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Volume 49
Number 2 CHRONICLE Fall 1995
The Party's On!
Editor Years ago, one of the events of the Vancouver social Board of Management
Elected Members Chris Petty, MFA'86 season was the Annual Alumni Dinner. Well, it's
back in great form and with some hot new items.
President Assistant Editor 11 Al Poettcker. Dale Fuller BCom'69
Past President Contributors 50 Years of Law at UBC
Debra L Browning. Rosetta Cannata The Faculty of Law celebrates 50 years of LLB'80 Pat Higinbotham training men and women in the intricacies of
the law. There are parties here, too. Sr. Wee President Christine Nordquist Tricia Smith, 13 BA'80. LLB'85 Cover
Treasurer UBC grad (MA'72) John Gray, known An Odyssey: UBC Open House '95 Dickson Wong, nationally for his talents as a writer, playwright, More parties: UBC's first Open House in five years BCom'88 songwriter, actor and musician, will perform as promises to be the best ever. New buildings, great Master of Ceremonies for the 1995 Annual Members-flt-Large '94-'96 exhibits, celebrations and, of course, the old haunts. Alumni Achievement Dinner (see more info on Chris Bendl, BSc'9l 18 Pamela Friedrich, BA'67 page 11). John's wit and style has endeared him
Louanne Twaites. BSc(Pharm)'53 to millions of fans, and his two new books, Lost
in North Amenco, published by Talon Books UBC's Theatre Department Makes Stars Memberunlarge '95-'97
Dana Merritt, BCom'88 and 1 Love Mom, a history of tatooing published One of the best theatre departments in the
Don McConachie, BSA'63, MBA'65 by Key Porter, are available at bookstores country also produces some of the finest actors, Grace Wong, BEd'74, MBA'83 right now. directors and designers.
Photo by Pat Higinbotham 22 Executive Director
Agnes Papke. BSc{Agr)'66
ctftorioi Committee Qm
Louanne Twaites BSc(Pharm)'53 The UBC Alumni Chronicle is published 3 Alumni News 4 Members times annually by the UBC Alumni Al Poettcker's Column 5 Ron Burke Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Steve Crombie David Strangway's Column 7 Vancouver, B.C., V6T" IZI. tt is distributed Katie Eliot free to all graduates of UBC. Member, Faculty News 16 Dale Fuller Council for the Advancement and Support Class Acts 26 Chris Petty of Education Sue Watts
Don Wells Swell Alumni Gear For Sale 35 Printed in Canada by Mitchell Press ISSN 0824-1279 0 June 16 and 17. Alumni, new grads and friends joined branch rep Rob We didn't do it. Honest. McDiarmid BA'72, LLB'75,Vice New Branches s a result of provincial privacy legislation, BC President Academic Dan Birch and alumni have the right not to have their name We've received branch activity UBC dignitaries at a casual BBQ and or phone number released to our branch con inquiries from alumni living in the reception on the 16th. The convoca tacts or division volunteers. If you don't want Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Israel and tion ceremony followed on June this information released, please tell us and the Netherlands. If you live in one of 17th. Many thanks to Rob for acting we will make sure it does not appear on any these areas and would like to hook as MC for the pre-BBQ reception such list. Call or fax, send a note or an e-mail up with fellow alumni please let us and presenting alumni pins to the message. The Association does not release member's names, ad know! UBC degree recipients. Contact Rob dresses or phone numbers to telemarketers of any kind. If you at (604) 374-2201 for more informa receive a phone solicitation from a company that claims they got tion about this branch. Canada your number from us, please let us know. We'll make sure they stop. For more information about any ofthe branch events in CALGARY KELOWNA your part of the world, please contact Deanna McLeod, Fifty alumni joined UBC President We travelled to Okanagan Univer branches coordinator, at the following numbers: David Strangway, Association Presi sity College to congratulate the e-mail: [email protected] dent Al Poettcker BCom'69 and UBC degree recipients there. Toll free phone (N. America): 1-800-883-3088 Calgary branch rep Alice Alumni, new graduates and their Toll free fax (N. America): 1-800-220-9022 Daszkowski BCom'87 for a recep friends joined with branch rep Jeff Phone direct: (604) 822-8918 (24 hour voice mailbox) tion at the Metropolitan Centre May Peterson BA'79, LLB'86, Chancellor Fax: (604) 822-8928 6. Calgary branch committee mem Bob Lee, Vice President Academic bers, MicheleVan Walleghem BCom'87 and Kirsten Evenden MA'92, were super volunteers. For United States and Overseas Branches information about the Calgary branch's pub nights, call Alice at CHINA Lena Siu BA'88 at 2847-0355 or to participate in the anraiatTerry (403) 298-3940. Do we have your address? If you Kevin Lee BA'80 at 2877-3088. Fox Run on November 18,1995 at don't get the Chronicle in the mail 10 am.The challenge is to see EDMONTON please update your addresses with MALAYSIA which university's graduates can Claire Pal lard MSc'92 has volun us! We would love to organize About 50 alumni joined President raise the most money for cancer teered to be the new branch rep for some branch activities in China. Strangway, the deans of commerce, research. For more information, Edmonton! Thanks and best wishes Please contact the branches coor dentistry, medicine, science and ap call the Canadian Club at (212) to Elizabeth Alke BA'76, the dinator. plied science and International Liai 596-1320. former branch rep. Claire would son Director Larry Sproul at the love to hear from you. If you're in HONG KONG Kuala Lumpur Hilton for a cocktail SEATTLE terested in alumni activities in Ed UBC's dean of science met with 27 reception on March 28. We were About 60 alumni and 20 friends of monton, please call her at (403) Hong Kong alumni at a luncheon delighted that alumnus John Bell the university attended a reception 455-7711. onAprii4,t>995. BCom'62, Canadian High Commis to meet President Strangway April David Strangway and Al Poettcker The Hong Kong branch held sioner to Malaysia and 1995 winner 6 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. met with an enthusiastic group of 25 Celebration Time on July I. About of the Alumni Award of Distinction, They were joined by Alumni Asso alumni on May 5 at the University of 200 alumni and friends attended. attended. Thanks to Mansoor ciation President Al Poettcker and , Alberta Faculty Club. A big thanks to Even some holidaying UBC stu Marican PhD'77, who was the MC, the Canadian Consul General Bob McLeod 8Com'52 for support dents showed up and had a great and Susan Thomson BPE'74 for Bernard Gagosz. For information ing the event and acting as MC. time as well. Thanks to Lena Siu their support in making the event a about branch activities in Seattle, BA'88 who organized this event. great success. please call Joan Whitey BA'5 J at FRASER VALLEY The branch is reviving the Cana (206)223-2174. A small but enthusiastic group of dian Alumni Sports Day for Octo NEW YORK alumni came out to the first meeting ber 29th. This wilf be a sporting The Canadian Club of NewYork Is SINGAPORE ,;"'.' '—• ofthe Fraser Valley branch on May competition between the alumni of holding the second annual Canadian President Strangway, the deans of 11 and met with branch rep Wally UBC and sixteen other Canadian alumni reception on October 19, commerce, dentistry, medicine, Mitchell BSc(Agr)'94, Alumni Asso universities. Competition will in 1995 from 6-9 pm at the Canadian science and applied science and ciation Executive Director Agnes clude badminton, basketball, soc Club, 15 West 43rd Street, Manhat International Liaison Director Larry Papke and Associate Executive Di cer, squash, swimming, table tennis tan. Cost $15. Call (212) 596-1320 Sproul met with about 40 alumni rector Leslie Konantz. For informa and volleyball. For more informa to RSVP. We would like to provide for a reception at the Four Seasons tion about fall activities, call Wally at tion contact David SohBCom'93 UBC alumni with alumni pins, so Hotel on March 26. Thanks to (604) 823-6564. at 2846-1360 or Dow Famulak please call branch rep Krista Cook branch rep Tan Yam Pin MBA'65, BA'83 at 2846-1560. BA'86,MA'90 at (116) 671-4639 be who greeted guests and acted as KAMLOOPS Alumni living in or visiting Hong fore October 12 if you plan to at the master of ceremonies for the The Alumni Association once again Kong are welcome at our monthly tend. evening. For information about travelled to the Kootenays to par luncheons held on the last Friday We invite our alumni in New York branch activities in Singapore call ticipate in the University College of of each month and should contact Tan Yam Pin at 371-6307. W the Cariboo convocation festivities
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New Programs for Members
Dan Birch and UBC dignitaries at a with a BBQ at I 1:30 followed by the lunch reception on June 15. Thanks game at 1:00 and a post game re J. he challenges that face the to Jeff Peterson for emceeing the ception. For more information, call j\lumni Association today are not reception and presenting alumni pins Jeff Sims at the University of Otta unique in our history. Members to the UBC degree recipients. A big wa's Sport Services, (613) 562- who have been involved in the thanks also to Gail Berry 5800, ext. 3425. For information Association in any way during BSc(Agr)'61 and George Cook about Ottawa branch activities, the past ten years know that BA'54 who helped organize the please call Don Gardner BASc'54 at change, budget restraints and event. Call Jeff at (604) 767-2904 for (613)829-2257. organizational analysis have be more information about the come part of our everyday busi Kelowna branch. PRINCE GEORGE ness. Special guest UBC President Dr. Our recent successes in MONTREAL David Strangway joined UBC alumni branch development, divisions We have some alumni in Montreal in Prince George at a reception and marketing, along with our who are eager to see regular branch September 6th at the Coast Inn of initiation of faculty-based pro activities started, but as our new the North. Prince George is home grams, are proof that, as an or contact there says, "Two people do to many UBC graduates, and thanks ganization, we have responded not a branch make." But three or to all those who attended the recep well to the challenges facing us. four can! If you are interested in get tion. If you are interested in becom But those challenges don't stop. ting together with your fellow ing involved in alumni activities is We have a mandate to serve our alumni in Montreal, call Don Yapp that city, please contact Deanna members in a creative, cost-effective way, and that means we must PhD'93 at (514) 989-2342. McLeod, branches coordinator at constantly monitor what we do and why we do it. the Association, at (604) 822-8918 The change in the structure of transfer payments from the fed ONTARIO or 1-800-883-3088. eral government will undoubtedly affect the amount of money the The UBC Law Alumni Association is province can use for post secondary education. Our expenditures starting an Ontario branch. Events WINNIPEG have been stable over the past few years, even though our member will be planned starting this fall. If UBC Dean of Law Lynn Smith was ship base grows by nearly 6,000 every year. In order to improve our you're interested in helping out or in Winnipeg, and alumni met with services, we can't be content merely to sharpen our financial pencils. would like more information please her at an informal reception August We have to consider each of our programs for cost effectiveness, dedi contact Gillian Gardiner LLB'92 at 21st at the law firm Buchwald, cated staff time and, most important, for its benefit to our members. (604) 641-4903. Asper, Gallagher, Henteleff. Thanks Early in 1996 the Association will undertake a performance re to our new Winnipeg branch rep view to assess our services, with your needs in mind. The review will OTTAWA Peter Epp LLB'93 for organizing the ensure that the programs we offer are the right ones, and will help us Show your Thunderbird spirit at the event and thanks to his law firm for define new priorities. UBC's administration will undergo profound Alumni Bowl! A Canadian universi hosting the reception. Call Peter at changes in the next few years, with a new president in 1997, and with ties alumni football game is taking (204) 956-0560 ext. 234 for more new deans in many faculties. It is up to us to define how we can serve place September 23, 1995 at Frank information about branch activities that new administration, and how we will serve our members into the Clair Stadium. The festivities begin in that city. next century. But we aren't waiting for the performance review to look at new initiatives. We have struck a student cultivation committee to look Not So Near, But Just as Dear... into ways of involving current students in our activities. Part of our Branch Reps Coming Home! task is to help build life-long loyalty to UBC, and this process must start early on. The Alumni Association is invit round table discussions; plenty of We are also well along in the process of establishing a member ing all branch representatives back time to explore the university's card. For an annual fee, you will have access to many ofthe services to UBC during Homecoming and Open H ouse, "An Odyssey '95"; you enjoyed as a student. We hope to introduce the card late this year Open House, October 11-15, presentations from relevant units or early in 1996. 1995! The reps will have a around campus and opportu- We have brought back a grand tradition, the Alumni Annual chance to meet each other ^^^M nities to meet with UBC Achievement Dinner. This year, we will honour our 1995 award win and Association staff ^^HH ^ dignitaries at various ners on October 23 at the Vancouver Hotel with honorary degree re and rediscover the ^^^^KM| ^^ receptions, dinners cipient Garth Drabinsky as our featured speaker. This event is not to UBC campus of the ^^^^^Km, ^^k and one-on-one be missed. Please see page 11 for information on tickets and times. '90s.We think this ,^^^D^| ^^M encounters. We We can be proud ofthe accomplishments of our university. With "summit meeting" ^^^^|^H ^^H look forward to internationally recognized research, first class teaching and innova our loyal repre- ^^^^^^H ^^H meeting our tive programs in virtually every faculty, UBC has become one of the from ^^^^^^Q ^^m branch reps. It will top universities in North America. UBC's 1995 open house runs from around the world ^^^^^Hj ^m be a fun and worth- October 13 - 15, and will give you the chance to see, up close, the will help generate ^^^^Hjj Y while event. For more great things going on here. I invite you to visit Cecil Green Park dur some great new ideas and ^^^H information about sum- ing open house and meet some of the people who work for you at the activities for our revitalized mit plans, please call the Alumni Association. Remember, Tuum Est: It's still your university. branches program.The preliminary branches coordinator, Deana schedule of activities includes: McLeod, at (604) 822-8918. Al Poettcker, President, UBC Alumni Association
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Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology Rendez Divisions Thank you to all those who made the first ever BIOCHEMISTRY, vous* Electrical BBQ*Home Ec Rebirth*A Plant in Landscape PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY division's alumni Rendez-vous on June 27 such a suc Architecture*Golfing MDs*Nurses Lectured To * Inquisitive cess! Graduates from the past 20 years showed up to renew old friendships and form new ones Pharmacists* Rehab Med Mentors'Decades of Social Workers while enjoying refreshments and a beautiful sunset. A great time was take place on October 15 from 3-5 Woodward Instructional Resource stores and groups. Anyone else who had by all—make sure to watch for pm.This is a great chance to visit Centre lecture hall, No. 6 at 8 pm. is interested in attending and shar your next BPP Bulletin in the fall. with your classmates and celebrate Elizabeth Davies, a professor at ing their knowledge and experience ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Homecoming. Reps from each grad the UBC School of Nursing, will be with these inquisitive students ING alumni are invited to join profs year will be in touch to keep every the 1995 Woodward lecturer.The should contact Ray Li (682-2344, and undergrads at the annual one up to date on the tree party. lecture is free and attendance is loc. 2126), Andre Lo (431 -8618) or Homecoming BBQ on September open to the community at large. For Anderson Wong (524-7254). 21 at the Cheeze Factory at 4:00 The Medical Student and Alumni more information, contact Joanne pm. Resistor races held later in the Centre hosted the MEDICAL divi Ricci at the SON, 822-7506. Nurs The REHAB SCIENCES divi evening. For more details, contact sion's AGM and Awards Reception ing alumni are invited to a potluck sion invites all alumni, graduate and Dean Leung BASc'93 at
UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 NEWS
The Cost of a University Education New Board of Directors Installed :!-. 'The Alumni Association's new Board of Directors will be introduced 1 here has been a lot in the news Sat'this year's AGM to be held October 23 in the Tweedsmuir Room of lately about financing post sec J(J» Vancouver Hotel.The AGM is being held in conjunction with the an ondary education. The federal nual Alumni Achievement Dinner. See page 11 for details. Members of government is cutting transfer ffhjt Board are elected annually; with the Senior VP becoming President payments to the provinces and linjhis or her second year on the Board. Here is the new Board: some $300 million dollars ear marked for BC will have to be president Al Poettcker, BCom'69 made up some other way. The (Pitt President Debra Browning, LLB'80 provincial government says it can Senior Vice President.— Tricia Smith, BA'80, LLB'85 not shoulder yet another Financial ^Treasurer Dickson Wong, BCom'88 burden imposed upon it by its fed Members-at-Large, 1994 - 1996 eral counterpart. As a result, post ,..„ Chris Bendl, BSc'9l secondary institutions are seeking „,- Pamela Friedrich, BA'67 more innovative ways to deal with ;.„,, Louanne Twaites, BSc(Pharm)'53 rising costs and higher demand. Expenditures at UBC now to Members-at-Large, 1995 - 1997 tal more than $700 million annu Dana Merritt, BCom'88 ally. About half that total is paid Don McConachie, BSA'63, MBA'65 through the businesses we run, ...„ Grace Wong, BEd'74, MBA'83 such as housing and food sendees, and through the research grants we attract. The other half, or $338 million, represents our operating ex The Greeks penses. Eighty percent ofthis comes from provincial grants and 16% from tuition. Overall, the province funds less than half of our activities. The ALPHA DELTA PI ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION celebrated The question is, should the users of the post secondary system Founders' Day in May with a gathering of alumnae and actives at Cecil shoulder more ofthe financial burden for their own education? Green Park.The next events that we will be participating in are The conditions of our age dictate that all elements of society pay Panhellenic's Open House (October 15, 12—4 pm) and our association's their share, that all those who use or benefit from our institutions also AGM October 25, 7:30 pm, Cecil Green Park). Our next newsletter will support them financially. So the question is not should tuitions in be out in the fall, but if you have any questions now, call Ann crease, but by how much should they increase. McCutcheon to get involved (604-732-4580). Tuition should only be raised if the public is convinced that we are using our existing resources efficiently and effectively. Costs at UBC, The VANCOUVER PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION invites all compared to 1981/82, are 30% less per student annually. This repre UBC sorority alumnae to attend their Open House and Homecoming sents an outstanding improvement in productivity and fiscal manage activities. Mingle with old friends and learn about your sorority's current ment. By comparison, hospitals spend 40% more per patient day, and activities! Open House will be held October 15 from 12 to 4:30 pm at the public school system spends 15% more per student than they did Panhellenic House, UBC. Please RSVP your attendance (or interest in in 1981/82, for a substantial loss in productivity. helping out!) to Ann McCutcheon, vice president of VAPA at 604-732- The question of tuition has come into particular relief at UBC be 4580 or to your local alumnae representative. cause, in late May, our Board approved a new tuition policy for the 1996/97 academic year. The policy includes these points: Sixty-five years ago a group of UBC women founded the AOfl Vancou • Tuition will be adjusted to ensure that total operating expenses are ver chapter. In celebration on October 22 at Cecil Green Park from I - contained to stay constant with inflation. 4 pm, ALPHA OMICRON PI Vancouver Alumnae Chapter is having an • 33% will be added to that increase and deposited to the student aid afternoon of memories. We are asking our sisters to remember what fund to ensure that talented but needy students are given a full and was so special about attending UBC as an AOn. Dig out those scrap- equal chance to attend. books, videos,T-shirts, rush invitations and photos. Bring them to our • Full cost tuition will be established for some professional graduate celebration. Call Marjorie Stevens at 879-0255 if you have anything programs. that needs special equipment. We hope every sister can come! • Full-cost tuition will be charged for international undergraduate and This past year AOn held a number of interesting functions. In Febru professional graduate students, starting with new students in 1996. ary we donated clothing and household items to a battered woman's The University of British Columbia has no intention of raising tui shelter thanks to Susan Hart. Our Rose Tea, hosted by Honoree Findlay, tion fees to anything like those charged at private universities. But so was very successful. Elaine and David Peterson hosted a June BBQ where ciety, the taxpayer and the university must establish the appropriate we were entertained by some great piano playing. In June Marjorie balance between government funding on the one hand, and funding Stevens represented Vancouver AOn at the international convention in that comes from tuition on the other. Scottsdale, Arizona, where they spent a great deal of time planning The administrative focus of UBC is to maintain the highest aca AOITs centennial celebrations in 1997 in New York City! This coming demic standards. We will achieve that by keeping our financial house in year Anne Mott is planning an active calendar of events, including meticulous order, by investigating every conceivable avenue for effi Founders' Day and our 65th anniversary. We are looking forward to a ciency and effective service, and by continuing to ensure that ability is successful return of an AOfl colony to UBC in the next year. Now is the the sole criterion for students choosing to come to the university. time to think "legacy." David Strangway, President, UBC
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REHABILITATION MEDI CINE '70 celebrated its 25th anni versary reunion over the May long weekend. Twenty-three out ofthe twenty-nine combined physiotherapy and occupational therapy graduates attended a brunch at the home of Barbara Eden Stoddard in Rich mond and a pot luck dinner at the home of Elizabeth Colon MacRitchie's parents in West Van couver. Faculty who taught the class joined in and added to the celebra tions. Class members came from PEI, Ontario, Alberta and BC.
MEDICINE '55 experienced a very warm welcome from the Chateau Whistler NURSING '65 held a most at their reunion on the weekend of June 16. Twenty class members and spouses successful reunion on May (including two widows) attended this year's reunion. The luncheon at the Cha 5-7 at Whistler. The two teau was a worthwhile experience. The balance ofthe weekend was spent relax condominiums at Grey Hawk ing, catching up and taking in some ofthe leisure activities that the resort has easily accommodated the to offer. fourteen nurses. Walking around the golf course and Lost Lake provided recrea tion. Sightseeing in the vil lage and shopping was an Reunions option for others. Class mem Fifteen members of the classes of bers prepared some gourmet APPLIED SCIENCE '31-'35 and meals and local restaurants their guests gathered at Cecil Green were the venue for others. It Park for their annual luncheon. Each was a wonderful retreat for guest shared their memories of UBC reconnecting with friends and and their latest activities with the sharing warm memories. group. Memories included mention of Professor "Pop Valve" Smith and tales of Charlotte Whitton. Sixty-plus years after graduation, the FORESTRY CLASS OF '50 was enthusiasm of these classmates for the largest forestry class to ever to their university years has not waned. graduate from UBC. In 1946 they A good time was had by all. started with over 100 students, mostly veterans all glad to be back in MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK Canada, and quickly became a '75 enjoyed a successful reunion on close-knit group. Approximately 70 the weekend of May 5-6. Forty peo students graduated, after having ple enjoyed the wine and cheese spent their student years socializing party, held at the Reading Room at with each other and their professors the School of Social Work on the Fri at Wreck Beach, Stanley fvrk and day evening. Saturday activities in the Commodore. They come together cluded a BBQ at Kits Neighbour every five years at Harrison Hot hood House.The group intends to Springs. This year there were 35 for celebrate their 25th anniversary re esters and their spouses who came union in Victoria in 2000. from as far away as Toronto for their 45th reunion. Professors Butch NURSING '85 had a small gather Griffiths and Tom Wright, as well as GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING '85 held their 10th year reunion over the ing at Cecil Green Park on May 19th. four widows of former class mem July 1st weekend at the Beaver Lake Resort in Kelowna. Those attending in Some class members and their fami bers, were the honoured guests. Eve cluded classmates, spouses, family and friends, totalling 34 adults (of those six lies met at Jericho Beach the follow ryone enjoyed the gathering. A spe teen were grads) and 12 children. Social activities featured a BBQ, fishing ing day for a beach BBQ.The fine cial thank you to Robin Caesar, who derby (won by Paul Madsen), treasure hunt, awards ceremony, fireworks and weather contributed to the success has been the driving force behind all indulging in a keg of "reunion brew." of this event. %' ofthe reunions from the very first.
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REUNIONS 1 995 If you would like r nore info about our fall reunions, please call Dawn WHERE GREAT MINDS MEET Levy at 822-8917 or toll free 1-800-883-3088.
WHO WHERE WHEN
VOC '55 Cecil Green Park, UBC Sept. 15 Engineering '50 Cecil Green Park, UBC Sept. 22 & 23 Class of'35 Cecil Greeh Park, UBC Sept. 27 Commerce '65 Cecil Green Park, UBC Sept. 29 & 30 Medicine '60 Whistler Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Mechanical Eng. '70 Cecil Green Park, UBC Oct. 6 & 7 Mechanical Eng. '55 Cecil Green Park, UBC Oct. 14 & 15 Class of '40 Shaughnessy Golf Club, UBC Oct. 14 & 15 Pharmacy '85 Harrison Hot Springs Oct. 12-15 Law'81 UBC Golf Course Oct. 13 Law'55 Pan Pacific Hotel Oct. 13 Intramural Sports Brock House Oct. 14 Agriculture '84-'85 Cecil Green Park, UBC Oct. 28
Reunions To Come THE UBC CONFERENCE CENTRE
The VOC OLD TIMER RE We're planning a four day event for A Over 3,000 bedrooms available in student residences situated UNION FOR GRADS UP TO May 31-June 4, 1996. To plan a class in the spacious and park-like setting of UBC campus. 1955. Reserve NOW for our '95 reunion or to help in any way, con party.The next one won't be until tact Marion or Marguerite at 822- A Gage Court Hotel offers year-round accommodation in 2000! Reception/dinner on Friday, 4933 or 822-4976 or fax 822-3035. September 15th, 6 pm at Cecil We're also compiling a 50-year an recently renovated one bedroom suites, ideal for seminar Green Park.VOC style fun and niversary book. If you have any groups and visiting academics. games to follow. On the 16th there memorabilia to contribute, contact will be a walk at 10 am at Cypress Louanne Twaites or Bev Louis. • Meeting facilities for 15 - 3,000 delegates in academic Bowl. For info, call Dawn Levy, pro On the back of any photos submit buildings, in-house meeting rooms and special facilities. gram coordinator, at (604) 822- ted, please note the approximate date of the photo, what's happening, 8917 or toll free 1-800-883-3088. A Conference coordination, registration services and full meeting names of all people and their grad Are you CLASS OF 1946? year.The photos will be returned. management packages available in-house with experienced Show yourself off at the 50th anni Send material to Louanne Twaites, meeting professionals. versary reunion on June 19, 20 and 4660 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, 21 in 1996. Discovery tours, unique BCV6R IV7. Also, please jot down entertainment, fine food—all in the any special memories you have of VANCOUVER company of your old college crowd. your pharmacy undergrad days. The A One of North America's most popular meeting destinations, For reservations and info, contact greater the input we have, the more Dawn Levy, program coordinator. special the book will be. Vancouver offers your delegates great value in a safe and UBC INTRAMURAL SPORTS cosmopolitan city. MECHANICAL ENG. '70 gradu ADMINISTRATORS' reunion will ates have been working hard at or happen on Saturday, October 14, ganizing their reunion, which will 1995. Join us for an evening of din take place on October 6 and 7, The University of British Columbia ner, dance, prizes, gifts and more. 1995. We'll enjoy lunch at the Pit Also included will be a toast to past 5961 Student Union Boulevard Pub on the 6th, and then have a re AMS presidents who have made a Vancouver, B.C. V6T2C9 ception at the mechanical engineer contribution to Intramural Sports. ing building with former profs. In Tel: 604-822-1060 Expect your invitation in the mail. UBC the evening we'll all get together for Fax: 604-822-1069 For more info, contact Joan CONFERENCE a salmon BBQ at Cecil Green Park. (Pilcher) Webster, reunion coor CENTRE e-mail: [email protected] On the 7th, enjoy a game of golf at dinator, at 822-6000 or 541 -7891. the University Golf Club, followed The 50th anniversary of PHAR by dinner. Lots of prizes and cus Bring your next conference home to MACY CLASS OF 1946 will be tomized class golf shirts for sale. celebrated in 1996.The planning We've located all former classmates The University of British Columbia committee is co-chaired by Marion except Roger Leblanc and Pearson and Marguerite Yee. Charan Pohar. «'
UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 NEWS
Au Revoir, /tn&a^ Walter Koerner anal I he University of British Columbia r is in mourning. One of its oldest -23 friends and benefactors passed away America on his 97th birthday. We are speak February 25 - March 9 ing, of course, of Walter Koerner. West Indies Dr. Koerner came to Canada as a February 18-25 young man with his two brothers, Road to Damascus Leon and Theodore, fleeing their ^pril 30 - May 13 homeland in 1938 before the outbreak of WWII. He was born in 1898 in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He served in the Yangtze River army during WWI and was decorated for bravery. ptober The Koerner family had been involved in forestry for two centuries, so mean Cruise the brothers gravitated towards that industry here as well.They culti [ember 25 - October 8^*&i.* vated the hemlock, a tree which was regarded in this part of the world as and Mosel River useless. Their company, Alaska Pine and Cellulose, thrived, and in 1954 July they sold it to Rayonnier.Walter Koerner became the chair of Rayonnier Canada (BC) and retired in 1972. Venice to Monte Carlo August 3-14 Koerner was also known as a philanthropist. He played an important role in the collection and cultivation of West Coast Native art, and col Three Great Rivers of Europe Vc?6> lected European ceramics from childhood. In the Fall 1991 Chronicle, August Robin Laurence wrote,"/n /972, he and his wife Marianne donated their New England valuable collection of Northwest Coast native art to the Museum ofAnthropol- ogy, a donation that was essential in securing federal government financing for the construction ofthe Museum Hself.When, in 1988, he gave his extensive European ceramics collection to the MOA (along with the money to display the oar work), it was the consolidation of a long and significant association." Koerner was chair of the UBC Board of Governors from 1968 to 1972, and he was one of the most generous donors during the World of Oppor tunity Campaign. In particular, his support of the library has made possi ble the high-tech expansion currently underway.A new library building, Would you like the Walter C. Koerner Library, is a key element in the library's expansion. He well be missed. Dale Fuller a mortgage with no summer payments? Every year?
The Alumni Associa tion is pleased to an We have it nounce that His Hon our, The Honourable ... and you can get it. Garde B. Gardom, QC, the Lieutenant- Call Johri Davies at our Dunbar Branch Governor of British for details, Everyone is welcome at Columbia, has gra ieaehers Credit Unon. ciously accepted its invitation to become an Honorary Patron ofthe Association. The Board of Direc tors and the staff look forward to a reward ing relationship. Mr. mB.C. TEACHERS CREDIT iUNION Gardom graduated from UBC in 1949 Branches in Dunbar, Oakridge, Burnaby, with two degrees, a Surrey and Victoria BA and an LLB.
I 0 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 The 1995 UBC Annual Alumni Achievement Dinnerand AGM
Join guest speaker Garth Drabinsky and MC John
Gray for an evening of entertainment and celebration, door prizes
including tickets from Canadian Airlines Intl.,
tickets to Showboat and UBC cookbooks. And the I 995
recipients of the Alumni
Association Achievement And we promise ... nO rubber ChJCken.Just a great time! | Awards
1995 AGM The Association's AGM will be held on Monday, October 23, 1995 at 6 pm in the Tweedsmuir [Wh enf .October 23, 1995 Room, Hotel Vancouver. Business Agenda What time? .AGM: 6:00 pm 1. Call to order ... in the Tweedsmuir room 2. Acceptance of the 1993-94 Reception: 6:30 pm minutes 3. Treasurer's report and appointment of the auditor Dinner: 7:30 pm Garth Drabinsky for 1995-96 4. Returning Officer's Report Where? . Hotel Vancouver, BC Ballroom 5. Past President's remarks 6. President's remarks Why? .To honour our 1995 Award recipients, to 7. Closing/Adjournment be entertained, wined and dined, and to Thanks to our sponsors: spend an evening with friends.
MCL Motor Cars (1992) Inc. Canadian Airlines Intl. IWhat's the cost? I $80 each — $640 per table of eight UBC Food Group Live Entertainment of How do I order? Call Sheila Beveridge at 685-4888 Canada more door prizes — a pair of Grizzlies tickets with a weekend for two at the Georgian Court <&««, be confined)
UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 | | Alumni Association Homecoming and A the UBC I -i—i i Open House Events
Annual rund SUNDAY, Class of '40 Reunion Dinner at Thanks for helping us reach SEPTEMBER 24 Shaugnessy Golf Club $1.45 million in 1994/95 Nursing Annual Homecoming Brunch, SUNDAY, More than 15,000 donors participated in the UBC Annual Fund Cecil Green Park OCTOBER 15 last year—13,930 of whom are UBC alumni. For a copy of our do Antique Car Display Birthday nor honour roll, please contact us at the address below. WEDNESDAY, Celebration; OCTOBER 11 VAPA's (Panhellenic) Open House at Rehab Science Alumni Homecoming Panhellenic House; Where Donations Came From Reception and Mentorship Kickoff Branches Summit (day 4); | (by Appeal) Class of '40 Reunion Campus Tour Alumni 14.8 15.1 THURSDAY, and Brunch, Grad Student Centre; OCTOBER 12 Landscape Architecture Tree Bosque Great Trekker Reception (AMS); at MacMillan Building Branches Summit Kickoff Meeting at Cecil Green Park; MONDAY, Social Work Alumni AGM OCTOBER 23 Alumni Achievement Dinner and FRIDAY, AGM, Hotel Vancouver, BC 64.5 OCTOBER 13 Ballroom Death by Dessert, Murder Mystery at Cecil Green Park; DATE TO BE ESTABLISHED Great Trek Remembered Luncheon; 1952 Open House Committee Where alumni donations were designated: Branches Summit (Day2); Reunion School of Family and Nutritional Agricultural Sciences 28,639 Sciences/Home Economics Alumni Applied Sciences 117,836 Reception at School of FNS Arts 92,251 Commerce 72,149 SATURDAY, Dentistry 16,959 OCTOBER 14 UBC Education 74,870 Geography AGM & Social; OPEN HOUSE Forestry 23,340 Agricultural Science display/meeting Graduate Studies 30,159 place; Law 45,073 YoungAlumni Connections Open Medicine 95,531 House/display; Pharmacy 16,715 Mechanical Engineering '55 Reunion Science 50,145 Dinner at Cecil Green Park,Tour of Library 70,559 Mechanical Engineering Building; Athletics 12,659 Social Work Alumni AGM; Alumni Association 350 Branches Summit (day 3); Awards and Financial Aid 78,342 Cecil Green Park House; AN 6t>YSSEY Other 113,855 Total $ 939,432 Death fey Dessert We would also like to thank the ten volunteer groups that came in The UBC Alumni Association invites you to indulge in decadent desserts to phone throughout the year—raising $72,390 ofthe $939,432. while professional actors entangle you in a fim game of murder and The new Annual Fund year began on April 1, 1995, and we are off suspense. Be a suspect or jam fellow detectives in solving the mystery. to a great start. We look forward to your continued participation The setting is Cecil Green Fhrk; that lovely old mansion it an absolutely this year. perfect setting for such mayhem! Thank you! Friday, October 13 7:30 pm Dessert Buffet UBC Annual Fund 8:30 pm Murder Mystery 6253 N.W. Marine Drive $15 per person, cash bar Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Phone: (604)822-8900 Contact Marlene King at 822-8923 for more information. Special Fax: (604)822-8151 thanks to Roger Haskett BA'86, BFA'91, MA'92 and Murder Unlimited for sponsoring and staging the event.
12 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 UBC Metes Out 50 Years of Law
eorge Curtis, UBC's ister Louis St. Laurent stood at first dean of law, came the north end of campus and to the UBC campus G presided over the official open Grad Paul Winn (I), from Nova Scotia in August 1945 ing of Canada's first building Dean Lynn Smith and with the understanding that he designed specifically for a faculty founding dean George would have a year to set things of law. Curtis celebrate half a up. As it turned out, he had a As it celebrates its 50th anni century of law at little less than a month. His ac versary, the faculty is the second UBC. ceptance of President Norman largest common law school in Mackenzie's offer to build a law Canada. It draws 180 students school in western Canada coin annually from across the country cided with the end of the war and into its LLB program and about Celebrate D\J a subsequent flood of veterans to 50 students into its Master's and Dean of Law Lynn Smith Point Grey. PhD programs. points to the national and inter Years in uwi "No sooner had I sat down At the time of Curtis's ap national character of the student than they were banging on my pointment, time and resources body, and to the breadth and •Thursday. October 12. 1995 I door," said Curtis, 1995 recipient permitted little more than a depth of faculty research. Among Symposium: Environment and of The Ramon John Hnatyshyn bare-bones selection of course the 44 full-time faculty members, the Law Award for Law. "I tried to tell work and little in the way of fac research interests run across the Presentations from scientific social them to head east because we ulty research. The faculty was spectrum of legal categories. Re and legal scholars on law and the had nothing, but they said they'd ahead of its time introducing search areas today include all environment. Chaired by Ivan Head. prefer to stick it out and take a taxation and labour law in 1946. traditional areas of public and Time: 9am-5pm chance here." By the late 1960s, first-year private law as well as new, inter Location: Curtis Building Justice Lloyd MacKenzie, enrolment doubled to 236, and disciplinary fields such as First Fee: $225 plus GST, includes lunch. former Attorney-General Robert economic and societal pressures Nations legal studies, environ Info/Registration: (604) 893-2162 Bonner and BC Lt.-Gov. Garde called for a revamping ofthe 23- mental law, Asian legal studies or toll free 1-800-663-0437 and artificial intelligence. Gardom were among the first subject curriculum. These iFriday. October 13. 1995 I class of 86 students Curtis lec changes resulted in one ofthe Smith believes that law facul Special UBC Convocation tured in Brock Hall North. broadest legal curricula in the ties in the 1990s should provide a Honorary Doctor of Laws to Chief Seven years later, Prime Min country. healthy mix of interdisciplinary, Justice William Esson of the comparative and theoretical legal Supreme Court of BC, and honor study along with conventional ary LLB degrees to pre-Law faculty legal scholarship. This requires legal practitioners. Hilarious, interactive not only a knowledge of legal Time: 4:30 pm doctrine, but also an understand Location: Great Hall, Law Courts, ing ofthe social context in which 800 Smithe St., Vancouver murder mysteries & legal concepts and principles are created, interpreted and applied. •Saturday. October 14. 1995 I Gala Dinner theme parties The faculty will host a number of events throughout the Decade receptions, dining and year to mark the 50th anniver dancing. Special guests, special • References presentations to highlight the first available sary, including a symposium on the environment and the law; the 50 years. Dress is business attire. • Money back awarding of an honorary Doctor Time: 6:00 pm guarantee of Laws on Chief Justice William Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, • Corporate or Esson ofthe Supreme Court of Vancouver private events BC; the awarding of honorary Fee: $100 plus GST • 4 years LLB degrees to members of the Info/Reservations: 822-6303 experience legal profession of BC who re [October 13-15. 1995 I ceived their legal education be UBC Open House '95 fore the faculty was established; Law's Open House features mock and the release of a book on the trials, computer technology history of legal education in BC demonstrations and memorabilia. The faculty will also host an Also class reunions and the launch informal lunch-hour reception of Dr. Wes Pue's book about the and archival display at the law history of legal education in BC. school on Oct. 14, followed by a For info, call Elaine Borthwick, PHONE/FAX: (604) 649-GUNS gala banquet in the evening. %' Faculty of Law, (604) 822-6303.
UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 13 CANADIAN HIGH SCHOOL IN PARTY WHEN THE YACS COME HOME! SWITZERLAND This insert is directed at all recent graduates and alumni members who are young at heart. Young Alumni Connections eageriy MtwH Neuchatel Junior QiUege is a small, co-educational school pates your participation during Homecoming/Open House 1995. We with a large vision. It prepares students in their final year hope to see many of you enjoying the numerous activities around or semester of high school for the demands and independence of university and their career. campus planned for the October 13-15 weekend. for those of you who counted a warm cinnamon bun and coffee as Established it}jl956, Neuchatel Junior College attracts students from acros||&i&Ja. The College offers the Ontario pre-university a close friend during your UBC days, we invite you to get re-acquainted OAC curriculum, residency in French-speaking Swiss homes, and with your old friends — human and caffeine — on Saturday) October a tradHtwiof excellence in teaching, extra curricular activities, 14 at 8:30 am in Cecil Green House. So gather your business cards, and tmvel while Hying and studying in Europe. wedding pictures, baby shots. Bring anything and/or anyone you want ComttoN«iehatel forayearofinteDertualgjtowm, travel, to this casual morning of reunions. and advaature - and watch your classroom move into the streets We hope you will mark you calendars for the Second Annual YAC y[ ,". of London, Paris, Athens, Rome ... Christmas Event. On Thursday, December 7th, join the growing For a {t^pectus and application information {dease contact: number of YACs for some seasonal cheer at Cecil Green House. Ior 'Mirs.Dayk teii&uimBa, Canadian Representative more information on YAC and our upcoming events, call Dawn at 330 B§y Street, Suite 1503, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S8 822-8917 or drop by a meeting at Cecil Green on the first Thursday Tel: (416) 368-816? (800)263-2923 Fax:(416)368-0956 of every month at 7 pm. Remember, with YACs the partying starts E-mail [email protected] when we all COME HOME! See ya in October. Neuchatel Junior College Return without delay to: The UBC Alumni Association, Attn: Young Fonde en 1956 Suisse Alumni Connections, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, 'Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1, Phone: 822-8917 or lax: 822-8928. Neuchatel Junior College is a non-profit educational institution and a Member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools T I WANT TO BE PART OF THE FUN. Send me a I THE NEW newsletter with all the details of the next adventure. I WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY Name: I Address:. I V.
Ar>nnr« fore, the current committee hosted an informal gathering at r-i-rv PROV CODE Cecil Green House on Friday, CREDIT CARD FXP April 18, 1995. The more than
XlrjNATIIRF thirty young alumni who attended were entertained by two members of the band The Ftmny Thing About That" while sipping spirits and munch PLEASE RETURN TO: LESLEY ASHFORD. DEVELOPMENT OFFICER ing on snacks. The event was well received and will definitely be repeated THE LIBRARY. 1956 MAIN MALL. VANCOUVER BC V6T 1Z1 CANADA TEL: (604) 822-5071 FAX: (604) 822-3335 FL1WCKMI soon
14 UBC J\LUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 YOU ODYSSEY UBC
You could win a Honda Odyssey, courtesy of Lower Mainland Honda Dealers, in celebration of UBC Open House October 13,14,15. It's an adventure of almost mythological propor Stylish, ultra-safe, luxurious, innovative and versa tions! First a visit to Safeway or a Honda Dealer to tile, you and the family will get more out of Odyssey enter. Next a family outing to UBC Open House because the Honda engineers put more into it. for some serious fun, and then you could discover Contest begins Sept. 11. No purchase necessary. yourself the winner of a $30,000 Honda Odyssey. AN ftoYSSEY See rules and regulations in store. You Odyssey 99.3The Fox draw the winner's name live from UBC Open House at 3;00pm Sunday, October15th!
HONDA. (Y) SAFEWAY Today's better way^r ARTS cluding author, title and keyword. UW Since last October, users have been e first of the new Arts Fac able to access the IPO database in ulty buildings on the UBC veryone connected with the Faculty of Law was delighted and the reading rooms in the Centre for Tcampus was officially proud to learn that George F. Curtis, founding dean of the Integrated Computer Systems Re opened on June 17, 1995. It is the E faculty, has been awarded the 1995 Ramon John Hnatyshyn search (CICSR) and the electrical Fine Arts Gallery, named for its do Award for Law by the Canadian Bar Association. The award, pre engineering buildings as well as the nors and constructed with the gen sented at the CBA's annual meeting in August, recognizes outstand Science and Engineering Division in erous support of Mrs. Helen Belkin ing commitment to the law and to legal scholarship in Canada. the Main Library. and the Morris and Helen Belkin Curtis, who served as dean from 1945 until his retirement in 1971, User response to this new serv Foundation. The architect, Peter was cited for his achievements in "bringing Canadian university legal ice has been enthusiastic.The ad Cardew, has already received prizes education to maturity following the Second World War." One of the vantages of providing online access for its design. Half of the gallery founders of the Association of Canadian University Law Teachers to full text are clear. As publishers consists of exhibition space, while and the Committee of Law Deans of Canada, Dean Curtis also respond to the growing demand, the other half will accommodate the served as director of the Foundation for Legal Research in Canada users can expect to see more and gallery's support activities, including for many years. At age 89, he remains an active and beloved mem more full-text electronic publica storage of the university's art collec ber of the law faculty community. tions available through the Library. ;•* tion. The faculty itself celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its founding The new gallery will focus upon this year as well. The celebration will get into full swing with a con MEDICINE contemporary art, particularly but stellation of special events during the UBC Homecoming/Open not exclusively of this region.The House weekend. See the article on page 13 for details. For more hanks to students, alumni, pro opening exhibition features the information about the events and class reunions also taking place fessional associations, the BC work of Paul Yuxweluptun, a Salish that weekend, please contact Elaine Borthwick at 604-822-6303 Tgovernment and the Vancouver artist. Other exhibitions will consist Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, of the work of various important the $1,250,000 needed for the final artists who appeal to the interests phase of the Medical Student and of a wide audience. Alumni Centre has been raised. The Belkin Gallery will be integral See page 21 for more faculty news The Phase II extensions to the to the mission of the university. Centre were recognized at a cer Through provocative exhibitions, emony on May 11,1995 with a rep publications, visiting speakers, sym LIBRARY lica of the cairn on UBC's Main Mall. posia and other activities, it will arly materials. Construction of the Phase II exten challenge visitors and students to hen the UBC Library In the last year, the Science and sions is scheduled to be completed think about our visual culture and started using computers Engineering Division has provided in 1996. the vital role it plays in our collec Wto provide online access students and faculty in computer The university has always at tive lives. to periodical indexes and the library science and electrical engineering tracted some of the finest research Another complex of buildings catalogue, librarians and users im with online access to the IPO (IEEEI ers in the world. Dr.Victor Ling, currently under construction is the mediately wanted more. It was /EE Publications Ondisc) database. IPO our new assistant dean of cancer Chan Centre for the Performing wonderful to find a list of articles contains the full text of articles research and VP of research for the Arts, scheduled to open in the on a research topic using keyword from the world's two major socie BC Cancer Agency, continues this spring of 1997. The 76,000 square searching. But people still had to ties in electrical engineering — the tradition. He is renowned through foot centre will be composed of track down the journals in the US-based Institute of Electrical and out the world for his discovery of three auditorial the 1400 seat Chan stacks in order to read the articles. Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the the existence and mechanisms of Shun Concert Hall, the BC Tel Thea What we really wanted was the full UK's Institution of Electrical Engi drug resistance in chemotherapy. tre with a seating capacity of 300 text of the articles online. neers; including over 100 journals, He has received international and the Royal Bank Cinema. These Now, with reduced computer 225 annual conference proceedings awards for cancer research. auditoria will serve the departments storage costs and more published and all the technical standards pro Part of the faculty's mission is to of music, theatre and film on cam material available in machine-read duced by both societies. prepare physicians for the future. pus and will also provide a venue for able format, libraries can provide Users can search these full-text With the explosion of knowledge the performing arts in Vancouver.i-» better networked access to schol publications in numerous ways in currently underway in the profes-
COMMERCE this spring, this connection is going dean and professor of finance, ecutive Development and the Port through a transition. He will have an Lusztig takes the most satisfaction folio Management Society, as well as n June 29, Peter Lusztig, former office near the David Lam Library, from having developed a quality PhD marshaling funds for the David Lam dean of the Faculty of Com and between contact with his col program for the Faculty of Com Management Research Centre. Omerce and Business Administra leagues, service as a board member merce and internationalizing the fac As a scholar, he'd like to be re tion, officially retired from UBC. of several private corporations and ulty through exchange programs membered for bringing the idea of Lusztig earned a bachelor of com as a federal representative to the with select institutions around the no-fault auto insurance into "more merce degree in 1954. He returned British Columbia Treaty Commis world. Lusztig's list of other credits or less general acceptance" in the to teach in 1957, and continued sion, Lusztig will maintain the busy includes: being a prime mover be late 1960s, when he served on a "with a few interruptions" such as a schedule he's always had. hind the original CIDA exchange Royal Commission. He also enjoyed PhD at Stanford. Rather than ending Reflecting on his tenure, both as with China; the Programme for Ex coauthoring the first Canadian text-
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sion, we are planning extensive clinical experience to our students FORESTRY changes to curriculum.The new cur when treating patients. In addition, riculum, to be introduced in 1996, many others serve on faculty com f\ MBC has been selected as the their development has been truly will maintain basic science teaching mittees (particularly admissions, m #site for a new National Cen- interdisciplinary. The Faculty of Ap and incorporate small group ses curriculum and fundraising), while \*%4.re of Excellence in Ad plied Science and the Faculty of For sions, care-based learning, a good others serve as liaison with the vanced Wood Products Processing. estry have worked together with an grounding in medical informatics Alumni Association's dentistry divi The decision follows several studies industry-based advisory board and and technology, as well as early sion. of industry needs in BC and Canada advisors from European educational community clinical experience. Needless to say, many others that identified a strong demand for institutions to develop an under Thanks to support from three generously donate funds to ensure a new kind of specialized knowledge graduate program proposal that fo charitable foundations — funding the establishment of programs or worker, continuing education, ex cuses on producing graduates who has been secured to develop a the purchase of equipment that tension and R&D for the value- can continue to learn after leaving unique component of this curricu maintain the excellence of this fac added wood processing industry. UBC. lum, the AMIR (Addiction Medicine ulty. With budget cutbacks impact Graduates will have an in-depth The centre facilities will also offer and Intercollegial Responsibility) ing on the jobs of support and aca understanding of value-added wood a new professional masters's degree program. demic staff, these funds are now an manufacturing technology as well as for persons with engineering, sci Funding has also been secured for essential ingredient in our success business skills in such key areas as ence and business degrees wishing the Centre for Molecular Medicine formula. No longer do we use funds marketing, management and finan to move to the wood products in and Therapeutics. Following the only for expenditure on immediate cial/skill analysis. dustry, and continuing education award of a $ 15 million operating needs. Funds are now directed to A new bachelor's degree in Wood programs for upgrading skills and grant from Merck Frosst, and a $9 "endowments" which will preserve Products Processing will offer stu knowledge of existing employees million commitment from the BC alumni donations while only the dents two unique opportunities: and managers. government for design and con earnings are used for the purposes they will be able to complete 16 The Centre for Advanced Wood struction, plans are being finalized designated by the donor.This will months of industry cooperative Products Processing will incorpo for the Centre. To be located at the ensure continuous benefit for key training and will share in an educa rate Canada-wide input from the BC's Children's Hospital/Women's programs such as the clinic compu tional process that specifically ad forest products industry, emphasiz Hospital campus, the Centre will ter system, student financial assist dresses working in groups, problem ing a continuing partnership be spearhead research into the genetic ance, clinical research, forensic den solving and communications skills. tween industry, education and gov causes of disease, and apply its find tistry and geriatric outreach den Not only is the content of the ernment. Funding is being provided ings to the Canadian health care tistry. The opportunities to share proposed new programs unique, but by all parties. ;* system. Scientists at the Centre will the rewards of your profession with your alma mater await you. interact with leading members of PHARMACY academic communities nationally, The faculty is establishing a rec through the Canadian Genetic Dis ognition award for the outstanding he Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is home to a new service for eases Network, as well as interna clinical instructor.These individuals seniors across the province.The BC SMILE (BC Seniors Medication v tionally. < * have often been inadequately recog T Information Line) program is a joint project of the Ministry of Health, nized in a formal sense and now this the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre, a number of pharmaceutical DENTISTRY can be done as part of the annual manufacturers, the Science Council of British Columbia and the UBC Faculty awards luncheon following gradua of Pharmaceutical Sciences. he wealth of talent and enthu tion. The intent of the BC SMILE program is to improve the health of senior siasm for strengthening the Finally, an open invitation is ex citizens in the province by assisting them in using their medications in an ef Tfaculty program as we build tended to visit the faculty at Open fective and rational manner through telephone consultation with a pharma for the future has been an encour House from Friday, October 13 to cist. The faculty will also use the program as a teaching resource to assist aging surprise for this new dean. Sunday, October 16 to relive the students in improving their com Alumni contribute in many ways haunts of the good old days and to munication and research skills to the faculty. Many of them donate see the efforts that are being made and developing better awareness their most precious resource: their to make you truly proud of being a of the needs of seniors. time.This is reflected by the many graduate of UBC's Faculty of Den Pictured is SMILE coordinator part-time teachers whose efforts go tistry. ;•»• Dr. Elaine Kam BSc(Pharm)'89, far to provide current and practical PharmD'93, one of the pharma SCIENCE cists answering the phone when seniors, their families or book for undergraduates in finance t looks as though the academic caregivers call with questions with Professor Bernie Schwab. year '95-'96 will see a record regarding medications. Typical Managerial Finance in a Canadian Set Inumber of students in the Fac calls involve questions regarding ting is now in its fifth printing. "It's ulty of Science. For example, we an the use and misuse of medica nice to know you've been exposed ticipate an enrollment of 1300 new tions, side effects and interac to students that way," Lusztig, now students in first year, even though tions between medications. For a dean emeritus, chuckled, "hun the goal had been I 100. The higher information, seniors should call dreds, or thousands of them over years have similar problems. It has 822-1330 in the Lower Mainland the years. But that doesn't mean come about because of the in or the toll-free number, I -800- they enjoyed it!" fa- creased demand from the commu- 668-6233, in other parts of the Continued on page 21 province. £•*•
UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLK, FALL 1995 | 7 Hey Alumni: You c",i (|, ,, I Your Trip Down Memory Lane Will I
ii HOMECOMING •! UBC is combining its annual Homecoming celebrations with its first Open House in five 'i years. Join us and renew old friendships in a % vibrant setting as students from UBC's 12 fac Use a computer to ulties present more than 300 interesting dis m make galaxies col plays and exhibits demonstrating their prepa t lide—the ultimate rations for the challenges of the 21 st century. demolition derby— 4 and take home a 0 color printout of your handiwork. Examine images from the Hubble Space Telescope. See the model of the solar system on the front Murder at Cecil Green lawn of the Geophysics and Park! Specifically, "Death Astronomy Building. Look at By Dessert" on Friday, Oct. the sun (safely) at the UBC 13. lust one of many exciting Observatory. And finally: It's Open House events sponsored by the 2095! Take a Flight to Mars Alumni Association. There's also a vintage aboard the UBC Spaceways car display in conjunction with UBC's 80th Passenger Shuttle. * birthday festivities Oct. 14. Many receptions will be staged by specific alumni groups. Call 822-3313 for details.
Youngsters will delight in a 9 variety of indoor/outdoor activities Oct. 14-15, including face-painting, puppet-making and story telling. Located on the parking lot adjacent to Maclnnes Field, Kid's World will provide positive, educational and fun activities in UBC is in the forefront of envi arts, sciences and sports. Science World will ronmental protection join us with several displays. and conservation. Agricultural Science, Applied Science, * Forestry and other faculties/departments will present a host of educational exhibits for your edification.
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v Y 6R3ZZUES and THUNDEEBIEDS UBC Athletics is in the process of arranging a £\ a :-z riiatii -. )tv KlaticJiAA/ free clinic/autograph session with Vancouver Legendary alto saxophonist Phil Grizzlies players at War Memorial Gym Oct. Woods joins the UBC Jazz 15. UBC's football, basketball and hockey Ensemble for an evening of vir Thunderbirds all play at home during Open tuoso jazz in the be-bop tradi House; there's also an invitational high tion Oct. 14. Earlier, you can school volleyball tourney. For the public, free meet Phil in person. Daily, swimming in the indoor and outdoor pools, there's also "Sonatenblast," a virtual marathon of the plus balloons, displays and face painting for Beethoven piano sonatas. And come to the Cabaret children at the Aquatic Centre. Oct. 14-15—refreshments available—featuring great party scenes from opera and musical theatre. %
Don't miss the popular Apple Fest at UBC's Botanical Garden, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 14 and 15. *• Free sampling, displays, and unusual apples and apple trees for sale. To escape the hubbub, stroll through the tranquil Nitobe Japanese Garden. (ji-i&Ain. AN Ct>YSSEY Lower Mainland Honda Dealers & Honda Canada T'« For significant support as the For providing as our grand prize premier corporate sponsor of giveaway a 1995 TKondu fti^u.!), valued at $30,000. SAFEWAY TOSHIBA ® Today's better way+ Canadian For serving as the principal pro For providing as a media promo For providing as Open House motional partner in the rHul,da tion prize U'o economy UcileU to an media promotion prizes a T1950 Odipow) promotion. Cf^iun a BENNDORF VERSTER LTD £TEL XEROX Mobility Cation THE DOCUMENT COMPANY Cellular Benndorf Verster Ltd., for provid For providing assistance in the For providing as an Open House ing as an Open House media reproduction of Open House media promotion prize a JLiLxi; promotion prize a Cm™. BseoIF, a marketing and publicity materi cellular telephone, and one multifunction system which als. year's airtime. includes a plain paper and PC fax, a laser-quality printer, a scanner, a personal copier and a telephone. FACULTY NEWS Continued from page 17. over 20 countries for a large AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES nity, and each year a higher GPA has number of organizations including been necessary for admission. This UNESCO, the World Bank, the Eu jhe Faculty of Agricultural Sciences invites aggie, landscape architec year has been complicated by the ropean Commission, the Govern ture and School of Family and Nutritional Sciences alumni to visit new admission system whereby en ment of Norway, the Canadian In Tduring UBC Open House, October 13-15.You are invited to make a try is decided by a calculation which ternational Development Agency journey of discovery through the university's many faculties, research units now includes only four grade 12 and External Affairs Canada. He has and attractions. Our faculty invites you to: marks from high school, whereas also given keynote presentations • visit Totem Field where Demonstrating Sustainability will previously five grade I I, as well as and workshops at more than 36 uni feature composting, cover cropping, patio salad gardening, ur the four grade 12 marks, were used. versities. ban landscaping, growing a wildflower garden, and lots more; The minimum level was set at 82% In June 1995, Dr. Bates was • visit Landscape Architecture's studios and use a computer this year and will clearly have to be awarded the honorary degree of to simulate your dream landscape; raised next year.This is a very high Doctor Honoris Causa in the Sci • sample dozens of varieties at the Botanical Garden's Apple standard and thus many excellent ences of Education by the Fest; students cannot be accepted be Universidade Aberta (the Open Uni • visit the gardens and chat with Canadian Gardener DavidTarrant cause of the lack of university places versity of Portugal) for his scientific and other gardening experts; in our province. contribution to the field of distance discover the Odyssey of Life in Family and Nutritional Sciences. The Department of Statistics has education. Displays and simulations will let you trek through expected and moved into the third floor of the Technology-based open learning unexpected life course events — food tracks, marriage, family Old Computer Science Building. is one of the fastest growing areas — making choices and finding out later life consequences; This follows the move two years of education and training, and is • discover food myths and food facts, and foods of the future; ago of the Computer Science De critical for continuing studies. It is • find out about high tech animal reproduction for the 21st cen partment to the new CICSR/CS imperative that universities provide tury; Building at the southern end of education and training which fits the • use geographic information systems to explore land use con campus. The new location for Statis life style of adults. Increasingly, flicts; tics was refurbished and the profes learners and employers will expect • learn more about economic issues in agriculture through a fun sors are delighted to move out of training to be available in the home game of "Jeopardy" and FBMINet; their old cramped quarters in or in the workplace. In response to « discover the latest about botanic insecticides, high-tech lawn Ponderosa C. In addition, the old these emerging needs, UBC intends grasses, biological control of plant diseases, and so much more. UCS (University Computing Serv to become a world leader in the ices) Annexe, a beige portable be provision of flexible multimedia edu MacMillan Room 254 will be an rendez-vous area for agricultural sciences tween the Mathematics Annexe and cational services. Dr. Bates is ex alumni—enjoy some refreshments, browse through memorabilia, chat with the Geography Building, has been pected to play a major role in help fellow alumni. ;* taken over by Mathematics and Sta ing UBC to achieve this goal. £*• tistics for undergraduate computing laboratories. Thus the computing facilities are improving all over cam ATHLETICS pus. >• football coach from the '20s, a Rhodes Scholar from the CONTINUING EDUCATION A '30s and a pair of recent Ol ympians head up the list of alumni n June I, 1995, Dr.Tony Bates to be inducted into the UBC Sports joined UBC Continuing Stud Hall of Fame during Open House Oies as director of Distance week this fall. Education and Technology. He will Dr. Gordon be responsible for the distance edu (Doc) Burke, cation operations of UBC Access/ who served as Guided Independent Study and will UBC's gridiron represent the university on provin boss from 1925 cial committees and various associa to 1936 will be tions and agencies concerned with posthumously in Patty Sakaki, UBC's most cel category is the 1982-83 national distance education. ducted, along ebrated gymnast, and rugby and champion women's field hockey Dr. Bates assumed overall re with the 1930s football great Doug Reid round team (pictured above), arguably the sponsibility for information technol rugby and cricket out the list of five being inducted in finest in campus history. ogy, institutional research and stra star Dave Carey. the athlete category.A total of four A cocktail reception will begin at tegic planning at the Open Learning Olympians Simon Hoogewerf will be inducted in the builders cat 6:00 pm with the dinner and induc Agency, in Burnaby when he came (track) and Joanne Sargeant (bas egory, including Burke, longtime ath tion ceremony getting under way at to Canada in 1990 from England. ketball) will take their place among letic department business manager 7:00 pm. For tickets and informa There he was one of the founding a total of 49 Hall of Fame members Buzz Moore, sports medicine spe tion, contact June Carlyle at the staff members and professor of edu at the third annual UBC Sorts Hall cialist and track coach Doug Athletic Department at 822-8205. >» cational media research, at the Brit of Fame Dinner and Alumni Reunion Clement and basketball coaching ish Open University. on October 13 at the Ponderosa great Peter Mullins. He has worked as a consultant in Banquet Hall on campus. The lone inductee in the team UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, KALI. 1995 21 Treading tfie Eoards IJDC'S Ttieatre Department Lights UP the Stage bv Rosettatannatu. BA"88 t's a sunny summer day and the heavy shows. It's not like becoming a lawyer where was important," Millerd says. wooden door is open to John Gray's you memorize all this stuff and you go into Because there wasn't a lot of theatre in older Kerrisdale home. He doesn't the world with a bag of tricks." Vancouver at the time, the productions at the hear a visitor knocking because he's in Today, theatre students still perform in Fredric Wood Theatre were equivalent to what the kitchen doing what you'd never five full-length plays presented to the public is today put on at the Arts Club, he says. Iimagine a successful Canadian playwright from September until March. The building itself wasn't bad either. The would be doing. After the theatre program, you go into Freddie Wood, as it is affectionately known, He's vacuuming. the world with a certain amount of experience opened in 1963, the same year as the Vancou The author oi Billy Bishop Goes to War, and an instinct, he says. ver Playhouse. It had a stage turntable that Rock and Roll and 18 Wheels is wearing sum "There was nothing like Klaus was the envy of many professional theatres. mer shorts and an untucked t-shirt that says Strassman's beginning directing class. It was People still praise the building. University of British Columbia across the great." Canadian critic Brian Arnott, writing in front. It's a complete coincidence, he says. Besides the productions at UBC, Contemporary Canadian Theatre, says most So we sit down in the kitchen — sort of a Strassman had directed abroad and in the city. educational institutions have built poor thea sunroom with windows everywhere and lots of In that class, Gray says, he learned the art tre buildings. "One ofthe few exceptions is summertime heat beating through — and we of moving people around properly, perhaps the Fredric Wood...[which] closely resembles a talk about the theatre program at UBC in the the most important skill he picked up. professional resident theatre facility in every early 1970s, the arts in Canada, South Ameri "Other than that, other than just really respect save its modest 420 seats." can juntas and the fool in King Lear. good simple principles like that, techniques, Gray was a theatre student at UBC for it's all in your bones. You feel it." Arts Club Artistic Director Sill Millerd three years from 1969 to 1972, a period that produced many of today's more famous thea ^^k few years earlier, during the tre names in Vancouver. The late Larry Lilio, ^^^^^ first half ofthe 1960s, the Arts a Dora Mavor Moore award-winning director /^^^^k Club Theatre's artistic director and artistic director at The Vancouver Play ^__^^^^^ Bill Millerd was haunting the house, actor Eric Peterson and Gray met / «HHk halls of the theatre depart there and went on to form Tamahmous Thea ment inside the Fredric Wood Theatre, en tre in 1972. thralled with the place for some ofthe same "We discovered ways of doing theatre reasons. with no money," Gray quips. Sitting in his cluttered office on Granville Making the transition from theoretical Island, Millerd explains he was actually a po to practical and actually doing live theatre litical science student taking a few electives in was what Gray says he remembers most about theatre when he found his passion. Like Gray, his time at UBC, especially since there wasn't he too most remembers the actual plays, espe a lot of Canadian theatre happening back cially one particular production of Hamlet, in then. Even at UBC, theatre students were which he played the drums. learning English accents, but at least they "I remember sitting in the fly gallery were getting to do plays, Gray says. playing drums and I remember feeling "Eighty per cent of it is just doing the thrilled to be part of something that I thought 22 UBC An MM CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 Student Pro files Cheryl McNamara BFA '95 Cheryl McNamara intended to become a journal ist. She loved acting but was afraid it would be unstable financially and career-wise. While studying at SFU for a BA in communications, she never even went to theatre performances. One summer she decided to take an acting course and discov ered she wanted to be on stage. It was either jour nalism school or theatre school for Cheryl, and her heart said theatre school. After her BFA from UBC, she has no regrets about her decision to study acting. She has had strong teachers and has learned about theatre Vancouver playwright and actor John Gray. See page / / for more John and an invitation to a great event history, which is stressed at UBC. Cheryl consid ers this historical knowledge a vital tool for an Besides memorable times inside the UBC when the theatre department was run by actor. Freddie Wood, Millerd says UBC showed him Dr. John Brockington. She is concerned, however, about deficiencies the egos, the helpful people and all the rest of "He was a really good teacher and he was within the theatre program. "It would be great to the types you meet in the real world of the what I believe the theatre should be about: have more concentration on mask or dance. A theatre. In many ways, it prepared him for flamboyant; challenging; colorful. He was greater mix of things to do. But given that this is what he's doing today, he says. larger than life, he was that embodiment of an academic situation where academic studies are character. There was a touch of cynicism stressed—which is also important—there's nothing ancouver actress and play about him. He was sarcastic, a good sarcastic," much you can do about that." wright Nicola Cavendish was Cavendish says. "He taught me the stuff be Cheryl also points out that the physical space the opposite to Millerd's thea tween the lines." available for theatre is insufficient. Students still use tre-dabbling political science Brockington has since retired. He served one of the World War II huts for a rehearsal hall. student. She was a theatre as department head for 22 years. She hopes this problem will be addressed when student from 1970 to 1975, who took electives According to Gray, there was another the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts opens. outside theatre, not all of them with great side to the long-serving head ofthe theatre As well, Cheryl would like improved advertis success. department. On the one hand, Brockington ing to attract more non-theatre students to plays. Take, for example, the course on geo could instill in students a passion for the The last show she worked on at UBC was physics. theatre. On the other hand, he didn't mince Horatio's Notebook, a Hamlet-meets-generation- "I wrote an excellent paper on the Big words. X play, created by directing student Tom Scholte. It Bang Theory, but unfortunately the professor "He could put the fear of God in you and was meant to appeal to young people, who tend to had no sense of humor," she says recently tell you you had no talent, that you didn't be absent from UBC theatre audiences. "Theatre while sitting in a Vancouver Wendy's. (It was a deserve it, that you'd never do anything in has its own magic, its own power," Cheryl says. handy location to meet.) this business. It's a horrible thing to be told," "Kids and people in their twenties should be able "I finally got a credit in nutrition and Gray says. to access that" here I am in Wendy's," she says as she No, Brockington never said that to him, The summer production of Horatio's Note munches on a french fry. but he'd said it to others and been wrong. book illustrated one of the best aspects of UBC The food theme continues as we talk Millerd said it was true, Brockington theatre: the commitment of the people involved. about the theatre department at UBC. could indeed do that. Because summer theatre faced funding cutbacks, "It was rich. It was nutritious and nurtur "I think he thought a form of put-down people donated their time just to get the show on ing, like a great big can of chicken soup," she was a way to make sure someone was the stage. Cheryl is astounded by the amount of says. really interested in a life in the theatre." work these volunteers did simply because they Like Millerd and Gray, Cavendish was at Millerd says he believes »• love theatre. »* UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 23 Student Profile s Her program at UBC has excited her about people to get together, but that's the only time it has noticed that across the country there are many different styles of acting . Cheryl feels her mind is gets exciting." UBC alumni involved in theatre. "It's nice to know now open to a range of choices for her future. Nelson hopes the new theatre under con when you go somewhere that there are other Many things interest her, from movement and struction at the Chan Centre for the Performing graduates all over the place from the same pro mask to clowning and children's theatre. She may Arts will motivate people to attend shows. gram." even return to school for an MFA in directing. Nelson likes UBC: faculty in the theatre de Designers tend to be free to decide on the Sometimes she has doubts about her acting partment welcome his ideas, are passionate about visual concept of a show, yet their designs must career. "I waver sometimes. I mean, what the hell theatre and love teaching.They have been support serve the needs of the play, the director, the actors am I doing this for? You get up, you get ready for a ive of his current projects: the Canada Council and the performance space. It is important, there show. Sometimes you don't feel like doing it.You're gave him a commission to write a libretto for a fore, that designers are good at collaborating with just exhausted. But then there's some nights new Canadian opera, and he is the artistic director others who are involved in a production. Pearl says where it's just all worthwhile." of the Savage Media Society, which has done live one of the most important things she learned at performance, radio drama and video for public UBC is how to work with people. Nelson Gray (MFA directing program) television. Pearl does think, however, that UBC provides Savage Media's projects emphasize BC artists inadequate work spaces: the graduate design area Nelson Gray is returning to university after and focus on local subjects. Nelson wants to ex and the costume shop are in a cramped basement years working in the performing arts. He received plore issues of BC's cultural identity. "I feel com with little light and air.As for performance spaces, a BA in English from SFU, specializing in poetry. In mitted to this place. I want to help produce and she says new ones would be welcome, but students the mid-1980s, he and a choreographer founded direct works that are stories about this particular are lucky to have the high-quality spaces currently JumpStart Performance Society.They created a region. Because there's not enough stories told available. According to Pearl, the Dorothy Somerset about here, about right here." Theatre is a black box in which one can do any thing, and the Frederic Wood Theatre is one of the PearlBellesenBFA*8l nicest theatres in the city - large yet intimate. Pearl liked UBC so much that she returned The roots of Pearl Bellesen's theatre career when she decided to get an MFA to improve her reach back to when she was five years old. At that career opportunities. She would like to teach de age, Pearl was a set designer, costume maker, ac sign, perhaps at a university. As well, she would like tor and director: she recruited her neighbours to to be taken seriously by those artistic directors put on plays in the front yard. who doubt the capabilities of people with only a bachelor degree. Unlike some other institutions, UBC provides its undergraduate designers with everything they need to know about theatre. Pearl believes that the design instructors have a great deal to offer stu new kind of performing art that combined dance, dents. "[UBC] is a really good learning environment theatre and opera. The company toured North If the students want to learn ... and they're willing America and Europe to enthusiastic reviews. to work, then I think they can learn just about any Because Nelson worked with little formal thing they want" training, particularly in theatre, he decided to study directing. "It's a quantum leap forward for Tom Scholte BFA '92 me. I came in contact with a lot of theatre tradi tions working with different people at UBC." Most As long as he can remember,Tom Scholte has important, he learned the particular vocabulary of wanted to be an actor. Having already received a actors. "If I speak their language then I can engage As an adult, Pearl went to Langara College's BFA in acting from UBC, he is now working on an them in the wonderful process of taking a script or Studio 58 acting program. "I always thought that I MFA in directing. Because Tom has varied academic concept, enlivening it, and making it come to life was born an actress, and that I would just experi interests, he knew acting school would be too limit on the stage." ment with design, and not really stop acting. It was ing for him. He wanted to have a university experi Nelson finds that one of the better aspects of just a way of branching out and remaining in thea- ence but specialize in acting. UBC's program is the chance to work with design tre.And then I realized that designing was some At UBC Tom learned more than the trade of ers, wardrobe people, set builders and lighting thing I could do really well. So I stopped the acting acting: theatre history and dramatic theory were an technicians. Because these people are inspired, side and concentrated on design." important part of his curriculum at UBC. Due to imaginative and excited about working, Nelson Since getting her BFA in theatre design from his education in the theoretical background of thea thinks they should be able to initiate shows. A de UBC, Pearl has worked as a professional set and tre, Tom wants to create work instead of merely signer with a visual and logistic concept would costume designer. A few years ago, the Canada getting hired to do work. "I don't think I'm ever work with a director to clarify the action and Council gave her a grant so she could be an assist going to want to give up the performance side [of work with the actors. ant to opera set designers in London, England. theatre]. But I've become more and more selective about when and where I want to be a performer. As well, Nelson feels more people would That experience transformed the way she creates And I think that having some creative control is enjoy the theatre if they tried it. "People are a bit theatre sets. part of the circumstances I want to be acting un lazy, but once they get the experience, they love it Audiences have seen Pearl's designs at almost der." and they want it. It's very basic to come together every theatre house in Vancouver, including the as an audience. We're always told to do things for Arts Club Theatre and the Vancouver Playhouse. Currently Tom is putting to practice what he ourselves. There aren't enough opportunities for She has worked throughout western Canada, and learned at UBC. He presently runs his own »• 24 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 Student Pro files at night and then they'd stay up until 4 p.m. theatre company, Theatreshop, and has joined painting sets. Tamahnous Theatre.This well-established Vancou "That's when we'd have some of our best ver theatre company has restructured to form a talks about design with Bob (department core group of four actors who plan to work to head and set designer Robert Gardiner). gether consistently over several years, creating "I think it's that gnarly artist thing. new pieces of work and performing them. You're so into that and you forget about get Tom hopes Tamahnous will provide Vancouver ting sleep," she says. with genres of alternative theatre that are rare in It's probably not something she'd do to this city.The concept for his most recent produc day, she says with a laugh, but she learned a lot about the business that way. King has been working steadily since she graduated, first with the National Theatre in London and for the past four years in B.C., primarily Vancouver. She credits UBC for teaching her how to make herself employ able. "Bob always encouraged us to have two jobs because you can't always make your living with your art." So after she graduated, she went to Eng land and got a job as a scenic artist at the Na tional Theatre, where she wasn't designing Vancouver actor Nicola Cavendish sets, but she was working with top designers tion at UBC was influenced by avant-garde shows and absorbing great ideas. he saw outside ofVancouver.Tom would like UBC Brockington got nervous about teenagers who All the hard work at UBC helped, King to teach about the theoretical backgrounds behind came into his department and decided at such says. these new forms of theatre. He realizes, however, a young age that theatre was their life. "It sets you up so well for what theatre is that instruction hours are limited, and he is Dorothy Somerset was different. She encour really like." pleased that UBC uses the available time for classi aged people. cal actor training, which teaches students the fun Somerset began teaching at UBC in the Rosetta Cannata is a Vancouver writer. damentals of acting. mid-1930s when she ran the summer school Though Tom is pleased with the excellent of theatre and gave extension courses around teaching in the theatre department he believes B.C. spreading her enthusiasm for drama to that instructors are confused whether the BFA amateur acting groups around the province. Set and costume designer Kate King training gives students the skills necessary to be In 1946, she offered UBC's first theatre professional actors, or whether it simply makes credit courses in the department of English. them better actors than when they started the By 1958, she'd become the head ofthe newly program. Ultimately, this issue is a philosophical formed theatre department. She retired in query of Tom's, and has not hampered his educa 1965 and died in 1991 at the age of 91. tion. One time, Millerd says he went to talk to Differing views within the department can in Somerset about his possibilities as an actor. fact help students.Tom points out Instructors "She said she didn't want to discourage often have different perspectives on acting tech- anyone who really wanted to be an actor, but nique.This allows students to take what they want she said she thought I had limited potential from each teacher to form a personal philosophy because I had a funny voice," Millerd recalls. of acting.Tom feels fortunate he studied under a So he took a directing course instead and number of people with divergent viewpoints, and decided this theatre thing was certainly for he is concerned cutbacks prevent hiring even him. After graduation, he took a year off to more, much-needed instructors. travel, came home and went to the National On the whole Tom thinks highly ofthe educa Theatre School in Montreal. tion UBC has given him. "The amount I've learned in the four years of my undergraduate degree and et and costume designer Kate these two years of my graduate degree is just im King went through the theatre mense. So there's always room for improvement design component ofthe depart but I think I owe a tremendous amount to the ment much later on, from 1987 to teachers here. I think they've done a fantastic job. 1989 when she got her master's And continue to do so." ^ degree at UBC. "It was pretty intense. We practically lived out there," King says, sitting on a couch in her east Vancouver home. Student profiles by Christine Nordquist, BA'94 They attended classes in the day, studied Student profile photos by Dale Fuller UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FAIL 1995 25 Louis Rader BASc(ElecEng)'33. He conducts a leadership BSA'48 is officially retired, he is maintaining a sizeable research course at the school as well as teaching at the Darden School program at the University of Saskatchewan. In December he as professor emeritus. He joined the faculty of both schools in accepted a three-year term as a consultant on a wheat project 1969. He served as head of electrical engineering until 1974. in China. Prime Minister Jean Chretien recently named him to 20s the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy ... Gladys (Hatton) Orr BA'48 retired from real Stanley Carver BASc(CivEng)'29 is retired and living in Cape estate and enjoys hiking around Calgary, living on her acreage town, South Africa, after 24 years as an engineer in the British and summers at the Shuswap ...James Stone BA'48, MA'50 Air Ministry and Colonial Engineering Service in London, has a new book out Emily Faithfu\i,Victoria Champion of/Women's Swaziland, Lesotho, Ghana and Malawi. He worked five years Rights, P.D. Meany Publishers. He is working on a manuscript with the Anglo American Corporation in Zimbabwe. 40s about rum-running on the Canadian/US west coast from 1919-1934. It focuses on the exploits of his father, Captain History scholars Philip BA'37, MA'40 and Helen (Manning) Stuart Stone, master of the Malahat Akrigg BA'43, MA'64 have won the first annual British Colum bia Heritage Award. Philip is a retired UBC professor, and Helen taught at UBC and at Vancouver College.They have 30s worked to research, write and publish books which preserve and present intricate details of BC's history ... Harold Cairns BA'48, BEd'58 was a Shell Merit Fellow at Stanford in 1958. He Fifty years ago the Chronicle reported that James Gibson has been retired from teaching at Penticton Secondary School BA'31 was a member of the Canadian delegation at the found 50s for 20 years and is working on his WWW memoirs ... Juanita ing conference of the United Nations in San Francisco. Last (Wood) Casselman BA'45 received her MD from the U ofT June he was invited back for 50th Anniversary ceremonies; he Wilf Adam BCom'54, Hereditary Chief of the Natooten First in 1952. She continues to work in psychiatry after the death of was the only original Canadian delegate from 1945. He has Nation, has been appointed member of the BC Treaty Com her husband (see In Memoriam) ... Professor of physical educa been active in the United Nations Association in Canada for mission. He is also the chair of the Burns Lake Native Develop tion Garnet Gibson BA'49, BEd'52 is retiring after 30 years at over half a century as well as the Canadian Institute of Interna ment Corporation ... Blanche Banerd-Olejnik BHE'54 re Augustana University College in Alberta. He was inducted into tional Affairs ... IGA Inc. has presented Tong Louie BSc(Agr)'38, turned to live in BC after 40 years in the east... George the Camrose Lions Club Sports Hall of Fame. Soon afterwards, LLD(Hon)'90 with the J. Frank Grimes Founder's Award for Cook BA'54 retired in 1989 from his career in adult and voca he took a team of university cross-country skiers to the World extraordinary achievement His father opened a modest gen tional education, in colleges in BC and Saskatchewan. He is University Games in Spain ... Kenneth Keith BA'46 started at eral store in the early 20th century.Tong Louie developed the now occupied with organizational activities, his computer, UBC in 1938, then became a pilot in the RCAF, attached to the business into the H.Y. Louie Co. Limited. Louie became chair house and garden ...After a banking career in Ethiopia (1952- RAF overseas. He worked for Air Canada for 32 years and was man and CEO of the Vancouver-based company ...The Univer 76),Taffara Deguefe BCom'50 spent 12 years in Swaziland an avid photographer, sportsman and world—traveller. He a past sity ofVirginia has established a professorship in electrical engi and Zimbabwe as a bank advisor and management consultant. president ofthe BC Aviation Museum ...Although D.R. Knott neering in honour of former professor and department chair He has retired to BC with his wife Laurie (Paterson) BA'49 ...Jim Forrester BASc(Efec£ng)'52,/VMSc(E/ecEng)'62 and his _f*f 26 UBC AU'MNI CHRONICLE, FAI.L 1995 CLASSACTS the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission to live on Bowen tive director of The Osborne Group, a professional association for I'/i years with wife Patti and two boys, aged 3/3 and 5 ... Island and sail the days away with his wife Sheila (Nachtrieb) of contract executives in Ontario ... Joseph Nelson BSc'60, Warren Gabrinsky MLS'77 retired after 22 years as district BA'58, BSW59 ... Dorothy (Whitham) ZoeUner BA'50 has PhD'65 is a professor of biological sciences and has been ap resource centre manager for SD 22 (Vernon). He is working just coauthored her second book. More Tours Made Easy. She pointed associate dean of science for a two year term at the full time in a home based business with his wife, converting and Alice Lundy have guided historical bus tours to various University of Alberta ... William New MA'63, considered by school library data to automated systems ... Darlene Okanagan areas and neighbouring valleys.The book is a culmi many to be the leading scholar in the field of Canadian litera (Gartner) BEd'79 and Jim Hargrove BAS(E!ecEng)'81 wel nation of their work over the last eleven years. ture, is the recipient of the Jacob Biely Research Prize. New is comed Scott Stuart to their family on February I; a brother for the editor of Canadian Literature, the premier journal in its field Robert, Richard and Shannon ... Robert Khoo BSc'78 has ... John Peppar BSc'6/, MSc'66 has retired from Federal Fish been appointed assistant clinical professor of surgery at the eries and Oceans after 25+ years as a salmon biologist He is University of Colorado Medical School... Lyall Knott back in BC after 25 years in the Maritimes ... Leanne (Booth) BCom'71, LLB'72, QC is a partner in the Vancouver law firm of Roy BMus'69 is the president of Carloff Canada, Music for Clark, Wilson. He has been appointed member of the Salvation Children, and she was off to Salzburg, Austria to help celebrate Army advisory board. He is the honorary consul for the Con 60s the 100th anniversary of Carloff's birth. She is past president of sulate ofthe Republic of Tunisia and a member ofthe capital the BC Music Educators'Association ... Edward Steele campaign leadership board of theVancouver Public Library ... Peter BSc'66 and Gillian (Bishop) Ackhurst BHE'68 are BEd'67 retired from the military with 32 years service after Bill Lipsin BCom'76 is the general manager of Bay Networks returning to Canada after three years in Malaysia. He leaves the receiving a Governor General appointment as an Officer of the Canada, a publicly traded company ... Laurel March BA'74 is Asean Institute of Forest Management in Kuala Lampur to re Order of Military Merit and serving a final tour in the former new director, cultural affairs, Pacific and Yukon region, in the turn to the BC Forest Service. She earned her MA in adult Yugoslavia. He completed his MBA in 1995 at the University of Department of Heritage. She lives in Vancouver ... Leigh education while abroad and in July started with the North Manitoba and lives in Winnipeg ...Janet (Price) Summers Matthews BCom'79 isVP corporate real estate, for Citibank Shore Health Department in North Van ... George Dobson BMus'64, MMus'7/ is back in Vancouver after 20 years in Lon Canada ... Wendy (Hornsby) Mepham BSN'79 earned her BSc'67 is a support teacher, developing programs to help high don, Ontario. She is working as a self-employed classical musi MSc at Lorna Linda. She is a marriage and family therapist in school First Nations students. He has four children ... cian and for the Surrey School District... ZanettaVarley Red Deer.Alberta ... Don Nishio BCom'78, Michael Lam and Maureen Garland BSc(Agr)'64, MSc'66, PhD'92 is the co- BA'66 is a counsellor at St Margaret's School in Victoria. She Bernard Lo BCom'83 have joined their practices as Lam Lo winner of the Elizabeth Powell Award of the National Univer was the outstanding student of the year at the College of Saint Nishio, Chartered Accountants as of March I. Lam Lo Nishio sity Continuing Education Association.The award recognizes Mary Rose in Albany, New York, where she earned her MA in specializes in taxation and assisting investors from Pacific Rim publications from nominations around the world that make the college student personnel program. Countries, especially, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea ... significant contributions to research in independent study and Penelope (Penny) Osborne BSc77. MD'8I and Keith Stonel distance education ... Bob Henderson BCom'60 is the execu- were married at Cecil Green Park on March 26. She is clinical assistant professor and practices anaesthesia at Vancouver Hos pital, while he is systems manager for Hemlock Printers ... 70s UBC Career Services: Peter B erring BMus'77 is a new associate composer ofthe Alumni Opportunities Canadian Music Centre. He is on the music faculty at UBC. His compositions, mostly choral works, are published by Jaymar CareersLine, the new touchtone phone Music and Gordon V.Thompson ... Margot Campbell BA'75, network offered by the UBC Student MBA'77 has joined Western Compensation & Benefits Consult Resources Centre Is available to grads. For a ants in employee benefits following 18 years' consulting ... $2$ annua) fee, alumni can have 24 hr. access Renee (Snelr-Bowman) Cohen BA'77, MEd'83 has settled to current job listings from across Canada in Japan ...Joanne (Williamson) Dorenfeld DMA'76 and her and abroad. husband David have moved to Houston,Texas. She studied art Services include workshops on resume and and entered shows during her 15 years as a soprano soloist, interview skills, employer info sessions, a Sunday, October 1 based first in Toronto, then in New York and Dallas. She spent reading room, notices of employer recruiting Join us as we re-create the legacy of two months this summer painting Alaskan landscapes. One of schedules, and more. Contact the service at the Arts Grad Class of 1920. these paintings was recently exhibited at Gallery 84 in New 822-4011 for more information or to sign up. 8-person teams (Men, Women, CoRec) York ... George Dorin BSc(Agr)'74 has lived in White Rock There's a job out there for you somewhere! race in relay from VGH to UBC. Fee includes transportation to relay points, pancake breakfast and awards. Register • Sep 5 - 27, 1995 Fees: UBC • $40/team UBC's CareersLine Community • $60/team • Career opportunities including contract work High School • $25/team • Alumni may register for an annual $25 fee • GST included • • All current UBC students may register for free • 24 hour access from any touchtone phone INTMIMIMl f PDffi AND MCMflTION MUKJUMI Alumni and employers call: for information and registration: ^nectiotv phone UBC-6000 • fax 822-6086 icHc*SS (604) 822-4011 (piV jor)c U.B.CBStudentResources Centre UBC ALUMNI CHRONICI.K, FALL 1995 27 CLASS ACTS Helen Sandberg BSN'73 retired from Vancouver Hospital in ducts workshops. She recently received a best of show award Salt Co. Ojibway Mine ... Phillipa (Atwood) Emery BREW July 1994 ... Alex Speers BSc(Agr)'76,MSc'82,PhD'9l and his ... Anita Cocchia BA'88 received a master's in library and has a master's in environmental design (architecture) from the wife Eleanore Howard MSN'91 live inWolfville, Nova Scotia. information studies from McGill in 1990. She works for the U of Calgary. She is designing for the Atlanta Olympic Games ... She works at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentvile and Alex Electronic Library Network and The Open Learning Agency ... Richard Evans MSc'86 is a firefighter in Bellevue,WA, and a is a faculty member in the department of food science and Sarah Collins BA'83 completed a postgrad diploma in town consulting botanist for Pacific Phytometric Consultants of Sur technology at the Technical University of Nova Scotia. He is planning at the Edinburgh College of Art in l990.After several rey, BC. He and wife Janet have twin boys, aged 10 and another also teaching a night course at Acadia University ...Andrew years in the public sector, she is studying for an MA in urban son, 2 ... Peter Fischl BSc'86 was with the BC Geological Sur BCom'73 and Patricia (Turner) Storrs BEd'75 purchased design at the University of Newcastle ... Shannon (Walker) vey for four years and since 1993 has been with Pacific Sentinel expanded premises on West 6th Avenue to accommodate MD'87 and Neil Crofts BSc'84, MD'88 are parents of a daugh Gold Corp.,as an exploration geologist ...Tony Fogarassy growth in his jewellery, gift and wholesale business ... Brian ter, Megan Mary, born on June 6.They are returning to Vancou BSc'83, MSc'89, LLB'92 and Blair Lockhart LLB'90 have a Tate BMus'76 has been selected by the Canadian Music Centre ver after four years in Winnipeg ...Wendy Cumming-Potvin daughter, Mercedes Blair Karoo, born May 8 ...Jean (Mus as an associate composer. He has written many works for or BA'83 and Yves Potvin PhD have moved to Queensland.Aus- tard) Forrest BPE'83 is working part time in marketing/ chestra, brass and wind ensembles, chamber groups, choirs and tralta ... Louise Demorest BA'84 studied oriental medicine in communications with the YMCA. She and husband Casey have solo instruments, and has been prolific in composing for film, Japan for five years. She returned to Canada to study acupunc an 11-month old baby and another on the way ... David Fry television, radio and theatre ... Glenn Tibbies BPE'73 is chief ture and received a diploma in traditional Chinese medicine. BASc(ChemEng)'83 left the Canadian Navy in 1988 as a lieuten operating officer and general manager of the Calgary Chamber She is practising acupuncture in Richmond ... Elizabeth ant. He works for Kelco Unit of Monsanto in San Diego. He of Commerce.... Roland Wahlgren BSc'75 and wife Melanie Denham BA'8I,MAS'84 married Bill Martin in 1984 after has three children ... Glen Fuller BSc'80 married Penny Miller Marchand are new parents toTegan Linnea Wahlgren, born on working as a city archivist in Calgary for five years. She consults in 1991. They have a daughter, Megan, born on November 3, March 10 ... Verle (Miller) Wells BSc(Pharm)'78 is back in the in medical archives and is Alberta's archives advisor ... Susan 1992 ...Janice (Woodley) Furiak BSc(Pharm)'84 and husband Kootenays. She says the view from her new house justifies the Dent BA'85 and Bill Veenstra BASc(EngPhys)'86 were married Bruce live in Fruitvale, BC have two children, Staci and Zachary mortgage payments-... BarbaraWhittington BA'70,MSW75 in 1988.They have a son, Matthew Wifliam, born on November ... Leslie (Chu) Gareau BHE'8I and her family have just survived eight years as UVic's harassment advisor and has just 25, 1994 ...Jill (Doubt) BSF*8/ and Mike Dunbar 8SF'80 are moved to Winnipeg after 13 years in Calgary ... Brian Gilbey been appointed director ofthe School of Social Work there. in Smithers with their sons, Patrick and Graham. Mike works MBA'8/and Stavroula Gilbey BSc'92 live in Richmond Hill, with Houston Products and Jill with the Ministry of Forests. ON and work in Toronto ... Nicolle (Hastings) Goldman The family spends leisure time in the Bulkley Valley ... Mark BSc'85 has worked with Andersen Consulting since graduation. East BA'87 is a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault. He graduated in She is now in the Sacramento office. She married Don law from the U ofT in 1993 and married in 1994. He also Goldman on July 8 ... Maria Gordon BSN'86, MD'92 works in earned an MA in history from Queen's ... Paul Elkins private practice with her husband Stan Daron.Their first child, BASc(MinEng)'89 moved from Saskatchewan to Windsor. He is Joshua, was born during Maria's family practice residency in 80s married with two children and is a mine engineer for Canadian September 1993, and her second child Leora was born just a few hours after she delivered a patient's baby in February 1995 Robert Anderson BSc(Agr)'84 is a research technician with ... Rowena (Arce) BSc'88 and Dev Grewal BP£'87 are new the soil science department at the University of Saskatchewan parents to Riley Gian Singh ... Dean G rum lose ... Grace (Morrison) Annab BSc'84, MD'88 is a family practi BALANCED FINANCIAL BASc(FJecF_ng/80 was at Mitel in Ottawa 1980-83. He has been tioner in Guelph. She was married in 1992, and William Issa with Advanced Micro Devices since then. He is a marketing was born July 14. 1994 ...Cameron Bailey BCom'83 relo SERVICES LTD. manager of multimedia products. He'd like to hear from his old cated to Kuala Lumpur with wife Gelaine, daughter Mackenzie classmates ...Sarah Ann was born to Kerry (Armstrong) and son Mitchell with the Boston Consulting Group ...After Hall BPE'82 and husband Andrew November 20, l994.They years at IBM as a marketing manager, Pete Baran BCom'82 live in 100 Mile House, BC. Sarah is a sister for Brennan ... became a director of business development for DMR Group, A]7\ Susan (Webber) BSN'85 and Charles Hannah an international systems and management company. He lives in BASc(EngPhys)'85,PhD'92 are temporarily settled in Bedford, Victoria with two kids Alexis and Curtis, and recently took up Nova Scotia.They have three children: Elizabeth,Theodore and rock climbing to relax.Anyone need a climbing partner? ... FINANCIAL James. Charles completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Bed Catherine (Fitch) Bartlett MMus'82 conducted the SERVICES LTD ford Institute of Oceanography and works as an oceanographic premiere of a Bev Lewis work for a women's chorus entitled consultant. Susan does the books part-time but mostly is a FiveTexts ofWilliam Shakespeare at the Royal Conservatory of stay-at-home mum ... Kathryn Hatashita-Lee BA'82 and Music in Toronto. Catherine and husband Blake and their two Specialists in planning and husband Roger are parents to Edward Kenji ... Donald Hilton children, Ruth and John, live in Newfoundland ... Heather maintaining financial independence BEd'84 lives in Yellowknife and will be working for the NWT Benson BPE'85 is three-quarters ofthe way to her master's in Department of Health and Social Services until October ... education with a specialization in teaching to the hearing im Sylvia (Andreassen) Hintsche BHE'8I married Ron in paired. She teaches in the provincial oral program at Burnaby DEPOSIT 1985.They have two daughters, Leah and Katie ... Ron ... Mary-Ann Booth BCom'85, LLB'86 and John Sampson # BROKERS (Raoul) Holland MAW and Mariko (Kubo) MEd'80 are BCom'83, LLB'85 became new parents on January 3 to both college teachers: Mariko teaches English and Ron french, Madeleine May. Mary-Ann has left the commerce faculty at Financial Planning in Nagoya, Japan. Mariko publishes research on TEFL and Ron UBC, where she taught law for six years, to become a crown on Malgache literature. He sends books and magazines to prosecutor in Vancouver ... Heather (MacQuarrie) Unbiased Recommendations Madagascar ... Pradeep Jethi BA'87 works in the UK publish Bramhill BA'85 has moved back to the Lower Mainland, fol ing scene. 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If not, please ology department at UBC until October 1994 and is now a fill in the address form below and send it to: UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Creen postdoctoral fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School... Park Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1. Phone (604) 822-3313 or toll free 1-800-883-3088. Connie (Kilian) BSN'87 married Bob Klimek BCom'89 in Or Fax to: (604) 822-8928 or toll free 1-800-220-9022. You can now send your news via E-mail 1988, and they have a son. Cole, who was born in January (please include all ofthe information below) to: [email protected]. Or call our 24 hour address line: (604) 822-8921. 1994. Bob received his CA in 1992, and Connie completed her MSN ... Elaine (Rosales) BA'89, BEd'91 and Bart Name: Knudsgaard BSW87 live in Fort Nelson, BC. Bart is the dis (include maiden name if applicable) trict supervisor for the Ministry of Social Services. Elaine is UBC Degree, Year _Student I.D.# Major teaching for SD #81. Emily Rose was born on December 4, 1994, a sister for Katelyn Anne ... Anthza Koon MBA'89 fin Address ished an LLB from the U ofT and is now articling in TO ... Code Millie Kwok BCom'88 works for IBM Canada. She is team leader for IBM Direct in the western region. She married •H» -(o) Fax . George Chan, and they live in Stampede City, Alberta ... Lisa E-mail address. Lapointe LLB'86 moved with her three children to the Saanich Peninsula in 1994. She is doing contract work for the AG's In Spouse's Name formation and Privacy Program and for the Coroner's Service (include maiden name if applicable) ... Karen Larsen BHE'80, MEd'88 is no longer teaching. She UBC Degree, Year Major enjoys being a part of career programming at a time when the _Student I.D.# ministry has made career and personal planning such a high Tell us your news! priority ...Vivian LeirMBA'82 had a son,Galen Royal Leir- Taha,on November 19, 1994 ... Jaqueline (Hare) MA'87 and Michael Lisowski MSc'86 are living in Hawaii with their three boys. Michael is researching earthquakes and volcanoes at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in HawaiiVolcanoes National Park. Jaqueline is on leave from a teaching resource specialist position ... Kerry Lowe BASc(EngPhys)'81, MASc(ElecEng)'83 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 29 CLASS ACTS returned to work at Bell Northern Research in Ottawa after was born on June 22. She worked as an environmental engi aries. In January she married Stuart Welch. She is pensions completing a PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the neer for eight years, but is now staying home to look after her manager for Stena Sealing Ltd. in the UK ... Patti and Douglas U of T. In 1992 he married Bellynna (Anna) Asprer of Toronto son and doing some environmental consulting.They live in Page MA'86 moved to Victoria from Maryland. Doug is work ...Sharon (Bowd) Ludlow BSN'83 married Jim in 1986.They Grande Prairie ... Patrick Meneley BCom'86 is aVP with ing for the Ministry of Housing as a policy analyst... Alan Pan live in Australia, Jim's native land. She has certificates in mid Salomon Brothers of Toronto. He and wife Michelle have two BSc'87 graduated in nuclear medicine technology at BCIT in wifery and mothercraft and works part-time at a mothercraft sons, Daniel and Ryan ...Juan Meret MSc'85 completed his 1990. He lives in Torrance, California and works in Los Angeles. unit in Sydney.They have a daughter,Tahlia ...After eight years PhD at Harvard in 1991. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida with He also graduated from Cypress College with a diploma in with the government of the Yukon, Norman Marcy MSc'85 is wife Lanette. He is director ofthe aeronautics program at diagnostic medical sonography ... Samuel Pang BSc'82, MD'83 now a negotiator for the BC Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs ... Jacksonville University ... Denise Mills MSc'84 works in Port is associate medical director of IVF America Program, Boston. George Markin BRE'86 relocated to Vancouver from Rain land, OR for EMCON, an engineering and environmental firm. He passed his oral examinations and is now subspecialty board bow Lake, Alberta, where he served five years as the town and She is chief hydrogeologist and assistant director of geology. certified in reproductive endocrinology by the American Board parks recreation director ... Deanna (Ree) BCom'82 and This summer she will visit Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ...Joseph Plavetic BCom'86 Michael Marti BCom'80 were married in 1983. He is the Singapore where she will attend the American School reunion and Sara Zahir BSc'87, BEd'88 live in Oakville, ON. Joe is a COO/VP/GM and Deanna is the controller of Aim Safety Com ...Sharon-Lee (Young) Mitchell BHE'8I married Ken in human resource manager for Yellow Freight, and Sara teaches pany Inc. Michael obtained his CA in 1982, and Deanna her 1993. Sarah Margaret, was born on June 10, 1994 ... Lawrence high school chemistry.They just had a baby girl.Alyssa ... CGA in l992.They have two children ... Kimberly (Brown) Nault BSc(Agr)W is field services rep for Pig Improvement Walter Porzecanski BSc.'8/ changed his name toYehoshua Matthews BA'87 stays at home with their children (I girl, 3 (Canada) Ltd. He lives in Moosomin, Sask, and would like to Raz when he immigrated to Israel in 1981 ...Alix Pouladdej boys). Her husband is a pastor of in Vermilion, Alberta. She is have contact with aggies in southeast Saskatchewan and south BSc'87 earned his PhD. so he is a doctor now ... Valerie home-schooling the children ... Claire McAuley west Manitoba ... Johanne (Johnson) OToole and husband Poulter BPE'89, BSN'94 moved to Houston, Texas, where she BASc(ChemEng)'86 earned her MEng from the U of Calgary in Lloyd have opened a B & B on Okanagan Lake called Wicklow is a staff nurse at MD Anderson Cancer Center on a GV 1993. She married Tim Riley in 1994. Their son Declan Timothy ... Kendra Osenton BSc'89 is a fellow of the Institute of Actu oncology ward. She's looking forward to spending her 30th 1995 Alumni Association Award Winners Each year the Alumni Association recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves as alumni, UBC faculty or volunteers ofthe Association. The 1995 award recipients willpe honoured at the Annual Alumni Achievemmt Dinner to be h^ October B3, y Alumni Award of Distinction for outstanding was the chair of UBC's Vice President's Committee Honorary Alumnus Award, for non-alumni who achievements by an alumnus to John P. Bell on Molecular Genetics and served on the Board of have made a significant contribution to their pro BCom'62 and Jim Cleave BCom 74, 30 UBC AIUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 CLASSACTS birthday in Vancouver ... Shiv Prasher PhD'82 joined the de BCom'90 recently returned from Taiwan and the Republic of partment of agricultural engineering at McDonald campus at China where he made many business contacts. He is waiting McGill. He develops on-farm pollution control systems ...John for his fiancee,Amy, who lives in Tai-pei and pursuing his hobby Pusic BEd'88 and his wife Jody are expecting their first baby in 90s of ballroom dancing ...Joanne (Cocking) Marquis September. He is working on a MSc in math education at SFU BSc(Pharm)'90 and husband John are very busy with their new ...Andrew Reid BSc'86,MSc'89 earned his PhD at Queen's. Ken Armstrong BA'9/ is graduating from law at the U of Al son, born on January 16 ... Carla (Vanthournout) BSN'94 He married Erin Blake in July 1994. He has a research berta and will return to Vancouver to article ... Anjili and Doug Maskall BSc'88, MD'91 are proud to announce to associateship at Northwestern and lives in Chicago ... Allisa Bahaddorsingh BCom'90, LLB'94 and Gary Khan BSc'84 birth of Hefena Nancy-Ann, born March 5; their first... Lynne Ritchie BSc'85, MA'95 earned her MA part-time while work were married in July 1994. Gary is a commercial realtor with McFarland BSc'92 is working on her MSc thesis in water qual ing at Science World. She has a teaching certificate from UBC MacDonald Realtors in Kerrisdale and Anjili is an articled law ity and chemistry on the Stony Indian Reserve ...Jamie ...Susan Rushdon BSN'85 has been elected to Sigma Theta student with Douglas, Symes and Brissenden ... Therese McKeough BA'93 is a research analyst with First Marathon Tau International Honour Society of Nursing, for her service as Baptiste MBA'94 is a management consultant with Deloitte & Inc. ...Jo-anna Mochoruk LLB'92 worked for Canada Immi a community nursing leader through Xi Eta Chapter at UBC ... Touche in Trinidad. She specializes in information technology gration and travelled to Mozambique, South Africa,Thailand, Kathy (Vandalen) BSc(Agr)'86 and Brian Russell BSF'84 had and strategy. She will work on her doctorate at the U of Min Malaysia and Singapore. She started her own immigration con their third daughter, Jennifer Kathleen, on March 8.They are in nesota in September ... Hazel Bergtholdt BA'90 graduated sulting business in September 1994 ... Kent Moeller BA'92 Kamloops, where Brian works for the Ministry of Forests ... from law school in 1993 and earned an LLM in international moved to Toronto and works as a chartered accountant with Sonya (Ang) BFA'83 and Winston Sayson BA'85, LLB'88 business law in 1994 from McGeorge University. She works in KPMG Peat Marwick Thorne ... Natasha Murray BA'94 is had their third child, Brandon Avery, on June 9. Winston is a Spokane ... Rick Binder BEd'90 and his wife Beverly will begin continuing her cross-country adventures after work experi crown counsel working in Delta provincial court... Brenna a five-year Mennonite Central Committee assignment in Au ences in Victoria,Toronto, Quebec, California and New York. (Leong) BASc(MetMatEng)'88 and Kenneth E. Scholey gust in Sudan.They previously served with MCC as ESL teach Next destination: London, England ... Karen Netherton BASc(MetMatEng)'88 were married in August 1994 at Cecil ers in Egypt ...Steve Bougenolle PhD'92 is going to cycle BA'9/ and Mark Gillespie SA'9/ welcomed a baby girl, Robin Green Park.They moved to Chicago, where Brenna is a re Africa for a year or so ...Jennifer Breckenridge BA'92 on February 13 ... Evelyn (Gillard) Nodwell PhD'93 is a search hydrometallurgist with Eichrom Industries, Inc. Ken is in graduated from law at Dalhousie University in May. He will sessional teacher at UBC and SFU. She is also a research asso the process of completing his PhD in metals and materials engi article with Baker, Newby & Co. in Abbotsford and Chilliwack ciate at Institute of Asian Research, UBC. She will go to India in neering from UBC ... Helen Shou BSN'89 married Jeffrey John ... Stephen Burns MD'92 is establishing a family practise in September as a participant in a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Ing on May 7 in California.They plan to serve as missionaries Powell River. He has a son, Spencer Jacob ... Jana Chu BSW'91 Partnership project... Mark Oulton BSc'9/is working simulta overseas next year ...Jeff Stasiuk BASc(ChemEng)'84 obtained is engaged to Edward Wong, and she moved to Vancouver in neously on his master's in environmental studies and his LLB in an MBA from the U of Calgary in 1990. He and wife Janice June 1995 ... lain Clark BSF'90 married Linda Greenwood in a joint degree program at York University in Toronto ... Karen have a daughter, Alexandra, and were expecting another child February 1992. He is half-way through a five year posting in Patington BCom'92 moved to Calgary after graduation. She in June. He is president of Taca Sign Supplies and Services Ltd. Lilongwe, Malawi on a southern African Forestry Project, spon (Vancouver)... Fiona Taylor BSc'83, MBA'85 married Pascal sored by CIDA ... Carole Corcoran LLB'90 is on the BC Leidekker in June 1994. She is a manager at Andersen Consult Treaty Commission. She has extensive experience in First Na ing. She's worked on projects in Edmonton, Los Angeles and tions government, is a commissioner of the Federal Indian currently in Baltimore.They live inVancouve.. Andrea Claims Commission and is a member ofthe board of UNBC ... (Bakker)Teschner BPE'83, BEd'90 and husband Axel are par Buying Emily (Sasaji) Davis BA'92 married Captain Michael Davis in ents to Austin Michael (Nov. 26, 1994)... Sean Thomas September 1994. She spent two years coordinating cultural BSc'89 received his MD from McGill in 1993 and has completed exchanges between Hamura City, Japan, and Qualicum Beach ... a new car? an internship at Riverside General in California. He is a second Geoffrey DeVerteuil MA'93 pursued a graduate diploma in year resident in psychiatry at the UCal Irvine-Medical Center geographic information systems at the Universite du Quebec a For the best possible price ... In 1994 Robert Thompson BSc'87 completed a PhD in Montreal 1994-1995. He will begin a doctoral program in geog on the purchase of your physics at the University of Toronto. In March, he began work raphy at USC this fall ... Shafiq Ebrahim BA'93 completed an ing with Max-Planck-lnstitutur Quantenoptik in Germany, vehicle, call: MA at Queen's and is pursuing a PhD in economics there ... where he has a two-year staff position ... Robert Thurlow Karen (Jonasson) BFA'9I and Del Elgersma LLB'9/ are &ASc(EJecEng)'83 has moved from Dallas,TX, where he worked new parents to Charlotte Jane, born on December 23, 1994 ... for Convex Computer Corp., to Santa Clara, CA, where he Dafna Eylon PhD'93 is an assistant professor at the University works for Sun Microsystems' SunSoft subsidiary. He is a soft of Richmond and spouse Tal Elyashiv MBA'94 is director of ware engineer ... AlanVaage MA'85 is a ruminant nutritionist architecture and planning at Health Communications Services. for Masterfeeds in London, Ontario. He and Helene have a Their first child, Maya, was born on April 7 ... Kristi (Cavaye) new daughter, a sister for Chantal and Aaron ... Ken BSN'93 and Eric Foley BA'93 travelled to Europe, became Whitaker BA'84, with wife Wanda and daughters Kacey and Greg Huynh engaged in the Alps and were married in February 1994.They Jacqueline, moved to Oakville, Ontario in the summer of 1994. live in Cleveland, where Eric is assistant director of sales and He is national sales manager with Kimberly-Clark ... Debora #506 - 1015 Burrard Street marketing in Asia at HMI Inc. ...Alan Gordon BA'91 is in law Wabnegger BSc(Agr)'83 and husband Grant have purchased a at the University College Cork in Ireland ... Ernest Huggins Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y5 ranch in Melville, Saskatchewan, where they will be raising BASc(EngPhys)'92 is a project engineer with Bigelow Liptak purebred Angus cattle ... Richard Wadsworth BA'88, MHA'94 Companies, and was recently transferred from the Burnaby TEL: 688-0455 is the administrator of the Pemberton Health Centre ... Karen office to the Oakville office. He and his wife have two children, Williams-Spencer BA'86 and Daryl Spencer BSc'87 live in FAX: 669-1110 Patrick and Danielle ... Michael Klaver BA'90 and his wife New Zealand. She is with the New Zealand Employment Serv Cindy have a new baby, Julia, born on March 26. She is a sister 1-800-300-GREG (4734) ice as an advisor, working mainly with Maoris. Daryl works for Brooke . Michael is a financial advisor with Richmond Sav withTasman Forestry in harvesting ... Bruce Wong MD'86 ings Credit Union ... Helen Lee BA'92 is living in Hong Kong returned to BC with his wife Benedicta and two children after where she is an assistant architect/town planner ...Albert completing his residency program at McMaster. He is practising Leong BCom'93 has left the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather/Seattle emergency medicine tn Victoria. .^MIMEILILA on the Microsoft account and is working at Santeler Marketing Group/San Francisco on Apple's Worldwide Developer Confer ence and Kodak Digital Imaging accounts ... Kerry Lum AUTO saanagaEiana SERVING UBC GRADUATES L'BC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 31 CLASSACTS worked for Westfair Foods for IJ4 years and is now a cus BASc(ElecEng)'33 on June 17 in Vernon, BC, of leukaemia ... tomer service representative with Kraft General Foods ... In Memoriam Carolyn (Wright) Carson BA'5/ on June 30, 1993. She was Michael Peck A1BA'94 is in Toronto as regional sales manager, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority while at UBC. She Ontario East with CIBC Securities Inc.... Amber Rogers was a longstanding member ofthe University Women's Club, BSc'94 attends the U of Saskatchewan in veterinary medicine ... Constance E. (Highmoor) Adams BA'19 on June 17, at the on the volunteer executive for Goodwill Industries, and oper Brian Rogers BCom'92 and Nicole (Rompre) BSN'94 were age of 96. She loved her years at UBC and was president of ated her own land registry business ... W.G. Bruce married on New Year's Eve 1994 in Vancouver. He works for The Players' Club during her senior year. She was a member of Casselman BA'43, MA'45 on March 6 in London, Ontario. He the Hongkong Bank and has been posted to Toronto. Nicole is the cast of four spring plays directed by Freddie Wood ... taught at the U of T, served as medical director at Geigy Phar working as a registered nurse there ... Laurie Shetler BEd'93 Marion (Patton) Ames BA'38 on January 29. She was a maceuticals in New York, and later in Montreal. He was senior is teaching elementary school in Richmond ... Marilyn member of Alpha Delta Pi ... Donald E.Anderson BA'44 on medical advisor for International Health Services of Health and (Livesey) BSF'93 and Warren Staff BSF94 were married in November 23, 1994, in Vancouver ... A. Brookman Welfare Canada and spent much of his time with the WHO in April 1994.They work in Salmon Arm ... Richard Stephens Anderson BASc(ForEng)'38 on April 13.The last surviving Geneva. He launched the Northern Outreach Program at BSc'90, an actuarial assistant with the Coles Group,Vancouver, member of the four in his grad class, he was known to his as Western to improve health care in underserviced regions, par is associate of the Society of Actuaries ... Min Sun PhD'92 sociates in the forest industry as "Andy." His career in forestry ticularly among First Nations People ... Howard L. Clement moved to Hong Kong in 1993 ...Anne Thomas MA'92 is was preceded by five years in the Royal Canadian Engineers BEd'63 on January 5 in Victoria. Howard moved to BC with his working on her doctorate at the U ofWaterloo and doing con during WWII. He was manager, forestry and lands, with wife Phyllis and returned to school and earned his degree in tract work at Conestoga College and Emmanuel Bible College Rayonnier Canada at the time of his retirement in 1980. Andy education. After teaching industrial education he switched to ... Raymond To MBA'90 is a Certified Personnel Consultant. wrote a poignant letter about his classmates which was pub public service and worked for the provincial and federal gov He received the Top Consultant Award for most placements in lished in the Winter 1994 Chronicle ...Robert G.Anderson ernments. His last eight years of public service were dedicated 1994. He works as a software engineering recruiter for Corpo BASc(MinEng)'21 on April 8, 1995. He worked with Cominco in to developing economic projects for First Nations people ... rate Recruiters Ltd. He is engaged to Annie Chen ...Thanh Trail, and later was GM and then president of West Kootenay Jacob Cohen BCom'47 in January. Mr. Cohen was the head of Trung BSF'93 is an associate technical specialist in the Environ Power and Light until his retirement ...John E.Armstrong the Army & Navy department store in New Westminster ... mental Technologies Group with the Pulp and Paper Research BASc(GeoEng)'34,MASc(GeoEng)'35 in February ...Sara George A. Deitz BASc(MetEng)'50, MASc(MetEng)'52 on April Institute of Canada ... Mylinh Vo BSc'92 is finishing the second B rear ley BSc'93 died late last year when the lungs she re 12 ...Donald D.Dennis BArch'52 on March 13.After service year of the naturopathic medicine program at Bastyr University ceived in a transplant the year before went into rejection ... with the RCAF from 1941 -45, Don was a member of the sec in Seattle, and is looking forward to the UBC alumni recep David (Ed) Brec ken ridge BA'39 on February 4. Ed taught at ond class of architecture at UBC. He and his family, including tions in Seattle ... Paul Wang BA'93 is working for the Minis Oak Over Arm, Nanaimo, North Saanich and retired from wife Mary (Mulvin) BSA'43, MSA'52, moved to Victoria after try of Trans porta tion and Highways and articling towards his Claremont High School on Vancouver Island ... Frederick T. graduation. He was a partner with Siddall, Dennis,Warner AACI... Bruce Widman BA'92 is one term short of his Bunce BEd'45 on September 22, 1992, in Kelowna, BC. Fred when he retired in 1982 ... Marjorie Duxbury BA'57 on April BCom. He works for Widman Associates Inc. as a circulation was on the staff of Kelowna Senior High School for many years 4 ... D. David Forsythe BASc(EngPhys)'53 on April 14 in Palo manager. He plans to build his own two by four house in Japan ...Fred O.(Ted) Burgess BCom'48 on February 12.Ted Alto, California. In 1966 Dave obtained an MSEE degree in after graduating (wife Eiko's hometown of Abashiri, Hokkaido). served with distinction during WWII with the Queen's Own electronics from Northeastern University, Boston. He worked Cameron Highlanders and later with the Black Watch. He took for a number of Silicon Valley semiconductor research compa over his father's business, Fred O. Burgess & Son. He was a nies. He was most recently employed by Advanced Micro De founder and manager of the Winnipeg Men's Wear Market and vices, Sunnyvale, California ... Harvey L. Gansner BA'35, the Manitoba Men's Apparel Club ... Stephen N. Carre BCom'35 on November 9, 1994 and Netta (Harvey) Gansner BCom'35, BA'36 on March 6 ... Otto Gill BASc(£JecEng)'27 on April 9 in Trail. He was a life-long athlete, being an ardent golfer, curler and swimmer. He also loved growing flowers. Until he had to move to Kiro Manor for health reasons, he spent most of the year at his summer home Let's have a Reunion! at Christina Lake ... Andreas (Andy) Goedicke BSc'7S on January I I.Andy was an infant transport team paramedic and How long has it been since you graduated from UBC? Do you ever find was lost along with several others when his flight to the Queen yourself telling your family and colleagues about the great time you had Charlotte Islands disappeared. His friend Pete Galdert BPE'78 there? Are you curious about what happened to your classmates? Perhaps it's wrote,"Whether in competition with the UBC rowing crew or time for a reunion! Too much work, you say? Leave it to us. Our office provides in saving someone's life, Andy gave it his all. He used the knowl a wide range of reunion planning services. Complete and return this form, edge gained from his years at UBC and applied them towards the betterment of humanity" ... Gordon A. Green BCom'48 and we'll be in touch to talk about planning a reunion for your class. on September 10, 1994. He was killed when his automobile left a highway on Vancouver Island. He qualified as a chartered ac Name: countant and was a senior partner in the Victoria CA firm of Faculty: Green, Horwood, Munro & Tuckey ... Jack A. Grimmett Year BA'36 on March 6 in his 90th year.After completing first year Address: Arts at UBC and then taking teacher training at the Provincial Normal School, he began his teaching career at Moyie, BC, Code continuing in Vancouver, until his retirement. He earned his BA «(h) (o)_ from UBC in 1936 after seven years of taking summer and evening classes. He established the Hazel and Jack Grimmett E-mail address Scholarship and Bursary Fund for education students ... Bob Please reply io;Reunions, Halbauer BASc(MinEng)'54 on May 10. He was a former presi UBC Alumni Association dent and CEO of Cominco Ltd. He was among BC's most re 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 spected mining executives, and he was the recipient ofthe Or Fax to: (604) 822-8928 or toll free 1-800-220-9022 Northern Miner's Mining Man of the Year Award for 1982, as Call 822-8917 or toll free at 1-800-883-3088 well as the Edgar Scholtz Medal in 1984 and the Canadian Insti Or E-mail [email protected] tute of Mining's Inco Medal in 1992 ... HeeTing Hong MSc'85 32 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1995 in February 1993, of cancer ... James D. Kern BASc(MechEng)'50 on July 18. He attended UBC after serving in The election of the Chancellor and of eleven Nominations for these offices must be in the the Armed Forces during WWII. He lived inWesbrook camp members of the Senate to be elected by the hands of the Registrar no later than 4:00 p.m. from 1946 to 1950. At the time of his graduation his family con members of Convocation of The University of on Tuesday, October 31,1995. For convenience, sisted of six children; eventually growing to eight, five of whom British Columbia will be held in February 1996. you may fax nomination forms to (604) 822- are UBC grads ... Cecil A. Lamb BSc(Agr)'21 on February 27. Voting instructions will appear in the Winter is 5945, but the original must be mailed to us for Cecil was a member of the first graduating class in agriculture. sue of the Chronicle. our records. He was the first student to specialize in agronomy. He spent the last 60 years living and working in Ohio. He developed sev Candidates eligible to stand for election to the Nomination forms are available from the Coor eral new strains of wheat... Mary (Bain) MacLeod Lund Senate are members of Convocation who are dinator of Elections, Registrar's Office: email BA'40, MEd'68 on December 5. Her early career as a Holly not members of the Faculties of the University. [email protected] or phone (604) 822- wood and Broadway actress was not well known among her 4367. The term of office is three years.The Convocation friends and acquaintances, but she had a long and productive life Senators will take office on September 1, 1996. In accordance with the University Act, an elec outside of acting, which she shared with her husband Arne ... The Chancellor will take office on June 25, 1996. tion register has been prepared showing the Sharon R. (Porter) Lupton BSN'79 on August 18,1994 ... names and known addresses of all members of Margaret MacNeill BSc'70, MSc'74 on February 28 of cancer Nomination Procedure at the age of 46. Margaret worked in the Arctic, then moved to Convocation who are entitled to vote at an Calgary to do research for Esso. She then went to Sidney, BC, 1. All nominations of candidates for the office election and the register is open for inspection where she continued work in oceanography. She spent the past of Chancellor must be supported by the by all members entitled to vote, Monday to Fri few years in Peachland, BC ... Ralph V. Manning BA'37 on identifiable signatures of seven persons enti day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. February 9, 1994,. As a Beaufort torpedo plane pilot, he took tled to vote in the election of Chancellor and R.A. Spencer part in air strikes in the North Sea. His plane was credited with carry the signature of the nominee indicating Registrar the sinking of the Proserpina, General Rommel's last major sup willingness to run for election. The University of British Columbia ply ship outside the harbour ofTobruk. He was a planning of 2016- 1874 East Mall ficer in NORAD, director of Staff College and an air historian ... 2. All nominations of candidates for member Catharine Mackintosh BA'37 on December 27, 1994, in ship in the Senate must be supported by the Vancouver, B.C., Canada Baltimore. Her greatest loves were books and travel. She identifiable signatures of three persons enti V6T IZI served in Britain and Belgium during WWII as a driver with the tled to vote in the election of the Senate. First Aid Nursing Yeomancy and stayed on in England for ten years. She moved to the United States, where she received a graduate degree in librarianship and went on to work as a li brarian at Bryn Mawr ... Ronald T. McBride BCom'46 on Feb ruary 9 ... Robert McClelland BA'37 on March 6, 1994. He Chancellor and Convocation Members of the Senate- 1993-96 Final Exam Chancellor Por this question, pick the best answer. Robert H. Lee, B. Com. 1. AMS JobLink offers you which of the following services? Senate (in alphabetical order) a) Hard-working Registry for students to fill short-term work; John A. Banfield, B. Com. Robert W. Lowe, M.A. your part-time e) The warm fuzzy and full-time feeling of help- Patrick T. Brady, Jr., B. Ed. William B. McNulty, M.P.E., M.A. labour needs; ing out your Donald G.A. Carter, B. Com., Ph. D. Carole Anne Soong, B. A., B. S. W b) Up-to-the-minute Alma Mater; L. Joanne Stan, B. S. R., M. Ed., Ed. D. information on f) (a), (b), (c), and Robert L de Pfyffer, B. Sc. labour legisla- (d) only; Stanley B. Knight, M. Ed., Ph. D. Des R.Verma, M.Sc, M. Ed. tion; g) (a) only; c) Statistics on the h)(a), (b), (c), (d), Sandra C Lindstrom, B.A., M. Sc, Ph. D. labour market, and (e), but only such as average when the moon is wages; full; d) A summertime i) Saskatchewan. Casual Labour worked as head of the commercial studies department at He remained active throughout his retirement... Flora M. Bonus Question. Bob, a Philosophy major, Kelowna Senior High School ... James D. Menzies Musgrave BA'26 on July 4. Flora graduated with UBC's first is looking for a degree-related job. BSc(Agr)'39, MSA'39 on December 9, 1994 ... H.T. Miard nursing class. She generously supported students and UBC Where should he look? BASc(GvEng)'33 on March 24. He joined the BC Department projects throughout her life, including boarding international 'AOUJI P.TIOJI Sujdoti 3J;JOS of Highways and Public Works in 1947, he was made assistant students at her house for many years ... Alan Orr-Ewing oje* oft ••no MB :uous8no snuog •tjSnoin '(a) ioj deputy minister in 1954 and deputy minister of the depart PhD'56 on February 26. He did his military service 1939—44 as pappus ac. ixp» jTpa« T«nJ»a '(J) T :s8a»SNV ment in 1958. He was the longest serving deputy minister lieutenant with the Argyle Sutherland Higlanders. He was the (1958-73) in the department's history and one of the archi first recipient of the Disguinguished Forester Award of BC and tects of BC's highways and ferry systems ... R. Russell Munn was a pioneer in forest genetics ... I.Andrew (Tiny) Rader JOBLINK BA'30, one of the original Great Trekkers, on May 27. Presi BASc(ElecEng)'35. worked for Allen-Bradley from 1962-1985, dent of the AMS at UBC from 1929-30, he later studied at the for Rader Pneumatics and for General Electric. He received JobLink Student Employment Centre Columbia University School of Library Science. 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Roy's working life was spent as a teacher and principal in a number of • Visa • MasterCard • cheque • money order secondary schools in BC. He will be remem Card # ~ " " Expiry Date bered with respect by his former students ... Robert S.Thain BA'49 on June I, 1994. Bob Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Make cheque or money order payable to the UBC Alumni Association. Mail to: served in the RCAF after high school. After spe The UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1. cializing in physics at UBC, he joined the Federal ^^ ^^ Defense Research Board in Ottawa ... William G.Tucker LLB'49 on April 27. Bill was in the RCAF for five City ofVictoria and the Capital Regional District-After his re years. He was a member of the Alberta and BC bar associa Next time: The official unveiling of tirement Charlie enjoyed painting, sketching, playing piano and tions and the Victoria Golf Club ... Derek H.Tye BA'33 on walking his dog at the beach ... Joseph B. Wall BSc(Pharm)'S0 the new, snazzy Alumni Asso October 2, 1994. Derek taught in the secondary schools of in September 1993 ... Brian Windeyer DSc(Hon)'J2 died last Fernie and Nelson, BC prior to WWII. He saw war service in ciation logo! year at the age of 90. A native Australian, he obtained his medi the Royal Canadian Navy and pursued a naval career after the cal education at the Marie Curie Foundation in Paris and then war, retiring with the rank of lieutenant-commander ... Plus: Book reviews and the Acros started his 38-year career at Middlesex Hospital. A man of Charles H.Wakelin MA'66 on January 16. He received a tic (sorry, no space this time), great distinction, a humanist, clinician, teacher and scientist, degree in architecture and worked in New Zealand before Brian Windeyer was knighted in 1961... Mary E.Yurich BHE'54 and lots more. coming to Canada in 1957. 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