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Volume 44 Number 3 • Fall, 1990 Features From Humble Beginnings 12 UBC's Origins and First Decade Those Canadians from UBC 16 75 Years of Research The Creative and Performing Arts 26 The Best of Art, Theatre, Literature and Music The UBC Thunderbirds 33 A Legacy of Character and Characters Pierre Berton 38 Media Star in the Making at UBC A Library Tour with Boadicea's 3rd Cousin 42 Departments Profiles Alumni President's Column 4 TRIUMF 22 David Strangway 7 Research in the Marketplace 23 Campaign News 8 Robert Harlow 31 News 10 Michael Conway Baker 32 Acrostic Puzzle 46 Homecoming Schedule Editor The UBC Alumni Chronicle is pub­ lished quarterly by the UBC Alumni Chris Petty MFA'86 Association, and is distributed free to Assistant Editor all graduates. Member, Council for the Dale Fuller Advancement and Support of Educa­ tion. Indexed in Canadian Education Contributors Index. ISSN 0824-1279. Audrey Grescoe, Alan Hindle, Chris Hives, Robin Lau­ Printed In Canada. rence, Morna McLeod, Pearl Roberts, Marjorie Simmins, Dona Sturmanis, Mary D. Trainer, Don Wells. Executive Director Archival Photos courtesy of UBC Archives Deborah Apps Editor's Notes 1 his issue of the Chronicle presents you with a taste man who wrote our athletics article did so, he says, to of UBC history. We've included a look at research, the make a starting point for something bigger. Even the arts, sports and some profiles of famous grads. article on the arts, excerpted as it is from a larger work, Any attempt to sum up 75 years of active history, only scratches the surface. especially in 48 pages, is doomed to be merely approxi­ Consider this issue of the Chronicle as a bit of mate: enough history, humour, invention, insight and finger food, a small dish of hors d'oeuvres. The real, full pure love of endeavour has happened on this campus UBC is out here on the cliffs of Point Grey, awaiting to fill many books. Our magazine can only breeze your investigation. through a few examples, give a few glimpses, entice a We hope you enjoy this issue, and that you take the few readers to seek out more. time to come out to Homecoming. Pages 24 and 25 For such a large, dynamic university, it's an contain a breakdown ofthe activities you can attend, amazement that there isn't more written about its or just come out and browse through the bookstore history. Yet, our science writer says that little has been and the libraries. Oh, and keep an eye out for Queen written about UBC research since the '50s, and the Boadicea's third cousin. —CP From the President Board of Management rTomecoming is an unusual event Elected Members in the university calendar. During the rest of the year, the business of 1990-91 a university is training inquisitive President minds, conducting research into the Mel Reeves BComm'75, MSc'77, LLB mysteries of our time and advancing Senior Vice President the knowledge brought down to us from the ages. But during David Coulson BComm'76, LLB'80 Homecoming the products of a Past President university, its alumni, come back to Ann McAfee, BA'62, MA'67, PhD'75 look at the place that has shaped Treasurer much of their lives. Shayne Brent Boyd BComm'81 This year's Homecoming is particularly appealing. The university Members-at-Large 1989-91 has been producing leaders in business, science, education and the Janet Calder, BASc'74, MBA arts for 75 years, and Homecoming events are aimed at celebrating the Martin Cocking, BA'87 accomplishments of the university and its graduates like never before. Curt Latham, BA'58, MD'62 Most of us still see UBC the way it was when we were students Members-at-Large 1990-92 here. We remember our haunts, our favourite cafeteria, the Martin Glynn BA(Hons)'74, MBA'76 residences, the people we knew, the profs. Most of us are shocked James Stich BSc'71, DMD'75 when we come back to campus for the first time in many years. Jim Whitehead BA'62, MA'68, MSc, PhD'87 Construction has been fairly consistent over the years, and while many of the old haunts don't exist any more, each new generation of students finds and establishes their own.