“The Tools to Finish the Job“ Every day, from the Peterborough Works of precisionmachines, geared up to war-time CanadianGeneral Electric Company, come effort, building motors of every description, for hundreds of synchronous, induction and every purpose; generators for power companies; direct-currentmotors. These workhorses of equipment for steel mills; drives for mine hoists modern industry go into immediate action to . all means for making“the tools to finish drivethe machines that make guns, tanks, the job.” shells,ships, planes, everything in whole or Fornearly half acentury Canadian General part that adds up to victory. Electric engineers and craftsmen have been find- Almosta sixth of amile inlength is the ing ways to make electricity more useful. Today, huge machine shop at Peterborough Works. they are applylng electricity to the task of de- As one walksits long avenue one sees fending the benefits that it has helped to create. G-E research saves the Canadian public hundredsof thousttnds of dollars annually. iomecom Progra mm In n Brock Building It’s roundup time in Vancouver for graduates of the University of B. C. On Friday, October 24 at 7 p.m., from all parts of Vancouver will come graduates, representing the earliest graduating classes and the most recent for the AlumniAssociation annual meeting and dinner in the Brock Memorial Building, above. The function will launch the annual Homecoming program, and special guests of honor will be Lieutenant- Governor and Mrs. W. C. Woodward. Business and speeches will be abbreviated, motion pictures will be shown in the Brock theatre and later in the evening there will be a dance. Guests of honor will be Chancellor and Mrs. R. E. McKechnie, President and Mrs. L. S. Klinck, Mrs. F. F. Wesbrook, Dean Dorothy Mawdsley, Dean and Mrs. Daniel Buchanan, Dean and Mrs. F. M. Clement, Dean and Mrs. J. N. Finlayson, and Ted McBride, president of the Alma Mater Society. The party will be informal and tickets, 85c per person, will be on sale at the door. Undergraduates as well as grads will attend the dance and Dal Richards will provide a musical background. Athletes, undergraduate and alumni will meet on Saturday at a BigBlock luncheon in the Brock, before the big football game in the stadium when Varsity plays the Vancouver Grizzlies. After the game, a special turkey dinner will be served in both Brock and the Caf. In the evening, traditional Theatre Night will be held. Players Club and Musical Society will contribute to the program and there will be songs and skits by various campus organizations as well as grads. There will be roll call for all years from the earliest. Afterwards an informal dance will be held in Brock Hall with music by Sid Poulton’s Varsity Band. -2 THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE PRISON CAMPS Isxmr, GUERSSEX’ RAIJI’H HESDERSON A wcll-known woman gracluato, Mrs. Onc of U.B.C.’s most popular gracln- Tarrant(:uernsry, the former Isabel atcs, RalphHenderson, known as Rnssoll is a prisoncr of war in Germ- “Hunk” who graduated in ’:{6 rwcntly any. 511,s.(+uernscy, who worked in the nladc newspapc’r headlines. geology departmmt of U.13.c‘. before she married a gcwlogist from Rhodesia Hunk joincvl thcRoyal (Janadian was a victim of Nazi sea havoc. Air Forccl in June, 1940. In April of Shcwas aboard the now historic thisyear hv went overseas as a pilot ZamZamwhen it, was sunk by a Ger- antl from then untilAugust was onr man raiderin May. Mrs. (inernsey, of the flyers whose bombs harassed withthe rest of thepassengers was (:ermany ant1 ownpiedEurope hy taken to a women’s concentration camp night. at Iiehenau, in south Germany. In Sep- temtwr she was hronght to Berlin with In August hv wasshot down over othcr I3ritish wonlcn prisoners. (:crmany and his friends spmt anxious Atthe German capitol she is tech- days until hv W:IS reportcd safv, Imt a nically free antl is living in a hotel on prisoner of war. 150 marks or $60 a month provided hy “I am fin(> ant1 healthy,uninjureci the C‘anatlian Government. Hugh Keenleyside, Arts ’20, like Robertson, Mrs. (iuernsey wrote a graphic story (luckily)and being treated quite wvll,” he has since written to his fam- holds therank of Councellor inthe De- forthe last etlition of theChronicle ily. partment. His most important duties are descril)inpher life in South Africa. those of Secretary of the Canadian Section Shc was on her way home there when “ Wc arc under the,juridiction of of the Permanent Joint Board of Defence, the s torpedoed.theGerman AirForce ehival- aand in T H E GRADUATE CHRONICLEGRADUATE THE 3 By WILLIAM C. WILSON, Arts ’16 I have just come in from a Saturday latter years of the war that an oppor- afternoon drive through the University tunity was offered to young Canadians grounds, where I have been watching toreceive the necessary training in the hundreds of young undergraduates Canada. takingtheir military training. The years roll back and I sit musing of the PRINCESS PATS earlydays of thelast war, when the The first massenlistment from our O.T.C. was born. institution comprised the group who in thespring of 1915 leftas re-inforce- No funds,no uniforms, no parade- ments for the famous “Princess Pats” grounds,except a cold, draughty, old (P.P.C.L.I.).There were about 30 in warehouseon Hamilton street, no or- all, and their leaving was the “ raison derly room (do I hearsome “old d’&tre” for many rousing social func- sweat”say “Thank the Lord!”), NO tions held on the top floor of the “cow rifles,no armoury, no instructors ex- barn,” which at that time was the main cept overworked officers from the per- building of the University (MeGiL1 Col- manent forces who co-operated by ren- lege), situated at the corner of Tenth dering their services after doing their and Laurel. Many of them did not re- daily duties in the regular Army. How- turn,but of thosewho did even the ever, “the splendid spirit of the cadets younger graduates may have heard of and the untiring efforts of the officers)) “Eb”Crute of soccerfame, Gordon welded the O.T.C. into an organization “Irish” Craig (Mayor Telford’s secre- that had “cause to be proud of its war NOTHER U.B.C. man whose name is in tary), LyallFraser and Ralph Mac- A theheadlines these war days is Harry record,and had a tradition of hard Pherson,past presidents of theVan- work and self-sacrifice.” Letson, M.C., newly created a Brigadier, couverand New WestminsterBoards Canadian military attache at Washington. I know that that same fine spirit is of Trade. Brig. Letson was one of the earliest gradu- being evidenced on our campus today. ### ates of theuniversity and later lectured Many of the old brigade have sons who there as associate professor of mechanical are receiving their training under the Other group enlistments were to the engineering.During WorldWar I he joined vastlyimproved conditions that exist Queen’sUniversity Battery later in as a subaltern in the 196th Battalion West- today, and to us there is a thrill in re- 1915, andthe Western Universities ern University Corps and distinguished him- alizing that from the small beginning Battalion in 1916. self as an officer. He was awarded the Mili- Cross. therehas developcd such an efficient ### tary organization. Since that time he has received his Ph. D. Graduates of waryears who are at U. of London, beenofficer commanding, WARHEROES again rendering service with the mili- U.B.C.O.T.C., a member of the Canadian In looking over the “Record of Ser- tary services at the U.B.C. are “John- Bisley team and before his new appointment, vice,” U.B.C.1914-18, wefind the ny” MacLeod, “Dutch” Eckardt, Art O.C. Vancouver defense area. names of697 members of the Univer- Lord and Gordon Scott. sity or of the McGill Colleges of British ### Columbia,and of these 78 laiddown their lives. Thespiritual welfare of thepeople Scott,Jimmy Lawrence and Ian Gib- of theprovince is being looked after son . bowlingwith those slickers bymany gentlemen who were ttctive If we could only turn back the years “Hoolet”Maxwell, Raymond . Bunn andstage this year’s Homecoming in militia work on the campus and in and“Spot” Berry (U.B.C.’s first rugby game between the present stal- activeservice during the last war. Rhodes Scholar whose sudden death at wartsand those of twenty-fiveyears Some of those coming to mind arc Sam Oxford after the war shocked us all) ago! Of course, itwould beEnglish Galbraith,Joe Smeeton, Frank Buck . those happy meetings at the Strand rugby, as the Canadian game had then (notthe oneyou see inthe movies), Palace while on leave in London . not even been considered on these far- BryceWallace, “Walky” Walkin- thebill for broken beds received by westernshores. .. shaw, Bill Willan, Theo de .Pencier,- the Councik after the annual Victoria (thetwo latter are again on active trip . the thrill of receiving,while Can,yo,u see them now ? Steve Plum- service as padres). mer,Lyall Fraser, John Anderson, on active service, the news of being a Gord Scott, A1 Bickell, Art Lord, Ham- LETSON TO WASHINGTON member of the first graduating class. ish Cameron,Pete Celle, BillDawe, Harry Letson is another originalwho The memory of Sherwood Lett’s cap- NerrillDesBrisay, George D ix o n, has been activein militia work since able work in drafting the original con- “Dutch”Eckardt, “Skipper” Helme, his cadet days at King Edward High stitution for the Students’ Council ,. Jack Hoult, Blair Jardine, Harry Let- School:ind is now Canadian Milit,ary the many debates over the real mean- son, Murray Meekison, anda host of AttacheatWashington, D.C.