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Engineering professor Martha Technology is set to

Salcudean makes computer models of transform teaching, learning industrial processes. She does it so and research. UBC is ready. well, she has won this year's Killam

Creative Writing professor Prize for Engineering The graduation ceremony is one

George McWhirter is a poet of those rites of passage that

who moves words, images 14 mark our lives. Here's what it's 10 and students. like at the new Chan Centre. 24

chroniclThe University of British Columbia Alumnei Association Editor Chris Petty, MFA'86 Assistant Editor Shari Ackerman

Contributors Deanna McLeod, Don Wells Advertising Katie Stradwick 9 Board of Directors President Haig Farris, BA'60, LLD'97 9 4 13 20 Senior VP Linda Thorstad, BSc'77, MSc'84 Past President Tricia Smith, BA'80, LLB'85 Research News Athletics Awards Treasurer Thomas Hasker, BA'86 A digest of news from UBC Varsity year in review. 1997-98 We're honouring these UBC grads Members at Large '98-'00 Gregory Clark, BCom'86, LLB'89 Reports and elsewhere: was a banner year for UBC teams and athletes at this year's Alumni Jean Forrest, BPE'83 neurotoxins in white bread to and athletes. More awards and Recognition and Sports Hall of Thomas Hobley, MBA'83 3 Members at Large '97-'99 Humanities 101 more championships. Fame Dinner. Peter Ladner, BA'70 Don Wells, BA'89

Lome Whitehead, BSc'77, MSc'80, PhD'89 Executive Director 27 32 34 Agnes Papke, BSc(Agr)'66

Editorial Committee Class Acts Student Profiles Books Don Wells, BA'89, Chair What's going on with those Meet two of tomorrow's movers UBC alumni write books. We try Ron Burke, BA'82 Paula Martin people who sat beside you in and shakers: both smart, active to show you some of them. It's Sue Watts, MF'75, PhD'81 English 101? Here's the place to and willing to pitch in to help hopeless: too many writers, too Design Consultation Chris Dahl Design Communications find out. the community. much talent.

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Women's Student Scholars Centre Turns 25 Score Awards t's been 25 years of success ourteen students have been named for UBC's downtown Wo­ Wesbrook Scholars, an honorary Imen's Resources Centre Fdesignation for undergraduates (WRC). From women's lib to who have distinguished themselves corporate downsizing, the center | academically and socially. They are: has kept up with women's needs S" Christopher Bennett, Law; Jeff over the years. i Beselt, Education; Victoria Colvin, Law; Director Ruth Sigal says activ­ | Mandeep Dhaliwal, Arts; Fahreen ities at the centre reflect changes Women's Centre Director Ruth Sigal, (I) discusses a programDossa , Science; Kelly Harrison, Medi­ in women's lives since it opened with WRC volunteers. cine; Kibben Jackson, Law; Adam Lund, in 1973. Then, the focus was helping decades. Many are UBC alumni, from Medicine; Gregory Mackie, Arts; Feisal women discover their own identity and faculties ranging from social work to Mohamdeali, Science; Ian Mortimer, strengths when they were just entering commerce. Science; Andrew Scholes, Law; Shaila the workforce. Shifts in Vancouver demographics Seshia, Arts; Andrea Thompson, Educa­ The centre started with eight volun­ are reflected in the WRC's programming, tion. teers and saw about 1,000 women notably its cross-cultural peer counselling Winners of the following awards annually. Now, there are 60 volunteers to programs which teach basic counselling automatically receive the designation: handle 25,000 clients annually. skills and an understanding of Andrew Lim, Science (Sherwood Lett The centre, located at 1144 Robson multicultural issues. Memorial Scholarship), Brian Murphy, Street (near Burrard), sees clients from all The WRC is a community service of Applied Science (Harry Logan Memorial ages and all levels of society. About 20 per UBC Continuing Studies. It offers per­ Scholarship), Kimberly Eldred, Law cent of the clients are men. sonal and career planning for women and (Amy E. Sauder/Jean Craig Smith Scholar­ Sigal is especially proud of the men. Programs are run by professional ships), Sarah Cherry, Commerce (John H. dedication of the centre's volunteers. A counsellors and instructors. Free drop-in Mitchell Memorial Scholarship), and Kim third of them have been with the centre counselling is offered and pre-registration Hendess, Arts (C.K. Choi Scholarship). for more than eight years, some for two is required for all programs. • The Wesbrook Scholar award hon­ ours 20 students annually who have completed one winter session at UBC, are Summer Jobs for Pharmacy Students in their final year of undergraduate studies or in the Doctor of Medicine or harmacy students won't be waiting helping to fulfill Martha Piper's vision of Dental Medicine programs, stand in the tables and pulling weeds this using research to enrich the undergradu­ top 10 per cent of their faculty, and Psummer. Instead, two dozen of ate education at UBC," says Pharmaceuti­ demonstrate the ability to serve, work them will work in pharmacy research cal Sciences Dean Frank Abbott. with and lead others. It is sponsored by labs, thanks to the Summer Student Between 1994-1997, about 40% of the Wesbrook Society, an organization of Research Program. students in the summer program have the university's major benefactors, and is "We want to give undergrads a taste gone on to graduate studies. The program named after Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, of what it's like to be a research scientist," also gives additional job skills, such as UBC's first president. • says assistant professor Kishor Wasan. training in operating drug analysis "We want them to see what they can do equipment. with a pharmacy degree." The projects are The program recently received a two- designed to give first, second and third year grant from the Medical Research WriK year students lots of science and commu­ Council of Canada and new funding from nity pharmacy education experience. the American Society of Pharmacology About K "By getting students involved early, we're and Experimental Therapeutics. • UBC RESEARCH

Chronicle Gallery to Provide Student Exposure

he UBC Architecture Gallery and ground floor of a historic building located Studio is now open. across from Victory Square on the edge of T"Our goal is to raise public Gastown. Thanks to a fundraising effort awareness of architecture in Vancouver led by the Friends of the School of while providing our students with greater Architecture, the gallery space opened exposure to urban issues in architecture," recently with an exhibition titled Architec­ says Sandy Hirshen, director of the tural Photographers: Vancouver in Black and school. White. Hirshen wants to explore ways to The space will be used next fall as a work with activist groups, such as the planned joint studio project that will Downtown Eastside Residents' Associa­ examine the southeast False Creek area. It tion, to produce a more livable and involves UBC students from Architecture dynamic city. and Landscape Architecture. "We want to create relationships with The gallery will also sell exhibition these groups and determine how we can photographs as well as books, mono­ balance our educational requirements graphs and student-designed furniture. It with community service," he says. is located at 319 West Hastings St. and is The gallery and studio is on the open Wed-Sat, llam-6pm. • But is it art? The south end ofthe Koerner Library Neurotoxin Linked basks in the spring sun. to White Bread Top Award Goes to chemical produced in the making of white bread may be Shakespeare Alinked to some neurological Scholar diseases, according to the preliminary findings of a team of UBC researchers. he 1998 Dean of Arts Award goes "There is a very suspicious correla­ to Alexander Globe, Shakespeare tion between the characteristics of this Tscholar and English professor. substance and those known to be toxic to Globe is a popular and respected the nervous system," says Christopher teacher who promotes student use of Shaw, associate professor in Ophthalmol­ computers in a field not known for ogy- computer-aided research. He is the Christopher Shaw and Jaswinder Bains feel Shaw and fellow researchers think driving force behind a $250,000 compu­ they've found a "smoking gun in a chemical the culprit may be methionine ter lab set to open in the English Dept. formerly used to bleach white flour." sulfoximine (MSO), a substance that was He has also introduced gay and used to bleach processed wheat flour in Shaw. lesbian studies to UBC, and has devel­ the early part ofthe century. By 1950 the "This appears to be the worst possible oped a curriculum that will soon go to process was banned in the UK and the toxin you can imagine for the nervous the Faculty of Arts curriculum committee US. Canada stopped using it in 1968. system because it strikes in so many for approval. Shaw, research associate Jaswinder different ways at the same time," he says. The $5,000 award recognizes excep­ Bains, and Physiology PhD candidate Because it is eliminated from the body tional contributions by a faculty member Bryce Pasqualotto have found that MSO over time, MSO cannot be detected in in teaching, research, administration and over-stimulates neurons and can lead to patients suffering from neurological service. Globe won a Killam Teaching neuron death called excitotoxicity, says disease. • Prize in 1991. •

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Bacteria Beware: Avalanches Hit by Peptides are Here New Funding ' 3HHHHP-W 'tw ^T JJA

JTll ^T-% ft ittle defenders can do a lot of or Prof. David McClung, a moun­ damage. Such is the case with taineer and backcountry skier, L UBC microbiologist Bob Funderstanding avalanches is a Hancock's "little killers," a new class of matter of life and death. When he antibiotics called cationic peptides. These receives new funding for his research on guys do not put up with bacteria; in fact avalanche prediction and prevention, it

0 they downright hate them. The peptides means his knowledge will be more widely o shared with the BC industries most •§. are covered with positive electric charges affected by avalanches. 1 which aid in their killing power. They McClung has been named NSERC- 3 attach themselves to the outer surfaces FRBC-CMH Chair in Snow and Avalanche Fisheries Centre Professor Daniel Pauly. of bacteria, and pry open holes in the Science. NSERC, Forest Renewal BC microbes' outer membranes. "Then their (FRBC) and Canadian Mountain Holidays Repair Needed for guts leak out," says Hancock. (CMH) Inc., the world's largest heli-skiing Peptides may be the answer to the operator, fund the chair. Collapsed Fisheries problem of bacteria resistant to "This chair will allow me to focus my conventional antibiotics. Tiny amounts arine Fisheries are in a global energy on research, provide significant of peptides are found in almost all living crisis, says Fisheries Centre things, including humans, making it technology transfer to industry and Professor Daniel Pauly. M easy to mass-produce. advanced training for professional Researchers show through 50 years of UN Hancock's team, paired with UBC avalanche workers," McClung said. catch data that as commercial fishing spin-off company Micrologix A geography professor and associate destroys larger predators, fishers move Biotehcnology Inc. and medical member of Civil Engineering, McClung systematically down the food web to researchers in Alberta and Quebec, has led UBC's Avalanche Research Group smaller plankton eaters. recently won a $500,000-a-year grant since 1991. His research has been snow "When we remove big predators and from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis mechanics, avalanche dynamics, land use go after their smaller prey, we are ripping Foundation. The grant will be used to planning, and avalanche prediction. the fabric of these webs, and endangering explore how peptides can destroy the Among other things, it will provide the their ability to produce harvestable fish at bacteria that kills people with cystic ski industry with better weather and any level," Pauly says. fibrosis. avalanche forecasting. • Pauly warns that continuous shrimp Hancock has been exploring the fishing may hinder the recovery of cod peptides' biological significance and stocks on the East Coast of Canada, where commercial applications for about six the fished-out cod feed on shrimp. years. Fishing down the food web is worse "The beauty of the peptides is the in the Northern Hemisphere, with its way they kill on contact. We have 100 highly efficient and technologically per cent kills in two to five minutes. advanced fishing fleets. Creating marine They are really potent," he says. This protected areas may be the only way to doesn't give bacteria much of a chance avoid the widespread collapse of fisheries to fight back. However, Hancock expects and rebuild healthy food webs, he says. bacteria will one day be able to elude the "We should be focusing on the little peptides. "But it will probably take health of ecosystems, and the conse­ them quite a while." • quences of extracting single species stocks from the system." •

Chronicle Message from the President A New Vision for UBC t may sound a bit odd to say we're Project to Educate seeking a new vision for UBC: the university is already one of the Vancouver's Poorest best post secondary institutions in the country. But every organiza­ wenty people from Vancouver's tioIn needs a set of principles to focus its poorest neighbourhoods will be efforts and guide its decisions. Tstudying philosophy, history and At UBC, our vision is to become the literature at UBC this fall in a three- preeminent teaching and research month pilot project called Humanities university in Canada. 101. A lofty aspiration? Indeed. An attain­ Students Allison Dunnet and Am able goal? Absolutely. Over the past few Johal, co-chairs of the committee plan­ months we've been talking to staff, fac­ ning the program, say bus fare, childcare, ulty, alumni and the community about and meals will be provided to students this university and what it should become who are referred by non-profit agencies. in the 21st century. With their help, we The aim is to "introduce students to have produced a Green Paper that defines critical thinking in everyday life and Martha Piper, President, UBC. five broad areas of strength, and outlines develop a desire to keep learning," says how we can build on them. students and enhance our library resourc­ Dunnet. • People. Our major strength is in our es in terms of acquisitions and advanced The idea for Humanities 101 came staff, faculty and students. We have some information technology. from an article in Harper's magazine that of the best people in Canada working and • Community. We are investigating the described a program in New York's Lower studying at this university. expansion UBC's services to the broader East Side. Graduates, who had no former Nearly half of our faculty and staff community. We will establish a larger education, then went on to college will retire in the next ten years. We will presence in downtown Vancouver and in studies or full-time jobs. develop a comprehensive approach to communities across the Lower Mainland. "A variety of backgrounds and hiring that encourages cooperation and We will expand our distance learning opinions will make the class that much rewards excellence. We will enhance our program and professional upgrading more interesting, and it will be good for student recruitment efforts to ensure that programs to include students in all parts UBC students and faculty, too," says the best students in Canada and abroad are of the province. We will also expand our Johal. attracted to UBC. As part of this strategy, alumni branches program throughout BC, The courses will be non-credit, but we will increase scholarship and bursary Canada and the world. the organizers hope students who support and upgrade our infrastructure. • Internationalization. UBC is an inter­ successfully complete the program will • Learning. We will develop a new national university. We will enhance our receive a certificate and be able to take undergraduate program that incorporates presence in the Asia Pacific, the Americas, part in Congregation ceremonies. our research strengths. For undergrads Europe and in aboriginal studies world­ The pilot program will be funded that means exposure to some of the most wide. We will expand our exchange with a $15,000 grant from the Innovative advanced research in the world, in all programs overseas and create more link­ Projects Fund, jointly operated by the disciplines. We will also focus learning in ages with other international universities. Alma Mater Society and the university.* three areas: internationalization, interdis­ As alumni, you are an important part ciplinarity and interactivity. We will of our new vision. We need your help to expand our coop programs in all areas. attract the best students in your commu­ • Research. UBC is a world power in nity, to support those students in co-op W K research. We will expand our research and work placements, and to ensure that capability and output by establishing post secondary education remains a clear targets for increased funding from priority in our society. I welcome your all sources. We will also develop more comments on the development of UBC's Ab uttf new vision. • research mentoring programs for grad UBC RESEARCH

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Commerce #1 in Research, Training

anada's top business school for research accomplishments and is recog­ research is right here: the Faculty nized as such internationally," says Izak Cof Commerce and Business Benbasat, associate dean of faculty Administration. development and professional programs. This year, the faculty received 15 He says that good scholarship goes grants totaling $698,700 from the Social along with good teaching. Many faculty Sciences and Humanities Research members who have received the Com­ Council of Canada (SSHRC)—more than merce and Business Admin, research twice as much as any other business prizes have also been nominated for (and school in the country. won) the teaching excellence prizes given The grants will finance research on by the faculty, commerce graduate or topics including consumer behaviour, undergraduate student societies. government privatization and renewable The faculty also ranked 13th in the resources. world for the number of publications in "UBC has regularly been the number top finance journals credited to faculty Carl Leggo makes poetry exciting. one business school in Canada for members from 1992-96. • Poetry Prof gets Canadian Students Score Big in Survey Personal anadian students score near the In advanced mathematics, they did top of the class in math and as well or better than students from 13 of nderstanding poetry can be a Cscience skills, according to UBC 15 countries. daunting task. That's why Carl researchers who recently released a global Scores in physics were slightly lower, U Leggo, poet and associate survey of senior secondary students. however, scoring better than 9 of 15 professor of Language Education, decided Canadian students were among countries. to write a book, Teaching to Wonder: those in 24 countries tested in the Third In a test for the top five per cent of Responding to Poetry in the Secondary International Mathematics and Science students, Canada scored higher than the Classroom, designed to put excitement Study. The results compare students in international average in both advanced into poetry. In it, Leggo combines their last year of secondary school. math and math and science literacy. practical techniques and strategies with a Canadian students topped the charts Canada is the only G-8 country theoretical framework. in math and science literacy compared to whose top students achieved two scores "Of all the genres in literature, poetry other countries: they beat 17 of the 20 above the international average in this is the one teachers and students find least countries taking part. part of the study. • interesting and the most difficult to come to terms with," Leggo says. l\: l! Leggo tries to get people to apply their own experiences and emotions to poetry instead of trying to analyze it. This way they can relate to it in a personal way and not see it as exotic and impenetrable. "When people actually read poetry with passion and enthusiasm, they realize it's not some arcane text. It's all about life, heart, story, music, how we live in the world." His book is published by UBC's Pacific Educational Press. •

Chronicle $100 Reward for Return of This Man

ne night at the end of the 1985-'86 term, this painting Owas stolen from the Forestry Building. It depicts Lawrence Guichon, a UBC honorary degree holder (1953) and a builder of the ranching industry in BC. Both his family and Agi. Sci. have been on the lookout for this painting in '50s Sorority Pals the intervening years, but to no avail. If you've seen this painting, call Do Lunch Brigitte O'Rooney, 822-8910. If we get UBC's Delta Gamma sorority friends the painting back, $100 is yours, no gathered togetfier for lunch and reminis­ questions asked. • cence on April 21,1998 at Cecil Green Park, organized by Anne Carmichael. (middle,'second from left). L-R: Beverly Prostate Research Feels Funding Pinch (Glasgow) Baird BA'52, Janet (Whitmore) Bingham BA'50, Shirley (Shields) East ne man in eight suffers from ment. The tumour then grows back and BA'51, Mary (Grant) Banham BA'51, prostate cancer. Of the 3,500 is untreatable. Carolyn (Harvie) Taylor BSN'57, Shirley O men who have the disease in The second therapy addresses that (McTavish) Ripley BSc'49, Anne (Ewing) BC, 550 will die this year. In spite of this, problem by withdrawing androgen peri­ Carmichael BA'51, Joanne (Strutt) Russell only $560,000 was spent in Canada dur­ odically. Preliminary studies suggest that BA'51, Robin (Orr) St Louis BA'50, ing 1995/96 for research. Very little is this irregular treatment keep tumours Margaret (Low-Beer) Libbert BA'50, Pam known about prostate cancer, according responsive to therapy. (Fraser) Wetmore BA'50. to molecular biologist Paul Rennie, direc­ "It is a silent disease," says Rennie. tor of the Prostate Cancer Research Pro­ "Often there are no symptoms for Education and Training. "My findings gram at the BC Cancer Agency. months or years, or until the disease has show this approach to be misguided." The process goes something like spread." Between 1992 and 1996, BC needed this: the prostate gland surrounds the The Canadian Cancer Society allo­ about 35,000 university graduates ann­ part of the channel that drains the blad­ cated $1.25 million to prostate research ually, but BC's universities only produced der. When it is enlarged or cancerous it last September. • 12,000. Two thirds of the high quality may compress the channel, obstructing jobs in BC, therefore, were filled by the free flow of urine. The gland's func­ BC Needs More people moving from the rest of Canada, tion is susceptible to three common dis­ the US and overseas. The demand for eases: prostatitis (infection of the pros­ Grads, Study Finds people with trade, technical and voca­ tate), enlargement (benign prostatic hy­ tional credentials, also about 35,000, was perplasia), and cancer. e need more university grads, filled by BC vocational graduates. Rennie and several others are work­ according to a recent study Providing increased funding for ing on two therapies that involve sup­ Won the demand and supply vocational training and less for university pression of the male sex hormone, an­ of post-secondary graduates in BC. training goes against demonstrated needs drogen. One therapy, used prior to sur­ "There's a strongly held view that we in the province. gery, reduces the volume of the tumour, should continue to emphasize vocational BC is last among the provinces in the making the treatment more effective. and technical training," says Economics number of degrees awarded per resident However, in advanced stages, the pros­ Professor Robert Allen, who is a member aged 20-29, and has the smallest per tate becomes unresponsive to the treat­ of the Western Research Network on capita university system in Canada. •

Chronicle Martha Salcudean brings passion and flair to a profession chronicle feature that doesn't often make the front pages. She's practised it from the mountains of Transylvania to the towers of UBC. enqineers ru e! (or at least they should)

artha Salcudean is just about the corn gathering up most pleasant person you'd care to crushed and broken cobs Martha Salcudean is one of meet: warm, friendly, inviting. She to feed themselves, and three national winners of the calls you by your first name in a prac­ many workers still used a 1998 Killam Prize in tised sort of way, like someone who horse and buggy as their Engineering. The award, has great comfort dealing with differ- main form of transporta­ worth $50,000 and awarded • ent people. She curls up on the tion. Romania was so annually by the Canada small sofa in her office in the Mechanical Engineering building, poor that towns were un­ Council, recognizes out­ Mtucks her feet up under herself and talks openly and frankly able to light their streets standing achievements by about her life, her career and her family. after dark. In towns all Canadians in the natural Family comes first. "Before all other things, family is the over the country, shop­ sciences, health sciences and most important," she says. That from a woman who has pers scurried about in engineering. worked her way to the top of her profession, mechanical engi­ pitch-black streets while neering, and developed a reputation as a first-class academic cars and horse carts picked their way through the crowds. administrator. But whatever deprivations the state was willing to visit The connection to family is understandable. She and her upon its people, it was not willing to skimp on education. Stu­ family suffered the ravages of World War II and life in Romania, dents were expected to perform, and parents were very con­ one of the world's most repressive states. cerned that their children do well. One of the few methods of She was born in Cluj-Napoca in north east Romania, the improving a family's lot in communist Romania was to make largest town in Transylvania, to a family of intellectuals. Both sure the children worked hard and got a good education. her parents were doctors. She was educated there and in Bucha­ Martha Salcudean was an extremely bright student. She rest. Romania was a grim country in the period after the war: was interested in mathematics at an early age and excelled in poor, agrarian and backward. After 1965, under the govern­ her studies in engineering. She was spared some of the worst ment of Nicolae Ceausescu, it became even worse. Ceausescu hardships of Romanian society, but her family's professional initiated a ruthless campaign to industrialize the country at any status brought on different problems. Because of her class she cost, and in the process he and his family and friends amassed was unable to get a teaching job at the university after her huge personal fortunes and cast the country into crushing debt. graduation. Teaching jobs were given almost exclusively to Virtually all industrial and agricultural production was sold in­ children of the working class. She worked first in industry and ternationally with proceeds used to pay down the national then for 12 years in the Research Centre for Metallurgy. debt. Living conditions were among the worst in Europe. Food She met her husband, another engineer, in Bucharest, and and fuel shortages in the '70s and '80s were, according to resi­ had a son (who also became an engineer, now an associate pro­ dents, worse than those experienced during the fessor in the department of Electrical and Com­ war. Gleaners roamed harvested fields of hog-feed By Chris Petty puting Engineering at UBC ). They both wanted

10 Chronicle Martha Salcudean by the often defiled but always triumphant Engineer's Cairn on Main Mall. Current defilers include Pharmacy '98 and a subtle but effective fan of romance languages. ^risPettyph0o. •

Chronicle 11 very much to leave Romania, but emigration under Ceausescu, by pipes into a huge burner ten storeys high where it is sprayed especially for engineers, was impossible. Martha and her hus­ into a super-heated chamber. The tiny moisture droplets vapor­ band were allowed very limited travel outside the communist ize, then ignite. The impurities are burnt off, the steam pro­ bloc, but they weren't allowed to take their child, a common duced is used as energy in the plant, and the chemicals precipi­ practise in communist countries to ensure that travelling par­ tate onto a collecting tray at the bottom of the burner. From ents would return. But finally, in 1975, Ceausescu wanted to there they are put back into the pulp-making process to start build trade relations with the west and, for a brief time, let the the journey again. Recovery boilers have been used for many doors open just a crack. Salcudean, with her husband, son and years to recycle pulp-making chemicals, but only since Martha mother, saw their chance and left Romania. Salcudean have the processes that go on inside these boilers The family went to Paris to sort out their options but final­ been translated into computer models. ly settled on Canada because her mother had a friend who Using mathematics and computers, Salcudean and her lived in Montreal. Within three months of landing in Canada, team have created a model of the recycling process that com­ Martha Salcudean was hired by the University of Ottawa as a putes, among other things, temperature, oxygen, moisture and professor in engineering. From there she came to UBC as head chemical content variables to produce an ideal environment for of the department of mechanical engineering in 1985, and be­ processing the liquor and recovering pulp-making chemicals. came associate VP research in 1993. "We calculate all the variables, then develop a computer graph­ During that time she built her reputation as an innovative ic that shows the operator every step of the process," she says. engineer, a creative administrator and an able entrepreneur. "We can alter any variable, such as the oxygen level, the tem­ Many of the process models she developed with her colleague perature or the amount of liquid we introduce, and see what professor Ian Gartshore and former PhD student Zia Abdullah, the result will be on the computer before we try it in the actual have been applied to industrial applications and are now in use boiler. That way, we can improve efficiency, increase produc­ around the world. She is currently on administrative leave and tion and limit any environmental impact." Which, all in all, is working as professor and Weyerhaeuser Industrial Research pretty well sums up 'computational fluid dynamics.' Her mod­ Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics. els are now in use in several mills in Canada, the US and Scan­ dinavia. omputational Fluid Dynamics. It rolls Salcudean has also been involved in similar collaborations off the tongue very easily. The whole with Atomic Energy Canada on heat transfer in nuclear reac­ phrase has a rather liquid feel to it. But tors, with Cominco on the growth of crystals in the manufac­ what does it mean? To the non-engineer ture of metals, and with Pratt and Whitney, on developing film such a phrase could mean anything from to cool turbine blades. She markets these models through the the amount of water a person should Continued on page 16 drink while playing computer games to Chow much pressure per square centimetre it takes to blow a computer off a desk using a garden hose. r*\ But no. Dr. Salcudean is able to explain, in jargon-free The Killam Prizes English, exactly what computational fluid dynamics is and how n it applies to her work, which she describes as "mathematical Izaak Killam began his financial career as a junior clerk in a Hal­ modelling of industrial processes." The following, a process ifax bank in 1903. At his death in 1955 he had amassed a large taken from the pulp and paper industry, describes one of her fortune from banking and resource development. He and his more famous accomplishments. wife, Dorothy, were committed to supporting advanced study Wood is chopped up into small pieces and put in a huge and research in Canada, and set up endowments at universities tub with a chemical liquor designed to break down the fibres and dissolve lignin, the substance that binds wood cells togeth­ across the country. UBC began awarding Killam Prizes (for er. When the wood is sufficiently processed, the liquor is teaching; pre- and post-doctoral fellows; senior fellowships and drained off and the pulp is either processed further into paper faculty research fellowships) in 1967 and has, since then, or cardboard on site or shipped to a plant somewhere else. But awarded more than $9 million. The Killam program of the Can­ what happens to the liquor, which at this point is the consist­ ada Council awards two prizes: the Memorial prize won by ency of water? It's rich in the chemicals needed to process Martha Salcudean; and a research fellowship that pays a re­ wood chips, but also contains the organic materials drawn searcher's salary for a period of two years. Fellowships are giv­ from the wood. The most efficient way to treat the liquor is to en to researchers in the natural and social sciences, the human­ burn it. But how do you burn a liquid? ities, medicine and engineering. By using a recovery boiler. The chemical soup is drawn up

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T he past season produced one of the most memorable years in October Tsports in UBC's history. Three new Canadian university championship banners UBC's men's soccer team toils in hang from the ceiling of the War Memorial relative anonymity against the gym. The T-Bird total of 40 CIAU champi­ televised success of T-Bird foot­ onships ranks second only to UofT's 48. ball. They win the Canada West Champi­ Women's volleyball team wins Canada West Individuals performed spectacularly, onship and go on to dominate the field Championship, (l-r) Sarah Maxwell, too. Stars such as volleyball aces Mike at the CIAU national tournament in Hal­ Izabela Rudol and Melanie Griswold. Dalziel and Melanie Griswold each won the ifax. But despite out-shooting McGill CIAU's prestigious TSN Award, and Mark 20-0 in the final, the T-Birds lost in an Nohra received all ofthe highest honours in overtime shoot-out. and World's double medalist Mark Vers- Canadian university football while leading November feld, who is competing at the World his team to their third Vanier Cup win. Early-season jitters vanish for the foot­ Aquatic Championships. Here is a month-to-month breakdown of ball squad, and no team can stop the February sports successes last year: Thunderbirds from capturing the Vanier The women's volleyball team clinches Cup. Mark Nohra is named the Hec September the Canada West Championship and Crighton Award winner as the most out­ The football T-Birds lost their home- ends the four-year reign by the Alberta standing player in the country. Three T- opener in front of a record crowd and Pandas in their own gym. The hockey Birds are first-team All-Canadians and a then dropped their second straight team reaches conference quarter-finals total of nine are conference all-stars. Shrum Bowl Game against arch-rival SFU. for the first time in recent years. UBC's Doubt evaporates quickly, however, as December gritty hoop squads also lose in play-off the T-Birds eventually rally behind Mark While everyone expected the first-place semi-finals to powerhouse provincial ri­ Nohra, quarterback Shawn Olson and a standing of the women's volleyball vals from the University of Victoria. superb defense. team, few expected UBC's basketball Women's ice hockey completes its inau­ teams to be as scrappy as they are. gural season in the Canada West confer­ The men's squad under interim head ence. coach Rich Chambers stuns a few March conference and non-conference rivals. Women's volleyball coach Erminia Russo The hockey team hosts the Father is named Coach of the Year at the CIAU Bauer Christmas Tournament, and Championships, but in match two, the posts a tournament victory. T-Birds again face the defending national January champion Pandas, who send UBC to the UBC has the best swimmers in the consolation final and eventually a country: they cruise to wins in both fourth-place finish. The swim teams win men's and women's championships simultaneous national championships, a in Victoria. For the men, the win hap­ UBC first. Tom Johnson is named CIAU pens without national team member Coach of the Year. UBC's women's golf team wins their first NCAA Tournament at Santa Clara's Colby Classic. Olympic swimmer Sarah Evanetz and Mark Nohra Ken Strain (r) battles for the ball in are named UBC's top athletes at the an­ Canada West final. nual Big Block Awards Dinner. • Dave Thomson photos.

Chronicle 13 Creative Writing prof. George McWhirter, a winner of this I chronicle feature H years' Killam Teaching Prize, uses his skills as a poet to guide his students and make their work move on the page. Words, Images and the Water Works Bus

by Chris Petty

esearchers speculate that a grammar gene exists in us humans. It predisposes those who possess it with an in- knate ability to understand syntaRx at an intuitive level. They might not be able to point out parts of speech, oi identify a dangling modifier, but they know when there's something wrong with a sentence and can usually fix it. In short, good writers are born, not made. Just as some people are born with athletic ability and never become ath­ letes, being a natural writer doesn't mean automatic success. Success in writing takes hard work, constant practise, and an understanding of language that is de­ cidedly, well, genetic. A skier being inter­ viewed after a run at last year's Olympics said that she could feel the hill before she started down it. She felt like she was George McWhirter, winner of a Killam prize for teaching. He's reading The Gladys Eligies, attached to it physically and spiritually, by Barbara Nickel, one of Msformtrstudents. Chris Petty photo. not just sliding down its surface. She made a good point: to be exceptional at Killam Teaching Prize winners are selected by their faculties on the basis of recommendations from colleagues, alumni and students. something one has to go beyond mere Each award winner receives $5,000. This year's winners are: facility and mere technical understand­ ing. That's as true of engineering and Christine Parkin, English Donal McDonnel, Oral Biol. & Med Sc. medicine as it is of writing and teaching. Jerry Wasserman, Theatre Colin Price, Oral Biol. & Med Sc. Everyone learns basic writing at R. Jonathan Fannin, Forestry Rita Irwin, Curriculum Studies school so, naturally, everyone thinks he Marc Levine, Pharmaceutical Sciences Marion Porath, Ed. Psych. & Sp. Ed. or she can write well. Margaret Atwood Eunice CY. Li-Chan, Food Science Richard Ericson, Green College once spoke to a neurosurgeon at a party F. Brian Holl, Plant Science Margaret McCuaig, Rehab. Sciences who said, "When I retire, I plan to be­ Michael Jackson, Elec. and Comp. Eng. Carol-Ann Comeya, Physiology come a writer," to which Ms. Atwood Philip Hill, Mechanical Engineering Richard Arseneau, Medicine responded, "That's nice; when I retire I Lyn MacCrostie, Arts One Carol Ann Borden, Botany plan to become a neurosurgeon." Of Bruce Miller, Anthrop. and Sociology Chris Orvig, Chemistry course, if we all took brain anatomy Ruth Freedman, Finance Chris Waltham, Physics

14 Chronicle along with our basic arithmetic, we'd be of thorns around the head of Christ. Too And a first rate teacher. He earned able to face the neurosurgeon at the par­ much Irish iconography, I suppose." his teaching credentials in Ireland and ty and say, "Ha! I can do brain surgery. I But he found himself literally taught in Kilkeen and then in Bangor. He learned it in high school." knocked out by the sight, sound and married a Bangor girl, Angela, also a But given a facility with words and a sense of the scene, and next thing he teacher, and together they decided to willingness to work very hard, it's the knew he was waking up in his bed, next leave Ireland in 1966. As is the case with lucky fledgling writer who stumbles on a morning, at home. many emigrants, both he and Angela superb mentor or teacher. Such a teacher "It scared the hell out of me at the were eager to get away from what they is George McWhirter, one of the winners time," he says, "but after that experience saw as a tradition-bound and in-grown of this year's Killam Teaching Prizes. my confusion about how words are con­ society with little hope of change and in nected to the images they convey disap­ which they could find no comfortable eorge McWhirter has peared. I probably can't explain it to you, place. been in Canada for more but from then on words were images and After a year in Barcelona — George • than 30 years, but his images were words. One and the same." had studied Spanish in school and is flu­ Irishness sits as thick on If that's the secret to his writing, ent — they decided to try their luck in him as the head of a then it's been a valuable one. He's pub­ Canada and set out for the west coast. freshlGy pulled pint of Guinness sits at the lished 20 books of poetry and fiction and Fortunately, teaching jobs in BC were top of the glass. On first meeting it takes been anthologized in well over 100 pub­ plentiful at that time and they chose Port a while of good listening to understand lications. He is also a well-known transla­ Alberni as the ideal place to live and everything he says. It's like sitting per­ tor of Spanish writers. He's won many work. plexed through the first 20 minutes of an awards including the Ethel Wilson Prize Like all teachers from abroad, he Irish version of "Coronation Street" be­ for Fiction, the FR Scott Translation Prize was required to take a few courses in fore the cadence, lilt and sound of the and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize Canada to upgrade his certificate. He dis­ words coalesce into understandable lan­ which he shared with Chinua Achebe. A covered that UBC offered creative writ­ guage. few weeks ago the League of Canadian ing courses and signed up for a summer It's language that McWhirter is all Poets gave him first prize in their chap­ course in 1967. By the next summer he about. He's always been a poet — "the book competition for his book, Ovid in decided to take a Master's degree and by broody type," he says — and he's quite Saskatchewan. "It's about Ovid, banished 1968, he was hired to teach in the de­ happy to read it, speak it, write it, eat it to the Black Sea's other side. Saskatch­ partment. and drink it all day long. ewan seemed the right place." By all in­ He attributes much of his ability to He had an odd "Road to Damascus" dicators, George McWhirter is a first rate teach basic writing technique to the mer­ experience as a university student in Bel­ poet. curial but brilliant poet, J. Michael Yates, fast when he was 19. He was then head and the major mov­ already struggling with his own ing force in the department. ADVICE poetry, and spending long One of the grad courses he took hours studying and writing. I have had many things. East of me - the City, the people; with Yates was the poetry work­ One night he rode home from And West of me, the sun. Never has it failed shop, and often when Yates was the university on the Water In its duty. away he asked George to fill in. Works bus. "It was going up When you buy food, make it in the morning. Yates taught a poem in transla­ Albert Street, past Francie Col­ In the afternoon, you may not live tion by Berchtold Brecht, "The lins' parents' vegetable store," To eat it. Japanese Mask," and tried to he says. "Albert Street goes in a Or worse - get across to students the rela­ huge curve and the buses race Get knocked over tionship between the idea and up there like the hammers of On the road. the thing — in this case the hell. I'd been working too hard, This is Rosa Maria del Valle's advice for old age. Japanese mask, which was used and reading John Donne and Her other advice is this: If you have anything to bury, to contain the thought, so that the like; poems full of tears and Don't let it be your talent, or your spirit. students could see the mask thorns. And this phrase came That will always shine and irritate you. clearly and feel it physically in into my head about what Albert Let it be your body, the words — something George Street looked like at night on a It has always known how to rest. had worked out under the gid­ racing bus with the lights flash­ from Incubus, Oberon Press dy flashing lights of the Water ing and all: it looked like a ring Works bus blasting through the

Chronicle IS curve of Albert Street*Be developed this 'Lay out the heaviness in your head like Martha Salcudean idea into a method for teaching. For the stones into a hill, then climb it word by continued from page 12 next 20 years he honed and refined his word.' It struck me as exactly the right teaching styled through the various fash­ way to solve the problem. That bit of UBC spin-off company, Process Simula­ ions of writing that swept through the advice, that image, is something any tors Limited, which she established with department and through a tour of duty writer could reflect on for the rest of her colleagues Ian Gartshore, Zia Abdullah as head, to become one of the most life, when the page gets her tangled." He and Ian Robertson. Two of her former loved and respected teachers in the de­ not only clarifies the process, he clarifies PhD students, Eric Bibeau and David partment. what is being expressed. Stropky, have joined her at PSL. Shauna Fowler, a second year Master Ellen Schwartz, MFA'88, author of of Fine Arts stldent, •says George is the the Starshine series and the recent Mr. soul of the department. Belinski's Bagels, shares that view. n spite of the many years she "He has an amazing gift," she says. "George has a way of getting to the has spent at her calling, Martha "His understanding of the various styles centre of a story. Sometimes I'd get lost Salcudean still has a passion for of poetry is very sharp. He never imposes with some piece I was working on, lose engineering. "Canada has a tre­ a politic or aataesthetitr on anyone's track of where the story was going and mendous international reputa­ work. He's able to see it and accept it for what I wanted to do with it. George tion for engineering," she says. what it is. His gift as a teacher is his abili­ helped me cut through excess prose and •"We produce some of the best ty to understand what you're trying to find the essential bits." engineers in the world, and our practis­ do and to give you both artistic and inIg engineers are second to none." technical advice to help you achieve George McWhirter does have a rare gift. But she's concerned about the fu­ your goal." He is a poet able to express the words, ture. "The need for qualified engineers is Winning the Killam prize was a sur­ feelings and ideas of everyday life in pro­ going to increase in Canada," she says, prise for McWhirter, not because he found images; he's an academic who has "and we have to encourage more young didn't have faith in his own ability, but a deep understanding of world literatures people to consider the profession. Virtu­ from every period; he's a ally all our graduates are getting jobs." teacher who is able to fo- She is also convinced that engineers can create jobs through their development of He has an amazing gift, *»««#>«*!i*™ new techniques, new processes and new -Shauna Fowler, 2nd year MFA student. talent and expertise on a products. "We have to offer more courses student's work. to engineers that teach them how to cre­ Writers of every because he doubted anyone else would stripe have passed through UB.Cs crea­ ate and run their own businesses." understand his teaching methods tive writing de^itoent, They^i gone She think* government has to look "Teaching chemistry and teaching on to write novels, plays and books of seriously at mathematics and science creative writing are two vastly different poetry or short stories; they've started programs in the high school, to make things," he says. "Basically we wait for literary magazines, become editors or sure they are teaching students what the student to produce the course mate­ taken up industrial writing; some have they need to know. "We also have to rial, then we sit around and talk about become teachers themselves. Some have convince private industry to support fac­ whether it works or not." gone on to careers that have nothing to ulties of engineering and to make the Of course it's not that simple. Most do with writing. But all who passed case to government for incfeased re­ writers don't just sit down and type up a through George's workshop saw their sources for engineering education and finished story or poem. The idea of the own woric reflected back by a master research." piece whirls around In the writer's head, t*acher *ad master poet, and keep the "We have to raise the profile of engi­ and he or she tries to use words to work little flame alive in private journals, neers," she says, then smiles: "There are it out. It's the same struggle: how do you tucked-away computer files or scraps of plenty of television shows about lawyers turn the image you have in your head paper. His legacy to them is the knowl­ and doctors and business people, but into the words on the page? edge that their language lives. none about engineers. People don't make One piece of advice McWhirter gave If scientists determine that there is a movies about them. We need to develop Shauna Fowler is typical, and it suggests grammar gene, they will probably find a sense of excitement about engineering his ability to help the artist on the artist's one for teaching, too. George McWhirter and what an engineering career can offer own terms. "Once when I was having is just one of the many teachers at UBC in terms of creativity and self fulfil­ trouble with a particular poem he said, who possess it. * ment." •

16 Chronicle on the artII UIC • s upcoming exhibitions and events:

UBC Museum of Chan Centre for the Vancouver Institute Anthropology Performjpg Arts Lectures v ivVyHrJ." ^K <

• Transitions, July 7-tfec. 199$ \fef 21 '$ Musical evening Sept. 21-27: Cecil and Ida Green Lecture: *f? »,. .v i$Jyith Emil ChaU Professor Thomas King, Department of • Recalling the Past: A Selection of l^ly 23 Vancouver Symphony English, Guelph University Early Chinese Art from the Victor ^Orchestra Concert First Nations and Literature Shaw Collection, through Dec. 1998, JrVSO Concert Masterpiece Gallery. *~ 'VSO Concert Oct. 3: Dal Grauer Lecture: Paul Fussell, CBC Avison Series Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of • Vereinigung, through Dec. 1998. UBC School of Journal­ English Literature, University of Pennsyl­ Traditional West Coast design. ism Opining, for info vania call: 82216688 The Poetry ofThreeWars: WWI, WWII, and • Hereditary Chiefs of Haida Gwaii, Sept. 20 Robert Silverman Vietnam through Feb. 21 1999, Gallery 10. Beethoven Sonatas Sept. 26 War and Peace Oct. 17: Professor James Hudson, • Tahaygen and K'woiy ng: Works by Sept 27 Arradi Vnlrtdos, pianist Department of Pathology, UBC Charles and Isabella Edenshaw, Searching for anti-viral compounds in through February 21 1999, Outside Fort. I K&1pfo,pleffl«e till Ticket master tropical forests Gallery 10. *'*•'•- at (6' • '• '^0-3311 orifo f han Centre Box Of fie 11 16(H) $32-2687. Oct. 24: Dal Grauer Lecture: Ms. Karen • From Under the Delta: Wet-Site Armstrong, author, teacher and com­ Archaeology in the Lower Fraser mentator, London Region of BC, throughiMar. 1999. Ikin Art Gallery A History of God

New! the MOA Cafe: Now you can Recent I'lmto AcqtiJMtioiis to the UBC Oct. 31: Cecil and Ida Green Lecture: enjoy a cappucino, sandwich ot,dessert; Colh-i turn Professor William Chafe, Dean of Arts indoors. The Museum j*Open cUil> Hum |..iln -"tvAri|e|i, Stan Douglas, and Sciences, Duke University 10-5pm, Tuesday*toj^pm (May 18- I II /an, Ken Lum, KetiffifyBA, Liz Race, Law and Justice Sept.7) M i ,nor, N.h. lhing Co. and Manuel Pina. hin i 19-Sept. 27 Phone 822-5087 for in I < inflation.

OBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Continuing Studies Exhibition 1998 grads present their work, much of Photo (left): Voodoo doll (Self Portrait) by Alan UBC Certificate in Intt FLUlturdl Studies winch is the product of more than two Belcher. Sculpture: cloth, silver gelatin print, Summer Institute I'frais of intensive research and study. Belkin Art Gallery. Top right photo: Standing Dog, Aug. 17-21, 1998 Oct; 9-25 from the Eastern Han Period (220 B.C. - A.D. 25). Museum of Anthropology's Victor Shaw Collec­ For information, please CftD 822-1437. C all 822-2759 for more information. tion. Photo: Bill McLennan.

Chronicle 17 feature Information Technology

2008: Classrooms will be wired so students can be on-line with each other, the professor and the rest of the world. UBC is undergoing a major techno­ logical facelift that will prepare students for the next century.

l he year is 2008. From a glance at the in courses and research. buildings, UBC looks very much like it But the intangibles are no less imposing. How do we pro­ did in 1998. But step into a familiar lecture tect the copyright of electronic scholary material? Should fees theatre in Buchanan—perhaps a Psychology for on-line courses be more or less than fees for on-campus 100 class—and it's a different scene. Students courses? How are professors to be rewarded within the tenure are clustered at computer station pods and system for electronic course development and electronic publi­ interacting on group projects while the prof cations? How can we ensure efficient and secure internet access circulates. Later, a guest lecturer speaks to them in realtime vid­ for all students and researchers? How can we encourage more Teo over the internet. Then the prof's back at the front of the young women to study and work in IT? Currently, fewer than room lecturing for 15 minutes while the students type notes 15% of high tech workers and students are women. into their laptops. Room lighting is lower, the chairs are com­ UBC's Advisory Committee on IT (http://www.acit.ubc.ca/), fortable and movable. led by VP Student and Academic Services Maria Klawe, is asking Students feel that they're playing an active role in con­ and answering these kinds of questions. Martha Piper empha­ structing their education. They're interacting not only with the sizes that "IT is not the driver of our academic goals; it's simply professor, but with each other and with professors and students a device, a tool." Together with the answers that ACIT comes around the world. Most students have their own laptop com­ up with, that tool will be used in various ways to enhance — puters, which they plug into the ports available in classrooms, but not drive — education and research at the university. labs, libraries and offices all over campus. UBC's Campus Connectivity Project (CCP) (http:// It may sound like science fiction, but UBC's president Mar­ www.ccp.acit.ubc.ca/), now in Phase I, is installing or upgrading tha Piper describes the scenario as the classroom of the future. basic infrastructure — high speed network connectivity — in "We know we need to put money into classrooms anyway," she every UBC building. It will create 25,000 connections in offices, says, "so they might as well be state-of-the-art." classrooms, laboratories, libraries and residences over the next The growth in information technology (IT) seems so rapid five years. Every building from Buchanan to the remaining huts and all-encompassing that it can be overwhelming to absorb: will have state-of-the-art connectivity. It's a challenging project, like the dozens of e-mail and phone messages we get every day; especially in light of the rapid pace of technological change. or estimates that the total sum of human knowledge is dou­ "But with a project like the CCP," says Ted Dodds, associate VP, bling every seven years; or the fact that 50% of the products a Information Technology, "it gets the attention of the IT heavy­ high tech company sells today, didn't exist a year ago. The so­ weights, and they want to participate. This helps us to stay on cial change associated with this growth is often compared to the cutting edge." the impact of the printing press and the industrial revolution. Dodds emphasizes that the success of the CCP will not just And now, as then, we're no doubt too close to the change to be data networks. "When we're done, we'll be able to say we understand its magnitude. have 25,000 connections, but then what? The real question will At UBC, new information technology has an impact on be what can people do with them? How will the network help several levels. There are the tangibles such as the construction people collaborate and communicate with each other?" IT and involved to install network ports; new software required to data networks, he says, are just the plumbing that will make manage effectively the university's finances possible all other priorities, such as interdisci- and student records; and the computers used by Deanna McLeod plinarity and internationalization.

18 Chronicle ft echnology is only as good as the use we The real questions will be what can people do with the make of it. And that's where we move from leading edge computer science to leading new technology? How will the network help people edge education methods. Along with the de­ collaborate and communicate with each other? velopment of new learning technologies (from - Ted Dodds medical courses on the web to interactive multimedia labs in theatre design) is a grow­ listening to their professor in real-time video. ing emphasis on learner-centred education and a two-way flow It's an exciting time to live in, says Ted Dodds, but a chal­ Tin learning, rather than the one-way flow of traditional univer­ lenging one too. "How do we assimilate it all, when many of us sity instruction. The goal is to allow students more flexibility, are already finding it difficult to deal with the wired world? We more interaction, and a more active role in their education, like can only process so many things. We need down-time to hang the scene of our Buchanan classroom of 2008. out with our families, to put our feet up or go fishing." The in­ On-line courses won't replace professors. What IT offers is dustry's ability to deliver the solutions, Dodds says, is almost a a different mode of course delivery that can be more research foregone conclusion. The question is no longer how we'll be based, enhancing the learning outcomes for students. Martha able to deliver the technology, he says, "but how we'll manage Piper is emphatic that this does not reduce the role of profes­ culturally. How we'll cope with what the technology will make sors. "We're not replacing professors, but their role might possible, is a more interesting and difficult question." change somewhat. Professors might in some cases be more like coaches, so their role becomes even more central." At UBC, de­ iderlying all the technology is just us partments from theatre to pharmacy are developing education­ humans. To cope, we need to keep some al software for use in labs, assignments and research. sort of perspective on what IT makes pos­ It's one thing to say everyone should put their courses on sible, and adapt while the world keeps the web, but it's another to learn how, and do it. An exciting shifting under our feet. Adapting to the new tool that is receiving a lot of international attention was change and making the best use of it in­ developed by UBC computer science instructor Murray Gold­ cludes time to unplug ourselves and go for berg. His WebCT is a set of worldwide web curriculum tools that walks in the park. The greatest challenge, perhaps, is making help professors design and deliver multimedia course content use of the technology to ensure equal access to the information to students. It's very user friendly, and offers professors with no it provides, and to improve the quality of people's lives in our computer expertise the ability to put things like indexed course own and in distant communities, outlines, timed quizzes, assignments and chat lines on the web. "It's tremendously challenging but that's the fun of it," Dodds Try it out for yourself at http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/. says. "The ground rules keep changing. The assumptions we make But will all this actually work? Studies on the effects of today aren't valid tomorrow, so it keeps the adrenaline going." • these new educational technologies on learning, and on profes­ sors, are only just beginning and the results aren't in yet. Tony This is the third and last in a series of articles on Internationalism, Bates, director of distance learning and technology with UBC's Interdisciplinarity and Information Technology at UBC. Continuing Studies department, is lead­ ing a Canadian research project studying how adult learners respond to the use of Some related links new technologies in the delivery of uni­ UBC's Vision Statement Society for Canadian Women in Science & versity and career programs (http:// http://www.vision.ubc.ca Technology research.cstudies.ubc.ca/olt/index.html). Inte­ Office of Learning Technologies (HRDC) http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/scwist/ grating technology into education is also http://olt-bta.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/english.html Centre for Currie, Transfer and Technology likely to play an important role in facili­ UBC Centre for Educational Technology http://www.ctt.bc.ca/edtech/ tating students' transition to the work­ http://www.cet.ubc.ca/about/index.html Network for the Evaluation of Education and ing world. UBC's Technology Studies Education program Training Technologies One of the benefits of IT is that it http://www.curricstudies.educ.ubc.ca/division/TSED/ http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm brings post-secondary education to the programs/ugrad.html World Lecture Hall home computer. That Buchanan class­ New Media Centres http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/ room of 2008 might just as well describe http://www.csulb.edu/gc/nmc/ Attitudes and societal impacts an on-line classroom with students at TeleLearning, National Centres of Excellence http://onteris.oise.utoronto.ca/ceris2/Tech1.html home in fluffy slippers and bathrobes, http://www.telelearn.ca/ Technology & social change connecting over the course chat-line and http://www.ctf-fce.ca/e/what/restech/reading.htm

Chronicle 19 4th Annual Alumni Recognition

Sports Hall of Fame Inductees Alumni Association Awar

hree of UBC's most outstanding athletes, one of its teams and Alumni Award of Distinction (2) one of the great builders of sport will be inducted into the Recognizes outstanding achieve­ Sports Hall of Fame this fall. These men and women represent T ments by UBC grads in the arts, re­ the best in athletic endeavour at UBC. The Hall of Fame, established in search, civic, business, community, 1992, is dedicated to their accomplishments. athletic or similar activities.

^|^ J.D. Jackson John Owen John Millar Builder BSc'63, MD'67, HSc'86 •^Hflff John David "Action" John is director of the B^^F*,**f Jackson is the most John Owen, well known BC Health Research H^^^^j^k prolific scorer in UBC in the thirties as a local Foundation and Provin­ i^^^^^^^B history, with a hockey player and cial Health Officer. He >>^^^^^^^B 3,585 points in his referee, was hired by taught in International Health at UBC storied five-season UBC in 1937 to be a from 1991-97. John won the DeFries basketball career. Following his graduation coach, trainer, and manager of the newly Award in Public Health in 1997 and the in 1992, he played for Canada's national built Varsity Stadium. In the subsequent James Robinson Prize for his contribu­ team and now resides in Antibbes, France 28 years leading up to his death in 1965, tions to public health. where he plays professionally. he provided training and equipment for many of the greatest football, rugby, Turlough O'Hare track and basketball teams in UBC Milton Wong BA'63 O'Hare, a contemp­ history. The popular Owen is remem­ Milton began M.K. Wong orary of Jackson's, was a bered through the John Owen Memorial & Associates in 1980 and two-time Olympian and Scholarship Fund and the sports medi­ is co-founder of the Commonwealth Games cine centre pavilion on the south campus Laurier Institute for swimmer as well as a which bears his name. multicultural studies. He World Cup freestyle gold medalist, all the is also vice-chairman of fundraising for 1977-78 while dominating on the Canadian Science World and founder and trustee of Women's university scene. The Richmond native UBC Commerce Portfolio Management and current UBC graduate student won a Volleyball Society. Milton is also chairman of the total of 21 medals in university (CIAU) Team International Dragonboat Festival. *m ;* y i5S*w' competition and his three CIAU records The 1977-78 stand to this day. ~3*K2I women's Blythe Eagles Volunteer Award Nora McDermott volleyball team, coached by Dianne Special recognition to grads who BPE'49, BEd'56 Murray, was undefeated during the have shown extraordinary leader­ Canada West regular season schedule. ship in Association affairs. Despite graduating They went on to the CIAU Champion­ almost a half-century ships at Moncton, New Brunswick, where Jim Stich ago, McDermott remains they won the fourth and most recent BSc'71, DMD'75 one of the top female CIAU Championship for a UBC women's Jim is the director of athletes in UBC history. volleyball team. They were also winners the Dental Clinic at the Her skill on the basketball court led her to of the Canadian Open Senior Champion­ Faculty of Dentistry. He an international career, a place in the BC ship and, with the exception of one was the president of the Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian player, the same roster won the CIAU UBC Alumni Association from 1993-94, basketball Hall of Fame. A standout in title the previous year as well. One of and the senior VP from 1992-93. He was May Brown's Thunderbird field hockey UBC's finest women's teams in any sport, also president of the Dental Alumni, and team, McDermott matched her athletic an unprecedented total of seven players VP and Chair of the Dental Alumni Fund. prowess with her student accomplish­ were named Canada west first-team all- Jim was co-chair of the 75th Anniversary ments, having been named top student in stars. Great Trekker Gala Dinner in 1986-87. her 1949 graduating class.

20 Chronicle and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner d Winners

Faculty Citation (2) Outstanding Student Awards (3) Lifetime Achievement Award (2) Awarded to faculty members who Awarded to students who show Recognizes extraordinary individu­ have rendered outstanding service leadership and academic success, als who, over a lifetime, have con­ to the community in other than and who are active in the univer­ tributed significantly to UBC and teaching or research. sity community. the Association.

Paul Stanwood Mg^ Lica Chui William Gibson BA'33, DSc(Hon)'93 A professor of English, ^B; pH Lica is a third-year Med Paul has been a member ^K 'rdfe^B student and has been Bill was appointed of Green College since ^^^ "^^H^ the student rep on the director of research for 1994 and has served i^^V^Hf UBC Senate since 1993. mental hospitals of BC in UBC since 1969. He ^^^^^^^™ She was VP of the Alma 1949 and professor of won the Provincial Year of the Child and Mater Society from 1996-97. She is a neurological research at UBC. He was Family Achievement Award in 1979 for Wesbrook Scholar and recipient of the professor of history of medicine and his community service to children and Sherwood Lett Scholarship. Lica is also science from 1959-78 and chaired the families. Paul has also authored two Young Ambassador to the Chinese financing body of the Universities program books for the National Council, Canadian Association of Public Affairs. Council of BC from 1978-1983. He was Boy Scouts of Canada. chancellor of the University of Victoria in Andrew Booth 1984. Bill served as president of the Graduating this year in Carol Herbert Alumni Association in '61-62. Engineering Physics, BSc'66, MD'69 Andrew started the UBC Cecil Green Carol has been Solar Car Project, and is DSc(Hon)'64 professor and head of the Engineering Physics Cecil was a founder of the UBC Dept. of Student Society President and a member Texas Instruments. He Family Practice since of the Engineering Graduate Society. He is spent two years at 1982. She won the YWCA Woman of crew leader of the UBC Lightweight UBC, then transferred Distinction Award in Health & Social Rowing Team, participates in Intramural to MIT. More than a dozen universities Sciences in 1985. Carol is a Fellow of the Sports and is UBC Student Ambassador. College of Family Physicians of Canada have given him honorary doctorates, and the winner of the 1997 W. Victor Allison Dunnet including Oxford and UBC. As a philan­ Johnston Medal for contribution to the A 1998 Political Science thropist, he has supported post-secondary College of Family Physicians of Canada. grad, Allison is the education across Canada, the US and the founder of Imagine UBC, United Kingdom. In 1965, he purchased a Outstanding Young Alumnus which welcomes new mansion located on the cliffs at the students to UBC, and of northern edge of the campus. Cecil Green Recognizes outstanding work by Humanities 101, a project to encourage Park is now home of the Alumni Associa­ UBC grads under 40. people from disadvantaged backgrounds tion. He is also the major donor to Green to study at UBC. She was the coordinator College, UBC, a residential graduate Peter Dolman MD'84 of External Affairs for UBC's Alma Mater school located just east of Cecil Green Peter is a contributing Society, '96-'97, and co-chair of UBC's Park. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth teacher and clinician to New Democratic Club from 1997-1998. in 1991. developing nations and an active participant in 4th Annual Alumni Recognition and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner UBC AIDS Eye Clinic. He is a clinical assistant professor at UBC Thursday, October 8, 1998 and has provided care to outreach clinics Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver in Northern BC. He specializes in oph­ Tickets: $125 ea., $1,000 table of 8, GST included. Tax receipt issued. thalmology. Book now! Call 822-3313

Chronicle 21 a umni news President's Message

Branch events keep cians that jobs and wealth creation are dependent on a highly educated work­ you in touch force and that Canadian tax and immi­ Watch for news about gration policies must be globally compet­ itive. High levels of student debt, a low branch events in your area. value Canadian dollar matched against For information about branch activi­ high wages, low taxes and greater job ties, or to establish a branch in your opportunities in the US and elsewhere, area, contact Marlene King at are forcing too many of our students and (604)822-8918, e-mail: researchers to seek opportunities abroad. [email protected]. Canadian universities are also having a terrible time recruiting new faculty. Branch Rep's ft Contacts: If we want to keep our country

Kamloops strong and our universities great we, as Rob McDiarmid (250) 374-3344 university alumni, must be politically Kelowna active. Tom Edwards (250) 762-2604 hink about it, as Martha A priority for us this year is to Nanaimo Piper would say. As we all develop more active branches, particular­ Johanna Scott (250) 390-1085 become more accustomed to ly in Toronto and major cities in BC. An [email protected] using the web, I hope all our important role for the branches to play is Jim Slater (250) 681-7491, local 2515 alumni will add the UBC Al­ making new UBC students feel enthusias­ [email protected] umni web site — www.alumni.ubc.ca— tic about going to UBC. We do this with Kitimat to their list of favourites. We are now alumni send-off receptions for new Louise Shaw 632-7147 equipped to have video and sound clips, students and their families. If you would [email protected] so tune in to see short clips from the like to participate in send-off programs Edmonton convocation speeches of honorary degree let us know. Claire Pallard Belanger (403) 427-5133 recipients. News events from reunions We now have an UBC Alumni Toronto and campus activities will soon be in Endowment Fund for Needy Students. Its Catherine McCauley (416) 622-5116 text, in living colour and in real audio. starting capital is $300,000, thanks to a [email protected] As our expertise improves we will have major gift by Helen Knight (a Great Ottawa interviews of leading campus personali­ Trekker). Additional contributions are Carole Joling (613) 236-6163, ext. 2580 ties and cover events of interest to our welcome. We will report in future [email protected] Alumni. Please send us your ideas on Chronicles on awards made by the Don Gardner (613) 829-2257 what you would like to see. Endowment Trustees. Chicago/Milwaukee The current "brain drain" is a matter A reminder! Our annual awards Jay Phipps (414) 552-6446 of great concern to UBC and its alumni. dinner is October 8th at the Hyatt [email protected] A brain drain questionnaire is posted on Regency Vancouver, and Alumni Day at Lot Angelas the web site and we would ask all UBC UBC is October 1 7. Join us for tours, Dr. Hartley Turpin (714) 640-5030 alumni who have left Canada to fill it lectures, nostalgia and camaraderie. Betty-Jean Prosser (818) 790-7833 out (it only takes a few minutes). Already Haig Farris, President, Doug Thomas [email protected] we have had many responses and it is UBC Alumni Association New York providing us with useful information on Dave Nuestaedter (212) 241-1864 solutions to the exodus problem. [email protected] In the US all levels of government Visit Our Website San Francisco are increasing post secondary education­ Kent Westerberg 370-5070 al and research funding. In Canada it is We're upgrading our website to include

22 Chronicle A Division is a group of alumni in the New Students Can Is 1998 Lower Mainland who graduated from Imagine UBC Your Reunion Year? the same faculty, school or depart­ Reunion Weekend is ment, or who maintained membership emember your first day on in a club or other UBC association. campus? Scary, eh? Well, Imagine Oct. 16, 17 ft 18 Divisions provide an opportunity for R. UBC changes all that for new For information on reunions, please alumni to network, get involved in students. This year, on September 8, contact Catherine Newlands at various activities or simply renew old about 5,000 students will attend a full 822-8917 or e-mail: friendships. They are an excellent way day of events, meetings with deans and [email protected]. to stay in touch with UBC. For infor­ profs, scavenger hunts and an evening mation on how to start a division, call carnival, all aimed at introducing the These reunions have also been scheduled Catherine Newlands at 822-8917 or greenhorns to the big campus and giving for 1998: e-mail [email protected]. them a leg up on the year. • St. Mark's College 40th Anniver­ New students will be contacted in sary Reunion, UBC Campus, July 25. Engineering the summer with information about The division is being revived after a • Medicine "58 Whistler, Aug. 15/16. Imagine UBC. If you know of students in two-year hiatus. Plans for next year are your area (or in your household) who are • Mechanical Engineering '68 UBC participating in some ofthe student activ­ off to UBC for the first time this year, Campus, Aug. 21/22. ities including Clubs Day and the Career encourage them to attend. • Pharmacy '88 UBC Campus, Fair. Also, don't forget our Student Send Aug. 28/29. Family ft Nutritional Sciences Off events in communities outside the ft Home Ec. • Pharmacy Class of '95 Harrison Hot Lower Mainland. That's where you, the All alumni and friends are invited to the Springs, Sept. 12/13. seasoned grad, get to share your experi- annual fall social evening, Friday, Oct. 16, neces with the new kids. Call Kristin at • Animal Ecology '70-75 UBC Cam­ 7:30 pm, FNS foyer. 800-883-3088 for more information. pus, Sept. 12/13. Art History/Studio Arts • Medicine '88 Whistler, Sept. 26/27. An Art History division is being formed and is looking for interested volunteers to UBC Alumni Association • Applied Sci. '58 UBC Campus, take part in this exciting launch. Annual General Meeting 0ct.16/17.

Law Thursday, September 17, 1998 • Commerce/MBA-all decades Faculty UBC Law Alumni Distinguished Speakers Main Floor, of Commerce, Oct. 15, 16, 17. Series Breakfast, Thursday, Sept. 17, guest 6251 Cecil Green Park Road • Class of '38: Cecil Green, Nov. 27. speaker will be Justice Ian Binnie, newest 6:30 Reception appointment to the Supreme Court of • Education "39 UBC Campus, Nov. 27. 7:00 Business Meeting Canada. • Rehab Sciences'88 TBD

• Civil Engineering '78 TBD

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• Pharmacy "68 TBD Rehab Sciences '77 held an impromptu Education "39 Alert! 20 year reunion on Alex Charters, president of Education '39 Jan.10 '98 on the class would like all of his classmates to occasion of Linda get together before or after the Class of (Owen) Brunton '38 Reunion on Nov. 27. If you are a leaving for Bot­ member of this class and would be inter­ swana. Let's try ested in participating, contact Catherine again for the 25th Newlands at the above number. in 2002!

Chronicle 23 The Chan Centre, a sunny May day and a umni news hundreds of ecstatic grads. Graduation brings Spring Congregation out the smiles in everyone. Chris Petty photos

24 Chronicle That 01' Graduation Magic

here's something magic about themselves that, yes, they DID have it in graduation. Sure, it's easy to get all them. Those stories are everywhere. Alumni Day, 1998 Tcynical and nineties-bitter about Maybe the magic comes from those Saturday, Oct. 17 various economic forecasts and to call other kids, the ones who get written into question the value of an applied about in the papers because they are so A day dedicated to versus a theoretical education, too-cheap/ brilliant. The one whose master's thesis you and UBC. too expensive tuition, the sorry state of bags a national prize, or the Governor Some events planned: our post secondary system, corporatiz- General Award winners, or the heads of ation, the brain drain, barista degrees and the various graduating classes. These are on and on. the people who put the line under • Chan Centre kick-off: Free But take a walk outside the Chan 'excellence' in the promotional literature, performances Et displays. Centre anytime during convocation week the people who every university (or high Famous cinnamon buns and all that end-of-millennium melan­ school or small town or neighbourhood) • Free web workshops at choly melts away, replaced with hope, points to and says, 'look what we pro­ promise and the satisfaction of accom­ duced.' Koerner Library plishment. Some of the magic comes from • Belkin Art Gallery UBC There's simply something magic family and friends. When the grads file Masters of Fine Arts Exhibi­ about it. into Chan Centre, people in the cheap Maybe it's the age of the graduates: seats call out, wave or whistle to get the tion (by donation) they are overwhelmingly young. Our attention of their son/daughter/mom/ • Guided bus and walking tours culture's fascination with youth isn't dad/friend ("We love you, Mom!"), and ofthe campus completely unfounded. Our whole point with all the flashes going off, you'd think here on earth, some would argue, is to we were at the Oscars when the stars • Alumni Lunch at Green College. produce the next generation. If that's the saunter in. And outside, after the Chan­ Donna Logan, director, Sing Tao case, one can't help but be excited to see cellor taps everyone on the head, the School of Journalism talks all these smart, clear-eyed young people hugs, flowers, congratulations, photo-ops about Good News, Bad News: full of excitement (and empty, as yet, of and giddy excitement pour out una­ what kind of job is the media accumulated disappointments) about the bashed. No wedding could generate more world they are about to conquer. good feeling or well-wishing. doing?(reservations required, But hope doesn't glint only from the I had the pleasure of attending ten of $15 per person) eyes of the young. In each class there is a the 23 graduation ceremonies held • Lecture Series smattering of men and women who have between Sunday, May 24 and Friday, May come back from careers, parenthood or 29. (That's right: 23 complete ceremo­ Patricia Baird on Cloning crummy jobs to learn new ways of nies.) Proof, to me, that graduation Stanley Coren: People Et Dogs working in the world. These older grads generates magic is the fact that Martha Ivan Head: Globalization are inspiring and encouraging, like the 45 Piper's speech (which she delivered at year old first novelist or the late blooming every ceremony save two she missed) Wayne Norman: Ethics Et movie star. They show us all that the idea about 'Belling the Cat' to this year's grads Business of a new start isn't just a tired cliche. was just as heartfelt, just as sincere on the • BBQ ($15) Et Beer Garden (no- Or maybe the magic comes from last day as it was on the first. It seemed to those special people who have had to deal me, the observer, that each ceremony was host) at Cecil Green Park with incredible obstacles to get their fresh and important. degrees: the kid with the physical disabil­ Next year, if you get the chance, We need Volunteers for Alumni ity who overcomes everything and makes come up and stroll among the just- Day. Help organize events, take it look easy; the kid from the wrong class graduated throng out on the flagpole or wrong part of town who excels beyond plaza above the Rose Garden. The magic, tickets, conduct tours. Get all expectation; or the person who wherever it's coming from, is as thick, involved in a great day! struggled and sacrificed and worked and as sweet, as honey. • Call 822-3313 for info. harder than anyone else just to prove to Chris Petty

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Branch Contacts, cont'd Seattle Japan Joan Whiley (206) 731-2174 Robin Mah 047-380-1635 [email protected] robin @japan.co.jp Washington, DC South Korea Janice Feld (703) 305-2010 Allan Suh 82-2-731-1669 Sydney, Australia [email protected] Christopher Brangwin Kenya 61-2-9363-2599 Azim Lalji 254-253-4200 Jim Crowe [email protected] 61-2-9232-1566 Malaysia [email protected] Susan Thomson 603-408-5668 Melbourne, Australia Mexico The new Young Alumni group is made up of recent grads D.C. Bear McPhail Manuel Santos Trigo who want to stay in touch with each other and with the 61-3-9905-5768 5-747-3800, ext.6023 university. We get together for networking, skills develop­ [email protected] [email protected] ment, sports and just plain fun. Join us and become part Bermuda New Zealand of a dynamic group. For more information, call Kristin Adrian Kimberley Chris Hall 64-4-473-7777 Smith at 822-8643, check out our website: (441)295-8495 [email protected] www.helinet.com/ya or e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Norway England Jan Aaseth +(47)-22-94-80-21 • The Young Alumni Breakfast (pictured above) was Paul Hitchens [email protected] a tremendous success. Laurie Baggio, BA'94, above 0171-214-1074 Philippines right/showed off his favourite sweatshirt bearing the [email protected] Bob Gothong 63-32-231-7730 YA logo, while Peter Ladner BA'70, left, looked on. The France roberto_gothong_at_wg&a Young Alumni had a scrumptious breakfast and thor­ Mandy Kerlann 333-80-249-294 @ wgamail Lmozcom.com oughly enjoyed 1 1/2 hours of discussions and laughs Greece Singapore with guest speakers Martha Piper and Ladner, publisher Fofi Orfanou [email protected] Hannah Chiew of Business in Vancouver. An inspiring start to the day. Hong Kong [email protected] • Young Alumni High Tech Industry Roundtable Ricky Lau 852-2530-2652 Taiwan The high tech industry promises to become the eco­ [email protected] Melissa Foo (886-2) 2500-5116 nomic powerhouse of the next decade. The idea of the India [email protected] roundtable is to create a forum for industry and UBC Dr. Sanjay Chandra Thailand (students, faculty, grads) to get together and talk about [email protected] Panadda Dheeragool issues of mutual concern such as industry needs, the Indonesia 2-661-8383, ext 3837 brain drain, the future of the university or the value of Chris Bendl 62-21-391-1584 pdheerag® ford, com a university degree. YA will work with industry and the [email protected] university to open discussions on these issues. If you 2 are interested in YA hosting a roundtable for your in­ Serious Fun Student Send Offs dustry, contact Kristin at the above number. Do you live in Kamloops, Kelowna, Calgary, Upcoming Events • July 16: Summer BBQ. Join us for sunshine, great Edmonton, Toronto, Hong Kong or fun, great people and a great time! Singapore? Help next year's • Aug. 4: Scott & Ritchie, Cactus Club Restaurant. students survive the first-year ordeal Presented by Vancouver Network of Young Professionals. with an August Send Off Social. If • Aug. 19: Bard on the Beach performance As You you are interested, contact Kristin Like It. Join YA at this festive English Bay event. YA Smith at 800 883-3088 or members are eligible for a group rate. e-mail: [email protected]

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20s 60s Bob Mukai S.C. Carver BASc'29 is retired and has been living in Leonard Angel MA'68, PhD'74 just published his Capetown since 1994. philosophical novel, The Book of Miriam. It is 'pious fiction' about the discovery and translation of an ancient woman's Bible ... Doreen Montgomery 30s Braverman BEd'64 was featured on the Women's J.V. Jordan BSA'39 is busier than ever even though TV Network on the program Success, Inc. as a he is supposed to be retired. He is travelling, trying successful Canadian entrepreneur with her flag to stay on top of the family investment company, shop ... Tom D'Aquino BA'63, BSW'66, MSW'67 and living in Surfers Paradise, Australia. He has moved from Moricetown, BC to Whitehorse in encourages any classmates that remember him to the Yukon ... Raphael Girard BA'63 was appointed contact him at: ... John Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Laurence McHugh BA'36, MA'38 got his PhD in July, 1997 ... Ed Pankratz MD'66 was named South Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Fraser Health Region's Interim vice-president of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. He had a varied Medicine last December... Joyce Pearson BSc'60 An active volunteer, Bob Mukai career in the States and retired in 1984 ... Wilfred has retired as director of the Blue Flame Kitchen of BSc'63, is a director on the executive Pendray BSc'38 is retired and living in Victoria. He Northwestern Utilities Ltd ... Hart Pfortmueller committee ofthe Richmond Minor is looking forward to the 60 yr. reunions. BA'67 is VP, private investment management div., Hockey Association and director of Western Canada at Montrusco Associates Inc. ... J. the Richmond Arenas Community Christopher Poole BA(Hon)'66 was appointed Association. He is also involved with 40s Consul General in Chicago in July, 1997 ... Heather the organizing committee for the (Burton) Raff BA'60 was a guest speaker last June annual Richmond International William A. Laudrum BCom'48 is retired and a at the Canadian Studies Conference of the Hebrew Midget Hockey Tournament, on the member of the Granite Club. He and wife Shirley University, Jerusalem. She demonstrated how the board of directors of the Richmond McConville BA'49 are active in tennis, golf, lawn great BC born architect Ron Thorn carried his Museum Society and the announcer bowling, bridge, travelling, etc ... Roy Wilkinson design talent and close kinship with the landscape at the international Judo tourna­ BSc'48 celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary across Canada to build homes, a zoo, theatres and ments held in Richmond. He recently with wife Magna on March 24, 1998 ... universities ... Cliff Scott BA'67 retired from public was named the Save-0n-Foods/ service of Canada in 1991, after more than 35 years Richmond News Community Achiever in both military and civil service. He is currently ofthe Month. 50s teaching history courses to engineering students at Joan M. (Campbell) Crosby BA'50 retired several the University of Ottawa ... O.P. St. John BA'60 years ago from the University of Oregon Medical was a political science professor at the University of School. She and husband Roger are still skiing and Manitoba for 35 years. He won the 1997 Olive enjoying living in the San Juan Islands and are very Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching 70s active in community affairs ... After teaching in ... After he returned from Taiwan where he was Margaret Catherine Allan BA'70 got her PhD at the Toronto until 1997, Esther Harrison BA'54 director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, University of Texas at Austin last December in the purchased, restored and now lives in the historic K.W. (Ken) Putt BASc'65 an industrial technology department of Educational Psychology ... Wendy (1848) Krieghoff cottage in the heart of Quebec advisor for Petroleum Services Association of Hamlin BFA'78, John Clair Watts BFA'79, Gloria City ... Dick Koppenaal BA'55, MA'56 will resign Canada in Calgary, Alta, won the CPR Engineering Masse BFA'80, and Gathie Falk, who taught in Fine this September as dean of the Gallatin School of Medal. He was recognized for many years of Arts, have been meeting in each other's studios to Individualised Study at New York University. While leadership and service to the Institute and its he was at UBC he studied with Doug Kenney, who critique each other's work every few weeks since member societies at all levels ... Hugh Stephens later became president of UBC ... After 22 years of 1975. The held a 'group' exhibition in May ... BA(Hon)'67 was appointed assistant deputy service, Carlos Kruytbosch BA'56, MA'58 retired Wayne Hammond PhD'74 was appointed High minister for Communications and Policy Planning at from the US National Science Foundation. He will Commissioner to the United Republic of Tanzania the Department of Foreign Affairs and International continue to consult in science policy affairs.... Klaus and accreditation to the Republic of Seychelles, and Trade ... G. Laird Stovel BASc'61 has recently E. Rieckhoff BSc'58, MSc'59, PhD'62 will receive as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of retired as chief engineer, Operations for Air Canada an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Fall Madagascar, July 11, 1997 ... F.S. (Rick) Hirtle after 31 years in Montreal. He moved to Kelowna convocation of Simon Fraser University this October BCom'74 to BDO Dunwoody's Policy Board for after a strong recommendation from brother Brian ... R.H. Roy BA'50, MA'51 was appointed a 1997-98. He is a partner in the firm's Salmon Arm Stovel BEd'69 ... Edward T. Thorpe BSc'66 worked, member of the Canadian War Museum Advisory office ... Karen Hook BEd'77 is proud to announce studied and researched at Texas A & M University- Committee recently. He is a former veteran and the birth of her son, Alexander Antonio John Hook, Commerce. He has returned to Mohawk College in Professor Emeritus of Military and Strategic Studies July 12, 1997 ... Carol Kline MA'75 was recently re­ Hamilton, Ont. to help expand the role of at UVic ... Carole Anne Soong BA'57, BSW'58 elected to the Board of the College of Dental technology for instruction ... Gardiner James administrator and volunteer activist, won the Hygienists of BC. She was a founding member of Wilson BA'66 was appointed High Commissioner to Women of Distinction Award for Communications the Board, appointed by the Minister of Health in Brunei July 11, 1997. and Public Affairs. 1995. She was first elected to the Board in 1996 ...

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Donald J. Norris PhD'75 began an assignment with working on immigration issues with the Ministry of scientist at XOMA Corporation in Berkeley ... Exxon Chemicals Baton Rouge operation as Basic Attorney General in Victoria after ten years with Benny Tong BCom'87 and Sandra Tong BA'87 are Chemicals Plant Technology Section Leader. He and Employment and Immigration Canada ... Linda delighted to announce the arrival of Christopher his wife Vikki are enjoying life in the Cajun Country (Pretty) Kern BCom'84 is living in Toronto with her Gregory Tong, April 16, 1997 ... Colin Wolfe of Louisiana ... Barbara (Merryfield) Peace husband Greg. They are raising their beautiful four- MA'81 has been closely involved with the peace BCom'79 was appointed vice-president, Energy month-old daughter, Tess ... Anna Krause BEd'84 process in his native Ireland, looking after the Marketing Systems Division of Applied Terravision edited The Life and Times ofthe Comox Valley, European peace & Reconciliation Programme funds Systems Inc. last January ... Rosalie Tung MBA'74, written by her husband, James. She is working full- coming from Brussels. Jack was born to Colin and PhD'77 Professor of Business Administration at time and taking courses through the Justice his wife Sue on Nov. 5, 1997 ... David Yiu Sang SFU, won the Women of Distinction Award in the Institute ... Jenny Leary BEd'80, is a senior internet Wong MBA'86 has moved back to Hong Kong after Management, Professions and Trades category ... consultant trainer with Futurenet Canada, bringing working in New York for three years. Would like to Murray Walker BMus'75 has returned to York internet access through TV sets across North re-establish contact with old friends and colleagues. School in Monterey, CA as director of Music and America, without a computer. Her e-mail through His address is: Apt. 10G, 113 Tai Hang Road, HK ... Head of Arts after a three-year absence. Murray the TV is ... Jeff Tony G. Wong BASc'84 and Janet Beasley were was the founding head of the Georgiana Bruce Leigh BASc'84, wife Denise (Sammartino) BHE'82 married in May, 1995, and their first daughter, Kirby School in Santa Cruz. and daughters Amanda and Jennifer have moved Ellery S. Wong, was born in 1996. Tony is a from Grande Prairie, AB to Antofagatsa, Chile, manufacturing project manager with General where Jeff works for Finning Chile S.A. ... Janie P. Motors Thailand ... Angela Wu BA'88 is branch 80s (Leung) Louie BCom'87 and husband Ming were manager for HongKong Bank of Canada and enjoys married in June, 1995, and would like to announce travelling, ballroom dancing and karaoke. Claudio Arato BSc'89, BASc'91 is doing all kinds of the arrival of their first child Michael, born Nov. 19, qualitative risk assessment, hazard and operability 1997 ... Raffaele Luongo BASc'84 is working for studies and pollution prevention engineering in the BCRail Ltd. in North Vancouver. He and Lucy would pulp and paper, petrochemical and oil & gas 90s like to announce the birth of their second daughter, industries ... Theresa Best BA'87 and Naomi Pauls James Andrew BSc'96 is currently the interim Daniela Christina, born Oct. 16, 1997, a sister for BA'83 have launched Paper Trail Publishing, a book coordinator of First Nations Health Careers at UBC. five-year-old Gabriella Michele ... George Melo packaging and editorial services company specializ­ He plans to get his master's in Aboriginal Commu­ BASc'85 and Maria (Garcia) Melo BCom'86 ing in multidisciplinary works on culture and society nity Health at the University of Sydney in Australia announce their second daughter Victoria Alicia, ... Janet Campbell BEd'86 has been working for ... Monica Beaulieu BSc'94 and Martin Cocking born May 12, 1998 ... Ian Miller BSF'84 and wife the Vancouver School Board for ten years as a BA'87 got married at Cecil Green Park in June. Colleen McKendry BSF'84 are proud parents of primary and special education teacher... Andrea J. Monica is back at UBC in first-year medicine and Lynden Kathleen, born Oct. 9, 1997 ... Denise E. (Lazosky) Chisholm BSc'83 got her diplomate Martin is still working in the post-secondary system Mills MSc'84 has been the administrator of the status in Clinical Neuropsychology from the after five years at UNBC ... Chris Bendl BSc'91 is Remediation Divison at the Montana Dept. of American Board of Professional Psychology. She managing director for Dharmala Manulife Asset Environmental Quality in Helena, managing the married Ian Chisholm in Hawaii last February ... Management in Indonesia ... Bill Bonner MBA'92 is state's involvement in a variety of environmental Terry Dash BASc'80, MEng'87, wife Karen and four living in Calgary doing his PhD in Management cleanup programs ... Scott Paget BA'84 has kids moved to Calgary, AB last July. Terry is the Information Systems at the U of Calgary ... David completed a two-year secondment at the Privy senior geological engineer for Southern Alberta for Bruce MA'90 is now the acting director and senior Council Office/Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ... Sue (Fisher) research associate for the Rural and Small Town Starting July, he and his wife Sherry will be moving Dritmanis BFA'83 is managing editor of Western Programme at Mount Allison University in New to Washington where he will assume the duties of a Living magazine and husband John Dritmanis Brunswick ... Gregory Dake BSc'92 received his First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in BFA'79 is a freelance radio producer. Their twins, PhD from Stanford University last April and has Washington, DC ... Candace (Laird) Parsons BSF'83 Christopher and Allison, were born in January ... moved to New York City with his wife Lorelei is the executive director of the Silviculture Institute Bruce Ferguson BA'85, MA'87 earned a PhD in (Erickson) Dake BA'92 where Greg is doing post­ of BC and the Institute of Forest Engineering of BC. French from U of Toronto and has been appointed doctoral work at Columbia University ... Sarah She and husband John just moved into their dream as the assistant registrar of Trinity College there ... Eastman-Pegg BA'95 and husband Kern Pegg had a home on the Fraser River in Queensborough ... Living and working for five years in Texas is Rev. daughter Emily Kaylen Eastman-Pegg on Dec. 23, Pammy Pasicnyk BSc'89 has been working for Mark R. Gazin BA'83 at the University of St. 1996 ... Lisa Freeman BA'97 is still working at the Safeway Pharmacy since graduation. She married Thomas as director of Campus Ministry. He directed Shoah Foundation doing Holocaust research and is Kevin Clarke BA'89 in 1995 and just bought a a team of 12 students to coordinate the recent engaged to marry Richard Grant of Costa Mesa, CA house in North Vancouver... Leslie Pidcock Texas Catholic Student Conference last March ... on June 26, 1999 ... After finishing her law degree, BSc'80, MBA'85 is living in Calgary and was Laura (Ryder) Hudson BEd'86 and husband Dave Kristin Graver LLB'96 articled at DuMoulin & promoted to assistant to the president and CEO welcome their third child, Michelle Marie, born Feb, Boskovich. She started her own business doing with CPR ... Stephen M. Pink BA'84 is working with 12, 1998 ... Brian J. Gibbs BSc'82, MA'85 is animal law soon after being called to the Bar... Richmond Savings Investments in Steveston as a assistant professor of Marketing and Behavioral Wesley Hochachka PhD'90 is moving to Cornell financial planner... Michael K. Pugsley BSc'89 Science in the Graduate School of Business at University to take a research associate position as MSc'92, PhD'95 just completed a three-year post­ Stanford University. Staring in Sept. he will be assistant director of Bird Population Studies at the doctoral fellowship as a MRC Scholar at the associate professor of Management at Vanderbilt Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology ... A month after University of California, Irvine. He is now a senior University in Tennessee ... Sal Johal BA'84 is graduation, Alexander D.C. Kask BA'97 moved to

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Chronicle 29 class acts In Memoriam

Tong Louie 1914-1998 Bill Reid Tong Louie BSc'38, LLD'90 passed away in Vancouver on April 28,1998, He was chairman Harry Warren 1920-1998 and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co., the family food distribution giant, chairman and CEO of the 1904-1998 Bill Reid LLD'76 was associated with UBC for family-held London Drugs, and vice-chairman of 40 years. He created the Haida village that now IGA Canada. He was a generous philanthropist, Born in Anacortes, Washington, Or. Harry Warren stands outside the Museum of Anthropology, donating to the Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, Vancou­ BA'26, BASc'27, DSc(Hon)78 joined the UBC and is credited with reviving traditional Haida ver Public Library, the VSO, several colleges and faculty in 1932 and was a teacher and researcher carving and design. His other works include the universities, Vancouver's hospitals, and the for 41 years. He completed MSc and DPhil degrees Spirit of Haida Gwaii, a pair of 19 foot YMCA, to name a few. He was also very at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. sculptures that stand in the Vancouver generous in his contributions to charities. In Harry was an outstanding athlete, represent­ International Airport and at the Canadian 1968, he was the first Chinese Canadian to be ing Canada in 1928 as a member of the Olympic embassy in Washington, DC, and Raven and the granted a membership to the Shaugnessy Golf track team where he coached the women's relay First Men, also at MOA. and Country Club. Louie was a former UBC team to a gold medal. He was a champion of field He received nine honorary degrees from Alumni Association board member and received hockey, and organized teams at both University Canadian universities. His work has been the Order of Canada in 1989. Hill School and UBC. He was inducted into the BC exhibited internationally and can be found in Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 for his lifetime public and private collections all over the contributions to coaching and to the support and world. He was the first living artist to have his encouragement of athletes. While at UBC he work displayed in the Musee de I'Homme in helped form cricket and rugby teams, played Paris, an exhibition celebrating the works of rugby and excelled at track and field, while the world's foremost ethnologist, Claude Levi- maintaining top marks. In his spare time he acted Strauss. with the UBC Players Club. He received many awards, among them Harry was a highly respected and popular the Molson Award, Diplome d'Honneur for Adela S. Lintelmann geology teacher, and was a pioneer in biogeo- Services to the Arts, Ryerson Fellowship, 19 -1998 chemistry, which examines the relationship Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts, Adela Smith BA'20 was an early feminist role between surface elements of soil and plants and Vancouver Lifetime Achievement Award, model. She established herself as a mathemati­ the mineral content of bedrock. He published Freeman of the City of Vancouver, Royal Bank. cian, scholar, and artist. She worked her way up many academic papers in the field. Harry and his Award, National Aboriginal Lifetime Achieve­ at the New York stock exchange to become one family owned a mineral claim at Watson Bar, and ment Award, Order of British Columbia, and the ofthe first women stock brokers on Wall Street. he spent many joyful days in search ofthe Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied But her true love was art Her art career motherlode. Among other honours, he received Arts Medal. spanned over seventy years. She became a both the Order of Canada and the Order of BC. His spirit will remain in the hearts of the trustee of the American Fine Arts Society and Harry had a long and productive life. He many young Haida carvers he has nurtured, an

30 Chronicle Sam Black Robert M.P. Driscoll Mabel Colbeck 1913-1998 1898-1998 1963-1998 Sam Black died April 23, 1998. He graduated Dr. Robert M.P. Driscoll, 35, died January 2, Mabel Colbeck BA(Hon)'46, MA'48, was born in from the Glasgow School of Art in 1936. He 1998, along with five others in a massive Uplawmoor, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She won a served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers during avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park while university bursary but had to take a job as a WWII, attaining the rank of major and winning backcountry skiing. Robert graduated from UBC stenographer to help her family, whith whom she medals for bravery. He was an honorary lifetime Medicine in May, 1990 and returned in 1996 to later emigrated to Niagara Falls. member ofthe Canadian Society for Education complete the one-year advanced family She travelled and studied on her own, through Art and a founding member of the practice training program. working as a journalist and broadcaster. After International Society for Education Through Art. While attending UBC, Robert was the Mabel received her master's at UBC, she worked He received a Master Teacher Award and an recipient of more than a dozen scholarships for with legendary professor Garnett Sedgewick. She honorary degree form UBC. his strong academic achievement. As an earned her PhD at Toronto in 1955, and for As a teacher, he was considered inspira­ undergraduate, Rob served as President of the twenty years she was regarded as one of the tional. He arrived at UBC in 1958 and quickly Varsity Outdoor Club. He became the first most dynamic and exciting English professors at established his reputation with his enthusiasm, Canadian to complete the French direct ascent UBC. As well as excelling as a teacher, Mabel creative energy and openness. of Alpamayo, a 5947m (19,500 ft) peak in Peru. gave years of sterling service to the Faculty Club He was one of Canada's outstanding Upon graduation, he practiced medicine and Vancouver Institute boards. Her family has artists. He was accomplished in watercolours, throughout BC as a locum and spent two years generously opened a scholarship fund in Mabel's acrylics, oils, woodcuts and metal sculpture. His working in Baffin Island. In 1997 Rob worked as name. Interested contributors can contact the works are held in galleries around the world. In the anesthesiologist at Nelson Hospital in Develpoment Office at 822-8905. recent years, he continued to create works of art Nelson, BC. while living on Bowen Island.

In Memoriam MEng'70, of White Rock, BC, Mar. 10,1998 ... W. Mitchell BASc'34 of Rossland, BC, Nov. 2, 1997 ... (John) S. Downton PhD'69 of Adelaide, Australia, Dennis B. Owen LLB'51 of Collingwood, Ont, Mar. Allan Bate QC, LLB'50. BA'56 of Chemainus, Feb. 1, Jan. 9, 1998 ... Lara Gilbert BSc'95 ofVancouver, 25, 1998 ... Clarence (Sammy) Samis Prof 1998 ... Rodney Beavan BA'39 of Nova Scotia, July Oct 7,1995 Braham (Grey) Griffith Emeritus of Areola, Sask., died on March 8, 1998 at the 16,1997 ... Mills Forster Clarke BSc'35, MSA'37 of BA(Hon)'26, MA'28, Prof Emeritus, ofVancouver, died age of 87. Samis taught Metallurgy at UBC for more Nanaimo, Feb. 23, 1998 ... Harold Copp BASc'60. on April 12,1998 in a long-term care hospital. Braham than 30 years. He received his BSc and MSc from the LLD'80 died on Mar. 17, 1998 in Vancouver. He also received an MF in Forest Soils from Harvard in University of Manitoba, and his PhD from University received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1939 1930 and a PhD in Plant Physiology at the University of College in London, England. Samis received the and his PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley in 1943. Washington in 1939. He worked for the Research Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Alcan He was also assistant professor there until 1950 and Branch of the BC Forest Service from 1926-36. He Award ... Christian B. Reid BA'32, DipEd'34 of then became head of the department for 30 years. In began teaching at UBC part-time in 1937 and was full- Victoria, BC, Feb. 13, 1998 ... Joachin von Hahn 1961, he discovered the hormone calcitonin, now used time for 30 years from 1938/39... Gordon Heron BASC'59 of West Vancouver, Dec. 13,1997 ... Harold internationally to treat osteoporosis. Copp was made a BCom'38 ofVancouver... Bernard N. Laven, QC Douglas Whittle Prof Emertius. of Vancouver, Apr. companion of the Order of Canada in 1980 and in BA50, LLB'51 of Calgary, Mar. 17, 1998 ... Derek 3,1998 WJ Wood BASc'50 John Woodcraft 1994 was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of LePage LLB'52 of Nanaimo, BC, Jan. 16, 1998 ... BASc'45 of Barrie, Ont, Sept. 1997 ... Geoffrey Fame... Sonia Craddock BA'72, MEd'76, EDD'82 of James Earl Miltmore BSc 48, PhD'61 of Gaston Woodward BA'30 of Minneapolis, Vancouver, Nov. 1997 ... Paul Cronert BASc'69, Summerland, BC, Mar. 23,1998 ... John (Jack) D. Minnesota, Jan. 1, 1998 . •

Chronicle 31 chronicle profiles Students

Elana Brief, FACULTY OF SCIENCE

t didn't take Elana Brief very long to decide what she wanted that it's not always to do with her life. When she was seven, she knew she 'hard.' We use accessible Iwanted to venture into the world of physics. material such as charts, And she stuck with that dream. Elana will graduate next graphs and equations; September with a PhD in physics and astronomy "I've always things that are essential been interested in physics because it teaches people to see for living in a modern beyond the visible," she says. "It uses technology as a way to see society," said Elana. beyond what we normally see." She is also working Elana did her undergrad degree at York. She decided to go to with Magnetic Reso­ UBC when she came out here in 1992 as a summer student and nance Imaging (MRI) at met physics and radiology Prof. Alex McKay. UBC hospital. A tech­ "My experience with him has been valuable on many nique similar to that of a CAT scan, it allows the practitioner to levels," she explains. "He not only taught me to love physics, look inside a body without physically touching it. but also to have priorities outside of it and not make it your life. "It is useful for drug trials to see if people are getting better I knew I wanted to study with him." before anything physically changes in the brain." She also deals Since then Elana completed her master's in physics at UBC, with Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). "If a person had a received the Canadian Federation of University Women Award, tumour and there was no way to take a biopsy, you could use University Grad Fellowship, and was one of 11 graduate students this method to see if it was malignant or benign." to win a graduate student teaching award from the Presidents' But for all that she does, she still has time to dabble in some Office. extra terrestrial activity. Recently the X-Files props people got in "I'm very impressed by the faculty and grad students in touch with her at the hospital. They were looking for brain physics here at UBC," she says. "They're passionate about spectra to show a chemical which, when injected into the body, physics, and about stuff outside of it. The students are involved freezes every cell instantly. Such a chemical does not exist, so she in all sorts of things, from triathlons to protests to the Graduate gave them a brain spectrum of a completely healthy living Student Society. Almost all the Grad Society members are physics person instead. It worked perfectly well. "They used the printout students." I gave them for one of their episodes," explains Elana, "I think Elana's time in the classroom isn't devoted exclusively to they liked it because there were lots of lines and numbers all physics. She's taken Education courses and a high-tech entrepre- over it." neurship course taught by commerce Prof and Alumni Associa­ For now, Elana will concentrate on graduating. For later, she tion President Haig Farris, which gave her "great experience in a would like to become a teacher, something that the graduate field I knew nothing about." students' teaching award has inspired her to do. Elana is also active outside of the classroom: she was "That's the direction I want to go in. I like the idea of responsible for coordinating the first year of the Let's Talk teaching physics. I would prefer smaller, more intimate classes, Science program at UBC (see our Spring '98 issue). She plays the which means more discussion and inevitably leads to better violin in a Klezmer band, which performs Eastern European understanding." Jewish Folk Music at venues anywhere from Citifest to bar Her love of science, however, goes beyond teaching. "I am mitzvahs. She also does triathlons and 10k runs ("the West Coast very enthusiastic about science education in a broad sense," she really inspired me to athletics"), works at the BC Advanced says. "I love science centers, museums, places where people can Systems Institute (BCASI), is on the Science World Committee play with science. It opens up a world for people seeing things in for exhibits and programs, and has traveled extensively from a different way. Being curator of a science museum is definitely Australia to Israel. in the picture." Her practical experience has been rewarding as well. She's a It sounds like she made the right choice to move here: "I've TA for The Physics of Music, a course that integrates physics to been here for three years, and have had a great time," she says music. enthusiastically. "UBC has given me the opportunity to explore "The course tries to change people's attitudes about physics, things that I would not normally explore myself." e

32 Chronicle Kirsten Molstad, FACULTY OF ARTS

f anyone was destined to go to UBC, it was fourth-year meetings. He makes us political science student Kirsten Molstad. Not only did she apply our knowledge, Ilive in Acadia Park until she was six, but both her parents instead of just listening went here. She grew up knowing the area and knowing the and regurgitating." school; coming here was just a natural thing for her to do. Kirsten has taken her Unlike her parents, a lawyer and a teacher, Kirsten is looking studies a little further: she for more non-conventional career choices. A volunteer at heart, has enrolled in VCCs non­ she devotes her spare time to the Canadian Diabetes Association, profit sector management Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Youth Rotary Club, and certificate program. She a mentorship program for disadvantaged children. At university, hopes it will lead to a job she is vice-president of the Political Science Students' Associa­ in a non-profit organiza­ tion, works in the School & College Liaison Office, and is a tion or volunteer residence advisor at Place Vanier. fundraising for a social service. After she graduates, she thinks "Having a lot to do makes me more organized," she ex­ she may come back for an MBA or a counselling degree. How­ plains. "It's motivating and I meet a lot of people." ever, her broadmindedness has always been a factor and chang­ It's nothing new for her. Active since high school, Kirsten ing her mind is not uncommon. "When I was a kid, 1 wanted to came to UBC with the attitude that she should cut down the do everything. Since then I have looked into literally every activities and really concentrate on her schoolwork. profession." Her choice of school didn't waver, though. "I've had "I quickly found out that instead of studying more, I wasn't an amazing experience here," Kirsten says in a serious tone. "A doing anything. So I packed up my things, moved into resi­ lot of people just go to university, get their degree, and get a job. dence, and became active. I met more people in my first week I have tried to do a lot more than that. I feel it's the extra stuff I there than in my first year altogether." do that'll get me the job I want." e - Profiles by Shari Ackerman She has definitely taken advantage of living on campus. "UBC is very holistic," she says. "Anything you want to do, you Stay in Touch can do it here." Her advising job is especially rewarding. "It's a Keep us up-to-date on where you are, what you're doing and who very challenging experience," Kirsten explains. "You get to do you're doing it with. We want to know, and so do your old class­ fun stuff like organizing special events and career forums and mates. Use another sheet of paper and send it in today! not-so-fun stuff, like rule enforcement. But counselling is what keeps me there; it's something I am comfortable with and I Name _ enjoy talking to people and helping them solve their problems." UBC degree(s), year. One particular event that she thought "fantastic" was the Address UBC Alumni Association's Mentor Lunch, a program for stu­ dents and mentors to get together and talk about life after graduation. "I think it was rewarding not only for the students, Code. but for the mentors as well," says Kirsten. "It's a chance for them Phone: (h) (o). to help people. They showed us that it's okay to have a few fax e-mail different careers, and that you don't always have to be so focused on one area. I would definitely go again." New address? O yes O no. As far as school goes, political science was not her first Spouse's name . choice. She was originally going to major in English, but then UBC degree(s), year. took a couple of political science courses and was hooked. "I like to study how the government works—or doesn't work, for that Send your news one of these ways: matter," she says. Instructor Paul Tennant was a big influence Snail mail: 6251 Cecil Green Park Rd. too. "He knows everything about politics, not only in a theoreti­ Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1 e-mail: cal sense, but a practical one as well," says Kirsten, "During fax: (604) 822-8928 [email protected] election time, he lets us go to debates, parties, and nomination toll free fax: 800-220-9022 web: www.alumni.ubc.ca _ J Chronicle 33 books received UBC's Writers

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