,^-_-___________■_■___' ...A. ' __-/_?» i ■•.■'« '_*,« -V* v L.M.'.MUM'nrK'An^ ;^;fi&«S* __■______ >'■_■__. ''MY-V_|F'T___________B'*^_____F * \^__""BBB" _f!I*BS-S3^! ~^f^ Ventra Travel is pleased to present an introductory travel programme for Members of UBC Alumni Association, their friends & families Highlights & Contrasts of Russia September 11 October 1,1983 Fully escorted from Vancouver Visit 7 contrasting Soviet cities in this 20 day tour...first Moscow, then Samarkand and Tashkent in Soviet Central Asia, Tbilisi in Georgia and Sochi, one of the most popular Black Sea resorts, Kiev is next and last, but by no means least, is beautiful Leningrad. Approx. cost of $2,650 includes airfare, 19 nights first class hotels, 3 meals a day, extensive sightseeing and two theatre visits. Asian Adventure November 5 - 21, 1983 Fully escorted from Vancouver This unusual adventure starts in Manila in the Philippines, proceeds to Borneo - Kota Kinabalu in the Sabah State and Kuching in Sarawak - and then ventures into Burma with stays in Rangoon, Pagan, Mandalay and Heho...Hong Kong provides a pleasant respite at journey's end (Japan extension is also possible). Approx. cost of $3,610 includes airfare, 15 nights first class hotels, most meals and extensive sightseeing. Bicyciing Through Burgundy Vineyards September 16 - 25, 1983 Fully escorted from Paris Is there any wine area in the world which conjures up more images, more smells or more tastes than magnificent Burgundy? We bike from Dijon along the Route des Grands Crus down to Beaujolais, delighting in the wine, food and countryside of this famed region. There's no need to hurry - the pace is your own. Cost of $1,255 includes 8 nights first class hotels and inns, two meals a day, transfers to/from Paris, use of 10-speed bicycle and wine tasting in Beaune. Airfare is extra. Please may we ask for your help? In order to provide the kind of programme that appeals to Association members, we need your suggestions and advice. Please drop us a line or give us a call and let us know what destinations and types of tours are of interest to you. For more information on these tours or others of your choice, please contact: Karen Liberty UBC Alumni Association Cecil Green Park 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Tel 228-3313 Ruth Smythe or Qenny MacLean Oft Ventra Travel Services Ltd. 5915 West Boulevard Vancouver, B.C. V6M 3X1 Tel 263-1951 Toll free (within B.C.) 112-800-663-3364 » VENTRA TRAVEL SERVICES LTD. ALUMNI UBC Volume 37 Number 2, Summer 1983 Contents z§. Tuum est, Dr. Pedersen _T" Thunderbirds' best season A call for papers Heritage Committee meets M JP Jan de Bruyn Scholarship Fund 17 i_r Spotlight *_f3_ Friends of UBC Feaftsffc* 7 78 minutes and counting . . . The royal visit to the university runs like clockwork. I JSt. Beer too costly to cry in A government-commissioned Commerce study explains the fine art of beer pricing in B.C. IM Academics get down to business T" Attracting endowments pays off in educational excellence. EDITOR: M. Anne Sharp EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Ian McLatchie and Brad Kembel LAYOUT/DESIGN: Blair Pocock.Sommergraphics Ltd. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Nancy Woo, BA'69, Chair; Virginia Beirnes, LLB'49; Marcia Boyd, M A'75; Grant D, Burnyeat, LLB'73; Margaret Burr, BMus'64; Peter Jones; Nick Omelusik, BA'64, BLS'66; David Richardson, BCom'71; Doug Davison; Bel Nemetz; BA'35; John Schoutsen, MFA'82. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: Alumni Media; Vancouver (604) 688-6819; Toronto (416) 781-6957 Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada The copyright of all contents is registered. BUSINESS AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: Cecil Green Park, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1VV5, (604) 228-3313. SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumni Chronicle is sent to alumni of the university Subscriptions are available at $5 a year in Canada, $7.50 elsewhere, student subscriptions $1. ADDRESS CHANGES: Send new address with old address label if available, to UBC Alumni Records, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5. ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED: If the addressee, or son or daughter who is a UBC graduate has moved, please notify UBC Alumni Records so that this magazine may be forwarded to the correct address Postage paid at the Third Class Rate permit No 4311 RETURN REQUESTED. Member, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Indexed in Canadian Education Index ISSN 0041-4999. COVER DESIGN: Dave Webber The Artist; Photography by Stephen Dye; Special thanks to Mary Amos and the UBC Ceremonies Offices for photos of the royal visit. Alumni Award Recipients 1982-83 Two outstanding individuals were honoured for their contribution to UBC and the community at the Alumni Association's Annual General Meeting on May 19,1983. Gerald H.D. Hobbs received the Honorary Life Membership in the Alumni Association. Mr. Hobbs has been very active in University matters in his role as a member of the Board of Governors and has also contributed his time and efforts to a wide variety of community groups. This year also saw the establishment of a new award, entitled the Blythe Eagles Volunteer of the Year Award. This award will be presented to volunteers who have contributed extraordinary time and energy to the UBC Alumni Association. Dean Emeritus Blythe Eagles became the first recipient of this award. He is a volunteer who has given generously of his time and energy in helping to preserve the heritage of the university for past, present and future students. Congratulations to the following volunteers, who will chair the standing committees for 1983/84: Communications: Bruce Fauman Advocacy: Jim Cooney Fund: Mel Reeves Programmes: Bert Reid Divisions: Anne Wicks. Do we have your correct name and address? If your address or name has changed please cut off the present Chronicle address label and mail it along with the new information to: Alumni Records 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Name (Graduation Name) Indicate preferred title. Married women note spouse's full name. Address Tel. Class Year ChxomclelSummer 1983 3 tErnim ym* y$~ §- '''Mw *** -* y teiWSjBl ♦ ♦ ♦ Dr. Douglas T. Kenny Dr. K. George Pedersen There are points in the history of every institution that mark in a significant way the stages of its growth. Such a point is the inauguration of a new President. For eight years, Dr. Douglas T. Kenny has served as UBC's President. During that time we have moved steadily towards national and international recognition as a centre of learning and research. UBC is now, by any legitimate criterion, Canada's second university. Since 1975 UBC has grown steadily in numbers of students, amounts of research monies, excellence of teaching and overall academic standards. For his part in this we owe a debt of gratitude to President Kenny. Now however, UBC, like all other universities in the country, faces new challenges. The contracting economy has brought with it a diminution of government grants for higher education. The same situation has put pressures on universities to concentrate on "training" rather than on "education". Members of the general public have become increasingly aware of the necessity for improved management of the universities' resources. In short, universities are being forced to recognize their roles as public institutions. Some of these pressures are legitimate. Others will need to be resisted. This situation unquestionably provides a challenge to Dr. K. George Pedersen as he assumes the Presidency of UBC on July 1st. University leadership in the 1980's will be no easy task. Moreover, UBC has a tradition of decentralization, which carries with it formidable organizational challenges for any President. And so it is that we welcome Dr. Pedersen as President and also a graduate of our University. Our overwhelming feeling is one of confidence in his abilities. He has credentials in educational administration, both academic and practical. His experience of British Columbia's universities is second to none. And his ability to represent his institution both to governments and to the general public is without equal. Yet even Dr. Pedersen does not walk on water — he will need the support of the whole university community during the years ahead. Alumni, therefore, join faculty and students in welcoming Dr. Pedersen back to UBC. We look forward to assisting him in whatever way we can and we hope that he will regard alumni as an essential link between the university and the community. Perhaps in this way we can give President Pedersen a sense that he presides not only over the 30,000 people on campus, but also over 95,000 graduates around the world. It could be a formidable combination! The Hon. J.V. Clyne Chancellor Michael Partridge President, Alumni Association 4 Chronicle/Summer 1983 Thunderbirds' best season Two days to remember for Thunderbird sports fans were March 11 and 12, when UBC teams in two sports took home Canadian titles on those nights. First, volleyball. Thunderbird men had been up and down all season but their emotional play was a big factor in their powering to the Canadian title in their own gymnasium. Before 2,000 scream: ing, partisan fans in War Memorial Gym (one of the largest and noisiest crowds in recent memory), the number-two-ranked 'Birds overpowered top-ranked Manitoba Bisons three games to one in the championship final. It was UBC's first title since 1976 and coach Dale Ohman's second as he was also on the Thunderbirds' initial championship team in 1967. T- Bird quicksetter Paul Thiessen was named the championship tournament's Most Valuable Player. Over to gymnastics. At York University, Canadian champion Patti Sakaki put on a gutsy performance competing with painful shin splints that hurt with every step, as she successfully defended her individual title for the third straight year. In team competition, after three straight seasons of finishing in the runner-up position, coach Alena Branda's Thunderbird women finally took it all as they edged the University of Alberta by a narrow margin of 99.42 to 98.11. First year gymnast Anne Muscat also captured the Canada West title. At the Big Block Award dinners, Sakaki was also named a co-recipient (along with national team field hockey goalie Alison Palmer) of the Sparling Trophy as the most outstanding female athlete while wrestler Martin Gleave, a third year Medical student, was named the 1983 Bobby Gaul Trophy holder as the most outstanding graduating male athlete. He won his second Canadian title this season. How successful were the Thunderbirds in 1982-83? They captured four Canadian titles (in football, field hockey, volleyball and gymnastics) and led the Canadian A call for papers In September, 1982, the UBC Health Services Planning Alumni Association participated in a one- day conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the Health Services Planning Program. During this event, health service practitioners from the lower mainland and other regions of British Columbia presented topical health care issues for discussion, in a panel format. To provide continuing education and an idea exchange for its membership and other interested health service professionals, the HSP Alumni Association is sponsoring and organizing the first annual Health Forum for the Pacific region. The forum is targeted to health practitioners in areas as diverse as hospitals, long term care, community health, education, government, labour organizations, or special interest groups/voluntary organizations. The registration fee for September 23 and 24 is $35.00 before August 31, 1983, and $45.00 for subsequent registrations. In recognition of the voluntary time and effort extended by speakers, their fee will be reduced to $25.00 if they wish to attend other sessions. The Pacific Health Forum Steering Committee encourages the submission of papers for presentation. Please contact: Susan K. Lee (work: 228-4872) Pacific Health Forum UBC Health Services Planning Alumni Association Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC James Mather Building 5804 Fairview Crescent Vancouver, B.C. V6T1W5 Interuniversity Athletic Union in that category. But let's not forget the various conference titles in other sports. Women's curling, the diving team, Thunderbird varsity and junior rugby, men's and women's skiing, and men's track and field all took home championships in their sports. The season was one of the best ever in the 60 odd years of Thunderbird athletic history. f by Steve CampbeU Sports Information Officer Heritage Committee meets For the past several years, members of the Fairview Committee have been working diligently to ensure the preservation of UBC's early history. Under their prompting, the board of governors designated the site of the first campus building on Main Mall as the Fair- view Grove; the Leonard S. Klinck stone was unveiled at the Grove (the only campus memorial to UBC's second president) and they have recently put together a photographic galley of the university's registrars. In 1980 it was resolved to form a new committee of those graduates from 1926-44 who are interested in preserving the heritage of UBC. Chaired by Dean Emeritus Blythe Eagles, the first meeting of the Heritage Committee was held on January 13, 1983. The committee's terms of reference and many new ideas for possible projects were put forward. Some exciting possibilities include the collection of archival materials, sponsoring the writing of the history of UBC and the collection of oral histories. At our board of management meeting of January 31, 1983, plans for the new committee were approved. A chairman will be appointed shortly to oversee the formation of both the main and sub-committees. Ideas from graduates of 1926-44 would be most welcome. Those who would enjoy getting involved should contact the Alumni Office, Programme Department. 1 by Liz Owen Programme Assistant Now available A Fiddler's Choice: Memoirs 1938-1980 by Harry Adaskin. This second volume details the further adventures of Canada's charismatic musician, broadcaster and educator. 30 p.p. of photos, cloth $24.95. Send cheque or money order to November House, P.O. Box 49298, Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1L3. Chronicle/Summer 1983 5 Kananginak presents 'The Loon and the Fish" i World renowned Eskimo artist, Kananginak, photographed with his latest work at Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories, is one of seven famous Canadian artists whose work is now available in a special edition. An exclusive arrangement between the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative and the Mintmark Press enables you for the first time to have the work of a famous Eskimo artist at a popular price. K Each specially commissioned print measures 193/4"x26" and is reproduced on fine art paper to the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. These works are not available in any other form. The Mintmark Edition is the only edition. Each print comes to you with Mintmark Press's guarantee: if not completely delighted with your acquisition, your money will be cheerfully refunded. Beautiful graphics from the following artists are also available: 1 P^-^F ■ 5><®>7__ j 1 ^^ik____i fl ■ifc^F A Kenojuak B Pudlo C Kananginak D Pitseolak E Pitseolak F Lucy I Lucy n This mark, which appears on each print along with the 'stonecutter's "chop" mark and the artist's own symbol, is the official emblem of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Cape Dorset, northwest Territories. This is the seal of Mintmark Press, a Canadian firm specializing in the high-quality reproduction of fine art. Mintmark Press has exclusive rights to reproduce specially-commissioned prints by members of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. Please send me the following Cape Dorset print reproductions at $19.95 each or $75.00 for any four, • • • plus $4.85 for handling and shipping. Ontario residents add 7% sales tax. Indicate quantities: ABCDEFGH IK Cheque or money order to Alumni Media enclosed: Charge to my Master Char ge, Visa or American Express Account No. Name Street Apt. Expiry Date: City Prov. P. Code Signature Alumni Media, 124 Ava Rd., Toronto, Ontario M6C 1W1 UBC Royal Visit 78 minutes and counting. In, Ian McLatchie he March 9 visit to UBC by Queen Elizabeth . and the Duke of Edinburgh was, like most of the royal tour, a highly visible and exceedingly well-publicized event. Not so well known, however, are the extreme demands which preparation for the visit made upon university personnel and resources. In fact, the 78-minute tour was an extraordinary organizational achievement. It's success depended upon the collective effoig ^|J^gj|| federal, provincial and civic governments^ ffie RCMP, and a dozen or more university departments, agencies and institutions. . *. >"-*'_*_$____..« _ Chronicle/Summer 1983 7 Many details of how UBC was included on the royal tour and how an itinerary was finalized are forever lost in a haze of officialdom stretching all the way to Buckingham Palace. Most of the major administrative decisions, however, can be attributed to the Queen's Canadian Secretary, Lawrence S. Wallace. Reporting to Wallace on the university's behalf were President Douglas Kenny, Ceremonies Director Benjamin Moyls, and his assistant, Joan King. Moyls' and King's involvement with the royal visit began in early December when President Kenny notified them of the tour and requested their assistance in preparing an itinerary. Moyls defines their subsequent role primarily as one of creative suggestion-making: Our role is not to tell people what to do, but to make suggestions." The tour itinerary evolved slowly, through a series of meetings and informal discussions among university officials and representatives of the various agencies involved in the Canadian leg of the royal visit. According to Moyls, the principal objective of these discussions was to devise an itinerary which would include some of the university's most beautiful and significant sites, while at the same time appealing to the personal tastes of the royal couple. An obvious choice, therefore, was the Museum of Anthropology, a university landmark which was previously visited by Prince Charles in 1980. Another proposed stop which it was felt might be of particular interest to Queen Elizabeth was the Nitobe Gardens. However, the potential difficulty of a visit to the Gardens during the lion-and-lamb month of March became abundantly clear to organizers during a "dry-run" inspection in late January ("A dry run on a very wet day," remembers Joan King). The Nitobe Gardens was therefore scratched from the list. A second dry run inspection held in mid-February included full contingents of provincial and federal representatives, RCMP, campus security staff, and media. It was eventually decided that the royal party would visit the 8 Chronicle!Summer 1983 Museum of Anthropology, the Asian Centre, and the Health Sciences Centre Hospital. Although a visit to the Health Sciences Centre was included largely out of respect for Prince Philip's interest in medical technology, only Queen Elizabeth was able to complete that segment of the tour; in order to fulfill a downtown luncheon engagement, Prince Philip was required to leave the university shortly after touring the Museum. For the staff at the Ceremonies Office, preparation for the royal visit was a progressively more challenging and exhausting experience. From the New Year onward, Joan King's working-day typically continued until 6 or 7 p.m., and came to include an ever-greater range of tasks. Of major concern to organizers of the royal tour was what King calls "the problem of numbers." The difficulty, as Moyls describes it, is that "the more people you have meeting the Queen, the less time she has to enjoy herself. On the other hand, given the nature of the occasion, it only seems appropriate that she should meet a number of people." However, organizers seem unanimously to agree that such concerns were all but nullified by the Queen's well-developed timekeeping ability. Museum of Anthropology Director Michael Ames reports, "There were really no problems. . . . She has a built- in clock and is able to judge the time and move at the necessary pace." Ames notes that, although the royal party arrived at the Museum a quarter-hour behind schedule and stayed only several minutes less than the alloted time, the Queen still managed to move with seeming leisure through the crowd outside the Museum. "She was very good with the public," recalls Ames. "She crossed back and forth across the steps, accepting wildflowers that the people had picked from the Museum gardens." So detailed were the preparations for the visit that most of the organizers seem to have achieved a relative calm by the day of the actual tour. As Ben Moyls says, "You know you've done everything you can. The rockets are all set. If it isn't going to go, it isn't going to go." For staff and students at the Museum of Anthropology, the Queen's tour represented a particularly valuable form of what Ames terms "front-line training." Preparation for the event began in earnest soon after Christmas and included a number of walkthroughs, briefing sessions, and question-and-answer periods with the fifty or so students and friends of the Museum who volunteered their services as ushers, marshalls, and support workers. Ames and his staff also spent considerable time in conference with representatives of the royal party, the RCMP, the Secretary of State, the news media, and numerous other university and government agencies. Organizational details were finalized in a full-scale rehearsal held two days before the actual ceremony. Extension Curator Hindy Ratner describes the royal visit as a major achievement in the young life of the Museum. She gives special praise to the volunteer ushers for the "courteous but firm" manner in which they kept guests and reporters in their places. Ratner also speaks with obvious relief of how careful planning helped the Museum avoid what she calls the "terrible, terrible catastrophes" of the Museum's early days. Ratner refers specifically to the disasterous effects — "lights blowing, alarms going off" — of an electrical system overloaded by television floodlights. For the royal tour, camera crews were required to provide self-generating, portable lighting systems. In addition to the signing-in ceremony, the first stage of the royal tour included a performance by the Hunt Family Kwakiutl dancers and the presentation' of gifts. As well, the royal couple viewed the massive Bill Reid sculpture, "The Raven and the First Men", which was unveiled by Prince Charles in 1980. As the briefest stop on the tour (10 minutes), the Asian Centre was faced with a relatively simple process of organization. Like the Museum of Anthropology, the Centre relied heavily upon volunteer support. Having previously entertained such dignitaries as Prime Minister Trudeau, a Japanese Crown Prince, and a number of Foreign Ministers, Asian Research Director Terence McGee was undisturbed by the prospect of a royal visit: "From my point of view, I thought we did everything we could, given the restrictions of time, and so on. I was quite comfortable about it." As she approached the Asian Centre, Queen Elizabeth was entertained by the Katari Taiko Detwiller plotted a contingency schedule. As in both previous stops, the Queen was forced to foreshorten somewhat her stay at Health Sciences. Detwiller points out, however, that the abridgement was made without significant cost to the scheduled agenda. In this regard, Detwiller praises Dr. Joachim Burhenne and Dr. Brian Pate for providing the Queen with condensed, yet highly informative, introductions to the Imaging Research Centre equipment. Queen Elizabeth pauses for a brief moment in front of onlookers during her visit to UBC campus. Organizers planned for months in advance to ensure the tour went like clockwork. Japanese drum troupe. Once inside the building, she watched Dr. McGee give a "substantial wallop" to a Japanese bell, viewed a wood sculpture by Geoff Smed- ley, listened to a performance of Indian music, and inspected a collection of photographs by V.P. Modi. She was also shown a Japanese flower arrangement prepared by Sam Oyama of the Nitobe Gardens. Meanwhile, across the campus at the Health Sciences Centre, Administrator Lloyd Detwiller had been notified of the progress of the tour. Given that the Queen's party was due to arrive approximately fifteen minutes behind schedule, Detwiller viewed his role primarily as a "timekeeper." Using a highly detailed guide prepared by Tour Secretary Lawrence Wallace, During her visit to the Health Sciences Research Centre, the Queen unveiled a plaque commemorating the inauguration of the Imaging Research Centre. She was then taken on a tour of both the positron emission tomography (PET) and nucleur magnetic resonance (NMR) suites. Finally, she was escorted to the Extended Care Unit Patients' Lounge, where a group of ECU patients presented her with a bouquet. Over 100 Health Sciences employees helped coordinate the final stage of the royal visit. Following the Queen's departure from the University, an informal reception held in the Psychology Lecture Theatre was attended by over 600 people. By all accounts, then, the 1983 royal visit was a highly successful event which benefitted participat ing institutions in a number of ways. Among the most obvious benefits was the thorough cleaning which Physical Plant employees gave campus buildings and grounds. "If royalty comes every two or three years, you get the place nicely cleaned up," says Michael Ames. Beyond such tangible benefits, however, the royal visit seems to have made a lasting impression upon many of the participants. In describing the immense effort which Museum of Anthropology staff and volunteers put into the preparations for the event, Ames notes that "It really galvanized people." Hindy Ratner adds, "We're a close group, anyway. This further strengthened the bond." For Lloyd Detwiller, perhaps the most satisfying aspect of the Queen's visit was its beneficial influence upon the patients of the Extended Care Unit. He describes the visit as "a great occasion" and recalls how ECU patients organized a lottery to determine who would greet the Queen on her walk through the ECU Patients' Lounge. Not surprisingly, the excitement of an exhaustive two-month involvement in preparations for the royal tour seems, in a number of cases, finally to have given way to at least a vague and fleeting sense of depression. Michael Ames observes, "In some ways the preparations are more exciting than the final events. It's like Christmas — the wrapping and so on. All the unwrapping's finished in five minutes." For most people on campus, however, staging the annual UBC Open House only two days after the royal tour meant that, as Lloyd Detwiller suggests, "There was no chance for a real let-down." Doubtless as a consequence of the royal visit, both the Museum of Anthropology and the Health Sciences Centre Hospital were overwhelmed with visitors throughout the three-day event (the Asian Centre did not participate in this year's Open House). Detwiller describes the typical reaction of visitors headed for the Imaging Research Centre, "If it's good enough for the Queen, I'll have to go see it for myself." 1 Chronicle/Summer 1983 9 B.C. beer marketing study BEER TOO COSTLY TO CRY IN Beer, the workingman's drink, is the student's respite. Under normal circumstances you'll find the beer outside the classroom; this past year, though, it was found inside a UBC classroom, not in the bottled form, but on paper, as an object of a commerce study. In February 1982, Michael Goldberg, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Business . Administration, was commissioned by the provincial government to study the effects of regulation and deregulation in the province's brewing industry. Goldberg, with a background in urban land economics, enlisted the aid of Catherine Eckel, a member of the policy analysis division of the faculty. Eckel's field of research is industrial organization and regulation. The research and final analysis yielded some surprising results. The brewers, they found, are wrongly fingered as the villains when it comes to the high price of beer. Rather, it is the combination of provincial and federal taxes and an array of marketing regulations imposed by the governments that are responsible. The federal government hits the brewers early, at the production stage, levying an excise tax which stood at seventy cents per gallon in September 1982. That's about six and a half cents for every bottle. Add to that a federal sales tax of 12 percent, about five cents per bottle. At the provincial level, say Goldberg and Eckel, beer taxation methods are diverse. The provincial governments raise considerable revenue through the mark-up of beer sold by their liquor boards and through license fees to other sellers of beer. Provincial sales taxes are often applied on top of previously marked-up beer prices. 10 Chronicle/Summer 1983 On regular beer, mark-up is 50 percent in B.C., sales tax is seven percent. For a dozen beer, they translate, roughly, to $4.45 and 62 cents respectively. The net result? Of the $8.85 you pay for a dozen beer, less than 50 percent goes to the brewery. Take from that the brewery's operating costs (including the highest wages in the Canadian brewing indus- Industrial computers are being used increasingly by large breweries to assure precise control of the brewing process. Graphic readouts provide the brewer with instant data on the state ofthe process and system. by John Schoutsen try), and the federal taxes, and you'll find that brewery profit in B.C. in 1982 was 3.7 percent, far short of the national average of 8.4 percent. While taxes take the largest portion of your beer-buying dollar via the direct route, regulation of the distribution and retailing of beer, the indirect route, are responsible for limiting the selection of beer and the range of prices available to the public. Beer selection and price variety are the benefits of unfettered competition in a free market system. If the restrictions are lifted, Goldberg and Eckel argue, the public will benefit greatly. Evidence of this was observed recently in B.C. In March 1980, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Peter Hyndman dropped the regulation of beer pricing in B.C. His expectation was that competition would increase and prices would drop as a result. He didn't anticipate what happened a year later when the big three breweries, Molson, Carl- ing-O'Keefe, and Labatt raised their prices by near identical amounts. Contrary to popular perception, Goldberg found no evidence of collusion or other anti-competitive behaviour on the part of the breweries. "What he (Hyndman) did not understand," says Goldberg, "is that in a competitive market prices may go up, they may go down, they reflect costs, and what you will see is price dispersion and product differentiation." The report's statistics show that significant price dispersion did indeed take place after deregulation of pricing. In March 1981, when deregulation was introduced, 20 of the 28 brands on the market sold at the same $5.90 per B.C. DOMESTIC BEER PRICE HISTORY Sales Net Date Retail Tax Price Deposit Gross Oct. 16,1950 2.10 .07 2.17 .25 2.42 May 16,1951 2.15 .07 2.22 .25 2.47 March 9,1954 2.15 .12 2.27 .25 2.52 July 17,1967 2.20 .12 2.32 .25 2.57 Dec. 1,1967 2.25 .13 2.38 .25 2.63 June 1,1971 2.45 .14 2.59 .25 2.84 Oct. 1,1973 2.61 .14 2,75 .25 3.00 Sept. 9,1974 2.61 .14 2.75 .60 3.35 Nov. 12/1974 2.81 .14 2.95 .60 3.55 June 24,1975 3.24 .16 3.40 .60 4.00 March 27,1976 3.24 .23 3.45 .60 4.07 March 11,1977 3.50 .25 3.75 .60 4.35 Feb. 1,1978 3.78 .26 4.04 .60 4.64 May 1,1978 3.97 .28 4.15 .60 4.85 Sept. 1,1979 4.30 .30 4.60 .60 5.20 Feb. 1,1980 4.77 .33 5.10 .60 5.70 April 23,1980 4.95 .35 5.30 .60 5.90 Deregulation Announced March 4,1981 5.51 .39 5.90 1.20 7.10 Sept. 2,1981 5.61 .39 6.00 1.20 7.20 Sept. 30,1981 6.17 .43 6.60 1.20 7.80 March 3, 1982 6.31 .44 6.75 1.20 7.95 June 2,1982 6.59 .46 7.05 1.20 8.25 Sept. 1,1982 6.73 .47 7.20 1.20 8.40 Nov. 3,1982 7.15 .50 7.65 1.20 8.85 Source: British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch Despite the rapid price increases after deregulation of prices by the government, brewersinB.C. only improved their profits otter costs by about 3% ml982, reaching 3.7%. The national average is 8.4%. Provincial taxes and well-meaning regulations, which unfortunately backfired, are the culprits, UBC's Michael Goldberg discovered in his study of the brewing industry in B. C. dozen. By November 1982, no more than eight brands sold at any one price. "Open pricing works and does give the consumer some choice vis-a-vis price," says Carling-O'Keefe B.C. President, Al Branston. "We look more closely now at how pricing works in the market and we try to produce price leaders." While deregulation of pricing seemed to work in this sense, it did nothing to encourage product differentiation; there is a wider selection of price but not of product. The problem was, that of the four "P's" in marketing — product, place (distribution), promotion, and price — only price had seen deregulation, and that only partially. The brewers are still, today, faced with three major blockages to open pricing: they are allowed to change prices only once per month; they must announce price changes with a press release; and they must sell each of their products at a uniform price across the province. The costs of these regulations to competition, and therefore to the public, are high, says the Goldberg and Eckel report. Monthly price changes mean that a discounted brand must remain discounted for the entire month, an expensive proposition even for the large breweries, and one which is nearly impossible for the smaller ones. Announcing price changes takes away the competitive weapon of surprise, they say, and selling at a province-wide price eliminates competition for sub- markets in pockets of the province. Regional variation in price, say Goldberg and Eckel, will allow for differences in shipping costs and create competition for the sub-markets that are within affordable shipping distance of cottage breweries. Product is constrained, according to the study, by a regulation which requires that domestic beer must be produced in the province in which it is sold. Ultimately it would be far more efficient for the big breweries to set up one plant centrally to supply the west rather than operating four or five regional breweries. "We only have to look south of the border where there are no boundary restrictions to see that that will work," says Al Branston. The idea behind the boundary regulation is local job protection. The limited selection of beer that results from this regulation also results in limited competition. Lift the restriction, the report says, and allow out-of-province beers, like New Brunswick's "Moose- head", to be sold in B.C., provided that the brewer agrees to invest in breweries in the province once a predetermined market share has been reached. Place or distribution, is equally constrained by regulation. Beer can only be distributed through LDB stores in B.C. and licensees which sell draft can only use one supplier and can only change suppliers twice per year. Removing these restrictions would encourage greater competition, Goldberg and Eckel argue. The LDB can maintain current revenues by selling to supermarkets and other retailers and could encourage even greater competition by occasionally selling beer to the other retailers at discounted prices. Further public benefit can be attained by providing cold beer at stores and improving facilities so that more than two dozen empties can be returned at a time. And draft beer could be distributed in bulk by tank trucks, avoiding the costly kegging procedure and providing a fresher product. The fourth "P", promotion, is again hard hit. In particular, point-of-purchase advertising and promotion in LDB stores are not allowed. If these restrictions were Chronicle/Summer 1983 11 Analysing a study like this forces students to take a perspective "broader than the balance sheet/ A bottle filler can handle as many as 1,200 bottles each minute and may cost the brewer in excess of$l million. lifted, Goldberg and Eckel argue, competition would be enhanced because smaller breweries which cannot afford slick television and radio ads as the large breweries can, will have a cheap and effective marketing tool at their disposal. They also suggest that the LDB consider bulk bottling of beer as it has done with spirits, and that they market a generic beer to provide the consumer with added choice at the lower price levels. Goldberg and Eckel's recommendations are aimed either at making beer buying more convenient for the public or at encouraging competition by lifting those restrictions which tend to keep entrepreneurs out of the industry. Entrepreneurial input could take the form of cottage breweries which, in combination, can supply a greater selection of specialized beers, from $5 per dozen generic beers to $30 per dozen super premiums. They are able to do this, Goldberg says, because they can cater to specialized markets alone and survive well, once the cheaper forms of advertising and greater pricing flexibility are allowed. It is not in the interest of the large breweries to cater to the Students study suds It was to the students in UBC's Commerce 494 class, Government and Business, that a working academic paper based on the beer pricing study was first presented. In the course, Catherine Eckel and her students look at how government and business interact, and how regulations in business filter down to affect our daily lives. But there have been difficulties with the classroom approach in past years. "The complaint with the course in the past," says Eckel, "has been that the students don't get any first-hand feeling for what we discuss here, that the information is not up-to-date, that it's not relevant. "This year we didn't get those complaints. The beer pricing report really brought it home for them; it was something they could see was real. And they could follow it in the papers." Similar studies are being undertaken by other faculty members, to the benefit of the students. Such studies include: electricity pricing and regulation; changing the Crow's Nest Pass rate; establishing a free trade zone with the United States. The study of beer fully supported four students during the summer of 1982. Eckel and Goldberg hired the four (two from accounting, one an MBA student, and one from marketing) to assist in compiling background information and statistics for the study. The students were paid by the client, the government, through Dr. Goldberg, who also reimbursed the University for, the use of any services. This included his own and Eckel's, because, he said, "in doing the study we were no longer fully available to the University." The use of students in a work/ study capacity is not unusual. Eckel estimates that 60 to 70 per cent of all research carried out by the faculty uses students as hired assistants. Usually, assistants are paid through a University-administered government grant supplied for research carried out by the faculty. The beer study, as a commissioned work, is an exception. Eckel and Goldberg assigned each student a very specific task so that they would have something to show potential employers once the study was completed. The accounting students, for example, were able to work with the financial data and reveal much about the poor profitability of the brewing industry in B.C. Analyzing a study like this forces the students to take a broader perspective, says Eckel, "broader than the balance sheet" which they usually encounter in their courses, and teaches them how to think about policy. 12 Chronicle/Summer 1983 numerous small markets because of the small return. "We do cater to some smaller markets now with various brands," says Al Brans- ton, "but not in such a narrow way as Mike Goldberg suggested. If it came down to such small markets, no, it wouldn't be worthwhile to cater to them." Cottage breweries won't pose a significant threat to the large breweries because their output will be small. Trollers in Horseshoe Bay, for example, produces 1,000 hectolitres of draft in a year while, across the harbour, Molson produces one million hectolitres. In force, though, the smaller breweries could exert some competitive pressure. For all the denouncement of regulations, Goldberg and Eckel still point out that there really are no villains in the beer pricing situation. The government may look bad but their regulations were imposed out of a sincere concern for the public. "There's no conspiracy here," Goldberg told the press when his paper was released, "the laws just evolved." It was in the early 1920's, when the U.S. public was faced with prohibition, that regulation of alcoholic beverages in B.C. began. Rather than following the U.S. example, the province took a slightly more liberal attitude, intending to promote temperance. This was done by centralizing all sales of liquor through the government. This prevailed through to the early 1950's when the two functions of liquor control were separated and the Liquor Distribution Branch, the retail arm, and the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch, the licensing arm, were formed. The first significant change to the system took place after the Morrow Commission was set up in 1970 to look at regulation of all alcoholic beverages. Noting that the public had developed more mature attitudes towards alcohol, they recommended considerable relaxation of the regulations. This resulted in more self-service stores, neighbourhood pubs, and magazine advertising which the government had banned. "The government historically has felt that alcohol has to be regu lated, that if we encourage consumption through these promotions it will be a bad thing," says Goldberg. But the government's well- intentioned protection of the public has more often than not wound up adversely affecting us, observes Goldberg. The trend is changing though. Says Eckel: "Previously, economists looked at the best way of getting things done. Now, there are more monitors of policy who understand the effects of regulations before they are imposed rather than after." i John Schoutsen, MFA'82, is a Canadian writer working in Vancouver. Jan de Bruyn Scholarship Fund Since Professor Jan de Bruyn is retiring from the Department of English at the end of 1982-83, the Department is establishing an annual scholarship to honour his contributions to English studies, in particular his tireless commitment to students and his generosity in establishing scholarships and prizes for undergraduates. Professor de Bruyn is an alumnus of UBC (BA, 1949), and has taught at UBC since 1951. He is a past President of the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English and was founding editor of Prism. Persons wishing to contribute to the Jan de Bruyn Scholarship fund should send their donations (tax receipts issued) to the UBC Alumni Fund, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T1W5. 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Vancouver B.C V68 1H7 Telephone (604)669 5175 Chronicle/Summer 1983 13 Commerce endowed chairs by Karen Loeder During times of drought, the Chinese turned to the Dragon-kings for rainfall. In the "drought" of the present recession, the Commerce faculty attracts the much needed "rainfall" of endowed chairs and research funds. Dean Lusztig, Faculty of Commerce Associate Dean Goldberg 14 Chronicle/Summer 1983 ews of the nine-day trip that seven Commerce faculty members took to China last year made the front page of The Vancouver Sun and page three of The Globe and Mail. Although Dean Peter Lusztig and Associate Dean Michael Goldberg were pleased with the coverage, they were perturbed to find that Sun reporter Douglas Sagi labelled them "chief dragons" in his article. Perhaps they shouldn't have been perturbed. A brief foray into Chinese mythology reveals the more accurate term to be "dragon- king". Dragon-kings were the divinities the Chinese turned to when drought hit the land. They were thought to bring rain. In the "drought" of the present worldwide recession, the success that Lusztig and Goldberg have had in attracting gifts to the faculty in the form of fully endowed chairs, endowed chairs and endowed research funds resemble the much-needed "rainfall". Seated comfortably in Dean Lusztig's office the other day, I watched him as he quietly recounted the story of the development of the chairs and research funds that have helped to put the faculty of Commerce among the top ten in the world. The words of a faculty member returned to me. "Don't be misled by his very quiet manner. The man is straight-forward. He's very shrewd, very observant and very reticent." When Lusztig became dean in 1977, the faculty already had a strong history of community involvement through the work of the previous dean, Earle McPhee. The timing was just right for the steps he was to take. Impressed by the high calibre of American business schools, he made visiting them his first priority. He was already familiar wifh Stanford because he had completed his PhD there after a BCom at UBC and his MBA at the University of Western Ontario. By talking with American deans and professors he identified the areas of change he thought would make a difference in the UBC faculty. The chairs and research accounts particularly impressed him for it was the combination of the two which enabled the schools to attract and retain top professors. Stanford University, with a school of business roughly the same size as UiSC's, had 18 chairs at that time. "They're a private school and there's a tradition of giving. But I thought, why not try it in Canada?," recalls Lusztig. Towards the end of the '70s, American colleges were getting considerable money from business corporations. Total corporate support of colleges in 1979 was $800 million, about 35% of the $2.3 billion earmarked for tax-deductible gifts. Corporate support in 1950 was not much over $40 million, about 1/20 of what it is today. Six years ago the faculty of Commerce had no endowed research funds and only one endowed chair, the United Parcel Service chair in transportation. This chair happened almost accidentally when Professor Karl Rup- penthal came to the faculty from Stanford to head the centre for transportation studies in 1970. As he had been instrumental in securing it, UPS agreed to move the chair to UBC. It was UBC's first chair and probably the first one in Western Canada. The UPS chair is now fully endowed. In other words, the capital base is over $1 million and it pays Professor Ruppenthal's salary and research support from the interest on the capital base. "Part of the endowment for the UPS chair provides for the current and future salary of the professor holding it so that the university is off the hook completely," says Lusztig. He adds that the UPS donation started out with "something like $500,000 of their common stock." Recently UPS bought back their shares for cash and gave additional sums. As well as the two fully endowed chairs, there are six endowed chairs and two more in the advanced planning stages. The endowed chairs require an investment of $120,000 or more. Interest on the capital base pays for the chairholder's research support and travel perks, but not his/ her salary. The Commerce faculty now has four endowed research funds. Instead of providing faculty members with individual research funds, a unit is provided so that the whole division has access to it rather than just one very distinguished professor they are trying to hold at UBC. The chairs are funded in three years, the research funds in four. Some companies like to spread their tax deductible gifts over three or four years. Lusztig also initiated summer workshops. "We want an active research program in the summer where faculty members and doctoral students present papers. To stimulate this we have brought in distinguished people from other universities to participate in workshops, as well as major names from American businesses and schools," he says. The workshops were funded by gifts from the alumni and other sources. When he went after corporate donations, Lusztig used the UPS chair as an example. He found the attitude of the corporations surprisingly positive. "People understood that this would make a difference. It could move a school from being a very good school to, potentially, an excellent school. They couldn't simply argue, 'well, we pay our taxes', because in certain fields at universities, the com petition for good faculty is extremely tough." One of Lusztig's earliest steps was to set up an advisory council drawn from the business community. All forty members are either executive vice-presidents or chief executive officers, drawn from labor, government and business. He relies on their contacts to introduce him to potential donors. The council also holds luncheons to get potential donors together for informal discussion. "Stanford is a private school and there's a tradition of giving. But I thought, why not try it in Canada? " The calibre of the advisory council is impressive. Members serve a two-year term. About a third are from outside B.C. Among the eastern members: Bernie Ghert, president of Cadillac- Fairview; Paul Paine, vice-president of Power Corporation and former chairman and president of Montreal Trust. Among the western members: Ian Grey, chairman of the board of CP Air; Peter Bentley, president and chief executive officer of Canadian Forest Products; Trevor Pilley, chairman of the Bank of B.C.; and Marie Taylor, chairman of the B.C. Utilities Commission. If the enthusiasm of Bev Harrison, managing partner of Arthur Andersen & Co., and Bill Levine, executive vice-president of Daon Development are typical, advisory council members are very enthusiastic about their involvement with the faculty of Commerce. Arthur Andersen & Co. established an endowed chair in accounting. Funding came from local partners and UBC commerce grads working there. Harrison suggests that the benefits the company reaps from sponsoring the UBC chair are mostly indirect. "It's beneficial for us to share in the association with a prestigious school as a supporter. The publications that Professor Richard Mattesich, the present chair- holder, does professorally mean Chartered accountants .High Standards, Proven Skills Money. It's hard to earn, and even harder to keep, especially in today's unforgiving economy. Using your money effectively will determine if you or your business will survive today's economy and prosper tomorrow. The training and experience of a Chartered Accountant can be the decisive factor in your management of cash flows, control of expenses, and plans for the medium and long term. A Chartered Accountant can ensure the government gets only what it is entitled to-nothing more and nothing less. A CAs advice is crucial in assisting an individual or business in managing debt or writing off business losses. Your CA can provide the accurate and timely financial information you need when you make decisions about money management. Chartered Accountants can be found at the head of many of Canada's best-run businesses, educational institutions and government bodies. Consult the yellow pages under Accountants, Chartered. The high standards and proven skills of a CA could be just what you need to get through 1983. Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia 3*i1 Chronicle/Summer 1983 15 he lists himself as a holder of the Arthur Andersen chair, which keeps both the names of UBC and Arthur Andersen before the public." His involvement as chairman of the council doesn't take up much time — only two and a half days of meetings a year and a little time on the phone with Dean Lusztig. One of the most interesting gifts to the faculty didn't involve cash. It came from Daon Development. Two years ago last November, Associate Dean Goldberg and Daon's Executive Vice-President Bill Levine, BA '63 (MBA Harvard), went for lunch. "It was just the right time," says Levine. "Daon was interested in doing something that didn't involve cash." Shortly after, Daon presented the faculty with one unit, worth $125,000, in a limited partnership which owns three shopping centres in Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary. Partners were entitled to the rental income from the shopping centres which were guaranteed an 8V2 percent return in the first year. The real estate underlying the gift will grow in value with inflation. Levine stresses that Daon's gift was "not a selfish motivation but a realization that we have hired and had the benefit of a lot of very good UBC Commerce students." He was surprised to find that their gift, worth $125,000, was "pretty sizeable" in comparison to what other businesses had given. "We believe it's the top faculty of commerce in Canada," he says. And that's no boast, although it's difficult to measure a school in terms of excellence. However, in terms of the excellence of its professors' published papers, the UBC faculty is undeniably the best in Canada and has been cited by American selection committees in the management science and finance areas as one of the top ten in the world. Its accounting department, in a survey done last spring by the Alberta Chartered Accountants Association, was rated tops in Canada. Its finance department, in terms of size, is one of the top five in North America. The faculty had the largest class of doctoral ^candidates in Canada last year, producing 50% 16 Chronicle/Summer 1983 of the doctoral candidates in English-speaking Canada. The other "dragon-king", Associate Dean Goldberg, is a nice foil for Lusztig. He holds the fully endowed Herbert R. Fullerton chair in urban land policy. Money for this chair was drawn from real estate boards throughout B.C. and Goldberg worked closely with Dick Richards of the B.C. Real Estate Board in raising it. The same insider who did the word sketch of Lusztig also described Goldberg. "He's a super administrator, trouble shooter, digs up ideas, makes contacts and he likes to initiate things." Goldberg says that the $12,000 honorarium that comes with his chair gives him monies for research assistance, travel and equipment, thus enabling him "not to worry about going out and getting a lot of little grants for research assistants." Perks from his chair enable him to go to more than one scholarly meeting a year and to have his manuscripts typed. A few weeks ago, his book The Housing Problem: A Prices Crisis was published by the UBC Press. "If I hadn't had a research assistant to update my references, that book might not have been published," says Goldberg. For him the most significant thing about the chairs is the institutional exposure they give the university. For example, after attending one conference in Guelph, he was invited to appear on Canada A.M., CTV's morning news show. Such exposure, says Goldberg, could have long-term ramifications for the faculty. It might induce a student to come to UBC. It could motivate government people who often grace the show themselves to decide to use UBC Commerce professors to advise them on some aspect of policy, and it could help in getting grants. The faculty's newest chair and one that Dean Lusztig is justifiably proud of is the Bank of Montreal's chair in International Finance, approved by the senate last year in January. It's the first time the Bank of Montreal has invested such a large amount in a western Canadian university and it appeals to Lusztig that a bank headquartered in the East recognizes the quality of UBC's Commerce faculty. Lusztig headed the finance division before he became dean. At that time, the division did not have an international reputation. Several professors said the presence of Professor Michael Bren- nan, an internationally renowned scholar in the field, had considerably advanced the division in this regard. Brennan holds the Albert E. Hall professor of finance chair, which was a gift from members of the financial community to honour its namesake, the former chief elective officer of the Bank of B.C. For the past three years, he has edited the prestigious Journal of the American Finance Association from UBC — the first time that the journal has left the United States since its inception. Brennan and Eduardo Schwarz, another professor in the division, won the Q Prize in 1981, awarded each year by the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. The selection committee at Columbia University said their paper, Bond Pricing and Market Efficiency, was the work which represented the highest level of scientific achievement. Professor Maurice Levi holds the Bank of Montreal chair. "The Bank of Montreal quite genuinely wants someone to research the position of Canada in the international system," he says. "Essentially they have me on tap. In my case they expect me to spend a couple of days a year talking with them." Dean Peter Lusztig recognizes that all faculties do not have the fund-raising machinery at their disposal that his faculty does. "In fairness," says Lusztig, "we have an easier time raising funds because we have a group out there that ties in with us. It's a lot easier for professional schools to find people that we can make a pitch to. They hire our students. Having said that, I think we have to also convince them that this is the place to come because we're good. That's critical." The Commerce faculty is still growing. About 10,000 to 12,000 part-time students a year attend continuing education courses continued on page 23 ^^IW^ Citing health reasons, County Court Judge Graham Darling, BA'39, LLB'49, announced his retirement from the bench during a pre-Christmas gathering of judges and their staff in the Vancouver courthouse. A former Lieutenant- Commander with the Royal Canadian Navy, Judge Darling was named to the bench in 1969. Several UBC graduates played prominent roles in a recent Vancouver legal case widely regarded as one of the most important in Canadian history. In a precedent-setting judgement, B.C. Supreme Court Judge Lloyd McKenzie, BA'42, LLB'48, overturned a lower court ruling which authorized the cessation of life- sustaining treatment of a severely retarded six-year old boy. That original judgement was made by Provincial Court Judge Jane Byrne, BA'52, LLB'56, with Linda Stewart, BHE'68, LLB'81, acting as lawyer for the defence.. .. Geoff Leech, BASc'42 (MSc, Queens, PhD, Princeton), continues to live in Ottawa after his retirement last year as Director, Economic Geology Division, Geological Survey of Canada. . . . Having spent some 36 years overseas, Leonard G. Wannop, BASc'45, and wife Marion, DPH-N'46, predictably experienced some "reverse cultural shock" upon returning to West Vancouver. Leonard's most recent assignment was with Exxon and the Arabian American Oil Company, as General Manager of Gas Operations for five of the world's largest gas plants in Saudi Arabia. His previous postings included Aruba N.W.I., Venezuela, Libya and Iran. .. . After fourteen years as a trustee for the Trail School Board, Basil McDonnell, BASc'47, MASc'48, has been named to the Board of Selkirk College. Basil is a Project Supervisor with Cominco in Trail. . . . Another alumnus prominently involved in the B.C. education system is J. Ronald Grant, LLB'49, recently appointed to a two-year term on the Board of North Island College. A resident of Hornby Island, Mr. Grant works as an agent for Block Bros. Realty Well-known labour relations consultant Ed Peck, BCom'49* continues to make news in his role as Commissioner of the B.C. Compensation Stabilization Program. His job involves the application of public- sector wage settlement guidelines introduced by the B.C. provincial government in 1982. . . . UBC faculty member Dr. Ernest Peters, BASc'49, MASc'51, PhD'56, has been awarded a Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship for his work on particle morphology and hydrometallurgical leaching dynamics. . . . With three years of residence in Europe behind them, Robert Christie, BASc'49, and wife Margaret will be moving to Prince Rupert in August. Richard has been appointed Maintenance Manager for the Ridley Company coal terminal there, following pulp and paper industry projects for H.A. Simons (Overseas)in Poland and Czechoslovakia since 1980 Richards's fellow graduate, Lloyd Morrill, BASc'49, is off to Cochabamba, Bolivia with his wife Lucile. Lloyd, recently retired after a 33- year career with B.C. Hydro, has accepted a four-month assignment from CESO working with the Bolivian Electrical Utility Authority. After twenty-five years with Cariboo Radio, Bob Leckie, BA'51, recently retired as the network's General Manager. Well- known throughout the B.C. Interior for his public-service activities, Bob was the 1978 winner of the B.C. Broadcasters' Citizen of the Year Award. No word yet on his future career plans. . . . Kamloops resident Mervin Chertkow, LLB'52 (BA, Sask.) has been named to the Public Service Staff Relations Board of the federal government. Since 1978, Mervin's legal practice has been restricted exclusively to conciliation and adjudication of labour disputes. . . . After almost 17 years in Eastern Canada, Newton Steacy, BA'52, BTh'63, has moved . U.B.C. IrjW Thunderbirds \L& LOST ALUMNI Where Are You? We are trying to update our records and NEED YOUR HELP!! Please fill out the form below and get your friends to do it too. Then send it to: Susan Goad, U.B.C. Athletic Department, No. 208- 6081 University Blvd., Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1W5. Name Address City Prov. Postal Code Home Phone Business Do you remember your student No.? Which sport(s) were you involved in? As a player , Coach , or Manager U.B.C. Awards, if any? Area of Study at U.B.C. Present Occupation Chronicle/Summer 1983 17 back west to assume the office of Associate Deputy Minister of Indian and Native Affairs in the Saskatchewan provincial government. Newton was previously the Senior Liaison Office Secretary of State in Ottawa. . . . Northwood Pulp and Paper executive J. Douglas Little, BSF'53, has begun a two-year term as a member of the Board of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George. ... It has been learned from Ottawa that John A. Fraser, LLB'54, has been appointed Queen's Counsel. Mr. Fraser is currently in his fourth term as M.P. for Vancouver South. . . . Clifford H. Frame, BASc'56, has assumed the position of President and Chief Operating Officer for Denison Mines, with which he has been associated since 1957. He continues as Chairman and President of Quintette Coal Limited, and as a Director of several other corporations and the Mining Association of Canada. . . . Education administrator Z. Joyce Hopps, BA'56, Ed-D'69, is one of 100 women chosen from throughout the United States to participate in a major leadership training program. Entitled "Leaders for the 80's", the program is designed to help community college women assume major policy-making positions within the present decade. Dr. Hopps is an Associate Dean of Instruction at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. . . . After almost ten years with Weyerhaeuser Canada Limited, Steve Tolnai, BSF'59, has been appointed the company's Chief Forester. 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Jamieson, MD'60 (PhD, Rockefeller), was elected President of the American Society for Cell Biology at the Society's annual general meeting in Baltimore last November. Dr. Jamieson teaches cell biology and heads the Medical Scientist Training Program at Yale. . . . An avid curler since 1969, Noreen Delisle, BA'61, has served as President of the Canadian Ladies Curling Association for the past year. Noreen, her husband, and two teenaged children live in Prince George. . . . Jay Atherton, BA'61 (MA, Carleton), is Director General, Records Management Branch of the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa. . . . Wendy Dobson, BSN'63 (MPA, Harvard; PhD, Princeton) continues in her role as Executive Director of the influential C. D. Howe Institute in Montreal In 1977, Pete Griffiths, BA'63, BSW'64, MSW'66, began an advice column, "Coping", in the Prince Albert Daily Herald. Pete's column now appears in both the Western Producer and the Ottawa Citizen; his earlier pieces are regularly reprinted in a number of Canadian papers. Pete has also produced a series of 50 fifteen-minute cable television programs on coping which are available on loan from the Canadian Mental Health Association. ... As part of a senior staff reorganization, longtime Alcan employee Roger Bennett, BASc'64, recently moved from Kitimat to Kurri Kurri, Australia. His new title is that of Manager of Operations at Alcan's Kurri Kurri smelter. Also leaving Kitimat is Eric Sykes, BASc'67, who has been appointed to the position of Assistant Director of Operations in the Reduction Division of Alcan's Montreal operation. ... As a Children's Librarian on Vancouver Island, Penny Grant, BA'64, BLS'65, drives an average of 2,000 kilometres per month, yet still finds time to read to young library patrons. "You like to get them talked out before you start the story," Penny says. . . . Zoology graduate Don MacDonald, BASc'64, oversees an experimental salmon hatchery in Fort St. James. For several years Don has been involved in salmonid enhancement programs for the Upper Fraser region. . . . The Port Moody Public Library was the site this spring of a display of pottery by Glenn Putman, BEd-E'64. Glenn runs a pottery studio in Belcarra, B.C. . . . Walter Uegama, BCom'64 (MBA, Berkeley), is the new Director of University Programs at the Open Learning Institute, following ten years with Selkirk College in B.C.'s Kootenay's region. . . . Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre now has its third venue, a 200-seat cabaret. Artistic Director of the Arts Club is Bill Millerd, BA'65 Susan Elliot Witter, BPE'65, MEd'79, has assumed the position of Associate Dean, Continuing Education at Fraser Valley College in Chilliwack. ... As part of a Native Studies program, artist and anthropologist Ted Wilson, BA'66, conducts a course for the Greater Victoria School District. 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I ALUMNI jjifrffl Eg ALUMNI UBC BRASS COASTER Decorate your desk with this functional piece. The back is padded to protect your furniture. Please send me the following items, in the quantity indicated. I have included postage and sales tax in my calculation of total cost. Item Description Lapel Pin Cost $ 4.00 Postage & Handling .48c Tax Quantity Total ,24c Coffee Mug (Single) $12.00 $3.60 .72c Coffee Mug (Set of 4) $48.00 $5.50 $2.88 Ale Tankard (Single) $14.50 $3.60 .87c Ale Tankard (Set of 4) $58.00 $5.50 $3.48 Brass Coaster (Single) $11.00 $3.10 .66c BrassCoaster (Setof4) $44.00 $5.00 $2.64 Total Enclosed: NAME ADDRESS TELEPHONE POSTAL CODE Method of Payment (Please check one): Cheque/Money Order Enclosed □ Visa/Master Charged # Expiry Date Signature Randall received his Licentiate in Accounting in 1978 Dr. Tom Beveridge, BSA'68, has joined the food processing research staff at the Summerland Research Station. Tom was Associate Professor in the School of Food Science at McGill in Montreal. . . . The first chaplain to work full-time on the campus of Simon Fraser University is Barbara Blakely, BA'69. Rev. Blakely's campus chaplaincy is financed jointly by the Anglican and United churches. Betty Ashton, BSN'70, has been elected to chair the Penticton Library Board. She has been a member of the board for three years, and has also served on the Library Finance Committee. . . . Although trained as a geologist, Paul Garvin, BSc'70, has spent most of his working life as a vegetable farmer. He and wife Suzanne now operate a forty-acre farm in Surrey, B.C. ... It has been learned from London that James Paul Whittal, BA'70, has received a Masters in Music Performance Studies from City University. That degree was conferred on Mr. Whittal by the university's Chancellor, the Lord Mayor of London, during a December ceremony at the London Guildhall. . . . The Penticton Art Gallery was the site last summer of an exhibition of paintings by John Kalmakov, BEd-S'71.A first-prize winner in the 1979 B.C. Artists Exhibition, John now makes his home in Castlegar. . . . Educational psychologist John Boland, BA-ECM'72, MEd'81, is presently one of a handful open invitation You are INVITED to visit Canada's largest new bookstore. Now OPEN in its magnificent new building at 6200 University Blvd. (At the No. 1 entrance to the Campus — opposite the Aquatic Centre) well worth a visit mm BOOKSTORE of elementary school guidance counsellors in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. . . . Another alumnus to have made a significant contribution to the education system in the B.C. Interior is Terry Killough, BSc'72. Recently named as Secretary-Treasurer for School District 14 in Oliver, Terry held a similar position in Revelstoke.. .. Lynne Carmichael, BEd-E'72, is the winner of a Summer University Graduate Fellowship for 1983-84, as she works towards her masters in Visual and Performing Arts, focussing on Design and Sculpture. Lynne was the 1982-83 chairperson of Alumni UBC's Scholarship committee. .. . "Sounds of Japan", a multi-media production staged in February to raise funds for a Penticton preschool education program, featured the husband-and-wife team of Ron (MA'72) and Wendy (M.Mus'72) Stuart. Wendy is Music Director at Vancouver's York House School. Ron teaches anthropology at Columbia College in Vancouver, and also chairs the school's Board of Governors. . . . Although elected to his first public office less than four years ago, Alberta MLA John Zaozirny, LLB'72, has already assumed a high-profile cabinet post as Minister of Energy. John and wife Elizabeth Marett Zaozirny, BEd-E'70, live with their two young sons in Calgary. . . . John H. Stape, MA'73, has accepted a post as Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. . . . Barry Hill-Tout, BSc'75 (PhD'83, Brown) is now Visiting Assitant Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. . . . Allan Collings, BCom'75, has resigned his position as Assistant General Manager of the Vancouver Whitecaps in order to accept a position with the North American Soccer League's New York head office. Allan's new title is Vice President of Finance. ... At the forefront of a progressive, non-profit program for the treatment of children with neurological disorders is Alison Townrow, BSR'75. As a district representative for the Okanagan- Similkameen Neurological Society, Alison regularly attends to over twenty children in the Osoyoos area. .. . Lawyers John R. '7ack" Whittaker, LLB'75, and Gerry Gordon, LLB'81, have formed a partnership in Osoyoos, B.C. . . . Trail resident Joe Fuoco, BMus'76, will soon complete his second year as conductor of the . Castlegar Community Band. An employee of Cominco, Joe also plays bass for the popular Trail big band, the Nova Tones. ... In his role as Kamloops Forest District silvicultural planner, Bernie Ivanco, BSF'76, recently expressed concern over B.C.'s reforestation policy. Bernie notes that the Forestry industry accounts for half the province's revenues, but receives just two percent of B.C. government spending for such purposes as reforestation and research. . . . Journalist Nicholas Read, BSc'78, was a member of the Vancouver Sun team which won the National Newspaper Award for enterprise reporting, for their in-depth coverage of the Clifford Olson mass murder case. Nicholas is now the Sun's theatre critic.. .. Kathleen Downs, LLB'79 (BA, Harvard), is now a partner in a Nanaimo law firm. . . . Primo Podorieszach, BCom'79, was formally designated a chartered accountant in a January ceremony at the Hotel Vancouver. Primo's wife, Eileen, graduated as a certified general accountant last August. 20 Chronicle/Summer 1983 . . . With funding assistance from the Canada Development Project and the Kinsmen Club, Diana Ruffle, BPE'79, is working to establish a much-needed youth centre in the Parksville area of Vancouver Island. Eventually, Diana hopes to provide local children and adolescents with day camps, a drop-in centre, counselling, and sports and cultural events. Two Georox "Team '80" members are currently doing graduate work in Civil Engineering at Queens University, Kingston. David M. R. Stone, BASc'80, is completing his PhD, while F. Bruce Hayden, BASc'80, is working on an MSc. . . . Allan Bennett, MBA'80, has been appointed Executive Director of the Amalgamated Construction Association of B.C. Allan has been involved in the B.C. construction industry for over 26 years. . . . Richard Martinson, BCom'80, has fulfilled a long-time ambition by successfully completing a chartered accountancy degree program. An employee of the Prince Rupert firm of Wallace, Scott, Rosario and Vohora, Richard also serves as Treasurer of the local chapter of the Canadian Diabetic Association. . . . Another recent graduate of the chartered accountancy program is Bruce Nicol, BCom'80. Bruce placed third among 400 students writing the accountancy exams, and was awarded the bronze medal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. . . .In May 1980, Stephen Tanner, BCom'80, set out on a bicycle trip which would eventually take him across North America and throughout Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Richard arrived home just before the New Year, and was at last word enrolled in Vancouver Community College. . . . Nicholas Tuele, MA'80, a former Extension Officer with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, has been appointed the Gallery's Curator of Historical Art. . . . David Ward (Keeviak), LLB'81, has successfully completed the articling phase of his legal studies in Alberta. David is Canada's first Inuit lawyer. ... By the rime this appears in print, MS. GRADUATES! Don't lose contact! Join the Vancouver University Women's Club, an affiliate of the Canadian and International Federations of University Women. Promote Education, Status of Women, the Arts and Sciences; all with good fellowship at beautiful heritage Hycroft. Hycroft telephone 731-4661 1489 McRae Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1V1 Stan Woods, BASc'81, hopes to have qualified to compete in his third consecutive world kayaking championship. An employee of a Vancouver engineering firm, Stan trains for his sport thirteen sessions per week, each week of the year. ... A five-month Post Office delay in the delivery of an application cost Anita Hales, BA'82, the chance of a two-year scholarship to Japan. However, she has since been awarded a major scholarship to Oxford University. ... As an outreach worker for the Richmond Family Place, Suman Singh, BA'82, helps young Indo- Canadian women to resolve the conflicting values of Eastern and Western culture. John Aitchison, BA'57, April 1983. Ernest A. Alexander, BA'40, LLB'48, March 28, 1983 in Vancouver. He attended the first law class held at UBC in 1945. After attaining the rank of squadron leader in the R.C.A.F. during W.W. II, he helped form and was Commanding Officer of 442 Reserve Squadron. Made a Queen's Counsel in 1964, in his legal practice he frequently represented both the provincial attorney- general, and the broadcast industry in libel, slander and defamation areas. Survived by his wife Moira (BA'40), son Douglas, daughter Janet (BA'66, MEd'65), and brother Douglas. Allison Aman, MSc'67, PhD'73, January 1983. Vera A. Anderson, BA'57, February 1983. W. Orson Banfield, BASc'22, MASc'23, March 1983 in Vancouver. For many years a leading figure in the Vancouver business community, he also served on City Council, the Parks Board, and a number of other civic agencies. He was awarded freedom of the city in 1977. He served on the UBC Senate, chaired the board of Vancouver General Hospital, was a Convocation Founder of Simon Fraser University, and made outstanding contributions to numerous professional and charitable organizations. Survived by his wife Beatrice, son John (BCom'56), daughter Jane Banfield Haynes (BA, LLB'54) of Toronto, and five grandchildren. Milton D. Bayly, BA'17, January 1983. Elizabeth M. Gillanders Beach, BA'38, March 1983 in Victoria. A member of a pioneer B.C. family, she will be remembered for her television programs "Hidden Pages" and "Miss Beth's Schoolhouse." In recent years, she wrote, directed and acted in a number of original productions on Galiano Island, and served two terms on the Gulf Islands School District Board. Survived by her husband William, a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Kirkwood of Seattle, one nephew, and a number of cousins. Margaret G. Morrison Bell, BA'27, March 30, 1983. H. Leslie Brown, BA'28, January 1983. A recipient of both the Coronation and Centennial medals, he had a long and distinguished career with the Department of Trade and Commerce; his postings included Mexico City, Johannesburg, London, Caracas, and Buenos Aires. He participated in a number of major international conferences and was involved in the planning of Expo '67. Survived by his wife, Ruth A. Fraser Brown (BA'26), one son and one daughter. Dagmar Christy, BA'36, MA'37, February 1982. Survived by her husband, Dr. Robert Christy (BA'35, MA'37). Chronicle/Summer 1983 21 Thomas Arthur Cook, BCom'55, March 26, 1983 in Vancouver. A Chartered Accountant, he was president of the YMCA and B.C. Institute of Chartered Accountants, served as a chairman of Urif ' Way, and sat on the B.CI.T. Board of Governors. Survived by his wife Audrey, sons Philip, Gordon and Patrick, daughters Terry and Jo-Anne, and parents Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Cook. Gordon C. L. Draeseke, BA'36, February 1983 in Bay wood Park, California. An executive of a number of B.C. forest products companies, he also served an eight-year term as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Forest Industries of B.C. Survived by wife Dorothy, sons Douglas (BSc'64), Bruce and John, daughters Kathie (BA'67) and Janice, and five grandchildren. Eirik Eirikson, BA'48, LLB'49, February 1983 in New Westminster. He served as a flight lieutenant with the R.C.A.F. in England during the Second World War. He began legal practice in New Westminster and remained a resident of that municipality until his death. Survived by his wife June, children David, Kristen and Paul, sisters Sigrid Gleeson and Thelma Tambellini, and grandson Peter. John GrigOruk, BEd-E'62, December 1982 in Creston, B.C. Following graduation, he taught in Prince George and Rossland before settling in Creston. Survived by wife Alicja, mother Anastasia D'Andrea, brothers Alex (BA'55) and Daniel (BA'56), and by children Andre, Kathy and Terrance. William Arthur Hayden, BSc'52, March 1983 in Cranbrook, B.C. He was a former Vice-Principal and teacher at Mount Baker Secondary School. Survived by his wife, two sons, and four daughters. 22 Chronicle/Summer 1983 Percy Hamilton Henderson, BA'30, November 1982 in Haifa, Israel. He was prominent for many years as a life insurance agent and served as President in 1965 of the Vancouver Life Underwriters Association. Survived by wife Jean (nee Salter), BA'30, and daughter Mary Parker of Calgary. Robert Henry, BA'48, MSW'55, April 1982 in Newmarket, Ontario. A former President of the Ontario Group Psychotherapy Association, he is survived by wife Phebenell (BA'48), daughters Lesley, Ann and Ellen, and grandchildren. David Edward Jones, BA'50 (LTh, Anglican Theological College), February 1983. Ordained in Edmonton in 1950, he was active in many diocesan committees in both Alberta and Ontario. At the time of his death, he was Assistant Director of the Peel District Health Council and a Director of the Ontario Social Development Council. Survived by his wife, Edna Pepper, sons Michael, Mark and Stephen, daughter Leah, and a sister, Mrs. Betty Miller of Edmonton. Gordon V. E. Logan, BASc'28, April 1983 in Abbotsford. An avid golfer, he was employed by Dominion Bridge for over thirty-three years. Survived by son David, daughter Sharon, and three grandchildren. Nancy Anne Mahoney McAllister, MA'57, PhD Zoo'63, April 1983 in Ottawa. Marjorie L. Edwards MacDonald, BA'29, February 1983 in Vancouver. W. R. "Mickey" McDougall, BA'21, December 1982 in Vancouver. From 1935 until his retirement in 1961, he was principal of North Vancouver High School. A member of the UBC Senate for nine years, he held honourary or life membership in the Canadian Red Cr js Society, "teNorth Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, and the B.C. Parent-Teacher Federation. Survived by his wife Jessie, daughter Anne MacDonald, son Barry, and five grandchildren. Harry Rodney Morris, BASc'44, February 1983 in Calgary. He was an engineer, geologist and consultant to the Canadian petroleum industry for almost forty years. Survived by his wife Jean Victoria, son Joe, daughter Mary-Jane, brothers Gordon (BASc'37), Fred and Royden (Pete), and by four grandsons. Maurice Mulligan, BA'49, LLB'50, December 1982 in Vancouver. Appointed Juvenile Court Judge and Coroner in 1957, he was later named to the provincial court bench, where he remained until 1972. At the time of his death, he was a Commissioner with the B.C. Utilities Commission. Survived by his wife and three daughters. Alvin Jackson Narod, BASc'44, March 1983 in Vancouver. A Big Block award winner in both football and rugby, he served as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army during World War II. He formed Narod Construction in 1948 and over the next three decades was involved in numerous development projects throughout British Columbia. Since 1980, he had served as Chief Executive Officer of B.C. Place. Survived by wife Eileen, son Jeffrey (BAPSc'74), daughters Susan (BA'77), Wendy and Alison, and brothers Leonard (BASc'48), Philip (MD'55), Milton (BSA'40), and Samuel. Michael Joseph Negraeff, BSP'68, December 1982. Survived by his brother Joseph (BASc'70). Leslie S. Parsons, BA'48, LLB'49, July 1982. William D. M. Patterson, BA'32, January 1983 in Vancouver. One of B.C.'s most respected advertising and public relations figures, he was best known in recent years as the Vancouver Co-ordinating Producer for "Hockey Night in Canada". He played a major role in a number of West Vancouver organizations, including the West Van Community Arts Council and the West Van Citizens Planning Forum. Survived by his wife Winifred, daughters Wendy, Cheryl and Diane, and five grandchildren. Barbara Mary Powis, DPH-N'49, BSc-A'79, January 1983. Survived by husband T. E. Powis of West Vancouver and daughter Deborah J. Hilton (BA'76) of Ottawa. Charles Davies Schultz, BASc'31, January 1983 in Crescent Beach, B.C. Known world-wide in the field of forestry, he founded Canada's first international forestry consulting firm, C. D. Schultz and Co. Ltd., in 1944. He continued to serve as a company Director until his death. Survived by his wife, Ardy (BA'36), son Beaumont Charles, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret (BEd-E'77). Ruth E. Norquay Stubbs, BEd-E'68, 1983. Survived by son Johnathon, BA'67, LLB'70, and his family of Port Coquitlam. William E. Thomson, BA'37, December 1982. Donald Usher, BCom'55, February 1983. Michael Wakely, BASc'51, January 1983 in Vancouver. A lifelong railroad man, he had since 1975 headed CP Rail's Special Projects department. At the time of his death, he was in charge of an ambitious project to construct a 17- kilometre tunnel through the Selkirk Mountains. Survived by his wife Florence of Vancouver. Donald Stevenson Watson, BA'30 (PhD, California), January 1983. i Academics... continued from page 16 offered by faculty. Estimated enrollment for 1982-83 is 1,650 in the BCom program, 125 in the licentitate, 420 in the MBA and MSc programs, 30 in the PhD, and faculty positions of 106. Despite an increase of over 200 since the 1975-76 total student enrollment, there has been a faculty decrease of more than ten members. Other faculties on campus have established endowed chairs. The faculty of Medicine has four; Law, one in place for September, one in the planning stages; Engineering has one in aeronautical engineering and Physics is exploring the possibilities. In the past, many Canadian academics have held the attitude that they shouldn't dirty their hands by fundraising. American faculties have felt differently because a large proportion of their universities have always been private. Dean Lusztig sides with the American viewpoint. If academics don't take an active role in fund- raising for the university, warns Lusztig, "we deprive our students, we deprive our faculty, and we deprive our province of the kinds of things which could be done that we aren't doing." f (Karen Loeder, BEd '72, BJ 79 [Carleton] is a Vancouver free-lance writer and a research assistant in the Department of Geriatrics, Extended Care Unit, UBC.) Friends of UBC Reunions Class of '33 50th Anniversary Reunion Dinner to be held on July 23,1983 UBC Faculty Club Class of'58 25th Anniversary Reunion Dinner Dance to be held on October 8,1983 Graduate Student Centre Ballroom Final details to be announced by mail to grads. For further information contact Liz Owen Alumni UBC 228-3313 Jennie Gillespie Drennan Memorial Scholarships winners who attended a special reception held in their honour: (I to r) Elizabeth Drance, Zdenka Sperling, Gloria Dubeski, Stan Arkley, Vice-President of Friends of UBC, Heidi Oetter, Suzanne Voetmann, UBC President Douglas Kenny, and Gerald Marra, President of Friends of UBC. For a number of years, the Friends of the University of British Columbia have administered the endowment funding of the Jennie Gillespie Drennan Memorial scholarships, awarded annually to outstanding female students in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. The Jennie Gillespie Drennan Memorial scholarships are awarded on the basis of recommendations presented by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. This year's award winners are Heidi Oetter, Jana McLeod, Gloria Dubeski, Elizabeth Drance, Sandra MacKiegan, Susanne Voetmann, and Zdenka Sperling. The Jennie Drennan scholarship fund was established by UBC graduate Albert Alexander Drennan (BA '23), in honour of his aunt and guardian, pioneer medical practitioner Jennie Drennan. Born in Gaspe, Quebec, in 1870, Jennie Drennan began her medical studies at Queens University (Kingston). She did extensive post-graduate work in pathology and bacteriology at a number of institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and John Hopkins University. She taught at both the University of Chicago and Louisville University, and was for sev eral years a resident physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She later worked as superintendent of the New York Department of Health laboratory, in which position she remained until her retirement in 1940. She retired to Toronto, where she passed away in 1946, at age 76. For years a prominent California advertising and public relations figure, Albert Alexander Drennan was killed in a traffic accident in London in 1973. Following Mr. Drennan's death, the Friends of UBC assumed full responsibility for the administration and maintenance of the various UBC assistance projects for which Mr. Drennan's estate provides support. Based in Seattle, the Friends of UBC is an organization which allows American citizens to make tax-deductible donations to the University of British Columbia. During the February 25 ceremony, Friends of UBC President Gerald Marra presented Douglas Kenny with a cheque for over $95,000 U.S. This money is to be used to establish a trust fund, the income from which will be used to endow the Jennie Gillespie Drennan Memorial scholarships. 8 Chronicle/Summer 1983 23 Never will you have a more spectacular opportunity to learn bridge the easy way. Picture it! While you cruise through Alaska's eye-dazzling, glacier studded seascapes, experienced instructors introduce you to the mysteries of bridge. The method is new, ridiculously easy... and it works. 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Title | The UBC Alumni Chronicle |
Publisher | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Alumni Association |
Date Issued | 1983-06 |
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Notes | Titled "[The] Graduate Chronicle" from April 1931 - October 1948; "[The] UBC Alumni Chronicle" from December 1948 - December 1982 and September 1989 - September 2000; "[The] Alumni UBC Chronicle" from March 1983 - March 1989; and "Trek" from March 2001 onwards. |
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