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Jack Hodgins A gift that reflects on the giver. - CRronicle Volume 34, Number 4 Winter 1980 UBC Chancellor 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 DEPARTMENTS 19 NEWS 23 SPOTLIGHT 28 LETERS Nominations or elections for the above 30 CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED positions and awards are detailedin the News department of this issueof the EDITOR Susan Jamieson McLarnon. BA'65 Chronicle. The Association urgesall PRODUCTION EDlTdR ChristopherJ. Miller (BA. Queen's) alumni members to participatein these COVER Seagulls from the working sketchesof B.C. artist Sam Black whose Shieling Gallery is located on Bowen Island. events. It is your pr iviiege as graduates of the Universityof British Columbia. The successful candidates for these positions Editorial Committee Nancy Woo, BA'69, Chair; MichaelW. Hunter, BA'63, LLB'67, are your representatives.To makeit Deputy Chair; Alison Beaumont; Marcia Boyd, MA'75; Peter work, we must hear from you. Jones; Murray McMillan; Bel Nemetz, BA'35; Nick Omelusik, BA'64, BLS'66; David flichardson, BCom'71; Lorraine Shore, BA'67, LLB'79;Art Stevenson, BASc'66;El Jean Wilson. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Alumni Media: Vancouver(604) 688-681 9 Toronto (416) 781-6957 ISSN 0041 -4999 Art Stevenson, BASc'66 Publlshed quarterly by the Alumnt Assoclatlonof the Unlverslty of Brltlsh Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. The copyrlghtof all contentsIS reglstered. BUSINESS AND President, UBC Alumni Association EDITORIAL OFFICES: Cecd Green Park, 6251 Cecll Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1x8, (604)-228-3313SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumnl Chronicle is sent to all alumnlof the unlverslty. Subscripttonsare available at$5 a year; student subscrlptlons$1 a year.ADDRESS CHANGES: Send new address wlth old address labelIf avadable, to UBC Alumnl Records,6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T1x6 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 and tidy 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 a woman 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 recognition whichstarted 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 can really 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? teries is fruitless. He suddenly turns as didn’t know very well but whose love for 4 ChronicleWinrer 1980 hislocomotive was afamily joke.
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