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Summer 1967 k ~ Women graduates: What price THEIR diploma? See P. 4 Got a cheque handling cures 'em automatically! ASK FOR A COPY UF UUH il.1i.P.FOLDEFi AT YOURNEAREST B oiM BRANCH. THERE'S NO OBLIGATION. CONTENTS 4 Opengraduategirltheletter to 9 It's a good question! MaryWellwood examines the job market for women 10 Dr.Logan - trlleHellene with degrees. 16 Forestry-Agriculture is open for business 8 ourgraduatesDo really care? 20 URC field hockeyhome at andabroad Meetour new president, Beverley Lecky, writing her 22 openhouse at IJBC first messageto the alumni in this issue. 24 The university and a world in crisis 13 Dr.Macdonald - five years in review26News aroundthe campus How the past five years look to the man who brought Deareditor out the Macdonald Report. 29 30 Alumni association news 18 Labourquestions the university 32 Annualmeeting - Labour, in its relationship withthe university, is more concerned with 'input' than 'output' says Paul 34 Listen in with the editor Phillips,writer ofarticle. this 35 What'salumniwithnew Next Issue: The three F's of a degree: finance, finance, finance. EDITORIALCOMMITTEE Frank C. Walden, Bh'49, chairman Stan Evans, BA'41, EEd'44, past chairman Mrs. L. E. Barber,BA'37 KeithBradbury, Law II Mrs. G. B. Dickson, BA'60 Miss KrisEmrnott, Sc II Volume 21, No. 2 - Summer, 1967 John L. Gray, BSA'39 Dr. J. Katz D. C. Peck, BCom'48, BA'49 Publishedquarterly by the Alumni Association of The EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada. Business andeditorial offices: Cecil Green Park, 6251 Elizabeth B. Norcross. BA'56 N.W. Marine Dr., U.B.C., Vancouver 8. B.C. Authorized as second class mailby the Post OffceDepartment, Ottawa,and for payment of postage in cash. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The U.B.C. AlumniChronicle is sentfree of chargeto Bruce Benton, Arts I1 alumnidonating to theannual giving programme and 3 UciversitiesCapital Fund. Non-donors mayreceive themagazine by paying a subscription of $3.00 ayear. COVER MemberAmerican Alumni Council. Bruce Benton 3 Open letter You NOW HAVE YOUR DEGREE, adocument symbolizing to a meaningful career outside the home but if they do the first major milestone on the life path you hope to they should not be denied it because of traditional ideas follow. It represents theexpenditure of four ormore abouttheir ‘proper’ place. Unfortunately,archaic ideas years of your time, work and money. For it you were die hard and we, as a sex, often become wary of showing willingto forego a number of youreconomically pro- too much intelligenceand ambition. ductive years with the idea that by acquiring a profes- If your degree is in Education, however, you are en- sional skill you could make a more valuable contribution tering a field with excellent opportunities. In this pro- to the world. Or it could be that you chose to give up vince women with equal qualifications receive equal pay the money you might have earned for the possibility of a withmen. If you haveyour master’sdegree andthe much higher income after your years of study. Both are necessary personality you may some day join the ranks of legitimate reasons and, in either case, you now expect to schoolprincipals. Thereare about thirty women in reap the benefits of your efforts. charge of Vancouver and lower mainland schools today. When you decided on an academic program you as- Prospects are also good inadministration although I sumed, then, that the amount of education you acquired didnot discover womenabove the rank of executive would have a direct bearing on the income you would assistant. I would say, though, that in this capacity any- earn. You also felt that if you were gifted in any direc- one would find that she was in a position to be of real tion you should work towards a goal where your talents value to her profession. would benefit both yourself andyour community. In As anew teacher in British Columbia do not limit theory your assumptions werecorrect. In fact?May I yourself to employment in the heavily populated areas. just say that considerable doubts exist, and after lengthy The growth of our north and the expansion in the in- research I agree that they are justified in many cases. terior has brought the establishment of new and modem In England the Institute of Human Relations has in- schools. A teacher can have a most satisfying lifein these itiated a survey of the problems women face in aspiring communities,aid in their cultural progress andhave to executive positions. One question they seek to answer most of the social amenities of city living without the is, “Is it worth the effort?’ They found that four out of frustrations. five of Britain’s topwomen executives wereeither un- Graduatesin medicine, law, nursing, pharmacy and married or marriedwithout children. In the United library science can find ready employment. In the past States a study of a post-college group found less than ten fewyears a new area has also opened up for teachers, per cent willing to try for the top, and here the main nurses,agriculturists and technicians enabling them to drawbackcited was what they termed the ‘confidence go abroadon assignments for CUSO,the Canadian barrier.’ The U. N. Commission on the Status of Women counterpart of Peace Corps service. This year alom five finds that educated women in developing countries have hundred of ouryoung people will leave touse their an accepted status and make immediate and significant trainingin work in Asia, Africa andthe Caribbean contributions, whereas in the western countries the ad- countries.Their rewards will not be financialbut the justmentmust be graduatedwith the “prevailing con- experience and understanding they gain in their foreign ditions of privateenterprise.” This situation has been contactscan not be measured in monetaryterms. We accepted by many but it has also been challenged, even canonly hope that Canada will make proper use of though the mythof inequality is deeply rooted in our past. these most valuable citizens when they return. Centuries of church teaching have left their mark. The The same can be hoped for the increasing number of women of Indiaand most of Asia have escaped this you who will go on to graduate schools. Even two years heritageand the women of socialistcountries have ago fortyper cent of thegraduate students at McGill repudiated it. Of course all western women do not aspire Universitywere women. Dr. MaryBurns, a spacere- 4 to the girl graduate by Mary Wellwood, BA’51 searchscientist there, says thatwomen are naturals as gain experience. An expanding field can be found in the scientistsbecause of their innate curiosity about every- travelagencies, andall the airlines offerjobs with in- thing. terest andopportunity. If you arefluent in languages Responsibility shouldaccompany this curiosity. You investigatepositions inimmigration offices hereand must beprepared to risk taking unpopular actions and abroadand don’toverlook the posibilities inUnited expect to pay the price of putting your training to the Nations agencies. common good. Dr.Frances Kelsey took justsuch a Work in advertising involves research, art, copy writ- sociallyvalid standwhen she refusedto sanction the ing and other jobs that could lead to helpful links with sale of thalidomide in the United States. Her ‘stubborn- people in all thecommunications media. If youlike ness’ inthe face of almostoverwhelming pressures mathematics and solving problems, don’t ignore the new averted the tragedy that many countries, including our jobof computer analyst. You will haveto start as a own, must face in coping with deformed children that programmingtrainee but future opportunities will be resultedfrom the use of thatdrug. Another of her rewarding. qualified contemporaries did notfare so well. Inthe Have you considered the growing visual aids market, recent waragainst high foodprices Esther Peterson, thenew teaching machines, the infant field of educa- SpecialAssistant for Consumer Affairs tothe U. S. tional television? The day of the Girl Friday at a TV or president, sided with the consumers she had been hired radio studio is over as ur.ion policy prohibits floating all to protect. She has just been replaced by Betty Furness, over the lot to learn the trade, but you can get inside the whosecredentials are based on her success inselling door with office experience. If you are interested in this appliances on television commercials. line a training course atan accreditedschool should If you areentering the job marketwith a B.A. be prove a sensible investment. preparedto start at the bottom of whatever occupation While researching these job possibilities I was amused you choose. If your mind is not yet made up and you at a coincidence the day I was reading an article on the have no office training I recommend that you take a few manyopenings forgraduates in home economics. The months to equip yourself with this most valuable skill. author stated that this was one field where women need It is the key that will give you entry to many doors that not compete with men in order to achieve top positions will otherwise remain closed. Then pick the business to and I made a note to use this happy fact. I had to delete which youare motivated and offer your services.Keep it because our newspaper that same clay carried the press your eyes open for a chance assecretary to a good release announcingthe appointment of a man as the executive andlearn all you can. If you haveambition new head of the School (of Home Economics at UBC. I youwill ignore theconcept that everything stopsat thought about that for a while and I am still thinking five o’clock. At certain times in many offices this is not about it. the case so never hesitate to show initiative or to take on Most of youwill marry in the next fewyears and additionalresponsibility.