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Board o f Management

President ~~ .... ~~~~~ ~~ . Peter J. Sharp, B.Com.’36 Past-President ~ ... ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ G. Dudley Darling, B.(3om.’39 First Vice-president ..~ . . .~ . .~~~~~ Hugh John Hodgins, B.A.Sc.’28 Second Vice-president ~~~ . .~ .~~ .~~~ .~ . . . Mrs. Frank M. Ross, B.A.’25 Third Vice-president . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . . ~ Dean Blythe A. Eagles, B.A.’22 Treasurer ~ . ~ . ~ ~ ~~~~ . ..~~ ~~~~~ ~ A rch ie P. Gardner, B.A.‘37 Executive Secretary ~~.~~.~~.~...~....~A. H. Sager, D.F.C., B.A.’38 Chronicle Editor ~ . ~ ~~~~.~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harry T. Logan, M.C., M.A. Members-at-Large: John Ashby, B.A.‘33; Mrs. Morris Belkin, B.A.’40; Dr. W. G. Black, B.A.‘22; E. G. (Ernie) Perrault, B.A.’48; Mrs. Lawrence E. Ranta, B.A.‘35, B.A.Sc.’39; Leonard 6. Stacey, B.A.Sc.’24.

Degree Representatives: Agriculture, Jack Gray, B.S.A.’39; App l ied Science, Quar t S. Lefeaux, B.A.Sc.’45; Architecture, Har ry Lee, B.Arch.’SO; Arts, Harold W. Fullerton, B.A.’29; Commerce, Dona!d A. McRae, B.Com.‘47; Forestry, Norman Dusting, B.S.F.‘52; Home Economics, Mrs. George Cornwell, B.H.E.’49; Law, Brian W. F. McLoughlin, LL.B.’50; Medicine, V ic to r A. MacPherson, B.A.’50, M.D.’54; Pharmacy, Mi:ss A n n e Tomljenovich, B.S.P.’54; Physical Education, Hugh K. Marshall, B.P.E.’50; Social Work, George V. Jones, B.S.W.’49, M.S.W.’50. Senate Representatives: Dr. Earle Foerster, B.A.’21; Dr. W. C. Gibson, B.A.‘33; Dr. Har ry V. Warren, B.A.’26, B.A.Sc.’27. Alma Mater Society Representat ive: Dick Underhi l l , A.M.S., President.

Edi tor ia l Commit tee Chairman ~~ ~. ~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~. . . ... ~.~~~~~.~..~... Dean Blythe Eagles Advisory Members ~~~ . . ~ ~ ~~.~~ . .~ ~ ~~~~~ Peter Sharp, (ex officio)

Ormonde J. Hall, Past Editor Undergraduate Representative .. . ~ ~~ ~.~~~ ~ ~ Ted Lee Ex-Off ic io ~~~~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . ..~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . Harry T. Logan, A. H. Sager

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DIRECTORY OF U.B.C. ALUMNI BRANCHES Calgary-S. (Stan) R. Hughes, B.S.F. ‘49, 1740-24th St., S.W., Calgary,

Kamloonc-Mlss Evelyn M. Bradley, B A. ‘44 (Exec. Member) 2-728 Pine

Kelowna-Winston A. Shilvock, B.A. ‘31, 286 Bernard Ave., Kelowna,

Kimberley-John W. Stewart, B.A.Sc. ‘39, Box 632, Kimberley, B.C. Montreal-E. A. Thompson, B.A.Sc. ‘42, 58 Belmont Ave., Valois, Que. Nanaimo-E. D. Strongitharm, B.A. ’40, 4 Church St., Nanaimo, B.C. Northern California-Albert A. Drennan, B.A. ‘23, 420 Mark’et St.,

O t t a w b D r . W. Kaye Lamb, B.A. ‘27, 7 Crescent Heights, Ottawa, Ont. Penticton-J. Peter Van der Hoop, B.A. ‘50, LL.B. ’51, C/O Boyle 8.

PoWand-Dave E. Charlton, B.A. ‘25, 1834 S.W. Vista, Portland I , Ore. Regina-Rex. L. Brown, B.A.Sc. ’27, c / o Imperial 011 Limited, t3ox 400,

Seattle-Dr. Fred W. Laird, B.A. ‘22, Medical Centre, Summit a t Madi-

Southern California-Lester W. McLennan, B.A. ’22, 917 Sierra Vista

Summerland-Ewart Woolliams, B.A. ‘25, Summerland, B.C. Toronto-Roy V. Jackson, B.A. ’43, Apt. 38 - 48 Glenvlew Ave.,

Trail-Dr. C. A. H. Wright, B.Sc. ‘17, 306 Ritchie Ave., Trail, 1B.C. United Kingdom-Lt.-Col. H. F. E. Smlth, ’25, (Hon. Sec.), B.C. House,

V ic to r ia411 J. Smith, B.A. ‘49, Room 328, Pemberton Bldg., Victoria,

(Except in the case of Kamloops and the United Kingdom, the Alumnus named is President of the Branch.)

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British Columbia.

San Francisco 1 1 , Calif.

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Volume 8, No. 4 Winter, 1954

FRONT COVER I PHYLLIS GREGORY ROSS, D.B.E., B.A., M.A., LL.D., Great

Trekker, 1954. (See pages 21-22). The Photo IS of a palnting by Henry Carr. Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audlo-Vlsual Services ~

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Saturday, M a r c h 5th During the week, evening events are being planned, and on Saturday the entire University wi l l be on display. Keep the day and the week in mind and extend inv i ta t ions to as many people as possible.

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FROM THE M A I L BAG Southern California

I have no news regarding local alumni, but hope to remedy the situation hefore tht) next issue. In any case, a Merry Christmas and Happy Sew Trar from our local chapter to a l l other U.B.(:. Alumni !

Regards to you and Mrs. Logan from ’ Cora and Idester JIcL.

Dr., Fullerton, Callfornia.) (Lester W. McLennan, B.A.’22, 917 Sierra Vista

Pittsburgh Thank somc.l)ody for getting our ad-

dress to you so that we c,ollld receive our copy of the (:hronicle. I t is :Ippre- ciated. I3c sure to send us :I bill if our past subscriptions are not sufficient for future copies.

For us, thc maiu “1)ill-of-fare” is study and more study. The Carnegie Institute of Tcchnology is a wonderful place for 1wst-gracl. work in Mechanical Enginwring ant1 I’m learuing a lot.

Barb ant1 the youngsters (Al l ;~u, 4 years, and K;~r(w, 6 months) are tine.

Best personal regards, Barb and Ted Kirkpatrick.

Mrs. Kirkpatrick, n6e Barbara Kelsburg, B.A.’47) (Edward Thompson Kirkpatrick, B.A.Sc.’47, and

London Attached is a short writeup of the

Canadian Universities’ inaugural dinner meeting which took place on the 11th November, which will probably be of interest to your readers.

As you know, the U.B.C. Alumni Association in this country was func- tioning to some estent up till 1950, hut since then II:IS heen a dormant organization. With the adrent of the (‘:ma- dian Tiniversities Clnl) it, s(wns expedient that the U.K. 1)r;lnch be revitalized. We hare on our mt.mher- ship list at thc present time some 35 members who are ac*tively iuterrsted in continuing their U.H.(:. associations in some mannw. T h e advent of the Canadian T’niversities Club is an excellent reason for handing together as a more cohesive group. As yo11 probably know there arr sereral alumni groups who are quite active in London, the largest bcing the JIcGill Society of Great Britain. then the Torouto Alumni Association (U.K. Branch) and the Dalhousie Society of Great Britain.

Dr. Roy Volltlm of Oxford was down to see mi1 two weeks ago and asked, because he was not living in London, to be relievcd of the duties of I’resident, and he asked if I could find someone else to take his place. Mrs. 0. K. S. Laugharne, who is now living in East (;rillstt,;ld, has esprrssed a willingness to take an active IMrt in the organizatioll. Mrs. Lmgharue, whose maitlen name was Grace Smith, was, I belirvv. prominent in Student Council work during her years a t Uni- versity (Arts%). Accordingly, I would like to call together a group of U.B.C. graduates in order to duly elect a President, Sccretary. etc.

Would $011 please ask the Executive Secretary to send me the details of how a proparly ronstituted U.K. branch

WINSTON A. SHILVOCK President Kelowna Branch

of the U.B.C. Alrunni could be formed, so that I could put this in the hands of Mrs. Laugharne for her use a t t he reorganization meeting.

With best personal regards and with kindest wishes, I am,

(Lt.-Col. H . F. E. Smith, Arts‘25, British Columbia House, 1-3 Regent St., London, S.W.1.)

H. F. E. Smith.

I am very sorry to have taken such a long time to produce the enclosed short article on the Canadian cricket tour of last summer. Please alter or rearrange it in any way you like, and please do not worry on my account if you think that the time for publishing something of this nature has passed. I have deliberately kept it pretty short, and mentioned only one or two significant features.

Office of the High Commissioner for Canada, Canada House, London, S.W.l.

Toronto Roly was the only Conservative ob-

server on the Delegation. We all lived w r y chummily together in the Beekman Tower Hotel, which is situated on First and 49th, and were well looked after by our Secretary General, Mr. Derek Bedson, and his staff, including R.C.M.P. officers on guard 24 hours a day. There is a superb view from the windows of the Beekman-the East River, the U.S. Buildings and the wholc galaxy of twinkling skyscrapers at. night. New York is a most stimulating city.

Sir Zafrnlla Kahu came and stayed last week-end with us and we enter- tained for him, took him to the country and talked a lot. We also had Lady Soon from Pakistan here this last snmmer and we see something of the Iiaigs, High Commissioner for Pakistan in Ottawa. Yours sincerely,

(Nee Norah E. Willis, B.A.’22, Ph.D., Edgehill, 5 Rosedale Road, Toronto 5, wife of D. Roland Michener, Q.C., B.A., B.C.L., M.A., LL.D., Cana- dian Government observer at United Nations this autumn.)

Basil Robinson, B.A.’40.

Norah Michener.

Branches KELOWNA

Oct. 20th. The children of Kelowna and many adults were thrilled with the live prrformauce of the Vancouver Iloliday Theatre’s production of “Puss- itl-Eoots.” A sell-out matinee was followed hy ;l sccond perforn1anc.e that cAvening. lllc “Friends of the Library,” which group includes various nlumnae members. were rcqonsihle for this eRort. Their purpose is to raise one thousand dollars to furnish the new library which will be opcnt~cl in Ke- lowna in Decacml)cr.

Our versatile Etllelwyn Logie (Mrs. Jim Logie) scwred a great hit when she and thr Club president, Frank Bishop, gave outstanding performances in the Kelowna Little Thentre production of Mary Chase’s play “Harvey” at the Empress Theatre, November 3rd and 4th.

The two protagonists received excellent support from Mrs. Douglas Kerr and Mrs. Frank Bishop, as well as others in the cast.

Mrs. J. Macknnan, I%.A.’23.

OTTAWA

We are meeting on Wednesday, De- cember Y. Ronny Burns (B.Con~’31) is going lo bring us up to date on the state of things in B.C. Each autumn we try to have some newly arrived exile from the West Coast tell us what has been happening lately, and Ronny is this year’s victim.

I don’t think there is anything very startling in the way of news. You will know that Leslie Brown (B.A.’28), is lcaving Ottawa and will he trade commissioner a t Caracas. He and Ruth are to be here on December 4, and leave for South America immediately thereafter. Perhaps you did not know that Donald Munro (B.A.’38) has been appointed to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin. He was acting-Minister most of the summer.

Wm. Kaye Lamb, B.A.’27, IL1.A.”. Pl1.D. (Univ. of London) ‘33, 1,1A.1).’48.

SEATTLE

Jus t a short note to tell you that the Seattle Branch of the U.R.(‘. Alumni Association held a meeting on Friday, Sovembcr 5. at the Student Union Building of the University of Washinp- ton. We had about thirty members present and took the opportunity of the gathering to hold an informal meeting. The result of the meeting was that we decided to hold a meeting in February that would take the form of a cocktail par ty; that we would follow this meeting with a more formal gathering, possibly in the nature of a dinner meeting, a t which time we would hope to have a representatire from the Uni- versity present. Our summer picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Arkley we felt was so successful that we will

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Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audlo-Vlsual 5ervlces The burned shell of Brock Hall, as seem from the Library roof on October 26, the morning after the fire.

REBUILD THE BROCK I f proof were needed, the tire in the

Brock on October 25th provided a con- vincing demonstration of the increasing amount of ‘interest being shown in the University by its Alumni and friends.

On the morning after the tire, the President receired an anonymous dona- tion of $5,000 and, shortly after, contributions to the Dollar Campaign started pouring in from alums all over the wor!d. In the first two weeks of the appeal, nearly 1,000 graduates had responded and the reconstruction fund was off to a good start.

T o those who attended U.B.C. in the thirties and after, the Brock Memorial Building was more than just a student centre, more than just a building. I t was another symbol of student-alumni Initiative and endeavour. Like the Great Trek, the campaigns for the first

in all probability do something similar this coming summer.

Oar meeting was marred by the fact that our President, Dr. Fred Laird, and his wife had been in a rather serious automobile accident the previous evening. You will be glad to know that they are progressing nicely and that Dr. Laird has been discharged from the hospital.

I am enclosing a *list of all the members who attended our meeting at the University, and I regret that we do not have the year of graduation for them. I might also add that i t was on this evening that we first heard of the tragic tire at the Brock Building. There were mnny members present who had fond memories of the Brock, and I am sure that you will find many contribu-

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* * * tions coming in from Seattlo members for i ts reconstruction.

(*Marjorie Greene, Chester Pederson, Jack Grant, Elizabeth Nori, Stan Arkley, Ronald Todd, Florence Weinstein, Sophie Birch, Hil- dred Bligh, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Matkovchik, Allan J. Bluechel, Nora J. Clarke, Roman Mostar, Peter McTavish, Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Peters, Hermie Lyons, Betty Groves, Lorna Carson Evans, Mary McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Boroughs, Nanc.y Lees, Jan Selby, W. A. Rosene, Fred Brewis, Sophie Ladd, Shirley Ellison.)

Robert J. Boroughs, B.A.39, MA’43. TORONTO

Until I read David Brock’s “No News is G.ood News” in the last issue, I did not expect to have anything for the Winter Chronicle. Now I have something, but i t is likely too late and in any case the contribution is probably not worth printing.

Anyway, here it is--perh:lps your deadline is flesil)lr I,>- :I dny or two and anyway you may be hard up for the Spring issue.

RnY V. Jacmo?;, B.A.’43. (Perhaps! Many thanks, Roy.-Ed.)

TRAIL

There is not :I great (leal to report this time. Dr. (:. 11. Wright (B.Sc.’l7, M.Sc.’20) has Iwen elected Wwtern Director of the Cnnadinn Chamller of Commerce and €1. 1’. ( P a t ) Flynn (Pharmac.y’.X I Ins nl:rrrird Sylvia E1iznl)eth RIoore of Trnil.

Preparations are now heing mode to welcome Dean Gage and Dean Chant as guest speakers a t the annnal meeting of the local branch on 1)ecember 11, 19.54. A good turn-out is expected.

M. M. Wright, B.A.’38, B.A.Sc.’38.

Graduate Profi le - Edith Lucas By MUS. HOWARD T. MITCHELL

The University of British Columbia has reason to be proud of Dr. Edith 1,ucas and of her achievements. In the light of her contribution to education as Director of High School Correspond- ence Courses, Dr. Lucas is considered one of the province’s foremost educa- tionists. But her further accomplish- ments in the instruction of Canadian immigrants since 1948 have given her renown of national significance. Her Simple-English (‘nurse, emhotlying her own method of familiarizing studcmts a s quickly :IS possible with the sentel1c.e pattern of everyday speech, is used throughont British Columbia.

It is considered one of the best sys- tems ever devised for the teaching of English to foreign students. In an age of speed, even the assimilation of new citizens mnst be accomplished quickly. Dr. Lnca:~s’ Leanorts i w Englinh produce results almost immediately in the use of our national language and in making the students familiar with the customs and thought of their Hew homeland.

Edith Lucas graduated from U.B.C. with the Class of Arts’25, with double honours in French and Latin and the Governor-General’s GoM Medal as Head of the Graduating Class. She was ac- mstomed to her place at the top hy that time, since it had been hers each year of undergraduate study at Victoria College and at 1J.R.C. In 1927 she was awarded one of the coveted Nichol scholarships for three years’ study in France at the Sorboune. By 1930, on

‘ completion of a book-length thesis and her defence of i t before an examining board of Sorlbonne professors, she added the degree of Docteur de 1’Uni- versiti. (Pa r i s ) . One of the conditions imposed by the IIon. Walter C . Sichol om recipients of his scholarship was that they must return to British Colum- bia to give the province the heuefit of their graduate studies. We might otherwise have lost the services of this brilliant young woman. But in 1930 she joined the staff of the Prince Rupert High School, where from 1931 to 1937 she was Principal. She left this post to accept work in the Corre- spondence Division of the Department of Education in Victoria. One of her first nndertakings was the writing of the French courses offered by the De- partment, and the excellence of these courses is a byword of instructors and pupils alike.

* (N6e Janet R. MacDonald, B.A.’25. After graduation Mrs. Mitchell studied at the Sor-

York House School for Girls, of which she is bonne, Paris. She is one of the founders of

Advisory Vice-Principal. Under the pen-name of Ann Wilson, she is known to readers of Western Homes and Living of which magazine she is Foods and Cooking Editor. Mrs. Mitchell is a Trustee of the U.B.C. Development Fund. She has two sons, Donald, in 4th year Arts, U.B.C., and Howard, a student at Los Angeles Art Centre School.)

Photo by Courtesy Ken McAllister, Victoria

EDITH E. LUCAS

In 1940 she became Director of High School C,orrespondence Instruction, one of the most important positions in education in British Columbia. Over 9,000 stndents of all ages, and occupied in a great variety of trades and professions -housewives, loggers, fishermen, etc.- a re enrolled this year-an inctrease of well over 5,OOO since 1940.

Dr. Lncas supervises this valuable work with sixty-four instructors and an ofice staff of twenty-seven. She edits and writes courses as needed in the expansion of the School’s curricu- lum and she eorrcsponds with stndents, answering enquiries, encouraging and inspiring them by her personal interest in their progress.

The scope and influence of the Cor- respondence School in British Columbia is not as well known as i t should be. The School is in fact an integral part of the educational system of B.C., and an instructor is, to all intents and purposes, a teacher in that school system. I t is possible for students in superior schools and in small high schools to take conrses not offered because of limited facilities; and in this way rural students are provided with instruction in subjects often taught only in large centres. In city schools, also, students who have failed to pass an examination or who are not per- mitted, because of time-table difficulties, to follow courses they want, find thc Correspondence School an answer to their problem. Since teachers can purchase for their own use single copies of these courses, help is provided for them, too, in preparation and prenent;l- tion of material, in teaching techniques and in the form of exercises for drill and tests.

Students of school-age, however, ac- c.ount for only half of the numbers enrolled. The other half is composed of adults-persons who study to satisfy n yearning for knowledge, to ensure nseful occupation of leisure time and to develop worthwhile hobbies. The (witriblition of the courses to the re- habilitation of prisoners within our penal institutions would make a story i n itself, and sllonld not be overlooked a s a further example of the widespread infiur.nc.e of Dr. Lnws and her rmrark- able drpartment.

In 1948 groups of displaced persons were arriving from all parts of Europe, most of them with no knowledge of the English language. They were put to work on farms, but it was soon evident that something must be done to get rid of the language barrier that was their greatest handicap. Dr. Lucas was ilsked to organize and take charge of the programme in B.C. of training in English and Citizenship. No suitable text was available at that time, but, nothing daunted, Dr. Lucas wrote a text-book herself. The results were amazingly good. She devised a method that is so easily understood, so intelli- gently organized, that, two months after starting their studies,’many immigrants are speaking English snrpris- ingly well. This first course is accom- panied by a Manual of S’ecaching Directiolts for instructors with no professional training. All over our province housewives and others are instructing their hired help and neighbours, using Dr. Lucas’ course. There are many classes of one iitudent only.

To prepare new Canadians for citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, she next produced a second course in English. With each lesson of the second course they become familiar with some phase of Canadian life. There are answers to many of the questions that may occur to them concerning business transactions, the taxation system, naturalization pro- ceedings, schools, shopping, hospitals,

John Doe, at home in a remote part o f B.C., working on a General Science Course experi- ment, under direction of High School Cor-

respondence Department, Victoria.

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menus, customs and traditions in the home. Qnipped with this valuable information, the new Cammdian finds his place with confidence, no louger held hack by misgivings about the un- familiar.

On completion of the course, the students are given a certificate in Eng- lish and Citizenship which they may show to the judge when they :Ippear in rourt for the hearing of their peti- tion for citizenship. Many new Cana- dians thns know more about their adopted country and its heritage than Canadians who have been born : ~ n d brought up here. The value of thc course is becoming recognized across Canada and it is alrendy being nsed in some cities outside the borders of K C .

Dr. Lucas was honoured as 2111 an- thority in the field of Correspondence Education by being elected Vice- President of the Internatiounl Confer- ence of experts on Correspondence Courws held at l’ennsylvanin State College in 1953. When the Conference meets in Banff in 1957, she will he Cha i rn ln of the Vocational Education section.

She is also \‘icePresideut of the Canadian Council on Correspondence Education and is n valued member of the Victoria Canadian Citixensh,ip Council. For her services to education, she was last year awarded a Coronation Medal.

In every walk of life and in ever1 field of endeavour, throughout the Dominion, there arc grateful students

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Chemical Institute of Canada Western Regional Conference at U. B. C.

By PROFESSOR W. A. BRYCE

The U.B.C. Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering were well represented a t the Second Western Regional Conference of the Chemical Institute of Canada held on the Campus, Septemlwr 9-11, inclllsire. Approsimatclg 200 chemists and chtlm- ical engineers from Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest were in attendance. The committee responsible for arrangements was headed by Dr. R. H. Wright, B.A.’28, and inchided the following people with U.B.C. afilia- tion: Dr. J. A. F. Gardner, B.A.’40, Dr. N. M. Carter, B.A.Sc.’25, Dr. D. S. Scott, Assistant Professor, U.B.C., Dr. B. A. Dunell, B.A.Sc.’45, Mrs. J. G . Hooley, B.A.’38, Dr. J. G. Hooley, B.A.’34, Mr. B. A. Robinson, B.A.’36, U.B.C., Dr. L. A. Swain, B.A.’31, and Dr. W. A. Bryce, Assistant Professor, U.B.C.

Seven technic*nl sessions on chemical and chemical engineering topics were held. A discussion on Analytical Chem- istry was presided over by Dr. Milton Kirsch, Assistant Professor, U.R.C., and among those rontributiug papers

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1. Gilbert Hooley, B.A.’34, M.A., Ph.D.(M.I.T.),

chats with Dr. G. T. Page, General Manager of- Chairman, U.B.C. Department of Chemirty,

Chemical Institute o f Canada.

HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY sternwheelers (now retired in favor of more modern vessels) have occupied a vital position in the developmezt

cargoes of troops, workers and supplies necessary ftw defense and expansion. of Canada’s North . . . plying thc network of .northern r i ven with

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The President Reports “THE UNIVERSITY, 1954

I t gives mc :L great deal of pleasnre once agcnin to be able to tell yon something nhont our University, and to describe a fern of the more intcrcsting events and dert~lopments that have oc- cnrred since I last spoke to yon a year ago. U.B.C. AND THE FAR EAST

As you will hare learned from the newspapers : ~ n d in other ways, the Chanwilor, I<rigadicr Sher~vootl Lett, has gone off ;IS Head of the Can:itlian Mission to 1ntlo-Chin:I. Tllrre. ill toll-

sultation with the rcpr(,sc,lrtntirc.s of India and of I’olantl, he will try to bring 1w‘:lc.e : t n d ortlcr ont of that difficult and dangerous situation. I mention this not only hec*:Iuse of our affectiotr and admiration for o w Chan- cellor, bnt bcrause it marks in another new and signilicnnt way how much we are a part of the whole of the world we live, in :1nd horn important the Pacific and Asia have become to us. This is further evidence, if that were needed, thnt we shonld do more than we hare done in the past to inform ourselres about the peoples and the conntries of tlre Far East, and SO

reach some nnderstanding of their problems. For many years, we a t the University of British Columbia have talked about the organization of formal conrses in F:lr Eastern Studies, and have frequently stated that. we are the logical place in Canada a t which work of this kind should be organized. TO date, because of limited finances, we have done very little about this, but I hope and expect that within the next year or two this most important dream can become a reality. REEUILDING OF BROCK HALL

Two weeks ago, our student centre, the Brock Memorial Building, burned down. This is particularly distressing because it was one of the most attrac- tive and useful buildings on the campus. Fortunately, we carry replacement insurance, but because replacement insurance rarely, if ever, covers all of the losses sustained, the student body with their usual energy and initiative have organized a campaign to make up for this, and the Brock is rising again from its ashes. STUDENTS FROM OTHER LANDS

One of the interesting facts about our University is the number of students we are attracting from other parts of the world. This year, nearly 500 students from at least 57 different countries are enrolled here. This is education at its best and very much in keeping with the traditions and prac- tices of great unirersities throughout the centuries, for these yonng people bring to us a variety of experience and background which codd not be ob-

MacKenzie. November 16, 1954. Portion of C.B.C. Broadcast by President

?l U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS By DAVID BROCK

I see that the revenne of all Cam- dian universities in 1952 was less than $50 millions, while in that same year we spent over $00 millions on pop, over $90 millions on candy, and so on, through a very de1)ressing and nnappc- tizing list. To any univt.rsity man this news must be as disgusting as a menu composed entirely of pop and candy. To the non-rulirersity m:m, too, who knows what the unix-ersities mean to the whole eomtnllnity (even in terms of dollars), this will he alarming news.

What is more likely today than to give mndy and pol) a ralue that might have astonished Thomas hqrkinas 01‘ Thomas More? IVhat fblsc would yo11 espect? A n t 1 wl-h:lt 11ar-e the universitivs thcnlselves tloue to postpone or prevcllt this (lay? In sotne \r:~ys, of collrse. pop is the affair of a majority tlmt knows nothing of universities. Yet the, inflnenre of :l university spreads throughout the community, or slloultl. A n t 1 the university does train a large numlwr of school teachers, so that, whilv most childrcw arc not sons o f Altni~ Natr r , they are her spiritwll grantlsons.

Further, the unirersiticbs a r c directly reslmnsible for the dietatorship of chemists and home economists over the hnm:tn body, and notably over the hum>tn palate. TTnirersitics Iwliere ant1 teach that a (.11cf dc ctrisiu(7 or :I

muitre d’hotcl is the last person who can tell you anything about how to eat or how to live. Universities feel that if there is one thing cooks don’t under- stand it is cookery. Is it surprising that me have taken to pop? A s for pop in a larger sense, a s a

warning and a sign . . . well, let me quote you AntlrC. Simon’s definition of Ginger Ale, in his Concise Encyclo- paedia of U;lstronomy : “One of the most popnlar of Minerals. It is made with a few drops of essence of ginger, or capsicum estract, and a few drops of colouring mat te r ; also some sugar o r gluc.ose, pnt in :L bottle which is then t i l l c d 111) with carbonated water. Occasinnally :I little mucilaginous mnt- t r r variously known technically as Froth, Heading, et(*.. is :~ddccl to give thc: Ginger A l c ’a bcttrr hc;rd’ and the tlrinkrr theroof :L greater thrill.”

To nicb this sonnds very like the w a y :I child will hc educated tomorrow . . . tomorrow or late this afternoon. Into him we will pour n little pepper, a little colowing, n lot of glucose, any :Imount of fizz, and :I bit of mucilag- inons matter which he mill mistake for c*harac.ter, a n t 1 may the Lord pity him. The nniversitiw will be partly to blame.

They are already to blame, a t least in part. for any symptoms of pepper, cwlonring, glucose, fizz and mueilagin- ous matter in the life we all live a t this very monlcwt. If n university can’t t e l l you how t o lire, or train men to

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then it is dodging all the ihyues tha t matter, and might seem to de.serve to be swept away in a torrent of pop wl1c.n the last dams of civilization a re smashed. I say “seem to deserve,” for, no Inatter how a university fails in its esplanation of life, it still pays for itself in other things. If the pop- drinkers gave the universities a little more money from the pop-fund, the nnivcrsities could turn out enough scientists and technicians (having first attrncted them) to prevent any future war. or a t least enough to win such a ~vz~r . (The Russian production of sc*icwtists and technicians is the most alarming thing in the world today. surely.) The nniversities could make the worlcl safe for pop-drinkers, so to s 1 ) c ~ k . They could also make the world morv prosperous.

I’;tssively, the nllirersities have failed to tisplain that pop comes at just about tllr bottotn of any reasonable list of plt~asurcs, or any list of valuable ob- jects. Actively, they have done worse. Sot in d l departments but in too m:Iny they have produced young men and women who remind you of pop even when they are not physically l w slobbered with the stuff. Just the sor t of people to breed little popeyed sav- ages. In the case of very young persons I am deploring less the pop-drinkers than the pop-thinkers, but with those of riper years I refer to both. I n a grown-up, pop-drinking and pepbhink- ing go wonderfully together.

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A solemn service was held a t 11.00 o’clock on the morning of November 11 in the Il1emori:lI entrance of the Gym- nasium. A tri-service Guard of Uni- 1-ersity Cadets was supplied under Kavy commatld. Wreaths were placed beneath the AIctnorial Plnqne by representatives of the t h rw Officer Train- ing Units, 1Nth I<:ttt:llion Association, Canadian Leg-iotl Branc*llcs 72 and 142, The University. t h e Alutntli Association, The Cniversity I ~ h p l o y e d Union and the Alma Mater Society.

The serrice \vas contlucted h r Rev. William Deans, t<.AL’25, Chaplain, 196th Battalion Bssnc.i:ltion, and addresses were given by l’rcsident MacKenzie and Mr. Leonard 1%. Stacey. R.A.Sc.’24.

MEMORIAL ADDRESS

Mr. Stacey reminded his hearers that the memorial service commemorated the fallen in two world wars and in Korea. “Rut,” hc said, “men and womcn of many nations have died for freedom thronghont the ages; let us also remember them. We cannot call them by name nor feol any personal loss a t their passing, h r t they, too, were indi- riduals, cut off in their prime and sacrificed for the samr principle for which my fricuds ant1 your friends died in onr generation.

“To millions now dead this Remem- brance Day service n~onld recall events and names, only a few of which the historians have rccordctl, but all of which in their time were very real and very splendid, and without which the ranse of freedom wonld have foun- dered long since.

“ I t seems to me that in the art of remembering, especially in a group like this, where o w separate thoughts run so closely parallel, we do in fact deny the death of those we remember-to the extent that they and their ideals a r e alive in onr memory they are not dead.

“So let us remember the men and women of all generations and of all nations who have died for the freedom and the dignity of human life. And let 11s realize that the struggle for freedom and the Christian ethic is not pecnliar to our age and that it will continue until the millennium. That the struggle is still going on is proof that those whom we honour today h a w not died in vain.

“In sacrificing their lives they not only handed the torch-to us and to futnre generations, h t they also acknowledged the debt we all owe to those who have gone before.”

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Chaplain, Leonard B. Stacey, Rev. William Deans, Chaplain 196th Battalion, Lt.-Col. H. T. Logan, Remembrance Day Procession. From Left, President MacKenzie, Rev. J. R. Grant, Naval Reserve

G. Dudley Darling, Lt.-Cmdr. Frank J. E. Turner.

ASIAN STU Dl ES PROPOSAL

I t i s safe to say that many U.13.C. Alumni do not know of the existence iu British Colnmbia for some time past of a loosely-knit grollp of lcatlrrs in bnsi- IICSS, the professions, indnstr5- and pn11- lic life, known as “Friends of the Uni- versity” w l ~ o meet together from time to time to hear of tl lv wnrk of the lini- versity aut1 to cliscI1ss her l,rol)lt.ms and ncwls. Of spcyial interest rvns a lun- cheon meeting in the Facldty Club on October 30, when the Univcrsity was host to son~e fifty “Friends” and had as special guests Major General Victor Odlum and Sir Douglas (’opland, hrr two youngc.st Honorary gradllates, who had receivotl their degrees the previous cvening, and Dr. Edgar Mclnnis, Prcsi- dent of the Canadian Institute of Inter- national Affairs, just returned from at1 important conferettce in Japan.

General Odlum sounded the note for the brief addresses to follow when 11th deplored lack of Itnowledge of the Far East in British Columbia, as elsewhcrcl it1 Canada. “It is a fact,” he said, “thal these millions of people havo a greater sense of our existcnce than nv of theirs. They are now looking to ns for advice and for help in the fields in which we are, for the time being, pre-eminent- in technology and business”. He went on to advocate establishmrnt of a Chair of Asian Studies at the TJnivrrsity of British Columbia, “snpportcd by the business enterprises of all Canada”. Such an “educational venture” would, he thought, form a point of contact

with the Orient a t her very gatewly, of incalculable w e both to Canadiam and 1.0 the peoples of the Far East.

I h . McItttlis. speaking as a citizen : m d ;IS Prwidetlt of tllv C.I.T.A., con- c.nrrr4 with what Ccnc~ral Odlum said “nlmit the important role that :L School of .\si:ln Stndies a t U.E.C. would have in rwlightening Canadi:tn opinion and in building I I ~ an active conscionsness of the problems confronting us in the Far Enst”. 1Ie paid tribute to “the wonderful jot) of pulllic. relatious in Japan” dona 11)- thr (hnndian .\1n11;1s- sador there, the IIntIoIIrabIc~ Robert Nayhew, and n1entiont.d other fac.tors which had increased Canada‘s st:\tnrr i n that country. Canadians as :I \\.hole. IN? thonght. should inform tllc~tnsc.lves more widrly aut1 intimately of this crnc.inl arex of the world and “every possible opportnnity shoiild be provided to piirslle stndics and communicate the fruits of investigation.”

In 1)ringing the clisc.llssion to a dose. I’residcnt JI:lcKtwzie stressed the need for :I School of Asian Studies nl; the Tjnivrrsity. IIe reportcd that contributions towards this end had already been received, and he hoped that a move forward conld IN, made in tII(x cnmitlg y w r . IIe suggestctl that the “Frientls”. and particularly those wit11 c,otlnectintls of some kind in the? Far East. might form an advisory comn~ittcc to give the project tllr benctit of their ktlnn-lcdgr and experience.

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Autumn Co Honorary Degrees for Sir Doug

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gregation Copland and General V. W. Odlum

Hritish Colnn1l)in sixty-five years ago.” Hc sorved for long periods as an in- fantry combat soldier in the Canadiau forces, first in the South African mar and then in World Wars I and 11.

“111 the pnrsuits and activities of peaw his record is ;I stirrine ox;ttn1)It~: he has been Canadian High Commis- sioner to Australia, JIirlister to C h i ~ ~ a , Anhlssador first to Chin;1 and I:rtterly to Turkey.” He labonred in fields more local and limited “as a member of the Provincial Lcgislnture, ;IS a memlwr of thc I%o:lrd of Goveruors of the ~’ ; I I I : I -

dian Broac1c;rsting (’orporatioll. of Union College, and of our own Gui- versity ; and :IS a wise connsellor, es- pericnced director and tireless worker in a host of organizations devoted to public benefit.”

“In his own person he has taken C!anadn in peace and war to the ont- sitlc world, atld bronght back to his native land ;I multitude of shrewd ohservations and stimulating ideas. Ant1 through all his many activities, responsibilities, and experiences he has rrnmined modest and approachnl~le, genial and humorous. If any institn- tion can fittingly recognize the essen-

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was described in the citation a s “a tine blend of public activity and schol- arly productivetlcss.” l3or11 and etlrl- cated in Sew Zc:llnnd, “he lectured in Econonrics and (‘otnmerc-c :it the I-ni- rersities of Tasn1:lnin nntl J I ~ l b o ~ ~ r n e for many years, n ~ ~ d I)ec*an~c Vice- Chanwllor, a s tvc\lI :IS one of the lend- ing founders. of the Anstralian h-a- tionnl University. From acadrmic circles he was sntnmoned to m m y arduous tasks i n the pnhlic service of Australia, not:ll)ly a s Eronotnic (loll-

sultant to the nation’s Pritncb Blinistvr. and as Anstrn1i:In Minister to (’hina. He has mritttw caol)iously a nd anthori- tatively on ~ ~ I I : I I I W . c.mployn1ent, i n f h tion, marketing. ; ~ n d other import:lnt uspcc:ts of ecotmnics, and also fonnd time to be visiting lec~tnrc~r :It threv of the greatest I-liivcsrsitirs of the Eng- lish-speaking n-orltl. Oxford, Cambridge and lI:~rvarcl.” ADDRESS OF SIR DOUGLAS COPLAND

Sir Douglas’ atldress csonsisted, in the main, of a 11lca for the stndy of Asia, her peoples :Lnd ci\-iliz:ltions.

After paying tribute to Canada’s growing part in international affairs on two oceans. a s instanced by her heavy cotnmitnwnts in N.A.T.O. atld her contribution to the Colombo Plan, he said, “The responsibilities you now have assnmed . . . for the final settle- ment of the Indo-Chinese pro1)Ietn rep- reseut ;it one and the same time the greatest complitnent ever paid to a young nation and the heaviest . . . international oblig;ltion ever ;~ssnmed by a young nation. We in Anstralin respect yonr fortitnde and welcotuc your ac- ceptance of thew new rrsponsibilities in an area that so greatly affects our own drstinies.”

I n his OWII 1:1nd of Anstralia the Colombo Plan a t ~ d other international agencies, :IS well as private initiative, had bronght ‘‘solut, 3,500 Asian students to thc luliversities, medical srhools, teclmicxl schools and agricnl- tural colleges,” and the National Ans- tralian University a t Can1)erra had established a School of 1’:lcific. Stndies which he descrihed as “a bold, imng- inatirr rnterprise” with “Chairs in Intern:~tionaI Relations. I’acific His- tory, Geography. Anthropology, Ori- ental Stndies.”

Sir 1)onglas strongly nrged that a similar step br taken 1)s the Unirersity of British C‘olntnhin. “Wh:\t better enterprisv conld yon embark upon thnu to estal)lish withi11 yonr own arademic. strnctnre a school of studies, that will bring yon closer i n spirit and nnderstanding to thr new world, that is now tlvveloping i n the ancient world. not far from yonr shores, across the Pacific Ocean. I t will enrich yonr acadenric tradition, and enable yon to make a significant cwltrihntion to thc. swelling stream of Canadian intcrvst in the affairs of the East.”

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Mrs. B. A. Eagles unveils portrait of Mrs. F. F. Wesbrook. From Left , Mrs. R. H. Clark, Mrs. A. Photo by Courtesy Marlow of Brltlsh Columbia

Hrennikoff, Mrs. F. F. Wesbrook, Dean G. F. Curtis, President MacKenzie, Mrs. 8. A. Eagles.

MacMillan Fine Arts Clubs A.STORY OF CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS

By MARJORIE AGNEW, B.A.’22

FOUNDATION 1954 marks the eighteenth birthday

of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Fine Arts Cluhs, founded in 1936 in Templeton Junior High School. From this club grew a federation which spread over a great portion of Canada and has been recognized by the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation, the Massey Commis- sion, Art Galleries of Vancouver and Edmonton, Sir Ernest MacMillan’s new book on Canadian music soon to he released by University Press and by many other organizations and individuals. Because of her interest in MacMillan Clubs, Marion MacMillan founded the Sir John Rarbirolli Clubs of Great Britain, an interesting affili- ation, as Sir John is a patron of the MacMillan Cluhs.

The first club at Templeton was organized by the Boys’ Counsellor, D. B. MacKenzie. B.A. ’35, M.A. ’37, now assistant superintendent of schools and honorary president of Gladstone hiac- Millan Club; H. B. Fitch, principal; Lilla Robertson, secretary, and the writer of this article who was Girls’ Counsellor. The counsellors discussed the development of music, literature and art iu their classes, and, with the assistance of a few students interested in improving noon hour programmes, formed a Rcc-ita1 Clul) to present half- hour programmes once a week devoted to serious music, literature and art. A temporary executive canvassed the student body and arranged a programme of instrumental and vocal music, solo and ensemble. assisted by a good rcad- er and commentator. l’rogrammes continued with increasing attendance. SPONSORS, MEMBERSHIPS, DUTIES

Shortly after the programmes be- gan, Mr. Fitch wrote to Sir Ernest MacMillan to ask him if he would sponsor the group. He replied that if he could be of any help he would be delighted. For eighteen years he has given unstintingly of his time and genius to assist the members.

The Public Relations Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion, when asked to devote a recording programme to the club during the first year. rrplied that he would do better than that; he would arrange to have C.B.C. concert parties hold their re- hearsals at club meetings. Because of this the first honorary members were Jimmy Yeomans, John Avison, Jean de Rimanoczy and Roy Dunlop, and these men are still actively interested in MacMillan Club activities. From that time clubs have presented programmes given by both student per- formers and honorary members.

Membership was, and still is, of two kinds, viz.. associate or those who at-

Photo by Courtesy Vancouver Province

SIR ERNEST MacMlLLAN

tend programme meetings and active members, i.e., those who engage in a numher of the activities on the active member list, as follows:

1, Participating i n a programme; 2, planning a programme; 3, painting murals or engaging in other art for the school; 4, collecting good recordings; 5 , sending in comments re radio programmes; 6, compiling scraphooks; 7, taking part in inter-club activities, festival, art show, literature competition, etc; 8. attending community programmes; 9, ushering at concerts, etc. GROWTH

In January, 1937, Hilda Cryderman of Vernon High School, now president of British Columbia Teachers’ Feder- ation, became interested in MacMillan Clubs and organized among other things, a three-day festival with Sir Ernest MacMillan as guest of honour. Next came a Junior Club at Lord Kitchener with Allan Ainsworth. later U.B.C. Student Council president and Rhodes scholar, as treasurer; then a Senior Club was formed at King Ed- ward from which came such distin- guished U.B.C. grads as Tommy Franck, Erica Nalos. Don Anderson, Art Hill and others. North Vancouver is another club which has provided celebrities including Peter Mannering. Among the first six clubs was Sunalta Junior High, Calgary, a club in which Glyndwyr Jones was the first honorary member. I t is interesting to note that Chuck Allen, a member of the staff at the Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario, was at one time vice-president of the MacMillan Club in Moose Jaw, Sask.

CLUB PROGRAMMES Programmes were and are held a t

various times, but noon hour is the most popular choice. In addition to outstanding student talent and visiting artists, representatives of the crafts give illustrated talks. The MacMillan Clubs owe a great deal to the National Film Board which provides such excellent films in the arts. Tsolum Club, Vancouver Island. is one of the clubs which is most grateful to the U.B.C. film library for general advice. Drama has a place on club programmes, also dancing of all kinds and inter-club presentations arc exceedingly popular.

MacMillan Clul)bers owe a debt of gratitude to artists in every field and show their appreciation by raising money for scholarships and advertising Canadian development in the arts. such as the new recording companies, Bea- ver and Hallmark, and working for the proposed School of Music at U. B. C. Club projects have been suc- cessfully carried out, e.g.. assisting to buy grand pianos for schools, buying record players and pictures, etc. INTER-CLUB ACTIVITIES

Naturally an increase in the numher of c lul~s led to inter-cluh activities. Or - iginally a mimeographed news sheet was distributed; next a small printed paper with which Phil Ashton of CKWX gave great help. Now, thanks to the T . Eaton Co.. the clul~s publish a fine periodical edited by another U. B. C. grad, Beverly .inn iliilson, B.A. ’49, formerly a MacMillan Club president in North Vancouver High School.

In addition to the Newsletter. the T . Eaton Co. sponsors a MacMillan Club Art Show, displayed f o r a week. The 1954 show was the most successful ever held and was under the con- venership of Ralph Hanslow. Art work came from many outside centres, in- eluding an exceptionally fine display from Whitehorse, Yukon. Although the Vancouver Art Gallery first sponsored the event, the show grew too large for the availahle space, but the staff of the Gallery and Art School. also the Vancouver Supervisor of Art, gave invaluable assistance as adjudi- cators.

Photo by Arthur Babcock, Magee High School

North Vancouver MacMillan Club members. From Left, Carol Richardson, Pianist, Suther- land Jun.-High; Curtis Williams, Cellist, Sutherland Jun. - High; Prisann Champion, Pianist, Club Scholarship Winner, N. Van. High School; GarIh Williams, Violinist, High-

land Elementary School.

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A central committee of sponsors meets on the fourth Saturday in Sep- tember when conveners for inter-club activities are appointed and the cow veners pick their committees. A club co-ordinator sends out material re inter-club events, organization, etc. ,4n extremely capable Vancouver Secre- tary, Kay Rollinson, volunteered as executive secretary for MacMillan Clubs. Mr. Burton Kurth similarly directs Scholarship Adjudications.

For twelve years the Provincial Government has given a small grant to the MacMillan Clubs, a welcome contribution instituted by the late Hon. George Weir, when Minister of Edu- cation. Our present Minister of Edu- cation, Hon. Ray Wllliston, has expressed appreciation of the work. FESTIVALS

The first club at Templeton held two festivals devoted to the arts, b u t soon there were a sufficient number of clubs to warrant an inter-club festival. Ma- terial is sent to the cluhs and sponsors arrange for applications from candi- dates of a suitable standard in many schools. This means a School Festi- val prior to the Inter-Club event which is held annually on the third Friday in February. a day which Dr. H. X. hfac- Corkindale. an ardent hfachfillan Club supporter, likes to call “Field Day for the Arts“. Various schools i n Van- couver and Rurnaby are used as centres. The clubs are exceedingly grateful to Derek Inman. manager of Geor- g-ia Auditorium, for his kindness in allowing the committce to nse the autli- torium for festival sessions. Competi- tive classes include piano, strings. woodwinds and hrasses, girls’ vocal, boys’ vocal, speech arts, novelty in- struments, dancing, Past Festival and Vienneze waltzing.

The classes are divided into Junior, Intermediate and Senior, while former winners have a chance to compete for a Past Festival Cup. Honorary men- bers, sponsors and schools have been extremely generous i n donating tro- phies, which are now available in almost every class; the cluh committee provides prizes for classes without a trophy, With the exception of the Viennese waltzing, the adjudications take place during the day. In thr evening at Gcorgia Auditorium large audi- ences see teams in costume compete in Viennese waltzing and, in addition, a number of Festival winners from the other classes are presented. For several years enthusiastic teams of grati- uates have competed for a special cup. SCHOLARSHIPS

The winners of the Festival look forward to the Scholarship .itljudications in June. The c1ul)s now give scholarships of 5150 in piano. other instru- ments, vocal and art. The amount was increased this year antl Macblillanites hope the increase will continue. I t is interesting to examine the ways and means for raising scholarship funds which include the sponsoring of Cana- dian artists, money from musical and

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Photo by’ Arthur Babcock, Magee Hlgh School Prize winners at inter-club party recently at home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Ronald Graham.

John Oliver Jun.-High School, Scholarship On the Right is Mrs. Ada Henderson, B.A.’54,

convener. (See Page 25.)

Lonvocatlon-Hlumnl


PETER J. SHARP

Peter James Sharp, B..I.. l%.C0111.’36, was elected hlwuni .Issoc*i:ttion l’resi- den t a t a well-uttended conlhined Cou- vocatiou - ,Uumui Assoc9:ttion annual dinuer meeting held ;It the Ela(w1ty C l n h on Sovrmher 3 0 . Mr. Sharp, who is regional 11;111;1gc.r of the I<,Isinc.ss 1)e- velopmtwt I)c.partlnent, T I : c b Roy111 I h n k of Cnn:lda. T;tnc.onrer. has 1)et.u hlnmni Association Treasurer dnring the ll:ist year. Members of the Iloard of Man- agement for 1954-5.5 werc elected as follows : I’resident, Peter Sharp, B.Com. ’36 ; Past I’rcsidcwt, C:. IhItlley 1 tarling, B.Com.’39 : First Vic.(~-l’r(,sidt,llt. Hugh John Hodgins, R.A.Sc.’?8 : Secoud Vice- President, Mrs. Frank 31. Ross, B.A.25 ; Third Vice-President. I)cm Blythe A. Eagles, B.A.’?2 : Trc:lsnrrr. Archie P. Gardner, R.A.’3i ; Executive Secretary, A. H. Sager. B.A.’38 ; Chronicle Editor, Harry T. I,ogan, &I.(’., M A . : Members- at-Large : Jlrs. T,:~~vrencc. E. Ranta, B.A.36, B.A.Sc.’39; John Ashby, H.A. ‘33; Leonard B. Stacey, B.A.Sv.24. Degree Representatives : Agricnltnre, Jack Gray, B.S.A.’30 ; Applied Science, Stuart Lefeans, B.A.Sc.’4.7 ; Architec- ture, Harry IRC, R.Arvh.’.50 : Arts, Harold Tir. Fullerton, Ii.A.’29 : Com- merce, Domld JlcKae, I<.COll1.’47 ; Por- estry, Sorman Dnsting, I<.S.F.’52 ; Home Economics, Mrs. George Cornwell, B.H.E.’49 ; L a w , Brian W . 1’. JIcLough- lin, LL.B.50 ; Medicine, I)r. Tictor Mac- Pherson, B.A.’SO ; Phtlrmacy, Mies Anne Tornljenovich, B.S.I’.’.54 : I’hysical Edn- cation, Hugh iWarshall, B.l1.E.’50 ; Social Work, George Jones, R.S.W.’49, M.S.W. ’SO. The Treasurer’s report showed an excess of revennc over espentlitnrc for the year of $1,064.i2, and rewaled an accumulated surplus totalling $4,060.28, after making provision for depreciation of fixed assets.

Arthur H. Sager I)resented a brief “progress report” of Alumni office activities since his appointment as Execu-

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tive Secretary, on October 3 , noting espec+:tlly his duties in co-oper:ltion with hlnnmi com~~~it tec~s ill arrangements which included the (‘lass of ’?!) Hcnniou, Homt.r~oming, ”Frieutls of the, University” 1,uuchcwu. R?-l)llil(l thtb I%r(~ck Appeal and the A n n u n l 1)inner. In referring to the Brock Hall Fire he expressed his “;tpprcciation of the kindness and co-operation reccivetl from the President and all departmeuts of the University clnring this difficult period."

Aubrey F . Roberts, Chairm:tu, Hoard of Dirrvtors, 1J.B.C. 1)evrlopulrnt E’untl. rcy)ortd that, in 1054, the fund had re:tchc~d a new high point of $50,000. with 2’860 donors, of whom 232.5 werc’ i\lunmi Association members. Jlr. Roberts made an earnest plea to it11 i\lumni for an1un:tl tlonntions. “8:lrt~ly”. he urged, “with 20,000 graduates, we should hare a t least 4,000 or 5,000 giv- ing regularly. Let’s make that our main objective for 1955.” H e has agreed to contiune for a third year as Chairman of the Fund Ro:lrd. (For ;I full report of the Fnnd see Autumll (‘hroniclc~.

Presentations were made to Dudley I)arling, retiring President, and to Frank lhrner , in appreciation of their services to the Alumni Association. REPORT OF DUDLEY DARLING

G. Dudley Darling, retiring President, reportcd on “Alumni Association activities and policies” clnriug his year of office as follows:

The University Development Fund, llnder the capable (.hairmanship of Mr. Aubrey Roberts, has completed its sixtb successful year. Your Executive Com- mittee approved the change in name of the Fund from “Alnmni-U.B.C. Devrlop- ment Fund” t o “University Develop- ment Fllnd.” The pnrpose of this change was to recoguize and encourage contributions to our Iiniversity from non-alnnlni who conld be rea(-hed most conveniently by the Fund I3oard. The 17nircrsitg Development Fund will ( w 1 -

t i m e to be the principal means by whicb alrlmni van snpport 1J.R.C‘. How- ever. it should bc remembered that there arc many other important and t;tngil)le ways in which the alumni cow trihnte to their A l m t Mater.

Thr . i / l m z ~ ~ i C11,vnic~l~~ cwntinurs to provide alumni and friends with news and v i e w of graduates and the Uni- versity. 11. T. Logan, Chrojricle Editor, has been unsparing of his time and effort in seeking to publish a magazine of interest and value. 111 spite of the ;tclclitions and improvements macle i n the publication, printing costs have remained steady. Advertising rates have been increased and plans are now under way to establish a stabilized ndvertising programme.

ANNUAL REPORTS

A41~~m~l i Committees have performed useful work 011 Ilnivcrsity problems throughout the ycar. 9 u imltortant report came from Dr. W . G. Black, (‘hairman of the *‘Iowa l’lan Com- mittce”. This report. which suggests a plnu for the introtlnctiou of courses in religious instruction a t IJ.B.C., has beeu su1)mittcd to the Senate for con- sideration. Significant reports were also submitted by the Committee on Athlctics;, the Conmittcle on Residences and Housing, aud the Committee on Records and Mxiling. The Committees on IIigl1t.r Etlncation and The I;niver- sitg Club arc carrying forward their cliscmssions into the I I ~ W Scar.

0 1 1 the Social (’alendar. the I<oxing r h y 1)anc~ was hrlltl iu accordanc.c. with tradition and with the suwess we have come to espect of this Party. For the nrst tinw in somt’ ycwrs, the : I l u n t n i , heiltled by Mr. Jack Cllarlton, took a n active part with the stndents in organiz- ing Homecoming. Although the 1111-

fortunate fire in the Brock necessitated a change of plans, there mas an escel- lent turn-out of alumni to the football game, and to the reception Inter a t the Fa(-nlty Club.

The Alllmni Offire has continued to be the centre of all our work. Sf te r right ycars of rnthusi:tstic. and efficicnt service. Mr. Frauk Tnruc.r resigned from his position a s onr Executire- Director. Mr. Tnrner was instrument:ll in cstnhlishing the Alumni Association as a working group of interested gr:tdlmtrs, organized principally in Van- couver, and witb a framework of branches throughout Rritish Columbia, across Canada, and in several centres in the United Statps. The Alumni Association is particnlarly indebted to him for his research on Alumni Fund raising, prior to the establishment of the Development Fund. Our best wishes go with Frank for the continuance of a happy and successful career.

We wclrome as his snccessor Mr. A. 11. Sager who is well know^ to many of

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President MacKenzie receives U.B.C. Develop- ment Fund Cheque from Mr. Kenneth P. Caple, Chairman Development Fund Board of Trustees.

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Annual Meeting PRESIDENT MACIKENZIE GUEST SPEAKER

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Dudley Darling, retiring Alumni President makes

of his eight years‘ service to the Association a presentation to Frank Turner in appreciation

as Executive Director.

Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audio-Vlsual Services Head Table group at Annual Dinner Meeting of Convocation and Alumni Association. From Left: Mrs. Darling, President MacKenzie, Mrs. Hamber, Mr. Peter Sharp (newly-elected Alumni President),

The Honourable Eric Hamber, Chancellor Emeritus.

1929 Reunion VISIT1 NC ALUMNI

STUDENT ASSISTANCE FUND

TWE NTY-FI FTH ANN IVE RSARY GIFT TO U. B. C.

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A t Homecoming Reception, Faculty Club, after Football Game against Central Washington. From Left, Charlie Armstrong, B.A.’32, Presi- dent, Pacific University, Mrs. Armstrong, B U V ~ Carpenter, B.A.k.’29. Manager, C.I.L., James

Island Plant.

Self-serving at 1929 Dinner. Pinky Stewart pulling a fast one. From Left, Marc Gormely, Mrs. Gormely, Archie Peebles, Pinky Stewart, Mrs. Peebles.

Class of 1929 Reunion Dinner, Faculty Club, November 5. Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audlo-Vlsual hervlces


Great Trekker Phyllis 1 Ross FUTURITY NOM1NE.E

By ‘DOROTHY G. TAYLOR

said a s I looked over new classmates of .lrts’25, “There’s my candidate for the 1934 E’ntluity.”

I would have been looking a t a slim, pretty girl sitting on x hench in the old Fairriew Arts Building. She was tall and straight, and the centre part-

I ing in her smooth, dark hair was in accord with the serenity of her smile.

I hoped that we would have classes together, and that we would be friends.

But my wny lay along the lines of least resistance-English, French, a smattering of history. The girl I had

ker of 19,X wo11ld 11a1-e justified that faith throughout the years-and is a good prospect for still fnrthcr honours.

Much has bcen written abont l’hyllis (iregory’s career since she grntlun tcvl with honours in 1‘325. She went to Brgn Mawr on : I fellowsllip, XIS :lwardc~d another fellowship the following year, and tllctt two more, including The Canadian Federation of Urti- versity Wonlen’s travelling fcllowsl~ip.

After work and study in England and Germany, she married in London. and as Mrs. Leon:trtl 11. Turner, took np wife-and-mother clnties in England. In 1931 Phyllis T l m w r was left a widow with two small children. She retnrncvl to British Colnn1bi:x ;md soon re;tlizcltl that her children neetlcd ;I bre;ld\vi1111~.1.. and tha t she wo11ltl have to I)e it.

Dr. W. G. Black, B.A.‘22, delivers the annual Cairn Ceremolny address commemorating the Great Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audlo-Vlsual Services

Trek, September 17, 1954.

admired on that first dag threw herself wholeheartedly into an Honours Conrse in Economics and Political Science. W e had no classes together, but we hare always been friends in the w a y people are who meet by chance once or twice a decade ant1 in ten minutes succeed quite well in spanning ten years.

Like many another U.R.O. graduate, I have followed the career of Phyllis Gregory Ross with admiration, :~nd a little secret pride because I spotted a winner a t first sight so long ago.

A futurity race, or contest, of course,

an early age, to be jndged years hence. -4s time goes on, the candidate for future honours is reentered, eacll SIIC-

cessire re-entry being a fresh avowal of the sponsor’s faith. The Great Trek-

n

is one in which an anima1 is entered a t

*Dorothy G. Taylor, B.A.’25, since graduation has divided her time between travel,

. journalism and farming. She is this year’s President of the Canadian Women’s Press

Jersey Breeder,” President of Lower Main- Club, Acting President of ”The Canadian

land Jersey Breeders, and a director of numer-

she received Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae ous agricultural organizations. In June, 1954,

achievement award for “outstanding career in journalism and agriculture.”

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A quick glance over tllv lifc of Phyllis Ross might gire the impressic)n that she has simply gone from oxe snwess to another, sterling worth being

Photo by Courtesy Vancouver Province Mrs. Fralnk M. Ross, B.A.’25, receives Great Trekker Award from Dick Underhill, A.M.S. President, during Iialf-Time interval at Homecoming Football Game. From Left, Wendy Sutton, A.M.S.

Vice-President, Mrs. Ross, President MacKenzie, Dick Underhill.

known to the Alumni of U.B.C., who base their Great Trekker award on service to the community.

“How do you do it all?” I asked the lovely, serene woman sitting opposite me in the pine-panelled study of her beantiful Vancouver home. At this point my Irish terrier, having escaped my station wagon, came bounding towards us over the pale rose drawing room carpet. He had discovered a loosely- closed French window.

“I mnst admit that I get up at six,” said Mrs. Ross, “and serving on committees, and looking after a great many house gnests, a re only part of my rontine. Sometimes I think my life is just one long inventory of sheets and hlanlrets for the farm a t Cloverdale, the rmch in the interior, and the place in Sew I%runswick. It’s lucky my three dogs are nt Cloverdale today,” she added as I moved to restore my lively friend to his mobile kennel, “or we’d have a dog fight on our hands.”

Behind my hostess was the handsome portrait in oils, by Henry Carr, repro- duced on the cover of this issue, show- ing her in the searlet robes of an LL.D. On another wall was it portrait of her pretty daughter, Brenda Turner, by the same artist. Rrenda. a McGill graduate, is now in Montreal, where her brother, John Turner, Rhodes Scholar of 1949, is practising law.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross. Brenda and John

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t.ry to meet each summer at St . Andrews-by-the-sea, their Rew Rruns- wick home. Here they all enjoy swim- ming, which, with tennis, has always been a favorite pastime of Phyllis Ross.

Mentioned only by my modest hostess a s places requiring a bit of mnnage- merit in supplies, the “farm at Clorer- dale and the ranch in the interior” might be any casual possession needing a going oyer from time to time. Actually the Cloverdale farm is the picturesque estate on a ridge over- looking the Fraser Valley, home of the famed Welsh ponies that arc n drlight to thonsands of Pacific National Ex- hibition visitors every year.

Mr. Ross imported his original stock, and is now carrying on his own breed- ing program. “One young fellow I hare a t Cloverdale is better than either of thc imported stallions I’re shown a t the P.N.E.” he relates, with pardonable pride.

The ranch in the interior is the world-renowned Donglas Lake Cattle Ranch, home of superb Herefords.

Assnredly a life of achievement and hononr lips between Mrs. Frank Mac- kenzie Ross, Great Trekker of 198-1, and young Phyllis Gregory, undergrndnate, Arts’25. Rut this latest award is jnst part of a pattern that has become the normal way of life for Phyllis Ross, still my nominee for Fntnrity Honours.

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Oxford In Retrospect By PAT TAYLOR, B.A.‘52

As I have only recently returned from Oxford, I am frequently asked about my two years there, and what my impressions are. Since this question is asked oftenest at large social gatherings, I have become more and more frustrated; for how can I do justice to Oxford in the noise of a cocktail party? Therefore I am all the more thankful to Col. Logan for ask- ing me to write very briefly on some of the things about Oxford that im- pressed me.

I doubt that a Canadian student, used to thinking of a university in terms of a green campus set with inl- posing buildings iu “collegiate Gothic” style, could help but be confused by his first view of Oxford. It takes an experienced eye to distinguish parts of the university from the town, Balliol even having a pub within its walls. Un- fortunately thc pub no longer serves its old function, but provides accotn- modation for undergraduates. In two years I have grown to like the archi- tectural diversity. and the worn and weathered stonework now seems an expression of the homey friendliness of college life.

Indeed, I was all prepared to be met with the supposedly typical English reserve, but was pleasantly surprised to

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be met, instead, with more invitations to tea than I could cope with. I think the students may even have gone out of their way to be friendly because I was from another country; but how that extra kindness was appreciated! The same friendly air pervaded every- thing one did in the college. I felt en- couraged to play sports because the others seemed interested in having me along. There was always a waiting welcome, but it was never pushed at me. If I was preoccupied, no one would disturb my thoughts; yet I never lacked companionship when I

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Magdalen College, Oxford, from coloured litho- graph illustration in Ackerman’s History of .

Oxford in U.B.C. Library.

wanted it. It was a homey atmosphere in which everyone was gladly accepted, and which satisfied one’s need of both friendship and quiet.

Because every Oxford undergraduate is the sole master of his time, life in the college is highly artificial. The student has no duties which he might feel would steal the time he could better use studying. A servant makes his bed. Boring and unprofitable lectures need not be attended. But, of course, the undergraduate must see his tutor every week; however, for me, this was an enjoyable time. Because no one in the world at large is as independent of others as the Oxford student may be, Oxford’s system provides a unique situation out of which much good may come, but to the same extent as much evil, depending upon the individual’s use of his opportunity. Nevertheless, the value of the right employmeut of this opportunity is testified to by the greatness of many of Oxford’s sons.

The most different aspect of the teaching system at Oxford from that common in North America is the individual attention that every student receives from his tutor, and the use of essay writing as a tool of instruction. Every undergraduate sees his tutor for an hour once a week. Each week the I tutor assigns an essay topic and ad- vises his pupil which books he should read for material. Through practice the student learns to order his ideas and to express himself clearly. At the next tutorial he must read the essay to his tutor who will criticize it freely. This method is not restricted to only those subjects, such as history, which are obviously suitable for such treatment, but extends also to science, the student . of which is possibly more in need of such training anyway. I consider writing essays perhaps the most valuable part of my course.

Before going to Oxford my concep- tion of an English student ready to

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enter university was a lad. very well educated, but young for his ape, having had less social experience than his North American contemporaries. In- stead, the average freshman was sur- prisingly mature. \\’hat aroused my admiration was the cultural Ilack- ground and the critical al)ilit,r i n reatl- ing that most freshmen I1osscsw.I. Also the proportion of students w 1 1 o played a musical instrument was greater than at home. Part of the reason, 110 doubt, for this concentration of able students at Oxford is the stiff con1l)etition that exists for a place i n the university. In such company, the Rhodes Scholar soon discovers. perhaps to his dismay, that he is not the shining light he had come to think he was. I do not mean that he is conceited. but that he has become used to being one of the small class of prominent persons on his own campus.

I am struck I)y the fact that few undergraduates read a particular suhject because it will prepare them for a job. I have often asked my friends what sort of a job related to their subject they hoped to secure, and they reply that they do not know. They chose the subject because it was interesting. Moreover, no course at Oxford except medicine leads to a professional quali- fication. The university is concerned solely with training the mind.

Before I stop I should like to mention a few points of interest to prospec- tive Rhodes Scholars. Starting this year the scholar will receive a stipend of $600 a year, $100 more than last year. The increase has been granted because the Rhodes trustees want the scholar to be as free of financial worry as possible. H e is expected to travel and to use his time and money to his greatest profit. Expenses during term will consume $300 to $375 for the year; what, remains for the vacations, the other half of the year, should be ade- quate. The North American scholar’s stipend is reckoned as dollars, thus freeing him from the British currency restrictions which impede continental travel for the Englishman.

In the university the Rhodes Schol- ar receives no official distinction, but privately he is held in esteem. Through the kind effort of Miss Macdonald of Sleat he is invited to stay in private homes during the vacations. The Warden of Rhodes House-he is the Oxford secretary of-the Rhodes Trust -is responsible for the scholars and is ever willing to advise and help.

I have written of but few of my impressions of Oxford, and there is much more I would like to tell. Being at Oxford is a never-to-be-forgotten experience, one that I heartily recom- mend others to try.

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1918

REV. E. IAES1,IE BEST, E.&I., B.D., 1l:IS been alqmintctl assistant to the minister of St. Giles United Church, Vancouver.

1922

Rhs. Ii. I. P u R n Y , U . A . (n6e Mary Izeyle Aconley), for the past sever.it years has been with the Anglo-Cam- dinu Shipping (lompany, Limited, VHII- couver. (In the llictnre of the Class of 1‘322 :iOth Au~~ivers:lry Reunion, Autuml~ issue of tho Chronicle, page 17, 311%. l’nrdy is shown second from the Icft ill the front row. We rcgrr,t she was cxrroneonsly desigunted :IS Mrs. X. W. Whitt:tker.)

’24, RI.11. (Toronto), now Professor i u the T)cpartment of Physiology a n t 1 Secretary o f the Facnltg of Medicine : I t

1):llhon:rie University, regreseutt>d the IJniverPity of British C,olumhi:t a t the installation of The Reverend Herbert Lavallin Puxley as President and Vice Chancellor of the Unircrsity of King’s College a t Queen Elizabeth High School, Halifax, Nora Scotia, on Friday, Novemtw 5th, 1964.

CHARI.l%3 BlCECIIFX JTlCLD, bI.-\.

1924

DR. ARTHUR LLOYD WHEFLER, B.A., Professor and Chairman of the Depart- ment o€ English a t t he University of Manitoba, represented the Unirersity of Rritish Columbia a t the installation of Hugh 13amilton Sauudersou a s Presi- dent of the University of Manitoba $111

Friday, October 2211~1, 19%54. 1926

E. W . ( E e ) B.X~SISTT. B.A.Sc., hns recently been pronmted from Assistaut Chief Forester, i / c Operations, B.(‘. Forest Service, to Deputy Minister of Lands, Victoria.

JOHN GRACE, B.,4., P1I.D. ( Cantab.) , who, with Mrs. Grace, is on Sabbatical leave from St. John’s College, Cam. bridge, was guest of honour a t au aftltr- noon party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wallace on December 5. The gathering was arranged by tho Class of Arts ’26 of which Dr. Grace is perm:lrwnt Presidtwt.

1927

W. E;AI-E LAMB, H . A . , JI .h . ’30 , 1’11.1). (Univ. of London) ’33, LL.D.’48, represented the University of British Colum- bia a t the installation of Chalmers .Jack Maelreneie, C.M.G., AI.(:., F.R.S., as Chancellor of Carleton College, Ottawa, a t a Convocation held Tuesday, Norem- lrcr 23, 19.54.

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appointed assistant professor of History a t Harvard UniversitF. He is to in- augurate a new course there on the History of Canada.

PERCY RITCHIE (DICK j SANDWELL, R.A.Sc., is president and chief engineer of the firm of Sandwell & co., consult- ing engineers, which has developed projects, chiefly in the pulp and paper business, in almost every corner of the earth, the latest being in Pakistan. AS- sociated with him are U.B.C. Alums SIIERWOOD D. FORD, B.A.Sc.’39. as assist- an t chief engineer, and EDWARD (ED) S. BARTON, B.A.Sc.’42, resident engineer. Mnrupara project of the Tasman 1’1111) and I’nper Co. J,td., in &‘en- Zealand. (Sew Spring issue, p. 2:.

1936 FKASCIS (Fnaxc) HESAULT JOUBIS.

I<.-\., ;\1.8.’43. managing director of Technical Mine C,onsnltants Limited, Toronto, attended the annual meeting in November of the Canadian Institute of Mining and JIetallurgy. He gave a paper on “Economic Uranium Deposits ill Cknada.”

1937 LESLIE (LEsj E. BARBER, B.A., pub-

lisher of the Chilliwack Progress, was elwted by acclamation president of the 13.(:. Division of the Canadian Weekly Sewspnpers’ Association at their annnal convention in Vancouver October last. He is ;ilso serving for the fourth collsecntive year as B.C. director of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Asso- ciation. Rlns. IIARBER (n6e CONSTANCE M A R Y RAIRD), B.A.. writes a column in her hnshand’s paper called “In My Small Corner.” Les and Mrs. Barber ’lave two children, Wendy and Mary.

ROBERT T. AICICEMIE, B..4., lecturer i l l Political Science a t t h e London School of Economics, has just published a hook on British political parties, which is the first important stndy of their organization that has appeared in the past fifty years.

1938 F. W. (TED) CHARLTON, B.Com., has

been appointed president of MacDonald and MacDonald Limited, Inspection and Testing Laboratories, Vancouver. Ted was formerly sales manager with Deeks-McBride Limited.

1941 GORDON A. MCJIILLAX, B.A.Sc., and

.J. J . CROWHURST, H.A.Sc., were in Vancouver to give papers on B.C. mining operations at the annual meeting in November of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

1942 GORDON G. WALLACE, B.Com., has

been appointed Life Branch Manager of the British Columbia office of The Prudential Assurance Company Limited of England. The B.C. office is located in Vancouver.

1943 ARVID H. V. (BILL) BACKMAN,

B.A.Sc., after a number of years as logging engineer at Menzies Bay and later as Forester, Western District Logging Operations of MacMillan &


EDWARD 5. BARTON

Bloedel Ltd., mas promoted in 1!%3 to Manager of Franklin Rirer Division, MacBIillan & Ulocdel Ltd. IIe is remembered a t U.B.<:., among other things, as editor for one year of the Ubyssey and as Captain of the debating team which won the RkGon~l ( h p .

1944 VICTOR U’ESIXY JOIINSTON, B.Com.,

has been appointed director of the economics branch in the Defense Pro- duction Departmcnt. a t Ott.nna.

1945

associate profwsor of nlathelnatics at Jlontana State (lollcgc, is author of a new book. “St:ttistics in Rcsearch.”

DR. BERNAKI) (-)S‘TI,K, I<..\.. RI.A.’46,

1947 KENSETH A. A h c K ~ n n ~ , ILA., 01.8.’48,

who has lectured a t t he Universities of New Brnnsnick and Alaska, and studied in Australia, has been appointed Assistant Professor of History in Queen’s University. J. 31. WATT, B.Com., (:lerical Special-

ist with the International Business Machines Corporation, San Francisco, has been promoted to Office Supervisor.

1948 JOHN F. CAPLETTF,, B.S.A., has heen

appointed editor of the new magazine, “The B.C. Agrologist,” published “for the advancement of British Columbia Agriculture.”

A. E. Cox, B.A., University counsellor, was elected corresponding secretary of the British Columbia Psycho- logical Association a t i t s nnnuttl dinner in Vancouver October last.

ROBERT G . HARLOW, B.A., A.M. (Iowa), winner of the D.F.C. while serving in the R.C.A.F. in the Second World War, has been appointed manager of station CBU in Vancouver. He has been a producer with the C.B.C. since 1961.

SHEILA F. STEWART, B.A., has been in London for three years. She is working in the biochemistry department of Hammersmith Hospital.

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M R S . I)or;cr.~s S I I I C R I . ~ ~ ~ ~ (Loni), 13.A., is back in Vancouver from Tokyo and waiting for her husband’.; nest posting. Lient. Sherlock, R.C.N., has been attached to the Judge Advo- cate‘s office in the Far East.

€1. A . ( H E R B ) SCHOS, I:.S.F.. ha.; I N W I taking postgr:ldll;xtc~ work a t th,? School of IIusiness *i(llllillistr;xtion :It St:xnford, Gal., for the p l s t two yeark. He expects to retlxru to 1 I . C . Forest I’rotlnct>. r m . a t rolll)ol1.

1951 Ron-ar.o J. L ~ . . ~ K E K , l:.A., MA’53, In-

structor in English a t U.U.C., is this year working on :I 1’h.D. iu General Lingnist ics a t the School of Orifwtnl and African Studies, Jm~tlon KniT-er- sits, where he holtls :x f(~llowshi]) awarded by thr IIllmnllitios Itcscnrcll (‘oun(.iI of Can:~da.

-\I,I,.\h- I. Y. I).\wl<:. li.Ai., \Tils 01-

tl:xintvl a t Vcrnon last Oc*tol)er. ; t n d i.; I I O W minister :-it Zion I-nitcltl C’hnrcl), \-:lllc.onvc’r.

H A R R Y I ) P : \ I t n c R I . 1i.S.F.. forn~crlg Assistant to the 1,ogging IIatlageI,, Cowichnn Mvisiou. I { . ( ’ , E’orest I’rod- nets Ltd., was l)romotcd ill Octolwr t .1

Assistant to Manager of I’ogging a t t h - Headquarters Office in Vancouver.

EDWIN B. H ~ R P , B.A., has been a ~ - pointed to teach natural science a t Notre Dame College.

LENORE MCEWEN, B.A., M.Sc.’53, is taking postgraduate studies at C a r - bridge University.

been appointed as minister for the Fraserview United Church, Vancouver.

HOWAIW (HO\VIIc) E.\RI, ORORNE:. B.P.E., is teaching this ycwr in :L s(’c- o ~ ~ d a r y modern school in Ilminstel,, Solnerse t, England.

GEORGE A. SOURI~SEAU. R.S.F., after a year in the Forestry Department of Comos Logging Go. Ltd.. is now ~ I I

“Local Sales” of the Canadian White Pine Division of hIachlil1:ln & Bloedel Ltcl., in Vancouver.

REV. G-ERALD -4. MCXECIIAN, B.A., h:ii

1952 J. (ALF) CUTHBERT, B.S.F., cam€! 13

U.B.C. a.fter six years of teaching k~ the Peace River Ilistrict. Followin,: graduation. he had a year’s cxperiencc with the B.C. Forest Service in the Prince George District and is now back to teaching in the All)erni Higlt School, where he is pioneering the first full-fledged forestry conrse to he give1 in a high school in .British Columbia.

LEONARD c . DUDI,I.:Y, li..i.. J,L.I$.’6Zi, and JOTIN KICHOLA~ S T O S E , LL.13.. have been called to the liar and admitted as solicitors.

NORMAN R. DUSTIXG, B.S.F., left (I. D. Scl~nl!tz & Co. Ltd. a t the beginning of the year to beclomc Secretary, B.C. Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, in Vancouver.

JACOR (JAKE) 11. PENXER, B.A., has been named president of Vancouver Elementnry Schoo! Tcachers’ Associa - lion.

W I L L I ~ M (BILL) POPOWICH, B.P.E., is teaching this year in a secondary schocd in Southcast London, England.

1953

J I U S R ~ M. CARROLL. I3..i.Sc., cl~e~uieal engineer, is now with hlnmina Jamaica Iiinlited, Jamaica, Ii.IV.I., a company assoc.iated with the Kitimat projwt.

(xlletl to the Bar in October and admitted as solicitor.

PETER HARNETTY, EA.. ;xnardcd :I Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1‘353 to attend Hnrvard University, h n s Iwcn :t\~-xrtl(d in 1954 by Hxrvard :I fellow ship of $700.

JOAX C . SHORE, 13.S.&\.. is a s t w o - grapher-techniciall in tltc 1)epartment of Entomology :It the 17uiversity o€ Alberta, Edmonton.

I ) c ~ u called to tht. R:\r a n t 1 atlnlittetl :IS a solicitor.

KOBKRT J. FAI,(TONEI{, r,L.B., wnb

GORDON \VESI.EY Y O L - S O , LL.I:.. 1l:l.

1954

l’.rrRIcK B. I : I . I ~ ; w ~ : ~ ~ , I:.A., U.c:on~., L)iplonm in 1Iospit:rl A\(lnlinistration, h:is been appoiutctl t o t h o staff of the Hospital Insurance S(,rviccb, L)cpart- merit of Hculth and W(slfixre, Yictorin, 1 3 . c .

LOUIS 31. DYER, 13.A\., I%.C‘oul., Di- ploma in Hospital Sdlnillistl,:ltiol1. has been appointed to the zxdnlinistratire staff of the Stepgoe T - z ~ l l c y Hospital, Ely, Xevada.

Diploma in Hospital Administration. has been appointed Assistant Adminis- tra tor : I I I ~ Manager of 1 he Emm:l L. Bisby Hospital, Adrian, Michigan. His wife, Joy, arid their three children, J ; x c q n c \ l y n , Justin Socl :Incl IIealey. have joined him there.

MRS. A D A L. HENDERSON, B.A., teacher a t John Oliver High School, Vancouver. and clmirman of tho Scholarship committee and Schol:lrship adjndi~cations, MntrJIillan Clubs. received her degree at the A1ttnmn Congregation. She has two married daughters, Mrs. A. Leslie Babb (LESLIE, B.A.Sta.’48) and Mrs. David B. Leancg ( D A ~ I I ) . I+.A.Sc.”iQ), and in September became twice a grandmother.

IVOR PARFITT. &Insic. teacher a t Kit- silano High School. Yancouver. received his B.S. degree at the Autumn Congregation. Hc is a grandfather three times.

HENRY S. ROGERS. B A , B.Cnm., Di- ploma in Hospital Administration, has heen appointed to the staff of the Vancouvcr Gcneral Hospital.

.JUSTIN \v. DE P. GREENE, B.<’om.’64.

+ + + ANNUAL MARDI CRAS

The Camplts committee in charge of the Mardi Gras invites Alumni to the gala hall a t the Commodorc, Jianuary 18 and 14, and to take part in the prize competition for thc best decorated table or group of tables.

The Mardi Gras proceeds a re given to multiple sclerosis medical research.

Tickets may be obtained at the A.M.S. Office, Brock Hall, or a t the Commodore.

School of Architecture The following news items have been

received abont Architecture graduates : GEORGE KILLICK, B.Arch.51, GRANT

MCRINXON. R.Arch.’51, and R. G . ( B m ) AUBREY, B.Arch.51, are with the firm of Stock, 1t:msay and Associates in Regina.

ERSIP: MIDDLETON, B.Arch.51, and DON SINCLAIK. B.Arch.’51, set up a partnership in Edmonton a year ago.

J a c ~ S > t . w r , B.Brcli.’Bl, is working in the Architecture department of the Calgary City School Board.

P m r , r P AI. Scow, B.Arch.’54, and W . W. (BILL) RENNIE, B.Arch.54, a re with the firm of Rule, Wynn and Rule, in Calgary.

DICK N. WEISXILLER, B.Arch.54 and E. A. (REI)) WETIIERILL, B.Arch.54, a r e with thr firm of Diamond, Dnpuis and Dum, i n Edmonton.

School of Home Economics NEWS OF GRADUATES

12 of the 1954 graduates in Home Econornirs are in teaching positions in British Columbia. 13 others have com- menced their dietetic interneships. Five are married.

DOREEN COURSIER, B.H.E.50, drove east during the summer to attend the (‘anadian Home Economics Association convention in Toronto, and look for a position in the Textile field.

MOWREEN SANCSTER, B.H.E.’53, en-

joyed her summer in Great Britain and on the Continent.

BARBARA RICHARDS, B.H.E.’49, ell- joyed her work and life in London so much last year that she has decided to stay abroad for another year.

MART ANN BLASCHARD (nPe Patter- son) B.H.E.’49, with her hubsand, has returned to Canada from Boston and will he in Toronto this winter. FACULTY NEWS

Mrss OREKE J. Ross, Instructor in Design, left in Augnst, via the Panama Canal, for Britain to study for a year a t The Royal College of Art, London, England.

M I S S N I N ~ MomEY. formerly a faculty member, is working toward a 1’h.D. in Sntri t ion at Oregon State College.

MISS JEAN >ICEWAN taught summer school a t t he University of Alberta.

MISS M A R Y REEVES left in the spring to be married and make her home in Ontario.

MISS MARION SmwouR received her MSc. degree from Ohio State Univer- si ty at the conclusion of the summer session.

MISS MARGARET MACFARLANE, MISS WINIFRED BRACHER, MISS LARISEA DEM- CHUK and MISS ORENE ROSS increased their knowledge of B. C. very consider- ably as they met with Women’s Insti- tute groups in 27 centres this summer.

MISS RUTH BLAIR, B.H.E.’48, M.Sc. ’53 (Cornell), has been appointed

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I)irec’ior trf l’ot)tl Starvices. She a ~ l d MISS EILEEX I$acos, B.H.E.’40, (Now Mrs. (‘alder), Iwrcb the load of feed- ing the B. E. U ; ~ m e s contestants. This was a most intt’resting experience which makes a atory in itself.

* * * Red Cross Grateful

for Blood Donations The following letter cnme to Presi-

dent MacKenzie from ll’. A. Freeman, l3lood Donor Panel Organizer, of the (Innadinn Red Cross, lT:tncouver. I

”We wish to esprcw our personal thanks to yon and to the stndent body for the excellent coolwration and support given to our 1:lood Transfusion Service at the Rlood T)o~~or Clinics held :It 1-.13.(’. during the period October 4th to Xtll, 1954.

”Dnring this period 1877 members of the TJnirersity attended the clinic. This 9

eltabled us to supply all hospitals in British Columbia for one week and in addition, to meet B.C.’s quota of blood for gamma globulin for two weeks. This was 300 over our anticipated response.

“Such a gesture is most commendable and speaks very highly for each and every one who attended, a s well as for the Gnirersity for its cooperation. It is only through such cooperation that we are able to maintain this worthy service. We are most grateful.”

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The Faculty I’RESIDICKT ~ 1 A V I \ - l C N Z l E \ V a s ill XCW

Tork November l.j-lS, for meetings of the College Retirwlent Eqnities E h ~ d and of the Te:Icllt.rs Insllrance ; 1 n d

hnnnity Assoc4;l tion. of which 1;lttcr he is a Trnstcv. 0 1 1 Sovt.mber 19-20 h t b

:ittended the N;ttionaI (’onference O I L

Hnmanities l 1 1 1 t 1 (;ovornment, s l w ~ l - sorcbd by the 1111n~11itirs 1irswrc.h (’ouncil in Ottawa. IIti was cl1airnl:lu of the Dinner meeting, Sovember l!l. which was :ltltlrt~ssed by the L’rinw Minister. Tht~ l’wsident sI)olie to tllc Ottawa (’allili1i;lll ( * l l l l l s o \ - ~ ~ l l l l , t ~ r “ 2 .

~ ) I L ~ S -iX(4l .S ; l l l t l 1’KOFESSOK IlOY I). \xII~:I.I.s ;tlso r.csl,rcw’utetl the t-1Iivvl.- sity of nritisll ( ’ o l t l n ~ l ) i : ~ a t the II11m:tll- itics Conferencr i n Ottawa.

DEAN I X K S E Y E’. z\XGUS, F:lCUlty of Gradnatc Studics. on the invitation of President 13rays011 Kirk of (’olnmL)ia University, took 1)art in a Conferewe on The Unity of Knowledge, held a t Arden House, Ih r r iman , New Tork, October 27-30, Ika11 Angus was chosen a s one of seventy-fire representatives of the arts and scicnccs in the Unitcd States, Canada and abroad, who wcrc invited to partic.ipate in the Confrrel1c.t~ discussions. ;\lenllwrs of the Confrr- ence also attended thc University ( ‘ 0 1 1 -

vocation held 011 Snnday, Octobcr 31, in the Cathedral of St. .John the Divine a t which Her Majesty. Qneen Elizabeth. the Qneen Mother, and others, were the recipients of Honorary Degrees.

ARTHUR C. ABRAHAMSON, hstructor in the School of Social Work, participated in the nnull;tl conference of the Northwest Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, held in Port- land, Oregon, in October.

PROFESSOR JACOB BIELY, Head of the Department of I’onltry IInsbandry, is one of 32 scientists who participated in recent research leading to the establishment of an Internatinnal Standard for Vitamin D.

The study was directed by the Medical Research Council of G r w t Britain and was conducted by scientists in seven nations.

PROFESSOR D. B. FIELDS, School of Commerce, has been appointed a member of the Board of Examiners-in-Chief of the Canadian Institute of Chartcred Accountants.

B. C. BINNING, Associate Professor in Architecture and Fine Arts, has received word that several of his paintings hare hecn hung in the 1954 Venice Biennale, the world’s leading exhibition of contemporary art.

Convoy at Rmdexvo?~s from the C. 5. Band collection in Toronto, and Ships in Classical Calm, owned by the National Gallery of Canada, were two of the Binning paintings exhibited in the Biennale. His work has also appeared in the recent Sao Panlo,

Brazil, Exhibition and the Pittsburgh International.

A premiEre of a symphony composed

in the Department of Music*. was heard recently when 1‘:ttorc. Jlaxzol(~ni tlirwtt>d its Canadian performanc.e ov(br t h t h

national nrtwork from Torollto.

by JEAN CoUI.TlIAR1) Ail)AMs, IllStrllctOl.

H. 1’ETEK OI<ERI.AXDLR, hSiStUllt’l’rlJ- fessor of I’lmning and Dwign, School of Architcvturc, has accepted 11 rcwarch fcllowship to s tndy community pl:111ning .at IIarvnrd 1Tlliversity.

In his : ~ t ) s c ~ n c ~ l’r~tfessor 0lwrI:iutlt~r s ~ o r k mill be t l o ~ by r)K. I)AVII) I!. ‘rrRSI~-x, I:.s.z\.’:{:{, I L L , M . A \ . , l’h.1). ( ~ ~ o r n ~ ~ l l ), 1)irc.c.tor of (’ous(5rvat i o n fc r the 1’roviuci:Il Gov(~rnn~wt , a s brisiting 1,ecturcr i n Itcgion:~l I’lallnillg, a n t 1 b y

vard), rcwntly of 1 1 1 ( ~ 1-uiversity cbl‘ I.tnh, w l ~ o I U I S I ) C ~ O I I in I.:nrolw tlnring the past y w r (111 :I Fort1 I;cllowsllip l’roject.

PROFESSOIL I<.\I,PII .J.\xk:s. 1Ir:rd ctf the ;Il;ttlwn;ttic~s lkpartnwut, is on Ical-e for the ;lc.;1tlcmic year 19>4-X a s visiting profwsor a t 31irhig:tn State (’ollegc. F h s t I,:lnsing, 31ichigan. 1’r(1 fessor STI.:VIC JENKISOS is Acting-IIcntl of the dc1)artmrnt during the a l ~ s c ~ ~ ~ c c ~ of Professor Jamcs.

DR. JAMKS 0. ST. ( ’ I A I R - S ~ B ~ T . , head of the Dcy):rrt~nont of Slavonic Studies, had rnol~l recently that :I further gift of $ l O , O ~ O O hac1 I)ecbn received by the LJniversity for the use of his dcpar- ment, whirll during the past six years has enjoyed the benefit of financicl help from thv Rockefeller Foundation totalling more than $90,000, The Sla- ronic Studies section of the University Library, uow numbcring 20,000 volumes, is the largrst in Canada.

DR. (;. 11:. nowm 1llstrnc.tor iu l’harmacology, 14’ncrllty of JIedic~iue, is the first holclrr i l l the lT.I%.(’. E’aclllty of Medicinc of :L fIanadinn IAfe 1nsnl.- ance Officers’ Association fvllowship recently given to the University for research on electrical activity of the cardiac muscles. Dr. Dower received his medical instruction at the Univer- sity of London. and St. Bartholemew’s Hospital. He has been associated more recently with t h e Cardiology section csf the Vancouver General Hospital.

rims ANNE M. SMITH, Assistact Librarian and Head, Reference Divi- sion, U.B.C. Library, has returned from a year of teaching in Japan’s only library school a t Keio IJniversity i n Tokyo, and from a “librarian’s holiday”, visiting book collections all over the world. A. Rockefcllpr Fo~~ndat ion gran t financed hcxr trip.

PROFEIJSOR F. H. SOWARD was invited by the Natianal Defence College a t Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ont., to deliver a series of five lectures on Canadian External Policy during the week of October 24. This is the firet time a Canadian scholar has been invited to give as many lectures in this field to 41 group of Senior Officers from

.J.IMES 11. A C L A S I ~ , l<.A~ch., A\ .Al . (11:II‘

Photo by Courtesy Unlverslty of New Elrunswick Dean George F. Curtis receives Honorary D.C.L. from the Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook, Honorary Chancellor o f the University of New Brunswick. Seated, Rlght, IS the Hon. C. D.

Richards, Chief Justice of New Brunrswick.

tlw , \ r ~ n o d Forces I I ~ ( ‘ ; I I I : I ~ : I . tho Unitcvl States. xnd t h c , I.~litc.tl King- dom. : I I I C ~ of Scnior (’ivil Stsr\-; l l l ts . In a I(1tter to the l’r(~si(l(~IIt. tllcs ZIinister of Xatiounl r)cffsllc.c.. r I I ( . I I I I I I O I I I . U I ) ~ P R:II~)II (~‘:tmpney. es1,rtwc.d his warm appreciation to the T-llivcsrsity fo r r e lensing Mr. Soward from his lrormal duties to mxke thew Icc.turrs 1)ossible.

F.\urm III.:NKY C.\KR, 1)cpartnIent of C1nssic.s. :Itttntled the form:Il opening of Carr II;III . i n Q I I ~ ~ I I ‘ s 1’:IrIi. Toronto. on Sunday, October 20. The hnudsome strwturc of reinforcetl conc*rc.te and Indiana limestone, which perpetnates I*’:tthrr fkrr’s name, has I,een atlded to the buildings of St. Dlichncl’s College, of wvhic8lk he was Principal for :I nnmbcr of years.

PROFICSSOR FRED r,.\ssmx, 1)irector of tllc School of Arcllitrctnre, in his capacity as professional atlvisor to the Vanronvcr City flounc.il, has the il~teresti~lg task of adjudicating morr than 200 competitive tlesigns for tllr new Civic Anditorinm.

the School of Architrrtnre, has Iwpn grantcd a year’s leave of nbsrnce to work nndcr the Joint Canadian-Amer- iean h a r d on the enginrcring aspccts of the St. Lawrence Scaw:~y project. In his absence, his work will be clis- tributed between OTTO SAFIR, B.Sc. ( Ais-la-Chapelle) , a l1ew menll,er of the staff, and R. 13. Bos~om of the Department of RIecha1lic:tl Eugineering.

PROFESSOR RONALD E. BURGESS, of the Radio Research Station, Slough, England, is the first holder of a new Research Professorship in T’elecom- munications at the University, established by the National Defense Research Board for the training of graduate students in the fundamental aspects of electronics. Professor Burgess will be actively engaged in the following fields : semiconductors, waves and antennae, noise in vacuum tubes and circuits. H e is the author of many papers on these and related subjects.

DR. G . M. SHRIJM, Head of the Physics Department, participated in the Defense Board symposium in Ot- tawa, December 8, 9 and 10.

PXOVKSSOR 13. P*\I;I. ~ ~ I s X I C K I . Of

27 U. B. C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE

Summer School New York 1954

By MARY FALLIS, B.A.92

My first reaction to a New York campas was “what a remote, cool, green corner of the earth British Co- lumbia is, and what a wonderful place to work and teach without the pres- sures exerted on life in large Ameri- can cities.” Par t of this feeling was due to the fact that most people on the Atlantic seaboard don’t know where Vancouver is!

On the registration days nearly 10,- 000 students funnelled through the main entrailce of Teachers College. They came from all parts of the Unit- ed States and from nine of the ten Canadian provinces. Many of the students were negroes. Most had years of teaching experience and were now working to improve their certification. COLUMBIA BICENTENNIAL

Throughout the summer there was an opportunity to share in Columbia’s Bicentennial Celebrations. On July 1, a t a special bicentennial convocation, honorary degrees were conferred upon twenty leaders of public education from the U.S.A., England and Iraq. Special guests included forty delegates from the National Education Associ- ation then attending their annual convention in New York. On July 20, Co- lumbia held a “Special University Con- vocation in Honor of the American Teacher”. The university had chosen for awards on this occasion: a first- grade and a third-grade teacher, two high school teachers-one of them a negro-a professor of education and a professor of philosophy. The programme noted that without the teachers of America “our Bicentennial Theme, Man’s Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof, would soon become hollow and meaningless. With them the progress of our nation and our people is bounded only by the lim- its of man’s perfectability”.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art a special collection of American painting was on display in honour of the Bicentennial. Most famous of the paintings travelling to New York for the occasion was Whistler’s “Mother”, an enormous original canvas. DISCUSSIONS

At Teachers College the year and the times gave special interest to educational debate. The most outspoken critics of modern education had been invited to take part in the evening for- ums on “Critical Issucs in Education”. So Professor Bestor, author of “Edu- cational Wastelands”, made a plea for broad scholarship as the major require- ment of the teacher, and Professor Bigelow argued for a broader concept of the teacher’s task and a deeper appreciation of the complexity of the teacher’s art. Albert Lind, author of “Quackery in the Public Schools”, re-

Mary M. IFallir, B.A.32, former editor, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle.

gretted the loss of the disciplines oncc: provided by the teaching of traditional subjects, while Roma Gans claimed that the field of human knowledge i:; covered :more fully and more effectivel!T in the schools today than ever before.

Varied viewpoints were expressed also in the daily “.411 College Lecture Discussion on Education”. Retiring Dean \~’iIliam Russell regretted that the quacks should be invited to the campus to speak; he saw them repre- senting the group who ridicule new knowledge without understanding. In - coming Dean Caswell Hollis welcomed outsiders, even critics. H e felt it important, “as issues in education arise, that people should have a chance to hear all sides”, and pointed out that, as education faces serious criticism in the years immediately ahead, it will be necessary to consider the problems seriously, and that the job will be to see that there are better teachers. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

Then there was life at International House-the pleasant dining room and meals w,ith students from Lebanon and Brazil, Latvia and Iraq, Korea, India and Pakistan, Mexico and Colombia-- the discovery of fellow-Canadians in the House-kindergarten teachers and househo’ld scientists, vice-principal3 and music majors, economists and normal school instructors-and out of their co.nversation a picture emerging of the Canadian scene, partly becaus- we were measuring ourselves against our big and very energetic neighbout.. A truly International Forum on Wed- nesday nights-an International Con- cert Night, with unforgettable numbers from Thailand and the Philip- pines, their young people, through

mubic atltl dance. efiortlessiy e:ipre>a- ing the grace and I)eauty of very ancient cultures-an International Film Night with a Canadian sharing scenes of the Canadian Rockies with pictures of Yugoslav dances, Austrian folk music, and Japanese ceremonials. COMMONWEALTH CLUB

On the campus the HrItish ComtlIo11- wealth Club met \veekly at a pictlic table under thc trccs near the tables of State Alumni. ’l‘he club 11clti a tie- iightful hanquet presideti over by Doug- las Scott of Xewfountlland ant1 attended by the Summer School tlirector, Dr. Izzard and Mrs. Izzard. Dr. Hunt, head of the Teachers College Ilepart- mcnt of Social Scicncc. hati het:n 1)er- suadcd to speak on “Columhia’s Asso- ciation with the I3ritish Comn1011- wealth”. His rcsearch uncartiled a very entertaining talc of the attitude of Presidents from England in pre- revolutionary classrooms following the granting of the Columbia Charter by George I1 in 1754. I’resent day relationships are maintainetl througtl the streams of Canadian students wrho cotlle to Columbia and make a favorable im- pression there. This fall, special recog- nition of Columbia’s relationships wit11 the Eritish Cotnmonwealtl~ will be given when the Queen Mother, Elizabeth, attcnds the culminating convmocatiotl of the Bicentennial Year. CANADIANS PARTICIPATE

M Y one disappointment i n the Catla- dian group was that too many of the students were limited by sectional vielv- points. They did not seem cottscious. as Hugh hlaclennan put it in his “Cross Country”, that “a Canadian point of view, incoherent as yet. hut strongly felt, really exists”. Whcn they were asked to contribute a cultural nunlher to the Concert Sight. most ot them were at a losi to think of material they could u s e to interpret the cultural partern of their country. They were not, however, the onlJ- gronp i n such a dilemma, and they did find a solution.

Numerous staff memhers o n the campus were Canadians. One from B.C., Tony Barker, B.X.Sc. ’49, N..l. Sc. ’51, is an assistant in Geology at the University.

* * * HANDICAP

Yes, I have viewed from m;my a place IIrr intellectual horstxs race. She always backs her favonrite colt That tears past like a thunderbolt, Then gives the crowd a 11:inghty glance, The flashy gelding, Rrilliancc.

. . . The homeward m o l ) has pas.sed the

Yet still brsiclcl the cowse I w.ait, Detained here, in the evening mist, By a n old hope I cau’t resist. One glimpse I do so want to win : The grey mare, Kindness, limping in.

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gate ;

Geoffrey B. Riddehough, Arts’24.

29 U. 8. C. A L U M N I C H R O N I C L E

Thunderbirds’ Close Game with Varsity B EASTERN INTER-COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONS HELD TO 5-3 SCORE

practical demonstration of

A t pre-game dinner, Friday evening, November 19, in U.B.C. Armouries. From Left, Don Smith, Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audio-Visual Services

End, Toronto Team Captain, Warren A. Stevens, Director of Athletics, Toronto, Bus Phillips, Director of Athletics, U.B.C., Bob Brady, U.B.C. Team Captain.

By R. J . (BUS) PHILLIPS

“The most nnt1t.r-ntcd college foot- its members able to compete on equal ball team in (~hu:1(1;1’’ were the words terms with many state colleges. For of Bob Masterson. Coach of Toronto’s example, Whitworth College plays Varsity Blnes, referring to our U.B.C. regularlv against Montana State, Utah !L’hunderl)irds, who had come within State and Gonzaga, and last winter a whisker of upsetting the overwhelm- defeated Washington State in basket- ing favourites in a college bowl game ball. Their football team is equally as played in Vanconrcr recently. strong, and this fall was rated as one

For several years U.B.C. Athletic of the best small colleges in America. representatives hnd tried to convince I n Conference play this year, U.B.C. the public and its own student body lost to four of the six Conference op- that the Evergreen Intercollegiate Con- ponents by only one touchdown. fmence was of n very 1liC;h calibre. and However, it was necessary to have a

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compara- t i re foott)all to convince the press and public. 011 Sovember 20 C.B.C. Thuu- derbirds did just that :I t our Vtirsity Stadium in a game sponsored by the Athletic Hound Tal)lc, before a good crowd of surprised, enthusiastica fans. The Birds, keyed to high pitch by Coach Don Coryell, pnllcd out all the stops, to lose by thc. uarrow margin of 5-3. I t WRS :I trcmcndolls demonstration and there was as much jubilation in the Birds’ dressing room as if they 11ad won.

“I guess we’ve proved our point,” said Dcan “Whit” Jlattht~ws. (:hairm:un of the Jleu’s Athletic* (‘ommittee. Dr. Matthews hat1 workt~l hard to make the East-West conttwt :I rwlitg, and deserves :I great t l w l of crodit for i ts initial SUCCPSS.

We are very much inclt4)ted also to the B.C. Athletic Ronntl T:rhle, and especially to Eric Whitehcwi, who co- chaired the Committee along with Dean Matthews. The way is now paved for an annual East-West Collcgt. game, and if the Grey Cup moves West next year, U.B.C. will undoubtedly travel East to play against the !vimer of the Eastern Intercollegiate Leagne.

* * * Oxford-Cambridge Rugby Team Here In March

Bob Spray, President of the B.C. Rugby Football Union, received word early in November that a combiued Oxford - Cambridge Rugby Football Team will come to B.C. in March and will play fire games with teams in Vancouver and Victoria.

The first of the series will be against U.B.C. Thunderbirds on March 17, according to present plans. Of the re- maining four games, one will be played in Victoria and it is hoped that one can be arranged against a team made up of U.B.C. players, past and present. The other two will be played with Vancouver teams. 11. v. w.

* * * New Building for Mining and Metallurgy

Expansion of graduate work to Ph.D. level and rapid growth of interest in graduate work in metallurgy has made more space necessary. First wing of a permanent building for the department is now under construction on the West Mall, over the road from the present building, and next to the Forest Products Laboratory. This first wing, for physical metallurgy laboratories, will be ready some time this winter.

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First Term Athletics-A Summary By R. J. (BUS) PHILLIPS

FOOTBALL Coach Don Coryell and Line Coach

Dick Mitchell are exact opposites in temperament, but the combination is one which is producitlg a very pleasing brand of footbull. That U.B.C. is knocking on the door of victory is c1cmonstr:ltc.d around the Confercwcc Table where concessions to U.B.C. arc no longer the rule, and on the field the margin of rictory for other Conference teams is small.

This fall there were not enough suits fnr a11 the playrrs who turned nut, and Conch Corycll W:IS in the enviable position of having players compete for positions, and of rnforcing strict traiw ing rules. Because there is very little football played in our high schools a t present, players arrive on the scene often without a fnndamental grasp of the game, so player depth can romc only through competition at the .Junior Varsity level. For the first time U.13.C. had a J-V team : ~ n d a limited sc-hedulc. We look forward next year to a hoom year for the Football Thunderbirds.

Rugby players contributed not a little to our football strength, as John New- ton, Donny Spenre, Derek Vallis aud Bob Morford tried the American game and liked it. Basketb:lll stars ( h r y Taylor, “BUZZ” IIntlson and Ernie Nyhaug saw plenty of action, too. tlnring the season.

Embryo Lawyer Ted Dunran took over most of quarterbacking duties, and his brilliant performances were a continual inspiration to the team. Fcw people realize that Duncan wore (’on- tact lenses in all the games this year. RUGBY

When the IJniversity of California made its annual rugby trek to British Columbia, one of the most dangerous players was a curly-headed Australian who kicked drop-goals with deadly ac- curacy from 30 to 40 yards out. Now he is on our side. Dr. Max Howell has joined the staff of the School of Physi- cal Education, and is now assisting Albert Laithcwnite with the Birds, as

I well a s coaching the second rugby team, the Braves. We are pleased to welcome Max, and hope he will be around for a long time.

e Speed is the hyworil this year, and with one JIcKechnie Cup victory under their belt, the Thundrrbirds are out to regain the prestige they lost last year.

Most of the games nrr televised, and we hope for an increase in attendance at the games through a desire on the par t of a better-informed public to see in action one of the finest games being played today. HOCKEY

Last year the Thunderbird Ice Hockey team played in the Junior City League, and the brand of hockey mas

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Photo by Courtesy U.B.C. Audlo-Viau;l, 2trvlies A t the Toronto-U.B.C. get-together, in the Armouries, Friday evening, prior to the game on November 20. From Left, John Newton, U.B.C. Halfback, Don Coryell, U.B.C. Coach, Bob Master- son, Toronto Coach, Don Cheeseman, Fullback, Steve Onechuck, Halfback, Earl Ford, Guard)

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The Float was prepared by Alpha Delta Phi and Beta Theta Pi Fraternities and by Delta Gamma Sorority. From Left: Bryan Williams, Janet Henderson, Don McCallum, Stevie Kent, Ann Davis,

“Alfie”, Graham MacDougall. Helen Jones, Nick Cole, Dru Brooks, Sylvia Downs, Maurice Gibbons, Bob Samis, Keith Bennett,

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The traditional Council-IJbyssey fend that they published thc nanws.” The flared up again. this time over the I%yssey appealed to n special meeting question of “good taste”. The Vhyssey of the A.M.S. In a stormy meeting tlw in a banner story published the names students hnclced 1111 Council. T h t .

of three fratcwlitics whose cwnstitu- I7)yssc~y, 1~owevc.r. hat1 the last wort1 tions are disc.rimin3tory. They used hy prlhlishing an expos6 of alleged dis- large heavy type for the. names, xnd c.rimin:ltion in illvitation lists for sor- included replicas of the pins. Council ority rushing. wnsllred the Publications Board for (‘ontrorersy orvr menlbership fees “thc yotrr tnstp employetl in the way in the Sntioual Federation of Cannc1i:lu

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University Students finally led to U.B.C.’s withdrawal from the organization. U.B.C. had budgeted 35 cents a student, but N.F.C.U.S. insisted on a GO cent fee. Student Council voted :I $250 “token” grant to N.F.C.U.S., and will probably present the whole issue to the stndents at the spring general meeting.

Undergrndnate Societies got behind Campus charity drives with their nsnal enthusiasm. Home Economic~s i l n d Snrs- ing inspired 1800 stndeuts to gire :I pint of blood in the Fall blood drive. (lon~- merce sparked n drive for tho (‘0111- munity Chest, whilc the Engineers Inlt on a host of stunts to raise n ~ o n ( ~ y for the March of Dimes.

Gerry Hodge’s Special Events (loin-

nlittee hronglrt cnlture to the campus a t three noon-how shows. Kny hrnl- strong’s hnllct group. W . H. A ~ ~ d c n . reading his own poems, :mtl the V I I I I -

conver Symphony a11 nppeared for the students’ entertainment.

.Jim Killern, !reacher Training. \vas elected to Student Council as Under- graduate Societies C‘hnirman to replace Monte McKay.

* * * MARRIAGES

*iDAhlB-\TIIIITTrNG1‘ON. n \- i d K. Adams, 51.9.’53, to i\nne Whittington. in Victoria.

son, B.Con1’49, 1JA.B.’49, to Janie Maric Jenkins.

ANSTIS-WEST. Licxnt. William Alfred Anstis, B.h.’.X, to J o a n Irene West. in Kentvil!e, S.S.

A R ~ ~ I ~ I ~ . ~ T . D - ( : ~ I , I . I X ~ N E . Roy Willinm Archibald, R.A.Sc.’48, to Margnret Mary Cnllinane. in Rossland, E.(:.

Argue, B.C‘on~’47, ILI3.’50, to Lois Williamson. li.LL’tj2.

,%rm-oIx-Bm.I.. 1)r. (’raig Rogers A r - nold to Lois Jean Brll, L L ’ 4 9 .

A s s ~ s r a ~ o s - C ‘ ~ ~ ~ s r t ~ , Miltiallcs A I I -

thony (:eorge ,\ssinlakos to .Te:~n Christie, 13.A\..’44, in Sew Tork.

ham, R.A.’.;l. to Mary Eliznheth Gr:a~~t , B.A.’Rl.

BARKER-WILLIS. Thoinas Philip Bar- ker, B.A.Sc.53, to Ann Dorcas Willis, B.A.53.

BATIIGATE-HICKEY. James Willinm Bathgate to Barhar:1 .Toy Hickey. B.A. ’51.

R ~ m m r - S r r w m s . John Alan Rees- ley, B.A.’49, LL.B.’X. to Margaret Rnth Stevens. B.S.N.52.

BELL-GELL. Douglas Sornxln Bcll. B.9.’60, to Marianne Lonise Gell.

BELL-LAIRD. Henry Elliot Bell, T3.Coln. ’51, to Bernice Desbrisay Laird, p1.A ‘51.

B.A.’49. t o Gloria Inez Millard, RA’4 i . B.S.W.’48.

BRAY-RAJISAY. Marshall Peters Bray, LL.B.’SO. to Evelyn Cramford Ramsa>-.

.iNDERSON-JENKIKS. Johll J. h d e r -

,iRCUE-\~It~I.I~\lCSoS. .Tames EInrYPy

BANIIAII-GRAKT. J ; I m t ~ S .‘lfV:d I%illl-

BLACK->IILLARIl. hllall Patrick Blilck.

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ning, to Meredith Ann Lewis, B.A.33. ~IARSH-WATSON. Robert Lee Marsh

to .Janet Margaret Watson, B.H.E.50. JIAUSSER - WILCOX. William John

Uausser, B.A.Sc.’53, to Ena Isabelle Wilcox.

MILLER-POLSON. Clive Miller, B.A. ’X, LL.B.’52, to Fjola Virginia Polson.

MILLER-WILLIAMS. Douglas Wilfred Miller, B.A.’50, to Margery Elaine Williams.

1\100N-HARDISTY. David Angus Moon, B.Com.’4i, to Cherry Victoria Hardisty.

J~ORRISON-WILKS. John James Me- Lean hlorrison, B.h.52, to Phyllis Janet Wilks.

MACDONALD-GRANT. Eugene Andrew Macdonalcl to Joan Phyllis Diana Grant, B.H.E.’54.

JlcDongall, B.h.’49, LL.B.50, to Ann Louise Finch, in Hamilton.

MCINTOSH-DRAKE. Ernest Claude Me- Intosh, R.Com.’fS, to Betty Elisabrth Drake.

MCINTYRE-HALL. Alan ]]avid Me- Intyre, B.A.’50, M.A.52, to Shirley Marie Hall.

dan McKechnie to Deirdre Margaret dndersen, B.A.’53.

crieff JLcLaren, B.A.’48, B.S.W.’BO. to Audrey Elizabeth Damgaard.

MACLEAN-TURNER. Alistair John Uac- Lean, B.Com.’49, to Kathleen Edna !hrner.

MCLEOD-FORSCUTT. Douglas Hugh Me- Leod, B.A.Sc.53, to Doreen Jean Fors- cutt.

NELSON - FOTHERINGHAM. William Cecil Nelson, B.Arch.’53, to Irene Helen Fotheringham: in Sardis, B.C.

NICHOLSON - DIXON. Donald Allan Nicholson, B.A.53, to Beverley Louise Dixon, B.H.E.’51.

Nordlund, B.A.Sc.’51, to Donna Jean -4lbeson.

OWEN - TOBEASON. David Stewart Owen, B.A.’51, to Pamela Cecilia To- beason, in Greenwich, Conn.

PERKINS-KREIJTZICER. Harold Jack- son Perkins, B.A.’51, Rf.Sc.’53, to Mary Louise Krentziger.

PLOYART-LAMB. John William Ploy- art , B.Com.’52, to Helen Marilyn Lamb.

IlCDOIJGALL-FINCH. Edward Barry

1\ICI<ECHNIE-ANDERSEN. \villianl Jar-

JICLAREN - nAMGAARD. Henry l\loll-

NORDLAND-ABLESON. Raymond LOUiS

POLLOCK-DONALD. John Orr Pollock, B.A.’47, B.S.W.’48, M.S.W.’50, to Mary Agnes Donald.

PYPER-BOYD. Ian Gordon Pyper, LL.B.’54, to Bonita Mary Shiel Boyd, a t Kamloops, B.C.

RInLEY-I,EwIS. Robert Mnrney Rid- ley, B.Com.’54, to Sally Larkin Lewis.

RIPLEY - MCTAVISH. George Collen Ripley to Shirley Adelaide McTarish, B.H.E.’49.

gor Robinson, B.A.Sc.’52, to Jane Barnet (Barnie) McAllister.

RUMFORD-WEEKS. Vernon John Rum- ford, B.Com.’49, to Betty Joan Weeks.

RUSSELL-STRUTT. Robert A. Russell to Jo-Anne Strutt, B.A.51.

ROBINSON-hfC.4LLISTF.R. William Gri-

SAUNDERS-GLOSTER. Richard George Saunders, B.Com.’44, to Olive Marie Gloster, in Toronto.

SHEPPARD-COLTMAN. Dennis Richard Sheppard, B.A.50, LL.B.51, to Shirley Irene Coltman, B.H.E.51.

Silverwood to Elizabeth Anne Law- rence, B.A.’;,.?, in Nelson, B.C.

SMITH-CREAK. Cyril Bee Smith, B.S.P.54, to Shirley Slice Creak.

SOUTHCOTT-THOMPSON. John Clement Southcott, B.Com.’S3, to Constance Mary lYlompson, B.A.’52.

SOUTHER-HAMILTON. John Gordon Souther, B.S.Sc.’52, to Mary Elizabeth Katharine (Betty) Hamilton, B.A.’53.

STAINTON-THOMSON. Norman Regin- ald Keith Stainton, B.S.A.’53, to Phyllis Jean Thomson.

Sfrrr.r.-Rmn. .John Tryan Still, B.Com. ’45, to Doreen Hazel Reid.

Sussm-Luc.~~. Lient. Walter Henry Snssel, R.C.B., n.A.’53, to Beryl Flor- ence 1,ucas.

SUTHERLAND-STEWART. Hugh Suther- land, 13.A1.’5%, to Edna Way Stewart , a t Clorerdale, B.C.

TANNER-CRISALI.. William Harold Reginald Tanner, B.Sc. ( Alta.) , M.D. ‘54, to Patricia Joan Crisall.

TENNANT-BILI.INGTON. John Martin Tennant, B.A.’49, LL.B.’53, to Joan Vio- let Billington.

THOMPSON - FRYER. Donald Roy Thompson, B.P.E.’54, to Audrey Arline Fryer.

WALLEY-LIGGINB. William Albert Everett Walley, B.A.’51, to Moyra Diane Liggins, B.A.’53.

WARD - MOORE. Kenneth Leonard Ward, B.S.P.’54, to Elaine Marion Moore.

WARREN-ENGELLAND. John Macdon- ald Warren, B.A.Sc.53, to Shirley Mar- garet Engelland, R.S.N.’54.

WEATHERALL-W~LRIGE. William Ales- ander Weatherall, B.Com.’54, to Helen Kathleen Wolrige.

Weldon, B.A.’52, to Catherine Shirley Crosby, B.A.50.

WELLS - BLAKE. Raymond Mervyn Wells, 13.8.54, to Elaine Signe Blake.

WESTLAKE-WALSH. Donald William S. Westlake, B.S.8.’53, to Maureen Elizabeth Walsh.

WHEATLEY-HORNBY. Gordon Hamil- ton Wheatley, B.A.Sc.’48, to Jsan Elizabeth Hornby.

WHITE-SMITH. Denis Robert Telfer White, B.A.’51, to Margaret Elizabeth (Peggy) Smith, B.A. (Tor . ) , in Toronto.

WILLIAMS-DICKINSON. Elmer Wil- liams, R.Com.’48, to Dorothy May Dickinson.

WILLIAMS-FRY. Lloyd George R i l - liams, B.A.’52, to Eva &fay Fry, in Montreal.

WILSON-FARRETJ.. George Stewart Wilson, B.S.A.’49, to Faye Corinne Farrell.

WRIGHT - CUMMINS. David John Wright, B.Com.53, to June Daphne Cummins, B.A.’53.

SILVERWOOD-LAWRENCE. Alan Dennis

WELDON-CROSRY. Richard Chapman

BIRTHS To Dr. and Mrs. LESLIE BABB,

B.A.Sc.’48, a son, Eugene Matthew, in Seattle.

To Mr. aud Mrs. D. A. CHANT, B.A.’50, M.A.’52, ( n 6 e Constance Ruth McIlroy), a son, Jonathan Murray, on October 18.

To Mr. and Mrs. DOUGLAS H. CIIERRY, B.A.’51, M.A.’52, (nee HILDA Woon, B.S.P.’60), a son, 3Iichael James, on October 3.

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To. Mr. and Mrs. R. GRANT DONE- GAM, B.S.A.’41, (nFe MARY HELEN JJSTER, E.A.’42), a dnnghter, Septem- ber 25.

To M r . and Mrs. K. W . INGLEDEW. (I l t ‘C JlARG.4RET JlACLEAN F O X , B.Ak. ‘:<X), a son, John Kenneth, April 14.

To M r . and Mrs. DAVID B. LEANEY, BB.A.Sc.’49, a daughter, Adelle Jennifer.

13.S.A.’48, a son, Christopher David, Jnne 16.

To Mr. and Mrs. IT. W . (BILL) REK- SIE, B.Arch.’54, a daughter, August 19.

To Dr. and Mrs. HASSEL SCHJELD- mwp, R.A.Sc.’49 (nt‘e Rose Khatcha- tlourian), a son, William, August 14, a t Long Beach, Califomin.

To M r . and Mrs. IT. R. (BILL) SEX- SMITH, B.Com.’EiO, April 29, a son, Douglas John.

To M r . and Mrs. HENRY C. SWEAT- MAN, B.S.F.’49, a daughter, August 30.

To Dr. and Mrs. I)oL7G1.as E. PATES. B..4.’47, a son, Peter Douglas, April 6.

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To Dr. and Mrs. DAVE L. A ~ I N T O S R . .

@)bituary Dr. George A. Lamont

DR. GEORGE A. L a l r o s ~ , a h o died after a brief illness on Pr’ovember 3rd. was Clinical Assistant Professor of Paediatrics a t TJ.B.(I., 1951-1953. He was personally known to many Alumni through his long association with the C.O.T.C. of which he was Senior Medi- cal Officer from 1928-the year of the (‘orps’ formation-nntil 1947. Of special interest also to U.B.C. graduates and students is the fact that Dr. La- mont helped organize the blood donor cdlecting service of The Red Cross So- ciety of which he was made an honsr- ary member in 1947, having been active for many years in Red Cross work and :i pwt-president of The Society’s Van-

His pioneer work in Vancouver’s (‘hilt1 Guidance (.’linic and The Orippled (’hildren’s Hospital are well known. He was (’llief of St. Paul’s Hospital medi- en1 staff from 1948 to 1053. For many years he was associated with bhe city’s school health services. His generous, lively personality will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends.

He is survived by his wife and daughter Helen a t 6550 Marine Cres- cent, Vancouver. R.T.L.

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Behind our many new industries and the unprecedented development of our natural resources-stands the engineer. His is the vision that is contributing so much to

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recruitment of young engineers and are proud of the contribution we are making to their training.

Engineering graduates join this Company each year

Each year, since its earliest days, engineering graduates have joined this Company to continue their training in special courses-nearly twelve hundred have already ga ined i nva luab le expe r i ence on t he Company’s well-known “Test” Course.

The purpose of the course is primarily to ensure a constant supply of trained talent for this Company yet over the years i t has also contributed a constant stream of highly-trained graduates to fill the ranks of Canadian industry.

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The engineers’ part in Caeada’s rising prosperity

It is an important part of their work to find better ways of producing both equipment and products that do more,

Everybody benefits from the engineers’ work last longer a i d cost less-to operate. It is by

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