the money you katchewanfor the past two summers, accumulate in theplan to buy a home or cottage which you occupy.If writer-in-residence stints at Simon Fraser you are eligible, you’ll be amazed to learn just howfast your savings University and the University of Ottawa will grow and howmuch tax you can save by contributing up to$1,000 a and a possible part-time teaching post at year to a RHOSP. the University of Victoria. Hodgins has also been asked to write How doesa RHOSP Grad compare magazine articles from time to time but, a fiction writer to the core, he finds the need to a NON-RHOSP Grad? to stick to facts frustrating.“I realized the way I wanted to end a sentence had more In short, theRHOSP grad always has the upper hand!The typical todo with rhythm than what actually example in the box compares the caseof two grads savingfor a home, happened.” each with a taxable incomeof $20,000; one uses aRHOSP and the other Hodgins is now nearing the end of his does not. Using the exampleit would take 3 years longerto accumulate next book, Invasions. It is a bookof short $10,000 without a RHOSP. In addition, a RHOSP holder, after only 5 years, stories,but instead of beingrandomly would have a $2,303 advantageover the non-RHOSP holder. selectedlike Spit Delaney’s Island, the

Using a RMOSP’ Not Using a RMOSP’ stories are all related. “They’re about the samefamily of people,invading other Annual Total Annual lax savmgs annual Margin 01 parts of theworld and in return being Saved fromamount whlch from Saved advantage lake home canconlrlbutedbe Tax free Balance lake home Balance uring invaded themselves.” Year pay retnvesled lo RHOSP Interest r plan pay lnteresl ~n plan RHOSP ~- .~~ One of the main characters is the buf- 1 $657 $343 $1,000 $100 $1,100 $657$1,100 $100 $1,000 $343 $657 1 $66 $377$723 foonish Mayor Weinsof Port Annie- the 2 657 42 1.518343 138 1,000657 2,310 210 792 first time, Hodgins says, that a character 343 1,000 331 3,641 657 218 2.393 1.2482.393 218 6573 3,641 657331 1,000 343 657464 1,000 343 1,7503,355 5.105 305 657 has come along from a former book. Iron- 5 657 5 343 1,000 611 6,716 657 401 4,413 2,303 ically it was the fact that the mayor was 6 657 343 1,000 771 8,487 657 507 5,577 2,9104 7 657 343 657 7 1,000 949 10,436 657 623 6,857 3,579 one of the least developed characters, a 8 657 8 343 1,000 1,144 12.580 657 751 8,265 4,315 vehicle for satire only, that made him a 9 657 9 343 1,000 1,358 14,938 657 892 9,814 5,124 survivor. “I really despisedthat man,” 10 657 343 657 10 1,000 1,594 17,532 657 1,047 11,518 6,035 says Hodgins but he found his loathing 'Assuming that the laxpayer IS an Ontarlo residenl wllh alaxable income of about $20 000 who contributes $1,000 ~n January 01 each year lo a RHOSP and IS credlted wlth interest at 10”. For purposes of this cal~ulal~onno lax has been turning to pity as the ending of Joseph deducted from the Interest earned by the non-RHOSP plan 11 the Interest-diwdend exemption has been used else^ where, lhe non-RHOSP results would be furlher reduced Bourne stripped the mayor of everything hewas - leavinghim a candidate for re-discovery. Your RHOSP Education begins “The book was slated for the fall ’80, with The Answer Book on RSPs and RHOSPs. but I just wasn’t ready to let it go .... I’m not in any big hurry. The right ending is Everything you should know aboutRHOSPs is in the latest edition.of the just around the corner, a better one that I ANSWER BOOK. Ask for it at your nearest Scotiabank Branch or simply could have deliberately created. Gall us toll free by dialing 1-800-361-8258 until “I’m at oneof the most exciting parts in December 19,1980. (B.C. residents dial the writing of any book and that is just 112-800-361-8258.) The ANSWER BOOK is also an before it’s finished, that very short period excellent source of information on Scotiafund’s of time when you think maybeit’s going to four versatile optionsfor tax-sheltered Retirement be as great as you want it to be.” Savings Plans. Act Now... Don’t Delay. There are those who will criticize his The RHOSP contribution deadline for1980 income refusal to stick to magic realism now that tax purposes isWednesday, December31,1980. such an attractive niche has been found for him. And there are those whofeel sure FREE astring of successeshas to end some- where. Jack Hodgins is aware of being watched in a way he never was a few years ago. “All it does is make me more deter- THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA mined that each book be better than the last or do something the last book didn’t Contribution Deadline: December31,1980. do.” 0 Viveca Ohm,BA’69, is a Vancouver writer and teacher. 6 ChronicleWinter I980 Students in the Legislature

Daphne Gray-Grant forinterns to achieve an insight into portant as the others.” events they’ve only studied in books- to Larsenstarts off theday byreading gaina sense of thevalidity (or lack of newspapers and clipping the articles he eographerscan go out and tram- validity) of the theoretical concepts they thinks his MLA should know about. (He’s ple a land mass. But political sci- deal with in university.” proud of having helped create some refer- G entists don’t often get a chance to Theprogram waslaunched in 1976, ence files Gableman didn’t have before.) visit the scene of the crime.” andhas succeeded for five years, says After that he does a varietyof work rang- The speaker is Walter Young, head of Young, due to the consistently high qual- ing from writing letters to drafting ques- political science at the University of Vic- ity of the interns. They come from solid tions for the order paper. But Larsen says toria. And his observation- delivered in academicbackgrounds (a degreein the he enjoys doing constituency work -best smooth, professorial tones but with the social sciences is required) and they work dealing with the people and problems of satisfied smile of one who has made bona hard, receiving only $750 per month for theNorth Island riding. “I likebeing mot - isnot entirely flippant. Young their January to June stint. The most re- giventhe opportunity to solve a prob- speaks of a problem as old as the univer- cent group of nine students - selected lem,” he says. sities themselves: how to drag neat and from among 46 recent graduates of B.C. Walter Young believes the job should tidyAcademic Theory - kickingand universities - was no exception... . change the interns’ perceptions of poli- screaming - into the messy and frustrat- Intern Dave Larsen (BA’79) sits in an tics. For Larsen the biggest surprise was ing Real World. airybut smallish office brimming with learning about the people involved: “I had All of thearts disciplines, from an- plants. To say he shares the room with a stereotypeof the politician. I saw him as thropology to sociology, have some diffi- MLA Colin Gableman is an understate- gregarious and outgoing. But it’s not the culty climbing down from the old ivory ment: Their desks, situated at right anglescase - some are very shy.” He adds as an tower. But for students of political sci- are so close that if Larsen leaned back in afterthought,“You wonder how they ence,the problem is especially ironic. his swivel chair, his head would touch the make it.” Larsen also says that working in While politics fill the newspapers and the MLA’s desk. A largeconstituency map the legislature has made him think more airwaves, all the really interesting busi- dominatesone wall buton others the kindly of politicians. “It’s a very difficult ness, it seems, takes place behind closed muted pastels of a Peter Markgraf print job and requires great personal sacrifice. doots. and a large color photo of sailboats add a Insome cases it has an impact on the But Young thought that students might bright touch. family. People don’t realize what politi- be able to get behind those doors by be- It’s quiet - Gableman is at home visit- cians are giving up.” coming “interns” at the B.C. legislature. ing his constituents - and Larsen sits at But learning about the oflife an MLA is As such they would work in an intensely the desk, methodically plowing through a only part of the interns’ training. First politicalatmosphere, doing research, three-inchstack of paperwork.“It cer- they must go through an intensive orienta- dealing with constituency problems, writ- tainly is an insider’s view of the political tion period. Following that they are as- ing and observing. Similar programs had system,”he says with an easy but shy signedto a ministryto learn about the beensuccessfully tried in several other smile.“Colin is great. He clues me bureaucracy. provincesand at the federal House of in.. ..It’s good becausewe can sit and talk. Duringthe orientation, the interns Commons. Says Young: “The purpose is Those casual conversations are just as im- meet politicians, tour the legislature and Chronicle/Winter 1980 7 ~~

talkwith civil servants. According to ClarenceReser (a 1976 intern who was subsequently hired by the legislature to managethe program) the orientation “gives the interns a good overviewof the system at a pretty senior level.” Resersays that many deputy ministers are eager to talk to the interns about the plans and priorities of their departments. For the interns is it a dizzying but heady time. Meeting influential people, wander- ingaround the stain-glass-windowed, marble-pillaredhallways, bumping into television-famousfaces. According to John Belshaw (BA’79) a tall, slim history major who ended up as an intern after reading a poster at UBC: “It’s a whirlwind tour. Like a motorcycle trip through the Louvre.” Belshaw,who shares a large double- desk in the narrow outer-officeof a caucus office has an easy rapport with the many MLAs who wander in and out. Comforta- bly dressed in jeans, a striped shirt and (as a concession to fashion and respectability) a narrow tie, Belshaw is no longer in awe of the famous and powerful people. “I had a larger than life image of some of the (top) Theinitiator of the legdative internship programin Victoria,Dr. Walter MLAs. You firstmeet them and your reaction is Then they come down to Young, here uverseesa gatha’ng of interns, Wow! size. This allows you to step back from part of a group chosenfrom graduates of B.C. universities. (bottom)A working myths and put some flesh on them.” Belshaw’sdesk-mate intern April relationship: Angus Ree,MLA (Socred N. Vancouver-Capi1ano)pmnts out his Yamasaki (BA’79) spent part of her time concerns to intern GeordieProulx. workingfor the provincial secretary. Yamasaki says she wasn’t really surprised by the workingsof government though. “I guessI didn’t have any illusions,” she says, shaking her short dark hair and smil- ing. “It’s just as bad as I thought.” ButYamasaki says the research and writing skills she’s learned from the job should be useful in her hoped-for careerof journalism.And even more useful, she says,was learning how to deal with people. “I’ve never before had to meetso many. It’s a skill - knowing how to find the people who have the information you - want, and getting them to give it to you.” In a profession such as government in which grandstanding and obfuscation are common, all theinterns say they were surprised by the frankness of the bureau- crats and politicians. “They put complete trust in us,” says one. “I was amazed at what we were privy to,” says another. But it wasn’t always that way. When Young began lobbying to set up the program, he ran into resistance from MLAs who feared it would give “outsid- ers” access to politically sensitive informa- tion.According to MLAGraham Lea: “The concern expressed most often was over the confidentiality of the work per- formed by the interns. All politicians are understandably concerned over who con- trols what information.” Eventually the program was approved when Young was able to stress its non- partisan intent. Interns draw lots to de- termine which party they’ll work for, and coordinator Reser is quick to emphasize 8 ChronicleWinter 1980 that whatever their personal party prefer- ence, the interns can rise above it. “We’ve hadrabid NDPers and rabid Socreds who’ve set that aside and worked for the other party,” he says. The parties, while keeping a watchful eye for possible con- flicts of interest, on the whole seem im- pressedwith the interns. According to MLA George Mussalem: “Their very pre- senceand enthusiasm helped create a positive atmosphere all around them and they were highly appreciated by all our members.” But it’s not surprising the parties are cautious. Partyloyalty in B.C. is a mighty solemnbusiness, as intern Greg Smith (BA’79) who was assigned to the Socred caucusdiscovered. Smith, who before completing his BA had worked for a fed- eral cabinet minister, found the issue of party loyalty to be the big dividing line between federal and B.C. politics. “These guys arereally serious. If I was in Ottawa I mightvery well be friends with an NDP memberof parliament. But not here. It’s a much more partisan at- mosphere.” Smith, who thinks the most enjoyable (top) Government publicationsand what to part of the job is writing speeches (“It’s find in them: Lome Nicolson, BEd‘63, kind of a thrill seeing your words given onMLA (NDPNelson-Creston) answers the floor of the house”) speaks quickly and articulately. He arrives at the legisla- ture early in the morning and often works another long - but very eventful - day, weekends. “I enjoythe work. You see internGregSmithat the parliament :, .d,“ ”/ positive results. The bureaucracy is still buildings, Victa’a. $ responsive to the public’s needs. I have a couple of little “victories” a week.” But for the interns (as for politicians and civil servants) there are frustrations - frustrations with the demands of the public, and with the unwieldysize of gov- ernment. Partof politics is learning to deal with disappointmentas one intern recalls. He had slaved over a 25-page speech on wine only to see hisMLA rise in the house and reduce the empassioned prose to a - ””’””-. singlesentence: “B.C. wine, Mr. Speaker? One grape to the barrel.” For intern Geordie Proulx (BA’79) the biggest frustration was the people. He’d spent a lot of time in logging camps and found it difficult to cope with the inter- officepolitics. “I wasused to working with people who were much more direct.I wasn’t used to so much diplomacy. At a logging campif you had a dispute with the foreman, you quit.” But Proulx, whether hegoes to law school (a possibility) or back to logging camp(a less-likely possi- bility)says he has learned more about politics than a textbook could ever teach him. There’s just one thing that bugs him: In his six months as an intern and despite repeated phonecalls, he never did find out how to get a legislative parking sticker for his car. Thereare some things about politics evenan internship can’tteach you. 0

DaphneGray-Grant, BA’79, is editor of the Western News. Chronicle,’Winter 1980 9 Birds and Brains

Tim Padmore afavorite patch of flowers.But dig deeper, as Gass does, and the poetry dis- fall living things, is it birds that most solves into an elaborate and tightly regu- haunt man’s imagination. As soon as lated economic order. 0a child can look up at the sky, she Thecurrency in this economy is learns to admire and envy thebird’s free- energy. Being a hummingbird takes a lot dom tofly. The flight of birds has become of energy. (Remarkably, the energy con- a metaphor for our highest aspirations. It sumption of the little birds is remarkably is almost an engineering principle that to welldescribed by the dynamic require- fly well a machine may not be ugly. But ments of helicoptersand Boeing 747s.) the beauty and graceof birds seems to go Fetching nectar takes a lotof energy, so it beyond the bare dictates of function. pays to minimize the number of trips. .. So much poetry in our feelings about But if the bird fills its crop completely birds leaves little room for science. That before returning to the perch, willit burn may account forsociety’s peculiar attitude extracalories carrying the extra heavy tothose who make birds the object of load.. . It is a wasteof time visiting a flower serious scientific study. Birdwatchers and that was drained a few hours earlier ... ornithologists are thought of as off-beat, Driving off poachers is a good idea, but and slightly fey. Birds are to be admired, not if it takes too much energy. notmeasured, their mysteries to be Gass is discovering how hummingbirds cherished rather than illuminated. takeaccount of all thesefactors to ac- But to the birdpeople of UBC, birds, complishthe task of energygathering while remarkable in many ways, are no with minimum cost-benefit ratio, thereby different from other animals as objectsof permittingthe meadow to support the inquiry. There are more than a dozen re- maximum number of hummingbirds. searchers at the university currently activeThe birds stake out individual territories, in bird research, although, significantly, but the boundaries of the territories are there is no one who calls himself an or- constantlybeing renegotiated as condi- nithologist.Three are in the faculty of tions change. (A mountain meadow may forestry and the rest are in the departmentgo from snow to brilliant blossom to bare of zoology. Zoologist Lee Gass remakes in six weeks.) A good territory, for exam- the point: “I don’t study birds because I ple, will get used less, because the prop- am an ornithologist - I’m not. I do it rietor is quickly satisfied, and so will get because they are good subjects to learn even better as unused nectar accumulates. about animal behavior.” The bird will have more time (and more Gasshas spent much of the lastfive need) to defend it. But eventually, if the yearsstudying the Rufus-sided hum- territory continues to improve, it will be mingbird. brokenup. This seems to happen just Thehummingbird migrates between wheneconomic theory says it should. SouthernMexico and a breeding area “Everytime I’ve seen a territory frag- stretching from Oregon to Alaska. Duringmented,” says Gas, “the theory has said itstravel it gathers nectar from alpine there is more than enough there for two L meadows blossoming with columbine and birds.” Indian paintbrush. Itis pleasant to sit on a Gass and his students have done mostof sunny day and watch the tiny bird hovertheir at work in the field in alpine meadows a flowerlet, drink, and then whir away. in Northern California, patiently record- Amusing when one swoops from its perch ing details of tens of thousands of hum- in high dudgeon to chase an intruder frommingbird trips on an electronic counterof

10 ChronicleWinrer 1980 Gass’ own design. He is currently build- the same area as the wrens. It is true jungleinvited him along on a trip to a seabird ing an artificial “meadow” in the vivariumwarfare, occurring mainly where the reedsisland in the West of Scotland. After the onthe UBC campus so hecan study arethickest; in more open areas the trip it was clear to him that birds are cer- hummingbird strategy in more detail in blackbirds are able to keep the wrens dri- tainlybetter than chemistry, and he the lab. Photocells and sensitive balances ven off. switched fields. will record the arrivals and departures of Then there is the black oyster-catcher. For the past five years at UBC he has each bird as it forages at nectar nozzles inLooking a like a gawky crow, it is an artist been studying the song sparrow, which he 60-foot U-shaped run. with its long redbill at opening the tightly wryly characterizes as “the most boring The hummingbirds’ energy economy issealed armor of shellfish.Grad student species in B.C.” Their great advantage for a part of thelarger economy of the SarahGroves journeys to bald, surf- zoologicalresearch is that on Mandarte meadow, of course, and Ken Lertzman, scathed rocks off the west coast of Van- Island, where the work was conducted, one of Gass’ students has been studying couver Island to learn how those complex thesparrows are resident birds, never that connection. The birds do the workof feeding skills are passed on to the young leavingthe island. Mandarte Island, bees, transferring pollen from flower to oyster-catcher male during an unusually which is near Saanich, has little vegetation flower as they feed.By marking the pollen longparenting relationship that lasts so every bird can be readily counted and with a fluorescent dye, he has traced how throughthe first winter of theyoung its behavior relatively easily observed. the pollen is spread by the hummingbirds.bird’s life. And the song sparrow really isn’t that It isthought that there is an optimum One of the most original accomplish- dull, Smith has found. distance for the pollen to be spread, far ments of student Keith Simpson was his Trackingthe sparrow population, enoughthat harmful inbreeding is pre- discovery of a way to capture an adult bluewhich varied in size from 30 to 150, he vented, but not so far that traits useful in heron. Study of the big birds had been found that male sparrows tend to settle coping with local conditions (shade and hamperedby the difficulty of capture relatively far from the nest they were born drainage, for example) are lost. No one without harm to either bird or zoologist, in whilefem_ales settled close by. The pat- will be surprised if it turns out that the but Simpson found they could be easily tern appears to be useful in preventing optimum distance just matches the typicalnetted when the herons came to raid her- inbreeding,but why should it be the reach of a hummingbird territory. ring bait ponds near their nesting places maleswho roam? Forget any an- Elsewhere are Dave Jones,Bill Milsum on the Sechelt peninsula. His studyof the thropomorphicsuggestion. Small mam- and Pat Butler, thiee whose wonder at effectsthe of human development on heron mals show an opposite behavior, the males magic of flight has transformed itself into colonieshappily indicates that the blue settling close to the nest. There may be a experiments where flight is captured and heron is rather tolerant of man’s intru- geneticlink, says Smith. The chromo- scientifically dissected. They have trained sions, so long as he leaves a few trees for some pattern that defines male and female pigeons and geese tofly in a wind tunnel nesting sites and keeps the ruckus to a mammals - XX forfemales, XY for while hooked up to tubes and wires that reasonable pitch. males - is reversed in the birds. Maybe, measurebreathing, blood pressure, There is even a study of the bird as he suggests, it is having two X chromo- temperature and other indices of effort villain. Grad student Chris Wood of ani- somes that makes for wanderlust. and achievement. They have confirmed malin resource ecology is trying to evaluate Smith, back from ayear’s sabbatical in graph and table thefact that gettingoff the theextent of damage to young salmon Australia, is looking for a new project. ground is an astonishing accomplishment.populations by merganser ducks. He’s interested in the pursuing the ques- Jaroslav Picman, a graduate student in This story began with a request to find tion of dispersal, ho,w animals spread out zoology, has made a remarkable discoverythe “Birdman of UBC.” As it turned out, fromtheir places of birth and rearing. about the long-billed marsh wren. Marsh there really was no such person. But one What he’s looking for is a good animal to wrens share their reed-thick habitat with name did come up in nomination. It was study, not necessarily a species of bird. themuch larger red-winged blackbird, Jamie Smith of zoology. Smith is another But he admits it probably will be a bird but not gladly, it seems. The wrens wagewho a studies birds but would be just as because, well, birdsarebetter. 0 sort of guerrilla warfare, slipping into un- willingto study other animals - only attended blackbird nests and breaking thebirds are better. His scientific career was Tim Padmore, BA’65, (PhD, Stanford), eggs. Picman believes the tactic developedin chemistry at the University of Edin- un‘tes on science for the Vancouver Sun - to deter the blackbirds from breeding in burgh,until one day a zoologist friend and occasionallyfor the Chronicle.

ChronicleWinter 1980 1 1 Summer employment for forestry students forms an important partof the learning process. Encompassingevery phase of the industry, tasks increase in complexity as the student's knozcdedge grows. (clockwise fram left) Alastair Handleycollects treefoliage samples to be analyzedlater for nutrient content; Heather Kibbey identifiestree lichen; Bruce Harperuses an increment borer for core sampling Douglasfirs; Don Binkley coum growth rings on a stump to determine age;Gus Bradley (left) andTony Letchford mark anewly fallen Douglasfir into sections.

12 ChronicieiWinter 1980 Industry and Academe Producea Ceoperative Educationmperrence

Liz Pope vince, often ih a small town or forestry orwood science and industry. In the camp, working for the B.C. ministry of fourth year there’s a thesis, an opportun- rying toignore the suffocating forests, private industry, or the univer- ity for students to carry out an indepen- smoke and heat, a forestry student sity.Usually after first or second year dent study in their interest area.

swingsI his pulaski, slashing at roots forestry, the summer will be spent on a Forestrysummer jobswould not be andT earth. Rapidly he works around the fire suppression crew, cruising (measur- such learning experiences, though, if it fire front, leaving a bare stripof forest in ing tree inventory), working in a nursery, were not for the effortsof the employers. another attempt to contain the blaze. His doingregeneration surveys (checking Recognizing that they are contributing to fire suppression crew, stationed at Tatla seedling survival on reforested areas), de- thequality of thegraduates they may Lake, had been called out on the fire two termining road and cutblock layouts, and eventually be hiring, companies often go days previously when smoke from a light- othergeneral forestry work. As their out of their way to enrich a forestry stu- ening strike was spotted in a remote patchknowledge and experience accumulates, dent’seducation. Employers, for exam- of lodgepole pine forest. Now, covered in studentsgain greater responsibility and ple, may arrange field trips to introduce sweat and mosquitoe bites, exhausted and challenges. By the third summer a student students to other facets of the company. longing for a decent meal, a shower and a mayfind himself designing and imple- And they will even work overtime to ex- bed, he hopes that this last firebreakwill menting a small research project or solv- plain concepts and field an information- finally control the persistent flames. The ing engineering problems. hungry student’s questions. winddrops; maybe this time she’ll be- Both students and industry recognize A summerjob also may provide inspira- have. the importance of the summer work ex- tion for the fourth-year thesis. Such was Meanwhile,on the northern end of perience in a forestry student’s education. the case with Bill Dickey. After becoming VancouverIsland, another forestry stu- Bill Dickey,a fourth year forestry stu- involved in the effects of stand density dentstruggles through brambles and dent, who after two summers in the Chil- during the summer, he is now working on brush;yellow raingear protecting her cotin fighting fires, spent last summer on a thesis project to determine how stand from their scratches as well as the constantastudy to determine relationships bet- densityaffects soil nitrogen levels in drizzle. Her cork boots-grip slimylogs as ween tree growth and stand density for lodgepolepine forests. When interests she balances three feetoff the ground and lodgepole pine. “I learned a lot,” he says, coincide, an employer and student may prepares to put in another plot, measure “about tree silvics, tree physiology, and develop a symbiotic relationship that re- anothergroup of trees,and determine just basic silvicultural concepts.” Experi- sults in a thesis. The employer provides whether or not this plantation needs thin- ence on the job often reinforces lessons time and equipment during the summer ning. learned at university. Not only is there thefor data collection, and in returnof onehis These are just twoof a variety of situa- benefit of repetition, but actually doing forestryproblems istackled with tionsUBC forestry students can be and seeing forestry in practice is an in- heightened enthusiasm and the supportof throwninto during their summer valuablesupplement to textbook learn- the university. For the student there is the employment. Although work conditions ing. additionalsatisfaction that his research may be quite different from anything en- UBC student foresters spend five years work will be of immediate practical use. countered in the classroom, the practical with those textbooks. After first year, sci- The university, which has long recog- experience is as an integral part of a stu- encestudents can enter the four year nizedthe educational importance of dent’sforestry education as the courses forestry program. While in forestry, stu- summer jobs, established the co-operative takenat university. And good summer dentstake a core of coursesproviding education program in1978. Its purpose is experience ranks high in the qualificationsthem with a solid background in subjects to aid students interested in forestry or companies look for in forestry graduates, ranging from surveying to entomology to engineering in clarifying career goals and as Joseph Gardner, dean of the UBC fa- forest land management. With electives, obtaining maximum enrichment through culty of forestry, points out. specialization is encouraged in oneof four theirsummer employment. Students During the summer most forestry stu- major interest areas: forest biology, forest choose to enter the program while in first dents are scattered throughout the pro- resource management, forest harvesting, year science and for the next three years ChronicleWinrer 1980 13 theyconsult with faculty advisors and co-op staff while selecting a summer job. Theguidance and consultation ensures that joba matches the student’s capabilities and contributes to his or her professionaldevelopment. During the summerco-op staff keeps tabs on how their students are faring in the field. A faculty advisor will visit to discuss prob- lems and career ideas, and at summer’s end students are requested to submit a written report outlining their job experi- ence. Undoubtedly the most valuable partof theco-op program is the placement of students in forestry jobs after first year science. Once first year forestry is com- pleted, students are snatched up by the forest industry for the summer. But a stu- dent with no forestry skills and nothing more tooffer employers than his1400 col- leagues in first year science has a dlfficult timegaining forestry experience. Through co-op, these students find jobs which give them a chance to experience forestry first hand and decide whether it is (top) Don Marzoccomows between rmls of the right course for them before starting crop trees for a seed orchard; (bottom)Lori on a forestry degree. Last summer out of Pearson (left) and Debbie Urbanlook after 12 first year co-op forestry students, three tree cuttings in MacMillan Bloedel decided that forestry wasn’t all they had greenhouse. dreamed it would be, and opted to con- tinuein sciences. Others, like Carmen Baker, a third year forestry student and pioneer in the co-op Education Program, speak enthusiastically of their co-op ex- perience. “It was a fantastic summer,” she says of her first forestry job. The first summer with co-opalso gave her an intro- duction to the forestry faculty. “Before I evenwent into forestry I knewhalf a dozen profs,” she says. The forestry studentis not the only one learning during his summer job, though. Ed Packee, silviculturalist for MacMillan Bloedel,points out that “it’s a two-way street.”Students form an important liaison between the university and indus- try. Packee explains that through contact with the students, industrial foresters are exposed to new academic approaches and oftena fresh, less biased perspective. Co-op is trying to strengthen this impor- tantlink between industry and UBC. “Presently a main objectiveis to work out a good relationship between the university andthe different companies,” Anta1 Kozak, associate forestry dean and co-op faculty advisor says. Butforestry work is not all grime, sweat, bugs and heavy learning. There are attractionsthat keep most forestry stu- dentseagerly awaiting the annual exile from the city. Pleasures such as spending lunch break perched atop a cliff, gazing up some remote B.C. inlet; meeting more wide-eyedfawns than people during a day’s work; and spending coffee break in the midst of a wild, flavor packed straw- berry patch. And who knows what next summer will bring? 0 Liz Pope is an honors student in the cmnblned fwesny-biology program at UBC. 14 ChronicleWinter 1980 DISCOVERA SIP OF FRENCH TRADITION

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Box 96GO s h o w n here uceshownhere the VILLAGES A.O.C. Main Post Office From the Houseof Joseph Vancouver, B.C. V6B4G3 are all ‘Zp- finest of wines. rouhin come5 this dry white lamentedher difficulties in getting the local press to cover the events. The earlylectures attracted nothing like the crowds of today but they were generallywell attended. In the 1919-20 season a seriesof lectures on the Romance of the Sciences drew an average audience of 130, while the series on English litera- ture averaged an attendance of 96. Sixty people were in the audience for the even- ing devoted to Canadian authors, but the relatively small crowd was blamed on a heavy snow storm. In that year the total attendancegrew from 1,234 to 2,084. There were 59 members. The programs from the early years of the Vancouver Institute sound like listsof UBC’sbuildings. The 1916season in- cluded lectures by UBC’s first president F.F. Wesbrook on ‘Bacteria’ and Frederic Wood on ‘English Drama in Relation to Present-Day Problems.’ UBC professors appearing on the 1920-21 program were D.Buchanan, Dean R.W. Brock, T.C. Institute Hebb and G.G. Sedgwick. In 1925 the university left the ‘Fairview Shacks’for the new campus on Point Grey. Institute president John Davidson “informed the meeting that accommoda- A Bridge Between tion would be available at Point Grey and expressedthe hope that the meetings would be held out there in future.” In his 1956 history the late M.Y. Wil- Town and Gown liamssays that many members thought transportation to the new campus was too much of a problem. “At that time Tenth Avenuewas paved with rotten planks from Alma Road for some two blocks east. Merrilee Robson meetings and issued a program at the be- ChancellorBoulevard connected with a ginning of eachseason, ensuring that dirt trail through the woods to EighthAv- there was no conflictof dates. enue at Blanca Street, and although the n October 11, the crowd began lin- The first constitution stated, “The ob- Tenth Avenue Boulevard from Blanca to ing up two hours early tosee playw- jectives of the Institute shall be the study the University was paved, cars were scarce 0right Tennessee Williams. The audi- and cultivationof the arts, sciences, litera- and bus service none too good.” ence filled lecture hall 2of the Woodward ture,music and kindred subjects, by During the next four years the Institute Instructional Resources Centre and over- means of lectures, exhibitions, publica- had no regular meeting hall. The univer- flowed into other rooms. Others watched tions and such other means as may from sity was settling into the new campus and on the giant television screen in the main time to time be deemed advisable.” The expanding. With the Institute physically lobby. Hundreds more arrived late and lectures were presented in the assembly detached the connection between ‘Town were not able to find a place. hall at Tenth and Willow, on UBC‘s origi- andGown’ weakened, although univer- Thecrush of spectatorsat the Van- nal Fairview campus. sityfaculty members still lectured. In couver Institute lectures attests to the suc- TheInstitute’s correspondence and 1929 the Institute again began to hold its cess of theorganization that started 65 minutes of itsmeetings, in the UBC lectures at the university, although a re- years ago. The university opened in Sep- archives, show that it had the organiza- turn to downtown was suggested during tember 1915 and the first organizational tional problems of any fledgling society. the Second World War, when gas ration- meeting of theInstitute was held five Numerous letters remind members to pay ing again made transportation a problem. months later. their dues while notes in reply insist they The Vancouver Institute followed the TheInstitute was formed to provide have already been paid. In one of a series university’s growth after the war. Satur- educational lectures to the general public of letters regarding the payment of the day became the regular lecture evening. and to bring together the various lecture slide projector or ‘lantern’ operator, the The location changed as the Institute grew seriesthat had been offered indepen- treasurer writes frantically that he would and as new buildings were built on cam- dentlyby anumber of Vancouver pay the bill and has the funds, but the pus. societies. These groups included the Uni- money is in a trust account and he needs The Institute reflected the changes in versityWomen’s Club, the Vancouver the secretary and president to release it. theuniversity. In 1963, UBC president Trades and Labor Council, the Architec- “‘The Vancouver Institute is the worst John Macdonald gave his report on educa- tural Instituteof British Columbia and the runthing in Vancouver,’ said an irate tion to the provincial government and ad- NaturalHistory Section of theB.C. voice over the telephone, with special re- dressedthe Vancouver Institute on Mountaineering Club. ference to his lecture, which had not been ‘HigherEducation - The WayFor- Originally,the affiliated associations sufficientlyannounced.” 1922In ward.” In 1967 Bernard Riedel, dean of sponsored most of the lectures, with uni- secretary-treasurer Winifred Plowdon re- pharmacy,spoke on ‘The Psychedelic versity professors giving the others. The ported on an offended speaker whose lec- Drugs.’ Another topic from the student Instituteprovided a regular place for turehad been poorly attended and protest era was a 1969 panel discussion 16 ChronicleWinm 1980 L

Whatdoes the Vancouver Institute hold in store for spring, 1981? A lively and varied series of stimulating lectures, of course. Although not all details had been frnalized atChronicle press time, here is an outlineof the spring season. Some details do remain constant: the day, Saturday; time, 8: 15 p.m.; the place, Lecture Hall#2 of the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre.

Jan. 31: Dr. Colin Kraay, keeperof the Hebenden Coin Room, Oxford: Alexander the Great and Coinage. February Speakers will include: Dr. Brenda Beck, anthropology, UBC: Hierarchy and Her& - Fate in a South India Folk Epic. Dr. Brian Pate, pharmaceutical sciences, UBC: Radio PET: A Radwchemis:’s View of a Brain at Work. Feb. 28: Dr. RichardJ. Blandau, departmentof biologi- cal structure, University of Washington: Reproduction and Popularion Control. March 7: Prof. Robert Leaper, social administration, University of Exeter: The Srate of the Welfare State. March 14 Prof. Gary Schwarz, psychology, Yale Uni- versity: New Frontiers in Biofeedbackand Behavioral Medicine. March 21: Julian Symons, biographer, Kent, England: The Mystiqueof the Detective Stoy . March 28: Donald Davidson, philosopher, University of Chicago: Topic to be announced. April 4: The Vancouver Sun lecture: speaker to be an- nounced. The Alumni Association is now administering the Vancouver Institute’s program. For further information call the Associa- tion office at228-3313.

entitled ‘Civil Disobedience- Protest and Progress.’ The Institute continues to grow. In recent years thousands have turned up to hear such speakersas anthropologist Mar- garetMead, psychologist B.F. Skinnerand photographer Yousuf Karsh. Program chairBel Nemetz says the Vancouver Institutea is major forum for public education. Gordon Robertson, who spoke in September on the constitutional talks, was repor- tedly amazed at the sizeof the crowd that would turn outon a Saturday night to heara lecture. The lectures are free and the money raised from the $10 membership fee ($2 for students) barely covers the cost of advertising the program. The Institute does receive donations from corporations and individuals, and it sometimes contri- butes toward the speaker’s travel expenses but honorariums are never paid. In spiteof this the Institute hasno trouble attracting guests as well known as Tennessee Williams and the Dalai Lama of Tibet. The1922 secretary’s despairat the lackof press cover- age is never a problem with speakers of this stature. In fact, the size of the audience is often a problem. The regular IRC hall cannot contain the crowds at the more popu- lar lectures. One can see the Institute growing to the point where a Saturday night poetry reading may have to be held in a football stadium. The Vancouver Institute has grown with the city and the university. And it is still doing a good job of keeping Town and Gown together. Gown and 0

Merrilee Robson, BFA’76, MFA’79,is a Vancouver writer. GEORGE HASA DEGREE IN MINE BIOLOGY ANDA JOB DRIVING Science and technology graduates ment is ready to helpby contributing likeGeorge are too valuable to waste. ACAB E up to $1,250 a month (for maximuma These are the people, young and enthusiastic, of 12 months) towards the salaries of university, who should be helping us to shape tomorrow. community college and technical school Theseare minds, fresh and innovative, that graduates withthe qualifications to tackle could be involved in research and development those projects; graduates who haven't, and in its application to urgent energyand until now, been able to find employment in environmental problemsand to the task of their disciplines. makingCanadian industry more efficient Taik to Employment & ImmigrationCanada and competitive. about our New TechnologyEmployment We can't afford to wait.Private sector Program. companies,individuals, associations, research You knowwhat's on ourminds. Tell us institutes and communityorganizations can what's on yours. help by developing projectsthat will contribute News on, Dr. and Mrs. BlytheEagles, Les G.R. Zrouch, and Lorne Kersey. While one group was gathered at the Com- nodore, another was celebrating theirreunion t Cecil Green Park on campus. Applied sci- nce grads from ’65 and ’70 danced to a group lamed City Haul and enjoyed a midnight sup- jer. Almost 100 people attended. And on the same Saturday, an afternoon vine and cheese party for the homeeconomics :lass of ’70 drew 25 people to the UBC Faculty Iub. An open house during the day attracted 00 Homecoming ’80 participants for campus ours, visits to the Museum of Anthropology, Ind screenings of the film “A UniversityIs.. . .” The electrical engineering class of 1950 held In informal pre-reunion gathering on Friday, kt. 24, at the homeof Hugh Kay, while over It the Arbutus Club,40 people attended a pre- mnion wine and cheese party for the phar- nacy classes of ’50 and ’55. A new policy on the promotion of reunions las been set by the Alumni Association’s prog- ‘ams committee. Its members decided that in uture no “extraordinary efforts” be put into xomoting reunions for each class every five rears, but instead to focus association resources ~n 25thand 50th anniversary reunions, and on hose classes that have expressed an interest in heir reunion activities.

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kided tours of the Museum of Anthropologv drew many of the busy grads who were on campus in late on the Horizon ktober for Homecoming ’80. Vismrs concentrate on the expanding collection overlooking the cliffs of Vominations of candidates for the position of bwers Beach. UBC chancellor and convocation members of the senateclosed on November 7,1980. A total become more involved with UBC through so- If 17 hats have been thrown into the ring,two dew Directions for cial functions and other sessions in which they For chancellor and 15 for the 11 convocation r can exchange views and advice with leaders of senators to beelected onFebruary 6,1981.The I ilumni Fund the university community. two nominees for the office of chancellor are In discussing the importance of support for the Honorable J.V. Clyne and Stan Persky Olver the past four years, just over12 per centof theuniversity, Range points to a quotation md the 15 names submitted formembership in U ‘BC’s graduateshave contributed to the from Frank FairchildWesbrook, UBC‘s found- the senate are: Helen Belkin, BA’40, William A.lumni Fund. That’s a figure Jack Range ing president: H. Birmingham, BA’33, Mary F. Bishop, Wpould like to see change. “We have been so richly endowed in British MA’71, Grant D. Burnyeat, LLB’73, Patricia “It’s felt that is low when compared to the Columbia that we owe it to ourselves and the Macrea Fulton, BA’39, Mary Ellen Findlay, a‘verage of 20 per cent alumni participation at rest of the world to properly conserve and intel- BSWIO, Valerie M.E. Giles, BA’70, William U niversities across Canada,” says Range, who ligently developand use our material resources, M.Keenlyside, BA’34, AnneMacdonald, e:arlier this year was appointed director of the the chief of which are the men and women, BA’52, Elaine McAndrew, MBA’73, James F. A.lumni Fund. “Our hope is toincrease alumni both those who are here now and those whoare McWilliams, BSF’53, Dennis Blair Peterson, Participation inthe fundso that alumni become coming.” BA’67, LLB’71,Ruth Robinson, MA’75, b enefactors of the institutionthat benefited Wesbrook’s words, composed more than 60 BSN’70, Charlotte L.V. Warren, BCom’58, G. tilem.” years ago, still seem to say it all. Vernon Wellburn, BASc’48. Early in January, To make that happen,the fundis building a 1981, further information and a ballot will be P rogram that will focusmore on individualized mailed to each UBCalumnus by the Registrar’s SI>licitation with such things as letters tailored Office. tc I graduates of specific faculties describing the 1980 Reunions n eeds of those faculties, how students have b eenhelped in the past by Alumni Fund A Success nloney, and generally how important alumni The final weekend of October was a busy one University Singers d onations are to the well-being of the univer- for a host of UBC alumni. On Saturday, Oct. Expand Their Audience si my. 25,471 grads, spouses,and friends gathered at In making their contributions, alumni will the Commodore Ballroom to dance to themusic Early in January UBC’s criticallyacclaimed be able to choose more specifically how they of Mart Kenney and his Western Gentlemen University Singers pack their bags and theiI urould like theirgifts to be allocated, something and enjoy entertainment by Norma Locke. The music for a six-concert tour of the B.C. In PLange hopes will encourage response from classes of 1935, ’40, ’45, ’50, ’55, and ’60 had terior. It will be the fourth winter tour for the tlnose with specific areas of interest. among their special guests Chancellor and Mrs. singers, under the direction of James Schell. Other effortswill focus on what he calls J.V. Clyne, President Douglas Kenny (celeb- First stopis Chilliwack, on Monday Jan. 12. leadership giving” - a program in which rating his reunion with other members of the where they’ll perform at theChilliwack United d onors who have made considerable contribu- class of ’45) and Mrs. Kenny, Alumni Associa- Church, 45 Spadina Avenue; on Tuesday, Jan tiIons to the fund in thepast will be invited to tion president Art Stevenson and Mrs. Steven- 13, they’llbe at Okanagan College in Kelowna: ChronicleWinter I980 19 UBC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 1980-81

Honorary Pnaldent: Dr Douglas T Kenny. BA'45, MA'47 Executlva President' WA(Art) Stevenson. BASc'66, Vice- President: Robert JSmlth, BCom'68. MBA'71; Trea- surer.Barbara Mltchell Vitols, BA61. Chalr. Alumnr Fund' Grant D Burnyeat, LLB'73, Chalr, Communlca- hons HaroldN Halvorson. BA'55. MSc'56. PhD66. Chalr,Programmes. Margaret Sampson Burr, BMus'M, Chalr, Unrvers!fyAdvocacy Peggy L E And- reen Ross. MD'58.

Membra-at-large (1979-81) Robert Angus,BSc'71; Willlam S Armstrong, BCom'58, LLB'59; Grant D Burnyeat. LLB'73. Margaret Sampson Bun, BMus'64 Jo Ann Htnchllffe, BA'74.Robert F. Os- borne,BA'33. BEd'48, Peggy LE Andreen Ross. MD'56, Barry Slelgh BASc'44

Members-at-large (1 980-82) DouglasJ Aldndw, BASc'74. VlrglnlaGalloway Belrnes. BA'40.LLB'49; Susan D Danlells, BA72, LLB'75; Harold N. Halvorson. BA55, MSc'56, PhD'66. Josephtne Mary Hannay. RN. MSc'76. Allson E. Mac- Lennan, LLB'76:Mlchael A Partndge. BCOm'59: Davld Rlchardson, BCOm'71.Oscar Szlklal. (BSF, Sopron Hungary), MF61, PhD'M. Nancy E. Woo. BA'69 Dlvlaion RepreMntatlves Applmd Scrences. JoanneAlcci, BSN'75. MSN'77, Arts: Bradley J.Lockner, MLS'77;Commerce and Bus- mess Admlrstration' John R. Henderson.BCOm'77: dinner in the U of T faculty club lounge; (bottom)Rehab"f0 ;ads remtnkced in October at the home of Dentlstry: Dane S. Slmn, DDHY79; Forestry Robln L. Caesar. BSF50: GraduateStudres Elatne Polglase, Ann McQueen Strother, BSR'70, whohosred a reunion dinner In her Vanrmtoer home. BSP'56, MSc'79 Wednesday's concert is at the Penticton Arts Nominations Committee, UBC Alumni As- Alma Mater Soclety Repreamtatlve Bruce Armstrong. Presldent Centre; on Thursday the15th they'll appear at sociation, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Van- VernonSenior Secondary School; on Friday, couver V6T 1x8(228-3313) nolater than Wed- Faculty AUoclatlon Reprerientatlve Jan. 16 the performance is at Crossroads Free Dr. A. Jean Elder, Presldent nesday, December 3 1, 1980. Methodist Church inSalmon Arm, and the Convocation Senatorr' RepnMntative final stop is at Kamloops on Saturday, Jan. 17, To be elected for a performance at the Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul Street. Speakers Bureau All concerts begin at 8 p.m. and tickets will Continues to Grow be available in advance from representatives to COMMITTEE CHAIRS: be announced in the areas, or at the door. The Want to know how to become a patron of con- Alumni Fund: Grant D. Burnyeat, LLB'73. Allocatmns: UniversitySingers' tour is sponsored by the temporary native art, or get an expert's view of Wllltam S. Armstrong. BCom'58, LLB'59:Scholarshrps Canada in the OS, or perhaps learn about En- 6 EursanesERoland Plerrot. BCom'63, LLB'M UBC Alumni Association in cooperation with Awards: Paul L. Hazell. BCom'60. Branches. Jo Ann the UBC Department of Music and the Interior glish gardens? If so, the UBC Speakers Bureau Hlnchlitfe, BA74, Communcatrons. HaroldN Halvor- program of the Centre for Continulng Educa- can find the expertready and willing to tell you son, BASS, MSc'56, PhD'66.Divisms. Mlchael A. Par- and your group about it - and about hundreds tndge. BCom'59;Edrtonal- Nancy E Woo. BA69, FI- tion. nance:Barbara Mltchell Vitols. BA'61, Nommahons: of other topics. Robert J. Smith. BCom'68, MBA71; Reunrons. Paul L. The bureau, sponsored by the UBC Alumni Hazell, BCom'60, Speakers Bureau. Dr. Oscar Szlklai. Association. matched speakers with more than (BSF. Sopron,Hungary), MF61. PhD'64, Squash: 1981 Alumni Board Robert A. Forrest.BCom'73: Studant Affarrs. Douglas J. 400 groups last year and has now embarked on Aldndge.BASc'74; YoungAlumnr Club: Robert R Nominations Sought its sixthseason. A 34-pagebrochure describing Peterman. BSc'71 its free serviceshas just been published. To Elections, elections, elections . . . tiring, obtain acopy or arrange a speaker,contact perhaps, butnecessary in cities, nations . .. and MaureenBurns, Speakers Bureau co- your AlumniAssociation. In preparationfor ordinator, UBCAlumni Association, 625 1 ALUMNIATHLETIC the election of a new alumni board of manage- Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver V6T 1 X8, ment in the spring,nominations for the officer phone 228-3313. RESENTATIVES positions of vice-president and treasurer (one- Men's Athlebcs Norman R. Thomas, BA'66. MPE'68 year terms) and for 10 members-at-large (two- Mmen's Athlebcs. Heather Mutton. BEd'75 year terms)are invited by the association's nominating committee. Branches Past Why not consider nominating a fellow UBC (or Victoria College) graduate, or running for and Events to Come election yourself? Nominations must be in writ- Not rain nor snow nor sleet may keep UBC's ing and accompanied by the signatures of five president and chancellor from their appointed nominating members and a letter of consent rounds,but a strikethat playedhavoc with from the nominee. Canada's air routesmanaged to keep them from To place aname in nomination or for further a dinner meeting of the Toronto branch on information, write or call Bob Smith, Chair, Sept. 29. Dr. Douglas Kenny, J.V. Clyne, and 20 Chronicleiwinter 1980 Alumni Associationexecutive directorPeter mittee to explore areas of common concern to morning of Oct. 4 and again for dinner that Jones were kept in Vancouver by the dispute, the senators and to theirrespective universities. evening, with several members of the class tak- but 80 branch members did attend theevent at The chancellors and convocation senators of ing time during the day to see the schoolof the University of Toronto Faculty Club.... Dr. S FU, UVic, and UBC met in Vancouver rehabilitation's new facilities in the acute care Kenny's next branches speaking engagement on Oct. 6 discussto those concerns hospital - a far cryfrom the hutsthey knew as was scheduled for Monday, Nov. 17 at a UBC and what effect convocation senators have on students. Alumni Southern California Chapter dinner at decision malung within their institutions. Dr. the Los Angeles Athletic Club.. ...In April the William Gibson, BA'33, (MSC,MD, McGill; Retreat Re-scheduled UBC President will travel to New York and PhD. Oxon).Universities Council of B.C. I meet with alumni there. Chair, also participated. The association'salumni student affairs In late spring a joint meeting with alumni of committee is planning an on-campus confer- UBC, McGill, Queen's, the University of To- ence for first-year students in early February. ronto, and the University of Manitoba drew Spreading the Word The conference will take the place of the 1980 135 people in San Francisco. The Branches first-year retreat that had been scheduled for Committee reports enthusiasm for such joint "Would YOU spread theword...?" asked the Camp Elphinstone. The October retreat was meetingsand the cooperation they engen- letter from BEd '63, Of postponed when postal labor problems delayed der.... Loolung to next spring, Kamloops area Richmond.Certainly, replied the Chronicle. letters of invitationsent to all first year stu- alumni will he involved in a UBC Alumni Open Mrs. Scaleswould like anyone interested todents, House to he held there in May in conjunction know that there is now a University Women's with a hoard of governors meeting and alumni Club of Richmond that meets monrhly for ac- dinner.. ..Ottawa branch executives Robert tivities stressine fellowshiD. education.and I B.C. Engineers Surveyed Yip and Bruce de L-Harwood received more than a hundred replies in response to a ques- tionnaire sent to the area's 1,700 UBC alumni. They're now analysing the resultsand planning events to meet members' interests. Activities may include joint functions with alumni from the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University. of engineen-but the shortage was of experi- Together Again enced eneineers. not new graduates. They came from Saskatchewan, Alberta, The sukey found that [he forecast demand Alumni Miscellany northernB.C., Vancouver Island,and the for newly graduated engineers was unlikely to Lower Mainland for one day together,and change in the period 1982-1985. The commit- Convocation Senators Meet from all reports,the reunited rehabilitation tee's brief concluded that in lightof the forecast Convocation senators from B.C.S three pub- medicine class of '70 sounds like a high-spirited demand, new training facilities for engineers lic universities have established a liaison com- lot. The 23 grads gathered for brunch on the are unnecessary.

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22 Chronicleiwinter1980 I Spotlight

20s & 30s Printer’s ink runs in the veins of Greville Jackson Rowland’s family: Jackson, BA’29, has just hung up his apron as publisher of the Brian McCaughey McCaughey says there was more commun- Penticra Herald, while son Bruce Rowland, ity involvement then andthe directory BA’65, publishes theDaily Examtner in Barrie, arly in October the papers reported a listed ongoing L.I.P. projects and local re- Ontario. The elder Rowland moved tothe shootingincident. The woman in- sources. Okanagan Valley in 1930, to an early job with volved had a rifle and police were par- He beganworking forMHR’s the Vmon News. After Rowland bought the E concerned when they realized Herald in 1940, the weekly won awards as the ticularly Emergency Services in 1977, when he re- there was a baby in the house. When the turned from three years travel in Central best weeklynewspaper in Canada, as well as for situation was under control, the baby was and South America. The job involved much editorial writing. In 1957,Rowland sold the carriedout of the house and handed to of the same work as he had done at thecrisis paper to Thomson, when it became a dai- Brian McCaughey. centre but as a government office they had ly.. . .Two UBC grads have recently been instal- At the time, Mdaughey was the night more authority. The office handles investi- led as Members of the Order of Canada. Celia social worker in the Ministry of Human gations of child abuse or neglect, tries to E. Long, BA’32, until her retirement in 1977, Resources’ Emergency Services office, a job settle marital disputes, provides emergency was national director of Public Information that seems unrelated to his B.A. in Interna- accommodation and food, and works with with the Arthritis Society in Toronto. She has .tional Relations. But he explains that the the hospitals and police to handle any over- worked on the advertising staff of numerous degree, which combined history and politi- night problems. Canadian publications and was the recipient of cal science courses, was reallya good liberal Last year McCaughey was seconded from a Canadian Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. Re- arts course. “There were only a certain the office to set up’the Helpline for Chil- tired leader in the Canadian medical technology number of history and a certain number of dren, a province-wide line for people who field,Archibald R. Shearer, BA’49, was political science courses I wanted to take. I want to report incidents of child abuse. named to the Orderin recognition of his work. took a lot of psychology courses and I think Part of his regular work at Emergency He retired this year asexecutive director of the if you looked at my transcript you wouldn’t Services involved two three-month shifts in Canadian society of laboratory technologists. be able to tell what my major was in.” a police car. The social worker goes along in Aftera distinguished 34-yearcareer as McCaughey became involved in social Car 86, to handle domestic disputes and to teacher and researcher, during which time he services as a volunteer at the Vancouver arrange for child protection in cases where became known as one of Canada’s leading labor Crisis Centre while he was still in univer- children have been left alone in the house, economists,Stuart M. Jamieson, BA’35, sity. After he graduated in 1971, he spent a or when the parents have been arrested. (MA, McGill; PhD, Calif.), retired from the year selling audio-visual equipment before McCaugheysays he has seen some UBC department of economics last year. This taking what he describes as a “horrendous bloody, violent disputes and he’s been with year, a new lecture series inhis honor was cut in pay” to workat the crisis centre on an the police when they’ve made arrests in inaugurated at UBC .... Chairman of B.C.’s L.I.P. grant. “That was when L.I.P. grants other thanfamily cases. “It was a police car new forest research council is Paul were $400 a month andI was putting money and when something happened they had to Trussell, BSA’38, (MS, PhD, Wisconsin), in the bank,” he recalls. He worked on the act like a police car. The social worker is who has served with the B.C. research council centre’s flying squad, which looked after supposed to sit still and not get involved but for 33 years, the last 19 asits technical director. people who needed more helpthan the that’s hard to do.” phone lines could offer. They would go out Another part of the job was giving work- to people, talking down drug overdoses and shopsat the Justice Institute, training dealing with suicide threats. police officers, firefighters and probation 40s Later the centre became involved in re- officers in crisis intervention techniques. vising the directory of Vancouver social ser- McCaughey left Emergency Services for Retiring as vice-president, Alberta operations vices. As co-ordinator of the Community the Mount Pleasant office at the beginning for Woodward Stores Ltd., Jack 0. Moxon, Information Centre, McCaughey saw the of October. He’s still handling child welfare BCom’42, was honored at a reception in Ed- directory grow from a booklet to thelarge cases but he has hisown case load of families monton after 35 years with the company. Al- manual it is today. now, rather than dealing with crisis situa- though he admits he will miss “the family,” he “At that time there weren’t the estab- tions all the time. -ere’s less shift work plans to travel and play golf and he is looking lished services there are today under the there. That should give him more time for forward to retirement.. ..President of Bechtel Ministry. It was easy to tell people where the housing co-operative he’s been living in Canada, Robert H. Paul, BASc’42, has been they were going to spend the night. They for the past one and a half years and for his named to the newly created position of pet- were going to stay where they were because kitten, Minou. roleumgroup marketing managerfor the there wasn’t anywhere for them togo.” But -Mm’lee Robson Bechtel group of companies.. . . Donald hey, BA’44, MA’46, is now a vice-president of the University of Torontowhere his respon- ChronicleiWznrer 1980 pointedpresident of Mount RoyalCollege. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Baker taught history at the University of Waterloo and has held positions at Stanford, Michigan State and Simon Fraser ... .Appointed director of con- stitutional lawin the Attorney-General’s de- partment in1969, Melvin H. Smith,BCom’58, LLB’59, is B.C. Premier Bill Bennett’s chief constitutional advisor. Last June hebecame deputy minister for constitutionalaffairs in the newly-created department of intergovernmen- tal relations.. .. With the assignment to develop a forestryresearch program, John Elliot Barker, BSF’59, undertakes his new position ofresearch forester with Rayonier Cana- da ... .Former assistant manager of Crown Zel- lerbach paper, Donald C. Cook, BCom’59, is now general manager. Since joining the com- Sidney B. Sellick, BSF’52 J.A. Warner Woodley, BCom’61 pany in 1958, he has held marketing positions inVancouver, Edmonton and hchmond as sibilities include the departmentof information ministry of universities, science and communi- well as senior planning positions. \ervlces which publishes\ervlceswhichtheir cations.... Returning to his home town, Donald (huduure ....Chester A. Johnson, BA’46, is E. Waldern, BSA’51, MSA’54, (PhD, Wash. now president and chiet executiveofficer of State), isnow director of the Lacombe Re- West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd ....J ohn N. search Station. He moved to this Alberta town Olsen, BASc’46, has been chosen new presi- fromSaskatoon where he was program 60s dent of the CanadianElectrical Association. specialist, western region, for the federal gov- Guest speaker for the Recognition Day cere- Olsen, president of B.C. Hydro, has worked ernment department of agriculture. monies at Holland College of Charlottetown, for Hydro since 1946. Head of the plant pathology section for the P.E.I. in May, 1980, was E. Margaret Fulton, After heading the 1978 federal inquiry into pasttwo years, Tom G. Atkinson, BSA’52, MA’60, (BA, Manitoba; PhD, U.of T.),presi- redundancies and layoffs, Alfred W.R. Car- (MSA, PhD, Sask.), is now assistantdirector of dent of Mt.St. Vincent University, rothers, BA’J7, LLB’48, now is laid off him- the Lethbridge Research Station. His main re- Halifax.. ..Responsible for corporate and legal self. ’The federal investigation was completed sponsibility willbe the planning and evaluation matters,public and governmental relations, during the brief reign of the Progressive Con- of the station’s 180 research projectsand super- andinternal communications, Norman R. servatives and Carrothers is now “looking for vision of research support services.. . .Past pres- Gish, LLB’60, is vice-president of Turbo Re- productive full-timeemployment.” He was ident of the OntarioSchool Counsellors Associ- sources Limited ....Kenneth S. Benson, chairman of the B.C. Public Service Adjudica- ation, S. BurtSellick, BA’52, (MA,PhD, BCom’61, LLB’62, has been appointed corpo- tlon Board until the cabinet turned its respon- Arizona), is now employed by the Lakehead rate secretary of Cominco Ltd. Prior to this sibilities over tothe B.C. Labour Relations board of education as director of a counselling appointment he was solicitor and assistant sec- Board.. . .After 24 years of service, Robert L. and guidance department.. ..Former deputy retary ....Newly appointed senior vice- Davison,BA’48,(BLS,U.ofT.),hasretiredas forest rangerin Quesnel, Donald T. Grant, presidentfor Husky Oil Operations isJ.A. director of the British Columbia Library Ser- BSF’53, has been named regional manager for Warner Woodley, BCom’61,responsible for vices Branch. He served on the council of the the Vancouver forest region ....Maurice D. real estate development and administration. School of Librarianship since its inception in Copithorne, BA’54, LLB’55, Canadian am- Most recently manager, Douglas 0. Gurel, 1961. He was formerlywith the library de- bassador to Austria,has been elected chairman BASc’61, has been appointed vice-president of velopment committee.. . .John T. Gillespie, of the board of governors of the International Husky Oil Operations Ltd. with responsibility BA’48, (MLS, Columbia; PhD, New Yorki, Atomic Energy Agency. .. .Associate clinical for conventional petroleum production and de- hasbeen appointed dean of thePalmer professor of neurology atthe University of Col- velopment operations.. ..Alfred A. Burgoyne, Graduate Library Schoolon the C.W.Post orado school of medicine, Margaret M. Guest BSc’62, (MSc, NewMexico), has been ap- Centre Campus of Long Island University. He Hoehn, MD’54, hasbeen appointed tothe pointedvice-president, exploration, for hadpreviously served as dean of the school medical advisory board of the United Parkin- Bethlehem Copper Corporation in Vancouver. from 1971-1976.... UBC department of the his- son’s Disease Foundation, Chicago.. ..Powell He has over 17 years ofmineral exploration and torv of medicine and science has a newdirector hver businessman, Captain (N)(R) Stewart B. development experience inwestern Canada and now that JohnM. Noms, BA’48,MA’49, Alsgard, OMM., CD., BA’57, presently com- the U.S.A. During the past ten years he has : PhD, Northwestern), fills that post.,, .One mandmg officer, HMCS Discovery, the Van- held senior management positions in both the half of the sonata team, the Duo Pach, Arlene couver Naval Reserve division, has beennamed miningindustry and the federal govern- Nimmons Pach, BA’19,has been with the an honorary Aide de Camp to His Excellency ment ....John M. Curtis, BA’63, (PhD, Har- University of New Brunswick since 1964. Her The Right Honorable Edward Schreyer, CC., vard), is now director, internationaleconomics husband, Joseph, makes up the other half. She CMM., CD., Governor-General of Canada. program of the Institutefor Research on Public is well known in Saint John for her extension FromTunis, Linda Brena Ghezzi Ben- Policy. courses in musicappreciation, radiobroadcasts Hamida, BA’57, writes to say that she is libra- One of six Bucknell University facultymem- of classical and contemporary compositions, rian and music teacher at the American School berscurrently engagedin research projects and her concert performances and teaching. of Tunis. She has taught in such diverse loca- sponsored by the biomedcal research support tions as Vancouver, Kelowna, Oliver and Fon- program of the U.S. public health service is tainebleau, France ....Col. A.C. Brown, John Tonzetich,BSc’63, associate professorof BASc’57, commandant, Canadian Forces Base, biology who is studying how natural selection 50s Kingston, Ontario, has been named chiefof affects the frequency of genes controlling en- staff operations at MobileCommand Head- zymes which metabolize alcohol... .After seven After 30 years as an easterner, Alison Creese quarters,St. Hubert, Quebec. He was ap- years as a solicitor with Placer Development Howling, BA’50, has now moved to Victoria pointed commanding officer at Kingston in Limited,Vancouver, John A. Eckersley, from Beaconsfield, Quebec, where she was a 1976.... The Social Sciences and Humanities BSc’65, LLB’70, has moved to San Francisco teacher ....Alex Mandeville, BA’51, MD’55, Research Councilhas established aconsultative to takeup the position of corporate secretaryof was installed aspresident of the British Colum- group and an advisory panel to make a national Placer Amex Inc.... The Port Moody plant of bia.Medcal Association last spring. He will study of the statusof research and education in AndresWines ishome for the newvice- preslde over the 4600-member organization for law. Two members of the advisory panel are: president, Western Canada, of the winery: a one-year term ....Former assistant deputy G. Sholto Hebenton, BA’57, a member of a DonaldGeorge Rogers, BSA’65. Rogers minister of education, post-secondary, Andrew Vancouver firm, and John Hogarth, LLB’60, moves to the position from Alberta, where he E. Soles, BA’51, MEd’68, has been appointed on the faculty of law at UBC. was vice president and general manager of the B.C.assistant deputyfor universitiesin the Donald N. Baker, BA’58, has been ap- Andres operation. 24 ChronicleWtnrer 1980 Nelson Ferguson, MSc’66, isnow vice- president of administration at the Technical to hire him but “were afraid their clients University of Nova Scotia. Ferguson has been would not welcome it.” After months of registrar for TUNS ....New manager of busi- tramping Vancouver streets, Shoyama ness development with TechmanLtd. is ended up on a maintenance crew at the Michael G. Robertson, BASc’66,who has Woodfibre pulp mill. In town at Christmas, several years’ experience with major Canadian he ran into friends Ted Ouchi, a UBC engineering firms.. ..First City Trust has made graduate in economics, and PeteHigachi, a two new appointments: Michael J. Sommers, graduate in English (later with Associated BCom’66, MBA’71, to vice-president corpo- Press in Tokyo), who told him they were rate planning and John B. Crocker, BCom’77, starting anEnglish-language newspaper for to assistant vice-president, mortgage under- the Japanese-Canadian community. They writing. wanted him to come on board as “a reporter Diane S. Syer, BA’66, MA’69, chair of the and joe-boy.” Hedid, later becoming federal government’s task force on suicide was editor. in Kingston, Ontario earlier this year to deliver The first issue of the NmCanadian ap- several talks and workshops on ci’isis interven- peared February 1, 1939. It advocated tion.. . .Main Albagli, PhD’69, who hasworked Japanese-Canadians join the larger society, in various R&D positions with the federal gov- demand their full citizenship rights (then ernment in Ottawa, has been appointed chief, legally withheld) and forget returning to planning,transportation, research and de- Japan. “We argued for civil rights,” said velopment with thefederal department of Shoyama, “for the end to widespread legal transport ....Canada was represented at an in- discrimination and for programs to end de ternational conference in Australia concerned facto discrimination.” After Pearl Harbor, with saving marine life in the Antarctic by R. only the NmCanadian was allowed to con- Michael M’Gonigle, BA’69, a lawyer for the tinue publishing -in English and Japanese Centre of Lawand Social Policyin - as a vitalcommunication link to Washington, D.C. “Antarctic protection will Japanese-Canadians in internment camps. be one of the major environmental challenges of Thomas Shoyama Workingout of the Kaslo, B.C. camp, the 1980s,” said M’Gonigle who represented a editor Shoyama found ways of running ani- coalition of groups. t is entirely appropriate that Thomas cles criticizing the government’s intern- Shoyama’s surnamemeans “living ment policy. Toward the end of the war I mountain,” for that is what he has al- Shoyama andother Japanese-Canadians ways been. Despite extraordinary odds, in- were allowed to join the Canadian army cluding wartime internment, he attained intelligence corps, becomingJapanese- 70s one of the career pinnacles of this country, language interpreters; he was still in train- Peter J. Chataway, BSc’70, BArch’76, is a becoming a shogun in the federal civil ser- ing in Vancouver when the war ended. freelance architect specializing in designing vice: deputy minister of finance. Today, at A tip from a friendlanded Shoyama a job homes with alternate forms of energy. Living in 64 a cheerful, energetic professor of public aseconomist with the Saskatchewan Kelowna, heis largely concerned with solar administration at the University of Vic- Economic Planning Board under Tommy energy as the Okanagan sun can supply 60 to 80 toria, he has opted to explain, rather than Douglas’ CCF government. It was a “mar- per cent of the individual home’s annual re- influence, the mysterious workings of polit- velously challenging atmosphere” to work quirements....Ching Y. Suen, MASc’70, ical power. in, Shoyama recalls: the political leadership PhD’72, is now professor and chairman of the Thomas Shoyama was born in 1916 in was dedicated; they were engaged in serious department of computer science at Concordia Kamloops, one of the six children of the planningand implementing innovative University, Montreal ... .Osoyoos has a new only Japanese-Canadian family in the area. programs. One program which Shoyama public health nurse now that Lillian J. Rusch, His father ran a bakery (still run by two had a handin was medicare: the furyof the BSN’71, has taken over those duties. For the brothers - the Kamloops Bakery) and Saskatchewanmedical profession was past two years she has worked as a home care everyone had to help out, getting up at five aroused and eventually led to Douglas’ de- nurse in the Osoyoos area.. ..Before setting up in the morning. “One of my specialties was feat, Tommy Douglas went on to become practice in Vancouver, Lome A. Brown, decoratingthe cakes,” Shoyama recalls. leader of the newly-formed New Democra- BPE’72, will be studying with internationally But this was the Depression and they often tic Party in 1961 - and Shoyama became renowned plastic surgeons across the world for didn’t sell well, even at 25 cents. his “executive assistant, researcher, copy- two years. Brown spent six years as a resident at It was during the same Depression that writer andbaggage-handler,”criss-crossing the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, four Shoyama went on to UBC. And while it was Canada with Douglas in the 1962 election. years as general surgeon and two yearsas a hard for many students to attend, it was Thomas Shoyama was then hired by John plastic surgeon. His forthcoming travels will even more so for Japanese-Canadians who Deutschto work for the new Economic take him to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Swit- were kept low on the economic totem pole. Council of Canada. After three years there, zerland, India, Paris and Japan. ”There was a lot of sacrifice on the part of he joined the federal finance department’s After leaving Whitecourt, Alberta where he families to find money for fees and for division offiscal policy. In 1968, he became was a hospital administrator for six years, Wil- clothes.” assistant deputy minister of finance with liam B. Cuthill, BSc’72, is the new adminis- While anti-Japanese feelings were then the major responsibility of developing a na- trator of the Arrow Lakes Hospital in Nakusp, being fanned by demagogic B.C. politi- tional medicare scheme. Noted as atop B.C. Before getting into his present line of cians, there was a more open atmosphere at trouble-shooter, he became deputy minis- work, Cuthill was an assistant brewmaster with UBC and campus life was not unpleasant ter of energy, mines and resources during CarlingO’Keefe Breweries in Vancou- for the 50-odd Japanese-Canadian students. the 1973-74 energy crisis. In 1975, he was ver.. ..Richard Kadulski, BArch’72, has been Shoyama attributes much of thisto the elevated to deputy minister of finance. In elected chairman of the Solar Energy Society of leadership of Professor Henry Angus, then that position, Shoyama became the ar- Canada, Inc. He is a partner in The Drawing bead of economics and science, who spoke chitect of the controversial wage and price Room Graphic Services, Ltd., an independent out against discrimination against Orien- control scheme. Today, he remains con- design and drafting firm specializing in solar tals. “He was one of the most respected vinced that the policy was the right one. applications.. . .Formerly vector control people on campus, a very important influ- “I’m satisfied that wage and price con- biologist with the Simon Fraser health unit in ence.” trols made a contribution to curbing infla- Coquitlam, H. Anthony Kluge, BSc’72, has But when Shoyama graduated from UBC tion,’’ he says. “In fact, we might have been been appointed as vertebrate specialist with the in 1938 with a combined bachelor of arts in able to make more of a contribution if we entomology-plant pathology branch of the B.C. economics and a bachelor of commerce, he had been able to better assess the political ministry of agriculture and food. could not get a job in his chosen field, ac- acceptability of a tighter regime.” Teaching classes in theatre history, Fred A. counting. Company executives were willing -Clive Cocking Galloway, BA’73, (MA,Arkansas), is ChronicleAVinter 1980 25 dramatist for Northern Lights College... .Joht painting at the Okanagan Summer Schoolof Becher (Skip) Wilson, MLS’73, is thene\ the Arts. Scott has taught in numerous secon- supervisor of the lending division, Edmonto~ dary schools, has operated an art gallery and Public Library. Previously, Wilson worked a studio and has had his works shown in many Weddings supervisor of community programs.. . .. Havin galleries throughout the province ....For the servedas library director, Bibliothequ next two or three years, Valerie Wingfield- Champlain,Universite deMoncton, Agne Digby, MLS’74, will he living and working in Bergen-Clarke.Robert Kenneth Bergen, Hall, MLS’74, is now &rector of the Ne\ Jos, Nigeria, as a library consultant under the BEd’78, to Marilyn Anne Osterhout Clarke, Brunswick Library Service. He began his lib direction of the Plateau State Library. For the BSc’75,July 14,1979 Kelowna, in rary career as a cataloguer at Laurentian Uni past five years, she has been working in Sas- B.C.. . .Dunster-Ovrom. Julian A. Dunster, versity,Sudbury ....TheTretheway BrassTrio katchewan regional libraries ....The B.C. MF’79,to Katherine J. Ovrom, BRE’77, in part of theStratford Festival Orchestra, in ministry of education is malung major changes England.. . .Erdmann-Dower.Karl E. cludes Alan P. Ridgway, BMus’74, who play ingrade 11 physicscourses and MarkJ. Erdmannto Julia R. Dower, BMus’72, trumpet with the group. Before joining the or Ekelund, BSc’75, is helpingthese changes take MLS’74,March 1, 1980in Vancouver, chestra he played principal trumpet with th place by designing the manual to accompany B.C.... Estey-Verchere. Dr. Ronald Harry St. Catharine’s Symphony. the newly chosen physics textbook. Estey to Barbara Jane Verchere, BSN’76,in Brian J. Scott, BEd’74, was in the B.C. in Randy V. Pelletier, BSc’75,has been ap- Vancouver, B.C.. , .Reed-Morrow. Allan terior for the summer months while he taugh pointed chief geophysicist of Brinco Oil & Gas Reed, BCom’79, to Jeanle Morrow, BHE’79, Limited.He hasworked in exploration August 9, 1980 in Prince George, B.C. throughout Canada for majorand independent oil and gas companies.. . .In thefinal stagesof a study shebegan a year ago, to identify and treat certainreading problems, Bernice Wong, Births EdD’75, of Simon Fraser University, is trying to determine whether students could be helped Mr.and Mrs. Robert Kenneth Bergen, if they were taught comprehension slulls as well BEd’78,(Marilyn Anne OsterhoutClarke, as how to monitor their own understanding of BSc’75), a son, Karel Clarke, April 13, 1980 in what they have read ....Large forest fires in Kelowna, B.C ....Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cur- Immersion in France northernB.C. and their impact upon the tis, BA’63, a son, Matthew John George, June The University of Tours In the labulous ecosystem of the forest will he one subject of 15, 1980 In Ottawa, Ontario ....Mr. and Mrs. Chateaux Country offers one month study forBrad C. Hawkes,BSF’76, in his new Roy A. Derrick, BA’68. (Angeline Baillie, language courses for beglnners to ad- position of fire research officerfor the Canadian BA’73), a daughter, Shannon Hillary, October vanced students of French Afternoons Forestry Service. 5, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario__._ Mr. and Mrs. are free to enjoy faculty-conducted ex- Veterinary student, Gordon L. McDonald, Richard W. Gamer, BSc’63, a daughter,Sarah cutslons 111 the beautiful Lolre Valley, BEd’76,received the Governor-General’s Beth, October 9, 1980in Anchorage, Alas- BrlttanyNormandy. etc Award for top student at theUniversity of Sas- ka.. ..Mr. andMrs. Andre Lafargue,MSc’76, Our low rate Includes scheduled returrl katchewan where he was studying for his doc- a daughter, Chantal, March 18, 1980 in Grand fllghts lo Parls vlaAir France ur1IversI- torate.He now has set up practicein Falls, Newfoundland... .Mr. and Mrs. Donald ty resldenceaccornmodatlon most Langley ....Since leaving the UBC botany de- J. McLeUan, BASc’72, (Alyson J. Fisher, partment, Gary J. Court, PhD’78, hasbeen meals tultlon grouptransfers lrom BPE’71), a son, Roderick Matthew, July 10, Paris’ Enrol for the July August or workingwith the Brookhaven National 1980 in New Westminster, B.C. Seplember course Laboratory, Upton, New York, and has now accepted an assistant professor appointment in Departures on June 29,July 31 and biology at Jacksonville University. He will be August 29 responsible for the marine biology portion of lrlcluslve prlces from their marine science program.. ..How much Deaths Toronto Montreal.Marltlmes $1,498.00 energy does a common garden slug expenddur- WesternCanada Cllles $1,688.00 ing its deathly crawl from one leaf to the other? Clifford AUen Woodward, BA’22, September Such was a study conducted by Mark Denny, 13, 1979 in Weston,Ontario. Teacher of Immersion in Spain PhD’79, who found that the slug’s movement mathematics at Britannia High School for 37 Onp month courses In Spanlsh at the was 12 times as costly asthe runningof a four- years, hewas head of the department for 30 Centro de Espanol for beglnnlng to ad- legged animal of equivalent size.,, .Vancouver years. Survived by a daughter. vancedstudents of Spanlsh To Island has a new Open Learning Institute ad- Reginald Murray Brink, BA’24, MA’25, Au- enhance learning. accornmodatlon IS visor now that Joan M. Richardt, MA’79, has gust 8,1980 in Vancouver. Former president of wlth a Spanlsh famlly and includes set up shop in Victoria. The OLIis now in its Johnston Terminals, Ltd., he was a member of three meals dally Tultlon. transfers second year of offering more than 50 provin- the Order of the British Empire. After gradua- arid return fllght to Malaga are also In- cially recognized courses in university studies, tion, he worked briefly in the advertising and cluded In thls low prlce career and vocational studies and adult basic public relations business before joining Pem- bertonSecurities. In the early 1950s, he Departures on June 30. August and education. 2 founded his own company, now known as August 31 Brink, Hudson and Lefever Ltd. and in 1953 lricluslve prlces from he was part of the group gaining control of TorontoMontreal Marltlmes $1,498.00 80s Johnston Terminals - a company that grew WesternCanada Cltles $1,688.00 tenfold during his leadershipas vice-president The Bentall Group, developers and contractors and then president. Survived by his wife, Zoe,

Immersion in Germany in western Canada, have filleda new position~ BA’25, a son, asister and brother. One month German language courses manager, organization development - with a Henry Bertram (Bert)Smith, BA’25, BEd’44, at the Unlverslty of Cologne In recentUBC grad, Joan A. Harrison, September, 1980inVancouver, B.C.He taught GermanyDetalls available upon re- BCom’80.. . .After spending the last three years at Kitsilano High School from 1927-46 whenhe auest working in school andcommunity programs in became principal until 1954. From 1954 until the Vancouver area while completing her de- hisretirement in 1962, he was assistant gree at UBC, Margaret Ann Holm, BA’80, is superintendent of Vancouver schools.Past For mlormatlonand reservatlons call now education extension officerat theMadrona president of the Alumni Association (1931), he or wrlte Centre of Malaspina College.. ..“I didn’t want was generous with his time and energy, making Ship’s School Educational Tours Ltd. to settle into a job right away,” says Stephen the 55th reunion of the “vintage year” - the 4800 Dundas St W , Sutte 202 Tanner, BCom’80. who has set out to conquer class of ’25 - a great success last June. Sur- lsllngton Ont M9A 161 the globe ona bicycle. The journey, which took vived by his de. Phone (416) 239-11 14 five years of saving from summer jobs,will take Humphrey Walker Mellish, BA’31, BCom’32, him through atleast 14 countries before he September 12, 1980 in Victoria, B.C. A resi- returns to Vancouver. dent of Victoria since 1937, he served with the 26 ChronicleiWi’nter 1980 CanadianScottish Regiment and workedfor the publicutilities commission for 37 years.;He was a member of the chartered secretaries as- sociation and a fellow of the Royal College of Secretaries. Survived by his wife and three sis- ters. LawrenceErnest Hill, BSA’38,BA’39, LLB’49, 1980 in Vancouver. He joined the Army in 1940 and served asa Lieutenant in the PrincessPatricia’s Canadian LightInfantry. After WWII he entered UBC Law School and was called to the Bar in 1949. Known for his skills as a shrewd and capable criminal lawyer, he helped to shape thecriminal law of Canada. Survived by his wife and son. Milford S. (Muff) Lougheed, BASc’40, (MA, PhD, Princeton), July, 1980 in Bowling Green, Ohio. The distinguishedNew Westminster- borngeologist, after whom theLougheed Highway is named, was professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where he taught from 1955 to 1978. In addition, he was a Turner Distinguished Lecturer in Geol- ogy at theUniversity of Michigan. Survived by hiswife, Gwen Pym, BA’36, (MA, Bowling Green), and a daughter. Leslie Jacquest Groome,MA’48, (BA, BEd, Sask.; DEd, Illinois State), August 17, 1980 in Moose Jaw. After a three-year stint with the RCAF,he resumedhis teaching career and returned to Regina to teach at theUniversity of Regina until his retirement in 1978. He was a leader in art education organizations at local, provincial and national levels, and was presi- dent of the CanadianSociety for Education ThroughArt. He regularly exhibited his sculptings(using wood, ceramics, plaster, stone andsteel) in SaskatchewanArt Board shows and Saskatchewan civil servants exhibi- tions.Survived byhis wife, Agnes Jean, MA’58, and a daughter, Jean-Marie Groome, BSN’64. Edwin Lipinski, BA’55, MD’60, accidentally in Lisbon.Director of SFU’s medical services, he was a consultantpsychiatrist to the National Parole Board and a staff member of Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver. Sur- vived by his wife, Beatrice, MA’55. Jon James Wheatley, MA’57, (BA, McGill; PhD, London), September, 1980 accidentally in Kamloops. He was the first dean of graduate studies atSimon Fraser University - a post he held foreight years until 1979 - andan internationally-knownphilosopher. He had over 30 publications to hsname, including two major books and wasa former editor at Mitch- ell Press. He specialized in the philosophy of language. AunnaMargaret Leyland Currie, BEd’60, July 18,1980in NorthVancouver. Survived by her husband, Donald, BCom’61, past treasurer of the UBC AlumniBoard of Management 1971-73and past president of theAlumni Commerce division. Dr. David George Alexander, BA’61, (MA, U. of Wash; PhD, London), July 25, 1980 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A professor of his- tory at Memorial University, his researchin rhe area of the resource history of Newfoundland gained him a national and international reputa- tion. He joined Memorial University in 19b7 and in recent years, had been pursuing his in- terest inthe Maritime History Group.Survived by his wife, a son and his parents. Axel A. Thunstrom, BA’66, MSW73, May, 1979 in Vancouver.He was connected with the corrections branch of the B.C.Attorney Gener- al’s department since1969. Survived by his wife, JoanElizabeth Gunn, BSA’60 and a daughter. ChronicleWinter 1980 27 Letters

nalistic and arts worlds. ;qoffices, joined the union of Canadian Uni- So I guess, after all, what caused it was all versity Newspapers and instituted a numberof that rain falling on our heads. new features on university life. Norm Klenman, BA’47, Any recruiting of stafffor the future also CKVU-TV began during this year-the year when Roger Vancouver ,McAfee, KeithBradbury and even Fred Fletcher joined the paper-as the most elemen- tary research would have indicated. One thing A minor amendment to CLive Cockmg’s ac- we did learn as we frantically trled to find in- count of the Ubvssey’s history: without taking terestingmaterial to fill those endlessblank anything away from the popular Mr. Fotherin- pageseach week was that it 1s.Bot the jour- gham, in fact under Schlesinger’s editorship, nalist’s placeto re-write history to fit prior con- specifically during March 1953 (10-20), frater- zeptions. nities’ exclusory “racial” policies receivedsome R.’ Kerry White, MA’68, exposure if not outright attack. Editor, The Ubyssey, 1959-60, Robert MacLeod, BA’56, Eugene, Oregon Sirdar, B.C. Pubsters Speak Out Inmy own days on the L’byssey I was much I take pen in hand to compose this little note more impressed with the staffs beer capacity The Chronicle erred In nammg Andrew Snuddon mngratulating Clive Cocking and theChrontrle than with our potential as journalists and celeb- as publxher of the Edmonton Journal. Edtraal Autumn, 1980) for the splendid comprehen- rities, greater and lesser. But seeingthe stagger- apologies mere disparrhrd and rhe following reply sive history of the Ubpsey. ing list of us who have woven ourselvesinto the was recnoed. However, as Cocking refers to my tenure as labric of the nation(Chronicle Autumn ’80) editor in 1959 asa “climacteric” and as a previ- leaves me bewildered: what spirit, what com- Not toworry. I have been calledso many things ous article called me the low point inthe history mon factor, has propelled us in our hundreds? in my time that the designation asholding some of the famed paper I feel in the interests of fair Obviously, Vancouveris remote from the other job than I do really doesn’t bother me. play I should be allowed to make a few observa- rest of the world, and UBC remote from Van- For the record though, J.P. O’Callaghan is the tions. couver. The need must have been greater in us publisher, D.F. Smith is managing editor and It was not all vulgarity and sacnlege. Some to reach out to others and connect to them by Clive Cocking was right, I am the editor and good things happened. appearing successful and desireable. There are have been for about thirteen years. Prominent among these was the Great Fee other common factors among us: cultural herit- I still hold that the CTb.vsseyis the best school Rally of 1959, the first major united action by age, agood college education. And please don’t of journalism in Canada. students since the Great Trek. There was also laugh when I say that alot of rain falling onthe Andrew Snaddon. BA’43, an incredible moment of truth in the Armoury head might be a key factor as well. The Journal duringthe question period of the Eleanor Think about it: any factor which connects us Edmonton, Alberta Roosevelt meeting. all is common to us all, and can as likely hold But I am getting ahead of myself. the explanation for our greatness. The factis I was editor-in-chief foronly Now I am able to point - to bolster the On behalf of the staff of the IJbyssey of 1959-60, about 28 days. I was the third editor of the credibility of this somewhat bizarre proposition I would like to object to being tossed into the 1958-59 term, it having been a turbulent eight

~ to the University of Pocorbia Asuncianada, dust bin of history by Clive Cocking without so months. True, during my days ab editor, these literally the only known university (or college) much as a passing glance. -vents dtd reach a climax (as distinct from a in the rain forests of Brazil, founded there in In fact, we were the ones, who, with little knacteric). 1921by Fa. Porcorbia. It’s a general institu- experience and many late nights at the print Here is what happened. tion, not unlike UBC, with large engineering shop, managed to hold the paper together for a At about 9 p.m. on February 23, 1959, the and arts faculties, some sports, and a recently yearafter the so-called “great purge” of the Alma Mater Society council unanimously pas- ’ 1936) founded college paper. Spring of 1959. The paper we produced was sed a motion confirming me as editor-in-chief The Asuncianada registrar pointed out in a certainly no award winner, but we did keep the and a council member. Some I2 hours later the recent article that 691 former members of the tradition alive by meeting every deadline. We UBCboard of governors announced student college paper staff are now in leading positions also prevailed against student council attempts fees would be going up $100 effective the fol- in the Brazilian government, television, jour- to run thepaper by decree, renovated the Ubys- lowing September. As most tuition costs were $240, this represented a 42 per cent increase. The announcement came in the middle of our press run. Thus we were able to shout the hallowed cry: “Stop the presses!” We quickly dida replate and putout a special edition, CAR LEASING 4 probably the only one,for a breakingnews story, in the Ubyssey’s 62-year history. does not have to Next, with the co-operation of the student bedull! council, we prepared a study estimating that A about 1,000 students would he unable to begin or continue their university education in the fall as a result of this fee increase. Remember that $100 was a considerable sum of money in the to personalized service, good lease 1950s. We considered theannouncement a advice and the right leasing price!! serious matter, not only because of the indi- vidual heartaches, but also because it went to Call Maurice Hamiin today the question of access to university education, the same issue that motivated the Great Trek. for yourI.lease Irequirements. The C’byssey took a leading rolein organizing a protest march, including thepublication of a special edition witha banner headline announc- 28 ChronicleWinrer 1980 students began to applaud and thesound built students had succeeded in stuffing 14 people something of a collector’s edition - as were up to a mighty earthquake. It was the loudest into a telephone booth. some others,alas. roar I have ever heard. Some minutes later the I obtained 10 willingfemale volunteers The Great Fee Rally was impressive. Hun- uproar subsided and I was able to complete the (they’re smaller than males) from the Cafeteria dreds of students, carrying placards and wear- question, mentioning our concern about access and along with seven journalists wehugged and ing black armbands of mourning, marched si- to higher education. squeezed into the Quad telephone booth and lentlyto the Cairn where AMS president It is fair to say the great lady botched the had ourpicture taken forposterity. Some Charles Connaghan made an emotional speech issue in her reply. In the face of such emotion months later the record was lost to UCLA who lamenting on the fate of those who would be the appropriate response is sympathy or a re- got 21into a booth.(Later welearned they denied access to university because of the high fusal to get involved in a local issue.Instead she ripped off a door and pushed the booch over cost. And then the lamp of learning was sym- said that, in the United States, government and stood in it. All that was inside was their bolically put out. funding is discouraged because universities do feet. As this is obviously an infraction, we may Next we published studies showing that the notwant governments to influence their still hold the world record of 17.) cause of the fee increase was the failure of the policies. Meanwhile the fee protest continued apace. provincial government to supply an operating There were loud groans from the srudents. With every edition we ran angry editorials tak- grant sufficient to meet the need. The board of The meeting ended in a surly mood. Ubyssey ing fresh viewpoints. governors had askedfor an increase of$2.2 reporters doing a routine story on student reac- The anger spread right across the city.Ubys- million but received only $650,000, a shortfall tions to the speech encountered vicious anti- sq edltorials were being recitedto music at the of about $1.5 million. American sentiments. One student demanded “in” coffee houses and were being greeted by Everything that followed centred on this is- to be quoted to the effect that Mrs. Roosevelt loud applause. The audiences included high sue. The Ubyssey co-operated with the student had been bought off by the Social Credit gov- school students looking forward to university council and the board of governors to make the ernment. Another student shocked me by stat- life but wondering if theywould be able to facts known. ing: ‘‘She’s full of s-t!” afford it. Inaddition, the Ubyssey prepared briefs, But there were good reactions as well, espe- Our efforts ended abruptly with the final urged delegations be sent to Victoria and even cially from university officials. Several told me regular edition of the Ubyssey . According to conducted a strike vote. Students voted in favor later how impressed they were by the depth of tradition, my term as editor was over with the of strikeaction. The ballots wereturned over to feeling shown by the students. The board of publication of that edition,probably on Friday, the student council where they were received governors resolved to redouble its efforts to March 21, with the banner headline DON’T and filed. obtain additional funding from the provincial STOP. The story was a statement from myself The next event came in early March when government. and others urging the student council and the Eleanor Roosevelt addressed more than 2,000 At the same time the Ubyssey helped to or- board of governors to carry on the fight. The students in the Armoury building. At the end ganize and publicize a campaign to encourage headline would prove to be ironic. of her speech I had the honor to stand up and the community to increase its financial sup- At this point I assumed tradition would be put a question to her. I asked her if, in her port. Students conducted a tag day on street followed and the newly-elected editor-in-chief opinion, governments should accept their re- corners. would take overthe goon edition while I began sponsibility and adequately fund their univer- Those hectic 28 dayswere not all serious my last-minutestudying in preparation for sities .... business. The Ubyssey staff decided to wrest an exams. 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ChronicleWinter 1980 29 conjuring up a Victoria trek in which a student delegation beseeched thepremier to make funding available so students would be able to Footnotes on Humor Chronicle afford a university education. Trevor Lautens did awonderful job of tracking I wrote: “The premier gazed out thewindow an elusive speciesof college humor through the for a few seconds. Then he turned and said: thicket ofyellowing Ubysseys in “The Last ‘Fee on you!’.’’ Laugh” (Autumn,1979). However, he entirely I handed the note to one of the staffers and missed a more rare sub-species resident in “A Claaified departed. The rest is history. Hand Book of the University of British Colum- ...is your personal marketplace. It’s a Later I learned the new editor-in-chief had bia, 1916-17, Premier Edition.” Despite an ini- way to reach themore than 70,000 refused to have anything to do with the goon tial price of just 25 cents the Hand Book, like edition.It had come outnevertheless, on other vanishing creatures, can only be consi- Chronicle readers (about half in Van- March 26, the day before Good Friday. I was dered priceless. couver, the restin more exoticlocales). not to see a copy for a full week. With its distinctiveazure and gold markings Whether you have something tosell or But I heard about it. On Saturday, March 28, this publication is notable for its nostalgic and sometiung youwant to buy, send us The Province ran a frontpage story in largetype inadvertentlyhumorous call. Heard on the your ad and we’ll find a category. announcing that the entire editorial board of playing fields and in the gymnasium these Col- the Ubyssty had been suspended for sacrilege. I lege Yells best exemplify the fighting spirit of was surprised, amazed, bewildered, shocked the young and homeless university. Books/Periodicals and upset. Whatfollowed has been erroneously Kitsilano, Capilano, Siwash Squaw, called the Great Purge but in fact should be Kla-HmYa Tilltcum, Skookum Wah! called The Agony. HipMomoock! Mucka-Muck, Azip! Canadian Fiction Magazine features fic- My first thought was that the controversy B.C. Varsity! Rip! Rip! Rip! tion.manifestoes, reviews, graphics. was the worst possible thing that could have V-A-RS-I-T-Y - Varsty! photos and interviews quarterly. for $9 happened at that moment because of the uni- - Johannson and Lord per year in Canada, $10 elsewhere. P.O. versity’s campaign to convince the government While the appropriateness of the Chinook Box46422. Station G. Vancouver. BC and the community that the campus deserved jargon might now be questioned, a second col- V6R 4G7. additionalfunding. As I said,the C‘byssey lection of College Songs shows both a similar played a leading role in this campaign. spirit and a similar ability at verbal camouflage. Here was a crisis. I felt that for the good of (To the tuneof “Old Black Joe.”) Crafts the university the only course of action was to Gone are the days when those guys do whatever was necessary to put thehassle to knew how to play, Would you like to have abeautifully hand- rest. I accepted full blame for the goon edition Gone is the hope from their heaving crafted, individually designed quilt Inade for thevery good reasonthat somebody had to. hearts away: just for you, or someone you love? Con- I still accept full blame for it. Gone to the land “where they do not tact Pat Cairns. 4424 We

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