"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "1969-10-16"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118382/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " UBC REPORTS CAMPUS EDITION\nGrad Heads\nPolitical\nScience\nA former Rhodes Scholar and UBC graduate, Dr.\nWalter D. Young, 36, has been named head of the\ndepartment of political science.\nDr. Young, who has been a UBC faculty member\nfcince 1962, has been acting head of the department\nsince the resignation of Prof. R.S. Milne on July 1.\nBorn in Winnipeg and educated in Victoria, B.C.,\nDr. Young attended Victoria College before entering\nUBC.\nDr. Young graduated from UBC in 1955 with the\ndegree of bachelor of arts and did further academic\nwork at Oxford University, where he received the\ndegrees of bachelor and master of arts in 1957 and\n1962, respectively.\nHe carried out further graduate work at the\nUniversity of Toronto, and was awarded the degree of\ndoctor of philosophy in 1965.\nDr. Young has been the recipient of a number of\nfellowships and grants, including two from the\nCanada Council. The Council grants enabled him to\nw:arry out work on books dealing with social protest\n\"movements in the Canadian weist, a biography of Mr.\nM.J. Coldwell, former leader of the CCF, and a\nhistory of socialism in B.C.\nDr. Donald D. Munro, associate professor in UBC's\nfaculty of forestry, has been named assistant clean of\nthe faculty. He will be responsible for the\nimplementation of decisions of the faculty's\ncurriculum committee as they affect the\nundergraduate program in forestry.\nProfessor Samuel Rothstein, the first director of\nUBC's school of librarianship, founded in 1961, has\nresigned as head of the school, effective June 30,\n1970. Dr. Rothstein will continue to hold his\nappointment as professor of librarianship at UE1C.\nGREAT TREK SPIRIT REVIVED\nARE YOU ready for Trek Week Oct. 20-25?\nThis group certainly is. In fact, they've been\nmaking most of the arrangements for it. In\nthe foreground is Bob Fraser, co-chairman\nof the week that includes presentation of the\nGreat Trekker Award, held by Kerry\nMacfarlane at right, at a downtown rally on\nWednesday. In the background in front of\nUBC's Main Mall Cairn are, left to right, Peter\nCooke, traffic and transport director for the\ndowntown rally; AMS vice-president Tony\nHodge; medical student Glenna Allen,\nwielding a sledgehammer to be used at the\nfrustration therapy clinic to be staged\nTuesday at SUB; nursing student Cathy\nHunter, a participant in the Tea-cup football\ngame next Thursday; graduate George\nMorfitt, chairman of the UBC Alumni\nReunion Days which take place Oct. 24 and\n25; Linda Evans of Phrateres, which will bring\n150 senior citizens to the campus for a tour\nand reception Tuesday; Olu Sowemimo,\nchairman of the Tea-cup football game;\nTherese Hall, representing 40 Anglican\nTheological College residents who plan to\nlandscape a Vancouver church during the\nweek and, half-hidden at extreme right, Brian\nChalmers, director of community projects.\nFor full details of the week's events, turn to\npage four. Photo by Extension Graphic Arts.\nDR. WALTER YOUNG\nSenate Meets Nov. 1\nUBC's Senate Will hold a special meeting\nNov. 1 to discuss the report of its ad hoc\ncommittee on long-range objectives, which\npresented the 13.2rpage document to the\nregular, meeting of Senate on Sept. 10.\nA three-hour discussion from 9 to 12\na.m. is planned for Nov. 1, but Senate resolved at its Sept. 10 meeting that no\nformal action would be taken at the special\nmeeting. The debate on the report will\ncontinue at the next regular meeting of\nSenate on Nov. 12, if necessary.\nNext week's edition of UBC Reports,\nwhich will appear on Oct. 23, will contain a\nsummary of the report and a listing of the\nmost important of the 39 recommendations made by the Senate committee.\nThe Nov. 1 special meeting will be an\nopen one with a public gallery of up to 30\npersons. Applications for tickets to the\npublic gallery can be made to the registrar's\noffice up to 24 hours in advance of the\nmeeting. A Visiting Professor\nTakes A Glance Backward\nAt The University\nl^V\nA\nBy DR. BHIKU PAREKH\nDr. Bhiku Parekh was a visiting professor in\nUBC's department of political science during\nthe 1968-69 winter session. He is a member\nof the faculty of the University of Hull in\nEngland.\nThe editor of UBC Reports has asked me to write a\nfew lines on my year as a visiting professor at UBC.\nWith considerable hesitation, arising from the fear\nthat I might appear to presume to judge an institution\non the basis of a few months' experience, I append a\nfew thoughts for what they are worth.\nComing from England after some difficulty in\npersuading the head of the department to grant me a\nyear's leave of absence, UBC looked like a paradise of\nfreedom. Three of my UBC colleagues were on leave\nas a matter of right. Besides, I was relieved to see my\nown department (political science) run\ndemocratically, with most of the academic and\nadministrative decisions taken after an open debate in\nwhich nearly every member of the department\nparticipated.\nMore generally, I was impressed by the way\nuniversity affairs were conducted. Unlike most British\nuniversities, where the Senate largely consists of the\nheads of departments who are its members by virtue\nof their office and who enjoy the almost unrestricted\nfreedom to represent and commit their department,\nthe Senate at UBC was more open and representative\nof those at the lower rungs of the academic hierarchy,\nthough this is not to say that it could not be yet more\nrepresentative.\nFLEXIBLE RULES\nIt was again a great relief to see that heads of\ndepartments at UBC are not appointed from above,\nand that they do not stick for ever once they are in.\nHeads here do not wield anything like the power and\nauthority they enjoy in Britain, and whatever power\nthey do have they seem inclined in many cases to\nexercise less ostentatiously and annoyingly.\nIt was also very refreshing to see the amount of\nflexibility university regulations permitted. One was\nfree to fill the bottle of syllabus with the contents\none liked as long as one did not change the label; one\nwas free to set up discussion groups as one wished\nand above all one was free to evaluate and examine\none's students in any way one liked\u00E2\u0080\u0094the sort of\nfreedom I cannot remember having enjoyed in any of\nthe three British universities I have been associated\nwith.\nI saw great concern to experiment with new\npedagogical techniques, and I would like to make a\nparticular mention of those introduced by my\ncolleagues, Professors Jean Laponce and Martin\nLevin. The existence of Karl Burau, who in my view\nperforms the very useful role of bringing various\nacademics together on a common platform, is a\nstanding testimony to the flexible administrative\nset-up in the University.*\n\"Karl Burau has been involved in recent years in the\ndevelopment of an \"Experimental College\" at UBC. The\nchief function of the organization is sponsorship of\nnoon-hour lectures. The College is in the process of being\nreconstituted as a student club.\n2/UBC Reports/October 16, 1969\nm\"\nAs for the students, I have enjoyed every minute\nof my contact with them. Gay, courteous, friendly,\ncurious and inquisitive, they have been a joy to teach.\nUnlike British students, who come from a wider\nvariety of schools, UBC students have a relatively\nhomogeneous and uniform educational and social\nbackground. One tends, therefore, to miss the\ncultural and intellectual diversity of British university\nlife. But I can't see this as necessarily a disadvantage,\nespecially when it does not affect adversely the\nstudents' intellectual or aptitudinal level. I feel,\nthough, that the financial security of the British\nstudent would relieve the anxiety of a lot of UBC\nstudents, enabling them to give more of their term\nand vacation time to their studies. But with the\nBennett government so firmly saddled in power, this\nlooks, alas, a remote hope.\nPURSUIT OF IDEAS\nThere are, however, one or two disconcerting\nfeatures, not peculiar to UBC but common to many\nof our universities, to which I would like to draw the\nattention of my colleagues. The university\ntraditionally has been a place characterized by the\ndisinterested pursuit of ideas. Ideas, no matter what\nfield they relate to, have been its units of currency,\nand its members have been known to take intense\ndelight in relating them, in exploring their endless\nimplications, and in pursuing their ramifications in\nother areas. The university's members are and have\nbeen intellectuals, people who live in the world of\nideas, who pursue them with diligence and zeal and\nwho are always attentive to anyone who has anything\nnew to say, whether in physics or biology or\neconomics or philosophy or history. No idea, no new\ndiscovery, is alien to them.\nIn short, the commitment to the life of the\nintellect, an encyclopedic range of interests, and an\ninsatiable curiosity have been the necessary\ncharacteristics of the members of the university. My\nfeeling is that these characteristics are becoming\nincreasingly less and less common.\nThe point I am trying to make could perhaps be\nbetter expressed by distinguishing between an\nacademic, an intellectual and a scholar.\nAn academic is someone who is a member of an\nacademy, and who therefore has all the obligations\ndevolving from such a membership; for example, to\nbe concerned about the well-being of the university\nand to seek to improve it (not just one's courses, but\nthe university as a whole).\nOPEN MIND\nAn intellectual, unlike an academic, does not\nnecessarily belong to the academy, and what\ncharacterizes him, as I said earlier, is an open and\ninquisitive mind that is ceaselessly striving to expand\nits range of interest and insight.\nA scholar, finally, is a specialist, someone\nconcentrating on a specific and narrow area. If an\nintellectual has a width of perception, a scholar has a\ndepth of insight.\nNow, conceptually and ideally, a member of the\nuniversity is and should be all three. He is in the\nuniversity because he is a scholar. As someone who is\nin\niL\nOStm\n*__**:\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n,** +\n''\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'/\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'ft-?-*\nV &<\n:f.} *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0**\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00A3 '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 'Si \\n\u00C2\u00AB< -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n2^f^\ \u00C2\u00AB_JMr\n\u00C2\u00BB^Ii\nac-v**- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'*\u00C2\u00AE^.'?wly*'*L'\n'Coming from England,\nUBC looked like\na paradise of freedom'\n*V\V\nexpected to be intellectually alive, to see the\nrelationship of his own subject to others with which\nit is integrally connected, and to be in charge of\nstudents who study a number of subjects other than\n\"his own\", he is required to be generally\nwell-informed, to approach his subject from a wider\nangle; in short, to be an intellectual who can inspire\nhis students and enable them to work out a coherent\nunderstanding of their environment by brilliantly\ndisplaying before them the interrelations of different\ndisciplines and their insights.\nPRIVATE MATTER\nBut he is not just a scholar, which is essentially a\nprivate matter, nor just an intellectual\u00E2\u0080\u0094a cooperative, interpersonal relationship\u00E2\u0080\u0094but also an\nacademic, a member of an institution, a custodian of\nits values and a guardian of its interests. He has duties\nof a general nature, which it is a dereliction to\nneglect. And therefore to look upon the university as\na place where one does one's professional stint and\nearns one's livelihood, with no deeper bonds and ties\nis to use, to consume, the institution of the university; and in that sense to be its bad member, to\ndisplay academic bad faith and inauthenticity.\nMy feeling is that this traditional trio of a sense of\nacademic obligation, an intellectual comprehensiveness and a scholarly profundity has been shattered in\nrecent years, so that university professors are rarely\nall three, and are generally only one or the other.\nAt UBC, just as at any other university, one finds\nprofessors who have a high academic consciousness\nand who dutifully give a lot of their time to\nuniversity affairs, but who do nothing else. One finds,\nagain, people who read on and discuss any subject\nthat happens to tickle their intellectual imagination at\nany given time and who have an amazing range of\ninterests and intellectual sensitivities, but who do not\nshow any interest in the quality of the life in the\nuniversity and who do not show any sign of scholarship.\nAnd one finds, finally, the all-too-familiar species\nof scholars, either engaged in serious and un-\nglamorous research or trapped in the \"publish or\nperish\" syndrome (usually by editing and feeding on\nother peoples' work), spending most of their time at\nhome or in the library but never in the department\nlest an inquisitive student should engage them in a\nconversation and upset their tight publication\nschedule.\nDYING BREED\nOne does not generally find many professors\npossessing all the three qualities I mentioned as\nnecessary in an academic. No doubt, there are such\npeople. From my own limited contact, I could easily\ncount over a score in my own arts faculty; but they\nare, alas, a dying breed.\nSpringing from this growing one-dimensionality is\nanother trend. The preoccupation with \"one's own\"\nfield and fame has tended to mean a relative professional and personal insularity, so that one is not really\ninterested in exchanging ideas and opinions with\npeople in other areas. There are not many meaningful\ninterdepartmental seminars. How can there be when\none is interested only in arrogantly and nervously\nflaunting one's professional expertise?\nThe only meaningful exceptions are the area-study\ndepartments, where people studying the same region\nfrom different angles are housed together and have a\nreal community of interest. To take an example from\nmy stay at UBC, some of the best discussions I\nattended, either on the campus or at friends' homes,\nwere those organized by the department of Asian\nstudies. In the faculty of arts, Fred Stockholder, Don\nBrown and others have tried from time to time to set\nup informal interdisciplinary discussion groups, but\nwith not much effect, largely because of the lack of\nresponse.\nThis is very disconcerting, not only because it fails\nfully to exploit the opportunities offered by the fact\nof having so many different scholars on the same\ncampus, not only because it keeps the university\nteachers intellectually myopic and boring, but also\nbecause it spells the doom of all personal human\nrelationships in the university, thereby enthroning\nimpersonality in all our dealings with one another.\nProfessors, not being able easily to run into one\nanother, tend to communicate through memoranda;\nand leave it to the university bureaucracy to total up\narithmetically the final result of an individual student\nfrom the marks separately given by each of his\nteachers. There is no comparing of notes, no\nexchange of views, no cooperative advice to the\nstudent on what he should study and how.\nHEATED DEBATE\nStill worse results follow. Different departments\nmay teach the same subject, and yet the teachers\nconcerned never know each other, either by name or\nsight. On a rough count, an individual teacher, after\nthree or four years in the university, really gets to\nknow about two persons outside his own department.\nWhat is really intolerable is that one often has absolutely no intellectual contact with one's colleagues, so\nthat one has no opinion of his abilities and interests.\nWhen, therefore, the question comes up, say, of\npromoting him, one has no personal knowledge of\nhim and therefore one can only depend on some\nimpersonal, mathematical criteria. I have heard of\ndepartmental meetings at UBC where people have\ndebated heatedly whether a particular article of a\ncolleague is to count as one full article, or one-third\nor one-fourth; his promotion depended on the\nconclusion of such a puerile debate.\nWhen the university reaches such a point where\none member cannot form a rational and balanced\nintellectual judgment of his colleague, or trust him to\nform such a judgment of himself, there is something\nwrong somewhere. There is a need to pause, to reflect\nand to inquire how the university can arrest this\nimpersonality among the faculty and make the\nuniversity a genuine community of humanly related,\nacademically conscious and intellectually oriented\nscholars. UBC is a relatively young, gifted and self-\ncritical university, and there is hope that it can avert\nthe intellectual decline that has overtaken a number\nof once-distinguished European and American\nuniversities.\nAll in all, while continuing at times to feel\nnostalgic about some aspects of the English university, I greatly enjoyed being at UBC. With its\nexperimental vitality and a willingness to decentralize, it holds a promise for the future.\nUBC Reports/October 16, 1969/3 HISTORIC TREK REVIVED\n47 Years Later...\nUBC's 1969 crop of students are aiming to revive\nthe spirit of the historic Great Trek with a series of\nevents Oct. 20-25.\nCo-chairmen of the committee planning the\nevents, Bob Fraser and John Macgowan, said the\npurpose of Trek Week is to involve students in a\ncampus-wide event, improve UBC's image through a\ndowntown rally and a variety of on- and off-campus\ncommunity service projects and to publicize some of\nthe problems still facing the university.\nThese aims closely resemble those which\nmotivated UBC students to stage the original Great\nTrek 47 years ago this month in an effort to persuade\nthe government of the day to complete the university\nat its present site on Point Grey.\nFrom 1915 to 1925 UBC was little more than a\ncluster of wooden shacks in the shadow of the\nVancouver General Hospital. Construction of the\nchemistry building started at Point Grey in 1914 but\nwas halted when the First World War broke out.\nNo further work was done on the campus until\nafter the 1922 protest march to Point Grey. The\ntrekkers, following a downtown parade, made their\nway to the campus where they threw rocks in the\nhalf-completed cairn which stands on the Main Mall\nin front of the chemistry building.\nThe student campaign, which also involved a\ndoor-to-door canvass to collect 56,000 names for a\npetition, had its effect. The government appropriated\nfunds for completion of the Point Grey buildings and\nUBC moved to its present site for the 1925\u00E2\u0080\u009426\nsession.\nTo commemorate the 1922 event, the Trek Week\ncommittee plans to stage a short rally at the\nCourthouse on Wednesday (Oct. 22), at which\nPresident Walter Gage will present the Great Trekker\nAward to an individual who has made an outstanding\ncontribution to UBC's development.\nThe rally will be followed by a variety of\ncommunity service projects, such as assistance in\ncollection of funds for the United Appeal, collection\nof clothing for the Salvation Army and toys for the\nChildren's Hospital and a landscaping project at a\nVancouver church by students living in Anglican\nTheological College residences.\nSeveral athletic events, with the proceeds of most\ngoing to charity, are also planned, including the\nannual football clash between the UBC Thunderbirds\nand Simon Fraser University Clansmen at Empire\nStadium Monday (Oct. 20) at 8 p.m. and a rugby\ngame between UBC and the University of Victoria\nVikings Saturday (Oct. 25) at 2:30 p.m. at the south\ncampus stadium.\nA complete list of Trek Week events follows.\nMONDAY, OCT. 20\n12:30 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Major speaker on campus for\nnoon-hour address. Name of speaker and topic not\nknown at press time.\n8 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0094SFU football game at Empire\nStadium.\nTUESDAY, OCT. 21\nAll Day\u00E2\u0080\u0094Voluntary campus-wide teach-in planned.\nDecision on whether or not to hold a teach-in lies\nwith individual professors, but most faculty deans\nhave approved the proposal. Suggested topic is the\ncontent of the course being given by the lecturer.\n12:30 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Frustration Therapy Clinic staged by\nthe Medical Undergraduate Society on south side of\nSUB. An opportunity to sledgehammer an old car to\ndeath.\nAfternoon\u00E2\u0080\u0094Senior citizens will be guests of\nPhrateres for a tour of the campus followed by a\nreception at Cecil Green Park.\nWEDNESDAY, OCT. 22\n1:30 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Courthouse rally in downtown\nVancouver, followed by community service projects.\nRally will feature speeches by AMS president Fraser\nHodge, a City of Vancouver representative, UBC\ndeputy president William Armstrong, a provincial\ngovernment department of education representative\nand presentation of the Great Trekker Award by\nPresident Gage.\nYou can get to the Courthouse in two ways: 1. A\nmarching group will leave the Main Mall cairn at\n11:30 a.m. and board buses at the Blanca Street\nHydro terminus. 2. Buses leave SUB from 12:30 to\n12:50 p.m. and go direct to the Courthouse.\n8 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Murray Louis Dance Company from New\nYork in SUB.\nTHURSDAY, OCT. 23\n12:30 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Annual Tea-cup football game\nbetween UBC nurses and home economists in\nThunderbird Stadium. Half-time entertainment by\nUBC Engineers. Proceeds to Crippled Children's fund\ndrive.\nFRIDAY, OCT. 24\n8 p.m.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Friday Finale in SUB. Two concerts by\nthe Sandpipers in SUB ballroom and charity dance in\nthe cafeteria.\nSATURDAY, OCT. 25\n2:30 p.m. \u00E2\u0080\u0094Rugby game in UBC stadium between\nUBC and the University of Victoria Vikings.\nHomecoming, sponsored by the UBC Alumni\nAssociation, takes place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24\nand 25. Friday events include a men's golf\ntournament at the University golf course and an\nevening family jamboree at the War Memorial\nGymnasium.\nOn Saturday there will be a president's reception\nfrom 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Cecil Green Park to honor the\n1919 graduating class and welcome all returning\ngrads. Class reunions are planned for the evening and\nthe Great Trek ball will be held in SUB from 9:30\np.m. to 1 a.m.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0f|4fc Volume 15, No. 19-Oct. 16,\n11 MM I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 1969. Published by the Univer-\nM M \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 M m M s'ty of British Columbia and\n^^ mm^ ^^ distributed free. J.A. Banham,\nREPORTS Editor; Barbara Claghorn, Production Supervisor. Letters to the Editor\nshould be addressed to the Information Office,\nUBC, Vancouver 8, B.C.\nExecutive Meets Board\nMembers of the executive of UBC's Alma Mater\nSociety met the University's Board of Governors\nOct. 7 for dinner and a free-wheeling discussion of\nUniversity problems.\nThe discussion ranged from the development of\nathletic and recreational facilities to voluntary\nstudent unionism and the question of student\nrepresentation on the Board. The discussion was\nprivate and no details were disclosed.\nThe Board's guests were Fraser Hodge,\npresident of the AMS; Tony Hodge, vice-president;\nDave Gibson, internal affairs officer; Mike Doyle,\nexternal affairs officer; Ann Jacobs, secretary;\nDave Grahame, co-ordinator; and Sean McHugh,\nstudent ombudsman. Treasurer Chuck Campbell\nwas unable to attend.\nBoard chairman Dr. Walter C. Koerner\nintroduced the student leaders to the members of\nthe board, including three new members elected\nby Senate who were attending their first Board\nmeeting. The new members are Mrs. John MacD.\nLecky, Mr. Paul Plant and Mr. David Williams.\nPresident Walter Gage later noted that eight of\nthe ten current members of the Board are\ngraduates of UBC. They are: Mr. Richard Bibbs,\nBASc 1945; Mr. Arthur Fouks, BA 1941, LLB\n1949; Mrs. Lecky, BA 1938; Mr. John Liersch, BA\n1926, BASc 1927 (and MF from the University of\nWashington, 1931); Mr. Donovan F. Miller, BCom\n1947 (and MSc from Massachusetts Institute of\nTechnology, 1955); Mr. Plant, BA 1949; and Mr.\nWilliams, BA 1948 and LLB 1949. President Gage\nreceived his BA from UBC in 1925 and his MA in\n1926.\nDUANE ZILM\nEUS Head\nWins Lett\nAward\nDuane H. Zilm, president of the Engineering\nUndergraduate Society, has been named the recipient\nof the Sherwood Lett Memorial Scholarship.\nThe $1,500 award is given annually to a UBC\nstudent who reflects the high standards of scholastic\nachievement, sportsmanship and the ability to serve\nand lead others which characterized the late Chief\nJustice Lett, who was Chancellor of the University\nfrom 1951 to 1957.\nMr. Zilm, 22, a fourth-year electrical engineering\nstudent, was one of two students who received i\nrunner-up awards of $500 in last year's scholarship\ncompetition.\nBefore enrolling at UBC, Mr. Zilm was a student at\nBurnaby Central high school, where he was\nvice-president of the students' council. He also served\nas president of the Student Service Club there,\nreceived awards for sports and academic achievement\nand was chosen class valedictorian in his graduating\nyear.\nThe Lett Scholarship was awarded to Mr. Zilm this\nyear on the basis of his academic achievement and\nparticipation in campus athletics and student\nactivities during the 1968\u00E2\u0080\u009469 and previous academic\nyears.\nMr. Zilm has been a first-class student in three of\nhis first four years of attendance at UBC. He was\npresident of the second-year engineering class in\n1967 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 68 and secretary of the Engineering\nUndergraduate Society in 1968\u00E2\u0080\u009469. He was elected\npresident of the EUS for the current academic year.\nHe has been active in campus intramural athletics\nin such fields as badminton, volleyball and wrestling,\nand served as a student member on the UBC Alumni\nAssociation commission investigating student unrest.\nAfter graduation next May he plans to enrol in\ngraduate school for advanced work in electrical\nengineering.\nThe late Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, after whom\nthe award is named, was the first president of the\nUBC Alma Mater Society in 1915 and was awarded\nthe Rhodes Scholarship in 1919.\nHe was named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court\nof B.C. in 1955 and in 1963, a year prior to his death,\nbecame Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal, with\nthe title of Chief Justice of British Columbia.\nThe winner of the scholarship is chosen by a\ncommittee made up of UBC's president, Walter Gage,\nand representatives of the UBC Alumni Association,\nthe Alma Mater Society and the Graduate Students'\nAssociation.\n4/UBC Reports/October 16, 1969"@en . 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