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Carrinston A mellow fully aged whisky with a smooth light, out of the ordinary taste. _^^ 1UBC ALUMNI ■ ■ Chronicle Volume 34, Number 3 Autumn 1980 FEATURES 4 PRIORITIES OF THE MEDIA vs. PRIORITIES OF THE PUBLIC Fred Fletcher 8 TELEVISION IS NOT CHILD'S PLAY Dona Sturmanis 10 THE UBYSSEY'S MEDIA MAFIA Product of "The Vilest Rag You Can Imagine" Clive Cocking 18 UBC JOURNALISM: More Than a Possibility Susan Jamieson-MeLarnon 19 BURPY AND HIS IVY-COVERED LINOTYPE Ron Riter DEPARTMENTS 21 NEWS 26 SPOTLIGHT 30 CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED Editor's Note This issue looks at the media from a UBC viewpoint: the changing impact of the media on Canadian life; whatever happened to the graduates of the Ubyssey? — the best student newspaper west of Blanca — and possibly anywhere; the life and times of a weekly newspaper owner/ publisher/editor, and a campus research project measuring the effects of television on children. The deeds of our media — printed and electronic — seem to be more often damned than praised. The Chronicle would be pleased to hear your views. EDITOR Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, BA'65 PRODUCTION EDITOR Christopher J. Miller (BA, Queen's) COVER Peter Lynde Editorial Committee Nancy Woo, BA'69, Chair; Michael W. Hunter, BA'63, LLB'67; Alison Beaumont; Marcia Boyd, MA'75; Peter Jones; Murray McMillan; Bel Nemetz, BA'35; Nick Omelusik, BA'64, BLS'66; David Richardson, BCom'71; Lorraine Shore, BA'67; Art Stevenson, BASc'66; El Jean Wilson. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Alumni Media: Vancouver (604) 688-6819 Toronto (416) 781-6661 By special arrangement this issue of the Chronicle carries as an insert an alumni edition of UBC Reports, the university administration's campus publication. The UBC information office has responsibility for the editorial content and production of UBC Reports. ISSN 0041-4999 Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The copyright of all contents is registered. BUSINESS AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: Cecil Green Park, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1X8. (604)-228-3313 SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Alumni Chronicle is sent to all alumni of the university. Subscriptions are available at $5 a year; student subscriptions $1 a year ADDRESS CHANGES: Send new address with old address label if available, to UBC Aiumni Records, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road. Vancouver. B.C. V6T 1X8. Return Requested. Postage paid at the Third Class rate Permit No. 4311 Member. Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Indexed in Canadian Education Index A Meaningful Gift. Your gift to UBC means a great deal. For example, these students received alumni funded scholarships and bursaries.... "This bursary means a great deal to me. As a single parent with four children, I found it difficult to obtain a part-time job. My income and financial circumstances were at rock-bottom. I will do my utmost to maintain your belief in my abilities." Susan, Social Work 3 "My Gage Bursary helped a great deal with my education. It's nice to know somebody cares!" Moya, Arts 2 "It's a great honor to be a recipient of a Nonttan MacKenzie Alumni Scholarship. I hope that I can live up to the expectatlttfts that such an award carries." Charles, Science 1 UBC Akmnni Fund Priorities of the Media vs. Priorities of the "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation/' -Andrew Fletcher, 1704 Today, it is the mass media that makes the ballads. They present the minstrels, gossips, preachers, teachers, and salesmen to massive audiences. Television permits more people than ever before to have access to the same event or artistic experience simultaneously. It is the capacity of the mass media — newspapers, magazines, radio, film, television — to reach such large audiences and to select which ideas and images will be communicated to the population at large which gives them such potential power. In large part, the media form our psychic environment, especially with respect to matters beyond our direct personal experience. We spend many hours each week with radio as background sound, with newspapers for information, and with television for entertainment. Television viewing, for example, takes up more of the average Canadian's time than anything but work and sleep. In the process of selling entertainment, information and commercial products, the media also sell a view of the world. While informing and entertaining us, "the media...define what is normal and respectable in a society, what is debatable and what is beyond discussion by decent, responsible citizens," as Anthony Westell put it in The New Society. By choosing among the vast array of news items, drama scripts, and so on, key media personnel play an important role in determining the beliefs and perspectives that are communicated to the citizenry. The importance of this gatekeeping function derives in large part from the fact that the decisions are not random. The gatekeepers tend to share certain assumptions about what constitutes acceptable media content. Some ideas and images have a better chance of gaining access to the large media audiences than others. The gatekeepers tend to share certain professional assumptions about what will attract audiences and what each medium requires. While television stresses visual dynamism and radio brevity, all the major media tend to prefer the immediate, the personal and the concrete to long-term processes or abstract ideas. Media consumers are conditioned to accept these standards as well. In Canada, the key decisions regarding news, entertainment and advertising tend to be made in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa by middle class anglo-celtic men and to reflect the fashions current in those centres, despite the existence of identifiable UBC, Manitoba and Maritimes "mafias" (plus a large but declining contingent of British imports). In trying to attract audiences to sell to advertisers (or, in the case of the CBC, to convince parliament of its worth), the media incidentally help to shape the values of society. They provide role models, images of reality, subjects for conversation, things to worry about and information for the general population. In addi tion, specific programs speak to particular audiences. For example, teenagers use radio to tap into a distinctive subculture, in which rock music promotes values antithetical to the mainstream, such as drug use and a generally hedonistic attitude to life. In general, however, the media tend to reinforce the dominant institutional and cultural patterns of authority. By setting the limits to public debate, for example, they tend to exclude most arguments which challenge the status quo, whether from the left or from the right. Even as mild a challenge as that mounted by the New Democratic Party is too much for many editors. Only four times in Canadian history has a major daily newspaper endorsed the NDP. The media cling to the "extreme middle" of the political and social spectrum not so much because their owners and managers are tied in with the country's power structure (though such ties have been well-documented) but because their profits depend upon attracting mass audiences and mass values tend to be middle of the road. While communications theorists generally agree that the media are a major influence in modern society, researchers seeking to chart this influence have run into what has come to be called "the obstinate audience." Audiences, researchers found, select what they will take from the media according to their already established interests and values and often misun- ChronkleA.utumn 1980 5 "People use ihe media to serve their own needs. They are not passive consumers, easily 'brainwashed\.. ? derstand messages which contradict their strongly held views. People use the media to serve their own needs. They are not passive consumers, easily "brainwashed" to buy a new product or accept a new idea. Conspiracy theories, which attributed vast malevolent influence to the media through subliminal advertising, systematic slanting of the news or whatever, have tended to evaporate under scrutiny, to be replaced by theories which recognize the subtleties of media influence. Although it has proved difficult to measure the exact dimensions of influence, it is not credible that the media could effectively sell products through advertising and yet have little influence on public attitudes in general, as they have frequently claimed when under investigation. On a longer term basis, historians have been able to trace the influence of new technologies — from the printing press to television — on the ways in which societies organize themselves. Political scientists believe that the media play an important role communicating social and political values, images of authority, awareness of domestic political issues and a sense of shared identity and common future. Research shows that even those who pay little attention to the media tend to share in the values and priorities they present, partly because they influence the general environment and partly because they reflect it. In general, the media are more effective at transmitting information and setting the agenda for public discussion than at changing attitudes, at least in the short run. Despite a relative lack of success in telling us what to think the media are highly successful in telling us what to think about, as Bernard Cohen remarked in The Press and Foreign Policy. Commercials may be more effective in making us conscious of bad breath than at selling us a particular mouthwash. Several studies have shown that the priorities of the media become over time the priorities of the public. Issues, persons and events featured in the media acquire public legitimacy. My own research suggests that shifts in the importance attributed by the public to issues such as inflation and unemployment as measured by the Gallup Poll tend to follow shifts in media emphasis (as measured by front page headlines in major daily newspapers). It should be noted, however, that much of what we learn from the media comes from non-news content. There is a great deal of incidental learning when we watch a television program. We absorb, often without being conscious of it, norms about appropriate dress, the proper relationships between the sexes, dealing with authority, and so on. A recent study found that Canadian television commercials use white actors almost exclusively, suggesting that to be a real Canadian one must be white. At a deeper level, a case can be made that the media influence the way we think as well as what we think about. It is not excessively McLuhanesque to suggest that the techniques used by television to attract and hold attention — rapid pace, stress on action rather than words, quick changes of scene and perspective, dramatic flashbacks — tend to be antithetical to sequential logic and thoughtful consideration of issues. These techniques are increasingly used in presenting news and public affairs programs as well as drama. There is, in fact, a growing tendency to present problems as caused not by social situations but rather by identifiable villains and to suggest that they can be solved by siding with the good guys. The obsession of the media with novelty is also significant. Media recognition and repetition rapidly legitimizes new ideas. In fact, the media, especially television, use up new ideas very quickly, so that last year's radical challenge to the social order becomes this year's commercial pitch and next year's outdated notion. New ideas are assimilated, domesticated and discarded before they can have more than superficial impact. It seems probable that the media create a taste for the new and fashionable which helps to erode traditional values. Similarly, the tendency of the news media to present events episodically, without much background and in simplified form, almost certainly reduces awareness of the connectedness of events and of their historical antecedents. Crises emerge as random incidents rather than long-term developments and thus tend to appear more shocking than they are. In dealing with politics, for example, the media focus on leaders, exaggerating their importance, and on crises, rather than on the long gestation process of new policies. The broadcast media tend to favor politicians who are able to provide effective 60-second clips rather than those more skilled at thoughtful presentation of policy proposals. In Canada, however, the major problem has not been so much what the media 6 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 "American images crowd out Canadian images and reduce our capacity to communicate among ourselves/' do to us as what they have failed to do for us. On the whole, despite the best efforts of the CBC, they have failed to develop an attractive popular culture (or to present what is available) which could compete effectively with the flood of images from the great image factory to the south. Although the Canadian content regulations have had considerable success in promoting an indigenous recording industry and coverage of news and sports, we retain the dubious distinction of having the only national television network in the industrialized world (CTV) which does not produce a single dramatic series. We are inundated with the values of American commercial television. English-speaking Canadian children spend more than 80 percent of their television time watching U.S. programs. As CBC president Al Johnson told the CRTC in 1978: "The plain truth is that most of our kids know more about the Alamo than they know about Batoche or Chrysler's Farm. They know more about Davey Crockett than they do about Louis Riel. They talk about 'taking the fifth' rather than about Canada's Bill of Rights." American images crowd out Canadian images and reduce our capacity to communicate among ourselves. The problem is that, even when we watch television primarily for relaxation, a lot of incidental learning goes on. A recent study found, for example, that Canadian students who rely on television for information are more likely to have inaccurate perceptions of the Canadian judicial system than those with other sources of information. A substantial proportion of Canadians believes that American practices apply here. Such misunderstandings not only reduce the capacity of Canadians to cope with their own system but also to evaluate proposals for reform. Many communication theorists believe that popular culture as communicated by the mass media provides the common images necessary to hold a society together. The American occupation of the Canadian imagination is thus a serious threat. The power of the mass media, deriving as it does from the capacity to decide what will be presented to mass audiences, may be short-lived, however. New technologies are in the offing which promise to usher in an era of audience liberation. Government regulations permitting, Canadians will have access not only to video cassette recorders (now in some 50,000 homes) but also to pre-recorded programs, superstations transmitted by satellite over thousands of miles, and hundreds, if not thousands, of channels. The latter will permit not only conventional pay-television, but also central program banks from which any previous program can be ordered, highly specialized commercial and non-profit programming and even private networks over which a few individuals interact using two-way channels. The television set will provide capacity for both work and play. The likelihood is that the concept of the mass audience served by networks will disappear. The networks will dissolve into hundreds of components offering a wide range of services. In social terms, the new technologies will promote both diversity, permitting better service for minority tastes, and privatization, as people are able to create their own individualized media worlds and withdraw from wider contacts. This may mean that local communities will regain their importance as wider perspectives are lost. Maintaining a pan-Canadian presence in this new mix will be a difficult challenge. Obviously, the full implications of these new media technolgies are far from clear. Nevertheless, if we are what we see, hear and read, as well as what we eat, the new era of choice should provide increasing diversity of life-styles and value systems, a complete reversal of the homogenizing tendencies of the present system. In any case, it seems clear that we need to know as much as we can about what the media do to us and about the implications of new options. Despite the presence of seminal communication theorists like Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, Canada has been slow to develop large- scale studies of mass communication. Perhaps the Canadian Communication Association, which held its founding meeting in Montreal last May, will change that and new research will emerge to tell us what to beware of. □ Fred Fletcher, BA'63, (PhD, Duke) is associate professor and director of the graduate program in political science at York University. A former editor of the Ubyssey ('60- '61), he is author of numerous articles and papers on the mass media and politics. He notes that this is his first contribution to the Chronicle since 1963. Chronicle/Autumn 1980 1 Television is Not Child's Play Dona Sturmanis Everyone laughed at Chance, the gardener in Being There, quite oblivious to the deep message that author Kozinski was attempting to convey through his character. Successful in life because of his television-imitating behavior (though not as aggressive as studies say he should be), Chance seems lovable, gentle, funny and wise. He is really a passive moron, according to anti-tube Kozinski, and an example of what television could turn us into — a society of useless idiots. The effects of the daily three to four hours spent in front of the tube by the average North American is not a new concern. Over the past decade, George Gerb- ner and his associates at the Annenberg School of Communications in the U.S. have published annual violence profiles showing that television content has a definite effect on viewers' perception of reality. When questioned, viewers and the industry will reply that they know television to be a harmless form of entertainment portraying fiction. But viewers, especially the heavy ones, are not com pletely aware just how much they actually perceive television as being close to real life. Gerbner found, for example, that adults who spent a lot of time glued to their sets had exaggerated views of how rampant crime was in their streets. An overwhelming percentage of what they were watching were cop shows. Concern — personal and professional — was growing about the effects of television on children and adults, when in 1973 a clinical psychologist, Mary Morrison, spotted a magazine article about a B.C. village that was soon to receive television for the first time. Recognizing this unique opportunity she alerted UBC psychologist, Dr. Tannis McBeth Williams, BA'62. "I knew there was some important material here," says Williams, "and here was a chance to answer some of those chicken-and-egg questions, for example, the relationship between traits like aggression and TV. We know that there is a relationship between viewing violence on TV and the aggressive behavior of the viewer. Does this occur because people with certain traits watch certain types of programs or does watching television produce certain types of people? I realized this was a very unusual opportunity to do some research." This town was not otherwise unusual. It was not physically isolated, didn't have a "special" population, was accessible by most forms of transportation, and everyone had seen TV, though they didn't watch it on a regular basis. The town's school principal, who had been mentioned in the article, was phoned to find out if there was any point in proceeding with the research plans. Much to William's surprise, he said that no other researchers had contacted the community after the article appeared, and urged her to proceed. Williams then spoke to Peter Suedfeld (head ofthe UBC psychology department) about the unique situation of this town without television and the rich opportunity it presented for research. It was the first time that the before-and-after effects of TV on a "regular" North American population could be accurately monitored. With Suedfeld's encouragement, Williams then sent memos around to other members of the department who might be interested. Proposals for studies were put together in such a way that everyone could work on what he or she wanted to. Williams directed the project. "Then there was this matter of funding," she recalls. "That was the end of July, and the Canada Council was meeting in September. It usually takes several months for an application to be processed. But the Council staff worked hard and our application was reviewed in time." Originally, it was thought that the transmitter would be put up in this village within the year, but Williams learned that CBC was planning to install it in time for the November Grey Cup. This would 8 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 really put a rush on collecting the pre- television data. She contacted CBC, wondering if they could delay installing it. "'Lady, you can blow it up if you want,' they said. 'But we're going ahead,'" recalls Williams. So in less than a month, the research group collected their pre-television data in this community, now given the pseudonym Not el. For comparison, they picked two other communities which also had populations of about 700, similar average incomes and means of employment. At that time, one village — called Unitel by the researchers, received the CBC; the other, Multitel, received CBC and three U.S. networks, ABC, CBS and NBC. When the CBC came to Notel, Unitel was to get better reception and a second CBC channel. Letters describing the research plans were written to parents of the children in all the elementary and secondary schools in the three communities to obtain permission for the children to participate in the research project. Many other efforts were made to let everyone know exactiy what was happening. "The more contact we had with the people, the more positive they became," says Williams. "We really bent over backwards to be accommodating." The research took place in two phases — in the fall of 1973 and then in the fall of 1975, two years after Notel had received television for the first time. And the results? Six separate studies, based on these unique observations of North American children before and after television. "All of the studies were interesting in different ways," says Williams. Lesley A. Joy, MA'78, Meredith M. Kimball, and Merle L. Zabrack studied the link between television exposure and children's aggressive behavior. Predictably, the kids from Notel became significantly more aggressive in both verbal and physical ways after receiving television; two years later they had higher aggression levels than children their own age in other towns. Williams points out that although CBC has less aggressive content than the U.S. networks, one station was still enough to cause those changes. The impact of television on reading skills was assessed by Raymond S. Cor- teen. His results indicated that TV has a detrimental effect on the acquisition of reading skills in the early grades. Williams collaborated on two studies. The first, done with Linda F. Harrison, MA'75, PhD'77, examined children's cognitive development (verbal ability, spatial ability and creativity with verbal and written materials.) "Though the general hypothesis would indicate that vocabulary would increase with exposure to television, we found absolutely no relationship," she says. "The same findings applied to spatial ability." They also concluded that there is no relationship between television and children's creativity with visual material, but there was a negative effect on verbal creativity. Her second study was done with Gordon C. Handford, and looked at what the introduction of TV does to participation in community activities. Before the residents of Notel had television, they were more involved in their own community activities than the residents of the other towns were in theirs. Two years later, there was a definite decrease in participation in Notel, especially among the elderly. Several conclusions had already been established in other research concerning television and sex role attitudes — that men outnumber women in regular programming; that both men and women are presented in traditional sex roles; that children's behavior is related to their viewing of these situations on television. Meredith M. Kimball found that the sex role perception of the children of Notel became more stereotyped after the introduction of television. The final study by Peter Suedfeld, Darylynn Rank, BA'74, MA'76, Dennis Rank, BASc'70, MA'77, Brian Little and Elizabeth Ballard, dealt with the effect of TV on problem-solving, motivation and perception of the environment by adults. One of their findings was that before television came to Notel, adults did better on problem-solving tasks than those who had TV. And those who couldn't solve the problems persevered longer than those in the other two towns. "We're hoping to go back and do further studies in '81-82, providing the funding comes through," says Williams. Currently she and her colleagues are working on a book about the now-famous tri-town study, and hope to find a publisher by the fall. Predictably, Dr. Williams is very concerned about the effects that unrestricted television viewing can have on children. "Of course it has negative effects. There seems to me to be no reason for a child to watch more than an hour a day. I don't believe in censorship for adults, but yes, definitely for children." She suggests restricting how much, what, and when they view. "They shouldn't watch just before going to bed. There's some evidence that children have nightmares stemming from TV programs," she says. "Watch television with the children. Don't use it as a babysitter. Talk about what's going on." A parent should discuss the values presented on the screen, the content of the program, the difference between television and real life, and the deceiving ways of ads. What might be implied is that the public has little or no control over actual television programming, only control of the dial — if the mesmerizing effect of the tube doesn't weaken watchers too much to change it or turn it off. Williams thinks we should write to the television stations, networks and advertisers to tell them what we think of their programs. Although, on the whole, she feels most people have just given up fighting television and have become more accepting of its simulated reality. But then again, there does exist a small but firm group of people who solve the problem by just refusing to buy television sets altogether. □ Dona Sturmanis, BFA'76, MFA'79, is a Vancouver freelance writer. Chronicle/Autumn 1980 9 The Ubyssey's Media Mafia Product of The Vilest Rag You Can Imagine1 «.' 7 •.'•'•sv: _f _ i 11 ■ 11 i i_ i ii i i-rrY Fvfl yy Mi rr i.. - ■... i. ..f ...i...|- Uridcrwo cad ?' 10 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 |1«°- Clive Cocking (The author calls the following, Research Notes for a Full-Frontal Expose' of The Ubyssey: Warts and All. The Chronicle calls it something else. We apologize for the chaotic nature of the text, which belatedly drifted ashore here stuffed into a long bobbing string of palm wine bottles. The author claims to have set them adrift from Pango- Pango where he's "pursuing further relevant research and trying lo teach a hairy puce blorg how to type." We think he's lying to cover up for his indolence. But where did he get all that palm wine in Ladner?-Ed.) My hands are clean: I never wrote for The Ubyssey. I have nothing to hide. The real story can now be told. Not the obvious one. We all know that The Ubyssey is a vile, squalid, smutty, sacreligious, cynical, pinko, weirdy-beardy, drug-oriented, filthy, controversial, newsy, entertaining rag, that possibly has serious effects on the impressionable minds of the young. And probably it's Canada's best student newspaper. It's been like this for 62 years despite the efforts of countless defenders of innocence, virtue and right-thinking. God knows, they've tried often enough to purge, censor, control or clean it up. They were at it again this spring. Campus politicians, responsible persons all, out to squelch The Ubyssey. The effort this time was for the Alma Mater Society to gain control through a new media board which would appoint the editor. "Every year there's a new editor and staff turnover but they never seem to be better, " complained AMS finance director Len Clarke, fuming at the past year's paper. "Campus news wasn't being written. The whole paper editorialized." Editor Verne McDonald rose to the defence: "To change the editor of The Ubyssey from a democratically-elected official to an appointed one is regressive and potentially dangerous to the interests of the students, the AMS and the university." Pubster won: freedom to scandalize was preserved. But that's not the real story. The real story concerns how many — possibly hundreds — of individuals responsible for putting out this "vile rag" over the years have not only been able to secure employment in professional journalism, but also to have endured and prospered. It is the story of the Ubyssey Connection. Nothing is more revealing about the insidious links between The Ubyssey and the Canadian news media than the manner in which Allan Fotheringham was first hired by the Vancouver Sun. It was the spring of 1954, his graduating year, and his final act as Ubyssey editor was to put out an issue satirizing the downtown dailies. Fotheringham wrote a column in it viciously mimicking the Sun sports editor's column. Forthwith he was threatened with a libel suit by the sports editor and received a legalistic letter from the publisher which seemed to threaten the same, except for the postscript which said: "Considering the viciousness of the individual involved, we would like to know if you would like a salaried position at the Vancouver Sun." Say no more. Nudge, nudge. Say no mo-ore. Fotheringham was hired. He has since gone on to attract many more libel actions (luckily rarely losing) as a Sun columnist and to achieve a lofty prominence in Canadian journalism. (Somewhere 30,000 feet above Moose Jaw as an itinerant political columnist for Southam News Service and Maclean's.) More important, he has become one of the kingpins in the Ubyssey Connection whose tentacles have spread not only throughout the Canadian news media, but also world-wide. (See accompanying story.) Pierre Berton, Ubyssey senior editor in 1940-41 and now a one-man journalistic and book publishing industry, is the undisputed Godfather. But many other former Pubsters have gone on to positions of varied power and influence ... Stuart Keate, the former publisher, and the late Bill Gait, former managing editor, were a powerful duo at the Vancouver Sun through much of the Sixties and Seventies ... the late Jack Wasserman was one ofthe Sun's great columnists ... assistant managing editor Alex MacGillivray and city editor Vaughan Palmer are two biggies among many Ubyssey alumni currently at the Sun ... humorist Eric Nicol provides one of the few bright spots to The Province ... Andrew Snaddon was publisher of the Edmonton Journal ... as assistant news director Keith Bradbury is one of the main men behind BCTV's New Hour ... ex- Pubsters have penetrated many levels of the CBC: Don Ferguson is assistant national director of TV news and current affairs, Ron Haggart is executive producer of Fifth Estate, Joe Schlesinger is a top TV news correspondent, to name a few ... Helen Donnelly Hutchison is host of CTV's WS ... Editor-publisher of Canadian Business is Alexander "Sandy" Ross ... the veteran Val Sears, former New Leftie Danny Stoffman and Olivia Ward are staff writers at the Toronto Star, while the erudite William Littler is music critic ... and Peter Worthington is the tough editor-in-chief of the cheeky To- ^iffrfwifc"^ _____H__-~^ i\ / • * '^7_____l ■Mb _M___: 4_P* «1hF* \ \^ ____fl_f! Jkk y Himie Koshevoy, Thirties Mamie Maloney Boggs, Twenties Norman De Poe, Thirties Chronicle/Autumn 1980 11 ronto Sun, a driving influence behind the emerging tabloidization of many Canadian newspapers.... The list goes on and on. It includes reporters, editors, editorial writers, critics, broadcasters, even freelance writers. No one knows the total number. But no other single campus newspaper in Canada has likely produced such a large number of practising journalists. They're a key segment of this nation's information- disseminators, taste-makers and opinion-moulders. Undoubtedly a nervous-making revelation to many people familiar with The Ubyssey. But the fact must be faced. The implications are awesome. The big question is: what impact has the Ubyssey Connection had on Canadian journalism? Or, put another way, how much is The Ubyssey to blame for the current state of our news media? "Should it have been strangled at birth (abortion is generally ineffective against true monsters)? Drenched in Lysol and blue ointment every day and tolerated? Or hailed as a venerable, important, campus institution?" These remain the basic metaphysical questions about The Ubyssey. They were posed a couple of years ago by provincial court judge Les Bewley, noted for his humor column, "The Children's Hour," in the postwar Ubyssey, who confessed he didn't have a definitive answer. There was much evidence to support each judgment. The jury is still out. The problem is that at birth it did not seem like a monster. The first Ubicee (as it was then called) was a genteel monthly literary magazine which began publication in 1916, the only news it printed being letters from ex-students fighting in Europe. Two years later this journal transformed itself into a weekly student newspaper and on October 17, 1918 the first issue of The Ubyssey appeared, some 12 ChronicleMurumn 1980 Greek scholar contributing the name, a corruption from Homer's The Odyssey. But throughout many of the early years The Ubyssey was a quiet, well-mannered, light-hearted tabloid. There was extensive coverage in the Twenties of sports, debates and social events, with editorials and essays occasionally on weighty issues like women's rights and Bolshevism. The "Muck-A-Muck" section of jokes and stories was racy enough to have The Ubyssey banned from Vancouver high schools in 1921. The first major incident of friction between The Ubyssey and the university administration occurred in 1931 and then, as editor-in-chief Ronald Grantham was later to admit, it resulted from misunderstanding rather than rebellion. The problem arose after The Ubyssey had editorialized against provincial government plans to slash the university budget and President Leonard S. Klinck ordered the paper to "cease fire" because it was embarrassing him in delicate negotiations with the cabinet. The Ubyssey officially fell silent, but no restrictions were placed on columnists and letters-to-the-editor which continued to attack Victoria. This led to Grantham — who later became editor of an Ottawa paper — being suspended by the university for two weeks and ultimately being forced to resign by student council when he refused to apologize. The Pubsters threatened resignation en masse, then carried on under Himie Koshevoy (whose column on the often-absent president, "The Missing Klinck" revealed his fondness for puns even then) to press for Grantham's vindication. Now retired, Himie Koshevoy, who went on to work for both city dailies and the old News-Herald before becoming managing editor of the Toronto Star and finally columnist with The Province, recalls that The Ubyssey was just becoming a newspaper in those days. "The reporting then wasn't any great hell. The paper was still in the formative stages of changing from essay writing to reporting." He credits editors Maurice Desbrisay (1928-29) and Rod Pilkington (1929-30)'with being the great influences on this trend, bringing out to Point Grey skills learned working for the downtown dailies. And while the paper had no qualms then about taking potshots at student council, it was still unthinkable to criticize the university administration, let alone engage in confrontation. "We were a pretty submissive lot." It was in the Forties that The Ubyssey's identity as a newspaper (rather than a literary or critical journal) was securely set. One of the prime influences was Pierre Berton whose whole life even then was focussed on becoming a newspaperman. He made his first breakthrough in a manner that has since become a characteristic of The Ubyssey, by writing a hoax: "Masked men attack theologs." As a senior editor in 1940-41 and part-time reporter at The Sun, he continued the adoption of more professional methods. By the postwar period, when the university enrolment had vastly increased with the influx of veterans, the aesthetes and literati had been soundly beaten off and the paper was being run by determined newspapermen, notably Don Ferguson, editor-in-chief, 1947-48, Ron Haggart, editor-in-chief, 1948-49 and Val Sears, managing editor, 1948-49. "We took the view that UBC constituted a small town then and we should report what was happening like any other small town paper," recalled Ferguson, who went on to become assistant general manager of Reuters and editor-in-chief of Visnews in London before returning to Canada and joining the CBC three years ago. "The vets were interested in what was going on." "While a lot of the articles were humorous and meant to be satire, we thought of ourselves as an important institution," said Ron Haggart, who, prior to joining CBC, was a popular columnist with the old Toronto Telegram, after working with The Sun, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. "Information had suddenly become a very important commodity because with the rapidly expanding university the older personal forms of communication were not available." It was during Haggart's tenure as editor that the one major conflict of the Forties with the university administration occurred. At the Engineer's Ball a handsome young professor put his arm around the waist of a buxom, Sophie Tucker-like singer and did a soft shoe routine, which was caught on film by the Ubyssey photographer, an engineer. Next day, the dean of applied science, who was acting president, ordered Haggart not to run the picture, declaring that it was "offensive." These were not yet the days of defiance and the edict was complied with — sort of. "We ran a blank space with a cutline and a note inside the blank space saying that the picture was withdrawn on the order of the acting president," said Haggart. "The picture was immediately picked up and run in The Sun, three times the size, in the next day's issue." But if anything, the Forties are best remembered as one of the highpoints in Ubyssey humor. Signed on by Berton, Eric Nicol left them laughing throughout most of the decade, first as an undergraduate humorist and then after the war as a graduate student in French. He started by contributing to the long- running, anonymous "Chang Suey" series, a takeoff on the then-popular "Charlie Chan" serial. "It was totally racist, chauvinist and obscene," says Nicol, "but innocent merriment at that time." Then, hiding behind the pseudonym Jabez (a Hebrew word meaning, "he will give pain"), he began making fun of everyone high and low on campus in a column called, "The Mummery." Looking back on his writing career, which really began after he quit the Sorbonne in 1950 to contribute to a Bernard Braden situation comedy on BBC, returning a year later to open his long-running stand as a Province columnist, author and playwright, Nicol views that Ubyssey column as what fixed his identity as a humorist. "I would sit in the UBC library pretending to read, but actually watching students read my column," he says. "That's how I got my jollies. It was a form of exhibitionism which was both reasonably legal and which I found rewarding — and it's remained that way to me." Patrick Keatley, now our man in London with The Guardian, contributed a column oddly-named, "Eating Fruit Salad," and Les Bewley pitched in with "The Children's Hour," to keep the good times rolling. It was the judge in fact who raised the money and had a plaque made and installed in Brock Hall in memory of Jabez. "It was a gag," says Nicol. "It managed to foster the idea that I had died in 1948. Bewley has been something of a wag ever since." The Fifties are supposed to be a lost decade. At least from the perspective of these terribly enlightened, progressive, politically-committed times. Certainly Joe College lived on Point Grey then and all his now-stereotyped antics were enthusiastically covered in The Ubyssey. There was much about homecoming parades, Mardi Gras, football, fraternities and photo spreads on "frosh" queens. And of course the usual pool dunkings, traditional to arts-loving Ubyssey's constant put-downs of engineers. But all this is not the whole story. It was during the supposedly somnolent Fifties that The Ubyssey acquired much of its reputation for hell-raising. In between the fun, the campus tabloid had a memorable set-to with the board of governors and the normally mild-mannered Presi dent Norman Mackenzie, went toe-to-toe with the AMS, began the long-running war with the Socreds and provoked a mighty roar of righteous indignation on and off-campus for an "offensive, blasphemous and sacrilegious" Easter edition. The decade was only half over when the good Reverend E.C. Pappert of Assumption College in Windsor, Ontario, labelled The Ubyssey as "the vilest rag you can imagine," a condemnation the unrepentant Pubsters have come to love and cherish. UBC information officer Jim Banham, editor-in-chief in 1949-50, who became part of the Ubyssey London connection with Reuters and the London Express before returning to his alma mater, remembers it all as "some of the best years of my life." Not just because of the usual hi- jinks (like how he miffed the engineers when, after being kidnapped, he didn't crucify them in print, only got even later by kidnapping the EUS president), but for the opportunity to get an intense apprenticeship in newspaper work. "I think for the fledgling journalist to learn how a newspaper is written and produced, there was no finer training than The Ubyssey," said Banham. "You not only got to write the stuff, but you got experience writing heads and working in the print shop until three o'clock in the morning, setting type, cutting column rules — getting the paper out." It was also great training apparently in discovering what being a crusading editor can mean. This at least was undoubtedly what Les Armour learned during his controversial stint as editor-in-chief in 1951- 52. Armour was not only a tough critic of the student government, but equally hard on the university administration. In a relentless editorial campaign against a possible fee increase, he didn't mince words in attacking the administration for a lack of openness on the issue, provoking the board of governors to condemn The Ubyssey for "irresponsible writing." All of this was clearly part of the motivation behind the student council's demand for his resignation in December, 1951. "A majority of students on this campus do not agree with Armour's point of view," said one councillor. "They are, in fact, fed up with him. They want him out." To the Pubsters it was a classic freedom of the press issue. And in response, the entire staff (which included Allan Fotheringham, Alex MacGillivray, Joe Schlesinger and Doug Heal, now a Vancouver public relations man) threatened to resign. The matter was resolved at a special AMS meeting with a special vote of confidence for the editor. A loss to journalism, Armour went on to become a professor of philosophy, being succeeded the following year as editor-in-chief by Joe Schlesinger. In 1953-54 Allan Fotheringham held sway in the Pubsters' Brock Hall grotto. It was (continued, page IS) / €*"?7P% \ / / n \ it 1 '-M. * Pierre Berton, Forties Pat Carney, Fifties Joe Schlesinger, Fifties Chronicle/Autumn 1980 13 The Pubsters of Yesteryear The police radio crackled out something about a bank robbery in progress. The city editor quickly scanned the newsroom with a harried, malevolent look. All his top reporters were busy, furiously writing to deadline. But one young reporter, dark hair dishevelled, tie undone, cigarette clamped in his mouth, looked up eagerly. Norm "Scoop" Betts was ready. "Betts! Get on it!" Grabbing pencils and copy paper, Betts rushed over to the coatrack, flung on a snappy new trenchcoat and tore out the door. To me, the cubbiest of cub reporters in his first week at the Vancouver Sun, this was impressive. Here was the real newspaper business, tough, frantic, exciting — just like in the movies. Still, I wondered about that new trenchcoat: it was a warm May day. There was more to wonder about. Five minutes or so later I left the newsroom to cover a Kiwanis luncheon and there on the landing in the old Beatty Street tower was "Scoop" still waiting for one of the lethargic, cantankerous elevators. A quick run down five short flights of stairs and he would have been on his way, but it was not to be. Our intrepid, trenchcoated reporter waited and waited. That's what the Ubyssey experience did to some people—turned them into characters right out of The Front Page. Norm "Scoop" Betts. Well, in fairness, he was always more adept at creating the image of a reporter than actually being one: news photography was his thing. If that's what his special talent is really called. Former Pubsters will tell you that when Betts was photo editor in 1964- 65 he had an uncanny ability to inveigle luscious coeds down to The Ubyssey darkroom and get them to take off their blouses to be photographed. Where is he now? He's exploiting the same talent for the Toronto Sun, producing the tabloid's distinctive "Sunshine Girls" photos, only nowadays he's getting the girls to peel to their bikinis.... Ah, yes, where are the Pubsters of yesteryear? Believe it or not, many of them took up respectable careers. Law has always held a particular attraction, but, funnily enough, none have yet become experts in libel law. The ranks of Ubyssey alumni do, however, include two chief justices of the B.C. Supreme Court, the late Sherwood Lett and Nathan Nemetz, the former UBC chancellor. J.V. Clyne, an early sports editor, had a distinguished career on the bench before presiding over MacMillan Bloedel and becoming the current UBC chancellor. Provincial court judge Nick Mussallem is a Ubyssey graduate, while lawyer Don Jabour, in and out of trouble with the B.C. Bar Association for advertising, is an old boy from the Fifties. Stanley Beck is now dean of law at Osgoode Hall. Richard Blair, managing editor in the Sixties, practises law in Kamloops. Lorraine Shore, city editor, went via The Sun newsroom to membership in the B.C. Bar. Twenties business managers Roger Odium and Ralph Brown went on to form the investment firm, Odium, Brown and T.B. Read. One-time military editor CP. Leckie later headed his own commercial fishing company. Former B.C. Hydro co- chairman Hugh Keenleyside is another early staffer. Mamie Maloney Boggs followed up her Ubyssey editing experience with a columnist's career at The Sun. Others took up not-quite-so- respectable careers. John "Chick" Turner, a Forties sports editor, tried politics, eventually becoming federal justice minister. Ray Perrault, the one-time B.C. Liberal leader, is now government leader in the senate. A Pubster in the Fifties, Pat Carney began well enough — she was a top business columnist with the Vancouver Sun — but she's now Conservative MP for Vancouver-Centre. All is not lost: the cultural world has at least benefitted from the Ubyssey Connection. Earle Birney, who also had a distinguished teaching career at UBC, has become the dean of Canadian poets. A critic in the early Forties, author of a column called "Pearl Castings," Lister Sinclair went on to make an impressive contribution to CBC arts programming, eventually becoming a vice-president. A trio of occasional contributors in the late Forties is: Norman Campbell, Canada's top director of TV dance; internationally- recognized film and TV director Daryl Duke, now president of Vancouver's CKVU-TV; and screenwriter Norman Klenman, vice-president of Duke's company. Many other former Pubsters have hunkered down in academia. Most notable is retired classics head Malcolm McGregor, a sports editor from the early Thirties who throughout his UBC career consistently, wittily and futilely tried to get The Ubyssey to rec ognize the error of its ways. Emeritus UBC education professor Sadie Boyles is a former staffer, as is associate arts dean Peter Remnant and ex-education deputy minister Walter Hardwick, president of B.C.'s new KNOW television network and UBC geography professor. Recognized as one of the best editors of the Fifties, Pat Marchak is now UBC associate professor of sociology. Associate political science professor Paul Tennant is a Ubyssey toiler from that era, as is theatre department head John Brockington. But of course it's in the news media where the Ubyssey Connection has its strongest — and most far-flung — links. One of the more famous and colorful Ubyssey products of the mid- Thirties was the late Norman DePoe, who was a great broadcast journalist, first on CBC radio, later becoming CBC-TV's first full-time Ottawa correspondent. Percy Saltzman, from the same era, started out in meteorology and ended up as Canada's top TV weather man, latterly hosting CTV's Canada A.M. Colleague Norman Hacking was long-time marine editor with The Province. The Forties saw the Vancouver Sun connection strengthened under Hal Straight, recognized as one of the paper's great managing editors. Former Ubyssey editor Lionel Salt is wire editor at The Sun. A former Sun Ottawa reporter Stanley Burke went on to become a CBC-TV news correspondent and ultimately CBC-TV national news reader; he's now publisher of the Nanaimo Times. John Wardroper is a sub-editor at the London Sunday Times and author of several books on British poetry and political satire. A former Ubyssey senior editor, Donald Stainsby, after a varied career in newspaper journalism and public relations in Canada and the United Kingdom, has settled down as editor of B.C. Outdoors. One-time editor-in- chief Mardee Dundas Gait is director of publicity for UBC's Centre for Continuing Education. David Levy spent 12 years as CBC correspondent in Moscow. Today he writes and teaches journalism in North Vancouver. Jack Ferry was for many years owner and publisher of The Kerrisdale Courier. Among Fifties people, Jeremy Brown went on to become a columnist with the Toronto Star and is now co- owner of Toronto Calendar magazine. Hal Tennant, a former Maclean's staff writer, has established himself as one of Canada's best freelance magazine writers. One-time critics page editor Barrie Hale now freelances for Toronto Life magazine. A decade-end Pubster, Ross Munro became the Globe and Mail's man in Peking and was last 14 Chronicle//! utumn 1980 heard to be ensconced in Hong Kong, writing a book and working for Time. Peter Sypnowich is executive editor of Today. CBC radio's man in London these days is Robert Macdonald, a Ubyssey product from the early Sixties. Hilary Brown is CBS' lady in London. A former photo editor and Page Friday editor, Fred Cawsey is doing CHQM's "Business Report" and serving as cultural affairs reporter for CBC-TV in Vancouver. Joy Bradbury is completing her journalism diploma at Vancouver City College after reporting stints with CKVU's Vancouver Skow and The Courier, where Sallye Delbridge Fotheringham is a columnist. Paul Knox is now reporting for the Globe and Mail. Peter Ladner is working for a weekly in Cowichan, Vancouver Island, former Ubyssey editor Lesley Kreuger is a story editor with CBC radio's As It Happens in Toronto, and Stuart Gray is writing for The Province. Among the Seventies products, a sizeable Ubyssey Hong Kong link is being developed. Former editor Gary Coull is working there with the Far Eastern Economic Review, Jake Van Der Kamp is with the South China Morning Post and Berton Woodward and Marcus Gee are also writing from there. Otherwise, Page Friday writer Geoff Hancock is editing Canadian Fiction Magazine and freelancing in Toronto. Sue Vohanka is also in the national media headquarters freelancing and serving as contributing editor to This Magazine. Leslie Plommer is a copy editor with The Times in London. Meanwhile, among those still down home, Ralph Maurer is editing the B.C. Teachers' Federation Newsleiter, Jan O'Brien is a reporter with The Province, Susan Gransby is Sun copy and layout editor for the editorial pages, Mike Sasges is a Sun business writer and former editor Mike Bocking is doing general reporting with The Sun. There is also a not exactly diminutive band of people who, while at UBC, have had little or no involvement with The Ubyssey and yet (miracle of miracles!) have found success in journalism. One of these is Dennis Mcintosh, CTV's correspondent in China, another is Eve Savory, CBC-TV's national correspondent based in Regina. Paul Wright is now a CBC-TV producer in Toronto. John Kalbfleisch, a former associate editor of Weekend magazine, is now deputy editorial page editor at the Montreal Gazette, whose publisher is former Province Victoria bureau chief and publisher Bob McConnell. All in all, it's not an unimpressive list. under his editorship that the paper (in between flinging verbal barbs at the engineers) began an attack on the racial discrimination policies ofthe fraternities. It was also a great time for hoaxes, not all of them originating with The Ubyssey. "I will never forget the great toilet seat caper," recalls Helen Hutchison, a Ubyssey critic and women's editor in that period. "Somehow one day the engineers managed to remove every toilet seat on campus, even the one in the president's private can. Then at set intervals they would reappear, festooned on trees and on poles around campus, and then just as magically they would disappear. After a week they miraculously reappeared. I remember the story I wrote was headed, 'A Cold Week for the Seat of Learning.' It's the silly things you remember most...." Now-familiar political themes made their appearance under Sandy Ross' editorship in 1956-57, as the paper regularly savaged the W.A.C. Bennett Socred government for education cutbacks. But the Ross regime is remembered as much for comedy. He and Rod Smith, now a California neurosurgeon, wrote a bizarre humor column, "My Dog Has Fleas" ("Real Animal House stuff — I'd be embarrassed to see it now," says Ross), which occasionally had untoward effects. One, which accused the engineers of being "limp-wristed faggots," provoked the redshirts to trash the Ubyssey office, resulting in a three-day running engineers-Pubsters riot. But the climacteric of The Ubyssey's middle period came in 1959, with what is now referred to as The Great Purge. The annual year-end goon edition that spring carried a number of items that provoked a great outcry. But it wasn't just the story ridiculing Eleanor Roosevelt ("A Dear Rich Little Old Lady in Blue"), who had just spoken on campus, or the back-page about a rugby game featuring a picture of a jock strap with the headline, "Be a UBC Athletic Supporter," it was the lampoon of the observance of Easter that made things hit the fan. The paper ran three pictures: one showed three cheerleaders around a totem pole with the cutline, "Look at those nail holes in His hands"; the second showed an excavation beside the library with the cudine, "The tomb is empty!"; and the third featured a girl walking barefoot away from some chickens, with a cutline, "What have you done with Him?" Radio hodiner Jack Webster called for heads to roll, Bridge River- Lillooet News editor Ma Murray called The Ubyssey a "filthy rag" that should be closed down or cleaned up — there was immediate outrage both on and off campus. Editor-in- chief Al Forrest, who ironically had nothing to do with the goon issue, shouldered the responsibility. The upshot was that the faculty council, the campus disciplinary body, suspended Forrest and senior editor Rupert Buchanan from the university for one day. They and three other senior staff members were also removed from the publications board. The Ubyssey was purged. "I was shocked and embarrassed when I saw it," recalls Forrest, now business and finance editor at the Victoria Times. "It was a group of people on staff who would have been called 'beatniks' then who did it. In retrospect, I think this was the first stirring of student activism ofthe Sixties." After The Great Purge and some later defections, it fell to Fred Fletcher, now a York University political scientist, to begin rebuilding The Ubyssey as editor- in-chief in 1960-61, while still only a third-year student. He personally recruited Keith Bradbury, Tim Padmore, now Sun science writer and Roger McAfee, who later became a lawyer. Denis Stanley, now editor-publisher of the Arrow Lake News, Michael Valpy, now Sun Ottawa columnist and David Ab- lett, former editor of The Sun's editorial page and currently secretary to the privy council in Ottawa, joined the paper later. "In my year the paper wasn't particularly good," said Fletcher. "It was full of mistakes, spelling errors and terrible headlines. But the following year, under McAfee, The Ubyssey won the Southam Trophy (for best student newspaper in Canada) for the first of seven years in a row. I've always felt that my recruiting had something to do with that string." That may be. "Father Fred," as Pubsters called him, had a large hand in the paper for several years, returning as news editor in 1961-62 and associate editor in 1962-63. Another factor, of course, was that the long-standing informal ties with the Vancouver Sun were much strengthened during this period. Bill Rayner, now Sun news editor, began making weekly jaunts to the Ubyssey office to give advice on how to improve the paper and to engage in talent-spotting. Mike Grenby, Sun personal finance columnist and Hall Leiren, former Sun Victoria bureau chief and now Premier Bill Bennett's information officer, were a couple of the talents spotted on what had clearly become the Point Grey farm team. It unquestionably became a better paper in the early Sixties. Investigative reporting began to make its appearance under editor Keith Bradbury in 1962-63, as The Ubyssey exposed RCMP surveillance of student political activities. It was a more critical paper too. It strongly supported President John B. Macdonald's pleas for greater financial support from the tight-fisted Social Credit government, stimulating the massive Back Mac campaign which saw 3,500 students march downtown in protest in the spring of 1963. But it was still a paper with a sense of humor. There were the usual spoofs, such as the series about the kilted campus flasher ("Kilted Attacker Prances After Coed"), or the one about the thriving brothel in Acadia Camp. But nothing compared to the stunt pulled in the spring of 1964 which, under editor Mike Hunter, ChronicleMu'rumn 1980 15 now a Vancouver lawyer, saw The Ubyssey in unusual collusion with the engineers. Immediately after the spring arts festival, a new, strange-looking series of cement sculptures suddenly appeared on campus and, surveying reactions, The Ubyssey elicited favorable comments from campus art-lovers. Several days later The Ubyssey caught engineers (protesting that "they're bloody awful and no one should have to put up with them") smashing the sculptures with sledgehammers. The paper followed this story up with other quoting outraged art-lovers calling the engineers "philistines" and demanding Fuzzy-rot menaces blorgs PANGO-PANGO (UNS)—It was learned from usually reliable sources today that the opalescent puce blorg is in danger of extinction from creeping green fuzzy-rot. A source close to the trouble claimed other infestations already at work eradicating this colony of OPB will have their job done for them. Erradicus Crabbus, leader ofthe infestors, said the creeping green fuzzy-rot was part of a plot conceived by the cashmere blorgs in an attempt to gain control of this country. disciplinary action. Then The Ubyssey abruptly punctured the arts crowd's pomposity by exposing that the statues had been slapped together in some engineer's basement and the whole thing was a fraud. It was a light-hearted and tough- minded period. "We tried to adhere to what we believed were the professional standards of daily newspapers — of hard news, hard questions, hard editing and bright, sprighdy makeup," said Ron Ri- ter, then a Ubyssey news editor, now Sun assistant news editor. "We abhorred the raw-raw, artsy-fartsy stuff that was in most college papers of the time. We were trying to put out a campus version of a metropolitan daily." Somewhere, later in the Sixties, that love affair with mainstream journalism ended. The downtown dailies became " establishment press,"as The Ubyssey became radicalized. It's not clear exactly when this happened, but it's not surprising that it did. The Ubyssey has always, in one way or another, reflected the environment ofthe times. And the late Sixties and early Seventies was the Age of Protest — against the war in Vietnam, capitalism, racism, pollution, lack of democracy in university government — when the young began to challenge almost all aspects of the status quo. UBC was not immune and The Ubyssey increasingly reflected the growing mood of the radical-left protest. The orientation was changing in 1965 under the editorship of Tom Wayman, 16 Chronicle//, utumn 1980 now the workingman's poet. The Ubyssey and university came increasingly to be at loggerheads, the paper campaigning for universal university accessibility and hammering away at President John B. Macdonald's elitist attitude. The president attacked the paper for printing "distortions and outright lies." The trend toward a more analytical, opinionated Ubyssey continued the following year under editor John Kelsey. It became increasingly more outward-looking also, editorializing against the Vietnam war and corporate power, while continuing to press for democratization of the university. Some ofthe toughest agitation in this line came during this period from radical campus movers and shakers such as Gabor Mate, Stan Persky and Carey Linde. In the fall of 1967, The Ubyssey hit the news again as the source of scandal with editor-in-chief Danny Stoffman conducting a campaign against censorship. When Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell forced Playboy to be removed from local newsstands because the issue contained explicit (for that time) photographs of a sex scene, The Ubyssey promptly obtained the magazine and ran the pictures. It was also during this period that The Ubyssey won the Southam Trophy for excellence for the seventh and last time. At the annual Canadian University Press convention in December, 1967, delegates agreed to stop granting the award on the grounds that objective standards for judging newspapers were unrealizable and that competition was incompatible with the objective of more cooperation among member newspapers. The resolution had been moved by Stoffman himself as part of the trend to eliminate elitism. When Al Birnie assumed the mantle of "coordinating editor" in 1968, the radicalization (and presumably democratization) of The Ubyssey was complete. Birnie, a member ofthe militant Students for a Democratic Society and avowed Maoist, made the paper into a political tool to assail society and stir up unrest on campus. The tone was set in September, 1968 when The Ubyssey ran an editorial entitled, "Burn, Baby, Burn," equating students with ghetto Negroes and warning that unless the administration made radical reforms the university would go up in smoke. And when a month later American student activist Jerry Rubin led a crowd of students on a "spontaneous" occupation of the UBC Faculty Club, The Ubyssey editorialized that the sit-in (in fact organized by the SDS the night previous) would produce "good effects" in the campaign to democratize the university. The polemics were only part of it. Then there were the four-letter words, the pictures of male nudes, the regular tips on drug busts and the lack of humor. All of which led to student council forcing the paper to cut back to two issues a week by (continued, page 17) UBC reports Published as a supplement to the UBC Alumni Chronicle by Information Services, University of B.C., 6328 Memorial Road, Vancouver, B.C.V6T IW5. No. 13, Autumn, 1980. Jim Banham, editor. UBC and provincial resources This issue of UBC Reports contains the first of a series of articles on the University of British Columbia and its links with the resource industries of the province. The focus in this issue is on forestry, the province's biggest industry and the cornerstone of our economic well- being. The articles which begin on page 3 of this issue describe some of the research and thinking by UBC faculty members which affect the current and future problems of the forest industry. As usual, we were faced with an embarrasment of riches in deciding which research to describe. We hope you find our choices interesting and informative. Future editions of UBC Reports will contain material on the fishing and mining industries Also in this issue, the quest for the elusive popcorn fish (page 14), a report on the breakthrough in federal research financing (page 15) and a campus news roundup (page 16). OFFICIAL ELECTION NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the election of the Chancellor and of ELEVEN members of the Senate to be elected by the members of Corivocation of The University of British Columbia will be held on Friday, February 6, 1981. Candidates eligible to stand for election to the Senate are members of Convocation who are not members of the Faculties of the University. The term of office is three years. Nomination procedures: 1. All nominations of candidates for the office of Chancellor must be supported by the identifiable signatures of SEVEN persons entitled to vote in the election of the Chancellor and carry the signature of the nominee indicating willingness to run for election. 2. All nominations of candidates for membership in the Senate must be supported by the identifiable signatures of THREE persons entitled to vote in the election of the Senate. Nominations for these offices must be in the hands of the Registrar no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 7, 1980. In accordance with the Universities Act an election register has been x prepared of the names and known addresses of all members of the Convocation who are entitled to vote at an election and the register is open to inspection at all reasonable hours by all members entitled to vote. K.G. Young, Registrar, The University of British Columbia, 204 - 2075 Wesbrook Mall, VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z2. Those currently holding office for 1978-81 are listed below. Chancellor The Honourable J.V. Clyne, C.C., K.G.St.J., B.A. Senate (listed in alphabetical order) William Henry Birmingham, B.A., B.Arch. James F. McWilliams, B.S.F., M.A., Dip.For. (Oxon.) Mary F. Bishop, B.A., M.A. Michael M. Ryan, B.Com. William Gerald Burch, B.A.Sc, R.P.F. Gordon A. Thorn, B.Com., M.B.A., M.Ed. Patricia Macrae Fulton, B.A., Dipl. Soc. Work J°an Cecilia Wallace, B.A. William Mawhinney Keenlyside, B.A., A.M., Ph.D. Charlotte L.V. Warren, B.Com. Elaine McAndrew, B.H.E., M.B.A. 2/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 The end is in sight for the supply of old-growth, high-quality timber that was here when the first Europeans set foot on Canada's west coast. B.C.'s forest industry faces near-crisis situation By Jim Banham It's no exaggeration to say that the economic health of British Columbia rests on the shoulders of its forest industry. As the province's biggest industry it directly or indirectly provides employment for some 265,000 people who are annually paid about $1.8 billion in wages and salaries, contributes more than a billion dollars each year in taxes and other charges to federal, provincial and municipal revenues and is a cornerstone of our foreign trade with more than 48 per cent of Canada's foreign ex change from forestry coming from shipments originating in B.C. Any economist will tell you that if you have a renewable resource of that magnitude a great deal of effort should go into ensuring that it will continue to be productive through planning and management. A continuing investment is required to improve technology and ensure a steady flow of trained professionals who will provide manpower and advice to governments and industry. Continued on page four UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/3 It is only recently, however, that Pritish Columbians have suddenly r".ilized that the province's forest re ource is finite and that we will !" in real trouble over the next < ■ "tury unless we take immediate • ps to invest in everything from basic and applied research through expanded educational facilities to new incentives for restocking logged-off forest land. There are signs that B.C. is moving to redress some of the ■ hortcomings of the past. The province has a new forest act largely '. ased on the 1976 royal commis- ■ on report of UBC resource ' r onomist Prof. Peter Pearse, the 'i.C. Forest Service has clearly set f'ut the problems to be tackled in '■t'veral forest analysis reports, expenditures by the provincial s. overnment on forest management will increase by 34 per cent by 1984-85, and there is recognition by government that what Kiust be accomplished will largely depend on the ability of educational institutions to provide a t ool of trained manpower. There is no simple answer to the question of how B.C. came to find i: self in a near-crisis in its most im - portant industry. But UBC experts confirm that to a large extent we're the victims of a psychology of abundance which has had a domino effect stretching from the top levels of government down through the industry and into the forestry education system. The chain reaction begins, quite literally, in the way in which we look at our forests. Our eyes tell us that B.C.'s 95 million hectares of land is largely covered with trees. (Actually, only one- half of that total is classified as productive forest land.) We've operated on the assumption that the province possessed a superabundance of easily accessible timber. When the fallers cut clown the trees for hauling to the nearest mill, there was little point in worrying overly about reforestation because the stands of timber covered ridge after ridge as far as the eye could see. Prof. Pearse agrees that B.C.'s timber surplus has resulted in a situation where there were few incentives for ensuring future supplies through intensive silviculture, the branch of forestry lhat deals with maintaining and enhancing the forest resource by growing trees. "It can safely be said," he adds, "that up to now silviculture in this province has consisted of a fairly impressive program of fire control 4/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 and a modest effort at reforestation. But reforestation has been inadequate; the province has had an increasing backlog of nonproductive, unregenerated land, which becomes more difficult to rehabilitate as each year passes because it gels overgrown with brush and weed trees that are ex pensive to remove." We have now reached a point, Prof. Pearse says, where we must make a choice — "either we phase down our forest industry, which would be traumatic for the economy of B.C., or we get serious about rebuilding our natural resource base. And that will require a massive investment." The end is in sight for the stockpile of old- growth timber Much of the basis for rebuilding the forest resource base rests on B.C.'s new forest act, which largely incorporates the recommendations made in Prof. Pearse's 1976 royal commission report on forestry, whi< b had broad terms of reference impinging on the industry as well as allied areas such as wildlife management, conservation, fisheries and recreation. The new act, which superceded legislation first passed in 1912, deals with themes not even conceived of in the early part of this century, when B.C. first began to exploit the forest resource. One of these is the idea of multiple use, or the reconciliation of harvesting forests with concerns for wildlife, fisheries and recreation. Another is regulation of the harvest rate, or how much timber should be cut each year. A third theme is that of forest management and enhancement, or the responsibility of licensees to regenerate and protect the forest as well as log it. The new act provides incentives to encourage the forest industry to enter the field of reforestation, an activity previously reserved for the provincial government alone. Companies can now establish their own nui series to grow .>. • <l'■' ^ and are permitted to write oft reforestation expenses against the charges they owe government for cutting timber on Crown land Anoiher result of the . -. a^ aiectss al.'j i f < ,.:•' . ■ e» has been a beefing up ' t if"- B C Forest Ser> ne, which h_i i-.s > \ a hefty two volume iechii A n j.wrl describing and analyzing B.C.'s forest resources and markets and addressing a number of fundamental questions about timber supply. UBC forestry faculty irc.ir.lc is provided considerable assistance to the forest service in developing CARP, an acronym for Computer Agisted Resoun „ Pla.uiing, forerunner to the forecasting system whiih has enabled the service to analyse the forest lesoaite and lay out an initial five year plan ot action. . What the forest ^ei.i.e icpj.ts tell us is that the end is in sight for the stockpile of high-quality, < Id growth timber, mm h of which was here when the first Luiopeans set foot un Canada's west coast. When this timber is gone and the rate of disappearance uill vary widely in different parts of the province the industry v.ill be hit with the so called fall •down effect," the end result of which will be that the timber supply will be about two thirds of the present harvest if forest management programs are continued at past levels. There are oilier fa; to.s that v-ill contribute to the fall do vn. Ihe forest land base, for instatue, is shrinking because of the demands made on it by such things as wildlife conservation, fisheries, recreation and agriculture. And the new growth trees that rt-place the old growth timber will be ctit earlier in their life cycle before they reach the size of old growth timber. So the volume logged pei hectare will be much less. The forest service reports seem to indicate, but don't specifically state, that no matter what we do the timber harvest rate in the future will be less than the present harvest rate. The reports emphasize, how ever, and UBC- forestry experts agree, that a great deal can be done through intensive forest management, increased t.ce pro tection and improved wood utilization to minimize the fall- down effect and ensure a viable forest industry in B.C. Continued on page six Resource economist joins Forestry I'P'l's noted resource economist Prof. Peter Pearse now holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Faculty of Forestry on letuining to full- time teaching and tesearch in September after a vear s leave of abreme v\>th the United Nations. Prof. Pearse, who is perhaps best known as the sole royal commissioner on forest resources for B.C. in 1975-76, which iesulted in a new forest act for the province, joins the UBC forestry faculty to develop further teaching and research in the area of forest policy and management. He has Photo by Jim Ranham lop L'BC resource economist Prof. Peter Pearse, who now holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Forestry and the Department of Economics, was honored earlier this year by the Association of B.C. Professional Foresters. He received the Distinguished Forester Award for hi.s iiany contributions to professional policy-making, including his v. _ . ... ( ' >mmissioner ou Forest Resources, which served as the basis for ,k. ., j_ u,c ...1 i.;tf.'iy legislation. been a member of the economics department in the Faculty of Arts since 1962. In recent years, Prof. Pearse has been working intensively in the field of fisheries policy and management, and two of the three projects he worked on in the past year for the United Nations were related to this area. For the Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, Prof. Pearse prepared a report on ways in which UN member countries, and particularly those bordering on the Mediterranean, can regulate access to fisheries so that the resource can be efficiently managed and not reach the point of depletion. He was also part of a three- member team of UN experts which visited the west African country of Mauritania, which recently extended jurisdiction over its fishery to 200 miles off its coast. The team advised the Maurita- nian government on putting into place a set of management policies for the fishery, which is particularly rich in squid and octopus and which has up to now been ex- poited by long-range fishing fleets from Russia, Japan and South Africa. His third mission for the UN involved visiting Sabah, a state in the Malaysian federation on the island of Borneo, as part of a three-member team which advised the government on revision of the royalty system on the harvesting of hardwood timber, a resource in which Sabah is particularly rich. As a member of the Faculty of Forestry, Prof. Pearse will play an active role in the faculty's rapidly expanding program of off-campus continuing education (for details, see page 13). His lectures on forest and resource policy will be videotaped while he delivers them to UBC students and shown throughout the province to students enrolled in the continuing education program. The purpose of the program is to upgrade to degree level the qualifications of practicing forest technicians and to keep professional foresters now working in the field abreast of the latest developments in forestry practice. UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/5 'Through thick and thin, boom and bust' For Prof. Gordon Weetman, a silviculture expert in the UBC forestry faculty, the key to the future lies in intensive forest management. He likens B.C.'s forest resource to a portfoio of investments that must be carefully managed to yield the best return now and in the future. "On any given piece of forest land," he says, "there is timber of different species and different ages, just as a portfolio of investments contains bonds that mature at different times and at different interest rates. It's the professional forester's job to manage a portfolio of timber to produce income on time and when needed." And what the recent forest service reports tell us, he adds, is that we will not be able to meet the demand for forest products 100 years from now if present forest- management practices continue. Intensive forest management involves a highly complex organizational system to be effective. "Intensive management involves a. commitment to a wide- ranging package of technology to grow timber," Prof. Weetman says. First you need tree seedlings to put in the ground. "And if you're going to plant trees," he says, "it makes sense to use genetically improved stock because it's been shown it can-increase growth rates by up to 40 or 50 per cent. But growing seedlings involves time for seed selection, propogation and testing for genetic superiority." And when the various species of seedlings are ready for planting out they have to be put into ground that has been prepared for them on sites that will ensure the best growth rate. Once establish- 6/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 ed, the plantations of growing trees have to be protected fiom encroaching brush and weeds and their growth rates increased by thinning and, in some cases, by fertilization One of the major problems facing the reforestation program will be deciding on how much effort should go into each area of the province. "A lot of old growth timber yielding high volumes of wood is now being logged at high altitudes, says Prof. Weetman. "We have very little experience even growing stock for reforesta tion, let alone growirrg it on these sites. But these high altitude areas are very extensive and the pro blem comes down to how much you invest in these areas as opposed to sites where much higher yields are attainable." Prof. Weetman's special area of research interest lies in tree fer tilization. This summer, under a contract with the B.C. forest ministry, he's supervised the fer tilization of 25 Interior sites, stretching from the U.S. border to Prince Rupert, where stands of lodgepole pine, an important In terior species, have been estab lished and thinned. "In the fall, we'll analyse the pine needles for size and chemical content to determine whether the trees have responded. If they have, we'll establish more formal tests over a ten- to 15-year period to determine which sites can benefit most from fertilization," he says For Prof. Weetman, the future health of the B.C. forest industry ultimately lies in the nature of the relationship between industry and government. Prof. Weetman says he's "never seen things move as fast in forestry in all of Canada as has been the case in the last two or three years. There's a realization right across the country that we need to move quickly in this area." This will demand more trained people, he adds, not just in the technical and scientific areas, but in the managerial and business sphere as well as the human and social side. Ultimately, he says, the success or failure of the forest industry in the future will lie in the nature of the relationship between the industry and governments. "There can be no let up in our efforts to renew the forest base," he says. "It has to be maintained through thick and thin, boom and depression, if we're to have a healthy industry in the future." For silviculture expert Prof. Gordon Weetman, the future health of the forest industry lies in the nature of government-industry relations. *- _♦ Dr. Peter Murtha heads Canada's only interdisciplinary program in remote sensing. Satellite eye in the sky will monitor future forests One of the battery of new technological devices for monitoring the forests of the future will be the rapidly expanding technique of remote sensing. And UBC is likely to be a major centre for training in this new discipline. An interdisciplinary program — the only one in Canada — serving forestry, geography, geophysics, civil engineering, oceanography and soil science is now in operation under a group headed by Dr. Peter Murtha of the UBC forestry faculty. Remote sensing had its origins in photogrammetry, or the use of aerial photographs for mapping and determination of tree heights. The rapid advance of the computer and other technology has been such that remote sensing techniques can now be used to detect damage caused to trees by air pollution and insects. Dr. Murtha sees the technique being useful in the future to silviculturists who will be able to pick out slow-growing trees in new and natural tree stands so they can be thinned out to promote faster growth in the remaining trees. Dr. Murtha can produce high- altitude photographs taken on infra-red film that clearly show tracts of forest land damaged by sulphur dioxide emissions. But photographs, he believes, will soon be antiquated and useful only for precise mapping. Replacing them will be the multi-spectral scanner, which picks up reflected spectral or emitted thermal energy from the ground and records the information on digital tape, which is run through a computer to produce an image of the kind that's been used in recent years by B.C. Hydro to promote energy conservation by showing heat emissions from houses at ground level. The computer which reads the tape will be able to produce a TV screen image that remote sensing experts will be able to manipulate to provide a variety of information. Dr. Murtha says the technology exists now to develop a remote sensing system that can help the forest manager by pinpointing a disease condition caused by insects so that steps can be taken to prevent its spread. Or it could help forest-fire fighters on the ground by identifying the speed and direction of a fire. The remote sensing equipment has been mounted in, a satellite hundreds of kilometres above ground level, he says, because some of the new sensing equipment (such as radar) can even see through cloud cover. Taking the technique one step further, Dr. Murtha foresees the day when a satellite will be able to scan a forest area and transmit to a computer data that will be instantly converted into a TV picture. The picture would then be transmitted to television sets in forest environmental monitoring stations, which could be linked to one another so that forest managers could take immediate action when problems appear. "Remote sensing," Dr. Murtha says, "is a technique that's still in its infancy. Our biggest problem is to build up confidence in the data in the minds of those who would benefit from it." UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/7 Layman's view of forestry obscures inte By and large, the image of forestry which laymen carry around with them is associated with tree harvesting (lumberjacks with power saws that can fell a Douglas fir in minutes, giant trucks loaded with logs careering down dusty roads) and utilization (huge saws screaming through timber, stacks of finished lumber waiting for buyers). What few of us is aware of is the intensive planning that precedes harvesting. Take roads, for instance, which are the specialty of Prof. Leslie Adamovich, who's been teaching forestry at UBC for some 20 years. "When I talked about the aesthetics of forest roads 20 years ago," he says, "students laughed at the concept. Today, it's no laughing matter, largely because of environmental constraints, many of them imposed by agencies other than the forest service. "Years ago, no one worried about fishing streams being blocked by logging operations. Today, we realize that if we're to have a productive fishing industry in the future, streams must be kept intact because they're the spawning grounds for returning salmon. "There's a new awareness, too, of the necessity of preserving the forest for wildlife and for the growing number of people who want to use it for recreation and camping. All these things make it more difficult for companies to get at timber in increasingly inaccessible areas, where they encounter difficult terrain, which has meant that rock blasting and drilling technology has had to be improved significantly." Another harvesting expert in the UBC forestry faculty can describe how the computer can come to the aid of companies in logging off a specific area of forest efficiently. Glen Young, an associate professor of forestry, has been a key figure in marrying computer technology to planning techniques so that the harvesting process can be speeded up. ' A forester planning to harvest a specific area can now digitize — i.e. convert into numbers — and store in a desktop computer a wide range of information, including the topography of the area to be harvested and information about 8/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 The computer and other sophisticated planning devices are coming to the aid ■ nsive planning that precedes harvesting S£ forest companies which must haul timber out of increasingly inaccessible areas. the various kinds of trees growing on the site. "This enables the planner to look first at very general things," says Mr: Young. "First, if a lot of the area has slopes above 30 degrees, the planner knows he won't be able to ground skid the logs and will have to put in cable systems to collect them. "And if a substantial part of the forest faces south, is covered by certain types of soil and is above 3,000 feet, the planner knows he'll have some regeneration problems after logging takes place." When all the information is in the computer, the planner can start asking it questions. He may want a road from point A to B of a certain maximum grade. The computer will search the topographic information to see if that's possible and roughly outline the route the road will have to take. "And because the computer can do all this very quickly," Mr. Young says, "it's possible to explore a whole series of alternatives and come up with the most efficient set of circumstances for getting the timber out of the area at the lowest cost." In the final analysis, says Mr. Young, the options outlined by the computer have to be confirmed by on-the-ground observation, but several companies are using the techniques developed at UBC and are finding it beneficial from the cost point of view. "One company," he says, "found they could cut out a mile of road using the computer, and in today's terms that's a saving of $100,000 in rough coastal terrain." The techniques for employing the so-called "digital terrain simulator" are well past the research and experimental stage. Every forester who graduates from UBC is equipped with the knowledge to employ the computer in harvesting procedures. One of the reasons why B.C.'s forest industry has remained competitive and productive over the years is reliance on complex and often sophisticated machinery for harvesting timber. Ultimately, however, machines are operated and tended by men. And it is the complex "man- machine organism" that Dr. Continued on page ten UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/9 UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/11 UDLi n.puru'nuiuiiiu. ijwihj UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/15 Philip Cottell, another forestry associate professor, is trying to learn more about. He's developed a "data logger" in co-operation with UBC electrical engineering associate professor Dr. Peter Lawrence that's capable of recording data on up to 32 different factors that make up the man-machine system while it's actually functioning- in a work situation. The compact recording unit can simultaneously measure and analyse the variety of influences on the system and relate the results to the overall objective of the system — production. The data is recorded on standard tape cassettes, which are read on a companion reader unit, which then transmits the data to a computer that can statistically analyse the information. The first experiments using the data logger were carried out in UBC's research forest near Haney in the Fraser Valley and were designed to look for evidence of diminished performance due to fatigue or stress over the course of a shift among operators of yarding machinery, which pulls felled timber to a collecting area. Other types of forest machinery are scheduled for examination in future studies. "If we find that productivity does suffer over a shift period," says Dr. Cottell, "our data may tell us that increased output could be obtained through equipment modifications, for example, improved layout and type of operator's controls or instruments or vibration-damping seating." There are a number of compelling reasons for attempting to improve man-machine systems in logging. For one, much of Canada's forest industry is carried on in high-cost, marginal regions, so improvements in performance through better man-machine systems could be important in ensuring a productive and profitable industry. Another reason is that while many people think of the forests as part of the healthy outdoor life, many who work in that environment find it's often noisy, dirty, dangerous and fatiguing. So safety and health considerations as well as worker job satisfaction are involved in Dr. Cottell's research. Prof. Robert Kennedy says B.C.'s future wood supply could be increased significantly through better utilization. Better utilization will expand wood supply Most critics agree that B.C.'s forest industry has done rather badly in ensuring an adequate future timber supply. The industry has done somewhat better in terms of utilization once the logs reach one of the nearly 700 B.C. mills that produce lumber, shingles, plywood and pulp and paper. Technological advances in manufacturing and utilization have been dramatic and the industry is constantly seeking ways of using residues for conventional and new products. However, the predicted decline in future timber supply .will make 10/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 it essential that wood is utilized even more rationally, according to Prof. Robert Kennedy, who joined the UBC forest faculty recently after a 14-year career in the former federal forest products laboratory located on the UBC campus. "Timber is used inefficiently in construction," he says, "because we don't fully understand the properties of wood. We still use a design factor determined back in the 1920s on clear pieces of wood. "We need to know more about the variations of properties among wood of the same species and grade, the effect of long-term loading on floors and suchlike, with a view to reducing the amount of wood used in building." There are some immediate and easily attainable ways of increasing the wood supply, Prof. Kennedy says. Improvements in sawmill cutting operations, e.g., reduced sawtooth widths, could increase lumber yields by 12.5 per cent, which is equivalent to increased timber of nine million cubic metres of logs a year in Canada alone. Other technological improvements in pulp and plywood manufacturing, wood engineering and treating wood with preservatives could increase wood supply by an estimated 38 million cubic metres a year, which is 63 per cent of the additional increase of 60 million cubic metres which we've been told the Canadian forest industry will have to produce by 1990 to meet world demand. Canada, Prof. Kennedy says, lags far behind the U.S. in academic programs aimed at training people who will understand efficient processing and utilization. "It's important we develop an academic program here at UBC along these lines even before we embark on an extensive research program." Utilization research will be carried on by students at Forintek, the new name for the forest products lab, which is now supported by grants from the forest industry, supplemented by provincial and federal governments. "We'll need more students specializing in utilization in the future," says Prof. Kennedy. "One of the major problems is that there are few people in industry who are prepared to listen to new ideas with the result that there's a gap between available and applied technology." _^^ ^il-_____^_r^^i ___Wr^l____r ' ^Bk Prof. James Kutney of UBC's chemistry department is manipulating the chemical structure of an oil derived from B.C. cedar trees with a view to opening avenues towards the marketing of commercially important products. Host of uses seen for oil derived from slash Not all the research bearing on the forest industry is being carried out in UBC's Faculty of Forestry. In several labs in the campus Chemistry Building, Prof. Jim Kutney and a group of six postdoctoral fellows are manipulating the chemistry of an oil derived from western red cedar with a view to opening avenues towards the marketing of commercially important products. The substance Prof. Kutney and his research group is dealing with is called thujone, a so-called "essential oil" derived from cedar leaves and branches by a simple distillation process. "Every day," says Prof. Kutney, "the forest industry creates tons of slash, the branches of felled trees, which are left on the forest floor and later burned. In addition, intensive forestry involves thinning out tree plantations when trees are young to ensure the optimum growth of the remainder of the stand. "Thujone can be distilled from these two sources, especially the young trees, because it is at this time in their life cycle that thujone levels are highest." Prof. Kutney's research begins on a farm near Armstrong, B.C., owned by Lowell Paul, who is cooperating with a Kelowna-based firm of forestry consultants, Alan Moss and Associates Ltd., in a feasibility study designed to evaluate the economics of producing thujone commercially. The Armstrong experiment, like Prof. Kutney's research, is supported by grants from the Science Council of B.C. Continued on page 12 UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/11 The distillation apparatus on the Okanagan Valley farm produces an oily, aromatic liquid which is about 80 per cent thujone and looks like rye whiskey. "You can imagine thujone as the hub of a wheel," says Prof. Kutney, "with a number of radiating spokes labelled perfumery, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, insect repellants, etc." When thujone reaches Prof. Kutney's UBC labs his research team manipulates its chemistry and then dispatches the derivatives to various agencies for evaluation and testing. (Even the material left over from the Armstrong distillation process, called muka, which is the Russian word for flour, is being evaluated by agriculturalists as a filler in animal and poultry feed and by forest research scientists as a filler in making particle board). One international company is currently evaluating Prof. Kutney's thujone derivatives for use in perfumes, colognes and detergent soaps. Another thujone derivative has been tested in the Fraser Valley by a research entomologist who has shown it is effective in controlling insects that attack vegetable crops. The leading Canadian company that markets insecticides, herbicides and insect repellants has sought Prof. Kutney out to ask if it can test his thujone derivatives as the basis for commercial products. And an official for the B.C. economic development ministry has said he wants to discuss the feasibility of developing a plant in northern B.C. for distilling cedar oil and creating employment. "So the possibility of utilizing slash, something the forest industry regards as a nuisance, has some fairly widespread economic implications," says Prof. Kutney. "And that ties in very neatly with the way in which the provincial government and the Science Council of B.C. is thinking," he adds. "The council was asked to focus on some applied science priorities and forest products was one of them. ' "Sophisticated secondary industry resulting from research and technology that is linked to B.C.'s most important industry is something that is uppermost in the minds of the provincial government." 12/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 Reforester would aid replanting of forests To regenerate its forests, B.C. will need all the mechanical help it can get. And some of that help is already in sight, thanks to Prof. Jack Walters, the director of UBC's Research Forest in the Fraser Valley north of Haney. Two years ago, Prof. Walters unveiled his Reforester, the world's first automatic, self- propelled seedling planter, which is capable of planting 20,000 seedlings a day. (About 700 seedlings can be planted each day using a mattock, or grub hoe, a method so primitive, says Prof. Walters, that "Cain used a similar tool to kill Abel.") The Reforester unveiled in 1978 was originally a Second World War personnel carrier which had been converted as a log skidder. Prof. Walters purchased it for $28,000 from a Los Angeles scrap yard. • He had three compressed-air planting guns mounted on the tracked vehicle, which can travel over logging debris and crawl across logs two feet in diameter, planting three rows of seedlings as it goes. " Each seedling is grown from a seed germinated in a plastic "bullet" which is fired into the ground by the compressed air guns. The four-sided bullets were also invented by Prof. Walters as part of earlier work to automate reforestation. Both the provincial and federal governments as well as the North - wood Pulp and Timber Co. of Prince George have shown an interest in the Reforester since it was unveiled. The federal government is underwriting the costs of developing an improved version of the compressed air guns and Prof. Walters is working hard on developing a new biodegradable substance to replace the plastic that now forms the bullets in which the tree seedlings are grown. Northwood and the provincial government are co-operating to mount compressed air guns on a log skidder for testing on logged- off land in the Prince George area. The government of Algeria has Photo by Jim Banham Reforester built by UBC research forest director Jack Walters is capable of planting 20,000 seedlings daily in plastic bullets. also shown interest in, the Reforester and has gone as far as to actually order one of the machines. "However, we want to make sure the machine is useful for conditions in the Sahara Desert," Prof. Walters said. He's in contact with officials in Algeria about the Reforester and with an agent for the Algerian government in Germany concerning the bullets in which the seedlings are grown. Prof. Walters has also invented a device to aid the forest industry in gathering seed cones from trees in out-of-the-way places. Called a cone rake, the device is mounted on a helicopter which can hover and actually rake the cones off the tree limbs. The cones fall into a hopper which is a part of the device. It enables foresters to collect seed from anywhere without having to climb the tree or cut it down. Prof. Walters' abilities as an inventor were recognized recently by the Canadian Institute of Forestry which conferred on him the Canadian Forestry Achievement Award for contributing "sound ideas and brilliant innovations to Canadian forestry." UBC's Faculty of Forestry must double its current enrolment and graduate 180 to 200 students every year to meet the foreseeable demand for professional foresters. B.C. forest effort could fail for lack of manpower Does what you've read so far about some of the steps being taken to strengthen B.C.'s forest industry make you feel better? It shouldn't, because there is one more factor that will make or break the forest industry of the future. That factor is trained, professional manpower. Prof. Donald Munro, director of off-campus education programs in UBC's forestry faculty, says the current state of forestry education is a direct reflection of the psychology of abundance that has characterized the forest industry. Up until about 15 years ago, Prof. Munro points out, UBC was the only university west of Toronto where it was possible to get professional training in forestry. Modern management practices have always been a part of the UBC forestry curriculum, he says, but past graduates were largely condemned to low-level technical work as a result of the way in which forestry was practiced in B.C. "Unless students were dedicated to an outdoor life of the forest ranger type, they tended to be turned off because they weren't able to practice the kind of forestry they learned at university," he says. The advent of forestry technical training programs at the B.C. Institute of Technology and at regional colleges in the Interior has also had an effect on the UBC faculty. "The minute those programs got underway, we were able to upgrade UBC's program," says Prof. Munro. "Not only were we able to hire new faculty members, but we were also able to eliminate from our curriculum a tremendous amount of low-level technical material knowing that that knowledge was being provided at the college level. "This enabled* us to concentrate on the professional aspects of forestry and to develop in students the ability to synthesize knowledge and to make intelligent choices about managing the forest resource." He points to the forestry faculty's expanding program of continuing education as a reflection of the realization by industry to tion ot the realization by maustr] and government that they will re quire additional manpower to carry out an extensive program of forest management. The program will be two- pronged, Prof. Munro says. It will upgrade to degree-level the qualifications of BCIT and college graduates and keep practicing professionals aware of the latest developments in forestry practice. The immediate problem, says Prof. Munro, is that there is an increased demand for professionals right now. "One Interior forest region alone hired 30 university forestry graduates this spring," he says, "and nearly all of them came from Alberta. "There are new incentives in the forest act to encourage companies to start their own tree nurseries as part of a revitalized silviculture program. But silviculture is a sophisticated area that requires highly trained manpower. "The government has a difficult time getting trained people. If the industry enters the field in a substantial way, where is their expertise to come from? "At the rate the demand for manpower is increasing we must more than double our current enrolment in forestry and graduate 180 to 200 students a year to meet the foreseeable professional requirements." UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/13 On the trail of the elusive popcorn fish Two University of B.C. scientists have been involved in a 27-year series of events which culminated this summer in a federal government decision to give th_ name Pop- cornfish Lake to a small body of water in a remote part of the Yukon. The chain of events that led to the naming of the lake began in the summer of 1953, says Prof. Cas Lindsey who, with Prof. Don McPhail are two of Canada's best known experts on the freshwater fish of northern Canada and Alaska. Prof. Lindsey is now head of UBC's Institute of Animal Resource Ecology and Prof. McPhail is a colleague in the same UBC graduate institute. In the summer of 1953, Al Martin, the cook for a small geplogical survey party in the Yukon, caught an odd-looking fish in the remote lake about 500 kilometres north of Whitehorse. The fish was distinguished by having a large number of bumps on its head, which resembled popcorn. Martin, who has been described as a "keen observer" of Yukon wildlife, said he'd never before seen a fish like it and promptly named it the popcorn fish. Before any of the scientists associated with the survey party returned to camp, Martin did what all good cooks are paid to do — he fried up the odd-looking fish and shared it with helicopter pilot Jim my Greenshields and an unidentified helicopter mechanic. Prof. Lindsey began his own research on northern freshwater fish shortly after the 1953 incident and heard persistent tales about the popcorn fish from bush pilots and other Yukon residents. In 1960, he finally contacted one of the scientists who had been on the Yukon survey and learned to his dismay that Martin had died of a heart attack the previous summer. In the summer of 1960, Profs. Lindsey and McPhail journeyed to the Yukon lake in an attempt to net the elusive popcorn fish. The nets they set yielded only the usual occupants of the lake — suckers, sculpin and grayling — which prompted a Whitehorse newspaper to print a story headlined "Popcorn fish makes suckers out of UBC scientists." In March of this year, Prof. Lindsey was contacted by C. Lyle Hammond, a federal government official with Indian and Northern Affairs, who sits on the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Place Names. He had seen a reference to Popcornfish Lake in an academic paper published by Prof. Lindsey in 1977. Prof. Lindsey provided details on how Popcornfish Lake got its name and was informed in mid-July that the permanent committee had officially approved the name. So much for the series of events leading to the naming of the lake. But Prof. Cas Lindsey, left, head of UBC's Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, and fellow fisheries scientist Prof. Don McPhail hold a sketch done by Prof. Lindsey of the elusive popcorn fish, which may (or may not) inhabit a small lake in the Yukon. the question remains: Does the popcorn fish really exist? Prof. Lindsey won't come right out and say he's convinced the unique fish exists in the Yukon lake. His attitude, which is based on precedent, is that there is a lot of evidence for believing that a unique species of fish survived the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Prof. Lindsey points out that much of the Yukon and northern Canada was not covered with ice during the last ice age. "All the plants, animals and fish in glaciated areas were wiped out," he says, "but in the extensive unglaciated areas, unique types of mosses and alpine flowers, as well as some kinds of insects like ground beetles and sow bugs, survived in isolation." As for fish that survived in unglaciated areas, Prof. Lindsey points to the Alaska blackfish, which occurs only in that U.S. state. "The range of the fish conforms exactly to the area of the state that was unglaciated," Prof. Lindsey says, "and means there's precedent for believing that another unique species of fish may have survived in isolation in northern Canadian lakes." There's also evidence, says Prof. Lindsey, that northern fish which survived in unglaciated lakes developed distinctive biochemical characteristics. "A student of mine who's just completed work on a master's degree has found that whitefish taken from a number of unglaciated northern lakes have two or three genetic versions of a particular chemical substance in their flesh. "That means there's something odd about their evolutionary history and the only explanation is that they survived in unglaciated lakes that were isolated during the last ice age some 10,000 years ago." When pressed, Dr. Lindsey does admit that the fish Al Martin caught in the summer of 195S at Popcornfish Lake might have been a sucker or a sculpin with some type of abnormal head growths, possibly caused by parasites. In any case, Prof. Lindsey says, he plans to continue studies of the evolutionary history of northern fishes and will be keeping a sharp eye out for the popcorn fish. As he puts it: "If Canadians are prepared to believe in the Sasquatch and in Ogopogo, they should keep an open mind about more plausible creatures like the popcorn fish." One further note for those who like to put a fine point on things. Popcornfish Lake is located at 65°27'50" north latitude and 133°48'20" west longitude. A simpler way to pinpoint its approximate location is to draw a line between Whitehorse in the Yukon and Tuktoyuktuk in the Northwest Territories. The lake is midway between the two towns. 14/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 Policy turnaround benefits research UBC scientists have begun to reap the benefits of the turnaround in federal government policy on funding of research in Canadian universities. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has awarded a record $9,011,823 to 453 faculty members in basic and applied science faculties and departments for 1980-81, an increase of 17 per cent over the previous year and a whopping 43 per cent increase over the total awarded in the 1978-79 academic year. The Medical Research Council (MRC) has made grants totalling $4,123,737 to 90 UBC health scien tists in the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences for 1980-81. The total represents an increase of 11 per cent over last year and 16 per cent over the amount awarded in 1978-79. The increases reflect a change in federal government policy, which has been under fire for nearly a decade, during which time appropriations for university research were virtually frozen and subject to the ravages of inflation and the declining value of the Canadian dollar. The turnaround in policy came during the brief tenure of the Progressive-Conservative government, which announced increased support for research prior to the federal election in February, which resulted in the election of a Liberal government. In May of this year, the Hon. John Roberts, the federal minister of science and technology, confirmed the Liberal government's intention to implement the research-grant policy outlined by the Progressive- Conservatives. This gave NSERC a 35-per-cent increase this year, the MRC budget has been increased by 17.4 per cent, and grants to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council have been upped by 16.2 per cent. The record total of NSERC grants to UBC faculty members is for "free" research as opposed to targeted research, because researchers themselves selected the topic to be investigated. The grants will enable investigators to meet the costs of research programs, purchase and maintain research equipment, and travel to other laboratories in Canada and abroad. In addition, 157 UBC graduate students and post-doctoral fellows will receive more than $1.5 million in the coming year as part of NSERC's program for the training of researchers in science and engineering. UBC officials were unable to say exactly how many students registered for the coming year at UBC will be the recipients of NSERC awards. On the one hand, some recipients registered here last year will elect to undertake graduate work at other universities and, on the other, some students registered last year at other Canadian universities will enrol for the first time at UBC in September to begin graduate work. The awards to UBC students were made in three categories: 124 received post-graduate scholarships, each valued at $8,500 as of Sept. 1 (up from $7,000 last year); 15 received $17,000 post-doctoral awards (up from $14,000); and 17 were awarded 1967 Science Scholarships, each worth $11,200 (up from $8,700). The two largest equipment grants made by NSERC to UBC scientists were for the purchase of different types of spectrometers. Prof. Richard L. Armstrong of geological sciences was awarded $170,000 for a solid source mass spectrometer, while Prof. Leslie M. Lavkulich of soil science receives $148,742 for a plasma-atomic emission spectrograph. Prof. A.J. Barnard of the Department of Physics was the recipient of the largest NSERC operating grant of $146,000 for research on laser fusion and plasma physics. Other faculty members who received operating grants of $90,000 or more were: Prof. D.F. Measday, physics — $95,000; Prof. D.G. Fleming, chemistry — $93,200; and Prof. D.A. Axen, physics - $90,000. Health researchers who received grants of $80,000 or more from MRC are: Profs. P.D. Bragg - $81,177, Michael Smith — $147,150 and Gordon Tener - $91,750, all of the Department of Biochemistry; Prof. John Dirks of the Department of Medicine - $121,000; Prof. J.C. Hogg of the pathology department - $90,096; Profs. J.C. Brown — $86,440, D.H. Copp - $108,717 and Hugh McLennan - $80,350, all of the physiology department; and Prof. Juhn Wada of the Department of Psychiatry - $80,000. * * » Five UBC students are among 58 Canadian scholars awarded the first post-doctoral fellowships in a new program initiated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The awardf, worth $15,000 each, are for specific research projects or for studies in which the scholars will convert their research skills to new fields in the humanities and social sciences. The awards also provided for a travel allowance and an accountable research allowance of up to $2,500. UBC students who received the awards, and their fields of study, are: Jeanne E. Cannizzo, history; Bernd B. Elias, French literature; Eva-Marie Kroller, history; Susan L. Painter, psychology; and Wayne L. Westergard-Thorpe, history. UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980/15 UBC NEWS ROUNMJK UBC is moving quickly to prepare a. plan to expand its library system to stave off Doomsday — the day when the system runs out of space for new books and materials. Intensive planning for a library building program began this spring following the preparation of an interim report by a 33-member committee chaired by Prof. Peter Larkin, dean of UBC's Faculty of Graduate Studies. UBC's president, Dr. Douglas Kenny, who set up the committee, asked it to prepare a comprehensive plan for meeting library space needs and to recommend priorities for library construction. The committee found that if UBC continues to acquire books and other materials at the present rate, the library system would be full by 1988. The report outlined two plans for solving the library space problem, both of which involve the complete renovation and redesign of UBC's Main Library, one of the original buildings on the Point Grey campus. Intensive technical studies on the feasibility and costs of the two plans outlined in the report have been carried out during the summer and a final report with recommendations for new construction and the renovation of the Main Library will be in the hands of President Kenny by late Oc- tober- * + + UBC has a new vice-president. He's Prof. James Kennedy, former director of the UBC Computing Centre, who succeeds C.J. "Chuck" Connaghan, who resigned at the end of June to form his own consulting firm in Vancouver. As vice-president for University services, Prof. Kennedy has responsibility for non-academic support services as well as the Computing Centre. Other recent notable appointments include: • Dr. Guy Garden, from Yale University, as head of UBC's Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts; • Prof. Leslie Lavkulich, a 14-year member of the UBC faculty, as head of the Department of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences; • Prof. Richard Mattessich, a faculty member since 1967, as the first occupant of the Arthur Andersen and Co. Alumni Chair in Accounting in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration; • Dr. Terence W. Anderson as head of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine; and Rod Michalko, one of nearly 3,600 students who received academic degrees at Spring Congregation in May, is the first blind student to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree at UBC. His wife, Barbara Williams, was also in the graduating class. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology. • Dr. John R. Ledsome as head of the Department of Physiology, also in the Faculty of Medicine. • •• A new team has been appointed to administer UBC's athletic program following the retirement in June of R.J. "Bus" Phillips, who's been athletic director since 1954. Named director of athletics and sport services with overall responsibility for all athletic activity is Prof. Robert Hindmarch, who's been teaching in the UBC School of Physical Education and Recreation since 1955. The new director of the men's athletic program is Rick Noonan, who's been head trainer and an instructor on athletic injuries at UBC since 1970. Nestor Korchinsky of the physical education and recreation school will direct both the intramural athletic program and Recreation UBC. Marilyn. Pomfret continues as director of the women's athletic program and D.L. "Buzz" Moore as assistant director of men's athletics. UBC plans to build a new Bookstore at the intersection of University Boulevard and the East Mall directly east of the Biological Sciences Building. Retail selling space in the new building will be three times larger than similar space in the existing bookstore. UBC's new Asian Centre, which will house a library collection, faculty members from the Department of Asian Studies and a performance centre for plays and concerts, will be ready for occupancy early in 1981. The centre is located immediately adjacent to the Nitobe Memorial Garden in the northwest sector of the campus. Construction has begun on a new laboratory centre for coal and mineral processing adjacent to the Frank Foward Building for metallurgy and a new building to house the School of Home Economics is under construction on the East Mall just south of University Boulevard. • •• Prof. Julia Levy of the Department of Microbiology was awarded the 1980 Jacob Biely Research Prize for her research in basic and applied immunology. She and her research team have developed a highly sensitive, quick and inexpensive test to detect lung cancer at an early stage. • •• Eighteen UBC Physical Plant vehicles will be running on compressed natural gas by the end of September under a program funded by the provincial government. Vehicle performance will be monitored for a year by B.C. Research, the independent industrial research organization located at UBC. The provincial government has also given UBC nearly $526,000 to set up a laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Science to study automobile engine fuelling systems, with emphasis on the use of compressed natural gas for powering cars. A research team of 12 to 13 people headed by Prof. Enoch Durbin of Princeton University will concentrate on developing a more efficient conversion system to enable cars to run on natural gas and gasoline. The device could be fitted to cars during assembly or retrofitted to cars now on the road. In addition, the research teach will look at other alternative fuels, e.g., methane and methanol, for use in cars. Dean Martin Wedepohl, head of the applied science faculty, said the project was hopefully one of a number of endeavors "in which our faculty will be co-operating with business and industry to try to solve some of the problems that face this province in the future." *•• More than 600 students were employed during the summer of 1980 under the provincial government's Youth Employment Program on projects related to their academic studies. YEP grants to UBC this year totalled $1.22 million. 16/UBC Reports/Autumn, 1980 withholding funds and for the UBC administration to start its own weekly publication. The Ubyssey of previous controversial eras was all innocence and purity compared to the 1968-69 version. While the paper continued on a leftward course the following year under Michael Finlay, now a story editor with CBC radio's "As It Happens," The Ubyssey of the Seventies was never quite so radical again. But the style of journalism had clearly changed. Gone was any attempt at object reporting (however loosely followed before), replaced by unabashed advocacy journalism. In the process, it lost its sparkle, becoming dreadfully earnest. "The Ubyssey seemed to have lost its sense of humor by the early Seventies," said Murray McMillan, Ubyssey managing editor in 1967-68 and formerly a Sun copy editor and now third-year law student. "And as it ceased to be enjoyed by people on campus, it became a declining force. Ad revenues dropped, it was no longer fat like in the late Sixties — it became an irrelevant sheet." By the late Seventies, The Ubyssey seemed to have become as much concerned with off-campus affairs as those on Point Grey. There were times when it seemed much less like a student newspaper and more like a conventional radical left workers' tabloid. All of which, with the mood of students becoming less radical, must have reinforced the sense of irrelevancy. But here and there, toward the end of the decade, there were hints that the spirit of fun had not been entirely lost. In February, 1975, some Pubsters got hold of copies of the engineers' annual Red Rag a week before they were to be distributed. Within 48 hours, they had produced a Maoist Red Rag, identical in layout to the redshirts' rag but full of stories with a Maoist slant such as, "Engineers Denounce Gage: Paternalistic President No Longer Friend ofthe People." A year later there was a great hoax about a provincial government-approved plan to bulldoze the University Endowment Lands for a luxury housing development. Months later, in campaigning for senate seats, the Young Socialists haii been fooled enough to include opposition to the UEL project in their campaign platform. Today, as The Ubyssey moves into the Eighties, many t/ftyssey-watchers are concerned that it could be an era marked by tame, quiescent campus journalism. Chris Gainor, editor in 1977-78 and now Sun medical reporter, is one who fears that, with the fading of political radicalism, The Ubyssey is increasingly being taken over by professional-minded technicians with no fondness for the paper's feisty tradition. "When I joined the paper, it was because it seemed to be the only agency agitating for change on campus and also because it had a sense of humor," said Gainor. "I suspect that the majority of people who joined then did so for the same reasons. I don't think that's the case now. As we moved into the late Seventies, more and more people were definitely just interested in getting a job on the papers and not really interested in raising a little hell." But how is it the Ubyssey Connection has enabled all those other generations of hell-raisers to become such a major established part of Canadian journalism? What is it about the Ubyssey experience that has allowed so many to not only survive — in the mostiy straight-laced world of commercial news media — but often to succeed? Helen Hutchison likes to tell the story of a garden party a couple of years ago in Toronto, where a small group of ex- Ubyssey mafia found themselves talking over old times. "I remember Sandy (Ross) saying, 'How come we knew even then that we were all terrific?' And Allan (Fotheringham), who was reclining on a chaise lounge with a drink in his hand, answered in his dry way: 'Because, Sandy, we were'." This less-than-humble answer is, as Hutchison would be the first to admit, only partly true. There is no denying the remarkable talent that has passed through The Ubyssey. But the key thing is that The Ubyssey allowed talent to find expression and to grow and develop. People came to UBC just to work on the paper — and now there's no shortage of journalists around who cheerfully describe themselves as "graduate of The Ubyssey brackets failed BA." The paper was, in effect, for the longest time western Canada's journalism school. The difference is that the budding scribes were always on their own — to sink or swim. "There was simply no education that could match it in self-imposed responsibility," recalls Ron Haggart. "When we made a mistake, or more accurately, offended some special interest group, we had to accept the responsibility for that. We couldn't mumble, 'But Mr. Higgins approved it."' It was the independence of The Ubyssey that gave room for personal growth — and made journalism fun. Which brings us to another school of thought as to why so many ex-Pubsters remained in professional journalism, which is not always so glamorous as it's often made out to be. This is that Ubyssey writers and editors have so much fun — and freewheeling power — that they spend the rest of their careers trying to find a position where they can once again have this heady experience. But more than anything else it seems to be The Ubyssey tradition — of feistiness, of freedom — that fosters excellence. Pubsters always have a sense that history is watching, that they have a responsibility to The Ubyssey s that have gone before and those that will follow. The independence of the paper is thus jealously guarded and its contents sweated and fought over, to measure up to traditional standards. "Success didn't happen in any one year; it happened over a period of 50 years," says Haggart. "There is the sense of student involvement in the long term of the university. It always seemed to be an important part of our function to keep the spirit of the Great Trek alive. I remember I once assigned a lovely blonde girl to cover the annual cairn ceremony as her first assignment. She wrote — in all earnestness — that President Mackenzie spoke at the cairn, 'which was the first student erection on campus.' A lot of student papers would have run that and laughed at it, but we did not run it. It did not run. We took our paper seriously." This suggests that the more gloomy ex-Pubsters ought not to despair for The Ubyssey in the Eighties. It's clearly too soon to pronounce the end of a long colorful, controversial tradition. As the past 62 years have proved, it's hard to put the "vile rag" down. The Ubyssey is going to be around for a lot longer yet, making things hot on campus, scandalizing people off-campus and along the way turning out many of Canada's most entertaining, brightest and toughest journalists. That's The Ubyssey's contribution to our journalism. And, yes, the truth is I regret never having written for the rag.n Yes, we know, we probably forgot to include Whozit and Whatzit (as in "what about good ol'Whafs her name"). The omission is unintentional. When you are pointing out the errors of our ways, we would also be grateful to receive any anecdotes, old gossip or new facts about The Ubyssey and its history. * * * Clive Cocking, BA'61, is a confirmed media watcher - and a former editor of the Chronicle. Chronicle/Autumn 1980 17 SOMMET ROUGE "r jF>',-- _____ '.•wa OMMET ROUGH VIN SUPERIEUR 26.4«f DRY RED WINE VIN ROUGE SEC 12.5* alc./wl. ■ -'I^UAlity FRENCH (W8IW>S»« f5*V m THE OKANAGAH «UE' '-! M)E!> WITH PREUIIM V*-*™5 "'POSTED FROM CAirR>8s!A ^e tiirftmngotpremium-frenchhybrid grapes, must be unhurried,to fulfil the promise of a iruty superior red tiine. ■A slori, losing journey from the v'me- oaKC3skmaiu&hai..io)/oot. hmmef.. ft promise made- A promise fulfilled. UBC Journalism: More Than A Possibility A journalism school at UBC? "Just don't let them get their mitts on The Ubyssey." Protectors of that venerable campus institution have little to fear from the proposed new academic venture. Peaceful co-existence is the objective. UBC's official participation in the media world has been a long time coming. In the misty past (the documentation seems to have disappeared into some irretrievable archive) of 1945 a J-school was proposed for UBC along with Carleton and Western Ontario. Both of these were established while the UBC project was apparently shelved. In 1963 Arnold Edinborough, noted author and editor visited the campus for a year and revived the suggestion for a J-school. He left, and so did the idea. It lay dormant until 1975, when the faculty of graduate studies asked Fred Bowers, associate professor of English, to head up a "very skeptical committee" to look at the possibility of establishing a school at UBC. "I started off absolutely uncommitted," said Bowers, "I didn't think that it needed an advocate." In the end all the members of the committee were converted to the idea. The committee's report the following year was based on information collected from over 150 sources in the media industry ("the potential customers"), and from faculty, and other journalism schools. The report languished in academic limbo until the beginning of 1979 when Bowers, who was by this time "committed to it myself because I could see the point" of the creation of a professional journalism school in the west (The University of Regina has since established a school), inquired whether the faculty of arts might be interested in the proposal. It was, and with approval gained from the arts curriculum committee the proposal has now begun its long journey through the university senate and ultimately to the Universities Council for funding. "We see that the whole point of the school is to give Canadian students access to their own media and to get the training and experience for that," said Bowers. His committee outlined a tripartite course. One third to be concerned with journalism itself— media history, organization, and law and the media. "The ethics of journalism in a Canadian rather than U.S. or Commonwealth context." A newsroom workshop — writing, reporting and editing, is a very important third. An internship approach has been the advice from the media consulted. "We've had conflicting opinions on whether the school should run a paper," said Bowers. "The worst thing that could happen — and it won't happen — would be to make The Ubyssey the school paper. Apart from the fact that it would be historically upside down, I think it would be avery bad move." The last and equally important third of the program would be the post-graduate work. Students would have to carry on with specialized studies in whatever was their undergraduate major. In return for this blend of academic, media theory and practical work, worth 30 units over the two-year course, the committee hopes that UBC will offer a master of journalism degree. So, if all goes as planned, 1982 may see the first class of students writing snappy leads, typing double spaced and keeping their mitts off The Ubyssey. Fred Bowers likes the idea of 1982. That's seven years from the launching of his committee's work and he feels that would be appropriate "as it would match every day of creation." -Susan Jamieson-McLamon Burpy and His Ivy-Covered Linotype A Ubyssey camera in 1964 recorded then-managing editor Denis "Burpy" Stanley with typewriter under his arm rushing to meet a printer's deadline. j|'M Ron Riter Denis Stanley, June 1980, in the entrance to his Arrow Lakes News. In the early Sixties they all lived in an old house on West Sixteenth or one down Locarno way, raucous, work- ethic communal housing inevitably dubbed The Bureau. Bradbury, Valpy, Ab- lett, Horsey and Hunter — they were all going to go from The Ubyssey and The Vancouver Sun to the big time, Toronto, New York, Washington, London and Paris. Villages did not enter their purview, and they had trouble with a guy called Burpy who wanted to go back to a village, Nakusp, and put out a weekly that didn't even have a thousand circulation, cripesake. Okay, let's fast-forward a decade and a half. Keith Bradbury, an editor of consummate news judgment, runs the news side of CHAN-TV; Michael Valpy of The Sun writes with literate grace one of the Chronicle/Autumn 1980 19 best national columns to come out of Ottawa; Dave Ablett has progressed from The Sun to the federal bureaucracy; Mike Horsey has passed from publishing in Calgary to public relations in Toronto; Mike Hunter, a fine editor lost to other callings, pusues labor (i.e. management) law and the doings ofthe Liberal party in Vancouver. Burpy? He's a publisher. Editor, too, and every other title involved in producing a weekly community newspaper, not even 2,000 circulatron, cripesake, The Arrow Lakes News, Denis Edward Stanley, prop. Denis (the "Burpy" is a childhood nickname that stuck) was born and raised in Nakusp, a formerly isolated Kootenay village nestled in a crook of the Upper Arrow Lake. From Nakusp he came and to Nakusp he always wanted to return, from Ryerson ('60, scholarship student, double diploma in printing management and journalism) through UBC (BA'64, anthropology and history) and The Ubyssey and The Bureaux and marriage (Gail Patricia Ann Jorgenson). He had an honest, open face and wispy blond hair. He enjoyed the cracks about his "ivy-covered linotype" waiting in the hills, and accepted in the summer Hunter's letters that inevitably arrived with a two-word address: Burpy, Nakusp. After UBC, there were two years as assistant publisher ("that means joe-boy") on the Red Deer, Alta., Advocate. "Two years on a daily was enough for me. The big ones are even worse. You're just a cog in the wheel. I wanted to be my own boss." The visitor, a cog from a Vancouver daily, wonders about relations with subscribers in a small community, where one may meet the object of one's editorial attentions on the street the next day. "It can be pretty dicey. But over the years, people have come to respect me. With a couple of exceptions, I've made no enemies. You have to be fair." Even with B.C. Hydro? "Okay, I'm always negative with Hydro. I'll give their side, but let people know I'm against them(Hydro)." The mild blue eyes chill. The voice rises. "They destroyed my valley. It was an agriculture-based, rural part of the province. All my friends and neighbors were forced to move." There is the marina Nakusp was promised when the Columbia River Treaty's Hugh Keenleyside Dam backed up the Arrow Lakes. "Hydro has not been known for keeping its promises or commitments. After 15 years the marina is finally coming to fruition, because we kept hammering at it. Hell, most of the people they promised it to are dead." A fair dollop of printer's ink runs in the Stanley veins. The News is a three- generation newspaper by virtue of grandfather A.B.S. Stanley's six months of ownership before taking in "junior partner" A.B.S. Jr. in 1923. Art Stanley 20 Chronicle//!utumn 1980 stayed a while longer; Denis bought him out in 1970 after a four-year "apprenticeship" that he had been building to all his life. Burpy's brother Alan who used to publish a paper at Kaslo, is now a printer at Port Alberni; brother Ken publishes the Crowsnest Clarion at Sparwood. Sister Shelia, the apostate, lives in urban West Vancouver and teaches school. Ann Stanley, also ex-Ubyssey, was found pasting up paper type in the News' backshop, plywood easel-benches bathed in available light streaming over the Monashee's Pinnacle Peaks across the lake. Son Patrick, 9, at summer holiday play in the yard behind the print shop (helpfully next door to his grandparents'), showed no interest in making it a four- generation proposition. Nakusp is a village of 1,500, forestry- based with tourism and mining coming on strong. The News' trading area covers about 4,000 people stretched 150 miles along two mountain valleys, from Edgewood and Slocan City in the south nearly unto Revelstoke in the north. The roads are paved now, cutting down on the dust and easing the isolation, but the city visitor remains aware that Vancouver is a minimum of 12 hours hard driving away. The Arrow Lakes News is housed in a rambling one-storey, two-level structure. The levels, connected by ramp, are 10 inches different in elevation; the visitor couldn't find out why. Nor was there specific information on additions to the family shop, but the gist of it was that several times changes were made in a small way, and once eight years ago, in a larger way to accommodate the conversion to electronic typesetting and offset commercial printing. There is a proper darkroom, but a tiny washroom is lit by an unshaded 200-watt bulb ("It may be small, but it sure is bright.") And, as in real estate, location and location: half a block down a gravel lane is the back door of the Leland Hotel. "Let's go have a beer." Left behind is the staff, three full- time (one a bookkeeper, this is Small Business with its attendant needs), and three more part-time on Mondays and Tuesdays, the deadline days. Up the hill, by paved roads and then a dirt lane (four-wheel-drive in winter, please) is the Stanley-built log house. Sunk solidly into a foothill of the Selkirk mountain range, it is two storeys from the back and three (with sundeck and basement) from the front. There is a small guest cabin, and purebred springer spaniel pups tumble winsomely in a temporary run beside the uncompleted sauna and pool. Pool? Well, yes, apologetically, it would have been ready by now except the moisture-laden slope had given way, necessitating a $2,000 concrete retaining wall, changing "our practical little pool into our expensive little pool." Now the Mountain Man publisher sits down for the formal interview, searching for the suitable responses to the usual How and Why questions. "I've always been a small-town boy. Always dreamed of giving my family an education and food on the plate. It was pretty tight 10 years ago, but the living is there ... there's a good living to be made. Senator Keith Davey said no newspaper under 2,000 circulation is (economically) viable — I've proved him wrong, and have been doing so for years." A commercial is coming. The voice of the youngest (41) president of the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers Association invites you to sit up and take notice. Demographics and statistical analyses are bandied about, as are household disposable income studies. "The electronic media cut into us pretty badly. We were the low man on the totem pole. Now, with a more business-like approach, the strength in numbers, we're kicking the hell out of the dailies. The ad agencies and clients just love 'one order, one bill', and we're working at this at the national level" (through the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.) The president, eight years a BCY director, one as vice-president, two years a national director, gives his swan song at a September convention in Richmond. Back in The Bureau days, the cast of characters at The Ubyssey used to go down to College Printers to "put the paper to bed." Well, Denis doesn't exactly put the Arrow Lakes News to bed. At 2:30 every Tuesday afternoon, he puts it on the bus. Full-size negatives of his pages (usually 16) go south 90 miles to the Nelson Daily News; at 6 a.m. Wednesday, 1,800 or so newspapers come back on the job printer's truck. There to meet it is the editor and publisher, who causes about 1,000 papers to be addressed and dropped off at the post office and the rest to go to carriers and local news-stands. Now all of this sounds pretty quaint, eh? Old Burpy the ivy-covered Mountain Man, and all that? Do not be misled — here is a man with two formal degrees and several in more practical fields: family, log-house building, wiring, stovepipe and concrete. Not to mention photography, computer technology, public relations and finance. Here is a man who knew what he wanted to do and set out to do it. And (how many of the class of '64 can say this?) damn well did so. □ Ron Riter is deputy news editor of The Vancouver Sun. He attended UBC until 1966, and was, among other things, columnist and news editor on The Ubyssey. Among Denis Stanley's UBC compatriots in the weekly newspaper game are Daphne Gray-Grant, editor of The Western News and her father Dennis, the publisher and UBC's foremost Sasquatch hunter, John Green, for many years editor-publisher of The Agassiz- Harrison Advance. Cec Hacker retired last year as publisher of The Abbotsford News. If there are more of you out there, The Chronicle will be pleased to hear from you. News The Vancouver Institute: Season 65 The Vancouver Instirute is celebrating 65 years of service to the campus and rhe Vancouver community with an outstanding list of speakers on its fall schedule. His Holiness, The Dalai Lama of Tibet and playwright and author, Tennessee Williams are two of the "headlin- ers" in the series of free evening lectures. The schedule begins Sept. 27 when Gordon Robertson, president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy explores "Canada: Constitutional Crossroads;" Oct. 4, Engineering professor Frank Kreith, chief of the thermal conversion branch of the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado will shed light on "Solar Energy: Promise and Reality;" Oct. 11, "Readings and Discourse" from Tennessee Williams who will be visiting UBC as Distinguished Writer in Residence; Stanley Coren, UBC psychologist, will offer a lecture- demonstration, Oct. 18, on the psychology of visual illusions. One of his books is Seeing is Deceiving. The Dalai Lama will speak on "The Buddhist View of Reality" and answer questions at a special Thursday evening lecture (7 p.m.), Oct. 23. "You and the New Genetics" come under the microscope of Charles Scriver, professor of paediatrics, genetics and biology at McGill and director of biomedical genetics at Montreal Children's Hospital, Oct. 25; Professor of English at Cornell university, M.H. Ab- rams will discuss "The Radical Ambiguity of William Blake," Nov. 1. Abrams will be visiting the campus as a Cecil and Ida Green Lecturer; Nov. 8, UBC graduate, Julia Levy whose work on immunological screening methods for cancer detection is receiving international attention will speak on the early detection of cancer by use of blood tests. Ever feel that computers will one day rule the world? Paul Gilmore, head of UBC computer (From the top..) New developments on the Vancouver waterfront were inspected - via a harbour cruise by some of those attending the Class of'30 reunion, including William Thornber (right).... Later a sumptuous buffet awaited the class at the faculty club. ...It was a time for reminiscences at the Class of '25 reunion reception. Ken Caple (centre) former chancellor of Simon Fraser University was among the participants.... Fifteen soggy sailors took to the boats for the Young Alumni Club sailing tnp, part of YACs summer activities program. A $/5 membership in YAC gives members Thursday and Friday social evenings (8 pm to lam) at Cecil Green Park and a wide variety of other programs. For information call 228-3313. Chronicle//!-rumn 1980 21 A ccessibility to university education, tuition fees and admissions standards were among the topics discussed when the alumni advocacy committee met with members of the B.C. legislature in May. (Top) Rosemary Brown. BSW62, MSW67, MLA for Burnaby Edmonds, chats with association executive director. Peter Jones while (above) Peggy Ross, who chairs the advocacy committee discusses a point with WiUiam Ritchie, MLA, Central Fraser Valley. (Left) Robert Skelly. BA'68. MLA. Alberni and Stuart Leggatt. BA'55. LLB'54, MLA, Coquitlam (right) attended the afternoon reception. Other members of the alumni delegation were past president, George Plant, president, An Stevenson, Alida Moonen, a student senator and Erich Vogt, UBC vice-president for faculty and student affairs. SALMON'S Atlas Van Lines TRANSFER LTD. A . 13851 Bridgeport Rd. Agent Richmond, B C • Local A Long Distance Household Moving • Piano — Computer Moving • Office Relocations SATURDAY - LOCAL MOVES AT REGULAR RATES 273-2921 science will have a look at where computers are going, Nov. 15; A combination of art and science is the topic of Anthony S. Arrot's talk, Nov. 22, "Pattern and Rhythmn in Physics and Art." He is head of physics at Simon Fraser University; Not. 29, the final speaker in the fall series is J.G. Souther, ofthe Geological Survey of Canada, an expert in volcanology and geoth- ermal energy, who'll look at the "Volcanoes Around Us." There is an open invitation for you to attend these lectures and to become a member of the institute. The fee is modest — $10 per person, $15 for family membership or $2 for students — and is used to defray the costs of publicity and printing. Everyone involved with the institute program, from the organizing committee to the speakers, is a volunteer. For a brochure detailing the fall season and a membership application contact the UBC information office, 2075 Wesbrook Place, Vancouver V6T 1W5 (228-3131). All the Saturday lectures begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. Something to Celebrate: Reunions for '25 and '30 Months of planning, meetings and letter writing resulted in the Class of '25 celebration of the 55th anniversary of its graduation. The committee chaired by Bert Smith, planned a weekend (June 21-22) of a dinner, a picnic, a tour and lots of time for reminiscences. Class reunion reporter Janet Mitchell notes that the events fulfilled "most satisfactorily the purpose of the '25 reunion — the last class to complete its studies in the old Fairview Shacks." Approximately 50 class members, their spouses and guests were at the faculty club dinner. Guest speakers were UBC president Doug Kenny, Fred Soward, Beatrice Johnson Wood and Elsie Rilance Pain. Three faculty members from 55 years ago were also special guests — Harry Warren, Henry Angus and Malcolm Knapp. The class gift was presented to the Walter Gage Memorial Fund as a "tribute to Walter Gage,a distinguished member of '25." Saturday the group visited the Bowen Island home of Eddie and Jessie Eades for a picnic. "It was a time of happy reunion for all." It was a golden anniversary celebration for the Class of '30, the weekend of June 13-14. Over 100 classmates, spouses and guests participated in the festivities which included a campus tour, a luncheon and reception, a harbor cruise and the class dinner at the faculty club. Applied Science '30 held its traditional "stag" banquet on the Friday evening and Wilton (Mac) McKeown, a geological engineer, who left for Africa before the graduation ceremony 50 years ago, was finally presented — with due ceremony and to his great surprise — with his diploma and hood. He has spent his career in various parts of Africa and is now retired in Cape Town. The Case of the Missing Alumni: Solved Reg Anderson, BASc'48, where are you? Not long ago the alumni records department received a Chronicle that had been sent to Reg in Abadan, Iran. The cover had various notes in Persian script and translation, "Left Iran," "Gone away, No further address." It appeared, 22 Chronicle/A utumn 1980 HOMECOMING '80 October 25,1980. FRIDAY, October 24 Football Game: (J. of Sask. Huskies vs. UBC Thunderbirds, Thunderbird Stadium, 7:30 pm, $2.00 at the gate. SATURDAY, October 25 Classes of '35, '40, '45, '50, '55 & '60 Cocktails: 6:30 p.m. Commodore Ballroom Dinner: 7:30 p.m. Dancing: 9:00 p.m. —Mart Kenney & his "Western Gentlemen" Price: $20.00 Classes of '65 & '70 Cocktails: 8:00 p.m., Cecil Green Park Dancing: 9:00 p.m. Supper: 11:00 p.m. Price: $15.00 Open House 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Cecil Green Park for all Reunion classes. Tours of the (JBC Museum of Anthropology. Meet in the lobby, 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Campus Bus Tours, Leaving from Cecil Green Park at 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. HOMECOMING '80 TICKET ORDER FORM Classes of '35, '40, '45, '50, '55 & '60 Please send me ticket(s) for my class reunion on Saturday, October 25,1980 a the Commodore Ballroom. I enclose a cheque payable to the UBC Alumni Association in the amount of $ Tickets for this event are $20/person. Classes of 65 &'70 Please send me ticket(s) for my class reunion on Saturday, October 25,1980 at Cecil Green Park. enclose a cheque in the amount of $ , payable to the UBC Alumni Association. Tickets for this event are $ 15.00/person. NAME: (Class & Faculty) ADDRESS: Postal Code: Reply before October 15,1980. Chronicle/Autumn 1980 23 A new campaign year is coming up for the Alumni Fund. Grant Burnyeat (left) head of the fund committee goes over the schedule with the recently-appointed fund director, J .J. (Jack) Range, (see story below) at first glance, that despite domestic politics the Iranian post office was still at work, with reasonable efficiency. Then the envelope was opened. It was the Fall '76 issue of the magazine. So Reg would have been made "unknown" in our records. With 90,000 names to look after on our files it might have been a while until our two-member staff had a chance to search for him. When you move or change your name, don't become an "unknown," give them a hand, let them know. Changes are processed on a weekly basis. The computer up-dating takes a little longer. It is very possible that you will will receive mail using your old name at your old address even after we have been notified because a set of lables may have been run before your change was entered on the computer file — not because we haven't responded to your request N.B. The triennial elections for chancellor and convocation members of senate are coming up at the end of the year. The university needs to have your current address to send you a ballot. The alumni association maintains the convocation roll for the university — so send address and name changes to Alumni Records, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver B.C. V6T 1X8. Actually we know where Reg Anderson is. The Netherlands. He let us know. Range Appointed As Alumni Fund Director John J. Range has been appointed to direct the fund-raising programs of the association. He succeeds Dale T. Alexander, former director of the Alumni Fund, who resigned in June. Range, a graduate of St. Mary's University, Texas, and St. Meinrad College, School of Theology, Indiana, brings to the alumni association an extensive background in educational fund-raising and public relations. He was associate director of development and public relations for St. Meinrad College from 1969 until moving to Vancouver in 1979. Earlier in his career, and following service in the U.S. Army as a translator, he was involved in the insurance and investment fields. He is married to Kathie Elliot Range, MD'63. In the Branches: Toronto Alumni Dinner UBC is coming to Toronto! Alumni and friends of the university have been invited to attend a UBC dinner Monday, September 29 at Lawson Oate "aTl-make leasing holds the key.^ to personalized service, good lease advice and the right leasing price!! Call Maurice Hamlin today for your lease requirements. idea/ease 24 Chronicle/Aurumn 1980 ALL MAKES CAR LEASING does not have to be dull! «89 the University of Toronto Faculty Club, 47 Willcocks Street. UBC chancellor J.V. Clyne will chair the dinner and Doug Kenny, the university president, will be the guest speaker. A no-host social hour precedes the 7 p.m. dinner. Tickets are $20/person. Early reservations are advised as space is limited. For information in Toronto call Gary Moore, 863-3500 (o) or 762-0537 (h)....Ottawa executive members Randy Yip and Bruce de-L Harwood are busy surveying local alumni to find out preferences for future events. They look forward to receiving lots of completed questionnaires. This is advance notice for B.C. branches from Chilliwack, to the Okanagan and Kamloops. The University Singers, a superb choir, will be touring these communities under association sponsorship in January '81. Next May Kamloops will also be the site of the university board of governors meeting and alumni dinner and a UBC Mini-Open House with displays and special visitors from the campus. Further afield the Los Angeles and San Francisco branches are planning fall events. Details will be dispatched from the alumni office. Big Nick's Intramural Reunion Daze Good times, memories and old-fashioned fun are on the schedule for the first-ever UBC Intramural Reunion. "Big Nick" (Nestor Korchinsky) and the 1980 Intramural gang have extended an invitation to all previous Intramural administrators (directors, associate directors, sport unit managers, referees, etc.) to attend a weekend of fun, February 6 - 8, 1981. Of course, families and friends are welcome. Reunion headquarters is the comfortable Coach House Inn in North Vancouver where the group will be staying. There will be a wide variety of events for moms, dads and the kids. A re-acquaintance party is planned for Friday evening to renew friendships and exchange misty recollections of those wild and crazy campus days with Nestor K (Yes, he's still wild and crazy — and he's not getting any shorter), while the children will have their own program, planned and supervised by one of the campus staff. Saturday offers a chance to participate in a UBC Intramural special event. Grouse Mountain has been reserved (with an early order for snow) for the First Annual Grouse Mountain Giant Slalom Ski Challenge. A large turnout of UBC student competitors is expected. Join them for fun and laughs in the novice, intermediate and advanced ski runs. In the evening enjoy a hot buffet dinner and savor the fabulous view from the Grouse Mountain Restaurant. The children will be involved in their own apres-ski events while you can look forward to door prizes, award ceremonies, a peek at your own skiing performance on video tapes, and dancing the night away. On Sunday morning there will be a farewell brunch. We promise not to let another 10 years pass before the next reunion extravaganza. Great athletic ability is not required for this Intramural event, nor will you have to pass a physical to compete. Just bring your family and friends and be prepared for a great weekend. To register for the reunion — and reserve your place at the starting gate — send your name, address and phone number to Joanie Pilcher, 1981 UBC Intramural Reunion, War Memorial Gym, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, UBC, Vancouver, V6T 1W5. Please indicate the number and ages of children attending. Accommodation at The Coach House Inn can be booked through the reunion committee at the special rate of $27 single, and $33 double. Children's cots are $4 each. Please note if your reservation is for one or two nights and the total number of people in your party. The full weekend package of activities — the Friday evening social, ski lift ticket, the competition, the dinner and dance, and the Sunday brunch is only $38 per person. Without the Friday event the cost is reduced to $29. Reservations must be accompanied by a 15 per cent deposit and received by the Intramural office by Dec. 31, 1980 (cheques payable to UBC). For more information contact Nestor Korchinsky at 228- 2401. Alumni Miscellany Upton and Binning Memorials A memorial fund has been established in honor of history professor Leslie Upton who died suddenly this spring. "His passing was a great loss not only to his friends and colleagues but also to the profession and to generations of students to come," said Robert Kubicek, head of the history department. Plans are to award a prize or bursary from the memorial fund to an outstanding UBC history student. Gifts to the Upton Memorial Fund may be made through the UBC Alumni Fund, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver B.C. V6T 1X8. Please indi cate "Upton Memorial Fund" on your donation. Official receipts will be issued for tax purposes.... Another memorial fund has already reached its objective. The B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship Fund has reached its target of $50,000. The campaign, which began in February, received a "seed" gift of $27,000 from Mrs. Jessie Binning and an anonymous donor. Other contributions were given by alumni, former students, colleagues, companies and foundations. The organizing committee, headed by Geoff Andrew, has decided to leave the fund open for any future contributions. The first Binning fellowship for a student entering the graduate program in studio work in fine arts will be awarded this fall. Scribble, scribble... Have typewriter; will write. If that description fits you, you may be just what the Chronicle is looking for. We'd like to hear from prospective contributors, writers willing to undertake freelance assignments for the Chronicle, who live in the far-flung reaches of the alumni globe. For that matter we'd be happy to make the acquaintance of those living in Richmond and North Vancouver, too. So, if the exotic life of a foreign correspondent appeals, send us a brief dispatch. Seeing stars? Lionel Thomas, noted artist and member ofthe fine arts faculty, is exhibiting his new works on the east and west coasts of the U. S. this fall. His show at the Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon, runs until December. Two other exhibitions of his work open in New York in October, at the American Museum and the Hayden Planetarium (Oct. 1) and the Gallery International (Oct. 3). Thomas recently completed spectacular illustrations for a new book on the constellations prepared in collaboration with UBC astronomer Michael Ovenden. Tick-tock, tick-tock As time goes by .... The alumni office has been receiving inquiries regarding the availability of the UBC watch, which was offered to alumni last spring. At present there is a limited number of the watches still available. If you neglected to order your watch by the deadline, and still wish to make a purchase contact the alumni office, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver B.C. V6T 1X8 and we will inquire if the model you wish is still available. The man's wristwatch and the woman's pendant watch are priced at $275 and the pocket watch, $295. Sheila Egoff Honored The University of Toronto library science alumni have honored Sheila Egoff, one of the original members of the UBC librarianship faculty for her work in the field of children's literature. The Alumni Jubilee Award was presented to her at the Canadian Library Association conference in June in Vancouver. The conference was also the scene of a UBC librarian- ship reunion with over 150 grads attending the reception. There were representatives from every province, and by all accounts a fine time was had by everyone, with all manner of reference questions asked and answered. W YORKSHIRE T TRUST COMPANY The Oldest and Largest British Columbia Trust Company -UBC ALUMNI AT YORKSHIRE—] J.R. Longstaffe BA '57 LLB '58 - Chairman G.A. McGavin B. Comm. '60 - President I.H. Stewart BA '57 LLB'60 ■ Director A.G. Armstrong LLB '59 ■ Director W.R. Wyman B. Comm. '56 - Director J.CM. Scott BA '47 B.Comm. '47 - General Insurance P.L. Hazell B. Comm. '60 ■ Manager, Information Systems J. Dixon B. Comm. '58 - Claims Manager D.B. Mussenden B. Comm. 76 - Manager Property Dept. T.W.Q. Sam B. Comm. '72 - Internal Auditor E. DeMarchi B. Comm. 76 - Mortgage Underwriter ii A Complete Financial Service Organization Serving Western Canadians" 900 W. Pender St. Vancouver 685-3711 590 W. Pender St. Vancouver 685-3711 130 E. Pender St. Vancouver 687-7797 2996 Granville St. Vancouver 738-7128 6447 Fraser St. Vancouver 324-6377 538 6th St. New Westminster 525-1616 1424 Johnston Rd. White Rock 531-8311 737 Fort St. Victoria 384-0514 121 8th Ave. S.W. Calgary 265-0455 Oxford Tower, Edmonton Centre, Edmonton 428-8811 Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation • Trust Companies Association of Canada Chronicle/Aummn 1980 25 Spotlight 20s & 30s Hugh L. Keenleyside, BA'20, LLD'45, former Canadian ambassador to Mexico, is chairing the campaign to raise $500,000 for the new school of journalism and communications at the University of Regina....James A. Gibson, BA'31, (MLitt, DPhil, MA, Oxon; LLD, Carleton), president emeritus of Brock University, has been awarded the prestigious Jules and Gabrielle Leger Fellowship for 1980. The grant is designed to provide for "research and writing on the history, role and functions of the Crown and the governor general in a parliamentary democracy." Over the past 45 years, Gibson has written and spoken about the careers of many of the Crown's representatives....Attached to a voluntary subscription for the Chronicle comes a note from Philip A.P. Brown, BA'37, BASc'38, who is now enjoying the various pastimes of retirement in Dorset, England. Until 1978 he was chief assistant engineer with the London borough of Camden and a few years ago he received a University of London diploma in transport studies. He extends a warm welcome to any alumnus who happens to be in the area. 40s Two UBC alumni have received awards from the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. President of Newmont Mines Limited, J. Harvey Parliament, BASc'45, has been awarded the Inco medal for "distinguished service to the Canadian mineral industry." The third winner of the A.O. Dufresne Award is Walter Holyk, BASc'49, (PhD, MIT). This honor was made in recognition of Holyk's imaginative skills and expertise in economic geology. Formerly senior vice-president of Texasgulf, Holyk is now retired....Canada has increased its territorial possessions with the addition of a new island off the north coast of Newfoundland. The island, named Landsat Island after the satellite that enabled cartographer, Elizabeth A. Booth Fleming, BA'47, to make the discovery, measures 25-by-45 metres and is located 13 kilometres east of Holme Island. With the assistance of such satellites, 60 per cent of Canada has now been mapped to a scale of one to 50,000. Fleming is confident that the entire job will be complete by the end of the century. "There's a bit of smart ass in me. Everybody has weapons to deal with life, and I think I try 26 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 Anne Petrie How do you interview an interviewer? Especially one who makes it sound so easy, two hours a day, five days a week, for most of the year. For the past five years, Anne Petrie has been co-host of Vancouver CBC Radio's afternoon program "Three's Company." Referred to by some listeners as the "Barbara Frum of the West," she would accept the comparison as a compliment — but with reservations. She has her own personal purpose, her own ego and her own style to project and protect. "A combo- clone" is how she describes her ideal self. The combo is made up of (not necessarily equal parts) Jack Webster, "my absolute hero: the perfect marriage of show-biz and information," Patrick Watson, Frum and Barry Clark. "Three's Company's" mandate, to entertain and inform, is taken very seriously by Petrie who applies it not only to her audience, but to herself as well. "I adore the interview. I love making eye contact with the person; and I have finally learned to listen." Listening, she claims, is the key to the perfect interview. "The fatal mistake is to think about yourself. My job is to make the person interviewed sound interesting and if I shine as a result — that's good." Concentrating, listening and observing are themes common to everything she says about herself. A voracious investigator of the world around her, she had "only a radio for company" when she moved to Vancouver from Ontario in 1967. After an initial year at Carleton University in journalism, she wanted a change. Thinking Roy Daniells was "the only Canadian poet" and with a vision of UBC as all Roy Daniells and tweed, she moved west. A BA in 1968 was followed by an MA in 1973. Two years were spent teaching first year English at UBC during the writing of her thesis. But Anne, a self-confessed over-achiever and show-off still hadn't found her niche. The radio she kept for company introduced her to the CBC. "I had never listened to the CBC before and I was amazed at the prog rams. 'Concerns,' 'Ideas' — I didn't know there were such things like that and I decided to work for the CBC." It was while helping organize the Women's Studies Program at UBC in 1971 (a successful endeavor that expected 50 participants at the first lecture, but got 1500) that she first heard of freelancing for the CBC. She began trying to sell documentaries. The going was slow. "I set myself an eight-month deadline to see if I could do it." Eventually, the documentaries began to sell and in 1973 she found herself "filling in" on "Good Morning Radio" as researcher and story editor. Finally, in 1975 she was given the choice of producing the show or taking on co-host responsibilities with "Three's Company." She chose the latter because "it was what I really wanted to do, although on-air work wasn't what I was best at." "I was terrible the first few times," recalls Petrie, "I was thinking of myself all the time." Soon she developed her successful technique and began to "shine." She does very little to prepare for the interview. "I try to keep myself clear because the person may change me at any point. I think really hard at what I must be doing for the next ten minutes.. .What is the one thing that I really want to know. And then I listen — really, really hard." In pan, this technique grew out of necessity. There is a staff of only three for the program and time is extremely limited. "I work straight through from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when I have a tremendous "rush" before the show. From 6 p.m. to 6:15 (after the program) I worry. And then I shut it off. I go home and read but I don't think about the show until the next morning." Petrie's favorite interviews were both aired last season, which probably says something about older and better. One was with one of the "boat people" who had recently arrived in Vancouver. His loss of family during the voyage could have caused many an interviewer to weep openly into the mike. "No easy sympathy," says Petrie, "you do your best interview when you don't get involved." The man was allowed to tell his own touching story and was the centre of attention. "I hit just the right note; I didn't indulge myself and I asked simple, clean, clear questions." This technique paid off in her second favorite interview with William Kashtan, leader of the Communist Party of Canada, who was invited to comment on the Russian invasion of Afganistan. Petrie said very little and remained aloof while being accused of being all things from a CIA agent to a bad Canadian. Kashtan went on "to hang himself." "Show-biz," says Petrie. "You can't let it become just pure information . You have to retain the aura of show-biz or the people will quit listening." The future for Anne Petrie? Definitely another season with "Three's Company" and also a sixth day of work now that she will be taking on pan-time host duties with Bob Switzer's "Sunday Magazine" on CBC-TV. But beyond that...not another five years with "Three's Company." "I love it, but I am really eclectic. I'll have to look about to see what's going to keep me going. When you think you are doing well, it's time to start thinking about doing better." -CJM J. Harvey Parliament, BASc'45 to use humor," says Harry D. Boyle, BA'48, LLB'70, newspaperman, family man and now judge in the challenging Vancouver Family Court. Tales of the extent of Boyle's humor began when he purchased the Whitehorse Star in 1954 and continued through his editorship of the Prince George Citizen. At the age of 40 he entered law school from where more tall tales originated, and today, humor and compassion govern the decisions he hands down... .Former executive director of the alumni association, Harry J. Franklin, BA'49, has re-entered the public relations business and is now vice- president and managing director of Western Pacific Communications Consultants, Inc. His office is located in Gastown, Vancouver .... Managing director of a new company in Canada, the KabiVitrum Group, is John G. Holland, BA'49, who brings to his new job a broad background in marketing, technical and general management in the health care, diagnostic and chemical fields. 50s Bernice Levitz Packford, BA'51, is another victim of the strange and mysterious force of bureaucracy. At 65 she was compulsorily retired as head of the B.C. ministry of human resources' parent encouragement program and for a nominal one dollar a year, she has become the first director of the B.C. Council for the Family, capital region branch. It seems, however, that no one is quite sure where the money is coming from to pay for a new office. Un- Walter Holyk, BASc'49 daunted, Packford, a social worker by vocation and the mother of every child in Greater Victoria by heart, leaves behind her 21 years of fostering and prepares for a new career One of seven University of Michigan faculty members to receive the honor, Raymond E. Counsel!, BSP'53, professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Public awareness will take a high priority now that Bob G. Hindmarch, BPE'56, is director of UBC's athletic and sports services. He succeeds the retiring R.J. (Bus) Phillips, who held the position for most of his 27-year association with the campus. Hindmarch has spent 20 years coaching UBC's hockey and football squads and in 1964 was the manager of the Canadian Olympic hockey team In the Canadian real estate world, Robert H. Lee, BCom'56, is considered the superstar of the West. He has sold about $500 million worth of property in Victoria, Vancouver and Edmonton in the past 10 years. After averaging a staggering $50 million a year, he now wants to take it easy. "I want to spend more time with my family," says Lee....One of two professors to receive the outstanding achievement award of the Ontario Association of Professional Social Workers is Harry L. Penny, BA'56, BSW'56, MSW'57, who has been director of the school of social work at McMaster University since 1968. Penny has written and lectured on corrections, social planning and social work education. The Rev. Thomas Anthony, BA'58, was among 53 clergymen arrested by riot police in WATERFRONT PLACE HAS WHAT YOU WANT! • Furnished private offices for your exclusive use • Excellent receptionist/secretarial support • A warm, welcoming atmosphere • Key location in Esplanade Centre • Nearby SeaBus terminal for easy access to Vancouver • Price? Less than the cost of a secretary! Call Jane Alsop at 984-9791 for information Waterfront Place Executive Offices & Secretarial Services Esplanade Centre, North Vancouver, B.C. 984-9791 UBC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 1980-81 Honorary President: Dr. Douglas T. Kenny, BA'45, MA'47 Executive President: W.A. (Art) Stevenson, BASc'66; Vice- President: Robert J Smith, BCom'68, MBA'71; Treasurer: Barbara Mitchell Vitols, BA'61; Chair, Alumni Fund: Grant D. Burnyeat, LLB'73; Chair, Communications. Harold N. Halvorson. BA'55, MSc'56, PhD'66; Chair, Programmes: Margaret Sampson Burr, BMus'64; Chair, University Advocacy: Peggy LE. And- reen Ross, MD'58. Members-at-large (1979-81) Robert Angus, BSc'71; William S. Armstrong, BCom'58, LLB'59; Grant D. Burnyeat, LLB'73; Margaret Sampson Burr, BMus'64; Jo Ann Hinchliffe, BA'74; Robert F. Osborne, BA'33, BEd'48; Peggy LE. Andreen Ross, MD'58; Barry Sleigh BASc'44. Members-at-large (1980-82) Douglas J. Aldridge, BASc'74; Virginia Galloway Beirnes, BA'40, LLB'49; Susan D. Danniells, BA'72, LLB'75; Harold N. Halvorson, BA'55, MSc'56, PhD'66; Josephine Mary Hannay, RN, MSc'76; Alison E. MacLennan, LLB'76; Michael A. Partridge, BCom'59; David Richardson, BCom'71; Oscar Sziklai, (BSF, Sopron, Hungary), MF'61, PhD'64; Nancy E. Woo, BA'69. Division Representatives Applied Sciences: Joanne Ricci, BSN'75, MSN'77; Arts: Bradley J. Lockner, MLS'77; Commerce and Business Administration: John R. Henderson, BCom'77; Dentistry: Diane S. Slinn, DDHY'79; Forestry: Robin L. Caesar, BSF'50; Graduate Studies: Elaine Polglase, BSP'56, MSC79. Alma Mater Society Representative Bruce Armstrong, President Faculty Association Representative Dr. A. Jean Elder, President Convocation Senators' Representative To be elected. COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Alumni Fund: Grant D. Burnyeat, LLB'73; Allocations: William S. Armstrong, BCom'58, LLB'59; Scholarships _ Bursaries: E. Roland Pierrot, BCom'63, LLB'64; Awards: Paul L. Hazell, BCom'60; Branches: Jo Ann Hinchliffe, BA'74; Communications: Harold N, Halvorson, BA'55, MSc'56, PhD'66; Divisions: Michael A. Partridge, BCom'59; Editorial: Nancy E. Woo, BA'69; finance: Barbara Mitchell Vitols, BA'61; Nominations: Robert J, Smith, BCom'68, MBA'71; Reunions: Paul L Hazell, BCom'60; Speakers Bureau: Dr. Oscar Sziklai (BSF, Sopron, Hungary), MF'61, PhD'64; Squash: Robert A. Forrest, BCom'73; Student Affairs: Douglas J Aldridge, BASc'74; Young Alumni Club: Robert R Peterman, BSc'71. ALUMNI ATHLETIC REPRESENTATIVES Mens Athletics: Norman R. Thomas, BA'66, MPE'68 Women's Athletics: Heather Mitton, BEd'75 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 27 Ashley Coopland, MD'58 Johannesburg earlier this spring. The churchmen were arrested ior protesting the detention of a fellow cleric who was supporting the nationwide classroom boycott. Reverend Anthony, released on his own recognizance, was part of a visiting delegation from Canada and is the Anglican Church of Canada's director of national and overseas missions....Ashley T. Coopland, MD'58 has been appointed director of obstetrics and gynecology at the Waterbuiy Hospital Health Center and also clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University school of medicine. He now lives in Woodbury, Connecticut....Still searching for a publisher for his book. Norm A. Gillies, BA'58, BSW'61, is also writing for the general public and for the profession on a subject he has been researching for the past 15 years — counter conditioning therapy. The Chronicle apologizes for misquoting the title of his soon-to-be-published work in a previous issue, and repeats it here in the hope that it will catch a publisher's eye; Zap You Are Not Dead or How lo be Your Own Psychotherapist... .Although she is the first woman to be elected president of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association, Marlene James Scott. LLB'59, insists that sex makes no difference for the job, "It's just a question of whether you can d'o the job properly." The New Westminster lav.-yer did note, however, that there were only two women in her class at UBC and today about 30 per cent of those entering the profession are women. 60s Dennis W. Tirnmis is president of Sandwell and Company Limited and not, as the Chronicle erroneously printed in the last issue, the new president of Forestal International Limited, a member of the Sandwell group. Donald W. Laishley, BSF'60, was appointed president of Forestal in February, 1980. He joined Forestal in 1969 and was named vice-president in 1970 and executive vice-president in 1978....Now- living in Dayton, Ohio, Ann-Shirley Gordon Goodeli, BSN'60, is clinical nurse specialist in pediatric oncology at Children's Medical Center in that city....The new head of the advisory committee for the Western Canadian Universities Marine Biological Society is Murray A. Newman, PhD'60. WCUMBS operates the Bamfield Marine Station on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Newman was invested as a member of the Order of Canada in October, 1979, for his work at the Vancouver Public Aquarium....Fred Fletcher, BA'63, ;PhD, Duke), has been named research development officer, faculty of arts, York University, Toronto, where he is also associate professor and director of the graduate program in political science. The University of Manitoba's department of chemistry has a new head, Bryan R. Henry, BSc'63. A specialist in molecular spectroscopy, he joined the department in 1969...Peter W. Herke, BASc'63. has been appointed European microcorriputer product line manager for Digital Equipment Corporation. He has relocated from Massachusetts to Maidenhead. F.ng- land. ...Gordon H. Wood, BASc'63, MASc'65, PhD'69. has been appointed manager, numeric data bases with the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. He is responsible for planning, implementing and managing an effective scientific and technical numeric data base system for Canada. For the past 10 years he has worked in the electricity section of the division ot physics, National Research Council. A year of capital campaigning, major renovations and program expansion is ahead lor Susan R. Elliot Witter. BPE'65, MEd'79, recently elected president of the Vancouver YWCA....The newly-established School of Chartered Accountancy has. as its first principal, Donald G.A. Carter, BCom'66, (PhD, Berkeley). He has been a university professor for the past 14 years, most recently at the University of Manitoba. He became a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of HAWAII GROUP ARRANGEMENTS PRCIFIC UlESTERH ^ airlines AIR CANADA® CPAir I* REGULAR FLIGHTS CUTS IS A "FULL SERVICE" TRAVEL AGENT f^^ CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES ^^m TRAVEL SERVICE LIMITED ^^^^ Student Union Building University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5 PHONE (604) 224-2344 %? Reading for pleasure is the highest form of doing your own thing ubc bookstore on the campus 228-4741 28 Chronicle/A utumn 1980 British Columbia in 1966....Two alumni are climbing the ladder of success within the Manitoba division of Inco Metals Company. Robert T. Hamson, MSc'67, who began work for the company in 1967 as a metallurgical assistant is now supervisor of refinery process and technology. Philip G. Claridge, BASc'71, has been appointed supervisor of the company's Thompson process technology department. He joined Inco as a project assistant in the Thompson Mill in 1971 John Mohler, BASc'67, has been named plant manager with Electrolux Canada, Brockville, Ontario. He joined the company in 1975. A letter-full of news, spanning more than eight years, brings Chronicle readers up to date on Linda J. Amundson Mather, BScA'69, since her marriage to John P. Mather, BScA'72. The Mathers moved to North Vancouver in 1974 in order for Linda to manage Maplewood Children's Farm for the District of North Vancouver's parks department and where John is involved in the excavating business. Son Kenneth James arrived earlier this year (see births) and the family is planning to move to their recently-purchased farm on Denman Island, B.C. There, they will be raising sheep and mixed livestock....Ross D.E. MacPhee, BA'69, (PhD, Alberta), is now an assistant professor in the department of anatomy, school of medicine, Duke University. Prior to this appointment, he taught anthropology at the University of Manitoba. 70s Okanagan College has a new director of learning resource services. Garth Jas. F. Homer, BLS'70, MLS'75, (BA, Victoria), brings to the job experience in this area from Douglas College and Grant MacEwan College. In addition, he lectured at the college of librarianship, University of Wales...Paul A. Crowder, BASc'71, and his brother Peter are in the dish business. Unlike those you will find on the dining room table, their dishes are found on cold mountain tops in remote regions of British Columbia and the Canadian North and are successfully capturing the T.V. signals sent to earth from orbit- ting satellites. In 1978-79, Crowder Communications experienced a 60 per cent increase in sales and a 200 per cent sales leap is forecast for 1980-81....Victoria lawyer, Robert W. Metz- ger, LLB'73, has been named to the B.C. provincial court bench. He will begin his duties in Courtenay. After four years as district agriculturist at Provost and Three Hills, Alberta, and six months as senior district agriculturist at Provost, Brian T. Laing, BScA'74, is now district agriculturist at the Creston office of the B.C. ministry of agriculture. He will execute ministry programs and provide extension services on crop/livestock production and farm business management....David H. Mattison, MFA'74, MLS'78, is the recipient of a Canada Council explorations grant to complete a manuscript on the life of early Vancouver photographer C.S. Bailey (1868-1896). Persons with photographs by, or knowledge of, Bailey and his older brother, William, can contact Mattison c/o Visual Records Division, Provincial Archives of B.C., Parliament Buildings, Victoria V8V lX4....Linnea Gibbs, MLS'76, has left behind her humble beginnings in the Chronicle office where, several years ago, as a UBC student she was responsible for the filing and in dexing of all Chronicle material. She is now head of the new Cameron branch of the Burnaby Public Library. Weddings Andersen-Stoney. I. Keith Andersen, BCom'69, to Lynn Adele Stoney, August 30, 1980 in Prince George, B.C.Lott-Jackson. Christopher S. Lott, LLB'74, to S. Lynne Jackson, BEd'71, April 5, 1980 in Sidney, B.C.Moore-Fraser. Edward Alan Moore, BCom'80, to Catherine L. Fraser, BSc'75, June 14, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C. Births Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Bradish, BSc'73, (Andra H. McLean Bradish, BA'73), a daughter, Carrie Lynn, March 25, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C....Dr. & Mrs. Fred Fletcher, BA'63, (PhD, Duke), a son, Frederick Lee, May 21, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario....Mr. & Mrs. Brian A. Hanson, BCom'70, LLB'71, (Linda A. Blackman, BA'70), a daughter, Kel- vie Karen Bridgit, February 18, 1980 in North Vancouver, B.C....Mr. & Mrs. Lachlan J.W. McKinnon, BSc'78, a son, Cameron William Lachlan, March 31, 1980 in Prince Rupert, B.C....Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Paul Lackey, (Janet L. Moody, BA'68, MA'74), a daughter, Emily Louise, June 14, 1979 in Nanaimo, B.C....Mr. & Mrs. John P. Mather, BScA'72, (Linda J. Amundson Mather, BScA'69), a son, Kenneth James, January 22, 1980 in North Vancouver, B.C....Dr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Morrison, BSc'69, DMD'72, (Susan Wilford Morrison, BA'71), a son, Christopher Gerald Wilford, April 17, 1980 in Kelowna, B.C....Dr. & Mrs. Ian Mugridge, (Patricia Watts Mugridge, BCom'63), a son, Andrew Christopher, November 16, 1979 in Langley, B.C Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Newman, BSc'70, a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, June 14, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta....Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Rumley, PhD'75, (Hilary E. Rumley, MA'73), a daughter, Alison Eileen, April 24, 1980 in Perth, Australia. Deaths George C. Barclay, BA' 18, MA'45, May, 1980 in Maple Ridge, B.C. A native of British Columbia, he began classes at McGill College (later UBC) at the age of 15. He returned to UBC more than 25 years after his arts degree to obtain his master's in classics. The first half of his 42-year teaching career was spent in Cranbrook, B.C. where he was high school principal for 15 years. In 1946 he began teaching in Maple Ridge High School where he remained until his retirement until 1964. A keen sports fan, he played tennis, badminton and baseball in his younger years and continued his sports interests throughout his life. He was a charter member of the Haney congregation of the Presbyterian Church, and he held several offices during his 30 years of unfailing support and attendance. Survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters, and pre-deceased by his first wife, Elsie Wilby Barclay, BA'38. Ruth Emily Lyness Devlin, BA'21, (MD, Al- Do We Have Your Correct Name and Address? If your address or name has changed please cut off the present Chronicle address label and mail it along with the new information to: Alumni Records 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1X8 Name (Graduation Name) (Indicate preferred title Married women note spouse s tuli name ) Address . Class Year ChronicleMulumn 1980 29 berta), March, 1980 in Saanich, B.C. Survived by her husband. Joseph Giegerich, BASc'23, April, 1980 in Victoria, B.C. After graduating, he spent two years with Cominco at Kimberley, B.C. and then three years with Anaconda Copper in ChUquicamata, Chile. In 1928 he returned to Cominco as a mining engineer and in 1936 was appointed mining engineer at Kimberley. From superintendent of the Sullivan Mine he later rose to general superintendent of Kimberley operations — the position he held until his retirement in 1962. He was active in community affairs, which included Rotary, Boy Scouts, athletic teams, the professional engineers association and the Masonic Lodge. Survived by his wife, two daughters, Daryl J. Giegerich Achtem, BSN'59, Helen Giegerich Mark, DPhN'65,and two sons, (Joseph D. Giegerich, BASc'55). Robert S. Griffis, BA'30, April, 1980 in North Vancouver, B.C. Survived by his wife. George J. Okulitch, BSA'33, MSA'35, July, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C. During his lifetime, he saw success in four careers — chemical bacteriologist, soldier-diplomat, business manager and government-appointed administrator. Born in Russia nine years before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Abbotsford with his family in 1927 and grew up on his father's dairy and poultry farm. He left the farm to work in logging and mining camps before he was awarded two UBC scholarships. In 1935 he was at the research centre that brought world evaporated milk contracts to the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (later Dairyland). During WW II he served overseas with the British Columbia Regiment and also spent a year in Moscow as a military attache. He was with FVMPA for 42 years, serving as general manager of the co-operative for eight years. After retirement, he joined the B.C. Marketing Board for four years. Survived by his wife, daughter, Katherine Okulitch, BA'71, son, Michael Okulitch, BA'74, a brother, Vladimir J. Okulitch, BASc'31, MASc'32, (PhD, McGill), and a sister, Olga Okulitch Volkoff, BA'33, MA'35. Clarence (Clare) H. Willis, BASc'35, June, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C. While at UBC, he was president of the Varsity Outdoor Club and was an active member of the ice hockey and ski teams. He worked for Home Oil Distributors for 38 years as technical supervisor and personnel manager. He was a Past Master of Landmark Lodge #128, past-chair ofthe Society of Automotive Engineers and a life member ofthe B.C. Mountaineering Club. Survived by his wife, Mary V. MacDonald Willis, BA'32, and daughter, S. Genny Willis Brvnjolfson, BEd'67. George T. McHattie, BASc'36, May, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C. After graduating from UBC, he moved to Ontario and was inspecting officer with the British Admiralty Technical Mission during WW II. Returning to Vancouver in 1946, he spent several years with the B.C. Electric Co., in control and relay engineering before leaving for the United States. He worked in design, control and research engineering in California, Texas and Washington before his retirement in 1964. Survived by his wife. William Harold Gurney, BA'38, MA'48, April, 1980 in Nanaimo, B. C. He was active for 46 years in education in B.C., starting as a rural school teacher at Alexandria in the Cariboo in 1922. He was later principal of Kamloops High School from 1939-59 and district superinten dent of schools from 1959-68, stationed at Kitimat-Terrace, Qualicum Beach, West Coast and Alberni school districts. Survived by his wife and four sons, William G. Gurnev, BEd'66, Donald F. Gurney, BA'64, LLB'67, James H. Gurney, BASc'71 and Bruce F. Gurney, BSc'75. Wilson Baxter (Wassy) Stewart, BSA'45, June, 1980 in Courtenay, B.C. He worked with the federal department of agriculture, plant products division, from 1947-50 at Vancouver and Kelowna, B.C. and with the department of lands, forests and water resources at Fort St. John and Williams Lake from 1954-66. He taught at Williams Lake and Courtenay from 1967-79. At the time of his death, he was working as an agricultural consultant. He was a member of the Cape Lazo Power Squadron, Past-Master of Hiram Lodge #14, Courtenay, member of Centre Lodge # 113, Williams Lake and Cyrus Royal Arch Chapter #10, Courtenay. Survived by his wife, three daughters and a son. Robert Ian Murray, BA'51, December, 1979 in New Westminster, B.C. Survived by his wife. EUen IsobeUe Esau, BSW'56, MSW'59, February, 1980 in Vancouver, B.C. She was executive director of the Lower Mainland St. Leonard's Society. Survived by her daughter, Isobelle Esau Clausson, BSN'71 and son, David Ernest Esau, BASc'73. James Philip Moody, BA'78, October, 1979 in Vancouver, B.C. A member ofthe UBC tennis team for three years, he was well known as a player and professional. Survived by his parents (Margaret Gillett Moody, BCom'36), and a sister, Janet Louise Moodv Lackev, BA'68, MA'74. Chronicle Classified ...is your personal marketplace. It's a way to reach the more than 70,000 Chronicle readers (about half in Vancouver, the rest in more exotic locales). Whether you have something to sell or something you want to buy, send us your ad and we'll find a category. Chronicle Classified is a regular quarterly feature. All classified advertisements are accepted and positioned at the discretion of the publisher. Acceptance does not imply product or service endorsement or support. Rates:$l per word, 10 word minimum; 10% extra for display; 10% discount for four times insertion. Telephone numbers and postal codes count as one word. Cheque or money order must accompany copy. Closing date for next issue(Dec. 1) is Oct. 21. Chronicle Classified. 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1X8(228-3313). Handcrafts Would you like to have a beautifully handcrafted, individually designed quilt made just for you, or someone you love? Contact Pat Cairns, 4424 West 2nd Ave., Vancouver V6R 1K5. Tel. 228-9319. Music Sandy Beynon B.MUS.. A.R.C.T., A.IMUS.H C._.. KMT. PIANO TEACHER 4085 West 33rd Avenue Vancouver. B.C. V6N 2H9 Tel: 228-8881 Books/Periodicals Canadian Fiction Magazine features fiction, manifestoes, reviews, graphics, photos and interviews quarterly, for $9 per year in Canada, $10 elsewhere. P.O. Box 46422. Station G. Vancouver. BC V6R 4G7. Travel Want a Rent-Free Vacation? Write: Holiday Home l-Achange. Box 555. Grants. New Mexico. USA 87020. Freeport Bahamas: rent 2-bedroom apartment on ocean beach; $45 daily; contact Bob McAndrew. 160 Three Valleys Drive. Don Mills, Ontario. M3A 3B9 (416) 447-4613. The Trip of a Lifetime contact Trekspeditions the adventure travel experts, for nature expeditions: Galapagos. Antarctica: overlanding: Africa, Asia; trekking: Himalayas, Andes; cultural tours: China; backpacking: wilderness Hawaii. Individual or group arrangements. 304-207 W. Hastings. Vancouver. (604) 688-3921. 30 Chronicle/Autumn 1980 WHAT DID MARIE ANTOINETTE FIND SO ENCHANTING ABOUT THESE WINES? About 200 years ago, according to the story, the Queen of France had one especially favourite wine. She liked the colour, the bouquet, the taste, and the way it complemented her favourite foods. Wines go well with food, and you'll find one wine may enhance one type of meal better than any other. Therefore you may want to vary the wine according to the type of food served. There is a "right" wine for everybody and you too can experiment \ and experience the thrill of discovering your favourite. Try these robust red Cotes du Rhone wines with Canadian cheddar and crusty bread chunks. The Loire Valley wines shown here, will add enchantment to a meal of B.C. Rainbow trout, or Coho salmon. CHATEAU LA BORIE, COTES DU RHONE A.O.C. COTES DU LUBERON VDQS (Pascalet) A manly red wine from Cotes du Rhone. Made to be consumed young, it is a round, sturdy wine known for years lor its dependable quality. Appellation d'Origine Contwlit, ol VOUVRAYA.O.C. (Moc-Baril) Produced from Chenin Blanc grapes, this typical medium-dry, still white wine is bottled in the heart of the magnificent Loire Valley by 'Moc-Baril; a fourth-generation family winery. Cultivation ofthe grape in this region ofthe Valley ofthe Rhone goes back to Roman days. Tradition, soil, climate, choice of vines and methods of viniculture make this a great mealtime companion. COTES DU VENTOUX, A.O.C. (Pascalet) The vineyard producing this excellent wine covers the lower slopes of Mount Ventoux in the Rhone Valley. Control over wine production is very strict, resulting in a stable red wine of very good quality. ROSE DANJOU A.O.C. (Remy-Pannicr) Beautifully pale in colour, this rose offers full flavour and fragrance, with a subtle sharpness and taste. An outstanding Anjou to be enjoyed any time of day. Serve chilled. Tor free literature on serving and enjoying French wines, write: THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF FRENCH WINES P.O. Box 9660, Main Post Office Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4G3 The Wines of France J_Jl_ -j r i ,^:,'iJm 0 - s- ^ RULE BRITANNIA. The extraordinary Rover 3500. And the incomparable Jaguar XJ6. You've seen them prowl the English countryside with elegant assurance. The Rover's sleek, sculptured elegance and interior space belies its fuel-injected V8 performance. When you first sit in the firm leather seats ofthe XJ6, the hand-laquered black walnut dash may temporarily overshadow the legendary performance and handling. To fully appreciate their engineering excellence, test drive these superb motorcars at MCL British Cars. ^_ MCL BRITISH CARS INC. Satisfy Your Driving Ambition. 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Publisher | Vancouver : Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia |
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Notes | Titled "[The] Graduate Chronicle" from April 1931 - October 1948; "[The] UBC Alumni Chronicle" from December 1948 - December 1982 and September 1989 - September 2000; "[The] Alumni UBC Chronicle" from March 1983 - March 1989; and "Trek" from March 2001 onwards. |
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