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March, 1947 Page 3 YOU'LL inn THE BM STAFF ALWAYS IN THE CHEER SECTION l3ERVTCE with a smile" . . . it's not just a motto . . . it's an integral part of the feeling The BAY staff has for its work. Here at The BAY, we have learned that your confidence is won by reliable service. Our staff is trained to be of intelligent help where your buying problems are concerned. Satisfaction with your purchase is not enough for us ... we want you to feel that our friendly, courteous attention is always available . . . always gladly given. So our staff stays in the cheer section . . . ready to tackle the knottiest problem with good humor and a genial desire to be of friendly service. *ll P With Confide««e t The B A V J INCORPORATED 2~? MAY 1670. Page 4 The Graduate Chronicle The GRADUATE CHRONICLE Published by the Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia Editor: Ormonde J. Hall, B.Comm. Associate Editors: Mary M. Fallis, M.A.; Robert W. Bonner, B.A. Photography Editor: Art Jones, B.A. Contributing Editor: Archie Paton, B.A. Business and Editorial Offices: Room 208, Yorkshire Building, Vancouver, B. C. Published at Vancouver, British Columbia. Volume 9, Number 1 March, 1947 TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles— Page Man of Letters—By Anne Margaret Angus 10 Dr. Frederick McKenzie—By Archie Paton 13 Erica Nalos 15 Lighter Stuff—By Les Bewley 27 Jabez 28 Features— Sport—By Bill Dunford .... . 16 Editorially Speaking 17 * Personalities 18, 19 Women 20 Frankly Speaking 22 Tabloid 29 The Classes—By Bruce Bewell 34 the New Silhouette in Spring Coats and Suits 445 Granville St. MArine 5055 March, 1947 4?04 the Record. . . Many of you who have read the Chronicle will occasionally wonder why you receive a copy of the magazine and yet pay nothing for it. . . . Actually no graduate is entitled to a copy of the Chronicle unless he is a paid up member of the Alumni Association. . . . However, in order to build the Chronicle up to its present, we think, healthy state, it was necessary to give it a wide circulation and rely on the good nature of the paid up members not to get annoyed that they were paying for something some other Grads got gratis . . . Thus a couple of thousand extra copies were distributed each issue above the total membership and distribution was arranged on a rotation system whereby the extra copies we're spread out over the floating Alumni group who were not members in good standing . . . The result has been that the Chronicle is now well known to the Alumni and many generous souls have sent in their fees for the first time on the strength of their attachment to the magazine, which they have found is their only way of keeping in touch with their fellow year men . . . But now the membership has been built up, and if you aren't a fully qualified member, probably the only place you'll be able to read the Chronicle will be in E. A. Lee's comfortable men's clothing shop or at one of the counters of Gibb Henderson's Georgia Pharmacy. So . . . remember . . . send in your subscription ($3.00) to Frank Turner at U.B.C. if you wish to remain on the mailing list . . . This issue features Arthur Lionel Stevenson whose latest biography on the life of W. M. Thackeray is attracting good notices on both sides of the Atlantic . . . the article was written for us by Mrs. Anne Margaret Angus, and the Review by John P. Marquand, author of "Wickford Point", "So Little Time," etc., was kindly given to us to reprint by the Book of the Month Club . . . new to the Chronicle is Les Bewley, an ex-Navy lad, now studying law at U.B.C, whose column in the Ubyssey "The Children's Hour" is one of the campus newspaper's brightest corners . . . meet Les and his Lighter Stuff on page 27 . . . Jabez is back with us again this issue and Eric Nicol writes of some of the discoveries located while digging the excavation for the new Library wing on page 28 . . . Archie Paton wrote the article on Dr. Frederick McKenzie and found that our famous grad, who is concerned with artificial insemination re Bulls at High Altitudes, was a hard man to track down . . . One week he was in Vancouver, the next Los Angeles, and in between was somewhere in Mexico . . . but Archie finally collared him and the results are to be found on page 13 . . . the usual pictures by Art Jones are missing from this issue mostly because Art and Pierre Berton were away last month visiting that interesting spot in the Yukon called Headless Valley . . . they went a find a mystical tropical Valley in that region where allegedly "bananas and cocoanuts grow", but found only silence and shivering cold . . . plus a picture of Rita Hayworth, Pierre found tacked up on the wall of an old cabin. . . . 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THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Branches throughout CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, THE WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Offices in LONDON, NEW YORK and PARIS Page 6 9he Graduate Chronicle LETTERS Dear Mr. Editor: Your editorial in the October issue is a rather challenging one with which I am in general agreement. In it you raise one important question and that is, "What is the matter with our graduates?" Frankly, I do not believe that there is anything wrong with our graduates, individually; the lack of support for the gymnasium campaign and a similar apathy shown in other matters concerning the University stems principally, I believe, from a lack of strong organization within the alumni group. At no time during the past 25 years have I sensed the existence of a strongly organized alumni core in Vancouver. Such a parent body would normally assure a continuity of purpose and a dependability of policy that distant alumni require for maintaining- confidence in their relations with the central alumni organization. It is for the foregoing reason, in large part, that the Memorial Fund has realized only $5,000 from the alumni. The recent appointment of Mr. Frank Turner as a full time secretary-manager of the Alumni Association indicates that the graduates now appreciate that the alumni work of a large university can be big business. With Mr. Turner's office as a sheet anchor, alumni branches can be set up systematically all over the continent, or over the world. And in future, if a drive of any sort is launched, the distant members can be effectively reached. In California there are at least nine alumni that I know of personally and there may well be twice that number throughout the state. I am sure that most of these would support any worthy UBC cause generously, if it were set forth clearly for their studied consideration. I like the Chronicle and I do appreciate the work which a handful of very unselfish alumni had done in the past in promoting the welfare of our Alumni Association. Sincerely yours, L. W. McLENNAN. Arts '22. 2619 Yuba Ave., Richmond, California. U.S.A. Dear Sir: Just a word of congratulations to you and your staff for the marvellous job of building up the Chronicle to the magazine it is today. It should be a stimulus to the members of the Alumni Association to know that they have such an active staff producing a magazine which contains so much personal news of the graduates of U.B.C. Also, the aid that the Chronicle has given to the publicity of the U.B.C. War Memorial Gymnasium Drive has been immeasurable. The members of the War Memorial Committee are truly thankful for this help. You are assured of a very successful future with such a policy of co-operation. Yours very truly, E. T. TED KIRKPATRICK, Chairman U.B.C. War Memorial Gvmnasium Committee. CROUin UK msuRflncE co A Leading Canadian Company Shows Growth and Progress with Policies in Force Exceeding 450 Million Life Insurance, Family Income Policies, Pension Bonds, Annuities, Group Life, Group Superannuation Plans Complete briefs and figures will be gladly furnished by mail or by personal interview. An Insurance Audit Service is also available for programming and analyzing your present insurance and for projecting future requirements. Financial Independence is your security for the future when you invest in Life Insurance. You can never again purchase a policy at such advantageous rates as you can now at your present age. Ralph MacL Brown B.A. 1931 Provincial Manager 822 Rogers Building Vancouver Phone PA. 7341 March, 1947 Page 7 PERSONALITIES SOCCER STAR DAVE TURNER RECEIVES PhD. David B. Turner, well-known city soccer star, has received his Ph.D. at Cornell University after study in the conservation of natural resources. His research w a s "Professional Opportunities in the Fish and Wildlife Field." Mr. Turner, who played for New- Westminster Royals when they won the Canadian championship, was awarded the Comstock Scholarship i n nature study for two successive years, the American Nature Association Research Fellowship of $1000, and the American Institute Research Fellowship of $1500. He received his B.S.A., B.A. and M.A. at U.B.C. DAVE TURNER Dean Elefthery, '41, left recently for London to study his medical degree. He is a former U.B.C, Manitoba and McGill medical student. Patrick Duncan McTaggart-Cowan- '34, prominent Canadian meteorologist, has been appointed assistant controller of the meteorogical service of the Department of Transport. He is a University of B.C. Rhodes Scholar. Stan Harris, '41, and his wife, the former Betty Slater, '43, are now living in Brisbane, Australia, where Stan is supervising the construction of a factory for Laucks Ltd. They have two small children. Tommy Berto, '30, is Assistant Personnel Manager for Pacific Mills at Ocean F'alls. John MacDonald Lecky, Arts '38, and wife, Beverley Cunningham, Arts '38, are returning to Vancouver from Toronto, where they have made their home for eight years, to reside with a brood of four —some time in March. Stanley S. Copp (Civ. Eng. '43) is now on the staff of the Public Health Engineering Division, 302 Williamson Bldg.- I'*,dmonton, Alta. Lloyd Hobden, B.A., '37, M.A. '40, now studying at the Sorbonne on an international scholarship, was made a citizen of honor at Frenouville, FYance . . . Hobden was with the Canadian Scottish Regiment operating in that sector during the war. selves at this Eastertide, to who come after. THIS is, and will be, trained and disciplined by to grasp the intricacies of IT is for those, then, awaits them in the future. TH Parliament Buildings E. G. ROWEBOTTOM, Deputy Minister. EASTER GREETINGS TO THE GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH BEST WISHES FOR 1948, WHICH IS FILLED WITH PROMISE FOR THIS AND THE YEARS TO COME. BRITISH COLUMBIA is entering a new era—one which will make new demands upon all, and it is for the young men and women of high resolve to dedicate them- the part which they will play in building for the future and those an era of specialized knowledge, calling for those whose mind,s are years of study and research, whose perceptions have been quickened new techniques, to be prepared and ready to grasp the matchless opportunity which E DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY Victoria, B. C. HON. LESLIE H. EYRES, Minister. Page 8 The Graduate Chronicle LETTERS COVER PICTURE Dear Sir: I notice that the last number of The Graduate Chronicle contains write-ups and pictures of U.B.C. graduates who were candidates in the recent civic elections in Vancouver. I wonder why you failed even to mention the names of two other civic candidates, Mildred Fahrni (nee Osterhout) and Arnold Webster, also graduates of U.B.C. I think it regrettable that a mazagine such as yours, an organ of the graduates of our university, should lay itself open to the suspicion of favoritism in a matter of this nature. I am, Yours very truly, F. A. ARMSTRONG. (Ed. Note-. The Chronicle regrets the inference occasioned by omitting mention of Mrs. Fahrni and Arnold Webster, both staunch grads, owing entirely to oversight. Most sincere apologies to both candidates.) APOLOGIA Mrs. Frank M. Ross was omitted in the last issue of the Chronicle from the list of directors of the Community Arts Council of which she is a most active and leading member. The oversight was due to the fact that the Chronicle did not recognize the former Phyllis Gregory, Arts '25, by her married name, although as Mrs. Ross she was well known during the war for her work as Oils and Fats Administrator in Ottawa. At present Mrs. Ross is convenor of the Scholarship Committee of the Canadian Federation of Universitv women. In the last issue, Ira Dilworth, regional director of C.B.C, was called the "former head of the Department of linglish at the University of B. C" to the injustice of Dr. G. G. Sedgewick, who was the head of the Department during Mr. Dilworth's stay at U.B.C. SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS FRENCH CLEANERS and DYERS You can trust your finest clothes to our care. To serve you better we have modernized our cleaning plant. "We Call and Deliver" 2928 Granville Street BAyview 1105 .¥A 1 \\ t Copies of this picture on sale at Alumni Office. This issue's cover picture of the Library was done for the Chronicle by Ted Goodall, well-known Victoria artist. Mr. Goodall has a nation-wide reputation for his "sketches" and is, perhaps, best known for his series of post card sketches done for the Victoria Tourist Association. Recently he has been commissioned by English interests to do a series of sketches on Old Inns in England. Readers of the Chronicle Can receive prints of this month's cover suitable for framing by writing to Frank Turner, c/o the U.B.C. Alumni Association, U.B.C. Price is $1.50 for an 8x5 print plus ten cents for handling. Hff LOW PRICES are now in effect on Birks Sterling Silver A recent reduction in the market price of refined silver has been promptly passed on to you—OUR CUSTOMER. These new lower prices apply on all silverware made in our own craftshops and prove once again that "You pay no more for Birks quality and service". SILVERSMITHS VANCOUVER March, 1947 Page 9 Lionel New book of THE AUTHOR By ANNE MARGARET ANGUS The first time that I saw Lionel Stevenson was in 1919 when he was a sophomore and I a freshman in the old Fairview "shacks." In those days he was a slender fair-haired youth, very quiet in his demeanor, but with a certain air of elegance and precision about him. For even at the age of seventeen Lionel gave the impression that he knew where he was going. During the few years immediately following the first world war the University of British Columbia was a busy, crowded place with over a thousand students filling every nook in its temporary quarters on part of the General Hospital grounds. There was something electric in the air of those far-off days,—a feeling of exhiliration and intellectual adventure. Even though we were very small and verv new we felt that we formed a real university. Individually we were actually on courses of higher learning; and even if some courses have to be given in tents, as some of ours were, where there are real teachers and real students there is a university. Another thing that strengthened our feeling of unity was that we got to know everyone at least by sight. How could it be otherwise when all Arts students many times a day jostled to and fro beneath the clock in the Arts'Building? In 1919 U.B.C. knew that it was going places. It had to grow, for it had too much inherent vitality for an yother fate. The group of undergraduates that 1 came to know best was the one in which Lionel Stevenson was quietly influential. Several of the group were taking English Honours, several were on the editorial board of the Ubyssey, and all, I think, were members of the newly- formed Letters Club. Lionel was both President of the Letters Club and Senior Editor of the Ubyssey during his final years at college. In both positions he was markedly successful. In Letters Club meetings his remarks, in his exceptionally pleasing voice, were made less for effect than were those of some of the rest of us, and often showed more thought and sincerity. Under his editorship the Ubyssey functioned very smoothly : he developed efficiency in dealing with small matters and a balanced judgment in handling larger ones. MERMAID TAVERN To us "literary" ones the dingy old caf.—where endless tea and crumpets were consumed—became our Mermaid Tavern. These sessions generated many words, and maybe even a few ideas. But the longest, the most involved and absorbing discussions took place when a number of us used to gather round the hospitable fireside of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Haweis. There we talked and talked,—about art and religion, about men and ideas. But most often we discussed writing and literary form. One evening Mr. Haweis suddenly asked why we didn't try to print a selection from our numerous attempts at verse. The idea was accepted with awe and enthusiasm, and Lionel Stevenson and Geoffrey Coope took charge of the financing and producing of that small green booklet, "A Chapbook," privately printed in 1922 and chastely prefaced by "this edition is limited to two hundred copies of which one hundred and forty only are available for purchase by subscription." I am happy to say that, in spite of special type and hand-made paper, all expenses were covered by the subscription price of one dollar a copy. Of the six students and one graduate who contributed verse, four are now university professors, one has a high position with an American publishing house, Page 10 The Graduate Chronicle Stevenson-Man of Letters "Showman of Vanity Fair" wins plaudits critics and Book of the Month backing one is a Canadian High Commissioner'to New Zealand, and one is a harrassed housewife. After Lionel graduated in 1922 with first class honours in English Language and Literature he collected other degrees in rapid succession: an M.A. from Toronto, a Ph.D. from the University of California and a B. Litt. from the University of Oxford. His teaching career began in 1925 when he was an Instructor at the University of California. Then for seven years he was head of the English Department of the Arizona State College at Tempe. In 1937 he became Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California, and in 1943, at the age of forty-one, he was appointed head of the Department of English there,—the position which he now holds. The impressive list of offices he has held in many learned and literary societies is too long to quote here, but it clearly shows the respect and confidence which his abilities have won for him. It might, however, be mentioned in passing that Dr. Stevenson is President of the Los Angeles Centre, P.E.N. Club, and was three times sent as delegate to international congresses at Vienna in 1929, at Edinburgh in 1934 and at Paris in 1937. MANY PUBLISHED WORKS More impressive still is his solid body of published work. In addition to two Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks, "A Pool of Stars" and "Rose of the Sea," Dr. Stevenson has published five prose works: two books of literary criticism and three biographies. ''Appraisals of Canadian Literature" published in 1926 was widely and favorably reviewed both in England and on this continent. C. H. Her- ford in The Manchester Guardian called it "a compact, lucid and well-informed essay," and Constance Lindsay Skinner in The New York Herald Tribune wrote that "Mr. Stevenson's suggestions are always valuable," and that he "has done a notable service to Canadian Letters by writing such a book as this." His second critical work, "Darwin Among the Poets" (1932), was called by The English Journal "an extremely discriminating chapter on the influence of Victorian philosophy upon the contemporary poet." In looking over "The Chapbook" of 1922, which I have mentioned above, I came across this stanza in Lionel Stevenson's poem "Discovery": "I must go forth to see nations and men, All they have ever thought or done, To make their aspirations live again, Feeling them every one." It seems prophetic of the type of work in which our author has made his greatest success,—biography. In the two earlier ones, "The Wild Irish (Continued on Page 32) REVIEW By JOHN P. MARQUAND (Reprinted by permission of the Book of the Month Club.) No English novelist, except oerhaDS Sir Walter Scott, has revealed in the pages of his fiction such a complete character portrait of himself as William Makepeace Thackeray. Indeed, -the pleasure which his works have given a century of readers may have rested as much on an acquaintance with the author's tastes and on the enjoyment of his worldly wisdom as on the men and women he created. This feeling that one knows as much about the author of the Newcomes, for instance, as one does about the Colonel and the Old Campaigner may explain the dearth of Thackery biographies. And for no other reason than that it deals with little-exploited material, The Showman of Vanity Fair would fill what book reviewers term a long- felt want. Mr. Stevenson's book, however, deserves a good deal more than such a perfunctory recommendation. It is a careful and competent piece of research which covers all the phases of Thackeray's life without indulging in literary criticism and gives, besides, a very good picture of the literary world of Victorian England. It cannot help but be entertaining, for it reveals fully the vicissitudes of the never static career of a brilliant man of warm heart and courage, who loved life and people. Thackeray, of course, was one of the few writers of his day who could be invited safely to a titled dinner table. He knew the continent and the best hotels and wines along the Grand Tour. He was at home in the Pall Mall clubs, and unlike Dickens was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, though fortunately for him and English letters this spoon fell out early. Less understood and recognized perhaps are the trials which beset him and the burdens of ill health and adversity with which he struggled throughout his life. The days of his poverty, his early grubbing for a living by drawing and writing, his embarrassments caused by his huge size and his broken nose, the insanity of his wife, and finally a chronic organic complaint all combined to remove him from the complacencies of his privileged British upper middle class. These details have seldom been set forth so fully. Even at the peak of his success, he was dogged by an unceasing economic compulsion. Never a thrifty man, Thackeray was under constant pressure to produce until the day of his death without ever attaining the peace of mind and ease which he was forever seeking. Better known, but still seldom discussed at much length or in order, are his friendships with the men and women of his literary world,' his rivalry, his quarrel and his final reconciliation with Charles Dickens, and his dissensions with his critics. Mr. Stevenson has dealt so humorously and wisely with all the phases of Thackeray's life, and has set them forth in such fair proportion that he has drawn one of the complet- est portraits of Thackeray and his background yet to be produced. The Showman of Vanity Fair, without being great biography, is always quite competent and satisfying. Anyone who is interested in the drives and complications that shape creative minds, and in the victories and defeats that lie behind all creative writing, will leave this book with new insight and knowledge and, above all, with increased respect and affection for our greatest master of the novel of manners. March, 1947 Page 11 DEATH TAKES TWO PROMINENT U.B.C. MEN DR. WILLIAM URE DIES SUDDENLY IN DECEMBER Dr. William Ure, PhD., F.R.C.S., professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia, and one of the most brilliant research chemists in Canada, died in December in Vancouver. Dr. Ure was 48 years of age. He had suffered — from a heart condition for some years but had refused to slacken his work. A native of Glasgow, Dr. Ure was born Aug. 20, 1898. He was educated in Vancouver schools, winning the governor-general's gold medal when he graduated from King Edward High School in 1916. From 1917 to 1919 he served with the 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion, CEF. He returned to UBC and graduated in 1923 with a BA.Sc. Awarded a National Research Council bursary he took post-graduate work at UBC and won his MASc. in 1924. In 1928 he won his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. JOINS UBC STAFF Dr. Ure was appointed to the university staff in 1928 as an assistant professor. He became an associated professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1945. He was a member of the International Smoke Commission in 1929. He was the past president of the Vancouver branch Canadian Chemical Association, B.C. Academy of. Sciences and the Royal Astronomical Society Vancouver centre. In 1944 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta and the Sigma Xi froternities. During the second war, he served as flight-lieutenant adjutant to the University Airforce unit. DR. WILLIAM URE TURPIN BROS. LTD. British Importers of Exclusive Men's Wear J. P. MacDONALD, Proprietor 655 Granville St. MArine 0726 DR. FRASER WAS ONE OF U.B.C.'s MOST BELOVED PROFESSORS Dr. C. McLean Fraser, Ph.D., F.R.C.S., former head of the department of Zoology, and one of the most popular professors ever connected with the University of B.C., died at Christmas time in Vancouver. Dr. Fraser was also noted for his keen interest in athletics and was responsible for the introduction of basketball to the campus. As an internationally known biologist, Dr. Fraser was the author of more than 100 scientific pamphlets and two books dealing particularly with hydroids, minute sea organisms which are a primary food to ocean life. JOINED UBC in 1919. Dr. Fraser joined the UBC staff in 1919 after directing the Dominion biological station at Nanaimo from 1912. He retired from the university in April, 1940, to be succeeded by Dr. W. A. Clemens. Appointed by a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1916, Dr. Fraser served on many biological commissions and was chairman of the oceanographic committee of the National Research Council and chairman of the biological section of the Royal Society of Canada from 1941 to 1942. The Toronto General Trusts Corporation British Columbia Advisory Board Brig. Sherwood Lett, Chairman Col., Hon. Eric W. Hamber W. H. Malkin G. T. Cunningham Prentice Bloedel VANCOUVER OFFICE PENDER and SEYMOUR STREETS Assets Under Administration $295,000,000.00 Established 1882 Page 12 The Graduate Chronicle U. B. C. GRAD GAINS INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION DR. F. McKENZIE NOTED AUTHORITY ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY By A. T. PATON, Arts '42 A few weeks ago one of this continent's leading authorities on artificial insemination was lecturing at the university in Montevedeo, Uruguay. He returned to his home in Corvallis, Oregon, only long enough to be made chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry at Oregon State College (effective March 15,( 1947) before packing his grip for another trip south—this time in California. The man is 46-year-old Dr. Frederick F. McKenzie, a graduate of U.B.C.'s first class in agriculture in 1921, and now among that faculty's most distinguished alumni. His biography reads like that of a diplomat in the foreign service. One wonders that he finds time from his extra-curricular activities to handle his staff duties at the college. Fred McKenzie, who grew up on his father's farm on Lulu Island, went to the University of Missouri for post-graduate work after leaving U.B.C. There he received his A.M. degree in 1923 and Ph.D. in 1925, met and married Corinne Kauffman, a charming co-ed who graduated from the same university in public administration. They now have four sons, Frederick F. II, who after two years in the U.S. Navy Air Corps, is now a sophomore engineering student at Missouri; Kauffman, a sophomore at Oregon State College; Jon, aged 7, and Kirk, aged 4, at home. MUCH TRAVELLED MAN During the years from 1923 to 1941 Dr. McKenzie was based in Columbia, Missouri, on a cooperative appointment with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Missouri. His special field of research became the development of techniques in extending the use of sires for mass improvement, particularly of dairy cattle, through artificial insemination. Meantime, he became something of a world traveller, his work taking him to the International College at Izmir, Turkey, in 1927- 28, on a tour of Europe in the '30's, to the Royal Veternary College in Stockholm, Sweden, and to Cambridge University, England, in 1938. In 1941 Dr. McKenzie moved to Logan, Utah, to head the animal husbandry department at Utah State Agricultural College, and in 1944 he joined the staff of the Oregon institution. It was during these years that he became a familiar figure in several South American countries. On the invitation of the Andean Biological Institute, Dr. McKenzie visited Peru in 1941 to investigate animal fertility at extreme altitudes. That same year he was visiting lecturer at the University of Chile for the National Society of Agriculture. Describing the visit of "this truly great scientist and world authority in physiology and artificial insemination," "El Campesino," official organ of the N.A.S., Santiago, Chile, said, "The United States could not have sent (us) a more perfect scientific representative, for he is a man of science McKENZIE in the strictest sense of the term, and a gentleman also in the strict meaning of the word." In 1945 Dr. Mckenzie again visited South America, this time as consultant for the Chilean government in establishing a national program of artificial insemination for sheep and cattle. What does this comparatively n e w method of breeding actually mean ? Naturally, such a vast subject cannot be treated here. But, one example shows its results, is that by means of artificial insemination one bull can sire 500 calves annually as compared to the 20-50 a year he could produce by natural breeding. "Unnatural, yes, but economical," says Dr. McKenzie. "These many years, wheat has been combined, selected, and treated, sown at the right season in properly tilled soil . . . Such a practice effectively and selectively applied can be a most useful tool in a livestock improvement program." Here is a partial list of the organizations to which Dr. McKenzie belongs. He is a past-executive member of the National Research Council, chairman of Oregon State College Foreign Student Affairs Committee, chairman of Committee on Student Activities of Federated Churches, chairman of Kiwanis Club Committee on Agriculture, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He is a past national president of Gamma Sigma Delta (honor society of agriculture), a member of Sigma XL American Society of Animal Production. American Dairy Science Association. American Association of Anatomists, American Society for the Study of Sterility, Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society de Sexologie (Paris), John {Continued on Page 32) Just What the Doctor Ordered Nine Experienced Pharmacists to dispense just what the Doctor ordered. . . . Bring your next prescription to us. Georgia Pharmacy Limited 777 WEST GEORGIA STREET MArine 4161 PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS Leslie G. Henderson Oc. P. '06 Gibb G. Henderson, B.A., B.A.Sc. U.B.C. '33 March, 1947 Page 13 * PERSONALITIES * NEIL PERRY GOES TO WASHINGTON G. Neil Perry, B.A. '33, the Provincial Government's economic adviser, has been chosen for an important post with the International Monetary Fund in Washington. Mr. Perry has been with the government for 12 years and is regarded as one of the cleverest economists in British Columbia. He is one of two Canadians selected for the international post and the appointment brings high honor to this province. Victoria-born, Mr. Perry is 37. He joined the government in 1934 as secretary to the economic council. In 1938 he was named director of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics and last year became the official government economic adviser. He was the chief adviser to Premier Hart in the recent negotiations with Ottawa, which resulted in the new taxation agreement with the Dominion. In going to Washington he will join company with some of the world's leading economists. The International Monetary Fund is subscribed to by 39 member nations for the purpose of stabilizing exchange rates throughout the world. Lome S. Kyle has been appointed joint director of the B.C. shipping agency Dingwall Cotts & Co. Mr. Kyle left the firm at the outbreak of war to join the Royal Canadian Navy and his decorations include a mention in despatches and the French Croix de Guerre. P. L. Mathewson, research engineer, Canadian Naaional Railways, has been appointed transportation engineer at Montreal. Dr. G. H. Gunning has been elected chairman of the B.C. section of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for the year 1947. U.B.C. grad Pete Fowler is second vice-chairman. Home with an M.A. in social science and a psychiatric mental hospital course from Chicago University is Don Ricketts. Formerly boys' placement officer with the Children's Aid in Vancouver, he served as flight engineer with the R.C.A.F. JACK KIRK South Granville's Smart Men's Shop 2561 South Granville St. BAyview 2189 DR. McKENZIE NAMES ELEMENT A research project of a UBC graduate, Dr. K. R. MacKenzie, now a professor of the Physics Department, has recently been concluded by the selection of "astatine" as the name for element 85 which he, with his associates, discovered in 1940 at the University of California. Dr. MacKenzie, now lecturing in various physics courses at UBC, was originally a Victoria College student. He came to UBC for third and fourth years, and in 1937 won his Master's degree here. He then went to the University of California where he held a research associateship for eight years. It was during this time that he made his discovery. He returned to UBC last fall and now resides at Acadia Camp with his wife and three children. This is the second time that scientists associated with UBC have been instrumental in the isolation of new elements. Dr. J. Allen Harris, now of the Chemistry Department here, conducted experiments at the University of Illinois a number of years ago which led to the discovery of illinium, element 61. Burton Carpenter, A.Sc. '29, during the war years acted as Manager of the Canadian Industries Plant at Nobel, Ontario. He is now the Manager of the C.I.L. Plant at Selkirk, Manitoba. Our Congratulations and Best Wishes INSURE WITH ASSURANCE through BELL & MITCHELL LTD. 541 W. Georgia Vancouver, B. C. Whether for Home or Business Office our STATIONERY AND PRINTING DEPARTMENTS will serve you in many ways. QelvJztA ltd. 566 Seymour Street PA 0171 Vancouver Page 14 The Graduate Chronicle ERICA NALOS SINGING SCHOOL 'MARM APPEARS ON C.B.C. SHOW By MARY FALLIS Erica Xalos. 22-year-old school teacher and a graduate of U.B.C, Arts '45, Educ. '46, played "hookey" from her classes for two weeks this January to turn her pedagogue's voice to singing'operatic arias. She was one of four young Vancouver singers selected for a trip to Toronto and the opportunity of singing on a coast to coast C.B.C. program called "Singing Stars of Tomorrow." Miss Nalos appeared on the program and her performance prompted many listeners to pick her as one of the outstanding voices of the series. At U.B.C. she had a long association with musical groups, singing leads in the "Gondoliers" and "Merrie England." She was Director of Musical Appreciation and arranged music for U.B.C, Radio Society broadcasts. Teaming with Mr. Greg Miller (now assistant conductor for the St. Louis Symphony) she organized the University Concert Orchestra and was its president for two years. She likes concert songs — Mozart-lieder-some opera. At present she sings with the John doss singers and Chown Church Choir. ERICA AND PUPILS "Some day I would like to sing in the Metropolitan," she says, "but, then, one mustn't set: one's hopes too high." OrtvpxvUant oveaii... dDUR WEDDING yOUft EflflDUATIOIl Special Rates for Graduation Portraits. 'Phone for appoint- now and take advantage. • Formal • Candid • At Home • Church • Studio Creator of Tine Photographs BAyview 1750 2715 Granville Street at 11th Avenue March, 1947 Page 15 SPORT Be a Thunderbird athlete and see the world is beginning to be as true as be a U.B.C. Grad and build better dams and solve tougher economic problems around the globe. To the B.C. men holding positions in foreign parts, can now be added a quartet of Rhodes Scholars in Oxford and a trio of recent athletic greats. Reg Clarkson, Varsity's all 'round star, recently honored by being named Vancouver's Sportsman of the Year by a local newspaper, is off to Florida and spring training with the Fort Worth ball club of the Texas League. Ranji Mattu, the grid and rugger chappie, is on the way to his native India. Latest Bird to create a stir is Herb Capozzi, an undergrad who was recently offered a pro football contract with New York Giants. This marked the first time a local player has had a nibble from the grid big-time, but Capozzi, only Thunderbird to grab a spot on the Northwest Intercollegiate Conference mythical all-star eleven this vear, hasn't made up his mind. The offer was a good one, too. Four grand for the season or a good salary for the time he puts in, (if he doesn't click) plus expenses to and from the training camp. But perhaps Big Herb is toying with a coaching job that would help him continue his schooling. MATTU EARNS PRAISE Mattu, mentioned before in this column for his fine attitude in carrying on as a coach after he had hung up his strip, ran into a little "executive" trouble on the eve of his departure. He coached and brought his Blue Bombers to the first W'estern Canada football final, a smashing- battle against the powerful Calgary Tornadoes. Bombers lost by a single point. Right on top of that the executives suspended Mattu for not playing off a scheduled game, but his club won the league title, Ranji was reinstated and given a great sendoff by players and high school coaches. The sound spot that Ranji was in with the boys and the tribute they paid him, must have more than made up for the near-sighted action of the executives who need men of his type willing to pass on the "gen" to the upcoming youngsters. In the News—Dr. Harry Warren, cricket, rugby and grass hockey player, is currently busy on a research enterprise, and Dr. Alan Harris is a consultant for a firm going a little further into the healing powers of a B. C. clay that has been used with some success on bruised and battered athletes . . . Ralph Henderson, one-time Varsity basketball star, is carrying on as coach of the Meralomas, who are favored to represent B.C. in the national basketball championship . . . And opposing him is Rann Matthison, another great Thunderbird who is coaching Adanacs of New Westminster, a club boasting yet another U.B.C. player, Brud Matheson. By BILL DUNFORD . . . Sandy Robertson, who turned down a Boston Red Sox contract to continue his career in architecture, isn't going to be entirely lost to pro ball . . Sandy, last year's scoring star with the champion Thunderbord basketballers and now with Henderson's team, has been optioned to Vancouver Capilanos by Boston, through their Lynn, Mass., club, where Sandy pitched last year . . . Sandy will pitch home games for the Caps and before the home towners who haven't seen him since he turned pro, except for a couple of innings against the Major League All Stars last summer. . . . Basil Robinson, one of the better all round athletes in Vancouver at one time, is getting a big bang out of being a spectator at first class soccer and rugby games in England . . . He's picking up his Rhodes Scholarship as is Dr. John "Spud" Davies, the brilliant Kamloops chemist, who was a member of the Dominion champion hoopers of 1937; trackster Jim Brown and Alan Ainsworth, the 1946 Rhodes Scholar. CHflRLTOn&mORGflllLTD. A Completely Modernized Store to Serve You Better Society Brand Clothes Warren K. Cook Clothes 657 - 9 Granville St. MA. 0737 Excelsior Life Insurance Co. OUR POST-WAR CONVERTIBLE POLICY WILL COVER YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS GORDON WALLACE Commerce '42 Page 16 The Graduate Chronicle ^fizaklnq cZuito'iiaLLu —| The Provincial Government has allocated the sum of $1,500,000 for the establishment of a Medical Faculty at the University of British Columbia and has appropriated a further sum of $100,000 to meet yearly operating expenses. The Alumni Association has been advocating the establishment of a Medical Faculty and the erection of a teaching hospital on the University of B.C. campus. For these purposes the amount of money granted by the Government is not nearly sufficient. The information contained in the report issued by the Commission of medical experts appointed by the Board of Governors to enquire into the costs and the advisibility of establishing a hospital and medical faculty at Point Grey, revealed that something like $5,000,000 is needed for buildings and equipment and that a further yearly grant of close to $500000 would be necessary to meet operating- expenses and the prospective yearly hospital deficit. The result, then, seems to be that the University will get neither a medical faculty nor a teaching hospital at this time. At least it won't get a first class medical institution with the money offered and the likelihood is that the Governors will not order construction to go ahead until more money is available. HOSPITAL COSTLY When the suggestion of building an adjoining hospital on the University campus was first broached, some factions of the Medical Association strongly advocated the University and Government authorities to build the Medical School close to the Vancouver General Hospital. This plan, however, was flatly rejected by the Alumni .Association, which bases its opinion on the reasoning of the majority of the medical experts consulted. It is the considered opinion of these experts that the ideal place for the Medical School is on the campus, with its own hospital, and that unless the faculty is set up there, the University will not have a first class School. The Alumni Association unequivocally goes on record as violently opposing any removal of the Medical School from the campus and maintains that the advantage inherent in establishing the faculty at the University, free from down-town hospitals, greatly overweighs almost any other consideration. It need not be pointed out that both of the big hospitals in Vancouver are badly overcrowded and that the General Hospital in particular has greatly over-extented itself. The reason for the Government rejecting the amount of money advised by the Medical Commission, the Premier of the Province stated, was because such an amount would be incongruous with a faculty graduating only 50 students yearly. Such a pronouncement reveals only a self-evident lack of foresight. March, 1947 1 ORMONDE HALL Hospitals are not expected to return profits and neither are the reputations of Medical Schools determined by the low cost ratio they attain in turning out standents. They are built to serve the people of the community and their doctors are trained to meet the needs of these people and do research in the everlasting lasting battle against disease. As the Davis Report (sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation) just about to be issued will, we believe, reveal a new hospital is badly needed in the Point Grey area. A glance at the map will show that the area in which the Medical School is urged to be established is the area toward which the city is growing. It is conceivable that within 10 years, more than 10,000 people will be living within the University area itself and many more in the district of Point Grey. NEED HAS ARRIVED Why, then, all the delay in establishing a hospital on the University campus when its need has already arrived and will have to be built in a few years in any case? In the interest of economy and also in the interest of establishing a first class Medical School, there is no question but that the hospital should be built on the campus. Further, the whole country is growing and the province of British Columbia, one of the wealthiest in the Dominion, must help show the way to the future. Keeping' pace with the developments of modern medicine is in the vanguard of provincial responsibilities. There is great need for medical research which can only be carried on in the best equipped laboratories. And with the serious problem arising of combatting Cancer, Tuberculosis and other disease, the Government cannot afford to procrastinate any- longer. In fact, a dollar spent judiciously now, may mean many dollars gained in the long run when the eventual burden of taking care of the sick and aged of this province falls on the Provincial Government's shoulders. The people of British Columbia are a little tired of makeshift efforts on the part of the Government in the matter of public works. Here is a chance for the Government to establish a first rate institution on the University campus that will greatly enhance the University, take care of the "forgotten" pre-medical students, many of whom are ex-service men, provide the people of Vancouver with necessary and adequate health protection and furthermore benefit every person in the Province through medical research, diagnosis and treatment. The Government shouldn't miss this opportunity. Page 17 PERSONALITIES Turn-Table Stu Turner, B.S.A., '43, instructor in a first-year U.B.C. agronomy class, was finding some turntable situations popping up in his veteran classes . . . first he found he was teaching his old Grade 7 teacher, who is now a student . . . then another student turned out to be the man who was his officer-instructor at Gordon Head, when Turner was a cadet . . . later he found out that veterans don't bring apples for the teacher, but that they handed him cigars to celebrate the birth of their offspring . . . the climax came when two of the veterans were absent from class and the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, which checked on their absence, wanted to know why ... it turned out one student was being divorced—and the other was the co-respondent. . . . Donald Munro, Arts '40, was U.B.C.'s latest appointee to the Diplomatic Service. . . . He left at the New Year with his wife for Paris where he will take up duties as third-secretary at the Canadian Embassy. Nina Sedroff was off to California for a holiday and the staff are convinced that if she wanders over to Hollywood for a movie test she may join Mary McLeod and other U.B.C. grads who are faring ..._ii j.. |Ue fjjm capita.l. . . . (See cut.) . . . TO CALIFORNIA Mrs. Cecil J. Young, the former Elspeth Lerman, B.A. '34, was home after two years with the United Nations Information Office as librarian and research assistant in London . . . Mrs. Young and her seven months old daughter will leave in May to join her husband, a journalist, in New York. . . . Stuart Keate, Arts '35, ubiquitous grad journalist, jumped up another notch in the Time Inc. hierarchy last month . . . starting as a contributing editor for Time's Canada Section, Keate went through News, Foreign Affairs and the Medical Section before his latest appointment as chief of the Montreal Bureau for Time and Life. . . . Music Compositions by Jean Coulthard Adams, noted composer and pianist, were presented by Mr. Harry Adaskin, head of the Dept. of Music, U.B.C, and Mrs. Adaskin, pianist, in a program of present-day Canadian music at the Vancouver Art Gallery this month. , . . "Hail U.B.C." and "My Girl's a Hullabaloo," familiar songs to all B.C. grads, were waxed by Mr. Richard Hyslop's orchestra recently and are being- heard over the radio .Mid "P ;nkt -1 ■■ -n.* ~ ill "Ur Canada . . . proceeds from the sale of the recordings go to the War Memorial Gym Drive. . . . Austin Delany Jr., B.A., '41, leftist- minded former U. B. C. debater and writer, and until recently Vancouver City Director for the L.L.P., was attending Oxford University at the turn of the year and getting enough spare time to write the occasional story for a local labor weekly . . . says Delany, "Dominating the political scene in Britain today, and a potent factor in the Labor "revolt," is the widespread fear, held by broad sections of the people, including some capitalistic groups, that Britain will be subordinated to predatory designs of American imperialism and ultimately destroyed as a -world power. . . ." Austin was still in good form. . . . Dr. G. G. Sedgewick, head of the Department of English at U.B.C, and former English professor Ira Dilworth, regional director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, both came in for dubious LONDON Page 18 The Graduate Chronicle PERSONA LI TIES honors over the Christmas season . . . they appeared in a newspaper story as "notable cooks" . . . Dilworth holds the "cordon bleu," the experts said, his specialties . . . salads and hot, spicy curry . . . Dr. Sedgewick got honourable mention for his favorite concoction . . . cucumber soup! Alex Fisher, B.A. '33, elected as alderman in Vancouver's Civic election last December, picked off another job this month when he was appointed chairman of the newly formed Vancouver Boxing- Commission . . . and then before being officially installed, he was off to Ottawa on legal business. Pierre Berton, Arts '42, scriptwriter, cartoonist and newspaperman, took on a Hemming- way role for his newspaper this month ... he and Camera m a n Art Jones, Arts '45, hopped into a Norseman equipped with pilot and skis and flew to the famous Headless Valley in the Yukon . . . several parties of prospectors and explorers have gone into Headless Valley in the past decade and have been lost with- Berton and Jones went to solve the echoes HEADLESS YALLEY out trace . . . mystery . . . results: nothing but hollow and yards and yards of newspaper publicity. Berton was also attracting attention as author and actor on his new C.B.C. produced play . . . "Byline Story" . . . Dr. H. V. Warren, B.Sc. '27, Rhodes Scholar former Olympic sprinter and English rugby star, now professor of geology and geography at U.B.C, came up with a unique answer to what might be the reason for a future depression . . . i'ts Vancouver's bright lights . . . urging that B. C. needs a greater population and that the province can support three million people, Dr. 'Warren advised young men to take vocations in the primary industries of the province . . . "Two-thirds of B. C.'s income," he said, "is derived from its mining and lumber industries . . . it's my guess, we'll have another depression, if we all want to stay wEere the bright lights are . . ." Tom J. Keenan, B.A. '35, was back home in Vancouver from his UNRRA job in Europe ... As a director of misplaced persons under UNRRA, Keenan revealed that one of the organization's most immediate problems was getting Polish refugees to return to their farms from camps in Germany . . . Refugees, he said, received the best in medical care and j ample food in the camps and were reluctant to leave. . . . Rhodes Scholar Alastair W. Gillespie, 24-year-old Victoria bred "all rounder" was on his way to Oxford as British Columbia's 1947 Rhodes scholar . . . Boasting an academic record of 85 per cent last fall at McGill, a war record with the Royal Canadian Navy and an athletic career ranging from English rugby to track .... AND OXFORD and field events, Gillespie was a worthy, if hardly University of British Columbia representative . . . Gillespie's full stay at U.B.C. dated from October 1, 1941, until December 15, 1941 . . . Miss Avris Pumphrey, B.A. '27, left this month for Ottawa and her new post—just created—with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs . . . Miss Pumphrey will be supervisor of training and personnel and carries with her a backlog of training for her new job picked up in her years of social work with the B.C. Government T.B. unit, and latterly at the University of Chicago, where she obtained her master's degree in social service administration. Barbara Ellen Spencer, B.A. '42, was heading for a trip that read like a travelogue . . . Barbara entrained for the east and a four month trip to eastern cities and the Caribbean and planned an itinerary that included Toronto, Montreal, New York, Miami, Jamaica and Cuba. . . . Frances James, well known Canadian soprano, was scheduled to appear on a Canadian Legion sponsored Sunday evening campus recital this month but the concert was cancelled because of opposition from a group of Vancouver clergy . . . tbe provisions of the provincial "Sunday Observance Act were brought to mind by the churchman who threatened to bring action if the concert went on . . . Besides providing that a fine may be levied against persons conducting paid admission shows on Sunday, the Act provides many other obsolete restrictions . . . one being that persons found boating, for any other than essential purposes, on Sunday are liable to a fine of $1.25 . . . Irate Canadian Legion men were convinced that the ministers should paddle their own boat and the Legionaires should be free to paddle theirs. March, 1947 Page 19 * WOMEN * By MARY FALLIS Recently the Vancouver School Board did honour to Dr. Annie B. Jamieson when she retired after 37 years as teacher and trustee. We too would do honor to her and acknowledge her record of service in the field of education. Long a member of Convocation, of the Senate, an LL.D. of U.B.C. she has been a good friend of our university throughout its formative years. She spent twenty years as a teacher at King Edward High School, then seventeen years on the Board of School Trus- ees. In addition she was twenty-one years on the Vancouver Library Board. Many of us remember her with affection and gratitude as "Jamie" — a human and inspiring teacher—never too busy to give that personal encouragement that was invaluable to the young students who came her wav. It is a rare occasion when Vancouver University Women's Club has as a guest speaker one of U.B.C.'s own graduates. At the January meeting Mrs. Frank Ross (Phyllis Gregory '25) gave an interesting account of her work as Oils and Fats Administrator of W.P.T.B. during the -war years. Mrs. Ross was recently elected Scholarship Convener of the National Executive of the Canadian Federation of University Women, for a triennial period. MRS. FRANK ROSS From Ottawa comes news of several of our grads holding interesting positions with the National Film Board. Margery McKay, Arts '30, is now supervisor of Business Management. At one time she taught in Williams Lake, Enderby and Vernon, and then in North Vancouver. She went to the Film Board in the summer of 1942, and there she has done personnel work, run the film library, been production business manager, and distribution business manager, and represented NFB in Los Angeles for a winter. Now she has general charge over finances and prepares all estimates. Kathleen Greenwood, Arts '33, has had a picturesque career. After taking Latin and French Honours, she went to Geneva on a Zimmern Scholarship for a summer school in international affairs. Staying on in Switzerland she joined the staff of the Canadian delegation to the League of Nations as private secretary to Dr. Riddell. She left Geneva in 1940 and six months after war broke out she went to New Zealand as official secretary to Dr. Riddell, the Canadian High Commissioner. It was while she was in Wellington using the films sent there by the NFB, that she became interested in the possibilities of films. She came home in December, 1944, and joined the Film Board Staff in January. She is in charge of screenings to M.P.'s, Government departments, foreign embassies and legations, and other special groups in Ottawa, and feels that her present work is fundamental to United Nations activities and achievements — for films are one of the most vivid and effective media of international communication. Jessie Mennie, Arts '29, went to the Sorbonne on a French Government Scholarship, and returned to teaching positions at Duncan and in Vancouver. She joined the Film Board in 1942. There she organized the reference and clipping library, went into the newly formed information section to do some writing, gathered material for reports, looked after information in connection with graphics (i.e. photo-mural and portable displays) and is now doing information work in connection with international distribution. She writes : "We distribute our films through offices in the U.S.A., U.K., Sweden, Belgium, the U.S.S.R. and various other countries. This is a rapidly expanding part of our work and there is lots to do that is interesting- as well as apparently endless series of reports on our films in the U.S., U.S. films in Canada and so on. . ^ Easter ^ Fashions From Vancouver's Fashion Leaders OJCtVO\\JLb 623 West Hastings Street Page 20 The Graduate Chronicle March, 1947 Page 21 FRANKLY SPEAKING By FRANK TURNER (Alumni Secretary-Manager) Now—the smoke has cleared away; the only big- guns still booming on the campus are those saluting successful candidates in this year's action- packed student elections. Scheduled to fill capable A.M.S. President Ted Kirkpatrick's shoes is Grant Livingstone, President of the U.B.C. Branch 71 of the Canadian Legion. In wishing him good luck in his responsible position (student funds amount to $125,000), you can't help reflecting that he should make an outstanding student leader. He's aggressive, sincere, mature and determined. Yes sir—it would have revived pleasant memories for many Alumni; just to journey out to the campus a short while ago to witness the traditional political student campaign without politics. Interest was high, with "original" slogans, profound prom- sies and pledges, almost-libelous remarks, blackboard reminders in classrooms, and the inevitable array of talent on display on an overcrowded caf notice board. And you could become quickly confused . . . and being grinned at by poster candidates smiling past thumb tacks and also-mutilated posters right at you. You sauntered on, haunted by faces with vour brain bombarded by letter-combinations . . . "M.U.S., W.A.D., U.S.C.,' . . . U.B.C- C.O.D., etc." Notes: One of the most famous slogans used will be remembered by grads of the late thirties. Shaugh- nessy Hospital's Dr. Elmer Jones (B.A. '39) swept into office on it. The slogan? "There ain't no flies on Elmer . . ." Another catchy phrase helped former football star and present lawyer Tommy Williams (B.A. '41) land the Junior Member position one year. Tommy, who had just returned from a business trip to China, recalled it with a chuckle the other dav: "Vote for Honest T.C" . . . All hail the Aggies !'E. C. Reid (B.S.A. '31, M.S.A. '40) of the Public Relations Committee of the A.I.C. noted a dearth of material about Agricultural grads in the past two Chronicles. Suggestion: Omission corrected by submissions . . . Orme Dier (B.A. '41), former Ubyssey Sport Editor and now a High School teacher at Duncan, holidayed recently in Vancouver with his charming wife and son. Lance. Dier, Jr., (aged 2\\/2 years) will probably be on skates next year if his hockey-minded Dad has his way! . . . Eric Grubee (B.A. '41) is now a Professor at Boston University; congratulations . . . Ex-Sun feature writer, Lieut.-Commander Ken Grant, R.C.N.(R.) is Sea Cadet Training Officer for B. C. Ken was no "dry land" sailor during the war; not with about four straight years North Atlantic convoy time to his credit! . . . Laurie Nicholson (B.A. '33) and Bibby Chapman (B.A. '31), with respective wives chatting out a dance at the traditional Boxing Day affair, replayed the '31 Canadian basketball title series. Laurie, who had journeyed down with the better half from Rossland for the Dance, and Bobby swung salt and pepper shakers down the linen at the table for "break-a-way" points. They won the championship again . . . Tom Scott, Grad. Class President of '46- dropped a line to your Alumni Office. Tom's rounding up recent Engineer Alumni in Montreal for a get-together. . . . Alan Ainsworth, Immediate Past-President of the A.M.S. and last year's Rhodes Scholar, sent along a card. Alan, who is the first Chairman of the Memorial Drive, had but one message: "Build the Gym in '47." . . . Taking a short break between semesters, Ted English (B.A. '44) visited friends in Vancouver and on the campus recently. Ted's a Past-President of the Players' Club and has now joined the 15-odd U.B.C. Alumni studying for Ph.D.'s in the University of California at Berkeley. He believes that just "living at International House is an education in International Relations in itself." Largest numerical group in the House, with the exception of the Americans, is the delegation from India, China being second and Canada third .... E. A. LEE LTD. For Quality Clothes with Famous Labels British Imports Scotch Tweeds Exclusive Men's Wear 623 Howe Street Page 22 The Graduate Chronicle APPOINTMENTS DR. SMITH DIRECTOR OF N. S. RESEARCH COUNCIL A V ancouver physicist, Dr. Harold D. Smith, professor of physics at University of B.C., has been appointed director of the Nova Scotia Research Council. For the past two years, he has been working on research problems connected with synthetic rubber, under sponsorship of Na- t i o n a 1 Research Council, in his UBC laboratory. During the war years, Dr. Smith did research on radar for National Research Council, and for a time was instructor for the U.S. Navy's V-sh program at Notre Dame. He was first appointed to UBC staff as a lecturer in 1938. Dr. Smith graduated from UBC in 1927 with first class honors in mathematics. He won the Governor-General's ('.old Medal for highest marks in the graduate vear. MR. JUSTICE COADY ON BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mr. Justice Coady of the British Co- 1 u m b i a Hipreme Court Bench, recent ly was appointed to fill out the balance of Mr. Justice Denis Murphy's unexpired term on the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia. Pie is an outstanding jurist with a fine educational back- ground. Graduate of St. Francis Xavier University of Antig- onislr Nova Scotia, he came to B.C. in 1910. He was principal of Vernon Public School from 1911 to 1913 and then turned to law and was admitted to the b 1924. Mrs. Justice' Coady was made a King's Counsel in 1940 and in 1945 was appointed lecturer in law at U.B.C. His governorship 'term runs until 1951. m cs> (owea/i/ ve a/nmyth ,f is like an alert professor — always seeking knowledge and an opportunity to serve, weighing, sifting facts, examining records and probabilities. Creative banking is interested in helping sound men with sound ideas: it's interested in creating new business, new work and better living. THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA March, 1947 ■ ■ Page 2.5 (*J BRANCHES **> OTTAWA By NORA E. BOYD (B. Comm. '44) After two years of almost total disorganization, the Ottawa Branch of the U.B.C. Alumni Association finally arranged a dinner meeting on January 7th at the Chateau Laurier. The turn-out wasn't as great as we had originally expected, but there were approximately 60 graduates present. Dr. James A. Gibson gave an interesting talk on some of the sidelights of the Paris Conference. The new executive was elected with Dr. Walter Barss (M.A. '39), acting President, retiring and Arthur Johnson (B.A. '35) being elected to the office of President. During the last two years, and particularly during this last year, the membership of the Ottawa Branch of the U.B.C. Alumni Association has been changing and decreasing rather rapidly. Many of the "wartime" workers have returned .to "God's country"—among these, Marjorie Finlay, Margot Burgess, Don Smith, Jim MacDonald and numerous others. On the other hand, we. have among us some new faces, Margaret Croll, Helen Duncan and Nan Wilson, all with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and Joyce Clarke, Diana Young, Victor Johnston and Harry Morritt with the Department of Labour. Don Chutter is working with the Canadian Construction Association here. We will shortly be losing the Don Munros from among our group as they are leaving for Paris in the very near future where Don is taking over a new post in the Department of External Affairs. It is hoped that during this coming year the "turn-over" of our members here ma)' be considerably reduced, now that things are settling down after the termination of the war. PENTICTON ALUMNI GATHERING A party of Summerland alumni including the executive were guests of the Penticton alumni at a social evening held on the evening of February 1st at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Aikins at Penticton. At this meeting the Penticton alumni discussed the formation of an active alumni branch in their community and set up committees to study ways and means in which their branch could most effectively serve their University and the public generally. About 35 were in attendance, many of whom had come through the hazards of snow and icy roads to be there. Mr. A. K. McLeod, president of the Summer- land Group, spoke to the gathering telling them of some of the work which was entailed in the operation of the Summerland Group over a number of years and of the work done to establish the Summerland Scholarship Fund. Mr. G. Ewart Wool- iams, a past president of the Summerland organization, also briefly addressed the gathering. Those comprising the Summerland party included Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Macleod, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Wooliams and Mr. A. Watt. City President Secretary Victoria Dr. Don C. Buckland Mrs. W. J. Compbell Kamloops Mrs. Agnes Burton Jean Brechin South Ok. Mrs. A. Aikins, Eric Lewis Naramata, B.C. Penticton, B.C. Vernon & Env. Miss Hilda Cryderman Anna C. Fulton Kimberley Dr. Doug S. Campbell Robinson M. Porter W. Kootenay T. R. Stanley Art Gordon Creston V. Dr. J. Vernon Murray Miss Marg. Pallot Ottawa A. J. F. Johnson Miss N. E. Boyd Wells Mr. Jas. A. Pike Summerland A. K. MacLeod A. W. Watt (St) Revelstoke Sam Smith Murray Little PENTICTON The newly formed alumni met recently at Anne Aitkens (Carter) for a business-social meeting and Biff McLeod (Summerland) gave a talk on the Alumni Constitution. Plans were laid to send a contribution to the War Memorial Gym Fund through the Penticton Alumni group. REVELSTOKE The alumni here number about 15 and formed a Branch last November, electing Stan Smith, '35, as President. ' Miss Mackenzie left for Vancouver at Christmas and her place has been filled by Agnes Ramsay '35. Other members are Jean Jornston Smith '40, Dorothy Lundell '32, Ruth McKee Robinson '31, Peter Grauer '33, Mardi Reid Henderson '28, Wallace Johnston '35, and Laura Johnson Abbott. Meetings have been held once a month to revive memories, discuss current Alumni business, and cudgel the brains for ideas on how to raise money for the Memorial Gym. We have gone on record with the local member that we favor the campus hospital plan being stressed by the Alumni Association. WILLIAN M. MERCER LIMITED Independent Specialists in the field of Employee Benefit Programmes VANCOUVER MONTREAL 520 SEYMOUR ST. TORONTO PAcific 7728 Page 24 The Graduate Chronicle m* BRANCHES rfc? SUMMERLAND By MRS. KATHLEEN M. STRACHAN The Summerland branch, which holds bi-monthly meetings, now has a membership of over thirty and at the September meeting the following officers were elected: President: Mr. A. K. MacLeod (Beatrice Cook, B.A. '34). Vice-President: Mrs. R. C. Palmer (Marjorie Matheson, B.A. '21). Secretary-Treasurer: Mr. A. Watt, B. Comm. '32. Publicity: Mrs. C. C. Strachan. Last fall a sub-committee drew up a constitution for the branch. The main purpose of our group is to raise money in aid of the University and last June in this connection a successful dance was staged and another is scheduled for theis coming June. The money from the previous dance was given directly to the Summerland Scholarship fund which was under the auspices of the Summerland Alumni group. This fall, thanks to a very successful scholarship fund drive, we were able to make our first award of the scholarship to Miss Joan Bennett. Dr. R. C. Palmer, M.S.A. '23, Superintendent of the Dominion Experimental Station at Summer- land,, and one of our most distinguished members, received an honorary degree at the Fall Convocation. Another member, R. S. Noble, D.S.O., attended the recent investiture at the University. CRESTON VALLEY The Creston branch is still in the formative stage, but recently an executive was elected with Dr. J. Vernon Murray, B.A. '29, M.D. (Toronto '34) taking the chair as first President. Miss Margaret Pallot, B.A. '44, was elected Sec.-Treasurer. Members of the Executive Committee are: Mrs. D. K. Archibald (former Connie McTavish '29), Mrs. W. J. Truscott (former Eleanor McLean '21), Mr. Harold Fullerton, the Rev. Bernard Ennals, '38, and Mr. T. Gautier '34. Fflfi HOLIDAY INfOMTION Let us help you with suggested itineraries . . . reasonably priced resorts . . . things to do and see. Kathleen Elliott Vacations ROGERS BLDG. PA. 3367 Ask for Free Holiday Bulletin VANCOUVER, B. C. KAMLOOPS Since this group organized, one of its principal objectives has been to bring to Kamloops worthwhile stage presentations. This year, its first venture of this nature was the sponsoring of the Everyman Theatre production of the "Importance of Being Earnest." The next attraction will be the annual visit from the U.B.C. Players Club. Meetings are held each month. Mrs. Agnes Burton, the energetic president, sees that business is dispatched in the best parliamentary manner. George Holland's Program Committee then takes over, providing such items as an address on the theory of government, by Dave Fulton, Kamloops Rhodes Scholar M.P.; and a vivid account of prisoner-life in Malaya and Japan' as experienced by Bernard Rogers. Executive members are: Agues Burton, Wilf Pendray '38, Jack Gregson '34, David Verchere, Evelyn Bradley '44, George Holland '33, Desmond Howard '32 and Jean Brechin. SERVE YOU "Larry Wright" • ■ You have in your mind a list of people in your community who are ready to serve you in various capacities —the doctor, the dentist, the banker, the lawyer, the clergyman, each in his own field. Add to this list the life insurance agent, who is especially qualified to advise you regarding your financial problems. With his help you can plan for the education of your children, the protection of your family, the security of your business, your own financial independence. The Sun Life representative in your community is at your service. It will pay you to consult him. Vancouver Unit LARRY WRIGHT, Supervisor Telephone PAcific 5321 ROYAL BANK BUILDING, VANCOUVER, B. C. SUN LIFE OF CANADA March, 1947 Page 25 Hugh Keenleyside Appointed Deputy Minister of Mines 11 u g h Llewellyn Keenleyside, 48, distinguished U. B. C. graduate and Canadian Ambassador to Mexico, was given a new job by the Do minion Government recently in a move that shifted him from the diplomatic service up to a better position in the civil service. Long time deeply interested in the Arctic- Hugh Keenleyside was appointed Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources—a job that will carry with it instructions from Prime Minister King to exploit: 1, the Northwest Territories in which uranium mines; 2, and the militarily strategic A tic region. He will get a boost in salary from $10,000 $15,000 a vear. le rc- to Notes John Carson, '43, is now Personnel Consultant with Woods, J. D. and Gordon Ltd., Consultant Engineers, in Toronto. Ernie Gilbert, '32, is in Edmonton, where he is padre on the permanent staff of Western Air Command. Gilbert Carpenter, '25, (Ph.D., McGill), has been for some years Research Chemist with the Air Reduction Company in Baltimore. Ohio. He has recently spent five months in Germany as a consultant with the American Government. We Sell For Less we will meet any competitor's price at any time—not only ceiling but floor price—and will gladly refund the difference. ARMY & NAVY DEPARTMENT STORES VANCOUVER AND NEW WESTMINSTER Dr. Beall Heads Research Group at McGill Dr. Desmond Beall (Arts '32), recently joined the Faculty of McGill University, heading a group doing research in endocrinology. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Toronto in 1935, he joined the Medical Research Council in England to prepare the International Progesterone Standard for the League of Nations. In 1937 he won a Beit Memorial Fellowship in Medical Research. In 1939 he was Lecturer in Pathological Chemistry at the British Postgraduate Medical School, where he did fundamental research in connection with air raid casualties. In 1941 he joined the staff of Ayerst, McKenna and Harrison at Montreal as senior chemist and brought into existence the first commercial penicillin unit in Canada. Dr. Reginald M. Archibald, Arts '30, was appointed Professor of Biochemistry at the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He was previously Special Investigator at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, as a member of an antimalarial team for OSRD. Packed by DICKSON IMPORTING CO. LTD. Insurance Of All Kinds FIRE AUTOMOBILE PERSONAL PROPERTY FLOATERS BURGLARY NORWICH AGENCIES LIMITED W. ORSON BANFIELD, Manager MArine 6171 211 Rogers Bldg. Vancouver, B. C. Page 26 The Graduate Chronicle LIGHTER**- STUFF By LES BEWLEY "If I were founding a university I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more probably with it, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money than I couldn't use, I woidd hire a professor and get some textbooks." —From "Oxford As I See It," by Stephen Leacock. Truth is the funniest thing in the world—everyone is looking for it; everyone has a different description for it; everyone, at one time or'another, has probably held it right in his hand and then dropped it because the fool thing looked too simple to be the complicated thing he sought. When most people say: come on now, tell the truth; they don't mean that at all. What they do mean is: come on now, tell the facts. Sometimes the two terms are synonymous ; sometimes not. Truth is a little like garlic. Most people could take garlic in the raw form, but won't. If you offer them' straight garlic they will say: aha, ray lad, that's no garlic, because there's no soup to go with it. But if you offer them soup with just the smallest smidgeon of garlic in it, about one split pea's worth, they will detect it instantly. A man we know—we're not telling names—was given, in the balmy days of his youth, to some of the more dubious aspects of Cavorting. Now, every youth Cavorts a little, but this youth's Cavorting was something- to see. The rising sun of the morning would often strike his forehead as he mounted the stairs of his home, and usually the impact was enough to knock him out. Really a Cavorter, you see. At any rate, whenever asked to explain his long absences, our Cavorter would reply: why, father, I was merely drinking gin out of a washbasin w-ith three impossible young women. Then he would laugh, and his father would laugh, and say, "the young scamp." "Never can get any sense out of him." Well, the Young scamp had merely related the facts, word for word. But he soon learned that nobody would believe him. You see, it was just a case of all garlic and no soup. Anyway, he learned his lesson so well that years afterward he went all through the war telling his customers: "butter?— why sure, I've got a thousand pounds of it right under the counter." Then he would laugh a hearty laugh. And then his customers would laugh like mad and say, "oh, Mr. Z , you are a scamp, though." At which Mr. Z , drying his eyes on his apron, would own up to it he was, remembering the stack of butter underneath his counter. Probably, when you read Stephen Leacock's ideas on founding a university, at the very outset of this little essay, you, too, thought: the old scamp. A nice point, but of course he doesn't mean it. Dadrattit, the Old Scamp was probably never more serious in his life. And now, perhaps, you'll believe us when we tell you the totally preposterous Reason Why Your Old Alma Mater U.B.C. is Going Downhill. " Leacock was right. We built it wrong. With professors first. That wasn't fatal, though, because we came to our senses later and founded a couple of Common-Rooms. No doubt some of you recall the Men's Common Room in the corner of the Arts building, overlooking the Quad. \\Tot quite what it could have been, of course; no green easy chairs or white-coated Frosh swabbing out cuspidors, but still, a Room. Well, it isn't there any more. It's gone. Thev sawed it up and made it into offices for lecturers and assistants. Can you beat it? They Cut Down the Old Common Room. And with it. some lively ghosts. Some great men passed through that room, and some of them cut their second set of teeth in there. We can't think of any off-hand, but there must have been some and, left alone for a century, it certainly would have produced one. Now the students, shorn of their smoking rooms, spend their noon hours listening to symphonies, phonies, jazz bands, string quartets and dadratted Socialists. It stopped being a university and became a Hilker Attraction. And that sort of extracurricular activity doesn't develop the quick-witted- ness that wre remember, from long ago, as the result of smoking-room jousts ; thus : A: You know, I really think the Dean has mistaken me for someone else. B: (Quick as a wink) That's particularly fortunate for you. old boy. The difference, friends, between a statistician and a statesman. At any rate, Grads, the Old Place has changed some, as you probably have been told. This campus of ours never really got as far as John Held Jr. and raccoon coats, even in your day; but it resembles a department store now. No Common Rooms, you see. And there is even some talk about King John's Castle, which the youngsters today call The Library. The}- have breached its moat with bulldozers and scrapers. They may yet put an escalator inside. But no Common Room, Mr. Leacock. // Alert to U. B. C"- STUDENT REPORTERS WRITE 6* W REGULAR FEATURE EVERY GRAD SHOULD READ! (Hit? Uattnntttrr 2fows-ijwald $1 a month Delivered. Call PAc. 2272 March, 1947 Page 27 JABEZ ERIC NICOL WRITES OF PROGRESS AT U.B.C. If you haven't been out to the campus lately, it might be a good idea to keep it that way, and delay your visit until Progress has blown over. Start wandering around around the campus these days and you're liable to have an iron claw snag your britches and hoist you into a dump truck. Everywhere you look excavations are underway (there is even a dentist somewhere on the premises), and buildings are springing up like mushrooms. It's a pity some of them aren't springing up like classrooms. So far most of the new buildings have been built to hold the tools of the men who are building the new buildings. The Physics Building is coming along nicely, though, being designed in the mode of the Atomic Age: solid concrete throughout. A physicist will be able to vaporize himself and his equipment in a laboratory without disturbing persons in nearby- rooms. Subdued explosions. Tuum erat. Minor chaos has been caused by a large hole that men are burrowing under the steps of the Library. Dr. Kaye Lamb has offered a euphemistic explanation for this pit, which gives you vertigo even before you see the paintings in the lobby, stating that it is needed for enlargement of the transformer. But most people realize that the hole is merely the librarians' latest effort to find a place to hide their copy of Forever Amber and other frankly salacious literature that they have innocently ordered, then found too hot to handle. Copies of these books have been disappearing from Library shelves for years, of course, as succeeding waves of undergraduates packed them off to warm up their outside reading. Sometimes they vanished even before the librarians had a chance to read them. Feeling that this was going too far, the librarians a few years ago created The Cage, a dungeon in the darkest corner of the bottom floor, and there they lumped together Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dos Passos and other wayward writers. To obtain a book by one of these writers it has been necessary, preferably after having a stiff drink, to present a call slip and wait while the librarian descends into the depths, feels her way to The Cage, unlocks the massive door, stands back to allow the noxious fumes to escape, darts in to seize the book, then returns upstairs, brands the squirming volume, and hands it to you, your passport to Hell. The danger of spontaneous combustion in the Cage has necessitated construction of the new pit. Already the diggers have unearthed the thighbone of a giant stackrat (Bibliosaurus rex), as well as the skeleton of a professor who is supposed to be giving a course in economics (he has now been granted leave of absence). The triphammers rip away at the stone and clay, the bulldozers snarl in the muddy bottom of the new wing, and in the Library students stuff erasers into their ears and try to remember that, though they may fail, those that follow will have a quiet place to sit, just like the good old days. . . . A Banking Service... which is in contact with business at every phase—from the supplying of credit to the collection of receivables and the dissemination of trade information—is indispensable to the progressive business man. Such a service, built up during more than three-quarters of a century's contact with Canadian enterprise, we are happy to offer. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Page 2f The Graduate Chronicle TA B L O I D NEW LIBRARY? REAL BUSS Students at U.B.C. got a shock when they saw the new library sign leaning against the construction men's tool shack . Father Francis Chaloner, Chaplain of St. Paul's Hospital, denounced the scanty attire of the University chorus girls participating in this year's Mardi Gras, commenting that the sorority girls might appropriately be called Ecdysiasts .... the term is derived from the Greek "ekdusis," meaning the act of shedding or taking off and was applied in 1937 by H. L. Mencken to Gypsy Rose Lee . . . however, despite, or perhaps because of Father Chaloner, the Mardi Gras sold out both nights and a charity organization benefited to the extent of $4000. Chancellor of the University, Eric Hamber, kisses Pat Drope, Queen of the Mardi Gras. MARDI-GRAS ALUMNI AS Revenue and Expenditure REVENUE Fees Annual Dues Proportion of Life Memberships Reunion Dance Admissions Less Expenses Convocation Dance (See Contra) Admissions Less Expenses Grant—Board of Governors Sundry Revenue and Donations Excess of Expenditure over Revenue for period ended Oct. 31, 1946 SOCIATION FINANCIAL REPORT Statement for Period September 27, 1945, to October 31, 1946 EXPENDITURES * ,rnm Graduate Chronicle $ 750.00 Expense $5,898.40 198.50 $ 948.50 Less Revenue 4,490.55 $1,407.85 Homecoming 1945 Expenses $ 238.00 2-765-00 Less Revenue 196.20 41.80 1,715.77 1,049.23 .„., ,, TZ7— ' 1946 Expenses 378.06 Less Revenue 282.00 96.06 853.81 Grant—Gymnasium Fund— „,,, „,.„ in Profit on Convoca- 722-62 13!-19 tion Dance _ General and Administrative Expenses ' ' Salary, Secy.-Manager 2,083.30 13.50 Wages—General 364.60 Office Supplies, Expenses 481.33 Memberships 98.50 1,351.87 Bursary 50.00 Postage and Mailing 194.06 General Expense 212.60 3,484.39 137.86, 131.19 $5,161.29 TRUST ACCOUNT Life Memberships $567.00 Interest Earnings 36.78 $5,161.29 $603.78 Transferred to General Account $198.50 . Rank Charges 5.00 Excess of Revenue over Expenditure for period ended October 31st, 1946 400.28 $603.78 Statement "B" referred to in pur report of even date. Vancouver, B.C., January 24th, 1947. Balance Sheet as at October 31, 1946 ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES Cash at Bank Cash at Bank Chronicle .. 511.53 125.38 $1,096.06 1,304.53 1,351.87 802.90 Accounts Receivable Convocation 537.06 412.72 494.25 Board of Governors Grant Chronicle Advertising Less Reserve for Doubtful 1,444.03' 139.50 Total Current Assets FIXED Furniture and Fixtures .... Organization Expense .... Operating Deficit $2,400.59 491.62 31.93 Less Contributed Surplus 548.97 $3,473.11 TRUST $ 565.37 Due from General Account 698.50 INVESTMENTS Dominion of Canada 3% B Dnds at cost 900.00 $2,163.87 CURRENT Accounts Payable 446.92 Accts. Payable Chronicle- 678.50 Due to Trust Account .. 698.50 Due to Univ. of British Columbia Gym Fund .. 131.19 Prepaid Annual Dues 1,185.00 333.00 Total Current Liabilities $3,473.11 $3,473.11 Surplus Balance September 27, 1945 $1,763.59 Add Excess of Revenue over Expenditure for period ended October 31st, 1946 400.28 $2,163.87 Statement "A" referred to in our report of (even) date. Vancouver, B.C., January 24th, 1947. $2,163.87 CREHAN, MEREDITH & CO., Chartered Accountants. Page 30 The Graduate Chronicle BOXING DAY DANCE MISS MARGARET HASPELL, Chairman of Boxing Day Dance with committee member BETTY BUCKLAND. FINANCIAL SUCCESS CHAIRMAN'S REPORT By MARGARET HASPELL Both as chairman, and personally, I wish to thank all who assisted in the organization of the dance; in all respects I received exceptional cooperation. The committee consisted of Betty Buck- land, Meryl Campbell, Jack Stevenson and Jack Hetherington. Jn addition, Art Sager handled the publicity, Cart Collard acted as business manager, giving most generously of his time and energies with "the result that the ticket sale was handled most efficiently; Quadra Trading Co. gave us the use of their office, and Irving Keenlysidc and his staff also cheerfully answered our telephone calls and sold tickets outside our office hours; Jack Kmerson arranged the entertainment, contributing his own services as part of the program. Following is a detailed financial report: Total Receipts ...- $2,095.24 Less Expenses Commodore Cabaret. 1098 at $1.35 i'1,482.30 Extra Music - 17.50 $1,499.80 Printing Tickets and Programmes 34.29 Liquor License 2.00 Entertainment Dance Team 25.00 Transportation 2.00 Commissionaire 6.00 Flowers (Patronesses) 6.00 1,575.09 Net Profit $1,120.15 TREASURER LYLE SWAIN'S REPORT In the year 1946 the U.B.C. Alumni Association suffered a severe attack of growing pains. It acquired a Secretary-Manager and spent a great deal of money to give him efficient surroundings. The spending, given above in detail, might be classified roughly as follows: 1. Secretary-Manager's salary, incompletely covered by grant from Board of Governors made toward that end. 2. General and administrative expenses, amounting to some $1400, which might be considered a measure of the activity of our campus office since they are the result of office assistance, stencils, paper and postage. 3. The Chronicle. In this connection it should be pointed out that: LABORATORY SUPPLIES AND CHEMICALS For Assay Offices, Educational, Hospital and Industrial Laboratories CAVE & COMPANY Limited 567 Hornby Street Vancouver, B.C. MArine 8341 a. It no longer has a subscription fee specifi cally allocated to it. b. The revenue shown is from advertising, which was an almost new venture in 1946. c. It has a greatly expanded circulation, the better to accomplish the aims of the Association. It is confidently expected that the U.B.C. Alumni Association will go ahead vigorously. The foundations were laid during this past year. As one indication of this forward movement vour attention is drawn to the fees situation shown on the opposite page. In 1946 the Annual Dues totalled $759. But the Annual Dues already collected by October 31, 1946, for the vear 1947 amounted to $1185. UTLEY ARMSTRONG MILLINERY SALON Original Creations in Hats that are Different! Hats Made to Order 2806 Granville St. BAy. 9300 March, 1947 Page 31 EXECUTIVE REPORT By DARRELL T. BRAIDWOOD. President U.K.C. Alumni Association The Executive of the Alumni Association has been very active recently. In particular, the Executive has concerned itself with the proposed Medical Faculty at the University. A decision was reached by the Executive to support the policy of having a Medical School at the University in conjunction with a hospital and public health facilities. In this regard communications have been sent to many Alumni and other sasking support of such proposals and it is to be hoped that Alumni generally will do everything in their power to assist. Your Executive has also done considerable research in the matter of interested or partisan groups obtaining rights at the University to teach University courses from the standpoint of their own particular teachings or doctrines. The Executive set up a Committee which, after much investigation, came to the conclusion that the University's present mode of teaching- namely: a nonpartisan and non-sectarian method should be continued. Representations were made to Senate on behalf of the members of the Executive expressing this finding. The Secretary recently made a trip to Rossland and Trail and he intends to visit other centres in the Province during the coming year. Your President and Secretary had a most profitable visit with the Victoria Branch of the Alumni in November and found the interest there at a high point. Alumni records are gradually becoming more complete and the Secretary is pleased at any time to assist Alumni groups in mailing notices or in any other problems which may arise. The Executive holds regular monthly meetings on the second Wednesday of each month and business to be placed before the meeting should be in the hands of the Secretary before that time. DR. F. McKENZIE (Continued from Page 13) Hammond Club (Cambridge, England), first and only English-speaking honorary member of Veterinary Medicine Faculty, University of Chile, and a member of the U.S. Committee to the International Congress of Phvsio-Pathology, which meets in Milan, Italy, in 1948. He is also a life member of the U.B.C. Alumni Association. Arrow Transfer Co. Ltd. Light and Heavy Hauling of All Descriptions 1ZZZZJ MArine 0535 LIONEL STEVENSON (Continued from Page 11) Girl—the Life of Lady Morgan" and "Dr. Quicksilver—the Life of Charles Lever," Dr. Stevenson has chosen two nineteenth century novelists now but little read, and by acquiring a thorough and meticulous know-ledge of his material and by using his gift of vivid writing he has made them live again in his pages. And not only do the people who move across his crowded stage live and breathe, but the scene itself becomes real and fes- cinating. As The Times Literary Supplement remarked, "Mr. Lionel Stevenson has had the wit to make the career of a minor novelist the occasion for an excellent account of a picturesque period of literary and social transition." The third biography, "The Showman of Vanity Fair," is the life not of an obscure novelist but of a very great one,—Thackery. It has just been published in the United States by Scribners', and by S. J. Reginald Saunders in Canada. The early notices have been both long and highly favorable: The New York Herald Tribune calls it "by far the best available book on the subject of Thackery," and Paul Jordan-Smith in The Los Angeles Times says "he has written a readable biography, strengthened by sound critical judgment." A New York friend wrote to Dr. Stevenson as soon as his new book appeared, "If you were here and could see the grand reception being given your book from 59th-and-5th Avenue to 12th you would be proud indeed. Scribners' has an entire, window display of it and a dozen other bookstores devote a big space to it inside and out." It looks indeed as though another of our local boys has made good. I am sure that Dr. Stevenson would agree that no tribute to his work is complete without a reference to his mother, Mrs. Mabel Rose Stevenson, whose devotion and help have been of great importance in the career upon which he is so well launched. Now that the war is over, may we hope that the sword is no longer mightier than the pen in winning recognition from our alma mater, honoris causa? Barbara Bell is pursuing further details of the intricacies of commerce at the University of Boston on a graduate fellowship. QUALITY CLEANLINESS Motional Maid BREAD CAKE PIES Always Oven-Fresh Vancouver NATIONAL SYSTEM of BAKING LTD. FRIENDLINESS I | SERVICE Page 32 The Graduate Chronicle NEWS DR. DAL GRAUER WARNS AGAINST SOCIALISM At the annual meeting of the Vancouver Board of Trade, the B.C.E.R. President, Dal Grauer, gave an outstanding address in support of freedom of enterprise. Said Dr. Grauer "... the supporters of free enterprise have to be much more alert than they have been . . . when you get right down to it, the basic fact is that neither Socialism nor Communism has proven that in practice it can either be democratic or support a high standard of living. The system of free enterprise has." WAR MEMORIAL GYM FUND Construction of the War Memorial Gymnasium at U.B.C. will start as soon as approval is received from the University board of trustees. Total subscriptions to the $500,000 Gymnasium reached $219,000 by press time and it is expected the remainder of the sum will be financed through the floating of a bond issue. Canvassing, however, will continue and all grads are expected to be generous in sending in donations to the Fund. The Alumni Association War Memorial Bursary is now, established as a Memorial to Graduate Service men and women, open at all times for contributions. Enquiries should be addressed to the Treasurer, Brock Building, University of British Columbia. Miss Anne Smith of the U.B.C. library staff returned recently from attending the midwinter meeting of the council of American Library Association in Chicago. She was one of only a few Canadians at the conference. 4?o* l/awi Zalten, Rotutet See this newest fashion accessory at the Notion Counters of the Hudson's Bay Company and Woodward's Ltd. THE INVISIBLE HAT STAY A British Columbia Product SIX GRADS TO B. C. POWER University of British Columbia has produced eight engineers for the B.C. Power Commission. After a six-months post-graduate training course with the commission, they have been posted to executive positions in the provincially-owned power system, it was announced recently by S. R. Weston, chairman. Mr. Weston said the U.B.C. graduates were obtained to fill the need for young men with a high degree of technical training who wanted to take their places in the development of the province. They are W. E. Kenny, W. E. Lyle, W. H. Marks, J. N. Olsen. Donn Wales and L. E. Wight, of Vancouver; S. B. Howlett, of Victoria, and N. H. Latimer, of Penticton. Another thirster after knowledge is James Fell. After working with the National Research Council Atomic Energy Project he has returned to the University of California at Berkelev to work on his doctor's degree in physics. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT When you want something special you go to a specialist. We specialize in English recordings . . . Columbia, His Master's Voice and Parlophone. B>lf0p "Our business is record pleasure" 549 Howe St. MArine 0749 Greetings... FROM THE COMMODORE CABARET FINE FOODS GOOD MUSIC 872 GRANVILLE ST. PAcific 7838 March, 1947 Page 33 THE CLASSES By BRUCE BEWELL, '46 '23 Laurence Somerville is at present District Airway Engineer in charge of airport construction in Alberta, B.C., and the Northwest Territories. Previous to accepting this post he engineered some large reinforced concrete jobs in B.C., including the C.P.R. piers B and C. Laurence graduated in Mechanical Engineering. '24 A U.B.C. mining grad who has carved a king sized niche in the mining world is George Lipsey. Starting with the Britannia Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd., he has progressed steadily until he is now Manager of the Howe Sound Exploration Co. Ltd. at Snow Lake- Manitoba. '27 A staunch C.P.R. man, George Miller, has steadily progressed in the company from his first position as transitman until he is now District Engineer in Toronto. Maybe when he gets to be president the west will get better freight rates. '30 Anybody who doubts the value of a good B.A. in economics should take a good look at Nicolas Abramson, now Personnel Superintendent of the Hudson Bay retail store in Vancouver. Emerson Abernethy, after a brief stay in the east with Ingersoll-Rand and another stretch with the R.C.N.V.R., with whom he rose to Lieut. Cdr. (E), has returned to Imperial Oil in Vancouver. He is Industrial Lubrication Engineer. '31 Straying from B.C. to the prairie provinces Margaret Dick is Executive Director of the Edmonton Family Welfare Bureau. Ruth S. Lerner (nee Stuart) at present employed by the University of California at Berkeley, worked with the famous Manhattan Project at the U. of Cal. and also at Oak Ridge. '33 Back to work teaching at Point Grey Junior High and doing a bit of house designing on the side, John Willard did some interesting work on "Burn Shock" for the Navy during the war. Another teacher back in the traces is Bruce Woodsworth, principal of the Westbank School. Starting out as civilian engineer with the R.C.A.F. he wound up with the Intelligence. Rodolphe Paradis recently took leave of Pacific Mills to go after some more education. He is now- working on his Master's Degree in pulp and paper chemistry at the University of Washington. '37 After a varied career in war industries David Darling has opened his own private engineering- practice in Vancouver. In addition to B.C. he is also registered in Ontario and Quebec. Dr. William Carleton Gibson, '33, brilliant Montreal doctor, and his bride, the former Barbara Baird, Arts '35, pictured shortly after their wedding December 28- in Vancouver. MATCHES Douglas H. Dougans '40, to Carolyn Hoffacker, of Elizabeth, N.J. . Jean-Carol Lee '44 (Alpha Gamma Delta) to Robert F. McCammon of Denver- Co. Dr. Fred T. Fitch '38, to Helen Claire Neelands of Toronto. Gloria Louise Gardiner '46, to Andrew (Drew) Fleck. Edward de Lancey Rogers '37, to Lynette Elaine Seymour Metford '47. June Margaret Lake to Robert Armitage Soper of Hamilton. Marion Clements to Grover C. Proulx of Vancouver. Blair Anderson '44 to Marjorie MacLeod, Queens '44, at Morgan Memorial Chapel, Queens University (now living in Montreal). Margaret Smith to Baltazar Coronel in New York. Phyllis Bartlett '32 to William Lester In Montreal. Doris Knox (Alpha Omicron Pi to Capt. Edwin Wills.. Meryle Rose '44 to Hugh Clee in Toronto. Dorothy Ann Andrews to Edward Huyck. Dorothy Lefebvre (acting head of Dept. of Plome Ec.) to Dr. Roland Jefferson in Los Angeles. RESULTS To Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Arthur '34, a son in Toronto. To Group Captain and Mrs. McNab (Barbara Huycke) a son. To Dr. and Mrs. Desmond Beall '32, a daughter in Montreal. ToMr. and Mrs. A. W. Moyls (Aggie '43), a son in Summerland. Page 34 The Graduate Chronicle SEEDS ^ FEEDS FERTILIZERS INSECTICIDES FUNGICIDES First in Quality First in Volume BUCKERFIELD'S ———— Limited ———■— BRANCHES THROUGHOUT THE PROVINCE The sign of Fine E ntertainment <&jg> CHOICE PRESENTATION OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH PICTURES. ODEON THEATRES OF CANADA LIMITED When Thirsty 1 CRUSH _Oriypge- Crush AMPLE RESOURCES WIDE EXPERIENCE EST'D 1899 THE ROYAL TRUST COMPANY It is our policy to retain the solicitor of the Testator for the legal work of estates which we administer. Appointments as Executor under Wills are invited. VANCOUVER 626 W. Pender St. MArine 8411 O-^ CANADA ^R POSTAGE PAID A. U. 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