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EDITOR 5 Profile of GeorgeCunningham Elizabefh B. Norcross, BA’56 6 Ourfuture holds healtha team Doreen Bleackley, staff assistanf 8-9 Loggerheads 8-9 BUSINESS MANAGER 10 Brogues,Bearskins and Bogs Tim Hollick-Kenyon, BA51, BSW’53 12 OnExchange toJapan EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 14 Languages:the key tounderstanding John L. Gray, BSA’39, chairman Cecil Hacker, BA’33, pas! chairman 16 UBCDelta Gamma at International Summit L. E. Barber, BSA‘47, MSA’50 Mrs. T. R. Boggs, BA29 17 InSearch of Goala Mrs. J. J. Cvefkovich, BAS7 18-20Annual Meeting Stan Evans, BA’41,BEd’44 Allan Fotheringham, BAS4 21 StudentNews Himie Koshevoy, ’32 Frank P. Levirs, BA’26, MA31 22-23 Partners in Progress - Open House A. (Jock) Lundie, BA’24 J. 24-26 UniversityNews Mrs. Frances Tucker, BA50 28-29Alumni Annual Giving

Publishedquarferly by !he AlumniAssociafion of !he 30 News Universify of BrifishColumbia, Vancouver, Canada. Busi- ness andediforial offices: 252 BrockHall, U.B.C., Van- 3 1 Alumnitems couver 8, B.C. Authorized as second class mail by !he Pos! Office Deparfmen!, Offawa, andfor paymen! of po~fagein cash. Alumnae33 andAlumni The U.B.C. AlumniChronicle is sen! free of charge !o alumnidonating !o !he annualgiving programme and U.B.C. DevelopmenfFund. Non-donors may receive the magazineby paying asubscripfion of $3.00 ayear.

This is how the P. A. Woodward Health Sciences Centre will look when completed. The Memorial Gymnasium on the extreme left gives one a point of reference. The research tower and the hospital block to its right are shown in the cover picture. Other buildings are classroomblocks, three of them now in use, the library well advanced in construction, and administration space. See story on page 6. 3 Five Point Program For the 1964-65 Year

David M. Brousson

IT HAS BECOME CUSTOMARY for theincoming president to heretofore,and it has been suggested that we could be of use this issueto present to you hisprogram for the next some help. It may be that we shall become more active in year, and I would like to continue this practice. the area of Continuing Education. The pot of highereducation in British Columbia has 4. Federal Aid to Higher Education: We are delighted that been boiling merrily for the past year or two, and the UBC our Provincial Government has so generously met its share Alumni Associationhas done its share of the filling and of therequirements of the first year of the“Challenge of the heating and the stirring of that pot. Growth”plan, and we naturally believe thatthis support It will be our objective in the year1964-65 to bank and willcontinue. However, despite the fact that,under the adjustthe fire underneaththe pot so thatthe stew \vi11 BNA Act, education is a provincial matter, it is also a fact simmersteadily, while sufficient seasoning is addedto thatin this world, inthis society, highereducation has provide a flavorfulmixture. increasingly a national and an international character, and thusthe FederalGovernment should becomeincreasingly Iwant first tore-state the thesis of several of mypre- involvedandresponsible. TheCanadian Universities decessors: that webelieve thereare four members of the Foundation, a sort of nationalassociation of universities, academic community-administration, faculty, students and withour oldfriend Dr. Geoffrey Andrew as itsexecutive alumni-and thateach must play itsproper role to give director,has recently set upa responsible commission to healthy balance to that community. study the financing of higher education in Canada, and it To be specific, wepropose thefollowing major program is ourintention to prepare a brief on behalf of theUBC items. Alumni Association topresent to this Commission when 1. Public relations. If UBC is to occupy its proper place in it comes to Vancouver. the life ofour province, we mustinsure that the public 5. Capital Gifts Campaign: We want to publicly state our understands and appreciates the problems and the objectives support for the recentlyannounced Capital Funds Cam- of ourUniversity. As fqr as wehave influence withthe paignfor UBC, and alsoto underlineour belief thatthe people who run the University, we willendeavour to per- interests of highereducation in British Columbia, includ- suadethem to establish a strong,active and above all ingthose of our sister institutions that are springing from professional,public relations department. In addition we theMacdonald Report, will bebest served by some sort are planning some special programs of our own to present of co-operative or unified fund campaign. theUniversity more closelyto thecommunity. Finally,we hope to follow inthe footsteps of our pre- 2. BranchesNetwork: As most of you know, me maintain decessorsby continuingand expanding the cordial and anetwork of branchcontacts in many places,especially co-operative relationships established with the other mem- throughoutBritish Columbia. Now we feel thisnetwork bers of this community of UBC. This may not be the most must be strengthened,in at least two major ways.First, important of our objectives,but certainly it is themost wepropose a separateand special network of peoplepar- personallyrewarding. ticularly interested in and capable of backing up our AAG We earnestly desire your support in this program. efforts. Second,we believe it important that wekeep a continuingand personal contact with all members of the Legislative Assembly of the province, so we propose to find people in every electoral riding to maintain this contact on a local, non-political basis. This,incidentally, is to be one of the first projects of the Joint Alumni Council. 3. ContinuingEducation: Because ourExtension Depart- menthas always been so effective and efficient, we have never been called upon to be greatly involved in this work. Nowhowever, for budgetaryand other reasons the Ex- tension Department has met with different problems than

4 PIlUS Service Make this Life by Cecil Hacker

George Cunningham’sfather once told him “if you wantthat 30 acres over there, take an axe and clear it for yourself.” Chairman of University of British George T. Cunningh‘am Columbia’s Board of Governors chuckles as he recalls theincident. “Itdidn’t seemimpossible, either.I startedclearing.” This was apparently one of the few jobs he ever set himself that George Cunninghamdid not finish,for the road they \\rould quitmaking them.” withthem. But there is boundto be 30 acres inquestion never became Overthe yearshis life has been a competition, too.” his.They are in the Laidlaw district, mixture of business andpublic ser- UBChas set a $30,000,000estimate east of Chilliwack,where George’s vice, in justabout equal proportions. on its own expansion needs.Victoria fatherpreempted land in the early Inthe case of theUniversity of isseeking $5,000,000 andthe estimate 1890’s. The floor of the FraserValley BritishColumbia, he has given 29 for Simon Fraseris $36,000,000. If wasplentifully clad with fir, cedar years of service to the Board of Gover- separateappeals are made, there is and alder in those days, and even the nors. Hehas worked withthree uni- hound to be a measure of competition tiniestfarm had to be slashed and versitypresidents, anda score of and Mr. Cunningham says “UBC can- rooted out of thesurrounding forest. fellowboard members. not sitidly by inthis matter. Our YoungGeorge hadonly a few “Thirty yearswill be enough,”he needsare genuine and urgent.” months of schooling before he was 10 says. “I willfinish in 1965.” He believes the Board of Governors years of age. The familymoved back Hisconnection with UBC really has a responsibility to put the needs of to Vancouverto then, becausehis stemsfrom histerm as chairman of theuniversity squarely beforeits gra- mother was determinedthere should theVancouver SchoolBoard inthe duatesand the generalpublic. “We be opportunityan foreducation. earlythirties. Mr. Cunningham tried havetellto our story againand “Catchingup” was hard workfor topersuade Dr. George M. Weir, of again,”he says. the TJBC department of education,to youngGeorge, but he did it. He still This does not involveberating the become superintendent of schoolsfor remembersthe old VancouverHigh provincialgovernment, Mr. Cunning- the city. He failed, but when Dr. Weir School,located wherethe Vancouver ham believes. Government is the prin- becameprovincial minister of educa- School of Art now is. cipal source of university revenue, and Fromthere he went to an appren- tionhe soon called on Mr.Cunning- as suchit should be convincedthat hamto become aUBC governor. ticeship pharmacy,in which he publicopinion favorsgreater support He recalls the“very dire financial finished atthe age of 19. Thencame foruniversities. a year in Toronto, at Ontario College straits” of the university in those days, Madea life member of the Alumni of Pharmacy,from which he gradu- andthe problems of thewar years. Association in 1963, Mr. Cunningham ated with what he takes care to point But George Cunninghamcuts short has frank wordsfor graduates. He out was “adiploma, not a university conversationsabout the pastto talk thinks the Board of Governors should degree.” He got a second diploma soon of theuniversity and itsfuture. He make more use of alumni in develop- after, when he wrote the Illinois state has some strong views, bothabout mentfund raising, and asks theem- examinations inpharmacy aswell. the needs of thecoming years and barrassingquestion: “Do youreally Hisearly career as a pharmacist was some of theirtroubles. inNew York andChicago, but an Some of the “best brains” he know think you give enough?” offer of $100 per monthlured him thinkUBC must level off atabout A freeman of the City of Vancouver, back to Vancouver. 17,000 undergraduatesand 3,000 gra- Mr.Cunningham has served as both “Thatwas big moneythosein duate students. Of necessity there will school trusteeand alderman, plus a days,” Mr. Cunningham recalls. haveto be aconcentration of specia- lengthylist of voluntary posts in He struckout for himself a year lizedfaculties atthe senior university pharmaceutical,church, health and later. of the province. Otherinstitutions culturalorganizations of hiscity and He takeslittle part today in direc- must develop, as UBC cannot hope to province. tion of the wholesale and retaildrug handle the anticipated flood of under- “Ilike people, andI liketo help businesses whichhave sprung from graduates in the next few years. them,”he says inexplanation. It is that first venture in 1911. “The young “It follows that we need Simon easy to see thathe likes,too, people fellows around here make pretty good Fraser and Victoria,” he says. “We (and universities)mho are willing to decisions,” he says. “If I got inthe wantthem, and we will co-operate help themselves,

5 Our Future Holds A Health Team

by Elizabeth Blanche Norcross

“We are not breaking new ground,” phases of national life. Now,most of in the direction of integrated training, Dean J. F. McCreary says, speaking of theseother countries are able to con- theycannot, with their larger, older IJBC‘s HealthSciences Centre, and trolexpenditures fortheir health and distinct faculties, move as quickly thenhe adds: “Not a weekgoes by schemes throughtheir system of aswe herein British Columbia. At that we don’t have a visitor from some “closed”hospitals, which means that UBC we are in the fortunate position otherpart of the world - Australia, the doctors-specialists-who admit, of havingvery ayoung medical New Zealand, United Kingdom, United or do not admit patients are, in effect, facultyand brand-newa school of States - come to see what we are doing state employees. This has the effect of dentistrytobring together into a and planning.” discouragingspecialization among commonCentre for training. Thewhole concept of healtha medicalmen. InCanada, where our A teachinghospital is the core of sciencescentre for the training of the hospitalsare mainly “open,” 50% of ourHealth SciencesCentre. Itwas medicalteam is thatnew. Up until our doctorsare specialists, andthe always seen as necessary for a medical now we have talked of “the team,” but percentage is rising. So is the per school, but pressuretoset upthe have educated and trained its members capita medical bill. It is estimated that faculty of medicinewas so great,and inseparate compartments and given if ourpresent methods of providing thehope of funds for thehospital so themno opportunity of learningthe privatemedical care for thepopula- remote, that the faculty was established capabilities of theother members, or tionare carried over into a national without it, and teaching was begun in even of learninga common vocabu- scheme, it may cost Canada more than theVancouver General Hospital. lary. The word“team” has, therefore, 6% of her grossnational product, Ina general hospital, however, and beenamisnomer for agroup who, with crippling results to the economy. particularlyin an open hospital like literally, don’t speak the same language. Swedenhas asystem which may VGH,it isvery difficult toestablish TheHealth Sciences Centre,it is well be Canada’sanswer to her prob- the academic atmosphere that is neces- hoped,will change terma into an lem. Where we haveone doctor to sary. If we didnot get a teaching actuality. every 870 people,Sweden has one to hospitalat this time, Dean McCreary A healthsciences centre would every 1250. BUT they have many more andhis colleagues felt, our medical probablyhave been a good thingat publichealth nurses and other ancil- teachingwould sink into mediocrity. anytime since Canada began giving lary healthpersonnel than we. The Nowthe funds are in hand, the formaltraining toher professional difference lies in the fact that Sweden architects are at their drawing boards, people in the medical field. Now it has is using a health team, and numerous andconstruction must start by July, becomea pressing necessity. relativelyinexpensively trained people 1966. The urgencyis found in the new arecarrying out professional duties Before planningthe UBC teaching philosophy of completemedical care underthe supervision of the fewer hospital, representatives of our Faculty foreveryone. National health insur- veryexpensively trained. of Medicinevisited every university ance is onthe horizon for Canada. UBC‘s HealthSciences Centre is hospital which has been built since the Thecountries which have provided designed to train a team of professional waron this continent and inthe suchcoverage for their citizens have people in all categories of health care. UnitedKingdom, making the survey foundthat to expendmore than 5% The Universities of Kentucky and on funds provided by American Foun- of the grossnational product in this Floridaare our forerunners in this dations.They found many splendid field wouldseriously hamper other field, butalthough they are moving institutions - anda few which had

6 perpetratedsome horrible mistakes. this,it would beginto introduceall study anatomy, biochemistry and phy- With examples good and bad before thedisadvantages of thepresent at- siology with the medics. A new course them,the planners are giving UBC‘s tempt to teach at VGH. in anatomy is being set up which will hospital 410 beds, a number adequate The existing 27-bed University hos- cover the necessary ground for them to provide workableteaching units. pital,really aninfirmary, will con- and be basic for theyoung doctors. For example, the 120 bedsallotted to tinuetofunction as such,but its Altogether,the groups composing the surgerywill give each specialty a outpatient serviceswill be transferred teamwill consist of medicine,phar- sufficient number. The hospital is not tothe teaching hospital. macy,physiotherapy, dentistry, clini- beingdesigned, Dean McCreary em- A difficulty has beensuggested that calpsychology, medical social work, phasizes, to take on a lot of community nationalhealth insurance will result and eventually medical dietetics. responsibility, but primarily for teach- in no more indigent patients and con- The complex of buildings making up ingand research. Community res- sequentlyadearth of applicantsfor theHealth Sciences Centrewill cost ponsibilitywill be served by the well beds in teachinga hospital. Dean $30 million. Of thisthe hospital, trainedmedical team which will be McCrearyhas no fears onthat score. necessarily much more expensive than graduated. He is confidentthat the specialists, the ordinary general hospital, accounts Althoughteaching and researchare theequipment and other facilities to for $IS% million.Federal and Pro- theprime objects of theuniversity be foundin the university hospital vincialgovernment grants, supple- hospital,it must, perforce,also func- will be of suchhigh order that an mented by substantialgrants from tionas areferral hospital. Approxi- over-abundance of patientswill be several AmericanFoundations and mately five yearsago a survey of the seeking admission. variousindividuals, left ashortage of doctors of thisprovince revealed that It is notonly the medical students $31/2 million. ThenMr. P. A. Wood- whatthey most needed in hospital who willbe served by the university wardcame forward lastApril with a service whichthey do not now have, hospital. This will be theteaching donatfon which put the fund over the was: a referralhospital. heart for the whole team. For instance, top, the largest private donation in the Froma teaching point of view, the provisionis madefor psychiatric and history of theuniversity. weakness of areferral hospital is that rehabilitationmedicine. It is just be- That is thefinancial story of the the students encounter an unduly high ginningto berecognized thatcuring P. A. WoodwardHealth Sciences proportion of rare medical and surgical thepatient quickly of hisailment is Centre which will soon be aconcrete conditions. To overcome this, they will only half thebattle; the second half, fact onthe campus. For the complex be given the first three years of their equally important, is making a produc- as awhole the Nuffield Foundation traininginthe university hospital, tivecitizen of himonce again at the startedthe ball rolling with a grant wherethey will learn methods of earliestpossible moment.Here the of $50,000, saying, “TheFoundation diagnosis, andthe fourth year inthe medical socialworker, theclinical regards this enterprise as an important Vancouver General where they will get psychologists, physiotherapiststhe development in medical education. . .” a comprehensive view of thesort of function in the team. If the Health Sciences Centre cannot cases theyare likelyto encounterin The hospitalwill not be readyfor claimto be breakingnew ground, generalpractice. use until 1969, but integrated teaching perhaps it may be said to be cultivating Thenew hospital is being designed of students who will eventually make it intensively. At any rate, it opens up to be expansiblein all its units, but up the health team begins this coming an exciting future for the coming gen- not to go above 750 beds. Larger than September. The first dentistry class will eration of students in the health team.

7 Why shouldn’t the promising athlete berewarded for his talent ?

Let’s have athletic scholarships, says George Puil.

George Puil, BA’52, BEd‘57 H

UNFORTUNATELY TODAY, when the term athletic scholarship toAmerican institutions each year. Many of these young is used,people immediatelythink of asituation which peopletake jobs inthe United States after they graduate existed inmany American universitiesfifteen totwenty and do notreturn to Canada. At atime when there is yearsago. Asituation which producedfootball factories muchconcern about the state of physicalfitness in the by subsidizing“athletic bums” anddowngrading the Dominion,the youth of Canadais being deprived of the academicprogram by bringingin sub-standard students. inspirationand leadership it should be gettingfrom these Asituation where athletics were over-emphazisedat the emigrants. Two priceless assets are being sacrificed - people, expense of scholastic attainment. and the physical wellbeing which can be achieved through But what many people fail to realize is that the situation physical fitness. describedabove has ceased to exist in universitiesand George Puil, although never over 160 pounds: was one of the greatest colleges where the authorities have stepped in and applied athletes ever produced ut UBC. Won 7 BigBlocks far English rugby a few commonsense rules. These universities (and they are andfootball. Was an All-Fvergreen Conference halfback. Toured inthe majority today) have insisted thatwhenever aidis Brituinand lapan os member of B.C.’s rugby representatives. While givento an athlete he must: exchangeteaching in England, made it tothe final trials when 1. Meet the sameuniversity entrance requirements as any Ireland picked her team.Graduated with B.A. in history in ‘52. Twk otherstudent. hisB.Fd. in ’57. Teachessocial studies at Kitsilanohigh school. 2. Maintainacademic standards required of allother Studentswho have ability inmathematics, physics, students. literature or music often receive scholarships to help them 3. Provethat he needs financial help. throughuniversity. Why shouldn’tthe promising athlete If theserules are followed there is nochance at all of be similarly rewarded for his talent? Surely athletic ability sacrificing or lowering academic standards. is atalent as distinct as anyother, and it should be Canadianuniversities have traditionally opposed the recognized andhonored assuch. granting of scholarships for athletic ability and as a result Theoutstanding athlete contributes greata deal of hundreds of Canadianathletes are accepting scholarships (Continued page 10)

8 “The giving of athletic scholarships to a degree-granting institution such as UBC is an inherently self-destructive practice and should therefore never be allowed,” saysDave Helliwell.

David L. Helliwell, BA’57

PROPERCONTROL AND CORRECT EMPHASIS are the fulcrum on Thispath has all the pitfalls of athleticdepartments whichthe theory of athletic scholarships balances. Un- whosemembers’ jobs andcareers depend ontheir de- fortunately,the precarious nature of thisbalance leads partment’s self-sufficiency andits win-lossrecord. Since the writer to the conclusion that the practice of awarding most of therevenues would come froma fewsports it such scholarships should never be condoned by the Board would tend to lead to selective participation in those sports of Governors of the University of British Columbia. atthe expense of overallparticipation inmany sports. Theadvantages of thepractice are easilyidentified and This, of course, wouldnot be theintent but ithas given a good press by vested interests but the disadvantages happenedin too many universities in the United States arenot so easilyrecognized andthereby tend to ,be to be discounted. overlooked. If thepractice wereever misguidedlyundertaken, the DavidHelliwell was: member ot theUBC rowingcrew that won the unfortunateresults would not be felt immediatelyand silver medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. Captain of the in fact,would not be noticeduntil the athletic tail crew in ‘57. Member of thegold-medal-winning eight-oared crew at the1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Wales. Coach startedto wag the academic dog. Thetenuous line of of the UBC crew at the 1959 Pan-American Games. He is now a staff controland emphasis is so easilystretched that it could charteredaccountant with the firm of Helliwell,MacLachlan 8 Co. be broken before thestretching waschecked. Fromthe university position, this stretching can occur If the monies are ever rnade available for athletics, then when the Board of Governors tends to rely on the services theirexpenditure should be oncoaches and facilities of itspaid gladiatorial staff tobring in the revenues ratherthan on the gamble of scholarships inhopes of a necessary toundertake anormal, well-balanced athletic gatereceipt return. Athletics must always remainonly program.This, of course,comes fromthe feeling that an integral part of preparing academically-trained students athletics can be a self-sustaining undertaking rather than an andshould neverbe looked onas a basisfor providing eypensive portion of the resourcesemployed by the trainedathletes for thearena of professionalsport. Pro- university to train its students academically. (Continued page 11)

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(HELLIWELL from 9)

moters of professionalsport mustnot believe thatthe vidualswith varied skills are a good example for the university has any responsibility toward the production of university community. Academic ability must still, however, bonus babies. remain the prime factor in consideringfinancial assistance The dangers of athletic scholarships are more real to the tostudents. individuals receiving them than they are to the university A great deal of commenthas been occasionedrecently thatgrants them. It is asimple truth that if astudent is by Dr.Gordon Shrum’sremarks regardingthe attitude to given an athletic scholarship to university for his particular athleticswhich will be taken by Simon FraserUniversity. athletic skill, thenhis firstresponsibility must be to The writerwas present at the function where the remarks exercise his skill on behalf of theuniversity, rather than were first made and, contrary to press reporting, Dr. Shrum on his own behalf in acquiring the best possible education. wasstressing theimportance OF adequatefacilities and Participation in university sports is a great privilege and competentcoaching as primerequisites of Simon Fraser’s the benefits can be long-lastingprovided the participation athleticprogram rather than the luring of athletically- isancillary to the prime purpose of attendanceat the endowedstudents to Burnaby Mountain. university. To roba student of the lessons thatcan be learnedthrough voluntary achievement in athletics - by The giving of athleticscholarships to a degree-granting mandatoryparticipation - would be a seriousmistake. institutionsuch as UBC is aninherently self-destructive Every student shoulsd havethe opportunity and en- practice andshould therefore never be allowed. It is couragement to enjoy good facilities and excellent coaching self-destructive because it can undermine the very athletic in any sport he might choose. But the choice must remain system ithopes to encourage. withthe student. Thisconclusion must be reachedafter realizing what A degree of excellenceby studentsin sports should effects theresults of thepractice can have on both the always be encouragedand to this end more scholarships athletic program of universitya and itsparticipating inthe Rhodes tradition should be undertaken, as indi- athletes.

New insignia tor new campuses borrowed Mussalem’s gown when gra- afterhe turned over his prey and or, since it is on top of Burnaby moun- duation time approached and through founda mature moustache sprouting tain, adopt something suitably Sherpa- hisforesight most of thegraduating under the nose. ish. class of ’32 was photographed in But, to return to Trent and its desire In the Faculty of Medicine white on Nick‘s robe. to bring back some distinctive clothing white gownsor jackets might be aura In some instances the gown acted as theto dwellers thein groves of popularis.There could be small crests protectivecoloring for the professors academe. Its plan opens up a series of with crossedscalpels and corpses cou- who might have suffered at the hands vistas in B.C. where new faculties and chant to go withthese Kildare kits. of ignorant freshmen during the first- universitiesarebeginning pro-to vs-the-second-year battles of the time, liferate. Law. ot course,still clings to the whenthe Lily Pond was undergoing The University of Victoriacould blackgown but here too there’s room its initiation as abaptismal font. offerits studentssomething tweedy, forsome small crest-likedecoration, I was a witness to a scene in which broguey or scarfy and set aside a boggy featuring a cash register regnant. a small professor was tackled from the portion of the campus as a moor to be Thenin agriculture, well, perhaps backby Alfie Evanswho thought he briskly walked over. we’ve gone far enough. But, if you can had leaped onsophomore.a Evans SimonFraser might offer thebear- think of any improvements in univer- fled like apresent-day Harry Jerome skin capinstead of themortar board sity dress drop a note to the editor.

11 ON

The author was billetted in a typical lapanese home. EXCHANGE

N THE SUMMER OF 1963 I was one sees many confusing and contradictory I of fortunatea half-dozen UBC situations, do not be toohasty in TO undergraduateschosen to go toJapan making a judgment.” onastudent exchange scheme. We N OUR ARRIVAL IN TOKYO, my werebilletted inJapanese homes, we travelling companion and I took a attendedlectures at Keio University 0 taxi driven by aman who said, “I in Tokyo, we were taken on tours, and speak English.” That turned out to be we were given free time to explore the theonly English he did speak. Even- country or the fields of study in which tually, by claimingto be doctors, we we were particularly interested. JAPAN gotourselves takento the University I wentknowing not a word of Hospitalwhere the resident physician Japanese(it wasn’tnecessary), but I tookus underhis wing until the picked up enough of the language that StudentCommittee arrived and con- before I left at the end of six weeks I ducted us to the home where we were could make my way about the country on my own. My “way” included three billetted. nightsin a Zen Buddhist temple and ______~ a 2% day traintrip without money for food. by Tom Gant, Med. I1 ______- HOUGH THE PROGRAM AT UBC IS T sponsored by theDepartment of It was, I think,fairly representative AsianStudies, counselled and guided of moderna middle-class Japanese by Professor J. Howes and Miss Elea- home.The head of thehouse (and a nor Riches, much of the programming Japaneseman is mostdefinitely head and administrative work is carried out of his house) left for his 20th century by studentswho have formerly taken office daily in a western business suit, part. buthis wife,also inwestern dress, In 1963 the six studentswho par- wentabout her work ina home that ticipatedcame from an equal number was stilltraditional in design and of facultiesand provided a well lack of modern conveniences. Western balancedgroup whoseideas andin- womenwould hehorrified atthe terests could be called typically Cana- amount of effort required in just simple dian. I myself ama secondyear household chores and by the servitude Medical student. I amattempting of Japanese women in general, but the here to give only my personal impres- Japanese housewifecarries oncheer- sions; others may have formed different fullyand matter-of-factly. Theirmen opinions. If Ilearned anything from don’t know how spoiled they are. my experience, it was to appreciate the advice of one of our lecturers. “Japan,” APANESE FRIENDS in Vancouverhad he said,“is acountry in which one J alreadymade me familiar with

12 Buddhist shrine ceremony given by Department of Physio- As amedical student the author was permitted to logy,Keio Medical Hospital, in a tributeto animals observeoperations at KeioHospital. sacrificed for experimental purposes.

chopsticks, butwhen pouredI soya excludingsuch professionsas medi- theremotest little village, someone sauce on my rice, my host’s expression cine.)Once studenta has gained alwayscame forward and tried to be told mesomething was wrong. He entrance to a companyhe will stay of assistancewhether or not he knew admitted, on questioning, that this was with that company for the rest of his anyEnglish, and he was always very a socialerror. life. To change would be very difficult patientin trying to understand the Indue course I was introducedto and involve a loss in salary and posi- very little Japanese that I knew. There Japanese-stylebathing, where you tion since almostall advancement is was that 254 daytrain trip when my washandrinse before immersing on a senioritybasis. This, of course, difficulty wasnot limited knowledge yourself ina large woodentub filled is a broadgeneralization, butthe of thelanguage, but no money for withscalding hot water, and accept exceptionsare minor. food. Onthe second daya Japanese the assistance of a female member of I must add one thing, however, and family noticed my very strict diet and the household in taking your bath. that is the knowledge of foreign the wife came over and offered me languagesand foreign countriesin ricecakes and saki. I spentthe re- AS ARE THE DIFFERENCES mainder of thejourney with them! ekeenthe western and Japanese general thatthe Japanese students home,the differences inattitude to- displayed. Theyknew far more about Mybasic Japanese vocabulary pro- wardseducation are evengreater. In Canadathan did theStanford ex- videdme with a littlefun on the the firstplace, it is onlythe upper changestudents for instance. I was stationplatform of smalla village classfamilies that can send their constantly being asked if I could speak north of Tokyo. As the only foreigner childrentouniversity. The student French,towhich I had to reply, in the crowd Iwas quite a convcrsation from aworking class familyhas very ratherembarrassed, that inwestern piece and I caught the words “foreig- Canada we speakvery littleFrench. littleopportunity to get part-timeor ner”and “brown hair” in the talk Almosteveryone inTokyo knows a summer employment (even if he could of twohigh schoolgirls nearby.I few words of English and they do not the wages would be fartoo low to wentover and asked, in Japanese, if hesitate to try to use it if youspeak allow himto save) andhence it is therewas anything couldI dofor to them. The curiosity of the students almost impossible to workone’s way them.They promptly covered their about other countries, and their back- through college. faces andran down the platform, ground knowledgegenerally, leaves where they viewed me from afar with AINING ENTRANCE into good uni- one very humbleindeed. a giggles aand general air of G versity gives onetremendousa embarrassment. amount of prestige and is influential NE OF THE HAPPIEST IMPRESSIONS 1 in getting a desirable job after gradua- 0 received was of the open friendli- tion. The students must write entrance ness andhospitality of theJapanese o SUM IT ALL UP, Ifound Japan exams andthe competition isvery people themselves. They are very con- T an exciting,exotic andtremen- keen. Once in university, though, they cernedwith what foreigners think of douslyinteresting country where one are quite content to merely pass their theircountry. Whenever I met some- can learn something new around every courses and takelife easy. one for the first time I was invariably bend in. the road. I found it a country Theattitude of enthusiasmand asked, “What is yourimpression of inwhich the people havea warmth competition revives at graduation time Japan?” If I repliedfavourably they andunderstanding that is very re- whenthe student must again write were delighted. freshing, andwhose hospitality made entrance examsto enter a corporation Whenever I became lost or got into my stay withthem one of themost orcompany of his choice. (This is anykind of difficulty atall, even in memorableevents of my life.

13 LANGUAGES:THE KEY To UNDERSTANDING

by Marguerite A. Primeau

In 1943, speakingto the Board of Governors of Harvard tempered by Christianity and the humanistic traditions of Universityon the appointment of auniversity committee the Renaissance, itproclaims that all men are free, and to study “The Objectives of a General Education in a Free that man is an end in himself and not a means to an end. Society,” President James Bryant Conant said: If man is free to develop his own personality and to govern himself, it follows that he must share in the responsibilities The heart of the problem of a general educa- of hissociety and of his world. Freedom, interdependence, tion is thecontinuance of the liberaland andcommon humanity-the belief inthe dignity of the humanetradition. Neither the mere acquisi- human being andunderstanding and sympathy for one’s tion of informationnor the development of fellowmen-are the foundations of our Western culture. If specialskills and talents can give the broad basis of understandingwhich is essential if it is to survive and continue to grow, each individual must ourcivilization is to be preserved. develophis potentialities to the full, for his own sake as anindividual, but remembering also thathe is nolonger The problem is basicallythe same today, the advent of the citizen of a town, province or country, but a citizen of nuclear arms and sputnik have merely intensified the crisis thewhole world. Our very survival as free men requires inmodern education. The questionsasked in 1943 about that provincialism and ultra-nationalism be buried forever. the value of foreign languages as a discipline at the college Built on thosefoundations, the liberal education offered or university level have varied little either in context or in inour universities aimsat moulding an individual and relevance. Should all students be required to study a foreign developinga human spirit, an inseparable process,accord- language? What is thevalue of aone-year or twa-year ing to a pattern sanctioned by the past and adapted to the course inFrench, German or Russian?Should only those changingdemands of the present.Said JamesBryant few who wish to specialize be encouragedto studylitera- Conant in The Citadel of Learning- tures in theoriginal? To testbeliefs by variousmethods, to find There is noclear-cut answerto any of these,but an standardsby which interpretations of tragedy attempt can be made to understand the role of foreign lan- andjoy may be evaluated, to findstandards guages in a mid-twentieth century liberal education if one for assessing common sense judgments of good realizes the aims of the latter. andevil, for accepting new ideas as part of The Oxforddictionary defines liberal education as the cultural heritage or rejecting them us puss- “directedto general enlargement of mind, not professional ingdelusions of a disorderedbrain-such are ortechnical.” (It must be noted that these two purposes the tasks of thedwellers in the citadel of arenot antagonistic, nor are they entirely separable.) The learning. Latin root of the term ‘‘liberal’’indicates a close relation- History, art,literature, philosophy, science andmathe- shipwith “freedom,” and suggests something befittingfree matics, and yes! languages,both classical andmodern, are men.This educational concept, the Harvard committee themeans usedto accomplishthose tasks.All helpto pointedout, appeared centuries ago incommunities then develop the human mind and its latent powers of judgment divided intotwo distinct classes-the freemenand the and understanding, its capacity for joy and love, its appre- slaves. While the slaves performed all the menial tasks and ciation of all forms beautiful, and its desire for good. They specialized laborrequired to insure not only a high stan- arenot unrelated intellectual exercises chosen atrandom, dard of livingbut also abundance of leisurefor their andone discipline alone can only offer an unbalanced or masters, thelatter as bothruling class and leisureclass distortedview of man and of society.But correlated, com- were trained in the pursuit of the good life-the full under- pared with and supplemented by one another they give the standing of man and his place in society and the universe. studenta unified andsound interpretation of himselfas a Our Western civilization stems from this Hellenism, but human being and of the world around him.

14 What then is the particular role of foreign languages in If this interplay of forces is characteristic of our civiliza- the moulding of an individual? tion,how can we deny the importance of modernlangu- ages, and if we recognize the obvious truth that this same Before the human mind can develop its highest potential, civilization owes its cxistence to the Greeks and the Romans, itmust learn to know itself.“Say first, of Godabove, or howcan we ignorethe classics? man below, What can we reason, but from what we know?” asked Pope over two hundred years ago. There is no better Finally, along with justiliable pride in one’s own langu- means of exploring human nature than to open the door to age andthe recognition of one’s responsibilityto it, the the accomplishments of the past. study of foreign languages teaches the most necessary of all With the study of languages comes a deep sense of tradi- virtues,humility-the primerequisite of thereal scholar. tion,declares the Harvard Report; the recognition of its For languagesare concerned withwritings and teachings omnipresence and the knowledge that, because of this tap- that have survived the erosion of time and the oblivion of root embeddedin the past, the ramifications of thought thetomb, and with cultures, bothliving and dead, that through the ages have hardly known a break. Words carry acclaimthe spirit of manwhile recognizing hishuman history, and etymologyprovides the skeleton uponwhich frailty. thishistory is hung.This is of coursetrue if one studies one’s nativetongue, but a complete picture is muchmore On the other hand, the student of foreign languages can- enlightening, and it can only be recreated by studying other not closehis eyes to the fact thathe is onlypart of a languages. The mysterious affinities existing between langu- commonhumanity, his country and culture only one of ages, thethought patterns resulting from the insensible many. Each playsits part in the history of humanity, and growth of anyone of them, and the connections between each leaves its mark in an unfinished process. If, as is gener- meaning,thought and action, offer thestudent food for ally acknowledged, the study of languages, like travel, forces verysober reflection indeed. A notoriousexample is the comparisons upon one, it seems logical to expect that points differentconnotations given in totalitarian and democratic of resemblance will be discovered in due course. Trained to countriestoday to the terms “freedom” and “peace.” look upon himself as an individual capable of development, but as only one among millions of other human beings all Withthe study of a foreign language comes a foretaste capable of growth and progress, he will tend to emphasize of the literature, philosophy, history, art and science of that the traits common to all. The student of foreign languages country. True, a good idea of the contributions of a nation is compelled to recognize that men, wherever they are and can be obtained through translations, yet translations leave whatever their color, creed or native tongue, have the same the impression that “there hath passed awaya gloryfrom desiresfor peace andhappiness, and that accordingly the theearth.” It alsoseems obvious thata thorough under- common good shouldtake precedenceover individualin- standing of anauthor, philosopher or scientist cannot be terests. obtainedwithout studying all the influences,foreign and national,that have helped to mould him. Similarly, the Inthe final analysis, the young man oryoung woman value of aliterary, social or philosophical movement can whohas learned to appreciate different cultures and to only be reckoned when considered inthe light of similar share with others the beauty of the spoken word is the one experiences elsewhere. Gide was influenced by Dostoievsky, ourworld looks to forleadership. At home or abroad and Locke influenced Voltaire, and the existentialist theories of whateverhis occupation, the student of foreignlanguages. the 19th and 20th centuries have had their counterparts in if he is truly “une Bme bienn&.” will serve the cause of almostall the Western countries. humanity.

15 UBC DELTAGAMMA AT INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT

When Maisie Groves accepted office for a four-year break, after which she aspresident of theCouncil of Delta took on the job of international presi- GammaInternational Fraternity she dent. createda precedent, inthat she was “Howwill your family feel about the first Canadian to be elected to that youbeing away so much?” was the office. In fact, as far as she knows, she first questionher friends asked. The is the first Canadianwoman to be answer is thatshe isn’t. Most of the Mrs. K. P. Groves, BA‘37, BASc’37(N) elected to a similar office in any inter- president’swork is donein the com- national fraternity. fortable-easychairs and coffee table Besides oversight of theseactivities, Now,with her two-year term of -and functional-typewriter and desk Mrs. Grovesmust keepa supervisory office nearly completed, and nominated ”office at the end of the hall opposite eye on the special projects of the inter- for re-election,Mrs. Groves can look thefront door. The postman’scall at national Fraternity. There is aid to the back over the rungs of the ladder which 11:OO a.m. is almost synonymous with blind, in whichthe alumnae put up brought her to this hard-working sum- a call From Delta Gamma International moneyfor Brailletypewriters, for mit. Fraternity. readers to the blind, for tuition Fees of Life in Delta Gamma began for her Mrs.Groves’ job as presidentis to some blindstudents, while Alpha Phi whenshe returned to university after oversee theentire program of the girls, for instance, read on a volunteer afour years’ absence. Shehad come Fraternity, and that is not small pota- basis and assist theirblind fellow- to university straight from high school toes. Thereare 90 collegiatechapters, studentsingetting books fromthe originallyand taken two years of an 250 organizedalumnae groups. In all, library and in visiting professors. arts course. Then shedropped out in about 56,000 womenhave been initi- Internationaleducation is another favour of nurses’ trainingand ayear ated into Delta Gamma in its ninety- project of the alumnae in which some on the job. On herreturn to univer- one yearhistory. There’s a budget of oftheir little sisters on campushave sity, with former classmates all gradu- $I% millionto be administeredand anopportunity to participate.Since ated,she felt alittle lost andstrange aninvestment of some $8 millionin 1945, whenthe project wasstarted, on thecampus, and the invitation to sorority houses. Delta Gamma has sponsored 133 inter- joinAlpha Phi Chapter of Delta The programbegins with the girls nationaleducation students who have Gamma meant, perhaps, more than it on campus in their collegiate chapters. come to the United States from many wouldhave done a fewyears earlier. Maisie Groves, an enthusiast for sorori- countries on scholarship. The frater- Apartfrom that special circumstance, ties, others as well as her own, stresses nity pays their room and board in one though, Mrs. Groves feels that the first their standards of good moral conduct of theirhouses for a year andthe and one of themost valuable gifts a and that Delta Gamma is not hesitant collegiates concernedmake them wel- sororitycan make to agirl atuni- about insisting on them. Last summer come guests. versityis theknowledge that she be- 89 collegiatepresidents were takento While most of the president’swork longs to a group which has a personal the campus of the University of Ohio, is handled in her office, she does travel interest in her. theirway paid, For aleadership pro- twicea year toattend meetings of MaisieGroves (Clugstonshe was gram in which standards were a major the Council. It was in the course of a then) became herchapter president, topic for discussion. trip for Delta Gamma that she found afterthat president of her alumnae “Every one of the girlswrote, ex- herself in Dallas the day of President group. For many years she was adviser pressing gratitudethat thesesubjects Kennedy’sassassination. Happier was tothe collegiate chapterand also had been brought up,”Mrs. Groves the visittoArkansas thefollowing worked inthe districtas provincial says withconsiderable satisfaction. monthto attend a pan-hellenic con- alumnae chairman. For four years she Also for the collegiate chapters, there ference. was second vice-president of the Coun- isa convention every other year to Andwhat doesMrs. Groves plan cil, in charge of alumnaematters for whicha delegate fromeach chapter when her present term of ofice is up? the whole fraternity. That stint called goes for training in leadership. That is in the hands of the electors.

16 of a GOAL

by Allan Fotheringham

UBC ATHLETES, the victims of Canada’s uncompromising studentshad not the slightest interest in the tiny Wash- geography,are going to go italone for two years. The ington State teachers colleges that furnished Thunderbirds university has decided to drop out of the Western Canada withcompetition. Students clearly did not even know- Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The prairie schools will or care-where Whitworthor Eastern Washington or be leftto theirown devices; UBC will seek competition College of Puget Sound were located. Now was the time, more in itsown backyard whileit licksits moundsand felt athletic leaders, forUBC to resume competition with thinksthings over. more recognizable opponents, the other Western Canadian Thewounds are principally financial. No onecould universities. Dr. MacKenzie was gladto see hisuniversity complain over the university’s athletic record duringits rejoinCanada. five years inthe WCIAA. TheThunderbirds dominated But five years later, where are we? On the outside again, bothfootball and basketball inthe league until lastyear. ourCanadian playmates left behindus and with no real ThenAlberta came on strong as aworthy and perhaps inclinationto jump in with the Americans again. Van- even superior opponent. But generally UBC athletic officials couver’s quixoticposition as the outpost on the edge of have felt theremainder of thecompetition was hardly the rain forest was never more decisively pointed out than worththe upkeep. in this-hesitantly looking south again because those cursed Takinga Thunderbird football team to play Manitoba, peaks haveshut off ourvision to the east. forexample, consumed $5000 eachtrip. Meanwhile UBC UBC authoritieshave announced that Thunderbird ”with an enrolment piling on up to15,000-found itself teamswill play exhibition gamesfor thenext two years drawing no biggercrowds thanit did back inthe days whilethe situation is pondered. of Reid and Capozzi and Puil and Robertson and Bakken whenthe student total was one-thirdthis size. The solution? I would imagine it must await hated rivals yet unborn or still struggling. Simon Fraser University Something is obviously wrongsomewhere. Since this . . . perhaps is notthe place to discuss it,let us be content of Victoria . . . University of Alberta at Calgary . . . Uni- with saying thatUBC decidedto withdrawand spend versity of Saskatchewanat Regina (can no one doany- thing about these names?) Brandon College. two years meditating on itsdilemma. . . . The dilemmais that UBC finds itself atthe return I thinkit safe to say thatDr. Gordon Shrum-that point in a fullcircle. And there’s the nasty suspicion that frustratedgridiron recruiter while atPoint Grey-antici- we’ve passed this waybefore. pates no pleasure more blissful than the day when he can Whenthe old WesternCanadian intercollegiate league march down from Burnaby Mountain with a football team foldedafter thewar, UBC responded tothe natural and whip the Thunderbirds. (The Ubyssey is already doing inclinations of geographyby plunginginto American its fearsome best to cement cross-town friendship by insist- competition. The decision wasundoubtedly justified at ing on referring to Simon Fraser University as SNAFU. In thetime. LJBC teams-bolstered by the flood of war morepolite editorials this becomes SFA-Simon Fraser veterans-were ridinghigh and they sought the stimulus Academy.) of the serious US. college approach to sports Competition. Itobviously will be sometime beforeVictoria and UBCbasketball, in fact, wastoo strong for thelittle Simon Fraser will be able to test UBC adequately. In the NorthwestConference that LJBC first enteredand was meantime,Thunderbird athletes, orphans of thejet age, the main reason for Thunderbird teams moving up a notch must occupy themselves with tearing up their atlases and intothe Evergreen Conference. substitutinga route map OF theapproaches to Burnaby But by theend of the Fifties itwas obvious that Mountain.

17 TheDinner, the guests, and the speakers

Judge Clearihue, Mrs. G. T. Dr. Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, guest Mrs. D. M. Brousson, Dr. N. A. M. Cunningham, Senator McKeen speaker, was introduced by Dr. Mac- MacKenzie, lohn 1. Caron donald. The Annual Meeting of the Alumni otherthan universities - the voca- necessity in to-day’s world for the high r\ssociation,held at the Bayshore Inn tional schools, thetechnological insti- schoolgraduate to proceed toone of onMay 7, wasnotable for a number tute, the junior colleges. The absolute these four institutions of higher learn- ol things, not least among them a very ingwas something, he said, that was distinguishedhead table. The presi- new and needed interpretation. “It will dents of the province’sthree public require an organization such as this to universitieswere there, as well as travelabout the province to explain PresidentEmeritus Norman MacKen- thatthe man mho belongs inthe zie, andtwo chancellors, with the vocationalstream should be proud to third,Dr. Gordon Shrum, represented be there.” by acable from “the country where “The country which fails to educate universitieshave nofinancial prob- its youth to the maximum is breeding lems” - Russia. seriouseconomic problems and social Dr.John B. Macdonald, inintro- disorder,” Dr. McTaggart-Cowan said, ducing the speaker of the evening, Dr. andadded, “I think the Province of PatrickMcTaggart-Cowan, president BritishColumbia has the best plans of SimonFraser liniversity, empha- for education in the country.” sized thatwhile “we welcome rivalry Some four hundred alumni attended in teaching, in research, in the field of thisdinner meeting which saw an athletics, whatwe don’t wantand honorary life membership conferred on hcon’t engage in is unhealthy competi- Paul Plant (right) officiated at con- Senator S. S. McKccn and a new presi- tion,competition for financial support ferring of honorary lifemembership dent,David M. Brousson,installed. at the expense of other institutions. on Senator S. S. McKeen. “We recognize that higher education cannot be strong unless all three insti- tutions are strong. We all believe this - Dr. McTaggart-Cowan, Dr. Taylor, myself.” Dr.McTaggart-Coman also paid tribute to co-operation, saying that the help received fromthe deans and faculty of UBC inobtaining good facultyfor SFU hadfar exceeded his highesthopes. Whilehis announced subject was “SimonFraser University,” Dr.Mc- Taggart-Cowan gave almost equal time to theeducational role of institutions Mrs. L. R. Peterson, G. T. Cunningham Mrs. Patrick McTaggart-Cowan

18 Annual Meetina

Report to theshareholders- Highlights of the past year

FROM“A” TO “S”, fromAthletics to task unprecedented in its history when hadthe specificjob of planningthe Student-Alumni Banquet, the commit- theprovincial election wascalled last movement of alumni records froman tees appointed by your Board of Man- September. At that time it prepared a addressograph systemto I.B.M. It is agementbrought in their reports of nine-pagefactual brief onhigher expected thatthe changeover will be the year’s work tothe Alumni Asso- educationwhich was presented by completed by June 30. ciation Annual Meeting on May 7. Alumni Association representatives and Andthen, alphabeticalin order, Although there were failures as well contacts to as many as possible of the came the Nominating Committee, and as successes, the recordshowed hard electioncandidates, on a strictlynon- their work is reflected in the list of the and faithful work by these committees partisanbasis, with the objective of Board of Management in the Directory on behalf of all alumni, the university, acquaintingall possible future MLAs on page 42. andthe cause of highereducation in with the needs of higher education in TheReunions Committee reported general. In many instances, some clear this province. that 552 people attendedreunions at directionalsigns for the future came Inaddition to this specialproject, Homecoming 1963, a dropfrom the out of the past year’s activities. the Branches Committee played a part previousyear. Amongtheir recom- This page brings you a digest of the in fostering many meetings of alumni menda.tions was oneto organize the “reportto the shareholders” that was in the province and around the world. class of 1954 intoseparate faculty presented to the Annual Meeting. TheFinance and Office Manage- reunions, as anexperiment, and to Paul Plant, in his valedictory address ment Committee in the course of four planthe class of 1959 reunion as a tothe Association, pointedout that meetings held during the year decided, pre-dancecocktail party at theCom- there are two areas in higher education in view of theserious financial posi- modore. whichmust be givenpriority, under- tion of the University, on an austerity TheScholarship and Awards Com- graduatestudies and graduate studies program to reduce administrative costs mitteerecommended to the Board of and professionalschools. Hemade a and provide a surplus for the year. A Managementthat 42 Norman Mac- strongplea for co-operation among reduction in clerical staff and a mini- Kenzie alumni scholarships be awarded those seeking funds and suggested that mum of paperwork madethis plan -the same number as in previous thereshould be a jointappeal which effective. The purchase of several small years-but that the amount of each wouldallow the donor to decidefor pieces of office equipment to facilitate be increased by $50, to $350, in recog- himself ortointerpret for himself thehandling of paperand so reduce nition of increased tuition fees at wherethese priorities should be. casuallabor costs has helpedto make UGC.It also recommendedthat in In conclusion,Mr. Plant said, “. . . austerity work. recognition of the University’s interest The development of natural resources TheHomecoming Committee in graduate study two graduate fellom- canonly be meaningfulto a com- offered nine different eventsin a ships of $1500 each be awarded. munitywhen our human resources highly diversified programfor home- Lastly, theStudent-Alumni Com- have an equal opportunity for growth.” comers inthe hope that others than mitteereported that very happy rela- The AthleticsCommittee itsat those who regularlyattend Home- tionshad beenestablished andmain- organizational meeting in October last comingwould have at least a brief tained between alumniand students, wastold by Mr.Plant “that the contact with the University. In a care- with a mostco-operative Ubyssey re- presentsituation of support of the ful review of resultsthey found that portingandpublicizing important alumni for UBC’s role in international certain of these eventshad met with alumni events. Thetwo major events athletic meets should be our first con- notable success andshould be con- of this committee’s program were the cern.” With this as their guiding prin- tinued - the men’s and women’s golf highly successfulsecond annualstu- ciple theAthletics Committee set up tournaments, and the curling bonspiel. dent-alumni banquet and the academic sub-committeesto deal withrowing, There were in this Committee’s report symposium at Parksville. This commit- hockey andrugby. A concrete result special recommendationswith regard tee inauguratedthe Alumni Student was the obtaining of a $4500 donation to the other events for the guidance of Merit Award. to the Olympic Hockey Team through the 1964 committee, as well as general The foregoingitems are simply the AAG. recommendations. highlightsfrom a few of thereports The Branches Committee took on a TheManpower Survey Committee of twelve hard-working committees.

19 Annual Meeting

Your officers for 1964-65

Firstvice-president onthis year’s executive is Roderick Macdonald, who was 1963 chairman of AAG and is continuingin that capacity. In 1962 Mr.Macdonald was elected member- at-large and in 1963 3rd vice-president. For two years - 1962 and 1963 -he was ouralumni representative to the B.C. Councilon Education and also in 1962 a member of the Government RelationsCommittee. Mr.Macdonald is alawyer.

David M. Brousson, BASc’49 Paul S. Plant, BA’49 After an arduous and very successful DavidBrousson was installed presi- year inthe presidency, Paul Plant dent of the Association atthe annual becomes immediate pastpresident for meeting. He first became an executive 1964. He began his work for the Asso- member of the Alumni Association in ciation by servingasclass reunion 1951-52. He waselected member-at- chairmanin 1959. In 1960 hewas large in 1962, and 1st vice-president in electedmember-at-large. In 1961 he 1963. Brancheshave been his major doubled as Annual Meeting Chairman activity. Earlier in his career he served and BranchesCommittee chairman. as president of AMs. The followingyear he waselected 1st Mr.Brousson is vice-presidentand vice-president, andin 1963, president. managingdirector of Century Sales Mr.Plant is vice-president of R. S. Ltd. Roderick Macdonald, LLB’50 Plant Limited, lumber brokers.

John Gray, chairman of the editorial committee for the past two years,was elected3rd vice-president. In 1954-55 he was degree representative and again in 1961-62 and 1963. Mr.Gray is publicrelations man- agerfor Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association.

a Mrs. David C. Ellis, BA’36 Donald McL. Anderson, BCom’48 Mrs. David C. Ellis(Margaret Buchanan) wasre-elected 2nd vice- president.Mrs.Ellis was elected DonaldAnderson succeedsFred member-at-largein 1961. In 1961-62 Fieldas Association treasurer.In 1963 and 1962-63 she served as chairman of washemember-at-large and also theStudent-Alumni Committee. In headed the continuing education com- 1963, as indicated, she was elected 2nd mittee. vice-president. Mr. Anderson is a chartered accoun- Mrs. Ellis is a housewife. John L. Gray, BSA’39 tant.

20 News and Views gleaned from the student paper

Huts at Oxford! 20 per cent against the hike. Two per locked. Theywere not allowedback A shortitem in The Ubyssey the cent of thetotal votewas spoiled until 2:30 p.m., after police and patrol other dayproclaimed the intention of ballots. authoritieshad made two-hour a Oxford andCambridge Universities, A jubilant SUB committee chairman search of the building. longthe epitome of stone-hewn, ivy- DeanFeltham said thearchitectural covered academictradition, to use competitionfor the $3.8 millionSUB Brush with .death prefabricated wooden huts to house the willbegin immediately. record enrolments expected therein A 28-year-old UBC student escaped the next few years. seriousinjury after his car threaded Trust thoseradical English intel- SFU plan endorsed through a grove of trees and plunged lectuals tothink of somethingas IJBC nowwants athletic scholar- 200 fcet into a ravine. practicalas that. Why,here at UBC ships. In fact,they were ahead of Second-year artsstudent Llewellyn we’ve got the biggest enrolment crush Dr.Gordon Shrum. Edwards, of 513 EastTwenty-first, is we’ve hadin years. Why didn’twe “Men’s Athletic Committee has had in good conditionVancouverin think of wooden huts? And if Oxford thequestion of athleticscholarships GeneralHospital. gets them, they’re boundto become underconsideration forsome time,” Edxvards, from Trinidad, is here on the fad. saidBus Phillips, athleticdirector. animmigrant’s visa. As itis now, we foolishly spend “Weare pleased thatDr. Shrum Edwards’ 1955 green Plymouth the taxpayer’s . . . moneyon lavish, planstoimplement our ideas into smashedthrough 150 feet of brush, uneconomical classrooms made of Simon Fraser’s athletic program.” clippeda90-foot tree inthe ravine brick, cement, and even stucco. andcame to rest morethan 300 feet We’dsuggest theadministration fromthe road. snapup allthe army huts they can False bomb alarm find,and haul them out to campus More than 1,000 students fumed for immediately. twohours outside the library Tues- Arts series praised We wouldn’t want SFA chancellor day while police and firemen searched TheArts Undergraduate Societyis GordonShrum to beat usto them. fora non-existent bomb inside. to be congratulated for its Last Lecture Anunidentified caller phoned the series, one of themost entertaining SUB on the way main desk in the library at 12:48 p.m. andbest-attended events of theyear. Students have voted overwhelmingly and told Mrs. Suzanne Dodson “there The series stands out as one of the in favor of a $5 increase in AMS fees isa bomb in the stacks.” moreworthwhile contributions to to payfor thenew student union Mrs. Dodsonand other library em- campus life by UBC‘s 20 under- building. ployees wentthrough the stackstell- graduate societies. The finaltally showed 4,480 in ingstudents to leave. We heara lot about the engineers favor of the increase and 1,225 Manystudents had left their books fortheir lily-pond extravaganzas, and against. at desks whilethey went to lunch. the sciencemen for their sundry stunts. Students voted 78 per centfor and Theycame back to find the doors Artscan now rest onitslaurels, assured that if it hasn’t gainedthe greatest reputation, it’s at least had the Russia, China and the West lastword.

to be theme of summer symposium Canthey afford it? “Studies inWorld Understanding,” otherswellas students. as It is Fifteen hundred questionnaires have withthe specifictopic of Russia, expected there will be a representation beenmailed to students aspart of a China, and theWest, will be the of studentsfrom the Universities of survey of theirfinancial means. theme of thesummer symposium be- Victoriaand Washington. The survey is being sponsored by ingorganized by thestudents’ Aca- Mr.Howard Green will open the UBC‘s AlmaMater Society andthe demic Activities Committee. symposiumand addressit. VictoriaCollege Student Council. The symposium,centred at Inter- Furtherinformation may be ob- It isdesigned to see if students can nationalHouse, will be heldJuly 17 tained by writing Box146, A.M.S., afford to pay theincreasing costs of to 19 and is opentoalumni and University of British Columbia. gettinga university education.

21 PARTNERS

At the Open House opening ceremonies student members of theairforce reserve stagedre-enactmenta of IN thelaunching of thefirst balloon by theMontgolfier brothersin 1783. PROGRESS

WilliamWiseman of Nanaimo(below) was oneof the many curious who visited the language laboratory.

The Rod & Gun Club set up a model logcabin with cut-away walls to show theactivities going oninside. i 22 Mrs. William Wiseman and daughter Rosemarystop at theEducation Buildingon their Open House tour.

Nonewere too young for Open House.

TownPartners in Progress Visit gown half of team

Kilroy was here - and about 90,000 were Vancouverites,but there wasa othermen, women and children at good sprinkling of out-of-towners, UBC‘s triennialOpen House, held typicalamong them Mr. and Mrs. this year onMarch 6 and 7. WilliamWiseman of Nanaimowith By invitation of thestudents the their fourteen year-old daughter Rose- people who pay for it all came out to mary. TheChronicle photographer PointGrey to see whattheir money tagged themfrom display to display, hadbought and was buying.While demonstrationto demonstration and it was impossible to show a university took theshots reproduced here of at work, thenew buildings and the whattypical a familysaw while buildingsunder construction were on ramblingthrough UBC’s miles of view, and insidethe buildings, old display window. andnew, weredisplays anddemon- Thousands of people, faculty as well strations of what goes onduring the as students, wereactively involved in winter session. dressing the window. Of the sixty-nine All aspects of themammoth “at student clubs, for instance, thirty-three home”party were designed to illus- set up displays, andcommittees re- tratethe theme of the 1964 Open presenting almost every faculty, school House - “UBC:apartner in your anddepartment provided graphicor community’s progress.” practical(orboth) illustrations of TheWisemans spent some timeat Naturally the majority of the visitors their work. cofourful International House.

23 ~ UNIVERSITY NEWS Building Program Committeehead appointed Must Proceed, says Board

The Board of Governors of the appeals concurrently being undertaken University of BritishColumbia has by Simon Fraser Universityand the announcedthat has it decided to University of Victoria; wherever prac- undertakea public appeal for capital ticable,theUniversity of British fundsin order that the University’s Columbiawould be readyto try to five-year buildingprogram may be proceed in association with the appeals carried out. of thetwo other public universities. The Board pointedout that the generous gift of $3.5 millionrecently Stuart-Stubbs new librarian received fromMr. P. A. Woodward Alfred T. Adams hasensured the completion of the Executive Secretary of thenewly- Health Sciences Centre, since the re- formed University of British Columbia maining financial requirements for the Resources Committee is Alfred T. Centrewould largely be met by the Adams, former general secretary of the B.C.H.I.S. andthe Federal Govern- United Federal Party of the Federation ment. of Rhodesiaand Nyasaland. The University’s other capital needs The Resources Committeetakes have alreadybeen outlined inthe over the responsibilities of the former brochure“The Challenge of Growth” UBCDevelopment Fund and will be issued inJanuary 1964. This sets out responsiblefor theestablishment of thebuilding program for thenext policy and the collection of gifts from five years and provides for the orderly private sources for support of projects elimination of the temporary structures atthe University. (convertedwartime huts) which pre- Basil Stuart-Stubbs WhileRhodesiain Mr.Adams sentlyhouse manydepartments, and BasilStuart-Stubbs, appointed lib- worked in closeassociation with Sir indicatesthe space needs of the rarian of theUniversity of British Roy Welensky,prime minister of the Universityinevitablethedueto Columbia this spring, is the first UBC Federation,which existed from 1953 growth of thestudent population in librarian to be selected from the ranks until 1963, whenit wasdissolved. thenext five years. Inparticular, the of theexisting library staff. Hehad Beforegoing tothe Federation of buildingprogram will include pro- beenacting librarian since January Rhodesiaand Nyasaland, Mr. Adams visionfor aforestry-agriculture com- andprior to that administrative as- lived inSouth Africa wherehe was plex,dentistry and the basicsciences, sistant to the librarian in 1961-62 and political organizerforthe United music,a commerce and socialscience supervisor of collections in 1963. He Party of South Africa, headed by the building,and improvements tothe also simultaneously served as head of late Field Marshall J. C. Smuts,and library in 1964 and 1965; biological the specialcollections division from national public relations officer for the sciences (including fisheries and 1960. Automobile Association of South oceanography),metallurgy and engi- Mr.Stuart-Stubbs graduated from Africa. neeringin 1966 and 1967; and social the University of British Columbia in work in 1968. If theUniversity is to l/l/lllllllllllllllllllll1111l1111llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll A 1952 with first-class honours in philo- provide improvedundergraduate edu- Dansla vieintellectuelle, il n’y a sophy and then did graduate work in cationand a necessary growthin the pas d’avancementvbritable, s’il n’y a librarianshipMcGillat University i graduateschool, it is imperativethat paseu, au prbalable, la docilitt. jointe where he gained his bachelor of library thesegoals andthis program should audiscernement. science degree in 1954. His professional be met. “Mgr. Louis-Albert Vachon, experience includes terms of service as The details,timing and target of reference librarian in the McGill Uni- Recteur de Z‘Universite‘ Lava1 thepublic appeal forcapital funds versity Library, and, since 1956, senior stillremain to beworked out.The assignmentsin five differentpositions A universitydoes not need to be Board of Governors,however, in- at UBC. givenresources toteach and research dicatedthat it is confident of the into everysubject that touches its support of the Provincial Government, fancy, butit must have the widest Returnedmail costs moneyand is of thealumni, and of thegeneral freedomin the way it goes aboutthe inefficient. If youralumni mail is public for theUniversity of British subjects of studywhichto isit Columbia. notcorrectly addressed,please clip current address label and send it to committed. The Board has alsostated that it us with the change. “J. A. Corry, would be very muchmindful of the iPrincipal, Queen’s University 24 UNIVERSITY NEWS Pediatrics and Engineering Honorarydegree under newdepartment heads for retiring deanat spring congregation

When UBC‘s springcongregation washeld on May 28 and 29 Dean F. H. Soward,head of thefaculty of Graduatestudies, was one of four persons to receive an honorary degree, that of LLD. Dean Sowardretires on June 30 as dean of graduatestudies and director of internationalstudies, but plans to Dr. Sydney Israels Dr. William D. Finn continueteaching in the departments Twonew department heads were and chief of staff atthe Children’s of historyand international studies. Hospital at OhioState University. Interms of length of service, he is appointedin April by President Mac- donald. To paediatricscomes Dr. The newlyappointed head of the seniormember of the UBC faculty, department of civil engineering was havingbeen appointed in 1922. For SydneyIsraels of Winnipeg,and to civil engineering Dr. William D. Finn born and educated in Ireland, received ten years from 1953 to 1963 hewas hisbachelor of engineering degree head of thehistory department and who has been withthat department at LJBC since 1961. fromthe National University of Ire- from 1956 to 1961 associate dean of land in 1954, and from the University graduatestudies, succeeding Dr. Dr. Israels,presently director of of Washingtonhis master of science Gordon Shrum as dean in 1961. clinicalinvestigation and research at degree in 1957 andhis doctor of An honorary degree of doctor of theChildren’s Hospital of Winnipeg, philosophy degree in 1960. His re- sciencewas conferredon Dr. Arthur hasheld research appointmentsat search lies inthe area of soil mecha- D. Kelly,general secretary of the children’s hospitals in both Boston and nics, thestudy of thefoundations of Canadian MedicalAssociation since Winnipeg.He received his medical structures of allsorts from buil’dings 1954, from which post he retires this degreefrom theUniversity of Man- to dams. year. tobain 1939. Dr.Finn’s predecessoras head of Also receiving honorary degrees of Dr. Israelssucceeds Dr. Bruce D. the civil engineering department is Dr. doctor of science atthe spring con- Graham,who resigned to become J. Fred Muir, a member of the faculty gregation were Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, chairman of the paediatrics department since 1939, who retireson June 30. director of the division of pure physicsfor theNational Research llllllIllllI Council, and Cecil H. Green, a former structure. Dr. Green, who received his NewMinisters all UBC men UBC student and one of the founders bachelor of science andmaster of of Texas Instruments, Inc. sciencedegrees inengineering from Thethree newest members of the Dr.Herzberg has been head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provincialcabinet, appointed this pure physicsdivision of theNational was a studentat UBC from 1918 to spring,all have UBCconnections. Research Council since 1949 andhas 1921. He was one of thefounders of Donald LeslieBrothers, Minister of publishedmore than 100 papers on Geophysical Services,Inc., andTexas Minesand Petroleum Resources,re- problems of atomicand molecular Instruments,Inc. ceived hisbachelor of law degree ______~_____~ from the University of British Colum- UBC professor tohead Arctic Institute bia in 1949, andDaniel Robert John Campbell,Minister of Municipal Professor J. Ross Mackay, of theThe researchactivities of theIn- Affairs, his BA in ’52. department of geography and a mem-stitute, says ProfessorMackay, are Professor RalphLoffmark, Minister her of thefaculty since 1949, has beencarried outprimarily in fulfilment of of IndustrialDevelopment, Trade & elected chairman of the board of contractswith various agencies of the Commerce, is on leave of absence from governors of the Arctic Institute of Canadianand American governments. the Faculty of Commerce and Business North America for 1964. He himself carriedhas out a number Administrationduring the tenure of TheInstitute, a private,non-profit of researchprojects on grants from the hisministry. organization,annually administers institute, and last summer,with grantstotalling about $1,000,000 for anothermember of the geographyde- TheChronicle extends congratula- researchprojects inthe Arctic andpartment, spent three months inthe tionsto all threeon the honor they regions. MacKenzie river delta area.Antarctic delta MacKenzie river regions. have received.

25 ~ UNIVERSITY NEWS

UniqueI Reunion of Iwe-war IProfessors Law professor held at home of dean mourned REUNIONSare not the prerogative of This spring the Faculty of Law uas alumni.That, at any rate, nas the saddened by the death of Dr. Malcolm opinion of Deanand Mrs.Blythe MacIntyre.Dr. MacIntyre came to Eagles when,at the suggestion of a UBC as avisiting professor for the number of earlymembers of the academicyear 1948-49, and remained faculty who expressed awish to meet as full-timea member of the staff Presidentand Mrs. Macdonald, they until his death on April 8. decided theymight be themedium Anative of NewBrunswick, Dr. throughwhich this could be accomp- MacIntyre received his BA fromMt. lished. One evening this spring, there- Allison University,and subsequently fore, they assembled togetherthe the degrees of LLB, LLMand SJD faculty,with their wives, who had fromHarvard. Hewas visiting a been members of theteaching staff lectureratDalhousie University in duringthe university’s first quarter- 1928-29. In 1934 hewent to the Uni- centuryand who were now emeritus versity of Albertaand was dean of or retired. Prof.Emeritus 1. M. Turnbull,Dr. lawthere in 1943-45. Forsome years Andwhat a reunion it was! Three L. S. Klinck,Miss M. D. Mawdsley he practisedlaw inNew Brunswick. pre-Cambrians, as Dean Eaglesdes- Amemorial fund to be known as cribesthem, were there and said a Altogether,sixty-four old colleagues the“Dr. MacIntyre Memorial Fund” fewwords about the university’s pio- on IJBC’sfaculty met together for is presentlybeing subscribed toby neer days: Dr. IsabelMacInnes, first dinnerand an evening of reminis- thosepractising and associated with dean of women,Professor Emeritus cences. the profession of law. HarryLogan, and Professor John Lookingforward toanother such Donationsmay be madepayable to Turnbull. reunion,and having reference to the A. C. Robertsonand D. H. Paterson Then there was the very first faculty long association with the university of as trusteesfor the fund and sent to memberto be appointed by President one of his predecessors, Dr. Klinck, 1403-1030 W. GeorgiaSt., Vancouver Wesbrook of thenewly created uni- PresidentMacdonald remarked: “The 5, B.C. ver.;ity, Dr. L. S. Klinck,later to year mill be 2012 when I celebrate the Research Award comes to UBC fiftieth year of my appointment to the becomepresident himself. On August professor University of British Columbia, and I 1st thisyear he celebrates the fiftieth For the second time a IJBC medical will be ninety-six.” anniversary of hisappointment as researcherhas received the Canadian Dean of Agriculture. The buildingin Others who spoke briefly were Presi- MentalHealth Association grant of which he lived on the Point Grey site dentEmeritus Klinck, Mrs. R. H. $25,000. This year thewinner of the whilesupervisedhe land clearing Clark, Mrs. H. F. Angus, Dr. A. H. awardDr.is Alex Richman,an operations is pictured on this page. Hutchinson,and Dr. Mack Eastman. assistantprofessor inthe department of psychiatry, who plans touse it to The first building on the Point Grey campus was Dr. Klinck’s home. conduct further research into the ways .. .. inwhich the course and outcome of mental illness may be affected by social and cultural influences. In 1960, Dr.Patrick McGeer re- ceived $22,500 forresearch into pos- siblebiochemical causes of schizo- phrenia. Dr. Richman has participated in two surveys of psychiatricservices in Canada, one with a CMHA committee, andmore recently a5 projectdirector on the extent and results of psychiatric treatment for theRoyal Commission on Health Services. His particular area of interest is in social psychiatry, which deals withthe relationship of mental illness and mental health to the social andcultural environment.

26 Board of Governors - Its powers and Responsibilities letter to the Editor (Recently many alumni have expressed concern about the pro- The article on Mr. George Cunning- posedcut in study-discussion programs throughout Dr. hamwhich appears elsewhere inthis B.C. issue introducesto Chronicle readers Macdonald has kindly written the editor on this matter.) a man who, as chairmenare wont to say, needs no introduction. The Board Editor, The Chronicle. basis onwhich we haveapproached of Governors, of whichhe has been theProvincial Government for in- amember for 29 years andlatterly Because thcrehas been a good deal creased operatingfunds; it is the chairman, likewise needs no introduc- of comment and speculation about the reason we had to raise fees forour tion.In both cases, however,that is future of the Extension Department at internal students; it is the reason, too, probablythe expression of piousa theUniversity of BritishColumbia, I v-hy the Board of Governors has found hope than of a fact. thinkthat your readerswill be re- it necessary to effect internal econo- The Board of Governorsnow, as assured to know that we are consider- mies andtoreadjust the financing all through UBC‘s history, is the body ingthe problems of theExtension of Extensionprogrammes. Just as our responsiblefor the business and fi- Departmentagainst the whole back- onmstudents willhave to contribute nance of theUniversity. It is the ground of University development and an increased amount towards the costs members of this Board whoprepare financing at the present time. of theireducation, so it isrealistic to theUniversity’s budget and approve The Universityis faced withcon- expectthose takingExtension courses expenditures. They “erect,equip, fur- tinuing pressure on everyside to pro- topay a greaterproportion of these nish,and maintain,” as theUniver- videmore extensiveservices for a programmes. sities Act puts it, all the buildings on largernumbcr of people. There is ‘The budget oE the Extension Depart- campus,and the grounds. They ap- constantdemand for more academic ment, so far as it relates to funds from point the President and all other staff, offerings, higherfaculty salaries, and revenuesand fees, has beenincreased whetherprofessorial, clerical, or me- atthe same time n‘e live ina world from 1963-64 to 1964-65, as shownin chanical,but, having appointed the wherethe costs of allservices are the table bclom. President,they cannot appoint or constantly rising. dismiss members of the teaching staff While the total budget for Extension withouthis recommcndation. At thepresent time, we areendea- is being increased by $55,000, the sub- The Board, withthe approval of vouringto raise ourrevenue from all sidy has been reduced.This is in theSenate, provides for theestablish- sources tothe point which will give fairnessto theinternal programme of ment and maintenance of faculties and us an operating revenue equivalent to the University. The object of the pre- departments.It fixes the fees for that of the average inCanada. The sentpolicy is to increase therevenue instruction, research and all other average revenue fromall source5 for for theExtension Department from activities of theIJniversity, and ad- Canadianuniversities in 1962-63 was outsidesources, notto reduce itspro- ministersall its assets. Ithas power $i,797 per student.Our averagecost gramme. todetermine the number of students per student was $1,517. We have The Board of Governorsand the whomay be admitted,in relation to established the goal of trying to reach UniversityAdministration recognize the resourcesavailable. the Canadian average within the next theimportance of theExtension Who areits members? TheUni- three years. Departmentand the high quality of Lwsities Act of 1963 madea few This, I think most would agree,is the programme which Dr. Friesen and changes,and as presentlyconstituted a realistic andstraightforward goal, his colleagues have been providing. In the Boardconsists of “eleven mem- butit is onewhich has an impact keeping withour resources we will bers,comprised of theChancellor, upon all University financing. It is the continueto support the Department. thePresident, three members elected by the Senate from its own members, Extension Department and six membersappointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.” Increase! 1963-64 1964-65 (Decrease) Both appointedand elected mem- ______bers serve for three-year terms but no Expenditure ...... $436,399 $491,493 !$ 55,094 Board membercan now hold office ” formore than nine consecutiveyears. Mr.Cunningham’s record of 29 332,118 108,498 years’ service therefore is not likely to 159,375- (53,404) be broken. $491,493 $ 55,094 Followingthe introduction of the newUniversities Act, Mr. Cunning- John B. Macdonald hamwas elected Chairman of the President. Board andpresently holds that office.

27 Alumni Annual Giving

New Major Project The matchingplan . . . automatically and necessarily develops for 1964 annual giving by

ORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS is a major manufacturersand hosta of other corporations.

C projcct of AlumniAnnual Giving industriesand concerns. 1 1964. An AAG sub-committee is work- Insetting up their programs, all ing on this“challenge” form of appear to have had one common aim: support for highereducation. encourageto their employees and Incidentally, it automatically and c Mr.Kenneth G. Patrickwho was alumniin generalto join within- necessarilydevelops annual giving by formerlymanager of educational re- dustryin providing significantfinan- corporations. lations servicesfor theGeneral Elec- cial support to higher education. tricCompany expressed thephilo- Of allthe many useful andima- ECOND. . . .most of the returns from sophy behind corporate matching gifts ginativeways inwhich corporations S individuals represent new money to inthe following words: arerendering assistanceto universi- institutionswhich might not other- ties,colleges and schoolsthese days, wise have been forthcoming at all. “. . .Itwas borne in upon many of . . . thematching gift concept seems to importantPerhapsmost the us thateducation was businessa havethe widest current appeal. Some characteristic of all is the fact that inevitably and consciously operated at companiesare making their first cau- matchingthe planconstructively a loss. Tuitioncharges paid infull, tious moves insupport of education broadens the base of educational sup- withoutscholarship aid, actually li- by agreeingto set upsuch aplan; port,getting more people into the act quidatedonly about half the cost in andinan orderly manner, all of many cases. Whatthis meant was themajority include this approach as onepart of comprehensive a aid which isfavorable to itscontinuance. thatno individual everpaid the cost program. Businessas amajor user of The education bill will be paid, some- of a college education, even though he utilizedits full benefits the rest of university graduates can serve its own how, as we know,and the broader his life in making his business career. needs, cansupport higher education the base of support,the less un- generally andcanchallenge and pleasantnessthe future will hold for It also meantthat no company de- supportits own employees intheir both individual and corporate taxpayer. pendingupon the contributions of concern for particulara university college-trainedpeople was paying the throughthe scheme. INALLY, once company a has true cost of thoseaccruing benefits. F adopteda matching plan and is . . . AndIthink that right at this The following is a list of Canadian willingto stand behind it, the initia- pointthe matching idea wasborn. If companies who have adopted the Cor- tive passes squarelyto the individual porate Matching Gift plan: it was fair for a company to put back and, of course,to the college which Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd. some of thosedollars, inrecognition claimshim. Failure with a matching of what it was receiving, then it would Dow Chemical Company Ford Motor Co. plan is first of all a failureto obtain also be fair for an individual alumnus General Foods Lid. generalalumni support. And this has todo the same.” Hooker Chemical Co. a direct bearing on whethera college This was thethinking behind the Hlrdson’s Bay Oil & Gas Co.Ltd. meritsbusiness support at all. highlyimaginative Corporate Alumni Midland Ross Corporation The Travellers Insurance Co. The AAG committeehopes to in- program launchedten yearsago in Smith Kline & French Inter- terest Canadianand particularly B.C. the[Jnited States by theGeneral Atncrican Corporation corporationsin this scheme. It is ex- ElectricCompany. Rio AIgom Mines Ltd. pected thatCanadian corporate sub- Theconcept of matching giftsas Interncltional Business Machines Co. Lld. sidiaries of 1J.S. corporations \vi11 a useful form of aidto education by Lnwentide Financirrl Corporation adopt schemes of parentthe businessand industry now appears Ltd. corporation. wellestablished. Alumniare invited to pursue cor- Mr. Patrick outlined the characteris- According to the “scoreboard” main- porate matching grants with their own tics of thecorporate matching gift tainedin the offices of theAmerican firm if theirs is not listed. Naturally concept asfollows: AlumniCouncil, corporations match- graduates of firms who do match gifts, ingtheir employees’gifts insupport IRST . . . thematching plan un- whenmaking theircontribution, of educationnow number 237, in- F deniably develops andencourages should complete the necessary applica- cludinga widevariety of companies annualgiving byindividuals, an im- tionforms for matchingfunds. As rangingfrom industrial giants to portantelement in institutional sup- well theyshould encourage other smallresearch organizationsand in- port that too often gets little attention fellowemployee graduates of UBC to cludingbanks, foodprocessing com- because it involves hard work in avail themselves of thisopportunity panies,advertising agencies, retailers, shapingthe instrument. . . . which will double their UBC support.

28 Alumni Annual Giving First Quarter 1964 AAG Donations Shows President’s Fund Increase over ’63 Reports The 1964 AlumniAnnual Giving TheAlumni AssociationPresident’s first quarter results are encouraging as Fund is madeavailable annually to thefunds receivedexceeded thetotal thePresident of UBCfrom Alumni for thesame period of 1963. Inthe Theatre AnnualGiving donations. From the first quarter of 1964, 376 donations 1962 contributions, $9,284.06 was allo- totalling $8,631.31 werereceived. The cated tothe President’s Fund. Dr. resulting averagegift was $22.95. Foundation Macdonaldhas reported that these A most encouraging factwas that monieswere used primarily inthe 150 of the 376 first quarter donors were Nearing following areas: donorswho had not contributed in 1963. If this trend towards new support 1. Supportfor the Fine Arts program continues AAG shouldhave another Half-way mark atUBC. record year. 2. Assistancefor twostudents to take The AAG program for the first The FredericWood Theatre Foun- part “Operationin Crossroads quarter of 1964 includedsolicitations dation, set up in 1962 with an objective Africa, 1963.” toseveral leadinggroups of alumni. of $100,000, nowobtainedhas 3. Research supportin areas seriously One such group was the 1963 graduat- approximately $44,000 inendowment lackingresearch monies. ing class. The AAG Committee was funds, Miss Dorothy Somerset has 4. Increasedstudent aid through the verypleased at the strong response in announced.The Foundation’s direc- University Student Assistance Fund. 1963 fromthe class of 1962 andthe torshope that the fund will go well The Alumni Association once again Committee is hopefulthat this year’s beyond thehalfway mark before 1964 hasincluded the President’s Fundin youngest classwill showsimilara closes. its 1964 AlumniAnnual Giving strong response and set a good pace for The Foundation is a permanent en- allocationform. the old grads to follow. dowment fund, and the annual interest it will provide will go towards raising thestandards of theproductions pre- sentedin the new theatre. As Misc Somersetpoints out,the excitingly beautifulproduction of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado AboutNothing” in Feh- ruary this year was only made possible by a one-year grant of $2500 from the Leonand Thea Koerner Foundation whichwas givento assist with costs of operation for the first season in the new theatre. Thetheatre is one in which the Universitycan offerto studentsand audiencesthe highest standards of theatricalperformance, but it islarge andits technical operation complex. To realizeits potential itneeds, in additionto its University budget and , revenuefrom ticketsales, theannual DISTINCTIVE WALNUT (Dark) OR OAK (Light) SHIELDS subsidy which only the Frederic Wood Bearing University Coat of Arms in Full Heraldic Colors TheatreFoundation can provide. The Also Available:University of Sask., McGill, and Alberta accumulatedinterest from the Foun- dationat present stands atlittle a AVAILABLE FROM $nUBP nf idjprdhry over $2000. It ishoped, the directors P.O. Box 846, Drumheller, Alberta shield Sizes$6.00 per shield 6“ x 8” say, thatit may eventually reach an annual $5000. Forthe secondsuccessive year the UBCAlumni Annual Giving appeal PRICE LISTS PRICE Ltd, includesthe Frederic Wood Theatre ILLUSTRATEDBULLETINS Foundation. Last year the Foundation MACHINE ADDRESSING 9 1191 Richards Street MU 1-3448 was the recipient of $13,000 from this MAILINGI AND 8 ”40 Years‘ Experience” source. I

29 NEWS Assistant to Director appointed The Alumni Association office has acquired a new second incommand, replacingMr. Gordon Thomwho is I nowwith the University Resources Committee. She is Mrs. Allan (Eileen) Evers, a Vancouver-born and educated bu siness woman. business , Executives of UBCAlumni Associationand Victoria Branch meet.L. to R. Mrs.D. C. MrsEvers brings tothe Alumni Ellis;Floyd A. Fairclough;Paul 5. Plant; lvor Burrows; David M. Brousson; Frank Levirs; Association a wideand varied ex- Rod Mocdonald. perience.Before joining the Associa- tion’s staff she was circulation New Alumni manager for Wesiern Homes & Living UBC‘ alumna wins and five otherMitchell Press maga- Council gives major award zines. Prior to thisshe managed a small, select motel in the Fraser Valley. universities Inher capacity of assistantto the director Mrs. Evers will be responsible joint voice Homecoming,for Reunions, the Annual Meeting, Student-Alumni Ban- 1 The university explosionpresented quet,and other specialevents, and yourAlumni Association with a pro- supervision of office staff. blem, a problemsolved by a new Mrs.Evers is marriedand has two constituentin the organization. i children, a girl and a boy, inthat Thisspring the University of Vic- 1 order. toria,with itsnew degree-granting ~ powers, produced its first group of true 1 Mrs. Eileen Evers alumnito add to a body of earlier graduateswho took their degreesfrom i UBCbut whose first loyalty is to 1 Charlotte Froese, BA‘52, MA’54 Victoria.Before manymore springs Dr.Charlotte Froese, an associate havepassed, Simon Fraser also will professor of mathematicsat UBC, is have the nucleus of an alumni organi- the first womanto receive a Sloan zation. The questionthat had execu- fellowshipfrom the Alfred P. Sloan tives of theUBC Alumni Association Foundation of New York. This grant, and of theVictoria Branch meeting givenfor fundamental research in the atintervals all last winter was: how physicalsciences, is consideredone of toprovide for new,independent asso- thetop scientific awardsinNorth ciations and at the same time preserve America. certainareas of co-operationbetween the three groups that are envisagcd. Dr. Froese is currentlyon leave of absenceas a researchfellow at the The answer is now official. The new Harvard College Observatory in Cam- constituentin alumni organization is bridge, Mass., whereshe is doing theJoint Alumni Council of British research onatomic structure theory. Columbia.Council members are the __~~-~___~ presidents and directors of each alumni organizationand one appointee from areas:public relations programs on The Council, says itspresident, is theexecutive of each.First president higher education; government relations visualized as the loosest of fcdera- of theCouncil is theUBC Associa- covering all institutions of higher tions, with a minimum of regulations, tion’s immediate past president,Paul education;joint regional conferences, by-laws,and constitutions, thus per- Plant. dinners,and meetings; specificcam- mitting it to operate in a very flexible Basically, the object of theCouncil paignsfrom time to time in support manner.Essentially, it will be an is toprovide alumni of thevarious of highereducation. action group. BritishColumbia universities with a Individualassociations willalso Semi-annual meetings and/or meet- joint voice to speak on policy matters work in thoseareas as well as taking ingsatthe request of one of the which affect all institutions of higher fullresponsibility for alumni interests alumniassociations will keep the learning. That broadgeneralization connection in withtheirown Council on its toes, without burdening will,it is expected,cover at least four universities. it with detail.

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The lastissue of theChronicle announcedthe beginning of the re- vamping of thegraduate recordssys- temin the alumni office. Since then over 12,000 cardshave been received andmore continue to comein. If you havenot yet filled out your card-do itnow!

Alumni of manydlfferent universities gathered on April17 for the2nd Annual Pentlcton UniversityDance under theable leadership of Tim Hollick-Kenyon, BA'51, BSW'53 GrantMacdonald and Ross Collver,BA'57, LLB'60. INFORMATIONWANTED? The last AlumniAnnual General Meeting (re- portedelsewhere) saw acomprehen- sive AnnualReports bookletplaced beforeit. For those people unableto be presentand to pick upa copy. extrasare available and can be ob- tained by writingthe alumni office. Fromtime to time we receive in- quiriesfor the Association Constitu- tionand By-laws, and thesealso are L. to R. HenryD. Stuart, BEd'60; Miss Katie availableon request. Semens,MA'53; G. Winstanley,BA'55 People fromall parts of the East Kootenays gatheredin Cranbrook on April 25to form an Reunions chairmen, under the gene- assc'ciation of people interested in furthering ralleadership of Mr. W. J. Johnson, hlghereducation in that area. arenow hard at work.The Classof 1924 reunion is beingorganized by TheHon. Leslie R. Peterson, Q.C., Mr. M. Brink,Class of 1944 by Mr. 118'49, completes his ISM card. and Mrs. H. Leslie Smith,and Class of 1949 by Mr. E. (Gene)Johnson. The 1949 Aggie reunion is being The month of Aprilwas busy with planned by Mr. Art Woodland. calls aroundthe province. Therewas The Class of 1954, which will hold Princeton,where Bob Cormack,the itsreunion by faculties,had the branchcontact, arranged the first followingchairmen appointed at time meeting of thealumni branch in the of goingto press: Medicine,Dr. A. local high school onApril 14. Cox; Law, Mr. John Fraser; Home Ec., At Kamloops aMayor's Committee is working Mrs. Pederson;G. Nursing, Mrs. At Merritt, Dick Brown, one of the on a juntor college. RalphTalbot; Commerce, Mr. Ian town'sleading legallights, has been Mair; Arts, Mr.Richard Carter; BSc, namedbranch contact for that Mr.Philip T. Cook;Agriculture, Mr. booming area. RichardFord. On April 19 theOkanagan-Main- lineUniversity Associationexecutive Our list of alumni workersgrows metin Vernon and adopted in prin- everlarger: ciple theconcept of type ofa Grand Forks-Ez Henniger; Sechelt commissiontostudy all aspects of Peninsula-". R.Kitson; Tanganyka post-secondary school education in the -Dick Underhill;New Mexico-Dr. region. Martin B. Goodwin; Uganda-Gordon Wilson; Vernon-Mrs. P. G. Legg; TheSummerland alumni branch Alan Staples was elected president andDr. Salmon Arm-Dr. W. H.Letham; meton April 16 atthe home of Mr. 1. V MurrayBA'29 vice-president at Creston's annualalumhi meeting April 24. Sec'y is Mrs. Shawnigan Lake-Ned Larsen. and Mrs. RobertD. White. R. Vogel, M.D.

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Photo by TedPolumboum Howard 0. McMahon, BA,MA’37. Alumni PhD(MIT), waselected president of Charles D. Ovans, BA, General Secre- Arthur D. Little.Inc., well-known pri- tary of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation vate research organization in Cambridge. has accepted a six months’ post with the I Massachusetts. Dr. McMahon joinedthe InternationalLabour Organization at I‘ firm in 1943. A major contributor to Geneva. Mr. Ovanswas invited to work Ifems of Alumni news are invited in the form the field of low-temperature physics,he on a project sponsored jointly by the of press clippings or personal leffers. These was science director of the company and I.L.O., U.N.E.S.C.O. and the Interna- should reach the Editor, UBC Alumni Chronicle, has served as a head of theResearch tional Bureau of Education. The study 252 BrockHall, UBC, for !he next issue no! and Development Division. will concentrate primarily on social and lafer fhan August1, 1964. 1935 economic problems of concern to the John J. Conway, BA, AM, PhD teachingprofession and on the recruit- ment and training of teachers. 1925 (Harvard), formerly Master of Leverett Earl B. (Slim) Gillanders, BA,MA House, Harvard University,will join the Mrs. Rush, theformer holder of a ‘26, PhD (Princeton), executivevice- staffof York University as professor of Canada Council Grant and a scholar- president and head of themining divi- Humanities and Master-Elect of a new ship for Teachers, Government of B.C.. sion of Rio AlgomMines, Ltd., has college to be part of York‘s new univer- werethe guests of theAktonsausschuss retired for personal reasons. sitycampus, opening in 1965. Currently, der Berliner Lehrerorganisation in Berlin. Dr. Conway is spending a year of study 2927 1941 and writing at All Souls’ College, Oxford, Russel Keith Brown, BA,MA’49, has Lt. Col. the Rev. J. WillcoxDuncan, before taking up his new duties at York M.B.E., C.D., BA, has been appointed beenappointed chief of federal govern- University. ment telecommunications planning. Mr. executive secretary of the Convention of Rodney P. D. Poisson, BA,MA’39, Baptist Churches in B.C. In 1940 Col. Brownwas a scientificofficer with the PhD(Wash), an associate professor at Defence Research Board prior to his Duncan entered the army as a chaplain, the University of Victoria has been and servedoverseas forfour years. He new appointment. awarded a Canada Council grantto do 1942 sawservice in Germanyfrom 1952- Shakespearean research in California 1955, andon his returntoCanada this summer. The $700 grant is Dr. became Command Chaplain of the Poisson’s second from the Canada Coun- Western Command.In 1962 Col. Dun- cil. He received a similar oneto work can retired fromHer Majesty’sforces at the University of Washington in 1958. Rcbert K. Porter and became AssociateMinister of First BCom’42 Baptist Church, Vancouver, where he has 1938 John Imine Bird, Q.C., BCom, is served until the present time. W. Kaye Lamb, BA,MA’30, PhD Vancouver’snewly appointed Police Commissioner. He has beenpractising (London), LLD (Brit. Col. and Man.), lawin Vancouver since1946, specializ- Dominion Archivist andNational Lib- ing in admiralty and shippinglaw, and rarian,on a recent visitto London was Photo was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in Milne Studios fortunate insecuring for the Dominion Limited Archivesmicrofilm copies of original 1960. Mr. Birdserved as an officerin handwritten letters by Sir John A. Mac- the Royal Navy during World War 11. Robert Keith Porter, BCom’42, for- donaldto two early governors-general. H. Donald Cameron, BA, MA(Tor.), merlyexecutive vice-president and gene- who has beenexecutive assistant to the Dr. Lamb is inthe third year of ral manager, waselected president of his president of Canadian Pacific Airlines three-year presidency of theSociety of ‘Thomas J. Lipton Ltd. at a recent annual is nowthe vice-prssident, international Archivists of Great Britain. Last Octo- meeting of the corporation. Mr. Porter ber, he waselected vice-president of the affairs for that company. also is chairman, and a director of the Society of American Archivists, and is 1939 Tea Council of Canada, a director of president-designate of the society’s meet- D. A. Burnett, BASc,is project engi- Lever Brothers Limited and of the ing in Austin, Texas, next autumn. Thus, neer at the Kimberley fertilizer-expan- CanadianTea and CoffeeAssociation. for a few months in 1964, he will have sion branch of Cominco. He is a member of the Trade Relations the distinction of being president of Fred L. Hartley, BASc,was recently Committee of the Grocery Products British and American ArchivistSocieties elected executive vice-president of Union Manufacturers of Canadaand a past simultaneously. Oil Company. In hisnew post, he will director of that association. assumereponsibility for the company’s E. Norman Walton, BASc,MASc’56. 1929 operating divisions,subsidiaries and re- is the new manager of central engineer- Arthur T. Fell, BASc, has been pro- lated services. ing for MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell moted by Du Pont of Canada to be 1940 River Limited. manager of employees relations depart- Jack T. Rush, BA, MA46, of the 1943 ment at Montreal after being Works Vancouver SchoolBoard Staff, is on ex- Thomas M. Dauphinee, BA, MA45. Manager of the Maitland Works since changein Norwich, England withMrs. Ph13’50, senior research officerwith the itsinception in 1950. Rush (nee Rohan Peele,BA’46) and National Research Council will present 1930 their two children. Mr. Rush is currently a technical paper before the Annual Frank W. Hallonquist, BA,BCom’3 1 teachingin a grammar school once Conference of the Instrument Society of has been appointed vice-presidentin attended by Horatio Nelson, and visiting America. Titled “Design and Application charge of Western Canada for Marsh & other schoolsin Norfolk to acquaint of Contact Modulators.” Dr. Dauphi- McLennan, Limited, general insurance himself more completely with the educa- nee’s paper willdiscuss principles of brokers. tional scene. At Easter, Mr. Rush and design of contact modulators as applied

33 to a full sized and a miniaturized motor 1947 driven chopper developed at National James Andrew Beveridge, BASc,MSc Research Council. (Johns Hopkins) hasbeen appointed Harold K. Lear, BASc, has been ap- manager for the Saskatchewan operation pointed vice-president and assistant gene- of Haddin, Davis and Brown Company, ral manager of the Canadian Summer Limited. Division of the Black Clawson organiza- Mrs. DonaldR. Cameron (nee Mavis tion. Huston), BA, a former Alumni repre- W. Geoffrey Rice-Jones, BA,head of sentative inthe Vernon area, is believed the mathematics and science departments to havepioneered something inBritish at AldergroveSecondary School, has Columbia’s education system by starting been awarded a Shell Merit Fellowship to in September, 1963,the first integrated attend Stanford Universitythis summer. “Deaf and Hearing Kindergarten” in the Mr. Rice-Jones is one of ten Canadian Province. Mrs. Cameron travels from secondary school teachers of mathema- Vernon to Kelowna twiceweekly to David A. Munro, BA, PhD(Tor.), is tics and science to begiven this award. teachthese pre-schoolers, donating her thenew Chief of the Canadian Wildlife The fellowships,which are granted on services until such time as a society with Service. He joined the service staffin thebasis of merit and demonstrated a board of trustees can assume the re- 1948 as Wildlife Management Officer leadership qualities, enable the teachers sponsibility for the venture. Her endea- and was appointed Chief Ornithologist to attend graduate-level seminars at vours led to the initialstages of forma- in 1953. He has been a member of the Stanford and Cornell Universities under tion, in December, 1963, of the Okana- Migratory Bird Committee sinceits for- the sponsorship of Shell Canada Limi- ganSociety for Deaf Children. Mrs. mation in 1961. ted. Cameron is the mother of three, the -~ ” 1944 youngest of whom is deaf. 1949 Norman MacKenzie Hay, BA, has William Hooson, BA,MSW’53, will AllanW. Blyth, BASc, who for the beenelected chairman of the Canadian fill a newly created position of adminis- past five years has been assistant chief FurnitureMart Design Council. Cur- trative assistant to Victoria city mana- and liaisonofficer forOntario in the rentlycreative director with Dalton K. ger. Mr. Hooson wasemployed by the Forestry Department’s Provincial Agree- Camp and Associates, Mr. Hay was the city in 1990 as assistant welfare ad- ments Section,will be responsible for director of the National Industrial De- ministrator and oneyear later became the direction, co-ordination and imple- sign Council in Ottawa from 1955 to city welfare administrator, a post he mentation of national and regional fores- helduntil his latest appointment. 1960. For two years, from 1957 to try programs under the Agriculture 1959, he was a member of the Canadian Rehabilitation and Development Act,in 1945 Housing Design Council. co-operation with provincial and federal Ralph D. Barer, BASc,was recently Diana M. Priestly, BA, LLB’SO, who forestry personnel.His new appointment one of twosenior Defence Research was for ten years law librarian at UBC, carries the title of forestry co-ordinator. Boardscientists representing Canada at has acceptedthe appointment of head Orest Cochkanoff, BASc,MASc a Commonwealth Defence Science meet- law librarian at the University of (Tor.), PhD(Iowa), who has been a ing in NewDelhi andKanpur, India. Toronto, effective January 1964. professor at theNova Scotia Technical Delegates had the opportunity of visiting 1948 Collegesince 1953, has been appointed several Government and University Arthur W. Rippon, BA, BSW’54, head of the department of mechanical Laboratories engaged in the materials MSW63, casework supervisor in the engineering at thecollege. His main sciences. Mr. Barer who is head of Essondale mental hospital has been fields of interest are aerodynamics and Materials Engineering at the Pacific appointed assistantexecutive director of stress analysis and he is supervising Naval Laboratory gave a major paper at the Family and Children’sService for research in both of these areas. He has the conference. the Victoria area. alsobeen employed as a consultant with Douglas T. Kenny, BA,MA’47, PhD G. V. Wellburn, BASc, has been (Wash.). is on a leave of absence from named assistantlogging manager of r Are You Well Fed? WellClothed? UBC. He hasaccepted an invitation to Tahsis Co. Ltd. Tahsis is on the West Well Housed? spend nextyear as a visitingprofessor Coast of Vancouver Island. Will yon help us to help those who at Harvard University and may be Douglas Allen White, BA,was re- are not? reached at the followingaddress: Palfry centlyposted from Clinton toTrenton Forover 50 YearsCentral House. Laboratory of Human Develop- where he was appointed Examination City Mission has served ment. Harvard University, Cambridge, Development Officerin the Technical Vancorrver’sSkid Row. Mass. and Vocational Training Branch of the Please consider the Missionwhen 1946 Department of Labour of the Federal advising on bequests, making char- Kenneth L. Broe, BASc, has been CivilService. This position entails re- itable donations, discarding a suit transferred from Calgary to Vancouver sponsibility for the establishment of a or a pair of shoes. as manager, Pacific District, Apparatus cross-Canada set of examinations ac- Department of the Canadian General ceptable to all provinces for the technical CENTRAL CITYMISSION 233 Abbott St. MU 1-4439 Electric Company Limited. and trade schools.

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34 tists and mathematicians, and weekly base operations, as well as Australian field trips to research laboratories and operations. industrial plants, are includedin the James CameronThomas MacLean, program. BCom, was elected president of the Van- Frank J. Garnett, BCom, has returned couver Insurance Agents’Association at from Melbourne, Australia to take up a meetingin Vancouver. Mr. McLean, the new post of vice-president and president of Gardiner-McLean Insurance general manager with Reading and Bates Limited, is also a member of the In- Drilling Company, in Calgary. In his surance Board of B.C. andhas been in new capacity, he will be in charge of the the insurance field for 13 years, and in company’s Canadian and Alaskan land his own business for 11 years.

A. PatrickBlack, BA, has been appointed technical director for the Reichold Chemicals (Canada) Limited. Mr. Blackjoined the company in 1955 at Port Moody,B.C. He served one year as a control chemist and four years in the technicalsales and servicede- partment. For three years priorto his present appointment, he wastechnical director of the company’s western divi- sion. ~- - both government and industry on various projects including the design of the variable depth sonar system for the RCN. He is activein the RCAF reserve and is a past chairman of the Halifax- Dartmouthbranch of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. ThomasT. Dennett, BA,MEd’63, a teacher of chemistry at King Edward Senior Matriculation and Continuing Education Centre, Vancouver, has been awarded a Shell Merit Fellowship to attend Stanford Universitythis summer. Established in 1957, the Merit Fellow- ship program wasdeveloped with the co-operation of leading educational asso- ciations to help combat the critical shortage of scientists, engineers and teachers. While at Stanford, Mr. Den- nett and hiscolleagues will receive training in mathematics, chemistry, phy- sics and educational techniques, as well as gainingfirst-hand knowledge of the application of science and mathematics inindustry. Lectures byleading scien-

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35 Peter A. Niblock, BASc,MASc’52, assistant head of the city’s welfare Pont of Canada Nipissing Works for the partner in the firm of Hoyles,Niblock department since1952. past three years, has been promoted to and Associates,consulting engineers of Marion E. Foster, BA, has been the post of works manager. He joined the North Vancouver, nowis in South appointed executive director of the staff of Du Pont at ShawiniganFalls. America on a telecommunications YWCA of Canada. Since her graduation, Quebec, in 1952, in the cellophane plant. engineering study. Miss Foster has heldpositions in in the capacity of development assistant. GordonM.Tener, BA,MS, PhD YWCAsin Calgary, Peterborough and Daryl J. Duke, BA, executive producer (Wisc.), of the Department of Bio- Victoria. She spent five years as area of CBC-TV’s “Quest,” will soon be in chemistry of UBC, has beengiven a secretary inthe Caribbean and was the Hollywood, California, as producer of singular award for his researches on organizing secretary for theYWCA of the SteveAllen Show. Although seen nucleicacid structure. He has been Surinam. over 42 stations in the United States, named, Merck, Sharpand Dohme Lec- Walter F. Leverton, PhD, is now the show will not be available to turer at the Annual Meeting of the general manager of Aerospace Corpora- Canadian viewers. Chemical Institute of Canada, to be held tion’snewly created SatelliteSystems 1951 in Kingston, Ontario in June of this Division. In this capacity, Dr. Leverton J. HowardGeddes, BASc, formerly year. This lectureship is one of the out- is responsible for the generalsystems Chief Gas Engineer of Home Oil Com- standing annual awards in Canadian engineering and technical direction of pany Limited, has been made Manager science. Dr. Tener has chosen as the such prime space efforts as the military of Olds Gas Limited. subject of his lecture “Studies on Soluble communications satellites, nuclear de- T. Barr Greenfield, BA, PhD(Alta.), RibonucleicAcids.” tection satellites and a world-wide satel- is the new research director of Canadian lite control network. The general systems Teachers’ Federation. Mr. Greenfield re- 1950 engineering under Dr. Leverton’sguid- ceived a W.K. KelloggFellowship in Donald A. Baird, RA, has been named ance, encompasses the over-all develop- 1959, a teachingfellowship from the librarian for Simon Fraser University. ment of the space systems,analysis of University of Alberta in1960, the pro- Mr. Baird is presently the assistant subsystems and supervision of systems vince of AlbertaGraduate Scholarship librarian at the University of Alberta in testing. Holder of several patents in the in1961 and a University of Alberta Edmonton. He has worked on the plan- fields of crystal growing and semi-con- Graduate Scholarship in 1962. ning and building of a newuniversity ductor materials and devices, hehas Gayle Kennedy Honey, BSA, who has library in Edmonton and another in alsopublished articles in such journals been program organizer for the Farm Calgary. Mr. Baird has also written as Physical Review andJournal of Ap- Department of CBC, forthe past four numerous articles and reports on library plied Physics. Dr. Leverton is a member years, has joined the staff of the “Family affairs. of the American Physical Society, senior Herald,” as regional editor and has Irving K. Barber, BSF, has recently member in the Institute of Electrical and taken up residence in Winnipeg. been appointed manager of the Menzies Electronics Engineers and the American 1952 Bay Division of MacMillan, Bloedel and Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ThomasFranck, RA,LLB’53, profes- PowellRiver, Limited. Mr. Barber Shirley P. Manning, BA, is the new sor of law at New York University, has joinedthe company in 1950 atNorth- director of testing and editor for “Cana- returned from Zanzibar where he gave westBay Division in the falling and dian Consumer.” Miss Manning came advice on the framing of a newcon- bucking department. In 1952 he trans- from the Consumers’ Association of the stitution for thatEast African island ferred to the Forestry Division and was United Kingdom where she was deputy republic. appointed manager in1960. Priorto editor of “Which?” David Price, BA, MA’53, now teaching coming to Menzies Bay Division he was George K. Petrunia, BASc,will be at St. George’s private school in Vancou- manager of Shawnigan Division from responsible for the establishment of a ver,will, with a colleague, open a small 1962-1964. plant for the manufacture of a diverse liberal arts college on a tinySpanish Lloyd M. Clark, BA, LLB’SO, who range of plastic fabricated products with island this fall. 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36 Prior to this, he was teaching in the The Chronicle is pleased to havefound practice withvery low slag volume,” physiology department at Stanford Uni- him again. which was presented at Buffalo, N.Y. last versity School of Medicine, during which Allan Fotheringham, BA, a member April. The award was established in 1920 time, he published a Textbook, “Elemen- of the Chronicle editorial committee, is to recognize the contribution made by tary Human Physiology,”published by one of four journalists who havewon Mr.Hunt to Metallurgical advances in John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1964 Southam NewspaperFellowships. the steel industry. It is presented annu- 1953 Mr. Fotheringham is a generalassign- ally by the Iron and Steel division of the W. D. Ewing, BSF, has been appointed ment reporter for the Vancouver Sun and American Institute of Mining, Metal- manager of the Northwest Baydivision alsowrites a weekly travel column for lurgical and Petroleum Engineers to the of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River. that paper. He willspend from Septem- author of the outstanding original paper Limited. He joined the company in 1955 ber to May at the University of Toronto on iron and steelmaking practices. Mr. at its Franklin Riverdivision and held studying in any division at graduate or McKay joined the staffof Steel Com- many supervisorypositions there. undergraduate level. pany of Canada Limited, in 1954, became J. D. Hambley, BASc,has been pro- Basil B. Grant, BASc, has been elected divisional metallurgist five years later motcd to the position of Field Engin- to the Board of Directors and appointed and was appointed supervisor of research eer, in charge of Alchem’s Limited, head as secretary of the R. Timms Construc- and development three years ago. office. Formerly, staff product supervisor, tion and Engineering Co., Ltd. Since Robert J. Rohloff, BA, has been he wasresponsible forall petroleum graduation he has beenactive on engin- named district exploration superinten- products and the Visco line of specialized eering and construction projects from dent for Socony Mobil Oil Company, in oil fieldchemicals. Mr. Hambley is the coast to coastin Canada andfor the Edmonton. Mr. Rohloff has worked in author of a number of published techni- past several years has beenassociated many company locations in Alberta and cal papers, and is a member of the with Foundationthe Company of Saskatchewan and most recently was sen- National Association of Corrosion En- Canada Limited. ior staff exploration geologist in Cal- gineers. Paul Hist Kevill, BASc, has been gary Geotf W. Hornby, BASc, is the new appointed to the position of Assistant William Steven Selbie, BA,LLB’55, plant engineer at Fraser MillsDivision District Manager of the Toronto District has been promoted to the position of of Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited. officeengineering division of Associated senior prosecutor for the City of Van- FactoryMutual Fire Insurance Com- couver. In hisnew position, Mr. Selbie 1954 will continue his work in court but will Holand J. Bouwman, LLB, who en- panies. Mr. Kevill has beenwith the tered law only after giving up his chosen FactoryMutuals since1956 and previ- now take on supervisory and policyres- ouslyheld the position of District Stan- ponsibilities. After graduation from UBC field of architecture was named as Van- law school in 1955, Mr. Selbie articled couver‘snew deputy prosecutor. Mr. dards Engineer of the Toronto Office. with Angelo Branca, now a B.C. Supreme Bouwman, who servedwith the RCAF John Carlin McKay, BASc,is the re- Court justice. during World War 11, abandoned four cipient of one of North America’s top years of studyin architecture to enter metallurgical awards. The Metallurgical 1955 thefaculty of lawwhich he states he Society’s Robert W. Hunt 1964silver John M. Kirwan, BA, early this year has neverregretted. Incidentally, he was medal wasgiven toMr. McKay for co- was appointed Director of Public In- for a time, one of our “Unknown” grads. authoring a paper on “Blast furnace formation for the Alberta Division of How far do you think $330.30 would take you in the ORIENT? EVERGREEN PRESS _L LIMITED The answer may surpriseyou. 8 DAYS JAPAN 0 All-inclusive motor coach tour

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37 the Canadian Red Cross Society. During at Arizona State University,will under- the pastyear he was employed by the take research into the properties of SaskatchewanMedical Care Insurance liquidhydrogen and liquid helium. He Commission as assistant to the Secretary. will return to Canada in June to join the Patrick E. Peacock-Loukes, BArch, an department of physics at University of architect withthe firm of Jeppsen and Waterloo, Ont., as associateprofessor. Miller, has been made a full associate Gerald G. Rowlandson, BA,now an of the firm. Mr. Loukes was one of three officer of the Intelligence Corps, has been successful applicants for registration as posted to the directorate of militaryin- an architect in Oregon in 1962. He has telligence army headquarters in Ottawa. practisedin Edmonton and in London 1957 with a firm of industrial specialists. Clarence M. Hincks, DSc, received an Peter G. Scott, BASc, has thisspring, honorary LLD degree at a special con- been made a member of a newly formed vocation of the University of Toronto. company of consulting electrical engin- A graduate in medicine in 1907, Dr. eers, to be known as Simpson, McGregor Hincks has spent hisprofessional life and Scott, Ltd., in Vancouver. After in the field of mental health. He founded graduation, Mr. Scottwas employed for the Canadian Mental Health Association three years by the Canadian Standards in 1918, and wasits general director Association and spent much time in from 1918 to 1952. He was also execu- various European factories informing tive director of the United States them of Canadian electrical requirements. National Committee of Mental Hygiene He also inspected and witnessed the test- from 1931 to 1939. ing of equipment destined forCanada. Otherhonours that he has received Charles Connaghan, BA’59, MA’60 On his returnto Vancouver in 1959 he includethe Mental Health Award from Charles Connaghan, BA,MA’60, joined the department of buildings and Canadian Mental Hygiene Institute in president of the Niagara District UBC grounds at UBC as electrical engineer. 1954, the Coronation Medal in 1953 and Alumni Association has received a re- Mr. Scott has beenwith Simpson and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science assignment to another positionwith McGregor since 196 1. from UBC in 1957. He was made a greater responsibilities and authority. He 1956 member of the ComitC dHonneur in has lefthis former job of supervisor of Adair John Banerd, BA, has recently 1956. He is a Life Fellow of the Ameri- employment for the Welland Plant, to accepted a newposition as Deputy can Psychiatric Association and of the becomesupervisor of salaried personnel Director of the Immigration Department American Orthopsychiatric Association. for theSteel Division, embracing salary in the United Kingdom. Rowland I. Kingham, BASc,MSC recruitment, salary administration, and Douglas J. Henderson, BA. PhD (Purdue), has followed “the road to suc- employee benefits for the SteelDivision (Utah), has won a two-year $13,800 cess”since his graduation. Beginning of Atlas Steels, Ltd. Alfred P. Sloanresearch fellowship. Dr. withhis first position with the Trans Henderson, assistant professor of physics Canada Highway Division of the Depart-

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30 at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of that University, November, 1963, and presented the official greeting of UBC. S. WayneHubble, BA,BA(Oxon.), Rhodes Scholar ’58, now in the Canadian HighCommissioner’s office in Kingston, Jamaica, was a guest aboard the de- stroyer USS Rowan, July, 1963,when its commander, Stansfield Turner, a Rhodes scholar, invited Jamaican Rhodes men,with their wives, aboardfor a buffet supper and a movie-when his ship was in Kingston. Inviting the wives aboard was precedent-making. (Mr. Hub- ble himself is unmarried.) 1959 CharlesWilliam Dick, BA,BEd’62. who has been on a two-yearleave of absence from the Vancouver School Board, will return to his position in Sep- tember. He wasemployed as a Ford Foundation Research Assistant and Robert C. Brooke, BSF’58, MF(Yale) Laszlo Orloci, BSF’58, MSc’61 teaching assistant at the University of Oregon during 1963-1964, during which Two UBC alumni have been awarded tanique Mediterraneenne et Alpine, time he received a fall, winter and NATO post-doctoral fellowshipsvalued Montpellier, France. spring term Foreign StudentTuition at $5,000 and renewable for a second Scholarship, and a $1,000 Carnegie Sum- twelve-month period. In 1958, Robert LaszloOrloci, the other recipient of mer Fellowship for study in Colima, Brooke received the H. R. MacMillan the fellowship, a native of Hungary, Mexico. Mr. Dick, whohas completed prize in forestry as head of the graduat- graduated with the Sopron division from most of his doctoral work, declined a ingclass. At Yale, in1959, he was UBCwith honors in forestry in 1958. Ford Foundation Fellowship for 1964- awarded theNational Research Coun- In 1961 he was awarded a National 65. cil bursary and a studentship. After Research Council hursary and a student- Gordon F. Gibson, BA, MBA(Har- completion of his doctorate at UBC, he ship. He plans to do his post-doctoral vard), has been appointed executive plans todo his post-doctoral studies at studies at the University of North assistant toNorthern Affairs Minister the Station Internationale de Geobo- Wales, Bangor. Laing.Recipient of a Baker scholarship

~ ~~~ while Harvard,at Mr. Gibson also ment of Public Works in Banff, he joined GeorgeC. Wootton, BASc,MASc’59, studied at the London School of Econo- the staffof the Canadian Good Roads is a recipient of a Consolidated Mining mics. Association and went to Ottawa, Illinois, and Smelting Company $3,000 Graduate as their residentengineer. Between the Research Fellowship, awarded for gradu- years of 1958 and 1961, Mr. Kingham ate research in Metallurgy. He was em- co-authored four research papers that ployedby Atomic Energy of Canada REGENCY were published by the Highway Research Limited, Chalk River, Ontario, from Board in the USA.He is presently a 1959 to 1963, then returning to UBC to CATERERS research engineer on the staff of the work towards his PhD in Metallurgy. Ontario Highway Department. Attime William N. Holsworth, BSc,MSc’60, Complete Catering Services of publication of this classnote, Mr. of the department of zoology, University Personalized Home Catering Kingham will be Staff Engineer with the of Western Australia, represented UBC Asphalt Institute in College Park, Mary- Regency Candlelight Room land. This title carries withit, the res- ponsibility concerned with the analysis Regency Tudor Room of engineering research data.In 1962, BOWELL McLEAN MOTOR Gleneagles Golf & Country Club Mr. Kingham entered Purdue University in Lafayette, Indianaand receivedhis CO. LTD. 974 West Broadway Vancouver. B.C. MASc in Civil Engineering in 1963. 615 BURIURDST. VANCOUVER,B.C. - Victor A. Neufeldt, BA, has been RE 1-8141 awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship Pontiac by the University of Illinois for 1964- Buick 1965. In addition tothe $3,475fellow- Cadillac ship, Mr. Neufeldt plans on earning $1,000by teaching Freshman Composi- For 43 yearsserving the people tion, while he is working toward his of the Lower Mainland doctorate in English. He has been teach- ing in Kitimat since 1958 with the excep- G. ROYAL SMITH tion of 1962-63 during whichtime he MEMBER OF was on a year’sleave of absence doing GM Master Salesman’s Guild graduate work at the University of Washington. Bus. MU 2-3333 RES. CY 8-1514 COMPLETE FILM PROCESSING COMPLETEPHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES R. H. (Bob) LEE B.Com. JOEQUAN, Ei.Com., Mgr. Commercial Properties I Mutual 1-4164 1 ”.&q&-&&&?% 819 Thurlow, at Robson Mail Address, P.O. Box 2180 56s Burrard St. Phones 682-1474 987-7280 Res. Vancower 3, B.C.

39 Kenneth Kulla, BCom, formerly asso- subsequentlyposted to England, Sea race this spring. Mr. Leckyis inhis last ciated with the sales divisionof Crown Island, the Yukon andOttawa, prior to year at JesusCollege, Cambridge. where Zellerbach in Vancouver, has become attending UBC. He is presently stationed he is reading international law on a district sales manager at Vancouver, for at North Bay, Ontario,as an electronics MackenzieKing scholarship. Studebaker of Canada, Limited. He will systems officer for No. 414 Black Knight be responsible for sales in all areas of Squadron. B.C. but the Kootenays. John Pankratz, BSA, has been ap- John D. Lowood, BASc, has left the pointedResearch Officer for the B.C. staff of Drake Construction Co., Ltd., in Department of Agriculture. This posi- Winnipeg to accept a position as super- tion includes responsibility for research visor Product Development Department, and the advisoryservice in relation to Pacific Veneer Division of Canadian theAgricultural Rehabilitation and De- ForestProducts Ltd., Newin West- velopment Act (AKDA), farm manage- minster. ment,and economic analyses generally. 1960 In 1959, Mr.Pankratz was assistant Gerard Doeksen, BASc. has been ap- District Agriculturistin the Peace River pointedDesign Engineer 11, Design De- areaand has agood farm background. partment, EngineeringDivision of the In addition to studies inB.C. and On- Consolidated Mining and Smelting Com- tario,he has worked ortaken university Terence F. Leche, BSA, has been training in the agricultural fieldin Al- pany at Trail. awarded aresearch fellowship in meat Robin H. Farquhar, BA, will take ad- berta, California, and North Carolina. He technology at the University of Sydney, vantage of a $10,000 scholarship, start- recently returned fromNorth Carolina Australia. For the past two years, Mr. ing July 1,1964. Thisaward brings his where he took some advanced courses in Leche has been working under the direc- scholarship total to $16,000 since he left statistical analysis, and will takeup his tion of Professor AlexWood inUBC’s Victoria high school eight years ago. The new duties with the Department of Agri- department of animal science on the award is a staff associateship at the Uni- culture immediately. growth and development of cattle. He versity of Chicago, where he will work 1961 will leave Vancouver late this summer to for a PhD in educationaladministration Arvey J. Hanowski, BA(Western Ont.), take up the fellowship of $3,500 per year at the MidwestAdministration Center. for three years. While there, Mr. Farquhar will probably BSW,MSW’62, has been appointed area help toarrange seminars and assistin supervisor for the North Battleford region, Paul R. Tennant, BA, was one of 16 the administration center. Robin’s parents Department of Social Welfare and Re- winners in thenational competition for areboth UBC graduates, his father habilitation. the 1964-65Congressional Fellowship presentlyaprofessor in the faculty of John MacM. S. Lecky, BA, who awards. He willreceive a minimum sti- education at the University of Victoria. rowed for Canada in the 1960 Olympics, pend of $4,500 for the year, plus travel Jack McKague, BSc, has beenpro- was described in the London newspapers expenses. Theprogram is financedby a moted to FlighULieutenant with the theas “Magnificent Canadian” who FordFoundation grant, and services of RCAF. In 1946,he joined the RCAF as powered Cambridge to victoryin the the Fellows arefree of charge to the a telecommunications technician and was 110th annual Oxford-Cambridge boat Congressional offices in which they work.

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40 GRAHAM-MULHOLLAND. R.W. Graham, 1937 Births BA’50, to LornaK. Mulholland, BA Ralph Kennedy Bell, BA, died in June, ’60, in Victoria. 1963,in Calgary. Mr. Bell taught at MR. and MRS. WALTERBENENSON (nee JARVIS-FARREN. Wayne Ralph Jarvis, Shawnigan Lake,Britannia Beach, Lyt- MERYN SHALLARD, BA’58), a daughter, BSF’63 to SheilaChristine Farren, in ton, Vancouver, Enderby, Armstrong Arleigh Ann,March 22, 1964, in Vancouver. and Kamloops. He retired in June 1961 Lansing,Michigan. MACDONALD-MANN. George Macdonald to after 37 years of teachingin Kamloops. DR. and MRS.KENNETH BERRY, MD’56 Aileen E. Mann, BA’37,MSW’55, in He is survived by a sonand four (nCe SALLY TENENBAUM, BA’54,BSW Vancouver. grandchildren. ’55), a daughter, Julie Michele, March 1939 1,1964, in Vancouver. Albert Edward Henderson, BA,BEd MR. and MRS. MAURICECAMPBELL, BA Deaths ’53,died March 15,1964, in Victoria. ‘5 1 (nee JEAN COCHRANE, BA’5 I, An inspector of Vancouver elementary BSW’52), a daughter, Jacqueline 1923 schools, Mr. Henderson was on a trip to Cochrane,February 6,1964, in Van- Stanley F. M. Moodie, MA, died Feb- interview graduatingstudents from the couver. ruary 29,1964. Major Moodie wasa University of Victoria’s faculty of educa- MR. and MRS. ROSS K. CRAIGIE, BASc’60, member of theIrish Fusiliers and tion for teaching jobs in the Vancouver (nte BARBARA L. WALLACE, BA’60), a servedoverseas during the first world system when the death occurred. son. April 8, 1964,in Vancouver. war. Former Vancouver sheriff and MR. and MRS. DONALD BEATTIE CROWSON, teacher at (theold) King George High BASc’58,MASc’61, a daughter, Karen School, he was also B.C. organizer for MODEL Lynne, February 11, 1964.in Van- theLiberal Party. He wassecretary of couver. FOR the B.C. Liberal Association for nine EVERY MR. and MRS.WM. R. DONALDSON, BA’55, yearsand served as assistant to Premier NEED & BCom’57, (nk MAXINEMORROW, BA T. D. Pattullo. He issurvived byhis BUDGET 1 ’56), a son, William James, January 7, wife,a son and a grandson. 1964, in North Vancouver. MR. and MRS. GEORGE DRASKOY, BSF’61, 1925 (nee BARBARA PATRICIA GILL, BA’6 1 ) , a Thomas Bennet Black, BASc,died in son, Andrew Roland Ferenc,March August,1963. At the time of his death, 1-23 11, 1964, in St. John’s Newfoundland. he was general manager of the Northern MR. and MRS. PHILIP G. GILBERT, BSF’57. British Columbia Power Company in The World’s ull a daughter, Davina Anne, August23. Prince Rupert. He had also served on LEADER in 1963, in North Vancouver. the city council, library board,Civic MR. and MRS. ERICGRAHOLM, BASC’58. Centre directorship, Rotary Club and GESTETNER a daughter, SusanMelinda. March 26, Chamber of Commerce. (CANADA) LTD. 1964, in Prince George. 1926 950 Richards, Voncouver MR. and MRS.JOSEPH WILLIAM HURLEY, Maitland Bruce Callander, BASc, died 685-6556 BA‘63 (nke CLAIREWILLISCROFT, BA January 15, 1964, in Vancouver. Mr. ’59), a son, Joel Scott in Vancouver. Callanderspent his earlyyears with DR. and MRS. ROBERT T. MCANDREW, Canadian Westinghouse in Hamilton and PhD’62, (n6e ELAINE SPURRILL, BHE withWinnipeg ElectricCompany. In ’62). a son, Robert Murray,February 1954 hetransferred to B.C.Engineering 26, 1964, in Montreal. Company and in 1961 to International MR. and MRS. M. K. NELLES (nte CHRIS- Power and Engineering Consultants, TINE SHEILA WEIR, BA’49,LLB’SO), a where he held the position of Superin- daughter,January 1964,30,in tendent of Electrical Design until his Ottawa. death.Mr. Callander was a member of DR. and MRS. HERBERT s. PEPIN, BSA’54, the American Institute of Electrical MA’56, PhD(Ill.), a daughter,Jane Engineering and the author of several Elizabeth, March 24,1964, in Van- technical papers on substation design. couver. Grace Helen Swencisky, BA, BEd’56, I Publishers of foreign language, MR. and MRS. HUGH GORDON PURVIS. died in Madrid, suddenly, in February, elementary, secondary, and BA’50, a daughter,Elena, February 1964. college textbooks 25, 1964, in Calgary, Alberta. DR. and MRS. MICHAEL WILBURN ROSEN- 833 Oxford Street FELD MD’60, (nCe LINDA JANE SIMON, Toronto 18, Ontario BA’58, BSW’59), a son,Glen, March PITMANBUSINESS i 7, 1964,in Vancouver. COLLEGE “Vancouver’s Leading Marriages Business College” RARKER-MCGRATH. Hugh J. Barker, BA Secretarial Training, ’60, to Gail Jeanette McGrath, in Winnipeg. Stenography, RATHY-STUART. Stephen J. Bathy, BSF’61 Accounting, Dictaphone (S) to E. CaroleStuart, BA’63in Vancouver. Typewriting, Comptometer BERTHELSEN-HANSEN. Hugo SteenBer- Individual Instruction thelsen to Joy Kristine Hansen, BA’57, BSW’58,MSW’59, in Copenhagen, ENROL AT ANY TIME Denmark. Broadwayand Granville FOURNIER-ETTEL. Lawrence Joseph Four- VANCOUVER 9, B.C. nier, BCom’62 to Rose Marie Ettel, Telephone: RE gent 8-7848 BSN’63 in Vancouver. MRS.A. S. KANCS, P.C.T., G.C.T. GOSBEE-B~ILEY. Charles George Gosbee to Judith LouiseBailey, BHE’62 in PRINCIPAL Vancouver. 41 U.B.C. Alumni Association Directory Board of Management

HONORARY PRESIDENT DegreeRepresentatives: AGRICULTURE-Dr. Rich- SENATE REPRESENTATIVES-Mr. JusticeNathan T. John B. Macdonald, ard Stace-Smith, BSA’50; APPLIED SCIENCE- Nemetz, BA’34; Donovan F. Miller. BCom’47; President of the University of British Columbia David M. Carter, BASc’49; ARCHITECTURE-Ray FranklinE. Walden, BCom’38. ExecutiveCommittee: PRESIDENT-David M. Toby, BArch’50; ARTS-MrS. B. M. Hoffmeister, RCom’SS: Brousson. BASc’49: PAST PRESIDENT”PaU1 s. BA’27: COMMERCE-Gordon Elliott. Regional ReDresentatives: OWNAQAN MAINLINE Plant, BA’49; FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT-Roderick EDUCATION-stan Evans, ~Bk’41,-BEd’4%-FORE;: ”Dr. E. M.Stevenson; FRASER VALLEY- W. Macdonald, LLB’SO; SECONDVICE-PRESIDENT TRY-william G. Sharpe, BA’51, BSF’52; HOME NormanSeveride, BA’49, LLB’50; VANCOUVER ”Mrs. DavidC. Ellis, BA’36; THIRD VICE- EcoNoMlcs-Mrs. James M. Clark, BHE’53; LAW ISLAND-JO~IIR.Caldwell, BA’48,LLB’49. PRESIDENT-JOhII L.Gray, BSA’39; TREASURER- -Gordon Armstrong, LLB’59: LIBRARIANSHIP- DonaldMcL. Anderson, BCom’48; MEMBERS- RobertHarris, BLS62; MEDICINE-Dr. Albert Ex Oficio Members: TimHollick-Kenyon BA AI-LARGE (Termsexpire 1965)-R. C.H. Rod- $Ox, BA’50, MD’54; MUSIC-Brian Todd,BMus 51, BSW’53. director, U.B.C. Alumni Aksoci- rers. BASc’61: GordonOlafson. BPE’62: John 63: NURs1Nc”issMuriel IJnshall. ~ ~~~.~~~-~RASc~-. atlon;Robert J. Gillespie, LLB’64, president, 7. Carson, BA’43; George S. Cumming, BA’50, (Nurs.)’29; PHkMAcY-Norman C. Zacharias, 1964 graduatingclass; Roger McAfee. BA’62. LLB’SI. (Termsexpire 1966)-Donald J. Hud- BSP’50; PHYSICAL EDUCATION-W.R. Penn, BPE AMS presidentrKyle Mitch&. Students’ Council son, BA’52; Ronald S. Nairne, BA’47, BArch ’49; SCIENCE-Miss JoanArnold, BSc’63: SOCIAL representative. 51; KennethMartin, BCom’46; Mrs. JohnM. WORK-Mrs. DouglasFowler, BA’46,BSW’47. Lecky, BA’38. Universily Associations Okanagan Mainlrne FraserValley Vancouver Island d PRESIDENT: PRESIDENT: Dr. E. M.Stevenson, MD(Western NormanSeveride, BA’49, LLB’50, PRESIDENT-John R. Caldwell. BA’48.LLB’49. ~ ~~~ Ont.). 3105 -31st Street, Vernon. Drawer 400, Langley. .~ , , PAST PRESIDENT: Mrs. G. E. W. Clarke,BAY2, Box 820, Campbell River. ARMsTRONoROndd R. Heal, BSA’47. BOX 391. PAST PRESIDENT - David R. Williams. BA’48, GOLDEN-Mrs. TrevorBurton. 2351 LobbanRoad, Abbotsford. VICE-PRESIDENT: Dr. Mills F. Clarke BSA’35 LLB’49, Box280, Duncan. KAMLooPs-Roland G. Aubrey. BArch’51. 242 MSA’37, c/oDominion Experimenial Farm: VICE-PRESIDENT-Harold s.s. MacIvor. BA’48. VictoriaStreet. Anassiz. LLB’49, Box 160, Courtenay. KEREMEOS-Joseph A.(John) Young, BCom’49, SECRETARY-MTS. J. H. Moore, BA’27,R.R. NO. MEd’61R.R. No. 1. SECR~TARY: Hunter B. Vogel HA’58 19952 New McLellan Road, R.R. g7,’ Langle;. 4.. Duncan.~ ~~~~ ~~. LuMBY-ken B. Johnson. Merritt Diamond Mills. CHILLIWACK-Judge F. K. Grimmett, BA’32, ALRERNI-PORTALBERNI-W. Norman Burgess, P.O. Box10. Box 10, Sardis:Frank Wilson. MA’37.25 BA’40, BEd’48, 518 GoldenStreet, Alberni. OLIVER-Rudolf P. Guidi, BA’53.BEd’55, Prin- ClarkeDrive;. ABBOTSFORD-John Wiiten- CAMPBELL RIVER-Mrs. W. J. Logic, BA’29,Box cipal.Elementary School. berg, 33551 BraunAvenue, Box 1046; _”_AA osoroos-Mrs.Douglas Fraser, BA’32, R.R. WilliamH.Grant. BEd’47. Maole Street. CH~MAINUS-MrS. A. A. Brown, BA’45, BOX No. 1. BOX 37. AGAssIZ-DF~DoUdii” Taylo;: 266. PENTICTON-D.Grant Macdonald. LLB’59. 680 BSA’39, ‘c/o ExperimenialFarm: MISSION- LADYSMITH-MTS. T. R. BOggS, BA’29, BOX 37. EastNanaimo Street. Wilfred R. Jack, BA’35, MA’37, McTaggart NANAIM-HU~II B. Heath, BA’49,LLB’SO, Box REvELsToKE-Mrs. H.J. MacKay, BA’38, 202- RoadHatzic. HANEY-MervYn M. Smith 121. 6thStreet East. BA’34 12283 North 8thAvenue: HoPE-Ro; PARKSVILLE-QUALICUM-J.1.. Nicholls. BA’36, SALM-ON ARM-Dr. W. H.Letham, BSA’42, BOX Felix Thorstenson BA’40 Drawer.700. LADNE~I BEd’53, Principal,Junior.Senior High School, 2.4 I. “L. L. Goodwin: BA’5i, BEd’54, P.O. Box QualicumBeach. SUMMERLAND-James E.Miltimore, BSA’48. MS loo: LANGLEY-Dr. Chanin Kc”. Rox 636. SHAWNIGAN LAKE-Edward R. Larsen, BA’48, & PhD(0regonState), ResearchStation. CLOVERDALE-HacOld-Sl“Keeni;;ide”.BA’35: ShawniganLake School. VERNON-Mrs. Peter G. Leg& BA’37, BOX 751. Drawer 579; WHITE Roclr-Miss jesmeE. VICTORIA-David Edgar, BCom’60, LLB’61, 929 Casselman, BA‘23, 14034 Marme Drive. Fa~rfieldRoad, Victoria.

FORT ST. JOHN-Art Fletcher. BCom’54, Super- vising PrincipalNorth Peace River High Zornmonweaffh Branches and Contacts School, Box 640: AUSTRALIA-Edmund E. Price. BCom’59. Pox GRANTHAM’SLANDING”. R.Kitson, BASc’56, 3952, G.P.O.. Sydney. Brririrh Glumbia “Innishowen.” NIGERIA-Robert A.Food. BCom’59, P.O. Box LADHER-L. L.Goodwin, BA’51, BEd’54, Prin- 851, Lagos. Central clpal,Ladner Elementary School, P. 0. Box TAYGANYIKA-W.R. D.Underhill, BA’54, LLB 100. 55, c/oAttorney-General’s Chambers, Box CHAIRMAN-Mrs. G. c. Kellett,BSc(Alta), 2293 LILLooET-Harold E.Stathers BSP’53Box 548. 9080, Dar-es-Salaam. McBrideCrescent, Prince George. MERRITT-Richard M. Brown,’ BA’48, ’LLB’52. TRINIDAD, w.1.-John S. Donaldson,B A’61, PRINCE GEORGE-Rev. NewtonC. Steacy, BA’52, LLB’63. Kilbracken 9 Rd., Glencoe. Pt. 1379 EwertStreet. POWELL RIVER-F.A. Dickson, BASc’42, 5651 Cumana. QUESNEL-N. Keis, BSA’SO,Box 658. MapleAvenue. UNITED KINODOM-Mrs. J. W. R. Adams, BA- sMITHERs-Laurence W. Perrv._. LLB’50. P.O. PRINCE RUPERT-Robert C. S. Graham, BOX 188. ’23, Thurnham Grange, Thurnham near Mdd- Box188. PR!NCETON-RObertB. Cormack, BA’49, BEd stone.Kent, England, VANDERHOOF-Alvin W. Mooney. BA’35. MD 57,Box 552. and MSc(Alta.), Box56. SQUAMISH-Mrs. G. s. Clarke, BOX 31. UniM S[atrr WILLIAMS LAKE-Mrs. C. Douglas Stevenson, BA TERRACE-Ronald Jephson, LLB’56, P.O. Box ’27,Box 303. 1838. CALIFORNIA,NORTHERN - (Chairman) - Charles A.Holme, BCom’50, MBA(WesternOnt.), VrcToRIA-Robert St. G. Gray, BA’57, 1766 2478 33rd Avenue,San Francisco 16. SAN East Kootenay TaylorStreet. FRANCISCGDT. OscarE.Anderson BA’29 MA’31, 185 GraystoneTerrace; SAN~ACLA~ CHAIRMAN-POTCy Pullinper. BA’40, BEd’56, Wa(acep1 B.C.) -Mrs. Fred M. Stehen, BA’25, 381 Hayes DistrictSuperintendent of Schools, Box 9, Avenue; STANFOR”RaT0~d J. Dyck, BA’53, Cranbrook. Building 315, Apt. 14, Stanford Village. cFaNBRooK-~ric C.MacKinnon. 233 14th CALGARY ALBERTA--Richard H. King BASc’36, - Oil &’ Conservation Board, 603 6ih Avenue, CALIFORNIA, SOUTHERN-LOS ANQELES-MIS. Eli- Avenue S. - zabethBerlot, BA’40.#40 3806 Carnavon CRESTON-R. L. Morrison, BA’28, BASc’29. s. w. - DEEP RIVER, ONTARID-Dr. WalterM.Barss, Way, Zone 27. FERNIE-Kenny N. Stewart, BA’32, The Park. BA’37,MA’39, PhD’42, 58 LaurierAvenue. CHICAQO, ILLINOIS-Mrs. RichardH. Thompson, INVERMERE-MTS. G. A. Duthie. EDMONTON-Lawrence L. WilSOIl, BA’48, Asst. BA’59, 2255 St. John’sAvenue, Highland KIMBERLEY-Wm. H. R. Gibney. BASc.50, 26 - Director,Royal Alexandra Hospital. Park,Illinois. 1stAvenue, Chapman Camp. cup-Walter H. A. Wilde, BA’50, 254 Water HONOLULU,HAWAII-Donald M. McArthur. BA- ht. ’21. 295 WailupeCir. West Kootenay HA,MILTONONTARIO-Harry LPenny BA BSW- MADISON, WISCONSIN-H. PeterKrosby. BA’55 56. MiW’57. 439 Patricia ‘Drive, ’Bur1hgto.n. MA’58, PhD(Columbia), Department of Scan! CHAIBMAN-R. J. H.Welton. BASc’46, 1137 LONDON, 0NTARIO“rS.Brlan Wharf, 134 BIS- dinavlanStudles, Un~versrty of Wisconsin. cay Road. NEW MEXICO-Dr. Martin B. Goodwin, BSA’43. ColumbiaAvenue, Trail. Rox 974, Clovis, N.M. ARGENTA-Mr. Stevenson. MEDICINE HAT-HaTTY H.Yuill, BCom’59, 473 NEW YORK, NEW YORK-MiSS RosemaryBrough, CASTLEOAR-Edwin McGauley, BA’51. LLB’52, FirstStreet, S.E. BA’47. #4L-214East 5lst Street. Box 615. MONTREAL,P.Q.-L. HamlynHobden, BA’37, OHID-MTS. Milford S. Lougheed, BA’36, MA GRAND FORKS-E. C.Henniger, Jr., BCom’49, MA’40, c/oPemberton, Freeman, Mathers & (Bowllng Green), 414 Hillcrest Drlve, Bowling BOXIO. Milne,Ltd., 1980 SherbrookeSt. W., Mtl. 25. Green. NAKusP-Donald Waterfield. OTTAWA, 0NTARIo”Thomas E. Jackson, BA’37, POPTLAND. OREQON-Dr. David B. Charlton. BA- NELSON-Leo S. Gansner, BA.BCom’35, c/o 516 GoldenAvenue, Highland Park Drive, 25, 2340 JeffersonStreet, P.O. Box 1048. Garland, Gansner & Arlidge, Box 490. Ottawa 3. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Edmund J. Senkler, RIONDEL-Herman Nielsen, Box 75. PETERBOROUGH,ONTARIO-R. A. Hamilton, BA- BASc’36, 5143 E.54th. SALMWDT. R. S. Smith. Sc’36. 640 Walkerfield Avenue. SPOKANE,WASHINOTON-DOn w. Hammersley, PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO- Sydney BurtonSellick, BCom’46. 212 Symmons Bullding. BSF’52, 389 College Street. UNITED NATIONS-A. H. Sager. BA’38, Apt. lA, Other B.C. Contacts SASKATOON, sAsWTcHewAN-Dr. J.Pepper BA- 2 TudorCity Place, New York 17. ’39, MA’41, Dept. of Chemistry, Uni;ersity AsHcRolT-Gordon H. S. Parke, BSA’52, Bona- of Saskatchewan. parte Ranch, Cache Creek. Sr. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND - Dr. Parzival O~tierCountries BEbLA COOLA-Milton C.Sheppard, BA’53. BEd- Copes, BA’49, MA’50, 36 Golf Avenue. ISRAEL-Arthur H.Goldberg, BA’48.P.O. Box 54.Box 7. TOPONTO, ONTARI~IVanFeltham, BA’53, LLB- 1713. Haifa. 54, 40 Rosewell. JAPAN-Takashi Kiuchl, MA’60 136-Chome, WBLLARD. 0NTARIo“CharksConnaghan, BA’59, ligura-machi, Azabu. MInacbKu,Tbkva. MA’60.Box 238. Fonthill. SULuN-Abn C.Brooks, BA’48. c/o UNTAB. WOLFVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA-Bruce Robinson. P.O. Box913, Khartoum,Sudan. 42 Bank of Commerce offers a special long-term EDUCATION LOAN

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