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2 THE MANITOBA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER Published by the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba, 640 - 17 5 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba. R3C JR8 President -K. M. Jardine, P. Eng. Vice-President - D. E. Cross, P. Eng. Council - R. C. Isaak, P. Eng., F. A. Jost, P. Eng., R. W. Haywood, P. Eng. A.G. NcNicho!, (,­ P. Eng., R. R. Foster, P. Eng., J. M. Fulton, P. Eng., G. A . Morris, P. Eng. The Manitoba Professional Engineer is published under the direction of the Bulletin Committee. Editor - R. A. Kane, P. Eng., Associate Editor - L. F. Schmidt, P. Eng. Committee Members - E. A. Speers, C. H. Templeton, R. F. Piotrowski, E.W.J. Clarke, S. M. Matile, J. Luc~s. S. J . Armstrong, B. V. Halkewycz, A. 0. Dyregrov. Correspondents - F. S. Gira, Flin Flon, B. E. Maxfield, Thompson, D. S. Taylor, Lynn Lake. Production Manager - Loreen Dunklee Opinions expressed are not necessarily those held by the A.P.E.M. or the Council of the A .P.E.M. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, JUNE, 1982 President's Message We Can't See or Touch Nostalgia by K.M. Jardine, P. Eng. For those Manitoba Engineering stu­ na:I equinox had previously been only a dents who didn't chuck their 11 :40 classes date in March, a spot on the classroom in favour of bridge and early lunch, a ceiling. great lesson was to be learned from Pop Milne's astronomy lectures. I shall never forget that tall erect figure, long arm and pointer outstretched indicating a spot on the classroom ceiling near the back of the room. He has an intense look of the visionary as he fervently proclaims "there is the vernal equinox". - ' !"· The tf..J.lth of the statement wasn't to ·be doubted, so convincing was the aspect .of the professor. And for the purposes of , '.that lecture at least, the vernal equinox 1 ~.became, in the minds of these scientifi­ ~cally oriented students to whom the ver- K.M. Jardine P. Eng. THE MANITOBA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER 3 The Great Lesson was, of course, that I hope that all of you will take time to things unseen and untouchable have a visit us at the Oasis during the festivities reality of their own. Nostalgia, our unful­ of July 1 to 3. Councillors and Past Pres­ fillable desire to return to ~vents of the idents will be there, and a business card 'ast, is one of these things. display board will tell you who's attend­ The big 7 5th anniversary Engineering ing and what are their current business Faculty reunion is a nostalgic event that activities. not only has a reality of its own but has a great benefit in adjusting perspectives of our profession and our world. Those I also urge those of you who haven't were important days when we were mak­ yet decided about the event to take in at ing such carefree decisions. on matters least some of the activities. I'll be there that would determine the course of our to see whether the vernal equinox is still lives. in place. '. The Engineering Faculty ....:... Fifty Years of Association I By Jack Hoogstraten, P. Eng. Dean Emeritus (Past President and Honorary Life Member A.P.E.M.) My first recollections of the univer­ served as a hydraulics lab. The Provin­ ,ity are associated with my own under­ cial Gaol was located, and still stands, graduate years, beginning with in the same block and seemed to be part registration day in September 1924, and of the campus. At least one man was my dismay at finding that fees of eighty executed ·by hanging on a scaffold dollars were immediately payable. erected in a small enclosed courtyard. The university at that time was hou­ Although we were endeared to our sed in a group of buildings opposite the university, we had an instinctive feeling Legislative Building, bounded by that the word 'campus' hardly applied Broadway, Osborne, York and Ken­ to that ·group of second-hand buildings nedy, and included portions of the orig­ in which we spent our days. inal legislative building and the old Law Courts. The original three-storey uni­ At that time we finished high school versity building stood at the York end at grade eleven and entered a special of the block and was used by Science. first year Arts and Science program The main building, originally built as a before entering the first of the four years temporary structure for some other pur­ of engineering. ";:ise, was a wood frame and stucco Our first three years were spent at ' building in the form of an E, with the the Broadway buildings. Chemistry and back of the E along Osborne St. The Physics lectures were taken with stu­ civil, electrical and thermo labs occu­ dents from Arts and Sc;ience in classes pied about 1500 square feet of floor space of some one hundred or more in Theatre in the Broadway wing. A dingy room in A,. right across the corridor from what the basement of the old Law Courts was grandly called the common room. THE MANITOBA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER This was really a locker room in which all interesting men, with qualifications there was standing room only as we ate won largely in the engineering world our bag lunches, never far enough away rather than academe, and served ably in from the stink of the Chemistry labs just what was principally an undergraduate down the hall. But if the physical facili­ institution. All continued to serve unt·r ties were somewhat wanting, we had retirement. wit. h t h e exception. of . p ro-\ I great confidence in our professors. First fessor Stoughton who returned to New year lectures in chemistry from Profes­ York, and J.N. Finlayson who in 1936, sor Parker, mathematics from Dean Tier, left to become Dean of Applied Science 'Daddy' Knowlan and N.B. McLean at the University of British Columbia. were highlights. Professor Argue is one I graduated in the spring of 1929, the who will be remembered by generations beginning of the depression years, and of freshmen. He presumably taught us engineering jobs were practically non­ English, but imparted much more existent. One member of our class, I thr:ough a generous humanitarian spirit. recall, worked for a number of years as He knew each student on a first name a butcher in a chain store and later basis, and never failed to stop for a kind became city engineer in a city in West­ word whenever you met him in the halls. ern Canada. I joined the faculty as a If he met you on a crowded street in the demonstrator in the civil department and mornings he would throw his arms began lecturing the following year. around you in greeting, often to the mild dismay of the studentwho was unused In 1932 the university suffered to such a public display of affection. severe set-back in the defalcation of uni­ versity funds. The story broke in the fall, After the pre-engineering year, stu­ just before the opening of the next uni­ dents were admitted to the first of two versity session, when it was learned th~t years with a common, mostly civil, cur­ the endowment fund was lost. Poor riculum, and in third year elected either investments had been covered by undis­ civil or electrical, the only two programs closed withdrawals from the fund until offered. The curricula were rigid, and there was nothing left. AHhough the loss completely devoid of electives. amounted to ·only some fifty-thousand dollars per year, the university was hard The engineering staff consisted ofE.P. hit, and I, with many others, lost my job Fetherstonhaugh, dean of the faculty and as lecturer, to be re-hired three years head of electrical, J.N. Finlayson, head later. At the same time, because of the of civil, Bob Moffatt, Bill Riddell, John general deteriorating economic condi­ Dorsey, A.E. Macdonald, N.M. Hall and tion, government grants were reduced George Herriot. Architecture, at that and salaries were cut. time, and for some decades thereafter, ' : ·~ ... was a school in the faculty. This pro­ By this time it had finally been­ gram drew some dozen students and decided. that the permanent site of the included selected subjects taken with the university would be ai Fort Garry, and engineers. The architectural subjects the Arts Building (later named the Tier were taught by A.A. Stoughton, an Building) and the Science Building (now architect from New York. These were the Buller Building) were completed in TH~ MANITOBA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER 1932. But these, together with several felt that the establishment of a full of the old red brick buildings which had department supported by adequate lab­ formed, part of the Agricultural Col- oratory facilities was beyond the means Jege, were, in total, insufficient to house available to the faculty, and, as well, the · 1e whole of the university. So in 1933; history of mining schools in Canada left only what became known as the Senior the matter in some question. So in an Division including 2nd., ,3rd., and 4th innovative move, a four year program in year engineering and 3rd and 4th year Geological Engineering was established Arts and Science were moved to the Fort with the cooperation of the Department Garry campus. The Junior Division of Geology, under the able leadership of which included pre-engineering and first George Russell, himself a mining engi­ year engineering as well as 1st and 2nd neer. The program consisted of courses year Arts and Science remained at carefully selected from Geology imposed Broadway.

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