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'J\nv<, \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-;\u25a0\n*h '.'?\"\u25a0?'.t- \u25a0h-'\"'\nii1': .;. ymmimmmmm\n>!'iW E30, No.3 AUTUMN 1976\nSC JEEZING THE RESEARCH DOLLAR\np\/p! An Economy That May Be Very Expensive\nMurray McMillan\nl\\\\ iNG A LANGUAGE\nViveca Ohm\nUBC's BOTANICAL GARDEN\nA Place of Earthly Delights\nEleanor Wachtel\n'nods P\nA GENTLEWOMAN\nOF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nh BAND-AID MAN\nSalty Abbott\nBill Calvert\nsARTMENTS\nNEWS\nSPOTLIGHT\nLETTERS\ni Susan Jamieson MeLarnon, BA'65\n, ASSISTANT Christopher J. Miller (BA, Queen's)\nPhotograph by David Clark\nERT1SING REPRESENTATIVES\ni Media (604) 688-6819\nI Committee\nJoseph Katz, chair; Dr. Marcia Boyd, MA'74; Clive\nBA'62; James Denholme, BASc'56; Harry\nyoinv BA'49; Geoff Hancock, BFA'73, MFA'75; Michael\n|W Hunbr, BA'63, LLB'67; Murray McMillan; George\nPorfitt, BCom'58; Bel Nemetz, BA'35; Dr. Ross Stewart,\n-MA 46, r-1A'48.\n\u25a0uarterly by the Alumni Association of the University of British\n'ancouver, Canada. The copyright of all contents is registered.\nAND EDITORIAL OFFICES: Cecil Green Park, 6251 Cecil Green\nVancouver, B.C. V6T 1X8, (604)-228-3313 SUBSCRIPTIONS:\nChronicle is sent to all alumni of the university. Non-alumni\n\u25a0s are available at $3 a year; student subscriptions $1 a year.\nCHANGES: Send new address, with old address label if available,\nnni Records, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C.\njyWnFte jested.\nd at the Third Class rate Permit No. 2067 SBSBM\n)uncil for the Advancement and Support of Education.\nCheck the alumni news section\nfor further details on reunions\nand the alumni dance. 1-''' ;v.f'\"\"\"'\u2022\u25a0''\" '.'\u2022 \u25a0\"*{'\u25a0'\u25a0,1'\"**' \"4;,\"0.\u00ab';^\"V1-. ,'.%'\"iV-.1; -V\".^.j5 \"\u25a0\u25a0 \\-\"\n,-:.^,;^\/;jv.\\''W^''^V;.?}?\u00a3:?i^.s^.# -v^v-'\n^^\u25a0.i\n\u2022-\u25a0\";\u25a0 \"j-:.\"\u2022\",' i-'-1.;* '.'-^\"\u00bbV '\u25a0.' '^\u25a0\u25a0i'\/- ;i i'\n;y.'.- ...,.;;. \u25a0;.,, \u25a0\u2022\";\u25a0'.--H,'\",\u25a0.\/' .\u25a0\u25a0;:';\u2022\/ !}^ <;\"\"\u25a0 ']\n* '\u25a0 T''i\"'K,'--v ^\"v^Jjh^^roi\u2022\u25a0^^^vi' ^i-^ni^- \"^^'^l^^ih-' '$\u00bbte\/-'7 ;\"';>.,:' - < >\u25a0\u25a0 \u2022\u2022:-. '\u25a0-' ^]'\"[-^'^-yf\/'^iy-':\\\n- ;'' ' .*'. \u25a0'' \"\\ if I J)^c>' i - ^ Vj'-v-, iikrAvM.1 - -'^.^ <:|;^-' \u25a0' :i^l^'l!'j'' \u25a0 - ^ ujiit^Vi^'^^-'\u25a0 fts> 2*. ^p%2\u00a3~^ ^,. '%fc&: yV\"'\\'. A lion's share of the funds that make research possible come from the federal\ngovernment, through four agencies: the\nCanada Council, the Defence Research Board, the National Research\nCouncil, and the Medical Research\nCouncil. Late last year, Ottawa slapped\nan effective freeze on their budgets.\nIn 1973-74, the MRC had $40,360,000\nto finance medical research in the country, in 1974-75 that figure went to\n$42,860,000, in 1975-76 the budget was\nset at $47,434,000, and the 1976-77 allotment has been put at $50,848,000. At\nfirst glance, those figures don't look\nbad. But they don't take inflation into\naccount. Using the Consumer Price\nIndex to adjust the figures to 'constant'\ndollars, and keeping 1973-74 as a base\n(MRC budget, $40,360,000), the 1976-77\nMRC budget is really only $39,036,000.\nThe combined effect ofthe government\nfreeze and inflation has been to actually\ndecrease the amount available to medical researchers, and those figures do not\ntake into account the considerable\namount by which research costs have\njumped compared to the increase in the\nConsumer Price Index.\nWhat does that mean at UBC? In\n1973-74, the MRC awarded grants totalling $1,922,723 to UBC medical researchers. In the 1976-77 budget,\n$2,033,713 has been allotted, but in\nterms of 1973 'constant' dollars, that\namount becomes $ 1,561,304.\n\"While the amount of money we're\ngetting from MRC is constant in terms\nof real (continually inflated) dollars, the\namount we receive per active researcher is dropping precipitously as\nthe number of faculty members increases,\" explains Dr. Richard Spratley, research administrator for UBC.\nThe reason that the health sciences\nare so affected is that the MRC has a\npolicy of funding projects which have\nbeen judged meritorious, says Spratley,\nand those that are given the highest rating get the whole budget. Those projects\nwhich fall below the cut-offline are simply out of luck.\nThat policy is in marked contrast to\nthat ofthe National Research Council,\nwhich determines what it considers\nsatisfactory research and then spreads\nthe funds among all those projects. Not\nall those projects judged acceptable get\nall the money they want, but all get\nsome funding.\nThe actual number of projects at UBC\nfunded by MRC has actually been falling, Spratley says, due in large part to\nthe increased cost of research efforts.\n\"Some 50 per cent of all MRC money\ngoes to pay salaries of supporting staff,\ncompared to 15 per cent ofthe funds in\nthe physical and life sciences. Medical\nresearch, more than other research in\nscience, is very, very labor intensive.\nMany highly-trained technicians are\n6\nneeded to work in labs \u2014 to care for\nanimals, to keep cultures going,\" Spratley explains.\nLarge wage increases won by UBC\nstaff in recent years have intensified the\nproblem. The grantee has no choice but\nto follow the university's salary policy,\nand that puts a mighty squeeze on the\nbudget. One salary classification, a T-3\nresearch assistant, ihas had a 56 per\ncent increase since January 1, 1973.\n\"Fifty percent ofthe people who get\ngrants on this campus can't afford to\nhire someone to look after the day-today operation ofthe project,\" says Dr.\nFibiger, ofthe neurological sciences division of the faculty of medicine.\nFibiger is one of the prime proponents\nof a group formed this spring to attempt\nto improve the situation for medical research in B.C. The Association of Medical Scientists of British Columbia has\nundertaken a multi-pronged effort to reverse present federal government policy. Through a series of committees it is\nto stem that drain on society's iocL \/*ir\nbook. The way to do that, say ii ii^' i\nals like Fibiger and Katz, is tt inv^\nmoney now which will pay off atei.,*\u00ab^,|((\nmuch the same as a company do sw(i(i\nit reinvests a portion of its prof s\nCanada and the United Stat s hai\napproximately the same per cap; a gro 1\nnational product. In 1975 it wa $6jl,\nin Canada and $6,600 in the U.S. But'tji\ndisparity per capita spending on nedic *'\nresearch is enormous: In 1975 t ie UfJt ^\nspent $12.91 per capita on met ical\nsearch.\n$12.91 per person, the higher\ninvestment in the world. Wi-.at\nCanada spend in the same yeai ?\nper person. Hardly generous \u2014 ot\ndent.\nDr. Philip Seeman, professor\npharmacology at the University of\nronto, puts the economic argument\ncinctly:\n\"In 1971, D.G.Hartle, deputy sea\nary ofthe treasury board, insisted\n\"A university should be teaching what is at the forefront of |\nknowledge. How can you do that when you're not exploring\nthat frontier?\"\ncompiling data on the extent and effects\nof the cutbacks, supplying public\nspeakers to sell the value ofthe university's research function, and seeking out\nalternate funding sources to aid those\nnow caught in the government squeeze.\nFibiger and another association organizer, Dr. Sidney Katz, an assistant\nprofessor of pharmaceutical science,\npoint an accusing finger not only at Ottawa, but at Victoria as well. The association is trying to persuade Victoria\nto undertake more medical research\nfunding, not only to broaden the base of\nresearch finance, but to investigate\nproblems which are particular to the\nwest coast \u2014 such things as drug abuse\nand addiction, the dental health of B.C.\nchildren, the fluoride question.\n\"These are areas where scientists in\nB.C. are highly competent, and there is\nuseful work they could do,\" says Katz.\nThey point to Quebec, which spends\n$3.5 million on medical research annually, and to Ontario, which spends $5 million, and compare that to the approximately $250,000 which B.C. spends.\n\"We're a wealthy province, and there's\nno reason why the research should not\nbe done here,\" says Fibiger.\nThe research community puts forward a convincing case that not only\nshould medical investigation be done to\nfurther academic expertise, it also\nmakes resoundingly good sense in terms\nof dollars and cents.\nWith health care costs in the billions\nof dollars and continually rising, it is\nimperative that the country look at ways\n\u25a0*\npayoff on medical research was too\nand that medical research was simply\nintellectual 'trip'. A true economist.\nchallenged researchers to calculate hoi\nmuch they were saving with their\ncoveries.\n\"Distasteful as such calculations are ;\nthey can be done. The figures indies\nthat for every dollar invested in medu\nresearch, the payoff 10 years later\nbetween $20 and $200 in savings of ta) '}\nmoney.\n\"The basic research of Enders\nDulbecco made possible the Salk\nSabin polio vaccines: 70,000 Ca\nlives have thus been spared *sav\ning' Canada $200 million each year si\n1955. Wasman's 1945 discovery\nstreptomycin for tuberculosis sa'\nCanadians $30 million per year.\n\"Basic research is averting 200,1\ncases of measles a year (from which\nchildren used to become mentally\ntarded in Canada) and preventing\ncases of Rh-negative hemolytic <\n(of which 50 babies have beei\ndamaged)....\" His list goes on. |\nSays Fibiger: \"Last year thi MRC >\nbudget was .86 per cent of the t< tal naf\ntional health and welfare expeni itures\nMost companies that are plann ng f<\nthe future would put five to seven pe>\ncent of their budget back irto\nsearch.\"\nAt least one federal goveromei body\nacknowledges and warns of pn blerris\nwhich lie ahead if Canada contii ies to\nstrangle health research. In its ret ortofl\npopulation, released in mid-Augu ^t, the\nContin-tedP >.\nSte p-and-go Research\nft\nThousands of slide specimens are examin.\nthe cause of cleft palates.\nDr. Virginia Diewert is an associate\nprofessor of orthodontics in UBC's\nfaculty of dentistry. For the past five\nyears she has been studying the creation of the palate. In September,\n1975, the Medical Research Council\ngave her a five-year award to continue her work. She's receiving funds\nfor her own position, but as of\nNovember this year, her operating\ngrant has been terminated.\nWithout the operating grant there\nare no funds to keep her highly-\ntrained technician at work, or to pay\nfor supplies and animals (her studies\nare done on rats). \"I feel they've\nwasted half of my year,\" she says of\nthe MRC, as she describes efforts to\nfind alternate sources of interim\nfunding. She has found some new\ngrant money and has reapplied to\nMRC \u2014 \"But I can only hope....\"\n\"It's very hard to do stop-and-go\nresearch \u2014 no progress is made that\nway. The most serious part of losing\nthe operating grant would be losing\nmy technician. In specialized areas\nyo'.i need specialized back-up personnel. If S had to train a person\nag m to do the job, it would take a\nye ir.\"\nthere's an overriding sense of\nfn stration in having to cope with the\nM'-'C freeze. \"With the experience\nan,; expertise that has developed,\n0! project is at the point at which a\nnv. ;or contribution to this area of rest,, re h could be made in the next few\ni't trs,\" says Diewert.\nier research is directed ultimately\nat mding ways of avoiding formation\nof cleft palates. Using the rats, sh<\n.,' hy >\u25a0 \u25a0 r'ii'\\vert in her search for\nstudies growth of the palate in the\nembryo-fetus stage.\n\"If we're going to prevent formation of clefts, we have to know why\nthey're occurring in the formation of\nthe palate. Probably the major\nreason a cleft is occurring is that\nthere is an inhibition of growth. If\neventually we can find out why it\nisn't growing, then there is the possibility of preventive treatment,\"\nDiewert explains.\n* * * * *\nDr. Louis Woolf, a professor of\npsychiatry in the neurological sciences division, also knows the frustration of stop-and-go research funding.\nFor almost 30 years he has been\nresearching a disease named phenylketonuria, a biochemical disoidei\nwhich takes effect around the time of\nbirth or shortly thereaftei, and\ncauses severe retardation and mental\nillness in 25 percent of its victims\nHis early developments in the field\nled to the isolation of phenylalanine,\nthe causative substance. By isolating\nit and removing it from the childi en's\ndiets, he estimates that so fai moie\nthat 1,000 children have been able to\ndevelop a normal mentality wheie\nbefore, they would have faced lite\nin an institution.\nHis further studies into an enzyme\nwhich acted on phenylalanine weie\nwell under way when funding foi the\nproject was cut off by the MRC\nWhen the grants went, so did his\nstaff. UBC lost three highly-ttamed\nresearch assistants, all post-doctotal\nstudents.\nEventually, at the beginning of this\nyear, he obtained alternate funding\nfrom the B.C. Association for the\nMentally Retarded. \"But you can't\njust pick up where you left off,\" says\nWoolf. \" For the first eight months of\nthis year we've been picking up the\nthreads where we left off. It's the\nmost inefficient and expensive way\nof getting anything done.\n\"When Dr. Woo (one of his three\nassistants) left us we were ahead of\nanyone in the world. We'd isolated\nthe enzyme in its purest form. In the\nintervening three years the rest ofthe\nworld has caught up and in some respects, passed us,\" he says with a\nsigh.\n\" St takes one year to destroy a research team \u2014 and seven years to\nrebuild it.\"\nDr. Woolf adjusts one piece ofthe sophisticated, essential equipment\nneeded for his research. THE new ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNIC\na revolutionary new EHfora\u00ae Learning\ny fc\nfl -^ \": 1 . ! ' .'* l! m ' \u25a0 . \" '\n><_, ?' \u201e,r.J >\nf'1\n\"0\\\nENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA offer to members an opportunity to obtain the new\nENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA at a reduced\nprice, a substantial saving on the price available\nto any individual. You can choose either the\nHeirloom or Imperial Binding and select your\nchoice of valuable options \u2014 included at no extra\nThe new ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA\n\u2014 now expanded to 30 volumes \u2014 is not just a new\nedition''. . . but a completely new encyclopedia\nwhich outmodes all other encyclopedias. 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The conversation\nmoved around to Tze's own research\nin the field and he recounted how his\nfunding had been cut off by MRC.\nThe talk show host picked up 01\nTze's predicament, and used thi_\nshow to solicit funds to keep the re\nsearch project alive. \"We ended uj\nwith over $25,000 as a result. It camt\nin in single dollar bills and large\ncheques \u2014 the public's response wa\noverwhelming,\" says the grateful re\nsearcher.\nScience Council of Canada notes that by\nUnited Nations standards Canada became an \"old\" country in 1971 \u2014 when\nit passed the point at which more than\neight percent of the population (the\nUN's guideline) was over age 65. The\ncountry is growing older and older in\nresearch goes, Canada has been a parasite of the United States. \"It's ironic\nthat Canadian research is even questioned in a country that is so concerned\nwith its independence,\" comments\nFibiger.\nOne of the alarming side-effects of a\n\"Without adequate suppport of research from both federal\nand provincial sources, British Columbian universities could\ngradually slip to second-rate status.\"\naverage age as birth control and medical\nadvances have their effects.\nThe council warns that by 2001 the\nover-65 group will constitute 12 per cent\nof the population and 46 per cent of\npatient-days in hospital. If Canada were\nto retain its present emphasis on institutional care for those persons, the costs\nare bound to be astronomical. Yet how\ndoes the nation develop new methods\nand technologies for treating diseases of\nthe elderly and forge innovative ways of\npreventing disease in the first place, if\nreset! rch funds are subject to continual\ncutbacks.\nOr,: answer, according to some\nPoliticians, is to simply sit back and import \"hat research Canada needs. It has\nbeen obvious for years that as far as\npolicy which advocates the import of\nresearch is that it also means an export\nof talent. Faculty members know that if\nthere are not funds available here to\nsupport research, top-notch people will\ngo where there is support.\n\"Canada suffers in many ways from\nthis policy,\" says Dr. Louis Woolf, a\nprofessor of psychiatry. \"The most immediate result is that the quality of medical schools will suffer \u2014 good doctors\nand teachers will go to the U.S. The\nquality of medical care will fall inevitably and the community will therefore\nsuffer.\n\"Without research, we become\npoorer teachers very soon. A university\nshould be teaching what is at the forefront of knowledge. How can you do that\nwhen you're not exploring that\nfrontier?\" asks Dr. Woolf.\nWhile higher levels may go unexplored, more basic areas are feeling\nthe effects as well. The number of students enrolling in graduate studies in\nmedicine has been declining \u2014 by about\n33 per cent since 1970, according to\nFibiger. The number of students who\nwould be out of graduate school five\nyears from now, looking for faculty positions, will be lower.\nA decline in faculty and post-graduate\nresearch raises a basic philosophical\nquestion about the nature ofthe university: Can the institution continue to be a\nuniversity if the research function is\nsharply curtailed?\n\"It is likely that we might have to reconsider that aspect of the university,\"\nsays Dr. Erich Vogt, UBC vice-\npresident for faculty and student affairs.\n\"But I think that a place like UBC is\ngoing to be very reluctant to depart from\nthe principle that people must be active\nteachers and researchers simultaneous-\nly.\"\nThe freeze in federal funding affects\nnot only medical sciences (although because of an immediate concern with\npublic health it is often the area that\nreceives the most attention) but cuts\nthrough almost every area ofthe university's operation. It's part of a basic crisis\nin the academic function which sees everything from agriculture to zoology\nbeing starved for funds.\nWhat is the answer to maintaining \u2014\nand financing \u2014 the teaching\/research\nbalance? The obvious answer is money,\nbut how to persuade the various governments, particularly the federal government, to loosen the pursestrings, is\nthe puzzle.\nAcademics like Katz and Fibiger\nadmit that to some extent the scientists\nhave brought the grants crisis upon\nthemselves because the need for research and the value of it has not been\nbrought to the attention of the public\nand the politicians. That's one of the\nmajor reasons their association was\nformed.\nIn his report on awards for research\n1975\/76, research administrator Spratley commented: \"Federal spending decisions are political decisions and it\nwould appear that there is little political\npressure to maintain funding for university research at adequate levels. The\ntime has surely come to go outside UBC\nto make the case that a good university\nmeans, among other things, a university\nat which good research is carried out.\"\nHe concluded with a warning:\n\"Without adequate support of research\nfrom both federal and provincial\nsources, British Columbian universities\ncould gradually slip to second-rate\nstatus, \"o\nMurray McMillan is a writer for the\nVancouver Sun. 'In\nX\nI h\n.* i\n. < y?i y\nf'J v- V\n'Viveca Ohm\nThey come from Japan, Mexico, southern Europe \u2014 and in greater numbers,\nfrom Quebec. They may be students or\nmiddle-aged working people, but they\nhave one thing in common: they want to\nlearn English fast and fluently.\nUBC's Language Institute doesn't\nguarantee the latter, but it does set up an\nintensive learning experience of\nlanguage-in-culture. And if six weeks of\nbeing steeped in Western Canadian culture can be exhausting for the newcomer, it can also be a holiday that's\nimpossible not to learn from.\nEnglish-speaking Canadians invade\nthe campus too, from the prairies, from\nInterior B.C. and mostly from right here\nin Vancouver. They want to learn\nFrench, and the same principle holds \u2014\nspeak the \"target\" language while walking to class in the morning, eating,\nsocializing, and if possible while dreaming.\nThe total immersion approach has\ncharacterized the Language Institute\nfrom its beginnings, but the way the institute has bloomed and branched out in\na very few years is something of a\nphenomenon. Back in 1968, thanks to\nthe efforts of Mary Frank MacFarlane,\nwho has been associated with the centre\nfor 2m years, the UBC Centre for Con-\ntinui )g Education offered the first non-\ncred!;. summer session in French. The\nfolio .ing summer, \"English as a Second : anguage\" was added.\nIn 1974 the present director, David\nBrowne, took over and set about expanding the institute. For starters, he\nthre'\" in ten additional modern lan-\nguai.- s, ranging from Japanese to Modem iebrew, and established English\nlm-m..Tsion classes on a year-round\nbasiv In a year, the enrolment had\njumped from 400 to over a thousand; for\nthe 1976 fiscal year, Browne foresees\ntwo thousand students in both winter\nand summer classes. The Language Institute is alive and burgeoning, so much\nso that the winter classes, once a mere\ntrickle, now rival the Summer Institute\nin popularity.\nWhat happens at the Summer Institute? Around the first week in July, students start arriving for what will be a\nlinguistic and cultural plunge into\nFrench or English. They live on campus, or in the case of some non-English\nstudents, board with an English-\nspeaking family in the city. For the\nmajority living in Totem Park, an attempt is made to mix Francophones and\nAnglophones as room-mates and to\nprovide maximum contact through\nmeals and social activities. Six hours a\nday are spent in class instruction, language labs, discussion groups or workshops, field trips to places of interest in\nthe community. Late afternoons and\nevenings, if you're ready for more,\nthere are optional conversation groups\nand activities.\nIt's all part of Browne's conviction\nthat \"linguistic competence is acquired\nonly through the development of cultural sensitivities.\" \"If you're looking\nfor a grammar course,\" the institute\nbrochure warns, \"this is not it. You will\nbe expected to communicate intelligently and clearly in the target language,\nnot simply to know the rules or to\nmemorize limited phrases and expressions.\"\nAt first it would seem to be a well-\nheeled lot who come here, considering\nthe price ofthe package (including room\nand board) is $850. Bursaries are available from the secretary of state, how-\nMore ordinary working\npeople are studying\nlanguages than ever\nbefore...both Canadians\nand internationals.\nDavid Browne, director,\nLanguage Institute\n11 The most important thing\nwe learn here is to think\nrapidly in English. Before\nwe came here, we knew a\nlot in English, but we had\nno chance to practise...\nPierre Dube, 19, student,\nFrench program\never, to fuii-time Canadianstudents. In\nfact, the institute started out with only\nbursary students, and only recently\ntook in a fee-paying clientele. International students generally foot the bill\nthemselves, unless they receive assistance from their own governments, but\nin many cases a family will have saved\nfor years in order to send a son or daughter to the English immersion program.\nInternational students have always\nbeen outnumbered by French Canadians in the program, this past summer\nby 210 to 85. This can be a problem\nwhen it comes to designing a cultural\nprogram that will accommodate both\nstrangers to Canada and Quebecois who\nare obviously more familiar with the\noverall geography and way of life. Will a\nfilm that would be'informative and new\nto students from far-away places be boring to the point of insult to the\nQuebecois?\nRather than put the international students in their own classes, however,\nBrowne insists on combining both elements, even if it sometimes means one\nJapanese student in a class otherwise\ntotally French-Canadian. This encourages cultural exchange and a wider\nframe of reference, as well as minimizing the temptation to revert to a native\nlanguage the whole class would otherwise understand.\nA student learning English begins the\nday with four hours of structured classroom work, part of which consists of\nlaboratory work with listeriing-and-\npractice tapes. The morning is when the\n\"measurable\" learning takes place;\nafter lunch students move into a cultural context that some find fascinating,\nothers frustrating, because it forces you\nto think fast, taxes your listening skill,\nand leaves you with something very\nhard to put your finger on.\nUnder the broad themes of Canada,\nSocial-Political Issues, and People, the\nmore informal afternoon classes held\nthree times a week discuss pre-arranged\ntopics and films, and prepare for field\ntrips scheduled on the remaining two\ndays. After initial getting-acquainted\ntrips to Gastown or the Aquarium, the\nclass (rarely larger than 10-12 students)\nmight visit an environmental centre,\nhear a speaker from Greenpeace, see a\nfilm on women's rights, land claims,\nvisit Legal Aid, X-Kalay, the Anthropology Museum, Indian Centres.\nThis will be followed up with reports,\ntapes, discussions.\nThe just-past summer was the first to\ncentre around this cultural approach,\nand the response from students was\nmixed. Some found the topics irrelevant\nto their lives and felt constrained by the\nhard-and-fast prescription for class discussion (\"But we're not interested in\nthis...how can we discuss something\nwe're not interested in?\"). The Indian\nsituation in B.C. proved to be of particu-\n12\nlar interest to the Quebecois, but r\nwere chagrined that their favorite h\nhad been left out, \u2014 music,\nsports....\nYou can only do so much in six w\nof course, and you can't please c\nbody. But Browne plans to loose\nthe afternoon program next ye;\nallow for greater variety and more personal choice \u2014- students going into ien-\ntistry or medicine, for instance, v\\ >uld\nvisit related clinics or projects \u2014 * hile\nkeeping the whole idea of a \"contr lied\nlearning experience\" which he fe* ,'s is\ncrucial. The topics would remain preparatory to the off-campus experience,\nwith classroom and community activities operating in tandem.\nThe French-learning branch of the\nSummer Institute is set up along very\nsimilar lines, except that community activities are necessarily more limited.\nWhile the French-Canadian and international students have the whole\nEnglish-speaking community to draw\non, students learning French only find,\nas one of them points out, that \"we're\nout of immersion the moment we leave\ncampus.\" After visits to Radio Canada,\nLe Soleil, Centre Columbien, and a few\nguest speakers, the Francophone resources of Vancouver are virtually\nexhausted. To fill the gap, the institute\ninitiated weekly workshops in areas of\nspecial interest to students; film,\ntheatre, poetry are examples, instructed\nin French, even a workshop in the traditional hand-weaving of Quebec, which\nproved particularly popular last summer. In addition, there are seminars on\nFrench Canada, and judging from random responses, English interest in\nQuebec is substantially greater than\nFrench Canadian interest in Western\nCanada.\n\"Cultural exchanges\" are also held\non a regular basis. For this encounter\nacross languages, students are given a\nspecial task, \"Discuss three French\nCanadian authors and three English\nones.\" This functioning as resource\npeople for each other is the only\n\"legitimate\" opportunity students have\nto speak their own language without\nqualms. Otherwise the institute insists\non the target language at all times \u2014\noften an exhausting demand, but as\nBrowne points out, \"vacationer- are\nnot welcome \u2014 committed stucents\nare.\"\nStudents come for a range of rea; ons.\nThough some Anglophones seek V upgrade their French for business rea- jns,\nmost are taking French out of per1 .inal\ninterest. They are in their 20s or early\n30s with some years of university behind them, perhaps travel plans al ead\nof them, but in all events a genuint desire to learn about French and Fre ch-\nCanadian language, life, traditions.\nEven'older people paying their wn\nway make the investment for pers- nal\nnrii\nnan\nlas:\nIfbi\nIT!\n:til\nInd\noil\n]ue\n:on\neac\nk\nigr:\n:ha\nV\nive\nhe;\n:an\n)M\nM\nle.\nie.\nini\nwi\nio\ni\nCa\nsei\nMi\nfe:\ncr,\nga\nri'\nPi\n01\nth\n0\nth\nle\nle\nm\nm\nE\nsi\niti\ngi\ndi\nfc\ntc\n0\nai ind\nss\nIfbiH'\nim ti\n:tirei\nv.\nnent. A middle-aged business-\ncm Alberta joins a beginners'\n'ter considering the whole issue\n.'ualism and concluding it is up to\n\u201em ti do his part. Ethel Belli-Bivar, a\n.; .etjrei B.C. teacher who has travelled\nmd v. >rked in Africa and the East, is\nollo\\ ing up a French program in\njuebi \u2022 from a previous summer and\nomp< (\">ng tne tw0- With a veteran\neach<, '\"s nose for classroom pacing,\nhe fi ds a need for \"structured but\njghte things, like games, skits,\nharac es....\"\nWit'i the French-Canadians, the mo-\nives <;re primarily pragmatic. They feel\nhey n~-ed English to \"make it\" in their\n:areer->; interest in B.C. culture is sec-\njndary or even non-existent. Some\nvant to perfect their English to the ex-\nent that they can \"melt into\" any re-\njuisite situation without accent or label.\n\\ young actor wants to expand his pro-\nession: \"All I want is the language. I\n't want any of this cultural stuff, it\nup my thinking.\" A graduate stu-\nlent specializing in acoustics needs it so\nlecan pursue his degree in an American\niniversity. An installer of swimming\nwols wants it for better pay, promo-\nions....\nSome have found a mistrust of French\nCanadians out here, and are particularly\nsensitive to slights or patronization.\nMinor friction ensued when some stu-\nlents alleged hostility on the part of one\n>r two cultural assistants (live-in resource people or guides). Others were\nenthusiastic about the overall friendli-\nless and helpfulness of Vancouverites.\nMontrealers missed the cosmopolitan\nlight-life of home but delighted in the\nfountains and scenery.\nOne young office worker is not returning to Quebec but staying behind to look\n'or a new job in Vancouver. She is an\nception. Most will go back home, and\nxcept for a widened language and\ntravel experience, resume their lives.\nSome are concerned that, with less\nIchance to practise, they will lose the\ngains they have made in English.\nAll students are tested when they arrive at the institute to determine their\nplacement in beginners', intermediate,\nor advanced classes. Upon completing\nthe se sion, they are given the same test\n;to asK-ss their gains. Beginners show\nthe mt st obvious improvement,or are at\njleast ie easiest to evaluate; at higher\nilevels mprovement becomes harder to\ne. Teachers in the structured\ng classes in both the French and\ni programs, usually have extensive r ckgrounds and graduate degrees\nln the anguage of instruction or in lin-\n\u25a0> and literature. Some of them\nas teaching or cultural assistants\nrest of the day. Teaching assis-\n\"or the more conversationally\nd afternoon sessions, however,\npi'e cl' \u00bbsen on a looser basis, and come\nI\n|meas'\n'morn\njEngli-.\nguisti\ndoubi\nforth\ntants\njorieni\nare cl\nfrom, a variety of backgrounds, though\nusually in some related field. French\nstaff are roughly apportioned from\nFrench and French-Canadian instructors, so that with a system of rotation,\nstudents are exposed to both language\nstyles. Jacques Mailhot conducts his\nbeginners' group on a light note, using\ngames, songs, oral stories to be completed. \"I'm not too picky; we're all\nhuman and we can get tired.\" A young\nFrench-Canadian writer with a lively\ndisposition and experience in psychology group work, Mailhot can often be\nfound after hours leading conversation\nsessions over a glass of wine or taking\nhis students to a French restaurant for\ndinner.\nIn the English program, teaching assistants are often culled from the simultaneously on-going training classes in\nTeaching English as a Second Language\n(ESL) given by the faculty of education.\nWith varying amounts of teaching experience, some find it hard to balance\nthe needs of the international students\nwith those of the Quebecois. Says Bev\nGreenberg of her intermediate group,\n\"There was only one Japanese girl, and\nall the rest French-Canadians. I felt so\nbad for her; she was easily left out. But\none day I got her to talk about Japan....\"\nThe Summer Institute of 1976 has just\nended, but the Language Institute goes\non with a potpourri of classes on and off\ncampus. There is an extended ten-week\nversion of English immersion for the\nextra hardy. There is a program especially for teachers of French. In addition, the federal government's Special\nProject on Bilingualism in Education is\nfunding a two-year French program for\nworking adults. And, as of last year,\nIntensive English for Japanese\nTeachers of ESL brings nearly 40\nteachers to UBC for a four-week stint.\nOff campus, most modern languages\none could wish to learn are being offered\nin evening, daytime, and weekend programs at places like Oakridge and the\nPublic Library. And for the truly adventurous \u2014 to whom money is no object \u2014\nthere will be language-learning tours to\nRussia and Mexico (including air fare,\ntuition, accommodation, sight-seeing,\nthe works) in the spring of '77.\nThere seems to be no place to go but\nup. A rare position to be in these days of\nprovincial government cuts in language\ninstruction. But with only a quarter of\nits budget funded by the university, the\nCentre for Continuing Education is\nlargely a self-sufficient organization.\nAnd with the tremendous growth in enrolment, director Browne says the Language Institute is \"almost getting out of\nhand.\" But you know he doesn't really\nmean it....a\nThis summer Viveca Ohm, BA'69, was a\nstudent herself, learning to teach English as a second language.\nr\nX\nGuided1\nStydy\nCredit Course\nbrought to ^ou\nwia\ntelevision\n'T\nFine Arts 125(3)\nThe Pyramids\nto Picasso\nThe history of architecture,\nsculpture, and painting of\nthe Western World.\nwith Marc Pessin\nDepartment of Fine Arts\nPrograms showing on\nCable 10 in Vancouver,\nBurnaby & Richmond,\nNorthern Vancouver Island,\nand Vernon, B.C.\nBegins the week of\nSeptember 27,1976\nFor further information\nplease contact: Centre for\nContinuing Education,\nUBC, Vancouver 228-2181\nNorth Island College,\nCampbell River 287-2181\nOkanagan College,\nVernon 542-2384 i\u201e- 'tf :\u25a0\u25a0'\ny.\n\u25a04v \u25a0\u25a0\nm\n4 ,' *\u2022 \u2022\u25a0.'\u25a0<., \u25a0 \u25a0'\u00a3\u25a0. f,.-fi-,'.\"V>':,-,;1i'-.'|ft,\nV-\n> ,yyA>&m^\\y V;y *\u00a3\n15 1*1 .\nJ 1.1\n1111\nv., I. 1\n\"-'*:?:\n^:i\n\u2022gis\n\u2022* f ( < -<\n\u2022iff. ,.\nA native garden is never as ne as a\nformal garden. Just as you can't c. oose\nyour relatives, plants that are na veto\none area do not necessarily confo i t0a\nclassically harmonious pattern.\nOften as beautiful as introduci. varieties, native plants can pique the ancv\nof local gardeners. The cardinal mon-\nkeyflower, for example, is foi id jn\nsome European gardens but s idom\nplanted here. Many plants comi jn in\nthe wild prove both unusual and tractive in a garden.\nLocal gardeners and other stu ents.j\nextension and school groups, no\\ havej\nthe opportunity to attend study le tures\nillustrated by a wave ofthe hand b yond\nthe large glass panes ofthe new [\u25a0 irdeti\npavilion. The meeting space is re nark-\nably large within the discreetly s oping\nwood panels.\nIt is not only a Japanese garden vhich\n\"simulates nature in miniature.\" The\nnative garden recreates a representative\nrange of B.C. habitats. Meadow, lake,\nsand dune, creek, and bog have all been\nlaid out within the eight acres of this\ngarden. Gazing at the bog orchids\nskunk cabbage, and lingenberry, you]\nfind the names alone of these slough\nplants prod the imagination.\nWhole social and literary periods\nhave been defined in terms of an individual's relation to nature: Romantic\nyearnings, Victorian evolutionism,\neven the notion ofthe Canadian victim\nFor those unable to go back to the land,\nthe garden offers harmony, a blend of\npeace and beauty. No need to know that\n12,000 varieties of plants in the botanical areas have been recorded on compu i,j\nter print-outs to maintain records o. '\u00abj\npedigree. Nor that away from this sk \/\u2022\nand trees, plants are nurtured undti.j rplas-\ns lhc!\n!' Who\n\"V\nI,\ndestined never to be exposed to\n;il workFoutside.\n\u25a0 vt'.s a garden loves a greenhouse\ntoo.\n-William Cowper (18th c.)\nhat t\nIjpubl\n\u25a0\u00a3 find\nN ar0U\n$ and ;\nthe :\ni soni>\nif you venture to the greenhouse\ne end of West Mall, open to the\n: on weekdays 8-3:30), you will\nlargaret Coxon happy to show you\nd, even to give cuttings if you ask\nie time is right. You might broach\nabject of the recent heists. Two\n\u2022 thefts from the greenhouse netted\nunscrupulous collectors a variety\n0f ru e specimens. In one ofthe cases,\nihe \"hief was expert, removing only\nchoii e plants from all parts of the display corridors. Coxon is philosophical\nabout this. \"It just seems to be that\nsome people want exactly what we have\nand decide to take it.\" Her plants are\nidentifiable; she could spot them by distinguishing marks of pruning and age.\nBut hy now they may be far away. How\nexperienced are the R.C.M.P. at bagging the decorative plant?\nFrom the steamy greenhouse one\nmoves to the serenity of the familiar\nNitobe Garden where glimmering carp\nglide silently in the dark water. The\nlandscape of the classical Japanese garden was both a temple and a picture\ngarden. These two facets dictated the\ndistinctive style and formal limitations\nof this garden type. One school of garden artists carried the abstract concept\nto the total exclusion of flowers and\nplants: light sand formed a canvas for\nthe \"ink images\" of carefully juxtaposed rocks.\nThe Nitobe Memorial Garden, however, is not austere. There is a rock arrangement in the tea garden, but it is set\n- t>*\n\u2022 .j *\u00bb .\u25a0\u25a0\n'Sit.\nV'.;.\n- y... .\n* .\ni \"< ' ;\"\u00bb\"\n\u25a0\" i\n\u2022TV-\n-IV\n. I: in an intimate miniature garden. The\nlandscape garden, with its flowing\nstream and calm single-island lake, is\nrichly arrayed with plants and trees artfully pruned in the open Tokyo style.\nThe paths meander around the lake,\nover bridges, past stone lanterns and\nbamboo pavilions.\nThe botanical garden is the icing of\nthe cake. You can enjoy its sweetness,\nits aesthetic and cultural richness, but\nthe filling is layered with research and\nteaching.\nO sweet spontaneous\nearth how often have\nthe\ndoting\nfingers of\nprurient philosophers pinched\nand\npoked\nthee\n, has the naughty thumb\nof science prodded\nthy\nbeauty.\n-\u20ac.\nLiving in the Okanagan she\nthe students and the teaching an.\ngalleries, but she's as busy as ew\nplace where she grew up. She h\narticles to do for the Dictio.\nCanadian Biography and a vol. me fori\nthe Hudson's Bay Record Sock y\nis involved with a number of hi loncal\nassociations and she lectures regular!)\nto audiences as diverse as the (University Women's Club and a Vernor Grade\nFive class. This year she received an\nhonorary degree from the University of\nVictoria, becoming the first person to\nhold an honorary degree from all foyr\nB.C. universities. Of which achievement she says modestly, \"It's very\npleasant to be recognized.\"\nThe comfortable old house with th\nupstairs set aside for her work (\"so\ndon't have to worry about keeping it\ntidy\") is full of treasures like her\nmother's pottery collection, as well as\nevidence of her own lively interests: the\nToni Onley painting, the cherished Gordon Smith given her by the history department when she retired.\nAnd she's especially proud of her\nsuccess running the small cherry orchard on the property, an occupation\nnot difficult to reconcile with that of a\nscholar when you understand her attachment to the Interior. \"Fruit farming\nwas always part ofthe family life,\" she\nsays, \"and I like to be in an orchard,\nmanage all the marketing myself\nPeople pick their own cherries, then\nbring the fruit up to the house and weigh\nit. It has worked out beautifully, and\nyou meet so many interesting people\n\"I think it's nice to feel you have roots\nin a community,\" she adds. \"It enriches\nyour life to have the two experiences\nurban and rural. People who spend their\nwhole lives in the city don't know B.C\nThere is a lot of B.C. outside Vancouver\n... such a variety of styles of life, seen\nery and occupations. It has a tremendous appeal.\"\nAn analysis of her work b> Jean\nFriesen and Keith Ralston, both tormer\nstudents of hers, in the introduction to\ntheir book, Historical Essays On , h-itish\nColumbia especially please h r.\nthink they hit the nail pretty well >n the\nhead,\" she says. \"They are quit. ri.\nin saying that I always return to tl e valley.\"\u25a1\nSally Abbott, BA'65, is a formei Vancouver Sun writer who also finds ft''\"\nthe Okanagan most pleasant.\n22 Bill Calvert\n('following short story was one of\nhe prize winners in the 1976 Chronicle\nyeative Writing Contest. Author, Bill\n\"divert, Sc.4, spends his summers as a\nusl-aid man in a forest products mill\nwar Prince George.\nremember the day he arrived real\n;ood, 'cause they sent me out with the\noreman's truck to pick him up. Mind\nou, that ain't that strange, me being the\n;irst Aid man and all, they're always\nending me chasing around: \"Go here!\"\n'Get this!\" \"Move that!\" But he was\ny scared when he got off that bus. I\nmber the way he stood on the edge\nthe pavement, kinda pinned, like a\nuirrel'll do when you catch it with a\nhlight, y'know the way they stand,\nrything in 'em telling 'em to run but\ny just can't. Like that....\nHe never said much on the way in,\ntt- tell me his name: \"Christopher\nobs sir.\" I told him he didn't need to\n\"Sir,\" 'cause no-one else did\n\u2022 AH I ever get is \"Band-Aid,\"\n-e \"Old Man.\" I doubt that any-\niere even remembers my name,\nlong since they used it.\nJn't seem that different from the\nem. then. We get 'em through\ne him every summer, city kids\nby their old man. He usually\nsomeone in head office, the\nnaybe he even works for them,\n-!t the time a boy turns sixteen or\nrveir -en he starts getting into it,\nkno stirring up shit one way or\nand pop he gets scared, figures\ngoing rotten on him \u2014 a lot of\niv;ng in that goddamned stink-\nie\n:i\nv ''\"call me\nywa\\\n(.ci may\nW m ;\nheen *\u2022 \u25a0\n\u00b0f Hec\nll ;jest of\nfee y\ne sent o\nnow-\n'': father\ntad ah\nveir\nkno\n\u25a0 anoths.\nhis kid\nern di\nhole \u2014 so he fires him up here to\nstraighten him out. Sometimes it works,\nif the kid stays long enough; most of'em\nonly last a few days, though. They usually get here about the last week in June,\nright after school gets out, and they always seem to hit the beginning of the\nfirst hot spell ofthe summer. Between\nthat and the bugs, and them not used to\nworking anyway....\nI gave him the ten-cent tour on the\nway in \u2014 as much to show off the truck\nas anything \u2014 and his eyes got real big\nwhen we drove through the mil! yard,\nwhat with the machinery and the noise\nand all. It's funny, seeing an old place\nwith someone new like that, can sorta\nmake it like you're seeing it for the first\ntime too. But the only thing he said was\nabout the log loader looking like a big\ninsect. It's kinda true, in a way; it'd sure\ngobble you up the way one of those\npraying bugs grabs an ant, if it got a\nchance.\nThe bunkhouse is a pretty sad-\nlooking contraption, and his face got\nlonger when he saw it. I steered him at\nthe cookshack, told him to go in and find\nthe Greek, that's the bullcook, and\nheaded back down to the mill. Be goddamned if I was going to babysit him!....\nI didn't see Chris to talk to again for\nabout two weeks. Starting work is always hard, but starting for the first time\ncan be real hell. You don't do anything\nexcept eat and work and sleep, and you\ncan't even sleep so good 'cause you're\ndreaming about work. You can feel\nevery muscle, and each one hurts a little\ndifferent. The thirst is bad, too, and it's\njust something you've got to get used to;\nsome of'em try carryingjugs of water to\nwork, but after they puke it up once they\nleave off that. He had it a little worse\nthan most though, 'cause on his third\nday Gus put him tailing the resaw, and\nthat is one dirty bitch of ajob. I've seen\ngrown men go down the road before\nthey'd do it. I asked Gus about that,\nwhy he put a new kid onto something so\ntough, but he just shrugged. He'd\nneeded a man, and Chris was the only\none built right \u2014 short and quick \u2014 he\ncould get his hands on.\nChris got the raw end of the stick in\nanother way, too. He got put into a\nroom with Roland. Now, Roland ain't a\nbad guy, I guess, not that I've talked to\nhim much. No-one has. He's a good\nlumber piler, strong as a bull, but the\ntrouble is he's about that smart too.\nAbout the only thing I've ever heard\nhim say is, \"Got any book?\", which\nmeans skin books. I always say no,\n'cause he rips out the centerfolds and\nputs them up over his bed \u2014 I had to\nwake him up for overtime one night and\nI about swallowed my store teeth to see\nit \u2014 but the Porks, the Portugese boys,\nthey always give 'em to him. I've seen\nhim pick up a two by six eighteen foot by\nthe end, stand it straight up in the airjust\ntwisting with his wrists, and throw it at\nsome guy thirty feet across the yard for\nno particular reason at all except he was\nfeeling perky. This was Chris' roommate.\nAnyhow, like I said, I didn't see him\nfor a while after that first day. Mind you,\nthe weekend in there was a pay\nweekend, so I was in town; had a hell of\na good time, so they tell me! But the\nnext Saturday I stayed in camp, on\nwatchman, and 'bout the middle ofthe\nafternoon he came down to the First Aid\nroom, where I was reading. We made\nsmall talk for a while, about the mill and\nthe weather, and then he asked me was I\ngoing into town Sunday?\n\"Naw,\" I said, \"I was in last\nweekend.\" S was a little edgy, but I\ndidn't think he'd give me a hard time\n23 'bout getting drunk, even if he'd heard,\nso 1 could guess why he wanted to\nknow. \"How come?\"\n\"I'm quiting,\"he said. He was trying\nto be casual too, but he gave me that\nyou-can't-make-me look when he said\nit. They all get thai look when they say\nit, makes it more a question than anything.\n\"What for?\"\n\"What...! Why not I'm sick of this\ncamp, I'm sick of that goddamn mill.I\ncan't keep up, and they won't slow\ndown. What'd he put me on that job for\nanyway?\"\n\"They're not supposed to slow\ndown,\" I said mildly. \"Besides, where\ndo you figure to go? There's nothing but\nmills around here, and you ain't gonna\nget any better of a job anywheres else\nthan you've got here, 'cause you've got\nno experience and no training. If you\nhad a First Aid ticket, well, that'd be\ndifferent, but....\"\n\"I'm going to go home!\"\nI let him think about that for a minute\nor two. \"You can't,\" I said.\nHe gave me a quick look, and then\nkinda slumped in his chair. \"How do\nyou know that?\" He was quiet now.\n\"Never mind how I know. Anyway,\nI'm not goin' in for a couple of weeks\nyet, so it looks like you're stuck here\nthat long at least.\" I gave him a slap on\nthe back. I didn't really want to do that,\nI guess; he looked like he needed a hug\nmore than a slap, and for a second there\nI almost did, but I pulled back. Christ\nonly knows what he'd been told about\nold men in camps.\nI started with the small talk again, to\nlet him know that it was closed and forgotten, he loosened up a little then, and\nhe hung around for the rest ofthe afternoon. Those camps get pretty empty on\nweekends.\nLike I said before, if they can last out\nthe first couple of weeks they'll usually\nbe okay, and from then on things began\nto pick up for Chris. For one thing, he\nstarted to hang around with the crew\nafter work, sitting on the bunkhouse\nsteps and bullshitting. I guess he'd gotten more used to the work by then, and\ndidn't need so much sleep. They began\nto lay off him some, too, now that they'd\ndecided he was going to be around for a\nwhile; they changed his nickname from\n\"City Boy\" to \"Blondie\" on.account of\nhis hair. Not that they stopped making\nfun-of him, oranything, they just started\nlaughing with him. I was sorta proud of\nthe way he picked things up, too. Take\nbroads, for instance. Now, your average bedroom story is about fifty per cent\nlifted from the last skin book the guy's\nread, and about forty per cent pure\ndream; but that other ten per cent's\ngotta be right. If that don't sound true,\nsomeone'!! know. Chris, he just didn't\nhave that last ten per cent to go on yet,\nbut he knew it. y'see, and he kept out of\n24\nsex talk so no-one else found out. He\ncould've gotten away with that the\nwhole summer, too, 'cepl for Roland.\nRoland don't play by anyone else's\nrules, or maybe he plain didn't like\nChris. Anyways, we was sittin' around\none night and the talk came around to tit\nsize. That never lasts long, everyone\nlikes 'em the bigger the better and we'd\njust about done with it when Roland said\nsomething! Right away everyone else\nshut up. He looked right at Chris, who'd\nbeen keeping pretty quiet:\n\"What you say, boy?\"\nChris flushed a little. \"Oh I dun-\nno....\"\n\"Gus was sayin' there's a new hooker\nin town, drives a Corvette!\"\nI put in quickly. Roland ignored me.\n\"Small, big, what?\" he asked Chris.\nYou could hear the crickets starting up,\nin the swamp the other side ofthe mill.\nChris was red now. \"Well, I guess\nanything more than a mouthful's just a\nwaste,\" he said finally.\nRoland just looked at him, deadpan,\nfor a while; then he gave a funny kind of\nsmile, if you've ever seen a weasel\nsmile. Chris met his eyes, but he was\nstill red, and after a few seconds he had\nto look away.\n\"You never had woman, I think.\"\n\"Ah, lay off, Rollie,\" someone said\nquietly; but when Roland turned from\nChris we were al! staring at our boots.\n\"Huh?\" Back at Chris again. Chris\nsaid nothing, but you could see he was\nhurting. Roland started, \"Sometime,\nnights, I hear him....\"\n\"That's enough, Quirron!\" The silence popped, like a bubble. I'd been as\nsurprised as anyone to hear me \u2014 sometimes I talk too much, y'know, get myself in Dutch\u2014 and I kinda wished I'd\nshut up when Roland looked up at me.\nHe was surprised though; I could see\nhim flex those big hands, but he was off\nbalance, it'd been so long since anyone\ncarried the fight to him. Especially old\nBand-Aid! My back was getting damp\nwhen he finally looked away, and I was\nshaking a little, but the talk picked up\nagain and that was that.\nI guess I should've seen what was\ncoming, after that, but it'd been a long\ntime since I'd been Chris' age, and I\nnever had no kids myself\u2014 least, not\nthat S know of. He came into town with\nme the next Saturday, but he left his\nsuitcase in camp. We'd just gotten paid\non the Friday, and he was all worked up\nabout having so much money in his\npocket. Just watching him with it was\nfun; he must've checked his wallet\ntwenty times on the way in, to be sure he\nhadn't lost it or something. I helped\nhim pick out new gloves and some other\ngear, and then we spent the craziest afternoon I ever remember, just wandering around town. That money was just\nburning a hole in his pocket, y'know,\nand he musta spent it six different ways\nthem four hours. He was gom\nH\nS'litf\ntape recorder, he was gonn b^ {\nwatch, a suit of clothes, anythir .. It^\/fi\nlike he'd never had money be! ,ie 1).,\nwanted to buy something to sr >w (,\u201e f\nself he really had it. But every t riel^1\nget all ready to get something, t en i\nshort.\n\"What's the matter?\" I'd a:\nsomething else you like better\njust along for the ride.\nUsually he'd just shake his I *ad di\nwalk away, but once he said, \" 1 ert,\nmoney cost me too much!\" Cra y,\nsaid.\nAbout five we headed over to he\nto eat. I wanted a beer or six afu rw<\nbut he didn't figure he could ge: in, so\nleft him to look around some more \\\nwas supposed to meet me abou> ten,\nwe could get back but, he nevi\nshowed. I musta had quite a party tk\nnight too \u2014 wish I could rememberit-\n'cause when he fished me outta thealle\nnext morning I was quite a sight. Igues\nI'd been in ago-round with someone,!\nmaybe a cougar, anyways they hadn\nbeen too gentle about it; I'd pukedo\nmyself too. He seemed right upset aboi\nit, for some reason, but what the hell\nDrink'Il do that to a man sometimes,el\nBut he gave me some real hard lool\nwhile he was drivin' us home, sort\nscared and confused \u2014 and disai\npointed, too. They scared me, thei\nlooks; and I never did get drunk agai\nthe rest of that summer.\nStill, by the bags under his eyes an\nthe marks on his neck I guessed he'\nfound someone to spend some of iii\nmoney on alright.\nNothin' really important happene\nthe rest of that summer. He'd kind\ntaken to hanging around me, weekend\nand the like, but we didn't go to tow\nmuch. Gus usually put us on weekem\nwatchman shift together, which i\npretty good money, and I didn't mindi\nmuch with Chris around. He was rea\npleased with Chris, too, Gus was; toll\nhim in front ofthe crew one day he was\n\"good man\" for sticking to that job\nThat was nice for him. Told me ontfii\nquiet, too, that if I wanted to showhin\nsome things about First Aid it'd be oka)\nwith him. Chris never did talk mud\nabout that first weekend in town; In\nfigured we each had something mead\nother about that. But he did manage l(\nspin some yarns on the bunkhou e step\nthat didn't sound too farfetched, am\nRoland didn't say a word.\nThose were nice weekends, hem\ntook him swimming a couple o\ntimes,down to the creek, whe;i it go\nreally hot. He read some of my books\nthe First Aid ones and some I hadn\nopened in years, and sometiirus we<\ntalk about them. He told me ab(#ti\nthings in Vancouver, which s undel| B\nabout the same as when I'd gr< wnuf; si\nthere, and I told him some lies al )Uttfe|, C m, iifeti\n\u00abj i He\nl^thoo\niij11 W\nle'ltlha\n-181' 0!\n\"--ay\niinny\nst ie\nId\ns\nit mills I'd been in, and about the\n>oke one day about goin' back to\ncome the Fall.\nat in the hell would you want to\nfor?\" I asked him.\nI don't know. Bert,\" he said, he\ncalled me Bert, for some reason.\nwhile he was there the rest of\n\u00bbk to using my name too \u2014 I\nlembered that.\n\u2022>n't know,\" he said. \"This place\nwhile.\n,;soka for a while, I guess.It's good,\n^lakm your own money and all, and\ne've :ot a pretty good foreman and a\neni crew. Right now, anyway.\"\n\u2022\\V. 've got the best goddamned\nloiem. n going!\" I told him.'\"Sides, if\n!oule..ve here, go back to school, you'll\nve start all over again when you come\nk. No sense in that.\"\nTeah, but don't you think, if a per-\nn stayed too long here, he might get so\nwouldn't want to leave. Couldn't you\nttoo scared to leave, Bert?\"\n'Horseshit!\" I was getting pissed off.\ncan leave any time I like, you know\nt. A good First Aid man is hard to get\nwadays! There's always work.\"\n'Sure, Bert, I know that. But, I\nan, couldn't you get, you know,\nck here? Couldn't you get too used to\ns place, so...stuck that you don't\nant to leave? A man could die here,\nrt!\"\n\"A man could die anywhere!\" I told\nm. \"Here's as good a place as any.\"\nnd I left to do rounds. I'd had enough\nk of that foolishness....\nI kept a pretty close eye on him after\nt, but August dragged on about the\nas July had, and he didn't talk of\nving again. When I think about it,\nknow, I guess I was kinda gettin' to\nike him by then. He was good company, he hadn't heard any of my stories\nbefore, and he liked to listen. He didn't\nknow a goddamned thing about anything, either, and I wound up teaching\nhim a lot, like about how the mill ran,\nnd about the bush too. Sometimes the\nmillwright would come in weekends,\ngenerally on Sunday, to fix the place up,\nand C 'iris liked to help him. too when he\ncould Like I said, he picked things up\nfast, ow don't laugh, but for a while\nt was really like havin' my own\n| kid c something. It was a good sum-\nJ'r\nt there\n'kidc\nmet\nTh\nffoutt\ntoed\nI that !\nGus j\ntold\nhe h,\nAr\nstart,\ntrour\nBy tl\nso qt\n! Chn\ngs went to hell on the twenty-\nof August. Chris'd been learning\n:, coffee breaks and at lunch, and\niday old Frank didn't show, and\na him on the edger for the shift. I\nm to be careful, goddamnit, but\nit all figured out....\nut quarter to four that whistle\n' to scream, and I knew we had\n.\\ I grabbed the oxygen and ran.\ntime I got there \u2014 i don't travel\n:kly any more \u2014 it was ail over.\nJ gone to the edger outfeed to\nclear it, and the stupid bastard had left it\nrunning. One ofthe chains had grabbed\nhis shirt and hauled him in. He'd been\nlucky, he'd slipped the thing off in time;\nhe got off with some lacerations and a\nbump on the head. I cleaned him up and\nsent him up to camp to lie down. He was\na little shocky, that's all.\nI didn't think too much more about it,\nexcept I dressed the cuts again and kept\na good eye on him 'til he sacked out. But\nhe woke me up the next morning wanting me to take him out to the highway.\n\"What the hell for?\" 5 wanted to\nknow. Stupid question.\n\"Bert,\" he said, \"I quit last night. I\ntold Gus after shift.\"\n\"Quit! Of all the stupid. ..what'd yago\nand do that for?\"\n\"I...\" he took a breath, \"I could've\ngotten killed last night, Bert. It was that\nclose. If I'd been a little slower getting\nout of that shirt, just a touch, that\nwould've been it.\"\n\"Sure, and you could get killed today\nif the bus goes off the road. Hell, you\ncould get killed waking me up this early.\" But he didn't laugh. \"You're not\nmaking any sense, man!\"\n\"Bert, this place is no good. Not for\nme, and not for you either.\" He walked\nto the window and looked out. \"See that\nmill out there? It doesn't care if it kills\nsomeone or not. It wouldn't even know.\nIt could have killed me yesterday; if I'd\nbeen a bit slower, say an old man who\ncan't move quick, I'd be dead. Dead,\nBert! And the mill's just the start of it.\nThe whole place is like that, the\nmachines, the Company....\" He was\nbreathing hard now, panting. His face\nwas white. Then he said, more quietly,\n\"And the men, too, Bert. They're like\nthat too. Oh, they're nice enough to\nwork with. I've enjoyed that, sure. But\nif I'd been killed yesterday, they\nwouldn't have cared. Not really. They'd\nhave felt bad, for a while, but they\nwouldn't have really, really cared. Not\ndown deep.\"\n\"I'd care,\" I said. Soft and quick.\nBefore I even thought.\n\"What?\" And then he was lookin' at\nme, that look, that same look from way\nback at the beginning, sharp and curious\nand confused. And it was like in the\nFirst Aid shack that day, when I slapped\nhim, y'know. If I could've said it\nagain....\n\"Nothin'.\"\nAfter a minute he said, quietly, \"I\nwant to go to a place where they'll care,\nBert. I want a place where they'll remember.\" He picked up his bag and\nmoved to the door. \"I'll catch a ride in\nwith someone, I guess. Get outta here,\nBert. Don't let it get you too.\"\nThat's what I hate about them goddamn kids, y'know. Think they know\neverythin'.... I don't know why the hell\nthey ever hire them. They're nothin\" but\ntrouble, o\n:* -Sir.-\n. \u2022 **.. - \\\n'' \u2022 * >\n- ' \/\n25 \u25a0. I\nJ\" \u25a0- J \u25a0 .'V\".\nEveryday our stamp collection grows a\nlittle here at the UBC Alumni Fund as letters\narrive from far-flung alumni. And we love\nit... it's developing into a brilliantly-colored\nmontage on the wall... But that isn't all\nwe like about our mail. We kind of like those\ndonations to the Alumni Fund best of\nall... So we hope you'll keep those\nbrightly-stamped letters rolling\nin ... Remember stamps aren't all we collect.\nin \u25a0\u25a0' i -.. p\nvn i. \"I'u -; \u2014\n\/:\u25a0.\u2022\u25a0\n.numni Fuird M\nNorman MacKenzie - Citizen of Canada,\nforn sea to sea. A campus ceremony, Sept.\n^honoring president emeritus, Dr. Norman\nUacKi nzie unveiled a portrait bust of\nDr. MacKenzie on the site ofthe Norman\nMacKi nzie Centre for Fine Arts.\nlAbov,. i Dr. MacKenzie gives his image a\nfinal it* pection a few days before the official\ndedici\nThh\ncastin\nculpture and a second identical\nwere commissioned by the alumni\nassoci lion from North Vancouver artist,\nlack I irman. The project was funded\nthrouj. the UBC Alumni Fund by a group\nof anc vinous alumni donors. The second\noust h been presented by the association\nlo Ha, ax's Dalhousie University and will\noe offi -ally dedicated there later this year.\nDr. M Kenzie did his undergraduate work\nwarts ind law at Dalhousie.\nThe !3C ceremony was presided over by\nchanc lor Donovan Miller and the bust was\nunveil, i by president emeritus Walter Gage,\naclost associate of Dr. MacKenzie's during\nthe MacKenzie presidency. Speakers during\nthe ceremony were UBC president Douglas\nKenny, a student at UBC during the\nMacKenzie years, Ronald Jeffels, principal\nof Okanagan Regional College, a former\nfaculty member and assistant to Dr.\nMacKenzie and Ben Trevino, a member of\nthe board of governors and a former Alma\nMater Society president while Dr.\nMacKenzie was president.\nA large group of friends and former\nstudents and colleagues attended an\ninformal luncheon at Cecil Green Park prior\nto the ceremony. James Denholme, alumni\nassociation president presented Dr.\nMacKenzie with a memenio ofthe occasion\n-a framed portrait of Dr. MacKenzie in his\npresidential academic robe.\nDr. MacKenzie came to UBC in 1944 and\nserved as its president for 18 years,\noverseeing the university's rapid enrolment\nexpansion after the Second World War and\nits physical development in the 1950s and\nearly '60s.\nVatteouwer Institute:\nA Heeling of Hinds\nThe Vancouver Institute, UBC's outstanding\ncampus lecture series opens the doors on its\n61 st season, promising to cover a wide range\nof scientific, political and cultural interests.\nThe season opens September 25 with the\nAmerican ambassador to Canada, Thomas\nEnders discussing our shared enviroment.\nOn succeeding Saturday evenings, until the\nfall series concludes December 4, the institute will hear Harry Hinsley, St. John's College, Cambridge, who'll look into the future\nofthe Common Market; Electrical engineer\nHarold Edgerton, MIT, speaking on the use\nof electrical instrumentation for underwater\ndiscovery. Edgerton, whose scientific developments have aided marine geology, underwater archeology and underwater petroleum and mineral exploration, spent the\nsummer seeking the elusive Lock Ness\nmonster; and South African member of parliament, a strong force in the Progressive\nReform party, Harry Schwarz, qn politics\nand social change in South Africa and the\nrole ofthe multinational corporations.\n\"What causes cancer?\" Thomas Ha!!, new\ndirector of the Cancer Control Agency of\nB.C. and professor of medicine discusses the\nemerging understanding of these causes; English lutenist, guitarist and singer, Martin\nlest, returns for a second visit, which promises to be as enjoyable as his first; Doris Anderson, editor of Chatelaine, examines\nCanadianism in periodicals, films and books;\ndistinguished Alberta appeal court jurist,\nW.G. Morrow, a veteran of many years in the\nNorthwest Territories, explains the law in\nthe north. Former Dominion Archivist and\nCPR steamship buff, Kaye Lamb, considers\nthe use and abuse that historians have made\nof MacKenzie King and his diaries. Students\nof Fine Arts 225 (now 125) will remember\nJanson's History of Art. Its author, H.W.\nJansoh, Institute of Fine Arts, New York\nUniversity, will be here in person to discuss\nthe role of chance in artistic creation. The\nfinal speaker ofthe season wil! be the former\nhead of the Science Council of Canada,\nRoger Gaudry of McGill University, speaking on science policy and the future of research in Canada.\nThe Schwarz lecture is this year's Dal\nGrauer Memorial Lecture. The visits of professors Edgerton, Hinsley and Janson and\nlutenist Best are made possible by the Cecil\nH. and Ida Green Visiting Professorship\nFund. The Green Fund wil! also be sponsoring a fall campus visit by the Purcell String\nQuartet, musicians-in-residence at Simon\nFraser University. The quartet will be giving\na concert and lecture demonstration in the\nmusic building, the date to be anounced.\nFor further information on any of these\nevents or a brochure outlining the fall institute program contact the UBC information\noffice, 2075 Wesbrook Place, Vancouver\nV6T 1W5, (228-3131). All the Institute lec-\n27 hires are free and begin at 8:15 p.r jn t^\ncampus Instructional Resources entre}*\nYou're invited. >\n-1 ? A' * \" \u2022, Vi-\\fi:\n.1 ' <'\n'->\/t*i, \u2022\u25a0'.. i^Ww-tr. 'l:--'\" *'1'^' \u2022tfX.Si'.'\\%C|^^f!,| T'\"., ;.w;\u00bbfi ''.yj\n1 < x '\u25a0 \u2022 * \u2022\".'- *v ; ;\u25a0 *' >' ', \" \u25a0 !'\u201e \u2022\u25a0\".,?rri47> ;'\"*j' *\u2022)\n1 .- \"' ; \u25a0- , ' *\u2022', \u25a0V.-V .'i?'*-';-\u00ab-Vf y\n. '' : \u25a0 ' ' i'1 \"' ''.'V. ' Vi*1')**.-\n\" . .--\u25a0-_ . i.--; -. -.\u25a0_!.-_ \"... = .<=\u25a0.-_ t-'-'\/.1 \u2022'%'\u00a7**'\/\n'i, -.'\u2022 \"^ \u25a0 \u25a0%\u25a0'* .n,\/\/*1*\ni i \u2022 ' \u25a0 r \u2022 . ' i. v;' - 'i {.*\"<%\u00ab*,,\n' W\n\"T-:\" \u25a0\u25a0,\u25a0'**3tO\nV r-*\" .. s* Al r-~ r\n\u25a0\u00bb.\u25a0.'. .- \u00ab- '\ny:h\n-< ';^i ri i,ri ''\/'\u25a0! .\u25a0.* f'v1'\u00ab'.-';-^.'.j,'f'\"r'<:i - '. .\n' i\ni B.Cl\n\u2022'ersitjj\ntelevil\n(in thi\nie Art!\n-hitecj\nincienl\n\u25a0J indel\nm\nUBC is about to launch a new era\neducation history \u2014 the first un\ncredit course to be given entirely o\nsion.\n\"Pyramids to Picasso\" is the titl\nuniversity calendar, it's known as I\n125), a study ofthe western world's;\nture, sculpture and painting from\nEgypt to the 20th century. The guici\npendent study course will be availa; ,e ovei\ncable stations in Vancouver, Ric moncl\nCampbell River and Vernon. There vUlbe4$\nhalf-hour television programs show i twici\nweekly. To get your three credits you have to!\ncomplete 10 written assignments. And\nyou've got a query you can call up Marc!\nPessin, the instructor\/host ofthe series\nCredit students must be eligible for admis-l\nsion to UBC or apply to their own institution!\nfor transfer credit. Non-credit students\nnot need to apply for admission to UBC or\nthe assignments and may register for the cost\nofthe materials alone. The course fee i s $ 1\nUBC's standard undergraduate course fee\nThe manual and texts are extra ($35), as always. But, you can watch your TV for\nexcept of course for that cablevision charge\nThe whole concept of this venture is an\nexciting one. If you couldn't fit a fine arts\ncourse into your undergraduate days or\nyou're just curious about the gothic arch, the\nGrecian urn or how Peit Mondrian painted\nthose straight lines this is your chance to\nout. UBC's Centre for Continuing Education\nis waiting to hear from you, 2075 Wesbrook\nPlace, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5\n604\/228-3313 .\nCreative Writing\n3s Rewarding\nA record number of entries were received for\nthe 1976 edition of the Chronicle Creative\nWriting Contest.\nThe volunteer panel of judges, UBC assistant professor of English, Dr. Herb Rosen\ngarten; Trevor Lautens, a Vancouver Sun.\nwriter and N.E. Omelusik, head ofthe UBG\nlibrary's reading rooms division, pains\ntakingly worked their way through ihe 58\nentries \u2014 a combination of short stores and\npoems \u2014 and came up with four wini\nThe awards, which were madeposs hie by\na grant from the UBC Alumni Fund were\npresented to the winners by Roland I errot\nhead of the alumni fund committee, . a reception held for all the contestants it the\nfaculty club.\nFirst prize of $ 150 went to Richard V iner\na graduate student in creative writing >r his\nshort story \"The Judgement of Fan\nSecond prize of $125 was awarded to Kico\nGonzalez, a fourth year student in ci ative\nwriting for his story \"The Accident.\" Third\nyear science student, William Calver won\nthird prize of $75 for \"The Band-aid M; i.\nshort story. The fourth prize of $50 w- it to\nJeffrey Schaire, a graduate student in rea-\ntive writing, for his collection of p< ws\n\"Sunday Morning Words.\" Slt){\nevij\nth,\n\\nl\ntec-\nentl\n:de.\nveij\nnd,\n'4!\nice\n1\nlrcl\nid IP\n,at tt ichers are at the heart of every\n;;|Ui|sii . UBC's way of honoring these in-\nulual' who contribute so much to a stu-\n, k irning experience is to designate\nfl\"fy .ister Teachers.\"\npresid nt emeritus, Walter Gage was the\nit to re :eive the award, established in 1969\nDr. Valter Koerner to recognize out-\niding teachers of UBC undergraduates.\nis yet \u2022 Ralph Loffmark, commerce and\nisiness administration and Geoffrey Scud-\n\u25a0r, zoology, shared the honor and the\naward that goes along with it.\nNominations are now open for the 1976-77\nister teacher awards and alumni are urged\nforward their recommendations to the\njnmittee, headed by Dr. Ruth White,\nrench department, UBC, 2075 Wesbrook\n.Vancouver B.C. V6T 1W5. Nominate should be sent as soon as possible and\nj later than November 12, 1976.\nIn submitting a nomination that evaluates\nmi candidate you are asked to consider the\nJlowing criteria: he or she has a com-\nrehensive knowledge of the subject; is\nibitually well prepared for class; has en-\niiisiasm for the subject and arouses interest\nit among the students; establishes good\npport with the students; encourages stunt participation in class; sets a high stan-\n,ird and motivates students to reach it them-\nIves; communicates effectively at a level\njppropriate to the student's background; in\n(valuation lays stress on an understanding of\nie subject rather than on simple memoriza-\n; and is accessible to students outside\nhours.\nTo be eligible for consideration, a nominee\nmst have been a fullthne faculty member for\nI least three years, teaching during this time\nirdergraduate courses in the winter session.\nlie individual must also be teaching one un-\nlergraduate course in the 1976-77 winter ses-\nto set a gentleman apart.\nThe colour is San Vito Tile,\na rusty, masculine shade.\n'Quartet', a casual\nbusiness suit with\ncoordinating trousers\nand vest. Easily\naccessorized into\na basic wardrobe.\niisiiiii^ssiiis\n\u00ab rjQWttrci\n' Wardrobe for gentlemen'\n833 W. Pender St., Vaneouwer\n685-6207\nOakridge \u2022 The Bayshore \u2022 Hote! Georgia\ny > \\i*X\nfclebrates 50 Years\ni-'-\nI We hac a marvellous time. The best reunion\n\u00bbe've e er had.\" That was one description\nPfllieCUssof'26Golden Anniversary Reunion held early in August.\nA ret )rd number of class members attended te reunion which included a faculty\ndin ter, August 6, followed the next day\nP> an af ernoon parly at the home of Lenora\npin 0 turn. A highlight ofthe dinner was a\nfecial ake baked and decorated by Mrs.\nMiarr, Chalmers. It came complete with\n'aterfa . and was large enough for everyone\n\"'the [>) guests to sample. The afterdinner\nformalis es were kept to a minimum by mas-\n\u00b0f <\u25a0 Temonies, Mr. justice David Ver-\n;nere, .-ho introduced special guest, dean\njKmeriti;., Fred Soward. Professor emeritus\nI of horti ulture Aiden F. Barss, now 86, sent\n29 along his greetings in the form of\nBarss humorosity,\" a piece of hi\ndoggerel verse.\nOne item of business still before\nexecutive is the question of a class j,\nhave already received several dor-\nresponse to their original questios\nclassmates, \"Do you want to have e\nproject?\" Send your opinions am\ndons on this topic to Bert Wales, 3->65\n24th Ave., Vancouver, B.C., V6L -R7\nSaturday, November 6 will be the :)ig\nfor the Class of '31 \u2014 its 45th ann\nThe reunion committee, headed >y ja(\nStreight, has planned a reception a- d dinm\nat the faculty club and they are exp,-.ctingii\nto 200 alumni and guests to atten! Othi\nreunion plans are still being made, '\"hecon\nmittee say's that \"it is open to offers\nyou've got one to make, contact one of tl\nmembers: Alec Fisher, Jean Telford Nichol\nMarion Crowe Henderson, Nick Mussalle\nor Jack Streight.\nPlans for the other segments of Reumo\nDays '76 are proceeding apace. October2\nwill see dinner dances at the Commodore f<\nthe Classes of '41, '46 and '51 and on th\ncampus for the Classes of '56, '61 and '6(\nDuring the afternoon there's open house\nCecil Green Park for alumni and the\nfamilies. Campus bus tours have been a\nranged. Individual classes are arrangin\nother activities for the weekend as well\nWeHawethellusie\nTo Make You Dance\nIf you'd like to dance and it's not yoi\nreunion year, do not despair. There's soitn\nthing new on the alumni program (actually\nrevival of an old tradition) \u2014 an Alumt\nDance. You're invited to dance and sup\nfine style at the Vancouver Airport Hy;\nHouse, Saturday, October 2 from 9 pm to\nam.The tickets, $7.50\/person include thelat\nnight supper. The mood's informal and so\nthe dress. For tickets call the alumni offic\n228-3313.\nThis Sporting Life\nFor reunion sports buffs...golf tourna\nments, for men and women, are schedule\nfor Friday, October l....The second annm\nalumni hockey game faces off, October 30\nthe Winter Sports Centre. There are twi\nevents, alumni vs. alumni game at 7 pm ai\nalumni vs. the '76 Thunderbirds game at 8:\npm. Choose your game and sign up with Rid\nNoonen, 277-2800 or Steve Fera, 876\n5407....For basketball types there is the\nnual grad game, October 29, 8:30 p;n atthi\nMemorial Gym... .For further information or\nany ofthe reunion events contact the alumn\noffice 6251 Cecil Green Park RoaJ, Van\ncouver, V6T 1X8,228-3313.\nHisceliany\n30\nAsorted events of specific intere\nnursing alumni a tour of the new mi'\nanthropology is planned for their\nmeeting, Tuesday, October 5, 7 pm\nGreen Park. For information ca\nRobinson, 689-7062...The YAC\ngathering at the Green. The Yowmg\nClub opens a new season of social, ^\nt...Fo\neunio\nannua\ntCeci\nR\n;rd\ni If\n*uJ\n0d, 996-5357, is looking for his old\n;BC b-;er stein...A Sunday brunch is on the\nior Toronto alumni October 31. More\ns to be arranged and announced....A\n_. barbeque at John Haar's ranch, Spruce\nive. October 2, for Edmonton alumni. De-\nfivm Kay Puil, 425-8810.\n\\iarly ^00 senior citizens attended the UBC\nmnmer session this year, taking credit\ncourses and special interest sessions. An\ntiumni fund allocation of $3,000 allowed\nuveral senior scholars to attend from\noutside the Lower Mainland by providing\nbursaries for campus residence accommodation. (Right, above) Cecil Green Park\nnlcomed 200 seniors for tea, which these\nladies seem to be enjoying. (Below) UBC\nuce-president for administrative services,\nChuck Connaghan (left), got some advice\non running the City of UBC from former\nhncouver mayor Tom Alsbury (back to\nlaimera).\n. .\u00ab* 'if\n1 *?* y .x \u2022\u25a0-\nCLUE MEDTIERRANEE\nTAHITI.\nA WACAH0N IN THE SUN\nTHAT WONT LEA\u00a5E YOU IN\nTHE RED. larch 5 -19,1977\nAfter you pay* for your Polynesian style bungalow and 3\nmeals a day at Club Mediterranee, Tahiti, here's what you\nget free.\nAll you can eat at every meal, all the wine you can drink\nat lunch and supper, free tennis, free scuba diving, free\ndeep sea fishing, free snorkeling, free water skiing, free\nycga, free picnics, free boat rides and free nightly live\nenertainment.\nAt Club Mediterranee in Tahiti, it's easy to have a carefree\nvr nation. Because everything you could possibly want to do\nor a vacation is free.\n(*Here's what you pay... $1,075, includes air fare, taxes,\nC' ib Med membership, accommodation \u2014 one night in\nL; -s Angeles on return flight \u2014 and meals.)\nli3C\/1lumni 1^ you'd Sike to know more,\nT|'3y&l cal1 us at 604\/228-3313.\n;-. ft\nThis Christmas travel the Amazon, climb the\nMatterhorn, dive beneath the waves and sit\non a sunny beach.\nDisneyland and San Diego\nA special alumni tour leaves Vancouver\nDecember 24 for Los Angeles, Disneyland\nand San Diego, returning January 3. The\ncost, which includes airfare, deluxe\naccommodation, transfers, baggage handling\nand a Disneyland admission booklet, is:\n\u2022 per adult sharing twin accommodation $432\n\u2022 per child under 12 sharing with 2 adults $171\n\u2022 per child not sharing $361\nFor further information contact the alumni\nassociation, 228-3313. Go\u2014you'll love it. The\nkids will have fun too.\nUBC\/iufnni\nIrat\/ei\n31 K\nmi\nOne of UBC's original Trekkers, Constance\nPeter Adams, BA'23, made a trek to visit the\nalumni office early in July. She was in Vancouver on holiday from her home in Canterbury, England.... There's a new honor for\nRobert H. Wright, BA'28, MSC'30 (PhD.\nMcGill). He has been named to give the R.S.\nJane Memorial Lecture at the Canadian\nchemical engineering conference in Toronto\nin October. Now retired. Wright is internationally known for his work with the B.C.\nResearch Council studying insect olfaction.\nFrom another branch of the Wright family\ncomes news of authorship. Son, Leslie\nWright, BA'54. MA'65 (PhD. Toronto), associate professor of psychology at U.Vic has\njust published his first book. Understanding\nStatistics, An Informal Introduction for the\nBehaviorial Sciences. Written with \"concepts clearly and simply defined\", using visual imagery to introduce, explain and illustrate and the minimal use of arithmetic and\nalgebra and lots of humor (the cartoons are\nreally funny), the book is bound to be a winner.\nWilliam H. Birmingham. BA'33, (BArch,\nToronto) must have a blueprint for success.\nHe was named a fellow of the Royal Architectural College in June, 1975. His son\nCarl Laird Birmingham, MD'75, who won\nthe Horner prize and silver medal for the\nhighest assigned standing in the four year\nmedical course is now on staff at St. Paul's\nHospital, Vancouver.... William Arthur\nSchultz, BCom'33, BA'34, has become a\nmember \"of the Supreme Court Bench. A\nformer production manager for MUSSOC,\nhe has a strong baritone voice \u2014 which may\nhave served him in encouraging criminals to\n'sing'.... After establishing a school of public\nadministration at the University of Victoria\ntwo years ago, G. Neil Perry, BA'33, (MA,\nMPA, PhD, Harvard), LLD'66, hands over\nthe reins July 1, 1977 to economist Alan\nDobell, BA'59, MA'61, who will take over as\ndirector of the school. He is currently on\nleave from Queen's University serving as\ndeputy secretary lo the federal treasury\nboard.... Continuing strong, for how could\nhe do otherwise, Gordon Strong, BCom'33,\nBA'34, (MBA, Northwestern), (LLB, Toledo) was elected to the board of the Associated Press for a second three-year term.\nStrong chairs the board of Thomson Newspapers in the U.S.\nAlways a step or two ahead, former athletic star, amateur magician, and physical education teacher. David P. Todd, BA'34,\nBEd'48, is retiring a few years early as\nsuperintendent of school district 57 in Prince\nGeorge, B.C. He and wife, Ruth Hutchinson\nTodd, BA'42. are moving to their summer\nhome in Lac la Hache.... Three new fellows\nof the Royal Society of Canada are professors currently on faculty: Philip Akrigg,\n32\nAristides Pasparakis\nAristides Pasparakis is a scientist by\ntraining, but also a restauranteur extraordinaire \u2014 Orestes is his first and best-\nknown creation. And you don't learn to\ncook in a lab.\nSince he was five years old, Aristides\nhas inhaled the atmosphere of a restaurant. \"It was a familiar space. Living quarters were in the rear and you couldn't\nreally separate restaurant from home.\nYou'd just go in back to sleep.\"\nFrom a family-run restaurant in South\nAfrica, established reluctantly by his\nfather, a retired officer of the Greek Air\nForce, to Vancouver's Orestes, Pas-\nparos, Souvlaki, created with flair, enthusiasm, \"and guts,\" it has been a long\nand curious path for the 34 year-old Pasparakis.\nThere was a stint at Athens University\nbecause of an interest in law and politics.\n\"But Greece was too physical a place to\nstudy latin in the summer.\" That, and\nthe over-supply of lawyers in Greece,\nprompted a return to South Africa and a\nshift to engineering and then metallurgy\nat the University of Pretoria. This in turn\nled to a master's degree in ceramics\ntechnology at Sheffield University in\nEngland, where he met Josephine whose\nFrench-Canadian origins suggested a\nlook at Canada for further graduate work.\nFrom Josephine too, he was learning to\nlook, \"learning visual appreciation,\" a\nnew dimension.\nThe period of study at UBC earned him\na doctorate in metallurgy in 1972 and also\nsaw a rekindling of his interest in cooking\nfor the public. In 1970 Aristides arranged\na memorable Greek feast at UBC which\nled to other banquets. In his final year,\nafter he completed his thesis, Aristides\ntook over the kitchen at International\nHouse. With characteristic energy, he\nserved a different ethnic meal every day.\nGraduation presented Aristides with a\nnumber of tempting projects: to live in\nI Crete and write books about Greece or to\nI consider the uses of ceramics, metals and\nplastics in the fine arts through a Canada\nCouncil project. Before he could devote\nhimself to either or both of these however, he felt he needed a financial base.\nHe decided to take out five years to build\none. With Blaine Culling, a friend from\nUBC's theatre department, Aristides\nopened a restaurant on West Broadway.\nThe boy who quickly acquired independence and facility of rapport in a\nschool career that spanned 13 different\nsites became a man who knows how to get\nalong in the world, with not only savoir\nfaire but savoir vivre. The vitality and\nintensity which strongly mark his style\nmake it impossible for Aristides to treat\nhis creation as a mere money-maker, a\nmeans to an end. \"You'd have to be mad\nto do it for the money. It is a total involvement, your whole life 24 hours a\nday, 7 days a week. It is inescapable.\"\nOften the creations of the artist\/\ncraftsman provide scope for only partial\nself-expression. Aristides believes a restaurant should embrace a totality, \"actualize fantasies that have been with\n(him) a long time.\" He involves himself in\ndecor and design, in broad concepts and\nin detail \u2014 \"Nothing is left to chance, it is\nincredibly satisfying.\"\nHis restaurants are very personal\nstatements \"coming from my gut, from\nwhat my little five-year-old mind\nthought.\" Unique, not typical. He\ndoesn't call his restaurant Greek. Orestes\nis not a bit of Greece transplanted \u2014 it is\na bit of Aristides.\nThe limitations of even his fantasy are\nappreciated. Aristides enjoys the opportunity to create new spaces such as bis\nnew restaurants in Calgary and Vancouver because othewise, he feels, \\.s\nwould be bored. He still thinks he'll stii k\nto his intention of getting out after fie\nyears. As with everything else, he'll wt.it\nto sense the right moment to start something new. To ignore that feeling is to ri: <\n\"beginning to feel your mind atroph\ning.\"\n\"You can't think shishkabob all day.\n- Eleanor Wacht< '\nJ J\nway to\n6MM\nlong British Columbia's fabled Inside Passage.\nljoy fine food and stateroom accommodation on the \"Queen of Prince\niperf\" while you sail 330 miles past some of the most spectacular scenery on\nrth. Soaring peaks, glaciers, waterfalls and forest-clad islets.\nsari ;-nforgettable experience, but, believe it or not, getting there is only\nJf the fun.\nom Pince Rupert you can proceed on to Alaska. Or having brought your\nor < :imper you can drive British Columbia's fabulous Totem Circle route,\nv\u00abJ rn *s to Vancouver.\nwil \u25a0 e how great the great outdoors can be as you wind your way through\ncapped coast mountains to the vast rolling rangeland, long deep\nnding valleys and rugged mountains of the Cariboo.\nSkeena Indian Villages, visit the goldrush town of Barkerville, take\nji a ro< 'o or enjoy some great fishing.\njJoard e \"Queen of Prince Rupert\" at Kelsey Bay on Vancouver Island,\npesen -e operates year 'round, or reverse the trip by driving from\nVancoi er to Prince Rupert. Either way you'll get away to the most\nBhilai\nisng vacation of your life.\nLet us send you a colourful \"Totem Circle Tour\"\nkit. Write to\nBRITISH COLOMBIA. ;\nFERRIES ^a\n1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, British Columbia\nCanada, V6Z 1P6\nName _. .. - - \t\nAddress -.\t\nM.V. \"Queen of Prince Rupert\" registered\nin Canada, operated by the\nDepartment of Transport and Communications\nIndependent or escorted tours by Bus and Ferry are available through your travel agent. [\n\u25a0J L\nI ''_!.\n.;-\u2022 t i i - .-\nthe magic of\nThe Harrison.\nJust east of Vancouver, there's a\nresort that offers a rare blend of\nnatural charm and sparkling personality. A distinguished resort of 285\nrooms, where you can enjoy sumptuous cuisine, nightly dancing and\nentertainment, swimming in heated\npools, golf, tennis, riding, boating,\nwater-skiing. A resort that's perfectly attuned to its magnificent\nsetting.And ideally suited for relaxing and memorable holidays. The\nresort is called The Harrison .. . and\nit's ready now to bring a little magic\ninto your life. For our color brochure,\nwrite: Claus Ritter, General Manager, The Harrison, Harrison Hot\nSprings, British Columbia, Canada.\nTHE HARBISON\n\"~~ Like\n\u25a0 ' i l'40, (PhD, Calif.), with the de-\n, l f English for 35 years; John HeS-\n1 m'59, (MA, DPhil, Oxford), de-\nv.i 1 . \u25a0\" * 'economics, widely known for his\n\u00bb i ne fields of international finance,\ni\" d resource economics; and Beryl\n'42, MSA'62, professor of poultry\n-'.\u2022.: lho began her research career in\n\u25a0 '*. \u25a0, \u25a0 rition and physiology at UBC in\n' >- . .search assistant in the department\ni ! ii science.... Retiring from a plum\n\u25a0 . w \u25a0> the B.C. department of agricul-\n\u25a0 . s zt horticulturalist Maurice Trum-\n* '37, MSA'40, was honored for 30\nv i. < i \\ ice, marked by \"accuracy and\n\u25a0 v <_ kss\" in his work with fruit growing\nana plant tissue analysis.\nRendina Hossie Hamilton\n: \\<\\\nRepresented in the West by\nTetley Co.\n34\nMilford S. (Muff) Lougheed, BASc'40,\n(MA, PhD, Princeton) professor and former\nhead ofthe department of geology, Bowling\nGreen State University in Ohio, is Turner\nDistinguished Lecturer this fall at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.... After\nbeing made an honorary alumnus in 1975, J.\nLewis Robinson, Arts '40, (BA, West. Ont.),\n(MA, Syracuse), (PhD, Clark), head ofthe\nUBC geography department for 22 years, has\ncontinued to net awards. He will be the fifth\nrecipient of the highest award of the Canadian Association of Geographers: for Service\nto the Profession of Geography. He was also\none ofthe runners-up last spring ofthe \"UBC\nMaster Teacher\" award.... Urban geographer Donald Kerr, BA'41, (PhD, Calif.),\nhas become associate dean for social sciences in the school of graduate studies at the\nUniversity of Toronto, where he has been\nteaching for the last 30 years. He headed the\nU of T geography department from 1967 to\n1973 and is a past president ofthe Canadian\nAssociation of Geographers.\nHarold M. Tapay, BASc'46, (MA, Wash.),\nwas recently honored by the University of\nSanta Clara, California, for his 25 years'\nteaching in civil engineering.... After 29\nyears with the company, John D. Allan,\nBASc'47, has no need to steel himself for the\nrigors of his new appointment: president of\nStelco.... George L. Calver, BASc'48, has\nbeen appointed associate director of Alberta\nAgriculture's farm development division....\nUniversity of Alberta nuclear physicist J.T.\n(Jack) Sample, BA'48, MA'50, PhD'55, is the\nnew director of the TRIUMF nuclear research center at UBC. Long involved with\nTRIUMF7 as associate director and re\nsearcher he still hopes to take part m som j '\nscientific work but concedes that ore exper' M.\niment a year will likely be all.\nWhen the head ofthe Association of Pro MI\nfessional Engineers of B.C., Raymonds MI\nCunliffe, BASc'49, conducted inductioi the\nceremonies for new engineers being admittei pili\nto the profession, one of the members hi As\ncongratulated was his own son Harold Cun\nliffe, MASc'73, a sixth generation engineerii inc\nthe Cunliffe family.... Retirement three yean\nago did not mean a quiet life for William B\nHemmingsen, BCom'49, who recently re\nturned from a six-month volunteer assign\nment in Malaysia where his 40 years' experi\nence in the forest products business wai\nmade available to the Malaysian Timber In\ndustry Board. His assignment was arrange!\nthrough Canadian Executive Service Over\nseas, and \"the project certainly representei\na challenge\".... UBC's Summer Session di\nrector, Norman Watt, BPE'49, (MS, EdD\nOregon), now heads a new Office of Extra\nSessional Studies which has been created ti\ncoordinate the administration of all part-timi\ndegree programs.... Ronald J. Webster\nBCom'49, would like to improve communi\ncations with the public and with members ol\nthe Vancouver Stock Exchange whose boan\nof governors he heads. A pioneering effort\nwas made when a public \"seminar\" washek\nand investors' opinions were sought prior to\npolicy decisions being made by the VSE\nSam Dixon, BA'50, a director of Wadham\nPublications Ltd. has been promoted to\nexecutive vice-president. He is editor and\npublisher of Jobber News.... Vancouver'\nnewest television station \u2014 CKV; J \u2014 's\nmaking its debut this month, brough. to you\nby Daryl Duke, BA'50, one ofthe c< untiy's\nmost successful television and moue\nproducer\/directors, who is the static; 's president.... James D. Helmcken, LLB' 0, who\nhas been active on both the Nanai no and\nVancouver Christmas Seal Commit; :es has\nbeen named an honorary life membi ofthe\nCanadian Tuberculosis and Respirat ry Disease Association.... Sent by Stanf. id W'\nsearch Institute to Saudi Arabia last year to\nedit that country's national devei pme\"1\nplan, Shirley P. Manning, BA'50, fo -nd the\ncapital city, Riyadh considerably mi e hectic than it had been on her first assi \u25a0nmenl\nthere in 1968. By contrast, she is no1- livin?\nhappily aboard a houseboat in San .-.afael.\nCalifornia, where she has accepted i ne\u00ab ur Pearson\nposition with Systems Applications, Inc....\n\"\" \" ig Simon Fraser University's board of\nors is Eaymomi Parkinson, BA'50,\ni'54, psychiatrist and former Vancouver\n. He should have no trouble hanging in\nin any turbulence. He's a hang glider\npilot and president ofthe Vancouver Soaring\nAssociation.\nAn engineer with experience in the fields of\nindustrial development and financial management, Donald A. Duguid, BASc'51, is\nnow director and president of the British\nColumbia Development Corporation.... A\nUnited Church minister, Newton C. Steacy,\nBA'52, (BTH, Union Theological College),\nis working in the federal civil service as a\nsocial scientist. Recently promoted to head\nthe social policy desk in the federal provincial relations office ofthe Privy Council, he\nhas been reunited with former classmate and\nfraternity brother, and Rhodes scholar,\nR. Midwinter, BA'51, (MA, Oxford),\nwho is also on the Privy Council staff.\nReaping the $1,000 Jacob Biely Faculty\nResearch Prize for 1976, Colin W. Clark,\nBA'53, (PhD, Wash.), a professor of\nmathematics, has been applying mathematics to environmental problems. His forthcoming book, Mathematical Bio-economics,\ndeals with harvest policies as they relate to\nrenewable natural resources.... Ralph Krefa,\nBASc'53, (MSc, Queens), (PhD, Chicago),\nwas awarded the Mineralogica! Association\nof Canada's 1976 Hawley Award for a paper\non crystallization of garnet. A member ofthe\nfaculty at the University of Ottawa he is currently on sabbatical at the University of\nMexico....erratum: Will the real? We goofed\nour photo captions last issue and mislabelled\nDavid L. Mclnnes, BSF'53, chief executive\noffice! of Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd., and\nGary K. Mullins, BA'64, MA'70, assistant\ncomrr\"ssioner of the Northwest Territories.\n-~nu >ra culpa.\nWimer of four Etrog awards for his\nCBC- V drama \"A Bird in the House,\"\nIng, BA'54, is now involved in a first\nfor thi Canadian film industry in Saskatchewan. : ;e is directing W.O. Mitchell's \"Who\nHas S en the Wind,\" a feature for the first\ntime f ,.rtly financed by a provincial government, G. Douglas Killam, BA'55, (PhD,\nLondi \u25a0), moves up from head of English to\nthe faculty of arts at Acadia Universi-\n'enticton school trustee and lawyer,\na Hossie Hamilton, (BA, Toronto),\n\\ has been elected 1976-77 president\not the d.C. School Trustees Association....\nAfter i -.Frying out geological assignments in\nAustr Ha, England, Africa, Korea and\ndean <,\nty....\nRends-\nLLB';\nTaiwan for Gulf Oil Corporation, \"and losing\nconsiderable hair in the process,\" Carl\nTrygve Carlsen, BA'57, has recently been\ntransferred to Tokyo, Japan as subsurface\ngeological supervisor for the North Asian\noperations of Gulf Oil.... J.F. Gerald Hodge,\nBA'57, (MCP, California), (PhD, MIT), is\ncurrently on the faculty at Queen's University.... Recently installed as president ofthe\nCanadian Pharmaceutical Association is\nTrevor M. Watson, BSP'57.\nBook reviewer and radio broadcaster in\nThunder Bay, Ontario, Patricia Westwood\nBarelay-Estrup, BA'58, has just had her first\nnovel published. It's a Pocket Book from\nSimon and Schuster called Buy Canadian.\nLight entertaining fiction \"it's meant to be a\npopular novel, not the Great Canadian\nNovel\".... \"I consider myself a Yukoner\"\nsaid Arthur MacDonald Pearson, BSc'58,\nMSc'60, (PhD, Helsinki), which is a good\nthing to be, especially if one is commissioner\nof the Yukon Territory. Pearson took over\nhis new post July 1 after resigning as head of a\nCanadian Wildlife Service research project\nin Edmonton. He spent 11 years in\nWhitehorse with the CWS before moving to\nEdmonton in 1971.... Provincial court judge\nKenneth F. Arkell, LLB'59, has become\ncounty court judge of Yale.\nAfter nine years as manager of Inland\nChemical Co., Prince George, Moss Craigie,\nBASc'60, is now product manager operations, industrial chemicals division, Canadian Industries Limited, Montreal.... Joining\nthe Western Forest Products Laboratory of\nEnvironment Canada's Forestry Service are\nchemists Garrick Styam, BSc'62, PhD'65,\nand Robert G. Sexsmith, BASc'61, (PhD,\nStanford), who is returning to the Vancouver\narea after an absence of eleven years. He was\nmost recently associate professor of structural engineering at Cornell University.\nStyan was formerly on the research staff of\nMacMillan Bloedel.... Checking out his\nhome ground is how Terence Hirst, BASc'62,\nMASc'66, (PhD, Berkley), is spending his\nacademic leave of absence from Lehigh University where he is associate professor of\ncivil engineering. He will be a consultant in\nsoil mechanics and foundation engineering\nwith a Vancouver geotechnical firm.... The\nnew position of Northwest industrial relations manager, ITT Rayonier Inc. goes to\nEric Y. Mitterndorfer, BCom'62, previously\nwith their Canadian operations.\nJoan Chard, BA'63, (MA, Dalhousie),\n(MA, Union Theological Seminary), has\nbeen awarded the $7,000 Queen Elizabeth II\nB.C. Centennial scholarship. She is the first\nwoman to receive the scholarship which is\nawarded annually to a B.C. university\ngraduate continuing studies in the United\nKingdom.... After six years as director ofthe\nB.C. Legal Aid Society, Frank Maczko,\nLLB'63, is going back to the classroom to\nteach family law at UBC. \"By laying down\nthe law to future lawyers I can make them\naware of what's already on the books, and\nwhat needs improving. I can broaden the\nbase.\" His close experience with the problems of the poor prompted the observation\nthat what really needs to be changed are attitudes.... Norma Mickelson, BEd'63, (MA,\nVictoria), (PhD, Washington), who has just\nbecome the University of Victoria's first\nThunderbird\nPlay-by-play\nFall 76\nFootball\nAll home games start at 2 pm, Thunderbird\nStadium\nSept. 18 Manitoba at UBC\n24 UBC at Calgary\nOct. 2 UBC at West. Wash. State\nCollege\n9 Saskatchewan at UBC\n16 UBC at Alberta\n23 UBC at Manitoba\n30 Calgary at UBC\nNov. 6 Playoffs (location, TBA)\n13 Central Bowl (away)\n20 Canadian College Bowl\n(away)\nSs\u00a9 Hockey\nAll home games start 8 pm, UBC Winter Sports\nCentre.\nOct. 30 Alumni game at UBC\n(see reunion news)\nNov. 5-6 UBC at Saskatchewan\n12-13 Calgary at UBC\n19-20 Saskatchewan at UBC\n26-27 UBC at Alberta\nBasketball\nAll home games start at 8:30 pm, War Memorial\nGym\nOct. 29 Grad Reunion game at UBC\n30 Dogwood at UBC\nNov. 5-6 Dogwood at UBC\n12-13 UBC at Calgary\n19-20 Saskatchewan at UBC\n26-27 Lethbridge at UBC\nDec. 3 Dogwood at UBC\n18-19 UVic tournament\n29-30 Pacific Univ. at UBC\nFor tickets and further information on the above\nevents or on any UBC athletic events contact\nthe athletics office, 228-2295 (women) or 228-\n2531 (men), (it is suggested that you inquire\nlocally for location and time of \"away\" games )\n35 woman dean is believed to be the only\nwoman io head an education faculty at a\nCanadian university David C. Pegg,\nBCom'63. secretary and treasurer of Wes-\ncorp Industries Ltd., has been re-elected for\na second term to head Vancouver's Family\nService Centers, the largest social service\norganization in the United Way group of\nagencies.\nWhile Vancouver Province editor Robert\nMcConnell, BA'64, (MA, Chicago), is moving into the spot of executive assistant to the\npublisher of the Montreal Gazette, a onetime Province news editor, Geoffrey T.\nMolyneux, BA'63, (MA, Toronto), returns to\nedit the editorial page. Molyneux's 13-year\nabsence from the newspaper field was spent\nin academic and government research\nposts.... What do you want to be when you\ngrow up? A life career planning workshop\nwas lead recently in Nanaimo, B.C. by Mobio\nDyke, BA'64, (MBA, Simon Fraser), aimed\nat al! professional business people who were\nencouraged to reflect on where they are now\nin their life and work, and where they'd like\nto be.... Allyne Knox, BA'64, is currently\ncoordinator of community and regional services at Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta.... After leaving the business world to\nreturn to school, Robert B. Mackay,\nBCom'64, recently graduated from the University of Alberta law school. With his wife,\nGail Carlson Mackay, BA'63, and two children, he is returning to Vancouver.... It's\nbeen a very good year for John Bremmer,\nBSA'65, who has been promoted to B.C.\ngeneral manager for Andres Wines.... Last\nMay, Roald G. Thomas, BA'65, formed his\nown advertising and marketing consultant\nagency, West-Can Communications Ltd.,\nwith offices in Vancouver and Calgary....\nAfter Sydney, Australia and travelling\naround the world for two years, David Patrick Willis, BCom'65, has settled in the\nOkanagan with his wife and three children.\nHe is a partner in a Vernon chartered accounting firm.\nIt was the alertness of Philip B. Lind,\nBA'66, who called police to report a prowler\nat his next-door neighbor's house that enabled constables to surprise an armed man\nattempting to kidnap Signy Eaton, the young\ndaughter of the head of Eaton's of Canada in\nToronto last June.... Well-travelled James\nSotvedt, BA'66, is acclimatizing himself to\nlife in Ottawa with trade and commerce's\ndefense programs branch after serving as\nconsul and trade commissioner in Zambia for\ntwo years, and previously with the Canadian\nconsulate in the U.S. and Guatemala....\nFormer dairy bacteriologist, William G.\nStyles, BSc'66, MSc'73, is now leading a different flock and he and his wife, Gerry Gray\nStyles, BSc'66, are greatly enjoying the radical change of lifestyle. They left the labs at\nUBC for the Baptist ministry in 1974. At\npresent they tend a \"warm and loving congregation of 100 people at First Baptist\nFormer UBC hockey 'Bird, Dot\nBuchanan, BSc'74, is now with Sei\nways, in the six-team Japan Hockey\nNorma Mickelson\nChurch, Flin Flon, Manitoba.... A Langley\nschool district reading consultant, Benno W.\nToews, BA'66, has been appointed principal\nof a new elementary school in Mission,\nB.C.... Many of his poems relate to work,\nand Tom Wayman, BA'66, (MFA, Californi-\na), poet-in-residence at the University of\nWindsor, has had his own work honored by\nMichigan State University. He was presented with the Smith Prize for distinguished\nachievement in Canadian poetry \u2014\nKootenaiana is a new disease spotted by\nRonald J. Welwood, BA'66, BLS'67, who has\nedited a bibliography, ofthe same name, of a\nvast variety of materials relating to the\nKootenay area of B.C., offering relief and\ninterest to ail sufferers and aficionados....\nHong Kong seems \"positively tranquil\" to\nHugh L. Stephens, BA'67, (BEd, Toronto),\n(MA, Duke), after his stint with the Canadian\nEmbassy in Beirut, Lebanon. He is currently\nstudying Mandarin in anticipation of being\nposted to Peking.... Arthur E. Soregaroli,\n(BS, Iowa State), (MSc, Idaho), PhD'68, has\nbeen appointed vice-president, exploration\nof Western Mines Ltd.\nDorothy Mills, BA'70, education center\nco-ordinator with I.B.M. Canada, told members ofthe National Secretaries Association\nat a recent seminar that secretaries are interrupted on an average of 44 times a day....\nDuane Zilm, BASc'70, is now director ofthe\nhuman responses lab at the Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto. His wife is\nalso busy, and to keep our records straight,\nGwenyth Smith Zilm, BA'68, is systems librarian at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute....\nJohmD. Adams, BA'72, is curator at Heritage\nVillage, Burnaby.... John Gluekman, (BSc,\nMcGill), MBA'73, was recently named\nvice-president of Realscope Realty Ltd., in\nVancouver. .. Hockey Night in Japan?\nLarimer-Berry. Hugh Clement Lai\nRuth Eleanor Berry, BHE'63, May 8\nWinnipeg.... Paterson-Van Druten.\nAllen Paterson, BCom'68, MBA'69\nEleanor Van Druten, BEd'70, Mv.\n1976 in Burnaby.... Wilson-Pryde.\nThomas Wilson to Lorraine G.\nBHE'74, March 27, 1976.... Woods\nGuy P. Woods, BSc'74, to Pamela L\nBPE'74, July 26, 1976 in Trail.\nague'\nler ti\nLjI\nIR\nMr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Davis, BSc'71, (j\nMarie Beardmore, BEd'72), a daughter\nTracy-Marie, March 5, 1976 in Kelowna...,\nMr. and Mrs. Dennis N. Hon, BSc'72!\nBSP'76, a son, David Owen, June 7, 1976in\nVancouver.... Mr, and Mrs. Til Erhard\nNawatski, LLB'72, a boy, Attila Hellmuth\nSilver, May 28, 1976, in Vancouver.... Mr,\nand Mrs. Gary W. Partington, LLB'72, a\ndaughter, Sara Lynn, January 26, 1976, in\nMontreal.... Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Stephens,\nBA'67, a daughter, Nicola Nowell, June 26,\n1976 in Hong Kong.... Dr. and Mrs. DipakC,\nTalapatra, PhD'72, a daughter, Indrani, June\n26, 1976 in Alexandria, Virginia.\nHarold E. Bramston-Cook, BASc'24,\nMASc'25, accidentally June 1976 in LaJolla,\nCalifornia. He began working in California\n1926, first for Union Oil and then Oronite\nChemical Company. He was on active duty\nin the Second World War in the U.S. Navy.\nHe later rose to the rank of rear admiral in the\nU.S. Navy Reserve. He is survived by his\nwife and daughter.\nGeorge Ernest Wesley Clarke, BSA'22,\nJune 1975 in Abbotsford, B.C. A past president of Abbotsford Rotary Club and the Vancouver branch ofthe B.C. Agrologist Society, he retired as supervising horticulturalist\nfor the B.C. government in 1960, after 18\nyears of service. He was a First World War\nveteran. He is survived by his wife ( ^nnie\nLouise Campbell, BA'22), two dau;-:htei!>\none son, two sisters, and one brother.\nWerner H.G. Jordan, BSc'58, (PhD Hon\nolulu), accidentally April 1976 at Ala Moana\nbeach, Honolulu, Hawaii. He is survi* .nib)\nhis wife.\nMorton Digby Leigh, BA'27, (M'.'CM\nMcGill), September 1975 in Palm S< ings\nCalifornia. Early in his career he sei _'d as\nHBQKfBH3SE2ElM2E^HEIBH\n..C\n36\nDARKROOM\nCathy Berry. . .Starting\nyour own Darkroom \u2014\ndon't shoot in the dark-\nshell help you see the\nSight. of anesthesia at the Children's\nal Hospital, Montreal, and helped\nie Montreal College of Anesthesia.\nhe UBC medical school opened in\nwas named clinical associate profes-\nrigery. Three years later he resigned\nouver appointments to accept posi-\nos Angeles at the Children's Memo-\npita! and the University of Califor-\nwas an international authority in the\n'bertt ,J,eidot inesthesia related to infants and small\nW \\iuldre He is survived by his wife, (Joan\n'9 ''i|atAi hur, LLB'54), two sons and three\nnt0llL'taught rs\nMar, aret Anne Letts, BSc'74, accidentally\nebiu y 1976, near Geneva, Switzerland.\nat nded Selkirk College for two years\nprior t<- completing her degree at UBC. The\ncollege has set up an annual award in her\nname, ifor further information contact Dr.\npeter Wood, c\/o Selkirk College, Box 1200,\n[astlejy.ar, B.C. VIN3J1). She is survived by\nher husband.\nWeldon Robert McAfee, BA'22, May 1976,\nin Vancouver. He entered UBC as a member\nofthe first freshman class in 1915, but like\nmany of his classmates interrupted his education to serve with the Canadian Armed\nServices in France. After graduation and a\nyear ai Harvard, on scholarship, studying\neconomics he devoted his career to the family lumber business near Prince Rupert. He is\nsurvived by his wife, (Nina Munn, BA'21),\ntwo daughters and two sons.\nAbraham L. Marshall, BAM8, (MA, Toronto), (PhD, London), May 1974 in\nSchenectady, New York. He was manager of\nthe chemistry research department of General Electric until his retirement in 1961,\nwhen he was named research consultant. He\nis survived by his wife.\nJoseph F. Morgan, BA'41, BSA'41,\nMSA'42, May 1976, in Saskatoon, Sask. He\nwas professor of biochemistry, professor and\nhead of the department of cancer research\nand acting head of the department of microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan. In the 1950s he received international\nacclaim for helping develop the medium in\nwhich the Salk anti-polio vaccine was produced, as a result of which, mass production\nofthe vaccine became possible. More recently he had concentrated on cancer re-\nseaich. In 1970 he was elected president of\nthe Canadian Society of Microbiologists. He\nis urvived by his wife and five children.\n\u201e Dorothy Margaret Bird Wallace, BA'42,\ne k April i976 in Vancouver. After graduating in\n5 bai tenology she spent many years abroad, in\nll Peiu Columbia, the U.S., and Libya. A col-\n,| lection of butterflies she made in Columbia\n) t| was presented to the Spencer Museum ofthe\nk ji; department of zoology. She is survived by\n|b h.sband, William (BASc'41), and two\nugh ers.\nlie-Jerk G.C. Wood, BA(McGill), (MA,\n^Haiv; rd),DLit'71, June 1976 in Vancouver.\n'JJ One i, UBC's first faculty members, he was\nff half i ;' the two-man English department\n|\\j when the university opened in 1915. He\n\u25a0\u2022 found-d and directed the UBC Players'\nf Club anticipating the present theatre de-\nf Paitm nt. The Frederic Wood Theatre on\n,[ camp,, s honors his significant and major con-\n, I tnbuti >n to theatrical development in the\nj Provir ce. He is survived by his wife, (Beat-\nM ic* h-hnson, BSN'23), two daughters and a\n11 S011 'A personal reminiscence of Freddy\n\u00bb