faces. You began to relax as the bus threaded through the West End and ambled across the Lions Gate Bridge. But whatwas this? The ubc bus was going into North .. . up Capilano Road. Wereyou really going to Horseshoe Bay . .. to Camp Elphinstone? The alumni driver confessed he wasn’t lost. It was just that his old bus had never madeit up Taylor Way with a full load! Camp Elphinstoneis not for the ~ faint-hearted. The accommodaticmweren’t Volume 35, Number 4, Winter 81 the Hilton but theyjust added to the A Year-End Resolution: atmosphere. Friday night’s icebreaker Remember the Alumni Fund sessions were a hit.The studentswre It’s that time of year again! You’re making lists encouraged to throw out questions.The first, 3 of things to do before January1, 1982. One “Where’s the beach?” smoked out the UBC Seen item found on lota of alumni listsis a Torontonian in the group! To learn a bit about Alumni and Campus News reminder to make their annual donation to the the individualsin the group, each person had 8 UBC Alumni Fund. Gifts from alumni are two minutes to question one other person who The Financial Crunch Comes to UBC used to provide badly-neededfinancial aid for in turn did the same. Itwas amazing tofind RobertJ. Smith students andto assist campus project that that one freshman already had four part-time Alumni Association President enhance the educational experience that UBC jobs. Next question: Whenwas he planning to 11 offers. study? Writing FromOutside Many alumni have written to askif the Friday night’s party and sing-alongwas a alumni fund is no longer sending individual real hit for some and reala headache for Distinguished Alumni Essay solicitations. This year, as an experiment, the others. Saturday morning arrived too Soon and George Bowm’ng fund annual report and a request for donations the serious sessions began. 12 was included in the autumnissue of the Student president Marlea Haugen spoke Whatever Happened to the Chronicle. about the Alma Mater Society and encouraged Federal Education Dollar? A special AlumniFund reply envelope was the students to serve on its many committees. Michael Valpy bound into theChronicle but any envelope “Why Get Involved?”, the keynote addressby 14 addressed to the UBC Alumni Fund,6251 Brent Tynan, a memberof the Student Affairs The Money Game Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T Committee, was well received, judging by the standing ovationhe received from the group Alumni Summer College’82 1x8 (for U.S. resident alumni the address is before they adjourned to the party at the old Anne MacLachlan The Friendsof UBC, Inc., PostOffice Box 483, Bellevue, Washington, 98004) will reach lodge with the music suppliedby the CITR. 16 its appointed destination. All gifts will The Sunday morning evaluation and The Ghost of Canada’s Past receive tax receipts promptly. Donors are planning session spawned a Frosh Committee And Other Literary Lights reminded that giftswill be directed to areas of which intends to be a functioning group, 22 greatest need unless they specify otherwise. competing in intramurals and planning their spotlight And a Happy NewYear to you, too. From own activities including future New Students 25 UBC .... Retreats. Your Opinion Please The woodsy location, the brilliant sunshine, the tranquil beach surroundedby the A Readership Survey spectacular mountains, the sing-alongs and 30 New Students Retreat: fhose parties were fringe benefits that made the Letters The Essence of UBC weekend special. “A greafway to meet people.” “Could have By the time the buses came to pick up the had fewer speakers but more in-depth group most people had found a friendor two coverage.” “Very informative.” to walk the mile to the Langdale Ferry “Saturday night’s buffet madeup for the Terminal. breakfast and lunch!” These were someof the Pamice Woo comments from the32 students who attended ~~~ ~ ~ ~- the September New Students Retreat at Camp’ Elphinstone on the Sechelt Peninsula. The weekend began, for most, with a mad dash on Friday afternoon from the English The mountains,sea und sun were lmporruntpurrs composition test toSUB to catch oneof two of the Nac Students Retreat.Alumnl presldenr, buses leaving for Camp Elphinstone. Once on Robert Smuh (srundlng) wasu rrsourcepersun foi the busyou found mostly strange but friendly rhe event (see sroy above).

Chronicle/Winter 1981 3 The skidof bagpipes stgnaledthe beginning ofan important event in the university’s htstmy: the inaugural dinner ofthe Wesbrook Society. Over 140 alumni and friendsof theuniversiw attended the October 29 event at the Faculty Club. (Above) Dr.Russell Palmer andhts unfe were greeted by (fromsecond, left) George Morfitt, society chairman,Peggy Morfitt(hidden), Chancel1orJ.V. Clyne and Betty Clyneand URC President Douglas Kenny and MegKenny. (Below)Professor emerita Dorothy Somerset chatted unth Beatrice Wood, widowof Prof. Freddy Wood. mHIGH A very spectal momentin the programwas the unvdtng (oppostte page, top) by Robert Smith (left), alumni prestdent, of theUBC Proof of “The FamdvTree,” an onpal lithograph by intmtionaliyknown artist, Sam Black (right). Prof. Black donated 100 coptes of the ltthograph for presentation to therharter members of the Wesbrook Soctecv. (Membership in the society is offered to indivtduals and corporations donating Money at least $1,000 annualtv to UBC.) (Belm,iright, Mrs. Lois Ftsher (left), the only wvman member It is a privilege-and a responsibility It of the Thunderbird section of the Wesbrook allows you freedom, and comes with strings Soctety recnved an updateon UBC athlettcs from attached. athletics directurKohert Hindmarch and his wife. If you’ve got money, the world will beat a If This isFall (Left) LIB(‘pip1~Bruce Thonlson and Peggy path to your door. Everybody’s got the best It Must be Reunions MorfTtt led in rhr hmd table. investment, the safestbuy, the largest return. Reunions, like people come inall sizes and All you’ve got to do is let them use your shapes ....Almost half of the membersof money What youdo with your moneyis your Law’s1 attended their Sept. 2 gathering. In Alumni Branches: business. What the CA cando is make you toting up their distinguished alumni the class Where and Why? aware of how to make the mostof your noted that 18 of their number had joined the finances with proven advice. bench. (Is this a record?) Four faculty members “I’m aUBC graduate living in New York City. A Chartered Accountant can help you who had taught theclass were on hand: Dean I SKK from the Chronicle that there is a branch of the alumni association here. Wouldyou let plan your corporate and personal finances, George Curtis, Gilbert Kennedy,Roy Herbert and Charles Bourne.... had its dayOct. me know who to contact for further select tax shelters and ensure the taxman gets Law ’71 3 when 120 attended their 10-year reunion at information?’ what he is entitled to-nothing more, the Four Seasons Hotel.... Nursing ’61 held a Now that’s just the sort of thing the nothing less. two-day reunion with brunches and dinner members of the branches committee like to Chartered Accountants can be found at with 37 attending.... Home Economics ’61 hear. It’s their job to plan programs for alumni the helm of many of Canada’s best-run celebrated with a luncheonat the Faculty living away from Vancouver thatwill help businesses, educational institutions and Club ....Applied Science ’46 and ’51 and all the keep the alumni in touch with UBC. Thereis a government bodies. 1956 classes met October 24 for a dinner wide variety in tvpesof events - open houses, The high standards and provenskills of dance at the graduate student centre. Nearly displays, speakers andsocial events, but they all offer alumni an opportunityto renew links the Chartered Accountant are the inside edge 200 enjoyed the event..... The sameevening the Vancouver Rowing Club hosted the fifth with UBC and to meet other alumni living in for you - your money. and UBCNRC reunion. A large crowd was on their locale. Institute of Chartered Accountants hand to meet thenew UBC rowing coach Boris Programs are formulated and organized of Klavora and formercoach Frank Read. Itwas with the assistanceof a local representative to the first time that UBC‘s women rowers had ensure that they areof interest to alumni living participated in the reunion. (Thewomen’s in the area. Oneof the newest branch crews were first formedin 1977.).... The ice programs involves someof UBC’s peripatetic hockey alumni won their 7th annual game faculty members who have offered to speak to against the Thunderbirds, 5-4, in overtime, alumni gatherings on their academic Oct. 17. A dinner-dance followed the game. excursions. “Reunion team of the year” was the’62-’63 The branches committee is actively seeking Birds, winners of the first-ever national additional branch contacts. Ifyou have some championship. time to offer UBC, the committeeor your local 4 Chronicle/Winrer 1981 Immersion in France The University of Tours in the fabulous Chateaux Country offers one month language coursesfor beginners to ad- vanced students of French.Afternoons are free to enjoy faculty-conducted ex- cursions in the beautiful Loire Valley, Brittany, Normandy, etc. Our low rateincludes scheduled return flights to Paris, university residence accommodation, most meals,tuition, group transfers from Paris!

Departures on June 30,July 31 and August 31. Inclusive prices from , Montreal, Maritimes $1698.00 WesternCanada cities $1998.00 Immersion in Spain One month courses in Spanish at the Centro de Espanolfor beginning toad- vanced students of Spanish.To enhance learning, accommodation is with a Spanish family and includes three mealsdaily. Tuition, transfers and return flight to Malaga are alsoin- cluded in this lowprice. Departures on June 30, July 31 and August 31 representative would like to hear from you.A lncluslve prlces lrom listing of current alumni reps is onpage 27. Toronto, Montreal, Maritimes $1698.00 New York alumni are organizing a WesternCanada cities $1998.00 reception to meet UBC president Douglas Kenny in mid-March. Branch representative lecturer was not available at press time. Rosemary Brough (212)688-2656 is looking The alumni association, whichis Immersion in Germany for members for her organizing committee. represented on the Vancouver Institute One month German language courses Council by president Robert Smith and in Bonn, Germany. Detailsavailable executive director Peter Jones (whois upon request. honorary secretary of the Institute), provides Toronto, Montreal, Maritimes $1698.00 Vancouver Institute: administrative support services that help make WesternCanada cities $1998.00 The Second Season the institute’s weekly programs possible. Departure dates availableupon request. Saturday Night Live at UBCis a learning The springseason of lectures begins Regular monthly departures now avail- experience. Especially for those who attend January 23. The program givingfull details of able throughout the winter at special the Vancouver Institute lectures. the lectureswill soon be available from the rates! Call or write for fulldetails. alumni office (228-3313). Plans are still beingfinalized for the Spring Ship’s School EducationalTours Ltd. ’82 series but among those who have been The Vancouver Institute lecturesbegin at 8:15 p.m. in the Woodward Instructional 95 Dalhousie St.,Brantford. Ont. invited to speak are: Nobel prize winning N3T 2J1 Tel: (519) 756-4900 author, Saul Bellow; Robert Heilbroner,a Resources Centre. While the lectures are free political economist from the NewSchool for new members are most welcome.The modest Social Research in New York; Oxford membership fees ($15/family, $lO/individual, philosopher Charles Taylor; David Williams, $2/students) are used to defray printing and president of Wolfson College, Cambridge, advertising costs.To join, send your chequeto who will speak on the environment and the the alumnioffice, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road law; D. Gerry Wasserburg,a “very Vancouver B.C. V6T 1x8. L entertaining” geophysicist from California Institute of Technology; economistLawrence Klein and Oxford physicistGeorge Rada. These last two are bothCecil H. and Ida Green The Spirit of Fairview You Tell Us! Visiting Professors. UBC’s founding students were- and are- a See Page 25 Two visitors from Princeton are among the remarkable group. Representatives from the invited speakers. Historian Lawrence Stone classes of ’16 to ’25 areactively involved with will discuss the originsof the modern family projects designed to continue the Fairview and musician Edward Cohen will illustrate traditions and to preserve the historyof the aspects of music with his piano. university and its students. Oneof the biggest A L Land useis a topic which provokes heated events on the Fairview calendaris the annual debates in B.C. and UBC agriculture professorrunning of the Arts ’20 Relay. This year over V.C. Brink will examine agricultural land in 800 students participated in the run from the B .C. The name of the annualVancouver Sun original UBC siteat Fairview to the Cairn on ChronicleAVinter 1981 5 Main Mall. Fairview members were on hand In the '20s they put up The Unzarrs~t~Gates to start therace and welcome the winners and (abaue).In the '60s thq took them down - a present the prizes. The committeehas almost traffic hazard, it seems.In 1981 they put them uc completed its project to hang photographsof ayutn - thanks to a Rifi from the 1980 grad class. all the university registrars in the new administration building. The Fairview by the Alma Mater Society. members are inviting theclasses of '26 to '44 The main lodge has a large kitchen, to become involved in the preservation of the washrooms and showers, a main lounge and a history of the university. Grads from those quiet lounge. The adjoining building contains years are urged to contact the alumnioffice if four dorms, which have been redesigned for they are interested.(,Mayhe the new group mdd more privacy. he called the Point Grey Commtttec?- Edmr i The campus community is invited to use th, cabin on a casual basis. For the non-student population, the cabinis open Mondays to UBC's on FM: Fridays, from Nov. 1 to May 31. For more information or reservations, call the AIMS at Are You Listening? 228-3966. CITR, the campusradio station will flick the switch in Fehruarv that will put it on the FLM radio band for listenersin the Lower Mainland. Alumni Miscellany The move to FM fo1loa.s several years of Co-op Education is growing at UBC, as it is cable broadcasting and long discussions with elsewhere in Canada. Some 18,000 students at the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications 34 Canadian univcrsities and colleges are now Teach with a Difference: Commission. Funding for the new involved in the program. The Challenge of Africa 1 transmission equipment was obtained through Co-op Education integrates periodsof the assistance of the UBC AlumniFund academic study with paid, related work WUSC has been In existence slnce 1939 For more than forty ($4,000), the Alma Mater Society and other experience. Participating UBC students, years we have supported education programmes In Canada community donors. mostly engineers and some foresters,do three and the Thlrd world More than four hundred WUSC summer work placements.A total of 105 men personnel now work throughout Aha CITR will be broadcasting from 8 a.m. to midnight, dailv with news, public affairs and aand women were placed this past summerwiti- If you are mature and anxlous lo learn -as well as leach - wide rangeof music programming. UBC 45 different employers, a significant increase conslder the IOY of teachlng In a dltterenl culture We requlre teachers of Calendar will offer news of coming campus since 1978 when the first 14 women events while Cityscape will cover the participated. For more informatlon onhow MATHEMATICSSCIENCE Vancouver scene. There's the Thunderbird Co-op Education canbe a part of your ~ HISTORYENGLISH organization or company contact the UBC GEOGRAPHYTECHNICAUCOMMERCIAL Review for sports items and the Melting Pot I interviews faculty and students on current Co-op Educationoffice, 228-3449....Alp ha 1 You wlll hve under local condltlons and be remunerated on research projects. Therewill also be programs Gamma Delta alumni are working to establist 1 local salaryscales Theseare two andlhreeyearasslgnments a scholarship fund for undergrad sorority and could prove lo be the mostchallenglng and satlstyfng of on women's issues and the environment, your career CITR has made a name foritself on the music sisters. The UBC Alumni Fundhas agreed to it plays, often music thatis not heard on act as initial depositors for theAGD award, If you wan1 real involvement In the developlng world. we're looklng for people llke you for January and September. 1982 commercial stations until much later. With all and will issue official tax receipts. Scholarship I" these plans it sounds like CITRwill be a good committee spokesman Susan Tennantsays she place to turn to. hopes alumni will continue their support. NIGERIA LESOTHO NIGERIA ZIMBABWE BOTSWANA Cheques can be made payable to the UBC M ALAWI SWAZILAND MALAWI Alumni Fund, and 'Iennant asks that The Whistler Experience... donations specifv whether the funds shouldbe For further Informallon, please contact WUSC.1404 Scon S1, UBC's Whistler mountain cabin- on the allocated to the fraternity,or the award.... P 0 Box 3ooo. Statlon C. . Ontarlo KlY 4M8 or call 1 (613)725-3121 doorstep of the skiing areas- is avadable for Outstanding women take note!If you were a individuals or groups year-round. When the member of Delta Sigma Pi, a campus sorority snow is on the ground,you can often ski from whose purpose was to recognize womenof World the door to the bottomof the lifts. high leadership, scholarship and service, then University The cabin has been completely renovated please notify the alumni association. Patrice Service of and can accommodateup to 60 people. Ideally Woo of the student affairs committee would I Canada suited for groupsof IO or more, the cabinhas like to hear fromyou. Plans are being made to L"" L"" modern facilities andis owned and operated reactivate the group. 6 Chronicle/Winter 1981 0 Agriculture 0 Management

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Rlck Hansenhas nine units to go before he becomes the@st disabled person IO eurn a UBC physical education degree. This fallhe rolled his way around a 20 mile campus course in one hour, 36 minutes to raise mony for wheelchalr sports. (The Ubyssy calls the annual went “The Rickuthon.”) Hansen,one of Canada’s outstanding athletesIS aimingfor the marathon at the ’84 Olympics for rhe disabled.

Haida artist Bill Reid’s masterpiece sculpture, ‘The Legendof the Raven,’is the subject of a new film produced by the UBC Museum of Anthropology with the aidof an Alumni Fund grant. Twenty minutes long, it follows the carving of the sculpture from the original inspiration to the unveilinglast year by the Princeof Wales. The film is available from the MOA, 228-5087.

Jennings Memorial Scholarship Friends and ColkagUKS of mathematician Stephen Jenningsare raising funds to endow a scholarshipin his name. While at UBC, Jennings founded the honors math program and served on the task force that led to the establishmentof the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University,as well as the community college system. At Victoria he became deanof graduate studies, vice-president of the university and acting president. Friends and alumni wishing to donate to the scholarship fund may send a cheque payableto the Stephen A. Jennings Scholarship, University of Victoria Foundation,P.0. Box 1700, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2.Or contact W. R. Gordon, BA’57, MA’61, at 477-6911, local 6163. The scholarship goes to an outstanding honors math student in the third or fourth year at UVic. ChronicleAVinter 1981 7 ’ The Financial Crunch Comes to UBC

he financial crunch. We’ve all heard of it. We’re all seeingit’s what doing to our incomes and costof living. But as alumni we should also be Current Events .. . Taware of its effecton post-secondary education in this country- particularly on UBC. Education institutions throughout the The provincial government makes direct grants to the university- though county are examining their programs and a large percentageof that funding comes indirectlyfrom the federal budgets in lightof current economic government as a result of a long-standing agreement.This agreement is about conditions. UBC is not an exception. The to undergo some substantial changes as a resultof the November12 federal follming material is reprinted from UBC budget. In this issue of theChronicle Michael Valpy, a former editor of the Reports and outlines the university’s Ubyssey, and now Ottawa columnistfor , reports on these situation and the action that President Douglas Kenny has taken. (It has been changes and what their impact may on be Canadian universities. I hope you edited furspace reasons.) will read his report. At the October 16 meeting of the Consider the difference that a university education has made to your life, to university senate President Kennyreported the lifeof your family andon a wider plane to the province, the country and on the financial situation.He said: even beyond its borders.If there is not more than survival support for the academic enterprise we willall suffer. The university has reached the bottom Research, particularly at universities has led the way to a better life for all line - academically and fiscally. of us. But research is not something which can be turnedand on off like a tap. It is clear that our present financial It needs a poolof highly educated individuals and, for the most part, very resources cannot continue to support the sophisticated equipment and materials. quality, the size and the scopeof the academic programswe now have, much There’s a domino effect in education. Without the incentive and financial less sustain sufficient capacity tolead in aid students won’t be in the classroom to be taught. Without teaching, the exploration of new academic areas. research will suffer andthe effect will be felt in everyfield from health Of course, our currentfiscal situationis sciences and humanities to applied sciences and the arts. The pricenot of not unique among institutionsof higher supporting higher educationis a price this country can not afford. education in North America. McGill, for On its part the university needs to tell its story. Only in this way can strongexample, has an estimated$15.5 million public supportfor higher education be generated. Every dollar that is given deficit for 1981-82. to the university- whether from alumni, corporations, service clubsor Our finances are in a stateof grave individuals means much more that justa financial contribution. It shows the uncertainty for three main reasons: political decision makers the prioritiesof their voters. (a) double-digit inflation; (b) operating grants from government urge you, as to make your supportof the university known. I alumni, I significantly below what the university urge you to learn as muchas possible about thequestions debated andthe has requested; and decisions taken by our elected officials that effect post-secondary education.I (c) the university does not have the also urge you to question those decisions in lightof their long-term same abilityas most of industry tooffset implications. As alumni and citizens,TUUM EST. rising costs with rising productivity- RobertJ. Smith there are few,if any, shortcutsto Presidennt, UBC Alumni Association producing highly educated people.... Obviously, the University must seek to

influence the public supportof the that action be taken to stop “the Fifty Years Ago.... university. In the spaceof two days the slaughter of the university.” Student Publicity Committeewas The effect of this publicity was a Fifty years ago the university was faced established with an executive chairedby statement from the ministerof educapon with a financial crisis that threatened its Ken Martin. It was decided to show the that the matter was closed. The students continued existence. The students, public how dramatically the various after meeting with the government were alumni and faculty launcheda sustained faculties would be affected. When undaunted and decided toplay their and successful campaign to encourage news of the budget cutreached the trump card: a monster petition. public support for the university. general public it no longer seemed tobe a Speed was essential. An AMS meeting Winston Shilvock, BA’31, BCom’32,an question of whether or not one faculty February 11 made the plans and the active memberof the Student Publicity could continue to do its work but first-ever ‘extra’of the Ubyssey recorded Campaign has provided some memories whether or not the university could the results on the13th. The success was of those times. survive. phenomenal. More than70,000 “The first intimationof the drastic cuts There were newspaper advertisements, signatures were collectedby 2,000 in theprovincial government grant thousands of letters, radio speeches,even students. (almost over50% in two years) reached book marks in libraries, to help make In July the government rejected a President Klink just before Christmas.” people awareof the problem. The report that recommended consideration The students knew nothingof the cuts students felt that almost everyonein B.C. be given to closing the university.That until a blast came from theUbysscy on was approached oneway or another. The settled the matter. January 12. By the endof the month the student committee arrangeda meeting The university was maintained, but at students felt some positive action should with the boardof governors to try and get a reduced level. Recovery came fairly be taken and a meetingwas called on the details of the cuts. Word got out and quickly after 1933 but for thosewho suggestion of two alumni to discuss the instead on one delegation there were96 waited at Point Grey it seemed to be possibility of concerted action to different organizations on hand to plead forever. 8 Chronicle/Winter 1981 demonstrate to the province that the needthe university has estimated an inflation I have taken three stepsto assure that for higher educationis as important as factor on four distinct componentsof its the additional costs and commitments many other public priorities and that the budget as follows: arising from the arbitrator's award can be university will return invaluable (a) utilities 25% met. First, I recommended to the board economic andsocial benefits in exchange (b) books and periodicals22.5% of governors that they request the for theprovince's investment. Perhaps (c) scientific equipment 17.5% shortfall of over $7 million from the we have not sufficiently communicatedto (d)supplies other1 3% Universities Council inorder to maintain the public and the government thesocial, The inflation on supplieswill add the integrity andexcellence of existing cultural andeconomic benefits of the about $4.7million to our operating costs programs. university. I would welcome any in 1982-83. And this brings me to an Second, I have taken steps to cope with suggestions on how the university may assessment of the financial consequences the immediateshortfall this fiscal year place this issue beforethe public and the of the arbitrator's awardfor faculty and tominimize its effect on government.. . . salaries in 1981-82. requirements for future years.Various The belt-tightening had already begun The university received an increase in budget controlpolicies have been in 1976, and by 1980 the academic ribs the 1981-82 operating grant forgeneral implemented to see us through the could be counted. The cumulativeeffect purposes of 11.83%. This represented the current year without a deficit and over of this compressionof funds, plus the limit of the university's ability to pay the long run to adjust commitmentsso announcement of an 11.83 per cent salary increases in 1981-82. Accordingly, that they are consistent withexpected increase in the1981-82 operating grant, the university's final offerto the Faculty revenues. I fully recognize that these which, incidentally, istotally inadequate Association was a salary increaseof 12% belt-tightening policies are academically to meet salary and wage increases and the for continuing members,which included painful, but they arenecessary to avoid a higher costsof materials and supplies, 3% for career adjustments. deficit - which we are not permitted to adds up toa financialcrunch of major The arbitrator awarded an incur. proportions. across-the-board increaseof 18% in Third, and for the longer term,I am in Higher educationis not a sourceof addition to the3% for career the process of appointing a committee to inflation; it is a victimof inflation. advancement adjustments. Thus, the advise me on the nature andlocation of Inflation has drastically increased our shortfall is 9%of the salary base and retrenchments thatmay be necessary. I operating costs, but our income has not associated fringe benefits for continuing hope this committeewill never have to increased correspondingly... . members of the bargaining unit, i.e. 9% make its recommendations to me.For if About 15 per cent of the total cost of of $80,405,000 or $7,236,450.... they do, succeeding generationswill be running theuniversity is in non-salary the losers even more than we ourselves. items. Many of these expenses are (The agreement between the university and The maintenance of quality universities virtually non-controllable costs, such as the facultyassociarion callsfor binding is one of the few investments we can heat, light, water, insurance, telephone, arbitration in the eventthey are unableto make in the futureof society. Such an paper, books andso forth. 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am advertisedin the SFUEnglish department calendar is not yourself,I tell them; poetry does not come from as a teacher of creative writing. I have been trying for inside. It comes as it always has, from the world.The poet’s I years to havethe editorscorrect that error (oras I call it job is notto disgorge, but to readall the great andgood in my moretesty moments, that calumny).I used to teach writing that has been granted to the human race, to learnall creative writing at a university in Montreal, whenI was a the mechanics of our language, tune his body, and then writer-in-residence. Some of my students arenow successful listen. The poet is notan ex-presser but a reacher. The poet, poets, journalists and fiction writers. But whenI returned to Jack Spicer, was one of our teachers beyond the creative the west coast in 1971, I started a career as a person who does writing department. Poetry-writingis what Jack Spicer not teach creative writing(or as John Newlove calls it, called it, thepractice of outside. creative writhing). I am sure that there are more creative writing courses than I can imagine my teaching creative writing again. If a there aregood writers in the country,so there are probably university in Belize asked me to come there andteach it for a creative writing teachers in high schools, in community year, I would go. It would be worth it because I would get a programs, and evenin universities, who encourage their year in Belize. I would even consider a similar offer from charges to express themselves.I know from my personal Toronto. I have been offered suchjobs lately in a few large observation that there are teachers who support two Canadian cities, butat writer-in-residence pay, which would bromides just as pernicious as the notion of expressing self. get me into trouble withmy mortgage company. These are: “write whatyou know,” and “find your own You see that I am saying that the idea of teaching creative voice.” writing can be a good one - for the teacher. When people If I were really a creative writing teacherI would geta ask mewhy I don’t teach a writingcourse, though,I say that senior course, and try to deprogram the students who had I like to spend the semester studying greatprofessional learned to be satisfied with those notions. Find out whatyou writing rather than looking at similar tyro poems and stories can learn by writing, I would say. A writer’s reach should every year. Of coursethat is not all the story: in Montreal exceed her grasp, orwhat’s a pencil for? Tryto forget your and Burnaby I have always voted against anydepartmental own voice, I would say, and listen hard for what the motion to expand the creative writing program. language is saying. If someone asks you,as citizens are But I took creative writing at UBC, as people keep always asking writers, whodo you write for, whois your reminding me.I even obtained half a degree in creative audience - be in a positionto answer truthfully thatwhen writing there in1960. Then I became acatch-up student you are caught in theact of writing, you yourself are the before getting into graduateschool in literature. Most of my audience, hearing avoice you’ve trained your ear to receive. friends cameas I did outof the hills to the glamor and dream I was told nearthe endof one writing course thatat last I of actual courses in writing, our writing. Later in ourcollege had found my own voice, and at the timeI felt warm and years we alienated the peoplein chargeof the writing gratified, a dangerous condition for a writer. FortunatelyI program by going elsewhere for our inspiration, forming a didn’t continuero write that way. A writer who finds his kind of alternative courseof studies in composition. own voice is likely to stay withit, turning out the same book While I was enrolled in theofficial credit courses I learned over and over. Thatis what readers of schlock are looking one thing: keep writing,a lot. Thatwas during my firstyear for. If their favorite best-selling author tries a departure at UBC. Later,as a graduate student, teaching assistant, they become disappointed, andany writer interested in Ubyssey columnist, Tish editor, poet, and the worst actor in moolah andpower does not want disappointed readers. the Players’ Club, I found time to writea 550-page novel in Similarly, writers who write what they knowwill keep on 11 months. You are not going to see that novel, but perhaps writing it, and theywill tend toknow little more late in their you have seen my name attachedto the ambiguousadjective, careers than whatthey knew after their first books.They “prolific.” I credit my first creative writing course with that will be what the semi-amateur newspaperreviewers are acquired trait. always looking for: writers whoare “in controlof their When I was going to university,UBC was the onlyschool material.”Now really, isn’t thata dreadful phrase? U in Canada witha department of writing. Now pcople can take creative writing courses for credit anywhere inthe country. My daughter has been taking creative writingat George Bowering,BA’M), MA’63, is oneof very fm primary school! When one asksa school teacher whythe Canadians to havereceived two Governor-General‘s awards for children are doingcreative writing rather than spelling, the literature. Thefirst, in 1969, was for poetry and the second, last teacher will usually say that itis done in order to foster the year, forhis novel, Burning Water, TheStory of George children’s creativity. When asked what that means, the Vancouver. One of the founding editors of the “notm’ous west teacher will more often than not reply that it means giving coast poetryjournal, ‘Tish,’ he is alsoan essayst and the child a chanceto expressherself. playwright. His most characteristic work, combining elementsof When university students, thinking thatI teach creative verse and prose are called serial poems and published as separate writing, tell me they want to study such a thing becauseof books. He has taught at American and Canadian universities their desire to express themselves, my heart shrinks. Poetry and is currently professor of English at SimonFrclser University.

Chronicle/Winter 1981 11 Whatever Happened to the Federal Education Dollar?

Michael Valpy total. Mainly that amount is transferred but notat their expense.” In other words, directly to the British Columbia he hasbeen urged to cut, but not to cut government. Roughly another into EPF. $25-million of federal money canbe But he argues thatEPF pay-outs over “A nation whichseeks to compete must get added to theB.C. post-secondary pot this the years have increased annually at a its national and fiscal priorities right.We year under the nameof “revenue much faster rate than mostprovincial find ourselves at a time when nm guarantee”; remember that figure, now it support for post-secondary education. knowledge is going to determine the future of is contentious. Certainly that is true forBritish nations.” EPF pay-outs are negotiatedby Columbia. In 1967-68, when - UBC President Douglas T. Kenny Ottawa and theprovinces every five post-secondary EPF began, Ottawa paid years. The current agreementexpires at 60.8 per centof post-secondary operating the endof March, 1982. It is for thenext costs across the country(53.9 per cent in five-year agreement that Ottawa wants B.C.). In 1981-82, it is paying 63.6 per new rules. cent across the country (67.7per cent in hat statement by President Kenny The new rules for post-secondary B.C.). is as good a theme-setter as any for education financing proposed in His second message is that Ottawa has Tthis essay. It is contained in a brief MacEachen’s budget amount toa slightly been getting scant credit- in Ottawa he submittedearlier this year to the reduced growth rate in federal spending, jargon: insufficient visibility - for the Parliamentary Task Force on plus morefederal influence over how the money it does spend. The cash and Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements. money is to be spent.The new rules do tax-point grants Ottawagives to the Federal-provincial fiscal arrangements not seem unreasonable. provincial governments for is amouthful of a labelthat means Richard Bellaire, an expert on post-secondary education are Ottawa pays about two-thirdsof university financing who works for the unconditional; that is, without strings. post-secondary education operating costs Canadian Association of University The provinces alone decide how theyare in Canada.The sum totals $3.5-billion Teachers (CAUT), says: “We can live to be spent. for the currentfiscal year. What Ottawa with them . . . depending upon what the When thelast EPF agreements were wants, and what Finance MinisterAllan provincial governments do.” He means: made, in 1976, federal-provincial MacEachen’s budget has signalled,is a Depending on whether theprovincial guidelines on post-secondary financing new dealon the money it spends. governments use their own money to were set down. Theguidelines said Let menow tell you that nothing more make up for the reducedfederal Ottawa and theprovincial governments strains thecapabilities of Canadian contribution, or whether they enforce together should work out nationalgoals journalism than the subjectof cutbacks on semices. for post-secondary education. federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, The reduction in the federal pay-outs Those consultationshave gone particularly the workingsof Established is to bephased in - to minimize trauma. nowhere, largely because the provincial Programs Financing (EPF). It is a And the influence that Ottawa wants,so governments have stalled on them. horrible subject. Newspapers andnews long as itis sensitive to the workingsof MacEachen now is insisting on magazines over the years have come to the whole system, should improve the consultations. He also is saying thatif the grips with itscomplexities by delivery of -secondary consultations do not have a satisfactory over-simplifying it,or by getting it wrong education. Ottawa simply wantsto see outcome, hewill become stingier with - and in either case by saying as little post-secondary institutions turning out the federal cheque-book. about it as theycan getaway with. EPF is more of the kindsof graduates that the That is the framework.Let’s look at fed-prov jargon for the federal payments country’s economy needs. That is what the details. made toprovincial institutions and President Kenny’s statementis about. What has MacEachen’s budget cut governments for hospital costs, health MacEachen, therefore, is delivering immediately out of EPF? MacEachen care and post-secondky education.I am two messages: says nothing. He says that what he has writing aboutthe post-secondary First, heis sayingthe federal eliminated is somethingcalled the education part. government has to restrain its “revenue guarantee”, whichis not a part EPF pay-outs in the1981-82 fiscal year expenditures. Ottawa hasa big deficit. of EPF. By discontinuing it, MacEachen are worth about$322.6-million to However, as MacEachen says in his estimates hewill save $5.316-billion over post-secondary operating costsin British budget: “Provincial governments have the next five years. Columbia, or about 67.3 per centof the enjoined us to reduce the federal deficit, The revenue guaranteewas first 12 ChronicleNinrer 1981 introduced in 1972 as a five-year Ottawa. For British Columbia, in 1981-82, the transition program to help provinces The parliamentary task force onEPF cash portion (therest is in tax points)of adjust to some incometax changes. It was concluded, aftera summer’s study, that the EPFpost-secondary pay-outwas 58 a lure. The provinces didn’t knowwhat post-secondary education is seriously per centof the total.If MacEachen effect thetax changes would have on underfiianced in most partsof Canada, applied a freeze after1982-83, it would their revenues. So to entice them into but not becauseof the inadequacyof mean a loss to B.C.of about $417-million accepting the changes, Ottawa promised federal contributions. over the next four years. to guarantee their revenues ata specified It argued, however, that any sharp It is not clearwhat increased influence level until the new system was broken in. reduction in federal contributions likely Ottawa wants. Butyou can put some The guarantee should have expired in would destabilize the entire system, statements together- MacEachen’s, for 1976-77. Instead, in some unpredicted because the provinces would not make up example, to the task force: “The bargaining between Ottawa and the the difference. post-secondary transfer(EPF), to the provinces it got folded intoEPF What MacEachen has doneis less than extent it serves federal policy, is mainly entitlements for another five years. That, he was threatening to do and about what related to long-term economic at least, is the federal explanation. the provinces expected himto do. development .” MacEachen says the provincial &chard Bellaire of CAUT said he And President Kenny’s brief to the governments in the past have never let attended a conference on post-secondary task force: Ottawa include the revenue guarantee in education in British Columbia earlier this “Canada needs an estimated additional EPF calculations. Therefore, he says, year and was told by B.C. government 1,500 researchers by 1985 to meet the that is proof that even the provincesdo officials that they anticipated the federal target of 1.5 per centof gross not consider the revenue guarantee tobe elimination of the revenue guarantee. national product to be spent on research part of EPF. Gotcha,says MacEachen. Provincial governments argued at the and development by the mid-1980s. So that’s $5.316-billion. parliamentary task force hearings that “Canada needs 8,000 foresters over the MacEachen also proposes to slightly growth inEPF pay-outs is not keeping next decade, ortwice the numbernow alter the formulaby which EPF pay-outs pace with inflation. The task force graduated in Canada. Canada needs 740 are calculated, beginning in April.That agreed. But its report also pointed out PhDs in agricultural science between1980 will save him another $374-million over that “forecastsof higher education and 1986, but is only turning out 49 the next five years - for a total of operating costs . . . indicate virtually no graduates per year. Canadian universities $5.690-billion. increase in costs inreal terms over the have about300 openings for business But as he taketh away, healso giveth. next several years.” professors andyet 15 to 20 PhDs will be He has introducedtax changes that will The forecasts are contingent,of graduated annually . . . this shortage will increase provincial revenuesby course, upon what demands Ottawa and prevent students from studying in $3.790-billion over the five-year period the provinces put on the national faculties of commerce.” - leaving the provinces witha net post-secondary system. That brings us to The federal-provincial consultations reduction to their revenuesof the secondof MacEachen’s signals: more will be complex and delicate. What, first $1.9-billion. The effect of the one hand federal influenceon post-secondary of all, does MacEachen mean by giving while the other takesis (apart from spending. “satisfactory progress?” How much being MacEachenesque) to cushion the MacEachen says in his budget that influence will Ottawa be allowed- and impact of the federal reduction. unless there is satisfactory in what form- before the provinces cry MacEachen calculates that totalEPF federal-provincial progressby March 31, out that Ottawais intruding too far into pay-outs over the next five yearswill be 1983, toward establishing common the provincial constitutional domainof $104-billion ($9.2-billion for B.C.). The national goals for the system, Ottawawill education? Whatwill be the stanceof the post-secondary share has been calculated freeze EPF cash payments to the government of Quebec? in the pastat 31.2 per cent of the total - provinces for post-secondary education at And if post-secondary education is so $32.448-billion ($2.87-billion for the 1982-83 level. That threat closely increasingly to serve national economic B.C.). The givething and takething parallels the proposal made to the task development, whatis the future for amounts to a five-year net reduction for force by former federal deputy finance philosophers and English scholars, eh? 0 provincial revenuesof 1.8 per cent. That, minister Thomas Shoyama,a UBC grad in turn, translates to a bottom line for now teaching at University.of Victoria’s Michael Valpy, a former editor of the B.C. post-secondary educationof School of Public Administration. Ubyssey ,is Ottawa columnist for something like $SO-million less from That freeze would be devastating. the Globe and Mail. ChronicldWinter 1981 13 The Money

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publishing and popularizing thewords and deedsof our politicians for the past 12 years. What forcesled him to specialize in capturingwhat he calls “the The Ghost of sound and character”of his subjects? While Munro,BA’62, MA’65, was Canada’s Past working on his thesis under DeanF. H. Soward he taught Canadianhistory at Vancouver’s Shurpass College. He fondly and Other reminisces about closing his classroom door and bringing historyalive for his Literary Lights. students. By 1969 he was resident historian in the federal departmentof external affairs. The following year retired prime minister When the cry “Author, Author .. . ” Lester Pearson asked Munro to provide is heard an amazing numberof him with lengthy reports as thebasis for UBC alumni can standto accept his memoirs. Pearson,familiar with the acclaim. Someof them are Munro’s work at external affairsalso widely known like PierreBerton, requested that he produce a narrative to “bridge” the purelyfactual information. Earle Birney, JackHodgins,and Not only was Munro bridging the facts, George Bowering . Many others he was also selecting what Pearson-era have more specialized but equally history would be told, by virtue of devoted readers.The Chronicle deciding what material to include in the has sought out some of these reports. writers and asked what makes them Pearson died while the second volume write. Each has adifferent story to ofMike was in the works and Munro tell. Space hasrestricted the learned a great deal about the craftof number of participants, but maybe ghost writing - literally and figuratively this isan article that should end - from producing the3-volume memoirs. He learned the necessity of “TOBe Continued.... ’) protecting and defendinghis subject, confessing that “You do censor your material to a degree.” By 1973 Munro’s reputation for t’s always been assumed that John memoirs was growing. The CBC Diefenbaker wrote,or at least approached him forassistance on a Idictated his own memoirs. Ditto for television series onformer prime minister Lester Pearson and Jack Horner. Butit’s . The resultwas “One not so. Canadian” in which Munrowas billed as Listed discreetly in publicationsas interviewer and historical consultant. editor or principle writer/historian, ghost About the same time Munrowas asked to writer John A. Munro, hasbeen take on the Diefenbaker memoirs. In contact to theclose working relationship with Pearson, Munrosays that working with Diefenbaker, which included some 200 hours of interviews - was “straight ghosting from the beginning.” Despite some tumultuous moments Munro thinks of Diefenbaker as sortof an uncle - for better or worse. He addsthat sometimes it was necessary to render passages of One Canada muddyor to “fudge” them, especially when the Chiefs memory conflicted with fact. Recently Munro captured the “sound and character” of politician Jack Horner. Heis currently finalizing the manuscript ona Western separatist and 4 putting thelast touches toThe Wit and Wisdom ofJohn Diefenbaker. Beyond that the ghost writersays he is uncertain as tohis future plans. What is I certain is that JohnA. Munro, teacher, writer and today, directorof the University of Diefenbaker Centre - understands the importanceof coloring our history and recreating the sound and characterof Canada’s past. John Munro 16 Chronicle/Wmter 1981 t was about a year agothat Ian Slater began thinking of himself as a writer I who teaches, rather thana teacher who writes. Slater (BA’72, MA’73, PhD’77) hasjust had histhird novel published, andhis completed fourth novel is now with his agent.All ecological Elizabeth Chater thrillers, his books make good useof his varied background as oceanography technician, political science student and writer. Slater turned these disparate interests into a winning combination with well-known critic once said that all fiction stories were published inthe O OS, his first book, Firespill, whichwas the people insociety today were either she had to use a male pseudonym because $50,000 Seal Books first novel award “horrible” or “miserable,” that most it was not thought at the time that women winner in 1977. For the promotionof Ahuman beings are basically hopeless and were interested in science fiction. Slater’s first novel, Seal Books even unsatisfied with their lotin life. Not At the moment, Chateris working on a invented a new drink- Amaretto, Elizabeth Chater, BA’3 1 ! She is so contemporary romance, to beof a more Cointreau, Courvoisier and creamserved enthusiastic aboutwhat she’s doing that racy nature than hercomparatively tame in a dry-ice lined glass. Firespill, about an it’s almost contagious. “Regencies.” “Young womendon’t want oil spill off the B.C. coast,sold 67,000 Chater, at71, has been professionally to hear abouta gentleman kissing lady’sa copies in Canada (usually5,000 copies writing historical romance novels since hand,” she laughs. But sheis a little marks a fiction best-seller in Canada), she was in her latesixties, although she apprehensive about this undertaking, sold well over one-third of a millionin has also published a murder mystery and aware of the emphasis intoday’s North America, andwas translated into several science fiction stories.The literature on the“physical act” of sex as eight foreign languages. prolific writing careeris only oneof opposed to theoccasional witty remark Not bad for something originally Chater’s achievements. Itfollows an about it in thehistorical romance. written as a movie script whilethe author equally superbacademic one. But like the characterof the woman was also working on his political science After her three childrenwere grown, she likes to portray in hernovels, Chater doctoral dissertation on George Orwell. Chater, at53, took a master’s degreein is spirited and spunky, and one has the The Australian-born Slater had always English andcreative writing at San Diego feeling she will still beadding items to written, but it wasn’t until he began his State College, where shetaught for 16 her success story for yearsto come. studies atUBC that he took any formal years. She didn’tleave the college, Elizabeth Collins creative writing courses. Those courses, though, without receiving the he says, “taught mea lot about the distinguished teaching awardin 1968 and discipline of writing. Writinga novel is being voted outstanding campus 90 per cent hard work.You must begin professor in 1977, when she retiredas with talent but you have toput in the professor emerita of English. As Chater time.” Slater was twice a winnerin the says with a laugh,“the middle-aged Chronicle Creative Writing Competition Canadian ladydid all right!” for UBC students. When her husband died in1978, After completing hisPhD, Slater Chater immersed herself in her current taught in the ArtsI program at UBC - a passion, writing “Regency” and multi-discipline program for first-year “Georgian” romances. (“Regency” Arts students- and wroteseagold, referring to the period between1811-1820 another thriller about off-shore mineral when the Princeof Wales was Regent rights. His thirdnove1,Air Glow Red, before becorning GeorgeIV.) Part of the about solar power, was published by fun inwriting the novels, Chater says, is Doubleday in September. the research,which involves travellingto His teaching load nowcut to one Bath, England, to study the costumes, course on engineers in society, for manners, andlanguage of the period. She applied science students, Slater can also uses a special slang dictionaryto devote more time to writing. But he make hercharacters’ speech more chooses to teach for tworeasons. He authentic. “Theresearch is my needs the money,as do most recreation,” she says. fiction-writers in Canada, but healso Chater believes that she hassucceeded needs thesocial stimulation of being in writingbecause she had once readthat around students. “Youcan’t write in “you should write what you like to read,” isolation ,” he says. and took it to heart. When herscience Ian Slater Judith Walker ChronicleAVinter 1981 17 Secret Service. He shows how this country’s multi-national origins made Canadians particularly valuableas agents in France, Eastern Europe andAsia. The agents who survived their training had a certainlove of risk which MacLaren himself seems to share.He has never been satisfied to let the system carry him along. When he left the external affairs department in1969. he had behind him a12-year record of constant promotion,yet the feeling of superlative swing with your being, as he puts it, “on theescalator” favorite club, theball soaring made him restless. He wanted to “get out accurately towards the first green and take some risks.” A- now that’s satisfaction. Not a thought His entry intopolitics in 1979 is cast towards theguy who madeit all corresponded to a desire to take an active possible. It’s only when that self-same part in Canadian public life. “It was not,” soaring ball lands plop in a trap that you he says, smiling, “becauseI imagined I swear (silently,of course) at the person had the solution to the country’s who designed the course in the first problems.” place.. .. MacLaren is already planning another It might well have been Geoffrey S. Roy MacLaren book, which he describes as “less Cornish, BSA’35, one of North ambitious.” Hewants to edit the diary of America’s few golfcourse architects. an African explorer. His writing,which Some 170 cwrses of his design are inplay he modestly puts at thelevel of an in Canada, theU.S. and Europe. riting is my game of squash,” says amusement, a formof relaxation, has Cornish faced his biggest challenge Roy MacLaren. Liberal M.P. since become necessary to him. “Iwould feel when wealthy financier Lawrence Wien W 1979 for the Toronto ridingof there was something wrongif I weren’t got teed off at the endless waits. Wien, Etobicoke North, publisher and writing,” he says. More thanjust a who then owned the EmpireState part-owner of Canudiun Businessand pleasure, writing is a discipline, a way of building, went to Connecticut, bought a Energy magazines, Chairman of CB keeping his balance in the world. “To huge chunkof land, phoned Cornish and Media Ltd. MacLaren, BA’55, write clearly is a way of thinking clearly. asked him to come and look. (MA,Cam.), is currently parliamentary I amsceptical of unnecessary words. I What Cornish saw was a rocky chunk secretary to the ministerof energy, mines write a draft and then throw out every of land - lovely, but therewas almost no and resources. At the same time, redundant word. I try to tighten the soil on it.As Cornish tells the story, he notwithstandigg his modest approach to prose until it squeaks.” said: “Wien, it’s impossible.” The writing, he has made a unique Elizabeth Ritchie owner’s responsewas simply: “When do contribution to Canadianhistorical I get my golf course?” So they trucked in research in three books- Canadians in the soil, and the subsoil, andeventually Russia, 19184919 (Macmillan, Toronto, built what is one of the most elaborate 1976j, Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898 courses in Connecticut. (UBC Press, 1978) and, most recently, Another interesting course Cornish has Cunudians behind Enemy Lines, 1939-194s designed is the New Ashburn,near (UBC Press, 1981). Halifax, N.S., cut entirely through How does hedo it? Because he enjoys forest. He tries to retain as much of the writing. MacLaren makes timefor it. natural terrain and vegetation as possible, Most of Canadians behindEnemy Lines so keeping alot of the forest was was written in theearly hours of the important. morning andin airplanes(“The The opposite faced him at Macedonia telephone doesn’t ring”). in northern Greece, where almost Ever since his days atUBC, he has nothing grew on a seml-arid stripof land been “immensely interested in history squeezed between the ocean and high and the way history is written. ”Hedoes mountains. There thereal problem was all his research himself. Although the the way salt affected the minimal books were not planned as a series, vegetation, he said. MacLaren admits that thefeeling “Who But Cornish doesn’t mind. Heloves knows Canada who only Canada knows?” travelling and the varietyof his job, and prompted him toinvestigate the behavior has no immediate plans to retire. There of Canadians in various world hot spots. are some 102 golf course architects in What stands out,in his view, is a hardy North America, but sinceonly 100 or so common sense, sharedby the courses open yearly, mostof their work is backwoodsmen working as boatmen on in improving existing courses. the Nile in the 1880s, the soldiers sent to Cornish, who lives in Fiddlers Green, Russia in 1918 and thecool-headed spies Amherst, Mass.,is senior author of a and saboteursof World War 11. just-published historyof golf course In Canadians behind Enemy Lines, architecture, entitled, appropriately MacLaren performs the difficultfeat of enough, The GolfCuurse.It’s a long way combining individual storiesof courage and many courses fromhis first job at and ingenuity with a comprehensiveview West Vancouver’s Capilano in 1935 .... of the role of Canadians with the British Anne MacLachlan Geoffrev Cornish hirley Hewett graduated from “Writing is almost an addiction,” she Summer! UBC in 1955 with a BA, and the reflects. “There’s such satisfaction in Think Sfollowing year completed teacher seeing it in print. But sailing is like that training. And although she has taught, it too; it getsin your blood.” Vacation atUBC has been writing - not teaching - that Elley Littleron has occupied an importantplace in her busy life. “I really got into writing whenI became heavily involved in boating,” she recalls. In the late’60s she wrotea regular column for theVicroria Times entitled “Around Our Shores,” about sailboat racing, yachting, and people in the thriving boating communityof Victoria and theGulf Islands. “There was a period there whenI had three childrenin five years, and quit writing,” she says.“The writing dropped on the beautiful campus of The University off, but not the sailing!That was always of British Columbia my first love.” TheCentre for ContinuingEducation, in Jeremy Hewett, Shirley’s husband, presenting our ”LifelongLearning” pro- teaches sailing, sells boats, writes alittle, Beryl Rowland gram,invites alumni and families, friends and is generally an effective, energetic of the University, visitors to B.C., and all sailboat aficionado. n her latest forayinto the Middle British Columbians. to come to campus this Together they ran “The Bosun’s Ages, noted scholar Beryl Rowland, Summer ... Locker,” a boating supply store in PhD’62, has come up with a I select from an array of 250 courses in the Sidney near Victoria in the late’50s and fascinating, and sometimes bizarre, bitof finearts, marine studies, botanical field early OS, and started the first Island bedtime reading. It isalso a book with trips,social sciences, literature ... (no dealership for the“Cal” series of many firsts to its credit. academic requirements) sailboats. Shirley’s own business was Called the Medieval Woman’s Guide to Healrh, the book is a landmark both in stay in reasonably-pricedaccommodation “Bosun’s Charters,” thefirst sailboat at Gage Residence; with food readily avail- charter and rentalbusiness in the area. the history of medicine and thesocial able at several restaurants Through the 1970s, Shirley began history of women. An early 15th century writing andselling a steady streamof treatise on obstetrics and gynecology,it seniorcitizens may participate in thetwo boating articles to local, regionaland provided an astoundinglv radical answer week sequence of free courses to medieval physicians’neglect. national magazines and papers. The children and youth may participate in the classic Swiftsure sailboat race held every Rowland has reproduced the speciallydesigned programs inphysical May from Victoriahas become Shirley’s middle-English manuscript in its education, sports and recreation, and in an special beat. She has been providing entirety, withfacing page modern educationalandcultural program of radio commentary on race days since English translation. courses in music,thearts, computer science, languages . . . 1969, and last January, she published her The manuscript had tremendous first book (with HumphreyGolby), influence on the medical treatmentof everyone may take advantage of the many “Swiftsure - The FirstFifty Years.” women well into the 19th century. It no-costand low-cost events and experi- The book has elicited a good response, provides a uniqueview of medieval life. ences:Botanical Gardens, Museum of and is selling well in Vancouver, Victoria prof. Rowland, a fellow of Anthropology,Musical Programs, Art Gallery,Theatre andfilms, Library, and Seattle. McLaughlin College at York University, ScienceMuseums, exercising, swimming, For thepast three years, Hewett has said the indecipherable manuscriptwas tennis, golf, beaching ._. been handling the publicity forVictoria’s “Very difficult. Itwas a challenge, as annual Classic Boat Festival. “It’s been much as anything - and (the and Daycare is available manuscript) was a first in every way.It very exciting,” she says.“I’m fascinated Last Summer nearly 4,000 people took our by people and wooden boats.” From her was the first gynecological handbook, it invitation. We hopeyou will consider comfortable home on Ten Mile Point in was the first addressed expressly to joining our growingSummer Learning Victoria, she canlook across Cadboro women, and to urge womenthemselves Adventure Bay to theY‘acht Club, where someof the to help one another.” It also was the firstmedical work Find out more about Summertime at UBC. most beautiful boats on thecoast tie up. Phone (604) 228-2181; or mailcoupon to written in English rather than scholarly SummerLearning, Centre for Continuing Shirley Hewitt Latin. Rowland has included a fascinating Education, 5997 IonaDrive, UBC, Van- study of women throughout medical couver, B.C. V6T 2A4. history. The descriptionof recipes and procedures may fascinate and sometimes Think Summer! appall. The biological theories are bizarre Vacation at in the light of modern knowledge. UBC Rowland is the authorof six books on ””””” Chaucer and animal symbolism. “Itall Plea* V‘”t

turns on language,” she says, noting the ______inability of medieval scholars to agree on LAST NAMF word meanings. She has done considerable pioneering work in the more ribald, slang, meaningof words or as she says, “popularized and interpreted that aspect of Chaucer.” Anne MacLahlan ChronicldWinrer 1981 19 teaching at AlgonquinCollege where he places) and in 1967 travelled to England, has been conducting a course in personal where he bought a sailboat. Through a investment strategies for the past ten “series of lucky accidents,” hewas years. All Abrams’ activities flow from invited to crew on a sailboat headed for his enthusiastic involvement with the the Azores, and in 1968, served as a crew problems of the small investoror member on avoyage from Gibraltar to would-be investor. As an author,he Antigua in the Caribbean. Alife interest sees himself still primarilyas a teacher, was firmly established. He completed a or, as he says, “a motivator”, andhis Master’s degree in geographyat Simon book, like his course, is in this sense“a Fraser University with a thesis entitled labor of love.” “Marine Recreation in Desolation He never dreamt of becoming a writer. Sound,” the long inlet north of Powell He says he didn’t know at first whether River. hc would be ableto say what he wanted Aftera year with the b ranchand to say. The hardest part was actually two years ina consulting firm,he joined starting. Once he had a first draft down the ministryof cnvironment, andhas on paper, he “revised and revised and been involved with such things as revised”. The whole writing process took “coastal development - pipelines. coal him from six to seven months. ports, andmost notably, the issueof oil Abrams, whonow edits a monthly tankers off B.C.’s west coast.” He has -“- ” “Profit Taker Bulletin” containing been engrossed in the preparationand up-to-date advice forusers of his presentation of the ministry’s position on Don Abrams strategy. is making plans for another oil tanker traffic to tothe National hook. He intendsit to he more general - Energy Board. ‘That was a complex, a sort of personal finance motivator, long-term project,” he says. “I’m offering people new ideas on how to working on offshoreoil now - profit from money-making environmental assessments - all up and opportunities. Asked whether this new down the coast.” on Abrams, a financeteacher at project does notat lcast partially arise out As for the writing, Wolferstan looks Ottawa’s AlgonquinCollege of of the unexpected developmentof a back to his Desolation Sound thesis. “It Applied Arts and Technology, compulsion to write, Abrams admits that was there,” he recalls, “that I discovered becameD a writer - and abest-selling one it does. Whileessentially a manof ideas, I could actually complete a long writing - because he suddenly stumbled onto a he is beginning to find that there is a project. I summarized the thesis for great idea. An ardent small investor in unique and irresistible challenge inthe Pacific Yachting in 1972. They liked it, the stock market, he discovered a actualprocess of “getting down whatyou and asked for more.” stratee which, incredible asit may wanted to say”. Since then, he has produced “five or seem, enables the investor to make Elizabeth Ritchie six” articles a year on sailingand money independently of whether the cruising, focussing on “accurate market goes up or down. Not huge, descriptions of the coast - the high-risk gains, but constant,small geography - as well as the history, and profits on fluctuations, with practically what you cando at various places.” His no risk at all. Elated to find howwell it first book was published in 1976. worked for him,he wanted to share his Cruising Guide to the tiulflslands, is discovery with as many people as an extremely popular work,filled with possible. His book,The Profit Taker, color photographs, that has become a published by Deneau and Greenbergof virtual sailor’s handbook. Ottawa in 1978 and by John C. Wiley and In 1980, he produced Cruising Guideto Sons of New York in 1980, is now in its Desolation Sound and the Discmery sixth printing. Islands. Both books were publishedby Having decided to write a book Pacific Yachting. He is presently working explaining the “Abrams AutomaticProfit on his third guide, Vancouver toyemis Taker” strategy, Abrams,BSA’55, did Inlet, due outnext spring. not let himself worry about the Despite offersto work in publishing, possibility of not finding a publisher.“I Wolferstan prefers to stay on at the felt so‘strongly about this,I was prepared ministry of environment, deeply for self-publishingif necessary,” he says, absorbed in his work. Hehas sailed in pausing with a twinkle toadd, “You Europe - with his Dutch-born wife know when you’re excited about Clementine - and the Bahamas, and has something andthose are the only things written about those adventures. Now, really worth doing. You are more with three small sons aged 5,4 and one persistent.” Bill Wolferstan month, he confirms that hewill definitely In any event, getting a publisherwas be doing “more sailing, morebooks - not a problem. Abramsfirst brought out more slowly!” Thr Profit Taker,in conjunction with a ill Wolferstan never imagined “Please mention twoof my professors TV teaching series, as a manual inthe when he graduated fromUBC in at UBC who influenced me greatly,” he Algonquin campus bookstore. When400 B1964 with a BSc in geology and asked us. “J. Ross Mackay, a world copies sold in a singleweek-end, Deneau geophysics that he would ultimately expert on Arctic geomorphology, andJ. and Greenberg were more than eagerto emerge as one of the best-known and Louis Robinson, who taught me love to publish. hest-selling marine writers on thewest geography and to use maps - which I do In between promotional trips and coast. all the time, at work and at play.”. media appearances, he has continued He learned to sail in Calgary (ofall Ellery Littleton

20 Chronicle/Winter 19x1 This fall Thomas hasbeen teaching a course on novel-writingone daya week at UBC; therest of the week she writes at home. Her work hasbeen published not only on its own but also in magazines like Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Atlanticand a number of small creative writing magazines. Getting her graduate degreein English literature was a part-time project for a f courseyou don’t make enough while as well. Commuting from Surrey money to live on as awriter, Audrey with small children in tow she took one 0Thomas says shortly, butI don’t do course ayear for a coupleof years. If it for the money.“I write because that’s babysitting fell through at the last what I do.” minute, she’d take her children toclass Author of eight novels and short story with her. collections, the latest of which was None of the students ever complained, published in November, Audrey she says, but someof the profsfelt such Thomas, MA’63, never seriously practice was “unprofessional.” She considered any other occupation. She, would have completed her PhD in like many others, considersherself a English at UBCas well, but her full-time writer who works at other jobs dissertation was not accepted. “Itwas the because she needs the money.Jobs for best thing thatever happened to me,” the last few years have been teaching Thomas says now, seeing an alternate creative writing at Concordia University career as university professor- regular salary, securityof benefits andpension Audrey Thomas Montreal,in Universitythe of Victoria and UBC. In thesDring Thomas will take - that has passed her by. Shenever ” up a post as writer-in-residence at Simon would have had the freedom tobe a Fraser University. full-time writer. “Being an artistis the She’d really prefer to teach literature most free thing vou can be.” but it’s almost a case of taking what she Judith Walker can get,even for someone with Thomas’s credentials. Part-time, short-term Haveyou unitten abook? The Chronicle positions are hard to come by, says.she would like to hear about it.

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Chronicle/Wtnrnrer 1981 2 1 n here he has been since lY47. 11esLrihed as a ”curator‘\ curatcx.” he \\a\ honored ths year In thc Pan-Pacific Entomt~log~\tmaga/lnc. During hi\ tenure, theacademv’\ cdc(1ptcra collection became unc of the hest-curated In the norld and 11f Albert H. (Bert) Imlah, BA’22, mtcrnatlonal importance In , A.!l Clark, Phl) Harvard 11ves In \v\tcmatIc\. Leech donated hl\ .!ledfurd, .!ias\.~ nlth summer pcrwnal insect callrct~on.\I hlch forays to a farm In Nca. Hampshlre. contamed more than 30.000 \\atcr Retired In 1970 ID cmentu\ status as hectlc \pccimcns, IOthe aiadcmv In Spotlight Dickson professor 11f histury at 1947 Slnce then, hl\ donauon\ have Tufts, and prdccsordd~plomat~c totalled almost a quarter nulllm hlstory, Imlah taughtfor 43 years at spcclmcns. Leech married classmate , Tufts. He way awarded an honorary Frances Quail, BA’33, and attcr his ductorate from the university in mall we have in New Jersey!” retirement in 1975, thev moved 10 May. Imlah wrltes rhar he cnloyr hls northern Callforma Homer says with typical humor and freedom from fixed hours. I.asr Qualicum Inn.a \tell-kno\tn enthusiasm. sprlng classmate Cora Mea resort on Vancouver Island. \\a\ From 1953-’56 he rebuilt the McLennan, B.4’22. vi\ircd briefly originally a prlvarc h,>ardmg \cho~rl 21-shop coveredmall, or colonnade, while on vacation from her home in lor boys, founded by Ivan known as theStoa of Attalos, a gift R. California. .Constance Peter Knight, BA‘35. Knlght \rartcd rhc to thecity of Athens from the kingof Adams, BA’23, writes from schwl with nme boys tn 1935, and more than 22 centuries Pergamon Canterbury, England, wondering huilt Qualicum Cdlcge rwo ycarr ago. It was reconstructed according what is planned tor the dramond later hv raising money in Ingland. to itsoriginal design, giving a unique luhilee reun~un(11 her ycar Aircr q~cratmgthe c<~llcgc lor35 and literally monumental legacy of Although she has hved In England year\, Knight retired in lY70and the ancient Athens to the modernworld. for over 50 years, she stdl regards schwl \\as converted to a rc\ort When it came time to build the herself as Canadian and comes home Norman S. Free, BA’37. .!1;1’3Y. vaulting roof over the double even. three yean or \o. She says the I’hl) Berkeley’), has retlrcd~lth the colonnades and broad terrace, it was lubllee ycar colncldcs with the next title uf prdessor cmcritus west coast timber that provided the Homer Thompson probable date fur a wsit and she’d mathcmat~calsciences. He has \pent structural strength, great laminated like to be here. . URC was a Rcnsselacr Pdv. ht.in reating history with a pick-axe beams uf Douglas fir. 29 ycars at beneficiary in the ebtate of the late Troy. New York. and bare, gentle hands, It is unique in major excavations Jean Marie Riddell Sherwin, Homer Thompson, BA25, to findall the records kepton the C BA’27, who dled in Victoria earher MA’27, LLD49, (PhDMichigan) site. The Stoa was rebuilt primarily thls year. She was a former assistant dug deep through the centuries to to house the hundredsof thousands dlrecror ofsoc1al welfare for B.C. emerge as a leading world scholar of finds in the dig,which began in UBC IS to receive two bequests of and archaeologist. 1929 and still continues. Only last $5,000 each for a acholar\h~por It’s a story in itself, how a farm August oneof the most important scholarships tu students in the boy from Chilliwack ended up in the ancient buildings, the Stoa Poikile. xhool of s11cla1work clr law. office next to Einstein at the or birthplace of the influential stoic Institute for Advanced Study at philosophy, was uncovered. Prrnceton. He creditsa “magnificent “It’s really a great experience, to group of teachers in the classics start at a mdern level and go right department at UBC” and at high down, century after century.You school who firedhis imagination - can literally feel your may through but he must have been sume the ages. There areareas where we student. He entereduniversity at 15 have gone through from the20th ?till wearing short pants. century to neolitbic man. Dr. Thomas McKeown, BA’32, Accordlng to a previnus “Civilizations were rated on their (PhD McGill, D.Phil Oxun,MBBS r,’hrmrclc , the freshman’s dress “was throwouts. I sometimes wonderhuw London, MD Birmingham)has been too much for UBC‘s hairy-legged our civilization would be rated on awarded an honorarv doctorateby mgineers. who de-bagged him and the basis of our garbage!” McGill. Dr. McKcown is emeritus hoisted the offending shortson an Homer was interviewed during his professor and head of the outside beam of the old Fairvlew visit to UBC thls fall. He described department of wcial mcdtclne and physics building, where thev his hectic public speaking tourtu pro-vice chanccll~~rof Birmingham fluttered ominously to uthercallow UBC - and several other Canadran Unlversiry. He is married to Olive freshmen.” universities as “just a rest” from his Broome McKeown, BA’30 ...Katie Rcccntly elected director\ (11 the From that regular work. humbling start hewent Thiessen Pnnle, BA’32, writes that Canadran Council on Social Retirement? his mid-seventies, on to garner world-wide recognition In she enjoys news ofgrads. She now Development areVirginia E. for more than50 years of he just laughs. He enjoys his work lives at Fairmont Hot Springs in Beirnes, BA’40, LLB’49; Darlene distinguished work on excavations in too much. “I still have a very large B.C .....Hedley S. (Pete) Fowler, Marzari, .!tSW68; Michael John the heart of Athens. He directed the commitment still unfulfilled, still a BASc’33, wrote the Introduction and Clague, BA’63 and David C. Peg, jig. under theauspices of the great deal ofwriting todo.” background for a poem publ~shed BCom’63. Belrnes is ah1 prcsdent American Schwl of Classical Homer Thompson’swork in the thls summer h! (hrnin~(~Ltd. in its ut the Opprtunit) Rehdb~lirar~~~n Studies, from 1947 to 1%8. It was restoration of the Athenian agora IS company maganne. The pwxn,by Workshops Organization In during that time that hewould regarded as the pinnacle of the dd time pioncer ticorgc Carter, was Vancuuvcr ....Evelyn Cools spend half the year at Princeton, and classical archaeologist’s discipline. about life in the far north and Baldy Middleton, BA’41, has been a the othersix months in Athens, on a Working alongside was his wife and mountain. Fowler wurkcd on road pluntcr. teacher and plonccr in the first name basis with ancient colleague Dorothy, whom he construction and laid out some 20 Okanagan valley. She and her philosophers, kings and cunlmon describes as “the serious scholar in miles of road north 11f the Natmn hushand founded the Paddock Flnc men. the family,” and a distinguished River in 1932. He now Ilves In Art\ centre In the vallev. byhere .;he To talk with Homer (11 seems archaeologist in her own right. Oakland. Calli. . .Dr. William C. continue\ to paint. inappropriate tocall him He has the gift of the trdygreat. Gibson, BA’33, IMI). Oxford, is L’BC poultry nutrltionl\t Beryl E. Thompson) IS to stroll through the of communicating freely and simply executive director and trusteeof the Warrack March, BA’42. MSA’62. marketplaces andtemples of ancient about complex issues; of firing the Terry Fox Medlcal Research ha\ heen honored with a pre\tlgl,,u\ Greece. Pericles and Socrates walk imagination by sharing his Foundatlon of B.C. He is also a appointment. For thenext three with him, thistimeless man whois experiences. “It’s a marvelous trustee of the Cancer Control years, she will chair the poultry somehow modern and“with it.” experience,” Homer says, Agency ofB.(:. suhcummittce uf the U.S. National Sometimes the modern age palls recommending toall students of An early interest in natural history Rncdrch Council in Washington, in comparison. of his classical disciplines that they take Part and insects Icd to a distinguished Bruce Hutchinson, award-winning workwas tu excavate advantage of any opportunities to D.C. . J. career for entomologist Hugh BASc’43. has retlred as and rebuild a magnificent covered help in a dig. Bosdin Leech, BSA’33,,MSc vlce-president of opcratlons at market place that existed in Maybe henever w’ent that far Berkeley). Leech IS curator emeritus ICBC. Prior to lolning thc Insurance pre-Christian Athens. “ It’s much all. from his FraserValley rmts after of the entomdogy department, firm In 1974. he was vu-presldcnt more splendid than any shopping Anne MacLachlan California Academv uf Sciences, of manufacturmr at Northern 22 Chronicle/Winter 1Y81 Telecom in Montreal, where he Rosedale United in Toronto, worked for 31 yea rs.... Paul J. Frost, received his seconddoctorate this BASc’44, senior researchengineer spring fromSan Francisco’s with Crown Zellerbach in Camas, Theological seminary.... The new Wa., was recently honored for chair and chief executive officerof “outstanding technical the B.C. Arts Festival advisory contributions” to the pulp and paper board is M. Norman Young, BA’52, industry. The award came fromthe a memberof UBC‘s theatre faculty. technical division of TAPPI, the Young also chairs the B.C. Arts technical association of the pulp and board and the Vancouver Civic paper industry. Frost is the first Theatres board and is honorary person ineight years to receiveit. president of Theatre B.C. The new TAPPI has about 21,000 members in Festival general manager will be more than 70 countries. Barry G.McDell, BA’65, MEd’73. One of the visiting Ceciland Ida He’s president of the Coquitlam Green lecturers thisfall was Ronald district music festival, the largestof P. Dore, who with hiswife Nancy its kind in western Canada. Thefirst Macdonald Dore, BA’47, (MLS B.C. Arts festival will be held in Calif.) enjoyed a brief visit to Kamloops in June, 1982 and will Vancouver. She has just finished a feature music, dance, theatre and three-year term chairing theSussex the visual arts_._. David$. C. Aird, University (England) women’s BCom’52, has beenappointed club. president andexecutive director of Noted journalist, broadcaster and the Canadian Construction author, Stanley Burke, BSA’48, has Management Development been appointedto the chairof Inst~tute. Incorporatedearlier this journalism and communications at year, the institute’sgoal is to the University of Regina. Burke, improve management effect~veness editor and publisherof the Nanaimo in the delivery of on-site Tzrnes and the SaanichTribune, is the construction. The head office is in first appointee to the Max Bell Toronto. Aird, an associate journalism chair, the first of its kind professor at UBC for10 years, most in Canada. Thepost will be occupied recently was with a management each year by a different Individual. consultant firm andwith Ontario Burke 1s probably best known for Hydro. several satirical lampoonsof Challenge for Henry (Hank) M. Canadian politics, entitled: Frog Giegerich, BASc’52, is in the high Fables; The Day of the Glaous Arctic, where heis responsible for Reuolunon; Blood, Swear and Bears Cominco’s Polaris mineon Little andSwampSong. Burke brought us Cornwallis Is., 77 degrees north. As the land of conflaberation, where the vlce president of Cominco’s northern bureaucrabs race sideways.... group, he also is responsible for the Elected vice president of Ford Black Angel, Con, and Pine Point Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. is mines. Polaris is Canada’s William G.Wilson, BCom’49, northernmost basemetalmine .... formerly general sales manager for Kelowna architect John the companyin Toronto. Woodworth, BArch’52, bas been given the Soil Conservation Society of America’s honor awardfor 1981. The award is given for significant contribution in natural resource conservation. Woodworthwas cited for leadershipin several organization dedicated to the protection and conservation of natural areas and open space in B.C .....Ron Sedlack, BA’53, is now the manager of employee relations for Amoco Europe Inc., in London, England. Formerly heheld a slmilar post with the firmin Calgary.... Donald P. McKinnon, BASc’54, has been Beryl March, BA’42, MSA’62 appointed managing director, Europe, for the CNR. Hebecame responsible for the railway’s freight marketing and other corporate interests in Europeas of Aug. 1, 1981. He and his wife and two daughters live in London, while his two sons remain in Montreal .... Robert R. Aflleck, BASc’55, has been named vice-president, The new staff residence at the Gavin environment, for Canadian Forest Lake environmental centreis named Products Ltd. in honorof Phil Bodman, BSF‘50, The associate chief judgeof B.C. who died in 1977. Colleagues atthe provincial courts is James K. Shaw, Caribw Lumber Manufacturers LLB55. Appointed to the Association forestry committee provincial bench in New conceived the idea for the staff Westminster in 1968, Judge Shaw cabin, and built it, as a memorial to became administrative judge for the Bodman’s dedication to recreation coastal region in 1979 ...Elefthenos and forestry. Savvides, BSA’56, is an A poultryspecialist with the B.C. agriculturist in Kavala, Greece.... ministry of agriculture, Douglas M. Vancouver lawyer Edward E (Ted) Hamilton, BSA’SO, “’66, has Horsey, BCom’57, LLB’58, is been appointed as poultryextension president of the Canadian Bar coordinator in the south coastal Association’s B.C.branch ....Michael region ....The Rev. Robert A. J.G. Randall, BCom’57, is assistant Wallace, BA’5 1, minister at chief financial officer forTrans

Chronicldlt’inter 1981 23 hlountaln Pipe Line Cu In Toronto. has been appointed dean 01 the For the past nlne ?car\ he was chlef ~dlcgcdphyslcal \clenLe dl the finan~ialofficer tor an englneerlng Unlverslty of tiuelph. Ont. Char consulting firm thc department a! phv\l‘$ \incc Manltoha’a dcputv mlnlatcr of 1975. ,\lacDonald wa\ prcv~~~usly energy and mlncs i\ Paul E. Jarvis, ulth Bell Lahoratorln dl .\lUrrd!. BASc’58. the government‘\chief 13111. S.J.and was a vlvtmg ncgmator for three ‘mep’prolecrs prcdc\\or at Stanford Marshall .Wanltoba IS tyng 11s economic (Skip) Bergsma, BSc.’hl. .\lA’6X. IS tuture 10 three undertakrngs: the rhc aw\tant supcnntcndentof New Career Choices offers: Mestern power grld. to \ell electricity schools in the Terrace district. For to Alberta and Saskatchewan; a $500 the past five years he ha\ bccn million hlcan smelter. and a $600 d~rector ofinstructlonfor the vast 0 Career Counselling m~lllonpotash mlne and refinery. school area. .Angus C. Campbell, To choose the career that utilizes your Jarvk, who has extcnsive experience MEd’61. IS superlntendcnt of In resource and env~runmcntal \chods In the Saanlch \chool skills, interests and abilities plannlng and rran\porr dl\rrlct Earle K. Hawkesworth, 0 Job Search Assistance development, rad II aas ”extremely MEd‘62. LLD Acad~a’rctlrcs In - Find the Job Openings \atlsfying” u,hen theg~ahead memo December as dcputv mlruster

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UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 9Z9 year .... Bernard Poplack, BASc’64, college level. It deals with the all-star, bringing the teamto the is vice-president of American history of war in Europe, the national finals in his graduating Standard Heating in Montreal. His technology, the psychological and year. He also won the Bobby Gaul wife Sherrie, BA’66, MSW68, economic aspectsof war. Leach award as outstanding graduating works in the child psychiatry unit at served in NATOas a liaison officer athlete. Moores teaches part-time the Jewish General Hospital....The to the West German army.... The with the Delta school board....Amo UBC founder and former headteacher of librarian at the Williams Lake, B.C., Penner, BSc’70, is teaching Point Grey’s mini school, John B. library is Lillian Low Mack,BA’68, mathematics and scienceat Agassiz Alumni Tyrell, BA’64, has been made BLS’69.... Pauline Lorraine Antonik elementary-seconba ry....Larry Thal, vice-principal at the W. J. Mouat Maughan, BA’68, LLB73, has BA’70, has room enough to move. secondary in Clearbrook, B.C. been appointed a judgeof the He recently bought New Branches John Chan K. Wong, BSP‘64, is provincial court of B.C. After Westminster’s Royal Towers Hotel, Woodward’s store managerin articling with thefederal justice with 95 rooms, a convention centre, Penticton. He formerlywas the store department, Maughan servedas pub, lounges, cabaret and all the sales manager at Guildford in prosecutor with the department and usual facilities. Thal pumped If you’d like to find out Surrey ....Harold J. Harder, BSc’65, later worked in the CPRlaw $750,000 into renovations andnow MSc’68, (PhD Iowa), has left his department. plans a $3.5million, 60-room what goes on in alumni professorship at Trinity Western to Donald F. Meadows, BLS’68, addition, to make the Towers“first a branches just give work for three years in Bangladesh became directorof the hletro class hotel with good facilities,” he your local alumni with the Mennonite Central Toronto Library board Aug.4. says. Thal started out as a representative a call. Committee ....The largest Previously he servedas provincial management trainee.... English-language publishers outside librarian for Saskatchewan, from Robert W. Watson, BASc’70, has Toronto is the Vancouver firmuf 1970-81, and alsowas special advisor been made managerof transmission Douglas and McIntyre. PartnerG. on libraryaffairs to the and distribution forWest Kootenay Scott McIntyre,BA’65, celebrated power. .. .Bruce C.Bell, BCom’7 1, UBC ALUMNI BRANCHES Saskatchewan government.... Sandra Courtney: Wllllam Dale (339-5719). the company’s 10th anniversary by Sutherland, BCom’68, LLB’69, has LLB’72, is president of Chess Duncan: Parker MacCarthy (746-7121). opening anoffice and warehouse in been appointed to the B.C. Hydro Resources Ltd. in Calga ry....Terry Fort St. John: Ellen Elk (785-2280); Toronto. The firm’s books are board of directors. She is also J. Dever, BSA’71, is the coordinator Kamloops: Bud Aubrey (372-8845); distributed widely in the U.S., president and director of Vancouver of livestock extension programsfor Kelowna: Eldon Worobleff (7647021), Britain, and the Commonwealth, City Savings, a memberof SFU’s the B.C. ministryof agriculture’s Mlchael Blshop (762.4222); Kimberley: but theweak link has beenthe MBA advisory committee, and a south coastal regionJan Johnson, Larry Garstin (427.3557); MacKenzie: Dennls Hon (997-4372);Nanaimo: national list, McIntyre says. The PhD72, has been appointed chief former public governorof the James Slater (753-3245):Penticton: company estimated itwill do $2 Vancouver Stock Exchange and geophysicist for Scintrex Ltd., in Dlck Brooke (433-0402).Pori Alberni: million worth of business thisyear director of ICBC.... Fern A. R. Ontaria Thecompany is involved in Gail Van Sacker (723-7230);Prince The Executive directorof B.C.’s Miller, BA’69, (PhD Yale), is a scientific prospecting.... Fred A. George: Robert Affleck (563-0161). alcohol and drug programsis John policy analyst withthe Ontario Galloway, BA’73,is a theatre Prince Rupert: Denny Llm (642-2152). S. Russell, BA’65, ME869 ... .The government’s provincial and instructor and dramatistat Northern Salmon Arm: Robln Suddaby first Chinese Canadian to become a interprovincial affairs secretariat.... Lights College in Dawson Creek, (832.7519); Trail: Peter Hemmes (364-4714);Victoria: Klrk Daws is Randall B.C New principal atWindrem federally-appointed judge Judith M. Saltman, BA’69, BLS’70, ..... (656-5649);Williams Lake: Anne Jun-Kue Wong, BCom’65, LLB’66. has won a $2,500 scholarship to elementary in Chetwynd, B.C.is Stevenson (392-4365). Judge Wong tookhis place on the study at the centrefor children’s John B. Harkness, BEd’73 .... Brian county court bench Sept.24 at a literature in Boston, Mass..... Daniel M. Lillos, BMus’73, MMus’77, is ceremony presided overby B.C. J. Sharp, BCom’69, has been made teaching band in the Robron area OTHER CANADA: supreme court ChiefJustice Allan coordinator of marketing for Gulf near Campbell River, B.C... ..Head Calgary: Frank Garnett (262-7906); McEachern, BA’49, LLB’50, and Oil in Canada. Sharp lives withhis of nursing training at BCIT is Edmonton: Gary Caster (426-2224). John Haar (425-8810).Fredericton: chief county court Judge David wife Margaret, BEd’71, in Carole A. Gagnon Orchard, Joan 8 Jack Van der Llnde (455-6323). Campbell, LLB’49. Douglas Jung, Thornhill, Ont. BSN’73, MEd’SO. She saysthat only Halifax: Carol MacLean (423-2444). BA’53, LLB’54, the first Chinese 511 of 2,268 new registered nurses in Montreal: L. Hamlyn Hobden Canadian to be elected as a federal B.C. last year came from B.C. (871-8601);Ottawa: Robert YI~ MI’, said at the ceremony that only schools. The government should (997-4074); Bruce Harwood (996-3995): recently have Chinese Canadian spend moreon training local people, Quebec City: Ingrid Parent (527-9888). lawyers practised in B.C., let alone instead of importing so many nurses Regina: Gene Rlzak (584-4361).St. John’s: T.B.A.. Whitehorse:Cella become judges. Also present was to fill the vacancies, Orchard says.... 70s Dowdmg (667-5187);Winnipeg: Gary Andrew W. Y. Joe, BA’51, LLB’52, Peter Pedenen,BA’73, BArch’76, Coopland (4533918); Yellowknife: the first Chinese Canadian lawyer has joined his father Russell in the Charles A. Hulton (873-3481). admitted to theBar in B.C.,in 1953; Playwright JayLeonard Angel, architectural firmof Pedersen and David Chong, BA’54,LLB54, MA’70, PhD74, is flipping forfun Associates Architects. He has a directorof the Chinese Benevolent and profit. Notreal estate - cards. opened the fxm’s Nanaimo UNITED STATES Association.... Charles B. Schom, In the past two years Angel has branch. Clovis: Martln Goodwm (763-3493).Los BSA’67, (MSc Texas A&M,PhD designed and developed a new card Angeles: Helen Chang (799-0787).New Douglas Thorpe,BSF‘73, is a York: Rosemary Brough (688-2656). Calif) has been appointed associate game called The FlipDeck. One resource officer, timber, in the San Diego: Dr. Charles Armstrong professor and tothe chairof marine chain of games shops has ordered it, Boundary forest district, in the (287-9849);San Francisco: Norman A. biology at the Universityof New and a Japanese author planson Grand Forks areaof B.C.....In Glllles (567-4478).Seattle and P.N.W.: Brunswick. He teaches on the St. introducing it to Japan. It’s a game Hamilton, Robert Oldham,BA’74, Gerald Marra (641-3535);Washington, John campus, butlives in St. that combines thesimplicity of Old is with the public library in the D.C.: John Davld Brown (836-0505). Andrews, where heis collaborating Maid, with thepsychological performing arts andrecreation on salmongenetics research atthe bluffing of poker and the strategic section ....One of the few full-time OTHER COUNTRIES North American salmonresearch manipulation of Go. Angel has practising psychologists in Australia h New Zealand: Chrlstopher centre ....David Weismiller, BA’67, invested his life savings in the Vancouver is LucilleGies, BA’75, Brangwtn. 17 Gmahgulla Rd , Bellevue is chief librarian atthe Belleville project and hopesto come out a MA’80. She opened her one-woman Hills, N S.W. 2023; Irene Meyer. Flat public library. Previously he spent winner ....Meanwhile, his latest play, counselling service in May, after 17-13 S. Esplanade, Glenelg. 5045, two years in Brazil asa consultant “Unveiling,” is due tobe premiered Bermuda: John Keefe. Lyndhurst. for CIDAin developing information at the New Play Centre this spring. Penbroke; England: Allce Hemmlng. 35 services .... Craig M. East,BSc’68, is He continues to teach a playwriting Elsworthy Road, London N.W3: Hong Kong: Dr. Ronald S.M. Tse.Dept. of a partner in the chartered accountant course at UBC. Chemlstry. U of Hong Kong, Bohamn firm of Touche Ross and Co.East The best advice for those who Rd.; Ireland: Marlan A. Barren. Dorval. has spent thepast two yearson an wish to turntheir backyard into a Kilteragh Dr., Foxrock,Dublln 18: Japan: interchange with the putting green is - forget it. It’s too Maynard Hogg. Showa Denkl Kogyo. auditor-general’s Ottawa office.... much effort and can hequite costly, 2-7-3 Higashl-Shlmbashl, Mmato-Ku. The latest collectionof functional says Steve Miller, BSA’70, secretary Tokyo, 105; Italy: L.R.Letourneau, FAO. Rm 6559. Vla Delle Terme DI Caracalla, and experimental potteryby Perry treasurer of the Canadian Golf Rome. 001M); Scotland: JeanAltchlson, S. Haddock, BA‘68, was on show Course Superintendent’s 32 Bentfleld Drlve, Prestwlck. this summer at the Station Arts Association. He is also president of Centre in White Rock, B.C..... One the Western Ontario Greenskeepers course offered this fall atB.C.’s Association.... Head coachof UBC‘s newest college, Kwantlen, is on ‘war varsity hockey team isJohn Douglas Paul Frost, BAS244 and the modernworld’. Instructor Moores, BPE70. While at UBC Barry Leach, PhD68,says it’sthe Moores was Thunderbird captain first such course to be offered at the and three times a western Canada

Chronicle/Winter 1981 27 music ministerfor Langley’s James Sandwith, BSA’79. If appointed sports information officer Christian LifeAssembly ....Kathleen planted in the usual fashion, the for UBC Athletics.... Daniel W. Gregory Edwards Pearson, MLS’76, is studying at the luscious berries take a metre of Deyell, MA’80, is a museum Centre forChildren’s Literature in ground for 5 plants; but if planted administrator wirh Wycliffe Bible Boston, Mass .....The children’s vertically, Sandwith can grow 100 Translators. The organization, “Our medical research is not librarian in Terrace, B.C. is Gillian plants per metre, and produce an which translates the scriptures into romantic, glar~~orousor sexy,” says H. Campbell, MLS’77, just earlier crop, he says. On his many languages, is working on Gmgq J. 13dwards, BA‘78. returned from a family visit to eleven-hectare farm near Victoria, puttmg aboriginal,or oral languages “These are thequalitia ofthe Belgium. Sandwith isexperimenting with into writtenform for translation .... healthy.” Chief accountant with Vancouver growing the berrirsvertically, in Katrina L. Link, BEd’80, is Edwards is one of many and Victoria Cablevision’s B.C. plastic bags filled with sawdust, teaching grade fourat Roft River volunteersraising funds for medical operating division is George G. suspended in his greenhouse. Oh school in Clearwater, B.C _.... research at UBC into gpsaojntestinal Dorin, BSc’74 ....Robert C. my, strawberrypie ....One of two Gordon McCall, MFA’IO, is artistic disoEders”diseaseswhichm Feenstra, BA77 (PhD, MIT)is women accepted into theVictoria director of the Prairie Theatre to be accelerating among young teaching at Columbia University, police force this year is Phyllis Exchange, a semi-professional people. So far their volunteer New York ....Frances Collins Senay, BPE’79, who recently group, in Winnipeg. society, SIR, (the fiorthwestern Nowakowski, MLS’77, is reference graduated from the B.C. Police With thesoaring cobt of food society of Intestinal Research), has librarian at DalhousieUniversity’s Academy. production, the governmentis donafed some $26,000 to Killam library....J onathan Winner of the provincial looking at ways of producing gastrointestinal researchat UBC, Waddington, LLB’77, is a government’s highest scholastic cheaper vegetables. Gordon Monk, and is actively engaged in raising prosecutor in the crowncounsel’s award is John Klippenstein, BASc’80, supervised the design of more. office inNelson, B.C .....Assistant BSc’79, a graduate mathematics an experimental solar greenhouse at It’s alabor of love and dedication district agriculturist for the pn~v~nce student. Klippenstein will use the the lederalgovernment’s Saanichton for Edwards andco-founders in theWilliams Lake area is Dale $20,000 Queen Elizabeth I1 research centre. In thepast four Charles andDoris Raeside, and Dr. Anderson, BSc’78, MSc’81. . Gary ccntcnnial scholarshipt~ pursue a years, the cost of heating and Frank H. Anderson, MD’63. While J: Court, PhD’78, hasbeen elected doctorate in mathematics at ventilating commercial greenhouses a student, Edwards was unfortunate vlce-president of the honor socxty of Warwick University, England. He has doubled to more than$45,000 an enough to contract croha’s disease Phi Kappa Phi atFlorida’s topped the dean’s honor list in 1979 acre. Monk says a solargreenhouse andhadtotakeayearoffbefore Jacksonville University. He’s alsu and won the Governor General’s wwld need auxiliary heating only in f~shinghis degree. It’s only this been nominatedas one of 1981’s gold medal the same year. January and February. A year that he’s been well enough to do outstanding young men of America. Klippenstein is interested in conventional glass greenhouse of the volunteer work forthe society. He’s assistant professor of biology at Warwick‘s ‘catastrophe’ same size is being used as a control The society says “each more year Jacksonville .... Steve V.C. Davis, mathematlcs program, applying in the pioneering experiment .... and moreof our young people are BASc’78, is completing his final year math.the study ofphyslcal Joining thestaff of Queen’s Park being taken out of the mainaneamof in the MBA program at the processes such asvolcanic eruptions. school in Penticton IS Jane Crossan, lieby thesediseases.” About 2,000 University of Western Ontario and Runner-up Michael Craig Webb, BEd’8l ....J ohnEns,BASc’81, isa patients suffer ulcerativecolitis in plans to return to workin B.C. in BA’8 I, a p~liticalscience grad, project engineer at Vancouver B.C.,and some 1,000 have Crohn’s ’82 ....Instructor GlennM. Hardie, received an award of $4,000 to General Hospital.... Scott Griffin, disease. The cause of both is MEd’78, has had a book published pursue his studies. BA’81, of Vancouver is one of threc unknown. called “Construction contract\ and to win a Law Foundation entrance SIR is a patientself-help group, speclfications.” It deals with scholarship to the University of but it is much more - dedicated to practical applications in buildmg Vlctoria. The award, worth$4,500, promoting research at UBC into technology, the subject he teaches at IS renewable if the winnermaintains these chronie, progressive andoften B.C.1.T _....Monica Rist, BMus’78, a first class average ....Dean incurable ailments. The medical is spending theyear in Viennaas the Parfeniuk, BASC‘81, has won a advisory boardreads like a UBC’s 1981 winner of the Johann Stmu\\ $9,350 National Research Council medical facultylist - &.U doctors Foundation scholarship.She wlll be schdarship to continuehis studies at are associated withthe we~ty studying organ with Prof. Peter ‘Iwo zuology grads, Wayne UBC. and with city hospitals. Planyavsky, organist at St. Stephan’s Goodey, BSc’80, and Allen J. Billy, Medial columnist, Dr. W. Cathedral .... BSc’79, have founded a group called Gifford-Jones described a patient JoAnna Townsend, MSc’78, says Citlzens Against the Underminingof with IBD (inflammatory bowel Montreal is an exciting city to live Science Education. It’s a group of disease) as a “young woman in acute in. She’s senior business distress. The disease w like a development officer for the Expat raging fue. While cancer maintains Development Corp.in hlontreal. Ludwig N. Braun, MSc’80 and a high public profde, it is the rich providing financing and insurance to Susan Clarke Braun, DFrch‘80, a uncle in research dollars,IBD the exporters. She also lecturcsat daughter, Rebecca Susan, Sept. 5, poor cousin. Concordia University in the 1981 in Zurich, Switzerland ....Joan SIR struggles on to raise money marketing departmentof the Webb Challenger, BEd’74, a for research throughraffles, international business division. daughter, Kristine Lorena,Aug. 14. donations and any waypossible. Rhodes scholar Gordon G.Wong, 1981 in Victoria ....Brian A. Baser, Donations are tax deductibleand if BSc’78, left Magdalen college, BSc’70, LLB’74 and Deborah C. you wish to donate, or join, their Oxford, in August with his Tate Baser, BA’72, MLS’78, a addressis Box 80838, So& dottorate. His thesis was on daughter, Rebecca Anne, July 24, Burnaby, B.C. VSH 3YI, Or phone “nuclear magnetic resonance 11f 19x1 1n Smithers.. .Brian T. Lecky, 433-6655, and talk to pris Raeside, intact tissues.” Wongis now doing BA’73, a son, Alexander Robert, full-time volunteer workerin the research at Harvard.... New principal July 19, 1981 in Vancouver .... cause.. .Her dedication to the of Boundary CentralSecondary In fohn Kltppenstern, BASc’79 Merilyn Davis McKelvey, BA’73, a problem and UBC is amazing. the KettleValley district is James daughter, MargaretMichelle, July Calvert, MEd’79 ....B.C.’s first 20, 1981 inTornnto ....Linda Albert woman Rhodes Scholar, Catherine McRoberts, BEd’74, a daughter, spending a good dealof time J. Milsum, BA’79, received her scientists and lay people who oppose Michele Colleen, Aug. 4, 1981 in building upprofessional contacts. master’s in English literature at the teaching of the blblical theory of Vancouver ....John A. Mutter, She also teaches at community Oxford in June. Thus shebecame creation in high school, on the Bhlus’69 and Catherine Jean college and is working on a program the first Balliol woman to take a grounds that it is not scientific Thompson Mutter, BEd’76, a son, she calls “college forthe terrified,” degree in the university, says the theory. Earlier this year, another Dmald John, June 2,1981 in aimed at mature students who are Balliol college annual. Milsum IS group called the Creation Science Kelowna ....Brian A. Nordman, relearning academic skills.... William continuing her studiesin English Association urged educatim BSP’7 1, and Lynn M. Schierman Say, BA’75, was one of the literature at Princeton.... Gail minister Brian Smith to introduce Nordman, BHE’72, a daughter, participants In the TerryFox Nabata, BA’79, MBA’8 I, is with the theory of creation into B.C. Erika Maurine, Feb. 6, 1981 in marathon held Sept. 13 in Regents the departmentof public works in schools. In March, theminister .Mackenzie ....Dr. Philip W. Park, London. It was organized by Vancouver, whlle brother Robert, issued a statement to B.C.teachers Suckling, PhD’77 andCheryl B.C. House and theCanadian High BASc’8 1, is doing post-grad work in suggesting that students might Lenington Suckling, BA’79, a Commission.... William Hsieh, Red Deer, for Alberta Gas and benefit from studying both daughter, Sonia Tamara, June 16, BSc’76, MSc’78, PhD’81, is a Ethylene ....Janet Pontifax, BPE’79, creatlonlst and Darwinian theories 1981 in Athens, Georgia.... Dr. John post-doctoral fellow in applied is teaching atOsoyoos secondary in of evolution. Goodey and Billy are Craig Whalley, BSc’74, and Linda mathematics andtheoretical physics the Okanagan.... The future (11 trymg tu counter the progress made L. Bratner Whallev._. BSc’72, at Cambridge University, England .... strawberries is definitely an by the creatlonists. .. MSc’74, a son, Matthew Thomas, Lane Olson, BMus’76, is full-time up-and-down affair,says enthuslabt Steven Campbell, BPE’W, hasbeen Aug. 29, 1981, inWilliams Lake. 28 Chronicle/Winrer 1981 George Peter Doerksen,BSc’63. ;illSc Washingtun State. PhD South Carullna), August, I981 In Llard Hut Springs Pruvincial Park. He JUST ARRIVED! taught throughout B.C. tor several ...from England, in time for “I think ...” years and was uurklng In the Tahsis mill tu finance hls hluloglcal studies Christmas See Page 25 un dragonflies. He wab hlled by a grluly bra nhlle un a research field trip. Survived by his parents and three brothers. A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION Edith Dwinneu Griffiths,BA’27, July. 1981 in Vlctorra. Living in OF THE FINEST PEWTER IN retirement on Mqnc Island, ahe was an active seniur cuunacllor THE WORLD. ...FINELY vulunteer. Sum~vedhv her husband, ETCHED WITH THE UBC 1-0 daughters. two slaten and a bruther. CREST Ivan H.R. Jeffery, BA’17, April, N. Larry Campbell, BC0m’bI to 1981 in Maple Ridge. Survlvrd by Holly J. Hannigan, BHE’75, Oct. his wife and sun. Each piece hand-crafted using moulds 10, 1980in Kamluup\, B.C. ...Lorna William James Martin, BASc’71, and methods which are least 200 yrs. old, Gail Gordon, BEd’67. tu James L. .!lay. 1981 in Ontario. h graduate in Dade, Aiarch 20. 1Y81 ~n Pasadena. metallurgical cng~nccrlng.he was and bearing the signature mark Cahf. ..Michael Moewes, BPE‘79. mill metallurglat at the I’arkdale of the craftsman tu Beth Louise Eley, BSK’79, Wurks. Steel Company ul Canada, August, 1981 In Vancuuver.... in Hamilton. Survlved by his wife. Darshan A. Sihota,BSF‘79, to B. Robert T. McKenzie, BA’37, (PhD COME AND VIEWTHE Alice Brock, BMua’79, July 11, 1981 I.undun). Octuher, 1981 in London, in Penticton. B.C. ling. An associate prutc\aur uf COLLECTION pulitical sociologv at the I.undon or ask us to mail you the price list School oiEconumlca. he nas author ufBnrlsh Poimid Purrws. One of Bntaln’s tup psephologlsta, he was mventor of the ”swngumeter,” an m\rrumcnt that tran\Iatc\ Ian J. Billington, BASc’5 I, complicated clcctoral data into MASc’52, (PhD. Torontcl), August, layman’s terms. Eic wrttru regularly I981 m Ontarlo. A reacmch fur the Londun Obsmvr. and was a englneer. he wa\ a scientific “huusehold name” In Rrltiun ubc bookstore cunsultant wlth the Inat~tutcuf rhruugh hls elcctlun mght on the campus Acrophysics. Lnivcraitv ufToronto. commentaries and mtervicwa on He was involved wlth the St. BBC television and r~d~o.(Ser (604) 228-4741 Andrews Art Festival. the National I.cmrs sectlun.) Association fur the Photographic Gifford Earle Nesbitt, BA’43, June, Arts and the Photugraphc Society 111 19x1 in Vancouver. lie taught for 45 America. In 1978 he was appointed years throughout Canada, andfor tu the board ufhrts Etublcoke. the last 17 years at Lonrdale Survived by his wife. Elementary Schoul. Survived by hls Kenneth L. Brawnrr, €3.4’57, LLB’58, Octuher, 19x1 In Robert John Phillips, BEd’76, Vancouver. An act~vcmember of the March, 1081 in Vanmuvcr. Survived DOWEHAVEYOUR unlversity community he was a by his wife, Gail Phillips, BEd’75. former vice-president of the Eleanora (Nora) Piggot,BA’27, students’ council and Chair of the MA’50, July, 1981 In Vlctorla. After CORREcTNAlvIE UBC Alumnl Fund. He served as rccclving her trachlng ccrtlficate president of the UBC hlumnl from the Victorla Nurmal School, hasociation in 1975-76. A layer In ahe attended LBC. She hcgdn her private practice, he was a member of reachlng career In the Intenor, and the B.C. and CanadIan Bar wa\ later principal ut Mount Assoclations, and on the lnrerim Lehman school in the E‘raaer Valley. Advisory Board uf‘l‘rustees of In 1966 she retired as teacher and Vancouver General Hospital. cuunsellor from Oak Bay Senior If your address or name has changed pleasecut off Survived by his wife, Maureen Secondary School. She was an active the present Chronicle address label and mailit along McCartney Brawner, BEd’57 and member of the Docent Association two children. at the I’rovinclal hluxum. In her with the new information to: Andrew John Carmichael, rncmov, former \tudcnts and BCom’W, LLB’48, acedentally lr~endshave establlahcd a 3 August, 1981 in Vancouver. A schdarship fundlur aenior Alumni Records member of UBC’s first law class, he aecondary studenta. Donations can 6251 Cecil Green Park Road practised for 25 yeara in Vancouver. be sent c/o Clara Hare. 3931 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1x8 He was appointed a ludgc of the Chenlee Crescent. Vlctona, V8N 1R7 provmcial court In 1Y73 and sat In Cecil Edmund Yanvood,BSA’29, the small claims divlaion. Survived DSc’79, September. 1981 In Name ...... by his wife, twu sons and two Australia. Graduate\tudy tuok him daughters. first IOPurdue Unlversity. and then Col. George S. Clark, BA’22, June, tu the Universltv ul Wisconsm (Graduation Name)...... 1981 in Vancouver. A corporate where hereceived h~sdoctorate in (Indicate preferred tltle Marrled women note spouses full name ) finance lawyer, he was a partner *plant pathology. In 1Y34 hc moved with the Vancouver firm, Ladner to the University uf California, Downs. His brother, EdwardA. Berkeley where he was professor of Address ...... Clark, BA’32. tiled In August, 1981 plant pathology for 25 years. HIS in New Brunswlck. Edward worked work in the relationship herween in personnel and publlc relations fur plants and disease-causing ...... the AluminumCo. ofCmada, in organisms, and thelrcontrol brought Montreal. Both brothers served with him international recognmon. A Class Year...... the Seaforth Highlanders. George member of the WeshrookSociety, jomed the Cadets in 1914 and was a he is survived by hls wlie and member until his death. children. Chronicle/Winrer 1981 29 CITR A Delightful Discovery The returning alumnus discovers many GRADmS changes on the growing UBC campus. During my last visit I had my first opportunity to use FM the facilities of the tastefully appointed to 100 Woodward .tiemurial Roomon the first Hour of the Biomcdical Library. The superb first class collection of historical materlal in medicine with and natural history provides a richresource for in scholars and recreational readers. Dr. W.C. Gibson, Emeritus Professorof the campus issues History of Medicine and Scicnce assembled mini-concerts the library with great success. His pioneering Robert MacKenzie: A Tribute efforts are being nurtured bv his successor. public affairs Dr. John Sorrls and the hbrarran,Dr. Lee Dr. Rtjhert ,tlcKen-/ie. RA’35. one of Britain’s Perry. news, plays, leading political scientists dicd Oct.12 In I’d cncouragc other returning graduates tu music. .. London. In a tribute. British Prime Minister searchout thc W’oodward hlernorial Room. The Margaret Thatcher said:“He was one of the casual visitor should be warned, however, that most astute and experiencedpolitical In this inviting environment. thc literatureis commentators of our time. It will be difficult so appealing that a briefvisit may estend into TUNEINTO to imagine an election withouthim.” several hours of delightful discovery. McKenzie was famous for his entertaining Rodney K. (~’alewrlty, .MD’62 THE election night commentaries. Hisinfluence has Sun Diego, CA. been felt in Canadian politics aswell. He was CAMPUS one of the first tu encourage to enter the political arena as a Liberal. A Mnemonics Anyone? PERSPECTIVE Canadian, McKenziewas also an academic, a Asa student at UBC I became interested in professor at the London School of Economics. any means of lightening my work load. and February ’82 TheLondon Trmrs marked his death with a happened upon the studyof mnemonics. This four-column front-page article. study concerns the science of memory. It has University of Saskatchewan professor occurred to me that many studentswould Arthur J. Wirick, BA’36, wrote thefollowing benefit from a book on the subject. tribute: I would be grateful to learnof the favorite Bob McKenzie, reached London with the mnemonics or your readers. By this I mean a Canadian army in 1944 and made It his “memory crutch” sucha5 the one kno\vn tu all permanent home. When he died there, his students ofmusic: FACEbeing the key reputation in Britain as a political signatures of the treble clef. Students of cummentator was unequalled. But Bobnever geology will recognize the mnemonicfor the forgot his beginnings. He retained his Moh’s Scale ofthe hardness of minerals, viz: citizenship, deepened his knowledge of Toronto Girls Can Fight And Other Queer Canada. remembered fondly his youthful Things Can Do. which is a memory deviceto haunts and constantlyrcvlsitcd early friends, enable geologists to remember the relative his hometown of Vancouver andhis Alma hardness ofminerals, which areas follows: Mater. Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Feldspar, Albite, Bob tlourished during his nine years at Orthocluse, Quartz, Toitanium, UBC. Even then, his consumingpassion for Carborundum, and Diamond. politics foretold his vocation. Politics and If your readers would care tobend me their diplomacy, domestic or foreign - these he favorite mnemonic together withany revelled in! Although Bobhimself held strong knowledge of it5 author. I shall do my best to convictions, and expressed them,his passion give credit where creditis due. was that of the analyst;his facility and felicity W. Granr Hughes, LLB’60 of expression was apparent in his writing. 217 - 8055 Anderson Road But it was in his talk that thefull force of his Richmond. B.C. V6Y IS2 Ym? personality found expression. Hisspecial qualities - on lecture platform or television The University of British Columbia - were crystal clear. He had great joie de and its Alumni Association want to vivre, and took infectious delight in people. keep In touch with yon. We hope He chuckled. Hecould be gleeful. skeptical, that’s worth something! satirical - and funny. But he could not be dull. Here’s mylour gitt to the The story of his rise to fame in Britain has CHBOBICLE...... been told elsewhere. His 1955 book,Brirish Personals Polit~ralPurr~es,earned him a doctorate and lime ...... secured his reputation as a scholar. Itremains Addrera ...... a definitive study in thefield. Electronically UNATTACHED? Discover lawng lrlend- City ...... Prov...... ahlpa through correspondence. 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