THE U.B.C. ALUMNI I VOLUME 15, NO. 2 f&S&r+j,** SUMMER, 1961 y * •r l -*»*■■ / *.■:/'■ #."*#:. iV. *£•-* ;"■' x ./! ft «e*M THEY'RE ALL OUT OF STEP BUT SMITH That's according to Smith, of course. Actually it's Smith who's 'vvav out of step—all the others know the value of reading the B of M Business Review from cover to cover. This concise monthly spotlight on the business scene is invaluable in keeping you abreast of Canadian economic affairs. Make it a point to read it every month. There's a personal copy available for you—even if your name /.i Smith, just drop a line today to: Business Development Department, Bank of Montreal, P.O. Box 6002, Montreal 3, P.Q. w 2 mams cahaoiahs jnjj Bank of Montreal (2a«ad4U *?iMt "Bank WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 2 CONTENTS Alumni News 4 Alumni Association Annual Meeting 5 Reunion of Engineers 6 Vernon Conference on Higher Education 8 Alumnae and Alumni —By Frances Tucker Features 14 Federal Aid to Higher Education —By President N. A. M. MacKenzie 11 The World of Charles Deans —By Professor Alexander Hrennikoff 20 Extension department celebrates its Silver Anniversary —By Gordon Selman 22 Campus Prepares for Summer Session 23 Canadian Literature—the first two years —By George Woodcock 24 The Sopron Story Ends The section entitled "The University" begins on page 26. Cover Permanent reminder of the presence of the Sopron division of the Faculty of Forestry on the U.B.C. campus is the plaque shown in our cover photo which was presented to the University April 24 by Kamill Apt, left, a member of the final graduating class of 23 students. The remarks of Dean Geoffrey Andrew, right, who accepted the plaque for U.B.C, appear on page 25 of this issue. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Editor; James A. Banham, B.A/51 Assistant Editor: Frances Tucker, B.A/50 Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Honorary President: N. A. M. MacKenzie, C.M.G., M.M. and Bar, Q.C, BA, LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Harvard), LLD (Mount Allison, New Brunswick, Toronto, Ottawa, Bristol, Alberta, Glasgow, Dalhousie, St. Francis Xavier, McGill, Sydney, Rochester, Alaska, California), DCL (Whitman, Saskatchewan), DScSoc (Laval), President of the University of British Columbia. Board of Management Executive Committee: President, W. C. Gibson, BA'33, MSc (McGill), DPhil (Oxon.), MD, CM (McGill); past president, Donovan F. Miller, BCom'47, SM (M.I.T.); first vice-president, Franklin E. Walden, BCom'38, CA; second vice-president, Mrs. John H. Stevenson, BA, BCom'40; third vice-president, Patrick L. McGeer. B\ (Hons.) '48, PhD (Princeton), MD'58; treasurer, H. Frederick Field, BA, BCom'40, CA. Members-at-Large: (Terms expire 1962): Paul S. Plant, BA'49, Ben B. Trevino, LLB'59, Mrs. Kenneth M. Walley, BA'46. (Terms expire 1963): Mrs. David C. Ellis, BA'36, Alan M. Eyre, BASc'45, John D. Tag- eart, LLB'49. Degree Representatives: Agriculture—Norman L. Hansen, BSA'53; Applied Science—Alec H. Rome, BASc '44; Architecture—R. S. Nairne, BA'47, BArch'51; Arts—Miss Vivian C. Vicary, BA'33; Commerce— Kenneth F. Weaver, BCom'49; Education—Paul N. Whitley, BA'22; Forestry—William P. T. McGhee, BA'46, BSF'47; Home Economics—Miss Anne E. Howorth, BHE'52; Law—Bryan Williams. BCom'57, LLB'58; Medicine—Dr. Ralph M. Christensen, BA'50, MD'54; Nursing—Miss Alice J. Baumgart, BSN'58; Pharmacy—D. B. Franklin, BSP'52; Physical Education —J. Reid Mitchell, BPE'49, BEd'55; Science—Joseph H. Montgomery, BSc'59, MSc'60; Social Work—Gordon R. Wright, BA'50, BSW'52, MSW'54. Senate Representatives: Nathan T. Nemetz, Q.C, BA '34; J. Norman Hyland, BCom'34; Mark Collins, BA, BCom'34. Ex Officio Members: Director; assistant director; presidents of Alumni branches; president, 1961 graduating class; A.M.S. president; one other designated by Students' Council. Editorial Committee: Chairman, Dr. W. C Gibson. Chronicle business and editorial offices: 252 Brock Hall, U.B.C, Vancouver 8, B.C. Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. The U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle is sent free of charge to alumni donating to the annual giving program and U.B.C. Development Fund. Non-donors may receive the magazine by paying a subscription of $3.00 a year. 3 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS The 1961-62 board of management of the Alumni Association is shown in the picture above taken following the Association's annual general meeting in the Hotel Georgia on May 25. Sitting, from left to right: Mrs. K. M. Walley, member- at-large; Fred Field, treasurer; Dr. Pat McGeer, third vice- president; Frank Walden, first vice-president; Dr. W. C. Gibson, president; Don Miller, past president; Mrs. John H. Stevenson, second vice-president; Mrs. D. C. Ellis, member- at-large. Standing, from left to right: Ken Weaver, commerce; Paul Plant, member-at-large; Ben Trevino, member- at-large; Dr. Jerry M. Nestman, MAC representative; Alec Rome, applied science; Alice Baumgart, nursing; Bryan Williams, law; Vivian Vicary, arts; Doug Franklin, pharmacy; Reid Mitchell, physical education; Paul Whitley, education; Gordon Wright, social work; Jack Taggart, member-at-large. Not shown are: Alan Eyre, member-at-large, Norman Hansen, agriculture, R. S. Naime, architecture, Bill McGhee, forestry, Anne Howorth, home economics, Dr. Ralph Christensen, medicine, and Joseph Montgomery, science. Graduates Elect Dr. W. C. Gibson Dr. William C. Gibson, head of the department of the history of medicine and science at U.B.C, was elected president of the U.B.C. Alumni Association May 25. He succeeds Donovan F. Miller, who will continue to sit on the Association's executive committee as past president. Dr. Gibson was elected at the annual dinner meeting of Convocation and the Alumni Association held in the Hotel Georgia following the first day of U.B.C.'s spring congregation. The annual meeting of Convocation was presided over by the chancellor, Dr. A. E. Grauer. Addressing the meeting Chancellor Grauer said the University was entering one of the most critical periods in its history as a result of the increasing number of people who desire higher education. The University, he said, needs to get a larger proportion of provincial revenue. The support of alumni, private citizens and industry is essential, he added, if the University is to solve its many problems. Addressing the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, outgoing President Miller announced the resignation of the director, Mr. Arthur Sager, who has taken a post as assistant director of the Regional Training Center for United Nations Fellows at U.B.C. Mr. Miller presented a watch to Mr. Sager as a token of thanks for his many years of service to the Association. Dr. Gibson, after being installed as president of the Association, outlined some of the continuing aims of the Association. He said the Association would continue to urge a federated University system for the province and the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the future of higher education. Other projects mentioned by Dr. Gibson included establishment of an alumni house on the campus, construction of additional playing fields, organization of alumni on a regional basis and the establishment of political action committees in each electoral district of the province. The guest speaker of the evening was Dean S. N. F. Chant, head of the faculty of arts and science at U.B.C, and chairman of the recent Royal Commission on Education. Excerpts from his address, entitled "Revolutionary ideas in education," will appear in the next edition of the Alumni Chronicle. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 4 Engineering graduates of the 1920-27 period who gathered for a reunion dinner in the Vacuity Club in March included (above) Fred Elliott, Alan Napier, Gordon Meekison, Neil McCallum, Professor W. O. Richmond, George F. Fountain, Rex Cameron, Bill Smitheringale; (below) Howard T. James, Dean David M. Myers, Fred Coffin, George Gross, and Pinky Morrison. REUNION OF ENGINEERS Memories of the good old days were recalled when sixty engineering graduates of the 1920-27 era met in the Faculty Club for a reunion dinner and informal conference with Dr. David M. Myers, dean of Applied Science, and some of his department heads. A committee comprising George Gross, Science '23, Fred Coffin '24, Don M. "Pinky" Morrison '21, E. E. "Mike" Gregg '23, Bill Smitheringale '24, and Phil Stroyan '24, was in charge of arrangements. Greetings were received from all parts of the world. Ralph Morton '25 wrote from Wellington, N.Z., W. A. Bain '26 from Ceylon (where he is on a job for Sandwell), L. S. McLennan '22 from Australia, and Britt Brock '26 from Johannesburg. Some of those who sent messages from various points in the United States were George Stoodley '25, Ukiah, California; W. J. Heaslip '24, Minneapolis; Theo Arnold '27, Bryn Mawr, Penn.; Charles B. Bishop '27, Los Angeles; Jack Pearcey '27, New York; Waller Rebbeck '20, Freeland, Mich.; Donald L. Shaw '22, San Francisco; C. J. Cock '23, Pharr, Texas; R. H. B. Jones '23, Burlingame, Calif.; Archie McVittie '23, New York; Hub Pearse '23, North Tarrytown, N.Y.; Harold Bramston-Cook '24 (Rear Admiral USNR), Bronxville. Not all the engineers of the 1920's are in United States, however, for greetings were received from Ralph Lidgey '23, Hamilton; B. P. Sutherland '25, Montreal; Harry Letson '19, Ottawa; D. C. McKechnie '20, Sudbury; Bob Hedley '24, Copper Cliff; Percy Peele '24, Peterborough; Neal Carter '25, Ottawa; Gordon Abernethy '24, Victoria; Tom G. Buchanan '26, Hamilton; Otto Nieder- man '26, Trail; Ben Farrar '27, Montreal; Dad Hartley '27, Trail; G. W. Miller *25, Montreal; Don Stedman '22, Ottawa; J. R. Giegerich '23, Trail; J. H. Jenkins '23, Ottawa; A. H. Somerville '23, Lethbridge; Doug Campbell '24, Riondel; Kenny Carlisle '24, Iroquois Falls, Ont.; Frank Charnley '24, Port Kells; C. S. Evans '24, Chatham, Ont. The reminiscences and the greetings uncovered the fact that many of the "twenties" engineers have retired or are about to retire from business. Many of those in distant places indicated that they plan to return to B.C. when they retire. Dean David Myers, introduced by Dr. Howard James, gave the graduates a brief outline of the Faculty of Applied Science's present scope and its plans for the future. Other members of the faculty attending were Professor Fred Muir. civil engineering; Dr. Frank Noakes. electrical; Professor W. O. Richmond, mechanical. Former members present included Dean Emeritus J. N. Finlayson, J. M. Turnbull, Dr. M. Y. Williams, and Harry Archibald. Those attending the reunion were: 1920—Harry Andrews, vice-president, planning, MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River. 1921 — R. G. Anderson, president. Western Kootenay Power & Light Co.. Trail; Bay M. Carter, World Wide Travel Limited; Ken B. Gillie, Fort San, Sask.; P. D. I. Honeyman, retired president, Inspiration Copper Co., Arizona; Howard T. James, consulting geologist; D. M. Morrison, retired president, Trans-Mountain Pipe Lines; Edward M. White, retired principal, Vancouver technical school. 1922 — W. Orson Banfield, insurance executive; George F. Fountain, director of planning, Vancouver; John R. Fournier, retired teacher; W. G. Hatch, Haney. retired Britannia mill superintendent: Gordon Meekison, president, Meekison Agencies; James Watson, plant extension engineer, B.C. Telephone; Dr. John F. Walker, retired deputy minister of mines. 1923 — Theo V. Berry, commissioner. Greater Vancouver Water Board: Rex Cameron, principal, King George High: George Gross, engineer, Parks Board; T. D. Guernsey, retired geologist. Rhodesia; Neil McCallum, chief engineer, Willis and Cunliffe, Victoria; Cliffe Mathers, Seattle; E. C. Wilkinson, Shell Oil Company, Vancouver. 1924 — Chub Arnott, retired, North Vancouver; Fred Coffin, Vancouver; F. G. Elliott, Chemainus; Allan H. Finlay. U.B.C; H. C. Giegerich, retired, Ganges: Val Gwyther, consulting engineer, Vancouver; Dudley B. Hardie, Vancouver; Robert C. McKee, deputy minister of forests, Victoria; Gordon M. Letson. Vancouver; Alan J. Napier, president. Neolite Limited; Wm. V. Smitheringale. consulting geologist, Conwest, Cassiar Asbestos, United Keno Hill; Len B. Stacey, district manager, Ferranti-Pack- ard Electric; Phil B. Stroyan, retired superintendent, Parks Board; C. C. Ter- nan, consulting forester, Kamloops; J. M. Wolverton, retired, Sidney; Jack Underhill, Vancouver. 1925 — Jim Bennett, principal, David Livingstone School; Charles R. Cox, chief field engineer, International Power & Engineering. 1926 — Bruce Callander, superintendent, B.C. Electric; Carl F. Barton, school principal; F. W. Guernsey, Forest Products Laboratory; Joseph E. Kania, investment counsellor; G. W. H. Norman, geologist, Newmont Mining; John C. Oliver, Commissioner, City of Vancouver; J. H. Steede, vice-president, B.C. Electric; Curtis J. Timleck, New Westminster; E. F. Wilks, retired, Vancouver. 1927 — Frank R. Barnsley, Canadian General Electric, Vancouver; Stanley C. Gale, engineer, Trane Company; Charles W. Leek, consulting engineer; E. H. Nunn, general manager, chemicals division, Crown Zellerbach, Camas, Wash.; Alex M. Richmond, B.C. Forest Products; C. Douglas Stevenson, Williams Lake; Professor Harry Warren, U.B.C. 5 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE VERNON "Never in history have human problems been so challenging, never in history has there been such an opportunity to enlarge the human bridgehead in the world and in the universe." This was the optimistic note struck by Dean G. C Andrew, deputy to the president, in his keynote address to the very successful regional conference on higher education which was held in Vernon on May 6. The conference, second of its kind in B.C., was attended by upwards of 500 people from communities in the area bounded by Osoyoos in the south to Revelstoke and Kamloops in the north. It was sponsored by the Alumni Association through a regional committee under the chairmanship of Dr. E. M. Stevenson who also served as conference convenor. Dean Andrew suggested that education in B.C. should be thought of as a tertiary system with the University being an integral part of it. Viewed in this light, the $6,000,000 of provincial tax funds now being spent for the third level was very small in relation to the $150,- 000,000 to $175,000,000 being spent for the entire system. "Wherever our values lie, there will the tax dollar be spent," he added. On the question of the future, Dean Andrew stated that decentralization was inevitable. "The question is not whether we should decentralize but rather when, where and for what purpose." He expressed the hope that an advisory committee might be set up in the Okanagan- mainline to advise about decentralization "in the light of provincial need rather than local interest." He challenged the delegates to think objectively about and plan courageously for the future. "If there is any deficiency in Canadians," he said, "it is a deficiency of imagination. We have long suffered from an intellectual colonization by borrowing from Great Britain and the United States. It is time for us to realize the glorious possibilities of our own future, and to do something about it." Later in the day, in his summation address, Dean Andrew returned to this theme and concluded with the statement that "a vision of excellence is what Canada needs most." About 400 people attended the morning session in the Vernon high school to hear a panel discussion of the cost and value of higher education. Dean E. D. MacPhee set forth, by word and chart, the hard facts of cost both to the taxpayer and to the student. He noted that the difference between the cost of first year university and senior matriculation was not as great as might be expected and suggested that this should be taken into account when considering the relative merits of the two programs. On any basis of calculation, U.B.C. receives far less in provincial operating grants than do the other universities of western Canada, the dean reported. This too should be considered by those interested in present costs and future development of higher education in B.C. There was no doubt about the practical, cash-in-hand value of a university education, according to T. Everard Clarke, Vernon businessman who replaced William M. Mercer on the morning panel. "A University degree is worth from $100,000 to $125,000 during the lifetime of the average graduate and it is, any way you look at it, one of the world's best bargains." But Mr. Clarke was even more convinced about the value of higher education to society as a whole and he expressed great concern about the competition for brains from Russia and other countries. "We are going to be working for them if we don't settle down and do something about it," he concluded. The third member of the panel, Dr. W. C. Gibson of the Faculty of Medicine and president-elect of the Alumni Association, underscored Mr. Clarke's argument by pointing out that Canada spends more money in the treatment of criminals than in the higher education of its young people. "It costs $26,000 per man a year at Oakalla and there are almost as many prisoners there as there are students at U.B.C," he said. He noted that the supposedly high cost of education is nothing as compared to the high cost of adult delinquency. Dr. Gibson stressed the importance of maintaining high standards at the University and, at the same time, of finding ways and means of providing higher education for all those capable of benefiting from it. A refreshing change of pace occurred at the informal conference luncheon in the cafeteria of the Junior High School where there was no head table and no speaker. With the aid of a roving microphone, George Falconer, principal of the school, called upon Dean Helen McCrae, Dean Neville Scarfe, Dean D. M. Myers and Registrar Jack Parnall to answer a dozen or more questions on the University which were of particular interest to people in the area. At the afternoon symposium statements about the future of higher education in the Okanagan-mainline and throughout B.C. were made by Dean S. N. F. Chant, Mr. Dean Goard of the Vancouver school board, Dr. J. K. Friesen, Dr. A. J. Wood and Mr. Robert T. Wallace, acting principal of Victoria College. They were followed by a lively question and discussion period, the afternoon session concluding with Dean Andrew's summation and informal group meetings. Dean Chant suggested that a reorganized secondary school program would make it possible for academically qualified students to complete grade twelve a year earlier, thus leaving the fourth year in the senior high school for senior matriculation. While not in favour of the establishment of junior colleges giving another year of university work, he supported very strongly the provision of vocational and technical education for those not qualified for or interested in the university. "Those who have practi cal and technical abilities have sometimes been forced into an academic groove when they shouldn't have been because we haven't provided the type of education they need and deserve," he stated. Mr. Goard supported Dean Chant's point of view in presenting a specific program for the Okanagan-mainline and other areas of the province. He proposed a comprehensive educational centre that would include vocational and technical education, senior matriculation and adult education. He declared that there was a vacuum between high school and university and suggested that this vacuum be filled by a unified community undertaking designed to meet all the needs of a particular area. "What is needed is not so much higher education as further education of all kinds for many kinds of people." He warned against piecemeal, uncoordinated and uneconomic attempts to solve this problem. Mr. Wallace spoke strongly in favour of a single degree-granting institution for British Columbia which would eventually have several campuses throughout the province. He felt that there was a place for junior colleges in such a provincial system of higher education. He urged the conference planning committee to undertake a survey of the needs of the area and he offered, on behalf of both the University and Victoria College, to provide technical assistance for such a survey. Dr. A. J. Wood of the Faculty of Agriculture was doubtful about the value of local training in agriculture at a junior or community college. He suggested that a better method of training was for students to attend a university during the normal session and spend the summer months at agricultural centres in different parts of the province. Dr. Friesen reviewed the many offerings of the extension department, noting in particular the experiment in extramural courses for credit at Prince George, and pointed out that his department was already decentralized. It had become so in order to meet some of the needs of citizens throughout B.C. Dr. Ian McTaggart Cowan was the happy choice as speaker for the closing conference banquet. He gave a stimulating and entertaining account of education in Russia and China which left delegates impressed but, at the same time, challenged by the opportunities here in Canada. We must compete with Russia and China, countries which are characterized by "the boundless enthusiasm of their young people and the terrific head of steam which has been generated among the masses." But we have many advantages, too, the most important of which is our freedom. Dr. Cowan concluded with a few words on behalf of "bigness" at a university. "U.B.C. is a most exciting place in which to work. There are keen young people in search of knowledge, an atmosphere of discovery among U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 6 Successful conference on higher education held in Vernon May 6 was enlivened by the presence of many of U.B.C.'s leading deans. Above Dean S. F. N. Chant, left, head of the Faculty of Arts and Science, chats with Dean Neville Scarfe, right, head of the Faculty of Education. At centre is Dr. E. M. "Mack" Stevenson, of Vernon, chairman of the regional committee which organized the event attended by more than 500 persons from the area bounded by Osoyoos on the south and Kamloops on the north. faculty and students—and this doesn't happen anywhere else but in a large organization. Better one student enjoying this atmosphere than ten sitting at the feet of mediocrity." Several residents of the area participated in the conference as speakers, chairmen and in other capacities, including: Stuart Fleming, M.P., Hugh Shantz, M.L.A., Mayor Becker, George Falconer, Earl Quesnel, all of Vernon; Ronald R. Heal, Armstrong, and Reeve F. E. Atkinson, Summerland. Dr. E. M. "Mack" Stevenson had the following on his effective and hard-working regional committee: Penticton, Mrs. Odetta Mathias; Summerland, Mrs. Margaret Solly; Kelowna, Mrs. E. R. Pelly; Vernon, Mrs. Pauline Legg; Armstrong, Frank Evans; Lumby, Ken Johnston; Salmon Arm, C H. Millar; Kamloops, Roland G. Aubrey; Revelstoke, Alwyne Brown; Emerson Gennis, chairman of the branches and divisions committee of the Alumni Association, and Tim Hol- lick-Kenyon, assistant director. Members of the North Okanagan group not mentioned previously, who assisted in local arrangements, were: A. C Michel- son, Mrs. W. D. Hamilton, Mrs. G. Hughes, Mrs. B. VonKrosigk, Miss L. Lang, Miss L. Melvin, D. Hoye and S. Phare. A great deal of credit for the success of the conference goes to Mrs. Pauline Legg, who was responsible for the physical arrangements, registration, and a host of other details. ABBOTSFORD Alumni and friends in the Fraser Valley region are forging ahead on a new and broader program of activity. Following the highly successful conference on higher education in Abbotsford last December, they met in Abbotsford on April 12 to form a new regional organization, the Fraser Valley University Association. This new group will encompass all branches in the Fraser Valley and will be able to speak for the region with a unified voice on matters of higher education. Membership is open to all people in the valley, including graduates of other universities, who are interested in the aims and needs of higher education. The meeting, chaired by Cecil Hacker, and attended by more than 100 people representing all parts of the region, elected the following officers: President, Mrs. G. E. W. Clarke of Abbotsford; vice-president, Hunter Vogel of Langley; secretary-treasurer, William H. Grant of Abbotsford; members-at-large, Frank Wilson of Chilliwack, Dr. Mills Clarke of Agassiz, Norman Severide of Langley. The executive were empowered to add to their number in the future to ensure a good representation from all communities and professions in the Fraser Valley. Dr. William C. Gibson, the new president of the Alumni Association, spoke to the meeting on "What Good is an Old Grad?" Dr. Gibson told the meeting that an old grad was a lot of good, and had a vital role to play in his community, both to interpret the needs of higher education and to serve his community through a higher level of professional training. At the end of April the newly born group sponsored a three-day tour of the valley by 30 International House students. The students, who came from 11 different countries, were billeted in homes throughout the Fraser Valley. They toured many parts including Fort Langley, Fraser Valley Farms Ltd., the Clayburn - Harbison Ltd. brickworks. Westminster Abbey, Celwood Industries Ltd., the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association plant at Sardis, and the Agassiz Experimental Farm. On three evenings the students were dinner guests of Clayburn-Harbison Ltd., Mission Rotary Club, and the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association. The windup to a very successful tour was a chicken barbecue dinner at the Hole-in-the-Wall Lodge, Sumas Prairie, with a good turnout of friends and alumni. The International House students entertained the gathering for the rest of the evening with their Latin American combo. The tour was a good example of an enjoyable and informative program to bring together alumni, friends and students and foster better international relations. The response from Fraser Valley residents was outstanding. The whole tour was arranged by Cece Hacker, with the assistance of many people in the Valley and the capable planning of John Haar of International House. THE UBYSSEY The Ubyssey is expanding. Next year for the first time the student paper will offer subscriptions to alumni and other interested persons. The Ubyssey's annual production of about 70 issues (three a week) plus a monthly magazine will be offered. Attempts will be made to increase news coverage on the Point Grey campus and also to give more space to news and views from Victoria College. The monthly magazine will contain a digest of campus news and articles of comment from The Ubyssey staff and interested students. Alumni will be contacted by letter during the summer. Further information is available from The Ubyssey, Brock Hall, U.B.C. Please label your envelope "Subscriptions". EVENTS Two days to mark off now on your fall calendar are October 27 and 28. These are the dates set for the Alumni Association's 1961 Homecoming celebrations. A committee of graduates is at work planning the two-day event. A highlight will be reunions for the classes of 1916, '21, '26, '31, '36, '41, '46 and '51. Subsequent editions of "The Alumni Chronicle" will carry full details about the event. 7 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ALUMNAE AND ALUMNI (Items of Alumni news are invited in the form of press clippings or personal letters. These should reach the Editor, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, 252 Brock Hall, U.B.C, for the next issue not later than August 1, 1961.) 1916 Lennox A. Mills, BA, MA(Tor.), BA, PhD(Oxon.), head of the department of political science at the University of Minnesota, represented U.B.C. at the installation of that University's new president on February 24. 1919 Major-Gen. H. F. G. Letson, BSc, PhD(London), LLD'45, has been appointed to the board of governors of Carleton University in Ottawa. He is also chairman of their development campaign now being organized. From 1923 to 1935 General Letson was associate professor of mechanical engineering at U.B.C. His military career includes service in both world wars. He was adjutant- general of the Canadian Army from 1942-44 and chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff Commission in Washington in 1944-45. From 1946 to 1952 he was secretary to Earl Alexander of Tunis when he was governor-general of Canada. 1920 Harry I. Andrews, BSc, vice-president, planning, research and development of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Limited, has been elected an honorary life member of the technical section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. Life membership in the 2,374- member technical section is confined to 12 people, unanimously chosen by the executive council. Only one election is made in any one calendar year. Mr. Andrews joined the Powell River Company 40 years ago as a plant chemist, probably the first technically trained employee in any of the companies on the coast. 1921 D. M. (Pinky) Morrison, BSc, PhD (McGill), PhDtCantab.), president of Trans Mountain Oil Pipe Line Company for the past five years, has retired. He has been connected with the Canadian oil industry for the past 32 years. 1922 George Frederick Fountain, BASc, deputy director of planning for the city of Vancouver since the formation of the planning department in 1952, has been appointed director of planning. He has been with the city since graduation, and has had a long association with community and town planning groups. Arnold A. Webster, BA, MA'28, after 20 years' service with the Park Board, is back for another two-year term. Principal of Killarney secondary school, he is also a member of the University senate. 1924 Paul V. McLane, BA, MA(Calif.), is Canadian trade commissioner in Glasgow. His previous post was in Athens as commercial counsellor. Philip B. Stroyan, BASc, superintendent of parks for the city of Vancouver, retired this year after 23 years with the Park Board, 18 years as superintendent. He was given a citation award by the Parks and Recreation Association at their annual meeting in St. Catherines last year. His wife is the former Lillian Robinson, BA'27. 1925 Robert William Ball, BA, MA'27, PhD(Ill.), LLB(Georgetown), of the legal department, patent division, of DuPont's in Wilmington, Del., attended the class of 1925 reunion last fall. He graduated in chemistry and later studied law. Dr. Ball's son is a Rhodes scholar. Elsie Gertrude Taylor, BA, who worked in the American Library in Paris before the last war, and in England during the war, went to New York in 1945 to work for British Information Services. She much enjoys her work there in spite of its being the high pressure variety. 1926 W. J. (Jim) Logie, BA, has been assigned the district superintendencies of Qualicum and Campbell River. He goes to Vancouver Island from Kelowna where he began teaching in 1927. His wife is the former Ethelwyn Dee, BA'29. Harry L. Purdy, BA, MAtWash.), PhD (Chic), MA(Hon.)(Dartmouth), has been appointed president of the B.C. Electric, succeeding Dr. A. E. Grauer, who remains chief executive officer and policymaker with the title of chairman of the board. Dr. Purdy came to the B.C. Electric as director of research in 1947. He was president of the Alumni Association in 1957-58. Harry V. Warren, BA, BASc'27, BSc, DPhil(Oxon.), professor of mineralogy in the department of geology, has received a $2950 grant from the department of mines and technical surveys for a continuing study of the trace elements in soils, rocks and plants. 1927 Leslie E. Howlett, BA, MAfTor.), PhD (McGill), director of the National Research Council's division of applied physics, attended the eleventh general conference of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris last October. As chairman of the advisory committee for the definition of the metre he introduced the resolution which was unanimously accepted that the international standard for the metre should no longer be a metal bar kept in France, but should be defined as a specific number of wave lengths of orange light emitted by the gas krypton. Dr. Howlett made one of the major research contributions that led to the historic decision. All Canadian units of length have been defined in terms of the metre since 1952. Incidentally, Dr. Howlett urges the adoption in Canada of the metric system as a superior mental tool. Mrs. Clare McAllister (nee Clare Nulalinda McQuarrie), BA, MSW'56, has joined the staff of the Family and Child Welfare division, in Ottawa. G. W. Miller, BASc, has been appointed assistant general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway's eastern region. He joined the railway as a transit man in 1927. 1928 H. Leslie Brown, BA, assistant deputy minister (external trade promotion) in the department of trade and commerce, and director of the trade commissioner service, was a key man in the export trade promotion conference in Ottawa during December. When he was in Vancouver last August he gave a paper before the meeting of the American Alumni Council reported in the Spring, 1961 issue of the Chronicle. The Hon. James Sinclair, BASc, has been appointed a director of Lafarge Cement of North America Ltd. Mr. Sinclair is president and managing director of Deeks-McBride Ltd., president of the Fisheries Association, a member of the British Columbia Energy Board and a director of the B.C. Research Council. Bert R. Tupper, BASc, has been named Canadian regional director of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He was made a fellow of the IRE in 1954 for his work in the application of radio techniques to the extension of long distance telephone services in Canada. He is chief engineer of the British Columbia Telephone Company. 1929 Christopher Riley, BA(McMaster), MA, PhD(Chic), retiring president of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines, reported that a total of nine deposits of iron ore have so far been found in B.C. He urged an intelligent use of our mineral resources, utilizing them as far as possible at home. He suggested that the provincial department of mines should be provided with facilities for assembling, processing and storing exploration data gathered by individual companies so that information can be put to future use. 1930 Peter Grossman, BA, Vancouver's chief librarian, has been appointed for a second term to the National Library Advisory Board. William John Cameron Kirby, BA, has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Alberta. He has practised law in Red Deer since 1945, after his discharge from the army, and was Conservative member of the legislature for Red Deer from 1954 to 1959 and former leader of the Progressive Conservative party in Alberta. 1931 Mrs. W. E. Ricker (nee Marion Card- well), BASc, is vice-president of the Canadian School Trustees for 1960-61. Charles D. Schultz, BASc, has been chosen as the B.C. member of a committee to work on the "Resources of Tomorrow" program of the federal government. The preliminary studies will be considered at a conference in Montreal in October, 1961. 1932 Ian McTaggart Cowan, BA, PhD (Calif.), head of the zoology department, has been elected a fellow of the California Academy of Science, the oldest U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 8 scientific body on the west coast of North America. Gavin A. Dirom, BASc, has been named a vice-president of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines for 1961. He is assistant chief geologist and resident engineer of American Smelting and Refining Co. Donald J. MacLaurin, BASc, MSc (Lawrence Coll.), has resigned as mill manager of Island Paper Mills, the new fine paper mill. Robert F. Sharp, BA, Vancouver's superintendent of schools, made his first trip to Europe in November as a spokesman for Canadian education at the general conference of UNESCO in Paris. While overseas he visited schools in Britain on behalf of the school board which is interested in the vocational opportunities offered at the secondary school level, and technical training programs. W. Douglas Wallace, BA, has been posted to Caracas, Venezuela, as commercial counsellor in the Canadian embassy from Ottawa. 1933 Ernest E. Livesey, BA, who was on the teaching staff of Mt. View high school in Victoria, has been appointed to the faculty of the College of Education. Mrs. Livesey, the former Adelia Frances Rowse, BA'57, has a teachers' assistant- ship. Robert E. Strain, BA, has been appointed manager, western division, Crane Ltd. He is responsible for directing all sales, branch and wholesale, in the western provinces. 1934 A. Tom Alsbury, BA, BEd'47, was reelected mayor of Vancouver in December with a vote of 48,469. His nearest rival was Tom J. Campbell, LLB'52. Harry Andison, BSA, well known across Canada for his research work on the control of insects damaging farm crops, has been appointed head of the Dominion Experimental Farm at Saanichton, Vancouver Island. 1935 Charles M. (Chuck) Bayley, BA, is public relations officer for the Vancouver School Board. John J. Conway, BA, AM,PhD(Har- vard), lecturer in history and master of Leverett House at Harvard, was asked by the president to represent U.B.C. at the centennial convocation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on April 9, 1961. 1936 R. P. Forshaw, BSA, MSc(McGill), assistant professor of the department of animal husbandry at Ontario Agricultural College, was elected president of the eastern branch and president-elect of the Canadian Society of Animal Production at the 1960 meetings. Eleanor S. Graham, BASc, MSc(Chic), has been appointed executive secretary of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C., succeeding Miss Alice Wright who has retired. Miss Graham's experience includes public health work in Cowichan, Prince Rupert and Powell River before going to the national office of the Vic torian Order of Nurses as an assistant director. She was director of nursing at the Royal Columbian hospital in New Westminster before going to WHO for five years as supervisor of nursing for southeast Asia, with headquarters in New Delhi, India. She returned from this post to Vancouver. Franc Joubin, BA, MA'43, DSc, represented U.B.C. at the installation of Dr. Murray Ross as president of York University in Toronto on January 24. F. Stanley Nowlan, BA, manager of performance and operations analysis for United Air Lines, gave a research paper entitled "The relationship between reliability, overhaul periodicity and economics in the case of aircraft engines" at the national convention of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Los Angeles. Douglas A. M. Patterson, BA, solicitor for the B.C. Electric in Victoria, has been appointed executive assistant to the vice-president, W. C Mearns. He will combine both posts. 1937 William T. Irvine, BASc, has been named chief mines geologist for Cominco. He joined the company's staff in 1946. Gerald A. Sutherland, BA, BCom, district manager for Odeon theatres, has been made chairman of the social planning section of the Community Chest in Vancouver. 1938 Fred M. Brunton, BA, DDS(Oregon), has been appointed regional dental consultant for central Vancouver Island, upper Island, Saanich and south Vancouver Island. He has moved to Nanaimo from Vancouver. Phyllis Cowan, BA, an experienced high school teacher, is fulfilling a three- year teaching assignment at Kinnaird College, Lahore, India. She is a graduate of the Anglican Women's Training College in Toronto. W. F. Koren, Jr., BCom, of New Orleans, represented U.B.C. at the inauguration of Herbert Longenecker as president of Tulane University of Louisiana on April 15. Mary D. Rendell, BA, executive secretary to the Dominion board of the Women's Auxiliary, is the only woman among four delegates from the Anglican Church in Canada to the meeting of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi in 1961. Arthur H. Sager, BA, spoke out against the increasing centralization of education in Canada in an article in Weekend Magazine entitled "Let's give our schools back to the teachers." 1939 Joe Plaskett, BA, the well-known painter, had his first Montreal show last winter. After teaching school for six years, he won the first Emily Carr scholarship, and took up painting as a career. He has studied in California, New York, Paris and London, and has evolved a personal, romantic style. He is included in the Brock Hall collection of Canadian art. Frank J. E. Turner, BA, BCom, presi dent of the Life Underwriters' Association of Vancouver, was a delegate to the 54th general meeting of the Life Underwriters' Association of Canada in Toronto this February. 1940 Frank Borden Clark, BA, LLB'48, is commercial secretary in Mexico City with the Canadian Embassy. Gordon C. Douglas, BA, manager of the wood products promotion division of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Ltd., is vice-president of the Canadian Wood Development Council, formed in 1959. Ian Mahood, BCom, BSF'41, has joined National Forest Products Ltd. as manager of development, and will concentrate on development of raw material supplies for the company's program of diversification. Leslie G. Wilson, BCom, has been put in charge of the new Kelowna branch of Pemberton Securities Ltd. 1941 Garth Griffiths, BASc, has been appointed co-ordinator of the $450 million Columbia River hydro project which the B.C. Power Commission will build. He will be responsible for compiling and maintaining records of project schedules, keeping in touch with all firms engaged on the huge project, and reporting regularly to the power commissioners on the progress being made. Reg. E. Haskins, BASc, until recently plant superintendent at Bamberton for the British Columbia Cement Company Ltd., has been appointed vice-president of production and elected to the board of directors. Ronald G. McEachern, BASc, has been appointed chief exploration geologist for Cominco. Eric P. Nicol, BA, MA'48, whose syndicated column originates in the Vancouver Province, is read on both sides of the border. The San Francisco Examiner now carries his column, besides two Connecticut papers and a Southern California daily. Papers across Canada that subscribe include the Daily Bulletin of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, a mimeographed newspaper serving a population of 2,364. Mr. Nicol, who was elected to the University senate last year, also serves on the editorial committee of this magazine. 1942 John H. Harding, BASc, senior traffic engineer of B.C.'s highways department, has been named vice-president of the joint committee on uniform traffic control devices for Canada. W. C. McKenzie, BASc, is the author of an article in the October, 1960, B.C. Professional Engineer on design aspects of the avalanche sheds in the hazardous Rogers Pass area of the Trans-Canada highway. His firm, Choukalos, Wood- burn, Hooley & McKenzie Ltd., consulting engineers, was retained by the department of highways to design and supervise construction of the avalanche sheds. Two other members of the firm, William Choukalos, BASc'50, and Roy Hooley, BASc'47, are also graduates. 1943 John J. Carson, BA, a vice-president 9 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE of the B.C. Electric in charge of industrial relations, has been appointed assistant to the new president, Dr. Harry Purdy, with gas, transportation, public information and industrial relations departments reporting to him. He has also been chosen to head a study of manpower management for the federal Royal Commission on Government Organization (the Glassco Royal Commission). He spent the month of February in Ottawa, and plans to spend one week per month on the survey after that. He was the Alumni Association first vice-president for 1960-61. J. Michael G. Fell, BA, MA(Calif.), PhD(Calif.) in mathematics, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, is at Harvard on a one-year National Science Foundation contract, doing functional analysis research in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William T. Mann, BCom, of Victoria, has been elected president of the 400- member Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia. Mrs. Mann is the former Daima Edwards, BA'43. E. Douglas Sutcliffe, BASc, former general manager of Western Development and Power Ltd., is now general manager of the new marketing division formed by the merger of B.C. Electric's general sales division with the industrial development department of Western Development and Power. 1944 G. Claude Bissell, BA, BEd'58, supervising principal of Kelowna elementary schools, has been appointed district superintendent for the department of education in Castlegar and Arrow Lakes school districts. 1945 Donald Arthur Fraser, BASc, divisional engineer for the C.P.R. at Brandon, Manitoba, represented U.B.C. at the installation of Dr. John Robbins as president of Brandon College on January 6, and at the opening of the new library and arts building by Mrs. John Diefenbaker on the same day. Leslie A. Raphael, BA, BCom, was a Canadian delegate to the World Zionist Congress in Israel 1946 Rhys D. Bevan, BASc in chemical engineering, has been appointed industrial sales manager of the "Fabrikoid" division of Canadian Industries Limited —a new position in the organization. He will be responsible to the divisional sales manager for directing sales to the industrial trades. Robert A. Nilan, BSA, MSA'48, PhD (Wis.), is one of a team of Washington State University scientists who have found a cheap, simple and fast way to produce inheritable changes in the cells of grain seeds. Their work involves the use of a chemical, diethyl sulphate, to induce mutations in barley rather than atomic radiation which smashes up the chromosomes making it impossible for the altered cells to reproduce. J. Norman Olsen, BASc, has been appointed manager of consumer services in the B.C. Power Commission, succeed ing Garth Griffiths, now co-ordinator of the Columbia River hydro project to be built by the Commission. Denis C. Smith, BA, BEd'47, DEd (UCLA), was appointed by the B.C. Supreme Court in December as chairman of a board of arbitration sitting on teachers' salaries. Hearings were held in Agassiz school district, Peace River and Williams Lake. C. Thompson Veazey, BSc(Man.), BEd, BA(Wash.) in art education, whose painting was reproduced on the cover of the September-October issue of The B.C. Teacher, is a member of the staff of John Oliver High School in Vancouver. 1947 Patrick David Campbell, BASc, has been named a vice-president of the big U.S. engineering firm of Williams Bros, and Co. He joined Williams in 1948 and has worked on projects in Venezuela, Colombia, Canada, Indonesia, Iran and Austria. He is currently in charge of the company's operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, with headquarters in London. T. Boyd Crosby, BCom, a director of Durham & Bates Agencies Ltd., has been appointed vice-president. C. C. Cunningham, BSA, former Fraser Valley farmer, has been appointed veterinary inspector at Nelson. Dr. Cunningham graduated from Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph a year ago. He recently had a private practice at Ladner. The Rev. R. MacKay Esler, BA, BD (Knox Coll.), of Calgary, has been elected moderator of the Alberta synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. John F. Graham, BA, MA,PhD(Co- lumbia), has been appointed Fred C. Manning professor of economics and head of the department of economics and sociology at Dalhousie University. He is the youngest full professor and the youngest department head in the University. Dr. Graham is also general editor of the Atlantic Provinces Studies, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council of Canada. Bruce H. Levelton, BASc, MASc'48, PhDfTexas A&M), is the author of an interesting report on a study of pozzolan and suitable deposits in B.C. undertaken by the B.C. Research Council for Holdfast Natural Resources. Ronald F. Lucas, BA, BEd, formerly principal of Prince Rupert senior high school, has been appointed district superintendent for Ocean Falls, Alert Bay and Quatsino school districts, with headquarters in Courtenay. John O. Pollock, BA, BSW'48, MSW '50, assistant general secretary of the Vancouver Metropolitan YMCA has been named executive secretary of the new New Westminster joint YM-YWCA. Robert W. Prittie, BA, teaching high school in Burnaby, is also on the Burnaby municipal council. William Townsley, BCom, MBA (Calif.), has been appointed to the United Kingdom staff of the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Townsley, who took his degree with a forestry option, will advise specifiers and users of western red cedar in the U.K. on the properties and application of this species. 1948 Ebbie W. Bowering, BA, BEd'54, was elected for his third term on the Vancouver Park Board. A school principal, he was deputy chairman of the Park Board last year, and chairman of the Burnaby- Vancouver Central Park development committee. He is a past president of both the B.C. amateur and the Canadian basketball associations. Allan C. Brooks, BA, game biologist with the Uganda game and fisheries department, with headquarters now in Entebbi, has as one of his projects the biological aspects of cropping hippos. The cropping program started in 1959, when 700 hippos were shot. In 1960 the total was 400. The meat is sold in local markets and profits are returned to the African local governments. Mr. Brooks invites any reader passing through Entebbi to get in touch with him through the Game Warden, P.O. box 4, Entebbi. A. Deane M. Burnside, BA, has been appointed to the pulp sales staff of Columbia Pulp Sales Ltd. He brings to his new post a background in marketing and sales received at the graduate school of business administration, New York University, and in a management capacity in the fields of advertising and sales promotion. He will work principally with the marketing of Celgar Kraft from Celgar's new bleached kraft pulp mill in the Arrow Lakes region, which opened in December. Peter A. Cherniavsky, BASc. has been elected a director and vice-president of the British Columbia Sugar Refining Company Limited. He has been on the staff of the Company for twelve years and occupies the position of general superintendent. Duncan L. Clark, BA, BSW'49, MSW '54, deputy warden of Oakalla Prison Farm, is in charge of treatment there. He has had a year and a half both with the provincial probation branch and the provincial social branch, and is a voluntary leader in church and community group work besides. William F. Idsardi, BA, is assistant manager of the news division in the public relations department of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, in Cleveland. His wife, (nee Dorothy Marion Bell), BA'49 works under her maiden name, Marion Bell, as assistant director of public relations for the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. Ralph F. B. King, BA, MA(Tor), head of the department of English, Canadian Services College, Royal Roads, has been awarded a Ph.D. in English by the University of Toronto. John M. Norris, BA, MA'49, PhD (Northwestern), assistant professor in the department of history, has won a Nuffield travelling fellowship for 1961-62 in the humanities division. He will leave for Great Britain in August to gather material for his book on the mobilization of economic resources in the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. John Andrew Panton, BCom, has been appointed B.C. sales manager for O'Keefe U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 10 Old Vienna Brewing Co. Ltd., western operations. His past experience in the field of marketing and sales includes ten years with the Toronto office of a large international marketing concern, four years of which were spent as merchandising manager, bulk products. G. Rowland Phare, BASc in chemical engineering, is superintendent, applied research, with C-I-L explosives division in Quebec. Mrs. Phare, the former Edith M. Benson, BA, graduated as a bacteriologist. Peter Paul Saunders, BCom, president of Imperial Investment Corporation, has announced that his company has bought a 75 per cent interest in the Mercantile Acceptance Corporation of California, with 72 offices in California and Oregon and assets of some $43,000,000. With Andrew Saxton, who also attended the University, Mr. Saunders incorporated Imperial Investment in 1950 to carry on sales, inventory and industrial financing and personal loans. The firm's assets in 1951 were $38,440, and in December, 1960, $119,608,947. Mr. Saunders' classmates will probably remember him as Peter Paul Szende, the name under which he graduated. 1949 John J. Anderson, BCom, LLB, has been appointed chief legal advisor for Pacific Petroleums Ltd. He is a member of the British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan bars. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Anderson was the Canadian division solicitor for Honolulu Oil Corporation. John M. Bryan, BA in mathematics and science, has been appointed research engineer III in research and development division of The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. Robert W. Corregan, BSF, has been transferred to Nelson as forester in charge from Victoria management division of the B.C. Forest Service. Harry A. Willems, BA, BSW'50, MSW'52, former regional administrator in the Saskatchewan department of social welfare and rehabilitation, Melfort region, has been appointed director of regional services with headquarters in Regina. Before returning to his native province in 1959, Mr. Willems gained wide experience in social work with the B.C. department of social welfare. Roy H. Woodman, BA, BCom'50, MBA(Harvard), has been appointed president of Labatt's Brewery Ltd. Formerly he was vice-president and general manager of the company's Quebec operations. Aged 38, he has been with Labatt's since 1952. 1950 Taffara DeGuefe, BCom, has been named general manager in the head office of the State Bank of Ethiopia. He has now returned to Addis Ababa after a period of three years spent with the Bank's branch in Khartoum, Sudan. His wife is the former Laurie Paterson, BA'49, a geographer. Their new address is P.O. Box 1374, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Doreen M. Cooper, BSA, has been awarded the Tenby Brooch for outstanding service to the turkey industry in Great Britain. She has been with the Houghton Poultry Research Centre in England since 1952 with the exception of a few months in 1958-59 when she returned to Vancouver to do research work in the department of poultry science at this University under Professor J. Biely. Ian H. Kingwell, BA, has been promoted to bacteriologist IV as head of the enterics section of the provincial laboratories in Vancouver. Robert A. Pope, BASc, B.C.R.F., P.Eng., has re-joined the consulting firm of C. D. Schultz & Company Limited, foresters and engineers, of Vancouver. His previous experience with the company, from 1950 to 1958, included wood handling studies, forest resource investigations, plant feasibility studies and property valuations on projects in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Brazil. Timothy Sullivan, BCom, has been promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant in the R.C.A.F. He is a supply officer at Air Materiel Command headquarters, Rockcliffe, Ontario. Fit. Lt. Donald S. Wright, BA, who was commanding officer of the R.CA.F.'s communications unit in Edmonton, has been transferred to NATO. He will serve at Allied Air Forces Central Europe headquarters, Fontainbleau, France. A veteran of the second World War, he rejoined the air force in 1952. In September, 1955, he graduated from the telecommunications course for officers at Clinton, Ontario, and served at Whitehorse before going to Edmonton. 1951 Timothy Hugh Hollick-Kenyon, BA, BSW'53, has been appointed assistant director of the U.B.C. Alumni Association. He will be responsible for the branches and divisions programs and for annual and special events sponsored by the Association. Before taking up his new duties on April 1, he was with the Vancouver Family Court, first as probation officer, then as supervisor. Mrs. Hollick-Kenyon is the former Ina Josephine Ritchie, BA'53, BSW'54. W. W. Prince, BCom, has been appointed manager of accounting for the Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited, in Prince Rupert. 1952 Clifford J. Anastasiou, BA, MEd'57, who is attending Claremont Graduate School in California, has been awarded a National Science Foundation assistant- ship at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. His wife is the former Joan Barton, BA'51, MA'54. Donald G. Fraser, BA, MD'56, who interned for the past two years at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario, has taken up residence with his family in Palmerston, Ontario, where he will assist Dr. G. A. Vanner in the Palmerston and Gorrie offices. Dr. Fraser, after graduating, served as medical officer of the first battalion, P.P.C.L.I. in Victoria for two years, and then joined the UN emergency force in the Middle East. Clifford K. Harris, BA, MSc'54 PhD (Tor.), received his doctorate in 1959, and is now on the staff of the Toronto Western Hospital as their biochemist. Dr. and Mrs. Harris have two children, a boy, 3, and a girl, 1. Grant R. McDonald, BASc, has been appointed interior division engineer with headquarters at Kamloops, for B.C. Telephone Company. George W. O'Brien, BA, MBA (Harvard), with a friend formed his first company in 1955, Spruce Specialties, a company manufacturing products for the pulp and paper industry. They now have business interests in several different fields, but their most interesting venture is Vision Manufacturing Company, which has just moved to a large new plant in Richmond. Vision manufactures TV picture tubes for the replacement market, selling them through wholesale parts dealers throughout the four western provinces. All types of television tubes are made, and they manufacture for some of the largest firms in the world, including Dumont. Their first American subsidiary company, Saturn Electronics, is to be opened this spring in Tacoma, Washington. Since Vision was started in 1957 each year's sales have been 100 per cent greater than the previous year's. Wilfred E. (Bill) Razzell, BA(Hons), PhD(Illinois), having spent three years with Dr. H. G. Khorana's group and two years with P. C. Trussell, BSA'38, in the biology division of the B.C. Research Council, has taken over the enzy- mology section of the Syntex Institute for Molecular Biology, in Palo Alto, California. J. G. Moffatt, BA'52, MSc'53, PhD'56, who was associated with Dr. Khorana at the same time, is also joining Syntex in charge of the chemistry section. The new Syntex laboratories, built and equipped to the specifications of each section head, began operations in June, 1961, on studies related to the chemical basis of heredity. 1953 Margaret Avison, BA, has won this year's Governor-General's Award for Poetry, and a prize of $1,000 from the Canada Coucil, for her first book of poems, Winter Sun, published by the University of Toronto Press. Miss Avison has already made a name for herself through verse published in magazines and in anthologies. Harold J. Dyck, BA, has been awarded a $5,000 research assistantship at Stanford LIniversity in California to enable him to work towards his doctorate of philosophy. He will work with Dr. H. T. James, professor of education at Stanford, on a study of school finance sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education. The Rev. Gordon S. Imai, BA, who majored in science and biology, was ordained in the United Church three years ago and is now the pastor of the new Japanese United Church in Park Extension, Montreal. Born a Buddhist and once planning to specialize in forestry or fisheries, he now ministers to the spiritual needs of some 150 Japanese and Japanese-Canadians in Montreal. 1 1 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE J. Kennely McDonald, BSA, MS(Pur- due), PhD(Oregon State Coll.), a protein research chemist, has been appointed to the chemical research department staff of Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California. He has had wide experience in bacteriological warfare research with the Defence Research Board, as a teaching assistant at Purdue, and as a graduate research fellow at the Science Research Institute of Oregon State College. Richard I. Nelson, BASc, in mechanical engineering, MBA (Harvard), has been appointed vice-president of Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd. He has been manager of the company's Port Edward plant for the past four years. Lloyd M. W. Pisapio, BA, who set up the probation office in Trail, is now probation officer for the city of Kelowna. Kenneth F. Rudd, BCom, has been appointed manager, group and special risk division, for Seaboard Assurance Company. 1954 Robert H. Benson, BASc in chemical engineering, MBA(Western Ont.), is in New York City as assistant supervisor of sales for Aluminium Ltd. Howard N. Rundle, BA, MA'55, PhD (Sask.), is in Boulder, Colorado, with the U.S. Bureau of Standards, where a staff of some 2,000 are employed. He is doing research and acting as a consultant to the University of Colorado on the upper atmosphere. Dr. Rundle's career started early, with his own weather station at the age of 10. He graduated from North Vancouver high school with 98.1 per cent in mathematics and science. His PhD thesis subject at the University of Saskatchewan was very difficult. Before going to Colorado he spent a year in Cambridge, England, and some time at the National Research Council in Paris, France. 1955 Thomas D. Bingham, BSW, MSW'56 has been appointed deputy superintendent of child welfare in the B.C. department of welfare. James N. Henning, MD, who has been clinical fellow in hematology at Jefferson Medical College hospital in Camden, New Jersey, is taking up his duties as assistant pathologist for St. Joseph's hospital in Toronto, Ontario, on July 1. E. Keith Hutchins, MD, medical health officer and general practitioner in Manitouwadge, Ontario, for the last five years, is now in general practice at Scarboro Medical Arts, Eglington East, in Toronto. G. W. McMahon, BSc(Brandon Coll.), MSc in physics, has been with the Naval Research Establishment of the Defence Research Board since leaving UBC. He is responsible for acoustic calibration and test facilities. Mr. McMahon's main hobby is pistol shooting; he was a member of the Canadian Olympic team in 1960. Mrs. Michael Spedding (Nan M. Lawrence, BA), is resigning her post as corresponding secretary for the Canadian Universities Society of Great Britain, as her husband has been posted to Germany. Mrs. Spedding tells us that Mrs. R. M. Stretton of 46 Ferry Road, Barnes, London S.W. 13, will be delighted to answer any queries on behalf of the Canadian Universities Society. 1956 Adair John Banerd, BA, is employed by the department of citizenship and immigration as a foreign service officer. In February of this year he was appointed attache for Germany which, next to the United Kingdom, is the largest overseas office for the department. BIRTHS MR. and MRS. MICHAEL P. AMS- DEN, BASc'59, (nee LORNA RYDER, BEd'58), a daughter, Sherrill Louise, in Yellowknife, N.W.T. MR. and MRS. STANLEY F. AVIS, BCom'59, (nee DAPHNE BLACK, BCom'59), a daughter, Joan Margaret, February 24, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and Mrs. R. JOHN W. BISHOP, BCom'58, a daughter, Kelly Diane, March, 1961, in Peterborough, Ontario. MR. and MRS. GEORGE P. CASSADY, BA'54, LLB'55, (nee MARILYN E. PIPES, BA'56), a son, Timothy George, February 5, 1961, in New Westminster. REEVE and MRS. ALAN H. EMMOTT, BA'48, BEd'50, (nee JUNE EVA WANDEN, BA(Alta.), BSW'46, MSW '47), a son, Graeme Norman, October 1, 1960, in Burnaby. DR. and MRS. ALAN D. (HERB) FORWARD, MD'57, a daughter, Patricia Carman, July 16, 1960, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. DONALD S. GALBRAITH, BA'55, MSc'58, a son, Bruce James, March 16, 1961, in Quebec City, P.Q. DR. and MRS. JAMES A. GIBSON (nee CATHY MUNRO, BHE'54), a daughter, Mary Frances, February 8, 1961, in Vancouver. DR. and MRS. R. W. HOGARTH (nee BARBARA E. HOSSIE, MD'57), a daughter, Barbara Sharon, April 8, 1961, in Fort William, Ontario. MR. and MRS. FREDRICK CHARLES HOLLAND, BASc'56, MSc(Stanford), a son, Fredrick Charles Jr., March 3, 1961, in Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S.A. MR. and MRS. ALAN D. HUNTER, BCom'60, LLB'61, a daughter, Shaun Megan, April 21, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM J. (BILL) KENNEDY, BA'52, LLB'53, a daughter, Jane, February, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. DOUGLAS D. LAMBERT, BASc'52, (nee BEVERLEY ANN NELSON, BA'53), a daughter, Jennifer Ann, February 6, 1961, in New Westminster. MR. and MRS. T. BARRIE LINDSAY, BCom'58, a daughter, Diane Louise, November 13, 1960, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. FRANK A. LORNITZO (nee ELIZABETH M. COLWELL, BA'55), a son, Steven Frank, March 15, 1961, in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. DR. and MRS. KENNETH WILLIAM MUIRHEAD, BA'48, DDS, a son, Gregory John, August 20, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. JOHN H. NELSON, BCom'55, a son, John Norman, April 15, 1961, in Berne, Switzerland. MR. and MRS. JOHN P. R. NICOLLS (nee NAN HARDIE, BSA'50), a son, John Pethybridge Hardie, March 9, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. J. LESLIE NIVEN, BCom'54, a daughter, Lynda Jean, February 6, 1961, at Ocean Falls. LIEUT, and MRS. ALLAN B. POST- HUMA, BA'60, R.C.N., a son, Thomas Allan, March 31, 1961, in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. MR. and MRS. JOHN A. POUSETTE, LLB'52, (nee EVELYN HREHORKA, BA'51), a daughter, Ruth Melody, December 4, 1960, in Kitimat. MR. and MRS. PAUL STUART PRICE (nee BETTY JOAN DIANE EL- WORTHY, BCom'52), a son, March 6, 1961, in Victoria. MR. and MRS. JOHN C. T. RIDLEY, BA'53, BCom'55, (nee BETTY MAE MATHESON, BHE'56), a daughter, Patricia Ann, August 26, 1960, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. KENNETH J. ROSENBERG, BCom'54, a daughter, Kristine Margot, March 22, 1961, in Vancouver. MR. and MRS. JAMES K. (JIMMY) SHAW, LLB'55, (nee DAPHNE HARRIS, BA'53), a daughter, Allison Joan, April 16, 1961, in Prince Rupert. DR. and MRS. DARRELL A. SHER- RIN, MD'58, (nee ADRIENNE TODD, BA'55, MD'59), a son, Alexander McLean, February 5, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. MR. and MRS. ERIC W. VAN ALLEN, BCom'52, a son, Mark Newton, February 17, 1961, in Vancouver. MARRIAGES ALDERMAN - SULLIVAN. Richard Brian Alderman, BPE'56, MPE'60, to Dorothy Margaret Sullivan, BA'58, in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. ASHDOWN - McLEAN. Bruce Richard Ashdown, BPE'57, to Patricia Ann McLean, in Vancouver. BRUEHLER - SOSNOWSKY. Gustav Bruehler, MD'59, to Rita Sosnowsky, in Chilliwack. CARFRAE - BERTOIA. James Drys- dale Carfrae, BA'56, to Edna Patricia Sylvia Bertoia, in Rossland. EFFORD - STANKEY. Robert James Efford, BA'48, MA, PhD(Stanford), MD(Wash.), to Betty Ann Stankey, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. FANCY - DROUIN. Lieut. Sidney Ernest Charles Fancy, BA'60, R.C.H.A., to Lucille Marcelle Drouin, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. HANSEN - NORSWORTHY. Walter Harold Bruce Hansen, BCom'58, to Virginia Norsworthy, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. HARVEY - McCLOUGHRY. Peter Harvey, BASc'56, to Sheila E. K. Mc- Cloughry, in Vancouver. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 12 HOFFNER - SLINGER. James Raymond Hoffner to Judith Eden Slinger, BHE'54, in Vancouver. JEFFREY - PEERS. David Sinclair Jeffrey, BScF(Aberdeen), MF'60, to Barbara Elizabeth Peers, in Vancouver. McDONALD - CHUBATY. Philip Rae McDonald, BA'56, MBA(Harvard), to Marguerite Marie Chubaty, in Cambridge. Massachusetts. U.S.A. PALMER - McMUNN. Rodney Norman Palmer, BA'57, to Margaret Irene Mc- Munn, in Vancouver. REITH-BARTEL. Gunther Reith, BA '59, to June Anna Bartel, in Vancouver. SHAW - GARDNER. Duncan Weld Shaw, BA'55, LLB'56, to Patricia Nan Gardner, BA(Alta.). BSW'57, in Ayl- mer, Ontario. SPRING - GIBSON. Robert Harry Spring, LLB'60, to Janice Irene Gibson, BEd'59, in Vancouver. T O O C H I N - BILLINGSLEY. John Toochin to Myra Helen Billingsley, BSc'60, in Vancouver. VOURVOULIAS - MILSOM. Takis Vourvoulias to Diana Warwick Mil- som, BA'50, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. WIENS - MOW ATT. Ernest Theodore Wiens, BA'52, to Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Mowatt, in Vancouver. WILLIAMS - GEISSINGER. Gwyn Erith Williams to Gail Arden Geissinger, BA'60, in Vancouver. WINSTON - ROLSTON. Dr. Herbert Saul Winston to Joyce Fairchild Rolston, BA'52, BSW'54, MSW'59, in Hamden, Connecticut. U.S.A. DEATHS Professor Frederic Lasserre, head of the University's school of architecture, was killed April 6 while mountain climbing in the Lake district of England. He was 50. Prof. Lasserre was on a year's leave of absence to study European architecture on a Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation fellowship. He is survived by his wife, Ethel; a son, Montgomery, 17, who was with him at the time of the accident; and a daughter, Lynne. On Saturday, April 15, the University conducted a memorial observance for Prof. Lasserre in the War Memorial Gymnasium. In President MacKenzie's absence, Dean Geoffrey C. Andrew, spoke the following tribute: "We are gathered here together today to remember and pay tribute to our friend and colleague Fred Lasserre. "The news of his death came as a great shock to all of us. The implications of his death will take time to become plain —for he was at the height of his powers and the future held promise that he would further develop and enhance the many contributions he had already made to the University, the community and the world of his profession. "It is always difficult in a time of grief and shock to appraise and estimate justly what a friend and close associate represented and represents to us by his life and works. This is hard always; but there are certain things that even at this time we can with assurance record. "Fred Lasserre's life was illuminated by a vision of the importance of design —social no less than aesthetic—in the life of individual man and of society. A strong sense of conscience — personal, professional, and social — drove him — and through him us—toward the fulfillment of that vision. "A man of unusual sensitivity, the claims of vision and conscience made unremitting demands on his strength, but he remained unwilling to lessen the demands which either made upon him. He was, in a very real sense, a dedicated man and all who knew him, and were associated with him, could not help but be influenced by—and become, to the extent that they were able—involved in his sense of dedication. "His contributions to this University and to the larger community were many and important. He came to the University as professor of architecture in 1946; with a distinguished student record in Toronto and Zurich. He became the founding director of the school of architecture in 1950. During his time here, the school has achieved an enviable reputation among schools of architecture based on both his own example and achievement and on the quality of the men and women associated with him as colleagues and as students. "In addition, however, he took a leading, perhaps the leading, part in the establishment of a department of fine arts and certainly in the development of community and regional planning. Both these developments were part of Fred's vision leading towards a school of design, in which a combination of the arts could the better influence each other, to the enhancement and enrichment of individual life and urban civilization. "There is a special irony to the tragedy we are observing today, in that the building he fought for and planned for, which is being erected as the first unit of a fine arts complex of buildings, and which he saw as the nucleus of a design centre, should be in the process of construction at the time of his death. It now remains for others to carry out a similar or an equally worthy vision. On behalf of the University and personally, I would like to pay tribute to his conception of the service that higher education, within his sphere of influence, should render to the community. "His own view of the University's role in the community, in the areas of his chief concern, can be seen in the community services he performed. He was an active and influential member of the professional architectural bodies, provincial and national. He was equally active in the field of community planning, rural and urban housing, and civic art. "As a practising architect, he is remembered at the University particularly for International House, for the Faculty Club and University Social Centre and for the War Memorial Gymnasium, in the memorial lobby of which we are now meeting where the chief feature is, by his design, the windows which in fair weather look to the high hills. "As a person, Fred Lasserre looked to the high hills. He was an idealist, troubled by the problems of human destiny, possessed of his own vision of what that destiny should be, and the place of beauty in it, determined to do all he could to make the vision a reality, determined also to communicate to us his vision; to these ends dedicated." 1935 Ralph Davis, BASc, P.Eng., died in Shaughnessy Hospital on April 1, 1961. Mr. Davis was born in Rutland, B.C., and graduated from the University as a civil engineer. After varied engineering work with mining companies, he joined the staff of the city engineer's office in Victoria in 1939. From 1941 to 1945 he was in the aeronautical engineering branch of the R.C.A.F., and then became assistant water commissioner for the city of Victoria. In 1949 he was appointed chief commissioner of the Greater Victoria water district. He joined the firm of Stevenson & Kellogg as staff engineer in 1952, and remained with that company until 1956, when he became staff specialist for hydro and thermal electric power development with Sandwell International Limited. Later he was appointed executive assistant, power division, for the company. The Rev. Canon Christopher John Loat, BA, died suddenly of a heart attack on April 16, 1961, in St. Catherines, Ontario. He was rector of St. Thomas' Anglican church there for the past 13 years. Born in Vancouver, Canon Loat was the only son of the late Colonel and Mrs. C. J. Loat. After graduating from the Anglican Theological College in 1937 he was in charge of parishes in Vancouver, Guelph, Ontario, and Ladysmith, B.C., and a combined parish of Fergus and Elora, Ontario, before going to St. Catherines. He was made a canon in 1956 and served as rural dean of Lincoln and Welland Deanery from 1956 and 1959. For many years he was active in the affairs of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Lincoln County Humane Society. Canon Loat. who was 46, leaves his wife and four children, Christopher, Nancy, Timothy and Wendy, in St. Catherines, and a sister in Toronto. 1949 Victor J. Pittson, BASc, died March 22, 1961, at the age of 34. He had been general superintendent at the Beaverlodge operation of Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited since 1959. A native of British Columbia, he graduated as a mining engineer. Following brief periods of employment in a number of Ontario and Manitoba mines, Mr. Pittson joined the Eldorado company in 1950 and held positions at Port Radium, the head office in Ottawa and at Beaverlodge. He was promoted from mine superintendent two years ago. Mr. Pittson is survived by his widow, two children, his mother, Mrs. N. D. Pittson of Burnaby, and a brother, Alex, of Len- more, California. 13 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION PRESIDENT SPEAKS IN OTTAWA <=vl IF MONIES ARE NOT FORTHCOMING WE MUST DENY HIGHER EDUCATION TO MANY OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND LIMIT ENROLMENT RIGOROUSLY TO THOSE WITH HIGH LQ.'S • ADDRESSES UNIVERSITY BALL * U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 14 It is frequently claimed that "education" is a "provincial matter". In our Constitution, the B.N.A. Act, it is provided that education is within the jurisdiction of the provinces. At the recent meeting of attorney generals of the provinces to consider ways and means of amending our constitution, the only positive statement issued seems to have been that the section in the B.N.A. Act dealing with education could not be amended without the consent of all the provinces. I understand the reasons for this and I sympathize with these reasons and motives. Insofar as it has reference to schools and to education at the school level, 1 feel it is probably a sound arrangement and I am prepared to approve it. But, ladies and gentlemen, I suggest that for a few minutes we forget about "law" and look at "facts". Education in its broad and inclusive sense is concerned with ideas and concepts and "things of the mind". It is also part of the training and the disciplining of the emotions. It is based on knowledge and understanding and information. It conditions and shapes individuals, groups, nations, and the whole world of men and women of which we in Canada form a part. There was, no doubt, a time in history when communication was, to all intents and purposes, non-existent, in which it was possible to confine education and its effects to a limited geographical area. It is still possible, through the agencies of language, culture, or an ideology, to restrict the influence of education and to channel it in a given and desired direction. As illustrations: I suspect that the masses of the Chinese and Russian people do not know too much about Canada and Canadians or about the other countries and peoples of the West. I am sure that many of the inhabitants of the Congo are ignorant of everything beyond their tribal borders. I suspect that many dedicated communists have closed their "hearts" and minds to our virtues and their own defects—and both do exist—and I am certain that in our democracies, Canada, the United States, Britain, and France, there are many ignorant and emotionally undisciplined people. Two or three centuries ago, or even as late as 1900, this restricting and confining of knowledge may have been inescapable or even acceptable. But today, in the kind of world we live in, it is just not good enough nor can it be allowed to continue if we are to survive on this earth. That is why I have presumed to speak to you seriously and to remind you that regardless of what the lawyers may draft and decide (and I am one of them), humanity is on the march, and education in the broad aspects in which I am using the term is spilling over boundaries and frontiers everywhere. The radio, and particularly television, moving pictures and advertising, newspapers and picture magazines, and the ideas and information they convey, are no respectors of persons or of frontiers or even of languages. Again, as evidence, I give you the U.S.S.R., Asia and Africa, all in revolutionary turmoil almost certainly because of ideas and information that has poured in over their borders. Science in particular uses a common language, and ideas run like wildfires across the world, regardless of all of the walls and frontiers that men create. In the positive and creative areas, this is good, for if we exchange and pool our knowledge about space, about medicine, about physics and chemistry, and about human nature and human society, there seem no limits to the future that lies ahead. Whereas if we refuse to do this, if we try to retain the old dividing walls or to build new ones, then we are certainly in for a difficult, dangerous, and unhappy future. None of this implies or suggests that I like conformity and uniformity, or believe that it is inevitable or necessary. To the contrary, I believe most strongly in variety and difference within a nation and between and among individuals provided that it is based upon the freedom of the individual and upon his access to all the knowledge and information and wisdom available anywhere and everywhere. This then is the international or world setting. For the rest of the time I would like to put Canada and Canadian edu- 15 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE cation into this world picture. Obviously, we must, within the limits of the physically and financially possible, give all of our citizens the best and the most education they can benefit from. If we do not do this, there will be no place for us in this rapidly changing world. This means good schools, good teachers, good newspapers and magazines, good movies, radio and television and a good system or systems of adult education. But we, university alumnae and alumni, have a special interest in and concern for university or higher education, and that problem is among other things, one of expanding enrolments, more buildings and equipment, more teachers and directors of research, and a great deal more money. Can I give you one or two statistics. The first, — between 1940 and 1950, the college age group in Canada increased by about 25,000. In the decade between 1960 and 1970 ■— our present decade — it will increase by 500,000. This is the measure of the numerical difference in our problem. One other problem. In the period 1940-1950, about 8% of the college age group were in colleges and universities. It is estimated that some 33% of this age group have the ability to benefit from higher education. It is also stated that in the U.S.S.R., about 19% are given higher education, in the United States over 20%. In the latter country, the percentage is rising and, because of social pressures, may well go above 40%. Our present (1960-61) percentage in Canada is 11%. The question I, a university president, ask you and the people and governments of Canada is, what do you want us to do? We can, in fact must, if monies are not forthcoming, deny higher education to many of our sons and daughters, and limit our enrolment rigorously to the "brains", the "geniuses", and the very high I.Q.'s. The ordinary folk in that case won't get in. Or we can spend more money on higher education. As I have stated above, education is a provincial matter, and the governments and legislatures of the provinces must accept the basic responsibility for it. This means, among other things, that they, the governments and legislatures, must find much of the money required to support all education, including our universities. But, in addition, I suggest that because of the nature of higher education and of society and the world we live in, much of the money for our universities should and must come from the government and parliament of Canada. In my introductory remarks I made mention of the international character of education. If that be true, and I claim that it is, then only our national authorities can or have the obligation to cope with it. Higher education in most of its aspects has always been and is national and international in character and content. Students and teachers have traditionally wandered about the world they knew in search of knowledge, experience and information, or to sit at the feet of great teachers. This is true of Canada. We at U.B.C. have students from every province and most of the countries of the world. Our graduates go off to all parts of Canada and to all parts of the world, and what is true of U.B.C. is true of practically all Canadian universities. This kind of thing is not the proper or normal responsibility of a provincial or municipal government. The future of our country, Canada, as I have said (as well as of our provinces) depends upon research in science and in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and in medicine, and I would hope in the area of human relations. In all of these fields as well as in defence, our federal government is presently participating, through the National Research Council, the Defence Research Board, various departments of government, and through the Canada Council. Following the end of World War II, Canada contributed over $200 millions to assist in the education of the veterans. Since 1951 she has each year contributed millions directly to the universities and colleges on a per capita, per student basis. This year this will amount to about $26,000,000 (if Quebec is included). In addition. the government of Canada operates the three defence colleges, is increasing its aid to vocational training and is administering and paying for its share of Colombo and Commonwealth scholarships plans. I have cited these activities to support my thesis that the federal government over many years has been, is, and must continue to be in the business of higher education in its broad and varied and appropriate aspects, in an important way. There is nothing wrong or illegal about this. In fact, it is good and desirable, provided always the federal government and parliament, or any other government, do not attempt to control the universities and higher education. Some measure of influence is, of course, inevitable if money is made available for specific purposes or even for general fields like "science" but that is true of any money given by private citizens, corporations, foundations or religious denominations. The direct per capita grants given by the government of Canada to the universities have been free and without "strings". The only influence they have had is to improve the quality of the work done, to change the emphasis as between science and the humanities, and probably to encourage the creation of new institutions. It is argued, I know, that through a redistribution of the taxing powers the provinces could look after all the needs of education, including higher education within the respective provinces. In theory this is so. In practice because much of the work done by universities is not the concern of the provinces, I do not believe the provinces would give their universities enough or uncontrolled support. Highways, rather than Colombo plans, are the proper and understandable interest and concern of the provinces. It is because of reasons like these that I claim and continue to claim that, if Canada is to provide for the educational needs of its people and to maintain its place in a changing world, the government of Canada and the governments of the provinces will have to give more money to the universities. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 16 CHARLES DEANS, a graduate of U.B.C. and a prominent professional engineer in Vancouver, was paralyzed from the neck down in a skiing accident four years ago. Since then Charles Deans has learned to paint by holding a brush in his mouth (above). How has he done it? Turn the page to read his story and see a selection of the pictures he has painted. By Professor Alexander Hrennikoff Charles Warbrick Deans was born in Summerland, B.C., and educated in the Collegiate School, Victoria, B.C. He attended Victoria College for one year, then came to U.B.C. where he graduated in 1930 with the degree of bachelor of applied science in civil engineering with first class honours. For a year he worked as a junior engineer at the Western Bridge Company in Vancouver, then decided to proceed further with his education. He was awarded a scholarship to attend Ames College of the Agricultural and Mechanical Arts in Iowa where, after two years of study and teaching, he received the degree of master of applied science in structural engineering. Well qualified in the theory of structural design, Charlie returned to the Western Bridge Company where he soon became one of the key men. At the time of the second World War he held the position of chief estimator, which was soon followed by an advancement to the rank of chief engineer. In this capacity he was responsible for much of the engineering work on numerous Liberty ships and tankers built in Vancouver during the war. In the great civilian expansion of the post-war period he worked on the construction of bridges, buildings, transmission towers, tanks, pipes, boilers and other types of steel construction. The Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge, the Nelson Bridge and the Burrard Building in Vancouver may be singled out as particularly monumental examples of Charlie's engineering skill. As his experience widened, his advice was sought, not only by his colleagues in the company, but also by many Vancouver engineers and contractors. By generously sharing the fruits of his experience with others, Charlie made many friends. Charlie had always enjoyed outdoor exercise. This led him to take up skiing when he was no longer a young man. His enthusiasm for the newly-acquired sport was so great that several bad spills and a broken leg did not deter him. Professor Alexander Hrennikoff is a member of the department of civil engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science and a long-time friend of Charles Deans, the subject of the article on these pages. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 18 On Saturday afternoon, February 9, 1957, Charlie went, as usual, to ski on Seymour Mountain—accompanied by his son Dennis. The metal skis he was using were new and he was not accustomed to them. He hurried to catch up to Dennis, who had already started. As he went down a steep decline, he hit a snag and fell, landing on his neck. The force of the blow was so great that two vertebrae were crushed and his spinal cord almost sheared off. When his son and other skiers found him he was unable to move but still conscious. After considerable delay and difficulty, he was taken to Vancouver General Hospital. The accident resulted in paralysis from his neck down, leaving only his head moving voluntarily. Even his breathing was impeded. His general condition was so grave that an operation was deemed inadvisable. Charlie and his family were now faced with a terrifying experience. It would have crushed a lesser man. As time passed and the shock of the injuries slowly wore off, there dawned upon him the realization that this condition was permanent. Who, under such circumstances, would not succumb to deep depression? Charlie, too, had his dark moments, but he was not overwhelmed by them. Even as he lay, flat on his back and helpless except for the movement of his head, he did not lose hope but met the challenge with courage. His mind was as clear and sharp as ever—and his power of speech remained intact. He enjoyed conversing with friends who visited him and exchanging jokes with the nurses. Charlie had always been religious and in religion he found the support to stand his trial. He was also strongly comforted by his wife, Phyllis, and his two sons, Terry and Dennis, now aged twenty-four and twenty. For nearly four years Phyllis has visited the hospital every day and some days more than once. Most of the time Charlie lies in bed. Normally he is on his back but every two hours he is turned slightly, first to one side, then to the other, to prevent bed sores. Once a day, for an hour or two, Phyllis takes him around in a wheel chair in the building, and in summer they go out into the grounds. He usually wears prismatic glasses which allow him to see horizontally while his eyes point vertically. He reads magazines and books which are placed before him in a special frame over his bed. The pages must be turned by someone else as his automatic page-turner, which is actuated by the movement of his mouth, is not satisfactory. The Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia retains Charlie as one of its examiners, and in this capacity he reads theses on structural subjects written by candidates for membership in the Association. Thus, his wide engineering experience is put to good use. More than a year ago Charlie discovered a new interest to occupy his time and keep up his spirits. He had always been gifted in many ways and art was one ability which had lain dormant for years. He determined to develop this talent in spite of his terrible handicap. With the help of therapists at the Vancouver General Hospital he has developed a remarkable ability to paint watercolour pictures. He paints while seated in a wheel chair. A sheet of heavy paper, some eight by twelve inches, is taped to an easel in front of him at the level of his face. A pallette with cakes of paint and a glass of water stand on the shelf of the easel. Charlie holds the brush in his mouth obliquely between his front and back teeth to obtain a firmer grip. He then dips the brush in the water, touches the desired colour, and applies it to the paper. He does not mix colours and to obtain effects of tone he goes over the painted area a second or third time. Most of his paintings are landscapes copied from postcards and pictures in magazine advertisements. He also paints animals and cartoons. He does not copy slavishly but modifies and often simplifies the details and colours of the original. It is astounding to see some of Charlie's later pictures; they would do credit to a professional artist. Friends have offered to buy his paintings, but Charlie prefers to keep them. His control of the brush is little short of miraculous, as though the full power of his intellect was concentrated in the one remaining area of voluntary movement, resulting in a delicate, precise touch. Charlie's many friends follow him closely. They feel that his pictures should be exhibited to the public; and they wish Charlie to continue developing his artistic ability, not only for his own satisfaction but also as an example to others of what can be done by the purposeful determination of an individual to re-enact, as it were, another "Sunrise at Campobello". 19 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE This family in B.C.'s interior depends on the extension department for various services. EXTENSION MARK •^W.-r^. For conferences the extension department uses off-campus centres such as Rockwoods, shown above, the five-and-a-half acre estate given to U.B.C. by Major-General and Mrs. Victor Odium. By Gordon Selman This year the extension department of the University is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. The board of governors created the department and appointed its first director, Mr. Robert England, on April 27, 1936. The new department began its activities in September of that year. The story of the University's extension and adult education program since 1936 has been one of steady growth and expansion of activities. Under its three directors, Mr. England (1936-37), Dr. Gordon Shrum (1937-53) and Dr. John Friesen (1953-) the department has grown in both personnel and scope of activities. Its work has carried the influence and resources of the University to all parts of the province. But the University's extension activities did not by any means begin in 1936. Many hundreds of veterans of the first World War received short term vocational training at the university from 1918 to 1921. The Faculty of Agriculture maintained an ambitious extension program from the very early years through the 1920's, Gordon Selman is associate director of U.B.C.'s extension department. until lack of funds forced its discontinuation. Under the University extension committee, founded in 1918, hundreds of lectures by University faculty were arranged each year for organizations throughout the province. But the severe financial restrictions which the University faced in the early 1930's brought almost all extension work to an end. An opportunity for a fresh start came in the mid-thirties when the University received a sizeable grant from the Carnegie Corporation. It was decided that the majority of the money would be devoted to reviving extension work and on the basis of a survey of the needs of the province in the field of adult education (conducted by Dr. O. J. Todd, Dean F. M. Clement and Dr. H. V. Warren) a remarkable experiment was launched. This "emergency program" which was conducted in the academic year 1935- 36 and involved the presentation of 893 lectures by faculty members to an estimated 70,620 persons throughout the province, is probably without parallel anywhere and a fascinating story in itself. It was at the conclusion of this experiment and in order to give permanence to the work begun under the Carnegie grant that the board of governors created the extension department. As a result of the resourcefulness and skill of the directors and staff of the department, the great demand in the province for adult education and the continuing support of the University administration, the staff of the department has grown rapidly and its program even more so during the intervening quarter century. During the early years, particular emphasis was placed on "field services". A team of staff members toured the province putting on week- long rural leadership schools. Fishermen were advised in their home communities by extension field men about the organization of co-operatives. Courses in drama, parent education and home economics were made available widely in all parts of the province. Hundreds of study groups throughout the province were organized and supplied with study guides, films, books and pamphlets. The subjects ranged from modern music and child psychology to current affairs and play readings. Over the years, however, as the needs of the province have changed and as other agencies have grown up U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 20 > ITS SILVER ANNIVERSARY Dr. John Friesen has been the energetic head of the extension department since 1953. Like many U.B.C. departments extension occupies wooden army huts brought to the campus after World War II. Plans exist for a new building to house the department. to meet some of these needs, the character of the extension program has changed too. For instance, as government and private organizations have provided more and more basic field services to the fishermen, extension has moved into the field of technical education and provides, amongst other things, a unique three-week residential course for sea-going fishermen from all sections of the coast, held at the University each spring. Now that local night schools and government provide more information in the field of agriculture, the extension department concentrates more on the professional and other leadership groups in that field. Whereas at one time in many areas of its program extension was the only agency offering educational and informational services, today it is but one of many. What is extension's special task? Its place in adult education is perhaps comparable to the place of the University as a whole in education generally. Its role is to provide higher adult education. It should—and does—do the experimental work, deal with the difficult and complex subjects, seek to master adult education as a field of knowledge, work with leaders and use its influence to bring about co-ordination of and co-operation amongst other agencies. It is a channel through which the resources of the University are made available to adults in B.C. who wish to continue their education. It can assist them to use University and other resources in the best possible way to serve their educational needs. Today's extension program might be considered under three main headings. The first of these is vocational and would include such programs as a conference for stockmen, the residential course for fishermen, a refresher course for lawyers, credit courses for teachers, an evening class for purchasing agents, seminars for broadcasters, a correspondence course for pre-school supervisors and many more. The second heading is social education, or education for life in our democratic society. This would include a weekend seminar on the United Nations, a "living room learning" course on world politics, an evening class on philosophy, history or literature, broadcasts on municipal government, a conference on parent- child relationships or a workshop on working effectively in organizations. The third heading is cultural education and would include the Summer School of the Arts, short courses in many communities in drama, painting or ceramics and evening classes in music, sculpture or creative writing. To these examples should be added the libraries of books, records, films and filmstrips, the speakers bureau and other services which cut across and supplement all subject matter areas. Each year many thousands of British Columbians take substantial courses of study from the extension department. (This year the figure will be approximately 15,000). A much larger number borrow books, pamphlets, records and films and solicit information by letter. Approximately 100,000 people in B.C. will hear lectures by University speakers off the campus this year, apart of course, from extension courses for credit towards a degree. The boundaries of the extension department's campus are the boundaries of the province of British Columbia. Its task is, through adult education to assist people to do a better job, to do a job better and to live a richer and more effective life. Its first twenty-five years have been ones of expanding, imaginative and effective service to our province. 21 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE American painter Ulf- Former National Gal- Olivier Strebelle, who Hans-Karl Piltz, of Toronto's Robert Gill ert Wilke, currently lery curator, Alan will teach sculpture, U.B.C.'s music school, is returning as guest studying in Rome,will Jarvis, will conduct is shown peering over will direct a band instructor in Summer teach budding artists noon hour interviews one of his own works workshop for students School of the Theatre Campus Prepares for Varied Summer Session U.B.C. swings into one of its most varied and exciting programs July 3 —the opening date of the 42nd annual Summer Session and the 24th annual Summer School of the Arts. Pre- registration figures already indicate that enrolment will exceed last year's total of 4,300. During a seven-week Summer Session director Dr. K. F. Argue will administer the 189 courses offered by four faculties and 29 departments. Approximately 80 visiting instructors from Canada, the U.S. and Europe will augment the regular U.B.C. staff of 150. The wide selection of courses available includes physical chemistry, ancient history, French and Russian literature, business finance, choral music, design fundamentals, contemporary philosophy, atomic and nuclear physics and numerous educational courses. The summer schools of theatre, music, dance and arts and crafts will be headed by guest instructors Robert Gill, director of Hart House Theatre, Toronto; Hans Beer, associate director of opera, University of Southern California, Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer, and Olivier Strebelle. distinguished European sculptor. Dorothy Somerset, director of the summer school of theatre, is already making plans for the major drama production, Howard Richardson's fantasy, "Dark of the Moon", which will be directed by Mr. Gill. In addition to regular classes devoted to acting, speech, directing, scene design, stage crafts, theatre history and children's theatre, there will be a series of studio performances. The school of theatre continues from July 3 to August 19. Assisting guest director Mr. Beer during the six-week opera program from July 3 to August 12 will be French Tickner, stage director of the Opera Theatre at the University of Southern California. At least one full- scale opera will be performed during this period. A high school band and orchestra workshop from July 3 to July 22 has been arranged for students from 13 to 18 years of age. The program— an expansion of previous summer music camps held at UBC—will be directed by Hans-Karl Piltz, U.B.C. department of music. Three public performances will be given by the concert band and orchestra, and recitals by brass, wood-wind and string ensembles. Courses in dance techniques, the art of movement, music, design and dance composition will be featured during the summer school of dance from July 3 to August 11. A recital, by director Miss Erdman, will be held at the University auditorium on July 21, while a dance program composed and performed by the students will climax the workshop sessions. Guest directors of the summer school of arts and crafts, July 3 to August 12, include such distinguished men as Mr. Strebelle, Ulfert Wilke, the noted American painter who is currently working in Rome on a Guggen heim Fellowship; John Reeve, who has recently returned to Canada after four years in England where he studied pottery with Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew; and Don Jarvis, well- known local painter and recipient of a 1961 Canada Council Scholarship. A special event, marking the extension department's 25th anniversary, will be a week-long conference, "Arts in the Community" from July 31 to August 5. A group of noted leaders in adult education from Canada and the U.S.—and cultural attaches from Ottawa—will be among the guests participating. The summer school on public affairs will offer its third annual program on major issues facing the Canadian people; the summer school of communications program will include a seminar on communications, speech for broadcasting and film production, while lecture series in the fine arts and on public affairs will be held on Thursday and Tuesday evenings during July. The popular noon-hour lecture interviews presented in conjunction with the Vancouver International Festival, will be conducted by art authority Alan Jarvis. A cooperative course given by the summer school of the arts and the Faculty of Education will be creative art for children which will run from July 3 to August 10. Artist John Dobereiner will teach two sections of youngsters aged six to nine and ten to thirteen. U.B.C ALUMNI CHRONICLE 22 t,Mjtft4, CANlDIAN, m tt, rgfxt Wc-]t to &* Snow :: ^>e M^tfr ijl«: Si**feifeMi?: : Les* than a LSc This May, with its eighth issue, the University of British Columbia's quarterly, Canadian Literature, which was founded in 1959, completes its second year of publication. The infant mortality among literary magazines is high indeed, but those which survive the first critical months usually do so because the standards they establish attract both readers and writers. When Canadian Literature was first planned, many people were doubtful of its restricted scope. It was regarded as premature to publish a periodical devoted to writing in Canada; it was suggested that few people would be interested, and that in any case the field did not offer enough material to keep a magazine going for more than a few issues. We disagreed, and Canadian Literature has survived and, in its own way, flourished. In two years it has built up a subscription list which bears comparison with those of such established Canadian learned and literary journals as The University of Toronto Quarterly and Tamarack. And in its first eight issues— of which the most recent is a special number devoted to the writings of Malcolm Lowry — the work of a hundred different writers has appeared. The list has included not only Canadian critics of high standing, such as Milton Wilson, Paul West and Hugo McPherson, but also a gratifying number of writers whose repute lies in other fields. Among these are poets like James Reaney, A. J. M. Smith, Earle Birney, Louis Dudek, Wilfred Watson and Eli Mandel, novelists like Hugh MacLennan, Ethel Wilson, Roderick Haig-Brown and Norman Lev- ine, journalists like Pierre Berton and historians like Margaret Ormsby. In the beginning we announced our intention of producing a magazine which would be neither exclusively academic nor the special preserve of professional critics, and I think the names of these writers and the liveliness of their contributions CANADIAN LITERATURE the first two years George Woodcock, editor of "Canadian Literature", reviews the first two years of the magazine's history and tells of plans for the future. to Canadian Literature have shown that a critical review need be neither narrow nor impenetrable to the general reader who is interested in the literature of our country. Quite apart from its featured articles on a wide variety of literary subjects, Canadian Literature has set itself from the beginning a number of specific tasks. In its review columns, which seek to discuss every book of significance published in this country, it has provided the only adequate quarterly survey of Canadian books, and in its two winter issues it has produced the first exhaustive annual bibliographies of Canadian books and literary articles, in both the English and the French languages. It is hoped in the near future to supplement this function by the publication of five- yearly Canadian bibliographies in volume form, and also to make the annual bibliographies available as separate pamphlets. Two of our other aims on starting publication were to present a fair proportion of material on French Canadian writing, and to encourage the discussion of Canadian literature by foreign critics. We have made a fair start towards fulfilling both of these aims. All our issues have been at least partly bilingual, and they have contained general essays on French Canadian writing as well as studies of specific authors such as Gab- rielle Roy, Gratien Gelinas and Saint- Denys Garneau, while our contributors have included some of the best Canadian critics writing in French, such as Gilles Marcotte, Jean-Guy Pilon and Gerard Bessette. At the same time, we have been pleased to print in our columns the opinions of such English writers as Peter Quennell and Roy Fuller, such American writers as Dwight Macdonald, Conrad Aiken and Robert B. Heilman, and such French critics as Max-Pol Fouchet. In both these fields we plan to broaden our presentations in the future. But no literary magazine fulfils its function adequately if it relies entirely on writers of established reputations. By now we are beginning to receive a gratifying proportion of publishable articles "out of the blue", and many of our contributors are relative newcomers to the world of letters. Some of their work has, in my opinion, been very distinguished, and I would particularly mention Warren Tallman's masterly study of Canadian fiction, Wolf in the Snow. I would like to end this note on the progress of two years with a reference to the current issue of Canadian Literature (No. 8). which, apart from the usual reviews and literary chronicles, is devoted to Malcolm Lowry, the novelist and poet, who lived for many years at Dollar- ton, close to Vancouver. In preparing this issue I have had great assistance from Earle Birney, who, as one of Lowry's literary executors, is now editing the great mass of manuscripts by that author which has been acquired by the University of British Columbia Library. Canadian Literature No. 8 contains nine hitherto unpublished poems and two very interesting letters, largely on literary problems, by Malcolm Lowry; it also contains articles on Lowry by Robert Heilman, Conrad Aiken, Downie Kirk, Max-Pol Fouchet, Earle Birney and myself, as well as the first part of an exhaustive and lengthy Lowry bibliography which Dr. Birney has prepared with the assistance of Mrs. Lowry. The publication of the bibliography will be completed in Canadian Literature No. 9. The Lowry issue will be the first of a series of special numbers dealing with specific authors or fields of writing which, now that Canadian Literature is firmly established, we intend to publish from time to time, so as to vary our present extensive approach to Canadian writing by occasional excursions into more intensive studies. 23 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE SOPRON HIGHLIGHTS In the winter of 1957 the 300 Hungarians shown in the group photograph on the opposite page gathered on the steps of the U.B.C. physics building to have their picture taken. The group comprised 196 students, 29 professors and their wives and families who had fled from their native land a few months earlier in the wake of Russian tanks sent to crush the Hungarian revolt of 1956. In September of 1957 the faculty and students of the Sopron division of the Faculty of Forestry began a new life at U.B.C. under many difficulties, not the least being the language barrier. Over the years they have adjusted to these difficulties and today 85 per cent of the original class have graduated with U.B.C. degrees and have found jobs in the forest industry and allied professions. While at U.B.C. the Sopron students annually commemorated the revolution of October, 1956, by marching to the War Memorial Gymnasium and placing a wreath in the memorial lobby in memory of their fallen comrades. They are shown doing this in the picture at the top of this page. Life in Canada also had its lighter moments for the exiles. In 1958 the Animal Rescue League of Berks County, Pennsylvania, sent a mascot—a pure-bred Komondor sheepdog, a breed used by Hungarian shepherds to protect their flocks. In the picture at left two Sopron students and a professor are shown greeting the dog at Vancouver International airport. I.C ALUMNI CHRONICLE 24 'We shall remember the good that has come out of adversity' On May 25 the final chapter of a modern exodus was written at the University of British Columbia when the last 23 Hungarian students of the Sopron division of the Faculty of Forestry knelt before the chancellor to receive their degrees. On April 24 the exiled students presented a plaque to the University commemorating their stay at U.B.C. (See picture on cover.) The plaque hangs in International House and shows a pair of hands linked in friendship with a simple inscription reading "U.B.C. Adopted Sopron, 1956-1961". The remarks which follow are those of Dean Geoffrey C. Andrew, U.B.C.'s deputy president, who spoke at the ceremony when the plaque was presented to the University. Universities are among the rare human institutions which set aside national boundaries to engage in the free exchange of men and ideas. We who work and teach at the University of British Columbia will always be particularly proud of the fact that it was our privilege to receive, assist and support the faculty and students of the forestry school at Hungary's Sopron University. May I for a moment recall some of the events which led to the transfer of Sopron to our own campus— a unique event, I think, in the history of universities. The University of Sopron has a proud and dignified tradition, dating back more than 150 years, and specializing in forestry, geology, mining and geodetics. The courage of Sopron University students had already been established when, in 1848, they fought with the Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, in the Hungarian War of Independence. In October, 1956, the faculty and students of the University were again called upon to display their courage and determination, for in that month the Russian armed forces moved into Hungary and the University fell under Russian control. After a series of acts against the aggressor, in November some 300 members of the University fled into Austria. Dr. George Allen, dean of the Faculty of Forestry here, and Mr. Fred McNeill, public relations officer for the Powell River Company, flew to Vienna at the invitation of the then minister of citizenship and immigration, the Honourable Jack Pickersgill. After appropriate consultation, it was decided to invite the entire group to come to Canada, this with the assistance of the Honourable James Sinclair who was then minister of fisheries. Mr. H. S. Foley and Mr. M. J. Foley of the Powell River Company agreed to accommodate the faculty and students of Sopron division in a construction camp at Powell River. They spent the spring and summer in the camp and came to this campus for the academic year 1957-58. Those were not easy days for our Hungarian colleagues. Having left a beloved homeland and nearly everything they possessed in the world behind them, they were now committed to making a new life for themselves in a strange land. There were many problems and many difficulties to be faced and resolved. To begin with, they had to undertake the fairly lengthy process of learning a language that was foreign to them and, at the same time, they had to adapt to a new social and cultural atmosphere. Financial difficulties confronted them at every turn, but we at the University did whatever was within our power to relieve their plight. Dean Allen and his colleagues were tireless in their efforts on behalf of Sopron and they, together with other generous colleagues at the University, worked long hours to make the buildings and facilities available so that teaching could go on without interruption. It would be difficult for me to mention by name all those colleagues who gave of their time and energies in making this venture a successful one. So many people co-operated, so many people rallied to meet the challenge. Since that day, nearly five years ago, 139 Sopron students from the original 196 have graduated, and at our coming Spring Congregation another 23 will receive their degrees. This I consider a remarkable achievement and one of which we are all justly proud. The plaque we are dedicating today is the gift of Sopron division to that University which was in a very real sense their alma mater. It symbolizes the understanding, the friendship and the goodwill which has characterized the relationships between Sopron and U.B.C. since our Hungarian friends first came here. Our association with Sopron we shall always cherish and we shall remember the good that has come out of adversity .... 25 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE CONGREGATIONS Three University of British Columbia deans were among the seven persons receiving honorary degrees at U.B.C.'s spring congregation ceremonies May 25 and 26. Faculty members honoured were Dean Gordon Shrum, head of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the department of physics; Dean S. N. F. Chant, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and head of the department of psychology, and Dean Earle D. MacPhee, former head of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration and now assistant to President N. A. M. MacKenzie in charge of finance and administration. Honorary degrees were also conferred on Mr. George C. Miller, former mayor of Vancouver; Mr. Paul Cooper, Vancouver business man and former general chairman of the U.B.C. development fund; Mr. J. Lome Gray, president of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., and Sir Oliver Franks, chairman of Lloyd's Bank of Great Britain and former British Ambassador to Washington. The degree of doctor of science (D.Sc.) was conferred on Dean Shrum, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Gray. All others received the degree of doctor of laws (LL.D.). Congregation addresses were given by Dean Shrum on May 25 and by Sir Oliver Franks on May 26. Two distinguished persons received honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia May 29 when Victoria College held its first congregation ceremony for the conferring of academic degrees. Honorary doctor of laws (LL.D.) degrees were conferred on Dr. Charles Armstrong, a U.B.C. graduate and alumnus of Victoria College and now president of the University of Nevada, and Mrs. Rosalind W. Young, teacher of the first class of seven persons at Victoria College and widow of Henry Esson Young, one of the founders of U.B.C. Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, president of U.B.C, said the congregation at Victoria College was a significant occasion in the history of higher education in B.C. "U.B.C. is glad to have fostered the growth of Victoria College from a two- year to a four-year College and to know that it has the wholehearted support of the citizens of Victoria," he said. University of B.C. degrees in arts, science, and education were conferred at the ceremony. VOLUNTEERS U.B.C. has announced plans to recruit graduating students to go to the African state of Ghana for 18 months as school teachers. President MacKenzie has named a committee on Canadian overseas student service chaired by Dr. Cyril Belshaw, professor of anthropology and director of the regional training center for United Nations fellows at U.B.C, to administer the project. At the same time an appeal has been made to students in the 1961 graduating class to offer their services for the project. Arts, science and agriculture graduates are needed as teachers in primary and secondary schools in Ghana. Students must agree to a service period of 18 months and salaries will range from 800 to 1000 pounds depending on ability and experience. Teacher training is desirable but not necessary. The government of Ghana has agreed to pay transportation costs return for those students who sign up for the project. Applications for this year were to be submitted before the end of April to John Haar, director of International House, who was named secretary of the committee. This U.B.C. scheme for volunteer service, with others initiated by Laval University and the University of Toronto, were reviewed at a meeting in Ottawa in March, under the auspices of the Cana dian National Commission for Unesco. The meeting established a preparatory committee for Canadian overseas service to draft a constitution for a national coordinating agency and to develop a national scheme, and agreed to convene a national conference in June of all interested agencies and groups. A GESTURE A 37-foot Kwakiutl Indian totem pole is being carved at Thunderbird Park, Victoria, as a goodwill gesture from Canada to Mexico. The pole was com- misioned on behalf of the federal government by the Hon. Howard Green, minister for external affairs. The University of British Columbia, through its department of anthropology, is administering the project. The provincial museum in Victoria has made available the facilities of its Totem pole restoration program in Thunderbird Park for the actual carving of the pole which has been designed by the famed 79-year-old Kwakiutl artist Mungo Martin. The pole, which will be completed in mid-April, will be sVi feet in diameter and will depict four main figures from top to bottom: the Thunderbird, sea otter, double-headed serpent and cedar man. Mr. Martin, who has been chief carver for the Thunderbird Park program since its inception in 1952, is being assisted by two Kwakiutl carvers, Henry Hunt, 38, and his son Eugene, 18. Mr. Martin was the creator of the 100-foot Centennial Totem pole which was sent to England in 1958 as a gift to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The four main figures depicted on the present pole are the crests of clans of four Kwakiutl Indian tribes to which Mungo Martin can trace a hereditary relationship. Along with each crest goes an appropriate tradition explaining its origin. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 26 David George Alexander of Nanaimo topped the 33 graduates in Victoria College's first graduating class with an average of 89.8 per cent. He has been awarded a $1,500 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for post-graduate study in history at the University of Washington. Runner-up was Brian G. Carr-Harris of Victoria. U N CENTER Dr. Cyril Belshaw, associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, has been appointed director of the Regional Training Center for United Nations fellows at UBC, President N. A. M. MacKenzie has announced. Dr. Belshaw has been appointed director by the United Nations and released from duties in the anthropology department to assume the directorship of the Center. He succeeds Dr. Albert Lepawsky, who has returned to the University of California in Berkeley where he is professor of political science. He will continue to act as a consultant to the UN and to the Center which was established at UBC in June, 1959. The Center receives personnel from developing countries who have been awarded UN fellowships to study various phases of economic development, social welfare, and public administration in western Canada and the United States. A detailed analysis of the fellow's training needs is made when he arrives at UBC. Besides studying at the Center, fellows receive their training in governmental agencies, commercial firms, and industry. Since it was established, fellows from Burma, Japan, Israel, Mexico, Sudan, Thailand, India, Greece, Liberia, Korea, the United Arab Republic, and the Republic of China have passed through the Center to study public finance, customs, personnel and judicial administration, mineral economics and ore dressing. The Center also acts as a recruitment center for the UN's technical assistance program and supervises the activities of Colombo Plan fellows and trainees working in the Center's area. Some of the heads of the 1961 graduating class are shown in the panel above. They are, top row, left to right, Henning Andersen, BA, Vancouver, Governor- General's Gold Medal; David Bertram Wales, BSc, Vancouver, University Medal; Margaret Ruth Leroux, BSA, Vancouver, Wilfrid Sadler Memorial Gold Medal; Ernest George Neudorf, BASc, Abbotsford, Association of Professional Engineers Gold Medal. Second row, left to right, Harold Douglas Butterworth, BCom, Oyama, Kiwanis Club Gold Medal and Prize; Anne Margaret Noel Givins. LLB. Prince George, Law Society Gold Medal and Prize; Sydney John Peerless. MD, Vancouver, Hamber Gold Medal and Prize; John Allert, BSP, Horner Gold Medal. Third row, left to right, Sheila Gorvin Clark, BPE, Victoria, School of Physical Education and Recreation Prize; Ronald W. Haigh, BSF, North Vancouver, H. R. MacMillan Prize in Forestry, and Canadian Institute of Forestry Medal (best all-round record in Forestry, BASc or BSF course); Laszlo Safranyik, BSF, Vancouver, Special Prize, Sopron division; Wendy Jane MacRae Patterson, BHE, West Vancouver, Special Prize, School of Home Economics. Fourth row, left to right, Bruno Basil Freschi, BArch, Vancouver, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal; Mary Ruth Diewert, BEd, Vancouver, Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron Memorial Medal and Prize; elementary field; William Herbert New, BEd, Vancouver, Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron Memorial Medal and Prize, secondary field; Derek Graham Baker, BA'59, BSW'60, MSW, Moe and Leah Chetkow Memorial Prize. Not shown is Marjorie Donalda Martin, BA'60, BSW, Laura Holland Scholarship. 27 U.BC. ALUMNI CHRONICLE AWARDS About a third of all students attending the University of British Columbia last year received some measure of financial assistance according to figures released by the University of British Columbia's board of governors. During the 1959-60 session 5786 awards totalling $1,337,738.09 were made as compared to 3381 awards for a total of $867,399.70 during the previous year. Dean Walter Gage, chairman of the U.B.C. awards committee, said the number of awards made does not represent the number of individuals assisted since some students receive more than one award. About half of the 1959-60 total was in loans which will be repaid. During the 1959-60 session students received awards from six principal sources. 1. University special bursaries and named bursaries—1052 awards for a total of $159,122.50. 2. Fellowships, scholarships, and prizes—834 awards for a total of $251,419.59. Awards in this category were made to students with outstanding records and high academic standing. 3. Loan funds—901 awards for a total of $266,338. Students are required to repay these loans either at the end of the term or following graduation. 4. Money from the student aid loan fund was distributed to 841 students for a total of $396,420. The University was authorized by the provincial government to borrow up to $2 million to provide for student aid under this scheme. 5. Government of B.C. scholarships for first and second class students were awarded to 1540 persons for a total of $202,788. 6. Government of B.C. bursaries to deserving students were awarded to 528 individuals for a total of $61,650. A second set of figures released by the board shows that endowment funds for scholarships, bursaries, prizes, and loans have more than doubled during the period from 1955 to 1960. In 1955 the total amount invested for awards was $700,467.03. In 1960 the amount invested was $1,508,310.17—an increase of $807,843.14. * * * U.B.C. and Vancouver radio station CKWX have received an award from the American magazine TV Radio Mirror for the "most original radio program in Canada in 1960." The award is for the radio series "Sounds of the City", which is broadcast at 9 p.m. Sunday by CKWX. The station has made two annual grants totalling $12,000 to the communications division of the U.B.C. extension department, which produces the series. The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation has also made grants totalling $1,750 to aid production of the programs. The series, which began in November, 1959, deals with the cultural, social, and political aspects of life in Vancouver. Titles of some past programs are "The city's past", "High society", "This business of charity", and "Songs of the city". The series is produced by Bill Ballen- tine, a U.B.C. graduate and past president of the U.B.C. radio society. A joint committee from the U.B.C. extension department and CKWX plans the series. In its citation TV Radio Mirror says: "To the people whose co-operative work put this continuing series together the editors extend high praise — since the show represents an amalgam of professional and educational talents to produce a startlingly low-cost series of shows of special local flavour." The citation continues: "Talent — if paid for at all—was of high professional competence. But, in many instances, it was the housewives, artists, cab drivers, professors, who gave a special spark to the series." -¥■-¥■ * U.B.C. will apply to the Canada Council for a grant to extend its book collection in the field of Slavonic studies. The Canada Council recently announced that it would accept applications from Canadian universities which have special library collections and well- developed programs in Slavonic, Asiatic, and medieval studies. The Council will make grants up to a maximum of $5000 for the purchase of books and documents in any one of the three fields. Between 1949 and 1955 UBC received a total of $100,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for expansion of work in Slavonic studies. Since 1952 Mr. Walter C. Koerner, a member of the University's board of governors, has contributed a total of $40,000 for the purchase of books in the field of Slavonic studies and the provision of scholarships for outstanding students. The Polish Friendship Zgoda Society of Vancouver has also made donations totalling $1000 for the purchase of books in this field. A. E. Ames & Co. Limited Purchasers and Distributors of Government, Municipal and Corporation Securities A. E. Ames & Co. Members Toronto Stock Exchange Montreal Stock Exchange Canadian Stock Exchange Business Established 1889 626 West Pender Street, Vancouver—Mutual 1-7521 TORONTO MONTREAL NEW YORK LONDON. ENG. VICTORIA OTTAWA WINNIPEG CALGARY LONDON U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 28 THE FACULTY The University of British Columbia's president, Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, with the chancellor, Dr. A. E. Grauer, and Mr. Nathan Nemetz, Q.C, a member of the board of governors, paid a ten-day visit to Israel at the end of April. Dr. MacKenzie and Dr. Grauer were accompanied by their wives on the visit which was sponsored by the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. and Mrs. MacKenzie left Vancouver on April 8 and stopped in Rome and Athens on their way to Israel. In Greece the president and his wife visited archaeological sites and some of the Greek islands under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The MacKenzies joined Dr. and Mrs. Grauer and Mr. Nemetz in Jerusalem April 23. During their stay they visited a number of Israeli cities as well as agricultural and scientific developments. On April 25 President MacKenzie spoke at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on "Canada: A Nation in the Making," and on April 30 visited the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth. The MacKenzies returned to Vancouver May 13. President N. A. M. MacKenzie has announced the appointment of the Reverend Charles G. M. Nicholls as professor of religious studies at U.B.C. Mr. Nicholls, who is now teaching systematic theology at St. John's College at the University of Manitoba, will take up his appointment at U.B.C. July 1. Mr. Nicholls will teach a new course entitled "Foundations of Christian thought" at U.B.C. and coordinate religious studies courses presently offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. U.B.C. now offers five courses in religious studies on an optional basis. The courses are taught by faculty members from U.B.C.'s five affiliated theological colleges. Mr. Nicholls is a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, which awarded him the bachelor of arts degree in 1947 and the master of arts degree in 1949. He was travelling secretary for the World's Student Christian Federation from 1949 to 1951. He then attended Wells Theological College and in 1952 was ordained a deacon. From 1952 to 1955 Mr. Nicholls was an assistant curate at Wendover and deputy chaplain to the Royal Air Force station at Halton. He was chaplain to Anglican students in Edinburgh from 1955 to 1960. Mr. Nicholls is the author of numerous books and articles and Rev. Charles Nicholls serves on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. The University has been enabled by a Canada Council grant to bring to the campus Professor C. A. Rogers, Astor Professor of Mathematics at the University of London, for the academic year 1961-62. These Canada Council grants to the universities are part of a program designed to promote the exchange of scholars between Canada and abroad and between different regions in this country. The Council pays up to half the fee offered to the visiting lecturer plus necessary travel expenses on the condition that the host university make every effort to make his services available to other Canadian institutions of higher learning. Dr. R. D. Russell, associate professor in the physics department, has received word from Russia that a book which he co-authored with R. M. Farquhar, of the University of Toronto's department of physics, is to be published in the U.S.S.R. The book is entitled "Lead Isotopes in Geology," and is published by Inter- science Publishers Inc., of New York and London. Professor L. W. Shemilt has resigned from the department of chemical engineering to go to the University of New Brunswick, where he took up duties as head of the chemical engineering department in that University at the first of the year. Grant Vincent, school of physical education and recreation, has been appointed chairman of the ballroom examination committee of the Dance Educators of America, Inc., Long Island, New York. Recently elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada are James O. St. Clair - Sobell, MA (Melbourne), PhD (Graz), head of the department of Slavonic studies, Ronald E. Burgess, BSc (London), Sen. Mem. I.R.E., professor in the department of physics, and J. J. R. Campbell, BSA (Brit. Col.), PhD (Cornell), professor of dairying in the Faculty of Agriculture. Bernard R. Blishen, MA (McGill), lecturer in sociology and director of social and economic research, has received a Canada Council grant for research. V. C. Brink, MSA (Brit. Col), PhD (Wisconsin), professor of agronomy and chairman of the division of plant science, has been elected president of the sixth annual conference of the Genetics Society of Canada. D. Evans Davis, BA (Calif.), MMus (Northwestern), DEd (Oregon), assistant professor in education and music, has been awarded a Canada Council grant for research in music and school programs in Austria, Yugoslavia, Germany and Switzerland. He left for Amsterdam on June 13. George R. F. Elliot, MD, CM (Queen's), DPH (Toronto), professor of preventive medicine and assistant provincial health officer, has been elected vice-president of the American Public Health Association. Sydney M. Friedman, BA, MD, CM, MSc, PhD (McGill), head of the department of anatomy, and William J. Pol- glase, MA (Brit. Col.), PhD (Ohio State), associate professor of biochemistry, have received travel bursaries from the Nuffield Foundation for study abroad. Bruce D. Graham, AB (Alabama), MD (Vanderbilt), head of the department of paediatrics, attended the May meetings of the American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research in Atlantic City, N.J. Also attending were assistant professors Henry G. Dunn, MA, MB, BCh (Cantab.), Sydney Segal, BSc (McGill), MD, CM (Queen's), MA (Brit. Col.), and J. Davis Teasdale, MB, ChB (Leeds), DCH. Dr. Segal, director of the department's research program, presented a paper on "Correction of acidosis in experimental neonatal asphyxia." John A. Jacobs, MA, PhD (London), professor of geophysics, has been awarded the degree of doctor of science by the LIniversity of London for his contributions to the science of geophysics. The degree, which is not honorary, is given only to graduates of the University 29 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE of London. Dr. Jacobs joined the U.B.C. faculty in 1957 after lecturing at the University of Toronto. He has published more than 50 papers in the field of geophysics and was leader of an expedition to the Salmon and Leduc glaciers in B.C. in 1956. Harold V. Livermore, MA (Cantab.), associate professor of Spanish, has received a Gulbenkian Foundation grant of $5,420 to spend a year in Portugal. D. C. G. MacKay, MA (Queen's), PhD (Stanford), associate professor of psychology, left early in May for the Orient. Dr. MacKay, who is closely associated with International House on this campus, was the guest of International House in Tapei, Taiwan, and visited Hong Kong and toured in Japan before attending a Rotary International conference in Tokyo. Elod Macskasy, CandSc (Budapest), assistant professor of mathematics, won the B.C. chess championship for the fourth consecutive year. He is one of five Canadian chess masters. J. W. Neill, M.C, BSA (Ont. Agric. Coll.), PhD (Oregon State), associate professor of horticulture and supervisor of landscaping for the University, has been awarded a Canada Council grant for special study in the field of landscape architecture and related arts in Japan. He left for the Orient early in May. Margaret A. Ormsby, MA (Brit. Col.), PhD (Bryn Mawr), professor of history, has received a grant from the American Association for State and Local History, Madison, Wisconsin, for a study of the Canadian west. Harry L. Stein, MA (Manitoba), PhD (Minnesota), professor and supervisor of graduate studies in education, has received a Ford Foundation grant for research on educational television. Wayne Suttles, BA, PhD (Washington), associate professor of anthropology and lecturer in Asian studies, has been appointed a post-doctoral fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies of New York. Dr. Suttles has also received a grant—to be used to complete two monographs on coast Salish traditional culture and modern ceremonialism. George M. Volkoff, M.B.E., MA (Brit. Col.), PhD (Calif.), DSc (Brit. Col.), and Friedrich A. Kaempffer, Dipllng), DrRer- Nat (Gottingen), both of the department of physics, have been guest lecturers in the United States under the auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics in a program supported by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Volkoff lectured at some nine institutions. Dr. Kaempffer at four, most of them in the South and South-West. R. E. Watters, MA (Toronto), PhD (Wisconsin), professor of English, will address a plenary session of the third Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association which meets in Utrecht, Holland in August. Gerard Tougas, BA (Alta.), MA (McGill), PhD (Stanford), associate professor of French, will present a paper at the same Congress. PITMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE "Vancouver's Leading Business College" Secretarial Training, Stenography, Accounting, Dictaphone Typewriting, Comptometer Individual Instruction Enrol at Any Time Broadway and Granville VANCOUVER 9, B.C. Telephone: REgenr 8-7848 MRS. A. S. KANCS, P.C.T., G.C.T. Principal CLOVER LEAF SEAFOODS WONDERFUL IN CASSEROLES APPETIZING IN SANDWICHES •ALMON^ Canada's Leading Brand of Seafoods DELICIOUS IN SALADS U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 30 The Central Lions Club of Vancouver has given neurological research at U.B.C. a boost with a gift of $8000 to purchase the 16-channel electroencephalograph machine shown above. The machine will be used by Dr. Juhn Wada, right, for research on epilepsy and the after results of head injuries. Shown with Dr. Wada above are Dr. William C. Gibson, left, Aubrey Roberts, U.B.C.'s director of development, and Roy Shand, president of the Central Lions Club. GIFTS The Men's Canadian Club of Vancouver has made a fourth annual gift of $500 to the library for the purchase of books on Canadian history. Librarian Neal Harlow said U.B.C. is now a major center for the study of Canadian history. The total contribution by the Club of $2000 had enabled the University to purchase some valuable material for research collections, he added. James L. Duncan, first vice-president of the Club, said his organization had always had close ties with U.B.C. since numerous professors were members and sat on the executive. "The gift also conforms with the purposes of the Men's Canadian Club in fostering national pride and developing interest in Canada," he said. The Japanese government has made a gift of 150 books on oriental art to U.B.C. The presentation was made April 17 by Japanese Consul Muneo Tanabe to Librarian Neal Harlow. Dr. Shuchi Kato, who will teach in the university's new fine arts division of oriental art for the 1961-62 session, made the original suggestion that such an expression of goodwill be made by his government. The Japanese language books are illustrated with reproductions of the art of Japan and other oriental countries and will be placed in the library's fine arts section. A grant of nearly $7000 has been received by the library for the purchase of books in the field of medicine and science. The grant comes from the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain which will give U.B.C. $1390 a year for five years toward the cost of establishing a research library in these fields. U.B.C. recently formed a department of the history of medicine and science headed by Dr. William C. Gibson. The Wellcome Trust was established by the late Sir Henry Wellcome, an American who emigrated to England and formed the pharmaceutical house known as the Burroughs-Wellcome Company. * * * The University of British Columbia has received a foundation of choice Jersey calves from one of Canada's topflight Jersey herds. The calves have been donated by T. C and R. C. Poison, of R.R. #2, Richmond, as a memorial to the late Mrs. T. C. Poison. The first group of six calves has arrived at UBC and two more will be added each year for the next three years. Three calves are by the well-known sire Brampton Sixth Generation: two by Bellavista Peter Basil and the sixth by Brampton Sir Bijou Radar. The three sires have 89 tested daughters averaging over 500 pounds of fat. Dr. J. C. Berry, professor of animal husbandry at UBC, said that as the nucleus of foundation Jerseys develops the division of animal science will be better equipped to discharge its teaching and research responsibilities. * * * A library Judaica will be added to the special books collections at the University of British Columbia through a gift of $3,500 for the purchase of books from the Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific division. The gift, which will commemorate the bicentennary of the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in Canada, was made by Esmond Lando. national vice-president, at a Faculty Club dinner. Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, university president, and Neal Harlow, librarian, were the recipients. UBC's first Judaica collection, which will deal not only with Judaism but the history of the Jewish people, will be augmented by the Congress, Mr. Lando stated. 31 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE RESEARCH Two assistant professors in the department of chemistry at the University of British Columbia have received research grants from the Research Corporation, a New York foundation. Dr. L. W. Reeves received $4500 for a study of "Nuclear resonance studies of chemical systems." A second grant of $2500 went to Dr. Raymond A. Bonnett for "Studies related to the hydrolysis of Vitamin B12." The Research Corporation was established in 1912 by the American scientist Frederick Gardner Cottrell. The foundation has made about $15 million in grants to some 3000 scientists. Are You Well Fed? Well Clothed? Well Housed? Will you help us to help those who are not? For over 50 years Central City Mission has served Vancouver's Skid Row. Please consider the Mission when advising on bequests, making charitable donations, discarding a suit or a pair of shoes. CENTRAL CITY MISSION 233 Abbott St. MU 1-4439 Read Jones Chr istof f er sen CONSULTING ENGINEERS STRUCTURAL AND CIVIL VANCOUVER VICTORIA EDMONTON C. Scott Fletcher, right, president of the Fund For Adult Education, New York, was at U.B.C. late in March to present a cheque for $150,000 to the University for the expansion of the adult education program through the extension department. Mr. Fletcher is shown discussing a recent FAE publication with the president, Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, who received the grant on behalf of U.B.C. CRIPPEN WRIGHT ENGINEERING LTD. ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS Investigations, Designs, Supervision Hydro Electric Developments, Water Supply Projects Industrial Structures, Bridges, Dams, Electric Power 207 West Hastings Street Vancouver, Canada GRANTS Attention Alumni WHENEVER YOU NEED BOOKS • Text • Trade • Medical • 1 • Technical • Hard-Back Paper-Back Write or Phone: THE UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE The University of B.C., Vancouver 8, B.C. U.B.C. has received a grant of $150,000 from The Fund for Adult Education to enable the University to conduct an expanded adult education program in the liberal arts, including public affairs. This is the second major grant made by the Fund to the University of British Columbia. The first was awarded in 1957 for a three-year program of study-discussion courses in the liberal arts (known in British Columbia as Living Room Learning). The new grant is made on the condition that the University will devote to this project an equal amount in staff and program resources during the grant periods. According to Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie. president of the University of British Columbia, the grant, to cover a period U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 32 Whatever Happened To Success? SUCCESS as an ideal (platonic) seems to be sicklied o'er these days. In some circles, we are reliably informed, it tends to be regarded as a fate worse than death. Still and all, there ARE people who, for want of a more per- jorative term, can be called "successful" and a sociologist (certified) has been rummaging among them to see what makes them that way. He comes up with one significant finding: that they as a group read more newspapers than ordinary or non-successful blokes. This figures; it probably sharpens anyone's wits to know what's going on in the world. SEE IT IN THE hint to husbands. GIVE YOURSELF (AND YOUR WIFE) A YEAR 'ROUND DISHWASHING VACATION! When the family's away for the summer, there you'll be, alone at last . . . just you and your dirty dishes. What better time than right now, tliis summer, to invest in a modern, automatic dishwasher! Just whisk dishes into the unit and electricity does the rest, washes and dries them automatically. The kitchen stays tidy, dishes stay in one piece, and you'll stay out of hot water! Something else, too. Your wife will enjoy the work-saving convenience of an automatic dishwasher all year 'round. She'll have more time for other tasks around the house or garden. And for years to come, she'll praise the summer day you visited your appliance dealer — for the latest in a portable or built-in automatic dishwasher. Make it soon! B.C.ELECTRIC 33 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE of five years, will be used to strengthen the_ University's extension activities in three main areas. The first of these is the general field of liberal education for adults. The second is education about public affairs designed to help provide the well-informed leadership so vitally needed in our democratic society. The third is the Living Room Learning program of study groups which is now actively organized in forty-one communities of the province. In all three of these areas particular attention will be given not only to the Greater Vancouver area, but also to all the other main population centres of the province. SPORTS REPORT By R. J. Phillips Athletic Director U.B.C.'s second year in the W.C.I.A.U. has not been crowned with as much success as we enjoyed during our initial season when we captured six championships —in tennis, badminton, swimming, curling, football and basketball. The University of Alberta "Golden Bears" were the power in football, defeating the "Thunderbirds" in two straight games by comfortable margins. Sceptics had predicted a domination of football by U.B.C. for many years, but such has not been the case. Alberta has, in addition, taken home the silverware in tennis, golf, and cross country, and showed surprising strength in swimming during late January, when they trounced the U.B.C. champions in a dual meet at Vancouver. In men's basketball, Jack Pomfret's 'Birds have wrapped up the Conference title with an undefeated season thus far, and experts are calling the 1961 team the finest in many a year. The school of physical education director, Bob Osborne, has two strapping sons on the Varsity— Wayne and David, both of whom will cause the older basketball alumni to recall the days when "Tony" Osborne led the "Thunderbirds" to a Canadian Championship. THE FUTURE There is no smooth road to the development of a new conference, and particularly the one in Western Canada where distances from Vancouver to Winnipeg present problems—financial and otherwise. The decision of the University of Manitoba not to field a football team in 1961 in spite of a Conference decision last year that football is to be a core activity in the W.C.I.A.U., will be a matter of considerable discussion and possible action at the annual meeting in May. The problem of obtaining enough games is of major concern to Alberta and Saskatchewan and it is not unreasonable to assume that the Conference may have to look to the University of Alberta at Calgary to provide the fourth football team in the Conference within the next three or four years. ICE HOCKEY This year our hockey team entered into a partial intercollegiate schedule, with games against Montana State University, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, and next season will play a full game schedule in the W.C.I.A.U. Coached by youthful Al Stuart, a physical education teacher at Point Grey junior high school, the "Thunderbirds" had a 7-2 exhibition record before defeating Montana in two straight games, one of which was played at Chilliwack. We split with Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and lost two to Alberta at home. At the time of writing this report we have two more home games with Saskatchewan, and the Hamber Cup Series in Edmonton against the "Golden Bears". When you consider the handicap of practicing off the campus between 11-12 p.m. three times a week, the team has made a surprisingly good showing, and hockey seems to be catching on as a spectator sport at U.B.C. The games played in Chilliwack were exciting and well attended both by U.B.C. students and alumni. The community of Chilliwack appreciated the opportunity to see two western Universities play a good brand of hockey. MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY "A Company that Cares for your Affairs" Services to Individuals and Corporations • EXECUTORS & TRUSTEES • EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS • ENDOWMENT FUNDS 466 Howe Street MU 5-6311 Vancouver 1, B.C. J. N. Bell—Manager EXPORT PLAIN or FILTER TIP CIGARETTES U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 34 x^&?' ""yi^ / »»jf The promise of The genie of the old faiby tale, who sprang out of a bottle found in the sea, could shape the future in his giant hands. Today's genies come out of the laboratories, where scientists discover new materials and methods that shape modern technology and improve our way of life. Cyanamid needs well-educated Canadians eager to share in important Cyanamid developments relating to mining, paper-making, plastics, textiles, pharmaceuticals, general industry and agriculture. At Cyanamid of Canada they will find that career opportunities hold bright promises of personal accomplishment. C YA. IV A. JVT I x» CYANAMID OF CANADA LIMITED MONTREAL, QUE. Sales Offices: Toronto • Montreal • Vancouver 35 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE DR. GORDON BURKE That grand old man of U.B.C. football, Dr. Gordon Burke, passed away at the end of January, after a lengthy illness. He began coaching in the 1925-26 season, and continued until 1938, during which time the "Thunderbirds" won the Hardy Trophy four times in western intercollegiate competition. Dr. Burke continued to show a keen interest in U.B.C. athletics, was present at many of the games and was a frequent visitor to the weekly meetings of the Thunderbird Quarterback Club. At the annual award banquets he would present the Dr. Gordon Burke Shield to the football player chosen by his team mates as the inspirational player of the year. This season Captain Roy Bianco was the recipient of the award. All those associated with Dr. Burke over the years will share the fondest memories of this great athlete and fine coach who was an inspiration to hundreds of U.B.C. students during the late twenties and early thirties. AWARDS A $2000 Canada Council award for a piece of sculpture to decorate the Buchanan building has been awarded to Gerhard H. Class of 1619 Appin, North Vancouver. The award was made by a committee of three chaired by B. C. Binning, head of the department of fine arts at U.B.C. Other judges were Ian McNairn, also of U.B.C.'s fine arts department, and Joan Branvold, president of the Northwest Institute of Sculpture. Mr. Binning said the decision to commission Class to execute the sculpture arose out of an exhibition held on the U.B.C. campus last summer. The sculpture is made of welded and soldered sheet copper and measures eight feet in height and seven feet in width. It now hangs on a wall at the west entrance to the Buchanan building. In 5 years ..what? Five years may see a big change in your responsibilities. Five years may see a big change in your life insurance needs. For these very reasons, Sun Life of Canada offers its new ADJUSTABLE POLICY, the policy that gives you four options at the end of five years so that you can decide what type of life insurance coverage best suits you at that time. For example, will you still be insurable ? One of the options offers you increased coverage with no further medical evidence . . or . . 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