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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
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The Tools to Finish the Job
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Every day, from the Peterborough Works of
Canadian General Electric Company, come
hundreds of synchronous, induction and
direct-current motors. These workhorses of
modern industry go into immediate action to
drive the machines that make guns, tanks,
shells, ships, planes, everything in whole or
part that adds up to victory.
Almost a sixth of a mile in length is the
huge machine shop at Peterborough Works.
As   one   walks   its   long   avenue   one   sees
precision machines, geared up to war-time
effort, building motors of every description, for
every purpose; generators for power companies;
equipment for steel mills; drives for mine hoists
... all means lror making "the tools to finish
the job."
For nearly half a century Canadian General
Electric engineers and craftsmen have been finding ways to make electricity more useful. Today,
they are applying electricity to the task of defending the benefits that it has helped to create.
G-E research saves the Canadian public hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
CANADIAN
GENERAL H ELECTRIC
Sydney • Halifax • St. John • Quebec • Sherbrooke • Montreal  • Ottawa • Noranda • Toronto • New Liskeard • Hamilton  • Sudbury • London
Windsor   •   Fort William   •   Winnipeg   •   Regina   ■   Saskatoon   •   Lethbridge   •   Edmonton   •   Calgary   •   Trail   •   Kelowna   •   Vancouver   •   Victoria Homecoming
Programme
in
Brock
Building
It's roundup time in Vancouver for graduates of the University of B. C.
On Friday, October 24 at 7 p.m., from all parts of Vancouver will come graduates, representing the earliest
graduating classes and the most recent for the Alumni Association annual meeting and dinner in the Brock Memorial
Building, above.
The function will launch the annual Homecoming program, and special guests of honor will be Lieutenant-
Governor and Mrs. W. C. Woodward.
Business and speeches will be abbreviated, motion pictures will be shown in the Brock theatre and later in the
evening there will be a dance.
Guests of honor will be Chancellor and Mrs. R. E. McKechnie, President and Mrs. L. S. Klinck, Mrs. F. F.
Wesbrook, Dean Dorothy Mawdsley, Dean and Mrs. Daniel Buchanan, Dean and Mrs. F. M. Clement, Dean and
Mrs. J. N. Finlayson, and Ted McBride, president of the Alma Mater Society.
The party will be informal and tickets, 85c per person, will be on sale at the door.
Undergraduates as well as grads will attend the dance and Dal Richards will provide a musical
background.
Athletes, undergraduate and alumni will meet on Saturday at a Big Block luncheon in the
Brock, before the big football game in the stadium when Varsity plays the Vancouver Grizzlies.
After the game, a special turkey dinner will be served in both Brock and the Caf. In the
Lt.-Gov. Woodward evening, traditional Theatre Night will be held. Players Club and Musical Society will contribute
to the program and there will be songs and skits by various campus organizations as well as grads.
There will be roll call for all years from the earliest. Afterwards an informal dance will be held in Brock Hall
with music by Sid Poulton's Varsity Band. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
U.B.C GRADS IN NAZI
PRISON CAMPS
ISABEL GUERNSEY
A well-known woman graduate, Mrs.
Tarrant Guernsey, the former Isabel
Russell is a prisoner of war in Germany. Mrs. Guernsey, who worked in the
geology department of U.B.C. before
she married a geologist from Rhodesia
was a victim of Nazi sea havoc.
She was aboard the now historic
ZamZam when it was sunk by a German raider in May. Mrs. Guernsey,
with the rest of the passengers was
taken to a women's concentration camp
at Liebenau, in south Germany. In September she was brought to Berlin with
other British women prisoners.
At the German capitol she is technically free and is living in a hotel on
150 marks or $60 a month provided by
the Canadian Government.
Mrs. Guernsey wrote a graphic story
for the last edition of the Chronicle
describing her life in South Africa.
She was on her way home there when
the ZamZam was torpedoed.
RALPH HENDERSON
One of U.B.C.'s most popular graduates, Ralph Henderson, known as
"Hunk" who graduated in '36 recently
made newspaper headlines.
Hunk joined the Royal Canadian
Air Force in June, 1940. In April of
this year he went overseas as a pilot
and from then until August was one
of the flyers whose bombs harassed
Germany and occupied Europe by
night.
In August he was shot down over
Germany and his friends spent anxious
days until he was reported safe, but a
prisoner of war.
"I am fine and healthy, uninjured
(luckily) and being treated quite
well," he has since written to his family-
"We are under the jurisdiction of
the German Air Force and in a chival
rous sort of way we are being treated
well. We get enough to eat alright.
Our own cooks do the cooking.
"I am with two Canadian officers
that I knew in Canada, we will remain
together. We can receive as many letters as are sent to us so write often."
KANE NAZI PRISONER
Lieut. George Kane, another U.B.C.
graduate is in a German concentration
camp.
George was reported missing after
the Dunkirk evacuation but he has
since been revealed to be a prisoner of
war. He was studying at the University
of London when war was declared and
joined an English unit.
Hugh Keenleyside, Arts '20, like Robertson,
holds the rank of Councellor in the Department. His most important duties are
those of Secretary of the Canadian Section
of the Permanent Joint Board of Defence.
OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS BUILDING THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
Looking Backward on U.B.C. in World War 1
I have just come in from a Saturday
afternoon drive through the University
grounds, where I have been watching
the hundreds of young undergraduates
taking their military training. The
years roll back and I sit musing of the
early days of the last war, when the
O.T.C. was born.
No funds, no uniforms, no parade-
grounds, except a cold, draughty, old
warehouse on Hamilton street, no orderly room (do I hear some "old
sweat" say "Thank the Lord!"), No
rifles, no armoury, no instructors except overworked officers from the permanent forces who co-operated by rendering their services after doing their
daily duties in the regular Army. However, "the splendid spirit of the cadets
and the untiring efforts of the officers"
welded the O.T.C. into an organization
that had "cause to be proud of its war
record, and had a tradition of hard
work and self-sacrifice."
I know that that same fine spirit is
being evidenced on our campus today.
Many of the old brigade have sons who
are receiving their training under the
vastly improved conditions that exist
today, and to us there is a thrill in realizing that from the small beginning
there has developed such an efficient
organization.
WAR HEROES
In looking over the "Record of Service," U.B.C. 1914-18, we find the
names of 697 members of the University or of the McGill Colleges of British
Columbia, and of these 78 laid down
their lives.
If we could only turn back the years
and stage this year's Homecoming
rugby game between the present stalwarts and those of twenty-five years
ago! Of course, it would be English
rugby, as the Canadian game had then
not even been considered on these far-
western shores.
Can.you see them now? Steve Plum-
mer, Lyall Fraser, John Anderson,
Gord Scott, Al Bickell, Art Lord, Ham-
ish Cameron, Pete Celle, Bill Dawe,
Merrill DesBrisay, George D ix o n,
"Dutch" Eckardt, "Skipper" Helme,
Jack Hoult, Blair Jardine, Harry Let-
son, Murray Meekison, and a host of
others.
Although the "Record of Service"
show that U. B. C. men were to be
found in all branches of the service,
most of the enlistments were in the
P.B.I. The Royal Flying Corps was in
its infancy, and it was only   in   the
By WILLIAM C. WILSON, Arts '16
latter years of the war that an opportunity was offered to young Canadians
to receive the necessary training in
Canada.
PRINCESS PATS
The first mass enlistment from our
institution comprised the group who in
the spring of 1915 left as re-inforee-
ments for the famous "Princess Pats"
(P.P.C.L.I.). There were about 30 in
all, and their leaving was the "raison
d'etre" for many rousing social functions held on the top floor of the "cow
barn,'' which at that time was the main
building of the University (McGill College), situated at the corner of Tenth
and Laurel. Many of them did not return, but of those who did even the
younger graduates may have heard of
"Eb" Crute of soccer fame, Gordon
"Irish" Craig (Mayor Telford's secretary), Lyall Fraser and Ralph Mac-
Pherson, past presidents of the Vancouver and New Westminster Boards
of Trade.
Other group enlistments were to the
Queen's University Battery later in
1915, and the Western Universities
Battalion in 1916.
Graduates of war years who are
again rendering service with the military services at the U.B.C. are "Johnny" MacLeod, "Dutch" Eckardt, Art
Lord and Gordon Scott.
The spiritual welfare of the people
of the province is being looked after
by many gentlemen who were active
in militia work on the campus and in
active service during the last war.
Some of those coming to mind are Sam
Galbraith, Joe Smeeton, Frank Buck
(not the one you see in the movies),
Bryce Wallace, "Walky" Walkin-
shaw, Bill Willan, Theo de .Pender,—
(the two latter are again on active
service as padres).
LETSON TO WASHINGTON
Harry Letson is another original who
has been active in militia work since
his cadet days at King Edward High
School and is now Canadian Military
Attache at Washington, D.C. Other
high ranking officers again in service
are Colonels Sherwood Lett and Noel
Lambert.
Further musings . . . Those delightful
midnight "waffle" sessions with Gord
A NOTHER U.B.C. man whose name is in
-**■ the headlines these war days is Harry
Letson, M.C., newly created a Brigadier,
Canadian military attache at Washington.
Brig. Letson was one of the earliest graduates of the university and later lectured
there as associate professor of mechanical
engineering. During World War I he joined
as a subaltern in the 196th Battalion Western University Corps and distinguished himself as an officer. He was awarded the Military Cross.
Since that time he has received his Ph. D.
at U. of London, been officer commanding,
U.B.C. O.T.C, a member of the Canadian
Bisley team and before his new appointment,
O.C. Vancouver defense area.
Scott, Jimmy Lawrence and Ian Gibson . . . bowling with those slickers
"Hoolet" Maxwell, Raymond . J3unn
and "Spot" Berry (U.B.C.'s first
Rhodes Scholar whose sudden death at
Oxford after the war shocked us all)
. . . those happy meetings at the Strand
Palace while on leave in London ....
the bill for broken beds received by
the Council after the annual Victoria
trip . . . the thrill of receiving, while
on active service, the news of being a
member of the first graduating class. . .
The memory of Sherwood Lett's capable work in drafting the original constitution for the Students' Council . . .
the many debates over the real meaning of our motto "Tuum Est" . . . the
return to university life of those who
had interrupted their studies for war
service . . . the many "poker" parties
after the gratuity payments arrived . .
The happy hours spent with that ra-
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See LOOKING BACKWARD THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
U.B.C. IN 1941 CARRIES ON
The gala atmosphere of dances and
football games once again will greet
alumni who come back to the U.B.C.
campus on Homecoming week-end, but
to everyone who knew this little world
before the shadow of war darkened
the green-elad campus the great change
which has taken place here will be
obvious. U.B.C. has entered upon its
third war-session.
Undergraduates have not shirked
from the added burden which war has
placed on their shoulders. Indeed, they
have welcomed the opportunity which
is theirs to do everything possible for
our country's victory. Men and women
alike have assumed assigned and voluntary tasks with growing intensity
from year to year.
WAR WORK
During the first war term in 1939 enlistment in the U.B.C. Contingent of
the C.O.T.C. more than tripled. Training was purely voluntary then. Canada did not fully realize the importance of the struggle she had entered.
Last year, however, universities
across Canada fell into step with the
government's increased war-effort and
compulsory military training for all
male students came into force. Over
1,500 men at U.B.C. paraded weekly in
either the C.O.T.C. or basic battalions
and climaxed their year's training by
attending a two-week army camp at
Nanaimo in May. Co-eds also did their
part by organizing into sewing and
knitting circles under the Women's
Undergraduate Society's direction and
joining first-aid classes.
Compulsory training for men is in
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full swing again this fall. Lois Nicholson, W.U.S. President, has enlarged
upon last year's war-work program for
co-eds and daily sessions are held in
the Red Cross knitting rooms in Brock
Hall. Every student is now doing his
or her bit towards the university war-
effort.
The newest building on the campus,
still under construction, stands as
mute evidence of the change which has
taken place in three short years. Built
by funds collected from the pay of CO.
T.C. cadets since 1928, the Armouries
will be officially opened next month.
SPORTS CUT
The increased amount of time which
undergraduates have to give to military and Red Cross work (men get six
hours compulsory training per week)
has necessitated the drastic cutting of
other extra-curricular activities. Sports
have been especially affected by the
war-effort.
Inter-collegiate sport has been abandoned by U.B.C. as at most other Canadian colleges. Even teams entered in
city leagues have had to discontinue.
Rugby and football have been the two
sports most seriously hit, although a
four-game Canadian football schedide
for this fall was approved by the Council on Physical Education and Athletics last week.
Basketball is now the only major
sport which has kept U.B.C. in the athletic spot-light. Last spring the Thun-
derbirds ended the most successful
season in history by winning the Canadian Senior A championship from Toronto, and prospects for another good
year look bright as the hoopers start
practises this week.
WARTIME PARTIES
Social events, too, have been restricted because of the war. Many formal
functions which in past years were
held downtown have been frowned upon as not befitting a university at this
time, but to make up for them students
have turned to informal parties in the
undergraduates' own building, Brock
Hall.
The Brock was officially opened in
February, 1940, and named as a memorial to Dean Reginald Brock and his
wife who were killed in an aeroplane
crash on September 27, 1935. Since
it opened, Brock Hall has become the
centre of student extra-curricular activity and is now the scene of women's
war work as well as the social rendezvous.
Despite all the changes and restrictions, however, the enrollment at U.B.
C. continues to increase, and this year
is greater than ever before. The university is doing more than just carrying on—it is going ahead.
Players Club to do
"Man Who Came To Dinner"
Players' Club Alumni are carrying
on in spite of war. Last spring, under
the direction of Garfield King, Elmer
Rice's unusual "Adding Machine" was
produced in the University Theatre
May 13 and 14.
It was hailed by dramatic critics as
one of the most polished amateur performances to be produced in the city,
with, beyond doubt the most original
and spectacular stage settings.
Appearing  in  the  production  were
Lorraine Johnston, Lacey Fisher, Mary
Moxon, E. R. Chamberlain, Esme Cayd-
zien, C. E. Taylor, J. W. B. Shore, Rodney Poisson, William Rose, Dave Macdonald, Cyrol Chave, Margaret Ecker,
Joan Wilson, Josephine Kennedy,
Elizabeth Norrie, Estelle Chave, Jean
Salter, Douglas Dawson, R. C. Harris.
This fall the Alumni Players will
bring "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to Vancouver for the first time.
The play is being cast and production
dates will be announced later.
Greek Letter Societies
Support Red Cross
$2000 FOR RED CROSS
Fraternities and sororities on the
campus staged a mammoth Red Cross
dance last year that netted the University's Red Cross campaign approximately $2,000. Sale of dance raffle
tickets formed a large portion of the
net proceeds.
The following night, a "mixer" was
held in Brock Hall, admission: one war
saving stamp. Proceeds, $125, was sent
to the War Savings Headquarters in
Ottawa. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
The Graduate Chronicle
A quarterly journal owned by and devoted to the interests of
The Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia.
EDITOR: Margaret Ecker
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Phyllis Nemetz, Janet Walker, Norman Hacking
Printed by Mitchell Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.
OCTOBER, 1941
EDITORIAL
There's some obscure tradition that the editor of a
publication such as the Chronicle should garnish his or her
concoction with an editorial.
It would seem however, in this case that that is unnecessary. The above head has merely been put in to fool you,
in case you are orthodox enough to want cream with your
coffee.
The editorial "we" (who includes divers individuals
who helped cook up this pamphlet at forty-five minutes
passed the eleventh hour) feel that the Chronicle should
be self-expressive.
On Page 1 you will find the Homecoming program,
proof that in spite of hell-let-loose the world over, university
graduates have cool enough heads and stable enough emotional balance to "Carry On," to borrow a term from the
propagandists. Letters from the branches and the short personal items are eloquent witnesses that graduates of the
University of B.C. are shouldering their way into the world's
limelight.
Should any one ask: "What are university men doing
for Canada's war effort?" the answer is in newspaper headlines every day. The pages of the Chronicle devoted to men
on active service are proof that U.B.C. 's sons aren 't willing
to smugly leave the protection of their homes and their
homeland to someone else.
On Active Service
By hundreds they've put on uniforms themselves, some
as privates, R.C.A.F. ground crew or craftsmen. The luckier
ones have commissions. Most of those whose names you read
there gave up brilliant futures, careers they liked because
they felt they were needed. The university trained man or
woman is intelligent enough to know that no matter what
their devotion to their civilian jobs or their homes, each
one must play his part in defending these institutions,
whether in uniform or civilian war service.
When the women's active services were formed, graduates of the University of B.C. were among its first recruits.
There arc gaps on these pages, men and women we
should have mentioned but didn't. The gaps are eloquent
too. They express the complete lack of interest many graduates show in their university and the other men and
women they worked and played with on the campus. It's
too much bother to them to even write a postcard to the
Chronicle telling what they or their friends are doing.
But, thanks to the Alumni executive and an industrious
band of workers, the Chronicle has come off the presses.
Thanks go to Janet Walker, to Phyllis Nemetz, to Norman
Hacking (all extremely busy people) for being willing to
give up precious bits of time in the making of this graduate
record.
After the annual meeting, there will be a new Chronicle
editor, thank goodness. Please give him or her your support
and co-operation if you want to see another issue of this
magazine that is our only link with a carefree past.
Tuum Est,
MARGARET ECKER.
Letter to the Editor
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—"Heartiest congratulations on
your last issue of the Graduate Chronicle. It is far superior
to anything the Alumni Association has previously produced, and I earnestly hope that you will be successful in
your plan to carry it on as a quarterly. Surely the U.B.C.
alumni are now numerous enough and loyal enough to support an alumni publication that will compare with the
handsome periodicals of other universities.
"As for myself, I am teaching English in the University
of Southern California and do some writing whenever I
can shake off the lassitude natural to a sub-tropical climate.
The record of my nefarious doings is included in the current
issue of 'Who's Who in America.' I wonder if I am the first
U.B.C. graduate to be admitted into that august volume?
"Best wishes for the continued success of the 'Graduate
Chronicle'."
LIONEL STEVENSON, Arts '22.
reasurer s
Report
During the 1940-41 Alumni Association year there has
been an increase in both the annual membership fees paid
and in the new life memberships paid.
In 1939-40 there were only 195 annual membership fees
paid, this was increased during the past year to 215. Needless to say there are a large number of alumni who have
paid one or more annual fees in previous years but have
been negligent in keeping up their yearly payments. Perhaps
they do not realize that they are granted a life membership
on the completion of ten consecutive years of membership.
Approximately six hundred members are delinquent in this
respect. If you are one, and wish to continue receiving the
Graduate Chronicle please fill out coupon in this issue with
your correct name, etc., and mail with one dollar to the
treasurer.
In 1939-40 twenty-seven people paid up their life memberships, and in 1940-41 thirty-one have paid life memberships to date. This brings the total life membership to 227.
The Alumni Association is growing gradually and
growing at a faster rate year by year. Correspondingly the
activities and services are increasing and improving. How
much we grow and what we accomplish depends largely
what assistance you give your executive both financially
and otherwise. Let's keep progressing.
B. A. ROBINSON, Treasurer.
WHAT ARE ALUMNI FEES USED FOR?
The Alumni fees are one dollar a year or ten dollars
for life membership. Yearly fees paid for ten years in
succession comprise life membership. On completion of life
membership a blue and gold membership card is issued.
These fees are used to defray Chronicle publication and
mailing costs together with organization expenses of stationary, membership records, etc., Homecoming and the
Alumni tea.
Fifty percent of all ten dollar life memberships are
set aside in a savings account to be used for bursaries,
emergencies or other items at the discretion of the membership.
Fees are augmented by profits from the annual Christmas dance and from sale of advertising space in the Chronicle. We can only do what we can finance, so please pay
your fees each year and save us expense of individually
billing your account. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
ALUMNI   IN   UNIFORM
MAJOR SHERWOOD LETT
ONE of the earliest graduates of the University of B.C., was recently appointed
brigade major of the 6th Infantry Brigade
overseas. He was first president of the Alma
Mater Society.
Graduates and undergraduates of the University of British Columbia have joined the
armed forces in ever-increasing numbers
during the last year.
At least 300 graduates are now believed to
be on active service, and their number is
increasing daily. Women graduates are joining the forces, too, with the establishment of
women's auxiliary units.
Casualties are inevitable, and as each new
name is added to those who have given their
lives for King and Country, more and more
graduates join up to replace those who have
made the supreme sacrifice.
The many friends of Pilot Officer Geoffrey
de Fylton Mackie of Vernon, were shocked
last February to learn that he had been
killed when his training plane crashed near
Belleville, Ont.
He graduated in May 1939, with second
class honors in English and history. He was
born at Vernon on April 5, 1919, where his
father is principal of the Vernon Preparatory
School.
While on the campus he was a member of
the Players' Club and belonged to Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity. He played inside three
for the 1939 English rugby team, and also
played badminton.
On March 21, Flying Officer Charles Peers
Davidson, 27-year-old son of Mrs. Campbell
Davidson and the late Dr. Campbell Davidson of Qualicum Beach, lost his life as the
result of air operations with the Royal Air
Force.
He received his early education at Shaw-
nigan Lake School, and graduated from the
U.B.C. in 1935. He was a member of Zeta
Psi Fraternity.
A more recent casualty was Pilot Officer
J. A. Quick of Squamish, who was killed in
an air accident overseas. He was 23, and
attended school at Squamish, before attending U.B.C. His father is superintendent of
the P.G.E. Railway.
Graduates throughout the province were
shocked to hear that Pilot Officer Ralph
Henderson, basketball star, was missing in
air operations over Germany, but were relieved to hear later that he is a prisoner of
war. He went to England in April, and was
serving as a navigator in the R.A.F. bomber
command.
CAPTAIN VICTOR ODLUM
CON of Major-Gneral Victor Odium, is
^ second-in-command of a Canadian engineers unit engaged in strengthening defenses at Gibraltar. Lieut. Nelson Odium is
attached to the armored division. Roger
Odium recently completed a special staff
course.
A quartette of sciencemen at R.C.A.F. headquarters consists of Squadron Leader Allan
Jones, Sc. '28; Fit. Lt. W. L. Inglis, Sc. '34;
Ron Hilton, Sc. '34, and George Anderson,
Sc. '31.
Geoffrey   Mackie,   Arts    '39,    prominent    in
Players' Club, was killed February 15,   in
Brandon, Man., when  his R.C.A.F. plane
crashed into the ice.
Sub-Lieutenant Ken Grant, one of the first
graduates from H.M.C.S. Royal Roads, is
now on convoy duty in the Atlantic.
Bill Calder, former basketball manager, is a
sub-lieutenant in training at Royal Roads.
Gerry Wood is also a sub-lieutenant R.C.
N.V.R.
Lieut. J. D. Cantelon has joined the Royal
Canadian   Ordnance   Corps   in   the   East,
after taking a course at Gordon Head.
Tommy Meredith, Arts '41, is at the officers'
school at Gordon Head.
Arnold   McGrath,   M.L.A.,   of   Cranbrook,   is
taking a course in air navigation at Rivers,
Man.
Roy  Eyre,  Commerce  '34,  has  been  in  the
administration   branch   of   the   R.C.A.F.,
since early in the war.
Frank Thorneloe transferred from the army
to the R.C.A.F., and subsequently won his
commission.
Gil Morrison is in training with the R.C.A.F.
Lieut.  J.   C. Harmer,  formerly  president of
Men's Athletics,  is now  attached  to  the
D.CO.R.'s. Lieut. Doug. Christie is an officer in the same regiment.
Flying Officer Leslie John Ward, who joined
the Royal Air Force in 1938, is reported to
have been interned in Eire after an aircraft accident.
Lloyd Hobden has a commission as lieutenant in the Rocky Mountain Rangers.
Major  William Murphy, who went overseas
with the Princess Pats early in the war,
and who returned to Vancouver to become
FLYING OFFICER JAMES SINCLAIR, M.P.
Has leave from  his parliamentary  duties,
and is now serving overseas.
Lawyers at War
A host of young lawyers, graduates of U.B.C,
are now serving in the armed forces. They
include Sub-Lieut. Stuart Lane, serving
overseas with the navy; Lieut. John Conway, on active service with the Seaforth
Highlanders; Lieut. Charlie Locke in the
R.C.A.; Archie Thompson, attached to the
judge-advocate-general's branch; Ronald
Howard in the R.C.A.F.; Lieut. Roy Morrison, attached to the Seaforths; Alex
Manson in the R.C.A.F.; Lieut. Ken Beck-
et, in training at Gordon Head, and Sub-
Lieut. Doug. Brown at Royal Roads. Bill
Campbell, articled as a law student, is In
the R.C.A.F.
John Harrison has completed his observer's
course in the R.C.A.F., and has been commissioned as a pilot officer.
brigade major, is now deputy assistant
quartermaster general of the 5th Armored
Division.
Esson Young is a lieutenant on coast defense
duty with the R.C.N.V.R.
John Cornish, former editor of the Ubyssey,
is in the Royal Canadian Army Medical
Corps, attached to the armored division.
Art Coulter, who joined the R.C.A.F. a year
ago, has his commission as a pilot officer.
Tom  Pallas  is   a  sergeant  observer  in  the
.  R.CA.F. He is now overseas.
Ed Kendall, former football star, was com
missioned as a pilot officer, after graduating as an air observer.
Sub-Lieutenant Harry Housser, who joined
the R.C.N.V.R. early in-1940, took a special
gunnery course in England, and was assigned for duty on H.M.S. King George V.
Doug. Patterson of Arts '36, formerly of the
B. C. Electric legal staff, is serving overseas as a pilot officer.
Flying Officer Dave Manners, who graduated THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
War Heroes
CHARLES P. DAVIDSON
GEOFFREY MACKIE
with honors in physics in '39, won considerable prominence in England for his part
in developing a two-channel ground-to-air
wireless transmitter.
One of the first U.B.C. women graduates to
go on active service is Kay Milligan, who
is in the W.A.A.F., Dorothy DeCew and
Marian Vance are also among the first
recruits.
Major Tom Brown is a member of the Irish
Fusiliers. His brother, Lieut. Malcolm
Brown, is taking a special course in the
East.
Major Donald Worthington, son of Aid. G.
H. Worthington, who is serving with the
D.C.O.R.'s, is believed to be one of the
youngest majors in the Canadian Army.
He is 27.
Andrew Nash   and   Geoffrey   Marples, who
graduated last May with honors in botany,
were both in the uniform of the R.C.A.F.
when they received their sheepskins. Both
took the radio technicians course at the
TJ.B.C. this summer. Nash was president
of the Artsmen's Undergraduate Society.
Marples is a native of Windermere.
John Garratt, former Ubyssey editor, is in
the Corps of Signals.
Hampton Gray, Arts '41, is a sub-lieutenant
in the fleet air arm.
Recent graduates and undergraduates now
serving in the R.C.A.F. include Duff An-
nand, Tommy Williams, Fred Smith, Graham Finlay, John McCutcheon, Jack Fil-
teau and Bill McKelvie. Jack West and
Jack Roberts are in the army. Ernie Tea-
gle, former regimental-sergeant-major of
the O.T.C, is now on active service. Lieut.
Leslie Pronger is in England. Bill West
recently graduated from Gordon Head and
is in the R.C.A.F.
Dick Farrington, former captain of the Canadian Rugby team, is in training as an
observer in the R.C.A.F. at Winnipeg.
Dr. Gordon Baker of the Metropolitan Health
Board, is now a surgeon-lieutenant in the
R.C.N.V.R., while his brother, Russell
Baker, of the city legal staff, is a sublieutenant in the same service.
Max Stewart has forsaken school teaching at
Chilliwack to join the regional control
branch of the R.C.A.F., as has Don Mac-
Tavish. Both were formerly outstanding on
track squads.
The first Chinese to receive a commission in
the Canadian Army is Lieut. Roger Cheng
of Vancouver. He graduated from McGill
University in engineering, but was a popular member of the U.B.C. contingent of
the C.O.T.C.
David Crawley and Noel Harrison are in the
School of Air Armaments, R.C.A.F., at
Mountain View, Ont.
Bus Ryan is a captain in the Irish Fusiliers
and Frank Rush is a lieutenant in the
same unit.
Bill Masterson has a commission in the
Canadian Scottish. Dick Wilson is in the
Seaforths.
Peter McTavish, Hugh Palmer and Wilf
Stokvis are sub-lieutenants in the R.C.N.
V.R. at Halifax.
Sandy Nash, president of the A.M.U.S. last
year, is overseas with the R.C.A.F., after
taking a wireless course. Hugh M. Ellis also
graduated in the R.C.A.F. radio course.
J. A. QUICK
Flying Officer Don Macdonald, Arts '34, is a
flying instructor on the prairies.
Johnnie McLean, Arts '31, of Vernon, is taking an officers' course at Gordon Head.
Barney Boe, husky football star, is a flying
instructor at Summerside, P.E.I.
John A. McGee of Bamfield, who graduated
in 1935, is serving overseas as a pilot officer.
Norman Depoe, who has been in the Royal
Canadian Corps of Signals since before the
war, is taking an officers' training course
at Brockville.
Major Bill Mathers is officer commanding
an O.T.C. camp for Canadians in England.
Jim  Asselstine  and  Walter  Friker,  both  of
Victoria, are in the R.C.A.F.
David L. Monroe, who graduated in mining
'36, is with the Royal Canadian Engineers.
Lyon Lightstone is attached to the Imperial
forces in England.
Lieut. P. R. Layard is holding down an important job overseas as A.D.C to Lieut.-
General McNaughton.
LOOKING BACKWARD
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diating personality, Dr. Wesbrook. . . .
the rapid-fire lectures of Mack Eastman . . . the exciting cartoons of
"Ernie" LeMessurier . . . the hustling
type of basketball of Percy South-
cott's day, when there was no penalty
for "body contact" . . . the broken-
field running of "Skipper" Helme . .
the morning we left for Army Service.
. . . the rousing welcome on return . . .
memories of comrades never to return. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
GRADS . . . FAR AND NEAR
Thomas McKeown, Arts '32, has been appointed to the British Ministry of Home
Security, holding the position of casualty
intelligence officer in the research and
experimental division of the ministry. He
is planning on conducting medical observations in connection with the results of
air raids.
Three U.B.C. grads were admitted to the
Bar in the annual ceremonies this year.
They were: David Kearns Petapiece,
Thomas Cullin Brown, and James McLean
Vance.
J. Laurence McHugh, Arts '36, is on staff of
Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, and
Lieutenant  in  Nanaimo  Scottish.
Ken Graham, Arts '33, is now connected
with the Dominion Forest Entomology
Laboratory  at Victoria.
Mrs. W. L. Attridge (nee Mildred 'Scotty'
Campbell, Arts '26), is now living in Midland, Ontario.
Gerald White, Aggie '40, is now training for
Royal Canadian Airforce at an eastern
centre.
Ken Jacob, Sc. '33, is convalescing in Jubilee Hospital Pavilion, at Victoria.
Cliff Carl, Arts '30, is in charge of Provincial
Museum, Victoria.
Wm. Tompkinson, Arts '37, is taking fishery
courses at University of Washington, and
working part time for International Pacific Salmon Commission.
G. Morley Neal, Arts '34, is finishing Ph.D.
work at University of Toronto, and teaching part  time.
Ottilie Boyd, Educ. '39, is teaching at East
Uclulet, V.I.
John V. Coleman, Arts '30, is Medical Officer
somewhere in England.
Mrs. J. U. Coleman (nee Sheila Tisdall),
Arts '31, is residing in Victoria with her
two small sons.
Dan Quayle, Arts '37, is conducting shell-fish
investigation at the Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B.C.
R. Earle Foerster, Arts '21, is Director Pacific
Biological Station, Nanaimo, B.C., since
July,  1940.
Bob Wellwood, Sc. '35, left Victoria in January to accept a teaching fellowship at the
University of North Carolina.
Mrs. Alan Walker (nee Mary McPhee), Nursing '30, has returned from Singapore with
her two young sons, to stay in Vancouver
for the duration.
Ted Hart, Arts '34, is a resident engineer of
the B.C. Electric in Victoria.
Edith Green, Arts '31, left the Victoria Public Library to take nursing in Montreal.
Walter M. Barss, Arts '37, is doing graduate
work in Physics.
Gwen Armstrong Clark, Arts '34, is the wife
of Professor Charles Clark.
Henry Hubert Clayton, Arts '35, has been a
graduate assistant in Physics.
Fred T. Fitch is doing graduate work.
Andrew Guthrie, Arts '34, received his Ph.D.
from Purdue in June, on "The Measure-
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Denis Wiffen Pearce, Arts '29, is a professor
of Chemistry at Purdue.
Ronald Neville Smith, Arts '31, received his
Ph.D. in June on "Nuclear reactions with
Alpha  Particles."
Cecil Kingsley Stedman, Arts '30, is a professor of Physics on the faculty of Purdue M.
Charles P. Brewer engaged in research in
Chemistry at McGill, has won a scholarship awarded by the National Research
Council of Canada.
Evan Fullerton, Arts '27, is minister at Vancouver  Heights  United  Church.
Henry Shaw, Arts '32, has returned from
Shanghai, where he has been with Henin-
son Produce Company for the past eight
years, through the thick of the "Chinese
Incident."
Cam Gorrie, Arts '36, who has been Y.M.C.A.
secretary at Windsor, Ont., has been transferred to Victoria, B.C.
Marnie Millar, Arts '38, has been appointed
to the Metropolitan Health Board.
Dorothy De Cew, Arts '32, was one of the
first Vancouver women to be appointed to
the Canadian Women's Air Force Auxiliary.
U.B.C. STAFF CHANGE
New appointees to the U.B.C. professorial
staff this year include John E. Liersch,
Forestry; Dr. A P. Maslowe, Philosophy;
Dorothy M. Mawdsley, Dean of Women;
C. B. Wood, Registrar; Louis A. McKay,
Classics; F. S. Harris and R. E. Langton,
Physics.
Miss Beth Abernathy (Arts '20) resigned
from her post of secretary to the President, a position which she had held for
the past four years, to marry Dr. L. S.
Klinck.
Evelyn C. McKay has been appointed to the
American committee on Statistics of the
Blind with headquarters, New York City.
Larry McKeeven, Science '30, is general engineer in charge of industrial application
and central station engineering, Canadian
General Electric, Peterboro.
S. Thomas Parker, Arts '31, is at Hobart
College, Geneva, N.Y., as instructor in mathematics.
Dr. David C. Murdoch, who was on the staff
of Yale University, is now in the mathematics department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
Don MacLean, Arts '29, who was teaching at
Lord Byng High, has leave of absence for
the duration and is a lieutenant in the
Seaforth  Highlanders,  in  England.
P. A. Frattinger, Science '33, is assistant inspector of materials on the British Purchasing Commission, New York City.
Zoe Browne-Clayton, Arts '36, and Nancy
Miles, Arts '34, have left B.C. and are living in Toronto. Zoe is on the advertising
staff of Eaton's Store.
Ailsa Braidwood, Arts '38, of Victoria, is
working at the Children's Aid Society
headquarters, Vancouver.
Jack Green, Arts '39, is doing naval training
in Halifax.
George Gregory, Arts '38, and Jim McDonald
were admitted to the B.C. Bar and Gregory is now under naval training at Royal
Roads, Victoria.
Art Chapman, of Victoria, is in Halifax.
Don Buchanan is doing postgraduate study
at Berkley University.
Frank Leacy, Arts '41, was awarded a fellowship at the University of Washington,
where he will lecture in economics and do
postgraduate work.
David Waddell, who received his M.A. in '41,
has completed four years research on moth
control in the Okanagan and is in Winnipeg as chemist for the National Defence
division of C.I.L.
Helen Parker, Arts '41, is in the department
of statistics, for the Dominion Government
in Ottawa.
Hazel Wright, Arts '38, is now an interior
decorator in New York.
Roger Bishop is instructing in England at
Victoria College.
James Colbert, Arts '38, in U.S.A., working
towards a Ph.D. in government.
Struan Robertson, Arts '39, professor of statistics, University of California, at Berkley.
Also working towards Ph.D.
Robert H. Lyons, Arts '39, has position with
CI.L. in Brownsburg, Quebec.
Harold Lyons, Arts '38—"Caught in the
Draft"—now Private H. E. Lyons, Tacoma,
Wash. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
Edith Green, Arts '31, former head of the
circulation department of the Victoria
Public Library, at present in training at
Royal Victoria Hospital, in Montreal..
Thomas Beeching, Ap.Sc, working with the
Canadian government in aircraft production.
Fred Hobson, Arts '37, R.C.A.F. instructor.
U.B.C. grads in the provincial library and
archives include: Willard Ireland, Arts '33,
archivist; John Lort, Arts '35, reference
librarian; Mary Harvey, Arts '32, and
Georgiana Wilson, Arts '38, cataloguing
department; Inez Mitchell, secretary in the
archives division.
Evelyn Carter, Arts '39, working with Children's Aid Society, in Vancouver, while
Isabel Sullivan is with the Victoria C.A.S.
Jean Bonnell, Arts '38, laboratory technician,
Royal Jubilee Hospital.
Anna Clarke, Arts '37 and sister, Eleanor,
Arts '40, both in teaching profession, the
latter at the Norfold Girls' School.
Jack Michell, Com. '38, with local O.I.L.
branch.
R. Bianco, of the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Co. staff, now working near Little Slave Lake. H. W. Smith, of the same
company, was recently transferred to
Kimberley.
Hugh P. Godard, Sc. '36, took Ph.D. in
Spring; now working for British Technical
Mission.
Herbert Fisher, in Montreal making research
studies at McGill, in chemistry.
Charles P. Brewer, Arts '38, working for Ph.
D. in Pulp and Paper Chemistry Department, Montreal.
Jack Davis, Sc. '39, two years Ph.D. work
completed in physical chemistry, Montreal.
Arthur M. Eastham, Arts '37 and Ken A.
West, Arts '37, both on National Research
scholarships in Montreal.
In the C.I.L. Research Division in Ontario
and Quebec are: Bernard Shipton, Arts
'37, Ron Heddle, Arts '39, and Jack Nair,
Sc. '40, at Beloeil, Quebec; Rupert Ross,
Sc. '37. Valleyfield, Que.; Jack Wilkinson,
Sc. '39, Nobel Ont.
Medicals in the East include: Arne Matheson, Arts '37; Jack Whitelaw, Arts '37;
Bill Arbuckle, Arts '37; George Walsh, Arts
'38; Ritchie Galpin, Arts '39; Elmer Jarnes
and Jack McLaren, both Arts '39.
John Light, Sc. '38, assistant superintendent
at McColl-Frontenac Gasoline Co., Montreal.
Ph.D. aspirants: Harold Herd, Arts '36, Cal.
Tech., chemistry; Frances M. Wright, Arts
'36; Stanford, chemistry; Charles Davenport, Sc. '38, M.I.T., chemistry; Fred T.
Titch, Arts '38, Purdue, chemistry; Bob
King, Aggie '38, in Indianna; Frank Stuart,
Arts '39, U. of Iowa, chemistry; Francis
Cook,  Arts  '37, U.  of  Toronto,  chemistry.
Agnes McDonald, with clay, gelatine and
plaster as her material, she is bringing to
life the features of men and women who
lived in British Columbia thousands of
year ago.
After graduating from U.B.C., she pub-
Grads Abroad
Laura S. Mowatt, Arts '25, now Mrs. S. Ker
Cooper, Federated Malay States. She is
doing confidential secretarial work at the
military H.Q. Mrs. Cooper, one of a number of Canadians to organize a Canadian
Association in Singapore, four years ago,
reports that the group is now busy entertaining and aiding the Canadian service
men stationed in the Orient.
Mrs. Malcolm Hardie (Marjorie Hobson) in
British  North  Borneo,  with her  husband.
Mrs. H. P. Bell-Irving (Nancy Symes) in
England, doing Red Cross work at No. 15
base hospital and driving a Y.M.C.A canteen.
Mrs. J. Ritchie Sandwell (Lillian Scott) in
Tasmania, with her husband, also a U.B.C
graduate. The former is trying to educate
the natives as to the advantages of central
heating and refrigeration while the latter
carries on as resident engineer in his late
father's plant.
lished several stories based on tribal tales
of the Shuswap Indians. Miss McDonald
returned to the city just over a year ago,
from London, where she studied under the
famous anthropologist, Miriam Tildesley,
for 20 years curator of the Royal College
of Surgeons. Early in March she began the
reconstruction of a skull found near Crescent Beach, of a Shell Mound Indian—a
race now extinct.
Dr. Allon Peebles, in 1935 appointed as technical advisor to the provincial government's illffated state health insurance
scheme, has been moved to Ottawa, where
he is now an executive director of the
Federal government's Unemployment Insurance Commission. Dr. Peebles has made
an exhaustive study of health and unemployment legislation in Europe.
James B. Brown, modest, quiet-spoken honours student in physics, was awarded the
Rhodes Scholarship for 1941. A brilliant
B.A. graduate of the physics department,
Brown worked towards his Masters degree,
doing research work in the field of electron
detraction. Prominent in the field of
boys' work, he was associated with the
Y.M.C.A., and at one time started in local
track meets. The entire graduating class
in Mechanical Engineering found employment in Canadian industry last spring.
Jean Anderson is working in Social Service
in Vancouver, where Virginia Galloway,
Arts '40, is a stenographer, and Isobel
Stott is also a social service worker.
Ed. Barton is teaching at Chilliwack, where
Carson McGuire, Arts '39, is principal.
Frances Humphrey is teaching at Stewart
Island and Pat Keatley in Cloverdale.
Phyllis McKeown is teaching in New
Westminster and Flora Swan in Rossland.
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Hugh Mann to Nancy Martin, Arts '41, in
Vancouver, October 10.
Woodburn Thompson to Cicely Holmes, Arts
'39, in Prince Rupert.
John R. C. Lort, Arts '35, to Elizabeth Faith
Elm, in Vancouver, December,  1940.
George F. Green, Ap. Sc. '36, to Barbara Miller, in Victoria, January, 1941. Residing
in the Capital.
John Bell, Arts 33 to Elizabeth Anderson
Samuel, of Edinburgh, in May. Both attended Teachers' College at Columbia
University, where the former has been
making psychiatric and sociological research studies.
Other recent weddings include those of R.
F. Ellison, T. R. Stanley, R. Bell, J. H. Armstrong, E. H. Gautschi, Jean Butarae, Amy
Atherton, Marion Younger and Garth
Waide.
Lieut. Richard Moss, R.N., to Celia Lucas,
Arts '33 in England, in March.
John Hampton to Irene Jenkins, Arts '40, in
Vancouver, in August.
Leonard Arthur Zink, Arts '40 to Joan Ros-
mee McTaggart Cowan, in North Vancouver, in April.
Edward David Wilkinson to Mary Helen
Arkell.
Colin Bruce Anderson to Eleanor Green in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in January.
Richard Aubrey Bright, C.E., to Barbara
Guthrie, in England, in December.
Walter Frederick Walker to Kathleen Muriel Noel, in Vancouver, in December.
Tong Louie to Geraldine More in Vancouver.
Rev. Archibald O. Morrison to Ruth Dunbar
McLennan, in Vancouver, in January.
Ronald Makepeace to Margaret Hay, in Vancouver, in January. They are residing in
Kimberley.
Arthur Evans to Audrey Munton, in Vancouver, in January. They are residing in
Trail.
John Kenneth Hentig to Irene Elizabeth
Wallace, in Vancouver, in March.
Gerald Stanley Denby to Aileene Ann Howard, in Vancouver, in March.
John Duncan Skeith to Jean Catherine
Whaley, in Vancouver,  in March.
Archer White to Priscilla Boyd, in September, in Vancouver.
Reginald Beaumont to Florence Troberg, in
Dawson, in December '40.
Philip John Farmer to Berniece Eileen Gilbert, in St. Catharine's, Ont., in December,
1940.
Ian McQueen to Jean Crickmay, in Vancouver, in December, 1940.
James C. Page, B. Arch, to Dorothy Mae
Hume, in New Westminster, in December.
Ewald Swan Goranson to Margaret Elizabeth Jane Humble, in Vancouver, in December, 1940.
Lloyd E. Short to Ruth Cheeseman in Hawaii, on December 25, 1940. They are residing in Honolulu.
William George Dixon to Dorothy Marguer- 10
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MARRIAGES
(Continued)
ite Harkness, in Vancouver, in December,
1940.
Paul W. Clement to Elma Newcomb, in Vancouver,  in  December.   They  are  now  residing in Calgary.
Thurb Cushing to Honor Vincent,  Arts '40,
in Kamloops, in September.
J. Z. Hall to Carmen Planta, in Vancouver.
Andrew Mason Elliott to Dorothy McDonald,
in Vancouver, in April.
Harry Barratt to Margaret Maud Thomson.
Patrick  C.  Love, Sc.  '38   to   Betty   Almeda
Jones, in Montreal, in June.  They are now
residing in Arvida, P.Q.
Norman Bell  to  Catherine Maty   Scott,   in
Montreal,  in  July.   They  are  residing  in
Arvida, P.Q.
James R. Pollock to Mildred   (Billee)    Lynn,
in Vancouver, in June.
Sub.-Lieut. Roger Thompson Hager to Helen
Marie Crosby in Vancouver, in July.
Gordon Bishop Murphy to Kathleen Blanche
Merritt.
Hugh Gladstone Mackenzie to Norah Patricia Carey, Arts '42.
LAC Donald H.  Clark, R.C.A.F., to Pauline
Field, ex-Arts '43, in Vancouver, in August.
They are now residing in P.E.I.
LAC Eric Lally Kenny, R.C.A.F., to Josephine
Mahalah  Wood.
Donald Grant Mcintosh, Sc. '40, to Elizabeth
Maude    McCormack,    in    Vancouver,.  in
August.
Alan Staniforth to Phyllis Louise Starck, in
Vancouver,  in  August.
George   Firth   Singer   to    Barbara   Roberta
Mary Jones, in Vancouver, in August.
Russell Kemp  Baker  to  Marion  Bailey,   in
Vancouver, in August.
Pte.  John  Wilbert  Marlin  McDonald,    Edmonton    Fusiliers,    to   Margaret    LiUooet
Biggs, in Vancouver, in August.
Dr. Lawrence Edward Ranta to Pauline Kav-
tharine McMartin, in Vancouver, in August.
John  Murdoch  Maclachlan  to   Ann   Oliver
McLure, in Hatzic, in August.
Wilfred   C.   Pendray   to   Margaret   Deas,   in
Vancouver, in August.
Clarke Fillmore to Ethel Josephine McLach-
lan, in Vancouver, in August.
William  A.  M.  McLaren  to  Gladys   Evelyn
McMichael, Arts '41, in Vancouver, in August.
Lieut.    Rodney    Beavan    to    June    Dickens
Sweeting, in Esquimalt, in June.
William H. McLachlan to Margaret Hall, in
Vancouver, in June.
John   Edwards   Milburn   to   Helen  Margaret
Trant, in Vancouver, in June.
Albert Gilmore Dunn to Wilhelmina Maxine
Morris, in Chilliwack, in June.
John Harold Stevenson to Alice Daniels,   in
New Westminster, in June.
Clarence  Idyll  to  Marion  Daniels,  in   New
Westminster, in June.
John   Carson  McGuire,   Arts   '39,   to   Hazel
Professor F. G. C. Wood, connected with the
English department since 1915, became one
of 11 outstanding Canadians awarded the
Canadian Drama Award for 1941. Given
annually for outstanding services in the
cause of drama in Canada, the recognition
came to Professor Wood for his work with
the University Players Club, and his extension department lectures in drama and
playwriting.
Irene Hodgson, in Chilliwack, in June.
John Harrison Radcliffe to Agnes Margaret
Gwyn, Arts '39, in Duncan, in June.
Wilson J. Mackin to Josslyn Patricia (Jackie)
Ellis, in Vancouver, in June.
Kenneth Ballentine MacKinnon to Beatrice
Beryl Weeks, in Vancouver, in July.
Stanley Bailey to Hilda Gibbon in Langley
Prairie, in July.
William  Millar   McGill  to   Margaret   Ruth
Purves, in Victoria, in July.
James   Alexander   Campbell   to   Jean   Mary
MacKenzie, in Vancouver, in June.
Hugh Angus Elliott to Marion Grant, in Vancouver, in July.
Lieut. Carleton Campbell Covernton, R.C.A.
M.C, to Elizabeth Grant Bingay, in Vancouver, in May.
John Andrew Newson to Verna Birmingham,
in  Vancouver,  in May.
Charles Caithness Watson to Elizabeth Mary
(Beth)  Boyd, in Vancouver, in May.
Roy Alexander Phillips to Barbara Lee Avis,
Arts '40, in Peterborough, in May.
Robert Tillman to Frances Geddes Montgomery, in Vancouver, in May. They are
residing in Morningside, Alta.
Sidney Herbert Call to Doris Muriel Salter,
in Vancouver, in May.
Arnold Douglas to Marian Jacob, in Edmonton in May.
Gordon Y. Wyness to Alison Reid, in Vancouver, in May.
Thomas E. Griffin to Helen Wodehouse Gray,
Arts '38, in Vancouver, in June.
Ralph Killam to Yvonne Ladner, in Vancouver, in June.
Sgt. Obs. Frederick Smith to Pauline Scott,
Arts '40, in Vancouver, in June.
Wallace Thornton Husband to Jean Doro-
thia Gibb, in Vancouver, in June.
Thomas George Wright to Virginia Frances
Cummings,  in  Vancouver,  in  September.
Gordon Russell Keillor, Sc. '41, to Merrily
Webster, in Montreal, in September.
P.O. Robert Haywood to Catherine Wilks, in
Gait in September.
Robert P. apRoberts, Arts '39, to Ruth Heyer,
Arts '41.
Dr. Kirk A. Oviatt to Donna A. Leitch, in
Vancouver, in September.
Lt. Gordon Appelbe Smith to Marion Fleming, Arts '40, in Vancouver, in September,
They   are  now  residing  in  Winnipeg.
James Gordon Retallack to Grace Eleanor
Bunnell, in Ottawa, in September.
George Morice Henderson to Mary Elizabeth Nicholson, in Toronto, in September.
Hugh Alexander Mann to Nancy Martin,
Arts '41, in Vancouver, in October.
Alfred Kitchen, Arts '39, to Freda Bastin,
in Vancouver, in October, '41.
Michael Pollard to Elizabeth Cain, on October 20, in Vancouver.
Gordon Mathias to Odetta Hicks, M.A., '41,
in Vancouver, on Nov. 5.
Duncan James Clark, R.C.A.F., to Barbara
Ellen  Mary  Brown.
Gordon Herbert Samis to Sally Fuller, in
Vancouver.
John R. Harrison, R.C.A.F., to Peggy Reid, in
Winnipeg, in July.
Lawrence Easterbrook Machin to Valetta
Beatrice (Betty) Morris, in April, in Honolulu.
William E. H. Moore, to Amuri Johnson, in
Toronto, in April.
Frederick Andrew McMeans to Elinor Marion Sutherland, in Vancouver, in April.
George Brodie Gillies to Jayne Nimmons, in
Vancouver,  in April.
John E. Bell to Elizabeth A. Samuel, in New
York.
Galvin Hutchinson to Helen Frances Trapp,
in Toronto.
Don Allardyce to Ethel Eaton, Arts '40, in
April, in Vancouver.
Lt. Bruce Tillman Hemphill, U.S. Marine
Corps, to Patricia Harvey, in Vancouver,
in January.
John Lort to Faith Elizabeth Elm, of Sumner, Wash., in Vancouver, in December.
Alfred Kitchen to Freda Bastin, in October,
in Vancouver.
Shirley Hayward Mackinnon to Kathleen
Mary Crosby, in Chicago, in September.
Ben Stevenson to Phyllis McKean, in September, in Vancouver.
Norman Bell to Catherine Scott, in Montreal, in August.
Dr. Kirk Abernethy Oviatt to Donna Leitch,
in September, in Vancouver.
William Stevens Tonkin to Mary McCleery.
Russell Baker to Marion Bailey, in August,
in Vancouver. THE     GRADUATE     CHRONICLE
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MARRIAGES
(Continued)
Milton Owen to Marion Reid, in Vancouver,
in July.
Ross  Lundy  Robinson  to   Frances   Roe,   of
Winnipeg.
Sub.-Lt. Harry Housser to Lousie Farris.
LAC  John  Lincoln Ratz, R.C.A.F.,  to Edith
May  Gray.
John Brynelsen to Kay Stewart, in West
Vancouver, in August.
Howard Kemper to Janet Knowles, in Toronto,  in August.
William    Hodgson    to   Margaret   Evans,   in
August, in Edmonton.
Maxwell Frost to Jean Lowery, in Montreal
in  December.
George Weld to Marjorie Manson, in Vancouver.
Thomas  Evans Lougheed to Frances Grant,
in  Vancouver, in  April.
Frederick Andrew McMeans to Elinor Sutherland, in Vancouver, in April.
Richard Stacey to Dorothy Hudson, in Vancouver, in May.
John Gilmore McLellan to Margaret Winni-
fred Diamond, in Vancouver, in May.
William Arthur Dayton to Margaret Maude
Atkinson,  in Toronto,  in May.
William Royce Butler, Arts '37, to Jean Mac-
Lauren, Arts '38, September 6, in Victoria.
Living in Vancouver.
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Mrs. John H. Hennie, the former Marjorie
Fallows, who graduated from University
in 1918, died in St. Anne de Bellevue, Que.,
following an accident. She was the wife
of Dr. Mennie, one of U.B.C.'s first Rhodes
Scholars. He has been lecturing at McGill
and at Dalhousie University.
University circles mourned the death last
year of Mrs. F. M. Clement, wife of Dean
Clement. A prominent member of the faculty of women's clubs, Mrs. Clement was
a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
Kenneth Wing Yip, B.A.Sc, '35, succumbed
from fever while directing operations for
the Kukong Industrial Co-operative last
year, while serving his native country,
China, in its war against the aggressor.
First U.B.C. graduate to lay down his life
in the service of China, he took his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in
1935.
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BIRTHS
In the Department of External Affairs:
Norman Robertson. Arts '23, since January,
has been Acting Under-Secretary of State
for External Affairs. Referring to Robertson, Prime Minister King recently commented, in an address to the House of
Commons, "I congratulate his university
on having sent to the public service of
Canada one who lends distinction to the
university as well as to himself."
Class of '41
Bill Grand is a photographer on the News
Herald, where Pierre Berton is city editor,
and Thelma Wyles is a reporter. W^ally
Gillespie is at the Sun.
Connie Fairleigh is training in St. Paul's
Hospital.
Ray Foster is on the staff of the University,
in the botany department.
Tom Collins is assisting in the Physics department, and Ernest Harvey is assisting
in the Commerce department.
Derek McDermot, a bass baritone, is training as a concert singer and is giving a
recital  soon.
Kay McKay is working in the Vancouver
Public   Library.
Verna MacKenzie is studying for her M.A. at
the University of Indiana, and reports a
wonderful time.
Ellis McLeod and Margot Burgess are working at Boeings, as are Ed. Barrie and Jack
Crawford, in a slightly different capacity.
Sandy Nash is in the Air Force and has gone
overseas.
Charlie Parker is working in Montreal, anc
Walter Nichols in Hamilton. Buss Keillor
and Jack Gillies are also in Montreal, besides several graduates of other years, ejg.
Art  Eastham.
Bill Wallace is working for Imperial Oil in
loco, and Herb Kelland is working at Boeings. Garth Wade is working in the East
along  with  Reg.  Haskins.
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To the Maynard Atkinsons (Nancy Housser)
on October 5, a boy.
To Phyllis M. Alexander (nee Campbell)
September 9, a girl.
To the Charles Jordon-Knox' (Ruth Hutchinson) June 24, a son.
To Dr. and Mrs. Norman Foster (Ethel Rol-
ston) August 19, a son, at High River, Alta.
To Dr.  and Mrs. M. W.  Smith   (nee Verna
Lucas, Arts '28) a third son in October in
St. Stephen, N.B.
To Dr. and Mrs. Cliff Carl  (nee Babs Hart,
Arts '29, a daughter in May, 1940 in Duncan, B.C.
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.   (Jack)   Gregson,  a
son in September in Kamloops.
To Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Livesay, Arts '33 (nee
Adelia Thurber) a daughter in January in
Victoria.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gregson, Arts '34, a
son, John Arthur, in September 1939.
To Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Gibb  (nee Marjorie
Dimock,  Arts  '26)   a  son,  John  David,  in
April 1940.
To Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gurney, Arts '38, a
son, Donald Franklin, in January  1940.
To   Mr.   and   Mrs.   Lester   Young    (Marjorie
Young) a daughter in Vancouver in October.
To Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Knowles, Arts '31  (nee
Marion A. Hanes, Arts '32)  a daughter in
Trail in November 1940.
To Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McMaster, Arts  '34
(nee   Eleanor  Leith)   a   daughter,   Beverly
Ann, in Vancouver in March.
To  Mr.  and Mrs.  S.  T.   (Bob)   Fraser   (nee
Alice Goepel)  a daughter in Vancouver in
August.
To Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy Phillips (nee Helen
Braidwood)   a   daughter   in  Vancouver   in
March.
To Mr. and Mrs. George M. Ledingham (nee
Muriel  Harvie)   a  daughter  in  Vancouver
in March.
To Mr. and Mrs. John Mooney   (Alice Bell,
Arts '3D  a son, December, 1940.
Japanese Grads
Japanese graduates of the University have active Alumni Associations all
their own with a long and imposing
list of members.
Formed under the able guidance of
Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki (Arts "25), the
association was under the direction of
Dr. E. C. Banno through the year
1940-41.
Their annual publication, "Japanese
Alumni Directory," contains a full list
of members, and their addresses, along
with the degrees granted them by the
University. 12
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The capital city has now become the headquarters for dozens of U.B.C graduates, who
have taken up posts in the engineering,
trade, and war departments of the Canadian
Government.
A visit to Ottawa, February 27, by President L. S. Klinck, occasioned an alumni
gathering at the Chateau Laurier, arranged
by Mrs. Phyllis Turner, Arts '25, and Dr.
A. E. Richards.
Among recent Ottawa newcomers to welcome the president, were Dr. Allon Peebles,
executive director of the Unemployment
Insurance Commission and Dr. Walter Cou-
per, of the staff of the International Labour
Office, now on loan to the Department of
Labour.
Ronnie Graham, Sc. '34, electrical engineer
in the Department of National Defense.
J. E. Craster, Sc. '30, with the inspection
division of the U. K. Technical Mission.
The Department of Munitions and Supply
has drawn in a number of U.B.C. alumni
to cope with the rising tide of war orders.
John Logan, Arts '37, was one of the first
to join this department, which also includes Sheila Gibbs, Com. '39 and Jean
McGeochy,   Arts   '30.   Betty   McCallum   is
on the staff of the Department of National
Defense, along with Margaret Miller.
Alan Gill, Arts '24, listed as Assistant Director General in the Munitions Branch of
the Dept. of M. and S.
Jim Beveridge, Arts '38, has a hand in the
Canada Carries On films, with the Government Motion Picture Bureau.
George Luxton, Arts '34, Com. '39, member
of research staff of the Bank of Canada.
(Recent father.)
Alfred Rive, Arts '21, now serves as First
Secretary of the Department and continues as Acting Canadian Member of the
Governing Body of the International Labour Organization.
James Gibson, Arts '31, third secretary in
the Department and, for the past year and
a half, a member of Mackenzie King's
personal staff.
Hideo Iwasaki, Com. '38, on the Chancellery
staff of the Japanese Legation in Ottawa.
Doris McDermott, Arts '38, recent addition
to the Department of National Revenue.
Dr. Hugh Morrison, Arts '30, on leave of
absence from Vancouver Normal School to
serve as Assistant Editor of courses for
Canadian Legion Educational Services in
Ottawa.
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