UI IIBC mi ALUMNI ^p<„ V*. .• ' N*. * . V. "*-- * •** W ""' . '* . i Emm ml1 \*»_.. <^ 1 WINTER 1956 Keep your fingers on the pulse of n ".' ,ti *=» •■"\ ... READ THE B OF M BUSINESS REVIEW As the Canadian economy soars to new record highs, more and more businessmen at home and abroad are reading the B of M Business Review for an accurate analysis of Canadian economic trends. Published monthly by Canada's first bank, each issue contains an authoritative, detailed survey of some aspect of the Canadian economy, or an over-all analysis of national business trends, together with crisp reports on each economic division of the country. Simply fill in and mail this coupon for your personal copy of the B of M Business Review. It will be sent to you regularly each month. There's no obligation, of course. TO I millOU CUtDIAIrS Bank of Montreal m Please send me every month — without charge — the B of M Business Review. Name Address Address to: ® Business Development Department, Bank of Montreal, 119 St. James Street West, Montreal, P.Q. Canada. @atuuWt "?irut 'Stuti... @MMt to G»tut WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 2 'Mini ALUMNI Vol. 10, No. 4 Winter, 1956 FRONT COVER A Call to the Alumni In 1958 we will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of our University. As we approach this milestone in the progress of education in British Columbia, the Alumni Association asks itself: "How can we best help make our 50th Anniversary an outstanding Nathan Nemetz, Q.C., B.A.'34, President Alumni Association success .' In the past few months we of the Board of Management have been reorganising our agencies in order to achieve a maximum of efficiency in preparation for the events ahead of us. To this end we have co-operated fully with the University Administration by integrating our fund-raising- committees. Our Alumni Development Fund now becomes a part of the larger all-inclusive University Development Fund and our representatives will sit on a newly-created U.B.C. Development Council, together with representatives of the Board of Governors, Faculty and Friends of the University. This initial step, we hope, will not only co-ordinate all activities for the soliciting of funds but will point up the increasing importance of Alumni giving in the future plans of the University. Our Association is indebted to Dr. W. C. Gibson, Chairman of our Fund, and to all of the Trustees, who have made our efforts such an outstanding success. When we consider that over $130,000.00 has been realised this year by the work of our Board of Directors, it becomes apparent that the joint fund will undoubtedly become an even greater success. In order to achieve this greater result and especially to better serve By Nathan Nemetz our Alumni Branches and Divisions, we have also decided to create the new post of Assistant Secretary, thuj relieving some of the present heavj load of work carried by our Secretary, Art Sager. This post has been filled and an account of the appointment will be found on another page, in the Secretary's report on Alumni Organi sation. With this appointment we fee" confident that the important work of Branch and Division liaison wil" greatly increase. In the near future (probably ir early 1957) we will again call upor every Alumnus for assistance. No institution can grow effectively anc continue to be housed in sub-standarc accommodation. The Government building programme obviously is providing the barest minimum of requirements. We must insist that this programme is expanded quickly anc' energetically. To see this through we must prepare ourselves for active participation in our 50th Anniversary Programme, the particulars of which will be announced shortly. We have always been proud of our past achievements but our greatest challenge is ahead of us. Let us therefore crown our work with ar effort, the intensity and imagination of which will equal the achievement of the Great Trek. Your individual assistance will be invaluable. At this stage each Alumnus might well consider how he can best make 1958 an incomparable year ir our University's history. Your Executive will be prepared to translate into action the wishes of the Alumni. But your wishes must be expressed. As Alumni we must share the responsibility with our University ir providing the moral and intellectual leadership so desperately necessary ir this nuclear age. Our Golden Jubilee will afford us that great opportunity. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Published by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia Editor: Harry T. LoKan, M.C, M.A. Assistant to the Editor: Sally Gallinari, B.A.'49 Board of Management EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: President, Nathan Nemetz, Q.C., B.A.'34 ; Past President, Peter Sharp, B.Com.'36 ; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Pauline Ranta, B.A.'35, B.S.N.'39 : Third Vice-President, Dr. M. F. McGregor, B.A.'30 ; M.A.'31 ; Treasurer, A. P. Gardner, B.A.'37 ; Executive Secretary, A. H. Sager, D.F.C, Published in Vancouver, B.A.'38: Chronicle Editor, Harry T. Logan M.C, M.A. ; MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Willian A. CRAIG. B.A.'BO, LL.B.'61 ; Miss Riks. Wright, B.A.'33; Miss Mildred Wright, S.W Dipl.'45 ; John Lecky, B.A.'41 ; John Ashby. B.A.'33; Leonard B. Stacey, B.A.Sc'24. SEN ATE REPRESENTATIVES: Miss Marjorie Agnew, B.A.'22; The Hon. Mr. Justice A. E Lord, B.A.'21 ; Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. B.A.'32, F.R.S.C, Ph.D. (Calif.)^. DEGREE REPRESENTATIVES: Agriculture, Ralph H Gram, B.S.A.'37; Applied Science, M. A Thomas, B.A.Sc'31 ; Architecture, Findlay W Scott, B.Arch.'52 ; Arts, Mrs. Mary Robertson B.A.'49; Commerce, T. R. Watt, B.Com.'49 Education, Robin Smith, B.A.'37, M.A.'51 Forestry, John H. G. Smith, B.S.F.'49 ; Home Canada, and authorised as second class mail, Post U.B.C.'s Gold and Silver Olympic Medal Winning Crews. From left: The Coxless Four: Archie McKinnon, Lome Loomer, Walter D'Hondt and Don Arnold (Stroke). The Eight: Fil Kueber, Dick McLure, Bob Wilson, Dave Helliwell, Wayne Pretty, Bill McKerlich, Doug McDonald, Laurie West (Stroke, Captain), Carl Ogawa (Cox). Inset: Frank Read (Coach). Contents Include: Page A Call to the Alumni— Nathan Nemetz 3 Guest Editorial— Leonard B. Stacey 5 From the Mail Bag 5 Branch News; Organisation Changes—Art Sager 7 Graduate Profile: Homer A. Thompson—Stuart Keate 8-9 Report on U.B.C. Development Fund—Art Sager 10 The President Reports. 11 No News Is Good News— David Brock 13 The Frederic Wood Theatre— Bice Caple 14-15 Ten Years of Engineering Physics—George M. Volkoff 17 Homecoming and Class Reunions—Art Sager 18-19 Autumn Congregation— Ed Parker 20-21 The Role of the Private Benefactor—Dean G. C. Andrew 22 Metallurgy Building Opened— Editor 23 Friends of the University Library—Neal Harlow 25 Alumnae and Alumni— Sally Gallinari 26-27 At the Sign of the Totem 28-29 The Faculty—Sally Gallinari 31 Campus News and Views— Ian Smyth 33 Olympics Summary—R. J. Phillips 35 Obituaries 37 Births, Marriages 38 Directory of Branches 38 Economics, Mrs. A. R. Gillon, B.H.E.'48 ; Law. William A. Craig, B.A.'50, LL.B.'Bl ; Medicine, Dr. D. H. Zimmerman, B.A.'49, M.D.'55: Nursing, Mrs. Shelagh Smith, B.A.Sc. (Nurs.) '50 ; Pharmacy, Fred Wiley, B.S.P.*53 ; Physical Education, Bob G. Hindmarch, B.P.E.'52, Social Work, Miss Mildred Wright, S.W. Dipl.'45. ALMA MATER SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE: Donald E. Jabour, A.M.S. President. Editorial Committee Chairman: Nathan Nemetz; Members: G. Dudley Darling, A. P. Gardner, Harry T. Logan, A. H. Sager, Peter Sharp. CHRONICLE OFFICES Business and Editorial Offices: 201 Brock Hall, U.B.C, Vancouver 8, B.C. Office Dept., Ottawa. U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE io ore off the sa The past ten years have been good to British Columbia. They've brought new businesses and industries, new jobs, bigger pay cheques, better living. One of the big reasons for B.C.'s growth is a plentiful supply of cheap electricity. Electricity to expand old industries and attract new ones. Electricity to bring better living to our homes. During these ten busy years, the B.C. Electric has invested some S300,000,000 to more than double the supply of electrical power available ten years ago. With dozens of new projects under way, and more planned, the B.C. Electric continues to invest in B.C.'s future. It's doing its part to make the next ten years just as bright, or brighter, than the last. B.C.ELECTRIC You will find, in our monthly Commercial Lerter, a quick but accurate survey of current commercial activities in Canada, a concise review of foteign trade developments, the latest statistics on trade, industry and finance, authoritative articles on special aspects of Canada's economy. Your local manager will gladly place yout name on our mailing iisr, or just write to: THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE • TORONTO B-15 U. 8. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE The Editor's Page GUEST EDITORIAL What to do About Homecoming? I suppose the reasons for having a Home- i ^^^m coming ceremony ■W^'^i^^Bl on a University ^^ Campus are much the same as those which periodically bring home members of a family, viz., to see the old folks and the Leonard B. Stacey homestead, to keep in touch with our own generation and to meet the new. The great difference between the two occasions arises from the fact that our Alma Mater is so much more prolific than the maternal head of our families, and it is this difference which makes difficult duplicating on the Campus the atmosphere of a family gathering, and the problem increases with the years. I am sure however, that the successful solution of the problem is worth a great deal of effort both from the point of view of the University and of her progeny. Quite frankly, and without criticising anyone but myself, I do not think the problem was correctly solved this year. I say this because, in my opinion, the number of Alumni participating was pitifully small. I suspect that we could profitably change our whole approach to the matter and I will therefore make some suggestions in the hope that they may at least stimulate interest and comment through the Chronicle. My scheme visualises a Homecoming period lasting, possibly, a week, as far as the University is concerned. For each Alumnus, however, with some exceptions, his Homecoming activities would be limited to one day. (1) Could we programme social events, luncheons, etc., on a Faculty basis, and endeavor to have in attendance members of Faculty in force ? Reduction in numbers and community of interest suggest this arrangement. (2) Should we have more sports events, using intra-mural teams playing games like English Rugby, Soccer, Grass Hockey, etc., one game a day. (3) Should we limit our games events to intra-mural teams only? (4) Is a Homecoming dance the right kind of event to bring together Alumni of '16 with those of '56 ? (5) If the answer to (4) is "No!", would it be sensible to try a sit-down dinner, on a Faculty basis, followed by entertainment and/or short informative talks by Faculty members and Alumni ? This sort of event would, I think, bridge the age-gap and pro vide opportunity for Alumni and Faculty to talk to each other, both formally and conversationally, about the University in general and the respective Faculties in particular. Our University developed very early in its career a style, or a tone, or a manner, whatever it may properly be called, which was quite distinctive and very fine. I know that later generations of Students and Faculty are well aware of this and have, in general, maintained its quality. The help which Alumni can give in this regard is important. If Homecoming can be an event which will keep alive our memories of the past, and at the same time help us to discharge our continuing obligations to our Alma Mater, it will be worthwhile. Leonard B. Stacey, B.A.Sc.'24, Chairman, Alumni Association Homecoming Committee, 1956. (EIjrtBlmaB The Alumni Association President, The Board of Management, The Fund Directors, The Executive Secretary and The Chronicle extend to all Alumni Ii e s t W i s he s j or a H ap p y Christmas and a Prosperous Nez: Year. Do You Receive a "Chronicle" Regularly? If not, it is due to one of two or three causes. You may not be an active member of the Alumni Assoc:- ation, i.e. you may not have sent in a subscription of $1.00 or more to The U.B.C. Development Fund. Or, you may have moved and failed to send your new address to the Alumni Office, Brock Hall. Or, your net receiving the magazine may be due to some error in the Alumni Office. In any case, write and let us know, and we will do our best to ensure your getting each issue of your own U.B.C. quarterly magazine. The Editor extends his very grateful thanks to Alumni and other contributors, to the Executive Secretary and his Staff, to our advertisers and to all others who have made possible the publication of the Chronicle fcr another year. We hope our readers have derived pleasure from perusing its pages, which have aimed at keeping our Alumni in touch with each other and with the changing scenes on the Campus of their University. avu-, / . L,o-f From the Mail Bag COBALT 60 BEAM THERAPY UNITS "I recently caught a quick glimpse at your Autumn 1956 issue. An article on page 5 entitled "U.B.C. at Chalk River" states in the third paragraph that "Therapy Units designed and built at Chalk River using Cobalt 60, are now in use in many parts of the world." May I point out that the Beam Therapy Units were (and still are) designed and built by the Commercial Products Division of A.E.C.L. in Ottawa and not at the Chalk River Project. "The N.R.X. reactor supplies the Cobalt 60. "The enclosure is one of their advertising brochures. The writer is a former employee of the Division and had a small part in the design of the Cobalt 60 Beam Therapy Unit. Some of these units are currently installed at the Vancouver Cancer Clinic." Yours truly, Keith S. Moores, B.A.Sc'52, 317 Lindsay St., Ottawa 1, Ont. 14th November, 1956. U.B.C. NOSTALGIA "I have received one copy of the Chronicle and, while I always look eagerly for news of some Alumnus whom I may know, I am always amazed at the reports of the activities of the vast Alumni 'family' from U.B.C. "It is surprising that the farther from the University Graduates travel, the more constant are their thoughts of those whom they worked with during Campus days." Douglas Third, President, Class of 1955, B.A.Sc'55. Oa.^ REUNION OF CLASS OF 1917 "I note in the Chronicle, reference to the reunion of the Class of 1916 and a social gathering on the day of last spring's graduation ceremonies. I am wondering if a precedent was established that day and if succeeding classes will be so recognised. I know that every year for some years there has been the nature of a reunion of all "Grads" at Homecoming time, but that has been at a time of year when the Vancouver weather is not so likely to attract folks from other parts because it is too far removed from the regular vacation season." (signed) Laura M. Swadell, B.A.'17. (Mrs. Eric E. Swadell (nee Laura Pim I, c/o Chaplain's Branch, A. P. O. 742, Postmaster, New York, N.Y.I (Because of the outstanding success of the Fortieth Anniversary Reunion of the Class of 1916, as one of the events connected with the 1956 graduation exercises in May of this year, the University Administration is considering whether this occasion, so happy for all concerned, might not be repeated in 1957 and in succeeding years, as Mrs. Swadell's letter suggests. Graduates of 1917 are invited to send their views on this matter to Arthur Sager, Executive Secretary, Alumni Office, Brock Hall. I—Ed. U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Designed for You A Canada Life Plan is designed to help you obtain protection for your family now and security for your later years. Canada Life f-^/tssuranee (,'ompamj ESTABLISHED 1847 ENJOY LIFE TODAY— WHILE SAVING FOR TOMORROW U. B. C ALUMNI CHRONICLE 6 Branches OTTAWA The first meeting of the 1956-57 season was held at H.M.C.S. Carleton on November 7th. Sixty-five Alumni attended to hear Dr. A. E. "Dal" Grauer, B.A.'25, give a personalised account of the hearings of the Gordon Commission. Dr. Grauer described the Commission's "Great Trek," first to the Aklavik area, next to the Atlantic Seaboard and then westwards, Province by Province, to B.C. before concluding its hearings in Ottawa. He coupled a capsule description of each region's economy with anecdotes concerning the hearings and the combination of humour and information was much enjoyed. Dr. Grauer, who was recently appointed to the Board of Governors, did not miss this opportunity of outlining, as well, U.B.C.'s financial needs for both capital and operating accounts. S. D. C. (Don) Chutter, B.Com.'44, is President of the Ottawa Branch. In his report of the meeting he noted that members had agreed to use any surplus funds accruing at the end of the year to purchase books for the U.B.C. Library. For this kind thought, sincere thanks are extended from Librarian, Mr. Neal Harlow! VICTORIA "The Friendliest, Best Get- Together of the Year" ■— the Annual "Varsity Trek" Ball — was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Empress Hotel on Friday, November 9. The Chronicle Editor and Executive Secretary attended and report that the advance publicity of the affair was in no way over-stated. A large number of Grads attended and it was a very happy party. A sad note from Victoria preceded this annual event. Neil Neufeld, President of the Branch, was stricken with polio a few days after attending the Board of Management Meeting in Vancouver on October 17. Our last report tells of a good recovery. We join with many others in extending to Neil sympathy and good wishes. Dick Falconer took over the helm in Neil's absence, completing the arrangements for the Ball with the following Committee members: Wilf Pendray, Constance Holmes, Anna Wooton, Bill Gaddes and Bill McCubbin. EDMONTON Dr. Bill Dixon, acting Head of Social Work, addressed the Edmonton Council of Community Services on November 16th. While in Alberta's Constance Holmes Secretary, Victoria Branch capital he was entertained at lunch by Al Westcott, President, and members of the Branch Executive. SEATTLE Dean G. C. Andrew, Deputy to the President, Edwin Parker (U.B.C. Information Officer) and the Executive Secretary attended the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Branch on November 28th in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Archibald, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Arkley, Mr. Robert M. Bone, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boroughs, Mrs. Fredena Capretto, Miss Ethne Carr, Mr. and Mrs. William Chase, Miss Nora J. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Creelman, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gunn, Mr. and Mrs. Webb Heaslip, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hunt, Mrs. Norma Isaacson, Miss Sophie Laddy, Dr. and Mrs. Fred Laird, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Montgomery, Mrs. J. W. Neilson, Miss Elizabeth Norie, Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Ogilvie, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rosene, Mr. and Mrs. William Russell, Dr. M. Share, Mr. Waldo R. Tobler, Mr. W. C. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williamson. * # # Alumni Organisation Changes TASKS OF BRANCHES AND DIVISIONS The Alumni Association has a potential "active" membership of some 25,000 former students. They constitute the University's most important and influential group of supporters. It is safe to assume that most o:' these Alumni retain an interest in U.B.C; that they are willing to help others obtain the benefits of higher education which they enjoy, and willing to help the University extend these benefits to all capable and deserving young people. In other words, we believe that most Alumni would be ready and willing—were ways to be found—to participate more directly than they are now doing in the development and extension of higher education in B.C. and elsewhere. There is a problem, however — a problem of numbers. How can one organisation, the Alumni Association, bring about the active participation in support of U.B.C. of its ever- increasing membership? This membership cuts across all age, class and degree groups and is spread from Vancouver to virtually all countries of the globe. Co-ordinated decentralisation o:° Alumni activity appears to offer the only solution. This has been the aim of the Association's Board of Management over the past few years as indicated by the encouragement given to Class Reunions, Degree Divisions and Branches. Some Divisions ■— notably Nursing, Social Work, Home Economics and, more recently, Architecture—have established fairly effective organisations, and some Branches have done likewise. In both cases, however, successful implementation of a consistent programme has been difficult because of inadequate guid ance and service from Alumni Headquarters, and lack of purposeful integration of the Branch and Division programmes. MORE HELP FROM ASSOCIATION H.Q. This admission of inadequacy does not include lack of interest or concern; past Executives have given a great deal of thought to the problem and have allocated as much money and staff to its solution as a tight budget would permit. In recent months the subject has been placed high on the agenda of monthly meetings and in current planning of the University's Development Programme emphasis has been given to the importance of Alumni work in this field. Discussions were continued from the full meeting of the Board of Management on October 17 to the last meeting of the Executive on November 15 and at this meeting two decisions were taken which are of the utmost importance : (1) That an Assistant Secretary (male) should be appointed to assist the Executive Secretary in the promotion of Division, Branch and other Alumni activity outside the area of fund-raising. (2) That a Committee be formed, under the chairmanship of Mr. Walter Scott, Architecture Division President, to investigate Branch and Division activities, to recommend programmes and methods of integrating more closely Branches and Divisions with the parent organisation. APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT In pursuance of these decisions, Mr. Peter Krosby, B.A.'55, has been appointed Administrative Assistant to the Executive Secretary. Peter is presently completing an M.A. Thesis in International Studies. He received his early schooling in Norway, including two University years in Oslo. While at U.B.C. he has been Chairman of the W.U.S. Committee, Vice- President of the United Nations and Newman Clubs, and active in the work of International House. It is the hope of the Association Executive that the appointment of an Assistant Secretary and the report of this Committee will together make possible a fuller and more profitable utilisation of Alumni interest and a much wider participation of Alumni everywhere in the development of U.B.C. —A. H. S. Players Club Alumni The next play to be produced by the Players' Club Alumni will be Anton Chekov's 'The Cherry Orchard' It will appear in mid-February under direction of John Brockington, B.A.'53. Remember Inter-University Ball Boxing Day, December 26 at the Commodore Telephone Alumni Office for Tickets AL. 4200 Table Reservations at the Commodore, PA. 7838 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Stoa of Attalos Museum; looking S.E. Towards the Akropolis, with Mt. Hymettos in the Background. September 4, 1956. Graduate Profile— Homer A. Thompson By Stuart Keate, B.A.'35 THOMPSON, PROFESSOR HOMER ARMSTRONG, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY. Born Devlin, Ontario, Sept. 7, 11106. B.A. British Columbia 1925, M.A. 1927, LL.D. 1949, Ph.D. Michigan 1929. Instructor Classics, British Columbia, 1925-27, Assistant Professor Classical Archaeology, Toronto, 1933-41, Associate Professor 1941-40, Professor Art and Archaeology and Head of Department 1946-47 ; Field Director, Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies, Athens 1945—; Professor Classical Archaeology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1947—. Assistant Director and Curator, classical collection. Royal Ontario Museum, 1933-47. Fellow, American School of Classical Studies 1929-39. Lieutenant R.C.N.V.R., 1942-45. Archaeological Institute of America I Vice-Pres. 1938-46), Numismatic- Society, Historical Society, German Archaeological Institute, Hellenic Society, F.R.S.C, Fellow British Academy. Freeman of the city of Athens 1956. The factor which first attracted Homer Thompson to Archaeology as a lifetime work was a sense of continuity, the bridging of the gap between ancient and modern times. He recalls that his father and mother "urged him gently in the direction of Classics"—to use his phrase—but at the University of British Columbia in the early 20's he came under the influence of three Professors — Dr. ! This Profile study was prepared by Stuart Keate as the second of two C.B.C. Broadcast Talks, the first of which was delivered on October 29, after the 7:00 p.m. news. The turn of political events abroad crowded the second talk off the C.B.C. programme. It has now been edited for Chronicle readers by Malcolm McGregor, B.A.'30, M.A.'31, Head of the U.B.C. Department of Classics. Homer Thompson at his Work as Field Director in the Agora, Spring, 1950. Lemuel Robertson, Dr. Otis Todd and Col. Harry Logan — who made the subject a challenging and worthwhile study. Old classmates say that Freshman Thompson, a product of Chilliwack, B.C., turned up for his first lectures in short trousers. This was too much for U.B.C.'s hairy-eared Engineers, who fell on the 15-year-old student, de-bagged him, and hoisted the offending shorts on an outside pulley beam in the gable of the old Fairview Physics building, where they fluttered ominously to other callow Freshmen. Thoughtfully, the Engineers supplied Thompson with a pair of dungarees, which he wore about the Campus for some time. After this unprepossessing start, the boy from Chilliwack rallied. He made the Track Team, acted as business manager for Student Publications, and was an early member of the Classics Club. At the age of 19 he graduated with First-Class Honours and became the only teen-aged instructor in Classics in Canada. Thirty years later, his Alma Mater called him home, as one of the world's great Archaeologists, to award him an honorary degree. In the meantime he had been named a Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens; had met and married a Bryn Mawr girl named Dorothy Burr who was also busily engaged in turning up history with a pick. Mrs. Thompson has since observed that it's a fine thing being married to an Archaeologist: an Archaeologist is among the few husbands whose interest in you increases as you grow older. This union led, in time, to a hus- band-and-wife relationship perhaps unique in the annals of Canadian scholarship. In due course Dr. Thompson became Head of the Department of Art and Archaeology at the U. of T.; as a Special Lecturer his wife was junior to him. But at the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology in Toronto in 1946-47 she was Acting Director and he, as Curator of the classical section, took orders from her. The relationship, nonetheless, has been harmonious. Dorothy Thompson has not only found time to raise three daughters but has been an immense help to her husband in the field. It was she who found evidence of an U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE authentic temple-garden adjoining the Hephaisteion in Athens and future landscaping (at a cost of $100,000) will rely heavily on her research. She has also become an authority on terra-cotta figurines and will write the definitive work when the Agora finds are published. The Thompsons spend six months out of each year in Athens, the rest of the time in Princeton, collating their work. The ideal digging season is in the spring, when the weather in Greece is settled but not too hot. At the top of the post-war crew of 75 is a hard core of four or five veteran scholars. Around them are perhaps a dozen advanced classical students, selected for special talents in processing, cataloguing, drawing, photography, and supervising the digs in their respective fields. Usually there are about ten Greek technicians: menders, workers in ceramics, cleaners, carpenters, photographic assistants, and so on. The rest are Greek manual labourers, who work eight hours a day for 45,000 drachmae, or about $1.50. Dr. Thompson ranges about the site of the Agora, usually wearing a broad- brimmed straw hat. He puts in a twelve-hour day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., keeping a careful eye cocked on the 'dig house," where specimens are washed, cleaned and mended, and occasionally answering the staggering questions put to him by tourists. Not long ago, a woman, impressed by the nothing-new-under-the-sun quality of objects removed, approached Thompson and said: "Tell me, Doctor —did they have Super-Markets in the old days?" "No madam," he replied, "but it would be quite accurate to say that they had Chain Stoas." The task of removing huge quantities of earth from a stratified site, in the heart of a city of one million people, is extremely delicate. Once the earth is hauled away, at 50 cents Dr. and Mrs. Homer Thompson with their Daughters Hilary, Hope and Pamela, Athens, Sept. 3, 1956. a cubic metre, the basic evidence is. destroyed. A few years ago an enterprising American firm offered to do the job with bull-dozers but Dr. Thompson turned them down. He is inclined to believe that the antiquities fare better by the ancient method of pick-and- shovel. In the process of "feeling their way through history," the excavators expect to find bed-rock at a maximum of 40 feet, during which they will pass through the Turkish, Byzantine, Roman, Classical Greek, prehistoric Greek and Neolithic periods. But they keep going even after hitting bedrock and find a rich source of material in the graves and tombs of the Bronze and early Iron ages. Actually, these houses and cities do not sink beneath the earth's surface, Dr. Thompson explains; the earth rises above them. After each invasion, the ruined buildings were levelled of and new buildings set on top of them. Something of the same thing is going on in every Canadian city today, as you can realise when you think of the number of business places and so- called basement apartments belov/ ground level. Richest veins of source-material thus far tapped have been wells, tombs, graves and portraits, all of which combine to give an astonishingly complete picture of life in ancient Athens. The sequence of wells begins in the Neolithic period about 3000 B.C., and continues down to 1931, when Dr. Thompson began digging. Careless housemaids, dropping one or two objects a year, all unwittingly did their bit for posterity. Among recent discoveries was a fine lamp, typical of those used during Christ's time, with its charred wick still in place. Homer Thompson reasons that the lamp slipped out of a servant's hand when he was fetching a pail of water, and was preserved in nature's deep freeze. In the summer of 1932, an amazing incident occurred: the excavators were clearing an ancient well that had beet filled up in the early fifth century B.C. One workman, as usual, was down in the shaft loosening the earth and dumping it into a hucket which was hauled up by windlass. To his surprise—and indignation— one of the surface workers found in the bucket a fragment of ancient pottery with the name "Aristeides" scratched on it; it so happened that this was also the name of the worker down the shaft. In strong language, the man at the well-head shouted to his colleague below that it was strictly against the rules of the School to write his name on any antique. In an equally violent defence, the labourer protested his innocence. Dr. Thompson was called in to arbitrate. He quickly realised that the letter forms were those of the early fifth century B.C. and that the name Opening Day at the Stoa. From Right: His Majesty King Paul; Mrs. Ward Canaday, Wife ot Chairman, American School of Classical Studies; Dr. Homer Thompson. on the potsherd belonged to the Aristeides banished by ostracism in 482 B.C. because—as one of his critics explained—"I was tired of hearing him called "The Just." This bit of pottery, called ostrakon by the Greeks, had clearly been one of the ballots used on that memorable day in the Agora over 2400 years before. This was the first of the 1200 ostraka eventually taken out of the ground in the Agora. One day in 1948 a colleague named Mabel Lang remarked to Homer Thompson that it would be a fine thing if the Stoa of Attalos could be reconstructed, just as it appeared a century before Christ. She was half- joking; but the Canadian scholar took her seriously. This became his greatest challenge. A few days ago it was realised. The job of reconstruction took five years, and cost almost S2 millions, half of it contributed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Quite appropriately, the official dedication address was given — in the presence of the King and Queen of Greence — by Homer Thompson, the boy from Chilliwack, who said: "It is in a spirit of gratitude for our heritage from ancient Athens that we have undertaken to restore King Attalos' building." Surely this is one of the strangest —and most inspiring—stories in the history of Canadian scholarship. Here was a linking of young and old cultures, made possible by mutual expressions of affection and respect. Homer Thompson says that his work in Athens is not done. There is a corollary task of writing and publishing, at an estimated cost of $200,000, some 20 volumes, covering the school's 25 years of research. Dr. Thompson and his wife will write perhaps a third of this work. And when the Agora record is secure, Homer Thompson will turn to new sites, which will keep him busy for longer than he dares prophesy. With a mystical, far-away look he says: "There are many sections left in Athens of which we are woefully ignorant." U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE A Good Year for U.B.C. Development Fund NEW DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME By the time this report (prepared on November 19) reaches Chronicle readers, the 1956 appeal of the U.B.C. Development Fund will be nearing its end. 1956 has been an important year in Fund activities because it has seen the establishment of a new programme of University fund-raising. Commencing in January, a Development Office will take over the task of co-ordinating all sources of financial revenue outside Government grants. All donations will be recorded through this office and the Board of Governors will assume the present role of the "Trustees of the "U.B.C. Development Fund." By Arthur Sager The success of the U.B.C. Development Fund, as operated under Alumni auspices, has been the major factor in bringing about this integrated development programme. From its inception in 1948 as an Alumni annual giving programme, the Fund has grown and expanded to the point where it is now attracting widespread support for many projects from corporations, organisations, companies and the general public. In the new all-inclusive development programme, Alumni Annual Giving, under the sponsorship of the Association, will take on an even more important role. Contributions, large and small, from thousands of Alumni, are often referred to as "seed money" because indirectly they stimulate CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL Founded by the Misses Gordon, 1898 RESIDENT AND DAY PUPILS PRIMARY CLASSES TO MATRICULATION MUSIC - ART - HOME ECONOMICS GYMNASTICS - GAMES - DANCING - RIDING DRAMATICS - GIRL GUIDES - BROWNIE PACK Apply to the Headmistress, MISS ELLEN K. BRYAN, M.A. 3200 W. 41st Ave., Vancouver Telephone KErr. 4380 "A CITY SCHOOL IN COUNTRY SETTING" larger gifts from other sources. Universities which obtain a high percentage participation by their Alumni in annual giving are, without exception, successful in their appeals to industry, the community and governments. "FREE MONEY" NEEDED All records but one have been broken in the 1956 Fund campaign. Total donations from Alumni and friends to November 15 amounted to $123,193.45, exceeding by $43,000 the total fund receipts for 1955. With other contributions in sight, there is a possibility that the final total at December 31st will he close to $150,000. A less cheerful note is struck, however, in the mid-November report by Dr. W. C. Gibson, and Mr. John West, Fund Co-Chairmen. While most special objectives have obtained Alumni support, there has been a decrease in "free money" donations. All such non- earmarked contributions are allocated by the Trustees to Alumni Regional Scholarships and to the other Major Objectives of the current drive. Most important continuing Major Objective is "The President's Fund" which is used by Dr. MacKenzie to finance special projects not covered in the budget, and to meet many emergency needs. Fund Directors had hoped that $25,000 might have been recommended for allocation to this Fund in 1956; to date, only $13,000 has been received for such purposes. The needs for 'free money" are many and pressing. All Alumni who have not as yet contributed to the Development Fund are urged to do so before December 31st, and unless they are supporting a special project, they are asked to mark their cheque simply: "U.B.C. Development Fund." Address it to 201 Brock Hall, U.B.C. A receipt for income tax purposes will be returned promptly. U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE io The President Reports— The Universities' Crisis a Challenge to Canada Dear Alumni: The Prime Minister's announcement of the Federal Government's plans for University assistance, made before the National Conference of Canadian Universities in Ottawa, on Monday, November 12, is so important for all of us that I have decided to repeat on this page a radio address which I gave on Friday, November 16, in which I dealt with the crushing financial burden, borne by all our Universities, and the serious consequences for Canada if this burden is not promptly and effectively relieved. "The crisis, which I prefer to call the challenge, to the people and Universities of Canada, grows out of three facts or circumstances. First is the rapid increase in our population, due to immigration and more particularly to a high birth-rate during the war and post-war years. This means that, each year, the number of young men and women demanding a University education is increasing rapidly. By 1965 our student population, on a conservative estimate, will be more than double its present stee. This is a fact. Secondly, the international situation and the state of our own industrial and commercial development is such that we will need, and do need today, far more trained and educated young men and women than we can possibly prepare in our Universities with our present facilities and Teaching Staff. In the third place, the general interest in higher education is increasing. There are at least three times as many young people with the intellectual capacity for higher education than there are presently in our Universities, and it is almost certain that, in place of the 7 to 9 per cent of the age group 18 to 21 now seeking higher education, we will find, in a few years time, up to 15 or 18 per cent of that same age group trying to enter our Universities. To meet this challenge, we have in Canada a group of Universities whose facilities are already inadequate and overtaxed. My own, the University of British Columbia, for example, has this year 7,623 students. Last year, we had 6,358, so we have nearly 1,300 additional this year. Much of our accomodation is of a very temporary and inadequate nature. We still use, for instance, over 300 former army huts brought to our Campus to serve the veteran students of World War II. Our Staffs have been struggling with one emergency after another ever since 1939 and they are beginning to be tired. All this suggests that the problems confronting the Universities are beyond their capacities to solve or to deal with alone. This I know is true. But these problems are not beyond the capacity or the resources of the peoples of the Province or the Government of Canada, if they take them seriously. By this I mean that most of our problems, that is our University problems, are financial ones, and they can be met and solved if we are given the money we need and must have, and if we are given that money soon enough. Compared with other government expenditures, our requirements, though large compared with our present income, are small in the total picture or statement of government expenditure. At present, for instance, the Provincial grants to Universities comprise less than 3 per cent of the total Provincial expenditures, and less than one-tenth of the expenditure on Roads. The expenditure of the Federal government on Defence is very great, perhaps over one and three quarter billions each year. Now Roads and Defence are necessary, and it may be that we, the Universities, are not as important as either of these,—though the few tens of millions we will need are but peanuts compared to the hundreds of millions spent on these other items. But if that be the view of the Canadian people, that is, that Roads and Defence are important and Universities are not, then they must accept as a fact that their children will not get a University education, and their industries, schools, professions, businesses, armed forces and government will not be supplied with the personnel they need. What I really mean, is that this crisis we face is too big for the Universities alone and on their own to handle or deal with as they have dealt with other problems in the past. We just can't alone and on our own cope with it. Governments and business must come in and help us, and help us in a serious and generous fashion; otherwise our battle to deal adequately with increasing enrolments is lost before it really gets started. This is the central and the most important of the problems that we have been discussing at the Conference. On Monday night of this week, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent, in perhaps the most important address ever given to an audience of University representatives, promised that his Government would come to our aid, and to the aid of the Arts, Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences in a generous fashion. He told us that the Federal grant to the Universities would be doubled. He also told us that the Canada Council would be established and given $100,000,000 to administer, $50,000,000 by way of endowment for the Arts, Letters, and President MacKenzie, with Captain J. D. Birch, D.S.C, Introduces Display of Australian Paintings on board "Orcades" at Vancouver, Oct. 22, 1956. Sciences, and $50,000,000 to be distributed among the Universities to help with their capital needs, that is to add to their buildings and other facilities. For these generous gifts we are grateful beyond words, and these monies will enable us to enlarge our services, and to strengthen and improve our work, and generally to prepare to meet our difficult future problems with courage and with a good heart, provided—and this is of the utmost importance—provided that our Provincial Government and our other sources of revenue do not assume that their normal and proper responsibilities to the Universities have been discharged, and so fail to continue to increase the grants made us, as these become necessary. If they do this, that is if they refuse or fail to continue their normal grants and gifts and to increase these in the usual way, as enrolments increase or services are added or expanded, then the contributions of the Federal government might just as well not have been made, for we, the Universities, will be no better off and our problems no nearer solution. In that case, there is nothing we can do, save carry on as at present giving increasingly inadequate services, in obsolete and run down facilities to a strictly limited number of our young people—less than half of those wanting it — and watching with sadness and regret while our country falls farther and farther behind in the parade of the nations. In which case, we will indeed become "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for our more dynamic and realistic neighbours to the South." I feel sure that the University of British Columbia may count upon all our Alumni, wherever they may be, to use their best endeavors and influence in helping our University along the difficult road that lies ahead of us. Yours sincerely, tftnry+flM^ f^tyy^ 11 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE CANADIANS, more than any other people, benefit from ELECTRIC POWER CLfcV* I Kl Vtfl I T is almost as much a part of our life today as the air we breathe. Abundant low-cost power is one of the important reasons for so many busy factories . . . greater production of goods than ever before . . . and better paying jobs. In rural areas, too, wherever the power lines run, you'll find prosperous farms and greater living comfort. And in offices and homes, everywhere, electric power makes life easier and more enjoyable. Since 1945, the demand for electricity has almost doubled and it is expected to double again within the next ten years. Keeping pace with this ever-increasing demand reflects great credit on Canada's power companies. Their engineers have changed the age-old courses of rivers, have tunnelled through mountains, created immense reservoirs and built massive dams to harness the energy of rushing water. Other sources of energy being used increasingly Over 90% of Canada's output of electricity is developed by water power. In some areas however, all the usable water power resources have been put to work, or soon will be. To help meet future needs, engineers are turning their attention more and more to other sources of energy to operate steam or gas-driven turbine-generators. The gas turbine is one of the newer methods of converting heat to electrical energy. Low-grade oil or natural gas is mixed with compressed air in a combustion chamber and the force of the resulting exhaust gases turns the turbine which drives the generator. Canadian General Electric is supplying gas turbines for a new station in British Columbia, which will be one of the largest of its kind in the world. Canada's first atomic electric power plant being built Canada's first atomic electric power plant being built near Chalk River, Ontario, by Canadian General Electric together with Atomic Energy of Canada and Ontario Hydro, signifies new horizons in the generation of electric power. The engineering knowledge and experience gained will be freely available to the nation's power companies. For over 60 years Canadian General Electric has built much of the vast amount of equipment needed to generate, transmit and distribute electricity . . . and the wide variety of products that put electricity to use in homes and industry. There are over three times as many C.G.E. employees today as there were in 1939. They are designing, manufacturing and supplying the largest volume of electrical products in this Company's history. These products, including many which didn't even exist a few years ago, help assure that Canadians will continue to live better, electrically. T^ogress ts Our Mosf /mportenr Product CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE: 12 NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS By David Brock LAKE KUKMAFINNINHADDI_ N.S. (NNGN News Service) The Canadian Conference of the Professors' Union continued to-day amid scenes of pageantry, optimism, despair, apathy, rage, oratory, mumbling, and a bad fall of psychological roof caused by subsidence of the agen- Finds the World Mildly Amusing da. Dr. J. Framley Clott, professor of physics at Crukut College and leader of a splinter group known as the Cru- kuts Clan, walked out of the meeting last night, shouting "There seems to be a perpetual motion before the assembly." Another group, led by Dr. Blennimore Roop, well-known radio expositor and head of the Department of Punditry at Manalskatchitario, also walked out. One of these walking delegates was heard to cry, "This is nothing but a talkathon," an expression which drew a sharp rebuke from a professor of Greek. SAVANT RAPS TV HATERS One of the highlights of this morning's meeting was an address by Dr. Trampion Fabella, noted methodolo- gist. Dr. Fabella declared himself entirely in favor of teaching by means of television wherever possible. "In the old days," he said "education depended on the meeting of mind with mind. This was seldom satisfactory. It usually resulted in a two-man mass hysteria shared by teacher and pupil. "If the professor was right, as sometimes happened, even in professors over 30, he had a bad tendency to believe in the student who was wrong, if only to keep an open mind and march with the times. On the other hand, if the professor was wrong, as occasionally happened even with lecturers under 25, a student in the same room with him fell under his spell at once. Both these unhappy results can be avoided by television. Also, television is far better equipped than is the classroom for giving the student a smattering of practically everything. When the student feels he knows practically everything, this gives him a sense of well-being and a confident insolence which will serve him well in a world where self- assurance is 75% of the struggle." After begging the indulgence of the meeting for quoting anybody who is so discredited as to be dead, Dr. Fabella mentioned the sad case of Lord Melbourne, who said: "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Macaulay is of everything." The speaker said it was easy to see Melbourne had lacked a television set. In closing, Dr. Fabella said that per sonal contact and constant application can make a student far too self- conscious. This ends in the exaggerated self-observation of obsessional- neurotic psychopaths, he said. "His strings of intentionality become so tight, they snap through hypertonia of consciousness," he said. "This can never happen to a man lying on a sofa watching a television screen sideways. There is little or no danger of afferent impressions becoming psychologically incandescent in his central nervous system." (Prolonged applause.) LAUDS YOUTH "The young of to-day are the same as the young of any other age," the conference was told by Dr. Latimer Shunt, famed intellectual pacifist. "We may shudder a little when children knock down complete strangers and kick them in the face, but after all, when I was young, I not only stole jelly beans but ate them. What's the difference?" Here he was interrupted by Dr. Hereward Spinney, who said "I did most of the things my children do. But I expected to be criticised if caught. My children do not. I call that a difference." Dr. Spinney was impeached for aggression and the barbaric use of force, and was ejected to prevent his being lynched. 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ALUMNI CHRONICLE The Frederic Wood Theatre From Coffee Bar to Playhouse With Spotlights on the Town By Bice Caple, President Players' Club Alumni In 1952, when the veterans of the Second World War left the Campus newly armed with scrolls of sheepskin, the army huts which had served as lecture rooms, dormitories and canteens during the post-war emergency began gradually to be removed. As the wreckers approached the T- shaped canteen at the end of the University Boulevard, Miss Somerset cried "Halt!". In a moment of magic, a flash of vision, Dorothy turned that canteen into a theatre. Like Cinderella's fairy godmother, she used her magic wand—the name of Frederic Wood. OLD FRIENDS RALLY President MacKenzie postponed the removal of the canteen to give Dorothy a limited time to try to raise enough money for the conversion. Old Players' Club members, parents of Old Players' Club members, old students, particularly of the Engish novel and of playwriting, and other old friends of Frederic Wood received a letter from Dorothy. I use the word "old" to express both time and endearment, for these "old" friends responded immediately to the appeal, eager to build a workshop theatre on the Campus to be named in honour of Frederic Wood. With her magic wand, Dorothy raised §3,500.00. Seventy people became subscribing patrons, invited to the "first night" of every regular production. $1,500.00 more was contributed to the Alumni Fund, earmarked for the theatre. The University gave $2,500.00 and the canteen became the coach that was to carry live theatre, the Cinderella of show business, on her way. DOROTHY SOMERSET PLANS Where is she going ? What was Dorothy's vision of the progress of live theatre in the "Frederic Wood"? Professor Emeritus F. G. C. Wood (Left) and Professor Earle Birney at Opening of Frederic Wood Theatre, December 6, 1952. Dorothy Somerset, A.B. ( Radcliffe), Associate Professor of Engiish, Assistant Professor of Dramatics, Department of Extension. What did she want to accomplish there ? Dorothy believes, as Moliere did, that the theatre is the "lay pulpit." "I am not a church-goer," she said once in a lecture to the Vancouver Institute, "I am a theatregoer." The theatre to her is a place in which to seek "the habitual vision of greatness," a place where one may stride across the centuries and tap the wit and wisdom of great minds as it is expressed by men and women of imagination and dramatic skill. The "lay pulpit," unlike the "ecclesiastical pulpit" may be merry, satirical, ribald or bawdy. It may move its "congregation" with equal propriety to tears or belly-laughter. It is more concerned with man as he is than with man as he should be. Both pulpits, however, in their truest fulfilment, strike a spark of humanity which lights the way of the human spirit. This is the kind of theatre that Dorothy is working towards on the Campus. The impulse which drove her to seize the canteen in 1952 was the crying need for space; space to rehearse, uninterrupted by bell and blackboard; space where scenery and borrowed period furniture could be set and left, safe from the invasion of pep-meetings and the discarded pickles of the casual luncher. She needed a Vancouver home for the Holiday Theatre, Joy Coghill's experiment in playing to small children, then touring the Province and the Elementary Schools of the city. She wanted a studio in which to teach drama, and to train the actor to achieve the supple grace of an expressive and responsive body, which is the instrument of his imagination and feeling. Finally, Dorothy wanted a small theatre, inexpensive to run, but equipped with the simple essentials, where playwrights could work on their plays in production, and experienced directors could direct fine plays of the past and the present, with the best actors available in Vancouver. The plays which Dorothy deemed worthy in such a programme were not necessarily too "high-brow" for the regular theatre-goer. Many of them are being presented in professional theatres, but they do not reach us. Some are too intimate to be effective in the large commercial theatre, and can be staged to perfection for a small audience so close to the scene that voice and gesture need hardly be magnified. ADULTS GET A NURSERY A building to house such various expressions of fact and fancy, must be as flexible as a nursery, where the table, up-ended, may be fort or four-masted schooner. With Dorothy's master-planning a nursery is just what the Frederic Wood Theatre has turned out to be. It is an adult's place to play, in the truest sense of recreation and self-expression. The tiered seats stand on platforms in moveable sections, and may be re-arranged like toy-blocks for seating or scenery. The trunk of the T-shaped building holds foyer, audience and stage, and the branches hide sets, properties, lighting and two small dressing-rooms. The "dressing-up box" is there, too, and the nursery cupboards, filled with fantastic adult playthings which must be put away when play-time is over. The cost of upkeep of such a building- is small; the heat does not have to Three members of the cast of "Robin Hood", current Holiday Theatre Production: From Right: Robin Hood, (Lee Taylor); Friar Tuck, (Bob Read); Little John, (Mike Matthews). With them are Mrs. Jessie Richardson, Director of this Play (Right) and Mrs. John Thorne (nee Joy Coghill). U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 14 Rodney Ackland's "The Old Ladies", season 1954- 55. From Left: Verlie Cooter, Gaye Scrivener, Myra Benson. reach peeling cherubs on the dome, and the janitor's wide cleaning-brush quickly covers the green-painted floor. This tiny theatre holds 123 and is gradually being equipped with the necessities of dramatic production, as gifts from Alumni and friends make it possible. Darkness provided a curtain for the first performances —an eerie state of affairs which was as fascinating to the peering audience as it was complicated for the scene- shifters. The stage is now fitted with curtains, a cyclorama and, thanks to the advice of Tommy Lea, a versatile lighting system. A present from an Alumna last summer installed lighted make-up mirrors. Cupboards are still urgently needed for the growing "wardrobe" to which so many people have contributed their moth-balled treasures. There is a shed behind the theatre for storing furniture, and Miss Somerset would welcome pieces which are not suitable in modern houses, or no longer strong enough for use. Such properties are hard to find and expensive to rent, and the theatre is willing to buy them at a modest price. Oh, for a chaise longue! TEEN-AGERS TRAIN TOO The "Frederic Wood" knows no vacations; it is occupied all the year round, fulfilling its well-planned purposes. In summer and winter it is used for regular courses in drama, and is the English Department's workshop for student shows of such magnitude and complexity as Anouilh's "The Infernal Machine" and Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah." Every Saturday morning of the school year, there are classes in creative dramatics, started several years ago at the request of Parent- Teacher Associations. Miss Hester Nelson teaches the little ones and Mrs. Verlie Cooter the teenagers. The teenage class was so large this year it had to be divided into two sections. PLAYS FOR CHILDREN On Saturday afternoons, children and their parents flock to see the Holiday Theatre play — at present, "Robin Hood." "We try never to miss one," said a parent; "the children feel drawn into the play almost as if they were a part of it. The clown or min strel in each production makes a kind of bridge between the young audience and the play." This is part of Joy Coghill's experiment. "THEATRE-GOERS" REMEMBER The "Workshop" programme fo:' adults has its regular followers too, the people who "try never to mis:; one." Over the seasons it has woven for them a pattern of rich contrasts in plays of different moods and periods. These "Freddie Wood Theatre-goers" have become familiar with the works of leading playwrights by seeing them acted competently. There are moments they will remember with special delight; the children playing' in the woods in Giraudoux's fantasy "The Enchanted"; the gruesome, accelerating greed of Myra Benson in "The Old Ladies," and Charles Stegeman's set for it; the two stories of a decaying suburban rooming-house, so powerful in suggestion that one coulc hear the dripping tap and smell the dry-rot! The memory of the sombre tortured characters in Chekov's tragedy, "The Sea Gull," throws into sharp silhouette the wholesome satire of Moliere's "Tartuffe," the first presentation oi this season. Gertrude Stein's "Yes is for a Very Young Man" in the summer of 1953, has left a kind of haunting grace which cannot be classified. The theatre opened with a special experiment in Canadian plays, when Earle Birney heard a large cast read his new dramatic poem, "The Trial of a City." Since then the "Freddie Wood" has produced the winning plays of the Community Arts Council one- act playwriting contest, with the playwrights on hand. At Christmas, the Holiday Theatre will perform Joy Coghill's adaptation of the story of "The Three Bears," and Dorothy Somerset will end the adult programme with an "original Canadian play." MAKING ENDS MEET Managing this full and challenging programme is Mrs. Jessie Richardson, "Yes is for a Very Young Man" by Gertrude Stein, played July, 1953. In this Scene, from Left: Philip Keatley Joanne Walker, Doreen Odling, Ron Fera. known in every facet of Theatre in the Province, and to Dominion Drama Festival Committees across Canada. She has worked with Miss Somerset from the beginning, and with her imagination and ingenuity, and her knowledge of the wardrobes of the town, has skilfully costumed the casts on a small budget. Thanks to a grant from the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation, Norman Young is Stage- Manager this year. THE CITY IS AT HOME HERE Dorothy Somerset's tireless effort and vision have built on the Campus a theatre true to the tradition of the man for whom it was named, and one which is still pressing forward to new achievements and new goals. The Players' Club Alumni of the University, once members of the Players' Club, are the only group invited to produce in the "Frederic Wood Theatre." It has become their home, and its welfare is their concern. Of more importance, however, is the relationship of this Campus theatre to the people outside the University. With his yearly tour of the "Spring Play," Freddie had always tried to forge a link between the Province and the University. The theatre that honours him now has so fused the City and the University in its programme, that it might well be nicknamed "The Town and Gown." Scene from Moliere's "Tartuffe", October 16-20. 1956. From Left: Gordon Allen, Barry Cramer, Dave Hughes, Peter Brockington, Jean Brown, Val Jones, Mary Wilkins. 15 U B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 16 Ten Years of Engineering Physics D. J. Rose, B.A.Sc.'47, Ph.D. (M.I.T.), now with Bell Telephone Company, Murray Hill, N.Y. (Left), and E. B. D. Lambe, B.A.Sc/48, M.A.Sc.'49, Ph.D. (Princeton), Assistant Professor of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. This year's graduating class of ten Engineering Physicists marks a milestone in the history of this youngest branch of the Faculty of Applied Science at U.B.C: it is the tenth E.P. class since the first three pioneers graduated in 1947. To celebrate this event a survey was undertaken of all the E.P. graduates of the preceding nine years. Through persistent sleuthing which qualifies me to head a Missing Persons Bureau I have succeeded in locating every single one of the 72 members of the classes '47 to '55, and I have contacted each one of them either personally or by mail. The 100'r response has been most gratifying: 72 completed questionnaires have been received. After sorting out the replies I can now offer some specific answers to questions put to us by second year engineering students choosing their future course of study: "What type of careers does training in Engineering Physics lead to? Is postgraduate work desirable? Does industry recognise the new field? Will I have to leave Canada to find employment?" The answer to the first question is that a U.B.C. degree in Engineering Physics already has opened doors to the widest possible variety of careers: from acoustics, aeronautics, astronomy and atomic energy, through electronics, geophysics, metallurgy, meteorology, microwaves, power engineering and prospecting for oil, to academic work in theoretical physics and mathematics. Of the 72 graduates to date 18 of the more recent ones are at the moment still engaged full time in postgraduate studies, while the remaining 54 are divided among the various occupations. The 54 men hold between them a total of 17 doctor's degrees, 25 master's degrees, and two professional degrees (A.E. and Mech. Eng.). However, this by no means signifies that they have abandoned the practical engineering fields in favour of academic pursuits: only three of the 54 are now members of University staffs. Industry and Government eagerly seek out men with advanced training. Of the 18 still studying, one has gone on to a post-doctorate fellowship in England after a Ph.D. from Illinois, 5 have taken master's degrees and are now studying for their Ph.D.'s, 11 are at present working for their master's degrees, and 1 is studying privately. In addition, a few of those who are holding jobs are either doing part time work towards higher degrees, or are getting specialised training under company sponsored training programmes. The geographical distribution of the 54 who are now at work is as follows: 1 in Vancouver, 3 others in B.C., 10 in Western Canada, 27 in Eastern Canada, 4 in England and 9 in the U.S. The majority are satisfied that the training received by them at U.B.C. is second to none among their present associates from other institutions, and reply with an emphatic "yes"! to the question of whether they would again choose E.P. if they had to do it all over again. The main reason for this, which is given by many, is well expressed by an early graduate who is now a research engineer with an aircraft company: "It has been my ex perience that a good background in maths and physics permits one to adapt rapidly to any field of engineering. In fact the differences between fields are mainly found in vocabulary and hardware, and familiarity with these is more rapidly obtained on the job than at University." A later graduate, now with a B.C. company, also writes: "I would again take Engineering Physics because I think it is a pity to specialise in the undergraduate course. It seems to me that specialised practical knowledge can be learned much better in a job than at University. It seems to me much more important to learn more mathematics and theory at University, where it can be learned best." A last bit of statistics: although the number of wives per person seems to obey Fermi statistics (0 or 1) as expected, no such restriction applies to children. The present record stands at five, with two runners up with 4. Honourable mention goes to a father of triplets, who as yet has not followed up his early lead. The total number of children reported by the 44 married men is 63 and is growing rapidly. (The above is a digest of Dr. Volkoff" s article in the 1966 'Slipstiek', published by the U.B.C. Engineers Undergraduate Society.—Ed.) New B.C. Atlas a Great Achievement FIRST PROVINCIAL ATLAS IN CANADA An 86-map, 100-page "British Columbia Atlas of Resources" was produced for the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference by a team of four men. J. D. Chapman, B.A. (Oxon.), Division of Geography, U.B.C, Chairman of the Atlas Committee and President of the Tenth B.C. Resources Conference, and D. B. Turner, B.S.A.'33, B.A.'36, M.A.'44, Ph.D. (Cornell), Director of Conservation, Department of Lands and Forests for B.C., acted as Editors; A. L. Farley, B.A.'48, M.A.'49, Geographer of the B.C. Lands Service and R. I. Ruggles, B.A. (Tor.), M.A. (Syracuse), Geography Division, U.B.C, directed Cartography. 120 other members of Industry and associated Government and University Departments gave of their time voluntarily to the vast undertaking. It is the first Provincial atlas of its --:**• m^> Page in Provincial Atlas of British Columbia, Showing Developed and Potential Hydro-Electric Power. kind to be published in Canada and is now available to the public on application to: D. B. Turner, Secretary, B.C. Natural Resources Conference, c/o Dept. of Lands and Forests, VICTORIA, B.C. John D. Chapman R. 1. Ruggles D. B. Turner A. L. Farley 17 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Homecoming, Pre-Game Luncheon, Brock Hall. Entertainment was Provided by the U.B.C. Choral Society under Leadership of Theo Repel. Homecoming and Class Reunions Homecoming 1956 was in many ways an experiment. Until all reports are in from those who organised the affairs and from others who attended, we will not be able to say that the experiment failed or succeeded. It might be useful, however, to review the various events briefly from the point of view of what we attempted to achieve. From the outset, it had been Association policy to arrange during the Homecoming weekend as many events as possible that would attract and bring back to the Campus Alumni and friends of all ages and interests. For this reason it was agreed that the Classes marking their 35th, 30th, 25th, 20th and perhaps 15th anniversaries should be encouraged to hold reunions during the latter part of the week. As it turned out, the reunions were fairly successful and, on the whole, most enjoyable. Best affairs were probably those sponsored by the Classes of 1921 and 1931. Lessons have been learned and many useful suggestions have been made to guide class committees in the future. Apart from the Alumni-Student Basketball Game on Friday night which was co-sponsored, in part, by the Association, the other major events were the Homecoming Luncheon and the Homecoming Ball, both held in Brock Hall. Actually, the Luncheon was not an experiment; it had proven itself the year before. Close to 300 Alumni, friends and senior students attended and they appeared to enjoy themselves. Many changes might be made in the menu, bar arrangements, and programme, but, as a method of reuniting Faculty and Alumni, and of extending hospitality to friends of the University, the basic idea of the Luncheon has merit. We would wel- By Arthur Sager come comments from Alumni who attended. The Ball in the Brock was an attempt to do something that has never, in the history of Homecoming, been successful. The Committee, under Mr. Len Stacey, wanted to find out whether Graduates—and particularly the middle and older-age groups ■— would be interested in attending a Campus dance under Alumni auspices. Some 500 people did attend (many for only part of the evening) but the largest percentage were Senior Students and older Graduates. We withhold comment on this function until the final verdict is in. Again, those who attended make up the jury. May we hear from you? Outstanding event of Homecoming, according to many, was the football game. Experimental too perhaps, because we won! Advance Notice to Classes of 1922 35th Anniversary Reunion All members of 1922 Classes in Arts, Science and Agriculture take notice now and mark the date in your diaries for 1957. The best of all reunions, the 35th, (ask 1921 if you don't believe it; they should know), will be held on July 3, 1957, at the home of Blythe and Violet Eagles. It will take the form of a buffet garden party. Good food, with all the trimmings, will be provided, in a lovely out-of-doors garden setting. You will meet there, with their wives and husbands, the men and women you knew as Undergraduates, and Members of the Faculty who are still among us. A special letter of invitation will be sent to every member of the three Classes whose address is available. The Committee in charge of the Reunion: Blythe Eagles, Marjorie Agnew, Bill Black, Orson Banfield, Howell Harris, Paul Whitley, Bruce Fraser, Jack Arkley and Bob Fournier. Great Trekker Award Presented to E. W. H Brown (Second from Right) by Don Jabour, President of the Alma Mater Society. The Presentation was made during Half-Time at the Homecoming Football Game. THUNDERBIRDS POST-CHRISTMAS 1956-57 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Date Time Opponent Where Played Jan. 5 8:00 p.m. College of Puget Sound Tacoma 11 8:00 Whitworth College Spokane 12 8:00 Eastern Wash ington College Cheney 18 8:00 Western Wash ington College Bellingham 19 2:00 TV Western Wash ington College Home 25 8:30 Central Wash ington College Home 26 2:00 TV Pacific Luth eran College Home Feb. 2 2:00 TV College of Puget Sound Home 8 8:30 Eastern Wash ington College Home 9 2:00 TV Whitworth College Home 15 8:00 Central Wash ington College Eflensburg 16 8:00 Pacific Luth eran College Tacoma 22 8:30 *St. Martin's College Home 23 2:00 TV *St. Martin's College Home " Exhibition Games Evergreen Conference January 5 - February 16, incl. U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 18 Class Anniversary Parties At Class of '21 Reunion, held Friday evening, Nov. 2, at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lawrence and co-sponsored by Hon. Mr. Justice A. E. Lord and Alan M. Russell. From Left: J. L. Lawrence, Dr. T. H. Boggs, H. T. Logan, J. M. Schell, Hon. Mr. Justice A. E. Lord. Dean Blythe Eagles, Miss Marion E. Lawrence and Mrs. Eagles at Buffet Supper Table, 1921 Reunion. H. H. (Bert) Griffin < Right, Front Row) President, seated beside Professor Emeritus W. N. Sage, Honorary President of the Class of 1931, seen with other Members ot the Class at the '31 Reunion, Faculty Club, evening ot November 3. At the Buffet Supper Table, 1931 Reunion, Faculty Club. Class of '26 Tea in Faculty Club, Sunday Afternoon^ Nov. 4. Bert Wales, President, reads Greetings from Absent Members. Twentieth Anniversary Reunion, Class of 1936, in Brock Hall, afternoon of November 3. From Right, R. V. (Dick) MacLeod, Mrs. MacLeod, Bruce A. Robinson, '36 President, Mrs. Robinson, H. T. Logan, Honorary President, Mrs. V. L. Dryer, V. L. Dryer. 19 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE! Chancellor Lett Addresses the Thirtieth Autumn Congregation on October 26, 1956. Autumn Congregation By Ed Parker, B.A.'54 ADVICE TO GRADUANDS The University of British Columbia honoured six distinguished Commonwealth citizens with Doctor of Laws degrees at the traditional Fall Congregation ceremonies, held in the Armouries, in the afternoon of October 26. Degrees were conferred on 313 Graduands and recognition of achievement given to 38 Diploma students. In his Congregation address, Dr. Stephen Roberts, Principal and Vice- Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Australia, told graduating students: "We must reconcile, in this scientific age, the H-bomb with the basic precepts of our religion and our moral philosophical values, if we are not to become walking machines. The cult of efficiency — technical efficiency for technical efficiency's sake, irrespective of spiritual values — is the greatest challenge that we have in Australian Universities. And here, speaking to the Graduands ■— because we are all Graduands today —I invoke the University and the ever-replenishing stream of new Graduands. We can take the easy way out, the path of unthinking acceptance, or we can fight and educate and stand for these basic realities of thought." HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS The honorary degree citation for Dr. Roberts read in part: "Seldom is it the good fortune of an overseas scholar to win from Old-World critics acclamation for a book on the contemporary problems of Europe. Within two months of his publishing "The House that Hitler Built," in October, 1937, his book had gone through four editions; it was praised by the Manchester Guardian and by many other journals as the product of "a humane, sensitive, cultivated and penetrating mind." His warning, based on many months of travel and study in Germany, that Hitlerism could not achieve its aims without war, a warning forgotten or ignored by too many in the delirium of Munich, remained a matter of sober record and was borne out in the tragic years that followed." Also honoured with a Doctor of Laws degree was Sir Hugh Linstead, Pharmacist and Barrister. Sir Hugh had been Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for the past 30 years, and President of the International Pharmaceutical Association for the past four years. He was the first Pharmacist to be so honoured by a Canadian University. His visit to the University of British Columbia was timed to coincide with the celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Faculty of Pharmacy. Father Henry Carr is the founder of several educational institutions in Canada, including St. Thomas More Dr. Stephen Roberts, gives the Congregation Address. College, affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan, and, more recently St. Mark's College, affiliated with the University of British Columbia. His citation read in part: "The true sportsmanship that he has always both shown and inculcated illustrates, no less than his copious erudition, what his beloved St. Thomas Aquinas would have called 'the way of active life,' at its best and highest." Mr. W. A. McAdam, for 22 years Agent-General for British Columbia in the United Kingdom, was awarded an honorary degree "for his distinguished service on behalf our our Province throughout his period of office." Mr. Angus Maclnnis, Member of Parliament since 1930, was described in his citation as "a man whose long service in the House at Ottawa has not only shown him to be one of our ablest parliamentarians, but has won for him the significant title, 'the conscience of the House'." In presenting President Sidney Smith, of the University of Toronto, for an honorary degree, Dr. MacKenzie spoke of him as "a man whose gifts of intellect, character and energy have made him a leader for many years in Canadian University life." PH.D. RECIPIENTS Among the 313 course degree recipients was Miss Wilma Elias, B.A.,M.A. (Sask.), the first woman to receive a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from U.B.C. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry. The subject of her thesis was, "The Nitration and Fractionation of Whole Wood." The six other candidates awarded the Ph.D degree were, George J. Korinek, B.A.,M.Sc.(U.B.C.); John G. Moffatt, B.A.,M.Sc.(U.B.C); George G. McKeown, B.A.,M.Sc.(U.B.C.); Roy A. Nodwell, B.Sc.(Sask.), M.A.Sc. (U.B.C); Joseph A. R. G. Paquette, B.Sc. (Montreal), M.A.(U.B.C), and Alan R. P. Paterson, B.A., M.A. (U.B.C). U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 20 CONFERRING OF DEGREES W. A. McAdam, C.M.G., after receiving his Honorary Degree, Signs the Register. Miss Wilms Mias presented by Dean Shrum for the Ph.D Degree. President Sidney Smith of Toronto University greeted by Chancellor Lett. Presideir MacKenzie invests Sir Hugh Linstead with his new Honorary Degree Hood. Very Reverend Henry Carr, LL.D., receives Honorary Degree. 21 U.B.C ALUMNI CHRONIC: LE Honorary Degree of LL.D. conferred by Chancellor Lett on Mr. Angus Maclnrtis. The Role of the Private Benefactor Pioneering of Ideas in a Free Society By Dean Geottrey C. Andrew Dean Geottrey C. Andrew IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM TO OUR SOCIETY The publication of the "Massey" Report in 1951 touched off a nationwide discussion about the respective roles of governments and private patronage of the Arts, Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada. The debate continues. Allied to it is the current discussion about the proper role of such voluntary agencies as the Community Chest or the United Appeal in making provision for the total health and welfare needs of Canadian communities. What proportion of these total needs ought to be supplied from the public purse? And what proportion should come in the form of voluntary contributions ? There is of course no easy answer to this question, but the actions we take while we ponder the question are in fact determining the kind of society we are likely to have in the future. The degree of real social freedom which our society is going to retain seems likely to depend in large measure on the extent to which the volunteer citizen can remain in the forefront of social change, and he can only remain in the forefront if his contributions are effective in determining the directions in which society will move. INCREASED SOCIAL NEEDS The amounts of money now needed for health and welfare services, for research and teaching in higher education, for the adequate promotion of the arts and letters, are such that it is no longer possible to expect them to be supplied in whole—or even in major part—by private benefaction. It does not however, follow that the role of private benefaction need be a negligible one. The role and contribution of the state to welfare and educational services has steadily increased during our lifetime, and the rate of taxation has also steadily increased to pay the costs of these services. There are some who feel that it necessarily follows that the state must come to dictate the lines of social change by virtue of its control of the services provided. This can surely be avoided if we have a clear view of the function of private benefaction, and if we work to establish the conditions within which it can operate most effectively. Taxation has now increased to the point which makes impossible the huge accumulations of wealth which at an earlier period went to endow the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. High as current rates of taxation are, however, they do not rule out the possibility of quite considerable aggregations of wealth, and the post-war years in Canada have been notable for the establishment of a number of charitable Foundations which are currently making their contribution to determining the direction of social and cultural change and development. The same period of time, however, has also seen a great number of fortunes handed over to the government in the form of death duties and re-distributed as tax revenue, when these fortunes might well have been used to pioneer social and cultural development in fields of the owner's own choosing. In short, some opportunities have been taken, but many opportunities have been lost to reinvest in the voluntary principle in society. FUNCTION OF PRIVATE BENEFACTION It would now appear that governments—Provincial and Federal—will continue to be major supporters of health and welfare, and education, and, to some extent, supporters of the arts and letters. That governments should support these activities is all to the good. What would be unfortunate is that governments should totally control the direction of our cultural development. This is where private benefaction has its vitally important part to play. Venture or risk capital has its function in the developing social scene, just as it has in the developing economy, and governments find far greater difficulty in providing cultural risk capital than private benefactors do. At the present time our tax laws are not well designed to provide the amount of risk capital in the form of private benefaction which Canadian social, educational and cultural development needs. It is also only fair to add that the record of private giving is not currently approaching the percentage of allowable tax deductions. Corporations in particular still seem uncertain about the extent and range of their great responsibilities. Many of them do not see these responsibilities as opportunities to perpetuate the voluntary nature of our society, and as a consequence they are in danger of losing their case by default. For if the youth of the country come to see Government as the sole educational, welfare and cultural patron of youth they are not likely to be impressed with the importance of the voluntary principle in our currently mixed society and economy, and yet a society in which private benefaction and public support both have a legitimate role to play is a society worth struggling to preserve. SPECIAL VALUE OF "FREE MONEY" What would seem to be needed therefore is further recognition on the part of corporations and private individuals that, in offering to health and welfare organisations, educational institutions, and the creative arts, assistance to undertake new ventures, they are in fact reinforcing the structure of a free society. Further, they should see that it is in the interests of a free society that they should increase their rate of giving. Further, they should join with educational and other institutions in recommending tax changes that would allow a still further ratio of giving, relative to the ratio of governmental support. Still further, they should recognise that unrestricted giving—the giving of free money—is the best possible form in which to give, because, in giving unrestrictedly, they are in effect trusting the Boards of Directors of Universities and other cultural and welfare organisations, all of whom are equally concerned to expand and develop a free society, and who, by virtue of their positions, are better able to judge the total range of needs within their institutions or organisations. Ten to fifteen per cent of free money for pioneering purposes can and does easily shape the direction of future development in any of the fields of activity mentioned. This is the essential area for private benefaction to operate in. LEON AND THEA KOERNER FOUNDATION I will illustrate these principles in a concrete instance. The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation was incorporated under the Societies Act of British Columbia on April 26, 1955. This Foundation, established through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Koerner of Vancouver, exists for the purpose of assisting organisations, institutions and individuals in a variety of fields: higher education, health and welfare, cultural activities and the creative arts. The Foundation, in the first year of its existence, has distributed some $75,000 in grants to aid about 35 separate projects in a wide variety of different centres, mostly in British Columbia. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation is the President of the University. The remaining members of the Board represent a wide variety of interests, both inside and outside the University. The Directors have adopted as policy the principle that U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 22 the funds available to them should not be used for the maintenance of existing programmes, for meeting operating deficits, or for capital construction: that, in short, the funds available shall be used for developmental and promotional activities in the various fields mentioned. This means in fact that the Foundation cannot meet many very desirable requests connected with building programmes simply because of the large amount of money needed. But it does also mean that a great many organisations and persons in British Columbia and Canada have been enabled to carry out projects which, without this form of assistance, they would have been unable to undertake. VEHICLE FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BETTERMENT In short, the Foundation is operating in the forefront of social and cultural change, and is attempting to provide limited amounts of money in these areas to people or organisatiors with ideas they want to carry out. Music, Drama, and the Fine Arts have all received needed stimulus. Archaeological research and Museum and Archival work throughout the Province have received support. The variety of grants is too great to mention in detail, but, through th:s one Foundation alone, people and organisations with ideas about the direction in which society ought to move are receiving help in moving it. The really encouraging thing, however, is to discover from the requests that come to the Foundation that there are many more institutions, organisations and individuals anxiots to do pioneering work than there are currently available funds to support them. This fact alone should be a great encouragement to both corporations and private individuals who want to reinvest a portion of their wealth in a perpetuation of the voluntary principle in society. Metallurgy Building Opened Speaker Urges Need for Metallurgists Chancellor Sherwood Lett, on October 26, presided over the opening ceremony of the University's new Physical Metallurgy Building, which contains the most modern equipment for the study of Metal Physics and Metallurgy, including two X-ray machines and research microscopes, high intensity magnets, as well as other units utilising the techniques of high frequency, vacuum and controlled atmosphere. The two-storey, reinforced concrete structure, built at a cost of $75,000, provides much needed laboratory space as well as a Lecture Room. The facilities of the building are used by upper-year students in all branches of Engineering. The Chancellor announced a new yearly grant to the University of $10,000 by the Sherritt-Gordon Mines Limited, which will continue indefinitely the Sherritt-Gordon Chair of Mining and Metallurgy, presently held by Professor Frank A. Forward. Chancellor Lett referred in the warmest terms to this extraordinarly generous gift, and to the fine spirit of co-operation with Higher Education shown by this great Mining Company. ELDON L. BROWN'S ADDRESS The building was officially opened by Mr. Eldon L. Brown, President of Sheritt-Gordon Mines Limited, who, in his brief address, emphasised the importance of Metals and Metallurgy to modern civilised society, and the growing need in Canada for more Metallurgists. "I am quite sure," he said, "that you all realise that our present day civilisation is based upon the use of metals; I might also describe it as an extravagant use of metals. I am not Eldon L. Brown (Right), President Sherritt-Gordon Mines with Professor Frank A. Forward, Head of U.B.C. Department of Mining and Metallurgy, at Opening of New Building. so sure, however, that you all realise the extent to which our supply of metals is dependent upon the science of Metallurgy. I might summarise it thus; the higher our standard of living, the larger our per capita consumption of metals and the greater our dependence upon the science of Metallurgy. It is an interesting fact that the growth curve of the metal industry of any country can be divided into three periods ■— infancy, adolescence and maturity. The period of infancy is characterised by the initiation and expansion of mining, with the export of ores, concentrates and metals. During the period of adolescence, refining plants are built and the export of ores and concentrates comes to an end. While some export of metal continues, there is a substantial growth of metal-fabricating industries which consume a steadily increasing proportion of the metals produced by the refineries. At maturity, metal fabricating reaches its full stature ard there is no longer any unfabricatcd metal available for export. In fact, as time goes on and mines become exhausted, . the domestic supply of metal becomes insufficient to meet the needs of the metal-fabricating industry, and it is necessary to import metals from other countries. In spite of having had the advantage of possessing the greatest metal resources of any country in the world, some fifteen years ago the metal industry of the United States reached this later stage of maturity and it is new importing at least a part of all the major metals (including iron ore) required to keep its fabricating industries in operation. With respect to its metal industry, Canada might well be described as a vigorous adolescent, with both primary metal production and metal fabrication expanding rapidly. It is important to realise, however, that as the metal industry of Canada approaches maturity, the metal-fabricating industry is almost certain to expand at a much more rapid rate than the metal-production industry, with the result that more and more of the metals produced from Canadian mines will be fabricated in Canadian plants. The development I am forecasting will accentuate the demand for more Canadian Metallurgists. I have no hesitation in saying that never has the need for Metallurgists been so great, and it is steadily becoming greater. The relatively recent developments of atomic energy, jet engines, supersonic flight and so forth have created demands for metals and alloys that a few years ago were unheard of. The Physicists, Engineers and Chemists who are responsible for these developments could design and build much more efficient Reactors and Engines if the Metallurgists could provide them with new metals and alloys capable of withstanding the temperatures and corrosion to which they would be subjected. In these fields we have reached a point where only Metallurgy can provide the basis for further advances. In the field of Research which should always be, but, unfortunately, often is not, a function of a University, the Metallurgy Department of the University of British Columbia has an enviable record. As an example of an outstanding piece of Applied Research I might cite the nickel-refining process invented by Professor Forward which is now in commercial operation in our plant at Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. I might mention that a number of Professor Forward's graduate students contributed materially to the successful development and piloting of this process. Under the brilliant leadership of Professor Forward, the Department of Metallurgy of the University of British Columbia has attained a pre-eminent position among the Metallurgical Schools of this continent, and its graduate Metallurgists are adding new lustre to its fame and renown." 23 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE NATURAL GAS TO SPEED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH OF B.C. INTERIOR Inland Natural Gas Company Limited will distribute low cost natural gas along the route of the Westcoast Transmission Company Limited pipeline in the interior of British Columbia. Distribution of this amazingly efficient fuel will permit full utilization of the natural resources so abundant in the territory the Company will serve. Inland Natural Gas COMPANY LIMITED NATURAL GAS IS NATURE'S MOST EFFICIENT FUEL U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 24 Friends of the University Library By Neal Harlow The Council of the Friends Dr. Wallace Wilson, President Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie Mrs. Ethel Wilson Mr. Leon J. Ladner Mr. Aubrey Roberts Dr. Ethlyn Trapp Dr. H. R. MacMillan Mr. Harold Foley Hon. Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne Mr. Reginald Tupper Mrs. Frank Ross Dr. A. E. Grauer Mr. Walter Koerner Hon. Mr. Justice J. 0. Wilson Mrs. E. T. Rogers General Sir Ouvry Roberts Mr. Leon Koerner Mr. Kenneth Caple Dr. W. Kaye Lamb Dr. Luther Evans Dr. Leslie Dunlap Mr. Lester McLennan Dean Geoffrey Andrew Mr. Arthur Sager Dr. Ian McT. Cowan Dean Gordon Shrum Dean F. H. Soward Dean S. N. F. Chant Mr. Neal Harlow Dr. Samuel Rothstein Mr. E. S. Robinson Mr. Willard E. Ireland At long last (after forty years) an organisation of Friends of the Library of the University of British Columbia has come into existence. In the presence of Dr. J. N. L. Myres, Bodley's Librarian at Oxford, the society was formed at a meeting in Brock Hall on September 7, 1956. "An individual does not normally organise his friends," the University Librarian commented, "but if an institution is to give them any recognition and heed, some such provision as this must be made." Over a hundred persons, brought together by their interest in books and the University, filled every seat in the Mildred Brock Room on this historic occasion. Dr. Ian McTaggart- Cowan, B.A.'32, Chairman of the evening and of the Senate Library Committee, spoke of the fundamental importance of the Library to the The University Library. Left: The Women's Gymnasium: Right: Union College. Wallace A. Wilson, B.A., M.B. (Torontol, F.R.C.P. (C), President, The Council of The Friends of the Library. University, and called attention to the many great libraries in Universities of the world which bear the names of friends of those institutions. The University itself must supply the bread-and-butter items, make the day- to-day purchases of books as they are published, but it is for the extensive needs, over and above these, that friends outside the walls of the University make a very necessary contribution. Dr. J. N. L. Myres, on leave for several months from Oxford University, recounted the story of the Friends of the Bodleian, established in 1926, and perhaps the first of such groups to come into existence. Sir Thomas Bodley, the Library's founder, put a very high value upon his "great store of friends," even in the 17th Century. "And," Dr. Myres said, "It is in the imagination, generosity and foresight of the great store of honourable friends that the future greatness of this library and indeed of all our great libraries may well rest." The University Librarian, Mr. Neal Harlow, analysed the Library's present condition, showing how it is related to the University's present youth and its rapid numerical expansion. "A University cannot exist," he said, "without a library, nor can a first- class University be built upon a library of pass standing." The Library at U.B.C. is indeed growing at a normal rate, but the University itseJ.f is expanding at an abnormal speed and herein lies the library problem. On the verge of another great period of expansion for the University, it seems essential that the Library must have substantial assistance from non- University sources if the institution is to attain its full strength. The purpose of The Friends is to develop the library resources of the University and to provide opportunity for persons interested in the University Library to keep informed about its growth and needs and to express their own interests more effectively. A well-printed "Announcement and Invitation," describing the purposes of The Friends, may be had by writing to the University Librarian, Vancouver 8, B.C. "Here, then, begins a relationship of usefulness and good-will between an institution that never grows old and many generations of friends." A. David Levy National University Newspaper Special to the U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle. By Ed Parker A young University of British Columbia graduate, A. David Levy, B.A.'49, has entered into a new publishing- venture that is being watched with interest by people associated with Universities all across Canada. He is publisher of Canada's first national University newspaper, The Canadian University Post, which appeared on the Campus of Canadian Universities for the first time this Fall. Designed to provide a news link between students, Faculty, friends and Alumni of all Canadian Universities, the 16-page tabloid newspaper is mailed free to every Canadian University student every two weeks. A two- page picture feature story on U.B.C. in the first issue began a series of features on Canadian Universities. The paper's policy is to direct the editorial content chiefly to students, but not exclusively to students. "With the problems of Canadian Universities becoming of primary importance in the nation's affairs, and with the University community, in the broadest sense of the term, representing the intellectual elite of the country, there is an extraordinary opportunity to build a national Canada organ of first-rate status," says Mr. Levy. Born in Durban, South Africa, Mr. Levy first came to Vancouver in 1942 where he attended King Edward High School before entering U.B.C. After graduating in Slavonics and International Studies in 1949, Mr. Levy spent a year studying in London, England. In 1950 he returned to U.B.C. to lecture and continue his studies for another year. Later he moved to Montreal where he entered the publishing field in 1954. There he began working out the details that crystallised into the Canadian University Post. 25 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Alumnae & Alumni i lU'ms of Alumni news are invited in the form of press clippings or personal letters. These should reach the Editor, U. B. C Alumni Chronicle, 201 Brock Hall, U. B. C, for the next issue not later than February 15, 1957. 1923 Rev. Harold T. Allen, B.A., B.D.'26 (Union Coll. i, was appointed Field Secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance* of Canada this summer. His area of responsibility extends throughout Alberta and British Columbia. Col. John H. Jenkins, B.A.Sc. Chief of Forest Products Laboratory, Ottawa, and one of the members of the first graduating class in Forest Engineering from U.B.C, was Canadian government delegate on a tour of the Russian forests and forest industries last summer. 1925 A. E. (Dal) Grauer, B.A., B.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. ( Calif.), President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, British Columbia Power Corporation, Limited, was appointed to the Board of Governors of The University of British Columbia on October 2. On the same date Dr. Grauer was honoured by being presented with the Vancouver Lodge, B'nai B'rith, Goodwill Award in recognition of his public service and support of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. 1926 Harry L. Purdy, B.A., Ph.D. (Chicago i, Executive Vice-President and Director of B.C. Power Corporation Ltd., and British Columbia Electric Company Ltd., was chosen to 'sum up' the addresses and discussion connected with the Economic Conference, sponsored by the Vancouver Board of Trade to mark their 70th Anniversary on Founder's Day, November 14. 1927 Charles M. Mnttley, B.A., Ph.D. (Toronto.!, has joined the Washington, D.C, Office of Stanford Research Institute. Dr. Mottley was formerly Director of the Planning Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development. He has also been associated with operations analysis and development planning activities in the Air Force and biological research with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Brig. J. W. Bishop 1929 Brig. Joseph W. Bishop, B.A.Sc, has been named British Columbia Area Commander, Canadian Army, in succession to Brig. George Kitching. 1930 Thomas Berto, B.A., is continuing the labour relations advisory service of the late Fred W. Smelts. The Practice will now be carried on under the name of Smelts, Berto and Associates., 1001 Marine Building, 355 Burrard St.. Vancouver 1. Alan Macdonald, B.A.Sc, has been appointed Fraser Valley Gas Manager, British Columbia Electric Co.. Ltd., with headquarters in Abbotsford. 1931 Harry Edwin Nelems, B.A.Sc, was appointed Managing Dirt dor of Pronto Uranium Mines Ltd. This mine is in the Blind River area of Ontario and one of a group belonging" to the Rio Tin to Mining Company of Canada Limited. In conjunction with this new post Mr. Nelems is directing the operations of several other companies in the Rio Tinto group. Prior to returning to Canada, Mr. Nelems held important mining posts in South Africa and Northern Rhodesia. Charles C. Strachan, B.S.A., Ph.D. (Mass. State Coll.), formerly with the Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory, Summerland, has been appointed Superintendent of the Experimental Farm, Morden, Manitoba. 1932 Hugh J. McGivern, B.A., partner in the Vancouver law firm of McGivern and Vance, was elected Dominion President of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans Association at their convention this summer in Calgary. 1933 W. E. Lucas, B.A., B.Ped. (Tor.), has been appointed Municipal Inspector of the North Vancouver School District, No. 44. R. H. (Buck) Richmond, B.A.Sc, formerly Resident Manager of the Alaska Pine and Cellulose Company's Chemical Cellulose Mill at Port Alice, B. C, has been appointed Assistant Resident Manager of the Company's large Rayonier Mill at Port Angeles, Washington. A. B. (Sandy) Sanderson, B.A.Sc, of A. B. Sanderson and Company, Ltd., Victoria and Vancouver, is responsible for the design of more than 200 bridges in British Columbia, the largest being the cantilever-type bridge now being built across the West Arm of Kootenay Lake at Nelson. 1934 Rev. C. Howard Bentall, B.A., of Toronto, has been elected the new President of the Baptist Federation of Canada. At 42, he is the youngest President in the 15-year history of the Federation. Ernest W. H. Brown, B.A., Manager of the Winnipeg Store of the Hudson's Bay Company and former President of the U.B.C. Alumni Association, was the recipient of the "Great Trekker" Award for 1956, on Homecoming Day, November 3. This award is the highest honour the U.B.C. student body can confer upon an Alumnus. Ian C. MacQueen, B.A.Sc, has been promoted to Chief Forester, Western Plywood Limited, with Headquarters in Vancouver after April, 1957. 1935 Morley H. Fox, B.Com., has been named Manager of the newly-created Labour Relations Department of the B.C. Electric Co. Ltd. Mr. Fox was formerly Supervisor of Salary Standards and Employee Services fur the Company. J. E. Milburn, B.A., has been appointed Marketing Manager of the Sales Division of the Northern Electric Company with Headquarters in Montreal. Mr. Milburn has been associated with this Company since 1937. He has been a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, Toronto Rotary Club, the Electric Club of Toronto, the Toronto Railway Club, the Canadian Electrical Association, and Vice- President, Electric Service League of Ontario. 1936 Rev. Gerald M. Ward, B.A., accepted the call to minister in the First Baptist Church, Regina, in September last. 1937 John O. Hemminjrsen, B.A.Sc, has been promoted to Logging Manager, Western District, MacMillan and Bloedel Ltd. 1938 Edna Kerr, B.A., of Ladner, B.C., recently presented the University Library with a generous gift of books. 1939 Milton C. Taylor, B.S.A., M.S.A.'46, Ph.D. I Wis.), has bjen appointed Associate Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. At the same time Dr. Taylor will b:> doing research into the economic aspects of highway safety, at M.S.U.'s Highway Traffic Safety Center. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Taylor was a Project Associate in Economic Research, University of Wisconsin, 1955-56 ; Assistant Professor of Economics, Marquette University. 1953-55 ; Consultant and Research, Government of Puerto Rico, 1952-53. John Guthrie, B.A., M.A.'40, formerly Resident Manager of the Alaska Pine and Cellulose Company's Wood fibre Chemical Mill, has been appointed Resident Manager of the Company's Chemical Cellulose Mill at Port Alice, B. C. 1940 Ian Mahood, B.Com., B.S.F.'41, formerly Assistant Chief Forester, MacMillan and Bloedel Limited, has been appointed Manager of Operations, Forestry Division. R. Harold McBean, B.A., formerly Superin- intendent at the Alaska Pine and Cellulose Company's Wood fibre Chemical Cellulose Mill, has been appointed Resident Manager. 1941 Gerald V. Howard, B.A., M.A.'47, is Head of the Bait-Fish Investigations of the Inter- American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California. Prior to his joining the Commission in 1951, Mr. Howard was a member of the Research Staff of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission in New Westminster, B. C, and the F.A.O., Fisheries Division, Washington, D.C 1944 Terence W. McLorg:, B.A.Sc, has been appointed Sales Manager of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Division of the John Inglis Company, Limited . 1945 D. A. Fraser, B.A.Sc, has been appointed as Special Engineer, C.P.R., Winnipeg. He was previously Roadmaster, Swift Current, Saskatchewan. 1946 William D. Reid, B.A., M.Ed. I Wash.), formerly Principal of Lansdowne Junior High School in Victoria, has been appointed Inspector of Schools for the Districts of Campbell River, Alert Bay and Quatsino, with Headquarters in Campbell River. Fred Roots, B.A.Sc, M.A.Sc.'47, recently headed a geological survey fur minerals in the North-west corner of B.C. Financed by the Federal Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, "Operation Stikine" used 51 men and 2 helicopters to map 25.000 square miles. 1947 Izadore Barrett, B.A., M.A.'49, formerly with the B.C. Game Commission, Vancouver, is now in charge of the operations of the Bait- Fish Laboratories of the Inter - American Tropical Tuna Commission in Panama and Costa Rica. Patrick C. Grant, B.A., B.Ed.'56, was elected Vice - President of the Okanagan Valley Teachers' Association. P»lr. Grant is a member of the B.CT.F. Committee investigating the Acceleration and the Gifted Child Programme. A. T. Hill, M.S.A.. has been appointed Research Officer specialising in Poultry at the Dominion Experimental Farm. Agas-dz. Eric J. Holmgren, B.A., B.L.S. (Toronto). Librarian and Information Officer with Defence Research Board, Valcartier, Quebec, will take up his new appointment as Alberta's Supervisor of Libraries at the beginning of the New Year. Robert E. Lloyd, B.Com., B.S.A.MS, M.S.A. '50, has been appointed to direct the new curriculum major of Agricultural Management and Sales at the California State Polytechnic College, Kellog-Voorhis Campus, San Dimas, California. Mr. Lloyd has had extensive experience in agricultural business enterprises, having served as the District Sales Representative of the San Joaquin Valley Poultry Producers Association, Fresno, and as the California representative of the Washington State Co-operative Chick Association. He has also taught in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of B.C., and was a senior Research Assistant at the University of California at Davis. He has operated his own farming enterprise at Petaluma since 1954 and also held positions previously with the Sonoma County Growers Co-operative Marketing Association and the Central Poultry Company in Petaluma. He is the son of Professor Emeritus E. A. Lloyd, formerly Head of the Department of Poultry Science, U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 26 U.B.C, now geneticist with the Petaluma Cooperative Hatchery at Petaluma, California. 1948 Malcolm H. Campbell, B.A., B.A.Sc'49, was apopinted Municipal Engineer for Powell River. Mr. Campbell has been employed with the Federal Government, with Alcan at Kemano and, more recently, with the Sewer and Water Department of the City of Vancouver. Richard B. Herman, B.Com., has been appointed Nylon Eastern District Sales Manager, Textile Fibres Division, Du Pont Company of Canada Limited. George C. Richards, B.Com., C.A., has been appointed Assistant Treasurer of Hooker Chemicals Limited, North Vancouver. 1949 Gordon Broadhead, B.A.'49, M.A. (Miami), formerly with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada in Nanaimo, B.C., is now with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, directing its tuna-tagging programme and tuna biological research programme operations at sea. Malcolm A. MacAulay, B.A., has been named Personnel Director of the new Hooker Chemicals Limited chlorine-caustic soda plant at North Vancouver, Ervin Angus Seibold, B.A., M.A.'51, has obtained his Doctor of Philosophy Degree at Oxford where he is a member of Magdalen College. William E. Webb, B.S.F., M.F. ( Syracuse), after a period of service with the Colonial Service, Kenya, is now Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology at State University of New York, College of Forestry, Syracuse. 1950 Rory T. Flanagan, B.S.F., has left the B.C. Forest Service and is now with the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources at Forth Smith, N.W.T. George L. Kibble white, B.S.F., has been promoted to General Logging Manager, (South of Quesnel Division), Western Plywood (Cariboo I Ltd., with Headquarters at 100-Mile House. Bryce P. Page, B.S.F., is now Manager, Northwest Bay Division, MacMillan and Bloe- dell Limited. E. Peter Robin, B.A., M.D.'54, opened a Medical Practice October 4, at 1516 Buena Vista Ave., White Rock, B.C. 1951 William J. Sterling, B.S.F., is General Logging Manager (North of Quesnel Division) Western Plywood (Cariboo) Limited, with Headquarters at Quesnel. David A. Foster, B.A.Sc, has been transferred by the Canadian National Railways from Norwood, Manitoba, to Moncton, N. B., where he will fill the position of Mechanical Engineer for the Atlantic Region. George S. Fukuyama, BA.., obtained his Ph.D. Degree from Ohio State University this year. Capt. S. J. (Steve) Hardinge, LL.B., formerly Deputy Judge Advocate, B. C Army Headquarters, has left the service for a post with the Legal Department of the B. C. Electric Company. Allan C. Kenny, B.A.Sc, has been appointed United Kingdom Technical and Information Representative for the Plywood Manufacturing companies of B.C. His main duties involve the provision of fir plywood technical literature and information for the use of construction and building. His Headquarters are in London. Hyman Mitchner, B.A., M.Sc'63, Ph.D., is at present Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Leonard M. Staley, B.A.Sc, M.Sc. (Calif. I, was appointed to the Staff of the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Ontario Agricultural College this Autumn. He is an Assistant Professor in the Farm Structures Division and supervises the operation of the Canadian Farm Building Plan Service at the College. Ronald Sidney Taylor, B.A.Sc, is now Head of the City Engineering and Board of Works Departments for Trail. He assumed his new position in October last. 1952 Selwyn P. Fox, B.A.Sc, M.S.F. (Toronto , has won the $350 Wood Award for 1956. This award was the first to be awarded a Canadian since its inception in 1948. It is sponsored by Wood and Wood Products Magazine of Chicago and is based on papers submitted by graduate students in the United States and Canada, in the field of wood technology. M-. Fox's paper was titled, "An Investigation into the Effects of Certain Variables in Scar:'- Jointed Timber Laminations." He is a timbtr engineer J'or the Canadian Institute of Timber Construction, Ottawa. Sylvia Lash, B.A., was a member of an Alpine Club of Canada team which, on August 13, made the first successful ascent in 20 years of Mount Waddington, B. C The peak is 13,200 feet high. Martin Abraham Unraw, B.S.A., M.S.A.'53. has been awarded his Ph.D. Degree by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. William J. Welsh, B.S.F., has left the B.C. Forest Service, Prince George, and is now with T. and H. Forestry and Engineering, Vancouver. 1953 W. E. Boresky, B.A.Sc'53, has joined the staff of Swan, Wooster and Partners in Vancouver. He was formerly Structural Draftsman with H. A. Simons Limited, Vancouver. Ruth Nakamura, B.H.E., has taken a position in the Dietetic Department, Toron- o General Hospital. 1954 Margaret Klassen, B.A., opened a Bacteri illogical Laboratory this summer in the new medical centre in Prince George. John G. Myers, B.S.F., has won the $250 Canada Vulcanizer and Equipment Co. Sehcl- arship and is taking Post-graduate work n Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario. Richard H. Roberts, B.A., has been granted a Rockefeller Studentship valued at $1100. This is the second year in succession that Mr. Roberts has received the Studentship n International Studies. He is proceeding to a Master's Degree in Economics. London School of Economics. Gordon Tofte, B.A.Sc, has joined Canada Creosoting Co. Ltd., foot of Pemberton Ave.. North Vancouver. 1955 J. Don Cianci, B.A.Sc, a Technologist for Shell Oil Company of Canada, Montreal, is the first Canadian to win first prize in the Student Problem Contest sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Mr. Cianci's problem, encountered in petrol eum refinery work, "Reactor Design for a Catalytic Reforming Process", will be published in a leading chemical engineering journal. Bruce Gourlay, B.S.F., is spending a year of observation and work in various phases of Forestry and the forest industries in Norway and Sweden. Kenneth G. McDonald, B.S.P., has been awarded the E. L. Woods Memorial Prize in Pharmacy. The award was set up in honour of the late E. L. Woods, first Dean of Pharmacy at U.B.C, and is given annually for the best research paper by a Canadian student graduating in Pharmacy. Mr. McDonald's paper was entitled, "Activities of Histamine Release from Rabbit Blood by Crystalline Papaine." Mary Maclennan, B.H.E., has joined the U.B.C. Food Services Dietary Staff, as Assistant Dietitian, Acadia Camp Dining Room. John Nelson, B.Com., recently completed his tour of Canada prior to being sent on his overseas assignment as Assistant Trade Commissioner in New Delhi, India. Peter H. Pearce, B.S.P1., winner of the Canadian Institute of Forestry Gold Medal for highest standing in the 1956 graduating class, was presented with the medal by Dean Allen at the October 9th meeting of the Vancouver Section. Peter has an appointment with British Columbia Forest Products Limited. Reginald Stuart Pitt, B.S.A., has been appointed Agricultural Officer, British Overseas Colonial Service, British Honduras. His Headquarters will be Bakin Pot Farm, Agricultural Department, 60 miles from Belize. Alan de C. Veale, B.A.Sc, is stationed in British Columbia as a representative of the Division of Building Research, National Research Council, with offices in the B.C. Research Council building on the University Campus, His duties consist of answering enquiries and distributing information on Building to Architects, Engineers, Contractors and Householders. G. M. Weiss, U.S.A., has been appointed Research Officer with the Pomology Section of the Summerland Experimental Farm. He will do research on fruit propagation, root- stock and frame working projects. ALUMNI ELECTED TO VICTORIA Among U.B.C. Graduates elected to the Provincial Legislature in the recent election were the following: The Honourable Robert William Bonner, B.A.'42, LL.B.'48, Attorney-General ; Daniel R. J. Campbell, B.A.'52 ; Gordon Hudson Dowding, LL.B.'51 ; George Frederick Thompson Gregory, B.A.'38 ; The Honourable Leslie Raymond Peterson, LL.B.'49, Minister of Education : The Honourable Ray Gillis Williston, B.A.'40, Minister of Lands and Forests. Members of the Supreme Court of British Columbia at the Swearing-in Ceremony, on June 19, of the new Justices Brown and Ruttan. From left: Justices T. W. Brown, H. W. Mclnnes, N. W. Whittaker, A. M. Manson; Chief Justice Sherwood Lett; Justices J. 0. Wilson, J. V. Clyne, A. E. Lord, J. G. Ruttan. In Front: Registrar L. A. Menendez, Sheriff E. W. Wells, Retiring Sheriff S. F. M. Moodie. 27 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE At the Sign of the Totem In And About The University Dean Neville V. Scarfe INAUGURATION OF THE NEW COLLEGE OF EDUCATION By Dean Neville V. Scarfe On Thursday, October 18 at 2:30 p.m. the new College of Education fupb %. "<■ of the University *"!^w '>mW was officially in augurated with an impressive ceremony. As if to bless the proceedings, the sun shone appropriately on the glittering array of academic costume. The ceremony was attended by a large number of students and by representatives of the Board of Governors, the Senate, the Faculty of Education, the Joint Board of the College of Education and by distinguished guests from the city of Vancouver and the Province. On the platform were the President of the University, two Cabinet Ministers, the Chairman of the Joint Board, the Deputy Minister of Education, a representative of the staff of the College and the Dean as Chairman. In welcoming the gathering, the Dean pointed out that this was an historic occasion when Education had reached the full status of a University discipline and now ranked alongside Law, Medicine and Engineering as an important profession. The establishment of the College was a formal recognition that the training of a teacher took as long a time and required as great attention to scholarly study as the training in other professions. He expressed his appreciation of the large numbers of persons who had given their sympathetic support to the idea of raising the prestige and quality of the teaching profession. New College of Education Building, seen looking North from the N.E. Corner of the Armoury. The President of the University explained how important it was for teachers to be adequately and thoroughly trained and he paid tribute to the many people who had worked on the establishment of the new College. The President introduced The Honourable Ray Williston, former Minister of Education, who had devoted untiring efforts to this new scheme. The President also welcomed the new Minister of Education, The Honourable Leslie Peterson. Mr. Williston performed the official inauguration and delivered an inspiring and encouraging address explaining why he had urged so strongly the development of this College. Mr. Peterson then delivered one of his first speeches as new Minister, pledging full support to the development of educational facilities in the Province. The meeting concluded with short speeches of greeting from President MacKenzie, on behalf of the Board of Governors, Dr. Harold Campbell, on behalf of the Department of Education, and Dean Walter Gage, on behalf of the Joint Board. Professor F. C. Boyes replied to the greetings on behalf of the College Staff. In conclusion, Dean Scarfe said that he was proud to be allowed to share in the future development of this great and courageous experiment. All seven speeches were concluded within the space of 40 minutes. This gave the whole meeting an air of liveliness while the impressive array of speakers added a profound dignity to the setting. The College had thus become an important and integral part of University life in a scholarly and enthusiastic ceremony which gives promise of high achievement for the future. CONDEMNS ONE-YEAR EMERGENCY PROGRAMME COLLEGE OF EDUCATION By Dr. J. E. Kania Chairman, Alumni Higher Education Committee The following resolution was approved by the Alumni Committee on Higher Education at a meeting held on Friday, November 16, 1956, in the home of the Committee Chairman, J. E. Kania, B.A.Sc.'26, M.A.Sc, Ph.D. "WHEREAS the major purposes of the College of Education are to improve the quality of teaching in B.C. and to raise the status of the teaching profession in order to attract more capable students, and WHEREAS the present one-year emergency programme is inadequate for these purposes, and WHEREAS this programme is acknowledged to be educationally inadequate by both the Department and the University, and WHEREAS the programme has not increased to any large extent the number of teachers who will be available for the school system in 1957, there being only eighty-five students registered in the course, and WHEREAS there is no evidence to show that these eightly-five students would not have registered for the two-year programme had this been compulsory, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Department of Education, the Joint Board of the College of Education and the University Senate be urged, in the strongest possible terms, to discontinue the present one- year emergency programme at the end of the current University session, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Education be urged to establish a generous programme of two-year scholarships to encourage students to enrol in, and to assist them through, the two-year programme for elementary teachers." LIQUID NITROGEN GENERATOR The Physics Department has just completed the installation of a liquid nitrogen generator. For the various research programmes the University has required for a long time a source of liquid air or liquid nitrogen. This machine is the most modern air liquefying equipment available. In fact only two have been produced; the other is at the University of Michigan. It was designed by Professor S. C. Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was built by the Joy Manufacturing Company. It produces 25 litres of liquid nitrogen per hour and has built-in storage capacity for 450 litres. The machine is almost entirely automatic. It operates at the unusually low pressure of 200 lbs. per square inch and has many unique engineering features. The most notable of these is that the air is purified by a refrigeration process thus avoiding the use of chemicals as purifying agents. FIRST SOD TURNED FOR THE NEW ARTS BUILDING On the afternoon of October 18 took place the symbolic ceremony of turning the first sod of the new Arts Building group, to be known as the Buchanan Building, named for the late Daniel Buchanan, popular Dean of the Arts and Science Faculty through many generations of students. The sod-turning was done by The Honour- The Honourable Leslie Peterson, Minister of Education, 'Turns the First Sod' of the new Arts Building. With him are seen, (from Right), Dean Chant, Mrs. Daniel Buchanan President MacKenzie and Mr. Percy Bengough, Member of the University Board of Governors. U.B.C ALUMNI CHRONICLE 28 able Leslie Peterson, LL.B.'49, Minister of Education, in the presence of President MacKenzie, Dean Chant and a small gathering of Staff, Students and other interested spectators. Mrs. Buchanan, widow of Dean Buchanan, was among those who witnessed the important ceremony. The Arts Building is expected to be ready for occupation for the opening of the Session in the Autumn of 1958. It will provide lecture room facilities for approximately 3000 students and office amenities for more than 100 members of the University Teaching Staff. NEW DORMITORY WING FOR WOMEN STUDENTS A new wing, connecting Anne Wesbrook and Isabel Maclnnes Halls, is rapidly nearing completion on the Campus. It will be occupied after Christmas by 71 first year students, now temporarily housed at Youth Training Camp. The new building is Women's Dormitory Unit to be Ready for Use after Christmas. a dormitory unit, designed so that its occupants can use the lounge facilities of the two halls to which it is being joined. As with the earlier units, anyone who wishes may contribute an amount sufficient to furnish either a single room ($250) or a double (S500). The gift will be recorded by a brass plaque on the door of the room chosen. Miss Nancy Macdonald, B.A.'47, a member of the Reference Department in the University Library, has already arranged to furnish a room as a Christmas present for her Mother and Father, Mr. and Mrs. Colin C. Macdonald of Penticton. —M. D. M. GIFT OF BOOKS BY ITALY The Government of Italy recently added to the University of B.C. Library's collection of Italian books with a presentation of 45 volumes of Italian classics. Italian Consul Vittorio Bifulco, on behalf of his Government, made the presentation to University President Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie. Earlier this year members of the Italian Community in Vancouver donated $650, through the Vancouver Italian Mutual Aid Society, for the purchase of Italian books by the University. —U.B.C. Reports Great Trekker Award GREAT TREKKER 1956 The 1956 "Great Trekker" award, highest honour U. B. C. students can bestow on an Alumnus, has been given ^o Ernest William Hart Brown, 43, Manager of the Winnipeg Branch of the Hudson's Bay Company. The award, established in 1950, is given annually to a member of the U.B.C. Alumni Association who has "continued his interest in the University . . . and made an outstanding contribution to the community, the University and the student body." Mr. Brown, who now lives at 670 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg, graduated from U.B.C. in 1934, and joined the Hudson's Bay Company in whose employment he has served ever since. He was Assistant Manager of the Vancouver Branch before his transfer earlier this year to manage the Winnipeg store. The Alma Mater Society chose Mr. Brown for the Great Trekker Award in recognition of his service to the University in guiding development plans. Mr. Brown was President of the Alumni Association from April to August of this year. He was President of the Community Chest and Council of Greater Vancouver in 1954-55, when new records were, achieved in obtaining financial support for the Community Chest. Mr. Brown is also President of the University Club of Vancouver, a member of the Board of Governors of the Vancouver Public Aquarium Society, a member of the Friends of U.B.C. and a member of the Canadian Club. The Great Trekker award was presented to Mr. Brown by Don Jabour, President of the U.B.C. Alma Mater Society, at Homecoming ceremonies November 3. The Award consists of a large trophy in the shape of the U.B.C. Cairn, held by the recipient for one year, and a small replica to be kept permanently. (See p. 18) "Shpij Shall ®rmn Not ®ln" The annual Remembrance Day service was held on the morning of November 11 in the Foyer of the Memorial Gymnasium. Rev. William Deans, B.A.'25, Chaplain of the 196th Western Universities Battalion Association conducted the service. Wreaths were placed by representatives of Tri- Service Cadet Units, the 196th Western Universities Battalion Association, The University, The Alumni Association, The University Employees' Union, The Alma Mater Society, the Canadian Legion Branch 142 and The War Amputations of Canada. A smart Tri-Service guard of U.B.C. Cadet- Officers was under C.O.T.C. command. After The Last Post, Two Minutes of Silence was observed followed by Wreath-Laying before Memorial Plaque at Remembrance Day Service. Reveille. The Lament, 'Flowers of the Forest', was played by Pipe-Major Roger. Short addresses were given by Mr. W. R. Wawhinney, President of the 196th Battalion Association, and Lieut. Col. Harry T. Logan for the University. Each year following the end of World War I, Members of the 196th Battalion gathered to do homage to the memory of their comrades until their private ceremony was merged in the University Remembrance Day Service. It was fitting that Mr. Mawhinny should speak of these early associations. "This year," he said, "we of the 196th Western Universities Battalion are celebrating the 40th anniversary of its formation. The 196th Battalion consisted of four companies of roughly 250 men each from the four Western Universities— 'A' Company, from the University of Manitoba, 'B' Company, University of Saskatchewan, 'C Company, University of Alberta, and 'D' Company from the University of British Columbia. "On this Armistice Day our memories go back to those days of forty years ago. As we gaze upon the Memorial Plaque or turn the pages of the Book of Remembrance, we remember the tents on Laurel Street, where the Private Ward Pavilion of the Vancouver General Hospital now stands, the grounds of King Edward High School, where we were taught Squad and Company Drill, Camp Hughes, Manitoba, where we joined the other three Companies and continued our training as a Battalion. From there we proceeded to Seaford, England, for more advanced training. "During this period, comradeships were made, some to be forever parted but always remembered and cherished. "It is the memory of these departed comrades we honour today. As the years go by, our numbers decrease, and so it is with pride that we acknowledge that this ceremony, initiated by our Association, has become an institution of the University, and, on behalf of my comrades of the 196th Battalion Association, I wish to thank the committee in charge of arrangements for the time and effort spent in arranging its many details. "We are grateful that the supreme sacrifice of our comrades will be forever remembered, along with that of the other students and members of the Faculty of the University." —H.T.L. 29 U. B. C. 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We shall be happy to help vou plan a programme . . . without obligation to vou of course. Just come in to any of our offices ... or drop us a line. A. E. Ames & Co. Limited Business Established 1889 626 West Pender St., Vancouver Telephone PA. 7521 TORONTO MONTREAL WINNIPEG VICTOR I/. CALGARY NEW YORK LONDON, ENG. U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 30 The Faculty Dean G. F. Curtis, LL.B. (Sask), B.A., B.C.L.(Oxon.), LL.D.(Dalhousie, Sask.), D.C.L.(N.B.), Faculty of Law, urged the formation of a centralised agency in Canada to direct leg-al research and stressed the growing need for facilities to carry on such research in his paper, "The Lawyers' Part in Law Reform", presented to the Commonwealth and Empire Law Conference in London this summer. The paper was published in the September Issue of the American Bar Association Journal. Dean H. C. Gunning, B.A.Sc'23, S.M., Ph.D.(M.I.T.), F.G.S.A., F.R.S.C. Faculty of Applied Science, attended the 69th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America at Minneapolis, October 31 to November 2. At the Annual Dinner held on November 1st, he represented the Geological Association of Canada as its President. As Vice-President of the Society of Economic Geologists he attended the 37th Annual Meeting of that Society and the Council Meeting held on October 30. Technical papers were presented by J. E. Armstrong, B.A.Sc'34, M.A.Sc'35, I,. H. Green, B.A.Sc'49, K. C. McTaggart, B.A.Sc'43, P. M. Hurley, B.A.Sc.'34, J. E. Reesor, B.A.Sc'49, all graduates in Geological Engineering. About 800 scientists attended the meetings under the Presidency of Dr. George S. Hume of Ottawa and Calgary. Dean H. C. Gunning J. S. Clark Dean F. H. Soward, B.A..(Toronto), B..Litt. (Oxon.), F.R.S.C, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, was appointed one of the five alternate representatives of the 10- man Canadian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, November 12. The Delegation is headed by Lester B. Pearson. Dean Soward will remain in New York until February, 1957, when he will return to the University. John S. Clark, B.S.A.'48, M.S.A.'50, Ph.D. (Cornell), has i*ecently been appointed to the staff of the Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture. Prior to his appointment Dr. Clark was research Professor at Cornell and had co-operated with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Sun Oil Company on special soil phos phorus and nitrogen problems. He plans to continue research work with special reference to the soils of British Columbia. C. E. Dolman, M.R.C.S.(England), M.B., B.S., D.P.H., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (London), F.R.C.P. (C), F.A.P.H.A., F.R.S.C, Head of the Department of Bacteriolgy and Immunology, Faculty of Arts and Science, has resigned hi 5 position as Director of the Division of Laboratories. Provincial Department of Health. Dr. Dolman, who has held both positions for the past 21 years, will assume full-time duties with th; University. W. C Gibson, B.A.'33, M.Sc.(McGill), D. Phil.(Oxon.), M.D., C M. (McGill), Kinsmen Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Research, was recently elected President of the U.B.C Faculty Association. Other Officers and Executive Members are as follows: Vice- President, Dr. W. G. Dixon, Schocl of Social Work; Secretary, Dr. L. W. Shemilt, Chemical Engineering Department; Treasurer, Prof. C. L. Mitchell, Faculty of Commerce; Past- President, Prof. G. O. B. Davies, Department of History; Prof. W. R. Carrothers, Faculty of Law; Ruth M.. Morrison, School of Nursing; and Dr. M. F. McGregor, Department of Classics. Arthur Koehler, B.S. (Michigan), M.S.(Wisconsin), is visiting Professor in the Faculty of Forestry for the 1956-57 Session. He is giving the courses in Wood Technology during- the absence of Robert Kennedy who is taking post-graduate work at Yale towards his Ph.D. Degree. Prol'. Koehler was Chief of the Wood Technology Section of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, for 35 years. After retiring, he taught Wood Technology at the Yale Forest School for two years. His famous detective work in helping to solve the Lindbergh kidnapping case in the early 30's, through the wood structure of the abductions ladder, will be recalled. Edmund Morrison, B.A.'27, A.M., Ph.D.(Calif.), of the English Department, has obtained the first award of a grant from the Koerner Foundation, intended to release a senior Professor for a year of advanced study and general cultural experience, in Europe. Dr. Morrison and Mi". Morrison (nee Mary Carter, B.A.'2£) travelled to Italy on the S.S. Vulcania and back to England through Italy and France. He is resuming work on the novelist, Charles Reade. J. Lewis Robinson, B.A. (Western Ontario), M.A. (Syracuse), Ph.D. (Clark), Chairman, Division of Geography, Department of Geology and Geography, is on leave-of-absence for a year to the University of Rochester, where he has been appointed to give a Geography Course on Canada in a Canadian Studies Programme. C. E. Dolman Edmund Morrison Marion Seymour, B.Sc. (H.Ec.) (Man.), formerly on the Staff of the School of Home Economics, is now on the Faculty of the University of Texas. Dr. Myron M. Weaver, recently retired Dean of Medicine, U.B.C, has joined the Staff of Union College at Schenectady, New York. He has assumed the three-fold responsibilities of Professor of Health, College Physician and Director of the College Health Service. MISS MARJORIE J. SMITH An Appreciation The death on October 26, 1956, of Misa Marjorie J. Smith, Director of the School of Social Work, meant a great loss to the University, the profesison of social work, and the community. Miss Smith first came to the University in 1943 and immediately undertook the large task of developing the social work programme into a professional school. How well she succeeded was amply demonstrated at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the School in October, 1955, when social work leaders from Canada, United States, and Great Britain paid tribute to the leadership she had given in establishing the School as one of the foremost in social work education. British Columbia has long been a place with a social conscience, but Miss Smith gave the lead to a fuller expression of that conscience by what she did in training professional personnel to administer both private and public programmes. In doing so, she brought not only an extensive academic background from the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago, but also the practical lessons of social welfare administration in the dark days of the depression in the United States. In an acre of specialisation in most fields. Miss Smith, an outstanding teacher, was equally at home in teaching the elements of psychiatric social work or the issues surrounding the administration of a public welfare programme. She was always more than the technician because, in the building of the programme of the School of Social Work, she constantly had a grasp of sound educational philosophy. Through all her philosophy ran the theme that true education for social work did not consist of training for narrow specialties, but rather should be an inclusive, educational experience which would prepare people to deal with all the facets and intricacies of human experience. Miss Smith will be greatly missed by her Faculty, the hundreds of students who received the benefit of her teaching skill and wise administration, and the scores of administrators and volunteers in the community who sought her counsel and enjoyed her friendship. Miss Smith built well in her role as Director of the School of Social Work, but she built equally well in her outstanding contribution to the development of social welfare in the community. —W.G.D. 31 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Do Your Distant Friends Worry About You? CHANCES ARE that some of the news items in their home newspapers telling of doings in our corner of the world have caused your friends in distant places to write, airmail, to ask if everything is all right and are you safe. There really is only one way to reassure them about our eerily quaint folkways; send them a Christmas copy of the fifth annual Cartoon Book of 101 Len Norris drawings, a selection of the best that have appeared in "The Sun" in 1956, now smoking hot off the presses. This priceless gift will lay them on the carpet in helpless mirth; it will also cause them to scream for another copy next Christmas, thus solving part of your Gift Problem for years to come! On heavy paper, handsomely bound, in a Mailing Envelope; at all department stores, news agents, booksellers .... $1.00. Vancouver's Home-Owned Newspaper • Phone TA. 7141 For Daily Home Delivery Your Sign of GUARANTEED PROTECTION in Paint Finishes S ^ EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY GENERAL PAINT CORPORATION OF CANADA LIMITED substantial savings may result from the careful planning of your Will. With our assistance you may be able to lessen the impact of Succession Duties on your estate. 950 Raymur Avenue, Vancouver For industrial finishes and specialty coatings to meet your specific needs call on GENERAL PAINTS Technical Service. Telephone TAtlow 5311 for complete information Makers of Monamel and Monaseal THE Aik tar our 5ucc*it/on Duty bookM. ■\ ROYAL TRUST COMPANY 626 WEST PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER George O. Vale, Manager 1205 GOVERNMENT STREET, VICTORIA R. W. Phipps, Manager -jT U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 32 Students' Council, Session 1956-57. Standing, from Left: Sandy Ross, Editor-in-Chief, Publications Board Marc Bell, University Clubs Committee Chairman; Charlotte Warren, Women's Athletics Representative Murray McKenzie, Vice-President; Kathy Archibald First Member-at-Large; Ian Smyth, Public Relations Officer. Seated, from Left: Tom Toynbee, Men's Athletics Representative; Lynda Gates, Women's Undergraduate Society President; Alan Thackray, Treasurer; Don Jabour,. President; Peggy Andreen, Secretary: Robin Scott, Undergratuate Societies Chairman; Maureen McNeil, Second Member. Inset, Ben Trevino( Co-ordinator of Activities. Campus News and Views Leadership Conference By Ian Smyth, Arts '58, Public Relations Officer, Students' Council On October 5, 6, and 7, ninety-fiv V Student delegates and fifteen Facultyjr^L members met at Y. M.C. A's Camp Elphinstone for U.B.C.'s Second Annual Leadership Conference. "When we worked, we worked," said Conference Chairman Lynda Gates, "and when we played, we played." And they did. Work and play proved to be a happy combination during the three- day session with delegates dividing their time between the fifteen ninety- minute discussion groups and a lively recreational programme that included dancing, sing-songs, canoeing, sports and movies. Purpose of the Conference is for Student leaders to meet with Faculty to discuss Student problems and to further Student-Faculty relations. Topics included Current Campus Happenings, Finances, Student-Faculty- Alumni Relations, Publications and Student Participation in Campus Activities. Discussion in all groups was mature, intelligent and fruitful. The general topics were subdivided and each Chairman allowed his group to select for discussion those issues which most interested them. It was interesting to note that all groups agreed on the Discussion Group with Marc Bell in the Chair; Subject—Current Campus Affairs. To the Right on the grass is seen another Discussion going on; Subject—Campus Publications. —Courtesy Prof. Stanley Read Leaders of To-day and To-morrow. Courtesy Prof Stanley Rear! existence of basically similar problems and suggested similar general solutions. Some of the more important ideas expressed during the Conference follow. In Current Campus Affairs two of the five subdivisions were repeatedly discussed in each group; the ever- stormy question of A.M.S. General Meetings, and Campus Housing. All delegates agreed that general meetings, at their best, are a proven and reliable aspect of democratic government but it was also felt that, because of expanding enrolment at U.B.C, such meetings have become unmanageable, unrepresentative, and obsolete as an effective instrument of government. Most popular of all reform proposals was a plan for establishing a parliamentary form of representative government. In the matter of Housing, delegates agreed that the University Administration has done everything in its power to obtain sufficient and suitable Campus Housing, but that the Provincial Government had failed in its responsibility to the University. Out of these discussions arose the nucleus of the current suggestion of a "Second Great Trek," a proposed drive by students to obtain greater grants for study, lecture and residence accomodation. By petition, advertising and a strenuous campaign, designed to make student needs known throughout the Province, it is hoped that pressure can be brought to bear on the Provincial Legislature with a view to their relieving the grossly overcrowded Campus conditions. The programme of the Conference also provided for periods of recreation and anyone who watched the Saturday afternoon Football Game will long- remember Dean Chant of the Faculty of Arts and Science as he raked in a long pass from quarterback Don Hill, Frosh Undergrad Society President, and carried the ball for a long gain. Another memorable sight was the look on the face of a member of the English Department as he filled an inside straight in the Poker Game that seemed to have no end. And we shall probably never know what happened to that tame white rabbit that arrived at the Conference site, cradled in the arms of Ubyssey Editor, Sandy Ross. Everyone was impressed by the friendly tone of the Conference and by the amount of good work done during the 3 days. The prevailing- spirit of co-operation has done a great deal to integrate inter-club and inter- Faculty relations on the Campus. The surest sign of approval, however, has been in the many requests of delegates for an invitation to next year's Conference. Annual High School Conference The University of British Columbia will play host to over 200 representatives from High Schools all over- British Columbia and the Yukon for two days in mid-February, 1957, at the Tenth Annual High School Conference. Conference committee officials have urged that every High School in the Province send at least one or two representatives. The purpose of the Conference is to acquaint High School delegates with all aspects of Campus life, both academic and social. U.B.C. is the only University in Canada to sponsor such a conference. Dave Robertson, Arts '59, Ubyssey Staff. Clubs Day on the Campus 33 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Northern Electric SERVES YOU BEST MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY ".4 Company that Cares for your Affairs" Services to Individuals and Corporations • EXECUTORS 0 TRUSTEES • EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS • ENDOWMENT FUNDS 466 Howe Street MArine 0567 Vancouver, B.C. J. N. BELL—MANAGER U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 34. First stage of Victory Journey. Canada's Olympic hopes rested on these men as they left Vancouver Airport, Saturday, November 10. Front Row (from left) : Carl Ogawa, Laurie West, Dou^ Clement, Doug Kyle, Bob Osborne (Manager Canada's Olympic Team), Cst. John Graham, Frank Read, Don Arnold, Archie McKinnon, Walter d'Hondt. Back Row (from left) : Eddie Wild, Ron Stewart, Fil Kueber, Dick McClure, Bob Wilson, Dave Helliwell, Wayne Pretty, Tom Gray. Bill McKerlich, Doug McDonald, Glen Smith, John MacLeod. Their achievements have fully justified the hopes of their friends and backers. OLYMPICS SUMMARY Special Despatches from Australia Never in its history has the University of British Columbia had such a large representation on Canada's Olympic Teams as we have had during the recent Games in Melbourne, Australia. Fifteen Students, two Faculty members, two Graduates and one former student were included in Canada's 1956 Olympic Team. No other Canadian University has ever equalled this achievement. The University has received a tremendous amount of favourable publicity, especially because of the brilliant victories of the four- and eight- oared crews who, under the leadership of Frank Read, brought Canada a Gold and a Silver Medal. Following is a list of Canada's Olympic Team members, (other than the Rowing Crews), who are associated with U.B.C: R. F. (Bob) Osborne, Manager, Track and Field Team; Jack Pomfret, Assistant Coach, Basketball Team; Frank Read, Rowing Coach; Alice Whitty (former student), 16th in High Jump Final; Doug. Kyle (Grad.), 23rd in 10,000 Metres Final; Doug. Clement, 5th in 1600 Metre Relay Final; John McLeod (Grad.), 9th in Basketball; Ed Wild, 9th in Basketball.. The Olympic Eight and Four, Silver and Gold Medallists, respectively, are, of course, all U.B.C. men. Their names are given in the Front Cover caption on Page 3. How the Medals Were Won By Fil Kueber The following special despatch to the Chronicle was sent with best wishes to Alumni from Olympic Village, Melbourne, by Fil Kueber, who By R. J. Phillips, Athletics Director rowed Bow in the U.B.C. Olympic Eight. The letter, addressed to the Editor, was dated November 28. "The rowing events are finished as of yesterday and no doubt by now you have heard the results. To begin with, I suppose I should tell you of the splendid performance of our Four- oared Crew. There was no doubt that they were the tops in their event— as evidenced by their 5-length margin in the final over U.S.A., Italy and France. When they returned to the boat-house, we in the eight were just preparing to leave for the start of our final—the last event on the programme. The sight of their Gold Medals made us more determined than ever to win, and we were quite confident we could make it a double Gold Medal day for Canada. However, you know the result—we finished seconc to the U.S. by one-third of a length followed by Australia in third spot I won't hedge around the point: we were disappointed. When a crew- eats, sleeps, drinks, thinks and trains, in terms of a Gold Medal ending to the venture, it is a disappointment. However, as the telegrams began to come in, the boys began to pick up and the Silver Medal looked like a respectable achievement. The race itself was nip and tuck all the way and the result could have been completely changed among the three crews without any surprise from anyone. We did have the windies; lane in the final but that's the luck of the draw. On any other given day we might have won. The three top crews beat each other at least once, so it is quite evident that not much separated them. Right now everyone is quite content and is looking forward to seeing the rest of the Games." Bob Osborne Describes Races Bob Osborne sends this interesting description of the U.B.C. crews' achievements, with his own comments, in a letter written on December 1 from Olympic Village, Melbourne, specially for the Chronicle. "Greetings from 'down under.' The first week of the Olympic Games is over and, as you know, Canada's best showing was made by our own U.B.C. Crews. Fortunately, from a purely personal point of view, my Track and Field responsibilities were relieved on Tuesday afternoon and so I was able to get up to Ballarat just before the start of the Rowing Finals. The Four Oars Without Cox event was not scheduled to start until 4.30 and frankly, although the other races were excellent, I could hardly wait for the 'main events' to begin. You know the story of the race. The boys were behind for the first 500 metres and I was beginning to get worried. Then the announcer began to comment on the steady stroking and form of the Canadian crew and from that point on he showered praise on our boys. Before the race was half over, he was saying that the issue was now only for second and third places. It was a tremendous thrill to see Canada come into sight and to maintain and even increase their substantial lead. All of the Canadian officials were on hand to see Frank Read's U.B.C. crew receive the first Gold Medal ever won by Canada in Rowing. The final race of the day was the Eight Oars With Cox, rowed at 5:30 p.m. on a perfect afternoon. Without a doubt it was one of the finest and most exciting eight-oared races ever seen anywhere. The U.B.C. crew from Canada (so called by the announcer) alternated slight leads with the fine crews from Yale and Australia. As the Aussies say, 'There was nothing in it'. Canada rowed a magnificent race to close the gap on U.S.A. with a finishing sprint that would have brought them a Gold Medal if the race had been a few yards longer. It was a wonderful race which perhaps would have seen the results different if the Canadian and American lanes had been reversed. This statement is not meant to detract from the splendid American crew but it did appear that crews in the inside lane, perhaps purely coincidentally, had been more fortunate than the others. Our Four rowed in this lane but they were so superior that they did not need any extra good luck. One thing that pleased me as much as the Gold and Silver Medals was the fine impresison created by the rowers. Significantly, I heard many complimentary remarks before they had made their splendid performances. You can be sure that I swelled a bit with pride because they were from U.B.C. and Canada. 35 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE There are some valves that Crane doesn't make TT but Crane makes more valves jS than anyone else Crane Limited, General Office, 1170 Beaver Hall Square, Nation-wide Service through Branches, Wholesalers and Plumbing and Heating Contractors VALVES . FITTINGS . PIPING . PLUMBING . HEATING U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 36 Obituaries KEITH SHAW, 1902-1956 Tt is not easy to write of the death of a close friend whom I have known so well and of whom I was so fond. I first met Keith in the main hall of the University in the old Fairview Shacks in 1919. I remember distinctly being introduced to him by Jack Shier and thinking at the time that here was a man whom I would like and who would be a friend. We did become friends, very great friends, and that friendship continued on an undiminished basis up to the hour of his death. We saw each other constantly during our undergraduate years; we graduated at the same time with identically the same marks ; we married about the same time ; and we experienced a great number of joys and vicissitudes of life together. Keith was a unique person. He was physically strong, having worked in the woods during his undergraduate summers and, after graduation, as a timber cruiser. When he joined the MacMillan and Bloedel firm in later life he rose to be one of its most valued Executives. I have often heard H. R. MacMillan say that there was no-one in British Columbia who knew more about timber and and timber values than Keith Shaw, and, in the Company's brief to the Royal Commission on Forestry several months ago, Mr. MacMillan paid tribute to Keith Shaw as one of his coauthors in the submission on behalf of that organisation. He was keen and able in business, but, on the other hand, he was extremely sensitive, and his whole attitude to life was artistic. He came from a scholarly family. His father, a graduate of Dalhousie in Classics and a Harvard A.M., was the distinguished Principal of Vancouver High School and old Vancouver College, and the first Principal of McGill University College of British Columbia. He had the reputation of being a fine teacher. Keith, himself, graduated in Arts in 1923. He played the piano and had a most acute ear and a great love for music. Everything he did, he did wholeheartedly and with good taste. He loved cards and was an expert bridge player. He was very fond of horse- racing and had a flair for picking winners. He had a charm of manner which attracted friends from all walks of life and he was in every sense a good companion. Since his death I have heard a number of people refer to him as a blithe spirit, and he was a blithe spirit in his intense love of life, his keen interest in other people, his unfailing gaiety coupled with good sense. He was an incurable optimist in all things, and when he heard some months ago that he was suffering from a serious heart condition, he cheerfully started to plan his life so that he could accommodate himself to that fact. He was "One who never turned his back But marched breast forward ; Never doubted clouds would break." Perhaps his giving of himself so completely in everything that he did was one of the things which shortened his life. In any event when death came to him, it came quickly and kindly, as it ought, to one who was himself gentle and kind. He was beloved by his family who have suffered a great loss, and a host of friends will grieve for him for a long time. —J.V.C. HERBERT B. KING Dr. Herbert B. King, B.A. (Queen's), M.A. '23, Ph.D. (Wash.), former Chief Inspector of Schools for the Province, 1939-45, died in Ottawa, Friday, November 9, 1956. He was 77. Dr. King was Principal of Kitsilano High School from 1924-34, and, from 1934 to '39, was Technical Adviser to the Provincial Department of Education. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Monica, B.A.'27, in Ottawa; a son, Hubert B. King, B.A.'27, of Prince George; three brothers, Howard King, Ladner ; Garfield A. King, Vancouver; Earl King, Long Island, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. A. Robertson of Ocean Park. JEAN ROGERS DEAN GILLEY, B.A/27 Jean Gilley was a warm friend of all those with whom she ever worked. We found this personal reference in the Totem of her graduating year : " 'The dignified member of the Council', a-: least that's what Jean thinks she is. Four years of college life have brought Jean many good friends. Her varied interests include: member of the Senior 'A' Basketball Team, Vice-President of her class, and finally President of the Women's Athletic Association. Always happy and good-natured and of a steadfast character which inspires all who know her with confidence—that's Jean." So many of us learned to appreciate thowo qualities in her. In her mature years sh<^ showed herself to be a wise, public-spirited, able and gracious member of her community, in which the University played a large part. She served the Alumni Association in various ways; many tasks were given to her, e.g.. Second Vice-President of the Association, Chairman of the Alumnae Home Management House Committee, and member of the U.B.C. Development Fund Board of Directors. Th^ women who worked with her on the Home Management House Committee remember loni?: hours spent compiling lists, stuffing envelopes with circulars, and making plans to follow up their extensive correspondence. As a convener, Jean inspired the members of her committee to work towards the realisation of a goal—set, for the young women of the University, by other women in much earlier years-- and, under her, the tasks had significance. Eventually she saw the House in ope rat ior, was entertained there by the Home Management students and proudly attended the official opening. Looking back, we see that she served in many- posts that called for special characteristics. Following graduation, she spent a year as Assistant to Dean Bollert at U.B.C. She worked on the Campus of the University of Toronto. After a summer abroad she rt - turned to Vancouver and presently joined the Provincial Government Staff as Secretary to Harry Cassidy, first Director of Welfare for British Columbia. Several years later she transferred to a research position in the Provincial Welfare Department from which she moved to the Provincial Department of Health. In the war years, she was made secretary <; f the Federal Provincial Health Committee, as a medical research assistant, directly undtr Dr. George Elliott, Assistant Deputy Minister of Health. The nature of these posts suggests that, in her life-work, Jean devoted herself to the welfare of the community in which she lived. Out of the experience of working with he-, one of her colleagues has said, "Everyone who knew Jean Gilley was richer for the experience. With her high principles and firm convictions, she sustained and strengthened those who might waver." —E.W. and M.I\ W. J. MASTERSON The passing of W. J. (Bill) Masterson, B.A.'28, is deeply mourned by his wide circ e of friends. The funeral service on the afternoon of Thursday, November 8, was conducted by Right Rev. Bishop Gower and Dean North- cote Burke, and took place in Christ Church Cathedral, where he was a Warden. Eight years after graduation, in 1936, he was called to the Bar, and carried on for a time with the legal firm of Reid, Wallbridge, Gibson and Sutton, before setting up his own private practice. During World War II he received a Commission through the C.O.T.C. at U.B.C, and served with the Canadian Army in Canada, mainly on prisoner-of-war duty and later with the Adjutant-General's Branch in Ottawa. When the war was over, he returned :o Vancouver to the practice of Law, and was appointed Assistant Prosecutor in Vancouver, a position he still held at the time of his death. Recently he was given charge if prosecutions in the Family Court. Because of the nature of his work, which brought him into touch with the homeless and the friendless, and as a result of his own sympathetic spirit, he became extremely interested in the work of the Salvation Army and the John Howard Society. Bill Masterson was always ready and willing to assist any u n- fortunate persons in a process of rehabilitation. He was an active member of the Taur.is Unit, Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans of Canada. —A.M.H. MRS. MORDEN W. SMITH Mrs. Morden W. Smith (nee Verna Lucas). B.A.'28, M.A.'30, died in St. Andrews, N.B. She is survived by her husband Dr. Smith, St. Andrews; three sons, Leigh Smith, Edmonton ; Richard, a student at U.N.B. ; Paul at home; and a brother R. B. Lucas, Vancouver, B. C. MRS. WILLIAM IRWIN Mrs. William Irwin (nee Esther Eddy) B.A.'29, well-known Social and Community worker, died March 24, 1956. Mrs. Irwin was Founder and Past-President of the B. C. Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association and received an award for the greatest personal contribution to the Canadian Mental Health Programme in 1955. At the time of her death she was the Chairman of a Community Chest Committee for the foundation of a home for, and treatment of, emotionally disturbed children. She is survived by her husband, William Irwin, 1950 Nanton : her Mother, Mrs. A. C. Eddy, Vancouver ; two sons, Robert and Bryan of Vancouver, and a daughter, Mrs. David Sheasgreen. Calgary. She was 47. FOREST GENE HESS Dr. Forest Gene Hess, B.A.'49, M.A.'51, Ph.D.'55, died in England on November 8, 1956. Dr. Hess was attending Cambridge University on an Overseas Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Research Council at the time of his death. Prior to taking up the Fellowship, he had been working with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River. He was 28. REV. DR. J. G. BROWN, M.A., D.D. Dr. Brown always said that he wanted to die in harness. He had his wish. On Sunday, October 14, 1956, he preached twice to his congregation in Victoria, and performed his usual pastoral duties. On Monday, October 15, he died. He was in harness to the very end. In temperament and character. Dr. Brown was the stuff of which pioneers are made. Born of Irish parents, in Lakefield, Ont., in 1880, he had his full share both of Irish impetuousness and of Irish humour. Difficulties did not deter him from what he felt he should do; they only aroused his fighting spirit. Nor could they quench his sense of humour. From a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of stories, he always had something on which to draw. A fighting spirit and a fun- loving mind are not a bad combination. In the University sphere, Dr. Brown's enduring contribution was made through the development of Union College of British Columbia, affiliated as a Theological College of the University. After several pastorates in the Methodist Church, and after serving as Principal of Ryerson Theological College for four years, he became the first Principal of Union College when it was formed in 1927 by the amalgamation of Ryerson College and Westminster Hall. He continued as Principal till his retirement in 1948. The Union College building is, in a sense, a visible memorial to Dr. Brown. As Principal, he was responsible for the erection, first of the west wing in 1927, and then of the tower section in 1934. In a less tangible way, whatever contribution Union College can in future make to the scholarship, and to the student life of the University, it will also be a memorial to the man who founded the college and guided it through both a depression and a war. Dr. Brown was himself a scholar of considerable ability, though his administrative duties made it impossible for him to give to scholarly work the time that he would have liked to give, and I feel sure, both the Church and the academic world are the losers thereby. There was nothing insipid or neutral about Dr. Brown. He made both friends and enemies ; and he got things done. But the many friends, who, in times of distress, found him ready to go to any lengths to help them, and the many students, whom he assisted in their perplexities, will remember him best for the great kindliness he showed them. He leaves behind a wife, a daughter, Ellen, and two sons, both of whom are on the staff 37 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Obituaries—continued of the University of B.C., Professor James Brown, B.A/40, D.Phil. (Oxon.), of the Department of Physics, and Prof. Donald Brown, B.A.'47, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), of the Dept. of Philosophy. —W. S. T. JENNIE WYMAN PILCHER Her former Colleagues in the Faculty and many Alumni who attended her lectures in U.B.C. will learn with regret of the death of Dr. Jennie Wyman Pilcher, who passed away in San Francisco on November 24. She was a member of the University of British Columbia Teaching Staff from 1926 to 1938, first as Assistant Professor, and later as Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Education. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Stanley B. Pilcher of San Francisco, and her son, Victor, of Vancouver. BIRTHS MR. AND MRS. MORRIS J. BELKIN, B.A.'44, (HELEN M. HARMER. nee HANN, B.A. '40), a daughter, Margaret Isobel, March 6, 1956. MR. AND MRS. ROBERT BOROUGHS, B.A.'39, M.A.'43 (nee CATHERINE ALICE BRIDE CARR, B.A.'39), a daughter, She- lagh Catherine, July 29, 1955. MR. AND MRS. DONALD R. CAMERON, (nee MAVIS HUSTON, Arts'47), a son, Leslie Gray, March 23, 1956, at Vernon, B.C. MR. AND MRS. W. C. (DAVE) DUFTON, B.A.Sc'54, a son, Carl William Richard, September 11, 1956, in Youbou, B. C. MR. AND MRS. FRED A. FREBOLD, M.Sc. 55, (nee AGNES WILLFORT, B.A.'54), a daughter, Christine, October 29, 1955. MR. AND MRS. DONALD W. HAMMERSLEY, B.Com.'46, a son, Paul Douglas, May 5, 1956. DR. AND MRS. C. B. HENDERSON, B.A/48, twin boys, Paul Edward and John Bradley, February 17, 1966, in Kelowna. MR. AND MRS. KENNETH T. LOGAN, B.S.F.'49, a daughter, Gwyneth Ann, October 7, 1956, in Chalk River, Ontario. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE E. PLANT, B.A. Sc.50, (nee MARY LETT, B.A.'52), a son, Gregory Sherwood, May 8, 1956. DR. AND MRS. JOHN K. POOLE, B.A.'49, a daughter, November 6, 1955. DR. AND MRS. WILLIAM H. POOLE, B.A.Sc'49, Ph.D. (Princeton), a son, January 14, 1956, in Ottawa. MR. AND MRS. TREVOR ROOT, B.A.'52, (nee SUSAN MacKENZIE, B.A.'52), a daughter, November 17, 1956. MR. AND MRS. DOUGLAS G. THIRD, B.A.Sc'55, a daughter, Victoria Ann, July 8, 1956. MR. AND MRS. STUART W. TURNER, B.S.A.'43, M.S.A.'47. a son, Stuart Anthony, February 3, 1956, in Seattle. DR. AND MRS. PATRICK C. T. WHITE, B.A. '46, (nee JANE SEYMOUR, B.A.'47, B.S.W. '48), a son, Christopher Arthur Seymour, September 25, 1956, in Toronto. MR. AND MRS. R. T. WHITE, B.A.'51, [nee PEGGY SMITH, B.A.(Tor.)], a son, Andrew Gordon Telfer, September 5, 1956, in Toronto. MARRIAGES ALLISON-VARTY. George Wilson Allison, B.Com.'46, B.S.F.'46, to Ann Broughton Varty, B.A.'55. ANDERSON-HARRIS. John McTurk Anderson, B.A.'52, to Nancy Joan Harris, B.A/52. BECKETT-CANT. Daniel C. Beckett, B.A.'54, to Isabel A. Cant, B.A.'54. BRYANT-DENHOLME. Lawrence Pierce Bryant, B.S.A.'52, to Margaret Ann Den- holme, in Guelph, Ontario. CAMPBELL-BURKE. Malcolm Hood Campbell, IS.A/48, B.A.Sc'49, to Barbara Claire Burke. CHRISTOPHERSON - FARLEY. Raymond Henry Christopherson, B.A.Sc'53, to Frances Noreen Farley. CROWTHER-CORNISH. John William Ferguson Crowther to Elizabeth Mary Cornish, B.A.'55. DOWSLEY-THATCHER. Donald Alexander Dowsley, B.A.Sc'55, to Marjorie Joan Thatcher, B.A.'54. EDWARDS-MANNING. Jack Lesgor Thomson Edwards, B.Com.'54, to Rosamonde Elizabeth Manning, in Cobourg, Ont. EDWARDS-STOBART. Dudley Edwards, LL.B.'52, to Patricia Anne Stobart. FILER-LIVINGSTON. Roderick George McLeod Filer to Mary Dianne Livingston, B.A.'54. GOLDBURG-URQUHART. Dr. Walter I. Goldburg to Dr. Helen Urquhart, B.A.Sc.48, M.A.'49, in Pittsburgh. HARVEY-SMITH - WAINES. Frank Paul Harvey-Smith, B.A.Sc.56, to Frances Irene Waines. HOLLAND-USBORNE. Arthur Michael Holland, B.Arch.'55, to Joan Elizabeth Usborne. HOSSIE-SAY. David Stuart Dickson Hossie, LL.B.'56, to Beatrice Margaret Jill Say. JANDA-KRAJINA. Kvetoslav Janda, B. Com.'55, to Milena Krajina, B.A.'56. KENYON-RAINER. Gerald Sidney Kenyon, B.P.E.'54, to Eileen Rainer, B.A.'55, in Victoria. KER-ARNOLD-WALLINGER. James Rosa Ker, LL.B.'49, to Jocelyn Carlyon Arnold- Wallinger, in Trail. LEE-MAH. Wilson Lee to Jeanette (Bunny) Mah, B.A.'53. MALKIN-CHOWN. Toby Malkin, B.Com.'56, to Mary Frances Chown. MacNICOL-McLEAN. James MacPherson Mac- Nicol, B.Com.'55, to Helen Ethel McLean, B.Com.'56, in Trail. MacPHERSON-DETTLOFF. Kenneth Moffatt MacPherson, B.A.'54, to Dorothy Joan Dett- loff. MacRITCHIE - MacLEOD. Norman Donald MacRitchie to Donalda Jean MacLeod, B.A.Sc.'51. MATHESON - MATHERS. Gordon Alfred Matheson, B.A.'SO, to Gretchen Catherine Mathers. McLEOD-LEE. John Taylor McLeod, B.Com '56, to Joyce Arden Lee. NICHOLLS-FERRARIO. Terence Donne Nich- olls, B.Com.'65, LL.B.'56, to Mary Ann Ferrario. PAYNE-BARBOUR. Irving John Payne, B.A.'49, M.A.'52, to Gertrude Belle Barbour. PHILLIPS-HENNIGER. George Barry Phillips, B.S.P.'56, to Margaret Ann Dovery (Peggy) Henniger, in Grand Forks. REDPATH-ARMSTRONG. Donald Clark Red- path, B.A.Sc. '50, to Donna Shirley Armstrong. RHODES-WOLSTENCROFT. Ronald Bruce Rhodes, to Sheila Margaret Wolstencroft, B.H.E.'50. RIDINGTON-PATERSON. John Fallows Ridington, B.Com.'56, to Jessie Patricia Paterson. ROLFE-MADDEN. Marten Havelock Rolfe to Sheila Constance Madden, B.A.'55. SAVAGE - MAWHINNEY. Ronald Edward Savage, B.Com.'53, to Donna Georgina Ma- whinney. SIEMERS - DUCKWORTH. Wolfgang Peter Siemers to Muriel Jessica Duckworth, B.A.'55, B.S.W.'56. SMITH-DALGLEISH. David Lorin McCuaig Smith, B.A.'55, to Anne Dalgleish. THORDARSON - MUNRO. Theodore Thomas Thordarson, B.A.'52, M.D.'56, to Maxine Lorraine Munro. WARKENTIN-KUBACH. Benno Peter Wark- entin, B.S.A.'51, to Jane Ann Kubach, in Ithaca, N.Y. WHITTAKER-NEWITT. John Norman Whittaker, B.A.'54, LL.B.'55, to Eve Margaret Newitt, B.A.'55. WIEDRICK-HESCHEL. Norman Harold Wied- rick, B.S.P.'55, to Leila Heschel. WILSON-HENDERSON. Walter Gerald (Bud) Wilson, B.A.'54, to Elizabeth Anne Teir Henderson. WRIGHT-DOWNS. Stanley Willard Wright, B.A/55, to Frances Josephine Downs. YOUNG-BOOTH. Victor Mason Young, B.S.A. '45, B.S.F/51, B.A/51, to Elizabeth Booth, B.A/47. 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: CHerry 7848 MRS. A. S. KANCS, P.C.T Principal INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS FIRE • AUTOMOBILE PERSONAL PROPERTY FLOATERS BURGLARY NORWICH AGENCIES LIMITED W. ORSON BANFIELD. 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