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\\ V
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH
COLUMBIA, Vancouver i.
B.C., is a provincial, coeducational university of 5,800 stu*
dents.
Norman A. M. MacKenzie,
President.
APRIL, 1955
May 16 and 17 will be big days in the lives of students who will
receive their degrees at Spring Congregation. Judy Foote,
left. 2757 Mathews Ave., West Vancouver, and Vic Stephens,
Calgary, took a few moments from final exam studies this week
to preview themselves in caps and gowns. Judy will be graduated in Home Economics and Vic is in his final year of Law.
—Joe Quan Photo.
Presidents Annual Report
Urges More Student Aid
President Norman A. M. Mac
Kenzie urges the establishment
of a "comprehensive national
> scholarship program as imaginatively designed as was the Veterans' Educational Aid program"
in his report for the 1953-54
academic year,
v "To maintain the present rate
of Canadian development," says
the President, "Canadian Universities must meet the need for
^.the- vastly increased numbers of
professionally trained and well-
educated men and women that
our complex society and complicated technology have made
necessary. We must meet this
need or slow down the rate of
..development."
* - "We are not meeting the need
«, now/' the President continues,
■'■ "an4 we are also not yet getting
all those in the high schools who
are' iwst equipped for higher
education."
The report indicates that 1600
~\\' the University of British
Distinguished Educators
To Teach Summer Session
Columbia's 5500 students in
1953-54 shared $450,000 in
prizes, scholarships, bursaries
and loans supplied by industry,
commerce, voluntary associations, private individuals and
government.
Dr. MacKenzies emphasizes,
however, that University of B.C.
students are continuing the
tradition of "working their way"
through the University. Costs of
their education plus the loss of
four to six years of earning
power makes the average student's total investment in education more than $10,000.
Reporting on student housing,
the President points out that
about half of UBC's student body
comes from outside Vancouver.
Present housing accommodates
about 1000 students from outside the city with Fort and
Acadia Camps providing places
for some 870 single men and
women and suites for about 160
couples and families.
Time to turn the calendar
page and start thinking about
Summer Session. Dates are July
4-August 19, and copies of the
1955 Summer Supplement to
- the ;Galendar are off the press
and available in the Registrar's
Office.
Summer Session Director Dr.
Kenneth F. Argue has recruited
an outstanding teaching staff
from Canadian, English and American universities.
Teachers returning to the campus lor further training will
meet such well-known educators
as Dr. S. R. Laycock, Dean Emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan's College of Education; Dame Olive Wheeler, former Dean of Education at the
University of Cardiff, and Dr.
F. E. Ellis, Associate Professor
of Education at the University
of Minnesota.
Local people on the School
of Education summer staff will
include O. J. Thomas, Assistant
Superintendent and Inspector of
Vancouver Elementary Schools;
H. C Ferguson, Alberni Inspector of Schools; John Dobereiner
of Richmond High School; E.
M. Kershaw of West Vancouver
High School and D. N. MaeLean
of Lord Byng High School.
ARCTIC AUTHORITY
An expert on the peoples of
the arctic region, Dr. Edmund
Carpenter, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at the University
of Toronto, will teach Cultural
Anthropology at UBC during
Summer Session. Dr. Carpenter
is well-known to CBC listeners
for his radio talks and Ss editor
of the new publication, "Explorations."
The author of "Industrial Relations and Labor Problems,"
Dr. H. Fabian Underhill of the
University of Indiana will teach
Economics on campus this summer. Dr. Underhill is coordinator of Indiana's Industrial Relations Programs.
The Department of English
has invited two visiting professors to join its summer staff.
Dr. Northrop H. Frye, head of
the English Department at Victoria College, University of Toronto, will teach English 425,
Milton. Dr. Frye is author of
"Fearful Symmetry, a Study of
William Blake." Dr. M. H. Scar-
gill, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta and author of "An' English
Handbook," will also join the
staff.
Dr. E. J. H. Greene, head of
the University of Alberta's De
partment of Modern Languages,
will take over the summer session class of French 301, French
Literature of the Twentieth
Century. Dr. Greene has written a book on the French influences in the work of T. S.
Eliot.
LARGEST PROGRAM
The Division of Geography
is planning the largest summer
program in its history. Dr. Trevor Lloyd, Chairman of the Department of Geography at Dartmouth, will teach Geography
of the North Atlantic Region.
Dr. Donald P. Kerr, Assistant
Professor of Geography at the
University of Toronto, will lecture on Economic Geography,
and Robert W. Packer, Assistant
Professor of Geography at the
University of Western Ontario,
will teach Introduction to Physical Geography.
Dr. Helmut R. Boeninger, Assistant Professor of Germanic and
Romanic Languages, Stanford
University, will join the Department of German faculty.
A Wayne University Professor of History, Dr. Goldwin
Smith, will teach History of
the British Empire this summer.
Dr. Smith, a Canadian resident
of the U.S., is author of a one-
volume survey of British history, considered one of the best
by authorities. An American
scholar who has specialized in
British Empire history, Dr. John
S. Galbraith, Associate Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, will also
join the summer staff. Dr. Galbraith has published a book on
the establishment of the Canadian legation in Washington.
FROM ALBERTA
Department of Mathematics
officials have invited Dr. E. S.
Keeping, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta, to join their teaching staff
for Summer Session.
Two well-known Physical Education authorities, Dr. Lloyd M.
Jones of Pennsylvania State University, and Dr. Dorothy Hum-
iston, chairman of the Department of Physical Education for
Women at the University of Denver, have accepted summer appointments at the University of
B.C. Dr. Jones is president of
the eastern district df the American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recreation. He! will lecture on physical education correctives. Dr.
Humiston will teach gymnastics
and grass hockey.
(Continued on Page 4) PACHB 2
UBC REPORTS
Vol. 1. No. 3
UBC. Reports
April, 1955 Vancouver 8, B.C.
Dorothy Coryell and Nancy West.
University Information Office
To Be Represented
At WUS Seminar in Japan
Published by the -University of British Columbia, monthly, and
authorized as second-class mail Post-Office Department, Ottawa.
Jobhunt Score
For University
Personnel Department Director John F. McLean reports that
the employment situation for
this year's graduates is "Very
good, indeed — one of the best
years we have had."
Two Churchmen
To Be Honored
.Union College will award diplomas and degrees to the young
men it has trained for the United
Church ministry at convocation
ce/emonies at 8 p.m., April 21,
in Shaughnessy Heights United
Church.
Dr " .George Darby, Pacific
Coast pioneer and medical missionary, and Rev. K,osaburo
Shimizu, former minister of
Varicduver's Japanese United
Church, will receive honorary
Doctor of Divinity degrees. Dr.
Darby has devoted his life to
the mission hospital at Bella
Bella, and Rev. Shimizu, who
now. lives in Toronto, has been
cited for his work with resettled
Japanese-Canadians during the
war.
Rev. Sir George MacLeod,
founder and director of the
Church of Scotland's Ioria Community was a Union College
visitor March 9 and 10. Now a
training centre for ministers
preparing to work with industrial groups, Iona Community is
on" the island where Christianity
was first established in Scotland.
It "is being rebuilt as an historic
sanctuary for the Protestant
world:
Site Decision
Decision on a site for the
School of Home Economics' new
Home Management House will
foe made by the subcommittee
early this month. Construction
will begin as soon as the architects have revised the building
plans to conform with the new
site.
Forestry Awards
Four senior forestry students
were awarded $75 cheques in
the B.C. Lumberman's first
annual student essay contest.
Presentations were made on
April 4 by Howard T. Mitchell,
publisher of the B.C. Lumberman, at a Faculty Club luncheon.
Winners are E. Boyd Kelly, '
Vancouver; H. Dorrell Kent,
Sorrento; and Laurence Hope,
Fort Langley, all graduating in
Forestry, and Dennis H. Patrick,
Vancouver," a fourth-year Forestry Engineering student.
Prof. Frederick H. Sowafd,
head of the Department of History and Director of International Studies, and two University of B.C. students, John Bos-
sons, West Vancouver, and
Maurice Copithorne, Vancouver,
will participate in the biennial
World University Service seminar to be held in Japan from
July 17 to August 21.
Seminar topic will be "University Responsibility in the
World of Today." Opening ses-
greatest demand. Young wen ^ion will be an orientation pro-
and women holding degrees in gram from July 17-21 at Kpya-
commerce, mechanical engineer- san, a Bhuddist monastery near
Excellent
Graduates
Students trained in electrical
engineering, chemical engineering, physics have been in the
ing and general arts have also
been quickly placed.
"The situation has been particularly good this year," said McLean, "because the number oi
graduates is smaller than in*^he
past few years, when we had
large 'veteran' classes." Very
few 1955 graduates are still unplaced, although a few women
with arts degrees are still looking for positions.
McLean also disclosed that
slimmer employment opportunities are keeping up to the pattern of previous years. Many
students are being employed in
lumbering, mining, pulp and
paper industries, summer resorts
and in forest protection.
"We are, hopeful that the majority of.students who are willing to go put of town and who
do not wish special types of jobs
will be accommodated," McLean
stated.
Osaka. The August 1-21 study
program will probably be held
at Tsuda 'College. Work projects,
tours and visits to Japanese uni-
MacKay to Study
MacKenzie Delta
Dr. J. Ross Mackay, Associate
Professor of Geography at the
University, will continue studies
of the Mackenzie River delta in
B.C. this summer for a report to
the Federal Geographic Branch
in Ottawa. He will leave Vancouver in June.
Dr. Mackay's findings-will be
used as a sample for interpreting
conditions in similar areas across
Canada. He will work from air
photos of the Mackenzie River
delta, moving east of the section
he mapped last summer, and
making a full study of the physiography o£ this northern' lowland area.
DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
Summer Session Non-Credit Program
July 4—July 22
THEATRE
Summer School of Theatre — Acting,
Speech, Stagecraft, Directing, Scene
Design and Stage Lighting.
MUSIC
Summer School of the Opera—Basic
Acting for Opera, Dramatic and Musical
Study of Standard Opera, Repertoire in
Excerpts.
-August 17 Study of Concert Literature.
-August 17 Choral Singing Classes.
ARTS AND CRAFTS
-August 12 Painter's Workshop.
-August 12 Ceramic Workshop.
-August 12 Sculpture Workshop.
-August 12 Metal Workshop.
-August 12 Creative Art for Children.
-August 12 Lecture in Art History.
HOME ECONOMICS
4 Workshop in Dressmaking.
3 Smocking.
5 Home Rejuvenating.
4 Buying and Cooking of Today's Food and
Menu Planning.
PRESCHOOL METHODS
Instruction in the Principles and Methods
Pre-School Education.
July 4—-August 16
July 8—August 24
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-August
-August
-August
-August
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP COURSE
July 4—July 10 . A Study of Community Needs.
versifies will also be Included
in the summer program.
Professor Soward is one of
two Canadian University prof-
fessors asked to participate in
the seminar. Bossons and Copithorne will join 18 other students from Canadian universities and seven from U.S. colleges
in the study tour. t
Bossons was chairman of this
year's University Week celebra*-
tion held from Feb. 28 to March
5. An honor student in Economics, he is president of the UBC
Economics Society and presidentelect of the United Nations
Club.
Copithorne has been president of the University's debating
society, Parliamentary Forum;
chairman of the campus Political Council and chairman of
the campus branch of the World
University Service. He is a member of Sigma Tau Chi, men's
honorary fraternity.
Anglican College
Convocation Set
Anglican Theological College
has scheduled its annual convocation for 8 p.m., April 26^
in Brock Hall.
The Rev. Dr. W. A. Ferguson,
Professor of New Testament
Studies at the College, will re-
; ceive the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity arid will de-'
liver the convocation address.
Dr. Ferguson was principal cSf
Anglican College from 1952 tft
1954.
Because the theological coursg
has been extended to three
years, only three students will
be graduated this month. Fred
Lapham, who received his BA,
at St. David's College, Lampeter,
Wales, will be awarded the
Licentiate in Theology.
Bachelor of Divinity degrees
will go to H. Bernard Barrett,
Steveston, and Grant E. Dale, '
Princeton, B.C. Both were
awarded the B.A. and the Liceni-
tiate in Theology, from the
University of British Columbia and Anglican Theological.
College.
The Archbishop of British Col-
umbia, the Most Rev. H. E. Sexton, D.D. will preside during
the ceremonies. The Bishop of
New Westminster, the Rt. Rev.
G. P. Gower, will read the citation for Dr. Ferguson.
Concert Is Set
University of British Columbia music students will give their
final concert of the session at
12:30 p.m., April 13, in Physics
2C0.
Barbara Pentland's advanced
"Materials of Music" student?
will play their own compositions,
and members of the "Music Appreciation" class will sing a cantata by Erik Satie. APRIL, 1955
PAGE'S
Pre-School
, Workshop
' A three-Saturday workshop fo
familiarize pre-school supervisors and parents with materials
*' and methods for teaching music
and rythms, art and crafts and
literature, will be held at the
University's Youth Training Cen-
* tre on April 23, April 30 and
May 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
* The course will be co-spon
sored by the University Extension Department and the B.C.
Pre-School Education Associa-
» tion. Instruction and instructors
*" will include: rythms and records,
Mrs. C. E. Borden and Mrs. J.
W. Blundell; puppets, Mrs. Elsie
MacDougall, clay work and paper
^ construction, Mrs. William P.
A Goldman; finger painting, Mrs.
R. A. McFadyen; and literature,
Mrs. Evangeline Winn.
Deadline for registration is
April 16. The .$3.50 enrollment
fee should be sent tp the Family
- Life and Group Development
<«..- Service, Department of Exten-
■*-. . sion, University of British Col-
utoibia, Vancouver 8.
Play Equipment
Booklet Ready
Fathers with a "do-it-yourself"
yen, and mothers -who are look-
t irig forward to springtime and
' nlw outdoor facilities for their
c Iiyely offspring will be inter-
, erted «n the "Equipment for
• Outdoor Play" booklet available
tMfough the Extension Family
Life Services fpr 25 cents plus
^ 1 cent tax.
■ ■'. .The booklet, published by the
• Efapartment of National Health
« ■" aij|l Welfare, includes instructions for building a sandbox,
large 4>acki&g box, hollow
^; blocks, work bench, slide, climbing horse, cjhinbing arch, small
ladder, jungle gym, easel, saw
horse, low table, wading pool,
swing, solid building blocks and
play yard accessories.
To Attend UBC
four students who enrolled
■, in the University's annual eight-
week Youth Training School for
ydting people from rural areas
are making plans to enter the
Faculty of Agriculture at the
University next fall.
They are Derek Styles, 28, of
Terrace; Marina Parker, 20,
Armstrong; Jack Burdge, 23 and
r\\Jim Selfe, 21, both of Victoria.
Vs"* Miss Parker has already arranged her courses for her freshman year entry in October.
Over 800 graduates of the Extension Department's Youth
.Training School are now taking
Pleading roles in. communities all
over B.C.
Getting underway on a four-week teaching assignment for the
Fisheries Service of the Department of Extension, is Captain
James F. Patrick, Vancouver, a Veteran of 48 years at sea.
Captain Patrick served as an officer aboard each of CPR's
famed Empress ships arid has been master of both the Empress
of Canada and the Empress of Russia.
—Joe Quan Photo
Veteran Skipper Teaching
In Fisheries Extension
A veteran of 4«8 years on
square-rigged sailing ships,
tramp steamers and liners. Captain James F. Patrick, retired,
has never lost his love of the
sea and ships. He was up bright
and early Monday morning,
April 4, fpr another trip north
to the BC. mainland and Vancouver Island settlements — to
teach navigation to camps of
Indian fishermen.
On this trip Capt. Patrick
is visiting Bella-Bella, Alert Bay
and Quathiaski Cove, returning
to Vancouver at the end of the
month. His pupils in navigation
and seamanship—and he stresses
"rules of the road" for mariners
—are nearly all Indian fishermen, who work from camps pn
the coast and on the west side
of Vancouver Island.
Capt. Patrick's 'classes' in navigation are co-sponsored by the
University Extension Department and B.C. Packers. He
taught elementary navigation
courses to fisheries' students at
the annual Youth Training
School held on campus from
January to early March.
APPRENTICED EARLY
The veteran mariner began
his sea career at 15, wfaen he
was apprenticed for four years.
He left the sea 48 years later
as a master mariner who had
commanded the plush Empress
of Canada and the Empress of
Russia.
He served as an officer aboard
the Empress of Asia, the Empress of Japan, the Errraress of
Australia and the Empress of
France. In his early days he and
his crew were shipwrecked off
Cape Horn for 42 days.
For nine years after his retirement Capt. Patrick acted as an
examiner for the Federal Department of Transport, which issues
Masters' and Mates' certificates.
He is still called into marine
enquiries as a nautical assessor
when the government wishes to
determine the cause of a ship
collision.
Family Camping
If you would like ^to participate in three or fouT~ mfte*tfngs
in order to learn about family
camping procedures, write to
the Family Life and Group Development Service, Department
of Extension, University of British Columbia.
Beekeeping
Course Ends
The first resident short course
for British Columbia beekeepers
was held from March 14 to
March 22 at the Youth Training
Centre on the University campus. The classes were co-sponsored by the University's Department of Extension and the
Apiary Branch of the B.C. Department of Agriculture.
The course was attended by
26 beekeepers from Kamloops,
Enderby, Vancouver, North Bur-
naby, Mission City, New Westminster, Vernon, Cloverdale,
Penticton, Victoria, Kelowna,
Vedder Crossing. Salt Spring
Island, Chilliwack and South
Burnaby.
Instruction covered management of colonies; disease and
its control; processing, grading
and marketing of honey: history,
anatomy and physiology of bees;
construction and assembling of
beeh ive equipment; honey
plants; beekeeping equipment
and grading regulations.
Students -who passed the final
examination qualify for the B. C.
Beemasters' "A" class certificate.
April J3 Institute
For Audio-Visual
A professor of psychology
from the University of Toronto,
Dr. Everett Bovard, wtill be
guest speaker at the second an- u
nual Audio-Visual Institute to •
be held on campus April 13.
The Institute is sponsored by the
University Extension Depart- <
ment and the Industrial Film :
Council of B.C.
The one-day workshop has
been planned as an aid for training of personnel, and as a guide
for public relations officers, advertising personnel, lecturers
and speakers. Subjects ranging
from filming to discussion techniques will be covered.
Dr. Bovard wil speak on "An
Effective Method of Discussion"
at a luncheon meeting of the
Institute. Classes will be held
from early morning until late
in the afternoon. A summary of
the day's work will round odt
the Institute.
New Films Added
Four new films and 24 film-
strips were added to the film
library in Audio-Visual in
March. The filmstrips are in
color, and cover religious subjects.
New films include "Rocky
Mountain Trout," a 15 minute
story in color of fishing in the
Rockies; "Longhouse People," a
23 minute film on Iriquois life;
'Mother of Parliaments," showing the re-opening of the House
of Commons in Britain in 1950,
and "Gateway to Health," a 20
minute color show on dental
care. "-PA0E4".
UBC REPORTS
APRIL, 1»53 \\-