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After annua! meeting busses and cars transported students to Sunset Beach where downtown parade formed.
Tuesday March 5th—"We discussed what the gov't
was doing and what the Board of Govs were doing,"
notes Ward, "we knew only that Mac had obtained an
increase in operating budget of $1 m., $1.6 m. short
of what he should have received.
"In view of the inactive Board of Govs & the silent
gov't we decided something had to be done. The first
thing was to set up a committee. . . . The leaders of
the committee were temporarily to be Belfont, Bradbury and Ward. We decided to have a meeting Friday.
. . . Informed Scott of what was developing."
"There was originally no concern over the coming
year's finances," says Malcolm Scott, "as no one appeared to think that the University would receive an
inadequate grant. There was a good deal of controversy
on how students could help the implementation of Dr.
Macdonald's report."
On Friday afternoon 6,000 students signed a petition
for a supplementary estimate for UBC. It was telegraphed to the Minister during the debate on education
estimates in the legislature that same afternoon.
That evening Scott, Brian Marson, Bryan Belfont and
Ward left for Kelowna to attend the Alumni Association's Saturday conference on higher education.
Driving back to Vancouver on Sunday they planned
action for the following week under these headings:
high school committee; Victoria College co-ordination;
labour unions; fraternities; undergrad presidents; literature, instructions, facts; print shop; transport; city
street-corner petitions; general meeting and demonstration; city residence petitions; public relations; coordinator's office.
The notes on the results run the gamut from "Success!" to "Highly successful." They had many willing
helpers.
On Monday evening, March 11, a full meeting of the
Students' Council finally adopted the plan, after "rather
impassioned debate" which included the many guests,
one of them a representative of the Victoria students.
After this crucial step, "we went to work that evening,"
notes Jim Ward.
At a special meeting on Tuesday 350 members of
the Faculty Association heard Belfont, Keith Bradbury,
Scott and Doug Stewart outline their plans and ask for
support. "The students were tremendous!" reported a
member of the faculty later. A resolution was passed
calling for "whole-hearted support and co-operation."
On Wednesday at noon 1450 of the 1750 Victoria
College students gave an enthusiastic hearing to Malcolm Scott. He reminded them that they would be
starting their university's history, as UBC students had,
by taking independent action on its behalf.
In the meantime the scurrying figures in the Brock
had the downtown canvass, the Annual General Meeting, the Interior Campaign, the busses and kits for the
students all lined up for the next day. The students
going to the Interior were briefed and bus leaders and
town leaders chosen.
Daily bulletins and publicity information from the
Alumni office had alerted all our branch contacts in
the province. They were standing by to help the busloads of students. Last minute information was telephoned by Tim Hollick-Kenyon or sent by the students'
short-wave radio, HamSoc.
Thursday March 14th was action day. Six thousand
students at the mass meeting gave Dr. Macdonald a
standing ovation when he spoke to them although his
enthusiasm seemed to be in inverse proportion to theirs.
"Does Mac back Mac?" headlined the Ubyssey the
next day. Then the students going to the Interior
17 On Court House steps. Doug Stewart, last year's AMS
president (in gown). To left: Dr. Norris, Bob Cruise (hands obscuring face),
Jim Ward (behind Back Mac sign). Behind him, Malcolm Scott
(with spectacles). Bryan Belfont (holding petitions);
to left. Barry McDell; left and down, Ed Lavalle.
climbed into the waiting busses with their bags and their
information kits, 500 of them, and went off on the most
important part of the campaign, spreading the word
wide into the province. Smaller groups had already left
the day before by car for distant points in B.C.
In downtown Vancouver, led by student pipers and
drummers, 3500 marched four abreast to the Court
House lawn, heard Dr. Norris of the history department
address them, then dispersed to petition on the street
corners and at shopping centres (leaving a crew behind
to clean up the Court House lawn!)
Sunday night the bus-loads from the Interior returned
to Brock Hall with 70,000 signatures, and found President Macdonald waiting with the committee to greet
them—and meet most of them for the first time. The
Ubyssey reported their experiences:
This Is the Way It Was in Horsefly, B.C.
Five hundred students who took the petitions to the interior
over the weekend returned to UBC Sunday with 500 different
stories to tell.
There was:
• a man who signed the petition in his bathtub;
• a lot of people in the Okanagan who thought "Mac" re
ferred to a kind of apple;
# A petitioner who sat up from 1 to 4 a.m. trying to get his
father to sign the petition. He finally did.
# those who thought Mac is a communist, and others who
didn't sign because of the "atheistic professor."
# the man who said: "All you have at UBC are booze and
sex parties and all the girls get pregnant;"
# the nuns at a school in Kamloops who pinned "Back Mac"
cards in their habits;
Radio stations all over the province devoted time to the
campaign with interviews, spot announcements, and news
stories.
But the hardest workers were the students themselves.
Three students took an over-night train from Kamloops to
McBride, where they got 600 signatures in one day. McBride
has a population of 800.
As they arrived back to coffee and doughnuts at UBC, their
cards were changed to read "I'm back Mac."
Our alumni branch contacts rose nobly to the occasion, a good many of them in the middle of the night.
Dr. Henniger in Grand Forks took the bus-load, driver
and all, to the community hospital, the only place they
could get a cup of coffee at 2 a.m. In Quesnel, the whole
alumni group was down at 3 a.m. to greet the students.
In Revelstoke, Mary MacKay arrived early, as she
thought, to meet the bus and found the spokesman,
John Abrahamson, waiting for her. The bus had
arrived at 3 a.m. They sat for an hour in her parked
car, reviewing the plans for the students,—"Am sure
the cruising RCMP must have wondered what Mrs. H.
J. MacKay was doing parked with a strange man on a
street corner at that hour of the morning!" The eight
home-town students were kept busy that weekend. They
spoke at the high school, the Rotary luncheon, the
Canadian Club meeting, at an NDP rally and at an
Elks banquet.
18 The Rev. Newton Steacy, our branch contact
in Prince George, signs petition for Luci Denis, 2 Ed
and Neil Killingbeck, I Comm, both of Prince George.
Cec Hacker's house in Abbotsford was commandeered by his daughter Joan as petitioners' headquarters. (In 1932, he had seized the basement of his
father's South Vancouver church for the same purpose;
that was in depression days when the University was
threatened with closure).
Don Stewart of Powell River had extra petitions and
letters run off and drove some of the students to Vancouver on Sunday. He was highly impressed by the enthusiastic, intelligent, mature and responsible approach
of the students, and their well-planned campaign.
"It was admitted that the young lady who appeared
before the local Rotary Club," wrote Roy Thorstenson
from Hope, "answered questions and handled the
situation better than most of the Rotarians themselves
could have done."
John Welton reported from Trail that the reception
was cool at first because of a Trail Times editorial the
day before, but it warmed as the campaign progressed
and because of the students' presentation on CJAT's
"Open Line" programme (which he had arranged).
They also spoke on radio. Mimi Roberts, 4 Arts, the
town's group leader, noted: "The trek to Trail was very
successful and we netted approximately 3,700 signatures. The trip back to Vancouver on Sunday was especially enjoyable as Trail produced more signatures
than its rival city, Nelson."
This has been a close-up. Now let us look at the
campaign in the wider context.
The President's report was made public only at the
end of January. The government, with dazzling speed,
acted to create three new universities and new community and junior colleges; but the President's financial
recommendations were not included.
The financial implementation of the Macdonald report is what the Alma Mater Society is asking for. More
money must be spent; they want it spent wisely. In the
meantime they want UBC's budget slice restored.
The Board of Governors has never published the
operating budget requested nor by how much the provincial grant has fallen short — until now. Since the
campaign, on April 9, they made a full statement on
both budget and grant for 1963-64. (The full text of
their statement is printed in the current issue of UBC
Reports).
The students are not yet satisfied. Says Malcolm
Scott: "If the Board of Governors don't get their full
grant they should make public the fact at once, and
aggressively seek the funds required from government,
business and industry—instead of flitting on and off
the campus once a month to bemoan their plight!"
Since the campaign, too, a very full statement on provincial government assistance to UBC and Victoria
College has been given wide distribution by the Minister of Education. It shows most impressive increases
in grants since 1952. But in 1952 the University had
not yet caught up with the costs of the post-war student enrolment. In 1956, all students and staff from the
three provincial Normal Schools were transferred to the
new College of Education at UBC and Victoria College.
The three Normal Schools were closed.
For Malcolm Scott, the Minister's statement proves
nothing. "The fact that some millions of dollars are
currently being invested in higher education is not a
relevant measure of the adequacy or inadequacy of government assistance to the universities," he wrote recently. "The real measure lies in a comparison of the
requirements of the future with the level of excellence
and the scope of the present University programme.
"Dr. Macdonald's report has stressed that we face a
crisis in higher education. Reference to the present niggardly grants and a summation of the amount appropriated over the past 10 years is an exercise in futility.
Let us not permit a fixation with statistics to blind us to
truth."
What did the students' action campaign achieve?
They collected over 230,000 signatures as evidence of
support for higher education throughout the province;
they have told a great many people of the financial
plight of the University; they have drawn most unusual
statements from the Minister of Education and the
Board of Governors.
And they are not through yet.
19 Gordon Merritt Shrum, O.B.E., MM., F.R.S.C, D.Sc,
co-chairman of B.C. Hydro and Power Authority,
retired as dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies
and head of the department of physics in 1961.
He has also been director of UBC extension
department, acting director of B.C. Research Council,
member of the National Research Council of Canada
and member of the Defence Research Board. He was
Officer Commanding. UBC contingent of C.O.T.C.
from 1937 to 1946.
Simon Fraser
University
by Gordon M. Shrum,
Chancellor
In his introduction to the Letters and Journals of
Simon Fraser, Kaye Lamb says "Simon Fraser is the
most neglected of the major explorers of Canada."
This oversight should be at least partially redressed by
naming one of the new universities after this rugged
pioneer who made the first historic journey down the
river which bears his name.
Some of the senior editors of the Chronicle have submitted a list of questions about Simon Fraser University which I shall try to answer as briefly as possible.
Leslie Peterson chose the name, but he seems to be
too modest to admit that he also suggested it. In any
case, I like it and cannot think of one more appropriate
for a potentially great university serving the valley of
the Fraser and the great metropolitan area which has
grown up around the landing where Simon Fraser
ended his journey.
The municipalities in the Lower Fraser Valley each
offered large tracts of land suitable for a university site
serving twenty thousand students. It was extremely
difficult to choose the one that would best meet both
immediate and future requirements of the University.
The Burnaby Mountain site meets the functional demands and, in addition, rivals the Point Grey Campus
of UBC in natural beauty and grandeur. This site will
present a challenge to B.C. architects to create an
overall building plan which will match and bring to a
focus the dignity, colour, and splendour of the panoramic circle of mountains, rivers, ocean inlets, rich
farm lands and dynamic urban communities surrounding the mountain.
Eric Nicol, in one of his questions, reminds me of
Leacock's prescription for a new university which starts
with a men's common room, next a library, and then
adds a few professors, classrooms and laboratories.
Although I agree, and all these we must have, unfor-
20 Burnaby Mountain, site of B.C.'s new university.
tunately we must acquire them simultaneously if we
are to enroll students in September 1965.
Some fears have been expressed about the ability of
a new university, without graduate facilities, to attract
top-grade professors. Fortunately, Ph.D. training has
not completely killed the pioneering spirit and I am
confident that the challenges presented by a completely
new university — not only a new campus and new
buildings, but a new curriculum, new methods of instruction and a favourable climate for creative teaching
— will attract outstanding scholars and teachers even
in competition with the older institutions.
The library should present few problems. Books for
course work can be purchased. The research collections
at UBC will no doubt be available to staff and students at SFU. One would think only of complementing, not duplicating, these collections and making these
available to UBC scholars.
Residences will come with time, and will provide inexpensive accommodation, I don't mean army huts,
which students from families with incomes of $5,000
per year or less can afford. Seventy-five percent of the
families in B.C. are in this group and they produce at
least their fair share of the top students in our schools.
The main body of students will commute either by bus
or pool car. Winners of the architectural competition
will be asked to include in their overall plan an inexpensive solution to the parking problem. This condition will no doubt reduce the number of competitors.
Eric Nicol also enquires if there will be a place for
sports or will the "more cloistered virtues be emphasized." The preliminary plans call for more playing
fields than UBC has and I hope that we can start with
gymnasiums for both men and women as well as an
indoor swimming pool. I would like to see physical
education emphasized but not to the point where it is
compulsory. The locker rooms will, no doubt, provide
facilities for indoor extra-curricular activities!
Mamie Moloney has an enquiry about the continuation of the first and second year programs at UBC, I
expect that they will continue, but as UBC concen-
rates more on the professional schools and graduate
work some first and second year students will gradually be shifted to a two year college in Vancouver City
and to SFU. By placing the emphasis on undergraduate
programs these institutions should attract the students.
There might be a differential in the fees. Professional
and graduate work is more expensive and this might
be reflected in the fees of all students at UBC.
Your Editor wishes to know why we didn't choose
either Oakalla or the B.C. Penitentiary site where there
would be "ready made buildings and some tradition
for college spirit." These two sites, as well as one at
Essondale, were considered. The latter, Munday Lake
area, was a runner-up in the overall sweepstakes because of the favourable site characteristics. The possibility of recruiting part-time specialists from the institution is a possible advantage that was apparently overlooked.
Finally, I am asked—"Who is going to diwy up the
public funds?" At the present time Victoria is the main
source of public funds. I am confident SFU will get its
fair share. It will be the responsibility of all the universities and those interested in higher education to convince the taxpayers and, through them, the members
of the Legislature and the Government that the universities are meeting a vital educational need and doing
it in the most efficient and economical manner.
In the past there has been no local competition for
UBC but this state of affairs will be changed in the
future with the establishment of Simon Fraser University. How far in the future depends upon many factors,
but whenever it comes it: will strengthen rather than
weaken UBC—an institution which commands and deserves the loyalty of all its graduates as well as former
staff members.
21 Both seminars will take place in
International House.
Studies in
International
Understanding
Latin
Seventh Annual
Summer School Seminar
on Public Affairs
The question of whether or not Canada should
join the Organization of American States is once again
coming to prominence in the press and in political
circles.
An American once wrote that the greatest lack suffered by Latin America is the lack of understanding
by North Americans. Sir Oliver Franks, in his address
to the 1961 graduates of UBC, stated: "The North-
South problem is the new problem and the new problem is the right relationship between the industrial
countries to the North and the developing peoples of
the South."
This year, the Department of University Extension's
Summer School on Public Affairs will conduct a week-
long area study of Latin America. The programme will
present, at the outset, three background lectures on
the history, geography and culture of Latin America.
On Tuesday, July 2 at 3:30 p.m., Dr. James F.
King, professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, will outline the history of Latin America with particular emphasis on the last 35-40 years.
Time will be allowed for questions and discussions following his paper. On Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m.,
Dr. A. C. Gerlach, currently president of the American
Association of Geographers will examine the geographical aspects of Latin America, with emphasis on
economic and demographic factors.
On Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, Dr. Carlos
Garcia-Prada, professor emeritus at the University of
Washington, will examine the cultural influences in
Latin America.
On Wednesday evening, a panel of diplomatic and
academic experts will examine the underlying problems
of power and revolution. The panel, chaired by Dr.
Marcel Roussin of the University of Ottawa, will in
clude: His Excellency Sergio Correa da Costa, Ambassador of Brazil; His Excellency Americo Cruz, Ambassador of Cuba; Dr. James F. King; and Dr. A. R.
Beckwith, chairman of the Department of Business
Administration at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
The sessions on Thursday, July 4, will deal with
economic problems faced by Latin America, in the
afternoon, Dr. Victor Urquidi, an economist from
Mexico who took part in the 29th Couchiching Conference, will outline the economic problems faced by
Latin America. Dr. A. R. Beckwith will comment on
Dr. Urquidi's paper and there will be time for questions and discussion. At the evening session on Thursday a panel will examine development of the economic
potentialities of Latin America, with H. Leslie Brown
(BA'28), assistant deputy minister of the Department
of Trade and Commerce, acting as chairman. Panellists
include His Excellency the Ambassador of Brazil, His
Excellency the Ambassador of Cuba, Dr. Urquidi, Dr.
Beckwith and Leslie Rohringer, who has spent a number of years with various oil companies in Latin America and is now a member of the staff at UBC.
To conclude the seminar, on Friday, July 5 at 3:30
p.m., a panel of Canadians will discuss Canada's relations with the Latin American states. Mr. A. J. Pick,
head of the Latin American division of the Department
of External Affairs will be the chairman of this panel
composed of Dean F. H. Soward, Faculty of Graduate
Studies; Dean G. F. Curtis, Faculty of Law, and Dr.
Marcel Roussin.
The Latin American seminar has been designed to
interest teachers, businessmen who might be contemplating markets in Latin America, as well as interested
alumni and members of the general public.
Moreover, it is hoped that the knowledge and opinions of academics, members of the Diplomatic Corps
and distinguished civil servants will enable the public
to understand the problems affecting Canada's relations
with the Latin American states and to follow, with
greater understanding, events in Latin America.
22 America
First International House
Summer Seminar
We are delighted that many of the outstanding
speakers who will lead the Public Affairs Seminar on
Latin America will be staying on for the week-end to
help establish a new UBC tradition: the Annual International House Summer Seminar.
A foreign student in Graduate Studies sparked the
idea. It was soon developed by a round-table of faculty,
board members from International House, and representatives of internationally-minded campus groups, including the Alumni Association.
It is anticipated that up to one hundred people will
attend, including faculty, Canadian and foreign students from winter and summer sessions, and members
of the community, both alumni and friends of International House.
The idea of holding the seminar in a residential
camp-setting was suggested. An opportunity for conferees to devote themselves to study and discussion,
freed from the usual distractions and in pleasant outdoor surroundings, was very appealing to the planners.
For July 5-7 we find residential camp-sites at a
premium and may therefore hold our seminar this year
on our own home ground at International House. As
more and more foreign students come to UBC for
advanced study we find a rich international resource
here on our doorstep.
The International House Summer Seminar is a
special avenue of continuing education capitalizing on
these resources and providing a much sought opportunity for foreign students to share ideas with Canadians, and particularly University alumni.
The registration fee will be nominal, partly covered
by a tie-in with the Public Affairs Seminar, as two of
its evening sessions are particularly pertinent to our
programme. These are the Wednesday and Thursday
evening panels, on power and revolution, and on the
economic potential in Latin America.
The first two major sessions of the week-end seminar
will deal with revolution in Latin America, historically,
economically and politically. Following upon general
discussion, there will be a panel on the future of Latin
America. The third phase of the study will be directed
to consideration of the cultural implications of increasing understanding among the Americas.
The major speakers will be the leading participants
in the Public Affairs Seminar. Under this outstanding
leadership our aim is to draw together the many disciplines and cultural backgrounds represented in our
University and greater Vancouver communities. The
first International House Summer Seminar promises to
provide a stimulating venture in international understanding.
Alumni will note that the sessions of the Seminar on
Public Affairs will take place in the late afternoon and
early evening in order to facilitate their attendance.
Brochures describing the programme are available from
the Summer School on Public Affairs, Department of
University Extension or by telephoning the director
at 224-1111, local 715. For further information on
International House Summer Seminar telephone International House.
//. Leslie Brown
23 Excerpts from Dr. Northrop Frye's
Congregation address on May 31
to graduates in the arts and sciences
"therefore
choose
life"
students of primitive societies tell us
how important is the rite de passage, the
social ritual marking the transition from
one phase of life to another . . . These
same students tell us further that in rites
of passage there are always at least two
elements involved, one of separation
from a past phase of life, and one of incorporation into a future one. The separation part of this rite is simple enough:
What you're incorporated into is less
easy to see. It's customary to say that
you're going out into the world, but if
you're not in the world now you never
will be. You're bound to feel, quite
rightly, that there is much more to this
business of being graduated than merely
ceasing to be where you've been. . . .
Here you've been attached to a University with a capital U, a specific institution that gives specfic degrees. But
people who may not know you've been
here will speak of you as having been
"to university," with a small u. That
means something more: it means a certain way of life that you've been in contact with, and would have been at any
university. As you leave the University
of British Columbia, what you are being
invited to join is the lowercase university,
the university of the world, as I should
call it, which represents the social values
that this institution exists for. . . .
Some time ago [I was asked]: should
we devote our main educational efforts
to producing a managerial or intellectual
elite? My answer was that if society demands an elite of this kind, the universities will produce it; they must produce
what society thinks it has to have. Many
of our important people are university
graduates and it is no doubt legitimate
enough for a University to point with
pride to the important people who hold
its degree. But the real elite, the really
best people, are an invisible group, and
nobody except God knows who they all
are. Some of them have influential places
in society, but most of them are diffused
through and dissolved in that society, like
the salt to which lesus compared his
disciples. They include the quiet self-
effacing people who are busy teaching
school or fixing teeth or saving money to
send their own children to university,
who sit through endless dull committee
and board meetings because it's a public
service to do so: in short, the people
who devote as much of their lives as
possible to keeping up the standard of
culture and civilization, both for themselves and for their communities. They
would include a teacher of French I
know in a small town in this province,
who bought herself a couple of cats in
order to have somebody to talk French
to in this allegedly bi-lingual country.
They certainly include the members of
this staff, who, like nearly everybody else
in a Canadian university, are maintaining standards of scholarship at a weary
distance from the nearest research
library.
So far as it is a teaching institution,
the University exists primarily to recruit
people from the bigger lower-case university of the world. At the same time a
good many people come into the university of the world with very little formal
education, and among those who have
the education there is a heavy drop-out.
The reason is that when you move from
one to the other, you move from one
kind of knowledge to an entirely different kind. Here you're exposed to knowledge about things, which is very easy
to acquire, as is obvious from the number of people in front of me, and very
easy to lose. It's what you produced on
examinations last week, and will start
forgetting next week. Knowledge about
things is mainly intellectual, and it demands a good memory and a sense of
detachment. Its great virtue is objectivity, the ability to see things as they are,
preferably on both sides. What you transfer to the university of the world is not
this, but knowledge of things. Knowledge
of things is really your vision of society,
and is part of what you are. It is engaged and committed, not detached: it
demands moral qualities, like courage,
and holding it is a constant test of character. To join the university of the world
it is not enough merely to do one's job
and mind one's own business. To maintain the standards of culture is a fight,
and a fight with enemies. It doesn't take
long to discover who the enemies are:
they are the people whose vision of
society is that of a mob, who are dedicated to hysteria, slander, persecution
and hatred. In some places the enemy
has become so strong that the university
of the world has been actually destroyed
or driven underground. The institutions
called Universities are still there: they
still teach arts and science and train for
professions and grant degrees, but their
degrees are no good any more, because
the essential social reason for producing
them no longer exists. . . .
Most of us today feel that man's original state is not to be understood by his
past, but by his present and his future,
just as the original state of the acorn
is not the pellet in the ground, but the
oak tree it is trying to become. If you
find this hard to understand, you need to
develop your imagination, preferably by
reading literature, and you can learn a
great deal about it from your own British
Columbia literature. If you read, or reread, the second story in Ethel Wilson's
Equations of Love, "Lily's Story", you
will read a very simple account of how
a girl puts up a gallant fight for herself
and her child against her own background. Its meaning is less simple: its
meaning is that a person's real character
is revealed, not by what he has been or
done, but by what he is trying to make
of himself at any given moment. Next,
I suggest you read Earle Birney's radio
play, Trial of a City. Here the annihilation of Vancouver has been decided upon
by some mysterious tribunal, and everyone who appears to defend the city shows
that there is no reason in the world why
this should not be done. Fortunately not
all the reasons are in the world. The
point is that man can always be condemned by his own past. What we have
done becomes, forever, the property of
the accuser of mankind, and as long as
we assume that the future consists only
of the logical consequences of the past,
we can look forward to nothing but disaster.
This brings us, of course, to the chief
preoccupation of our time, the apocalyptic explosion. We have certain mechanisms set up that, in a few minutes, can
kill half the human race and destroy the
value of living for the other half. And
yet, others say, if we don't set this bomb
off, we shall have a population explosion,
where the world will become so crowded
that having a large chest expansion will
constitute an act of aggression. Shall we
suffocate with life or with death? It is
merely ignorant to imagine that this
problem is original with us, and the
answer to it is in the Book of Deuteronomy. "Behold, I have set before you
today life and death; therefore choose
life." The "therefore" is inserted not because it is logical, but precisely because
it is illogical, the irrational choice that
refuses to face the consequences of one's
actions. . . .
I have spoken of what you are about
to be incorporated into, but this is a rite
of separation too. I think there is an impressive significance in the fact that, of
all institutions, the University is the only
one that requires you to leave it ... It
dismisses you, because, while its reality
is mainly in the past, it knows that your
reality is always in the future, always
beginning in the present moment . . .
Like a Spartan mother, it sends you out
to stand or fall by the power and skill
it has tried to give you; it is not careless
about your fate, merely careful of your
freedom.
24 Dr. James Miltimore
Summerland
Branch President
Director's Diary
Dear Diary: During the post-exam doldrums that have just about come to an
end, and are to be abruptly ended with
the onrush of Summer School students,
we've had time to reflect on recent
alumni activities—local and world-wide.
Datelines
Chicago—Mrs. Richard H. Thompson
(Mary Margaret Leeson) hosted the first
Chicago alumni branch meeting last
April 3rd. There was a good turnout of
alumni to hear guest speaker, Dr. Bill
Gibson of UBC, and Mary reports, "I
could see the old spirit returning to our
alumni eyes as Dr. Gibson outlined the
future plans for our Alma Mater."
Ottawa—Sixty UBC grads gathered at
Ottawa on April 2nd to hear Dr. George
F. Davidson speak on the Glassco Commission Report. Dr. Davidson was introduced by Ted Jackson, president of the
Ottawa alumni chapter, and thanked by
Wilson McDuffee, branch vice-president.
Manila, Philippines — UBC was officially represented by Joaquin O. Sio-
pongco, BSCE(Madua Inst. Tech.), MASc
'62, at the inauguration of Dr. Carlos P.
Romulo as the ninth President of the
University of the Philippines, on April
5th, when Mr. Siopongco presented to
Dr. Romulo the official greeting on behalf of UBC. Tokyo — Mrs. Yuriko
Moriya, BA'36, writes us that she has recently been elected the first president of
the Canadian University Club, and that
they would appreciate hearing of any graduates that may be travelling between
the two countries. Madison, Wisconsin
—Peter Krosby gathered the faithful
UBC alumni together last April 4th to
hear Dr. Bill Gibson speak on new developments at UBC in higher education
and reports that it was a successful
meeting. Yellow Point, Vancouver
Island—alumni gathered here for the
second annual meeting of the Vancouver
Island University Association. The guest
speaker was Dean John F. McCreary,
Dean of UBC's Faculty of Medicine, who
spoke about the Macdonald Report and
the newly planned University Hospital.
At this meeting Jack Caldwell, LLB'48,
from Campbell River, was elected president. Toronto—graduates from all western Canadian universities held a gala
evening at the 28th Annual Universities
of Western Canada Alumni Dance held
on March 9th last at the Royal York
Hotel. Toronto branch president, John
Ridington, headed up the local arrangements on behalf of UBC. Parksville,
Vancouver Island—several alumni delegates joined with students and faculty at
the annual week-end Academic Symposium held February 15, 16 and 17 to
discuss the problems of the university
world and society generally. Any alums
interested in attending the next Academic
Symposium should contact the Alumni
office. Summerland—Dr. James Miltimore. BSA'48, was elected president of
the Summerland alumni branch at a
meeting held here on February 21st.
Their new secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Patricia Carter, also reports that a drive for
new members in the area is currently
being carried on. Victoria — the first
joint meeting of the new Founders of
Convocation of the University of Victoria and alumni in the Victoria area
was held on the new Gordon Head campus on May 17th. Bob Gray continues
as president of the branch for another
year, backed up by a high-powered executive. After the business meeting, Willard Ireland gave a most stimulating
address entitled "Victoria College —
Castle to Campus." Lillooet—Harold
E. Stathers, BSP'53, has taken over as
branch contact for the area, replacing
Ian Cameron, who has been transferred
to Vancouver. United Kingdom — UBC
grads in the London area may have their
first opportunity to meet the Chancellor
and our new President, when Dr. Ross
and Dr. John B. Macdonald will be in
London to attend the Commonwealth
Universities Congress, being held from
July 15th to July 19th. Dr. Norman
A. M. MacKenzie, President Emeritus,
will also be there. Watch for further
details in your mail.
Jet flight
Plans are now well under way for the
first UBC Alumni Association jet charter
flight next winter to the Winter Olympics
in Austria. My spies tell me that the jet
leaves Vancouver on January 24, 1964,
returns on February 15th, and will cost
only $385 return. Skiers, hockey players
and other travelling enthusiasts should
contact the Alumni office. 224-4366, Mr.
Herman Freydenland at MU 4-2177, or
Mr. Russell V. Stanton at 581-5288 for
further details.
Jobs, anyone?
UBC's Personnel office tell us that
they have over 2,000 students listed for
all types of summer employment, and
that a simple call to them will start a
student on his (or her) way to you, and
help the students out as well. Austerity!
Working committees
Our new Alumni president, Paul Plant,
has set up a new system of working
alumni committees for the coming year.
The call is- now out for any volunteers.
If interested, please get in touch with
the Alumni office by phone or letter.
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Dean MacPhee honoured
Commerce graduates gathered to pay
respects to Dean and Mrs. E. D. MacPhee for their service to the University
and in particular, the Commerce Faculty
and business community.
Dean MacPhee is retiring as Dean of
Financial and Administrative Affairs this
year.
The gathering was held in the University Club on the evening of May 23rd.
Ken Martin, Commerce division chairman, presented the Dean with a large
bound collection of letters of tribute
from Commerce graduates on the
graduates' firm's letterhead.
Committee for arrangements for the
reception was chaired by Roy Dixon, a
former student of Dean MacPhee.
Dean MacPhee came to UBC in 1950
as director of the then School of Commerce and honorary bursar for LIBC. In
1956 the school was made a faculty and
he was appointed the first dean. After
retiring as dean of the faculty in 1960,
he became the first Dean of Financial
and Administrative Affairs.
Memo from AAG
One thousand grads have supported
AAG 1963 by contributing over $20,000
to date. The average gift has been more
than $20. We have therefore a 15%
increase in average gift, a 300% increase in the number of donors and a
400% increase in dollars given. This is
a most encouraging start for this year.
To those 1.000 grads we say thank you
for the challenge and support.
(This space is reserved for a report
to be written by the other 23,000
grads of UBC. Please help us fill
it soon.)
25 The Case
now rests
with the
Jury-
the People
Some of the "Gypsy Band":
Geoff Davies at microphone;
below, second from left, Ron Baker,
Steve Jennings, Ron Jeffels.
The UBC Alumni Association this year
completed a two-year programme of
organizing and assisting at regional conferences in the more thickly populated
areas of British Columbia. The climax
came recently when five Regional Conferences on Higher Education were held
in a two-month period.
The conferences dealt with the broad
aspects of higher education in this
province, the Macdonald Report, technical and vocational education, and particular regional problems. Many experts
gave of their time to speak at the gatherings which were open to all interested
members of the region and their presence
contributed to the success of the
conference.
One of the noteworthy groups in this
respect came to be known as "The
Gypsy Band", comprised of Professor
G. O. B. Davies, Professor Ronald
Baker, Dr. John Chapman, Dr. Ronald
Jeffels, Dr. Stephen Jennings, and Dr.
Walter Hardwick, members of the UBC
faculty who had contributed to the research and writing of the Macdonald
Report. The conferences were carefully
planned and organized well in advance
by volunteers who were citizens of the
region.
Kelowna
Over 500 people attended an exciting
Conference on March 9th, featuring the
new UBC President, Dr. John B. Macdonald as the keynote speaker. Excerpts
from his speech are printed elsewhere in
this section of the magazine.
The morning panel comprising the
faculty members who had assisted in the
writing of the Macdonald Report dealt
in some detail with the Report and
answered many questions, both after the
panel, and during an open question
period following lunch. During the afternoon an open session in the form of a
panel entitled "Design for Action" was
held. At the conclusion of the Conference
a resolution was passed endorsing concerted action by all areas in the Okanagan-Mainline region in applying for a
regional junior college.
Prince George
On March 23rd, Dean S. N. F. Chant
delivered the opening address at a regional conference with the theme "After
Grade XII, What?" After a morning
panel on the Macdonald Report, and
luncheon, an afternoon panel explored
the resources of post-high school institutions available to the people of B.C.
Following a series of discussion groups,
the Rev. Newton Steacy summarized the
Conference.
At the Conference banquet in the
evening, Dr. W. H. Johns, President of
the University of Alberta, spoke on the
topic "A National Programme for Higher
Education in Canada."
Cranbrook
The first Conference on Higher
Education in the East Kootenay region
on April 20th brought people together
from Golden through to Creston. This
Conference also covered the wide spectrum of post-high school facilities, and
formally endorsed at its conclusion the
formation of an East Kootenay University Association to continue to work
for the establishment of a regional
college in that region.
Dean David M. Myers, Dean of the
Faculty of Applied Science at UBC,
lead the delegation from UBC. Dean
Goard of the Vancouver School Board
was also one of the featured speakers,
and his exposition of the vocational
training programme attracted a great deal
of interest at the Conference.
Burnaby
The Burnaby School Board sponsored
a similar type of Conference on May 4th
at the Vincent Massey junior high school.
The programme featured the new chancellor of Simon Fraser University, Dr.
Gordon Shrum, and Dr. J. B. Macdonald,
President of UBC. This was the first
public conference of its type to be held
in the Metropolitan Vancouver area,
and drew much attention, particularly
with regard to the location of the
proposed Simon Fraser University.
Trail
Citizens of the West Kootenay area
gathered last May 11th to debate and
discuss their problems of higher education. The Conference theme was "The
Macdonald Report and a Kootenay College." After a keynote address by Dr.
John B. Macdonald entitled "The Aims
of Higher Education in British Columbia," a morning panel discussed "The
Role of a Junior College."
This Conference featured Dr. Macdonald, of UBC, and two college
administrators, Dr. R. K. Berg, President
of Everett Junior College, and Dean W.
J. Cousins, of the Lethbridge Junior
College.
Discussion during the afternoon was
devoted to the problems of establishing
a regional Kootenay College, and featured expert speakers from different
academic settings in B.C. At the conclusion of the Conference a formal resolution was passed urging the speedy
implementation of the recommendation
for a Kootenay college under the combined leadership of the School Boards in
the area.
With Northern B.C. and the Peace
River region the only areas left uncovered, the case for higher education
now rests with the jury—the people of
this Province, who in the end will decide
exactly what kind of system of higher
education they will enjoy.
26 Kelowna Conference
on
Higher Education
Five hundred Okanagan - Mainliners
gave the President of the University of
British Columbia a standing ovation
when he addressed them at the second
Okanagan-Mainline Regional Conference
held on Saturday, March 9th, in the
Kelowna high school.
Dr. Macdonald sketched the broad
outlines of the needs and problems of
higher education. Following are excerpts
from his speech:
"In the past we have not succeeded in
persuading either our citizens or our
governments that we must support education at the level which is required in
this changing world of the twentieth
century. Yet education is the major key
to the progress of mankind and to the
preservation of those rights and privileges which we believe should be shared
by all men. . .
"The days are rapidly disappearing
when the man with little formal training
can make an appreciable contribution
to our national strength. Muscle power
has been almost totally replaced by the
machine. But what is of more importance
and direct interest to the individual is
President Macdonald
addressing Conference.
Below, from left, Paul Plant, R. K. Berg,
Carleton Whitehead, Mack Stevenson.
that in this world of the twentieth century he must be so educated and his
mind so trained that he is able to live
with some measure of mental ease and
spirtual ease. . .
"The persons who will make the
greatest contribution to society will be
those educated to the limits of their
capacity and talents by the very best
kinds of educational institutions we can
finance and staff. Human resources are
our most important assets. . .
"In Canada more is needed by way of
educational facilities at the level of college and universities in the next seven or
eight years than we have been able to
accomplish since Confederation. . .
"You have decisions to make here in
the Okanagan Valley, and they are your
decisions—they are not my decisions,
they are not the University of British
Columbia's decisions, and they are not
the Provincial Government's decisions. . .
It is up to you to decide what you want.
It is your responsibility, and you must
choose your own opportunity and decide what kind of growth you want in
your Valley. . .
"The very sobering facts of where we
stand in this world are before us and
the tasks that are facing us are monumental. They will not disappear by ignoring them—they are urgent tasks. We are
faced with a national emergency with
respect to education, and whether we
win or lose as a nation is going to be
determined largely by how effectively we
face the tasks ahead of us in the field of
education. . .
"Can we make the decisions about the
support of higher education that are
needed now for our welfare, our economy, our fair participation in a world
of revolution, and our survival? I believe we can—I believe we must. . ."
27 Homecoming 1963: Chairman chosen, plans laid
Many classmates will renew college day
acquaintances when they reunite at
Homecoming this fall. The class of '18
is the senior class this year. Their reunion is being planned by Magistrate
Lome Jackson.
Joe Brown, Aubrey Roberts, and a
committee of classmates are busy planning a big day for their class of '23. Dr.
Douglas Telford and his committee, who
planned the class of '28 reunion five
years ago, have agreed to do it again.
Harold Moorehead is in contact with
1933 class president, Vic Rogers, for
his thoughts on the class of '33 reunion.
Paul Paine will plan the '38 reunion, and
Mrs. J. A. Findlay, (Honoree Young),
has consented to organize for the '43
class, whose members have been away
20 short years. Rod Lindsay has plans
for the class of '48, while the first reunion for the class of '53 will be directed
by Art Phillips.
All in all, it sounds like fun, if your
year of graduation ends in -8 or -3.
That is, except for the class of '58.
They're too young for this type of party!
For those not attending reunions and
as a plus for the reunion classes,
Homecoming chairman Bill Rodgers is
planning many innovations and surprises.
Di Wong, luncheon chairman, has several
original ideas for her barbecue luncheon.
Dick Archambault has big surprises in
store for the Alumni Ball on Saturday.
Margaret Hayward hopes to present
some outstanding lectures. Plus! Plus!
Plus!
Bill Rodgers,
Homecoming
Chairman
All about the Chronicle
The Chronicle's editorial committee,
under Cec Hacker, recently proposed and
had accepted by the Alumni Association's Board of Management, a statement
of policy concerning the UBC Alumni
Chronicle.
This statement listed four principal
objectives for the Association in publishing this magazine. These were: to
maintain contact between the Association, the University and the graduates;
to make the graduate body aware of
the achievements of UBC and of the
problems it may be expected to face in
the future; to adequately inform graduates of the gravity of the whole problem of the development of higher education facilities in B.C., and to inform
them of what our Association is trying
to do about such matters; and to stimulate graduates themselves to participate
in Alumni Association activities.
For our magazine features, the Committee has adopted what has become
known as the Nicol Law, named after its
author, Eric Nicol: features must be
bright, interesting and may be opinionated. They must be relevant to UBC,
feature a UBC graduate or concern the
subject of higher education. Preferably,
they should contain news that cannot be
found elsewhere.
The Editorial Committee suggested in
their policy statement that the Chronicle
should go to all graduates as soon as the
financial resources of the Association
permit. Presently, the magazine's circulation, which exceeds the very respectable
figure of 10,000 copies, is sent primarily
to donors of Alumni Annual Giving of
recent years. Almost half of the recipients live in greater Vancouver, and almost three-quarters of them live in
British Columbia.
The Chronicle is an excellent medium
for reaching a better-than-average income market—university graduates. Our
readers include influential people in
business, government, and education. We
suggest that you should sell your products, services and yourself to your
fellow alumni.
The Editorial Committee would like to
thank those people and firms who do
advertise in the Chronicle. Only through
their support are we able to put out a
magazine of which we can be proud.
For complete information, write to Mr.
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of press clippings or personal letters. These
should reach the Editor, UBC Alumni Chronicle,
252 Brock Hall, UBC, for the next issue not
later than August 1, 1963.
1917
Dorothy R. Geoghegan, BA, co-principal and one of the two founders of
Queen Margaret's school for girls in
Duncan, has retired. Since its opening in
1921, the school has grown from 10 day
girls to its present enrolment of 104
boarders and 71 day girls. Miss Geoghegan will continue to take classes in Latin.
1921
Mrs. Hazel E. Hodson, nee McConnell,
BA, MA'23, head of the language department and girls' counsellor at Victoria
high school, has won the 1963 Fergusson
Memorial Award, the top teaching
honour presented by the B.C. Teachers'
Federation. Mrs. Hodson was formerly a
French instructor at UBC and also
taught at King George high school in
Vancouver. She has been teaching for
40 years.
1923
Theodore V. Berry, BASc, has been
elected chairman of the Canadian section, American Water Works Association.
This is the first time the chairmanship has
moved west of Winnipeg. Mr. Berry has
been associated with the Greater Vancouver water district since 1926 and with
the sewerage district since 1931. He has
been commissioner of both since 1952.
Mrs. John H. Creighton, nee Sally
Murphy, BA, has received a Canada
Council Award to spend some four
months in the West Indies broadcasting
and speaking on Canadian subjects and
collecting material for broadcasts and
scripts. She and her husband, who retired from the English department of
UBC in June, will travel to Jamaica by
freighter in the fall.
Earlier this year, Mrs. Creighton, a
former president of the Vancouver
branch of the Association of Canadian
Television and Radio Artists and a for-
Howard O. McMahon, BA'35, MA'37, PhD(MIT), has been named executive vice-
president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., well-known private research organization in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has successively held positions of science director
and senior vice-president in charge of the research and development division. He
joined the research company in 1943. Dr. McMahon co-invented the Collins-ADL
Helium Cryostat, which has made possible most of the world's low temperature
research. In 1951 the Franklin Institute awarded him the Edward Longstreth medal
for his contribution to helium liquefaction; and in 1952 the American Ceramics
Society gave him the Frank Forrest award for work in the field of thermal radiation
from heated glass.
A native of Alberta, Dr. McMahon now lives at 72 Shade Street, Lexington,
Massachusetts with his wife and three children, Thomas, Jean and Nancy.
mer vice-president of the national council, was voted by her colleagues a life
membership in the Association "for distinguished services to the performing
arts."
1927
Charles B. Bishop, BASc, has been
appointed division general manager of
the west coast container division of Container Corporation, with headquarters in
San Francisco. Mr. Bishop joined the
company in 1937 and served as sales
manager and general manager of the
company's Rock Island, Illinois, plant.
In 1953 he was made general manager
of the Los Angeles, California, container
plant.
1928
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1929
William B. Patrick, BA, has been
appointed vice-president of The California Standard Company in Calgary. He
has been with Calfornia Standard since
1935 and head of the finance department
since 1957, a position he will continue to
hold in addition to his new appointment.
1932
Donald J. Morgan, BCom. has been
appointed manager of Pacific Petroleums
Ltd. Mr. Morgan, who has been marketing petroleum products here and in the
U.S. for 28 years, will be in charge of
all sales activities for the company.
1936
Cameron Gorrie, BA, secretary of
Peterborough, Ontario's YMCA since
1958, has been appointed to the staff of
the greater Vancouver YMCA. Mr.
Gorrie will specialize in training and
programme development in his new position. He has been active in 'Y' work
since 1936.
John G. Wallace, BA, has been appointed principal of Oak Bay senior high
school. Mr. Wallace started teaching
there in 1927 and in 1952 became vice-
principal.
1937
Kenneth A. West, BA, MA'39, PhD
(McGill), vice-president of Canadian Oil.
has been appointed a vice-president of
Shell of Canada. He joined Canadian Oil
in 1951 as chief process engineer and
held senior manufacturing positions until
1961, when he was named a vice-principal.
Mrs. Kenneth P. Groves, nee Maisie
Clugston, BA, BASc(N), was elected president of the Council of Delta Gamma
international fraternity for a two-year
term at their fortieth convention last
Iune. She is the first Canadian to serve
as president of the Council.
1938
C. George Robson, BA, has been appointed to the Vancouver police commission. An order-in-council named Mr.
Robson as commissioner for a four-year
term, replacing Brenton S. Brown, BA.
BASc'33. Mr. Robson was called to the
B.C. bar in 1945 and started a private
practice in Vancouver in 1947.
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Mary F. Southin, LLB'52
Wilfred R. Jack, BA'35, MA'37
Erhart Regier, BA'50
Jarl Whist, LLB'56
William B. Mundy, BA(Tor.),
BST(Tor.), BSW'63
Douglas Greer, BA'49, LLB'50
William Gilmour, BA,LLB'52
David V. Pugh, BCom'34
J. A. (John) Young, BCom'49
Ronald J. Jephson, LLB'56
S. Ronald Basford, BA'55, LLB'56
Tom Berger, BA'55, LLB'56
Douglas Jung, BA'53, LLB'54
Alex Sharp, BA'39
Arnold Webster, BA'22
Cliff Greer, BA'48, BEd'57
Arthur Laing, BSA'25
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30 James Wighton, BASc, has been appointed B.C. regional engineer for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Joining CBC in 1939, he was seconded
in 1942 to the National Research Council to work on radar for the RCAF. In
1953, he was appointed supervising
engineer at CBC, Montreal, and last year
he was named assistant regional engineer
for the Prairie region.
1940
John E. Stark, BCom, a hotel and club
executive who has always had an ambition to make either glass or steel has left
his position as secretary-manager of Vancouver's Terminal City Club to become
executive vice-president and managing
director of A-l Steel and Iron Foundry.
1941
John D. Beaty, BASc, owner and founder of Beaty Laminated Limited, the
only manufacturer of hardwood plywoods
in Western Canada, has sold the company to Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited. Mr. Beaty will continue with the
organization.
1942
Harold T. Fargey, BASc, has been
appointed vice-president, sales, of the
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited, in Montreal.
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degree as a lab instructor and stayed on for a couple of years teaching. She now has
12V2 acres (some of which she cleared herself) and sells her vegetables in a roadside
stall. Obviously, she says, you don't need a master's degree to run a marke; garden,
but a woman farming on her own will benefit from all the knowledge she can
acquire. Miss McMullan's inquiring mind leads her to invention, too. She found an
abandoned washing machine, fitted it with brushes, and now uses it to wash her
vegetables for market.
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The editor invites news
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by UBC graduates.
Lt. Col. T. Murray Hunter, BA'35, MA
(Clark), senior narrator of the Army
historical section, Ottawa. Marshal
Foch: A Study in Leadership. An
analysis of the career and achievements of the Commander-in-Chief of
the Allied Armies in the First World
War. The author is now preparing a
study of selected Napoleonic campaigns, to be published in 1964. He is
the English language secretary of the
Canadian Historical Association.
Queen's Printer, Ottawa. $1.50.
Takashi Kiuchi, BA(Keio), MA'60, staff
member of Mitsubishi Electric Mfg.
Co., Ltd. in Japan, with six young
scholars, A Study of Canada ("Kanada
no Kenkyu", in Japanese). A systematic analysis of the state of affairs in
Canada with special emphasis on the
economic aspect. The first of this
kind in Japan. Institute of World
Economy, Japan. 500 yen.
Donald Evan McAllister, BA'55, MA'57,
currator of fish at the National Mu
seum of Canada in Ottawa. List of the
Marine Fishes of Canada. National
Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 168.
$1.25. Also, A Revision of the Smelt
Family, Osmeridae. Bulletin No. 191.
$1.00 Queen's Printer, Ottawa.
Bernard Ostle, BA'45, MA'46, PhD (Iowa
State), professor of engineering at
Arizona State University and special
consultant for several industrial firms.
Statistics in Research, second edition.
Deals with statistical methods that
have proved useful in most fields of
research. Iowa State University Press,
Ames, Iowa. $10.50.
Lester Ray Peterson, BA'51, BEd'53,
MA'59, teacher in Gibsons. The Gibsons Landing Story. History of the
community of Gibsons Landing, with
information on the geology of the
region and the native population, by
the son of a pioneer of the district.
Excellent illustrations. Readers Club of
Canada Ltd., Peter Martin Books
Division, Toronto. $5.00.
Robert F. Scagel, BA'47, MA'48, Institute of Oceanography, UBC. Marine
Plant Resources of British Columbia.
Topics included are distribution and
ecology of marine plants; marine
grasses; marine algae; potential resources in B.C.; uses of marine algae
and 27 reproductions of common B.C.
species. Fisheries Research Board of
Canada Bulletin No. 127. Queen's
Printer, Ottawa. 50c.
Walter Sheppe, MA'51, Phd'58, editor.
First Man West. Dr. Sheppe has researched and annotated the journal
of Alexander MacKenzie's explorations
of Canada's Pacific coast. He has done
an extremely thorough job in the preparation of this journal and written an
excellent prologue and epilogue for it.
University of California Press. $7.50.
A. F. Szczawinski, MagPhil(Lwow), PhD
'53, curator of herbarium, Provincial
Museum, Victoria. The Heather Family of British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Handbook No. 19.
Queen's Printer, Victoria. 50c.
News Is Where You Find It,
Including Right Here
AN ENGLISH writer of respectable stature recently pointed
out that the big events of today's world are known almost
instantly by everyman almost everywhere, but that the news
of his own neighbors and neighborhood tends to reach him,
if at all, slowly and incompletely. Well, he has a point, but
one that readers of The Sun might challenge. The Sun not only
has full coverage of world happenings by global press services
and staff correspondents but also a wide-ranging and on-the-
mark news gathering organization right in its own back yard.
It's pretty hard for anything to happen in Vancouver or
British Columbia without the story landing in our next edition.
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32 Mr. Fargey has been with Cominco for
over 20 years in various capacities in
Western Canada and at the head office
in Montreal.
1943
Bruce E. Emerson, B.A., LLB'49,
deputy corporation counsel for the city
of Vancouver, has resigned to re-enter
private practice as a partner in the legal
firm of Andrews, Swinton, Smith and
Williams.
Donald B. Fields, BCom, MBAtTor.),
FCA, sessional lecturer and partner in
Clarkson, Gordon & Co., chartered
accountants, has accepted a two-year
assignment as research supervisor with
the Royal Commission on Taxation in
Ottawa. Mr. Fields has been treasurer
and member-at-large on the Board of
Management of the Alumni Association.
Harry S. Weiner, BASc, has been
named manager of operations, international division of the Diamond Alkali
Co. with headquarters in Cleveland,
Ohio.
1944
Ronald N. MacKay, BASc, will undertake new responsibilities as representative
in engineering sales for Galbraith & Sul-
ley in Vancouver. Mr. MacKay has had
wide experience in several engineering
fields with particular emphasis in automation in the forestry pulp and paper
and allied industries.
1945
Hugh Christie, BA, MSW'52, has resigned as warden of Oakalla Prison Farm
to take over the training division of the
foreign aid section of the Department
of External Affairs in Ottawa. Most of
his work will be with persons from
foreign countries who have come to
Canada on grants.
Born in Vancouver, Mr. Christie was
director of corrections in Saskatchewan
before he took over the post at Oakalla.
He is also a former university lecturer
on criminology.
In 1951, he helped draw up a report
on jail management and the following
year was named warden to carry out the
government's programme of prisoner rehabilitation.
In 1959 the United Nations sent him
to Thailand for a year as an adviser on
crime prevention, probation services and
institutions.
James Hatter, BA, PhD(State Coll. of
Wash.), has been appointed director of
the provincial fish and game branch. Dr.
Hatter joined the branch in 1947 as a
student biologist and for a number of
years was chief game biologist. He is a
keen fisherman and hunter and an expert
shot with both rifle and shotgun.
Roderic Frame Sexsmith, BASc, has
returned to Canada from Bahrein on the
Persian Gulf after 15 years' service there
with Standard Oil of California. He is
now in the power department of Caltex
Oil, in Montreal.
1946
Julius A. LeBrun, BASc, is chief equipment engineer for Giffels & Vallet of
Canada, Ltd. in Toronto. He has been
with materials handling and industrial
process equipment design since graduation.
Denis C. Smith, BA. BEd'47, DEd
(Calif.), has again been asked to serve as
advisor to the Canadian Education Asso-
ciation-Kellogg National Conference on
problems in general school administration. The conference is sponsored by the
University of Alberta this year at Banff.
H. J. (Jack) Williamson, BCom, is head
of Wheels & Equipment Ltd.. a Canadian
firm staffed entirely by Canadians with
quarters in both Vancouver and Calgary.
1948
John B. Brown, BCom, assistant director of the Vancouver General Hospital,
has been appointed assistant administrator to the Riverside Community Hospital
in Riverside. California. Mr. Brown
served with the provincial government as
regional representative for BCHIS and as
auditor with the comptroller general's
department. After receiving a degree in
hospital administration at UBC, he joined
the Vancouver General Hospital as administrative resident.
Ralph F. B. King, BA. MA and PhD
(Tor.), has resigned as head of the department of English at Royal Roads Services
College in Kingston, Ontario to become
professor of English and associate dean
of arts at Brandon University in Manitoba. Dr. King has been active in the
Victoria branch of the Humanities Association of Canada. He was also Canadian
consultant to the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company assisting in the editing
of their Young People's Encyclopedia.
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33 Donald G. Ivey, BA'44, MA'46, PhD(Notre Dame), is in the news again. He has
just been appointed principal of New College in the University of Toronto. He
succeeds Principal F. E. W. Wetmore who died suddenly on lanuary 20 during the
College's first year of operation.
Dr. Ivey was featured in last issue's Alumni notes for winning, with his partner
Professor Hume, the Thomas Alva Edison award for the best science education film
of 1962. (They have since won a silver medal for another TV science film from the
Science Institute in Rome.)
New College is the first of a new kind of residential college at Toronto, open to
men and women of all faculties and schools. The four old colleges, University,
Victoria, Trinity and St. Michael's, are restricted to students in the Faculty of Arts
and Science. During its first year, and in temporary quarters, New College has a
registration of 257, mostly freshmen. Construction is to begin this summer on a five-
storey permanent home, with residence facilities for 300 men and tutorial, dining and
social areas for 1200 students of both sexes.
Dr. Ivey, 41, was born in Clanwilliam, Manitoba, but spent most of his youth on
the west coast. He joined the University of Toronto after receiving his PhD in 1949.
Dr. Ivey is one of Canada's few physicists specializing in the study of polymers—
that is, rubber and other substances composed of long-chain molecules. He is a
member of the National Research Council's associate committee on high polymer
research.
As a scientist he has some astringent observations on popular attitudes towards
his field. "People don't appreciate the limitations of science," he said recently.
"One reason is that so much of what we see as science simply is not. We are constantly exposed to men in white coats doing everything—from launching a rocket to
praising a commercial product.
"I'm also worried that the public seems to accept one scientist's statement on
non-scientific issues as representing the opinions of all scientists. In fact, we don't
always agree even on scientific matters.
"Science isn't a mystery or magic. It is an intellectual activity carried out by man,
and not by nature. Even the so-called laws of nature are nothing but laws about
nature concocted by men who knew all the time that they were producing nothing
but approximations.
"The only way people can learn more about science is through exposure to it.
That's one of the principal reasons for our television programmes—simply to let
people hear scientists talking about science."
James G. Thomson, BASc, is vehicle
development engineer for Imperial Oil.
Mr. Thomson has been special projects
engineer with Imperial Oil since 1946.
Among the projects he carried out have
been the design and development of a
series of tracked vehicles from one to
20-ton capacity for oil industry transportation over muskeg, and the preparation of a world-wide transportation
manual. He has had international assignments in Colombia, South America and
Libya, North Africa. From 1950 to 1956
he was defence scientific research officer
in charge of the soil and snow mechanics
and vehicle mobility research group,
Defence Research Board, Ottawa.
1949
Terrance H. Butler, BA, MA'53, a
gear specialist with the Fisheries Research
Board, Biological Station, Nanaimo, has
developed a new type of prawn trap,
using metal sides and net tunnels. Costing only $3 more than the standard net-
covered trap, it proved to be 39% more
effective in a year-long series of tests
on prawn grounds off Snake Island and
Five Finger Island near Nanaimo.
Ian F. Greenwood, BSA, assistant
general manager of Sun-Rype Products
Limited, Kelowna, has spent some three
weeks in New Zealand at the request of
their apple and pear marketing board.
He was advising on various aspects of
production cost control in their recently
established processing plant located near
Nelson on the South Island. Mr. Green-
SUMMER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
LECTURE SERIES - 1963
FINE ARTS
July II, 12—Keyboard Writing: Bach "to Bar-
tok—Denis Matthews, English pianist
July 17, 18, 19—Art and the Human Environment—Dr. Peter Selz, New York Museum
of Modern Art
July 25—The Artist and Mass Media—Dr. Edmund Carpenter, anthropologist
University Auditorium, 8 p.m.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
July A—Development of the Economic Potential of Latin America—panel discussion
with leading participants of Latin American Seminar
Buchanan 106, 7:30 p.m.
THE COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY
July 9—An Outline of the Problem—Dr. John
V. KrutlMa, Resources for the Future, ln-
corp.
July 16—The Federal View of the Treaty of
1962—Mr. Davie Fulton, QC, former Minister
of Public Works.
July 23—The American View—Mr. Ivan White,
Minister, U.S. Embassy, Ottawa
July 30—The Provincial View—The Hon. Ray
Williston, Minister of Lands and Forests,
Dr. J. D. Chapman, department of geography, UBC, chairman
Buchanan 106, 8 p.m.
POETRY READINGS
Friday evening poetry readings with Robert
Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov
and Charles Olson will take place at 8
p.m. in Buchanan 106, July 26 and August
2, 9, jnd 16
For information and brochure contact the
Department of University Extension
34 wood's visit to New Zealand follows
more than three years' close association
between the British Columbia and New
Zealand tree fruit industries during which
time the B.C. industry has substantially
assisted in the development of a processing industry now in its second year of
operation.
A. David Levy, BA, free lance journalist, TV and radio broadcaster, and
specialist in Soviet economic affairs, is
leading a two-week study tour of the
Soviet Union this summer arranged by
Claire Wallace Travel Bureau in Toronto.
The tour programme was prepared for
Canadian businessmen interested in
Russia's huge new markets for consumer
goods.
John F. MacBride, BA, BASc, has
been transferred from Edmonton to Montreal, where he will become branch
manager in charge of the Montreal
office of lohnson Controls Ltd.
Hugh G. MacKenzie, BASc, formerly
district sales manager, Hamilton, for
Shell Oil Company of Canada, has been
appointed reseller sales manager, central
division. Mr. MacKenzie joined Shell as
a chemist at Shellburn Refinery in 1948.
P. Douglas McLellan, BA, BEd'55,
who taught English and Social Studies at
Kitsilano high school, is now head of
the English department at Britannia
junior-senior high school.
D. Cameron McLeod, BA, MA'51, has
been appointed to the new position of
senior engineer-proration for the California Standard Company in Alberta. Mr.
McLeod joined California Standard as
petroleum engineer in 1955.
1950
Francis James Cairnie, BA, a Victoria
high school teacher, has been elected
president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation.
Donald A. Chant, BA, MA'52, PhD
(London), has been director of the research laboratory of the federal Department of Agriculture in St. Catharines,
Ontario, for the past three years. He has
worked on the biological control of the
spruce budworm and orchard mites and
initiated work on predacious mites and
their importance in biological control of
other organisms.
John D. Frazee, BASc, was among 45
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Mrs. Wiggins, with Murray Wiggins standing to her right, shaking
hands with young King Hussein of Jordan, at an Army Day celebration during the Wiggins' stay in Amman. Jordan's prime minister at the
time, Majali, is standing to King's right. Majali is no longer prime
minister. This spring the King, with the help of his Arab Legion, foiled
a plot to join the United Arab Republic, dismissed Majali, and took
over the government of the country himself.
Murray Wiggins, BSA'48, MS(Utah State Agric. Coll.). left in April to spend the
next two years in French Guinea on a new irrigation scheme. His wife and 5-year
old daughter will join him in the fall. Mr. Wiggins is an agricultural specialist in
the agricultural development department of Harza Engineering Company, a Chicago
firm of consulting engineers for river projects.
Mr. Wiggins returned this spring from lordan, where he has been since 1959 as
irrigation agronomist for the same company on an irrigation project in the lordan
Valley. The ultimate aim of the project is to raise the standard of living for the
small farmer as well as increase the national income of the country. The scheme is
at present financed jointly by the Government of Jordan and the United States
Agency for International Development.
The ground elevation of the area varies from 200 metres below sea level in the
North to 400 meters below sea level in the South. Stage 1 of the project which cost
nearly $12 million, will be completed in September of this year, with 30,000 acres
under irrigation. As resident irrigation agronomist in Amman, Mr. Wiggins headed
up the farm development section of the East Ghor Canal Authority. In this
capacity he was responsible for initiating the drainage programme, for the development of irrigation criteria used in design and layout of farm units, and for the soil
investigation in conjunction with salinity, land re-classification and farm development
programmes. His section trained Jordanians in modern irrigation farming techniques
and in the efficient operation and management of the project. The land under full
irrigation will be able to grow tomatoes, eggplant, melons, cucumbers, citrus, bananas,
wheat, corn and alfalfa.
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35 Henry Zitko, BASc'49, research engineer at B.C. Research Council, has developed
a twelve-volt D.C. vacuum cleaner that will be on the market this summer. The
cleaner is designed to plug into a standard automobile cigarette lighter receptacle
and uses about the same power as the headlights. Unlike other cleaners using battery
power the performance of this model is impressive. It readily picks up the sand and
pea-sized gravel which is commonly found on car floors and which is so awkward
to remove otherwise in the new drop-floor cars. The hose and cord are easily
detached and stored inside the attractive plastic case. In addition to cleaning cars,
this cleaner is expected to be used by outdoor-types for cleaning boats, tents and for
inflating all kinds of low-pressure pneumatic goods.
winners of Alfred P. Sloan fellowships
in executive development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. These fellowships are presented
annually to young business executives in
the United States and abroad. Mr. Frazee
will take a one-year course in management.
David B. Harper, BASc, MS and PhD
(MIT), has been promoted to chief of
the engineering and laboratory department of the Aluminum Company of
Canada in Arvida, Quebec.
David L. McKay, BASc, has been
appointed chief engineer for the International Minerals & Chemical Corporation
(Canada) Ltd. at its potash project near
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. He previously
spent eight years with Steep Rock Iron
Mines.
Robert S. MacKay, BASc, has joined
Overseas Developments (Canada) Ltd. as
vice-president. Mr. MacKay will travel
extensively overseas from his Toronto
office, investigating engineering-construction projects. After completing post
graduate studies, specializing in hydroelectric power at the Imperial College in
London, England, in 1953, he joined the
John Inglis Company, where he later
became hydraulic engineer.
Douglas Wm. Russell, BASc, has been
appointed manager of the eastern operations of Swan, Wooster Engineering Co.
Ltd., Vancouver. Mr. Russell has just
returned from Venezuela where he was
engaged in the construction of over-
water facilities on Lake Maracaibo.
1951
Robert S. Caulfield, BASc, has been
appointed general manager of West African Explosives and Chemicals Ltd. in
Liberia, Africa. Mr. Caulfield joined
C-I-L explosives division in Vancouver
after graduation and has held a number
of positions in sales and technical service. The African company was recently
established by C-I-L and Baird Chemical
Corporation of New York.
H. Tony Dare, BASc, who spent more
than two years doing engineering work
on a huge dam in Pakistan, is now chief
engineer for Permasteel (Alberta) Ltd.
George Rohn, BA, BSW'52, MSW'53,
is director of programme development of
the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Dr. Rohn came to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1950 on an International Stu
dent Service Scholarship. After graduation he worked in a psychiatric clinic in
Vancouver and then held various positions with divisions of the Canadian
Mental Health Association.
Norman C. Tunna, BASc, formerly
assistant chief geologist with Bailey Sel-
burn Oil & Gas Ltd., has opened a general geological consulting practice in Calgary, Alberta. He will formulate exploration plays and also work actively on well-
site supervision, land evaluation and
representing companies in unit meetings.
Mr. Tunna recently spent some months
in Australia setting up a subsidiary company for Bailey Selburn and negotiating
for suitable land farmouts.
1952
David M. Bowden, BSA, MSA'57, PhD
(Oregon), animal nutritionist at Agassiz
experimental farm, has created a cow's
stomach in a test tube to study the digestibility of grass and legumes. Dr.
Bowden is seeking improved feeding formulas by drawing body fluids from the
paunch of living cows and using them to
test the digestibility of various feeds. Test
tube digestion is intended only as a rapid
method of selecting forages and results
will have to be checked in live animal
trials.
Capt. Edward J. Grant, BSP, helicopter
flight commander with the Army Aviation Tactical Training School at the
Canadian Joint Air Training Centre in
Rivers Camp, Manitoba, has recently
joined the small group of Canadian Army
pilots who have successfully completed
the RCAF course on multi-engine aircraft, and who have obtained an instrument rating at Number One Advanced
Flying School.
Robert G. Hindmarch, BPE, assistant
professor in UBC's school of physical
education, has been appointed general
manager of Canada's 1964 Olympic
hockey team.
Kenneth C. Lucas, BASc, has been
appointed assistant director. Pacific area,
of the Department of Fisheries. Mr.
Lucas joined the Department in 1950 as
student engineer and has recently been
a senior engineer in charge of applied research for the Pacific area.
Edward G. Wiltshire, BASc, has been
appointed assistant superintendent, sulphate and storage plants, Warfield, in the
chemicals and fertilizers division of the
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited at Trail.
1953
Thornton J. Donaldson, BASc, has
joined the Vancouver office of James
Richardson & Sons, stockbrokers, after
extensive experience in mining exploration in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British
Columbia and the Yukon. Mr. Donaldson
has also engaged in consulting engineering.
John A. C. Fortescue, BA, MSc'54,
PhDfOxon.), is the first biogeochemist in
the federal public service. He was hired
by the Geological Survey of Canada to
develop the basis of a new, reliable method of searching for ore bodies by studying the keen appetite of plant life for
36 minerals. Scientists hope the project will
lead eventually to effective application by
Canadian mining companies of the relatively new science of biogeochemical
prospecting.
The attempt to develop an effective
method of biogeochemical prospecting
follows pioneer research by Dr. Harry
V. Warren, BA'26, BASc'27, professor
of minerology at UBC. A note about
him appears in the faculty section. Dr.
Warren and his co-workers demonstrated
several years ago the feasibility of this
form of prospecting under Canadian
conditions.
It also follows a recent visit by Dr.
Boyle, head of the geochemistry section
of the Geological Survey, to the Soviet
Union where he inspected work at geo-
chemical research centres. He found that
in biogeochemistry the Russians lead the
world in the amount of basic research
and scope of practical applications being
studied.
Christina J. Nichol, nee Cameron, BA,
MSc'55, PhD(London), is a research associate in muscular dystrophy at UBC. This
April she was awarded a $7,500 scholarship by the Medical Research Council
of Canada to continue her work for three
more years.
1954
Margaret M. Hoehn, nee Maier, BA
(Sask), MD, is spending a year in London, England. While her husband. Dr.
Robert J. Hoehn, is doing research in
tissue transplantation at the Westminster
Hospital, she is working as a clinical
assistant in neuroradiology at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in
Queen Square.
1955
Kurt E. Ebner, BSA, MSA'57, PhD
(Illinois), assistant professor of biochemistry at Oklahoma State University, is investigating new information on the role
of hormones in the enzymes that synthesize milk sugar. Supporting the basic
research during 1963 will be a grant of
$15,364 to the university by the National
Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ebner's research project, titled
"Studies in Hormone Action at the Enzyme Level" is scheduled for additional
NIH support totalling $27,500 during
1964 and 1965. Dr. Ebner joined the OSU
biochemistry department in 1962 following a year on the staff of the University
of Minnesota. During 1960-61, he conducted post-doctoral research at National
Institute for Dairy Research at Reading,
England, on a Canadian overseas postdoctoral fellowship.
Mrs. Beatrice Grace Lipinski. BA
(Sask.), MA, was the only Canadian winner of one of the International Fellowships for 1963-64 awarded by the
American Association of University
Women.
Mrs. Lipinski's special interest is care
of the emotionally disturbed and preventive measures in the field of mental
health. She was clinical psychologist at
the Vancouver Child Guidance Clinic
from 1955 to 1958 and then at the Vancouver Mental Health Centre until 1960.
Mrs. Lipinski is now studying for her
PhD at the University of Cincinnati
where her husband is training in psychiatry. They plan to return to Vancouver to establish a joint practice.
Stewart Paul, BA, has spent the last
18 months travelling with the Spanish
dance troup of Susana y Jose. He first
met the troupe in Dawson Creek where
he was teaching high school. He went to
help with the lighting and ended up acting as their interpreter. A year later, he
met them again in England and became
their stage manager, travelling with them
ever since through Switzerland, Germany,
Holland and England.
Peter J. Worthington, BA, BJ(Carle-
ton), Toronto Telegram reporter, won
the 1962 award for feature writing in
the 14th annual national newspaper
awards.
Orest Zakreski, BA(Sask.). BSW, is development officer with the Indian Affairs
branch, Department of Citizenship and
Immigration, Saskatoon. Before accepting his present position, he was a school
teacher for the Indian Affairs branch at
Fond du Lac.
1956
Robert J. Abercrombie, BA, has been
appointed manager of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors.
Mr. Abercrombie was formerly manager
of the economics and statistics department of Canadian Petroleum Association.
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37 Timothy P. Cameron, LLB, is the new
secretary-manager of the Fishing Vessel
Owners' Association. Mr. Cameron is a
specialist in marine law with the firm of
McMaster, Parkes, Bray and Cameron.
He has spent 18 years at sea and worked
his way through UBC on halibut long-
liners and salmon seiners.
T. Roland Fredriksen, BASc, is pursuing post graduate work at Purdue University in automatic control and expects
to receive his MS degree in electrical engineering this June. He was awarded a
scholarship for this purpose by IBM Corporation, where he has been employed
since 1959.
Michael R. Kitson, BASc, is with the
engineering department of the Howe
Sound pulp division of Canadian Forest
Products Limited. Before joining CFP he
spent four years with Rayonier Canada
Limited at Port Alice.
John F. Ridington, BCom, has joined
Traders Finance Corporation Limited at
their head office in Toronto as property
and traffic supervisor. His job includes
design, lay-out, control and co-ordination
of the offices of Traders as well as responsibility for the company's fleet of
cars. Mr. Ridington was formerly with
Ford Motor Company.
1957
Ian W. French, BSP, has just completed his PhD in biochemistry at the
University of Toronto. He has received
a post-doctoral fellowship from the
National Research Council to study bacterial metabolism with Dr. Hans Korn-
berg at the University of Leicester in
England.
The Rev. Walter F. McLean, BA. BD
(Knox), has been appointed by the Overseas Missions Board of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada to do special work
with students in Nigeria for an initial
period of two years. He is also assistant
Minister of the newly formed Presbyterian congregation there. His wife, the
former Barbara Scott, BEd'60, is teaching in a government girls' secondary
school in Enugu.
John K. Maynard, BCom, is the newly
appointed hospital administrator for the
Vernon Jubilee Hospital. For the past
four years, Mr. Maynard has been assistant administrator at the Royal Inland
Hospital in Kamloops and had considerable responsibility for the development
of major expansion plans there.
Arno L. Ulmer, BA, has been given an
honorarium of $50 by the Richmond
municipal council for research done for
his graduating essay. Mr. Ulmer carried
out an extensive field survey and analysis
of Richmond's agricultural industry
under the auspices of the federal government. His findings and work notes were
voluntarily made available to the planning department of the municipality and
have been of great value in the preparation of the Land Use Plan regarding
agriculture.
Gerald Walsh, BEd, MEd'62, is winner
of a $1,500 B.C. government scholarship. These annual scholarships totalling
$5,000 are intended to provide outstanding teachers with opportunities for fur
ther study. Another winner is Jack T.
Rush, BA'40, MA'46, who was awarded
$500.
Denise A. S. Yates, BA, has joined the
staff of the Victoria YWCA as a programme director for women. She has recently been employed as a social worker
with the provincial Welfare Department.
1958
Gary E. Corbett, BCom, formerly
assistant actuary for Manufacturers Life
Insurance Company, Toronto, has been
appointed actuary for the Lifeco Insurance Company of America in Seattle.
Last year, Mr. Corbett qualified as Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
Bohuslav B. Kymlicka, BA, MA(Col-
umbia), has been appointed a lecturer in
political science at Middlesex College,
London, Ontario. He is currently a
teacher on the staff of United College in
Winnipeg.
Colin Henderson Smith, BA(Dal-
housie), BEd, MA'60, is teaching with
his wife, the former Gloria Bessie Burroughs, BA'49, B'Ed'58, in Bau, Sarawak. 70 miles from the Indonesian border. There they are supervising building
and operation of a secondary school
which will have 130 students when it is
complete. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have
taught together in Kamloops, Grand
Forks, Dawson Creek, and later in London, England, before going to Sarawak
as Colombo Plan teachers in 1960.
1959
Douglas E. Coulter, BASc, has been
appointed general manager of the Drake
Construction Company Ltd., Winnipeg,
Manitoba. For the past three years, Mr.
Coulter served as the company's chief
engineer in Winnipeg.
Jack B. Greenwood, BCom, is comptroller of his father's company, Nelson
Machinery Co. Ltd. The company was
formed in Nelson, B.C. in 1938 and is
now operating on an international scale
with customers as far afield as British
Guiana and Uganda.
1961
Jack Y. F. Lee, BSc, is a bacteriologist
on the staff of the Kirkland District Hospital laboratory in Kirkland Lake,
Ontario.
1962
Peter William Brown, BCom, LLB'63,
has been awarded a $2,000 Carswell-
Sweet and Maxwell scholarship for post
graduate work in international law at St.
John's College, Cambridge University,
England.
John C. Holt, BSc(Manchester), MA,
principal of Lucerne secondary school in
New Denver and a teacher of chemistry,
biology and senior mathematics, has been
awarded a Shell Merit Fellowship to
attend Stanford University this summer.
William A. Low, BSc, has been awarded a $2,400 National Research Council
studentship. Mr. Low is now working for
his MSc at UBC, specializing in zoology.
At present he is making a study of the
Vancouver Island elk.
Michael Stephen Mepham, BSc, has
been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study in the academic
year 1963-64.
Marriages
ardies-bernard. Thomas Grant Ardies to
Sharon Anne Bernard, BA'60, in
Vancouver.
bohne-fisher. Henry Richard Bohne,
BASc'55, to Cynthia Carole Fisher, in
Cornwall, Ontario.
brown-mclean. Michael Jack Brown,
BA'60, MA(Oxon.), to Valerie Anne
McLean, BHE'60, in Vancouver.
chong-con. Henry K. H. Chong, MD
'56, to Christina S. F. Con, BSP'60, in
Vancouver.
day-hungerford. George Sutherland
Day, BASc'59, MBA(Western Ont.),
to Marilyn Beryl Hungerford, in
Montreal, Quebec.
fairbairn-drvsdale. Robert Henderson
Fairbairn, MD'59, to Anne Drysdale,
in Vancouver.
forward-humble. Gordon Edward Forward, BASc'60, MASc'62, to Heather
Anne Humble, BA'62, in Paris, France.
fotheringham-delbridge. Murray Allan
Fotheringham, BA'54, to Sallye Bernice Delbridge, BA'58, in Vancouver.
greenwood-ross. Frederick Harold
Greenwood, BASc'62, to Jo-Anne
Ross, in Vancouver.
laundy-whittemore. Patrick W. Laundy, BA'49, MB, ChB(Sheffield), to
Sheila Anne Whittemore, BA'51, in
Victoria.
mckechnie-leduc. Robert Edward McKechnie, BASc'62, to Louise Marie
Leduc, in Vancouver.
mckitrick-barton. Robert Murray Mc-
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mitchell-sexton. Ian David Mitchell,
BASc'59, to Ann-Ida Sexton, in
Montreal. Quebec.
offenberger-patterson. Allan Anthony
Offenberger. BASc'62, to Margaret
Elizabeth Patterson, in Vancouver.
pearce-thmn. George Ernest Pearce.
BEd'61, to Christine Elena Thain, in
Vancouver.
ruttle-ogelsby. James William Ruttle
to Isabel Warwick Ogelsby, BPE'61,
in Windsor, Ontario.
taschuk-e\\ger. Steven Taschuk to Diana
Reddick Eager, BLS'62, in Edmonton,
Alberta.
wallace-stark. Capt. William Clarke
Wallace, BA'56. to Frances Ann Stark,
in Port Credit, Ontario.
Births
DR. and MRS. KENNETH G. ATKINSON, BA
'51, MD'55, (nee lora celia stowell,
BHE'52), a daughter. Janet Louise,
April 30. 1963, in Vancouver.
MR. and MRS. GEORGE W. BALDWIN, BA
'50, LLB'51, (nee daphne syson, BA
'50), a daughter, Elizabeth Marian Syson, February 21, 1963, in Prince
George.
MR. and MRS. JACQUES R. BARBEAU, BA
'55, LLB'56, a daughter, Jacqueline,
March 9, 1963, in Vancouver.
MR. and MRS. L. GERALD BELL, BASc'54,
MASc'55, a son, Michael Thomas,
December 7, 1962, in Toronto,
Ontario.
DR. and MRS. THEODORE E. CADELL. BA
'57, MSclMass.), PhD(Wisc), (nee
lois carley, BA'57), a daughter, Susan Anne. January 16, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
MR. and MRS. GORDON A. ELLIOTT, BCom
'55, (nee Patricia claire mcconville.
BA'55), a son, Bruce Gordon, April
27, 1963. in Vancouver.
dr. and MRS. EDWARD w. FUNG, BA'49,
MD'57, a daughter, Donna Lori. February 21, 1963, in Vancouver.
DR. and MRS. PETER R. GRANTHAM, BA'54,
MD'58, (nee mary schaffer. BA'57).
a son, Robert James, April 28, 1963,
in Vancouver.
MR. and MRS. EDMUND WM. HOWARD,
BSF'58, (nee phyllis r. Thompson.
BA'58), a son, Arthur David, March
24, 1963, in St. John's, Newfoundland.
MR. and MRS. WILLIAM F. IDSARDI, BA'48,
(nee dorothy marion bell, BA'49), a
son, William James, February 8. 1963,
in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
MR. and MRS. MARVIN LEROY JUDD, BA'
59, a son, Paul Andrew. February 28,
1963, in Vancouver.
DR. and MRS. ALBERT M. KNUDSEN, BA'50,
MD'54, (nee Patricia Kathleen fur-
niss, BA'53), a daughter, Patricia
Jane, February 13, 1963, in Vancouver.
MR. and MRS. MICHAEL D. LESIK, BA'56,
(nee Margaret ann young, BA'59),
a daughter, Karin Ann Heather. February 11, 1963, in Vancouver.
DR. and MRS. ROBIN G. MCCREERY, BA'50,
a daughter, March 8, 1963, in Vancouver.
mr. and mrs. toby malkin, BCom'56,
(nee mary Frances chown, BA'58),
a daughter, Sarah Mary, June 30,
1962, in Vancouver.
MR. and MRS. JAMES F. MATTSON, BSc
'62, (nee joyce m. whitehead, BA
'61 ). a daughter, Alexandra Joan, October 30, 1962. in Vancouver.
dr. and MRS. jack D. newby, BA'49,
DDS( McGill). a son. Timothy Dean,
December 24. 1962. in Prince George.
MR. and MRS. MATTHEW OBERHOFER, BA
'56, BEd(Alta.), (nee Florence tuff,
BHE'53), a daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
January 1. 1963, in Calgary. Alberta.
DR. and MRS. ANDREW radvanyi, BA and
MSc( McMaster), PhD'59, a daughter, Ilona Louise, July 20, 1962. in
Edmonton, Alberta.
rev. and mrs. ewing rae, BSA'54, (nee
lorna seed, BSN'60). a daughter,
Kathleen Elizabeth, February 6, 1963,
in Nakusp.
DR. and MRS. ARCHIBALD D. YOUNG. BA
'47. MD,CM( McGill). a son, Ross
Cameron, February 9, 1963, in
Chilliwack.
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1916
Thomas J. Robertson, BA, died April
1. 1963. in Ladner, ten days after his
retirement from the board of directors
of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers'
Association. He was 70. Born and educated in East Delta, he was a Delta
municipal councillor for eight years, secretary of the FVMPA East Delta Local
for eight years and chairman of the
Delta Advisory Planning Commission at
the time of his death. From 1944 to 1955
he was president of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of B.C.
Mr. Robertson leaves his wife and
son Thomas in Ladner, and another son,
I. Keith Robertson, BSF'58, in Nakusp.
1918
Mrs. R. B. Spears, BA, nee Dorothea
Bolton, died suddenly October 4, 1962.
in Vancouver. Born in 1897 at Port
Simpson where her father was medical
missionary to the Indians, Mrs. Spears
had a lifelong interest in missionary
work. She was secretary of B.C. Conference (United Church) committee on Indian work, and was specially concerned
about members of the Musqueam reserve.
She is survived by her husband; a
stepdaughter. Hazel, Mrs. R. F. Morrison. BA'43, of Rossland; and her daughter Heather, now Mrs. J.eonard Golden-
berg. BA'56, in Denmark.
1927
Mrs. Ralph M. Brown, BA. nee Madge
Rankin, died suddenly at home on May
6. 1963. She came to Vancouver as a
child from England and was educated at
Crofton House school. She was a leader
in many civic and community projects
and one-time president of the Vancouver
Junior League.
At the 1927 class reunion last November, Madge Brown wrote the script and
with Jack Shakespeare staged a skit on
the "Roaring 20's".
Her husband. Ralph, BA'31, survives
with four sons, Ralph R. Brown. BCom
'59, Alan C. MacK. Brown. BASc'59,
now at Oxford. Peter M. Brown, in his
third year of arts at UBC, and Bobbie,
at home.
1928
Wilfred George Donley, BA. PhD
(Calif.), of Palo Alto, California, was
killed instantly this spring when struck
by a falling tree in Marin County, while
clearing land for a summer home. He
was 55. He is survived by his wife, a son,
Peter, and two grandsons, all in California, and a sister, Mrs. D. C. Coates,
in B.C.
Mr. Donley joined Standard Oil of
California in 1943 after working for 10
years for the Federal Reserve Bank in
San Francisco. In 1952. while on loan
from Standard, he served as director of
the programme division of the Petroleum
Administration for Defense in Washington, D.C. He was manager of Standard's
economic division at the time of his
death.
1931
Robert Victor Masterson, BA, former
Cowichan high school teacher, where he
taught for 12 years, died January 21,
1963, in North Surrey. At the time of
his death he was clerk of session and
superintendent of the Sunday school in
North Surrey United Church. Born in
Ireland 58 years age, he came to New
Westminster at the age of 12. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and three
daughters, all residing in North Surrey.
1933
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, BASc,
MASc'34. died in Ottawa on December
27, 1962, after a lengthy illness. He
leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter,
all of Ottawa.
Mr. Smith, who was superintendent of
radio regulations engineering for the Department of Transport, was born in Lethbridge, and before going to Ottawa in
1939 was chief engineer with radio station CJOR in Vancouver. He is credited
with doing much to encourage improvements in the technical side of broadcasting and was active in negotiations of
various international radio and TV agreements. He was 52.
1953
Manly Morton Cohen, BCom, was
killed in a Montreal car accident in
March. Mr. Cohen, who was a gold
medalist in accountancy in 1958, moved
to Montreal two years ago and had been
with a firm of chartered accountants
there.
1956
Fay Herbert Hartman, BSF, was found
dead with his pilot in the wreckage of
their light plane in February. The plane
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Helena Marian Lethbridge, BEd. who
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