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Chris Petty, MFA'86
Assistant Editor Dale Fuller Chronicle Volume 50 • Number 3 • Fall, 1996 Contributors janis Connolly BA'73
Sarah Dench
Jo Hinchliffe BA'74 All the Alumni Association News That Fits ... Zoe Landale MFA'95 Reports from branches, divisions and reunions from all over, Homecoming Jennifer Papke BSc'95 announcements, upcoming events, the Mentor Program, Pharmacy's 50 years, a Don Wells BA'89 4 new speakers' series and murder most foul. Board of Directors
Elected Members
News Features ... President
Tricia Smith, 75 years of Women's Studies and Women's programs; UBC's BA'80, LLB'85 Olympians; a look at the great food from UBC Catering Service; and tough times getting a branch started in Taipei. Past President 3 Al Poettcker.
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Sr. Vice President 2nd Annual Alumni Achievement and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner Haig Farris, Last year's event was a smash hit, and this year's will be, too. Charlotte BA'60 Warren gets a double shot: an Alumni Association award and induction Treosurer into the UBC Sports Hall of Fame. Dana Merritt, 7 BCom'88
Members-or-Large '95 -'97 The Jade Peony Don McConachie, BSA'63. MBA'65 Grandmama's tales of her juggler and her affinity for collecting Don Wells, BA'89
Grace Wong, BEd'74, MBA'83 magical junk shape the life of a little Chinese boy in Vancouver's Chinatown. A short storv. Members-at-Large '96 - '98 8 Gregory Clark, BCom'86. LLB'89
Jean Forrest, BPE'83
Thomas Hobley, MBA'83
Executive Director Agnes Papke. BSc(Agr)'66 Alumni News 4
Tricia Smith's Column 4 Cover Editorial Committee David Strangway's Column 5 Chair Wayson Choy BA'63 won a short-story contest in
Louanne Twaites BSc(Pharm)'53 Faculty News 24 The Chronicle in 1979. In 1996, Douglas & Members Mclntyre published his first novel, The Jade Ron Burke, BA'82 Class Acts 28 Peony, based on then story. The novel has Dale Fuller
Paula Martin Acrostic 34 become a Canadian bestseller. We reprint the
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1 his July I had the privilege of attending the Olympics in 1996 Business Agenda Atlanta as an official with thTe Internationa l Rowing Federation. UBC Alumni 1. Call to order. It was wonderful to be part of the 2. Acceptance of the 1995 successful games for Canada.The Association minutes. experience brought back some great AGM memories, affirming the best of what 3. Treasurer's report. the Olympic Games represent October 17, 1996 4. Returning Officer's report. In spite of the transportation difficul 6:30 — Reception 5. UBC Administration ties (a highlight was when the British 7:00—AGM women's rowing team comman remarks. deered a bus to take them to their Cecil Green Park 6. Past President's remarks. venue), the level of competition was 7. President's remarks. spectacular. My congratulations to our Call 822-9565 for more information 8. Adjournment. athletes, coaches and officials—you made us all proud. The Olympics are an awe-inspiring stage for the physical demonstration of our human potential. The athletes gave a 100% effort backed by years of Branches tion to toast Dr. Bob McGavin commitment to achieving the very best performance possible. In sport (as in all BPE'65, a recipient ofthe Alumni aspects of life), there will always be individuals who will succeed in spite of little We organize UBC branch events Association's 1996 Award of Dis support and seemingly insurmountable obstacles. But our greatest success around the world. For more info tinction. came from teams and individuals who developed their skills through organized, about a branch in your area, Commerce alumni in Toronto long-term sports programs.The strength of the Canadian sport system is that contact branches coordinator at are organizing a lecture series for it is flexible enough to accommodate athletes and coaches from both ends of
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Creating an Endowment Heritage In Memoriam he university is currently Lyle Stevenson 1948 ~ 1996 working with the Greater TVancouver Regional Dis he Alumni Association was trict to develop an Official Com saddened to learn ofthe sud munity Plan (OCP) for the UBC T den passing ol Lyle Stevenson, campus. Our aim is to develop BASc(ElecFng)'72, MSc(BusAdmin)'75 market housing for a portion of in June ofthis vear. He served as presi these lands in order to generate dent ofthe Association in 1987-88. endowment funding for university l.yle was a partner in Mandate programs and to diversify the uni Mortgage since 1980. He also served as versity neighbourhood.This will chair of the University Endowment create a unique and vibrant com Lands Ratepayers Association. munity, consistent with the He served his term as Alumni pres GVRD's Livable Regions Strategy. ident during a difficult period in the Endowments are playing a Association's history. As a prelude to the crucial role in our development as university's World of Opportunity campaign, the responsibility for uni a world class university.As a pub versity fundraising was transferred to the new development office, lic institution, UBC's core funding will always be provided by government which some members saw as an abrogation ofthe Association's tradi grants and tuition. Endowments, which are simply investments from which tional function. Lyle steered the Association through this period with we draw interest, generate funds for new programs and scholarships that style and grace. traditional funding will not cover. Our Occupational Hygiene program and Deborah Apps, Associate Executive Director during this time, the School of Journalism are two examples of new initiatives made possi said, "Lyle was always a gentleman and loval to both the university and ble through such endowments.Without the flexibility these funds allow the Association. He tried hard to bring the two sides together." the university, we would not be able to meet demand as it develops, sup John Diggens, who served as Lyle's Sr. Vice President, said "Lyle port students in need or create new opportunities. wanted the Association to operate at the highest level. I have very Some ofthe land owned by the university is already being used to fond memories of working with him." generate endowments.An area ofthe south campus known as Hampton Place has been used in this manner. When that development is complete, it ATLANTA '96: Alumni president Tricia Smith and Bob Hindmarch.VP of will generate an endowment of more than $85 million. Future housing TCp^HMMH||^H^H|^^B^^^HBM|| the Canada Olympic development on campus will also be on a lease-hold basis, which means that our land asset becomes an endowment asset and will generating funds for UBC in perpetuity. We are also working to bring more diversity to the university.The t (§ ^^KBrn^^ESfft^lS^E^KK^M Association and long- ^r^^2*3^H*^Sl Wstg Ir^M time UBC Athletics di- greatest universities in the world are an integral part of their communities. Immi <9F% iSrlHHMi^KsSiir' *y^l rector, met with about UC Berkeley, Columbia in New York and the Sorbonne in Paris, as only al * »**aa fflpttJpM^IM^^BppMipi:. •:. /jin^H db^r ' FT^liBl^Mt' TB 25 Atlanta alumni, three examples, have helped create the identity of their cities.This univer Wf^^^"^%Mf ^^i^B^B^^K/ Ii^H fr'ends & Olympic visi- tors at a pub night on sity is playing as big a role in definingVancouver. lg I mm iii .l^^^nRi UBC covers some 1,000 acres, less than half of which is taken up by
S~ I EH * ^r^r^HI i —J ju|y 25th at the Phoe the campus core. Anyone who has had to walk from the Buchanan Tower nix Brewing Company. to the H.R. MacMillan Building in a hurry knows that the campus can't Special thanks to At spread out much more.This is why, when you visit UBC, you will see so lanta alumni Mike much construction going on in the middle ofthe campus. Our campus Kilgallon BASc'73, MBA'74 & Harold Cunliffe, BASc'73 for their support. core will expand, and that expansion is taking the form of infill. Our grads in Atlanta are now keen to start an alumni branch. Contact I Non-academic development in the south campus area will add a di Ca800 n883-308 You8 Believfor info. eFo It!??r more! on Atlanta, see pages 10 and 14. mension of diversity we don't have. If our campus is to become a neigh bourhood, then we need a good variety of neighbours and services. The first thing they tell you at journal Our challenge is to create a unique living area while maintaining the ism camp is to make sure you spell the character of the existing community. We have already begun to address names right! Well, we should have the problem of traffic (UBC's net traffic flow has been reduced over the gone. In the last issue we got these two past few years), and we view the issue of environmental integrity as a high men's names wrong in our caption un priority.The OCP process helps us and other members ofthe community der the new Board. That's Gerry Pod- work together to make a stronger university and a dynamic city. ersky-Cannon on the left, and Chuck We invite your comments and participation in this process. Slonecker on the right. Jean Forrest looks accusingly at the photographer. David Strangway, President, UBC
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INTERNAIIONAL Reunions ASIATOUR: President David Thunderbird Strangway and a delegation of Class of '46 Athletics in UBC deans are touring six Pacific June 19-21, 1996 Your Town! Rim countries Sept. 23-Oct. 1, One hundred and meeting with alumni in these thirty-six grads at
It might not bey branches: Hong Kong, Sept. 23; tended. F.vents in the Olympics Singapore, Sept. 24; Kuala cluded a Salmon but the enter Lumpur, Sept. 25; Bangkok, BBQ, a campus tour, tainment's just Sept. 27; Taipei, Sept. 30 and a trolley bus tour of as good and it's a lot cheaper. Why Seoul, Oct. 1. Vancouver and lunch Some of ihe organizi'ts oj Ihe Class of '46 Heiinwii: not bring your family and show EUROPE: President Strangway will at the First Nations Cam Miller. Art /one',, who did MC dutie\. and alumni support for UBC's student tour Europe this fall. At the time Longhouse. Class Charlie Bullen. athletic teams. Cheer on the ol printing, alumni events are members took the Thunderbirds when they come to planned for the following: Bonn Royal Hudson up to Squamish Home Economics '53 YOUR town! (Note: Check times (October 23), Paris (October 24), and returned on the Royal Bri May 23 with your local host university.) London (October 25). Contact tannia ship. At an Applied Sci- Eleven grads attended a potluck branch program coordinator ence'46 dinner on June 21, luncheon on May 23rd at the University of Calgary Deanna McLeod for more infor members were presented with a home of Mrs. Betty Anderson Volleyball (W) Oct. 18-19 mation: 604 822-8918. biography booklet. Dewar in Vancouver. This was Basketball (M) Nov. 15, Nov. 16 FRANCE: Alumni will meet in Home Ec '53s first reunion. Basketball (W) Nov. 15, Nov. 16 Beaune on Oct 5-6 for a weekend Rehab Medicine '66 Hockey (M) Jan. 24-25 of wine tasting and touring. Call May 24 & May 25 Law '71 celebrated its 5th reun Mandv Kerlann at 33 80 24 92 94 A great way to renew friend ion in 25 years. "Ferry University of Alberta for info on future events. ships amidst the panoramic Hartshorne, chair of the Volun Football (M) Oct. 12 HONG KONG: In June, eight UBC views at Walter Gage! High teer Committee, worked hard to Volleyball (M) Oct. 18-19 MBA students came to town for lights ofthe weekend, aside encourage a class donation to a Hockey (M) Oct. 25-26 the third annual UBC MBA sum from seeing everyone again, in UBC Law Faculty fund. Basketball (M) Nov. 7-9 mer program in Hong Kong. On cluded lunch with the faculty Volleyball (M) Feb. 7/8 June 30th more than 120 gath and an early morning walk in Volleyball (W) Feb. 7 ered for a Canada Day party at search ofthe "Rehab Hut." Basketball (W/M) Feb. 14-15 Jimmy's Sports Bar & Grill with U oil" alumni. The Mentorship University of Manitoba Committee was successful in re Vanier Cup XXXII Football (M) Nov. 2 cruiting mentors and is keen to Volleyball (W) Nov. 1/3, Nov. 8/9 sign up more proteges. Volleyball (M Nov. 8/9 The Career Committee will Hockey (M) Feb. 14/15 hold the second in a series of Basketball (W) Nov. 8/10 workshops on September 28th. The AGM will be held on Octo University of Saskatchewan ber 18. Call Iggy Chong, 852 The Canadian university foot Cecil Hockey (M) Nov. 8/9 2847 8780 or < 100452.3441 ball championship is coming to Basketball (W/M) Nov. 29/30 (a compuserve.com > the Sky-dome on Saturday, No Qreen Volleyball (W) Jan. 10/11 MALAYSIA: A branch social was vember 30, 1996, game time Volleyball (M) Jan. 10/11 held on June 28th at the Star 2:30 PM. UBC alumni will meet Nite Lounge. Call Susan for a pre-game drink and Park University ofVictoria Thomson, 60 3 408-5668. munchies at noon at Joe Rock- Volleyball (W) Oct. 26/27 TOKYO: UBC alumni gathered for head, 212 King St. W, and then UBC's Volleyball (W/M) Nov. 22/23 a social on July 12th. Call John head over to the game together. Basketball (W/M) Jan. 3 I /Feb. I Tak, 81 3 3408-6171. Call Ian Palm LLB'93 for more Town and Qown TAIWAN: lerry Fox Run and info at 463-381 3 OR you can Centre University of Lethbridge Brunch will be held on Oct. 6. order tickets by calling the 6251 Cecil Qreen Park Road Hockey (M) Jan. 10/1 I Call Janis Connolly, 886 2 776 Vanier Cup Hot-line at 341- Vancouvet, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Basketball (M) Jan. 17/18 1073. 3902. (Early bird discount avail able until Nov. 1st). (604) 822-6289 Facsimilie: (604) 822-8928
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Upcoming Reunions REUNIONS 1996 Commerce '65 — October 18 jFor more info about these reunions, please contact Catherine Newlands at (604)822-8917 or (toll Reconnecting after 30 vears of silence was free) 1-800-883-3088, by fax at (604)822-8928 or (toll free) 1-800-220-9022 or e-mail to such a hit during the monthly downtown
Mentor Program PLANNING A CONFERENCE? 1996/97 The Alumni Association is working with the faculty of Arts and UBC's Career Services to launch a Mentor Lunch series during Home coming '96. This will offer students a chance to look realistically at their career options by talking with established alumni. We're start ing with students in Arts because those career objectives are not as easily defined as those students in small faculties or professional pro grams. The Networking Seminar is an impor tant introduction for students to mentorship. THE UBC CONFERENCE CENTRE Blair Grabinsky, manager of UBC's Career A Conference coordination, registration services and full meeting Services says that "networking skills are essen management through our conference planning professionals tial in today's marketplace." If you have 10-15 years experience in the A One-stop shopping for all your campus arrangements job market and would like to be a mentor, A Great value in accommodation and meeting facilities contact Catherine Newlands at 822-8917. This is your chance to support students! The University of British Columbia We are also developing a mentorship pro 5961 Student Union Boulevard gram for our alumni living outside the Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2C9 Lower Mainland. Tel: 604-822-1060 Fax: 604-822-1069 If vou are interested, contact our branches coordinator at 1 800 883-3088, or Visit our web site at http://www.conferences.ubc.ca 822-8928,or
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A UBC Student Alumni Association The Alumni Association's new student alumni association will help us estabish bonds between allots for next year's Board alumni and students. Students election will be in our next B who work with us will gain issue. Ihe senior \'P, treasurer leadership and organizational and three members-at-large management skills, and get an will be elected. insight into how a professional The senior VP serves one association operates. Students year, then becomes president will also support each other and for a one year term. The treas help enhance their UBC experi BPP Decision co-chair* Pan belle Stariha and Erixie Pawner urer is elected for a one year ence. Call Catherine Newlands, w/lb Ik Michael Smith. term. Members-at-large serve 822-8917 for more information. for two years. 7:00 PM. $10.00 for hois HUMAN KINETICS DIVISION: )ust a Any L'BC grad is eligible. d'oeuvre, wine, coffee, tea and a note to you PF and HK alumni. II you are interested, send your Divisions $5.00 discount on any purchase. Since the School has changed name, address, degree and year BIOCHEMISTRY, PHARMACOLOGY & Part of the sales will support the its name to Human Kinetics, with a short biography, a state PHYSIOLOGY DIVISION: On June FNS Division. Pickets are lim the Alumni division is called the ment about why you wish to 18, BPP alumni and guests ited, so buy them early from Division of Human Kinetics or serve and a black and white were treated to an enjoyable Barb Hartman BHE'78 at 94.3- just plain UK. We would love to photo. Include the names and evening with Nobel Prize Laure 6317 or Mari-Lou Laishley know what career path you have signatures of five UBC grads. ate Dr. Michael Smith. In ap BHE'79 at 926-4130. chosen, what activities vou are For more information, call 604 preciation, the BPP Alumni Di involved in or anything you 822-3313. vision made donations to the think we should put in the The deadline for nomina Vancouver Foundation and the tions is 4:00 pm, Thursday, Schizophrenia Society on his February 13, 1997. behalf. In July, BPP alumni shifted gears and hiked to Norvan Falls at Lynn Headwa Please Join Us In Our Deluxe ters Park. For more information about the division contact Ro- Travel Line Up In 1997 chelle Stariha BSc'94 at Trans-Panama Canal Cruise
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newsletter. Contact Sabrena Cutting the ribbon al Ihe official upciiinir of Wilson BPE'90, 687-7773, or MSAC's Phase II. I. to r: CISC President Ik
MEDICINE DIVISION: The Medical Student and Alumni Centre cel ebrated the official opening of Phase II on May 25, 1996 dur ing the AGM and Awards Recep tion. The winner of this year's Wallace Wilson Leadership Award was John Cairns MD'68. Honorary Alumni Awards went to James Carter and Doris Kavanagh-Gray. Michael Myckatyn MD'72 was elected president ofthe 1996-97 Executive Committee, replacing Stephen Tredwell MD'66 who will remain active. The MSAC, located at 2750 Professor Rc'K Mitchell. Department ot Chemistn. I ni\eisil\ of \ ictona Heather, is open to all medical in tront ot the Victoria Conference Centre students and alumni, and avail able for private non-medical events. Call 875-5522. THERE'S A CERTAIN The 1 1th Annual Golf Tourna ment and Dinner was held on CHEMISTRY ABOUT VICTORIA... Thursday, September 19 at the University Golf Course. Medical When the international advisory group of world symposium "was one ofthe most enjoyable con- alumni and friends came out scientists and educators selected their first ferences ever. The Victoria Conference Centre and had the usual good time and healthy fun on the links and conference destination in Canada, ./"\ and staff were perfect, just ideal in every over dinner. little did they know they had chosen lMp\ detail. I wouldn't even think twice about GEOGRAPHY DIVISION: Through the perfect centre to present the T|^F holding another conference at the Victoria generous alumni support, we were able to provide two schol 7th International Symposium on Conference Centre". For information on arships in 1995-96. Congratula tions to the recipients, Scott Novel Aromatic Compounds. Organized by how you can meet here with world experts in Ronalds and Linda Gabriel. In June, alumni also took part Reg Mitchell of the University of Victoria, the your field, we invite you to contact us today. in a casino night with the Com merce and BPP divisions. A post-convocation event was held for graduates, family and Victoria Conference Centre friends at International House For your complete Conference Package: on May 30th with about 100 in 720 DOUGLAS STREET, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA V8W 3M7 attendance, while Dr. Timothy TELEPHONE (604) 361-1000 FAX (604) 361-1099 • WEB SITE: http://vw.com/vcc/ • E-MAIL: [email protected]
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Oke and Lew Robinson NURSING DIVISION: alumni to celebrate the achievements of col BSc(Hon)'94, assisted by Arthur leagues at the Annual Dinner, Esther Paulson's DipPubHlth'34 Ng BA'85, handed out alumni 90th birthday and the success ofthe new Mentorship Program. "degrees." Verna Splane, recently appointed Officer to the Order of A reminder to all alumni of Canada and recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Laws at UBC, the special AGM and reception will give this year's Marion Woodward Lecture on October 24th. for Dr. J.L. Robinson at Cecil The division will co-host the reception before the lecture. Green Park on October 1, 1996. The Mentorship Program is a great success. Student applica If vou would like to help out or tions will be accepted in September and the Mentor-Student would like to become a membei Award winners, I to r: Tilly Bara (Alumni Kick-Off will be held in November. We have established a men ofthe executive please call Recognition Award), Verna Splane tor registry and welcome your participation. Please call 822- Arthur Ng at 929-1376. (Officer ofthe Order of Canada), Sally 7428 for more information. Thorne (Award of Distinction) and Linda Gomez (Young Alumna Award).
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Lc\e Ilnbin\i)n hands out one oj the Foundation. Ci'oginphx Dre/Mou's "degrees.''
Reaching the top in your chosen career REHABILITATION SCIENCES DIVI is exciting and exhilarating. SION: The 1996-97 Mentorship Program is underway. If you are But it can also be a long, hard climb. interested in mentoring an un Training as a Certified General Accountant dergraduate student between will give you the base you need to get October '96 and April '97 or there. Our Canada-wide training program would like to know more about is open to secondary and post-secondary the program, please call Mat graduates or mature students. thew at 680-1080 or Nancy at 739-1215. "Ihe division extends And our flexible program, with its detailed a big 'thank you' to Sheila computer training will fully equip you Branscombe BSc(OT)'91, the co for a career in financial management, ordinator of the program, for public practice or management accounting. all her work, and wish her well For further inquiries or to obtain in her new job in Kelowna. our information kit, call 732-1211 or our We are planning a Homecom toll-free number 1-800-565-121L ing reception for October 22 at 6:30 I'M at Cecil Green Park. And rise to the peak of your abilities. Alumni, students and faculty are invited lo come learn about our division, socialize and, of course, eat. Thanks to Rosemary Wang who volunteered for our casino CGrA night. The Faculty of Medicine REAL SOLUTIONS FOR will help us in fund raising for THE REAL WORLD. the Margaret Hood (OT) and 1555 West 8th Avenue, Jane Hudson (P'F) Graduate Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1T5 Scholarships. f»- Phone: (604) 732-1211 Fax: (604) 732-1252 i-rg^j 10 L'BC Air MM CHRONICI.K, KAIL, 1996 NEWS ~ BRANCHES ~ REUNIONS - DIVISIONS
Pat Fulton BSW'38, Dr. Richard Splane, Mary Clohosey BA'52, BSW'53 and Last year's sold out FAST, so don't be Helen McCrae BSW'45, MSW'49 (former UBC Dean of Women) at Social disappointed. Book early. Work Division convocation reception, May 31, 1996. Get six friends together and make up your own detective team, or join other alumni sleuths to seek out the heinous Dr. Richard Splane and Rosemary perpetrator(s). Brown BSW'62, MSW'67 at the reception on May 31, 1996. Both
received honorary Doctor of Laws Produced,sponsored Cecil Green Park degrees this year. and performed by: $20.00 per person Cash bar Dessert buffet Tricia Smith at the Olympics 'if s Contact Louise Van Wart at 822-8923 or
s reported elsewhere in commandeered a bus to take them Bii^jurite firfesstxs this issue,Alumni president to their venue), the level of ATricia Smith, herself an competition at the games was Dr. Stanley Coren Olympic silver medal winner in spectacular. No matter what rowing in 1986, spent some time in organizational glitches occurred, World Renowned Expert on The Intelligence of Atlanta this summer. Here's what when the athletes went into action Dogs, Sleep, and Left-Handedness she had to say about it. they gave an all out effort based on "It was wonderful to be part years of commitment and prepara of such a successful games for tion.We don't get to see that level Canada, especially at the rowing of performance everyday, and it is Tuesday, October 15,1996 course. As an Olympic silver quite inspirational to watch. medalist myself, it brought back "While in Atlanta, I had the Judge White Theatre some wonderful memories. But I opportunity to get together with Robson Square Conference Centre must say I was happy this time to other UBC visitors and local UBC 12 noon - 1 pm be on the finish line cheering on grads.Transportation difficulties Price $10 (Includes Lunch) our crews rather than in a boat prevented me from arriving in time waiting to start. to meet the entire group, but Bob Next speaker: "In spite ofthe transportation Hindmarch did meet them all and it Ivan Avakumovic difficulties (a highlight was when the was a great evening." ^*< "Crisis in the Former USSR" March, 1997 British women's rowing team
UBC J\IXMNI CHRONICI.K, KALI., 1996 50Years of Pharmacy at UBC
Friday in 1946, UBC began to train pharmacists for BC Fifty years after they entered the first class of pharmacy at UBC, some and western Canada. This year, the faculty held cel ofthe original members plus 150 other alumni gathered at Cecil Green ebrations that drew grads, faculty and staff from Park to celebrate the anniversary. Many perused the proofs of the soon- to-be published history book edited by Bev Louis and Louanne Twaites. across North America. Here are some photos and a Alumni travelled from Texas, Arizona, Missouri, California, Nova Scotia, journal ofthe proceedings. Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta.
Saturday Morning The topic for Update 1996, the continuing pharmacy education pro gram co-sponsored by the Pharmacy Division of the Alumni Association and Continuing Pharmacy Education, was Seamless Pharmaceutical Care. Approximately 60 pharmacists, community and hospital practitioners, par ticipated in the day-long session.The speakers' list and topics were: Keith Campbell, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Pharmacy, Washing ton State University, Seamless Pharmaceutical Care and the Diabetic Patient; Wine and cheese reception at Cecil Green Park Pam Grant,Ward Pharmacist on the Family Practice Unit at St. Paul's Saturday banquet, Marion for members, spouses and friends of the first Hospital, Medication Management on the Family Practice Unit; Elaine Kam, Pearson, mistress of Pharmacy grad class, 1949. Clinical Pharmacist, Burrard Pharmacy and Drug Information Specialist ceremonies. and Coordinator, SMILE Program, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, A Community Pharmacy Experience; Debbie Patrick, Pharmacist at Riverview Hospital./Another Hospital-Community Connection; Brenda Osmond, Deputy Registrar, College of Pharmacists of BC, PharmaNet and Seamless Core; James McCormack,Associate Professor, Faculty of Phar maceutical Sciences, UBC, Hospital-Community: Patient Benefits from Collabo ration. The concept of seamless care is an attractive one. With patients being discharged ever earlier from hospital, good follow-up care becomes more important to successful therapeutic outcomes. Much discussion and some disagreement, occurred over the best ways for this to take place. How ever, participants seemed to agree that the challenge to resolve differ ences was an important one.
50 Year Celebrations committee. Back row: Santa Jains, Sharon Kerr, Ken Saturday Evening McGregor, Marguerite Yee, Sue Am, Finlay Morrison, Gail Bellward, John More than 200 people were at the Wall Centre Garden Hotel Pavilion Clontiei: Front row: Marion Pearson, Bev Louis, Louanne Iwaiies, Bernard Ballroom. Greetings came from UBC President David Strangway, Alumni Riedel, Colin Holyk. Association Executive Director Agnes Papke, College of Pharmacists of BC President Barbara Thompson and BC Pharmacy Association President Ron Stein. Former deans Finlay Morrison and Bernie Riedel shared their Unveiling a commemorative plaque at the memories. Current Dean John McNeill reflected on the more recent Pharmacy building. progress ofthe faculty since his appointment in 1985. A slide show by Marguerite Yee and Diem Pham chronicled the activities of UBC phar macy students from 1946 to 1996. Co-chair of the organizing committee, Marion Pearson, was MC.
Sunday More than 100 pharmacy alumni, family, friends and facultyenjoye d the sunshine as they returned to tour the campus, revisit the Cunningham Building and savour UBC's famous cinnamon buns.
Monday This was the day for the 7th annual Bernie Riedel GolfTournament. Over 160 golfers played in the sun.The BBQ dinner was highlighted by numerous golf awards, la
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Celebrating Women's Studies at UBC - by Sarah Dench and Jo Hinchliffe 1996/97 Alumni Appeal U.Dv_- celebrates two significant anniversaries during this year's Homecoming: the 75th anniversary of the Women Stu dents' Office, and the 25th anniversary of Women's Studies. "Who's Calling?" Both these programs provide essential services for women students, but their origins and histories are quite different. The Women Students' Office evolved from the office of Name: Rajesh Krishna the Dean of Women. In 1921, after much lobbying by women Faculty: Pharmacy Grad Student students, Mary Bollert was appointed Dean of Women by Claim to Fame: 3rd person in President Klinck. Her mandate was to counsel women in all UBC's history to win the but academic matters. The dean represented women stu American Association of dents' interests to administration, and helped them adjust to Pharmaceutical Sciences/ campus life. The office was considered a symbol of UBC's Proctor & Gamble Award welcome to women students. Mary Bollert, for Excellence in Gradu Mary Bollert served until 1941. Dorothy Mawdsley Dean ofWomen, 1921-1941 ate Education. (1941-1959), Helen McCrae (1959-1973), and Margaret Daytime: Researches cancerous Fulton (1973-1978) carried on her tradition. Following Fulton's term, the dean's functions were cells and their resistance reviewed and the Office for Women Students was established and moved to Student Services, to chemotherapy under the direction of Lorette Woolsey. She was followed by June Lythgoe, and in 1990 the of Nightime: Student caller, fice became the Women Students' Office under Marsha Trew, the current director. This work Alumni Appeal still involves the dual role ofthe original Dean of Women through individual services and pro grams focusing on mentoring, women's Take a minute to talk to the student life experiences and safety. or volunteer who calls to ask you for The Women's Studies program be a gift to the Alumni Appeal... and gan as a series of non-credit courses, say "yes"! again initiated by a group of women stu dents, in the summer of 1971. That group obtained an Opportunities for Youth grant from the federal govern ment to develop a course entitled "The Canadian Woman: Our Story." In Au gust 1971, a brief proposing the crea tion of an interdisciplinary Women's Studies program was submitted to Sen ate. In April 1972, the ad hoc commit Women students in residence, Mary Bollert Hall, 1953 tee on Women's Studies at UBC met with interested faculty members, and Meredith Kimball, Helga Jacobson, Annette Kolodny and Dorothy Smith emerged to become the first teachers in the program. They prepared the pro posal, which was approved by the faculty of Arts for initial offering in 1973-74. In March 1989, the faculty of Arts Women's Studies committee recommended the estab lishment of a program in Women's Studies and a Research and Resource Centre. By 1991, stu dents at UBC could register as majors in Women's Studies working toward a BA. In early 1990, Last year's Alumni volunteer callers President Strangway established the Provost's Inter-Faculty Advisory committee on Women's in action. Studies and Gender Relations which recommended that the university establish a centre to strengthen and increase scholarship at UBC in these areas. The centre opened in July 1991. Thank you for your support! Statistics from the President's Office in 1996 show that the number of women on campus continues to grow. Women undergrads are now in the majority, the number of women faculty is slowly increasing, and more women than ever before are entering non-traditional areas of Annual Fund study. The WSO and Women's Studies will continue to demonstrate strong leadership in the 6253 N.W. Marine Drive challenge to provide a balanced academic experience for women at UBC. Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Phone: (604)822-8900 The Women Students' Office and the Women's Studies program will celebrate the anniver Fax:(604)822-8151 saries on October 17th, 1996 in Brock Hall. Call the Women Students' Office at 822-2415 for e-mail: [email protected] more information about the anniversary celebration. *»•
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HOMECOMING 1990 UBC's Olympians terrorist incident and far too many media reports CALENDAR OF EVENTS of how the Atlanta organizing committee had by Don Wells BA'89 done a poor job. But was this a bad year at the games for 0CNMRI5 ince 1928, UBC has been showing the UBC? Most certainly, the answer is no. • Favourite Professors: world that the Point Grey campus has tra In terms of sheer numbers, UBC was again Downtown Speakers Series ditionally been home to a disproportionate disproportionately represented.Ten students and UBC Alumni Association, See page I I S number of Canadian athletes who possess the former students attained the gruelling standards • Reunion: Class of '36 • 50 Year Anniversary skill and discipline to qualify for Olympic compe required to qualify for Olympic competition in Pharmaceutical Science Honorary tition. Atlanta. Others also weathered the Georgia heat Convocation In 1928 a recent UBC grad, Harry Warren, to play various made UBC's Olympic debut in track and field. important roles in Four years later, a young UBC oarsman named these games.T- 17 Ned Pratt, who later designed himself an interna Bird swim coach • Mentor Reception and Program Launch, tional reputation as an architect, won UBC's first Tom Johnson was UBC Alumni Association medal, a bronze in double sculls. In the years that there to guide his • Great Trekker Award Reception, followed, UBC teams and athletes constantly ap UBC and Pacific Alma Mater Society peared in both summer and winter Olympic Dolphin charges • Women's Studies 25 Year Celebration Games, winning medals in a wide range of sports. in the pool. Gym • Calgary Homecoming The 1996 Olympics will not occupy as large nastics coach Jeff • Toronto Homecoming a chapter in the history ofthe UBC Thunderbirds Thomson went as does the 1956 games when theT-bird four-man along as an official. ocTtmtis crew took home gold and the eight won silver. It Sports medicine may not be as memorable as Bob Osborne's bas specialist Doug • Murder at the Mansion, Cecil Green Park Clement went as See page 11 ketball team which defeated the best university • Alumni Association AGM and senior teams in Canada in a tournament at a long-time elite 6:30, Cecil Green Park Maple Leaf Gardens to earn the right to repre level coach in • Evelyn Lett's 100th Birthday sent Canada at the 1948 games. Nor will 1996 be track and field.T- at Great Trek Remembered Luncheon etched in people's minds as deeply as the 1964 Bird women's vol • Reunion: Class of '41 Winter Olympics when Father David Bauer led a leyball coach Jeff Schiebler • Reunion: Commerce '65 hockey team Doug Reimer, who takes over the national team consisting al program in 1997, went along to size up future 19 most exclu competition, and UBC Alumni Association Presi dent and former Olympian Tricia Smith was there • Intramurals Competitions sively of UBC as an official of the International Rowing Federa • A Literary Event: students to a tion. Alumni Authors & Readings share in a at Cecil Green Park see page 27 three-way tie The highlights? It may not have made CBCs • Dentistry Class Act '92 - Unveiling of new for third place highlight reel, but Sarah Evanetz's 13th place in furniture, 10 am, Dentistry Student Lounge in Innsbruck, 100 metre butterfly is a lofty finish considering • Medicine Class Act '92 - Presentation of Austria. the event was touted as the fastest field of swim cheque to Class of '97,2 pm, MSAC Olympic mers ever assembled. Evanetz also had a share of • Opening of Sports Hall of Fame & Heritage viewers in the fifth place finish in the 400 metre medley re Centre at Cecil Green Park Vancouver lay. Human Kinetics student Margaret Langford may remem finished eighth in the IK sprint kayaking final and, 0tT0IIRI»*19 ber the names of course, Kathleen Heddle took home a gold • Botanical Gardens:Apple Festival, Sarah Evanetz, medal in double sculls and a bronze in the quad Sarah Evanetz II AM to 4 PM Jeff Schiebler, event. Paige Gordon and Ermenia Russo, but when the And easily the most intriguing result by a rest of Canada is asked to recall Atlanta they will UBC student in this 100th anniversary Olympic OTHER EVIMTS likely talk about 100 metre champion Donavan Games is that posted by Laryssa Biesenthal. While • Delta Kappa Epsilon AGM Bailey and his team mates who shattered all com the late Ned Pratt won UBC's first medal, • Nursing, Marion Woodward Lecture, petitors in the 400 metre relay. Most will also re Biesenthal won the most recent one. Same medal Instructional Resources Centre member Marnie McBean and former UBC rower - bronze, same event - sculls. And yes, Laryssa • Rehab Sciences Event, Oct. 22 at CGP Kathleen Heddle.who repeated their gold medal Biesenthal is studying architecture. • Social Work Division AGM & Reception performance of 1992. Sadly, others will recount a Ned would be pleased. 5*- • Women's Students' Office Event
14 UBC AU'MNI ClIKONICI.K, IAI.L, 1996 NEWS
UBC Catering Serves Up Feasts 365 Days a Year
ne ofthe most indelible gustatory expe riences I've had at UBC came about five Oyears ago when I attended a private func tion at the Museum of Anthropology. I can't re member what the function was, exactly, but memo ries ofthe food they served still resonate in my FACULTY OF SCIENCE mind.The big hit, for me, was the massive plate of The University peeled Alaska King Crab legs arranged like packs of asparagus spears around a big cut-glass bowl of of British Columbia seafood dip.And surrounding that extravaganza of crustacean appendages were other bowls piled high Call for Nominations with cooked prawns the size of a baseball. AWARDS FOR Elsewhere at that incredible feast were plat EXCELLENCE IN ters of fresh fruit, sushi, hot hors d'oeuvre, punch TEACHING (both with and without) and an array of desserts too sumptuous to list. I wonder if ANYone remem The University of British bers what the do was.The UBC Catering Service UBC Catering brings a touch of culinary class to Columbia established Awards was responsible for laying out this groaning board, campus events. for Excellence in "leaching in and ever since I have been astounded by how good their food really is. 1989. Awards are made by the As part of UBC Food Services, Catering is responsible for supplying meetings all over campus with Faculty of Science to UBC plates of sandwiches, vegetables and cold drinks; feeding small armies of visitors who come for conven Science faculty, lecturers and tions and conferences; serving wedding parties, special international guests and famous personages at laboratory instructors Cecil Green Park, the First Nations Longhouse who are selected or the Asian Centre; and as outstanding teachers. A Dickens Christmas for great outdoors bar- beques at the MOA, We are seeking input from UBC Cecil Green Park and alumni, current and former the Botanical Gardens. students. The level of services depends on what the Nomination Deadlines: client wants—from First term-October 18, 1996 small snacks at a meet Second term-February 14, 1997 Get on the GOOD list... make you reservation NOW! ing coffee break to sit- down, liveried banquets. Nominations should be Christmas Buffet Lunch And the food, as I've accompanied by supporting "Row...that's a wisS ~ Wed. Dec 4 & Thur. Dec 5 noticed over the years, ••, come true! _ . statements and the nominator's Two seatrings: ranges from great to out-of-this-world. I'd name, address and telephone ll:30-11:10 or 1:10-1:10 never had peeled Alaska number. Please send nominations King Crab legs before to: Call UBC Catering for Reservation that event, and I've nev 822-2018 er had them since. Of Chair, Excellence in Teaching Buffet Lunch is presented by course, at the time I ate Awards UBC Catering & Special Events enough to last a lifetime, c/o Office of the Dean of Science, Mion Sponsored by UBC Alumni Association 'cuz I knew it was a R 1505, 6270 University Boulevard, 6251 CECIL GREEN PARK ROAD once in a lifetime thing. University of British Columbia, V6T1Z1 For information about Vancouver, BC V6T IZ4 (604) 822-6289 UBC Catering Services, FAX (604) 822-5558 call 822-2018. Chris Petty
UBC An MM CHRONICLE, KILL, 1996 15 NEWS
Adventures on the Branch Front Lines: Starting from Scratch in Taiwan ByjanisConnoiiyBA'73
n 40 years Taiwan has grown from a Traffic gets worse every month. There are community of farmers to a nation with more than 500 vehicles and 6,500 motorcycles the second largest foreign exchange per square kilometre, and city officials say that reserves in the world. Economists cre 10,000 motorcycles and 1,000 autos are added dit this "economic miracle" to the in to Taipei's streets each month. A 1 km taxi ride dustrious, type A personality of Taiwan's resi can take 45 minutes. dents. The five-and-a half day work week en Is it possible to form an active UBC dures because adopting a five day work week branch in this world? "Perhaps," is our current may have serious implications for the GDP thinking. There is virtually no unemployment in Fresh from last year's Branch Reps' Sum Taiwan and people mit we launched our branch plan. We were seem happy with encouraged—and somewhat envious—of our their roles, however colleagues who nurtured thriving alumni minor. Street ven branches. Hong Kong's chapter, just across the dors hawking South China Sea, had over 400 members, a shrimp dumplings number of special interest groups and a news chat animatedly to letter. And in Taipei, the English press carried Taipei's traffic jams are just one ofthe factors that customers, small regular notices of Penn. State, University of stall branch development there. Pic byJC armies of car wash Minnesota and Georgetown University gather ers share jokes while ings. Surely we, too, could build a thriving polishing bumpers UBC branch. ties. If nothing else, the UBC name was sprin and toothless elders Our first task was to update our alumni kled liberally through many conversations. Janis Connolly BA'73 proffer fragrant or- list which was considerably out-of-date. We What did we learn from our humbling Taiwan Branch Rep cnids at busy inter. discovered several distinguished UBC alumni exercises? For one, we discovered that UBC sections. in Taiwan, like John van Deursen BMus '85, a grads in Taiwan were real entrepreneurs who The pace is frenzied. Everyone is in a principal guest conductor ofthe Taipei Sinfo- had come here to focus on a career or to hurry. Taxi drivers at dawn, even when there nietta and Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hugh learn Mandarin. "They had meagre amounts is little traffic, roar through amber lights. Stephens BA'67, Director ofthe Canadian of leisure time, and driving halfway across the Scooter drivers crowd out pedestrians from Trade Office. We emerged from the exercise city for an hour and a half to attend a UBC sidewalks. And what was yesterday a shoe with greater respect for UBC's records depart social function was not high on their list of store becomes, with an overnight wrecking ment. Imagine keeping track of 150,000 alum priorities. ball, a gleaming new restaurant. ni. We had only about 50 to contend with. We have not given up. A Canadian Alum Business and pleasure are often indistin Having updated the alumni list we em ni Association (CAA) in Taiwan has just been guishable. Strategically arranged golf games barked on an information campaign via the fax organized to bring together alumni to events bring together new contacts. Guanshi, or the machine. Our chatty, upbeat and user-friendly such as brown bag lunches featuring profes principle of building relationships, is a vital form invited alumni to share ideas on what sors from Canadian universities travelling element of Chinese culture. The Taiwanese they would like to do with their fellow alumni. through Taiwan. At a recent Canadian Educa do not like to do business with people they do We received zero replies back. tion Fair, more than 25 new members signed not know and trust. We plunged ahead anyway, and in March up. Most are young and eager to mix with Taiwan is a claustrophobe's nightmare. planned a Friday night after hours social at the fellow Canadian alumni. "The first event will Every inch of space is used up. A back alley trendy new Shangri La Hotel. We called alum be a Canada Day celebration at the beach cubbyhole is a pet store. Three or four bou ni by phone with a follow-up notice by fax. Re front home of a long time Canadian resident tiques crowd into the space that one would sponse to the event was encouraging. in Taiwan. Kent and I and the expected mob occupy in Canada. Whole families, dog in It was a dark and stormy night the eve of of other alumni grads will raise a glass to cluded, travel around by scooter. the event, but Kent and I arrived early and Canada—and UBC. it- Everything is smaller. Cell phones are ordered our first of what would be several designed for smaller Chinese hands. A Cana drinks. And waited. An aging fellow walked in dian cinnamon bun franchise offers up their with his spouse. UBC alumni? No—University sweet wares in portions about one-third the of Wisconsin. The bar began to fill up, but not Janis Connolly is a journalist for the American size of their North American counterparts. with many UBC grads. At evening's end, a Chamber of Commerce in Taipei. She and her col Trucks and vans look ridiculously squat, like smattering of grads shared anecdotes with league, Kent Ollis BCom'90, share responsibilities dinkv tovs. alumni from a number of American universi- as UBC alumni branch representatives in Taiwan.
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Charlotte Warren Scores Twice at Hall of Fame and Alumni Achievement Dinner by Don Wells BA'89
ast Alumni Association President Char lotte Warren BCom'58 can be excused Pfor a bit of nervousness lately. Novem ber 18 is going to be a big night for her. That's when the winner of an unprecedented ten Big Block Awards as a Thunderbird bad UBC s*w. minton and field hockey star will join her re fW\ You're Invited ..i markable father, Dr. Harry Warren, in the UBC Sports Hall of Fame. Not only that, but MC Allan Fotheringham BA'54 will ask her to make an starter for the late Joe Johnson's soccer Birds Monday, November 18, 1996 other trip to the podium at the Alumni for five years before turning to a brilliant in Achievement and Sports Hall of Fame Induc ternational career in track and field. tion Dinner at the Hyatt Regency. Though there is only one inductee in the 6:00 pm No host reception While the Hall of Fame selection com Builder Category, the name Father David 7:00 pm Dinner mittee gave her a unanimous thumbs-up for Bauer is sure to draw many of his former its fourth annual fall induction, an entirely hockey players and friends to the Hyatt Ball different selection committee voted to distin room. The late Chaplain of St. Marks Col Hyatt Regency Hotel guish her with the Blythe Eagles Volunteer lege who coached the T-Birds as well as Cana 655 Burrard Street Service Award. da's 1964, 1968 and 1980 Olympic Hockey Regency Ballroom Even in her undergrad days, Warren was "Teams is one of the most revered coaches and an ambitious and influential political figure humanitarian figures in the history of Cana on campus. As president ofthe Women's dian sport. Athletic Association from 1955 to 1957, her The lone inductee in the Team Category $125 + 8.75 gst = $133.75 crowning achievement may have been con will be the Bob Osborne-coached 1947-48 per person vincing the AMS "Treasury to increase the basketball team, which won the 1948 Cana Tables of 10 = $1337.50 budget for women's athletics by 30%. dian Intercollegiate Championship and later In addition to serving as president ofthe formed the nucleus ofthe 1948 Olympic Alumni Association in 1977-78, her post- team also guided by Osborne. Business Attire or graduation years included nine years on the Alumni Award winners were announced Big Block Sweaters UBC Senate, ten years as alumni representa in the Summer issue oi'The Chronicle. They tive on the Women's Athletic Committee and will be on hand with Charlotte to recieve a member of 75th Anniversary Athletic Herit their awards and celebrate achievement at Allan Fotheringham, MC age Committee as well as countless other be UBC: Rick Hansen, Keynote Speaker hind-the-scenes activities. Alumni Award of Distinction Alumni Award Recipients Joining Warren in the Athlete Category - Bob McGavin BPE'65 ~ Sports Hall of Fame Inductees are Ken Winslade BPE'61, a scholar and bas ~ Rosalind MacPhee MFA'94 ~ ... And YOU! ketball captain who eventually was named (Posthumous) Canada West MVP and the 1961 Bobby Gaul Branch Representative Award winner; John Newton BCom'55, a - Wilson Wong BSc(Pharm)'72 ~ Portfolio multi-sport talent who concentrated his ef Faculty Citation tel: 685-4888 forts on the rugby and football field during ~ Bob Hindmarch BPE'52 ~ the early fifties; Mitch Ring BEd'90, who Honorary Alu mnu'- switched from basketball to soccer and be ~ Edith McGeer ~ tel: 822-3313 came one of the best players in the history of Lifetime Achievement toll free: 1-800-220-9022 women's soccer in Canada; Glenn Steele - Evelyn Lett BA'17, LLD'58 ~ BPE'85, a running back who led what is argu Outstanding Student Proceeds from the Dinner will go towards ably the most balanced and potent offense in — John McArthur BA'96 ~ UBC Alumni and Athletic Scholarships, UBC football history to its first-ever Vanier OutstandingYoung Alumnus Bursaries and Development Cup in 1982; and Ken Elmer BPE'71, a ~ Paul Lee BCom'87 ~
UBC AlLMNI CHROMCI.K, KM.L, 1996 17 The Jade Peony 'Way BaCk in the 70s, The A short story by Wayson Choy Chronicle used to run creative writing contests. People would send in a million short stories and the editors, with help from the Creative Writing department, would choose the winners. Ultimately, the job got too big hen Grandmama died at 83 Her hand reached out for mine. "You know, and the contest was stopped. But not before our whole household held Little Son, whatever happens I will never leave some pretty good fiction got published. The its breath. She had promised you." Her palm felt plush and warm, the slen Jade Peony won the last contest in 1979. In us a sign of her leaving, final proof that her der, old fingers boney and firm, so magically 1996, the story grew into a novel that has present life had ended well. My parents knew strong was her grip that I could not imagine become a Canadian bestseller. We thought it that without any clear sign, our own family for how she could ever part from me. Ever. would be a treat to republish it. Wayson tunes could be altered, threatened. My step Her hands were magical. My most vivid Choy BA'63, says that the incredible support mother looked endlessly into the small cluttered memories are of her hands: long, elegant fin he got from the department made a real room the ancient lady had occupied. Nothing gers with impeccable nails, a skein of fine, difference to him, and that, as far as he's was touched, nothing changed. My father, barely-seen veins, and wrinkled skin like light concerned, our Creative Writing program is thinking that a sign should appear in pine. Those hands were quick when she taught the best he's ever seen. He currently teaches Grandmama's garden, looked at the frost-killed me, at six, simple tricks of juggling, learnt when at Humber College inToronto. Thejade Peony shoots and cringed: no, that could not be it. she was a village girl in Southern Canton; a is available at most bookstores. My two older teenage brothers and my sis troupe of actors had stayed on her father's farm. ter, Liang, age 14, were embarrassed by my One of them, "tall and pale as the whiteness of These were not ordinary, carelessly made parents' behavior. What would all the white petals," fell in love with her, promising to re chimes, such as those you now find in our people in Vancouver think of us? We were Ca turn. In her last years his image came back like Chinatown stores, whose rattling noises drive nadians now, Chinese-Canadians, a hyphenated a third being in our two lives. He had been you mad. But making her special ones caused reality that my parents could never accept. So magician, acrobat, juggler, and some of the dissension in our family, and some shame. Each it seemed, for different reasons, we all held our things he taught her she had absorbed and one that she made was created from a treasure breath waiting for something. passed on to me through her stories and games. trove of glass fragments and castaway costume I was eight when she died. For days she had But above all, without realizing it then, her jewellery, in the same way that her first resisted going into the hospital . . . a cold, just a hands conveyed to me the quality of their love. windchime had been made. The problem for cold . . . and instead gave constant instruction Most marvellous for me was the quick-witted the rest of the family was in the fact that to my stepmother and sister on the boiling of skill her hands revealed in making windchimes Grandmama looked for these treasures wander ginseng roots mixed with bitter extract. At for our birthdays: windchimes in the likeness ing the back alleys of Reefer and Pender Streets, night, between wracking coughs and deadly si of her lost friend's only present to her, made of peering into our neighbors' garbage cans, chas lences, Grandmama had her back and chest bits of string and scraps, in the centre of which ing away hungry, nervous cats and shouting rubbed with heated camphor oil and sipped a once hung a precious jade peony. This won curses at them. bluish decoction of an herb called Peacock's drous gift to her broke apart years ago, in China, "All our friends are laughing at us!" Older Tail. When all these failed to abate her fever, but Grandmama kept thejade pendant in a tiny Brother Jung said at last to my father, when she began to arrange the details of her will. This red silk envelope, and kept it always in her Grandmama was away having tea at Mrs. Lim's. she did with my father, confessing finally: "I pocket, until her death. "We are not poor," Oldest Brother Kiam de am too stubborn. The only cure for old age is clared, "yet she and Sek-Lung poke through to die." those awful things as if—" he shoved me in frus My father wept to hear this. I stood beside tration and I stumbled against my sister, "— her bed; she turned to me. Her round face they were beggars!" looked darker, and the gentleness of her eyes, "She will make Little Brother crazy!" Sister the thin, arching eyebrows, seemed weary. I Liang said. Without warning, she punched me brushed the few strands of gray brittle hair from sharply in the back; I jumped. "You see, look her face; she managed to smile at me. Being how nervous he is!" the youngest, I had spent nearly all my time I lifted my foot slightly, enough to swing it with her and could not imagine that we would back and kick Liang in the shin. She yelled and ever be parted. Yet when she spoke, and her pulled back her fist to punch me again. Jung voice hesitated, cracked, the sombre shadows made a menacing move towards me. of her room chilled me. Her wrinkled brow grew "Stop this, all of you!" My father shook his wet with fever, and her small body seemed even head in exasperation. How could he dare tell more diminutive. the Grand Old One, his aging mother, that what "I —I am going to the hospital, Grandson." was somehow appropriate in a poor village in
18 UBC ALLMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1996 China, was an abomination here. How could She complimented my mother on her knitting, he prevent me, his youngest, from accompany made a remark about the "strong beauty" of ing her? If she went walking into those alley Kiam's brush strokes, which, in spite of him ways alone she could well be attacked by hood self, immensely pleased him. All this babbling lums. "She is not a beggar looking for food. noise was her family torn and confused in a She is searching for—for...." strange land: everything here was so foreign My stepmother attempted to speak, then fell and scientific. silent. She, too, seemed perplexed and some 'The truth was, I was sorry not to have started what ashamed. They all loved Grandmama, but school the year before. In my innocence I had she was inconvenient, unsettling. imagined going to school meant certain privi As for our neighbors, most understood leges worthy of all my brothers' and sister's com Grandmama to be harmlessly crazy, others that plaints. The fact that my lung infection in my she did indeed make lovely toys but for what and for a moment, the whole world seemed si fifth and sixth years, mistakenly diagnosed as purpose? Why? they asked, and the stories she lent. TB, earned me some reprieve, only made me told me, of the juggler who smiled at her, "My juggler," she said, "he never came back long for school the more. Each member ofthe flashed in my head. to me from Honan . . . perhaps the famine . . . family took turns on Sunday, teaching me or Finally, by their cutting remarks, the family ." Her voice began to quake. "But I shall have annoying me. But it was the countless hours I did exert enough pressure so that Grandmama my sacred windchime ... I shall have it again." spent with Grandmama that were my real edu and I no longer openly announced our expe cation. Tapping me on my head she would say, ditions. Instead, she took me with her on "shop "Come Sek-Lung, we have our work," and we ping trips," ostensibly for clothes or groceries, ne evening, when the family was would walk up the stairs to her small crowded while in fact we spent most of our time explor gathered in their usual places in room. There, in the midst of her shawls, the ing stranger and more distant neighborhoods, the parlor, Grandmama gave me old ancestral calligraphy and multi-colored searching for splendid junk: jangling pieces of Oher secret nod: a slight wink of her eye and a embroidered hangings, beneath the mysterious a vase, cranberry glass fragments embossed with flaring of her nostrils. There was trouble in the shelves of sweet herbs and bitter potions, we leaves, discarded glass beads from Woolworth air. Supper had gone badly, school examinations would continue doing what we had started that necklaces .... We would sneak them all home were due, father had failed to meet an editorial morning: the elaborate windchime for her in brown rice sacks, folded into small parcels, deadline at the Vancouver Chinese Times. A huge death. and put them under her bed. During the day sigh came from Sister Liang. "I can't last forever," she declared, when she when the family was away at school or work, we "But it is useless this Chinese they teach you!" let me in on the secret ofthis one. "It will sing brought them out and washed every item in a she lamented, turning to Stepmother for sup and dance and glitter," her long fingers large black pot of boiling lye and water, dried port. Silence. Liang frowned, dejected, and went stretched into the air, pantomiming the wav them quickly, carefully, and returned them, back to her Chinese book, bending the covers ing motion of her ghost chimes; "My spirit will sparkling, under her bed. back. hear its sounds and see its light and return to Our greatest excitement occurred when a fire "Father," Oldest Brother Kiam began, wav this house and say goodbve to you." gutted the large Chinese Presbyterian Church, ing his bamboo brush in the air, "you must re Deftly she reached into the Safeway carton three blocks from our house. Over the still- alize that this Mandarin confuses us. We are she had placed on the chair beside me. She smoking ruins the next day, Grandmama and I Cantonese speakers picked out a fish-shaped amber piece, and with rushed precariously over the blackened beams And you do not complain of French or Ger a long needle-like tool and a steel ruler, she to pick out the stained glass that glittered in man in your English school?" Father rattled his scored it. Pressing the blade of the cleaver the sunlight. Small figure bent over, wrapped newspaper, a signal that his patience was end against the line, with the fingers of the other against the autumn cold in a dark blue quilted ing. hand, she lifted up the glass until it cleanly coat, happily gathering each piece like gold, "But, Father, those languages are scientific," snapped into the exact shape she required. Her she became my spiritual playmate; "There's a Kiam jabbed his brush in the air. "We are now hand began to tremble, the tips of her fingers good one! There!" in a scientific, logical world." to shiver, like rippling water. Hours later, soot-covered and smelling of Father was silent. We could all hear "You see that, Little One?" She held her hand smoke we came home with a Safeway carton full Grandmama's rocker. up. "That is my body fighting with Death. He of delicate fragments, still early enough to steal "What about Sek-Lung?" Older Brother Jung is in this room now." them all into the house and put the small box pointed angrily at me. "He was sick last year, My eyes darted in panic, but Grandmama under her bed. "These are special pieces," she but this year he should have at least started Chi remained calm, undisturbed, and went on with said, giving the box a last push, "because they nese school, instead of picking over garbage her work. Then I remembered the glue and come from a sacred place." She slowly got up cans!" uncorked the jar for her. Soon the graceful ritual and I saw, for the first time, her hand begin to "He starts next year," Father said, in a hard movements of her hand returned to her, and I shake. But then, in her joy she embraced me. tone that immediately warned everyone to be became lost in the magic ofher task: she dabbed Both of our hearts were racing, as if we were silent. Liang slammed her book. a cabalistic mixture of glue on one end and two dreamers. I buried my face in her blue quilt, Grandmama went on rocking in her chair. skilfully dropped the braided end of a silk
UBC AIUMNI OIRONICLK, FAIL 1996 19 "That was not a cat," she ends and glued to stained glass. Her hands said. "It was just a cat." worked on their own command, each hand rac But Grandmama shook her head, for she said, and the odd tone of ing with a life of its own: cutting, snapping, knew it was a sign. "I will not live forever," she braiding, knotting .... Sometimes she breathed said. "I am prepared." her voice caused my father heavily and her small body, growing thinner, The next morning she was confined to her sagged against me. Death, I thought, He is in bed with a severe cold. Sitting by her, playing this room, and I would work harder alongside with some of my toys, I asked her about the cat: to look with alarm at her. "I her. For months Grandmama and I did this "Why did father jump at the cat with the pink every other evening, a half dozen pieces each eyes? He didn't see it, you did." can not take back my time. "The shaking in her hand grew worse, but "But he and your mother know what it we said nothing. Finally, after discarding hun means." dreds, she told me she had the necessary 30 curses. It is too late." "What?" pieces. But this time, because it was a sacred "My friend, the juggler, the magician, was as chime, I would not be permitted to help her tie pale as white jade, and he had pink eyes." I it up or have the joy of raising it. "Once tied," thought she would begin to tell me one of her thread onto it. This part always amazed me: she said, holding me against my disappoint stories, a tale of enchantment or of a wondrous the braiding would slowly, very slowly, unknot, ment, "not even I can raise it. Not a sound must adventure, but she only paused to swallow; her fanning out like a prized fishtail. In a few sec it make until I have died." eyes glittered lost in memory. She took my onds the clear, homemade glue began to harden "What will happen?" hand, gently opening and closing her fingers as I blew lightly over it, welding to itself each "Your father will then take the centre braided over it. "Sek-Lung," she sighed, "he has come separate silk strand. strand and raise it. He will hang it against my back to me." Each jam-sized pot of glue was precious; each bedroom window so that my ghost may see it, Then Grandmama sank back into her pillow large cork had been wrapped with a fragment and hear it, and return. I must say goodbye to and the embroidered flowers lifted to frame her of pink silk. I remember this part vividly, be this world properly or wander in this foreign wrinkled face. I saw her hand over my own, and cause each cork was treated to a special rite. devil's land forever." my own began to tremble. I fell fitfully asleep First we went shopping in the best silk stores in "You can take the streetcar!" I blurted, sud by her side. When 1 woke up it was dark and Chinatown for the perfect square of silk she denly shocked that she actually meant to leave her bed was empty. She had been taken to the required. It had to be a deep pink, a shade of me. I thought I could hear the clear-chromatic hospital and I was not permitted to visit. color blushing toward red. And the tone had to chimes, see the shimmering colors on the wall: A few days after that she died ofthe compli match—as closely as possible—her precious I fell against her and cried; and there in my cations of pneumonia. Immediately after her jade carving, the small peony of white and light- crying I knew that she would die. I can still re death my father came home and said nothing red jade, her most lucky possession. In the cen member the touch of her hand on my head, to us, but walked up the stairs to her room, tre of this semi-translucent carving, no more and the smell of her thick woollen sweater pulled aside the drawn lace curtains of her win than an inch wide, was a pool of pink light, its pressed against my face. "I will always be with dow and lifted the windchimes to the sky. veins swirling out into the petals ofthe flower. you, Little Sek-Lung, but in a different way . . . I began to cry and quickly put my hand in "This color is the color of my spirit," she said, you'll see." my pocket for a handkerchief. Instead, caught holding it up to the window so I could see the Months went by, and nothing happened. between my fingers, was the small, round firm delicate pastel against the broad strokes of sun Then one late September evening, when I had ness ofthe jade peony. In my mind's eye I saw light. She dropped her voice, and I held my just come home from Chinese school, Grandmama smile and heard, softly, the pink breath at the wonder of the color. "This was Grandmama was preparing supper when she centre beat like a beautiful, cramped heart. given to me by the young actor who taught me looked out our kitchen window and saw a cat— how to juggle. He had four of them, and each a long, lean white cat—jump into our garbage one had a centre ofthis rare color, the color of pail and knock it over. She ran out to chase it Good Fortune." The pendant seemed to pulse away, shouting curses at it. She did not have as she turned it: "Oh, Sek-Lung! He had white her thick sweater on and when she came back hair and white skin to his toes! It's true, I saw into the house, a chill gripped her. She leaned him bathing." She laughed and blushed, her against the door: "That was not a cat," she said, eyes softened at the memory. "The silk had to and the odd tone of her voice caused my father match the pink heart of her pendant: the color to look with alarm at her. "I can not take back was magical for her, to hold the unravelling my curses. It is too late." She took hold of my strands of her memory .... father's arm: "It was all white and had pink eyes It was just six months before she died that like sacred fire." we really began to work on her last windchime. My father started at this, and they both Three thin bamboo sticks were steamed and looked pale. Mv brothers and sister, clearing bent into circlets; 30 exact lengths of silk thread, the table, frozen in their gestures. the strongest kind, were cut and braided at both "The fog has confused you," Stepmother
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At least replacing Dr. John Grace whose six nary research through the faculty's niw campus construction.The Li- 25-30% have achieved status beyond year term ended in June. various research centres and insti b|ary system is part ofthis renewal. the minimal level, and boards pro A professor of Management Sci tutes. Because of size and location, mote informal, noncredit work ence in the Koerner is the focus. However, an shops. Study without local collec Faculty of ARTS annex to the Scarfe Building featur tions presents problems but the Li Commerce ing brick, glass, a pagoda roof-line brary is grappling with ways to and Busi r. Shirley Neuman, the dean of and interesting gardens should not streamline document delivery.The ness Admin the Faculty of Arts, has just com be missed. Dean Sheehan's notion of a virtual library available istration, Dr. pleted her term of office as chair of committment to the Library's place at a distance is intriguing. Granot is the English department at the Uni in education programs is underlined no stranger versity of Alberta. She is an experi by the location of its public areas LAW to Graduate Studies, having served enced and innovative administrator, adjacent to the Main Mall entrance. for the past five years as an associ a fellow of the Royal Society (on 1996/97 is the 40th anniversary *§« he Faculty of Law's alumni- ate dean. Responsible initially for which she currently serves as presi of UBC accepting full responsibility b«j|ed UBC Law Endowment Fund student admissions and later for dent of the Academy of Humanities for forming teachers and there are campaign is underway with a goal to awards, under her tenure the and Social Sciences), and past presi many graduates who profess nostal rafte $1 million. It will be matched number of graduate awards ob dent of ACCUTE and the Canadian gia for times spent planning with by the university's President's Fund. tained by UBC at the national level Association of Chairs of English. She teaching materials and ideas. When The fund will enable the law school rose significantly, and she helped has been active on SSHRCC com the Normal School closed, K—12 to support ongoing change and create new fundraising initiatives for mittees, most notably the Major texts, children's books and pictures growth. Specifically, it will support graduate fellowships. Collaborative Initiatives Programme. were briefly housed in Main and the development of new curriculum Dr. Granot received a BSc in Dr. Neuman's research interests then transferred to the new Cur in international trade law, intellec mathematics in 1969 and an MSc in include Canadian literature, women riculum Lab on the 3rd floor of tual property, communications law computer science in 1971 from the writers, modernism and autobiogra Scarfe although it was understood and alternative justice systems; re Technion, the Israel Institute of phy. She was founding editor at two to be an unsuitable, temporary search assistantships and financial Technology. In 1974 she obtained an Canadian literary presses, NeWest space. From 1968, professional aid for students; enriched programs interdisciplinary PhD in mathemat and Longspoon; wrote on Gertrude monographs and journals created in legal research and writing; public ics, computer science and business Stein.Yeats and Robert Kroetsch; an evolution from laboratory to conferences and lectures on impor administration from the University edited a collection of essays on Ca professional library but attempts to tant issues such as constitutional of Texas at Austin, followed by a nadian women writers; published secure a better location were not change, environmental legislation post-doctoral fellowship at extensively in leading periodicals successful until 1994. and the implications of claims for Dalhousie University. In 1975 she and journals and is working on a bi Visitors to the new Education indigenous self-government and joined the Faculty of Commerce ography of Canadian writer bpNi- Library undoubtedly notice the ad other initiatives which will maintain and Business Administration at UBC chol and the culture of his time. aptation to technology more than UBC's excellent level of legal educa and in 1986 was awarded the Advi The success rate of graduate stu anything else. Card catalogues have tion and research. sory Council Chair Professorship in dents working under her supervi been replaced by fiche and online The campaign is led by co-chairs Management Science. She is also a sion attests to Dr. Neuman's reputa access. Next year users will be Michael O'Keefe LLB'65 and member of UBC's Institute of Ap tion as a teacher in high demand. At served by "windows." This branch Dorothy Byrne LLB'77 and honorary plied Mathematics and is associated the University of Alberta, she was also maintains more than a dozen chair Dr. George Curtis QCOBC, with the Forest Economics & Policy the founding chair for the new special databases on CD-ROM LLD(Hon)'82. Michael and Dorothy Analysis research unit as well as the Women's Studies Program, intro while the K-12 media collection fea are assisted by James P.Taylor QC, Centre for Research in Women's duced full funding for PhD students, tures the same format as sample LLB'49;The Honourable Lloyd Studies and Gender Relations. initiated team-taught interdiscipli teaching materials. E-mail service MacKenzie LLB'48, Morley Koffman Dr. Granot is committed to the nary graduate courses and ex and searches from locations on the QC, LLB'52; Warren Wilson QC, faculty's dual role of ensuring a pro panded the undergraduate curricu Internet are now basic sources of LLB'67;Tom Roper LLB'74, Debra ductive and supportive environment lum in post-colonial theory and cul instruction for all levels of research. Sing QC, LLB'80; John Anderson for graduate students, and providing tural studies. Services must also be adapted to LLB'90;The Honourable Mr.Justice leadership in collaborative and Dr. Neuman is joined by two new faculty changes. Preservice students Bruce Cohen LLB'65;The Honour cross-boundary research, teaching associate deans: Dr. Janet Walker require resources on a twelve able Judge Elizabeth Arnold LLB'78; 24 UBC Ail MM CHRONICLE, FALL 1996 FACULTY NEWS Grant Burnyeat QC, LLB'73; Keith Certificates in Turfgrass Manage Mitchell QC, LLB'7/; Professor Bob ment and Garden Design are also Save BIG for $25 a year Reid LLB'74; Professor Karin being developed co-operatively with car< Mickelson LLB'88 and Dean Lynn Continuing Studies.These programs TheA * is Your Key to Great Discounts Smith QC, LLB'73. should be offered early next year. For further information on the Although the Garden Design Cer campaigns please call the Faculty of tificate will be provided face-to- The University of British Columbia Law Development Office at 822- face in intensive blocks totaling 6 Alumni Association 3303. weeks, much of the Turfgrass pro gram will be available through the AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES World Wide Web, multi-media and card other technological delivery tools. ollowing a long tradition of These courses will also be available providing adults with learning op on a stand-alone basis.The faculty also has links to the Certificate in A portunities, first through extension Joan Doe BA'96 Expiry Date 01/09/98 and continuing education, more re Watershed Management program UBC ID No. Card No. 00567 cently through professional devel that is being developed through Membership Not Transferable I 800 883 3088 / 604 822 3313 opment opportunities, the faculty is Continuing Studies and the Institute now providing credentials aimed at for Resources and Environment. meeting adult learner needs in bur 20% off Interchange Express Internet Account geoning knowledge areas. 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Credit courses in more opportunity for graduate Degree and Year of Grad: Turfgrass Management, Integrated studies.The number of graduate stu • Cheque • Money order • M\C QVISA • More Info Pest Management, Fruit Production, dents in Forestry has increased Card # and Management of Sustainable from 120 in 1991 to 189 last year. Expiry Date Landscapes will be available for Details can be obtained by contact home or workplace study in the ing the faculty at 604-822-2727 for a Signature next year or two. copy of our latest Annual Report. UBC ALUMNI CHROMLLL, FALL 1996 25 '•ijiajF- BY ZOE LANDALE Shadow Weather: Po past history, either.The Williams Lake commune, serious about the impersonal nature of what they ems Selected and for instance, is still in existence and is now re create. Whether a person is embarrassed by New by Charles Lillard spected in the community for its organic farming Hekkanen and Schraner's work, or wants to (Sono Nis, paper, $12.95) techniques. cheer them on, to write this book took guts. comes from a writer While clothes for the women change, how hopelessly in love with ever, from long dresses and hats to oversize plaid Ej>s««rKB ther understand nor Brown provides useful historical information as a t. •' Elsted (Sono Nis, paper, leave." Lillard has backdrop to the waves of settlers. $12.95) is a book of po worked in wilderness areas from Alaska to Puget The writer's personal experience was that ems. I am struck by the Sound; he tells us he has "paid his dues." In communal life was "like a gorgeously troubled precision and scrupu "Petroglyph atTidemark" he tells of a shaman love affair; it lingers in memory." Her tone is lousness Elsted brings to who "beat this nightmare into the elsewhen of playful. "Trips to the supermarket at Chemainus, a language, the slightly rock" and his own submergence as he stares at it, ferry-ride away, were frowned upon. But nothing withdrawn-from-the- "The dark green water of that dive...a wave/ curl was more desirable.With its sexy enclosures of world flavour of his po ing in from a wordless place." shapely, dependable edibles, nothing is more etry. For him, to see an The tension in the book comes from the glamourous to a commune kid than junk food." object truly is to possess it."When simplicity de contrast between the power the writer I would have liked a longer book. ceives, widen the eye/ and see what learning may has gained from knowing the land, and his power- be made of a thing not understood." This passion lessness, represented by hitchhiking, drinking, be Black Snow:An Imagi for knowing, for understanding, is a keynote of ing broke and cold and alone in these same re native Memoir by the book.Along with it goes an unspoken cher mote areas. Perhaps because of the selected na Ernest Hekkanen and ishing that gives the sub-textual feeling that the ture of the work there is, for this reader, a feeling Margrith Schraner (New writer would make a great friend.Take the poem of compression.There are too many anecdotal Orphic Publishers, paper, "Jennifer Dancing." It was unexpected, it was late afternoon, I was poems and not enough transformative ones like $23.95) pushes the walking alone, slow "Encounter, Waldron Island," and the fine "Clos boundaries of creative in the blunt sun, when I saw Jennifer. She was ing Down Kah Shakes Creek." non-fiction. In it, two dancing. No sooner had I finished the last poem than characters with the same Now my opinion of morning is Jennifer dancing. I turned to the beginning of the book again, names as the authors She is a white wave against the water.Jennifer searching out the poems about Kah Shakes write a novel about dancing is the morning increasingly polished Creek, trying to put together a narrative about themselves recalling with heat and air above the water dancing... the mysterious Elena. something that actually happened.The work is The artwork on the cover is gorgeous, with concerned with the idea of journey, both exterior On the book jacket, Robert Bringhurst re birds huddling in circles of rain. Lillard's last book and interior, and the writers are completely can marks that Elsted is not a fashionable poet.This is of poems won the BC Poetry Book Prize in 1988. did about their wants and failings. Endearingly true. Elsted's writing is not anguished, nor does candid to my mind, but others I've tried to loan it reflect inner city life and worry about violence. Possible Worlds: Uto the book to have recoiled. "You mean they go Instead his writing is firmly tied into nature and pian Experiments in into detail about their sex lives? Forget it.That's relationships. His concerns are that of a witness. British Columbia by weird." I find it unfortunate that the most inaccessi Justine Brown (New Star, The memoir is narrated contrapuntally. ble poetry in the book," 14 Changes on an Sao of paper, $16) gains in Much ofthe odyssey to Quadra Island is written Huang Bau-xi" is smack at the beginning.A friend poignancy because it was in the third person, though "I" and "we" and tells me that Elsted is an extraordinarily effective written by a person who "you" figure as well.Technically, the switches in reader. Perhaps these poems are meant to be grew up on a commune point-of-view lend interest to the story and the read aloud. and knows first hand the tensions that can beset reader always knows who's talking. I also liked intentional communities. Chatty in scope rather the excitement, the inclusiveness ofthe first part Hell No We Won't Go: Vietnam Draft Re- than encyclopedic, the book is fascinating reading. ofthe book.The Ernest character wants to put sisters in Canada by Alan Haig-Brown It's dotted with photographs, too: we rarely go everything in: snow, the Gulf War, menstrual (Raincoast Books, paper, $ 18.95) has a wishy- longer than three pages without a snapshot. From blood, breakfasts in cafes. Later on, after the washy cover that doesn't serve the book well. It's Bella Coola colonists on a fishing expedition writers leave Quadra, the narrative bogs down. It worth going beyond that, though, to the Pierre (1890),to a hippie commune once known as needs the magic island as focus. Berton introduction and the interviews where "Williams Lake's worst nightmare" (1992), the The book is adorned with photographs by Haig-Brown documents both the idealism and photographs gently evoke the flavour of the Schraner of events mentioned in the story. Is art confusion of the Vietnam years. times. What's surprising to me is that it's not all imitating life or life imitating art?These artists are In the late sixties and early seventies, be- 26 L'BC ALUMNI CHKONICLK, FALL 1996 BOOKS tween 10,000 and attempt to find out, as though she doesn't really 100,000American draft expect her daughter to tell her. Ina muses, dodgers came to "Those endless days of silence, and now with Canada. Who were Janie it seemed to be worse.A two-folded silence these people? The rich? crushing in." Heroes for refusing to In another story, a hand paper maker finds kill in an unjust war or out her hired help (and child substitute) has cowards who wouldn't learned in the matter of "a few months and with hang in and support out instruction what it took me years to learn. their country? Haig- Already she has far surpassed me." But there's Brown doesn't let his no exploration of this: it's left dangling. More dia readers get away with logue would give these stories some zip. Likeable such mistaken pigeon-holing. In painfully honest as these characters are, especially the man who interviews, we meet twenty of these Americans. wants to stay home and look after babies, they It is as though we, the readers, are sitting down are mainly described. in a kitchen having tea with them.We hear of par These are real people stories rather than ents who supported their kids, others who con literary fiction. I Le his been, among other things, a doc demned them bitterly. One draft dodger became tor, teacher, soldier, mentor, civic leader, chan a counsellor for the Committee to Aid American A Voice of Her Own: War Objectors inVancouver. Ironically, his clean- Women and the Jour cellor, academic, researcher and author. As a cut twin brother was an induction officer in nal-Writing journey, student of life, he has tried just about every Seattle. Sometimes, seeing the long-haired Van by Marlene A. Schiwy thing, visited nearly everywhere and met al couver man, draft dodgers would panic, thinking BA'78, MA'83. Fireside, most everyone. they'd found themselves across the desk from $19.This is both a how- their induction officer in a wig. Paranoia ofthe to guide for women who His successes in his many occupations and his times, often deserved. have never kept a jour dealings with the famous and not-so-famous This reader grew up with the Country Joe nal and an inspiration for and the Fish song"l-Feel-Like-l'm-Fixing-To-Die those who do. men and women of his time are richly detailed Rag" that's prominent in the front ofthe book. I While it's a self-help in this funny, wry account of SO years of living. thought I knew why the draft dodgers had come book, written and organ here.Wrong.Their real stories are much richer ized in a very accessible style, it's also a fascinat "No Time to Slow Down" is now available at than I had imagined. ing perspective on the threads linking women's lives. Schiwy is an academic with a background in your bookstore and through UBC Press. $1935 Passion Fruit Tea by literature, psychology and women studies. She Eleonore Schonmaier weaves a wealth of historical information Call UBC Press at 604 S22-59S9 to order. PASSION FRUIT TE/» throughout and quotes from both published and Eleonore Schonnuiei (Roseway Publishing, pa unpublished journals. per, unpriced) is a low- Published by the UBC Alumni Association key book of short fic She covers everything from the nuts and tion.The nine stories bolts (where and how to find the time, choosing feature decent charac the right notebook, avoiding unwelcome eyes), to ^vrntcomM^'temry Event ters, small-town sorts the more existential. She gives tips on how this V \ who do the best they raw and honest writing process can help build faturiM rmatys by can with what life's dealt self-understanding and esteem, and be a guide them.The first four fea through life transitions—not to mention an in Tim Ward ture Ina, the narrator, and her grumpy, chauvinis credibly cheap form of therapy. tic husband, Basil. Schonmaier is acutely aware of Schiwy even reminds us to consider what (What the Duddha Never Taught) the accommodations women and men make for will happen to our notebooks if we're suddenly each another: the book vibrates between the kidnapped by aliens.You might want to include ... and other UBC Authors tension of wanting a settled relationship and the lighter fluid, a match and instructions in your will. emotional price the characters pay when they are Written for a female audience, there is also October 19,1996 in one. much in it for male journal writers and journal- What isn't said in this book echoes heavily. curious. I'm generally a bit skeptical of self-help Cecil Green Park A married daughter leaves her husband and child books, but the companionship and shared com 1:00 pm —3:00 pm and comes back to stay with Ina and Basil.The munity I found here, for what has been my own daughter never tells her parents why she left, and intensely private journal habit since age 10, sur Call <322-3313 for more Information the mother makes only a half-hearted, badgering prised me. Deanna McLeod UBC An MNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1996 27 the long hours and hard work that made up his university Wong BA'48 was elected National President of the Cana experience ...Catherine (Washington) Heron BA'38 is dian UNICEF Committee to a two year term. He and his living inVancouver, and has two granddaughters, the eldest, wife Vivian Wong BA'47 retired to Vancouver in 1984 after 20s Jennifer, graduated from UBC this year with a BSc in Biology Wah had served 30 years with UNICEF overseas, mostly in ... Harold W.Smith BASc(MinEng)'35 is living in a lovely Asia. Vivian volunteers with UNICEF,and the Children's James H. Craig BA'25 is living in Penticton, BC and has 10 spot on the banks of the Ottawa River. The only UBC grad Hospital. grandchildren, and one great grandchild. He still travels, and he sees regularly is his brother, Cy Smith BASc(GeoEng)'33 stays in touch with some old classmates from UBC, even who is living in Ottawa. though a series of strokes have left him less mobile. 50s R.J. (Jim) Davies BA'53, BASc(MechEng)'62 retired from 30 40s years as a consulting engineer in Canada and Asia. He is 30s relocating to Schooner Cove.Vancouver Island ... John F. Marion D.Francis BA'46,MA'49 received the Perkin Medal Hamilton BCom'55 is still General Manager ofthe Insur David E. Carey BA'38 was inducted to the Sport Hall of from the Society of Chemical Industry.American Section on ance Brokers Association of BC. He and wife Norma have Fame in 1995. He was playing tennis for Canada this sum March 13, 1996 and the ACS National Industrial Chemists recently moved toWestVancouver ...Arthur Houston mer competing in international competition for the Gardnar Award in 1994 in San Diego. He is currently consulting, but MA'56, PhD'58 retired as Professor Emeritus from the fac Mulloy Cup in the 80 and over bracket. Canada tied for retired from Procter and Gamble in 1993 ...James P. ulty of Brock University following service as Chair, Biologi second in the tournament... Geoffrey Cornish BSc(Agr)'35 McGeer BA'44, MA'46 retired from Alcan in 1987, and has cal Sciences and Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Science. was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame this year. been the Managing Director ofthe Ontario Centre for Ma A recipient of the Canada 125 Medal he was recently in He is a noted golf course architect having designed or re terials Research, an Ontario Centre of Excellence ever vested as an Officer in the Military and Hospitaller Order of modelled more than 200 golf courses throughout North since. He has been recognized for his work in furthering St. Lazarus of Jerusalem ...Arthur Hughes BA'58 has been America, and a collaborator of two acclaimed books on the corporate-university cooperation in the field of research, awarded the Canadian military's recently introduced, but history of golf architecture ... Edmund G. 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He is a historian for Alberta Chartered fied by Profit Magazine as being one of Canada's fastest Accountants and remains a Professor Emeritus ...John growing companies. Kathryn and husband Greg Morton had Laurie Allan BA'80 is working as a freelance graphic de Klassen BA'55 is retiring and returning to BC. He and his a second child,Victoria, on December 12, 1995, a sister for signer ... Dan Bednar BCom'87 has been promoted to the wife plan to leave Brazil permanently after almost 37 years Stuart (3) ... Ernest B. Ingles MLS'74 has been honoured position of Controller for the Aoste Group, a newly ac of seminary teaching in Curitiba, and related ministries in by the Bibliographic Society of Canada for his major schol quired processed meats subsidiary of Sara Lee Corporation. Sao Paulo ...Clarence Madhosingh BSc(Agr)'54,MA'58 arly contributions to Canadian bibliography. He was The Aoste Group is located in France ...Craig Campbell retired last January after a 36 year career as a research sci awarded the Marie Tremaine Medal at a ceremony in Halifax BCom'80 has relocated to Montreal from Vancouver with entist in the federal department of Agriculture. He now ... Harry Janzen BEd'71 earned a doctorate in Educational wifeTrina and daughterTessa (born December 17, 1995). resides in London, Ontario and heads the Biotechnology Leadership at Nova Southeastern University, Florida in 1996 Craig is heading up Price Waterhouse's forest products con Research Consultants company ...R.M. (Monty) ... Brian P.Johnson BASc(CivEng)'71 was appointedVice sulting group ... Christianne (Christensen) Carin BFA'86 Newnham MF'58,PhD'64 has retired from the Canadian President of Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. in February, is developing an Ecotourism project (destination resort) in Forest Service after more than 3 I years of service following 1996. He has worked throughout BC as a consultant in the the South Okanagan for Patagonia Resorts ... Brian Neal the closure ofthe Petawawer National Forestry Institute. municipal engineering field for the past 25 years. He is re Carley BASc(CivEng)'85, MASc'88 and Megan K. Ryan sponsible for the BC operations, and Stanley's International BSc'86, BEd'88 have a son, Ryan Clifford Carley, born De Advanced Waste Water Treatment... Nattalia Lea BASc'78 cember 9, I 996, and a new business, Carley and Associates has self published a book,"Miracles for the Entrepreneur" ... Environmental Services ... Linda (Shepheard) Castagna Donald Luxton BA'76, BArch'83 has formed a new consult BCom'88 and Roberto Castagna BCom'87 were married in ing firm, Donald Luxton and Associates, specializing in herit November 1994, and just celebrated the arrival of their first age architecture ...The Canadian Society of Agricultural En child.Andrew Michael, on June 30, 1996 ...Wanda gineering is pleased to announce that Ali Madani MASc'76 Chalmers Peinhaupt BSVV'87 has been on staff at the 60s has been awarded the CSAEJim Beamish Award. He re Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre since July ceived the award for his outstanding achievements in re 1987. Wanda has been active in program development. She Peter Allan BA'60, MA'66 retired in June from Mount search and teaching in the area of soil and water engineer married Joe Peinhaupt in 1989, and they have two daughters, Allison University after 30 years as a professor of French. ing ... Brad Martin BCom'78 is moving back to Calgary with Caitlin( 1991) and Taylor (1992) ...After a year as assistant He is now living in Halifax ... Benjamin C. Hui PhD'69 re Canadian Pacific Railway as Director of Operations Support. cently joined Epichem Inc. asVice President of Operations ... He is accompanied by wife Dawn (Biden) Martin Graydon D. Lally BSc'69 just started his new law practice BSc(Agr)'79 and daughters Kim (13) and Nicki (10). Dawn specializing in construction law in Halifax ...Twice nomi was a Teaching Assistant in the Science Department at nated for the Order of BC and currently serving as vice Buying Windsor High School in North Vancouver ... Both Rowland president for the BC and Yukon division ofthe Duke of Ed McLeod LLB'72 and wife Jacqueline Kelly are partners at inburgh's Awards, Robert B. MacKay BCom'64 is the man the Vancouver law firm of Davis and Co. They have two a new carr aging partner of Gowling, Strathy and Henderson.Vancouver daughters, ages 15 and 12. Rowland is currently the Presi office, practicing in advertising, marketing and competition For the best possible price dent of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon law ...William D.Sawchen BA'68 is now retired and living and a director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of on the purchase of your in New Westminster ... Sandra (Wood) Smith BA'64, Canada ...After working for 10 years overseas, mainly in MA'67 is Manager of Local Planning Services for the Islands vehicle, call: Pakistan and Egypt,John F. Metzger BASc(AgrEng)'74 has Trust, who are the land use planning authority for the Gulf been living in Montreal for two years, employed by SNC- Islands. She received her PhD in geography from UVIC in Lavalin Agriculture Inc., and continuing to work with inter June, 1996. national agricultural development projects ...Devon L. Muhlert BEd'76 was awarded the 1996 Shari Meakin Bur sary through the Burnaby Arts Council for a body of photojournalistic work in 1995. Devon, husband Alex and three children have lived in the North Okanagan for 10 Greg Huynh years, and oldest daughterTami starts college in the fall ... #506 - 1015 Burrard Street Patricia Marie Pierce BSc'75, MD'79 and Mitchell Altman had their first child, Benjamin Harold Altman, on June 22, Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y5 70s 1996 in Las Vegas, where Patricia has worked for six years as an obstetrician specializing in maternal fetal medicine ... TEL: 688-0455 Ken Anderson BSc'77 has been appointed as Chief Finan Shannon (Martin) Purves-Smith BA'71 has graduated FAX: 669-1110 cial Officer ofthe Northwest Regional Health Board in BC with high distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University with a ... Dave Bulger BSF'78 and wife Brenda are pleased to an Bachelor of Arts in French ... Stewart E. Rohrer 8Sc'76, 1-800-300-GREG (4734) nounce the birth of their new daughter Karen Alexandra. DMD'80 has completed the examination for certification by Dave continues to work for Still Northwest in Chehalis.WA the American Board of Orthodontics and is now "Board ... Bruce Calder BA'70 is BCTel's AssistantVice-president Certified" ... Omer Ungan BASc(MechEng)'75 lives inAn- of Corporate Sales ... Claudia Cornwall's BA'70 second kara,Turkey. After working some years in Saudi Arabia, he book,"Letter fromVienna:A Daughter Uncovers her Fami now works for the Housing Development Administration as ly's Jewish Past", won the 1996 Hubert Evans Award, the BC a manager dealing with the World Bank projects relating to book prize for best non-fiction ...After teaching elementary disaster occurrences inTurkey. Old classmates are asked to naazHnsEEnasnBaann school in Mission for ten years, Burnaby for seven, and Eng e-mail him at UBC Au MM CHKOMCLK, IAI.I, 1996 29 CLASS ACTS In Memoriam professor in the Chemistry Department at Ottawa Univer North Vancouver ... Selena Diane Headley BSW'87 re sity, Denise (Schwerdtfeger) Chauret BSc'89 has moved ceived and MA in international studies from FullerTheologi- to the United States with her husband, Christian, who is cal Seminary in Pasadena, California in June 1996 ... Pamela RoderickVictor Anderson BASc(CivEng)'31 now an assistant professor at Indiana University at Kokomo. D.J. Hodgson BEd'87 has been teaching in Kamloops for 4 of Thornhill, Ontario in January 1996. Denise is teaching at IUK as well ... Robert Craigen BSc'81 years after teaching in Langley for a year, and Summerland received an MA and PhD in math from the University of for three ... Debra (Kominski) Horton BSc'85, MSc'89 Paul Barclay-Estrop BA'57 Waterloo, was appointed "AIMS Chair of Mathematics" at and Dexter Horton BSc'85 got together at their 10 year of Saltspring Island, BC on June 21,1996. Fresno Pacific College in August 1995, and has two children, highschooi reunion in September 199 I, and were married Christopher (8), and Lisa (4) ... Roberet Crymble BEd'89 the following August. They bought a new house and moved Frederick Leroy (Rick) Bardal BASc'70 and Lynn Schneider BEd'88 were married in October to Mission, BC in November I 995. Their son, Evan James of Calgary, Alberta on May 7,1996. 1988. Rob is teaching drama at Pitt Meadows Secondary, was born January I 1, 1996 ... Helen (Shou) Ing BSN'89 is and Lynn is teaching the same at Sentinel Secondary School. working as a research nurse with the department of Oph R.J. Richard (Dick) Blockberger BCom'49 Their daughter, Thalia Leanne was born April 5, 1996 ...A thalmology at the Mayo Clinic. Her husband is doing a cor ofWest Vancouver, BC on April 28,1996. new daughter was born to Maria (Nitins) Dibb BSc'83, nea fellowship there. They are looking forward to the long MD'87 and Alan Dibb BSc'84. Charlotte (September 1995) Rochester winter ... Gail Lin Joe BEd'83, MEd'85 is enjoying Ann (Hughe*) ChaJand BA'64, MA'69 is a sister to Patrick (4) and Kevin (3). Maria has a family teaching Grade I I, International Baccalaureate English at of\fictoria,BConJuh/18,1996. practice in Invermere, BC and Alan works as a biologist for the Colegio Americano de Quito. She will be in Quito, Ec Parks Canada ... Sandra L. Dick LLB'89 will marry Jim Hutt uador until June 1997 ... Yen Jong BA'83 and Barbara Michael Philip Chamber. BA'58, LLB'61 on October 16, 1996 ...Sam Erlenbach BASc(EIEng)'85 McMillan BA'83, Mi.S'87 were married May 18, 1996 in ofVancouver, BC in December 1994. received an MSc from the University of Alberta in May 1995, Calgary.Alberta ...Jill Kempton BCom'89 and Robert and was hired as a software applications consultant for a Komlos BCom'87 were married on July 20, 1996 in West W.A.Craighead BASc(ChemEng)'40 company located in the heart of SiliconeValley. In Novem Vancouver. The couple honeymooned in Maui and Kauai of North Vancouver, BC in 1993. ber of 1995, he married Krista on the Island of Barbados, and reside in West Vancouver ... Bob Klimek BCom'89 and and they live in the Bay Area ... Sean Gilbert BCom'88 and Connie (Kilian) Klimek BSN'87, MSN'95 are pleased to Patricia (Borgerson) Crone BA'46 Julie (Prasloski) Gilbert BSN'87 welcome Cameron announce the birth of their second son, Kurtis Michael, a ofVictoria, BC on August 2,1996. Bryce to their family (June 1996). a brother for Graeme little brother for Cole (2). Bob works as the Senior Lateral (August 1992) and Stuart (January 1994)... Rob Harder Auditor at the City of Burnaby and Connie works primarily BSc'87 and ElanaWolowidnyk BSc'88 had a baby boy, as a mom, but also as a home care nurse with the Vancouver James Curtis BA'19, BASc(ForEng)'30 Jeremy David Harder, on April 16, 1996, and are residing in Health Board ...Sandra Lapsky BA'80 and Mark of Comox, BC on May 16,1996. F.A.K. Ernstsohn MScfEffog)'59 of Roxboro, Quebec on June 17,1996. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Margaret j. Estey BA'28 KILLAM UNIVERSITY PRIZES ofVancouver, BC on May 14,1996. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS Claire (Lugsdin) Fleetwood BA'3I,MA'33 ofVictoria, BC on June 5, J 996. Once again the University is recognizing excellence in teaching through the awarding of prizes to faculty members.The Faculty of Arts will select five (5) winners of the prizes for excellence David W. Foubister BA'37 BEd'58 t in teaching for 1997. of Cranbrook, BC on March 25,1996. Alumni are encouraged to bring their suggestions for teaching prize winners to the attention of ... Edwa^f^WJterbei'tiBA'^ the head ofthe department, the director of the school or the chair ofthe programme in which ofVancouver, BC on January 10,1996. the instructor is teaching. Eligibility: Eligibility is open to faculty who have three or more years of teaching at UBC.The Arthur Muirhead Howard BA'33. MA'36, BEd'50 three years include 1996-97. ofVictoria, BC on June 8, J996. Criteria: The awards will recognize distinguished teaching at all levels, introductory, advanced, graduate courses, graduate supervision, and any combination of levels. Catharine Elizabeth (Chubb) Hunter BA'70, MSW73 Nomination Process: Members of faculty, students, or alumni may suggest candidates to the ofWest Vancouver, BC on August 11,1996. head of the department, the director of the school, or the chair of the program in which the nominee teaches.These suggestions should be in writing and signed by one or more students, Jane Claire Inkster BA'61 alumni, or faculty, and they should include a very brief statement of the basis for the nomina- of Nanaimo, BC on July 29.1996. tion.You may write a letter of nomination or pick up a form from the office ofthe Dean of Arts in Buchanan Building, Room B 130. Windsor Jew BA'89 Deadlines: The deadline for submission of nominations to departments, schools or programs, ofVancouver, BC on March 30,1996. is 27 January 1997. Mary Elizabeth Lade BA'Z6 Winners will be announced in the Spring, and they will be identified as well during Spring ofVancouver, BC. Convocation in May. one of the original Great Trekkers. For further information about these awards contact your department or callAssociate Dean of Arts, Dr. Errol Durbach at 822-3828. 30 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1996 CLASS ACTS Roseberry BSc'82 are happy to announce the birth of Nicholas Lapsky Roseberry on July I, I 996 ... Grant Lockhart BASc(GeoEng)'94 is project Geophysicist with Subscribe Now BHP Diamonds Inc. in Kelowna. He and wife, Kathryn (Krueger) Lockhart BA'82, have just bought a home and ... and help the home team! on April 11,1996 welcomed second daughter, Fiona Elisabeth ... Perry MacDonald BCom'88 was recently pro Yes, we know that as a graduate ofthis fine old university you get The moted with Weyerhaeuser Company. His position as a Transportation Manager involves travel to Florida,N.Caro Chronicle for free. We sure need some help getting it out, though. Not to lina and Georgia. Sandra (Trepanier) MacDonald sound too pathetic, but our costs are arcing toward Jupiter while our BCom'87 and Perry relocated to Tacoma from Kamloops as funding is staying right here on earth. We've added as much advertising a result of a previous promotion. Sandra also works for as we can, and other areas of the university pay for any announcements Weyerhaeuser Company in their recycling business ... In July we put in for them. Cost recovery, you know. 1996, Denise Mills MSc'84 began a new position with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, relocating But we're a victim of UBC's success. Every year some 6,000 plus people from Portland, Oregon to Helena, Montana. The position is graduate and go on our mailing list. We now print and distribute nearly a great challenge and involves building the newly organized 110,000 of these magazines. HELP!! environmental agency from the bottom up ...In March 1996, By subscribing voluntarily to The Chronicle, you help us keep up and Louise Moon BA'84 was awarded Canadian Television's give yourself a treat, too. Subscribe now and receive a very cool UBC Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Pro gram for her work on the CBC teen consumer program, Alumni baseball cap for all those lovely outdoor activities you engage in, Street Cents ...Andrea Demchuk Mozer BA'8/,MA'85 whether it be a real baseball game or puttering around the golf course or married Francis Mozer in 1991, and they have a son, Severn the garden. Send $27 ($15 for the subscription, $12 for the cap, which in Rochester Stefan, born January 3, 1995. Andrea is still cludes shipping) and we'll send back the cap and our thanks. working on her PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto ... Brian North BCom'83, LicAcct'84 and Susan Return to: (Neri) North BSc'85 are pleased to announce the arrival Please make cheque or money of their second child, Michael, on March 24, 1996, a brother Subscriptions order payable to: for Kayla, born on May 7, 1994 ... Doug Ondrik BPE'82, UBC Alumni Association BEd'88 and Kim (Dell) Ondrik BEd'88 are both educators The UBC Alumni Association 6251 Cecil Green Park Road with the Delta School District as well as the very blessed Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 parents of 2 boys,Will (3 III) and Jake (4 months). They live in Tsawwassen ...The Partners of Clark,Wilson, Barristers and Solicitors, are pleased to announce that Herbert I. Ono LLB'86 has joined the firm. Herbert will focus his Job Search Assistance practice in the area of securities ... Greg Osborne BASc(EIEng)'88, a senior engineer in CellularTerminal Sys Career Exploration and Consultation tems at Nortel in Ottawa, is proud to announce the arrival of his daughter Shannon Rose ...Annick Press is publishing World Wide Access Julie Ovenell-Carters BA'8 / first book for children in to Career Opportunities 1997, titled Adam's Daycare ... Donna Palmer-Dodds BEd'82, DipArtHis'84, Gordon Dodds BA'83 and children, Matthew and Olivia, have moved to New Delhi, India. Gordon is working with the Foreign Service and Donna is substitute teaching, and learning that riding elephants and camels can be fun ...Shaun Pattenden BSc'88 is enjoying life in Duncan, BC with his wife, Carol, and four year old UBCwStudent Resources Centre daughter, Beth. He left exploration geology in 1992 to pur sue teaching, but now is back doing geology, with an envi ronmental focus ... Doug Redmond BASc'85 is president of Alumni and employers may call R.A. Duff and Associates Inc, aVancouver based electrical communications and security engineering firm. He lives in 604-822-401 I Port Coquitlam with wife Joanne, and children Trevor (4) and Hayley (2) ... Luis P. Reyes MBA'83 has lived and (24 hours a day) worked in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for the last I I years. Dur ing that time he has travelled to Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He was remarried 6 years ago toYolanda, and they Fax:604-822-4013 now have two children, Alyssa {41/2), and Ashley (5 months) e-mail: [email protected] ... Janine (Thomson) Roberts BSN'88 and Stephen WWW: http://www.careers.ubc.ca Roberts had a beautiful baby boy on February 3, 1996, Colton Ward Roberts, a brother for Mikayla ... Rajiv Prakash Saxena MASc(CivEng)'83 is living in India with Rm 307 1874 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T IZI wife, Kirti, and two sons, Kartikeya (10) andVinayakeye {I). UBC Al.1 MM ClIROMCLK, KALI. 1996 31 CLASS ACTS In Memoriam Dave is project engineer for the construction of the light rapid transit system being developed by Bombardier and SNC-Lavalin ... Bev (Nystoruk)Wiens BEd'83 has been RolandWilliam Lauener MD'56 teaching since graduating. She has taught in Calgary since ofTrail,BConJuly8, 1996. 1987, and previous to that in Trail and Kelowna. She is mar ried to Ken Wiens, and they have two children, Stephen (8) Robert B. Leeson BCom'35 and Jennifer (5). She recently arranged a job share teaching of West Vancouver, BC on February 21,1996. position to spend more time being her daughter's class room's "room mom" and coaching her son's soccer team ... Laura Loucks BEd'65 Ralph P.W.Wong BSc'84, MD'88 has finished his medical of North Vancouver, BC on July 27, 1996. oncology fellowship and is moving to St. John's to take up a position at the provincial cancer centre as well as working J.D. Mair BASc(ChemEng)'40 at Memorial University. ofVictoria, BC in June 1995. Kathleen Frances (Brain) Maule BA'30 of Victoria, BC on May 19, 1996. Clare N. McAllister BA'l 7, DipSocWk'45 ofVictoria, BC in June 1996. 90s Mary Louise McKay BSN'61 Bruce G.Allen PhD'92 recently moved from Calgary to ofVancouver, BC on April 14, 1996. Balvinder Gakhal BSc(Pharm)'91 on April S, 1996 in Montreal to take the position of Research Scientist at the Vernon, BC. Balvinder died tragically, along with her Institut de Cardiologic de Montreal, Centre de Recherche ... Edith Stacey Paul BA'28 parents, sisters and brother. Raised in Vernon, she came Beverly Bardal BFA'9I married Gerald john ofVancouver, BC on May 4,1996. to BC from India at the age of two. She was a hard Vanderwoude MFA '94 on June I, 1996 in Las Vegas, Ne worker, but always had time to help others. She was vada. They reside inVancouver, BC ... Peyvand Bayzae Audrey Frances (Harwood) Robinson BA'39 known for her great sense of humour and will be BCom'94 and Nicole Leiren BA'95 were married at a small ofVancouver, BC on May 9,1994. missed by her colleagues and her fellow pharmacy ceremony in Jakarta on June 24, 1996. Peyvand will remain graduates.While at UBC she was president of Lambda in Jakarta for at least one more year, while Nicole returns Robert G.Saunders BASc(OvEng)'49 Kappa Sigma. to UBC to begin her three year law degree this September of North Vancouver, BC on April I, 1996. ... Laura L. Brown PhD'95 is working for the National Re search Council as a Research Officer at the Institute for John C.M.Scott BA'47 Rajiv has been working as director at the national Marine Biosciences in Halifax. Her research concerns ofVancouver, BC on March 10,1996. informatics centre the last 12 years ... Carolyn Schell aquaculture microbiology ... Les Buck PhD'93 is at the Uni BASc(ChemEng)'88 and Edmond Louie BASc(ChemEng)'89 versity of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Depart Ian R. Seymour BA'51, LLB'54 have been living in the United States for three years. Ed is ment of Zoology ... Mark Burgert BSF'93 and Nicole ofVictoria, BC on May 27, 1996. working for Motorola, and they have a little boy that was (Burgoyne) Burgert BA'92 were married over the sum born in February 1995 ... Lesley (Bonner) Schwab mer ... Larry Chrobot BSF'91 took a new job in October David John Shirley MBA'86 BSc(PT)'87 and husband Dennis have three children, 1995 as the Planning Forester for Rustad Bros, and Co. Ltd. of Hamilton, Ontario on July 20, 1996. Makenna (4), Nolan (2) and Brennen (I). Lesley is practicing in Prince George, and is soon to be married ... Linda physio two evenings a week ... Joey Schwartzman BFA'87 Cuddeford BSc'94 and Warren Davidson BSc'94 were John D.Simpson BASc(ChemEng)'47 was married in June to Corinne. He is working in fashion married on August 10, 1996. Both will be starting their of Mt. St. Helaire, Quebec on July 8, 1996. while keeping up his painting and writing of a book about third year of medical school at UBC this fall ...After com healing and personal growth in a new age context... pleting an LLM in England and working in Brussels with the Barbara (Cowan) Sutherland-Brown BCom'49 Gabriella lldiko Szabo BSc'87 volunteers as North Shore/ Canadian Mission to the European Union, Alison ofVictoria, BC on June 20, 1996. Howe Sound Activator, and sits on the provincial board of Dempsey LLB'90 will be joining a firm in London England ... the Allergy and Asthma Information Association. She con Andy Erkau BA'95 is working on his MBA at UBC while Christopher Dean Taylor BASc(GV£ng)'76 tinues writing proposals for Kilborn Engineering inVancou his wife Pam (Bush) Erkau BEd(Sec)'9l is on maternity ofVancouver, BC on April 7, 1996. ver, as well as doing some drafting and design ...After com leave since the birth of their first child, Daniel, in January pleting two years of post grad training in southern Califor 1996 ... Danie Fecteau BMLSc'90 is working as a medical CarlTolman BA'24 nia, Sean R.Thomas BSc'89 began work as a physician in technologist in Montreal at Hospital Maisonneune of St. Louis, MO. Merritt, BC. He is returning to UCLA in July 1996 to com Rosemont, but is thinking of moving to the United States in plete his residency in psychiatry ... V. RogerTing MASc the near future ...After finishing internships at Royal RaymondV.Tomlinson BSc'54, MSc'56 (ElEng)'87 has been back inVancouver since 1987. Cur Columbian Hospital and Edmonton Regional Internship, re of Palo Alto, CA on April 20, 1996. rently he is the General Manager at Qualidux Industrial spectively, Jacqui Gingras 8Sc'95 and Geoff Ball BSc'95 (BC). He and wife Lydia had a new baby this May named will both commence graduate work in the area of nutrition Michelle ... Denise Tupman BEd'85 is still at home raising at the University of Alberta ... Robert Gray BA'92 is living three children, Hayley.Alexandra and Kenneth. She is plan in China doing research in Nanjing. He will publish his first ning on returning to work as a substitute teacher in Sep book in the fall of 1996. Rob received his MA in 1995 from tember 1997, after an eight year teaching absence ... Dave Harvard, but is moving to the University of Michigan {Ann Weatherby BASc(CivEng)'88, his wife, Lori, and their two Arbor) to begin his PhD in Chinese history ... Bruce children are currently living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where Hallsor BA'89 was called to the bar in May and is practising 32 UBC ALUMNI CHRONICLE, FALL 1996 CLASS ACTS Sylvia (Goldstein) Ablowitz BA'21 is a store Jewish people inVancouver at that time.And house of memories of the early days of UBC they decided that it would be nice for my and Vancouver. She is also the "Sylvia" for whom brother and my sister, and myself of course, to the Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver's West End is be around Jewish children." She loved Los An named.To Vancouver residents and visitors, the geles. But she had already met her husband-to- Sylvia Hotel, which was built by her father, is a be inVancouver. special place to sit and relax and enjoy the city's The newly married couple settled inVan spectacular sunsets (when it isn't raining!). couver. Her husband worked at H.A. When Sylvia Goldstein was at UBC, it Roberts Insurance, but when the 1929 was a very different place than it is now, lit Crash came, he left and opened his own erally: the campus was still on the Fairview J A insusrance office with Sylvia's help."I was Slopes. Some professions were not consid fed up with going to bridge parties and ered appropriate for young ladies, so she things like that." She took a correspond opted to study French. Because there were ence school to "find out about insur not many French-speaking people inVancou ance." Their business was very successful, ver then and very few opportunities to speak '• -\'f- *. 4 and they prospered. conversational French, she graduated with an Sylvia is widowed now.At the age of 96, academic knowledge ofthe language, but wasn't a The Goldstein house was always open. Mrs. she is a very busy woman, a telephone volun fluent speaker. Goldstein never forbade her children to go any teer, helping other seniors to stay in touch with She has very clear memories of many pro where, she just made her house so welcoming, the outside world. She speaks very fondly of a fessors who are now revered names at UBC. that everyone wanted to be there. Mother and young woman she tutored in English, a journal Her fondest memories are of Dr.Wesbrook brother played the piano, somone played the ist who had immigrated from Russia. She reads ("He mingled with students and was easy to ap drums, or "traps" as she calls them. On Friday and the entire newspaper every morning and is up proach.") and Freddy Wood. "I'm not sure if he Saturday nights the house was filled with young to date on everything that is happening in the was a'doctor' or not, everyone just called him people. world, including computer technology. She doesn't use computers, or the internet, but she 'Freddy.'" After graduation, she enroled in a local busi knows it's there and she knows what it does The debate which is current in the '90s, about ness school, and after she finished that and a brief and what it is capable of doing. She is not like the role of universities, was already raging in the stint working for H.R. MacMillan, her family de the ivy-covered hotel that bears her name; no 1920s. "They talked about the fact that we cided to move to Los Angeles. "My folks went moss grows on this woman! weren't taught to make a living.The professors down on a trip to California.There were a lot of used to say that we were taught to think." Jewish people there, and there were very few — Dale Fuller at Crease Harmon and Co. inVictoria. Bruce is married to Lynn would like to announce the birth of their daughter, acreage ...Jennifer Mary Raguz BA'94 is currently a Sharon (Pratt) Hallsor BA'91 who has been recently Andrea Kristine born on June 4, 1996 ... Lesly Mounce teaching assistant for English 110, and is in her second year promoted to general manager of Benson Industries ... BEd'90 and husband Michael Maginnis are happy to an of PhD work in English. She received her MA from Queen's Michael Hamilton BSc'93 and Carole Forsythe are getting nounce the birth ofjenna Clair, born on May 24, 1996 ... in 1995, and is a non-resident member of Green College at married on October 26, 1996. The two met on AMS Stu Nancy Melo BA'94, BEd'95 is presently teaching grade four UBC ...After leaving her position of Associate Attorney with dent Council when Michael was a rep for the Science Un inVancouver ... Since January 1994, Shichang Miao PhD'91 Ferguson Gifford inVancouver, Laura Stanyer Moynihan dergraduate Society and Carole was aVP ...John Hole has been working atTularik Inc., a biotech company special LLB'90 moved to Cape Cod, and is now married and work PhD'93 and Judith Hole BA'91 are residing in Virginia. izing in gene regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area, as a ing for Ament and Ament, Faimouth, MA ...Monica Judith completed her MS in Speech Pathology and Audiol natural products chemist... Mark Oulton BSc'9/ is in the (Klassen) Stekl BA'91 and John Stekl BCom'86 were mar ogy in 1995 at California State University, Hayward, and is third year of a four year joint degree program (Masters of ried in April 1996. John is a CA, and Monica is an urban currently working as a speech pathologist. John has just Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Law) studying vari planning assistant inVancouver ... Kevin Swanson BSc'91 started an Assistant Professor position in geophysics in the ous processes for reconciling Aboriginal rights claims with has graduated from medical school at the University of Al Department of Geological Sciences atVirginiaTech ... natural resource management issues in the BC salmon fish berta, and is now on his way to Halifax to start a Family Robert M. Holland MASc'93 is a project engineer with ery ... Evelyn (Guanzon) Pederson BSc'92 married Dean Medicine residency at Dalhousie University ... EricTardif Ballard Power Systems, is living in Burnaby and loving it... Pederson in September 1995 and is presently working for MBA'94 will be returning to school this fall at Boston Col Greg Jackson BSc(OT)'91 is building a new house to make theVancouver Police Department in the Crime Laboratory lege. He was awarded a graduate assistantship to undertake room for a second child due in October ... Robert K. Lee as a forensic specialist... Catherine Gillian Pickles MA'91 a Master of Science in Finance. On September 7, 1996 he MSc(BusAdmin)'91 was transferred to IBM's headquarters in received a PhD in geography from McGill University in June married his long-time sweetheart,Tanya Kovacik in Mont- Markham, Ontario in the fall of 1995. He is working as a 1996, and has a faculty position in New Zealand ... Michael Tremblant, Quebec ... Robert J.Taylor PhD'95 is a Wood business system analyst and enjoying his first summer in A. Pilgrim BSc'90 has taken over a solo family practice in Engineering Scientist at Forintek Canada Corp. inVancouver Ontario, along with wife, Fanny and daughters Carmen and beautiful Dawson Creek, BC. He's spending his spare time, ... PhilipWang BSc'90 obtained his MBA and continues his Chelsea ...Andrew Lynn BSc'90 and Corina (Petersen) along with his wife Lorna, tending arugula on their rural work for the Federal Government in Ottawa. M* UBC Al.LMNI ClIRONICI.K, IAI.I. 1996 33 ALUMNI ACROSTIC PUZZLE 1 R 2 F U ^^H 4 5 V 6 J 8 T 9 C 10 E 11 D 12 L Lillooet was Mile Zero of • the Cariboo :2wds. 116 151 129 108 34 173 14 73 28 13 U 14 A 15 I 16 R 17 J 18 T 19 B 20 H 21 F 22 U 23 C 24 L 25 0 Behaving J 7 150 93 143 102 19 26 R 27 P 28 A 29 V 30 H 31 F „. 33 V 34 A 35 36 M 37 S 38 D 39 Q 40 C 41 U 42 R 43 K .. 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The first letters of each clue, read ing down, form the name ofthe author and title ofthe book. Com plete the puzzle and return it to us by December 15, and you may Language spoken by Jews win a swell Alumni baseball cap! Winners are picked in a random in eastern Europe 6 140 121 35 17 106 97 draw from among the correct solutions sent in. Solution in the next issue. Treasury Board Commandment: "Remember Day to keep it holy!": 107 142 53 85 64 4 43 162 170 2 wds. SOLUTION: A silent signal of warning, recognition, or greeting: 77 135 24 48 12 112 57 87 2 wds. 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