smaller world.. .bigger market? The dimensions of our worldare shrinking with each Bank of Montreal’s International Organization keeps breakthroughin communications. As Tokyo moves us closelyin touch with developments in markets closer to Toronto ...as Valparaiso moves closer to everywhere. Whatever your area of interest, in mat- Vancouver ... marketing situations change and new ters of foreign trade it will pay you to talk first to opportunities arise. The world-wide range of the the B of M. UNITE0 STATES W GREAT BRITAIN W FRANCE W GERMANY W MEXICO W JAPAN W CARIBBEAN AREA AN0 LATIIV AMERICA W BANKING CORRESPONOENTSTHROUGHOUT THE WORLD CANADA’S FIRSTBANK bcamada... SpClmAtha Wd BANKOF MONTREAL 925 BRANCHES FROM COASTTO COAST IN CANADA ASSETS $4,000,000,000 CONTENTS Volume 18, No. 2 - Summer, 1964 4 Editorial 4 EDITOR 5 Profile of GeorgeCunningham Elizabefh B. Norcross, BA’56 6 Ourfuture holds healtha team Doreen Bleackley, staff assistanf 8-9 Loggerheads 8-9 BUSINESS MANAGER 10 Brogues,Bearskins and Bogs Tim Hollick-Kenyon, BA51, BSW’53 12 OnExchange toJapan EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 14 Languages:the key tounderstanding John L. Gray, BSA’39, chairman Cecil Hacker, BA’33, pas! chairman 16 UBCDelta Gamma at International Summit L. E. Barber, BSA‘47, MSA’50 Mrs. T. R. Boggs, BA29 17 InSearch of Goala Mrs. J. J. Cvefkovich, BAS7 18-20Annual Meeting Stan Evans, BA’41,BEd’44 Allan Fotheringham, BAS4 21 StudentNews Himie Koshevoy, ’32 Frank P. Levirs, BA’26, MA31 22-23 Partners in Progress - Open House A. (Jock) Lundie, BA’24 J. 24-26 UniversityNews Mrs. Frances Tucker, BA50 28-29Alumni Annual Giving Publishedquarferly by !he AlumniAssociafion of !he 30 News Universify of BrifishColumbia, Vancouver, Canada. Busi- ness andediforial offices: 252 BrockHall, U.B.C., Van- 3 1 Alumnitems couver 8, B.C. Authorized as second class mail by !he Pos! Office Deparfmen!, Offawa, andfor paymen! of po~fagein cash. Alumnae33 andAlumni The U.B.C. AlumniChronicle is sen! free of charge !o alumnidonating !o !he annualgiving programme and U.B.C. DevelopmenfFund. Non-donors may receive the magazineby paying asubscripfion of $3.00 ayear. This is how the P. A. Woodward Health Sciences Centre will look when completed. The Memorial Gymnasium on the extreme left gives one a point of reference. The research tower and the hospital block to its right are shown in the cover picture. Other buildings are classroom blocks, three of them now in use, the library well advanced in construction, and administration space. See story on page 6. 3 Five Point Program For the 1964-65 Year David M. Brousson IT HAS BECOME CUSTOMARY for theincoming president to heretofore,and it has been suggested that we could be of use this issueto present to you hisprogram for the next some help. It may be that we shall become more active in year, and I would like to continue this practice. the area of Continuing Education. The pot of highereducation in British Columbia has 4. Federal Aid to Higher Education: We are delighted that been boiling merrily for the past year or two, and the UBC our Provincial Government has so generously met its share Alumni Associationhas done its share of the filling and of therequirements of the first year of the “Challenge of the heating and the stirring of that pot. Growth”plan, and we naturally believe thatthis support It will be our objective in the year 1964-65 to bank and willcontinue. However, despite the fact that,under the adjustthe fire underneaththe pot so thatthe stew \vi11 BNA Act, education is a provincial matter, it is also a fact simmersteadily, while sufficient seasoning is addedto thatin this world, inthis society, highereducation has provide a flavorfulmixture. increasingly a national and an international character, and thusthe FederalGovernment should becomeincreasingly Iwant first tore-state the thesis of several of mypre- involvedandresponsible. TheCanadian Universities decessors: that webelieve thereare four members of the Foundation, a sort of nationalassociation of universities, academic community-administration, faculty, students and with our oldfriend Dr. Geoffrey Andrew as itsexecutive alumni-and thateach must play itsproper role to give director,has recently set upa responsible commission to healthy balance to that community. study the financing of higher education in Canada, and it To be specific, wepropose thefollowing major program is ourintention to prepare a brief on behalf of the UBC items. Alumni Association topresent to this Commission when 1. Public relations. If UBC is to occupy its proper place in it comes to Vancouver. the life ofour province, we mustinsure that the public 5. Capital Gifts Campaign: We want to publicly state our understands and appreciates the problems and the objectives support for the recentlyannounced Capital Funds Cam- of ourUniversity. As fqr as wehave influence withthe paignfor UBC, and alsoto underlineour belief thatthe people who run the University, we will endeavour to per- interests of highereducation in British Columbia, includ- suadethem to establish a strong,active and above all ing those of our sister institutions that are springing from professional,public relations department. In addition we theMacdonald Report, will bebest served by some sort are planning some special programs of our own to present of co-operative or unified fund campaign. theUniversity more closelyto thecommunity. Finally,we hope to follow inthe footsteps of our pre- 2. BranchesNetwork: As most of you know, me maintain decessorsby continuingand expanding the cordial and anetwork of branchcontacts in many places,especially co-operative relationships established with the other mem- throughoutBritish Columbia. Now we feel thisnetwork bers of this community of UBC. This may not be the most must be strengthened,in at least two major ways.First, important of our objectives,but certainly it is themost wepropose a separateand special network of peoplepar- personallyrewarding. ticularly interested in and capable of backing up our AAG We earnestly desire your support in this program. efforts. Second,we believe it important that wekeep a continuingand personal contact with all members of the Legislative Assembly of the province, so we propose to find people in every electoral riding to maintain this contact on a local, non-political basis. This, incidentally, is to be one of the first projects of the Joint Alumni Council. 3. ContinuingEducation: Because ourExtension Depart- menthas always been so effective and efficient, we have never been called upon to be greatly involved in this work. Nowhowever, for budgetaryand other reasons the Ex- tension Department has met with different problems than 4 PIlUS Service Make this Life by Cecil Hacker George Cunningham’sfather once told him “if you wantthat 30 acres over there, take an axe and clear it for yourself.” Chairman of University of British George T. Cunningh‘am Columbia’s Board of Governors chuckles as he recalls theincident. “Itdidn’t seemimpossible, either.I startedclearing.” This was apparently one of the few jobs he ever set himself that George Cunninghamdid not finish,for the road they \\rould quitmaking them.” withthem. But there is boundto be 30 acres inquestion never became Overthe yearshis life has been a competition, too.” his.They are in the Laidlaw district, mixture of business andpublic ser- UBChas set a $30,000,000estimate east of Chilliwack,where George’s vice, in justabout equal proportions. on its own expansion needs.Victoria fatherpreempted land in the early Inthe case of theUniversity of isseeking $5,000,000 andthe estimate 1890’s. The floor of the FraserValley BritishColumbia, he has given 29 for Simon Fraseris $36,000,000. If wasplentifully clad with fir, cedar years of service to the Board of Gover- separateappeals are made, there is and alder in those days, and even the nors. Hehas worked withthree uni- hound to be a measure of competition tiniestfarm had to be slashed and versitypresidents, anda score of and Mr. Cunningham says “UBC can- rooted out of thesurrounding forest. fellowboard members. not sitidly by inthis matter. Our YoungGeorge hadonly a few “Thirty yearswill be enough,”he needsare genuine and urgent.” months of schooling before he was 10 says. “I willfinish in 1965.” He believes the Board of Governors years of age. The familymoved back Hisconnection with UBC really has a responsibility to put the needs of to Vancouverto then, becausehis stemsfrom histerm as chairman of theuniversity squarely beforeits gra- mother was determinedthere should theVancouver SchoolBoard inthe duatesand the generalpublic. “We be opportunityan foreducation. earlythirties. Mr. Cunningham tried havetellto our story againand “Catchingup” was hard workfor topersuade Dr. George M. Weir, of again,”he says. the TJBC department of education,to youngGeorge, but he did it. He still This does not involveberating the become superintendent of schoolsfor remembersthe old VancouverHigh provincialgovernment, Mr. Cunning- the city. He failed, but when Dr. Weir School,located wherethe Vancouver ham believes. Government is the prin- becameprovincial minister of educa- School of Art now is. cipal source of university revenue, and Fromthere he went to an appren- tionhe soon called on Mr. Cunning- as suchit should be convincedthat hamto become aUBC governor. ticeship pharmacy,in which he publicopinion favorsgreater support He recalls the“very dire financial finished atthe age of 19. Thencame foruniversities. a year in Toronto, at Ontario College straits” of the university in those days, Made a life member of the Alumni of Pharmacy,from which he gradu- andthe problems of thewar years. Association in 1963, Mr. Cunningham ated with what he takes care to point But George Cunninghamcuts short has frank wordsfor graduates. He out was “adiploma, not a university conversationsabout the pastto talk thinks the Board of Governors should degree.” He got a second diploma soon of theuniversity and itsfuture. He make more use of alumni in develop- after, when he wrote the Illinois state has some strong views, bothabout mentfund raising, and asks theem- examinations inpharmacy aswell.