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CONTENTS

QUEBEC: THE END OR THE 4 BEGINNING? Allan Smith

8 THE HONORABLE RONALD BASFORD Canada's Shining Knight of Consumerism? Clive Cocking

THE TWO LIVES OF 13 DR. ROBERT McKENZIE Clive Cocking RECOLLECTIONS 16 OF JOE'S PALACE Dave Brock 18 STAGE CAMPUS 70 Pity the poor consumer . . . what has Ron Basford, minister of con­ sumer and corporate affairs, done 21 BOOKS for him? ... p. 8 Reviews by Allan Fotheringham, Trevor Lautens, Clive Cocking and Audrey Down

26 ALUMNI NEWS 29 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 30 SPOTLIGHT

EDITOR Clive Cocking, BA'62

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Susan Jamieson, BA'65

COVER Annette Breukelman

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE National Advertising Representatives Ltd.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Frank C Walden, BA'49, chairman, Mrs. R. W. Wellwood, BA'51, vice- chairman, Mrs. Frederick Field, BA'42, past chairman, Miss Kirsten Emmott, Med 2, Dr. Joseph Katz, BA, MEd (Man), PhD (Chicago), Philip British Prime Minister Heath pro­ Keatley, BA'51, Peter Ladner, BA'70, Fred Moonen, BA'49, Trevor poses to sell arms to South Africa Lautens, BA (McMaster), Jack K. Stathers, BA'55, MA'58, Dr. Ross . . . political scientist Dr. Robert Stewart, BA'46, MA'48, PhD (Washington), Dr. Erich W. Vogt, BSc, McKenzie speculates on the motives MSc, (Man), PhD (Princeton), Miss Alex Volkoff, Arts 4. and the implications . . . p. 13 Published quarterly by Ihe Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Business and editorial offices: Cecil Green Park, 6251 N.W. Marine Dr., U.B.C, Vancouver 8, B.C.

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Allan Smith WITH THE KIDNAPPING of James remaining to federalism to prove its there is no doubt, then, that October Cross and the murder of Pierre La- worth to the people of French Can­ 1970 marks a turning point in the porte, Quebec's Quiet Revolution ada is more limited than most history of Quebec and of Canada, has entered a new phase. No longer English-Canadians suspected follow­ it is not yet clear in what direction will it be possible to assume with ing the elections of last April. events will move. Will Quebec re­ easy confidence that the course of Yet those same events, however, gain stability and continue to func­ political life in the province of have also raised the possibility that tion within the Canadian federal Quebec will be, in the main, tranquil calm may be restored. They have system, or does the future offer only and calm. No longer will it be pos­ suggested that the Front de Libera­ unrest, disruption and violence, with sible to dismiss the acts of violence tion du Quebec (FLQ) may have a separate Quebec at the end of the which have taken place in Quebec outreached itself. They suggest that road? during the last seven years as re­ it may have moved too far too fast The FLQ has emerged from the grettable but wholly transitory and that it may therefore have lost breakdown of the value system that phenomena. The events of October whatever chance it once possessed governed the society of French Can­ have suggested, too, that the time of getting widespread support. While ada until after the Second World War. Following the collapse of the the discontent of the Quebec worker, social and economic order—rural has produced the sense of frustration and agrarian—upon which that and grievance which is now so value system rested, there arose an marked a feature of politics and industrial and urban Quebec in society in Quebec. All of this has which the values of a conservative, in turn been compounded by the Catholic culture had no place. The dislocation induced by the break­ state replaced the Church as the down of the old order. And this in premier institution of Quebec and its turn explains the Quiet Revolu­ the guardian of society. The funda­ tion, which has been, essentially, an mental dislocation produced by the attempt to respond to these frustra­ sudden irrelevance of old truths and tions by remaking Quebec in the traditional institutions was intensi­ image of a modern industrial state fied by the real and substantial controlled by and functioning in the grievances felt by the people of interests of the people who inhabit Quebec. it. The elements at the root of these This sense of frustration and grievances are not new. The econ­ grievance explains, more particu­ omy has been controlled by anglo­ larly, the massive defeat of the phone elements since 1760. The National Union in April 1970, for anglophone community has exer­ that party no longer seemed capable cised its functions not in the interests of imparting direction in these con­ of Quebec society at large but in the fused times. It explains the victory interests of itself, an elite which has of Bourassa, for he promised a cure people of Quebec were told, there been involved in the life of the to the hard grievances on which would at last be a state of Quebec society around it only in the most this discontent rests, a cure which under the control of the French- formal sense. While the anglophone would have the advantage (a con­ speaking majority. community has benefited massively siderable one in these difficult times) Finally, this fundamental disloca­ from its central place in the prov­ of not involving further and basic tion explains the FLQ. The sense of ince's economic life, the franco­ disruptions in the life of his society. uncertainty produced by the break­ phone population has functioned as It explains the Creditiste phenom­ down of the old order coupled with little more than a pool of cheap enon, for that remarkable band of the incapacity of that which has re­ labor. Of all the ethnic groups charlatans proposed easy solutions placed it to come fully to grips with which inhabit the population of to confused men in the country, the social, economic, and cultural Quebec, only the newly arrived who do not understand. But most of problems facing Quebec, has con­ Italians and the native Indians re­ all this sense of frustration explains vinced the FLQ of the need for radi­ ceive a lower wage. For a long time the existence of the Parti Quebegois cal action. The FLQ has no time for these things were not seen as a cause as the most vital force in Quebec the Parti Quebegois. It sees that for resentment. Schooled in a system politics today. party as a middle class organization which eschewed commercial activity, The Parti Quebegois received the which will do nothing more than the people of Quebec, and their impressive popular vote—24 per replace anglophone capitalism with leaders, paid little attention to com­ cent—in the April election because francophone capitalism, and make merce and trade, save as these things it proposed a plan of action and a Quebec the plaything of a French- represented a threat to the conser­ set of principles which seemed to speaking rather than an English- vative and Catholic society they had meet simultaneously the need to speaking elite. It proposes a clear been educated to venerate. But the reorganize the economy and alter and simple program which cuts growth of industry in Quebec, the the status of the majority. Central to introduction of an educational sys­ its programme was the notion that tem that equips French-speaking the resources of Quebec should be Canadians to function in industrial placed in the hands of the province's society, the choice many immigrants people by a programme of nationali­ to Quebec make to speak English zation. It proposed, too, that the rather than French, the difficulties government, functioning as the agent faced by those who want to speak of the people, should actively in­ French at work, and a new and in­ volve itself in the creation of new tense consciousness of the privileged industry through the medium of an position occupied by the anglophone effective development corporation. community have combined to pro­ Social and welfare policies ranked duce unrest of a kind not before high on its list of priorities in light seen. of the depressed conditions of many Above all, there has emerged a Quebec workers. It desired above all new class of educated and aware to make the people of Quebec mas­ Quebecois who have the capacity ters in their own house by making and want the right to manipulate the their state fully autonomous and controls of their own society. The independent. With the advent to existence of this group, coupled with power of the Parti Quebegois, the through confusion and appeals to tion, in turn, was intended, by in­ the instinct for certainty and the volving the repression of the FLQ, perfect solution. to compel people to decide whether It advocates an uncompromising they wished to support the authori­ socialism patterned after that which ties or the Front. The FLQ must has emerged in Cuba and other have expected that the people of newly-independent leftist states. It Quebec would have felt themselves argues for the creation of a worker's (in some numbers at least) suffi­ Quebec. It asserts that true reform ciently aggrieved to react positively can emerge only from revolution to its acts. It must have expected and from the complete destruction that they would react negatively to of the old order which revolution those of the government. It must will bring. The FLQ holds its tactics have expected, not only that a divi­ in common with like-minded organi­ sion of opinion would take place, zations the world over. It practices but that it would be a division a politics of confrontation, terror, measurably in its favour. and violence similar in its essentials That, in essence, is the gamble to that advocated by other groups, the FLQ took. It gambled that peo­ among them the Black Panthers and ple in Quebec would view the kid­ the Palestinian Liberation Front, nappings as a political act. It with which it has contacts. gambled that its position would be The FLQ has sought over the improved, either because the gov­ past seven years to focus attention ernment would negotiate, thereby on the problems of Quebec in the recognizing it as a parallel power, or most dramatic and obvious fashion. else because the government would Its object has been two-fold. It seek to repress its activities, thereby hopes, by making people ask why it revealing its 'true' nature. If the is bombing federal property and FLQ were to lose its gamble, if the mailboxes in Westmount, to height­ people of Quebec were not in any en the level of awareness among the significant number prepared to view people of Quebec and make them its acts as political, if they did not conscious of what it sees as their feel themselves to be so brutalized oppressed situation. Secondly, it that they would see the death of wants to create a fundamental divi­ Laporte as a political act against a sion in Quebec concerning the soci­ tyrannical and insensitive govern­ ety's future. The FLQ wants to ment, it would find that it has suc­ compel the people of Quebec to ceeded only in uniting the people of choose between its strategy and aims the province against its methods. and the program of the federal The federal and provincial and provincial authorities. It thinks authorities have also gambled. By this choice will be resolved in its using the supreme weapon available favor if the government is com­ to them they have tried to obliterate pelled to reveal its "true" nature, the FLQ and deprive it of its sus­ which is, in its view, repressive. taining apparatus. If this operation succeeds, political life will return to The various cells of the terrorist something like its normal course. movement therefore seek to provoke If it fails, if the government cannot the government in the hope that decimate the FLQ, if it continues to the government will, by attempting function, the government will have to repress it, reveal thereby that it done more than fail to wipe out a is not prepared to accept dissident revolutionary organization. It will organizations, and will suppress civil have given that organization much liberties to root them out. If, on the of what it has tirelessly pursued for other hand, the authorities choose to seven years. The government will deal with it, they will give it a kind have given the FLQ suspension of of de facto recognition as a parallel civil liberties, thereby allowing it to power. No matter what the govern­ claim that the government has at ment's reaction then, the FLQ has last revealed its true face. It will advanced its cause, for it will have have given it troops in Quebec, gotten itself taken more seriously thereby allowing the Front to point than it was before. to a symbol not merely of repression But has it polarized opinion? Has but of federal and anglophone domi­ it created a confrontation in its nation. The government will have favor? The recent kidnappings and given the FLQ an act of intervention murder were designed to get a reac­ in the Montreal civic elections, thereby allowing it to claim that the tion from the authorities. That reac- 6 whole operation was politically in­ profit from the discontent with the spired. The authorities will, in other federal and provincial governments words, have played into the hands which will be the byproduct of con­ of the FLQ by lending credence to tinued economic recession? The the most insubstantial and fantastic FLQ (if it is not suppressed) will of its charges. seek to exploit it, but its tactics will More than that, the government be abhorred in the future as they will not have stopped the acts of are now. It will be the Parti Que­ terrorism that initiated the whole begois which will emerge as the process. Those acts will continue. party to solve Quebec's problems. As the situation deteriorates, the The Parti Quebegois is nationalist economic circumstances of the prov­ enough to appeal to the sense of ince will worsen. In this the FLQ cultural grievance, and proposals has a clear interest, for economic concerning the economy of Quebec contraction will cause the sense of will appear both sweeping and work­ grievance to grow. Support now able. It uses tactics and methods claimed by the federal and provincial which will not alienate potential authorities will therefore wane. It supporters. The party now has, and will then become possible to argue will continue to get, support among that Ottawa and Quebec City are the alienated and dispossessed. It incapable of doing anything about commands the allegiance of an able the basic social and economic ques­ and talented group of members. And tions out of which all of this arises. in Rene Levesque it has a leader Both the FLQ and the govern­ who is in touch with reality and has ments of Quebec and Canada, then, great appeal. If turmoil and instab­ have chosen to gamble. The FLQ ility continue, the Parti Quebegois has lost its gamble, for the time will do well at the polls in 1974. being at least, for Quebeckers, like If it does not, it will be for one of Canadians generally, were stunned two reasons. Either the plans of by the kidnappings and revolted by Bourassa and Trudeau will have the death of Laporte. But that does borne fruit or the political system not mean the government has won will have operated unfairly as it did its gamble. Only time will tell in April of this year. If the first, the whether the FLQ has been put out problem will have been resolved, for of business. the foundations of unrest will have What will the future bring? The been removed. If the second, the government of Robert Bourassa has situation, as Levesque himself has attempted since April to regain the warned, will become yet more se­ momentum of the Quiet Revolution. rious. Medicare, the emphasis on French The events of October, then, have on the job, and the concern mani­ thrown the options offered by the fested by the government to expand future into stark and vivid relief. If the economy are indications of this the Liberal governments of Canada fact. But it is on the last of them and Quebec cannot move to meet that the future hinges. If the Bouras­ the grievances of the people of sa government fails to create jobs, Quebec, it is now certain that the it will lose support in a massive Parti Quebegois will greatly improve and speedy way. It will do more. It its position. Tf it is successful enough will unite the jobless workers of the to form a government in Quebec in province with the newly-graduated 1974, Canada, as it has existed products of Quebec's expanded and since 1867, will cease to be. What modernized post-secondary educa- is at stake in all of this, finally, cational system, who will also be is the country itself. If the legitimate unable to find employment. A potent grievances of one of its principal combination, prepared to look for parts can be met Canada will con­ radical solutions, will therefore have tinue to exist, if not, it will at last been brought into being. Similarly break up. • the federal government, and espe­ cially its Quebec ministers, has com­ mitted itself to the improvement of economically depressed areas. If these attempts to remove the social An assistant professor of history at and economic determinants of un­ UBC, Allan Smith received his BA rest and discontent fail, that discon­ from the University of Manitoba tent will grow and intensify. and his MA from the University Who will benefit by it? Who will of Toronto. RONALD

OME BUSINESSES will go to any and left the premises without his "10 cents off!" label, is priced at 83 S length nowadays to retain a cus­ earlier signed offer and cheque. cents. You're pleased to see that the tomer. That comes as a surprise, I The only problem, of course, was 15-oz. package of coconut still sells know, but there it is. As evidence, I that the court didn't feel that this for 59 cents—until you notice it's offer the following story from The was the kind of service a company now a 14-oz. package. You find that you haven't stopped swearing at Sun, November 13, 1970 . . . should extend to keep from losing your color TV since you had to Frank Makaoff of Grand Forks business. In an Appeal Court judg­ plunk down $250 to replace the went into Eagle Motors Ltd. in Bur­ ment, the judges held that the atti­ picture tube—a month after the naby, saw a car he liked and decided tude of Eagle Motors was "outrage­ to buy it. He offered to buy it at a warranty had run out. And you're ous, high-handed and arrogant and almost ashamed to admit that your stated price and gave a cheque in designed to frighten the respondent that amount, but was later told he new domestic car has spent more (Makaoff) into buying a car from time in the garage than on the road. would have to pay a higher price. the appellant against his will." Eagle Makaoff wasn't going to go that As a friend confessed to me re­ Motors was ordered to pay Makaoff high, so he asked that his cheque cently: "I've bought a beautiful $2,500 damages for assault. and offer be returned to him. There $5,000 lemon. It looks lovely and was no way he was going to get that Everyone knows that the consu­ shiny parked in front of the house, though. mer has a rough time these days— but get it out on the road and you Instead, he was attacked by two but that has to be the ultimate. Most know it's junk." Eagle employees, one grabbing him people's problems are less dramatic, Phoney sales, exorbitant prices, in a bear hug, the other seizing him but irritating in their way. You shoddy goods, deceptive advertising, by the throat from behind. They know the sort of things. You go to shysterism in credit buying—these forced him to sit in a locked office. buy a 24-oz. bottle of detergent in are the things that continually Finally, feeling the only way he the supermarket and you find it pric­ plague the modern consumer. Gone would get out of there was to agree ed at 93 cents on one shelf and, on is the old friendly, trusting relation­ to buy the car, Makaoff did agree another aisle, the same item, with a ship with a local merchant in this CANADA'S SHIIMIIMG KNIGHT OF CONSUMERISM? CLIVE COCKING period of mass production, mass heavily about him with his legisla­ than any other country in the world marketing and mass consumption. tive broadsword—sort of like Cana­ in terms of its governmental organi­ To be a successful consumer today da's Shining White Knight of Con­ zation to represent the consumer you have to be a walking catalogue sumerism. His department has ral­ interest," says Basford. And he of prices, a rapid-fire mathemati­ lied to the aid of the consumer in points out that Ralph Nader praises cian, a sharp-eyed reader of fine response to thousands of complaints the Canadian system, which brings print, a chronic complainer—but and has implemented sweeping new consumer and corporate affairs un­ above all, you have to be aware. legislation and regulations designed der one department. But there are As a consumer, what you don't to give the consumer a better deal in some Canadians who argue that the know can hurt you—and usually the marketplace. department has yet to get on the does. A stocky, short man—much right track. Grim though that sounds, the shorter than you would think from One of these is Evelyn Caldwell, situation was probably worse a few seeing him on television—Basford, who writes the Penny Wise column years ago. It's only recently that the BA'55, LLB'56, impresses you with for The Sun. "I'm concerned with consumer has had much in the way his obvious recognition of the im­ consumer affairs at the shopper's of legislative protection and recourse portance of his job. To him it is level," she says. "Mr. Basford is against the shysters in the market­ not just a stepping-stone to some­ doing a lot of good things, but he's place. thing bigger—consumer and corpor­ got a long way to go to get the stores The picture began to change for ate affairs is a key portfolio. Smil­ to stop cheating." The New Demo­ the consumer on December 21, ing, he acknowledges the value to cratic Party's consumer affairs critic, 1967 when the federal government his work of his wife's opinions, Mrs. Grace Maclnness, Member of formed its Department of Consumer which should come as no surprise Parliament for Vancouver-Kingsway, and Corporate Affairs. Since then since Madeline Basford (nee Nel­ believes Basford has made progress The Hon. Ron Basford, Minister of son) is a trained home economist, on labelling, hazardous toys and Consumer and Corporate Affairs, a UBC graduate of 1961. packaging (some aspects, at least), has ridden into the fray, laying "I think Canada is further ahead but has failed to ease the pinch of inflation on ordinary working peo­ ple. "My main criticism." says Mrs. RON BASFORD Maclnness, "is that the department has done nothing effective with re­ gard to the cost of living." Gaps and inadequacies there un­ doubtedly are in government consu­ mer affairs policy, but there is no denying the fact that Basford's de­ partment has at least taken action to clear up some long-standing con­ sumer complaints. The crackdown on misleading advertising is a case in point. Regional inspectors have been appointed to gather evidence of misleading advertising and en­ forcement has been increased. In fact, Basford notes that 60 per cent of all prosecutions under this law have been taken to court in the last two years. "I think that demon­ strates that the law was sitting around with no one enforcing it or paying much attention to it." The high cost of prescription drugs has been another sore point with consumers and the government has taken several steps to push prices down. The manufacturers' 11 per cent sales tax on drugs has been removed. Anti-dumping regulations have been amended to facilitate im­ portation of prescription drugs and a loan program has been established to assist small Canadian manufac­ turers to get into drug production. The aim of these two measures is to increase competition and thus put a downward pressure on prices. In its most significant step — one bitterly attacked by the phar­ maceutical industry lobby —• the government amended the Patent Act in another bid to increase com­ petition. Under the old act, a patent holder had a 17-year mono­ poly on a particular patent. The amended legislation now gives the commissioner of patents the power to grant licences to people other than the patent holder cither to import or manufacture a patented drug in Canada. Many licences are now being granted. "Those licences are being granted to people to import or manufacture some of the best-seller and most expensive items in the pharmaceuti­ cal mix," says Basford. "We have indications that they are coming onto the market at prices 20 to 50 per cent lower than what the for­ mer patent holder was selling the drugs at." Basford admits, however, that what goes on at the retail level in terms of regulation of pharmacies and how drugs are sold to the public is a provincial responsibility. In other words, not all price sav­ SMITH ings may be being passed on. Mrs. CONSUMER Maclnnes, for one, believes they EDUCATOR & are not. OMBUDSWOMAN Most recently, Basford brought forward a bill on packaging and A STAPLER in the shape of a smil­ labelling which will give the gov­ ing lion sits on her desk. Beside ernment power to crack down on her, the lines on her telephone packages which mislead consumers light up all at once. Lois Smith about the amount, quality or per­ sits completely unruffled in her formance of a wide variety of pro­ Vancouver office, a petite young ducts. The cabinet would be able woman enthusiastically carrying to limit the size, shape and number out two jobs in one. of containers used in selling indi­ A graduate of UBC's school of vidual products if it felt there was home economics in 1960, Miss an "undue proliferation" of con­ Smith is one of five consumer sent to Ottawa. In this way the tainers which might confuse the consultants in regional offices federal department may find that public. across the country. It is her job people in B.C. are suffering from Should standardization of con­ both to act as an ombudsman for the same problems as people in tainers follow from this legislation consumers and producers, and to Halifax and decide legislation is it would obviously be a boon to educate the people of B.C. in needed." consumers in comparing prices of the art of buymanship. At the same time Miss Smith different products. But Basford's In the first case she answers talks to producers telling them department has not gone as far as some of the 200 complaints and what the consumer is concerned it might have in this legislation, inquiries the office receives each about and finding out how in­ since no mention is made of forcing week. This can mean anything dustry views the consumer. the adoption of labels with unit from telling people how to get But although it is her job to pricing. Unit pricing — where la­ satisfaction when buying drapes investigate complaints, she is bels contain the full price and the to making a representation to a spending more and more time price per ounce, etc. — is currently dealer regarding a faulty mix- teaching the public. She recently being experimented with in New master. returned from a month of travel­ York City. "Many people don't realize ling around the province giving This isn't the only area where you have to shop for a dealer as lectures, speaking on radio shows Basford and the government might well as a commodity," she says. and meeting individual con­ be criticized for not going far "If you want to buy a kitchen sumers. enough. The newly-implemented appliance or a stereo component, "It is our job to protect con­ safety standards on new cars do you should first find out what sumers, but we also want to use not go beyond the 29 specifications kind of terms different stores will the preventative approach and already in force in the U.S., nor give. What is their policy on teach people how to become bet­ do they take account of Canadian returning goods? If you need re­ ter consumers," she says. Her weather conditions. Adoption of the pairs done, will you have to send hope is to teach teenagers in new care labelling system for fab­ the appliance across the country? schools how to buy. To do this, rics and the Canada Standard Size Who pays for servicing? And so she talks to groups of home ec system for children's clothing — on. Up to now consumers have teachers who can then go back two systems of great potential bene­ been gullible and not ready to do and give their students lessons fit to consumers — is not compul­ much for themselves. Too often on contracts, use of credit or care sory for manufacturers, but volun­ they don't read instructions on of textiles. tary. Consequently, there is little labels or the back of the contract Does she think the program indication that they are being adop­ they are signing." has been successful in the last 18 ted widely. Some questions can be answer­ months? But the action Basford is most ed directly on the phone. Others "I think we have been very proud of — perhaps rightly — is are referred to specific depart­ successful. Consumers all over the passage of the Hazardous Pro­ ments in either the federal or Canada are becoming more aware ducts Act which gives his depart­ provincial governments. And still of their rights, and certainly the ment power to ban certain hazar­ others are sent to products in­ people out here are vocal," said dous products and to regulate the spectors whose job it is to deal Miss Smith. sale, distribution, advertising and with 10-pound bags of potatoes Thanks to her, they certainly labelling of others. The fact that only weighing nine pounds and are. Last year B.C. came second many children died of household see that hazardous products are in the number of consumer com­ poisonings in one year in Canada properly marked. plaints sent to Ottawa. • is enough to indicate the need for "Then all the complaints are -Alex Volkoff

11 of goods, all wrapped in plain brown paper packages — but I certainly don't want it." Basford believes his department's role is to assure the consumer has safe pro­ ducts, factual information on pro­ ducts and free choice in buying. "But it's still going to be the con­ sumer's responsibility to act in an informed way and an intelligent way in the expenditure of his con­ sumer dollar." The government, of course, has recently shifted the onus some dis­ tance away from the old concept of caveat emptor, "let the buyer beware," to that of "let the seller beware," but it does not intend to go all the way by any means. The government doesn't plan to play mother hen to the consumer in the marketplace. In anger, Evelyn Cald­ well once said: "People are fools, they're damn fools, the super-mar­ kets rule them, they should fight the store manager, fight, complain, shop elsewhere, complain, fight, they have their rights and they don't use them." This still seems like it's going to be the best advice to the consumer for some time.D Drawings/Hugh Foulds such legislation, in Basford's mind. stopped cheating. Product quality "I typify the need by saying that is as shoddy as ever. In fairness Canadian housewives have been though, it has to be remembered using lemon oil as furniture polish that it was only two years ago that for years and years, and I suspect Basford and his department really that many of them think it's made began to deal with this complex out of lemons. In fact, it's a very issue. lethal distillate, so lethal that if But the critics, such as Evelyn your child happened to grab the Caldwell and Mrs. Grace Macln­ bottle and drink some, it could nes, seriously question whether the do serious damage to his respiratory approach adopted by Basford and system." the government will be very suc­ Under the act, a new system of cessful. That approach minimizes symbols has been developed for compulsion and stresses voluntary labelling hazardous products to codes for business to follow to avoid clearly show the degree of poison, government regulation. The critics inflammability, explosiveness or argue that real success, where the corrosiveness. Minimum construc­ consumer feels it, can only come tion and safety standards for toys through legislation embodying great­ have also been developed, some of er compulsion. which will be in force for the first On his part, Basford feels the time this Christmas season. government can only go so far in In terms of passing new legisla­ trying to protect the consumer. tion and regulations, and in en­ "There are some people," he says, forcing existing laws, the govern­ "who want to be taken by the hand ment's action in consumer affairs and led through the marketplace, has been impressive. But out there so to speak, which is impossible. I on the front line of consumerism know there is k small element who — the marketplace — most people favor, what I call the Gum system have yet to see many results of of marketing, which is taken from government action. Prices are still the name of the Moscow depart­ too high. Too much advertising is ment store, where we would all go still deceptive. Many stores haven't in and have a very limited selection 12 *£JLJ'J€**M SiM-tJL

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HE THING THAT IMMEDIATELY book, British Political Parties, was T STRIKES you about the London long the definitive work on party PROFILE: School of Economics is that you development, he is also one of Bri­ can't tell where it begins and where tain's leading political commentators, it ends. A cluster of grimy buildings appearing regularly on BBC tele­ jammed into a maze of streets near vision. In 1969, Simon Fraser Uni­ The the Strand, it can easily be missed if versity recognized his contribution you haven't sharp eyes for building to both fields by awarding him an signs. For LSE — unlike UBC — is honorary doctor of laws degree. Two Lives an integral part of the fabric of the As well as participating in public city in which it exists. Which is un­ affairs programs, Dr. McKenzie has doubtedly an important factor in regularly invited leading politicians Of LSE's long-standing reputation for to the university to participate in intense involvement in British poli­ seminars. He finds his double life Dr. Robert tical and social affairs. to be educationally valuable, be­ I was thinking about this one day lieving that political science is best while looking out the window of Dr. taught from the basis of first-hand McKenzie Robert McKenzie's book and paper- knowledge of the political process. strewn office at students lunching "I'm absolutely satisfied," he said, on a rooftop cafeteria. A Vancouver- "with the cross-fertilization that re­ born alumnus, Dr. McKenzie, BA sults from academics talking to poli­ '37, was recalling his UBC days as ticians, interesting them in the prob­ assistant to Dean Soward and how lems they should be interested in he had fallen in love with London and at the same time getting in­ during the war and been delighted to valuable first-hand information. stay on and join the LSE faculty on This, I think, is fruitful and in no getting his doctorate there in 1949. sense do I feel it is a distraction." It occurred to me that this genial, Dr. McKenzie sees Britain be­ pipe-smoking professor of political coming more and more like the sociology was an excellent example Scandinavian countries. There is a of LSE's tradition of involvement. tendency in Britain, in recognition A bustling sort of man, Dr. Mc­ of no longer being a world power, Kenzie in fact leads a dual life. Not to do things on a smaller scale and only is he a first-rate scholar whose to be more concerned with domes- Clive Cocking 13 tic issues. And British politics are becoming dull like Scandinavian politics, where moderate social dem­ ocrats vie for election against mod­ erate conservatives. There is also very little difference in British poli­ tical parties today, said Dr. McKen­ It wouldn't break the heart of the Conservatives if the zie. "Churchill once surprised an Commonwealth came to an end. They're fully American audience by saying that committed to Europe now. four-fifths of each party in Britain agree about four-fifths of the things to be done, which pretty neatly sum­ marized it and it's still true." On occasion, however, the two main British political parties do try to appear different. Dr. McKenzie pointed out that there is an element of this in Prime Minister Edward Heath's recent vaguely-stated inten­ tion to sell arms to South Africa. But it is only one element, he stressed, and a relatively minor one. What the real reasons behind Heath's policy are no one can yet determine with any certainty, said Dr. McKenzie. "It's still curious to me why he's plugging the arms sale as hard as he is," said Dr. McKen­ zie. "There's no self-evident motive in it beyond the fact that the gov­ ernment is preoccupied with the role of the Soviet navy in the Indian Ocean." The Soviet fleet has grown to be nearly equivalent to that of the U.S. in the Mediterranean and its ships are also becoming more numerous in the Indian Ocean. In a recent speech, Heath said Britain, under the Simonstown Ag­ reement, was committed in principle to work with South Africa in the defence of the Cape of Good Hope. But in the same speech he coupled those remarks with an unusually strong (for him) attack on apar­ theid. "To me," said Dr. McKenzie, "this strong attack on apartheid sug­ gests he's still trying to convince the black African states that Britain would only be selling arms to South Africa for narrow defence reasons." Several black African nations, of course, have warned Britain that they would interpret any sale of arms to South Africa as giving the stamp of legitimacy to a racist reg­ ime and therefore an unfriendly act. A few have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth should Bri­ tain go ahead. This threat, however, is not having much impact in Britain, Dr. McKenzie noted. Heath's policy has only evoked protests from The Times, some 100 bishops and a scattering of other liberals. "The 14 fact that Heath is standing up to the Heath government has gone in that the world. The tiny element of the bullying tactics of the black African line has been to enter negotiations population that works on the farms nations is in fact getting him some with the declaration that Britain will here grow half enough food for 50 support," said Dr. McKenzie. "I join if it obtains reasonable terms. million people." would guess that he's not losing a The terms are vitally important, There is no doubt, however, that thing domestically on it and prob­ said Dr. McKenzie, to whether en­ entry into the Common Market ably he's getting a sense of triumph try is seen as beneficial and wheth­ would be a shot in the arm for the from his own right wing supporters." er Britain decides to join. At pres­ British economy. As Dr. McKenzie The fact of the matter is that no­ ent, the British economy and bal­ said: "The hope, never stated pub­ body in Britain cares much anymore ance of payments appear quite heal­ licly, is that it will have the effect of about the Commonwealth. "The Bri­ thy, so it is not viewed as a do-or-die bankrupting the really inefficient tish public has never been enam­ proposition. Agricultural policy re­ parts of the British economy and oured of the multi-racial Common­ mains a potential stumbling block. strengthening the really efficient wealth," said Dr. McKenzie. "And Under present subsidy and pricing parts." But he also noted that suc­ I don't think it would break the arrangements, entry into the Com­ cessful conclusion of the present ne­ heart of the Conservatives if the mon Market could lead to a 20 per gotiations would see the entry not Commonwealth came to an end. cent jump in British food prices. only of Britain, but also of Ireland, They're fully committed to Europe "The British are not keen on this Norway and Denmark. The fact that now." since they would end up subsidizing this would be a shot in the arm for They are committed to closer ties, the inefficient continental farmers," the Common Market itself may but not necessarily to joining the said Dr. McKenzie. "British agricul­ strengthen the hand of the British Common Market. As far as the ture, you see, is the most efficient in negotiators. •

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TI/TANY THOUSANDS OF UBC GRADU- But I learnt much by the good speare company from Stratford- -!-"• ATES are naturally delighted to and bad company I kept there, and upon-Avon, birthplace of the man hear that the old stone cavern under at least it kept me off the campus who more than anyone else had the Georgia Hotel has been opened and then away from the law office made London's Mermaid Tavern once more as a pub, after too long a where I was articled, thus saving what it was, and who died (they gap or lacuna. We spoke very little my eyes and brain from too much say) from sleeping in an orchard Latin in my time at UBC, though like reading. Mr. Dooley said he didn't after a drinking-match against a the products of the pre-war English read books, he found them too sti­ team from somewhere down the public schools, we carried away the mulating and he could get the same Avon. . . Bidford, was it? impression that such a language did wrong ideas of life from drink and The previous summer in Strat­ exist, and this was a lot better than in a less tiresome way. Robert ford, when I was a raw 19, these nothing. A few of us even sang, in Burns, another graduate of ale as rough-living actors had tested me Latin and in our cups at the well as whisky, tells us that a set by getting me to drink half a pint Georgia, "Gaudeamus Igitur," of dull conceited hashes confuse in every pub in town, and after which of course is a genuine old their brains in college classes; they about two gallons I developed an student drinking song of the genu­ gang in stirks and come out asses, alarming list to port and was float­ ine Middle Ages. To sing it at all plain truth to speak, and synes ing very low in the water. Through was considered a little odd even in they think to climb Parnassus by stark ignorance rather than any de­ 1929, but the right to be eccentric dint o' Greek. And this is what we sire for revenge I found out in the and carefree had not yet been seri­ old doctors call first-degree Burns. Georgia, much too late, that the ously threatened. I spoke of good company. There body-chemistry of Englishmen takes Mind you, my boon companions was, for instance, Fred Varley, the time to acquire immunity to Cana­ and I wrote many of our own great draftsman and painter, nomi­ dian beer, and these harlotry play­ drinking songs, in this pub that nally of the original Group of Seven ers (as Mistress Quickly dubs was so old-fashioned that there was but very much his own man. What them) were no longer answering actually enough light to read and an inspiration he was! And not their helms. When one of them write in. We also wrote a very least when I asked what time-limit angrily bellowed "God's trousers!" solemn and hilarious kind of semi- should be placed on most kids at in a more than theatrical way, a religious service for admitting a a serious art school, and he thought new hush fell on the old Georgia. worthy candidate as a Bachelor of slowly and well while he consumed In fact, I believe the great hush got Beer (cum laude! cum funnia!). It a whole bottle of beer, or maybe up and walked out. seems to me now that we were two, and then said: "three weeks." The old place had seen and heard always writing. In the eight years There were writers, musicians, ac­ some strange things. It had seen that I was one of the Georgia's tors from the local stock company Joe Gavin the waiter, an Irish ex- most loyal regulars, I must have and touring players too. Actors are jockey and ex-boxer, ban a regular written a thousand poems there. I much better company than you for two months on a charge of doubt if these brought me $250. might think, for all their vanity, boring me. It had seen Red, another If they fetched on the average as provided you can keep them off the waiter, try to mull ale with his much as two bits apiece, and cost two subjects of their greatness and wife's electric curling-tongs. It had on the average a buck of bock, the of the shabby way they have been seen Joe knock a man out for say­ balance sheet may not look too treated. One of the merriest days I ing, "If I was to say all the things good. I was losing six bits each on ever spent in there was while enter­ I think you are ... if I was to say taining the male half of the Shake­ the damned things. all the things I KNOW you are . . . 16 I would be guilty of the most pro­ feeling better for it, and of how of the hollow under the stair where fane profanity . . . you rat!" It had many men or women can you say my cronies sat. And it could never even seen a misguided rum-runner that? In the early 1930's there was have been the motto of any rival pull his new machine-gun out of a famous lawsuit, with the plaintiff house, at that period or any other its carton to show us what a sweet claiming unlawful dismissal. He known to me. job it was. But this kind of language lost, because a defence witness tes­ Your five wits are your five in­ in the tones of Henry Irving was a tified he was seen idling daily in a tellectual powers: common wit, new breakthrough. Granville Street coffe-house called imagination, fantasy, estimation, and However, this astonishment was the Honey-Dew, in the company of memory. It seems to me ours fared nothing to mine when the man who notorious idlers like Dave Brock. well, and my memory is a danger­ was to play Julius Caesar that night (Under our strange laws, it is per­ ous one to bet against. Perhaps we went into a kind of coma two hours fectly legal to slander me inside a laughed too much. There was a before curtain time. We gave him courtroom, the statement being pri­ Fleet Street tavern where a waiter hot baths, cold baths, black coffee, vileged.) If he had only been ac­ praised G. K. Chesterton to Frank massage, and prayers. We took him cused of idling in Joe's Palace, so Swinnerton: "Your friend very cle­ for a limp kind of walk that looked handy for the jury, they could have ver man. First he laugh, den he like Baby's First Steps. At about stepped across the street to dis­ write, den he laugh at what he 8:00 p.m. he roused himself a little cover, if they didn't already know, write." This is all very absurd as and opened one eye. "Thank God," that Joe did most of us nothing but the ultimate in literary criticsm. But said he, "for my first entrance my good. positive joy in creation is no draw­ Roman soldiers carry me on in a And even the notorious Dave, back, and it was possible in Joe's litter." scribbling away so industriously and Palace, and I have nothing but Those of us who knew and loved benignly, was hardly an emblem of envy and gratitude for our laughing Joe Gavin never spoke of that pub the deadly sin of Sloth. Far from selves of forty years ago. I could as the Georgia. To us it was "Joe's blunting myself in there, I sharpen­ do with a few laughs in 1970. • Palace." When he bought a share ed my little wits, such as they were. in a race-horse and disappeared, "Bless thy five wits!" says Edgar Dave Brock, BA'30, writes widely the place never seemed the same in "King Lear." It could have been for magazines and for CBC radio again. You never saw him without the motto of the house, or at least and television.

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1%, ,' Stage Campus70 The smell of grease paint and the roar of the crowd. The age-old lure of the stage still has its effect on UBC campus where every summer students forsake a life of leisure on the beaches for hours of toil on the boards of the Freddy Wood Theatre. It's an an­ nual program designed to immerse theatre students in the practical side of theatre. Stage Campus 70 was almost a completely student project. Students chose the plays, students did the acting, students made the sets and costumes, students did the make­ up, ran the lights and looked after all those 1,001 backstage problems without which there could not be a good performance. The one exception to the all-student rule was the directors, they were pro­ fessionals: but students chose them. It was, from all reports, a good summer season. Good off-campus

19 crowds were attracted to see the three plays, Claude van Itallie's The Serpent, Christopher Hampton's When Did You Last See My Moth­ er?, and James Reaney's The Killdeer. And the performances received from the critics both words of criticism and words of praise. But above all, Stage Campus 70 was a suc­ cess as a learning experience for the stu­ dents. That, in any case, was the real reason the plays were staged. Q

Photography by VLAD Dr. Young is fascinating when tracing the early idealism of the movement, with its belief that the New Jerusalem would be at hand Anatomy Of A once the electorate was sufficiently educated to its beliefs. The leading Schizophrenic figures in those days were either teachers, clergymen or journalists— Party three trades noteworthy for their vain belief that they know what is The Anatomy of a Party good for us. by Walter Young The movement believed in the University of Toronto Press, myth of public rationality: "The CCF Toronto, $8.50 never did accept the ramifications of the Freudian revolution. It could not ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM do so, since its whole organization basis was founded on the pre-Freu- "SOCIALISTS BELONG TO MOVE­ dian assumptions about the nature of MENTS, capitalists support parties." man." A splendid phrase to start the hyper­ bole bubbling over sherry at the There was an almost masochistic faculty club. I can imagine it being atmosphere in those struggling early tossed into the midst of a group of years. The author points out that for emaciated Bloomsbury undergradu­ many, it was the party's relative fail­ ates chewing on warm brown ale on ure that kept it going. For some, "the a wet Sunday afternoon. Or being success of the party lay in its provid­ morosely ruminated on while the ing a forum for the discontented and airmail editions of the London pa­ the crank, whose delight in life was pers are being crinkled in the read­ to champion the lost cause or rail ing room of the Vancouver Club. against established order." Dr. Walter Young uses it provoc­ Dr. Young documents—for those atively as the first sentence in his still retaining the illusion—that the book and then builds from there. It CCF was certainly not an agrarian is the principle on which he bases his movement confined to the Prairies. study of that fated child of the De­ The doctrinaire socialists from B.C. pression, the Cooperative Common­ viewed the farmers for what they wealth Federation. It is why, he tells were: frustrated petit bourgeois. The us, the CCF could never "succeed" party's support base may have been in the common political definition in the West, but its control rested of the word. It was working at cross- among intellectuals in the East. In purposes with itself: it was both a fact, the CCF, for all its established rather evangelical movement at­ democratic structure, was in fact run tempting to reform society and a poli­ by an oligarchy. The ruling elite for tical party whose primary aim must most of its lifespan consisted of the be to gain power. same 12 persons. It was successful as a movement, This study provides us with the in­ he judges, because so many of the teresting insight that the 1939 war reforms it pushed were given to probably saved the CCF from cer­ Canadian society by older parties tain death. The fading movement had forced to adjust because of the very been further weakened as the Lib­ existence of the CCF. (What was the eral regime gradually adopted many cynical—but politically practical— of the major CCF reforms. But the phrase attributed to Mackenzie King war "provided a new panoply of —"Socialists are just Liberals in a evils against which the forces of dem­ hurry"?) But the CCF was a failure ocratic socialism could be arrayed." as a political party. That was appar­ The general unsettling effect of war ent from the fact that it never ach­ on Canadian society, renewed inter­ ieved more than 16 per cent of the est in civil liberties and wartime pro­ popular vote. The tension between fiteering provided a new climate for these contradictory elements in the party growth. CCF's makeup—the urge to reform There's a valuable and timely in­ vs. the longing for power—existed sight into the character of David throughout its 29-year lifespan and Lewis, who most likely will become eventually brought its death when it the new leader of the NDP next was swallowed by that promise of spring (and only the fourth leader in union funds, the NDP. the lifespan of the CCF-NDP.) He 21 emerges as a shrewd, tough urban dies as the CCF dies—and it died rather have John A. drunk than socialist in the European tradition because it could not reconcile its George Brown sober." Macdonald's who clearly dominated the party from idealist aims as a "movement" with famous comment was so true. 1938 through to its finish in 1961 political reality. Left unsaid is the That he attracted widespread and certainly would have replaced obvious question: will the inheritor affection was undoubtedly due as the courtly conciliator, M. J. Cold- of this idealism, the NDP with its much to his very human failings as well, as leader if he had succeeded new-found financial muscle, sacri­ to his irrepressible wit, warmth and in winning a seat in the Commons. fice the ideals of a democratic social­ inability to harbor resentment. But A complete pragmatist clearly im­ ist party if it sees power within its on reading Pierre Berton's excellent patient with some of the saintly, grasp? new book, The National Dream, dreamy Utopians from the Prairie the first of a two volume history branch of the party, he could write Allan Fotheringham, BA'54, is a of the building of the Canadian to a colleague in desperation: columnist with the Vancouver Sun. Pacific Railway, I suspect that Mac­ "When, in Heaven's name, are we Dr. Walter Young, BA'55, is head donald's daring pursuit of a nation­ going to learn that working-class of UBC's department of political alist vision was an even more im­ politics and the struggle for power science. portant ingredient in his popular are not a Sunday-school class where appeal. Everyone seems to love a the purity of godliness and the infal­ gambler. libility of the Bible must be held up And there is no doubting the without fear of consequences." fact that to build a transcontinental It was Lewis, convinced that the railroad at that time, in one solid CCF was merely treading water with­ An Insane drive and over an all-Canadian out a solid power base, who edged route—through the muskeg of the the party-movement into the alliance Project That Canadian Shield, across the empty with the trade unions that formally Prairies, through the stone wall of ended the life of the CCF. It is ironic Built Canada the Rockies—was a gamble. It was, that he now seems to be within grasp in fact, more than a gamble, as the (reluctant, perhaps) of the formal The National Dream Liberals argued in Parliament. It was uneconomic—a terrific finan­ party leadership after his most ener­ The Great Railway 1871-1881 getic years were spent in dominance cial burden to inflict on four million by Pierre Berton Canadians—it was absurd, it was behind the scenes. (It is demonstrat­ McClelland and Stewart, ed here how he even instructed the insane. Documented with facts and then premier of Saskatchewan, Mr. Toronto, $10. figures, Edward Blake hammered these points home, as Berton, Douglas, "with a degree of condes­ CLIVE COCKING cension that was remarkable.") BA'41, writes: "The idea of the railway was in­ Party vs. movement. The theme is To ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, the carried throughout. The goals of a prim, granite-faced Leader of the sane, if you thought in terms of an political party, we are told, are im­ Opposition, the Prime Minister was undivided continent; it was perfect mediate "and the neglect or sacrifice simply a "drunken debauchee." madness to try to punch it through that sea of mountains and across of principle has always been accepted To Edward Blake, the other those Precambrian wastes. Immigra­ by political parties in order that pow­ senior Liberal, Sir John A. Mac­ tion would not come as swiftly as er should be won or held." Robert donald was "all bombast and hum­ the government implied, and events Fulford is quoted to the effect that bug." were to prove Blake right on that the Liberals and Conservatives are To his own sister Louisa, Mac­ like the Unitarian Church: "they re­ point. The land sales would not pay donald was "one of the ugliest men for the railway. It would be easier quire no acceptance of dogma, only in Canada"—but she loved him. attendance." On the other hand, for and cheaper for everybody to go So did most Canadians then. west by way of the United States, the pure movement "it is change and They referred to him affectionately not necessarily power that is desired: at least in the foreseeable future. as "old John A." A couple of Lib­ Logic, then, was on Blake's side." hence principle may always be kept eral back-benchers even preferred pure." Macdonald to their own leaders. Logic, reason, economics—these One would have been happier had Cartoonists customarily caricatured were the grounds on which Blake the author examined, if only in pass­ him as a kind of likeable rogue and the Liberal party argued against ing, the CCF government of Saskat­ with spindly legs and a potato-like the Canadian Pacific Railway pro­ chewan and the British Labor party nose. ject. They favored building the in this light. Did the Regina govern­ And he was a rogue. But they railroad west in stages as the popu­ ment pass this test? Could one cite forgave him. They forgave him his lation warranted. They would be the Harold Wilson government, with political legerdemain, even his poli­ content for the foreseeable future its origins in the ideals of a "move­ tical sins—such as his part in the to divert Canadian traffic through ment," as an example of principle Pacific Scandal, the famous agree­ the United States to Winnipeg, de­ retained in pure form? ment to give Sir Hugh Allen the laying pushing the railroad through This is a thorough piece of work. railway presidency in return for the rocky, muskeg country north of And we are left with a suspense end­ help with election expenses. And Lake Superior until it was more ing (even a bit mischievous, perhaps, they forgave him his fondness for economic. despite the scholarly tone.) The book the bottle. "I know . . . you would Macdonald vehemently opposed 22 this approach, and had opposed it Macdonald's commitment to the ever since the beginning, in 1871, nation he had helped create and of the long, drawn-out proceedings without whose drive in pushing that ultimately led to the launching through the railroad project would of the CPR a decade later. In his probably not exist now. Had Blake view, the railroad must be built as and the Liberals had their way quickly as possible, on an all- Canada would almost certainly have One of CPR's first passenger Canadian route and all the way to been absorbed by the United States engines put in service arrives in British Columbia. Not logic, not -—first the empty west and later the Vancouver from Montreal in 1886. economics, but emotion, nationalism east—perhaps because it was un­ —these were the reasons behind economic. ;^T7 Macdonald's railroad policy. In reading The National Dream, "Canada in the seventies," Berton the parallels between that period writes, "was an imaginative dream and today stand out in stark relief. more than a nation." And it was The game is still the same: survival. Macdonald—not Blake—who pos­ It may, in fact, be a more serious sessed that dream. It was a dream life-and-death game for the nation. of a greater Canada, a Canada that In this decade, Canada appears to stretched from the Atlantic to the have reached a historical turning Pacific. To old John A. the dream point that may be even more criti­ could not be fulfilled without the cal for the future of the nation than railroad. British Columbia would that faced by Macdonald prior to join the United States. The North­ the building of the railroad. With ern Pacific was inching its tracks the continuing sell-out of Canadian across the continent; soon it would corporations to American interests, begin siphoning off economic ac­ with the increasing American cul­ tivity from the Prairies and that tural penetration of Canada through empty land would be grabbed by publishing and the universities, with the annexationists. If there was, in Canada under strong pressure from fact, to be an independent Canada the United States to join a continen­ the railroad had to be quickly flung tal energy sharing scheme, the days across the continent to tie the of an independent Canada appear young nation together. Macdonald's numbered as never before. decision was, in the end, funda­ Yet, true to the legacy of Ed­ mentally a political decision. ward Blake, the current Liberal And the majority of Canadians government seems obsessed with then were with Macdonald. Through the economics of retaining Cana­ his National Policy—building the dian control over our national life. CPR was as much a part of it as We lack a government leader with the protective tariff—he was begin­ the same passionate commitment to ning to tap the first surge of Cana­ an independent Canada—and will­ dian nationalism. Fervent nation­ ing to take the risks required to alism was, in fact, probably the preserve it—as Sir John A. Mac­ only consistent strain in Macdonald's donald displayed almost a century political makeup. That strain con­ ago. tained a hefty pinch of anti-Ameri­ Where are you John A. now that canism, but there was no doubting we need you! • Special Collections/UBC Library

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23 time, 1956, is another matter. Any­ tion of the book by Curry, a som­ way, the statute of limitations ap­ berly orthodox American professor plies and I can now snarl defiance of English. But Mr. Legate seems at the law with impunity. to have done more footwork than I treasure these modest souvenirs either, and in a popular and un­ from visits to Leacock's Old Brew­ demanding idiom has very valuably ery Bay home at Orillia, before the expanded the picture of Leacock the town discovered that Leacock dead man. Legate's Leacock is fuller, was a merchantable item—a hell of fleshier, more ambitious, more a lot less dubious an asset than the avaricious, and carries more garden- living one had ever been—and en­ variety flaws than earlier Leacocks. thusiastically launched, abetted by Legate's curiosity has produced the provincial and federal govern­ something more animated than the ments and the literati, the local twinkling-eyed professor stereotype Leacock Industry. of his more uncritical readers. The house in the mid-1950s was Take, for instance, Leacock the sad. Long uninhabited, the property economics professor and department Full of sound and fury ... the Mariposa Band, as sketched by A. G. Racey. had recently been sold to another head. In Curry, Leacock's compe­ Reprinted from Legate's 'Stephen man of letters of sorts—Louis Ruby, tence is not seriously questioned; Leacock', Doubleday, Toronto. publisher of Hush Free Press, a one of his faculty is quoted, "We Toronto scandal sheet. The porch prided ourselves—and the credit sagged desperately. Books from was his—that we were the happiest The Ambitious, Leacock's scattered library could and most harmonious department in readily be filched through broken the university (McGill)." But in panes in the French doors. Chill Legate's book, Leacock is rather Avaricious grey ghosts haunted the billiard less esteemed by his peers; one, J. room where Leacock had taken on C. Hemmeon, holds him in some­ Mr. Leacock cronies like Rene du Rour and thing very close to sardonic con­ Gladstone Murrav (with whom he tempt. Nor were his lectures always Stephen Leacock had a game for 20,000 points that peppered with wit, although when ran 30 years; the score at Leacock's he became famous he wasn't above by David M. Legate death was 18,975 for Leacock, putting on a show for classroom Doubleday, Toronto, $9.25 17,793 for Murray). tourists with an implied wink at his All this has dramatically changed. day-to-day students. TREVOR LAUTENS The house got a shaking up like Legate's Leacock also engages in I BEGIN WITH A CONFESSION. I may Leacock's fictitious Buggam Grange a franker pursuit of money and the be a thief. I may have robbed part and was opened to the public in ample life, which he evidently con­ of the Stephen Leacock archives. I 1958 as the Stephen Leacock sidered no more than his due, than have in my possession these items: Memorial Home. Its director, Ralph readers disarmed by the twinkling- (1) A manila folder bearing Lea- L. Curry, wrote the first full-length eyed professor image might wish. cock's penned words, in large block Leacock biography, published in This Leacock energetically flogs his capitals, "My Discovery of the 1959. A number of Leacock's best material, is capable of sulking at West", which presumably contained works are now being republished in publishers who send rejection slips, the manuscript for his book of that paperback for a new generation. The and especially in mid-career un­ name; post office issued a commemorative hesitatingly dilutes the product to (2) Leacock's copy of a photo­ stamp to mark the centenary of (meet the market. Few writers could graph of himself and other members Leacock's birth, Dec. 30, 1969. have been told it more plainly by his of an Orillia cricket team, date un­ And this year no less than four new publisher than Leacock was in 1921 known; books concerning Leacock have by John Lane, the English pub­ been published: Stephen Leacock, (3) A book from Leacock's lib­ lisher: ". . . there's a very general by Robertson Davies, an astute, rary that may well be unique, since feeling, even in Canada, that you concise paperback study; Feast of it bears the signatures of Leacock, are now writing snippets for high Stephen, some of Leacock's lesser- his son Stephen Lushington Lea­ prices." Legate says Leacock's in­ known essays, edited by Davies; cock, and his brother George—three come in his best year was a notch The Man in the Panama Hat, a of the funniest Canadians who ever below $40,000. chatty reminiscence by Leacock's lived sharing the same flyleaf. And Legate reaches out gingerly to niece, Elizabeth Kimball; and the if you think Stephen was funny, you touch an aspect of Leacock that has latest, Stephen Leacock, by David should know that the Leacocks been very inadequately explored, his M. Legate, a former Montreal Star themselves thought George was the relations with women. He adds little literary critic. funny member of the family. to what is known of Leacock's mar­ I am not absolutely certain I stole Mr. Legate's book lacks the per­ riage, an apparently good but un­ these items. Leacock's son, who can ception and literacy of the Davies remarkable match which ended with be graciously generous, may have paperback which, though brief, is the death of his wife from cancer given them to me. Whether techni­ the best Leacock study. It also lacks in 1925, when Leacock was almost cally they were his to give at that the density and slogging determina­ 56. What is newly introduced is the 24 fact that afterwards Leacock was short, Vancouver's overture sug­ good friends, to the point of stirring Gastown gests not so much Wagner as Gilbert gossip in Orillia, with his wife's and Sullivan." friend, "Fitz" Shaw. A tantalizing Renamed Is How else would one explain the informal group shot suggests that official appointment of a Town Fool, Mrs. Shaw was an exceedingly Still A Gas the erection of a public fountain pretty woman. When Leacock was behind a wall of secrecy, or the on his death-bed in 1944, Mrs. Vancouver city's discovery of its cultural destiny in the heart of Skid Road? Shaw came from Montreal to Tor­ by Eric Nicol onto and took residence nearby to Doubleday, Toronto From Gassy Jack to present day be of assistance. $8.95 Gastown, Nicol has recorded both On the debit side, while Legate major and minor events in the life offers a good choice of represen­ AUDREY DOWN of the city. Among little-known facts tative funny bits from the Leacock unearthed is the information that canon, paradoxically he knows little VANCOUVER LOVERS who can take Rudyard Kipling bought a lot here, about humor. Typically, he quotes their history with a grain of salt will real estate promoters being one of Leacock's well-known remark about delight in Eric Nicol's tale of this this region's most prominent groups his doctorate of philosophy: "The city. His latest book Vancouver is even before the CPR arrived. An­ meaning of this last degree is that offered as a serious history, with a other surprising revelation is that the recipient of instruction is ex­ touch of wit. Men's and Ladies' bars became seg­ amined for the last time in his life, Historians might find the levity regated to protect innocent loggers and is pronounced completely full. distracting, but for most readers it from ladies of fortune in the early After this, no new ideas can be im­ is the easiest way to get through the days. parted to him." With stunning in­ long chronicle of events necessary Anyone who dispairs of today's comprehension, Legate attributes in a detailed history of a city. With civic administration might be in­ this superb witticism to "false Nicol, BA'41, MA'48, history is terested in the city's first mayoralty modesty". There are many such never dead, and if it shows signs of race in which The Herald news­ curious judgments. becoming so he soon livens it up. paper urged readers to "vote early While there is more misadventure and often" for candidate Malcolm There are some lesser faults; it Alexander MacLean. He won. would have been wise, for instance, than adventure in Nicol's history of Nicol is superb when chronicling to avoid ending the chapter describ­ Vancouver, he at least recreates events like the opening of bridges ing Mrs. Leacock's death with the events of the past with vivid realism. and the closing of brothels, but same Leacock quotation that Curry He lets you smell the smoking ruins when it comes to important events in like manner employed. Legate after the great fire of 1886, taste the his history lacks perspective, to say also allows himself to fall into a adventures of rumrunners running nothing of good taste. parody that would have convulsed south during Prohibition in the Unit­ the old master. He quotes a Mon­ ed States, and feel the utter futility He skips through the drama of treal Star reviewer and then drily of trying to stage an epic battle in the Depression and radical action remarks: "There was something to this neck of the Douglas Fir. (The taken by the unemployed, removal be said for this point of view." A not only battle with Indians was with of the Japanese during World-War quite objective observation, for, as East Indians—Sikhs—who drove II, the typhoon disaster—with the footnote at the back of the back a boarding party from their hardly more space than is devoted book modestly reveals, the reviewer ship with rotting garbage.) to funny accidents. It appears that whose point Legate cites with ap­ Nicol writes from the point of as a journalist-historian he relied proval is himself. view of someone passionately in love too heavily on scanning front pages with the city. For residents and Van- of newspapers. But, to coin a phrase, we all couverites away from home tem­ Worse is his apparent inability to make mistakes—and speaking of porarily (who would leave perman­ change pace for even a paragraph. mistakes, it was reported in a series ently for any place but heaven?) He sums up U.S. president Warren of articles published in an Ontario his description offers the chance to Harding's visit here in 1923 saying, newspaper in 1956 that Leacock revel in a superb rendition of what "Harding's response to the expe­ was paid $15,000 for his book they already feel. Those who have rience was to die a week later." Canada, the Foundations of its Fu­ never been here might think they There was nothing to indicate Hard­ ture, commissioned by Seagram Dis­ have stumbled upon the opening to ing's death was due to the visit, so tilleries. Legate states, and I think a grandiose novel by Ferber or this buffoonery was in the poorest his research certainly must be defer­ Michener when they read the first possible taste. red to, that the figure was $5,000. chapters . . . except for those little Few histories are as amusing as So much for this upstart, careless veins of humor which Nicol justifies they are informative, but must there Ortario hagiographer—and possible by the argument that Vancouver's be a giggle in every paragraph? One petty thief—one T. Lautens by history is more ludicrous than he­ hopes that the next time Mr. Nicol name. roic. attempts history he will get someone Not content with being Page Five "Nothing has been fired in anger, else to write the serious parts. Editor and a weekly columnist with including the six head coaches ex­ The Sun, Trevor Lautens also now pended by the professional football Audrey Down, a former Vancouver admits to being a hagiographer. It's team during its sixteen years of Sun reporter, is studying political just disgusting! struggle to appear contentious. In science at UBC. • 25 alumni •news

Vintage Class Enjoys Reunion

UNIVERSITY OF B.C. alumni from all over North America—from Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts, to Nanoose Bay, B.C.—gathered on campus in October for Reunion Days '70. More than 500 grads attended the traditional festivities, which ex­ tended over a Friday and a Satur­ day. As ever, the class reunions were the main attraction, giving alumni a chance to renew contact Phonathon Chairman Frank Dembicki, BA'67 (right), consults with wife with friends from their student Neeva-Gayle, BHE'67 (left), as she makes one of many calls during annual days. The classes of 1920, 1925, telephone canvass of alumni. Two evening blitz raised $12,000. 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 engineering and 1960 com­ dorsement of the programs sup­ merce socialized and had dinner ported by the Alumni Fund." together in an informal, friendly In other news, the Alumni Fund atmosphere. Selkirk College organization is coordinating the The reunion of the class of 1925 Remembers Frank Noakes Memorial Fund for was a particular success, which was UBC's department of electrical en­ only appropriate for one of UBC's Noakes gineering. It is a specialized appeal vintage years. A small, close-knit directed at UBC graduates in elec­ group, the class of '25 was the last A TWO-EVENING TELEPHONE BLITZ trical engineering and members of class to graduate from the old Fair- —the annual Phonathon—has the public interested in electrical en­ view Huts before the university boosted the Alumni Fund 70 by a gineering education. The fund has moved to Point Grey. From its record $12,000. The Alumni Fund been established in memory of the ranks came three universitv chan­ direct total now stands at $141,000 late Dr. Frank Noakes, head of the cellors, one university president, a with two months to go in the annual department of electrical engineering federal cabinet minister and a score campaign. and acting dean of applied science of academics, doctors, lawyers and Close to 80 alumni volunteers until his death in 1969. The inten­ businessmen. participated in the Phonathon on the tion is to set up a fund of $10,000 Many of these were on hand for evenings of November 9 and 16. to be used to provide bursaries to Reunion Days '70. UBC President For two hours each evening kept needy, academically qualified stu­ Walter Gage, former UBC chancel­ the phone lines buzzing, urging dents in electrical engineering in the lor Mrs. Phyllis Ross, Simon Fraser alumni who had not yet donated to expectation they will feel a respon­ University chancellor Kenneth make a pledge. They contacted and sibility to reimburse the fund at a Caple, and federal Minister of Pub­ talked to about 1,200 grads. later date. lic Works Art Lain? were there The Phonathon is part of an Fund-raising is currently well mingling with their former class­ emerging pattern of success for underway. It was launched with a mates. Also present were Canon D. Alumni Fund 70. Chairman of the $500 gift from the UBC 1970 P. Watney of the Anglican Church, fund campaign, George Morfitt, graduating class and $100 from the Stanley Arkley of Seattle, president BCom'58, commented: "Amazingly Engineering Undergraduate Society. of Friends of UBC (USA) Inc., and enough, despite the economic cli­ Recently Selkirk College contributed Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki of Lillooet. mate donations to the Alumni Fund $500 to the Frank Noakes Memorial The other university chancellor to today are ahead of last year, but we Fund as an expression of thanks for come out of the class of 1925 was still have many commitments to assistance Dr. Noakes rendered the the late A. E. (Dal) Grauer. meet. To me, this suggests an en­ college earlier. 26 velopment of the university and association — its successes, failures of higher education in B.C. and to and suggestions for improvement — keep alumni informed about de­ and on the role of UBC in higher velopments at the University. To education. fulfill these responsibilities to a Jack Stathers, alumni association growing university and an ever- executive director, explains the expanding group of alumni, the as­ thinking behind the survey: Alumni Opinion sociation has grown to an operation "Over the years many assump­ Survey Planned with a $200,000 annual budget and tions have been made about alumni a staff of 14. interests and the association's poli­ In recent years the association has cies and programs have been built THERE ARE NOW ENOUGH UBC endeavored to fulfill its role in a on these. They have not been seri­ alumni in the world to fill a city variety of ways. They include: fund- ously challenged or tested. Maybe bigger than Penticton, Alberni and raising, providing financial assis­ these things are alright, maybe they Trail combined. tance to worthy student and uni­ are not. Perhaps alumni don't even In round figures the total is versity intellectual, social and ath­ care. But, they may care a great 54,000 alumni. While you can find letic programs, communicating with deal. We don't know but we intend UBC grads all over the world, 70 alumni and the community, pro­ to find out. per cent still live in B.C.; in fact, viding scholarships and awards, "The association's governing 44 per cent of them are still in the conducting studies of higher edu­ board and the staff have initiated Greater Vancouver area. Bet you cation problems, and making rep­ this survey with the intention of didn't know that before! resentations to the provincial gov­ making changes in policy, programs That's a lot of alumni — and ernment. But the association is con­ and structures to more effectively the number is growing by leaps tinually looking for new and im­ serve alumni and the University. and bounds each year. The ranks proved ways of fulfilling its role. We look forward to a good re­ of alumni have been growing with It is largely for this reason that sponse to the survey and to the the university; enrolment at UBC the association will be conducting changes that will flow from it." now stands at 20,800. in the next few months, an opinion When the survey results are The UBC Alumni Association survey of its members. Question­ known, they will be published in has responsibilities to both alumni naires will be sent to a representa­ the Chronicle, so that alumni as a and the university. Essentially, the tive sample of alumni seeking their whole can enter into debate on the association exists to foster the de­ views on the role of the alumni future of the alumni association.

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27 Commerce Alumni Hold Meetings

WE NOW KNOW who some of the real movers and shakers are among alumni. They're the commerce grads. The Commerce Alumni Division recently held two significant and successful functions. The most re­ cent was a reception Nov. 25 in the Bayshore Inn attended by close to 200 commerce alumni and com­ merce faculty members. The feature attraction was an illustrated talk on downtown Vancouver development by J. David Mooney, BA'61, presi­ dent of Marathon Realty Limited. Mooney spoke particularly about the major new developments in False Creek and Project 200. Student Jane Casselman (centre), dressed in new Young Alumni Club sweatshirt emblazoned with new YAC symbol, finds two admirers in On Oct. 24, the Commerce students Jeff Gold (left) and Paul Johnson (right). YAC members can Alumni Division staged an informal discussion session with UBC com­ buy sweatshirts for $4.25 each. merce faculty and students. About 80 persons attended the session. Participants engaged in a very spirit­ To Be Continued... ed, wide-ranging discussion on com­ HAT'S IN A NAME—After 34 cials beginning early in '71 with merce curriculm, faculty-student and W years, the extension depart­ programs in Victoria and in the university-business community rela­ ment recently underwent a major Interior . . . Watch for the NFB tionships. change in identity . . . it's now film "Penticton Profile". It's a called the Center for Continuing byproduct of the Center's Com­ Education now located munity Self Survey project in in UBC's newly-acquired St. Penticton, which was designed to Mark's College on Chancellor stimulate and involve local citi­ Boulevard. zens in acting on community PEOPLE IN THE CENTER problems. Student Tutoring —Center director. Gordon Sel­ THE TOPIC WAS WOMEN man, BA'49, MA'63, is currently in a special daytime program co- Service Helped at the Ontario Institute for sponsored with the Alumni As­ Studies in Education, Toronto, on sociation this autumn in Van­ STUDENTS STRUGGLING with Courses a year's study-leave. Selman re­ couver. "A Matter of Choice: now have somewhere to turn for ceived two awards for study and Options for Women" offered a help on UBC campus. The UBC research in adult education—a serious opportunity to clarify per­ Alumni Association, in cooperation W. L. Grant Fellowship at sonal goals. Oversubscribed, it's with the Alma Mater Society, has O.I.S.E. and a Canada Council planned again for the new year. opened a Tutoring Centre. grant. In the new year he will be IRONS IN THE FIRE—The Thirty-five students, undergrad­ lecturing at the University of Center's "Exploration in the Hu­ uate and graduate, have signed on Liverpool and the University of man Potential" continues in to serve as tutors. Operating out of Edinburgh. January with Dr. Stanley Kripp- the Student Union Building, they PROVINCE-WIDE GOINGS ner, director of the William C. are offering their services to all ON—A project aimed at improv­ Menninger Dream Laboratory, students, but particularly to strug­ ing B.C. local government spon­ Maimonides Medical Center, gling first and second-year students. sored by the Center and the Brooklyn, N.Y., speaking on Each tutor sets the cost of tutor­ Union of B.C. Municipalities, has "ESP, Dreams and Altered States ing, but the centre recommends a received an $18,000 grant from of Consciousness." . . . Sometime charge of $3 per hour. A registra­ the Donner Canadian Founda­ in February noted biologist Alex tion fee of $1 is charged each stu­ tion. The grant will be used for Comfort will lead off a new "Hu­ dent and tutor in order to maintain a two-year educational program manities and Life Sciences" series the centre as self-supporting. for local government elected offi- in Vancouver. . Jo Lynn Hoegg 28 letters to the editors

Error Corrected Women's Lib Advice Would you please bring to the attention I would like to express my reaction to It is my view that a more effective way of your readers the misprint made in my Kirsten Emmott's recent article in your of helping women achieve equality in our article on George Bowering, (Chronicle, magazine on Women's Liberation (Spring society would be to take account of the Summer '70). In the last paragraph on '70). I agree with the goals of Women's evidence of their contributions to industry, p. 14 my original comment read "Many Liberation to eventually make women business and the professions as well as the of these poems are understated, and many equal with men in legal, occupational, anthropological evidence which shows others stated baldly" . . . not "badly" as religious and social domains. I agree that women and men have the same po­ your printer has rendered it. there are many obsolete and ludicrous tential to do almost any kind of job. This omission of one letter brings in­ laws pertaining to women in our society. I Those of us who have collected the consistency to my article and does a seri­ agree that business, industry and the pro­ anthropological evidence to substantiate ous injustice to Mr. Bowering. If I had fessions frequently excercise discrimina­ women's potential equality with men indeed believed that many of his poems tion against women in employment. These have a great responsibility to make this were stated "badly", I would not have discriminations will have to be eliminated material available to the public. I would agreed to write such a piece. if we expect to prevent a serious female implore other anthropologists concerned Please make it clear that my value judg­ revolution! However, I do not agree with about inequities between men and women ments about Mr. Bowering's work run many of the Women's Liberation prac­ in our society, to collect their evidence— quite in the other direction. tices. Noisy, disruptive demonstrations on then speak out! When a sufficiently large Frank Davey, BA'61, MA'63, court house lawns, or Parliament building number of people bring evidence to light Faculty of Arts. stairs, refusing to wear make-up, deodor­ which shows the ludicrousness and ab­ York University, ants and calling all men "sex racists" is no surdity of female subservience, then it Toronto, Ontario. way to effect any kind of permanent would seem that sexual equality would be change in women's status. inevitable. Fraternities Article Slanted Pat Buckley, BA'66, MA'68, I suggest that there is sufficient evidence Lecturer in sociology and Perhaps if Keith Bradbury (author of "Joe of women's ability to perform in almost all anthropology, College's Last Stand". Chronicle, Summer jobs which men normally do to convince Columbia Junior College, '70) had known more of what fraternity reasonable and rational government agen­ Vancouver. life can be at UBC, he would have slanted cies, as well as the public in general, that his article with less of a tilt. Fraternities. women's equality in the labor market is or good ones, have always been more in­ essential. Female Supreme and County Chronicle Commended terested in quality of men, not percentages court judges, lawyers, doctors, professors, of enrollment or dance attendances. teachers, economists, and sales personnel I wish to commend you and your staff for Associate professor of commerce, Dr. cannot be ignored as contributing to the the excellent job you are doing with the Vance Mitchell, is obviously unobjective economy and welfare of the society. Chronicle. My husband and I both look as a researcher of the subject, since he As well, there is substantial anthropol­ forward to its quarterly receipt not only went through such "crap" to become a fra­ ogical evidence available which indicates in order to keep in touch with UBC, but ternity member. Greater than his need to' that men and women have the same poten­ also because of the excellent general in­ research, is a course in basic English. tial to do almost anything. There are seve­ terest articles you have published in the Ronald M. Melvin, B.Com'49, ral societies where men and women, share, past year. . . (Alpha Delta Phi) almost equally, all the necessary duties Mrs. Virginia Miller (BA'50) Chicago, Illinois. and responsibilities in the society. . . . Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.

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The class of '25 held their 45th reunion in October and some of the class mem­ bers who were unable to make the trek to UBC sent along some lively notes on their doings. . . . Robert W. Ball, BA'25, MA'27, LLB(Georgetown), PhD(Illinois), hasn't stayed retired very long. After an official retirement from DuPont as their foreign patent counsel last spring he was admitted to the bar of the Delaware supreme court and went back to work— as deputy attorney general for the state of Delaware. . . . Another one of the class' lawyers James E. Eades, BA'25, reports that he is now in private practise with his son, Robert, BCom'62, LLB'63. He retired as chairman of the B.C. Workmen's Compensation Board two of amino acids can be linked together years ago. . . . Kenneth A. Schell, BA'25, J. Ken McDonald to form the various amino acid chains reports that he is enjoying his retirement that make up the different proteins of after many years as an advertising execu­ IT IS SOMETIMES SUGGESTED that One of the body. Generally, each protein tive with the Skagit Corp. He is still an the greatest benefits of space research is molecule is comprised of one long active community worker and finds time to be found in its "spin-off". Certainly chain of amino acids. The new enzyme for fishing and travel—but says that his there has been a great deal; the flights can take apart a protein molecule chain favorite occupation is just loafing at his of the astronauts have spawned many one dipeptide link at a time, thereby beach home. . . . Refining problems in significant new technological develop­ revealing its structure. a sugar beet industry have taken William ments. But recently there has been In a statement, NASA declared the Blankenbach, BA'28, BASc'29, to Af­ some spin-off of a different nature from new tool had promise for direct medi­ ghanistan. Sponsored by the British de­ a National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ cal and biological research applica­ partment of overseas development he ministration laboratory. By a happy tions. "Protein is the most common will spend the next three months solving accident a UBC graduate working with solid material in the body," the state­ operation problems in a refining factory NASA has made a discovery that may ment said. "Protein molecules include in Baghlan. prove of immense value in man's fight the all-important blood-clotting fac­ against disease. tors, certain hormones, disease-fighting Dr. J. Ken McDonald, BSA'53, (MS antibodies and enzyme catalysts known Purdue, PhD Oregon State) a biochem­ to regulate a multitude of chemical ist at NASA's Ames Research Centre, reactions in the body." 30's Mountain View, Calif., has isolated Dr. McDonald told the Chronicle that DAP I, which he independently one of the body's enzymes and deter­ "There's too many things to do to be identified in the pituitary gland, had mined that it can be used to determine tied down to a routine all your life" said actually been discovered some 20 years exactly the chemical structure of the Peter Grossman, BA'30—and did some­ earlier in the spleen by Professor Fru- human body's vital proteins. The en­ thing about it. After 16 years as Van­ ton of Yale who reported it under the zyme has been named dipeptidyl amin- couver's chief librarian he has retired name of cathetsin C. Prof. Fruton, opeptidase, or DAP I for short. early to travel, play golf and fish. He is however, did not discover its unique The 40-year-old Vancouver-born not deserting the book world though, he'll capabilities. Dr. McDonald and his col­ biochemist discovered the practical be working part time with a publishing leagues have discovered other peptide- value of this enzyme while conducting company. . . . Robert F. Sharp, BA'32, splitting enzymes, two of which they basic studies with destructive tissue en­ DPaed(Toronto), was this year's recipient call DAP II and DAP III. zymes, particularly with regard to their of the Fergusson Memorial Award—the role in the body's response to the In addition, Dr. McDonald said his highest award of the B.C. Teachers' weightlessness of space flight. These team has developed an extremely sensi­ Federation. Dr. Sharp, who is superinten­ enzymes are thought to be instrumental tive, fluorescence assay method that al­ dent of the Vancouver school district, in bringing about the deterioration of lows them to selectively assay for these was cited for his service to education as muscle and bone seen in disuse atro­ enzymes in the blood. "We think this a teacher and an administrator. . . . phy—a potentially serious consequence will be a very effective diagnostic tool," G. Frank Waites, BA'32, a consulting of prolonged exposure to weightless­ he said. "When internal organs are actuary in San Francisco, has been elect­ ness. damaged by tissue trauma, toxic agents, ed president of the Conference of Actu­ The importance of Dr. McDonald's or disease, these enzymes get into the aries in Public Practise—an association discovery is that his purified enzyme blood. We hope that this tool will for consultants in the U.S. and Canada. can be used to disassemble the amino enable doctors to detect liver, kidney acid chain of a purified protein. and lung disease and various kinds of This year's edition of Outstanding Only about 20 different amino acids organ damage by assaying for the pres­ Educators in America includes the name exist in nature but, like the beads on a ence of these tissue specific enzymes of Gordon Danielson, BA'33, MA'35, necklace, any number and combination in the blood." PhD (Purdue), a senior physicist in the institute for atomic research at Iowa 30 State University. Selection for the an­ sick, BA'41, is now assistant vice-presi­ cil of Forest Industries of B.C. . . . nual program is on the basis of excep­ dent, group sales with the New York Geoffrey Cue, BA'50, BSW'53, MSW'60, tional service to education in research, Life Insurance Co. in NYC. is the new community development dir­ teaching and administration. Dr Daniel- Other people get gold watches and ector at the Vancouver Neighbourhood son was named a 'distinguished pro­ testimonial dinners. In Manitoba it's Services Association. His department fessor' by Iowa State in 1969. . . . For­ different—ask Anne DuMoulin, BA'43, provides resource services to local groups mer UBC dean of commerce and au­ BSW'44, MSW'47. She's now a member and self-help projects in the Vancouver thor of B.C.'s unpublished report on of the Order of the Buffalo Hunt and area. ... J. Douglas Little, BASc'50, higher education, G. Neil Perry, BA'33, has a small bronze buffalo on her desk has been appointed executive vice-presi­ MPA, MA, PhD(Harvard), LLD'66, to prove it. The award was made to her dent of Placer Development. . . . Tripoli is looking at a whole new set of prob­ by the provincial government in recog­ now has three resident UBC grads—in­ lems in his new post of assistant deputy nition of her work as executive director stead of none. John F. Maguire, minister in the federal manpower and of the community welfare planning BCom'50, is on a two-year assignment immigration department. He has been council in Winnipeg for the past 18 with the United Nations development B.C. deputy minister of education since years. . . . Robert E. Walker, BCom'47, program in Libya, on leave of absence leaving UBC five years ago. is president of a new Vancouver-based from Ottawa and the public service advertising agency, Walker, Ricks, Eh- commission. The other new residents rig Ltd. are Robert and Judy Reider, BASc'69, (Stone, BEd'68), who are with Mobil Oil After seven years with the West­ in Tripoli. . . . Mrs. Marion MacDonald 40's chester Family 'Y' in Los Angeles, Ian Puil, BA'50, is now a staff member at Anderson, BA'48, has moved to Tustin Centennial College in Toronto. . . . Roy A top engineering award has been as general manager of the Orange A. Stuart, BASc'50, MA(Dartmouth), made to Dr. Richard A. Montgomery, County YMCA Frank PhD(Princeton), is now chief staff BA'40, deputy manager of the Boeing S. Perry, LLB'48, has been appointed a geologist with Standard Oil in Calgary. aerospace group. The award, from the provincial court judge in Prince George. Kaljo Pohjakas, BSA'51, MSA'59, is Institute of Electrical and Electronic UBC senate member, Ian F. Green­ in Iran, on the staff of the United Na­ Engineers, is for leadership and out­ wood, BSA'49, general manager of Sun- tions development program in Teheran. standing technical management in Boe­ Rype Products, the processing branch . . . Denis R. T. White, BA'51, has been ing's missile systems research. ... A of B.C. Tree Fruits is now joint chair­ appointed vice-president, administration standing ovation greeted Stan Evans, man of both companies. and finance with Lake Ontario Ce­ BA'41, BEd'44 at the representative as­ ment. . . . The head librarian at Mont- sembly meeting of the B.C. Teachers' clair State College in New Jersey, John Federation, which honored him for 25 50's R. Beard, BA'52, BLS(Toronto), PhD(Co- years service to teachers and teaching lumbia), was recently honored by the in the province. A past president of the New Jersey Library Association for his alumni association, he served as public A former director of UBC's 10,000- contribution to the library profession in relations director before his current ap­ acre research forest, Robert E. Breadon, the state. Before moving to Montclair pointment as assistant general secre­ BSF'50, MSF(Duke), has been named he was chief of the UNESCO libraries tary of the BCTF. . . . Arthur T. Phy- vice-president, forestry, with the Coun­

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ESTATE 60's ADMINISTRATION Planning problems in Spain, Canada and the U.S. Appalachian region are by your Trust Company current projects of Peter Bachelor, BArch'60, MArch, MCP, PhD(Pennsyl- • As Executor of your Will vania). Last year he was named one of • As Administrator two outstanding teachers at North Caro­ lina State University. He is one of the • As agent for other Executor founders of an institute of environmental or Administrator design in Raleigh, for inter-disciplinary teaching, research and continuing edu­ PERFORMED AT ALL TIMES cation in design-related fields. . . . Robert S. K. Gibson, LLB'60, MBA • Efficiently (Queen's), is now practising law with the firm of Robertson and Black in • Conscientiously Bellville, Ont. ... A ceramic engineer, • At appreciable savings Didercus Hasselman, BASc(Queen's), MASc'60, PhD(Calif.), has been ap­ pointed an associate professor at Lehigh CO-OPERATIVE TRUST University. Edward S. Arnold, BSA'61, has given COMPANY OF CANADA up grape stomping and is now vice- 16 East Broadway, president operations with Andre's Wines Vancouver 10, B.C. in Ontario. . . . John H. Goodwin, BCom'61, MBA(UCLA), has been named rt Telephone: 872-7844 the founding president of the National Society for Corporate Planning. . . . Owned and controlled by Credit Unions and Stuart Philpott, BA'61, MA'63, is tea­ Co-operatiyes in Western Canada. ching anthropology at the University of Toronto. . . . Harold Ratzlaff, BEd'61, (also SASKATOON, REGINA, PRINCE ALBERT and MEd'64, has returned to Vancouver after SWIFT CURRENT, SASKATCHEWAN) two years at the University of Oregon, Federally Incorporated where he completed his doctorate in Member of Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation educational psychology. 32 Like aerospace, hydrospace—the new world under the sea is creating a whole new set of specialists. One group is the Undersea Medical Society—which re­ Meet your UBC friends cently elected John W. Brighton, BSc'62, Downstairs at the MD'67, to membership. Dr. Brighton is currently diving medical officer at the CFS Naden in Victoria. births Peter Dunlop, BASc'64, MSc, PhD HOTEL (Calif), is now chief soils engineer with James P. Collins, a consulting firm in Mr. and Mrs. William L. Birney, BSc'63, Cambridge, Mass. . . . Gordon C. Eek- MA(Calif.), a son, Christopher John, Sept. GEORGIA man, BSc'64, BA'68, MSc'70, is on 18, 1970 in Vancouver. . . . Dr. and Mrs. the research analysis staff of the Defence Harvey Cherewick, BASc'62, MASc'63, Home of the renowned Research Board in Ottawa. . . . Styles PhD(London), a daughter, Delphine Lisa, are changing in campus chaplains. July 6, 1970 in Grand'Mere, Quebec. . . . CAVALIER GRILL George Hermanson, BA'64, BD(Chicago) Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dusing, (Marie is one of the newly-appointed campus Mazurchyk, BA'67), a daughter, Elizabeth Recommended by chaplains in the joint Anglican-United Marie, Sept. 17, 1970 in Vancouver. . . . Holiday Magazine campus ministry at UBC. Their plans Mr. and Mrs. William D. S. Earle, BCom are unconventional—with no chapel, of­ '65, (Caroline Hall, BEd'68), a daughter, fices, bulletins or even the traditional Teresa Margaret, Aug. 9, 1970 in Van­ Sunday service, just an informal program couver. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Harley J. Harris, geared to current campus life. . . . Dun­ BEd'63, (Mary Babcock, BA'61, MEd'68), can R. Kerkham, BA'64, MA(Indiana), a son. Harley John Sanderson, July 28, PhD(UCLA), is teaching history at Co­ 1970 in Vancouver. . . . Brig.-Gen. and THE COMPLETE lorado State College. . . . Mrs. Peter Mrs. John A. McGinnis, (Carol Gregory, Smith (Sandra Wood), BA'64, MA'67, is BA'58), a daughter, Martha Jo, Sept. 9, an assistant planner with the firm of ar­ 1970 in Concord, Ont. . . . Mr. and Mrs. CATERING SERVICE chitects drawing up the plans for Ste­ Ram Parkash Mahant, BASc'62, MASc for home, office, venage New Town in Hertfordshire, (Queens), (Edelgard Petzelt, BA'62, PhD England. . . . William D. S. Earle, (London)), a son, Suntpaul Alexander, plant, club, wedding, etc. BCom'65, has joined the B.C. mainland Sept. 2, 1970 in Sudbury, Ont. . . . Major agency of Crown Life Insurance. and Mrs. Lark R. Murray, (Trudie Clark, Sherwood S. Stutz, BSc(Humbolt), BSN'63), a daughter, Kerry Lynn, Sept. CALL US MSc'66, is assistant professor of wild­ 6, 1970 in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. . . . life technology at Pennsylvania State Mr. and Mrs. L. Ringdahl, (Elizabeth Mac- 731-8141 University. ... A Canada Council fel­ Vicar, BEd'65), a son, Murray Bruce, Sept. lowship has been awarded to Philip Cot- 10, 1970 in Prince George, B.C ' for that very special occasion tell, BSF'66, MF'67, for doctoral studies . . . Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sandstrom, at the Yale school of forestry. Mrs. (Donna Pritchard, PHN'64), a daughter, A, Cottell (Donna Jones), BHE'67, is mana­ Jocelyn Maureen, June 6, 1970 in Na­ ger of one of the residence dining halls naimo. at Yale. ... J. Keith Acres, BCom'68, is now development sales manager with the Yorkshire Financial Corp. . . . Mrs, Gail Wertheimer (Margolese), BA'68, has joined the editorial staff at McClel­ marriages land & Stewart in Toronto.

Chen-Wing-Uberall. John Michael Chen- REGENCY Wing, BA'63 to Alice Anita Uberall, 70's BSN'61, March 28, 1970 in Terrace, B.C. . . . Folk-Johnston. Robert Joseph Folk, CATERERS BEd'64 to Judith Pamela Johnston, BMus Sun-baked rattlesnake may not seem '68, July 11, 1970 in Kelowna, B.C. . . . Distinctive Food Preparation much of a meal but when you haven't Grogan-Barnett. George Stanton Grogan eaten for two days it's at least chew- to Norah Barnett, BA'59, July 2, 1970 able. That sort of delicacy is all part in Vancouver, B.C. . . . Nielsen-Gaspard. 1626 West Broadway of the program at the Keremeos Out­ Darryl E. B. Nielsen, BASc'66 to Janet Vancouver 9, B.C. ward Bound School where Barry Hod­ V. Gaspard, BSc'70, June 6, 1970 in gins, BPE'70 and Jack Miles, PE 4, Powell River, B.C. were instructors during the summer. The school, which was started in Wales in 1941, attempts to develop character and leadership in young people through a rigorous outdoor program. The rattle­ Write or Phone snake feast happened during a student's Text 'solo expedition'—where students have THE I'NIVERSITY BOOK STORE to fend for themselves for three days in Vancouver 8, B.C. 228-2282 Trade the bush. One of the largest Outward Bound schools is in Colorado, headed whenever you need Medical by Joseph Nold, LLB'53, MA(Colum- bia). . . . E. Barbara Taylor, BLS'70, is Technical assistant reference librarian in the Rhees Library at Rochester University. . . . Former AMS president David Zirnhelt, Hard Back BA'70, a graduate student in political science is this year's recipient of the Paper Back Sherwood Lett Memorial scholarship. BOOKS 33 Arthur F. Hurt, BEd'60, MEd'64, July 6, PITMAN BUSINESS 1970 in Surrey, B.C. He was principal of deaths William Beagle School in Surrey and is COLLEGE survived by his wife and two sons. "Vancouver's Leading Gordon Edward Johnson, BA'40, BEd'44, Michael E. Atchison, BSc'64, June 30, MEd'64, Sep. 1970 in Duncan, B.C. A Business College" 1970 in Vancouver. He is survived by district supervisor with the provincial de­ Secretarial Stenographic his wife and parents. partment of education, he is survived by J. Douglas Baird, BA'25, PhD(Washing- his wife. Accounting Clerk Typist ton), August 22, 1970 in San Francisco. Lionel Jacques S. Metford, BA'41, MA'47, INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION For many years he was a faculty member PhD(Sorbonne), Aug. 18, 1970 in London, in the European division at University Ont. During the more than 20 years that Day and Night School College, University of Maryland. Since Professor Metford was a faculty member Enrol at any time his retirement he lived in San Francisco at the University of Western Ontario he and is survived by his sister. was responsible for several innovations in 1490 West Broadway Mrs. Carl F. Barton (Magdalene Aske), the teaching of French. He developed the Vancouver 9, B.C. BA'24, Oct. 16, 1970 in West Vancouver. university's language laboratory system For more than 30 years her program, and was one of the first to use television 738-7848 Listening Is Fun, was part of the CBC's to teach oral French to the public. He is radio school broadcasts. She is survived Mrs. A. S. Kancs, P.C.T., G.C.T. survived by his wife (Deborah Aish, BA by her husband, Carl. BASc'26, BEd'54, '35, MA'36, PhD(Sorbonne), a daughter Principal a sister, Jessie (Mrs. James Eades). and three sons, his mother and sister, BSN'29, a brother and three daughters, Lynette (Mrs. L. Rodgers), BA'48. Joan (Mrs. C. Anastasiou), BA'51, MA Mrs. June Blundell Mitchell, BA'49, Jan. '54, BLS'69, Brenda and Lynn. 1969, in Dallas, Tex. She is survived by Alice Bell, BA'53, October 17, 1970 in her father and brother. Vancouver. She was a retired teacher and James St. George Mitchell, BA'36, BASc is survived by four sisters and a brother. '36, July 13, 1970 in North Vancouver. Lloyd Lawrence Bolton, BA'22, MA'24, A chemical engineer with the FMC Chem­ north, PhD(Cornell), April 25, 1970 in Santa ical Co. in Squamish, he is survived by his Clara, Calif. He retired in 1965 as head wife, son. daughter and sister. of the biology department at the Univer­ Mrs. Henry B. Morley (Mary Catherine sity of Santa Clara and is survived by his Astell), BA'24, April 1970 in Penticton, south, wife (Mary Pittendrigh, BA'24) and a B.C. sister. George Carl Olson, BASc'41, Sept. 8, Wayne A. Brogan, BA'63, accidently 1970 in Toronto, Ont. For almost 30 east, May 1970, in Vancouver. He is sur­ years he was associated with the Canadian vived by his parents. steel industry, most recently as vice-presi­ Mrs. R. G. Gahagan (Marion Casselman), dent of Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. BA'32, BHE(Manitoba), July 31, 1969 He is survived by his wife. west. in White Rock, B.C. Before her marriage Donald F. Purves, MBE, BCom'34, MSc she was a home economist with the de­ (Columbia), Sept. 16, 1970 in Edmonton, .... all over the map, as a partment of agriculture in Ottawa and Alta. He had two careers — one with the matter of fact—that's where later with the Vancouver Province. She army, the other with the Canadian Nation­ UBC grads are ... our is survived by her husband, two daughters, al Railway. He served in the Second World Records Department has the brother and sister, Jessie, BA'23. War and after the war, with the rank of endless task of keeping track John Ackland Gillies, BASc'41, Oct. 19, colonel, as director of the army budget. of them. So when you move, 1970 in Vancouver. For 18 years he was His CN career began as an undergraduate, with Canadian Pacific Airlines as chief with a summer job as assistant purser on marry or take a spectacular engineer and later as director of main­ the CN coastal ships. He was with CN new job . . . please let them tenance and engineering. A professional before and immediately after the war, know (the mailing label from engineer, he was a past regional president rejoining the company in 1959 as chief your CHRONICLE makes cf the Canadian Areonautical and Space of development. Most recently he was vice- things easy for them). Institute. He is survived by his wife, son president of the mountain region. He is and brother, Brodie, BA'36, BASc'36. survived by his wife and sister, Margaret Harold Dark Goard, BA'44, BEd'56, Oct. (Mrs. W. McGill), BA'33. 17, 1970 in Vancouver. A long-time teach­ Lyle Reid Sutton, BCom'66, May 19, er in Vancouver, he is survived by his 1970 in Burnaby, B.C. He is survived by Alumni Records wife, son and two daughters. his parents. John Allan (Jack) Grant, BA'24, Aug. 27, Edna May Taylor, BA'16, Aug. 17, 1970 Cecil Green Park, UBC 1970, in Seattle, Wash. One of the original Vancouver 8, B.C. in Vancouver. For more than 40 years Great Trekkers and a former AMS presi­ she was a teacher with the Vancouver dent, he also served the university as Please Print: School Board. president of the alumni association and as Stuart John Terhune, BASc'31, Sept. 2, Name an active member of the Friends of UBC 1970 in Ontario. A mining engineer with in the United States. After graduation he Denison Mines in Elliot Lake, he is sur­ began his career-long association with vived by a brother and nephew, Stuart newspapers, both in Canada and the U.S. Joseph, BSc'67. (Maiden Name) In 1938 he became circulation manager Bertram R. Tupper, BASc'28, Oct., 1970 (Married women please note your of the Seattle Times, retiring 26 years in Vancouver. A former vice-president and husband's full name) later. He is survived by his wife (Helen chief engineer with the BC Telephone Co., Turpin, BA'24), a daughter and a sister. he was responsible for much of the ex­ Class Year Mrs. A. J. Heatherington (Paraschiva), tension and development of the coastal BEd'67, Jan. 2, 1970 in Haney, B.C. She Address communications network, including much is survived by her husband. of the major planning of the B.C. section Thomas Robert Hubbard, BSF'50, July 3, of the trans-Canada microwave system. 1970 in West Vancouver. A forester with He is survived by his wife (Dorothy E. the B.C. Forest Service, he is survived by Brown, BA'27), two brothers, a son and his wife. daughter. D 34 sheb the life of the party

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