Dear Ken,, This Is a Much More Difficult Letter to Write Than 1- Expected

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Member, Council fur the Advancement and Supportof Education. Indexed in Canadlan Education IndexISSN W41-4W...... ,...... I..I...... Class Year ..... ChroniclelFall1983 3 Chkv that three of us and what dothey prove university. Someone else Ahisis a much more bought and our efforts to anyway? is paying the shot. Or it difficult letter to write abandon thedying beast; What we do know for looks easierthan workirtg. than I expected. I’m a boardinghouse landlady sure is that much of the Or it’s astep toward forced to acknotvledge who insisted on leaving optimism of 20 and even making a lotof money. that you have grown up delicately scratched notes: 10 years ago has slipped Dollars can beso and I have grown older. ”Please do not sit on your away. Our world is at an seductive. Modem Although I may appear bed. Beds are for sleeping uneasy point inits marketing spreads somewhat weathered on in. . . .” history. Third World luxuries at our feet, while tHe outside, I don’t feel Please forgive my nations are beginning to the newsmedia put outa any different than I did 23 momentary lapses into life demand a fairer share of steady statistical barrage years ago when I came out before radial tiresand the world’s resources. Our about the rate of inflation, of university, and that, at Alice Cooper. As with air and water and wildlife the cost of living and the least, pleases me. driving a car, however,an are threatened. Our value of our dollar When you phoned from occasional backward resources of energyare compared with 10 years Vancouver to talk about glance can be helpful. not as bountiful as we ago, five years agoand a the merits of hiking once thought. And our week ago Monday. One of your through Europe or going cities are increasingly Surveys tellus which grandfathers was a to university, I was . depersonalized and careers paythe most and cowboy in Alberta before relieved that the choice hostile. which the least and how becoming an engineer; the was yours, not mine.If I many recent graduates other quit school at 15 and were 19 I’m not sure can’t find work. The wdfked on a farm before which roadI woula take. implication isthat your making his way to the But since you’ve chosen Nany are university coursesshould Ontario Agricultural the academic route, I want understandably uneasy be tailored tothe market. I College in Guelph. Later, to pass along a few about what lies ahead. disagree. in the mid-fifties, your personal observations Their feelings are reflected Is there much point to parents toted their blind about the pleasures and in a recent Gallup pollthat making $50,000 a yearif optimism directly from perils of university life. As shows that a greater you hate climbingout of high school to university. you might expect, I prefer number of Canadians are your water bed inthe War was behind us:the to put themon paper. (A pessimistic (45 percent) morning? If money is your golden age of technology gem can be lostih than are optimistic (33 motivation, mightn’tyou lay ahead. We expected to dinnertime babble; this percent) about their be further ahead to do as live better and accomplish way I may linger on,if children‘s prospectsfor a many are doing and more than our parents, only in a bottomdrawer happy life. pursue a trade? and we anticipatedthat with your socks.) The questions and University, I think, holds our children would scale As I sit here, mulling issues that faced your out the promise of much even higher heights. over the weighty side of grandparents and parents more than simply job university lifeand Considering our - how to bring peace, training. recalling my own four outlook, it’s not surprising freedom, order, My suggestion, for what years, the rhemories that that ouruniversity stay prosperity to the world - it is worth, is this:follow drift back are not the was a tranquil one - not are still there for you to your interests and your serious ones -but at all likethe idealistic, grapple with. I hope you intuitions. Try to keep as instead, an American flag tormented sixties to follow will. Perhaps these issues many options open as hoisted high on thegirls’ or the grabby selfishness even have something to possible. If you think back residence in thedead of of the seventies. The do with your decision. to your high school time, night; LauraGill‘s eighties appear to have a There are, of course, a didn’t you do bestaf the pumpkin pies; the conservative tilt, but it’s number of possible things you enjoyedthe monstrous, coal-black ’36 really too early for labels, reasons for going to most? . ’ 4 ChroniclelFallZ983 1

by Laird O’Brien

stand back and take a I’ll give youone example backgrounds and sends its Besides, as you may good lookat the world of the problems that may energies shooting off in have heard somewhere, and yourself. Your mind grow larger in your many directions. Any day money won’t bring you can run up and down the lifetime: the search for of the week you can happiness. Yes, I too aisles of philosophy, food. choose from concerts and

recall Pearl Bailey’s psychology, I In the last 45 years the plays and learned answer: ”I been rich and I anthropology, sociology, world’s population has speakers, snooker and been poor. Rich is religion, science, art, jumped from two to four bridge, celebritysports definitely better.” In literature. . . . You can billion people -a and frisbee gamesin old rebuttal, I offer this dream andargue, doubling that used to take shorts. There are lectures, anecdote from an address question andsearch. hundreds of years. The labs, libraries, newspapers by Robertson Davies to his Not wanting tobe people of Africa, Asia and and theinevitable coffee students: “One of my overly dramatic about it Lath America, those least shop. Sample as much as students was telling me all, the fact is that how able to copewith wide- you can. If you study and about thewoman who you use thistime may spread malnutrition, are do nothing else youwill cleans his room. Life has very wellshape therest of having the most babies, miss a great deal. Get to not used her very your life. and thebirthrate is know many people; they generously, and yet she is In a few years you may accelerating. will help you find out an exceptionally cheerful emerge with a licence to Fortunately, in North what theworld is really person. Oneday he said make money; an appetite America we produce far like. to her,’Annie, are you for knowledge and more food than we happy?’ She replied, understanding in many consume. But soon this ’Happy? I’m so happy fields; a special interest may not be enough. By sometimes I wake up in that consumes you; a the time you are 38 years the night just to laugh!’ passion to create in some old, Ken - hard to Those of us wholive in There is a happy woman, form; or a persistent imagine, I g-lless, but just this affluent comer of the but I don’t imagine many fascination with beerand 19 years from now- the world can becomeso of you would be quick to poker. world’s population is preoccupied withour own change places with her.’’ expected to besix billion. daily affairs- everything Of course, the best The obviousquestion is from the price of houses to condition is to beso T how will we feed them all? RRSP deadlines -that we caught up in what you are f you can go through Certainly we’ll have to may ignore the much doing with your life that the adventure andbe make tremendous strides larger issues. you can’t bebothered content simply to“get by” in distribution, You grew up with asking.yourself if you are -to pass thecourses and technology, international television and have hada happy or not. This calls have a good time- it will cooperation, investments ringside seat at for choosinga career be a shame. Does the and tradepractices. assassinations, wars and based on enthusiasms world reallyneed another This is just oneof many earthquakes. This instant rather thanprofits. also-ran doctor, lawyer, challenges. participation iri events With the wisdom that veterinarian or scientist? 1 don‘t want to lecture, thousands of kilometres comes fromhindsight, I No - what theworld but I also don’t want to away should give us all a think I have finally needs arefirst-class minds watch you make someof greater sense of sharing identified the great reward and people who want,to my mistakes all over and caring. Perhaps it of university life. It is not use them. again. So, treading softly, does, but I wonder if there football or fooling around. I’m not suggesting you I offer these suggestions isn’t also a tendency to The great reward is time. make a list of global for your university stay, withdraw andto shield You have the luxury of problems and tackle them One: Let your curiosity our quiet, comfy comer days andweeks topursue one by one. Your lifetime loose. A university draws from the unpleasant.Try your hterests. YOU can is too short for that. But people from different not tolose touch with ChroniclelFulll983 5 The fact is tohathow you use this -birne my very well. shape tohe rest of your life.

events beyond the ivy the crossing guard and girls, bull sessions- can to tell us what‘s funny, walls. darted into the path of a become very boring. This what’sscary, what‘s. . As to the perils of car. At 14 you wanted to is the time to talk of many ahead and how we should university life, offhandI paint a boathouse wall things - of shoes, and handle it. can thinkof only one. Itis without bothering to ships, and sealing-wax, of And the more we let the danger of seeing scrape it first. cabbages and kings. . . . them, the harder it is to yourself as one of the This is a good timeto A well-rounded person make decisions for chosen few who are abandon the quick and has three phases to keep ourselves. Independent somehow speaaJin the careless approach. in balance: the physical, thinking, like olives, order of things. At best The prizeat university the mental and the seems to be an acquired you are lucky. Itis your is knowledge and spiritual. taste. opportunities that are understanding. The how When I was 20 or special. and the why.These are thereabouts I wanted to Two:Keep a positive the resowces you’ll take write great booksand outlook. It is so easy to with you - not a piece of Itis a mistake to focus raise fast horses. Many catch the virus of gloom. paper that says you’re on one side of life and years later, I haven’t done If you can stand another qualified, not familyor ignore the others. It is either, but that‘s okay brief backward glance, I’ll social connections toopen damaging to suppress because I’ve done other give youa perfect example heavy doors. feelings of fairness, pity, things instead. of the positive, hopeful I doubt that you’ve love and spiritual Whatever youmay outlook. Aftera heard of Edward Hodnett, questions while galloping hope to do with yourlife, discouraging run of author of’7’heArt of after monetary rewards. Ken, you can expect that experiments, one of Problem Solving, but he has Or to push aside the luck or fate, whatever you Thomas Edison’s some harsh words for necessities of life while wish to call it, will colleagues turned to him those who slough off the wrestling with onlydeep, intervene. Tomorrow will and said, “It’s too bad to importance of knowledge: philosophical thoughts. not be like today and not do all of that work for ’’Failure to accept this Five: Try to be your own at all the way you expectit nothing.” Edison looked hard truth will put you best friend. Remember St. to be. Surprises are always surprised. “But it’s not for among the half-baked Andrew’s College?In lurking around the corner. nothing,’’ he replied. “We artists, crank inventors, Grades 7 and 8 it was And surprises are what have got a lot of good political dreamers and impossible to persuade make the journey so results. Look now we fakers in all fields,who you to weara raincoat, fascinating. know 700 things that find it easier tobe even in a flood. ”Nobody Finally, let meadd that I won’t work.” different than to master wears a raincoat,” you hope you are lucky the fundamentals from told me indignantly. This enough to findyour good which they are deviating.” social law was accepted memories at university Where will you find this without question by the and take them awaywith Be ambitious, if it knowledge and masses. you - whatever happens pleases you. ”Nothing understanding? Not As you get older, more to be the 1980s equivalent great was ever achieved through inheritance or and more people seem to of a coal-black ‘36 Chev. without enthusiasm,” to intuition. It comes from want to do your thinking, quote Emerson. But I absorbing facts, don’t they? (Even fathers Huch love hope you’ll take the time questioning and are guilty.) Fashion Dad to work out thedistinction rearranging ideas in fresh designers get togetherand between greed and ways. persuade us that this year ambition. Four: Think of yourself as ties are to be so wide and Laird OBrien is a Canadian Three: Don‘tlook for the n bit of u juggler. Too much skirts are to go up or writer who lives in Toronto; shortcuts. When you were preoccupation with any down. There’s always his son, Ken, is no& a six you couldn’t wait for one thing -high marks, somebody around trying student at Queen’s. U 6 ChroniclelFull1983 Alumni Fund Contact your Alumni Branch Reps Courtenay: William Dale (339-5719) launches drive Cranbrook His HonourJudge Leo S. Gansner (489-3204) by Pat Pirzdrr Duncan: Parker MacCarthy(746-7121) Fort Nelson: Gerald Parkinson(774-2615) Fort St. John: Ellen Ellis (785-2280) The Alumni Fund is embarking Kamloops: Bud Aubrey (372-8845) on a three year campaign to estab- Kelowna: Michael Bishop (762-4222) lish a million dollar endowment Kimberley: Larry Garstin(427-3557) fund for alumni scholarships and Nanaimo: James Slater (753-3245) bursaries.These bursaries and Penticton: Dick Brooke (493-0402) scholarshipsare more important Port Alberni: Gail Van Sacker (723-7230) than ever as tough economic times Prince George: David Theessen(962-9611) and cuts in provincial aid to uni- Salmon Arm: Robin Suddaby (832-7519) versities have created severe prob- Trail: Peter Hemmes(364-4222) Victoria: Kirk Davis (656-5649), Dennis Hon (721-5749) lems tor students. Williams Lake: Anne Stevenson(392-4365) TheAlumni Association annually offersscholarships and bur- Other Canada: saries totalling $106,000 to deserv- Calgary: Gerald Borch (284-9137) ingstudents. The endowment Edmonton: Gary Caster(426-2224) tund will ensure we can continue Fredericton:Joan &JackVan der Linde(455-6323) to help these students in the years Montreal: L. Hamlyn Hobden (842-4131) to come. Ottawa: Robert Yip (997-4074), Bruce Harwood (996-3995) Regina: Gene Rizak (584-4361) ‘This year’s Fund drive involves Whitehorse: Celia Dowding (667-5187) threeseparate appeals. Regular Winnipeg: Gary Coopland (453-3918) alumnisupporters will receive a letter from Alumni Fund Chair- United States: man Me1 Reeves, BCom’75, Clovis: Martin Goodwin(763-3493) MSc’77, explainingthe endow- Denver: Harold A. Wright, 1770 Glencoe, Denver, Co. 80220 Los Angeles: Dr. Roy Griffiths (882-2174) mentfund and its necessity. New York Rosemary Brough (688-2656) Alumni living in the USAwill be San Diego: Dr. Charles Armstrong(287-9849) sent a letterfrom the Friends of San Francisco: Peter Lawson (986-5610) UBC, Inc.President of the Seattle & P.N.W.:Gerald Marra (641-3535) ”Friends”, 1’. GerraldMarra, Washington, D.C.: John David Brown (836-0505) BSc’63, will urge them to support Other Countries: endowment of thescholarships Australia & New Zealand: Christopher Brangwin,17 Ginahgulla Road, andbursaries offeredto Ameri- Bellevue Hills, N.S.W. 2023; Irene Meyer, Flat 82-13S. Esplanade, Glenelg, canswho wish to attend UBC. 5045; Judith A. Hamel, 19 KingsAvenue, Blair Athol, S.A. 5084 And our most recent alumni, who Bermuda: John Keefe, Lyndhurst, Penbroke havenever participated before, England: Alice Hemming, 35 Elsworthy Road, London, N.W.3 will be invited to ”brown bag it” France: Dr. Gail Ree Gladwell, 12 Ave. de Camoens, 75016 Paris for theAlumni Fund. Working Hong Kong: Dr. Ronald S.M. Tse, Dept.of Chemistry, University of Hong grads willbe askedto donate to Kong, Bohman Road theAlumni Fund money they Ireland: Marian A. Barrett, Dorval, Kilteragh Drive, Foxrock, Dublin 18 Israel: Yehoshua Raz, Zionut9/9, 96741 Jerusalem wouldnormally spend on a Italy: L.R. Letourneau, FAO, Room B559, Via Delle Terme Di Caracalla, week’s lunches.The Fund will Rome 00100 supply the brownbag! Japan:Maynard Hogg, 1-4-22 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo156 Last year’s Alumni Fund Com- Scotland: Jean Aitchison, 32 Bentfield Drive, Prestwick mitteeworked closely with Switzerland: Kathleen M. Lombardi, Hotel Chateau Douchy, Lausanne, Ch. AlumniFund staff raiseto 1006 $491,138, anincrease of 44 per centover the prevlous year. The was able to provide alumni schol- facilities they wished to support. number of donors also increased arships and bursaries to deserving Separate campaigns provided sup- - by 39 percent over 1981-82. undergraduatestudents. The port for the Allan McGavin Chair Andthe number of first time AlumniFund Allocations Com- in Geriatrics, the AllanMcGavin alumnicontributors increased mittee, chaired by William S. Arm- Sports Medicine Centre, theEmer- significantly as a direct result of strong, BCom’58,LLB’59, distrib- gency Child Day Care Centre and the successful “nostalgia”cam- utesalumni gifts not specifically the Summer Program for Retired paign.Although no gift istoo designated for other projects. It People Endowment Fund. small, alumni rallied last approved a total of $35,178 to 22 These projects wouldnot be year,with an average campaign separatestudent-related projects possible without alumni gifts. The pledge of $67. lastyear. The remaining funds University would like to thank the Where did the money go? Once weredesignated by donorsto 5,586 people who donated to the again,the Alumni Association specific programs,activities or 1982183 AlumniFund. Bi ChronicleiFnll 1983 7 of youth gone by by

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When I enrolled as a fresh- back.Today, in 1983, thereare eventaking biology. Class sizes, man at UBC exactly 40 years ago approximatelymanyas gross though, were about the same as I thisSeptember, "the gross, win- freshmen on the campus as there am told theyare today. English ter,daytime student enrolment were in the entire student body in and German (being humane stud- was 2,569," or so an official in the 1943. ies)were taught in intimate sec- registrar's office informedme One of theadvantages of tions of 40 or so, while my three recently, and the word "gross" to attending UBC when it was only a othercourses - mathematics, describe the student body of that mini-universitywas that the fac- physicsand chemistry - were distant time is hers, not mine. ulty wasproportionately small dishedout toapproximately 200 In 1943, of course,the Second andeven lowly freshmenhad freshmen at a time. World War was still erupting, and department heads or othernotori- most of us males in the freshman ous campuscharacters as their class werejust putting in time, instructors. Even more remarkable waiting to be old enough or bold - nowthat I think back on it, For English 100, I hadthe enough to join one of the services though I suspected it seemed nat- renowned and flamboyant headof and go off to war, something that ural enoughat the time - was the English Department, Dr. G.G. many of us did at the end of that that all five of the classes I was Sedgewick, whose custom it was school year. When we returned to enrolled in were segregated sexu- to offer an enrichedversion of the campus oneor two years later, ally, conditiona that I don't freshman English to the 40 most UBC had mushroomed into a Big believe had anything at all to do promising males in the first year University,a state of mind from with the subject matter that was class. I hasten to add that I ended which it hasnever had to look being disseminated, since I wasn't up in this section only because of 8 ChroniclelFall 1983 an unresolvable timetableclash, quipshave faded from memory and as a result, had to spend one- now,though I do recall thathe fifth of my lecture time as a fresh- oncegazed unfondly into the man surrounded by much brighter Monday morning faces of his 8:30 brainsthan my own, brains that sectionand declared that it was have since goneon to become just like looking intoa Yawning Harvardprofessors, heart sur- Chasm. Not great stuff, perhaps, geons, and controversial faces on but popular in 1943. television. But in spite of the high In German, we sat in stiff alpha- potential of the minds assembled betical rows whileDr. MacInnes in front of him, Dr. Sedgewick fre- (shehad taught mv fatherwhen quently became upset by the low- he attended UBC in 1915) ranged levelintellectual effort we would remorselessly up anddown the put forth on the poems and short rows looking for the proper dative storiesunder discussion. It was case ending for one of those irreg- his pleasure on such occasions to ularGerman adjectives. Across march upand down the rows the Main Mall, in the noxious Sci- rapping his selected freshmen on ence Building, a shy man named the head with his practiced knuc- Dr. Petrie (I believe he later aban- kles and rechristening them with doned teaching and became an namesappropriate to theirintel- howDr. Sedgewick would pace astronomer) taught physics, while lectualcapacities - Cretin, up and down in his grave if he chemistry was in the hands (and Moron, Imbecile, Idiot,Simple- discoveredthat the least promis- inthe thick eyebrows) of a Dr. ton, and so on. In retrospect, I can ing student in his freshman class Hooley, who alwaysreceived seethat this was only agreat of 1943 was the one that has most from his freshmen a good-natured teacher’s subtle way of providing enthusiastically carried onhis cheer whenever oneof his dcmon- us with the necessary vocabulary great work. strations went off with a bang, as for the Age of Television that lay For mathematics,most of the they sometimes did. just around the corner. malesin the freshman class had WalterGage in an 8:30 a.m. section thatmetMondays,on Wednesdays and Fridays. Even at Curiously, the labs in both this relatively early stage of his chemistryand physicswere co- longandlegendary teaching educational, probably because the career, ProfessorGage was so hand-sortingmethod of timeta- confident that he could cover the bling employed in those pre-com- Math 100 curriculum in about half puterdays wasn’t up to guaran- the time that he felt free to spend teeingthat the numerous lab the first part of every lecture sections scheduled for odd hours warming up theclass with college- on lateafternoons and Saturday level jokes. Most of these Gage COlJfilJllf’d0?1 ,llfl

Dr. Garnet G.Sedgewick 1948 By the end of freshman English, Dr. Sedgewick hadmanaged to convincemost of his class that they could neither read nor write English. I don’t know what effect this had on other members of the class (wehave never held a reunion), but it did set me on the pathbecomingto an English teacher myself.Looking back on my career, I think I can say that I havebeen successfulin convinc- ing hundredsof students that they lack thesefundamental skills. I The Unizwsity bookstore in Alan Dam’s time was definitely not wlf-scrw, fl~~da have also speculated frequently on lot snzaller than today‘s store. ChronlcleiFail 1983 9 Pacific Rlm at UBC A garden of 10,000 things by Karen Loder

Former UBC president Norman fessor Clive Anslev says that his sities,among them the Universi- MacKenzie was the catalystfor the seminaron Chinese law is fully ties of Malava and Hong Kong. "I development of Asian Studies at subscribed, with a waiting list. want the Institr~te to becomefirst a UBC. It is now 22 years since he The JapaneseLegal Studies pro- class internationalresearch insti invitedProfessor Bill Holland to gram is an example of the tvpe of tution in wh~rh\ye are pllblishing come to UBC from New York as projectfostered bythe Asian first class intormaticm on Asia," he thedepartment's first fulltime Research Institute since it began in says. head. Holland brought the highly 1978. TheInstitute is housed in A recent undertaking has been a regardedjournal Pacific Affairs the Asian Centre,which also series of seminars on Canada and with him from New York and was housesthe department of Asian theChanging Economv of the instrumental in thedevelopment Studies,and the Asian Studies Pacific Basin, funded bv $300,000 notonly of the Asian Studies library, which contains more than from the MaxBell Foundation. Department, but also of the Uni- 250,000 volumes in Chinese, projectThe involves seven versity Press. Hindi,Japanese, Urdu and other researchstudies. Already Com- MacKenzie had a dream - a Asian languages. It's one of the merceprofessor Michael Gold- dreamthat UBC studentswould top 10 Asian collections in North berg's studv of overseas Chinese learn about the Pacific Rim coun- America."That's pretty good investment has sparked local tries and that some of them would when youthink institutes like interest. . becomeexperts. Harvard and Yale have been in the Peter Bailev, a Canadianengi- Justthree years ago the UBC Asian business for over 100 neer and independent consultant Law School introducedtwo new years," says Asian Studies profes- with Pacific Rim countries courseswith an Asian emphasis; sor Peter Harnetty. attended the seminars and consid- anintroduction to Japanese law ers such research vital. "What has anda seminar on Canadian and been particularly noticeable in the Japaneseapproaches to environ- -mm-mmmmnmmmm- seminars h'ls bhen the difficulties mental law. eachproject faced getting basic ProfessorMalcolm Smith, an "I want the institute to data and information. One advan- affable Australian, directs the Jap- tage of this series of projects is anese Legal Studies program. He become a first class devc>lopingbackground informa- emphasizesthe support of the international research tion that the private sector really Institute of AsianStudies. "In a needs," he says. very real sense the Asian Institute institution." Like theChinese garden of sponsoredthe establishment of 10,000 things, UBC's involvement theprogram because we started mmm""m1111D11 with PacificRim countries is not with a grant from the law founda- onlv multi-faceted but difficult to tion which brought out Professor Besidesfostering the develop- keep up with. Here are some cur- Morishima.(Professor AkioMor- ment of interdisciplinary research, rent projects: ishimawas the law school's first the institute is a clearing house for visiting Japanese professor). Then information on Asia. Its quarterly Thissummer, geography pro- throughtheAsian Institute's newsletter,although modest in fessors Dick Copely and Manvyn Ohira fund, I was brought overfor appearance,contains a wealth of Samuels led 22 students on a field a full year as the second visiting informationabout both commu- courseon Chinese geographv. It professor." nity and university happenings in was conducted in China with the Smithnoted that law students the Asian field, and has over 1,000 support of Beiiing University. The who initially consideredthe subscribers. courseincluded visits to sites in courses "soft" are no longer skep- A geographer with an intriguing Inner Mongolia, North China, the tical aboutthe program. "There specialty(Asian hawkers or Yangtze Basin and the Pearl River are quite a few law firms who are pedlars),the Institute's director Basin. A spwialdepartment-to- veryinterested in anybodywith TerryMcGee publishedhas departmentexchange with Chi- an Asian background." And Pro- widely and taughtat many univer- neseuniversities began in1980 10 ChroniclelFall1983 and it includes exchange of publi- cations,research and teaching exchanges. Geological Sciences has hosted National Universities Week many visiting scholars and thisfall they will welcomethe firstChi- campaign launched nese graduate students - the first of the new generationof post-Cul- turalRevolution students. Both professors Hugh Greenwood and RichardArmstrong gave lectures in China last year. Professor Jon Rau of thedepartment is with CIDA for a year on unpaid leave working on a geological survey in Bangkok. (Like Venice, Bangkok is sinking into the ground.) Profes- sor William Fletcher is withthe UnitedNations on his second unpaid year inMalaysia. 0 Axel Meisen, Associate Dean of Applied Science, reports that the CanadianInternational Develo- m ent Agencyment(CIDA) has approved funding for a project he initiated. UBC and Chulalongkorn Universityareworking ona projectto developThailand's oil and gas industry. UBC professors Above: for one of threepublic service announcements promoting will betravelling to Thailandto on location B.C.'s universities are (1 to r) director Patrice Leung; Dr. David Suzuki, spok- give courses.Thai engineering and students will come to UBC to take esperson in the television spot; Sandra Mayo on sound; William Wnring on camera. Below: David Suzuki's three-year-old daughter Severn stars with him in masterscourses in oil andgas the 30-second television commercial producedfor Notional Universities Week. exploration. 0 School of Recreation and Physi- cal Educationprofessor Eric Broom led a study tourlast year to look at the Chinese sport andrec- reation system. As a direct result, Cen Yue Fang, a senior official of the All ChinaSports Federation, will spend September to Novem- ber with the school. Last year the university basketball team visited China,while this year the UBC hockey and volleyball teams will visit Japan. 0 The Faculty of Commerceand BusinessAdministration may have as many as50 Chinese scholars studying for MBA, MSc (Bus. Admin.)and PhD degrees over thecoming decade, as part of a long-term CIDA project.In Aug- The Alumni Associations of UBC, UVic and SFU have co-sponsored ust they welcomed theirfirst three three public service announcements to promote the valueof universities PhD students from Shanghai Jiao in B.C. These commercials are to be aired on television thisfall as part of Tong University. the Oct.2-8 National Universities Week celebrations. The announcements were produced thanks to a grant of $5,000 from 0 Forestry has also worked out a researchexchange with China. the Universities Council of British Columbia and the volunteer contribu- Throughthe efforts of Professor tions of many talented individuals in the film industry. Special apprecia- Oscar Sziklai'strip to China in tion goes to the production crew Patrice Leung, Sandra Mayo, and Will 1982 six or morestudents will Waring; Ray Hall and John Newton of the UBC Film Department and spend monthahis in China and Suzukinext David family. w year. 8 *" , . 1- * L\ +>*.'\ " ,Y- f , , ~ , I ChroniclelFall198.1 11 UBC researcher P.K. Jena, MSc’59, has been honoredby the Federation of Indian Chamberof Commerce and Industryfor his outstanding research contributions to industrial development andinteraction with industry. Professor Jena IS director of the Regional Research After 33 years of federal and Laboratory in Bhuaneswar, pmvincial government service, Orissa, India. Rory Flanagan, BSF‘50, has retired as superintendent of Jasper National Park. Rory will continue to live in Jasper. . .KamIoops architect Bud Aubrey, BArch’51, was recently elected to a two-year term as treasurer of the Architectural with the amline... .Dr. Robert E. Institute of B.C A fellow of the Bell, BA’39, MA’41, is the new Royal Architectural Institute of director of the Arts, Sciences and Canada, Bud has headed the Technology Centre in Vancouver. Kamloops firm of Aubrey He washired after a year-long MacKinnon and Partners for the search that considered 167 past27years ....Universityof candidates. Heis currently a Prince Edward Island President Rutherford Professor of Physics at Emeritus Ronald James Baker, McGill, and has served as both RAW, MA’53, has been awarded president andvice-chancellor of a $268,000 Kellogg Foundation that universlty. grant to run workshops for university chairmen and department heads. Mr. Baker P.K. Iena continues in his role as a commissioner of the Canadian Radio-Television and .. . Telecommunications Commission.. . .Victoria architect Pamela Charlesworth, BArch’52, has hnished deslgning theRoyal John I. Goodlad, BA45, MA’46 Oak Baptist Church in (PhD, Chicago), was recently Broadmead, near Victoria One of awarded the Columbia University only two women in an Teachers College Medal for architectural graduating classof After almost 19 years with the city Distinguished Service to 67, Pamela was recently the engineering department in Education The author or editor of subject of a feature storyin the Penticton, Murray Brown, Brian P. Sutherland 20 books and 150 articles on Victoria Times-Colonist. .. .From BASc’M), has accepted a position education, Dr. Goodlad has Summerland, B.C., word that as assistant city engineer with the served as Deanof the UCLA William Gilmour, LLB’52, has City of Vancouver traffic division. Three UBC alumni were among a Graduate School of Education “semi-retired‘ from legal practice. His new position involves group of distinguished Canadians since 1967....Jim McKeachie, Bill hopes to devotemore time to preparations for the huge traffic honored during theMay 28 BCom’48, is the new president of golf and fishing ....Popular MI‘ problems expected during the convocation ceremoniesof the the Air Cadet League of Canada. and MLA Stu Leggatt, LLB54, Expo ’86 World Trade University of Victoria. Awarded Jim is Western Canada public BA‘55, has retlred from political Exposition.. . .David Durrance, honorary doctorates for their relations director for CPAir in life to accept an appointment as BSAhl, lives in Kalinga, in the outstanding contributions to Vancouver, and aformer county court judgein Vancouver. Philippines, where heteaches inp society were former diplomat newspaperman. He hasbeen Mr. Leggatt practised law In three-room schoolhouse, and, Hugh Keenleyside, BA’20, associated with the cadet Haney, Port Coqultlam and along with his w~fe,Petra, is LLB45, journalist-historian Pierre movement slnce his college Vancouver before entering building a health clinic. David has Berton, BA41, and educational days. .. .Environmental consultant politics.. . .The new chairmanof introduced the growingof administrator Bernard Gillie, W. Winston (Bill) Mair, BA’49, the board of Vancouver’s Holy peanuts, cucumbers, potatoes, BA44, BEd51.. . .Also honored MA52, (NDC, Kingston), has Famlly Hospital IS award-winning and othervegetables and fruit to recently was Brian Sutherland, P. completed hrs doctorate~n public architect Richard Archambault, the village, and brought in BASc (Chemical)’25, who had the administration at the University BArch’55.Mr Archambault seedlings for reforestration.... The distinction of receiving the first of Beverly Hills. Bill has been previously chaired Holy Family’s only American film to win a prize honorary degree(Doctor of associated with a numberof planning and building committee at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Divinity) ever granted by Regent federal and provincial and currently serves on the was “Too Much Oregano,” a College, a graduate theological agencies. and was Greater Vancouver Regional comical elght minute short college affiliated with UBC. He government chairman of the Alaska Gas Hospltal District's hospltal directed by Kerry Feltham. BA’61. was the founding chairmanof Pipeline hearings in northeastern advlsory comrnlttee... Brian A. Another Feltham short, ”The Regent’s board of governors, from and southeasternBritish Cooper, BCom’55 (MBA, Waltzmg Policeman,” was the 1968 to 1972, and served as Columbia. ..Christine Sheila McMaster), was recentlv named official U.S. entry in both the administrative vice principal (Weir) Nelles, BA’49, LLB50, is vice-president, pulp and Cannes and Berlin festivals in (without salary) from1972 to counsellor (transportation) at the sales, for 1979. ..Vancouver publishers 1974. newsprmt Crown Canadian High Commission in Zellerbach Canada. Brian will Douglas andMcIntyre have lately London. She hasalso worked for operate from the company’s published a second revised External Affairs in such spots as Vancouver headquarters. .. Ray edition of 109 Walks in B C.’s Warsaw and Vietnam... .Named McFadden, BEd’57, and hls wife Lourr Mamland, hy the husband to the board of directors of the will go travelling after Ray’s and wife team of David (MA’60) new Vancouver Port Corporation retirement as principal of Rutland and Mary (BLS’63) Macaree. The is Alumni Association past Senlor Secondary School.They’ll book is a companion volume to president Paul S. Plant, BA’49. conhnue to live in Rutland, where the Macarees’ earlier10.3 Hikes Plant will serve withSIX others on Ray has been an educator for 24 171 Southwestern British Columbia the board, which will manage the years.. . .As newly-appointed . . . Raymond Chow, newly-independent port He is technical representative for BEd-EM, wantsto be the John Retiring after 28 years with CP Air president of Ralph S. Plant, Ltd., Engelhard Industries West, Inc., Singer Sargentof Vancouver in in May, 1983 was H. Don forest product wholesalers, and Ronald Hughes, RCom’58, the 1980s. The artist and Cameron, BA38(MA Toronto, has been on UBC‘s Board of dispenses technical assistance to photographer paints portraitsof NDC, Kingston). When he retired Governors and theUniversity clients in 13 western states. Ron Vancouver’s “beautiful people,” he was seniorvice president, Senate, as well as theCBC board lives with hls wife and daughter as Sargent did for 19th century administration and public affairs of directors. in Newark, California ...Former England and America ....From 12 ChroniclelFalll983 vice-president and controllerof Chase.. ..Although he hasbeen continue to gainacclaim for their the Vancouver-based B.C. Coal, involved in music since the ageof collaboration on asatirical "post- Limited. He has been with the seven, Bruce Fairbairn, BSc'70, nuclear cabaret" which premiered firm since 1972. MSc'74, says he "neverreally last year at the VancouverEast ....J udy McGillivary, BEd'68, has considered music as a profession Cultural Centre. Entitled"Last just had her secondbook of until I was outof university." Call," the playis the creationof poetry accepted for publication by Since abandoning a successful Ken MacDonald, BEd72, and Vesta Publishing. Deep Streets will career as an environmental Moms Panych, BFA77.... From be published sometime this Fall, planner, however, Bruce has Atlanta, word that Greg C. says McGillivary, who has also quickly established a reputation Thomas, BPE72, MPE77, is now had anotherbook of poetry, Time as oneof North America's finest U.S. national marketing manager Lines, published. record producers. Among his for AES Data, an information- productions are albumsby systems company ownedby the Loverboy, Prism andBlue Oyster Canadian Development Cult ....Another alumnusfor Corporation. Greg has been whom music has been a lifelong involved in high-tech industry interest is Richard Hagman, since 1977.. ..Phil McOrmond, BMus'71 ("us, Holly Names). BSc(Pharm)'73, MSc'75, is now Judy McGillivuy A residentof Salmon Arm, director of pharmacy at Juan de Richard conducts the Shuswap Fuca Hospital, a500 bed extended Singers community care facility in Victoria... .Fine Arts choir.. ..Cowichan Valley lawyer graduate AndrewWong, BFA73, London, word of the recent Brian McDaniel, BA71 (LLB, has been "vessel making"full- publication of Pillar and Tinderbox, Gary Atkinson, BA70,LLB73, is York), won a competition staged time since 1975. Samples of his by Robert McDonald, BA64. The now secretary and corporate earlier this yearby the Canadian pottery regularly appear in book, an examinationof the counsel of Yorkshire Trust Bar Association. A brochure of galleries throughout theB.C. political and economic problems Company, andis also secretaryof Brian's design was judgedby the Lower Mainland... .Previously faced by the Greek press during Yorkshire's investment company Association to be the best example associated with a Vancouver the Dictatorshipof the Colonels, for pension funds....Further of the marketingof a practiceby a architectural firm, Bernd is distributed in Canadaby John afield is Maynard Hogg, BSc'70, Canadian lawyer.. ..Young Hennanski, BA74, BArch79, has Wiley and Sons.. Kenneth J. .. who has been in Tokyofor about musicians in the Chilliwack area now established his own business Gaglardi, BSc'65, PhD72, has 10 years, and is "now trying to were testedby the Royal in Salmon Arm.., .David James been named directorof help Japanese companies clean up Conservatory of Music's Edward Innes, BSc'74 (MSc, Dalhousie), technological programsat their foreign language Parker, BMus'71, ("us, recently completed his PhD in Kwantlen College in Surrey, B.C. documentation," he writes. He Washington) in June. Parker Biology (Population Genetics) at Dr. Gaglardi comes to Kwantlen says that though translationsof teaches for the Music State Universityof New York. He from East Kootenay Collegein instructions with Japanese goods Conservatory and the University is now doing post-doctoral work Cranbrook, where he was director may be bad, the originals are of Victoria. He is known at the Universityof Windsor ....As of academic and technical sometimes even worse... .As throughout the westas an equal employment opportunities programs.. .Dr. JerraldRowell . pastor to theEcumenical adjudicatorand a recitalist.... Russ officer at VancouverCity Hall, M. BSc'65, MSc'h9 (DSc Potts, Anglican-United Parishof Burtnick, BCom'72, was Leigh Woh-Peng, MA'74, is California) is doing blood plasma Shuswap, Brock Lupton, presented an International responsible for careeer research at the Cutter BMus'70, oversees a parish Senatorship by the Jaycees counselling and job placement of Laboratories, in Berkeley, extending from Pritchard through Organization during a recent women, native peoples, the California.... Based in Ottawa, but Chase and AdamsLake to Celista ceremony in the Vancouver disabled and ethnic minorities.In doing work with an international and Sorrento. Brock lives with his suburb of Richmond. Russ lives in the past, Leigh has worked asa flavor, is Margaret Catley- wife, Sharon, BSN79, and their neighboring Surrey... .Two Human Rights Officer for the B.C. Carlson, BA66, who has been infant daughter in versatile writer-performers and NovaScotia governments, appointed president of the

Canadian International """I"". ..,, . *"P" "" __","""""""""~" Development Agency, effective Sept. 1,1983. She has been x: assistant secretary-generalof the United Nations, and deputy executive director (operations)for UNICEF since 1981 ....As well as working in Inpatient Child ..,.#1.. Psychiatry at B.C. Children's Hospital, Sophia M.R. Leung, MSW66, also serveson the boards of a numberof civic and Name: Degree: community service agencies, including the Vancouver Address: Year: Community Arts Council, Arts, Sciences and Technology Centre, the Dr. SunYat-sen Garden How are you doing?Is there a new job, a marriage, abirth, or any other newsYOU Society, the Junior League and the feel mightbe of interest to yourformer classmates? Use the spacebelow to share Immigrant Resources Project. your news: Sophia has published one book, Discover China, and is working on two others... .Educational administrator David MacKinlay, BSc'67, MEd'74, has assumed the position of director of instruction for B.C. School District 56. He continues to work toward his doctorate through Seattle University.. ..The youngestchief of staff ever at Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, California.is Clip this form andmail it to: Alumni UBC Chronicle Dr. Gordon M. Lillie, MD'68 The largest hospitalin San Diego 6251 Cecil Green Road, County, Grossmont has400 bFds University of British Columbia, and mnre than800 Vancouver, B.C. physicians. .. .Having completed V6T 1W5 his MD at the Universityof Antwerp, Belgium, Reginald G. Orchard, BSc'68, MSc'70, is now Help us keep in touch with you! Voluntary subscriptions to the Chronicle are doing his internshipin appreciated: $10 a year inCanada, $15 elsewhere, student subscriptions$2. Edmonton. .. .Larry Millar, BCom'69, has been appointed E 1"""" 3" """""""""_ """""",""l ChroniclelFall 1983 13 and asAlherta and Northwest Award for non-fiction for his 1983 ...Mary Patricia Olson, Territories regional dlrector of the book, Lou~sbo~rr,yPorfrnrts: [-f~ III RMu<’7h (h?A,Wa\hlngton), to federal Human Rights nrr Eiphtertrth Crrrtur.y Garrrson Paul William Alexander Mitchell Commission.. . .Barbara Apperley. Tuum. Christopher grew upin (RMus,Wcstern Washlngton), on BHE’75, divides her time between Nelson, though he now lives in J.lnuary li, IYSi In caring for her two children and Ontario. His father, Vincent, is Vanr~~uver ..ReginaldG. serving as president of the the authorof Angelo Branca’s Orchard, RSc’hX, MSr’70 (MI), Adoptive Parents Association of biography, Glndmtor of rhr Cotu&, to Antwcrp), Elisabeth Stanley Trrmaine Arkley,BA25, British Columbia ....Several UBC publishrd a few yearsago. Hollenweger ut 5witlcrland. I.LD’7h. June 1983. Stan was a alumnl are working for the hlarrh, 1483 In tireless supporter of the Calgary School Board‘s I;Jmont[ln ....Darrell E. Rea, uniwrsity, donating rarehooks to coordinated rehabilitation and HSc’74. DMD’79, t(> Susan R. the hhrary, and helping to found education program for Brian, RC.(lm’7Y, In V.lncouvrr. the Frirnds of URC, an American handicapped children in southern alumni fund raislng organi7ation. Alberta. They are Susan Crossley, He wa~;vlrc-prewdmt of the BA’75, MSc‘77, Mary Rutherford, Frirnds of URC’dt the timc of his BSc’78, BSRR2, Sharon death. He was granted an Henderson, BA’RI, Louise honorary degreeIn Lihraw Novinger, BEd’82, and Ann Scienl-c In 1976. the Stanley Fonyth, Dip Ed Hearing and T. Arkley Scholarship in Impaired’R2, (BEd McGill), and Librarlanship was establichedin Kathy Whittaker, who, while not his honor. Heis survived bysons an alumna, studied underDr. Bernard Aheme, BA’h7, and Alfred of Rochester, Ill., Richard R.F. Jarman of UBC for her Eroca Shah(b. Ann Baal), HA’65 of Seattle, and S. Tremaine Arklev thesis.. . .Armstrong, B.C., (MA, SFU). a ddughter, Jr. of Independence, Ore., resident Jane Evans, BA76, Christahel Sidnev, Auguqt 11, daughter Allegra of Attinson, MA’78, has been electedvice- 1982 In Mlssion, KC.. .John Mass., his brother, Heileman0. president of the NationalAction Charles Bell HA’hl. MA’77, and (Jack) Arklev of Vancouver, B.C., Committee on the Statusof Tiiu Jennifrr ReII. BFrl’hh. a son, and wven grandchildren. Women. Janeis also a member of Stephm 1 Imothv John, March li, the Armstrong Centre Advisory 1982 in V,inrouvcr . Brian A. Stephen Taylor Bowell,BASc’46, Committee for Okanagan Bruser, RSc’70, I t.8’74, and Februan, 1983 in Cleveland, Ohio. College.. ..WinfredLiem, BSc’76, Deborah C. Tate Bruser, BA’72, A long-hme emplovee of the SCM has set up his ownbusiness, WJ MI 5’78. A daughter, Emilv conglomerate, he served most Automation Bid Service, which Catherinv’l,lte, lanuarv 77, 1983 rertvltlv as research dlrector in the provides computer-aided Leanne Ernhree in Smithcrs. a sistrr to Consumrr Pant D~vls~onof estimating for small building Retwcca ..Jack Burgar, BEd’72 SCM’s Gliddtm Corporation. contractors. He is also working (MEd. Western Washinpn), and Survrved by wife Betty, Lions towards a graduate education Colleen Giddings,BEd’81, Kathleen Burgar, a wn, Matthrw Stephen Michael of Burnah? and degree at SimonFraser headed the choraldiv~s~on at the Alexandcr, Auqust 27, 19x2. ,I JrffrwTavlor of Westpant, New University., .Shona Ann Moore, Kamloops-Interior Summer brother to Alvson ...Susan Clark, York, and granddaughterKate BA’76, LLB’79, was recently School of Music this summer. BSc(Pharm)’73, md Phil Fliraheth. appointed vice chairman of the Other instructors there were McOrmnnd. BSc(Pharm)’73, Dr. Stuart Donald Cavers,BASc Labour Relations Board of Gerald King, BMu4’75, and Grant MSc’75, J d,?ughtcr, Aprll 16. (Chemical Engmeering)’42. B.C ....1983is proving tobea Fuergutz, BMus’80, ....Leanne 1983 ...Ariel L. Anderson MASc‘46, (PhD, Calterh’51), May hectic year in the life of multi- Embree, BSc(Pharm)’R3, was Eastman, RFd’71, and Barry W.R. 1983. Dr. Cavers taught atUBC talented Nicola Cavendish, awarded a Parke-Daws Pharmacy Eastman. BSc’h8. a son, Barrrtt from 1956 until his death. The BA’77. As well as appearingin Research Award Fellowshrp Spenccr Hynes, Drcemher 111, author or co-author of nearly 50 three leading roles at the Shaw worth $2000 by Warner-Lamber 19x2 in Vancou\.cr . David E. research papers, his students Festival at Niagra-on-the-Lake, Canada, Inc.. ..DouglasJ. Morris, Esau. BASc’73, and Arlene M. were of malor interest to him,and Nicola is also contracted to stagea BCom’RO, has recently moved to Bird Esau, RHE’73, a daughter, he wrotea number of papers on National Arts Centre production Port McNeill, 6.C , where he Lauren Fl~/abcth,Ala? 11, 1YX3, their employment prospects. He of “North Shore Live,” a play works asa real estate appraiser. in Vancowcr..Carolyn is survived hy his wife Geraldine, which she co-wrote. Later this Gundrum, BEd’71, and Stefan and four children. In his memory year, the production will tour Siarkiewicz. a daughter, a scholarship fund has been Canada and theU.S .... Corporate, Stephanie Morgan, March 16, established. Donations wouldbe government, and project finance 1983 in Krl(~wna,n srster to welcome to the Stuart D. Cavers specialist Christopher Jurczynski, Christophrr ..Laura Turecki Memorial Scholarship Fund, BSc’77, has joined the corporate Hansen, HA’77, and Colin Unlverslty of British Columbia, finance departmentof Pitfield Hansen (HA, UVic), a son, Ross 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, Mackay Ross in Toronto.... Gary Stuart, Mav 10, B.C. V6T 124. Brookfield, BSc’78, MSc‘81, is a 1983.... ChristopherT. Hatfield, Alexander Drdul, BA‘49, June, guideldemonstrator at the Arts, BSc’h7 (MSc, Qucens), and Nancy 1983 In Cinclnnatl, Ohio. An IBM Sciences and Technology Centre Jill Newby, BA’h7, MA’69, a ,on, executlve workingout of Toronto, on Granville Street in Matthew Alexander, September he is survived bv hls wife Vancouver.. ..After four years 1, 1982in Vancouver ...Kathy t.orralnc, and sons Richard, Linda D. Falls, BMus‘h9, with a travelling theatre company Johnson Jonker, BSc‘79, and Jan Douglas and Jeffrey. in England, Eric Epstein, BA78, MMus’72, to Dr. Craig Nelson Jonker. \on, Richard Willrm, returned to Vancouver last Markle (BMus’73. MD’76, Aprll4. 1987. .Karel A.J. Jonker, William Edward Dunbar, summer. As artistic director of the Calgarv), on May 21, 1983 in BA’72, and Karen Farstad fonker, BA’49,RCom’.19, May 1983 in Vancouver ShakespeareFestival, Vancouver ...Robert Gilbert, BEd’73, a wn, Christlnn hf1ch.1~~1, North Vancouver. A fwmer Big he isnow helping stage under- BASc (Elcctrical)’71 to K.E. Decfmher 18. 1982. rn lorclnto, a Block member, he is survlvrd by the-stars productionsof Much Ado Martin, (BA76, brothtv to Frik ... Michael I. mothrr Della. wife Shirlev, son About Nothirrp. Othdlo, and A Queens).. .Sandra MacPhail, OConnor, LLB’7.1, and Karin Donald. daughters Anne, Jane M~dsummerNrght‘s Dream .... Gary BSc’RO, to Eric Fry, on May 14, Dianna Hartwig O’Connor, a and Fll/abeth, granddaughter Lopaschuck. BSc’78, MSc’RO, 1983 in West Vancouvcr ...Tracy daughter, I.aurd Geraldine Kimhtdev, brother lim, and slster PhD8.3, has bren in Hershy, A. Moore. BCom’7h (CA’79), t(~ Rwn,l&ttc. I)cct%mhrr 17, 19x7 in Della. Pennsylvania, conducting heart Sandra K. Beran (BFd, Oregon Vlctorla a \ister to Sean Julian Harrison,BSc’77, MD’79, research on behalf of the St., MEd. Portland St.), on March Dantrl ...R. (Bob) Paterson. April 19x3 in California. An avid Canadian Heart 5, 1983 in Portland, BCom’h8, MBA’hY. ((.A,AIIC), outdoorsman and former Foundation.. . .After only three Oregon ....Michael F. Gleeson, and \an Paterson. REd’70, a presldent of the Varslty Outdoors years in thereal estate business, BSc(AgrY77 to Cynthia Anne daughtrr, Susan Margarrt, Club, he was at the timeot hls Michael Chang, BCom‘79, has Accristo of Buffah N.Y , at Cecil Novcmbrr 29, 1982. in Hurnahv, a death engaged in cancer research become the top housing salesman Green Park, Vancouver, on June sister to Scott and at the Unlwrsityof California at among Block Brothers Realty’s 11. 19x3. ..Douglas 1. Morris, Stephanie.... Shirley Pitt, BA’HI Berkelev. Survived hv father 2,000 agents. Michael lives in the BCom‘RO. to Wendy Joy Hine,on and Richard Pitt, a son, Mav Y, Lionel of Vancouver, wife Mary of Kerrisdale district of December 11,1982, in North 1983, in Vlctoria. ..Denis Salter, Gibsons Lalding, grandparents Vancouver ... .Christopher Moore, Vancouver., ..Don Nilson, BA’70, and Susan Still,MSc’71, a Eugenla and George Stoneof BA’77, has been awarded the BCom’76, to Alison Mordell of son, Nicholas Alexander Wllliam, Vancouver, and one grandparent Governor-General’s Literary Montreal, on June 11, Februan, 19, 1983 rn Calgarv. in England. 14 ChronicIelFall1983 Enid Stewart (Wyness) Harvey, daughter Mrs William E BA’32. MSW’50. June 1983 rn (Shirley) Dunbar,son Donald Vancouver After a distingutshed Gordon MacLeod. grandchildren career in social work In varlous Don. Anne. Jane andElizabeth Canadian cities, she wasmarried Dunbm jrnnifer MacLeod. Mrs. five years agoto William H Kathy Thurlow, and great Harvey In Vancouver. She was granddaughter Kimberlev active in organizing theClass of Dunbar. ‘32 reunion last year and was also H. Janette Mayers. BEd’62, secretary of the AlumniSocial August 1982 Work Division Among her Roger Pedersen, BA‘61, May 1983 accomplishments were 12 years as in Vancouver. A native of director of social service in the Vancouver, he taught at Kitsilano Divlslon of Tuberculosis Control Secondary School for almost 20 of British Columbia, and vears Survived by wife Joan. son appointment as fmt director of Douglas. brother Edmund and Ottawa Clvic Hospital’s social sister Elednor Gornall, and by a servtce department Survived bv number d nieces and nephews. husband, William H Harvey, and Walter Donald MacKinnon Sage, sister and brother-in-law, Eleanor BA’4O. Mav 1983 In Point Roberts, and Robert F. Binnle. Washington. He served wlth the Robert H. Jones, BA’47, Seaforth Highlandersof Canada November 1982. and had a long and distinguished Edward R. (Ned) Larsen, RA‘4X. teachlng career in Vancouver. April 1983 He joined the staff of Survived by wife Elsie, children Shawnigan Lake School shortly Daniel, Donnetta, Elspeth and after graduation, and was Surannr, slster Margaret, and appointed headmaster in 1958. He three grandchildren. founded the Federationof Charles Morin Senay,BSc’48, Independent SchoolsAssociations April 1987 Followng hls of B.C , edlted the Canadian retlremrnt from teaching, he Independent Schools Journal, and contlnut~dto serve hls community represented Canada in squash as ,I member of both the Rotary and field hockey. In july 1982. he Club ,Ind the Grand Forks (B.C.) assumed the positionof head of District Council. Survived by his development for the Roydl wlfe, Kathleen, a son Wllliam, Museum of Ontario Survived bv and three daughters,Sheila wife Patrlcia of Oakvllle, Ont., (BA’78). Phvllis (BPE‘79), and son Thomas and daughterBrenda Charlotte of Toronto. and daughter Clndv E. Harold Tull. BASc’33 (MASc. of Vancouver. Wr

Four decades of outthe autumn and the spring, army,but set student patriotism youth gone by... the roads in and around the cam- back by about three weeks. continued from page 9 puswere dotted with ragged groups of army, navy or air force morningswere kept emotionally officer-cadets whowere route- pure. Since these labs were about marching their way into military Even the briefest set of remin- the only academic occasions when preparedness. iscencesabout the UBC of four a freshman could get a real educa- When the winter rains arrived, decades ago should include some- tionby talking to a freshette, a we would be paraded into lecture thingabout the transportation generaltone of depravityper- halls to be given spell-binding lec- problems that had to be faced in vaded those two and a half hour tureson militarysubjects deliv- thatera. 1943,In gaswas sessions when we were supposed ered by our officers. A major from rationed, so only the richest stu- tobetracking down chemical the Classics Departmentwould dents drove cars. The poorer stu- unknowns or learning aboutaccel- recountthe history of the Bren dents, and mostof the faculty, got eration by means of Fletcher’s Gun, captaina from sociology tothe campus via thestreetcar Trolley. would go on and on aboutmilitary andbus system operated by security,perhaps without realiz- Hydro’s ancestor, the B.C. Electric ingthat the raunchiest members Railway Company. In 1943, Tenth of his audience were taking every- Avenueboasted only a single Perhaps the chief difference thing he said about security as a streetcar line that climbed the hill between being aUBC student dur- double entendre. from Alma to Sasamat, turned the ing the war years and at any other But theundoubted high-point cornerand travelled northto time is that in addition to carrying of these militarylectures took somewhereabout Fifth.Since a full load of labs and classes (in place in Aggie 100 when Captain what had come up on the single 1943 the part-time student had not Osborne (later to become head of trackcouldn’t go back down if yet been invented), the male stu- physical education at UBC) dem- something else was coming up, a dentshad to spend six hoursa onstratedthe dangers of sloppy sophisticatedsystem of baton- week in military training. Three of gunmanship unexpectedlyby passingbetween motormen was thesehours were scheduled for firing off ablank .303 cartridge, Saturday afternoon, and through- theboom of whicharoused the continued next page ChroniclelFulI 1983 15 - required to keepthings untan- gled. At Sasamat, those heading out to the campus lined up patiently onthe northwest corner to wait for one of thetwo ancient, red, slug-like buses that shuttled end- lessly back and forth between the campusandtheTenth and Sasamatcorner. (The streetcar fare at that time was seven cents; the bus ride to the campus cost an extranickel.) During peak peri- ods, such as before an 8:30 a.m. class,the buses had to be really packed. In order not to leave anx- iousstudents standing on the sidewalk,the two regular bus drivers (I can still see their faces, -

Vards and then slamming on the I brakesin order to getthe reluctant my rib crushingyour elbow?" homes wereheated by furnaces standees to move to the back of In mymemory, those early burning coal orsawdust. In any the bus. Many long-lastingcam- morningtrips to UBC all seem to case, fog seems to bethe perfect pus romances andfriendships have taken place inthe fog. Per- metaphorthrough which I can began whenone of thestandees haps Vancouver really was foggier look back to beinga UBC fresh- politely inquired of another: "Is thosein days, when most city man 40 yearsago. k Norman MacKenzie restored It is vitally important to the under Dr. Pedersen would be individuals and community future of our province that strong greatly enhancedby such a centre. organizations. ' The houseis links be forged between our "Dr. Pedersen has agreed to live expected to be ready September1, community andour University, in the house," UBC Board of and to be available for entertaining says UBC Chancellor J.V. Clyne. Governors ChairmanDavid October 1. For this reason, theUBC Board McLean said, "on the The houseis located in a of Governors, at its meeting in understanding that the amountof magnificent setting on threeacres February of this year, decided to money spent on renovationswill overlooking Howe Sound on restore Norman MacKenzie House be the minimum requiredto make Northwest Marine Drive, adjacent and complete renovations to it habitable and thatit will be used to the Museumof Anthropology. enable UBC President George as a 'town-gown' centre for The house, built in the late1940s, Pedersen to move into the house. ensuring that theUniversity has was used first by Dr. Norman The Alumni Association executive close contacts anda good MacKenzie, and by successive feels community involvement relationship with a wide range of contitlued ut1 paXe 18

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American Exmess ComDanv is the owner of the marks belnn used bv Amerlcan Express Canada, Inc. t Underwrttten by Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. restored ... continued from page 16 This presidents of the University until 1974 when President Walter Gage graduate elected tolive off campus. On March 3, 1983, the Board of remembered Governors, with the enthusiastic consent of Dr. MacKenzie, UBC unanimously resolved to name the house ’Norman MacKenzie in his will. House’ to honor its first occupant. In light of the current economic conditions, theBoard felt the University should bear onlya nominal partof the cost of the restoration from its budget and that a campaign should be Pr S. Morley Scoff undertaken to raise the balance of RA‘21 the fundsfrom interested donors. In order to demonstrate its commitment to this opportunity for closer tiesbetween URC and To The University of British Columbia the sum of the community, theURC Alumni Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars in Association has pledged its recognition of two “Returned Soldier support. Donations payable over Scholarships” granted me in the year A. D. 1920 five years are being solicited.All and 1921; such bequest likewiseto be devoted donations aretax deductible and exclusively to the charitable activities of this cheques shouldbe made payable University within British Columbia... . to “The University of British Columbia” and sent to the Alumni Office, marked “Norman When the late Dr. S. Morley Scott remembered UBC in his MacKenzie House.” U will, he made a personal commitment to the welfare of future by Chronicle staff generations. Like many UBC graduates, he recognized higher education as a vital means for the material and spiritual advancement of mankind. Reunions Dr. Scott graduated from UBC with First Class Honours in Class of ‘38 - 45th anniversary Latin and History in 1921. Following further studies at Toronto, Reunion Dinner Oxford, and Michigan, he had a long and distinguished career Friday, October 21, 1983 Ballroom, Faculty Club both as an academic and as a diplomat and ambassador. No Host Bar - 7 p.m. Although his professional endeavours took him far from Dinner - 8:30 p.m. Vancouver to points as distant as Germany and Pakistan, Dr. Tickets $2l/person Scott never forgot the contribution which UBC had made to his available from: life and the lives of his family. Liz Owen 228-3313 Dr. Scott’s brother Gordon had graduated from UBC in 1919. Their father, Snowdon Dunn Scott, was a UBC Class of ’58 - 25th anniversary Reunion DinnerIDance “Founding Father.” Family involvement with the University Saturday, October 8, 1983 continues to this day, with representatives of the Scott family Ballroom, to be found in both the UBC faculty and student body. Graduate Student Centre Throughout its history, UBC has benefitted greatly from the No Host Bar - 6:30 p.m. generous bequests of alumni and friends of the University. Dinner - 7:30 p.m. Bequests can take many forms, and can be either unrestricted Dancing - 9:OO p.m. as to use or restricted to specific purposes. Tickets $30/person For more information on how you can help UBC continue in available from: its pursuit of academic excellence, please call or write: Liz Owen 228-3313 News in brief The Universityof British Columbia The Commerce Class of ’78 held a Development Office reunion on June 11, 1983 at the Odys- 6251 Cecil Green Park Road sey Room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel Vancouver V6T W51 in downtownVancouver. The wine (604) 228-331 3 and cheese party was attended by 40 gradsand their guests. 18 ChroniclelFulll983 kstore

The new UBC bookstore, which or as he puts it, "A place where opened for business in June, is people want to be, where they car. decorated in red and sells micro- go for an hour or so if they find computers. themselves with somefree time," It also sells books, of course, Hecontrasts this with the old almost half a million of them, but bookstore,not readily accessible they aren't all textbooks or special- to the general public and "a place izedliterature. There's a large tobe avoided by everybody. It selection of science fiction, general was crowded and grungy." fiction, childrens'literature, and There will be special displays in even humor. It is far bigger than the new bookstore - the first was mostbookstores, with plenty of an exhibit of books.rare browsingroom and aisles wide Hedgecock is alsotrying to enough to handle even the annual arrange book signingsessions crush of students in September. with noted Canadian authors. The new bookstore is out of the Alumniwho recall having to ordinary because bookstore direc- searchthrough monstrous stacks tor John Hedgecock wantedit that of textbooks in the old Armourv wav. Hedgecock sees a .university will be interested tn know that in bookstore as a resource, for both future all textbooks will be sold in the university and the wider com- thebookstore. The flexibility of munity. It not only supplies stu- the new store is such that display dentswith textbooks, but also standscan removedbe and withpens, stationery, stetho- snappedinto place nearthe scopesand dissecting kits, and entrance to create another row of even personal computers. checkstands, just for the Septem T he bookstoreThe alsowas ber rush. designed with thepublic in mind. The statistics of the new book- "We sell the things the private store are impressive: It is the sec- sectordoesn't get into," Hedge- ond largest in Canada in size and cock says. The bookstore's exten- in expected volumeof business ($8 siveselection of currentmaterial million last year). It is expected to helps professionals keep up with sell between 400,000 and 500,000 developments in their fields. And books a year, or 250 tons of books. if the store does'not have a certain It cost about $7 million to build, book, it will order it, without extra and takes up about 55,000 square charge,from anywhere inthe feet on two levels, 35,000 square world. feet of it selling space. Hedgecock "Everyonecan use the book- has 67 full-time people in his store," Hedgecock says. "As (for- employ. mer UBC President Doug) Kenny The store is really seven book- says, we're not a monastery at the stores in one - general, language end of Point Grey. We're a provin- andliterature, arts and humani- cial resource." ties, social andbehavioral sci- To makethe bookstore more ences, health sciences, science and accessibleto the public, Hedge- engineering,professionaland cock foughtto have it centrally (law,education, librarianship, located on UniversityBoulevard, architecture,landscape architec- right beside the bus loop and eas- ture, and social work). ily accessible by car. The store is Hedgecock is proud of the book- currently open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. store, and says he has been pre- Monday to Friday, but Hedgecock paring for it sincehe became hopes the hours can be extended director seven years ago. eventually. "Whenpeople ask me where Hedgecockwants to make the I'm going on holiday I tell them bookstore a campus social centre, I'm not.This is myholiday." 8 "_ ChrnnirleiFnll 198.3 19 Gibson at 50th Reunion ___ "~ I" "_ . - Freedom of thought and public support key to UBC's future

. . . . - - "" "_ " SO years,given space and man- let ourpublic investment be in What changes will the future bring power. The early part of the next excellence! In terms of productiv- to UECZ Dr. William C. Gibson, ity it pays the best returns to soci- BA'33, chairman of the Universities half-century will see, no doubt, a Covncil of BritishColumbia, was life-saving amount of space freed ety. asked to ofer hispredictions at his up by the removal of the sciences Since we were students on this 50th feunion dinner, held at the UBC from John Riddington's"castle" to campus its area has been doubled Faculty Club on Iuly 23, 1983. anew, highly sophisticated Sci- approximatelyto 1,000 acres. Excerpts frorn.his talkfollow: ence Library wherethe original There still remainsundeveloped Agriculture building stood beside an area of 1,700 acres in the the bus stop. There onewill some- misnamed"Endowment Lands." ((As we enter a period where re- day find, I hope, library facilities These once-federal defence lands certification in all professions will for physics, chemistry, mathemat- have become the target of a num- be mandatory, the university will ics anhengineering. The present ber of schemes, but it is the hope find itself offeringgreater and Main Library's upper floor, with of many in our era that they will greaternumbers of professional its high vaulted ceilings, from the be used for three purposes only, update courses, by face-to-face north KayeLamb wingright in perpetuity: a forest park of instruction, or more likely, by sat- throughto the WalterKoerner 7,066 acres south of 16th Avenue; ellite television. Professional up- south wing, will become the Nor- reasonablea reserve for UBC date will be a necessary activity in man MacKenzie Fine Arts Gallery. for unforeseendevelopments in law,forestry, engineering, agri- As the floors inthat entire con- thecenturies ahead, such as Pat culture and in the sciences particu- coursewere never stressed to McGeer'sDiscovery Park; and larly. carry the load presentedby books, publicparks, playing fields and To ensure future financial inde- thegallery, promised to UBC's picnic groundswhich will guard pendence for thought and teach- great post-war president so many the fragile soil conditions north of ing by theirprofessors, many of times, could at last become a real- Chancellor Boulevard. URC's faculties will be seeking to ity. Finally, we will look back in a develop named, endowed chairs. few years upon 7983 as merely the Already Commerce is leading the In the field of athletics UBC will preludeto good things in the waywith half a dwen such. continue to expand its intramural health field. The revolution in the Alumniand other sources are program,already the largest in study of human genetics through hopingtomemorialize one of North America.David Turner, gene-splicing and other new tech- UBC's mostpopular chancellors, Canada's all-time soccer great, niques will find UBC in the fore- the late Allan McGavin, by creat- herewith us tonight, will see a frontas its nascentCentre for ing this year an endowed chair in gradualincrease in on-campus MolecularGenetics getsunder geriatrics.Notsurprisingly a soccer teams to anumber well way. With a nucleus of 30 geneti- group at the other end of the age beyondthe present 105! Teams cists on campus today wecan look spectrum, is hopingto finance a andcrews able to hold up their forwardwith confidence to the SportsMedicine Clinic also in heads in international competition day when the defective gene can memory of ChancellorMcGavin. will still be bringing glory to UBC be isolated and compensated for, An appeal for bothprojects has 50 yearshence. They did this in in some of the great killers, such beenlaunched by theAlumni 1933 whenthe men's basketball as heart disease and cancer, and in Association.Already, in desper- team won the Canadian Champi- some of the most distressing men- onship, and the women's basket- atelycrowded quarters in the tal diseases - schizophreniain JohnnyOwen Field House, a ball team won the world champi- the young and Alzheimer's in the onship. remarkablegroup of physicians, old. physical educationists and rehabil- We are likely to see the develop- Providedthere is freedom of itationpersonnel is seeing 480 ment nf a "system" of universities enquiryas well asprivate and referred injured athletes per week, with high entrance standards, not publicsupport of excellence, the from a11 parts of British Columbia. relying for financing on the "num- next 50 yearsat UBC will be as This "peak of excellence" can only bersgame." If weare entering thrillingto contemplate as were grow in importance over the next upon an era of financial stringency the years 1933 to 1983.9?' 20 ChroniclriFnll 1983 Puhli-hed as a supplement to the UBC Alumni Chronicle by Infor- mationServices, University of B.C.. 632R Memorial Road, Van- couver, B.C. V6T IW5. No. 18, 4utumn. 1983 JimBanham and Lorie Chortyk, editors. An interview with UBC’s New President

Dr. K. George Pedersen became URC‘s eighth president on \uly 1 after a career as a teacher, administrator and scholar at all levels of the B.C. edumtional system. UBC Reports spoke to him in his office in the Old Administration Building early in August, the day before he left to attend meetings of the Awx-iation of the Universities of the British Commonzclealth in Enxland.

UBC REPORTS: You’ve been employees, including unrrwsity tenchars. view, because we have provisions in president of UBC for a month now. On Aug. 4 thegozlernment introduced or? cw-h of thecontracts that apply to Can you describeyour major con- amendment to delete the words ”without employeegroups that allow us to cerns in that time? cause” from the legislation. The efecf of deal wlth the questmnnf financial ex- DR. PEDERSEN: Well, there have other amendments is tflal/o711 public sec- igencv Theone area where we are beentwo. One of them is theon- tor employers and enlplayees to negotiate not totally complete is with facul- going problem of our 7983-84 budget layoff prozlisions in their collective ty. . we haven’t worked out the cri- and even now, one month into the ngrretnents. When UBC Reports zoent teria and procedures thatwill apply if second quarter of the fiscal year, we to press the hill was still awaifinx second a reduction of faculty numbers is haveno clearidea of our financial rmding in the Legislature). nc(.essitated by financial exigency. position.That makes life verydif- Bill 3, if it becomes law in its pre- Rut the fundamental notion that such ficult and makes planning almost im- sentform, will unquestionablygive a reduction can be carried out on the possible. B.C a black eye in the international basis of financial exigency is ac- (On Aug. 9, URC learnrd that its academiccommunity. Most impor- ccpted general purposeoperatinx grant for tant, it will seriously affect our ability And 1 wol~ldbe the last person to 1983-84 would he the same as the grant to attractand retain highquality argue that thr ten~~resystem is free prozJided in 2982-8.3. In addition, no scholarsand teachers. They simplv from abusr. But if that’sa concern, additional funds roil/ be aoailahle in will not risk coming to B.C. if we are the issue becomes how one cleansup 2983-84 for expamion of the UBC the only university jurisdiction in the that act, ‘1s oppnsed to using restraint medical school. Also elinlrnated from the western world that doesn’t grant ten- as the basis for acting on dissatisfac- 1983-84 budget were funds totnlling $7.7 ureand guarantee academic free- tion with the trnure system. million for projects whrchhnzle recrirwf dom. I have cvrltten to the premier ask- special funding in the past). Universities are unique in the sense ing that mcd~ticat~ons be madeto the Thesecond major cnncern is the that they’re charged with developing Iegislatlon prior to its passage. proposed legislation known as Bill 3, newinsights, new understandings, URC REPORTS: You mentioned the Public Sector Restraint Act. Rill 7, newknowledge and ensuring that earlier the problems resulting from in myview, is unfortunate and un- these are communicated to students the fact that we don’t yet know what necessary and will have an Impact on throughclassroom teaching. The our operating budget will be for the the University if the provisionsof the issue of academic freedom focuseson current year. A secondproblem is act are retainedin their present form. whether scholars are completely free that URC continuesreceiveto (Bill 3, in its original form, empozcwed to pursue these activities without fear minimal increasesin its operating public sector rmployers, inrludiny of internal or external interference grant.What options does the universities, to dlsrnrss employeas and restraint. Bill 3 is being perceived University have in the future if we without cause. The hill gave the p77~r17- in other jurisdictions as a denial of continue to get minimal ‘increases? mentthe same authority. This c[arrsr that freedom. rernozjed tenure for a// puhlir SeCfiJr The bill is unnecessary, in my Continued on Page 22

ChronicldFnll 798.3 21 ~~ ~~~~ The new dean of the Faculty of Forestry at UBC is Prof. Robert W. Kennedy, a versatile wood scientist who has combined a university career with rescarch on new wood-based products for industry. Prof. Kennedy became head of the UBC forestry faculty July 1, succeeding Prof. Joseph Cardner, the UEmports facultv’s dean qince 1966. Prof. Kennedy rrceived his Master of Forestry degree from UBC in 1955 and taught at the University of Toronto before returning to B.C. to join the Western Forest Products Laboratory (now called Forintek) at UBC. He joined the URC faculty in 1979 and was recently named head of its Department of Harvesting and Wood Science.

DR.PEDERSEN: Two things come be with us for three tofive years. As I over that time. So there’s no doubt to mind. First, I don’t think univer- understand it, the provincialTreas- thegovernment has some difficult sities cancontinue to take in more ury Roard is notexpecting an im- choicw to makein terms of getting its and more students without increases provvment forat least that period own budget in order. in operatinggrants. I think all the and any improvement in that period AS far as LJBC is concerned,we public universities are going to have is largely dependent on the govern- have to startto do the longer-term to look seriously at puttingsome ment’s ability to get its bill for health planningthat’s necessary to deal kind of limitationson their enrol- services until control. . . with a period of restraintthat is ments. It‘smy understanding, too, that longer than just the short run. So in That doesn’tseem to bother the the majorforest companies in B.C. answer to the question, we may not government too much, if itsview- will not be paying any corporate tax be bigger, indeed we may be smaller. point is reflected by the minister (Dr. for the next three years because they But the question is, can you reduce PatrickMcGeer, provincial minister avc’ tax lossesthey canwrite off size and at the same time maintain of universities).He seems more in- the existing quality of the institution terestedin the quality of students or even build on it? That’s a very dif- NEW TEAM ficult assignment. we’retaking in, rather than the A newteam of vice- number. . .I think that policy has the presidents is assisting Presi- UBC REPORTS:Are you pro- potential to be difficult for the dentGeorge Pedersen in the ceeding on the assumption that the government in the long haul, espe- day-to-dayrunning of the University will get no increase in its cially when it becomes increasingly University. operating grant for the current fiscal evident to moreand more people Thenew vice-president year? thatthey can’t gettheir sons and academic is Prof. Robert H.T. DR. PEDERSEN: Yes, that’smy daughters into university. Smith, who was associate vice- expectation and, indeed, we may be Limiting enrolment is clearly a dif- president academicuntil June faced with a decrease, partly because ficult step for the universities to take, 30.Australian-born Prof. of enrolment shifts within the system but I don’tthink we have much Smith joined UBC in 1975 as and partly because there has been no choice. If we don’t take that position head of theDepartment of money made available in the current we would have to acknowledge that Geography. year for the industrial education pro- we have sufficient funds to continue SucceedingProf. Smith as gram in the Faculty of Education. For to grow without the additional sup- associatevice-president us, that means something in excess portthat’s implied asthe result of academic is Prof. R. Doncaster of $1 million and we will have to take enrolment increases. Russell, a UBC faculty member a hard look at how we deal with that. The second aspect of the question for 24 years and associate dean. Previously, the program was funded is howthe University maintains of the Faculty of Science until by the Ministry of Education. quality of educationand indeed, June 30. Prof. Russell is a The second difficulty we have is a builds on it, at the same time as it’s former head of the Department shortfall of about $1.1 million asa faced withrestraint. There are two of Geophysics and Astronomy result of the faculty salary increases basic ways one can go. and has been a memberof both that were provided last year. At the The first is to say we will all make theBoard of Governors moment, the bulk of that - 75 to 80 across-the-boardcuts over some (7978-81) andtheSenate percent of it - hasbeen accom- period of time and continue to sup- (1967-68). modatedbyappointments that port all areas equally on the earlier Joining UBC on Jan. 1, 1984 haven’t been allowed to go forward. budget base. I have a problem with as vice-president finance will In the time that’s left to us before the that. It’s a neat solution simply to say be Allan Bruce Gellatly of start of the 1983-84 winter session, it that everyone has to take a two- to WaterlooUniversity, who has may be that that’s the only way of five-per-cent cut, or whatever the re- beenthat university‘s vice- dealing with theshortfall. It would quired level of cutback. But in the president finance andopera- normallytake youa whole year of long-run, UBC will not be served tionssince 1970. Hesucceeds planning to deal with a situation like well by that approach. William White, who retiredin that, sn it’s a far-from-ideal situation. So onehas to have time to go J~lly. It’s not clear, either, what will hap- throughthe exercise of knowing Continuing as vice-president pen with some of the special- categorygrants. For example,the where we have strong academic units for University services at UBC medical-schnol expansionmoney of thatcontinue toget supported is Prof. James Kennedy, former . . .where we have units that perhaps director of URC’s Computing some $%plus million has been roiled into the University’s basic operating needimprovement.. .where it Centreand a faculty member would be possibleto reduce the com- grant and the question in our minds since 1966. Also continuing as is: Will a portion of thatbe plement of -people in thoseunits vice-provost for student affairs distributed to the other two univer- without harming themin an academ- is Dr. Neil Risebrough, former sities? ic sense. assistantdean of Applied We’re hard enough strapped with I think it’s important for people to Science anda UBC faculty the 130 students we‘re now taking in realize that the restraint problem is member since 1963. not here just for1983-84. It’s likely to annually in medicineto meet the

22 ChroniclelFall 1983 The provincial government has approved funds for the planning of a $6 million pulp and paper

teachine centre in UBC's Facultv of Apdied1L Science. The Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canadrwill provide $1 million a ;ear for operating costs, plus $i50,000 annually for fellowships for graduate students using the facility. The centre is expected to be operating within two years. Also

under~~ consideration bv the federal eovernment for location in Discoverv Park UBC is a new $13 million national pulp and paper research facility. f~n.?ncial needs there.It would be ter- ribly difficult if thatwere reduced, and while we are going to admit 130 in September,there will beno in- creasein intake because no additional funds have been provided. There is some difference of opinion betweenthe University and the minister (Dr. McGeer) on this matter and his position is that he has given URC enough money to enable it to take in 160 students,which would mean that we had reached theobjec- tive of doublingenrolment in medicine.The Faculty of Medicine has taken the view that it can't do that. UBC REPORTS: What's your feeling about thepresent level of student fees? Are they high enough or wi!l UBC have to take a hard look at that? DR. BEDERSEN: I have a schizo- phrenic view of fees. . .twoviews *I . , ~ ,,<.., ,.+.* .,:.,> . <.LO_" 't I:.: f,-**ll/l/'C thst make some sense to me. \I/< :" , ,$;~,.,,*:',:. .:4 < -":< oyjgrc? t ,I, ".'I*' I' !.:;pv"'5','/ -t ,If ,-.,r.',l qtld ~~<~t~~t~fl~~dthp /flyr.nbirl it7 One is togo ,to the British or ulhich 7,~~:-VII Hp l,fow+ f!l y&!jr[d rt rlv !Ll:wt1 Iclnvd 11' HCWP Sof,;ld nrnr Australian system, where you have Vancotrrrr. ne fees. Under this system there are very demandingstandards for get- years, univerzitk have allnwed the partshave hem ahleto geqw3te ting into university, but once admit- proportipn of thenperating budget among thpir graduates. In part, the ted the students pay nothing and no that's carried by studentsto be universities have to take snve bhme onewho has the capacity for a reducedsubstantially and this has for that . . . wehaven't worked a5 universityeducation is denied the created the expectation among B.C. hard at generating enthusiasm as we opportunity to go. students that their tuitionfees are go- couldand should. And that in nn The other route is that of charging ing to be relatively lower than else- way reflects on the Alumni Assoria- considerably higherfees theto where. So it's difficult for them to ac- tion. . .I'msimply saying that the student. . .considerably higher than cept the idea of substantial increases. University as a whnle has to recog- we now charge. This is based on an I'mof the view that this is some- ni7e the importance of its graduates economic argument which goes like thing the three universities shouldsit and we should probably be doing a this: Thepresent relatively modest down and discuss together and come muchbetter job of ensllringthat level of feesthat students are re- to some agreement on what propor- communication with them is the very quired to pay serves as a subsidy to tion of the budget should be borneby bestwe can do withwhatever re- those of us who can afford topay student fees, ensure that we have an sources we have available. higher fees to send our children to adequate financial aid program so I hope it will be possible for me to university. that good students aren't prevented visit our branchesand also set up i am an example of an individual fromenrolling and ensure that the some kind of program whereby UBC who can obviously pay higher fees to three institutions have the samelevel people,when they're going any- sendmy daughter to university in of tuition fees. where, have an opportunity to meet this province. Ineffect, what I get is a URC REPORTS: This issue of UBC with alumni from this institution. subsidy of the difference between Reports will appear in The Chronicle, Alumni ought to be proud of their whatever level we think would be the the UBC AlumniAssociation's university, ought to be in a positinn right oneto set and the current magazine. How do you see their role where they're anxious to suppnrt it levels. in university affairs? . . .Universitiesdon't always do That latter view, of course,ter- thingsthat thrill all ourgraduates. rorizes a lot of people. The corollary DR. PFDERSEN: First, it's impor- Obviously, there ought to be arl op that has to be in place with that op- tant I make clear that I regardthe portunity for themto let us knotv tion is a very effective aid system to alumni of any universityas a tremen- when we're not doing things as WPII ensure that qualified students aren't dously important asset to the institu- aswe should or if thereare better denied admission on the ground that tion. I've alwayslamented the fact ways to go. theydon't meet the financial re- that in Canada we haven't been able I guess the messageis that the wel- quirements. togenerate the loyalty andstrong We have to recognize that over the support that our American counter- Continued on Page 26 B.C.’s three public universities, the provincial government and the Universities Council of B.C. have agreed to mount a strategic planning project aimed at creating a master plan for the future development of B.C.’s university system. A project management committee of about 20 persons represen- ting UCBC, the universities, the provincial Treasury Board and ministries of education and universities, will oversee the project. UCBC hopes to complete the project by the end of 1984.

. .. 0.FFICIAL ELECTION- NOTICE- Arts festival Notice is hereby given that the election of the Chancellor and of ELEVEN members of the Senateto be elected by the in planning members of Convocation of The University of British Colum- bia will be held on Thursday, March 8, 1984. A UBC committee is puttingthe Candidates eligible to stand for election to the Senate are final touches on a series of events to members of Convocation who are not members of the markNational Universities Week Faculties of the University. Oct. 2-8. As a prelude to NationalUniver- The term of office is three years. The Convocation Senators sitiesWeek, B.C.’s three public will take office on September 1, 1984. The Chancellor will universities have joined together to take office on June 25, 1984. sponsora public ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Sept. 26 Nomination procedures: atwhich the new presidents of 1. All nominations of candidates for the office of Chancellor Simon Fraser University and UBC - must be supported by the identifiablesignatures of Drs. William Saywelland George Pedersen - will be officially installed SEVEN personsentitled to vote in the election of the in office. Chancellor and carry the signature of thenominee in- A highlight of NationalUniver- dicating willingness to run for election. sities Week on the UBC campus will 2. All nominations of candidatesfor membership in the be a Festival of the Arts, which will Senate must be supported by the identifiable signatures of includeanart exhibit, theatrical, dance and musical performances as THREEpersons entitled to vote in the election of the well as other displays and exhibits. Senate. Otherevents being planned in- Nominations for these offices must be in the hands of the Registrar clude athletic competitions involving no later than 4:OO p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2983. teams from the three public univer- sitiesand seriesa of lecturesin In accordance with the University Act, an election register has downtown Vancouver. been prepared showing the names and known addresses of National Universities Week at UBC all members of the Convocation who are entitled to vote at an will windup on Oct. 8 whenDr. electionand the register is open for inspection at all Pedersenaddresses the Vancouver reasonable hours by all members entitled to vote. Institute,Saturday-nighta lecture groupwhich has been meeting at K.G. Young, UBC since 1916. Registrar, Dr.Pedersen will speakat 8:15 The University of British Columbia, p.m. in Lecture Hall 2 of the Wood- 204 - 2075 Wesbrook Mall, wardInstructional Resources Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Building onthe campus. His topic V6T 122. will be“Education Under Seige: AcademicFreedom and the Cult of List of those currently holding office in the1981-84 Efficiency.” three-year term: Dr. Pedersen, who is co-chairman of thenational committee planning Chancellor the cross-country event, said the pur- The Honourable J.V. Clyne, C.C., K.G.St.J., B.A. pose of National Universities Weekis Senate (listed in alphabetical order) to demonstrate the essential role of William Henry Birmingham, B.A., B.Arch. universities in regional and national development,focus public opinion Mary F. Bishop, B.A., M.A. on the value of university teaching, Grant D. Burnyeat, LL.B. scholarship, research and public ser- Patricia Macrae Fulton, B.A., Dipl.Soc.Work vice activities andtoemphasize William Mawhinney Keenlyside, B. A., A.M., Ph.D. universitycontributions tothe Anne Elizabeth MacDonald, B.A. economy. Elaine McAndrew, B.H.E., M.B.A. Alumni who want further informa- James F. McWilliams, B.S.F., M.A. tionabout campus and off-campus Ruth E. Robinson, B.S.N., M.A. eventsassociated with National Charlotte L.V. Warren, B.Com. Universities Week should call UBC’s G. Vernon Wellburn, B.A.Sc. Department of Information Services, 228-3131, for details.

24 ChronicielFaZZ 1983 Kananginak presents “The Loon and the Fish”

K World renowned Eskimo artist, Kananginak, photo- Each specially commissioned print measures graphed with his latest work at Cape Dorset, North- 19%”x 26” and is reproduced on fine art paper to the west Territories, is one of seven famous Canadian highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. artists whose work is now available in a special edition. These works are not available in any other form. An exclusive arrangement between the West Baffin The Mintmark Edition is the only edition. Each print Eskimo Cooperative and the Mintmark Press enables comes to you with Mintmark Press’s guarantee: you for the first time to have the work of a famous if not completely delighted with your acquisition, Eskimo artist at a popular price. your money will be cheerfully refunded. Beautiful graphics from the following artists are also available:

A Kenojuak B Pudlo C Kananginak D Pitseolak E Pitseolak F Lucy I Lucy

This mark, which appears on each print along with the This is the seal of Mintmark Press, a Canadian nstonecutter’s “chop” mark and the artist’s own symbol, fmspecializing in the high-quality reproduction is the official emblem of the West Baffin Eskimo of fine art. Mintmark Press has exclusive rights Cooperative, Cape Dorset, northwest Territories. to reproduce specially-commissioned prints by members of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative.

Please send me the following Cape Dorset print reproductions at $19.95 each or $75.00 for any four, plus $4.85 for handling and shipping. Ontario residents add 7% sales tax. Indicate quantities:Indicate A B C D E F G H IK Cheque or money order to Alumni Media enclosed: Charge to myMaster Charge, Visa or AmericanExpress Account No. I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I Street Apt. Expiry Date: Expiry Name Apt. Street City Prov.Signature P. Code Alumni Media, 124 Ava Rd., Toronto, Ontario M6C 1W1 The first clinic in B.C to focusexclusively on problems related to high blood pressure 15 IIUW operating in the acute care unit of the Health Sciences Centre on the UBC campus. A team of health professionals led by UBC pharmacologist Dr. James Wright now treats more than 80 pdtlrllt5 dnd hopes to increase that number to two or three hundred.

Continued from Page 23 is constantly alert to ways in whichit can improve. tare of a unlvelslty is dependent on a \\..hole variety of collective groups, Any outstanding I’mnot sure we in Canadaha\c dltd that certady includes the alum- always understood thatas well ds 11 e institution is should.There’s an dttltude whlch iu Ihey have d lot of oyportunlty to lllt’luence the piacein a variety of constantly alert says, ”Well, we do qulte well.” But unfortunately, we don’t have 111 thls \\‘clys - they elect people to Senate to ways it can dltd are appolnted or elected to the countryuniversitya thdt Cdn bt* hard. But thenumber of people improve. described as truly internatlonal. We don’t have the equivalent of an Ox- \\ ho canparticipate in that way is - Imlted and whdt is critically impor- ford, Cambridge, Harvard, htdnturd, Chicago type of instltutlolk any. tdllt is to give every support possible and appropriate to work hard and to the Alunuti Association in its ef- dothings extremelywell. Those where. tort3 to strengthen its branches to a thingshave stood me in tremen- I’m sure the Univrrslty ut Iwontv wouldn‘t agree with that and1 kllolv p1111t where there’s more active in- dously good stead. it hasunits within it thatare out- \ ~JILt-lneltt altd good communication Related to that was theexperience I standing. . .so does th~sullivclslty \\ It11 the Li~uvers~ty. had at the University of ChlCdgo. I But I think it’s better to be realist~c 1 don’t say all these things just to had the privilege of attending three ensurethat we get fiscal support good universities - thisone, the about your situation and see it you trollt our alumni.. .obviously that’s University of Washingtonand can’t become better. If I have a wlsh of any kind durq my five years ab lntportantand 1 wouldn’twant to Chicago, but I have to say that the president of UBC,it wvuld be thdt Il~ilumueit. But trom mypoint of latter had the greater mpact on mein v~ewit‘s more mlportantthat we terms of the need to excel academi- when I’ve finished that term people have the moral support of our grad- cally.After twohours atChicago I would be able to say that UBC is d better place acadellucdlly than It WdS udtes . . . thdt they be in a positlon wasn’t sureI was in the right place in when came into the job. thatwhen thlngs aren‘t guirlg the the senseof knowing whetherI could I wdy the University thinksthey handle the program academically. UBC REPORTS: You Mt ywmrlf a should, they’re prepared tospeak up I had exactly the same experience rather punishingphysical pace ds dndsuggest to elected representa- when I was hired back by Chicago as president. You’re usually at your tlves and others thatit is important to a faculty member. I had the feeling desk about 7 a.m., are you not? support our universities well. that it wasa place thatwas more DR. PEDERSEN: Yes, I’m ~nclined demandingthan I wascapable of to come to work early because I’m REPORTS: Do you have UBC handling. However, I survived both one of those people who, fortunately some general philosophy of higher or unfortunately, doesn‘t need a lot education that underlies yourac- as a graduate student and a faculty member redsonably well andcame of sleep. . .five hours is usually suffi- tivities as anacademic and presi- away with theview that academic ex- cient for me. I start about seven and dent? cellence, while a trite term, is really my wife and I usually have a fairly DR. PEDERSEN: As I reflect on very meaningful to me. demanding social schedule,which the things that have influenced me means there is usually something on over the years, there are a couple that Chicago set out to do high-quality in the evening as well, often seven come to mind. Oneis something that research andhigh-quality graduate nights a week. 1 didn’t realize untilfairly recently, education,which are closely inter- I guess it‘s a question of how you butprobably shouldhave much related,and they have managed to makegains.. .I regard myself ds earher. It really hasto do with my retain that over the years.As a result, reasonably open, which means that parents, who came to this countryds Chicago hashad a marvellous and mostpeople who want to see me mlrugrants and started out in a very quite overwhelming impact on peo- have the opportunity to do so. Mail modest way. They did two things - plewho have gone into higher and otheroffice duties I do in the edr- they worked very hard and felt that education. The fact that some 59 of ly morning, on weekends, whenever when you did something you did it their faculty members have received I can, so I have as much opportunity as well as you possibly could. the NobelPrize over 25-30 years aspossible tointerxt, nut vnly 1 guess thoseare fundamental reflects the quality of that institution, within the organization, but outslde premises I’ve operated on for a long Now I don’t want to give the im- as well. tlrne wlthout thinking it through very pressionthat I thinkwe can turn I’ve alwaysoperated this way. cledrly. It’s ilnportant to recognLe in UBC into the University of Chicago. evenwhen I wasan elernrlltdIy ally university thdt the success of the We couldn’tand shouldn’t. But I school principal. 1‘11 probably be in lllstltution will largely depend on its thmk that as an instltution we have clined, however,to take vdcdt~olts \muus groups of employees being to be constantly alert to two things - morefrequently than in the pdst .I ,\lliillg tu do both of those things. I we hdve to be alert to our strengths think you can only go so lung dt that thmk it essent~dlthat every faculty and ensure that those are well sup- kind of pace and then yuu dohate to Il,tlltber,every support-stdff pwted altd secondly, where we have take a break. I just tmshed fuur days rl.ielnber andeveryone else inddeyudcles, we have to search for of fishing, which is the flrst tlnw 117 dssG

Batnfield Marine Station overlooks the lower reaches of Barkley Sound on Vancouver Island. A bit of UBC on BC's Outer Coast

A little bit of UBC is located at the universities in B.C. and the Univer- 150 marine field stations wherescien- tiny fishingvillage of Bamfield on the sities of Calgary and Alberta. tistscould doresearch," Dr. westcoast of VancouverIsland on According to Bamfield director Dr. Foreman said. "Of that number only the south side of Barkley Sound. Ron Foreman, a member of UBC's two had a greater variety of habitats Eleven years after its founding in zoology department, the station has for study than we. We have tremen- 1972, the Bamfield MarineStation excellent potential to become an in- dously rich flora andfauna, and hasestablished itself asa premier ternationally recognized facility if the more than half the species known to centre for research and teaching on memberuniversities and the two occurin B.C. andWashington are marine biology in North America. provincial governments want togo in found near the station." Ownedand operated by the that direction. The initial goals of the station have WesternCanadian Universities He said that many marinefield sta- beenachieved: it hasestablished a MarineBiological Society tions have failed because their sites base for undergraduate and graduate (WCUMBS), thestation is theonly were encroached upon by urbaniza- teaching and it provides facilities for marinelaboratory operated by tion or spoiled by pollution.The research. Eight university courses are universities in Western Canada and remote location of the Bamfield site taught during the summer and more theonly facility operated by the andthe environmentally protected than 100 researchers use the station government or universities onthe adjacent area assure a long-term, eachyear. In additionto credit outer coast betweenOregon and relatively unpollutedenvironment courses, the station runs a variety of Alaska. for scientific work. educational field trips in the fall and Participatinguniversities in "A recentstudy by the Interna- WCUMBS arethethree public tional Seaweed Societylisted about Continued on Page 28

ChronicleiFall 1983 27 Vanc~ruverIaivyer Uavld L A Mcl.~,~~~,a graduate of the Unlversity ot Alberta and a former lecturer 111 the UBC Iar\-faculty, has been elected chairman ot UBC's Board r;f Governors tor 1Y83 84. He took up h~sclutk'h ah bo'ird ch'alrmarl 011 Sept. 1, succredq Dr Leslie l'ete1wn, Q C. chairman tor the

spring for groups rangingin age from Dr. Foreman, "and WCUMBb IS cur- problems.Industry representatives elementary school children to adults. rentlyrevlewing theoytluns tor have recognized for some years that 'The present value of land and tuture development ot the facrllty manyenvironmental problems are facilities is about $12 mllhon and the "'l'hesteadily increaslng demand not going to be solvedwithout an annualoperating budget is about for exlsting laboratory Space arld dc- improvement in our basic knowledge $850,000. Last year,the Devonian cornmudation is credtlng pressure for of physiological mechanisms. Group of Charitable boundations of further expansmn and we are careful^ The station is internationally Alberta and the Alberta government ly considering the tuture rolr of the known for itsresearch on primitive fundeda new library andvisitors' station in terms uf the tive \vest cmst flsh - anlmak with incompleteor lobby at the station and the purchase unlversities, as well dh to CdIlddd and partlal backbones.Studying primi- of newa 13-metreresearch and intcl natlonally. Whk 111 part a tlve fish provideswindowa of teaching vessel, the MIV Aka. phhsophicaldecwon, any future understanding into how animals, in- Thestation has nu research pro- development must bc basedun cluding humans, evolved. grams of its own, upeldtlng as d ser- sound forecasts and plannlng " l'he station's first international vice facility for rescdrchersfrom Oneapproach currently under symposium - planned for 1985 - Canada, the United 5tates and other review IS to establish a be1111 wdl he on recent advances in the countries.Accommodation, labora- autonomduscentre for research on blolugy of primitivefish, the first tory space and equipment, technical marine toxicologj. and rr~v~rc~nrncntalsuch gathering since aNobel meeting support and boat and diving support physiology.Encouragement fur thls In Sweden 16 years ago. areorganized for researchers re- has come from several oil cvmpanies Other areas of research include fish questing space. "The station is now who would like tcr stv an increase 111 physiology -- thestudy of how operating at or near capacity," says basic research on pc,troleuni-related ~)rgmsin fish function - and marine Recent apppointments approved by the Board of Governors are I'rof. 1-revor Heaver a3 director ot the Centre For Transportation Studies; Prof. Leurge McWhlrter as head ot Creative Wrltlng, Dr. Krlshnd Srivastdva as head of Electrical Enginwring: I'tot lior1,lld M

Busy labs at Barnfield Marine Station provide facilities for director of the Barnfteld station, v~sitsUBC's Pro!. Nomall student teaching (fur left, opposite page) and for researchers Wilimovsky, who studies infertidal fish and murine l~fe like UBC's Dr. john Gosline (right, opposite page), who populations on propcrty he owns on u srtrull tsluttd in Barkley studies squid locomotion. Above, Dr. Ron Foreman, right, Sound near Barnfield. plants. UBC researchers are involved in muchthe same way that aerial botany colleague Dr. 1I.E. DeWreede in such diverse studies as intertidal photographsare used in the forest and Dr. J.N.C. Whyte of the federal fishpopulations, therespiratory industrytoestimate total wood Department of Fisheries dnd Oceans physiology of fish, squid locomotion volume in a forest stand. undertook a detailed analysls of the chemical substances found in varlous and the chemical ecology of marine Hehas completed an extensive invertebrates. species of red algae.5ome of the study of one of the two major kelp Dr. Foreman and other colleagues chemicals detected potentially have d speciesin the province and a col- havemade the station an interna- high commercial value. league at Simon Fraser University, tional centre for the study of marine Dr. LOUIS Druehl,investlgated the Theresearchers are refmingtheir botany. other. work andpreparing an economic "Thediversity of marineplants feasibility report for the B.C. Science that grow in B.C. is fantastic," Dr. The B.C. Marine Resources Branch Council on industrial production of Foreman said. "More than 30 species estimatesthat more than half a certainhigh-value chemical of kelp occur in B.C. and in almost all million metric tonnes of thesetwo substances from red algae. other areasof the world where kelpis speciesare present inmajor abundant it isharvested commercial- harvestable beds in B.C. The produc- "What we are workmg towardsis a ly. So far, efforts to developthis tivity, annual growth per unit area, product wlth a high enough market resourcein B.C. havebeen unsuc- in good kelp bedsis greater than that value to overcome the high costs of cessful. in our provincial forest, Dr. Foreman seaweedculture in B.C.," Dr. Dr. Foreman developed a method said. Foreman said."It's our hope that of estimating the amount of surface- other commerical seaweedinvest- kelp canopy available in anarea - Recently,Dr.Foreman, UBC ments will follow. " You can literally doublethe dollar value of your gift toUBC if yuu work forone of the firms listed below, or Its diklslons, subsidiaries or afflllated companies.You need only ask your administrative oiiice for the comyariy's application form.Fill in the pertinent information and forward the form to UBC with your gift.We do the rest. It's as easy as it sounds. If your company has a Matching Gift Program but is not listed here, check with your administration to see if the University of British Columbia is eligible. A complete listingof U.S.A. companies which match gifts is availableon request tothe Alumni Fund office.(Not all of them'extend their programs to Canadian universities, but it'sworth checking.) This program isone of the many ways business is supporting higher education. For those companies marked withan asterisk, the program applies onlyto employees inthe U.S.A. and its possessions.

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