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BAIN, B.A., B.Com.'36\nAssistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce\nand Business Administration\nTo mark the establishment in 1956\nof the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration a series of\nmeetings was held during the week\nof the 1957 Autumn Congregation,\ncomprising a luncheon sponsored by\nthe Board of Trade of Vancouver, an\nInstitute on Goals and Responsibilities\nin Business Education and a Congregation Address by Principal Mackintosh of Queen's University on the\nfunctions of such a Faculty.\nA distinguished group of speakers\ntook part: President MacKenzie presided at the opening session of the\nInstitute. The speakers were: Mr.\nHarold S. Foley, Chairman of the\nPowell River Co., Ltd.; Dean S. N. F.\nChant, of the Faculty of Arts and\nScience (U.B.C); Mr. J. F. Stewart,\nPresident of the Canadian Bank of\nCommerce; Senator D. Cameron, Executive Director of the Banff School\nof Advanced Management; Dr. J. V.\nFisher, Economic Adviser for the Province of B.C.; Dean H. C. Gunning, of\nthe Faculty of Applied Science\n(U.B.C); Dean E. D. MacPhee, of the\nFaculty of Commerce and Business\nAdministration (U.B.C).\nAt the Autumn Congregation, Honorary degrees were conferred on four\nof the speakers: Principal Mackintosh,\nMr. Foley, Mr. Stewart, Dr. Fisher,\nand on Mr. Leon Koerner and Mr. W.\nG. Murrin.\nAll speakers were of one mind in\nemphasising the growing complexity\nof modern life and the increasing dependence of Western society on its\neducational institutions. All believed\nthat education for business must include study of the humanities and social sciences. Dean Chant stated in\nthis regard:\n\"Any realistic concept of education can\nnever be a static one. Education must change\nin keeping with the progress that takes place\nin the ways of men.\n\"But not all change is progress and higher\neducation should not be shaped by the pressure\nof circumstances or permitted to drift with\nthe shifting current of popular appeal.\n\"Our highly industrialised civilisation will\nendure only if it is cared for by persons who\nhave both competence and the wisdom which\ncomes from a wide understanding of man's\nachievements.\"\nMr. Foley, in addressing the first\nmeeting, spoke of the historical\ngrowth of social interests among\nbusinessmen. He emphasised a need\nfor the business community to develop\na clear conception of its social as well\nas economic responsibilities, and stated that our present social system will\nfalter in its competitive struggle with\nether ideologies if it does not give\ngreater attention to its educational\ninstitutions. The maintenance of most\nCanadian Universities has in the past\nbeen primarily the function of government, \"but businessmen must do\nmore than regret the inability or unwillingness of government to rise to\nthe needs of the times.\"\nMr. Stewart and Senator Cameron\nspoke of the growing interdependence\nMONTREAL TRUST\nCOMPANY\n\"A Company that Cares for your Affairs\"\nServices to Individuals and Corporations\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 EXECUTORS O TRUSTEES\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ENDOWMENT FUNDS\n466 Howe Street MArine 0567\nVancouver 1, B.C.\nJ. N. BELL\u00E2\u0080\u0094MANAGER\nCROFTON HOUSE\nSCHOOL\nFounded by the Misses Gordon, 1898\nPRIMARY CLASSES to MATRICULATION\nMUSIC - ART - HOME ECONOMICS\nGYMNASTICS - GAMES - DANCING - RIDING\nDRAMATICS - GIRL GUIDES - BROWNIE PACK\nApply to the Headmistress\nMISS ELLEN K. BRYAN, M.A.\n3200 W. 41st Ave., Vancouver Phone KErr. 4380\n\"A CITY SCHOOL IN COUNTRY SETTING\"\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE\n12 of business and education, emphasising the point that education should\nbe considered a lifetime activity. To\nMr. Stewart there was an important\ndifference between \"training\" which\nmight be considered as restricted to\nvocational techniques, and \"education\"\nwhich should include not only liberal\narts studies but also development of\nthe will to learn, development of capacity to think intelligently and of\nleadership qualities. Training in technical aspects of business, he felt,\ncould be provided for the educated\nperson subsequent to entry into employment. Businessmen therefore have\nan obligation not only to support institutions of higher learning for the\nyoung, but also to further the post-\ninstitutional education of their executive personnel.\nTo Senator Cameron the rapidly expanding field of management education is one of the most exciting developments in the field of adult education.\nA review was made of recent trends\nin the growth of adult business education \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the rapid expansion of evening courses, in-service training of\nemployees, and post-graduate institutional programmes. The complexity of modern educational requirements has led to several concerted\nefforts, now in progress in the United\nStates, to determine the position of\nbusiness education in the larger field\nof general education and to discover\nthe most desirable curricula and\nteaching methods. There is an urgent\nnecessity for greater support for research in all the social sciences.\nDr. Fisher, speaking as a governmental administrator, stated that in\npublic service the capacity to learn\ncontinuously throughout one's career\nwas essential. Civil servants require\nnot merely professional skills but education in \"humanistic discipline\".\nDr. Mackintosh and Dean Chant\nwelcomed the comparatively recent development of Faculties of Commerce\nand Business Administration as an essential means of providing a liberal\neducation for students primarily in-\nPITMAN BUSINESS\nCOLLEGE\n\"Vancouver's Leading\nBusiness College\"\nSecretarial Training,\nStenography,\nAccounting, Dictaphone\nTypewriting, Comptometer\nIndividual instruction\nEnrol at Any Time\nBroadway and Granville\nVANCOUVER 9, B.C.\nTelephone: CHerry 7848\nMRS. A. S. KANCS, P.C.T.\nPrincipal\nOne of the panels of distinguished businessmen and educators which took part in the Institute on the\nGoals and Responsibilities in Business Education held in conjunction with U.B.C.'s Fall Congregation\nceremonies. Left to right are: Dr. J. V. Fisher, economic adviser to the B.C. government; Dr. E. D.\nMacPhee, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, U.B.C; Dr. James. Stewart,\nPresident of the Canadian Bank of Commerce; Dr. Harold E. Foley, President of the Powell River Co. Ltd.,\nand Senator Donald Cameron, Executive Director of the Banff School of Advanced Management.\nterested in business careers who\nwould, without such facilities, tend to\nrestrict their education to technical\ntraining. Business education must\ncomprise a judicious merging of liberal arts and technical courses. An\nintegration of the two should be\nachieved which assists in the development of those intellectual qualities\nnecessary to enlightened leadership.\nDean Gunning's address dealt with\nthe problem of giving an adequate liberal arts content to professional engineering courses. A balance must be\nstruck between the demand for increased technical training arising from\nthe pervasive nature of new developments in technology, and the demand\nfor more liberal education caused by\nthe increasing number of engineering\ngraduates who find themselves, relatively early in their careers, advancing\ninto professional or industrial management positions.\nDean E. D. MacPhee of the Faculty\nof Commerce and Business Administration at the University of B.C. dealt\nwith a number of unsolved problems\nconfronting business educators.\nThere is some question of whether\nor not business training in schools below the University level should be restricted as at present to purely technical skills. In his opinion business\neducation at that level might well include an understanding of the social\nand business environment in which the\ntechnical skills are exercised.\nAnother issue involves the question\nof whether business education is subject-matter primarily for an undergraduate university programme, or\nfor post-graduate work, or a combination of the two. Dean MacPhee believed that business education .could\neffectively be given at the under-grad-\nuate level. In speaking of the programme of his own Faculty he stated\nthat its limited objectives were all\nadapted to the undergraduate level.\nThe undergraduate programme should\nprovide a study of a broad range of\nhuman disciplines, consistent with\ncarefully chosen standards of technical\ncompetence in a business field of the\nstudent's choice, the whole course of\nstudies integrated in a design to stimulate independent thought on the part\nof the student and the development of\nhis own social values.\nThis position was supported by\nmembers of the audience representing\nseveral professional societies.\nIn relation to the post-institutional\nrecommendations of Mr. Stewart and\nSenator Cameron, Dean MacPhee reviewed the adult educational programme of his Faculty. There are\neight programmes catering to over\n1600 students enrolled as members of\nbusiness and professional organisations in B.C.\nMembers of the audience raised the\nissues of making University courses\navailable in the interior of the Province, and also that of modifying university entrance requirements to assist\nbusinessmen presently without the\nnecessary academic qualifications to\ntake specialised business courses. Most\nsmall business and professional firms\ncannot afford the in-service programmes made available to employees by\nlarge organisations. In reply members\nof Faculty pointed out the financial\nproblems involved and the contentious\nnature of University entrance qualifications. The issues however were evidence of the active interest of the\nbusiness community in educational\nmatters.\nThe closing session of the Institute\nwas distinguished by an expression of\nappreciation to Dr. Ellis H. Morrow,\nProfessor Emeritus of Commerce who\ndirected the former Department of\nCommerce at U.B.C, and laid the academic foundation which made possible\nthe establishment of the present Faculty.\n13\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Signing the International Halibut Treaty on\nMarch 2, 1953\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Hon. James Sinclair\n(second from right, seated) sits between the\nRt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent, former Canadian\nprime minister, and the Hon. Hughes Lapointe,\nformer minister of Veterans Affairs. Among\nthose standing are the Hon. Dana Wilgress,\nformer undersecretary for external affairs\n(second from right) and Stewart Bates, former\ndeputy minister of fisheries (extreme right).\njames Sinclair\nprofile\nMaverick to Cabinet Minister -\nThe Rise of \"Jimmy\" Sinclair\nIn this article on James Sinclair\nthe author examines the career\nof the former minister of fisheries. He reaches the conclusion that Mr. Sinclair is at the\nheight of his powers and whether in or out of politics will\nplay an important part in the\ndevelopment and progress of\nCanada in years to come.\nBy JAMES A. MacDONALD, B.A/38\nOurs is a young University and\nonly in the last few years have its\ngraduates attained the highest positions in the political, judicial, business and academic life of this country\nand this Province. It happens that\n1957 is a significant year in the\ncareer of the first U.B.C. graduate to\nbecome a member of the Government\nof Canada, and it is probably therefore an appropriate time to tell something of his story in the pages of the\nChronicle.\nThe general election of last June\nseems to have led to a heightened\ninterest in Canadian political affairs.\nA new Government is now in office at\nOttawa and the activities of the new\nMinisters are making news. But the\npublic eye is focused as well on the\nLiberal Opposition in which, by reason\nof the defeat of a number of senior\nMinisters, whose names were well\nknown in Canada, a few of the younger men in the party have moved\ninto the front rank. There is speculation as to how they will prove themselves in their new roles, especially\nas a new leader for the party is soon\nto be selected. One of this small group\nis the Honourable James Sinclair of\nBritish Columbia, member for Coast\nCapilano and former Minister of Fisheries, widely and popularly known as\nJimmy Sinclair.\nJimmy was born in Banff, Scotland,\nwhere his Father was Schoolmaster,\non May 26, 1908. Two years later\nthe whole family emigrated to Canada and settled at once in Vancouver.\nMr. Sinclair joined the Staff of the\nTechnical School, becoming in due\ncourse Principal, and retiring in 1944.\nFINISHED HIGH SCHOOL AT 15\nSchooling came easily to his son,\nand by the age of 15 years he had\nfinished High School and moved on to\nthe University where he enrolled in\nthe Faculty of Applied Science. In\nspite of being two years younger than\nmost of his contemporaries, his brilliant academic record, supplemented\nby activity on the rugby field, an\nAssociate Editorship of the Ubyssey\nand Presidency of the Men's Athletic\nSociety won for him the coveted\nRhodes Scholarship.\nAs it must be for nearly all Rhodes\nScholars, Oxford was for Jimmy Sinclair an enriching, broadening experience. He maintained honour grades,\nbut he took the time to travel about\nBritain and the Continent. When, in\n1931, he returned to Vancouver, he\nexpected to take a teaching position\nat U.B.C. However, the depression-\ntime budget of the University was so\nstrained that it was not possible to\nhire him and he went to teach at West\nVancouver High School. This interlude was followed by a teaching fellowship at Princeton where he continued with study in Mathematics and\nPhysics.\nIt is a fact that very few people\nwith the mental makeup which leads\nthem into engineering and the sciences\never show an active interest in politics. At this time then a career in\ngovernment must have seemed most\nimprobable for Jimmy Sinclair. But\nhe was restless in academic work and,\nas it turned out, his first step into\npolitics was soon to be taken.\nNot long after returning to Vancouver he became organiser for the\nLiberal party, influenced to do so by\nan unusual figure in B.C. politics. Dr.\nGeorge M. Weir, Minister of Education, had in 1933 left the University,\nwhere he was Professor of Education,\nto enter the Provincial cabinet. A\nman of great ability, he was ready to\ncrusade with burning enthusiasm in\nsupport of policies in which he had\nfaith, regardless of the obstacles in\nthe way. He was just the sort of\nman who could attract to public life\nyoung men of similar spirit.\nCANDIDATE IN NORTH VANCOUVER\nJimmy first sought to be a candidate for the North Vancouver riding\nin a Provincial election, but had the\ndisappointment of seeing another\nchosen instead. However, he went to\nVictoria as Secretary to the Minister\nof Mines. In a little over two years\nthe federal election of 1940 was called\nand this time Sinclair won the Liberal\nnomination in North Vancouver. It\nseemed though that the nomination\nwas all that he had any chance of\nwinning because the seat was held\nby Grant McNeil, an able and popular\nC.C.F. member. But Sinclair won and\nwent to Ottawa, not an unknown\nfreshman M.P., but with a good deal\nof prestige stemming from his unexpected victory.\nHe had by this time enlisted in the\nAir Force and in fact left for service\nbefore his first session of Parliament\nwas finished. He did not go without\nfirst making an impression on the\nHouse. In seconding the motion in\nreply to the Speech from the Throne\nthe new member called for a mobili-\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE\n14 sation of all the resources of Canada\nfor war, in words which were taken\nby the opposition and the press as\na demand for conscription, and were\nresented by the Government as being\ncritical of its policies. For the first,\nbut not the last time, Jimmy Sinclair\ncame unfavourably to the notice of\nhis party leader, Mr. Mackenzie King.\nIt was in this dramatic fashion that\nhe first took up the role of maverick.\nFor the rest of this wartime Parliament Sinclair was able to appear in\nthe House only while on Air Force\nleave. Nevertheless in the 1944 session he made a number of speeches,\nfrom the viewpoint of a member of\nthe Forces, in the debates on the new\nveterans legislation.\nINDEPENDENT IN HOUSE\nIn the 1945 general election he was\nreturned with an increased majority.\nFor nearly four years afterwards he\nsat as a private member and added\nto his reputation as one who would\nnot hesitate to take an independent\nposition on issues before the House,\nregardless of the policy being followed by his party. One matter which\ndid not attract much public attention\nbut which increased his unpopularity\nwith his Government was his opposition to a Bill presented, naming the\nauditors for the Canadian National\nRailway. It was Sinclair's view that\nthis job should have been done by the\nAuditor-General and he worked hard\nto make his case. Today margarine\nis assumed as a matter of course in\nthe kitchens and on the dining tables\nof Canada. But it can be said that\nits manufacture and use would not\nhave been legalised in 1948 without\nthe campaign waged on its behalf by\nthe North Vancouver member. As to\npromotion, it was generally understood that Sinclair could not look for\nadvancement so long as Mr. Mackenzie King remained as Prime Minister.\nBut Mr. King retired in 1948 and in\nJanuary of the next year Mr. St.\nLaurent invited him to become Par-\nJames Sinclair's Graduation Picture\nIS U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE\nliamentary Assistant to the Minister\nof Finance.\nThe four years he spent in this\npost, under Mr. Douglas Abbott, provided him with invaluable training\nand experience. The minister shared\nwith him the heavy responsibilities of\nthe Department, and at times he had\nalone the job of guiding important\nlegislation through the House. In\n1950 he travelled from capital to capital in Europe on the unpromising assignment of trying to collect some 84\nmillion dollars owing to Canada in\nmilitary relief debts. His difficult task\nwas more discouraging because the\nUnited States had already cancelled\nsimilar debts owing to that country.\nBut Sinclair's mission was successful\nand resulted in arrangements for payment of two-thirds of what was owing\nto Canada. In 1951 his experience on\ndelegations abroad was increased\nwhen he served as Canada's representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and also as\nassistant to Mr. C. D. Howe at the\nGeneva Tariffs and Trade Conference.\nPromotion to Cabinet rank was soon\nto come. In October 1952, James Sinclair, then 44 years of age, was appointed Minister of Fisheries and he\nremained in that Portfolio until the\ndefeat of the Government last June.\nHe pitched into the work of his Department with such drive and enthusiasm that he soon seemed to have\nacquired knowledge which could only\nhave been gained from many years in\nfisheries work. The Department, which\nhad been rather neglected, assumed\nnew importance under his vigorous\ndirection. In British Columbia plans\nfor hydro development have been\nmuch in the public mind. It was not\nsurprising that Sinclair should have\nemerged as champion of the position\nthat hydro development should not be\nallowed on the Fraser until some adequate plan for the protection of its\nfisheries was devised and put into\neffect.\nAs a Cabinet Minister, he was given\nfurther opportunities to represent his\ncountry abroad. He attended the conference of the Colombo plan nations\nheld in New Delhi and in the course\nof a three-months journey visited as\nwell Pakistan, South East Asia, Japan\nand Korea.\nTRIP TO RUSSIA\nHis most publicised trip was taken\nin the summer of 1955 when he journeyed to Moscow for a meeting of the\nInternational Whaling Commission.\nHe had gone to sea with the whaling\nfleet from British Columbia and it\nwas typical of his desire to learn from\npersonal observation, rather than from\nreports, that he sought to attend the\nRussian meeting himself. On his insistence that he be allowed to inspect\nthe fisheries there, Sinclair and his\nexecutive assistant Alistair Fraser,\nwere flown to Siberia. While there he\nwas seriously injured in the collapse\nof some scaffolding in Petropavlosk.\nAfter a month in hospital he was\nJames Sinclair, as minister of fisheries, seen\nat his desk in the west block of Ottawa's\nParliment buildings in an office said to have\nbeen occupied by Sir John A. McDonald.\nbrought home on a stretcher by way\nof Peking and Hong Kong. There was\nfor a time fear that his injuries would\nmake it impossible for him to continue in public life but he has happily\nmade an excellent recovery.\nThis in outline is Jimmy Sinclair's\npolitical career to date. His married\ncareer started about the time he enlisted in the Air Force when he married Kathleen Bernard, who had been\na pupil in one of his classes at West\nVancouver High School. Their home\nis in North Vancouver and they are\ntoday the parents of five young\ndaughters.\nAs a politician, Sinclair has the\nadvantages of an engaging personality and a ready smile. But he can\nbe short and curt with his opponents\nand with people who, in his view, are\nsimply wasting his time. A rapid,\nfluent speaker he is equally effective\non the public platform and in the\nHouse of Commons. The responsibilities of office and the mellowing effect\nof the years mean that he is not today\nthe rebel and maverick of his early\npolitical career. But, Sinclair's abilities in debate will find a scope not\nopen to them for many years past.\nNOW PRIVATE MEMBER\nIt is claimed that the young people\nof today are chiefly interested in\ncareers that will provide a maximum\nof security for them. If that is true,\npolitics may not seem attractive to\nthem when they see Jimmy Sinclair,\nafter working his way up to Cabinet\noffice and serving some years as a\nMinister, with all the prestige and\nperquisites of office, suddenly, when\nnot yet fifty years of age, back again\nas a private member of parliament.\nBut that is the way democracy works.\nWe have good reason to be grateful\nthat Sinclair is only the first of an\never growing number of the best of\nour Graduates ready to brave all the\nuncertainties of political life.\nJimmy Sinclair today is at the\nheight of his powers and his most\nproductive years should lie ahead. It\ncan be confidently expected that he\nwill, whether in or out of politics,\nplay a valuable part in the development and progress of Canada in the\nyears of the immediate future. makers of the university\nThe Honourable Eric Werge Hamber\nBy SHERWOOD LETT, Arts '16\nU.B.C.'s First Chancellor Emeritus,\nThird Chancellor of the University,\nwas the Honourable Eric Werge Hamber, C.M.G., K.St.J., B.A., LLD. (1944-\n1951), appointed to office while the\nfierce battles of the Second World War\nwere still being fought. It was the\nresponsibility of Chancellor Hamber,\nwith the newly-appointed President,\nDr. Norman MacKenzie, to guide the\nUniversity through the post-war\nperiod\u00E2\u0080\u0094the period of its greatest expansion, its largest enrolment, and,\nto date, its most outstanding contribution in service to the youth of the\nProvince.\nAs an experienced member of the\nBoard of Governors Mr. Hamber was\nthe logical choice as successor, upon\nthe untimely death in 1944, during\nhis term of office, of Chancellor Dr.\nR. E. McKechnie.\nFortunately for the University, and\nfor the thousands of returning service\nmen, it was not only that experience\nwhich qualified the new Chancellor for\nthe onerous duties of his office. Behind\nthe wisdom of his leadership lay the\nbackground of an Honours Degree\nin Classics, an outstanding career in\namateur athletics, fortified by the\nbreadth of many years of successful\nachievement in the realms of finance,\nindustry and commerce, and enhanced\nby a long record of public service and\na sympathetic realisation of the problems facing the young people of those\ntimes.\nBORN IN WINNIPEG\nOn April 21, 1879, when wheat in\nManitoba was selling at 70 cents a\nbushel, settlers bought land at $5.00\nper acre, a yoke of oxen was worth\n$125.00, and a set of harness sold for\n$10.00 per horse, Chancellor Hamber\nwas born in the city of Winnipeg to\nAda and Frederick Marsh Hamber,\nHeadmaster of St. John's College\nSchool founded in 1822.\nHe graduated at the age of 19 with\nHonours in Classics and entered the\nservice of a Canadian Bank at a salary\nof $16.00 per month.\nIt was during his years at School\nand University, and while a junior\nin the service of the Bank, that Mr.\nHamber established a record in Canadian amateur athletics which has not\nyet been surpassed.\nHe was Captain of the Winnipeg\nRugby team, Western Canadian Champions in 1901, and Captain of all three\nof the famous Toronto Argonauts ice\nhockey, football and rowing teams for\nfive consecutive years from 1902 to\n190C. He captained the Argonauts in\nthe Ontario Hockey Association finals\nin 1904, and the Winnipeg team in the\nStanley Cup finals in that year. In\n1906 he was Captain of the Toronto\nArgonauts in the Canadian Champion-\nChancellor Emeritus Hamber at home in his study.\nship Hockey series. A Toronto paper\ncommented: \"Hamber is as clean a\nplayer as ever stood on skates.\"\nHe rowed for the Toronto Argonauts at Henley in 1902. In 1903, he\nand his crew won the American Henley\u00E2\u0080\u0094championship of America at\nPhiladelphia\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the championships\nof Canada, not only in the eights but\nalso in the four-oar and double sculls.\nIn 1904, stroking the Winnipeg crew\nat Henley, England, he won the Kingston and Putney Regattas.\nMANAGER IN LONDON\nIn 1906, eight years after joining\nthe Dominion Bank as a junior, he\nwas appointed manager of the Calgary Branch. Fifty years ago, in 1907,\nwhen he was 28, the Bank sent him\nas Manager to Vancouver, and three\nyears later he was appointed Manager\nof the Bank's Main Office in London,\nEngland.\nMr. and Mrs. Hamber welcome the late King\nGeorge VI and Queen Elizabeth on their arrival\nat Victoria.\nIt was there, in 1912, that he married a very charming young girl from\nVancouver, named Aldyn Hendry, who\nwas visiting in London with her\nparents. The father of the bride, the\nlate John Hendry, was upset because\nthe marriage was to be in London\ninstead of Vancouver. It meant the\nreturn Atlantic passages for the\nfamily on a new luxury liner had to\nbe cancelled. Later he forgave the\ngroom. The cancelled passages were\non the \"Titanic\", sunk on her maiden\nvoyage.\nReturning to British Columbia in\n1913, Mr. Hamber became President\nand General Manager of the B.C. Mills\nTimber and Trading Company and the\nfamous Hastings Sawmill Company\n(1863), and for many years pioneered\nthe logging and lumber industry from\nlocal to world-wide markets.\nHe then became a director of the\nDominion Bank, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, of Pacific Mills (now\nCrown Zellerbach of Canada), of the\nToronto General Trusts Corporation,\nand other financial and industrial\ninstitutions. His extensive knowledge\nof the business and economic life\nof British Columbia made him a powerful influence in Canadian financial\ncircles. Today, at the age of 78, he\ncontinues actively in those directorates.\nNotwithstanding his wide - spread\nbusiness interests, Mr. Hamber found\ntime to continue his active participation in athletic and sporting activities,\nas captain of a championship polo\nteam, as a skilled and accomplished\nhorseman, as a breeder of pure-bred\nstock and owner of a racing stable.\nSERVED MANY ORGANISATIONS\nOver the years he devoted much of\nhis time and services to the work of\nthe Boy Scouts, the St. John Ambulance Association, the Salvation Army,\nthe Victorian Order of Nurses, the\nVancouver General Hospital, the Cancer Foundation, and as President of\nthe Canadian Red Cross Society, assisting these and other organisations\nto become established in this Province.\nAs Lieutenant-Governor of British\nColumbia during the difficult years\nfrom 1936-1941, he and Mrs. Hamber\nperformed the strenuous duties of\nthat office with dignity and charm.\nMany of the patriotic activities of\nthose early days of the Second World\nWar owed their success to the leadership and support accorded them from\nGovernment House in Victoria. During his term of office as Lieutenant-\nGovernor, His Majesty King George\nVI and Queen Elizabeth were in residence at Government House. The late\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt was\nalso an official guest of the Hambers.\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 16 In recognition of his services he\nwas made a Freeman of the City of\nVancouver, Honorary Colonel of the\nSeaforth Highlanders of Canada and\nthe 5th B.C. Coast Brigade of the\nRoyal Canadian Artillery. He was\naccorded the degree of Doctor of Laws\nby the University of B.C. in 1939.\nIt might have been expected that\nwith such a record of accomplishment\nand in the midst of the anxious war\ndays of 1944, a man of 65 would have\nhesitated to accept the challenge of\nthe Chancellorship. As a former member of the Board of Governors, Mr.\nHamber well knew the problems which\nexisted then, and the much more serious problems with which the institution would be confronted in the postwar period. There was no hesitation\nin his acceptance. With his customary\nthoroughness and energy he devoted\nhis talents to his new task. He established himself in an office on the Campus, where he spent a part of each\nmorning studying University needs\nand planning for post-war activities.\nHe conducted meetings of the Board of\nGovernors with expedition and despatch. He delved into financial and\nacademic problems with members of\nmore than 60 committees of which the\nChancellor is an ex-officio member. He\nmet with students and alumni, faculty,\nadministrative staff and government\nofficials. He was \"on call\" to University people at all hours, in all seasons.\nHe encouraged scholarship by creating\nendowments for the Hamber Gold\nMedal and Prize in the Faculty of\nMedicine, and to provide a number of\nscholarships annually for medical and\nnursing students. He and Mrs. Hamber not only lent patronage to, but\nactively participated in the social\nevents of the students, the armed services organisations and the faculties.\nALWAYS ATTENDED BALL\nWhether it be true or not, it is part\nof the Chancellor Hamber legend that\nhe and Mrs. Hamber never failed to\nattend and enjoy the students' Freshman Ball. No doubt as Chancellor\nEmeritus in 1958 he will again be\ncrowning the prettiest Freshman\n\"Queen\" and, with his Victorian gallantry and indestructible optimism,\nwill ask her to save him a dance or\ntwo at her Graduation Ball in 1962.\nThroughout his entire seven-year\nterm of office Chancellor Hamber's\ninterest and enthusiasm continued undiminished. Perhaps the record of\nachievement can best be set out in his\nown words, delivered at the Spring\nConvocation in 1951, upon his retirement from office. Upon that occasion,\nwith his usual generosity, after giving\ncredit for all that had been achieved\nto the Faculty, the Board, the Senate,\nthe President, the Students and Alumni, in fact to everyone but himself,\nthe Chancellor said:\n\"Their accomplishment may be\nmeasured by these facts:\n\"In the 1944-45 academic year we\nhad an enrolment of 4100 students and\na graduating class of 400. From that\nperiod to date we reached an annual\nChancellor Hamber (fourth from right) was a member of the World Champion Argonaut Rowing Club Eight\nwhich won the People's Regatta, the American Henley and the Canadian Henley in 1903.\nenrolment of 11,000-odd, with graduating classes of 2200. During the\nseven years we had a total enrolment\nof some 63,000 students and have\ngraduated some 11,000 students.\n\"In the year 1944 there were two\npermanent buildings \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the present\nChemistry building and the centre\nblock of the Library. Today we have\na well-equipped Physics building, a\nfine new wing to the Library, an\nEngineering building, a Biological\nSciences building, a Home Economics\nbuilding, a Bacteriology, Nursing and\nMedical Service building, several units\nof the Women's residences and a new\nLaw building in the course of construction.\n\"During the same period, the Board\nof Governors and Senate have supported the establishment of the following new Faculties\u00E2\u0080\u0094Medicine, Law,\nPharmacy, Forestry, Graduate Studies\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094also Schools of Commerce, of Social\nWork, of Home Economics, of Architecture, of Nursing and of Education,\nand finally an Institute of Oceanography, as well as Departments of\nSlavonic Studies, Music and Physical\nEducation, etc. I again repeat and\nemphasise my tribute to the Board\nof Governors, Senate, Faculty and\nPresident in meeting the challenge\npresented by the growth of our University.\nSTUDENT CONTRIBUTION\n\"The new War Memorial Gym is\nalready in use; and I cannot let the\noccasion pass without special mention of the magnificent contribution of\nthe Student Body. They collected some\n$367,000\u00E2\u0080\u0094nearly 50 per cent.\n\"When one looks at the other contributions to their University by the\nstudents, the splendid Armouries we\nare in today, the Brock, the old Gym,\netc., it is concrete evidence of the way\nin which Students and Alumni of this\nUniversity have from the very beginning interpreted the University's\nmotto: 'Tuum Est'.\"\nPerhaps one of the greatest achievements of those years was one which\nChancellor Hamber modestly failed to\nmention. For centuries in Oxford there\nwere the 'Townies' and the 'Gownies'.\nTheir feuds, over the decades, abated\nto a sort of enforced truce. In time\nthe truce became a rivalry. In more\nrecent years there has been tangible\nevidence of mutual co-operation and\nassistance. That the people of British\nColumbia have in the span of a few\nyears lost any \"Town vs. Gown complex\" about the University, which may\nhave influenced its progress in earlier\nyears, is due in large measure to\nChancellor Hamber. He fully supported the policy that the University\nshould be expanded to meet the needs\nof the youth of the Province as rapidly\nas competent academic Staff and financial support would permit. He used\nhis persuasive efforts and intimate\nacquaintanceship with the industrial\nand financial leaders of the Province\nto foster a recognition of the importance of the University to the economic\nand cultural future of British Columbia and Canada.\nIt was Chancellor Hamber during\nhis term of office who in Vancouver\nbrought the University down-town\nand, in close co-operation with President MacKenzie, established it as a\nhighly respected institution in the\nhearts of the people of British\nColumbia.\nRECOGNITION BY THE KING\nIn recognition of his outstanding\nservices to his Province and to Canada,\nHis late Majesty King George VI, in\n1946, was pleased to honour Mr.\nHamber, creating him a Companion\nof the Order of St. Michael and St.\nGeorge. In 1951 the University added\nits token of appreciation by appointing him its first Chancellor Emeritus,\na position which he still holds.\nOn the occasion of his seventy-\nfifth birthday, a group of his friends\nand business associates held a birthday party for Chancellor Hamber. A\ntoast was proposed in his honour.\nPerhaps the Chancellor Emeritus\nwould count it among his more treasured recognitions if we, some thirty\nthousand Alumni, joined with his\nfriends of that evening in repeating\nwhat was said by the proposer of that\nbirthday toast:\n\"We came together tonight to express on our own behalf, and on\nbehalf of many others who are not\nhere with us, the wish that, with Mrs.\nHamber, you may continue to pass\nhealthily and happily down through\nthe arches of the years, lighted as they\nwill always be by the happy memories of so many accomplishments.\"\n17\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE \\\nFrom My Heart\nand with\nGreat Pride\nn\nText of the toast to the University,\ngiven by Sally Murphy Creighton,\nB.A. '23, at the Great Trek Dinner,\n(thirty-fifth anniversary of the Trek),\nin Brock Hall, November 8, 1957.\nMr. Chairman, Mr. Chancellor, Mr.\nPresident, honored guests and fellow-\nsurvivors: Accustomed as I am to\npublic speaking, I get to my feet tonight with an attack of what we would\nhave called in the days of the Trek,\nthe heebie-jeebies, which can be translated, in the nineteen-fifties, into a\nstate of being all shook up. I am\nmoved and \u00E2\u0080\u0094 believe-it-or-not \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I am\nshy, to find myself charged with the\nprivilege of giving this toast.\n(At this point, Brigadier William Murphy,\nB.A.'26, Sally's brother, interpolated \"Oh,\nyeah?\" in a sarcastic manner.)\nI really mean that, because even the\nvery kind introduction which the\nChairman has just given me can't make\nme forget a salutary experience I had\nwith a chairman at my first speaking\nengagement in Vancouver, when I\ncame back after having been away for\nabout twelve years. The chairman was\na fellow Alumnus I hadn't seen since\ngraduation. He got to his feet, surveyed several hundred people, who\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nI was hoping\u00E2\u0080\u0094might be induced to\naccept me as an authority on my subject, because I was planning to make\nsome very positive statements about\ncontemporary literature; and, I swear\nby the cairn, that what the man said\nwas: \"Ladies and Gentlemen: our\nspeaker this evening is Sally Creigh\nton, but I can't imagine why, because\nI knew her at College\". Believe me,\nwhen I face this audience, many of\nwhom knew me when I was at College,\nI am very conscious of the fact that,\namong my contemporaries, among the\nfew Graduates who can claim to belong-\nto an earlier period, and in the ranks\nof later Alumni, there are many men\nand women who, because of their individual achievements and of their\ngenerous services to the University,\nhave more right than I have to be for\na few minutes the voice of us all.\nTRIBUTE TO MRS. ROSS\nI am particularly regretful that, as\nthis chairman would not tell you, I\nam a replacement tonight for another\nTrekker, who is now the First Lady of\nBritish Columbia. We are very proud\nof Phyllis Ross, for her own achievements, which made her during the\nwar one of Canada's top administrators; for the position she shares with\nher husband; and for her place on the\nBoard of Governors. We are delighted\nthat she is able to be with us tonight\nand sorry that the after-effects of flu\nmake it necessary for her to use what\nwe would call in television a \"voice-\nover\". To be strictly accurate in filling\nthis category, and, incidentally, to live\nup to my own union's rules on the\nsubject, I should only be heard and not\nalso seen, on camera. So, please remember that this toast is a joint effort.\nYou are supposed to listen to me and\nlook at Phyllis.\nGreat Trekkers re-enact the events of 1922 at their 35th anniversary dinner in Brock Hall November 8\nSALLY CREIGHTON, B.A.73\nI hope, however, that you can be\ninduced to accept me as an authority\non my subject tonight because, although my own direct connection with\nthe University was interrupted for a\nnumber of years shortly after the\nmove to Point Grey, I am linked with\nU.B.C, not only by my own associations, but also through my father, my\nbrothers, my husband, and my son.\nThere is a great deal of history in my\nmind when I say that in drinking a\ntoast to the University we are toasting, if not three different institutions,\ncertainly three different aspects of the\nsame one.\nThe first of these aspects was, of\ncourse, the Fairview Shacks\u00E2\u0080\u0094the baby\nUniversity, born of its affiliation with\nMcGill, nurtured by Dr. Wesbrook,\n(the only U.B.C. president I have not\nknown), staggered in its early years\nby the impact of the First World War,\nand brought by Dr. Klinck through the\ndifficult post-war years of restricted\nquarters and very short rations. The\nveterans who were my College companions were not attending University\non Government grants. Many of the\nothers and, indeed, many of the veterans, in one of the continuing traditions of this University, were working\ntheir way through. I think it was the\npresent Mr. Justice Thomas Brown . . .\n(At this point the speaker interrupted herself\nto inquire of the chairman, Mr. Justice Clyne\n'23, why Tommy was not present. His lordship\nsaid his brother judge was out of town, adding:\ncoldly \"We havt to work\".)\nI'm sure it was Tommy who once\nremarked feelingly that it was difficult to live up to the best traditions\nof flaming youth on \"an allowance of\nfive cents a day for one's milk in the\ncafeteria\". But, in spite of the restrictions, I know that both Dr. Klinck\nand Dr. MacKenzie will agree with me\nthat\u00E2\u0080\u0094splendid as the progress of the\nUniversity has been at Point Grey\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nnot a word must be spoken against the\nUniversity of the Shacks. If it should\nbe uttered, the roar of protest which\nwould go up would come from around\nthe world\u00E2\u0080\u0094from top positions in gov-\nU B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 18 ernment, business, and industry; from\nembassies, and legations, and trade\ncommissioners' offices; from men and\nwomen whose names are honoured in\nthe professions and sciences; and from\nall the rest of us\u00E2\u0080\u0094the men and women\nwho have got on with the business of\nliving and brought up our families,\nand who, if asked what we have been\ndoing with the last thirty-five years,\ncan at least state that we have survived them.\nAMAZING SITE\nCertainly, no word against the\nShacks would ever be spoken by me.\nWe did not have the incredible architecture of the present University. But\nin view of the fact that only one of our\nbuildings was not a hut, we can claim\nto have established a more uniform\nstyle. We did not have one of the most\namazing University sites in the world.\nBut we managed remarkably well with\na board walk and Little Mountain. Our\nlibrary had to be huddled into one corner of the only building which had\nmore than one storey. But our professors were great teachers and dedicated\nmen and women, our gratitude to them\nhas grown across the years and in our\nmiddle age is mixed with astonishment that they were so much younger\nthan we realised at the time.\nAnd as for the charms of the Undergraduates\u00E2\u0080\u0094I am sure that many\nwomen in this room will agree with\nme that\u00E2\u0080\u0094even though our lists would\nnot all be the same\u00E2\u0080\u0094even though the\nmen concerned didn't notice\u00E2\u0080\u0094and even\nthough it was sometimes uncomfortable to have such a divided heart\u00E2\u0080\u0094it\nwas certainly an excellent background\nfor setting very high standards in finding a mate to have spent most of one's\nUndergraduate days being in love\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nsimultaneously\u00E2\u0080\u0094with Art Lord, Gee\nTernan, Al Buchanan, Gordon Meekison, Hunter Lewis, Jack Grant, and\nJack Clyne. I'm sorry that I missed\nout on both our homegrown Chancellors. But one was just too far ahead to\nbe aspired to in my dreams, and the\nother was\u00E2\u0080\u0094too young!\nTRIBUTE TO FACULTY\nI don't have to remind this company\nhow \"we moved us at last to Point\nGrey\". All of that we saw; some of\nit we were. But College generations\nmove on very quickly and most of us\ndidn't stay around long enough to discover something which we have since\nlearned in our private lives, that a\nmove to a new home can produce its\nown problems, not the least of which is\nthe financing of the new enterprise.\nIn remembering the second aspect of\nthe University\u00E2\u0080\u0094the late twenties, the\nthirties, the first years of the Second\nWorld War\u00E2\u0080\u0094I want to pay special\ntribute to a group which are as much\nthe University as the Students\u00E2\u0080\u0094to the\nFaculty who carried on in temporary\nbuildings that bade fair to be forever\npermanent; with inadequate equipment, and on salaries that had absolutely no connection with the time and\neffort they were putting into their\nwork, with the quality of their teach\ning, or the calibre of the Students they\nwere turning out. They also serve\nwho take a salary cut! Dr. Klinck and\nhis Faculty brought the University\nthrough a lean and difficult period\nwhen people outside the University,\nwho had considerable say in its destiny, sometimes failed in vision and\nin the long view which was sorely\nneeded. And when the time came for\nour President to retire, he gave a University which had learned to endure,\nto improve, and to fight to maintain\nits standards, into the hands of a man\nwho, to our good fortune, was eminently fitted to build on that firm foundation, and to pilot the University\nthrough its third aspect, a period of\nexpansion so rapid that the problems\nmultiplied faster than the Students.\nGIGANTIC TASK\nDr. MacKenzie has heard before, but\nI want to tell him again tonight, that\nin handling this gigantic task, with\nwhich he is still coping, he has won,\nnot only respect and gratitude, but\nthe special affection which makes him\n\"Larry\", just out of earshot, even to\nthe Undergraduates. He is one of our\nliving legends\u00E2\u0080\u0094far better known than\nthe cairn and much more peripatetic.\nIn speaking of an institution which\nhas developed so much history in such\na short time, it is obviously impossible\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094much as I would like to do it\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\ngive you the roll-call of all the men\nand women \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Faculty, Graduates,\nFriends of the University\u00E2\u0080\u0094whom we\nhonour when we drink a toast to\nU.B.C. tonight. But I want to name\ntwo, because they deserve it in themselves, because we are making them\ntonight the symbols of the achievements and services of all the rest, and\nbecause it is an excellent example of\nthe Do-It-Yourself trend, which, of\ncourse, we established in our College\nmotto long before everyone else\nthought of it, that U.B.C. is now producing its own Chancellors. We are\nvery grateful to their predecessors\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nto the late Dr. R. E. McKechnie, and\nto the Honorable Eric Hamber. We\nare sorry that Mr. and Mrs. Hamber\ncouldn't be with us this evening because he gave unstintingly of his\nefforts and great experience as Dr.\nMacKenzie's co-pilot in some of the\nmost difficult years of post-war expansion; and he and Mrs. Hamber brought\nthe same friendly warmth, which they\nhave kept glowing in so many ways\nin British Columbia, into the relationship of Town and Gown, in a way\nwhich was new in the experience of\nthis city.\nWe couldn't have been better served\nin the years which gave us time to\nmature our own vintage, and the first\nfruits of the vintage are varied and\nimpressive: Sherwood Lett, first graduate of the University to become its\nChancellor\u00E2\u0080\u0094soldier, jurist, diplomatic\nrepresentative of our country, and\u00E2\u0080\u0094\na lesser award but our own\u00E2\u0080\u0094most appropriately, this year's Great Trekker;\nDal Grauer, scholar and executive, who\nhas built a beacon which blazes across\nthe city to remind us that a solid\n*-?&j^***>~-*\nMrs Evelyn Lett, wife of UBC's retiring chancellor accepts the permanent Great Trekker award\non behalf of her husband from A. M. S. President\nBen Trevino during the Great Trek Dinner. Looking\non are Mrs. Shirley Grauer, wife of Chancellor 'Dal'\nGrauer and Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne.\nSally Creighton delivers her toast to the University\nat the Great Trek dinner. At extreme left is Mrs.\nPhyllis Ross, wife of Lieutenant-governor Frank\nRoss, and a newly-elected member of U.B.C.'s\nBoard of Governors. Just visible behind microphone stand is Chancellor 'Dal' Grauer. At right\nis Mr. Justice Clyne.\nPresident N. A. M. MacKenzie (right) prepares to\nreply to the toast to the University which Sally\nCreighton (seated) has just proposed. Mr. Justice\nClyne is at the microphone.\ngrounding in economic theory need\nbe no barrier to brilliant achievement\nin economic facts. And now\u00E2\u0080\u0094here we\ngo again\u00E2\u0080\u0094into the second period of\ngreat expansion within twelve years,\nwith Student enrolment climbing so\nthat they are again coming out of the\nwalls and woodwork; with Professors\nstill not watching clocks or counting\nhours as they struggle to keep up with\ntheir triple assignment of teaching,\nresearch, and administration; with\nnew buildings bursting at the seams\nbefore they are completed. But with,\nI think we can fairly say, thanks to\nall that has gone before, with a practically universal understanding, and\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094let us hope\u00E2\u0080\u0094universal and practical\ncontributions to the understanding,\nthat the best development of this University is inextricably tied to the best\ndevelopment of this Province and of\nthe world beyond.\nLadies and Gentlemen \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from my\nheart and with great pride \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the University of British Columbia \u00E2\u0080\u0094 its\npast, its present, its future. Tuum est!\n19 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Gaiety was the keynote of the reunion of the class of 1932, part of which linked arms to pose\nfor a photograph. From left to right are: Dr. Donald Smith, Enid Wyness, Kenneth M. Beckett,\nMary Fallis, Ralph Fletcher, Jean Cameron Baynes, and Wilson Henderson.\n1932\nThe twenty-fifth Anniversary Reunion of the Class of\n'32 was probably the most informal party the Class ever\nhad and possibly the most fun.\nYou may wonder beforehand\nhow the years have dealt you,\nbut once back with the old\ngroup, the years fall away and\nyou rather marvel at the vitality \u00E2\u0080\u0094 or should I say the\nstaying power \u00E2\u0080\u0094 of that old\ngang of yours.\nThere were those who came\nlong distances: Ruth (McCul-\nlough) McCorquodale and Phil\nRossiter, Montreal ; Alice\n(Morrow) Snell, Palo Alto,\nCalifornia; Kathleen (MacDermot) Edgar, Edmonton;\nWilson Henderson, Purdue\nUniversity, Ind. From Osoyoos there were Dorothy\n(Johnson) Fraser and Doug\nFraser; from Comox, Dorothy\n(Barrow) Taylor and Betty\n(Halley) Idiens; from Fernie,\nKen Stewart; from Terrace,\nJohn Lawrence and from Victoria, Bob Wallace.\nPresident Don Morgan, who\nhad been in Vancouver when\nplans for this Reunion were\nmade, sent greetings from\nLondon, Ontario. Ken Beckett\npresided, although it was his\nopinion that there should be\nno program, and certainly no\nspeeches. But some of the\nLegal Fraternity insisted that\nthere should be and so everyone got in on it to introduce\nhimself.\nThe years have brought\ncertain distinction and many\nhonours to this Class of ours\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 we now number a College\nPresident, a Superintendent of\nSchools, leaders in Medicine,\nLaw, Government and the\nwide field of public service \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nbut such achievements are for\nothers to note. At the Reunion it is the vital statistics\nthat we boast about. And the\nnumber of off-spring seems\nabout what it was in 1952 at\nour \"other\" Reunion: the\nsame people have five children\nor four or three or two or one\nchild.\nBut now there are sons and\ndaughters at University. One\nof us, Kathleen Edgar, has a\nson who has his M.A. and another, Art McCullough, is a\ngrandfather. These \u00E2\u0080\u0094 our\nachievements!\nMessages came from: Russ\nShaneman, Harold Gibbard, Fred\nGrimmett, Earl Vance and Jim Wilson and Nora (Mains) Wilson as\nwell as from Dr. Klinck, Dr. MacKenzie and Dean Angus.\nThe Lower Mainland guests included : Ted Baynes and Jean (Cameron) Baynes, Margaret (Bird)\nDalton, Jack Pearson and Muriel\n(Clarke) Pearson, Alex Fisher,\nHenry Johnson, Jean (Witbeck)\nVick, Margaret (Rathie) Ginther,\nDoris (Barton) Ross, Mary (MacDonald) Willis, John Sargent, Bill\nPatterson, Marian (Hanes)\nKnowles, David Freeman, Bertie\n(Black) Bruce, Deffie (Riley) Sund-\nstrom, Ralph Fletcher, Gav Dirom,\nFlorence Wilson, Enid Wyness,\nMary Fallis, Mabel (Brown) Young,\nTom Brown, Walt Lind, Don Smith,\nJimmy Mitchell, Reg Bolton, Hugh\nMcGivern, Ken Beckett and Arthur\nBagnall. \u00E2\u0080\u0094M.F.\n1947\nTen years seems like an eternity when one looks ahead, but\nlike a flash when one looks back.\nThe Tenth Anniversary Reunion\nof the Class of '47 came upon\nmost of us unawares. Mike Allen, the President, is in Montreal; the Treasurer, Herb Capozzi, was deeply involved with\nthe B.C. Lions (General Manager), and both R. E. \"Buzz\"\nWalker and the Social Convenor,\n\"Gus\" Sainas, were out of town.\nOf the Executive, only Heather\nBludell Croil, the Valedictorian,\nand Nancy Macdonald Dore, the\nClass Editor, were able to attend. The Alumni Office arranged our Reunion for the nicest room in the new Brock Extension, the Dance Room.\nClassmates who came for\ndrinks and buffet supper included: Yvonne Paul, Portland;\nYvette (Morris) and John Bayfield, Chilliwack; Robert (Bob)\nArchibald and Mrs. Archibald,\nEdmonton; Dick and Margaret\nGritton, Seattle; Don McRae\nand Mrs. McRae, Eldon Rideout\nand Mrs. Rideout; F ranees\n(James) Barker; Gordon Beam-\ner; David and Helen (Lord)\nColls; Fred Cunningham and\nMrs. Cunningham; Margaret\nFord; Tony and Barbara (Wilson) Scott; Colin and Margaret\nRoss; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon\nGrant; Marcelyn (Steinman)\nSmordin and Mr. Smordin; Don\nMiller and Mrs. Miller; Mr. and\nMrs. N. H. Penson; Freda (Lidster) Springate and Mr. Sprin-\ngate; Gerry Thomson and Mrs.\nThomson; Emma (Washington)\nZier and Mr. Zier; Fred Carrothers; Yvonne (Bartholomew)\nSchmidt and Mr. Schmidt; J. E.\nSlingsby; Colin Gourlay and\nMrs. Robinson and Allan Ad-\ndems.\nClass of 1947 got together in the new extension of Brock Hall. Left to right are: Dr. A.\nD. Scott, Mrs. Yvonne Bartholomew Schmidt,\nMrs. Heather Blundell Croil, Mrs. Nancy MacDonald Dore, Mrs. Barbara Wilson Scott, and\nProf. R. P. Dore.\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE\n20 Class\nReunions\nClass of 1927 had an excellent turnout to celebrate their thirtieth year as graduates. At the\nhead table, from left to right, are: Mrs. A. M. Richmond, Mr. A. M. Richmond, Mrs. H. M. King,\nProfessor H. M. King, Mrs. H. Munro, Mr. Hector Munro, Mrs. S. J. Bowman, Mr. Sydney J.\nBowman, Mrs. F. H. Soward, Dean F. H. Soward, and Mrs. Stanley Gale.\nHomecoming\n1957\n1927\nMore than sixty members, husbands, wives and guests of the\nClass of '27 assembled in the Dining Room of Brock Hall on Saturday evening, November 9, to celebrate the Thirtieth Anniversary of\nthe graduation of the Class. Guests\nincluded Professor and Mrs. H. M.\nKing, Professor and Mrs. . W. Vernon, and Dean and Mrs. F. H.\nSoward. All these teachers shared\nthe distinction of having taught\nthe Class of '27 in its Undergraduate days. The guests were intro\nduced by Class President Sidney J.\nBowman, who presided over the\nReunion. Dean Soward spoke to\nthe celebrants about the development of U.B.C. since their own days.\nGreetings were received from J.\nD. Hartley in Trail, Mrs. Ralph W.\nHidy (nee Wagenhauser) in Belmont, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Hubert\nB. King (nee Katherine Marie\nReid) in Prince George, J. W. Millar in North Bay, Ontario, Edward\nH. Nunn, St. Francisville, La., H. H.\nRoss in Urbana, III., Dr. P. Sparks\nin Sault St. Marie, Ont., Prof. John\nStanley in Montreal, Rev. F. H.\nStevens in Toronto, and Mrs. Milla\nAlihan Eskell in New York.\n1937\nThe Reunion of the Class of '37,\nheld in the Mildred Brock Room of\nBrock Hall during the Homecoming\nweekend, was the first return to the\nCampus for some of the Grads in\nmany years. It was encouraging to\nnote that, although the Campus\ncan scarcely be recognised after\n20 years, this is not true of the\nGrads. The most obvious change\nhere was in the prevailing topics of\nconversation. These ranged from a\ngreat interest in the size of one\nanother's families and child-rearing\npractices to professional advancement and status, through the virtues and short-comings of public\neducation, spiced with the occasional dissertation in such areas as the\noptimum conditions for glue-setting, the effects of some less well-\nknown components of sea water,\nand the minimum economic size of\nOkanagan apple orchards. The\nClass list was well used to check the\nwhereabouts of absent members as\nthe flow of reminsciences brought\nevents and personalities to mind.\nIt was pleasant to talk over old\ntimes with Col. and Mrs. H. T.\nLogan and Dr. and Mrs. W. G.\nBlack, who visited with us during\nthe evening. From Faculties other\nthan Arts, R. D. Hodge and Lin K.\nLee represented Science; the former Molly Lock (Mrs. Robert Doug\nlas), Marjorie Hill and Ralph Killam, represented Commerce; Walter Charles of Summerland was the\nsole Aggie.\nOur next Reunion will be Homecoming '62, place U.B.C. Campus.\nPlan ahead!\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094R. N. S.\nPort of the class of 1937, which gathered on the campus during Homecoming weekend, get\ntogether over supper to discuss old times. From left to right are: Mr. George Crosson, Mrs. Beth\nEvans Robertson, Mrs. L. W. Beamish, Dr. Ludlow W. Beamish, Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Crosson.\n21\nU. B C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 1957 Homecoming\nWas Best Yet\nThanks to the great spirit of the\nAlumni who converged upon the Point\nGrey Campus on November 8 and 9,\nthis year's Alumni Homecoming activities can be summed up in two brief\nwords: Best yet!\nGraduates arriving on our rain-swept\npromontory came to have a whale of\na time, and, judging from our own\nobservations and their comments, they\nsucceeded in this worthy ambition.\nGREAT TREK DINNER\nThe Great Trekkers who first\nmarched the trail to Point Grey in\n1922 again set the pace this year,\nthirty-five years after that memorable\nevent. On Friday night, November 8,\nthey trooped into the lounge of the\nBrock Memorial Building for a 35th\nanniversaary celebration, and from the\nmoment Chairman, The Hon. Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne gave the word \"go\"\nthe spirit of 1922's \"Varsity Week\"\nwas back for a good five hours.\nUnder the leadership of Dr. Joe\nKania, the good old songs of yesterday\nfilled the hall, and once again the\nfamous yell \"Kitsilano-Caoilano\" lifted\nthe roof of a U.B.C. building \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The\nHon. Mr. Justice A. E. Lord, the co-\ncomposer (with Joe Johannson) of the\nyell, 'conducting'. The Great Trek parade was re-enacted, complete with banners and 1922 costumes, the rocks\nthrown into a replica of the original\nCairn, and all the rest.\nThe unsurpassed orator among the\nTrekkers, Mrs. Sally Creighton, surpassed herself in proposing the Toast\nto the University. Her speech was a\nmarvellous expression of the spirit\nwhich moved the Trekkers in 1922, and\nPresident N. A. M. MacKenzie, in replying to the Toast, demonstrated his\ncomplete capitulation to Mrs. Creight-\non's oratory by humbly resorting to a\nprepared speech.\nAs a climax to a most extraordinary\nevening, Alma Mater Society President, Ben Trevino, presented to the\nFaculty-Alumni reunions were a popular part of\nHomecoming celebrations. Agriculturalists who qot\ntoqether were, left to right: Gilbert J. Bliar,\nB.S.A.'49, (son of Archie Blair, B.S.A.'23, now\nfarming at Steveston, B. C); Dr. Arthur J. Renney,\nB.A.S.'36, M.S.(Calif.), Ph.D.(Oregon State Coll.),\nAssistant Professor of Agronomy at U.B.C.: John\n\"Bert\" Tier, B.S.A.HO, M.S.A.'47, Research Officer,\nExperimental Farm Service (Federal), stationed at\nU.B.C; Dr. Alden F. Barss, A.B., B.S. in Agr.,\nM.S., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Horticulture,\nU.B.C.\nretiring Chancellor, Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, the Great Trekker Award\nfor 1957. In accepting the award, Chief\nJustice Lett paid tribute to the Trekkers of 1922 as well as to succeeding\ngenerations of student 'trekkers'. He\nhad checked a dictionary for the correct definition of the word 'trek' and\nhad come up with the two following\npossibilities: \"To travel by ox-wagon,\"\nand \"A stage on a journey between one\nstopping-place and the next.\" He emphasised the last three words in the\nlatter definition and the fact that\nU.B.C, its Students and its Alumni,\nwere still 'trekking,' following the lead\ngiven by those who marched on Victoria in 1922 to ask that the University\nbe built.\nBASKETBALL GAME\nAlumni basketball greats showed\nsimilar form as they 'trekked' to a\n51-30 victory over Jack Pomfret's\nThunderbirds. Led by Reid Mitchell\nand three of the Harlem Globe Trotters-killing wonderteam of 1946, Sandy\nRobertson, Harry Franklin and Ron\nWeber, the Alumni took the Students\nby surprise.\nALUMNI-FACULTY REUNIONS\nOrganised on the premises of about\ntwenty Faculties, Schools and Departments, this first-time venture in U.B.C.\nAlumni Homecoming events saw more\nthan 300 Alumni turn out early Saturday morning, November 9, to enjoy\nvisits with their former teachers. Over\ncups of coffee, they discussed developments in their particular fields of\ntraining at U.B.C. and the current activities and problems of their Faculties. Starting their particular reunion\noff with a golf tournament, The School\nof Phsical Education had 60-70 of their\nAlumni attending. Others ranged from\nan \"infinitesimal number,\" to quote a\nFaculty member, to about 50, and the\ngeneral reaction appeared to be that\nthese events should be made annual\nHomecoming efforts.\nALUMNI LUNCHEON\nEven though the events of the previous night and the Faculty-Alumni\nreunions had the effect of limiting\nsomewhat the attendance at the Luncheon it was a pleasant affair. Close\nto 200 Alumni and Faculty trooped\ninto the Brock Lounge for the pre-\nfootball game reunion with friends and\nseemed to enjoy both the solid and\nliquid refreshments, the excellent performance by the 60-voice U.B.C. Choral\nSociety, and the announcement by Alumni Association President Dr. Harry\nPurdy, that the University Club had,\nat long last, secured premises in the\nold Quadra Club in downtown Van-\nMiss Doreen Serwa was elected 1957 Homecoming\nQueen at student dance during Homecoming celebrations. Earlier this year she was named Kelowna's\nLady of the Lake.\ncouver. The Great Trekker for 1957,\nChief Justice Sherwood Lett, was introduced and spoke briefly.\nFOOTBALL GAME\nPitched against the strongest team\nin the Evergreen Conference, the\nU.B.C. Thunderbirds were left no hope\nof coming up with an upset. Led by\none of the few stand-out college football players not tempted by the richer\nhunting grounds south of the border,\ntough little Jack Henwood, the Birds\nnevertheless managed to put up a stiff\nbattle. Henwood twice went over for\nU.B.C. touchdowns and converted one\nof them himself, but no other Bird was\nable to get through the Central Washington Wildcats' defence. The Wildcats, on the other hand, penetrated the\nU.B.C. defence line seven times, and\nthe final score was 46-13 in favour of\nthe Americans. In spite of the loss,\nAlumni in the crowd felt that they had\nreason to take some pride in their\nteam, all things considered.\nALUMNI DANCE\nOnly one word properly describes\nthe Alumni Dance which took place in\nthe Brock Lounge between 9:00 p.m.\nand 1:00 a.m. on Saturday night: success! It was the best attended Alumni\nHomecoming Dance to date, and nobody seemed to have any complaints.\nMuch of the credit for this goes to the\nStudents, who provided the Alumni\nwith an excellent four-piece dance-\nband free of charge. Even more credit\nmust go to the participants in the four\nClass Reunions who converged upon\nthe Dance after their own Reunions\nbroke up, bringing with them a most\ncontagious mood.\nMany members of the 1958 graduating class also joined the Alumni\nDance later in the evening and added\nmuch to the success which had already\nbeen confirmed. All together more than\n300 attended.\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 22 Fall Congregation\nU.B.C.'s New Chancellor\nIn ceremonies highlighted by the\ninstallation of Dr. A. E. \"Dal\" Grauer\nas Chancellor of the University, a\ntotal of 460 persons received degrees\nand diplomas at Fall Congregation in\nthe Armoury on October 25.\nImmediately following the invocation pronounced by the Rev. John\nAndison Ross, Dean of St. Andrew's\nHall, President N. A. M. MacKenzie\ncalled on the Chancellor Emeritus, The\nHonourable Eric W. Hamber to install\nDr. Grauer in office.\nDr. Grauer made the following declaration to the congregation: \"I,\nAlbert Edward Grauer accept the\nresponsibility of the office of Chancellor of the University of British\nColumbia and promise to perform to\nthe best of my ability all the duties\npertaining to this office and to promote, so far as I may, the welfare of\nthe University.\"\nIn his remarks Dr. Grauer paid\ntribute to his predecessors in office,\nparticularly the retiring Chancellor,\nThe Honourable Sherwood Lett. He\nalso paid warm tribute to President\nMacKenzie, referring to him as \"a\ngreat educator, a great public servant\nand a great Canadian.\"\nLOOKS AT FUTURE\nTurning to the future Dr. Grauer\nsaid U.B.C. had grown in complexity\nand size because of the shortages of\nqualified teachers, engineers, scientists, social workers, dentists, poets,\npreachers and of \"enlightened men\nand women to meet the demands of\ncommunity leadership of all kinds.\"\nRecipients of honorary degrees pose on the\nsteps of the Administration Building with\nU.B.C. officials. Front row (left to right), J.\nV. Fisher, James Stewart, Dr. W. A. Macintosh; centre row (left to right) W. G.\nMurrin, Leon Koerner, Harold Foley; back\nrow (left! to right) Dr. L. S. Klinck, Dr. A. E.\nGrauer, Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, the Hon.\nSherwood Lett.\nIt should be possible, Dr. Grauer\nsaid, for higher education to be\nbrought within reach of all those who\ncan best profit by it. \"This\", he added,\n\"is an objective that should not be\nneglected, not only because of society's present and future needs, but\nalso because of the importance of the\nindividual in society.\"\nDr. Grauer then went on to outline\nwhat he called \"an accumulation of\ncritical needs,\" which he said stemmed\nfrom the founding of U.B.C. and\nwhich have been carried forward to\nthe present day.\nTo permit further developments in\nhigher education, the Chancellor said,\n\"it is a duty to ourselves, to the young\npeople of this Province and the development of the country, to see that\nthese imperative needs are met as\nsoon as possible; and I feel confident\nthat the people, the legislature and\nthe Government will all do their part\nto ensure that first-class higher education is available to our future\ncitizens.\"\nHUMAN COMMUNITIES\nThe Chancellor pointed out that\nuniversities were human communities\nand he added, \"The point I am concerned to make here is that the excitement and adventure of learning\ncan best take place if the facilities\nexist to provide for the convenient\nintercommunication of ideas . . . We\ncannot expect a flowering of the\nspirit, nor indeed a flowing of commerce and industry if we are too\nniggardly, too little, or too late.\"\nFollowing the Chancellors remarks\nPresident MacKenzie presented to Dr.\nGrauer the candidates for Honorary\nDegrees (L.L.D.'s) Those presented\nwere: Dr. W. A. Macintosh, Principal\nof Queen's University; Dr. J. V.\nFisher, Economic Advisor to the B.C.\nGovernment; Mr. Harold Foley, President of the Powell River Company;\nMr. Leon Koerner, former President\nof Alaska Pine; Mr. W. G. Murrin,\nformer President of the B.C. Power\nCorporation, and Mr. James Stewart,\nChairman of the Board of the Canadian Bank of Commerce.\nIn his address to the Graduating\nClass Dr. Macintosh drew attention to\nthe fact that the Congregation ceremonies honoured the newly-formed\nFaculty of Commerce and Business\nAdministration under Dean E. D. MacPhee. He posed the question \"What\nis the Function of a Faculty of Commerce in the University?\"\nDr. Macintosh pointed out that\nmany of those who in the past have\nachieved distinction by industrial,\ncommercial or financial statesmanship,\nhave not passed though university at\nall. \"The process of learning,\" he\nadded, \"is not covered by any patent\nof monopoly granted to universities.\"\nHumorous moment occurred during Fall Congregation ceremonies when Dr. Grauer, the\nnew Chancellor, had difficulty getting into\nhis new robes.\nThe beginning of all effective education, said Dr. Macintosh, is to be\nfound in such subject or method as\nwill generate an alertness of mind.\nSuch an alertness \"usually generates\na consuming interest which will carry\na person through the dull spots, will\nsustain him when the ceiling closes\nin and for the moment there is no\nstar and no visible horizon.\"\nThe function of a Faculty of Commerce, he said, is \"to open the eyes\nof its students to the place of business\nin the life of mankind and the course\nof human history, to create in their\nstudents an awareness of the social\nsignificance of what they do, and to\nstimulate their powers of imagination.\nMore simply and briefly, it is the\nfunction of a Faculty of Commerce\nto educate, not merely to train.\"\nFollowing Dr. Macintosh's address,\nthe candidates for degrees from\nvarious Faculties were presented to\nthe Chancellor for admission. Students\nreceiving diplomas at the ceremonies\nwere asked to rise by President MacKenzie and were presented to the\nChancellor. Dr. Grauer congratulated\nthem and wished them success in the\nfuture.\nOPEN BROCK EXTENSION\nAt the tea in Brock Hall following\nCongregation ceremonies, retiring\nChancellor The Honourable Sherwood\nLett officially opened the Extension\nto the main building of Brock Hall\nand paid tribute to students past and\npresent who since the inception of\nthe University have contributed out\nof limited financial resources to the\nconstruction of buildings at U.B.C.\nHe said: \"The capital cost of replacing the buildings and facilities\nwhich the students themselves have\ninitiated would now amount to some\nthree million dollars. I know of no\nuniversity that is more deeply indebted to the initiative and generosity\nof its students.\"\n23\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE A Scientist in the\nU.S.S.R.\nDR. CYRIL REID\nAbout the same\ntime \u00E2\u0080\u0094 October\n1956 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that the\nHungarian uprising occurred,I received an official\ninvitation through\nthe Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to\nattend an International Symposium\non \"The Origins\nof Life\", planned\nfor Moscow in\nAugust 1957. I was also asked to\nspend a few weeks in the University\nof Moscow, to give lectures, and to\ndiscuss some of the current problems\nin Biophysics with the Soviet scientists. It was not a very opportune time\nfor accepting invitations of that kind,\nbut I believe that more contacts are\nmandatory if East and West are to\nunderstand each other, so the invitation was stalled for five months to see\nwhich way the wind was blowing, and\nfinally, in April, 1957, I accepted.\nMeanwhile, I had been learning Russian at a furious pace and getting\nvery excited about the whole affair.\nI was not disappointed. The U.S.S.R.\nseemed a different world from ours\nfrom the very beginning.\nAs our aeroplane circled on its way\ninto the airport, even though we were\nsome distance from Moscow itself, the\nnight view was unlike that of a Western city. Instead of the multitude of\nvariegated neon advertising, one colour predominated\u00E2\u0080\u0094red. Later I discovered that all the lights are not\nRed Stars\u00E2\u0080\u0094a good number are aircraft warning lights\u00E2\u0080\u0094but this single\nview is symbolic of the whole differ-\nBy Dr. Cyril Reid\nProfessor of Chemistry, U.B.C.\nence between the Communist world\nand ours. We have the clash and contrast of competing efforts\u00E2\u0080\u0094actively,\nefficiently pursued, but often pointless. Over everything in the U.S.S.R.\nthe Governmental Red Star dominates. The result has less glitter, less\nsurface appeal, and less, materially,\nfor the man in the street. But it\nmoves forward with the lumbering\nlogic of an awkward but exceedingly\nintelligent monster. It has taken a\nlong time for the U.S.S.R. to learn\nhow to use its strength. Now that\nit has learned, we would be wise to\nrecognise the fact.\nTWO CITIES CONTRASTED\nMost of my European and American\nfriends who have been in Russia\nagreed on one observation\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leningrad\nis beautiful, Moscow is a mess. A\ngood many Leningraders, speaking a\nlittle more politely, but with a certain\ncondescension, implied the same thing.\nAt the risk of being accused of a lack\nof taste, I must confess that I liked\nMoscow.\nLeningrad obviously was a model\ncity in its day. Its beautifully proportioned pre - revolutionary buildings,\nsudden views, and gardens where one\nstill feels Pushkin's presence have\nthe appeal of familiarity, are very\nmuch like the best in the West. But\ntoday Leningrad is a little like an\naging grande dame, who, secure in\nthe knowledge that she was once\nbeautiful, does not even bother to\npaint herself. One admires her but\ndoesn't get into the mood for having\nan adventure with her. And she hardly represents the spirit of the U.S.S.R.\ntoday.\nTHE GRIBOEDOV CANAL IN LENINGRAD\nDr. Melvin Calvin, Professor of chemistry at\nthe University of California, (back to camera), one of the most distinguished of the\ndelegates to attend the conference on the\norigins of life at Moscow last summer, chats\nwith Professor A. I. Oparin, (right), head of\nthe Institute of Biochemistry at Moscow University, and chairman of the conference\norganising committee. Centre is Miss N. S.\nGelman, assistant to Prof. Oparin and a\nmember of the organising committee.\nMoscow hasn't the refinement, but\nis young and lusty and quite colourful, even though she is only just\nlearning that she can have more fun\npainted up a little than by simply\nshowing the strength and character\nof her young and slightly countrified\nface. In Moscow one feels at once\nthat the new Russia is here to stay.\nAnd I somehow felt more in sympathy\nwith the Muscovites than if their city\nhad been a slick, skyscraper affair,\npatterned on our Western idea of\nelegance.\nUNRESTRICTED\nI felt that I was completely unrestricted in my movements. I travelled\nalone by metro or by bus as well as\nby taxi as late as 1:30 a.m. and was\nnever questioned. I went 50 miles out\nof Moscow by local train and spent a\nvery pleasant day in the country\nwithout any restriction. I took photographs without any objections from\nthe police. Altogether the cloak-and-\ndagger atmosphere, which I had been\nled to expect, was absent. Let us hope\nit has gone for good.\nInevitably, most of my time was\ntaken up with Science. Now that\nthere are two satellites flying, and we\nremember that the Russians also have\nthe world's highest-energy Nuclear\nAccelerator and are operating nuclear\npower stations, it goes without saying\nthat Soviet Science is good. Until very\nrecently, however, our scientists had\na hard time convincing people in general, and American senators, in particular, that our technical superiority\nwas not a God-given quality. Now\nthat it has largely melted away in\nthe October sunshine, a little concern\nis being felt but it looks as if we are\nstill not concerned enough to tackle\nthe real problem.\nIn the West, we have reached the\nstage at which billions of new dollars\npoured into research cannot be very\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 24 effective, because there are literally\nnot enough scientists to use them. By\nand large, our young people are not\ninterested and have already made the\nchoice against Science \u00E2\u0080\u0094 indeed,\nagainst any intellectual profession\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nin the High Schools.\nIn the West, the proportion of students studying Mathematics, Physics,\nand Chemistry has fallen steadily for\nthe last fifty years, by dilution with\n\"soft option\" courses, very agreeable\nto the young but fitting them for very\nlittle.\nSTUDENTS CONTRASTED\nI was living in the University of\nMoscow when their new Academic\nYear began and was struck by the\ncontrast between their students and\nour own. I talked to seven or eight of\nthem, eighteen - year - old Freshmen.\nThey all knew exactly what they\nwanted to do, and why; and the\n\"why\" was not in terms of dollars\nand cents. Of course, good salaries do\ngo along with the high prestige given\nto Science, but there was none of the\ncynical attitude of our young men\nwho want the softest job consistent\nwith a good living. I liked the Russian\nstudents and scientists in spite of\nthe fact that they have had a one\ntrack political education, which allows them to see none of the good\npoints about the West. They think\ntheir system is best and are glad and\nconfident that it will swamp ours\neventually. I think their system is\nheaded in a very efficient direction\nand that if we are to preserve our\nindependence and the many things\nwhich are undisputedly good about our\nown Society, we must wake up. About\nmost things we found we agreed\ncompletely.\n(a) No people want war. (My reservation: \"What about the boys in the\nKremlin\"; their reservation: \"Except\nthe Capitalist war mongers\".)\n(b) American bases close to Russia\nare bad. (They: \"How would you like\nRussian bases in Mexico?\"; I: \"We\ndon't want the rest of Europe to lose\nits freedom of choice.\")\n(c) Electric fences are bad. (I:\n\"You use the slogan, 'Peace and\nFriendship' for the Youth Festival,\nbut your Electric Fence across Europe is neither peaceful nor friendly\";\nThey: \"It's to keep out spies.\")\n(d) International Scientific meetings, and International travel in general are good. (I: \"Why does your\nGovernment restrict it then\"; They:\nRED STARS TOP THE TOWERS OF THE KREMLIN\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF MOSCOW\n25 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE\n\"The U.S. State Department is\nworse.\")\nARGUMENTS\nYou see how we could agree so well\non the facts and disagree about their\ninterpretation. This is how most of\nour political arguments ended, but I\nfelt that something was attained by\nthe fact that at least we could agree.\nThere is no doubt that the people of\nthe U.S.S.R. are kept in ignorance\nabout the very real elevation of the\nstandard of living of even the most\ninefficient worker in the West. The\nreason for their backwardness is that\ntheir incentive system\u00E2\u0080\u0094like that of\nthe West a hundred years ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094is at\npresent, still based on a subsistence\nlevel standard for the general masses.\nIt seems to me that, equally, the\nWest is kept in ignorance of the fact,\nthat, by their persistent high pressure\nadvertising, the Russians are creating a Society in which a great many\nindividuals do in fact operate from\nvery high-minded and selfless motives.\nThis says nothing about the motives\nof the High Priests of the Cult,\nwhich may be quite different\u00E2\u0080\u0094as, indeed, those of religious and political\nleaders proselytising for social morality in other Societies have often\nbeen.\nOne reason why we are largely unaware of the good in Soviet Society\nis that those recognising it publicly\nare liable to be labelled as Communists.\nI wish to say that my visit to Russia made me feel very strongly that\nthe aims and motivations of our present Society are not very inspiring.\nI do not want to create the impression that I want to see that Society\ndisappear. We have at our disposal\nall the means\u00E2\u0080\u0094material and intellectual\u00E2\u0080\u0094to steer ourselves out of the\npresent doldrums. But we must steer\nand not drift. I think that this means\nthat in Education, in the Technology\nof Survival and in the conservation\nof our only ultimate resource, the\nhuman brain, we must seriously reappraise our needs and shortcomings\nand take what steps we can to deal\nwith them as soon as possible.\nOf course, all of my judgments\ncome from exposure to a very limited\nstratum of life in the U.S.S.R. Seeing\nonly Moscow, Leningrad and their immediate environment was the first\nlimitation\u00E2\u0080\u0094set only by the available\ntime and by my interests. The second\nwas that my only intimate acquaintances were scientists and their wives\nwho are certainly not representative\nin their status or outlook of average\npeople. However, I have tried to incorporate also the impressions gained\nby talking to taxi drivers, musicians,\nwaitresses, cleaners, ice cream sellers, interpreters, post office clerks\nand even a very obliging policeman\nwhose aid I asked on one occasion\nwhen I got lost.\nEFFICIENT\nThey are not all very bright. One\ngets the impression that some jobs,\nlike that of the ladies who sit, one\nin every room of the multitudinous\nmuseums, are created to employ the\nalmost unemployable. But some of\ntheir services are surprisingly efficient. I take the Post Office as an example, because I have been exposed\nto so many inefficient ones in Britain,\nCanada and the U.S.A. In the U.S.S.R.\none can take in a pile of unwrapped\nbooks and the Post Office will pack\nand mail them. One can send a telegram written in English, with no\ntrouble at all. I am still planning to\ninvestigate the reaction of the Vancouver Post Office to a telegram handed over in Russian script, although I\nhave a feeling that I know what the\nresult would be.\nAltogether, I believe it is time that\nwe recognised that the U.S.S.R., in\nspite of the drastic measures it has\nsometimes used to attain its present\nposition, is by no means just a soulless Technocracy. The individual Russian is kindly and courteous. His view\nof Society may be opposed to our\nown, but, providing that we can be\nsure he does not impose his views on\nus by force, this is no reason for\nabusing him. So let us be reasonable\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and at the same time strong enough\nintellectually, economically, militarily\nand in morale, to hold our own. the gordon commission report\nu\nBut Westward, Look\nrr\nDR. JOHN DAVIS\nBY DR. JOHN DAVIS, B.A.Sc. '39, B.A.,\nB.Sc.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(McGill)\nDirector of Research and Planning,\nB.C. Electric Company, Limited\nMost U. B. C.\nGraduates, like\nmost other Canadians, have been\nlooking forward\nto reading the\n\"Gordon\" Commission's Final\nReport*. What it\nsays about Canada's long - run\n* ,\"i''j economic pros-\nkUja* pects will, doubtless, be optimistic. Yet the broad shape of things\nto come has always been an intriguing\nsubject. When some of the details are\nalso sketched in by men of good judgment, the results are likely to be\neven more provocative. Already, the\nCommission's Preliminary Report and\nsuch Studies as have been published\nto date are being reviewed with great\ninterest at home and abroad.\nAfter-dinner speakers are forever\nreminding us that \"the Twentieth\nCentury belongs to Canada.\" While\nthis expression of Sir Wilfred Laur-\nier's was probably more one of hope\nthan of conviction, most of us who\nhave graduated from the University\nof B.C. are prepared to support its\ncorollary . . . namely, that the second\nhalf of the Twentieth Century belongs\nto Western Canada. Now, as a result\nof the \"Gordon\" Commission's findings, we have something more to go\non. According to this Commission, the\nWest will grow even more rapidly\n* The terms of reference included the following:\n\"The Task which the Commission has been\ngiven has been to make a broad examination\nof the Canadian economy, to survey the directions in which it seems likely to develop over\nthe next 25 years and to discuss some of the\nproblems which Canada may expect to encounter\nalong the way.\"\nAmong these Gordon Commission forecasts\nwere the following:\n(a) The nation's population would rise from\n15.6 million to 26.7 million persons between 1955 and 1980:\n(b) The average hours of work would fall\nfrom 41.3 hours per week in 1955 to\n34.3 hours per week in 1980;\n(c) The average Canadian, after paying income tax, will have about two-thirds\nagain as much net income for his own\nuse in 1980 as he had in 1955;\n(d) Agriculture will decline in relative as\nwell as absolute terms, while the other\nresource industries and primary and\nsecondary manufacturing will employ\nroughly the same proportion of the nation's total labour force as they do\ntoday; and\n(e) While 62% of Canada's population lived\nin Metropolitan areas in 1951, the corresponding figure 25 years hence will\nbe more in the order of 80%.\nthan Southern Ontario during the period between now and 1980.\nLOOKS TO WEST\nBack in the Spring of 1955, when\nPrime Minister Louis St. Laurent was\ncasting about for his five Royal Commissioners, he took a long, hard look\nwestward as well. He was looking for\na Westerner with a sound background\nin economics. If he were acquainted\nwith the ways of industry, so much\nthe better. Canada's Prime Minister\nwas also hoping to obtain the services\nof a man who habitually looked beyond the boundaries of his province\nand of the nation to the changing\nworld scene. That he selected our\npresent Chancellor, Dr. A. E. Grauer,\ncomes as no surprise. \"Dal\", as many\nof our Alumni still know him, was\ndrafted. For more than two years,\nnow, he has been compressing a near-\nto-endless round of hearings, discussions and report-writing sessions into\nan already heavily-loaded schedule of\nCompany, University and other nation-\nbuilding works.\nHis assignment, like that of his four\ncompatriots, was no ordinary one.\nMost Royal Commissions have a definite, but much less imaginative task\nto perform. Each must first obtain the\nfacts, but having delved thoroughly\ninto past happenings, their job is nearly over. The \"Gordon\" Commission, on\nthe other hand, has been faced with\ntoo many facts. Its greatest single\nproblem has been how to avoid being\nconfused by an over-supply of statistics. That the Commissioners have\ncome up with a comprehensive and yet\neasily read series of documents is a\ntribute not only to their seriousness\nof purpose, but also to their ability\nto extract the relevant from the irrelevant. Trend information there is\na-plenty, but their forecasts and recommendations are couched in language which can be readily understood by us laymen.\nEXAMINE ECONOMIC HEALTH\nCuriously enough, the \"Gordon\"\nCommission was asked to examine the\nnation's economic health when Canada\nwas in the midst of an unprecedented\nboom. Of particular interest was the\nfact that the \"Gordon\" Commission\nwas asked to look twenty-five years\nahead. If it foresaw problems of a\ngeneral economic nature, it was to\nidentify them. But here, The Commissioners were left largely to their\nown discretion. They were free to\nchoose their own subject matter and\nto make such policy recommendations\nas they thought relevant to Canada's\nfuture economic well-being.\nCanada's Royal Commission on\nEconomic Prospects quickly assembled\na staff and began to schedule public\nhearings. These, too, were to differ\nfrom the traditional mould. Its staff\nconsisted principally of economists;\nonly one lawyer was employed during\nthe course of its deliberations. Engineers and accountants helped, but their\ncontribution was usually of a supplementary nature. They were the experts employed by the Companies,\ntrade associations, Universities and\nGovernment departments who supplied\ndetailed information. It was up to\nthe Commission's own staff to organise this material into memoranda,\nstudies and other documents which\nwould be of greatest use to the Commissioners themselves.\nINFORMAL HEARINGS\nThe \"Gordon\" Commission's hearings were of an informal nature.\nEach witness who appeared before\nthe Commissioners did so voluntarily.\nMany were top-level Executives;\nothers were businessmen prominent\nin civic affairs. Reports such as that\ntabled by the Government of B.C. were\noften read into the record by provincial premiers. Several dozen professors and other learned men from the\nUniversities also were invited and\nspoke on their favourite subjects.\nWith little or no previous instruction,\nthese prominent Canadians came forward and described, each in his own\nmanner, the course of events and the\nproblems which they thought their industry, region or institution might\nencounter over the next 20 to 30\nyears.\nLike the hearings, the Commission's\nstaff effort was many-sided. Some\nfifty economists were at one time employed in the preparation of studies\nwhich dealt with the longer-term outlook for most sectors of the Canadian\neconomy. Integrated with this work\nwere the special researches undertaken by various Canadian banking\nfirms, life assurance companies and\nindustrial consultants. The Canadian\nLabour Congress, the Federal Department of Labour and the Department\nof Fisheries in Ottawa also prepared\nreports, the subject matter of which\nwas of particular interest to the Commissioners. As a result of these activities, 330 different briefs and 20 pub-\nDR. ANTHONY SCOTT DR. D. A. WILSON\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 26 lished studies were thereby made\navailable to the Commission and,\nthrough the Commission, to the Canadian public at large.\nRESOURCE DEVELOPMENT\nResource development was one of\nthe major subjects with which the\nCommissioners concerned themselves.\nJohn Davis, a U.B.C. Applied Science\nGraduate (Chemical Engineering,\n1939), took on the task of directing\nand editing such Studies as pertained\nto Energy, Forestry, Mining and the\nfuture growth of the Chemical Industry in Canada. In so doing, he worked\nwith numerous individuals in the industries concerned, in various Government departments and with the Universities. One such contributor was\nDr. D. A. Wilson, now chief economist\nwith the Canadian International Paper\nCompany in Montreal. Dr. Wilson,\nwho graduated in Forestry in 1948\nfrom U.B.C, helped to prepare numerous chapters appearing in the \"Gordon\" Commission publication, \"The\nOutlook for the Canadian Forest\nIndustries.\"\nOther and more general sectors of\nthe Canadian economy also came under review. Canada's regional problems and prospects were examined\nand documented at length in the\nStudy, \"Some Regional Aspects of\nCanada's Economic Development\".\nThe tendency of industry to locate\naround certain cities, the problems and\npossibilities of automation and the\nneed for greater labour mobility were\nalso stressed in various of the Commission's staff Studies. The upward\ntrend in personal income, imports and\nthe future of Canada's export trade\ncame under review, as did the financing of future economic activity. Even\nmore comprehensive is the Commission's Study on \"Output, Labour and\nCapital in the Canadian Economy\".\nProfessor Anthony Scott took a year\noff from his duties at the University\nof B.C. in order to prepare this latter\ndocument. Running to several hundreds of pages, it envisages a near\ndoubling in Canada's population and\na tripling in the nation's total output\nof goods and services during the forecast period under review.\nFOREIGN OWNERSHIP\nWhile Sir Wilfred Laurier's prediction that the Twentieth Century\nwould belong to Canada may yet be\nborne out by events, numerous thinking Canadians have recently begun to\nenquire: \"And who, in the latter half\nof the Twentieth Century, does Canada belong to?\" Foreign ownership\nand control has political as well as\neconomic overtones, but the \"Gordon\"\nCommission, taking its terms of reference seriously, delved into this controversial subject as well. Because\nthey saw fit to launch such an enquiry, many more facts have become\navailable concerning the role which\nnon-residents are continuing to play\nas regards Canada's industrial\ngrowth. In the Studies: \"Canada-\nUnited States Economic Relations\"\nand \"Certain Aspects of Taxation\nRelating to Investment in Canada by\nGordon Commissioners plot Canada's future: (left to right) Dr. A. E. 'Dal' Grauer, Chancellor of U.B.C.;\nMr. Omer Lussier, former Professor of Foresty of Laval University; Mr. D. V. LePan, Secretary of the\nCommission; Mr. Walter L. Gordon, Chaiman of the Commission; Dr. Raymond Gushue, President of Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, and Dr. Andrew Stewart, President of the University of Alberta.\nNon-Residents\", we find many facts\nwhich were hitherto unknown as well\nas judgments which have an important\nbearing upon our drive towards national independence.\nIf one looks at our list of Commissioners, the degrees which they hold\nand the vocations or interests they\npursue, he will not be surprised at the\nattention which they have paid to the\nfuture of education in Canada. Dr.\nAndrew Stewart of Edmonton is\nPresident of the University of Alberta. Dr. Raymond Gushue is President of Memorial University in St.\nJohn's, Newfoundland. The Chairman,\nWalter L. Gordon, has long been associated with the direction and affairs of the University of Toronto.\nMr. Omer Lussier has taught Forestry at Laval. Our own \"Dal\" Grauer\nis, of course, the Chancellor of U.B.C.\nThe concern with which they view the\nshortage of skilled and professional\nman-power in Canada and the suggestions which they make concerning\nthe future financing of our Universities and other educational institutions,\ntherefore, is based as much on experience as on the oral and other evidence which they turned up during\ntheir hearings.\nEXCERPTS BEAR QUOTING\nSeveral excerpts from the Commission's Preliminary Report bear quoting. The Commissioners say, for example, that: \"It is our duty to point\nout most emphatically that it is vitally\nimportant to Canada's future for the\nstatus of our Universities to be improved and strengthened, and for their\nfacilities to be increased. To accomplish this, as already noted, an additional $24 million to $36 million per\nannum may be required within ten\nyears for increased salaries for present and new members of the teaching\nstaffs, and another $40 million per\nannum on the average will be required for capital expenditures over the\n25-year period. Further funds will be\nrequired for increases in other operating costs, but in part at least these\nwill be offset by additional revenues\nfrom fees and other sources. It is quite\nbeyond the capabilities of the universities themselves to raise these very\nconsiderable sums without direct and\nsubstantial aid from the governments\nconcerned. In this connection, it must\nsuffice for us to express the strong\nopinion that no government which\nbears any share of responsibility for\nthe future economic development of\nthis country can allow a solution to\nthe pressing financial problems of the\nUniversities to go by default\".\nOne of the solutions which they\nsuggest was that of increasing \"the\namount of the deductions from taxable income now allowed to individuals and corporations for donations\nto educational institutions. This would\nnot mean much by way of reduction\nin government revenues, but might be\nof some importance in the case of\nsome Universities. Amendments might\nbe made also in the Federal Succession Duty Act to permit the deduction of gifts to universities and colleges from estates before the rate of\ntax is computed\".\nDECEMBER REPORT\nMuch more can be culled from the\nRoyal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects publications. Their\nFinal Report, when it is released in\nDecember, will discuss, weigh and\nmake recommendations concerning\nmany economic subjects with which\nthe Commissioners have been concerned over the past two and a half years.\nWhile they, themselves, would be\namong the first to admit that their\nmomentous effort is only a beginning,\nthey have looked more closely at the\ncomposition of Canada's economic fabric than anyone else has done. They\nhave filled in important gaps where\ninformation previously has been lacking. They have looked ahead as far\nas the advice and data at hand allowed\nthem to. Meanwhile, they put their\ncollective finger on numerous trends\nwhich, for want of changes in policy,\ncould have undesirable effects upon\nthe nation's rate of economic growth.\nU.B.C. graduates, like future students in economics at the University,\nwill do well to familiarise themselves\nwith the works of the Commission.\nIts finding and the manner in which\nthey are presented will, doubtless,\nlabel it as being among the best qualified and perhaps the most influential\nof Canadian Royal Commissions since\nthe days of the now famous Rowell-\nSirois Report on Dominion-Provincial\nRelations.\n27 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE There are some valves that Crane doesn't make\nbut Crane makes more valves \u00C2\u00A7 than anyone else\nCrane Limited, General Office, 1170 Beaver Hall Square,\nNation-wide Service through Branches,\nWholesalers and Plumbing and Heating Contractors\nVALVES . FITTINGS . PIPING . PLUMBING . HEATING\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 28 Optimism Pervades\nFund Headquarters\nThere's a spirit of optimism at\nCampaign headquarters as advance\nand special names solicitation gets\nunder way in the University of British\nColumbia Development Fund appeal\nto business and to the public.\nA number of factors have created\nthis optimism, despite unfavourable\neconomic conditions in some British\nColumbia industry. These include:\n(a) The inspiring leadership given\nby many of British Columbia's top\nbusiness Executives. These men have\nnot merely loaned their names to the\nCampaign but have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the demands\non their time and effort.\n(b) Premier Bennett's decision to\nincrease the ceiling on matching\ngrants to $7,500,000 in response to a\nrequest of the Campaign Committee\nendorsed by the Board of Governors.\n(c) A gift of $250,000 from J. G.\nRobson, retired New Westminster lumberman, to be devoted to men's residences on the Campus.\n(d) The decision of U.B.C. Students,\nby a 75 percent vote, to assess themselves $5.00 annually over the next\nthree years for a total of $150,000,\nalso for student residences.\n(e) The increased interest in Higher\nEducation stimulated by the new era\nin satellite and inter-continental missile development.\nTWO PHASES\nSolicitation in the Campaign will be\nin two phases \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the present canvass\nof advance and special names, both\ncorporate and personal, and the general canvass of Alumni and community\nprospects in January.\nOrganisation of the Alumni effort\nis proceeding rapidly under the Chairmanship of Col. W. Tom Brown with\nDarrell Braidwood as Vancouver\nChairman and Stuart Keate as Victoria Chairman. Team captains are\nrjr-\nLeaders of the U.B.C. Development Fund campaign discuss the needs of the University. From\nleft to right are: Mr. H. R. MacMillan, a member\nof the executive committee; Mr. Harold Foley,\nhead of the B.C. Corporations division of the\ncampaign, and Mr. Paul C. Cooper, general chairman of the campaign. Advance giving drive has\nalready begun and solicitation of Alumni will take\nplace in January and February next year.\nbeing appointed for all Faculties and\nYears and they in turn are setting up\ncanvassing teams.\n\"This is the first time the University of British Columbia has endeavored to canvass all Alumni personally\" says John M. Buchanan,\nChairman of the University Division\nin the Campaign organisation. \"The\nAnnual Giving Programme, in which\nnearly 4000 Alumni participated last\nyear, is done primarily by mail. This\nis a tremendous effort requiring assistance of hundreds of Alumni\".\nIn many cities of British Columbia,\nthe Alumni have undertaken the community canvass which will proceed in\nJanuary. Four Regional Chairman are\nassisting in the community organisation \u00E2\u0080\u0094 W. H. Raikes, Okanagan;\nRalph D. Perry, Kootenays; Hunter\nVogel, Fraser Valley; and Roderick\nHaig-Brown, Vancouver Island.\nIn the Corporate field Alan H.\nWilliamson is Chairman of National\nand Harold S. Foley of the British Columbia Division. The Personal Gifts\nsections are headed by Hon. Sherwood\nLett, National, and Walter C. Koerner,\nBritish Columbia.\nCALLS IN EAST\nSeveral leading B.C. business Executives who are in the East this month\nare making calls in Montreal, Toronto,\nOttawa and New York on behalf of the\nU.B.C. Campaign.\nMr. Robson's gift was hailed with\ndelight by Dr. Grauer, Dr. MacKenzie\nand Paul E. Cooper, General Chairman\nof the Campaign. \"His decision to encourage student residences is typical\nof his interest in others\" Dr. Grauer\ndeclared. \"A splendid start for our\nCampaign and a wonderful example\nfor others\" Mr. Cooper added.\nTwo of Mr. Robson's four children\nare graduates of U.B.C. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the late\nClifford, who graduated in Commerce\nin 1938, and Mabel, a graduate in Agriculture in 1944. The latter's husband,\nDavid A. Swackhammer, is also a\nU.B.C. Graduate, (B.S.A. '43), and\nthey live with their two children in\nCalifornia.\nMr. Robson believes that out-of-\ntown Students should have accommodation on the Campus so they participate in student activity and not have\nto spend a large part of their day travelling to and from boarding houses.\n\"I hope my gift will help solve the\nhousing problem\" he said.\nThe decision of the Students to contribute $5.00 annually as their gift is\nearmarked for residences. Matched by\nthe Province and by grants from the\nCanada Council, these gifts will develop $1,200,000 for student residences.\nRetired New Westminster lumberman Mr. J. G.\nRobson presents his cheque for $250,000 to President N. A. M. MacKenzie and Chancellor A. E.\nGrouer. Donation, earmarked for men's residences,\nboosted Development Fund total to one million\ndollars.\nFOUR STUDENT RESIDENCES\nThe first block of student residences,\nwith accommodation for 400 Students,\nwill be constructed early in 1958. It\nwill have four units, housing 100 Students each, with central lounge, library and dining facilities. Three other\nsuch blocks are planned in the overall\ndevelopment of the Campus.\n\"The student body has set a wonderful example for business and industry,\" says Mr. Cooper. \"The fact\nthat they are willing to make this\nsacrifice for the future of U.B.C.\nshould inspire other citizens \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and\nespecially Alumni \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to rise to the\nchallenge\".\nDr. A. E. Grauer, Chancellor, presented to Premier Bennett the request\nof the Campaign Committee for removal of the ceiling on matching\ngrants.\n\"The Premier was sympathetic and\nhas wished us success in our Campaign\". The Provincial Government\nwill now match up to $7,500,000 any\nfunds raised by the present Campaign\nor raised for Capital purposes over\nthe ten-year period covered by the\nUniversity's projected Campaign.\nSINCERE INTEREST\n\"Response to\nour first efforts\nconvince us that\nthe people of British Columbia are\nsincerely interested in the University\", says Mr.\nCooper, \"and\nwish it to be adequately equipped\nto prepare their\nsons and daughters to be good citizens in our modern,\ncomplex world\".\nNearly 200 leading business leaders\nfrom all parts of Canada have accepted\nan invitation from Chancellor Grauer\nto become members of a national sponsors committee. Many of the acceptances included words of encouragement\nto U.B.C. and congratulations on the\nCampaign project.\nMRS. W. C. WOODWARD\nFund Patron\n29\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Al\numnae\n& Alu\nmni\n(Items of Alumni news are invited in the form\nof press clippings or personal letters. These\nshould reach the Editor, U.B.C. Alumni\nChronicle, 252 Brock Hall, U.B.C, for the\nnext issue not later than February 15.)\nMR.JUSTICEA.E.LORD MR. JUSTICE J.V. CLYNE\n1921\nThe Honourable Mr. Justice A. E. Lord, Q.C.,\nB.A., has been re-elected by the Senate to the\nBoard of Governors of the University for a\nfurther term.\n1923\nMr. Justice J. V. Clyne, Q.C., B.A., was honoured November 12, 1957, at H.M.C.S. Discovery\nwhen he was invested by Lieutenant-Governor\nRoss with the rank of Commander of the\nOrder of St. John.\nSally Creighton (nee Murphy), B.A., M.A.\n(Tor.), President of the Vancouver Local of\nthe Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists, has been re-elected a Vice-President of the Canadian Council of Authors and\nArtists (C.L.C.), the parent body of associations of free-lance performers and writers in\nCanadian radio, television, and film.\n1924\nGeorge C. Lipsey, B.A.Sc, Vice-President and\nGeneral Manager of Britannia Mining and\nSmelting Company, Limited, has resigned after\n34 years continuous service with the Britannia\nand Howe Sound Companies. Mr. Lipsey is a\nmember of, and has been active in, the Mining\nAssociations of B.C. and Manitoba ; the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy;\nAmerican Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; Mining and Metallurgical Society of America ; Manitoba Association of Professional Engineers; and the Association of\nProfessional Engineers of B.C. He has served\non the Council of the latter and was elected\nVice-President in 1956. He has presented several papers to both the C.I.M.M. and the\nA.I.M.E. He is taking up residence in Vancouver.\n1925\nArthur A. Lambert, B.A.Sc, was recently\nappointed Chief Engineer of the West Kootenay\nPower and Light Company, Limited. Mr. Lambert has been with the Company since 1926.\nMrs. F. M. Ross (nee Phyllis Gregory), D.B.E.,\nB.A., M.A. (Bryn Mawr), LL.D.'45, has been\nappointed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Coun-\ncil to the Board of Governors of the University\nB.C.\n1926\nJohn E. Liersch, B.A., B.A.Sc.'27, M. F.\n(Wash.), has been appointed to the newly-\ncreated post of Executive Vice-President of the\nPowell River Company, Limited. Mr. Liersch\nhas been Vice-President in Charge of Forestry\nand Logging Operations for the Company since\n1950.\n1927\nDorothy L. Coombe, B.A., Executive Director\nof the Children's Aid Society since 1946, has\nnow joined the Staff of the School of Social\nWork, University of Manitoba.\nCharles M. Mottley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.(Tor.),\nhas been appointed Director of Operations Research for Charles Pfizer and Company, Incorporated. A consultant to the Company since\n1956, Dr. Mottley served concurrently as a\nsenior scientist in the office of the Stanford\nResearch Institute in Washington, D.C.\n1930\nPeter Grossman, B.A., former Assistant Director of the Vancouver Public Library, has\nbeen made Director. Mr. Grossman brings to\nthis position 27 years experience in library\nwork in Nova Scotia and in British Columbia.\n1934\nJames D. McMynn, B.A.Sc, with the West\nKootenay Power and Light Company, Limited,\nsince graduation, has been appointed Rates and\nContract Engineer.\nNATHAN T. NEMETZ\nPETER GROSSMAN\nMRS. F. M. ROSS\nNathan T. Nemetz, Q.C., B.A., with Leon\nLadner, Q.C. (see page 33) was elected by the\nSenate to the Board of Governors of the University, replacing Kenneth P. Caple, B.S.A.'26,\nM.S. A.'27, British Columbia Director of the\nCanadian Broadcasting Corporation, and John\nM. Buchanan, B.A.'17, Chairman of British\nColumbia Packers, Limited, whose terms of\noffice on the Board have expired.\nDonald L. Pritchard, B. A., M.A. (Wash.),\nformer Principal of Gladstone Junior-Senior\nHigh School has been appointed an Inspector\nof Elementary Schools in Vancouver. Mr.\nPritchard taught for ten years in Vancouver\nElementary schools and for 18 years in the\nSecondary schools.\nColonel Donald F. Purves, B.Com., Director\nof Administration at the Headquarters of the\nQuebec District Department of National Defence, has been appointed one of three persons\ncomprising the Canadian Tolls Committee of\nthe St. Lawrence Seaway Authority.\n1935\nJohn Conway, M.C, B.A., A.M., Ph.D.\n(Harv.), Assistant Professor of History at\nHarvard University and, for ten years, Allston\nBurr Senior Tutor at Eliot House, was appointed Master of Leverett House this summer.\nBreen Melvin, B.A., Secretary and Treasurer\nsince April, 1953, of the Co-operative Union of\nCanada, has been appointed Secretary of the\nCo-operative Life Insurance Company. His\nheadquarters are in Regina, Saskatchewan.\nStanley H. Pinkerton, B.A., B.S.W.'48, former Assistant-Director of the Vancouver Children's Aid Society has succeeded Dorothy\nCoombe, B.A.'27, as Director.\n1937\nJoseph W. Fraser, B.A.Sc, has assumed the\nposition of Assistant Resident Manager at Port\nAlice, B.C., with the Alaska Pine and Cellulose\nCompany, Limited.\nCommander K. E. Grant, CD., R.C.N., B.A.,\ntook over the Command of the Joint Atomic,\nBiological and Chemical Defence Warfare\nSchool at Camp Borden, recently. This marks\nthe first time a Naval officer has commanded\nthe unit.\n1939\nMyrne B. Nevison, B.A., was recently awarded a Doctor of Philosophy Degree at the University of Minnesota.\nWilliam M. Sibley, B.A., M.A.'40, Ph.D.\n(Brown), Chairman of the Philosophy Department of the University of Manitoba, has been\nnamed Assistant to the President of the University. Professor Sibley will continue in his former position while performing his new duties.\nHENRY C.CAMPBELL\nBASIL ROBINSON\n1940\nHenry C. Campbell, B.A., Chief Librarian,\nToronto Public Libraries, is the Chairman of\nthe U.B.C Campaign Fund Committee for\nToronto.\nH. Basil O. Robinson, B.A., B.A. (Oxon.),\nhas been named to Prime Minister Diefenbak-\ner's office to reorganise liaison with the External Affairs Department.\nR. F. Thorstenson, B.A., has left the Principalship of Qualicum Junior-Senior High School\nfor the School Inspectorship which includes\nOcean Falls, Alert Bay and Quatsino.\n1941\nRobert A. Lowe, B.A.Sc, is now Supervisor,\nBudgetary Control, Consolidated Mining and\nSmelting Company of Canada Limited, Trail,\nBritish Columbia.\nColin S. MacKenzie, B.A., formerly Principal of Abbotsford Senior High School is now\nInspector of Schools for the Castlegar and\nArrow Lakes Districts.\n1942\nJames A. Thomas, formerly a teacher at\nMission, B.C. has taken over the School Inspectorship of the Smithers, Burns Lake and Van-\nderhoof School Districts.\n1943\nHugh U. Hall, B.Com., has been appointed\nDirector of Cameron and Woodward Insurance\nAgencies, Limited, and Assistant Branch Manager of the Commercial Insurance Agency,\nLimited, Vancouver, B.C.\n1944\nRaoul Bertrand, B.A., M.A.,'46, Department\nof Philosophy at the American University of\nBeirut, represented the University of British\nColumbia at the Inauguration of Dr. John Paul\nLeonard as President of the American University of Beirut, on July 1, 1957.\n1946\nR. S. Price, B.A., B.Com.'47, a teacher for\n20 years in B.C., has been assigned to the\nSchool Inspectorate. His area includes Agassiz,\nFraser Canyon and Princeton School Districts.\n1947\nMalcolm A. MacDonald, B.S.A., M.S.A.*49,\nPh.D. (Oregon State Coll.), has joined the\nAnimal Husbandry Section of the Canadian\nExperimental Farm at Lethbridge, Ailberta.\nDr. MacDonald brings to his new position ten\nyears research experience with cattle in the\nUnited States, New Zealand and Canada.\nJohn Douglas Ross, B.A., received a Doctor\nof Philosophy Degree from the University of\nMinnesota in June last.\n1948\nJohn C Blewett, LL.B., a Graduate in the\nFirst Law Class at U.B.C, has joined the\nLegal Division of the Saskatchewan Power\nCorporation as an Assistant Solicitor. Prior\nto his appointment, Mr. Blewett practised in\nArmstrong, B.C. for five years and in Kamloops for four.\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 30 Arthur D. Bot ham, B.Com., formerly Assistant to the General Manager, Canadian\nWestern Lumber Division, Crown Zellerbach\nCanada Limited, has been named Manager of\nShingle and Cedar Specialty Sales.\nEdward L. Hewson, B.A., Research Engineer\nfor the Canadian National Railways at Montreal, has been appointed Superintendent of the\nCompany's Edson Division. Mr. Hewson majored in Physics and Mathematics while at\nthe University.\nRonald F. Shepherd, B.A., has been inducted\nas the new Rector of St. Paul's Church, Glan-\nford, with St. Timothy's, Hamilton, Diocese of\nNiagara. He was formerly with the Diocese\nof London. England, where he was Senior\nCurate of St. Stephen with St. John, Westminster.\nLawrence L. Wilson, B.A., has been appointed\nAssistant Administrator in Charge of Educational Programmes for the Canadian Hospital\nAssociation. His headquarters are in Toronto.\nMr. Wilson was formerly Assistant Director\nof the Vancouver General Hospital and Coordinator of the course in Hospital Administration jointly offered by the General Hospital and\nThe University.\n1949\nDouglas C. Basil, B.Com., B.A.'50, Ph.D.\n(Northwestern), has accepted the appointment\nof Associate Professor in the School of Business Administration, University of Manitoba.\nRobert O. Edwards, B.S.A., has been appointed Service Manager of Ford Tractor and\nEquipment Sales Company of Canada Limited\nin Toronto.\nColin B. Mackay, B.A.(N.B.), LL.B., President of the University of New Brunswick, has\nrecently received an Honorary Doctor of Laws\nDegree from Laval University.\nWellwood A. Marchbank, A.B. (Berkeley),\nB.Ed., for 22 years a teacher in Creston, has\nbeen appointed to the position of Relieving Inspector, with headquarters in Victoria.\nArthur Patterson, B.A.Sc, until recently Exploration Manager for Merrill Petroleums\nLimited, has joined Western Decalta Petroleum\nLimited as Exploration Manager with his\nheadquarters in Calgary.\nRonald S. Williams, B.S.A., has been appointed Manager of the Personal Accounts\nSection of the Pemberton Insurance Corporation Limited.\n1950\nThomas Acton \"Tak\" Kilby, B.A., assumed\nthe position of Secretary of the Ad and Sales\nBureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade, November 4, 1957. He was formerly with Crown\nZellerbach Canada Limited at Ocean Falls.\nKenneth M. Wright, B.Com., has become a\nPrincipal and also a Director of the firm of\nBrown and Mitchell Limited, Advertising\nAgency. The firm has now been re-named\nBrown, Mitchell and Wright, Limited.\n1951\nJames Banham, B.A., formerly a Sub-Editor\nfor the Daily Express, London, England, is the\nnew Information Officer for the University of\nBritish Columbia, and Associate Editor of the\nU.B.C. Alumni Chronicle. Mr. Banham was\nthe Editor of the Ubyssey in 1949-50. (See\npage 5.)\nJames R. Midwinter, B.A., B.Com.'53, Assistant Trade Commissioner in Guatemala since\n1954, has been appointed Assistant Trade Commissioner in Detroit, U.S.A.\nJames M. Reid, B.A.Sc, has been appointed\nAlberta District Manager for the sales organisation, Ferranti Electric Limited, with headquarters in Calgary.\n1952\nDavid Aird, B.Com., B.Sc.(North Carolina),\nhas joined the Staff of the Faculty of Commerce, U.B.C He is Instructor in the Division\nof Production.\nBrigitta Balla - Legrady, B.A., B.S.W.'53,\nM.S.W.'54, is now attached to the Department\nof National Health and Welfare, Ottawa. Miss\nBalla-Legrady came to Canada seven years ago\nfrom Hungary.\nRoss Johnson, B.Com., is now Manager of\nthe Edmonton Branch of the New York Life\nInsurance Company.\n1953\nPatrick Blewett, B.Com., has been appointed\nthe Administrator of Providence Hospital in\nPortland, Oregon.\nDouglas Jung, B.A.,\nLL.B/54, M.P. for\nVancouver Centre, is\nwith the Canadian\nDelegation to the\nUnited Nations as a\nmember of the U.N.'s\nSixth (Legal) Committee currently engaged with the task\nof writing a definition\nof aggression.\nDOUGLAS JUNG\n1954\nPeter Lusztig, B.Com., M.B.A. (Western\nOnt.), has joined the Staff of the Faculty of\nCommerce at U.B.C. He holds the rank of\nInstructor in the Division of Finance.\n1956\nJohn Bossons, B.A., was awarded a $1,500\nMackenzie King Travelling Scholarship which\nhe is using to continue his studies in Economics at Harvard University.\nJ. A. Forbes, B.Com., formerly Assistant\nSuperintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in Moose Jaw, was transferred\nto the Company's Edmonton office where he\nholds the same position.\nRonald J. Jephson, LL.B., has been appointed\nPrivate Secretary to the Honourable Howard\nGreen, Minister of Public Works.\n1957\nBrian Egner, B.A., has been accepted as a\nCommonwealth Relations Officer for duty in\nBechuanaland. He was selected for this appointment after interview with the U.B.C.\nUnited Kingdom Overseas Service Appointments Committee.\nA. Lome Leach, B.S.A., has accepted an appointment as Assistant Executive Secretary\nwith the Agricultural Institute of Canada.\nThese notes on U.B.C. Alumni and former\nstudents were gathered recently by Janet\nWalker Berton (Mrs. Pierre Berton) \u00E2\u0080\u0094both\nB.A/4L R.R. 1, Kleinburg, Ontario \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in\nToronto and on a trip to Vancouver via the\nUnited States in September, 1957. Some of\nthe information is just reported and not verified, so if it's not correct, we hope you'll\nwrite and let us know.\nBill Grand, Arts'41, and his wife, Ann\nJeremy Grand, B.A.'40, are living in Portland,\nOregon, where Bill is in the commercial\nphotography business. He is a former Totem\nphotographer. They have one son, Jeremy, 14.\nAnn works as secretary in the Multnomah\nClub.\nDavid Anstey and his wife, Amy Hackney,\nB.A.'43, (1159 Timberlane, Victoria) are both\nteaching in Victoria. They have three children,\nChristopher, Louise, and Gregory.\nRev. E. M. Nichols, Arts'42, is General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement in\nCanada (Toronto).\nDavid Housser, Com.'55, has been appointed\nManager of Marketing Services, responsible\nfor marketing surveys, research, new products\ndevelopment, advertising and promotions for\nCanadian Western Lumber Division, Crown\nZellerbach Canada, Limited.\nA. M. (Brud) Matheson, Arts'44, well-known\nin U.B.C. sports, has just been appointed\nAssistant General Sales Manager for the Canadian Western Lumber Division, Crown Zellerbach Canada, Limited.\nMarino Fraresso, B.A.Sc.'40, has been made\nDistribution Engineer at Ontario Hydro in\nToronto. Dennis Fairbairn, B.A.Sc'42, is with\nGypsum Lime and Alabastine in Toronto.\nDr. Robert L. McDougall, B.A/39. is\nAssociate Professor of English at Carleton\nUniversity, Ottawa, (549 Mansfield Avenue 3)\nand a member of the Administrative Committee for the newly formed Institute of\nCanadian Studies which was started at Carleton this July. He and his wife, Brenda\nGoddard McDougall, B.A.'45, moved from the\nUniversity of Toronto this year with their\nthree children, Richard, Ian and Christine.\nBetty Corbould Morrison, B.A/42, works in\nthe Registrar's Officer at the University of\nToronto. She is a Past President of the\nEtobicoke University Women's Club. Her\nhusband, Jim, a graduate of the University\nof Saskatchewan, works for the Aluminum\nCompany.\nDr. C. David Fowle, B.A/42, M.A/44, is\ndoing wild life research with the Department\nof Lands and Forests. His wife, Dr. Ann\nClemens Fowle, B.A/43, (daughter of former\nU.B.C. Zoology Department Head, Dr. W. A.\nClemens) is doing important research with the\nDepartment of Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto Medical School. She works\nwith Dr. Hugh Ormsby, B.A/32 and they\nfly all over Canada and United States giving\npapers on virus diseases. David and Ann have\ntwo daughters, Suzanne, 5, and Elizabeth, 2.\nProfessor John Farina, B.A/43 B.S.W/46,\nM.S.W/50, formerly well-known in U.B.C.\nand Vancouver sports circles and of the\nUniversity of Toronto School of Social Work,\nmade headlines in all Toronto papers recently\nwhen he charged that Sports, and especially\nCanadian Hockey was \"degenerate.\" and\n\"breeding cheating, larceny and downright\nsadism\" without building character.\nRex Parker, former U.B.C Engineering\nStudent and a Graduate of the University of\nToronto, is Sales Manager of Taylor Engineering and Construction Company in Toronto.\nHis wife, Phyllis Poyntz Parker, B.A/40, is\nPresident of the Toronto Junior League this\nyear. They have three children, 14, 10, and 6.\nMrs. Stuart MacKay (Pat Cunningham,\nB.A/45) is also on the Executive of the\nLeague.\nHarry C. Campbell, B.A/40, is new Chief\nLibrarian of the Toronto Public Libraries and\ncomes from UNP^SCO in Paris.\nR. Keith Porter, B.Com.'42, is Executive\nVice-President of Thomas J. Lipton and\nCompany, Limited. His wife is the former\nMerle Turnbull, B.A/37.\nThe following notes were collected at a\nrecent meeting of the University Women's\nClub of North York:\nClarence Mann, B.A.Sc/43, M.A.Sc/44, (16\nGlenallan Road, Toronto) is a Chemical Engineer with Imperial Oil. He and his wife,\nMarion, a Graduate of the University of\nWashington, have three children.\nDorothy Hawkins Bleue, B.A/41, (Mrs. A.\nW. Bleue. 50 Fairmeadow Avenue, Willowdale,\nOntario, has two small daughters. Her husband\nis a Sales Manager for an electronics firm.\nThomas John, B.A/47, and his wife, Thelma\nBehnsen John, B.A/45, (44 Leacroft Ave.,\nDon Mills) have three children. He is with\nC.I.L.\nHarold Toombs, B.A.Sc/44 (wife, Dorothy\nGarrett, B.A/44) works at Monsanto.\nJune Hewiston Mallon, B.A/44, (164 Hill-\ncrest, Willowdale), has four children and is\nProgramme Director of the North York University Women's Club. Her husband, Albert,\nis Director of Art at North Toronto Collegiate\nand is campaigning to have university courses\nin art.\nBOXING DAY BALL\nThursday, December 26\n8:30 p.m.\nCOMMODORE\nCABARET\nTickets: $7 Per Couple\nAt Alumni Office\nALma 4200\n31\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE COMMERCIAL\nWATER HEATING\nMORE EFFICIENT, MORE\nECONOMICAL, MORE RELIABLI\nWITH NATURAL GAS!\nA high-capacity commercial gas water heater is the practical\nmethod of ensuring an automatic, constant supply of hot\nwater. Natural Gas heats water fast! Costs less, too! 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It\nalso depends on the general state\nof business and, in many cases, on\nconditions in the money market.\nWhile it is not difficult for us to\nsuggest when any one person\nshould purchase securities, it is\nonly under unusual conditions\nthat we can, without reservation,\nsay when it is a good time for\neveryone to buy.\nPerhaps now is a good time for\nyou to buy. If you have been\nthinking about putting your\nsavings to work we invite you to\ntalk over the matter with us. We\nwill discuss vour requirements\nwith you, and if you wish, draw up\nan investment program designed\nto meet vour individual needs. This\ntype of consultation and planning\nis a very important part of our\nbusiness ... it is available in any\nof our offices.\nWhy not drop in and talk over\nyour requirements with us ... or\nif vou would find it more convenient\nto discuss your requirements by\nmail, please feel free to write us at\nany time. Either way, there is no\nobligation.\nA. E. Ames & Co.\nLimited\nBusiness Established 1889\n626 West Pender St., Vancouver\nTelephone PA. 7521\nTORONTO MONTREAL NEW YORK LONDON, ENG.\nVICTORIA WINNIPEG CALGARY LONDON\nHAMILTON OTTAWA KITCHENER ST. CATHARINES\nOWEN SOUND QUEBEC BOSTON, MASS.\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 32 University News Notes\nU.B.C. Board Appointment's\nEINAR GUNDERSON\nLEON J. LADNER\nThree new appointments to the\nU.B.C. Board of\nGovernors were\nannounced recently. They are:\nMr. Leon Ladner,\nQ.C.; Mr. Walter\nKoerner, and Mr.\nEinar Gunderson.\nMr. Gunderson\n and Mr. Koerner\n\"-Xirsh, Ottawa were appointed\nWALTER KOERNER by the Lieuten-\nant-Governor-in-Council and Mr. Ladner was elected as a representative\nfrom the Senate of the Universitv.\nDelegation to Thailand\nThe Ninth Congress of the Pacific\nScience Association will be convened\nthis year at Chulalongkorn University\nin Bangkok, Thailand between November 17 and December 9. These congresses originated in 1920, and since\nthen, despite interruption during the\neconomic depression of the 1930's and\nduring the recent World War the\nAssociation has assembled every 3 or\n4 years. Previous meetings have been\nheld in Honolulu, Melbourne, Tokyo,\nBatavia, Vancouver,. California, New\nZealand and in the Phillipines.\nThis year's meetings will include\nsessions in meteorology, oceanography, anthropology, medical health and\na wide range of fields in the biological\nsciences. In keeping with these interests, Canada's delegation is composed\nof four biologists from the University\nof British Columbia, Dr. Claude Dolman, head of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Dr. C. C.\nLindsey, representing the Institute of\nFisheries, Dr. R. F. Scagel of the\nDepartment of Biology and Botany\nand the Institute of Oceanography,\nand Dr. I. McT. Cowan, head of the\nDepartment of Zoology, who leads\nthe delegation. Other members are\nDr. Ferris Neave of the Fisheries Research Board, Nanaimo; Mr. Andrew\nThompson, controller of the Canadian\nMeteorological Service; Dr. Eugene\nMonro of the Division of Entomology,\nScience Service, and Marcel Raymond,\na botanist from Laval University.\nDr. Lindsey and Dr. Scagel are planning two weeks in Japan before the\nConference visiting fisheries research\nstations, oceanographic laboratories\nand universities and following the\nConference they will proceed to Australia to make similar visits in Sidney, Melbourne and Adelaide.\nDr. Cowan's itinerary includes a\nbrief stop in Tokyo to consult with\nthe staff of the Whales Research Institute and to visit the Department of\nZoology at Tokyo University. On the\nway home a short visit will be paid\nto Hong Kong University and a 5-day\nstop will be made in Wake Island to\nstudy the biology of a coral atoll. Of\nspecial interest is the recovery of\navifauna following virtual extermination by the beleaguered Japanese\ngarrison there.\nEn route to the Conference Dr.\nDolman has been invited to lecture at\nUniversities in Sapporo, Kyoto and\nTokyo where he is visiting to discuss\nproblems of bacterial food poisoning\nresearch. On his return he will pay a\nbrief visit to the University of the\nPhillipines at Manila. \u00E2\u0080\u0094I.McT.C.\nDean MacPhee Honoured\nE. D. MacPHEE, M.M., M.A., B.Ed.,\n(Edinburgh) Professor and Dean of\nthe Faculty of Commerce and Business\nAdministration was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree by the\nUniversity of Alberta at their Autumn\nGraduation Ceremonies in Edmonton\non November 2, 1957\nPart of the Citation for his Degree\nreads as follows:\n\"Such in brief is the story of his\nachievement and his contributions to\nCanadian education and business. His\nreturn to teaching, after twenty years\nexperience in the top levels of the\nbusiness world has been a boon to\nbusiness education in Canada. He has\nbrought to his profession the gifts of\nan inspiring teacher, a skilled organiser and a quality of integrity which\nhave earned for him the love of his\nRemembrance Day\nU.B.C.'s War Memorial Gymnasium was the scene\nNovember 11 of well-attended Remembrance Day\nceremonies. Wreaths were placed at the foot of\nthe Memorial inscription and addresses were delivered by Lt. Col. John McLean, officer commanding the U.B.C. contingent, C.O.T.C, and Mr. J. 0.\nNeave, President of the 196th Western Universities\nBattalion Association. Seen above are, from Left,\nLt. Comdr. E. S. W. Belyea, Major Finlay Morrison,\nM.B.E.; W/C Ray Herbert, D.F.C; J. R. Atkinson,\nOfficer Cadet Daniel T. Dunn; Lt. Col. Harry T.\nLogan, M.C; Cadet Jim Laker, Sub. Lt. Jan J.\nDrent, Rev. H. B. Barrett, Lt. Col. J. F. McLean,\nD.S.O.; Rev. William Deans, M.M.; J. O. Neave,\nRev. Temple Kingston.\nstudents and the respect and admiration of the business community. His\ninsistence on high standards in business relationships has earned for him\nthe title of \"the conscience of Canadian business.\"\nPremier Visits U.B.C.\nThe Honourable W. A. C. Bennett,\nPremier of British Columbia, was an\ninterested visitor to the University on\nthe afternoon of October 30, 1957.\nr'sical Education Conference\nMRS. MARIAN\nPENNEY, B.A.\n(Tor.), A.M.(Texas State Coll. for\nWomen), Associate Professor,\nSchool of Physical\nEducation, and\nMISS BARBARA\n,^^_ SCHRODT repre-\nAFV^^^B sented U.B.C. at\nM J^^^H the Annual Con-\nm% JH^^^^M ference of the\nWestern Society\nMarian Penney\nof Physical Education for College Women at Asilomar, California, November 7-10. Asilomar is a State-owned\nand State supported Conference Centre situated on the Pacific Coast 140\nmiles south of San Francisco. Its comfortable residences and spacious dining room, main lodge and conference\nhalls can accommodate 1,000 delegates.\nOne hundred and ninety-three women representing some 60 Universities, Colleges, State Teachers' Colleges and Junior Colleges from the\nseven Western States and the Province of British Columbia registered\nat the Annual Conference of W.S.P.E.\nC.W. In addition to attending general meetings, delegates participated\nin two of ten discussion groups devoted\nto particular aspects of the Conference\ntheme\u00E2\u0080\u0094Women's Physical Education\non the Campus of the Future. Teaching\ntechniques in Fencing, Movement,\nTrampoline, Springboard Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Tennis and\nTumbling were demonstrated, and reports on unpublished theses were\ngiven. The principal speakers were\nDean Quillan and Dr. Lois Stolz, both\nof Stanford University.\nW.S.P.E.C.W. is a branch of the\nNational Association of Physical Education at College level throughout the\nUnited States and Canada. At the\nclose of the Conference, Mrs. Penney\ntook office as President of W.S.P.E.\nC.W. She is the first Canadian woman\nto hold this position.\nMrs. Fee's Home Address\nIn response to enquiries regarding\nthe home address of Mrs. Sarah Fee,\nthe distinguished Mother of her distinguished son, the late Archie R. Fee,\nB.A. '25, she now resides at: Glen\nBrae Private Hospital, 1690 Mathews\nAve., Vancouver, B.C. (see Tribute\nto Archie Fee in Autumn 1957 Chronicle, Page 37.)\n33 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE The Benefits of Electronics are everywhere...\nhelping us to live better electrically\nFrom early radio to TV and today's computers, electronics has speeded progress\nin industry, defence, communications, safety, and home comfort\nRemember those early radios? They were a\nfar cry from the streamlined models of today;\nyet they helped to change our lives because\nthey were one of the beginnings of electronics.\nToday, though radio and television are still\nits most widely known applications, electronics\naffects almost every phase of our lives.\nElectronics has reduced the size of our\nworld through microwave, flashing words and\npictures across the country at the speed of light.\nTwo-way radio serves us in many useful\nways. Electronic computers speed research\nand industrial processes. Radar guards\nour frontiers and brings new safety to our\nshipping lanes and airlines. And industrial\napplications such as closed circuit TV, electronic sorters, and quality control speed and\nimprove manufacturing processes.\nIn all these ways and many more, electronics\nbenefits us all.\nThis Company was the first in Canada to\nbuild TV receivers and transmitters, two-way\nmobile radio, microwave communication\nequipment, and electronic tubes. Today it is\ndeveloping and producing a growing list of\nelectronic products for defence,\nindustry and home use ... to help us\nlive better.\nProgress Is Our Most Important Product\nCANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY\nLIMITED\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 34 Students' Council for the year 1957-58 poses in the Board Room of Brock Hall. Seated, left to right,\nMarlene Jones, executive member; Georqe Morfitt, treasurer; Ken Browner, vice-president; Ben Trevino,\npresident; Barbara Leith, secretary; Bryan Williams, coordinator of activities, and Barbara Hart,\nchairman. Women's Athletic Directorate. Standing, left to right, Phil Kueber, chairman, Men's Athletic\nDirectorate; Sheila Croker, chairman. Women's Undergraduate Society; Peter Meekison, second member-\nat-large; Grant Macdonald, first member-at-large; Neil Merrick, chairman,, Undergraduate Societies\nCommittee; Chuck Connaghan, chairman. Undergraduate Clubs Committee and Randle Jones, public\nrelations officer. Missing is Mrs. Pat Marchak, editor-in-chief of the Publications Board.\nCampus News and Views\nBY RANDLE JONES, B.Com. '58\nA.M.S. Public Relations Officer\nWith the arrival of nearly 2,400\nFreshmen to U.B.C. this fall, students\nfound themselves a part of the second\nlargest University in Canada boasting\nan enrolment of 8,904 full-time registrations.\n\"Frosh\" were given a warm reception through which they will be made\nto feel at home here at U.B.C. Hazing\nwent on as usual although there is a\nfeeling around the Campus that we\nhave outgrown such shenanigans and\nthat they should be curtailed as at\nsome Eastern Universities. Freshmen\nand Freshettes wore their accustomed\ngrotesque garb and endured their embarrassment in the stoic manner typified by the Frosh each year. The week-\nlong schedule of initiation events for\nfirst year students culminated with\nthe Frosh Reception, traditionally one\nof the best attended of the year. Miss\nMary Ann Elliot, Arts '61, of Vancouver, was crowned Frosh Queen by Dr.\nN. A. M. MacKenzie.\nSigns of our growth and expansion\nwere visible all around the Campus to\nboth Frosh and upperclassmen. It was\nwith pleasure that Ben Trevino, representing the student body, handed over\nthe keys of the new Brock Extension\nto Chancellor Grauer. This $315,000\nstructure houses many clubs and facilities and was a badly-needed addition.\nBROCK EXTENSION OPEN\nThe Brock Extension also houses the\nBrock Hall Art Collection for which\nevery student now pays 15 cents per\nyear into a fund with which to purchase Canadian Art on a national\nscale, generally leaning to modern\nworks. The gallery, located in the link\nbetween old and new Brock, already\nboasts seven paintings and expects\neventually to gain the size and prestige of the Hart House collection in\nToronto.\nThe boom of student activity was\nprobably strongest heard in the\nArmouries as Clubs Day provided religious, common interest and political\ngroups with the opportunity to woo\nmembership. Some 5,000 students,\nmore than 20% more than last year,\nsigned up for a record total of eighty-\nfive clubs.\nReflecting the forward momentum\nof an extremely aggressive student\nbody, already carrying a $300,000 liability on their shoulders, the Fall General Meeting featured discussion of a\nplan whereby students would voluntarily have their Alma Mater Society\nFee raised to provide sorely needed\nhousing. The meeting voiced its approval and a referendum was put to\nthe students in the middle of November. Result: 76% of the students in\nfavour. Students will pay $5.00 for\nthree years, netting a total of approximately $150,000 which will be matched,\ndollar for dollar, by the Government\nof British Columbia.\nCONSERVATIVES WIN\nU.B.C. followed the nation, politically, and this year's Model Parliament\nis led by the Conservatives who won\n29 seats, followed by the Liberals with\n23; C.C.F., 15; Socreds, 6; and the\nL.P.P. with 2. Model Parliament was\nopened with all the colour and pageantry of its Ottawa counterpart. This\nyear the speech from the throne was\nread by the President of the Students\nCouncil, as Governor-General, flanked\nby other students clad in the robes and\nregalia representative of other high\nGovernment officials.\nStudents' Executive Programme has\nbegun its second year of operation following its overwhelming success of\nlast spring. The programme revolves\naround a series of evening lectures designed to provide students with the\ntools of effective leadership and committee work. Parliamentary procedure,\ngroup leadership and other related\ntopics are areas of discussion.\nODDS AND ENDS\nUniversity students proved they could bleed\nas well as ever, judging by the results of this\nfall's Blood Drive \u00E2\u0080\u0094 more than 2,500 pints\ndonated to the Canadian Red Cross. . . . The\nAlma Mater Society Film depicting Campus life\nwill be ready by Christmas. Produced by the\nfilm society, its running time will be one half\nhour . . . (Plans for the 1958 Open House are\nalready in high gear as the student committee,\nled by Ron Longstaffe, prepares to host over\n80,000 British Columbians on February 28 and\nMarch 11). . . . U.B.C. Radio is now heard weekly\nat 8:10 p.m. over CJOR; in addition U.B.C.\nDigest is distributed weekly over a Province-\nwide network of regional stations in 15 cities.\n... A grim reminder of the Hungarian Revolt\nwas seen on Campus as 150 Students of the\nSopron Faculty of Forestry marched bareheaded\nin the rain October 23 to commemorate the\nevents of last year. A wreath was placed in the\nGymnasium and a tree planted on the Wesbrook\nlawn. . . . Delegates to the National Federation\nof Canadian University Students' Conference in\nQuebec City returned feeling the organisation\nwas definitely on the upswing productively and\ntherefore was fast withdrawing from the cocoon\nstage it has inhabited for the past few years.\n. . , A new Conference was put forth for\nstudent participation this year. It was a conference on World Affairs to be held at McGill\nin the latter part of November. Two students\nwere selected from the many applications received, Michael Jeffery, Law '59, of Vancouver\nand Wayne Hubble, Arts '58, of Kelowna.\n. . . This year's Totem will not have Undergraduate pictures as in the past. It is felt that\na catalogue of pictures does not constitute an\nactive part of an annual for a University this\nsize because of its expense and the work entailed. . . . Next year's World University Service\nsummer seminar will be held in Yugoslavia.\nTwo delegates from U.B.C. will be selected to\nattend. . . . The three Fall Plays presented by\nthe Players Club this year were: \"The Link,\"\n\"The Torchbearers\" and \"Deirdre of the Sorrows\" . . . The humour magazine \"Pique\" made\nits 1957 debut in early November and was an\ninstantaneous success. It will be followed\nshortly by \"Raven\" the literary magazine to be\nreleased at the end of the fall term. . . . The\nMusical Society is rehearsing Irving Berlin's\n\"Call Me Madam\" as their annual production.\nThe week-long- presentation will be staged in\nthe third week of February.\nRetiring Chancellor the Hon. Sherwood Lett\n(left) waits to cut ribbon officially opening\nthe extension to Brock Hall while A.M.S. President Eten Trevino hands over keys of the\nbuilding to Chancellor Grauer (second from\nright). Watching proceedings at right is\nU.B.C. President Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie.\n35 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE Sports Summary\nBy R. J. (BUS) PHILLIPS\nAthletic Director, U.B.C.\nFOOTBALL\nThe Thunderbird Football Team\nplayed the longest schedule in its history this fall, by completing ten consecutive games between September 21\nand November 21. As an experiment\nthe final game of the season was\nplayed on a Thursday noon-hour,\nagainst College of Puget Sound.\nAt the beginning of the season a\n62-passenger, chartered Super-Constellation carried our team, as well as\nseveral University officials and Alumni, to London, Ontario, for the Fifth\nAnnual Churchill Cup Game against\nthe University of Western Ontario.\nWe faced a great team and were\nsoundly defeated 54 - 0; in Coach\nMetras' own words, \"This is the\ngreatest team in Western history.\"\nThey certainly went on to prove this,\nby going through the entire Eastern\nIntercollegiate schedule undefeated.\nInjuries and 'flu played havoc with\nthe U.B.C. team during most of its\nschedule, and in one game on October\n5, three players received knee injuries\nwhich retired them for the season. We\ndo not intend to alibi the results of the\nseason's play, which produced only\none victory, a 40 - 2 win over Seattle\nCavaliers in an exhibition game. Frank\nGnup produced a team that played\nsound football, and at times showed a\nbrilliant offense, but numerous defensive errors gave away key touchdowns\nin almost every game. The team lacked\na \"Jim Boulding\" in the backfield and\nwere unable to score those needed\nyards in the opponents' territory.\nWhat is the future of football at\nU.B.C? Many students and Alumni\nare asking this question again, in the\nlight of a disappointing season. There\nis no doubt in my mind that with 2,000\nboys now playing midget, juvenile,\njunior and High School football in the\nProvince the standard of U.B.C. football will gradually improve, and that\neventually our team will be able to\ncompete on equal terms with the Evergreen and Pacific Northwest Conference Teams. Until the Prairie Universities start playing football again,\nthere does not seem to be any feasible\nalternative to our present set-up.\nBASKETBALL\nAlthough it is too early in the season to predict the success of the Varsity Basketball team, the four pre-con-\nference exhibition games played so far\nindicate a good season for the Thunderbirds.\nThe Homecoming Grad Game on\nNovember 8th produced the most exciting finish I have ever witnessed,\nwhen the Grads, coached by Paul\nPlant, staved off a determined last second drive by the 'Birds' to win the\nannual classic 51-50. The following\ngrads turned out to the Banquet which\npreceded the game, and then went on\nto the floor to demonstrate the skills\nwhich they had not forgotten, before\nthe best Homecoming basketball crowd\nin many a year: Sandy Robertson, Bob\nScarr, Harry Franklin (Alumni Representative), Paul Plant, Jim McLean,\nBruce Yore, Dave Campbell, Ron Weber, John Forsythe, Ted Ray, Neil De-\nsaulnier, Ralph Hudson, Nev Munro,\nBud McLeod, John Southcott, Reid\nMitchell, Norm Watt and Bob Hindmarch.\nThe following weekend Jack Pom-\nfret's Thunderbirds played host to Alberni Athletics in a two-game series,\nand we scored convincing wins in both\ngames, winning the latter by 19 points.\nThe team will travel to Alberni for a\nreturn series on January 3 and 4.\nSeattle Buchans, 1956 National\nA.A.U. Champions in the United States, brought to Vancouver on November 22 and 23, an impressive squad of\nex-college basketball stars. Nobody\nseriously expected the University team\nto provide close competition against\na team which last year had won 66 out\nof 78 games, and won 17 out of 18\ngames on their recent European tour.\nHowever, the two nights produced\nthrilling basketball, and the Thunderbirds, who led on several occasions\nduring the games, lost by only 6\npoints each time, by identical scores\nof 68 - 62.\nIt appears that Jack Pomfret will\nhave a taller team this year, with\nslightly more depth than previously.\nBack from last year are Olympian\nEddie Wild, Lyall Levy, and Barry\nDrummond.\nThe schedule of home games, all of\nwhich begin at 8 p.m., follows:\nDa\nJan.\nte\n17\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nOpponent\nCentral Washington College\n\"\n18\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEastern Washington College\n\"\n24\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWhitworth College\nFeb.\n1\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWestern Washington College\n\"\n7_\nCollege of Puget Sound\n\"\n8\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nPacific Lutheran College\nMar\n. 7\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nUniversity of Alberta\n\"\n8\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nI'niversity of Alherta\nPresentation of the Winston Churchill Trophy at London, Ontario, on Sept. 21. From left: Mr. Don Manuel,\n(in wheelchair, back to camera); Dr. Harold Elliot, of the Canadian Paraplegic Association, under whose\nauspices the East-West Intercollegiate games are played; John Girvin, captain of Western Ontario's\nfootball team, and Mr. Doug Mowat, of Vancouver.\nRUGBY\nRugby fans on the Pacific Coast will\nbe pleased to learn of the up-coming\nvisit by the Australian National Touring \"Wallabies\", who are now on an\nextended tour of the British Isles and\nEurope, and will play three games in\nBritish Columbia next year.\nMar. 15\u00E2\u0080\u0094 B.C. All-Stars\u00E2\u0080\u0094at Empire Stadium\n20\u00E2\u0080\u0094 University of B.C.\u00E2\u0080\u0094at U.B.C.\nStadium\n22\u00E2\u0080\u0094 B.C. All-Stars\u00E2\u0080\u0094al Victoria\nThey will also play several games in\nCalifornia before departing for home.\nThis is the same team which appeared\nin Vancouver in 1948, and included\nDr. Max Howell, who is now our\nRugby Coach and member of the\nSchool of Physical Education Staff.\nHead Rugby Coach Albert Laithwaite, due to ill health, has turned\nover to Dr. Howell, for an indefinite\nperiod, the coaching of the Varsity\nRugby Team. Mr. Laithwaite will continue to handle the over-all rugby programme at the University, which has\ngrown to a total of five representative\nteams.\nThe University of California - B.C.\nAnnual World Cup Rugby Series will\nbe played as usual, with the 'Birds'\ntravelling to Berkeley at the end of\nFebruary. California will return to\nVancouver on March 27 and 29. Last\nyear U.B.C. won the coveted trophy.\nICE HOCKEY\nThe Thunderbirds Ice Hockey\nteam is having a successful season, to\ndate, in the New Westminster Commercial Hockey League. The team,\ncoached by Dr. Ron Donnelly for the\nsecond year, will play a full schedule\nof games in preparation for the Annual Hamber Cup Series against the\nUniversity of Alberta. The series will\nbe held at Kerrisdale Arena on February 18-19.\nU. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 36 Dorothea Lundel\nIN MEMORIAM\nRevelstoke paid its\ntribute to Dorothea\nLundell, B. A. '32,\nwhen she was named\nGood Citizen of the\nYear in 1948. Her\ngood works in her\nhome town were legion. As a member of\nthe high school staff\nshe coached girls' basketball teams, sponsored the school paper\nand the annual, conducted a glee club\nand directed operettas. In her church\nshe played as organist and led the Junior\nChoir for over twenty-five years. She was a\nmember of the Revelstoke Chapter of the\nEastern Star, of the Canadian Club, the University \"Women's Club, the Revelstoke Teachers' Association and the Revelstoke Branch of\nthe U.B.C. Alumni Association. Recently she\nwas a member of the Revelstoke Parks Board.\nThose of us who met her at University\nremember a classmate who had wide interests\nin University life and an enthusiasm for living which she shared with her fellows. She\nwas a scholar and completed an Honours Course\nin French Language and Literature. She was\nwell read and joined with pleasure in the\nactivities of the Letters Club making her\ncontribution to the members' deliberations on\ncurrent literature. She enjoyed personalities,\nwriting for the record and the excitement of\ndeadlines ; she served as co-editor of a certain\nEducation '33 journal published partly in Revelstoke and partly in the office of the Dean of\nArts during the closing hours of her final busy\nterm on the Campus.\nHer fresh enthusiasm for ideas and for\nletters she always retained. In 1956 she was\nin Victoria at Summer School studying the\nlatest methods in Conversational French, reminiscing with old Letters Club friends\u00E2\u0080\u0094refreshing herself in this way for the next\nsession with her classes.\nYoung people were always a vital part of\nher life. She entertained them in her home,\ncounselled them, helped them over rough spots.\nNo one can tell how many young people came\nto her for help. We can be sure that they all\nreceived encouragement, for she had a rare\ngift of inspiring them to set worthwhile goals\nfor themselves.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mary Fallis, B.A. *32.\nMrs. A. F. B. Clark\nWord received here recently of the death in\nToronto of Mrs. A. F. B, Clark brought a deep\nsense of loss to her many friends in Vancouver.\nAlthough it had been known that she had\nbeen for some time in poor health, yet the\nnews of her death came as a great shock. The\nClarks had been for many years such a vital\npart of our University life, that their retirement to Toronto a few years ago left a very\nreal void. Down through the years their\ncharming home had been a happy Mecca for\nmusic-lovers, art-lovers and just lovers of good\ntalk, not only among colleagues but also from\nall over the city, and Mrs. Clark's generous\nhospitality was boundless.\nMany groups of students too enjoyed the cultured atmosphere of their home. The Clarks\nhad travelled widely and had brought back\nmany treasures. Their collection of good musical recordings was outstanding and they delighted to share their pleasure in them with\ntheir friends of like tastes. Dr. Clark's interests\nwere extremely varied, and his wife shared\nthose interests to an unusual degree. She was\nindeed a woman of rare quality, gifted and\nlovable, and yet most unassuming.\nLike her husband, Mrs. Clark was a graduate\nof the University of Toronto, where she specialised in French. When Dr. Clark joined the\nFrench Department at U.B.C. in 1918, she too\nwas engaged as Instructor and carried on her\nteaching for some years. Her gentle dignity and\nattractive personality, as well as her teaching\nability won her the affection and esteem of the\nmany students who worked with her. Her inter\nest in the students was unfailing. She was one\nof the early Presidents of the Faculty Women's\nClub, and in that capacity and later as an active\nmember worked constantly on their behalf. She\nwas also a valued member of the Women's\nMusical Club, the University Women's Club and\nthe Monday Art Study Group.\nThose friends fortunate enough to have known\nMrs. Clark intimately will cherish the memory\nof her friendship as a high privilege, and their\ndeepest sympathy will go out to Dr. Clark in\nhis crushing bereavement.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094I. S. M.\ndistinguished sons of B.C., one who stayed ;tt\nhome among his own people in the Fraser\nValley and New Westminster where he was\nborn and educated and where he worked during\nhis lifetime.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. B.\nJ. Cameron MacKenzie\nWith saddened hearts and minds, relatives,\nfriends, business associates and government\nrepresentatives gathered together in New Westminster on November 19, 1957, to pay their\nlast respects and homage to J. Cameron MacKenzie. A native son of British Columbia and\na life-time resident of New Westminster,\nCameron MacKenzie died on November 16 at\nhis home, 103-3rd Ave., New Westminster.\nCameron MacKenzie obtained his education\nat the Public and High Schools in New Westminster and graduated from The University of\nBritish Columbia in 1930 with the degree of\nB.S.A. and obtained the M.S.A. degree in\n1932. Like his father, the late Mr. D. E. Mac-\nKenzie, who was for many years secretary of\nthe Provincial Exhibition in New Westminster\nand various farm organisations, Cameron MacKenzie devoted his life to the interests of the\nfarming community of the Fraser Valley,\nwhere he was best known, and to civic activities of the City of New Westminster To list\nonly a few of his affiliations, suffice it to mention that he was secretary of District \"E\"\nFarmers' Institutes, of the May Day Celebration, the B.C. Poultry Industries Council and\na member of the New Westminster Library\nBoard.\nBecause of his organising ability, Cameron\nMacKenzie's services were sought by many\ncivic clubs, business, fraternal and farmer organisations He was exceptionally gifted in\npreparing briefs for submission to Federal and\nProvincial Governments on many current problems. His wide knowledge of agricultural\nproblems, together with an ability to size up\nthe pros and cons enabled him to sum up a\ncase in a lucid and effective way. On many\noccasions he appeared as spokesman before\nFederal and Provincial Ministers and was\nalways listened to with the greatest respect.\nHis voice carried a great deal of weight, for\nhe spoke for others who he felt needed help\nand assistance.\nCameron was closely associated with the\nPoultry Industries Council which he served as\nsecretary almost from the time of its inception until his death, a period of fourteen years.\nDuring the Second World War his responsibilities were extremely onerous. Without sparing\nhis health or considering his personal interests\nhe worked unstintingly to increase egg production when Britain needed everything this\nProvince could produce \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and this at a time\nwhen there was a shortage of labour, shortage\nof feed and many transportation difficulties. It\nwas with great satisfaction that Cameron MacKenzie saw boatload after boatload of eggs\nleaving New Westminster for Great Britain\nduring that critical period\nIn more recent years, he was associated with\na number of projects of vital importance to\nthe poultry industry such as vaccination for\nNewcastle Disease and the establishment of an\nanimal pathology laboratory in the Valley.\nMr. MacKenzie is survived by three sisters.\nMiss Mary, B.A.'23, Miss Margaret, B.A.'30,\nand Mrs. R. C. (Dorothy) Armstrong, B.A.Sc.\n(Nurs.)'31, and a brother Dr. C. Duncan MacKenzie, B.S.A.'29, M.S.A., Ph.D., all U.B.C.\ngraduates. Honorary pallbearers were W. M.\nMott, Mayor F. H. Jackson, Ted Kuhn, Alderman Jack Allison, J. J. Johnston, Dean Lock-\nwood, E. C. Furness, and Leonard Hume;\nactive pallbearers were Fred Curtin, Alderman\nStuart Gifford, Allan Stewardson, John Watson,\nOtis Munday and Dr. Frank Currie.\nHis untimely death is deeply felt by his classmates, Alumni, and Staff members of the\nFaculty of Agriculture at the University. He\nleft many things unfinished but his work on\nbehalf of Agriculture will not be forgotten,\nnor his influence unfelt. Cameron will continue\nto live in our memories as one of the more\nANNE TAYLOR WESBROOK\nAUGUST 7, 1867 - SEPTEMBER 17, 1957\nMany thousand Graduates of the University\nof British Columbia know the name Wesbrook.\nAt the University we have Wesbrook Building,\nWesbrook Camp, Wesbrook Crescent, and Anne\nWesbrook Hall. This last, one of the women's\nresidences, was named for the gracious lady\nwho was the wife of our first president, Frank\nFairchild Wesbrook.\nMany of us have had the privilege ot* knowing Mrs. Wesbrook personally, and we now\nmourn the death on September 17th of this\nwoman who, by her sweetness and kindness,\ncharmed everyone she met.\nAnne Taylor Wesbrook, the daughter of\nThomas Wardlaw Taylor and Margaret Val-\nlance Taylor, was born on August 7th 1867\n(90 years ago) in Toronto, where her father\nwas Master in Chancery at Osgoode Hall. Anne\nTaylor attended the Model School and Miss\nHait's School in Toronto.\nIn 1883 the Taylor family moved to Winnipeg, where Thomas Taylor became Chief Justice of Manitoba and was knighted by Queen\nVictoria. Often Mrs. Wesbrook spoke of those\nearly days in the raw, western city. Their home\nwas on the outskirts of town ; there were no\npaved streets, and there was not even a proper\nsidewalk. When the snow melted it was something of an adventure for Anne, her five\nbrothers, two sisters, two half-sisters and one\nhalf-brother to leave and to return to the\nhouse.\nIn due course, Anne Taylor went to college,\nManitoba College, and then to Scotland and\nHeidelberg for a year to \"finish\", as it was\ncalled in those days.\nOn April 8th, 1896 she married a young\nphysician, Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, and went\nwith him to Minneapolis, where he became\nDean of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. and Mrs. Wesbrook had one daughter,\nHelen, now Mrs. George C. Robertson. They\nremained in Minneapolis until 1913, when Dr.\nWesbrook was invited to become the first President of the Unversity of British Columbia.\nThat was indeed a fortunate day for both the\nUniversity and the city when the Wesbrooks\narrived. The hospitality of their home was enjoyed by all the students, all of whom Mrs.\nWesbrook knew my name and always - and at\nany time - welcomed warmly to her home.\nA few years after Dr. Wesbrook's death in\n1918, Mrs. Wesbrook left Vancouver to spend\nseveral years in travel in Europe and with her\ndaughter in Minnesota and later in London,\nEngland, but in the early thirties she returned\nto make her permanent home again in Vancouver.\nDuring the past 25 years, Mrs. Wesbrook\nwas closely associated with the University and\nno function would have been complete without\nher presence. Now we shall see her no longer\namong us, and we grieve for our loss. Our\nmemory of her will endure, however, and her\ndevotion, faith, trust, courage and cheerfulness\nwill continue to be a constant encouragement\nto us all.\n37\nU.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE 1937\nMrs. Hugh H. 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