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This is the way with Eaton Brands They serve you faithfully and well. Their versatile range includes goods and merch- andise that clothes you and your family, makes your housekeeping lighter, speedier; bringsentertainment and enjoyment to your leisure hours. Constantlyresearched for better, more proficientdesigns andstyles and work features,they are always efficientlyup- to-date to help you live better. Eaton’s Brands are the best buys in their fields . askfor them, you’ll be glad youdid. EATON’S OF CANADA During Homecoming Week be sure to see Eaton’s “It’s Fun to Remember” Fashion Show 3 . because of firms like LAURENTIDE The way Canadians liveis the envy of nearly every country working capital funds are made available. In another way, in the world. Much of what we enjoy comes through modem modem financing techniques enablepeople to have the things financing - or the “renting” of money to companies to help that make life better, and pay for them while they earn. them operate andgrow. This means new products, new stores There are manyfirms who offer modem credit facilities,but and services, new places to go - and new jobs. Industry and we think Laurentide is the one with whom you would be our whole economyexpand andprosper as fresh, hard- most happy todo bushes. LAURENTIDEFINANCIAL CORPORATION LTD. HEAD OFFICE: 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. 89 BRANCHESACROSSCANADA 112 BRANCHES INUNITEDSTATES THE 5 BRANCHES IN GREATBRITAIN 5 BRANCHES IN FRANCE 3 INDIESWESTBRANCHESTHE IN 4 Volume18, No. 3 -Autumn, 1964 CONTENTS EDITOR 6 Editorial Elizabeth B. Norcross, BA’56 7-9 Highereducation’s latest tool Doreen Bleackley, staff assisfant 10-1 1 The late Chief Justice Sherwood Lett BUSINESS MANAGER Tim Hollick-Kenyon, BA’51, BSW‘53 12-14 Loggerheads EDITORIALCOMMITTEE 15 Shoppingcentre campus? John L. Gray,BSA’39, chairman Cecil Hacker, BA‘33, pasichairman 16-1 7 The public in university affairs John Arnef! L. E. Barber, BSA‘47, MSA50 18-19 Student volunteers in action Mrs. T. R. Boggs, BA29 Mrs. Cvetkovich, BA57 J. J. 20 Universitiesin fund drive Ralph Daly Stan Evans, BA’41,BEd’44 21-28 “It’s fun to remember when” Allan Foiheringham, BAS4 Himie Koshevoy, ‘32 30-3 1 University news Frank P. Levirs, BA‘26, MA31 J. A. (Jock) Lundie, BA’24 32 AlumniAssociation news Gordon A. Thom, BCom‘56, MBA(Md1 Mrs. Frances Tucker, BAS0 33 Alumnaeand Alumni Publishedquarferly by !he AlumniAssociafion of !he Universify of Brifish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Busi- ness andediforial offices: 252 Brock Hall, U.B.C., Van- couver 8, B.C. Aufhorized as second class mail by !he Posf Office Departmenf, Offawa, and for paymenf of porfage in cash. The U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle is sen! free of charge Io alumni donafing Io the annualgiving programme and U.B.C. Developmenf Fund. Nan-donors mayreceive !he magazineby paying asubscripfion of $3.00 ayear. OURCOVER PICTURE was chosen to lead the reader into the SOMETHINGNEW THIS ISSUE are theline drawings which story of the just-opened British Columbia Institute of Tech- enliven the Homecoming pages in the middle of the book. nology on page 7. It is indicative of the type of structure Eve(Mrs. R. D.) Buchanan, the artist, tookfine arts in which the building technology at the Institute will be training at St.Mary’s Academy, Winnipeg, and continued involved. Perhaps it couldalso be taken as symbolic of with it, and commercial art, atthe Technical College, what is happening everywhere in education to-day. Regina. Her specialty is animal portraits-familypets, horses. Mrs. Buchanan with her husband, a UBC alumnus, is a life member of the Western Art Circle andshe has regularly had pictures hung in their exhibitions. Currently she has a one-man show at theGallery of B.C. Arts, Chilco and Georgia. Divided Loyalties- A new doctrine David M. Brousson, President, Alumni Association NI ASSOCIATIONS andtheir parent universities have the newer institutions need support and interest as well as A“””always preachedloyalty toAlma Mater, and every the older. means of persuasion, from emotional sentiment to practical T THE SAME TIME, while you may plan to send your son common-sense,has been used todevelop andmaintain or daughter to one of the newer institutions, if he or she devotion to “dear old U.” A plans specialprofessional training,or advanced graduate To-day, in British Columbia, we believe a new doctrine work, it is more than likely that he will end up at UBC is necessary-a doctrine of divided loyalties. anyway. Thus, what we are really talking about is support Thereare those who would set UBC againstSimon for the total body of higher educational institutions. Fraser, andboth of theseagainst Victoria University, in Do you live in Victoria,or Burnaby, or Peterborough? every sort of competitive situation, and there are many who Then by allmeans support UVic, or SFU, or Trent, in may feel a specialinterest in one or the other becauseof every way you can, socially,intellectually, financially. But geographicalor other reasons. Shouldthis be so? Let us remember that as a graduate of UBC, you have a continuing examine the background. responsibility(some will say, a lifelong debt to repay) to In 1962, when we had only vague misgivings about our insureits well-being as thesenior institution of higher failure to provide for the requirements of higher education learningin British Columbia. in B.C., many peopleadvocated thatfuture organization We believe thatthe division of our loyaltiesbetween should be enlargement and extension of UBC-the so-called two or three or more great institutions of higher education federatedsystem. Then,in 1963, Dr.Macdonald in his will in no waydiminish our loyalty toany one, and reportrecommended avariety of independentinstitutions, especially notto our own Alma Mater, the University of eachone faced withthe challenge of its ownphilosophy, British Columbia. its own destiny, and now the government has implemented the report by provision of such multiple facilities. UT THE IMPORTANT POINT TO NOTE is that these institu- B tions are not competitive, in any but the finestsense, but rather complementary to each other. It is absolutely vital to UBC, for example, that Simon Fraser open successfully on time,or else IJBCwill be swampedwith students in 1965, and many UBC staff members are doing everything they can to help SFU, from President Macdonald down- in fact, Dr. Macdonald has been called the father of SFU. It is essential today for a great university to have around it an interested,informed body of alumni,to provide the community climate in which the institution can thrive. We thereforecommend to your support institutions of higher learning in your own sphere of interest, and point out that 6 Elizabeth Blanche Norcross Higher Education’s Latest Tool N BURNABY MUNICIPALITY, situated nextdoor to the of CanadianVocational Training, Department of Educa- I vocational school, near neighbour to Simon Fraser Uni- tion, vice-chairman; and the principal, E. C. Roper. They versity, stands the physical plant of the latestaddition to aresupported by a dozen councilmembers who include British Columbia’s post-secondary educational system-the senior members of UBC‘s faculty and top executives from Technological Institute. With its opening in September the industry. Advising in seventeen specialized fields as diverse middlemancame into his own. Themiddleman is the as BroadcastingCommunications and Mining Technology technician, that essential bridge in to-day’s world between are committees made up of experts from all those fields. professional man and tradesman. These advisory committeemembers are men with a The Institute’s first calendar sets out what it hopes to do personalstake inthe Institute. They represent businesses for its students: “It is the aim of the Institute to produce and industries which need technicians and they know just technicianswho, with additional experience,rapidly will what sort of training they wish those technicians to have. assume responsible, supervisory, or managerial positions in Technologicaltraining is expensive trainingand the business or industry, as graduate technologists. Their par- advisory council and committees had the taxpayers’ as well ticular interests and abilities should be in the applied as- as the students’ interests at. heart when they estimated the pects of engineering or business rather than in the develop- number of technicians that could be absorbed in each field ment of new basic principles. In this respect, it is expected understudy. Withthe Institute’sopening date setfor that they will provide liaison between the professional and September, 1964, the first graduates of the two-year courses the craftsman.” -theyare almost entirely two-year-would be seeking Planning for theInstitute started in 1961, followinga jobs in 1966. The hope was to give industry all the techni- Royal Commission Report recommending the establishment ciansneededit and jobs to all thenewly-qualified of atechnological institute in British Columbia.