IJteK.B.e. Alumni SUMMER ISSUE JUNE - JULY, 1953 GOOD LUCK! to The Class of '53 The Manager and staff of "'My Bank' on the campus" join in wishing good luck to all who are leaving U.B.C. this year. We hope you will find success and happiness in all your future undertakings. We also want to remind you that, wherever you go in Canada, there is almost sure to be one of our 58 5 branches near your home or office. You'll always find a warm welcome at "My Bank". Bank of Montreal Your Bank on the Campus . . . In the Auditorium Building MERLE C. KIRBY, Manager TO A MILLION CANADIANS GpJ WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 page 2 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Holy Haven Elysium May 7, the Day of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr. The Editor, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, U. B. Seated. Also Sated. Sir, (if I may so address you), One Allen Roy Evans (off caps! all stand!) has written to you with some free advice for your man Brocca, telling him he doesn't know how to write. Mr. Evans feels the Chronicle is no place for illiteracy. Little does he know. It is crammed solid with the stuff on every page. I blush and blush for it. Even the printer improves his shining hour by inserting the darndest misprints that ever a man did see. I well remember a letter of Dr. Birney's on this subject. He somewhat vainly, in both senses of the word "vain", objected to having his poems rewritten. In the same issue that was toned up by Mr. Evans' letter I noticed "quickest hedge" for "quickset hedge", and "man type" for "un type". After which I quit reading, but not before deciding that illiterates in the Chronicle make suitable bedfellows. Misery loves company. Further, I'd say your company loves misery. That noted old stylist, Mr. Evans himself, is apt to nod when he inserts himself into this slipshod gang that hangs around the Chronicle. For example, he says "I don't want to inject a discordant note, but". Meaning, of course, that he's delighted to do just that, for why else did he write? Now, how does one inject a discordant note? With a syringe? And is the note the patient who gets the injection, the recipient? Or is it the fluid, the injecting medium, within the syringe? Mr. Evans fails to make himself clear, which should be the young graduate's chief endeavour. Mr. Brocca, I am happy to say, made himself all too plain. So plain that he shocked Mr. Evans, a lover of beauty and propriety. Yours faithfully, D. H. Brock, Arts '30. Mr. Frank Turner, Sec'y-Manager U.B.C. Alumni Association : I thought it might interest you or your Alumni editor to hear that when I was in Kingston recently, through the kindness of Mr. D. Cooper, works manager of C.I.L., I had a meeting with a number of U.B.C. grads who are working with them at the Nylon plant there. The following people had dinner and refreshments: Kalev Pugi, '52 Dick McKinnon, '49 Ted Hendricks, 'SO Orin Pearce, '51 John Henrv, '51 Dave Wood, '52 Mack Bridt, '49 Bill Ross '47 Director of Personal Services. ■'- J. F. McLean, Louis XV 23.30 Brentwood 24.20 Chantilly 24.20 The Best Value in Canada BIRKS STERLING • Made in Birks own craftshops, assuring fine workmanship and heavy weight. • The only silverware sold direct from maker to consumer. • Your choice of 20 exclusive patterns. Prices shown are for six- piece place-settings. 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Hall, B.Comm. '42, LL.B. '48 Women's Editor: Leona Sherlock, B.A., '50 Board of Management: President Douglas Macdonald, B.A., '30 Past-President Gordon M. Letson, B.A.Sc, '26 First Vice-President Arthur H. Sager, B.A., '38 Treasurer G. Dudley Darling, B.Comm., '39 Second Vice-President Jean Gilley, B.A., '27 Third Vice-President Dr. Harry V. Warren, B.A., 26; B.A.Sc, '27 Chairman Publications Board Ormonde J. Hall, B.Comm., '42; LL.B., '48 Executive-Director—Frank Turner, B.Comm., B.A., '39 Degree Reps.: Medicine, Dr. Peter Spohn; Law, Frank Lewis, B.A. '49, LL.B. '50; Pharmacy, Doug. Denholm, B.S.P. '51; Commerce, Don Miller, B.Comm. '47; Agriculture, Iain MacSwan, B.S.A. '42; Social Work, Richard J. Clark, B.A. '41, B.S.W. '46; Home Economics, Audrey Dunlop, B.H.E. '47; Physical Education, Hugh Marshall, B.P.E. '50; Architecture, Harry Lee, B.Arch. '50; Applied Science, Len Stacey, B.A.Sc. '24; Forestry, Jack Roff, B.Comm. '47, B.S.F. '48; Arts, Margaret E. Clarke, B.A. '32. Members at Large: Dr. W. G. Black, B.A. '22; William H. Birmingham, B.A. '33; Harry Franklin, B.A. '49; Dr. Fred Grauer, B.S.A. '30; Mrs. Helen Harmer, B.A. '40; Aileen Mann, B.A. '37. Senate Reps.: Dr. Earle Foerster, B.A. '21; Dr. W. C. Gibson, B.A. '33. Alma Mater Society Reps.: Ivan Feltham and Bill St. John. Editorial Offices: 5 th Floor, Yorkshire House 900 West Pender Street Vancouver 1, B.C. Business Offices: Room 201, Brock Hall, U.B.C. Vancouver 8, B.C. Readers of the Chronicle will note on page seven that Col. Harry T. Logan is the new editor of the Chronicle taking over from the writer of this column who regretfully and yet with some relief is giving up the post after five or six years. . . . The Chronicle has been fun but at the same time a bit of a chore because of the inevitable deadlines, etc. . . . but at this time as the after dinner speaker says, I wish to thank all those people who have contributed in one way or another to the Chronicle and also the many people who have had such kind things to say about the magazine over the years . . . There have been many faults in the Chronicle but an attempt was made to give the magazine a flavor that would appeal to as many of the graduates as possible. . . . some felt it was too breezy and not quite up to the artistic standards demanded of a college journal and others thought some of the more scientific and literary articles were a little too heavy for grads who wanted only to hear of the doings of some of their old class mates . . . On the whole, however, it has had a good effect because it has helped to draw the graduates of U.B.C. closer together and in that way organize our forces for the projects we have undertaken. . . . Col. Logan comes to the Chronicle with a reputation as a gentleman, scholar and soldier that is of the highest. . . . He will do a fine job as we all know . . . but one thing is important ... he will need help and it is up to all graduates who have talent for writing to pitch in and contribute articles and newsworthy notes so that his job will be easier. . . . The Chronicle pays nothing to its contributors but the satisfaction that comes from doing something to help a good effort ... so reflect all you people who are in the writing field one way or another and send in your notes and articles . . . Col. Logan will appreciate it. . . . VOL. 7, No. 2 JUNE-JULY, 1953 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Page Alumni Athletic Committee Report 8, 9 U.B.C. Professors Retire 13 Capsule College. 14 FEATURES Women 10, 11 Speaking Editorially 15 Frankly Speaking 19 Published in Vancouver, British Columbia, and authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Before leaving don't forget to read the report of the Alumni Committee on Athletics at U.B.C. which appears on pages 8 and 9 and 22 and 23. . . . Dr. Bill Gibson and his Committee worked months on their report and the result is an excellent brief. . . . FRONT COVER Featured on this issue's cover is an aerial picture of the U.B.C. campus showing most of the new buildings on the campus . . . the picture graphically shows the desperate situation developing with regard to lack of playing fields at U.B.C. one of the main concerns of the Alumni Athletic Committee. JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 5 The Eskimo hunter had to devise a light, fast craft that would be tough and virtually unsinkable. Result... his sealskin kayak, one of man's most remarkable answers to the challenge of his environment. Imagination plus ingenuity were the twin keys to the Eskimo's problem. Here at the Royal Bank we believe those same two qualities to be important in the banking business: imagination to plan for the future, ingenuity to meet new conditions as they arise. The result, a flexible banking service, constantly expanded and adjusted to meet the changing needs of our customers. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Total assets exceed $2,675,000,000 PAGE 6 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Col. Harry T. Logan New Editor of Alumni Chronicle Commencing- with the Pall issue of the Alumni Chronicle, the new Editor will be Col. Harry T. Logan, one of U.B.C.'s best known graduates and professors. The Alumni Association is very fortunate in obtaining the services of Col. Logan who will be taking over the editorship from Ormonde Hall, who has been the editor for the past six years. Col. Logan officially retired from the University this year where he was head of the Classics Department, but has been re-appointed Chairman of the Department. Born in Acadia Mines, now known as London- erry, in Xova Scotia, the son of Rev. John A. Logan, D.D., and his mother, both of whom were sixth generation Canadians, he was brought to British Columbia as a small boy. He came across Canada by railway and vividly remembers how the bridges in the Rockies creaked as the primitive carriages moved cautiously over them. The C.P.R. at that time was almost an infant prodigy. He attended public schools in Chilliwack. Cumberland, on Vancouver Island and on Sea Island in a two-room building known as the Sea Island School which was located near the present site of the Vancouver Airport. He later attended Vancouver High School which later became King pdward High School and he developed an interest in the Latin and Greek classics inspired by the late principal J. C. Shaw and Dr. Lemuel Robertson, who became the first and much loved head of the U.B.C. Classics Dept., which Department Col. Logan was later to head. Col. Logan took an Honours Classics course at McGill and as a Rhodes Scholar he travelled to St. Johns College, Oxford, to continue his studies. He obtained a degree at Oxford in 1911, studied theology in Montreal and Edinburgh, and in 1913 accepted an appointment instructing Classics at at McGill College of British Columbia. Prom 1915 to 1920 he served in the Canadian forces oversea* including- the 72nd Seaforth High- (Continued on page 25) JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 7 U.B.C. ALUMNI COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS BACKGROUND PREPARED BY CHAIRMAN DR. W. C. GIBSON THE BACKGROUND By William C. Gibson, M.D. Edward Martin, the editor of the original Life magazine wrote: "William, Duke of Suffolk, entered politics and his body was never recovered." It might be said equally that a psychiatrist who takes on the charmanship of an Alumni Committee on Athletics needs his head examined. When the then president of the Alumni Association, Gordon Letson, asked me to act as chairman of a special committee on athletics in the Autumn of 1952, there was considerable concern as to the so-called "freshman rule" imposed by Senate as a result of its investigation of the academic standing of some students playing on major teams. The ensuing months saw two special meetings called by the Alma Mater Socety on November 21, 1952, and November 27, 1952, which, despite prolonged wrangles on matters of procedure, cleared the air considerably. NOVEMBER RESOLUTIONS The resolutions of the November 21st meeting covered such matters as the enforcement of the rules of the Evergreen Conference, lack of playing fields, and the appointment of an Athletic Director. On the last item, a motion was passed favoring the appointment of the Athletic Director on the recommendation of the Men's Athletic Council with the approval of the Students' Council to "be responsible U.B.C. ALUMNI COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS Dr. William C. Gibson, Chairman; Mr. Charles M. Campbell, Jr., Vice-Chairman; Mrs. Jean Salter Sleightholme, Miss Mary Fallis, Mr. R. Grant Don- egani, Mr. Dave Brousson, Dr. David Turner, Mr. Ralph Thomas, Dr. Marvin Darrach, Mr. Hugh Marshall, Dr. Alex Wood, Mr. Arthur Sager, Dr. H. V. Warren, Miss Marjorie Leeming, Mr. William Dixon ,Mr. W. H. Mclnnes, Miss Mary Anne Norton, Mr. Harry Franklin, Mr. John Haar, Mr. Leslie C. Hempsall, Mr. Douglas MacDonald, Mr. J. E. Underhill. to the Board of Governors and Students' Council through the Men's Athletic Council as now constituted and not through the School of Physical Education." A motion "that the Athletic Director shall be a man capable of directing extra-mural athletics, and shall have the qualification necessary for the coaching of a football team" was defeated. On November 27, 1952, further resolutions were passed by the Alma Mater Society asking Senate to "withdraw the regulation respecting eligibility of freshmen to play in intercollegiate athletics," and calling for an investigation of the possibility of "the reformation of the Western Inter-University Football Union, and the playing of games with other Canadian Universities when and where feasible." Motions calling for "athletic scholarships" and "a tutorial system to aid athletes in making up time lost from their studies" were defeated. The same evening Senate held a special meeting with the Student Council, the School of Physical Education staff, and the Men's Athletic Committee at which a very full discussion was held. On December 17, 1952, Senate set up a standing committee on student affairs under the chairmanship of Dean Walter Gage, to meet with the students whenever they had definite proposals to make. On February 9, 1953, Senate agreed to the following rules of eligibility submitted by the Men's Athletic Directorate, the Men's Athletic Committee and Students' Council ("on the understanding that Section 3 of Regulation A is subject to section 1 of the same regulation"). "A. Regulations governing eligibility of male athletes participating on any University 'first' athletic team (i.e., the Varsity or Thunderbird team). "1. Transfers from universities or colleges not affiliated with the University of B. C. must have attended the University of B.C. or Victoria College as a full-time student for at least one winter session before becoming eligible to participate on a first team. "2. No student shall be eligible to compete on a first team unless in the last winter session, if (Continued on page 22) PAGE 8 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE MAKES REPORT TO THE ASSOCIATION DR. WILLIAM C GIBSON RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE U.B.C. ALUMNI SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS PASSED 13 APRIL, 1953 "After study and discussion of the present situation in athletics and recreation at the University of British Columbia and other representative Universities throughout North America, the Alumni Association's Special Committee on Athletics recommends to the Executive of the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia: 1. That the physical education and recreation of all students must be considered to be part of a general University education. 2. That student participation in sports is one means of achieving the ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. 3. That the Alumni Association should indicate to the Student's Council and to the University Senate its support of the rules of eligibility recently agreed upon by those two bodies. (Messrs. Turner, D.B.; Hempsall, Thomas; and Marshall wished to be recorded in the negative since they felt that anyone scholastically qualified for entry into the University should automatically be considered eligible to play in any sport and on any team, with the definite understanding that this applied only to those who had come up through the educational system of British Columbia. It did not include students transferring from other educational systems). 4. That students shall not be paid or given special considerations in return for participation in athletics. 5. That no participant in athletics should be permitted to compromise the main educational purpose of his attendance at University. 6. That all new students under age twenty-one at the University should have the benefit of some form of counselling and advice concerning participation in major athletics, having regard to the shortness of U.B.C.'s academic year. 7. That because of our faith in the value of a well organized programme of athletics for all, the Alumni Association be asked to press the University Administration for an immediate extension of recreational facilities such as playing fields, ice arena, a swimming pool and squash courts, together with completion of the gymnasium. 8. That the Alumni Association should communicate to the Board of Governors their consternation at the cutting up of the field donated by the Class of 1926, by the B. C. Research Council, and recommend that the B. C. Research Council be requested to replace (and equip) this gift of the Class of 1926. 9. That adequate first aid, medical, hospital and X-Ray arrangements be made through the University Health Service for coverage at games on the campus especially on Saturdays, and that stretchers, blankets and suitable first aid kits be on hand at the main fields. 10. That some better method than the present "injury fund" be devised to defray the medical expenses of injured players, so that individuals are not discouraged from participating by actual or potential expenditures for medical care. 11. That the Alumni Association recommend to the University a meeting of the Presidents of the four Western Canadian Universities with a view to strengthening the ties between these institutions through athletic meets on the broadest possible basis. 12. That the Canadian games of ice hockey and lacrosse be recommended for inclusion in the intramural athletic programme, and that every effort be made to find adequate facilities and coaches for both. 13. That as we are in a much worse position today than we were twenty years ago as regards to playing area per student relatively, a policy for securing "permanent" playing fields be initiated at once and adhered to by the University. 14. That the Alumni Association strongly recommend to the Alumni-U.B.C. Development fund the inclusion in their list of objectives of playing fields and such other facilities as an ice arena, a swimming pool, etc., bearing in mind the appeal which such concrete items may have to prospective donors seeking to memoralize the name of someone closely connected with them or of some outstanding U.B.C. athlete or personality. 15. That the University request the School of Physical Education to set up a pool of honorary coaches to assist the present limited staff with their coaching duties and especially to teach games to students who have never had an opportunity to learn them in the course of their education. 16. That whereas some students feel that they are being denied the use of existing playing facilities, the Alumni Association be asked to impress upon the University the view of this Committee that since all students are compelled to pay both tuition and Alma Mater Society fees, all have a legitimate claim to participate in the overall programme of recreation within the University, and should be encouraged to do so. 17. That this Committee recommend to the University that negotiations be opened with the Department of Transport aimed at reclaiming the land now occupied by the radio transmitting station on Wesbrook Crescent at the intersection of Campus Road in order that this area may be turned into playing fields adjacent to the changing rooms in the University War Memorial Gymnasium. 18. That a final meeting of the Special Committee on Athletics be held in October, 1953, for the purpose of hearing a report by the President of the Alumni Association on progress made in implementing these recommendations." William C. Gibson, M.D., Chairman. J JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 9 * WOMEN By LEONA SHERLOCK ANNIE ANGUS Mrs. Henry Angus, the former Annie Anderson, B.A. '23, has been named "Woman of the Year" by The Quota Club on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of Quota International. . . . Long an outstanding member of the Alumni Association, Mrs. Angus, wife of University of B.C. Dean of Graduate Studies is a member of the Board of Children's Aid Society and of the Vancouver Community Chest & Council. She is also regional advisor and vice-chairman of the Children Division, Canadian Welfare Council. He * * Weddings are summer social fare and this season has seen a number of strictly UBC affairs. In June, the month of brides, University interest centered on the wedding of Susan MacKenzie, daughter of UBC President and Mrs. N. A. M. MacKenzie, to Trevor Roote. The toast to the bride was proposed by UBC Chancellor Sherwood Lett. And holding UBC interest, too, was the wedding of former Alma Mater Society presidents, Nonie Donaldson and Vaughan Lyon. * * * Speaking of presidents, a note from the president of Class '46, T. F. Scott, tells us that he and his wife and new daughter, Deborah, have left Montreal and are now living in Prescott, Ont. WILLSON E. KNOWLTON \Jplometnit • MARINE 801 1 823 Birks Building Vancouver. B. C. In the mailbag, too, was a note from Mrs. A. M. (Irene) Menzies to tell us of the reunion at Easter of the feminine members of the Class of '16. Out-of- town members honored were Tosi Uchida, of Fawn, B.C.; Ella Cameron, of Victoria, and Isobel Eliot Mcintosh, of Glendale, Calif. Others present were Grace Miller Evans, Isabel McMillan and Edna Taylor. All eyes and ears were on London in June, and although many of us could not be there in person, the fortunate ones who could go are bringing back yarns galore about the coronation festivities. One UBC-ite who had a part in the actual service was Mary McCallum who was one of the nine Canadians asked to sing in the choir in Westminster Abbey. After graduating from UBC, Mary was on the staff of the provincial department of social work, a post she left to study singing in London. London is the destination of Llewellyn Peck who plans to spend the next year studying music over there. While there she will probably see Lois Bell and Wilma Thompson, who went to England in time for the Coronation and who hope to spend some time over there. Also planning to study aboard is Margaret M. Moodie who was awarded the first Exhibition of 1851 scholarship in science ever to be awarded a UBC scholar. The award is for a two-year period at an English university and is worth 450 pounds sterling. Margaret graduated with first-class honors in chemistry in 1951 and received her MSc. this year. She will go to Cambridge for advanced study in radioactive chemistry. MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY tfA Company that Cares for your Affairs'* Services to Individuals and Corporations • EXECUTORS & TRUSTEES • EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS • ENDOWMENT FUNDS 466 Howe Street Vancouver, B.C. MArine 0567 J. N. BELL-Manager PAGE 10 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ^ WOMEN # She has a record of scholarships behind her. At Magee high school she was a scholarship winner and she won a World War I scholarship in her first year at UBC. In her second year she won an Alaska Pine scholarship and a Chemical Institute prize. In her graduating year she won a University medal in arts and science and a Lefevre gold medal in chemistry. * * * While on the topic of scholarships, a $600 National Research Council bursary has been won by Miss C. J. Cameron. Leaving in October for Europe are Betty Vogel, of New Westminster and Muriel Trimble, of Victoria, who won two of the three International Students Service scholarships for study in Germany. * * * In Vancouver recently, and featured speaker at a number of club functions, was Lyle Creelman, who is with the International Health Organization in Geneva. She took her nursing at the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC and her masters degree at Teachers College, Columbia. After some years spent as Director of Pubic Health Nursing for the Metropolitan Health Committee in Vancouver she went to Germany with the UNRA. Later she worked in such countries as Greece, India and Burma. Back on the campus for another season as director of the Summer School of the Theatre is Joy Coghill, who is on the staff of Goodman Memorial Theatre in Chicago. She is also teaching and directing at De Paul University. * * * From Montreal we hear that Mrs. Jacques Biller, the former Zoe Brown Clayton, is on the staff of the Montreal Standard as a feature writer. Zoe was ..he Ubyssey's first woman editor-in-chief, you'll remember. The newspaper field in Vancouver boasts quite a number of UBC faces, too. Newcomers include Shirley Kerr Hunter, Joan Fraser and Joan Scoby. MAURICE'S 1 ZJne f-'ara Koual rKeitaurant and Sidewalk Cafe FAMOUS FOR SWISS and FRENCH FOOD FROGS LEGS AU BEURRE NOIR . . . capers . . . parsley FRENCH OMELETTES ... 20 different varieties MILLE FEUILLES STEAK DINNER ESCARGOTS de BOURGOGNE BABA AU RHUM MERINGUE AUX MARRONS Open every day, including Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Reservations: West 200 809 Park Royal West Vancouver, B. C. Congratulations to Beatrice Wood, wife of Professor-Emeritus F. G. C. Wood, who has just been named "best actress of the year" for her lead in the "Mad Woman of Caillot" by the Laguna Beach, California Players Club. The Woods spend their entire winters now as members of the Laguna community. * * * Travelling around . . . Bob and Chickie Payne are in Boston for a year, while Chuck and Helen Tiers have just come back from there and are now living in Vancouver. Norm and Ann Wood have gone to Powell River to live. Beryl (Denman) and Bill Stoker are off to Halifax. Bill just got back from a year in Korea. While in the east they'll no doubt see Pat Borgerson Crone and her husband who have just moved to Halifax from Ottawa. Also in Halifax are the Bill Bottings. WANTED MECHANICAL DRAUGHTSMAN—to make drawings and assume costs of patenting same on a fifty-fifty proposition. THOS. REID, RR7, LANGLEY PRAIRIE, B.C. 1 The Biggest Name in Swim Suits SUN CLOTHES TEE SHIRTS SWEATERS KNITTED SUITS Wherever you find the Jantzen label— you have found the best design, in tailoring and fit. Look for the Red Diving Girl, your assurance of quality. JANTZEN OF CANADA LIMITED Canada's Best Known Apparel Name VANCOUVER, B.C. JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 11 My Plaintive Anthem Fades By David Hamilton Brock, Arts '30. Every once in a while, and even twice in a while, the Alumni send me a letter asking for money. Blank cheque enclosed, carefully made out payable to sender ... all I have to do is suggest a suitable sum and sign this suggestion. What could be simpler? Well, that's a good question and I'm glad you brought it up. And the answer to it is this: I could be simpler. And not only could be, but am. Me and Rosa Dartle, we're so simple, you simply have no idea. All we're asking for is information. The Alumni tells me (while working on my conscience) that I owe a vague but tremendous debt to some shadowy creditor whom they hesitate to name. At times I am made to feel I owe money to the Alumni, and at other times it seems I owe substantial sums to my old teachers, most of them now dead and promoted to a land where money is just a joke, and a damned feeble joke at that. And at other times still (when I have time and to spare) it might appear that I owe something to the current undergraduates, golden-haired. This is the deepest debt of all, and the hardest to understand, and I would be grateful, or, as one says, indebted, to the first man who could make it all plain. There is something very charming about the quaint theory that I am responsible for a girl who is studying the secrets of bad cookery, or a boy who is planning to chop my head off at the final night of the next revolution. And I do owe them something, too. I !How many times have you said, "Oh, if I only had my camera!" 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After I left that school (being wiser in my generaton than the Children of Light) I used to receive pathetic and even threatening letters from the Old Boys' Association, telling me to rally round and make myself drunk on the old school Spirit. In a moment of weakness I was tempted to telephone the president of this ridiculous club. And when temptation crops up, old Brocky is the first to yield. Head of the class, in that category at least. So I did phone him, too, and for some peculiar reason he got quite cross. He was full of the wrong spirit. A disloyal type if ever I heard one. He wouldn't even be civil to an old schoolmate, think of that! He actually rang off on me, with a loud and unfriendly bang. But before he rang off, he went so far as to disagree with poor old Dave when Dave suggested that a bad school was a bad school for a' that and a' that, their spoony cant and a' that. And not only did he disagree, with a violence unbecoming to us Old Boys, but he made me a present of the theory that one can only get out of a school what one puts into it. If you push that theory to its logical conclusion, you'll turn the whole educational world upside-down, and find that the pupils in the long run are really the teachers. The Higher Mathematics! After he rang off, I thought of many smart retorts. L'esprit d'escalier, the French call it . . . the things that occur to you after you've left a man's flat and are on your way downstairs to the street. Staircase wit. Yet all the same, I was impressed by his notion that the only reason I got out of the school was because I had put too much into it. That made me feel pretty distinguished. I fact, I felt great, until I realized that perhaps he was rebuking me rather than praising me. In any event, I have put as much into UBC as I have withdrawn from that intellectual bank. And you can convey that message to the Alumni, with or without knobs on . . . decorate the message to suit yourself, or to suit the Alumni. Or distort it entirely . . . it's little I care. For I'm through, girls, I'm through (as the old song so coarsely says). In the last six or eight years I have written something for this journal every three months, and often several contrbutions for a single issue, over or under my own name or somebody else's. Call it fifty items and you'd not be far out. That's what I put in. What did I get out? Tedium, lost days, and great clots of insulting verbiage from scholarly fools of no insignificant calibre. But what alarmed and depressed me worst, my hearties, was this: I piped but ye did not dance. Nobody else would write for this magazine at all. We are fond of saying our college has produced some writers. All right . . . where are they? Hiding in some (Continued on page 24) PAGE 12 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE OUTSTANDING U. B. C. PROFESSORS RETIRED THIS SPRING DR. CUNNING FIRST GRAD DEAN OF APPLIED SCIENCE A graduate of the University of Toronto and of Oxford Dr. Sage was a lecturer at Calgary College and Queen's University before coming to U.B.C. A recent bibliography of his writings shows 122 publications concerned with the history of Canada west of the Great Lakes and B.C. Another who will be greatly missed is Dr. A. F. Barss, Professor and Head of the Department of Horticulture who has also been with the University since 1918. Dr. Barss' association with U.B.C. will continue for a while longer however as he is remaining as a special lecturer. Dr. Barss, is a graduate of Rochester, Cornell, Oregon State and Chicago Universities. Dean Lowell Besley is also retiring this summer and is being succeeded by Professor George S. Allen, MacMillan Professor of Silviculture. Dean Besley has left to take an important position in the forestry industry of the United States. A graduate of Cornell and Yale Universities, he was on the teaching staff of a number of American universities before coming to Vancouver in 1948. DR. HENRY GUNNING The University will lose a number of outstanding members of the teaching staff this summer. A few of the retiring members, however, will continue at U.B.C. as special lecturers. Among these is Dean H. J. MacLeod, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science, who has been at U.B.C. since 1936. Dean MacLeod will continue as a special lecturer in Electrical Engineering. He is succeeded by Dr. Henry Gunning, formerly Head of the Department of Geology and Geography. Prior to coming to the University of B.C., Dr. MacLeod was lecturer, associate professor and finally head of the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. He took his B.Sc. at McGill, his M.Sc. at the U. of Alberta and his A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He served in the First War and was Officer Commanding the University of Alberta Contingent, C.O.T.C. from 1921-24. In 1943 he received an O.B.E. King's Birthday Honors. Among his appointments he has served as advisor to the Public Utilities Commission of B.C. as a research physicist with the National Research Council and a member of the Associate Committee on Navigation Facilities on the West Coast, a project he is currently concerned with. The University will greatly miss Professor Walter Noble Sage who has been associated with U.B.C. since 1918. He is being succeeded as Head of the Department of History by Professor F. H. Soward. $3368 LAKE LOUISE $31so From VANCOUVER ON SALE DAILY TO SEPT. 30 First Class—21 day return limit These special low fares yield a high return in holiday fun. There's golf, Fishing, riding, tennis, swimming and dancing to name only a few of many activities available in the Canadian Rockies Ask about ALL-EXPENSE TOURS. See your nearest Canadian Pacific office. GlHjUri9<Ulfrc JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 13 CAPSULE COLLEGE IS SUCCESS AT TWO-DAY KELOWNA EVENT Beading from left to right (top back row) : Les Wilson, Past President Kelowna Branch, U.B.C. Alumni Association, John Harr, Asst. Director, U.B.C. Extension Dept., Jim Logic, Principal, Kelowna Senior High School and Chairman of Kelowna Branch, Win Shilvock, Past President U.B.C. Alumni Association. (Front Row) : Dr. Harold Copp, Head, Dept. of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, U.B.C, Dr. George Pichard, Dept. of Physics, Dr. Blythe Eagle, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, U.B.C, Prof. Geoff. Davies, Dept. of History, U.B.C. A successful two-day experiment on the largest scale ever attempted by the University of B.C. was concluded at Kelowna in April when the final class of "Capsule College" was a banquet at the Royal Anne Hotel highlighted by two addresses on the topic of the applications of energy created from splitting the atom. Six U.B.C. professors and officials were present at the college session and each contributed to the two-day programme. They were Frank Turner, U.B.C. Alumni Director, John Haar, Dr. G. Pickard and Dr. H. Copp (the gentlemen who addressed the final banquet), Dean Blythe Eagles, and Prof. G. W. Davies. On the local committee at Kelowna were W. J. Logie, L. G. Wilson, Win Shilvock, Miss Mary Rat- tenbury, Mrs. Percy Pettypiece, Mrs. P. G. James and Mrs. Jack McLennan. PAGE 14 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ^fizakinq c^ditoxiaLLu FUNCTION DF ASSOCIATION Many have asked your editor in the past five years, "what is the prime function of the Alumni Association of British Columbia?" The answer is easy but at the same time enigmatic. The mysterious part of the whole thing is that the paramount duty of the Alumni Group has never yet been performed but nevertheless the Alumni must be ready at all times to get into action when the day arrives. It must be like the army which prepares itself for battle but never gets involved in a war. The Alumni must be on the alert as the last bastion in University affairs to see that the educational curriculum at the university is kept liberal and democratic and free from authoritarian influence for evil. Fortunately the university has an administration system composed of checks and balances tending to keep the university on the right track. The Board of Governors and the Senate all exert strong and faithful influence which has kept the University on the path desired by all of us graduates. Further we have had a succession of Presidents who have been liberal minded, democratic individuals and whose interests are in large part identical with the mass of the graduate body and a Provincial Government which has not intruded in our affairs. All this being true how is it that in the United States today where similar safeguards for free and liberal education are in vogue, so many of the universities there are being plagued with congressional investigations, book burning orders and a general corruption of the ideals upon which their institutions have been founded. Witch hunting and governmental interference has seeped into the educational system in a land where freedom, justice and the democratic ideal is supposed to be the strongest in the world and where the constitution is second to none in the expression of liberty. Shortly it is happening in the United States and it can happen here. And it is this intrusion into academic institutions which can have the greatest affect on the thought, morals and freedom of the individual If the youth of the country is not free in his search for truth then the rest of the population is easy prey for coercion of thought. What has happened in the United States to the Alumni organizations that have always been such powerful organs for whatever project they have undertaken ? Can it be that the Alumni groups in that country have been so preoccupied with winning football teams and pretty homecoming queens and the other trappings of the average American alumni Association, that they have forgotten the true function and purpose of their organizations? ORMONDE HALL JUNE-JULY, 1953 VALUABLE BRIEFS We at British Columbia are proud of the work the Alumni Association has done with regard to scholarships, financial aid to the university, and special briefs prepared from time to time on such outstanding questions of policy confronting the university as the medical school, women's residences, and athletics (see Dr. Gibson's report in this issue). The men and women working for the Association are outstanding in the community in all parts of B.C. and their opinions are valued and respected by the university administration and by the Provincial government. There are many who haven't given the university a thought since they left it and they are the poorer members of the community. But the real leaders are all interested in the Association and it is for this reason we are strong. And strong the Alumni must be because if any real threat to our educational system arises as it has in so many parts of the world in the last few years, only then will we have a first rate organization on which to build a force that must be heard in university affairs. If one stops to think of the power of the Association in terms of members, now over 20,000, in financial strength if dedicated to an idea or project and the intellectual brilliance available on demand, then its influence and strength is apparent. For the meantime we must go on from day to day doing the best we can for U.B.C. contributing in the cooperative and generous spirit with the administration we have always had in order to build a better university for all the people of B.C. and be safe in the assumption that when the time comes for the Alumni Association to organize its total strength and battle for an ideal common to all of use, the power and influence of the organization will be enough to ensure victory. PAGE 15 VALVES, FITTINGS AND PIPING VAlVES, Equipment Plumbing and Heating for every from ONE COMPLETE LINE " .. . - L.^;.n eowipment, coun Here's a gr«"« ■— - equipment, anything h rt*» p'«""W"9 " heat"'9 An unequalled selection of VALVES AND FITTINGS is offered for your selection in the complete Crane line— for every power, process or general service need. Crane brass, iron, steel and alloy piping materials are recognized for durable and dependable performance. 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Ask any Plumbing and Heating Contractor or Crane Branch—or write direct to Crane Limited, 1170 Beaver Hall Square, Montreal. CRANE ~-i LIMITED 6 CANADIAN FACTORIES • 18 CANADIAN BRANCHES I PAGE 16 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ^ PERSONALITIES ^ RDBERT CAMPBELL SMITH Robert Campbell Smith, Commercial Secretary for Canada in London, was one of the royal ushers in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second. Bob Smith graduated from the University of B.C. in 1939, and after taking a year of law elsewhere, joined the Navy. Since discharge from the R.C.N.V.R. in 1945, he has had an outstanding career in Canada's civil service. In 1944 he married a Belgium girl when he was stationed at Gynt, and they now have two children. . . . Charles M. Motley, a 1942 graduate of U.B.C. has been appointed director of the planning division of the Dept. of Defence, Research and Development Board. A History of Alaska written by Prof. Clarence C. Hulley, has recently been published by American publishers. Prof. Hulley, has been head of the Dept. of History and Political Science at the University of Alaska since 1945, and took his pre-graduate training at the University of British Columbia, and his doctors' degree at the University of Washington. Dr. Harry L. Purdy, U.B.C. graduate and Vancouver native son has been appointed vice-president of the B. C. Electric . . . among his other achievements, he has been Professor of economics, specializing in public utilities at Dartmouth College, and during the war, when the U.S. Government took over control of railroads he served for three years on the governing body, the U.S. Transport Board . . . after the War he was assistant director of research for the Missouri Pacific Railroad until he came here eight years ago to take a post with the B. C. Electric. Faye Evelyn Fingarson, of Vancouver has been awarded the Vancouver Women's Press Club Scholarship of $500.00 . . . this scholarship is awarded annually by the Women's Press Club to a woman student at the University of British Columbia preparing for a career of newspaper, magazine, and radio work. H. G. Munro, Arts '27 and T. E. Burgess, Arts and Commerce '31 have both been appointed to the Board of Directors of B. C. Forest Products Limited, Munro as President of the Company and Burgess as general manager. Charles B. Brewer, Supervisor-Research, Shell Development Company of California is on a two- year special assignment in New York as assistant to the Company President handling liason with the oil and chemical research division. . . . He is an alumnus of U.B.C, B.Ss. '38, and he received his Ph.D. in 1943 from McGill University. Carl Tolman, Dean of the Washington University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been named acting vice-chancellor-dean of faculties at that University. ... A member of the faculty since 1927 Tolman has been geology chairman since 1945 and graduate dean since 1946. ... A native of Alberta, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and obtained his B.A. in 1924 and received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1927 at Yale University. After two years of post graduate work at the University of Paris, Lawrence L. Bongie has returned home to join the French department at U.B.C. from whence he graduated in 1950. . . . He received a French Government scholarship and while in France he found time to teach English. . . . Last June he received a degree of Docteur de L'universite with the highest award in his thesis of the study of comparative literature dealing with the literary reputation of David Hume in France during the 18th century. . . . Gordon C. Douglas a 1940 graduate of U.B.C. has been appointed sales manager of British Columbia Manufacturing Company at New Westminster. . . . John L. Kask has been appointed permanent chairman of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. . . . He has spent 26 years in fishing research, and lately has been with U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service as a scientist. . . . QUALITY | | CLEANLINESS Alatumal Maid BREAD CAKE PIES Always Oven-Fresh Vancouver NATIONAL SYSTEM of BAKING LTD. 519 Granville St. FRIENDLINESS SERVICE JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 17 1953 Development Fund Nears Record With the closing date just a short stroll down the Summer calendar, the 1953 Alumni-U.B.C. Development Fund seems assured of establishing new records of participation and total amount voluntarily contributed. At Chronicle press-time, 2051 individuals alumni together with some 400 other friends of the University had contributed a new high of $22,567.00. A little "remembering" by a handful of alumni now will guarantee that last year's best—yet number of donors—2190—will be surpassed. The previous record total amount was the $18,400.00 contributed in the third year of our annual giving programme in 1951. It must be gratifying indeed to the present Chairman of the Board of Directors, hard-working Aubrey F. Roberts, past-chairman Harry A. Berry, John M. Buchanan and Joseph F. Brown, Jr., the dozens of present and former Fund Directors, and the hundreds of fellow alumni who have served and are serving so faithfully as Class Representatives, to watch this constructive plan of practical goodwill grow in size and effectiveness. Aside from the general objectives set for the '53 Fund, one of the most heartening developments has been the spontaneous support being received for the "R.C. Palmer Memorial Scholarship" Fund — a fund channelled through the "Trustees of the Alumni-U.B.C. Fund" and assisted in specific, practical ways by your Fund Board. It is particularly heartening to see the way in which the many friends of the late Dick Palmer, himself an excellent example of how U.B.C. graduates can and do serve people and industry all over this Province, are getting behind this worthwhile project and most fitting Memorial. Already, some $2500.00 has been contributed simply by earmarking ("a Trustees Fund" Cheque for this purpose) by alumni agricultural firms, horticultural societies, lodges, community groups of various kinds, and individuals, including a host of Dick Palmer's friends in the B.C. Fruit Growers' Association. Among the general objectives, it is evident that alumnae, and other women in the Province are active in supporting the Home Management House —a project originally supported so generously by P.T.A. groups all over British Columbia some 30 years ago. So far, well over $3000.00 has come in earmarked for this particular objective. Naturally, many alumni and other friends of the University are hoping that there will be sufficient "free money" donated to increase the number of Regional Alumni Association Scholarships (ten at present), and to give President MacKenzie additional unrestricted funds to be able to take advantage of the many opportunities of doing many things for U.B.C. which would not normally be possible through regular sources of income. With the support being received from an increasing number of alumni and other friends of the University—not only for general objectives set yearly by your Fund Board of Directors but also for dozens of other equally-deserving projects—the day is not far distant when it will be true that there are thousands of active "shareholders" in our University. 1953 DEVELOPMENT FUND GENERAL OBJECTIVE More Regional Scholarships (Ten last year). Unrestricted Gift to U.B.C. through the "President's Fund". A Home Management House (for Home Economies' students in final years). Furnishings for Men's Residences. Victoria College Library Anniversary Fund. Swimming IPool. A Soil Museum (containing samples of soil "profiles" from all over B.C.). Your Own Objective. PAGE 18 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE FRANKLY SPEAKING Wherever you go, there is a little bit of U.B.C, and our growing Institution is literally thriving on the active, continuing interest shown by grads all over the world. Your Director had still another opportunity of meeting alumni in several Canadian centres during a recent Eastern swing, and wishes to use this column to thank those individuals and groups for their generous hospitality and to briefly record some of the activities. TORONTO—enjoyed an informal get-together with Toronto Branch President Roy Jackson, Bob Murray, and one or two other Executive in embers. One of the greatest U.B.C. reunions yearly in this area is the Western Universities' Dance in the Royal York Hotel. HAMILTON—thanks to the generosity of Eric Coles, Vice-President of Canadian Westinghouse, a number of U.B.C. alumni assembled in that firm's Board room---among them were Harold Blackett and his charming wife, Joe Harbell, and C. W. Elliot. Upon hearing our recording of this Spring's Congregation, Harold recalled that in 1925—the first year that graduation took place out at Point Grey— invited guests, etc. . . . sat on the floor! REGINA—an excellent and enthusiastic turnout formed a Regina Branch just like that! President Pro-tem is Great Trekker Rex L. Brown, former Rugger star Ernie Teggle is Vice-President, Lorna Cheriton is Secretary, and J. D. (Jack) Reid is Member-at-large in the temporary Executive. Others on hand were Rex' charming wife Tracy, genial co-host Gray Gillespie, Gloria Sherbin, Robin Thornton, Ken Sheritan, Carolyn Bagshaw, Lorraine Hodgert, Ken Torrance, Mrs. J. D. (Jean) Reid, Geve Singleton, Robert Whyte, Mary McKechnie, Jerry Frankovitch, and Jack Thompson. CALGARY—home of the Stampede, heart of Western Canada's oil industry, this centre is also the location of one of the most active and enthusiastic U.B.C. alumni branches anywhere! Under the expert guidance of retiring Branch President John Gray of California-Standard, the annual gathering of the Calgary clan was a top-notch effort and included no less than a reception, a dinner (they even made time for a brief talk by your Director!), and a dance. U.B.C. President Norman A. M. MacKenzie was re-elected unanimously as Honorary President, while Engineer Aubrey Kerr became the new President, former Thunderbird football star Herb Capozzi was elected 1st Vice-President, with Mrs. Kay (Armstrong) McCaskill as 2nd Vice-President, and John Rudolph, Secretary-Treasurer. ALUMNOTES—Good luck to Dr. Aldon Barss on his retirement—may he be active for many years yet! Congratulations to hard-working Horticulture Professor Dr. Howell Harris on his excellent arrangements in connection with the special tea for Dr. and Mrs. Barss—on behalf of the R. C. Palmer BY FRANK J. E.TURNER EXECUTIVE-DIRECTOR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Memorial Scholarship Committee, of which capable J. J. (Jack) Woods of Saanichton is Chairman . . . Congratulations also to Lawrence Coulinge (B.A. Sc. '49), who has been awarded a Fellowship for four years at Carnegie Tech, and who'll take his Ph.D. work there . . . Good luck to Freth Edmonds, now with Dominion of Canada General Insurance. . . . More of the same to Past Alumni President Win Shilvock of Investors' Syndicate, who is the new President of the Kelowna Branch. . . . G. Gordon Strong (B.Com. '33, B.A. '34). who also has a M.B.A. from Northwestern and an LL-B. from Toledo and is General Manager. Brush-Moore Newspapers represented U.B.C. at the inaugura- (Continued on page 24) NOW! 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He also has at his command The Dominion Bank's coast-to-coast facilities and broad understanding of finance. You will find it a pleasure—helpful and constructive^—to talk things over with your Dominion Bank manager. You are always welcome. THE OMINION J BANK 82 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN PEOPLE Seven Conveniently Located Branches Serving the Vancouver Area. Col. The Honourable E. W. Hamber, C.H.G., LL.D., Vancouver Director. Dr. Thomas McKeown Wins New Post At University of Birmingham DR. T. McKEGWN Thomas McKeown (Arts '32), Rhodes Scholai from U.B.C. in 1935, has been made Professor of Social Medicine in the University of Birmingham, England. After leaving U.B.C. he took his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry at McGill. At Oxford he took his D.Phil, degree and then proceeded to London to qualify in medicine. His post-war papers on the medical and social aspects of rehabilitation have covered a multitude of subjects, from an analysis of 50,000 twin births to plans for new buildings to replace bombed-out hospitals in the Midlands! His chief contributions to the medical literature recently concern: (a) the economic factors which keep "convalescent" hospitals full; (b) medical problems in an aging population; and (c) active rehabilitation as a preventive of long-term absenteeism following injury. He will give a paper on "Social Medicine as an Academic Discipline" at the World Medical Association Conference on Medical Education in London in August. News has just been received of an award of a Guggenheim Fellowship to Dr. James A. Gibson (Arts '31). Dr. Gibson, who is presently Dean of Arts at Carlton College, Ottawa, will take up his fellowship at Princeton University in October next. PAGE 20 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE FOUR OUTSTANDING CANADIANS HONOURED AT SPRING CONVOCATION # POETRY # L. DANA WILGRESS Four of Canada's outstanding men were honoured with honourary degrees at the annual spring convocation of the University of British Columbia held on May 19th and 20th. On the first day's activities, William John Rose, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., received the honourary doctor of laws (honoris causa) along with Dana Wilgress, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, who gave the principal address for that day. Dr. Rose has served as special lecturer in the Dept. of Slavonic Studies since 1948 and is well- known for his understanding of Slavonic Studies in all parts of the world. Mr. Wilgress, former Ambassador to Russia, and one of Canada's outstanding experts on Russian affairs has spent most of his life in the Canadian Trade and Diplomatic Services. His speach dealt with the need to be firm in the stand against Communist aggression, but he pointed out that the paramount need in the world today is an understanding of the philosophies of people living in other lands. On May 20th, Dr. Alfred Rive, Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand was the principal speaker and he received the honorourary degree of Doctor of Laws. At the same ceremony, Prof. Frank Ebenezer Buck, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Horticulture at the University of British Columbia, was awarded Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa). PRIVATE EYEFUL (see any whodunnit yarn) "Explain, rash stranger," the heroine begs, "Your stare at my beautiful undraped legs." "Fear not," says the hero. "It's just objective. "I'm a Private Eye, and my glance protective." ■—Mr. McGookus. ON KNOWING ONE'S OWN MIND To know my own mind I have long refused; I loathe the thing, and won't be introduced. You call that anti-social, my dear boors? Great God, I'd rather know my mind than yours. —D.H.B. SONG OF SONGS If you cannot hate me, dear, On the instant, have no fear; Slowly love must petre out If we have faith and banish doubt. No sudden miracle expect, But all's accomplished by neglect. Give us a few more years and see True hatred through time's alchemy. Abana J. Phurpar (Ph.D.) PARADISE LOST When I toent back to U.B.C A week or ttco ago, The place seemed rather slmv And filled with dull sobriety, When I went back to U.B.C Are all these kids the same as me When I was in the know? Ah, curse my trip to U.B.C. A week or tioo ago. Henry George Fink (M.A.) DECEMBER, 1953 PAGE 21 U. B. C. Alumni Committee Report on Athletics (Continued from page 8) any previously attended, he was granted standing, in whole or in part, for the work of that session, and after writing any necessary supple- mentals he completed all but at most three units (or the equivalent) of a full year's work. "3. A student with no previous attendance at the University of British Columbia or Victoria College may not compete on a first athletic team unless he has standing which admits him without condition to the second year of University work. A student in this category, however, may with the approval of the Men's Athletic Committee be permitted to play: (a) if he is over twenty-two years of age; or (b) if no freshman or J.V. team can be organized). "B. List of players for all teams are to be submitted by the Athletic Director to the Registrar's Office not later than one week prior to scheduled games. Players' eligibility will then be verified or otherwise and the Athletic Director will be responsible to the Men's Athletic Committee for enforcing the Registrar's ruling." , (These are the rules referred to in No. 3 of the Alumni Recommendations.) Work of the Committee The work of the large Alumni Committee has been interesting, though some have complained of the amount of "homework" handed out by the chair- Its NEW!-Its Fancy! paramount Jancy RABMEAT from the deep, cold North Pacific A REAL TASTE TREAT! Other ocean foods packed by Paramount SOCKEYE SALMON COHOE SALMON PINK SALMON HERRING SALMON CROQUETTES TUNA NELSON BROS. FISHERIES LTD. Vancouver, B.C. man. In addition to attending our meetings, the members have reviewed the athletic programmes and regulations in effect at Toronto, Western, McGill and Harvard, and in addition have studied the page book "Competitive Sports in Schools and Colleges" by Alexander Scott, Professor of Health and Physical Education at Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York. A very useful evening was spent at the War Memorial Gymnasium with the entire staff of the School of Physical Education. The Committee was impressed with size of the job to be done by this group. In addition to administering the athletic programme, the staff prepares men and women for the Bachelor of Physical Education degree. There remains in B.C. a very serious shortage of these graduates, especially women physical education teachers. One reason is certainly to be found in the lack of entrance scholarships into U.B.C. At the very moment that more women in this field are needed, the number of women entering U.B.C. is beginning to decrease slightly. The reasons are undoubtedly economic. The opportunity for the Alumni to assist here through scholarships is a clear and concrete one. The work of the School of Physical Education, under the Directorship of Professor Robert Os, borne, is not well enough known in the Province. However, its potentialities are very great and it needs only more and better-qualified students and better training facilities to become an outstanding part of U.B.C. It shares the philosophy that the University is for all B.C. citizens; and has encouraged the greatest use of its resources at Point Grey by High School students and teachers from all corners of the Province. The recent serious misrepresentation of our outlook in the British Empire Games swimming pool controversy should spur us to prove that U.B.C. has a province-wide view, and is not attempting to run a monopoly in swimming or in anything else. If proof of this broad outlook is required one has only to become acquainted with the one-year Diploma course in Physical Education and Recreation, sponsored by the Federal Government and carried on for them at U.B.C. under the direction of Mr. Barry Lowes. Students have come from every part of Canada for this initial course, so that the School can hardly be called "parochial" in its viewpoint. Its lack of well-rounded facilities is a major shortcoming, and here again, alumni, through the Development Fund can help to change the picture. A swimming pool and ice arena open to alumni, to the School of Physical Education for training and to the student body for recreation, should certainly appeal to us as graduates and donors (to the Development Fund). If, in time for the British Empire Games, U.B.C. could be given $100,000.00 as a grant for the simultaneous construction of ten permanent playing fields, north of the War Memorial Gymnasium, as far as Chancellor Boulevard, it would be a great day for athletics in this Province. MACINNES and turner Special mention must be given of two members of the Committee: Mr. W. H. Maclnnes, a member of the original Convocation of U.B.C, and donor of the Maclnnes Field as a memorial to his son, the PAGE 22 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE late William Eugene Maclnnes of the class of 1935; and of Dr. David B. Turner, who came from Victoria to attend our meetings. In retrospect, our committee has been attempting to do the same type of job which other committees have been doing in many universities in North America—that of trying to understand the changing picture in athletics—for it is changing. The Tid- marsh Report at McGill concluded: "Your committee desires to state its sincere belief that only by complete university control of all phases of athletic activity can abuses in, and subsequent demoralization of, amateur intercollegiate sport be prevented." Queens, on the other hand, carries on with the Athletic Board of Control as of yore. Johns Hopkins has this view: "The athletic programme at Johns Hopkins is conducted on the premise that it is an integral part of the educational process and has a rightful place in the academic community. . . . There are no athletic scholarships for any student. There is no charge for admission to any athletic event at the Johns Hopkins University. The entire athletic programme, under the supervision of the Department of Physical Education, is regarded as a normal part of the University and is financed and operates exactly like any other department." CDNANT OF HARVARD President Conant at Harvard says of the participation of their students in intra-mural sports : "That such participation is for a majority of students in our culture, an important part of learning how to live together, is a premise that has been widely accepted." A lot of institutions have come a long way since the American economist, Thorstein Veb- len wrote: "American college athletics are related to the physical well-being of the students as bullfighting is to agriculture." Even the American Council on Education thought it necessary to appoint a Committee on Athletic Policy, composed of the presidents of Notre Dame, Yale, Washington, Nebraska, Michigan State, Utah, Southern Methodist and Western Reserve. They sought to place much of the blame for the upheaval in inter-collegiate sports at the door of the university governing bodies and administrators. Alumni have come in for serious criticism in some reports, for bringing pressure on universities to produce "winning teams"—which has always seemed to me a mathematical impossibility for every university in a given league or conference. And so it goes, back and forth, and round and round. The best policy undoubtedly lies between the extremes. Also lying between the extremes, however, is the group of 5,500 students at U.B.C. in whose welfare, mental and physical, we are presumably interested. It is unbelievable to what heights the human blood pressure can mount in discussing merely the provision of athletic opportunities for ones successors at university. It should possibly occur to us as alumni that the athletic programme at U.B.C. is for the students currently in attendance, and not for the entertainment of the public nor to meet the nostalgic needs of the alumni. As I see it, the question is not "What can the athletic programme at U.B.C. do for the alumni?" but rather "What can the alumni do for the athletic programme at U.B.C?" There is where the Special Committee came in. We have tried to make positive suggestions aimed at getting more students into more sports, for we believe that the playing of games at university gives men and women an individual training which is not to be found in the classroom. As a training for living we see it as complementing ones formal education, rather than militating against it. It knocks the rough corners off those who participate, and it makes students realize that the fun lies in their playing and not in the score. It leads to life-long friendships of a kind not found in narrow professional ruts. Games cut across the multitude of petty barriers which get set up even among university students. One of the most significant things emerging from our work is the interest of many of the members in pursuing the question out into the community, under the chairmanship of Mr. Charles M. Campbell, Jr. It may be that graduates can help to spread the gospel there of positive mental health through widespread physical recreation. Finally, it is our hope that Alumni will rally to the support of the Development Fund which is anxious to embark on much needed additions to the athletic facilities at Point Grev. The Fund's contribution of $5,000.00 in 1952 to" help defray the outstanding loan of the gymnasium is but a beginning and as our recommendations indicate, there remain a host of ways in which our loyalty can be manifested. The challenge, "Tuum Est", is still before us. PAINTING on a BUDGET? You Can Still Get the BEST with SJTIN LATEX SATIN-LATEX MohouoI SATIN-LATEX MONASEAL costs you less than any other high-grade rubber-base paint, only $7.25 a gallon—a saving to you of approximately 10%. SATIN-LATEX MONASEAL gives you the BEST in quality and results: • Easy to apply — leaves no lap marks • odorless • washable • a beautiful satin-soft finish . 0n|y one-coat necessary in • Dries in only 20 minutes most cases Add them all together and you get everything you've ever wanted in a paint, for less money than you thought possible. Choose SATIN-LATEX MONASEAL from the 16 beautiful, ready-mixed colors available. THERE IS NO BETTER RUBBER-BASE PAINT JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 23 r PLAINTIVE ANTHEM (Continued from page 12) cupboard, or under the bed? Or looking for paid jobs, in the fine tradition of hacks? And so, in imitation of our masters of English prose style, I too am going to get out of here. The only difference between me and those gifted graduates (golden-haired) is that I really did try to oblige. And got mocked for my pains. "Why would you write for the Chronicle, of all things? Got lots of spare time? Why don't you just mail the Alumni a cheque? That isn't a very good question. But I'll answer it anyway. And this little manifesto is my reply. Well, cullies, you'll be hearing no more of old Brock. Not in these pages. I have no idea why I troubled to write this farewell, except possibly to wish you bad luck. To the pigs with you. When I was an undergraduate, long ago, I remember being told that the Reverend Robert Herrick was a mixture between a skylark and a nightingale and the late Enrico Caruso. Which is not completely true. A parson-poet is neither one thing nor the other, and while serving both sides he betrays both. Indeed, some of us hold that to be a parson at all is a form of sin, though perhaps not one of the seven deadly sins, unless it be the sin called pride, which is the worst of all, and the toughest to cure. This Herrick man had one virtue, though. He could say good-bye gracefully, and as if he didn't care. He thumbed his nose at the reader, cocked a snook at him, and yet made it not rude but somehow almost polite, as a fencer would apologize for letting out your life's blood. And this is what he said, and this is what I shall now set to music of my own composition, to be sung not in your presence but (O, thank God!) in your absence: I will no longer kiss, I can no longer stay; The way of all Flesh is That I must go this day: Since longer I can't live, My frolick Youths adieu; My Lamp to you He give, And all my troubles too. You'll Enjoy a Good Cup of Tea ! Ask for DICKSON'S BLOSSOM TEA FRANKLY SPEAKING (Continued from page 19) tion of President G. Brooks Earnest at Fenn College. . . . President MacKenzie gave a detailed, informative and challenging talk to the recent annual meeting of the Nanaimo Branch. The meeting, which was chaired by retiring President Dr. R. Earle Foerster, a member of U.B.C.'s Senate and Board, saw Lawyer Ted Strongitharm elected President, Dixon McKinnon, Vice-President, Joan List,, Secretary, with Rod Milroy, Dewar Cooke and Dick McLane as Members-at-large. Your Director also attended. . . . Lieut. (E) Geoff. Ford (B.A.Sc. '51), R.C.N., and his wife, nee Madeline Marshall, are proud parents of one son, Douglas Alan. Geoff, is taking a Marine Engineering course in Plymouth, England. . . . Another former U.N.T.D.' Cadet, Lieut. Allen D. Taylor (B.A. '49) and his wife Ruth (B.A. '52) are now stationed at H.M.C.S. Corn- wallis. ... In the Plant Science Dept., West Lab. of the University of Alberta is P. E. M. Leith, D.F.C. (B.S.A. '49), B.Com. '49, M.Sc. '52 (Alta.) after two years of post-grad work at the Grasslands Div., D.S.I.R., Palmerston North, New Zealand. . . . Back to school after these many years was S. A. (Sid) Swift, one-time U.B.C. track star, who is currently enrolled in Summer School. . . . Congratulations to law student Ivan Feltham, hard-working, capable Chairman of U.B.C.'s "best yet" Open House two years ago, upon his election as President of the Alma Mater Society. r for . .. Thrifty Prices ... Faster Service ... Convenient Terms Shop the Easy Catalogue Way and Save { 367 WATER ST. TA. 6111 VANCOUVER 3, B.C. J PAGE 24 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE GDL HARRY T. LOGAN (Continued from page 7) landers of Canada, and with various Canadian machine gun units in France and Belgium. He won the Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches, and at the conclusion of the War spent a year concluding in December, 1919, preparing a history of the Canadian machine gun Corps, for the Dept. of Defence. In the post war years he served with the militia (reserve Army) in machine gun units, finally holding the command of the 11th C.M.G. Brigade, Vancouver. In January, 1920, he returned to the University of British Columbia, and continued there without interruption until 1936. Then he accepted the request of the Fairbridge Society to help establish their work in Canada for British boys and girls deprived of the ammenities and advantages of a good home .For 13 years this work occupied his attention, first as principal of Fairbridge Farm School on Vancouver Island (1936-45) and then as Secretary of the Fairbridge Society in London until 1949. Col. Logan had come to know and admire Kingsley Fairbridge, South African Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and he was glad of the opportunity of helping in that great work. In 1949 he returned once again to U.B.C. and succeeded Dr. O. J. Todd as head of the Classics Department which Department he will now head as Chairman. At the University Col. Logan has served on numerous committees including the Faculty Committee of Student Affairs. Prizes and Scholarships Committee, Ceremonies Committee, and he was assistant to Capt. E. E. Jordon, Professor ot Mathematics and organizer in the Canadian C.O.T.C. at McGill College of B.C. in 1914, and he commanded the U.B.C. contingent of the C.O.T.C. on its reorganization in 1927-28. He has been a member of the U.B.C. Senate for 18 years, and for a six-year term served on the Board of Governors. As an undergraduate at McGill he took an active interest in track and other athletic sports and was Captain of the McGill track team, taking a one mile relay team to Pennswary Relay Carnival in the Spring of 1913. He ran the half-mile for Oxford against Dublin University in 1910. He played Lacrosse for Oxford vs. Cambridge in 1910 and 1911. Col. Logan has also taken an interest in the Community and has been a member of the Sons of Union College and served on the Provincial Boy Scouts Council, Provincial Canteen Fund. Board of Trustees, B. C. Field and Track Council, Vancouver Military Institute, and is Chairman of the B. C. Toe H Executive. Col. Logan married the daughter of Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. She attended Girton College, Cambridge, where she attained mathematical honours. The Logans have three children all of whom attended U.B.C. including John who graduated in Arts in 1937 and proceeded to Oxford where he read law at St. Johns College until the outbreak of war. John later died of wounds received at Falaise, Normandy, while serving with the 27th Canadian Army Regiment. Barbara and Ken both were in the services, Ken with the R.C.A.F. and Barbara with the nursing service and both resumed their studies after the war. Barbara graduated (R.N.) McGill '46, and Ken in Forestry from U.B.C. in 1949. Col. Logan's career has been one of outstanding service to the University and to the Community and the measure of affection with which he is held by the people he has come into contact with over the years is reflected in the many messages of good will which have come to the Chronicle wishing him well on his new venture. The Commerce Department Alumni of the University of British Columbia is actively engaged in an organizational program, and the following is its new executive: President—John Rolfe. Vice-President and Corresponding Secretary— Mary McLean. Treasurer—Jack Devereaux. Recording Secretary—Norene Mitten. Membership Director—Mike Puhach. The Commerce Alumni group is anxious that anyone desiring to join the organization get in contact with Mary McLean at 729 13th Street, New Westminster, B.C. EXPORT CANADA'S FINEST CIGARETTE JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 25 SOPHIE DE LA HAYE WRITES OF OPENING OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IBADAN,NIGERIA,WHERE SHE TOOK U.B.C GREETINGS Sudan Interior Mission, Box 14, Kano, Nigeria, West Africa. Dear Dr. MacKenzie: You will want to hear about my visit to Ibadan. Our Mission very kindly arranged for one of our pilots, Miss Betty Greene, to fly me down to Ibadan, wait for me, and bring me back, in one of our Cessna 170's. This was convenient and economical as my fare was £9.10.- (approx. $57.00) whereas it would have cost £35 (approx. $105.00) to have gone by West Africa Airways. We arrived there on Saturday afternoon and stayed until after the Congregation Monday. The University arranged accommodation for both of us with lady members of the teaching staff. Congregation on Monday at 10 a.m. was a very formal, colorful affair. I was able to obtain a gown and mortar board and I had my hood so took part in the Procession. The representatives of Lord Lyttleton, Oxford, London University, and of course Lord Tedder for Cambridge, read their greetings. The rest of us (including representatives of University of Toronto, and University of Alberta) went fane &-.> SHOWPLACE OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Travel lo Jasper on C.N.R.'s famous "Continental Limited"—and enjoy fishing, golfing, trail-riding, motoring, swimming, mountain climbing—or just rest! The comfortable accommodation and friendly service at Jasper Park Lodge provide a perfect background for your holiday activities. reservations forward and presented our greetings to the Principal as the name of our University was read out by the Registrar. The Registrar was very pleased with U.B.C.'s greeting, and I understand that it was the only one really properly prepared! Air Marshall Lord Tedder, Chancellor of Cambridge, came out specially to officially open the New Buildings. The two views of our Campus (framed) and the Syllabus were given to the Registrar. Miss Greene is leaving for Seattle by air tomorrow. By way of introduction briefly . . . she is a graduate of U. of Washington, was in the WASP during the war and afterward, as a member of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship—a group of Air Force pilots who serve Missions all over the world, flew in Mexico and Peru before coming out to relieve one of our pilots. Our Air Arm certainly plays a vital part in transporting workers and emergency medical flights . . . many lives have been saved. At present we have three Cessna 170's and three pilots on the field with two more coming soon. Miss Greene is taking along with her an oil painting done by a young African artist which I want to give to U.B.C. I had in mind that it would look nice in a box frame, hung in the large lounge of Brock Memorial. However, put it wherever you wish. Miss Greene will drive up to Vancouver in the next month or so and take the picture to you. She'll be able to give you first hand information of the celebrations as well. Three years ago my husband (a native son of Vancouver—took his M.Th. in California) and I were seconded by our Mission to the Hausa Bible Revision Committee which consists of seven members from three Missions at work in Hausaland. We are revising the New Testament in Hauso. This is the trade language of West Africa, spoken by some 20 millions, and is ranked after Arabic in importance in the languages of Africa. We came to West Africa 15 years ago and none of the many interesting types of missionary work which we have done (including the opening of a Bible Training School for African Evangelists last term) has thrilled us like this task of translating the Word of God. It is the very foundation of all missionary work and will be far-reaching in its results. If any of the alumni should ever be passing through Kano en route to South Africa or the Congo by air, we would be happy to meet them and show them around this very interesting city. And last, but not least, I want to tell you how- delighted I was to read your comment in the Inter- Varsity Christian Fellowship publication "Comments that Count". We correspond with Mr. Wilbur Sutherland, as we are keenly interested in I.V.O.F. work. I was a member of the U.B.C. chapter from 1930-34. Yours sincerely, 'Sophie De La Haye". PAGE 26 THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE STATISTICS MARRIAGES Victor John Town to Audrey Salter. John Joseph Elliott Mahoney to Katherine Isabel McArthur. Melville James Querns to Marie Elsie Stanley Harry Bell-Irving to Theo Gyles. James Douglas Fisher to Lucille Gauthier. David Leslie Mclnnes to Winifred Marie Millar. Roland G. Aubrey to June Butler. Michael Hind-Smith to Joan Barton. Patrick Blewett to Mary Margaret Prevost. John Maddock Keefe to Elizabeth Hortin. John Donald Jaques to Diane Heath. Harold Burgess to Helen Keith. Stanley Oberg to Ruth Pollock. Peter Manson to Arden Murray. Harold Hoyt Newcombe to Mary Frances Peers. William Lafayette McCamey to Patricia Marrable Cairns. Edward Thomas Bradley to Elaine Delisle. James Farfield Carl to Mary Tremaine. Dr. John Alderson Folkins to Nancy McKay Smith. Albin Andrew Bownick to Alice Mary Oliver. Ellis Joseph Warren to Gladys Eugenie Warrall. Hugh William Rhodes to Loise Allan White. Joseph Frederick Mirko to Margaret Evelyn Bartley. John Coldwell Cowan to Pegge Joan Thompson. Howard Eckman to Beverley Raymur. Colin James Crickmay to Valerie Whiting, Rinford Pritchard to Muriel Blythe. Dennis Molnar to Countess Hanna Hoyos-Wenck- hiem. Charles Anthony Walkem to Elizabeth May. Donald Manson Manning to Beryl Lockner. Peter Bentley to Sheila McGivern. Trevor Roote to Susan MacKenzie. Michael LePage to Susan Telford James. Ross Hamilton to Lois Crawford. Colin Foster to Mary Hammick. Maurice Welsh to Joan Forder-Smith. Howard Stanley Barton to Ethel Louella Trefry. Jack Sample to Dorothy Lambe. David Leslie Mclnnes to Winifred Marie Millar. James Melbourne O'Brien to Marjorie Phyllis Perry. Blair Robert Blaikie Paterson to Nancy Moscrop. Godfrey L. Camenzine to Joyce Mary Read. Darrell Donald Jones to Marion Novakowski. Peter Miller to Naomi Joan Allsebrook. Frank Richard Holding to Jean Yvonne Wiebe. Ormond William Fleming to Margaret Anne Fullerton. Alexander Ramsay Gillon to Margaret Jean MacQueen. Walter Rae Fee to Solveig Lervold. Edward Thomas Bradley to Elaine Marion Delisle Harold Hoyt Newcombe to Mary Frances Peers. Michael Hind-Smith to Joan Basted. William Alan Sweeney to Sally Lou Grant. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Wells Wilkinson (Phyllis Ward, a daughter, Linda Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. William Hacking (Topsy Russell), a daughter. Dr. and Mrs. Eric L. Smith (Shelagh Wheeler) of New York, a son. Mr. and Mrs. David K. Payne, a son, Michael Sherlock. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fairweather, a son. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Robinson (Barbara Effin- ger), a daughter, Claudia. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Stohlberg, of Trail (Mildred Nairne), a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Henderson, of Toronto, (Elaine Sharp), a son. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sandy Robertson (Mary Pat Crowe), a son. Mr. and Mrs. William Baker (Joanne Finning), a son. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Beck, of Kelowna, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Scott, of Prescott, Ont., a daughter, Deborah Baptist. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young (Greta Milne), a son, at fthaca. New York. Lt. (E) and Mrs. Frank Dayton, a daughter, at Plymouth. England. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Omenberg (Eden Wayles), a son, at Ottawa, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Fields (Betty Mullins), a daughter. DEATHS Dr. Frampton D. Price, 39, died at his home in Rindo, California recently. A graduate of U.B.C, he obtained his doctorate of Psychology at the University of Southern California and served with the U.S. Navy during the second World War. At his death he was chief clinical psvchologist at the U.S. Naval Base Hospital at Oak Nowell, California. Clausen Thompson, 59, a member of U.B.C.'s first graduating class of 1916, died recently in Los Angeles. He was Manager of the Maryland Casualty in Los Angeles for 10 years, and served during the first world war with the 62nd Royal Canadian Cavalry. Insurance Of All Kinds FIRE AUTOMOBILE PERSONAL PROPERTY FLOATERS BURGLARY NORWICH AGENCIES LIMITED W. ORSON BANFIELD, Manager MArine 6171 Yorkshire House, 900 West Pender St. VANCOUVER 1, B.C. JUNE-JULY, 1953 PAGE 27 In 1944 we said: "Think Big... when you plan for Canada's future Make no little plans when you think of Canada's future . . . For Canada, when this war is ended, will stand on the threshold of a splendid and challenging opportunity. The need will be there, the time will be ripe, for vast, unprecedented development... By planning today, we purchase ready-made markets for tomorrow, markets which will absorb our fullest productive effort and thus create gainful employment for everyone." —The above is an extract from an advertisement ue published during March, 1944, in a wide list of publications. IT WAS during the dark days of the last war that we wrote those words. Can anyone looking at Canada today, say that our confidence in the destiny of this country was misplaced? Canada's Amazing Growth The expansion in every phase of our national life since that advertisement appeared is a matter of record. The gross national product (the total value of all the goods and services Canada produces in a year) has risen from approximately $12 billion in 1944 to $23 billion in 1952 while the annual value of our manufactured goods alone has doubled during the same period. From 12,000,000 in 1944, our population has increased by over two and a half million—which is like saying that more than three-quarters of the population of Norway, or more than one and one quarter times the population of New Zealand has been added during those years. Despite the fact that Canada still has approximately only one-half of one percent of the world's population, she ranks third among the trading nations. Of the ten. leading trading nations, on a per capita basis, she is first. It is estimated that by I960 our population will have reached sixteen and three quarter million and by that year some economists believe the total value of our goods and services will have passed the $30 billion mark. Electricity Plays a Vital Part Since 1940 Canada's output of electric power has more than doubled. This extensive development of our power resources undoubtedly accounts, in part, for this country's rapid expansion. It is significant, for example, that we use about three times as much electric energy as the thirteen countries of South America combined, although we have only about one-eighth of their population. Working Hand-in-Hand with Industry We of Canadian General Electric are proud of the part this Company has always played and is still playing in Canada's remarkable development. Our great family of workers has increased from 8,500 in 1944, when the above advertisement appeared, to over 14,000 today. And since that time we have spent some 45 million dollars on new plants, new offices and warehouses—as well as on new equipment and extensions to existing plants. Because it believes that "the best is yet to be" where Canada is concerned, this Company is even now stepping up the expansion of its manufacturing and distributing facilities to meet the increasing demand for its products resulting from Canada's phenomenal development. And so today, we again say confidently: THINK BIG... when you plan for Canada's future. CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED Canada's Oldest and Largest Electrical Manufacturer CAMPBELL & SMITH LTD., Effective Printing
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