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VOLU ME 11, N U MBER 4 CHRISTMAS ISSUE DECEMBER 1955 CONTENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS Chairman of the Board of Governors 3 '55 4 Postgrad Patter 5 Business and Professional 9 President's Page 10 Correspondence Cuts 16 Winter Activities 16 GEORGIANNALS Prof. Com pion 18 Principal's Page 19 " Y" Award Scholarship 28 Frantic Freshmen . 38 IDEAS AND OPINIONS Editorial . 21 Prof. R. \W. Fraser 22 Verbal Ability . 23 Mixed Basketball . 24 Book Reviews . 25 Sport Is Unpredictable . 29 Canadian Poetry 31

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I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity through the pages of "The Postgrad", of extending to Sir George Williams alumni and their families very best wishes for a M erry Christmas, and a Bright and Successful New Year.

I knmv you are keenly interested in the progress of the new building, and am glad to report that certain sections • will be ready for occupancy late in December, when the College and Schools are scheduled to commence the task of moving. It is hoped that the whole plant, comprising new College and renovated Y.M.C.A. buildings, will be available by the close of the academic year in the Spring of 1956.

I am sure the alumni and students v,1ill be favourably impressed by the new structure. In appearance it is modern and spacious. The corridors are long and wide, and the common areas both large and cheerful. We trust its halls will resound with the fine spirit which was so evident in the old building and annexes. Incidentally, the annexes will all be abandoned at the end of the current school year, and we will find ourselves operating completely within the boundari es of the nev,1 College and adjoining "Y" building.

And so, at this the festive season, we can reJ01ce in the achie"\.'tment of a . cherished dream, and can look forward with every confidence to the future. M y sincere compliments and a H appy Holiday to all!

B. W. ROBERTS

December 1955 3 former M ary Angelakies) both B.A. - now living in Edmonton, Alberta. Mrs. '55 Porges is a student at the U. of Alberta by IRMA MANDELZYS in Education, while Mr. Porges is a school teacher with the Edmonton Public Jacques Allard, B.Sc. - working at School Board a nd he shall receive his Shawinigan Chemicals at Patent Agent. Bachelor of Education from U. of Joseph R. Beaulieu, B.Comm. - plan­ Alberta this spring. ning to do post-graduate work at the U. Eliza beth Berzins, B.A. - studying for of Toronto leading to an M .A. in Econ­ B.Com. at S.G.W.C. omics next year ( 1956) . Kenneth Gough, B.A. - a gradua te Rhoda Belenkee, B.A. - going to student with an assistantship in Speech England by Dec. 1955. Pathology and Audiology at State Uni­ Gerald J. Cleary, B.A. - working as versity of Iowa. a Cost Accountant at Canadian Inter­ Douglas H eslop, B.A. - is a member national Paper Co. of the R.C.M .P. Morley Coviensky, B.A. - working as Leo Wynnyckyj , B.Com. '53, B.A. '55 bookkeeper a t Righ t Made Garment - - is a Graduate student at University his main interest is readings in the field of Western Ontario in Business Adminis­ of Social Science. tration. Ian George Cummings, B.Comm. - is Albert Hudon, B.Comm. 1954, B.A. a Methods Analyst for Canadian Resins 1955 - now in Geneva, Switzerland. & Chemicals. Heinrich Von Glatz, B.Comm. 1955 - Harvey R. Donaldson, B.A. - is a working at Dominion Tar & Chemical Civil Servant with the Dept. of National Co. as an Accountant. Defence. Mr. James A lexander R. Watt, Mr. and Mrs. George Porges ( the (Continued on page 13)

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4 Th e Postgrad By BOB HAYES

Our congratulations to Tom Plunkett, B.A. '50, on his appointment as town manager of the Town of Beaconsfield . Tom, who was one-time editor of The Georgian, had been executive assistant director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities until he was named to this new post. H e has also lectured at the college for the past fi ve years and has given courses in Public Administration and Municipal Government and is the author of a book ­ "Municipal Organization in Canada". All the best, Tom ... Nancy and Laurie Braithwaite finally getting settled in their new home on the Lakeshore, just a short block away from Newlyweds Bill Shaver and Eleanor Grant ... Sincerest sympathies to Steve Montague on the sudden death of his brother last month .. . Sir George's one and only M .P., Bill Hamilton, busy commuting between Ottawa and Montreal and keeping speaking engagements ... Dave Novek heiping to spread the name of the college around through the pages of The H erald, where he's reporting in between lectures ... Dave Brown, formerly with Northern Electric publicity department, out West to a new job ... K ee ping in Touch ... Our "lumberjacks" did themselves proud at the recent annual McGill Outing Club's woodsmen's competition when they axed their way to third prize behind Macdonald College and Laval University . .. That last high school graduating class was the largest in history .. . Sir George's NFCUS Trophy - presented each year to the university who has contributed most to the betterment and advancement of the federation in Canada - went to Dalhousie U . .. Students staged a variety spow in aid of the Neil Compton Fund, MC'd by Bernie Tonchin, at Budge Hall in October - All our best wishes to Prof. Compton for a speedy recovery . . . The Georgian's Sports Columnist Garry "Good Evening" DeGeer asks: What happened to the 'Good Old Days?' With a tear in his eye he wonders what ever happened to the Robert Jones', Bobo Swail's, Tom Parrott's, Indian Richardson's, Max Shenker's and John Hannan's. We used to ask ourselves the same question, Garry, but we used to find them up at the 'B'. But for everyone's information Max and John are up at McGill ... What next - students have fonned a Sir George branch of the Canadian Rocket Society - its purpose to build and test solid and liquid fuel rockets. No launchings near the new building, eh .. . Random Ramblings . .. Don Slater in the texti!e business .. . A second boy for the Guy Brennan's, who has switched his base of operations from Quebec City to Montreal . .. Jean Des Rosiers busy in the real estate fi eld a rid living in his own home out St. Lambert way ... Paul Gordon, Arts '51 , practicing law .. . Denis Allard middle-aisled it recently . . . The M cFarland's, Chris and H eather, expecting their second bundle from the stork . . . In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vineberg are the proud parents of a baby boy ... Phil Beaudette living in Beaurepaire ... Janet (Mosca) Baxter welcomed a boy into the family- a brother for Valerie and son for Ken . .. '48er Ken Williams a radar officer with the RCAF Reserve ... From the same year Granger Robertson with Granger et Freres . . . Jacques Belair and Tom H echt off to Europe on separate jaunts . .. Joan and Alex Shatilla expecting a playmate for Karen . . . Bill :r.,estage, a bowler of some note, doing medical documentation with Nestles . . . George Palmer (Co ntinued on page 7)

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6 The Postgrod Postgrad Patter . • . (Continued from page 51 still active with the Ottawa R epertory Theatre . .. Bill Copping has joined the permanent Navy ... Jane Hammond coaching the college's Junior WOBL entry .. . Bill Lestage, a bowler of some note, doing medical documentation with Nestles . . . George Palmer still active with the Ottawa R epertory Theatre ... Bill Copping has joined the permanent Navy ... Jane Hammond coaching the college's Junior WOBL entry ... Things Maybe You Didn't know . . . Prof. Philip T. R . Pugley's division has the largest enrollment of undergraduate Commerce students in Canada . . . Georgian speedsters placed 2nd at this year's Ottawa-St. Lawrence Valley track meet - We seem to remember the college being lucky to sneak into a sixth spot in the standing - Nice show, fellows ... Things are humming in the corridors with the Sir George Rifle Club setting their sights on the biggest year yet - Stand back everyone! . .. H enry Emond president of the Cercle Frarn;ais . . . 60 degrees and diplomas awarded by the college in November for presentation at the June convocation ... George Trim heading this year's Winter Carnival scheduled for the week of Feb. 6 . . . And add three new clubs in the evening division - music appreciation group, dramatic society and a jazz club .. . H ere's hoping that American Exchange program, which has become such a great success in the past years, isn't going to be dropped this year . . . That reminds us - What ever happened to the Proofreader Prom? ... The Christmas Ball at the Windsor on Dec. 17 ... As reported in The Georgian - John Hannan told the Pre-Law Society of Sir George that law exams are eight hours long and last for three days. John, I think you've been misquoted and they spelled your name wrong too . .. We've learned that Art Cohen, B.Sc. '52, has obtained his engineering degree this year and is demonstrating physics at Sir George besides working as a metallurgist at Dominion Engineering . . . James Dick, '47, spends his days at Canadian Bronze and his evenings lecturing at SGWC ... Congratulations to Muriel Gold, B.A. '53, cooperator par excellence on the Publications Committee, and Maurice Gold, B.Comm. '50 on the acquisition of a future Georgian . .. H earty huzzahs to Dave Zacharin (an executive) on his engagement .. . and similar salaams to Irma Mandelzys on hers ... This autumn cheerful one for Roger Vershingel, he has added a Ph. D. in Chemistry after his name ... Roger Alphonse Latour, B.Comm. '52, announces he is not a lost alumnus. H e is Office Manager at Shirriff's Ltd .. .. And Ken MacKeracher who did a lot of leg-work for The Postgrad is now in St. Catha1ines. H e is with the Y' as Boy's Work Sec'y . . . Clayton H. Cameron, B.A. '49, is now with the Y at Victoria, B.C .... Harold H. Lawton, B.Sc. '47 waves to us from Moncton, N.B., to show us he isn't lost. H e's a Sales Supervisor with Bristol Labs ... Louise E. Lewis (nee Daniel), B.A. '44, lives in Verdun and recently presented hubby with a future SGWC alumnus . .. Happy to hear from Lillian Overland, B.Sc. '48, who is now at Columbia M edical Center, working on hormones .. . Vernon Bartlett, B.Sc. '50, (whom many know as the man of many voices) .. . is not lost, he lives m Valois. Shirley Elspeth Pope is now at the Providence Hospital School of Nursing and would like to hear from other SGWC grads in the area of Portland, Oregon . . . friends will find Phil Beaudette with Aetna Life in Montreal · . . . and Robert Burnell is now settled in St. Anne de Bellevue .. . by the time you read this Lucy Valentin and Sydney Sevcik will have middle-aisled it at St. Kevin's ... and Paul Dufort, B.A. '55, will have performed the same pleasant walk with Arlette Cote . . . also Fred Collins with Jean King ... Congratulations to them all . . . A few more chages of address ... William Gelfarb, B.A. '50 now in New York .. . Ruth May Yancy (nee Bishop) now in Pierson, Florida ... Mrs. H elen Fairbairns (nee K endee), B.A. '49, now at MacDonald College ... John J. McNally, B.Comm. '52, now in Montreal West ... John W. Graham, B.Sc. '50, wants big dances . . . Guess that's all till next time, but in the meantime have yo urselves a very M erry Christmas and the best of New Years in 1956.

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T om Plunkett, B.A. '49, has been ap­ pointed town manager of the Town of Beaconsfield, announced Mayor John H . Stethem recently. M r. Plunkett served as editor of The Georgian, and after grad­ uating from SGWC obtained his M.A. from McGill University. H e was then appointed Executive Assistant of the Canadian Federation of M ayors and M unicipalities and since that time has been concerned with the development of the Federation's year-round research and information program. M r. Plunkett's surveys and recommendations we re the basis for the establishment of the City of Cornerbrook in Newfoundland. Mr. Plunkett is also a part-time lecturer at SGWC, and is a member of the Institu te of Public Administration of Canada, the Canadian T ax Founda­ tion, and the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada. Mr. Plunkett is married and has one daughter 8 years of age. (See 'PATTER' ) . Maureen Gordon, B.A. 1951, has been appointed Director of the Occupational T herapy Department of the Valley View Hospital in Paterson, N.J. Tom Plunkett K en Campbell, B.Comm. '48, has been tional Branch of the YMCA. H e returns awarded the degree of A.C.I.S. (As­ to Montreal from the St. Catharines, sociate Chartered Institute of Secre­ Ont. YMCA. taries) . H e is also the publisher of The Northern Beacon, of Rosemere. Dr. Alexander Bartoshuk, B.Sc. '49, t,,t Alu,ntri who held the position of R esearch As­ 1940 - Earl B. Dechene, B.Sc. sociate in the' Psychology Dept. of the 1944 -:-- Israel H . Shtern, B.Sc. Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, 1950 - Andrew K ollar, B.Comm.; is taking an appointment as an exper­ H enry H . Y. Chow, B.A. imental psychologist at the Burden Neu­ 195 2 - Anne Leach, B.Comm .; Bruce rological Institute, Bristol, England. Moody, B.Comm. John D. Jackson has been appointed 1953 - Joseph Pintar, B.Sc. Boys' Work Secretary of the Interna- 1954 - Alexander A. Edwards, B.k.

ANNOUNCEMENT- For those wanting to send Christmas Cards to Prof. Neil Compton, the address is as follows : Prof. Neil Compton, Alexandria Hospital, 230. Charron Street, Montreal, Que.

December 1955 9 THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

by LEONARD ROSENBERG

President, Association of Alumni, Sir George Williams College

I expect we all have realized how much closer each successive · Holiday Season appears to be in relation to the preceding one. And now we find ourselves, once again, in the midst of the most recent.

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December 1955 11 ""e !!' 0 a. ..c" Frantic Freshmen I- !>55 • • • /Continued from page 4 ) - has many fine things to say about the B.Comm. 1955 - attending Univei-sity Postgrad and the Assoc. ( might be inter­ of Western Ontario, School of Business. ested in helping with the Postgrad ) - Jean-Paul Dufour, B.Comm. - at­ worked on the Georgian. tending McGill School, 1st year Law. Gerald Greenblatt, B.Sc. - attending Roland Dufour, B.Comm. - working McGill School of Social Work. as a salesman at Nesbitt Thomson & Co. Andrew S. Gyuro, B.Sc. - works as Issie I. Finkelberg, B.A. - in 2nd year Department Supervisor at Charles Frosst. Law at McGill U. - expects to receive Georgina B. Harris, B.A. - has many B.C.L. degree next year. hobbies besides looking after her two George G. Fowler, B.Comm. - is a babies. Sales Representative for Addressograph­ Eric H arvey, B.Comm. - is an As­ Multigraph. sistant Statistician at Consolidated Paper Meer (M yer) Friedman, B.Comm. - Corp. also has interesting hobby - plays is working for S. S. Matthews, while at­ Bongo Drums. tending 1st year C.A. courses at McGill. Herman Kammer, B.Comm. - works Robert F. Gill, B.Sc. - wirks as as an Assistant Auditor at Dr. J. Pfeiffer, Chemist at Dominion Tar & Chemical C.A., while continuing studies at McGill - also has an interesting hobby - Glass- U. for C.A. blowing. . Dorothy King, B.A. - is a secretary Julius Gordon, B.Sc. - is a graduate at C.N. Express. student at McGill U. (Donner Bldg.?), Edgar Knight, B.A. - is a teacher at also his wife is attending S.G.W.C. Westmount Junior High School. Joan Gravel, B.A. - working as a Arwed Koch, B.Comm. - is Assistant T.V. librarian at Cockfield Brown & Co. /Continued on page 15)

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14 The Poslgrad !J55 • • • (Co nti nued from page 13) Clubs. to Export Manager at Canadian R esins Gwendoline E. Pilkington, B.A. - lec­ & Chemicals. His interests in order of turing in English at S.G.W.C. - her preference are: his job, girls, cars, alco­ husband is also a grad of S.G.W.C. holic beverages. Pat Preston, B.A. - studying in Arthur G. Laws, B.A. - 1st year England. student as McGill School of Social Leonard Varah, B.Comm. - working Work. as an Auditor with P. S. Wise & Co. - Ian A. MacLeay, B.A. - is a graduate while studying towards C.A. student at McGill - would be glad to Jean Cuffiing, B.A. - is a secretary at help the Assoc. in any way he can. Aluminium Co. of Canada. John Merakian, B.Sc. - is a chemist Vivian Todd, B.A. - is a teacher with at Steel Co. of Canada. the Westmount School Commission. Gordon McGillivray, B.Sc. - is an Mykola Switucha, B.Sc. - is a Metal­ Office Supervisor at the Bell T elephone. lurgist at The Stee l Co. of Can. - while . Kenneth McKeeman, B.Sc. - is a studying at McGill U. Extension for a salesman for Chemical Developments of diploma in Management and Business Can. Administration. Marian Reynett, B.A. - is a clerk at Ronald Reider, B.A. - studying at Aluminum Co. of Canada. Carleton College in Ottawa for Bachelor Kenneth Roberts, B.Sc.- is in Grad of Journalism. School at McGill in Biochemistry - he · Elo Rae, B.Sc. - working as a chemist is in his quali fying year. at Canadair. Thomas Shaw, B.Sc. - is in the Pur­ Ted Abramovitch, B.A. - "Plans to chasing Department at the DuPont Co. continue studies in painting for several of Canada. yea rs, afterwards shall study for an M.A. Robert Sloan, B.A. - is a salesman degree in Fine Arts. for Aluminum Co. of Canada - he is Sidney R . Drake, B.Comm. is working also interested in developing his writing as Comptroller at Canadian Under­ ability for radio and T.V. (may be inter­ writers Ass n. ested in writing for Postgrad). Dave Brown, B.Comm. 1953, B.A. Norman Goodman, B.Comm. - is As­ 1955 - Public Relations Counsel with sistant Sales Manager at L. Cohen & Editorial Associates Ltd. in Calgary, Sons. Alberta. Albert V. Hudon, B.Comm. 1954, B.A. Elliot Larman, B.A. - studying Social 1955 - now living in Geneva, Switzer­ Work at School of Applied Social land - since the 1st of September, 1955. Sciences Western Reserve U. in Cleve­ \t\1illiam H. Waddington, B.A.--Work­ land. ing as Methods Engineer at Canadair - John T. Tittcl, B.Sc. - an Army Of­ while studying for B.Comm. at S.G.W.C. fic er at Valcartier, Que. Tony Marciano, B.Comm. - is a Cost John Derenne, B.Comm. - is a Sales Accounting Clerk at Fry-Cadbury - he R epresentative for McColl Frontenac is active in social activities for Italian (Continued on p a ge 16)

December 1955 15 Co1·1·espo1ide1iee Cuts '66 • • • (Continued from page 15) Shulom Friedman, B.A. '52, B.Sc. Oil Co. Roxolana Kiziuk, B.A. - is a teacher '53, writes that Mrs. Friedman at Media Friends School, while her (Florence Steinberg, B .Sc. '5,!J) has husband is studying for his B.A. Associ­ , recently presented him with a future ate at Temple U. in Philadelphia. Georgian. Mr. Friedman is in Med. Dick Lavoie, B.Comm. - is a tech­ II at Ottawa U. and informs us that nician at Northern Electric. Gregory Jackerow, B.A. '53, and Bruce Robertson, B.Comm. - is a Tony Chiassoin, B.Sc. '53, are in his Naval officer on the H.M.C.S. Stada­ class. Other SGWC grads, Harry cona, Halifax. Letts, Denis Deslaurier and Mrs. Joan Webb, B.A. - is a Stenographer Jackerow, are starting Med. I. with W. de M. and H. M. Marler, A glossy scene of Paris' l' Arc de Notaries. Triomphe informs us that Richard William Schneider. B.Comm. - is a C. Martin, B.A. '49, spent a pleasant Clerk at H enry Morgans. 3 months in the British Isles. No Ross Neale, B.Comm. - is Method info about his Paris visit, however. a Supervisor at Avon Products. Myles MacDonald sends pleasant John Burke, B.Sc. - is an Engineering wishes to the editor and suggests Associate with the Bell. more attention be paid to news of Leo-Paul Bonin, B.Comm. - is a graduates' undertakings. He is mar­ Methods Engineer at Northern Electric. ried to Dee Roberts and they have Willam Hamilton, B.Sc. - is a Sales adopted a six-year old boy. Mr. Engineer at Millspaugh, while getting a MacDonald is executive director of B.Comm. at S.G.W.C. the York County Council of Social Marshall Lebeau, B.A. - is a Sales Agencies, York, P enna .. He is also Representative with New York Life very active in other social service Insurance, while studying still for a organizations B.Comm. degree as well as a C.L.U. degree (insurance) . . Wi11ter Acti v ities Reminder ... Reminder ... '55 grads, Graduates in the Montreal area will fill in reference sheet and return promp­ soon receive a letter from Gerry Miller, tly to Association of Alumni office. the Social Chairman, asking for specific information regarding views on Film Bae lie lo,·s Ba11n,e d Nights and Dinners. From the answers, Gerry hopes to have an idea of the In. Girl's Seh.ools number expected at the events and at CAIRO, Sept. 16 - The Egyptian the same time he hopes to organize a government is barring bachelors from mailing list which will include only those teaching in girl's high schools. The Edu­ persons interested in the events. cation Ministry announced ycstercl:ly Graduates are asked to cooperate by that all single male teachers are being returning the answers promptly. replaced by I?arried men.

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20 The Postgrad IDEAS AND OPINIONS

AFTER THE sanguinary drudgery of years spent in climbing clown from the trees of carelessness; after the dull eras of errors and the scrabbling march of pathetic pasts came the birth of love. Be it in history or be it in myth, if not out of truth then out of need ... a consciousness of man's dignity or divinity was born.

That we have larded (yes, larded) the remembrance of that event with vulgar sentimentality, that we have starred and sprangled the meaning of that event with the fragile tinsel of commerce is only a reflection of our disordered past. We mean well.

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We want to love our neighbour, we yearn for peace on earth a nd deeply wish, in our hearts, that goodwill prevail among men. But we are afraid. Our minds still roam the long-remembered trees and all our yesterdays murmur fears into our ears.

But why need we listen to the subversive sussurations, of atavism - we, who have created symbols, who have, out of the symbols, created poetry. Surely these. are firmer, healthier seeds to sow into this fertile world.

It's Christmas-time, a time for you and me to look around fearlessly. Suspicion is a shaky base to build a world upon. Let us ?nce more affirm and once agam assert the realistic_ validity of that ·birth (histo1ical or mythical - you are free to choose. ) Let us make, together, a world of peace, an eternity of good will.

M erry Xmas, Joseph Colucci

( c:over by Elvah Laycock, evening student, S.G. W.C.)

Decem ber 1955 TfIE USEFULNESS A Prelinii11,a1·y Note Professor Fraser's novel A WHITE OF ENGLISH 101 STONE (Philosophical Library, New York) has Montreal, mainly, as its 'VERBAL ABILITY A MUST' locale. So, too, with the recent novel (reprinted through the courtesy of Chemical SON OF A SMALLER HERO by Mr. and Engineering News) Mordecai Richler. However, R ichler ERBAL ability is rated as essentia l starts with St. Lawrence Main and Vin all jobs open to engineers. works westward ; Fraser starts with West­ William D. Mcilvaine Jr. told the Amer­ mount and works eastward. ican Society for Engineering Education There is a further coincidence in that at Penn State University recently. This each writer, directly or indirectly, sug­ was one of the questionnaire results Mc­ gests something of 'the role in the com­ Ilvaine, director of engineering extension munity of Sir George Williams College. and placement at the Universitv of Nonetheless, quite different interpreta­ Alabama, presented to the ASEE. · tions derive. Much prodding on the part of the In his novel, Professo r Fraser attempts English department at Alabama for an to balance realistic, classic, and roman­ employe r's rating of verbal ability in tic elements, His work is somewhat in technical fields was the 'go' behind Mc­ the tradition of Pater's MARIUS THE Ilvaine's questionnaire. It was sent to EPICUREAN and Bellamy's LOOK­ 30 employer representatives (recruiters) ING BACKWARD. who call regularly at Alabama seeking technical talent. Most of the employers production operation and general trai"u­ contacted do their recruiting on a na­ mg. However, verbal ability had a slight tionw~de basis. A few of the employers edge. contacted were from smaller organiza­ More recruiters rated verbal ability tions with operations only in Alabama above technical competence in tdching. or in the Southeast. Actually, teaching was included in the Mcilvaine says that probably the best ques_tionnaire only by accident, says Mc­ ~age of the importance of verbal ability Ilvame. But the rating that 13 recruiters 1s the fact that 29 out of 30 recruiters accorded to this fi eld certainly provide to~k time out to reply to the question­ engineering professors with a reason for naire and also to write a letter varying being more careful with their oral and from paragraph to two single-spaced 3: written communications, obse1ves M c­ typewntten pages. Every reply indicated Ilvaine. that v~rbal ability was highly important, From other replies and from Mc­ accordmg to Mcilvaine. Ilvaine's expe1ience in placement work, Each employer was asked to rate he concludes that: verbal ability as compared to technical competence when considering new em­ • Employers evaluate verbal ability ployees for various types of technical when hiring technical personnel for positions. Verbal ability was rated most technical as well as semi-technical essential in the fi elds of management work. training and sales. these fields verbal In • Employers believe in continuing edu­ ability was rated more important than cation beyond the degree. technical ability. Look~ng at the results more closely, • Employers still look to the bachelor's Mcilvame found that verbal ability was degree program for good basic edu­ rated an important factor in research cation in written and oral communica- development, design, test and mainte~ tions. · nance, and application work - the fields • Educatio~al institutions have a great where the majority of respondents did opporturuty to serv,e employed person,s not rate it as important as technical and e1;11ployers by P:oviding evening competence. Verbai ability and technical educat10n on effective communica­ ability received neck-in-neck ratings in tions.

December 1955 23 MIXED BASKETBALL H. GORDON McFARLANE Executive Ass istant Montreal Parks & Pl a ygrounds Assc . Since there are verv few outdoor a diffe rent set of rules at their side of basketball courts in ·M ontreal, the the court than the regula r rules at the M ontreal Parks and Playgrounds As­ sons side. ( ex. fathers could double sociation decided to experiment with one dribble more than once) _ This made for to find out if a basketball court could a lot of laughs and everyo ne enjoyed contribute to a summer programme themselves. when the weather is hot a nd the interest This mixed basketba ll I think would low. be excellent for small high schools where T his summer was certainly hot and there . are not enough basketball players basketball interest was low in the com­ in a class or grade to have separate munity of Ville La Salle. Most of the inter-class leagues. H owever, there time it was impossible to find ten boys should be enough p layers for a mixed at one time who wa nted to play basket­ inte r-class league. ball. Then we came up with the game of mixed basketball. RULES Modifications Tried Each team had three boys and three 1. A held ba ll at the centre line girls, Team A had boys as forwards and between a boy and girl which results in girls as guards. T eam B had boys as a jump, the jumps were alternated guards and girls as for,vards. The court between two boys and two girls. The was divided in half and no player was same was true of the start of each a llowed to play over the centre line. quarter. T hus we had boys at one end of the 2. When Team B's girls scored on court playing boys rules when the ball Team A's girls, Team A's boys took the came over to their half, and girl_s at ball out at centre court. Similarly, as the other end playing girls rules when Team A's boys scored on Team B's boys, the ball was in th f'ir half. Team B's girls took it out at centre court. We played 8 minute quarters and at 3. We also tried the regulation way, the end of the quarter the boys and girls that is, that the team scored upon took who had been playing guards became the ball out underneath the basket. forwards, and the forwards bacame (Ed. Note: The author would certainly guards. appreciate any comments on this Tried W e used this type of basketball with Basketball. - Especially fr om Y M CA father and son games. T he fathers had Fellowship secretaries,)

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24------The Postg rad BOOK REVIEWS (Ed. Note: Miss Eleanor Magee, B.A .-B.Sc., has volunteered to ed,.it book reviews for The Postgrad. Graduates wishing to contribute articles or to obtain in formation regarding policy may write to her care of the Association.) ·

JUDITH HEARNE. Moore, Brian. London, Andre Deutsch, 1955. 223 p. This is the story of a middle-aged spinster, Judith H earne, who fights a losing battle against her own inadequacies, handicapped by her necessarily frequent moves from one Belfast bed-sitting room to another. In reality, she is poor and plain, she has few friends, and has never ·had a lover, nor is now likely to have. one. But Judith does not realize that her life is lacking in these relationships. Instead, she visualizes h erself as a deeply religious person, as a valuable friend, and as an attractive woman, prevented only by the limitations of her boarding-house life from meeting a man who will desire her. · As the story opens, Judith is settling into yet another boarding-house, whose owner. Mrs. Rice, supports a worthless son, Bernard. Judith deludes herself into thinking that she has found a lover in the person of Mrs. Rice's _brother, James Madden. The brother, recently returned from America, thinks that Judith has money, and seeks, by paying attention to her, to persuade her to invest this supposed capital in a business venture he is contemplating. Judith reads in this attention an attempt at courtship, but is cruelly disillusioned through the scheming of Mrs. Rice's intelligent, unhealthy, fat and selfish son. Judith, in order to avoid constantly facing her own failures, has been a secret drinker in the past, but has been able for the last six months to resist the desire for alcohol; now, however, stripped of her illusions about her love affair, she turns to drink for courage, and as results, loses her boarding-house, and learns that th~ one friend who she thought valued her most has only pity for her. Finally, when she finds nq help or consolation in religion she has a nervous breakdown. The book ends with Judith Hearne in a Catholic nursing home, bereft to her illusions about friendship and love, but rejecting despair by turning again to her picture of the Sacred Heart and her photograph of her aunt for comfort and a feeling that while they watch over her, a new place becomes a home. This is not an enjoyable book but it is a book which cleverly enlists the sympathy of the reader for its main character. Brian Moore shows an uncanny knack for characterization, and an unerring understanding of Judith. He treats her with a commendable lack of sentimentality. Such an unusual approach makes the book an arresting one for the reader, for the author depicts with unemotional clarity the various situations in which he places Judith. Too, he shows good attention to . detail in the portrayal of his supporting characters, for example the priest who, through his lack of understanding of her needs, fails to satisfy Judith's religious doubts. · The book is a serious study of the main character but there is a touch of humour in the nursing-home scene when Judith spontaneously takes a bottle of gin to he_r alcoholic friend, jolly Edie Marrinan. However, one weakness of this book, whose obvious purpose is to give a careful portrayal of Judith, is the too great emphasis on the scenes which involve only Bernard, his uncle and the young maid. 1 These scenes do not add to the reader's understanding of Judith. This is a thoughtful book, and one which is recommended to the serious reader, who is interested in widening his knowledge of human nature. E. MAGEE

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December 1955 2$ Arts Graduates No Longer Cinderellas

HE GRADUATE in liberal arts ­ secretarial science - have great oppor­ T once the "Cinderella" of college tunities ahead of them. NES says :busy men - is coming into his own, says the executives concentrate on 'the most im­ Unemployment Insurance Commission, portant parts of their responsibilities" in a recent bulletin. and want secretaries who will "do a bit After the Second World War the ac­ of organizing and take the detail work cent on specialization was so great "the off their hands." arts graduate was the 'Cinderella' among "This means that the job of secretary graduates," says the UCI bulletin on is changing from one of simply applied supply and demand of university grad­ skills to that of a more complex pattern," uates in the labor market. says the bulletin. "If the secretary has Now the arts graduate is sought preci­ the necessary training and background sely because he is not a specialist," says she will come through and may even the report. It finds shortages of grad­ become a vice-president of the com­ uates in almost every profession except pany." law. The report notes many universities do Of lawyers, it says "Supply and de­ not carry a regular course in secretarial mand will be more or less in balance. skills but "the ambitious arts student Therefore any material · increase might can acquire these at local business schools pose a problem. If students do not ap­ or by summer courses." pear to have the requisite ability or "Over the past year or two the general intelligence they should not be advised attitude of the business world towards to follow this course." the arts graduate has been changing," Graduates in a new specialization - (Continued on page 27)

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26 The Poslgrad ii.rt Gra,J.ua.tes ... Engineering - "Even with , . . in­ (Continued from page 26) creases in enrolment the profession will the bulletin says, not be overcrowded." It quotes a United States su1vey which Forestry -"A 5 per cent increase in found companies eager to hire liberal enrolment in this course would pose no arts graduates "because they want men difficulties in placement." who can deal with people, and later be­ Geology - "This demand has consist­ come executives." ently been greater than the supply of "College graduates generally are given graduates available each year. the preference" in newspaper work, the Household scien-ce - "Shortages ( of bulletin comments. It says Canada pro­ fu lly qualified dietitians) will continue. duces so few graduates in journalism that Library Science - "The output of it can absorb them all, and newspapers graduates is not nearly enought to supply seek for further recruit from other the present demand." sources, The bulletin comments on several Medicine - "The shortage of doctors other professions: continues. T he good old 'familiy' doctor Agriculture - " Numbers ( of grad­ shows signs of disappearing but there is still a great need of him. The rural areas uates) are not enough to fill the needs." Architecture - "For the next two of all provinces feel the pinch." years graduates will be less than 100 .. . Nursing - "The shortage of nurses unless conditions in Canada change has not changed nor is any change anti­ drastically, these numbers will be too cipated." few to supply the needs," Pharmacy - "A shortage of graduates Dentistry - '.' . . . there is a shortage from this faculty has been experienced of dentists in Canada and ... it has over the past 10 years and shows no sign reached a really critical stage." of alleviation."

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December 1955 27 ,, ~Y -' A 1c a1•ds Scliolar sliips To Stud e11,ts Miss Peggy Lawless and Allan Simp­ BARCLAYS BANK son, two YMCA fellowship secretaries, have been awarded scholarships by Sir ( CANADA) George Williams College, Dr. K. E. Norris, principal, has announced. Miss Lawless is awarded the John W. The Canadian unit of Ross Memorial Scholarship established Barclays Group by the late John W. Ross, president of of banks the Montreal YMCA from 1905-1915. The scholarship is awarded annually to a YMCA Fellowship student on the basis of academic standing after having completed at least one year at the col­ All desc,·iptions of domestic lege. and foreign banking busi11ess Mr. Simpson receives the Birk-Beaton transacted. Memorial Scholarship, which was es­ tablished by the Metropolitan board of the Montreal Association in memory of • the late Gerald W. Birks, president of the YMCA from 1922 to 1950 and the MONTREAL late John W . Beaton, general secretary Toronto - Vancouver - Victoria from 1920 to 1951. This scholarship is awarded annually when merited, to a YMCA Fellowship student on the basis of academic standing after having com­ pleted at least one year at the college. Miss Lawless is a native of Peter­ borough, Ont., and Mr. Simpson's home is in Brantford, Ont. Savard & Hart Libra ,·y Redone Members: Du1•i11,fl Summe,· MONTREAL Stock Exchange Due to the untimely disappearance of CANADIAN Stock Exchange a great many library books plus the TORONTO Stock Exchange construction of the new building, the Sir George Williams College Library has take on a new look this year. The librarian's desk which has always HEAD OFFICE : been located at the left hand side is now 230 N·otre Dame Street West relocated at the right hand side where it covers all the course books. The only way a student can take out one of these BRANCH OFFICES: books this year will be by asking the librarian to get it for him. 1203 Phillips Square PL. 9501 Also with the new building coming right up against the left hand wall the windows have had to be closed. QUEBEC - TRO IS-RIVIERES - SHE RBROOKE Outside of these basic changes the ST. JOHNS, P.Q . - CHI COUTI MI - NEW YORK · library remains much the same, with the PROVI DENCE, R.I. YMCA section on the left and the col­ lege area at the right. 28 Th e Postgrad SPORT IS UNPREDICTABLE .

by ALEC FINEBERG

I NCE this article is being written only through the air of well over 500 yards­ S hours after the Grey Cup game was a record for Grey Cup games. But the played in Vancouver, it is natural extremely deceptive ground attack of that this football contest should be the Eskies proved too much for the Als. prominent in our mind as an example of The Westerners tore through the East­ the unpredictability of sport. erners' line time after time for large Not that the fact that the Montreal gams. Alouettes lost to the Edmonton Eskimos In the opinion of the writer, the should be so terribly surprising. Before turningpointinthegame occurred during the game, the odds were just about even the 3rd quarter, when the Als, ahead by (please excuse the pun) . But the man~er 19-1 8, had possession of the ball. They in which the game progresseq dunng had gained about 9½ yards on 2 downs. the second half was startling. to say the (During the season, the slogan, "Go. least. T he Als, who were always famous Als, Go" became famous, since most of for their strong second-half drive, and the time they went for the necessary who led 19-18 at half-time, were beaten vard or so on third clown "--- a nd usually 34- 19 ; that is, they were shut out during {nade a first cl own). But in this instance, the second half of the game. T his they kicked on third down, and once the happened in spite of the fact that Slingin' Eskies got their hands on the ball, there Sam Etcheverry completed 30 ou t of 39 forward pas_ses a feat resulting in a gain (Continved on poge 30)

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December 1955 29 S port ls .. . won by the score of 38-36, to gain the right to play in the Grey Cup game. /Contin ued lrom page 29) Turning to another sport, the Brooklyn was no stopping them. But, in all fairness, Dodgers finally won the World Series this it must be admitted that the Edmonton year - after losing the first 2 games of Eskimos were the better team on the the se ries to the New York Yankees. No day's play, and_are worthy holders of the other team in history had lost t_he first G rey Cup. 2 g:a mes, and then won the best-of-seven Returning to the unpredictability of se n es. sport, we noted that on the last Saturday In hockey, the National Hockey of the Big Four schedule, Ottawa, the League has produced many upsets during last-place team, humbled Toronto, a nd the current season. At time of writing, H amilton trounced the Als. Then in New York and Chicago - perennial the semi-final play-off, the Toronto door-mats of the league - a re in second Argos, who had been beaten badly by the and third place respectively. And Detroit H amilton Tigers a ll during the regular and Toronto, usua lly fighting for first season, beat the Tigers by 4 points in place, a re presently battling to climb H amilton, in a thrilling game which saw out of the bottom positions. Only the lead change hands 7 times. Canadiens are showing their true colours, riding along serenely in firs t place. Then came the Eastern final betwee n the Argo and the Als, during which Toron­ In closing, the writer wishes all Geor­ to astonished the Montreal spectators by gians a Very Merry Christmas, and a taking a 24-9 lead a t half-time. But the Happy, healthy, and Prosperous New Als staged a tremendous rally, and finally Year.

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30 The Poslgrod CANADIAN POETRY: MODERN by IRVING LAYTON

HE FIRST thing to say about the new poetry is that it is not new. The trouble T is that most Canadians are not aware of any kind of poetry in Canada-new or old. But within the past two or three decades there has been a most interesting and astonishment development in the field of poetry, despite the vast apathy of the Canadian public. That this should be so .. . may be accounted for by the fact that only just now, Canada is emerging from colonial status. One might say, in all introspective honesty, that Canadians suffer from a colonial inferiority complex. They cannot really believe, although people have arisen to' assure them, that Canadians are capable of producing first rate poetry, painting, or music. Instead they await approval from the British--or even American-critics. And then the cry is taken up by other Canadians. The Canadian poets, knowing this, still prefer to have their volumes published in London, or New York, 01 Chicago. They feel sure this is the stamp of approval, which will impress their apathetic fellow Canadians .. · . Our critics ( with such notable exceptions as A. J. M . Smith) have saved Canadian poetry badly. Without the least fear of contradiction, I say there is no critic in Canada capable of evaluating the new writing of the past three decades. H ere are my reasons for saying this : first, many of. our critics have received their higher education in English colleges and universities. I call them Anglo-Canadians. When they returh to each in Canada, the viewpoint they hold is an English one. Therefore, they look down with condescension on the efforts of Canadian poets.

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December 19.55 3 11 Ca,iadi,a,11, Poet,·y . . . . (Conti nued from poge 311 Certainly they are not prepared to understand the life and vitality that surges through the minds of our contemporary poets. Secondly, there is a feeling on the part of these university professors that Canadian literature is so insignificant that when they commence writing their world-shaking theses they overlook Canadiana. They write, instead, for the hundredth time, another volume about Herman M elville's Mob)! Dick; going through the fine metaphysics of the whale. This offers a large scope for the display of their talents. Not only are the universities at fault . .. a very false idea of poetry is given to generation after generation of unfortunate and victimized pupils in our public and high schools as well. T hey are taught to believe that poetry can only be ma.de a.bou t daffodils and stars, or the acceptable sentiments of sentiments of nostalgia, wistful­ ness, and melancholy. The real world of our fellow Canadians is something quite different, but you never get poetry telling the pupils something about the industrial world that has grown up around them . .. no poetry about strikes . . . a.bout industrial dislocations. Actually, no realistic, contemporary, circumstantial poetry ever gets into text books. • Why is it Canadians are not taught to read their own poets? For after all is said and done, there should be nothing more important for Canadians than to know the poetry being produced today ... since that poetry which is alive and vital and good, is the reflection of the life th at a majority of Canadians live. It reveals to them their own minds . .. the quality ... the feel ... the tang. T here is no other way for Canadians to know what the sum and substance of their minds add up to unless they get it directly frqm the poets. They are the only ones qualified by their gifts and talents to tell the people. T he scientist can't do it. The huckster won't. And

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The Postgrad Can.adia,n Poetrr, . . . (Continued from page 32) neither will the politician. That is why there are artists in every generation and in every country. If Canadians exhibit an_ indifference to art, it only means they do not care about the road they are travelling. There are two kinds of poetry: there is the poetry of the acceptable ·sentiments, and there is the poetry which is critical and exploratory. Most people stop at the first kind. The average man or woman who read Byron's " She 1rnlks in beau.ty like the night," or Wordsworth's " M)I heart leap up when I behold a rainbow in the sky," feels a nice, steaming sensation about the heart. It is this that people mistake for the aesthetic emotion. Here, of course, is where the schools are to blame. By the time the students have left the high schools theiy should know that good poetry is critical, exploratory . . . that really good poetry disturbs people, shakes them up and breaks down certain habits and associations in their minds. They should know that disgust, hatred, violence and even vice are permissable roads to salvation. No one could read good poetry- Donne, Milton, Shakespeare-without knowing that. Yet our students leave not only high schools, but also colleges and universities, feeling that the poetry of acceptable sentiments, the familiar album-pieces, is really poetry. And if the modern poet has the audacity to use one or two four-letter words-which Shakes­ peare, Byron and Pope used before him-the genteel finger of reproach is im­ mediately waved at him. This is not poetry, Canadians never use these words- such is the claim of these misguided youths. It is a libel, therefore, for a poet to use those four-letter words, without which it would be impossible to carry on a civilized conversation. But these products of our modern educational system do not want to read this

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December 1955 33 Canadia,11 Poetry ... (Con tinued from page 331 type of disturbing poetry- this _ poetry of the modern sensibili ty. Instead, they indulge themselves in what I call C.A.A. poetry, a large school of 'respectable' Canadian poetry of the Canadian Au thors' Association. But this is not poetry. It is what is found in the Montreal Star and Gazette . . . poetry that is consoli ng, lovely, tender, and perfectly meaningless. Modern poetry, I would say, began in Canada with the publication of New Provin ces in 1936 under the leadership of A. J. M . Smith. This anthology introduced such new poets as A. M. K lein, Leo K ennedy, Robert Finch, F. R . Scott, and E. J. Pratt, who were incorporating the new techniques of Eliot, Pound, and Yeats. T he new sensibility, contained in this book, and resulting from the First World War and the dislocation caused by the depression- such sensibility was expressed by rhythm and vocabulary: tempo and imagery. With the exception of E. J. Pratt these poets did not fi nd publishers until the active decade of the forties. T he newer poets of this decade, D udek, Souster, M iriam Waddington, myself, and others, had been fo rmed by the depression of the thirties and the Second World War- years of misery and tumult. Experiences of these years were in the marrow of our bones and when we came to write poetry, it was tough, realistic, and critical. We felt a society that was capa ble of condemning millions of people to unemploy­ ment .. . capable of producing war . . . a society in wa nt of a ll values and all meaningful p urpose in the satisfaction of the daily lives of its people; is a diseared society. . T his is what the poets of the forties were complaining about. Souster, stationed at an air base, wrote fi erce and furious poetry . .. Dudek, working for an advertising agency, wrote that same kind of critical and bitter poetry . . . and so did I. (Continue d on page 361

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December 1955 35 Cun11,dian Poetry . . . (Continued from page 34} Of course, certain things that were troubli ng K lein, Scott, Smith, and Pratt were not troubling us. These earlier poets, writing in the magazine Preview, were still trying to decide whether this was a moral universe or not; the poets of the forties decided it was not. To speak of this being a moral universe created for the edification of mankind, just didn't make sense when we saw the countless inhumanities about us. Vh accepted the biological fa cts of the struggle for existence after seeing young boys riding the rods looking for jobs in the late thirties. And so it went. One cherished conviction after another . . . religions, ethical, political, socia l ... was subjected to a fi erce criticism . T he magazine First Statement was a direct result of th is ambitious tirade against society. "\Ve of First Statement considered ourselves the Canadians. T he Preview of Scott, Klein, and Page was looked u pon as the cosmopolitan, sophisticated magazine, but somewhat alien. Between the two of us existed a healthy situation of rivalry and controversy . . . something that Canadian art needs more . .. as a stimulus. Out of these two literary magazines, Preview and First Statement, came Northern R eview, with J ohn Su therland at its h ead . This hap pened because First Statement had the printing press, and Preview had the talented writers. By the amalgamation of the two we though t we could-and did-edit a fi ne magazine. (Sometimes in a more dismal and morbid momen t it occu rred to me, as we were gathered together at editorial board meetings, that if a bomb should d rop it would wipe out Canadian Literature for the next twenty-five years.) At the end of the fi rst six mon ths of publication, a review of R obert Finch's poetry printed in th is magazine alienated the Preview members and ' theiy withdrew from the editoria l board. A year later there was further dissention in the ranks . . . (Continued on page 37}

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36 The Postgrod Ca11,adur,n Poetry . . . (Continued from page 36 1 due partially to Sutherland's religious conservatism, and the res t of the editorial board withdrew; thus leaving him in sole charge, Then Sutherland, since he controlled the only Canadian literary magazine, was able to say that there was no Canadian poetry being published in Canada, This, of course, was true, as Mr. Sutherland was not printing any. With Northern R eview hostile to our poetry, two new li ttle magazines came into existenc,e. One was Contact produced by Raymond Souster, It is a fellow like him, who works in a bank, goes home in the evening, turns the crank of the mimeograph machine to produce his magazine, and p.uts out the money from his own pocket, that can make Canadians proud of their poets , .. and ashamed of themselves, for now I hear that he can not find fifty readers. Throug Contact he has introduced contemporary French Canadian, German, Russian, and South American poetry­ a veritable cultural exchange. The United Nations doesn't do any more than Raymond Souster, and they have a much larger budget. The second of these avant-guarde publication was Civ / n in Montreal. It started out as a mimeograph sheet edited by Aileen Collins and several other working girls ... who paid for the expenses out of their own pockets. Now, after the seventh issue, Civ / n is printed although financially unstable due to the apathy of the public. During the past year, however, there has bee n a 'renaissance' in Canadian Literature, which bodes good for the future of Canada in the literary world , With the publishing of such books of poetry as F. R. Scott's E vents and Signals, A. J. M. Smith's A Sort of Ecstacy in 1954, and several new volumes in the offing, as Louis Dudek's Europe, Canada's literary future looks exceptionally bright . -Reprinted from "prism 1955."

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38 The Postgrod Book Reviews . . . (Continued from page J5l SON OF A SMALLER HERO. Mordecai Richler. London, Andre Deutsch. This, as Henry Seidel Canby said of 'Arrowsmith', is "a harsh book, a hard book, an illuminating book .. ." It is a good book, too ; if only because it is the promise of finer things to come from Richler's pen. When Mordecai Richler will have thrown off the shackles of his self­ consciousness, when his present omniscient bitterness will have been aimed solely at those aspects of life which the author truthfully dislikes, he will be considered a fine, even great writer. In the meantime, with this novel, Richler emerges as a solidly equipped novelist, a writer endowed with an excellent gift for perceiving character and a sure sense of atmosphere. 'Son of a Smaller Hero' is the story of a sensitive young man, Noah Adler, born in Montreal and brought up in the city's various Jewish districts, anxious both to dissociate himself from what he considers a distorted heritage and to discover a milieu in which acceptance of himself will be based on his individuality. His attempts at dissociation provoke his grandfather, Melech Adler, into active rejection of Noah. And for different reasons the other members of the family follow suit. The search for sympathetic territory in which his inchoate desires and ambitions will crystallize brings Noah in contact with an intellectual group of people. Even towards this group, for reasons not made too clear by Richler, Noah cannot feel sympathetic. Despite a passionate affair with a professor's vvife, ( a tritely contrived affair whose social repercussions, however, are brilliantly depicted ) he considers himself as having been only 'useful' psychologically. The incident which finally is instrumental in driving out Noah completely from the inherited ghetto of " . . . no real walls and no true dimensions . . . ", from that life in which, "The walls are the habit of atavism and the dimensions are an illusion ...", is the death of his father, Wolf Adler, in a fire. The Jews of the city ~ presume the death to be heroic, that Wolf died in an attempt to save some sacred scrolls from an iron box. Noah and Melech, know, however, that the box contained money. The father's death also brings an inevitable rupture between Noah and the professor's wife and eventually Noah goes to Europe. Richler's description of the Laurentians, geographical and social, his handling of the terrible search for Wolf Adler's . body in the ashes, his assured . use of authentic dialogue and dialect in the family scenes are evidence of a good writer. His continuous attempts to waste his bitterness on deserted air weaken the story by interfering with his characters' motivations. It may be of interest to note that Richler spent two years at Sir George Williams, was on the editorial staff of The Georgian, and also worked for The Herald, in -Montreal. J.C.

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