THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA GRADUATE CHRONICLE Published by The Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia Editor: Helen Crawford Assistant Editor: Geraldine Whitalcer TO OUR ALMA MATER EDITORIAL /"\N the shoulders of the Editorial Board for this year has fallen the heavy task of compiling a Chronicle worthy of this twenty- first year in the history of our own University. No one realizes more clearly how far we are from our ideal of an excellent publication, but we trust that the very real value of The Chronicle to the Alumni Association will far outweigh the deficiencies which are so apparent. Despite the fact that last year's editorial carried a fervent appeal that news articles and personals would be forthcoming to make this Chronicle outstanding, we are faced with the usual dearth of material. However, good and faithful friends rallied to the cause and, for weal or for woe, we place the results in your hands. The Association this year has taken a stride forward in drawing up a Constitution, temporary as yet, which allows for the formation of branches. The success of this move will be apparent in the branch reports—would that more had been sent in!—and in the list of branches with the names of presidents and secretaries which we thought advisable to include. Graduate societies, too, carrying on the traditions of undergraduate days, were deemed well worthy of a place. The thanks of the Board goes to Miss Helen Boutilier of the Graduate Historical Society, Mrs. H. F. Angus of the Graduate Letters Club, Dr. Harry Warren of the Players' Club Alumni, Miss Flo Foellmer of the Alumni Studio Club, and to Miss Margaret Dick of the Social Service Club, for the excellent reports which they so willingly contributed. To Mr. Larsen we tender our heartiest thanks for his helpful co-operation with the article on the history of the University. Mr. Larsen placed at our disposal the proofs of the essay on the History of the University which is being prepared for publication under his guidance, in commemmoration of the occasion. Last, but not least, we wish to thank Miss Beth Abernethy for the advice and information which have been so cheerfully put at the disposal of a harassed and sometimes importunate editor. To our Alma Mater on the event of its "coming of age", the Alumni Association sends warmest greetings, and pledges itself anew in friendship and unswerving loyalty. °3€?° Hour THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Honorary President: Leonard S. Klinck, Esq., M.S.A., D.Sc, LL.D., Officier de l'lnstruction Publique. President: Vice-President: John N. Burnett, Esq., B.A. Miss Dorothy McRae, B.A. Recording Secretary: Milton Owen, Esq., B.A. Records Secretary: Treasurer: Miss Elizabeth Abernethy, B.A. Lex. 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GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Fivi THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (This is a reprint of the Essay on the History of the University, of British Columbia, prepared by a committee under the guidance of Mr. Larsen and printed here with the permission of Mr. Larsen ) THE idea that British Columbia should have a university of its own was first officially recognized in 18//. in that year John Jessop, Provincial Superintendent of Education, declared in his annual report that a university would speedily become a necessity if the young men and women ol British Columbia were to be "luily prepared for the various avocations of youth without going to other provinces and countries for the purpose of graduating in arts, law, and science' . Sinee the province at that date had a white population of less than 25,1100, it is not surprising that Mr. Jessop's declaration met with no response lor a very long time. At last, in 1890, the Legislature passed a University Act; but this, too, came to nothing. In order, however, that the young people of the province might be able to obtain some at least of the benefits of a college education, the high schools of Vancouver and Victoria were, in 1898, affiliated with McGill University. This arrangement provided that the first year work of the latter institution in Arts might be taken in British Columbia, in 1906 a lurther step was taken. The province granted letters of incorporation to the Royal Institution ior the Advancement of Learning, a local board whose task was the supervision of the McGill University College of British Columbia. This College, during the years from 1907 to 1915 enabled several hundred young men and women to enjoy some of the advantages of a higher education, which might otherwise have been denied them. At first they w-ere permitted to take two years of the Arts course or one year in Applied Science for credit at McGill; but before the end of the period named an additional year's work in each course was made available. In 1907 Victoria College, which had been aftiiliated with McGill since 1902 also came under the Royal Institution and then extended its one year of work in Arts to two. In the meantime interest in the idea of a Provincial University was growing. In 1907 an Act was passed endowing the University with two million acres of Crown lands ; and in the following year a new University Act was passed, repealing the old Act of 1890 and establishing and incorporating the University of British Columbia. Early in 1910 the Government appointed a group of distinguished educationalists from outside the province to consider the vexed question of a site for the new University. This commission spent the summer in touring the province and weighing the merits and claims of various proposed locations. In the autumn they submitted a report recommending the present site at Point Grey as the most suitable. In 1912 the Government called for competitive plans ior the buildings, and a Committee of Assessors selected those submitted by the present University architects. In the same year the first Convocation of the University elected as Chancellor the late Mr. F. L. Carter-Cotton, who had been acting as Chancellor of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Convocation also elected fifteen members to the first Senate. In 1913 a President was appointed by the Government, in the person of the late Dr. F. F. Wesbrook, a distinguished Canadian, whose brilliant work in Public Health and Bacteriology had earned for him the Deanship of the College of Medicine and Surgery in the University of Minnesota. The Government also appointed the first Board of Governors and three members of the new Senate. In the same year a Consulting Commission, consisting of a landscape architect, a consulting architect, and an engineer, was appointed to act in co-operation with the University architects for the purpose of examining and reporting "upon the general design for the University". The plans drawn up by them have been followed in the main in all subsequent work on the site. Steps were also taken to create tiu nucleus of a faculty and staff. Clearing operations W"ere undertaken at the site, and in 1914 work was begun on the Science Building. But the outbreak of the World War put a stop to the ambitious plans for building and development at Point Grey. It was not considered wise to proceed with these at the moment, and the monies which had been appropriated for the purpose reverted to the Provincial Treasury. But so imperative was the need for a Provincial University that, in spite of scanty funds, the University of British Columbia at last opened its doors as an independent institution on September 30, 1915. It was housed on the Fairview property of the Vancouver General Hospital in buildings which had been used by McGill University College since 1912 and which the University was to occupy longer than it anticipated. The College now automatically went out of existence, but its students and staff formed a sound nucleus for the new institution. Of the "originals" of 1915 two now hold the rank of Emeritus Professor and almost a dozen are still in service. Before the University began instruction there had been five years of careful planning Six THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA and preparation by the Government. And Dr. Wesbrook had spared no effort to see that the foundations for a seat of higher learning were well and truly laid. The World War checked most of his projects. From 1915 to 1918 the University carried on with a small budget, a bare nucleus of staff, and a student body almost entirely depleted of men, because of the war. Then, just before the Armistice, Dr. Wesbrook died, like Moses, permitted only to gaze into the promised land. He was succeeded by Dr. L. S. Klinck, the first Dean of Agriculture, who had been his right-hand man during his last illness, and who has ever since directed the institution. In the same year the University lost its first Chancellor, Mr. F. L. Carter-Cotton. He was succeeded by Dr. R. E. McKechnie, who is still in office. In spite of cramped quarters and inadequate equipment, the standard of work was high from the very beginning. The desire that the standard set should match those of other universities did not, however, lead to slavish imitation. An example of this independence was the requirement that students intending to enter Applied Science should take First Year Arts or its equivalent—a requirement setting a precedent in Canada. And the University was the first in Canada to accept Matriculation without Latin. The temporary buildings in Fairview soon proved utterly inadequate for the University's rapidly growing needs. The enrolment increased from 379 in 1915 to 1451 in 1925; but it had become evident even before this last date that the institution could not long continue to carry on its work in Fairview. In 1920 hope was aroused that the Government might be contemplating a removal to the site in Point Grey. In that year the two million acres which had been granted as an endowment in 1907 were surrendered by the University in exchange for a tract of some three thousand acres immediately adjoining the site and lying between it and the City of Vancouver. But apparently there was no intention of moving the University to its site. Then in 1922 the students of the institution, exasperated by what seemed to them intolerable conditions, organized a publicity campaign on a vast scale, for the purpose of impressing the need for action, not only upon the Government, but also upon the people of the province. To what extent, if at all, this demonstration may have influenced the Government it is impossible to say. It was, in any event, very gratifying to the whole University when, in the following year, 1923, the Minister of Education laid the corner stone of the Science Building, a structure that had remained a gaunt skeleton during the war years, and building was resumed. At last, as the student paper jubilantly announced, the state of the provincial finances had enabled the Government "to see the Point". The buildings were ready in 1925. The last Congregation at the old Fairview site was held in May. But the last actual classes to be conducted were those of the Summer Session of 1925. In October the University celebrated its installation in its new quarters by conferring its first honorary degrees. Among the recipients was Dr. H. E. \,ouiit, during whose term as Minister of Education the University had come into being and the first vitally important decisions with regard to the organization and the character of the institution had been made. The enrolment continued to mount at an alarming rate, until in the session 1930-31 it had reached a total of 2044. This number seriously overtaxed not only the equipment, but actually also the capacity of classrooms, reading rooms and laboratories, since these had been designed for not more than 1500 students. It looked as if the Fairview experience would be repeated; and accordingly in 1931 a limitation was imposed upon the enrolment. Fortunately, this limitation has never had to be enforced, except in certain departments, because in that year the Vancouver high schools took over the work of Senior Matriculation and thus reduced enrolment in the Freshman Class. The period of financial depression followed and this reduced enrolment still further. In 1933-34 it had dropped to 1606. It is now rising again, and the 1880 students in attendance this year (1935-1936) are subjecting the fabric of the institution to serious strain. It would appear therefore that it will again be necessary to limit the registration. A most important change in the constitution of the University was made in 1935 when an amendment to the University Act gave the Senate, and thus indirectly Convocation, the power to elect three members of the Board of Governors. The change is important because it establishes a new- principle. This narrative would be incomplete without a reference at least to the many friends of the University throughout the province— organizations and societies of various kinds, as well as individual persons. These have generously donated not only medals, prizes, bursaries, scholarships, fellowships, and endowments, but also books, periodicals, records, and other collections of great scientific interest and value. These friends are so numerous that even a list of their names would be too long for insertion in such a book as this. Like all similar institutions the University of British Columbia has suffered severely from the world-wide financial depression. In 1932 the Government decided that it had no alternative but to make a cut of over 50 per cent in the University appropriation. This was a staggering blow to a young institution GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Seven that had not had time to establish itself firmly. Every department felt the impact. Supplies and equipment were everywhere reduced; all undertakings had to be curtailed and some discontinued; a great many courses had to be dropped from the curriculum ; and several members of the staff had to be dismissed. But there is no reason to doubt that when financial conditions improve in the world at large, the University will continue its progress. It has, in fact, already entered upon a period not only of recovery, but also actually of expansion. AFFILIATED COLLEGES The institutions affiliated with the University are three—Victoria College, which is undenominational, and two theological colleges of the Anglican and United Churches of Canada. Both of these last are now situated on the Campus. In 1902 Victoria High School was affiliated with McGill University for the First Year in Arts under the name of Victoria College. Five years later it came under the control of the newly created Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning as part of the McGill University College of British Columbia. It then had power to give courses in the first two years in Arts. When the University began work in 1915, Victoria College ceased to exist. In its last year in affiiliation with McGill it had an enrolment of seventy students. In 1920 this College was re-established in affiliation with the University of British Columbia, Although it occupied part of the Victoria High School building, it had no administrative connection with that institution. One year later the present building, Craigdarroch Castle, which is situated at one of the highest points in the beautiful residential district of Victoria, was rented by the Board of School Trustees for the use of the College. In 1927 it was bought by the city. The Anglican Theological College of British Columbia was incorporated in 1912, bringing into affiliation with itself Latimer Hall, which had been established in 1910, and St. Mark's Hall, which had been established in 1912. The two halls were merged by agreement in 1920. In the following year the College was affiliated with the University of British Columbia, which allows certain theological subjects to be taken as options for courses in Arts. The College moved to the Campus in 1927, where the present building, half stone and half roughcast, had been erected in a modern adaptation of the Tudor style of Collegiate Gothic. The Union College of British Columbia represents a merging of three streams of theological education coming down through a period of forty-three years. In 1893 Columbian College was opened by the Methodist Church in New Westminster. In 1908 Westminster Hall was established in Vancouver by the Presbyterian Church. In 1923 Ryerson College was set up, also in Vancouver; and took over the theological work formerly carried on by Columbian College. In that year also the Anglican Theological College, Westminster Hall, and Ryerson College joined in a scheme of co-operation which still continues successfully. In 1914 the Congregational College of British Columbia was incorporated. Then, finally, in 1927, two years after Church Union, this College, Westminster Hall, and Ryerson were amalgamated under the name of the Union College of British Columbia. The first unit of the College building was opened in 1927, and in 1934 the Library was erected. The completion of this second unit is expected in the near future, as well as the erection of a College Chapel. SITE THE University stands upon a headland which rises about three hundred feet above the sea. The site is separated from the water b}' a steep bluff, crowned in places with heavy forest growth. In selecting this site, the Commission of 1910 appears to have been guided in the main by three considerations: the great beauty of the setting; the proximity of the area to the largest centre of population in the province ; and the fact that, since there is open water on three sides, this area can never be surrounded by the city, no matter how large Vancouver may become. The setting is indeed magnificent. To the north, across English Bay and Burrard Inlet, rise the rugged Coast mountains, which are covered with snow during a great part of the year. On the west and south are the w-aters of the Gulf of Georgia. The view across the sea on a clear day is superb, taking in as it does not only the promontories and wooded islands of the nearer Gulf, but also the sharply-edged peaks of the Vancouver Island range nearly one hundred miles away. To stand at the edge of the clifif and watch a great white liner slowly entering Vancouver Harbour or a freighter outward bound, her deck cargo of British Columbia lumber gleaming in the sun, is an experience that should arouse the most apathetic from a self-complacent insularity. The students of the University may be pardoned, surely, when they say that the world's highway runs just below their classroom windows. The second point is also of the greatest importance. The University has at its very doors what is in effect a huge laboratory, and in this laboratory every class in the institution is free to work. Surroundings which include mountain and sea, river and forest, as well as a great city, furnish ex- Eight THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ceptional facilities for field work in both the pure and the applied sciences. Within a few hours journey trom the University are smelters, coal mines, logging camps, sawmills, pulp and paper mills, hydro-electric installations, grain elevators, as well as some of the largest metal mines and one of the largest ore-reducing plants in the British Empire. The location is likewise well adapted for investigations in agriculture. The soil in the immediate vicinity is typical of heavily timbered upland coast soils ,and close at hand are the rich alluvial lands of the Delta. Students in Agriculture enjoy the further advantage of being within easy reach of meat packing houses, milk depots and condensers, and fruit and vegetable canneries. The close proximity of Vancouver is also a great asset for technical and industrial study. Vancouver is the commercial centre of the province, the terminus of several trans-continental railways, and a rapidly growing world port, the largest British port in fact on the west coast of the Americas. Many industrial plants, which are thus close at hand, are generously opened to students in Engineering for study and demonstration. Here, too, are the largest hospitals in the province. These at the moment are giving excellent opportunities for training to students in Nursing and Public Health. In the future, when a Faculty of Medicine is established, these hospitals will be invaluable. Similarly, the students in some future Faculty of Law will have within easy reach the largest Law Courts in the province. Students in Economics, Sociology, and Social Welfare have at their disposal not only the materials for study that are ordinarily available in a large city, but also those found only in a Pacific port where Orient and Occident meet. The large and varied elementary and high schools in the city provide the students in Education with abundant facilities for observation and practice teaching. Finally, Vancouver is rapidly becoming a cultural centre of some importance ; and the students of the University are thus being given greater and greater opportunities for cultivating drama, art, and music. The plans of grounds and buildings drawn up by the Consulting Commission of 1913 are magnificent in conception and design. The Commissioners declared in their report that it had been the central puropse of their study to determine upon right fundamentals. "The University of British Columbia is here conceived as an institution of the first order whose scope shall be co-extensive with the educational needs of the province. This involves provision for a State University comparable in the range and magnitude of its activities to the seats of learning of any country in the world." The plans accordingly lo6k not only to the present but also to the remote future needs of the province. If the plans are followed, the normal growth of the institution need never be obstructed by the overcrowded conditions and the haphazard development that have hampered progress in most other universities. The plans are so comprehensive that they ensure tor the tuture a well proportioned and harmonious development. LIBRARY IN the organization of the institution to which he had been appointed President, Dr. F. F. Wesbrook conceived his plans on a comprehensive scale. They included a Library adequate for the requirements of study in all the courses contemplated, together with the material necessary tor the prosecution of research. The Provincial Government had given approval to these plans as part of its initial programme of construction and organization, and had undertaken to supply the funds necessary. So tar as the purchase of books was concerned, a Five \ear Plan was adopted. The sum of $100,000 was to be spent on the basic collection in the first year, and for each of the four years succeeding, it was proposed to spend a further $50,000. The physical accommodation for the care of these volumes was to be included in the Administration Building, one of those to be immediately erected. Mr. J. T. Gerould, at that time Librarian of the University of Minnesota, and now Librarian of Princeton, was commissioned to select and purchase the basic collection. He journeyed to Europe, and bought extensively in England, acquiring the fundamental sets in the Sciences, Philosophy, History, and Literature. In co-operation with Dr. Ashton, corresponding material was purchased in France. Mr. Gerould then went to Germany for similar purchases, but on stepping from the train at Leipzig, he was arrested as a British spy, for he arrived on August 4, 1914, the day that Britain entered the World War. He was thrown into prison, his money confiscated, and after humiliating experiences was deported to the Swiss border. With difficulty, after many delays and some hardship, he made his way through Italy to Palermo in Sicily, thence to Barcelona in Spain, and finally to Liverpool, whence he set sail for America. Thus not only were no German books purchased, but the carrying out of the comprehensive programme for the purchase of the basic collection had to be abandoned. It shared the same fate as the programme for building construction. In view of the fact that several important appointments to the University staff had been made, there was no alternative but to proceed with organization; but every branch of the project had to be redesigned, and on a very much smaller scale. The only build- GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Nine ing available was the two and one-half storey wooden building used by McGill University College of Vancouver. A new and substantial structure erected by the Provincial Government for the Vancouver General Hospital for tuberculosis patients, recently finished, and as yet unoccupied, was turned over to the University; and to this were brought the books purchased by Mr. Gerould when in Europe. The packing cases containing these filled one large room from floor to ceiling. Funds were not available for the engagement of a professionally trained Library staff, but in the early summer of 1915, the present Librarian was engaged to organize the collection, and to make it available for service. Temporary wooden stacks were erected, and the work of classification begun, so that a few of the books were ready for use when the University opened its doors to the student body in September, 1915. Despite financial difficulties, the Library grew rapidly, and the problem of physical accommodation became one of ever-increasing difficulty. Additional stacks had to be superimposed on those already erected until they reached the ceiling. Part of the main lobby was taken into the stack room. A lean-to addition was erected that gave shelf space for a further 10,000 or 12,000 volumes. The large room above the stack room was fitted up as a reading room, but the eighty chairs crowded into it provided only one- half, or one-third, of the equipment necessary for the students desiring to use it. Each year, with the growth of the student bod}', the problem became increasingly acute, until conditions were well-nigh intolerable. The situation was not relieved until the removal of the University to its permanent site at Point Grey, when the present Library, a well-designed, handsome and substantial granite building, became available. The building is planned for expansion in three directions, and can ultimately be developed to house a library of considerably more than a million volumes. Its main reading room is a noble and dignified hall one hundred feet in length, and sixty feet in height. Connected with this are two smaller rooms, each sixty feet in length. The stacks are of steel, and of the most modern design. The growth of the collections has been remarkable, for, despite financial difficulties, the University has steadfastly adhered to the original policy of building up a representative collection of books for study and research. It contains a larger percentage of files of scholarly periodicals, and of the transactions and proceedings of learned societies, than does any other Canadian university library of equal volume-total. The University's determination to keep abreast of the newer developments in important fields of knowledge is indicated by the fact that its Periodical Room regularly receives more than 600 general, scientific, and technical publications. Between 4,000 and 5,000 new volumes are added to the collection each year, and the coming of age of the University this year will see the total number of books exceed 100,000 volumes. It contains also more than 10,000 pamphlets. The circulation exceeds 80,000 volumes a year. The Library is greatly indebted to many friends for accessions by way of gift. Notable among these should be mentioned part of the Gerrans Library (from Oxford, England), the De Pencier Library of mining and geology, and several smaller collections. Four years ago, the Carnegie Corporation of New York made a grant of $15,000 for the purchase of books for undergraduate reading, and this year a set of the Corporation's Art Teaching Equipment, consisting of about 200 representative volumes on Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture and including over 2,000 reproductions of paintings, a large number of them in color, was received. It represents a value of $6,000. The present year was notable, too, for the constitution of the Library as a Depository for the Library of Congress Catalogue, a collection of more than 1,500,000 printed cards, and representing a value of $65,000. As a bibliographical aid in research this Catalogue is invaluable. Outside the United States, there are but eighteen such depositories throughout the world. INSTRUCTION THE University was made up from the first of three colleges or "Faculties"— Arts and Science, Applied Science, and Agriculture. The plans provide for other Faculties, in Law and Medicine, for instance ; but it will probably be many years before these are established. In the meantime, the University has been granting both the Bachelor's and the Master's degree in the three Faculties named. It has not thus far attempted postgraduate work for the Doctor's degree. But almost from the very beginning it has been continually enlarging and enriching its curriculum. In 1919, for instance, was instituted a five-year course in Nursing leading to the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Nursing—the first of its kind in Canada. In 1920 was added a six- year combined course in Arts and Science and Engineering. During this same session also Honour Courses were introduced into the third and fourth years of the Arts curriculum. These courses are open only to selected students, as they involve more intensive specialization than does the ordinary General Course. In 1923 the University broadened its work still further by instituting a one-year Teacher Training Course, the aim of which is to prepare University graduates for the teaching profession. In 1925 Ten THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA a Department of Education was established to take over the education which up to that time had been carried on by the Department of Philosophy. In 1929 were added a two-year course leading to a Diploma in Social Service and a lour-year course in Commerce leading to the Bachelor's degree. Lastly, in 19o0, there was instituted a six- year combined course in Arts and Science and Nursing. It should be added that the two affiliated theological colleges confer a Diploma of Licentiate in Theology as well as the Bachelor's and Doctor's degrees in Divinity. SHORT COURSES In addition to its normal activities in conducting research and in providing cultural and vocational training for its registered students, the University has extended its services to the people at large by means of short courses of various kinds, summer sessions, and extension lectures. The University began immediately after the Armistice to take an active part in providing vocational training for returned soldiers by giving short courses in Mining, Engineering, Forestry, and Agriculture. In the academic year 1919-20 over five hundred men attended these special classes and in the whole period of reconstruction at least thirteen hundred. The Department of Botany has, for several years, been presenting a weekly evening session, lasting from one and a half to two hours, on the elements of Botany. A few people follow this with a laboratory course and so receive University credit; but the great majority of those enrolled are not looking toward a degree. Two instructors in Mining and Geology usually give, during the winter, a series of evening lectures under the auspices of the Chamber of Mines. Agricultural Short Courses for the benefit of people actually engaged in farming were given regularly each winter as long as the University was able to provide instruction, the last session being held in 1931-32. SUMMER SESSION From the earliest days it had been felt that the situation of the University and the climate of Vancouver combined to make summer work inevitable. It was therefore not strange that Dr. Wesbrook should have asked a group of his colleagues to explore the possibility of a four term year. This scheme was not put into effect; but the impulse that actuated the request and the needs of the teaching profession led to the opening of the first Summer School for Teachers in July, 1920. The name indicates clearly enough that the school did not propose, at that time, to offer courses leading to a degree. It aimed merely, as the prospectus states, to assist High School teachers in some of the Arts and Sciences, to help them to obtain higher teaching cer tificates than they already possessed, and to provide certain courses in Education. Ine experience of the first two years, however, showed that a real need was being met and that further steps might safely be taken. Accordingly, in July, ly22, the first Summer Session of the University of British Columbia opened. Matriculation was required as a condition of enrolment. Regular university courses were ottered, with examinations and credit towards a degree. The undertaking expanded rapidly. The enrolment, which had begun in 1920 at 127, mounted steadily until in 192/ it reached a peak at 487. In the years of depression that tollowed, there was a falling off in attendance; but in 1935 it had almost regained its highest level. Large numbers of teachers have availed themselves of this opportunity to continue their studies. They have continually asked tor a greater variety in the courses offered, as well as for advanced work. These demands have been so urgent that year after year the curriculum has been enlarged, until now courses are offered which lead in certain fields not only to the B.A. degree, but to the M.A. as well. In addition, late afternoon and Saturday morning classes are held throughout the academic session for the benefit particularly of working teachers in Vancouver who cannot attend the regular session, but who wish to do work leading to a University degree. For teachers living outside Vancouver, directed Reading Courses have, under certain conditions, been made available. The Summer Session has been of great benefit not only to the teaching profession, but also to the people of the province as a whole. Hundreds of adult students have attended one or more of the sessions; a large number have already completed the full four-year course for the Bachelor's degree in Arts, and a few have proceeded to the Master's. This academic work, together with the courses given in Education, has enabled teachers to obtain First Class and Academic Teaching Certificates. The direct result of the Summer Session has thus been to raise the professional qualifications of teachers throughout the province. The indirect results, though less tangible, have also been very great. An impetus to study has been given to teachers in the provincial schools, bringing in its train revised and enriched curricula and improved methods of teaching. Work and recreation together during the summer have served to unite the teachers of this widespread province, to unify their aims, and therefore to bring more uniformity into their teaching methods. And through the direct association of the teacher with the child and the home, the Summer Session is helping to share with the whole community that cultural heritage which the University has in its keeping. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAYr, 1936 Eleven EXTENSION The University Extension Committee, which was organized in the autumn of 1918, has concentrated almost from the first on providing public lectures outside the University. The number of these has increased from twenty-four in the first year until during the session 1933-34 over three hundred lectures were arranged, partly through the Committee and partly independently, with an estimated total attendance of nearly 35,000. In several years radio addresses have been given. Of public lectures, nearby places have naturally received the greatest number ; but many have been given also in the Fraser Valley; in the Kootenays; in the Okanagan; along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and even sometimes in the Nechaco and Cariboo areas. It has been a tradition that members of the staff giving their services in this way should receive no remuneration for them. At one time the University paid the travelling expenses of any lecturer speaking within a moderate distance of Vancouver, but more recently such contributions to the cost have had to be discontinued. During the present session (1935-36) the work in extension has been very much enlarged. A portion of a grant which had been made to the University by the Carnegie Corporation of New York was set aside for the purpose of adult education. This money has been used to defray the costs of administering the work, to pay the lecturers for their services, and to provide substitutes to take over their classes during their absence. Thus it has been possible during the winter to give over five hundred lectures throughout the province, the lecturers having been enabled to penetrate as far as Prince Rupert and the Cariboo some five hundred miles to the north and as far as Fernie and Golden, some four hundred miles to the east. Under this same scheme it is proposed to give agricultural field demonstrations in the north country during the summer. The Extension Committee has encouraged the formation of study groups, which have begun work in a small way; and has expended $1000 on books in order to provide a certain amount of reading matter in support of some of the lectures. The scheme this year was entirely of an experimental character; but the response has been so encouraging that in all probability the work will very soon be placed on a sound financial basis and a permanent director appointed. In any event something has already been done towards making the campus of the Provincial University coterminous with the boundaries of the province. STUDENT ACTIVITY STUDENT self-government at the University dates from the very beginning. Early in the opening term Dr. Wesbrook had declared that it was "the desire of the Faculty and the President to see the students assume the responsibility of their own self-government". A constitution for an Alma Mater Society was accordingly adopted and an elective Students' Council set up. This body has ever since controlled the activities of the student body, administered its affairs, and enforced discipline. In December, 1916, the first publication appeared, a monthly magazine called Anon. In January, 1917, it became Anonymous, and in February, Ubicee. In the autumn of 1918 the magazine developed into a weekly newspaper under the name The Ubyssey, and since 1925 it has been published twice weekly. The U. B. C. Annual made its first appearance in 1916. In 1926 it was re-christened Totem to conform with the two college yells, K/a-how-ya and Kitsilano, the names of which are associated with the Squamish Indians of the Pacific Coast. A Players' Club was formed in 1915, and a Musical Society in 1916. It is commonly agreed that both organizations have attained a very high standard of performance in their annual productions. The Campus swarms with other clubs, societies, and organizations, literary, scientific, social, religious, political, and athletic, which are far too numerous even to name. "Kla-how-ya Week", later called "Varsity Week" and still later "Homecoming", was inaugurated in 1921. Intended primarily to welcome the Alumni back to the campus, it is given up to games, debates, a theatre night, and various social functions. It has become the climax of each college year. The part played by the students in the war was in the highest degree creditable. Nearly seven hundred of them, including those of McGill University College, enlisted. Of these, 78 lost their lives, arid 131 were decorated for gallantry by British and foreign governments. Mention should also be made of the excellent work performed by the students who stayed at home. This took the form of the despatch of parcels to the men overseas, special farm work to aid production, substantial contributions to the Victory Loan, and Red Cross activity. At the time of the terrible influenza epidemic, early in 1919, the University, which had had to discontinue its classes, gave up its buildings to the hospital; and many of the students volunteered to act as nurses and orderlies in the emergency. The memory of these war years is perpetuated by one small symbol. The yoke of the college gown is edged with khaki cord. Only the undergraduate wears this cord. It was intended as a perpetual reminder to the students of a later day, to symbolize for them the birth of the University during the war and to commemorate the war service of their predecessors. The first years of the University of British Columbia were scarcely a time in which to Twelve THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA expect much manifestation of college spirit. The majority of its older male students had abandoned their studies in order to enlist, and among the students who remained there was a not unnatural feeling that the momentous struggle then raging made insignificant the ordinary incidents of campus life. Moreover, the absence of adequate buildings for study and recreation was a great hindrance to the development of University esprit de corps. What is really surprising is that college spirit did exist, none the less real for being serious and constructive. For several years after the war, the classes of the University were largely filled with men who had returned from the front or the high seas. Keenly aware of the disadvantages under which they had been placed by the sacrifice of several valuable years in the service of the country, these students set an example of earnestness and steadiness, not only _ in studies, but also in extra-curricular activity. This tradition has continued, mainly no doubt because a very large proportion of the student body has been working its way through college. Their earnestness and their steadiness, too, are plainly manifest in the record of campus activity. Mention has already been made, for instance, of the part played by the undergraduates four years after the war in arousing the public to a realization of the overcrowded conditions in Fairview and of the need for a transfer to Point Grcv. During the summer and winter of 1922, thev secured 77,000 signatures to a petition, which thev subsequently presented to the Legislature, requesting that the Point Grey site might be speedily made ready for occupation. This petition was supplemented by parades and other demonstrations. The climax of months of enthusiastic campaigning was a pilgrimage to the site on October 23, 1922. Every student who walked in the parade contributed one stone to a pile that was built in the Mall. This pile of stones was later constructed into the famous cairn, where each year the incoming Freshmen are initiated into the tradition of service established by their predecessors. All this activity on the part of the students was not, of course, actuated by self-interest, since obviously they could not themselves hope to enjoy the fruits of their efforts, but bv the hope that their successors might be able to work unhampered by such disadvantages as they themselves had had to cope with. Another expression of this spirit was the construction of the Gymnasium. The funds for this building were raised by a bond issue, which the students themselves retired in 1935. The building was equipped by the Alumni; and, upon its completion, was presented to the University in 1929. During the next two years, 1930 and 1931, the students campaigned for funds with which to build a stadium. The playing field was constructed in 1931. And now, on the twenty-first anniversary of the University, the students are engaged in still another major campaign. The proposal is to erect a Students' Union Building, where they may have increased scope for activities of an extra-curricular kind. At present there is no focus for campus life, and such a focus is greatly needed. The building will contain dining rooms, reading rooms, committee rooms, and club rooms, as well as a large hall. It will be dedicated to the memory of two kindly and generous friends of the student body, the late Dean and Mrs. R. W. Brock. The estimated cost is $150,000. Of this amount the students have undertaken to raise one-fifth. Among other important undergraduate traditions should be mentioned the Arts '20 Road Race. This race is still run, as it has always been, between the old Fairview site and the present campus. Usually every class in the University takes part. It symbolizes the spirit that pervaded college life during the first ten years, when the removal to Point Grey often seemed an unattainable objective. It represents not only the progress of the students toward a definite goal, but also, since it is a relay race, the handing on of responsibility from class to class. It has become a tradition also that each graduating class should make a gift to the University. These gifts have been presented annually since 1919. They have been of various kinds, but all have been valuable. They include an undergraduate scholarship, an art collection, a fund of money, a trophy case, medical equipment for the Health Department Office, the relay cup. the portrait of Dr. Wesbrook. the Chancellor's chair, the stone seats on the campus, collections of books, records, and historical documents for the Librarv, the clock in the Auditorium, and the public address system that was installed on the stage last year. All this campus activity might suggest that the students are permitting non-academic pursuits to interfere unduly with their studies. But it is the conviction of the friends of the young University of British Columbia that there is no likelihood that such pursuits will ever assume, for the great majority at least, a dangerous preponderance over college work. The best safeguard is the sane attitude of the students themselves on this point. They have passed a regulation that any undergraduate who undertakes to represent his fellows in an elective position, or in such activities as dramatics or debating or athletics, must main tain a prescribed standard in his classroom and laboratory. The number of graduates who, after an active campus career in extracurricular activities, have achieved distinction in scholarship, science, teaching, law, business, and the public service, is a sufficient witness to the common sense and moderation of the student body in this matter as in others. The youngest university in Canada has come of age. In the brief twenty-one years of its existence it has passed through two world GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirtei cataclysms. It opened its doors during the second year of the World War; and before it could establish itself securely it was shaken to its foundations by the great financial depression. It may well be a matter for satisfaction to think that it has survived both calamities, and that now it is definitely entering upon a period of renewed activity and achievement. The future is big with promise. The facilities for research of every sort which, because of its unique situation, the University offers, will in time become unrivalled. The climate is one of the finest on earth. The institution itself stands in a strategic position on the trade routes of the world, both by sea and air; and it is a meeting place of two great cultures—that of the European West and that of the Oriental East. There seems, indeed, to be no good reason why the University should not become a very important educational and cultural centre. Such, at any rate, is its dream and its assured hope. "It can bide its time," writes the official historian, "serene in the affection of its Alumni and secure in the quiet conviction that the early years of its history have set a standard of achievement which may be viewed by the students of the future with pride and respect". RESEARCH RESEARCH is one of the most important functions of a university teacher; and the vigor and standing of any educational institution may be judged in some measure by the devotion of its staff to this end. Not only does a university owe it to the public to add, by original investigation, to the sum of human knowledge, but research itself keeps the individual teacher fresh and in touch with his subject. Furthermore, it enables him to inspire his students, for there is no part of education so valuable as the contact with a mind engaged in solving problems and in extending the limits of knowledge. The following record of achievement, though necessarily very incomplete, will show at least that research, widely diverse in its nature and by no means inconsiderable in quantity, has been carried on and is now being carried on with vigor at the University of British Columbia. It should be added that the value of this research has been recognized by learned societies throughout the English-speaking countries. Many of these, including, for instance, the Royal Society of Canada, has honoured members of the University by electing them to fellowships. One member of the staff was last year elected to the Presidency of the society just named, this being the first time that the honour has come to British Columbia. Other members of the staff have served either on the executive or on the standing committees of such bodies as the Pacific Science Congress, the Social Service Research Conference of the Pacific Coast, the Biological Board of Canada, and the National Research Council of Canada. A mere list of articles contributed by members of the staff to learned periodicals throughout the world would more than fill this book. A list of textbooks compiled for use in the colleges and schools of this continent would fill many pages. Mention may be made, however, of such notable contributions to scholarship as the following: Company Colonisation in the Prairie Provinces, The International Trade Balance in Theory and the Practice, Sir James Douglas and British Columbia, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England, Madame de la Payette, Molicre, Induction Motors, Analytic Algebra, Index Aristophaneus, Xenophon's Symposium and Apology, The Flora of British Columbia, Of Irony, especially in Drama, and Le roman social sous la Monarchic de juillet. Studies in hand at the moment include investigations of Latin verse inscriptions, the relation of early Nineteenth Century French Literature to the social ideas of the time, the temper of Augustan literature, the life and works of George Peele, British colonial administration in Africa, the history and present status of Teacher Training in Western Canada, the geology of British Columbia and the Yukon, Canadian-American relations on the Pacific coast since 1866, and a comprehensive sociological survey of Canadian-American relations for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Some of these studies are nearing completion and some are in press. One member of the staff, who is recognized as an authority on the relation of Canada to the League of Nations, is engaged in a study of the international situation in the contemporary world. Investigations and surveys directed to the immediate problems of the province and the Dominion are constantly being carried out at the request of the governments concerned and of other public bodies, as well as of commercial and industrial organizations. Such, for instance, have been studies of the fungus flora and the poisonous plants of British Columbia; of the effect of radiant energy upon growth; of the oceanography of the Straits of Georgia, with particular reference to the effect of the Fraser River upon the distribution of fish-food and upon the migrations of salmon; of the genetics of economic and decorative plants, such as vegetables, alfalfa, and roses; of the growth cycles in British Columbia trees and the modification of growth rates by climatic and soil conditions; of various phases of disease in important economic plants, such as storage rot in apples, and the pathology of the balsam and the Douglas fir; of economic entomology and insect control; and of the effect of smelter smoke on forest and farm plants. One member of the staff has made several expeditions to the North and the South Pacific oceans, gathering marine zoological material, for the purpose especially of determining the distribution of the hydroids. Fourteen THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Exhaustive investigations have also been made in plant nutrition, such as, for instance, studies of tree growth with special reference to root activities, of mineral absorption by trees, of the influence of water on tree growth, and of the nutrition of economic plants, both of the field and the garden. Allied to these investigations are studies of fruit storage problems, of electric soil heating, of mushroom culture, and of the rest period in plants. Breeding work has been carried out with cereals, roots, forage crops, vegetables, and flowers. Extensive field-crop experiments have been made which have supplied valuable data for teaching purposes as well as for dissemination throughout the province by means of press and public lecture. From these field investigations certain fundamental problems have developed affecting root studies, studies of soil acidity and of clover failure, and experiments with wheat, roots, and alfalfa. Closely associated with this work are forestry investigations of seed germination, nursery practice, seed testing, and the effect of soil types on seedling survival. Studies have also been made of selective logging methods, of the regeneration and rate of growth in the Douglas fir, and of the microscopic identification of wood. And reports have been made of the forest resources of the Northern Interior of British Columbia jointly for the Provincial Government and the two great Canadian railways. One department has investigated practically all the mineral areas of the province, reporting to the Dominion Geological Survey more particularly on the Eutsuk Lake area, the Sullivan Mine, the Britannia Mine, the Premier Mine, Copper Mountain, Hedley, the Cariboo region and Southern British Columbia. The mineral resources of the Pacific Great Eastern subsidy lands have been investigated for the Provincial Government and the Canadian railways. Other projects include a geological survey of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, a survey for the Dominion Government of the oil possibilities of the Mackenzie River valley, Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta, and Manitoulin Island; a survey of the copper nickel deposits of the Sudbury region; and geological studies in Mexico, Fiji, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Hawaiian Islands. Closely connected with this work is that of an allied department which has conducted extensive ore testing experiments for the purpose of guiding and improving milling operations. One important result has been the development of a super- concentration method of treating local nickel ores. This field of study is being actively investigated at the present time. In connection particularly with the recovery of gold, three departments of the University working in co-operation have recently, after four years of work and investigation, perfected a "super- polisher", which will help to eliminate the uncertainty in milling tests that has prevailed up to the present time as well as to indicate the mode of occurrence of valuable minerals in the ore. No longer therefore need the mining industry of the Pacific North West be dependent on the East for its ore examinations and mineragraphy. The activities of another department will be found recorded in upwards of a hundred papers published in scientific journals of Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. These papers deal with a variety of topics, such as, the atomic weight of elements, the design of distillation apparatus, absorption phenomena, gasoline and lubricating oils, the drug content of many drug plants grown in British Columbia, the tannin content of British Columbia trees, the use of catalysts in organic preparations, the application of various electron theories to organic reactions, the effect of electrical discharge on gases, the separation of rare earth elements, the mechanism of gaseous organic reactions, the testing of newsprint with respect to printing quality, the conversion of fatty and waxy susbstances into petroleum hydro-carbons, the phase relations of sodium and magnesium sulphate, the effect of various chemicals including vitamins and hormones on the rates of enzymatic reactions, and the effect of certain drugs on tuberculosis in guinea-pigs. The research activities of another department range from large scale investigations into the electrical precipitation of valuable deposits from smoke stack gases to spectroscopic investigations leading to a knowledge of the structure of the atom. Other projects include precision measurements of the velocity of sound; studies of the electric arc and of the nature and origin of X-rays; and experiments with glasses for the transmission of ultra-violet light and an instrument for testing radio-active ores. During 1935 this department, in co-operation with the Fisheries Experimental Station at Prince Rupert, carried on an investigation into the spectroscopic determination of the vitamin A content of pilchard oil, for the purpose of widening the market for this British Columbia product. A unique example of inter-university cooperation was instituted when the University of Toronto in 1935 placed in charge of a provisionally established Western Division of the Connaught Laboratories one of its ablest scientists, who, while retaining his connection with his own University, has been appointed Director of the Provincial Board of Health Laboratories as well as Acting Head of two allied departments in the University of British Columbia. One problem already investigated in this department is tuberculosis as it affects the Indians of the province. Another is the furunculosis disease among the fresh water fish of British Columbia. The Western Division of the Connaught Laboratories will serve as a centre of bacteriological research, where problems relating to diseases of men GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Fifteen and animals and to the part played by bacteria in certain industrial processes will be investigated. Results of great practical and theoretical value are confidently anticipated. More than a score of papers have been published dealing with the mathematics involved in the problem of three or more bodies, with applications to celestial mechanics and to molecular motion. Other researches have been conducted in the fields of algebras and their arithmetics and of elliptic functions. In the application of electricity to practical problems, investigations have been undertaken in connection with the elimination of magneto noises from air-craft receiving sets; the induction motor under unbalanced conditions ; the torque in a bipolar induction type instrument; a new piezo-electric indicator and its application to internal combustion engines; the influence of asymmetry of air-gap in circulating current machines and commutation in direct current machines, the engineering economics of public utility systems; rectification at dry contacts; transient phenomena in synchronous machines; static balances; lubrication ; vacuum tubes; shading coils for relays ; dielectric breakdown and communtation in the A.C. commutator motors. Another department has investigated the production of clean milk; the grading and bacterial content of cream and butter; the ripening of hard-pressed cheese; the nutritive requirements of lactic acid bacteria; the bacteria responsible for alleged feed flavor and stable odor in milk; and the fermentation problems of the paper industry. Some of this work has been carried on by means of special grants made for the purpose by the National Research Council of Canada, the Empire Marketing Board, and the Powell River Pulp and Paper Company. Research has also been conducted in the field of dairy production, the record of which work, covering a period of ten years, and published in bulletin form, is a standard reference. Investigations have been made of the nature and distribution of hematuria vcsi- calis, a common disease of cattle in this area; of nutritional deficiencies in live-stock production; of the feeding values of locally produced high-protein concentrates; and of the economics of beef-production on the Lower Mainland. Breeder producers have been organized throughout the province on a comprehensive scale. For a time an export trade in British Columbia live-stock received attention and resulted in shipments to Hawaii, South America, and the Orient. The herds and flocks of live-stock maintained by the LIniversity, in addition to serving as material for demonstration and investigation, have exhibited at provincial and international shows with marked success. Since 1917 twelve Canadian records in milk and butterfat production have been made by the Jersey and Ayrshire herds of the University. The livestock judging teams trained each year since 1919 have an excellent record of achievement in international competitions. Attention has also been paid to the breeding of poultry for high egg production, to assisting the poultry industry of the province by means of specially conducted surveys, the establishment of a poultry disease laboratory, and the spreading of information in poultry husbandry. In this connection should be mentioned the famous hen No. 6, which in 1925 laid 351 eggs in 365 days, at that time a new- world record. Work of considerable economic importance has also been accomplished through increased average annual egg production in certain breeds and through fixing certain desirable characteristics, such as rapid maturity and general improvement in meat qualities. Investigations have been conducted in connection with such problems as pullorum disease; the hsematology of the fowl; feeding for egg production; the pathology of fowl paralysis; chick sexing; the protein requirements of growing chicks; the formation of the hen's egg; the malposition of embryo chicks; and the inheritance of side sprigs; growth rate in the domestic fowl; resistance to certain diseases; plumage and skin color, and of egg size. Studies have been made or are now being made of the Oriental problem on the Pacific Coast, of the distribution of package freight and its origination within Canada; of the fishing industry of the Dominion and the world market for fish; of the Island coal industry and its problem; of the First Narrows Bridge project; of the milk distribution in Greater Vancouver and Alberta; of the marketing in Vancouver of heavy and light textiles, wallpapers and wall decoration, leather and rubber goods. At the request of the Provincial Government surveys have been made of the Industrial School for Boys; of the Prison Farm at Oakalla, and of the problem of delinquency. Approximately one hundred projects have been carried out or are now being carried out in connection with the problems of the urban community. And in the field of British Columbia history some thirty studies have been begun, of which fifteen have been completed. In conclusion a reference should be made to public services performed by members of the staff. Many have been or are being consulted, more or less informally, either by the Provincial or by the Dominion Government, in connection with problems of taxation and finance. Several have served on Government Commissions. The Milk Inquiry Commission of 1928, for instance, included two members of the staff, of whom one acted as chairman. Another member of the staff is at the moment chairman of the Economic Council of the province. Another was a member of the Canadian group of the Institute of Pacific Relations at the conference at Kyoto (1929) and Banff (1933). Still another in 1924, collaborating with Mr. J. H. Putnam of Ottawa, Sixteen THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA conducted a comprehensive survey of the school system of the province; in 1929 he directed a survey of nursing problems in Canada; and since 1933 he has been provincial secretary and minister of education for British Columbia. Leave of absence has been granted, when necessary, to permit such activities to be undertaken. ALUMNI THE graduates of the University have not yet had time to reach the places of highest eminence. But already many of them are filling key-positions in the professional, industrial, commercial, and cultural life of the Dominion as well as of the province. And already they have carried the names of both to the four corners of the earth. It is interesting to note that of the 3364 graduates whose addresses are known, no fewer than 88 per cent are resident within the province. Five per cent are living in other parts of the Dominion, making a total of 93 per cent for Canada as a whole. Of the remainder, five per cent are now in the United States, many of them engaged in postgraduate study; slightly under one per cent are in the British Isles; and slightly over one per cent, 38 in all, are scattered throughout the rest of the world. Leaving out of account the scholarships granted by the University to its own alumni, one finds that the value of the bursaries, scholarships, and fellowships won by the graduates of the University of British Columbia from the time the first awards were made in 1917 to December 31, 1935, amounts to over half a million dollars. The total value must exceed this amount, first, because some graduates have not reported awards they have received, and secondly, because scholarships in many cases carry with them medals and free tuition. The records show that in all nearly five hundred awards have been won, most of them in open competition with graduates from other universities. Among the more important are the Rhodes Scholarship, the French Government Scholarship (fr. 10,000), the Ramsay Memorial Scholarship (Cambridge), the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship (Great Britain), the Beit Fellowship (Great Britain), the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Great Britain), the I. O. D. E. Fellowship, the Connaught Research Fellowship (Toronto), the Royal Society (Canada) Fellowship, the International Research Travelling Fellowship, the Senior Sterling Research Fellowship (Yale), the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship, the National Research Fellowship (U.S.A.), the Pack Fellowship in Forestry which is the highest award of its kind in North America, the Guggenheim Memor ial Travelling Fellowship, and the bursaries, scholarships, and fellowships of the National Research Council of Canada. Of this last group of awards the graduates of the University of British Columbia have won a larger number than have the graduates of any other university in Canada. It is also worthy of record that annually since 1920 Clark University has offered and in each year but one has awarded a scholarship to a graduate of the University. Of the graduates in Arts, a large number have proceeded to the higher degrees and many now hold academic posts. Others are playing an important part, as might be expected, in the building up of that better social order for which all mankind is yearning. To this group belong the executive head of the Vancouver Welfare Federation, the Provincial Director of Social Services, the Superintendent of the Industrial School for Boys, and the Adviser to the Government on Health Insurance. Five are employed on the staff of the Provincial Economic Council; and many are engaged in law, journalism, and social service work. The remainder show a wide diversity of interest and occupation as the following representative enumeration will illustrate: the City Solicitor of Vancouver, the Legal Adviser to the Income Tax Office in Vancouver, the Provincial Librarian and Archivist, Assistant Canadian Trade Commissioners at Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, and London, a member of the Board of Governors of the University, several members of the University Senate, and three members of the Department of External Affairs at Ottawa. One of these is now attached to the staff of Dr. Riddell at Geneva. Another was formerly Research Secretary of the American National Council for the Preservation of World Peace with headquarters at Washington and later Secretary of the Canadian Legation at Tokyo. Three graduates are employed on the staff of the International Fisheries Commission and four on the staff of the Biological Board of Canada. Others are employed by the Dominion Entomological Branch and by the Plant Pathology section of the Dominion Experimental Farms. A gratifying number of the graduates are employed in hospital and public health work, many of them holding responsible positions in the Health Units which have been established throughout the province. In carrying to the more remote parts of the country the knowledge and the technical skill which they have acquired at the University, these graduates are performing a most valuable service for the community. Others who have specialized in this field are now occupying positions as trained laboratory technicians, and several have received important research and teaching appointments in other universities. Although the University itself does GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Seventeen not confer degrees in Medicine, it does provide essential pre-medical training for those students who propose to enter medicine as a profession. Of the graduates who have received this preliminary training, more than sixty are now practising physicians, most of them resident within the province. A very brilliant and tragically fated member of this general group, Dr. Archibald Fee, proceeded by means of fellowships to McGill and thence to London. In London he was appointed research assistant in physiology to Dr. Starling, at that time one of the most distinguished of the English investigators in this field; and was given a laboratory of his own with trained assistants to help him. When Dr. Starling died, young Dr. Fee was placed in charge of the project. At the time of his death, which occurred in the following year, he was only twenty-four. Of the graduates in Agriculture all but three are engaged in some form of agricultural activity. Several have taken up farming as a profession. Others arc employed in the Provincial and Dominion Departments of Agriculture, occupied in experimental and executive work which directly or indirectly benefits the agricultural industry. While farming is often considered to be a practical art, it is true, nevertheless, as was said of the perfect farmer by Columella nearly two thousand years ago, that "all the arts and all the sciences minister to his improvement." In the spirit of this saying, many of the graduates in Agriculture have tried to prepare themselves for their future tasks by extensive travels and studies on this and other continents. Out of a total of 173, thirty-five per cent have taken the Master's degree and eight per cent the Doctor's. Of the thirty-nine graduates in Forestry, twenty-four are employed either in the lumbering industry or in the Provincial and Dominion Forestry Services. One is District Forester at Prince Rupert, and at Prince George. Another is in charge of the Timber Products Division of the Vancouver Forest Products Laboratory. Several are teaching. Many of the graduates in Mathematics and Physics are engaged in research for industrial firms or government departments. Two hold important positions in the Dominion Astro- physical Observatory at Victoria. One is director of Research for the Carbo-Ice Company of Canada, and has in some respects revolutionized the practice in regard to the storage and preservation of food-stuffs. Two are working the laboratories of the National Research Council of Canada at Ottawa. Since the opening of the University some two hundred and twenty students have graduated in Chemical Engineering or have taken the Honour Course in Chemistry in Arts. Of these one hundred have proceeded to the Master's degree and sixty to the Doctor's. Eighty ,per cent of these graduates have found employment in Canada and sixty-one per cent in British Columbia. There are very few types of industry in which these graduates are not now playing a part. The refining of petroleum products employs twenty- three, nineteen of whom are in British Columbia; the cellulose industries, including pulp and paper, rayon, plastics, leathers, varnishes, enamels, and explosives, employ twenty-five; ten are employed by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail; fourteen others are with the cyaniding plants of various mining companies throughout Canada; and ten are connected with Canadian Industries Limited, du Pont de Nemours & Company at Wilmington, Delaware, and Imperial Chemicals Limited at Widnes in England. Three are with the National Research Council of Canada at Ottawa; ten are in the Provincial and Dominion Government research laboratories; and eighteen hold teaching and research positions in various Canadian and American universities. Many of these graduates have reached positions of the highest responsibility, as, for instance, the Plant Superintendent of the Shell Oil Company; the Plant Superintendent of the Home Oil Company; the Chief Chemist of the British Columbia Sugar Refinery; the Assistant Superintendent of the Provincial Public Health Laboratories; the President of the Western Chemical Company; the Head Chemist of the Home Oil Company; the Superintendent of the Canned Salmon Laboratories, all of whom are in Vancouver; the Control Superintendent of the Britannia Mines; the Director of the Dominion Fisheries Experimental Station at Prince Rupert; the Chief Superintendent of the Shell Oil Company at Montreal; the Manager of the Hartford Rayon Company at Hartford; the Director of Research at Searles Lake, California; and the Director of Chemical Research for the General Electric Company at Schenectady. Eighty-seven of the alumni have graduated in Geology and of these forty-one have taken the Doctor's degree. Eleven are now employed by the Geological Survey of Canada, that is, nearly half of all the geologists employed in that department; thirty-nine occupy the position of geologist with different mining companies, most of them active within this province, such as, for instance, Bralorne, Britannia, Premier, Pioneer, and the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company; four, including the Provincial Mineralogist, are in the Department of Mines at Victoria; four are consulting geologists; and one is with the Geophysical Laboratory at Washington, D. C. The remainder will be found as administrators, executives, and professors, in their special field, in Canada, the United States, England, Rhodesia, South America, lava, and New Guinea. Eighteen THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Of the ninety-two graduates in Mining and Metallurgy the great majority are actively engaged in the development of the mining industry of this province. They include the General Manager of Pioneer, the largest gold- producing mine in British Columbia; the Mine Superintendent of the Victoria Mine; and a former Mine Superintendent of the B. C. Silver Company at Stewart. One graduate is Smelter Superintendent of the Inspiration Copper Company in Arizona; another, who is now in academic work, was formely General Mine Superintendent of the Britannia Mines. By far the greater number of the graduates in Civil Engineering hold positions on the engineering staffs of the municipalities, the industrial plants, and the construction companies of the province. Among them are the Assistant City Engineer of Vancouver and the Underground Engineer of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company. The following selection from the list of the graduates in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering completes this summary record of achievement. Among these are engineers holding positions with the British Columbia Telephone Company in Vancouver, Canadian Explosives in Victoria, the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company in Trail, the Marconi Company and the Bell Telephone Company in Montreal, and the Brazilian Traction Company in Rio de Janeiro. One is Chief Engineer of Letson and Burpee in Vancouver; another is Chief Assistant Designer at the Canadian Westinghouse Company in Hamilton; another is head of five departments of the Canadian General Electric in Peterborough ; and another was for a time Public Utilities Adviser to the City Council of Vancouver. Still another, a research engineer with the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, was recently selected by his firm to act as their research representative with the Siemens Schuckert Company of Berlin. The review here presented of the activities of the University alumni obviously cannot pretend to be in any way complete or exhaustive, having as its object merely to indicate some of the more distinctive features of graduate achievement. It is surely evident, nevertheless, that twenty-one years of energy and enterprise, not least on the part of her alumni, have given the University of British Columbia a place, however humble, among her elder sisters of Europe and America. HISTORY AT U. B. C. (The material for this article was secured by Miss Helen Bontilier from an article prepared and presented by Dr. Sage at the Annual Dinner of the Graduate Historical Society) THE University of British Columbia has reached its majority and is looking back to see what the years of childhood and adolescence have done for it, the youngest university in Canada. Graduates who have specialized in History look back to the time when History, as a definite department did not exist. When the University was founded, and Dr. F. F. Wesbrook went in search of outstanding men to head departments of his dream university, he did not look for a History "head". In the days of McGill College, Vancouver, History was associated with the Department of English. The Classics Department offered courses in the fields of Ancient Greek and Roman History, but did not continue the discussion into the modern period. Dr. Mack Eastman, the first Professor of History, was officially "assistant professor", but he never had a superior as far as the University of British Columbia History Department was concerned. Talk of securing Professor W. L. Grant of Queen's as head did not materialize, so Dr. Eastman had the work of organizing the department. When he came, he taught Economics as well as History and had no assistant in either department. The list of courses was rather formidable, but the actual lecture load was only nine hours per week. Dr. Eastman was an organizer, and although he could not have foreseen the success which would attend his efforts as a founder of the Department of History, he certainly had no small ideas for his own work and that of his successors, to say nothing for the students who were expected to measure up to his ambitions for them. To quote his colleague and successor, Dr. W. N. Sage: "He was an idealist, and he gave an aim and direction to the Department of History which has never been completely lost." In 1917 Dr. Eastman was accepted for overseas service, and his place was taken by Walter C. Barnes, a graduate of Columbia, who has since been appointed professor of History at Smith College, Northampton. Dr. Eastman was on leave, so, although a second appointment had been made, History was still a "one man department". Professor Barnes was on the staff for only one year when he was replaced by Professor W. N. Sage, now head of the department. For the first year Dr. Sage was "The Department", but he did manage to secure the part-time services of a reader. After the war it seemed as if Dr. Eastman's dream might become a reality, for History was now a two-man department. Seven courses were given, but Dr. Eastman found that he had been too optimistic when he expected senior students to do summer reading. However, he did do something for GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Nineteen which all readers and students will thank him(?)—he inaugurated the term essay and the mid-term. In 1921, a third member was appointed in the person of Dr. G. C. Davidson. Unfortunately, Dr. Davidson's health was poor and his services to the department were limited to one year. The following year Dr. Davidson was succeeded by Professor F. H. Soward, and the organization of the department was that which all students of the period 1922-1929 will remember. In 1925 Dr. Eastman joined the staff of the International Labour Office, and in 1927 he severed his connection with the University. Dr. Sage was acting head of the department until the appointment of Professor D. C. Harvey as head of the department in 1928. In 1929 the Department of History joined with the rest of the world in a period of "boom optimism", and Professor A. C. Cooke was added to the department. Courses were reorganized and enlarged. However, the depression came, and the History Department suffered from reduced grants. In 1931 Professor Harvey resigned to become provincial archivist of Nova Scotia and special lecturer in Canadian history at Dalhousie. History once more became a three-man department, and in the following year, Dr. Sage, who had been associated with Dr. Eastman in his plans for the department, became the head. During the previous years graduates had ably carried on the work of assistants and, during the absence of Dr. Eastman, as special lecturers. In 1935, Dr. Sylvia Thrupp, one of the many eminent graduates whom members of the History Department have trained, was appointed as lecturer. A department would never flourish merely by having outstanding professors. It must be able to attract and inspire students. In this respect the History Department deserves as much praise as any other on the campus. During the first five sessions of the University no honour work was offered, but in the calendar for 1919-1920 the requirements for honours were listed. As an example of outstanding pass students who graduated before honours were inaugurated we claim Lennox Mills of Arts '16. The first class in honours was that of 1921, and consisted of Dr. Thos. P. Peardon, now at Columbia University, Dr. Alfred Rive at Geneva, and Dr. Morley Scott, a member of the History Department at the University of Michigan. These were the first honour graduates in History, and they set a standard which all succeeding classes have attempted to follow. The list of graduates who have brought honour to their Alma Mater through their work in History is too long to give here. There have been fifteen University of British Columbia graduates who have secured their Doctor's Degrees with work in the Social Studies. Graduates in History are to be found in Geneva, in Ottawa, in universities throughout the United States and in Japan. Many have entered the legal profession and a list of barristers and solicitors for the province of British Columbia would contain many familiar names. The teaching profession has drawn largely from the ranks of University of British Columbia graduates, and members of former honour classes in History are taking an active part in the curriculum revision which is being carried out by the Department of Education at the present time. Practically coincident with the announcement that honours courses would be offered in History was the formation of the University Historical Society in the autumn of 1919. Dr. Eastman was the first honorary president and H. L. Keenleyside the first president. This society gave undergraduates an opportunity to discuss historical problems informally, and to consider problems for which there was insufficient time in the lecture room. The society did its work well. In fact, it worked so well, that for a time following 1930 it seemed as if a barrier would have to be raised to prevent graduates from "visiting" so regularly. In the spring of 1934 plans were made for the formation of a Graduate Historical Society which would be open to all former members of the Historical Society and to all those who majored in History. There was a second reason for organizing: The Historical Society gold medal had last been awarded in 1932, and it was felt that the graduates should provide some form of recognition for the student whose work was considered most outstanding. An endowment fund has been started, and the first award of the Graduate Historical Book Prize, of an annual value of twenty-five dollars, will be made at the 1936 Congregation. As the graduates look back over the life of the History Department they find that it has had a chequered career. Like the University of which it is an integral part, it has had its "ups and downs", but also like the University, scholarship has never been sacrificed. Members of the faculty have given of their best and the students have responded to the motto Tuum Est. VISITING THE ALUMNI LAST spring, as a member of a committee of three, I visited various parts of the province concerning Adult Education. However, before writing a few reminiscences of memorable occasions, may I take this opportunity of thanking all the grads. who by their overwhelming kindness, hospitality and helpfulness made my trip a pleasure rather than a duty. For anybody following in my footsteps, I would suggest that a course in international diplomacy, contract bridge and sleep elimin- Twenty THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ation is indicated. As a Commonwealth Fellow I well remember "the boys" taking turns at "entertaining" our Assistant Director so that the unfortunate man went back to New York physically worn out. Since my return I have had strong suspicions that my fellow Alumni had similar designs on my health. Most of the trip remains as a pleasant, but decidedly blurred memory, from which the following "highlights" emerge : Violent arguments in the Co-operative Fruit Company's office near West Robson with J. W. ("Slim") Lee and Shirley Preston on the value of a University education. Fleeting recollections of Yahk, where Mrs. Lazenby (nee Doris Lee) and Eric Lazenby discussed all subjects from the technique of javelin throwing to the degeneracy of modern humanity. A delightful dinner at Barkerville with Mr. and Mrs. Chandler (nee Jean Ballard) —highlight "Aluminum and its effect on the digestive system". Eric Johnson and J. L. Cornwall displaying with evident pride their labs, at Island Mountain and Cariboo Gold Quartz Mines respectively. A bridge game at Wells, the details somewhat lacking, but an excellent party with the cards running well. Tommy Munn asking innumerable questions about the latest publications in the realm of Geology. At Tadanac Charlie Wright and "Dad" Hartley engaged in fervent disputation, topic—"Is the modern graduate worthy of his predecessors?" In Penticton, Mrs. Hatfield (nee Toddv Tisdall), Mrs. Caple (nee Bice Clegg), Har- ley Hatfield and Kenny Caple deep in such discussions as "Can the Alumni find a common aim?"—the answer at that time uncertain. The 24th May celebrations at Trail with A. B. Thompson arranging for "an athlete in his youth" to start the sports. A fleeting discussion on the P. G. E. with "Gus" Madeley. More discussion on "Modern Youth and Discipline" with Jerry here at Squamish. Conversations of a serious nature with Nancy Miles and George Barclay of Cran- brook; H. B. King at Wells; Otto Gill at Penticton. And the conclusions—just these—one can go from one end of the province to the other and always there will be found graduates of the Universitv of British Columbia. In agriculture, in mining, forestry, law, the church, schools, medicine, indeed in every phase of activity, our Alumni are making their mark and will play a vital part in the future welfare of our province. HARRY WARREN, Science '26. FROM AN ALUMNUS IN EXILE College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia. Dear Sir: March 24, 1936. Having just marked my ballot for the election of Senators of the University, I am reminded that I have never sent off my Alumni membership fee for this year. Last autumn, The Chronicle arrived just when I was in the midst of preparing a lecture on the Fascist philosophy of "the recapitulating unity of the indefinite series of generations". Fascism had to wait while I caught up on the news of classmates and I thereupon resolved that I would, without delay, send my dues so that I would receive The Chronicle regularly. Since then I have been on the point of sending the dollar and if I manage to finish this letter without interruptions, it stands a good chance of reaching you. What a contrast it is here with University life in Vancouver! Here, as Assistant Professor of Government, I teach all the courses I might have liked to take but either didn't know enough to take or had no opportunity to take at University of British Columbia. But quite the greatest contrast is that of tradition and age. While U. B. C. celebrates her coming-of-age, here they look back to the founding in 1693 and daily I walk through the oldest college building in America, a building designed by the famoi" English architect, Sir Christopher Wren, in 1695. Yet, withal I sometimes feel that our developing traditions at U. B. C. are more vital than the oftentimes boring recital of famous sons who have trodden these walks. One is driven to the conclusion that trad tion is more than the past, and must be made to live in the present and carried into the future. As the warm days break in upon us, my mind turns back to the Spring days that always were the prelude to the final exams at U. B. C. The transition is made even easier as I glance at the wall beside my desk where I see a photo of "King John's Palace" (perhaps it has now lost our familiar title and is called with due respect, The Library). But it has been very enjoyable to have projected myself for these brief moments into my U. B. C. days in thus writing you,— anonymous though you are to me, since I have lost touch with the names of the Alumni officers. Should you happen to be a classmate, I greet you, and whosoever you are, fellow alumnus, I salute you and ask that you bear my greetings to those responsible for this year's 21st birthday celebration. May it be crowned with success and may you not forget to send The Chronicle to yours truly and keep him informed of the activities of the Alma Mater he holds in such affectionate regard. With a TUUM EST reminder for those who are carrying on, and a Kla-how-ya to my fellow has-beens, LIONEL H. LAING (Arts '29). ,3k (JHemnrtam DEAN BROCK TO say that in the death of Dean R. W. Brock the University has lost a "big" man is easy. To point to the material evidences of that bigness—the Faculty of Applied Science in general, the Department of Geology in particular, and the good name established by its graduates, from their native province of British Columbia to the far-flung corners of the earth—that, too, is easy. To put a finger on the focal point, to distil the essence of that quality of bigness, is vastly more difficult. For Dean Brock's was a complex character. It was no open book to be skimmed over hastily, and digested and assimilated comfortably by even the most experienced and penetrating reader. St. Paul has said: "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier". Dean Brock was a warrior if ever there was one, and he seemed, not contemptuous of, but above the meanness and pettiness unhappily so often the preoccupation of mortal man. Spartan in his treatment of others, as of himself, he yet possessed a wide understanding and an innate gentleness towards human frailty—products doubtless of his essentially sensitive and fine-fibred make-up. He was that rather rare combination—a man of vision and a born organizer. Possessing almost superhuman physical energy, knowing not the meaning of mental inertia, he was capable of and ever willing to assume a tremendous individual burden of responsibility. And yet he was not afraid to delegate authority to others. Therein, perhaps, lay the true measure of his greatness. He had faith in his fellow man. As usual, the poet says it best: "One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted,—wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake". PROFESSOR E. E. JORDAN THROUGH the death of Professor Jordan in March of this year, the University of British Columbia suffered a great loss. His passing was deeply regretted by his colleagues and occasioned genuine sorrow to the large number of students, both past and present, with whom he was associated. As a member of the Department of Mathematics of the University and of McGill College, Professor Jordan gave splendid service. Guided by a deep sense of justice and duty he displayed rare patience and tolerance. No man ever laboured more vigorously or conscientiously with his students; no member of the University ever had the interests of the institution more closely at heart. It is a tribute to his character and courage that, in spite of his illness, he carried on with his work almost to the end. The Faculty, his colleagues in the Department of Mathematics, the students and graduates respected him not only as a fine teacher but as a well loved friend. He will be greatly missed. <3ln (JNemortam MRS. R. W. BROCK IT was a tragic day for the whole of Canada when, on a windy July afternoon, a flying boat soared swiftly into the air above beautiful Alta Lake, faltered—and came crashing down into the rocky, cut-over timberland at the end of the lake. Within a few hours British Columbia heard the terrible news of the death of two of its most prominent and well-beloved citizens, Dean and Mrs. R. W. Brock. To everyone who knew them even slightly the dreadful tidings brought a sense of poignant loss. Mrs. Brock was an ideal, a real friend, and the very personification of beautiful womanhood. Someone who knew her very well has said: "From her flowed joy and goodness like a river. From her radiated the warm sunshine of love, strength, compassion and healing. From her blew a merry, salty, sea-breeze of humor, gay, delicious and infinitely enjoyed. She gave as naturally as she breathed, all unaware of her own grace. Her tastes were broad yet exquisite. Her judgment was reserved and very wise. She blessed the earth she lived in. To those who love her, she blesses it still and there is no one like her". Whole volumes could be written in her praise; and yet, for those who did not know her there are no adequate words to express her loveliness; and for those who knew her no words are necessary. —By a Delta Gamma. HELEN ENGLISH, ARTS *22 EVERYONE of Helen English's friends—and they are very many—must be groping for the words which would describe her rare quality and the feeling of loss which her death has brought to them. For the past eight years she has worked in the Office of the Registrar at the University. Even to those who knew her there but slightly she seemed an attractive, gracious and efficient person. But no mere acquaintance can have an inkling of the sharp grief which her sudden and untimely death has brought to those who were her friends. The students, the faculty and the staff had come to depend on her; for she was, not merely patient and helpful; she was interested in everyone and in everyone's difficulties. No call on her kindness was refused, no task was too much trouble. Members of the Alumni Association as well as the students found again and again that she was willing to do extra tiresome things that others shirked. Because she was so genuinely interested in everything that concerned her Alma Mater and so generous with her time and energy, she had made a place for herself in University life which was peculiarly her own. Helen died young, in the midst of her work. She was eager, active and interesting—it was fine to be with her. She has left empty in our lives a place which no one else can fill. Behind her reticence there lurked the sensitive humor and generosity of a loyal, thoughtful friend. Everyone at the University will miss her every day. No one will forget her. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Twenty-three THE BROCK MEMORIAL THE coming-of-age of a large and growing institution such as the University of British Columbia, is an event of no mean importance. Thus the decision that the University mark the date in some fitting manner was met with immediate response. Many were the recommendations of the committee in whose hands the matter rested, and ere long the idea of a permanent memorial took firm hold. The first suggestion was that a scholarship be established, but on further consideration the plan for a Memorial building was formulated. Immediately a representative committee was formed, consisting of members from each of the groups on the campus and from certain affiliated bodies such as the Alumni Association and the Faculty Women's Club. Several meetings of this committee were held and there it was found that the students had in mind a plan for a memorial to Dean and Mrs. Brock, and also that there were certain funds on hand for the erection of a Women's Union Building. Considerable thought was given to the proposition of student dormitories, but this was decided to be too expensive both in initial cost and subsequent upkeep. The coordination of several ideas evolved a Students' Union Building to be called "The Brock Memorial Building". With the consent of the Board of Governors and Senate suitable plans have been drafted of the exterior of the building. Briefly, the building is to be made the centre for extra-curricular activities of the students. Facilities are to be provided for the various club and students' organizations. The plans are left in the hands of the University architects, Messrs. Sharp and Thompson, for final drafting when the results of the financial campaign are known. The nature of the building and the purpose for which it is to be used gives everyone an opportunity to subscribe to the fund. Accordingly, the proposed figure of the cost, $125,000, was distributed among the groups interested. To the Alumni Association was assigned as its quota the sum of $15,000, the students pledged $30,000 as their part. The Women's Undergraduate Society turned over the $10,000 in bonds which had been the nucleus of their fund for a Union Building. The Board of Governors, Senate and Faculty each pledged their support, and the C.O.T.C. promised $3500. Already numerous contributions have been received, and the new organization of branches of the Alumni Association should bring many more dollars to the fund. Recently it was learned that the Governors of the University had assumed the cost of the Architects' fees and the cost of heating and other services to the building, which will cut the final cost of the building by approximately fifteen thousand dollars. The project is definitely under way. If the fund does not reach the objective it is the opinion of the committee that the building should be completed in part and further additions be made at a later date. The whole plan has had the serious thought of all the groups interested in the welfare of our University and has received their endorsation. In the meantime, it behooves each and every alumnus, be he old or young, male or female, poor or rich, to support this worthy project and carry to a successful completion the Brock Memorial Building Fund. REPORTS ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF THE ASSOCIATION A NEW DEAL THE Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia was formed at a meeting of graduates held on May 4, 1917. On that occasion, and on many since, great hopes were expressed as to the possibilities of such an organization in supporting our University. The stand has been taken on innumerable occasions, and quite rightly so, that the graduates of a university are the ones who will be most interested in the future welfare of their Alma Mater, and will be most capable of ascertaining its needs. In spite of all these sentiments, however, and in spite of the fact that the University itself has grown remarkably during its short span of life, the Alumni Association failed to develop in any degree, for the most part because little or no interest has been shown by the graduates themselves. As a result the organization drifted into a state of stagnation, with a few "faithfuls" meeting once or twice a year to enable the association to retain some semblance of "organization". Dissatisfaction with these conditions became manifest at the Annual Dinner held on 1st November, 1935. Very real complaints that graduates living outside Vancouver had no real participation in the affairs of the association had been placed so forcibly before the Twenty-four THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA executive that a new provisional constitution had been drawn up and was placed before the meeting to that date. The provisional constitution providing for a system of branches linked together by an executive council was adopted. According to the constitution the executive council must be elected at the annual meeting of the association, at which each branch can vote by proxy, according to its number of paid-up members, provided that such proxies are vouched for and lodged with the secretary before the meeting. This allows true representation of all graduates, due to the fact that each branch has equal voting strength and is kept informed of the work of the council. At the annual meeting an executive council was duly elected consisting of the following members: President - - John N. Burnett Vice-President - - Dorothy McRae Honorary Secretary - Milton Owen Records Secretary - Beth Abernethy Treasurer - - - - Lex McKillop Publications - - - Helen Crawford The executive council has met on two occasions to date. The first meeting was on 27th December, 1935, and was attended by representations from the Vancouver, Kimberley, West Kootenay, Ocean Falls, New Westminster and Kamloops branches, in addition to the members of the executive council. At this time the provisional constitution was reconsidered and approved, and further plans were laid for reorganization. The second meeting was held on 29th February, 1936, for the purpose of considering the slates submitted by the branches in preparation for the Senate elections. At this meeting the Vancouver, New Westminster and Kimberley branches were represented in addition to the regular executive. The executive, then, armed with the constitution and with the instructions of the annual meeting, has had before it one purpose, namely, the organization of branches. There is now no excuse for graduates living out of Vancouver to say that they can have no contact, or that Alumni resident in Vancouver have too great a part in the work of the association. The provisional constitution still has rough spots which will have to be smoothed out before this new organization can be fully effective, but we feel that we have the most ertective means of ensuring the existence of the association, and we are proud of the eighteen branches formed in the last seven months. NEW WESTMINSTER BRANCH THE New Westminster branch of the Alumni came into being as the result of a few telephone calls in December, 1935, by which a small group was assembled. The place of meeting was the Exhibition Office, procured through the influence of the Mac- Kenzie clan—Maisie, Margaret and Cameron all being active in the early organization of the branch. "Blythe Eagles asked me to 'phone you", the chosen few were told. "He's going to explain the branch idea to us". New Westminster is proud of Dr. Blythe Eagles, and his fellow-citizen-alumni turned out willingly to hear what he had to say. There were about a dozen graduates at that first meeting, representative of several years and by no means all known to each other. The number of strange faces in even so small a group was convincing evidence that something should be done to bring University of British Columbia graduates together. The branch organization, as outlined by Dr. Eagles and Milton Owen, won instant approval. Many of those present confessed themselves to be completely out of touch with college affairs, but very willing to help to "strengthen the voice of the alumni" in solving university problems of the future. A larger meeting was planned, notices of which were sent to all graduates in the city and district, and a nominating committee was appointed. Over two dozen interested alumni responded to the call, and this branch was formed: "One of the most enthusiastic in the province", according to late advice. Dr. Eagles was again in the chair, and an able guest speaker was J. N. Burnett, who pointed out the urgent need for reorganization in the alumni association. Officers were elected as follows : Honorary President: F. W. Howay, LL.B., LL.D., F.R.S.C. President: J. R. Fournier, B.A.Sc. '22. Vice-President: Janet K. Gilley, B.A. '20. Secretary: G. R. McQuarrie, B.A. "28. Records Secretary: Maisie MacKenzie, B.A. '23. Treasurer: Dave Turner, B.S.A. '33. Two dinner meetings have been held by the branch since its organization, the first with an attendance of 25, the second, a guest night, with nearly 50. The larger gathering was addressed by Dean Buchanan, and among the guests were Mrs. Buchanan, Judge F. W. Howay, and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Reid. The more energetic members of the local branch are at present busy on New Westminster's $1000 Union Building objective. The others are waiting for the next meeting. They are not merely waiting, however, but are anticipating that event with pleasure, and are determined to keep alive their re-awakened interest in their Alma Mater. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AT OTTAWA THE Ottawa Branch of the University of British Columbia Alumni Association held its annual meeting in the Chateau Laurier GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Twenty-five Grill on December 11, 1935. When the coffee stage of the dinner arrived, the chairman, Dr. H. C. Gunning, gave a brief address before presenting the financial statement for 1935. It read: "Receipts zero, expenditures zero, balance zero". He then dealt with other outstanding business and the election of officers with such celerity that the proceedings smacked of conspiracy. Dr. W. E. ("Bill") Graham and Dr. H. C. Horwood were elected president and secretary by acclamation and the meeting progressed to the more interesting things of the evening. Dr. J. D. MacLean, former Premier and Minister of Education for British Columbia, introduced the speaker of the evening, the Hon. Dr. G. M. Weir, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Education for British Columbia, with a brief but interesting outline of Dr Weir's career. After he explained how Dr. Weir had sailed his ship "from the placid seas of education to the stormy oceans of political life", he called upon his "brilliant successor". Dr. Weir paid a fitting tribute to Dr. MacLean's work in British Columbia, outlined the fortunes of the University for the past few years, and made very encouraging predictions for the future. The meeting felt that with Dr. Weir at the helm, the University affairs are in the hands of a master and that his predictions will soon be accomplished facts. He went ahead to show how University of British Columbia graduates have cut niches for themselves, not only in the professional field, but also in various governmental capacities where their training has made them invaluable cogs in the machinery of public service. As their abilities are recognized in the United States as well as in Canada, the people of British Columbia should be grateful indeed that these graduates prefer to work in their native land when opportunities in wider and more remunerative fields are afforded. Dr. Weir spoke in glowing terms of the Faculty and said that the success attained by their students indicated the ability of the professors to impart something in addition to mere knowledge. In closing his excellent and most interesting address he strongly urged the University graduates to take greater interest in governmental and political life and to lend their talents to the solution of present-day problems. Dr. Weir's talk met with the British Columbia burst of applause and enthusiasm that it so richly merited. Professor W. A. Carrothers, who was visiting in Ottawa, thanked Dr. Weir on behalf of the Alumni and made a few well chosen remarks in support of his suggestions. After adjournment everyone took the opportunity of meeting Drs. Weir and Carrothers personally. They expressed their appreciation of their presence at the meeting and asked them to tender their best wishes to University of British Columbia when they returned. The meeting was attended by thirty graduates with their wives, husbands, or escorts. TORONTO BRANCH HAVE you heard from Maybelle lately?" I heard one graduate ask another. "Oh, yes. She is being married, you know", was the answer. "Maybelle, too. I never hear from the West without hearing that someone has been married. I don't suppose it would be the same now". For months conversations like this have engrossed University of British Columbia Alumni when they have met in Toronto. Whether they had anything to do with the choice of the play that was the highlight of the 21st Anniversary Party is hard to say. It was an evening when the most was made of the now time-esteemed attachments of campus days that reached back to '21 and down the years to '35. The party was a reception at the Rosedale home of Mrs. N. E. W. Michener (Nora Willis '21), whose husband is the newly appointed secretary of the Canadian Rhodes Scholarship Association. Primary attention was given to the Brock Memorial Fund, which the Eastern Alumni are eager to support. It was especially encour- againg to have a wire of greeting from the home group, even though its dominant note was "business in order". The meeting appreciated "the call" and expects to answer freely, in the spirit of the occasion. At this point, time and space were dispensed with and the Players' Club transported the scene to "East of Eden", explaining that though eastern existence permitted them but one practice, the Players' Club would rise to any occasion with colours flying. Thereupon Cain (David Wodlinger '28) and his wife, in the course of the play christened Jenny, for Genesis, (Hope Leeming Salmond) with the assistance of Eve (Sheila Tisdall '32) and Adam (Dr. Tommy Taylor), endeavoured to explain how the third generation had come about. The matter was not made entirely clear though a great many enlightening suggestions were given upon such primary matters as "diet" for Adam, tact of the new Eve, and the care and nourishment of children. For the rest of the evening it is only necessary to say that acquaintances were renewed as fellow classmen appeared from Science, Arts and Commerce, and new contacts were found through Library, School, Teaching, Public Health, Medicine, Law, Social Science, and the aforementioned matrimony. Such variety of interest and occupation would have carried us far, even although we had still not one "attachment preferred", our own affection for the University of British Columbia. The Executive for the year has been: Honorary President: Dr. Dal Grauer. President: Arthur Bagnall. Secretary-Treasurer: Eleanor Killam. Twenty-six THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA EAST KOOTENAY BRANCH THE East Kootenay Branch was formed when a number of former students were gathered at the third annual reunion banquet held at Kimberley, November 29, 1935. The reunion was attended by former students, graduates or otherwise, and their wives or husbands, making a total of forty. A dance, to which former students of any university were invited, followed the banquet. The reunion was indeed successful, both in the matter of bringing old friends together, and in bringing Varsity a little bit to the front. Weather conditions, unfortunately, prevented people, other than residents of Kimberley and Cranbrook, from attending, but in future we hope to overcome this by having the banquet a month or so earlier. The East Kootenay branch comprises Cranbrook, Crcston, Fernie, Kimberley, Yahk, and the general surrounding district; a rather large territory, which makes good organization very difficult. Murray Garden is our branch president, and Pete Fowler is secretary-treasurer. Cranbrook, Creston and Fernie are represented on the Executive by Nancy Miles, Olive Nor- grove and Angus McPhee, respectively. At Kimberley, the Alumni Association has been handling the University Extension Lectures, and we have had four very pleasant meetings here. *We are pleased to report that graduates resident at Kimberley are 100 per cent paid up members of the Alumni Association for 1936, and we have three life members. "Editor's Remarks : All other branches please note. KAMLOOPS ALUMNI ORGANIZE AN organization dinner meeting of the University of British Columbia Alumni of Kamloops was held on February 1. The guests of honour were Dr. G. G. Sedgewick rnd His Honour Judge T. D. Swanson. The former spoke on the efforts being made by the students to construct the new Students' Union Building in memory of the late Dean and Mrs. Brock. Mr. Gerry McKee gave a report of the last meeting of the Alumni Association held in Vancouver and outlined the aims and purpose of a local body. As a result of the meeting, a local Alumni Branch was formed with the following Executive: President, Miss M. Lillian Reid (Arts '22) ; Secretary, F. Henry Johnson (Arts '32) ; Treasurer, Don Sutherland (Ag. '30). The Executive, during the past weeks, has been concentrating on the task of raising funds for the Brock Memorial. The following is a list of the members of the Kamloops Branch: English. J. F. K., M.A., 1933; Principal, Kamloops High School. English, Mrs. T. F. K. (nee Ada E. Lang- dale), Arts '24. Binns. Mrs. E. (nee Agnes Eillen), Arts '24. Burton, Mrs. A. (nee Agnes Ure),, Arts '21. Galloway, Miss Jean, Arts '35. Harman, Miss Eileen, Arts '24, Kamloops High School staff. Harrison, Miss Ruth, Arts '21, Kamloops High School staff. Homfray, Miss Geraldine Edith, Sc. '31. Howard, J. Desmond, Arts '32, Kamloops High School staff. Jackson, W. Allin, Arts '28, Kamloops High School staff. Johnson, F. Henry, Arts '32, Kamloops High School staff. Kay, Wm, Arts '29, Kamloops High School staff. Kay, Mrs. Wm. (nee Lily Dobson) Arts'29. Morse, John J., Arts '34, Kamloops High School staff. Murray, Miss Muriel, Arts '32, Kamloops High School staff. McDiarmid, Mrs. H. S. (nee Muriel H. Costley) Arts '19. McKee, R. Gerald, Sc. '24, District Forester's Office. Potter, Frank, Arts '26, Kamloops High School staff. Reid, Miss Gertrude K., Arts '19, Kamloops High School staff. Reid, Miss M. Lillian, Arts '22, Kamloops High School staff. Stevenson, Alan M., Arts '28, Kamloops High School staff. Sutherland, Don., Ag. '30, District Agriculturist. Ternan, C. H., ("Gee") Sc. '24, District Forester's Office. ENTHUSIASM PLUS! MILTON Owen maintains that there is still some spirit left. John Dean (Science '34) left Reno Gold Mines at Salmo, B. C, at 4 p.m. on December 26th and, after travelling some 560 miles over country roads such as only British Columbia knows, he arrived in Vancouver exactly 24 hours later. And the reason for such a herculean effort—the Christmas dance at the Commodore, which took place on the night of December 27th. When such a report as this reaches the ears of the Executive, we begin to dream glorious dreams of the future enthusiasm of the Alumni. LOCATION OF GRADUATES Number in: Vancouver ------ 1943 Other parts of British Columbia 974 Other parts of Canada - - - 159 United States of America - - 168 British Isles ----- 26 Australia ------ 2 India ------- 2 Africa ------- ^ France ------- 2 South America ----- 4 China ------- 8 Japan -------10 Other countries - 3 Number deceased ----- 48 Number whose address is unknown 242 Total ------- 3598 GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Twenty-seven ALUMNI BRANCHES For the information of the Alumni Association, and for the encouragement of other possible branches, we are printing the list of branches formed this year. The names of the president and honorary-secretary of each branch are included, so that Alumni resident in these districts and not yet members of their branch may know with whom they should get in touch. 1. Vancouver: President—Tommy Ellis. Secretary—Dr. H. R. L. Davis, 4105 W. 10th Avenue. 2. New Westminster: President—Bob Fournier. Secretary—G. R. McQuarrie, 713 Columbia St., New Westminister, B.C. 3. Toronto: President—Arthur Bagnall. Secretary—Eleanor Killam, 52 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, Ont. 4. Montreal: Islay Johnston, 3515 Shuter St., Montreal, P. Q. 5. Okanagan: President—R. Spilsbury. Secretary—T. M. Chalmers, Box 108, Kelowna, B. C. 6. West Kootenay: President—R. Lowe. Secretary—Miller Mason, Box 1637, Trail, B.C. 7. East Kootenay: President—Murray Garden. Secretary—Hedley Fowler, Box 289, Kimberley, B. C. 8. Ocean Falls: Cam. Duncan, Box 66, Ocean Falls, B.C. 9. Kamloops: President—Lillian Reid. Secretary—F. H. Johnson, 635 St. Paul's St., Kamloops, B. C. 10. Ottawa: President—Dr. W. E. Graham. Secretary—Dr. H. C. Horwood, 414 Victoria Museum, Ottawa, Ont. 11. Victoria: Elizabeth P. Smith, 2753 Cavendish Avenue, Victoria, B. C. 12. Barkerville: Kenneth Campbell. 13. Nanaimo: Jean Stewart. 14. Prince Rupert: W. W. C. O'Neill. 15. North Vancouver: W. R. McDougall, North Vancouver High School, N. Vancouver, B. C. 16. Abbotsford: J. R. McKee, Box 230, Abbotsford, B.C. 17. Powell River: Henry Anderson, Box 259, Powell River, B.C. 18. Chilliwack: The Rev. Max Humphrey, St. John's Vicarage, Sardis, B. C. DO YOU REMEMBER— WHEN the editor of The Ubyssey was a woman ? When the Society of Thoth presented their first Egyptienne Ballet? The shoe-shining parlour erected by the freshmen of Arts '27? The Auditorium minus seats, the library minus tables, the locker rooms minus lockers and the common rooms minus everything? When Hen No. 6 made front page news in the Vancouver daily newspapers ? Gus Madele/s "bags" floating at the top of the Science Building's flagpole? The tree-planting ceremony in '29 when the tree to be planted was forgotten? The class draws that were "cooked"? The good old days when Victoria was invaded? The impressing hats and shirts of the Science men? That once upon a time the Alumni Association possessed enough wealth to donate $500 to the equipment fund of the gymnasium? GRADUATE CLUBS PLAYERS* CLUB ALUMNI THIS year's programme has been reminiscent of University days, consisting, as it did of a group of one-act plays in January, which included "The Luck Piece", "Below Par", and "The Spinsters of Lushe". The last named was chosen as the entry for the Drama Festival in which it was awarded 70 per cent —a high rating. In spite of a lack of "dramatic enterprise", the play was a credit to the club, and afforded a contrast to "Waiting for Lefty". Mrs. Clegg, the director, is a friend of many years' standing of the club, and her charm and enthusiasm were largely responsible for the success of the play. Next year the club has decided to enter the Drama Festival with its best foot forward. In anticipation of this, the advisory board is already reading plays with the hope that it will be able to make concrete suggestions to the incoming executive so that there will be no delay in proceeding with their plans next fall. Meanwhile, a play to be given during Home-coming week is under rehearsal, and, as it was written for those who live near the Danube, and adapted by P. G. Wode- house, our public can be assured of life, love, and laughter, when "By Candle-light" appears in the University Auditorium on May 5th. Twenty-eight THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Mrs. Gordon Letson is to play the leading role, and will be supported by Bill Buckingham, who needs no introduction to Little Theatre or University audiences; Bill Haggerty, a man of science, who made a name in "Once in a Lifetime", and an excellent supporting cast. Members of the Alumni are urged to make a point of attending and obtaining their tickets early. The Alumni Players' Club is making serious plans to arrange for quarters which will obviate the long trek out to the University for rehearsals. It is also hoped that as soon as the club membership permits, private performances for members and friends will be staged of plays possessing dramatic interest. Private performances could also be utilized for the production of plays written by members, who hesitate to permit the general public to see their first efforts. It is hoped that ere long we shall be able to stage a play written by a member for the Drama Festival. Players' Club members —"Tuum Est". THE GRADUATE LETTERS CLUB THE Graduate Letters Club will begin its fifth year in the autumn of 1936. Founded by some graduates of the University Letters Club, it has developed along slightly different lines from the older and more serious undergraduate group. The meetings are usually devoted to very informal discussions of various literary topics of contemporary interest, — discussions which are launched by a paper or a talk by one of the members. As a pleasant innovation, the final gathering of the past season was entertained by the excellent production of a one-act play and the dramatic reading of a longer play. All graduates of the Letters Club are welcome as members of the Graduate Letters Club, and in addition a limited number of associate members are elected each year. The president for the season 1936-37 is Mr. John Oliver, and the secretary, Mrs. Elsie Davies. GRADUATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN the second year of its existence the Graduate Historical Society feels that it is ably fulfilling its dual purpose; that of providing a gathering place for graduates in History and also endowing a prize for the most meritorious student in the graduating class in History. In this, the jubilee year of the University and of the City of Vancouver, the society chose as its topic "Vancouver's Fifty Years". The papers have been the result of original research on the part of those members of the society who have presented them. Those who have contributed to this part of the society's programme include: Mr. Kenneth A. Waites, B.A. — Early Settlements on Burrard Inlet. Miss Eleanor B. Mercer, B.A.—The Fire and the Coming of the Railway. Miss Audrey Reid, B.A.—Vancouver at the Turn of the Century. Mr. Francis C. Hardwick, M.A.—Vancouver Before the War. Miss L. Gwendolyn Armstrong, B.A.— Vancouver in War Time. Miss Alice Keenleyside. M.A,; Miss Helen R. Boutilier, M.A.; Mr. Jack Conway, B.A.; Mr. Arthur Johnson, B.A.—Postwar Development of Vancouver. Major J. S. Matthews, City Archivist, was guest speaker at the March meeting, and illustrated his address by slides showing scenes of early Vancouver. The Annual Dinner was held in the Hotel Georgia on Saturday, April 4, with His Honour, Judge F. W. Howay, as special speaker, in keeping with the general topic for the year, Judge Howay chose as his subject: 'History in Vancouver's Streets'. The meeting was presided over by the president, Mr. K. A. Waites, and the speaker was introduced by the honorary president, Mr. R. L. Reid, K.C. One of the most interesting features of the programme was the Roll Call, conducted by Dr. W. N. Sage. Early days at McGill College and of University of British Columbia at Fairview were recalled by those who responded for their respective years. Plans tor the meetings for 1936-1937 are not definite, but many suggestions have been made regarding suitable topics for discussion. Next year the society will return to a broader field, and those who prefer greater scope for discussion than that offered by the Vancouver subject, will find an outlet for their energies. The executive for the year 1935-1936 included : Honorary President: Mr. R. L. Reid, K.C. Faculty Representative: Dr. W. N. Sage, Ph.D., F. R. Hist. S. President: Mr. K. A. Waites, B.A. (1930). Vice-President: Mr. A. Johnson, B.A. (1935). Recording Secretary: Miss M. A. Ormsby, M.A. (1929). Corresponding Secretary: Miss H. R. Boutilier, M.A. (1931). Treasurer: Mr. C. J. Oates, M.A. (1931). SOCIAL SERVICE ALUMNI CLUB ALTHOUGH the Social Service graduates are distinctly in the minority amongst University of British Columbia graduates the Social Service Alumni Club is an active, well attended organization to which practically every graduate of the course, resident in Vancouver, belongs. The club was organized a year ago to fill two needs, namely, to further professional interests among the members, and to work for the betterment of the course and the students at the University of British Columbia. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Twenty-nine To date 44 have received Social Service diplomas, of whom all but eight were University graduates. Of these 44, seven are married, two are employed in other social work, two are unemployed, and the remaining 33 are employed in Social Service work of various kinds. These 33 are employed as follows: Six in family agencies, nine in children's agencies, one in the day nursery association, one in the Social Service Exchange, one in the John Howard Society, two in the Hospital Social Service, two in the Provincial Welfare Service, three in the Y. W. C. A., and the remainder are employed outside the province. Last year most of our time was devoted to discussing the course as we, the original students, knew it, and drawing up proposals for changes which, from our practical experience, we felt were needed. A draft of these changes was presented to those in charge of the course last spring and many of the suggestions have already been accepted and put into use. This year the discussion has been continued to a lesser degree and during the spring of this year a new project has been taken, namely, a refresher course in psychology for the members. This has taken the form of discussions which have been led by Dr. Wyman Pilcher, who has kindly taken an interest in the matter. The social activities of the club have centred around our desire to know the students and make a link between professional social work and the student body. Last year two teas were given by the club and during the present year a most successful party was held for the students. THE ALUMNI STUDIO CLUB THE Alumni.Studio Club was originally the Pianists' Club, a campus organization. This club died out at Varsity, but the original members reorganized. After reorganization the membership included vocalists and instrumentalists, and the name was changed to the Alumni Studio Club. The present membership numbers about twelve people who are exceedingly enthusiastic. We have very interesting programmes, always finished by lively discussion, which one member must be prepared to lead. Our meetings are held on the evening of the third Sunday of each month; the members taking it in turn to be host or hostess, as the case may be. Any solo performer from the University Musical Society is cordially invited to join these interesting meetings. The executive for the year 1935-36 is as follows: President: James Pollock. Vice-President: Magdalene Barton. Secretary-Treasurer: Flo. Foellmer, 2734 Dunbar St., Vancouver, B. C. "HOME=COMING" WEEK PLANS THE following are the plans drawn up by the "Home-coming" Committee for the week of May 4th to May 7th: Monday, May 4th—President's Reception to the graduating class. Tuesday, May 5th—Class Day (afternoon) ; Alumni Play in the University Auditorium (evening). Wednesday, May oth—Special Congregation for the granting of Honorary Degrees, followed by official reception to guests of honour, special guests and Alumni (afternoon). Thursday, May 7th—General Congregation, followed by tea given by Alumni Association in honour of the graduates (afternoon) ; Convocation dinner in the Hotel Vancouver (evening). SENATE ELECTIONS, 1936 THE members of the Alumni Association extend their heartiest congratulations to the following, who were elected to serve on Senate for the next three years: Chancellor : R. E. McKechnie, Esq., C.B.E., M.D., CM., LL.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (by acclamation). Senate: Harry T. Logan, Esq., M.C., M.A. Garnett Gladwin Sedgewick, Esq., B.A., Ph.D. Sherwood Lett, Esq., M.C., B.A. Miss Mary Louise Bollert, M.A., A.M. His Honour Frederic William Howay, LL.B., LL.D., F.R.S.C. Arthur Edward Lord, Esq., B.A. Miss Annie B. Jamieson, B.A. Paul A. Boving, Esq., Cand.Ph., Cand. Agr. John Craig Oliver, Esq., B.A., B.A.Sc. Mrs. Evelyn Fenwick Farris, M.A. LL.D. Miss Isobel Harvey, M.A. The Most Rev. Adam Urias dePencier, M.A., D.D. Sydney Anderson, Esq., B.A.Sc. Arnold Alexander Webster, Esq., M.A. His Honour John Donald Swanson, B.A. SCIENCE '33 NEWS of this year is scarce owing to the well-known aversion of Sc. '33 to writing due, we understand, to the difficulty of combining this art with that of beer drinking. The class seems to be well scattered and working hard at their various professions. We point with pride to the record of the Civils, ever a dauntless band, four of the eleven have marched bravely to the altar. The Geologists and Chemists, so far the only entries in the Grand Matrimonial Sweepstakes, have a mere three benedicts to their credit in spite of their well-known "caf" haunting proclivities. The Thirty THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA remaining professions, the dark horses, are still clustered round the starter. The following is the latest dope we have on our members. If anyone considers the write-up actionable, just try to collect! ABRAHAM, F. j.: Whereabouts and activities unknown—information welcome. ALLEN, G. S.: Letting light into the dark minds of budding foresters—Instructor at University of British Columbia. BARDSLEY, J. H.. Last heard of as a chemist at Powell River. BROOKES, N. F.: Working as mine foreman or engineer at some mine in the Trail district. BROWN, B. S.: B C. Nickel, Choate, B.C., assistant to the resident engineer, and engaged in living down the ignominy of a year in Geology. CAMPBELL, H. D.: Another dark horse; location and occupation unknown. CARRE, S. N.: Electrician Island Mountain Mine, Wells, B. C.; spare-time occupation, rolling down the mountain in a car. CARSWELL, E. R.: Chemist with the Home Oil Co. in Vancouver. COWAN, S. G.: Still looping the loop with the R. CA. F. CREIGHTON, G.: Suspected of selling bonds in the City of Vancouver. CUMMINGS, J. M.: One of the benedicts and instructing at University of British Columbia in the art of remembering those dofunnies with the unpronouncable, unspell- able names. CURRIE, J. M.: Assayer at Trail. DEANE, R.. Last heard of working in the Mechanical Department at Trail. DONALDSON, J.: Engaged in general engineering work at the B.R.X. gold mine. ELLET, A. S.: Still working in Vancouver, we believe. ELLISON, R.: In the Assay Office at Trail. FOWLER, H. S.: Back at Sudbury, Ont., for awhile and now working at Kimberley. FRATTINGER, P. A.: We don't know what Pete's doing; however, we noticed his name in the column "Seen at the Spanish Grill", so we presume that he is flourishing. FREEDMAN, H. C.: Activities at present unknown. HODNETT, L.: Working with the National Research Council at Ottawa. HEDLEY, J. B.: Operating with the West Kootenay Power & Light at South Slocan. INOUYE, K.: Returned to Japan over a year ago. IRVING, R.: The chemists' nominee in the big race—location and occupation unknown. JACOBS, J. K.: Engaged in boosting the lumber industry around Vancouver. JOHNSTON, J. R.: Last heard of on a mine proposition around Chu Chua, B. C. LADNER, F. E.: Lured by lucre he deserted Civil for mining with the B. C. Nickel at Choate, B.C. LOGGIE, J. M.: Our grapevine broke down here and we are devoid of information. McCONNELL, N. E.: Latest Civil to join the Blessed, he also annexed a nice job with the Dominion Geological Survey and is in Ottawa at present. McRAE, W.: We understand that he is still in California showing Millikan how it's done. MATHEWS, J. D.: Another retiring fellow about whom we have no news—believed to be in Vancouver. MIARD, T. H.: Assistant resident engineer on the construction of the Big Bend Highway between social visits to "dude" ranches. MITCHELL, R. F.: Somewhere around Rossland, B. C. MOOREHEAD, H.: At Port Alice in the pulp and paper business. MOUAT, T. W.: After taking 5th year Mechanical at U.B.C. he disappeared from our ken. NIXON, F. G.: No news. PIKE, A. E.: Mine superintendent or something at Monashee Mines. RADER, L. T.: Down in California, according to Dame Rumor. REEVE, D. D.: Testing pulp at Port Alice, B.C. RICHMOND, R. H.: Superintendent of bleaching process at Port Alice. RIGBY, C. P.: Back in Merrie England, according to our ticker tape. ROGERS, J. V.: Main squeeze in the Churchill River Power Co., Island Falls, Sask.—claims he does civil engineering on the side-—these naive Electricals ! SANDERSON, A. B.: Blasted his way to fame via the "I will" route and when last heard of was building the new Marine Building in Victoria. SAUNDERS, A. J.: Remains as consulting and insulting engineer to the Sidney Roofing Co., Victoria. SHAYLER, S. V.: Laying out the town- site of Wells, B. C, and turning cars over on dizzy mountain slopes. Heard a rumour that you are married, Stan; please check and advise as we are worried. SOUTHEY, V. J.: Last heard of at Anyox. SPARKS, W. H.: One of the old stagers in this marriage game; present whereabouts unknown. SMITH, C. H.: Also believed to be holding a lucrative position in Ottawa with the Geological Survey. When last definitely heard from was indulging in accusations of graft on the part of ye editor, occasioned by the request for 25c in our last publication. SMITH, W. B.: May still be with the National Research Council at Ottawa. SMITH, J. Y.: Another married man— we seem to have lost track of J. Y. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirty-one THORNE, H. L.: Somewhere, but where we don't know. TREGIDA, A. C.: Instructing at U.B.C. —last seen in the Hall of Science, Victoria, September, 1935. TULL, H.: Another lost soul. VERNER, E. A.: Our ranking benedict and father of two husky infants—still with the B. C. Nickel at Choate, B. C. WEBSTER, A.: Removed from the mad delights of Victoria and now assistant engineer i/c Project 128, Walhachin, B. C. REX BROWN, Sc. '27, research chemist for the Imperial Oil Co., is now stationed on the field at Talara, Peru. There he astounds the natives with his fluency, and finds time for baseball and polo before retiring to the "Madhouse". Two other research chemists, BILL CHALMERS, '26, and ART GALLAGHER, '26, are successfully establishing a new industry in Vancouver, the Western Chemical Industries, Ltd. Their products, derived from pilchard oil, range from crude oils used for paints; Pilchardene, rapidly becoming popular with poultrymen and fox-farmers, to Thallatol, a clear golden oil so full of vitamins that cod-liver oil hides its scented loveliness in shame. BEA SUTTON, '33, who performed so well on the track and the hockey field, is in an office at Ocean Falls. BILL KAY, '29, and LILY DOBSON, '29, were married last summer and have made their home in Kamloops, where Bill is on the high school staff. MARGIE GREIG, '28, is now- Mrs. G. Hunter Candlish and resides at Pioneer Mine. One of her neighbors is RUTH MCDONALD, '31, who finds skiing a pleasant relaxation after a busy day in school. BERT PETRIE, '28, after post-graduate work at Ann Arbor, Mich., is back in his old haunts, the Dominion Astronomical Observatory at Victoria. S. C. BARRY, B.S.A., '23, is assistant chief of the Poultry Division, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. W. C. CAMERON, B.S.A., '25, of the Dairy and Cold Storage Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, married Dorothy Goode of Edmonton in August, 1935. DR. C. E. CAIRNES, B.A., '16; B.S., Washington, '17; M.A. and Ph.D. Princeton, '21 and '22, is geologist with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. Except for three or four summers he has worked in British Columbia every field season since 1912. W. BRIAN DINGLE, B.A.Sc, '34, is with the Topographical Division of the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He married Mabel Fennel of New Westminster in June 1935. DR. C. S. EVANS, B.A.Sc, '24; Ph.D., Princeton, is associate geologist with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He married Jean Graham in 1928 and has a son (1931) and a daughter (1935). EDWARD FRASER, B.S.A., '25; M.S. Iowa State, '28, is animal husbandman at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. He is married and has two children. ALAN GILL, B.A., '24, is a chemist with the National Research Council, Ottawa. MARGARET S. GILL, B.A., '19, is Librarian at the National Research Council, Ottawa. DR. W. E. GRAHAM, B.A.Sc, '23; M.A. Sc, '25; M.A. and Ph.D. Toronto, is associate research chemist with the National Research Council, Ottawa. He is married and has two daughters. DR. H. C. GUNNING, B.A.Sc, "23; S.M. and Ph.D. Mass. Inst. Tech., is associate geologist with the Bureau of Economic Geology, Ottawa. He is married and is the proud father of a son who was born in the summer of 1935. H. S. GUTTERIDGE, B.S.A, '25, is poultry husbandman at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. MRS. A. C. HALFERDAHL (Dorothy Bowes) B.A, '21, is married, lives in Ottawa, and has three children. H. R. HARE is with the Economics Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. T. C. HOLMES, B.A.Sc, '32, married Irene Ramage, B.A, '33, in October, 1935. After living in Ottawa until the New Year they moved to Chicago, where T. C. is on the trail of a Ph.D. in Geology. He worked for the Bureau of Economic Geology during the summer and fall of 1935. L. E. HODNETT is with the National Research Council, Ottawa. DR. H. C. HORWOOD, B.A.Sc, '30; M. Sc. Queens, '31; Ph.D. Mass Inst. Tech, '34, has been with the Bureau of Economic Geology since November, 1934. He worked in British Columbia during the summer of 1935 and managed to spend a short time in Vancouver. Is now with the Ontario Department of Mines. DR. L. E. HOWLETT is with the National Research Council in Ottawa. F. B. JOHNSTON is with the Chemistry Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. J. R. JOHNSTON, B.A.Sc, '33; M.A.Sc, '34, is working for the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He spent the summer of 1935 in the Yukon. DR. M. S. HEDLEY, B.A.Sc, '30; Ph. D. Wisconsin, '34, is with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He worked in British Columbia during the summer of 1935. DR. G. A. LEDINGHAM is with the National Research Council, Ottawa. DR. E. J. LEES, B.A.Sc, '27; Ph.D. Toronto, '31, is with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He married Kathleen Thirty-two THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA M. Ralph, B.A, '28, in October, 1935, after returning from a summer's work in the Yukon. A. G. LARSON, B.A.Sc, '27; M.A.Sc, '35, is with the Topographical Division of the Bureau of Economic Geology, Ottawa. A. H. LeNEVEU, B.A, '23, is with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa. N. E. McCONNELL, B.A.Sc, '33, married Shelagh Tait, B.A, '33, in October, 1935. They are living in Ottawa where Norm, is working for the Topographical Division of the Bureau of Economic Geology. DR. IRENE MOUNCE, B.A, '18; Ph.D. is plant pathologist of the Botany Division at th- Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. DR. G. W. H. NORMAN, B.A.Sc, '26; Ph.D. Princeton, is associate geologist with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He married Laura McDougall of Ottawa in 1931 and has two daughters. MRS. F. H. PETO is in Ottawa where her husband works for the National Research Council. A. E. RICHARDS, B.S.A, '23, is at Syracuse getting his Doctor's degree this winter but is expected back in the spring. He was with the Economics Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. DR. PI. M. A. RICE, B.A.Sc, '23; M.A.Sc, '31 ; Ph.D. Cal. Inst. Tech, '34, is married and working for the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. He worked in the Cranbrook district, British Columbia, during the summer of 1935. DR. ALFRED RIVE, B.A., '21; Ph.D. is in Europe this winter. He was with the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa. N. A. ROBERTSON, B.A, '23, is with the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa. DR. F. H. SANDERS is assitant to the Director of Physics at the National Research Council, Ottawa. He is married. DR. D. F. STEDMAN is with the National Research Council, Ottawa. C. H. SMITH, B.A.Sc, '33, is with the Topographical Division of the Bureau of Economic Geology, Ottawa. He worked in the Yukon during the summer of 1935. DR. C. H. STOCKWELL, B.A.Sc, '24; Ph.D. Wisconsin, '29, married Betty Johnson, B.A, '30, of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in June, 1935. He is associate geologist with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Ottawa. ROSS TOLMIE is assistant to Fraser Elliot of the Income Tax Department, Ottawa. P. N. VROOM, B.S.A, '26, is with the Entomological Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. H. E. WALSH, B.A, '16, is with the Radio Branch of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa. H. A. S. WEST, B.A.Sc, '34, is with the Topographical Division of Bureau of Economic Geology, Ottawa. He worked in the Babine Lake district during the summer of 1935. A. S. WHITELEY, B.A, '28; M.A. Pittsburgh, is married to Marion Swanson, B.A, '28, and is with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa. J. J. WOODS, B.S.A, '23; M.S.A. '32, of the Experimental F'arm Branch, Agassiz, B. C, visited the Ottawa Branch of the U. B. C. Alumni Association in December, 1935, and attended the annual meetings. STEVENSON IAN, B.A, '27, has recently joined the Ottawa colony, in the Auditor- General's office. REV. E. W. JACKSON, B.A. (U.B.C.) 1924; took History honours; L.Th., '31. Went to Christ Church Cathedral as Curate after Ordination, from there to Ceylon, where he is now in charge of a church. Married—has a son. REV. D. P. WATNEY, B.A. (U.B.C) '25 L.Th, '27; B.A. (Cambridge, England) '31 B.D. (A.T. C.) '34; first winner of A.T. C post-graduate scholarship to Cambridge came back to College Faculty in 1931, acting Dean-in-residence since. REV. J. L. ANDERSON, B.A. (U.B.C.) '32; L.Th, '34. Ordained deacon, 1934; priest, 1935. Now at St. * 's Church, Edgerton, Alberta. REV. S. W. SEMPLE, B.A. (U.B.C) '32; L.Th, '34; ordained deacon, '34; priest, '35. Now at St. * 's Church, Beaver Lodge, Alberta. REV. D. B. HOUGHTON, B.A. (U.B.C.) '33, with Philosophy honours; L.Th, '34. Ordained deacon, '34. priest, '35. Now rector of St. John's Church, Maple Ridge. Married, with two children. REV. G. H. COCKBURN, B.A. (U.B.C) '33, with History honours; L.Th, '35. Ordained deacon, '35. Now Incum- REV. M. C. HUMPHREY, B.A. (U.B.C.) '33, with honours in Classics; L.Th, '35. Ordained deacon, '34; priest, '35. After graduation was assistant priest at St. Paul's Church, Vancouver; now Vicar of St. John's Church, Sardis, B. C. REV. G. W. LANG, B.A. (U.B.C.) '33; L.Th, '35. Ordained deacon, '35 ; priest, '36. After graduation went as Curate to St. Stephen's Church, Calgary. ♦Editor's Note: Further information welcome. MATH CLUB SHADES of the Math Club in its musical heigh-day! JEAN FISHER is now on the staff of Mount Royal College in Ca- gary; RALPH JAMES is with the University of California, has married a graduate from the south and is living in Berkeley; RALPH HULL is at the University of Chicago, and is another of the group to marry; BERT POOLE has been applying "Cal Tech" technique to students in Prince GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirty-three Rupert during the past year; GRANT MORRISON is principal of the Port Co- quitlam High School. GWEN HUMPHREYS is at Mt. Scholastica College, Atchison, Kansas; BETH POLLOCK is busy mixing maths with statistics; BERT and EVA WEBBER are established in Philadelphia, and to them goes the honour of inaugurating the second generation of musical mathematicians; DAVE MURDOCH is at the University of Toronto. No mention of this group would be complete without reference to our fellow workers, the physicists—ELMER ANDERSON is at the University of California; KENNETH MORE is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; and ALLAN YOUNG has just been awarded a fellowship in physiology at Rochester. IVAN NIVEN, B.A, 34, is the winner of a $600 graduate fellowship in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. The award bears special distinction, as it is usually awarded only to students who have spent a year or two at Chicago. He has served as assistant in the University of British Columbia Mathematics Department during the past two years. R. D. JONES, RALPH HULL, and G. C. WEBBER, each won American National Research Fellowships upon receiving the Ph.D. degree—a record unequalled by any other Canadian university. LIONEL STEVENSON, B.A, '22, is now Professor of English and head of the department at Arizona State Teachers' College. Has spent the past two years in England, doing research in English at Oxford, where the degree of B. Litt. ('35) was conferred. Has written a book, a biography of Lady Morgan, an Irish writer, traveller and political agitator of the early nineteenth century, entitled "The Wild Irish Girl". This is his "third volume of prose, the others being "Appraisals of Canadian Literature", and "Darwin Among the Poets". Has also published two chap books of verse. W. WESLEY SIMPSON, B.A, '24; M.A, '25 (Toronto) ; Ph.D., '27, is now on the staff of the Vancouver Public Health Institute for Diseases of the Chest. During the past few- years has been teaching and doing research work at the University of California medical school. Received the degree of M.D, '33 (Toronto) and has been on the staff of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, and the Vancouver General Hospital, where he has been Sr. Resident Physician. Is now practicing internal medicine at the Medical- Dental Building, Vancouver. D. GRANT MORRISON, M.A, '30 (U. B.C.), is now principal at Port Coquitlam. Has been a mathematics instructor at Columbian College and then principal of Parks- ville High School. J. NORTON WILSON, B.A, '34, has been awarded a teaching assistantship in special research at the California Institute of Technology. Will receive his degree of M.A. (U.b.C.) this year for his research in colloidal chemistry. GEORGE M. VOLKOFF, B.A, '34, has received a teaching assistantship at the University of California in Berkeley. He will continue his studies towards a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics. During the past two years he has been working toward his M.A. degree under a Carnegie Foundation grant lor independent research. L. G. MILLWARD, S. C. ROBINSON, and WILLIAM. JONES have left for Capetown, where they will start their geological survey studies. KATHLEEN WALKER, '30, was married in Seattle to Mr. Augusto Goday, vice-consul for Cuba. DOROTHY KEILLOR, B.A, '30, was married to Mr. H. E. Nelems and is now residing in Rand, South Africa. VELMA LORINE VOSPER, B.A, '28, was married to Mr. Fred Newcombe. DOROTHY BROWN, B.A, '27, was married to Mr. Bert Tupper, B.A, '27. THELMA MAHON, B.A, 'JO (now Mrs. George Cornwall), is residing at Wells, B.C. ISABEL BESCOBY is now head of the correspondence school, Department of Education, Victoria. MARY DOOLEY, B.A, '32, was married to Mr. Kenneth Campbell and is now living in Barkerville. JESSIE EWART, B.A, '32, is bookkeeping in Princeton. RUTH McCULLOCH, B.A, '32, is stenographer to Dr. Katz at the Summerland .experimental Station. MARY FALLIS, B.A, '32, is teaching in Toronto. DOUGLAS FRASER is teaching in Osoyoos. He is married to Dorothy Johnson and they have one son. PAT HARVEY is living and working in Shanghai. JEAN LANG is teaching at Olalla. ART McCULLOCH is studying law in Vancouver. FRASER McKAY is now Mrs. Fred Weir and is living at Nelson. HELEN McEACHERN is teaching at Coalmont. EVELYN McGILL is teaching at the Rossland High School. BETTY SLEDGE is living in Victoria, taking advanced violin, and is also teaching. FRANK SNOWSELL is married and is teaching near Kelowrna. CLAIRE LOOMER is married to Lucy Didoff and has one daughter. He is teaching in Penticton. BILL WHIMSTER is ranching, amid several other occupations, in Penticton. IAN CAMPBELL and JACK SHANE- MAN are with the H. R. MacMillan Co. in Vancouver. MARY WATTS, B.A, '29, is married to Thirty-four THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Mr. Paul Maslin and is living at the Kuling American School, Kuling Kiangsi, China. HARLEY HATFIELD is married to Edith Tisdall (Nursing, '29) and has one son. They are living in Penticton. MAUDE HUTSON (now Mrs. T. B. Lott) is provincial welfare visitor for Penticton and district. Her husband is in the Summer- land Experimental Station. IRENE RAMAGE is married to Mr. Ter- rance Holmes and is living in Ottawa. MARION MILES is the school nurse at Kelowna. DON FISHER, CYRIL WOODBRIDGE and CHARLIE STRACHAN are all working in the Summerland Experimental Station. JACK BICKERTON has an assistantship at Cornell. JEAN FANNIN is doing library work in Toronto. JEAN McGOUGAN is now Mrs. C. Gad- des and is living in Kelowna. J. B. McGREGOR is teaching in Penticton Junior High School. BILL LUCAS is teaching at Princeton. RENE HARRIS (now Mrs. C. Burtch) has one daughter and is living in Penticton. JOHN McLEAN is teaching at Oliver and is married to Miss Doris Burtch. MARY DARNBOROUGH is married to Mr. Roden Irving and is living at Chu Chua. ELEANOR EVERALL is now Mrs. S. Sanderson. JEAN HOOD, BRUCE BARR and HARRY WELLS are teaching in Penticton. MARGARET JOHNSTON and JESSIE McAFFEE are working in the Vancouver Public Library. MARGARET MOSCROP is married to Nicholas Solly and they are ranching at Oliver. Nick is still winning badminton cups in the valley. MARGARET WRIGHT is a stenographer at Toronto University. DOROTHY MARY WALKER is studying music at the Toronto Conservatory. JACK MacDONALD is working for the West Kootenay Power Co. in Penticton. IRVING SMITH is married to Miss Irene Rigney in Vancouver. CHERRIE CAMPBELL is teaching in Stewart, B. C. ART CREELMAN is married to Miss Ursula Thom in North Vancouver. MURIEL WAGENHAUSER is married to Prof. R. Hidy at Norton, Mass, where thev both lecture at Wheaton College. LEFTENS STAVRIANOS is at Harvard, where he is doing excellent work in history. EVELYN ANDERTON is now Mrs. Gomer Jones of Trail, B. C. RALPH THOMAS is married and is teaching in Vancouver. KATHLEEN MacDERMOT, B.A, '32, (now Mrs. G. Edgar) is living in West Vancouver with her two sons. MR. and MRS. LESLIE BROOKS (Ethel Elliott) live in West Vancouver and have a daughter. ERIC BROOKS is married to Miss E. Milledge and is teaching. ERIC NORTH is married to Miss Margaret Nichols. MARION MacDONALD is married to Mr. Raymond K. Johnston. ELEANOR DYER, B.A, '29; M.A, '31, is married to Dr. Graydon Ford and is living in Eastern United States. EDYTHE MeCOLL, B.A, '30, is nursing at the Toronto General Hospital. MARNIE McKEE is nursing at the Montreal General Hospital. MR. and MRS. KIM NICHOLLS (Jean Telford) are living in Santa Barbara. DR. and MRS. H. F. ANGUS and son, Michael, are leaving for England during the summer. KATHLEEN BAIRD, B.A, '28, is married to Professor Manley of Columbia University, New York. OTTO GILL, '27, is working in the Den- tonia Mines, Greenwood, B. C "BEN" K. FARRAR, '27, is chemist at the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. MARY LAMONT, '27, is teaching at the Trail High School. EDMUND McINNIS, '28, is trucking at Ymir, B.C. MR. and MRS. J. F. MEAGHER are living at Nelson. BLAIR DIXON, '29, is teaching at the Nakusp High School. DON McLEAN, '29, is teaching at Nelson. TIM STANLEY is foundry metallurgist at Trail. BARBARA LANG, '29, is teaching at the Slocan High School. JAMES CRASTER, '30, is working at the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. DR. CHAS. H. WRIGHT, '17, is doing chemical research in the Chemical Division of the C. M. & S. Co. He is also honorary president of the West Kootenay Alumni Association. HAROLD WATTS, '20, is doing chemical research in the Acids Division of C. M. & S. Co, Trail. R. G. ANDERSON, '21, is assistant purchasing agent of the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. JOHN MELVILLE, '21, is doing research with the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. HAROLD DOYLE, '22, is assistant superintendent of the Smoke Department, Trail. MRS. GORDON REDGROVE (nee Atherton) '22, is living at Trail. B. P. SUTHERLAND, '25, is at Rossland. O. NIEDERMAN, '25, is teaching at the Trail High School. REV. FREDERICK ST. DENIS, '26, is residing at Trail. J. "DAD" HARTLEY, '27, is assistant superintendent of Electrolytic Zinc Department of C. M. & S. Co, Trail. JOSEPH ALBO, '26, is teaching at the Rossland High School. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirty-five R. H. LOWE, '31, is teaching at the Trail High School. DAISIE CHRISTIE, '29, is now Mrs. Art Lee and is living at Trail. WILFRED LEE, '32, is a fruit inspector at Bonnington, B. C. ST. JOHN MADELEY, '33, is in the general office of the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. JOHN HEDLEY, '33, is with the West Kootenay Power and Light Co. MILLER MASON, '33, is a law student with R. J. G. Richards, Trail. ROBERT ELLISON, '33; R. F. MITCHELL, '33; JOHN CURRIE, '33; LAURIE NICHOLSON, '34; ERNIE MITCHELL, '34, are in the Assay Office of the C. M. & S. RICHARD DEAN, '33, is with the CM. & S. Co, in the Department of Zinc Plant Rectifiers. JEAN EMERSON, '33, is in the general office of the C. M.&S. Co. RONALD HAMILTON, '31, and ROSS WORKMAN, '30, are at New Denver. BASIL HUNT, '30, is working at the lead smelter of the C. M. & S. Co. KATHERINE URQUHART, '30, and EILEEN WINCH, '30, are at Rossland. BETTY JOHNSON, '31, is dietitian at the Kootenav Lake General Hospital. MAVIS HOLLOWAY, '31, is teaching at the Trail High School. H. LYLE JESTLEY, '31, is with the Legal Department of the C. M. & S. Co, Trail. BARRIE HARFORD, '31, is at Grand Forks, B.C. JEAN BUTORAC, '31, is teaching at the Annable Public School, Trail, B. C. JEAN WATERFIELD, '30, is at Nakusp, R C DOUGLAS McMYNN, '34, is with the Canadian General Electric Co, Peters- borough, Ont. PETER DURKIN, '34, and HERB SLO- DEN, '34, are with the Electric Shop, Trail, B C LLOYD WILLIAMS, '32, is working in the Research Department of the C. M. & S. Co. JACK D. MITCHELL, '34, is in the Drafting Office of the C. M. & S. Co. DOROTHY WILLIAMS, '34, is teaching at the Trail Central School. JIMMY BARDSLEY, '35, is working at the Smoke Plant, Rossland, B. C. WILLIAM CAMERON, '27, is principal at the Trail Central School. BELLE McGAULAY, '30, is teaching at Nelson, B. C. PATRICIA CAMPBELL, '35: HELEN FERGUSON, '33; HAROLD McARTHUR, '34, and BESSIE MacKENZIE, '32, are at Nelson, B. C. LES GAWSNER, '35, is a law student with Brown & Dawson, Nelson, B. C. R. MORRISON. '28. is a rectifier operator of the C. M. & S. Co JOHN DEAN, '33, is a mercury arc rectifier operator of the C. M. & S. Co. DERECK TYE, '33, is imparting knowledge to students at the Nelson High School. JAMES PIKE, '33, is working at the Bayonne Mine, near Nelson, B. C. VERA GERTRUDE MATHER, '25, is with the Department of Psycho-Therapy, State Hospital for Mental Diseases, Howard, R.I. C. ST. JOHN MATHERS, B.A.Sc, '23, is with the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co, San Diego, Cal. WILLOUGHBY WALTER MATTHEWS, B.S.A, '27, is with Ellerman's Arracan Rice and Trading Co, Rangoon, India. CECILIA LONG, '32, is assistant advertising manager of the ''About Town" magazine. There are several University of British Columbia graduates in the Hong Kong and South China territory. MRS. ALISON WOOSTER was there for some time but has left. Mrs. Wooster was Alison King, Arts '26. GAUNDRY PHILLIPS, B.A, '27, is teaching in the Ying Wah College, Kowloon, and has with him his wife, who was Miss Mollie Ricketts, B.A, '29. ISABEL HENDERSON, Arts '29, is public health nurse with the Hong Kong Civil Service. KENNETH NOBLE is in the Department of Trade and Commerce, Gloucester Bldg, Hong Kong. KIMBERLEY GRADUATES BURDETT, MILDRED E, Arts '29, Mildred is one struggling to inculcate knowledge into the adolescent minds of Kimberley high school pupils. CRIBB, REGINALD E, Arts '21; Theology '26. Rev. Cribb took over the United Church here after spending some years at Dawson and Creston. He married Annie Moody of Arts '22, and has three children. He is chairman of the United Church Kootenay Presbytery. FOUBISTER, ALFRED E, Arts '33. Al is applying higher education to the art of teaching public school. FOWLER, HEDLEY S, Sec. '33. Pete is one of the surveyors at the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company's Sullivan mine. Besides surveying, in summer he climbs "mountings" goes on parties, and in winter he doesn't climb "mountings". GARDEN, MURRAY E, Com. '32, Chapman Camp, B. C. Murray is endeavoring to evolve a working system for keeping accounts in the C. M. & S. Co.'s general store. He is engaged to Miss Margaret Michaely. GIEGERICH, HENRY C, Sec '24. Henry is manager of CM.&S. operations at Consolidated Chibougamau Goldfields, Oske- taneo, Quebec. GIEGERICH, Mrs. H. C, Arts '19. Cath- Thirty-six THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA erine is living at Kimberley with her three children, ana plans to join Henry at Chi- bougamau this summer. She will be missed at Kimberley. GlECEKiCH, JOSEPH R, Sc. '23. Joe is assistant superintendent in charge of stope filling at the Sullivan mine, if his hockey team doesn't win the Allan Cup, he may be out of a job next winter. GREENE, R. K. W, Sc. '35, Chapman Camp, B. C Bob is the mechanical designer and draughtsman at the C. M. & S. Sullivan mill. He spends his spare time climbing "mountings" with Pete Fowler, and leading Pete astray on parties. JURE, ALBERT E, Sc. '24. Bert is chief geologist for C M. & S. Co. and spends much of his time travelling and examining mining properties all over Canada. KIER, JEANNIE M, Arts '22. Jean is another striving to guide \-outh to knowledge and higher education. LEVIRS, FRANKLIN 0. P, Arts ;22. Frank is principal of the Kimberley High School, and, being a historian, takes great delight in teaching chemistry and allied subjects. LEVIRS, MRS. F. O. P, Arts '29. Mar- jorie's chief interest, outside her newly- built home, appears to be in the promotion of sports among students. McKAY, MARGARET, Arts '34. Peggy is back again after several years absence from Kimberley. She seems to be the one and only chief teaching substitute in town. McRAE, A. B, B.A. '29. Alida completes the list of those who struggle feverishly to advance education. THOMAS, MELVIN A, Sc '31. Mickey is assistant to the head of the Electrical Department at the Sullivan mine. In 1935 he married Eva Brown of Vancouver, and is now the proud father of Melvin Howard. THOMPS ON, DOUGLAS L, Sc. '21. "Tommy" is assistant superintendent of the Sullivan mine. He has been whiling away the winter so he can play golf again. WESTON, DAVID, Arts '34, Chapman Camp, B. C. Dave is doing chemical work at the Sullivan concentrator. WOLVERTON, JASPER M, Sc. '24. "Jap" is safety engineer of the Sullivan mine and is largely responsible for the excellent record of few accidents. JURE, ROY, Arts '33. Roy is an assistant to Mr. Henry Giegerich at Consolidated Chibougamau Goldfields in Quebec. LEECH, HUGH B, Ag. '33. Hugh is scheduled to marry Frances Quail, Arts '33, in March, 1936. McKECHNIE, DONALD C, Sc. '20. "Mac" is in charge of exploration work in Ontario for the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co, and has his headquarters at 305 Mackey Building, Sudbury, Ont. He is taking a holiday trip south (probably to West Indies) with his wife, son and daughter. XORMAN, GEORGE H. C, Sc. '24, was in 19j4 in charge of the electrical dust precipitation plant of the International Nickel Co. at Copper Cliff, Ontario, and has done some research on dust control in mines. CLASSES OF '28 THIS record of the Classes of '28 is intended to be informative if not amusing. It might, who knows, add to that vague something we used to call "Class Spirit". Have the Classes of '28 been busy since graduation? As individuals, yes, as you will see in the personal columns, but, as classes, perhaps not, although one social evening and several summer beach parties were popularly acclaimed. The Annual Home-coming of this year is to be held in conjunction with a very special programme to take place in the spring— The Coming of Age Anniversary of the University. Your executive is co-operating with this plan and is contemplating some social event, a dinner or dance. You will be given due notice of arrangements. The profession of teaching has claimed a great many members of Arts '28. DON ALLEN is at Port Hanev; BRUCE BARR at Penticton; MARGARET ESTEY at Quilchena; MARGARET GAMMIE at Kitsilano High School; ENID GIBBS at Grand- view Commercial High School; PATRICIA GWYER at Prince Rupert; EUGENE CAMERON in North Burnaby; SYDNEY CLARKE at Vancouver Technical School; JULIET JOHNSON in Hollyburn ; ELIZABETH KENDALL at Tecumseh School; BILL BROWN at South Vancouver High School. EDITH LITCH is at Lord Kitchener School; DORIS MANN in New Westminster. JOHN GOUGH, M.A, at Victoria Normal School; JACK HARKNESS at Burnaby South High School; ELVA MIL- LEY in Vancouver; MARGARET KATH- ERINE McDONALD in Port Haney; DOLINA KATHERINE MELVOR in Vancouver; WILFRED ALLEN JACKSON at Kamloops High School; MARY EVELYN McQUEEN at Duncan, B. C.; GLADYS Mc ALPINE at Langlev Prairie High School; WILBERTH McBAIN in Vancouver; GORDON KELLY at Silverton, B.C.; KATHLEEN McLUCKIE at Langara School. JOSEPH LANE is a teacher of Mathematics at Saanich; GRACE NICHOL is in Vancouver. GERALD LEE is principal of Squamish High School; ELSIE NORD- BERG is at Matsqui; MARGARET O'NEILL at Drumheller, Alberta; MARY ELIZABETH POLLOCK in Vancouver; CLARENCE RAYMOND MATTICE at Princeton, B.C.; MARJORIE REID at Revelstoke High School; NORMAN MacDONALD at Burnabv South High School. GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirty-seven JOHN McCHARLES at Cloverdale, B.C.; JEAN SKELTON in University High School; ANGUS McPHEE in Cranbrook; HENRIETTE STEPHENS at Lord Selkirk School; GLADYS SWANSON at Mission B.C.; VICTOR OSTERHOUT, Social Science at Magee High School; GRACE TAYLOR at Langley Prairie; ABNER POOLE at Magee High School; WILLIAM REID at Lord Byng High School; ALAN STEVENSON in Kamloops; NORMA WASHINGTON at Alexandra School; WINDELL KNOTT, Ph.D., King Edward High School; MARION WILLIAMSON in Vancouver and DORIS WOODS at South Vancouver High School. OLIVE HERITAGE is principal of the Vancouver Island Girls' School in Victoria. Many others have gone into university work. ARTHUR BEATTY is with the French Department at the University of Idaho. RALPH JAMES, Ph.D., is a professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. FERDINAND MUNRO received his Ph.D. at Montreal, was with the Saanich Experimental Research, and is now with the Department of Chemistry of the University of Philadelphia. KALERVO OBERG is a professor of Sociology at Chicago University. SAM SIMPSON is working on an Economics fellowship in California. BILL TAYLOR received a Ph.D. at the University of California and is now with the University of British Columbia. He is at present engaged in a survey of political and economic movements in America and Europe under the Carnegie Foundation. JOHN WILLIAMS received a Ph.D. at the University of California with a National Research fellowship. ROBERT WRIGHT was granted a Ph.D. at McGill, and is professor of Chemistry at the University of New Brunswick. The legal profession has claimed its share. ERNEST BULL is a lawyer with Farris, Farris, Stultz and Bull; LAWRENCE BRY- SON is in New Westminster; VERNON HILL in Vancouver; WILLIAM MASTER- SON is with Reid, Wallbridge and Gibson; MEREDITH McFARLANE in Vancouver; REID McLENNAN in Prince Rupert; GEORGE McQUARRIE in New Westminster. JEAN TOLMIE in Vancouver; HOWARD SUGARMAN in the Contract Department of the Musical Publishing Co. of New York; JOHN SWANSON with Grossman, Holland, Co, Vancouver; and DAVID WODLINGER also in Vancouver. Some of the Twenty-Eighters are in business. ELIZABETH BLANCHE CARTER is a stenographer; DOROTHY DE CEW is a Provincial Government stenographer at the Vancouver Court House; MARY FRITH, a stenographer in a law office at Powell River; DOROTHY McDONALD in a Vancouver law office; EDNA McLENNAN, ANNIE ROBSON, MARGARET SMITH and NANCY SCOUSE are also stenographers, the last- named being with the B. C. Electric Co. in Steveston. The financial business is represented by BILL BRIDE, stocks and bonds; LAWRENCE BUCKLEY, who is with D. H. Hamilton Co, stock brokers; CLAYTON DELBRIDGE, also stocks and bonds; DONALD KERLIN, bond-trader with A. E. Ames and Co, and BILL THOMPSON, with Pemberton and Son. PHIL ELLIOTT is an insurance agent with the Mutual Life Co. DON McGUIGAN is in the real estate and insurance business. ALAN CRAWFORD is with the New England Fish Co. HELEN LAMB is in the office of the Lamb Lumber Co. DON FARRIS, after graduating at Harvard, is now managing director of Turner's Dairy. CHARLES GOULD is with the Powell River Pulp and Paper Co. JACK HEELIS is with the B. C. Telephone Co. HARLEY HATFIELD is a government contractor at Penticton. BERT JAGGER is with the Canadian General Electric Co. at Peterborough, Ontario. GRACE MCLAUGHLIN is a collector in the B. C. Telephone Co. RUTH ALICIA NEILL took her M.A. and is now with the Imperial Oil Co. BEVERLY PATRICK is with the Standard Oil Co. HAROLD McWILLIAMS is with Brown Bros, in Victoria. Government services have claimed several members of the class. LES BROWN is junior trade commissioner in London, England, after serving a period of duty in Mexico. HAROLD CAMPBELL is a school inspector. VIVIENNE HUDSON is a technician in the B. C. Provincial Laboratories. WILFRED DONLEY is engaged in research work with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. MURIEL MacKAY is with the Provincial Government in Victoria, B. C, and is co-author of a new French text-book. JACK KASK is with the Fisheries Commission, after taking a course at the University of Washington. RUSSELL LOGIE gained a Ph.D. at New York and is now with the Water Survey of the State of Connecticut, with part time at Yale University. KENNETH NOBLE is junior trade commissioner in Flong Kong. ROBERT PET- RIE gained a Ph.D. and is now with the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, B. C. ALFREDA THOMPSON is the other coauthor of the new French text-book mentioned above, written for the Provincial Department of Education, and is now working on a second part. FREDERICK HENRY SANDERS is a Ph.D., and assistant in the National Research Laboratories, Ottawa. DUNCAN TODD is an officer in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. ALBERT WHITELEY is with the Department of Statistics in Ottawa. Among the future John Ridingtons of this country are HERMENIA MARION Thirty-eight THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LYONS, a librarian in Washington; BEATRICE MARY RUTTAN with the Public Library, Victoria, B.C.; DOROTHY SALISBURY with the Kitsilano Branch Library, and EVELYN TUFTS, also with the Kitsilano Branch. Arts '28 has made several gifts to Medicine. MARGARET CRAIG is studying occupational therapy in Toronto; HEATHER KILPATRICK is a nurse at Youbou, B.C., and ALEXANDR MARSHALL is a medical student at McGill University. AUDREY ROBINSON is nurse in the office of Dr. Sanders, Vancouver, B. C. JACK McMILLAN graduated in Medicine at McGill and is now senior interne at Vancouver General Hospital. DOUGLAS TELFORD received his M.D. at the University of Toronto, was a resident surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and is now a practising physician and surgeon. Social Service claims GEORGE DAVIDSON, who gained a Ph.D. at Harvard, and has been appointed director of the Vancouver Welfare Association. ETHELWYN PATERSON took a post-graduate Social Science course at University of British Columbia and is now secretary of the John Howard Society. MARGARET THOMSON is active in child welfare. Several members are making their names in Music. HELEN BURTON has gained her A.T.CM. and is music teacher at Columbia College, New Westminster. VIV- IENNE HUDSON is achieving fame as a concert soprano. MRS. J. A. C. HARK- NESS (Esther McGill) is a L.M.C.C, graduating from McGill in Music in 1930. MARY ELIZABETH POLLOCK took her M.A. and is studying the piano. MISCELLANEOUS RICHARD YERBURGH is now a minister in Victoria; WILLIAM BLANKEN- BACK is a chemist at the Vancouver Sugar Refinery; JOHN CURRIE has a service station in Walla Walla, Wash.; FLORA HURST has won a travelling scholarship, and is now in Moscow, U.S.S.R, engaged in research in collective farming. FRANK FOURNIER is a geologist at Bulolo Mines, British New Guinea. MRS. KORNOSOFF (Gwen Musgrave) is with a Tutoral School in Vancouver. Having dealt with what everybody is doing, we now come to that absorbing topic, vital statistics. Among the proud parents with one child are: Mrs. A. P. CROKER (Flora Burritt), Mr. and Mrs. LES BROWN (Ruth Fraser, Arts '26), Mr. and Mrs. DONALD FARRIS (Shirley Fraser), Mrs. (name please) (Verna Lucas, Ph.D.), Mr. and Mrs. HAR- LEY HATFIELD (Toddy Tisdale), Mr. and Mrs. IAN McKAY (Lorna Murphy), Mr. and Mrs. JAMES POLLOCK (Ruth Mac- Donald), Mr. and Mrs. WIDNELL KNOTT, Mr. and Mrs. LLOYD EDGETT (Myrtle Spencer), Mr. and Mrs. ROBERTSON NOBLE (Gladys Harvey), Mr. and Mrs. JOHN WILLIAMS (Verna Martin), and Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT WRIGHT (Joan Creer). Still prouder parents, with two children, are: Dr. and Mrs. KENNETH CAPLE (Beatrix Clegg), Mr. and Mrs. FRANK MAHER (Mona Graham), Mr. and Mrs. DOUGLAS WELCH (Dorothy Hipperson), Mr. and Mrs. IAN CAMERON (Dorothy Kennedy), Mr. and Mrs. FRED NEW- COMBE (Lorine Vosper), and Mr. and Mrs. PETER PRICE (Jean Wilson). Among other Twenty-Eighters who are married are Mrs. JOHN MANLEY (Kathleen Baird), TOM BURNETT, ETHEL BERRY (New name, please), Mrs. ARTHUR CAMERON (Mary Cole), WILLIAM BLANKENBACK, Mrs. MAURICE GIVINS (Anita Corllette), BILL BRIDE (to Nora Homes), LES BROOKS (to Ethel Elliott, Nursing '31), Mrs. KENNETH MOFFATT (Pauline Gardiner), Mrs. (name please) (Margaret Greig). ERNEST BULL (to Margaret Gardner), Mrs. WILLIAM BLACK (Nora Haddock), Mrs. ALLAN JONES (Gertrude Hillas), HAROLD CAMPBELL, Mrs. HARRIS (Ruth Hornsby), GEORGE DAVIDSON (to Ruth Henderson, Arts '31), CLAYTON DELBRIDGE, Mrs. MARTIN RICHARDS (Mary Lane), HOWARD EATON (to Catherine Ireland), Mrs. KENNETH SALMOND (Hope Leeming), FRANK FOURNIER (to Jean MacDiarmid), Arts '32), JOHN GOUGH, M.A.; Mrs. HAROLD SMITH (Jean Matheson), Mrs. (new name, please), (Priscilla Matheson), JACK HARKNESS (to Esther McGill), BERT JAGGER (to Betty Guernsey), Mrs. BENNIE WILLIAMS (Helen Northey). ROBERT LAWRENCE MORRISON (to Marion Roberts), Mrs (name please).. (Muriel Amelia Robertson), NORMAN MacDONALD (to Evelyn McDougall), Mrs. LEX McKILLOP (Lucy Ross), WILLIAM EDMUND McINNES, MEREDITH Mc- FARLANE (to Nancy Carter), KENNETH NOBLE (to Jessie MacPhail), KALERVO OBERG, ALBERT WHITELEY (to Marion Swanson), Mrs. BEATON (Isobel Douglass), JAMES E. BROWN, BILL BROWN. Mrs. BOB BROOKS (Annie Taylor), GAUNDRY PHILLIPS, Mrs. (name please) (Hester Thompson), FREDERICK HENRY SANDERS, Mrs. H. H. HEMMING (Alice Weaver), Mrs. KENNETH CREER (Helen White), GUY WADDINGTON. Members of the class have wandered far and wide. Mrs. E. E. TRENT (Kathleen Allen) is in Toronto, Mrs. JOHN MANLEY (Kay Baird) in New York, TOM BARNETT in Montreal, ETHEL BERRY in Abbots- ford, Mrs. A. P. CROKER (Flora Burritt) in West Vancouver, HAROLD BLACKETT in West Vancouver, EMMA COLES at GRADUATE CHRONICLE—MAY, 1936 Thirty-nine North Bend, B.C., Mrs. BEATON (Isobel Douglass) in Montreal, JAMES BROWN in Revelstoke, Mrs. KENNETH MOFFATT (Pauline Gardner) in Victoria, Mrs. FRANK MAHER (Mona Graham) in Nelson, MARGARET GREIG in the Okanagan, Mrs. ALLAN JONES (Gertrude Hillas) in West Vancouver, Mrs. HARRIS (Ruth Hornsby) in Prince Rupert, MIRIAM SHIRLEY LOWE in Sidney, B. C. HELEN MATHESON has been in London and Paris. After visiting Vancouver this summer, she has returned to Sweden. PRISCILLA MATHESON is in Merritt, B. C. Mrs. JAMES POLLOCK (Ruth Mac- Donald) is living in Victoria. Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT MORRISON (Marion Roberts) are in Peterborough, Ont. MURIEL ROBERTSON is now in Winnipeg. BEATRICE MARY RUTTAN is at present travelling in Switzerland, on a world tour. Mr. and Mrs. BOB BROOKS (Annie Taylor) are living in New Westminster. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. HEMMING (Alice Weaver) resides in London, England, and paid a visit to Vancouver last spring. GUY WADDINGTON lives in Pasadena, California. Mrs. KENNETH CAPLE (Beatrice Clegg) has her home in Summerland, B.C. Mrs. H. A. ROBERTSON (Irene Bamber). teacher of elocution in Vancouver. No information is available concerning JESSIE HOW, RUBY KERR, Mrs. MARTIN RICHARDS (Mary Lane), MARGARET LAW, MARGARET MELLO, CHRISTINA JEAN STEWART, HESTER THOMPSON, JOSEPH HAROLD THOMPSON, and Mrs. KENNETH CREER (Helen White). SCIENCE *28 DOUGLAS BELL, after completing a course in chemical engineering at University of British Columbia is employed by the Standard Oil Company to design service stations in Vancouver. LIONEL CRAWFORD is married, and with the Bell Telephone Co. in Montreal. JOHN DANIEL DUNCAN is with the General Electric in Toronto. JOHN FARRINGTON is married, and is now a geologist in Rhodesia. SWANSTON GIBSON married MARGARET BRYDON- JACK, and is residing at Premier, B. C. EDWIN ALEXANDER GORANSON has gained his Ph.D. at Harvard. CARL GUSTAFSON is engaged in citv engineering. RALPH ANDREW HARVIE is with the Westinghouse Corporation in Hamilton. HUGH JOHN HODGINS, who married Heggie Hillas, is with the Department of Forestry in Victoria, B. C. ALLAN JOHN JONES was married to Gertrude Hillas last year and is now in Victoria. GORDON LOGAN took a post-graduate course in Toronto and is now with the Dominion Bridge Co. JOSEPH MARIN is married and is in civil engineering at the State University, Rutgers, N. Y. WILF MORRIS is a graduate of the B. C. Bible School and is in business. JAMES MALCOLM McKAY is studying mining engineering. HECTOR McQUARRIE is in the Hydro- graphic Survey Service, at Victoria, B. C. GERALD NEWMARCH met with a fatal accident in Montreal while working with the Bell Telephone Co. ARTHUR FRED REES is married and is chief chemist with the Home Oil Co. JAMES SINCLAIR, Rhodes Scholar, was granted a Ph.D. by Princeton University. ALAN STEWARDSON is at Princeton University. WILLIAM GREGG THOMSON is in the Assay Office, Bralorne, B. C. BERT TUPPER, who is with the B.C. Telephone Co, was recently married. No information is available concerning JAMES SUTHERLAND, TADASHI TOKUNAGA, and ERNEST GEORGE TOUZEAU. AGRICULTURE '28 CHARLES RICHARD ASHER is general manager, Fertilizer Unit, Western Division, Canadian Industries Limited. ROY FREDERICK BERLET is a teacher in Prince Rupert. EDGAR DONALD BOYES is with the Imperial Oil Co. WILLIAM CHARLES BROWN is partner in Brown Bros. Ltd. ALLAN HAROLD EDEN is a farmer in the Peace River district, married, with one child. KENNETH MOFFATT married Vic Gardiner and is now in Vernon, B. C, with the Beatty Washing Machine Company. DOUGLAS McINTYRE is doing contracting work in Vancouver. CAMERON Mac- KENZIE is living in New Westminster. GRACE NOBLE is secretary of the Hatzic Agricultural Society. KEITH THORNLOE, who as Professor of Dairying at the University of Manitoba won distinction by inventing a new cheese, is now with a Philadelphia dairy plant. NURSING '28 Mrs. ROBERT McKECHNIE (Myrtle Harvey) now lives in Rochester, Minn. MABEL JOHNSTON is in the Public Health Office, North Vancouver. Mrs. McLEOD (Flora McKechnie) is the mother of two children, and is living at Victoria after some time in Winnipeg. Mrs. DAVID BENCH (Annie Yates) is living in West Vancouver. Please report errors, interesting personals and recent developments about yourselves or others, to the executive, in care of Douglas Telford, 409 Birks Building. EXECUTIVE OF CLASSES OF '28. SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPPS AND BURSARIES AWARDED TO GRADUATES During the year 1935-36 many scholarships, fellowships and bursaries have been won by graduates of the University. The following list does not include awards which have been made in the University of British Columbia. In many cases these scholarships and fellowships carry with them free tuition or exemption from fees in addition to their monetary value. Total value of scholarships, fellowships and bursaries won by our graduates in other universities and institutes since the first awards were made in 1917, $511,014. 1935 Armstrong, John E Fellowship $400 Bell, Alan... National Research Council Bursary and 450 Research Fellowship 150 Bickerton, Jack M Research Fellowship _ 750 Davidson, Donald C Teaching Fellowship 600 Findlay, Robert H National Research Council Bursary and 450 Fellowship 150 Gibson, James A Royal Society of Canada Graduate Fellowship 1500 Geology University of Toronto. Chemistry Cellulose Research Institute, Chemistry McGill University. Plant Pathology Cornell University. History University of California. Chemistry McGill University. Chemistry McGill University. Halley, Elizabeth M The I.O.D.E. Post Graduate Scholarship 1400 Canadian History Oxford University. Botany Overseas. Physics Harvard University. Physics Purdue University. History and International Relations Clark University. Chemistry University of Michigan. Canadian History University of Toronto. French Princeton University. History and International Relations Clark University. Chemistry California Institute of Technology. Physics Purdue University. Chemistry McGill Universitv. Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 600 Chemistry ..Institute of Paper Chemistry. Elect. Engineering California Institute of Technology. McKeown, Thomas Rhodes Scholarship (3 years) £400 a yr. Chemistry Oxford University. Hebb, Malcolm Teaching Fellowship How, Thomas Teaching Fellowship .. Hunter, Murray Fellowship Huskins, Eric Research Fellowship .. Ireland, Willard C MacKenzie Fellowship Kennett, W. T. E Graduate Fellowship .. Keenlyside, William Fellowship Lotzkar, Harry Fellowship Madigan, Stephen Teaching Fellowship ... Moore, Ralph National Research Studentship 900 750 200 800 500 800 275 300 900 750 More, Kenneth Royal Society of Canada Fellowship 1500 McLaurin, Donald J Scholarship McRae, Wilson Fellowship Okulitch, Vladimir Royal Society Fellowship 1500 Phillips, Norman F Fellowship 650 Rador, Louis T .Fellowship Stavrianos, Lefton S Fellowship 375 Tregidga, Angus Fellowship 600 Geology Harvard University. Chemistry McGill University. Elect. Engineering California Institute of Technology. History and International Relations Clark University. Physics California Institute of Technology.
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Title | Graduate Chronicle |
Publisher | Vancouver : Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1936-05 |
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Language | English |
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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Date Available | 2015-07-16 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0224375 |
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