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V6T 2C9 Tel: 604-822-1010 Fax: 604-822-1001 Email: rcservation@brock.housing.ubc.ca Visit our web site at http://wwvo.conferences.ubc.ca UBC 4th Annual F"yi Alumni Recognition V^/ and Sports ^jsaaGB^ Hall of Fame Dinner Thursday, October 8 Hyatt Regency Hotel in support of student scholarships Tickets $1,000 table of 8 $1 25 individual GST included Tax receipts will be issued UBC Alumni Association, Tel: (604) 822-33 I 3 On The Cover Great teachers, great researchers and a great location. Along with everything else, UBC has the most beautiful university campus in the known universe. Can you pick out your favourite haunts? Waite Air Photos. Features Engineering professor Martha Salcudean makes computer models of industrial processes. She does it so well, she has won this year's Killam Prize for Engineering ^ H Information Technology is set to transform teaching, learning and research. UBC is ready. 10 Creative Writing professor George McWhirter is a poet who moves words, images and students. 14 The graduation ceremony is one of those rites of passage that mark our lives. Here's what it's like at the new Chan Centre. 24 chronicle Editor Chris Petty, MFA'86 Assistant Editor Shari Ackerman Contributors Deanna McLeod, Don Wells Advertising Katie Stradwick Board of Directors President Haig Farris, BA'60, LLD'97 Senior VP Linda Thorstad, BSc'77, MSc'84 Past President Tricia Smith, BA'80, LLB'85 Treasurer Thomas Hasker, BA'86 Members at Large '98-'00 Gregory Clark, BCom'86, LLB'89 Jean Forrest, BPE'83 Thomas Hobley, MBA'83 Members at Large '97-'99 Peter Ladner, BA'70 Don Wells, BA'89 Lome Whitehead, BSc'77, MSc'80, PhD'89 Executive Director Agnes Papke, BSc(Agr)'66 Editorial Committee Don Wells, BA'89, Chair Ron Burke, BA'82 Paula Martin Sue Watts, MF'75, PhD'81 Design Consultation Chris Dahl Design Communications Printed in Canada by Mitchell Press ISSN 0824-1279 The University of British Columbia Alumni Association 9 9 4 13 20 Research News Athletics Awards A digest of news from UBC Varsity year in review. 1997-98 We're honouring these UBC grads Reports and elsewhere: was a banner year for UBC teams and athletes at this year's Alumni 3 neurotoxins in white bread to and athletes. More awards and Recognition and Sports Hall of Humanities 101 more championships. Fame Dinner. 27 Class Acts What's going on with those people who sat beside you in English 101? Here's the place to find out. 32 34 Student Profiles Books Meet two of tomorrow's movers and shakers: both smart, active and willing to pitch in to help the community. UBC alumni write books. We try to show you some of them. It's hopeless: too many writers, too much talent. Visit our website: www.alumni.ubc.ca chronicle news Women's Centre Turns 25 It's been 25 years of success for UBC's downtown Women's Resources Centre (WRC). From women's lib to corporate downsizing, the center has kept up with women's needs over the years. Director Ruth Sigal says activities at the centre reflect changes in women's lives since it opened in 1973. Then, the focus was helping women discover their own identity and strengths when they were just entering the workforce. The centre started with eight volunteers and saw about 1,000 women annually. Now, there are 60 volunteers to handle 25,000 clients annually. The centre, located at 1144 Robson Street (near Burrard), sees clients from all ages and all levels of society. About 20 per cent of the clients are men. Sigal is especially proud of the dedication of the centre's volunteers. A third of them have been with the centre for more than eight years, some for two Women's Centre Director Ruth Sigal, (I) discusses a program with WRC volunteers. decades. Many are UBC alumni, from faculties ranging from social work to commerce. Shifts in Vancouver demographics are reflected in the WRC's programming, notably its cross-cultural peer counselling programs which teach basic counselling skills and an understanding of multicultural issues. The WRC is a community service of UBC Continuing Studies. It offers personal and career planning for women and men. Programs are run by professional counsellors and instructors. Free drop-in counselling is offered and pre-registration is required for all programs. • Summer Jobs for Pharmacy Students Pharmacy students won't be waiting tables and pulling weeds this summer. Instead, two dozen of them will work in pharmacy research labs, thanks to the Summer Student Research Program. "We want to give undergrads a taste of what it's like to be a research scientist," says assistant professor Kishor Wasan. "We want them to see what they can do with a pharmacy degree." The projects are designed to give first, second and third year students lots of science and community pharmacy education experience. "By getting students involved early, we're helping to fulfill Martha Piper's vision of using research to enrich the undergraduate education at UBC," says Pharmaceutical Sciences Dean Frank Abbott. Between 1994-1997, about 40% of students in the summer program have gone on to graduate studies. The program also gives additional job skills, such as training in operating drug analysis equipment. The program recently received a two- year grant from the Medical Research Council of Canada and new funding from the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. • Student Scholars Score Awards Fourteen students have been named Wesbrook Scholars, an honorary designation for undergraduates who have distinguished themselves | academically and socially. They are: S" Christopher Bennett, Law; Jeff i Beselt, Education; Victoria Colvin, Law; | Mandeep Dhaliwal, Arts; Fahreen Dossa, Science; Kelly Harrison, Medicine; Kibben Jackson, Law; Adam Lund, Medicine; Gregory Mackie, Arts; Feisal Mohamdeali, Science; Ian Mortimer, Science; Andrew Scholes, Law; Shaila Seshia, Arts; Andrea Thompson, Education. Winners of the following awards automatically receive the designation: Andrew Lim, Science (Sherwood Lett Memorial Scholarship), Brian Murphy, Applied Science (Harry Logan Memorial Scholarship), Kimberly Eldred, Law (Amy E. Sauder/Jean Craig Smith Scholarships), Sarah Cherry, Commerce (John H. Mitchell Memorial Scholarship), and Kim Hendess, Arts (C.K. Choi Scholarship). The Wesbrook Scholar award honours 20 students annually who have completed one winter session at UBC, are in their final year of undergraduate studies or in the Doctor of Medicine or Dental Medicine programs, stand in the top 10 per cent of their faculty, and demonstrate the ability to serve, work with and lead others. It is sponsored by the Wesbrook Society, an organization of the university's major benefactors, and is named after Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, UBC's first president. • WriK About K UBC RESEARCH Chronicle Gallery to Provide Student Exposure The UBC Architecture Gallery and Studio is now open. "Our goal is to raise public awareness of architecture in Vancouver while providing our students with greater exposure to urban issues in architecture," says Sandy Hirshen, director of the school. Hirshen wants to explore ways to work with activist groups, such as the Downtown Eastside Residents' Association, to produce a more livable and dynamic city. "We want to create relationships with these groups and determine how we can balance our educational requirements with community service," he says. The gallery and studio is on the Neurotoxin Linked to White Bread A chemical produced in the making of white bread may be linked to some neurological diseases, according to the preliminary findings of a team of UBC researchers. "There is a very suspicious correlation between the characteristics of this substance and those known to be toxic to the nervous system," says Christopher Shaw, associate professor in Ophthalmology- Shaw and fellow researchers think the culprit may be methionine sulfoximine (MSO), a substance that was used to bleach processed wheat flour in the early part ofthe century. By 1950 the process was banned in the UK and the US. Canada stopped using it in 1968. Shaw, research associate Jaswinder Bains, and Physiology PhD candidate Bryce Pasqualotto have found that MSO over-stimulates neurons and can lead to neuron death called excitotoxicity, says ground floor of a historic building located across from Victory Square on the edge of Gastown. Thanks to a fundraising effort led by the Friends of the School of Architecture, the gallery space opened recently with an exhibition titled Architectural Photographers: Vancouver in Black and White. The space will be used next fall as a planned joint studio project that will examine the southeast False Creek area. It involves UBC students from Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The gallery will also sell exhibition photographs as well as books, monographs and student-designed furniture. It is located at 319 West Hastings St. and is open Wed-Sat, llam-6pm. • Christopher Shaw and Jaswinder Bains feel they've found a "smoking gun in a chemical formerly used to bleach white flour." Shaw. "This appears to be the worst possible toxin you can imagine for the nervous system because it strikes in so many different ways at the same time," he says. Because it is eliminated from the body over time, MSO cannot be detected in patients suffering from neurological disease. • But is it art? The south end ofthe Koerner Library basks in the spring sun. Top Award Goes to Shakespeare Scholar The 1998 Dean of Arts Award goes to Alexander Globe, Shakespeare scholar and English professor. Globe is a popular and respected teacher who promotes student use of computers in a field not known for computer-aided research. He is the driving force behind a $250,000 computer lab set to open in the English Dept. He has also introduced gay and lesbian studies to UBC, and has developed a curriculum that will soon go to the Faculty of Arts curriculum committee for approval. The $5,000 award recognizes exceptional contributions by a faculty member in teaching, research, administration and service. Globe won a Killam Teaching Prize in 1991. • Chronicle chronicle news ' 3hHhHP-w 'tw ^T jjA JTll ^T-% ft Fisheries Centre Professor Daniel Pauly. Repair Needed for Collapsed Fisheries Marine Fisheries are in a global crisis, says Fisheries Centre Professor Daniel Pauly. Researchers show through 50 years of UN catch data that as commercial fishing destroys larger predators, fishers move systematically down the food web to smaller plankton eaters. "When we remove big predators and go after their smaller prey, we are ripping the fabric of these webs, and endangering their ability to produce harvestable fish at any level," Pauly says. Pauly warns that continuous shrimp fishing may hinder the recovery of cod stocks on the East Coast of Canada, where the fished-out cod feed on shrimp. Fishing down the food web is worse in the Northern Hemisphere, with its highly efficient and technologically advanced fishing fleets. Creating marine protected areas may be the only way to avoid the widespread collapse of fisheries and rebuild healthy food webs, he says. "We should be focusing on the health of ecosystems, and the consequences of extracting single species stocks from the system." • Bacteria Beware: Peptides are Here Little defenders can do a lot of damage. Such is the case with UBC microbiologist Bob Hancock's "little killers," a new class of antibiotics called cationic peptides. These guys do not put up with bacteria; in fact 0 they downright hate them. The peptides o ■§. are covered with positive electric charges 1 which aid in their killing power. They 3 attach themselves to the outer surfaces of bacteria, and pry open holes in the microbes' outer membranes. "Then their guts leak out," says Hancock. Peptides may be the answer to the problem of bacteria resistant to conventional antibiotics. Tiny amounts of peptides are found in almost all living things, including humans, making it easy to mass-produce. Hancock's team, paired with UBC spin-off company Micrologix Biotehcnology Inc. and medical researchers in Alberta and Quebec, recently won a $500,000-a-year grant from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The grant will be used to explore how peptides can destroy the bacteria that kills people with cystic fibrosis. Hancock has been exploring the peptides' biological significance and commercial applications for about six years. "The beauty of the peptides is the way they kill on contact. We have 100 per cent kills in two to five minutes. They are really potent," he says. This doesn't give bacteria much of a chance to fight back. However, Hancock expects bacteria will one day be able to elude the little peptides. "But it will probably take them quite a while." • Avalanches Hit by New Funding For Prof. David McClung, a mountaineer and backcountry skier, understanding avalanches is a matter of life and death. When he receives new funding for his research on avalanche prediction and prevention, it means his knowledge will be more widely shared with the BC industries most affected by avalanches. McClung has been named NSERC- FRBC-CMH Chair in Snow and Avalanche Science. NSERC, Forest Renewal BC (FRBC) and Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) Inc., the world's largest heli-skiing operator, fund the chair. "This chair will allow me to focus my energy on research, provide significant technology transfer to industry and advanced training for professional avalanche workers," McClung said. A geography professor and associate member of Civil Engineering, McClung has led UBC's Avalanche Research Group since 1991. His research has been snow mechanics, avalanche dynamics, land use planning, and avalanche prediction. Among other things, it will provide the ski industry with better weather and avalanche forecasting. • Chronicle Message from the President A New Vision for UBC It may sound a bit odd to say we're seeking a new vision for UBC: the university is already one of the best post secondary institutions in the country. But every organization needs a set of principles to focus its efforts and guide its decisions. At UBC, our vision is to become the preeminent teaching and research university in Canada. A lofty aspiration? Indeed. An attainable goal? Absolutely. Over the past few months we've been talking to staff, faculty, alumni and the community about this university and what it should become in the 21st century. With their help, we have produced a Green Paper that defines five broad areas of strength, and outlines how we can build on them. • People. Our major strength is in our staff, faculty and students. We have some of the best people in Canada working and studying at this university. Nearly half of our faculty and staff will retire in the next ten years. We will develop a comprehensive approach to hiring that encourages cooperation and rewards excellence. We will enhance our student recruitment efforts to ensure that the best students in Canada and abroad are attracted to UBC. As part of this strategy, we will increase scholarship and bursary support and upgrade our infrastructure. • Learning. We will develop a new undergraduate program that incorporates our research strengths. For undergrads that means exposure to some of the most advanced research in the world, in all disciplines. We will also focus learning in three areas: internationalization, interdisciplinarity and interactivity. We will expand our coop programs in all areas. • Research. UBC is a world power in research. We will expand our research capability and output by establishing clear targets for increased funding from all sources. We will also develop more research mentoring programs for grad Martha Piper, President, UBC. students and enhance our library resources in terms of acquisitions and advanced information technology. • Community. We are investigating the expansion UBC's services to the broader community. We will establish a larger presence in downtown Vancouver and in communities across the Lower Mainland. We will expand our distance learning program and professional upgrading programs to include students in all parts of the province. We will also expand our alumni branches program throughout BC, Canada and the world. • Internationalization. UBC is an international university. We will enhance our presence in the Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe and in aboriginal studies worldwide. We will expand our exchange programs overseas and create more linkages with other international universities. As alumni, you are an important part of our new vision. We need your help to attract the best students in your community, to support those students in co-op and work placements, and to ensure that post secondary education remains a priority in our society. I welcome your comments on the development of UBC's new vision. • Project to Educate Vancouver's Poorest Twenty people from Vancouver's poorest neighbourhoods will be studying philosophy, history and literature at UBC this fall in a three- month pilot project called Humanities 101. Students Allison Dunnet and Am Johal, co-chairs of the committee planning the program, say bus fare, childcare, and meals will be provided to students who are referred by non-profit agencies. The aim is to "introduce students to critical thinking in everyday life and develop a desire to keep learning," says Dunnet. The idea for Humanities 101 came from an article in Harper's magazine that described a program in New York's Lower East Side. Graduates, who had no former education, then went on to college studies or full-time jobs. "A variety of backgrounds and opinions will make the class that much more interesting, and it will be good for UBC students and faculty, too," says Johal. The courses will be non-credit, but the organizers hope students who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate and be able to take part in Congregation ceremonies. The pilot program will be funded with a $15,000 grant from the Innovative Projects Fund, jointly operated by the Alma Mater Society and the university.* W K Ab uttf UBC RESEARCH Chronicle chronicle news Commerce #1 in Research, Training Canada's top business school for research is right here: the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration. This year, the faculty received 15 grants totaling $698,700 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)—more than twice as much as any other business school in the country. The grants will finance research on topics including consumer behaviour, government privatization and renewable resources. "UBC has regularly been the number one business school in Canada for research accomplishments and is recognized as such internationally," says Izak Benbasat, associate dean of faculty development and professional programs. He says that good scholarship goes along with good teaching. Many faculty members who have received the Commerce and Business Admin, research prizes have also been nominated for (and won) the teaching excellence prizes given by the faculty, commerce graduate or undergraduate student societies. The faculty also ranked 13th in the world for the number of publications in top finance journals credited to faculty members from 1992-96. • Canadian Students Score Big in Survey Canadian students score near the top of the class in math and science skills, according to UBC researchers who recently released a global survey of senior secondary students. Canadian students were among those in 24 countries tested in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. The results compare students in their last year of secondary school. Canadian students topped the charts in math and science literacy compared to other countries: they beat 17 of the 20 countries taking part. In advanced mathematics, they did as well or better than students from 13 of 15 countries. Scores in physics were slightly lower, however, scoring better than 9 of 15 countries. In a test for the top five per cent of students, Canada scored higher than the international average in both advanced math and math and science literacy. Canada is the only G-8 country whose top students achieved two scores above the international average in this part of the study. • l\: l! Carl Leggo makes poetry exciting. Poetry Prof gets Personal Understanding poetry can be a daunting task. That's why Carl Leggo, poet and associate professor of Language Education, decided to write a book, Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom, designed to put excitement into poetry. In it, Leggo combines practical techniques and strategies with a theoretical framework. "Of all the genres in literature, poetry is the one teachers and students find least interesting and the most difficult to come to terms with," Leggo says. Leggo tries to get people to apply their own experiences and emotions to poetry instead of trying to analyze it. This way they can relate to it in a personal way and not see it as exotic and impenetrable. "When people actually read poetry with passion and enthusiasm, they realize it's not some arcane text. It's all about life, heart, story, music, how we live in the world." His book is published by UBC's Pacific Educational Press. • Chronicle $100 Reward for Return of This Man One night at the end of the 1985-'86 term, this painting was stolen from the Forestry Building. It depicts Lawrence Guichon, a UBC honorary degree holder (1953) and a builder of the ranching industry in BC. Both his family and Agi. Sci. have been on the lookout for this painting in the intervening years, but to no avail. If you've seen this painting, call Brigitte O'Rooney, 822-8910. If we get the painting back, $100 is yours, no questions asked. • Prostate Research Feels Funding Pinch One man in eight suffers from prostate cancer. Of the 3,500 men who have the disease in BC, 550 will die this year. In spite of this, only $560,000 was spent in Canada during 1995/96 for research. Very little is known about prostate cancer, according to molecular biologist Paul Rennie, director of the Prostate Cancer Research Program at the BC Cancer Agency. The process goes something like this: the prostate gland surrounds the part of the channel that drains the bladder. When it is enlarged or cancerous it may compress the channel, obstructing the free flow of urine. The gland's function is susceptible to three common diseases: prostatitis (infection of the prostate), enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia), and cancer. Rennie and several others are working on two therapies that involve suppression of the male sex hormone, androgen. One therapy, used prior to surgery, reduces the volume of the tumour, making the treatment more effective. However, in advanced stages, the prostate becomes unresponsive to the treat ment. The tumour then grows back and is untreatable. The second therapy addresses that problem by withdrawing androgen periodically. Preliminary studies suggest that this irregular treatment keep tumours responsive to therapy. "It is a silent disease," says Rennie. "Often there are no symptoms for months or years, or until the disease has spread." The Canadian Cancer Society allocated $1.25 million to prostate research last September. • BC Needs More Grads, Study Finds We need more university grads, according to a recent study on the demand and supply of post-secondary graduates in BC. "There's a strongly held view that we should continue to emphasize vocational and technical training," says Economics Professor Robert Allen, who is a member of the Western Research Network on '50s Sorority Pals Do Lunch UBC's Delta Gamma sorority friends gathered togetfier for lunch and reminiscence on April 21,1998 at Cecil Green Park, organized by Anne Carmichael. (middle,'second from left). L-R: Beverly (Glasgow) Baird BA'52, Janet (Whitmore) Bingham BA'50, Shirley (Shields) East BA'51, Mary (Grant) Banham BA'51, Carolyn (Harvie) Taylor BSN'57, Shirley (McTavish) Ripley BSc'49, Anne (Ewing) Carmichael BA'51, Joanne (Strutt) Russell BA'51, Robin (Orr) St Louis BA'50, Margaret (Low-Beer) Libbert BA'50, Pam (Fraser) Wetmore BA'50. Education and Training. "My findings show this approach to be misguided." Between 1992 and 1996, BC needed about 35,000 university graduates annually, but BC's universities only produced 12,000. Two thirds of the high quality jobs in BC, therefore, were filled by people moving from the rest of Canada, the US and overseas. The demand for people with trade, technical and vocational credentials, also about 35,000, was filled by BC vocational graduates. Providing increased funding for vocational training and less for university training goes against demonstrated needs in the province. BC is last among the provinces in the number of degrees awarded per resident aged 20-29, and has the smallest per capita university system in Canada. • Chronicle chronicle feature Martha Salcudean brings passion and flair to a profession that doesn't often make the front pages. She's practised it from the mountains of Transylvania to the towers of UBC. enqineers ru e! (or at least they should) Martha Salcudean is just about the most pleasant person you'd care to meet: warm, friendly, inviting. She calls you by your first name in a practised sort of way, like someone who has great comfort dealing with differ- ■ ent people. She curls up on the small sofa in her office in the Mechanical Engineering building, tucks her feet up under herself and talks openly and frankly about her life, her career and her family. Family comes first. "Before all other things, family is the most important," she says. That from a woman who has worked her way to the top of her profession, mechanical engineering, and developed a reputation as a first-class academic administrator. The connection to family is understandable. She and her family suffered the ravages of World War II and life in Romania, one of the world's most repressive states. She was born in Cluj-Napoca in north east Romania, the largest town in Transylvania, to a family of intellectuals. Both her parents were doctors. She was educated there and in Bucharest. Romania was a grim country in the period after the war: poor, agrarian and backward. After 1965, under the government of Nicolae Ceausescu, it became even worse. Ceausescu initiated a ruthless campaign to industrialize the country at any cost, and in the process he and his family and friends amassed huge personal fortunes and cast the country into crushing debt. Virtually all industrial and agricultural production was sold internationally with proceeds used to pay down the national debt. Living conditions were among the worst in Europe. Food and fuel shortages in the '70s and '80s were, according to residents, worse than those experienced during the war. Gleaners roamed harvested fields of hog-feed corn gathering up crushed and broken cobs to feed themselves, and many workers still used a horse and buggy as their main form of transportation. Romania was so poor that towns were unable to light their streets after dark. In towns all over the country, shoppers scurried about in Martha Salcudean is one of three national winners of the 1998 Killam Prize in Engineering. The award, worth $50,000 and awarded annually by the Canada Council, recognizes outstanding achievements by Canadians in the natural sciences, health sciences and engineering. By Chris Petty pitch-black streets while cars and horse carts picked their way through the crowds. But whatever deprivations the state was willing to visit upon its people, it was not willing to skimp on education. Students were expected to perform, and parents were very concerned that their children do well. One of the few methods of improving a family's lot in communist Romania was to make sure the children worked hard and got a good education. Martha Salcudean was an extremely bright student. She was interested in mathematics at an early age and excelled in her studies in engineering. She was spared some of the worst hardships of Romanian society, but her family's professional status brought on different problems. Because of her class she was unable to get a teaching job at the university after her graduation. Teaching jobs were given almost exclusively to children of the working class. She worked first in industry and then for 12 years in the Research Centre for Metallurgy. She met her husband, another engineer, in Bucharest, and had a son (who also became an engineer, now an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at UBC ). They both wanted 10 Chronicle Martha Salcudean by the often defiled but always triumphant Engineer's Cairn on Main Mall. Current defilers include Pharmacy '98 and a subtle but effective fan of romance languages. ^risPettyph0o. • Chronicle 11 very much to leave Romania, but emigration under Ceausescu, especially for engineers, was impossible. Martha and her husband were allowed very limited travel outside the communist bloc, but they weren't allowed to take their child, a common practise in communist countries to ensure that travelling parents would return. But finally, in 1975, Ceausescu wanted to build trade relations with the west and, for a brief time, let the doors open just a crack. Salcudean, with her husband, son and mother, saw their chance and left Romania. The family went to Paris to sort out their options but finally settled on Canada because her mother had a friend who lived in Montreal. Within three months of landing in Canada, Martha Salcudean was hired by the University of Ottawa as a professor in engineering. From there she came to UBC as head of the department of mechanical engineering in 1985, and became associate VP research in 1993. During that time she built her reputation as an innovative engineer, a creative administrator and an able entrepreneur. Many of the process models she developed with her colleague professor Ian Gartshore and former PhD student Zia Abdullah, have been applied to industrial applications and are now in use around the world. She is currently on administrative leave and is working as professor and Weyerhaeuser Industrial Research Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Computational Fluid Dynamics. It rolls off the tongue very easily. The whole phrase has a rather liquid feel to it. But what does it mean? To the non-engineer such a phrase could mean anything from the amount of water a person should drink while playing computer games to how much pressure per square centimetre it takes to blow a computer off a desk using a garden hose. But no. Dr. Salcudean is able to explain, in jargon-free English, exactly what computational fluid dynamics is and how it applies to her work, which she describes as "mathematical modelling of industrial processes." The following, a process taken from the pulp and paper industry, describes one of her more famous accomplishments. Wood is chopped up into small pieces and put in a huge tub with a chemical liquor designed to break down the fibres and dissolve lignin, the substance that binds wood cells together. When the wood is sufficiently processed, the liquor is drained off and the pulp is either processed further into paper or cardboard on site or shipped to a plant somewhere else. But what happens to the liquor, which at this point is the consistency of water? It's rich in the chemicals needed to process wood chips, but also contains the organic materials drawn from the wood. The most efficient way to treat the liquor is to burn it. But how do you burn a liquid? By using a recovery boiler. The chemical soup is drawn up by pipes into a huge burner ten storeys high where it is sprayed into a super-heated chamber. The tiny moisture droplets vaporize, then ignite. The impurities are burnt off, the steam produced is used as energy in the plant, and the chemicals precipitate onto a collecting tray at the bottom of the burner. From there they are put back into the pulp-making process to start the journey again. Recovery boilers have been used for many years to recycle pulp-making chemicals, but only since Martha Salcudean have the processes that go on inside these boilers been translated into computer models. Using mathematics and computers, Salcudean and her team have created a model of the recycling process that computes, among other things, temperature, oxygen, moisture and chemical content variables to produce an ideal environment for processing the liquor and recovering pulp-making chemicals. "We calculate all the variables, then develop a computer graphic that shows the operator every step of the process," she says. "We can alter any variable, such as the oxygen level, the temperature or the amount of liquid we introduce, and see what the result will be on the computer before we try it in the actual boiler. That way, we can improve efficiency, increase production and limit any environmental impact." Which, all in all, pretty well sums up 'computational fluid dynamics.' Her models are now in use in several mills in Canada, the US and Scandinavia. Salcudean has also been involved in similar collaborations with Atomic Energy Canada on heat transfer in nuclear reactors, with Cominco on the growth of crystals in the manufacture of metals, and with Pratt and Whitney, on developing film to cool turbine blades. She markets these models through the Continued on page 16 r*\ n The Killam Prizes Izaak Killam began his financial career as a junior clerk in a Halifax bank in 1903. At his death in 1955 he had amassed a large fortune from banking and resource development. He and his wife, Dorothy, were committed to supporting advanced study and research in Canada, and set up endowments at universities across the country. UBC began awarding Killam Prizes (for teaching; pre- and post-doctoral fellows; senior fellowships and faculty research fellowships) in 1967 and has, since then, awarded more than $9 million. The Killam program of the Canada Council awards two prizes: the Memorial prize won by Martha Salcudean; and a research fellowship that pays a researcher's salary for a period of two years. Fellowships are given to researchers in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, medicine and engineering. 12 Chronicle _%y_ chronicle TT he past season produced one of the most memorable years in sports in UBC's history. Three new Canadian university championship banners hang from the ceiling of the War Memorial gym. The T-Bird total of 40 CIAU championships ranks second only to UofT's 48. Individuals performed spectacularly, too. Stars such as volleyball aces Mike Dalziel and Melanie Griswold each won the CIAU's prestigious TSN Award, and Mark Nohra received all ofthe highest honours in Canadian university football while leading his team to their third Vanier Cup win. Here is a month-to-month breakdown of sports successes last year: September The football T-Birds lost their home- opener in front of a record crowd and then dropped their second straight Shrum Bowl Game against arch-rival SFU. Doubt evaporates quickly, however, as the T-Birds eventually rally behind Mark Nohra, quarterback Shawn Olson and a superb defense. October UBC's men's soccer team toils in relative anonymity against the televised success of T-Bird football. They win the Canada West Championship and go on to dominate the field at the CIAU national tournament in Halifax. But despite out-shooting McGill 20-0 in the final, the T-Birds lost in an overtime shoot-out. November Early-season jitters vanish for the football squad, and no team can stop the Thunderbirds from capturing the Vanier Cup. Mark Nohra is named the Hec Crighton Award winner as the most outstanding player in the country. Three T- Birds are first-team All-Canadians and a total of nine are conference all-stars. December While everyone expected the first-place standing of the women's volleyball team, few expected UBC's basketball teams to be as scrappy as they are. The men's squad under interim head coach Rich Chambers stuns a few conference and non-conference rivals. The hockey team hosts the Father Bauer Christmas Tournament, and posts a tournament victory. January UBC has the best swimmers in the country: they cruise to wins in both men's and women's championships in Victoria. For the men, the win happens without national team member Ken Strain (r) battles for the ball in Canada West final. Dave Thomson photos. Women's volleyball team wins Canada West Championship, (l-r) Sarah Maxwell, Izabela Rudol and Melanie Griswold. and World's double medalist Mark Vers- feld, who is competing at the World Aquatic Championships. February The women's volleyball team clinches the Canada West Championship and ends the four-year reign by the Alberta Pandas in their own gym. The hockey team reaches conference quarter-finals for the first time in recent years. UBC's gritty hoop squads also lose in play-off semi-finals to powerhouse provincial rivals from the University of Victoria. Women's ice hockey completes its inaugural season in the Canada West conference. March Women's volleyball coach Erminia Russo is named Coach of the Year at the CIAU Championships, but in match two, the T-Birds again face the defending national champion Pandas, who send UBC to the consolation final and eventually a fourth-place finish. The swim teams win simultaneous national championships, a UBC first. Tom Johnson is named CIAU Coach of the Year. UBC's women's golf team wins their first NCAA Tournament at Santa Clara's Colby Classic. Olympic swimmer Sarah Evanetz and Mark Nohra are named UBC's top athletes at the annual Big Block Awards Dinner. • Chronicle 13 Creative Writing prof. George McWhirter, a winner of this years' Killam Teaching Prize, uses his skills as a poet to guide his students and make their work move on the page. I chronicle feature H Words, Images and the Water Works Bus by Chris Petty Researchers speculate that a grammar gene exists in us humans. It predisposes those who possess it with an in- knate ability to understand syntax at an intuitive level. They might not be able to point out parts of speech, oi identify a dangling modifier, but they know when there's something wrong with a sentence and can usually fix it. In short, good writers are born, not made. Just as some people are born with athletic ability and never become athletes, being a natural writer doesn't mean automatic success. Success in writing takes hard work, constant practise, and an understanding of language that is decidedly, well, genetic. A skier being interviewed after a run at last year's Olympics said that she could feel the hill before she started down it. She felt like she was attached to it physically and spiritually, not just sliding down its surface. She made a good point: to be exceptional at something one has to go beyond mere facility and mere technical understanding. That's as true of engineering and medicine as it is of writing and teaching. Everyone learns basic writing at school so, naturally, everyone thinks he or she can write well. Margaret Atwood once spoke to a neurosurgeon at a party who said, "When I retire, I plan to become a writer," to which Ms. Atwood responded, "That's nice; when I retire I plan to become a neurosurgeon." Of course, if we all took brain anatomy George McWhirter, winner of a Killam prize for teaching. He's reading The Gladys Eligies, by Barbara Nickel, one of Msformtrstudents. Chris Petty photo. Killam Teaching Prize winners are selected by their faculties on the basis of recommendations from colleagues, alumni and students. Each award winner receives $5,000. This year's winners are: Christine Parkin, English Jerry Wasserman, Theatre R. Jonathan Fannin, Forestry Marc Levine, Pharmaceutical Sciences Eunice CY. Li-Chan, Food Science F. Brian Holl, Plant Science Michael Jackson, Elec. and Comp. Eng. Philip Hill, Mechanical Engineering Lyn MacCrostie, Arts One Bruce Miller, Anthrop. and Sociology Ruth Freedman, Finance Donal McDonnel, Oral Biol. & Med Sc. Colin Price, Oral Biol. & Med Sc. Rita Irwin, Curriculum Studies Marion Porath, Ed. Psych. & Sp. Ed. Richard Ericson, Green College Margaret McCuaig, Rehab. Sciences Carol-Ann Comeya, Physiology Richard Arseneau, Medicine Carol Ann Borden, Botany Chris Orvig, Chemistry Chris Waltham, Physics 14 Chronicle along with our basic arithmetic, we'd be able to face the neurosurgeon at the party and say, "Ha! I can do brain surgery. I learned it in high school." But given a facility with words and a willingness to work very hard, it's the lucky fledgling writer who stumbles on a superb mentor or teacher. Such a teacher is George McWhirter, one of the winners of this year's Killam Teaching Prizes. George McWhirter has been in Canada for more ■ than 30 years, but his Irishness sits as thick on him as the head of a freshly pulled pint of Guinness sits at the top of the glass. On first meeting it takes a while of good listening to understand everything he says. It's like sitting perplexed through the first 20 minutes of an Irish version of "Coronation Street" before the cadence, lilt and sound of the words coalesce into understandable language. It's language that McWhirter is all about. He's always been a poet — "the broody type," he says — and he's quite happy to read it, speak it, write it, eat it and drink it all day long. He had an odd "Road to Damascus" experience as a university student in Belfast when he was 19. He was already struggling with his own poetry, and spending long hours studying and writing. One night he rode home from the university on the Water Works bus. "It was going up Albert Street, past Francie Collins' parents' vegetable store," he says. "Albert Street goes in a huge curve and the buses race up there like the hammers of hell. I'd been working too hard, and reading John Donne and the like; poems full of tears and thorns. And this phrase came into my head about what Albert Street looked like at night on a racing bus with the lights flashing and all: it looked like a ring of thorns around the head of Christ. Too much Irish iconography, I suppose." But he found himself literally knocked out by the sight, sound and sense of the scene, and next thing he knew he was waking up in his bed, next morning, at home. "It scared the hell out of me at the time," he says, "but after that experience my confusion about how words are connected to the images they convey disappeared. I probably can't explain it to you, but from then on words were images and images were words. One and the same." If that's the secret to his writing, then it's been a valuable one. He's published 20 books of poetry and fiction and been anthologized in well over 100 publications. He is also a well-known translator of Spanish writers. He's won many awards including the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction, the FR Scott Translation Prize and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize which he shared with Chinua Achebe. A few weeks ago the League of Canadian Poets gave him first prize in their chapbook competition for his book, Ovid in Saskatchewan. "It's about Ovid, banished to the Black Sea's other side. Saskatchewan seemed the right place." By all indicators, George McWhirter is a first rate poet. ADVICE I have had many things. East of me - the City, the people; And West of me, the sun. Never has it failed In its duty. When you buy food, make it in the morning. In the afternoon, you may not live To eat it. Or worse - Get knocked over On the road. This is Rosa Maria del Valle's advice for old age. Her other advice is this: If you have anything to bury, Don't let it be your talent, or your spirit. That will always shine and irritate you. Let it be your body, It has always known how to rest. from Incubus, Oberon Press And a first rate teacher. He earned his teaching credentials in Ireland and taught in Kilkeen and then in Bangor. He married a Bangor girl, Angela, also a teacher, and together they decided to leave Ireland in 1966. As is the case with many emigrants, both he and Angela were eager to get away from what they saw as a tradition-bound and in-grown society with little hope of change and in which they could find no comfortable place. After a year in Barcelona — George had studied Spanish in school and is fluent — they decided to try their luck in Canada and set out for the west coast. Fortunately, teaching jobs in BC were plentiful at that time and they chose Port Alberni as the ideal place to live and work. Like all teachers from abroad, he was required to take a few courses in Canada to upgrade his certificate. He discovered that UBC offered creative writing courses and signed up for a summer course in 1967. By the next summer he decided to take a Master's degree and by 1968, he was hired to teach in the department. He attributes much of his ability to teach basic writing technique to the mercurial but brilliant poet, J. Michael Yates, then head and the major moving force in the department. One of the grad courses he took with Yates was the poetry workshop, and often when Yates was away he asked George to fill in. Yates taught a poem in translation by Berchtold Brecht, "The Japanese Mask," and tried to get across to students the relationship between the idea and the thing — in this case the Japanese mask, which was used to contain the thought, so that students could see the mask clearly and feel it physically in the words — something George had worked out under the giddy flashing lights of the Water Works bus blasting through the Chronicle IS curve of Albert Street*Be developed this idea into a method for teaching. For the next 20 years he honed and refined his teaching styled through the various fashions of writing that swept through the department and through a tour of duty as head, to become one of the most loved and respected teachers in the department. Shauna Fowler, a second year Master of Fine Arts stldent, ■says George is the soul of the department. "He has an amazing gift," she says. "His understanding of the various styles of poetry is very sharp. He never imposes a politic or aataesthetitr on anyone's work. He's able to see it and accept it for what it is. His gift as a teacher is his ability to understand what you're trying to do and to give you both artistic and technical advice to help you achieve your goal." Winning the Killam prize was a surprise for McWhirter, not because he didn't have faith in his own ability, but -Shauna Fowler, 2nd year MFA student. 'Lay out the heaviness in your head like stones into a hill, then climb it word by word.' It struck me as exactly the right way to solve the problem. That bit of advice, that image, is something any writer could reflect on for the rest of her life, when the page gets her tangled." He not only clarifies the process, he clarifies what is being expressed. Ellen Schwartz, MFA'88, author of the Starshine series and the recent Mr. Belinski's Bagels, shares that view. "George has a way of getting to the centre of a story. Sometimes I'd get lost with some piece I was working on, lose track of where the story was going and what I wanted to do with it. George helped me cut through excess prose and find the essential bits." George McWhirter does have a rare gift. He is a poet able to express the words, feelings and ideas of everyday life in profound images; he's an academic who has a deep understanding of world literatures from every period; he's a teacher who is able to fo- He has an amazing gift, *»««#>«*!i*™ talent and expertise on a student's work. Writers of every because he doubted anyone else would understand his teaching methods "Teaching chemistry and teaching creative writing are two vastly different things," he says. "Basically we wait for the student to produce the course material, then we sit around and talk about whether it works or not." Of course it's not that simple. Most writers don't just sit down and type up a finished story or poem. The idea of the piece whirls around In the writer's head, and he or she tries to use words to work it out. It's the same struggle: how do you turn the image you have in your head into the words on the page? One piece of advice McWhirter gave Shauna Fowler is typical, and it suggests his ability to help the artist on the artist's own terms. "Once when I was having trouble with a particular poem he said, stripe have passed through UB.Cs creative writing de^itoent, They^i gone on to write novels, plays and books of poetry or short stories; they've started literary magazines, become editors or taken up industrial writing; some have become teachers themselves. Some have gone on to careers that have nothing to do with writing. But all who passed through George's workshop saw their own woric reflected back by a master t*acher *ad master poet, and keep the little flame alive in private journals, tucked-away computer files or scraps of paper. His legacy to them is the knowledge that their language lives. If scientists determine that there is a grammar gene, they will probably find one for teaching, too. George McWhirter is just one of the many teachers at UBC who possess it. * Martha Salcudean continued from page 12 UBC spin-off company, Process Simulators Limited, which she established with colleagues Ian Gartshore, Zia Abdullah and Ian Robertson. Two of her former PhD students, Eric Bibeau and David Stropky, have joined her at PSL. In spite of the many years she has spent at her calling, Martha Salcudean still has a passion for engineering. "Canada has a tremendous international reputation for engineering," she says. ■"We produce some of the best engineers in the world, and our practising engineers are second to none." But she's concerned about the future. "The need for qualified engineers is going to increase in Canada," she says, "and we have to encourage more young people to consider the profession. Virtually all our graduates are getting jobs." She is also convinced that engineers can create jobs through their development of new techniques, new processes and new products. "We have to offer more courses to engineers that teach them how to create and run their own businesses." She think* government has to look seriously at mathematics and science programs in the high school, to make sure they are teaching students what they need to know. "We also have to convince private industry to support faculties of engineering and to make the case to government for incfeased resources for engineering education and research." "We have to raise the profile of engineers," she says, then smiles: "There are plenty of television shows about lawyers and doctors and business people, but none about engineers. People don't make movies about them. We need to develop a sense of excitement about engineering and what an engineering career can offer in terms of creativity and self fulfilment." • 16 Chronicle on the II UIC ■ arts upcoming exhibitions and events: UBC Museum of Anthropology v ivVyHrJ." ^K < • Transitions, July 7-tfec. 199$ • Recalling the Past: A Selection of Early Chinese Art from the Victor Shaw Collection, through Dec. 1998, Masterpiece Gallery. • Vereinigung, through Dec. 1998. Traditional West Coast design. • Hereditary Chiefs of Haida Gwaii, through Feb. 21 1999, Gallery 10. • Tahaygen and K'woiy ng: Works by Charles and Isabella Edenshaw, through February 21 1999, Outside Gallery 10. *'*■'■- • From Under the Delta: Wet-Site Archaeology in the Lower Fraser Region of BC, throughiMar. 1999. New! the MOA Cafe: Now you can enjoy a cappucino, sandwich ot,dessert; indoors. The Museum j*Open cUil> Hum 10-5pm, Tuesday*toj^pm (May 18- Sept.7) Phone 822-5087 for in I < inflation. Continuing Studies UBC Certificate in Intt FLUlturdl Studies Summer Institute Aug. 17-21, 1998 Chan Centre for the Performjpg Arts \fef 21 '$ Musical evening *f? »,. .v i$Jyith Emil ChaU l^ly 23 Vancouver Symphony ^Orchestra Concert JrVSO Concert *~ 'VSO Concert CBC Avison Series UBC School of Journalism Opining, for info call: 82216688 Sept. 20 Robert Silverman Beethoven Sonatas Sept. 26 War and Peace Sept 27 Arradi Vnlrtdos, pianist Fort. I K&1pfo,pleffl«e till Ticket master at (6' ■ '■ '^0-3311 orifo f han Centre Box Of fie 11 16(H) $32-2687. Ikin Art Gallery Recent I'lmto AcqtiJMtioiis to the UBC Colh-i turn |..iln -"tvAri|e|i, Stan Douglas, I ii /an, Ken Lum, KetiffifyBA, Liz M i ,nor, N.h. lhing Co. and Manuel Pina. hin i 19-Sept. 27 OBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1998 grads present their work, much of winch is the product of more than two I'frais of intensive research and study. Oct; 9-25 Vancouver Institute Lectures Sept. 21-27: Cecil and Ida Green Lecture: Professor Thomas King, Department of English, Guelph University First Nations and Literature Oct. 3: Dal Grauer Lecture: Paul Fussell, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania The Poetry ofThreeWars: WWI, WWII, and Vietnam Oct. 17: Professor James Hudson, Department of Pathology, UBC Searching for anti-viral compounds in tropical forests Oct. 24: Dal Grauer Lecture: Ms. Karen Armstrong, author, teacher and commentator, London A History of God Oct. 31: Cecil and Ida Green Lecture: Professor William Chafe, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Race, Law and Justice For information, please CftD 822-1437. C all 822-2759 for more information. Photo (left): Voodoo doll (Self Portrait) by Alan Belcher. Sculpture: cloth, silver gelatin print, Belkin Art Gallery. Top right photo: Standing Dog, from the Eastern Han Period (220 B.C. - A.D. 25). Museum of Anthropology's Victor Shaw Collection. Photo: Bill McLennan. Chronicle 17 feature Information Technology 2008: Classrooms will be wired so students can be on-line with each other, the professor and the rest of the world. UBC is undergoing a major technological facelift that will prepare students for the next century. Tl he year is 2008. From a glance at the buildings, UBC looks very much like it did in 1998. But step into a familiar lecture theatre in Buchanan—perhaps a Psychology 100 class—and it's a different scene. Students are clustered at computer station pods and interacting on group projects while the prof circulates. Later, a guest lecturer speaks to them in realtime video over the internet. Then the prof's back at the front of the room lecturing for 15 minutes while the students type notes into their laptops. Room lighting is lower, the chairs are comfortable and movable. Students feel that they're playing an active role in constructing their education. They're interacting not only with the professor, but with each other and with professors and students around the world. Most students have their own laptop computers, which they plug into the ports available in classrooms, labs, libraries and offices all over campus. It may sound like science fiction, but UBC's president Martha Piper describes the scenario as the classroom of the future. "We know we need to put money into classrooms anyway," she says, "so they might as well be state-of-the-art." The growth in information technology (IT) seems so rapid and all-encompassing that it can be overwhelming to absorb: like the dozens of e-mail and phone messages we get every day; or estimates that the total sum of human knowledge is doubling every seven years; or the fact that 50% of the products a high tech company sells today, didn't exist a year ago. The social change associated with this growth is often compared to the impact of the printing press and the industrial revolution. And now, as then, we're no doubt too close to the change to understand its magnitude. At UBC, new information technology has an impact on several levels. There are the tangibles such as the construction involved to install network ports; new software required to manage effectively the university's finances and student records; and the computers used by Deanna in courses and research. But the intangibles are no less imposing. How do we protect the copyright of electronic scholary material? Should fees for on-line courses be more or less than fees for on-campus courses? How are professors to be rewarded within the tenure system for electronic course development and electronic publications? How can we ensure efficient and secure internet access for all students and researchers? How can we encourage more young women to study and work in IT? Currently, fewer than 15% of high tech workers and students are women. UBC's Advisory Committee on IT (http://www.acit.ubc.ca/), led by VP Student and Academic Services Maria Klawe, is asking and answering these kinds of questions. Martha Piper emphasizes that "IT is not the driver of our academic goals; it's simply a device, a tool." Together with the answers that ACIT comes up with, that tool will be used in various ways to enhance — but not drive — education and research at the university. UBC's Campus Connectivity Project (CCP) (http:// www.ccp.acit.ubc.ca/), now in Phase I, is installing or upgrading basic infrastructure — high speed network connectivity — in every UBC building. It will create 25,000 connections in offices, classrooms, laboratories, libraries and residences over the next five years. Every building from Buchanan to the remaining huts will have state-of-the-art connectivity. It's a challenging project, especially in light of the rapid pace of technological change. "But with a project like the CCP," says Ted Dodds, associate VP, Information Technology, "it gets the attention of the IT heavyweights, and they want to participate. This helps us to stay on the cutting edge." Dodds emphasizes that the success of the CCP will not just be data networks. "When we're done, we'll be able to say we have 25,000 connections, but then what? The real question will be what can people do with them? How will the network help people collaborate and communicate with each other?" IT and data networks, he says, are just the plumbing that will make possible all other priorities, such as interdisci- McLeod plinarity and internationalization. 18 Chronicle Tft echnology is only as good as the use we make of it. And that's where we move from leading edge computer science to leading edge education methods. Along with the development of new learning technologies (from medical courses on the web to interactive multimedia labs in theatre design) is a growing emphasis on learner-centred education and a two-way flow in learning, rather than the one-way flow of traditional university instruction. The goal is to allow students more flexibility, more interaction, and a more active role in their education, like the scene of our Buchanan classroom of 2008. On-line courses won't replace professors. What IT offers is a different mode of course delivery that can be more research based, enhancing the learning outcomes for students. Martha Piper is emphatic that this does not reduce the role of professors. "We're not replacing professors, but their role might change somewhat. Professors might in some cases be more like coaches, so their role becomes even more central." At UBC, departments from theatre to pharmacy are developing educational software for use in labs, assignments and research. It's one thing to say everyone should put their courses on the web, but it's another to learn how, and do it. An exciting new tool that is receiving a lot of international attention was developed by UBC computer science instructor Murray Goldberg. His WebCT is a set of worldwide web curriculum tools that help professors design and deliver multimedia course content to students. It's very user friendly, and offers professors with no computer expertise the ability to put things like indexed course outlines, timed quizzes, assignments and chat lines on the web. Try it out for yourself at http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/. But will all this actually work? Studies on the effects of these new educational technologies on learning, and on professors, are only just beginning and the results aren't in yet. Tony Bates, director of distance learning and technology with UBC's Continuing Studies department, is leading a Canadian research project studying how adult learners respond to the use of new technologies in the delivery of university and career programs (http:// research.cstudies.ubc.ca/olt/index.html). Integrating technology into education is also likely to play an important role in facilitating students' transition to the working world. One of the benefits of IT is that it brings post-secondary education to the home computer. That Buchanan classroom of 2008 might just as well describe an on-line classroom with students at home in fluffy slippers and bathrobes, connecting over the course chat-line and The real questions will be what can people do with the new technology? How will the network help people collaborate and communicate with each other? - Ted Dodds listening to their professor in real-time video. It's an exciting time to live in, says Ted Dodds, but a challenging one too. "How do we assimilate it all, when many of us are already finding it difficult to deal with the wired world? We can only process so many things. We need down-time to hang out with our families, to put our feet up or go fishing." The industry's ability to deliver the solutions, Dodds says, is almost a foregone conclusion. The question is no longer how we'll be able to deliver the technology, he says, "but how we'll manage culturally. How we'll cope with what the technology will make possible, is a more interesting and difficult question." iderlying all the technology is just us humans. To cope, we need to keep some sort of perspective on what IT makes possible, and adapt while the world keeps shifting under our feet. Adapting to the change and making the best use of it includes time to unplug ourselves and go for walks in the park. The greatest challenge, perhaps, is making use of the technology to ensure equal access to the information it provides, and to improve the quality of people's lives in our own and in distant communities, "It's tremendously challenging but that's the fun of it," Dodds says. "The ground rules keep changing. The assumptions we make today aren't valid tomorrow, so it keeps the adrenaline going." • This is the third and last in a series of articles on Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity and Information Technology at UBC. Some related links UBC's Vision Statement http://www.vision.ubc.ca Office of Learning Technologies (HRDC) http://olt-bta.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/english.html UBC Centre for Educational Technology http://www.cet.ubc.ca/about/index.html UBC's Technology Studies Education program http://www.curricstudies.educ.ubc.ca/division/TSED/ programs/ugrad.html New Media Centres http://www.csulb.edu/gc/nmc/ TeleLearning, National Centres of Excellence http://www.telelearn.ca/ Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/scwist/ Centre for Currie, Transfer and Technology http://www.ctt.bc.ca/edtech/ Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm World Lecture Hall http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/ Attitudes and societal impacts http://onteris.oise.utoronto.ca/ceris2/Tech1.html Technology & social change http://www.ctf-fce.ca/e/what/restech/reading.htm Chronicle 19 4th Annual Alumni Recognition Sports Hall of Fame Inductees Three of UBC's most outstanding athletes, one of its teams and one of the great builders of sport will be inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame this fall. These men and women represent the best in athletic endeavour at UBC. The Hall of Fame, established in 1992, is dedicated to their accomplishments. ^|^ J.D. Jackson ■^Hflff John David "Action" B^^F*,**f Jackson is the most H^^^^j^k prolific scorer in UBC i^^^^^^^B history, with a >>^^^^^^^B 3,585 points in his storied five-season basketball career. Following his graduation in 1992, he played for Canada's national team and now resides in Antibbes, France where he plays professionally. Turlough O'Hare O'Hare, a contemporary of Jackson's, was a two-time Olympian and Commonwealth Games swimmer as well as a World Cup freestyle gold medalist, all the while dominating on the Canadian university scene. The Richmond native and current UBC graduate student won a total of 21 medals in university (CIAU) competition and his three CIAU records stand to this day. Nora McDermott BPE'49, BEd'56 Despite graduating almost a half-century ago, McDermott remains one of the top female athletes in UBC history. Her skill on the basketball court led her to an international career, a place in the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian basketball Hall of Fame. A standout in May Brown's Thunderbird field hockey team, McDermott matched her athletic prowess with her student accomplishments, having been named top student in her 1949 graduating class. 20 Chronicle John Owen Builder John Owen, well known in the thirties as a local hockey player and referee, was hired by UBC in 1937 to be a coach, trainer, and manager of the newly built Varsity Stadium. In the subsequent 28 years leading up to his death in 1965, he provided training and equipment for many of the greatest football, rugby, track and basketball teams in UBC history. The popular Owen is remembered through the John Owen Memorial Scholarship Fund and the sports medicine centre pavilion on the south campus which bears his name. *m ;* y i5S*w' 1977-78 Women's Volleyball Team ~3*k2I The 1977-78 women's volleyball team, coached by Dianne Murray, was undefeated during the Canada West regular season schedule. They went on to the CIAU Championships at Moncton, New Brunswick, where they won the fourth and most recent CIAU Championship for a UBC women's volleyball team. They were also winners of the Canadian Open Senior Championship and, with the exception of one player, the same roster won the CIAU title the previous year as well. One of UBC's finest women's teams in any sport, an unprecedented total of seven players were named Canada west first-team all- stars. Alumni Association Awar Alumni Award of Distinction (2) Recognizes outstanding achievements by UBC grads in the arts, research, civic, business, community, athletic or similar activities. John Millar BSc'63, MD'67, HSc'86 John is director of the BC Health Research Foundation and Provincial Health Officer. He taught in International Health at UBC from 1991-97. John won the DeFries Award in Public Health in 1997 and the James Robinson Prize for his contributions to public health. Milton Wong BA'63 Milton began M.K. Wong & Associates in 1980 and is co-founder of the Laurier Institute for multicultural studies. He is also vice-chairman of fundraising for Science World and founder and trustee of UBC Commerce Portfolio Management Society. Milton is also chairman of the International Dragonboat Festival. Blythe Eagles Volunteer Award Special recognition to grads who have shown extraordinary leadership in Association affairs. Jim Stich BSc'71, DMD'75 Jim is the director of the Dental Clinic at the Faculty of Dentistry. He was the president of the UBC Alumni Association from 1993-94, and the senior VP from 1992-93. He was also president of the Dental Alumni, and VP and Chair of the Dental Alumni Fund. Jim was co-chair of the 75th Anniversary Great Trekker Gala Dinner in 1986-87. and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner d Winners Faculty Citation (2) Awarded to faculty members who have rendered outstanding service to the community in other than teaching or research. Paul Stanwood A professor of English, Paul has been a member of Green College since 1994 and has served UBC since 1969. He won the Provincial Year of the Child and Family Achievement Award in 1979 for his community service to children and families. Paul has also authored two program books for the National Council, Boy Scouts of Canada. Carol Herbert BSc'66, MD'69 Carol has been professor and head of the UBC Dept. of Family Practice since 1982. She won the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Health & Social Sciences in 1985. Carol is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the winner of the 1997 W. Victor Johnston Medal for contribution to the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Outstanding Young Alumnus Recognizes outstanding work by UBC grads under 40. Peter Dolman MD'84 Peter is a contributing teacher and clinician to developing nations and an active participant in UBC AIDS Eye Clinic. He is a clinical assistant professor at UBC and has provided care to outreach clinics in Northern BC. He specializes in ophthalmology. Outstanding Student Awards (3) Awarded to students who show leadership and academic success, and who are active in the university community. Mg^ Lica Chui ^B; pH Lica is a third-year Med ^K 'rdfe^B student and has been ^^^ "^^H^ the student rep on the i^^V^Hf UBC Senate since 1993. ^^^^^^^™ She was VP of the Alma Mater Society from 1996-97. She is a Wesbrook Scholar and recipient of the Sherwood Lett Scholarship. Lica is also Young Ambassador to the Chinese Canadian Association of Public Affairs. Andrew Booth Graduating this year in Engineering Physics, Andrew started the UBC Solar Car Project, and is the Engineering Physics Student Society President and a member of the Engineering Graduate Society. He is crew leader of the UBC Lightweight Rowing Team, participates in Intramural Sports and is UBC Student Ambassador. Allison Dunnet A 1998 Political Science grad, Allison is the founder of Imagine UBC, which welcomes new students to UBC, and of Humanities 101, a project to encourage people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study at UBC. She was the coordinator of External Affairs for UBC's Alma Mater Society, '96-'97, and co-chair of UBC's New Democratic Club from 1997-1998. Lifetime Achievement Award (2) Recognizes extraordinary individuals who, over a lifetime, have contributed significantly to UBC and the Association. William Gibson BA'33, DSc(Hon)'93 Bill was appointed director of research for mental hospitals of BC in 1949 and professor of neurological research at UBC. He was professor of history of medicine and science from 1959-78 and chaired the financing body of the Universities Council of BC from 1978-1983. He was chancellor of the University of Victoria in 1984. Bill served as president of the Alumni Association in '61-62. Cecil Green DSc(Hon)'64 Cecil was a founder of Texas Instruments. He spent two years at UBC, then transferred to MIT. More than a dozen universities have given him honorary doctorates, including Oxford and UBC. As a philanthropist, he has supported post-secondary education across Canada, the US and the United Kingdom. In 1965, he purchased a mansion located on the cliffs at the northern edge of the campus. Cecil Green Park is now home of the Alumni Association. He is also the major donor to Green College, UBC, a residential graduate school located just east of Cecil Green Park. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1991. 4th Annual Alumni Recognition and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner Thursday, October 8, 1998 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver Tickets: $125 ea., $1,000 table of 8, GST included. Tax receipt issued. Book now! Call 822-3313 Chronicle 21 a umni news President's Message Branch events keep you in touch Watch for news about branch events in your area. For information about branch activities, or to establish a branch in your area, contact Marlene King at (604)822-8918, e-mail: kmarlene@alumni.ubc.ca. Branch Rep's ft Contacts: Kamloops Rob McDiarmid (250) 374-3344 Kelowna Tom Edwards (250) 762-2604 Nanaimo Johanna Scott (250) 390-1085 dscott@fairwinds.bc.ca Jim Slater (250) 681-7491, local 2515 slater@mala.bc.ca Kitimat Louise Shaw 632-7147 lshaw@kitimat.sno.net Edmonton Claire Pallard Belanger (403) 427-5133 Toronto Catherine McCauley (416) 622-5116 mccauley@mail.interlog.com Ottawa Carole Joling (613) 236-6163, ext. 2580 cjoling@idrc.co Don Gardner (613) 829-2257 Chicago/Milwaukee Jay Phipps (414) 552-6446 jaylphipps@aol.com Lot Angelas Dr. Hartley Turpin (714) 640-5030 Betty-Jean Prosser (818) 790-7833 Doug Thomas dothomas@dttus.com New York Dave Nuestaedter (212) 241-1864 neustd01@doc.mssm.edu San Francisco Kent Westerberg 370-5070 <rentivest@/x.netcom.com Cont'd on page 28 22 Chronicle hink about it, as Martha Piper would say. As we all become more accustomed to using the web, I hope all our alumni will add the UBC Alumni web site — www.alumni.ubc.ca— to their list of favourites. We are now equipped to have video and sound clips, so tune in to see short clips from the convocation speeches of honorary degree recipients. News events from reunions and campus activities will soon be in text, in living colour and in real audio. As our expertise improves we will have interviews of leading campus personalities and cover events of interest to our Alumni. Please send us your ideas on what you would like to see. The current "brain drain" is a matter of great concern to UBC and its alumni. A brain drain questionnaire is posted on the web site and we would ask all UBC alumni who have left Canada to fill it out (it only takes a few minutes). Already we have had many responses and it is providing us with useful information on solutions to the exodus problem. In the US all levels of government are increasing post secondary educational and research funding. In Canada it is the reverse. I believe that university alumni from all Canadian universities must take the lead in convincing politi cians that jobs and wealth creation are dependent on a highly educated workforce and that Canadian tax and immigration policies must be globally competitive. High levels of student debt, a low value Canadian dollar matched against high wages, low taxes and greater job opportunities in the US and elsewhere, are forcing too many of our students and researchers to seek opportunities abroad. Canadian universities are also having a terrible time recruiting new faculty. If we want to keep our country strong and our universities great we, as university alumni, must be politically active. A priority for us this year is to develop more active branches, particularly in Toronto and major cities in BC. An important role for the branches to play is making new UBC students feel enthusiastic about going to UBC. We do this with alumni send-off receptions for new students and their families. If you would like to participate in send-off programs let us know. We now have an UBC Alumni Endowment Fund for Needy Students. Its starting capital is $300,000, thanks to a major gift by Helen Knight (a Great Trekker). Additional contributions are welcome. We will report in future Chronicles on awards made by the Endowment Trustees. A reminder! Our annual awards dinner is October 8th at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, and Alumni Day at UBC is October 1 7. Join us for tours, lectures, nostalgia and camaraderie. Haig Farris, President, UBC Alumni Association Visit Our Website We're upgrading our website to include A/V clips of UBC events and people. www.alumni.ubc.ca A Division is a group of alumni in the Lower Mainland who graduated from the same faculty, school or department, or who maintained membership in a club or other UBC association. Divisions provide an opportunity for alumni to network, get involved in various activities or simply renew old friendships. They are an excellent way to stay in touch with UBC. For information on how to start a division, call Catherine Newlands at 822-8917 or e-mail newlands@alumni.ubc.ca. Engineering The division is being revived after a two-year hiatus. Plans for next year are participating in some ofthe student activities including Clubs Day and the Career Fair. Family ft Nutritional Sciences ft Home Ec. All alumni and friends are invited to the annual fall social evening, Friday, Oct. 16, 7:30 pm, FNS foyer. Art History/Studio Arts An Art History division is being formed and is looking for interested volunteers to take part in this exciting launch. Law UBC Law Alumni Distinguished Speakers Series Breakfast, Thursday, Sept. 17, guest speaker will be Justice Ian Binnie, newest appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. New Students Can Imagine UBC Remember your first day on campus? Scary, eh? Well, Imagine . UBC changes all that for new students. This year, on September 8, about 5,000 students will attend a full day of events, meetings with deans and profs, scavenger hunts and an evening carnival, all aimed at introducing the greenhorns to the big campus and giving them a leg up on the year. New students will be contacted in the summer with information about Imagine UBC. If you know of students in your area (or in your household) who are off to UBC for the first time this year, encourage them to attend. Also, don't forget our Student Send Off events in communities outside the Lower Mainland. That's where you, the seasoned grad, get to share your experi- neces with the new kids. Call Kristin at 800-883-3088 for more information. UBC Alumni Association Annual General Meeting Thursday, September 17, 1998 Main Floor, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road 6:30 Reception 7:00 Business Meeting Rehab 77 Celebrates a "Mini-Reunion" Rehab Sciences '77 held an impromptu 20 year reunion on Jan.10 '98 on the occasion of Linda (Owen) Brunton leaving for Botswana. Let's try again for the 25th in 2002! Is 1998 Your Reunion Year? Reunion Weekend is Oct. 16, 17 ft 18 For information on reunions, please contact Catherine Newlands at 822-8917 or e-mail: newlands@alumni.ubc.ca. These reunions have also been scheduled for 1998: • St. Mark's College 40th Anniversary Reunion, UBC Campus, July 25. • Medicine "58 Whistler, Aug. 15/16. • Mechanical Engineering '68 UBC Campus, Aug. 21/22. • Pharmacy '88 UBC Campus, Aug. 28/29. • Pharmacy Class of '95 Harrison Hot Springs, Sept. 12/13. • Animal Ecology '70-75 UBC Campus, Sept. 12/13. • Medicine '88 Whistler, Sept. 26/27. • Applied Sci. '58 UBC Campus, 0ct.16/17. • Commerce/MBA-all decades Faculty of Commerce, Oct. 15, 16, 17. • Class of '38: Cecil Green, Nov. 27. • Education "39 UBC Campus, Nov. 27. • Rehab Sciences'88 TBD • Civil Engineering '78 TBD • Civil Engineering '73 TBD • Pharmacy "68 TBD Education "39 Alert! Alex Charters, president of Education '39 class would like all of his classmates to get together before or after the Class of '38 Reunion on Nov. 27. If you are a member of this class and would be interested in participating, contact Catherine Newlands at the above number. Chronicle 23 a umni news Spring Congregation The Chan Centre, a sunny May day and hundreds of ecstatic grads. Graduation brings out the smiles in everyone. Chris Petty photos 24 Chronicle That 01' Graduation Magic There's something magic about graduation. Sure, it's easy to get all cynical and nineties-bitter about various economic forecasts and to call into question the value of an applied versus a theoretical education, too-cheap/ too expensive tuition, the sorry state of our post secondary system, corporatiz- ation, the brain drain, barista degrees and on and on. But take a walk outside the Chan Centre anytime during convocation week and all that end-of-millennium melancholy melts away, replaced with hope, promise and the satisfaction of accomplishment. There's simply something magic about it. Maybe it's the age of the graduates: they are overwhelmingly young. Our culture's fascination with youth isn't completely unfounded. Our whole point here on earth, some would argue, is to produce the next generation. If that's the case, one can't help but be excited to see all these smart, clear-eyed young people full of excitement (and empty, as yet, of accumulated disappointments) about the world they are about to conquer. But hope doesn't glint only from the eyes of the young. In each class there is a smattering of men and women who have come back from careers, parenthood or crummy jobs to learn new ways of working in the world. These older grads are inspiring and encouraging, like the 45 year old first novelist or the late blooming movie star. They show us all that the idea of a new start isn't just a tired cliche. Or maybe the magic comes from those special people who have had to deal with incredible obstacles to get their degrees: the kid with the physical disability who overcomes everything and makes it look easy; the kid from the wrong class or wrong part of town who excels beyond all expectation; or the person who struggled and sacrificed and worked harder than anyone else just to prove to themselves that, yes, they DID have it in them. Those stories are everywhere. Maybe the magic comes from those other kids, the ones who get written about in the papers because they are so brilliant. The one whose master's thesis bags a national prize, or the Governor General Award winners, or the heads of the various graduating classes. These are the people who put the line under 'excellence' in the promotional literature, the people who every university (or high school or small town or neighbourhood) points to and says, 'look what we produced.' Some of the magic comes from family and friends. When the grads file into Chan Centre, people in the cheap seats call out, wave or whistle to get the attention of their son/daughter/mom/ dad/friend ("We love you, Mom!"), and with all the flashes going off, you'd think we were at the Oscars when the stars saunter in. And outside, after the Chancellor taps everyone on the head, the hugs, flowers, congratulations, photo-ops and giddy excitement pour out unabashed. No wedding could generate more good feeling or well-wishing. I had the pleasure of attending ten of the 23 graduation ceremonies held between Sunday, May 24 and Friday, May 29. (That's right: 23 complete ceremonies.) Proof, to me, that graduation generates magic is the fact that Martha Piper's speech (which she delivered at every ceremony save two she missed) about 'Belling the Cat' to this year's grads was just as heartfelt, just as sincere on the last day as it was on the first. It seemed to me, the observer, that each ceremony was fresh and important. Next year, if you get the chance, come up and stroll among the just- graduated throng out on the flagpole plaza above the Rose Garden. The magic, wherever it's coming from, is as thick, and as sweet, as honey. • Chris Petty Alumni Day, 1998 Saturday, Oct. 17 A day dedicated to you and UBC. Some events planned: • Chan Centre kick-off: Free performances Et displays. Famous cinnamon buns • Free web workshops at Koerner Library • Belkin Art Gallery UBC Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition (by donation) • Guided bus and walking tours ofthe campus • Alumni Lunch at Green College. Donna Logan, director, Sing Tao School of Journalism talks about Good News, Bad News: what kind of job is the media doing?(reservations required, $15 per person) • Lecture Series Patricia Baird on Cloning Stanley Coren: People Et Dogs Ivan Head: Globalization Wayne Norman: Ethics Et Business • BBQ ($15) Et Beer Garden (no- host) at Cecil Green Park We need Volunteers for Alumni Day. Help organize events, take tickets, conduct tours. Get involved in a great day! Call 822-3313 for info. Chronicle 25 a umm news Branch Contacts, cont'd The new Young Alumni group is made up of recent grads who want to stay in touch with each other and with the university. We get together for networking, skills development, sports and just plain fun. Join us and become part of a dynamic group. For more information, call Kristin Smith at 822-8643, check out our website: www.helinet.com/ya or e-mail: kristins@alumni.ubc.ca • The Young Alumni Breakfast (pictured above) was a tremendous success. Laurie Baggio, BA'94, above right/showed off his favourite sweatshirt bearing the YA logo, while Peter Ladner BA'70, left, looked on. The Young Alumni had a scrumptious breakfast and thoroughly enjoyed 1 1/2 hours of discussions and laughs with guest speakers Martha Piper and Ladner, publisher of Business in Vancouver. An inspiring start to the day. • Young Alumni High Tech Industry Roundtable The high tech industry promises to become the economic powerhouse of the next decade. The idea of the roundtable is to create a forum for industry and UBC (students, faculty, grads) to get together and talk about issues of mutual concern such as industry needs, the brain drain, the future of the university or the value of a university degree. YA will work with industry and the university to open discussions on these issues. If you are interested in YA hosting a roundtable for your industry, contact Kristin at the above number. Upcoming Events • July 16: Summer BBQ. Join us for sunshine, great fun, great people and a great time! • Aug. 4: Scott & Ritchie, Cactus Club Restaurant. Presented by Vancouver Network of Young Professionals. • Aug. 19: Bard on the Beach performance As You Like It. Join YA at this festive English Bay event. YA members are eligible for a group rate. 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Help next year's students survive the first-year ordeal with an August Send Off Social. If you are interested, contact Kristin Smith at 800 883-3088 or e-mail: kristins@alumni.ubc.ca 26 Chronicle class acts 20s 60s Bob Mukai S.C. Carver BASc'29 is retired and has been living in Capetown since 1994. 30s J.V. Jordan BSA'39 is busier than ever even though he is supposed to be retired. He is travelling, trying to stay on top of the family investment company, and living in Surfers Paradise, Australia. He encourages any classmates that remember him to contact him at: <tracer@atnet.net.au> ... John Laurence McHugh BA'36, MA'38 got his PhD in Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. He had a varied career in the States and retired in 1984 ... Wilfred Pendray BSc'38 is retired and living in Victoria. He is looking forward to the 60 yr. reunions. 40s William A. Laudrum BCom'48 is retired and a member of the Granite Club. He and wife Shirley McConville BA'49 are active in tennis, golf, lawn bowling, bridge, travelling, etc ... Roy Wilkinson BSc'48 celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary with wife Magna on March 24, 1998 ... 50s Joan M. (Campbell) Crosby BA'50 retired several years ago from the University of Oregon Medical School. She and husband Roger are still skiing and enjoying living in the San Juan Islands and are very active in community affairs ... After teaching in Toronto until 1997, Esther Harrison BA'54 purchased, restored and now lives in the historic (1848) Krieghoff cottage in the heart of Quebec City ... Dick Koppenaal BA'55, MA'56 will resign this September as dean of the Gallatin School of Individualised Study at New York University. While he was at UBC he studied with Doug Kenney, who later became president of UBC ... After 22 years of service, Carlos Kruytbosch BA'56, MA'58 retired from the US National Science Foundation. He will continue to consult in science policy affairs.... Klaus E. Rieckhoff BSc'58, MSc'59, PhD'62 will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Fall convocation of Simon Fraser University this October ... R.H. Roy BA'50, MA'51 was appointed a member of the Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee recently. He is a former veteran and Professor Emeritus of Military and Strategic Studies at UVic ... Carole Anne Soong BA'57, BSW'58 administrator and volunteer activist, won the Women of Distinction Award for Communications and Public Affairs. Leonard Angel MA'68, PhD'74 just published his philosophical novel, The Book of Miriam. It is 'pious fiction' about the discovery and translation of an ancient woman's Bible ... Doreen Montgomery Braverman BEd'64 was featured on the Women's TV Network on the program Success, Inc. as a successful Canadian entrepreneur with her flag shop ... Tom D'Aquino BA'63, BSW'66, MSW'67 has moved from Moricetown, BC to Whitehorse in the Yukon ... Raphael Girard BA'63 was appointed Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, July, 1997 ... Ed Pankratz MD'66 was named South Fraser Health Region's Interim vice-president of Medicine last December... Joyce Pearson BSc'60 has retired as director of the Blue Flame Kitchen of Northwestern Utilities Ltd ... Hart Pfortmueller BA'67 is VP, private investment management div., Western Canada at Montrusco Associates Inc. ... J. Christopher Poole BA(Hon)'66 was appointed Consul General in Chicago in July, 1997 ... Heather (Burton) Raff BA'60 was a guest speaker last June at the Canadian Studies Conference of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She demonstrated how the great BC born architect Ron Thorn carried his design talent and close kinship with the landscape across Canada to build homes, a zoo, theatres and universities ... Cliff Scott BA'67 retired from public service of Canada in 1991, after more than 35 years in both military and civil service. He is currently teaching history courses to engineering students at the University of Ottawa ... O.P. St. John BA'60 was a political science professor at the University of Manitoba for 35 years. He won the 1997 Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching ... After he returned from Taiwan where he was director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, K.W. (Ken) Putt BASc'65 an industrial technology advisor for Petroleum Services Association of Canada in Calgary, Alta, won the CPR Engineering Medal. He was recognized for many years of leadership and service to the Institute and its member societies at all levels ... Hugh Stephens BA(Hon)'67 was appointed assistant deputy minister for Communications and Policy Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ... G. Laird Stovel BASc'61 has recently retired as chief engineer, Operations for Air Canada after 31 years in Montreal. He moved to Kelowna after a strong recommendation from brother Brian Stovel BEd'69 ... Edward T. Thorpe BSc'66 worked, studied and researched at Texas A & M University- Commerce. He has returned to Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ont. to help expand the role of technology for instruction ... Gardiner James Wilson BA'66 was appointed High Commissioner to Brunei July 11, 1997. An active volunteer, Bob Mukai BSc'63, is a director on the executive committee ofthe Richmond Minor Hockey Association and director of the Richmond Arenas Community Association. He is also involved with the organizing committee for the annual Richmond International Midget Hockey Tournament, on the board of directors of the Richmond Museum Society and the announcer at the international Judo tournaments held in Richmond. He recently was named the Save-0n-Foods/ Richmond News Community Achiever ofthe Month. 70s Margaret Catherine Allan BA'70 got her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin last December in the department of Educational Psychology ... Wendy Hamlin BFA'78, John Clair Watts BFA'79, Gloria Masse BFA'80, and Gathie Falk, who taught in Fine Arts, have been meeting in each other's studios to critique each other's work every few weeks since 1975. The held a 'group' exhibition in May ... Wayne Hammond PhD'74 was appointed High Commissioner to the United Republic of Tanzania and accreditation to the Republic of Seychelles, and as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, July 11, 1997 ... F.S. (Rick) Hirtle BCom'74 to BDO Dunwoody's Policy Board for 1997-98. He is a partner in the firm's Salmon Arm office ... Karen Hook BEd'77 is proud to announce the birth of her son, Alexander Antonio John Hook, July 12, 1997 ... Carol Kline MA'75 was recently reelected to the Board of the College of Dental Hygienists of BC. She was a founding member of the Board, appointed by the Minister of Health in 1995. She was first elected to the Board in 1996 ... Chronicle 27 class acts Donald J. Norris PhD'75 began an assignment with Exxon Chemicals Baton Rouge operation as Basic Chemicals Plant Technology Section Leader. He and his wife Vikki are enjoying life in the Cajun Country of Louisiana ... Barbara (Merryfield) Peace BCom'79 was appointed vice-president, Energy Marketing Systems Division of Applied Terravision Systems Inc. last January ... Rosalie Tung MBA'74, PhD'77 Professor of Business Administration at SFU, won the Women of Distinction Award in the Management, Professions and Trades category ... Murray Walker BMus'75 has returned to York School in Monterey, CA as director of Music and Head of Arts after a three-year absence. Murray was the founding head of the Georgiana Bruce Kirby School in Santa Cruz. 80s Claudio Arato BSc'89, BASc'91 is doing all kinds of qualitative risk assessment, hazard and operability studies and pollution prevention engineering in the pulp and paper, petrochemical and oil & gas industries ... Theresa Best BA'87 and Naomi Pauls BA'83 have launched Paper Trail Publishing, a book packaging and editorial services company specializing in multidisciplinary works on culture and society ... Janet Campbell BEd'86 has been working for the Vancouver School Board for ten years as a primary and special education teacher... Andrea J. (Lazosky) Chisholm BSc'83 got her diplomate status in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She married Ian Chisholm in Hawaii last February ... Terry Dash BASc'80, MEng'87, wife Karen and four kids moved to Calgary, AB last July. Terry is the senior geological engineer for Southern Alberta for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ... Sue (Fisher) Dritmanis BFA'83 is managing editor of Western Living magazine and husband John Dritmanis BFA'79 is a freelance radio producer. Their twins, Christopher and Allison, were born in January ... Bruce Ferguson BA'85, MA'87 earned a PhD in French from U of Toronto and has been appointed as the assistant registrar of Trinity College there ... Living and working for five years in Texas is Rev. Mark R. Gazin BA'83 at the University of St. Thomas as director of Campus Ministry. He directed a team of 12 students to coordinate the recent Texas Catholic Student Conference last March ... Laura (Ryder) Hudson BEd'86 and husband Dave welcome their third child, Michelle Marie, born Feb, 12, 1998 ... Brian J. Gibbs BSc'82, MA'85 is assistant professor of Marketing and Behavioral Science in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Staring in Sept. he will be associate professor of Management at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee ... Sal Johal BA'84 is working on immigration issues with the Ministry of Attorney General in Victoria after ten years with Employment and Immigration Canada ... Linda (Pretty) Kern BCom'84 is living in Toronto with her husband Greg. They are raising their beautiful four- month-old daughter, Tess ... Anna Krause BEd'84 edited The Life and Times ofthe Comox Valley, written by her husband, James. She is working full- time and taking courses through the Justice Institute ... Jenny Leary BEd'80, is a senior internet consultant trainer with Futurenet Canada, bringing internet access through TV sets across North America, without a computer. Her e-mail through the TV is <jenny.wilklear@netchannel.net> ... Jeff Leigh BASc'84, wife Denise (Sammartino) BHE'82 and daughters Amanda and Jennifer have moved from Grande Prairie, AB to Antofagatsa, Chile, where Jeff works for Finning Chile S.A. ... Janie P. (Leung) Louie BCom'87 and husband Ming were married in June, 1995, and would like to announce the arrival of their first child Michael, born Nov. 19, 1997 ... Raffaele Luongo BASc'84 is working for BCRail Ltd. in North Vancouver. He and Lucy would like to announce the birth of their second daughter, Daniela Christina, born Oct. 16, 1997, a sister for five-year-old Gabriella Michele ... George Melo BASc'85 and Maria (Garcia) Melo BCom'86 announce their second daughter Victoria Alicia, born May 12, 1998 ... Ian Miller BSF'84 and wife Colleen McKendry BSF'84 are proud parents of Lynden Kathleen, born Oct. 9, 1997 ... Denise E. Mills MSc'84 has been the administrator of the Remediation Divison at the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality in Helena, managing the state's involvement in a variety of environmental cleanup programs ... Scott Paget BA'84 has completed a two-year secondment at the Privy Council Office/Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa. Starting July, he and his wife Sherry will be moving to Washington where he will assume the duties of a First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC ... Candace (Laird) Parsons BSF'83 is the executive director of the Silviculture Institute of BC and the Institute of Forest Engineering of BC. She and husband John just moved into their dream home on the Fraser River in Queensborough ... Pammy Pasicnyk BSc'89 has been working for Safeway Pharmacy since graduation. She married Kevin Clarke BA'89 in 1995 and just bought a house in North Vancouver... Leslie Pidcock BSc'80, MBA'85 is living in Calgary and was promoted to assistant to the president and CEO with CPR ... Stephen M. Pink BA'84 is working with Richmond Savings Investments in Steveston as a financial planner... Michael K. Pugsley BSc'89 MSc'92, PhD'95 just completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship as a MRC Scholar at the University of California, Irvine. He is now a senior scientist at XOMA Corporation in Berkeley ... Benny Tong BCom'87 and Sandra Tong BA'87 are delighted to announce the arrival of Christopher Gregory Tong, April 16, 1997 ... Colin Wolfe MA'81 has been closely involved with the peace process in his native Ireland, looking after the European peace & Reconciliation Programme funds coming from Brussels. Jack was born to Colin and his wife Sue on Nov. 5, 1997 ... David Yiu Sang Wong MBA'86 has moved back to Hong Kong after working in New York for three years. Would like to re-establish contact with old friends and colleagues. His address is: Apt. 10G, 113 Tai Hang Road, HK ... Tony G. Wong BASc'84 and Janet Beasley were married in May, 1995, and their first daughter, Ellery S. Wong, was born in 1996. Tony is a manufacturing project manager with General Motors Thailand ... Angela Wu BA'88 is branch manager for HongKong Bank of Canada and enjoys travelling, ballroom dancing and karaoke. 90s James Andrew BSc'96 is currently the interim coordinator of First Nations Health Careers at UBC. He plans to get his master's in Aboriginal Community Health at the University of Sydney in Australia ... Monica Beaulieu BSc'94 and Martin Cocking BA'87 got married at Cecil Green Park in June. Monica is back at UBC in first-year medicine and Martin is still working in the post-secondary system after five years at UNBC ... Chris Bendl BSc'91 is managing director for Dharmala Manulife Asset Management in Indonesia ... Bill Bonner MBA'92 is living in Calgary doing his PhD in Management Information Systems at the U of Calgary ... David Bruce MA'90 is now the acting director and senior research associate for the Rural and Small Town Programme at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick ... Gregory Dake BSc'92 received his PhD from Stanford University last April and has moved to New York City with his wife Lorelei (Erickson) Dake BA'92 where Greg is doing postdoctoral work at Columbia University ... Sarah Eastman-Pegg BA'95 and husband Kern Pegg had a daughter Emily Kaylen Eastman-Pegg on Dec. 23, 1996 ... Lisa Freeman BA'97 is still working at the Shoah Foundation doing Holocaust research and is engaged to marry Richard Grant of Costa Mesa, CA on June 26, 1999 ... After finishing her law degree, Kristin Graver LLB'96 articled at DuMoulin & Boskovich. She started her own business doing animal law soon after being called to the Bar... Wesley Hochachka PhD'90 is moving to Cornell University to take a research associate position as assistant director of Bird Population Studies at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology ... A month after graduation, Alexander D.C. Kask BA'97 moved to 28 Chronicle Gregg Saretsky Gregg A. Saretsky BSc'82, MBA'84 has been elected vice- president of marketing and planning by the board of directors of Alaska Airlines. A 13-year veteran of Canadian Airlines, Saretsky most recently served as vice president of passenger marketing, where he oversaw a range of marketing activities including pricing and yield management, advertising and promotions, product development, consumer relations and the carrier's frequent flyer program. Saretsky began his airline career with Canadian in 1985 as a route development planner. Through the years he held a series of positions of increasing responsibility with the carrier including director of pricing and yield management, director of Asia and Latin America marketing, vice president of strategy implementation, and vice president of airports. Saretsky is married with three children. Tokyo and spent the next five years working in media. He has since written three books: Tuttle Kanji Cards, Japanese for the Martial Arts, and Tuttle Kanji Cards 2. He is now back in Canada studying law at UBC ... Laurie Lawson MD'95 and Susan Melnychuk MFA'93 are proud to announce the birth of Thomas James in May, a playmate for Reggie ... Benoit LeBlanc MEng'95 is finishing his first year in medical school at Universite de Montreal after working as a technology strategy process engineer for Abitibi Consolidated Inc. in Toronto ... Don Mah BA'92, BEd'96 is dividing his time between teaching in Coquitlam and working for REUTERS news in Malaysia ... Eleanor (Wong) Miu BSc'91 and Kar C. Miu BCom'97, MBA'94 are happy to announce the birth of their son, Winston, in May ... Angela O'Connor MA'95 is in Australia studying for a PhD at the University of Queensland in Human Movement Studies. She studied at UBC in 1993 & '94 in the Centre for Cirriculum and Instruction. Contact her at: <angela@hms.uq.edu.au> ... John Omielan MSc'91 is a C++ M.S. Windows programmer for J.O.C. Consulting Inc., and also has a home-based business where he helps other people set up home- based businesses as a health food marketer... Mark Oulton BSc'91 just completed a Masters in Environmental Studies/Bachelor of Laws joint degree program at York University. He is now working at a law firm in Toronto for the rest of the summer and is getting married in May, 1999 ... Sophie (Gazetas) Peerless BSc'93, BEd'94 is an elementary teacher on the Queen Charlottes and had her firstborn in June ... Jodie (McJannet) Rogers BA'96 is teaching English in Tokyo ... After being called to the Bar in Ontario, Gregory Rose LLM'95 received a contract with the Privy Council to assist in the writing of the Somalia Commission's Final Report. He then joined the Proceeds of Crime Branch at RCMP HQ in Ottawa, working as a policy analyst and advisor... Dale Sapach BASc'90 and Jenine Gobbi BCom'90 were married in 1994 and have a six month old son named Julian. Dale works for Dynapro Systems and Jenine with McKinsey & Company in Seattle ... Andrea (Brocke) Seeley BSc'93 married Will Seeley BPE'93, BEd'94 in July, 1996. Will is teaching at Banting Middle School in Coquitlam, and Andrea is working at Authors Wanted A well-known New York subsidy book publisher is searching for manuscripts. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, juvenile, travel, scientific, specialized and even controversial subjects will be considered. If you have a book-length manuscript ready for publication (or are still working on it) and would like more information and a free 32-page booklet, please write: VAiJTAGE PRESS, Dept. DA-24 516 W #4th St., New York, NY 10001 I 1 Subscribe Now ... and give your mouse a treat That's right! For just $25 you can be sure to get the Chronicle on your doorstep regularly and get a genuine UBC Alumni mousepad. $15 for the sub, $10 for the pad. I have enclosed: Q $25 for the sub and the pad U $15 for the sub, keep the pad Name UBC degree(s), year Address Code ID# (from label) Phone: (h) fax e-mail □visa# □m/c# Expiry: (o). Qchequ Signature Please make cheque payable to the UBC Alumni Association and return to: 6251 Cecil Green Park Rd., Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1 Analytical Service Laboratories in Vancouver... Rosi van Meel BSc'90 and Michael van Meel BMus'91 are pleased to announce the birth of their third child, Emmalene Anne, on July 28, 1997, a sister for Gregory and Clara ... Jim Wanklin MD'94 and Diane Wanklin moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where Jim is an ER physician. They had their first child, Laura Elizabeth, on Feb. 11, 1998 ... Another announcement for Jana (Chu) Wong BSW'91 and husband Edward. Andrew Bill Wong was born on Dec. 8, 1997 ... Stanley Yuen BSc'91, BEd'95 married Sophia in March and is currently a teacher in Coquitlam. Chronicle 29 class acts In Memoriam Tong Louie 1914-1998 Tong Louie BSc'38, LLD'90 passed away in Vancouver on April 28,1998, He was chairman and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co., the family food distribution giant, chairman and CEO of the family-held London Drugs, and vice-chairman of IGA Canada. He was a generous philanthropist, donating to the Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, Vancouver Public Library, the VSO, several colleges and universities, Vancouver's hospitals, and the YMCA, to name a few. He was also very generous in his contributions to charities. In 1968, he was the first Chinese Canadian to be granted a membership to the Shaugnessy Golf and Country Club. Louie was a former UBC Alumni Association board member and received the Order of Canada in 1989. Adela S. Lintelmann 19 -1998 Adela Smith BA'20 was an early feminist role model. She established herself as a mathematician, scholar, and artist. She worked her way up at the New York stock exchange to become one ofthe first women stock brokers on Wall Street. But her true love was art Her art career spanned over seventy years. She became a trustee of the American Fine Arts Society and won many awards for her work. Ada contributed to scholarships and provided financial support to young artists. Harry Warren 1904-1998 Born in Anacortes, Washington, Or. Harry Warren BA'26, BASc'27, DSc(Hon)78 joined the UBC faculty in 1932 and was a teacher and researcher for 41 years. He completed MSc and DPhil degrees at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Harry was an outstanding athlete, representing Canada in 1928 as a member of the Olympic track team where he coached the women's relay team to a gold medal. He was a champion of field hockey, and organized teams at both University Hill School and UBC. He was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 for his lifetime contributions to coaching and to the support and encouragement of athletes. While at UBC he helped form cricket and rugby teams, played rugby and excelled at track and field, while maintaining top marks. In his spare time he acted with the UBC Players Club. Harry was a highly respected and popular geology teacher, and was a pioneer in biogeo- chemistry, which examines the relationship between surface elements of soil and plants and the mineral content of bedrock. He published many academic papers in the field. Harry and his family owned a mineral claim at Watson Bar, and he spent many joyful days in search ofthe motherlode. Among other honours, he received both the Order of Canada and the Order of BC. Harry had a long and productive life. He maintained his natural graciousness throughout, and never lost his sense of humour. He died on March 14, 1998 in Vancouver. Bill Reid 1920-1998 Bill Reid LLD'76 was associated with UBC for 40 years. He created the Haida village that now stands outside the Museum of Anthropology, and is credited with reviving traditional Haida carving and design. His other works include the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, a pair of 19 foot sculptures that stand in the Vancouver International Airport and at the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, and Raven and the First Men, also at MOA. He received nine honorary degrees from Canadian universities. His work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections all over the world. He was the first living artist to have his work displayed in the Musee de I'Homme in Paris, an exhibition celebrating the works of the world's foremost ethnologist, Claude Levi- Strauss. He received many awards, among them the Molson Award, Diplome d'Honneur for Services to the Arts, Ryerson Fellowship, Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts, Vancouver Lifetime Achievement Award, Freeman of the City of Vancouver, Royal Bank. Award, National Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award, Order of British Columbia, and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal. His spirit will remain in the hearts of the many young Haida carvers he has nurtured, an<J with his worldwide network of family, friends -y and admirers. A philanthropist, he donated many of his works to local causes. 30 Chronicle Robert M.P. Driscoll 1963-1998 Dr. Robert M.P. Driscoll, 35, died January 2, 1998, along with five others in a massive avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park while backcountry skiing. Robert graduated from UBC Medicine in May, 1990 and returned in 1996 to complete the one-year advanced family practice training program. While attending UBC, Robert was the recipient of more than a dozen scholarships for his strong academic achievement. As an undergraduate, Rob served as President of the Varsity Outdoor Club. He became the first Canadian to complete the French direct ascent of Alpamayo, a 5947m (19,500 ft) peak in Peru. Upon graduation, he practiced medicine throughout BC as a locum and spent two years working in Baffin Island. In 1997 Rob worked as the anesthesiologist at Nelson Hospital in Nelson, BC. Mabel Colbeck 1898-1998 Mabel Colbeck BA(Hon)'46, MA'48, was born in Uplawmoor, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She won a university bursary but had to take a job as a stenographer to help her family, whith whom she later emigrated to Niagara Falls. She travelled and studied on her own, working as a journalist and broadcaster. After Mabel received her master's at UBC, she worked with legendary professor Garnett Sedgewick. She earned her PhD at Toronto in 1955, and for twenty years she was regarded as one of the most dynamic and exciting English professors at UBC. As well as excelling as a teacher, Mabel gave years of sterling service to the Faculty Club and Vancouver Institute boards. Her family has generously opened a scholarship fund in Mabel's name. Interested contributors can contact the Develpoment Office at 822-8905. Sam Black 1913-1998 Sam Black died April 23, 1998. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1936. He served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers during WWII, attaining the rank of major and winning medals for bravery. He was an honorary lifetime member ofthe Canadian Society for Education through Art and a founding member of the International Society for Education Through Art. He received a Master Teacher Award and an honorary degree form UBC. As a teacher, he was considered inspirational. He arrived at UBC in 1958 and quickly established his reputation with his enthusiasm, creative energy and openness. He was one of Canada's outstanding artists. He was accomplished in watercolours, acrylics, oils, woodcuts and metal sculpture. His works are held in galleries around the world. In recent years, he continued to create works of art while living on Bowen Island. In Memoriam Allan Bate QC, LLB'50. BA'56 of Chemainus, Feb. 1, 1998 ... Rodney Beavan BA'39 of Nova Scotia, July 16,1997 ... Mills Forster Clarke BSc'35, MSA'37 of Nanaimo, Feb. 23, 1998 ... Harold Copp BASc'60. LLD'80 died on Mar. 17, 1998 in Vancouver. He received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1939 and his PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley in 1943. He was also assistant professor there until 1950 and then became head of the department for 30 years. In 1961, he discovered the hormone calcitonin, now used internationally to treat osteoporosis. Copp was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 1980 and in 1994 was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame... Sonia Craddock BA'72, MEd'76, EDD'82 of Vancouver, Nov. 1997 ... Paul Cronert BASc'69, MEng'70, of White Rock, BC, Mar. 10,1998 ... W. (John) S. Downton PhD'69 of Adelaide, Australia, Jan. 9, 1998 ... Lara Gilbert BSc'95 ofVancouver, Oct 7,1995 Braham (Grey) Griffith BA(Hon)'26, MA'28, Prof Emeritus, ofVancouver, died on April 12,1998 in a long-term care hospital. Braham also received an MF in Forest Soils from Harvard in 1930 and a PhD in Plant Physiology at the University of Washington in 1939. He worked for the Research Branch of the BC Forest Service from 1926-36. He began teaching at UBC part-time in 1937 and was full- time for 30 years from 1938/39... Gordon Heron BCom'38 ofVancouver... Bernard N. Laven, QC BA50, LLB'51 of Calgary, Mar. 17, 1998 ... Derek LePage LLB'52 of Nanaimo, BC, Jan. 16, 1998 ... James Earl Miltmore BSc 48, PhD'61 of Summerland, BC, Mar. 23,1998 ... John (Jack) D. Mitchell BASc'34 of Rossland, BC, Nov. 2, 1997 ... Dennis B. Owen LLB'51 of Collingwood, Ont, Mar. 25, 1998 ... Clarence (Sammy) Samis Prof Emeritus of Areola, Sask., died on March 8, 1998 at the age of 87. Samis taught Metallurgy at UBC for more than 30 years. He received his BSc and MSc from the University of Manitoba, and his PhD from University College in London, England. Samis received the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Alcan Award ... Christian B. Reid BA'32, DipEd'34 of Victoria, BC, Feb. 13, 1998 ... Joachin von Hahn BASC'59 of West Vancouver, Dec. 13,1997 ... Harold Douglas Whittle Prof Emertius. of Vancouver, Apr. 3,1998 WJ Wood BASc'50 John Woodcraft BASc'45 of Barrie, Ont, Sept. 1997 ... Geoffrey Gaston Woodward BA'30 of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 1, 1998 . • Chronicle 31 chronicle profiles Students Elana Brief, faculty of science It didn't take Elana Brief very long to decide what she wanted to do with her life. When she was seven, she knew she wanted to venture into the world of physics. And she stuck with that dream. Elana will graduate next September with a PhD in physics and astronomy "I've always been interested in physics because it teaches people to see beyond the visible," she says. "It uses technology as a way to see beyond what we normally see." Elana did her undergrad degree at York. She decided to go to UBC when she came out here in 1992 as a summer student and met physics and radiology Prof. Alex McKay. "My experience with him has been valuable on many levels," she explains. "He not only taught me to love physics, but also to have priorities outside of it and not make it your life. I knew I wanted to study with him." Since then Elana completed her master's in physics at UBC, received the Canadian Federation of University Women Award, University Grad Fellowship, and was one of 11 graduate students to win a graduate student teaching award from the Presidents' Office. "I'm very impressed by the faculty and grad students in physics here at UBC," she says. "They're passionate about physics, and about stuff outside of it. The students are involved in all sorts of things, from triathlons to protests to the Graduate Student Society. Almost all the Grad Society members are physics students." Elana's time in the classroom isn't devoted exclusively to physics. She's taken Education courses and a high-tech entrepre- neurship course taught by commerce Prof and Alumni Association President Haig Farris, which gave her "great experience in a field I knew nothing about." Elana is also active outside of the classroom: she was responsible for coordinating the first year of the Let's Talk Science program at UBC (see our Spring '98 issue). She plays the violin in a Klezmer band, which performs Eastern European Jewish Folk Music at venues anywhere from Citifest to bar mitzvahs. She also does triathlons and 10k runs ("the West Coast really inspired me to athletics"), works at the BC Advanced Systems Institute (BCASI), is on the Science World Committee for exhibits and programs, and has traveled extensively from Australia to Israel. Her practical experience has been rewarding as well. She's a TA for The Physics of Music, a course that integrates physics to music. "The course tries to change people's attitudes about physics, that it's not always 'hard.' We use accessible material such as charts, graphs and equations; things that are essential for living in a modern society," said Elana. She is also working with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at UBC hospital. A technique similar to that of a CAT scan, it allows the practitioner to look inside a body without physically touching it. "It is useful for drug trials to see if people are getting better before anything physically changes in the brain." She also deals with Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). "If a person had a tumour and there was no way to take a biopsy, you could use this method to see if it was malignant or benign." But for all that she does, she still has time to dabble in some extra terrestrial activity. Recently the X-Files props people got in touch with her at the hospital. They were looking for brain spectra to show a chemical which, when injected into the body, freezes every cell instantly. Such a chemical does not exist, so she gave them a brain spectrum of a completely healthy living person instead. It worked perfectly well. "They used the printout I gave them for one of their episodes," explains Elana, "I think they liked it because there were lots of lines and numbers all over it." For now, Elana will concentrate on graduating. For later, she would like to become a teacher, something that the graduate students' teaching award has inspired her to do. "That's the direction I want to go in. I like the idea of teaching physics. I would prefer smaller, more intimate classes, which means more discussion and inevitably leads to better understanding." Her love of science, however, goes beyond teaching. "I am very enthusiastic about science education in a broad sense," she says. "I love science centers, museums, places where people can play with science. It opens up a world for people seeing things in a different way. Being curator of a science museum is definitely in the picture." It sounds like she made the right choice to move here: "I've been here for three years, and have had a great time," she says enthusiastically. "UBC has given me the opportunity to explore things that I would not normally explore myself." e 32 Chronicle Kirsten Molstad, faculty of arts If anyone was destined to go to UBC, it was fourth-year political science student Kirsten Molstad. Not only did she live in Acadia Park until she was six, but both her parents went here. She grew up knowing the area and knowing the school; coming here was just a natural thing for her to do. Unlike her parents, a lawyer and a teacher, Kirsten is looking for more non-conventional career choices. A volunteer at heart, she devotes her spare time to the Canadian Diabetes Association, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Youth Rotary Club, and a mentorship program for disadvantaged children. At university, she is vice-president of the Political Science Students' Association, works in the School & College Liaison Office, and is a residence advisor at Place Vanier. "Having a lot to do makes me more organized," she explains. "It's motivating and I meet a lot of people." It's nothing new for her. Active since high school, Kirsten came to UBC with the attitude that she should cut down the activities and really concentrate on her schoolwork. "I quickly found out that instead of studying more, I wasn't doing anything. So I packed up my things, moved into residence, and became active. I met more people in my first week there than in my first year altogether." She has definitely taken advantage of living on campus. "UBC is very holistic," she says. "Anything you want to do, you can do it here." Her advising job is especially rewarding. "It's a very challenging experience," Kirsten explains. "You get to do fun stuff like organizing special events and career forums and not-so-fun stuff, like rule enforcement. But counselling is what keeps me there; it's something I am comfortable with and I enjoy talking to people and helping them solve their problems." One particular event that she thought "fantastic" was the UBC Alumni Association's Mentor Lunch, a program for students and mentors to get together and talk about life after graduation. "I think it was rewarding not only for the students, but for the mentors as well," says Kirsten. "It's a chance for them to help people. They showed us that it's okay to have a few different careers, and that you don't always have to be so focused on one area. I would definitely go again." As far as school goes, political science was not her first choice. She was originally going to major in English, but then took a couple of political science courses and was hooked. "I like to study how the government works—or doesn't work, for that matter," she says. Instructor Paul Tennant was a big influence too. "He knows everything about politics, not only in a theoretical sense, but a practical one as well," says Kirsten, "During election time, he lets us go to debates, parties, and nomination meetings. He makes us apply our knowledge, instead of just listening and regurgitating." Kirsten has taken her studies a little further: she has enrolled in VCCs nonprofit sector management certificate program. She hopes it will lead to a job in a non-profit organization or volunteer fundraising for a social service. After she graduates, she thinks she may come back for an MBA or a counselling degree. However, her broadmindedness has always been a factor and changing her mind is not uncommon. "When I was a kid, 1 wanted to do everything. Since then I have looked into literally every profession." Her choice of school didn't waver, though. "I've had an amazing experience here," Kirsten says in a serious tone. "A lot of people just go to university, get their degree, and get a job. I have tried to do a lot more than that. I feel it's the extra stuff I do that'll get me the job I want." e - Profiles by Shari Ackerman Stay in Touch Keep us up-to-date on where you are, what you're doing and who you're doing it with. We want to know, and so do your old classmates. Use another sheet of paper and send it in today! Name _ UBC degree(s), year. Address Code. Phone: (h) fax (o). e-mail New address? O yes Spouse's name . O no. UBC degree(s), year. Send your news one of these ways: Snail mail: 6251 Cecil Green Park Rd. 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Self-Counsel $15.95. If your dream job is to be paid to write about the beaches of Tahiti or the world's newest luxury cruise liner, read this book. The authors will show you how to get those free trips and your writing published. Excellent writer's guidelines. Mendel's Children by Cherie Smith BA'55, U of Calgary Press This is a personal story of a family's migration from Poland and Latvia to the Canadian prairie. It is an extraordinary book, filled with pain, laughter, determination, foolishness, strength and weakness: all the things that make us human. It's a reminder that we all have histories, and that passion isn't something we invented in our own generation. A House of Words by Norman Ravvin. McCill-Queen's, $15.95. Rawin, a UBC prof, looks at how Jewish history influences postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature. 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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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