It's 8; an uu uuuu I d m 4 InI'ormed husi nessmen wishing to sru.1, informed read the Bank of Montreal Business Review regularly. 'I the Canadian business scene that's invaluable in keeping you abrcast of economic aff;rirs. And it's read by businessmen all over the world! There's a personal copy available for .1'ou ..: . ..,... .. each month-mailed free of charge ......... ....,.. ....... ..................,.,. ./ .....:......,. :. , ..... .... ...:. -at the Business Development ........ ./.. ..........:.:.::. ... Division, P.O. Box 6002. Montreal 3, P.Q. "MY IAN 1'' Drop us a line today! 10 3 Mil LION CANADIAN1 BANKOF MONTREAL 2 EDITOR: 4 Bill Gibson speaking: -Alumnipresident’s editorial FrancesTucker, BA’50 5 New post for Dean Andrew 9 UBC’s Lively Years with Larry EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: -by Eric Nicol 11 Acadia Camp, that huddle of huts Cecil Hacker, BA’33, chairman -by MaryWada Inglis (Bill) Bell, BA’51, BLS(Tor.) 13 What Women can do if . Mrs. T. R. Boggs, BA’29 -by Mnmie Moloney DavidBrock, BA’30 16 On Higher Education AllanFotheringham, BA’S4 -byWalter Koerner W. C. Gibson,BA’33, MSc(McGill), 18 Campus Color Scheme DPhil(Oxon.),MD,CM(McGill) -by David Brock John L. Gray, BSA’39 20 Victoria College is on the Move -E. P. Levirs F. P. Levirs, BA26, MA’31 22 Those were the Days! Class of ’22 Eric Nicol, BA’41,MA’48 -by Cora and LesterMcLennan 24 Welcome! Class of ’62 Publishedquarterly by theAlumni Association of 25 Alumni Associa tion News theUniversity of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada. Business and editorial offices: 252 Brock 27 Alumni Annual Giving 19 6 1 Final Hall,U.B.C., Vancouver 8, B.C. Authorized as secondclass mail by thePost Office Department, Report Ottawa,and for payment of postage in cash. The U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle is sent free of charge 29 Annual Alumni Dinner to alumni donating to the annual giving programme and U.B.C. DevelopmentFund. Non-donors may 30 Alumnae and Alumni receivethe magazine by paying a subscription of $3.00 ayear. 38 Births, Marriages and Deaths ”” ~. ~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~_______~~~~~ WITHTHIS ISSUE THECHRONICLE HAS CHANGEDTHE STYLE OF ITS COVER.WE HOPE YOU LIKE IT. A QUIETSUNNY SPOT UNDER THE CATALPA TREES IN THEGRASSY CENTRE OF BROCKMEMORIAL ROAD. A FAVORITEPLACE FOR STUDY OR LUNCH. YOSHIO HIDA, AN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM KEIO UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, TOOKTHIS PICTURE. 3 University Hospital. The dramatic debatein the clos- ing hours of the 1961 session of the Legislature, involv- ing our late lamented supporter George Hobbs, Alex. Matthew,Ray Perrault and the Premier, has brought forth a clear and welcome statement in the Speech from the Throne inthe 1962 Session, of the government’s intention to develop a University hospital, for diagnosis, treatment,teaching and research, on thePoint Grey campus. Reactions. Readers’ reactions to my suggestions for further action,outlined on this page in theprevious issue, have been very interesting. The Vancouver Sun ranan editorialentitled “Alumni Eye the Hustings”, concerning the need for more Alumni as candidates for public office. A very thoughtful suggestion hascome from a graduate in Eastern Canada on the subject of trade union contributions to university scholarship and buildingfunds. Another member has suggested that unions be challenged to give block contributions equal in amount to those given to U.B.C. by their employing companies. Further, a company manager has underlined the need forrecognition by management and executives that employees should be able to sit in the provincial Legislature without losing their jobs. The forthrightremarks of theVictoria College Counciland Principal Hickman on trying to provide first class educationwith bargain basement budgets have our hearty endorsement. The tax-payers can help educational institutions only if the problems are made matters of urgent public business. Good News. The Federal subsidyof $1 SOper capita, The Alumni plan to award one entrance scholarship based on the population of each province, not on the for each electoral riding has already brought this note number of university students in that province, has been fromone of ourgraduates from the Interior: “I was increased to a total of $2.00. Your Board of Manage- very pleased to hear that the number of scholarships ment will, with the concerted efforts of other univer- hadbeen increased and that some move was being sities’ Alumni in Canada, attempt to have Federal aid madetowards getting the MLAs involved inhigher increased. Surely graduate education,which aids the education if only on a selection committee. I hope that industrial and professional life of Canada, and contri- they can be made to understand the impossible situa- butes to our defence, justifies further assistance. If tion into which they are permitting our university edu- Ottawa were to pay to the universities $500 per year cation to drift.” for every student proceeding to a doctoral degree, in The Future. I suppose that in the long run the fac- any field, our institutionscould not only survivebut tors which will determine the qualityof education which possibly compete with the U.S. andthe U.K. inthe canbe provided by U.B.C. willbe the loyalty of its graduate field. I hope the day is not long delayed when graduatesand the public respect in which they are some political party campaigning in a Federal election held individually. A generation of graduates more dedi- will accept Dr. Wilder Penfield’s statesmanlike sugges- cated to public service than most of us have been, will tion thatfor each dollarcontributed by Ottawafor make all the difference. If any graduate wants a thrill operating costs, a like amount shall be contributed by let him spendtwenty-four hours on the campus at that government for endowment, thus giving a greater Point Grey. From early morning till long past midnight guarantee of academic freedom to Canadian universities there is aconstant river of lifepassing through the than they now possess. gates, adding daily to the intellectual capital of a great MatchingGrants. TheBudget speech inVictoria province. Let him go to seethe excellently planned states that the present rate at which the Provincial gov- campus under construction at Gordon Head. Recently I ernmenthas been matching the $10,000,000 already foundthe bulldozers digging thefoundations for the contributed by U.B.C.’s friendsand backers will be Lecture Room Building there, on the same day, actually, speeded up. With the certainty that within the next ten that we buried Mrs. Henry Esson Young, one of the short years there will be 30,000 young British Colum- earliest champions of a university in British Columbia, bians seeking higher education, somewhere in the prov- andthe inspiration andguide of herhusband as he ince, I should not be surprised if the capital programme founded it and helped it to prosper. One hasonly to see required for universitybuilding in B.C. will near the the unremitting continuity of this educational process $50,000,000 mark.Quebec province has alreadyem- and to contemplate its extension to other areas of the barked on a programme costing $175,000,000 for just province, to realize the dimensions of the obligation laid this purpose. upon us by the University’s motto, “Tuum Est”. 4 Geoff Andrew to new Post Named Executive Director of Canadian Universities Foundation DeanGeoffrey C. Andrew,deputy to vices, forthe last twoyears as director thePresident of theUniversity since of theCanadian Information Service, 1947and professor in the English de- then as chief of the information division partment,left for Ottawa February 28 of the department of external affairs. In totake up new duties on March 1 as 1953 he received a Carnegie Corporation executivedirector of theCanadian grant to study methods of university ad- UniversitiesFoundation, the executive ministrationin Canada, the U.S., Great agency of theNational Conference of Britain andEurope. In 1959 he was ap- CanadianUniversities and Colleges. pointed by the New Zealand government The Canadian Universities Foundation to serve on a commission tostudy the represents NCCUCin federal matters future of higher education in that coun- andon national bodies,provides impor- try. tantresearch and information services Dean and Mrs. Andrew will be missed and distributes, on behalf of NCCUC, in Vancouver where they have taken an federalfunds for highereducation. An activepart in community affairs. Dean vice-president of theVancouver Inter- international office will beopened soon Andrew has been a director of the Com- nationalFestival from 1958 to 1961, whichwill work with the external aid munityChest, chairman of theVancou- andlast year chairman of theTattoo office of thedepartment of external af- ver branch of theCanadian Institute of Committee of theFestival. fairson arrangements for scholarship International Affairs,president of the Mrs.Andrew will leave for Ottawa studentsfrom foreign countries. UN Association,president of theVan- atthe end of Maywith their fivechil- The new CUF director, who is a grad- couver Community Arts Council, a gov- dren,the two youngest Joan and Kath- uate of Dalhousie with a master’s degree ernor of theAnglican Theological Col- erine,and the three eldest whoare all from Balliol College, Oxford, has special lege, director of thewestern division of attendingUBC. Alison, BA‘61, istaking qualifications forthe post.Before com- theCanadian Institute for the Blind, fifth yeareducation; Edward is in 4th ing toUBC and hispost as deputy to vice-president of theWorld University yeararts, and Caroline who is in 2nd President MacKenzie he spent four years Service, andon the national council of yeararts plans to completeher degree inOttawa infederal information ser- the Adult Education Association. He was atUBC. INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIALRELATIONS $20,000in grants for wide scope laborresearch Eight faculty members and five gradu- TheInstitute is also supportingthe R. C. Baum-$l500-“The politicaland atestudents have been awarded grants followingfaculty research projects: socialphilosophy of thetrade union”, totallingmore than $20,000 for projects Dr.Kaspar D. Naegele,study of oc- andJoseph D.