U.B.C. ALUMN. CHRONICLE *to 'VMS ■MS*?! CJ.'»V. 1931 (l 'i i ' ,m ■^^ 1 ii <fi ^ lh*>. i 11 4.* ■•■Ii.^l 1>« '4 v ANNIVERSARY NUMBER - 1956 ummer 1956 How much ill you keep of your first $100,000? Delieve it or not, you'll likely earn more than that during your working jears. So the big question is: How much of this will still he yours when you retire? You owe it to yourself to make sure you keep enough. Bank a regular amount from each pay from now on ... at the B of M. And hold on to a worthwhile share of the fortune you will earn. 10 ! MIUIOH CAHADItHS HUD Bank of Montreal WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK DF LIFE SINCE 1817 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE U. B. C. Alumni Chronicle Published by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia Editor: Harry T. Logan, M.C, M.A. Assistant to the Editor: Sally Gallinari, B.A.'49. Board of Management EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: President, E. W. H. Brown, 8.A.'34; Past President, Peter Sharp, B.Com.'36; First Vice-President, Nathan Nemetz, Q.C., B.A.'34; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Pauline Ranta, B.A/35, B.S.N.'39; Third Vice-President, Dr. M. F. McGregor, B.A.'30; M.A.'31; Treasurer, A. P. Gardner, B.A/37; Published in Vancouver Executive Secretary, A. H. Sager, D.F.C., B.A/38; Chronicle Editor, Harry T. Logan, M.C, M.A.; MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: William A. Craig, B.A/50, LL.B.'51; Miss Rika Wright, B.A/33; Miss Mildred Wright, S.W. Dipl.'45; John Lecky, B.A/41; John Ashby, B.A/33; Leonard B. Stacey, B.A.Sc/24. SENATE REPRESENTATIVES: Miss Marjorie Agnew, B.A. '22; The Hon. Mr. Justice A. E. Lord, B.A/21; Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan, B.A/32, F.R.S.C., Ph.D. (Calif.)'35. DEGREE REPRESENTATIVES: Agriculture, Ralph H. Gram, B.S.A/37; Applied Science, M. A. Thomas, B.A.Sc.'31; Architecture, Findlay W. Scott, B.Arch.'52; Arts, M's. Mary Robertson, B.A/49; Commerce, T. R. Watt, B.Com.'49; Education, Robin Smith, B.A/37, M.A/51; Forestry, John H. G. Smilh, , Canada, and authorised as second class mail, Post B.S.F.'49; Home Economics, Mrs. A. R. Gillon, B.H.E/48; Law, William A. Craig, B.A/50, LL.B/51; Medicine, Dr. D. H. Zimmerman, B.A/49, M.D/55; Nursing, Mrs. Shiela Smith, B.S.N/40; Pharmacy, Fred Wiley, B.S.P/53; Physical Education, Frank Kennedy, B.P.E.'50; Social Work, Miss Mildred Wright, S.W. Dipl.- '45. ALMA MATER SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE: Donald E. Jabour, A.M.S. President. Editorial Committee Chairman: E. W. H. Brown; Members: G. Dudley Darling, A. P. Gardner, Harry T. Logan, A. H. Sager, Peter Sharp. CHRONICLE OFFICES Business and Editorial Offices: 201 Brock Hall, U.B.C, Vancouver 8, B.C. Office Dept., Ottawa. Vol. 10, No. 2. Summer, 1956 CONTENTS INCLUDE PAGE Death of Professor Lemuel Robertson 3 Editorial . . 5 Branches—Arthur Sager . 7 Graduate Profile: Hugh L. Keenleyside— Patricia Hamilton Smith 8-9 The President Reports .... .... 11 No News Is Good News—David Brock 13 Secondary Education in B.C.—F.P.L. 14-15 Address to Graduating Classes— Dean H. F. Angus . 16-17 History of Alumni Magazine— Ormonde J. Hal| 18-19 Headlines and News Comments— Mary Fal'is 20-21 A Tale of the Pub—and After— Margaret Ecker Francis 22-23 Forty-First Congregation—Editor 24-25 Book Reviews . . . . 26-27 E. W. H. Brown, Alumni President— Editor 28-29 Alumni News . 31-32 The Faculty 33 Sports Summary—R. J. (Bus) Phillips 35 Campus News and Views—Ian Smythe 37 Academy of Science—C. A. Hornby 38 FRONT COVER Pictures on the Front Cover of this Issue illustrate the changing format of the Chronicle. The first number, dated April, 1931, sombre in appearance, was 9'/i inches by 6%, as compared with the size of the illustrated type of publication, >-..; beginning in 1940, * ^;.;" which is 11'A by 8'/4 inches. Represented also in the cover pictures are the grim reality of war (July, 1943), feverish post-war construction (March, 1948), and the continuing plans for new campus buildings (Spring, 1956). Studied individually, the four magazine covers may be interpreted as suggesting the varying moods and fortunes of the University during the quarter century of the Chronicle's life. Lt. Gray was UBC CHRONICLE STOP PRESS The death occurred in Ottawa on Monday, May 14, of Professor Emeritus Lemuel F. Robertson, M.A., LL.D., former Head of U.B.C.'s Department of Classics and much- loved friend of many generations of U.B.C. students. He was 83. MEMORY OF V.C. HONOURED The new Post December, 1945 Office - Federal Building in Nelson, B.C., will be the first in Canada to be named after a famous Canadian. In this instance he is Lt. Robert H. Gray, V. C, D. S. 0., R. C. N. V. R., a member of Arts'41. awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for his bravery in bombing and sinking a Japanese destroyer August 9, 1945, a few days before V.J. Day. SOVIET SCIENTISTS FRIENDLY Dr. G. M. Volkoff, M.B.E., M.A.'36, Ph.D.(Calif.), D.Sc'45, F.R.S.C, Professor, Department of Physics, attended the Sixth Annual Conference on High Energy Physics held at Rochester, N.Y., April 3-7, as one of three Canadian representatives. Ac- tendance at the Conference was by invitation, with the 200 participants coming from all parts of the world to discuss the latest results on Anti- protons,. Light and Heavy Mesons, and various "strange" particles. A highlight of the Conference was the presence of three prominent Physicists from Soviet Russia who mingled freely with the other Physicists, and reported on recent Russian work in the High Energy field. They described the 10 billion-volt Proton Accelerator nearing completion in the U.S.S.R.— at present the largest such machine in the world is the 6 billion-volt Bevatron at Berkeley, California—and they announced plans for a 50 billior- volt Accelerator to be built by Russian scientists in the near future. By contrast, the largest Accelerator at present available in Canada is the 0.1 billion (100 million)-volt Cyclotron at McGill University, while the U.B.C. Electrostatic Generator gives only 0.002 billion (2 million) volts. However, the Canadian Association of Physicists has appointed a committee, of which Dr. Volkoff is a member, to look into the feasibility of a High Energy laboratory for Canada. REUNIONS IN 1956 The Alumni Office will be sending circular letters shortly to the Classes of 1926, 1936, 1946, 1931 and perhaps 1921 about Reunions and Anniversaries tentatively being planned for the week of Homecoming ending on November 3. Following the precedent established last year, the Alumni Association Executive has agreed to help in the sponsorship of these reunions, provided a sufficient number of Class members are interested and willing to set up committees. Volunteers for the Reunion Committees will be welcomed with open arms. Phone or write to the Alumni Office, ALma 4200. — A.H.S. Salt Water Cure The wise and old have sometime said or sung "Salt water mends all sorrows of the young: For those who think they're better off when dead— When life's accounts are wholly in the red— There are three cures—the sea, salt tears or sweat." But there's another cure the wise forget: (Your guess is wrong this time, not drink) Besides these others, there is always —INK. Anne Margaret Angus (from The Canadian Forum, November, 1938.1 DIRECTORY OF U.B.C. ALUMNI BRANCHES AND PRESIDENTS Calgary—S. P. Burden, B.A.Sc'40, 3032 26th St., S.W. Northern California—Albert A. Drennan, B.A. '23, 420 Market St., San Francisco 11. Southern California—Les. W. McLennan, B.A. '22, 917 Sierra Vista Drive, Fullerton. Creston—W. H. Wilde, B.A/50, M.S. (Utah)'52, Box 1167. Edmonton—C. A. Westcott, B.A/50, B.S.W/51, 10138-100 "A" St. Kimberley—L. H. Garstin, B.A/40, M.A/46, Box 313. Kelowna—Nancy Gale, M.A/39, 234 Beach Ave. Montreal—H. P. Capozzi, B.A/47, B.Com.'48, P.O. Box 6000. Nanaimo—Hugh B. Heath, B.A/49, LL.B/50, Box 121. Ocean Falls—John Graham, B.A.Sc/50, P.O. Box 593. Ottawa—Don Chutter, B.Com.'44, Canadiai Construction Assoc, 151 O'Connor St. Penticton—William T. Halcrow, 300 Farrell SI. Portland—Dr. David B. Charlton, B.A/25, 2340 Jefferson St. Prince George—Denning E. Waller, B.A/49, D.D.S., 1268 5th Ave. Prince Rupert—John Banman, B.A.Sc.'46, 215 Elizabeth Apts. Regina—Gray A. Gillespie, B.Com.'48, 1841 Scarth St. Seattle—Robert J. Boroughs, B.A/39, M.A.'43, 2515 S.W. 169th Place (66). Summerland—G. Ewart Woolliams, B.A/25, M.Sc.(Idaho), Dominion Field Laboratory ot Plant Pathology. Toronto—Roy V. Jackson, B.A.'43, 48 Glen view Ave. Trail—J. V. Rogers, B.A.Sc.'33, CM. S, S. Co. Ltd. Venezuela—H. Leslie Brown, B.A/28, Canadian Embassy, Apartado 3306, Caracas. Victoria—Dr. W. H. Gaddes, B.A/39, M.A/46, 4150 Cedar Hill Rd. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Management and Labour When they work together management and labour can work miracles in our modern industrial civilization. Employee benefit plans such as group life insurance group accident and health plans and pension plans can work miracles too in employer-employee relations. Consult a trained Canada Life representative who will bring to your problems his own experience and the advice of our specialized departments. Canada Life ' '/cssnrantc (,om/>anu ESTABLISHED 1847 ENJOY LIFE TODAY WHILE SAVING FOR TOMORROW U. B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE The Editor's Page— The First Quarter Century This is the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Graduate Chronicle. In order to make room for special commemorative articles in addition to the news and other feature material of the magazine, the Editorial Committee gave permission to publish forty pages instead of the usual thirty-six. Planning of the Issue was done at a meeting of Alumni Editors, past and present. These included, Miss Sadie Boyles, who helped to produce the first two editions of the Graduate Chronicle in April, 1931 and May, 1932; Lorraine Bolton, Assistant Editor, 1937; Rosemary Winslow McAllister, Totem Editor, 1932, Editor Chronicle, 1938; Doris Barton Ross, Totem Editor 1931, Assistant Editor Chronicle, 1938; Margaret Ecker Francis, Totem Editor 1936, Chronicle Editor 1939-41; Mary Fallis, Assistant Editor 1945-50; and Ormy Hall, who, during his seven-year period as Editor, 1946- 1953, continued and enhanced the reputation of the U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle as one of the foremost Graduate quarterlies of its kind on this continent. Among those unavoidably absent was Helen Crawford, Editor of the 1936 and 1937 Graduate Chronicle editions. Miss Crawford wrote her regrets from her native heath in Scotland where she is "Woman Adviser" in Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow, "the school", she writes, "in which I was educated and which sent me to U.B.C." Our thanks are due to Margaret Francis, Ormy Hall and Mary Fallis who volunteered to prepare the anniversary material. An almost complete set of Student and Alumni publications, on file in the U.B.C. Library, was kindly made available by the Library Staff. The stories resulting from a reflective study of these documents are given on pages 18-23 and comprise Ormy Hall's breezy "potted History" of the Chronicle, Mary Fallis' cleverly- chosen digest of its contents, and Margaret Francis' amusing Tale with biography vignettes of persons in the related area of the Student Publications Board. As one reads these highly entertaining pages a multitude of thoughts crowd the mind. Out of the welter emerge three clear observations. The first is that the University and the Alumni have been very well served by their Alumni magazines. Here may be found, in miniature, the story of U.B.C, from its early home in the Fairview shacks, through the joys and struggles of its middle period at Point Grey, into phenomenal, almost incredible post-war expansion, with its attendant problems of gigantic stature, and on to the present. And, along with accounts of events taking place 5 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE at the University, we are kept in touch with the achievements of large numbers of our Graduates. The second observation has to do directly with the growth of the Alumni Association itself. As the story told in Mary Fallis' synopsis unfolds, we see the Association come into se'f- conscious being, extend soon into an organization with Branches, focus its attention gradually upon Scholarships and other helpful objectives, until, with gathering vitality and momentum and with increasing responsibilities, it assumes the important place it holds in U.B.C. affairs to-day. The third observation, linked to the others, is that the service rendered by the Chronicle has been generously provided by a succession of great-hearted Graduates, from Isobel Harvey and her associates to Ormy Hall and his helpers, in the true and essential spirit of the U.B.C. motto— Tuum Est. It is interesting to note that, by happy coincidence, the address of Dean Henry Angus, given to the Graduating Classes on May 14, deals with certain aspects of U.B.C. History. It seemed most appropriate, therefore, to include Dean Angus' address in this Anniversary Number and it is printed almost in full on pages 16 and 17. School Education in B.C. The thanks of readers are given to Dr. Harold L. Campbell and his associates in the Department of Education for the series of four articles contributed to the Chronicle, dealing with the School System in British Columbia. The last of these, entitled Secondary Education, appears in this Issue. Previously published were. New College of Education (Autumn 1955); General Aspects of Education (Winter 1955) and Elementary Education (Spring 1956). These authoritative studies are of interest to every parent of school-age children and have been much appreciated. In fHemrirtam The death of P'rofessor Emeritus Lemuel Robertson, M.A., LL.D., for many years Head of the Department of Classics in the University, and noted pioneer in Secondary and Higher Education in British Columbia, removes from our midst one who will long be remembered with affection by all who knew him. There have surely been few teachers who, by precept and example better represented what is meant by the Humanities. The deep sympathy of his host of friends will be extended to Professor Robertson's widow, to their three children, Norman, Mary and Barbara, all U.B.C. Graduates, and to their families. Ojxtv-, T. L 1 <£Ua From the Mail Bag— BOOKSELLERS? In this issue of The Chronicle a small book of poems by one of our own Graduates is reviewed. It is the second poetry booklet published by the University of New Brunswick, which printed 500 copies of each to retail at fifty cents a copy. The editors state that since the series was started they have written to more than forty booksellers, enclosing sample copies, offering to take back and pay for any unsold copies after a reasonable time, and offering a liberal percentage of the price of the book as a commission for selling. Ninety-five per cent of the stores did not even reply to the letter. In an effort to second the commendable and unselfish project of the University of New Brunswick, and of the editors of this series and of The Fiddlehead (a quarterly magazine devoted to publishing new poems), the U.B.C. bookstore is stocking 50 copies of Lost Diver and a few copies of The Fiddlehead. In our Universities, if anywhere, there are people interested in new, creative writing in Canada. If other Canadian Universities will emulate the pioneering spirit of U.B.C, who knows? A small but discriminating band of readers may rescue from quite undeserved neglect and discouragement poets who have something to add to Canada's contribution to the arts. Anne M. Angus, 1345 W. 58th Ave., Vancouver, April 30, 1956. APPROVES ASIAN STUDIES The recent issue of the U.B.C. Reports was of much interest to me. For many years I have hoped that U.B.C. could muster the means to dabble in the field of Oriental thought, with reflected cultures. It looks as if you have arrived at that point. There are some golden opportunities in this direction for Canada. I note also your extremely good fortune in getting Sir Herbert Read for the Summer School. All the news from the University these days seems to be good news. Lester W. McLennan, B.A.'22, B.Sc.(Oxon.), 917 Sierra Vista Drive, Fullerton, California. April 20, 1956. U.B.C. IN LONDON It has recently befallen my lot to be chosen as pro tern Chronicle Correspondent for the remainder of my stay in England . . . From Sept. to date the London Branch has held three meetings . . . The retiring Executive is as follows: Mrs. Grace Laugharne, B.A.'25, (Pres.); Miss Mary Harvey, B.A.'25, (Sec); Mrs. Douglas Roe is the new President and Mr. James Clavel, B.A/54, the new secretary; Mr. H. P. E. Smith, Arts'25, continues on as Treasurer; and Mr. W. R. D. Underhill, B.A.'54, LL.B.'55, replaces Mr. H. F. E. Smith as Chronicle Correspondent. In a more newsy vein . . . Jim McWilliams, B.S.F.'53, is finishing off a "The Royal Bank has over 850 doors to business in Canada and abroad" On the spot information on business opportunities in the areas they serve is available through the more than 850 Royal Bank branches in Canada and abroad. Managers enjoy wide business contacts and can open doors for you. Our Business Development and Foreign Trade Departments are a ready source of information on many subjects of immediate interest to businessmen and offer many services far beyond the realm of routine banking. 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House, 1-3 Regent Street, London S.W.I, March 28, 1956. + BRANCHES SUGGESTIONS FOR ALUMNI ACTIVITY By Arthur Sager October Many times during the past few months I've been asked "What type of programme should an Alumni Branch undertake?" Sometimes the question comes from organised branches, more often from groups about to organise or from individual Alumni. What can Graduates do, individually or collectively, in support of the University and in their own interest without duplicating the work of other organisations in the community? In place of the usual summary of Branch activity, I thought it might be useful if I were to talk around this subject and perhaps give some examples, as I did in the Winter Issue, of interesting programmes being sponsored by Branches in B.C. and elsewhere. I've just returned from a three-day trip to Vancouver Island with Professor Stan Read of the English Department. In Nanaimo, Qualicum, Ladysmith, Duncan and Cowichan Lake we talked to Senior High School students about the importance of Higher Education. In February, I travelled for the same purpose to Ocean Falls, Kitimat, Terrace and Prince Rupert, both trips arranged under the auspices of the Extension Department. Professor Read and I had interesting talks with High School Teachers, most of whom were U.B.C. Graduates. On the up-coast trip I also had an opportunity of meeting Alumni in other fields. Everywhere the subject was Education — Elementary, Secondary and Higher Education. This was the subject of keenest interest, the one subject common to Graduates of all ages. I'm glad that this is so because I have alwavs be- At Nanaimo. From Left: Hugh B. Heath, President, Nanaimo Branch; Mrs. Donald M. Cunliffe, Secretary; Arthur Sager; Larry E. Wright, B.A.Sc'46, Member of the Executive. lieved that those of us who have had the benefits of University training should take an active interest in, and assume some responsibility for, our "democratic" educational system. Canadian education is "public" education. Our schools and universities are administered, generally speaking, by elected officials and government departments responsible to an elected Minister. Policy on curricula, teaching, and facilities is indirectly and sometimes very considerably influenced by public opinion expressed through School Boards, Municipal Councils and M.L.A.'s. Local School Boards are particularly influential and are usually best- qualified to transmit or put into action the wishes of parents and others ir. the community who are concerned with our schools and what goes or in them. It is most important, I think, that our School Boards should be composed of men and women who are sympathetic towards education. By this I do not mean that School Board members should necessarily support present educational policies, that they should be "yes men"; but I do believe that they should be convinced of the need for high standards of education and that this should come first in their aims in seeking office. I would like to see more of our Graduates running for School Board office and taking an active part in Parent-Teacher organisations. This is a project —- encouraging qualified and "sympathetic" people to accept civic responsibilities—which can and should be sponsored by Branches and groups of Alumni. Many Branches and individual Alumni are active in the general field of "public relations" and are doing good service to the University by associating themselves with local educational or University Extension programmes. Here, I believe, there is a natural field for Branch activity. Many groups in B.C. are now cooperating closely, through the Alumni Office, in the "Community Forum" series sponsored by the Department of Extension, acting as "local contacts", and in many cases arranging speaking engagements for visiting members of the Faculty. During the past winter, The Nanaimo and District Branch associated itself with a local evening lecture series featuring University speakers, while the Victoria Branch sponsored several successful public panels on subjects of current interest. Both activities are, I think, good examples of Alumni operating in an important educational field. On our recent trip to the Island, Professor Read and I were disturbed by the lack of interest in Higher Education evident among fairly large groups of capable senior students who are studying the University Programme in High School. Well-paid jobs—manual and semi-skilled—are plentiful for first-class High School Graduates, and these are attracting young men who should be going to the University or gaining advanced training of some kind. I recognise that some of these lads are given continuous technical training by their employers, and that some go on to the University after a period of practical experience. But far too many of them are permanently diverted from further education. This, I believe, is a serious situation when one considers how desperately short Canada is of Engineers, Scientists and qualified people in all professional fields. The development of our resources and the prosperity of our country is even now being affected by the shortage of University - trained leaders. Nearly every U.B.C. Graduate, and certainly those in the scientific and technological fields, have had a choice of half-a-dozen good positions this Spring. And the demand for Graduates increases every year. I would like to see our Alumni, wherever they may be, taking an active interest in this problem. More emphasis will have to be given at the High School level to the importance of Higher Education. This can be done in many ways, but the best way is the direct one, namely, via Parent - Teachers Associations and School Boards. Education at all levels is Alumni business and any activity, which develops goodwill and support for education, should furnish the basis for a profitable and satisfying Branch programme. Ottawa Branch Executive meet to prepare plans for current season. From Left: Dr. John Davis, Immediate Past President; Ted MacDonald, Director; Victor Johnson, Vice-President; Jean Marlow, Treasurer; Don Chutter, President, 1956-57. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Graduate Profile — Hugh L Keenleyside April, 1945 Graduates of U.B.C. hold today many interesting, important and unusual positions in various parts of the world, but it is doubtful whether any other U.B.C. Graduate has crammed as much unusual experience into his life as Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.H.S., F.R.G.S. A succession of posts, each utilising the experiences of earlier years, and in turn building a foundation for the future, prepared him for his present exacting and important work as Director-General of the vast Technical Assistance Administration of the United Nations. The University of British Columbia was young at the time when Hugh Keenleyside and his future wife, Katherine Hall Pillsbury, attended lectures in the old Fairview Arts Building. His academic work was interrupted by service in the C.F.A. and 2nd Tank Battalion, from which he returned in 1918. Their class, Arts'20, was the second to complete its four years under the authority of U.B.C. These were the days when classes were small, everyone knew everyone else, rivalry was keen and precedents were being set which were to become the traditions of the growing University. Arts'20's creed was "Originality — the class that's different", and its pride was to blaze trails for others to follow. In all these activities, whether organising new student societies, climbing Grouse Mountain in a snowstorm, or initiating the Relay Race to Point Grey, Hugh Keenleyside played an active part. As the 1920 Annual pointed out, he was "generally starting something." Winner of one of the few postgraduate Fellowships available to U.B.C. students at that time, he spent the next years in research work in History at Clark University, where he received the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. His first book, "Canada and the United States", an authoritative analysis of relations between the two countries, resulted from his research By 'Patricia Hamilton Smith, B.A.'20, M.A.(Tor.) during this period. The interpretation of this relationship, based on "similarity of ideals" and "practical, hard, commercial reasons reinforcing these foundations of shared ideals", has continued to be an interest of Dr. Keenleyside's in spite of pressure of other work, as shown by the publication of an enlarged and revised edition in 1952. In an article in "Current History", July, 1955, he summed up the past and present relations between the countries and outlined basic factors controlling relations in the future: "Canadians and Americans are not identical. They will not always understand or approve of each other. There will be conflicts of interest and differences of view. But each country has so much more to gain from friendship and co-operation than can be obtained from hostility or disregard of the other's welfare, that it is reasonable to assume that mutually acceptable solutions will be found for even the most difficult conflicts of interest or opinion." In 1926 he returned to U.B.C. as a member of the Staff of the History Department. But academic work could never employ fully his organising ability, or satisfy his adventurous mind, and in 1928 he joined the Staff of the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Here the combination of historical research with talents for organisation and leadership started him on a line of work which was to take him to many interesting and varied posts as Canada's representative. The first of these was in Tokyo. In May, 1929, Dr. Keenleyside sailed for Japan with the rank of First Secretary, to open the first Canadian Legation in Japan. As this was Canada's only diplomatic representation in the Orient, considerable attention was paid to Chinese affairs, and Dr. Keenleyside visited China more than once, besides journeying through *Miss Patricia Hamilton Smith, in loyal conformity to the Arts'20 creed of "Originality", is at present teaching the children of school age who are patients in St. Joseph's Hospital, Victoria — work begun a year ago by the Victoria School Board. Arts'20 Picnic to Bowen Island, May, 1920. From Left: Alf Swencisky, Hugh Keenleyside, Mrs. Wood (Mother of Professor F. G. C. Wood, Class Honorary President), Pat Smith, Katherine Pillsbury. Hugh Keenleyside, B.A.'20, M.A.(Clark), Ph.D. (Clark), LL.D.'4S. Manchuria to study conditions there. During the six years they spent in Japan the Keenleysides visited many interesting and beautiful places, and learned a great deal about the unusual customs and traditions of the land. The year 1936 saw the Keenleysides back in Ottawa. In 1939 his duties included acting as Secretary of the Inter-Departmental Committee planning the Royal Tour, and he was one of the party which accompanied the King and Queen on the Royal Train. In 1941 Dr. Keenleyside became Canada's Assistant Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. During the Second World War, as head of the American division of the Canadian Foreign Service, he had many close contacts with the United States, being one of the original members of the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defense, and of the Joint Economic Committees of Canada and the United States. Among other numerous war duties were membership on the War Scientific and Technical Development Committee and a short term as High Commissioner to Newfoundland. Already deeply interested in the Arctic, he was a member of the Council administering the North-West Territories, and helped to found the Arctic Institute of North America, serving on its Board of Governors. In addition to these other interests, he found time to serve as Vice-President of Canada's Y.M.C.A. from 1941-45. December 1944 marked the beginning of Dr. Keenleyside's contacts with Latin America, when he was appointed Canadian Ambassador to Mexico. During their two-year stay there, the Keenleysides saw a great deal of Mexico besides the capital city, visiting many smaller centres famous for their handicrafts, of which they brought back some beautiful example?. Probably the outstanding part of Dr. Keenleyside's work in Mexico was the Trade Treaty with Canada, signed in February. 1946—the first agreement of the kind between the two nations, putting trade between them on a "favoured U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE nation" basis. But studying Mexico's political, economic and commercial aspects was not the Ambassador's only responsibility. Canadian travellers were welcomed and given assistance if necessary. In a city which Dr. Keenleyside described as "perhaps the most active centre of painting in the world", knowledge of Canadian art and life was furthered by displays of Canadian paintings, a Canadian Book Fair, and a fine Canadian Photographic Exhibit in Mexico City attended by more than 50,000 people. Early in 1947, a new phase in Dr. Keenleyside's career began when Prime Minister Mackenzie King summoned him back to Ottawa as Deputy- Minister of Mines and Resources, and Commissioner for the North-West Territories. This was one of the top civil service posts, especially important because of the post-war surge of development of Canadian resources, particularly in the strategically important North-West Territories and Arctic regions. With his usual energy and tendency to wish to see things for himself, Dr. Keenleyside saw a great deal of the Northland, often from the air, on one occasion having to wake the pilot who was starting to doze at the controls. He served as Head of the Canadian Delegation to the first U.S. Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilisation of Resources at Lake Success in 1949. Visiting Victoria in 1950, while President of the National Association of Canadian Clubs, he emphasised the importance of the development of Canada's North. Addressing the Third B.C. Natural Resources Conference, he showed his growing preoccupation with the needs of underprivileged peoples and gave an interesting forecast of the ideas which he was soon to be in a position to put into effect. Looking to the future of Canada's resources policy, he said that "the demand for the good things of life is going to become everywhere more widespread and insistent", and that these demands "cannot be callously or care lessly denied", ending with the words: "We have been given great possessions and these we shall use to our own and others' needs. We ask only one condition—peace." When the unwieldy Department of Mines and Resources was divided, Dr. Keenleyside became Deputy Minister of Resources and Development. While holding this post, he was "lent" by the Canadian Government to head a United States mission of foreign experts making a complete social and economic survey of Bolivia. His successful leadership of the mission and the remarkable grasp of essential facts of the social, political and economic life of a Latin-American country with very difficult problems of production and transport resulted in a report of very great value. The soundness of its recommendations was proved not only by the appreciation shown by the Bolivian government, but by the fact that the fundamentals of the programme for development have been adhered to, in spite of revolutionary changes of government in Bolivia since 1950. Almost immediately came the offer of the post of Director-General of the newly formed United Nations Technical Assistance Administration. In New York, Dr. Keenleyside set up an organisation to assist in improving living conditions in underdeveloped countries which seek assistance. The full purpose of the T.A.A. programme can be best summed up by quotation from an address given by its Director-General to the U.S. Press Club in 1955: "What we are trying to do is to help Governments to strengthen their national economies so that they can meet their own needs. We try to give them, on request the kind of advice and guidance that will result in justified self-reliance. We don't supply goods; we supply knowledge." Experts are sent out by the T.A.A. to help local governments to drill for oil, to plan coal mines, stabilise government administration, rehabilitate the blind, develop social services, and launch various types of industries— to mention only a few of the fields of assistance. Shoulder Spades! Class of 1920 prepares for Tree-Planting Ceremony at Point Grey site, March, 1920. From Right: Harry Colgan, Willson Coates, Hugh Keenleyside, Janet Gilley, Professor Mack Eastman. You will recognise other friends. His enthusiasm for his work and his unusual powers of exposition are brilliantly illustrated in the lengthy article, published in the Autumn 1955 issue of Public Administration, which won for Dr. Keenleyside the Silver Medal and the first prize in the Hal- dane Essay Competition, 1954. The essay, entitled "Administrative Problems of the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration", describes the development of the technical as-, sistance programme from its early beginnings, and includes accounts of problems which arise for T.A.A. in underdeveloped countries where its work is carried on. As head of such projects all over the world, Dr. Keenleyside needs all his remarkable powers of concentration under any conditions, his ability to grasp the essentials of a problem, and the determination to persevere until a solution is found. His driving energy, concealed, diplomatically, under a quiet, easy manner, and his strong powers of persuasion help him to get his policies carried out. (At U.B.C. it was usually easier to do what he wanted than to argue the point.) On occasion he can be impatient and uncompromising in support of his principles. Added to these qualities is an intense interest in the customs and ideas of other peoples which must make it easier to grasp the problems of the countries he visits and to win the confidence of people sensitive to foreign interference. His work takes him travelling far and frequently. Most important, probablyi of all, in carrying out such work, is a strong sense of the responsibility of the more prosperous nations for abolishing the grosser forms of distress from which human beings are suffering. Dr. Keenleyside believes that there can be no assurance of peace while underprivileged nations are in active revolt against their sufferings, and are prepared to listen to totalitarian promises unless Western help proves effective. He summed up these ideas in "Saturday Night" (Dec. 6, 1952): "If the majority of the people now living in misery drift or run after the false prophets that are working hard to win their allegiance, it will be because we have failed to work as hard for the principles in which we say we believe. "The choice is clearly before us. We can go on . . . making a token gesture here and offering a thin pittance of our time and effort there. Or we can really go to work, recog- ising that the successful solution of this problem demands every strength of mind and heart and will that can be devoted to it. The first course is the prelude to sure and imminent disaster. The second offers a chance—a real but rapidly diminishing chance— of turning this world into the kind of community that our knowledge and material resources have made possible." U. B.C. ALU M Nl CHRONICLE GENERAL ELECTRIC GENERATORS to harness St. Lawrence power Derating showing the location of the Power Project in the International Rapids section of the .St. Lawrence Seaway near Cornwall, On!. Artist's conception oj the St. Lawrence River Power Project. One of Ihe world's greatest hydro-electric sources, it will develop 2,200,000 horsepower shared equally between Canada and the United States. The powerhouse dam will he about three-quarters of a mile long. 24 oj the 32 generators will bear the famous G-E monogram—16 in the U.S. section and 8 in Ihe Canadian. For decades Canadians have planned and looked forward to the day when ocean-going vessels could travel up the St. Lawrence into the Great Lakes ... and the river's strength could be turned into electric power. Now that dream is to become a reality... TODAY, dredges, earthmovers and piledrivers are carrying out a prodigious feat under sponsorship of both the Canadian and United States governments. The way is being prepared for a wide ship passage into the Great Lakes. At the same time, the bulk of the St. Lawrence River will be diverted through a single mighty hydroelectric dam. The mammoth power project is being brought to completion through the tireless work and enterprise of the Ontario Hydro and the Power Authority of the State of New York. The same manufacturing and engineering skills that go into the G-E electrical equipment being built for the St. Lawrence Project apply to all General Electric products. By making better equipment, not only to generate and transmit power, but also to put it to use, this Company constantly contributes to better living for Canadians. The G-E generators for the Canadian section will be built at the Company's Peterborough. Works. Larger than the one being assembled, above, they will he among the biggest in size ever made. The rotating part of eeich generator alone will weigh over 300 tons. Progress /s Our Most Important Product CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 1Q The President Reports The Problem of University Expansion June, 1947 Dear Alumni: The growth of the University is beginning to raise important questions of future policy. "How big is too big?" "Should we begin now to plan the decentralisation of Higher Education in British Columbia and set about organising a system of Junior Colleges and possibly one or two other Universities throughout the Province ?" My immediate and direct answer to these questions is an emphatic "No!", for I believe it would be disastrous to the University of British Columbia and to Higher Education in British Columbia if this were done now or in the near future. I say this because I know that it is of the utmost importance that there be one first- class University in this Province before we begin to disperse and dissipate the limited funds that any government or legislature can make available for Higher Education. Those who planned, organised and founded the University were advised and assisted by one of the most competent and able Commissions for its purposes that has ever been appointed in Canadian history. On the basis of their knowledge and experience and with a view to preventing this dispersion of funds and competition for financial support and for students, which did and does exist in other parts of the continent, it was decided that there should be only one University in British Columbia, and that decision is written into the University Act. It was also decided after a great deal of investigation and discussion, that that University should be located on the extreme westerly part of Point Grey. This gave the University the finest site possessed by any University in the world. It also placed it in close proximity to the largest concentration of population in the Province, for there is something of the order of 50% of our total population in the lower mainland area. This has been a convenience for a great many people; but more than that, it has made accessible to the University all the facilities of a great metropolitan area which are so important and essential. I have in mind Factories and Industrial Plants, Libraries and Law Courts, Hospitals and Art Galleries and all the many other institutions, organisations and conditions which can and do contribute so much to the on-going work of a University and particularly to its professional Faculties. The arguments and circumstances which led our founders to their decision some fifty years ago are still valid. The reputation of the teaching and research Staff and Graduates of this University is excellent and it is known well and favourably throughout the world. But the facilities and equipment provided or available for the work that it is expected to do and should do are quite inadequate. This is due to a variety of causes and is not the fault of any individuals or groups of individuals in particular. World War One halted the plans for the construction of buildings at Point Grey; the great depression and World War Two were further handicaps and obstacles, with the result that the University of British Columbia, unlike the other major Universities in Canada, faced up to the problems of looking after some ten thousand Students, most of them veterans, in the post-war years, with the fewest buildings and most limited facilities of any of the Universities in Canada. Despite the unselfish contributions of Students, the generous grants of some governments, and the promises of others which will be fulfilled in the years ahead, we have not yet begun to match our growth with adequate buildings and equipment. We still use more than three hundred former Army Huts which we brought on the Campus to serve the veteran Students. We are glad to have them and, no doubt, they constantly emphasise that Teachers and Students are more important than buildings; but tar- paper huts deteriorate rapidly; they are increasingly expensive to operate and are a continuing fire risk for valuable collections and equipment and young men and women alike. The Medical Faculty, potentially one of the finest in the country, carries on most of its activities on the Campus in huts and other temporary accommodation. Residences for the Students who come to us from other parts of the Province and from other countries are desperately needed. Other Faculties and Departments, already cramped for space and looking forward to increased enrolment and expansion of the work they do, are clamouring for more accommodation and more equipment. At the same time, the University is under great pressure to develop a Courtesy Victoria Times President MacKenzie addressing Victoria Alumni. Faculty of Music and Fine Arts and a Faculty of Dentistry. It has this year taken over the responsibility for all Teacher Training in the Province, but for this new College and Faculty of Education it has no permanent accommodation. In addition, it should be developing and expanding the work already commenced in Fisheries and in Oceanography, in Asian Studies, in Regional and Community Planning, and most of all, in Graduate Studies and Research. All of these are without the buildings and the equipment that will be necessary if they are to be carried on effectively I sympathise with those who desire Higher Education for their children and who must face the additional costs of sending them from other parts of the Province to Point Grey, but to provide them with Colleges, even Junior Colleges, adjacent to their homes would be very expensive. It would be far wiser and more economical to establish a generous scheme of scholarships, bursaries, and interest- free loans to help those who come to us in meeting these additional expenses. I realize that a College is both a cultural and an economic asset to any community fortunate enough to possess one, and I realise, too, all the arguments and objections to bigness, but none of these are, in my opinion, strong or important enough to justify the dispersion of funds at this time. These, then, are some of my reasons for presenting this problem and opinions to you and for hoping that some of you may give thought to them and possibly contribute views of your own. Yours sincerely, n U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE NATURAL GAS TO SPEED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH OF B.C. INTERIOR Inland Natural Gas Company Limited will distribute low cost natural gas along the route of the Westcoast Transmission Company Limited pipeline in the interior of British Columbia. Distribution of this amazingly efficient fuel will permit full utilization of the natural resources so abundant in the territory the Company will serve. Inland Natural Gas COMPANY LIMITED NATURAL GAS IS NATURE'S MOST EFFICIENT FUEL U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 12 NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS- By David Brock December, 1949 DHRONIUbE At Harvard University they now have a machine which will teach arithmetic. I am not making this up ... it is strictly true. I am not as excited about this machine as Harvard is. For one thing, U.B.C. never managed to convince me of the beauty of mathematics . . . it would have required a very complicated and powerful machine to get that into me. And for another thing, while the mechanical arithmetic teacher at Harvard has now been what is called "perfected", nobody yet knows if it will work. Maybe I'm just quibbling . . . for all I know, maybe the more perfect a machine is, the less it has to work ... I know as little of automation as I do of arithmetic. Perhaps if you can keep a machine from being sordid and practical, then it has more purity and even a kind of soul. But the main reason I am not very excited about the arithmetic-teaching engine is this: what I am really looking for is a machine that will teach me everything, and not just arith metic. And please, let us have no rude and easy jokes about the modern university being just a machine . . . in many ways it is mechanical enough, but it has not yet buckled down to complete automation. Give it time! I look forward to the day when you can put your little boy or girl inside a dandy machine at the age of two or three, and leave the kid in there, night and day, for about twenty years. It will come out with a B.A., a crew cut, a nice healthy sunburn, and h built-in enthusiasm for automation type football. I am not sure what name this automatic education machine will have, but it will probably be something like Edu-Mat. Highly educated sales types are under the impression that Mat means any machine that more or less runs Itself. And it is certainly true that civilisation gets more matted every day, what with machines called Think-o- mat and such. By the way, it would not surprise me a bit to learn that the arithmetic engine is called a Math-o-mat. Words have got so horrible (now that we are all educated), it doesn't even make us jump to hear of words turned out by machinery. I will bet you anything you like that somebody is right this minute building a monstrous machine called a Word-o-mat, and when it really gets humming it will make meaning look like verv old-fashioned stuff indeed. No politician should be without one. Lots of professors could use one too. It was nearly forty years ago that Professor Raleigh was objecting that we North American university types are a wordy bunch . . . you can't see our thoughts for the words. And we have got worse since then. But just wait till the Word-o-mat starts up. Raleigh hadn't seer, anything. I am thinking of making a machine to give me automatic baths, just for the pleasure of calling it a Bath-o- mat. But we shouldn't give in to these pleasures. Life is not all fun. At least, not yet it isn't. When you can be taught happiness by a machine called the Hap-o-mat, maybe life will be all fun then. And it is about time somebody at the universities began to investigate what happiness is. And if no man will do it, then let the machines have a whirl at it. We talk a great deal about this being an age of leisure and an age of pleasure and so on, but nobody seems to be having any fun at all. One reason for the lack of fun is that everyone is too busy writing articles on automation. It has been estimated by a well-known esti- mater (myself) that there are ten thousand new articles being written every day on automation. When I call them new, they are really the same old article, but you follow me. I think they are written by a machine. A Reliable Newspaper, , , , IN ADDITION to its many features for the daily entertainment of its readers The Vancouver Sun offer? an unrivalled coverage of local, national and international news. In the latter alone The Sun, with dispatches from three worldwide services — British United Press, Associated Press and Canadian Press — is matched by few newspapers anywhere. For complete and unbiased news you are invited to subscribe to this reliable newspaper. II 1$ mi' *** : i~*.L Ww Vancouver's Home-Owned Newspaper Telephone: TAtlow 7141 for Daily House Delivery 13 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Secondary Education in British Columbia July, 1946 Statistics In the year 1876, Public Secondary Education began in British Columbia with the establishment of Vic- t o r i a High School, enrolling 60 pupils under one teacher. In 1954, there were 184 schools in the Province enrolling 41,494 pupils above Grade VIII. Of these pupils, 6314 were in Grade XII, forty-eight out of every hundred that had started school in Grade I twelve years before. This was the highest retention rate in Canada, a significant growth from the twenty-four percent of the year 1937, a rate characteristic of the previous decade. Retention without achievement would have no merit. What factors are present in the organisation of British Columbia's Secondary Schools that make this retention possible and at the same time try to ensure that sound standards of accomplishment are maintained? That is the question which this article will try to answer. Types of Secondary School Secondary Education is organised in two stages: the Junior High School stage of Grades VII, VIII and IX, and the Senior High School stage of Grades X, XI and XII. Frequently these two stages are found together in one Junior-Senior High School, at present the most typical Secondary School in the Province. As well as separate Junior and Senior High Schools, there are also Superior Schools (terminating at Grade X), Elementary-Junior High Schools and Elementary-Senior High Schools. All three of those last-named are normally transition types that will lead eventually to separated schools. The chief advantage of the combined type of school lies in its economical use of special facilities which otherwise might have to be duplicated in the smaller communities. Junior High School The Junior High School is designed to ease the transition of the early adolescent from the one-teacher-per- class organisation of the Elementary School to the departmentalised organisation of the High School, as well as to provide him with an opportunity to explore the various fields of human knowledge so that he may be able to choose more wisely among the various paths open to him in the senior school. To meet the first of these aims, a well- organised Junior High School allows little departmentalisation in Grade VII, so that the child spends most of his time with one teacher in that grade. In Grade VIII, departmentalisation should increase slightly, while in Grade IX it becomes the rule. The same general principle of progressive change prevails in the child's programme. Almost all work for Grade VII is prescribed, with courses given in English, Social Studies, Health and Personal Development, Mathematics, General Science, Art, Music, Library and Home Economies or Industrial Arts. At the Grade VIII level, there is provision for 160 minutes of elective work per week in the fields of Agriculture, Art, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, Music and Typewriting. At the Grade IX level, English, Health and Personal Development, Social Studies and Mathematics are still required of all students; but the field of electives is now widened to 520 minutes per week. Thus, by the time the student has reached Grade IX, he has already tentatively selected his path in the Senior High School, although his decision need not necessarily become final until at least one year, and in some cases two years later, as adjustments can still be made. Senior High School Courses through Grades IX to XII follow in a natural sequence. All students are required in these grades to take a basic core of four years of English, three years of Social Studies, three years of Health and Personal Development, and one year of Mathematics. Most single courses carry five credits, each credit representing 40 minutes per week of instruction. A minimum of 'i0 credits per year, totalling 120 credits in the four years from Grade IX to Grade XII, inclusive, is required for graduation. Two Programmes of Study A student may graduate from High School in either of two programmes, the University Programme or the General Programme. The amount of work taken in each case is the same, but the University Programme is more restrictive as to the nature of courses taken. Whereas, on the General Programme, the student is allowed a wide range of options beyond the core mentioned in the previous paragraph, on the University Programme he is required in addition to complete at least two more years of Mathematics, two years of General Science, and two years of a Foreign Language. In other words, the General Programme student must obtain 55 credits in compulsory courses; the U.P. student, 85 credits. Major Studies One characteristic of the British Columbia system of Secondary Education is its use of Majors, or of advanced study in chosen fields of the student's interests and abilities. These Majors are at present (1955) offered in the fields of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Modern Languages, Classics, Industrial Arts, Home Economics, Commerce, Agriculture and Art. In each case, the student is required to complete one or more advanced Elective Courses in the subject; e.g., a Major in Science requires two courses in the special sciences beyond the two years of General Science required of all University-Programme students. The University Programme requires a student to take three such Majors, whereas the General Programme requires only one. It is significant that approximately one-fifth of all U.P. graduates complete their High School with more than the three required Majors and more than the minimum 120 credits. Recent studies show that sixty-four percent of students above Grade VIII are enrolled in the University Programme. The most commonly chosen advanced Elective Courses, are, in order: Chemistry 91, Mathematics 91, Ashcroft High School—Typical Courtesy of Division of Visual Education Smaller Type School Building. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 14 Courtesy of Division of Visual Education Vernon Senior High School. Biology 91, English 91, History 91 and Physics 91. The provision of two Programmes and of a wide range of course offerings is designed to care for the great differences in abilities, interests and vocational plans of individual students enrolled in our modern High Schools. Alternate Courses To provide further for differences in ability, alternate courses are furnished in certain of the core subjects such as English, Social Studies and Mathematics. A student who is below average in English, for example, may be required by the school to take English 21, an alternate to the usual Grade X course of English 20. This enables the teacher to devote greater attention to the fundamental aspects of language with those students who most require it without thereby penalising those who are capable of study and appreciation at a higher level. Promotion Promotion within the school is the school's responsibility. Normally, school testing is a continuous process, each unit of work being evaluated as completed. In addition, the schools give periodic, cumulative examinations about three times a year, covering all the work taken up to the period of the examination. The student's final letter-grade at the end of the year is determined by his measure of success in all tests given, but those tests covering the full year's work are usually heavily weighted in the final decision. Letter-grades are awarded on a seven- point scale, A,B,C + .C,C—,D and E. A grade of at least "C—" is required for a passing mark in each subject. Subject promotion is the normal rule, with a student receiving credit for any subject passed. Students with an "E" grade must repeat the course. Students with a "D" grade are sometimes given the opportunity to write a supplemental examination provided by the school. Aids in Maintaining School Standards In order that schools may check their own standards, the Division of Tests, Standards and Research each year conducts survey examinations, for all students in the Province, in one or more Terminal Courses, i.e., those Courses immediately preceding advanced Elective Courses. These are in addition to other Province-wide tests designed to evaluate progress and to furnish information as a basis for improvement of instruction. University Entrance University Programme students are required to write Departmental examinations at the end of Grade XII in all advanced Electives required for University entrance. These examinations are set by University professors or experienced teachers, and are marked by practising teachers. They are set, checked, administered and marked under the Division of Examinations. The governing body, which has final control over the University entrance standards, is the Board of Courtesy of Division of Visual Education Life is Real. Life is Earnest —at Examination Time! Examiners, a group equally representative of the University of British Columbia and the Department of Education. Accrediting Those Public High Schools which meet standards in staff, administration and facilities satisfactory to the Accrediting Committee of the Department are given the privilege of recommending without examination any stu- d-nt who has been awarded at least a "C" grade by the school in an examinable subject. Such schools are said to be "accredited". Accrediting is normally for a period of three years, but can be removed at any time, at the discretion of the Department. Counselling An important part of the function ing of the modern Secondary School is its Counselling Services. British Columbia was a pioneer in Canada in this field and recognises that the complexities of the modern curriculum call for competent, trained counsellors for students. Students must become aware of their own potentialities and limitations, plan for a future occupation that will lie within both their field of interest and their capabilities, and choose a programme of Courses that will provide the prerequisites for their chosen vocation. A school is permitted two half-time counsellors for each five hundred pupils enrolled. These counsellors are trained to give educational, vocational and social guidance to students. Summary The characteristic features of Secondary Education in this Province are, then, as follows: 1. The composite High School, which, in one institution, offers a wide range of Courses falling into three general types: (a) academic, (b) general, and (c) vocational. 2. Two Programmes, both leading to High School graduation, with one designed for students who intend to continue to University and the other designed for those whose formal schooling wil] end at Grade XII. 3. A basic core of subjects, containing those learnings which are considered fundamental to all students at the secondary level. 4. A wide range of Electives, designed to care for the needs and interests of all students. 5. Alternative Courses in some fields, designed to ease the task of the teacher in adapting methods and materials to the abilities of students. 6. A system of Majors, designed "to permit students of high ability to take advanced courses in fields of special interest and aptitude" and "to encourage in all students in Secondary Schools the development and pursuit of strong intellectual and vocational interests." (Administrative Bulletin, 1955, p. 10.) 7. A Counselling System, designed to aid students in their selection of Courses in preparation for their future vocational or educational plans. 8. An Intermediate, or Junior High School, designed to ease the transition during early adolescence from the Elementary to Secondary level. —F.P.L. Courtesy of Division of Visual Education Counsellor and Student. 15 U. B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Critical Review of U.B.C. History By Dean Henry F. Angus, B.A.(McGill), B.C.L., M.A.(Oxon.), LL.D.{McGill and U.B.C), F.R.S.C. January, 1945 Chro*1 ■^piig-*^ Mr. Chancellor, Members of the Graduating Class: It is a challenge, which I welcome, to be asked, at the end of my service as Dean of a Faculty and as Head of a Department at the University of British Columbia, to address those who have come to the end of their years as Undergraduates. My association with British Columbia has been longer than my association with Universities. Except for purposes of education and of war I have never lived anywhere else. But my association with Universities began half a century ago at Victoria College, which had a year earlier been affiliated to McGill University, the great Canadian institution whose distinguished Principal has today become one of our Graduates. If my education is nearly over, your education—forgive my frankness —has barely begun. To the years spent at school has been added the short period of pump-priming which a University provides. You are about to put the results to the test of experience. For some of you, a University background will enrich your whole lives; it will be a base on which you will build year by year. For others, it may at least be a qualification for worldly success. For others, alas, a memory which will soon fade. In American Law Schools the forecasters put the matter in different words: The A's teach, the B's become judges, the C's make the money. You must take these three futures in a figurative sense; and you are free to dispute the examiners' estimate of your merits. My forecasting does not depend on the judgment of examiners! It is somewhat analogous to saying that the C's learn to read, the B's form the habit of reading, and the A's form a lifelong habit of thoughtful and discriminating reading. Any one of you can be an A. I joined the Staff of this University on a part-time basis on my return from the First World War. It was then a very different institution from the one you know. It had been planned in a time of economic boom and the ideas of its founders were exuberant. Fortunately they demanded from the outset quality rather than numbers and the colleagues whom I found here were men with whom I am proud to have been associated. The same cannot be said for the buildings. The unfinished wing of the Hospital was supplemented by frame structures of various sorts. No one who knew a word or two of Latin could have spoken of a "campus." There was, indeed, a legendary permanent site, magnificent but remote. But the actual University was so inconspicuous that the street car conductor could not tell me where it was. There was some excuse for all this. The Legislators who created the University had perhaps less reason than we have today to expect a destructive war. It took them by surprise and made them change their plans. They had to face the prospect of supporting the University indefinitely out of public funds. The vision of a partnership between public funds and private endowment—a gracious concomitant of private enterprise which had played so important a part in the establishment of the great Universities in the older provinces—had to be abandoned in the age of the progressive income tax and the heavy succession duties. A first casualty was the University Motto: TUUM EST ("It is thine"). It suggested that fees would not be charged. But even the precision of a dead language can give way to double-talk. The skill of the classicists has been invoked and face has been saved. The University is yours, but not in a financial sense. It is not yours "for free!" Misunderstandings might have been avoided if the classicists had found us a new motto. It would have been in keeping with the spirit of ancient Greece to say, "Not Buildings But Men Make the City." And it would have described the University of British Columbia. Its Governing Bodies, its Staff and its Students would have justified these proud words. The very misfortunes of the University, consequent on the war, the high taxes, and the inflation, threw an unprecedented, almost a monstrous, burden on its Staff, its Students and eventually on its Graduates. The University had to fight for its life. The Students and the Graduates, under the devoted leadership of the man who is now the Chancellor, from whom I have just received a degree, responded to the challenge. The men made the city, in spite of the buildings. Before I trace the fortunes of the University, I have a confession—almost an apologia—to make. Of the three main aspects of university work: the advancement of knowledge, training of men and women for the professions, and the enrichment of the lives of its Students, I have, without any disparagement of the first two, always considered the third — the enrichment of the lives of the Students—the most important. Knowledge could be advanced by a research institute; professional training could be Dean Angus Addresses Graduands, May 14 given in a technical school; a liberal education is something which a University alone can provide. Many of my colleagues may look on this confession as a confession of heresy or as a species of treason. But, whether it be sin or crime, I have committed it. I do not believe that a University has done its duty unless a high proportion of its Graduates can look back, as I am looking back today, and feel that, whether or not they have added to human knowledge; whether or not they have had successful careers; they have lived fuller and richer lives than they could possibly have lived without the experience of the university years. Our University—for I am now qualified to speak as one of its Graduates —was still very young when the depression set in. It was then faced with the sternest of tests: it had to compete for public funds with many other worthy claimants keenly conscious of the merits and the urgency of their needs. It was receiving an annual grant of §610,000 which, when due allowance is made for the relative purchasing power of the dollar, is the most generous support per Student enrolled that the people of British Columbia have ever given to their University. This peak of popular favour had been reached ten years after the end of the First World War. It was the reward for the persistent efforts of our President Emeritus, Dr. Klinck, supported by the Governing Bodies and by Staff, Students and Graduates. It has not been surpassed ten years after the end of the Second World War, although, again allowing for the purchasing power of the dollar, the Province is richer than ever. But this advance in public esteem, which at the time seemed so assured, was followed by a severe blow. The annual grant was reduced to $250,000. For a second time the University had the good fortune to have to fight for its life. It was a grim business. U B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 16 There is a parlour game known as "Russian Sledges." It is based on the story of a family in a horse- drawn sledge pursued by a pack of wolves. To lighten the load the family treasures are thrown out, one by one. Finally the children are thrown to the wolves, in strict order of ex- pendability. In the parlour game you decide by vote who is most expendable and reduce the numbers of the party progressively until only two remain, each of whom votes to throw out the other. The University had to do the same sort of thing, but in dead earnest. It had to decide what it could jettison and live. Some aspects of its work were self-supporting and could be compared to the horses rather than to the family, but its more costly work, particularly scientific instruction and research, was in grave peril. Worse still, the University itself was in danger of being considered by the overloaded tax-payers as an expendable luxury. It found it hard to plead that it was a basic necessity in a modern society, comparable to the seed-corn which it is said starving peasants will preserve in a famine even at the expense of their children's lives. The University did respond to this challenge, and, strengthened—as Professor Toynbee might explain it—by a successful response to a severe challenge, was ready for the test of the Second World War. In the period of reconstruction which followed, the University was called on for work far in excess of its physical capacity and, as is still only too evident on our campus, it again deserved the motto, "Not Buildings but Men Make the City." A complete change in the attitude of the public towards the University has, I think, been one of the curious social consequences of the war. People are aware that survival in a third world war, and even the maintenance of our national independence in a period of peaceful prosperity, depend on the technical side of a university's activities. We must have scientists _ and technicians. Once again, however, our University has to face a challenge, and once again it may have the exciting and beneficial experience of fighting for its life. Industrial research and professional training have, it is true, little to fear. But it may be tempting at times to throw to the wolves that aspect of university work which I have described as the enrichment of the lives of its .students. The temptation would not be financial. This activity could easily be maintained as a concomitant of the other two. The danger to it lies not in scarcity of money but in scarcity of time. For the modern Student, time is in extremely short supply. His school years have been heavily charged with activities which, however useful in their way, have displaced much of the traditional preparation for a liberal education. At North American universities it may well be that a quarter, or even a third, of his time has been devoted to making good this preparation, to learnings things which a European schoolboy would have learned at school. It is rather the rule than the exception for excellent Graduate Students to reach our Graduate School only to be forced to find time for acquiring the most elementary knowledge of a second foreign language. Then, the university year is shortened, and the possibility of methodical reading during the summer virtually precluded, by the necessity of summer employment. It is no wonder that a student is often tempted to telescope a course in liberal arts and a course of professional training, to proceed directly to what seems to him his final goal. Professional Faculties themselves often try to prolong their specialised training in fact, though not in form, by prescribing work which must be done as part of the course in Arts; and research-minded Departments are also alert to encourage early, perhaps premature, specialisation. The not unnatural result of all this is that the Student begins to scrutinise his programme of studies item by item, applying the Benthamist test, "What good is this to me?" In speaking in apology for a disinterested pursuit of wisdom as well as of knowledge; for developing the personality as well as for professional training; for broadening the base on which specialised work capable of enlarging the bounds of human knowledge (trying to empty infinity with a thimble, as Nietzche put it); I am not for a moment suggesting that a University should be, or should pose as being, a band of scholars. I think —and this is quite different—that a University should contain a band of scholars and, for that matter, several bands of scholars. It would follow that a university Graduate would have had the opportunity of observing this curious phenomenon, have had some contact with its members, have perhaps toyed with the idea of dedicating his own life to scholarship. As long as this general condition is satisfied we have a genuine University! If there is danger of this condition disappearing, then a University has to fight for its life. I think that there is such a danger, and that Universities in Canada—and in other countries too—will have to fight for their lives. I hope that you, the graduating classes whom I am addressing today, will not be neutral. Some of you may do something actively. I hope that none will make the struggle harder than it need be. Given a chance, I am confident our University will again win its battle. Perhaps you expect me to say, in conclusion, something in support of my heresy or my treason, my sin or my crime, of believing that a broad course in liberal arts is the counterpart of the seed-coin that must be preserved in time of famine; the favourite child which must never, never be thrown from the sledge. Let me then say this: I have seen one generation of students—my own— thrown suddenly into the stern testing ground of war, war for which their country was ill-prepared. They did not shrink from this test, this challenge debellare superbos, even when the superbi were the Emperor of Germany and the Sultan of Turkey. I have seen another generation prepare itself, as you have done, to enter a world of expanding and almost boundless prosperity, only to find itself compelled to face the harsh struggle of the depression. I have seen a third, brought up, as I fear you may have been, to expect a peaceful world informed by a growing respect for human rights and democratic ideals, confronted with an almost incredible life and death battle to preserve thase very things. My defence of a liberal education is that it is not planned for a foretold future but is designed to enable man to adapt himself to whatever the future may bring. It can be an end in itself, but it can also be the basis for the highest achievement in specialised research and for the most distinguished of professional careers. If you prefer to think of the future as something which you and your contemporaries will shape and mould, then my belief is that technical knowledge and professional skill are not enough for your purpose, and that they must be supplemented by a serious cultivation of the minds of men, cultivation which should begin but should not end in our Universities. This element in a University and this element in your University experience should go hand in hand with the advancement of knowledge and with professional training. Scarce things, like financial resources and student time, must be appropriately allocated between them. No one metaphor suffices to describe this vital element: the leaven in the bread; the vitamins in the food; the catalyst in the chemical reaction; suggest what I have in mind. If I were addressing a Judge, Mr. Chancellor, I might say "pith and substance"; if I were to visit one of our Theological Colleges, I might venture to speak of the "soul" of a University. Those of you who are graduating for the first time today are at an early stage in your education. I am at an advanced stage of mine. But our whole education, yours and mine, must be pervaded by the vital element for which a University provides the best nursery; and you must play your part to preserve this element from destruction in an age of abundance. Do not forget that men, not buildings, make the city. 17 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE History of the Alumni Magazine CHRONICLE March-April, 1953 Officially, t h e Alumni C h r o n- icle, organ of the University of British Columbia Alumni Association, alias the Graduate Chronicle and the Alumni Bulletin, is 25 years old this year. Unofficially, this durable sheet has been published in one form or another for 32 year.; this spring. The first publication still preserved, known as the Alumni Bulletin, came out in the spring of 1924, but, as it is headed Volume 1, Number 2, there must have been a Number 1 somewhere along the line which probably dates as far back as 1923. The first copy still in existence is a three-page mimeographed stapled bulletin, and quite different in form from the slick paper edition of the present day; but it is much the same in content, inasmuch as it complains about lack of support of the graduate body and contains many reports of Graduates' activities which are to be found in all the Alumni publications from that day until the present time. There is no Masthead on the early editions. The name of the Editor is lost in antiquity, save and except that the readers are urged to address all communications to Muriel Carruthers of 5975 Cypress Street, Vancouver, and it would appear that the modest *Muriel must take the credit for the early editions. Much of the space in one of the earliest publications still preserved is a report of the Ceilidh. Apparently the Ceilidh was a carnival of sorts and the central committee organising same were such well-known people as The Honourable Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, Magistrate Gordon Scott, Orson Banfield, who was the Treasurer and Building Manager; Arthur Lord (now Mr. Justice Lord), who was in charge of refreshments; G. E. W. Clark, tickets and guards; Miss Marjorie Agnew. Secretary; Miss Winnifred Lee and Ian Shaw, Publicity. No. 2 of Vol. 2 of the Bulletin, published in January, 1925, reports on the progress of the buildings at the new Campus at Point Grey. It must be remembered that the Bulletin at *B.A. 1916, now Chief Librarian, in charge of all Vancouver School Libraries. By Ormonde J. Hall, B.Com.'42, LL.B.'48 Editor Alumni Chronicle, 1946-1953 this date was published while the University was still houed in the Fairview shacks. The Spring Issue of 1926 apparently was edited by J. W. Weld of the Class of '20. Judging by the information appearing in the Bulletin, everyone was having a lovely time at the University of British Columbia's new Campus. The Fall of 1925 and January of 1926 Alumni Bulletin indicates that the Graduates of that era were somewhat artistically inclined. One Thursday evening the Auditorium was turned over to Students and Graduates and entertainment took the form of a Vaudeville. There were eight turns in all and some of the numbers included two shadow plays. The "Ballads of Mary Jane" were received with great enthusiasm and one of the stars was Betty Somerset, as Mary Jane, "who wept copious confetti tears" while Tommy Taylor's chin whiskers were sufficiently impressing in his portrayal of the farmer's boy. Another play entitled "Lord Ullin's Daughter," was equally well received and Georgina McKinnon effectively portrayed Lord Ullin's daughter, eloping with her lover, Neil McCallum. Ubiquitous Tommy Taylor was cast as the boatman in this effort, while Bob Hunter as Lord Ullin exhausted the remaining confetti not used up by Betty Somerset. Art Lord and Ab Richards starred in the well- known poem, "We Are Seven", and the final act of the evening was an old favourite, "Pyramus and Thisbe", from a "Midsummer Night's Dream". Gordon Scott acted the part of Pyramus, or Bottom the Weaver, and Ian Shaw proved a charming Thisbe. The big jump Title Page, 1931 to a magazine type of publication called "The Graduate Chronicle" came in April, 1931, and «a that issue seems to be the first published since • ^ 1926. The Editor .„"-,:£_ was Isobel Harvey, and the Assistant Editors were Sadie Boyles and Kathleen ("K" Peck) Lawrence. Isobel Harvey was a Social Work leader and is remembered affectionately by many British Columbia citi- vtl«wi«j_c( 8ii» GRADUATE . CHRONICLE Isobel Harvey, B.A.'18, First Editor Graduate Chronicle, 1931-1935. zens. She died in 1951, and her passing was marked by reports in the Vancouver newspapers pointing out the tremendous contribution she made to the welfare of the Province. "K" Lawrence died untimely in 1935. After graduating in 1917 with high Honours in French, she became an outstanding teacher of French, both in the University and later in Prince of Wales School. In 1929 she married Jim Lawrence, B.A.'21, well- known Vancouver lawyer. President of the Players' Club as an Undergraduate, she continued this interest as a member of the Little Theatre Association. Both her children, James Wallace and Nan Margaret, are graduates of U.B.C. The 1931 issue was most ambitious, appeared on good type paper and ran to 44 pages without illustrations, containing mostly articles rather than news items. The lead article is called "The Why and the Wherefore" written by Harry Ashton on February 3, 1931. The late Dr. Ashton was Professor of French and the first Head of the Department of Modern Languages. This magazine also contains notes on prominent Graduates and contributions by Garnett Sedgewick, Annie Angus, Dean R. W. Brock, Dean Clement and F. Lucas (Mrs. Nicholas Mussallem), B.A.'33, who wrote "Undergraduate Activities." May, 1932, witnesses the addition of Annie Angus as an Assistant Editor of the Chronicle. Other Assistant Editors in this era included Joyce Hallamore. Evelyn Lett and W. H. Harvey, and in May, 1936, Helen Crawford took over as Editor from Isobel Harvey and her Assistant was Geraldine Whitaker. In May, 1937, Dorothy MacRae and Lorraine Bolton were the Assistant Editors and the Editor in 1938 was U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 18 rfiHWUkTECHUClC' Rosemary Winslow and her Assistants were Marion Sangster and Doris Barton. A note-worthy article was written by Ira Dilworth and entitled "What Price Radio?" James Gibson, Ken Beckett and Myrtle Beatty were other contributors. For some reason or other in 1939 the Graduate Chronicle came out as a newspaper type of magazine of eight pages. No editorial board is mentioned, but James Dunn seems to have had an important part in putting the magazine together. A significant change in the set-up of the magazine occurred in 1940, when it took on much of its present day look by the establishment of a slick paper style of some 20 pages. Margaret Ecker, later as Margaret Ecker Francis to become a well- known Vancouver writer, was the Editor, and she was assisted by Edgar N. Brown and Grace V. Brown. In December, 1941, Ron Andrews became the Editor, assisted by Bill Wallace and Fred Bolton, and included in the columns of this day were articles by Stuart Keate, now Publisher of the Victoria Times, and Harold Straight, now Managing Editor of the Vancouver Sun. By the time March, 1944 March, 1944 had come around), Darrell T. Braidwood had become Editor and, due to the then current paper shortage, the magazine had more or less merged with the "The Blueprint", which was the official publication of the British Columbia Engineering Society. At this time, Dr. Norman Archibald MacKenzie had just been appointed the new President of the University of British Columbia, succeeding Dr. L. S. Klinck, and the Editor concluded his Editorial with the words, "The new President will have a great opportunity here." History reveals that not only had Dr. MacKenzie a great opportunity, but that he has made the best of it, and the Chronicles thereafter record the tremendous growth of our University. Articles during this era were written by Jordan Guy, and Janet Walker and concerned, among others, Bruce Robinson, President of the Alumni Association, his old friend G. E. (Ted) Baynes, Bob White, and included an article by Nora Gibson on the "Players Club", featuring Lacey Fisher and Bice Caple. Editor Darrell Braidwood and his assistant, Janet Walker, now married to Pierre Berton of MacLean's Magazine, also a U.B.C. Graduate, continued on until December, 1945, when Braidwood was joined by the writer of this article, Mary M. Fallis and Robert W. Bonner, later to become the Attorney-General of British Columbia, as his Assistants. Influenced by the "Time" magazine set-up and the terse prose of that magazine, the Chronicle at that time took on another form, that of being divided up into different departments, "Sports", "From the Feminine Viewpoint", and so on. Darrell Braidwood, to whom much credit must be given for the success of the Chronicle today, retired wi;h the December, 1946, issue and the writer took over as Editor, assisted by Mary M. Fallis, Robert Bonner, Arthur Jones, and Archie Paton. From, then until 1953 a new team guided the Chronicle, and tribute must be paid to Mary M. Fallis, who was the Women's Editor. Her vast knowledge of University Graduates and her love of the University made it possible for her to contribute much in the way of interesting information for Alumni readers. Also, many talented writers, contributed to the pages of the Chronicle, including Eric (Jabez) Nicol. David Brock, Bill Dunford, Stuart Keate, Annie Angus, and Pierre Berton. All in all it was a period of development and many of the pages of the Chronicle are concerned with the doings of such people as Ted Baynes, Frank Turner, Tom Brown, Art Harper, Sallee Murphy Creightor, Joe Brown, Aubrey Roberts, Dick Bibbs, John Buchanan, Harry Berry, Dudley Darling, and many others. Often to be found in the Chronicle were contributions from the pen of David Brock whose chiding, humourous articles urged the Alumni Association to keep a proper perspective. When the drive was on for Canadians to own a Canadian painting, Brock wrote an article called "Do You Owna Canadiana Paint Ho, Ho", in which he asked, "can you seriously imagine; a Greek meeting another Greek and asking, 'Do you own a Greek painting?' " When the Massey Commission travelled all over Canada in the in terest of Art, Brock wrote an article entitled, "Senator S. Glot, B.A.. sets up a Lawkamercy Commission to implement Massey C.B.C. Commission report." Finally, he got around to writing an article called, 'Why I Hate the Chronicle." Meanwhile. Jabez was poking fun at much of Camiius life, and Stuart Keate came up with a nostalgic article entitled "Memoirs" answering one of Brock's diatribes. Keate, in his inimitable style, started off the article by poignantly setting the stage with this sentence: "But certain of 'Old Grad's' statements must be challenged before the December number of the Chronicle is committed to a time capsule and buried beneath the cairn along with a lock of Marjorie Agnew's hair". This sort of thing seemed to be just right to the Editor at the time, and so the years rolled by happily, marred only by occasional sadness when the Chronicle had to report the death of such beloved University people as Dr. G. G. Sedgewick and Dean Buchanan. Eventually the 1946-53 team wearied, and in the latter year the Alumni Chronicle, which the magazine had been called since December of 1948, came under the editorship of Colonel Harry T. Logan. This erudite, kindly scholar came along just at the right time to pick up a flagging Alumni Association magazine and characteristically, as has been the case ever since the first Alumni Bulletin, back in the year 1923 or 1924, the new Editor expanded, enlarged and improved our Alumni magazine. Reading the Chronicle from its beginning is like experiencing a stream of consciousness. So many faces and so many events occurring so rapidly, occasionally shining so brightly and then fading so quickly, is an experience which leaves the viewer with nothing definite but only' an over-all impression, and the general impression one gets is that the Alumni Chronicle of 1956 is only the Alumni Bulletin of 1924 with a shiny face. Editors Past and Present Who Planned This Issue, Seen in Reminiscent Mood. From Left: Rosemary Winslow McAllister, Sally O'Connor Gallinari, Margaret Ecker Francis, Mary Fallis, Harry T. Logan, Lorraine Bolton, Sadie Boyles, Ormonde J. Hall, Doris Barton Ross. 19 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Headlines and News Comments U.B.C Alumni Magazines —1923-1956 Selected by Mary Fallis, B.A/32, Assistant Editor, Chronicle, 1945-1950 THE BULLETIN — 1923-1931 December, 1946 January 1925. The present issue of the Bulletin has been prepared to be sent out at the same time as the 1925 Directory. As there are 750 graduates, not one of whom has escaped the eagle eye of the Editor, this is of considerable inter- 2st to all. A word about the orogress of the new buildings at Point Grey may not be amiss. Great changes have taken place since 1922, when the students made their memorable pilgrimage to the site, Some of the buildings have all the exterior finished and one or two have the interior well under way. It is quite possible that the Class of '25 may graduate from Point Grey this spring. November 1925. Solemn and impressive ceremonies marked the opening of the University at its new home. . . . This is the first time in its history that the University has granted Honorary Degrees (The recipients were: Hon. W. C. Nichol, Lieutenant Governor of B.C., Hon. J. D. McLean, Sir Arthur Currie, President Suzzallo of the University of Washington, Dr. Plaskett, Dr. Henry Young, and the Chancellor, Dr. R. E. McKechnie.) March 1926. To a graduate who knew of the U.B.C. only in terms of huts and hovels in Fairview, the new buildings at the Point are palaces. . . . The great satisfaction of being in a permanent home and creating a new set of traditions based on those so well started in Fairview overtops all the discomfort of the first few months. Plans are already being formulated for a Gymnasium Building to be built by the students. GRADUATE CHRONICLE 1931—DECEMBER, 1948 April 1931. The policy of granting life membership in the Alumni Association on payment of a fee of $10 has been adopted this year . . . Copies of the publication are being sent to every member whose address we have (there are 132 which have disappeared). This seems the fairest arrangement for the first number. Unfortunately this free distribution cannot occur again. Sadie M. Boyles, B.A.'26, M.A/36, Ass't-Editor Graduate Chronicle, 1931. H. B. Smith, B.A/25, B.Ed/44, President U.B.C. Alumni Association, 1931. The graduates seem to be doing fairly well in their task of repaying the Province. The University is beginning to look like an asset. (R. W. Brock). May 1932. To the Student Council Campaign of 1922 and 1932, this second number of % The Chronicle is inscribed. On December 22, 1931, the Hon. the Minister of Education wrote President Klinck advising him that the grant from the Government to the University would be cut to $250,000 ... A group of the more enterprising students felt the need of action, sudden action ... A petition to the government against the proposed cut was drawn up . . . approximately 67,000 signatures were obtained in two days . . . The news came out in the paper that the proposed cut would go through. July 1935. Instead of requiring the Government of the day to appoint nine Governors, the Government will now appoint six. The remaining three will be elected by the Senate from among its members ... As the University Alumni select 15 Convocation representatives to the Senate, they must bear in mind that (under this amendment) they will also be selecting potential Governors. (The 1935 Amendments to the University Act; Sherwood Lett.) Connaught Laboratories Establish Research Group on Campus. July 1936. Dedication: "To our Alma Mater". The Association has taken a stride forward this year in drawing up a constitution, temporary as yet, which allows for the formation of Branches. To mark the date of the coming-of-age of the University of British Columbia in some fitting manner . . . the coordination of ideas evolved a Students' Union Building (as a memorial to Dean and Mrs. R. W. Brock) to be called "The Brock Memorial Building". The nature of the building and the purpose for which it is to be used gives everyone an opportunity to subscribe to the fund. May 1937. Dr. Blythe Eagles has been made Head of the Department of Dairying. Dr. Eagles is our first Alumnus to be appointed Head of a Department. The Programme of Extension lectures which was carried on so successfully during 1935-36 stimulated a demand for lectures by members of the Staff of the University throughout the province. May 1938. The situation has been bad for some 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. (D. Milton Owen). It is important to Alumni, if to no one else, to pause and contemplate that the Alumni Associaion has "come of age". On May 4, 1917, a group of Graduates convened at the "shacks" in Fairview to organise an Alumni Association and did so with dispatch. The birth of this inevitable offspring of any University is contained in a 14-word minute: "Moved by Miss Peck and seconded by Mr. Wright that an Alumni Association be formed. Carried." This is probably the shortest minute on the books of the Association. (The Alumni Grow Up; Kenneth Beckett). April 1939. At least three members of the Alumni will be candidates in the next Federal election: James Sinclair, Sc/28, Ronald Kathleen Peck Lawrence, B.A/17, Ass't.-Editor Graduate Chronicle, 1931 and 1932 Grantham, Arts'31, and Arnold Webster, Arts'22. Dr. George Davidson, Arts'28, has accepted one of the most responsible positions in the B.C. Government, that of director of social welfare. He succeeds Dr. Harry Cassidy, Arts '22, who resigned to go to the University of California, where he is creating a new department of Social Welfare. December 1940. For the first time in its history, the Alumni Association has been in a position to give away some money, with the result that the Executive has offered, and the University has accepted, $50 to be used as a bursary for a needy first year student. October 1941. U.B.C. Grads in Nazi Prison Camps . . . Alumni m Uniform. December 1 941. U.B.C. Armouries Open. Major General Alexander, O.C. the Pacific Command, congratulated the men of the U.B.C. Corps, who have waived training-pay since 1928 in order to build the armoury. Mary L. Bollert, first Dean of Women, retires from an office which she ably filled for twenty years. December 1942: We Honour Our World War II Heroes. July 1943: U.B.C. to Get Home Economics This Fall. Pringle Memorial Bursary established. Alumni Play Scores Twenty-eight Times . . . The Alumni Players' presentation of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" has afforded hilarious entertainment to the troops in Army and Air Force camps throughout the whole of the Lower Mainland. March 1944. Dr. Norman Archibald MacKenzie, K.C, has been chosen new President of the University of British Columbia. Dr. L. S. Klinck, U.B.C. President, 1919-1944. Dr. R. E. McKechnie, U.B.C. Chancellor, 1918-1944. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 2D June 1944. The University's Retiring Presi dent, Dr. L. S. Klinck. This month the Uni versity bids farewell to a man who has guided her destinies for the past twenty-five years. Few men, if any, have equalled his great contributions to the education of our people. ... At the Convocation dinner held in May, Dr. Klinck was made an Honorary Life Member of the Alumni Association . . . the first (Honorary Life Membership) ever granted by the Association. January 1945. We regret that we have been unable to publish the Chronicle during the last few weeks. The wartime shortage of paper was the primary cause of our absence. This issue is dedicated primarily to the men and women of British Columbia who have gone out into the Service of our Country in all parts of the world . . . We feel that no University in Canada has for its size done more. Truly, the Undergraduate gown has a right to bear the khaki The University of British Columbia is ribbon. March, 1951 a Faculty Physical Edu- particularly fortunate in having obtained the services of the Hon. Eric W. Hamber for the office of Chancellor . . . Mr. Hamber has long been one of the Province's leading citizens. We most urgently need at this time: additional accommodation for the Arts and Sciences, residences for men and Medicine, Pharmacy, cation. August 1945. The University of British Columbia deserves a great deal of credit in having been the first of the Canadian Universities to adopt a series of courses especially designed for men and women discharged from the Armed Forces . . . Thank you, U.B.C, we are only the vanguard ot many more to come. (Harold Helm, President, U.B.C. Veterans' Students.) October, 1945. New Law Faculty Set Up. December 1945. On October 31, history was made at the University when Honorary Degrees were conferred on ten Graduates of the University . . . The occasion was the thirtieth birthday of the University. The ten Graduates are all most distinguished men and women in Canadian life: Dr. Hugh L. Keenleyside, Mr. Norman Robertson, Mrs. Frank M. Ross, Lieut.-Cmdr. Gordon Stead, Dr. George M. Volkoff, Col. Percy M. Barr, Major-General H. F. G. Letson, Brigadier Sherwood Lett, Brigadier William C. Murphy, Air Commodore J. L. Plant. Over fifty (Army Huts) are in use at the present time. Some are being used as classrooms while others serve as dormitories for former members of the armed services. March 1946. At the present moment, Alumni of the University are lining up behind the campaign to build a War Memorial Gymnasium on the campus. Past President Baynes Urges Faculty of Architecture. The Secretary Manager, Frank Turner, Takes Over Alumni Post. Varsity Goes Boom-Town as 3,500 Student Vets Seek Higher Knowledge. "There will be no lowering of standards because, in the first place, U.B.C. has been able to maintain a very high standard in its appointments to the Faculty," said Dr. MacKenzie. "Secondly, because the difficulties facing us will be more than balanced by an increased desire on the part of students to make the most of the opportunities." July 1946. Dal Grauer, B.C.E.R.'s Dynamo. One of the University's famous sons has now topped all his former achievements by being made President of one of Canada's public utility companies. Meet the Canadian Ambassador to Mexico: Dr. Hugh Keenleyside. March 1947. Eric Nicol Writes of Prog "ess at U.B.C. "If you haven't been out to the campus lately, it might be a good idea to keep it that way, and delay your visit until Progress has blown over." December 1947. "Trekkers" Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Their March to West Point. Eight members of the campaign committee were "cecorated" with cairn pins: J. A. Grant, Arts'24; "Brick" McLeod, Arts'23; Marjorie Agnew, Arts'22; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Clyne, Arts '25; Dr. John Allardyce, Arts'19; J. F. Brown, Arts'23, and Aubrey Roberts, Arts 23. Gym Sod Turned. First step in construction of U.B.C.'s Provincial War Memorial Gymnasium was taken Nov. 1 1, when Hon. E. C. Carson turned the first sod. Premier John Hart Opens U.B.C.'s New $700,000 Physics Building June 1948. Regarded by the many Undergraduates with tremendous affection is retiring Dean Daniel Buchanan, since 1928 D=an of Arts and Science. Walter H. Gage, Arts'25, Named Dean of Administrative and Inter-Faculty Affairs (first U.B.C. graduate to become Dean). October 1948. Graduate Chronicle wins top award in American Alumni Association Competition. Editor Ormonde J. Hall. Dr. William Kaye Lamb, Arts'27, Appointed Dominion Archivist. The University has decided to set up a Graduate School. THE ALUMNI CHRONICLE—DECEMBER 1948 December 1948. $750,000 Library Wing Officially Opened. Alumni-U.B.C. Development Fund Created. Dr. Blythe Eagles, President of Arts'22, presents a cheque for $960.99 to Chairman of the new fund, Joseph F. Brown, Arts'23 . . . "to get the fund rolling." THE U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE—1949— March 1949. Open House Attracts 20,000 to U.B.C. December 1949. G. G. Sedgewick Memorial Fund Planned. Trustee Tom Brown grins broadly as he hands President Norman MacKenzie a $7,000 cheque, first gift from the U.B.C.-Alumni Development Fund to the University. June 1950. 2,080 Graduate at Congregation. October 1950. Alumni-U.B.C. Development Fund tops $15,393. Specie I Congregation Marks Medical School Opening. December 1950. Women's Residences a Reality! Accommodation for 100 Girls in January. (Subsequently called: Anne Wesbrook Hall, Mary L. Bollert Hall, Isaoel Maclnnes Hall). Home Economics Building Example of Neat, Functional Modern Architecture. Biological Sciences Building Opened bv Hon. W T. Straith. Preventive Medicine Building Now Taking Shape on University Boulevard. Engineering Faculty Has Fine New Home. Varsity Outdoors Club Builds $12,000 Cabin. First Great Trekker: Joe F. Brown, Jr B.A.'23, March 1951. Graduate Elected U.B.C. Chan cellor. Sherwood Lett, distinguished solder, Darrell Braidwood, B.A/40, M.A/41, Editor Chronicle/ 1944-46. Ormonde J. Hall, B.Com.'42„ LL.B/48, Ass't.-Editor Chronicle, 1945, Editor, 1946-53. lawyer, and one of U.B.C.'s first graduating class members, has been called back to his Alma Mater to be its Chancellor. June 1951. Alumni Association Grants $2,500 in Regional Scholarships. Arthur Lord, Arts'21, appointed to County Court of Vancouver. October 1951. Alumni-U.B.C. Fund Hits Record Year with Contributions Totalling $17,237.39. December 1951. Homecoming Marked by Royal Visit. Congregation, Gym Dedication Colourful Event. November 1952. Robert W. Bonner, Arts '42, Law'48, Youngest Attorney-General at 31. Victoria College Celebrates 50th Anniversary. Alumni-U.B.C. Development Furd Reaches new high of $18,109.36. Frederick Wood Theatre opened December 6, 1952. October 1953. Two U.B.C. Graduates Appointed University Heads. Alumni-U.B.C. Development Fund Exceeds $40,000. Earle Birney, Arts'26, was awarded the Lome Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in addition to a scholarship given under the Canadian Government plan for study in France. Winter 1953. Alumni Help Put Over Blue another milestone . . . Farewell p at Fairview, the ty held in old soon to be de- Aedicine. Tribute British Empire Frank J. E. Turner, Executive Secretary, 1946-1954. Arthur H. Sager, Executive Secretaiy, 1954—. and Gold Revue Spring 1954. U.B.C. building molished. First Graduating Class Paid Medical Staff. The University and Games. Summer 1954. U.B.C. Grads in Top Educational Posts . . . This year it is interesting to note that our graduates are now becoming the administrators in our educational system— with the new Minister of Education, Ray Williston, Arts'40, leading the way- Autumn 1954. Development Fund Reaches New High: $50,391. New Executive Secretary: Arthur H. Sager. Spring 1955. The U.B.C. Library—Life at Forty. The University of British Columbia acquired its first book in the Spring of 1915 —forty years and 300,000 volumes later, its Library is one of the leading teaching and research collections in Canada. Summer 1955. U.B.C. Players' Club Alumni won top honours in the Dominion Drama Festival. The group was presented with the Calvert Trophy and a $1,000 cheque. U.B.C.-V.R.C. Crew to Henley. Autumn 1955. College of Education for the University. Training of Teachers Enters New Phase. 1955 Great Trekker: Aubrey Roberts. Spring 1956. New Records Achieved by U.B.C. Development Fund. 1955 Total Nearly $80,000. Home Management House Opened. As we go to press, expansion continues with reports of new buildings . . more memorial funds . . . new courses . . . further honouis . . . continued needs—a pattern that has run through the years. 21 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE A Tale of the Pub-and Aft er By Margaret Ecker Francis, B.A/36 (Totem Editor 1936, Chronicle Editor 1939-41) December, 1940 It was a fine April day some IsK'lll ;:i!P!liU time in the mid- thirties. The wind off the Gulf of Georgia was balmy, salt-scented, and it mixed into an intoxicating cocktail with the fresh smell of bursting buds, new grass and spring flowers. It went to our heads. In the old Pub office some spring-struck Ubyssey or Totem staffer even threw up a window to let the first breath of fresh air in months mix with the Pub's own body odor—forgotten sandwich lunches rotting in drawers, cigarette smoke, souring milk in half- finished bottles. Someone remarked that he, or she, must get to a lecture. Another contributed that bock had come to the Georgia (one of our chief symbols of spring); an artier member of the Staff moaned that if we had a record player we could play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps (if we had the record), and dance. Then an Editor mounted solemnly on a littered desk, held up his arms to silence the babble and pronounced, "We will celebrate Christmas". There could, of course, be no fitter tribute to the arrival of spring. In appreciation of our leader we gathered around his dais for as many verses as anyone could remember of "Good King Wenceslas". Then, with "Jingle Bells" as our marching song, we paraded through the foyer of the auditorium where a solemn noon-hour lecture was breaking up, through the Quad and the intelligentsia rushing for classes, and down to the woods. A Christmas tree was our objective and maybe a Yule log or two. It dawned on us that "Jingle Bells" was not fitting for our mission. Norman Hacking or Alan Morley (they both had mental storehouses of that sort of thing), produced some Elizabethan, or maybe they were Chaucerian, choruses more suitable to the occasion. Thus classically and traditionally we sang our way to the most miserable Courtesy of Totem, 1936 Associate Editors Totem, 1936. From Left: Bob King, Bruce Robinson, Pauline Patterson, Dick Elson. little fir tree that fringed Marine Drive. It was not very tall, a real, ragged waif of an evergreen, destined for either a tubercular or delinquent adulthood, and we felt that by sacrificing it, we were enabling it to do a far, far better thing than to grow up. There was some debate about the proper ceremony to precede the plunging of a rather battered pocket- knife into its heart. With splendid journalistic compromise we combined the details into a lengthy ceremonial, borrowing freely from what anyone could remember that was suitable— the Druids, the Aztecs, the medieval English. Our triumph had mounted with our voices as we bore the scraggly little thing back through the Quad and its lecture-changing throngs. Enshrined on the Editor's desk, with the remains of his lunch as an offering at its feet (I forget how we made it stand up), spontaneously and reverently we broke into "Holy Night, Silent Night", some singing it in English, some in French, some in Latin. We were at no loss for decorations. The day's Ubyssey, folded and cut properly, made glorious strings of dolls. Coke bottle-tops, old typewriter ribbons— no tree was ever more resplendent. Then we all turned our backs on each other and made presents—verses scribbled on copy paper, yesterday's peanut-butter sandwiches wrapped in newspaper, I can't remember what other touching mementoes. Father Christmas delivered the gifts with suitable ceremony and benevolence and we sang some more carols. Lectures and labs were over now and it was time to catch buses and lifts back to the city, since no one lived on the Campus in those days. We, the innocent in heart, spiritually uplifted by our experience, went home. (Our little tree wilted and drooped in the pub until the spring exams were over and probably some unsentimental janitor removed it.) None of us could have known how an irreverent and obviously agnostic Campus would receive our dedicated ceremony. The tempest wasn't great, compared with those blown up by other rituals, but it was scathing. Speeches were made by righteous souls in public meetings about disturbing the calm of a Campus cramming for examinations; about the iniquity of allowing persons with adolescent tendencies to enter the halls of higher learning. Someone even hinted that some of the Georgia's bock had been smuggled into the Pub. (It hadn't, but could there be a more fitting place?) Courtesy of Totem, 1936 Margaret Ecker Francis, B.A.'36, Totem Editor, 1936, Editor Chronicle, 1939-1941. The females of the Ubyssey staff who belonged to Greek letter societies were asked, "Hadn't we behaved a little ridiculously? What would people think?" And what of those who celebrated Christmas in April ? I haven't the exact list of communicants, but the following were Reporters, Editors, or Columnists on the Ubyssey or Totem at that time. (If any of these didn't help raise the Christmas tree, I apologise for any insinuation that they did.) Norman Hacking I'm sure was there, Marine Editor of the Vancouver Province now, with a stint of globetrotting and a distinguished naval career behind him. Stuart Keate, now Publisher of the Victoria Times, ex- Time man in Montreal, may or may not, depending on his lecture schedule, have been there. There was Alan Morley, now of the Vancouver Province Staff, with a colourful career behind him on West- coast Canadian and American publications; Zoe (Brown - Clayton) Bieler, now Women's Editor of the Montreal Star; Norman De Foe, Editorial Supervisor of the C.B.C's TV show, "Graphic"; Reg Jessup, Press and Radio representative for the C.B.C. in British Columbia; Ozzie Durkin, now one of Chicago's top Advertising and Public Relations Executives; Bob King, a University Professor somewhere in the United States; Jim Beveridge, National Film Board Executive, now on loan to make documentary films in India. John Cornish, Novelist, whose top- notch, "The Provincials", dealt with U.B.C. days better than any other novel has done; John Dauphinee (with his wife, Allison Macintosh, on our Christmas safari), now top Executive in The Canadian Press, Toronto, with a record of Ottawa parliamentary and war reporting behind him; Van Perry, Editor of the B.C. UBC. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 22 Courtesy of Totem, 1936 Publications Board, 1936. From Left, Top Row: John Cornish, Editor-in-Chief; Dorwin Baird, John Logan, Senior Editors. Second Row: Kemp Edmonds, Sports Editor; Lfoyd Hobden, Feature Editor; Zoe Brown-Clayton, News Manager. Third Row: Peter Higashi, Exchange Editor; Jim Beveridge, Norman De Poe, Associate Editors. Lumberman; Arthur Mayse, now of Victoria, probably one of Canada's top-flight Novelists and short fiction writers; Nancy Miles, of Grand Forks and one of the Interior's most prolific newspaper women and free-lance writers; Dick Elson, C.B.C. TV News- Reel Editor; Dorothy Cummings Gordon, Sun Reporter and, during the war, Canadian Information Officer in Washington, D.C; Dorwin Baird, CJOR Executive; David Crawley, Public Relations Executive in Winnipeg and F'eter Higashi, Associated Press, Tokyo. It is obvious our Christmas-in-April party had possibilities and I am sure I have left out many of its most sparkling and since successfu 1 members. Maybe it's not true now, but in former years the men and women students of the Publications Board were regarded as a little teched in the head, to put it mildly. People saw their pranks; saw the murals they drew in a flurry of creative exuberance on the Pub walls; heard of uninhibited parties; saw screwball editions of the Ubyssey. Maybe the body of the students forgot, or didn't know that they were carrying as heavy a load of courses as their more earnest colleagues, but they still covered the University for the Ubyssey, still wrote their stories, still spent long, grimy hours at the printers, "putting the paper to bed." Then there was the Totem staff, graduated Ubyssey-staffers who, just before exam time, were lining up a major publication, chasing people for late pictures, struggling with artistic page makeup: writing the reams of copy. So we all rocked n' rolled occasionally? U.B.C. has no School of Journalism, but the Christmas-in-April era alone should show that the training in putting out University publications wasn't wasted. In looking through a list of foimer Ubyssey and Totem editors, the where-are-they-now department has to neglect many of them, through ignorance. Also improperly ign:>red are their assistants who have probably as distinguished careers. But it's stimulating to point out: Arnold Webster of C.C.F. fame was a Totem editor, so was a top Social Scientist of Chicago University, Helen Gregory MacGill. Betty (Quick) Cosulich is the Owner-Publisher of the "Deep-Cove Weekly"; John W. Green, Editor of the "Aggassiz-Har- rison Advance"; Lionel Salt, Donald Stainsby, well-known newspaper bylines. Many Ubyssey and Totem Editors have turned to law (first brush with delinquency in the Pub?); Eric Nicol, Columnist and Humorist, Bob Elson of Time and Life fame; Pubic Relations Director, Aubrey Roberts; Ernie Perrault, Public Relations and writer of one of CBUT's first TV musicals; Himie Koshevoy, Vancouver Sun Editor, all put their young feet first on the primrose downward path via the Publications Board. The late Harry M. Cassidy, noted Canadian Social Scientist, was a Ubyssey Editor in 1922-23; U.B.C. Professor and top Canadian Poet and Novelist, Earle Birney, filled the chair, 1925-26, as did Ottawa Citizen Editor, Ron Grantham, 1930-31. In the years after 1940, Editors who became national and international bylines are, Andrew Snaddon (now of the Southam Press), Mardee Dundas, Don Ferguson, Ron Haggart, Les Armour, Joe Schlesinger, Allan Foth- eringham (now Chief of School Broadcasting for C.B.C); Peter Syp- nowich, Stan Beck. All of them, and those who have been unavoidably unmentioned, had their Christmas-in-April parties. They were criticised often, and probably the amount of work they were doing in providing the University with publications was unappreciated. I might add that, as weil as carrying their courses and their Pub work, very many were U.B.C. c o r r espondents for Vancouver newspapers—im - portant as interpreting U.B.C. to the public. Can the University be entirely sorry that it has its Publications Board with its traditions of individualism and freedom ? Margaret Ecker Francis, 1956 Women's News Editor, The Vancouver Herald YEAR 1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1 924-25 1925-26 1926-27 1927-28 1928-29 1929-30 1930-31 1931-32 1932-33 1933-34 1934-35 1935-36 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 1939-40 1940-41 1941-42 1942-43 1943-44 1944-45 1945-46 1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 1949-50 195C-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 Editors of Student and Alumni Publications UBYSSEY C. P. Munday Evelyn C. McKay I. A. Shaw A. Webster N. Whitley H. Imlah M. Cassidy L. Wheeler Tommy Brown A. E. Birney Ed Morrison Jean Tolmie M. Des Brisay R. A. Pilkington Ron Grantham Wilfred Lee F. St. J. Madeley Norman Hacking Archie Thompson John Cornish Z. Brown-Clayton Kemp Edmonds Dorothy Cummings John S. Garrett Jack Margeson Archie Paton Andrew Snaddon Margaret Reid John Tom Scott Mardee Dundas Jack Ferry Don Ferguson Ron Haggart Jim Banham Vic Hay and Ray Frost Les Armour Joe Schlesinger A. Fotheringham Peter Sypnowich Stan Beck The Totem was not published TOTEM Roland M. Miller C. P. Munday I. A. Shaw A. A. Webster H. E. McConnell J. F. Walker T. D. Guernsey Lillian Cawdell Helen MacGill Helen MacGill Wanetta Leach Jean Tolmie Margaret Grant Jean Woodworth Bessie Robertson Doris Barton Rosemary Winslow M. Patricia Kerr Ted Madeley Alan Baker Margaret Ecker Jim Beveridge David Crawley John Garrett D. O. Durkin Elizabeth Quick Lionel H. Salt Denis Blunden John Green Wm. Stewart Jean MacFarlane Don Stainsby R. J. Blockberger Group of Editors Hugh Cameron Joan Fraser Allan Goldsmith Wendy Sutton Ann Roger Lee Davenport 1942-43 owing to paper shortage. CHRONICLE Isobel Harvey Isobel Harvey Isobel Harvey Isobel Harvey Isobel Harvey Helen Crawford Helen Crawford Rosemary Winslow Edgar N. Brown Margaret Ecker Margaret Ecker Dorothy Wallace Dorothy Wallace Ruth Wilson Darrell Braidwood Darrell Braidwood Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde Harry T. Harry T. Harry T. Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall Logan Logan Logan 23 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Forty-First Congregation Class of 1916 Honoured Chancellor Announces Fund Drive in 1958 Craduands Hear Dean H. F. Angus and Dean Emeritus H. J. MacLeod Autumn, 1954 The University Armoury was filled almost to capacity with Graduands and their friends who attended the Forty - First Annual Congregation on Monday and Tuesday, May 14 and 15. Fine weather added to the attractiveness of the occasion and as the procession made its way slowly from the Administration Building to the Armoury the many-coloured hoods and gowns worn by the participants were displayed in all their varied splendour. Returning after the ceremony the procession continued to Brock Hall before dispersing to join the new Graduates and guests in a social hour. A total of 938 Degrees and Diplomas were conferred, including 12 Ph.D.'s and 67 Master's Degrees in all Faculties. Chancellor the Hon. Sherwood Lett who presided also conferred six Honorary Degrees. Retiring Dean Henry F. Angus, Principal Cyril James of McGill University and Miss Jessie Louise McLenaghen received the Degree of Doctor of Laws; the Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, was conferred on Mr. Thomas Ingledow, Dean Emeritus Hector J. MacLeod and Mr. William G. Swan. In welcoming Principal James to U.B.C, Chancellor Lett recalled the pioneering educational work done by McGill University in the Province and her close association with the beginnings of U.B.C. "We in this University" he said, "shall never forget the debt of gratitude we owe to McGill University for the encouragement and very tangible assistance she gave to this Province before the University of B.C. became established." This year was the fortieth Anniversary of the first graduation ceremonies and, to commemorate this fact, Members of the Class of 1916, of whom the Chancellor was President, were invited to join the Procession and to occupy seats on the platform. In referring to their presence, Chancellor Lett said "I would extend a welcome to the first graduating class of this University, the Class of Arts'16. I am happy to see that the years seem to have dealt so gently Part of Chancellor's Procession, May 14. Nearest the camera, recipients of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. From right: Miss Jessie McLenaghen, with President Emeritus Dr. L. S. Klinck; Dr. F. Cyril James, Principal of McGill, with President MacKenzie; Dean Henry F. Angus, with Chancellor Emeritus The Hon. Eric W. Hamber; Chancellor The Hon. Sherwood Lett. Dean Emeritus Hector J. MacLeod, O.B.E., B.Sc.(McGill), M.Sc.(Alta.), A.M., Ph.D.(Harvard), M.E.I.C, Mem. I.R.E., Fellow A.I.E.E. with them and that fortunately not one has been compelled to attend in a wheel chair. "It was a small graduating class of forty-one persons. But in the Congregation Programme printed for that first Graduation Ceremony, you will find the names of one hundred and sixteen of the students of that day who had already enlisted in the Armed Services. So the procession consisted mostly of girl Graduates since every able-bodied man in the class was by that time engaged in or preparing for a bitter struggle for freedom. Many of its members are not with us today. They lie in the fields of France and Flanders. But their names hold a place of honour in the new memorial gymnasium on the Campus. "The Class of Arts'16 produced no eminent Philosopher^ no world-famous Mathematician or Physicist. But I think I can say, without being accused of boasting, that in a small way, by their sacrifice and service, the members of that Class contributed something to the foundation of the tradition of service to their country and to their fellow citizens, which has characterised the Graduates of this University, over the past 40 years, —a tradition which has not only been cherished, but has been greatly enhanced and enriched by the activities of students and Graduates in the 40 years since the dark days of 1916." Degrees in Social Work, Arts, Home Economics and Pharmacy were conferred on the first day of Congregation. On May 15 Graduands in Educa- cation, Commerce, Physical Education, Applied Science, Architecture, Agriculture, Law, Medicine and Forestry received their degrees. In referring to the large and increasing number of University Faculties the Chancellor pointed out that the men and women so educated and trained "are essential components of the balanced and progressive natural economy which we rely upon our educational system to maintain and inspire." In speaking of the grave financial needs of U.B.C. to establish itself on a sound permanent footing in buildings, facilities, and in all ways befitting a first-class, modern Uni- U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 24 versity, serving all the highest educational needs of our fast-growing Province with its rapidly-expanding economy, the Chancellor announced the "intention of the Board of Governors to appeal to the people of the Province in 1958 for the additional sum of $10,000,000 ... A formal announcement", he said, "of the plans and programme for this major development will be forthcoming in the near future. I should like to take this opportunity however, to appeal to the students, the Graduates and friends of the University to demonstrate what the University means in the life of our Province and to rally to its support on the occasion when we in British Columbia will be celebrating a century of phenomenal progress." On Monday, May 14, the Congregation Address was given by Dean Henry F. Angus, LL.D., who reviewed outstanding features in U.B.C. history during the 36 years of his association with the University. The major portion of his address may be found on pages 16 and 17. Dean Emeritus Hector J. MacLeod, D.Sc. spoke to the Graduands on the second day of Congregation, in part, as follows: "First, I would like to say a word or two on behalf of my good friends, Dr. Ingledow and Dr. Swan, and myself. We appreciate, more than I can say, the high honour that has been conferred upon us by this great University. We welcome, with due humility, admission to her large and growing family of scholars. We take it also as a tribute, by the University, to the part which Engineering is playing in the development of this country and this Province in particular. For these things, our thanks to the University. "Members of the graduating class in Applied Science may remember a freshman course on the History of Science. And some of you may remember my telling you then that you could think of yourself as coming to the University to build a bridge, but not an ordinary bridge. Only one person would travel over the bridge and that person would be you. The bridge would lead from freshman year to a place in your chosen profession. The bridge would include many arches like English and History. Mathematics and Physics, and so on. It would have to pass inspection by the University Staff but its general design was up to you . . . "As you look back over the past four years, are you satisfied with the bridge you have built? Is there beauty as well as utility in its design? Will it carry you beyond the security of a job? In laying its foundations, were you conscious of the mysteries that surround us? And from its highest arches did you catch a glimpse of the drama of human life and of the greatness of the human mind at its best? With the work you put into it, did you taste Front row, recipients of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. From left: Dean Emeritus Hector J. MacLeod, Mr. Thomas Ingledow, Colonel W. G. Swan. Back row, from left: Chancellor The Hon. Sherwood Lett, President Emeritus Dr. L. !>. Klinck, Chancellor Emeritus The Hon. Eric W. Hamber. the joy of intellectual effort which ensures that [Education for you will be a continuing process? Knowing this University as I do, I have little doubt about the answers . . . "Our Western Civilisation has been built around a framework of the professions tc a greater extent than is generally realised. In the Universities which arose in the Middle Ages, Theology, Law and Medicine were the three fields ot professional study. They were thus associated with scholarship and became knowr as the learned professions ... In the nineteenth century, engineering formed an alliance with modern science and began its march to a place among the learned pi ofes- sions. In the intervening years Applied Science has opened the storehouses of nature for the use of mankind . . . Through Science, man has found out how nature works and his material wealth has come from working in harmony with her. The tragedy is that members of the human rare, who have learned so well how to work in harmony with nature, have not yet learned how to work in harmony with one another. Knowledge travels £aster than wisdom. And there is danger in the power of scientific knowledge without the restraint of those moral and spiritual values which are part of a liberal education. That danger is abroad in the world to-day. How should we meet it? . . . "While explaining Science to the full, let us not forget the poets. Our civilisation is so rich in poets, using that term in its wider sense—interpreters of life. Their thoughts and ideas as expressed in literature, philosophy and the arts together form what we cal the Humanities ... It was from the heritage of Greece and Rome and Palestine that our civilisation grew: from Christianity, combined with a sense of law and order and insistence on individual right. These are the roots which nourished the growth of Universities, the growth of Science and our way of life . . . "But the trend in University education is toward professional training. To meet the needs of our expanding economy, higher education must supply an ever increasing number of Graduates with a wide diversity of knowledge and skills. The strength and safety of the nation may well depend upon the extent to which these needs are met ... In addition to knowledge and skill, professional practice requires the exercise of imagination and judgment. It may well be that the exercise of these qualities—imagination and judgment— represents the highest expression of professional practice. The study of Science develops in the student's mind logical thinking and the power of reason. The Humanities with different methods of thought should stimulate the imagination, awaken a sense of values and lead to sounder judgment. The blending of the two is far more likely to develop the creative mind. "Furthermore, as individuals, each one of us should leave the crowd and the market place at times, to wander among those quiet hills of the Humanities which Me around the fertile fields of Science; have at least a few good companions among the timeless master minds who dwell there, and from those quiet hill-tops gaze at times toward the far horizon and 'whatever lies beyond'. The individual, the profession, and the world will be the richer for it. "This is not a plea to limit the role of Science—far from it. It is a plea to have Science fulfil its proper role in the destiny of mankind . , ." Medallists in graduating classes in Arts and Science, Applied Science, Law, Medicine and Commerce. From left: Keith Yates, Governor-General's Gold Medal; Michael G. Peers, University Medal; John J. F. Loewen, Association of Professional Engineers Gold Medal; M. Rendina K. Hossie, Law Society Gold Medal; Alexander R. M. Cairns, Hamber Gold Medal; Geoffrey R. Conway, Kiwanis Club Gold Medal. 25 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Book Reviews Elsie Gregory MacGill: MY MOTHER THE JUDGE The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1955 March, 1947 This informa- ■HfiffiliL i": tive and enter- taining biog- r a p h y of the woman whose name is on one of the two memorial tablets in the University's Library is by her daughter Elsie, who took her first two years at U.B.C. and later- graduated in Engineering at Toronto and in Aeronautics at Michigan. It may be read and enjoyed on several counts. Friends and admirers of the late Judge MacGill will welcome it as a timely and deserved tribute; students of Sociology will find in its pages the story of social legislation with which Judge MacGill's career was synonymous; and the general reader should enjoy the book for its picture of a vivid personality presented with discernment and humour. The book commences with a somewhat detailed examination of the Family Tree on the assumption, doubtless reasonable, that one's forebears explain to a degree, if they do not determine, one's attitudes and actions. Judge MacGill's ancestors and the "Family Connection" as seen through daughter Elsie's discerning eyes are a varied and interesting lot. In general they may be characterised as of United Empire Loyalist stock, members of the Episcopalian Church, active in political and community affairs (for many years in Hamilton, Ontario) and lively and progressive and some steps ahead of their time. Helen Emma Gregory was born in Hamilton, 1864, into a family of social standing and means. For some time, after presentation to Society, she followed the conventional pattern for young ladies of that day, then, at nineteen, astonished her family and friends by deciding on the "career" of concert pianiste. Despite family mis- Judge Helen Gregory MacGill, B.A., M.A. (Tor.), LL.D/38. givings, Helen commenced training and within the year so impressed her teacher that he proposed to enter her as candidate for the Bachelor of Music examinations at Trinity College, Toronto. Thus began the long series of "firsts" that characterise the life-story of Judge Helen MacGill. The first woman undergraduate at Trinity, she followed the Mus.Bac. with a B.A. and an M.A., becoming Trinity's first woman to receive these degrees. Simultaneously came freelance writng for a syndicate of American magazines, and commissions from the Toronto Globe to write up the foreign settlements of Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest, and from Cosmopolitan and Atlantic Monthly to cover the opening of the Japanese Diet in December, 1890. To her family and the Connection this last seemed "a preposterous proposal for a young unmarried girl"; however, Helen (as her daughter speaks of her) went ahead with her plans and added to their surprise by marrying, after an acquaintance of only a week, Frederick Charles ("Lee") Flesher whom she met in Manitoba en route to Vancouver and Japan. Her Japanese adventure completed, the Fleshers spent the next ten years, until Lee's untimely death in 1901, in California and Minnesota, Helen dividing her time as housewife, mother and journalist. This latter activity led her into crusading for civic reform and women suffrage and into developing herself as speaker and organiser. A new chapter commenced with marriage, a couple of years later, to Jim MacGill, former Trinity College classmate, become lawyer and headed for residence in Vancouver. Now she found her mission in life, when she directed her irresistible energy and crusading zeal, among lesser interests, toward better laws for women and children, the suffragette movement, and penal reform. As a logical, but long-delayed result to these activities, in 1917, when she was fifty- three years old, Helen MacGill became Judge of the Juvenile Court in Vancouver, the first woman jurist to be appointed in British Columbia. Here, for the twenty-three years of her Judgeship, she devoted her extraordinary vigour to helping delinquent and ill-treated children, to obtaining much-needed reforms and social legislation on their behalf, and to raising the standards and status of the Juvenile Court. It was a prodigious task in face of political abuse and enmity, prejudice, and official apathy; and represented years of determined struggle with City Council and Provincial Government, until final vindication and success, when the social measures she advocated, and for which she worked so tirelessly, became law. And all the more amazing that so frail a person should have accomplished so much; though delicate in body she was strong in mind, and vigorous in debate, and wonderfully tough of purpose, tenaciously holding to those principles which she espoused and which time proved to be right. To Judge MacGill the climax of her career came when the University of British Columbia gave recognition to her "wide and valuable public service" by conferring upon her the Degree of Doctor of Laws at its Spring Congregation in 1938. While it is true, as the book jacket states, that the author writes of her mother with humour as well as affection, those who knew Judge MacGill may regret that Elsie did not find space for more of the anecdotes that are so much a part of her mother's vivid personality and which liven our memory of her. There would be many instances: vignettes of Judge Helen in court, never dull, always shrewd, and sometimes sharp; as driver of her automobile trying conclusions with her own as well as other people's cars; as unconventional hostess in her West End home, and in summer holiday at Grey Rocks; as conversationalist and raconteur of notable wit and intelligence. This is not by way of belittling what is, in its broad and detailed strokes, an expertly-managed portrait. Certainly, University Alumni and the many friends and acquaintances of Judge MacGill will welcome this tribute to a distinguished jurist and humanitarian. (Like her mother, Elsie Gregory MacGill, who attended the University of B.C. for two years prior to graduating from the University of Toronto in engineering (1 927), has specialised in "firsts". She was the first woman to graduate in engineering at Toronto—often the only woman student in science courses that comprised her undergraduate programme—and the first to take a master's degree in aeronautics at the University of Michigan. Prior to 1939 she worked as assistant engineer at Fairchild Aircraft Ltd., Longueuil, P.Q., and during World War II was in charge of all engineering work in the Canadian production, first, of Hawker "Hurricane" fighters (the aircraft made famous through the Battle of Britain) and later of Curtiss-Wright "Helldiver" fighters for the U.S. Navy. Now married and living in Toronto, she practises her profession as Consulting Engineer in aeronautics, widely recognised by aeronautical and engineering circles of Canada, United States and the United Kingdom.) Walter Lanning, B.A.'26, M.L.S.(Columbia), Librarian, Vancouver Technical School. G. V. Downes: "LOST DIVER". Bliss Carman Society, Fredericton, N.B. 50 cents. "Lost Diver", by Dr. Gwladys Downes is the second of The Fiddle- head Poetry Books published by the University of New Brunswick with the commendable object of putting the work of new Canadian poets be- Elsie Gregory MacGill, B.A.Sc.(Tor.). U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 26 fore the public in an attractive and very inexpensive form. "Lost Diver" should have particular interest for readers of The Chronicle, for the author is a Graduate of the University of British Columbia who is now living in Victora. It should also be a matter of pride that one of our own Graduates is writing verse of such sensitivity and quality. The sixteen short poems in this booklet reveal a quiet and contemplative imagination and an individual technique. Not all, of course, are equally successful. The reviewer likes best the title poem with its delicate evocation of the weightless, swaying, underwater world. This is the second stanza of "Lost Diver": "Though hurricanes may tear each watery tile this prison roof's a shelter, here undisturbed vague starfish hands explore the tilted rocks turn with faint tides that bind the fluted kelp about his feet." The poetic images in each poem are, in general, coherent and consistent, though there is an occasional al- lusiveness involving some purely personal symbol which can be a little confusing. Some important philosophical ideas adumbrated only—as is a time theory in "The Well"—are at times a bit tantalisingly used as the misty backdrop for a mood. London, Paris, Oxford and Vancouver Island all supply memories which are woven into these thoughtful and pleasing poems. Dr. Downes is to be congratulated. Anne M. Angus. + Audrey Hawthorn: PEOPLE OF THE POTLACH Vancouver Art Gallery and U.B.C. One Dollar June, 1951 Measured b y volume this is a small book, but measured by quality it is a very large book AjA*I^Bfct 1 t a indeed. It was written primarily for the great exhibition of the arts and crafts of the people of the Northwest Coast which opened at the beginning of May in the Vancouver Art Gallery; but it is no mere guide book. Rather, it is a brilliantly- written and a beautifully-illustrated introduction to the cultural life of those remarkable people who inhabited this coastal area long before the arrival of the Spaniards and the English in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century. Mrs. Hawthorn, who contributes the thirty-nine pages of text that open the book, writes, not only with compactness, clarity, and distinction, CHRONICLE Mrs. Audrey Hawthorn and Mr. Robert Hume of the Vancouver Art Gallery. but also with authority. And well she may, for, as the Associate Curator of the University's Museum of Anthropology, she has contributed much to bring the Museum to the high place that it holds today. In the process, she has been brought into close association with many of the native peoples of the Province, and day by day she has breathed the atmosphere of their culture and their arts. Of them—the people and the arts—she writes with enthusiasm, sympathy, and understanding. But she is also highly factual. In the brief space at her disposal she manages, somehow, to survey the background of these people, and to discuss their daily lives —their work, their leisure activit.es, their ceremonies and secret societ.es, their skills in carving, building, and weaving, the pattern of their social organisation, and their potlatches,_ which were at the very core of their culture. "The potlatch," she writes, "stimulated all the arts." And "when the potlatch was banned by the Government, the blow struck deep into the structure of Northwest Coast society. Without the potlatch much of the creative effort given to the costume, regalia, performance, and even the value given to the gathering of wealth, became meaningless." Today the arts and crafts of these people are almost, though not quite, extinct. Too many of us know li;tle or nothing about them, and we should be grateful to Mrs. Hawthorn—and to all people like her—for showing us the beauty and the grandeur of a culture that was here before our own. The text of the book is followed by one hundred and one photographs of various samples of the arts and the crafts of the People of the Potlatc 1— blankets, hat-, baskets and boxes. spindle whorls, spoons, bowls, ish hooks and halibut clubs, masks and totem poles. Some of the objects are privately owned; some are from Museums in Portland, Seattle, and Victoria. The majority, however, are from the University's own Museum. And here a word of praise for Mr. Peter Holborne, the Unversity's offi cial photographer. As such, he is responsible for many of the photographs in the text, and his work is superb—clear, precise, and technically excellent, good enough for any book requiring this particular type of illustration. A brief preface to the work was written by Mr. J. A. Morris, the Curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery. His was the master mind behind the exhibition. It is to be deeply regretted that he has now left Vancouver to take an important museum post in San Francisco. People of the Potlatch was jointly published by the Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia. Copies are available through the University Book Store. Personally, I recommend it to all Alumni as a "must" book. You won't be disappointed. Stanley E. Read, M.A. (McGill), Department of English, U.B.C. Summer School of the Arts GRAHAM GREENE PREMIERE Nov.-Dec, I 952 U. B. C. Summer School of the Arts and Sum- Arts Festival in July and August, under direction of Dr. John K. Friesen, will offer instruction in Music, Drama and the Visual Arts with distinguished Instructors drawn widely from Canada, the United States and Europe. Planned to coincide with the opening of the University's most ambitious Summer School of the Arts is the Western Canadian premiere of Graham Greene's "The Living Room", to be presented by the U.B.C. Players Club Alumni in the Frederic Wood Theatre from July 3 to July 7. This, the well-known novelist's first play, was the sensation of the 1953 London season and has been widely performed throughout Europe to similar acclaim. Its controversial theme of illicit love between a young girl and a married family adviser, set against the background of a Catholic middle-class London family, provides a moral conflict which is tense with drama. As in "The Heart of the Matter", a benevolent and self-critical priest acts as the mediator in this struggle of conscience. Stark and concentrated in its impact, yet alive with understanding of the human soul, "The living Room" has proved more controversial than any play since Eliot's "The Cocktail Party". A strong cast headed by Joanne Walker has been assembled by director John Brockington for this significant presentation. 27 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE E.W.H.Brown New President Annual Meetings of Convocation and Alumni Association of U.B.C. Autumn, 1955 Mr. E. W. H. Brown, B.A. '34, was elected President of the U. B. C. Alumni Association b y acclamation a t the Annual Dinner Meeting held in Brock Hall on Thursday e v e n- ing, April 19, succeeding Mr. Peter Sharp, B.A., B.Com.'36. Since graduation Mr. Brown has been in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, serving in several cities of Canada. He is at present Assistant Manager of the Company's Vancouver store. He takes an active interest in community affairs, having just completed a period of duty as President of the Community Chest and Council of Greater Vancouver. He is also President of the Vancouver University Club, now in process of formation. Other Graduates elected to the 1956-57 Executive include, Mr. Nathan Nemetz, Q.C., B.A.'34, First Vice- President, Mrs. L. R. Ranta, B.A.'35, B.A.Sc.(Nurs.)'39, Second Vice-President, and Dr. Malcolm F. McGregor, B.A.'30, M.A.'31, Third Vice-President; Mr. Archie P. Gardner, B.A.'37, was re-elected Treasurer; Dr. W. C. Gibson, B.A.'33, was appointed Chairman of the U.B.C. Development Fund Board of Directors in place of Mr. Aubrey Roberts. Dean Walter Gage was elected to a two-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Fund, succeeding Col. F. T. Fairey. More than 250 Convocation Founders, Friends of the University and Alumni sat down to dinner, following the reception period at 6:30 p.m. Among the Head Table guests were, Chancellor, The Honourable Chief Justice Sherwood Lett and Mrs. Lett, Dean Geoffrey Andrew (who represented President MacKenzie) and Nathan T. Nemetz Harold King, B.A.'31, Author ot "Hail U.B.C." Mrs. Andrew, Dean F. H. Soward, Guest Speaker, and Mrs. Soward, Mr. Kenneth Caple, Chairman Board of Trustees, U.B.C. Development Fund, and Mrs. Caple, Mr. Peter Sharp, retiring President of the Alumni Association, and Mrs. Sharp, Mr. John J. West, newly-appointed Co-chairman with Dr. W. C. Gibson, U.B.C. Development Fund, and Mrs. West, and Mr. Aubrey Roberts, retiring U.B.C. Development Fund Chairman, and Mrs. Roberts. After dinner, which was followed by the introduction of Head Table Guests, Dean Andrew responded to the Toast to the University in a brief speech in which he paid eloquent tribute to the loyal devotion of U.B.C. Alumni and to the splendid example of service set by the Chancellor. A pleasant interlude of musical entertainment was provided by Mi'. John Emerson, Vancouver virtuoso, at the piano, and Mr. Harold King, B.A.'31, well - known composer of "Hail U.B.C", with his tuneful trumpet. The gathering was called to order by Chancellor Lett, who then convened the 40th Annual meeting of Convocation, adjourned from the special meeting held on November 2, 1955. The Chancellor explained that this procedure had been made necessary by the change in the fiscal year of the Alumni Association from November 1 to October 31 to April 1 to March 31, and by the desirability of holding the annual meeting of both bodies on the same occasion. New members of the Executive Council of Convocation were elected as follows: Miss Marjorie Agnew, B.A.'22, Dr. Margaret Ormsby, B.A.'29, M.A. '31, Dr. Samuel Rothstein, B.A.'39, M.A.'40, and Mi'. G. Dudley Darling, B.Com.39. On adjournment of Convocation, Mr. Sharp presided over the Alumni Association Annual meeting. In his President's Report, Mr. Sharp pointed out that the Alumni Office Staff, under the supervision of Mr. Sager, Executive Secretary, had "taken on an ever-increasing load of work, thus making it possible for the Association to extend its services both to the Alumni and the University" . . . "A new feature of our operations has been the establishment of a central addressograph office, the services of which are gradually being made available to all University Departments." With regard to the U.B.C. Development Fund he expressed satisfac- H. Brown, B.A/34. tion over "the growing support which the Fund is receiving from Alumni and friends." "There has been a significant increase," he stated, "in Branch activity since 1954, with new organisations being formed in many parts of the Province and further afield. We have also been able to establish a network of "contact Alumni" in Canada, the United States and in many foreign countries." After referring to the work of the many standing and special Alumni Committees during the past year, Mr. Sharp reported that "considerable progress has been achieved in our efforts to establish a University Club in downtown Vancouver. Definite steps have recently been taken to acquire suitable quarters and the Officers of the Club hope to be able to make a statement in this connection shortly" . . . "In conclusion. I would like to express the sincere appreciation of the Board of Management to the Chan- Mr. Peter Sharp, retiring President U.B.C. Alumni Association, receives gitt trom his successor, Mr. Ernie Brown. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 28 Group of Head Table Guests. From right: Mrs. Sherwood Lett, Professor Soward, guest speaker; Mrs, Ernie Brown, Dean Geoffrey Andrew. cellor, the President and other members of the University Administration, and Faculty for their most generous support of the Association dur- ring our term of office. This support and co-operation has been most encouraging because it indicates that the University recognises the important part which Alumni can play in the promotion of higher education." The Report of the Treasurer, Mr. Archie Gardner, commended the "Executive Secretary, his assistant, Mrs. Blown, and the Staff, for the thrifty, business-like management of the Association's activities which resulted in a slight excess of revenue over expenditure for the 17-month period ending on March 31. In the Executive Secretary's report on 1955-56 activities, Mr. Sager stressed the important extension of the services given by his office both to the University and Alumni. It would seem logical to assume that the Association should co-operate closely with the Administration and University departments in all matters relating to publicity, fund raising, alumni and community relations. "The policy of the Association and the Fund Board of Directors during the past year has been one of "service before solicitation" and it is a policy which has proven successful. Alumni can and do support higher education in many ways other than by giving money". Referring to the importance of Alumni Branch organisations and of recently-formed Alumni Divisions, he expressed his view that such "groups of Alumni can play an important role in developing interest and support for education at all levels" . . . with regard to School and Faculty Alumri Divisions he pointed out that the Alumni Office was available to provide mailing and stenographic service. Finally, in a reference to the value of Special Alumni Committees Mr. Sager voiced the hope that "it will be possible to expand our programme of the Fund is due, in very large part, to his untiring efforts which have been a source of inspiration to all of us." Mr. Dudley Darling presented the Nominating Committee Report, following which the 1956-57 Board of Management was elected. This concluded the routine business and Mr. Sharp then installed the new President, Mr. Ernie Brown, who after a brief speech of acceptance and thanks, introduced the Guest Speaker, Dean F. H. Soward. Professor Soward visited both Japan and Germany during the past year and during both visits had unusually favourable opportunities of meeting leaders of thought and action in both nations and of studying economic, social and political conditions. This fact, added to his intimate knowledge of international affairs, gave special interest to his informative and vividly expressed address on Japan and Germany Today. Presentations were made during the evening to the retiring President Mr. Peter Sharp and to Mr. Aubrey Roberts who is withdrawing after three years service as Chairman of the Development Fund Board of Directors. Presenting Mr. Sharp's gift, Mr. Brown, in a few facetious words, Mr. Peter Sharp makes a presentation to Mr Aubrey Roberts, retiring Chairman U.B.C. Development Fund Board of Directors. From right: Mrs. Peter Sharp, Chancellor Sherwood Lett, Mrs. Soward, Mr. Peter Sharp, Mr. Aubrey Roberts, Professor Soward. Dr. W. C. Gibson John J. West reunions and to establish Homecoming as an annual "Open House" for graduates and friends of the University. Mr. Kenneth Caple, Chairman, Board of Trustees, U.B.C. Development Fund reported that "the Fund, in 1955, again established new records in both participation and contributions". Approximately 4800 donors including 4000 Alumni, contributed nea '- ly $80,000 for the various University purposes which form the objectives of the Fund. "Altogether the seventh year of the operation of the U.B.C. Development Fund has been most successful. As Chairman of the Board of Trustees, I cannot conclude this report without paying special tribute to Mr. Aubrey Roberts, the active and aggressive Chairman of the Board of Directors for the past three years. At all times, he has shown the greatest enthusiasm and the success of translated the punning Latin inscription on the gift—acer et fidelis in officio—as'sharp and faithful in duty', pointing out that the word acer also means, active, keen and wise! Mr. Aubrey Roberts' gift of a silver tray was inscribed pro merito insigni—'for distinguished service'. + Professors Retire Frank Dickson, B.A.(Queens), Ph.D. (Cornell), well-known Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, retires this year. During the period 1923-56 he has inspired many students who have attained distinction. Organisation and clarity of presentation have featured his courses. Further contributions to Mycology from him are anticipated. —A.H.H. Also retiring is Alexander P. Mas- low, A.M.(Michigan), Ph.D.(Calif.), Professor of Philosophy. 29 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE ««^Hj ■mm---, - TE****-*-^. :^TPMlSi '**jtiBaii.« ,. ... ....... .>"l4^,rttl'^*T'':'¥^^^' ""'"-■;*^s^^»*^ Toronto • Vancouver BUILDERS FOR INDUSTRY BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE... Choosing your lifework in engineering is one of the most important decisions you will ever be called on to make. You will do well to investigate a career in engineering for heavy construction—a. highly rewarding and challenging field. If taking part in the creation of tomorrow's facilities for the petroleum, natural gas, power and metallurgical industries interests you, write today. Bechtel offers outstanding opportunities to young engineers with the required qualifications. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 3D Al umnae &AI umni City in April, co-ordinating (Items of Alumni news are invited in the form of press clippings or personal letters. These should reach the Editor, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, 207 Brock Hall, U.B.C, for the next issue not later than August 15, 1956.) 1922 October 1941 jonn F. Walker, B. A. Sc, Ph. D. (Princeton) , British Columbia Deputy Minister of Mines, was elected President of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at a meeting held in Que- The Institute is organisation of Canada's Mining Industry and consists of 36 active branches across Canada. Dr. Walker was a member of the first graduating class of Geological Engineers at U.B.C. and was a member of the Senate, 1939-1948 and of the Board of Governors, 1942-1946. Arnold A. Webster, B.A., M.A.'28, former Principal of Magee High School and Leader of the Provincial C.C.F. Party since 1953, has resigned his position this Spring to return to the educational field. Mr. Webster is one of two M.L.A.'s for Vancouver East but will not seek re-election in the next Provincial General Election. He has been appointed Principal of the Fairview High School of Commerce. 1923 Frank A. Turnbull, B.A., M.D.(Toronto), was recently honoured as a "Prince of Good Fellows" by his colleagues of the Vancouver Medical Association at the Annual Osier Dinner and Lecture March 6. The Degree is one of the most coveted honours of the Association and is awarded as a mark of esteem "for services rendered to the Association and the Profession." 1930 Frank Rendle, B.A., Vice-Principal of Mount View High School in Victoria, has been appointed Principal of the School effective July 31. Mr. Rendle has taught in the Greater Victoria area for 26 years. 1931 Michael C. Nesbitt, B.A.Sc, District Engineer of the Highways De- Dr. John F. Walker Arnold A. Webster partment at Fernie since 1954, hsis been promoted to Regional Constructional Engineer with headquarters in Prince George. 1932 Wiliam H. Hill, B.S.A. (Toronto), M.S.A., has recently retired as Director for the Western Region of the Federal Department of Health and Welfare, which position he held for 27 years. Lawrence B. Jack, B.A., M.A. (Calif.), B.A.(Juris.) Oxford, Ph.D. (McGill), associated with the B.C. Electric Company since 1945 and its Industrial Relations Director since 1949, has been appointed to the newly- created post of Director of Budgeting and Control. Lt. Col. Russell D. Shaneman, B.A., B.Com., has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster General with the Directorate of "Q" Operations and Planning at Military Headquarters, Ottawa. 1933 George W. Lang, B.A., L.Th.. Senior Assistant Priest at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Victoria, for the past 18 months, will leave at the end of June to take up a new post as Associate Rector of Christ Church in Oswego, Oregon. L. J. Nicholson, B.A., B.A.Sc'34, formerly Superintendent of the Kimberley Fertiliser Department of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited, has been promoted to the position of Manager of the newly-formed Cominco Products Incorporated, in Spokane, Wash. Gordon W. Stead, B.Com., B.A.'31, LL.D.'45, D.S.C. and Bar, former Lecturer in Economics at U.B.C. has been appointed one of two Assistart Secretaries to the Treasury Board. Lt.-Col. Russell D. Shaneman Dr. Gordon W. Stead 31 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Eric P. Nicol Dr. Wilfred Watson Dr. Frank A. Turnbull Dr. Lawrence B. Jack Dr. Stead is the son of the late Major Frank Stead and Mrs. Stead. 1936 Robert W. Gross, B.A., has been appointed Manager of the newly- formed Land Department of the Legal Division, B.C. Electric Company. Frank R. Joubin, B.A., M.A.'43, P.Eng., formerly Managing Director of Technical Mine Consultants Limited of Toronto, has returned to his practice of Consulting Geologist and will consult on a world-wide scale for the Rio Tinto Company of England. 1941 Eric P. Nicol, B.A., M.A.'48, Columnist of the Vancouver Province, has won the Leacock Medal for Humour for 1955. He received the award for his "Shall We Join the Ladies?" 1943 John J. Carson, B.A., Director of Employee Relations for the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, has been appointed to succeed Dr. L. B. Jack as Director of Industrial Relations with the B.C. Electric. Ian Schiedel, B.A.Sc, former Resident Forester with the Faculty of Forestry, is now the Forester for Totem Pole and Piling, and Penney Spruce Company, Limited. Wilfred Watson, B.A., Ph.D. (Tor.), Professor, Department of English, University of Alberta, has won the Governor-General's Award for Poetry for 1955 for his book "Friday's Child". 1947 Ernest D. O. Hill, B.A., B.S.W.'48, M.S.W.'51, has been appointed Director of Health and Welfare Planning for the Greater Vancouver Community Chest. 1948 Mario H. D. Prizek, B.A., formerly with CBUT in Vancouver, is now responsible for the production of "Folio", the C.B.C. Sunday night television programme from Toronto. 1949 Harold J. Page, B.A.Sc, was recently appointed Assistant Chief Engineer of the Public Utilities Commission. 1950 Donald A. Chant, B.A., M.A.'52, has successfully completed work for his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Entomology at the University of London, and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Mervin Davis, B.A.(Tor.), B.S.W., has been appointed Executive Direc- tor of the John Howard Society in Vancouver. He was formerly the Society's Executive Secretary. Alan R. P. Paterson, B.A., M.A.'52, has been named the winner of a $5,000 Fellowship in Cancer Research. Mr. Paterson is the first recipient of the Fellowship established by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Woodward. John F. T. Saywell, B.A., M.A.'51, has been recently awarded a Ph.D. Degree at Harvard. At present Dr. Saywell is lecturing in Modern History at the University of Toronto. 1951 Elbert S. Reid, B.A.Sc, with the Engineering firm of H. J. Hodgins and Associates, expects to be leaving soon for Pakistan where his firm is to prepare a Forest Survey for the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation. H. Colin Slim, B.A., M.A.(Harvard), former Conductor of the U.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, has received the John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowship in Music entitling him to one year's study and travel in Europe. John Walters, B.S.F., M.F.'55, has joined the Staff of the Faculty of Forestry as Research Forester. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Walters was with the Federal Division of Forest Biology, stationed at Vernon. 1953 David Kristmanson, B.A.Sc, has been awarded an Athlone Fellowship for two years' study in England under the category of Graduates who have had two years of practical experience in their field. 1954 Aiko Hori, B.S.A., has been awarded a Japanese Government Foreign Scholarship for a year's study or research in Japan. Miss Hori has chosen to continue research work in Biochemistry, preferably dealing with some aspect of Cancer Research. Robert S. Wood, B.S.F., M.S.(New York State College of Forestry), has been appointed Resident Forester with the Faculty of Forestry, succeeding Mr. Ian Schiedel. 1955 Mary L. Seely, B.A., has won The Canadian Federation of University Women Professional Fellowship of $1000. Miss Seely will continue her training in Psychiatric Case Work at The McGill School of Social Work. 1956 John K. W. 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Limited Business Established 1889 626 West Pender St., Vancouver Telephone PA. 7521 TORONTO MONTREAL WINNIPEB VICTORIA CAL8ARY NEW YORK LONDON. ENG. U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 32 The Faculty December, 1 951 President N. A. M. Mac K e n z i e and four other members of the Faculty of Law, Gilbert D. Kennedy, M.A., LL.B. (Tor.), Charles B. Bourne, B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (Cantab.), Jacob Austin, B.A.'54, LL.B.'55, Leon J. Ladner, Q.C., B.A., LL.B. (Toronto), attended the Northwest Regional Conference in Seattle celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the American Society of International Law on April 18-19. The three major panel discussions on the agenda were: "The Legal Problems in Doing Business Abroad"; "Fisheries and Territorial Seas"; "The Diversion of Columbia River Waters in Canada." Professor Kennedy took part in the first panel; President MacKenzie, in the second; and Professor Bourne and Mr. Ladner in the last. Lenore Brockmeier, B.A. (Cincinnati), Teaching Assistant in the Department of Classics, has been awarded a Bryn Mawr Fellowship for Graduate Study in Greek. Dr. J. J. R. Campbell, B.S.A.'39, Ph.D.(Cornell), Professor of Dairying, Faculty of Agriculture, attended the Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, April 29-May 3, of the Society of American Bacteriologists. Dr. Campbell is Chairman of the Physiology Section. John D. Chapman, M.A. (Oxon.), Assistant Professor, Division of Geography, Department of Geology and Geography, was elected President of the B.C. Natural Resources Conference at the Ninth Annual Meeting held recently in Victoria. Rev. Henry Carr, C. S. B., B. A., LL.D.(Toronto), Special Lecturer, Department of Classics, has been appointed Head of St. Mark's, the new Roman Catholic College to be built at U.B.C. The first unit of the College, costing approximately $400,000, will be built on ground adjacent to University Buildings as soon as the architects' plans are complete. The work done in the new College will be along the lines of that carried on in the other affiliated Theological Colleges on the Campus. Dr. Ping-Ti Ho, B.A. (National Tsing Hua Univ., Peiping), Ph.D. (Columbia), Assistant Professor of International Studies, will be in charge of the courses on China which will be given next September when a new Programme of Asian Studies is introduced. In this same connection, Ronald P. Dore, B.A.(School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), has been appointed to the University Faculty to lecture on Japanese Language and Japanese Institutions. Mr. Dore is at present in Japan collecting material for a book on the effects of land reforai on Japanese villages. Dr. R. D. James, M.A.'30, Ph.D. (Chicago), F.R.S.C, Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics, has been elected Editor-in- Chief of the American Mathematical Monthly for a five-year period beginning January 1, 1957. Professor James has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America, the publishers of the Monthly, from 1952-55, as a Governor from the Pacific Northwest Section. He has also served as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Pacific Northwest Section. He is an Editor of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and has served as an Editor of the American Journal of Mathematics. He is a member of the Council of the American Mathematical Society and is a Vice-President of the Canadian Mathematical Congress. Professor F. Lasserre, B.Arch.(Toronto), M.R.A.I.C, Director of the School of Architecture, left for Europe on March 30 for a 3'/-month tour. The first stage of this tour is heing carried out under the auspices of the B.C. Lumber Manufacturers' Association who have asked him to give 12 lectures in Great Britain and Ireland. The topic of the lectures will be, The Opportunities Offered by Wood in the Design of Contemporary Buildings, in Particular, Residences. Prior to his departure, Professor Lasserre was re-nominated to the Town Planning Commission by the City Council for a period of three years and was elected Vice-Chairman of the Commission. Colonel Harry T. Logan, M.C, B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Oxon.), Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Department of Classics, will edit a history of U.B.C to be published in connection with the University's Fiftieth Anniversary in 1958. Dr. John 'VI. Norris, B.A.'48, M.A.'49, Ph.D.(North Western), Instructor, Department of History, will work on the project as ,f '• Very Rev. Henry Carr, Professor Ft. D. James C.S.B., B.A., LL.D. Research Assistant. The preparation of a University History was suggested some time ago by a Committee representing the Convocation Founders, whose practical interest will also make the undertaking possible. Dr. D. C. Murdoch, B.A.'31, M.A.'33, Ph.D.(Toronto), Professor, Department of Mathematics, has been elected to the Council of the American Association of University Professors at St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Murdoch has been a member of the Association since 1949. Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan, B.A.'32, Ph.D.(Calif.), F.R.S.C, Professor and Head of the Department of Zoology, has been appointed a member of the National Research Council for a three- year term. Elmer K. Nelson, Jr., LL.B., M.A. (Wyoming), Assistant Professor of Criminology, Department of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology, was recently appointed to organise the new B.C. Correctional Institute at Haney, B.C. This Institute will relieve the facilities at Oakalla. H. Peter Oherlander, B.Arch.(McGill), M.C.P.( Harvard), M.R.A.I.C, A.R.I.B.A., A.M.T.P.I., Assistant Professor of Planning and Design, School of Architecture, was asked by the United Nations to participate in a meeting of leading Planning educators and Government Officials to discuss the training of Planners who will be available for work in South America and Asia. The meeting took place in Puerto Rico, March 12-18. Dr. Margaret A. Ormsby, B.A.'21», M.A.'31, Ph.D.(Bryn Mawr), Associate Professor, Department of History, has been granted a 12-month leave of absence to write the History of British Columbia. This work is being done as part of the Province's Centennial Programme for 1958. Dr. Ormsby is particularly well qualified for her task, having for several years specialised in the study of B.C. history. She is Chairman of the Local History Committee of the Canadian Historical Association; was Chairman of the Vancouver Branch, B.C. Historical Association, 1954-55, and is a member of the Editorial Board, B.C. Historical Quarterly. She is a Life Member of the Okanagan Historical Society. Lionel A. J. Thomas, Instructor, School of Architecture, and well- known Vancouver artist, has been awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to the field of Architecture in 1955. The Gold Medal is awarded to a Canadian each year, without submission of competitive work. Mr. Thomas is the first Westerner to have been so honoured. 33 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE need money EI-13 EI-13 EH3 EI-13 El-B EH3 EH3 EH3 EH3 EH3 EH3 c\-m\3 EI-13 EI-13 EI-13 EH3 EM3 EH3 EH3 EH3 EI-13 Ell SCOTIA' ERSONAL ECURITY Prog RAM Including Lift Insurance that protects your Savings Goal! A«k for fro* d«fcrlptlv* booklet at your noarott BNS branch Northern Electric SERVES YOU BEST ff ? 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Totems entered a double knock-out competition against Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario on March 23rd, 24th, 26th and 27th. The games were close and exciting, and huge crowds filled the Memorial Gym night after night. The Totems had to play an extra game against Alberta, with B.C. coming out on top and winning the privilege of forming the nucleus for the Canadian Olympic Team. This first Canadian Olympic Tournament was a success in every way due to the fine organisation and hard work of a great many people. John McLeod was the popular winner of the Most Valuable Player Award, and both he and Eddie Wild were chosen for the Olympic Team. RUGBY Coaches Albert Laithwaite and Max Howell felt they had the strongest team in many years, and those of us who watched them during the season were pleased with the wide-open style of play which the 'Birds displayed. In spite of this, the jaunt to California in early March found the team at the short end of a 21-9 score. The return matches were rough indeed, with the third game played to a 6-6 tie, and the fourth won by U.B.C, 8-3. The World Rugby Trophy returned to Berkeley for the second straight year thanks to a New Zealander, Noel Bowden, whose educated toe kept California in the game. At the end of March the B.C. Rugby Union brought U.C.L.A. Bruins Rugby team to Vancouver for a series of three games, the first of which was played against Varsity on March 29th. The Thunderbirds were in good form, winning by a score of 17-6. The fans enjoyed U.C.L.A.'s open game, which was in direct contrast to the defen- Staff, School of Physical Education. From left: Standing—Peter Mullins, Pat Montgomery, Bob Hindmarsh, Albert Laithwaite, Doug Whittle, Helen Eckert, Maxie Howell, Jack Pomfret. Seated—Marian Penney, Bob Osborne (Professor and Director of the School), Bus Phillips, Alice Trevis. Inset—Frank Gnup. sive style adopted by California. The U.C.L.A. team lost to Vancouver, but defeated Norwest Reps 11-0. ROWING Frank Read believes in hard work for his crews, even when training at Coal Harbour is out of the question. His rigid schedule of calisthenics, designed to strengthen the muscles rowers will use in the spring, has produced amazing results in terms of physical fitness. This was demonstrated in early March when the Club hosted a regatta between U.B.C, Oregon State and the University of Washington. The Huskies sent their Varsity crew to Vancouver for the first time. In sunny weather and calm water the new Thunderbird crew raced over the 2,000-metre course to score an eighl- length win over Washington. This performance received National recognition, and kept Frank Read's hopes alive that this was the crew which would represent Canada in Melbourne next winter. Frank plans to send a Four and an Eight to the Canadian Trials in the East in July. We feel sure the crew will continue to reflect great credit on the University and the community in general, just as :t has done in the past. SPECIAL AWARDS Two hundred athletes, friends, alumni and staff turned out at Brock Hall in early April to honour the new winners of Big Block Awards. Thirty- four new awards were made for Big Blocks, and seventy-two Small Blocks were given. Dr. Gordon Burke presented his Inspiration Award Trophy to Al Ezzie, chosen by his football teammates as the most inspirational player of the year. Dr. Frank Dickson announced the winner of the Bobby Gaul Trophy, and made the presentation to John McLeod. This trophy was awarded for outstanding sportsmanship, teamwork and inspirational qualities. In recognation of his Basketball ability McLeod was named to the Evergreen Intercollegiate Conference first All- Star Team for the third consecutive year. BADMINTON The badminton team climaxed a successful season by travelling to Edmonton for a match against the University of Alberta. Our combined men's and women's team completely routed the W.C.I.A.U. Champions, 33 matches to seven. For this issue of the Chronicle an effort h£s been made to compile hereunder the final results of the U.B.C. Thunderbird Athletic Teams, during the 1955-56 season. This brief summary does not attempt to show the complete league standings or individual games, except in special circumstances, nor does it include the result; of 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams. Overall Record Conference or League Won Lost Tied Won Lost Tied Rank Head Coach Captain Manager Badminton .. . 4 0 1 3 0 1 1 G. Laurie Baseball .... 4 4 0 4 4 0 ~ F. Gnup G. Mundle P. Fritz-Nemeth (up to May 3) Basketball ... 14 19 1 8 11 o :. 1 Pomfret J. McLeod P. Madill Cross Country: 1 — 1st; 2 —2nd's, 2— -3rd's. — P. Mullins J. Burnett J. Butterfield Football 1 6 1 1 5 0 6 F. Gnup B. Hudson K. O'Connell L. Goberdhan Golf .... 4 4 0 Won Evergreen J. Russell J. Russell Grass Hockey 7 1 2 7 1 2 1 Dr. M. McGregor M. Daniels J. Davidson Gymnastics .. 0 2 0 — — — — D. Whittle D. Weicherf D. Weichert Ice Hockey . . 6 8 0 — — — — Dr. B. McKay M. Cunningham G. Hayes Rowing 1 0 1) — F. Read L. West Rugby 10 6 1 — — — _. A. Laithwaite B. Morford C. Siew Skiing 0 2 0 — — — — R. Caple Soccer . ... 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 '.'- E. Luckett J, Fredrickson R. Gopaul-Singh Swimming 1 5 0 — — — __. P. Lusztig D. Kilburn M. Ellis Tennis . . ... . 7 4 0 5 1 0 — G. Morfitt D. Hemphill 35 U B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE You will find, in our monthly Commercial Letter, a quick but accurate survey of current commercial activiries in Canada, a concise review of foreign trade developments, the latest statistics on trade, industry and finance, authorirative articles on special aspects of Canada's economy. Your local manager will gladly f>Iace your name on our mailing isr, or just write to: THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE • TORONTO B-15 Your Sign of GUARANTEED PROTECTION in Paint Finishes J% EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY !V. =. fe GENERAL PAINT CORPORATION OF CANADA LIMITED substantial savings may result from the careful planning of your Will. With our assistance you may be able to lessen the impact of Succession Duties on your estate. 950 Raymur Avenue, Vancouver For industrial finishes and specialty coatings to meet your specific needs call on GENERAL PAINT'S Technical Service. Telephone TAtlow 5311 for complete information. Makers of Monamel and Monaseal THE Ask for our Succeiu'on Duty bookUt. % ROYAL TRUST COMPANY 626 WEST PENDER STREET, VANCOUVER George 0. Vale, Manager 1205 GOVERNMENT STREET, VICTORIA j R. W. Phipps, Manager .r U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 36 CAMPUS NEWS AND VIEWS By Ian Smythe March, 1950 CHRONICLE U.B.C.'s famous Thunderbird has a rival! Introduced to students at registration time last fall, Raven, the new campus lit- e r a r y publication, has since appeared in De- cember and March issues and September's fledgling has grown to a popularity that threatens the Thunderbird's position at the top of the Totem Pole. According to an old Indian legend, Yehl the Raven, Transformer and Creator, brought light into a world of darkness. The intent of U.B.C.'s Raven is similar—to provide a means of communication between those with ideas and those who wish to hear about ideas and by so doing, to shed light on that which was hitherto concealed. "The creative manipulation of thought requires expression" says Maurice Gibbons, one of the magazine's staff of six. "The total learning process is not complete until its ideas have been expressed and conventional University forms like the essay do not permit this. "Raven" is our means of expression; the vital completion of the learning process." Founded (and nursed through a shaky beginning) by editor Michael Ames, a 1956 Anthropology graduate, "Raven" relies mainly on the contributions of student writers, with occasional submissions by Faculty members. Many of the student contributors, like Heather Spears, Maclean's short story contest winner, have had success in the field of professional journalism and, generally speaking, the quality of the material is excellent. "Raven", it is interesting to note, is listed as a periodical by over eighty libraries across the world. More heartening to the Editors than the actual quality of the work, however, is the student response to the call for creative activity. For each of the forty-odd articles published over the course of Raven's three issues, perhaps fifteen or twenty have been received and the volume o:: material bears out Editor Ames contention that there are many people at U.B.C. anxious to communicate original and illuminating ideas. The magazine, which scored an immediate success with the Faculty and the Vancouver press, satisfies a long-felt need of an outlet for student writers and has been a financial success. "PIQUE"—NEW HUMOUR MAGAZINE Last March, while gathering material for U.B.C. Digest, this writer had occasion to tape record an interview with Maurice Gibbons, Pique's editor. In the course of a discussion of the new humour magazine, the question of price came up and Maurice (or Magi, if you see his cartoons) rose to the query like a trout in June. "Originally", he said, with a gleam in his eye, "Originally, we had intended to sell it for $1.25 a copy, but the printers made a typographical error and it's marked only 25 cents . . . never mind, though, have no mercy on us!" Three days after Pique's appearance it was obvious that the majority of students had taken Maurice at his word; over eighty percent of the copies had been sold, half o:' them on the first day, and the remainder soon disappeared. Unlike Raven, Pique contains much work by Faculty members, four o:" the magazine's eight authors including M. W. LaFollette, Earle Birney, ferry service Front Cover of "Raven" and two other English Professors who prefer to remain unnamed and rejoice merely in the titles Marmaduke and Jack Tickletext. Student contributions include (complete with music!) a ballade with a moral—"It's Always The Woman Who Pays"—by Ubyssey editors Sandy Ross and Rod Smith and a "Do-It-Yourself" psychoanalysis kit supplied by Pique's co-editor, Rae Haines. P'ick of Pique, however, is Jack Tickletext's "The Old Familiar Faces". A resume of facial characteristics the author has encountered in his English lectures, Tickletext brings into focus "Untrodden Snow . . . clothed in majestic and imperturbable vacancy ..." and the "Father Time, or For-God's-Sake-It's-Only- Ten-Past-Eleven-Face whose chief characteristic is frank boredom; if it had an hourglass it would shake it vigorously to make the sand run a little faster". Swinging from the Magic Lantern face—"eager absorption" through Doubting Thomas to the Beautyrest or Morpheus countenance, Tickletext runs the gamut of the lecture room visage in an hilarious account that bears rereading. Pique is a pleasant surprise from start to finish. From its novel cover design, sparkling format and photography, to the first rate material it contains, some of which is quite serious, Pique ranks as one of the better campus magazines available. RADSOC ON CKNW IN JULY Vancouver and Lower Mainland radio listeners will want to pay special attention to CKNW (New- Westminster) during July, when the University Radio and Television Society takes over the "Top Dog" for three weeks. Members of "Radsoc" will announce, disk-jockey, write news and advertising copy, engineer and, in short, completely operate the station except for business matters. Nearly all the students participating have had one or two summers of radio station employment previous to this year, so listeners can expect top-notch entertainment. Everyone evolved has been actively connected with the Radio Society's heavy programme of broadcasting during the past year which averaged three to four shows a week for Vancouver stations in addition to the regular Campus broadcast schedule. 37 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE U.B.C. Host to Academy of Science By Cedric A. Hornby, B.S.A/36, M.S.A., Ph.D. (Cornell). December, 1941 UiUiim riminiiii Many Faculty members and off- campus Alumni who are concerned with the sciences jnet at the Tenth Annual Science Conference of the B.C. Academy of Science, held on the Campus April 26 to 28. Over 160 people registered and attended the several sections — which were going on simultaneously in order to get approximately 100 papers presented. The Executive of the Academy had turned over the planning and operation of the meetings to the Conference Committee which was chaired by Dr. C. A. Hornby of the Division of Plant Science, with Dr. E. E. Daniel of the Department of Pharmacology serving as Secretary, and the Chairman of each of the eight sections. The Biology section programme was prepared by Dr. G. A. Setterfield of the Department of Botany and Biology, and practically one whole day was given to papers by Faculty members and Graduate Students of U.B.C. The Daily Press gave special publicity to Dr. D. J. Wort's report on "Growth of Plants Under Conditions Similar to Those Thought to Exist on Mars". One half-day's programme was given by visitors from the Botany Department of the University of Washington, and Dr. Owzarzak from Oregon State College brought some particularly interesting films on cell division. Dr. Milton Kirsch of the Chemistry Department organised the presentation of papers on Organic and Physical Chemistry, which took up a day, along with a luncheon at the Dolphins —an annual function for the Chemical Institute of Canada. An innovation at this Conference was the Social Sciences programme which was prepared by Dr. Cyril Bel- shaw, Department of Anthropology and Sociology. The general theme was "The Relation of Academic and Professional Research to Community Needs". Management training in industry and teacher training were considered, with Mr. J. A. Spragge of the B.C. Teachers' Federation and Dr. F. H. Johnson, Director of Elementary Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, covering the latter subject. Dr. Friesen of the Extension Department discussed the sociology of agricultural extension, and Dr. S. Jamieson of the Department of Economics with Mr. R. Mahoney presented papers on factors affecting decisions _by Management and Labour Executives. One afternoon was given to Planning and Community Structure in which Dr. L. Marsh of the School of Social Work and Professor I. M. Robinson of the School of Architecture participated. An agricultural programme was chaired by Dr. W. D. Kitts of the Division of Animal Science. Dean B. A. Eagles, Dr. V. C. Brink, Dr. A. J. Wood and Dr. A. J. Renney presented papers, as did also colleagues from agricultural field work, e.g., Mr. F. C. Clark from New Westminster. Dr. S. H. Zbarsky of the DeDartment of Biochemistry gathered a group of technical papers which took one and one-half days to present. Amongst those taking part were members of several departments, the B. C. Research Council, and Dr. H. L. A. Tarr and his associates at the Fisheries Station, Vancouver, who received notable publicity in a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post. A Physiology programme was prepared by Dr. C. F. Cramer of the Department of Physiology. One morning was devoted to the P'hysiology of Bone with Dr. D. H. Copp, Dr Cramer and associates participating, with special guests—Dr. Robert Ray of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at tho University of Washington, and Dr. Goran C. H. Bareer from the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Lund, Sweden. The Canadian Phytopathological Society held a meeting under the chairmanship of Dr. Richard Stace-Smith, which brought a number of Alumni in the plant pathology field to the Conference, including Dr. M. F. Welsh and Mr. G. E. Woolliams from Summerland. A special luncheon at Brock Hall featured tributes to Dr. H. R. McLarty of Summerland and Dr. William Newton of Saanichton, who will be retiring shortly. The Psychology programme was developed by Dr. D. T. Kenny of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. Professor Belyea, Dr. Kennard, Dr. MacKay and others gave reports on their research. The Conference had a smorgasbord banquet and social evening on April 27 and Dr. N. S. Wright, of the U.B.C. Plant Pathology Laboratory, as President of the B.C. Academy, presided at the function, with the assistance of Dr. G. L. Pickard of the Department of Physics, who has been Vice-President of the Academy. Dr. Wright announced the new slate of officers for the coming season: President, Dr. Pickard; Vice-President, Dr. E. Sig- nori of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology; Secretary, Dr. W. J. Polglase from the Department of Biochemistry, who will serve a second term; Treasurer, Mr. D. N. Van Nes of the Vancouver Technical School; Editor, Dr. E. E. Daniel, and an Executive Committee. Arts '16 Reunion A happy reunion of members of the Class of Arts '16 was held on Monday, May 14, in the Mildred Brock room. Brock Hall. The gathering took the form of a tea tendered in their honour by the University and the Alumni Association immediately after the Congregation ceremonies. Besides those who received their degrees at the first Congregation, held on May 4, 1916, a number were present who began with the class but graduated later, owing to War Service. Those attending included, Miss B. M. Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dawe, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Evans, Miss Annie Fountain, Mr. T. Ian Gibson, Miss Annie Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Lome Jackson, Miss Laura Lane, Chancellor and Mrs. Lett, Miss Isabel MacMillan, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Maxwell, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Menzies, Dr. Hugh Munro, Magistrate and Mrs. Gordon W. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. Thomson and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wilson. President Emeritus L. S. 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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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