m. {•x\&;m &ixx dills i h Published by The Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia Editor: Rosemary Winslow Assistant Editors: Marion Sangster Doris Barton Ross THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA EXECUTIVE: Honorary President: Dr. L. S. Klinck President: D. Milton Owen Vice-President: Myrtle Beatty Treasurer: D. P. Watney Secretary: Kenneth M. Beckett Records Secretary: Enid Wyness Publications: Rosemary Winslow TREASURER'S INTERIM REPORT, APRIL 15th, 1938 November 1st, 1937, Balance $ 426.49 Outstanding Accounts $ 9.34 Receipts from Annual Dance 746.25 Annual Dinner 7.50 Fees—Annual 161.50 Executive Dinner 5.50 Life 217.00 Delegation to Victoria Meeting of Alumni 10.00 Overcrowding (Expense of printing and postage) 120.75 Printing and Stationery 32.13 Stenographer 36.31 Stamps 19.30 Dance Expenses 630.62 Secretarial Expenses 10.30 Exchange .98 $ 882.73 Cash Balance 668.51 $1551.24 $1551.24 The books of the Association close on October 31st. Annual Fees are due on November 1st of each year. Members paying ten consecutive Annual Fees will be granted Life Membership. The Life Membership Fee is $10.00. D. P. Watney, Treasurer. The following have become Life Members since the publication of the 1937 Chronicle: David William Blackaller Frederick Brand B. B. Brock Mrs. Barbara E. Brock Ella G. Cameron Violet D. Clark Gladys Clondinin Olive Heritage Margaret C. Johnson R. T. Kingham George C. Lipsey Ethel Jean Lowrie Fred. F. McKenzie M. Miyazaki J. B. Munro Nelson Odium D. Milton Owen Jessie C. Roberts Lawrence S. Smith Wilbert B. Smith Charles C. Watson Dick Chong Woo (2) CONVOCATION BANQUET The Convocation Banquet will be held on May 12, 1938, in the Oak Room of the Hotel Vancouver. The speaker will be Colonel H. T. Logan, Director of the Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan, and formerly Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia. Following the banquet a dance will be held to welcome the graduates of 1938, and—STOP PRESS!—this dance will be free to all grads attending the banquet. annual report TN reviewing the activities of the Alumni Association since the last issue of The Chronicle, attention should be directed to the fact that this year the Association "comes of age". On May 4, 1917, a, group of graduates gathered in the "shacks" of Fairview and the result was the formation of the present Alumni body. When one reads over the minutes of past years, it becomes evident that some measure of progress has been achieved during the intervening time. The Alumni as an organized body has taken a larger and more important part in the affairs of the University as the years have passed. During the last year "overcrowding" has practically overcrowded everything else to the corner. Elsewhere will be found a detailed report of Alumni activities in this regard. Much executive effort has been given to furthering the campaign to secure more accommodation to alleviate the situation. This campaign had been going on for some time when a change in policy was announced by the Board of Governors, whereby registration was to be limited and fees increased by $25.00 in all faculties. r r _ , , „ . This announcement resulted in the forma- Dr- Ha,rTry ^arren' Pressor of Geol- tion of a Student Publicity Committee ogy> u-*>•u which has been very active for some Milton Owen, President of the Asso- months and has inaugurated a lengthy ciation. campaign to inform the people of the Questionnaires were sent to all branches Province of the achievements of the Urn- to obta;n information relative to conduct of versity, the valuable research work carried the campajgn at Interior points. Many out, and the harmful results that would helpful suggestions and constructive criti- mevitably flow from any reactionary policy cisms were 0ffered by the branches and the restricting the scope of University en- information received will aid materially in deavour. The campaign called for wide completing this work. The students plan publicity through the medium of the press, t0 carry on th;s campaign throughout the the radio, and addresses to various public provinCe during the summer months. The bodies, and the Alumni have co-operated in campaign will be similar to that conducted providing outstanding graduates as speakers ;n Vancouver with the addition of a series for radio broadcasts. Those who have 0f transcriptions which will be broadcast taken part to date are: Dy the Interior radio stations at regular John C. Oliver, Registrar of the Institute intervals. It is a tribute to the present of Professional Engineers. undergraduate body that it should display Paul N. Whitley, Principal, Point Grey such foresight in planning an arduous cam- Junior High School. paign which should prove of permanent S. J. Bowman, Agricultural Branch, B. C. ™l,e }? *« University. The executive Electric these efforts merit the co- ' operation of all Alumni and that every Alec Wood, U. B. C. staff. assistance should be extended to the stud- C. R. Asher, Manager of the Fertilizer ents wherever possible. Division, Canadian Industries. Last May the Executive was instrumental (3) in arranging for a broadcast of the Convocation Dinner at which Canon Cody, President of the University of Toronto, was the guest speaker. Several branches held dinner meetings and heard the broadcast. The interest aroused was very gratifying and accordingly it is hoped to extend the coverage this year so that various branches may take part in the program. Details, however, are not complete at press time. The Annual Meeting was held on October 29th, 1937, in Spencer's Dining Room, with the largest attendance in the history of the Association, over two hundred being present. Entertainment was provided by Miss Vera Radcliffe and Messrs. Gordon Herron and Norman Depoe. Professor Soward was the guest speaker, taking as his subject "Behind the Far Eastern Conflict". His clear presentation of a very complicated international situation will long be remembered as one of the outstanding contributions offered to an Alumni gathering. The President reported very satisfactory progress during the previous year, noting the organization ot several new branches, and the success of various Alumni undertakings. At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Tom Ellis, retiring President, relinquished his office to his successor, Mr. Milton Owen. The traditional Christmas reunion was held on December 27th at the Commodore, as usual, and was generally conceded to have surpassed previous reunions. The accommodation was taxed almost to capacity by the seven hundred graduates present, in spite of a first class snowstorm causing the cancellation of over a hundred reservations. Only those present can appreciate what a difference that extra two hundred would have made. Entertainment included the usual Varsity songs and yells plus an energetic coloured tap dancer of approximately seven years who proved most intriguing to the feminine coterie present. An added attraction was the Christmas tree presentation with Dean Buchanan as M.C. Unusual prizes were presented to various graduates who were considered to have achieved distinction by reason of certain accomplishments of doubtful merit. Incidentally the affair produced a neat profit. Bouquets for efficient arranging go to Myrtle Beatty, Dorothy Myers and Ted Baynes. This year the Executive adopted the policy of visiting various branches whenever convenient. During the last year John Burnett, a Past President of the Association, visited Kamloops, Vernon, and other Interior branches where very successful meetings were held. The President and Secretary visited New Westminster in February to report on the activities of the Association, and particularly to explain the present problem at the University. On March 25th a similar visit was made to Victoria when overcrowding was again the subject of discussion. In addition, the film depicting highlights in the history of the University's early days was shown. This film, which was resurrected from the nether regions of the Library last year, has been edited under the direction of Dr. Shrum, and was shown for the first time at Homecoming. Early scenes of the first years in the Fairview shacks, the University contingent, graduation ceremonies, and the campaign to move to Point Grey are all included, and proved both informative and amusing. It is the hope of the executive that all branches may view this film in the near future. David Carey, President of the Alma Mater Society, accompanied the President and Secretary on both occasions to present the student viewpoint. Elsewhere will be found reports of the branches which will speak for themselves, but it is pertinent to say here that the existence of strong branches is essential to the future success of the Association. Many branches have been active during the past year. The basic policy of your executive is to maintain close association among graduates themselves and as a body with the University. The University has seen the first generation come and go; the second is now on the campus. Alumni should continue to play a progressively greater part in the life of the University as time goes on. By way of summary it may be reported that in addition to the foregoing the executive held twelve formal executive meetings since last May, and many informal ones as well, forwarded minutes of all meetings to all seventeen branches, issued circulars on overcrowding to 4000 graduates and "duns" for fees as well. As for next year—several ideas are evolving in the minds of the executive. For example: A monthly bulletin to replace The Chronicle; a Presidential visit to all branches in the Interior next fall concurrent with a certain political convention; reorganized Vancouver branch to assist various graduate clubs and teams. The principal work of the Association during the last few years may emerge next fall in concrete form if all hopes are realized, with the construction of the first unit of the Brock Memorial Building, and the provision of further classroom accommodation. It is only fitting to conclude by expressing the thanks of the executive for the co-operation received from Alumni during the past year. Whatever was asked was given freely, cheerfully and without reservation. KENNETH M. BECKETT, Arts '32, Secretary. C5£? (4) Dr. Weir points the way JAMES A. GIBSON /~\NE of the most interesting of new clubs on the campus this year is the ^"^ Political Discussion Club. It was founded to encourage both the substance and the method of political discussion and its meetings have been well attended. At its concluding open meeting of the 1937-38 session on April 5, Hon. G. M. Weir, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Education, spoke on "The Contribution of the University to the Life of British Columbia". Describing U. B. C. as the youngest among the provincial universities of Canada, and one of the most virile and willing to serve, Dr. Weir said that much had been heard of the contributions, in money and in buildings, which the government should make to the University. He proposed to examine the reverse of this position and to discuss the contributions which the University should make to the cause of good government in British Columbia. To educate public opinion to the social needs of the community was a challenge to people trained in the University. A university man, said Dr. Weir, as compared with a man of no school education, had 800 times the chance to render distinguished service. Already graduates of the University were making notable contributions to the agricultural, industrial, educational, civil and social life of the province; and the fact that 70 per cent of U. B. C. graduates remained in the province seemed a good augury. As to the future, three distinct challenges to competently-trained people were apparent: (1) to publicize the need for technical efficiency in public administration, which would require an educational effort to overcome ignorant prejudices against so-called "brain-trusters"; (2) to overcome opportunism in public affairs ; and (3) to promote research in the social services. The latter part of Dr. Weir's remarks was concerned with an elaboration of this third point. There was abundant raw material; but there was little organization of it. Research was therefore needed as a stimulus and guide for thinking and action. In the past the approach to problems of social welfare had tended to be empirical. Social welfare work was now becoming a profession, and there was therefore need for research upon as nearly scientific a basis as was possible. Hit or miss methods inevitably involved both social and economic waste, and because Canada spent $250,000,000 (nearly one-quarter of the national expenditure) annually on social services, better administration was essential if the chief social needs were to be met. "We need (continued Dr. Weir) more knowledge of social problems and public measures to deal with them, and we must have a more highly trained and competent administrative personnel if we are to obtain maximum economy and efficiency in the operation of our social services. A substantial extension of organized research is urgently required to provide the knowledge necessary for the formulation of wise social service policies and for the effective training of administrative personnel". Certain research studies—such as those which were essentially factual and descriptive—might be undertaken by the Dominion Government through its own agencies. But further studies, especially those which were analytical or interpretive or confined to particular areas, could be undertaken by the Universities, especially if the Dominion Government would encourage, by financial grants, the building up of definite schools for research in the social services, in connection with such universities as Dalhousie. McGill, Toronto, Manitoba and British Columbia. If the principle were accepted, methods and co-ordination of studies could be worked out promptly. An expenditure of as little as $250,000 would be well repaid if expended on research now so urgently demanded. The guiding aim, said Dr. Weir in conclusion, must be "to make democracy more socially efficient, and more competent and worthy to survive". *S£J (S) the overcrowding problem D. MILTON OWEN 'T'HE most important problem facing the University authorities at the present time is the lack of facilities available for the accommodation of the student body. The situation has been bad for years, but came to a head this year with the announcement by the Board of Governors that next fall attendance would be limited to two thousand students and fees in all faculties would be increased. The Alumni Association had been apprised of this situation for some time, however, and in February of 1937 had appointed a special committee to study the state of affairs on the campus. This committee had done considerable spade work and on several occasions had interviewed President Klinck and other members of the Board of Governors. It had also made representations on behalf of the University on at least two occasions by letter to all members of the Legislative Assembly. These representations were supported by personal interviews with various members of the Provincial Cabinet. Following the aforesaid announcement by the Board of Governors a storm of indignation broke out, particularly amongst the student body. It was at this time that the groundwork laid by our Alumni Committee on Overcrowding was of great assistance to both the University authorities and to the students. We were able to come to the support of the University authorities immediately and to cooperate also with the student body, and to persuade the latter to take a more rational view than that suggested by many of the undergraduates. To a great extent as a result of this co-operation, no petitions or downtown campaigns were organized by the students, but instead an active campaign was engaged upon for the purpose of educating public opinion as to the value of the University and its need for assistance. In this way no one was antagonized and we feel that there is every possibility of some assistance being given to the University in the near future. The Alumni however, should know the present situation on the campus. The Board of Governors announced that the fees would be increased at the Winter Session for Arts, Science and Agriculture from $125 to $150, for Applied Science from $175 to $200 and for the Summer Session from $60 to $70. With this increase the fees at our University will be the third highest in Canada, exceeded only by McGill and Dalhousie Universities, which are both private institutions. The question which arises is, then, does this University offer an adequate return in comparison with the University of Toronto, Queen's, and Western Ontario, where the Arts fees are $25 less; the Universities of McMaster and New Brunswick, charging $30 less; the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba, charging $40 less; and the University of Saskat chewan, charging $60 less? Most of these Canadian Universities offer training in medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, physical education, architecture, etc., which courses are not offered by U. B. C. The raising of the fees is surely not the solution to our problem. This policy will tend to make our University available only to those students in good financial circumstances, which is not a desirable objective for a government-owned University. Another alternative which has been suggested is that the standard should be raised higher, and many average students thus debarred from attending. It has been pointed out that the standards at our University are already very high, and it is very doubtful whether it is desirable to raise them further in order to disqualify average students. It is not necessarily the student obtaining first class marks who obtains the best results from his University course. After all, the greatest values of a University training are in learning how to live and how to get the most out of life, values which cannot be judged in dollars and cents, or in marks obtained in University examinations. It has been suggested that the Board of Governors adopt a system of graduated fees according to the marks—that is, the higher the marks of a student the lower his fees. Such a suggestion is inane to say the least, because not only would a charting system comparable to the government income tax returns be necessary, but the same hardships already mentioned would be worked on the average hard-working student who obtains just as much, if not more, out of his University course as the proverbial bookworm. The University standards are high now and those not capable of doing the work are required to leave after the Christmas examinations— to raise the standards any higher would not (6) be a far-sighted or logical solution in any way. Another feature of the situation which arises is that many ask why the attendance at the University should be limited at all. The argument is that it is desirable that as many as possible should receive the advantage of advanced education, and today more than ever we find that a good education is a pre-requisite in all occupa tions. It is desirable, furthermore, that the general standards of our people should be raised. This will never be accomplished until a full education is available to all our citizens. Particularly is it desirable that the University should be open to all when we consider the fact that it is supported by the taxes of the people. How much more desirable it is therefore that the University should not be available only to those who are born in good financial circumstances or to those who have the ability to write examinations successfully. The only alternative that could be adopted in order to alleviate the present situation at the University would be increased governmental grants for buildings and equipment, to a level compatible with the value of the University to this Province. It is not suggested, of course, that it will be necessary to keep increasing governmental grants until the University becomes a great drain on the public purse. Our University is still young and will require assistance for a few years. In the near future, however, the number of bequests and private grants should increase to such an extent that the University will be able to carry itself without governmental assistance. This has been the experience of all Universities after they have reached a certain age and there is no reason the same thing should not occur in the history of our own institution. It is essential that the people of this province should appreciate the seriousness of the overcrowded situation at the University of British Columbia at the present time, and also that they should realize that in allowing this state of affairs to continue they are endangering the welfare and even the existence of an institution which means hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to the industries, trade, and businesses of this province. The members of the Government have already shown their sympathy with the needs of the University. It now rests with the people of British Columbia to demand that immediate assistance be given to this productive institution in order that our province may not lose the full benefits accruing to it from the necessary work of such an institution. And that is where the efforts of all graduates of the University may be of great assistance to our Alma Mater. We. as graduates, are familiar with the conditions at the University and have, deep down in our hearts, a great regard for all it has meant to us in the past. We also have a material interest in the welfare of the University in the fact that, holding degrees from that institution, we would be reluctant to see the value of those degrees deteriorate in any way. There seems to be no doubt, however, that should the present policy as suggested by the Board of Governors be carried out, the standards of the University of British Columbia will necessarily be lowered to a great extent. We must take immediate action to remedy this situation. Let us as graduates do our part in advertising the value of the University to the public of this province in order that there may be a better appreciation of the work of that institution. TUUM EST. brock memorial D. MILTON OWEN T^HE Brock Memorial Campaign Committee has collected the sum of $41,532.00 to date towards the erection of the proposed Memorial Building on the campus. The original campaign fell far short of its objective for various reasons, the principle one of which was the poor business conditions existing at that time. As a result, the campaign has been allowed to hang in abeyance for nearly two years and the under graduate body, becoming impatient with the delay, has threatened to withdraw the students' subscription from the campaign fund. For this reason, and because there is a dire need for additional building accommodation at the University, it is imperative that steps be taken immediately to supplement the amount collected to date so that work may be started immediately on the new building to house student activities. The architects have informed the Memorial Committee that (7) a minimum sum of $54,000 will be required to put up a structure which will in any way be adequate for the purpose. Of the total amount collected the sum of $9000 was allotted primarily by the Women Students for furnishings and is not to be used for the building itself. This leaves on hand for the construction of the building the sum of $32,000, meaning that before work can be commenced on the structure it will be necessary for the Memorial Committee to raise an additional $20,000 at least. After considerable discussion members of the committee decided that the various organizations interested would each be approached and requested to accept responsibility for a proportionate amount of the sum needed. The Alumni Association is endeavouring to raise a sum equivalent to $2 each from its 4000 members approximately, who are associate or active members of our Association at the present time. This means that it will be necessary to organize a personal campaign, and it is the request of the Executive of the Association that every graduate subscribe to this fund if he has not already done so, with an even greater sum than the $2 allotted. We shall do our best in any event to raise the total amount as aforesaid and an active committee is being formed at the present time under the Chairmanship of Earl Vance, a very energetic alumnus and a former President of the Alma Mater Society. The cause is a worthy one and as our Association has done little enough for the University to date this campaign will provide us with an opportunity to show our interest and to make a concrete and lasting contribution to University life. •«E>oC38- • universities - east and west DEAN J. N. FINLAYSON T AM very glad to be able to accede to the request for a short article on the achievements and aspirations of the Faculty of Applied Science of the University of British Columbia, together with some observations concerning other universities in which I have seen service. But before addressing myself to the assignment, I wish to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the very warm welcome which has been accorded me by the citizens of British Columbia in general, and the University governors, officers, professors and students in particular, since I entered upon my duties as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. My arrival coincided with the completion of the twenty-first year of the University's existence, and with the celebration of Vancouver's golden jubilee. I was thus able to obtain from the literature issued a complete account of the University's remarkable progress during its adolescence, and I consider myself fortunate in being permitted to join the staff on the date of its development into full and vigorous manhood. The cornerstone of the first university building was laid in 1820 by the Earl of Dalhousie. Classes were opened in 1838, but in 1845 the College was closed to allow the funds to accumulate. It reopened in 1863 with a staff of six professors, and about 1880 Mr. George Munro, New York, endowed several chairs and provided liberal exhibitions and bursaries. His gifts, aggregating about $350,000, were at that I have served on the staff of four Canadian universities, two supported by the state, two privately endowed; two, McGill and Dalhousie, ancient and honorable as Canadian institutions are listed, two, British Columbia and Manitoba, lusty juveniles in the family of Canadian universities. Dalhousie's original endowment was derived from funds collected at the port of Castine, Maine during the war of 1812. (8) time unparalleled in Canada. Graduates and friends have been generous, and the endowment is now nearly $3,000,000. The income from investments just about equals the receipts from class tees. McGill University owes its origin to the vision of the Hon. James McGill, who bequeathed forty-six acres of land, his dwelling house and other buildings and a sum of il0,000 to found a college in a provincial university. The work of teaching was begun in 1829, but the record of the first thirty years of the University's existence was an unbroken talc of financial embarrassment. About 1850 the citizens of Montreal awoke to the value of the institution, an amended charter was secured, John William Dawson was appointed Principal, and an era of progress and prosperity began. Generous endowments and donations were made by interested friends; those by Sir William Macdonald and Lord Strath- cona are so well known that mention of them is scarcely necessary. The total amount of endowments is over $30,000,000. The University of Manitoba was established by an Act of the Legislature in 1877, but the Act provided that there should be no teaching undertaken, the functions of the University being limited to the examination of candidates for degrees and the granting of the degrees on the model of the University of London. Instruction was provided by the denominational colleges already in existence, which were affiliated with the University at its inception. The principle of governmental support was recognized from the first, the Act providing for a sum not exceeding $250 to be placed at the disposal of the Council of the University to meet expenses incidental to organization. For many years there was a spirited agitation for definite provision by the Legislature for the teaching of the natural sciences, as the affiliated colleges found themselves unable to provide the necessary apparatus and the payment of teachers. Consequently in 1904, six chairs in the sciences and mathematics were established, followed in 1907 by the creation of a department of civil engineering. Chairs of electrical engineering and architecture were added, and there is at present no instruction provided for students in other departments of applied science. Since 1914 the University has offered complete courses in arts. The arts undergraduate, accordingly has the choice of attending classes at the University or at one of the affiliated colleges. The colleges are located in different parts of Winnipeg, one of them in the neighboring city of St. Boniface. The University classes in the first and second years are held in Winnipeg, those of the senior years at Fort Garry, about six miles from the city university buildings. While there is obvious waste in this separation, there is the one advantage; students residing in diverse sections of the community have opportunities for receiving at least a portion of their training at institutions located in their neighborhood. There is also the doubtful merit of competition. It may be of interest to note that the University functioned for several years without benefit of president or deans. It did have the benefit of the clergy, as the Archbishop of Rupert's Land became the first Chancellor. To the graduates of U.B.C. who have experienced the vicissitudes incident to the occupation of "the most picturesque university site in the world", it may thus be of some consolation to be reminded of some of the discouragements which faced other universities in their formative periods. Our founders were able to direct this infant institution away from many of the pitfalls that obstructed the pathways of their seniors. It is gratifying to a McGill graduate to be told that the excellent pioneer work accomplished by the McGill University College of British Columbia was useful in directing U.B.C. along the right path. The immediate success of the first graduates revealed the superior quality of the training which they received, and full credit must be given to the vision, ability and character of the founders, several of whom were professors in the old McGill College. It is significant, for instance, that they recognized that fundamental axiom that there cannot be a great university without a strong faculty of applied science. They envisaged the rapid development in the utilization of the rich natural resources of the province, and they made provision for adequate training of science students in order that they might merit the confidence that the community was ready to repose in them. In my first annual report to the Governors, I declared my adherence to the general policy laid down by the founders of the faculty at its inception. The applied scientist's profession is of necessity an exacting one. He who follows it, in any of its branches, must deal with natural laws, any infraction of which means disaster. His deductions must be based on premises which are incontrovertible, and which lead to but one conclusion. In his training, emphasis should be laid on such subjects as the average individual will find irksome and difficult to assimilate to that point where they become of genuine value to him, if his university course has not provided him with knowledge of their fundamentals. The importance of highly specialized subjects, which the average student soundly grounded in the essentials of his professional course can easily master through (9) subsequent private study, has never been stressed in this faculty. From time to time, however, the staff has reviewed the curriculum in order to determine the most suitable fundamental subjects which should be studied by applied science students, and during the past two years several important changes have been made in the courses of study. It will be, I hope, of general interest to all graduates to learn that courses in English composition have been introduced into both the second and third year curricula. It is conceded by all men and women who have to do with applied science work that the scientist is not solely concerned with technical problems, though as to these he must be an expert, but he is becoming more and more concerned with economic, legal and commercial problems, and he should be prepared to meet men of affairs and of liberal education on an equal footing. To this end a course in general engineering has been introduced, and the number of hours of didactic instruction in many subjects has been reduced, in order to give the student more opportunity to read technical and cultural literature. A working library of scientific books and current periodicals has been placed in the reading room of the applied science building, and I wish to take this opportunity of acknowledging my debt of gratitude to Mr. Ridington and his staff for their courteous co-operation in making this service available to our applied science students, who are encouraged to spend considerable time in directed general reading. It is hoped that they will become familiar with such liberal studies as should form part of the mental equipment of every educated man and woman. Space does not permit the mention of other changes, but I urge the graduates of applied science to note them in the University calendar. I direct the attention of the graduates in forest engineering to the revised curriculum in forestry. It is desirable that there should be renewed interest shown in the training of young men for service in British Columbia's leading industry. The outstanding impression received by a new arrival is the matchless beauty of the setting of the campus. Next in order, perhaps, is the realization of the eminent places in the professional, commercial, industrial, and cultural life of the province occupied by the graduates, creditable to themselves and to the professors who have borne the heat and burden of those pioneer years. It has been a great pleasure to meet so many of the graduates and I extend a cordial invitation to all who read these lines to pay me a call on their next visit to the campus. You will find new faces in some departments, new equipment in all departments, an increasingly large student body, and the same old spirit of loyalty and devotion to everything that concerns the welfare of your Alma Mater. *£>o<3£ culture without college DR. GORDON M. SHRUM Director, Department of University Extension TJNIVERSITY EXTENSION, as it is known today, first began in England at the University of Cambridge, from which it spread to Oxford and then to America—where it may be said to be consciously modelled on the older British movement. Although it originated in an attempt to bring organized college education to adults who were unable to take up residence, it was not initiated by the universities themselves. It began in response to an articulate public demand from men and women, who had never had a chance to enjoy a college education, and who demanded that something like it be made available to them. In Canada, although extension work takes somewhat different forms at various universities, it is fairly safe to say that in general it receives its inspiration from the more successful experiments being conducted in England and the United States. At the University of British Columbia the idea of University Extension is nearly as old as the University itself. the University Extension Committee. By Between 1915 and 1936 much useful work means of bulletins and articles for the was carried on by a committee known as press, an effort was made to keep the (10) public informed regarding the work and activities of the University. One of these bulletins (No. 2) was published in January, 1919,* and was designed to give detailed information regarding the work, courses and equipment of the institution. In addition to the daily broadcasts on markets and agricultural topics, several weekly programs, including courses on Poetry, Music Appreciation, Drama, and the students' feature, "Varsity Time", have been offered. The course on Producing a Play was given over the British Columbia network and was one of the first of its kind offered in Canada. Over one hundred "listening groups" registered for the course which, according to radio officials is a Canadian record for this type of educational broadcast. This year for the first time the Extension Department organized a course for study-groups. The subject selected was "Economics and Public Affairs" and eighteen groups registered for it. The visual aids division of the Department has been expanding rapidly. A bulletin describing the slides, film slides, motion pictures, etc., available for loan was prepared in February. The resulting demand for loans has quite exceeded expectations. A new and very interesting development this year has been the offering of short courses in Agriculture in the Lower Fraser Valley. The Department of Extension was asked to undertake this work under a grant from the Dominion-Provincial Youth Training Plan. Courses in Bee-Keeping and Poultry Husbandry were offered at ten centres to a total registration exceeding three hundred. It is expected that for next year this work will be extended to include many other districts in the Province. Space does not permit a description of all the efforts being made by the Department to give assistance and leadership to the adult education movement in this Province. Many of the alumni who were not aware of the opportunities offered during the past year will, however, be more interested in the plans for the future. One of the most important projects for the summer will be a six weeks course on the Theatre starting July 4. This will be a complete course arranged by Miss Dorothy Somerset, who has accepted a position as head of the drama division of the Extension Department. As guest director for the course, the University has been exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of Miss Ellen Van Volkenburg, a very distinguished producer from London and New York. Other courses during the *The Extension Department is very anxious to get a copy of each of these bulletins for the files. Bulletin No. 1 was published by the University Extension Committee prior to 1919. summer will include a short course for P.T.A. groups in June and a two weeks' course in athletics by C. S. Edmundson, the track and backetball coach at the University of Washington. The latter course will be given during the last two weeks of the Summer Session and should prove to be invaluable to teachers. For next autumn plans are being made to offer, as part of the Adult Education program, evening classes, study-group courses, radio programs, reading lists, travelling art collections, motion pictures, increased library facilities and dramatics. Alumni can be of great assistance in this program by helping to set up local adult education groups in their own districts. The Extension Department, charged as it is with certain responsibilities regarding the relation between the University and the public, is extremely appreciative of the continued help and support which it is receiving from the alumni. There seems to be a tradition that the alumni should be specially sympathetic to all projects sponsored by the University. The Extension Department wishes to assist the University in establishing a reciprocal tradition. The policy of the Department will be directed towards offering members of the alumni ever-increasing opportunities for the continuation of their cultural and vocational training. It is hoped that it will be possible in the near future to offer refresher courses, radio programs, or other activities particularly arranged for members of the alumni. Having had the privilege of a college education and knowing the values of learning, each member of the alumni in his community will experience an especial sense of responsibility for the provision of similar advantages for all citizens. To the alumni the question will not be "Why go on learning?" but rather "Why stop learning?" The committee also arranged extension lectures by members of the staff at various centres throughout the province. In 1935 the University received from the Carnegie Corporation of New York a grant which made possible the establishment of a Department of University Extension. During the following year, Dr. O. J. Todd, who had been secretary of the University Extension Committee, carried on much of the preliminary organization work. In September, 1936, Mr. Robert England, the first director of the Department, assumed his duties. Mr. England resigned during the summer of 1937 and in September the present director undertook the work, the value of which had been so well demonstrated. The Carnegie grant of $30,000, under which the work had been carried on during the two preceding years, was exhausted by August, 1937, and therefore the 1937-38 program has been carried on with limited (11) funds provided by the University. This fact necessitated a rather drastic curtailment of some projects which had been undertaken and the substitution of others which were less costly or more nearly self- supporting. However, through the co-operation of the University administration and the generous and willing assistance of the members of the teaching staff, some considerable measure of success has been achieved in extending the public service rendered by the University. Quite apart from its value as adult education, this work has succeeded in increasing the public support upon which the future of the University depends. The activities of the Department during the past winter may be grouped under the following headings: (a) Evening Classes. (b) Extension Lectures. (c) Visual Aids. (d) Short Courses. (e) Study-Groups and Forums. (f) Radio Programs. (g) Extension Library, (h) Public Relations. During the winter months seven Evening Classes were held—five at the University and two at the Vancouver Normal School. Courses were offered in, General Botany, Shakespeare, Some Problems of the Post- War World, Horticulture, Music Appreciation, Poultry, and Social Service. Although this was the first time that the University had offered Evening Classes in purely cultural subjects, and although there was very little time available for the organization of the classes, the registration and attendance was much better than had been expected. Judging by the attendance, one of the most successful short courses was one on Art Appreciation given by Mr. C. H. Scott. The lectures in this course were given at the University on Wednesday afternoons. In co-operation with the Victoria University Extension Association, the Department of Extension has given at Victoria a series of eleven lectures on "The Changing World". This series has been well received —over twelve hundred persons attended the eleven lectures. Extension lectures have been given also at Prince Rupert, Ocean Falls, Powell River, Nanaimo, Courtenay, Field, Golden, Revelstoke, Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Grand Forks, Trail, Nakusp and many other centres. At some of these centres lectures were arranged fortnightly. Realizing the wide potentialities of the radio as a medium for University Extension, the Department this year established a University Radio Studio on the campus. It is located in the Agriculture Building. The studio has been acoustically treated and is complete with control room, amplifying equipment, microphones, etc. It is used, not only for the actual broadcasting of programs, but also for rehearsals. During January and February eleven broadcasts per week were given from the campus. what price radio? IRA DILWORTH "V/ffUSIC is everywhere today: we are walled in by it. I do not refer to that celestial harmony which the poet assures us is in immortal souls and which we are grossly prevented from hearing. It is a more earthly music which in the past thirty-five years has become available more easily and to a larger group than ever before. People, to whom symphony was or would be, because of financial limitations or geographical isolation, merely a name, may now command readily by the turn of a dial the performance of the most accomplished orchestras and the services of the most celebrated conductors. Homes from which, for various reasons, dance tunes and music-hall ballads of the most harmless types were rigorously excluded, are now filled with the latest jazz and swing and are made hideous by the vagaries of the crooner and the vulgar yodelings of the synthetic cowboy. What is to be the result of all this? Quite obviously there may be certain effects upon character which may well be of the gravest concern to society but with these aspects of the question we effect upon the art of music itself, or need not deal here, leaving them safely rather with the individual's reaction to or otherwise to those who make such that art—a concern which might ulti- matters their own peculiar field of mately be found to involve all the others, anxious care. We are concerned with the A writer in the London Musical Times (12) not long ago put the matter very succinctly when he said: "When an art that is both too difficult (because of its spiritual qualities) and too easy, is made suddenly accessible to everybody by the pressing of a switch, it is likely to lose at least as much as it gains. That is the danger of music today: there is so much of it, and it is so promiscuous that it is being heard rather than listened to. And there are ninety passive listeners to ten live (participative) ones, because listening calls for knowledge as well as effort". Now it is the truth contained in the latter part of this statement that may well give cause for anxiety to those who believe in such things as standards of artistic achievement, and credit such standards with having a certain value in relation to life. It may help us to glance for a moment at a few of the attitudes that are taken towards music by the "hearers" of this art. First there is the attitude of the listener who cares for nothing but that his every waking moment shall be filled with something—if not with physical activity (going places, doing things, seeing things) then with sound. Such hearers fill their houses with noise to which they usually and, perhaps, fortunately, give no attention. It is interesting to speculate as to the possible effect of becoming thus callous to sound, of having the ability to go on reading or doing one's "homework" with the radio going at full blast, only giving evidence of awareness of the music when it ceases and one becomes conscious of some area of emptiness. In a way contrasted with and yet closely related to the hearer just described is an interesting late development of the human species—the "jitter bug", as he is playfully called. He cannot be satisfied with hearing jazz but must (and apparently involuntarily) accompany his hearing with the most extraordinary gymnastics, subjecting himself to a long-sustained series of physical and emotional contortions which would place a considerable tax upon the powers of endurance of a primitive savage. Closely related is the individual for whom music is merely an emotional orgy, indulged in as a relaxation. Some one has described this attitude aptly as "going into a beatific coma". This individual is quite content to sit and let the music pour over him like warm sunlight or rise around him like the relaxing heat of a vapour bath. In a world of rush and worry this attitude is, Heaven knows, easy enough to understand. It is even defensible: there are occasions when this sort of experience has its real value. The danger arises when it is made the only manner of approach and when one loses sight of the fact that music, like religion, has other than narcotic uses, and may engage the individual in even strenuous and disciplined activity. There is the attitude of the sentimentalist who knows very little about music or anything else firm and definite—but who adores music and poetry; her people have all, always adored them—she just cannot get enough of them. After all, are they not the universal language of the soul? And she is such an expansive soul! Ask her what music she adores— "Well, I don't know,—just music—I can never get enough of it".—"Yes, I know, but whose music?"—"Oh, well . . Chopin's or Schubert's ... I just love Chopin".— "Good, I like him, too, but not all of him. What music of Chopin do you prefer?" —"Well, I just can't for the moment think of any names, but I love those things he did about the French woman— Georges Sand, wasn't it ? ... and Debussy! Don't you adore Debussy ?"■— "Yes, I do. I heard 'La Cathedrale engloutie' ..." "Oh, no please! not that! I heard it too when Kosky played it. George and I were bored stiff with it—no tune at all in it and it was so full of discords. ... I just don't call that sort of thing music at all. . . . But you know the one about the church under the sea, and you hear the bells and . . . oh, it's just too romantic. I think they call it 'The Sunken Cathedral'. I just adore it—it's so sweet, such lovely chords, really like Mendelssohn in places—George likes it, too. . . . But the other thing you mentioned! I just . . ." and so she babbles on. Harmless, you say—Yes if it were not for the fact that this babbler has almost always a good deal of prestige, social largely, and is listened to enviously by others who in turn go to the circles where they have prestige and explain how musical dear Mrs. Smythe-Jones- Smythe is and how she just seems to have heard everything. She has such a feeling for music and can talk so easily about it all! You should have heard her put that Miss Blank in her place the other day—oh, you know who she is.— the woman who always makes you feel so uncomfortable with all her questions. This is the soil in which intellectual dishonesty flourishes. So we could go on describing ourselves and our reactions to this most subtle of the arts, in many respects the greatest single achievement of western civilization, and if we were intellectually honest we should discover how little we really know, and would acknowledge with how great difficulty we give any reason for the faith that is in us when we really do prefer one composer's work to that of another, and turn away entirely from certain manifestations of music as being unworthy if not actually vulgar. So what? We must listen and feel and think; we must build up a real experience (13) of active listening to music. In this way we can develop that thing so badly needed in life today—a critical faculty. Eventually we shall acquire the power to make distinctions. We may even find ourselves in possession of the ability to say with some precision why one thing appeals to us more than does another. Wordsworth long ago said in the course of a distinguished critical utterance : "An accurate taste in poetry, and in all the other arts, as Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed, is an acquired talent, which can only be produced by thought and a long continued intercourse with the best models of composition". There will be those who will hold that Wordsworth's statement is too narrow and they will be thinking of those rarely gifted individuals who from birth have the "feel of the thing". One is reminded of Charles Cowden Clarke's description of the young Keats reading Spenser's "Faerie Queene" like "a young horse through a spring meadow ramping", hoisting himself up at a fine epithet to exclaim "What an amazing image that is —'sea-shouldering whales'!" Keats' spirit had come into its native country, and so it is with the small group of really gifted musicians whether they be performers or listeners. But it is well for us to remember that even for Keats the "accurate taste" of which Wordsworth spoke was an art "long to lerne". How much more true is this for the rest of us. Of course, there is no one with an ounce of wit who does not recognise the fact that there are definite limits to the extent to which "accurate taste" can be acquired, and that these limits vary with the individual. Honest men know too that the whole of the mystery of art cannot be explained on the basis of the results of even the most minute analysis, that there are great areas of any art which defy the subtlest exercise of the logical faculty. But to recognise this fact is no argument for the acceptance of the obscurantist point of view that everything will come, if at all, as an involuntary flooding in of revelation, that all that need be expected of the listener is that he brings to music a heart that feels. As a stabilizing force, therefore, in the weltering experience of music that surrounds us, we should, I think, welcome and encourage all agencies (in the schools and universities and outside them) which are honestly trying to replace the indifferent, sentimental or intellectually snobbish attitude by the development of an ability to listen actively, patiently, critically. From such a replacement, if it be successful, the artistic experience of the listener must be immeasurably enriched. the green room carries on FOR twenty-three years now the Players' Club has been active on the U. B. C. campus. Around the walls of the Green Room hang all the pictures of plays long since forgotten, plays that are ghosts of the past. Still the Players' Club keeps up its tradition. Plays. This year we chose a folk- play, a play of the Irish Renaissance. Difficult as a play of this type was for a Western Canadian group to produce, yet the Club feels that once more it has contributed to the University life. "The Playboy of the Western World" is one of the best known dramas of the Irish Renaissance movement. Written by J. M. Synge. a man with sure knowledge of "theatre" a genuine appreciation of good drama, and with the passionate love of an Irishman for his country, "The Playboy" has in it those elements that appeal to all lovers of the theatre. Great beauty of language elevates it from the humble, mud-walled public house. Deep and passionate emotion pervades it. Synge has caught, too, the very essence of Irish humor. The annual Spring Tour maintains another tradition of the Club. The Players' Club is the only amateur dramatic society in the West of Canada that goes on tour. For many years now the Club has travelled all through the Interior of British Columbia, up the West Coast, over to Vancouver Island. In the course of their arduous journey (often the curtain rises an hour after the players have arrived in a town'* the Club is leaving behind something tangible for all people to look on and say: "This thing is ours. Our University is responsible for it". Many and varied are the types of drama presented by the Club: Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabbler"; the eighteenth century comedy of manners in Goldsmith's "Sh" Stoops to Conquer"; a nineteenth century history play in Alfred Sangster's "Th" Brontes". Taking its place with these wir be J. M. Synge's "Playboy of the Western World". The Spring Play and Tour are not the only achievements of the Club, for at Christmas all the new members show Vancouver "what they can do" in a series of one-act plays. These newcomers play to packed and critical audiences. It bodes well for the future that this year many of the roles in "The Playboy" were taken bv the younger generation of the Players' Club. (14) • "the little menagerie7 today DEAN F. M. CLEMENT TT IS a long step from those early days when the first class in Agriculture entered the University in 1917. Most of the students who make up the present undergraduate body were then unborn. Since that time there have been twenty-one critical years in the history of the University. The first class in the Faculty of Agriculture was made up of seven students, who were at one time referred to by a Science Professor as "the little menagerie". These men came, one each from Vancouver, Chilliwack, Cloverdale, Victoria, Marpole, Summerland and Larkin, British Columbia. The whereabouts of one member of this class is unknown; the second is principal of an Interior high school; the third is a Professor in an Eastern State College; ;the fourth is a Research Professor at Oxford University; the fifth is a Professor in a Mid-West State College;; the sixth is editor of a country newspaper in British Columbia; and the seventh is velopment of a new type of alfalfa, in the farming in British Columbia. Three of this original class later obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Two or three members of this original group left the University before graduation, but the class was joined by a number of men returning from Overseas. The first degrees were granted to eight students in 1921. These are employed as follows: a Canadian Trade Commissioner, a medical doctor, a business man, two University Professors, Superintendent of an Experimental Farm, a Poultry Commissioner, the wife of a prominent political leader. During the year 1937, twenty-two men and women were granted the degree of B.S.A. or M.S.A. The whereabouts of one of this number is unknown, but all the rest are either suitably employed or are continuing their studies. It is interesting to note that the year 1937 was one of the best in our history from the point of view of employment for students, and that 1938 promises to be equally satisfactory. With few exceptions the graduates are employed in Agricultural or in business and professions related to Agriculture. During the last twenty years the demands for men have been increasing in the scientific, professional and business fields, and consequently, with only a limited number of graduates available each year, a smaller percentage of the total number turn to primary production than was the case during the early part of the century. In a general way, about one-third of the graduates go into business, one-third to the professions, and one-third to farming and related pursuits. While important contributions have been made by the graduates to the agricultural leadership of the province, mainly through District Agriculturists and Horticulturists, teachers and representatives of business firms, we should not overlook the direct contributions made by research. Seed selection and improvement, and the de- Department of Agronomy; the study of feeding and breeding in the Department of Animal Husbandry; plant nutrition and seed testing in the Department of Horticulture; breeding and selecting and work with fish oils in the Department of Poultry Husbandry; all are of international importance. The contributions to the halibut fishing industry, the paper industry and the cheese industry are outstanding from the Department of Dairying. These are contributions to industry that assist in making possible progressive development of the natural resources of the province. The service work is in some respects quite exacting. The Faculty receives, by letter, from five to six thousand questions a year. Some of these can be answered quickly, others require some study of the literature. Many samples of milk, scores of soil samples, and hundreds of poultry are sent to the Faculty annually for examination and diagnosis, as well as many samples of various malformations, diseases, weeds, and so forth, in which people are interested. These samples are all examined and replies given as quickly as possible. The crowding in the Faculty occurs mainly in the laboratories and is confined largely to students of the Third and Fourth Years. Student laboratories in the various departments are today providing for about- double the number of students they were intended to accommodate. In one case three times the number of students for which the laboratory was built are being accommodated, and in two departments the laboratories are never idle, the students being looked after by junior assistants while the Professor continues his regular duties. The original seven students and those who followed in the rapidly succeeding years, established the tradition of unity, co-operation, honor and scholarship that is now the pride of the Faculty. (15) • Dr. Temperley's incunabulum JOHN RIDINGTON TJNTIL recent years incunabula—books that are valuable merely on account of their age—had to have an imprint before 1500. The Mazarin Bible, the first book printed from movable type, was printed in 1455, and Fust and Schoffer's Mains Psalter two years later. Libraries at all times have had a desire to have early specimens of "the art preservative of all arts", and many of them have gathered together collections of representative books tracing the development from the earliest use of movable types right down to the present day. In Canada, McGill has such a collection, as has also our neighboring university at Seattle. In less than four centuries all the processes of printing and publishing have been revolutionized past belief. Type was then cast by hand, and an expert workman could turn out between two and three thousand characters a day. Now, Mergenthaler linotypes cast more pages of type in an hour than a century ago an expert compositor could set lines in a day, while modern presses can run off in an hour more impressions than a primitive hand-press could print in a year. The subsidiary arts of bookbinding and of illustration show similar progress, alike in beauty and accuracy, in efficiency and speed. Modern machinery will bind, tool, and letter thousands of volumes in an hour, while the marvellous developments in photographic transmission enable a reader, while awaiting the summons to dinner, to see the pictorial reproduction of incidents that occurred this morning across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. These mechanical and scientific developments seem, however, but to stimulate and emphasize the interest taken in very old books, and it is the ambition of every library to possess some representative samples of early bookmaking. This desire is so general that there has been a disposition in recent years to extend the date of imprint for recognized incunabula. The increasing demand for this type of book material, together with the relatively very small amount available, has set the present deadline at 1525—and the probability is that twenty or thirty years hence anything issued in the first century of the history of printing will be accepted as valuable on account of its age. Until recently the Library in the University did not own a volume with a fourteen hundred imprint. The earliest bore the date of 1509, and the next oldest that of 1515. Recently, however, it has received as a gift a volume that, on the strictest interpretation, must be regarded as a genuine incunabulum, for it bears the date 1491. Moreover, this particular book is of great rarity, and much prized by collectors. A hundred and thirty years ago—in 1810 to be exact—a copy was offered for sale in London, and was marked in the catalogue "Editio Rariss". Brunet, one of the earliest and still one of the greatest of bibliog raphers, marked the book as "of very great rarity" in his edition of 1863. The book is Seneca's Tragedy of Hercules Furens, and is the first of the editions of the works of that dramatist to be printed. The date is 1491, and the printers, Anthonius Lambillon and Marinus Sarazin, were one of the earliest printing firms of France. Though many copies were issued from the Lambillon and Sarazin press at Lyons after 1491, the printing of the particular edition bearing that date was very small. Probably there are not half a dozen copies in the world today. The pedigree of the volume now owned by the University is well established. It came into the hands of Minor Canon Johnson after the Ford sale of 1810, ultimately passing into the possession of the firm of David, a well-known antiquarian English bookseller, from whom it was bought by the donor. The book itself is a really fine specimen of early printing. The typography is as sharp and brilliant as in the very best of the incunabula. It is printed from a beautiful font of type, the text of the Tragedy being in larger type, and surrounded by historical, classical, and literary comment in a smaller font. The text is beautifully spaced, and symmetrically designed. One can open the volume at any page, and the typographical impression given by the format is artistic and satisfying. The paper is weathered to a beautiful cream, and is not anywhere defaced by usage or water stains. What is even more unusual, examination of the volume does not reveal a single case in which the typography is "fat" —an excess of ink that has run into, and blurred the page. The title page and the first two pages were missing, and the hinge of one cover weak. It was therefore forwarded to the firm of Stevens & Brown in London for (16) renovation. Too much praise cannot be given for the way in which this has been done. The volume was carefully collated with the unique copy in the British Museum, and permission was received to photograph the lacking pages, which have been bound into the book, so that it is now actually complete. The volume has no index. Perhaps one was intended to be included, because the last page has the word "Registrum" with a note of interrogation thereafter, as though Lambillon and Sarazin had expected one to be supplied. The only title is Tragediae Senecae cum Commento". The date of imprint and other details usual in a modern title page are put in a colophon at the end of the book, which also has the typographical symbol of the printers—an upright oblong, the lower two-thirds of which is a circle, divided into quadrants with the initials (above) "A.L.", and in the lower half "M.S." The upright line intersecting the upper quadrants is extended to the top of the oblong, with a double cross. It is of interest to note that the date of publication—1491—was exactly three hundred years before Vancouver saw the shores of British Columbia and Nootka Sound. For this interesting and valuable gift the Library is indebted to Dr. Harold Tem- perley of Cambridge University. Two years ago he was a visitor on the Campus and was brought to the Library by President Klinck. Dr. Temperley was greatly interested in the things he saw, and had a long and interesting discussion with the Librarian. Before going away, Dr. Temperley said he would have pleasure in sending along some little souvenir of a pleasant morning, and on his return to England a year later, forwarded the volume, suitably inscribed to "the Library of Vancouver University". In the letter accompanying the gift, Dr. Temperley noted that he had presented another incunabulum to the Library of Capetown University. The date of this was 1498—the year in which Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope. One of the difficulties of a library established in these modern days is that possessions which almost automatically came to ancient institutions have now to be bought, if they are acquired at all, and at great prices, unless they are received as gifts from interested friends. There are a hundred libraries in Europe that have bibliographical treasures which the University of British Columbia cannot hope to acquire. The difficulty becomes even greater when an institution is not only young, but poor. There are many libraries in America that have the means to go into the market and buy required or desired material, ancient or modern, irrespective of its price, but, unfortunately, this University is not one of them. For this reason we appreciate all the more the kindness of friends who from time to time make gifts as appreciated and valuable as is that discussed in this article. Dr. Temperley is himself one of the most distinguished of English historical scholars. He is University Professor of modern history at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He served during the War in the Dardanelles Expedition, and was promoted to the general staff. He is one of the foremost authorities on the Near East, having served as attache to Serbia, and was the British representative on the Albanian Frontiers Commission. With the equally well-known Dr. Gooch, he is editor of the British Documents on Origins of the War (11 volumes), and a dozen other books of authoritative research. He has been President of the International Historical Congress since 1933, and of the Historical Manuscripts Commission since 1928. Rou- mania conferred on him the Order of the Crown, and Serbia that of the White Eagle. Hungary, Roumania and Czechoslovakia have each conferred on him high distinctions. There are several interesting connections between the University of British Columbia and the great English University at Cambridge. Our first President, Dr. F. F. Wesbrook, was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius: Dr. Ashton, the original Head of the Department of Modern Languages, was likewise a Gonville and Caius man. Several of his distinguished colleagues in Cambridge, upon hearing of the appointment of Dr. Wesbrook to the presidency of this University, presented to him a commemorative volume on anatomy. This was Godfrey Bidloo's Anatomia Humani Corporis, published in Amsterdam in 1685. Included among the ten friends of our first President who autographed the gift are the names of Sir C. S. Sherrington, Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr. Noel Paton, and Sir Willia- Osier. °^o (17) annual antic hey hey MYRTLE BEATTY A YE, and it was a dark and stormy ■^- night—but little effect did the snow and ice have on the size and spirits of the record-breaking crowd that gathered at the Commodore on the night of Dec. 27 for the Annual Reunion Dance. After this dance there was no doubt left that this Alumni get-together is the most popular affair of its kind in the winter program of fun. Everybody was there this year. We saw classmates with whom we hadn't chatted since the day we graduated, away back when. A lot of our favorite professors were there, too, to add to the general exchange of news and hello's which played such an important part in the evening's enjoyment. During an early intermission Milt Owen read out the Matrimonial News for the past year. A little later Dr. Seth Buchanan was called to the platform in his capacity of Sunday School Superintendent to distribute the prizes which were hanging on a huge and beautifully decorated Christmas Tree. With a few well-chosen words Dr. Buchanan presented the following prizes to good little alumni who had brought glory to their Alma Mater by their achievements in different realms of endeavor: Temple Keeling won the prize for being the most faithful husband (much to Dean Buchanan's annoyance) ; on receiving his present for having the largest family, Frank Rush shouted frantically into the microphone, "It's a lie, folks"; Sherwood Lett received a gorgeous teddy- bear for having the most public spirit, while John Burnett won the award for taking the most public spirit. After the prize-giving Al Bickell took the floor to give some of the news items of the day, and then started us singing some of the old University songs. This part of the program came to a noisy finish with the inevitable "We are, we are, we are the Engineers" followed by lusty "boos" from the Artsmen. And so, after another hour or two of dancing, to bed. See you next year at the Reunion Dance. auld lang syne ROBERT H. KING Ti/rOTION pictures of the U. B. C. contingent leaving for France in 1916, of the first congregation of the University, and of the "On to Point Grey" campaign and parade in 1922 brought back fond recollections to a loyal audience of "Old Grads" as annual Homecoming Theatre Night provided a fitting climax to a day and two nights of festivities, Oct. 29 and 30, 1937. Graduates and undergraduates alike thrilled to the splendid exhibition of co-operative spirit shown by the students of '22, and there were tears welling in the eyes of some as they recognized faces in the passing parade of U. B. C. There was a significant tenseness in the silence as a transcription of the "Varsity Time" radio dramatization of U. B. C.'s historical highlights was played, and graduates were young again as they softly whistled accompaniment to the quartet singing Varsity songs. The spirit of '22 lived again on the campus that Saturday night, (18) for the transcription received a spontaneous ovation which must have thrilled even the most prosaic sophomore of today. Milton Owen, newly-elected president of the Alumni Association, warmly expressed the mixed feelings of joy and sadness with which the 400 graduates returned to their Alma Mater for a day, and introduced three other former A. M. S. presidents: Sherwood Lett, John Oliver, and William Whimster. Owen dramatically conducted the traditional alumni roll-call, graduates representing all classes from 1916 to 1937 standing as their year was called. Dramatic entertainment, light in texture, was delicately handled by undergraduate members of the Players' Club and Musical Society, while Dorwin Baird gave continuity to the evening's program in his capacity as master of ceremonies, providing a well-organized running commentary to the silent films. Informal reunion dinners in the "Caf" filled the gap for some between the afternoon games in the new Stadium and Theatre Night, while others found diversion at the tea dance in the Gym. Both English and Canadian rugby teams thrilled their audience with wins that day, the latter gaining their second victory in four years over a prairie team. A student "Rugby Rally" at the Palomar, Friday evening, was well- patronized by alumni, who found an opportunity there to get in the college mood for the next day's festivities; many of them coming over to the dance at the conclusion of the Alumni Association's annual banquet in Spencer's dining room that evening. For some, the celebration did not end with the final curtain on Saturday night, but all who thrilled to the films and roll-call were touched on their homeward way with just a little of that profound sentiment which is the sacred privilege of "Old Grads" throughout the world. alumni players' club JAMES GIBSON A T the moment of going to press, rehearsals are in full swing for the Alumni Players' Club fifth annual graduation play. To mark the centenary of the London premiere of one of the favorite plays of last century, the Alumni has chosen "The Lady of Lyons" by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. The production will be after the manner of the London theatre of 1838, and it is expected that this gentle melodrama, played with all the sincerity which first delighted fashionable audiences at Covent Garden, will have an unusual dramatic appeal to graduate audiences. Principal parts will be played by Diana Drabble, Josephine Henning, and Elizabeth Jack; and by Cyril Chave, Judson Kirby, William Rose, Richard Harris and Edward Chamberlain. Players' Club alumni have had a season of unusual interest. In June, 1937, a select committee was set up to investigate future acting possibilities, and at a first meeting, Oct. 30, it was determined to produce a three-act play. On the recommendation of the play- policy committee, and in keeping with the theory that what was needed was something "stark, honest, gripping, adult, but with plenty of laughs and a little hokum", the club went Hollywood and produced, privately in the University Theatre, Jan. 15, the much- publicized "Boy Meets Girl" of Samuel and Bella Spewack. Casting was fun enough, rehearsals brought to light much unexpected talent, (as when one Alumnus played seven different roles in one evening—we have it on authority he appeared in every part, male and female, before the dress rehearsal), and the final performance attracted a (19) near-capacity audience to Point Grey. Backstage observers were much taken by the antics of the team of Benson and Law. In their own words, they were not writers, but hacks; but the lately-discovered Wilmer Hag- gerty (in undergraduate days he was a technical member) and the veteran and perennially youthful William Rose set a fast pace and a lively tone for the whole performance. The girl was played by Dorothy McKelvie Fowler (costumes and all); the boy by Douglas Brown (who, both in the play and in real life was/has been a Cambridge undergraduate). Of the other seasoned troupers, we had a full-blown sub- western star in Judson Kirby and a very hard-worked, not very-hard-boiled (i.e., Harvard '19) producer played by David MacDonald; a tempestuous song-writer played by Jack Emerson, who became so violent that he invented lines as he went along; and an anonymous young man (who actually missed the cue for his single line at the dress rehearsal but who had a great moment of solitary glory the next night) played by Arthur Lord. Two husbands and two wives (Richard and Ellen Harris and Cyril and Estelle Chave) shared roles as diverse as a sceptical doctor, a much- maligned private secretary, a studio officer (something less than a detective but more than a bouncer) and a nurse. To complete the cast, and with a variety of talent, were Eleanor Riggs, Marv McGeer, James Gibson, Geoffrey'Woodward and W. H. (old Q.) Cameron. The club was fortunate to have Mrs. Hunter Lewis to direct, and Mrs. F. G. C. Wood gave valuable assistance. In charge of scenery—a striking study in apple green, black and chromium, were Frank Pumphrey, John F. Davidson, and an expert crew from the Players' Club headed by William Johnson, James Fields and John Quigg. Alfreda Thompson supervised the costumes, Hazel Merten the properties, Margaret Ecker took charge of publicity, and Secretary Marjorie Griffin took over the front-of-the-house duties. Lighting was under David MacDonald and the beneficent eyes of the University Electrician and the Fire Chief. (If the Fire Chief laughs, by the way, the show must be good). The Treasurer astounded his colleagues by recruiting a force of "undercover men" from University Hill with utmost alacrity. On the final night they folded programs, manned the projection room which didn't project, shifted scenery and finally helped to count the collection. After the performance Mrs. Harris graciously loaned her home for a party. Early in the session .there had been another party at which Mrs. James McGeer and Miss Mary McGeer were hostesses. Professor F. G. C. Wood is honorary president of the Players' Club Alumni; the executive comprises Cyril Chave, president; Douglas Brown, vice-president; Marjorie Griffin, secretary; James Gibson, treasurer, and Wilmer Haggerty. THE UNIVERSITY FOREST THE older "grads" will hardly recognize the University Forest, now that extensive improvements have been made. Formerly the 235-acre strip of woods along Marine Drive was a tangled mass of wild growth, windfalls and brush, but for the past two years relief labour under the Government's Forest Development Project has been at work on silvicultural improvements in this area. Sixty to eighty men, working for a period of from four to five months each winter, have cleaned up the windfalls, dead snags, and brush in the entire strip immediately along Marine Drive. Thirty-two acres have been planted with approximately thirty-five thousand Douglas fir, spruce and white pine trees. trails have been improved and swamp areas drained. Rustic benches have replaced the old logs where students were wont to eat lunch on sunny days or study. The Forest is an outdoor laboratory for students in the Departments of Forestry, Botany and Zoology and in time will be a valuable demonstration to the public in the management of a forest area for sustained yield. (20) new curricula in forestry FORESTRY in British Columbia is a comparatively recent profession but it is expanding steadily and is requiring more and more the services of specialists who are thoroughly trained in various branches of science, engineering and economics. To prepare young men better for this growing profession, the Forestry curriculum at U. B. C. was revised and enlarged last year. Graduates and other readers of the Alumni Chronicle will be interested to know the reasons for, and the nature of, these changes. When the Department of Forestry at U. B. C. was started, and the first courses given during the 1921-22 Session, the demand for foresters in {he province was mainly in connection with forest exploitation. The positions available were in timber-survey work, cruising, and the development of forest properties so that the timber growing on rough and difficult topography could be logged as cheaply as possible. At this stage of development, forest engineers were necessary and an engineering training desirable. As a result, the Forestry curriculum, as originally formulated, was a combination of forestry and civil engineering together with subjects in other branches of engineering most useful to the forester engaged in the harvesting of the forest resource. For sixteen years no basic changes were made in this curriculum. • In the meantime the opportunities for forestry graduates were expanding and changing. Forest engineering is still an important phase of forestry but it is not the only field open to Forestry graduates. More and more the attention of foresters will be focused on the management of forests for a sustained production of the products upon which so large a proportion of the people of this province depend for a livelihood. For this large and diversified task, experts with different types of training are required. Men are needed in silviculture, in mensuration and management, in protection, in forest economics and administration, and in utilization, including not only the harvesting of the mature timber and the development of markets for the present products but also for the discovery of new uses for woods which are now considered of little value. The field is very large, and the opportunities are increasing as new and better methods are developed. To meet the demands of an expanding profession, new curricula were inaugurated in the 193.7-38 Session. Four avenues of approach are now open to students who wish to enter Forestry, namely: through broad training in any one of the curricula in Botany, Commerce, Economics, or Engineering. In all four options, one or two pre-technical forestry subjects are taken in common in each pf the Second, Third and Fourth years. Students will start some of their forestry subjects as early as the Second year instead of waiting until the Fourth year, which has been the case previously. Students from all options merge in the final year for intensive work in Forestry subjects only. The new curricula have the advantage of flexibility in that they allow the student to select an aspect of Forestry, and a corresponding field of study, to which he is attracted and for which he may be specially adapted. Thus, a varied but thorough course of studies prepares the student to enter the widely diversified forestry activities of the province or of the continent, or to undertake graduate work in the field of his undergraduate preparation, or in a specialized field of Forestry. THIS IS CRICKET THE first venture of U. B. C. into local cricket competition, which is being undertaken this summer, is one in which it is hoped members of the Alumni Association will play a large part. The U. B. C. Cricket Club, now an officially recognized campus unit, has entered a team in the first division of the Mainland League this summer, with matches starting April 30th. Since the constitution of the club provides for the inclusion of graduates as well as undergraduates in such a team, the executive are fortunate in having this opportunity to acquaint Alumni members with the formation of the club, and inviting those interested in cricket to co-operate in the scheme. Subscription rates have been set at $5 per season, or, for members playing less than 50 per cent of scheduled matches, $2.50. Members of the Alumni Association keen to play are urged to contact any one of the following: Dave Carey, 2825 S. W. Marine Drive, Vancouver; Kerr. 3148. Dr. Harry Warren, 4634 West Tenth, Vancouver; Ell. 946-L. Basil Robinson, 3915 W. 34th, Vancouver; Kerr. 3636-R. (21) letters to the editor On board the R.M.S. "Apapa", January 9, 1938. Dear Mr., Mrs., or Miss Editor: Just a note to tell you in gossip that if you can wait until the end of May I could send you a bit of cheer about British West Africa, which I am visiting until about April 23. But if you can't wait I can say now that, after being hailed by Mr. and Mrs. David Brock in the Piccadilly Tube Station, and being told that Mr. and Mrs. Brit Brock (Sc. and Arts '26) were returning to Rhodesia today, I left for Liverpool on January 5 and bumped into (literally) John Farrington (Sc. '28) who is now married to a charming lady from Natal, and is on the same boat on his way to the Gold Coast. He saw Hec. Munro (Arts '27) in South Africa and I saw him last Monday in London. John F. also talked of Ear' Gillanders and others in South Africa. I get off at Bathurst, Gambia, where I expect to see Ron Gratton (Arts '27) now married. I proceed later to Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and Nigeria, and in the last-named colony, expect to see Bill Phillips (Sc. '26). So, once again, it is a small world for U.B.C. folk! On second thoughts I find I've done my chat, so I won't bother about the economy, etc., of B. W. Africa. Best regards to all. LES BROWN (Arts '28). P.S.—My address is still Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London S. W. 1. (Editor's Note: The following is a letter received from Alice Weaver Hemming (Arts '25), which we cannot resist quoting in its entirety, since it breathes so much of Alice's own wit, freshness and vitality). London, March 15, 1938. Thank you so much for paying me the compliment of asking me to write a London letter. You say it is rather urgent, so, as the "Queen Mary" sails tomorrow, I shall rush this off by this evening's post. The newest recruit to the U. B. C. colony in London in my own sphere of interest is Mrs. Laugharne (pronounced, in true English fashion, "Larn"), who was dear to us all in the old days as Grace Smith of Arts '25. Grace looks very pretty with her hair taken straight back in almost Oriental simplicity, and her ever-active brain is as full of ideas as ever. She and her husband and their baby girl (just learned to walk and very proud of the fact) have come to live in London from Japan. They have settled in a maisonette (two- storey apartment) near Kensington Gardens, and Grace is full of schemes for promoting a knowledge of Canada in England and vice versa through University Graduates' Chronicles, so beware. She is actually seeing Mr. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner, next week about her excellent scheme. From her I learnt that Jean Davidson (Arts '21) is here for a year as an exchange teacher and finds the whole thing fascinating; and that Mary Harvey (Arts '25) is secretary to the head of a business organization here and likes it so much that she never wants to go home. She met Grace Laugharne in Japan some years ago, and then made a most remarkable trip from Japan to India, which she crossed by rail; then she took a boat up the Persian Gulf and a motor conveyance (I know the sort, like those wobbly old lorries we met in Africa) over the desert (with many Ethel M. Dell-like experiences, I hear) to the Suez Canal, and so across Europe to London. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Prentice (Pearl Stewart '23) passed through London on a business trip to France, and Suzanne Jackson is enjoying her year as exchange teacher. One evening Beattie McLean (Arts '28). who is also here on exchange, and whom we see quite often, came in with Cedric Duncan (Arts '25), who takes his holidays from chartered accountancy in the winter time and travels—this time to England instead of to his beloved Tahiti. No use telling you that Tom Brown and his bride came to see us just after their wedding, because they're back in Vancouver now and they can tell you about that themselves. Sometimes I see Sidney Risk at First Nights. He is always full of mysterious activity vaguely connected with the theatre. And then there's Laurence Meredith, who came to my Christmas Tree party and who is a star turn for United Press here. He would have been Santa Claus at the party only Arthur Johnston, the Rhodes Scholar, had done it so successfully the year before that I hated to do him out of his job. Arthur wasn't so good this year, though. When Santa Claus handed my small daughter (not so small, aged six) her present, she said, quite innocently: "Thank you, Arthur". It was quite a shock, but we pretended not to notice. Ruth and Les Brown don't live so very far from me and we see each other quite often. Ruth (who was Ruth Fraser, '26) (22) sometimes brings her little boy and girl to tea with my two and we take them across Regents Park from my house to the Zoo. That's what we of the older generation have come to! Les, whom I once got in a class draw (Arts '28, of course) is a flourishing Assistant Trade Commissioner, and has been sent to West Africa at the moment to show them. I (Alice Weaver, if you like) can't believe it myself, but I have become club woman enough to look after the hostesses at the Canadian Women's Club here, and that's where I see Mrs. Douglas Roe and other oldtimers in London. The said Club gave a whale of a Coronation Tea Dance last year, by the way. I mention it because there were 1200 Canadians present, and someone had the temerity to ask if there were any left in Canada! I have actually found myself a little niche in Fleet Street as Girl Friday to the Marquess of Donegall, who writes a page every week in the Sunday Dispatch about everybody and everything. It's a peach of a job with plenty of free time and plenty of "perks" (in the form of amusing first nights, night club openings, and free meals —also swarms of most awe-inspiring people to rub elbows with). But then, I'm one of those horrible people who always gets a kick out ot everything, so you can't trust my judgment. There was a sailboat on the Daimation Coast last summer, for instance, and the decorating of my house, and the proposed trip to Egypt. I am such a confirmed enthusiast that you simply can't trust me. But do let me say that from this distance it seems to me you all have an awful cheek to expect the ratepayers to pay more taxes and aid you still more with a higher education that is already amazingly cheap as it is. It seems to me that with all the initiative the youth of British Columbia possesses it could easily raise the extra $25 in fees if it wanted to badly enough. But if there is overcrowding, for goodness' sake make the entrance exams a bit stiffer and the standard higher. You can always do with it. Even the greatest optimist will admit that in his day, no matter when that may have been, there were a good many of us who weren't the finest examples of serious-minded students. There, take that! If you don't like any or all of this letter, do please ditch it. In the meantime my enthusiasm still belongs largely to U. B. C. ALICE HEMMING. GRADUATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UNDER the general title "Nationalism in the Far East", the Graduate Historical Society of the University of British Columbia heard papers on conditions in the Orient during the 1937-3S season. The program, in detail, was as follows: "Orientals in British Columbia", Mr. Chas. Woodsworth. "The Evolution of the Kuomintang", Mr. V. Hill. "Conflict of National Policies in Manchuria", Mr. Robt. McKenzie. "Siam", Miss Helen Ferguson. "The Phillipines", Miss Rose Whelan. "Conflict of Religions as a Barrier to Indian National Unity", Miss M. Root. "The Decline of the British Raj", M~ F. Hardwick. With the exception of the first paper bv Mr. Chas. Woodsworth, all papers were given by members of the Society. The Annual Banquet, held in David Spencer's Dining Room on March 5th, was the occasion of a brilliant address by Professor Henry F. Angus on "Canada and the Pacific". All papers have been of exceptional interest and followed by lively discussions by the members of the society. SOCIAL SERVICE ALUMNI CLUB THE Social Service Alumni Club was formed in the fall of 1934 by a group of the Social Service graduates who wished to continue their interest in University affairs, especially those pertaining to their own field. All graduates holding diplomas in Social Service from this and other Universities were invited to join. The group planned to study and discuss the Social Service course given at the University with a view to offering suggestions as to how it could be made more valuable. The objects are to maintain high professional standards in the course and to further professional developments of the members. In the seven years that the course has been given, there have been seventy-one receiving diplomas and the majority are engaged in work in the public and private agencies of British Columbia. (23) TORONTO BRANCH THE first meeting of the season took the form of a dinner at Hunt's Bloor and Yonge Street Restaurant on Thursday, October 28, 1937. The following Executive was elected: President, Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron. Honorary President, Mrs. D. R. Michener. Secretary-Treasurer, Emma Wilson. Committee: Margaret Stewart, Cecilia Long, Dr. Clare Horwood, Stuart Keate. Members were reminded that the Executive will forward Alumni fees at any time. Brief and entertaining speeches speeches were given by Mr. J. W. Bishop and Mr. Stuart Keate. The next function was a tea at Haddon Hall on Sunday, December 5. On this occasion, Mrs. Michener extended a cordial invitation to the members of the Alumni Association to attend a tea at her home on Sunday, January 23. The Association is again co-operating with the Toronto Alumni of the Universities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in their annual dance which is being held at the King Edward Hotel on Thursday, March 10. The year's activities will probably be rounded off with a luncheon sometime in April, but plans for this are merely tenta^ tive, depending on the wishes of the Executive at the next meeting. VICTORIA BRANCH AT the conclusion of a second successful year the Victoria Alumni feel that the effort to organize a Victoria Branch of the University Alumni Association has been very worth-while. One of the most gratifying results has been the opportunity given Alumni to meet or become better acquainted with other graduates of this city. Many of the earlier functions had been planned with this end in view. The first meeting in the fall of 1937 was held on October 4, and took the form of a dinner at which Dr. Buchanan was guest speaker. The following officers were elected for the term 1937-38: Honorary President, Dr. H. E. Young. President, Mrs. Hazel Hodson. Vice-President, Mr. Ron Burns. Membership Secretary, Miss Jean Gilley. Recording Secretary, Miss Phoebe Riddle. Treasurer, Mr. Don Bell. Executive Committee: Miss Olive Heritage, Miss Isabella Beveridge, Mr. Harry Hickman, Dr. Allon Peebles. A real University spirit prevailed when, after Dr. Buchanan had spoken, all the guests joined in community singing. The next meeting, held November 26. took us back to our University days when we were young and a little more foolish. After a short business meeting the entire evening was devoted to various games of a lighter nature. Then to cater to a more serious mood, the guests were subjected to a good old-fashioned spelling bee. However, this too followed the theme of the evening and proved to be more entertaining than educational. Dr. Sedgwick spoke to us January 25 on "The Problem of the University, Here and Elsewhere". The book reading and study groups, planned last year, have been left until some future time since there were not enough interested to form a separate group. On March 25 a bumper meeting was held at Victoria College, at which Milt Owen and Ken Beckett, President and Secretary, respectively, of the Alumni Executive, and David Carey, President of the Alma Mater Society for 1937-38, were present and spoke on the overcrowding situation at the University and on plans for Convocation. The documentary film was shown, and altogether the meeting was most enthusiastic. MONTREAL GRADUATES in Montreal are helping to keep the financial mechanism of the Dominion in motion, though they disclaim actual responsibility for the conduct of St. James Street. George Luxton ('33), winner of the Royal Bank Scholarship, wrote a brilliant thesis for his M.A. at McGill under Stephen Leacock, and after graduation joined the foreign investments division of the Sun Life Assurance Company head office. Since January, 1937, he has been economist for the International Bond and Share Corporation and looks out from the other side of Dominion Square with as much geniality as most economists muster. A graduate of '33 in Commerce and '34 in Arts. Charles Duff Wilson, looks out over another corner of Dominion Square, to wit. from the Statistical Bureau of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's head offices. Duff transferred his activities to Montreal after an apprenticeship with the Economic Council in Victoria. Also in Montreal we used to meet Dr. John Stanley Allen, in his davlight hours Registrar and head of the Physics Department of Sir George Williams College, and after dark a power behind many of the causes against which some parts of the Padlock Act were directed. Having watched him in action as a political speaker in areas as widely separated as Orillia, Collins Bay, Kingston and West- mount, we can only conclude that public opinion has only itself to blame if it remains uninformed after some of his campaigns (24) OTTAWA SPEAKS VERNON BRANCH IN common with other Alumni groups the Ottawa group struggles on against an insidious lack of spirit or interest. Frankly, we have little reason for holding an annual reunion and, as a result, a miserable turn-out is the usual reward of all hard-working executives. Why? Are the U. B. C. Alumni without pep, pride in their Alma Mater, or the common human virtue of sociability? Are they a supine bunch of mice or are they (as they used to imagine themselves) a superior race among men? One reason for the apathy in Ottawa may be our distance from the Cairn. Varsity news comes to us only as mildly- amusing anecdotes, gleaned from a week- old Vancouver paper or retold by an itinerant grad from the Coast. This difficulty is partly inevitable—but partly due to our failure, individually, to keep in touch with the Alumni Association. The second reason for the spiritlessness of the Ottawa group is undoubtedly the lack of a common interest here. Since we represent classes as widely apart as Arts 19 and Science '36, very few of us knew each other at U. B. C. (and we've all, apparently, become so damned Eastern that we don't like to speak until we've been introduced!) However, this latter difficulty can be overcome. Every U. B. C. grad is interested in listening to some of the old (i.e., former) professors, and we intend holding impromptu luncheons if those professors who intend to come to Ottawa will only advise us a few days in advance. (Profs., please note!). And we want any active alumni who are coming through to stop off at Ottawa and give us a "refresher" course in Varsity spirit. (Attention, Sherwood Lett, Bill Murphy, John Burnett, et al!) And for the immediate future we've got an ideal common interest in the shape of a pressing obligation to pay two dollars apiece towards the Brock Memorial Fund. Nothing binds a group like a common task. In Ottawa there are fifty-odd graduates—all living in luxury off the bounty of Canada. Surely we can send in a round hundred dollars, at least, to Orson Banfield. (For details, consult your Chronicle) . We're going to try to canvass every Ottawa grad personally— and if Orson doesn't receive a hundred dollars by midsummer, you grads in Vancouver, Kimberley and Prince Rupert— yes, and even in Toronto—can assume a superiority complex. But until then, give us credit for trying. ROSS TOLMIE, President, Ottawa Branch. OFFICERS for the year 1937-38: Pres- ident, Mr. J. F. MacLean; Vice- President, Mr. F. Mutrie ; Secretary, Miss Marjorie Dimock; Treasurer, Mr. Page Robinson, (later) Mr. H. D. Pritchard. The Vernon Branch of the U. B. C. Alumni Association has a paid-up membership of 23, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. MacLean, Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Mutrie, Mrs. J. McCulIoch (Vera Sharpe), Miss Anna Fulton, Miss Marjorie Dimock, Miss Jean Adam, Mr. and Mrs. Qrev. Rowland (Kenna MacDonald), Mr. R. P. Locke, Miss Annie Bowman, Miss E. Richards, Miss Norma French, Miss Ruth Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Leech, Miss Elsie Mercer, Mr. H. D. Pritchard, Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Alexander, Mr. Page Robinson, Miss K. Robertson. Meetings have been held throughout the winter season. Our group again sponsored the University Extension Lectures. We followed, with a few minor changes, last year's plan of selling family season tickets at $1 each for the full programme of lectures. The response was good and attendance at these lectures has run from 100 to 300. We have also discussed ways and means of assisting the Alumni Association in its long-term programme of education toward a fuller appreciation of the part the University plays in the life of our province. WEST KOOTENAY BRANCH THE West Kootenay Branch of the U. B. C. Alumni Association held its annual reunion at Trail, November 13, 1937. The occasion was featured by separate banquets for the men and women members followed by a very successful dance, invitations to which were extended to non-members. The women's banquet had an attendance of 25 and the men's banquet an attendance of 34 members. A business meeting formed part of the programme at each banquet. A motion providing for the election of a President, Secretary-Treasurer and three Executive members by the men and a Vice-President and three Executive members by the women, was introduced and passed at each meeting. Election of officers for the year 1937-38 were then held in each instance. Steps are being taken to strengthen the organization and this year we are hoping to introduce another social function in the Spring, The ladies, who are very active in this branch of the association, held a tea for members on Saturday, February 26. (25) summer session C. W. MacLACHLAN T^HE Summer Session at U. B. C. was started in 1920 to enable teachers to procure their First Class Certificates and thus to raise the Academic Standards of the teaching profession in British Columbia. One of the founders was Dr. G. G. Sedgwick, and he has since done invaluable work in developing the Summer Session to its present position. At the start two problems presented themselves, these being status and finance. There were many who looked on the Summer Session as an agent for lowering the standard of the University, and they did all in their power to thwart the movement. This feeling of animosity towards the teachers was eliminated when it was found that these hard-working people, who had learned the value of money and the worth of a higher education, won very high marks in the subjects studied, marks that far outshone the marks of the Winter Session. This is no idle boast, for statistics in the Administration Office will prove the statement, and authorities make this statement to the Summer Session students each year. The next problem that had to be met was for the B.A. degree, Summer Session in connection with finance. Who was to pay for running a summer school for the teachers? The fee levied on the students was a little higher than that charged in Winter Session but Summer Session has every year shown a profit on operating costs. This balance has been declared even in the last three years when the policy- has been to bring in visiting lecturers of outstanding qualifications. A few figures will help to trace the growth of Summer Session. In 1926, the number attending was 438, and from that year to 1930 it maintained a level. In 1931 the number decreased a little, probably due to depression difficulties. The low was reached in 1933 when the attendance was 370 students. However, the next session witnessed an increase to 463. In 1936 the attendance was 562 and last session there were 671 students enrolled. It is anticipated that there will be almost 750 in the Summer Session of 1938. Another interesting fact taken from this chart is in connection with the number of graduates attending Summer Session. In 1930 there were only 49 in attendance while last year there were 183 enrolled. The future of Summer Session seems to centre around these people, many of whom have graduated from Summer Session and who have thus learned to appreciate their hard- earned education. It is not too much to anticipate the time when the University Summer Session will be completely a Graduates' School, where teachers may study for their Master's and their Doctor's degree. In the beginning teachers were forced to take preparatory reading courses on the work they planned to cover in the Summer Session. They were able to take as many as twelve units, but this number has since been reduced to six. In order to qualify students had to take a final examination covering the fields in which they majored and minored, and this proved to be a very heavy and unfair test. This was eliminated in 1926. At first, the number of subjects given in the summer was very limited, mainly Languages and English. Mathematics was given grudgingly and it was some time before any Sciences were included. There is still a very limited range in Science, but this is gradually being widened. A popular field in recent years has been in Psychology because of its special application to teaching. The Summer Session students have had a long fight to obtain a Master's Degree for Summer Session work, but in the winter of 1936 the Senate decided to grant the Master's Degree in Education. The pre requisites are a Teacher Training Course with certain credits in Education. For the Summer Session of 1938 the Senate plans to bring in several outstanding lecturers. Probably one of the most famous will be Florence Mateer, of the Psychological Service, Columbus, Ohio. In a field new to Summer Session will come William F. Redding, Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Schools, Providence, R. I. Mr. Redding is a lecturer at Brown University as well. Other visitors for the summer will be: Psychology—Frank Davis, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles. Mathematics — Prof. John Matheson, Head of the Department of Mathematics. Queen's University. History—Chester Martin, M.A., B.Litt.. LL.D., F.R.S.C, Head of the Department of History, University of Toronto. Walter Langsam, B.S., A.M., Ph.D., from Columbia. (26) • the alumni grow up KENNETH M. BECKETT T^HE relentless march of time has brought us to another in the countless collection of milestones that are forever being held up, pointed at with pride and utilized as occasions for celebrations, temperate or otherwise. In the face of that inexorable process, it is important to Alumni, if to no one else, to pause and contemplate the fact that the Alumni Association has "come of age". Two years ago the twenty-first birthday of the University was acknowledged with due ceremony. The similar achievement of the Association should at least be mentioned. On May 4, 1917, a group of graduates convened at the "shacks" in Fairview to organize an Alumni Association, and did so with despatch. The birth of this inevitable offspring of any university is contained in a 14-word minute that is a masterpiece of brevity: "Moved by Miss Peck and Mr. Wright that an Alumni. Association be formed. Carried". This is probably the shortest minute on the books of the Association. The first constitution contained nine clauses that did not fill one page; the present one has_ 18 this dance was held on March 22, 1919, in clauses and fills four pages. The first President was J. E. Mulhern. The first Honorary President was, of course. Dr. Wesbrook. The other pioneers were Miss Laura Pim and Dr. C. A. Wright, vice- presidents ; Merrill DesBrisay, secretary- treasurer; Miss Shirley Clement, recording secretary; Miss Isobel MacMillan, Miss Grace Millar, and Sherwood Lett representing Arts '16; and Evelyn Storey (Lett), John Mennie and Pat Fraser representing Arts '17. History has left its imprint indelible on the minutes of those early years. One of the first resolutions passed conferred active membership "on all graduates on active service without payment of fee". Much consideration was given to "the kind of work the Alumni might undertake". The second meeting of tfie executive heard that there were 71 active members on the rolls. The executive favored the idea of having an alumnus on Senate and decided to nominate one candidate to that body. This was later raised to three and J. E. Mulhern, Miss Pim and Miss Clement were nominated. A campaign was conducted to ensure their election. Dances were held and the money raised given to the University Red Cross fund. A committee was formed "to send parcels to the men overseas". Tea dances were given for the graduating class. Finances were a problem then as now. Membership was also a cause of worry. "Aims and objects" were the subject of several discussions. Dramatic clubs and "round table discussions" were promoted. The influenza epidemic receives due attention in the minute cancelling a "war time banquet" at which the special guests were to have been Dr. T. H. Boggs, Dr. Ashton, Dr. Sedgwick and Professor Robertson. Likewise the decision to hold a dance in February, 1919, is qualified as follows: "Owing to the ban on dancing the G. W. V. A. Hall". The campaign to move to Point Grey is noted in the minute "urging all Alumni to take petitions regarding the building of the University at Point Grey". In 1923, the Alumni went literary at a general meeting, as evidenced by the minutes: "As with 'Alice in Wonderland', the meeting then decided that 'The time has come, the Walrus said "To speak of many things ..." A pencilled notation in the margin reads "Short witty speeches were delivered on the subjects mentioned in the lines from 'Alice in Wonderland'." Lionel Stevenson was commissioned to compose an Alumni song and in due course produced a very creditable effort to the tune of "Riding Down to Bangor". The words, lost for some years, were rediscovered recently. Space does not permit more than mention of those who have held the Presidency during the past 21 years: 1917—J. E. Mulhern. 1918—Merrill DesBrisay. 1919—Sherwood Lett. 1920—John Allardyce. 1921—J. F. G. Letson. 1922—John Allardyce. 1923—Gordon Scott. 1924— Sherwood Lett. 192S—Arthur E. Lord. 1926—Jack Grant. 1927—Sherwood Lett. 1928—Lyle Atkinson. 1929—Paul N. Whitley. 1930—H. Bert Smith. 1931—William Murphv. 1932—John C. Oliver. 1933—John C. Oliver. 1934—John N. Burnett. 193S—John N. Burnett. 1936—Thomas E. H. Ellis. 1937—D. Milton Owen. (27) Jto ifflemnriam CHARLES LIONEL BACKLER, B.A., '35. Killed in Spanish Civil War, January, 1938. HERBERT J. R. BREMNER, B.A., '36. Killed in accident at Britannia Mines, summer of 1937. ROLFE M. FORSYTHE, B.S.A.'32, M.S.A. '33. Died January, 1938. DR. WILLIAM ERNEST GRAHAM, Sc. '23. Died at Ottawa, December 25, 1937. MARY EMILY HANNING, B.A. '34. Died at Tranquille, February, 1938. REV. E. A. HENRY, member of Convocation. Died April, 1938. TOSHIO KAJIYAMA, B.A. '29, M.D. (Toronto). Lieutenant-Surgeon in Japanese Army. Killed in military service in North China, October, 1937. WALLACE T. MUIR, B.A. '32. Died November, 1937. ROBERT LEDINGHAM McLARTY, B.A., '31. Died April 28, 1938. JEAN REID, B.A., '37. Died in Vancouver, August, 1937. MRS. SIDNEY TRUST, B.A. '27. (Nee Ida S. Porter). Died February, 1938. TAKAJI UYEDA, B.S.A. '33, M.S.A. '34. Died in Japan, 1936. (28) DR. W. E. GRAHAM (GRADUATES will learn with re- ^"^ gret of the death on Christmas Day, after a brief illness, of Dr. William Ernest Graham, in charge of the Leather Research Laboratory of the National Research Council, Ottawa. He leaves a wife, and two daughters aged six and two years. Dr. Graham was born in Napinka, Manitoba, in 1899. In his first year as an. undergraduate he was awarded the proficiency scholarship and this was the beginning of a brilliant University record. He graduated in 1923 with the degree of B.Sc. in chemical engineering, then became instructor in the Department of Chemistry, receiving the degree of M.A.Sc. in 1925, having carried out a research on the catalytic preparation of ether from ethyl alcohol by means of aluminium oxide. He then continued his post-graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where for three years he was demonstrator in electro-chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, during which period he held a National Research Council Bursary. In 1928 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for his investigations on the relations between current voltage and the length of carbon arcs. From 1928 to 1930 he held a fellowship at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa., where he carried out investigations on the weighting of silk by means of metallic salts. In August, 1930, Dr. Graham was appointed to the staff of the Division of Chemistry of the National Research Council at Ottawa, and placed in charge of the equipping of the newly formed Leather Research Laboratory of the Council and the supervision of its work. During the past seven years he carried out a large number of investigations in the field of the technology of leather and tanning, and was the author of numerous memoranda, bulletins, reviews and reports on such varied subjects as quality standards for leather goods, the economic possibilities of Canadian raw materials, the utilization of waste leather, chrome leather and scrap and hide fleshings, instructions for small-scale tanning for rural communities, as well as numerous reports on market conditions in the leather trades. He was responsible for equipping the Leather Research Laboratory. In spite of the large amount of consulting work handled by Dr. Graham, he nevertheless found time to accomplish much valuable fundamental work on the chemistry of Canadian tanning materials, particularly spruce and hemlock bark and sumac leaves, as well as on the physical and chemical properties of leather, fat liquoring, bating, antiseptics and shoe cements. At the time of his death the Leather Research Laboratory of the Council had demonstrated its usefulness to the Canadian trade and the importance of its work was being actively realized. During college days "Bill" was active in student affairs. He took a keen interest in debates, was Vice- President of the Literary and Scientific Department, President of the Chemical Society and President of his class during his last year. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the University of British Columbia Alumni Group in Ottawa. (29) u b c at oxford JAMES GIBSON Tj* LECTION of David Carey as thirty-fifth Rhodes Scholar from British Columbia suggests a review of the Colleges of Oxford to which his predecessors have gone. In section 28 of his will, Cecil Rhodes expressed his desire "that the scholars holding the scholarships shall be distributed amongst the Colleges of the University of Oxford and not resort in undue numbers to one or more colleges only". British Columbia's scholars in fact have been spaced about among thirteen of the foundations. Seven have gone to St. John's, five to Queen's, and four to Brasenose. Two of the earliest scholars went to Exeter: Carey will make a third, reviving this connection after a space of 28 years. University and Trinity also have had three, and Balliol, Magdalen and Hertford two each. The remaining scholars have gone to New College, Lincoln, Corpus Christi, and Jesus. Of U. B. C. graduates at Oxford in the last five years, other than Rhodes Scholars, W. H. Q. Cameron was at University, William Gibson at New College, Jack Ruttan at St. John's, and Don McTavish at Lincoln. Of present members of the faculty, nine have Oxford connections. Mr. Angus and Dr. Sage were at Balliol, Mr. Cooke and Dr. Warren at Queen's, Mr. Soward and Mr. Gibson at New College, Mr. Larsen at Exeter, Mr. Brand at Jesus, and Dr. Evans at Jesus. Two former Rhodes Scholars from this province who are now members of the Board of Governors (Mr. J. B. Clearihue, K.C, and Colonel Sherwood Lett, M.C.) were at Jesus and Trinity, respectively. Oxonians are also represented on Senate, as Major H. Cuthbert Holmes was at Balliol, and Colonel H. T. Logan began the "tradition" at St. John's which has been happily continued. After a year as junior research fellow in the Montreal Neurological Institute, William Gibson '33, went to Oxford as departmental demonstrator in histology. He was actually at work at Santander, Spain, when hostilities (30) broke out in July, 1936, escaping aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma. After a holiday in Canada, during which he received the degree of M.Sc. from McGill, he returned to Oxford. He has since done clinical work in neurophysiology in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and all of the Scandinavian countries. Last summer on a grant from the Christopher Welch trustees, he made a survey in Russia of clinical treatment in nervous diseases. His thesis on "Degeneration and Regeneration in the Central Nervous System" has been accepted for the D.Phil, degree at Oxford. After two years at St. John's College, Jack Ruttan, '33, returned to Victoria where he has been practicing law. His recent visits to the campus have been in the number 10 sweater of the Victoria Crimson Tide. In the celebrated Invasion game at Victoria, his was one of the few numbers discernible by the end of hostilities. Larry Jack, '32, Rhodes Scholar in 1933, has been in Ottawa the past year, first on the research staff of the Bank of Canada, and latterly with the headquarters staff of the Rowell Commission. During the academic year 1936- 1937 he filled what he called "the settee of economics" at Olivet College, Michigan. We hear he contemplates a magnum opus on Canadian public finance. Pat McTaggart-Cowan, '33, after leaving Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was assigned to a post at Croydon Airport for four months before returning to Canada. Since January, 1937, he has worked for the Meteorological Service of Canada, spending the winters in Toronto and the summers in Newfoundland forecasting weather for the trans-Atlantic air services. One of his best stories concerns a badminton tournament at Preston, Ontario, where, having vanquished all comers, he was unembarrassed to find that every light in the building was turned out while the cup presentation took place. MARRIAGES Billie Watson to George MacDonald. Jean Macintosh to Hugh Farquhar. Louise Kerr ('33) to George Pellatt. Betty McKenzie ('30) to Ted Hay ('30) in May, 1937. They are now living in Toronto. Helen Fairley ('33) to Art Morton (Sc. '33). They are living at Oliver. Constance Baird ('37) to Leslie Barber 037). Betty Marlatt to Bill Morrison. They are living in Seattle. Alice Wilson ('34) to Angus McPhee. Beatrice Cooke (Arts '34) to Arthur K. ("Biff") McLeod (Arts '34). Mary Gates of Seattle to John Ashby. Lois Tourtelotte to Alex. Fisher. Eveline Hebb to Lawrence Killam. Dorothy Allan (Arts '33) to R. Kendall Mercer (Arts '34). Margaret Sanris to Charles Brazier. Laura Mowatt to C. H. Ker Cooper. Married in Singapore. Audrey Rolston (Arts '33) to E. L. Hartley. Molly Eakins (Arts '35) to R. S. ("Bob") McDonald (Arts '34). Audrey Robarts to George Standish Armstrong. John H. R. Larson to Ekje de Ridden Janet Davidson to William Henry Pat- more ('35). Jeanette Dickey to Graydon Ford. Beulah James ('34) to David Freeman ('33). Phae Van Dusen ('35) to Mark Collins ('34). Jean Bogardus ('35) to Howard Cleveland ('34). Dorothy Barrow ('32) to Chris Taylor ('32). They are at present in Scotland, where Chris is on a teaching exchange. Dorothy McRae ('34) to Bob Osborne 033). Gertrude Grayson to Jim Osborne. Bea Grayson to Ed. Mclntyre. Doris Barton ('32) to Ferrier Ross. Lillian Scott ('33) to P. Richie Sand well. Ruth Witbeck ('33) to Vic Rogers ('33). Sheila McKinnon ('33) to Lloyd Smith. Masala Cosgrave ('35) to William Ferguson. Masala spent a year in the Old Country and worked as laboratory technician in Glasgow. Lois Tipping to Mills Winram (Ag. '31). Norah Holroyd to Gordon Heslip. Sheila Mary Tisdale to Dr. John M. Coleman. David Brock (Arts '30) to Margaret Coulthard. Mary Crouch to Andrew McKellar (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria). Clara Bridgeman (Arts '26) to Ken Hicks (Sc. '26). Phyllis Leckie (Arts '34) to Gordon Davis, who is on the staff in Geology at U. B. C. BIRTHS To Mr. and Mrs. James Dunn (Arts '30) (Eleanor Robinson, Arts '31), a son. May, 1937. To Mr. and Mrs. Clare Donaldson (Mairi Dingwall) a daughter, April, 1938. To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Touzeau ('28) (Pauline Cote) a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Lex McKillop (Lucy Ross) a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hagar, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lang of Vernon a daughter, Margaret Ann. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McLean (Lorna Barton '26) a son, Cameron, on March 3, 1938. To Mrs. William Barker (Jean Cum- mings, Nurs. '33) a son. To George and Molly Evans (Molly Lockhart) their second son on October 25, 1937. To Gertrude and Allan Jones (Gertrude Hillas) a son on October IS, 1937. To Lorraine and Lew Clark (Lorraine Farquhar) a daughter. To Dr. and Mrs. Cassidy, a son. To Mrs. T. Denny (*31) a son. To W. C. Ozard, a son. To F. Rendle, a son. To Dr. and Mrs. Johnny Allardyce, a son. To Helen and Alan Estabrook (Sc. '31) a daughter, Gail Noreen, in Wenatchee, Washington. To Dr. and Mrs. Lavell Leeson (Mary Chapman, '24) a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Dune Maxwell (Kay Roberts, '34), a daughter. (31) personals Eleanor Agnew (Arts '33) is doing secretarial work for the Vancouver School Board. Joseph Albo ('26) is teaching at the Rossland High School. George S. Allen ('33) has finished a year of work at the University of California towards his Doctor's Degree, specializing in plant physiology. For three years George was Assistant and Instructor in the U. B. C. Forestry Department. Mrs. Gomar Jones (Evelyn Amerton, Nursing '29), is living in Trail, B. C. Gordon Anderson (Sc. '33) was sent to Scotland in the Christmas holidays on business for C-I-L, with whom he is employed in McMasterville, Que. Rod Anderson (Sc. '31) is reported to be in South America. R. G. Anderson ('21) is Assistant Purchasing Agent for Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. Syd Anderson (Sc. '27) is with the B. C. Electric Railway Company. He put the grads through "Alouette" at the Alumni Ball. Harry Andison ('34) is with the Dominion Entomological Department. C. W. Angue (Ag. '25) is graduate Assistant of Iowa State College Scholastic Society. Laura Archibald ('24) is now Mrs. S. Frame. Kay Armstrong is back at Varsity again this year, adding a Social Service degree to her B.A. Nora Armstrong (Nursing '26) is Superintendent of the North Vancouver Health Unit. J. E. Armstrong (Sc. '34) is at West Hall, Knox College, Toronto, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. John Armstrong (Sc. '34), (Constance Crump, Arts '35), are living in Ottawa, where John is connected with the Mines and Resources, Geological Survey. James Armstrong (Sc. '37) is in the Assay Office at Trail. Isabella E. Arthur (Arts '33) is studying law at the University of Toronto. Kelvin M. Arthur (Arts '34) is working for the T. Eaton Company, Toronto. Barbara Ashby is a stenographer and copywriter in the Vancouver office of a well-known advertising company. Amy Atherton ('32) is Librarian for Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Warfield. Sally Collier Atkinson ('29), with her two children, Ann and Peter, is now liv ing in Potosi, Bolivia, where her husband is a mining engineer. Kenneth Atkinson (Comm. '32) is an accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., in Vancouver. Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Alexander are new members of the Vernon Alumni group this year. Dr. Alexander attended U.B.C. before completing his medical course in the East. Dr. Arthur Bagnall (Arts '32) is an interne in Toronto General Hospital, having received his M.D. in 1937. Basil Bailey is at the University of Wisconsin in Madison studying for his Ph.D. Beatrice ("Bunty") Bailey is studying medicine at McGill University. Barbara Baird has almost completed two years of her nursing course at the Montreal General Hospital. Betty Ball is teaching at Rossland, B. C. Helen Balloch is working in London, England. Bert Baratt (Sc. '31) is at Woodfibre. Bert was married this year. Florence Barbaree (Nurs. '35) is a district nurse at Haney, B. C. Guy Barclay is with the B. C. Electric at Victoria, B. C. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Barratt (Sc. '32) (Jean Henderson, Arts '32) are living at Hedley. We hope Phil doesn't fall out of that aerial tramway some night on his way home. Dorothy Barrow (Arts '32 and Social Service '33) and Chris Taylor (Arts '34) were married last July and are now in England for a year, where Chris is an exchange teacher. S. C. Barry (Ag. '23) is Assistant Chief of Poultry Services, Ottawa. Mrs. Rex Barnes (Hester Thompson, Arts '29) is living in Toronto with her husband who went to U. B. C. for two years. They have one daughter. Bernice Barton ('26) is teaching French at King George High School in Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Baynes (Sc. '32) (Jean Cameron, Arts '32) are living in Vancouver, where Ted is contracting with Baynes & Horie Limited. Jean and Ted have a little boy. Margaret ("Ardy") Beaumont (Arts '35) is doing secretarial work at the B. C. Telephone Company. Ludlow Beamish (Arts '37) is taking Teacher's Training at U. B. C. Norman Bell (Sc. '37) is assaying at Trail. (32) Alice Bell ('31) is in the Provincial Library. Bob Bennett (Chem. '35) is doing postgraduate work at U. B. C. Helen Bennett (Nursing '24) is married to Lloyd Wheeler, who is on the staff of the University of Manitoba. C. H. Bentall is teaching at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. Jack C. Berry ('27): These Aggies certainly cover the ground. Now at Ames College, Iowa. Isabel Bescoby ('32) was recently appointed Principal of the Model School in Victoria. She will also be a member of the teaching staff at the Teachers' Summer School in Victoria this summer. Isabel Bews is working in the Diet Kitchen in the Vancouver General Hospital. Edith Bickford is teaching at Nanaimo. R. B. Bianco (Sc. '37) is in the assay office at Trail. AI Bickell (Sc. '26) is manager of Coat Quarries Ltd. Al is mixed up in several businesses, but still finds time to have lots of fun. We remember him donating the prizes at the Alumni Ball. Mrs. P. Bird (Jessie Ewart, '32) is living in Prince Rupert where her husband is in the Bank of Commerce. W. H. Birmingham (Arts '33) is studying architecture in Toronto, Ont. Dr. A. Earl Birney is a lecturer in English at University College, University of Toronto. He married Esther Bull in 1937. J. W. Bishop (Sc. '29) is Sales Engineer for Canadian General Electric, Toronto, Ont. He married Mary Fraser in 1937. Fred Bolton (Sc. '34) is an electrical engineer with the C. G. E. in Vancouver. Verna Bolton is a teacher in Vancouver. Jean Boomer is a teacher at the Trail Central School. Ruth Bostock is doing occupational therapy at Toronto General Hospital. Madeleine Bowden is in the Bookkeeping Department of the B. C. Electric. Morea Bowles is teaching at the Henry Hudson School in Vancouver. Guy D. Bowden ('34) is an accountant in Toronto. Sadie Boyles (Arts '26) is teaching French at King Edward High School, Vancouver. Nancy Brand (Ag. '35) is working for her father, of Brand & Co. David Brock (Arts '30) is a free-lance journalist in London, England. On July 28, 1937, he married Margaret Coulthard of Vancouver. Dr. B. B. Brock (Sc. '26) and his wife Barbara Stirling (Arts '26) spent four months in England, and have now re turned to Knana, Northern Rhodesia, where Dr. Brock is a geologist with the Anglo-American Corporation. T. L. Brock (Sc. '36) is doing graduate work in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is married to Miss V. P. Robson, formerly of North Vancouver. Mrs. Leslie Brooks (Ethel Elliot, Nurs. '32) is living in West Vancouver, where Leslie teaches school. They have a daughter. Norman F. Brookes (Sc. '33) is married and living at Sheep Creek, B. C., where he is employed as a mining engineer at the Reno mine. Gordon Brown (Elec. '35) is taking a post-graduate course at U. B. C. Grace Thrower (Arts '34) and Edgar Brown (Arts '31) were married in Vancouver and after a prolonged wedding trip to the continent and England are again living here. Edgar is a feature writer for the Vancouver Province and contributes articles to a number of magazines. Tom Brown ('32) has recently returned from England with his bride, and is living in Vancouver. Zoe Brown-Clayton ('35) is among U. B. C. graduates in London. Agnes King Bruce (Arts '26) has adopted Toronto, where her husband is General News Editor with the Canadian Press, as her permanent home. She has three boys, Alan, aged 6, Harry, aged 3, and Andrew, aged 1. Stan Bruce (Mining '36) is working at the Kootenay Bell Gold Mines. Dr. Bernard Bryson ('32) is interning at the Vancouver General Hospital. Margaret Buchanan ('36) is teaching at the Trail High School. Frank Buck ('20) has accepted a parish in New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Buckland (Sc. '36) (Helen Jackson, Arts '33) are living in Bloedel, B. C, where Alf is engineer in charge of logging construction. Betty Buckland ('32) is teaching Physical Education and Biology at Magee High School, Vancouver. Dr. Frank C. Buckland (Sc. '31) is married to Dr. Irene Koeber, McGill University. Frank is manager of Cournor Mining Company, Perron, Quebec. Jeanne Butorac (Arts '37) is teaching at Trail. Jack Cade (Arts '37) is studying law in the office of Walsh, Bull, Housser, Tup- per, Ray and Carroll, at Vancouver. Dr. C. E. Cairnes (Arts '16) is in Ottawa on the Geological Survey. D. E. Calvert lectured at Victoria College for a time. He graduated from (33 ) Osgoode Hall and is now with a firm of lawyers in Niagara Falls. William Cameron ('27) is Principal of the Trail Central School. Dr. Max A. Cameron (Arts '27) is Professor at Ontario College of Education, Toronto, Ont. He married a graduate of Manitoba and they have one son. William C. Cameron (Ag. '25) is connected with the Agriculture Department in Ottawa. A. H. L. Campbell is in second year Dentistry, Toronto, Ont. Blake A. Campbell (Ag. '35) is working in the Agricultural Marketing Division in Ottawa. Claude L. Campbell ('25), Vice-Principal of Victoria High School, is this year Director of the Night School. Ian Campbell (Comm. '32) is with the McMillan Export Company. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Campbell (Comm. '32) (Mary Dooley, Arts '32) are living in Barkerville, where Ken owns and manages the general store and hotel. Patricia Campbell ('35) is teaching at Nelson, B. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Candlish (Margaret Greig, Arts '28) are now living at Pioneer, B. C. They have one son, born last February. Margaret is a ranking tennis player in British Columbia. Kenneth Caple (Ag. '26) is now Principal of Summerland High School. Mrs. R. R. Carpenter (Margaret Sutherland, Nurs. '31) is living in Nobel, Ont. Steve Carre (Sc. '32) is with the Northern Electric Company. Lorna and Donna Carson, '36's twins, are both engaged in secretarial work in Vancouver. Margaret Carson is also doing secretarial work in Vancouver. Ernie Carswell (Sc. '32) is with the Standard Oil Company at Vancouver. Ernie is still playing a good game of hockey. Edna Carter teaches at the public school at South Bank. Dr. Neal M. Carter (Arts '24, Sc. '25) is head of the Fisheries Experimental Station at Prince Rupert, B. C. Eugene and Carol Cassidy ('29) with David and Sylvia, are returning home in April from the Orient, where Eugene has been teaching in a secondary school. He intends to become a professional photographer in Vancouver. Frank Cazalet (Meek '37) is with the B. C. E. R. Ruth Cheeseman (Nurs. '35) is in Honolulu doing Public Health work. Isabelle Chodat (Nurs. '35) is on the staff of the Metropolitan Health Unit. Muriel Christie ('33) is doing secretar ial work in the Supervisor's department of the Royal Bank in Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Clark (Lorraine Farquhar, '31) live in Victoria where Lew teaches school. They have a daughter. Margaret Clarke (*21) is teaching at Agassiz High School. Gerry Clayton (Mining '37) is with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Zeballos. Henry Clayton (Arts '35) has a teaching fellowship in Physics, at Purdue, Ind. Courtney Cleveland (Sc. '33} is back East winning his Doctor's Degree in Geology. Catherine Clibborn (Nurs. '35) is Assistant Superintendent and Instructor of Nurses at Medicine Hat General Hospital. Barry S. Clifford (Ag. '23) is working at Agriculture in Ottawa, Ont. Maisie Clugston (Nurs. '37) is on the staff of the Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. and Mrs. John Coleman (Sheila M. Tisdall) are living in Sarnia, Ontario, where Dr. Coleman has a clinic. Lillian Cope ('35) is teaching at Kitsilano High School in Vancouver. Peace Cornwall (Arts '33) is a journalist with MacLean's in Toronto, Ont. George Cornwall (Sc. '32) is with the Cariboo Gold Quartz, living at Wells. George and Thelma (Mahon) have a little girl. Phyllis Cousens is a schoolmar'm at Gibsons' Landing. Daphne Covemton ('33) is with the Foster Travel Bureau and has spent the last four months in London. S. S. Cowan (Sc. '33) is with the R. C. A. F. at Trenton, Ontario. W. L. Cornwall ('34): Rumored that Bill has discovered another size of green pea for the Royal City Company. Nobel prize. Robert Craig (Sc. '35) is at Britannia Mines, Britannia, B. C. Bob was married last year. James Craster (Sc. '30) is in the Drafting Office at Trail. Elmer Crawford (Elec. '31) is in the electrical business in the Okanagan. George Creighton (Sc. '32) is with the B. C. Electric at Vancouver. Kathleen Cumming is at present teaching in Vancouver, but is leaving this summer to make her home in Gait, Ontario. Jack Currie (Sc. '33) is Chief Chemist for the Bralorne Gold Mine. James D. Curtis ('30) has been Assistant Professor of Forestry at Massachusetts State College for several years. His address is Amherst, Mass. Roy Daniells is head of the English Department of University of Manitoba. (34) Alice Daniells is teaching school in New Westminster. Doreen Davies (Mrs. Richard Gore- Langton) is living at Duncan, B. C. Eileen Davies (Nurs. '35) is working with a travelling T. B. Clinic. Frances Darling (Comm. '33) is with a large lumber exporting firm in Vancouver. Ralph Davis ('35) is living at Townsite, Britannia Beach, B. C. Alice Davidson is teaching at Langley Prairie High School. Barbara Dawson (Arts '31) is working in the Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa. John Deane (Elec. '34) is with the Granby Company at Allenby. Richard Dean (Sc. '33) is employed in the Smoke Department at Trail. Mrs. Vick Dehart (Mary Ross, Nurs. '31) is living in Kelowna. Maurice Desbrisay (Arts '29) is married and teaching at Point Grey Junior High School. Mildred Dickie is on the secretarial staff of the Vancouver Welfare Federation. Brian W. Dingle (Sc. '34) is in the Topographical Department, Geological Survey, Ottawa. Brian is married and has a daughter. Gavin Dirom (Sc. '31) is married and living at Premier, B. C. May Dixon, after having worked as bacteriologist at Vancouver General Hospital, now has a similar position in a public health laboratory in Vancouver. Bob Donald (Chem. '35) is reported to be in South America. Ken Dobson (Min. '31) is working at Britannia Mines. Mr. and Mrs. Clare H. Donaldson (Mairi Dingwall, Arts '31) are living in Sidney, Australia. Jim Donaldson (Civil '33) is with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Great Bear Lake. Margaret Dorset (Nurs. '29) is on the staff of Essondale Mental Hospital. R. Ross Douglas ('35) received the Ranger appointment last year at Port Neville. He has been transferred this year to the Nelson Forest District. Harold Doyle (Sc. '22) is Assistant Superintendent of the Smoke Department at Trail. John Duncan (Sc. *28) is married and works for the C. G. E. at Toronto. June Duncan is teaching at Powell River. Charles Dunham (Sc. '31) is in charge of Engineering work at Bloedels' Franklin River camp. Chuck is married and has a son. Flight-Lieutenant and Mrs. Clarence Dunlap (Hester Cleveland, Arts '27) are at present living in England but expect to return to Canada next year. They have one son, David, born last August. Mr. and Mrs. James Dunn (Arts '30) (Frances Robinson, Arts '31) are living in British Guiana and have a young son. Peter Durkin (Sc. '34) is in the Electric Shop at Trail. Molly Eakins (Arts '35) and Bob MacDonald (Arts '35) were married last September and are living in New Westminster. Margaret Ecker (Arts '37) is the University correspondent for the Vancouver Daily Province and is also working in the Extension Department at U. B. C. Rosemary Edmunds is on the staff of the Langley Prairie High School. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Edwards (Arts '30) are living in San Francisco, where Byron is working for the American Canning Company. Dr. Alfred J. Elliott (Arts '32) is an interne in the Toronto Western Hospital. Robert Ellison (Sc. '33) is doing research work at the Trail Smelter. Jack Emerson is directing his orchestra and often heard over the air. George Evans (Chem. '31) is married to Molly Lockhart (Arts '31). George is with the Imperial Oil Company at loco. Jeckell Fairley is married to Aubin Burridge (Arts '31). Jack is with the Standard Oil in Vancouver. Mary Fallis (Arts '32) is back in Vancouver. She is teaching Physical Education at the Hastings School. Jean Fannin is on the staff of the University Library at U. B. C. Ben Farrar, president of the West Kootenay branch of the U. B. C. Alumni, has been in Trail ever since graduation, and is now Chief Chemist of the Chemical and Fertilizer Division. In 1929 he married Constance Ellen Slater (Arts '29) and they have a daughter of four. Ben announces that he has never been in jail or otherwise disgraced his Alma Mater. Mrs. D. K. Farris (Marian Fisher, Nurs. '23) has returned from China where her husband is a missionary. Louise Farris, who travelled in Europe last summer and was presented at court, is now at a secretarial school in Washington, D. C. Hugh Farquhar, recently married to Jean Mcintosh, is teaching at the Willows School in Victoria. Helen Ferguson ('33) is teaching Physical Education at the King George High School in Vancouver. Nancy Ferguson ('31) is Physical Education teacher at Central Junior High School and also superintendent of Folk (35) Dancing in the Elementary schools of Victoria. Fred Fisher (Arts '30) is an accountant at Ocean Falls. He is married and has a daughter. Jack Fisher (Arts '35) is doing postgraduate work at U. B. C. Rena Fleming, who returned to Victoria after graduation, is now living in Vancouver and works in the finance department of the Court House. Peggy Hurry Follicke ('27) is now in San Diego, where her husband is engaged in airplane designing. Herbert E. Fordyce-CIark (Arts '27) is working in the Auditor General's office, Ottawa. Jean Fowler (Arts '31) is working in the Toronto Public Library. Pete Fowler (Mining '33) is with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company in British Guiana. Edward Fraser (Ag. '25) is working at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Gladys Frost is teaching public school at Bowen Island. Bob French (Sc. '35) is now working at Bowen Island. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fullerton (Althea Banfield, '31) are living in Quesnel where Harold teaches, and Althea is a leading light in all the town activities. Beth Gage ('34) is teaching at Slocan City. Leo Gansner ('35) is taking his final year of Law at Vancouver. Elizabeth Garrett is teaching at Strath- cona Lodge, Shawnigan Lake, B. C. Ed. Gautschi (Sc. '36) is assaying at Trail. Enid Gibbs (Mrs. Ralph Barnes) is living in Capetown, South Africa. T. C. Gibbs ('30) we understand is assaying somewhere in the Slocan. Alan F. Gill (Arts '24) is with the National Research Council in Ottawa. Helen Gill (Nurs. '24) has been nursing in New York and is now doing supervision work in Ottawa Civic Hospital. Margaret S. Gill (Arts '19) is working in the library of the National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont. Dr. Earl Gillanders is Head Geologist at Siscoe Gold Mines, Siscoe, Quebec, and is married to Ethel Lougheed. H. C. Gilliland ('29) was married last Christmas. Norman Gold is in the Agriculture Department at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Reginald Gordon (Esther Naden, Nurs. '24) has two children and is living in Capilano. Alice Gray (Arts '31) is Principal of the Mount Pleasant Branch of Sprott Shaw- Schools. Mrs. Bruce Gray (Mamie Wallace, '31) is in Toronto where her husband, the Rev. Bruce Gray, is associated with the United Church of Canada, head office. John Gardiner Gray ('34) is studying for his Ph.D. in Geology in Minnesota. Kenneth Graham (Arts '32) is Assistant in the Department of Biology, University of Toronto. Ronald Grantham ('31) is teacher of Social Studies in Ladysmith High School. His essay on International Disarmament, which was awarded the prize for Canada in a contest conducted by the New History Society of New York, has attracted much interest and attention. E. E. ("Mike") Gregg (*23) is Forester in the Management Office of the British Columbia Forest Service in Victoria. "Mike" was also one of the stalwart forwards on the rugby team. Clare Greene is teaching at St. Margaret's School, Victoria, B. C, and is contemplating matrimony. Bob Greene (Mech. '35) is with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Kimberley. Janice Greenleys ('32) has been taking a Social Service Course at U. B. C. during the past year. R. D. ("Doug") Greggor ('25) was appointed District Forester at Prince George this year. "Doug" will be remembered as a former rugby star, and no mean pugilist. Herbert Henry Griffin, president of the Classes of '31, took over a law practice at Smithers shortly after being called to the bar in 1934. Recently he has removed to Vancouver, and our private investigator reports he has lost none of the vigor of undergraduate days. Betty Groves (Arts '29) after several years as a librarian in a Brooklyn library, is now children's librarian in Portland, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Groves (Sc. '31) (nee Betty Whiteside) have a home at Port Neville (Byles and Groves Logging Company) and have two sons. Terrance Guernsey (Sc. '32) is another leading geologist, and the only time we see him is when he comes from South Rhodesia to take more U. B. C. men down there. Dr. H. V. Gunning (Sc. '23) is connected with the Geological Survey, Ottawa. He recently won the Barlow Memorial Prize for the outstanding paper submitted during 1937 on applied or economic geology. H. S. Gutteridge (Ag. '25) is working at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Ottawa. (36) Gerry Gwyn (Mining '37) is doing postgraduate work in metallurgy at U. B. C. Wilmer Haggerty (Sc. '32) and his wife, Irene, are sailors in the summer and in the fall Bill hunts moose and geese in the north. Avis Hall is doing stenographic work in a Vancouver High School. Bill Hall (Sc. '32) is over in Victoria. Gordon Hall (Sc. '36), after teaching in the Okanagan, is back at U. B. C. Tita Hall ('35) went to London last fall and is doing stenographic work there. Marion Hamilton ('32) is studying toward a Ph.D. in English at Toronto, and is an assistant in English at Victoria College. Reginald P. E. Hammond ('31) fills a dual role on the staff of Victoria High School, where he is in charge alike of teaching in Biology and Music Appreciation. Admirers of his performances as a cellist are now promised further treats from his viola, an instrument of which he is justifiably proud. Marion Hargreaves ('30) is with the Correspondence School of the Department of Education. Louella Harper is teaching school at Ladysmith, Vancouver Island. J. D. Hartley ('27) is Superintendent of the Electrolytic Zinc Department of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. Dunmail Hartness ('29) was married recently, and is principal of Oak Bay High School, Victoria. Pat Harvey, who since her graduation has spent two years in China with her family, has returned to Vancouver after a six months' visit in Penang, Straits Settlements. Charles Hayward ('32) teaches Art, Health, and Physical Education at the High School in Prince Rupert. J. B. Hedley ('33) is working for the Canadian General Electric at Toronto. Fred Hemsworth (Sc. '32) is an enterprising young mining engineer who took time off recently to get married. Ena Henderson, after teaching school for several years at Britannia, B. C, is now in Victoria. Isobel Henderson (Nurs. '30) is in Hong Kong. Jean Henderson (Arts '35) and Phil Barratt (Sc. '32) were married in Vancouver and are living at Nickel Plate Mine, Hedley, B. C. Loraine Henderson (Arts '31) and Gibb Henderson (Sc. '33) are married and living in Vancouver. Hugh Herbison (Arts '36) is a news correspondent in Toronto. Dr. Leslie E. Hewlett (Arts '27) is with the National Research Council. Gordon Hilker is manager of Hilker Attractions in Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hillary ('32) (Ruth Cuthbertson, '35) are in Toronto where Bert is working towards his Ph.D. in Botany. Gordon Hislop ('24) is sampler for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. Mrs. T. R. Hobbart (Frances Lyne, Nurs. '27) has two children and is living in Silvertone, Oregon. Lloyd Hobdon (Arts '37) is back at U. B. C. taking his M.A. in French. Fred Hobson (Arts '37) is taking Teacher's Training at U. B. C. Lisle Hodwell (Sc. '33) works in the Ceramics Laboratory, National Research Council, Ottawa. Mrs. Hugh Hodgins (Hedwig Hillas, Nurs. '31) is living in Victoria. Betty Hoffmeister is assisting at the U. B. C. Library prior to entering the University of Washington, where she plans to take a Librarian's course. Dorothy Holferdahl (nee Bowes, Arts '21) is living in Ottawa. George Holland (Arts '33) is at the Government Station at Kamloops, working at Entomology. We wonder if he still plays the accordion. Mavis Holloway ('31) is teaching at the Trail High School. Dr. and Mrs. Terence C. Holmes (Sc. '32) (Irene Ramage, Arts '33) will make their home in Siscoe, Quebec, where Terry is Assistant Geologist. They have a curly-headed son, Martin. Gordon Horie is with Horie-Latimer Construction Company, Ltd., Vancouver. Ruby Horton (Arts '30) teaches at the Coqualeetza Indian School, Sardis, B. C. H. Clare Horwood is a Geologist for the Ontario Department of Mines, Toronto. Margaret Hubbs ('33) is on the staff at St. Anthony's School, Vancouver. Rev. Max C. Humphrey (Arts '33) is now Assistant Priest at St. Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington, London N. 16. He writes: "We had an interesting reunion lunch in London recently (September, 1937). Raghbir Singh Bans of '35 was host at a lunch in the Buddhist Mission in London to Jean McNaughton, Ernest Southcott, Betty Wilson and myself". Max is attempting to form a U. B. C. Alumni group in London. More power to you, Max! Basil Hunt ('30) is in the Research Department at Trail. Flora ("Bessie") Hurst ('28) has returned from Moscow with her daughter, Svetlana, and is now on the Social Service Council in Toronto. Mac. E. Hurst is a Geologist for the Ontario Department of Mines, Toronto. (37) Everett F. Hurt ('31) spent several years at Rolla, where he was President of the Peace River Teachers' Association. Summer Sessions at University of Alberta enabled him to take his Master of Education Degree. He now teaches Social Studies in Livingstone School at Vancouver. Keith Hutchinson, Commerce graduate, is working for the Standard Oil Company in Vancouver. Amy Hutcheson is at the Library School, Toronto, Ont. Florence Innis (Nurs. '26) is on the staff of the Metropolitan Health Unit. Mr. and Mrs. Roden Irving (Mary Darnbrough, '33) left early in March for England via the Panama. Rod plans to study aeronautical engineering while abroad. Lawrence B. Jack (Arts '32) is with the Dominion Provincial Relations Commission, Ottawa. Wilfred R. Jack (Arts '35) is with the National Research Council, Ottawa. Ted Jackson (Arts '37) is in the grain brokerage business at Winnipeg. Fred Jakeway (Arts '32) is teaching at Strathcona School in Vancouver. E. D. James is working for General Motors of Canada, Limited, Toronto. H. T. James is making a good job of managing the Pioneer Mines. R. W. James is a student at the University of Toronto. H. ("Tad") Jeffrey ('36) sold advertising for The Ubyssey, and then graduated to J. Walter Thompson Agency, Chicago. Just like that; it's easy! Lyfe Jestley ('31) is in the legal department of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. Betty Johnson ('31) is a laboratory technician at the Kootenay Lake General Hospital, Nelson, B. C. Islay Johnston (Arts '23) is working in the Agriculture Marketing Division, Ottawa. J. R. Johnston ('33) is with Sladen Malartic Mines, Malartic, Quebec. Frederick B. Johnston (Arts '27) is working at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Viola Johnson (Arts '31) is a librarian in the Carnegie Library, Vancouver. Stuart Keate is working for The Star Weekly, Toronto. Dorothy Keillor (Mrs. Harry Nelems) is living in the Transvaal. Margaret Keillor (Mrs. Sidney Bowman) is living in West Vancouver. Eric Kelly (Arts, '30) is teaching at John Oliver High School. Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Keenleyside (Arts '20), (Katherine Pillsbury, Arts '20) are living in Ottawa. Hugh is working in the Department of External Affairs. Betty Kendall ('34) is in the W. K. P. & L. Co. office at Trail. Walter Kennedy (Sc. '35) is a flying officer for the R. C. A. F. and at present is in Trenton, Ont. Louise Kerr (nee Morrison, Arts '25) is living in Ottawa. Ruby Kerr (Arts '28) is back teaching school again in British Columbia after a year of travel in Europe during which time she visited her sister, the former Olive Kerr of Arts '29, who is married and living in Edinborough. Ruby is on the staff of the Haney High School. Kim Killam (Arts '33) is a librarian at Toronto University. Heather Kilpatrick (Nurs. '31) is Superintendent of Cowichan Health Centre. Bob King is in the Assay Office at Warfield. Ronald Klinck is in the Drafting Office at Trail. June Knight is at Rossland, B. C. Harold Knight (Sc. '34) has just gone out to Persia for the Standard Oil Co. Grace Knowlton (Arts '32) is leaving about the middle of May for the Old Country. Doris Knox is at the Retail Credit Grantors' Bureau, Vancouver. Marian Kummer (Arts '31) is teaching at Sprott-Shaw Schools. Mary Lade ('26) is going to London on exchange for 1938-39. Frank Ladner (Sc. '34) is Mining Engineer for the Pioneer Mine and some day will have his Doctor's Degree. Muriel Laing ('30) is teaching English at the Prince Rupert High School. Barbara Lang ('29) is teaching at the Slocan High School. Dr. Cecil A. Lamb (Ag. '21) is in charge of cereal plant breeding work for the Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station at Wooster. He is doing a very fine piece of work and has charge of all the wheat breeding experimental work for the state. He had the very great misfortune to lose his wife on July 24, 1937. after a long illness. Kaye Lamb ('27, Ph.D. University of London, 1932) is now the Provincial Librarian and Archivist in Victoria. He is also editing the B. C. Historical Quarterly. Noel Lambert is Superintendent of the Northern Construction Company. Mary Lamont ('27) is teaching at the Trail High School. Bill Latta (Sc. '31) is married and in charge of field surveying for A. P. L. at Port Alberni. Mary Latta is doing stenographic work. (38) W. H. ("Bill") Lea and Eddie McGuire have decided not to be selfish and have divided the insurance prospects in Vancouver between them. "Now . . . just sign here!" Phyllis Leckie is now Mrs. Gordon Davis. Her husband is on the staff of the Geology Department of U. B. C. Katharine Lee (Commerce gold medallist in '32) and Harry Gilliland (Arts '29) were married in December. They are living in Victoria, where the latter is on the staff of Victoria High School. Allan H. Le Neveu (Arts '23) is working in the Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa. Evelyn Lewis is working as stenographer for A. V. Lewis and part time with Junior "G" Men. Margaret Little (Arts '33) and Andrew Sterling (Sc. '34) are married and living at Premier, B. C. Mollie Little (Arts '36) spent one year at the Cornish School in Seattle, and is now in London, England, studying commercial art. John E. Liersch ('27) still unmarried, is the owner, manager and "big shot" of his own logging company. He is logging Sitka spruce on contract in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Walter Lind (Sc. '32) is back in Ontario with the General Electric. Fraser Lister is teaching mathematics at Oak Bay High School, Victoria, B. C. Cecelia Long ('32) works for the Toronto Star Weekly. Clifford S. Lord (Sc. '29) is working in the Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa. Art Lazenby is with the B. C. Electric at Vancouver. Arthur G. Larson (Sc. '27) is working in the Department of Mines and Resources, Geological Survey, Ottawa. Elza Lovitt is teaching at St. Margaret's School in Victoria. Ronald H. Lowe ('32) is teaching at the Trail High School. Dorothea Lundell ('32) is teaching in Revelstoke, B.C. St. John Madeley ('33) is in the General Office of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail. W. A. Madeley (Sc. '32) designs bridges for the P. G. E. Railway. D'Arcy Marsh ('26) already well knoWn for his work on Sir Henry Thornton, is giving a news commentary each week from Ottawa, over C.B.C. Bordon Marshall ('29) is a chemist in Toronto, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Martin (Sc. '31) (Dorothy Mole) are living in Vancouver, where Ken is with the Shell Oil Company. They have a new home on Angus Dri-yje. Miller Mason ('33) is a law student at Vancouver. R. Murray Mather ('35) is still in London. Seems to have been self-appointed as escort to the Daughters of the League of Nations. Look for a monocle around Vancouver in August. Alice Mathers is with an insurance company in Vancouver. Last year she wrote final examinations for the three- year course on fire and inland marine insurance of the Insurance Institute of America, receiving the associate degree magna cum laude. Kathleen Mathers is Book Editor on the Vancouver Daily Province. Lillian Mathers, now Mrs. Reilly Bird, is living in Chicago where her husband is art director of Marshall Field's. They have a two-year-old son, Michael. Don Matheson (Sc. '30) is General Superintendent of the Bralorne Mines. Helen Matthews (Mrs. Swansgaard) has been living in Germany for the last couple of years and is expected to return to Vancouver this year. Vera Mawby (Arts '31) works at the Y. W. C. A., Vancouver. Mrs. Mona Meagher (Mona Graham) is teaching in Nelson. Letha Meilicke is graduating from Margaret Eaton in Toronto. John Melville (Sc. '21) is doing Chemical Research in the Sulphur Plant at Trail. John Melvin (Sc. '36) is now working at the Big Missouri Mine. Alan Mercer is attending Osgoode Hall at Toronto. Norah Willis Michener lives in Toronto, and is married to Roland Michener, Canadian Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, and a barrister. They have three daughters, Joan, Diana and Wendy. Norah is honorary president of the Toronto U.B.C. Alumni Branch, and received her M.A. in Aesthetics at the University of Toronto in May, 1937. Kay Milligan (Ag. '35) is taking the Education Course at U. B. C. David M. Mitchell ('35) teaches Mathematics at the Prince Rupert High School. E. A. Mitchell (Sc. '34) is Chemical Supervisor in the Phosphate Plant at Warfield. Irene Thornton Mitchell ('33) teaches Social Studies at the Prince Rupert High School. Jack D. Mitchell (Sc. '34) is with the Construction Department of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Goldfield, Sask. James Mitchell ('33) is married and living at Premier, B. C. James St. G. Mitchell (Sc. '36) is assay- (39) ing for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Warfield. R. F. Mitchell (Sc. '33) is doing research work in the Sulphur Plant at Trail. Frieda MacArthur Mols (Arts '26) now lives in Detroit. Her husband is a motion picture photographer, and for ten years they lived in Los Angeles. They have two little boys, Brian, aged 6, and Michael, aged 3]/2, and they have just built a new home in Detroit. Ralph Moore has a Ph.D. and a position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ralph now has a wife, too. Harold P. J. Moorhead (Sc.'33) is with the Ontario Paper Company, Baie Corneau, Quebec. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Moffatt (Ag. '28) (Victoria Gardiner, Arts '28) are now living in New Westminster with their young son. Neal G. Morley (Arts '34) is doing graduate work in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto. Wilfred Morris has given up engineering for Missionary work in foreign fields, with his new wife. Dr. H. Morrison ('30) is Inspector of Schools at Prince Rupert. R. L. Morrison ('28) is in the Drafting Office at Trail. Johnny Mortimer (Sc. '34) is now in Peru in the capacity of a mining engineer. Dr. Irene Mounce (Arts '18) is working at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Ottawa. William J. Mowat 037) teaches Mathematics and French at Prince Rupert. Neil Munro ('32) is Mill Superintendent at Kootenay Bell Gold Mines. Audrey Munton ('34) is teaching at Trail High School. Murray Garden (Comm. '32) is at Kimberley and was married last year. Isobel Macarthur (Arts '32) is office assistant in a doctor's office in Vancouver. Jessie McAfee works in the Vancouver Public Library. Weldon McAfee ("22) (Nina V. Munn '21) is manager of the Georgetown Lumber Company, near Prince Rupert. They have three children, Donalda McCharles is a librarian at the Vancouver Public Library. She returned this fall from a trip spent in England and on the Continent. Betty McCIeery ('37) has been attending Normal School this past year. Anne McClure ('33) is teaching at Mission, B. C. Roy Maconachie ('34) was recently appointed to the Department of Mines. Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. McConnell (Sc. '33) (Sheila Tait, Arts '33) are now at Zeballos, Vancouver Island, where Norm is an engineer. Ruth McCullough is on the staff of the McGill University Library in Montreal. Don McDiarmid is with the W. K. P. & L. Company at Trail. Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Mutrie of Vernon again spent the winter at the coast, Mrs. Mutrie remaining in Vancouver while Fergus continued his studies at the Cornish School of Art in Seattle. J. E. MacDonald (Sc. '30) is with the West Kootenay Power and Light Company at Trail. Mary McDonald (Arts '32) is in the office of the Royal Trust Company. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith MacFarlane (Nance Carter, Arts '34) are living in Vancouver, where Med. is practicing law. Mary McFee (Nurs. '30) is married to Alan Walker of Shanghai. Nelle McGaulay ('30) is teaching at Nelson, B. C. Laurie McHugh is in the Biology Department at U. B. C. Neil McKellar (Comm. '32) is working for his Master's Degree at Berkeley, Cal. Dorthy McKenzie (Nurs. '31) is school nurse at Kelowna. Dr. C. Duncan MacKenzie (Ag. '29) is working at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Fred F. McKenzie (Ag. '21) is at the University of Missouri, in charge of Physiology of Reproduction in Farm Animals. Last summer, with his wife and two boys, he took a trip by car, landing in Oslo, driving through the Scandinavian countries, and thence to England and Scotland. He thus combined business with pleasure, since at the request of the United States Department of Agriculture, he was investigating progress in research work having to do with the physiology of reproduction in European laboratories. Helen ("Teddy") McKenzie (*32) is teaching in Agassiz, B. C. Margaret McKenzie ('32) is now teaching in Vancouver. Vivian McKenzie ('36) is teaching at Pioneer, B. C. Patricia McKinnon ('34) teaches Home Economics at Queen Mary and Charles Dickens Schools in Vancouver. J. Beattie McLean ('27) lives at one of those impossible addresses in Sussex, on a teaching fellowship. Life is becoming rosier; closer to the home of bock beer. Jean McLean ('36) is working in Social Science. Toronto, Ont. R. V. MacLean (Arts '36) can be reached at Box 72, Bralorne, B. C, and reports with pardonable pride that he married Amy Isobel Burton (Victoria College, Arts '34) on July 26, 1937. « (40) Dorothy McLellan ('33) is teaching at Lillooet. Reid McLennan ('28) practises law in Prince Rupert. Margaret McLeod (Arts '32), who has taught school at Powell River for several years, is at home in Vancouver this year and is taking a business course. William McMichael is Boys' Counsellor at Central Junior High. Mac McMorris teaches English and Mathematics at Point Grey Junior High School. Larry McMullen (Sc. '34) is married and working for Forest Survey division at Victoria. Frances McQuarrie (Nurs. '36) is on the staff of the Vancouver General Hospital. Ian C. MacQueen ('34), who is engaged in slack disposal research for the Forest Service, will take advanced work in forest protection next fall at the University of California. Constance McTavish has been working for the past two years at the Consolidated Smelting Company, Trail, B. C. Isabel McTavish has been studying at the University of Chicago during the past year. She received a Librarian Scholarship. Mrs. Ross Napier ('20) is gaining quite a reputation as cataloguer at the Victoria Public Library. Lyman Nesbitt (Sc. '32) is working with the Department of National Defence, Ottawa. M. C. Nesbitt (Sc. '30) has been doing everything from running placer mines in Atlin to building airports at Langley for Baynes & Horie Ltd. L. J. Nicholson (Sc. '34) is now a benedict. He is in the Assay Office at Trail, and also coaches the Rossland basketball team. O. N eider man (Sc. '25) is in charge of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company's school for apprentices. T. S. Nixon (Sc. '33) is with the Department of Transport at Ottawa. Dr. G. W. Hal Norman (Sc. '26) is working in the Department of Mines and Resources, Geological Survey, Ottawa. Vic Odium (Sc. '30) is away back at Spirit Lake Gold Mines, Ontario, and quite likely still composing poetry after his mining day is done. John Oliver is a past president of the Alma Mater and still has time for U. B. C. He has just been appointed Registrar of the Professional Engineers' Association of British Columbia. Hugh Ormsby ('32) is completing his Medical Course at Alberta University. Jimmie Orr (Mining '36) is in Southern California, taking a post graduate course. Doanie Owen-Jones is back in Vancou ver again teaching school after having spent a year in Edinborough, Scotland, on exchange. Hugh Palmer is working in a lawyer's office in Vancouver. Margaret Palmer ('35) has spent the last year on the continent doing a quantity of interesting things such as wood carving, studying aeronautical engineering, etc. Grace Parkinson ('33) is on the staff of the Penticton High School. Bill Patmore ('35) and his wife, Janet Davidson, are pioneering at Zeballos, where Bill is a field scout for Dr. Dol- mage and R. H. Stewart. K. Donald Patterson ('36) is in the Department of Theology, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ont. Bea Pearce (Nurs. '24) is married to Dr. Harry Cassidy, who is Director of Social Welfare for the province. Dr. Allon Peebles ('20) is at present in Europe in connection with the Health Insurance Commission, of which he is chairman. Neil Perry ('33) is now Director of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics. Robert Thorpe ('29), and William Veitch ('37) are with the same Bureau. Sidney Pettit ('33) is History Assistant at Victoria College. Al Pike (Sc. '33) lives at Wells, where he runs a small mine. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pike (Sc. '30) (Pat Newlands, Arts '31) are living in Ontario, where Jim is manager of the Tombill Mine. They have a little girl. Mr. and Mrs. Rod Pilkington (Bessie Robertson '31) are living in Vancouver. Rod is considerably mellowed from the fiery cynic we knew in Varsity days. Dorothy Plaunt (nee Pound, Arts '30) is living in Ottawa. William Plommer ('29) is at the Trail High School. Mrs. Richard Dubois Phillips (Sally Carter) is living in Victoria, and has two children. Margaret Powlett ('34) is working in Winnipeg, Man. Abner Poole is teaching French and Latin at Magee High School. Mildred Pollock has a secretarial position in the Psychiatric Clinic in Vancouver. Lennie Price is taking a secretarial course. Lennie spent last year in Sweden, France, Germany and England, where she attended the Coronation. Peter Price is at Noranda, Quebec, as Chief Geologist. Gwen Pym ('36) has recently been appointed provincial president for an international sorority. W. S. S. Pye (Ag. '23) obtained a teach- (41) ing fellowship at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, where he received his Master of Science in Dairy Husbandry. Robert Purves ('32) is teacher of Commercial subjects and Director of Athletics at Mount Royal College, Calgary. Donald Purves, after a season with the Economic Council in Victoria, is this year on a fellowship at the Brookings Institute. Ned Pratt is studying architecture in Toronto, as is also Bill Birmingham. Tiny Rader (Sc. '34) is an electrical engineer for the General Electric and still finds time to play a good game of Canadian rugby. Cecil Ramsden is at Nelson, B. C. David D. Reeve (Sc. '33) is working on construction of a new pulp mill at Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario. Alison Reid (Nurs. '34) is Clinical Supervisor at Vancouver General Hospital. Helen Reid is teaching at Livingstone School in Vancouver. Margaret J. ("Peggy") Reid (Arts '34) is taking Household Science at the University of Toronto. Dorothy Rennie ('34) is teaching stenography at the Sprott-Shaw School. David Rice (Sc. '35) is in the Assay Office at Trail. Dr. H. M. Anthony Rice (Sc. '23) is on the Geological Survey, Ottawa, Ont. He is married and has a daughter. Albert E. ("Ab") Richards (Ag. '23) is connected with the Marketing Division of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont. Edward Richardson (Sc. '32) is married and living at Wells, B. C. J. Richardson ('36) is with the Canadian General Electric, Toronto. Aussie Richmond (Sc. '37) is General Manager of Consolidated Gold Alluvials, Wingdam, B. C. R. H. Richmond (Sc. '33) is Assistant Chemist at Port Alice, B. C. Mrs. William Ricker (Marian Cardwell Nurs. '31) is living at Cultus Lake. Marie Riddell, who received her Social Service degree from Toronto, is with a Social Service agency in Vancouver. Christopher Rigby (Mech. '33) is helping build battleships in England. Reported married. Ruby Riley (Nurs. '27) is married to Rev. Harold Allan and living in Cumberland. Sidney Risk is directing plays in London, England. Bill Robbing, recently married to Margaret Ross ('30) was teaching at the University of British Columbia Summer School and is at present professor of English at Wesley College, Winnipeg. Early in the year Mr. Page Robinson, treasurer of the Vernon Branch of U.B.C. Alumni, was transferred from the Vernon Branch of the Bank of Montreal to the Nanaimo Branch. In "Robbie" we lost a very enthusiastic member, but we hope that the Nanaimo Alumni has discovered him by this time. Norman Robertson (Arts '23) is connected with the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ont. Ruth Robertson, who graduated with Nursing '33, after taking her previous work at the University of Alberta, is married to Frank Peto and living in Ottawa. He taught Mathematics at the U. of A., and is now engaged in research for the Dominion Government. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rogers (Sc. '34) (Ruth Witbeck, Arts '33) were married on the 2nd of April and are living at Island Falls, Sask. Ethel Rolston (Nurs. '36) is Instructor of Nurses at the Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops. Mrs. J. Ferrier Ross (Doris Barton, Nurs. '35) is living in Vancouver. Phil Rossiter (Sc. '32) with wife Olive, is living at Britannia, where Phil is doing electrical engineering work. They have two little girls. Nan Rowbottom (Arts '31) is teaching at Nanaimo. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Sanderson (Eleanor Everall) are living on James Island, B. C. They have a baby boy. Lois Sanderson is teaching in Vancouver. Marion Sangster ('33) is a stenographer at the City Hall, Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Sargent (Jean Fisher, Arts '31) are living in Boston, where Hartley is taking post graduate work. Stan Schaler, with his wife Ester, is living in a pretty log house at Wells. B. C, where Stan is the city engineer and chief dog catcher. Charles D. Schultz ('31) was appointed British Columbia Lumber Trade Commissioner to the West Indies last June. Charlie has been doing good work in Trinidad and probably would be taken for a native by now. Lillian Scott ('33) has just left the Associated Screen News in Montreal to marry Dick Sandwell, a U. B. C. graduate. Marjory Scott is in London, England, enjoying a prolonged visit. Peggy Scott is a teacher in Vancouver. Mrs. Mary Selby (Mary McKee '26) is living at Warfield. Jean Whyte Seldon is married and living in Gait, Ontario. The Reverend William James Seiden ('31) has since graduation filled pastoral charges at Falkland and Queen Charlotte (42) City. From the latter retreat, signing himself "Bishop of Q.C.I." he writes of new projects in adult education and community recreation. Olive Selfe (Arts '31) divides her time between punching a typewriter and climbing mountains. Jack Shannon is manager of the Diana Mine, Manitoba. He is married and has a littie daughter. Dorothy Sharpe (Nurs. '35) has just returned from a trip to England and we hear that she is planning to be married this fall. Henry Shaw (Ag. '33) was home for a holiday at Christmas, but is back at Shanghai now. George Sinclair (Mining '35) is working with Island Mountain Mines. Herb Sladen (Sc. '34) is an Electrical Inspector at Vancouver. Betty Sledge ('32) is teaching in North Saanich. Betty Smith ('32) is teaching in North Vancouver. Betty went to California for Christmas. Cyril Horace Smith (Sc. '33) is with the Department of Mines and Resources at Ottawa. H. W. Smith (Sc. '35) is in the Assay Office at Trail. Irving Smith (Sc. '31) is the boss in Vancouver for Laucks Laboratories. Margaret Smith ('37) is teaching under a Fellowship at Washington State College. Wilbur Smith is electrical engineer for CJOR. Mr. and Mrs. Nic Solly (Margaret Mos- crop, Arts '31) are living at Summerland, B. C. They have a son. Victor Southey (Sc. '31) is investigating the Cambrian Shield at Timmins, Ont. Len Stacey is manager of the Packard Electric Company, Vancouver, B. C. Tim Stanley (Sc. *29) is the Foundry Superintendent at Trail. Dr. Donald Stedman (Sc. '22) is working on the National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont. Mrs. Jack Steede (Nora Higgs, Nurs. '27) has two children and is living in West Vancouver. Avril Stevenson is teaching at Kilgard. M. Ian Stevenson (Arts '27) is working in the Auditor General's office at Ottawa. Beatrice ("Bebe") Stewart who received a teaching fellowship in bacteriology at the University of California after graduating with honors from U. B. C, is married to Carl Anderson of San Francisco. She is on the faculty of U. of C. Fred Stewart is Engineer for the Greater Vancouver Water Board. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stewart (Margaret Lamb) are living at Premier, B. C. Margaret Stewart (Arts '35) is at St. George's School for Child Study in Toronto, Ont. Marjorie Stiell is at the Library School, Toronto, Ont. Dr. and Mrs. Clifford H. Stockwell (Sc. '24) (Elizabeth Johnston, Arts '30) are living in Ottawa, Ontario, where Cliff is on the Dominion Geological Survey. G. G. Sullivan is assaying at the Relief Arlington Mine, Erie, B. C. Godfrey Sullivan (Min. '35) is Mine Manager at Ymir Consolidated Gold Mines. John Sumner (Sc. '35) is assaying at the Kootenay Belle Mine. B. P. Sutherland ('25) is in the Research Office at Warfield. Andy Stirling (Mining '34) is married to Margaret Little (Arts '33) and living at Premier, B. C. Elizabeth Stoddart (Nurs. '27) is Superintendent of Metropolitan Health Unit No. 4. Jack Streight, a budding lawyer, was Crown Counsel at the Fall Assizes in New Westminster. Dr. Lyle Streight has moved from England to Canada and accepted a new post with the Canadian Industries Limited as Technical Advisor. He was married last fall. William G. Sutcliffe, Professor of Economics at Boston University since 1927, was last July appointed as Director of the Graduate Division of the College of Business Administration at the same university. He is also Associate Director of the Boston University Bureau of Business Research. Besides his educational work, he has written extensively in the field of business research, and is also in demand as a lecturer. Margaret Sutherland (Mrs. Burton Carpenter) is living at Nobel, Ontario. Mrs. Arthur Sutton (Kathleen Clarke, '25) was formerly principal of the Coqual- eetza Residential School at Sardis, B. C. She is now living at Prince Rupert, where her husband, Arthur Sutton ('29) is principal of the King Edward High School. They have two children. Lome Swannell (Sc. '31) is with Forest Ranger Service at Kamloops. Marion Swanson ('28) visited Vancouver recently with her husband, Albert Whiteley, and their small son, Hugh. They are living in Ottawa, where "Ab" is in the Department of Labor. Claudine Tait is in the Foster Travel Bureau at Atlantic City. Mrs. A. J. Taylor (Ivy Dezall, Nurs. '32) is living in Toronto. She has a daughter. (43) Mr. and Mrs. Roy Temple are living at Nelson, B. C. C. C. ("Geh") Ternan ('24) was transferred from the Kamloops District to the Vancouver Forest District. He is Assistant District Forester with headquarters in Vancouver. "Geh" was the rugby "flash" who could drop-kick a goal on the dead run with either right or left foot. Alfreda Thompson (Arts '28) who collaborated with Muriel Mac Kay, also of Arts '28, in writing the two French textbooks now being used in the high schools of this province, is at home again after a year spent travelling on the Continent and in England. Edith Tisdall is married to Harley Hatfield and has two children. They are living in Kelowna. Winkie Tisdale ('34) is working in the Mail Order Department of David Spencer Limited. Ross Tolmie (Arts '29) is working in the Revenue Department, Income Tax Division, Ottawa, Ont. Frances Fowler Tomlinson was married in July, 1937, and is now living in Cornwall, Ont. Ernest G. Touzeau ('28), Logging Engineer for Merrill, Ring & Wilson Company at Rock Bay, is the proud father of a baby girl, Marie Louise, born March 9. 1938. Mrs. Touzeau was Pauline Cote. Angus Tregidga (Elec. '33) is in Southern California taking a post graduate course. Frances Tremayne, after teaching at Strathcona Lodge School, Shawnigan Lake, for three years, is living in Vancouver and teaching at Crofton House School. Merle Turnbull (Arts '37) is working at Household Science, Toronto, Ont. Dr. Phyllis Turner (nee Gregory, Arts '25) is working in the Finance Department, Tariff Board, Ottawa, Ont. Mrs. Gertrude Tulk (Gertrude Lamont '33) is now living in Trail. Derek Tye ('35) is teaching in Nelson. Harry Van Aden is with the British Columbia Telegraph, doing engineering work. Dr. Roy L. Vollum (Arts '20) is in the Department of Pathology of the Medical School of Oxford University. Paul Vroom (Ag. '26) is connected with the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. G. W. Waddington is chief engineer for the Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waites (Arts '32) (Winona Straight, Arts '26) are living in Ottawa, where Frank is connected with insurance. Eleanor Walker has entered the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal to train as a nurse. Dorothy Mary Walker is now Mrs. Tom Easterbrook and is living in Toronto, where her husband is on the staff of the Toronto University. Florence Walker (Nurs. '35) is Executive Assistant of the Vancouver General Training School. Eleanor Wallbridge is graduating this year from Toronto General Hospital. Harold Edgar Walsh (Arts 16) is connected with transport in Ottawa, Ont. Tom Wardon (Sc. '29) is one of our leading geologists and at present is holding down a big job in South Rhodesia. Sam Warnock (Sc. '35) is with the West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Harold Watts ('20) is doing Chemical Research work in the Acid Plant at Trail. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Webster have two sons now. Arnold is still faithful to the teaching profession. Robert W. Wellwood ('35) is the recipient of a scholarship at Duke Forest School, North Carolina. He has leave of absence from the Research Division of the British Columbia Forest Service to take advanced work in Forest Mensuration next fall. Henry Alexander S. West (Sc. '34) is connected with the Mines and Resources Department, Ottawa. Phyllis Westover is in the employ of the Retail Credit Grantors' Bureau Ltd.. Vancouver. Jean Wharton is a stenographer in London, England. Helen White (Arts '16) was in England last summer and returned to India in October. She was the same Helen, we are told, in spite of the fact that she has had her share of sickness and troubles. Wallace Whyte ('35) is with the Marine Division of the ^McColl-Frontenac Company at Toronto. Dora Wilker (Nurs. '37) is Public Health Nurse at Langford, B. C. Dorothy Williams ('34) is teaching at the Trail High School. Lloyd Williams (Sc. '32) is in the Research Department at Trail. Clare Willis (Chem. '35) is a chemist with the Home Oil. Idele Wilson (Arts '31) is assistant in the Department of Economic and Political Science, Toronto, Ont. Margaret Wilson ('32) is teaching in Bridge River. Margaret Wilson is living in Victoria where she is a laboratory technician at the Royal Jubilee Hospital. Mrs. York Wilson (Dorothy Rogers, Nurs. '25) is living in White Horse. Molly Winckler travelled by freighter to Norway and spent several months there. (44) Rosemary Winslow ('33) is working at Cassidy's Limited, and is to be married this summer. Margaret Winter is teaching school in Vancouver. John Witbeck ('37) is at Peterborough, Ontario, mechanical engineering. B. M. Wood is working for the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Company in Toronto. Bruce Woodsworth (Arts '36) is working on a geological survey in South Africa. Kay Would ('35) is working for the Neighborhood Workers' Association in Toronto. Dr. C. H. Wright ('17) is head of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company Development Research Department. Howard Wright (Sc. '30) is with the B. C. Electric and certainly settled down suddenly with a new wife, a new home, a new car, and even a new baby girl. Dorothy Wylie is a laboratory technician at Vancouver General Hospital. She spends her spare time climbing mountains in the winter and sailing a boat in the summer. Richard Yerburgh ('31) teaches French and Latin at the Prince Rupert High School. Fyvie Young (Nurs. '31) is Instructor at U. B. C. under the Rockefeller Foundation for Supervision of Field Work of Public Health Students. Among those who have been taking more advanced university work are: Lewis Clarke ('32) and William Hardy ('25) each working on an M.A. from Washington; Harry Hickman ('30) an M.A. from the University of British Columbia ; (we expect all three will have received their degrees before The Chronicle is published). George H. Green ('29) has received a B.Paed. from Toronto; Babs Hart a Ph.D.; Linda Smith is taking a course in Social Service at the University of Chicago. Nelson Allen is married and teaching in Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ball (Marion Smith, Arts '26) are living in Crawford. N. J., and have a son and daughter. Hank Gortshore (Arts '26) is married and studying medicine in San Francisco. Malcolm Hebb is finishing a year's study in Holland and has just been appointed to the staff of Duke College in Carolina. Thomas Parker ('31) and ('34) has been appointed instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is at present studying for his Ph.D. at Brown, where he is an assistant in Astronomy. Barbara Robertson ('30) is doing postgraduate work at McGill University. Lionel Stevenson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. His third book, "The Wild Irish Girl" (a life of Lady Morgan), was published in London in 1936. He spent the summer of '37 in England and Ireland collecting material for another biography. His present address is 1225 West Santa Barbara Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Tommy Taylor (Arts '26) with his wife and family are at Kek Gardens, London, on leave from the University of Toronto for a year. Horace West ('36) has been awarded the William Craig Prize in New Testament History and Literature at Mc- Master University, Ontario. He is in his second year of the B.D. course. Sophie W. Witter ('34) is married to Rev. R. G. de la Haye, B.Th., and their address is care Sudan Interior Mission, Minna, Nigeria, West Africa. Sophie took the three-year medical-missionary course at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. She and her husband are learning the Hausa language, and with examinations coming up in June, expect to be assigned to a mission station. Doreen Woodford (*37) is doing postgraduate work at U. B. C., and plans to take a course in Library work next year. SOCIAL SERVICE GRADUATES Kathleen Bourne ('36), Grace Cavan ('36), Estelle (Matheson) Chave, Eileen Griffin ('31), Mary McGeer, Hope Palmer (*34), Verna Stinson ('30), Mary Sadler ('32) and Jean Thomas ('34) are all with the Children's Aid Society, Vancouver. Dorothy Coombe ('27), Margaret Dick ('31), Margot Greene, Beryl Rogers ('34), and Betty Smith ('30) are with the Fam- il" Welfare Bureau, Vancouver. Jean Campbell ('33) is Intermediate Girls' Secretary, Y. W. C. A., Vancouver, and Rhuna Osborne is a case-worker there. Helen Braidwood, Ewart Hetherington and Bessie Kennedy ('31) are with the Provincial Field Service, Vancouver. Constance Brown ('37) is with the Friendly Help Welfare in Victoria. Joan Hallett ('33) recently left the Provincial Welfare Field Service, Prince George District, and plans shortly to marry St. John Madeley of Trail. Isobel Harvey ('32), as head of the Child Welfare Branch of the Provincial Government, is Superintendent of Neglected Children. Katherine Hockin ('32) taught for a while at an Indian School on the West Coast of Vancouver Island and is now- teaching somewhere in the Maritimes. Grace Hope ('25) is with the Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. (45) Mrs. Thomas Lott (nee Maud Hutson, '31) is a member of the Provincial Welfare Field Staff with headquarters at Penticton. Her husband is employed by the experimental farm at Summerland. Berna Martin ('36) is with the Provincial Welfare Field Service with her headquarters at Chilliwack. Betty Moscovich ('37) is on the staff of the Provincial Welfare Field Service temporarily in New Westminster. Mrs. Mary Nicholson (nee McDonald) ('36) is with the John Howard Society of Vancouver as head of the Women's Division. Frances Reynolds ('31) is Secretary of the Social Service Exchange, Vancouver. Barbara Robertson ('33) is taking a course in Medical Social Work at McGill Isobel Rutter ('37) is on the staff of the Essondale Provincial Hospital. Reverend Roy Stobie ('33) is a minister at Britannia Beach. Helen Sutherland is employed in the Social Service of the Outpatients' Department of the Vancouver General Hospital. Margaret Thomson ('28) is with the Vancouver Day Nursery Association. Winifred Wiggins is on the Social Service staff of Essondale Provincial Hospital. Pearl Willows ('35) is taking a kindergarten course at the United Church School for Missionaries in Toronto. EXCERPTS FROM A PARIS LETTER THIS year, in Paris, a small colony from British Columbia represents our University. There are three of us here— Joan Dangelzer, Elizabeth Houston and I. Joan is staying at the Cite Universitaire in the College Franco-Britannique, while Elizabeth and I are living together in a French family. Our apartment house is built on one of the hills in the south of Paris, and from the windows of our rooms up on the top floor (we have an elevator to go up in but have to walk down the seven flights of stairs) we have a splendid view over the city. Paris lies at our feet, its streets humming with the continuous passing of heavy traffic, shrill with the calls of children and the harsh cries of hawkers. Through the middle of the Latin Quarter passes the "Boul' Mich", central thoroughfare of the students. Young people throng by, books in hand, hatless, happy, representing all the nations of the earth. At nearly every corner are big cafes, usually filled to capacity as the students munch "croissants", drink coffee or beer, sip aperitifs, chat, discuss politics, write letters or glance casually through their class notes. Concerts and theatres, lectures, art galleries and museums are always ready to receive us. The floodlighting at night of the sculptures of the Louvre is absolutely unforgettable. Imagine the Winged Victory, placed on high at the top of an imposing flight of stairs, now standing out white, in sharp relief against the dark shadows of the hall, now black, in delicate silhouette against the soft lighting of the stairway. The theatres are invariably interesting. Charles Dullin, at the "Atelier", has just finished playing, with great success, the French translation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Louis Jouvet put on again recently at the "Athenee" his masterpiece, Knock—amusing, excellently acted, with the most intriguing of scenic effects. And Paul Valery has been giving to packed audiences a series of lectures on Poetry. It's curious to hear a living poet lecturing, as professor of the College de France, on the principles and theories of his art. Our latest excursion outside of Paris was a short visit to Brittany. Since the Mardi Gras gave us a long week-end, Elizabeth and I set out for St. Malo. We went ostensibly to pay our respects to Jacques Cartier, but in reality to be once more close to the sea and the rocks. Yet, in the midst of our travels and our amusements, we are not allowed to forget our work. Elizabeth goes faithfully each morning to the Ecole de Preparation for lectures which start at 8:30. She has just finished a course at the Institute de Phonetique, passing the examinations most successfully. Joan and I still carry on with our theses. After days of research in the far from inspiring atmosphere of the Paris libraries, and hours of composing, we are now looking forward to the somewhat doubtful joys of proof-correcting and the decided agony of the public defense of our theses next June. DEBORAH AISH. POWELL RIVER I am the paper mill. The paper mill is almost everything. Powell River is noted for its flowers, paper, and weather. With a rainfall of only 35 inches per year, it is something like Victoria for sunshine. The graduates are chiefly concentrated into two callings—the mill technical staff and the teaching profession. The former headed by H. Andrews (Sc. '22), includes seven graduates; the latter, principalled by J. Waugh (Arts '32), occupies ten gowns. This does not exhaust the ranks of the Alumni, for we find one lawyer, one stenographer, and one mechanical engineer, as well as several wives still faithful to Alma Mater. Even with all the twenty odd graduates it remains for Science '32, in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. LePage and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Black, to do something about the future graduates. (46) FACULTY AND STAFF RESIGNATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS RESIGNATIONS: Mr. Robert England, Director of University Extension. Mr. E. G. Cullwick, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Mrs. Helen Mathews Swangard, Instructor in Bacteriology. Dr. S. D. Lash, Instructor in Civil Engineering. APPOINTMENTS: A. M. Crooker, B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto), Lecturer in Physics. J. A. Irving, M.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Cambridge), Professor of Philosophy. S. C. Morgan, B.S. (Queen's), M.Sc. (Alberta), M.Sc. (Cal. Inst, of Tech.), Professor in Electrical Engineering. H. M. Mcllroy, M.Sc. (Queen's), Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. A. B. Recknagel, Lecturer in Forestry (Degrees not listed). G. M. Shrum, Ph.D. (Toronto), F.R.C.S., Director of University Extension. U. B. C. GRADUATES APPOINTED TO THE FACULTY AND STAFF: Oscar E. Anderson, Ph.D. (Cal.), Lecturer in Physics. Miss Dorothy Blakey, Ph.D. (London), Assistant Professor in English. Miss Dorothy Coombe, Lecturer in Social Service. Miss Helen Creelman, Lecturer in Library Work. James A. Gibson, B.A., B.Litt. (Oxon), Lecturer in Economics. Graham G. Griffith, M.F. (Harvard), Instructor in Forestry and Assistant in Botany. Miss Joyce Hallamore, Ph.D. (Munich), Assistant Professor of German. J. Allen Harris, Ph.D. (Illinois), Assistant Professor in Chemistry. W. O. Richmond, M.S. (Pittsburgh), Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Miss Wessie Tipping, Docteur de l'Univer- site de Paris, Assistant Professor in French. Frank Wilson, B.Sc. (Durham), M.A. (Brit. Col), Lecturer in Philosophy. Miss Fyvie Young, Instructor in Nursing. ASSISTANTS: *(M.E.) H. P. Archibald; (Phys.) Walter M. Barss; *(Eng.) Roger Bishop; (Bact.) Miss Una Bligh; (Phys.) Morris Bloom; (Econ.) C. N. Brennan; *(Eng.) Royce Butler; (Zoo.) W. M. Cameron; (Chem.) Francis Cook; (Bot.) John F. Davidson; (Geol.) E. P. Davis; *(Math.) Bernard F. Deshaw; (Bot.) Miss Charlotte Dill; (Econ.) Victor L. Dryer. (Chem.) Arthur M. Eastham; (Phys.) W. English; (Bot.) Miss Helen M. Farley; (Bot.) W. Gordon Fields; (Chem.) J. H. Fisher; *(Math.) John W. S. Fleury; (Math.) Norman S. Free; *(Eng.) Miss Faith Grigsby; (Bact.) Howard J. Horn; (Bot.) Miss Norah Hughes; (Research) K. Jacob. (Phys.) J. Kadzielawa; (Econ.) Mrs. F. A. Lazenby; *(Econ.) David A .Lewis; *(M.E.) Walter J. Lind; *(Math.) Miss Elspeth Lintott; (Eng.) Miss Helen Mc- Arran; (C.E.) H. R. McArthur; *(Phil.) Mrs. Mabel McConnell; (Zoo.) J. L. Mc- Hugh; (Fr.) Miss Jean Macintosh; (Hist.) R. McKenzie; *(Eng.) Miss Jean MacLaurin; (Bact.) Gordon B. Mathias; (Bot.) Harold Menzies; (Bot.) John Men- zies; (Bot.) C. Dawson Moodie; (Phys.) George H. Mossop. (Chem.) Herman Nemetz; (Chem.) Thomas Niven; (Dairy) Miss Olga Oku- litch; (E.E.) W. W. Pullinger; (Zoo.) Daniel B. Quayle; (Math.) E. deL. Rogers; *(Mod.) Mrs. A. Roys; (Bot.) John C. Scholefield; (Math.) Miss Phyllis Shaw; (Chem.) C. B. Shipton; (Eng.) Miss Norah M. Sibley; (Math.) W. Simons; (Chem.) Robin N. Smith; (Chem.) J. A. Spragge; *(Math.) A. B. Staniforth. (M.E.) Daniel W. Thomson; (Chem.) Kenneth A. West; (Geol.) Wm. H. White; (Bot.) W. Clarke Wilkin; (Hist.) Arthur J. Wirick; (Dairy) Alexander J. Wood; (Chem.) Miss Frances Wright; (Phil.) Miss H. M. Vance. PHYSICAL DIRECTORS: ♦(Women) Miss Gertrude E. Moore; *(Men) Mr. Van Vliet. •Indicates other than TJ. B. C. graduates. LOCATION OF GRADUATES October, 1937. Number in: Vancouver 2140 50.6% Other parts of British Columbia 1126 26.6% Other parts of Canada.... 255 6.0% British Isles 32 1.0% Other parts of British Empire 15 1.0% United States of America 177 4.2% Other countries 35 1.0% Number deceased 62 1.0% Number whose address is unknown 367 8.6% Total 4209 100.0% (47) SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND BURSARIES AWARDED TO GRADUATES & During the year many scholarships, fellowships and bursaries have been won by graduates of the University, include awards which have been made in The University of British Columbia. The following list does not In many cases these scholarships and fellowships carry with them free tuition or exemption from fees in addition to their monetary value. Total value of scholarships, fellowships, and bursaries won by our graduates in other Universities and in Institutes since the first awards were made in 1917, $569,707.00. 1937 Allen, George S Bidwell Fellowship in Forestry.. Beall, Desmond Beit Fellowship (3 years) Brink, Vernon C Assistantship Christy, Robert F Fellowship Clayton, Henry H Fellowship Danielson, Gordon C Fellowship Darrach, Marvin D Teaching Fellowship Ford, William L Fellowship Fordyce, Reid G National Research Council Studentship Fulton, E. Davie Rhodes Scholarship (3 years) Godard, Hugh P National Research Council Bursary (and additional scholarship from Cellulose Industries) Goumeniouk, Gleb Research Assistantship Grant, W. Leonard The Albert and Anna Howard Fellowship (half).. Guthrie, Andrew Fellowship Hebb, Malcolm H Travelling Fellowship Hooley, Gilbert ...Teaching Fellowship How, Thomas G Fellowship Keenlyside, William M...Graduate Assistantship Kusaka, Shuiehi Graduate Scholarship Lovell, Edwin L Fellowship More, Kenneth R ..Sterling Scholarship Morris, Gordon B Graduate Assistantship MacKenzie, Kenneth R....Fellowship McLeish, Charles W. Assistantship.. $500 Forestry University of California. 2000 a yr. Medical Research University of London. 600 Genetics and Agricultural Chemistry University of Wisconsin. 600 Physics University of California. 700 Physics Purdue University. 700 Physics Purdue University. 700 Biochemistry University of Toronto. 600 Chemistry Northwestern University. 750 Chemistry Cellulose Research Laboratories, McGill University. £400 a yr Oxford University. $600 1500 500 700 1500 1000 700 500 500 600 1400 500 600 400 McMahon, Howard O Teaching Fellowship.. MacPhail, Donald C Assistantship Pyle, James J Fellowship Salisbury, H. Frederick. Assistantship Smith, Ronald N ...Fellowship Snow, W. Eugene Assistantship Thurber, Judson B University Fellowship Volkoff, George M Fellowship Walker, Forrester Teaching Fellowship Walker, Robert D Teaching Fellowship Watson, Kenneth DeP Graduate Assistantship West, Philip M Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship.. Wilson. Norton Fellowship - 400 600 550 700 650 200 750 500 700 600 450 700 Chemistry Cellulose Research Laboratories. Electrical Engineering..University of Wisconsin. Classics Harvard University. Physics Purdue University. Physics Harvard University. Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Physics Purdue University. History Clark University. Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chemistry Cellulose Research Laboratories. Physics Yale University. Geology Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Physics University of California. Electrical Engineering....California Institute of Technology. Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mechanical Engineering.California Institute of Technology. Chemistry Cellulose Research Laboratories. Agricultural Chemistry MacDonald College, McGill Univ. Physics Purdue University. Geology California Institute of Technology. Geology University of Colorado. Physics University of California. Chemistry McGill University. Chemistry University of California. Geology Princeton Graduate School. Agronomy University of Wisconsin. Chemistry California Institute of Technology.
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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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