@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2432419"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-07-15"@en, "[1990-03]"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alumchron/items/1.0224173/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ Volume 44 Number 1 • Spring, 1990' INSIDE UBC Art Falling Star Post BA Blues Open House 1990 5-« _ s oj 0) ±- m _ _..o> if m _ § _ » * DC » 3 ncc --N CE s Ie § il«8 - 12 2 fo _. C O ™ rf <_ s oc_ £ •P BOARD OF MANAGEMENT ELECTIONS May through August, the UBC Conference Centre operates the largest university conference facility in Canada. Reasonably priced accommodation consists of comfortable single rooms and a limited number of one and two bedroom executive suites in a unique, easy-paced environment. The University of British Columbia is set atop the Point Grey Peninsula and framed by the Strait of Georgia, the winding fiords of Howe Sound and the North Shore Coastal Mountains. And it's all located near the harbour city of Vancouver with its theatres, night life, and continental cafes and shops. Imagine us "^ MV* 5959 Student Union Boulevard, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C, Canada V6T 2C9 Telephone (604) 228-2963 Fax (604) 228-5297 Volume 44 Number 1 • Spring, 1990 Features Star Light, Star Bright 14 Will the North Star fade to black? ArtFor Art's Sake .16 UBC's Fine Arts Collection tries to come of age After the B.A 30 Life after slogging through the Arts Departments Alumni President's Column 4 Activities 5 Student News 6 Alumni News 7 Campaign News 8 Class Acts 21 Book Reviews 28 Elections Election Ballot Editor Chris Petty, MFA86 Assistant Editor, Class Acts Dale Fuller Contributors Robin Laurence, Jaymie Matthews, Marjorie Simmins, BA'85, Wendy Soobis, Pat Higinbotham, Alan Hindle The UBC Alumni Chronicle is published quarterly by the UBC Alumni Association, and is distributed free to all graduates. Postage paid at the Third Class Rate Permit No. 5915. Return requested. Member, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Indexed in Canadian Education Index. ISSN 0824-1279. Printed In Canada. Editor's Notes 1 his quarter's cover says a great deal about UBC. The colour photo was taken in early January ofthis year (on the only sunny day in the whole month), at the kickoff to this year's 75th Anniversary celebrations. Students, staff, faculty and visitors all donated their bodies to the cause and, though you can't tell by looking, they are all waving madly at the camera. The black and white inset photo is, of course, the famous 1922 photo of UBC students assembled at the Point Grey site of the campus. The enthusiasm and hope shown by those early students is still strong today. In spite of tuition hikes, climbing entrance standards and crowded classes, UBC students still feel a fierce pride in their university, and the community at large still places a high value on a UBC degree. The next 75 years, it appears, will be just as positive as the last 75 were. By showing you various aspects of the campus (from politics to pulsars), the Chronicle tries to maintain that same kind of pride in its readers. We try not to pull any punchs (see this month's article on UBC Art), but we don't hesitate to heap on the praise, either ("Star Light, Star Bright"). We also have our usual features, a stroll down memory lane ("After the BA") and information on Open House and the UBC Campaign. This issue also contains a ballot and information on this year's Board of Management elections. Please vote. Board of Management 1989-91 President Ann McAfee, BA'62, MA'67. PhD'75 Senior Vice President Mel Reeves BComm'75, MSc'77, LLB Past President John Diggens, BSc'68, DMD'72, MSD Treasurer Mark W. Hilton, BCom'83, LLB'88 Members-at-Large 1987-89 Godwin Eni, MSc'81, PhD'87 Oscar Sziklai, MF'61, PhD'64, BSF Janet Gavinchuk, BCom,'77, MBA'86 Members-at-Large 1989-91 Janet Calder, BASc'74, MBA Martin Cocking, BA'87 Curt Latham, BA'58, MD'62 Executive Director Deborah Apps FINANCIAL PLANNING Peter Baigent, CLU, RFP, CHFC Marie Baigent, RFP Specialists in planning for financial independence * MEMBER DEPOSIT BROKERS No Fees Individual Planning Unbiased Recommendations Ongoing Service BALANCED FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD. Independent Investment and Insurance Brokers #202 - 2309 West 41st Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V6M 2A3 (604)261-8511 From the President 1 he Spring Chronicle is a time for looking back and looking forward. As this is my last column, I would like to share some of the ups and down of being the "CEO" of a 125,000 member association whose ties that bind are the camaraderie of UBC. The start of my term coincided with all campus fund raising, including the Association's Annual Fund, being consolidated under the umbrella of the Development Office. After a long tradition of raising funds for scholarships and alumni/student activities, the role of the Association was redefined as "friend raising." The response to the new role has been mixed. To manage costs and content more efficiently, changes were made to the Chronicle. Our communications department has done a good job of bringing out a better product on time and within budget. However, alumni groups who traditionally raised their own funds to support activities face an uncertain future. Friend raising costs money. As this issue goes to press, a year after the change of role, terms of the core grant from the university are still not agreed upon, and procedures for fund raising by alumni groups are unclear. Uncertainty is disconcerting to volunteers and staff. Establishing a new partnership between alumni and the university is a high priority. The highlight of the past year was the opportunity to meet so many graduates. My most enduring memories will be of reminiscences about student days. These invariably led to an offer of support for the university. Some promised funds, others volunteered time and energy to student, faculty and alumni events. To all who participated, thank you. The challenge for President-Elect Mel Reeves and his incoming Board is to harness the abundant good will graduates have for UBC into active support for the university. Alumni activities, and the resources to support them, are limited only by our imagination and commitment. I would like to say a special thanks to the Board, staff and to my special friend Rick for all the support. It was an honour to represent the graduates of UBC. My best wishes to you, Mel, as you carry forward the grand traditions of UBC as the 71st President of the Alumni Association. Ann McAfee, BA'62, MA'67, PhD'75 4 Chronicle/Spring 1990 Branches Australia Christopher Brangwln, BEd. (Sec) '71, MA (Geog) '73, took advantage of a business trip to Vancouver to visit the Alumni Association offices at Cecil Green Park in November. UBC alumni in Australia interested in alumni activities can contact Chris at: 4 Fairweather St., Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia 2023. Toronto New to Toronto? Looking for social or career contacts? Come and join UBC alumni for talk and good cheer at 8:00 p.m. on March 21 at the Rose & Crown, Yonge & Eglinton. Nanaimo The Nanaimo alumni gathered together to have dinner with Dr. & Mrs. Strangway at the Coast Bastion Inn on November 24th. Dr. Strangway brought the group of 60 graduates and their guests up to date on university affairs. Margaret BSN'54 and Hugh Heath BA'49, LLB'50 were gracious hosts for the evening, and Dr. James Slater PhD'71 once again ably coordinated the event. Homecoming Week — 1990 If you are planning a visit to campus during our 75th Anniversary Homecoming Week September 27 - October 3, plan to attend a special Branch Brunch at Cecil Green Park on the morning of September 28. See pages 10 and 11 of this issue and watch for more details in our June edition of the Chronicle. Watch for upcoming events in: Kamloops, Penticton, Seattle and Los Angeles. Divisions Medicine The newly (almost) completed Medical Alumni & Student Centre at 12th & Heather is the result of the efforts of many alumni and students. The Centre will officially open its doors on March 17th. The program for the day begins with a series of guest speakers including architect Paul Merrick, B.Arch.'64, (The City as an Organism); Dr. Wm. Bowie (Canadian Youth; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; What they know & what they do); Dr. James Miles (Love & Survival); and interaction with artist Sam Black. The festivities get under way at 4:00 p.m. when UBC medical students, who are staging a 'reverse trek,' will arrive at the Centre. Activities Guests will then be given a tour of the facility, followed by the ribbon cutting ceremony. Watch for details of the Annual General Meeting & Awards Night to be held at the Centre on May 12, 1990. The Victoria chapter of the Medicine division will meet for dinner on Friday, April 27th at the Union Club, with guest speaker Dr. Ian McTaggart- Cowan. For further details contact Dr. Bill Bell, BA'49, MD'54, at 388-4211. Nursing The Annual General Meeting and Dinner will be held on May 10th at Cecil Green Park, 5:30 for 6:30 p.m., with speaker Nancy Hall, Director, Health Promotion Programs, North Shore Health Dept. (Promoting Wellness: An Interdisciplinary Approach). Teachers of the Visually Impaired Members of this new division will celebrate their 10th anniversary reunion at 6:0.0 p.m. on May 26th at Cecil Green Park. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies The annual meeting and reception for new graduates will be held at 7:00 p.m., Cecil Green Park, on March 16th. Professors Emeriti A general meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 25 at 1:30 p.m. at Cecil Green Park. Pharmacy "UBC Pharmacy Alumni - Update 1990," co-sponsored by the division and the Continuing Ed. Division ofthe Faculty was held on January 20. The day-long seminar featured five excellent speakers and was attended by 96 pharmacists. Grads came from Vancouver, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Grand Forks, Kamloops, Comox, Campbell River, Chilliwack, Whistler and Victoria. All Pharmacy grads are invited to attend the Open House reception in the George Cunningham Building on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. Open House will run from March 9-11, and all Pharmacy grads are invited to return to UBC for the festivities. Call Louanne Twaites, Pharmacy Alumni President, at 228-7715. Counselling Psychology The 25th Anniversary Celebration of Counselling Psych will be held on September 29, 1990 at the University Golf Club. Details to follow. Reunions Special reunions are being organized this year for classes of 1930, 1940, 1965 and 1980. If you graduated in one of these years and are interested in participating on a reunion committee, please contact the Alumni Programmes office or fill in the "Keep in Touch" form on page 23. Some classes have already begun planning. Class of 1930: 60th Anniversary on June 21, 1990. Class of 1940: forming plans for Homecoming 1990. Class of '47 Engineering: reunion in September, 1990. Class of '50 Forestry: reunion at Harrison, April 27-28, 1990. Class of '50 Engineering: reunion at the Faculty Club on September 29, 1990. Class of '55 Commerce: tentative plans for a fall reunion. Classes of '55 & '57 Medicine: combined reunion in June. Class of '65 Forestry: reunion in July. Class of '65 Nursing: reunion in May. Class of '70 Law: reunion at Whistler, September 14 -16. Education of the Visually Impaired Classes of '78, '79 & '80: combined reunion on May 26. Class of '80 Forestry: 10th Anniversary August 17-19 at the Vernon Lodge. Class of '80 Law: reunion on September 28th. Class of '80 Medicine: tentative plans for reunion in September. Other Classes making plans are: '48 Commerce '50 Law '55 Commerce '60 Civil Engineering '60 Forestry '65 Engineering '65 Pharmacy '66 Law '70 Medicine '70 Pharmacy '80 Electrical Engineering '80 Mechanical Engineering '80 Home Ec '80 Pharmacy We would like to offer a special thanks to Jim Dutton and Alan Lawley, managers of The Rose and Crown Pub in Toronto for their support of the TO. Branch Pub Nights. Chronicle/Spring 1990 5 Student News Financial Hijinks Ruffle AMS Executives A letter on AMS letterhead appeared on the front page of the November 28th issue of The Ubyssey. It stated, simply, that the AMS requested an internal audit. The story dominated campus news for weeks. So what's all the fuss about? It's about the "borrowing of funds" from AMS accounts by the elected AMS Director of Finance and the subsequent handling of the matter by the AMS Executive and Council. The Director, Karl Kottmeier, took a temporary leave of absence from his position, and the AMS wasn't talking: their lawyers advised a "no comment" stance until the audit was complete. The audit revealed irregularities in the administration of AMS funds. The most serious was Karl Kottmeier's personal use of AMS money. Kottmeier was also an officer in an AMS funded club, a clear conflict of interest according to the auditors, and there was an account for a defunct club (Victoria Invasion) through which executive meeting expenses were funnelled. Other executives were implicated. Students were dissatisfied over the AMS' handling of the matter but Executive had a close working relationship with Kottmeier, and they all admitted difficulty in remaining objective. One of AMS's options was to press criminal charges, but they voted against such a move. Kottmeier repaid most of the $8,000 he had "borrowed," and made arrangements to repay the remainder. Members felt Kottmeier had already paid a heavy price for his actions, and that his future employability was in jeopardy. The Graduate Student Society passed a motion that the RCMP be requested to pursue an investigation. Law students also supported legal action. But, on January 17, the AMS again voted not to press charges. On January 19th the RCMP decided to initiate its own investigation. The AMS is cooperating with the RCMP. The AMS voted to bring Kottmeier before student court, but Kottmeier did not appear. He sent a letter to the court requesting an adjournment until the RCMP's investigation was concluded. The court denied the petition and found him in contempt. At press time, the matter had spread to involve another AMS executive: Director of Administration and presidential candidate Andrew Hicks. He appeared before student court on February 5 to explain his authorization of expenditures on the Victoria Invasion account. He refused to recognize the court's authority and the court found him in contempt. He later contacted the court, stating that he wanted to resolve the situation. Tuesday, February 6 was set as the date for a new hearing. Other News • On December 18, the Board of Governors announced a 4.8% tuition increase. The raise appears moderate, but students were angry anyway, since the raise comes on top of last year's 10% increase. Other universities also announced tuition hikes, and students from SFU, UVic and UBC organized protests. It did nothing to influence a change in the determination ofthe governors to raise tuition. However, the Minister of Post Secondary Education, Bruce Strachan, in response to the protests, announced that his ministry is going to "conduct a government study into the accessibility and affordability of college education." • Engineering faculties across Canada have been going through rigorous soul-searching since the massacre in Montreal. UBC was no exception, especially since it was the only engineering faculty which still staged the Lady Godiva ride. There was much discussion on campus about whether the ride would be held this year, and if so, what to do about it. The engineers kept quiet until the last moment. The new procession included a knight in shining armour (whose gender was concealed), followed by a horse and buggy filled with engineers of both sexes. So, a tradition which is no longer considered appropriate was ended and new one begun. 6 Chronicle/Spring 1990 Remembering Montreal On December 11, UBC held a memorial service for the women killed in Montreal. David Strangway, Alumni President Ann McAfee and others spoke. The following is a speech by Vanessa Geary, AMS external affairs director. We are here today to mourn the 14 young women killed at the University of Montreal, and to express our support and sympathy for those injured and for the families of the women. When I heard the reports on the radio, I felt shocked, I felt sick, I felt horrified and scared, but I was not surprised. Not surprised because this incident is not unique. People say Marc Lepine was crazy, and this incident is the result of a madman. Yes, Marc Lepine was a disturbed young man, but this incident, although extreme, is not isolated. Women face acts of violence against them everyday—abuse, sexual harassment, rape. As I sat listening to the radio, I thought ofthe man who attempted to stop Chantal Daigle from having an abortion and his remark of how he "never hit her hard enough to leave a mark." I thought of the James Bond movie I saw a few days earlier where a woman is violently murdered, and perhaps raped in scene one, and another is brutally whipped by her lover as punishment for having been disloyal to him in scene two. Society is full of examples, but at this time we must turn to our own community and scrutinize ourselves. UBC is not a place that welcomes women on an equal basis with men. UBC is not a place where women feel safe or secure. At this campus women are confronted with intimidating situations all the time. The Lady Godiva ride is but one example. In the March 1989 edition ofthe engineers' newspaper, the Red Menace, Bob the Engineer said the best way to get a woman into bed was to put a gun under her chin. At the engineers' song festival, the lyrics of one song included a line about beating a woman with a steel bar. I heard a story not long ago about a woman who was in physics, at the top of her class, but had dropped out after her life was threatened by a male student. These incidents are real. According to a recent study, 56% of women are afraid to walk alone at night. At UBC, I would estimate that percentage is closer to ninety. I commend the university for establishing the Sexual Harassment Committee and the Office for Employment Equity. But these are only a beginning. Unless this university addresses these other problems, unless we learn to live together, sisters and brothers in understanding and acceptance, UBC will never be a world class university. Alumni News Constitution and Bylaws Change Amendments to the constitution and bylaws of the UBC Alumni Association will be presented to members in a special resolution at the AGM to be held in May, 1990. These changes are made pursuant to the Societies Act and reflect the present structure of the Association. Copies of the changes will be available at the meeting. If members have any questions, please call the Association at 228-3313. New Vice President Appointed In May, 1989, Ron Longstaffe was elected Senior Vice President of the Alumni Association. Under the constitution, the Senior Vice President automatically becomes President the following year. Ron brought a wide range of community and UBC experience to the Association. Unfortunately for UBC, the Commonwealth Games Committee agreed with our assessment of Ron's ability. In November Ron was selected as president and chief executive officer of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games. Ron moved his family to Victoria and, with regret, submitted his resignation to the Association. Under the constitution, when a Board position becomes vacant during the term of office, the Board of Management has the authority to fill the position. A search committee was struck and Mel Reeves, BComm, MSc, LLB was selected to the position of Senior Vice President. Mel brings experience in a variety of business, alumni and student activities to the Association. Agi Events The highlight of a busy agi alumni autumn was the Career Fair for Agi undergrads. Alumni from every area of agribusiness gave undergrads a look at what the work world had in store for them. Agi alumni volunteers will be at Open House March 9 - 11 to greet visitors. The 40s grads are having an informal get-together at the UBC Botanical Gardens on Friday, March 9 between 2 and 4. Grads from that decade are invited to stop by for a cup of coffee. Geography 75 years old Geography Alumni Alliance celebrates 75 years of Geography 101. Taught the first year by the late Dean Brock, this was the first geography course to be offered in a Canadian university. The dinner and party is to be held at 6:00 Friday, March 9th in the Grad Centre Ballroom. Call 228- 2663 for information. Annual General Meeting Announced The Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association will be held in mid May (date not yet confirmed). All graduates of UBC are invited. The business part of the meeting will include various committee reports on the past year's activities, discussion of changes to the Constitution and Bylaws and the announcement of the winners of the Board of Management elections. Members will receive a copy of the Association's Annual Report. Business complete, members are invited to linger over cocktails to chat with old friends, discuss Association business and talk over plans for the future. Please call the Association offices for exact date and time of the meeting. First Nations Grads Reunion First Nations House of Learning is sponsoring a gathering of all First Nations people who have graduated from UBC. The reunion will be held during the last week of May in conjunction with the Long- house dedication. Call Madeleine Maclvor at 222-8940 for details. Brock Hall: Memories Wanted Brock Hall is 50 years old this year. It was built in 1940 and has undergone several sea changes in its life. It has hosted many celebrations and events including frosh orientations, sock hops, banquets, concerts, ceremonies and dances. We are planning another celebration on the occasion of its 50th birthday during Open House in March. We invite you to join the celebration and share your memories. Please send us any photos, memories and mementos you are willing to share and we will display them. Original photos will be returned upon request. Send your memories to Sylvia Palmer, Student Counselling and Resources Centre, Brock Hall, 1874 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1W5. For more information call Kim or Teresa at 228-3811. Alumni Award winners and others pose for posterity at the Annual Volunteer Christmas party held at Cecil Green Park on December 14. The others are, from the left. Dr. Strangway, Alumni President Ann McAfee and Past President John Diggens. The winners are, left from Dr. Diggens, George Plant, winner ofthe Blythe Eagles Service Award, Doug Whittle, Honorary Alumni Award, Mary Plant, co-winner with her husband, and Dr. William Benjamin, winner ofthe Faculty Citation Award. Pat Carney (Alumni Award of Distinction), Anne Bassett and Paul Yee (Outstanding Young Alumni), will receive their certificates this spring. The Volunteer party was a great success. Chronicle/Spring 1990 7 u 2> c 3 CT> 0 D CL Q. CL E O o (J o U "D m __ U UBC's Presidents Frank Fairchild Wesbrook 1913-18 Leonard Sylvanus Klinck 1919-44 N.A.M. (Larry) MacKenzie 1944-62 John Barfoot MacDonald 1962-67 Kenneth Hare 1968-69 Walter Gage 1969-75 (Acting 1967-68) Douglas Kenny 1975-83 K. George Pedersen 1983-85 Robert H.T. Smith pro-tem 1985 David W. Strangway 1985- y:i_ Campaign j __=^_L ____-;■.-_____ 75 Years of Leadership: The Presidents of UBC Over the past 75 years, ten presidents have charted the course of The University of British Columbia. In their own way, each has worked towards a common goal: to make UBC one ofthe great universities of North America. Building a great university requires the commitment of students, faculty, parents, government, alumni and the community. But the architect, the visionary, the leaderwho sets the pace, is the president. Here are career highlights of six UBC presidents who served the longest. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook 1913-18 Frank Fairchild Wesbrook was born in Ontario and educated at the University of Manitoba. He graduated in 1890 with Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine degrees. In 1892, he won an endowed studentship at Cambridge University. His achievements secured him a professorship at the University of Minnesota where he became its first full-time Dean of Medicine. Wesbrook's international reputation as a leading educator attracted the attention of Dr. Henry Esson Young, B.C.'s Minister of Education and Health. Young offered the presidency of B.C.'s new university to Wesbrook. He accepted only after the government assured him of adequate financial support. Wesbrook and a team of architects developed plans for the new campus. He sent his new librarian to Europe to buy books and searched Eastern Canada, the U.S. and Britain for top quality staff. But cutbacks and delays put Wesbrook's dreams of a Cambridge on the Pacific on hold. Despite the hardships of World War I, Wesbrook managed to open classes at UBC on September 30th, 1915. Students and faculty squeezed into the old McGill campus on the Fairview slopes. Just three years later Wesbrook died. His dream was unfulfilled, but his life and the motto he suggested Tuum est—It's up to you—have inspired many who became associated with UBC. Leonard Sylvanus Klinck 1919-44 Leonard Klinck's academic career began with his appointment as professor in McGill's agriculture college in 1905. He came to UBC in 1914 at the request of Wesbrook to help choose the site for the Faculty of Agriculture. His reputation as a hard working and respected researcher preceeded him. Wesbrook soon made him Dean of Agriculture and his right-hand man. After Wesbrook's sudden death, Klinck accepted the presidency. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1944. His service to UBC spanned one-third of the university's history, longer than any other President to date. During that time he led the university through one crisis after another: its wobbly infancy in the Fairview Shacks, the war-delayed move to the Point Grey campus, the controversies ofthe 1930s and the trying circumstances of World War II. He supervised the physical expansion at Point Grey and built three strong faculties: Agriculture, Arts and Applied Science. Klinck passed on to President Mackenzie a solid institution, ready to spread its wings. Photographs courtesy of The University of British Columbia Archives 8 Chronicle/Spring 1990 Campaign N.A.M. (Larry) MacKenzie 1944-62 Larry MacKenzie relished being President. He was an outgoing individual who had a flair for the job. Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia in 1894, MacKenzie served in World War I. After the war he returned to Dalhousie where he graduated with distinction from law school. This success lead to post-graduate work at Harvard and Cambridge. In 1940 MacKenzie was appointed President ofthe University of New Brunswick. After four years his taste for new challenges took him to Vancouver for an interview at UBC. In 1944, he became the university's third President. One month after he set foot in B.C., MacKenzie convinced Premier Hart to allocate $5 million to UBC for a capital building grant. After the war, MacKenzie was faced with a surge of returning veterans wanting to reclaim lost time. Together with Physics Head Gordon Shrum, he concocted a plan to use vacant army huts. In the space of a year they assembled 370 huts from 23 different locations to create an instant campus. MacKenzie initiated UBC's first major capital campaign in 1958, the centenary ofthe province. The campaign raised $11 million, more than doubling its goal. The Government of B.C. matched private gifts with another $10 million. During his presidency, MacKenzie opened the Physics Building, the north wing of the Library, the War Memorial Gym, the Faculty Club, the Buchanan Building, the Medical Sciences Building, the Law Building and student housing. Walter Gage 1969-75 (Acting 67-68) Born in Vancouver in 1905, Walter Gage was known as the "Dean of Everything." During his 57 year association with UBC, he held almost every administrative post available. Gage enrolled in UBC as a student in 1921. He graduated with a BA in 1925 and a MA in Math and Physics in 1926. Later that year he started teaching at UBC. Gage loved his work on campus. Holidays were a nuisance and sabbaticals out ofthe question. In 1969, at the age of 64, Walter Gage became President. The standing-room-only status of Gage's math classes was legendary. Gage was a great teacher. Even as President he lectured 11 hours a week to 500 students, preferring, as well, to mark his own exam papers. Though Gage was by nature a private person, he was generous and thoughtful. As Dean in charge of Financial Services he often loaned desperate students money from his own pocket. Typical of Gage's generosity was his response to being the first winner of UBC's Master Teacher Award. He immediately turned over the $5,000 award to the university to buy books for three campus libraries. When Walter Gage died in 1975, a memorial service was held in the War Memorial Gym. All classes were cancelled in order to allow faculty and students to attend. The President's Fund From Wesbrook's choice ofthe Point Grey site to MacKenzie's army huts and Strangway's launch of The UBC Campaign, strong presidents have demonstrated their flexibility and creativity in meeting UBC's needs. In this era of rapid change, flexibility is more important than ever. Through The UBC Campaign, the President's Fund will be established to support emerging priorities. The fund will also provide more graduate fellowships and entrance scholarships. UBC alumni can help shape UBC's future by contributing to this important fund. Douglas Kenny 1975-83 When Douglas Kenny was asked to be president he replied, "I've always been willing to do what this university asked. It is, in part, paying back what I would say is a debt." Kenny, a native of Victoria, had strong ties with UBC. He received his BA from UBC in 1945, his MA in 1947 and later his PhD from the University of Washington. Except for a two year teaching stint at Harvard, Kenny never left UBC until his retirement. During his term Kenny set two main goals essential to a great university: to ensure a high quality of instruction, and to encourage research. He cautioned students training specifically for a current job market and encouraged them to seek a liberal education. To Kenny, UBC was a university on the frontier, integrating classic values with new research. David W. Strangway 1985- David Strangway was bom in Ontario in 1934, the son of United Church medical missionaries. His early schooling was in Angola and Rhodesia. Later, he returned to the University of Toronto where he received his BA, MA, and PhD. Strangway taught at M.I.T. from 1965 to 1968. For three years he worked as NASA's Chief of Geophysics where he was responsible for research on the Apollo space mission. After serving as Chairman of the Geology Department at the University of Toronto, he was promoted to Vice- President Academic. In 1985, David Strangway was installed as UBC's ninth President. Like his predecessors, Strangway wants to make UBC a great university. He spearheaded the development of a distinctive mission statement for UBC and launched its first fund-raising campaign in over 20 years. Chronicle/Spring 1990 9 ix)pen House 1990