THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AUTUMN CONGREGATION FOR THE CONFERRING OF DEGREES FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTIETH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE O CANADA 0 Canada! Our Home and Native Land! True patriot-love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North, strong and free, And stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee. 0 Canada, glorious and free! 0 Canada, we stand on guard for thee! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee! MUSICAL PROGRAM BRASS ENSEMBLE OF THE U.B.C. ORCHESTRA Directed by PROFESSOR HANS-KARL PILTZ 1 PROGRAMME OF CEREMONY THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR'OF PHILOSOPHY Canagaratnam, Pascarapathy, B.Sc. (Ceylon), M.A. (Brit. Col.) Ceylon Zoology Thesis: "The Influence of Light Intensities and Durations During Early Develop­ ment on Meristic Variation in Some Salmonids". Connor, Thomas Michael, B.A. (Oxford), England Chemistry Thesis: "Some Studies of Hydrogeydrogen BondinBondi g and of Some Unstable Positive Ions 0 CANADA by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.'- Cox, Clarence Donald, B.Sc. (New Brunswick), M.Sc. (McMaster), New Brunswick Phy1" INVOCATION Thesis: "Bulk Photo-Effects in Inhomogeneous Semi conductors. by the Reverend J. M. V. Shaver Drent, Jan, L. es Sc. (Paris), Vancouver Physics Thesis: "A Study of Waves In the Open Ocean and of Waves on Shear Currents." Fink, Hermann Josef, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Zoology REMARKS Thesis: "Topics in Electromagnetic Fluctuations at Low Temperatures and In Superconductivity." by ALBERT EDWARD GRAUER Chancellor of the University of British Columbia Giovando, Laurence Frank, B.A., M.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver *"*»'«* „ ^, u _ , .. Thesis: "Some Aspects of the Optical Turbidity of British Columbia Inlet Waters." CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Smith, Frederick Dabell, B.A., B.S.A., M.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Zoology by the Chancellor Thesis: "Absorption of Amino Acids and B Vitamins from the Rumen." Weeden, Robert Barton, B.Sc. (Massachussetts), M.Sc. (Maine), United States Zoology THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS Thesis: "The Ecology and Distribution of Ptarmigan in Western North America." John Everett Robbins Yates, Keith, B.A., M.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Chemistry Thesis: "A Study of the Protonation of Carbonyl Compounds." THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Sir Hugh Stott Taylor THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Anderson, Ellis Albert Ahl, B.Sc. (Alberta), Vancouver Geography INTRODUCTION OF CONGREGATION SPEAKER Thesis: "The Landscape of Southwestern Alberta." by Norman A. M. MacKenzie Brooks, Heather Alleyne, B.A. (Brit. Col.), President of the University of British Columbia B.Paed. (Manitoba), Vancouver English Thesis: "The Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold and T. S. Eliot." Farry, Gerard Francis, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver PtanZS'*7 °nd Re8'onal THE CONGREGATION ADDRESS Thesis: "Secheit Area - A Case Study in Coastal Planning." by Sir Hugh S. Taylor Gladstone, Percy Henry, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Skidegate Mission Economics and Political Science Thesis: "Industrial Disputes in the Commercial Fisheries of British Columbia" Goodacre, Alan Kenneth, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Victoria Physics CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE Thesis: "The Zeeman Splitting of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonances In Single Crystals of Zinc Bromate Hexahydrate and Cobalt Bromate Hexahy- by the Chancellor drate." Lyman, Eva, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver wanKlng1"* °nd Re9'onal CONGRA"B=Ok33©NS TO DIPLOMA -STUDENTS Thesis: "Family Life in the Apartment Environment: A Study of Social Aspects of Apartment Housing for Families." O'Brien, Patrick Barney, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Psychology by the Chancellor Thesis: "A Survey of the Positions of the Principal and Vice-Principal In British Columbia Schools." Peterson, Lester Ray, B.A., B.Ed. (Brit. Col.), Gibsons Education GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Thesis: "Indian Education in British Columbia." Schulzer, Michael, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Mathematics Opening of Student Residences Thesis: "Asymptotic Properties of Solutions of Equations in Banach Spaces." 2 Stiven, Alan Ernest, B.Sc. (New Brunswick), New Brunswick Zoology Rieckhoff, Klaus Ekkehard, B.Sc. (Brit. Col), Vancouver Physics Thesis: "A Study of the Relationship Between Available Food and Nutritive Thesis: "Some Magneto-Optical Studies of Paramagnetic Salts at Low Tempera­ Requirements of Blue Grouse Chicks." tures." Widdowson, Thomas Benjamin, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Read Island Biology and Botany Rowe, Edward George Peter, B.Sc. (McGill), Saskatchewan Physics .«„..., Thesis: "Some Aspects of the Intertidal Ecology of Marine Organisms on Van­ couver Island Between Victoria and Port Renfrew." Thesis: "A Consideration of the Possibilities of Constructing Composite Particles of Zero Mass." Sircar, Sisir, Coomar, B.Sc, M.Sc. (Utkal), India Mining and Metallurgy Thesis: "Kinetics of the Dissolution of Copper in Aqueous Aliphatic Amines. THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE Stott, Gael Harling, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Victoria Zoology Thesis: "The Respiration Rates of Excretory Tissues in the Cutthroat Trout Ali, Mohammed Youssouf. B.Sc. (Calcutta), Pakistan Zoology (Saimo ciarki clarki)." Thesis: "Spatial Distribution of Fish in Summer in Nicola Lake, British Columbia." < ln rt Walker, Leonard George, B.A. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver ?!f ! .71 , „ u A -A » Beer, George Atherley, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.). Salmon Arm Physics Thesis: "The Effects of 50 Kiiovolt X-Rays on the Alkali Metal Borohydndes. Thesis: "Gas Scintillation Counters." Ciccone, Stefam'a, D. Chim. (Florence), Italy Chemistry Thesis: "Kinetics of the Cis-Trans Isomerlzation of Azobenzene." THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE Csizmadia, lmre Gyula, Eng. Chem. (Tech. U. Budapest), Hungary Chemistry Clarke, John Frank, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Nelson Mining and Metallurgy Thesis-I-I ! : "An investigatioI nVestlOatlOn oI**f* BonD**«wdl FormatioCAfmnflnn BetweeHa+waan AluminAll inrtlltan SinglSinnlel Crystals Thesis: "The Structure of the Acenaphthene - I, 2 - Diol Dinitrates and Their Reaction with Pyridine." and Nickel Alloys, de Faye, Philippe John, B.A.Sc. (Toronto), Vancouver Electrical Engineering Gilson, Denis Frank Robert, B.Sc. (London), England Chemistry Thesis: "Aspects of Delta Modulation." Thesis: "Molecular Motion in Urea and Thiourea Adducts." Hafer, Rodney Arnold, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Royal Oak Electrical Engineering Johannes, Robert Earl, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Zoology Thesis: "A Coder for Pulse Code Modulation Using Circulated Pulses." Thesis: "in*erspecific Competition Between Rainbow Trout (Salmo galrdnerl Richardson) and Redside Shiners (Rlchardsonius balteatus (Richardson) Han, Agnes Yu-Wen, B.S. (Taiwan), Taiwan Chemical Engineering In Two British Columbia Lakes." Thesis: "An Apparatus for Measuring the Rate of Diffusion of Gases Through Porous Solids at Elevated Pressures." Jones, Edward Peter, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Trail Physics Huntley, David John, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Brentwood Bay Engineering Physics Thesis: "A Low Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer." Thesis: "Fluctuations of Space-Charge-Limited Currents in Germanium." Kinnear, John Edward, B.Sc. (Alberta), Alberta Zoology Mitchell, Ronald Reid, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Engineering Physics Thesis: "The Effect of Various Concentrations of Thiourea on the Synthesis of Thesis: "A Study of Carrier Generation In, and interaction of, Space-Charge Thyroxine by the Starry Flounder, Plotichthys Steilatus." Regions in Germanium." Martin, Joseph Gerard Benoit, B.Sc. (Laval), Quebec Zoology Orava, Raimo Norman, B.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ontario Mining and Metallurgy Thesis: "Phosphoglucomutase, Phosphorlbomutase and Phosphoglucose Isomerase in Lingcod Muscle." Thesis: 'The Melting Behaviour of Equlaxed Grain Boundaries." Marz, Detlef, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Physics Rai Choudhury, Prosenjit, B.Sc. (Gauhati), India Chemical Engineering Thesis: "Some Properties of a Cosmologlcal Model Containing Anti-Matter." Thesis: "Liquid-Liquid Extraction in a Spray Column." Morrow, Richard Alexander, B.Sc. (Queens), Ontario Physics Scratchley, Edward William, B.A.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Electrical Engineering Thesis: "The T ((t, a) LP Reaction and a Standard Gelger-Muller Counter for Thesis: "A Computer for System Functions." Gamma Ray Flux Determinations." Sled, John James, B.Sc. (Saskatchewan), Vancouver Civil Engineering McMillan, James Malcolm, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Vancouver Physics Thesis: "Analysis of Flexible Arches." Thesis: "On the Temperature Dependence of the Shape of Magnetic Resonance Civil Engineering Lines." Wong, Dick Chao, B.Sc. (Yunnan), Taiwan Thesis: "Analysis of ContinuouConti s Arches on Elastic Piers.' McPhail, John Donald, B.A. (Brit. Col.) Vancouver Zoology Yeh, Benjamin Hsi-Lu, B.S. (Taiwan), Taiwan Mechanical Engineering Thesis: "A Systematic Study of the Doily Varden, Salvelinus Maima (Walbaum)". Thesis: "Dynamic Loads on Spur Gear Teeth." McPherson, George Duncan, M.D. (Western Ontario), Vancouver Physiology Thesis: "Regulation of Plasma Calcium in Man." THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FORESTRY Nash, George Francis, B.A. (Oxford), England Physics Thesis: "A Theoretical Consideration of the Direct Capture Process O^tp.wlF1' at Low Energies." Heger, Ladislav, tng.For. (Brno), Czeckoslovakia Needier, George Treglahan, B.Sc. (Brit. Col.), Nanaimo Physics Thesis: "A Comparison of Conventional and Natural Height-Age Curves for Thesis: "On the Theory of Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Hydrogen Gas." Douglas Fir." O'Donnell, Joseph Patrick, B.Sc. (Alberta), Agassiz Chemistry Thesis: "The Action of Carbon Monoxide and Dlcobait Octacarbonyl on Some