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T-Birds heroes turn herited football team that had gone a 2-8 the previous season and would go. 1-8 in its first season under him (the lonewin coming in an exhibition game against a small Washington college). This year, Smith’s Buds went undefeated in league play, out- scoring the opposition by an average of 37-13 in the process, then won theWestern Intercollegiate Football League final 57-3 and theAtlantic Bowl 54-1. It matters not whether they won or lost the Vanier Cup, the Canadian university football championship game(held between deadline and publication of thisissue of the Chronicle); a loss would indicate merely an off day fora behemoth that hasbeen rank- ed numberone in the country from day one of the season. The scouts who oncetrekked up thesides of Mountain toassess the skills of the likes of LuiPassaglia, Glen Jackson and Rick House, now park their cars in the shadow of Thunderbird stadium. continued nextpage

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T-Bird coach Frank Smith: ‘%botball, nextto my family,is my top priority. ” Photo: Arnold Hedsrrom, The Ubysey Inside ... Editorial ...... 2 One of the greatest deities in Western true, of course, but we still cheer those mythology is named Joe. Asa young man, former 97-pound weaklings who do wreak Summer College...... 2 Joe hada fine mind and generous soul,but their revenge on their erstwhile tormentors. Pedersen to become 8th his 97-pound scarecrow frame made him The Miracle Mets of 1969 and the UBC president...... 3 the target of bullies and led to his Cinderella Canucks of 1982 were certainly Alumni Fund Report...... 3 humiliating downfall. But Joe fought back, no better than any other World Series or Resources Council reorganized . . . 4 risking a dime to send away for a book that Stanley Cup finalists; their tremendous ap Travel with UBC . . . . :...... 4 would turn him into themuscular “Hero of peal stemmed from the fact that they were the Beach”; he subsequently avenged his former doormats rising up against their op UBC Executive Programmes . . . . . 4 honor by punching out the very muscular pressors. Graduates face tough meathead who had humiliated him. A similar story is unfolding on UBC’s time in finding jobs ...... 5 In addition to making millions for own campus,where the Thunderbirdsfoot- UBC Landmarks ...... 5 Charles Atlas, Joe worked his way into the ball team, once thelaughingstock of apret- Great Trek Week ‘82 ...... 6 North American subconscious. Each one ty weak league, is now the best college foot- of us is a 97-pound weakling in one depart- ball team in the country. Because it’s taken Getting together...... 7 ment or another, and Joehas given us faith place over eight years, the enormity of the “Welcome Back” ...... 8 that if only we want and work hard enough, transformation is obscured. Consider some The Alumni Awards . . . . : ...... 8 nothing is beyond our grasp. It isn’t always statistics. In 1974, coach Frank Smith in- ~ ~~ ~

T-Birds . . . controversial was after his first game back continued from page 1 in 1974, the 63-0 debacle, when he blew his EDITORIAL top, accusing the other team of picking on The metamorphosis of the hapless Birds his kids. The game loss appears to embar- into the juggernautthey are now didn’t just rass Smith a lot less than his loss of com- Alumni Association happen, of course. It took somebody to posure at the time. He’s proud of his suc- gamble, somebody who believed these cess, but he makes it all sound simple, as if pledges support scrawny little Birds could, with a little ap- anybody could do the same, if only they plication and perspiration, turn intomuscl- were willing to do the necessary sweating. in UBC community ed champions who would crush the various How did he get the job? “After the job Bisons, Huskies, Dinosaurs and Golden became available (following Thomas’s relations Bears who fattened up on poultry all those resignation) I applied for it.” Did he im- press UBC with his plans for turning the On July Ist, 1983, Dr. K. George years. That somebody was Frank Smith, a 5 1-year-old Vancouverite and former high football program around? No, he says. Pedersen will become the eighth president “You accept a job the way it is, and after of the University of British Columbia. school teacher. He was hired in the springof 1974 to replace Norm Thomas, Frank that you work to change it, to make it a bet- The Spring Chronicle will have more to ter job.” say about the importance of this decision Gnup’s successor, who had resigned after just one season on the job. When he did begin to implement his for UBC and about thechallenges that changes, did his new employers object to will face Dr. Pedersen as he moves from John Marquardt, who played under all three coaches, notes the differencebetween his dismantling the “fun” “recreation” Simon Fraser to Point Grey. program and replacing it with his own boot For the present we want to congratulate the approaches of thesainted Gnup andthe square-jawed tough guy Smith: “The foot- camp? No, he insists. “They were suppor- Chancellor Clyne and his search tive, but they left it in my hands.” committee on a wise and timely choice. ball team used be a recreation program; it was a lot of fun. With Smith it became a “The biggest thing we did,” he says We also wish President Kenny well as he (“we” being the coaching staff), “was we prepares to return to teaching and football program. It was fun too, but it was fun in a different way.” recruited players and we devoted a lot of research. He has been a constant friend to time and energy to the football program. the Association. Finally we express, on Smith brought three things to UBC: discipline, knowledge, and football players. Football, next to my family, is my top behalf of all graduates, a hearty welcome priority.” to our new President. The Board, the He was determined that theprovince’s best young athleteswould start going to UBC in- Maybe it is that simple. In the meantime staff and the volunteers all look forward the Birds are drawing more attention and to working with Dr. Pedersen, particularly stead of or somewhere outside theprovince. One of his bigger crowds than ever before. Until the on the challenge of improving UBC’s other teams in the league get sick and tired public awareness. first recruits was Dan Smith,the Birds throughout the middle and of getting sand kicked in their faces, until We have spent considerable energy in they send away for their own versions of recent months establishing the later 1970s. Dan Smith recalls the first UBC football Frank Smith, UBC’s one-time 97-pound University’s Resources Council for weaklings will continue to avenge humilia- President Kenny. It is now off and game for both Smiths, a 63-0 loss to the tions of footballtionsof seasons past. 0 running and will, we hope, be seen as a University of Saskatchewan. “Frank and I useful asset by President Pedersen. One went out to dinner that night. He said to of the things that we have learned along me, ‘Now Dan, don’t worry, it’s gonna get better, I promise you that. I’m going to by Ralph Maurer the way is that fund-raising is only one (Ralph Maurer is aUBC graduate, part of the larger endeavour of work, and it’s gonnaget better.’” It did the following year. Bolstered by new recruits BA (English) ’78, who is an editor for New community relations. Star Books Ltd. in .) In these days of funding crises it is Smith and Smith brought homeUBC’s first imperative that the people of B.C. and of winning record - 6-4 - in almost a Canada recognise that higher education is decade. Recruiting has since gotten a lot of utmost importance to our society. It is easier. Let’s face it - nothing brings in up to Universities to tell their stories to recruits like an 18-4 record, which UBC had the public and thus attract not only more compiled over the last two seasons. private funds, but also a greater degree of Frank Smith, in fact, has just become stability. UBC’s winningest football coach ever. His Judging by Dr. Pedersen’s track record 55 wins innine seasons is one better than the at Simon Fraser, he will be taking UBC’s 54 winsGnup compiled in eighteen seasons. community relations as one of his In fact, some time next year Smith should priorities. The Alumni Association double the total number of games won by pledges him its wholehearted and all UBC post-war football teams. (How Summer College enthusiastic support in this undertaking. tough was it to win here? So tough thateven He should know that he has 80,ooO Don Coryell, now coaching the San Diego The 1983 Alumni Summer College is ambassadors waiting for his call. local of the NFL Players’ Association, won scheduled from July 5 to luly 9, 1983 only twice in 18 tries when he was in charge Ad multos annos. The topic will be of the Birds in the early 1950s.) Smith’s ’1 984 and the Computer Revolution” 1982Birds are the first team to go More informatlon on tours, undefeated in WIFL league play; they’ve Dr. Peter Jones faculty and special events now won fifteen straight league games, a Executive Director surrounding the Summer College UBC Alumni ,4ssociation record only they have any real chance of breaking. w~ll bein the Spring Edition Smith reveals few secrets about his suc- of the Chronicle. cess, if indeed there are secrets. He avoids Plan now to join us! controversy. The last time he did anything I w 2

~~~ ~~ Pedersen to become 8th Alumni Fund UBC president Report Dr. K. George Pedersen, president of Simon Fraser University, will become the Organizers of the1982 Alumni Fund fall eighth president of the University of British campaign extend a warm thank you. To Columbia on July 1, 1983. date over $84,000 has been received Dr.Pedersen, 51, will succeed Dr. through alumni support. Over $48,000 of Douglas T. Kenny, UBC’s chief executive that total has been unallocated, which means officer since 1975, who will have completed the Alumni Association can fulfil its com- 39 years of association with his alma mater mitment to scholarships and bursaries for when he steps down as president next June needy students during these difficult times 30. of restraint. We can assist many student- Dr. Leslie Peterson, chairman of UBC’s related groups on campuswith special wor- Board of Governors, in announcing Dr. thy projects as well. Pedersen’s appointment, said the Board The UBC Summer Program for the felt it had found in Dr. Pedersen an ideal in- Retired has been faced with a severe crisis dividual to succeed Dr. Kenny. with its budget cut due to retrenchment. “Dr. Pedersen,” he said, “has had ex- Thus far $12,105 has been raised. perience as a student, teacher, researcher Dr. K. George Pedersen In response to the crisis developing with and administrator at all levels of the B.C. DayCare facilities on campus, Mrs. Sher- school system and at all three public univer- to) from 1968 to 1970 he returned to the wood Lett haschaired a committee ofUBC sities in the province. He is ideally qualified University of Chicago as an assistant pro- supporters which has been seeking support to provide the educational leadership so fessor and associate director of theMidwest from fellow alumni. To date, $4,020 has vital in a comprehensive institution such as Administration Centre. been raised. $217,000 is required to save the UBC.” When he joined thefaculty at theUniver- centres from closing due to fire hazards on Dr. Pedersen is a graduate of UBC, a sity of Victoria, Dr. Pedersen was deeply in- December 30. former elementary and secondary school volved in a number of provincial and na- The UBC Ski Team Fund has generated teacher and administrator in North Van- tional bodies concerned with teacher educa- $1,375 from it’s alumni. couver and a university-level professor and tion. He was a member of the provincial The Wesbrook Society Trustees granted researcher in the field of educational ad- Joint Board of TeacherEducation forthree $32,OoOUS to the Crane Library for the ministration. years and a member of planning commit- purchase of a Kurzweil Reading Machine He joined the University of Victoria in tees for the Canadian Teachers’ Federation for the blind. 1972 as dean of the Faculty of Education, a and the B.C. Council for Leadership in Our phonathon program kicked off this post he held until 1975, when he was ap- Educational Administration. year in California with a goal of endowing pointed academic vice-president and pro- He has also served on a number of com- our Southern Californian Scholarship. fessor at that university. He became Simon mittees of the Universities Council of B.C., Close to $2,700 was pledged in two days Fraser University’s president in 1979. including its business affairs, long-range with the help of six volunteers in the Los Dr. Pedersen holds a diploma from the planning and program co-ordinating com- Angeles area. Next stops are Seattle, former provincial normal school in Van- mittees. He chaired the advisory committee Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto. Local couver (1952); graduated from the Univer- on educational planning for the B.C. phonathons are scheduled for Commerce sity of B.C. in 1959 with double honors in education ministry in 1977-78 and is cur- and Rehab Medicine and Geography just history and geography; was awarded the rently on the task force on forestry man- completed one. degree of Master of Arts by the University power needs of the provincial ministry of Other Campus groupshave taken advan- of Washington in 1964 in the fields of forestry. tage of a divisional mailing to alumni. Civil geography and administration; and receiv- Dr. Pedersen also has a long-standing in- engineering is appealing to their alumni to ed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from terest in international education. He serves support the CCES Conference and the University of Chicago for research on theadvisory committee of the Office of Chemical Engineering has recently held a which focussed on the administration and International Development of the Associa- campaign for funds. economics of education. tion of Universities and Colleges of Canada The Alumni Fund Committee, underthe As a student, Dr. Pedersen won and is also a member of AUCC’s board of Chairmanship of Me1 Reeves, has other numerous awards,including a University of directors. He is a member, trustee and plans in the offing - a special Parents Pro- Chicago Scholarship and two Canada governor of a number of local and national gram for non-alumni parents, a reunion- Council doctoral fellowships. He also held bodies, including the Arts, Science and giving program which will enable classes to a prestigious Ford Foundation fellowship Technology Centre, Discovery Founda- choose a special project to honour their for threeyears at the University of Chicago. tion, the Leon and Thea Koerner Founda- graduating year. The Classes of ’21 and ‘22 For 13 years from 1952 to 1965, Dr. tion, the advisory committee of the Van- have already set their sights on raising funds Pedersen was a teacher, vice-principal and couver Academy of Music and the Institute for a “Photographic Archives Fund” for principal at five elementary and secondary for Research on Public Policy in Montreal. the Special Collections section of the schools in North Vancouver. Born in Northern Alberta, Dr. Pedersen Library. 0 He enrolled at theUniversity of Chicago grew up and received his schooling in the in 1965 to obtain his doctorate and after a Fraser Valley community ofChilliwack. He two-year period at the Ontario Institute for is married and has two children, a 22-year- Studies in Education (University of Toron- old son and a 20-year-old daughter. 0 e 3 I to develop a strongimage of the University Resources within the business community. As well, he Travel with UBC will assist in the formation of long-range funding strategies designed to balance the in 1983/4 Council University’s needs against those ofbusiness and industry. Educational and Economical Travel/Study reorganized In addition to his office on theUniversity Experiences campus, Heath will also keep an office in the downtown core, in a space donated by ET 3036-483 - China: Cultural Traditions Universities arepart of the communities Placer Developments, Limited. andModernization, Mr.Ken which they serve.As fund-raisers, we must Woodsworth, Oct 1-22, 1983. Resources Council Members: work to make the public aware of the im- ET 3044-384 - Kenya: Land and People portant social and economic contributions The Honourable J.V. Clyne A.F. Pierce -Culture and Education, Barbara Matiru, the University makes to the community. July 1984. That was the message from Chancellor Moms Belkin ET 3045-283 - Cultural and Educational J.V. Clyne to newly-appointed members of The Honourable John N. Tbmer the UBCResources Council at the council’s Donovan F. Miller Tour of Hungary, Dr. Marg Csapo, May 24-June 9, 1983. firstgeneral meeting since being Clark Davey Trevor W. Pilley reorganized recently. ET 3046-383 - Living and Learning in R.I. Nelson Noting that individuals and corporations Scandinavia, Dr. Steen Esbensen, July W. Robert Wyman alike will support only those causes which 9-29, 1983. seem socially relevent, Clyne described the W.D.H. Gardiner ET 3049-383 - International Higher Ray G. Williston Resources Council’s task 2s one of com- Education Seminar: Germany, Austria, W.G. Wilson munity relations. A primary functionof the Switzerland, Dr. Stephen Foster, Aug The Honourable N.T. Nemetz council, he said, should be to provide ad- 12-Sep 1, 1983. The Honourable S. Ronald Basford vice as to which University projects are J. Ronald Longstaffe ET 3061-283 - The Ukrainians: Culture, most likely to attract the financial support Tong Louie Society, Education, Dr. Hannah Polowy, of individuals, corporations and founda- Norman Hildesheim Apr 27-May 23, 1983. tions. Joseph Cohen ET 3062-383- Japan: Care and Education The first general meeting of the newly- Ralph Franklin of Children, Dr. Hannah Polowy, Aug appointed Resources Council was held Oc- Dr. Douglas T. Kenny 7-19, 1983. tober 14, 1982 in the President’s Lounge of Grant Burnyeat For details contact the Centre for Continu- the University Club. At that meeting, Ron Heath Chancellor Clyne introduced Mr. Ron ing Education, The University of British Dr. Peter Jones Heath, who is serving as the Council’s Ex- Columbia, 5997 Iona Drive, Vancouver, Man Holender B.C. V6T 2A4 or phone 228-2181 or ecutive Secretary. Me1 Reeves e 228-681 1, locals 221, 225. An Australian by birth, Ron Heath e emigrated to Canada in 1947. During a thirty-four year career with the resources giant,Cominco Limited, Heath demonstrated exceptional ability in the UBC Executive Programmes fields of corporate forecasting and external relations. Management Seminars and Workshops While at Cominco, Heath was at the vanguard of an innovative and highly suc- SPRING 1983 cessful management strategy based on the belief that social and economic change is The Resource Sector Outlook February 15 $225 something to be managed, rather than Quality Circles February 15 $225 simply coped with. Financial Planning & Budgeting February$395 17-18 As Executive Secretary, Heath will work How to Measure and Improve Sales Force Profitability February Profitability $225 22 H ow to How Manage Stress February$225 23 Employment LawManagers for February 24 $225 The ManagementProject Process March$395 2-3 Howto ImproveProductivity and Motivation March 9-10 $395 PricingMarch for Profit 31 $225 AssertivenessMarchManagers for 30 $225 Management Accounting for the Non- Accountant March 29-30 $395 How to Speak Without Notes April 5 $225 Managing for Team Effectiveness April 6-7 $395 Negotiation Skills for Sales and Purchasing Managers April 12- 13 $395 Japanese ManagementJapanese Techniques April 14 $225 M arketing AprilDirect Marketing $225 14

To register or for further information contact Brenda Carratt at (604) 228-2026. Mr. Ron Heath, Executive Secretary of the Resources Council. 4 Graduates face tough time finding jobs A betterjob faster! Alltheskillsyou needtodesigned to assist students whose expenses notified that theoffer had been revoked. It get any job and have a goodtime doing it! are not fully covered by other forms of is not suprising then, that, rather than risk assistance, such as government loans and such an embarrassing situation again, a grants-in-aid. The program is administered number of major corporations have either Such are the rewards promised by the by the Financial Aid office, with hiring opted outof this year’s recruiting program various job-search guides on display in the preference given on the basis of a needs or have confined themselves to a limited, UBC Canada Employment Centre. For an assessment. Wherever possible, a student is non-commital “survey” of present pro- increasing number of students, however, placed in a position relevant to his or her spects. the primary concern is no longer with fin- own course of studies. While it is too early to accurately predict ding a better job, but with finding any Despite a slow initial response, the whether the serious summer job shortfall employment, whatever. number of applicationsto theWork-Study witnessed last summer will be repeated in Although, as a group, university program is now up substantially from last 1983, a number of troublesome signs have graduates remain among the most year. In the view of Work-Study Ad- already appeared. As the annual campus employable members of society, the past ministrator Sheila Summers, this delayed recruitment drive got underway, all in- year has seen a dramatic decrease in both response is explainable in part to poor stu- dicators suggested that the serious the number and theoverall quality of jobs dent budgetting. In Summer’s words, downturn experienced last winter will be available to students. In British Columbia, “Some people receive their loans and don’t even more pronouncedthis year. 0 the university community has been budget ahead. When you get $1,500 in your especially hard-hit by the economic hard- hand, there doesn’t seem to be any pro- by Ian McLatchie ships of industries traditionally known as blem.” (Ian McLatchie is a Vancouver freelance major sources of summer and casual On the other hand, Summers points out writer.) employment. The forest, mining, and that many needy students, especially single hospitality industries, in particular, have parents, face tremendous difficulties in at- been forced to cut-back substantially on tempting to free-up sufficient time to par- Editor’s note: What the future holds for student hiring. ticipate in the Work-Study program. 1982 grads and how they face it b a CBC According to the Centre’s acting The 1981-82 recruitment program pro- televkion documentarySunday, December Manager Pat Hagerman,1982 has been the vided a graphic illustration of how serious 26 from 9-10 p.m.Grads, produced by most worrisome year since the Canada and widespread the recession had suddenly Doug Lower, is an Agriculture and Employment Centre opened its UBC office become. For the first time in the history of Resources documentary about graduates in 1978. As anindication of howserious the the program, a large number of students and the workforce, which may be of special student unemployment problem has were first offered employment, and then interest to Chronicle readers. become, Hagerman cites comparison statistics for thesummers of198 1 and 1982. Between April and August of thisyear, the CEC was able to place only 413 students in full-time, employer-solicited jobs - a drop Special Offer to UBC Alumni of 58% from the 988 placements achieved during the same period in 1981. Part-time placements also dropped slightly, from 635 in 1981, to 494 in 1982. Hagerman also describes 1982 as a poor year in terms of the types of job listed. Comparedwith previous years, a significantly higher percentage of job re- quests placed with the Centre this summer were for low-paying, and in many cases on- ly short-term, manual labour positions. The summer employment shortage, a collection of limited editionprints coupled with increased tuition, textbook, and general living expenses, has led to fierce Your Alumni Associationis for set of four competition for casual winter employment. $115. (including handling and The situation is worsened by a record enrol- proud to offer this series of original postage) ment in both UBC and Simon Fraser drawings by Vancouver artist Paper size 13”x 17” University. UBC Information Officer AI Calum Srigleyto UBC alumni. The (BC restdents add bco pmvtnclal sales tax) Hunter estimates current UBC enrolment series combines traditional scenes, at 25,030 - a rise of over three percent “UBCLandmarks” from the previous record established last such as the Old Library, withmod- UBC Alumni Association year. ern additionsto the campus, such 6251 Cecil Green Park Road The principal source of on-campus Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 employment is the Work-Study program. as the Museum of Anthropology. (604)228-3313 Funded by the provincial Ministry of Education, the Work-Study program is f 5 ’ UBC a place of living history during Trek Wkek ’82

One of the most memorable events of Great Trek Week ’82 was the Great Trek parade, which wound through downtown and Point Grey streets and included large and colorful contingents of both students and alumni. Others will remember the Arts ’20 Relay Race, a recent revival of an event originally staged in 1920, which this year at- tracted over 1400 entrants. TheEngineering A team won the race, finishing the 11 kilometres in 32 minutes, 6 seconds. For many, the climax to theweek was the Founders Dinner and Dance, hosted by Professor Emeritus Dr. Blythe Eagles and highlighted by an address delivered by UBC alumnus, Pierre Berton. The Founders Dinner was something of showcasea for the traditions and rituals which have been pass- ed from one generation of students to the next. The Dinner was attended by at least one member of each graduating class of the years 1916-1929 - a tribute to the organizational skills of the Great Trek Week committee. In a salute to these distinguishedguests, Berton recalled the inspiration hehad experienced on first tribution to campus life. In presenting the hearing of the events of 1922. award to UBC Intramural Co-ordinator, Cecil Green Another feature of the Founders Dinner Nestor Korchinsky, Franknoted that it celebrations was the presentation by Alma was only through the initiative of Dr. Kor- Park Mater Society President Dave Frank of the chinsky that the Arts ’20 Relay Race was Great Trekker award for1969. outstanding con-in revived e Fall Forums Has the classical notion of a liberal education been rendered obsolete by an in- creasingly specialized economy? Can the success of a university be measured by the financial contribution its graduates make to society? These questions were examined Thurs- day, November 4th at Cecil Green Park during a lively debate between the noted medieval scholar Dr. A. Jean Elder of the UBC History Department, and Mr. James P. Cooney, Manager of Government Af- fairs for Placer Developments, Limited. The debate, entitled “Skilled Trade or an Education: Should Graduates be Doers or Thinkers?”, was presented by the UBC Alumni Association as the first event in its evening Fall Forum series. Three other programs in the Fall Forum Series included: 0 ProfessorLarry Weiler, Head, Chemistry Department - “A Day In The Life of a University Professor” The Honourable J.V. Clyne, Chancellor, UBC - “A President for the 80’s” Dr. Nestor Korchinsky, UBC Intramural Mr.Byron Olson, Olson Ar- Co-ordinator, received the Great Trekker chitects/ Program Planners - “The Univer- award for outstanding contribution to cam- UBC alumnus Pierre Berton was the sity Endowment Lands: Park, Research pus life. keynote speaker at the Founders Dinner. Park, or Housing?” 6 the feeling of the groupwhen he said, “the best is yet to come”. Getting together The graduates of 1932 are still looking forward, many indicating that their background, graduating in a year of the great depression, only served to make them more determined to succeed. They are op timistic and have faith in the future of Canada and offer encouragement to today’s graduates. 1957 Reunion The Graduate Student Centre was the venue for this year’s 25th Class Reunion, where the class of ’57 got together to greet old friends and put names to familiar faces. A cocktail reception was followed by a delicious smorgasbord buffet for 150 in the dining room where seating was arranged by Faculty. After dinner, guests danced to the familiar songs of 1957 courtesy of Ruby and Bill from Spectrum Audio Entertain- ment. Ruby helped the good times to start by demonstrating the Hokey Kokey and Bill led the guests in an interesting version of the Rumba. There must have been some tired feet the following day as the dancing 50th Reunion Committee members to Neil McKellar, Ottawa, Enid Harvey, (I r) continued until 1 a.m. Alistair Taylor, London, Ontario, Dr. Charles Armstrong, San Diego, , Credit for the great time is due to the Mary Fallis, Prince George. Class chairmen who helped organize the event and telephoned their classmates to 1932 Reunion and made sure that anyone from out of bring them out for the evening. Only one town received an invitation to dinner on regret was expressed: it was over too soon In 1932 there were 348 graduates from Friday night at one of their homes. This and it’s too long to the next reunion. UBC, each full of enthusiasm and ready to kind gesture gave the out-of-towners a make his or her mark on theworld. On Oc- chance to get to know each other again. tober 2, 1982, 84 graduates came back to The bus tour on Saturday morning was Ski Team Reunion the University for their 50th reunion. A enjoyed by 20 graduates. In 1932, there There will be a social gathering of the ski weekend of celebration was planned for were only five main buildings on campus, team alumni on the weekened of February this memorable anniversary including din- quite a contrast with campus today. Many 26,1983. It will take place at GrouseMoun- ner parties given by the reunion committee said that, although the University had ob- tain and promises to be a lot of fun. For members in their homes; a bus tour of the viously grown tremendously, they were glad more information, please contact: campus and a formal dinner at the UBC to see that the greenery and trees preserved Don Sturgess 263-21 18. Faculty Club. to some extent the garden-like surroundings The Class of ’32 reunion committee, they had enjoyed before. chaired by Dr. Alfred Elliot, was a keen and The media were very interested to hear Alumni Association lively group determined to makethis one of the graduates make comparisons between the most enjoyable reunionsever. Guests at 1932 and the present. Mrs. Harvey com- Divisions the formal dinner were surprised and very mented in an article in the Vancouver Sun pleased to see so many familiar faces. There on September 28, “With 50 year hindsight, An extraordinary Board of Management was a special feeling of warmth and affec- there’ll be comparisons. But in my opinion meeting was held on November 4, 1982 to tion which was appreciated by everybody. the world was bleaker in 1932”. Dr. Charles discuss Divisions. Each member of the Credit for this goes to the committee,which Armstrong in an interview with CBC-TV Divisions Council Executive talked about began organizing activities a full year before said that he also felt that although things their area of responsibility and the way they the event. seemed bad today, opportunities were still would like to see Divisions develop. Work is “The personal touch,” said committee there for graduates who were prepared to proceeding on theDivisions Handbook and Secretary Mrs. Enid Harvey, “is the reason work. The general feeling of the Class of ’32 Reunions Handbook. A newsletter was why so many graduates were present.” was that adversity creates stronger people recently completed for the Social Work Each invitation contained a personal com- and encourages them to make more effort. Division which included a “Missing Per- ment from a member of the committee. Chancellor J.V. Clyne, guest speaker at sons” list. The response from the This must have stirred many fond the Faculty Club reunion dinner, noted that MBAlMSc list was good and we hope that memories and certainly produced a good 1932 was a year which produced many our Records department will have as much response. Graduates came from as faraway distinguished figures. The graduating year successwith the Social Work Division. 0 as Australia, Scotland, Floridaand Califor- produced at least one chancellor in the per- nia as well as from all over Canada. Reu- son of Dr. Ian McTaggart Cowan “and it is by Liz Owen nion committee members offered their hardly his fault that he is with the wrong Program Assistant homes to those needing accommodation university” quipped Clyne. He captured Alumni Associalion 7 POSTMASTER: Return Requestedwlth new address (SeeCGP) Please do not forward

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