Dear Ken,, This is a much more difficult letter to write than 1- expected. I'm forcedto acknowledge that you have grown up and I have grown older.Although I may appear somewhat weathered on the outside, I don't fee1,any 'different than I did 23 years ago when I came out of university, THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE 1983 FALL PROGRAM OF LECTURES Lectures will take place Saturday October 8 November 5 nights at8:15 p.m. in Lecture Hall 2, President K. George Pedersen (Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Woodward Building, beginning University of British Columbia Lecturer) September 17. Education Under Siege: Academic Dr. W.E. Hillis Freedom and theCult of Efficiency Chief Research Scientist, October 15 CSIRO Division of Chemical and Dr. Alan Astbury Wood Technology, Australia September 17 Department of Physics, The Impending Crisis inForestry The Honorable Mr. Justice University of Victoria November 12 Brian Dickson and TRIUMF Dr. Kevin M. Cahill Supreme Courtof Canada "Wrand "Z" The New Particles and Lenox Hill Hospital, The Forgotten Party: the New Phusics _I New York and New Jersey The Victimof Crime October 22 College of Medicine September 24 Professor Brian Simon AIDS: A Medical and Social Problem President William Saywell School of Education, November 19 Simon Fraser Universitv University of Leicester Professor Ursula Franklin,O.C. China's Race Against Time:' The I.Q. Controversy: Department of Metallurgy, Modernization and Education The Case of Cyril Burt University of Toronto October 1 October 29 Interplay of Technology and Society: Dr. Margaret Rule, CBE, FSA (Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture) The Case of Ancient China Research Director, Professor Edward Cone November 26 The MaryRose Trust Department of Music, Professor S.J. Rachman Portsmouth, England- Princeton University Department of Psychology, A Tudor Warship: Hearing and Knowing Music with University of British Columbia King Hen y Vlll's MaryRose piano illustration Fear and Courage W YORKSHIRE TRUST COMPANY The Oldest and Largest British Columbia Trust Company UBC ALUMNI AT YORKSHIRE J.R. Longstaffe, B.A. '57, LL.B. '58 - Chairman J. Dixon, B.Comm. '58 - Claims Manager G.A. McGavin, B.Comm. '60 - President D.B. Mussenden, B.Comm. '76 A.G. Armstrong, LL.B. '59 - Director - Manager Property Dept. W.R. Wyman, B.Comm. '56 - Director T.W.Q. Sam, B.Comm. '72 - Internal Auditor J.C.M. Scott, B.A. '47, B.Comm. '47 G.B. Atkinson, B.A. '70, LL.B. '73 - General Insurance - Secretary and Corporate Counsel P.L. Hazell, B.Comm. '60 E. DeMarchi, B.Comm. '76 - Mortgage Underwriter - Manager, Central Services P.E Rennison, B.Comm '80 D.D. Roper, B.Comm., '77 - Assistant Mortgage Underwriter - Internal Auditor R.G. 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Today, when the eduiational dollar is being squeezed tighter and tighter,.this letterfrornfhtherto sori an eloquent reminderof the value of univet‘sities to Our young people, and indirectly, toall of us. Just as eager new students Spotlight make their way on tocampus this month, so didAlan Dawe 4.0 years ago. His genial recollections of UBC in 2943 offer a rare glimpse intostudent life before - the age of television. ‘ Looking ahead, William Gibson at 50th Reunion Gibson, chairman of the Universities €ouncil of B.C. and member of theClass of ‘33, was asked at his 50th reunion to predict the next50 pars at UBC. Excerpts from his talk, onpage 20, indicate an exciting future for Some fatherly advice aboutthe perils and potentials the province’s university system. of university. As usual, there is’plentyof by Luird O‘Brien activity here on campus. 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Someone else Ahisis a much more bought and our efforts to anyway? is paying the shot. Or it difficult letter to write abandon thedying beast; What we do know for looks easierthan workirtg. than I expected. I’m a boardinghouse landlady sure is that much of the Or it’s astep toward forced to acknotvledge who insisted on leaving optimism of 20 and even making a lotof money. that you have grown up delicately scratched notes: 10 years ago has slipped Dollars can beso and I have grown older. ”Please do not sit on your away. Our world is at an seductive. Modem Although I may appear bed. Beds are for sleeping uneasy point inits marketing spreads somewhat weathered on in. .” history. Third World luxuries at our feet, while tHe outside, I don’t feel Please forgive my nations are beginning to the newsmedia put outa any different than I did 23 momentary lapses into life demand a fairer share of steady statistical barrage years ago when I came out before radial tiresand the world’s resources. Our about the rate of inflation, of university, and that, at Alice Cooper. As with air and water and wildlife the cost of living and the least, pleases me. driving a car, however,an are threatened. Our value of our dollar When you phoned from occasional backward resources of energyare compared with 10 years Vancouver to talk about glance can be helpful. not as bountiful as we ago, five years agoand a the merits of hiking once thought. And our week ago Monday. One of your through Europe or going cities are increasingly Surveys tellus which grandfathers was a to university, I was . depersonalized and careers paythe most and cowboy in Alberta before relieved that the choice hostile. which the least and how becoming an engineer; the was yours, not mine.If I many recent graduates other quit school at 15 and were 19 I’m not sure can’t find work. The wdfked on a farm before which roadI woula take. implication isthat your making his way to the But since you’ve chosen Nany are university coursesshould Ontario Agricultural the academic route, I want understandably uneasy be tailored tothe market. I College in Guelph. Later, to pass along a few about what lies ahead. disagree. in the mid-fifties, your personal observations Their feelings are reflected Is there much point to parents toted their blind about the pleasures and in a recent Gallup pollthat making $50,000 a yearif optimism directly from perils of university life. As shows that a greater you hate climbingout of high school to university. you might expect, I prefer number of Canadians are your water bed inthe War was behind us:the to put themon paper. (A pessimistic (45 percent) morning? If money is your golden age of technology gem can be lostih than are optimistic (33 motivation, mightn’tyou lay ahead. We expected to dinnertime babble; this percent) about their be further ahead to do as live better and accomplish way I may linger on,if children‘s prospectsfor a many are doing and more than our parents, only in a bottomdrawer happy life. pursue a trade? and we anticipatedthat with your socks.) The questions and University, I think, holds our children would scale As I sit here, mulling issues that faced your out the promise of much even higher heights.