A (A j,t,C a „ . t* -< JW £ 1 V ? s i tl f"1 t 4- — 8 ^ mr c r u&"e^ < ,. - Vr*5-i v* -H- i,a - "\y y' » Ifn ^ ?■ L \ s' .. ,,1,, j* J, J,1 'A" v, "* ^ j' a u ar' Point Grey Perfection. There is nothing quite like The Bristol. From the sweeping entrance and grand lobby to the individual suite appointments, craftsmanship and exquisite detailing are everywhere. Experience The Bristol now, your new home is ready and waiting. An incomparable collection of one, two and two bedroom, den and family room homes from only $169,000. h THE BRISTOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Presentation Centre and Display Homes Open Daily 12 noon - 5pm, except Friday Hampton Place at West 16th and Wesbrook Mall, West Point Grey, Vancouver Telephone 222-1070 Editor Chris Petty, MFA'86 ^^Assi Assistant Editor le Puller Contributors Bruce Macdonald Philip Resnick Jim Skipp Board of Directors Elected Members President Al Poettcker, BCom'69 Post President Debra L Browning, LLB'80 Sr. Vice President Tricia Smith, BA'80, LLB'85 Treasurer Dickson Wong, kBCom'88 Membenwt-lnrge'VM-'W Chris Bendl, BSc'91 Pamela Friedrich, BA'67 Louanne Twaites, BSc(Phann)'53 Membereo1i-!Jrge'M-'97 Dana Merritt, BCom'88 Don McConachie. BSA'63, MBA'65 Grace Wong, BEd'74, MBA'83 Executive Director Agnes Papke, BSc(Agr)'66 Editorial Committee Chair Louanne Twaites BSc(Pharm)'S3 Members Ron Burke Dale Fuller Paula Martin Chris Petty Sue Watts Don Wells Printed in Canada y Mitchell Press ' ISSN 0824-1279 University of British Columbia Alumni Chronicle Volume 50 Number I Spring 1996 11 The A Card: Get yours now! For $25, you can now avail yourself of some swell university services at reduced rates. The Library. MOA. Media Services. And a great discount on the Interchange, UBC's internet provider. The Botanical Garden goes overseas With trading and research arrangements at botanical gardens in Japan and China, our own Botanical Garden is breaking new ground and developing new plants. 16 18 Defending the Liberal University UBC prof and new BOG member Philip Resnick has some thoughts on the political science crisis, the corporate university, and other threats to academic freedom. Chancellor Bob Lee goes golfing After an active 3-year term as UBC s Chancellor, Bob Lee looks forward to a bit more free time and fewer meetings. But he still plans to keep his hand in. Alumni News 4 Al Poettcker's Column 4 David Strangway's Column 5 Faculty News 12 Books 22 Class Acts 24 Acrostic 30 20 © __i The UBC Alumni Chronicle is published 3 rimes annually by the UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 17.1. It is distributed free to all graduates of UBC. Member, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Member, Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. Cover Aword-winranf designer Jim Skipp, BA'8 f, wonted to give something back so, when we decided to took for a new identity to help promote the Association, the "A card" and our merchandise, Jim offered to work wWi us. The result is our new logo, in the upper left hond corner, ond our new "A" insignia. The fetter "A," os seen here, is unlike any other "A" in the universe, so we're hoving it registered. Thanks, Jim. The photos of gardens here and abroad are courtesy of Bruce Macdonald of die Botanical Garden. Setting New Program Prioritiesv i n February, the Alumni Association held a series of meetings to establish our program prio- ities for the next few years. Staff, volunteers and senior administrators from the university analysed our past annual plans, reviewed our resources and gave careful thought to the needs of our members and ofthe university. The process was very enlightening for everyone concerned and gave us a chance to focus on the future direction of the Association. The first strategy we discussed was to provide better support for students while they are still on campus. These are our future members, after all, and it's important for us to make an impression on them before they leave the university. We already provide a mentor program and events such as Beyond the BA, which give students a chance to hear from successful grads. But we want to expand programs like those and become involved in Career Fairs, job shadowing, co-op placements and others. We also want to increase our visibility on campus. We plan to become better connected with the AMS in the future, and to work toward editorial exchanges between the student press and the Chronicle and our newsletters. Another strategy we discussed is to provide a better link between the Association and the larger community. We provide many programs for grads, and often they don't get the publicity they deserve.This effectively limits the number of grads we reach and also limits our access to grads who would otherwise be interested in volunteering with the Association. It's important that we raise our profile, especially in the Lower Mainland and in the areas of our larger branches. We will develop a public relations plan to make sure our events and programs reach as large an audience as possible. Most of our members don't realize that this Association has a strong presence in the governance of UBC. We conduct a search for the position of Chancellor, and our members decide, by election, who will serve. We also recommend appointments to the Board of Governors and elect 11 members to the UBC Senate. Our strategy here is twofold: to make sure you know who these people are and have some input into their selection; and to make sure our representatives are kept up-to- date on the needs of our members. Our last strategy is to seek out more information from you, our members. With our huge membership (120,000+), it is difficult to generalize about who we are and what we want. We will conduct a survey in the Fail issue of this' magazine, and use other methods, such as focus groups and Individual interviews, to find out what your concerns are, vis a vis UBC. This has been an exciting year for me as President. It seems as if it has just begun, and already it's over. Thanks to the members of the Board, who have been so supportive, and to Agnes Papke and the Association's staff, without whom we could not function. Al Poettcker, President, UBC Alumni Association "Diggens Perforins!" Says Maestro 41 When Past President and Wesbrook Society Chair John Diggens isn't volunteering for the university, he spends his time practising dentistry. Well, one night he was at an event when came the theatrical call, "Is there a dentist in the house?" It seems a certain famous operatic personage was in town and one of his entourage had developed a very sore tooth. Could the good doctor see what he could do? Off they limoed to his offices. Wielding a suction tube with dramatic abandon, the maestro helped the doctor perform the dental action with aplomb. The patient survived and went on to eat pasta, later on, "al dente." On the work of our favourite dentist, Luciano Pavarotti said, "A virtuoso performance." On the performance ofthe maestro, John also posted raves. "He was magnificent," said the good doctor. Home Ec Grads Take Note l he BC Home Economics Association (BCHEA) is applying to the provincial government for the right to the title of Registered Professional Home Economist (RPHEc). If you are currently a member in good standing of BCHEA, you will automatically receive the right to use this title. Once it is registered, only members of BCHEA will be able to use the title. The deadline for 1996-97 membership is May 1, 1996. Call Andrea Freeman at 525-7912. Scholarships and Bursaries Pizza Party Award winners from Alumni Association, Faculty Women's Club and Wesbrook Scholars gathered on February 9 for pizza and .pop at Cecil Green Park. Family, friends, faculty, administrators and alumni came by later to congratulate the winners and cheer them on. The guest speaker for the evening was Tricia Smith BA'80, LLB'85 and Senior VP ofthe Alumni Association Board of Directors. Tricia, who was an Olympic-class rowing competitor in her sporting days (an Olympic silver medal and Commonwealth Games gold medal winner), told the gathering how hard work and focus is the only way to achieve one's life goals. All in all a good, upbeat evening. The Alumni Association grants more than $ 100,000 annually in scholarships and bursaries to 120 students. The money is taken from an endowment funded by the donations of alumni to the Association Scholarship and Bursary program. We gladly accept donations. For more information, call Marlene King at 822-8923. UBC Aiumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 NEWS That's Not Bev Held! Of course it isn't! We knew that. But that's what we said in our photo spread last issue. It's Past Alumni President Charlotte Warren on the left, talking with Agnes Papke, our executive director. Sorry, Charlotte! Retired? Jane Austen, Ladies of Mystery and Russian Opera are Waiting for You 1 he Spring Program for Retired People is an opportunity tojoin with friends — old and new — to refresh yourself with novel ideas, challenge your mind and have fun. The program is open to all retired or semi-retired people, 55 and up. You can create a program that fits your needs. Choose two morning courses from the four options each week, and sign up for one week or all four. The classes meet Monday to Friday. In the afternoon, visit the Museum of Anthropology, swim at the Aquatic Centre, tour the new Art Gallery, or just walk around campus. Make a day of it. Space is limited, so register early. Course topics include Jane Austen, the Group of Seven in Canadian Art, Ladies of Mystery, Russian Opera, Travel Writing through the Ages, Modern Poets and many more. The fee is only $45 per week. ^^ For information, call UBC Continuing Studies, 822-1450. A Letter from Costa Rica Bill Gibson and his wife Tildy took an Intrav tour recently. The Gibsons pose with Captain Christie on the Rowl Princess onjaunuary 14. "Dear Agnes: The cruise is marvellous. Yesterday we had a reception up top in the Horizon Lounge with an enthusiastic UBC group, all keen to know what is going on in the way of new buildings, total enrolment, parking of so many cars, the longevity of Dean of Law George Curtis and his activity. Two medical doctors whom I had taught were full of news of their classmates. Everyone is delighted with the cruise. The food is too good, and |e various diversions on board and land are wonderful. Thank you nd your travel people at UBC — Bill and Tildy." For more information about our travel program, call Margot Dear at 822-9629. Chancellors Have an Important Role to Play A chancellor plays a key role in maintaining the well being of a university. Bob Lee, whose term as Chancellor of UBC ends in June, is the latest in a line of men and women who have served that office and the university with a great deal of dedication and style. Historically, chancellors have served a largely ceremonial role in our universities.Their most important duty in that regard is to present, officially, each graduate with his or her degree during the graduation ceremony. Here at UBC, each graduate bows before the Chancellor, who taps him or her on the head with his cap and says, "I admit you," which means the graduate is now a member of the congregation of graduates from UBC. In a typical term, the chancellor of UBC will tap the heads of thousands of men and women. Each of you, when you attended your own graduation, were a part of this ritual. Also, you as graduates of this university are responsible for electing the Chancellor, who comes from the ranks of alumni.The Alumni Association coordinates a search for candidates and recommends a name to alumni voters. Any alumnus can run for the office and the election is held through the registrar's office. Our next Chancellor, Bill Sauder, was elected by acclamation. The Chancellor functions for UBC in much the same manner as the Lieutenant-Governor does for the province. He or she attends ceremonial events of all kinds and represents the university both here and abroad. Bob Lee, like the other chancellors who have served during my years as President, performs much more than the ceremonial requirements of the position. As chancellor, Bob is also a member of the Board of Governors, the Senate and the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. In a normal month, he spends as much time attending to his duties as Chancellor as he does his duties in business. And all as a volunteer. It js a difficult job. But Bob has also used his business skills to advance the cause of education in British Columbia. As Chair ofthe UBC Real Estate Corporation, he has helped us develop market housing in the South Campus area, and to create a healthy endowment for the university. This endowment will form a strong foundation upon which we will build in the future. Bob and his wife, Lily, have been superb ambassadors for UBC. They have donated their time and talents to making sure UBC remains one of the best and most financially stable educational institutions in Canada. On behalf of all members of the university community, I extend my thanks to them for their dedication and their hard work. David Strangway, President, UBC UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 BRANCHES ~ REUNIONS ~ DIVISIONS Upcoming Branch Events We organize branch events around the world for our members. These events keep you in touch with UBC, and help you form natural networks of like-minded and similarly well-educated people. For more information Canada Kamloops: May (TBC). Speaker. Call Rob McDiarmid, 604-374- 2201 Kelowna: May (TBC). Speaker. Call Jeff Peterson, 604-767-2904 Calgary: May (TBC). Speaker & Reception. Call Alice Daszkowski, 403-298-3940 Edmonton: March 27, 7pm, Meet Alumni past pres. Jim Stich at U of A Faculty Club. Edmonton: May (TBC). Call Claire Pallard, 403-455-7711, Ottawa: June 21. Reception with President Strangway. Call Don Gardner, 613-829-2257 Toronto: April 17, 8 pm. Pool Night at the Coloured Stone, 205 Richmond St West. Toronto: May 13, 8 pm. Cocktails at the Lounge, Royal York Hotel. Toronto: June 20, 7 pm. Reception with UBC President David Strangway. Montreal: May (TBC). Speaker & brunch. Call Don Yapp, 514-989- 2342, <mdya@musica.mcgill.ca> United States New York: April 11, Whitney Museum, 6 pm. Tour and reception. Call Krista Cook, 212- 735-1676. about a branch in your area, call the name and number listed, or Deanna McLeod, 1-800-883-3088, or e- mail, <dmc/eod@unixg.ubc.co.> Don't see a branch in your town? Call us and we'll help you get one started. Washington, DC: April 12. All Canadian Universities Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Embassy. Chicago: April 19. All Canadian Universities Dinner at the Columbia Yacht Club. San Francisco: April 26, All Canadian Universities Dinner at Mark Hopkins. Consul General Dennis Brown will speak. Call Kent Westerberg, 408-287-2411 San Francisco: July 14. Reception with David Strangway. Call Kent Westerberg, 408-287-2411 International Mexico City: May 2. Reception with David Strangway. Location TBC. London, UK: July 1, 6:30 pm. Maple Leaf Pub. Covent Garden. Call Alison Taylor, 44-171-370- 2170 <alison@cste.co.uk> Hong Kong: March 29. Monthly networking lunch. Call Iggy Chong, 852-2525-6898. Hong Kong: June (TBC). Leadership workshop. Call Iggy Chong, 852-255-6898. Taiwan: July 1. Canada Day Event. Call Kent Ollis, 886-2-232- 4536, <kollis@transend.com.tw> Janis Connolly, 886-2-581-7089 UBC is more fun. Michele Liang, BCom'87 (r), persons the booth during the Pan Alumni Skate in Calgary in January.The Western grad beside her seems to agree. Recent Branch Activities Hong Kong Jan. 19 Dinner with Dean Goldberg Hong Kong Jan. 26 Monthly luncheon Calgaiy Jan. 28 Pan-alumni skate Hong Kong Feb. 4 Wargames Toronto Feb. 7 Pub Night Fort Lauderdale Feb. 10 All Canadian Univ. Reception . Portland Feb. 25 Reception with David Strangway Montreal Mar. 3 Dim Sum Taiwan Mar. 8 Pub Night San Francisco Mar. 9 Wine Sc Cheese Hong Kong Branch Busy, As Usual The branch has organized events that involve senior and junior alumni. These include monthly networking lunches and happy hours, sports and outings, a mentorship program, a career planning workshop, a Canada Day celebration and special events featuring VIP visitors from the university. Volunteers will be phoning all Hong Kong alumni to update your details, expand our database and determine what you expect from your Alumni Association branch. We would like to fax you our newsletter to keep you better informed. To receive your copy, please fax an enlarged copy of your business card to us at 2810-6265. For more info, or to find out how to get involved, please contact: President: Iggy Chong, BCom '82, 2847-8780, e-mail: < 100452.3441 ©CompuServe.com > Vice-Presidents John Henderson, BCom '77, 2524-6078, e-mail: <72557.2322@compuserve.com>; Ricky Lau, BCom '92, 7901-0406 yff ' ^pM> *. 14. Ui C'+iljtA ' Hong Kong's UBC grads Red Team, with some help from SFUers.came in 1st or 2nd in nearly everything at the Canadian Universities Alumni Sports Day in HK in the fall of '95. Five other teams competed, made up of grads from universities across Canada. Need branches info.??? Call Deanna McLeod, branches coordinator e-mail: <dmcleod@unixg.ubc.ca> Toll free phone (N. America): 1-800-883-3088 (select 1,4,2) Toll free fex (N. America): I -800-220-9022 Phone direct: (604) 822-8918 UBC Aiumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 BRANCHES ~ REUNIONS ~ DIVISIONS Host a Student from Abroad! Every year, hundreds of new students from nearly 100 countries arrive at UBC to begin their studies. Once again this summer, International Student Services will be looking for volunteers in the Lower Mainland to host a new international student for 3 or 4 days in August. The accommodation provided can be very simple (a couch or spare bed is fine) and meals are optional. This is a great opportunity for UBC alumni to reach out to overseas students and help make their first few days in Canada warm and welcoming. International House is also looking for volunteers to correspond by mail with international students who will be coming to UBC in September. For information about these and other volunteer opportunities, please call International Student Services at 822-5021. f|^0 - Alpha Delta Pi grads ofthe 1980s. We sponsored our ird annual Christmas lunch at CGP on December 3. The association will be busy again this Spring/Summer planning the next gathering. Keep in touch with your AAO friends and tell us if you want to get the newsletter and/or The Adelphean. Call Ann McCutcheon at 732-4580. (A couple of alumnae left their names on the answering machine, but the names got cut off. Please try again!) Reunions, 1996 r The Alumni Association helps organize dozens of reunions every year. Feel like getting together with that old gang of yours? Want to see the campus again, tour the old haunts, see the new ones? For more infor- Mech. and Met. Eng. '71 at Cecil Green Park, May 24 & 25 Rehab. Med. '66, May 24 - 25 50 Years of Pharmacy, May 31-June 2 Class of '46 at Cecil Green Park, June 19-21 App. Science '46, June 19-21 aw'71, June 21 icrobiology '86, Summer '96. Contact Janice, 598-8932 or motion, or to hear more about these upcoming reunions, contact Catherine Newlands at tel: (604) 822-8917 or toll free: 1-800-883- 3088, fax #: (604) 822-8928 or toll free 1-800-220-9022 Sandra, 986-7669. Rehab. Med. '71, Summer '96 Med. '86, Whistler, Aug. 2 - 4 Medicine '76, UBC, Aug. 9-11 Forestry '71 in Kamloops, Aug. 31 - Sept 1. Call Randy, 604- 578-7212, or Les, 604-828-7706 Commerce '76, Cecil Green Park, September 20 Men's Field Hockey, Cecil Green Park, November 9 'Geer Grad Leaves Mark on Industry and UBC JN early 50 years after leaving the halls of academe for corporate boardrooms, Patrick David Campbell (BASc'47) is making his mark on UBC all over again. During his student days, Campbell was active in athletics. He was a three- time winner of the Big Block award. Campbell's career as a pipeline engineer took him from remote corners ofthe world to the top ranks of Williams Brothers Overseas, one ofthe world's largest pipeline companies. He became president of that company in 1971. He supervized construction of thousands of miles of pipeline around the globe, including the Trans-Ecuadorian pipeline which spanned the Andes Mountains at heights up to 15,000 ft. Last year, Campbell and his brother established the Mairi Grant Campbell Fellowship in English Lit. to honour their mother. Campbell recently funded two projects. The Patrick David Campbell Chair in Mechanical Engineering Design will help the department reflect the current design needs of industry, resulting in UBC grads that are highly skilled in relevant areas. The Patrick David Campbell Fellowships will provide funding for graduate students in all areas of study. There are currently only 319 grad fellowships available to 1,200 eligible students. Our thanks to Patrick Campbell for his generous support. Divisions Rehabilitation Sciences: Rehabilitation Sciences had 80 people involved in their mentorship program this year. A wrap-up reception to show appreciation to both mentors and students will be held on April 22, 1996 at Cecil Green Park. Reunions are being planned now for the classes of '66 and '71. Details to follow. Nursing: Nursing will hold its annual meeting on May 26 at CGP Info in the upcoming Nursing Division Newsletter. BPP: Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology will host the 2nd Annual BPP Rendez-vous on June 18 at CGP Nobel Laureate Michael Smith will speak, followed by a wine and cheese social. Call Magdelaine Deeby at 321-8140, fax Trixi Paszner at 538- 5108 or e-mail Rochelle Stariha at <stariha@unixg.ubc.ca>. AOII - Alpha Omicron Pi: In honour ofthe 100th birthday, the Vancouver Chapter is donating a hand-painted silk banner to our international headquarters using the crest and colours of UBC. We have prepared a similar banner for UBC Panhellenic house for use at such events as RUSH. The final centennial project will be a donation of materials to the Classics Reading Room at UBC. Upcoming Non-Academic Division Activities: VAPA reception at Cecil Green March 13, 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Alpha Omicron Pi - Pocket Book Sale at Arbutus Village, March 23. Alpha Omicron Pi elections - 3950 Yew St. April 18 (tel: 738-7764). Delta Kappa Epsilon, August 14. UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 The UBC Alumni A card It pays to be a grad Since we introduced the A card in the last issue of The Chronicle, we have been getting a steady stream of calls, faxes and e-mails from grads who want to sign up. For just $25 a year, they are finding out that membership does indeed have its privileges. The feature people seem to like best so far is the 20% discount they get when they sign up for a University Computing Centre Interchange Express account. The Interchange gives you the The University of British Columbia Alumni Association A card Joan Doe BA'87 UBC ID No. 0123456 Membership NotTransferablt 01/09/01 Expiry Date Card No. 0 117 7 I 800 883 3088 / 604 822 3313 software and the connection for access to the never-ending mysteries of the Internet, e-mail and the World Wide Web at prices you won't find anywhere else. In fact, you're likely to recoup your $25 with this feature alone. But that isn't the only popular feature. Remember that incredible library that got you through every single course you ever took? Well, welcome back. With the A card, you get a 20% discount on an extramural library card, You also get a 10% discount off an MOA membership, 10% off Media Services and a $ 10 discount at UBC Career and Placement Services. That's it SO FAR. We're negotiating weekly with other services, both on and off campus, to bring you the best for less. Stay tuned. We'd like to apologize, though, for some misinformation. We prematurely announced corporate discounts at hotel and car rental agencies, and discounts on Disneyland/Magic Kingdom memberships. We will keep you posted as new services sign on. Want tojoin up? Don't hesitate. There are a number of ways to do it. Call 822-4(76 (University Computing Services), or visit the Interchange at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca. Don't get left behind. Send your request directly to us at: UBC Alumni Association 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver BC.V6T1ZI e-mail <papke@unixg.ubc.ca> tel 822-8913 fax 822-8928. Great Minds Meet Again If you haven't seen the inside of a classroom in years, you may not be aware that UBC alumni are coming back to campus - for annual meetings of their professional associations, training seminars, reunions and industry accreditation. And you may not know that the UBC Conference Centre has the experienced conference service professionals to make your next meeting a success. The UBC Conference Centre |r Great value in accommodation and meeting facilities |r Incredible location on the Point Grey peninsula •r Vancouver is rated one of North America's best conference destinations The University of British Columbia 5961 Student Union Boulevard Vancouver, B.C. V6T2C9 Tel: 604-822-1060 Fax:604-822-1069 e-mail: conferences(®brock.housing.ubc.ca web: http://www.conferences.ubc.ca UBC CONFERENCE CENTRE Stay At The UBC Conference Centre 8 UBC Aujmni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 ...like this is just another cat. t Prowl around a Honda Odyssey. You'll quickly find any resemblance between ordinary minivans and this revolutionary people-mover purely coincidental. A totally fresh approach makes Odyssey the pick of the litter with • four side doors that open just like a 4-door sedan • passenger seats that lift out at the flick of a latch • a third row seat that disappears into the floor • the lowest entry height of any vehicle in its class • smooth car-like handling • a purring 140 hp SOHC 16-valve engine, and • a generous list of standard features including CFC-free air conditioning and dual airbags. Now available in six passenger with ABS and seven passenger with and without ABS. Get your paws on an Odyssey today. h o n d A.I AS RELIABLE AS THE CARS WE SELL Conferences in the Heart of Academe Did you know that groups from around the world come right here to UBC to hold their conferences? In 1995, more than 400 groups stayed in residences operated by the UBC Conference Centre for a total of 35,000 delegates and visitors. The Conference Centre has been promoting UBC's facilities on campus since 1974. There has been a steady growth in the number of conferences held every year. The UBC campus is an excellent venue for conferences, reunions, sports events, seminars or business meetings. It's affordable, the location is magnificent, there are many different meeting facilities, and delegates have access to UBC attractions. Add to that the professional meeting management support provided by the Centre, and UBC has become a world-class conference destination. Groups of 10 to 3,000 can be accommodated during the conference season, May through August. Some of the conferences of 1995 include: The 19th International Counsellors Conference; the American Association of Physicists in Medicine; the 11th International Conference on AIDS; the International Conference on Biological Education, the 31st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry; and the 152nd Convention of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Need help planning your conference? The Centre offers registration services and meeting management packages to handle all logistical arrangements. Services include budget management, production of print materials, database management, kit assembling and registration desk staffing. Need more information? Call the Conference Centre at 604- 822-1060, e-mail <conferences @brock.housing.ubc.ca>, or visit us on the Web: hup:// www.conferences .ubc.ca. Built Without Compromise. UBC Aiumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 Nancy Cho: \bunteer Hero One of the constants at the Alumni Associ hab Medicine life after fundraising. ation over the past 15 years has been Nancy Cho. As a volunteer organizer, few have shown her talent, her en- [TTQS^H^BH ergy and her ever-present UflMHPv^ good humour. IBffi^1'"'""'*' ' Her volunteer work F .-i&UKk Under Nancy's leadership, the division developed a newsletter, established a success- IWfflffiffflMfl&MM ful mentorhsip program W?iwrss* ™ ^ for students and holds an * ■ ^ '■-*? * ■' AGM and reception. It's J£ jta.,Jxm£&£*si. an active division and began in 1981 when, as a NgflHH|h||^B^Ba ^HMHhJHMh builds closer ties with stu- 4th year student, she and K^^^^H^3 her class raised funds for ^^^^^HVH ^^^^^^^^H dents, alumni and faculty. ll^B^B^B^B^B^H Since 1988, Nancy has an alumni bursary. After j^^^^^o^S l^^^^^^^^^l served as a member of the graduation she was a ^^^^^H^jl B^B^B^B^B^B^BH President's Allocations founding member of the ^^^^^^^^1 B^B^B^B^B^B^BH Committee, which is ad- Rehabilitation Medicine W^K^^^f ^'■^^^^^^M ministered by the Alumni Division. The division ^^^^^V B^B^B^B^BJ Association. The commit- quickly became one of the ^^^IHL. d most active in the Associ- ^^^|HHB. J B^B^B^B^H tee sorts through applica- f£' B^B^B^B^Bj tions by students and ation's roster. As was the ^H^^^^Hfl jm. B^B^B^BH alumni divisions who re- case with many divisions ^H^^^^^H at the time, Rehab Medi- IK^^^^^^H ■9 ^^B^B^B^Bfl quest funding for special ■H .JsB^B^B^B^BI project5 and makes recom- cine focussed mostly on Hff^^^^^El PjfliP^^^^^^H mendations on which pro- fundraising. Nancy ^^^^^^^^Hl helped organize telethons to set up an endow k^^I^I^Ih posals to accept. Nancy is still an active member ofthe Rehab Sci ment fund for their bursary, and when the grad program began at the school, the division started a graduate scholarship. ences division, and served for many years as its president. She is a familiar figure around the Association offices, and her enthusiasm When the World of Opportunity Cam and commitment are a joy to behold. She has paign started in 1989, fundraising activity stopped at the division level. But the solid shown a strong affiliation to the Alumni Association and UBC, and we are pleased to foundation Nancy helped build gave the Re recognize her as our volunteer hero. Community and Regional Planning Class of'70 l he Class had a reunion at Whistler in September of last year. Seventeen of the 25 grads showed up, as did most of the faculty from that time. Lots of talk ensued about how the experience of UBC had shaped their lives. More than half of the class members occupy senior planning positions in local, provincial and national agencies in Canada and abroad. Several others have made successful careers in private practice. One member is a prominent guru of organizational change in the US, and others are engaged in occupations as diverse as adventure tourism and a small farm business. This was their first official reunion in 25 years. During dinner, a conference call was made to PEI and Jamaica, linking Kingsley Lewis and Blossom Samuels (Adolphus) to the reunion. Varsity Outdoor Club Oldtimers Our next major reunion isn't until 2000, but we want to stay in touch. Last year's hike was so much fun, we've decided to do it again for one day on September 14, 1996. The itinerary: a hike on Hollyburn with a reception to follow. We will all meet at the Nordic (cross country) area parking lot on Cypress Bowl at 10 am. Bring a lunch. We will have a hike to match everyone's ability, or just pick blackberries and loaf and chat at the old Hollyburn lodge at First Lake. There will be no mail out notification of this event. Call Ingrid Blomfield, 926-1156, Margaret Merler, 922-8973, or Iola Knight, 922-7358. Our telephone committee will call in June. Tin'Adult Education Research Centre celebrates its 10th Ponderosa with a garden part v. improv. theatre and other irrcvercnl acts. 5760 Toronto Road. April 2 /"pm. RSVP Jeannie Vomit; 822-r>NK' flfe vie A UBC Student! •Part-Time •Full-Time •Temporary • Flexible • Reliable • Motivated Take advantage of our free Job Posting service for employers. Hire a UBC student! Call 822-JOBS Ph. 822-5627 Fax. 822-8758 JobLink i 10 UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 Tricia Smith UBC's Town and Qown Centre t 6251 Cecil Qreen Park Road Vancouvei, B.C. V6T1Z1 (604) 822-6289 Facsimilie: (604) 822-8928 Haig Farris Dana Merritt President Tricia Smith BA'80, LLB'85 Alumni Activities: Sr.Vice President 1995-96; Member- at-large 1993-95; Chair, Marketing Committee; Member, UBC Law Alumni Association. University Activities: Chair, University Athletic Council; while a UBC student, a winner of Olympic, Commonwealth and numerous world championship medals in rowing; inductee to the UBC and BC Sports Hall of Fame. Community Service: Boards of directors of Sport BC, Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation, Full Figure Theatre Company, BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum; commission member of FISA (International Rowing Federation) and a member of Esteem Team (Athletes' Speakers Bureau). Occupation: Lawyer and consultant for Barnes Craig & Associates. Senior Vice President Haig Farris BA'60 University Activities: Adjunct Prof., UBC Faculty of Commerce; Chairman ofthe board ofthe TRIUMF-KAONVentures Office. Community Service: Past chairman of the Science Council of BC; member of PACST (the Premier's Advisory Committee on Science and Technology); past governor of Science World British Columbia; past member of the boards of the Vancouver Opera and the Vancouver Playhouse. Occupation: Lawyer for Farris and Company; president of Fractal Capital Corp. Al Poettcker Jean Forrest Treasurer Dana M. Merritt BCom'88 Alumni Activities: Member-at-large 1995-96. Community Service: Volunteer, Endeavour Auction society; member, Finance Committee of the MS Society 1991-92; member ofthe board, New Westminster Family Place Society 1991-92. Occupation: Director of financial services.Van- couver Community College. Past President Al Poettcker BCom'69 Alumni Activities: President 1995-96; Sr.Vice President 1994-95; Senior Executive and Finance Commitee;chair,Awards Committee. University Activities: Member of the board of the UBC Real Estate Corporation; member, of the Dean's Advisory Committee in the Faculty of Commerce. Occupation: Real estate developer. Members-at-Large 1996-98 Greg Clark BCom'86, LLB'89 Alumni Activities: Chair, Commerce/MBA Alumni Division 1992-94. University Activities: Member of the Dean's Placement Advisory Council, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration 1992-94. Community Service: Vice president, St. George's Old Boys Association 1992-94; membership committee, Point Grey Golf Greg Clark and Country Club; member, Hongkong—Canada Business Association and Canada Japan Society. Occupation: International business lawyer, Mulholland Webster, Barristers & Solicitors. Jean E. Forrest BPE'83 Alumni Activities: 1993 graduating class representative to the School of Physical Education and Recreation Alumni Division I984-B7. Community Service: Trustee, BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum 1995-present; director, Sport BC 1992-present; commissioner, Vancouer Board of Parks and Recreation 1990—93 (vice chair 1991 -93); member, BC Women's Field Hockey Federation Executive Committee 1987-90; member, Canadian National Field Hockey Team 1978-80; current member North Shore Winter Club; current mem- berVancouver Rowing Club (field hockey section); current member WISRAN (Women in Sports and Recreation Network). Occupation: Marketing manager,YMCA of GreaterVancouver. Thomas Hobley MBA'83 Occupation: Vice president of customer service, Rogers Cablesystems Ltd., BC area. Has worked with Rogers since 1984 managing design and construction of the cable system; managed coaxial system upgrades in the Western Region; constructed the first CATV fiber ring in Western Canada. UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 II ARTS Global environmental problems have escalated to the point where every sector of society must be involved in seeking solutions. As the next generation of professional and government leaders, students must play a role in investigating environmental problems and developing sustainable alternatives to the status quo. With this in mind, the Faculty of Arts has established a new program leading to a BA Honours degree in Environmental Studies.The first class of students will graduate in 1998. In keeping with the multifac- eted and transboundary nature of environmental problems, the curriculum is broadly interdisciplinary. Students choose among environment-related courses offered by many departments within the Faculty of Arts, including geography, philosophy, economics, sociology and political science. In addition, the Environmental Studies curriculum includes a significant environmental science component, with course requirements and electives from the faculties of Science and Forestry. Close coordination with a parallel BA Honours Environmental Sciences program offered by the Faculty of Sciences is a cornerstone of the Arts Environmental Studies program. Students in the two programs are jointly enrolled in a series of three core seminars in their second, third and fourth years, providing them with an opportunity to apply their diverse academic backgrounds to pressing local, regional and global concerns. In addition to providing a strong academic foundation, both the Environmental Studies and Environmental Sciences program emphasize practical skills necessary for environment-related careers in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Research and analytical skills, as well as oral and written communication are strongly emphasized in the core seminars. Students are en- PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES 50th Anniversary of Pharmacy at UBC pharmacy on the campus, from I 946 ■■ I 996.The events planned for May 3 I to June 3. I 996 are as follows: Friday, May 3 I An evening Wine and Cheese Reception at Cecil Green Park Saturday, June I ml Resource Cc Sunday, June 2 Monday, June 3 Annua! Bernie Riedel GolfTo A book con ; for $39.95.You may reserve youi icque payable to The Faculty of Ph i Year Celebrations Book Fund. Sei couraged to work in teams to develop holistic approaches to complex real-world environmental problems. The Environmental Studies and Environmental Sciences programs welcome applications from students prior to registering for second year. The deadline is May 15. Since both programs have prerequisites, potential applicants are encouraged to consult the UBC Calendar prior to choosing their first year courses. Further information is also available from either the Chair of Environmental Studies (Prof. Kathryn Harrison, c/o Political Science Department) or Environmental Sciences (Prof. George Spiegelman, c/o Microbiology Department). AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES The faculty's Department of Animal Science is establishing a Chair in Animal Welfare.The chair will serve as a focal point for teaching, research and public education on animal welfare issues.The welfare of animals is an increasingly important issue in our society. While concerns about the welfare of food production and research animals are commonly expressed, important welfare issues are also associated with work and companion animals, and with wildlife species in captive and natural settings. The Chair Will: 03 take an active leadership role in promoting education and original research concerning animal welfare; OJ focus on animal welfare issues arising from handling, health, housing, nutrition and transportation of animals; OS interact with all sectors of sod ety interested in the care and production of animals; 03 serve as a source of knowledge and expertise, and be actively involved in technology transfer at the provincial, national and international levels; 03 promote alternate methods to the use of animals for testing and research; OS serve as a resource during development and review of the recommended codes of practice for care and handling of animals. The chair will be held by an established scientist and educator acknowledged as a leader in the field of animal welfare. With significant financial support already committed and further fundraising receiving positive response, the Department of Animal Science is now seeking a candidate for the Chair in Animal Welfare. Dr.JimThompson BSA'64, MSA '66, Head ofthe Department/ says, "We're looking for someone to provide strong leadership in education and research concerning animal welfare, reflecting the expertise and leadership appropriate in this position.The appointment is expected to be at the rank of full professor." The Chair in Animal Welfare is being established under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERQ/lndustry University Research Chair Program.The industrial partners are the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the BC Veterinary Medical Association and several animal industry groups.The estate of Doreen Martin Margetts and hundreds of private donors have contributed substantial sums to endow the Chair in perpetuity. If you would like to know more about the Chair in Animal Welfare, contact Dr.Thompson at 248-2357 Main Mall.Vancouver, B.C.V6T IZ4^ (604) 822-2794, FAX (604) 822- V 4400, e-mail: <jrthomp@unixg.ubc.ca>. 12 UBC A1.UMN1 Chronicll, spring 1996 FACULTY NEWS FHLETICS j t's been five long years since 1 UBC's men's basketball team 1 was ranked first in the 1 Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) Top Ten. But following a seven-game win streak which began in mid-January, that is the lofty position held by the Thunderbirds at press time. It's been four years since UBC made an appearance at the CIAU National Championship Final Eight Tournament; nine years since they made it to the final and a distant 24 years since they brought home the gold. But with first place and home- court advantage clinched going into the Canada West conference playoffs, UBC could again be flashing their razzle dazzle on national TV (TSN) at the CIAU championships March 15-17 in the II ,000 seat Metro Centre in Halifax. Also in the running for a shot at UAU gold this spring is the worn- n's volleyball team, a much rejuvenated squad under second-year head coach Doug Reimer. Reimer inherited a team which posted a dismal record of 1-15 in 1993-94 and took them all the way to the CIAU National Championship Tournament and a fifth place CIAU ranking last season. Currently ranked fifth again, the 34-year-old Kelowna native has established a reputation as one of the most gifted teachers of any sport in CIAU history. But while Athletic Director Bob Philip and Interuniversity Coordinator Kim Gordon count their lucky stars for having landed Reimer following five stellar seasons at the U. of Winnipeg (the same school from which men's basketball coach Bruce Enns was lured), the problem they are facing is whether the much sought-after coach will stay on Point Grey or be snapped up by Canada's national team.That team, tatent on ending its Olympic medal 'ought, is talking with Reimer in an effort to recruit him to head up the national team program. Photograph from UBC Campus Planning and Development GRADUATE STUDIES The Institute of Asian Research and its five constituent research centres (Japan, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India & South Asia) are moving into a new home: the C.K. Choi Building, a model for sustainable, environmentally responsible architecture. Designed by Matsuzaki Wright Architects Inc., it has already received awards and glowing reviews for its ecologically sensitive approach to building design, landscaping, and the flow of energy, heat, light, air and water. Features include; * Waterless, odourless composting toilets require no connection to sewer mains and produce nitrogen-rich compost for landscaping needs. * An artificial subsurface marsh of reeds, sedges and iris biologically filters rainwater runoff, sink greywater and tea from the composting toilets. * Waste heat from a nearby campus steam pipe provides hot water. * Windows and skylights, low-level ambient and localised task lighting, and automatic dimming or switch-off in vacant spaces reduce electricity needed for lighting by more than half. * Fresh air ducts, openable windows, and a steady convective flow of warm air out the scoop-roofed atria replace mechanical with natural ventilation. * Low-emission finishes, furnishings and carpets, free of formaldehyde and solvents, and selected indoor plants, reduce indoor air pollution. * Building materials are recycled, recyclable, and/or have low "embodied energy" (i.e. energy required for manufacture and transportation to the site). Recycled components include the exposed wood structural beams reclaimed from the demolished Armoury across the street on West Mall, and the reused red brick exterior cladding from old Vancouver streets. The new building was made possible by a generous donation from C.K. Choi and family, matched by the province. Each centre has also contributed through its own fundraising community campaigns, and the Centre for India & South Asia is now in full swing with theirs, chaired by Harish Joshi and Karm Manhas (contact janis Hamilton, 822-8911). Fans can keep tabs on the progress of both women's volleyball and men's basketball teams by calling the 24 hour sports information hotline (UBC-BIRD). Finally, the annual Big Block Awards Banquet and Alumni Reunion goes March 21 at the Hyatt Ballroom. For further information and ticket inquiries, please call special events coordinator June Carlyle at 822-8205. UBC beat the Golden Bears for the Canada West Championship 2-0 in a best-of- three series before sold out crowds at the War Memorial Gym.They advance to Halifax.Women's volleyball won a bronze at the CIAU in Toronto, and the Women's Swim team floated to their 3rd CIAU title at Guelph. APPLIED SCIENCES The UBC Pulp and Paper Centre is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The centre houses collaborative post-graduate research and teaching programs between UBC and the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Paprican). The research program consists of graduate student research supervised by Paprican and UBC faculty. The research has a strong focus on engineering. Areas of emphasis include environmental engineering, chemical pulping technology, process control, fibre processing, mechanical pulping, papermaking, and corrosion engineering. In addition to research, the centre houses the UBC Pulp and Paper Master of Engineering program. This program prepares graduates for the practice of engineering in the pulp and paper industry. There are over 90 alumni from this program; more than 88% are employed in the pulp and paper industry. Through its research and teaching programs, the UBC Pulp and Paper Centre is a model of cooperation between industry and university. The Canadian Pulp and Paper Association awarded its 1994 Weldon Medal to a "research team" comprising two faculty, a graduate student and an alumnus of the centre.This success story is one example of the positive results of industry university cooperation. The High Headroom Laboratory. Furnace modelling is a major research project at the centre. UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 13 FACULTY NEWS FORESTRY UBC Forestry's International Programs Office has received over 50 requests from students for information on short term international work op- portunities.The faculty has responded by developing a host of ways in which students might access international jobs. The current option available is through an organization called IAESTE which is a placement organization for students with technical training. International Programs has also been contacting several international agencies directly to seek internship opportunities specifically in forestry related fields. We work with universities with whom we have memorandums of understanding to determine if they might place UBC students through their institution's placement and recruiting services.To make this more feasible, an equal number of jobs need to be found for international students within BC. There are plans to create a reciprocal internship program with the help of the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest in the form of a two month learning and working experience, resulting in a final project and paper. International Programs is interested in partnering with the BC forest industry to make positions available for international students within their organizations. UBC Forestry will assist by providing selection and administrative support. In this way UBC Forestry students will have the ability to work with international forestry companies, and international students will learn and understand more about BC and forestry within BC. If any organization would like more information on the proposed internship program, please contact Sandra Schinnerl in the International Programs Office 822-9627. Make An Educated Decision. The smartest thing you can do for your money is choose a financial institution that looks out for your best interests. Like us. And you don't have to be a teacher to use our services, either. Everyone is welcome to graduate into a class above the banks. Call us for more information. ^^ Teacher Savings Dunbar Branch: 4445 Dunbar Street, Vancouver Phone 224-2364 Fax 224-2654 Other branches in Oakridge, Burnaby, Surrey and Victoria. LIBRARY The Library is pleased to join other service units on campus in supporting the UBC Alumni Association. Holders ofthe UBC Alumni Association "A Card" will receive a twenty percent discount on the purchase of a UBC extramural borrower's Library card. Your extramural Library card allows you to borrow books at most branches for two weeks and to renew them if not requested by another borrower. Certain categories of library materials are used heavily by students and faculty and therefore may not be borrowed by extramural read- ers.These materials include journals, reserve books, course books and children's books. At some branches there is a limit of five books which may be borrowed at one time. What About Computer Services? You can dial up UBCLIB, the Library's online catalogue and information system, from your home computer and access selected databases, electronic reference works, commercial document delivery services, and the Internet via Gopher.Your extramural Library card does not provide Internet access to electronic mail and the World Wide Web. How Much Does a Personal UBC Library Card Cost? Categories Regular Price Price for "A Card" Holders Full year | (Sept. 1-Aug. 31) $90 $72 " Part year flan. 1-Aug. 31) $65 $52 Summer (May l-Aug.3l) $35 $28 Senior Citizen Cards $20 $16 How Do I Get a Card! To purchase an extramural card, go to the Circulation Division (822- 3869) in the Main Library, to the right of the main entrance. Please bring two pieces of identification with you. In addition, to receive the twenty percent discount, be sure to bring your UBC Alumni Association's "A Card." Once your application is processed, you will receive your card in the mail. For more information about UBC Library services for extramural users, please pick up a copy of Guide to Services for Off-Campus Users, Guide for Extramural Readers and Guide to Loan Regulations available in all UBC Library branches and divisions. Or call the Circulation Division at 822-3869. t 14 UBC Alumni Chronici.k, spring 1996 FACULTY NEWS |rom October II to 14, the Faculty of Law celebrated ■ its 50th Anniversary with a number of special events. On Thursday night, Dean Lynn Smith '73, Q.C. welcomed current students, alumni, staff, full time and adjunct professors, faculty from other law schools, judges, Chancellor Bob Lee and his wife Lily Lee and Barbara Crompton, then Chair of the Board of Governors, to a reception at the law school, sponsored by the Vancouver Bar Association.The faculty's Nemetz Professor Of Legal History, Wes Pue, presented his new book, Law School:The Story of Legal Education in British Columbia, to the school's founder. Dean Emeritus George F. Curtis. Because the reception coincided with the university's Open House, there were also many exhibits on display highlighting rious activities of the law school: We First Nations Legal Studies Program; the Asian Legal Studies Program; FLEXLAW, a computerized legal information retrieval system developed by the faculty's Artificial Intelligence Research Project; and a video called "Teaching Law As If Women Mattered." The next day there was a special university convocation at the Great Hall of the Law Courts. William Esson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (a graduate of the law school class of 1957) was awarded an honorary LLD degree. Honorary LLB degrees were conferred on twenty-four men and women who had obtained their legal education in BC and been called to the bar before the Faculty of Law opened in 1945. One of those receiving a degree was 100 years old, or as he insisted, "one month shy of 100," and the ceremony was extremely moving and aressive.The academic proces- Bn included the Chancellor, the President, the deans of the law faculty and several other faculties, Five deans of the Faculty of Law, I to r: Ken Lysyk, Peter Burns, Lynn Smith, George Curtis and Bertie McLean. members of the Senate and faculty from the law school and other faculties, all in full academic regalia.As well, there was a procession of more than 50 robed judges, including Antonio Lamer, Chief Justice of Canada, Julius Issac, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada and Allan McEachern, Chief Justice of British Columbia. At the conclusion of the convocation Lieutenant Governor Garde Gardom '49, Q.C. presented the Order of British Columbia to George Curtis.The award was announced by Allan McEachern, the Chief Justice of British Columbia '51, and the citation was read by Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh '76. Because all three of the men presenting the award had been students of Dean Curtis, the presentation was especially moving and, as it had been kept carefully secret before the ceremony, it took people by complete surprise and left Dean Curtis, as he said, "almost... but not entirely speechless." Saturday evening a gala dinner was held at the Hyatt Regency with more than 850 people attending, including Beverley McLachlin, a Justice of the Supreme Court (and a member of the faculty from 1976 to 1982), and Frank lacobucci '62, also a Justice of the Supreme Court.The Chancellor, David Strangway, the Chair of the Board of Governors, Academic Vice President and Provost Dan Birch and many other representatives of the university joined with law graduates and supporters for the dinner, organized by a committee chaired by Kyle Mitchell '66 and composed of: Debra Browning '80, Q.C, Hamish Cameron ^.Associate Dean Bob Diebolt '70, Q.C, Ross Ellison '73,Tex Enmark '70, Linda Loo '74, Q.C, Maria Morellato '84, Justice Mary Newbury '74, Doug Robinson '72,The Hon. Justice Jon Sigurdson '73, Murray Tevlin '78 and Warren Wilson '67, Q.C. Before the dinner, each decade of graduating classes held a reception where old friends and classmates met and reminisced.At the dinner, emcee Kyle Mitchell kept events moving at a steady clip. Law Society Treasurer, Grant Burnyeat '73, Q.C introduced the keynote speaker, Antonio Lamer, Chief Justice of Canada, who spoke of the law school "as one of the country's leading centres of legal research" and paid tribute to the five deans the school has had over the past 50 years: George Curtis, Bertie McLean, Ken Lysyk, Peter Burns and Lynn Smith. Four alumni of the law school then spoke on behalf of their respective generations. Chief Justice McEachern '51,Attorney General Dosanjh '76 and David Anderson, Minister of National Revenue '62, gave lighthearted, nostalgic talks and former Prime Minister Kim Campbell '83 sang her recollections of the years when she had produced the law students' annual musical show, the Law Revue. One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of a video,"Fifty Years On," written and produced by Jon Sigurdson and Murray Tevlin.This video starred Peter Butler '60, Q.C. as a student who was enrolled in the law school for all 50 of its years and who finally graduated (with an adjudicated pass) as "Petula" Butler. Photographs and cameo appearances by numerous law graduates and faculty members over the years gave a sense of the parade of people who have been connected to the law school over its first half century. Wearing a mortarboard and accompanying himself on the piano,Tom Shorthouse, the Law Librarian, introduced each epoch in the law school's history by singing a verse ofthe video's theme song. The dinner finished with an evening of dancing. The 50th anniversary brought a wide range of lawyers, judges, faculty, staff and students together to celebrate an extremely significant event in the Law Faculty's history. Dean Lynn Smith said: "the 50th anniversary celebration was a tremendous success and would not have been possible without the strong support of the university and our alumni, particularly the organizing committee." This committee was composed of: Bruce Broomhall '96, Grant Burnyeat 73, Q.C.Tex Enmark '70,Jim Maclntyre '57, Q.C, Lloyd McKenzie '48, Q.C, Kyle Mitchell '66, Joanne Nykilchyk and Bob Reid '74, and was chaired by Peter Burns, Q.C. and Associate Dean Bob Diebolt 70, Q.C. UBC .\lumni Chronicle, spring 1996 15 Photos (above, clockwise): • A bamboo forest near the Nanjing Botanical Gardens. • Along the trails in the Asian Garden are a multitude of trees, shrubs and perennials. (June West photo.) • Rosa banksiae 'Lutea' covering the arbour at Nanjing Botanical Garden. • A section of Hokkaido Botanic Garden's nursery for growing rare and unusual plants. • A section of the Alpine Garden within the University of Hokkaido Botanic Garden. Adjacent to this The Botanical Garden Has Twins in Asia The David C. Lam Asian Garden at UBC is an international resource of wild collected plants for research, education and display. The Botanical Garden now cultivates plant material from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet and other Asian countries. This autumn, Botanical Garden director Bruce Macdonald visited Asia to strengthen our ties with China and Japan. His first official visit was to the Nanjing Botanical Garden in China to renew the current Five Year Agreement of Cooperation. This agreement helped clear the way for Peter Wharton, curator of the Asian Garden, to travel with Chinese botanists to areas where seed had not been collected by Westerners since the 1920s. Discussions had been going on for over a year with the Hokkaido Botanic Garden in Japan to establish a similar rela tionship with that garden. As a result, Bruce Macdonald was invited to sign an agreement of cooperation with Hokkaido University. As is the case with our garden, the Hokkaido Botanic Garden is part of the university's faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and is an important part of the plant community in its region. During his visit, Bruce met the Garden's director Dr. Yoshio Kikuta, dean of Agricultural Sciences Dr. Akira Ogoshi and the president of Hokkaido University Dr. Norihito Tambo. Dr. Tambo was aware that UBC had recently conducted a renovation of the Nitobe Memorial Garden. Dr. Inazo Nitobe was a graduate of the Sapporo Agricultural College (now the faculty of Agricultural Sciences at Hokkaido) in 1881. To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the founding of site, a garden of plants native to BC and Alberta is being built. •The spectacular fell colour of a Vitis coignetiae vine growing through trees in a forested area, Hokkaido. • The dramatic flowers of Rhododendron cinnabarinum at their peak in the David C. Lam Asian Garden. • Dr. Hideki Takahashi, botanist at the Hokkaido Botanic Garden, and Bruce Macdonald, director of UBC's Botanical Garden, studying the native flora in a Hokkaido wetland. • The beautiful spring flowers of Magnolia dawsoniana are a colourful eyecatcher for Garden visitors. All photos by Bruce Macdonald unfe^H otherwise noted. 16 UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 Hokkaido University, a bronze statue of Dr. Nitobe is being built. Bruce also spent time with faculty members discussing the current construction of a new garden component at Hokkaido Botanic Garden, dedicated to the *tive plants of British Columbia d Alberta. The UBC Botanical Garden has already supplied seed of 37 species of native BC plants for this project. Plans are underway for a joint collecting program with Hokkaido University botanists in 1997. Since the climate and geography of BC and Hokkaido are so similar, this cooperation will result in benefit both to the university and to the nursery and landscape industry. -* The Davidson Club honours UBC professor John Davidson (1878 - 1970), the first provincial botanist of BC, and first faculty member appointed to the university. "Botany John" was dedicated to his field, and performed the first botanical surveys on many areas of BC. His first task at UBC was to oversee the move of the provincial botanical garden, then located at Essondale, to UBC. He and his crew (and horse-drawn wagons) transported more than 25,000 plants from the Riverview site to Point Grey. Recendy, it was discovered that John Davidson had established an arboretum at Essondale made up of trees too large to move. The Riverview Horticultural Centre Society has been established to protect these trees from planned development. Davidson retired in 1948 and died at 91 in 1970. He remained throughout his life dedicated to the study of plants but also to the enjoyment of the outdoors. The Botany department plans to celebrate the 80th anniversary of John Davidson's appointment with a series of lectures, slide shows and field trips to some of his favourite places. The Davidson Club was established in 1982 as an endowment foundation to provide support for the Garden. For information about the Botanical Garden, the Davidson Club or the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society please call the Garden at 822-9666. UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 17 In Defence ofthe Liberal University A liberal university is one which must not elevate any one of them In choosing to run for election as a faculty representative to the Board of Governors, I placed the greatest emphasis on defending the concept of a liberal university. To defend the values of openness, pluralism and freedom of intellectual inquiry may seem a platitude to some. But in light of some ofthe serious threats — external and internal — to academic freedom and to the university as an autonomous institution, I have reason to think otherwise. Let me begin with external threats. Since universities are embedded in their particular societies, it is not surprising that significant outside forces would seek to influence and even control them. If we go back to the origin of western universities in the middle ages, we would find that religion played a dominant social role. While the transcription of knowledge owed a great deal to religious institutions, religious authorities were also quick to condemn forms of inquiry that threatened traditional beliefs as was the case with Galileo and the Inquisition. It would take a long and hard struggle for the freedom of scientific inquiry to win out against very strong opposition from the adherents of religious orthodoxy. In recent centuries, a greater threat to free intellectual activity has tended to come from political authorities. This is most patent in autocratic, authoritarian or totalitarian states of various stripes, whose rulers have had everything to fear from free and unhindered discussion. At best, dissident intellectuals and dissident movements, often at great personal cost, have kept the flame of critical inquiry alive. But even in liberal democracies such as ours, political authorities have been known to look askance at scholars who take unpopular positions. One thinks of McCarthyism in the United States at the height of the Cold War; ofthe purging that occurred in a number of university faculties; of the very serious damage done to scholarship in China studies, for example, by the groundless accusations that China scholars of a liberal or left-of-centre persuasion had helped "lose China" to communism. Here in Canada, there was the celebrated case of Frank Underhill, a historian at the University of Toronto, who in 1940, prior to American entry into the war, was threatened with dismissal by the premier of Ontario for espousing views too critical of the British connection and too pro-American. In the late 1980s, another premier of Ontario sought to have a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Philip Rushton, fired for pursuing controversial research on race and intelli- by Philip Resnick be open to all points of view. It does to a position of orthodoxy. It fosters pluralism and tolerance to the greatest degree possible, and it strongly defends the principle of free debate and discussion. gence. And, closer to home, when restraint measures were introduced in British Columbia between 1983 and 1986, provincial government ministers let it be known that they were none too happy with the critical view of their policies being expressed by members of UBC's Economics department. Fortunately, tenure provided a powerful weapon in defending academic freedom. Then there is the ever-present threat which comes from powerful economic interests. As governments cut back on their funding of universities, there will be a tendency to look to the corporate sector for support. Yet corporate funding may well come with strings attached. At the extreme, it may lead to calls such as the following from William Cochrane, then senior vice president at Guaranty Trust: "I believa that all professors should be obliged to develop revenue-generating projects as part of their responsibilities ... a professor's ability to generate funds should be one ofthe conditions of tenure. Every university faculty should be able to catalogue the expertise of its members and then market those talents for fees or grants to corporations or other clientele." (Globe and Mail, November 3, 1986) Or one may end up with situations such as the funding by major pharmaceutical companies of research in pharmaceutical faculties such as our own, in exchange for public expressions of support by senior researchers and administrators for government policies such as Bill C-91. That measure, passed in the early 1990s, extended protection to the major brand-name companies against their generic rivals. The public policy implications have been high in terms of significantly greater costs to Canada's health care system. There are further risks that can arise when senior university administrators, be they presidents or deans, sit on the boards of directors of private corporations. Can one be certain that the autonomy and integrity of their universities or faculties will be unaffected? Can the public be sure that the expertise which faculty members may bring to bear on controversial public policy questions, such as inquiries into the environmental consequences of certain corporate practices, will not be tainted by the associations which senior administrators may have forged with those very same companies? Fifty years ago Harold Innis, the doyen of Canadian economic his- 18 UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 fijans and one of our most distinguished academics, wrote, "The de- ent of the university into the marketplace is the lie at the heart of modern society." Developments over the last couple of decades have taken Canadian universities further down that road than Innis could have anticipated. This is the reason I was critical of David Strangway when, in a 1986 document entitled Engine of Recovery, he stated, "Universities are a major source of free inquiry, providing the ideas that can later be exploited by free enterprise. We need both the push of free inquiry and the pull of free enterprise for success in our society." The notion that universities represent a distinctive sphere of activity is significantly weakened by such statements. For the liberal university, as it has historically evolved, needs to be seen as something more than a handmaiden to the corporate sector. There are other dangers to the liberal university, however, that can come from within. As a member of a department, Political Science, that was subjected to extraordinary criticism by an outside inquiry, the McEwen Report, and to the actions of a university administration that for four months suspended admissions into our graduate program, I am a lot less confident than President Strangway that the cause of academic freedom is well-served at UBC. (See "David Strangway and the Political Science Debate" in the Winter, 1995 issue ofthe Chronicle.) "Due process" is not just a slogan to be bandied about in fair-weather conditions. It is something that needs to be practised when the going f|s tough. And this was decidedly not the case when a whole depart- ent was accused of systemic sexism and racism on the basis of little more than innuendo and uncorroborated complaints, and when the reputations of all its faculty members were called into question by administrators who did not stand up for principles of academic freedom. A liberal university is one which must be open to all points of view. It does not elevate any one of them to a position of orthodoxy. It fosters pluralism and tolerance to the greatest degree possible, and it strongly defends the .principle of free debate and discussion. There is a place in a liberal university for the adherents of all sorts of approaches. For example, in recent decades feminism, with all its variations, has emerged as an important new approach. So too have various other forms of identity politics, related to such constructs as ethnicity, race, sexual orientation and so on. These are perfectly legitimate forms of self definition for members of a university community — faculty, students or staff — who may choose to identify with them, and they, accordingly, have a role to play in research and teaching. There is a real danger, however, that the adherents of various forms of identity politics may seek to elevate their particular approach to the status of an orthodoxy and to impose it as the underlying principle that must govern all university activities, all forms of research and teaching. The so-called inclusive university that certain of these groups claim to •rsue may turn out to be anything but inclusive. For it threatens to ex- de any and all who might challenge or question its adherents' beliefs. In short, it threatens to turn the university into an illiberal institution. We in the political science department have had a very close brush with the forces ofthe illiberal university. The wounds caused by the administration's actions will not be easily healed. Nor will the damage done to the reputation ofthis university as one where academic freedom is not respected be quickly undone. The criticism ofthe administration's actions by the BC Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, or by Tom Berger, eminent jurist and, until recently, member of UBC's board, speak far more eloquently than any ofthe administration's rationalizations. There is the need to go back to first principles in our understanding of what a university is all about. There is the need for the next president of UBC, its board, senate, faculty, students, alumni and outside community to understand that there are certain core principles that need to be upheld. A liberal university must allow free expression to a broad range of opinions. Its members, while free to differ with one another in their points of view, need to share allegiance to the same rules of openness, pluralism and fair play. And no group must be allowed to claim some monopoly position on what is virtuous or true. The liberal university, as we have learned from the political science crisis, is not something we should take for granted. It is something that each generation, in its own way, needs to fight to uphold. I do not despair about the prospects of reaffirming UBC's claims to be a liberal university in the near future. But this will not come about automatically, nor without major changes in attitude in the senior administration, nor without a great deal of vigilance and concern on the part of all those who wish the university well. %' Philip Resnick is a professor in the Political Science department, and a well- known media commentator. UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 19 Chancellor Bob Lee Heads for the Links by Chris Petty Bob Lee sits by his desk and gazes at the view out his office window. It's not a high office, but the view is spectacular: Stanley Park and the rowing club off to the left, Coal Harbour and the busy port of Vancouver off to the right. Grouse looms up on this sunny winter day like a giant scoop of ice cream. "I told them I'd serve one term but that I'd spend a lot of time doing it." I've asked him if he had considered serving a second term as Chancellor. His current term expires in June, 1996. And it was plenty. Plenty of work. The job of Chancellor in our university system is, largely, ceremonial. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the job is demanding. During his term, he has attended hundreds of meetings (he's on the Board of Governors, Senate and the Alumni Association's Board of Directors) at the university, and just as many off-campus events to meet donors, grads and friends of UBC around the world. He has tapped the heads of thousands of grads who stream by at convocation, and has uttered the words "I admit you" more often than he's said the names of his own children. But he's loved every minute of it. "When I agreed to let my name stand for Chancellor," he says, "I said yes, just as long as I could be a working Chancellor. I like the ceremonial part, and it's wonderful to see all those happy faces coming across the stage at graduation. I wanted to play a bigger role, be more hands- on." Bob Lee's skills and UBC's need for him as a volunteer were a perfect fit. In the years after graduation, Bob built a strong real estate presence on the west coast of Canada and the US, ultimately forming the extraordinari ly successful Prospero Group. To him, the job of Chancellor is fairly straight forward. "There were a number of things I wanted to do as Chancellor," he says. "I wanted to bring my business skill to the university and use it in whatever way I could. At the same time, I wanted to introduce some people in the business world to the university, people who might become donors." He did both those things. As chair ofthe UBC Real Estate Corporation, he was responsible for developing Hampton Court in UBC's south campus area, and, to date, that development has generated over $60 million for the university endowment. As well, his contacts in the business community have helped attract donations from the likes of Peter Wall, David Lam and the Chan Foundation. "Hampton Place is an important project for me. But I'm not leaving that just yet," he says. He plans to stay on as chair of the real estate corporation for another year to finish off Hampton Court. "I hope one day that developments in the south campus will produce a $1 billion endowment for the university. That would go a long way to help make up budgeting shortfalls on an annual basis." Another aspect of the job of Chancellor is, according to Bob Lee, to support the President and the mission statement ofthe university. He's a believer in David Strangway's vision of UBC. "When David came here, UBC had suffered incredible budget cuts and was in pretty bad shape. He said he wanted to make UBC into a world class institution of research and teaching. He's done that and more. He's made sure UBC has stayed in the top four of Canadian universities, and he's put us on the map internationally." Bob Lee has travelled with David Strangway to branch events around the world. "I went to Hong Kong last year with David. We met with more than 250 grads, many of whom consider Vancouver home. I've been doing business in Asia for 30 years, and I know a lot of people there. David's been travelling to Asia for UBC for only 8 or 9 years, and he already knew most of the people I introduced him to, and he introduced me to some people I've been wanting to meet for a long time. He's done a great job of getting support and recognition for UBC abroad." It's important, too, he says, for a Chancellor to be a strong ambassador for the university. "I've been around the world, across the country and through out this province," he says, "and where ever I meet UBC grads I get the same sense of interest, appreciation and support." He also feels strongly about some ofthe issues of the day that affect UBC. ^^ On the corporate university, he says, "^^^B have to be realistic with all the budget cuts going on at the federal and provincial level. 20 UBC Aiumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 ^^khave to find other sources of income. Dav- ^rTias done an incredible job of fundraising, and our real estate arm is doing well, but we have no alternative but to look for funding everywhere we can. We can develop some selective sponsorships with corporations just as long as there are safeguards in place to protect the mission of the university." On the move to offering places to full- tuition foreign students, he says, "It's just another way of making sure UBC has the resources to maintain its mission. We have a smaller percentage of foreign students at UBC than almost any other university of this size. By offering a small number of places on a full tuition basis, we can expand the university without increasing our budget. Most people don't understand the issue of foreign students at UBC. These students aren't taking seats that would otherwise go to local students. They're taking seats we wouldn't otherwise have at all." On the highlights of being Chancellor, he says, "Visiting Kamloops and Kelowna to do the graduation ceremonies were highlights. So was the special ceremony we had jj^fering the 50th anniversary of the Law facul- ^^We bestowed honorary degrees on 24 men and women who began practising law in the province before UBC granted law degrees. That was a very moving ceremony. Also, visiting grads in Hong Kong was a special treat for me. They are all so enthusiastic about UBC. They feel their years here were time well spent, and many of them have chosen Canada as the place to do business." On UBC in general, he says, "I believe in UBC. I believe this university is doing great things for British Columbia and is one of the key reasons why our economy has remained so strong during the 80s and 90s. But UBC is a big part of my family's life, too. My wife Lily, went here, and this is where we met. Our four children, two daughters-in-law and one son-in-law are all UBC graduates. That's nine out of nine. Not bad, eh?" On his plans for the future, he says, "Travel. Play more golf. Most of my business is run by my four children, and they're doing a great job. I want to finish Hampton Place, and I'm still on a few boards and foundations, but mosdy I plan to enjoy myself and my family." For his successor, Bill Sauder, he has some simple advice: "Make sure you have lots of time." «* In the Fall issue of The Chronicle, we'll have a profile on Bill Sauder, UBC's new Chancellor. "I hope one day that developments in the south campus will produce a $1 billion endowment for the university. >? A the UBC 1 Ti 1 Annual rund Class Act in Action In 1992 the Pharmacy grad class made an extraordinary promise — to give money annually to UBC after they graduated. Of course, they gave money annually to UBC during their student years, but that was for their own tuition. This postgrad money would be for the tuition of a student other than themselves. True philanthropy? You bet! This year the first Pharmacy student received a financial award from the Class of '92 endowment. Over Half a Million $ for Class Projects Seventeen faculties and schools repeat this act of philanthropy every year, and have raised more than $500,000 since Class Act began in 1992. Each class chooses to designate funds to student awards, computers, furniture or books. The Class Act Appeal is an example of philanthropy in action at UBC. For More Class Action If you are a recent alumnus who pledged through Class Act as a graduating student, you are part of this success story. Please make sure your project takes off by sending in your pledge payments. For information on your pledge or your class project, contact Si- mone Carnegie at 822-8630, fax 822-8151 or: e-mail <simone.carnegie@ubc.ca> UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring, 1996 21 by Zoe Landale Dementia Americana by Keith Maillard (Ronsdale, paper, $ 10.95) won the prestigious Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets in 1995 for best first book of poetry. Maillard is the well-known author of seven novels. The book is divided into three sections; "The Intervention ofthe Duke: Poems Written in a Time of War," "Fugitive Colours" and "Dementia Americana." The first part is set in the time of the Gulf War and mingles brooding on the American psyche with limpid domestic images. Writing about his daughters falling asleep, Maillard writes "both kids have gone out like small, grateful candles." This contrasts with lines like:"...and American skies still bleed/ beauty down over the puzzling flatness of North Dakota." The second section deals with childhood and innocence.The third section is the heart ofthe book, an account ofthe strange "trial ofthe century" in New York where one man murdered another over Evelyn Nesbit, described as "the most exquisite human form I ever saw." What led her to testify against the man she loved for the husband she despised? Reading Maillard's poetry, a person might not notice it is neo-for- malist, that is structured verse with a looser rhyme and beat scheme than a traditional formal sonnet. I had the feeling that the writer was in fact using the verse form to jump- start his poems. Even away from the novel form, he still tells a good story. This has to be the only 94 page book of poetry I have ever read in one sitting. does a dandy job of presenting his information in readable way. It's meticulously researched—each page has a liberal trimming of footnotes—so the reader has the reassuring feeling that this is solid stuff that's being presented.The character around which the book is organized is George Drabble, a surveyor who made a "scandalous departure from England" in 1862 to come to the Comox Valley. At the time, the British regarded it as the remotest corner ofthe Empire. Everyone loves a story. Mackie has made full use of this fact, successfully bridging popular history and academia. Drabble's story and his guises as farmer, superintendent of roads, trader, magistrate, and surveyor, illustrate the changes that went on in pioneering West Coast society during his lifetime. Notable for its honesty about the treatment Natives received—Mackie makes the point that the "preemptions" of 160 acres white individuals could claim were bigger than entire Indian reserves— the book makes it clear er^ TheWilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia by Richard Somerset Mackie PhD'93 (Sono Nis, $ 19.95, paper) is a fat history book about European settlement of the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. I feared the worst from its heft, but Mackie THE NEW WALTER C KOERNER LIBRARY Q^feB^jjN-^ifckrtCPIATE Q' $$06' ONABOOKSTACKPLAQUE Q $1,000 ON THE BUILDER'S PlAQyE AT THE ENTRANCE Q $2500 ON A GRANITE BLOCK ON THE FOUNDATION Q $5,000 ON A GRANITE BLOCK ON THE FRONT FACADE TAX WCtiro Will M ISSUED NAME. ADDRESS. CITY PROV. CREDIT CARD SIGNATURE CODE. EXP_ PLEASE RETURN TO: LESLEY ASHFORD, DEVELOPMENT OFFICER THE LIBRARY 1956 MAIN MALL VANCOUVER. BC V6T1Z1 CANADA TEL (604)822-5071 FAX: (604) 822-3335 FUWCKMl that neither Indians nor the Chinese were seei as people.They couldn't claim land and they wei seen in a purely utilitarian context: that of labour. A white man might be paid two dollars a day, a Native man 50, while a Native woman rated 10 or the equivalent in potatoes. Epigraphs, mainly poetry, at the beginning of each chapter add to the reader's enjoyment. Animate Objects by Alan Wilson MFA'90 (Turnstone, paper, $9.95) is a first book of poetry from a man with degrees in physics and creative writing.The jacket blurbs speak of his work as "chill" and "minimalist." Some of these pared down poems were short listed for the 1993 and 1994 CBC Literary Awards. A refreshing and unexpected humour can come through the impersonal qualities of Wilson's work.Take one poem about politically incorrect pronouns: "He." "You're not a verb," it said, you can't outrun them." Though fatigued, he heaved h^^k small chest defiantly ^B^ out— "I represent all, not half of mankind." The animate objects of the title are all through the book; a shirt abandoned on a clothesline, a newspaper that comes noisily to life, lithium "lightest of metals/ on wing, almost/ at the blacksmith's ear./ Use me, it whispers/ your horses will fly." As a reader, what I respond to is the crisp particularity ofWilson's work, the melding of science with the dense language of poetry. A poem like "Elemental," where the writer runs through atomic elements like characters, repays a second reading.The words are so tight it's easy not to give them enough time or weight. One of the reasons this writing appears so detached is that recognizable human beings play very little part in the poems.Things—a software manual, a display terminal— assume more emotional importan than the individuals displayed in vi gnettes. 22 UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 BOOKS ^fepubus: the dark side of the light by George ^WcWhirter MA'70 (Oberon, paper, unpriced) uses short poems with tight lines but here, the reader gets the sense the poet is doing all he can to leash the tropical fecundity that insists on rudely poking up everywhere.The writer can only allow it into his eyes in small doses.These are poems of Mexico; heat, light, shadows, and bananas like penises. This is a book where dough "puffs like breath in the belly/ Of a pup." A book of bodies, of bawdy parts. Breasts, thighs; a tomato "in Mother Mati's hand ... molten with chili/ Its sperms /Infinity/ Prolixity of seed/ In her mouth." Mexico engenders a feeling of almost overwhelming life in these poems. McWhirter also uses notable images from the natural wo rid. About a white bull he writes "Its testicles lean like long tankards/ Of pink sunlight on its inner thigh." Animals abound: lizards, stallions, two donkeys fighting over a mare. These are earthy, powerful poems that do not romanticize, nor do they hark back to some golden era of pre-industrial innocence.The writer uses modern images—the donkey called "Big balls" has yellow teeth accurate as a elder—and his work respectfully acknowledges : experiences of people who inhabit them; drovers,"Zapata, the Indian," "an appliance dealer." Strangely enough, the publisher claims on the jacket this is the first book of poetry from McWhirter in ten years, though the wonderful Staircase for All Souls came out from Oolichan just three years ago. Aqua u(Hi/i Roots a/ie \ c^UBC! telCtnsl a < ^ v -><r tim- *v 7 ^ Gloried. Kjdi. Steepest. 80%cofloo20%polyesler M/ForeslGna/faj-S/ll/L Gneiied fiaiic liltute. V-ituAtWhm&mm Gleiied tyleece. Zip. 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UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 23 20s Jim Millar BA'26, BASc(MechEng)'27 is getting back into lawn bowling, which, with housekeeping and a bit of gardening, "keeps him out of trouble." 30s Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd. of Surrey, BC recently published a book by Norman Hacking BA'34, Prince Ships of Northern BC, Ships of t/ie Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian National Railways ... In the Fall 1995 Chronide it was reported that Helen F. Hall is deceased. While that is true, Helen (McCain) Hall DipSocWork'37 is living in Guelph, Ontario, having moved there in 1994 ... Clendon Osborn BSA'33 retired as manager from Coldstream Ranch Ltd. He worked there from 1953 to 1974. PhD'6l has retired from the IBM research division after the completion of a long leave during which time he was Juan de Oyarzabal Professor of Physics at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City. He is now a research professor of chemistry at Brigham Young University ... Earl Lund BASc(GvEng)'59 retired in June 1995 after 36 years of service as the chief highway engineer for the BC Ministry ofTransportation and Highways ... After working for 36 years on wheat and bread chemistry with the Grain Research Laboratory, Canadian Grain Commission in Winnipeg, Russell Tkachuk BA'54, MSc'56 retired and moved back to BC with his wife Margaret (Cameron) BSN'56. He plans to pursue birding and painting ...John Woodworth BArch'52 received the Gabrielle Leger Award, Heritage Canada's highest award, presented to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the conservation of Canada's heritage. He is retired from the architectural profession and works as a full time volunteer in acquisition of significant lands and heritage conservation projects. During his career, he design^ the original Okanagan College Kelowna campus, Kelowna ( Hall and the Banff Centre Eric Harvey Theatre. He is married to Nancy Bruce BA'41. 60s After 35 years of teaching, Ruth Ann (Senz) Darnall BEd'60 retired in June 1995. Husband Bob Darnall BAScfForEng)'5 / continues to farm.The Darnalls plan to stay on their farm north of Fort St. John, BC ... Chris Davies BSF64 has been 40s John Redford BA'49 received the Recognition Award for Distinguished Clinicians of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.These awards honour physiatrists who have achieved distinction through scholarly teaching and outstanding performance in patient care activities. 50s Knute Buttedahl BCom'50, MA'63 has returned to consulting in Vancouver after spending five years working in Ottawa on international development projects in China, India and SEAsia ... Kenneth Gordon AMSc(£/ec£ng)'66 has retired from Digital Equipment in the US. He and his wife Lynn now favour an aerie overlooking the Straits of Georgia from the Vancouver Island side. From there, he consults, writes software and articles and telecommutes over the Internet... Douglas Henderson BA'56, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Dr. John Diggens, Chair President David Strangway is pleased to announce the appointment of the following Wesbrook Society Council members. Founded in 1981, the Wesbrook Society helps the University of British Columbia continue with the proud tradition and commitment to excellence in research and higher education. The Wesbrook Society Council formalizes and develops the demonstrated interest and involvement of the community and business leaders with the University. William Sauder, Chairman and CEO Sauder Industries Ltd. Brenda McLean, President The McLean Group David Crombie, Chairman and CEO Rayrock Yellowknife Resources Inc. Martin Glynn, Executive Vice-President Hongkong Bank of Canada Martin Zlotnik, Partner Zlotnik, Lamb & Company 24 UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 CLASSACTS reappointed for a further three-year term to the external advi- tboard of the Faculty of Business Admlnstration at Simon Ber University... Edward Donaldson PhD'64 received the Thomas W. Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of CanadaThis award recognizes major contributions in any field of engineering or applied sciences. His work has been in development of biotechnologies for the control of sex differentiation in salmon ... Constantine Gletsos PhO'68 has been working for the pharmaceutical firm Wyeth-Ayent Research in New York for 28 years. He won his company's highest award in 1993,Wife Helen (Kerr) BA'65 is a homemaker and received her associate BA degree (cum faude) in 1988.The couple have four children who range in age from 16 to 26 ...John Hannah 8ASc(Civ£ng)'6 /, the former president of Minera Escondida Ltda. (the largest privately owned copper mine in the world) in Chile, has won a prestigious medal from the Chilean government for his services to the mining industry. He has moved to Australia,where he is head of BHP Coal ...James Hylands BASc(Geo£ng)'66 has been working as project manager of Buyanhulu Gold Property inTanzania since August 1994. He returned for the Hay 1995 graduation of his son Michael Hylands BASc(MechEng)'95 from UBC. He spent Christmas in Capetown, South Africa with his wife Anne ...A new building on the UBC campus is named after Gerald McGavin BCom'60.A businessman, he served as chair of the Alumni Fund, as a member of the leadership committee of UBC's World of Opportunity Campaign and as a founding member of the advisory council for the Faculty of Commerce ... Douglas Rae BA'67 is the recipient of the title of Queen's Counsel... Murray Whetter BASc(/V1echEng)"64 has moved back to BC. *70 s Thomas Beasley BA'75 and Victoria Donoghue MLS'92 had a son,Alexander, born to them on December 25,1993 in Vancouver... Gregory Bowden LLB'70 received the title Queen's Counsel... Susan Cawsey BSW76, MSW'83 was appointed the to the board of Okanagan University College in November 1995 ... Dan Cornejo MA'75 won the 1995 Crit- ics'Travel Grant from the Center for Arts Criticism. He will study urban neighbourhood development in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a city planner in Minneapolis and is interested in how the"latinization" of American cities may affect approaches to city planning... Eileen Currie MBA'85 left a promising career with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 5/j years ago to travel and raise a family. She works part time to support her hobbies and teach quilting... David Ferguson BSc'79, MBA'82 lives in Bermuda, where he is runs an offshore real estate merchant bank... 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Ted Lipman BA'75 is Canada's new consul general to Shanghai. He worked for the federal government for 19 years, including as deputy director for China in the department of foreign affairs and international trade in Ottawa since 1992 ... In the fall of 1995, Irene Martin MLS'75 had her book. Legacy andTesta- ment, the Story of Columbia River Gillnetters (published in 1994 by Washington State University Press) reprinted ...Gail McBride BSc(Agr)'77, MBA'77, director of the Agrifood Branch of BC Trade, visited London in October to update herself on market trends and consumer preferences in the UK and other European markets. In her itinerary were meetings with food, wine and beverage importers and distributors ...Mary McGrath LLB'74 is the recipient of the title of Queen's Counsel... Roxanne Milavsky BSc'79 and Tim Osier BSc'76 had a daughter, Callie Sloane.on October 4,1995. She is a little sister for Riley Jake ... Karen Nordlinger LLB'74 is the new treasurer of the Law Society of BC.The treasurer is the senior Bencher (director) and the chief elected officer ofthe society. She has served on many society committees over the years and was named to Queen's Counsel... Kenneth Pickering BALANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD. aJa B A L A n c e D SERVICES LTD Specialists in planning and maintaining financial independence 4 DEPOSIT BROKERS Financial Planning Unbiased Recommendations Ongoing Investment Services Independent Financial Planners #202 - 2309 West 41 st Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V6M 2A3 (604) 261-8511 tel (604) 261-1411 fax BASc(MinEng)'71 is president of Miners Escondida Ltda. in Chile. He and John Hannah (see '60s) were the pioneers ofthis mining project... Frances Pohl BA'77, MA'80 has published her third book,/n the Eye ofthe Storm:AnArt of Conscience, 1930-1970 (PomegranateArtbooks, 1995) ...Sonia Rabeneck MSc'76 received her PhD from Cornell University in 1982. She is the senior nutrition advisor at the Canadian International DevelopmentAgency.She designs programs aimed at eliminating iodine and vitamin A deficiencies ... Lynn Smith LLB'73, dean of the UBC's law faculty, is the new chair of the Law Foundation of BC... Belinda (Slobin) Solomon BMus'78 received her MA in music from CWRU (Cleveland) in ' 1983. She lived in New York for ten years and returned to Cleveland in 1993 with her husband and five sons. She is still singing and teaching ... Ken Spencer PhD'7l has stepped down as CEO of Creo Products Inc., a company he has nurtured since its startup in 1983. He and his wife Judy Gale BA'62 are going to fulfil a longtime dream and go on a 'round- the-world bicycling tour with their I I-year-old son Wylie. Ken won the William ThompsonAward from the BCTechnology Association for his work at Creo and contributions as an educator and mentor ... Per Suneby BASc(BecEng)'75 lives in Massachusetts, where he is general manager of Multimedia and Router Products in Motorola Information Systems Group. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child ... H. Cooke Sunoo MA'72 is the project manager for the Wilshire Center-Koreatown Recovery Redevelopment Project in Los Angeles.The project, which is a 30-year plan, encompasses 2,817 acres south of the Santa Monica freeway ... Derek Swain BA'70, MPE'77, EdD'90 has returned to Vancouver and resumed his career with the Vancouver School Board as a counsellor at Prince ofWales secondary school. He is also in private practice as a registered psychologist... AnibalValente BASc(CivEng)'79 is the district manager of Saskatchewan operations of PCL Construction Management Ltd. He will be based in Regina... tO DV_ /itj^fc 80s Andrea Brooks BEd'82 lives inAnchorage,Alaska.She and husband Gavin have three children, 114 to six years. Andrea taught English and cross cultural studies in Japan and Indonesia from 1984 to 1994. She was married in Irian Jaya in 1988 ... Karen (Lee) BA'84, MLS'86 and David Charlebois BCom'86 are proud parents of Marc Ian, born on December 3,1995. Dave works for the Royal Bank Financial Group inVictoria and Karen is on leave from the Vancouver Public Library ... David Chu BASc(MechEng)'89 earned his professional engineering designation in California, where he works for a fan manufacturer ... Catherine Corrigan BCom'88 is the supply officer on board the Navy's newest Halifax City Class Frigate, HMCS Charlottetown. She lives with her husband John in Halifax ... Douglas Dyer BASc(ChemEng)'82 works for a California company trading derivatives. He is married to Stella and they have lived in Calgary, Denver, Houston and Omaha, Dallas, San Francisco and, now, in Los Angeles ... Katie Eliot BA'80 lives in Langley, BC, helping her musician/singer fiance Tim Lawson with writing, producing and general administration of his projects. She is enjoying the change to a rural lifestyle... Jo-Anne Falkiner BA'83 and Gordon MacKay BSc'88 returned to BC_ after eight years in the Yukon, so Gord could take a job witl the BC Ministry of Mines in Cranbrook.Jo-Anne is home v their three boys, aged one to five years ... Michael Fenwick BA'83 relocated with IBM Canada to Markham, Ontario in the fall of 1995 as a business process reengineering specialist... Avid Fiello BMus'83 and Karen (Stewart) BA'85 have two young sons. Karen teaches part time for School District #61 and is a marker/instructor for the regional distance education school. David is the director of the career preparation jazz studies program for School District#61 ...Warren Freschuk BA'87 and Donna McCulloch are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Olivia, born on October 4,1995 ...Jim Hargrove BASc(ElecEng)'8l and his wife Darlene (Gartner) BEd'79 live in Delta, BC. In 1994, after six years as co-founder and vice president of Compu Nov Systems, Jim became majority owner and president of Analytic Systems, which designs and manufactures power conversion products for the marine industrial, automotive and alternative energy markets ... Shannon Harvey BRE'80 has worked since 1980 for the City of Surrey. She is with the human resources department as the manager, employment and organizational learning. She continued her education after UBC to earn a diploma in administrative management and an MBA... Wanny (Wong) Hershey BEd'84 and her husband Mason have three children from the ages of two to ten years.Wanny is a principal at a middle school in southern California ... Susan Hollingshead 8ASc(Geo£ng)'85 married Derek Crane in October 1995, and they bought a house beside a creek in North Vancouver. She said that as a geological engineer she should know better! After six years with Klohn-Crippen Consultants as a geotechnic engineer, she is serving a term appointment as the company! quality coordinator ... Deborah Irwin BCom'86 and David Hopaluk BCom'89 moved back to BC from Winnipeg in October 1995. Deborah works for the Office of theAuditor General. David is doing transportation and safety consulting work. The couple had their first child in March 1995, Courtney Nicole... Michael Izzotti BSc(Pharm)'84 has been elected to the board of directors of Pharmacists for Life International... Marian Lacey MA'88 and Bill Nelson PhD'89 adopted a child from China in April 1995.They called her Lacey Lingsi Nelson. They all moved to Pennsylvania in May 1995 after four years in the Bay Area in California ... Earl Manning BSc'83 is the executive director ofthe Restaurant and Food ServicesAssocia- tion of BC and the Yukon ...Alex Marazzi MD'89 and wife Nancy are proud new parents of daughter Mikayla Alexis, born on November 2,1995 in Orillia, Ontario ... Sandra (York) Miniaci BA'82 was married in August 1995 ... Patricia (Klit) McLaren BASc(CivEng)'82 and husband Frank are new parents to Courtney Nicole, born in March 1995. Patti is taking extended parental leave from her job as a construction site superintendent with Ellis Don Construction inToronto ... Jennifer (Gregory) MacLean BASc(BioRes£ng|'85 and Terry MacLean BASc(A1in£ng)7J are moving to the Yukon with their three boys.They are working for Anvil Range, a lead/zinc mine in Faro.They would love to see any old friends that just happen to be in the Yukon ...After travelling and teaching overseas, Lisa Minovitz BA'82 earned a master's degree inTESOLShe works as academic coordinator at Interlink, an intensive English program, at Indiana State University... David Morrison BA'89 . obtained his LLB from the University ofVictoria in 1993. He* conducting a general litigation practice in Quesnel, BC... Michele (Sanders) O'Flynn BA'89, MA'9I lives in White lical^^ any^^ 26 UBC Alumni Chronici.f, spring 1996 Carry the UBC Alumni Association/Bank of Montreal MasterCard®* card that celebrates your student days. Every time, every place you use it. EH2B Now giving you the added value of one of these exciting options. MasterCard Show your pride in your alma mater in a positive manner. 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Down payment benefit cannot be combined with any rate discount AIR MILES™* Travel Miles, or other mortgage offBr. Bank of Montreal IT i§ POSSIBLE™ Rock with her husband John. She is a busy mother of two, with Matthias aged three and an infant Kristy, who joined the family through adoption ... Eddy Olson BEd'84 is teaching graphic design and technology at Sir Winston Churchill secondary school in Vancouver. He is also an exhibiting artist in many local galleries „. David Pearson BSc'83, MD'87 and his wife Marilee (Taylor) BSc'85 have moved toVictoria. David joined the gastroenterology group and is enjoying private practice. Marilee works part time at the office and looks after their four children ... Bill Pike MFA'82 will have an exhibition of his paintings at Green College, Oxford University, England from July 22- August 3,1996 ... Megan (Watts) Pratt BCom'84 and husband Mark welcomed new baby boy David Andrew to their family, a brother for seven-year-old Christopher. David was born on November 23,1995 inVictoria ... Sue (Haering) Rudd BSN'83 married Dale Rudd in June l995.Their daughter Amber Susanne was born in March 1994. Sue is still a nurse in charge of a ten bed hospital in Watson Lake .Yukon ... Barbara (Jordan) Schmidt BCom'85 and her husband Karl had their second boy in February 1995. Matthew is the ideal playmate for Michael. Both Barb and Karl work for Jordan Development Corporation Ltd.... Linda Smeins PhD'89t a specialist in 19th .. century art history and architecture, is the acting dean ofWest- ern Washington University's College of Fine and Performing Arts for the 1995-96 academic year. She had been chair of the art department since fall 1993 ... J arm a Sytvest LLB'88 practises law part time as special counsel on First Nation taxation beals.and opened a new business, Womyns Ware, with a tner in Vancouver. It's the first sex toy store for women in Canada... Colleen (Carney)Terpsma BEd'85 and husband David have two children. She is a teacher-on-call for the Delta UBC Alumni Chronicle, spring 1996 27 CLASSACTS School DistrictThey also have a dairy farm in East Delta ... On May 4,1995 JimThompson BCom'82 and his wife Margaret are parents of a baby girl. Jim is president of his own company, GlaCierWater Products Ltd. which installs water purification vending equipment across North America ... Derek Thorkelson BSc'83, MSc'86 and wife Sherry leftWhitehorse in August 1995 after he accepted a new job at Simon Fraser University as an assistant professor... RkkWadsworth BCom'89 is a freelance copywriter working in the corporate communications sector of the marketing and advertising industry. He does a lot of technical writing for software development... Ainslie Winter BA'87 is the regional brokerage manager for Crownlife of BC, her area of expertise being disability insur- ance.After graduating.Ainstee was chosen by the Japanese government for their Japanese Exchange Training Program and worked and lived in Okinawa for two years before returning and marrying Patrick Mullin ... Ken Wou BSc(Pharm)'84 and his wife Gayle have decided to plant their roots in Kamloops with their three children. Ken is the director of pharmacy services at Royal Inland Hospital... Allen Wu DMD'88 lives in Boston, Massachusetts and is a first year resident in endodontics at Boston University School of Medicine. He will return to Vancouver in July 1997 ...After earning his DDS from Lorna Linda University, VictorYeung BSc'88 moved back to BC and has started his dental practice near Point Grey ... Mohammad Zafer LLM'84 has been in many places since graduating from UBC: India, Malaysia, New Zealand, and now he is in Australia. 90s KianAbouhossein BCom'95 lives in London, UK, and works for HSBC Asset Management Europe as a fund manager for the continental European equity team ... Mark Anderson BSc'90 is a software designer in medical imaging at ISGTechnologies Inc. inToronto ...John Berges PhD'94 has accepted a faculty position in aquatic environmental biology at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland ... Erin (Blaney) BA'92, BEd'94 and John Burke BA'82 live in Westbank, BC. John is the international trade finance specialist for Western StarTrucks in Kelowna. Erin has been working for the Surrey School Board and hopes to join the Central Okanagan School Board ...Jorge Chacon MBA'93 was hired under the "young talents" program of Ciba- Geigy.a major international pharmaceutical company, in Peru. He will work initially in the finance division ... Lisa Chen- Fang Chao BSc'90 has completed her PhD in chemistry at McMaster University in June 1995 ... Kathy Cousins BSc'9l graduated with an MSc from Simon Fraser University and works as a tuna physiologist for the Relagie Fisheries Research project in Hawaii... Robert Gray BA'92 spent the last two years living in Boston while studying Chinese history and language at Harvard University. He received his MA in June 1995 and is moving to China for a year before beginning his PhD studies ... Steinunn Hauksdottir MSc'95 and Jon Bjorn had a son, Haukur, born on October 28,1995 ... Shannon Higginson BA'94 started working on his law degree at the University ofVictoria in September 1995... Paul Hitchens BCom'92 is a Japanese equities manager with BaringsAsset Management in London, UK. He was the only candidate accepted for the executive management training program ... Stephen Hughes BASc(MechEng)'90 moved back to BC from Alberta and works as a project engineer on the paper machines at the Fletcher-Challenge Elk Falls mill in Campbell River ...Jack Lee BA'93 moved to Beijing in January 1995. He works for the Beijing representative office of a Japanese trading house, Okura & Co. Ltd.... Andrew Lynn BSc'90 married Corina Lynn in July 1994.They are expecting their first child in Jury 1996 ... Lesley McKnight BA'92 is back in Vancouver after a year in England ... Richard Niedermayer LLB'94 has completed his articles at Cox Downie in Halifax and works as an associate with that firm ... Scott Penner BASc(Engi°hys/94 is registered in the PhD program in optical physics at the University of Arizona ... Scott Richardson MSc'93 is happy and healthy and living in Vernon, BC ... Sue (Johnson) Robinson BCom'90 got married in September 1995 and started a new position as census area manager for Statistics Canada in November of the same year ... Pamela Rooney BA'92 and Dugal Smith BA'92 were married in September 1995. She is an account manager for Adia Personnel Services, and he works in investor services at Altamira.The couple lives inToronto ... Julius Stieger BASc(MinEng)'95 is a metallurgical engineer-in- training for Placer Dome Canada-Endalko Mines Division ... KathrynTanaka BSc(Agr)'93 works in downtown Vancouver with Nesbitt Burns Inc. as an investment advisor ...Jenny Terrio-Baturin BSc(PT)'9l Is at theTrail Regional Hospital, but will be moving to Pine Falls, Manitoba in July, where she will work at a small local hospital... Nik von Schulmann BFA'9I is the head stage lighting electrician at the New Ford Centre of PerformingArts in Vancouver, currently showing Showboat ... CharleneWall BSc'92 and Craig Statham BA'92, BEd'94 !tin^_ neTjj were married in August 1995, exactly four years after meeting at the classical studies "lunt" expedition in England. Craig i: teaching elementary school now in Richmond and Chariene a cytotechnologlst at the BC Cancer Agency inVancouver... Gary Ka Lai Wong BSc'94 works as a research assistant for the Chinese University of Hong KongThe project he works on concerns the effect of urbanization on fluvial channels... Rudolf Zerr BASc(E/ecEng)'93 and Krista Hansen BA'92 will marry in June 1996. Rudy works for the Office of the Fire Commissioner of Canada inVancouver. Krista has finished her diploma in interior design at Kwantlen College. In Memoriam GeorgeA.ArmstrongBASc(E/ec£ng)'50on December 19, 1995, inVictoria. He was a WWII veteran, joining the RCAF in Vancouver. He served with the RAF in England.After graduation, he worked at CFHQ in Ottawa and moved to Victoria in 1974... Harold E. Ball BEd'64 on December 4,1995. Harold taught at Edith Cavell and Point Grey schools. He was certified with the Royal Conservatory of Music and founded three choral groups: the Oliver Choral Society, the Point Grey Chorale and the Renaissance Singers ...Lisa Jean (Anderson) Beaton BA'77 on September 3,1995, after a courageous battle with cancer. She lived in southern California after studying architecture in San Francisco and New York She was known for her compassionate nature and sense of style and taste ... Irene Stay in Touch Help us keep in touch with you! Do we have your correct name and address? If not, please fill in the address form below and send it to: UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1. Phone (604) 822-3313 or toll free 1-800- 883-3088. Or Fax to: (604) 822-8928 or toll free 1-800-220-9022. You can now send your news via e-mail (please include all of the information below) to: <sdfuller@unixg.ubc.ca>. Or call our 24 hour address line: (604) 822-8921. 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She started her career as a teacher before earning her degree at UBC, after which she went into nursing. For many years she devoted her life to her husband and four children, but then returned to nursing which she loved. She and her husband shared a life of travelling, music and helping others... Tim Collins BA'42, MA'43,PhD'50 in Washington State.Tim was UBC's first PhD candidate. He worked at Fermilab, a giant accelerator, in Washington ... Gerald Cross LLB'48 on November 2,1995.A member of the first graduating class of UBC's law school, he spent most of his professional life as legislative counsel. He was a deputy provincial secretary at the time of his retirement at 58, which he spent enjoying his boat and his motor home... Derrel K. Dixon BSc'64 on November 14,1995. Derrel was a respected figure in theWestern Canadian geochemical and analytical laboratory industries. He passed on a wealth of knowledge, the key to which he firmly believed was a sound education combined with apprenticeship and experience... Terence Garner BA'49 on January 6,1996. He left his studying temporarily to enlist in the RCAF duringWWII.and after •Lation, became a broadcaster in Victoria,Vancouver, Hamil- and Montreal. He was the first editor of Q MagazineiA Guide to Entertainment and the Arts and was a columnist for Vancouver Life. In later life, he wrote for the Knowledge Network and directed video productions ...John K. Halley 6AScfM/n£ng)'32 on October 11,1995.John surveyed much of BC during the 1920s and '30s, working as a mining engineer throughout BC and the Yukon. He loved classical history and Saltspring Island, his birthplace ...Jean M.(Lowrie) Halse BA'3 7 on December 12,1995 ... Douglas Hayward BCom'71 on February 3,1996 in Kelowna, after a lengthy illness. He leaves his wife Helen (McTurk) BA'48 of Penticton, two daughters and six grandchildren ...Wilson Henderson BSc(Agr)'32,MSA'4l on November 17,1995. A veterinary doctor, he was an assistant professor at Washington State University before moving to Purdue University where he eventually became the head ofthe animal disease diagnostic laboratory. He came back to Canada, working for Agriculture Canada as associate director of the Animal Pathology Division, retiring as acting director of the Vancouver laboratory... Dorothy Ladner BASc(Nurs)'44 on January 19,1996. She earned her master's degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965. In WWII she was a medical nurse in the RCAF, then a public health nurse throughout BCAs a public health nurse, one of Dorothy's principal concerns was children's health. She was an active member ofthe Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) ...The Reverend George Lang BA'33 on August 14,1995. He ministered during his student years to First Nations People in the Yukon. He served in many places | graduation: Calgary, Strathmore, Okatoks, Red Deer, Ed- nton.Victoria, Nelson, Regina, Fort St John.Vanderhoof, Nanaimo and Lantzville ...Geraldine (Homfray) Langton BASc(Nurs/3/ on November 5,1995, in North Vancouver. Gerry received her MA in education from Peabody College in Tennessee in 1939 and worked in the public health field both in Chilliwack as a school nurse and in Duncan, as supervisor of the Cowichan Health Centre. She was an instructor in public health nursing at UBC's Department off Nursing from 1940-42 ... Ronald H. Lowe BA'31, MA'38 on October 15,1995. He served overseas during WWII, having taught at Trail High School beforehand. He worked with the Department ofVeter- ans'Affairs after WWII. He continued his career with the Defence Research Board in Ottawa before retiring to Victoria where he devoted himself to his gardening... Dennis McDonald BSF'51 on July 23, 1995. He was a veteran ofWWII who, following positions with several companies, worked with the Ministry of Forests for thirty years. He was instrumental in developing the Air Patrol and Aerial Tanker programs for forest fire prevention now in place in BC ... Barry J. McHugh BCom'50 on October 23,1995.A successful businessman in Alberta's oil and gas industry, he was very proud to have been a graduate of UBC ...James D. McLeod BASc(CivEng)'39 on December 19,1995, in Abbotsford at Menno Extendicare Hospital, where he had been a patient for thirteen months ...The Reverend Gerald McMechan BA'51 on October 14,1995 in Victoria. He joined the RCAF during WWII, serving in England and Canada. He was a minister for the United Church in BC and Ontario, after obtaining his BC at Union College ...The Reverend Ernest R. McMinn BA'49, BASc(GvEng)'S0 on December 1, 1995. He worked on the fishing boats and lumber mills as a young man, having grown up in the AlberniValley and William Head near Metchosin in BC. He became interested in surveying during his stint in the Engineers duringWWII. At retirement he was director of surveys for the province, and during his career he used many innovative techniques such as tower building, the use of helicopters and air photography... Andrew McMoriand BA'57 on January 6, l996.After serving in the RCAF during the War, he earned his degree from UBC and then his MA from the University ofVictoria. He taught school and was a principal at elementary schools in districts 61, 65 and 66 from 1947-82 ... Thomas E. McNary BCom'49 on September 1,1995, of cancer ...Harold Moorhead BASc(MechEng)'33 July 19,1995 inVancouver. He enjoyed his engineering career in the pulp and paper industry and shared his knowledge with others all over the world. He spent his retirement consulting, travelling, playing golf, swimming and enjoying his grandchildren ...John C. Moore BA'40, BCom'40 on November 16, 1995 in Richmond, BC, at the age of 80 ... Mona Ruth Morley BA'43 on January 24,1996. Mona was also a graduate ofthe University ofToronto Library School and was an active member of her church ... Margaret (Rodger) Nygard BA'44 on November 5,1995. Born in India, Margaret was educated there and the UK before coming to Canada in 1941 .After settling in the southern US with her husband Holger, she became a strong advocate for the preservation of the environment. She believed that the best way to protect the environment was through buying land, in that way saving it from developers. She raised enough funds to purchase land in the Eno River Valley in North Carolina ...Grace (Holding) Pelletier BEd'59 on December 6,1995, in a fatal automobile accident... Mary Ross Reid BA'49 She was a teacher and librarian in Richmond before retiring to White Rock... Kenna C.(MacDonald) Rowland BA'26 on February 10,1995. She taught high school inVernon,BC,then moved to Penticton in 1939, where she was founder and first president of its Junior Hospital Auxiliary. She gave life-long support and active service to many Okanagan arts groups and charities ... Alexander Smith BA'32, MA'33 on January 19,1996. He taught school before he obtained his degree, and went on to pursue his interest in geology, earning a doctorate from the California Institute ofTechnology. He moved to Galiano Island when he retired in 1970. He was given a life membership in the Association of Professional Engineers at a special ceremony on Saltspring Island in 1977 ... Ruth E. (Irvine) Spock BA'33 in June 1994. She lived in Texas, but always appreciated receiving the Chronicle and news about BC ... ElizabethTuckey BA'38, Dip Soc Work'40, MSWS8 on January 14,1996. She studied at the University of Oregon and had a long career as a social worker inVancouver. She was active in many organizations, including the University Women's Club... Harold L.Warner BCom'42 on December 28,1995 ...JohnWong BA'52,MD'56 on November 16,1995 inVictoria. He graduated from McGill University in otolaryngol- ogy.and he practised otology inVictoria for almost 30 years. He was a surgeon and physician who treated his patients with a high standard of care and a gentle manner. He had many interests outside his profession, but he will be best remembered for his photography... Maurice Wright BA'38, BASc(ChemEng)'38 on March 30,1995. Right after graduating he began working for Cominco in Trail and continued with that company for almost all of his working life. DuringWWII he was involved with the manufacture of heavy water in Trail, and that was connected to the Manhattan Project. He earned a PhD from Princeton in 1952. 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