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DIAMONDS for that GRADUATION ONE BILLION DOLLARS ENGAGEMENT Save what you can afford to save regularly. There is noextra charge for convenient Credit Terms. BANKOF MONTREAL &-tkb &Ir4 O.B. ALLAN 7u LIMITED Established 1904 GRANVILLE AT PENDER WORKINGWITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 THE U.B.C.ALUMNI CHRONICLE NO WASTE READY TO COOK -1 Now,really fresh fish is just as close as your grocer’s hour ago! But we’ve gone a stepfurther stili-Rupert frozen foodcabinet! Yes, that’sexactly it-Rupert Brand Brand Fillets come to you clean-ready to cook and so Filletshave that delicious sea flavaurquick-frozen right attractive to serve. in-then continuous low temperature holds itthere for you to enjoy. till wait Just you’vethem. tasted You’ll agre+-they’re Why, it’s justlike eating fish thatwas caught only an fresh fromthe Sea! &EL Produced by the packers of CLOVER LEAF SEA FOODS MARCH, 1950 Ptqe 3 He's ideas Oo0 \ Are they sound? Can they be used ? How far should he go with them 3 Many a young business executive, calls on The Royal Bank of Canada to help him find the answers to such questions. Every branch manager of this bank is there to help the young businessman who has ideas. Through long training and wide experience our managers are well qualified to analyse business plans, to assist in developing good ideas-at times to sound a word of caution. The financial advice of your local bank manager is worth having. He invites you to talk things over. * Credit Reports Market Information Plant Location Collections- Remittances Business Introductions Letters of Credit \\ You can bank on the ROYAL" Page 4 U.B.C. THE ALUMNI CHRONICLE The U1B, C, Alumni This issue gets off to an explosive start on page 5, where Dave Brousson of theQuarterback clul) CHROCIICl€ gives Editor Hall a \vorkout over his last issue edi- torial 011 football(.-4merican plan) . readersare Published by the Alumni Association of requested to w-ite the Chronicle their opinions . The University of !British Columbia this is still a democracy . At the other end of the Editor: ORMONDEJ. HALL, B.Comm., LL.B. line thingsget a little more cultural on page 9, where Dorothy Livesay comesup with an article Associate Editor: on Earle Birney, who has once again attracted liter- MARYFALLIS, M.A. arynotice acrow the country with his new novel "Turvey" . Dorothy Livesay combines here fluent Alumni Association Executive: stylewith personal knowledge of hersubject to President .."... ~..~~.~~..~""---..-JOHN M. BUCHANAN, B.A. '17 presentan excellent close-up of thesuccessful Vice-president. FALL IS, JAMES JAMES A. MACDONALD,B.A. '38 author and poet. Secretary-Manager ...~FRANK TURNER, B. Comm., B.A. '39 The Alumni-U.B.C. Development Fund is once Treasnr BERRY,B. Comm., B.A. '37 again underway for 1950 and already we've reached Second Vice-President HONOREEYOUNG, B.A. '43, atotal of $7,800 forthe first two months of the B.Ed. '48 year . we must hit $20,000 . so don't wait for the next fellow . if you've been piker in the past ChairmanPublications Board, Ormonde J. Hall, B. Comm. '42, LLb. '48 years, change spots and become a supporter of your Past President _____.Winston Shilvock, B.A. '31, B. Comm. '32 University . if youdon't, then drop reading this Third Vice-president ..................Dr. Blythe Eagles, B.A. '22 magazinehere . youdon't deserve any of the privileges of being a grad. Members atLarge: William H. Q. Cameron, B.A., '33, Dorwin Baird,Arts, '38. Mrs.Maurice Sleightholme. B.A., Recommendedfor chucklea or two is the '30, Thomas W. Meredith, B.Comm., '46, Mrs. Tommy Berto, B.A., '31, DavidBrousson %.A.Sc., '49, E. T. Kirk- article written by D. Badger on page 18 . Frater- patrick, B.A.Sc., '47; Roderick Lindsay, B.A.Sc., '48; Elliott nity EXPOSE designed to keep you laughing and Schmidt, B.A.Sc., '36; F. D. Moyls, B.A., '46; Mary h4c- thinking. Dougall, B.A. '33; Col. GordonLetson, B.A., '24, B.A.Sc., '26; Barbara Macpherson. B.A. '45; Jack Underhill B.A., '24; The Chronicle depends on its advertisers to keep Doug. Sutcliff:Junior Member AMS Peter Dr. Vooght. going and if you are prompted saleswise hy any of AMS Pres. John Haar, Senate Reps. Dr. Harry V. Warren. theads appearing herein. then tnention.when you Dr.Earl Foerstcr andDarrell T. Braidwood, B.A., '40. buy the advertisers product or use its services, that Editorial OjTjce: you saw it inthe Chronicle. ROOM208, YORKSHIREBUILDING, VANCOUVER, B. C. Business Ofice: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,BROCK BUILDING, U.B.C. VOL. 4, No. 1 1950MARCH, Millinery Salon Original Creations ilz Hats that are Different! 2808 Granville St. CHerrv 243 5 CAVE & COMPANY I I r%. COVERPICTURE: The pert young graduate-to-beatop the University gates LABORATORY SUPPLIES ANDCHEMICALS looking toward the city where she'll shortly have 1'0 make her way,is MissWills McKinnon (Arts 'SO) . , . her For Assay Oftices, Educational, father, George McKinnon graduatedfrom U.B.C. in 1920 . Capand gown worn by Miss McKinnon was (donated Hospital & Industrial Laboratories !o the students of Mrs. Les McLennan (nee Cora Metz, 22) wife of Les McLennan, who is first President of the U.B.C.Alumni Association's NorthernCalifornia chapter. I I 567 Hornby St. Vancouver, B. C. Publ+d in Vancouver, British Columbia and autharirrd as sccand dass mail Past O/ficr Drpartmrnt, Otfawa MArine 8341 27 MARCH, 1950 Page 5 . QUARTERBACK CHRONICLE FOC Dace Brouwo~~.(‘ltuirutujt of thf T1rrcrtder.bir.d Quartwback Club, i)ffrm (111 crrgwtrrtt to tkr. A4mer.i- can. football Prlifor.irrl (tppwrijtg ilb thc Uecotrbtr TheMonthly Commercial Letter issued 6y iSSUP. The Canadian Bank of Commerce is one of the rtlarch llth, 1950 oldestpublications of its kind. It contains Dear Sir: material on economic conditions gathered from All thoseinterested in universityathletics wel- reliable sources and carefully weighed and sifted comethe Editor’s forthright comments in the DecemberChronicle theThunderbird football for the benefit of its readers. on team. Hoxvever, there are so manymisconceptions This Letter has a wide circulation among andmisunderstandings in theeditorial that the businessand professional men, students and Quarterback Cluh feels it a duty antl a privilege to journalists in Canadaand abroad. An applica- present the other sideof the story. tion to the HeadOffice, Toronto, will bring To begin ivith. the Editor must have been sitting The Monthly Commercial Letter to you regu- in alonely, secluded part of Varsitystadium, if larly, free of charge. he feels that what he is pleased to call an “Experi- mentin Pootl)all” has given “Little Satisfaction,” and brought only “Humiliation and Ignominy.” Theever-increasing crolvtls of thepast three seasons, in every kintl of \\eather,the thunderous applausefor courageous and thrillingplays, ,the great ovation given the graduating members of this year’steam : Surelythese are not the evidence to CANAlDIAN BANK whichthe Editor refers. The individual Ivho was THE heard to remark, “that \vas my first football game. antl the’Birds didn’t \\.in, hut thy’ve \\on a fan.” OF COMMERCE \\.as typical, not an exception. Snrelythe Titlitor, agreat sportsman himself. does not feel tIo\vnheartetl Ilecause the team has not won a majority of its games in its first three seasons of American footl)all? Our hasketlnll team has been going through heavy \\eather this season, but has BEFORE YOU BUILD! anybody even tlreatnetl of alxtndoning 1xwketl)all as a majgrcampus sl)ort? The greatEnglish rughy Ask About Our TntermtionalSeries to \~hich he refersare hy no means relegated to the past. 12’itncss thc M‘alla1)ies antl C,oltlen Bears of thelast t\vo years, antl Cali- fornia and Stanfordthis spring. HOME .LOANS Let us review the situation a little more object- at low interest rates ivelyantl realistically than the editor permits him- self. To begin\vith, it has allvays beencotlsideretl desirablethat U.B.C. shouldparticipate as far as possible in Collegiate,rather than “downtown” athletic competition. Fnr many years we have tried tosurmount the increasingly difficult barrier of finances.distance, and time. to play .Alberta, Sas- Your financing is as important as katchelvanand hlanitoha universities atCanadian your plans and contractor. football,while other U.B.C. teamsplayed in local leagues.These harriers finally became so tlifficult On Home Loans at4 ‘/2 % interest, immediatelyfollowing the \var that the member universities agreed to disband the \Yestern Confer- easy monthlypayments of $6.28 ence. per $1,000 loan includes principal The next most logical group for U.B.C. to joir; and interest. was that comprising all other institutions of a com- parablesize in the west, the Pacific Coast Confer- ence.This was obviously an impossibility so the Men’s Athletic Directorate took the next best step, VANCOUVERMORTGAGE joining a smaller antl closer group, the Evergreen CORPORATION Conference. And let us not do the members of this LTD. Conference the discourtesy of calling them “Back- 601 Howe St. MArine 431 1 \voods Colleges” - while they are not all very large Vancouver, B. C. innumbers, their teams have shown themselves greatin courage, sportsmanship, and ability. Page 6 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI ‘CHRONIMf CLUB ANSWERS TBALLEDITORIAL This step obviously meant that we ~vouldhave ON to play American Footlxdl - but it also meant that all our teams ~vouldplay in Collegiate circle:;. IVhile we are on this subject, it is purely ridiculous for the Editorto state that “almost any impartial1 person MEETING will agree the Canadian game is morespectacular thanAmerican Pootl)all.” I have heard too many argumentshetween experts onthis topic ever to agreequite so easily.And while rugby is a great sport,and admitte(lly economical of equipment,it isplayed as a majorsport by no otherChadian university.Hut arguments on theparticular quali- ties of differentsports have no placehere.