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University of\nBritish Columbia\nAlumni\n^^^^mmm^^ niUmill\nChronicle\nVolume 47\nNumber 3\nWinter 1993\nBoard of Management\nEditor\nElected Member?\nChris Petty, MFA'86\nPresident\nJim Stich,\nAssistont Editor\nBSc7I.DMD7S\nDale Fuller\nPast President\nMartin Glynn.\nContributors\nBA(Hons)74, MBA'76\nElizabeth Godley\nSr. Vice President\nDebra L Browning,\nPat Higinbotham\nJonathan Krueger\nLLB'80\nZoe Landale\nMardi Wareham\nTreasurer\nDickson Wong,\nBCom'88\nAlemberc-oUarge '92-'94\nPamela Friedrich, BA'67\nCovtr\nCongratulations poured in when Michael\nGary Moore, BCom'76, MBA'82\nLouanne Twaites, BSc(Pharm)'53\nSmith won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for\nAtembers-ol-cc-rge '92-'%\nBeryl March. BA'42. MSA'62.\nthtn.n Cm\u00C2\u00ABt, n&'flO 1 1 B'QC\nDSc(Hon)'88\nhis work reprogramming genes. Photograph\nby Pat Higinbotham.\nGrace Wong, BEd'74. MBA'83\nExecutive Director\nDeborah Apps\nEditorial Committee\nRon Burke\nSteve Crombie\nKatie Eliot\nDale Fuller\nChris Petty\nSue Watts\nCarla Weaver\nDon Wells\nEBBED\nm\nThe UBC Alumni Chronicle is published 3\ntimes annually by the UBC Alumni\nAssociation, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road,\nVancouver, B.C., V6T IZI. It is distributed\nfree to all graduates of UBC. Member,\nCouncil for the Advancement and Support\nof Education\nPrinted in Canada\nby Mitchell Press\nISSN 0824-1279\nWlV//\u00C2\u00AB\n\u00C2\u00A9\nNews\nStich and Strangway talk about UBC, Crompton\nchairs the BOG, Smith wins bigtime, and lots more\n4\n10\nNotes from West Africa\nJonathan Krueger writes of his experiences while helping\nin a clinic & high school in \"vivid, noisy, chaotic\" Benin.\nThe Celluloid Kids\nUBC's film department grads are making their\nmarks in the \"reel\" world\n14\n17\nMulti-ethnicity:\nThe Struggle for Inclusion\nAn international conference attracts experts and\nparticipants to UBC from the far corners of the earth.\nAlumni News\n4\nJim Stich's Column\n4\nDavid Strangway's Column\n6\nFaculty News\n12\nBook s\n20\nClass Acts\n22\nMiscellaneous Photos\n29 Bold Leadership Revives UBC\nThe University of British Columbia has a high profile in BC.\nNewspapers across the province regularly publish news items\ngenerated by UBC research, and it's a rare issue of the Vancouver\nSun or Province that does not carry a story quoting a UBC authority on\nsome matter of national or international importance. UBC is the foremost\nsource of new technology, new research and\nnew ideas in British Columbia.\nThe university gets bad press as well.\nUBC, seen by some as a large, impersonal\norganization, is often blamed for things over\nwhich it has little control. Also, events on or\naround the campus are open to public\nscrutiny (as they should be), and the\nuniversity is often criticized for the decisions\nit makes. \"It,\" of course, doesn't make the\ndecisions: individuals do. And the individual\nmost often criticized for controversial\ndecisions is David Strangway.\nThis criticism is wholly undeserved. David Strangway's contribution to\nUBC and, directly, to the development of British Columbia, has been quite\nimpressive.\nWhen Dr. Strangway came to UBC in 1985, the university was at a\ncrossroads. Years of fiscal restraint had resulted in a run-down campus and\na dispirited faculty. There were two choices for the new president: downsize and downgrade the university to reflect its diminishing status, or\ncreate a new vision for growth. Strangway went for a new vision.\nHe saw that UBC had vast potential to become a first-rate university.\nAt the same time, he saw that the British Columbia economy was\ndependent on UBC's ability to produce the people and the ideas necessary\nfor growth and prosperity. His vision, which he spelled out in his \"Second\nto None\" document, was to make UBC \"a world renowned institution of\nhigher education and research.\" His vision is becoming reality.\nThe World of Opportunity Campaign, which winds up this year, has\nraised over $260 million for buildings, chairs, fellowships, scholarships and\nbursaries.This massive infusion of funding, over and above operating funds,\nwill rebuild much of UBC's crumbling infrastructure, establish new areas of\nstudy, and open the university to new opportunities for growth in the\nfuture.\nWhatever criticisms might be launched against the university, the\nreality is that David Strangway has breathed new life into UBC, and has\npaved the way for its development in the 21 st Century.\nThe Alumni Association has long admired the work of Dr. Strangway\nand his wife, Alice Strangway. Mrs. Strangway has provided a solid foundation of support for university and Association activities, and has played an\nactive role in the success ofthe campaign. In recognition of their contributions, we have named David and Alice Strangway Honorary Members of\nthe Alumni Association.\nWe are honoured to have them join our number, and are fortunate to\nhave colleagues with such dedication to our university.\nJim Stich, President, UBC Alumni Association\nBranches\nUBC alumni living anywhere outside the Lower Mainland are invited to contact our office if they\nare interested in meeting other\nalumni in their area.\nRecent Events\nMilan, Italy, Sept. 16. The Association was part of an \"All Canadian Universities\" evening sponsored by the Canadian Consulate.\nWe received reports that our display was \"by far the grandest and\nmost elaborate.\" Over 250 grads\nfrom 25 universities attended. As\none grad said, \"It's about time\nCanada made some noise abroad.\"\nDenver, Sept. 20. Grads attended\na reception with Dr. Strangway at\nthe Brown Palace Hotel.Thanks to\nJoanne Loh BASc(MechEng)'82\nfor helping with the arrangements.\nWilliams Lake, Oct. I.Bill\nSundhu BA'80 MC'd a reception\nand introduced Dr. Strangway to\nalumni, many of whom had attended our breakfast there 2 years\nago.Thanks to Bill for helping with\nthe arrangements.\nNew York, Oct. 14. Branch rep\nLinda Fong BASc(CivEng)'93,\nnew in New York, and Glen Elliott,\nex-staffer now taking grad studies\nat Columbia, hosted an evening\nwith Dr. Strangway and alumni at\nthe Plaza Hotel. Special guest was\nNorman Hildes-Heim (Honorary Alumnus Award 1986), who\nlater hosted a dinner for Dr.\nStrangway.\nCanberra, Australia, Nov. I.\nCanberra grads and Dr. Strangway\nwere guests at a reception hosted\nby the Canadian High Commissioner, L. Michael Berry, at his official residence. Gardiner Wilson\nBA'66, Deputy High Commissioner, coordinated the reception\non our behalf.Thanks to Mr. Berry\nwho kindly extended the invitations to his home.\nPresident's Branch\nTour Continues\nDavid Strangway will visit BC\nbranches in the spring, including\nNanaimo Mar. 14,Victoria Mar. 15,\nKamloops Feb. 23 and Kelowna\nFeb.22. Invitations will be sent to\nalumni in those areas.\nUpcoming\nWe will hold a reception at BC\nHouse in London on July I, 1994,\nand an event the next day at the\nHenley Regatta. Watch for details\nin the Spring Chronicle.\nHomecoming\nThe Homecoming committee's\ngoal was to create a family weekend, and it seems to have worked.\nWith hot air balloon rides, a mini\nWorld Cup soccer tournament for\nchildren, the Chemistry Magic\nShow, Earthquake simulator, a\nclosely fought Blue and Gold Football Game, and the Beefeaters\nMarching Band, there was something for everyone.\nThe highlight of Homecoming\nwas the Arts '20 Relay.The awards\nceremony was held in a huge tent\non the Sub Plaza where pancake\nbreakfast chefs flipped flapjacks.\nRace winners all went home with\nmini replicas of the Cairn for trophies. The most demanding of all\nsporting events, the World's Biggest Croquet Tournament, followed the Arts '20 Relay.\nOther events included a speakers series at IRC, reunions, division events and a reception for entrance scholarships recipients. SUB\ncelebrated its 25th anniversary\nwith many events including an\nOctoberfest managed by the EUS\nand birthday cake for all.\nByron Hender BCom'68 received the Great Trekker Award\nthis year. In attendance was\nEvelyn Lett BA' 17, who was presented with the same award by By-\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\nron in 1965. Nestor Korchinsky\nreceived the Blythe Eagles Volunteer award at the Great Trek Remembered Lunch.\nDivisions\nKappa Sigma: On October 6,\nKappa Sigma pledged 28 new members, the largest pledge class on\ncampus for the fourth straight\nyear.\nThe division will host a Founders' Day lunch at the end of January, 1994, and all alumni are invited. Guest of honour will be\nBrother Brian O'Dwyer.\nGrads are also invited to meetings, held every Wednesday at 7\npm. If Kappa Sigma has lost track\nof you, call the Association offices.\nHuman Kinetics: The division\nheld its annual PE and Rec. Alumni\nEndowment Scholarship Award\nrecognition ceremony at the\nundergrad society's wine and\ncheese reception at Cecil Green\nPark on October 7.\nChris Loat BPE'88, MPE'9I and\nRobert Schultz BPE'61 installed\na division display case in the War\nMemorial Gym. It highlights activities, events and individuals of the\nAssociation and the division, and\nwill feature a different grad every\nmonth, starting with the first\ngraduating class ('49) and Rick\nHansen BPE'86, LLD(Hon)'87.\nPartial funding came from the\nPresident's Allocations Committee.\nAgriculture: Dean Jim Richards\nhosted a lunch at Cecil Green Park\nto honour international scholars.\nInternational graduate students,\nEducation Abroad students and international alumni joined members\nof the faculty and university reps\nover lunch.\nPeople came from 32 countries\nin Latin America, Europe, Africa,\nAsia and the Middle East.\nProfessors Emeriti: On September 22, one of Canada's leading\neconomists, Professor Dick\nLipsey BA'51 of SFU spoke to\nabout 80 members of the division\non the North American Free Trade\nAgreement.\nProfessor Lipsey outlined reasons why he believes that Canada,\nthe US and Mexico would benefit\nfrom NAFTA.\nMedicine: On September 23, 55\ngolfers teed off in the 8th Annual\nMedical Student Alumni Tournament at the University Golf\nCourse.\nPrizes went to John Maynard;\nMike Marshall BSc'72, MD'82;\nJohn Zohrab, Peter Hayton, David\nWickham BSc'79, MD'82 and Stu\nMadill.\nThe 9th annual tournament is\nscheduled for September 22, 1994\nat the University Golf Course. Interested? Call Brad Fritz BSc'72,\nMD'75; Lesjanz MD'58 or\nBernie Dejong MD'57 or the\nmanager of the Medical Student &\nAlumni Centre at 879-8496.\nThe 1994 Medical Ball will be\nheld on February 12, 1994 in the\nHarbourview Room of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.\nFor information, call 822-3313.\nRehabilitation Sciences: The\nSeptember 30 event included a\nguest lecturer, introduction of the\nmentorship program, food and socializing. Priorities this year are the\nmentorship program and getting\nmore alumni involved in school activities.We also hope to help the\nschool raise money for the grad\nstudent awards program. To get\ninvolved or to pass on news,\nplease contact Sue Kozak BA'86,\nBSc(OT)'9l (872-0245) or Noni\nMetcalf BPE'86, BSc(OT)'92 (736-\n0600).\nAlpha Delta Pi: Alpha Delta Pi\nwill sponsor Career Night in\nMarch 1994 and possibly a black-\ncontinued page 6\nCrompton to Chair\nUBC Board of Governors\nBarbara Crompton, BEd'72, has been appointed Chair ofthe UBC Board of Governors,\nreplacing the retiring Ken Bagshaw.\nCrompton was recommended to the Board of\nGovernors by the Alumni Association, and was\nfirst appointed in September, 1990. She established The Fitness Group in 1978 and is president\nof BC's Health Systems Group, a company that\nmanages exercise, stress and nutrition programs\nfor corporate clients.\nShe was on the taskforce committee to create a\nprovincial registration and training program for\nfitness instructors, and served as the Canadian\nrepresentative on an international organization\nfor fitness professionals.\nMichael Partridge has had his term on the\nBoard extended. He has been active in Alumni\nAssociation affairs for years, serving as president in 1982-'83. He\nwon the Blythe Eagles Service Award, and was co-chair of the David\nLam Management Research Endowment Fund.\nHarvard Business School\nMBA Program\nHarvard Business School encourages applications\nfrom Canadians with undergraduate degrees in all\nacademic disciplines and a career interest in general\nmanagement.\nFellowships and financial aid are available, including\nfunds from Canadian donors earmarked for Canadian\nstudents.\nPlease contact the School to receive a catalogue and\napplication, and to inquire about dates and times of\nOpen House receptions being held in selected major\nCanadian cities.\nPlease direct all inquiries to:\nMBA Admissions Office\nHarvard Business School\nSoldiers Field\nBoston, MA 02163 USA\nTel. (617)495-6127\nFax (617)496-9272\nIn accordance with Harvard University policy. Harvard Business School does not\ndiscriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexuai orientation,\nreligion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or handicap in\nadmission to. access lo, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.\nUBC- An mm Chronicle, Wimkr 1993 NEWS\nBrains, Not Buildings Make a University\nThere has been a good deal of attention paid to the construction\nboom currently underway at UBC. In every corner of the campus,\nit seems, a new building is being built, or an addition is being made\nto an existing one. It is an exciting time at UBC.\nSome of this activity is the result of the\nWorld of Opportunity Campaign, which will\nwind up this year after raising more than $260\nmillion for the university. Some is the result of\nself-financing projects such as faculty apartments and student residences, and some is the\nresult of ongoing provincial capital funding.\nBut the big story isn't about bricks and mortar. The campaign is about what UBC does\nbest \u00E2\u0080\u0094 promoting academic and intellectual\nexcellence \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and its real success will be reflected in what goes on inside those new buildings.\nThe campaign has allowed us to put in place endowment funding for 57\nnew academic chairs, 53 new scholarships, bursaries and fellowships, and 15\nnew professorships in a wide range of fields including health, the environment, law, ethics, business, science, engineering and the arts.\nWhat this means in real terms is that we will now be able to focus even\nmore of our energy on first-class teaching and internationally acclaimed research. Here are just a few examples.\nOur new Occupational Hygiene graduate program (the first of its kind in\nwestern Canada) and three new faculty chairs that serve the program have\nbeen established. Graduates will take up positions in government, industry\nand the community to monitor and investigate environment-related health\nhazards in the workplace.\nThe Centre for Applied Ethics explores moral issues in business, the professions, health care, science and technology. Its focus is multidisciplinary\nand, with new chairs in applied ethics, biomedical ethics and business ethics,\nwill forge new relationships among faculties and departments.\nThe Institute of Asian Research helps us focus our energies on our links\nwith the Pacific Rim. The Institute includes centres for Chinese, Japanese,\nKorean, South Asian and Southeast Asian research. UBC is recognized as a\nNorth American leader in Asian research, and these new centres, all funded\nby the campaign, will move us to the highest level of academic achievement\nas Canada's intellectual gateway to the Pacific.\nOf course, the proof of UBC's abilities in the academic arena must be\nshown in our research output.The recent announcement of Michael Smith\nas 1993 Nobel Prize co-winner in Chemistry supplies this proof: our abilities\nare world class.\nWhen you come to UBC and see the campus-in-progress, or when you\nhear of new projects in the wings, remember that the real work goes on inside the buildings.After all the dust has settled and the tractors and cement\ntrucks move away, it is the quiet, considered, intellectual work by excellent\nfaculty and students supported by first-rate staff that makes a university.\nI offer my sincere thanks to those alumni who supported the campaign,\nand welcome your support in the future.\nDavid Strangway, President, University of British Columbia\ntie reception next Spring. Thanks\nto all the lost alumnae who contacted the Association! If you're\nnot on the mailing list, please\nphone president Ann\nMcCutcheon BA'91 at (604) 669-\n3725 or write her at # 1005-1 I I I\nBarclay Street, Vancouver, BCV6E\nIG9. Get involved!\nThe Vancouver Alumnae\nPanhellenic Association: VAPA\noversees the collegiate Panhellenic\nat UBC and meets monthly to review operations and get updates\non activities. If you have lost contact with your sorority, please\ncontact Anne McCutcheon at\nVAPA. See above for Ann's address\nand telephone number.\nMusic: On October 2nd, members\nof the class of '73 hosted a get-\ntogether in the music building.\nRena Sharon and Lauren Wagner\npresented repertoire from an\nupcoming tour, and a student\nchamber group performed a\nMozart flute quartet. Louise\nBradley BMus'73 created a class\nlist of 1973 which was hung on the\n4th floor of the music building.\nMusic grads should watch The\nChronicle for notice of next year's\nHomecoming event. This year's\nevent was partially funded by a\ngrant from the President's Allocation Committee.\nNursing: Alumni held their annual\nHomecoming brunch at Cecil\nGreen Park on September 26.\nNora Whyte MSN'88 spoke on\nnursing's role in health care reform\nin BC.\nThe annual potluck dinner was\nheld on October 21. Following dinner, Jacquelyn Campbell BA'85,\nthe 1993 Marion Woodward lecturer, spoke on family violence:\n\"Sanctions & Sanctuary, Culture\nand Wife Beating.\"\nThe next Annual Dinner will be\nheld on May 12, 1994.This event\nwill be co-sponsored by the UBC\nSchool of Nursing and is part of\nthe School's 75th Anniversary celebrations.\nIf you have changed your name\nor address or know of colleagues\nwho have done so, please send updates to: Ann-Shirley Goodell\nBSN'60, 3254 Archibald Way, Whistler, BC.V9N IB3.\nPharmacy: Pharmacy's AGM was\nheld on October 18 at La Notte\nrestaurant. It was a great success\nand everyone had a good time.\nEngineering: The division revived\n\"Old Red New Red\" at Cecil\nGreen Park on September 30. Lots\nof students and alumni turned out,\nand even a few faculty made an appearance. In keeping with the finest oral traditions, stories of old\nexams and famous engineering\nstunts were swapped. Several\nalumnae were also on hand to provide guidance and motivation to\nthe women undergrads.The division would like to thank the President's Allocations Committee for\nfunding assistance.\nSocial Work:The division held its\nfirst AGM in the Jack Bell Building,\nthe new home of the School of Social Work. Alumni, faculty and students enjoyed a presentation by\nBridget Moran, author and retired\nsocial worker.\nThe division has launched the\n\"Friends of the School\" project.\nThe Friends are building a reading\ncollection and assist students with\naccess to the UBC Library.\nBoard members met with the\naccreditation team that visited the\nschool and will sponsor an awards\nevening during the \"Poverty: Women's Perspectives\" conference at\nUBC. Future plans include\nfundraising and a history of social\nwork education at UBC. Interested\nalumni may contact Marty Lund\nBSW'81, MSW'85 at 299-2278.\nGeography: On October I over\n200 geographers returned to UBC\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\nto celebrate Homecoming. Students met potential alumni mentors. The mentorship program began last spring and boasts over\nninety-five pairs of alumni and students.\nSome of the highlights from the\nannual Homecoming barbecue and\nopen house were a student demonstration of computer-aided geographical information systems\n(GIS) and a photo exhibit of the\nCultural Geography Studies\nAbroad program.\nAfterwards at the AGM, new officers were elected, and Nelson\nRiis BEd'67, MA'70, MP for\nKamloops, received the Distinguished Geographer Award. After\nRiis earned his MA from UBC he\nwent on to establish the first geography department in BC's interior\nat Cariboo College in Kamloops.\nEvents to come for this division\ninclude a career night in February.\nLook for your Geogramme Newsletter.\nReunions\nClass of'33:Thirty-seven members gathered for a lunch at Cecil\nGreen Park, then took a bus tour\nof the campus. Later, a reception\nwas held at the home of Dr. &\nMrs. Strangway.Thanks to Gordon\nStead, Bob Osborne, Vic Rogers\nand Bill Gibson.\nClass of '43: Grads enjoyed a\nbanquet, campus bus tour and\nlunch in September. MC John\nCarson pointed out that theirs was\nthe only UBC graduating class to\nhave a paperback yearbook, the\nresult of war-time cutbacks. Class\nvaledictorian John Halstead described how, like many others, he\nenlisted the day after graduation. It\nwas a wonderful and unforgettable\nreunion.\n'53 Law:The class was delighted\nto have Dean Emeritus George\nCurtis and Professor Emeritus\nFred Carruthers join them on September 18th at the Arbutus Club.\nThe talk (regulated by an improvised talking stick) and various\nother substances flowed until the\nsmall hours.\n'53 Applied Science: A crowd of\n99 Engineers came together on\nSeptember 18th and did what engineers do. After a tour of campus\nthey gathered for a dinner with\nDean Axel Meisen.A display of\nphotos captured their antics on\ncampus 40 years ago. Dimi\nCouroubakalis and his wife travelled from Greece for this reunion.\n'63 Applied Science: Members\nof this lively crowd travelled from\nas far away as California, Ottawa\nand Toronto for an evening of camaraderie and a few outrageous\nlies. Former professors John\nAnderson, Noel Nathan and Roy\nHooley were there, too. Thanks to\nHarry White, Wilbur Walrond, Art\nRennison and John Montgomery.\n'68 Civil Engineering: Lloyd\nThate and John Morse engineered\nCall for 1994 Nominations\nThe Association is calling for nominations for the following awards:\nAlumni Award of Distinction\nHonorary Alumnus Award\nOutstanding Young Alumnus\nBlythe Eagles Volunteer Award\nFaculty Citation\nNomination deadline is January 31,1993. For more information, or to\nreceive a nomination form, please call our office at (604) 822-3313.\n...the best organized\nInternational Congress\nthey had ever attended.5\nJohn R. Ledsome, MD- International Congress of Physiological Sciences\n**...You provided meeting rooms for almost 4,000 people\nand accommodation for over 2,000 for two weeks and did it\nin a friendly and efficient manner.\"\nDr. Gordon A. McBean - International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics\n**...You performed beyond the call of duty and were able\nto foresee potential problems before they happened.\"\nDr. DanielF. Gardiner- UBC Program for Executive Development\n**...a mark of excellence to supply the needs of a\nconference and receive no complaints!\"\nMary Lou Bishoff- Anglican Renewal Ministries Conference\nLet us help you plan\nthe best conference you've ever attended\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Accommodation in highrise towers with spectacular\nocean and mountain views\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Set on 1,000 wooded acres only 15 minutes from\nVancouver city centre\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Klexible meeting areas for groups from 10 to 3,000\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Complete audio-visual services and satellite\ncommunications available\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Catering for events from barbecues to dinner dances\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Comprehensive conference organization and\nsystems support\nWrite, phone\nor fax for\n\ideo and\ninformation\nUBC\nConference\nCentre\nI'niversity of British Columbia\n5961 Student I nion Boulevard\nVancouver, BC Canada V6T 2C9\nTelephone (604) 822-1060\nFax (604) 822-1069\nCANADA'S LARGEST UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTRE\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\na stag on Friday night of Homecoming and drew an enthusiastic\nresponse. Spouses and partners\njoined the reunion the following\nevening at Forster's restaurant.\n'68 Law: How many classes can\nclaim a provincial premier and a\ntreasurer of the Law Society as\nmembers? The crowd that gathered on October 2nd at the BC\nClub contained several judges as\nwell.Thanks to Stephen Gill,\nGeorge Hungerford,Alan\nBob Dill BArch'68,\nMArch'70,Jake\nMayell, BAnh'72,\nWarren Scott,\nBArch'69 arid John\nKmbb, BArch'70 at the\n25 year reunion\ndinner at Cecil Green\nPark, August 21.\nDonaldson, James Taylor and Martin Gifford.The class also raised\nmoney for a Faculty of Law research project.\n'68 Architecture: As you might\nexpect in a program that encourages individual expression, many\ncomplete the BArch at their own\npace.The call went out for a group\nof graduates from 1965-1974 to\ncome back for a 25 year (more-or-\nless) reunion. And come they did\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n54 in all, plus spouses and guests.\nYAC Update\nT AC is back! The name has been slightly changed from the late '70s\n(to protect the not-so-innocent) and those letters now stand for Young\nAlumni Connections. Most importantly, the fun is back.\nRecent YAC outings included a Canadians game, the Shrum Bowl,\nthe Arts 20 Relay and lending a hand during Homecoming '93. Coming\nup is an evening at Frederic Wood Theatre on January 19 with a reception at 6:30 pm at Cecil Green Park. We're also thinking about a New\nYear's Eve party, a ski weekend and a visit to a dude ranch.\nIf you want to be kept informed about upcoming events, want\nmore information about YAC or have ideas to share, send us the coupon below and return to the Alumni offices.YAC wants YOU as a member.\n\es, I'm interested in YAC!\nQ Add me to the YAC mailing list.\nQ I want more information about YAC. Please phone me.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 I have some ideas to share. Please phone me.\nName:\nDegree:\nAddress:\nYear:\nPhone: (h)\n. Postal Code\n(o) \t\nSeveral former faculty members\nwere also there: Arthur Erickson,\nAbe Rogatnick, Robin Clarke,\nChuck Tiers and Henry Elder. Bill\nParneta BArch'70 brought the roof\ndown with his impromptu rendition of a Russian folk song.\n'68 Medicine: About 40 alumni\nreturned to campus on October\n15th to hear presentations and\ntour the anatomy building. Lunch\nat the Faculty Club preceded a\nweekend trip to Whistler. Thanks\nto Barry Irish.A straw poll revealed that everyone still enjoys\nthe practice of medicine and feels\na high level of job satisfaction.\n'68 Commerce:This group enjoyed a great evening at Cecil\nGreen Park on November I 3.The\n1968 Ledger (Commerce yearbook) was reprinted and distributed for the occasion. Thanks to\nRoger Clarke, Jack Neil, Robert\nPellatt,TonyTurco and Bill Tymkiw.\n'73/'74 Pharmacy:This reunion\nbegan with a reception for class\nmembers and former faculty at\nCecil Green Park. A family picnic\nwas followed by a buffet dinner\nand dance (\"a fantastic evening\") at\nthe Renaissance Harbourside Hotel.Thanks to Judy Soon,Victor Ko\nand their hard-working committee.\n'83 MBA: This class gathered on a\nlovely Fall evening and enjoyed a\nspectacular sunset from Cecil\nGreen Park. Class member and\nMC Mike Black, who moonlights\nwith Theatre Sports, lampooned\nclass members. Grads travelled\nfrom as far away as Ontario to be\npresent and they were joined by\nseveral former faculty members.\nThanks to Cathie (Ross) Sabiston,\nMary (Hunter) Blachut and Don\nMurdock.\n'83 Medicine: This class travelled\nto Whistler for their reunion.\nGrads enjoyed \"Friday Night\nWeepers,\" breakfast, colloquia and\na lavish buffet that featured home\ngrown entertainment from class\nmembers. Golf and tennis dominated the day. Two class members\ntravelled from New England, and\nothers arrived from California and\nOntario.\n'83 Commerce:The class gathered on October I at Cecil Green\nPark. An exhibit of photos taken\nduring their time on campus was\nmounted and preserved by a class\nmember who claims to have no\nthoughts of future blackmail. Several class members travelled from\nCalgary for this reunion. Thanks to\nLeo Smythe. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe Third Age\nCommunity of\nLearners & Scholars\nAre you retired or nearly so and\nwould like to experience the joy of\nuniversity, but in a relaxed and\nnoncompetitive atmosphere? The\nThird Age Community, sponsored\nby Continuing Studies at UBC, may\nbe for you.\nThe Third Age Community is\nopen to retired or 55 and up people who would like to do just that.\nStudy/discussion seminars are\nheld one morning a week at Cecil\nGreen Park, with an outline and\nreading list provided by a faculty\nmember. Participants take turns\nresearching and reporting on topics, and lively discussions ensue.\nTopics for the spring term, which\nstarts on January 18, are The Middle East\u00E2\u0080\u0094Past, Present & Future;\nCanada's Regions; and The Resurfacing of Greek and Roman\nThemes in Modern Literature. Annual membership is $330, reduced\nby one-half for spring term and tax\ndeductible.\nCall Continuing Studies at 222-\n5272 or come on a Tuesday or\nWednesday morning at 9:00 a.m.\nand sit in. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nUBC Au'mni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\nMaking Memories\n1 he Alumni Association's travel program takes alumni to the far\ncorners of the globe in comfort and style.\nThis Spring, why not take a trip \"down under\" to Australia and\nNew Zealand to see how the other half (of the world) lives? Or how\nabout a trip along the Marco Polo Passage, which features a cruise\nofthe South China Sea aboard a ship named, appropriately, after\nthis great Venetian traveller who is credited, among other things,\nwith introducing pasta to Italy.\nThe majority ofthe trips we offer are developed specifically for\nthe alumni market. They are chosen in response to requests from\npast travellers and on the uniqueness ofthe trip or destination. You\ncan take one of our trips with confidence, knowing that you will\nexperience something different.\nWe organize our travel program with companies that specialize\nin alumni travel. Our trips are highly educational, always unique\nand ofthe very highest quality.\nOur next Travel Information Evening will be held Tuesday,\nFebruary 8, 1994 at Cecil Green Park. An INTRAV rep will be here\nto tease you with travel slides from Russia to Italy. Be ready to rush\nhome to pack your bags. Call (604) 822-9629 for info.\nThe following travel opportunities are being offered through\nthe Alumni Association. For more information on these trips,\nplease phone Margot Dear at (604) 822-9629.\nTravel 1994\nAUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND\nHOLY LAND\nDANUBE CANAL\nMARCO POLO\nGREEK ISLES\nJOURNEY OF THE CZARS\nROUTE OF THE VIKINGS\nDANUBE RIVER ADVENTURE\nITALIAN HISTORIC CITIES AND\nMarch 24-April 9\nApril 15-26\nMay 7-20\nMay 12-27\nJune 15-27\nJune 21-July 4\nJuly I 1-25\nAugust 1-13\nCOUNTRYSIDES September\nCHINA/YANGSTZE RIVER September\nCOSTA RICA'S NATIONAL PARKS\nAND THE PANAMA CANAL November\nYoung Alumni Adventures\nAre you a recent graduate of UBC?\nHow does a three day excursion on a Dude Ranch in the\nCariboo sound, or four days of Whitewater rafting on rollercoaster\nrapids in B.C.?\nGrab some of your fellow graduates and join in with some new\nand exciting Young Alumni summer fun.\nFor more information, please call (604) 822-9629.\nAlumni discover the Church ofthe Transfiguration on the tiny island ofKizhi\nlocated in Lake Ongega, Russia. This is one ofthe stops on INTRAV's Journey of\nthe Czars. The tour is planned for June 21 -July 4, 1994\n\"Ho-Ho-Ho\" Santa Was a UBC Grad\nDring joy to your alumni loved ones on Christmas morning this\nyear. Surprise them with fine UBC alumni products.\nKeep away those winter chills by snuggling into a 100% cotton\nfleece sweatshirt complete with UBC Alumni logo.\nWatch their eyes light up when they see the swell alumni watch\nyou've bought them! This gem is triple stamped and gold plated,\nwith a Birh's two year warranty. They'll make that count down to\n'94 with ease while wearing this sophisticated time piece.\nSet off a holiday tune with the jolly jingle of your keys dangling\nfrom an elegant alumni pewter keychain.\nSee our inside back cover for pictures and an order form.\nHurry!! Gifts will arrive for the holidays if you order now!\nThe Card That Keeps on Giving\n.Don't be caught empty handed in the New Year.\nUBC Alumni Association offers an affinity MasterCard through\nthe Bank of Montreal.\nYour Alumni Affinity Card is a handy thing to have in your\nwallet. Every time you use your card, a percentage is returned to\nthe UBC Alumni Association to help support our programs. You\ncan buy dinner, books, gas, groceries, a new sweater or a clutch of\nsweet smelling flowers for your loved one(s), all the while helping\nout your alumni association.\nThere are a lot ol advantages too! No transaction fees, no\nannual fees, world wide acceptance and emergency card\nreplacement.\nTo apply, use the application form on the back page of\nThe Chronicle or call (604) 822-3313 today.\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\nMichael Smith, Nobel Laureate\nBiochemistry professor Michael\nSmith's office was full of balloons,\ncards, streamers and champagne\nbottles when we went to photograph him for our cover. Congratulations where pouring in\nfrom all over the world.\nHe doesn't seem completely\ncomfortable with all the attention: he is, after all, one who prefers the quiet intensity of a science lab to almost anything else.\nBut his work in the biotechnology lab is revolutionizing the\nstudy of protein molecules, and\nis, according to the Nobel committee, \"hastening the rapid.de-\nvelopment of genetic engineering.\"\nHe came to UBC in 1966 and\nworked with Gobind Khorana,\nwho himself went on to win the\nNobel prize. Smith's discovery\nFamily and\nNutritional Science\nThe School of Family and Nutritional Sciences celebrated its 50th\nin October with a dinner at the\nFaculty Club. Nine members of\nthe first grad class ('46) attended,\nas did members ofthe 10, 25 and\n40 year classes. Former directors\nWinifred Bracher and Dan Perlman were there, along with former secretary Margaret MacKinnon.\nNotes from West Africa\ninvolves reprogramming genes to\ncreate different proteins. The\ntechniques he developed are being used to fight cancer cells, to\ndevelop better crops, and to engineer synthetic blood products.\nSmith says he may buy a new\nsailboat with part of his prize\nmoney ($.5 million). In the\nmeantime, he plans to clean out\nhis office.\nEvents included a research update, with reports on current research, and a tour of the school's\nbuilding.\nThe school began in 1943 with\n2 faculty and 60 students. Labs\nwere held at King Ed until army\nhuts became available. There are\nnow 14 full and 5 part-time faculty,\n44 grad students and nearly 400\nundergrads and offers degrees in\nDietetics, Family Science, Home\nEc and Human Nutrition. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nCall for 1994 Nominations\nFor the Alumni Association Board of Directors\nBallots for next year's Board election will be in our next issue. The senior VP, treasurer and three members-at-large will be elected.\nThe senior VP serves one year, then becomes president for a one year term. Members-\nat-large serve for two years.\nAny UBC grad is eligible. If you are interested, send us your name, address, degree\nand year with a short statement about why you wish to serve, and a black and white\nphoto. Include the names and signatures of S UBC grads. For more information, phone us at\n(604) 822-3313.\nThe deadline for nominations is 4:00 pm, Thursday, February 10, 1994. Send nominations to: The Chief Electoral Officer, 62SI Cecil Green Park Road,Vancouver, BC.V6T III.\nJonathan Krueger BA'91, MA'92,\nrecently returned from six months in\nBenin os a member of Canada World\nYouth's Work Partner Program.\nFebruary 28, 1993\nIt's true what they say. No\namount of preparation can really\nprepare you for your first night in\nan African village-especially when\nit's going to be your village for the\nnext six months. We spent the first\ntwo weeks in the cities to break us\nin to the heat, humidity, and poverty, but this...\nOur village,Tchaourou, is about\n54 km from the nearest city (Para-\nkou) by paved road, the only one in\nthe country, built three years ago by\nChina.There are 5,000 people in\nthis area, so I suppose it's more of a\ntown than a village although with no\nelectricity or running water it seems\nsmaller somehow.\nI've been in Tchaourou for three\nbusy days. I'll be working in the\npharmacy at the clinic for my primary project and living with the\ndoctor, Kabib.There are two other\nmembers of our group here, though\nI haven't seen them since the first\nnight. My first taste of culture shock\nhappened that night, and it's almost\ncomical now that I think about it.\nThree Canadians huddling together\nin the compound of the village chief,\nour mouths gaping at everything\naround us while we tried to eat the\ntraditional food-traditionally.The\nwomen pounding yams, the small\ncooking fires burning everywhere,\nthe goats marching through, and the\nchildren staring back at us. It definitely was not Robson street.\nCulture shock for me is being in\nan environment completely devoid\nof things I understand-a complete\nloss of context. We looked to the\nstars that same night, figuring they\nat least would be the same, only to\nfind that the Big Dipper was upside\ndown. Perfect.\nMarch 24, 1993\nKabib has told me that the 'good\nlooks' of the new health clinic are\nsomewhat deceiving. Not only\nshould the clinic have been built in\nTchatchou (24 km north) because\nthere is already a hospital close to\nTchaourou, but the aid organization\nthat built and paid for it in 1990\nprobably didn't foresee having to\npull out support in 1993 due to\nbudget cutbacks. The expensive,\nhigh-tech solar-powered batteries\nthey installed to run the refrigerators to keep the vaccines cold\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich no doubt seemed like a good\nidea at the time\u00E2\u0080\u0094now need maintenance and replacement. The\nBeninois are stuck with this problem but haven't the money or the\nknow-how to replace the dozen or\nso batteries.The only thing left of\nthe 'development organization' is\nthe newsletter that comes each\nmonth. They do their best, and will\nprobably find a way to keep it going,\nbut it makes me furious to think of\nall the fridges in Canada dedicated\nto keeping beer cold while in\nTchaourou we spend two hours a\nday rearranging the vaccines so children won't die of some preventable\ndisease.\nOn a lighter note, I spent last\nnight watching Rambo, of all things,\nat our local video club.A young entrepreneur has set up his TV.VCR\nand generator under the stars and\ncharges the equivalent of a quarter\nto see action movies (which he\nrents in the city) every night of the\nweek. I suppose explosions and car\ncrashes are the only things that can\n10\nUBC Ail mni Chronicle, Winter 1993 NEWS\ncompete with the noise of the generator. I wonder what will happen\nwhen it rains...\nIt's funny how all the things that\nseemed so strange at the beginning\nare now just part of everyday life. I\nfeel sorry for the tourists who\nnever get to experience being\ngreeted by name or playing tag with\na group of children when walking in\na village. I've even gotten used to\nthe goats.\nMay 9, 1993\nIs it time for the mid-project\nmeeting already? I suppose the last\nthree months will fly by even faster\nthan the first three did.The pharmacy has been a great work project,\na real window on the issues and\nproblems that face the people and\nhealth workers in West Africa.\nWhere else could I see a case of\nleprosy or deal with women who\nbring sick babies to the clinic but\nwho can't pay for the medications\nKabib prescribed (it's a \"if you don't\npay, you don't play\" system). There\nare times when I wish my white skin\nwasn't so obvious, although for the\nmost part it elevates my status\nwhether I like it or not.\nMy secondary project is also\nJonathan Krueger (r) with\nanother Canadian volunteer,\nMarie-Josee Boujie, in\nTchaourou. Krueger is wearing a\nGrand Bou-bou, a traditional\nAfrican garment, to celebrate a\nvisit from Benin's president.\nworking out really well. The\nstudents enjoy it and I know\nthe principal of the high school\nis excited because there has\nnever been a student newspaper in northern Benin. Right\nnow they're still writing drafts,\nbut the goal is to publish 300\ncopies and sell them at a quarter each so next year there will be a\nbudget and know-how to produce\nthe second edition once I'm long\ngone. It will make my year if I receive a copy of edition number two\nof \"Le Reveil\" some rainy day in November.\nIt seems that most of our group\nhas had the malaria that hit me last\nmonth. So much for modern drugs.\nI just hope it doesn't come back: it\nreally was brutal. Did I mention that\nI saw an Expo 86 T-shirt at the market yesterday? We wonder what\nhappens to all that donated clothing,\nbut unfortunately by the time it gets\nhere someone is making money selling it to those who were supposed\nto receive it free. I have to make a\nnote of this: Terminator was showing\nto a full-house at the video club last\nnight!\nJuly 19, 1993\nMy last week in Tchaourou. I'm\nnot looking forward to the good-\nbyes-Kabib, Bio, Pierre-Paul,\nKirikim-how can I explain to them\nwhat this last six months has meant\nto me? And if the goodbyes are as\nlengthy as the greetings I'll need all\nweek to make my rounds in the village. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't\nlooking forward to returning to\nCanada, but at the same time I don't\nwant to go. I'm apprehensive about\nreturning to my lifestyle and culture,\nafter all I've seen and experienced\nhere, and I'm not sure what kind of\neffect it will have on me to see all\nthat money and extravagance again.\nI've become so at ease with everything here-such a contrast to the\nfirst week in Tchaourou!\nI was finishing Margaret\nLaurence's This Side Jordan in a taxi\ngoing back to Tchaourou from\nParakou when we stopped for two\nfarmers and their cow.The taxi already had its usual complement of\nseven adults and two babies, when\nwe headed off into the bush and\nspent thirty minutes roping up this\ncow. Four men finally had it ready\nfor transport and hoisted it into the\ntrunk and closed the lid! Whoever\nfirst said that necessity is the\nmother of invention clearly spent\nsome time in Benin. Anyway, This\nSide Jordan was written about Ghana\nof the 1960s but for me it reads like\nBenin, 1993:\n\"The street was a tangle of people. Women in mammy-cloths of\nevery colour, women straight as\nroyal palms, balanced effortlessly\nthe wide brass headpans.A girl\nbreadseller carried on her head a\nscreened box full of loaves and\ncakes. Coast men strolled in African\ncloth, the bright folds draped casually around them. Muslims from the\nnorth walked tall and haughty in the\nloose white trousers and embroidered robes of their kind. Hausa\ntraders carried bundles tied up in\nwhite and black rough wool mats.\nAnd everywhere there were children, goats, and chickens. Vivid,\nnoisy, chaotic...\"\nI'm going to miss Tchaourou. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nErrors, Lies and Omissions\nSince The Chronicle is put together by humans, it is to be expected that we will make the\nodd goof. We had our share last\nissue. Here are just a few:\nThe person who supplied\nBoris Yeltsin with his Engineer's\njacket was Barbara Evans, Assistant to President Strangway.\nShe was the one who braved\npossible rebuke and the surly\nstares of large bodyguards to\nbedeck Boris. Sorry, Barbara,\nwe'll never do it again.\nIn our ad for the\nVancouver Opera's\nproduction of La\nTraviata, we neglected to note the\nad's illustrator. It was\nAdam Rogers of\nREPART\nAnd, the names of\nthe lab team in our\nphoto accompanying the article\non spinal cord research were\nhopelessly mixed up. Here they\nare again, in the right order, we\nhope.\nStanding (l-r): Michael Rott,\nAnia Wisniewska, John Steeves,\nTom Zwimpfer, Barbara\nPetrausch, Chris McBride,\nDavid Pataky and Hans\nKeirstead. Sitting (l-r): Joshua\nEades, Karen Goh and Gillian\nMuir.\nUBC j^llmnt Chronicle, Winter 1993\nII Arts\nIn the recent federal election, voters\nturfed Tories, lauded Liberals, knocked\nNDPers, raised Reformers and bolstered the Bloc. How come? The answer to that and many more questions\ndealing with election dynamics will be\nanswered in a book to be published by\na team of political scientists led by\nRichard Johnston, BA Hons'70.\nJohnston is one of several professors in UBC's political science department frequently sought out by the media on national and provincial politics,\nbut he refused interviews during the\ncampaign. His own polling and computer graphics told him when the Conservative slide began and the Reform's\nsurge peaked, but he did not want his\nfindings to influence the results. \"We\ndidn't want to become part of the\nstory,\" he said.\nBut his work is already having an\nimpact on the political process. His\nteam, which includes academics from\nQuebec, has published a book on the\n1988 federal election, Letting the People Decide, which has become required\nreading for political journalists and\nparty organizers throughout the country and has also been acclaimed by\nJohnston's fellow academics. Funded\nby the Social Science Research Council of Canada and supported by the\nSocial Science Federation of Canada,\nthe book recently won a national\naward for the best work published in\nEnglish in its field.\nWhile he was not revealing his\nresults during the election, voters\nwere exposed to many others. Does\nhe think this a good or bad thing? His\nstudies show that polls are influential,\nbut other factors also come into play.\nThe role of what he calls interveners,\npolitical personages who come up\nwith controversial, timely statements\ncan change dramatically voter response. Moreover, he notes that there\nwere fewer polls this time than in the\nlast election. His fieldwork also shows\nthat published polls and media coverage missed when some shifts occurred. Voter preference, he says, \"can\nchange overnight,\" significantly altering\nparty strategies and ultimately election\nresults.\nLAW\nBeginning this year, intake of first-year students has been reduced by 25%.\nThis means that 180 students will be admitted into the LLB program instead\nof 240. At the same time, the graduate program has been expanded.The\nschool will enrol at any one time up to 45 LLM students and up to 10 PhD\nstudents. The LLM program, already one of our strengths, will be enhanced\nby new approaches to the courses for Master's students.The PhD program in\nlaw is the first of its kind in Canada, and is a key element in the strengthening\nand further development of graduate legal education in the faculty.\nAccording to the Report of the Committee on Enrolment and Resources,\"... both undergraduate students and graduate students will benefit\nfrom the enhanced educational experiences ... (of) this proposal. As well, the\nproposal will enhance research and scholarship at the university.The committee does believe that better educated lawyers and enhanced research and\nscholarly work will contribute to the social good.\"\nThis change will bring the student-faculty ratio closer to that at other\nlaw schools. Course offerings will be increased by the availability of faculty\nwho would otherwise be teaching first-year courses and multiple sections of\nupper-year courses.The reduction in enrolment will not affect the numbers\nof students admitted in the First Nations or the discretionary categories.\nGraduate Studies\nGreen College opened its doors to about 100 graduate students on September 1. They represent a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, programs and backgrounds. While the student rooms are completed, construction continues on other parts ofthe College, including the the Principal's\nresidence and administrative quarters and the renovation of Graham\nHouse (where the dining room and social facilities will be housed).\nGreen College has already made its mark by bringing together scholars from around the campus and by winning the Men's Residence Division\nin the Arts '20 Relay and the Women's Pilcher Division \"Day of the Long\nBoat\" races. Non-resident member Michael Smith was honoured at dinner\non October 26 after the announcement of his 1993 Nobel Prize.\nFund-raising is proceeding for a second college at UBC, St. John's\nCollege. St. John's University was a prestigious school in Shanghai for\nabout 70 years until it was closed in 1952. St. John's College UBC will be\none of several projects world-wide aimed at perpetuating the name of that\nuniversity. St. John's alumni are actively raising funds for these projects.\nPhase I will raise $5 million for an endowment for international\ngraduate students at $15,000 per year for up to three years, support for\nvisiting scholars and a small component for coordination and enhancement\nofthe experience of St. John's Scholars.\nIf Phase I is successful, a Phase II campaign will be launched to allow\nconstruction and operation of St. John's College UBC. This graduate college would be similar in size to Green College, but the emphasis will be on\ninternational rather than interdisciplinary studies.\nSt. John's alumni have set up four scholarships to be funded in 1993-\n94 for international students. These are being matched by renaming four\ngraduate fellowships to students in international studies. A reception was\nheld at Dr. Strangway's house on September 7 to honour the first eight St.\nJohn's Scholars and the alumni engaged in the fund-raising efforts.\nLIBRARY\nAn ambitious project to microfilm the\nBC Sessional Papers from 1871 to\n1982 is underway in the UBC Library,\nthanks to a grant of $30,000 from Earl\nD. Dodson BA'54, PEng.\nThese papers include the principal publications of the BC government, including reports of all ministries, bureaux and major offices, financial reports and estimates, submissions\nand returns.They are often very detailed, running to hundreds of pages,\nwith maps, photos and sketches. Even\nthe most recent issues, 1952-1982,\ncontain rarities, because the volumes\nwere never issued to the public as a\nset, only to ministry offices and the\nLegislative Library.\nThe papers are essential to all\nlibraries interested in social and economic history, but the originals are\nscarce. Surviving copies suffer from\nadvanced deterioration and will soon\nbe unuseable.\nBy filming the papers, the Library\nwill preserve and make accessible I 10\nyears of important, high-profile and\nendangered documents \"just in time.\"\nFilming should be concluded early\nnext year.\nMicrofilming is one response to\nthe crisis libraries around the world\nare now facing. Almost the entire\nprinted record of the past century is\ndisintegrating.Without drastic measures, most of these books may be\ncompletely lost or unusable within the\nnext twenty to thirty years.\nPaper made during the past 150\nyears is acidic and unstable. Even early\nissues of The Chronicle from the 1930s\nand 1940s were found to be seriously\nbrittle. The Chronicle was one title included in another preservation microfilming project in the library last year.\nDe-acidification processes to\nsave the original volumes are slow and\nexpensive. Reformatting brittle books\nonto high-quality, stable, preservation\nmicrofilm is a less expensive alternative. The Library is cooperating with\nmajor academic and national libraries\nworld-wide to film as much as we can.\n12 UBC Aii-mni Chronicle, Winter 1993 TV IN c\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2/\u00C2\u00A5 %\nForestry\nThe Faculty of Forestry held its second annual Forestry Careers Evening on\nOctober 28. Nearly 200 people participated. We developed the program to let\nundergrads meet with professionals and learn about different career paths.\nAlumni participated in the event this year, which included socializing, pizza and\ntwo hours of presentations and discussions. In the presentations, professionals\nfrom all areas of forestry, forest products and conservation gave students insight into their careers and key factors for future success.This year's presenters included: Russell Clinton BSF'67; Hugh Sutcliffe BSF'77; Doug\nBennett BSF'79; Reid Carter BSc'79, MSc'83; Cindy Pearce, past director of\nthe BC Forestry Continuing Studies Network; and Dan Jepsen and David\nWright from the Association of BC Professional Foresters.\nA critical\u00E2\u0080\u0094and fun\u00E2\u0080\u0094part of the evening was the socializing between students and alumni. We would like to thank all alumni who were able to offer\ntheir time, including Stirling Angus BSF'82; Rod Beaumont\nBSF'74, MF'78; Derek Challenger BSF'91; Owen\nCroy BSF'87; Chris Davies BSF'64; Frank Eichel\nBSF'79; Jerome Girard BSF'85; Greg Goss\nBSF'90; Stuart Grundison BSF'85; Greg\nHallaway BSF'80; Bill Henderson BSF'67; Bruce\nMclntyre BSF'77; Dale Mcllwrick BSF'83; Wesley\nMussio BSF'86. LLB'90; Gary Sutherland BSF'70 and\nRob Zwick BASc(MechEng)'80, MASc(ForEng)'84.\nThe third annual Careers Evening will be held next\nOctober. Any alumni interested in being involved should call Donna Goss, 822-\n3547.\nAgricultural\nSciences\n\u00C2\u00A3\n>/\n%\nSustainable agricultural practices\nwith concern for existing resources, economic infrastructures\nand social well-being are at the\nheart of the faculty's programs.\nSome examples:\nPest control is of major concern in the Department of Plant\nScience. Judy Myers is researching the control of pests by natural\ninsect enemies. Murray Isman is\ndeveloping insecticides from the\nIndian neem tree and tall oil, a\nby-product of kraft pulp production from local softwoods. Overall, the department emphasizes\nan integrated pest management\napproach.\nAnimal scientists are concerned with wildlife as well as with\nmanagement of domestic animals\nand fish. David Shackleton is conducting habitat research involving\ngrizzly bears, wolves, elk, wild\ngoat and sheep. The impact of\nhuman activities on Great Blue\nHerons, cormorants and the common barn owl are being evaluated\nby Kim Cheng and Leslie Hart.\nThe Department of Soil Science deals with the management\nof the land. A number of studies\nare dedicated to finding solutions\nto local soil problems. Art Bomke,\nLawrence Lowe and Mike Novak\nare working with farmers in Delta\nto develop innovative cover cropping techniques to maintain soil\norganic matter, provide\noverwinter soil protection, improve soil physical properties and\nconserve nitrogen. As well, they\nare determining management\npractices necessary to reclaim degraded mineral soils in the region.\nIn Landscape Architecture,\nthe focus is on managing the urban and rural landscape as ecosystems. For instance, Patrick\nMooney is involved in a major\nlandscape reclamation and development project in Iona Regional\nPark for wildlife enhancement\nand human recreation.\nAgricultural Economics has\nmembers with particular expertise\nin international development.\nRick Barichello and Casey Van\nKooten are working on a project\nthat examines the role of economic instruments and institutions for sustainable development.\nThese are only a few examples of programs that indicate the\nfaculty's commitment to integrated, ecosystem approaches to\neffect \"sustainable development\"\nthrough an eco-agriculture which\nemphasizes environmental stewardship and the quality of life.\nHuman\nKinetics\nrf\nThe Leisure and Sport Management program is one of four\nundergrad programs in the School\nof Human Kinetics. The program is\nbuilt around three elements: an understanding of diverse client\ngroups; the delivery of leisure and\nsport products and services; and\nthe social context in which leisure\nand sport takes place. Students will\nparticipate in a full-term field work\nand field research placement in\ntheir 4th year, to apply what they\nhave learned in the program and\nassist leisure and sport agencies in\napplied research projects. Interested students should apply to the\nSocio-Managerial Research program at the graduate level.\nFaculty who teach in these\nprograms are involved in a number\nof innovative research projects.\nFunded projects currently\nunderway include: active lifestyles\nmessages in national consumer\nbrand advertising; Canadian\nbroadcasting policy and the market\nstrategy of The Sports Network\n(TSN); the occupational culture of\nCanadian sports journalists; volunteer perspectives on the\nsocialization of people with mental\nhandicaps; sport in urban settings;\nstrategic planning in senior citizen\ncentres; and the career patterns of\nleisure service professionals.\nAnother project, being conducted by Wendy Frisby and Susan\nCrawford, Physically Active Recreation as a Health Promotion Strategy for Low Income Women, is being funded by the BC Health Research Foundation. The project\narose from a need for greater access to leisure and sport services by-\nlow income women in the Kamloops area. The process involves\nanalysis, needs assessment, a community development process to\nidentify and implement program\nalternatives and ongoing evaluations ofthe delivery process. The\naim ofthe project is to involve low\nincome women in a process that\nwill encourage self sufficiency, social support and opportunities for\nenhancing health. In addition,\ncommunity health, social service\nand leisure service providers will\nbecome more sensitive to the needs\nof these women and alternative\npolicy and service delivery strategies. Frisby and Crawford are conducting a workshop at the Poverty:\nFeminist Perspectives Conference sponsored by the Centre for Research in\nWomen's Studies and Gender Relations and the School of Social Work\nat UBC, November 18-20.\n$f)armacp\nDean McNeill of the Faculty of\nPharmaceutical Sciences recently\nreceived a delegation of pharmacists and executives from Shoppers\nDrug Mart, who presented a\ncheque for $45,000. This was the\nfinal payment towards a total donation of $225,000 from the Shoppers\nDrug Mart parent company,\nImasco.\nThis large donation, coupled\nwith funds from DuFont and\nmatching funds from the provincial\ngovernment, will be used as an endowment to partially fund two new\nprofessorships in clinical pharmacy.\nThese will be the Shoppers Drug\nMart Professorship in Clinical\nPharmacy and the David H.\nMacDonald Professorship in Clinical Pharmacy, the latter named in\nhonour of the recently retired\npresident of Shoppers Drug Mart\nWest.\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993\n13 The\nCelluloid\nYoung, talented and ambitious\nubc film students are making their mark\nin Vancouver's booming film industry\nApril Bosshard was intriguing. At\n23, she has just graduated\nk from UBC's film and thea-\n^^ tre department and is\nnow assisting a well-known Vancouver producer on a feature film.\nJust Like You, her student film,\nscreened at the Montreal film festival, also\nwon best drama in the student category of\nthe Yorkton student film festival. Bosshard\nis knowledgeable, focused and articulate\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nin fact she has the poise of someone twice\nher age, even over the telephone.\nHow did she get so far so quickly, a little voice inside me asked?\nWe met in person and my jealousy vanished, or at least mostly dissolved. She was\nlate and out of breath\u00E2\u0080\u0094she had just managed to escape from work. It was a radiant,\nwarm, Saturday afternoon in late September\nbut I could see the dark shadows under her\neyes. My little voice pointed out that perhaps Bosshard is successful because she\nworks damn hard.\nAs we chatted over cappuccino, I asked\nhow she became interested in film making.\nHer plan when she started university\nwas to go into international relations. That\nsounded safe and secure. The travel aspect\nstrongly appealed.\nA decision to take two film courses for\nfun in second year changed her life. She hit\nit off with other film students and began\nby Mardi Wareham\nworking on their films. \"It was so much fun.\nIt triggered something in me,\" Bosshard\nsaid. In what she describes as a great leap of\nfaith, she decided to do what she really enjoyed instead of going the sensible route.\n\"Follow your bliss. That's what my Mom\ntaught me,\" she said. \"The\nshould-do's just make you\nmiserable.\"\nSo not only is she\nyoung, talented and ambitious, Bosshard also has\ncourage. I could learn\nsomething from her.\nAfter switching her\nmajor to film, she worked\non various student films as\nprops master, in the costume department and editing. She wrote scripts\nand directed her own\nscript in fourth year.\nShe also volunteered\non films outside university.\nHer first paid position was\nwardrobe supervisor on an\neducational video about\ndeaf children and sexual\nabuse. She began as a volunteer but did such a good\njob the producers found\nthe money to pay her.\nShe continued working and cultivating industry contacts, eventually assisting Alan Morinis on\nthe Canadian feature film Harmony Cats.\nMore recently Bosshard assisted producer\nPeter O'Brian on the Canadian feature, The\nYellow Dog.\nWhile she is happy to apprentice with\nwell-known Canadian producers for the mo-\n14\nUBC Allmni Chronicle, Win ter 1993 ment, the ten-year plan is to be writing and\nproducing her own dramatic scripts. She\nwould like to see Canadians producing films\nthat are entertaining but also thought provoking, \"not the Arnold Schwartzennegger\naction movies.\"\n\"I think Canada has the real potential\nfor bridging the gap between Europe and\nthe U.S. I think we have both sensibilities in\nour culture.\"\nShe is not so sure about directing,\nwhich she found to be \"interesting and enjoyable and stressful and awful and ... everything.\"\nPerhaps the stress is part ofthe challenge, I ventured. Bosshard admitted that at\ntimes the editing room at the UBC film\nschool became the crying room. \"You are\nstripped naked. You're forced to face your\nworst fears.\"\n\"For me it's about being accepted.\nWhat if people hate what I'm doing? You\nhave put a lot of yourself into your film.\"\n\"You have to pick yourself up and carry\non.\"\nBosshard praised UBC's program for\nconcentrating on 16mm film production.\nShe made films in both her third and fourth\nyear at UBC.\n\"The university environment lets you\nfocus on production and learning how to\nwork together.\" UBC's program also includes film theory and film history.\nThe climax of the program is POV, the\nyear-end student film exhibition and awards\nceremony, with audiences of about 450 people. Bosshard recalled, \"Up until then everyone in film is totally stressed out. They're\nnot eating enough or sleeping enough and\nthey're spending all those hours under fluorescent lights. Then everyone makes it in,\njust under the wire.\"\n\"Seeing my film on the big screen with\nan audience and with people laughing in\nthe right spots, I got all tingly. It makes all\nthe hard work worth it.\"\n\"It's one of those feelings that doesn't\ncome along very often. And then the party\nafterwards is great!\"\nTo learn more about UBC's film students I talked to associate professor Ray\nHall, a 12-year veteran of UBC's film de\npartment. Hall has worked as an editor and\nproducer for more than 35 years, including\nseveral years at the CBC.\nUBC student films have become less\nartsy and more commercial over the years,\nhe says.\nRecent scripts have recognizable stories\nand plot structures, with characters and\nthemes that are commonplace. This trend\nApril Bosshard and film prof Ray Hall. Opposite:\nBosshard wrapped up in her work.\ntowards the mainstream was not encouraged\nor discouraged by staff, says Hall. \"It just\nhappened. It's obviously what the students\nare interested in.\"\nOften students get professional work in\nthe film industry and the department struggles to be flexible in allowing the interruption in studies.\nHall explains, \"We're victims of our\nown success. We train them, they get work,\nand then we say they're going to fail if they\ndon't complete the academic work.\"\n\"If I were a student, I'd say, 'Redesign\nthe program.'\"\nHall would like to see the two-year program expanded to three years. The first\nyear would concentrate on technical skills\nsuch as lighting, camera work and the technical jargon ofthe industry.\nThe second year would focus on script\nwriting, with additional courses in exhibition, distribution, film criticism, casting and\nproduction design.\nThe third year would be entirely devoted to production.\nAn internship program to allow students to work in the industry while still in\nschool has been suggested. Hall agrees\ninternships are extremely valuable but isn't\ncontinued on page 16\nFocus\non B.C.'s\nFilm Industry\nThese days, Vancouver residents\ndon't bat an eye at the sight of\nmobile dressing rooms lining city\nstreets. Only really big Hollywood stars like\nRichard Gere and Sharon Stone attract\ncrowds of curious onlookers.\nThe nonchalance means that BC's film\nand television industry has definitely arrived.\nIn 1992, sixty-one feature films, TV\nmovies and TV series were shot here. The\nindustry spent $211 million, out of budgets\ntotalling $368 million. And this year's figures are likely to be much higher.\nFive thousand people are now directly\nemployed in BC's film industry, according\nto the British Columbia Film Commission.\nBC is home to 268 film and video companies, 40 talent agencies and 15 shooting\nstages. This includes the largest special effects stage in North America, Bridge Studios in Burnaby.\nBC is among the top four production\ncentres in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. Toronto has traditionally\nplaced third but some say Vancouver has\nnow usurped that position. (This is hotly\ndisputed by Torontonians, of course.)\nMost BC productions are financed by\nAmerican networks and studios, who simply\nuse BC's picturesque locations and high\ncalibre crews. It's not unusual to see a Vancouver backdrop disguised as a street in\nNew York or Los Angeles. Canadian productions such as the Neon Rider TV series and\nCBC's Northwood are the exception.\nBut watch for The Lotus Eaters, a feature film written and produced in BC,\nfilmed on Galiano. Other features include\nCadillac Girls, The Burning Season and\nDigger, which opened the 1993 Vancouver\nInternational Film Festival in October.\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993\n15 UBC'S\nFilm\nProgram\nUBC's Department of Theatre and\nFilm offerings, facts and figures:\n=t> BA with a major in film\n=#> Diploma for those who already\nhave a BA.\n=\u00C2\u00A3> Masters programs in film production and film history/theory.\n=#> Employs 5 full-time faculty\nteaching 16mm film production, video production and film\nhistory/theory. One sessional\nlecturer and two film technicians complete the roster.\n=*> About 15 students are enrolled\nin the BA and diploma programs, with 15 in the masters\nprograms.\n=>> 350 students who are not film\nmajors take production or\ntheory courses.\n=4> Students finance their own\nproductions. Even with free\naccess to equipment and facilities, students spend between\n$ 1,500 and $2,000 per year on\nproduction expenses.\n=t> Film equipment includes 5 professional 16mm cameras\n(Arriflex and Eclair), 4 Nagra\nsound recorders and 4\nSteenbeck editing machines.\nThe variety of tripods, lighting\npackages, dolly platforms,\nwalkie talkies and other paraphernalia allows four student\ncrews to shoot at the same\ntime.\n=\u00C2\u00A3> Video equipment includes Super VHS, 8mm and Hi 8 cameras and editing suites.\n=#> Plans are underway for a combined film/TV studio that film\nstudents will share with journalism students in the planned\nCreative Arts Building.\ncontinued from page 15\nsure how he would fit them into the school's\nalready jam-packed program.\nInternships aside, UBC graduates seem\nto have no trouble finding work in the local\nindustry.\n\"They have the right frame of mind,\"\nsays IATSE Local 891 president George\nChapman. (IATSE is the union for film\ntechnicians.) \"They aren't under the illusion\nthey're going to come out of school and instantly win an Oscar. It takes hard work.\"\n\"You're judged very quickly by the industry, and film production companies are\nvery quick to discard people if they can't cut\nit. UBC students can cut it.\"\nChapman also praises UBC students for\ntheir co-operative attitude. \"It's refreshing.\nThe emphasis is on good film making.\nThere are no prima donnas.\"\nA regular viewer at the UBC annual\nstudent screenings, he has noticed a great\nimprovement in quality over the last 10\nyears.\nFourth-year student Rob McDonagh\nagrees that student films are more sophisticated every year, with students paying close\nattention to the look of their films and the\nsound quality, among other things.\n\"Before, it was 'Let's go out and make a\nfilm and have some fun.' Now it's, 'Let's\nmake a damn good film,'\" says McDonagh.\nCompetition is a factor in the UBC\nprogram, just as it is in the real world. Although every student taking a production\ncourse writes a short script, only five are actually produced. Staff and students vote on\nwhich scripts they want to see realised.\nSounds serious, I thought, upon hearing this. But McDonagh put it into perspective. \"It does get really serious and frustrating and expensive, and you get no sleep.\nBut I always say, 'Remember, it's only a\nfilm.'\"\nMardi Wareham is a Vancouver freelance writer\nwho also works in the film industry.\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nPRIZES FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING\nCALL FOR NOMINATIONS IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS\nOnce again the university is recognizing excellence in teaching through the awarding of prizes to\nfaculty members.The Faculty of Arts will select five (5) winners of the prizes for excellence in teaching for 1994.\nAlumni are encouraged to bring their suggestions for teaching prize winners to the attention of the\nhead ofthe department, the director ofthe school or the chair ofthe program in which the instructor is teaching.\nEligibility: Eligibility is open to faculty who have three or more years of teaching at UBC.The three\nyears include 1993-94.\nCriteriafThe awards will recognize distinguished teaching at all levels, introductory, advanced.graduate\ncourses, graduate supervision and any combination of levels.\nNomination Process: Members of faculty, students, or alumni may suggest candidates to the head\nof the department, the director of the school, or the chair of the program in which the nominee\nteaches. These suggestions should be in writing and signed by one or more students, alumni, or\nfaculty, and they should include a very brief statement of the basis for the nomination.You may write\na letter of nomination or pick up a form from the office of the Dean of Arts in Buchanan Building,\nRoom B 130.\nDeadlines:The deadline for submission of nominations to departments, schools or programs is 21\nJanuary 1994.\nWinners will be announced in the Spring, and they will be identified as well during Spring Convocation in May.\nFor further information about these awards contact your department or call Associate Dean of Arts,\nDr.Sherrill Grace at 822-9121.\n16 UBC An mm Chronicle, Winter 1993 MiillH'lJiiiicil}:\nle Struggle for\nInclusion\nThe Centre for Continuing\nStudies' conference brought\nmen and women from\naround the world to talk\nabout how ethnic groups\ncan learn to live together.\nSometimes the struggle is\njust too much.\nKnots of natives, talking desultorily and sipping from cups of a\nmysterious black brew, had gathered at the meeting-place by the\ntime I arrived clutching my tape recorder\nand notebook.\nIt had been an uneventful journey of less\nthan an hour from my home in Vancouver's\nFairview neighbourhood to this pleasant,\nleafy community at the ocean's edge. But,\nlike an anthropologist investigating the enigmatic customs of an obscure tribe, I was\nabout to immerse myself in a set of completely foreign routines and rituals.\nMy mission: to attend and report on an\nacademic conference, The Vancouver International Symposium on Ethnicity: Conflict\nand Cooperation, organized by UBC's Centre for Continuing Studies. For four days in\nby Elizabeth Godley\nlate August, I was to wander amidst a horde\nof about 100 conferees from all over the\nglobe. I would sit in over-heated or too-chilly\nclassrooms taking notes, listening, straining\nto interpret buzz-words and decipher jargon.\nI would eavesdrop on coffee-break chats and\nmeal-time conversations, all the while striving to make sense of what I heard and saw.\nThe experience was exhausting but rewarding, as I slowly began to unravel the tangled skeins that link adult education,\nmulticulturalism and conflict resolution.\nOne of my most valuable sources of information was Walter Uegama, Associate\nVice-President and Director of Continuing\nStudies and one ofthe conference's key organizers.\nUegama, aided by Rodolfo Stavenhagen\nofthe Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City and\nOtto Feinstein of the Centre for Peace of\nConflict Studies, Wayne State University,\nMichigan, spent three years circling the\nglobe, arranging for presentations by notables in the field. Among them: Silva\nMeznaric ofthe University of Zagreb, in the\nformer Yugoslavia; Jagdish Gundara of the\nUniversity of London, England; Valery\nTishkov of the Institute for Anthropology\nand Ethnology in Moscow; and Lana Dattoo\nofthe University ofthe West Indies in Trinidad.\nAlthough ethnic studies increasingly\nboast a high profile in academia, Uegama\nand his colleagues could not have predicted\nexactly how timely their conference would be\nwhen it finally got underway. As Germans\nharass and murder Turks, and Bosnia tears\nitself apart, ethnic conflicts pose a major\nthreat to world peace and stability.\nIn addition, the conference broke new-\nground by bringing together academics,\npolicy makers and community workers involved with multicultural issues on a day-today basis. Their alliance was fragile, though,\nwith anger and frustration often bubbling\nbeneath the smooth niceties of academic discussions.\nWith the sun shining, Vancouver and the\nUBC campus did us proud, not only because\nof spectacular ocean and mountain vistas,\nbut because ofthe city's multicultural complexion. As Uegama told me, we Canadians\nhave good reason to feel pleased with ourselves when it comes to multiculturalism,\ndespite Quebec's recurring threats, and uglv\ndemonstrations of misunderstanding such as\nOka. \"The world is very interested in what\nCanada has tried to do,\" he said.\nIndeed, one ofthe first conferees I spoke\nwith confirmed this. Arthur Helweg, from the\nUniversity of Western Michigan, told me how\nimpressed he and his colleagues had been by\nCanada's attempt to meld disparate voices\nduring our fractious constitutional debates.\nHis comment startled me out of my cynicism\nand lit a tiny flame of patriot fervour in my\nsoul.\naT\\nM | onferees heard dozens of papers, on\nH topics as diverse as adult education\nV I in Belgium, Hungarian voluntary\n^^y associations, ethnic relations in Trinidad, refugee children in elementary schools,\nseniors in England, Gypsies, and Canada's\nmulticultural health policy.\nA paper on anti-Turk sentiment in Germany, given by Lydia Potts of Oldenburg\nUniversity, sparked a wide-ranging discussion\nthat touched on language rights in Hungary,\nNAFTA, quotas and affirmative action, unemployment, and illegal immigrants in California, and posited notions of \"inclusionary\"\nand \"exclusionary\" racism.\nNot all papers were delivered by academics. George Cushingberry Jr., a Michigan\ncounty commissioner and Detroit mayoralty\ncandidate, spoke about civic literacy and political strategy, and Lawrence Landry, an activist with the Rainbow Coalition in Washing-\nUBC Allmni Chronicle, Winter 1993 17 ton, D.C, teamed up with criminologist\nDenis Hunter of Wayne State University to\nput forward ideas about dispute resolution\ntraining for police officers.\nJust as intriguing as the formal papers\nwere the impromptu discussions that erupted\nwhenever panellists and presenters weren't\nfront and centre. In one such exchange, a\nnon-academic conferee bitterly attacked electronic communications \u00E2\u0080\u0094 e-mail, faxes, and\nthe like \u00E2\u0080\u0094 as inhuman and undemocratic,\nwhile others defended them as useful tools.\nMeanwhile, a puzzled Belgian academic and\nhis wife whispered anxious questions to me.\nWhat in the world was e-mail, they wondered, and did every Canadian home house\na computer?\nIn another discussion group, practical\nconflict resolution skills were almost put to\nthe test, when a clutch of conferees challenged two Indo-Trinidadian presenters\nabout the absence of Afro-Trinidadians at the\nconference.\nLike the call of a jungle bird, one theme\nrecurred throughout the proceedings: several\nparticipants repeatedly spoke out against\nwhat they perceived as ivory-tower attitudes,\nracism and cultural elitism on the part of\nsome conference superstars.\nFollowing the first plenary session \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand countering one man's assertion\nthat this was the best academic panel\nhe'd heard in 40 years of conferences\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a Black woman rose to demand \"more\nrealistic\" discussion about refugees. In her\nview, they were fleeing from wars instigated\nby the Western powers, who then turned\naround and refused them entry.\nIn tense moments such as this, Rodolfo\nStavenhagen played a crucial role, tying up\nloose threads or clarifying issues with intelligence, patience, humour and tact.\nAt the first plenary session, he outlined\nthe issues that would inform almost every\ndiscussion during the next four days.\nTwo contradictory tendencies are waging\nwar in the world today, he told the assembly.\nOne, in the guise of arrangements such as\nNAFTA and the European Common Market,\nurges us toward globalization, toward the\n\"universalization of norms and attitudes.\"\n\"In another discussion\ngroup, practical conflict\nresolution skills were almost\nput to the test, when a\nclutch of conferees\nchallenged two Indo-\nTrinidadian presenters\nabout the absence of Afro-\nTrinidadians at the\nconference.\"\nThe other, meanwhile, tugs us toward\nregionalism and ethnic identity, and we can\nsee its repercussions only too clearly in Russia and the former Yugoslavia, said\nStavenhagen, a German-born Jew who lives\nand works in Latin America.\nAt the centre of these competing tendencies, he said, lies \"the changing nature ofthe\nnation-state, [which] has not been able to\ndeal adequately either with globalization or\nwith local issues like ethnic conflict.\"\nAs a solution, Stavenhagen proposed the\nconcept of ethno-development: inward-looking, not expert-driven, self-reliant, needs-\noriented rather than growth-oriented, and\nparticipatory.\nEthno-development \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"pluralistic,\" environmentally responsible, and \"based on the\nconcept of human individuality and collective dignity and identity\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 might remedy\nthe world's current ills, he suggested.\nBut others on the plenary panel were not\nconvinced. Jagdish Gundara ofthe University of London, England, wondered if such\nan inward-looking philosophy was not harking back to a golden age \"that perhaps never\nexisted,\" and asked if ethno-development\nwas strong enough to challenge the Euro-\ncentrism that has disempowered people for\ncenturies.\nAnd, Gundara asked, might ethno-development not deny \"the larger proposals of\nmodernity\" in its rush to recognize groups\nsuch as Afro-Americans, the Welsh and the\nQuebecois?\nIn her contribution to the plenary, E.\nCerroni-Long, of Eastern Michigan University, reminded listeners that the tribe, a culturally homogeneous group, is \"an ideal\nmodel for life on this planet.\"\n\"The major mistake we've made in the\nWest is to collapse the idea of the nation with\nthe idea ofthe state,\" said Cerroni-Long,\nasking conferees to consider the possibility of\nhaving states without nations.\n\"It's the same model that was applied to\nthe separation between church and state,\"\nshe said, urging a similar separation between\nculture and state, with \"a variety of cultures\nunited by one government,\" a concept all too\nfamiliar to Canadians.\nValery Tishkov of Moscow's Institute for\nAnthropology and Ethnology, perhaps unwittingly, played devil's advocate when he questioned the purpose of ethnicity and cultural\ndiversity in today's world. His remarks also\nrevealed the excitement the notion of market\nforces \u00E2\u0080\u0094 old-hat to us \u00E2\u0080\u0094 raises in post-communist Russia.\n\"You can't make a state without a cultural\nsystem,\" Tishkov said, and proposed a marketing framework, based on \"preferences in\nproduction of products and services,\" to replace what we traditionally think of as culture.\nSomewhat provocatively, he went on to\nsay that just because one group dominates others doesn't necessarily imply\ndiscrimination. \"If you want to be\nheard and participate, you must make the\nchoice to use the language ofthe dominant\nculture.\"\nHowever, Tishkov concluded by saying:\n\"You can't proclaim the state as the property\nof one group.\"\nAfter the introductory plenary, I and the\nother conferees headed for the coffee urns,\npeering at our programs and agonizing over\nwhich of three simultaneous discussion\ngroups to attend.\nThree days later, after a gala farewell dinner and reception at the Graduate Student\nCentre, we were still wondering if we'd made\nthe right choices. I castigated myself for\nmissing all the papers on adult education,\nUBC Alimni Chronicle, Winter 1993 and tried to imagine what the University of\nWindsor's Walter Temelini might have said\non the topic of \"Civilization and Civic Society\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Teaching the Classics.\"\nFor me, a reluctant anthropologist\namongst the denizens of academia, the conference \u00E2\u0080\u0094 at times frustrating, at times illuminating \u00E2\u0080\u0094 opened up a stimulating world\nof ideas I hadn't known existed. Ethnicity\nwasn't on the curriculum when I was at university. And after all, who would ever connect\nadult education and multiculturalism, without guidance?\nI can't speak for all the non-academic\nconferees. But Wilma Wood, director ofthe\nVancouver Museum, summed up her experience this way. Yes, there were boring bits,\nwhen Wood wondered whether she was wasting time \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and taxpayers' money. But relevance flashed occasionally, like a quetzal's\nplumage in the rain-forest canopy.\n\"Once in a while, a paper gave me an\ninsight into what I am trying to do, which is\nto mobilize a Canadian cultural institution to\nbecome relevant to its community,\" she confided over lunch one day.\nShirley MacLeod agreed. This British-\ntrained nurse, now a University of Victoria\ngrad student, said she had attended 25 conferences in the past 18 months. \"Such a\ncross-section of ideas,\" she mused. \"It's a\nspectacular way of learning.\"\nElizabeth is a Vancouver artist and freelance\nwriter.\nNew Growth for\nContinuing Studies\nc\n'ontinuing education has been around at UBC, in one\nform or another, for over 70 years. This is the department\nthat has, historically, been the main supplier of non-degree\noriented courses in BC. But times have changed: regional\ncolleges, high schools and community centres are now\noffering affordable, local and diverse programs to the\npublic. The Centre for Continuing Studies, under Associate\nVice President Walter Uegama, has seen the changing times and changed along with them.\nContinuing Studies is a new designation that gathers Extra-Sessional (part-time studies),\nUBC Access (distance education) and the Centre for Continuing Education (general non-\ncredit courses) together into one administrative grouping. Combined, these programs\ngenerate over $20 million annually, and involve over 85,000 students in 1,800 courses.\nWalter Uegama is a continuing education enthusiast, and he's excited about the new\ndepartment. \"Universities have to fit their programs to meet the needs of the community,\"\nhe says. \"We have to be responsive.\"\nAs result, CS programs are striking a balance between traditional fare and diploma\nprograms (environmental studies, the museum program), career development, especially as\nit relates to the future of work and the nature our changing economy, applied technology\nprograms and an extensive program of ESL offerings.\nThat CS is an important part of UBC's future is seen in the appointment of Uegama as\nan associate VP: until now, the head of CS has always been a director. Growth and innovation have always been the hallmark of continuing education at UBC, and Uegama sees CS\nmoving into five main market areas: training in the campus community; general public\nprograms in the arts and humanities; credential programs; corporate training; and international programs with the English Language Institute, cross-cultural training and alliances\nwith universities around the world.\nUnder Walter Uegama, CS will continue to grow and diversify.\n\"Thanks for talking to me\nabout UBC and many thanks\nfor your generous gift.\"\nFive nights a week, forty-eight weeks a\nyear, a dozen or so UBC students in baseball caps and sweatshirts head to Mary\nBollert Hall, after a day of classes, to\nreach out to alumni by phone. They\nhope to chat with you, update your address, let you know what is happening\non campus and finish the conversation\nby saying \"thanks for talking to me about\nUBC and many thanks for your generous gift.\"\nFor the student callers, it's an opportunity to earn much needed money right\nhere on campus, without wasting precious study time travelling to work. They\nfeel they are not phoning strangers, but\nrather those who have walked the same\npaths, sat in the same desks, lived in the\nsame residences. The scene is repeated\nat campuses across the country as present\nand past students connect in support of\ntheir alma maters.\nAlthough UBC alumni are still canvassed\nby mail, the telepledge program has\nproved to be a cost effective way to raise\nmoney, with a much higher participation rate than mail. In addition, it is the\nmajor source of address updates for all\nalumni mail and the Chronicle.\nAs part of the World of Opportunity\nCampaign, the telepledge program has\nraised $458,978 for the President's Opportunity Fund, providing scholarships,\nbursaries and special initiatives, and\n$327,418 for Faculty Endowment Funds.\nCurrently, students are calling to ask for\nyour support in raising $300,000 towards\nthe new Walter C. Koerner Library,\nwhich opens in 1995. It will incorporate\nSedgewick Library to integrate graduate\nand undergraduate library research into\none building and is the first phase of\nwhat will become the new Main Library\non campus.\nPlease take a moment to speak\nwith the student who calls and\ngive them your support!\nipportunity\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 19 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\"aer\u00E2\u0080\u0094spv-i,..-\nFor Your Reading Pleasure\n8y Zoe Landale\nMy Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling\n(Groundwood, paper, $7.95) won this year's BC\nBook Prize for children's literature. It is an autobiographical novel I approached with trepidation. Over\nthe years I have heard Indian authors lambaste\nwhites on the subject of native residential schools,\nand I was not sure if I wanted more guilt heaped\nupon me. Sterling, however, handles this material\nbeautifully. Written in the format of a child's diary,\nwe find out what it means to be uprooted from\nyour family, have your name changed and be forbidden your own language.\nAll right, by page forty I had tears in my eyes.\nBut, and this is the lovely part, Sterling has a compassionate touch. The same Sister Theo who is \"always yelling orders and bawling us out\" helps\nSeepeetza's older sister, who is having trouble with a\nsupervisor who won't give her time to study for exams. Sister Theo secretly gives her \"a flashlight so\nshe could study under her blankets at night\" We\nalso hear about life on Joyaska ranch where\nSeepeetza grows up, and if family members come\nout a shade rose-tinted, the warmth and details the\nwriter provides are memorable.The smells and\nsounds of the ranch are all there.\nOne small criticism is that the ending just tails\noff. It's forgivable.This book is filled with\nhuckleberries, the delicious smell of home-made\nbread, and kids eating mint toothpaste because\nthey're hungry. It has substance.\nThe Illumination of Alice Mallory by Maureen\nMoore (HarperCollins, paper, $12.95) is a clever\nbook.The first sentence made me like it. \"North\nVancouver was utterly loathsome and desolate,\nAlice Mallory decided, especially lower Lonsdale\nwhere she lived.\" Moore has a splendid, glittering\nstyle of writing, which can get excessive at times but\nis usually under control. She has an acidly amusing\nway with unlikeable characters. Alice's mother,\nBeryl, is a quintessential creep, sluttish, neglectful of\nher children, manipulating and lazy. I kept wanting to\ndisbelieve in this awful woman, yet she crackles with\nenergy. Every time Beryl opens her mouth, the\nreader pays attention. What dire thing will Beryl do\nor say next?\nThe late fifties/early sixties are presented\nseamlessly. Bit players leap off the page, like Alice's\nco-worker at Woolworth's whose \"arms were perfectly smooth due to her habit of torching off any\nfuzz with a cone of burning paper.\"\nAlice wants to escape to something higher\nthan the gross, non-literate world her mother inhabits. Her choice of James Chant as a lover, a D.H.\nLawrence scholar, permits the author a wicked humour. James tells Alice,\"l had only intermittent\nflashes of consciousness until I woke up and found\nmyself in graduate school.\" James is, of course, a\nlouse, and a well-dissected one by the end of the\nbook. I appreciated every barb.\nAlaska Highway Two-Step by Caroline\nWoodward (Polestar, paper, $ 14.95) contains the\nmost loving portrayal of a slobbering canine since\nthe Albert Payson Terhune series of books about\ncollies I grew up with. Sadie Brown protects her\nowner, Mercy Brown, from garter snakes at the\ncompost bin and is generally good company. Even I,\nwho do not dote on dogs, like her.\nWoodward has an easy natural style. I love her\nwriting. It's clean, warm and sceptical in the right\nplaces.The problem I had with this book is at 175\npages, it's too short to integrate the two focuses the\nauthor has set for herself. One is Aunt Ginger's diaries, the other the visions of impending disasters\nMercy records for the Canadian Bureau of Premonitions. All the jacket hype about \"mysteries\" confused\nme. I thought I was reading a sort of psychic murder\nmystery.\nWell, no. What we get is the story of Mercy's\ntravels up the Alaska Highway, with the tension well-\nhandled and rachetted up by the intensity and progression of Mercy's visions.\nWould you believe that I couldn't figure out\nwhat happened at the end? Even after several\nrereadings I am not sure. What was it that Mercy\nand the Bureau did to avert catastrophe? Nothing I\ncould see.\nSometimes a book gets away from an author.\nThis is Woodward's first novel and I have the feeling\nthe structure escaped from her. It won't, however,\nstop me from buying her next book.Woodward is a\nwriter to watch.\nA Staircase For All Souls by George McWhirter\n(Oolichan, paper, unpriced) is subtitled \"The British\nColumbia Suite, A Wooded Masque for Readers and\nListeners.\" This book, complete with trademark\nMcWhirter ambiguities, contains some fine poetry.\nThis stuff is Grand Cru, not everyday wine.The lan\nguage is sleek and surprising. Who else could write\nabout asters growing \"in a snort of colour\"?\nOne of his strengths is the particularity of his\nvision, especially as it relates to the natural world. It\nmeans that vegetation does not grow in a tangle of\nunknown foliage, it is separated with precision and\nnamed with delight. Consider a stanza like: \"White\ntarantula, the star magnolia blossoms/Crawl under the\nblack boulders/Ofthe March night\"\nThese are poems of transformation. Sound\nplays a large part in them, often by way of an italicized facing page.\nOur children came\nWith the hiss of hot comets\nFallen into our atmosphere\nOut of their cool Interstellar\nProspecting.\nIt is a large task McWhirter has set himself, to\ncapture a province on paper. He's succeeded. Just as\nAntonio Machado, considered in Spain to be the\nfinest poet since the 17th century, evokes heat and\nimages of cypress, McWhirter has in his own cool\nfashion brought to life British Columbia's \"Walloping\nanaconda/Of a broken choker\" and \"the little vomited\nlisp/OfClams/Trodden on at low tide.\" Some ofthe\nsound pieces work better than others (I could hear\nMcWhirter muttering into his beard), but judged on\nan international scale, this is a major book by an important poet.\nVoyages: At Sea With Strangers by joan\nSkogan, MFA'90, (HarperCollins, $21.95, hard\ncover) introduces readers to the extraordinary\nworld of deep-sea fishing vessels. It's creative documentary at its best, detailed observation of a closed\nenvironment that is drawn with aching clarity. Fourteen pieces weave back and forth between offshore\nspots such as the Bowie Seamount where the Canadian vessel Lana Janine fishes for black cod, to the\nPolish and Russian worlds of the foreign trawlers\nwhere Skogan worked as a Canadian fisheries observer.\"! am afraid,\" she writes, \"because I am always the stranger on the\nship no matter how many\ntimes I go to sea.\"\nThe people, the boats, the\nstink and fish scales drifting\nfrom her hair, are utterly\nreal. Skogan writes lucid\nprose. \"The ship is fishing\nhake off the west coat of\nVancouver Island and we\nVOYAGES\nIOAN SKOGANl\n20 UBC An mni Chronicle, Winter 1993 can sometimes see Amphitrite Point light at the\nmouth of Barkley Sound off the bow, but we are in\nanother, harder country.The faces of the officers\nand crew are often turned away from me.\" Although\nthe psychic isolation is biting, the real lover and antagonist is ultimately the sea.\"Don't do as we have\ndone. Don't work at sea forever. Sea is narcotic,\"\none of the Poles who befriends her says.\nMy one tiny complaint about this book is that I\nwanted more. More stories, more information\nabout the author, whose personal history remains\ntantalizingly in the background.The detached tone\nof the prose makes it knife-sharp. Voyages At Sea\nWith Strangers is a beautiful book. It leads you\ninto a locked cabin of the heart where the narrator\nstruggles alone.\nKilling Time, poems by Seymour Mayne, MA'66,\nPhD72, (Mosaic Press, $ 12.95, paper), has on its\ncover a black and white rendition of an angel staying\nAbraham from killing his son Isaac.The theme of\nsacrifice, \"Joseph's/alphabet of dreams,\" humanity\ndoing its best to make sense of God, of knowledge\nand how it is communicated, surface and glint all\nthrough the book. Mayne has a deceptively simple\nway with words. At first reading, the poems seem\nso direct it is easy to underestimate their power. \"If\nwe do not tell/the story/in\nhaste/as we flee/it unfolds/\nus~/one way,/the other\nway/we wander/to the climax/of Sinai/and then try/to\nturn away...\"\nMayne, who has published\nthirty-five books,\nchapbooks and broadsides,\nlike many poets, has a love/\nhate relationship with\nwords. On one hand, nothing else will do. \"Give us a\n/sign, /the part/ particle of a word /the telltale/\nbreath between/ consonants...\" On the other, he\nfears words for their perceived inadequacy; they are\nlegs which disintegrate under us even as we walk.\n\"The iceberg tongue hides a deeper shadow, the\nheart frozen right down to the depths, to the roots\nof words.\"\nI would be happy to see Mayne trust more in\nthe power of words. Many of these poems seem\nlike laments for things which cannot be said. Certainly as a poet Mayne has the technical ability to\ntake on his chosen medium, the blank page. What\nseems to have happened here is a failure of nerve.\nHow many of us would want a brain surgeon operating on us who had lost confidence in the power of\nhis/her scalpel?\nDry Land Tourist and other stories by Dianne\nMaguire, MFA'88, (Sister Vision Press, unpriced, paper), is a book by a white Jamaican now living in\nCanada.The publisher bills itself as a \"Black Women\nand Women of Colour Press.\" After all the fuss in\nrecent years about who is and isn't entitled to tell\nstories, it is encouraging to see that Maguire's right\nto write fiction about her background is supported.\nCould it be because she\nwrites about poor whites\nand blacks cooperating?\nThe people are the best\npart about this book: Aunt\nMattie and Emma, who\ntakes a potion to abort the\nfourth child she would have\nliked but cannot feed, and\ntheir families and neigh-\nbours.This is a nice book,\nsympathetically done.The stories themselves are on\nthe thin side. I had problems with a number of the\nendings, which just broke off, leaving me flipping\npages to see if I was missing something. Perhaps\npart of the trouble lies in the condensed style of the\nstories. In \"Green Bush\" the writer says of Gillian\nthat she \"enjoyed his attention and tried not to\nshow her delight.\" So, let the reader feel that. It's as\nthough Maguire is afraid of saying too much, and so\ndoesn't let the reader into the story far enough.We\nbump along the surface.\nThe dialogue gives the flavour of speech without being hard to follow.A number of the stories in\nDryland Tourist are linked. For me, the title story\nis the most moving: a woman returns to Kingston\nand finds it no longer home.\nThe Architects of Golf, Geoffrey S. Cornish,\nBSA'35, and Ronald E.Whitten, HarperCollins,\n$67.50, 648 pages.\nSo you're getting set to tee off on that nice\nlittle par three 15th. It's a pretty hole but the green,\nwhich is the size of a dinner napkin, is surrounded\non the front and sides by a moat You've got two\nchoices: hit short and take an easy pitch (and a bogie!), or stand up there with an eight iron and plenty\nof confidence and go for the par.\nYou choose the eight iron and your brand new\nTitleist goes for a swim. Who designed this stupid\nSThe Architects ol\nI GOLF\nhole, anyhow? Blame the\narchitect And this book is\nthe place to find the name\nand address of that particular clown.\nBut once you're past the\nannoyance, this book will\nprovide hours of fascination for anyone who's ever\nknown (or dreamed about)\nthe thrill of sinking an impossible putt, or seen their\ntee-shot lift off like a 747.\nThe book, a revision and update of the 1980\nedition, includes a history of golf course design, with\nphotographs, from the development of St Andrews\nto the new championships courses of today, and reviews the work of the designer greats from Tom\nMorris through Robert Trent Jones, Desmond\nMuirhead, Pete Dye and George Fazio to the new\ncrop of 'low-profile' architects of the early '90s.\nThere is no other book like it With its listing\nof more than 16,000 courses from around the\nworld and biographical data on the masters of golf\ncourse design, it's a must for anyone hooked by the\nintricacies and beauties of the most frustrating game\nin the world. Chris Petty\n^mm\nMuseum of Anthropology\nA Labour of Love:\nThe Making of the\nMuseum of Anthropology\n1947-1976\nby Audrey Hawthorn\nFrom her unique perspective as\nfounder and first curator, Audrey\nHawthorn documents the individuals\nand events which shaped this unique\nteaching and public museum.\n$ 10.65 plus shipping & handling\nTo order this book or to enquire\nabout other books, jewellery,\ncarvings, prints, and other items\navailable by mail through the\nAnthropology Shop\ncall 822-6240.\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 2 I 20s\nTed Arnold BASc(MetEng)'27 wrote to Edward G. Nunn\nBASc(CivEng)'27, who has been keeping a class newsletter for\nalmost 22 years (!), telling him about \"a huge diamond staking\nboom, 350 miles north of Yellowknife in an area larger than\nConnecticut, but with only one pipe in 1000 producing commercial diamonds\" ... Lindsay Black BSA'29 is living in Ridge,\nNew York. He would like to hear news about fellow 1929\ngrads, especially \"Eden,\" who was going to homestead in the\nPeace River country. Lindsay would like to know how he did in\nthat venture ... Donald C. Davidson BA'33 obtained an MA\n(1934) and a PhD (1937) in history from the University of California at Berkeley after graduation from UBC. In 1941 he\nearned a Certificate in Librarianship from the same school.\nThat helped him secure a job as education adviser at the\nHuntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1947 he became a librarian at Santa Barbara College, later to become the\nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara. He spent the rest of\nhis career there, retiring in 1977. During his tenure he saw the\nlibrary grow from 30,000 to 1.3 million volumes, being one of\nthe first open stack libraries in the California university system.\nThis October, in recognition of his service to the university and\nthe library, the University of California Board of Regents\nnamed UCSB's main library The Donald C. Davidson Library ...\ng^athlorT\nTriathlon \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 800 m swim \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 23 km cycle \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 6.9 bn run\nShortCourst \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 400 m swim \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 12 fan cycle \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 4 Ion run\nDuatklon \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 4 km run \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 23 fan cycle \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 tkmrm\nSaturday, March 5,1994\nRegister: Jan 4 - Feb 18, 1994\nsiOBM\nt ho\n5-person teams relay in a 300 yard swim,\n450 metre sprint, 22 km cycle, 1.4 km run and,\nfinally, the whole team storms the 12' wall!\nSun - Fri, Mar 20 - 25,1994\nRegister: Feb 21 - Mar 18\nJJBC\nyTniramiirajl\nSports\nPilcher Special Event Programs\nfor information and registration:\nphone UBC-6000 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 fax 822-6086\n24-hr info line 822-6688\nBen Farrar BASc{MechEng)'27 and his wife Connie were in\nan automobile accident two years ago. Ben recovered physically, but Connie is still dealing with the shock.They are living\nwith their foster son, who is looking after them ... Art\nGordon BASc(CivEng)'27, MASc'35 and his wife Molly attended the Great Trekker luncheon last year, where they saw\nclassmate Ted Arnold (see above)... Pete Mathewson\nBASc(ElecEng)'27 and his wife Jean made a boat trip to Alaska\nin June, but haven't travelled anywhere else for a while.\n30s\nWalter D. Charles BSA'37 is an arachnologist He has been\ncollecting spiders since his retirement One which he collected\nis new to science and has been described by Dr. Rob Bennett\nofVictoria as Cybeaus Chor/es/.The name is unofficial until the\npublishing ofthe thesis ... Harold Scott Keenlyside BA'35\nwas called to the bar in 1939. He is a retired provincial court\njudge and lives in Qualicum Beach ...Tong Louie BSA'38\nwrote to ask if there are any other BSA'38s still around? ...W.\nAiistairTaylor BSA'32 spent 44 years working for C-I-L He\nretired in 1976 as general manager, agricultural division. His\nwife Jean died in 1991.Their three children live in Montreal,\nEdmonton and California, while he lives in London, Ontario.\nHe plays golf and lawn bowls for recreation ... Milton Taylor\nBSA'39, MSA'46 wrote that he and his wife Dottie just celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary at the respective\nages of 77 and 74. He wonders where all the 30s grads are,\nand all we at The Chronicle can say is people have to write to us\nso we can include them in Class Acts. (There was no 30s section in the last issue.)\n40s\nErnie Ball BA'48, BEd'49, who retired as assistant superintendent of schools in Richmond, BC, is busy organizing and\nescorting cruises and tours ...After graduation from UBC,\nGlyn H. Langdale BCom'49 went on to obtain an MEd from\nthe University of Ottawa and an MBA from the University of\nToronto. He has retired as president of Career Counselling &\nMarketing Inc. and is living in Penticton with his wife Marion\nRose Langdale BEd'72, MEd'84 (see 70s)... Echo Lidster\nBSA'42 was one of many Canadians to receive the 125th Year\nMedal struck in commemoration ofthe 125th anniversary of\nCanadian Confederation.This was for work done with the 4-H\nClubs of Canada ... Eldon F. Rideout BSA'47, MSA'49 continues to enjoy retirement from the City Analysis Lab ...John\nRyall BSA'48 and his wife Joyce, of Gipaanda Greenhouses in\nSurrey, recently spent two days in London, UK with their old\nfriend Mark Rose BSA'47, who is Agent General for British\nColumbia House ... Stuart W.Turner BSA'43, MSA'47 is a\nconsulting agrologist involved in over 100 lawsuits against\nDupont for selling herbicide contaminated fungicide. Accusers\nallege they destroyed many crops from Puerto Rico to Hawaii\nin the US. He is recovering on all trials, so far.\n50s\nStan Clark BASc(ElecEng)'59 received his MA in electrical\nengineering in Aberdeen in '61 and his PhD in computer science from Manchester in '67. He was a Commonwealth\nScholar and an Athlone Fellow. He retired to Campbell River\nafter a career teaching computer science in various universities\nand colleges and as a consultant for the BC government His\ntwo daughters also have careers in the computer sciences ...\nA.L. Creemer BA'56, MA'62 retired after 30 years in the oil\nindustry. He teaches math and travels with his wife Miriam ...\nAllan Leinweber BCom'55 retired after IVi years with Gulf\nOil in Calgary and 30 years as a business education teacher and\ndepartment head at W.E. Hay Composite High in Stattler.AI-\nberta ... Ralph Morehouse BSA'53, MSA'68 retired as deputy\nminister in the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and\nMarketing ...Alan Parke BSA'53 and his wife Thelma sold\ntheir Bonaparte Ranch at Cache Creek (after 131 years in the\nsame family!) and retired to Kamloops ... Harry L. Penny\nBA'56, BSW'56, MSW'57 received an honorary doctor of laws\ndegree from McMaster, where he is a professor emeritus. He\nwas founding director of the School of Social Work there, and\nafter he retired in 1984 he was seconded as director of the\nCentre for Continuing Ed, where he served until 1987. Since\nretiring, Dr. Penny has published two books, a history of yachting in Hamilton/Burlington, and the other. From Dream to\nGleam, a memoir ofthe trials and tribulations of establishing\nthat school of social work. He lives in Burlington with his wife\nGoldie (Walker) Penny BA'43 ... On September I, Klaus\nRieckhoff BSc'58, MSc'59, PhD'62 became a professor emeritus after 28 years in the physics department at SFU. He served\nfor 28 years on the senate and for twelve years on the BOG ...\nLouanne (Davies)Twaites BSc(Pharm)'53 was made a Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists Fellow as of August 18.\nLouanne is also a member-at-large of the Alumni Association ...\nConnlaT.Wood BA'54 retired from service with the federal\ngovernment He spends winters with his wife Anne in Victoria,\nsummers in Nova Scotia. He does some export consulting.\n60s\nIn September Jay Atherton BA'61 retired from his management position with the National Archives of Canada to take on\nediting, research and consulting ... R.Alan Broad bent BA'68\nreceived the Queen's Toronto Branch Award at the annual John\nOrr Award Dinner.Thirteen hundred Queen's grads and\nfriends filled the Metro Convention Centre ... Dan Cumming\nBSc(Agr)'67, PhD'75 returned to Canada after three years as\nattache to the EEC in Brussels. He will work for Agriculture\nCanada in Morden, Manitoba as a senior research scientist\ncrop utilization processes ... Prabhat (Pete) Desai MSc'70\nearned his PhD from Guelph in 1972. After a postdoctorate in\ncrop science, he joined Dow Chemical Canada. He and his\nfamily moved a few times with the company (Sarnia, Edmonton,\nSacramento, Indianapolis). They reside in Newmarket Ontario,\n22\nUBC .All mm Chronicle, Winter 1993 CLASS ACTS\nwhere Pete is director for R&D, DowElanco Canada Inc. His\nfamily consists of his wife Nancy and three daughters, ages 9 to\n17 ... Kenneth Dyba BA'64 is relocating from Toronto to Victoria. He is working on a new novel (Gabe) and a new stage\nplay (Spin)... Norman Field BSc'66 is back in Vancouver after\nnine years in the \"land of Oz\" (Ottawa) ... J.S. Lawrence\nFournier BCom'61 has been president and part owner of\nUnited Independent Title Services since October 1992, a title\ninsurance underwriting management company in Dublin, California ...The navy brought David J. Freeman BA'65,\nDipEd'67 back to the west coast as commander,Tribal Class\nUpdate and Modernization Detachment in Esquimalt This is his\nfirst time back in BC since he left UBC in 1967 ... Ben Harder\nBA'67 and his wife Jessie served a four-month term with the\nMennonite Central Committee in Akron, Pennsylvania, beginning in May. Ben was a pricing table supervisor with SELFHELP\nCrafts of the World ... Richard Haworth BA'67 retired from\nthe Coquitlam School District in June 1992. He taught for 10\nyears in Vancouver before his 20 years as a teacher in\nCoquitlam. He moved to Vernon to start a hobby farm ...\nWilfred L. Highfield BA'65 moved from Kelowna to Calgary\nin September ...Victoria (Diana Markin) Hogan BA'62 received her MA from the University of Colorado. She is now\npresident of Canada EarthSave Society. She is also the founder\nofthe prize-winning EarthSave Toastmasters Club, which\nteaches awareness of environmental, ethical and health consequences of our food choices ... Gordon McBean BSc'64,\nPhD'70 is head of the Department of Oceanography at UBC.\nHe was elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, and as president of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society ... Barbara (Scott) McLean BEd'60 completed her first\nyear as deputy clerk ofthe General Assembly ofthe Presbyterian Church in Canada. She is the first woman and layperson to\nhold this position and is based in Toronto. She works with 45\npresbyteries across the country. Barbara's spouse, the Hon.\nSend in your Class Acts info!\nOur motto is, \"You send \"em,\nwe print 'era.\" We don't know\nif you don't tell us! Use the\ncoupon on page 24.\nWalter McLean BA'57 was the MP for Waterloo since 1979\nand served as Canada's special representative for African and\nCommonwealth affairs. He was not a candidate in recent election. He is spending the fall as a member ofthe Canadian delegation to the UN General Assembly ... Ian Miller BA'65,\nBASc(CivEng)'67, MASc(CivEng)'71 moved to Washington, DC\nto open a new consulting services office for Golder Associates\nInc, specializing in environmental engineering ... Michael\nMiller BArch'65 was named a fellow ofthe Royal Architectural\nInstitute of Canada. He is chair of Architectural Science and\nLandscape Architecture at Ryerson ... Bruce Montador\nBSc'67 left the Bank of Canada to become a counsellor to the\nhead of the economics department of the OECD ... Shirley\nMyers BHE'60 has retired as head, Home Economics Branch,\nAlberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. She lives in\nSummerland ... Murray Newman PhD'60 retired from the\nVancouver Aquarium in March after heading it for over 37\nyears. His book. Life in a Fishbowi, Confessions of an Aquarium\nDirector, will be published in April 1994 by Douglas Mclntrye ...\nKeith Slessor BSc'60, PhD'64 was the co-recipient (with Mark\nWinston of SFU) ofthe 1992 BC Science Council Gold Medal\nin Natural Sciences for his work on honey bee queen mandibular pheromone. He has been at SFU since 1966 and was\nawarded a research professorship for 1993. His research centres on lepidopteran pheromones of economically important\npests. His wife Marie Slessor BEd'62 is doing a post-BA di-\nLet's have a Reunion!\nI\t\nI\nI\nI How long has it been since you graduated from UBC? Do you ever find\nI yourself telling your family and colleagues about the great time you had\nI there? Are you curious about what happened to your classmates? Perhaps it's\n| time for a reunion! Too much work, you say? Leave it to us. Our office provides\n| a wide range of reunion planning services. Complete and return this form,\nI and we'll be in touch to talk about planning a reunion for your class.\nName:\nFaculty\nAddres:\ntr(h)\nPlease reply to:\nReunions,\nUBC Alumni Association\n6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1\nOr Fax to: (604) 822-8928\nploma in kid's lit at SFU. Son Mike Slessor BASc(EngPhys)'92\nreceived his MA in aeronautics from the California Institute of\nTechnology. He continues his studies there for a PhD ... Simon\nWade BA'63 has been High Commissioner to the Republic of\nGuyana with accreditation as Ambassador to the Republic of\nSurinam since August 9.\n70s\nMargaret Ancill BEd'78 is a counsellor atWestsyde Senior\nSecondary in School District #24 (Kamloops)... Margaret\n(Altnemueller) Archer BHE78 is back at Crystal Park\nSchool (Grande Prairie,Alberta) as a learning disabilities\nteacher, after a year off to be a full-time mom to a baby boy\n(born July '92) which she and her husband Robert adopted ...\nGordon Baldwin BCom'76 started his own CA firm in\nBurnaby after six years as aVP finance in the fishing industry.\nHe will specialize in tax and financial planning ... Louise Ball\nBA'75 lives in Singapore with her husband, Ken Moselle, and\ntheir two children. She is a member of the teacher training\nfaculty at Nanyang University ... Bronwen Beedle BSF'74 is\ndeputy chief forester of BC as of December, 1992 ... Allen\nBilly BSc'77, MSc'83 is a biology instructor in the Department\nof Math and Science at Douglas College. He teaches anatomy\nand physiology to general and psychiatric nursing students and\nuniversity transfer biology courses. He earned his PhD from\nthe University of Texas in 1986. He works as a volunteer with\nNorth Shore Rescue and is engaged to to Lesley Leroux ...\nEleonora (Isolde) Corvin BSc'75 is president of Canadian\nFinancial Services Ltd., a company dating back to 1934 which\nprovides estate, retirement and financial planning and investments. She's still single, with one doberman ... Ron\nDiederichs BSc'79, wife Sue and their three children are in\nCampbell River. He is a forest ecosystem specialist... Aminah\nFayek MASc(CivEng)'92 is studying for her PhD in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne ... Wren Green\nPhD'74 is director, planning and external agencies, with the\nDepartment of Conservation in Wellington, New Zealand. He\nand wife Karen have one child, George, born in May 1992 ...\nMuriel Gustavson BEd'75, BSW80, MEd'84 works as an elementary counsellor at the UN related New International\nSchool of Thailand in Bangkok ...Janet Hal I i we 11 MSc'70 has\nbeen awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Queen's.\nShe earned two other honorary doctorates, one from York and\nthe other from Memorial.After UBC, she did research in bacterial physiology there. She was on the editorial team of the\nCanadian Journal of Chemistry at NRC before joining the\nNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in 1977.\nFrom 1983 to 1990, she was director-general of research\ngrants with that council, and from 1990 to 1992, chair of the\nScience Council of Canada ... Dorothy (Schwaiger) Jantzen\nBPE'79, husband Dale, sons Carl and Brett and daughter Avery\nhave moved to Pleasanton, California, where Dale works as an\nelectronics engineer and Dorothy stays home with the kids...\nKenneth Jessiman BCom'75 joined Realtech Realty Corporation's finance division as a senior associate. He brings a great\ndeal of experience in commercial real estate finance and negotiating optimum terms for borrowing clients to the job ...\nMarion Rose Langdale BEd'72, MEd'84 retired as professor\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 23 CLASS ACTS\nof science at Okanagan University College in Kelowna. She\nlives in Penticton with her husband Glyn H. Langdale\nBCom,49 (see 40s) ... Michele (Perault) Lioy PhD'77 works\nin Washington, DC for the World Bank in the Central Africa\nand Indian Ocean department, division of population and human resources, as a social communications specialist... Ray\nLord BSc'78 is managing director of marketing and development at Science World in Vancouver. He is married with two\ndaughters ...J. Parker MacCarthy BA'71, LLB'75 of Duncan,\nhas been elected president ofthe Canadian Bar Association\n(BC Branch). He has been actively involved in CBA activities\nsince his call to the bar in 1975. He served as the Cowichan\nValley representative for the Alumni Association. He is a partner in the law firm of MacCarthy Ridgway in Duncan. His practice includes corporate, commercial, real property and wills\nand estates. He is married to Virginia (Castner) MacCarthy\nBEd'74, an instructor at Malaspina College in Nanaimo.They\nhave two children ... Brian Mahood BSc'70 is exploration\nmanager of Strike Energy Inc., an oil and gas exploration company. He and his wife Robyn (Ravening) Mahood BEd'69 live\nin Calgary with their two children ... Richard Nalos BSc'72 is\nan instructor of flight for Horizon Air at the Portland International Airport in Oregon. He and his wife Jackie (Pickford)\nNaJos BEd'73 live in Washington ... Kathleen (Sturgess)\nNichol BA'70, MLS'73 and Alex Nichol MA'70 opened\nNichol Vineyard farm winery. Located above Naramata, Nichol\nVineyard is below the cliffs ofthe old Kettle Valley Railway.\nWines are barrel-fermented and aged, 70% ofthe 4/2-acre\nBuying\na new car?\nFor the best possible price\non the purchase of your\nvehicle, call:\nVANCOUVER\nGreg Huynh\nor\nRobert Montgomery\n#506 - 1015 Burrard Street\nVancouver, B.C. V6Z 1Y5\nTEL: 688-0455\nFAX: 669-1110\nSERVING UBC GRADUATES\nvineyard is planted to get red varietals.The opening of this\nfarm winery marks a total career change for both; Alex from a\nmusical career with theVSO and Kathleen from information/\nlibrary consulting ... Terry Noble BA'75 has written a book\nabout Elek Imredy, the man who sculpted the scuba diver sitting on a rock off the seawall in Stanley Park.Th.is is his first\nbook, after having worked as a freelance writer for many years.\nYou can order his book ($12 plus postage) by phoning (604)\n689-7095 ... Robert P. Oldham BA'74 works as a reference\nlibrarian at the Hamilton Public Library; member. National Executive Monarchist League of Canada ...Julie (McCririck)\nOugh scored a hole in one (150 yards) on the 7th hole of the\nBarrie Golf and Country Club (Ontario) on August 29 ...\nThomas Quigley BMus'76, MLS'78 received the Inaugural\nCanada Post Flight for Freedom Literacy Education Award in\nJune for his work promoting literacy in BC public libraries. He\nwill receive the award from the Governor-General in November ... Pearl Roberts BEd'76, MEd'81 was appointed a director of the Science Council of BC. Her term will end in August\n1994 ...Virginia (Ginny) Russell BEd'78, presently living in\nLadner, had her first children's book, Voices on the Bay, published\nby Beach Holme Publishers ofVictoria in October. It is an adventure story for children 8 years and older ... Angela Schiwy\nBMus'78, MLS'86 has accepted a fixed-term post at the United\nNations Archives in New York. She is taking a one-year leave of\nabsence from her permanent position at the City ofVancouver\nArchives. Husband Jean Laponce BA'87, MA'91 has been\nstudying for his PhD at Columbia University ... Marian\nScholtmeijer BA'75 has completed her PhD in English at\nSFU. Her book. Animal Victims in Modern Fiction, was recently\npublished by the University of Toronto Press ... Nanette\n(Marzocco) Shaw BSR'78 lives in Nova Scotia with her two\nchildren, Kristen and Geoffrey and husband John ... Gordon\nSkene BSc'71, MSc'73 is the president of Solus Technology\nCorporation, which combines the latest technology in data\nmanagement and communications with specialized touch\nscreens, vivid graphics and \"intelligent\" control and sensing\ndevices in the Solus integrated building automation system ...\nDonald A. Smeaton BASc(ElecEng)'69 retired from Ontario\nHydro after 24/2 years to start a new home business in tax\nconsulting ... Nancy Stewart BAV I, MA'81 is president of\nthe Provincial Specialist Association English Second Language\n(ESL PSA) ofthe BC Teachers' Federation, and the ESL department head at Vancouver Technical Secondary School... Phyllis\nStoffman BSN'77 returned to Canada after 16 years working\nin the US in community health. She is studying health administration (masters program) at U of T. She is also finishing a\nmanuscript on infectious diseases, a guidebook for the public\nto be published in 1994 by j. Wiley Co ...Jennifer (Wing-\nKing) Tan BSc'70 and Samuel Tan BASc(ElecEng)'67 have\ntwo children, a boy, 14, and a girl, lO.The family lives in Coto\nde Caza, California ... Laurie Thain BPE'78 just released a\nthird album of original country music. Laurie was nominated\nfor \"outstanding new Canadian country artist\" in RPM Big\nCountry Awards.\n80s\nGrant E.Allan MSc'81 has been in Australia for 12 years\nworking as a fire ecologist for the conservation commission of\nthe Northern Territory. He was married to Coral in 1992 ...\nElaine Anderson BA'86 and her husband David have a boy, a\ngirl and a video production company called Equus. Elaine also\nworks for Canada Customs.They live in Langley ... Sean\nBlackburn BA'89 has successfully passed the entrance exam\nto the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario's professional program and is working towards his CMA designation.\nHe lives in Ottawa with his spouse Julie Dagenais Blackburn ...\nKent Bowling BA'85 is sales supervisor for Coca-Cola Bottling. He lives in Coquitlam with his wife Maria Baverstock ...\ni\u00C2\u00A3a Stay in Touch ^d\nHelp us keep in touch with you! Do we have your correct name and address? If not, please\nfill in the address form below and send it to: UBC Alumni Association, 6251 Cecil Green\nPark Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1. Phone (604) 822-3313. Fax: (604) 822-8928. Or call\nour 24 hour address line: (604) 822-8921.\nName:\t\nUBC Degree, Year\nAddress \t\n(include maiden name if applicable)\n Student I.D.# Major\n_Code\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2B(h)\n-(o)\nFax\nSpouse's Name\nUBC Degree, Year\nTell us your news!\n(include maiden name if applicable)\n Student I.D.# Major\n24 UBC Au mni Chronici.k, Winter 1993 CLASS ACTS\nlain Bowman BASc(MechEng)'87 married Gillian Blood in\nAugust 1993 in Middlesex, England. He is working in Hampshire, helping to design a new engine for formula one motor\nracing ... Kathleen (Laird)-Burns BA'89 is information officer at campus planning and development at UBC. Husband\nKevin Burns BSc'90 works at the SFU micro-computer store\nas store coordinator ... Ron Byres BASc(CivEng)'85, MASc\n(CivEng)'88 lives in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania. He works for\nSandwell Inc. on a World Bank funded port master plan for the\nTanzanian Harbours Authority. He is engaged to McGill grad\nCarey LePage.They plan to marry in 1994 ... Catherine (Le\nDue) Chan BSc'81, PhD'86 is an associate professor of physiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of PEL Husband Patrick T. Chan BSc'80, MBA'85 is an investments promotions specialist for Enterprise PEI... Kwok Fai Cheung\nMASc(CivEng)'87, PhD'9l and his wife Wendy have moved to\nHonolulu. He worked at Sandwell Inc. in Vancouver for two\nyears and is assistant professor in ocean engineering at the\nUniversity of Hawaii ... Maureen Cheung BSN'83, MBA'87\nmarried Michael Wong in May 1990. After a stint with the Royal\nBank as an account manager for independent businesses, she\nwent into medical sales. She is now president of Money Concepts Financial Planning Centre in Coquitlam ... Ronald Chin\nBSc'88 went to U of T for an MSc, then an LLB. He is articling\nin Vancouver ... Kenneth Chow BSc'87, DDS'92 married\nSusan Victoria Ng BA'87 on August 8. He is at Loyola University Medical Center for a training program in oral and maxillofacial surgery.After UBC, Susan earned her BA and MA in\nbusiness administration at SFU while working in public relations\nwith Hill-Knowlton in Vancouver ... Walter V.Cicha BSc'84,\nPhD'89 has been employed as an R&D chemist with E.I. du\nPont Nemours Co. in Wilmington, Delaware since December\n1992 ...Warren Chow BASc (Elec Eng) '87 works at BC Hydro\nas a stations planning engineer. He was married in 1991 to\nHong-Ying Chow ... Barry Coblenz BA'87 received his MBA\nfrom Queen's ... Ernest Colman BPE'51 was inducted into\nthe Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to\nSoftball and track and field, and to the Kamloops Sports Council. Ernie is an avid golfer and is president of a seniors' curling\nclub in Kamloops ... Suzanne (Milne) Cresswell BSR'83 and\nher husband Tom have opened a physiotherapy clinic in Redding, California. They have two children ...Jill (Ratzlaff) Delia\nVedova BSc'88, BEd'89 and Sean DeliaVedova BMus'93\nwere married in July 1991.Jill teaches science in Coquitlam,\nwhile Sean is completing his BEd at UBC.Their first child,\nNicholas Sean, was born in May ... George Demorest BSc'88\nmarried Goldie Shea, a graduate of Mount Allison and New\nBrunswick universities.They live in Istanbul,Turkey where\nGeorge works for Northern Electric Telecommunication AS ...\nJohn Dickson BCom'83 and his wife Jane have come back to\nBC after seven years in Ontario.Their \"pride and joy\" is I Vi\nyear old Matthew ... Catherine (Hill) Dixon BEd'82 and\nDave Dixon BA'81 were married in December 1985.Their\neldest daughter was born in 1990, and the youngest in 1992.\nDave is an intermediate teacher in Maple Ridge, and Catherine\nteaches a primary class in Pitt Meadows ...Julie (Wong) Dixon BASc(MetEng)'89 married Jeffrey Paul Dixon in Vancouver\nat the Chinese Pentecostal Church in July. Julie works at\nDofasco Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario as a process automation\nengineer and is chair of the CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining\nand Metallurgy), Hamilton Branch for 1993-94. Her husband is\nalso an engineer ... Rebecca (Hiebert) Dyck BA'89 completed her teacher certification requirements at the University\nof Alberta in 1991. She has been teaching elementary school\nsince, first in Edmonton, and she hopes to continue in Missis-\nsauga, where she lives with her husband P.D. Graham Dyck\nBSc'89. He was transferred to the Toronto office of Sandoz\nAgro Canada Inc. to take the position of manager for Ontario\nand Quebec ... Geoffrey G. Dyer BASc(M&MPEng)*81, MEng\n'89 married Rhonda in 1989.They have a baby boy born in\n1992. Geoffrey has formed his own consulting company. He is\nactive in geotechnical engineering ... Pam Seaton (Miller)\nEppler BSc(PT)'86 and husband Jeffrey Eppler MD'87 live in\nToronto where Jeffrey is doing a residency in emergency medicine at the U ofTThey will return to BC in July ...The RCMP\nhas sent Marianne Farmer BA'85 on a French language\ntraining program until June 1994. Her posting is at the Vancouver International Airport... Michael Fenwick BA'84 is a business analyst with IBM Canada in Calgary. Son Tyler is expecting\na new sibling early in January ... Anna Kelly Fung BA'81, LLB\n'84 has left the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tetrault (where\nshe was an associate practising corporate/commercial law) to\njoin BC Gas as senior solicitor effective August 1993 ... Susan\nGillmore LLB'86 and George Fedoroff BCom'86 were married in August 1993.They both work for UBC ... Dean\nGiustini MLS'89 has completed coursework toward an MA at\nthe U of T He works as a projects librarian in Richmond Hill,\nOntario ...Georgina Gray BPE'81,MPE'92 works at the U of\nT Faculty of Medicine as a lecturer in the physical therapy department. She is conducting clinical research at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital... Rowena (Arce) Grewal BSc'89\nand Harder S. Grewal BPE'87 were married on May 8 ...\nShirley (Egan) Holowaty BA'88 married North Shore businessman David Holowaty on July 10 ... Graham Kay BA'81\nmoved to Terrace to work for Social Services as district supervisor, family and children services ... Mandy (Brar) Kerlann\nBSc(Pharm)'86 married her French husband in 1990. She lives\nin France and does pharmaceutical research with a research\norganization there. She says her French 120 is coming in handy,\nalthough she can't drop west coast anglo accent ...Anna\nKrause BEd'84 accepted a position in the school at the Epilepsy Centre in Kehl-Kork, Germany ... Eddie Kahing Lam\nMBA'82 is regional commercial banking manager ofTokai Bank\nof California. He and his wife Hannah have two children, Kent\nand Laurel.They reside in La Canada, California ... Lawrence\nLee BSc'89, MSc'93 is pursuing a PhD in plant pathology/virology at the University of Arkansas ... Gillian Lester BSc'86\nattended the U of T's law school and is nearing completion of a\ndoctorate in law at Stanford. She will join the faculty of the\nUCLA law school in January 1994 ...Jeffrey Mah BSc'85 married Bonnie Jean Reynolds in June in Burnaby ... Leslie (Moore) Mahr BMus'82 teaches music at Queen's and works as a\ngraphic designer at the Kingston Whig-Standard. Leslie is married to Paul Mahr, conductor of the 13 Strings of Ottawa ...\nAlex Marazzi BSc(Pharm)*85, MD'89 married Nancy Elizabeth Powell, a graduate of Trinity Western and Western Washington universities.They were married in Bellingham in April...\nRay Mathes MSc'82 works as a manager, labour relations and\nEEO for James River Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1991. He and his\nwife Merilyn have two children ... Patrick Mokrane BCom'81\nrecently became CFO for Jerome Broadway Productions, a\nmultimedia corporation ... Lois Nahirney BA'85 has returned\nto Vancouver with husband Tom Dielschneider, following three\nyears in London and Europe. Lois received her MBA from Western in 1990 and has been working as a management consult\nant with Gemini Consulting doing corporate business transformation ... Holly Nathan BA'83 won the 1992 Law Society of\nBC Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism, presented by Her\nHon. Judge Donna Martinson, on September 25. She also received the Canadian Association of Journalism Annual National\nAward for Investigative Reporting in the open newspaper category These awards were for 1992 pieces on \"justice issues\narising from sexual abuse on Victoria area Native reserves\" ...\nRod Negrave BSc(Agr)'88 and Louise (Kennelly) Negrave\nBSc(Agr)'89 live in Fort St John, BC, where Rod is doing research for the Ministry of Forests.They own a farm and are\nexpecting their third child in November ... Dean Neumann\nBCom'82, LLB'83 commenced his law practice with Siddall &\nCashman in Vancouver in September ... Steve Chi-Ho Ng\nMSc'88 has been a member of the technical staff at MPRTel-\ntech Ltd. since 1988. He is a communications specialist in network management for both data and telecommunicaton networks. He also represents his company in national and international standards organizations, defining standards for network\nand systems management... Michele (Sanders) O'Flynn BA\n'89, MA'91 married John O'Flynn in 1988. She was a sessional\nlecturer in the English department and continues to tutor UBC\nstudents. She is happily looking after their one-year-old son\nMatthias ... Eileen O'Hanley BA'86 returned to Vancouver\nafter spending two-and-a-half years in Toronto with a desktop\npublish ing/ corporate communications firm ... Graham Osborne BSc'83 is a wildlife and landscape photographer. He has\ncompleted a picture book on the wilderness landscapes of BC\nRETIREMENT\nPLANNING\nSpecialists in planning\nfor financial independence\n*i\nDEPOSIT\nBROKERS\nFinancial Planning\nUnbiased Recommendations\nOngoing Investment Services\nBALANCED FINANCIAL\nSERVICES LTD.\nIndependent Financial Planners\n#202 - 2309 West 41st Ave.\nVancouver, B.C. V6M 2A3\n(604)261-8511\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Wintf.r 1993 25 CLASS ACTS\nFACULTY OF SCIENCE\nThe University\nof British Columbia\nCall for Nominations\nAWARDS FOR\nEXCELLENCE IN\nTEACHING\nThe University of British\nColumbia established Awards\nfor Excellence in Teaching in\n1989. Awards are made by the\nFaculty of Science to UBC\nfaculty, lecturers and laboratory\ninstructors who are selected as\noutstanding teachers.\nWe are seeking input from\nUBC alumni, current and\nformer students.\nDeadline for nominations:\nFebruary 14, 1994\nNominations should be\naccompanied by supporting\nstatements and the nominator's\nname, address and telephone\nnumber. Please send\nnominations to:\nChair, Faculty of Science\nExcellence in Teaching Award\nc/o Office of the Dean of\nScience, R 1505, 6270\nUniversity Boulevard,\nUniversity of British Columbia,\nVancouver, BC V6T IZ2\nFAX (604) 822-5558\nentitled British ColumbiarA Wild and Fragile Beauty, published by\nDouglas & Mclntyre ... On June I, 1993 Samuel Pang BSc'82,\nMD'83 was appointed associate medical director ofthe In Vitro\nFertilization America Program in Boston ...Andrew Petersen\nBSc(Agr)'86 works for CPI Equipment in Langley, designing and\nselling irrigation systems. He is a certified irrigation designer\nthrough IIABC. He and his wife Christine (Dirom) Petersen BSc'85 had their first child in November 1992 ... Linda\n(Sadro) Prystay BSc'88 graduated with an MSc biochemistry\nfrom McGill. Husband Marc Prystay BSc'88 earned his PhD in\nanalytical chemistry from the same university. Marc is working\nas a research associate for NRC Laboratories, Boucherville,\nQuebec.They are both proud ofthe new addition to their family, a third daughter,Tanya ... Robert Renwick MLS'82 is still\nteaching English and serving as librarian at Emery College in\nPuerto Rico ... Brian Russell BSF'84 and Kathy (Vandalen)\nRussell BSc(Agr)'86 have moved to Kamloops.They have two\nyoung daughters. Brian is working with the Ministry of Forests\n... In June 1993 Tania Rutt BA'88 received her master of professional studies in June from the Institut de Management Hotelier International (Cornell-ESSEC) in Paris, France. She is\nworking as front desk manager at the Trianon Palace Hotel in\nVersailles. She lives in France with her husband, Dan Bednar\nBCom'87 ... Samuel Shih BSc(Agr)'88 works for Pepsico in\nHong Kong as a general manager ... Laura (Bortolin) Smith\nBSc'88 is in her third year of a PhD program at Harvard Medical School. Husband Steve T. Smith BASc(ElecEng)'86 graduated from Harvard with a PhD in applied mathematics. He is a\nstaff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory ... Rochelle Sneddon BA'87 is attending the Parson's School of Design in New\nYork City ... Barbara (Day) Sort BA'84, LLB'88 and Sig-\nmund Sort BPE'87, BEd'92 have moved to Parksville, where\nSigmund will teach. Barbara left the law firm of Farris,Vaughn,\nWills and Murphy to open her own law practice in Parksville.\nAubrey Thomas Sigmundson Sort was born on September 17,\n1992 ... Nelson Spruston BSc'84 works at the Max Planck\nInstitute in Heidelberg, Germany under the direction of Dr.\nBert Sakmann on a post-doctoral fellowship (Humboldt Foundation) ... Gordon Stewart BSc'83 married Maureen in August l992.They live in Yellowknife, where Gordon works as\nenvironmental scientist for the federal government. He received his MSc in aquaculture from the University of Stirling in\nScotland in 1991 ... Shelley Sweeney BA'81, MAS'85 returned from Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she spent six\nmonths on sabbatical from the University of Regina, studying\nCzech archival systems and the public's perception of archives\n...Janice Switlo BCom'81 practises law in Peachland. Her\npractice is exclusively in native law. She is corporate counsel\nfor theWestbank Indian Band ... TimThomas BCom'84 received his MSc in finance and accounting from the London\nSchool of Economics in 1992. He married Ana Costa in 1992\nand moved to Toronto in April. He has worked with CIBC,\nCorporate Bank since May ... Marianne (Lo) VanBuskirk\nBA'87 and Calvin VanBuskirk BASc(GeoEng)'87 were married in 1989. Marianne teaches kindergarten (French immersion) in Mission.They have recently purchased a house in Abbotsford, where Calvin in a consulting geotechnical engineer ...\nBruce Verchere BSc'83, MSc'87, PhD'91 is a post-doctoral\nfellow in the division of endocrinology and metabolism at the\nVA Medical Center in Seattle. His wife, Cynthia (Robinson)\nVerchere MD'88 is in her last year of residency in plastic surgery at VGH.They say long distance romance survives! ...\nChrista Wallace BSc{Agr)'88, MSc'91 is in her second year at\nthe University of Edinburgh, Royal School ofVeterinary Studies\n... Calvin Yip BASc(M&MPEng)'85 wrote to tell of his class' 10\nyear reunion. People came from afar (Northwest Territories\nand the Philippines) for the three day reunion.There was a\n\"one beer\" at a downtown bar, a family picnic, a round of golf\nand a barbecue at the home of Dave Gunning BASc(M&M\nPEng)'83 and his wife Brenda ... Colin C.Yip BCom'85 and\nCynthia Wong BCom'89, two chartered accountants, were\nmarried on August 7.They work together in their own accounting practice in Vancouver ... Brian Yiu BCom'87, MBA'90\nmarried Linda Lam in June 1992. He left Citicorp, where he\nworked for two years, to join Merrill Lynch Debt Markets\nGroup in Hong Kong asVP in May 1993 ... Sepideh Ziabak-\nhsh BSc'88 married Stewart Muglich LLB'89 in 1990. She\nreceived her doctor of optometry degree from the SUNY\nStewart earned his LLM and MBA from Fordham. He is an associate in a Manhattan law firm.They will return to Vancouver.\n90s\nHamed Shafe Assaf PhD 91 married Emily Mulleda\nBSN'91 in June 1991. Hamed works in the hydro technical department of BC Hydro and Emily is a registered nurse in extended care at Burnaby General Hospital ...AdrienneAtherton BCom'91 is enjoying her classes at Hastings College (the\nUC law faculty) in San Francisco ... Susan (Virgoe) Bremner\nBSN'92 works in oncology at the National Defence Medical\nCentre in Ottawa. She is taking military career courses and\nhoping for a UN tour in 1994 ...Yvonne Chong BSc'91, MBA\n'93 moved to Victoria to become marketing assistant at Ques-\nter Tangent. Yvonne uses both of her degrees in this job ...Joseph Devoy BA'92 has been accepted into the MA program in\nthe English department ofthe U ofT ... Robert Gray BA'92\nwill spend the next two (or more) years studying Chinese history and language at the Department of East Asian Studies at\nHarvard ... Nicole Hero Id DipFrenTrans'92 is majoring in\narchaeology at SFU. She returned from a Cariboo excavation\nat Barkerville with SFU. She works in translation from a home\noffice ... Michael Langlet BSc(Agr)'9l has just completed his\nMA in aquaculture from SFU, work that included a two month\npracticum in Ecuador in 1992 ... Olivia Sin-Mei Lee BCom\n'90, LLB'90 has moved to Hong Kong to work for Osier Renault Ladner, which is the Hong Kong office ofVancouver law\nfirm Ladner Downs ...Anna Lesco-Cyr DipEd'90 has been\nworking for three years as an English teacher on an Indian reserve in Northern Quebec. She enjoys it... Michael Lyons\nPhD'92 is a research faculty member at the California Institute\nof Technology in Pasadena, working on computational neuro-\nscience ... Neil Mancor BA'90 received his MA in medieval\nstudies from Reading University in the UK. He is a member of\nKeble College, Oxford, in his second year of studying for a\nPhD in theology ... Kevin M'Lot BEd'92 teaches elementary\nschool in Surrey ... Winnie (Chong) BEd'92 married David\nMonk BSc'83 in October 1988. Dave works in the pensions\nand benefits consulting field in Vancouver. Winnie teaches high\nschool home ec and ESL inVancouver.Their first child,Allison\nMichelle, was born in January ... Wanda (Pilgrim) Nemethy\nBEd'91 married Brain Nemethy BPE'86, BEd'91 in July.They\nlive and teach in Fraser Lake, BC ... Tara Marie Pauls BA'92 is\n26\nL'BC An mm Chronicle, Wintkk 1993 CLASS ACTS\nstudying for her MSc in speech language pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in\nBoston ...Wendy Reed BSc(Agr)'90 married Dan Hayes in\nJune. She received an MBA from the University of Ottawa in\nMay and is working in telecommunications in Ottawa ... Teresa\n(Laumen)-Smith BEd'92 and David Hamilton Smith BEd\n'81, MEd'87 were married in August in Renfrew, Ontario.They\nlive and teach in Burnaby ... SusanneTam MA'90 returned to\nBC from Thompson, Manitoba. She works as a psychologist for\nthe Howe Sound School District... Caddie BellisT'Kenye\nBFA'90 is writing her master's thesis in adult education at UBC\n... Audrey Tyson BEd'83 returned to UBC to study theatre.\nShe should complete her MFA in 1995, about the same time\ndaughter Janet finishes her BA.Two other daughters are grads,\nCatherine Tyson BA'83 and Louise Coleman BEd'86,\nDipEd'87 ... Doug Wilson BCom'90 works for NCR Canada\nLtd. He transferred with the company from Vancouver to Toronto in 1991. He married Katia Belanger in July in Vancouver.\nBirths\nSusan (Wiles) Armstrong BHE'8I and Craig: a girl,Valerie\nMichelle, on July 26.A sister for Robert and Stephanie ... Paul\nBarran PhD'87 and Judith Bus MD'83: triplets-Alexa,\nMichael and Christopher,on March 16 ...Maureen\n(Dunnigan) Black MBA'85 and Michael Black BA'80,\nMBA'83: a girl, Sarah Marie, on February 7 ... Victoria\n(Ellsmore) Brown BA'87 and Grant Brown BSc'87: a girl,\nKeara Kathleen, on January 2. Grant completed his PhD at\nUCLA in June.The couple has moved to Baltimore where\nGrant is doing post-doctoral research at Johns Hopkins ...\nShauna (MacPherson) Dennert BSR'78 and husband Fred:\na daughter.Allison Margaret, on May 28.A sister for Katherine\n...James Dick BSc(Agr)'88 and his wife Jacquie: triplets-\nCharles Avery.Anthony Martin and Laurel Jayne, on September\n9 ... Letitia (Sladden) Gale BEd'79 and her husband Roger: a\nson,William Stewart-A brother for Benjamin ... Darlene\n(Gartner) Hargrove BEd'79 and Jim Hargrove\nBASc(ElecEng)'81: a daughter, Shannon Iris, on June 3. A sister\nfor Robert and Richard ... Barbara (Murdoch) Henderson\nBSN'84 and Deane Henderson BASc(MechEng)'84: a third\nchild,Wesley Crocker Henderson, on July 28. A brother for\nLaura and Becky ... Lisa Holmgren BSc'82 and Douglas\nMarshall BA'83, a daughter, Sophie Nicole, on August 28.\nThey have moved to Parksville, and Doug is practising law at\nClark & Co. in Qualicum Beach ... Ted Horbulyk BSc(Agr)'77\nand Katie Johnson of Calgary: a daughter.Adele Lynne, on September 16. A sister for Jacob, 27 months ... May (Woo) Jiang\nBCom'83 and David Jiang, a daughter, Rebecca, in April. A sister\nfor Heather ... Malcolm Leitch BCom'79 and his wife Patti: a\ngirl, Andrea Heather, on June 7. A sister for Ian and David ...\nRalph Luongo BASc (Elec Eng)'84 and his wife Lucia: a daughter, Gabriella Michele, their first child, on March 22. Ralph is an\nelectrical engineer with BC Rail ... David Mirhady BA'82,\nMA'85 and his wife Mary Alice; a boy, Ephraem Arash, in December 1992. David is a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie ...\nArt Monahan BA'70 and K. Angela White BA'67, LLB'70; a\ndaughter, Kathleen Alexandra Nancy, on February 4, 1992 ...\nSharon (Nagel) Pughe DipDH'86 and her husband Doug: a\nsecond daughter,Tennille Alexandra, on July 29. A sister for\nKayla ...Janice (Williamson) Reynolds BSc(Pharm)'85 and\nBlake Reynolds BSC(Pharm)'85: a son, Larsen Keith, on June\n26, 1992. A brother for Casey and Holly ... Janine\n(Thomson) Roberts BSN'88 and husband Stephen: a girl,\nMikayla Paige, on March 5 in Vancouver ...Teresa\n(Bergstrom) Rodriguez BCom'86 and husband Genaco: a\ndaughter, Sandra, on April 23 in Madrid, Spain ... Wendi\nRottluff BASc(CHML)'88 and Al Strang were married in 1991.\nTheir first child was born on July 22. A son, Kiel ... Barbara\n(Jordon) Schmidt B,Com'85 and her husband Karl: a boy,\nMichael Karl, on April 23 ... Lorna Seppala BA'75 and David\nRowat MASc{ChemEng)79: a daughter, Sylvia Leigh, on August\n12 ... Cheryl (Lenington) Suckling BA'79 and Philip Suckling PhD'77: a fourth daughter, Deanna Erynn, on May 14 in\nWaterloo, Iowa ... Per Suneby BASc(ElecEng)75 and his wife\nElizabeth: a son, Joshua. Per has been promoted to director of\nworldwide product marketing for Motorola Codex ...Agnes\nKarman (Lai) Tarn BCom'83 and and husband Felix: a son,\nKevin Andrew, on October 7.Their first child ... William Watt\nBMus'67, MMus'73 and his wife Laura: a son, lain George Allan.\nA brother for Cameron, Duncan and Christine ...Wayne Weber BSc'67, MSc'73 and wife Wendy: a daughter, Larissa, on\nMarch 12. A sister for Ian. Wayne earned a PhD at Mississippi\nState and is a wildlife biologist with the BC Ministry of Agriculture ... Mary Wilkie BSc'75 and Bodo de Lange Boom\nMSc'76: a daughter,Tamara, on August 7.27 A sister for Scott.\nJacob Schratter, MSc'68, PhD'73\nJack Schratter was born in 1935 in Romania. He came to Canada in 1962 after studying science in his native country. His\nfiancee Margit followed him a year later and they were manried.The couple travelled to mary places together.They had two\nsons, Michael and Edward, both now in their twenties and enroled in undergraduate science programs.\nA short time after his arrival in British Columbia, he started working at St Paul's Hospital where he helped establish\nclinics in respiratory therapy and in radioactive medicine. He entered graduate studies at UBC, earning his master's of science\nand his PhD in physics.\nHe then started his teaching, which was his real calling. In 1971 he began a long and impressive career teaching mathematics and physics at Okanagan College. He was dedicated to his work and to his students. He was an inspiration to them,\nand expected a great deal from his students. He maintained an interest in their progress long after they had left his classroom.\nHe was both generous with his knowledge and contributions and much sought out and admired by his colleagues. He\nspent his leisure time pursuing interests in tennis, cross-country skiing and hiking. Jack and Margit also loved to go to the symphony and to the theatre.\nJack met with a tragic accident on the way home on his bicycle on March 24,1993. He was a man who earned toe love\nand the respect of ail who knew him, and he will be remembered and missed.\nIn Memoriam\nArnold M.Ames BASc(ChemEng)'37, on January 5 ... Gary\nWinter Brown BASc(MechEng)'58, on August 25, in the Bahamas. He worked for 35 years in the public utility sector; Ontario Hydro and AECL in Argentina. He took early retirement\nin December 1992. He is survived by his wife Gwen, son\nRoyden Winter Brown and daughter Jocelyn Lora Brown ... C.\nRoss Bryant BEd'87, suddenly on March 27. He is survived by\nhis wife Margaret, son Shawn and daughter Kirstin ... A.T.R.\n(Tommy) Campbell BA'31 inVictoria.A well-known lawyer,\nhe managed the law firm of Davis & Company for many years.\nHe was a former president of the Associated Property Owners\nAssociation and instrumental in the creation of the Downtown\nMerchants Association, which he served as president and executive secretary. He was called to the bar in 1934 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1960. He served as director of\nmany organizations including the Vancouver Board of Trade ...\nClarence James Clerihue BCom'48 , on July 5, in Williams\nLake. He spent most of his childhood in Vancouver, where he\nwas born in 1920. He is survived by his wife Gladys, father\nVictor, brothers Ran and Don and many nieces and nephews...\nEleanor W. Colquhoun BA'43, on April 29 ... Thelma Hall\n(Mahon) Cornwall BA'30, on July 17, in Torrance, Ontario.\nWhile at UBC,Thelma was a member of the women's basketball team, which won the gold medal at the World Games in\nPrague in 1930 ... Ian Douglas Currie BA'58, MA'61, peacefully on July 5, 1992 after a brief illness ... David Francis\nEdmonds BA'42, on July 16, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is\nsurvived by his wife Ines, two daughters Susan and Paula, and\nson Charles, all of Buenos Aires; also daughters Kathy (of London), Marta (Adelaide) and Frances (Richmond). In his career\nDave moved from Port Alice, to eastern North America and\nthen to Argentina, where in due course he took senior responsibility for a pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment and supply company. He attended his 50th class reunion last year and\nrenewed contact with several of his old friends ... R. Conrad\nEmmons BA' 19, MA'20, on September 4, 1993, in Madison,\nWisconsin, at the age of 95. After UBC, he went on to earn a\nPhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1924. He taught there\nfrom 1924 until he retired in 1969 as emeritus professor of\ngeology. His specialization was petrology and optical\nmineralogy. He was Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America,\npresident 1944; Fellow, Geological Society of America, vice\npresident 1945. He wrote two books: Memoir 8 and Memoir 52\nofthe Geological Society of America; and over 45 technical\npapers, all recordings of his research. He is survived by his\ndaughter Nancy Smith; a granddaughter, two great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews ... H.Jean (MacDiarmid)\nFournier BA'33, on June 26, in Calgary. She was predeceased\n(in 1979) by her husband Frank L. Fournier BSc'32. She is\nsurvived by her daughter Pamela Jean Small, sons J.S. Lawrence Fournier BCom'61 and Peter L. Fournier BA'61 and\ngrandson Jack S. Fournier BSc'81. She moved to Ottawa in\n1973 and lived there until she moved to Calgary in 1990. She\nworked as a secretary in real estate and the law from 1947\nuntil 1973 ... Urban John Guichon BSA'42, on October 9, in\nCalgary. During WWII he served with distinction in the intelligence and commando unit of the Canadian and British forces,\nliving and working with the Dutch underground before the\nallied invasion. For the BC Department of Agriculture, he or-\nUBC An mm Chronicle, Wintkr 1993 27 CLASS ACTS\nDorothy Mawdsley, MA'27\nDean ofWomen Emerita Dorothy Mawdsley died peacefully tn her sleep at Crofton Manor\non August 5th of this year. A generation of UBC women graduates will remember gratefully\nher work on their behalf.\nMary Dorothy Mawdsley was born in 1898 in Florence, Italy where her British\nparents were studying and working. She attended kindergarten in Italy, and schools in Ontario and Saskatchewan. She received a BA from McGill, an MA from UBC and a PhD from\ndie University of Chicago.\nShe first began teaching in the English Department of UBC in i 927, but, like\nmany single members of faculty, she was discharged in 1932 when die university suffered\nsevere financial problems. From 1932 to 1940 she taught at King Edward High School in\nVancouver. She was re-hired in the English Department in 1940 and was appointed Dean of\nWomen in 1941. She held both positions until her retirement in 1959.\nAt the time of her appointment the Dean of Women's office carried many responsibilities for the watchful care of\nwomen at the university. The dean was expected to be a chaperon, social arbiter, confidante, moral guardian and substitute\nparent, as well as a person of impeccable academic standing. Dean Mawdsley stepped into the office with enthusiasm, spending\nthe first summer of her appointment examining every single boarding home available to women students in those pre-resi-\ndence days. She continued to offer guidance and sympathetic help to all the \"girls\" under her care, many times speaking out on\ntheir behalf in faculty meetings, sometimes to the consternation of less patient faculty members.\nDr. Mawdsley and her friend, Marjorie Leeming, with whom she collaborated in an English text book, shared a home\nand a keen interest in gardening and dogs for many years both before and after her retirement.Among her post-retirement\nactivities was the taping of reminiscences of her work as Dean of Women for a UBC Women's History project The tape recording is available in the UBC Archives. She remained active and interested in her family and former students right up to the\npresent year. (Thanks to Laurenda Danielk, University Archivist Emerita.)\nganized a program which successfully eliminated brucelosis in\nBC cattle. He served as district agriculturalist for Kamloops\nand managed the Alkali Lake Ranch in 1954. He moved to\nCalgary in 1955. In the course of his career he employed hundreds of people in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and Montana,\nand was greatly admired by colleagues, staff and suppliers. He\nretired three weeks before he died. He is survived by his wife\nMary, his five children, his brothers Charles and Bernard\nGuichon BSA'50, seven grandchildren, children-in-law, many\nnieces and nephews and friends ... Leslie Ernest Howlett\nBA'27, in January 1992 ... Dorothy (Hayes) Lawrence\nBHE'47, on August 26, in Pebble Beach, California. Dorothy\nwas born in Edmonton and grew up in Jasper, where her father\nwas a minister in the United Church.After marrying a young\nAmerican she met while he was vacationing in Jasper, she\nraised her children on magical stories of skating on frozen lakes\nby the light of the moon. She worked as a registered dietician\nat VGH before her marriage to Theodore. She travelled extensively with her husband, a Chevron Corporation executive.\nBesides her husband, she leaves her two daughters, Ann and\nDeborah; three grandchildren and a nephew, Blair E. Mercer\nBEd'92, BPE'92 ... Dennis C. Lewsey BEd'76, on July 2, in\nNakusp ... Ann Oliver (McClure) Maclachlan BA'33, on\nAugust I. Born in Lethbridge, she grew up and taught in the\nMission/Hatzic area. She volunteered as a tutor teaching ESL to\nyoung adult immigrants. She endured a long battle with\nosteoporosis, but her love of family, music, friends and the\nchurch sustained her. She is survived by her husband J.\nMurdoch Maclachlan BA'40, daughter Kim Collett and son\nJohn BCom'70 and many other family members ...John\nMalcolm Russell Margeson BA'42, of Fowlsmere, near\nCambridge, UK, while visiting on Vancouver Island, on July 19.\nProfessor Margesson was born in Trail in 1920 and was an honours graduate in English and classics. From 1941-42 he was\neditor-in-chief of The Ubyssey. Commissioned by the RCAF in\n1943, he served in the radar section overseas. He taught English at Acadia University and Scarborough College at the U ofT\nbefore he moved to the UK. He was predeceased by his wife\nKipps and is survived by his daughters Sue and Jane, son\nMichael, four grandchildren and his sister Ruth Davidson ...\nLynne Catherine (Sinclair) Peachey LLB'90, on September\n3 at the age of 48. After working many years as a nurse at The\nHealth Centre for Children and Children's Hospital, she entered UBC's law school at the age of 40. She practised law in\nRichmond after being called to the bar. Lynne gave generously\nof herself to her friends and family and to her community. She\nwas a director and officer of the Victorian Order of Nurses, a\ndirector of theVGH Alumni Building Society, the BC Housing\nFoundation and the lower mainland chapter of the BC Head\nInjury Association. She is survived by her husband David; her\ndaughters Tanya BCom'92, Karen and Meghan; her twin sister\nLaurel, her sister Donna and many other loving family members who miss her very much ... Cicely (Hunt) Pierrot\nBA'31, BSW'62, on March 18. She was active in Alpha Gamma\nDelta both on campus and as an alumna; she received some of\ntheir honorary awards. After receiving her degree in social\nwork, she worked in adoption placements with the Children's\nAid Society in Vancouver, and for a time in Whitehorse. Her\nhusband Edward, whom she married in 1938, died in 1961. She\nis survived by three children: Roland BCom'63, LLB'64, Hazel\nand Stephen, and her brother, William Hunt\nBASc (Mech Eng)'42 ... MarleneThorsteinson BCom'82, on\nAugust 8 ... Dorothy (Tate) Slaughter BASc(Nurs)'33, on\nOctober 9,. Dorothy was a pioneer director of public health\nnursing in the forties, and a consultant for the Province of British Columbia (1955-75).After UBC she joined the provincial\nPublic Health Department and, except for one brief period of\neducational leave (at Columbia and Berkeley) and an overseas\nappointment in Saudi Arabia, remained with the department for\nthe majority of her career. She lived in White Rock, BC from\n1950 and was an active member of the University Women's\nClub ofWhite Rock ...Arthur John Wirick BA'36, on September 18, in Saskatoon. James A. Gibson BA'31 (professor\nemeritus at Brock University in St Catherines, Ontario) wrote\nto report the death of his friend, whom he would see from\ntime to time at gatherings of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, in which Mr. Gibson had been a branch officer\nand for several terms a member ofthe National Council...\nBorn in Vancouver in 1914, William Affleck Wolfe BA'37,\nBASc(MechEng)'37 completed post-graduate work at Queen's\nbefore joining the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC. In 1962\nhe moved to Chalk River as an assistant director ofj/esearch at\nAtomic Energy of Canada. He retired to Victoria in 1979\nwhere he continued to write on the use of nuclear energy for\npeaceful purposes. He is survived by his wife Eleanor and two\nsons, Brian and John. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nDaniel Branch Quayle, BA'37, MA'38\nDaniel Quayle arrived from England in 1913, when he was three. His family settled in the\ncoal-mining community of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island. His CV includes the notation\n\"1929\u00E2\u0080\u0094coal miner (stimulus to Academe).\" He taught elementary school at eighteen, progressing from there to an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from UVic at seventy-six In\nbetween, he earned degrees from UBC and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.\nDr. Quayle was a world authority on bivalve molluscs, particularly oysters and\nmarine wood-borers. He worked as a marine biologist for thirty years with the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo.This included stints as the director of biological services to the\nBC Department of Fisheries, as a technical advisor in California,Virginia and Washington, as\na consultant to the Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the International Development Research Centre (1RDC). He taught and carried out\nresearch all over the world: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, the Philippines,\nPuerto Rico, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad. His service to his country and the world included four years as\na navigator with the RCAF, one year of which was spent as a prisoner of war in Germany during WWII.\nFor relaxation, Dan read poetry, fiddled with machines, played golf and gardened his corner of the BC rainforest in\nNanaimo. He is survived by his wife Ann, his daughter Moura (David Fushtey LLB'88), his brother Alex (Jayne), his sisters\nJane (Chris), Marion and Betsy and his sister-in-law Gwen Murray. He will be deeply missed by them and by his many cousins,\nnieces, nephews, extended family and friends, colleagues and students.\n28\nl BC Au mm Chroski.k, Winter 199.'! Miscellaneous Homecoming and Reunion Photos\nDonald McDairmid, BA'30, BCom'34 was a guest\nat the \"Great Trek Remembered\" Luncheon. We\ntook a group photo ofthe Great Trekkers, but Mr.\nMcDairmid was busy talking with old friends and\nmissed the shoot. Photo by CP.\nUBC Alumni Chronicle, Winter 1993 29 Alumni Acrostic Puzzle\n2 C\n3 S\n1 *\nSS^H\n5\nT\n6\nE\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n1\nA\n8 H\n9 0\n10 P\n11 G\n12 N\n13\n'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nQ\n15 C\n16 B\n1\nI\n17\n18 U\n19\nBB\n20\n21\nAA\n22 J\n23 U\n24 K\n1\n-\n0\n26 A\n27 P\n28 K\n29 T\n30\n'\n\"\nX\n32 M\n33 0\n34\n35\nE\n36 BB\n37\nR\n38\nC\n39 AA\n40 L\n-\n\u00C2\u00B0\n43 F\n44 P\n45 BB\n46 D\n47\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n0\n49 S\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n50\n1\n52 B\nH53\nE\n54\nU\n55\nZ\n56\nS\n^^H57\nV\n58\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n59 AA\n60 W\n61 U\n62\nS\n63 Q\n64\nR\n65 0\n66 L\n\"\n0\n-\n\"\n70\nC\n72 L\n73 A\n1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n75 BB\nI\n..\n77 E\n78\nA\n79 AA\n80\n\u00C2\u00B0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\n82\n1 83\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n84\n\"\nB5\n86\nL\n87\nE\n88 N\n89\nG\n90\nQ\n91 AA\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\n93 A\n94\n\u00C2\u00B0\n95 Y\n96 L\n97 M\n98 H\n99\n0\n100 X\n101\n'\n102\nM\n103\nC\n119\n104 E\n105\nD\n106 U\n107 T\n108 Z\n109 F\n110\n'\n1\n,.,\n112 K\n113 BB\n114\n0\n115 P\n116 H\n117\nT\n118\nX\nc\n120 L\n121 A\n122\nR\n123 V\n124 E\n125 H\n126\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nAA\n128 B\n129 W\n130 H\n131 T\n132 I\n133\nD\n134\nS\nH 135\nL\n136\nG\n137 R\n138 L\n139\nC\n140 SB\n142 U\n143 T\n144 1\n145 G\n1\n146 R\n147 K\n148\nH\n149\nc\n150 BB\n151 L\n152\nP\n153\n0\n154\nA\n155 W\n156\nT\n157\nA\n158 V\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n,\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\n160 G\n161 L\n162 E\n163\nS\n164 Y\n165 Q\n166\n183\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n1\n1\n...\n168\nV\n169\nB\n170\nz\n171\n0\n172 T\n173\n'\n1\n1\n175 X\n176 F\n177 BB\n17B I\n179 P\n1B0\nK\n181 Q\n182 S\nU^l\n..\n185\nA\n186\nK\n187 Z\n188\nB\n189\n.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n190\n-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n192 A\n193 BB\n194 V\n195\n1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nB\n197 W\n198 0\nWhen properly filled in, the letters in the box form a\nquotation from a book written by a UBC person.The first\nletters of each clue, reading down, form the name of the\nauthor and title of the book. Solution next issue.\nComplete the puzzle and return it to us by February 15,\n1994, and you may win a swell prize.\nA. Pileated\nRanch,\nhistoric Vernon site\nC. Queen .\n; ferry\nbetween Port Hardy\nand Prince Rupert: 3 wds.\nD. River famed for\nsteelhead\nE. Guard\nGiven to relieve\nthe poor\nFormer Seymour\nNarrows' navigational\nhazard, Rock\nRyga play \"Captives\nof the Faceless \"\nHaig-Brown's love\n Butte; small\nsettlement on BC\nrailway\nBeer parlour sign:\n\"Ladies \"; 2 wds.\nL. 19th C. transporation\nmode: 2 wds.\nM. Mt. Waddington is\nat head of this inlet\nN. Praise the Lord!\n192 185 93 7 154 121 26\n157 78 73\n128 52 188 16 196 169\n70 38 119 166 103 149 2\n94 139 15\n92 46 105 133\n53 87 35 104 162 6 24\n77\n43 109 176 184\n145 11 63 136 160 89\n116 8 148 84 41 130 125\n144 82 69 178 132 191 17\n110 22 1 173\n159 28 83 34 47 186 147\n112 180 24\n135 161 151 66 72 86 40\n96 138 120\n76 97 190 20 102 32\n111 88 126 12\nO. Matthew Baillie Begbie:\n\"The Judge\"\nP. Insulting or abusive\nQ. Dan Aykroyd campaigning\nfor Tories: \"Who you\ngonna call? .'\"\nR. thrush\nS. Farthest limit: 2 wds.\nT. How you might cross a\nBC river: 2 wds.\nU. Barbara McDougall: \"It's\nnot the size of your caucus,\nit's how .'\": 3 wds.\nV. Goes with parsley,\nsage and rosemary\nW. Photographed Kim's\nbare shoulders\nX. Portends the future\nY. Ridge,\nSummerland winery\nZ. Shabby, seedy\nAA. 1961 hockey championships:\nTrail Smoke\t\nBB. Canadian-invented\ngame, 1986\n42\n171\n153\n13\n99\n65\n198\n44\n115\n71\n179\n174\n101\nlo\"\n152\n~Z7~\n165\n33\n9\n48\n67\n114\n80\n14\n181\n90\n25\n37\n137\n122\n146\n64\n98\n3\n56\n49\n182\n62\n195\n163\n134\n81\n107\n172\n29\n156\n131\n143\n5\n50\n117\n183\n18\n23\n142\n106\n61\n54\n167\n194\n168\n85\n57\n123\n129\n51\n197\n189\n60\n155\n58\n175\n74\n118\n100\n\"3T\n158\n164\n95\n68\n141\n55\n108\nur\n187\n170\n21\n91\n127\n79\n39\n59\n177\n193\n36\n150\n4\n140\n113\n19\n45\n75\nAcrostic #7 solution: \"Heading north, she was off to the\nQueen Charlotte Islands to attend to the main purpose\nbehind her enormously long voyage from Valparaiso\u00E2\u0080\u0094namely\nto see if American interlopers seeking gold were placing\nBritain's interests in jeopardy.\" Akriggs HMS Virago in the\nPacific.\nWinners: D. Rutherford, Georgia; V. Park, Whitehorse; Susan\nBakken, Salmo; F. Kinder, Crawford Bay; F. King, Avonlea, SK;\nW. Cheah, West Van.\n30 UBC Ali mni Chronicle, Winter 1993 Return to:\nMasterCard Accounts Office\nP.O. Box 8940\nVancouver. 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