issue #26 Spring 2010

TREK The Magazine of The U n i v e r s i t y o f B r i t i s h C o l u mb i a

~ inside ~ Tales from the Old Auditorium · 12 ~ On the Art of Being Canadian · 18 ~ Academics and Avocations · 24 ~ Getting Cultivated: UBC’s Botanical Garden · 28

Spring 2010 Trek 1 Published by The University of British Columbia Alumni Association Contents:

Features DEPARTMENTS TREK Editor in Chief Christopher Petty, MFA’86 Managing Editor Vanessa Clarke, BA 18 On Writing 05 Take Note 11 Letters to 38 Class Acts Art director Keith Leinweber, BDes 12 Tales from the Old Auditorium Contributors Michael Awmack, BA’01, MET’09 “On the Art of UBC researchers teach us the Editor Adrienne Watt The Old Aud is where students graduated, trod the boards, played about happiness, 40 Books Board of Directors music, heckled with enthusiasm, gasped with delight, staked their Being Canadian” Chair Ian Robertson, BSc’86, BA’88, MA, MBA sustainability and getting out 36 Networks & Vice Chair Miranda Lam, LLB’02 claim on cafeteria tables, sweated through exams, and fell in love. Sherrill Grace’s book explores the vote in Argentina. 42 T-Bird News Treasurer Robin Elliott, BCom’65 what the arts can tell us about Events Members-at-Large (07-10) Don Dalik, BCom, LLB’76 being Canadian. 46 In Memoriam Dallas Leung, BCom’94 Members-at-Large (08-11) By Sherrill Grace Brent Cameron, BA, MBA’06 Marsha Walden, BCom’80 Ernest Yee, BA’83, MA’87 Blake Hanna, MBA’82 21 Blythe Eagles: MEMBERS AT LARGE ’09-‘12 Aderita Guerreiro, BA’77 Volunteer What the Trek? Mark Mawhinney, BA’94 Trek Magazine caption competition Past Chair (09-10) Extraordinaire Doug Robinson, BCom’71, LLB’72 Senior Administration Rep (09-10) Community builder, Send your witty captions for this photo (no more than three attempts per person) to Vanessa Clarke Stephen Owen, MBA, LLB’72, LLM UBC stalwart, gardener. at [email protected], or to the mailing address on the right, by May 31. The winner will be chosen Brian Sullivan, AB, MPH AMS Rep (09-10) Blythe Eagles set the bar by the Alumni Affairs communications team. The prize will be personal glory and a brand new travel mug Tom Dvorak, BASc’07 for volunteering. (in which to contain your excitement). We’ll print the winning caption, details about the photo, and a new Convocation Senate Rep (09-10) Chris Gorman, BA’99, MBA’09 By Michael Awmack challenge in the summer issue. (Photo Courtesy UBC Library Archives) Young Alumni Rep (09-10) Carmen Lee, BA’01 Okanagan Rep (09-10) 28 Getting Cultivated Catherine Comben, BA’67 Appointment to Board (09-10) at UBC Ian Warner, BCom’69 Rod Hoffmeister, BA’67 UBC’s Botanical Garden is a Judy Rogers, BRE’71 haven for serious scientists, Jim Southcott BCom’82 EX-officio avid gardeners and carefree President, UBC nature-lovers alike. What’s Stephen Toope, AB, LLB and BCL, PhD President’s designate behind the garden gate? Barbara Miles, BA, Postgrad Certificate in Ed. Chancellor, UBC Sarah Morgan-Silvester, BCom’82 Associate VP, Alumni / Executive Director, Alumni Association 31 The Advocate Marie Earl, AB, MLA 24 Academics and Avocations Trek Magazine (formerly the UBC Alumni Chronicle) is Wesley Shields, BA’89, is committed to leading the way. published three times a year by the UBC Alumni UBC’s finest indulge in some hobbies you might find surprising. Association and distributed free of charge to UBC alumni By Mark Sollis and friends. Opinions expressed in the magazine do not By Hilary Feldman necessarily reflect the views of the Alumni Association or the university. Address correspondence to: 32 Farewell to Marie Earl The Editor, UBC Alumni Affairs, After five years transforming alumni services at UBC, Marie Earl is 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 heading back to California (with a tear in her eye). e-mail to [email protected] Letters published at the editor’s discretion and may be edited for space. Contact the editor for advertising rates. 45 More MOA Contact Numbers at UBC Address Changes 604.822.8921 After a multi-million dollar refurbishment, the Museum of via e-mail [email protected] Alumni Association 604.822.3313 Anthropology is bigger and better. toll free 800.883.3088 Trek Editor 604.822.8914 UBC Info Line 604.822.4636 Belkin Gallery 604.822.2759 54 The Last Word Bookstore 604.822.2665 BA’52 Chan Centre 604.822.2697 Norm Young, , wants to be Miss America (and other secrets). Frederic Wood Theatre 604.822.2678 Museum of Anthropology 604.822.5087 Volume 65, Number 1 | Printed in Canada by Mitchell Press Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #40063528 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Records Department UBC Development Office Suite 500 ‑ 5950 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

Cover image: The Paralympic torch passes in front of the Koerner library on UBC’s 30% Vancouver campus (photo: Martin Dee). Cert no. SW-COC-002226

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Take Note is edited from material that appears in other campus communications, including UBC Reports. We ta k e n o t e thank Public Affairs for allowing us to use their material. CiTR the Blue Brigade and the Rise of the Volunteers

If you tune your radio to 101.9 in the Lower Mainland (or go to www.citr.ca), wiped water droplets off slalom gates so the next racer wouldn’t get a you will be listening to one of the best college radio stations in North face-full of wet as he or she screamed past, and the hundreds of other America. You’ll hear things you’ve never heard before (some of which you jobs, big and small, that had to be done for things to go right. Impressive, may never want to hear again), talk that ranges from brilliant to goofy, and unbelievable and eye-opening. Paul Hewitt is researching the role of perfectionism and suicide. a playlist of indie, alt and you-name-it music that will, if you’ll forgive an UBC also has a cadre of volunteers, without which the university old-school idiom, blow your mind. You’ll also hear great DJs who range would grind to a halt. The Board of Governors might be the most visible Perfect Misery connection among teens is especially hostile. It’s a sad irony (known as a neurotic from mellow to hysterical and from academic to hilarious. It’s the most and, ultimately, the most powerful volunteer group on campus (they Perfectionism doesn’t sound like a particularly relevant because of adolescents’ inherent paradox in the world of psychology) that the entertaining radio you’re likely to hear anywhere, and it sounds like the approve budgets, after all), but it’s just the top tier. The Botanical negative human trait. In fact it’s become a cliché self-consciousness and concerns about social thing most perfectionists crave – acceptance – heart and soul of UBC. Garden would still be a stunning place if the FOGS (Friends of the for job interviewees, when pressed, to name relationships,” he says. is made more elusive by their behaviour. In Since CiTR first hit the airwaves in 1974, every one of the hosts and DJs Garden) didn’t exist, but it would be inaccessible to you and me without perfectionism as one of their faults in a bid to Hewitt and Flett are testing a model they the case of perfectionist children, the way they have been volunteers. Some have been on air for 25 years. Arguably the them. Volunteers at the MOA dedicate their time and knowledge to downplay their weaknesses or give them a developed linking social disconnection with are perceived can even make them the target most famous among them, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, has been teaching programs and the Museum Shop, and volunteer mentors positive spin. Psychology professor Paul Hewitt, perfectionism and suicidal thoughts. A recent of bullies. broadcasting at 3:30 every Friday afternoon since 1987. work with most of our faculties to help students with the sometimes however, takes perfectionism very seriously. study involved a group of young people, aged “We urgently need to know more about the CiTR is a great example of people doing things they love for free, and difficult transition from life at the university to life in the job world. “Most people don’t understand the toxicity of eight to twenty, who receive outpatient mechanisms of perfectionism, how it starts, making the world a better place in the process. (Visit www.citr.ca for more And elsewhere on campus, volunteers work in too many ways to name perfectionism,” he says. “Perfectionists put psychiatric counselling at BC Children’s how it develops,” says Hewitt. “If we are to info and some history.) to make life better for our students. enormous pressure on themselves, making their Hospital. It yielded information on their provide better interventions and targeted We saw another great example of that during the Vancouver Olympics Here at the Alumni Association we have an active Board of Directors lives far from perfect.” perfectionism, experience of bullying, sense of treatments, we don’t need more evidence that and Paralympics. I know many people (me included) poo-pooed the games that strikes volunteer committees (from Communications and Awards to For many years Hewitt has researched the social hopelessness, and their thought of and perfectionism is a problem, we need to know when Vancouver won the bid, but the way they played out warmed all but Advocacy and Finance) to help us develop and deliver programs and connections between perfectionism and poor attempts at suicide. why it’s a problem.” the hardest of hearts. IOC heavy-handedness, gazillions of dollars in services for our alumni all over the world. social relationships, under-achievement, Individuals with perfectionism often crave Hewitt is a clinical psychologist who has taxpayer expense and predictions of disaster all melted away with a few Over the coming year, the Alumni Association will introduce a new ill-health, personality disorders and depression. acceptance from others and fear rejection. They worked with people from all walks of life and has bars of “Oh, Canada,” some spectacular athletic performances and the program designed to coordinate and generate volunteer opportunities for With research partner Gordon Flett of York are typically self-critical (yet sensitive to the seen the destruction caused by perfectionism. odd, almost tearful feeling of pride we felt. alumni to use their time and talent in meaningful ways at their alma University, he is currently researching the role criticism of others), have a tendency to retreat “I have worked with extreme perfectionists for None of it would have been possible without the help of the Blue mater, and harness the social capital of 252,000 UBC graduates. of perfectionism in suicide, specifically, the need from the world, and can experience anger, many years and I am still surprised by the depth Brigade, 20,000 men and women dressed in blue who took tickets, yelled In the meantime, tune in to CiTR for a taste of what UBC is like today. to appear perfect to others (perfectionistic depression and rigidity of thought. They can of their pain and the level of their desire to die,” directions over loudspeakers, groomed snow, drove athletes around, And remember: you’re listening to the voice of volunteers. self-presentation). One area of study focuses procrastinate or unconsciously hinder themselves he says. “Perfectionists try to be the perfect on young people, a demographic with rising to prevent facing the possibility that their best patient. Our goal is to help them see and accept Chris Petty, mfa’86, Editor in Chief rates of suicide. “The perfectionism and suicide may not be perfect. To others they may appear who they are under the perfect facade.”

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Marijuana and Alzheimer’s: benefit at all. Instead, our study pointed to some she says, summing up the study’s conclusions. more than 30 per cent.” Trust in multiple life 101, which started in 2001 with a grant from discoveries as well as medical. “Biotechnology Helpful or Harmful? detrimental effects.” The study subjects – 350 working adults – areas leads to even greater satisfaction, says HSBC. Faculty and students not only taught was the most apparent use, but in developing The benefits of marijuana in tempering or Over a period of several weeks, some of the answered questions designed to assess their Helliwell, who authored another paper (with residents the basics of setting up a small our Global Access Principles we sought to apply reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s-afflicted mice were given varying ability to savour life in six different situations, grad student Shun Wang) using well-being data business, they also removed barriers to them in the broadest sense possible,” says the have been challenged in a new study by doses of HU210 – also known as cannabinoids – including a romantic weekend away and from the Gallup World Poll and the Canadian attending class. They provided childcare, transit director of UBC’s Industry Liaison Office, Angus researchers at UBC and Vancouver Coastal which is 100 to 800 times more potent than the completing an important task. They were also General Social Survey. The surveys asked if fare and a meal to those attendees who required Livingstone. “UBC research has a stellar track Health Research Institute. marijuana compounds. Their memory was then asked about their level of happiness, current respondents believed their (hypothetically) lost them. Several small businesses were established record of addressing real-world problems, The findings, published in the journal tested. The mice treated with HU210 did no wealth, and desire for future wealth. The wallet would be returned by police, neighbours, as a result of the program. including those experienced by both developing Current Alzheimer Research, could lower better than untreated mice, with those given questionnaire included an image of money, to strangers and other individuals. “Those who In Kibera, Kenyan youth take part in an and developed nations: food security, sustainability expectations about the benefits of medical low doses of HU210 performing the worst. prime the subjects’ thoughts while answering the think their lost wallet would be returned if intensive three-week program that helps them and the environment.” Because of his involvement marijuana in combating various cognitive The researchers also found that HU210-treated questions. (A control group’s questionnaire, also found by a neighbour or the police report an draft a business plan they can use to help secure setting up the GAI, Livingstone was able to lend diseases and help redirect future research to mice had just as much plaque formation and the contained the image, but it was indecipherably increase in subjective well-being similar to that financial loans. Micro-financing institutions, in his experience in formulating the new statement, more promising therapies. same density of neurons as the control group. blurred.) Another experiment involved giving associated with an increase of household particular, are interested in these enterprises, alongside US university colleagues and the Previous studies using animal models showed The group given higher doses actually had fewer subjects a piece of chocolate to eat and leading income of about two thirds,” says Helliwell. and are a growing trend in some African Association of University Technology. that HU210, a synthetic form of the compounds brain cells. them to believe it was for a taste test. They countries. The program emphasizes social First year medical student Mike Gretes is found in marijuana, reduced the toxicity of “Our study shows that HU210 has no answered a questionnaire while researchers African Entrepreneurship 101 impact and some entrepreneurial efforts have chair of the UBC chapter of UAEM. He applauds plaques and promoted the growth of new biological or behavioural effect on the established timed how long they took to savour the chocolate. While business entrepreneurship has profit as been directed towards such things as AIDS UBC’s involvement and hopes the university will neurons. Those studies used rats carrying Alzheimer’s disease model,” says Song, the Jack The test subjects were again exposed to an its defining goal, social entrepreneurship aims education and garbage recycling. Other take a leading role in encouraging other amyloid protein, the toxin that forms plaques in Brown and Family Professor and Chair in image of money. Those exposed to the image to produce something of lasting value for enterprises emerging from the program include universities to come on board, in expanding the the brains of Alzheimer’s victims. Alzheimer’s Disease. “More studies should be took less time to eat the chocolate. This study’s communities. It seeks innovative and sustainable restaurants, graphic design services and principles beyond drugs and medical technologies, The new study, led by Dr. Weihong Song, done before we place much hope in marijuana’s co-researchers were Dino Petrides of University solutions to help solve social problems. A course business plan consultancy. and in including poor populations based in Canada Research Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease benefits for Alzheimer’s patients.” College London, England; Moira Mikolajczak of based out of the Sauder School of Business has Langton spends time promoting the program middle income countries. and a professor of psychiatry in the UBC the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium; been combating poverty and unemployment in a to Kenyan church parishioners in an effort to “UBC’s leadership in both technology transfer Faculty of Medicine, was the first to test those Can Money Buy Happiness? and visiting PhD student Jordi Quoidbach from Nairobi slum since 2006 by encouraging encourage continued support and mentorship and global access principles is recognized by findings using mice carrying human genetic The idea that money can’t buy happiness the University of Liege, also in Belgium. economic growth and diversity through the for youth. She also encourages members of the other institutions and agencies such as the mutations that cause Alzheimer’s disease, has, to some degree, been upheld by scientific A second UBC study, in conjunction with teaching of business skills to locals. UBC community to lend a hand. “There are so GATES Foundation-funded Consortium for widely considered to be a more accurate model evidence. Three studies involving UBC researchers Harvard Business School, demonstrates that Every year associate professor Nancy many ways to be involved with this project,” she Parasitic Drug Development,” says Livingstone. for the disease in humans. would suggest that money isn’t the strongest people overestimate the effect of income level Langton visits Kibera, the largest slum in says. “We can use help with writing grants, “This is especially poignant in today’s dire “As scientists, we begin every study hoping to factor and might even be detrimental to the on happiness. Subjects were asked to estimate East Africa, taking with her graduate and marketing, curriculum development, with economic times. But in encouraging our be able to confirm beneficial effects of potential pursuit of happiness. their own and others’ happiness at 10 income undergraduate students who teach local mentorship, with micro-financing ideas.” industry partners to rethink their practices and therapies, and we hoped to confirm this for the Psychology professor Elizabeth Dunn levels from $25,000 to $1 million. The researchers would-be entrepreneurs the skills they need Learn more at www.africa.sauder.ubc.ca and the potential positive impact this approach may use of medical marijuana in treating Alzheimer’s co-conducted a study with international then compared the results with existing data on to succeed, including accounting, marketing, follow on Twitter: SE101Africa. have, we’re bringing the essence of innovation disease,” says Song, a member of the Brain colleagues designed to assess how wealth affects income and happiness. The subjects associated and managing human resources. So far, 225 and discovery one step further as global citizens.” Research Centre at UBC and VCH Research people’s ability to enjoy life’s small pleasures. greater unhappiness with a low income than is local youth have participated. Sharing the Health Institute and Director of Townsend Family “While wealth opens doors to great experiences, actually the case (although they were accurate The idea was inspired by a similar initiative in UBC is the first Canadian institution to sign UBC Votes for Argentina Laboratories at UBC. “But we didn’t see any it appears to undercut people’s ability to savour,” in their predictions for incomes of $90,000 and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: Entrepreneurship the Statement of Principles and Strategies for Since 2006, UBC has helped to shape political over). The lead author was Lara Akin, a PhD the Equitable Dissemination of Medical and electoral debate in Argentina through its student working with Dunn. “There is a real but Technologies. Along with 14 major institutions involvement in the website project Argentina On Alzheimer’s modest relationship between money and in the US, the university has pledged to make Elections (www.argentinaelections.com). The happiness,” she says. “But our studies show that “… the best things drugs and therapies resulting from research website analyzes, strengthens and deepens Approximately 500,000 Canadians are Women make up 72 per cent of Canadians adult Americans erroneously believe that discoveries more accessible to those in public debate about the Argentine electoral living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related with Alzheimer’s disease. earning less than median income is associated developing countries. The principles include regime and its influence in the political system. dementia. in life may actually Within just five years, an additional 250,000 with severely diminished happiness.” ensuring generic versions of patented drugs The site is based on the experience of another Of the 500,000 people affected, more than Canadians could develop Alzheimer’s A third UBC study by John Helliwell and undercut the ability for those unable to afford them, and methods website project, Peru Elections 2006, which 71,000 of them are under the age of 65, and disease or a related dementia. graduate student Haifang Huang (now teaching for monitoring the effectiveness of access was developed and run by UBC political science approximately 50,000 of them are under at the University of Alberta) demonstrated that to reap enjoyment licensing programs. professor Maxwell Cameron. A team of Within a generation (25 years), the number the age of 60. the level of trust employees had for managers The thrust for this initiative came originally researchers and political scientists worked of people living with Alzheimer’s disease or was a major factor in their life satisfaction. “If from life’s small from the student-driven organization Universities with Dr. Cameron, including Hugo Passarello 1 in 11 people over the age of 65 currently a related dementia could reach between 1 employees are higher by one point on a 10-point Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM). In 2007 Luna a graduate of UBC’s International have Alzheimer’s disease or a related million and 1.3 million. pleasures.” dementia. scale in their assessment of the trustworthiness UBC responded to this organization’s calls for Relations and Film Production program and of their managers,” says Helliwell, “the effect on (Source: Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect of action by setting up the Global Access Initiative recipient of the Mary M. Young Global Citizen (Source: Initial findings from the study Rising Tide: The Impact of Dementia on Canadian Society by the Alzheimer Society of Wealth on Happiness, a study by UBC’s Elizabeth Dunn and Canada in conjunction with RiskAnalytica.) their life satisfaction is equal to a pay increase of colleagues published in the journal Psychological Science) (GAI), which encompassed other research Award from Argentina.

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In countries where access to information is use rain water exclusively, and all waste water ~ President’s Message ~ complex, limited and arguably credible, the site will be treated on site. Everything will be The University of aims to provide reliable, complete and free data monitored including heating, cooling, lighting, to academics and citizens. Since its creation in late equipment use and human behaviour. Occupants Sustainability 2006, the site has received more than 348,000 will be kept informed about green measures and UBC has already met international targets Place and Promise: visits and is considered the leading electoral will be able to indicate how useful and effective established by the Kyoto Protocol – a six per resource in the country and one of the most these measures are. cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions The Process of Definition important in the region. The $37 million construction, due to be (GHGs) from 1990 levels – for its core Stephen J. Toope, President, UBC The site is a non-partisan, plural and completed by next summer, will be the hub of academic buildings. On March 22, Professor academic publication, which earned it the the university’s new sustainability initiative. Toope announced UBC’s new goals: Every few years most universities – and indeed of British Columbia, Canada and the world. recognition of the National Electoral Chamber The project is being led by John Robinson, a reduce GHGs an additional 33 per cent most individuals – find it useful to reflect on the (equivalent to Elections Canada), the National professor at the Institute for Resources, Then, following tradition, a mission statement from 2007 levels by 2015 goals and aspirations that inform their activities. would be crafted that defined some of the tactics Electoral Commission (Argentina’s supreme Environment and Sustainability and the new Is the institution on the right path? Is it fulfilling to be undertaken to achieve our vision. But this is electoral court), all national political parties and executive director of sustainability for UBC’s reduce GHGs to 67 per cent below 2007 its mandate to the people it serves? Is it focus- where we abandoned tradition and struck out into various electoral offices around the world. Since Vancouver campus. “CIRS will create a single levels by 2020 sing on its strengths? Is it building resources to new territory, at least as it applies to institutional 2008 the team was invited to be part of the home for UBC’s sustainable activities,” he says. eliminate 100 per cent of GHGs by 2050 combat its weaknesses? Is it the best it can be? definition. Instead, we looked at the values we select ACE Electoral Knowledge Network “It’s particularly appropriate to take a highly As the president of one of the world’s top hold as individuals and how those values might developed by the worldwide leading electoral innovative new approach and put it in the most For more information on UBC’s sustainability Cigdem Eskicioglu is research universities, I see it as my responsibility apply to a leading public university like UBC. organizations IDEA, IFES, Elections Canada and sustainable building in North America.” drive, visit www.sustain.ubc.ca turning waste into energy. to ensure that this analysis is undertaken and to These values – academic freedom; advancing and the United Nations Department of Economic The building and initiative will centralize and lead the formulation and implementation of a sharing knowledge; excellence; integrity; mutual and Social Affairs (UNDESA). streamline sustainability efforts, encompassing alternative to current clean-up methods, which (up to six per cent of the campus’s average plan for the future. respect and equity; and public interest – are as The website has the most complete electoral research, operations, and commercialization. As involve removing and incinerating soil. demand) and in thermal mode to produce steam close as we could come to describing an ideal guide of Argentina, with detailed information well as academic partners such as SFU, Emily This study into the potential for biodegradation (about 25 per cent of campus requirement). Of course, building a strategic plan hasn’t been a one-person job. Other university leaders, faculty, values-environment for our university. for voters, and it contains more than 50 interviews Carr and BCIT, the centre will have commercial of explosives is a $3.45 million project funded by It will also provide research and learning staff, students and alumni have contributed Our community then elaborated nine commitments of top political figures, including several partners such as BC Hydro, Haworth and Genome BC and the US Military. Soil samples opportunities for faculty and students, yield untold hours of work over the past 18 months to we will undertake to create an exceptional learning candidates from the last two national elections. Honeywell. It will also serve as a driver for are being provided by Defence Research and valuable new knowledge in the clean energy help bring this plan together. As such, it reflects a environment. These commitments are the priorities The online debate is launched. Argentine public involvement. “Community engagement Development Canada, an Agency of the sector and inform new global standards for deep understanding of the university – its great that determine how our financial and intellectual citizens, and the rest of the world, are benefiting isn’t just desirable in principle,” says Robinson, Canadian Department of National Defence. bioenergy system performance. The project is a parts and its less strong – and a powerful desire resources will be used in the years to come. The from a tool that helps to reinforce democratic “it’s actually necessary to achieve a sustainable Dr. Eltis, a professor of microbiology and partnership with Vancouver-based Nexterra to make their university even better. central commitments are student learning, research institutions by promoting transparency and future. Politicians can’t act to change things immunology, also leads an interdisciplinary Systems Corp. and GE Water & Power. excellence and community engagement. They are encouraging electoral debate in a scenario without a constituency for that change. Business research group that is exploring the use of micro- UBC’s new strategic plan, Place and Promise, buttressed by six commitments that speak more where political confrontation is common. can’t deliver sustainable products and services if organism for the degradation of PCBs. Microor- Engineering More builds on the excellent work represented in Trek precisely to our situation at UBC: aboriginal Argentina Elections would like to thank the there isn’t a market.” ganisms also hold promise in the development Sustainable Communities 2010, the strategic plan endorsed by the university engagement, alumni engagement, intercultural continuous support of Dr. Cameron and UBC, of novel therapeutics to treat infectious UBC Okanagan engineering professor Cigdem community in 2006. Many of the goals put forth understanding, international engagement, out- especially the Office of Learning Technology for Cleaning Soil-ution diseases, and Dr. Eltis is founding director of the Eskicioglu is working with BC farms, factories, in that document have been achieved. For instance, “UBC… aspires to be one of the world’s standing work environment, and sustainability. its generosity. If you would like to know more UBC professor Lindsay Eltis is leading a Centre for Tuberculosis Research at UBC. municipalities such as the City of Kelowna, and leading universities…” is no longer an aspiration; This combination of vision, values and commitments contact Hugo Passarello Luna, Argentina project to clean up contaminated soil at military a pulp mill in Quesnel to identify effective ways it is a reality. is unique among world universities and continues Elections’ director, at info@argentinaelections. sites. The main culprit is the explosive RDX, a Changing Mass to Gas to turn their organic waste into renewable the process of defining UBC’s distinct footprint as com or visit www.argentinaelections.com nitramine commonly used as a propellant for A first-of-its-kind bioenergy project at UBC energy – methane – and organic fertilizer in The traditional approach to building a strategic an outstanding institution of teaching, learning tank shells that was developed during WWII. will generate enough clean electricity to power anaerobic digesters. plan is to craft a vision statement that outlines, in and research. New Building on Sustainability Street Dr. Eltis’ team is searching for ways to 1,500 homes, reduce the university’s natural gas Eskicioglu’s research is improving energy general, the overarching goals that will define the UBC is constructing what it hopes will be North remediate the environmental contamination consumption by up to 12 per cent and eliminate production from agricultural and industrial university. This is the vision we – the combined Those of our alumni and friends for whom we America’s greenest building, one that will be an caused by RDX. The main weapon in the up to 4,500 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions waste by thermal/mechanical disintegration talent pool mentioned above – aspire to at UBC: have email addresses will have received an inspiring example of how to live sustainably and researchers’ armoury is Gordonia, a type of per year, the equivalent of taking 1,100 cars off methods, while also diverting waste from As one of the world’s leading universities, The expanded version of our rationale and process an ongoing experiment for developing improved bacteria that has evolved to thrive on the the road. landfills and reducing pathogens, odour, and University of British Columbia creates an exceptional for Place and Promise, along with my invitation to methods. Even the building’s occupants will be contaminants RDX leaves behind. Eltis describes The $26 million Bioenergy Research and greenhouse gas emissions. “In Canada, our learning environment that fosters global citizenship, visit www.ubc.strategicplan.ca for a complete, part of the experiment. them as the ultimate garbage incinerators, and Demonstration Project will be the first North waste is not utilized as a resource,” says advances a civil and sustainable society, and downloadable copy of Place and Promise. I invite The Centre for Interactive Research on will be exploring their biochemical and genetic American demonstration of a biomass-fueled Eskicioglu. “If we can make use of the waste in supports outstanding research to serve the people Trek Magazine readers to do the same. Sustainability (CIRS), as it will be known, will be pathways in a bid to improve strategies for heat-and-power generation system. UBC’s innovative ways to extract energy and recycle it greenhouse gas positive, a net energy producer, removing toxins from the soil. Harnessing the Vancouver campus will see the installation of a within our communities, this will take Canada a and a showcase of the latest in green building properties of certain bacteria has the potential biomass gasification system that will operate in step closer to achieving its Kyoto targets for technologies and practice. For example, it will for providing a cheaper and more effective co-generation mode for electric power production greenhouse gas reduction.”

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~ E x e c u t i v e D irector’s Message ~ its alumni body, to the benefit of both UBC and alumni. In this instance, “we” Dear Editor: includes UBC’s leadership team, the volunteer leaders of the UBC Alumni The Fall issue of Trek was a great blend of Association Board of Directors, partners all across the university, and the 30 history and news, with many interesting articles. A Fond Farewell professionals who make up the UBC Alumni Affairs team at UBC’s Point Grey I enjoy the nuggets you have been digging up Marie Earl, Executive Director, and Okanagan campuses, at the Medical Student & Alumni Centre (near about UBC. UBC Alumni Association, Vancouver General Hospital), and at UBC’s Asia Pacific Regional Office in What prompted me to write was an article Associate Vice President, Alumni Hong Kong. In addition to this dedicated cadre, thousands of students, alumni that sparked an old memory. You mention the and friends have contributed their time, talent, and treasure to making our Engineering E Block on pg. 23. Yes, I remember I’ve been here in beautiful British Columbia for more than five years now. community one of value to us all. walking past it from the parking lot. Yes, it was Long enough to feel seriously conflicted when Canada loses to USA in the While it will be terribly difficult to leave UBC, I take comfort in the degree painted over by many faculties but the engineers preliminary round of Olympic men’s hockey games. My loyalties straddle of ownership these many stakeholders feel toward our collective enterprise. always had it repainted as fast as could be. these two great nations and two of their finest institutions: the University of Moreover, UBC’s new strategic plan, Place & Promise, includes alumni Students had great stories about how the block Engineering E Block Part of the Clock Tower’s original carillon system. British Columbia, for which I have had the privilege of serving as Associate engagement as one of nine institutional commitments, creating a roadmap for was indestructible. Vice President, Alumni, and Executive Director of the UBC Alumni our future. Our vision – “UBC engages its alumni fully in the life of the The E Block was also special because it was the Dear Editor: Association, and my alma mater Stanford University. institution, as valued supporters, advocates and lifelong learners who contribute only faculty-related item that I can remember I recall with unusual clarity the weeks of 1988 Ed – The mystery of how the Clock Tower’s I’ll be leaving my job at UBC at the end of the academic year in May to to and benefit from connections to each other and to the University.” that was repeatedly defaced. I don’t think any during which partners in mischief programmed chimes are generated has been resolved for us return to California. My husband and I have taken turns professionally these I have no doubt that we will one day realize this vision and have promised to other faculty had something like the E Block, the Ladner Clock Tower Carillon to play Battle by George McLaughlin, facilities manager with past 30 years, and he has recently taken on an executive leadership role in come back in 2013 for the opening of UBC’s Alumni Centre (now in the design which is why I always thought the greatest stunt Hymn of the Republic, better known to us ’geers UBC Building Operations: Silicon Valley. and fundraising stage) at the heart of the new University Square development played on it was the “tar and feather” job done in as the Engineer’s Song. At that time there was no “The clock tower does not have any bells, but The past five years here have been enormously rewarding for me professionally, on our Point Grey campus. Until then, I will continue to track your progress the early 1980s. It took the ’geers weeks to clean cassette player in the control room, but a real has speakers, and it always had speakers. There is as we have been able to make real advances in the relationship UBC has with from south of the border with real pleasure and immense pride. Tuum Est! it. The strange thing was it never was covered by Carillon system using perforated paper tape a carillon system in the small bunker beside the the campus paper. I don’t recall any public cylinders like those found on a player piano. clock tower. Its chimes used to be operated by a statement of responsibility but I seem to I was responsible for creating the paper tape mechanical clock and chain system, which has remember it occurring during Commerce week. program to play that memorable tune. since been replaced by an electronic system. The First impressions count, and that goes for places as well as people. Take ~ A ssociation C h A ir’s Message ~ As it did no lasting damage, harmed no students, carillon also used to be operated using a perforated UBC’s Vancouver campus, for example. Many people coming here for the first and was original, it stands out in my mind as Allen Dong, PEng, BASc’92 tape – in fact I used to do this for Congregation. time are overwhelmed by the size, scope and complexity of the university, worthy of being the prank highlight of a decade. There is also an organ in the bunker and, when the and find it hard to know where to start. Where the Heart is: Keep on producing an enjoyable magazine. system is switched to manual, its sound is played Surveys tell us that a great many UBC alumni return to campus after graduation. through the speakers.” Some come to take courses, some to attend events, some to show off the A Home for Alumni Eric Bachleitner, BCom’85 campus to visitors and some just to visit old haunts. Even though landmarks like Ian Robertson, BSc’86, BA’88, MBA, the Ladner Clock Tower and Main Library still provide a comforting familiarity, MA, Chair, UBC Alumni Association the campus is growing and changing so rapidly it might be a daunting place for them to navigate. the redeveloped area designed to transform the way we see, feel, access and enjoy the Vancouver campus. During the past five years on the Board of Directors, I’ve become familiar with (Whistler) Is YouTube Killing Canadian Call for Nominations: UBC Alumni Many people have worked for years to make the University Boulevard the many campus changes. I can only wonder what an alumnus from even 10 Culture: Will the Canadian story go viral? Association Board of Directors years ago must think when he or she visits UBC again for the first time. They revamp a reality. The planning process has been shared, criticized, altered Or will it buffer forever? and improved, with students, alumni and staff all contributing to an eventual may well be as disoriented as a first-time visitor. Content in the digital world comes at us from Positions Available for the 2010/2011 Year: outcome in which we will all share. Fortunately, there’s a major transformation in the pipeline designed to every direction. Borders are meaningless, Vice Chair 1 position available make our campus accessible, welcoming and inviting, a place to spend time, One of the hardest workers in this regard has been the Association’s platforms define access and dissemination is (1 Year Term) no matter what brings you back. Our new Alumni Centre will provide that Executive Director, Marie Earl. Since her arrival, Marie has been a driving universal. What does this mean for Canadian Treasurer 1 position available transformation in grand style. force behind this and every other alumni endeavour at UBC. From our events UBC Dialogues: Coming culture? Who’s defining us? Can uniquely (2 Year Term) and communications to our impact on faculties and senior administrators, The Centre will be located west of War Memorial Gym and south of the to a community near you! Canadian stories survive in a streaming universe Member-at-Large 2 positions available Marie has increased the quality and the frequency of our activities, and has Student Union Building at the corner of University Boulevard and East Mall, UBC Alumni Affairs brings UBC Dialogues to that has no boundaries? (3 Year Term) easily doubled the level of our engagement with our alumni. She has which has been aptly described as the heart of the Vancouver campus. It will communities near you – asking provocative (Victoria and Vancouver) Advocate or increased our confidence and improved our work to the point where we can Position descriptions are available online. be a landmark, a first port of call for visitors. It will be a vibrant hub where the questions and fostering dialogue. Our event Activist: What is the best way to effect change? say that the alumni programs offered at UBC are the best in the country. campus community can gather, meet, celebrate and connect with the rich series sponsor for the Lower Mainland is CBC. From debates and lobbyists to boycotts and Please note that these positions require intellectual and social life of the university. It will celebrate our past and be a Marie is returning to California after providing five years of outstanding protesters, political action takes many forms. certain experience and qualifications. Visit Here are some past highlights. For photos and www.alumni.ubc.ca cornerstone of our future. leadership. She leaves almost as reluctantly as we wave her off. Is there a time and place for righteous indigna- our website ( ) to learn podcasts of these and other UBC Dialogues as more about the application process. Marie, we wish you a happy and successful future. On behalf of our quarter The new Alumni Centre – along with a new and expanded Student Union well as a listing of which communities we’ll be tion? Or is it more effective to engage in Building – will be part of an extensive makeover of University Boulevard, with million strong UBC alumni, “Thank you!” dialogue with those we oppose? All applications must be received no later visiting next, see www.alumni.ubc.ca. than 4:30pm on Monday, May 10, 2010.

10 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 11 R. A. Hawrel ak BASc’58, MASc’60 “Mom, I can’t believe it! Your name is I remember the Old Aud well, especially the rivalry between the nurses and the engineers scrawled in huge letters on the ceiling backstage regarding who could put on the filthiest skit. Those yearly sessions were jam-packed and we at the UBC Auditorium.” usually had to skip our 11:00 AM class to get a seat.

Mary W. Ross (Spilsbury ) BA’63

Tales from the “Mom, I can’t believe it! Your name is scrawled in huge letters on the ceiling backstage at the UBC Auditorium.” I could just picture my daughter at the other end of the telephone, rolling her eyes with horror and giggling. Truly, I had quite forgotten that 28 years before that call I had managed to climb the rigging carrying a paint pot to autograph the old 1925 brickwork at the very highest point. That Old Auditorium was like home to me and to a wild and eccentric gaggle of drama students in the early 1960s. The old auditorium professors were not much older than we were and, although we all worked hard on every production, we played like there was no tomorrow. These were our salad days. Thank Mary W. Ross (Spilsbury) heavens the walls cannot talk. The drama professor and director in 1962 was born in England and had a rich British accent and gave me my start as a professional ballet and the late John Brockington, whom we all admired that took him far. After his time at UBC he jazz dancer. For 33 years Grace choreographed and respected, and my first show was Shakespeare’s became a professional actor, first in 1964 at the most of the Mussoc productions, and musical Henry IV – Part 1. My roommate, the late Katherine Vancouver Playhouse starring in Julius Caesar, theatre thrived under her in the Old Auditorium. Rae Ackerman BA’65 Robertson, was assistant director. After and later spent many seasons at the Stratford It would be a shame if her name and contribution The Old Auditorium is one (Director, Vancouver Civic Theatres) graduation she became the production manager Shakespeare Festival travelling the breadth of were forgotten. of UBC’s original buildings. of Anne of Green Gables in Charlottetown and Canada writing, acting and directing. Alan is “Mom, I have something to confess,” As a theatre major in the beginning years of that in the 1940s and from the beginning Norman for several seasons at the Stratford Festival in probably best known for the starring role in the announced my daughter, Meg, on the telephone Over many decades it has been department, my student life centred around the Young played the male lead, an engineering Niagara on the Lake. She married British-born TV series Seven Days and in 1985 won a Genie yesterday. “On graduation night, I climbed a a hub of student activity and a Old Auditorium. I was a member of the Players’ student named Joe Beef. By the time I was a actor/director Paxton Whitehead, moving with Award for Best Performance as an Actor in The ladder backstage in the Freddy Wood Theatre Club, worked on Mussoc shows, crewed for student in the ’60s Norman had become the him to the US. She returned to stage-manage the Bay Boy. Other talented actors like Mike and scrawled my name at the highest possible favourite venue for musical rentals, built scenery and focussed lights for technical director for the Theatre Department, opening of EXPO 86. My other roommate, Nora Mathews and Karl Wylie were part of the golden place near the ceiling: Meg Ross, BFA’96.” and theatrical performances. Summer School of Theatre, Summer School of was in his 30s and wore the part of Joe Beef like a Wright (McNeill), played Mistress Quickly, the years of the early ’60s at UBC. Opera and Theatre Department shows, the lot. second skin, knew exactly where every laugh was hostess of Boar’s Head Tavern. I played the The Auditorium was also home to Mussoc. Since walls can’t talk, we asked John R. Bennest BSc(Physics)’71 One of these was Henry IV – Part 1 starring a and could milk an audience dry. Or maybe it was slovenly serving wench with no lines – only a During the two years I was there, we staged Once young John Wright as Prince Henry. Crammed the case that Eric Nicol had originally written alumni to send us their cackle and a drunken roll down the staircase Upon a Mattress, a 1959 off-Broadway adaption I was a member of the UBC Film Society from into a corner backstage during the battle scenes the part for him, so he just had to act himself. clutching a goblet of wine. I got a huge laugh on of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and 1966 to 1971, and fondly recall operating our recollections about this was Bill Millerd (now artistic director of That year, backstage after the opening opening night much to Brockington’s disgust. the Pea with music by Mary Rogers, and the carbon-arc-lamp 16mm projectors in the tiny Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre Company) playing performance, Norman tossed me his engineering campus landmark. He gave me a stern lecture about trying to steal following year the very popular Bye Bye Birdie, projection booth of the Old Aud for general film a little snare drum and ducking as fellow students jacket and slide rule and said “Here, you play Joe the scene from Sir John Falstaff, played by John with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee presentations on Thursdays, noon to midnight, ran on and off stage swinging real-steel Stratford Beef tomorrow. I can’t make it.” I had worked Brighton. Henry, Prince of Wales, was none Adams. In the former I danced the prologue and for Cinema 16 (the student film society) on swords. And of course I was on stage acting the show the year before and this year so I knew other than John Wright, who became the head with choreography by the late Grace Macdonald, Monday evenings. whenever that opportunity came along too. the lines and blocking, knew the timing and of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing (1994- who later hired me for the ballet company of the My favourite recollection is when we ran a The Old Auditorium was where I learned one where the laughs were. So the next day, on I 1999). John later founded Vancouver’s Blackbird Vancouver International Festival, which double-feature of the Beatles movies A Hard of the most important lessons of my life. The went, pretending as hard as I could to be Theatre in 2004 with fellow graduate Nicola included dancing in Merry Wives of Windsor, Day’s Night and HELP! We sold out the house Players’ Club annually produced a noon-hour, Norman, letting the gag lines fly and holding for Cavendish, a legendary actress, director and with the witches in Macbeth, and as the evil for all shows, and did it again some weeks later one-act comedy called Her Scienceman Lover the laughs – which never, ever came. Not a single writer. Another member of the cast was Alan mermaid in Peter Pan. Grace introduced me to in response to the enormous demand. and ran it for several performances each year. It laugh. Just a deathly silence. From that moment Scarfe, who played Owen Glendower. Alan was the production team at Theatre Under the Stars This was at a time when we were charging was written by Eric Nicol when he was a student on I eliminated acting as a career option.

12 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 13 $0.50 admission. We set up two tables, one at Joy Yorath BA’65 Don Chutter BCom’44 to eat their sandwiches or buy Caf food and the took out pocket matches and lit his little creation. “… Diane came down each lobby door, and those with exact change notorious Caf coffee. This was also the meeting The flames leapt high, creating a lot of smoke. dropped their coins into a box on the table as In the early 1960s my friend was in How to The reasons why so many UBC grads have place for fraternities and sororities. Each had a Now the invigilators burst into action to clear hard with her high heel they rushed by to find a seat. The money Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Mary memories about the Aud are because it was a reserved table. At other times of the day the everyone from the room, while they put out the shoes on Mary’s foot generated by this spectacular event helped to Stewart (the Olympic swimmer and mascot of multi-purpose building and in earlier times was tables were sometimes used by avid bridge fire and grabbed the student. He went so nuts finance various capital costs involved in our the BC Lions) had a lead role. My friend, Diane the hub of many student activities. I daresay players or for meetings of smaller clubs. that they all had to deal with him, leaving the and she danced away subsequent move into the new Student Union O’Hara (Hood), had a dancing part in the show. that in my days most students entered the And outside of the Aud was the quad, a rest of us on the street to mill about, then Building. During the number Diane came down hard with building, if not daily, at least on a weekly basis. crossroads of students going to and from straggle away. Some thought it was a great with three shoes on and her high heel shoes on Mary’s foot and she It was the location for a whole host of adjacent classrooms – another aspect that made protest and hilarious. danced away with three shoes on and Mary only activities: student assemblies and election the Aud so central to daily campus life and Maybe that’s all it was, but I remembered a Mary only had one. We Sally Olsen BEd’70 had one. We laughed so hard we cried but Mary campaigns, pep meets, visiting bands and star future memories. very stressed young woman who had committed didn’t think it was very funny. musicians, prominent guest speakers, concerts laughed so hard we cried I was at UBC in 1960-61 for my first year at suicide in the main library that February and a The guys at UBC in those years spent every by the UBC Band (featuring Phil Nimmons on university and had my psychology class in the young man who had leapt to his death from his long Thursday lunch hour in the Auditorium the clarinet and George Reifel on the drums) Brenda Guild BSc(Zoology,Hons)’72 but Mary didn’t think it Auditorium. There were so many people in that sixth floor Totem Park room that same month. watching Road Runner cartoons. and periodic performances of Her Scienceman class, but none of my friends had come to In April of 1969, on a sweltering morning, I had There was a third suicide, but I can’t remember was very funny.” Lover (sub-titled The Birth of a Nation) written university and I didn’t know anyone. I always sat an exam in the Old Auditorium, which was a where or how. This is how Reading Break – a by Jabez (later revealed to be Eric Nicol). The in the same place for security, as we often do, on Marian Smith tinderbox. I was 17, finishing first year science. three-day long weekend at first, then four, now Aud was also the scene of convocations in the the left side near the front and got to know some (MacMillan, Hansen) BA’64 Several hundred of us filed into the rows of Reading Week – got started, to counter the days of smaller graduation classes. people around me. We often went afterwards to wooden chairs set facing north before old mid-winter gloom. The Aud also housed the Musical Society’s get UBC’s famous cinnamon buns and talk about I don’t remember any specifics about shows in wooden table-desks. In any case, the exam was clearly over, and club room (at stage level) and, above it, the the ideas presented by the professor in the class. the Auditorium, but I do remember Psych 100 We were late starting, because transom our funny/wacked-out protester was taken for Players’ Club’s Green Room. I can’t speak for the The most memorable class for me was when classes there. I think there were more than 500 windows had to be opened so we could breathe. psychiatric assessment. Marks were scaled, of former (we Players’ Clubbers tended to look the professor had a young fellow burst into the of us in the class! It was quite an experience for a They proved stubborn, but we finally got course, but I didn’t do as well as I might have, down at the Mussoc both physically and Auditorium from the back, halfway through the kid from Magee, whose graduating class was a underway about 10 minutes late. We couldn’t because I left the essay part of the exam to last, culturally) but the Green Room was the daily class, run down the aisle and out the front stage. fraction of that size. go overtime, because another exam was counting on my ability to write quickly. hangout for a lively group of talented students Another young fellow chased him. The professor My best memories are of cinnamon buns and scheduled. The pressure was really on, and On the rare occasion now when I walk by the and exceptionally pretty girls. Many freshettes continued on as if it hadn’t happened. Then he hot chocolate in the Cafeteria. As a commuter, I the exam was a stinker. Old Auditorium, these memories tumble back as tried out for the Players’ Club. Male and female paused and asked us what the young man who parked in Siberia, which was a good 20 minute A fellow near me started slowly ripping his exam if it were yesterday. Life was very bright and characters with stage experience usually were was chasing the first was wearing. Many people walk from the center of campus. My regular stop into strips, then tearing the strips into smaller intense in those days, as it is for all young admitted by the adjudication committee, as had different descriptions of what he had on, his in the Cafeteria fortified me for the day. I also pieces. Grad student invigilators could see, but people. UBC has a lot of tender souls in its were the aforesaid campus beauties. Some of the height, hair colour, and so on, and we quickly remember that it seemed to rain every Thursday let him freely express his opinion. He appeared hands, and every vigilance and kindness is latter could also act well and the others were learned that our testimony in being a witness to afternoon during the fall of 1960, my freshman calm, although all of us felt the boiling, cloying necessary and will be repaid times over. gainfully occupied in backstage work. a crime might not be reliable. year, and on Thursdays I had a late lab so my car atmosphere and added pressure. He gradually pool left without me. I remember waiting for the But it was the Cafeteria in the Aud’s basement There were many other happy or interesting built a neat pile of entirely shredded exam. Bill Bartlet BASc(Elec)’48 bus and feeling honored to stand in the rain with that was the main centre of activity, especially in times in the Auditorium but I particularly With about half an hour to finish – I had a and Milla Bartlet the cinnamon-bun lady, who made those the lunch hour when students converged there remember Rolf Harris with his didgeridoo and couple of essay questions to plow through – he ( Wardle) BA(SGWU), wobble board singing Tie Me Kangaroo Down, wonderful confections. attended UBC 1943-1945 Sport and all the Road Runner movies. The old Auditorium is the building we remember Robin Richardson BA’71 best about UBC. We first met in the quad, between Don Munro BSF’60 I remember Robert Stanfield speaking in the Old the east side of the Auditorium and the old Arts (Professor Emeritus) Auditorium, not during an election campaign, building, in October 1943. There were many Surely one of the historic events was when, but after he was elected leader of the Progressive meetings from then until 1948, when Bill on a weekend with nobody there, the entire Conservatives, and at a time when many thought graduated and we married – Arts Balls and ceiling collapsed. he’d be the next PM. I remember being impressed Science Balls, coffees in the Caf, dances at the As a student in the ’50s I watched Premier by his earnest approach, but wondering why Brock. Then we moved to Montreal, where we Bennett lose his temper after being heckled and they had dressed him in a plaid suit. have lived ever since. throw his book of notes at the hecklers. He then Every trip we take to Vancouver always walked out leaving his Attorney General Robert includes a visit to UBC and the quad, and the Bonnor to finish. Auditorium steps where we sat and planned and chatted so many years ago. I wonder, will those same steps be there when next we visit?

Bill and Milla Bartlet

14 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 15 Barbara Dalby (Harper) BA’57 the Auditorium. Instead, to a huge and wildly facing the seats and told “this is the stage.” That the problems of scenery construction. Some Ed Freeman BA’56 enthusiastic audience, he sang in the Old was my formal education. I managed to learn members of the crew, in particular Lorne I attended UBC in the years after the war when Armouries. the trade and became successful. Butterfield and me, made detailed sketches for a I was pleased to read that The Players’ Club all venues on the campus were over-crowded. Denied entry at the US border for his political The stage was poor, with inadequate space in small building specially designed for building has been resurrected. I have many pleasant The sudden influx of ex-service people stretched stance, Robeson had sung anyway to a crowd the wings and to the rear. The designers scenery. I canvassed members of the University memories of my time as a member. During 1952 to the limit the few small classrooms. In waiting on both sides of the border. But part way attempted to project the scenery onto a large Building Committee, who endorsed the project. to 1955 I was stage manager and participated on addition to the series of hurriedly assembled through our concert he stopped to remind us permanent wall erected near the rear. But the They chose a site. Members of the university the May tours about the province as we army huts, all available buildings were put to that unlike himself, or certain isolated stars like idea was never used and the wall compounded staff made working drawings and built the presented plays outside Vancouver. use, including the Auditorium itself. I took Lena Horne or Duke Ellington, most blacks had the space problem. We managed, but I hope the Scenery Shop. Psych 100 in the latter, along with two hundred not yet attained freedom. We listened in renovated Auditorium has an improved stage. The cast of Much Ado About Nothing, Life with the stage crew was not without Amuri R. Moore other students all balancing loose-leaf binders sympathy and disbelief. But universities do not The Auditorium was heavily used. The only directed by Joy Coghill in 1952. adventures. I toured twice with the Players’ (Johnson) BA’39 or brief cases on their knees. We hearkened to a spawn unanimity of opinion. “Where’s Jan place available for the stage crew to build Club, mainly to the Okanagan but also to Trail prof who was far away, up there on the stage. Masurek?” shouted someone from the back. A scenery was on the stage, and time was limited. and Victoria. The first tour was by train and Most fun were the noon hour pep meetings, And then there were the artistic presenta- fair question, but asking the wrong man. With Carpentry and painting were manageable, but shifting scenery and equipment from stage to especially those emceed by Norm de Poe. We tions every noon hour. To students from no answer to give, Paul Robeson still sang from setting the lighting was harder, since the stage truck to train, and vice versa, was a tiresome practiced yells for the football and basketball Smalltown, BC, it seemed amazing to have such deep within the heart, thrilling us all and switch-board was kept padlocked when not in chore. We had to change trains at Sicamous. I teams, sang Hail UBC and My Girl’s a Hulaballoo. an opportunity. Munching sandwiches we responding to a UBC welcome. use. One of the stage crew was able to pick the still remember the harassed look on the face of A noisy time, especially when, one noon, a large prepared to listen to the university choir, or an “Well, it’s back to the Auditorium tomorrow,” lock and this gave us valuable setup time. the conductor on the platform, watch in hand, grey rat was held by the tail and hurled about the opera singer or a Jokers’ Club skit. The sched- we thought. For the Mussoc was presenting However, one afternoon the university electrician, observing load after load, from platform to train, room – no doubt a scienceman’s prank. uled speaker might be a noted scientist, or Dr. Pirates of Penzance. Mr. Fletcher, came on stage and observed what as his train lost time. We were there to write some final exams, a MacKenzie, the Chancellor, or Endicott of the Ah, the old Auditorium! Indeed, somehow you was happening. He relocked the switchboard For my second tour we borrowed a university time of silence, except for the sound of the Labour Progressive Party. With some muttering must retain the old gal’s stories. and gave us a stern warning not to repeat our truck large enough to carry all our scenery and supervisor walking, or something dropped, or a and skepticism we once heard a young hopeful offence. During my two years as stage manager lighting equipment. This worked very well but student leaving, having finished early or been Conservative politician extravagantly intro- we were able to arrange the installation of a we did run into a dangerous situation. The crew unable to answer many of the questions. Fred Lipsett BASc’48, MASc’51 duced as “the next Prime Minister of Canada.” catwalk behind the proscenium to facilitate consisted of Joe Mirko for lighting and me for Downstairs was the Caf, furnished with His name was John Diefenbaker. I started at UBC in 1943 and joined the Players’ lighting, and a fly curtain behind the main curtain scenery. We shared the driving. Joe was driving white-topped tables and wire-backed chairs. It It was in the Auditorium foyer where, Club. I failed my audition for the fall plays, but to allow acting downstage while something else the truck along the winding highway above the was there that some students spent many hours clutching an armful of books with one hand and had indicated an interest in stage work on my was being arranged further upstage. shore of Okanagan Lake one sunny Sunday. drinking coffee or Coke and talking. If lucky they a door panel with the other, I heard the great application. I had no experience in this field but, In 1945 I was elected to the Students’ Council Suddenly we came around a blind curve to see had money for a soup or a toasted sandwich. Red Army Chorus roaring out the Volga Boat due to the resignation of the incumbent, was as president of the Literary and Scientific a car speeding towards us down the center of the Fraternities and sororities claimed some of the song. For by the time I’d arrived, puffing from a appointed stage manager. I was led to the area Executive. I left the stage crew but was aware of highway. Joe had to pull over to the right, which tables and made unwelcome the uninvited Phys Ed class in the Old Gym, there had been ended with a steep hill descending to a railway non-members who sat there. standing room only. Perhaps the authorities track and then to the lake. Joe was forced onto a One evening, while in the Caf at dinnertime, learned from the crowding at the Red Army soft gravel shoulder and could not turn the truck we heard on the radio about the abdication of Chorus event, because when famous bass Paul back onto the road. We drifted to the right, Edward, King of England. Robeson performed, he was not scheduled for slowly came to a halt and started to roll over towards the hill and the lake. We rolled more Persis Wiltshire BA’68 than half way around and then came to rest against a tree. I remember the place as the lecture hall for With some muttering The tree was the only one standing within History 100, back in 1964. The class was so large and skepticism we once about a hundred meters, and the local people, it was the only place big enough to take us all. I who stopped in abundance after the accident, also remember getting free tickets to see Julian heard a young hopeful assured us that had we not hit the tree we might Bream play his lute for a CBC broadcast at lunch have been killed. time. Today I wouldn’t be able to afford what he Conservative politician Many earlier travellers had lost their lives on charges (or did before he retired). extravagantly introduced that stretch. We were not injured, but now had the problem of getting the truck and its load of The Old Auditorium is now undergoing as “the next Prime upside-down scenery back on the road. The renovations with the grand reopening latter had to be unloaded before the truck could scheduled for the fall. The new Old Aud Minister of Canada.” be hauled upright. With the aid of a skillful tow will be a performance space for UBC’s His name was John truck driver and several bystanders we got going prestigious School of Music. Find out more again, after our near death encounter. at: www.supporting.ubc.ca/auditorium I have heard that succeeding plays also toured Diefenbaker. Cast and crew of Much Ado About Nothing pose for a photo at Kalamalka Images submitted by Ed Freeman, stage Lake while on tour in May 1952. Director Joy Coghill is wearing a red jacket. manager for The Players’ Club during the ‘50s. with university trucks, and all had accidents. I admire the university for its tolerance.

16 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 17 18 relevance for us. Thus, in Blair Bruce’s wonderful Mowat’s short stories) called The Snow Walker painting The Phantom Hunter (c.1888) (2). we (2004) directed by Canadian actor Charles · On Writing · could see how the solitary hunter collapsing in Martin Smith, who starred in Never Cry Wolf. It the snow reinforced 19th century fears about was essential because Mowat and Smith Canada as a dangerous frozen wilderness and challenge many southern misconceptions about reminded contemporary Canadians about our the northern territories of Canada by portraying continuing vulnerability, a vulnerability a real, inhabited Arctic, where the Inuit On the art captured so well by Quebec photographer understand how to live. In the current context of Benoit Aquin in his “Lethal Beauty” series on climate change, the lessons of this film are the 1998 ice storm. Rudy Wiebe’s masterpiece, important. Although the film does not preach, or the novel A Discovery of Strangers (1994), which mention global warming, it shows viewers a revisits Sir John Franklin’s first expedition to world that is not a barren, empty wasteland, but of Being the Northwest Territories in the 1820s, raised a complex, beautiful ecosystem that cannot be further questions about inter-cultural relations approached with aggression and arrogance. and the fate of the final Franklin expedition in From Farley Mowat, the Group of Seven, and the 1840s and why this tragic story still haunts John Franklin, it was a short step into my third the Canadian imagination and sends contemporary set of illustrations of Canadian identity: national (4) Emily Carr and Friends (2005). © Joe Fafard. Canadian artists and scientists to Beechey Island or King icons or, as I call my third chapter, “Inventing By Sherrill Grace William Island in search of answers. My students ABOVE (3): Iconic Figures.” Many real people who have Photo of John Torrington’s remains were astonished, as I suspect the book’s readers © Owen Beattie/University of Alberta become, with time, the stuff of legend are deeply will be, by the forensic photographs (3) Owen associated with the North or with, what Many things inspired me to write this book, but to discuss some of the ways in which Canadian BELOW (2): Sherrill Grace’s 2009 Beattie took when his research team opened the William Blair Bruce (Canadian 1859-1906) Canadian geographer Louis-Edmond Hamelin one of the most significant was a visit I made to artists had represented our history, our culture, The Phantom Hunter 1888 graves of Franklin’s sailors on Beechey Island. Oil on canvas · 151.1 x 192.1 cm calls, our “nordicity.” Franklin, despite being the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2004. I was teaching and our landscape. I was comparatively new to Art Gallery of Hamilton, Bruce Memorial, 1914 book explores what the We are not accustomed to viewing such British through and through, is now a Canadian a Canadian Studies seminar that year as the the study of war art and literature, but like most gruesome evidence, but this research and the icon because our writers, artists, filmmakers, Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Canadians of my generation I had been told that arts can tell us about gothic stories and images it inspired (from poets, and singers have created his image for us Studies, and I organized the course into three Canada came of age during the Great War – indeed, Beattie and Geiger’s book Frozen in Time: by telling his story again and again. Few units based on the artistic representation of in April 1917 on Vimy Ridge – so I knew I needed being Canadian and Unlocking the Secrets of the Doomed 1845 Arctic Canadians (whether from my generation or Canada and Canadian identity: one on the to explore this area for myself and with my Blair Bruce’s Phantom Hunter is Expedition to Margaret Atwood’s story “The Age subject to copyright. younger ones) can help but feel a frisson of country as a northern nation; another on iconic students. It was not easy for Canadians to see how Canadian artists of Lead”) are now part of our northern mythol- recognition when they hear Stan Rogers singing figures from our culture like Glenn Gould or much of their war art until the Canadian War Please view it on the Art Gallery ogy. Of course, no treatment of the North is about “the hand of Franklin, reaching for the have represented our Tom Thomson; and one on Canada and war. Museum opened its doors in 2005 because it of Hamilton’s website at complete without some discussion of the Group Beaufort Sea” in his famous ballad “Northwest When the Canadian war art exhibition, “Canvas was all but forgotten in storage vaults, and www.artgalleryofhamilton.com of Seven. We spent considerable time revisiting Passage.” But despite the haunting presence of history, our culture, and of War,” opened at the VAG that year, I wanted Canada re-imagined itself as a peace-keeping famous canvasses, such as Lawren Harris’s Winter Franklin, I decided to focus on four other icons my students to see it; as we walked together nation after World War Two. Nevertheless, it Comes from the Arctic to the Temperate Zone (c. of “being Canadian” in the book. They are Louis our landscape. Here she through the gallery, I watched these young was the reaction of those young people to the 1935), and some of the many ways in which the Riel, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, and Mina people studying the paintings. They would stop power of their fellow Canadians’ art and their artists and their works have continued to occupy Benson Hubbard. In Inventing Tom Thomson shares her reasons for and exclaim. “I had no idea,” one said in shock. sense of being deprived of their heritage that central positions in our national story. (2004), I argued that Canadians have invented “Why didn’t we know about this,” another convinced me to write my book. … in Blair Bruce’s this labour of love. Since my 2005 seminar, artistic responses to an image of a heroic, tragic, almost Parsifal-like protested. They stood before the paintings, The significance of the North – or, at least, of the North have continued to appear; the subject Thomson through the numerous stories we have sharing concerns that perhaps only their our ideas about the North – was an easier wonderful painting The is of perennial fascination for Canadians, even told – and keep telling – about him. The truth is generation could have at the beginning of this subject to approach. I had published Canada and though most of us head south during the winter Phantom Hunter that we know relatively little about the man, century. They knew, of course, that we fought in the Idea of North (my title inspired by Glenn or seek refuge in places like the West Edmonton who was very private, often rather solitary, and both World Wars, but they had not realized that Gould) in 2001, and the materials to study were Mall. Therefore, I updated my chapter “On (c.1888) we could see died in his prime leaving no diaries and few artists like A.Y. Jackson, Frederick Varley, much better known. We could even see popular Creating a Northern Nation” by including letters to explain himself. We have his paintings. Charles Comfort, or Alex Colville, were war examples of northern imagery (tourist trinkets, how the solitary hunter discussions of Pierre Berton’s Prisoners of the But it is his mysterious death that continues to artists, and they had never seen such pictures or advertising, photography) all around us in our North (2004), Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air fascinate writers like Roy MacGregor (Canoe imagined how a battlefield might look to a southern city. Like most Canadians, none of the collapsing in the snow (2007), John Estacio and John Murrell’s Lake, 2002) or visual artists like Panya Clark horrified and grief-stricken Canadian soldier or students had been to any northern part of the th magnificent operaFrobisher (2007), and the reinforced 19 century Espinal whose installation piece called First painter (1 - see pg. 20). country, so they were an ideal group to be On the art of Being Canadian memoir Otherwise (2008) by the inimitable Snow (1998) occupied the Tom Thomson shack UBC Press (2009) War art and literature were not the only studying how Canadian writers, painters, fears about Canada as a Farley Mowat. We were able to watch that on the grounds of the McMichael Canadian Art Brenda and David McLean subjects we explored, and they comprise only composers, and filmmakers have imagined Canadian Studies Series classic Mowat filmNever Cry Wolf (1983) in my Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. I visited the ISBN 978-0-7748-1579-6 one chapter in On the Art of Being Canadian. Canada-as-North over the past 150 years. dangerous frozen $32.95 (Paperback) seminar, but for the book it was essential to McMichael and the installation twice before it Purchase from the UBC My goal was to introduce students to a wealth of Against a backdrop of history, politics, and Bookstore or online at reflect on the more recent film (based on wilderness… was taken down and will never forget the eerie www.ubcpress.ca artistic representation of Canadian identity and geography, the artists’ works took on fresh

18 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 19 Blythe Eagles: [The students] had not Volunteer Extraordinaire realized that artists like A.Y. Jackson, Frederick Every year, the UBC Alumni Association gives the Blythe Eagles development. He also played a large role in the Volunteer Recognition award to someone who has donated significant 1949 creation of Deer Lake Park as a founding Varley, Charles Comfort, member of the Burnaby Lake Men’s Club. His amounts of time and talent to the university. Many of these recipients home, and the gardens around it, has been or Alex Colville were have wondered: “Who the heck is Blythe Eagles?” Blythe Eagles preserved as a historical centre at Deer Lake. Beyond his formal responsibilities at the war artists, and they had (1902-1990), had a unique understanding of the value of UBC’s university and his volunteer commitments in the never seen such pictures traditions, and dedicated much of his time making sure UBC community, he and his wife, Violet, developed a maintained its significance in the community. reputation for holding frequent social gatherings or imagined how a at their Deer Lake home, inviting family, friends By Michael Awmack, BA’01, MET’09 and members of the university community. On battlefield might look to one of these occasions – the Class of ’22 reunion garden party he hosted in 1947 – he raised nearly a horrified and grief- Blythe Alfred Eagles, BA’22, DSC’68, was born and raised in New Westminster. He entered UBC’s one thousand dollars for a class gift to the Alumni stricken Canadian Faculty of Arts in 1918 and excelled academically, Association’s Development Fund. Beyond their graduating in 1922 with the Governor General’s stated purposes, however, these parties connected soldier or painter. Gold Medal. From his early years as a student people and inspired them to participate in activist – to his later years as an alumni booster university and community affairs. To this day, and dean of agriculture, Eagles stands out in UBC their tradition continues, with community history as one of the university’s great pioneers. members still using the Eagles’ lakeside estate sensation of peering through a dirty window into figures. In February 2010, the opera Louis Riel (1) Frederick Varley for events and special gatherings. His lifelong For What? In the final year of his studies, he participated the past to find the painter himself nowhere to be (1967) by Harry Somers and Mavor Moore CWM 19710261-0770 legacy was to encourage others to engage fully in Beaverbrook Collection of War Art actively in the Build the University campaign © Canadian War Museum seen but his famous canvas Northern River sitting played at UBC in a major revival and its western and helped in the collection of more than their civic, academic and social lives. on an easel in a room covered in a layer of snow! Canadian premiere. Mina Hubbard is, to date, 56,000 signatures on a petition pressuring the In 1966, as he neared the end of his career, the Like Thomson, if not quite to the same extent, less familiar to Canadians, but her story of a artists and their images. However, the journey provincial government to resume construction Alma Mater Society presented him with the Great Emily Carr has been imagined in numerous novels, northern expedition across Labrador in 1905 is thus far confirms that being Canadian is rich of a permanent Point Grey campus. He also Trekker Award for his ongoing contributions to plays, a song cycle (by Vede Hille) and poems. now celebrated in biography, novels, stories, and rewarding, that we are a northern nation, contributed to the planning of the Great Trek, UBC and to the community. When he accepted The finest poetry about Carr comes from BC’s films, paintings, and a 2005 re-enactment at that we celebrate our artists and our history, in which more than 1,100 students conducted a the award, Eagles told the crowd, “This ceremony own Kate Braid in To This Cedar Fountain (1995), Northwest River in Labrador. Mina is that rare that our connection with the land runs very boisterous march from the Fairview campus honors the five classes ’22 to ’26. No university a sequence of poems in which Braid imagines thing – a woman explorer in the North, who deep, despite our sophisticated, contemporary through downtown and on to the Point Grey that I know of owes as much to its student body talking with the painter, woman to woman, artist succeeded in her mission and lived to tell her urban lives, and that we keep reinventing campus site. By the time the Trek took place in Blythe Eagles in 1949 as does The University of British Columbia.” to artist. Another of BC’s famous artists, actor tale in A Woman’s Way Through Unknown ourselves in war and peace. Becoming Canadian October, however, he had already moved to The university awarded him with an honorary Joy Coghill, not only wrote the best play to date Labrador (1908; 2004). did not happen in one event – at Vimy Ridge, for Ontario to begin graduate studies at the ture, a title which he held until his retirement in doctor of science degree two years later and on Carr, Song of This Place, but performed the On the Art of Being Canadian is a labour of example – because becoming, like being, University of Toronto. Despite missing this 1967. He was a quiet, modest man, but he was when the Alumni Association established a role of Carr in the 1987 premiere: her likeness to love – love of fiction, drama, painting, music, Canadian is a continuously unfolding process of pivotal moment in UBC’s history, his early acts not afraid to act on his dedication to UBC. He volunteer category in its annual Achievement Carr was uncanny! Also like Thomson, Carr has and film – and a testament to the art created imagining who we are and might yet be. of support for the university’s expansion had served on the senate for twenty years, and is Awards in 1983, he was the first recipient. The been recreated by visual artists as well – in by Canadians as they imagine their country, planted a seed which would eventually grow credited with establishing the reputation for award was also named for him in recognition of Sherrill Grace is a professor of English, a UBC Distinguished paintings by John Boyle and most powerfully by its history, myths, and legendary characters. into a lifelong relationship with his alma mater. accessibility that his faculty – now known as his lifetime of volunteer leadership. University Scholar, and a fellow of the Royal Society of one of Canada’s most distinguished senior Writing it was a journey of discovery on which I Eagles spent seven eventful years away from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems – has After retiring, Eagles maintained a strong Canada. She has published 23 books including Canada and sculptors, Joe Fafard. Farfard’s Emily Carr and followed the footsteps of our writers, composers, British Columbia completing his studies in developed with members of the province’s connection to the university by volunteering on the Idea of North, Inventing Tom Thomson, the 2004 Friends (2005) (4 - see pg. 18) stands on street and artists as they showed me what they think it Toronto, taking on a research fellowship at Yale agricultural community. the Alumni Association’s heritage committee. edition of Mina Hubbard’s A Woman’s Way Through corners in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal to means to be Canadian. Inevitably, my journey is and carrying out a year-long post-doctoral study Eagles’ commitment to his work and After all, having lived through so many of the Unknown Labrador, and Making Theatre: A Life of remind us about the importance of art, of being incomplete. I had to leave a lot out in a book at the National Institute for Medical Research in voluntary endeavours wasn’t exclusive to UBC, university’s historical events, he had a unique Sharon Pollock (2008). She is currently writing human, and of respecting the natural world. My derived from my three public lectures as London. He returned home in 1929 and joined however. His remarkable influence could be felt understanding of the value of its preservation. Landscapes of Memory, a study of Canadian arts and the other icons of being Canadian are Louis Riel and McLean Chair. There could have been chapters the Faculty of Agriculture as an assistant on every project he took on. He was a volunteer To Eagles, the university was a special place; one two World Wars. Mina Benson Hubbard. Riel needs no introduction; on recent immigrant experiences and on First professor. By 1936 he had become a full member of the Burnaby Town Planning to which he dedicated much of his life in order he is the most written about, debated, and Nations arts and self-representation, and professor and the department head of Dairying, Commission from 1930 until the 1950s, and over to create a university that students would be re-imagined (in all the arts) of our great historic Quebec is only touched on through specific and in 1949 he was appointed Dean of Agricul- this time shaped, in significant ways, the town’s proud to call their own.

20 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 21 “I’ve always had a personal interest in being Alumna Profile: Bernice Paul, BSc’01, MBA’09 more resource-conscious,” says Bernice. “I’ve taken public transportation since grade school It may seem ironic that someone who works for the and my father worked for BC Hydro for 30 years, hence our strong family leaning towards energy BCAA doesn’t drive to work, but for Bernice Paul, conservation. However, when I started taking courses in sustainability through my MBA at it’s just a small part of her sustainable lifestyle. Sauder my interest became official and I knew this was a field I wanted to pursue in my career.” In 2009, Bernice looked to UBC Continuing University of Washington Extension, focuses on As the corporate sustainability specialist at Studies to further her knowledge in the providing participants with a deeper understanding BCAA, Bernice feels that she has the rare management of sustainable corporate practices of the scientific, economic and social issues opportunity to live her values through her work. and enrolled in the Summer Institute in surrounding sustainability. “The people were “I started out by educating the organization and Sustainability. “I wanted to tap into the outstanding,” says Bernice. “A group of us still employees about sustainability, and now I serve institute’s bright minds, such as Dr. William stay in touch and throw ideas at one another as an internal consultant for sustainability- Rees and Dr. Brian Nattrass,” she says. about different topics in sustainability.” related services in our various business lines The annual institute, offered in collaboration Sharing knowledge with a group of peers is, and develop strategic frameworks for how BCAA with the UBC Sustainability Office and the after all, a resource-conscious way to learn. will pursue its sustainability objectives.” Continuing Studies at UBC

Alumnus Profile: Alasdair Maughan, BA’02, LLB’05, MBA’07 Now, in addition to his day job, Alasdair teaches GMAT and GRE test preparation One- to Four-Week Summer Programs Born and raised in Vancouver, Alasdair Maughan’s courses through UBC Continuing Studies in the evenings and on weekends. Join other adult learners in condensed programs over one week or more at UBC love of his hometown and university life led him to “A big part of my life before, during and after Point Grey or downtown at UBC Robson Square. UBC Continuing Studies summer my years at UBC was teaching. I spent nine institutes feature outstanding instructors in engaging classes. Subjects include: years in music education, beginning with complete not one, but three degrees at UBC. He Writing | Languages | Liberal Arts | Arts-Based Inquiry | Culinary and Wine Arts teaching piano and ending with teaching courses now teaches for UBC Continuing Studies. in music theory, history and composition. I Intercultural Training | Sustainability | 2010 Games Legacies | Career Development enjoy sharing and teaching, and I really enjoyed Multimedia | Social Media | and more! Alasdair says his transition from one degree exam to enter business school between two law the challenge of standardized testing. I have to another flowed naturally as his interests school finals.” always wanted to work with UBC, so when UBC developed in new directions. “My initial goal Alasdair graduated with an MBA from Sauder Continuing Studies started its preparation Special O ers for UBC Alumni program, I eagerly responded to the job posting. when I entered law school was to practice and currently works as a management consultant UBC Alumni participating in one of our 2010 summer institutes are eligible for: criminal law, but then I got interested in with Sierra Systems, where he helps clients “I enjoy the interaction with students and the • $75 gift certifi cate towards a future UBC Continuing Studies course international development. As I was finishing identify opportunities and improve their ability to take away some of the mystery and fear my degree, I realized that I needed to get some business operations. However, the experience of from these exams,” Alasdair says. In the end, it’s • free evening of cultural activities and wine tasting high-level business skills in order to manage the condensed study sessions for the GMAT exam also his way of giving back to UBC and sharing • access to special events, coupons and o‚ ers. administrative side of international development stuck with Alasdair and inspired him to think of his knowledge with the next generation of projects. I actually ended up taking the GMAT strategies to optimize his time. students. For information, view cstudies.ubc.ca/treksummer

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MS 1002_SS09 Trek Ad.indd 1 3/1/10 11:26:21 AM 24 the academic: Jess Brewer, Particle Physicist

Jess Brewer is a high-energy kind of guy. His work as a particle physicist straddles the overlap with condensed matter physics. He works on muons, subatomic particles that are roughly equivalent to heavy electrons. At the TRIUMF particle physics facility, Brewer uses muon beams to study superconductors, muonium (an experimental atom), and other cryocrystals. Known as muon spin resonance (µSuR), this technique lets scientists look deep inside the atomic structure of any gas, liquid, or solid. and Brewer is also a dedicated educator and Academics teaches the enthusiastic learners in Science One. “My job is to introduce people to their own minds,” says Brewer. “We assume that people know their own minds before they get to us, and avocations that’s just nonsense.” Excited about introducing the wonders of physics to his students, Brewer “Some people go to the gym to look good. combines a plain-spoken approach with the goal of sparking engaged learning. “I try to just be a Some people go to the gym to feel good. good coach,” he explains. The analogy is I go to the gym to be good. I want to be an athlete.” surprisingly apt.

An active and competitive person, Brewer prioritizes being fit and “viable.” Outdoor the academic: the avocation: hurdles are not for the weak of heart; they are Paul LeBlond, Competitive Hurdling Physical Oceanographer run over a 300-metre course. Brewer now Not one to sit around the lab, Brewer is a track competes in the 60-64 age class, the narrow An emeritus professor of Earth and Ocean and field athlete. He ran hurdles through high range allowing well-matched competitors. All Sciences, Paul LeBlond’s research concerns school, university, and graduate school. After participants are there for the sheer pursuit of waves of all kinds, from tides to tsunamis to moving to UBC, Brewer decided his youthful excellence and doing their best. large-scale planetary waves. After recognizing To succeed in academia hurdling days were over. But the hiatus ended Several years ago, health problems led Brewer that changing physical oceanographic conditions you have to spend most when, at 47, he discovered the Canadian Masters to step back from academia. Currently, he are integrally linked to the health of fisheries, Athletic Association and enthusiastically receives partial salary in exchange for four his focus broadened to include environmental of the time with your resumed his passion. “For the first couple of restorative months in sunny Mexico. After a and ecological issues. LeBlond is an original years it was wonderful. It was like I was 16 again, busy and successful university career, Brewer is member of the Fisheries Resource Conservation eyes stuck to a microscope because I was slow but I was getting faster every eagerly anticipating the next step. After retiring, Council for Atlantic Canada and recently year,” Brewer recalls. After two years back on he plans to train twice as hard. After all, as he stepped down as chair of the Pacific Fisheries or your nose buried in a the track, he sped his way to a personal best and says, “The problem is once you start accepting Resource Conservation Council, an independent first place in the 1996 North, Central American decline, what’s going to stop it from turning into body that tracks BC salmon stocks, habitat musty book. But some of and Caribbean World Masters Championships. precipitous decline?” In Mexico, he trains daily and ecosystems. with distance running and workouts to maintain UBC’s finest find time to his competitive edge. “Some people go to the gym to look good. Some people go to the gym to indulge in some hobbies feel good. I go to the gym to be good. I want to be you may find surprising. an athlete.”

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24 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 25 place as when I started,” he says, “but I am open Mushroom habitat is not food-rich for bears and to more evidence.” Apart from a compilation of conversational noise warns most animals away. all the Cadborosaurus evidence to date, the the avocation: Getting lost is a more realistic danger, so he Mushroom Hunting other lasting legacy is public education. If packs walkie-talkies and other gear. Accidental nothing else, the possibility of a mysterious sea In some ways, glycobiology is similar to chasing poisoning is another common concern, but creature stirs up interest in knowing more about elusive chanterelles: both are treasure hunts Ziltener is very conservative and only collects oceans and their role on the planet. requiring a combination of expertise and luck. mushrooms that he knows. In mushroom season – August to October – It’s a labour of love. Ziltener sets out early in Ziltener spends most weekends in the forest. the morning, comes back wet and tired, then Luckily his wife shares his interest. “It was spends hours cleaning, slicing and preserving always part of our culture, part of our upbring- mushrooms, often finishing after midnight. He the academic: ing,” he says. In the Zilteners’ native Switzerland, has never sold a mushroom, even with elusive Hermann Ziltener, families mushroom-hunt regularly, passing pine mushrooms garnering one hundred dollars Glycobiologist knowledge from generation to generation. He per pound. He has never thrown one away learned the art of fungus foraging from his either. Excess mushrooms are shared with A professor of pathology and laboratory mother and aunt, the latter now 88 and still an colleagues, traded, or preserved. Some are medicine, Hermann Ziltener studies one of avid connoisseur. frozen, others dried, and Ziltener is pleased with science’s last frontiers. Glycobiology focuses on After long hours spent in the lab and behind a The spoils of Hermann the delicious results of a pickling technique he sugars that attach to proteins and play very desk, mushroom hunting provides the perfect Ziltener’s mushroom hunt. developed. Mushrooms are enjoyed in soups, important cellular roles. Specialized enzymes balance. The combination of fresh air and quiet stews, risotto, as side dishes, appetizers and in a add different sugars, and these additions are not David Peters’ recreation of a Cadborosaurus sighting near Point Grey. forest is extremely relaxing. The Zilteners do instinct for their location. Unfortunately many Swiss specialty called raclette. genetically encoded. The possible sugar and both day and longer hikes, including four treks sites are threatened by logging. After clear-cutting For mushroom enthusiasts Ziltener location combinations are challenging to work along the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. destroys trees and soil, mushroom patches can recommends the annual Vancouver seemed like an interesting mystery,” he says. out. This year Ziltener’s group has made several Finding good edible mushrooms requires take hundreds of years to recover. Mycological Society show held at Van Dusen Over the past 200 years, Cadborosaurus – often important discoveries about how the immune the avocation: keen attention to clues like habitat and Although he is asked frequently about Gardens each October. referred to as Caddy – has allegedly been sighted system functions. Chasing Cryptids humidity, and Ziltener has developed a good bears, Ziltener has had few encounters. more than 300 times. There are still occasional One exciting new direction focuses on the LeBlond is well-known for another fascinating reports and even recent video footage. The thymus. Each day, stem cells travel from the field: cryptozoology. Twenty years ago, he creature is described as a sea serpent with a long bone marrow to the thymus. They enter using a co-founded the British Columbia Scientific neck, elongated snout, small flippers and lobed specific sugar key, then grow and become Cryptozoology Club, a group that investigates tail. Sightings have been reported from Victoria T-lymphocytes, specialized white blood cells to Vancouver. Cadboro Bay in Victoria is a UBC Botanical Garden & Nitobe Memorial Garden and researches animals not yet identified by that fight viruses and help other cells produce two great reasons to come back to campus science, known as cryptids. frequent location, hence the name. Historically, antibodies. After three weeks, mature white Emphatically committed to a rigorous various names have been used including blood cells leave the thymus. Ziltener’s group NEW! Roseline Sturdy Amphitheatre scientific approach, the group is not open to Hiyitlik, Sisiutl, Saya-Ustih, Kaegyhil-Depgu’esk, found that blood contains a counting mechanism speculative pseudo-science. Their active and Sarah the Sea Hag. Other more distant to regulate the number of these T-lymphocytes. Red Carpet Event of the Year fieldwork includes aquatic mega-serpents, sightings may be related as well: from Pal-Rai- The research has promising potential for Yuk of Alaska to Colossal Claude and the Yachats out-of-place cameloids and felids, and the chemotherapy patients who suffer from severe May 8, 2010 infamous sasquatch. Despite these flashy serpent of Washington, Oregon and California. immunosuppression during treatment. These In 1995, LeBlond co-authored Cadborosaurus: poster children of cryptozoology, new species patients cannot fight invading viruses and Film Production Alumni Association Survivor from the Deep. 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A former journalist and publisher of the aspects are intriguing, LeBlond also enjoys the complexes develop in the blood vessels of Agassiz-Harrison Advance newspaper, Green human factor. For him, the broader questions inflamed tissue, capturing T-lymphocytes where 40 Years of Filmmaking at UBC began investigating sasquatch sightings in 1957 include: How do you discover things? How do they are needed. Ziltener has found that this you interpret people’s observations? Are there and authored several books on the subject. immune response to inflammation can be ubcbotanicalgarden.org Tickets & Trailer: LeBlond, with his expertise in water underlying physical explanations for phenom- controlled by manipulating the necessary UBC Botanical Garden: 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver 604-822-3928 ena? After decades of work, LeBlond remains www.ubcfilmalumni.org movements, naturally gravitated to a local sugar-binding enzymes. 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26 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 27 28 4 Cardiocrinum giganteum 8 Lilium columbianum Giant Himalayan lily Columbia lily This native Himalayan plant has a stem towering six Columbia lily is one of many showy native plant Getting Cultivated at UBC to 10 feet in the air and is covered with large and species in the BC Native Garden. In the wild, this fragrant fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers. Taking seven years lily blooms from late May to early July but is seen in With a history dating back almost a century, the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant to bloom from seed, the plant dies after flowering. the garden in mid-June. First Nations often used the Research is a haven for serious scientists, avid gardeners and carefree nature-lovers alike. It lily’s peppery-tasting bulb as a food-flavouring. is open to the public year round, and on May 29 and 30 during Alumni Weekend (see pg 44) Inula magnifica general admission and tours of the garden will be free of charge for alumni and friends. 5 Showy elecampane Scutellaria baicalensis During these two days, you’ll also be able to view the garden from the forest canopy on the 9 The mid-summer bold yellow flowers of showy Baikal Skullcap popular Greenheart Canopy Walkway tour for 25 per cent off regular admission. Here is a elecampane provide a strong highlight among the The Baikal Skullcap is an important herb used in selection of the rare and fascinating specimens to be found in the garden. many shades of green foliage found in the David C. traditional Chinese medicine (huáng qín). Modern Lam Asian Garden. Native to the Caucasus Mountains, studies indicate a possible use in the treatment of showy elecampane is one of the few species in the cancer. This beauty can be found in the Alpine Garden. garden from the westernmost parts of Asia. 1 Wollemia nobilis Wollemi pine 10 Franklinia alatamaha Until 1994, this species was found only in fossils Melliodendron xylocarpum Franklin tree 6 dating back millions of years. Then a park ranger in Chinese parasol styrax Native to the southeastern US, this tree has been Australia found a grove of them growing in a remote The botanical name roughly translates to “woody extinct in the wild since the early 19th century. It is canyon in the Wollemi National Park. Botanists fruited honey tree.” A rare and precious tree from the prized for its large and fragrant white flowers, which around the world were stunned; it was like finding southern provinces of China, melliodendron appear in the summer months. It’s also a delight when a living Tyrannosaurus rex. xylocarpum performs well at the Botanical Garden, its leaves turn scarlet in the fall. Luckily you can come with a rewarding spring profusion of large, yet dainty, and visit one in the garden’s Carolinian Forest. pale pink blooms. 2 Magnolia zenii Zen’s magnolia 8 Camassia quamash 9 H 11 This spectacular tree with fragrant spring blooms is Espaliered apples Camas A 7 considered critically endangered. In the wild it is only Espalier is the art of pruning fruit trees into beautiful Camas bulbs carpet the Pacific Northwest Garry oak found on the north slopes of Mount Boa-hua in China. shapes without sacrificing the harvest. UBC Botanical meadows in the spring, turning them into a sea of A natural disaster could wipe it out. Garden has an extensive collection housed within the blue. The bulbs are edible, but the stunning blue Food Garden. Come and see them covered in blooms star-shaped flowers are worth waiting for. This plant is this spring or come back in the autumn to see them located in the garden’s replica of the endangered Garry F covered with fruit. Or take a course and learn how to 3 Rhododendron fortunei Oak Ecosystem. ‘Sir Charles Butler’ create your own (for more information on courses visit

With one of the largest rhododendron collections G 16th Avenue www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org).

in North America, the David C. Lam Asian Garden Garden Pavilion is a great setting for a spring walk. Blooms can be 10 C D E enjoyed from February to the end of May. 7

B Get involved at 11 UBC Botanical Garden South West Marine Drive Works Yard UBC Botanical Garden is the oldest continuously Entrance Greenheart Canopy Walkway operated university botanical garden in Canada. Walk In The Woods Moon Gate and Tunnel Farges N Volunteering and donating are two ways that you 2 Cox Cox Oldham Fang Fortune can get involved at the garden and stay Sargent Farges Maries Upper Asian Way Gift Rehder Maack connected to your alma mater. Maximowicz Shop 4 Beer 1 I Hemsley Staunton Henry As a non-profit the garden appreciates donations Hemsley T 3 Wilson Sherri Reception Rock of all sizes, and gifts in kind. If you enjoy the Centre Straley Kindon Administration Ward Perny Delavay Purdom outdoors, working with plants, learning about Rehder Stearn Way Ludlow Meyer Meadow Siebold David conservation and biodiversity, and meeting new Wilson Meadow 5 6 Lookout Forrest Farrer people, you’d be a great fit for the garden’s Decaisne Handel-Mazzetti Tschonoski Gardens E Food Garden volunteer team. Lower Asian Way Hance Soulei A E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden F Physic Garden For more information please visit ubcbotanical- B Garry Oak Meadow and Woodland Garden G Arbour garden.org, email [email protected], or C Carolinian Forest BC Native Garden call 604.822.3928. D Herbaceous Border I David C. Lam Asian Garden

28 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 29 The MBNA® MasterCard® credit card Credit you don’t have to cram for The Advocate: Wes Shields Advocacy is one of the Alumni Association’s core functions. Wesley Shields, LLB’89, is committed to leading the way.

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30 Trek Spring 2010© 2007 University of British Columbia Alumni Association Spring 2010 Trek 31 Marie Earl took it up a notch… and then some. Colleagues come and go. But when some go, they leave a space that’s hard to fill. The space The perks of membership! Marie Earl has left is very big. In her five-year joint appointment as executive director of the Alumni Association and assoc. VP, Alumni, she has transformed alumni relations at UBC in Alumni Aairs has established relationships with carefully selected companies to a way few could have imagined when she arrived. She’s leaving for new vistas, but before she provide you with special deals on quality products and services. Help support goes we asked co-workers to pass on some comments about their experience with her. These alumni activities at UBC by participating in the following great programs: are excerpts from the dozens we received, too many to print in full here.

“Marie inspired those who worked for her and “Before Marie joined UBC, we used to speak of “… what Marie has taught me is the importance of around her to buy into her vision. Her energetic ‘faculty, staff and students.’ It’s now commonplace small details. She never forgets to hand-write a card yet calm, gentle yet businesslike manner made to hear ‘faculty, staff, students and alumni.’ No small to express gratitude or bring in warm coffee cake for Wealth Management Home & Auto Insurance Personal Insurance UBC Alumni MasterCard The Clearsight program from TD Insurance Meloche Monnex Manulife Financial has served More than 17,000 alumni volunteering a pleasure. Goals were always clear, feat changing the mindset of an institution the size everyone to enjoy. Her unexpected thoughtfulness is Wellington West oers full home and auto insurance plans the alumni community for over and students use their UBC principles always guided actions, and everyone of UBC!” what has left a lasting impression on me.” service retirement planning extend preferred group rates and twenty years, providing Alumni Mastercard from MBNA was encouraged and appreciated.” Heather McCaw, BCom’86, Assoc. VP, Development Marisa Iuvancigh, Alumni Services Coordinator including lower fees, specially designed features for our extended health and dental, which has low introductory rates, Ian Robertson, BSc’86, BA’88, MA, MBA, Chair, professional advice and a wide grads. Small-business and travel term life and critical illness plans. 24-hour customer support and selection of products. insurance is also available. no annual fees. UBC Alumni Association “Maybe it’s her infectious enthusiasm that has a “Every now and then someone comes into our life who way of bubbling up every time she speaks… or we cannot wait to be around. Marie is one of those “Marie is the consummate professional. I have maybe it’s her unbridled passion for achieving people. She is smart, energetic, funny, passionate, rarely met anyone so committed to and competent positive change that permeates her actions… or engaging, compassionate and so much fun.” Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/rewards for more information. in any role. Her judgment is exceptional, and I admire perhaps it’s the way she describes her vision for Ian Cull, Assoc. VP Students, UBCO her courage in wanting to rigorously measure the what people who joined her on the journey could results of initiatives she promotes. Marie is also a expect to experience.” “People feel valued and respected, involved and truly fine person, with admirable values and great included, when she’s around. It makes them want to Blake Hanna, MBA’82, Alumni Association Board of Directors Great Trekker Alumni Luncheon in Toronto shopping sense!” do more than they thought they would. What a rare Stephen Toope, President UBC “Marie’s natural generosity gives spirit and meaning and special gift she has to be an organized, Homecoming to her deeply held beliefs about the fundamental magnificently competent, effective leader and It’s fun to Google one’s birth date and discover what importance of relationships.” manager, while always maintaining that authentic 2010 famous (or infamous) people were born on the same Lisa Castle, Assoc. VP, Human Resources human connectedness that makes it all work.” day. My list includes Sandra Bullock, Robert Graves, Sally Thorne, PhD, Director UBC School of Nursing Aldous Huxley, Mick Jagger, Carl Jung, Stanley “Marie is the kind of leader who asks the toughest Sept. 18 Kubrick, Helen Mirren, and George Bernard Shaw. questions in the nicest way. Collaborative, caring “In the five years that I’ve know Marie, I’ve But I’m much more pleased to share a birth date and seemingly patient on the surface, but always continued to be impressed with her work ethic, her with someone whose talent, for the past two or so driven to make a difference and move things forward.” drive, her commitment to UBC and its alumni and Friday, April 16, 2010 11:30AM - 1:30PM (Program Starts at noon) years, I’ve been able to observe, admire, learn from Drew Collier, CAO, Development her tremendously modest way. Our Board had very Four Seasons Hotel Alumni and friends: $60 vs. and benefit from at much closer quarters. and Alumni AffairsE ngagement high expectations for Marie. She has met and, in Regency Ballroom Recent Graduates (grad years 2005-2009): $45 Who’d have figured that Marie Earl and I would fact, exceeded all of them.” 21 Avenue Road, Toronto Table of 10: $550 have this in common? UBC’s faculty, staff, students, “I’ve had the opportunity to work with some Mark Mawhinney, BA’94, Member, Board of Directors How do universities drive cultural, economic and social friends, donors, and, most of all, alumni have been amazing mentors so far in my career, but Marie development and increase our country’s stature globally? privileged to benefit from Marie’s transformational tops the list. Her skill around coaching, her empathy “What you would always hear said about Marie is Save The Honorary event chair, The Rt. Hon. John N. Turner PC, CC, QC, BA’49, LLD’94, cordially invites you to the fourth talents over the past five years. But how many can around being human, and her laughter have made something like this: ‘Look at what she accomplished annual Great Trekker Luncheon in Toronto. UBC President, Professor Stephen Toope will sit down with The Date claim the shared birth date? her a joy to work for.” in just one year at UBC.’ Hon. Roy MacLaren, PC, BA’55, to discuss the role that strong post-secondary institutions can play in Barbara Miles, VP Development Liz King, BA’02, Senior Manager, National As soon as you said it, and we all did, the penny increasing Canada’s influence internationally. and Alumni Engagement and International Events dropped like an anvil and pushed up the discomfiting Great Trekker Award recipients John Turner BA’49, LLD’94, Alan Fotheringham BA’54 and the late Pierre thought bubble: Marie’s challenge dwarfs mine, and Berton BA’41, DLit’85 met at UBC, and maintained strong ties in Toronto by establishing an annual event. “I was fortunate to work with Marie at the “Her vision and her actions will have a lasting what the hell have I been doing in the last year?” We’re continuing that tradition, with the Great Trekker Alumni Luncheon. impact. She was always thoughtful of others and Join us for an afternoon of great conversation filled with wit and intellect. Make a new UBC alumni commencement of her new role at UBC. Marie Scott Macrae, BA’71, Executive Director, UBC Public Affairs served as a key catalyst in our quest to move forward a pleasure to work with. Marie is one of those connection or re-establish an old one. with a stronger alumni/university relationship.” exceptional people who has truly made a difference.” registration For more information, contact Samantha Diamond at [email protected] or 1.800.883.3088. Greg Clark, BCom’86, LLB’89, past president, Ernest Yee, BA’83, MA’87, Member, Board of Directors UBC Alumni Association

32 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 33 the planet sustained ChronicleThe University of British Columbia Alumni News | Spring 2010 from here.

This issue in Alumni News: 36 Networks & Events Surrounded by beauty, it is no wonder innovative thinkers and doers at UBC are taking on towering environmental 38 Class Acts challenges. In 1997, UBC was the fi rst university in Canada to make a commitment to sustainability. The community has extensively reduced campus emissions to below 1990 levels. And UBC professors and students came up with 40 Books the concept of “our ecological footprint,” launched the carbon offset company used by the Vancouver 2010 Olympic 42 T-Bird News Games, and are developing what may be the greenest building on Earth. It’s part of our nature. 45 More MOA

This poor man had to sweep the ceiling off the floor when the Old Auditorium’s 46 In Memoriam roof collapsed in April 1970. See Pg. 12 for more tales from the Old Auditorium.

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We’re everywhere Featured Volunteer Featured Network Upcoming Events More than 252,000 graduates from UBC have spread to every corner of the world and populate more than 50 different Enjoyed a family theatre networks worldwide. With so many active alumni, there is always something UBC happening somewhere in one of over production of The Monster Under 50 worldwided networks. Below are some of the locations that hosted UBC alumni events in the last 3 months. the Bed · Toronto Engaged in a provocative dialogue about advocacy and activism · Great Trekker Lunch Victoria and Vancouver Toronto · April 16, 2010 Had Sunday brunch in Old Strathcona · Edmonton Learned about financial planning · Vancouver Discussed thought-provoking books at the Alumni Book Club · Vancouver All-Canada University Celebrated the Olympic Torch’s Association Annual Event, arrival on campus · Vancouver featuring Opera 101 Took a winter walk around Washington, DC · April 24, 2010 Henderson Lake · Lethbridge Watched the Canucks take on the Senators · Ottawa

Whistler: Boston: London: Hong Kong: Had lunch with ATB Financial Nawaaz Nathoo BSc’06 Lethbridge President and CEO, Dave Mowat · Edmonton Alumni Network Representative Nearly 150 UBC alumni live in Is YouTube Killing Calgary Canadian Culture? Lethbridge, AB. In February, a Alumni Weekend 2010 Attended a symphonic What are you doing now? group of them joined more than UBC performance at the New England Vancouver · May 28-30, 2010 After completing my BSc in pharmacology, I moved to Edmonton where I 100 other Lethbridge citizens for Conservatory · Boston am now in my final year of the MD program at the University of Alberta. Winter Walk Day. “It was mild at Discovered the secret of how around -3OC and thankfully not Reunions to age successfully · Montreal What do you miss about UBC? The Rose Garden on campus was my favourite spot. With its breathtaking windy,” says alumni network rep, Joined the Sauder Business Club for Cathy J. Meyer, DEDU’97. “We all its annual holiday bash · Toronto view of the mountains and Pacific Ocean, it was a serene place at any time of the year (and even better if the garden was in bloom). Whether I went met at the Nikka Yuka Japanese Homecoming 2010 Celebrated a year of excellence Garden entrance at Henderson Vancouver · September 18, 2010 at UBC · Seoul there to study, relax, or meet up with friends, the Rose Garden always provided a beautiful space for reflection and contemplation and was a very Lake Park. There was hot chocolate, Discussed how digital content memorable part of my UBC experience. hand-warmers, stickers, flashlights impacts Canadian culture at a and lip balm for participants. We Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/events to find glitzy film festival · Whistler Want to find out how you can get involved with your Alumni started with a fitness warm-up and out about upcoming events in your part Found out how to profit from Association? Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/volunteer to find out what you then walked around the lake. It was of the world. To receive invitations, the current financial climate, send your home and email addresses Part of alumni Weekend 201o can do. We are currently looking for volunteers for Alumni Weekend as close to a Vancouver seawall over lunch · Toronto to [email protected]. 2010, taking place May 28-30. Please contact Marisa Iuvancigh at walk as you can get in the prairies.” Learned how Canada prepared The Forestry Class of 1959 Thursday May 27, 2010 [email protected] or 604.822.8917 for more information celebrated its 50th anniversary in its athletes for the Winter Start a network, join a network or 11:30AM-2:00PM Olympics · Calgary about this opportunity. August 2009 with a four-day University Golf Club find out what’s happening in your Attended a reception with program that included an evening Alumni Affair’s very own Marisa area. Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/ Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/events for info. the Canadian Consul General · welcoming reception, tour of connect/networks to find out Minneapolis Iuvancigh was chosen to carry the campus, and two days at Malcolm Olympic torch on its way to everything you need to know about Knapp Forest. It concluded with a Enjoyed a sunny brunch · UBC alumni networks. Central Florida Vancouver. She smiled and waved tour of Stanley Park to view the all the way through her five Decked the halls at the annual results of the remediation work. minutes of fame – an experience Christmas party · Hong Kong Fifteen (still-handsome) grads she will never forget. participated out of the original Discussed impacts of the Olympics on host cities · London class of ’29. Interested in planning a reunion or want to find out if there’s a reunion coming up that you want to attend? Listened to a panel discussion about energy and sustainability · Visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/events/reunions for more information. New York City

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Long Time, No UBC... what have you been up to lately? Whether you’ve been crocodile wrestling in Namibia or mastering origami in Kitsilano, let your old classmates know what you’ve been up to since leaving campus. Send your news and photographic evidence to Mike Awmack at [email protected] or UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1. (Mail original photos or email high resolution scans – preferably 300 dpi.) Please note that Trek Magazine is also published online. David Lynn with wife Lynn (Esselmont) in western Jordan Raphael and Joachim Ernest Yee

Ernest Yee, BA’83, MA’87, was more than 10 years of experience in Alumni Torch Bearers 1960s proud to hoist the Olympic torch 1990s water resources planning, design for the Olympics and A former professional dancer, Mary as it made its way to Vancouver for Yasmine S. Mehmet LLB’90, a and construction projects, for both Paralympics W. Spilsbury Ross BA’63 is now a the opening ceremony. Ernest certified family law specialist, private and public sector clients. (Apologies to any alumni we’ve food writer, cooking instructor and has served as a member-at-large received the State Bar President’s His areas of expertise are urban inadvertently omitted.) artist. Doubleday published her on the Alumni Association Board Award in the solo/small firm drainage, storm water management, Christina Anthony BCom’97 book, Frugal Feasts. Visit her website category for her pro bono work in LEFT TO RIGHT: Richard Hugh Spilsbury, of Directors since 2008. He is VP river hydraulics, flood management Riann Batch BSc’03, BEd’05, Med’09 at www.mspilsburyross.com. She Mary W. Spilsbury Ross, Meg Schmon of Corporate Affairs at HSBC family law in San Francisco. and municipal infrastructure (Ross), Andrew Spilsbury Alan Bates BSc’99, MD’08 is second of three generations of Bank Canada. In November 2009, Derek planning and design. Janice Birch BHK’99 UBC grads. Her father, Richard Lunapads International, a Poteryko MD’91 published First Hugh Spilsbury, was in the Great School Administrators receiving its Vancouver-based eco-friendly You Smoked Now You Live, a book 2000s Catherine Comben BA‘67 Trek of October 1922; her son 1999 Distinguished Service Award. feminine hygiene products to help people quit smoking. He Sarah Evanetz BA’01 Adeline Chau BSc’05 and Daniel Andrew earned his master’s in After retiring as a superintendent company founded by Suzanne also started a publishing company Markarian are delighted to Joy Fera BRE’72 occupational hygiene and in 2009 of schools in Alberta, he worked in Siemens BCom’88 and Madeleine called mediatherapy books and announce the birth of their first George Hungerford BA’65, LLB’68 became manager of Health and two international development Shaw, received the Shining Light made a stop smoking movie which children, Raphael and Joachim, on Safety for the City of Vancouver. projects: Kosovo (2001-2006) and Award at the 2009 San Francisco can be viewed at www.youtube. Patti Jackson BEd’76 August 17, 2009. Adeline and Daniel Daughter Meg Schmon (Ross) is a Jordan (2009) and has taught at Green Festival. After placing com/mediatherapy. Katie Jeanes BHK’09 moved from Ottawa to Vancouver theatre graduate now freelancing the University of Calgary. second for the People’s Choice John T. Cu BA’94 has become a before their wedding last year. Joseph Ka-Chun Tsang BASc‘02 as a costume designer for TV and Green Business of the Year Award, partner at Hanson Bridgett LLP. As The first book by historian Richard Koo BA’96 film in Vancouver. (SeeTales from Lunapads had received such a high a litigator and trial lawyer, his 1980s Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail MA ’07 the Old Auditorium in this issue for volume of votes that award practice has focused in the areas of Thomas McLaughlin BSc’09 Judge John Milne LLB’80 has been was recently published by Robin some of Mary’s recollections of UBC). business litigation, commercial Tracey McVicar BCom’90 elected president of the Provincial organizers decided to acknowledge Semi-retired BEd’65, transactions, intellectual property Brass Studio. For the Love of Flying: David Lynn them by creating the new award. Monty Raisinghani BASc’07 Court Judges’ Association. The the Story of Laurentian Air Services MA is the interim executive director The company estimates that one and product liability. John has Association represents provincial Peggy Robinson BPE’72, BEd’74, Med’89 of the Sheep River Health Trust. He represented a broad spectrum of has sold 1,000 copies in Canada and court judges in judicial compensation million disposable pads and had an exciting, challenging and clients, from Fortune 500 corpora- abroad and this “history of Ben Rutledge BCom’06 hearings, conducts continuing tampons are diverted from landfills rewarding career in education tions to emerging companies, in a bush-flying in a nutshell” is getting Linda SchaumleffelBEd’73 judicial education seminars and every month as a result of women following his degrees. He’s thankful variety of industries including rave reviews from aviation E.W. (Ed) Richardson informs judges in matters of interest using Lunapads. Morgan Tierney BA’08 1930s for the education he received at technology, banking, financial historians and general enthusiasts in the administration of justice Anthony Wright BHK’08 On September 13, 2009, E.W. (Ed) Richardson BASc’32 celebrated his UBC, which made this life possible. markets, automotive, healthcare alike. Danielle currently lives in th generally. He sits in the northwest 100 birthday with a party at the Salmon House in West Vancouver He spent 19 years as a teacher/ and government. Wyoming, where she is working on Thelma Wright BPE’73 district (Smithers) and is a current attended by all four generations of his family and friends from all over counsellor, principal and superin- Delcan has promoted Michael a non-fiction history of aviation in Ernest Yee BA’83, MA’87 member of Judicial Council. He is a Canada’s north and a historical North America. His wife, Mae, predeceased him in 1998, however, he tendent in BC before accepting an Florendo BASc’98 to the position of Amanda Yuen BA’09 past governor of the Law Founda- continues to live in the family home in West Vancouver. Ed operated his assignment in Foothills School water division business unit novel about a female bush pilot tion of BC, a former member of the Lena Ling BEd‘05 own engineering and land surveying company for many years, retiring in Division #38 south of Calgary. Just manager. His new role will see him working in the 1930s and ’40s. For Provincial Council of the Canadian 1975. Regrettably he has had to give up woodworking in his shop and his prior to retirement he was honoured leading Delcan’s Calgary operation. more information, visit www. Bar Association BC Branch, and is favorite sport – fly fishing with his son – but he still enjoys walking the by the Canadian Association of He joined Delcan in 2005 and has laurentianstory.com. seawall and is a frequent patron of the local library. active in a local Rotary Club.

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Bravo: The History of Opera Cy Peck, VC: A Biography of Other Alumni Books in British Columbia a Legendary Canadian Harbour Publishing, $34.95 CEF Books, $22.95 Songs of the Wasteland Rosemary Cunningham, BA’71, MLIS’74 Edward Peck, BCom’49 Resha Music Productions This first history of BC opera is a collection of The extraordinary life of Cy Peck is described in Renia Perel, BA’70, MA’78 more than a century’s worth of operatic stories a new biography written by his son, Edward. The Part musical production, part memoir, this book/CD and photography presented in an attractive, book traces the path that took Cy from Hopewell package serves as a memorial to Perel’s family and Books the millions of other Jewish people who were 101 Albums That Changed A Verse Map of Vancouver full-colour package. Published to celebrate the Hill, NB, to New Westminster, to northern BC Popular Music Anvil Press, $45.00 50th anniversary of the Vancouver Opera and and the Klondike, and then to Europe at the murdered in the Holocaust. th Oxford University Press, $21.95 Edited by George McWhirter, MA’70 30 anniversary of the Pacific Opera Victoria, onset of the Great War. Song Over Quiet Lake Chris Smith, UBC Creative Writing Photos by Derek von Essen Bravo covers everything that an opera-lover Despite being 20 years older than most of the Second Story Press, $18.95 How can you distil a city’s story into a volume would want to know about opera in BC, new recruits arriving on the battlefront – he was Adjunct Professor Sarah Felix Burns, BA’00 including listings of past productions and 44 when he crossed the English Channel on Everyone has their personal list of favourite that is not only understood, but also felt by all A story of inter-generational friendship from the information about performers. April 24, 1915 – Peck quickly proved his value in albums, singers and guitarists, but with 101 Albums who read it? Vancouver’s first poet laureate, author of the Northern Lit Award-winning Jackfish, From the earliest touring company shows to the trenches. His bravery and strong leadership That Changed Popular Music, Chris Smith George McWhirter, MA’70, has achieved The Vanishing Village. delves deeper. His extensive recount of the last precisely this with A Verse Map of Vancouver. the modern productions staged by Vancouver qualities carried him through three years on the 60 years in popular music ponders the question This beautifully-designed anthology pairs work Opera and other companies, the artistic and front, where he fought in 10 major battles and Four Russian Serf Narratives “who made the music that made a difference?” from some of BC’s most beloved poets and writers business aspects of BC’s opera scene have was wounded twice. University of Wisconsin Press, $26.95 Sometimes the answers are obvious, sometimes with beguiling Vancouver imagery, providing changed fantastically over the years and Bravo In 1917, while still serving in the trenches, he John MacKay, BA’87 not. For example, The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s undeniably authentic impressions of the city. provides a detailed account. was elected to Canada’s Parliament. The following A collection of autobiographies that draws from Russian Lonely Hearts Club Band sold millions of copies, In “SkyTrain: Main and Terminal, 1983,” Rosemary Cunningham is a long-time opera year he won the Victoria Cross, the first sitting serf experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. received critical acclaim and influenced Madeleine Thien, BFA’97, MFA’01, writes: fan and season ticket holder for Vancouver member of Parliament to be so honoured. Opera. After retiring as a librarian, she began a The biographer, Edward Peck, is Cy’s second After Peaches everything that came after it. But Smith contends Another train will scoop, throw me up against second career as a historical writer. This is her son. He followed in his father’s footsteps, serving Orca Book Publishers, $7.95 that without the much lesser-known The Weavers strangers, set me down, staring at you. Are you first book. in the 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish in WWII. He Michelle Mulder, BA’98, MA’00 at Carnegie Hall, the Sergeant Pepper’s album staring at me or the woman I saw on the platform has since had a long career in labour relations. A novel for young readers with themes relating to may never have happened. weeping her old life away, tracing and re-tracing Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows immigration and the experiences of new Canadians. While the effect of Michael Jackson’sThriller on flight, waving our passes at the wide-armed bridges, and Modern British Culture Off the Beaten Path: A Hiking Guide fashion, dance and pop culture was immediate eyes open in the underground, thinking of mothers Trading Goals University of California Press, $39.95 to Vancouver’s North Shore and undeniable, Smith points out that significant who kept to their day-in day-out, till-I-die cars, who Harbour Publishing, $21.95 Lorimer, $8.95 musical (and social) impact doesn’t necessarily sleep now below Patterson Station, where the graves Nadja Durbach, BA’93 Trevor Kew, BA’03, BEd’04 require commercial success. Raw Power by Iggy run down to the river and look up at the rails? This book provides a fascinating look at the Norman D. Watt, BSc’67, MBA’69 Youth fiction about soccer, set in Vancouver. and the Stooges, for example, was barely noticed historic role of the freak show in British society, Planning a hike this spring but don’t know But as everyone who has lived in Vancouver th th the year it was released but was later hailed by popular from the mid-19 to early-20 centuries. where to start? Norman Watt’s new guide to the His Sweet Favour knows, there is more to the city than these Kurt Cobain, who became the catalyst behind Nadja Durbach argues that these exhibitions of North Shore’s trails offers suggestions for hikers Thistledown Press, $16.95 manifestations of urban bedlam. The interactions the grunge movement of the ’90s. people with deformities and uncommon of all skill levels. With descriptions and maps for and conflicts between city, society and nature Diane Tucker, BFA’87 By focusing on impact over personal taste, physical appearances should not be seen strictly 31 trails in North and West Vancouver (and two that define Vancouver can be seen everywhere, A coming-of-age novel set in Vancouver. Smith’s 101 choices transcend the subjectivity of as exploitative, but also as a key step towards in Pemberton) Watt’s guide is a great resource around every corner of the park and in every alley, a “best albums” list. This is a book for those who broader societal debates about the meaning of for anyone looking for a new path to follow. Unofficial Wisdom: Selected even in the sky. In “Where the numbers meet Contributions to Feliciter 1995-2009 believe music is not only entertainment, but bodily differences. The detailed descriptions and easy-to-read the trees,” Leslie Timmins, BA’79, MFA’99, writes: Canadian Library Association, $29.95 also a profoundly influential part of our culture. While detailing cases such as Joseph Merrick information boxes outlining each trail’s Dogwood, fir, spruce – a forest interstice among (who became known as the Elephant Man), elevation gain, high point, seasons, hiking times Guy Robertson, BA’76, MLS’81 Reviewed by Keith Leinweber, BDes house lots, where eagles, impossibly large, impossibly conjoined twins, and individuals with excessive and dog-friendliness, provide key details to help An educational and entertaining collection of wide, skim north, and herons, pterodactyl-winged, hair growth, Durbach asserts that “freak shows” prospective hikers assess which trails are right articles on topics of interest to librarians and Music float south across some undivided divide. effectively reflected society’s physical, racial and for them. Sites of geographical and historical information specialists. The Bad and the Beautiful Verse Map’s Vancouver is not Utopia, but sexual assumptions while exposing deviations importance are also emphasized. iTromboni Just One Vote: From Jim Walding’s Nomination neither is it the urban disaster critics often make from these accepted norms. Having lived on the North Shore for 35 years, to Constitutional Defeat If you wanted to form a musical quintet, you might not think about it out to be. The truth lies somewhere in the Nadja Durbach is associate professor of Watt has been able to inject a wealth of local University of Manitoba Press including a trombone. Unless you played one, of course. So, five trombone history at the University of Utah. She is also the knowledge into this handy and backpack- middle, as it often does. Verse Map can be seen Ian Stewart, BA’74 players got together and decided, “Why not a trombone quintet?” as an honest representation of a real city, with author of Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination friendly guide. You may be familiar with his A look at how a one-vote victory in a provincial iTromboni plays everything, from Hungarian folk tunes to “From Russia its stories, places, people and history remaining Movement in England, 1853-1907. column, “Off the Beaten Path,” published in party nomination led to the failure of the Meech With Love.” With great verve. Visit www.itromboni.com for tracks and info. open to interpretation by all who read it. The North Shore News. Lake Accord.

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T-Birds Women’s Volleyball Spring Sports Heating Up Completes Perfect Season T-Birds baseball began the 2010 The no. 1 ranked Thunderbirds capped season with their annual road trip Legendary Coach off a perfect 2009-10 season (25-0) through California during the final two with their third straight CIS National weeks of February and carried over a Mosher Retires from Championship in February. Fifth-year hot start into conference play. The standout Liz Cordonier was named team, which was ranked #13 in the CIS MVP, a CIS first-team All-Canadian, NAIA Coaches’ Preseason Poll, Pitch, But Not from and CIS Championship MVP as she opened the season on a 16-3 run. led UBC to a 3-1 victory over Manitoba UBC plays all of their home games on in the final. Fourth-year Jen Hinze and campus this season for the first time Classroom third-year Kyla Richey also earned in program’s history at Thunderbird All-Canadian status. Graduating Park. They opened their home By Ben Schach senior Claire Hanna collected CIS schedule in March and continue with Libero of the Year honours with Doug four home series in April. Reimer earning his record-setting fifth The T-Birds softball team kicked off CIS Coach of the Year Award to round their inaugural varsity season with a out arguably the best season in CIS road trip to California in early women’s volleyball history. February, a pair of trips to Oregon in After 24 seasons as one of the most successful achieve with his Thunderbird teams. March, and a doubleheader against “My overall philosophy revolves around keeping things in perspective,” Men’s basketball ‘Birds claim SFU in Richmond. The first-year squad CIS silver; St. Pierre leads soccer coaches in CIS history, Dick Mosher decides he says. “I’ve always believed that athletics should contribute to, but not started their year with a 3-11 record. women to strong season to step back from the pitch to focus on teaching. dominate, the university’s main purpose – that of presenting the opportunity The track and field season is also Men’s basketball had another just around the corner for the T-Birds. for a quality degree and preparing our student-athletes for the future. I’d outstanding season, claiming the They will be hosting their first-ever This fall, for the first time in 25 years, Dick Mosher will not be on the be lying to you if I suggested that on-field success wasn’t important. silver medal at the CIS Final 8 after a competition on campus this year at sidelines of a soccer pitch directing a championship-calibre UBC Thunderbird Winning a championship is something players will look back on for the Liz Cordonier 91-81 loss to Saskatchewan in the the newly minted Rashpal Dhillon team to another successful season. But he will still be pursuing his other rest of their lives. But it is also very satisfying to look at how many of our championship game. During the Track and Field Oval. Their provincial passion: teaching students in the School of Human Kinetics. athletes achieved academic All-Canadian status, or who achieved great regular season they topped CIS with a rivals, the SFU Clan, will come to the Coaching and teaching have been equally rewarding and important for success in their careers after UBC.” 17-1 record and were ranked either no. Point Grey campus for a dual meet on Mosher. “My coaching program always had a three-pronged approach,” he Mosher served as interim director of the Athletics department while the 1 or no. 2 in the country the entire year. April 25. says. “We tried to gain a measure of success on the field, coupled with search was on to replace Bob Hindmarch, who retired in 1991. Mosher is also Star point guard Josh Whyte led UBC academic success in an environment that promoted fun and enjoyment. I the long-time academic coordinator in charge of evaluating potential incoming all season and was rewarded with CIS Big Block Awards Banquet always believed that there was more to university life than only soccer and student-athletes. He has helped hundreds of past, present and future T-Birds MVP and first-team All-Canadian Every year, the UBC Thunderbirds I’ve been lucky to be able to teach the last 24 years while coaching a group earn a place in a school with increasingly stringent academic standards. honours after averaging 19.1 points, celebrate the best from the past and of unbelievable student-athletes.” He has also influenced some of UBC’s most successful coaches, such as 4.9 rebounds, 4.2 assists, and 2.4 present at the Big Block Awards Mosher led the T-Bird men’s and women’s soccer teams to nine CIS Kevin Hanson (men’s basketball) and Hash Kanjee (women’s field hockey). steals per game. Kevin Hanson took Banquet. This season’s gala is Championships (14 medals total at the national level), 12 Canada West Each came under Mosher’s tutelage as they earned their master’s degrees. home his second CIS Coach of the scheduled for April 13 with the yearly Championships, and an overall record of 202-38-48 during his time as a For all of the wins, titles, and accolades he has collected over the last 24 Year award in his 10th season at the awards and hall of fame induction head coach. years, Mosher reiterates that there is more to life than just on-field helm of the T-Birds. ceremony on tap as the major He began his relationship with UBC in 1963, spending three years as a success. “Honestly, I’ve always believed that winning is somewhat of a In women’s basketball, Lia St. Pierre highlights. For ticket information, centre-forward with the T-Birds before moving on to the University of random event. A goal-post here or a great keeper save can make all the was recognized as a Canada West please contact Steve Tuckwood at Oregon and later to Michigan State to pursue his PhD in human growth difference and that isn’t something you can really control.” first-team all-star. The no. 10 ranked [email protected] 604.822.1972. Katie Tyzuk Josh White and motor development. With such a philosophy about the outcome of the game of soccer, to what team in the CIS, the T-Birds lost a He returned to UBC in 1975 as a professor in the School of Physical does Mosher attribute his success at UBC? His response focuses on, not heartbreaking series (2-1) to the no. 8 Education. Mosher coached local Vancouver metro soccer teams for a decade surprisingly, the bigger picture. ranked Alberta Pandas in the CW before becoming head coach of the T-Bird men’s squad in 1986. He began “If you wake up in the morning and truly enjoy going to work, you’re a quarterfinals. coaching the women’s team in 1994, handing off the men’s to his son, Mike. very lucky person. As trite as it sounds, I’m just that person. Working with Quantifying Mosher’s success as a head coach is a challenging task. But highly motivated student-athletes and Human Kinetics students has been for the 65 year-old “Dean of UBC Soccer” (as coined by The Province’s both exciting and tremendously rewarding. I count myself extremely Marc Weber), impressive statistics are only a portion of what he set out to lucky to have had so many great experiences.” Rashpal Dhillon Track and Field Oval

42 Trek Spring 2010 Photo: Rich Lam Photos: Rich Lam Spring 2010 Trek 43 LEFT: This chair was designed by Noel Best of Stantec Architecture, the firm that worked with UBC, MOA, and More MOA the museum’s original architect, the late Arthur Erickson, to complete the renovation and expansion. It is inspired Museum of Anthropology is by Northwest Coast bentwood boxes. Party at Bigger and Better the Point.

The Presentation Circle can accommodate up MOA’s Multiversity Galleries The cases in the Multiversity Galleries to 40 people for multimedia presentations, house more than 10,000 are designed to provide visitors with discussions, performances, and workshops. objects from around the world. maximum visual access to the objects. University as it should be: Great lectures Thousands of alumni and friends flocked back UBC’s Museum of Anthropology is world renowned and seminars with no quizzes, tours of the to campus last year. Come join the party. for its spectacular northwest coast collections and best new (and old) haunts, athletic events, Updates will be sent electronically, so make hosts more than 170,000 visitors per year. It is wine tastings and more. There’s so much to sure we have your email address. Contact us frequently lauded for outstanding research initiatives and is well-regarded for its collaborative see and do both on the Point Grey campus at [email protected], 604.827.3081 or attitude towards cultural stakeholders, particularly and in the community. 1.800.883.3088 for more information. local First Nations communities. From humble beginnings in the basement of Main A sampling of events… Library, MOA’s 1976 move to the Arthur Erickson- designed facility on the cliffs of Point Grey marked the start of its rise to anthropological stardom. Chemistry Magic Show Principles of Success: Writing Short Fiction Workshop: More than three decades later the museum has The Audain Gallery will house both Do you remember seeing a nail hammered with Changing the World One Step at a Time Postcard Stories undergone another major transformation with the a frozen banana? Or the reaction of magnesium travelling exhibits and exhibits Join high performance athletes Steph Tait, BA’06, Write your own postcard story using elements recent completion of a $55 million upgrade. with CO ? Experience these wonders and more developed by the museum. 2 and Matt Hill as they recount their inspiring and of classic short fiction. Look at some published The renovations have increased MOA by more at the chemistry magic show. Come watch motivational adventure Run for One Planet, a postcard stories from local writers, practice than 50 per cent, enhanced its already-stunning gummy bears burn and cotton explode. Have fun carbon neutral year-long run around the conti- some writing exercises and then get started on architectural spaces and made collections more with liquid nitrogen. Experience slime like you’ve nent that aimed to inspire environmental action writing your own short fiction. accessible. New additions include the 5,800 sq. ft. never experienced it before. Fun for the whole and raised more than $120,000 for their Legacy family! Audain Gallery, which will play host to temporary Fund for Kids. Steph and Matt will explain their Tours motto that “Small Steps Add Up” for environ- exhibitions; a wing to house the Centre for Cultural Enjoy complimentary tours at many of UBC’s mental action and entrepreneurial success. Research; and a community research suite with an ¿Cómo Se Dice ... En Español? main attractions including the Museum of oral language lab and a culturally-sensitive materials Have you ever considered learning another Anthropology, Botanical Garden, Nitobe Garden, research room, providing researchers and community language or travelling to the Caribbean, Mexico, The Phylomon Project: the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC Farm members with opportunities to interact with museum Central America, South America or Spain? Where Pokemon meets Biodiversity and TRIUMF. Most tours will be offered several holdings that have never been accessible before Maybe Spanish is the language for you. Join a Did you know 2010 is the International Year of times throughout the day. now. A Reciprocal Research Network has been one-hour beginner’s level Spanish demo class Biodiversity? Come and discover why biodiver- and learn a little of this beautiful language in a sity is important in this day and age. You will established to share MOA’s collection digitally with fun and relaxing environment. also have the opportunity to hear about the = Kids will enjoy this event, too! First Nations communities and other museums. recently launched Phylomon Project, an online If it has been a while since you visited MOA, it initiative aimed at creating a Pokemon-like card The Great Hall showcases monumental pieces by First Nations Large pieces such as canoes, may be time to take a trip out to Point Grey. UBC resource that highlights biodiversity by using real artists from along the coast of BC. New interpretive labels were bentwood boxes, and totem pole Alumni Affairs will be offering tours of the museum creatures. developed in partnership with the originating communities. fragments are displayed on platforms. during Alumni Weekend, May 28-30. www.alumni.ubc.ca 44 Trek Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Trek 45 46

in Zena’s abundant charm and warmth won her education and progress, between personal a wide circle of lifelong friends of all ages. She action and social change. had an instinctive empathy with young people After graduation Sheilah worked for the among whom her peculiarly Canadian chocolate YWCA organizing programs for young women. ~ Memoriam ~ chip cookies and brownies became legendary. In 1941, she married James Swanson Thompson, She was an excellent bridge player and also a a labour leader who served in the Royal tireless charity worker for Oxfam, the Red Canadian Navy during the war. Daughters Cross, and the British Legion. Sheilah Moreen (Allen), BA’64, DEd’78 and development, including the design of a naval Malcolm Hayden Hebb BA’31, DSc’63 Zena Alice Swaab (Urquhart) BA’36 In 2000, Zena was struck by the cruel ravages Shannon Kathleen (Parker), BA’74, MEd’77, MA’87 Andrew Seraphim Sheilah Thompson Malcolm Hayden Hebb, a gentleman of propulsion plant that would use nuclear energy Zena was born in Vancouver just before of dementia. She was cared for at home by her were born in 1943 and 1947 respectively. extraordinary genius, passed away peacefully at rather than fossil fuel to power ships and Christmas in 1914. Her family was a rich blend of family, until July 2009 when her generous life In 1952 Sheilah trained at Vancouver Andrew Francis Seraphim BASc’45 his home in Eustis, Florida, on August 11, 2009, submarines. In 1960, Malcolm was appointed to emigrants from the Scottish Highlands and the ended peacefully in a South London hospital. Normal School and became a high school Andrew Francis Seraphim, born to Andrew and at the age of 99. He was predeceased by his wife, Eisenhower’s President’s Science Advisory English West County. Her grandmother, Zenobia teacher, first in West Vancouver and then in Madge (Brown) Seraphim on September 8, 1921, Frank J.E. Turner BA’39, BCom’39 Marion Evers Hebb. He was born in Marquette, Committee’s ad hoc six-man Panel on Man-In- (through the generations, second daughters – North Vancouver, where she taught at Hamilton, in Abbotsford, BC, died July 11, 2009, in Almost 93 years old, Frank quietly passed on Michigan, in 1910 and moved to Vancouver with Space. The group was tasked with monitoring like Zena – were always called Zenobia), was Delbrook, and Handsworth schools. She was Williamstown, NJ, just a month before he and October 13, 2009, after a long life of achievement. his parents, the noted physicist Thomas Carlyle NASA’s activities, including its manned space born in New Zealand in 1846, and at 16 married known as an inspiring History teacher and a wife Lu (Lucille Nielson) would have celebrated While attending UBC, Frank played on the Hebb, after whom the Hebb Theatre at UBC was missions and goals concerning Mars and the Moon. Edward Binney, a sailor. The family moved to sympathetic counsellor. their 60th wedding anniversary. 1936/1937 national champion Thunderbirds named, and Evelyn Hayden Hebb. On November 1, 1963, the title and degree of Vancouver where Zena’s mother Jesse, then 19, Sheilah continued her studies and in 1968 Although Andy’s degree was in mining basketball team that was inducted into both In 1931 he won the Governor General’s Gold doctor of science (honoris causa) was conferred married Hector Urquhart in 1909. earned the first doctorate in educational engineering, his brilliance and adaptability led BC’s and UBC’s sports halls of fame. He worked Medal in Arts and Science as head of the upon Malcolm by UBC. He retired from GE in Their marriage produced four children: Roie, psychology awarded by UBC. She was one of the to a wide-ranging career that took him from for a number of years as secretary-manager of graduating class at UBC. In 1936 he graduated 1968 and he and his wife relocated to the Zena, Hec and Alec, who joined the RCAF at the founding faculty of Douglas College, serving as Vancouver to Calgary, Montreal, the Maritimes the UBC Alumni Association. summa cum laude from Harvard with a PhD in warmer, sunnier climate of Lake County, outbreak of war and was killed when his plane head of counselling and health services and was and Philadelphia. He held leading roles in gold Between 1942 and 1955 Frank served in the physics. He was also the recipient of a Harvard Florida. Although he had no children, Uncle crashed in 1942. instrumental in establishing the nurses’ training mining in Yellowknife, built the world’s largest Royal Canadian Navy Reserve, achieving the travelling fellowship. With the award from the Malcolm, as he was fondly known to all, was Zena was a notably clever girl, and took her program. Seconded by the ministries of Health earth-filled dam in the Yukon, constructed rank of lieutenant commander. From 1955 to fellowship, Malcolm travelled abroad to Holland surrounded by many adoring nieces, nephews, BA at UBC in 1936. When war broke out three and Education, she travelled throughout the Penstock at Bridge River, tunnelled under 1980 he was a chartered life underwriter agent where he continued his studies in mathematical grand-niece and grand-nephews, all of whom years later, she went to work at the British Air province assisting educational institutions with Ripple Rock to prepare for its removal as a with London Life Insurance, often receiving physics. Upon his return in 1938, he taught are deeply saddened at the loss of such an Commission in Washington, DC, and in 1946 programs and curricula. navigational hazard, constructed the Massey Honor Club status. physics at Duke University, and during World exceptional and exceedingly generous person. moved to London where she worked initially at Sheilah was a committed Unitarian and Tunnel, constructed pipeline and railway in Frank believed in Rotary and was a long- War II he headed the Theory Group at the the UN Refugee Agency. It was then that she met played an active role in the Vancouver church. Alberta, worked on the St. Lawrence seaway, standing member of the Masonic Order and Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory where someone a mutual friend pronounced would be After retiring in 1981, she served for many built heavy water plants in the Maritimes, Gizeh Shrine. He enjoyed basketball, cricket, he developed novel ideas in the new field of her ideal soul mate. This was Jack Swaab, newly years on the board of trustees including two Europe and Korea, and finally had ownership in curling and boating and was an avid Lions and electroacoustics, which were applied to demobbed after nearly seven years war service terms as chairperson. Singing in the church a company specializing in preventing ecological Canucks fan. In April 2008, he was predeceased submarine detection. in the western desert, Sicily and Europe. He, choir that she helped establish gave her great disasters. He loved his work and did not retire by Doris, his loving wife of 65 years. Malcolm joined the General Electric research job-hunting, landed in advertising, while Zena joy. For many years she was a delegate to the until 2001 when he was 80. Frank by name, Frank by nature. laboratory staff in 1949 and became manager moved to TCA, later Air Canada. They married Canadian Unitarian Council and the Unitarian Andy was appreciated by his family, friends of the GE physics research department in in May, 1948, and (largely thanks to Zena’s Sheilah Doreen Thompson Universalist Association. and those with whom he worked for his Schenectady, NY, in 1952. A brilliant mathematical salary, which was larger than Jack’s) were able to (Hutchinson) BA’39, MEd’64, DEd’68 Throughout her life, Sheilah spent time, exceptional patience, understanding, respect for physicist, he had many publications in the field buy the little house in Wimbledon in which they Sheilah Doreen Thompson died peacefully on energy and money on causes which promoted others and ability to see the humour in all of solid state physics. In the world of science, his spent some sixty years together. June 20, 2008, in the company of family and social justice and helped the disadvantaged. situations. He was known by all for his love of insight and organizational skills were recog- Their early life in war-torn, austerity-ridden friends. She was an educator and an idealist who Among others, she supported groups who family, fishing, flowers and fun. nized by industry and government alike. He London was not easy. Jack twice contracted TB, worked throughout her life for a more just and worked for nuclear disarmament, civil rights always liked to say that “freedom of inquiry is and Zena herself underwent four miscarriages. humane world. and the rights of women. At the age of 68, she the very essence of research.” But in 1955 their first son, Richard, was born and Sheilah grew up and lived her life in North traveled to Nicaragua and spent two weeks While at GE, Malcolm was also involved with three years later Peter, their second. The boys Vancouver. She graduated from North Van picking coffee in support of the Sandinistas. research at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory both won major scholarships to Cambridge. High, where she excelled as a scholar, athlete On her return, she raised money to establish a in Schenectady. In the 1950s, the Knolls’ Richard became deputy chairman of Britain’s and student leader. At UBC, she majored in school in the village where she had stayed. Zena Alice Swaab purpose was to conduct nuclear research and largest advertising agency. Peter lectured at History and English and was active in the Letters Although her life became restricted after she Cambridge and London universities and is today Club and the Student Christian Movement. was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Sheilah’s We depend on friends and relatives for our In Memoriam materials. Please send obituaries of a highly respected author of books on both University opened up the world for her: it great spirit and generous heart remained with 400 words or less (submissions will be edited for length where necessary) to Mike Awmack at literature and film. helped her define connections between her to the end. She is greatly missed. [email protected] or UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1. (Mail original photos or email high resolution scans – preferably 300 dpi.) Please note that Trek Magazine is also published online.

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In 1990, Peter began volunteering for the Barry was active in many organizations (a list hostilities ended and he returned to Vancouver a wireless operator. At the conclusion of the war retired, allowing him time to enjoy 110-150 Palliative Care Unit at Lions’ Gate Hospital and far too lengthy to mention) but was most proud for discharge. he joined the New Westminster Royals in the rounds of golf a year. Mixed in with this was is remembered with fondness for his thoughtful of his role in developing the UNB and Fredericton During the winter of 1945-46, he operated a Pacific Coast Hockey League. The Chicago dancing, curling, bowling, cross-country skiing and caring approach to patients. Rowing clubs and constructing the Aquatic Centre, cattle feedlot for BC Livestock Co-op at the Fraser Blackhawks of the six-team NHL called, but Bob and travelling. Good times were plenty at the In addition to all these activities, Peter loved the and of his participation in the establishment of Street stockyard and in 1946 he rehabilitated the made the decision to seek an education instead. Legion, the Clubhouse and friends’ homes. He outdoors – hiking, skiing, Worlcombe Island – and the local walking trail. He also helped to family ranch at Watson Bar, BC, before enrolling While with the Royals, the shy redhead fell for thought the world of the community of Chase shared many wonderful adventures during his establish the Unitarian Fellowship of Fredericton. that September in the animal husbandry the raven-haired beauty Betty, whom he married and the surrounding area. He was a life member long life with family and friends. The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce program at UBC. While at UBC he served as in 1948. They thoroughly enjoyed more than 59 of the Elks and a 49-year member of the Legion C. Peter Jones G. Barry Thompson Peter is survived by his wife of 67 years, honoured him with the Distinguished Citizen undergrad representative on the student council years of “a great life” together until Betty’s Branch 107. Eleanor, his sisters, Pamela Stone and Meg Parr, Award for providing extraordinary service and committee and took up summer employment passing in 2007. They lived life to its fullest, In 2000 the 1948-50 Thunderbirds hockey C. Peter Jones BA’47, BASc’48 his five children, Penny BA’66 (George Pedersen leadership contributing to the quality of life in with the City of Vancouver roads department. loved, laughed, played, and worked hard with team was inducted into the UBC Sports Hall of C. Peter Jones was born in 1918 in Cirencester, BA’59), Stephen (Bev Boys), Christine Med’90 Fredericton. He also received the Rotary During the summers of 1948 and 1949 he started few, if any, regrets. The family truly believes that Fame. In 2006 Bob became only the second England, moving to Canada with his parents so (David Millar BCom’73, MSc’75), Tim BPE’76, Med’91 International Paul Harris Award for his humanity a dairy herd at North Bend, BC, and delivered his passing is the result of a broken heart. hockey player in UBC history to receive the that his father Cyril could attend UBC (Fairview (Jennifer BA’81) and Hugh MBA’87, and his eight and furtherance of better understanding and raw milk from there to Boston Bar. Bob studied pharmacy at UBC. He also starred same honour. campus) to study engineering (BASc’24). Growing grandchildren. There is a fine legacy of Jones family friendly relations among peoples of the world. His daughter, Leslie, was born at VGH in 1950 as a right winger with the UBC Thunderbirds. In R. Ross Johnson BSF’51 up in North Vancouver and Victoria, young UBC graduates, which is being continued for a Barry was an avid traveler and fine photographer and his second and third daughters, Louise and the 1950s, he and Betty worked and resided in Ross passed away peacefully on July 28, 2009. Peter enjoyed the outdoors and sports and was fourth generation by Cyril’s great grandchildren and, with his curiosity, sense of humour, kindness Laura, followed soon after. On graduating from New Westminster. He played golf out of the He was born in Kelowna but lived on the North an outstanding scholar. He was accepted into and Peter’s grandchildren, Alex Millar and Peter and compassion, endeared himself to everyone UBC he joined the livestock division of the Shore most of his life, attending North Star the first class at Royal Roads in 1941 and soon Jones, Emily Jones and Madelyn Jones. he met, young or old. He was a father to every federal Department of Agriculture, working School and North Vancouver High. He served after joined the RCNVR where he saw active Peter died peacefully at home in North young person who needed one and his heart and until 1970 in Regina and later in Toronto. Canada with the 2nd Division, Canadian Artillery, duty as a gunnery officer on the North Atlantic Vancouver on September 30, 2009. He will be home were always open. Adored by his family, In 1964 he began farming 300-acre and in Canada, Holland, Germany and France. In and later in England. In Halifax, Peter met lovingly remembered as a gentleman and a friends, students and colleagues, he deserved the 100-acre farms he had purchased within 27 Europe, he served with the 20th Battery, 2nd Eleanor and they married in April 1942. Once gentle man. We all miss his wisdom, his nickname “the good man” given him by the miles of Ottawa. After resigning from his Antitank Regiment. the war was over, they moved to Vancouver where curiosity, his humour and his love. inhabitants of the small Greek village of government position, he formed Hy-Cross Beef Ross was a member of Canadian Legion Peter resumed his civil engineering studies at Mystras, where he spent a sabbatical. Breeders Ltd. and began importing Simmental, Gordon “Barry” Thompson BPE’49 Branch #118. Upon returning to Canada, he UBC, graduating at the top of his class in 1948. Limousin and other breeds of cattle from It is with profound sadness that the family of Douglas J. Baird BScA’50 attended UBC and graduated with a bachelor’s In 1952, Peter was a founding partner of Read, Europe for breeding. Professor G. Barry Thompson announce his Born in Alberta to a pioneer livestock family, degree in forestry. He worked in the forest industry Jones, Christoffersen and in 1978 he was the Bypass heart surgery in 1975 slowed him up death on Monday, June 29, 2009, in the Douglas Baird moved to Fintry, BC, in 1920. In for many years, initially in summer breaks with founding senior partner of Jones, Kwong, Kishi; for a short time but he was active again by palliative care unit of the Doctor Everett 1927 his family moved to Vancouver where his the BC Forest Service in Pender Harbour where both these firms remain vibrant contributors to December of that year. In 1977 he sold Hy-Cross, Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton. father took over operation of the stockyards for he was assistant ranger and operated the the world of structural engineering to this day. although he remained a director for one year. A Barry was born in 1927 in Brittania Beach, BC, the public abattoir at the foot of Fraser Street. “Cherry 2.” He then worked for BC Forest In addition to his engineering work, Peter number of commercial livestock ventures followed but was really a mountain boy. His first 18 years Douglas left high school in 1940 to work as a Products and, for most of his career, L&K Lumber. taught engineering in the School of Architecture until a second heart surgery in 1991 forced him were spent in the town site on the mountain herdsman at Earlscourt Farms in Lytton, where Ross’ generosity and quality of giving himself at UBC for several years. to retire. In 1997 he and Dorothy returned to BC above the beach. At 18 he left the mountain to he stayed until joining the RCAF for pilot to help others was legend. He was very active For all of his adult life, Peter gave countless where they lived until his passing. attend UBC, where he recently returned to be training in May 1941. R. Ross Johnson with Big Brothers, and was Akela in Scouting for hours of public service, beginning as a school honoured as a member of the first graduating In May 1942 he graduated as a pilot and was Bob Koch BScP’50 11 years at St. David’s United Church. He often trustee in North Vancouver (1958-1967). After class of the School of Human Kinetics, Physical initially posted overseas. His posting, however, On June 17, 2009, Bob “Bobby” Koch passed took groups of young people on study trips moving to the neighbouring municipality, he Vancouver Golf and Country Club, where he Education and Recreation. was rescinded soon after and his flying career away in Royal Inland Hospital at the age of 87. through the woods. A trip with Ross was was elected alderman and mayor of West won many tournaments including the New After graduation he worked with the Red Cross was put on hold. In 1943 he returned to the He was born at Mrs. Hesselgrave’s Nursing amazing; you always learned something new. Vancouver (1968-78). For many years he was Westminster Amateur as well as the club in Vancouver before attaining his master’s degree RCAF, going overseas in 1944 to train with Home in Irricana, AB, on January 12, 1922, the Family was everything to Ross. He purchased active in the Unitarian Church, both in Vancouver championship. He also played a few more years at Springfield College in Massachusetts. He then the RAF before joining the Canadian 408 oldest of four children. As a young man growing property at Sakinaw Lake when he returned and on the North Shore. Peter was also the for the Royals until the combination of working worked at the YMCA in Hamilton before moving Squadron in Yorkshire, England. During one up in Strathmore, AB, he fished, hunted and from overseas and built a family cabin that has inspiration behind the founding of Capilano as a pharmacist and hockey injuries made life on to MacDonald High School and McGill, harrowing operation en route to Germany in competed successfully in track and field, golf, been the joy of his life. He loved to be there with College in 1968, and became its first board chair. somewhat difficult. where he coached the swim team in 1955-56 and 1945 his flight crew had to bail out due to an and hockey. His parents owned the Strathmore family around, enjoying the serenity of life in On receiving university status, the now-Capilano In 1960 they made the fortuitous decision to the victorious water polo team in 1956-57. uncontrollable engine fire. Fortunately all seven Hotel where he was raised, his bedroom over the the outdoors. Ross loved to create, whether it University bestowed its first honorary degree on move to Chase and open Chase Drugs, which In 1959, at the invitation of John Meagher, crew members survived. bar. Perhaps that is where the lifelong non- was carpentry, working on his Model A, or Peter in the fall of 2008. He was very interested later became People’s Drug Mart. He worked six Barry joined the University of New Brunswick At the end of the European war, he switched smoker discovered his love for the golden nectar. gardening at his West Vancouver home. in dispute resolution and qualified as a Chartered days a week for years and the odd good-weather to teach in the physical education department, from flying Halifax bombers to Lancasters to In 1940, at the age of 18, he was recruited by the Arbitrator in 1988, spending almost 12 years day off caught him playing 18 holes or more. He eventually becoming director of the School of fly home en route to the Far East theatre. In Calgary Stampeders Hockey Club, which had won working with the BC Arbitration and Mediation was successful at more tournaments than you Physical Education and Kinesiology. He went on July he married Dorothy Fraser in Vancouver the Allan Cup the previous year. Then came a stint Institute. No one could be more fair-minded could yip a putt at, especially at Sunshore and to serve 10 years as dean of students. He was one and after marriage leave returned to his unit with the Baltimore Orioles hockey team. During than he was. Shuswap Lake Estates. In 1978 Bob and Betty of the most beloved professors at the university. in Greenwood, NS. In August 1945, Japanese World War II he joined the RCAF and trained as

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John (Jack) William Eastwood BSF’56 development projects in Bangladesh, Malaysia Maureen Patricia Marchak Geordon and Lauren, were born there. This where he made a mark on many lives. in-law and his seven beautiful grandchildren. Jack died peacefully on Thursday, May 7, 2009, and Ecuador for several Vancouver forestry (Russell) BA’58, PhD’70 sojourn also represented Pat’s earliest exposure Bob was most noted for involvement in Bob’s favourite place on earth was his cabin on at The Lodge at Broadmead in Victoria, BC. He consultants. This was followed by 10 years with In 1997, Pat Marchak could be seen in Buenos to a state grappling with deep scars from the his profession and community. He belonged Bowen Island where he and his family spent is survived by his wife of 59 years, Dorothy Jean the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Aires in front of the Presidential Palace, recent past. to numerous committees and was director of many wonderful summers and he was happiest. Fay (McLeod), daughters May, Jane and Susan, UN, working out of Rome on projects around the interviewing the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo as Back in Canada, now a mother of two young many of them. Board member assignments Roger Kenwood St. John Col. (Ret.) BSF’69 granddaughters Anna and Caliya and his sister, world, but mainly in Central and South America they continued to seek justice for their children sons, Pat gradually resumed studies and earned included G.F. Strong, BC Teachers Federation September 15, 2009, marked the loss of a great Bernice Evans. and Asia. who were “disappeared” during the dirty war of her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology in Global Education Project, Vancouver and man, Roger Kenwood St. John. His passing was Jack was born in 1925 in Sooke, BC, moving Jack, who achieved the status of an international the 1970s. In 2000, you could have seen her in 1970. As a teacher and academic administrator, District Athletic Association and involvement sudden and untimely. shortly thereafter to Digby Island near Prince expert in forest inventory and development, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as she interviewed she progressed from instructor to professor organizing a BC Space Symposium. He was the Born May 26, 1944, in Vancouver, Roger was a Rupert, where his father was a lighthouse ended his career back in Vancouver working for survivors of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge regime (1980) and was head of the UBC Department of director of Richmond Partners in Community devoted husband, father, grandpa (Poppy), keeper. At the age of 18, Jack enlisted in the several years as an associate with a major that left nearly a million dead. Years earlier Anthropology and Sociology prior to becoming Conference, chairperson to Richmond’s friend and community member as well as a Royal Canadian Air Force and several years later international company of forest consultants. He (1953-54), you would have seen her in her final dean of UBC’s Faculty of Arts for the period Science and Technology Awareness, as well distinguished member of the military. found himself living in a tent on a forward and Dorothy retired to their favourite spot on year at Kitsilano High School as editor of KHS 1990-96. She served on many boards and as Richmond’s Principals Association. Co- After graduating from UBC he began his airfield in Normandy, arming Typhoon fighter/ earth, Oak Bay, BC, and spent many happy years Life, the student newspaper. By then she had committees and was a past president of the chairships included the School’s Division of BC military career with his first posting in Montreal. bombers and leaving his youth and part of his there, frequently communicating with old won some 60 swimming trophies and medals, Canadian Anthropology and Sociology Association. Children’s Hospital Foundation. He went on to serve his country with true hearing behind in many airfields over the comrades and “smelling the roses.” Jack many from distance competitions. Between 1975 and 2008, Pat published 10 books, Bob was an athlete and this was a huge part of engineering spirit during tours across Canada remaining months of WWII. He was a different Eastwood is gone but not forgotten. Pat entered UBC as a scholarship student in co-authored two and edited one. Her earlier works who he was. He played rugby at UBC and as a and Europe as well as several UN peacekeeping person when he returned to Prince Rupert, soon 1954 and The Ubyssey became a second home. dealt with socioeconomic issues in the BC and teacher went on to coach New Zealand Shield Jacqueline Sue Chapman BSN’58 missions in Cyprus, Pakistan, and Bosnia. His finding a job with the Provincial Forest Service Distance swimming remained a passion and in global forest and fishing industries; later subjects and provincial champions at Sir Charles Tupper Jacqueline Sue Chapman succumbed to illness final posting in 1994 was as base commander of and working himself into an important position June, 1955, Pat was determined to become the included globalization, ideologies, resources and and David Thompson. Then came basketball. He on July 9, 2009, at Lakeview Manor, Beaverton, ON. CFB Chilliwack, which he oversaw until its in administration. first person to conquer the Strait of Juan de economic development, followed more recently coached for numerous years and implemented a One of Canada’s most noted nurse researchers, closure in 1998. By 1951 he had married Dorothy and moved to Fuca between Victoria and Port Angeles – 18.3 by human rights issues in failed states. “mini basketball” program in Richmond. He was Jacquie’s doctoral studies led to care improvements He concerned himself with the well-being of Vancouver to undertake another big challenge, miles in a straight line, but a gruelling swim of at Pat became a fellow of the Royal Society of the president of BC High School Boys Basketball in neonatal nurseries. She graduated from UBC all those leaving the base and went above and the five year forestry program at UBC. There he least 25 miles because of the tides. After Canada in 1987 and was president of the Royal Association, receiving many awards for his and quickly advanced to head nurse roles and beyond to ensure that each and every one was met and bonded with another group of com- completing 20 miles, the tides turned against Society’s Academy of Humanities and Social contributions to the sport. In 2009 he received then to instructor positions at UBC and at taken care of. He was a soldier’s soldier and had rades, a motley collection of veterans, ex-loggers her and she was pulled out, protesting, about Sciences from 1998 to 2000. She was distinguished an honorary life membership in BCHSBBA. several American universities. Jacquie earned a career filled with integrity and distinction and high school graduates which grew naturally five miles short of her goal. scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute As a high school principal he was unique. He her MSN from Case Western University in including receiving the Order of Military Merit. into a close knit team dedicated to surviving the In addition to her BA studies, Pat enjoyed for Advanced Studies in 2000. had a vision and developed many innovative Cleveland and PhD in Nursing from New York He was also a citizen’s soldier as shown by the program successfully with mind, body and sense writing for The Ubyssey and as editor-in-chief Pat passed away peacefully at VGH with her practices. Examples of these included Student University. She became a professor at the honorary Citizen of the Year award he received of humour intact. (1957-58), her curiosity ruffled some feathers loving and devoted husband, Bill, by her side. Leadership Conferences, the first ever Salmon University of Toronto. from the City of Calgary in 1987, in recognition After graduation in 1956, Jack began his not only at UBC but also in Victoria and Ottawa. On becoming aware of her terminal cancer, Pat Hatchery at Steveston High School, BC’s first Jacquie was the first nurse in Canada to of the instrumental role he played in creating forestry career on Vancouver Island but soon Pat’s husband, Bill, accepted a Canadian requested that her family, friends and colleagues Pacific Rim course at Steveston, exchange be awarded the prestigious National Health the Calgary Centennial Arena and the Calgary became attracted to international forestry government posting in Vienna, Austria, where focus on how fortunate she had been to do what programs with Japan and China, linkages with Research Scholar Award. She garnered many Military Museum. The award stated that Roger taking up long-term forest inventory and forest they lived from 1958 to ’62. Their children, she loved, and how through her teaching, her Casa Guatemala orphanage and the Lai Thieu other honours including being named “emerged as a model of good citizenship, forging research and her writing she had, hopefully, Centre for the deaf in Vietnam and a Global an American Nurses Foundation Scholar a relationship between the citizens of Calgary made some positive contributions. Education Course at Richmond High. He and invited to be a founding fellow of the and the members of CFB Calgary” and that “his implemented the first Advanced Placement Nightingale Society. community spirit would go with him wherever Robert Thomas Carkner BPE’59 Program in BC at Steveston and developed In retirement she became an active member It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce his career took him.” Space and Technology Education. Awards were of her church and community, sharing generously the peaceful passing of Robert (Bob) Carkner on This proved to be true. After his retirement, numerous but most notable were the honorary in the lives of those around her. She maintained August 2, 2009. Born on October 10, 1935, he was Roger enthusiastically involved himself in the Doctor of Laws degree from SFU for excellence a special passion for infants, children and taken too soon from his loving family. community of Chilliwack, giving his time, energy in Educational Administration, the UBC Alumni education. She was an ardent traveler and Bob obtained his bachelor of physical and passion to many organizations including Association Award of Distinction for Global enthusiast of the arts. She will be remembered education at UBC with postgraduate studies Rotary, Community Services, Chilliwack Education, and the Order of Canada in recognition and missed by many. in counselling, and a master of education in Hospice Society, BC Children’s Hospital and of educational initiatives and encouragement of In Jacquie’s honour, please join UBC Nursing administration at Western Washington State Big Brothers. Again his enormous efforts were humanitarianism in schools. colleagues and friends in donating to the BSN College. He had a full 35-year career, starting recognized when he was named a Paul Harris Of all Bob’s accomplishments, his most Class of 1958 Bursary Fund, a lasting endowment briefly in Vancouver as a teacher at David Fellow by Rotary International. cherished one was his family. He was a devoted to assist nursing students in financial need. Thompson and Sir Charles Tupper and then Most recently Roger was greatly honoured by husband, father and grandfather. Bob was married Donations can be made by contacting Debbie counselling coordinator at Vancouver School an appointment as Colonel Commandant of the to the love of his life, Nanette, and recently Woo, Major Gifts Officer, at 604.822.6856 or Board. Most importantly, he was a high school Canadian Military Engineers. He was passionate celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. He [email protected]. principal for 22 years at Hugh Boyd, London, about the engineers and took his duties very Jack William Eastwood Patricia Marchak was adored by his three sons, three daughters- Steveston and Richmond secondary schools, seriously. He thoroughly enjoyed reconnecting

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with a new generation of engineers and spoke organizations and maintained close relations dissertation. He was also granted leave to take high-performance cars. On completing often of his pride in their accomplishments. with her siblings and their families. Fran’s legacy up guest lectureships for extensive periods at secondary school, he won a scholarship for Group home and auto insurance As involved with the community and military to her family is the memory of her ever-present universities and colleges in Seattle, Oxford, St. university from the Drapers’ Guild. He chose to services as he was, Roger always made time for joy and unbridled enthusiasm for life. Petersburg (Russia) and Suzhou (China). study economics at UBC. those he loved most: his family and friends. He One of Phil’s life-time goals was to try to During his four years at UBC, Julian made Insurance enjoyed fishing, spending time at his beloved Philip Perry BEd’72, MEd’73 foster links between people. Ever the interna- many good friends. He was popular with fellow Born in England in 1934, Phil migrated to cabin, travelling and creating adventures. He tionalist, he took several groups of trainees to students, with his different accent, contagious as simple as Australia with his parents and brothers while was looking forward to doing all these things Canada to complete their teaching practicums. happy-go-lucky, carefree attitude, and long still a child. He, in turn, migrated to Canada with with his grandsons and seeing the men they He actively sought to enrol overseas students in flowing hair. He was also remarkable for his for members of the University of Rowena and their three young children in 1968, would grow into. his graduate courses and often managed to intelligence and instant grasp of the underlying British Columbia Alumni Association having become frustrated by teaching and In hindsight, we know we are all fortunate secure short term teaching appointments or principles and their ramifications in his courses. learning conditions in Australian schools at Insurance doesn’t need to be complicated. As a member of the Roger was an avid story teller. Those who were lecture tours in Australia for colleagues from He would later be accepted into Mensa with a that time. 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After all, we’ve been doing it for 60 years! friend pointed out, “he was a happy and fulfilled of the International Society for Education internal computer auditor, he was responsible not least his colleagues in education and art man who was loved by all who knew him. He through Art; as president, and later, honorary for managing both staff and significant projects and those at UBC. He firmly believed that their Request a quote bypassed no opportunities and always followed life member, of the Australian Institute of Art for the firm from the head office in Surrey. encouragement, support and friendship helped and you could his heart.” Education (now Art Education Australia); and as Throughout his working life, Julian maintained him achieve greater self-confidence and a visual arts examiner with the International a keen interest in philosophical, metaphysical BA’71, MEd’78 self-understanding. Frances M. Esson Baccalaureate organization. Soon after his and spiritual matters, using his spare time to When you choose Fran was born and raised near Rosetown, SK. Phil returned to Australia, as a Canadian TD Insurance Meloche Monnex retirement, Monash’s faculty of art and design explore different traditions and teachers, as well services, we are able to provide She died in White Rock, BC, on June 5, 2009, just citizen, with his family in 1975 to take up an financial and marketing support for appointed him an honorary research fellow in as to keep abreast of advances in science, three months short of her 94th birthday. She appointment at the State College of Victoria. UBC alumni program and events. its department of fine arts. particularly quantum physics. Along with moved to Vancouver in the early 1940s, This was soon to become part of Monash friends, he formed a society called The Escape establishing a residence in the West End where University, where his career included directorships Julian Charles Bradley BA’73 Committee, which met at various frequencies 1 866 352 6187 she lived for more than 65 years. She was an of graduate courses in both art education and Julian Bradley, age 56, died November 15, 2007, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. over many years to discuss and share insights on independent woman, never marrying, and she teacher education. He undertook his PhD at the following a battle with colon cancer. life’s meaning and purpose. Its only rule was www.melochemonnex.com/ubc was a genuine role model for the next genera- University of Washington, graduating in 1981, He was raised in London, where he developed that there are no rules. tion. She started work during the war years in with cognitive dissonance the subject of his a life-long passion for books, music and TD Insurance Meloche Monnex is the trade-name of SECURITY NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY who He continued with these interests after also underwrites the home and auto insurance program. The program is distributed by the federal department of Employment and Meloche Monnex Insurance and Financial Services Inc. in Quebec and by Meloche Monnex stopping work in 1997. Latterly, he bought a Financial Services Inc. in the rest of Canada. Immigration. She was the only woman to share in The Tiger Inn pub near his parents’ Due to provincial legislation, our auto insurance program is not offered in British Columbia, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. maintain a position once the soldiers began 1Certain conditions and restrictions may apply. rural home in Kent, a sailing boat with friends, *No purchase required. Contest ends on January 14, 2011. 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She received her master their lives doing the right things for the wrong thingsProjet one encounters: Annonce MMI between 2009 the front door Province : British Columbia Épreuve # :1 of education (adult education) in 1978, the year and the car.” And “No man is so short that his reasons – conforming and living the way they Client : Meloche Monnex Publication : Trek she retired. She then put that knowledge to use feet don’t touch the ground.” Date de tombée : 11/02/10 think others feel they should live – and he Format : 5.125x7.014 by becoming an active member of the Federal No de dossier : refused to do this, always staying true to himself. While Julian’s physical presence will be sorely Superannuates National Association, working H-MM8019-09 MMI.EN• (5.125x7.014) Couleur : couleur Graphiste : Yannick Decosse He was legendary for preferring to leave things missed by those who knew him, his spirit, love, with them until she was into her 80s. humour and unique character remain in the Philip Perry undone, rather than to do them for the wrong Hamelin Martineau • 505, boul. de Maisonneuve O. Bureau 300 • Montréal (Québec) H3A 3C2 • T : 514 842 4416 F : 514 844 9343 Fran made many friends during her years in hearts of family, friends and others whose lives Julian Bradley reasons. He was well known, too, for his wit, ATTENTION : Merci de vérifier attentivement cette épreuve afin d’éviter toute erreur. Vancouver as she was active in numerous he touched.

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with Norm Young Actor, director, raconteur, teacher, Young as Knut Brovik in Henrik Ibsen’s joker: it’s hard to know how Norm The Master Builder (UBC Theatre/ Young, BA’52 might describe himself. Yorick Theatre, Oct/Nov ’09). Photo by Tim Matheson

Norm Young came to UBC to study law, but was diverted by fate and What was your nickname at school? What would you like your epitaph studied English and history instead. He was president of the Players’ Lemo. to say? Club, and his antics and performances make up the stuff of legend. After He could have done anything, but he What would the title of your graduation he went on to work in TV and theatre, then returned to UBC was lazy. biography be? to join the new department of Theatre in 1961, where he was a member What a Waste. What is your most prized possession? of faculty for 30 years. Norm has a burning love for UBC and the Theatre A 1928 Olympic poster signed by department to this day, and is still a familiar face around campus. He and If a genie granted you one wish, Percy Williams and Frank Grainger. his friend, the late Norm Watt, received the Alumni Association’s Lifetime what would it be? To win the Miss America contest so we Achievement Award in 1999. If you could invent something, what could have world peace. Or to control would it be? The two Norms, as they were called, were famous for their professional the entire capital of a large Swiss bank A selective time machine. antics, including the annual World’s Worst Original Oil Painting Exhibition in order to form a foundation and and Auction (WWOOPEA) that sold off some truly ugly works of art, and provide chairs and scholarships for the In which era would you most like to an annual croquet tournament set on the UBC President’s lawn – both of have lived, and why? humanities at UBC. which raised money for charitable causes. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the ones I’ve What item have you owned for the lived through, but I think I would have longest time? loved the Roaring Twenties as an adult. Who was your childhood hero? What’s the most important lesson My alphabet baby plate. My mother My Uncle Jack. He died at Cassino you ever learned? insisted on keeping it until I was 35, What are you afraid of ? Caves, mines, and living so long that Alumni Insurance Plans: A simpler solution for protecting your family. in WWII. If it needs to be done, do it now, and in defiance I started a collection all my friends have gone. because you won’t do it later. (now comprising about 200 pieces). Describe the place you most like to Term Life Insurance Income Protection Disability Insurance Name the skill or talent you would spend time. What’s your idea of the perfect day? What is your latest purchase? Major Accident Protection Health & Dental Care Critical Illness Insurance most like to have. Anywhere on the UBC campus, London My wife, Maida, is in Cuba. I’m up at A 45 RPM of Do the Freddie by Freddie To be able to carry a tune. I’m tired of or Tuscany (pretty similar places). 5:00am and read The Vancouver Sun and the Dreamers. not being allowed to sing in church. and The Province’s sports pages. I watch What was the last thing you read? Who do you most admire (living or Call us at 1-888-913-6333. a musical, mystery or gangster movie Which famous person (living or It was a re-read of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. dead) and why? on TCM. I cut out the day’s quota of dead) do you think (or have you been Or visit us online at www.manulife.com/ubcmag Homer Thompson, a boy from typos and caption boobs from The Sun told) you most resemble? What or who makes you laugh Rosedale who became one of the for more information. out loud? and mail them to Patricia Graham, the Think: Jeremy Irons. Told: Art Carney. world’s foremost archaeologists. He Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and the editor. I have lunch at the Argo and went to UBC and ended up at the What is your pet peeve? ineptness of the acting of the four play golf at Country Meadows. Karen Underwritten by: Princeton Institute while contributing Arrogance. Other people’s of course, Baldwin brothers. Barnaby cooks dinner. I win at ALUMNI INSURANCE PLANS duplicate bridge, despite partnering heavily to his field. not my own.

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