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U . B . C . ALUMNI C H R O N I C L E

U. B. C. Alumni Chronicle Published by the

Alumni Association of the University of Brit ish Columbio

Editor: Harry T. Logan, M.C., M.A. Assistant to the Editor: Sally Gallinari, B.A.‘49.

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: President, Peter J. Sharp, B.Com.’36; Post President, G. Dudley Darling, B.Com.’39; First Vice-president, Hugh John Hodgins, B.A.Sc.’28; Third Vice-Presi- dent, Dean Blythe A. Eagles, B.A.’22; Treas- urer, Archie P. Gardner, B.A.‘37; Executive

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Secretary, A. H. Sager, D.F.C., B.A.Sc.’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. Perrault, B.A.’48; Mrs. Lawrence

Stacey, B.A.Sc.’24. DEGREE REPRESENTA- E. Ranta, B.A.‘35, B.A.Sc.(Nurs.l’39; Leonard 6.

TIVES: Agriculture, Jack Gray, B.S.A.‘39; Ap-

Architecture, Harry Lee, 8. Arch.’50; Arts, plied Science, Stuart S. Lefeoux, B.A.Sc.’45;

Harold W. Fullerton, B.A.‘29; Commerce, Donald 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, Victor A. MacPherson, B.A.50, M.D.’54; Pharmacy, Miss

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Anne Tomlienovich, B.S.P.’54; Physical Edu- cation, Richard Mitchell, B.P.E.’49; Soc~ol Work, George V. Jones, B.S.W.‘49, M.S.W.50. SENATE REPRESENTATIVES: Miss Marjorie Agnew, B.A.’22; The Hon. Mr . Justice A . E. Lord, B.A.’21; Dr. I. McTasgart-Cowan, F R S.C., B.A.’32, Ph.D.(Calif.)’35. ALMA MATER SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE: Ron Bray, A.M.S. President.

Chairman: Peter J. Sharp; Members: G. Dudley Editorial Committee

Darling, Harry T. Logan, E. G. Perrault, A. H. Sager.

Business Office: 201 Brock Hall, U.B.C., Chronicle Offices

Vancouver 8, B.C. Edltorlal Office: 207 Brock Hal!, U.B.C., Vancouver 8, B.C.

Off ice DeDt.. Ottawa.

Vol. 10, No. 1 Spring, 1956

CONTENTS INCLUDE PAGE Lieutenant Governor Inspects Tri-Service

Parade ~~ ~~ ~~ .. ~ ~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . ~ 3 Editorial ... . .. ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . . ~ . .~~~...~~~. 5

Graduate Profile: Charles A. H. Wright- Branches-Art Sager ~ , . ~ ~ . . ... . ~~. 5-7

Dean Henry C. Gunning ~~ ~~~. . .. ~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~ 8-9 The President Reports .. ~... ~. , ~~ 11 No News is Good News-David Brock ~ ~ 13

A t t h e Sign of the Totem .... ~ ~..~. ~~~ 16-17 Elementary Education in B.C. F.P.L. ~~~ - ~ ~ 1 4 - 1 5

Makers of the University: Evlyn F. Farris Evelyn Lett and Winifred Lee ~ . ~18-19

Directory of Alumni Contacts ~~ ~ .~ 19 Religious Studies at U.B.C.-W. G. Black 20-21 Books by Alumni . ~ ~ .. 22-23 Development Fund, New R e c o r k

A r t Sager . ~ ~. ~. . ~ ~ .. . Alumni .. ~. ~

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The Faculty ~~~~ . . 26-27

Sports Summary-R. J. (Bus) Phi!lips ~~~. 31 -~ ~ 29

Campus-Cordon Armstrong ~ .~~ ~ 33 Handsome Donation by Sales Bureau ~~ . 32

Marriages ,

Obituaries . . ... . .~~~ ~~. . ~ ~.~ 34 .~~~ ~ ~~~~~ ~ ~ 34

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FRONT COVER Tentative drawings by University Archi-

tects, Sharp 8 Thompson, Berwick, Pratt, showing the new Arts and Science group of buildings situated at the corner of the Main Mall and Memorial Road. To the right is the Classroom Block of two storeys extending East and West on Memorial Road. On the

two storeys (see smaller picture). Beyond is a North side to the left is the Lecture Block of

four-storey Office Block; these two buildings are separated by a landscaped quadrang’e. On the roof of the two-storev Classroom Block i s seen the Facultv Lounge. Brock Hall stands

at the East end of Memorial Road.

NOTICE ANNUAL DINNER MEETING

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BROCK HALL

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956

ALL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED 6:30 P.M.

Phone or write Alumni Off ice for Reservations

DIRECTORY OF U.B.C. ALUMNI BRANCHES

Calgary-S. P. Burden, B.A.Sc.‘40, 3032 26th AND PRESIDENTS

Northern California-Albert A. Drennan, B.A.

Southern California-Les. W. McLennan, B.A.

Creston-W. H. Wilde, B.A.’50, MS. (Utah)‘52,

Edmonton-C. A . Westcott, B.A.’50, B.S.W.’51,

Kimberlev-L. H. Garstin. B.A.’40. M.A.‘46.

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St., S.W.

’23, 420 Market St., San Francisco 1 1 ,

‘22, 917 Sierra Vista Drive, Fullerton.

Box 1167.

10138-100 ”A” St.

Box 3 i 3 . Kelowna-Nancy Gale, M.A.‘39, 234 Beach

Mon t reaCH. P. Capozzi, B.A.‘47, B.Com.‘48,

Nanaimo-Hugh 6. Heath, B.A.’49, LL.B.’50,

Ocean Falls-John Graham, B.A.Sc.’50, P.O.

Ottawa-Jack Davis, B.A.Sc.’39, Ph.D. (McGill).

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P.O. Box 6000.

Box 121.

Box 598.

1 15 Reid Ave. Penticton-William T. Halcrow, 300 Farrell St.

Lieutenant Governor Inspects Services Lieutenant Governor Frank M. Ross, C.M.G., M.C., and Mrs. Ross, D.R.E., were

guests of the University on Friday afternoon, March 2, on the occasion of the Sixth Annual Tri-Service Parade held in the Armoury. This was His Honour’s first visit, to the U.B.C. since he assunled office in Victoria.

The University Naval Training Division, the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, and the Reserve University Squadron paraded for Inspection as a single Unit under Command of their Cadet Officers, with F/C J. R. M. Gordon as Parade Wing Commander, 2/Lt. J. A. Conyers as Parade 2nd-in-Command and Cadet H. E. M. Candless R.C.N. (R.) as Parade Warrant Officer. The R.C.A.F. Band from Edlnonton was in attendance.

After inspecting the Cadets in their respective Navy, Army and Air Force training formations, His Honour took the Salute in a traditional March Past. He was accompanied on the platform by the Chancellor, The Honourable Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, President MacKenzie and the Commanding Officers of the three detachments, viz., Lt. Cdr. E. S. W. Belyea (U.N.T.D.), Lt. Col. John F. McLean (C.O.T.C.), and W/C Ray G. Herbert, (R.U.S.). Commissions and training certificates were then presented to the ninety-four OiEcers and Officer Cadets who had completed successfully their period of training.

President MacKenzie on behalf of the University spoke a few words of welcome to His Honour who was then invited hy the Chancellor to address the Cadets.

Following the inspection, tea was served in the Mess and, in the evening, the Annual l!ri-Service Ball was held in H.M.C.S. Discovery, Stanley Park.

An unusually pleasant feature was included in the afternoon events when Lieutenant Governor Ross presented the Chancellor with his Canadian -Forces Decoration (C.D.). In reading the citation for the award, President MacKenzie made happy reference to Brigadier Lett’s long period of service to the University as well as to the Army and to Canada.

The Honourable Frank M. Ross, C.M.G., M.C., presents Chancellor, The Honourable Sherwood Lett, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., with the Canadian Forces Decoration, given for long and meritorious

G. Herbert, D.F.C., Lt. Cdr. E. S. W. Belyea, Lt. Col. John F. McLean, D.S.O. service. Seen in the picture f rom Left are: President MacKenzie, C.M.G., M.M. and Bar, W/C Ray

Portland-Dr. David 6. Charlton, B.A.’25, 2340 Summerland-G. Ewart Wolliams, B.A.’25, Jefferson St. M.Sc.(ldaho), Dominion Fleld Laboratory of

Prince George-Dennjng E. Waller, B.A.’49, Plant Pathology. D.D.S., 1268 5 th Ave.

Prince Rupert-John Banman, B.A.Sc.‘46, 215 T r a i C J . V. Rogers, B.A.Sc.‘33, C.M. 8. S. Co.

Elizabeth Apts. Ltd.

A, Gillespie, B,Com,,48, 1841 Venezuela-H. Leslie Brown, B.A.’28, Cana- Scarth St. dian Embassy, Apartado 3306, Caracas.

Seattle-Robert J. Boroughs, B.A.’39, M.A.’43, Victoria-Dr. W. H. Gaddes, B.A.‘39, M.A.’46, 2515 S.W. 169th Place (66). 4150 Cedar H i l l Rd.

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The Editor’s Page Branches The Next Decade at U.B.C. - Growth and

Generous Support Needed

Fulfilment

The Architects’ Drawings of the new Arts Facult,y Group of Buildings, shown on the Front Cover of this Issue, illustrate the unusual degree of building activity planned for the Campus during the coming summer. In his Report on page 11, the President mentions, among important happenings at the University in recent months, discussions and plans about other key buildings soon to be constructed at Point Grey. The erection of these permanent buildings, together with the Crown Grant of an additional 433 acres to the Campus area, is a happy reminder of steady progress toward the cherished goal of adequate housing and playing fields within the next ten years.

The University is in fact, going through a period of rapid and definitely solid expansion. In a forecast prepared by the University for submission to the Gordon Commission on Canadian Economic Development, it is calculated that the year 1985 will see 30,000 British Columbia young people seeking higher education. The value of such a forecast is very great for it serves to emphasise the magnitude of the problem to be faced by the next generation of University administrators. For the present, however, and in a time of expansion such as we are now experiencing, it is wholesome for us, whilc realising and studying the long-term situation, to follow the example of large-scale industrial undertakings and develop our overall plan by stages.

The stage of development in which we find ourselves at U.B.C. began at the end of World War I1 and has still at least another decade to run before further drastic changes in organisation need be expected o r contemplated. The period has seen the enlargement of the three original Faculties, the creation of new Faculties of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Forestry, and the setting up of Schools of Architecture, Physical Education, Home Economics, Education, Social Work and Commerce. Within these enlarged boundaries, a fresh phase in U.B.C.’s growth has emerged, enforcing upon the Administration new and heavy commitments of every kind. The fulfilment of these commitments, keeping in mind the statistical forecast of the student population for the ensuing ten years, would appear to be the primary objective of the Administration for the present.

In the February number of U.B.C. Reports, Pre:;ident MacKenzie wrote; “I think the Pkovince should look forward to equipping: and staffing adequately the existing expensive University Faculties, Schools and Departments in fields such as Medicine, Engineering, Forestry, Law, Architecture, Education etc., which it is not likely to want to duplicate. We must make a determined effort within the next ten years to see that these Faculties, Schools, and Departments are well staffed, adequately housed and supplied with che facilities and equipment that really first-class professional training requires”, and he added his view that the plan should include further provision for dormitories for men and women students, for Library expansion, together with the development of Graduate Studies and the University Research programmes.

It is premature to prophesy what form the next phase of U.B.C. development will take, in order t o deal with the education of the second 15,000 addition to the student body. Will another multi-Faculty University be established in the Province ? Will Colleges giving degree work in certain fields of study be set up t o relieve the pressure of numbers at the mother institution? Will junior students be funnelled off to Junior Colleges in various centres in the Province, coming for their final years to their Alma Mater? Whatev’er solution may be found to this problem of the future, certain it is that no decision will be taken without the most careful study of these and possibly other plans.

In the meantime, President MacKenzie expresses his firm belief that, whatever form of decentralisation may he adopted, “there should in the future be only one University of British Columbia, with only one governing board . . . The problems of our immediate growth . . . are problems which we can solve if we receive the support that we need to provide adequate academic facilities, adequate housing and above all, an adequate ratio of Faculty members to Students.”

Can it be doubted that the University will obtain, from public and private sources, the support needed to enable her to reach her objective in the next decade? If the required help is not forthcoming, it will not be due to any failure of President MacKenzie who, during the eleven years of his office, has given himself without reserve to the service of the University, and by all the means at his disposal, has placed the University and her needs before the minds and hearts of every citizen in British Columbia.

EDMONTON“Annua1 M e e 1. i n g, Luncheon, March 23. Special Guest: Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie. New Eixecu- tive: Past President, Hugh Mason, E.A.’48; President, C. A. Westcott, B.A.’50, B.S.W.’51; Secretary, Beverley Gartrell; Treasurer, Sidney Usiskin, Ph.D.’55; Vice-presidents, R a 1 p h Heune and John L. Haar, B.A.’50; Executive Members, Art Bunn, B.A. ’48, B.S.W.’49, M.S.W.’51, Jack Charl- ton, B.A.’38, Lloyd Alexander, B.A.Sc. ’52, and Mrs. H. A. (Dorothy) Dyde, B.A.’30.

KELOWNA-General Meeting, Jan- uary 18. New Executive: President, Nancy Gale, M.A.’39; Vice-president, Sidney A. Swift, B.A.’37, B.Com.37; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. ( H e 1 e n ) McLennan, B.A.’23. The Branch is planning to entertain Dean Dorothy Mawdsley during her visit to the Okanagan in March.

KITIMAT. Art Sager visited Febru- a r y 16 and 17, met many grads-in- eluding Dick Goss, LL.B.’50, and John Calam, B.A.’48. He attended a meeting of the new Toastmasters’ Club, toured residential and plant camp sites and discussed education and its many problems with Alumni and friends.

LOS ANGELES-Dinner Meeting, December 10, at the Biltmore Hotel. Speaker: Dr. W. E. Seyer. Those present: Jean and Harry Cross, B.A.’24, M.A.’3b, Ph.D.(S.Cal.)’40, of ,Santa Monica; Bill, (B.A.Sc.’22, M.PL.’23), and Vangie Gale of Whittier; Marge and Doug (B.A.’48, B.A.Sc.’49) Mc- Cawley of Long Beach; Mr., (B.A.Sc. ’35, M.A.Sc.’36), and Mrs. Walter Scott of Los Angeles; Mr. John R. Taylor, B.A.’31, of Ojai, Mrs. Elizabeth Verlot of Los Angeles; Dr. Belle McGauley of Los Angeles; Mr., (B.Com.’47), and Mrs., (B.Com.’46), W. K. Wardroper of Los Angeles; Bill and Ada Ferguson of Brea; Maxine, (B.A.’27), and Edith, (B.A.’29), McSweyn of Los Angeles; Guy, (B.A.Sc.’24), and Mrs. Corfield of San Gabriel; Dr. Seyer of Westwood; Cora, (B.A.’22), and Lester, (B.A.’22, B.Sc. (Oxon.)’32), McLennan of Fuller- ton.

NANAIMO-Annual Dinner Meet- ing on March 1, at the Malaspina Hotel. Guest Speaker: Professor F. H. Soward, Director of International Studies and newly appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. Report in Summer Issue.

OCEAN FALLS. Art Sager visited February 13-15, and attended an informal meeting of grads. John Gra- ham, B.A.Sc.-President, Ed. Barnes, B.A.Sc.’50 - Secretary. The Alumni Association Secretary also toured the Plant, spoke to High School students (John Moe, B.A.’4O”Principal) and met many local Alumni informally. He reports having had a very pleasant three days.

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Ocean Falls Alumni meet the Executive Secretary.

PENTICTON-1955 Executive: f i e - sident, W. T. Halcrow; Vice President, M. Davis; Secretary-Treasurer, Don Kerr, B.S.A.’38; Second Vice-Presi- dent, Grace D’Aoust, B.A.’49.

PORTLAND - Annual Meeting, afternoon reception on Sunday, Janu- a r y 29, at the home of Dr. D. B. Charl- ton, B.A.’25. Guests: Harry Logan and Art Sager. Present: Les, (B.S.A.’51), and Mrs., (B.S.A.’49), Crosby; Mr. and Mrs. Claire Morris;. Mr., (B.S.A.’42, B.Com.’46, M.S.A.’48), and Mrs., (B.A. ’43), R. W. Grahame; Mr. (B.Com.’SO), and Mrs. Eric Barker; Mr., (B.S.A.

. ’52), and Mrs. Jack Lindsay; Mrs. J. M. Orr; Mr. Ken Ross, B.A.’39; Miss Yvonne Paul, B.A.’47; Mrs. Fred Hut- chinson, B.A.’43; Mr., (M.S.W.’50), a n d Mrs. John Mozzanini; Mr., (B.A.Sc.’42), and Mrs. Norman Bur- nett ; Miss Alma Mahon; Miss Marg- aret Sutherland, B.A.’49; and Miss Mildred Iverson.

PRINCE GEORGE-General Meet- ing, October 21. Guest: Dean George Allen of the Faculty of Forestry. Ex- ecutive: President, Denning Waller, B.A.’49, D.D.S.; Vice-president, How- ard Barton, B.A.’50; Secretary-Treas- urer, Elsie Gorbat; Members a t large: Moira English, B.A.’41, Jack Beech, B.A.’42, George Baldwin, B.A.’50, LL.B.’51.

PRINCE RUPERT. Art Sager visited February 19-20. Attended Sun- day afternoon meeting of the Branch at which John Banman, B.A.Sc.’46, was appointed President; A. H. Dowsley, B.A.’50, Vice-president, and Herb Bepch, Secretary. He spoke to High School students, many teachers, School Board members and was entertained at dinner by Cecil Ritchie, B.A.’37, School Inspector.

SEATTLE-Informal meeting and

film showing at the Hub, University of Washington, January 26. Guests: H. T. Logan, Art Sager and Ed Parker (U.B.C. Information Officer). Present: Mr., (E:.A.’39, M.A.’43), and Mrs. (B.A.’39), Robert Boroughs; Fred Brewis, B.Com.’49; William Rosene, B.A.Sc.’E;l; Miss Sophie Laddy, B.S.A. ’50; Dr. Fred Laird, B.A.’22, B.A.Sc. ’23; Mr., (B.A.’25), and Mrs. Stan Arkley; Cliffe Mathers, B.A.Sc.’23; Elizabeth Norie, B.A.’39; Ronald Todd, B.A.’29; Peter Gellatly, B.A.’49; Har- vey Richman, B.Com.’63; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hvattum; Miss Nora Clark, B.A.’47; Mr., (B.A.’49), and Mrs. Frank Perry.

T R A I G A n n u a l Dinner Meeting on January 20. Special Guests: Dean G. C. Andrew and Mr. Neal Harlow. New Executive elected: President, J. V. Rogers, B.A.’33; Vice-president, M. H. Mason, B.Com.’33; Secretary-Treas- urer, C. H. G. Bushell, B.A.Sc.’42; Executive Committee: Catherine Daly, B.A.’30; Dr. C. S. Fowler, B.A.’47; S. Graham, B.A.’34; W. K. Gwyer, B.A.Sc.’36; Eric Jones, B.A.Sc.’48; Mrs. Daisy Lee, B.A.’29; W. Ruck, B.A.Sc.’45; Dr. M. M. Wright, B.A.Sc. ’38; Past-President, Dr. C. A. H. Wright, B.Sc.’l7. Those present: S. J. Graham, B.A.’37. R. K. W. Green, B.A.Sc.’35, John Louie, B.A.Sc.’45, J. Daly, B.A.’24, Catherine Daly, B.A.’30, Richard Tarson, B.A.’54, Diane Dris- coll, P.E.’55, G.D. EUison, B.A.Sc.’47, M. M. Wright, B.A.Sc.’38, Marion Bell, B.A.’39, R. C. Bell, B.A.Sc.’38, Ann- Ellen Jones, B.A.’48, Hazel. Hill, B.S.W.’50, J. E. Jones, B.A.Sc.’48, N. B. Fromson, B.A.’51, 0. H. Gill, ‘B.A.Sc. ’27, A. Murray, B.A.’48, W. G. Hushell, B.A.Sc.’42, J. V. Rogers, B.A.Sc’33, C. A. H. Wright, B.Sc.’l7, Ruth W. Rogers, B.A.’33, J. Mason, B.Com.’33, Willa Bushell, B.A.’36, Mary SeIby,

Portland Alumni Branch Picnic. From Left: Mrs. John Mozzanini, Margaret Sutherland, Magdelene Philips, Yvonne Paul seated in front, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Grahame, Mrs. and Mr. Norm Burnett, Ken Ross, Mrs. Jane Anderson. In the Rear: Tam Patterson, Dr. Charlton, Berk Anderson and Monty

and Derek Anderson.

TERRACE. Art Sager visited Feb- ruary 18 and 21. He was entertained by Mr. Fred Admes of Columbia Cellu- lose, John Weiss, Archie Cameron and John Lawrence, fiincipal of the High School. He met many Alumni and friends, talked to High School student:; and School Board members and was entertained at a square dance.

Alumni at Prince Rupert get tomgether.


B.A.’26, E. H. Bautchi, B.A.Sc.’36, H. R. Hanley, B.A.Sc.’29, J. D. Hartley, B.A.Sc.’27, Dorothy E. Williams, B.A. ’35, R. Layton Stewart, B.A.’36, J. C. Roberts, B.A.Sc’30, Lloyd Williams, B.A.Sc’32, Helen .Roberts, B.A.’34, Olive Graham, B.A.’34.

VICTORIA-Executive Meeting- January 9, at the home of the Presi- dent Dr. W. H. Gaddes, B.A.’39, M.A. ’46. Plans were made for the last of three Panel Meetings February 29, entitled “New Canadians: Assimila- t ion?” Six New Canadians with Dr. William Black, Regional Liaison Offi- cer of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Mrs. E. T. Livesay, President of the Council of Women, Victoria, and David Woodsworth, Di- rector of Family and Children’s Serv- ice, Victoria, will be the speakers.

WILLIAMS LAKE - F’rofessor Geoffrey Davies of the History De- partment addressed the Board of Trade on January 18 and met many Alumni and friends informally. Mrs. (Anne) C. D. Stevenson B.A.27, and T. B. (Tom) Beams, B.A.’49, helped in the arrangements.

Graduate Profile-

Cnarles A. H. Wright, B.Sc.'l7.

U.B.C.'s first graduate in Chemical Engineering has established an outstanding record of service and accomp- lishment of which his Department and the Faculty of Applied Science are justifiably proud. Charles Wright graduated with the Degree of B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in April 1917, to become the first graduate engineer of the University. His constructive interest in the University, evidenced by the leading r81e he played in undergraduate student affairs, has continued throughout the years and for many years he has been an active member of Senate.

Charles was born on April 4, 1896 at Salisbury, New Brunswick, the son, of the late Lewis Alexander Wright and Ella (Holstead) Wright. His father was a successful lumberman in Moncton. He obtained his primary education in New Brunswick and attended King Edward High School in Vancouver from 1910 to 1913. The first two years of University were taken a t McGill University College in Van- couver. In the fall of 1915, he continued his studies when U.B.C. opened its doors and his degree of B.Sc. was awarded two years later. Eye trouble had prevented enlistment for Overseas Service but in 1918 he succeeded in being accepted in the Canadian Con- struction Corps, then training in North Vancouver. Later in the year he joined the Royal Canadian Engineers, C.E.F., and his eyes still sparkle when he speaks of the subsequent "Battle of Brockville". Demobilised late in 3918, he returned to U.B.C. as a Demon- strator in Chemistry and earned his M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry the following spring. His work for this degree was directed by the late F'rofessor Douglas McIntosh. The Fall of 1919 saw Charles enrolled at McGill for Doctorate studies in Physical Chem- istry under Dr. Otto Maass, and the Ph.D. was awarded in 1921 with such

Charles A.H. W r i g h t BY DEAN HENRY C. GUNNING, B.A.Sc.'23, MSc., Ph.D. (M.I.1.)

distinction that he won the Ramsay Memorial Fellowship for Canada. The Fellowship enabled him to spend two years, 1921 and 1922, at University College, London, under the Supervision of F. G. Donnan, and included a tour of study of the Chemical, Metallurgi- cal and Fuel Industries of Holland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia - an experience which actually led to Charles' lifetime work in Canada. An additional invaluable period was spent in 1922 and 1923 with the Tate Electro- lytic Textile Products Company at Providence, R.I., and another year with the world-famous Arthur D. Little Company, Chemical Engineers, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The West Coast continued its strong appeal, and Charles returned to U.B.C. in 1924 as Lecturer in Chemistry, when Profes- sor Archibald was stricken with a premature illness.

In May 1925 Charles joined the Re- search Staff of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and moved to Trail to begin a successful career that led, in 1945, to his present position of Consulting Chemical Engineer of the Company. From 1943 to date he has served as Consulting Engineer for the important Project 9 - Heavy Water production. In addition, he has served as member or chairman of important Company committees, having to do with both technical and human relations problems. In recent years he has been responsible for the important Cominco Fellowships and Scholarships.

U.B.C. Basketball Team, Session 1916-17. From Left, Standing: Frank Emmons, Syd Anderson, Bill Abercrombie. Middle: Chas. Wright, Micky McDougall, Don "Pinky" Morrison. Front:

Forbes Brown.

Sapper, Royal Canadian Engineers, Moncton, N.B.

Charles married Mary Lawson, a graduate of Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and a large part of his well- groomed appearance, courtly manner and charming sociability must certain- ly be attributed to the beneficient in- fluences of Mrs. Wright and their four accomplished daughters - Carol, Mrs. R. S. Pack of Toronto, Mary (Mimi), Mrs. M. M. Labes of Williamstown, Mass.; Nancy, Mrs. A. Antonacci of Toronto, and Charlotte of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Carol and Nancy are graduates of th Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (Piano) ; - Mary '

graduated from U.B.C. (B.P.E.'51) and later from Wellesley College, Massa- chusetts.

Charles' non-professional activities have been multitudinous and since graduation, have had mainly to do with educational, charitable and youth en- deavours. As an undergraduate at U.B.C. he was President of the Engin- eering Undergraduate Society and a member of the Student Council. In his final year he succeeded Sherwood Lett as President of the Student Council. A keen athlete, he played on the Uni- versitv basketball team along with Don Morrison, the late Syd Anderson and several other well-known graduates.

Trail, the Kootenays, and British Columbia as a whole have benefitted greatly by his years of unselfish service and pmblic - spirited initiative. Surely few persons can equal his

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With Dr. Otto Maass at McGill University, 1920.

record of important administrative offices in public organisations. He was the first President, B.C. Chamber of Commerce, President, Trail Chamber of Commerce, Associated Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce of Southeastern B.C., Trail Skating Club, which he organised, President District Council, The Boy Scouts Association and Member Canadian General Coun- cil, organiser and President, Trail District Recreational Projects Society, President, Trail and District Arts and Crafts Association, organiser and President, Trail Y.M.C.A., and Presi- dent, Chemical Institute of Canada. His directorships include the B.C. Cancer Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. Division, Canadian Ment- al Health Association and Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the U.B.C. Senate, elected by Convocation, for 17 years, and is one of the most regular and active attendants.

He acknowledges curling and gar- dening as his principal hobbies, but any visitor to Trail from U.B.C. will testify that warm and generous hos- pitality in a charming home is one of his major avocations. To many, Charles is ‘Mr. Trail’ or ‘Mr. West Kootenay’.

One of the achievements of which he is most justly proud is the building of the magnificent Trail Memorial Centre, whose plans are not yet quite completed, and the provision of other

A group of graduates, studying in England, photographed at 14 Bedford Place, London, 1921. From Left: Willson Coates, A. L. Mar- shall Roy Vollum, Char. Wright, John Mennie,

Sherwood Lett, Lennox Mills.

splendid ~ecreational facilities in the Trail District. These undertakings, which have involved the raising, lo- cally, of rnore than $1,000,000, are the work of the Trail District Recreational Projects Society, of which Dr. Wright is the organiser and F’resident. The Kids’ Skating Rink, which is a feature of the Memorial Centre, dedicated for the use of children. is probably the only rink of its kind in Canada.

His ability to keep in the forefront of his own profession, in addition to his tremendous public services, is at- tested by a lengthy list of technical articles published between the years 1919 and 1955, by his senior position in our ma.jor industrial Company, and by his election as President of the Chemical Institute. Lesser mortals may well wonder how he does it as they strive to emulate him. He is a memher cf five technical societies and is a B.C. registered Professional Eng- ineer.

Charles has always believed in the necessity of creating and maintaining a high standard of professional and technical training. In an address delivered in 1947, when President of the Chemical Institute of Canada, he said: “I would suggest that a great deal of modern production depends not only on the two factors, capital and labour, ahout which we hear so much, but on a third factor as well, namely, executive and professional personnel which includes managenlent and -the technical staff. Modern industry is undoubtedly realizing to an ever- in- creasing extent how important a par t

this third factor plays in the continued success of a company, and is rapidly taking steps to improve its position in this respect.” The same theme was developed in a paper prepared for the Eighth Resources Conference held a t Victoria in February 1955, where he declared “that the mineral industry is demanding an ever-increasing measure of scientific and technical training of its employees.”

His thinking with regard to Educa- tion, a process which he looks upon as a “Way of life”, may be seen in words of advice spoken to a High School graduating class recently: “Never stop learning and keep you^ eye constantly on your objective. In your personal striving for success he unselfish and shape your lives, not only for yourself and your family, but also for the benefit of the community in which you live, and for this nation which has given you so much and which holds such great opportunities for you.”

The first engineer 1.0 graduate from U.B.C. has set an example of industry, professional skill and public service that has been of incalculable assistance to all later graduates and will he a beacon to guide those in the y e a r s ahead.

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* * * Remember Alumni Association Annual Dinner, Brock Hall, 6:30, April 19.

Flashback

From Left, Standing: Em. Abernethy (Mech.),. Jim Hadgkiss (Chern.), Hugh Macdonald (Elec.), Science ‘30, Twenty-fifth Anniversary, 1955.

Tom Hadwin (Elec.), Charley Deans (Civil), Alec Hrennikoff (Civil), Audsley Rhodes (Chem.), George Harrower (Elec.’31), Art Unsworth (Mech.). Middle: Alan Macdonald (Geol.), Ralph McDiarmid (Chem.), Prof. F. W. Vernon, B.Sc. Eng. (London), (Class President), Ted Hay (Elec.), Tom Somerton (Chem.‘32), Ed Lunn (Elec.). Front: Henry Hill :Mining’31), Jim Pike (Mining), Bill Locke (Mech.),

Harold Woodland (Elec.).


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U.B.C. ALUMNI C H R O N I C L E 1 0

The President Reports- Budget Increase - Important Gifts

Faculty Changes - New Buildings

Dear Alumni,- Education, Victoria, The Normal For a variety of reasons the past Schools and the B.C. Teacher:;

few months seem to have been par- Federation. tkularly interesting and important Dean Scarfe, 48, born in Essex, ones for the University of British England, a graduate in Arts, Univer- Columbia. sity College, London, was a well-

It is with great regret and a realisa- tion of the loss that the Medical Faculty in the University has suffered that I report the resignation of Dr. Myron M. Weaver, Dean of the Faculty. Dean Weaver has had a most difficult and demanding task in the organisation of our Medical School. He has done it supremely well and has managed to retain the support and effective cooperation of all interested groups in the community. He has also brought together one of the best faculties to be found anywhere in Canada or, for that matter, anywhere in any University. Fortunately, Dean Weaver will remain with us as a member of the teaching staff and we will continue to benefit by his advice and assistance and to enjoy his friendship.

Professor Henry F. Angus, Dean of tha Faculty of Graduate Studies, is also leaving us, but this was inevitable because of his retirement. Again, I am happy to report that he goes to another interesting and important post in the government service as Chair- man of the Public Utilities Board and will not only retain his interest in the University, but, we hope, continue to lecture to students in Political Science, during such times as he can be spared from the governmental duties.

Dr. Shrum and Professor Soward have been appointed Deans of Gradu- ate Studies and will take over the duties of that Faculty on the first of July next. This is not only a recognition of the outstanding contribution that they have made to teaching, ?cho!arship and research at this Uni- versity and in this country, but it will bring to the direction of Graduate Studies here two of the ablest men in Canada for the fields of science and the humanities and the social sciences.

I am glad to he able to tell you that we have appointed a Dean to the new College of Education in the person of Professor Neville V. Scarfe, presentlv Dean of Education in Mani- toba, who will assume his duties here on July 1. The necessary work, prepar- atory to the taking over of these re- Rp3nsibilities, is being done by Dean Walter Gage, assisted by a group composed of selected members of the University Staff, The Department of

known Geographer before he made his name in the field of Education. He has been in his present position sinco 1951.

To replace Professor Angus as Head of the Department of Economics antl Political Science we have been most fortunate in that we have been able to persuade Mr. John Deutsch who i:; Assistant Deputy Minister of Financt! and Secretary of the Treasury Board in Ottawa to leave that most important and well-paid post to come to us as Professor of Economics. It is most cncouraging and means a great deal to the morale of University teachers antl t o the regard in which they are held by the public to have men who are nationally recognised as being the top of their profession willing to come back to the universities bec,ause of their int'erest in teaching, in scholarship and in research.

Plans for the new buildings for the Arts Faculty, the Basic Sciences in Medicine, and for residence accommodation are being debated and discussed. We hope and expect that before the end of the summer some of these, at least, will be led to construction and actually under way. The same is true of the proposed extensior of the Brock Memorial Building whick. is being enlarged to provide more space for student offices and clubs.

The new Bus Stand, Book Store. Post Office, and Coffee Bar on the site of the old Bus Stand is nearing com- pletion and will, I believe, be a most attractive and useful building.

The Cl-own Grant of 433 additional acres to the Endowment Lands was registered in the name of the Uni- versity two or three weeks ago. This brings our Campus close to one thousand acres and will help to ensure that

Dean Neville V.

Dean Walter H. Gage Scarfe, College of

Education.

W. G. Dolmage presenting cheque for $750.00 to President MacKenzie for the Dolmage

lowing Co., Ltd. Scholarships.

the University will have adequate land for expansion in the years to come. The area in question lies between the extension of Acadia Road and Marine Drive, and lies to the South of the Agricultural Buildings and farm lands. It includes all of the Acadia Camp area and makes that a part of the University campus.

The budget which has recently been approved by the Legislature, provides that the University this year will receive four hundred thousand dollars more than last year. Most of this wtll be used to increase !.he salaries of the Staff of the University, the balance t(J take care of the increased enrolmen+. None of it, I am afraid, will be available for new developments, or the strengthening of existing work. Both of these must wait on further grants in other years, or on the gifts and bequests of friends and benefactors.

These persons - the friends and benefactors-are continuing, in an increasing way, their interest in and support of the University, and there is hardly a week goes by without some gift or bequest being made. Two of the most important of these are the cheque from the Alumni Development Fund whioh this year amounted to over $80,000 and the bequest of Dr. A. E. H. Bennett which has left close to $300,000 to help young men and women who wish to study medicine and who need assistance in financing this expensive course.

We are all sorry that Mr. R. H. Neslands felt it necessary to resign as a member of the Board of Gov- ernors but, again, we are fortunatc in being able to persuade Dr. Perc!: Bengough who has just returned to Vancouver after years of service 1 1

Ottawa as President of the 'I'rades and Labour Congress in Ottawa t.1

take Mr. Neeland's place. These then are some of the reason::

why I have stated that the la.st few months have been busy and interestin,q ones.

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How an Atomic Electric Power Plant works

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or furnace, sllperheats “heavy” water which is piped t h r o q h a heat, turhine-generator. l f t e electricity produced is the same as the electric Heat generated hy a.ficel source of uranium rods i n tfle atomic reactor, created, electricity is generated by a conuentiona 1 steam-driven

excftanger where ordinay water is turned to steam. once steam is power we use today.

CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC together with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and Ontario Hydro

to build Canada’s first Atomic Electric Power Plant DRAMATIC proof of Canada’s world prominence in the ian Atomic Power Department. Already a hand-picked

development of nuclear energy for industrial purposes group of highly qualified people, including top nr~clear is the atomic electric power plant now being designed experts, is working full-time on the project. for erection near Chalk River, Ontario. Canadian General Electric is deeply conscious of its

Basically, the plant will consist of an atomic reactor and great responsibilities in pioneering this new and vital an electric generator driven by a steam turbine. T h e vast development. T h e invaluable knowledge and experience heat from the reactor, or furnace, creates the steam to gained from all phases of the work will be freely available drive the turbine. This unique power plant when com- to privately and publicly owned power companies across pleted, will become part of the Ontario Hydro system. Canada. It will be a working pilot plant on which to base the

Electricity from the atomic power plant will be exactly atomic electric stations of tomorrow. These may eveutu- the same as the electric power we know toclay. Only the ally become this country’s major source of electricity. source of energy to produce the steam is changed. Atomic For over 60 years, Canadian General Electric has helped fission Of uranium rods will provide the heat instead Of to spread the benefits of electric power throughout this burning coal, oil or gas as in a conventional furnace. country-building equipment to generate power, trans-

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NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS - By David Brock

”I DREAM OF GERONTIUS WITH THE WHITE BROWN HAIR”

At the University of Laurentia a bitter dispute has arisen between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Each holds that the science of Gerontology, which is the study of old age, falls within its proper field. The unfortunate rift is widening and deepening. Last week the Dean of Medicine declared “The more we spe- cialise. the more we discover that medicine includes everything,” while the Dean of Social Sciences issued an ultimatum, pronouncing everyone who disagreed with him to be anti-social and unscientific.

“Old age is one of the problems of Social Science,” said the latter Dean. “What does a mere leech or sawbones know, for example, about designing playgrounds for the Over-60 group, or organising amateur dramatics for the Over-75 group ? Old age is largely a matter of leisure. In our tightly-knit yet full-fashioned Faculty, the Pro- fessor of Gerontology should and could work in closest harmony with the Professor of Leisure, provided he didn’t get too o!d and cranky.”

Asked if he would give the press a few words on the dispute, the Pro- fessor of Leisure replied, “I really haven’t time.” He did, however, hand

the reporters a few publicity releases on the subject of leisure in youth and age. According to the latest research, the modern youth and middle-aged person gets so much leisure in thi.3 Age of Speed, he gets irritated by the stuff, and wants no more of i t af ter retirement. “What is the use of retiring if you are going to be as idle a:j you were when you were drinking coffee all day for a n office?”

At the moment, each of the two Faculties has its own Professor of Gerontology. This has led to much raiding, duelling, and other immature practices. Feeling is running so high, the President may be forced to read the University Riot Act, which de- clares lecturers and their students to be guilty of taking part in an Unlaw- ful Assembly. “The unseemly strife will age me before my time,” said the President. He has been examined by the Professor of Gerontology o:P another university, who has pro- nounced him to be only partially gerontic. “It is only a slight touch,” said the consultant, “of psycho-somatic: gerontia praecox. I advise a brief course o-E square-dancing. It is a pity your university has no Professor of Square-dancing.” SOCIAL NIEWS FROM OTHER U’S

At the University of Slamgeesh, B.C., the Professor of Square-Dancing, Professor David, has just been granted a divorce from his wife, Michal, on L. charge that when she saw him leaping

and dancing she despised him in her heart. ( 2 Samuel 6:16). I t was a divorce “a mensa et thoro”, which is a psycho-somatic divorce and has nothing to do with Walden Pond. AFTER-DINNER SPEAKERS

Professors of Gerontology are in much demand as speakers at re-union dinners of middle-aged graduates, whose favourite hymn is, “Change and decay in all around I see.” A t the University of Nootka the degree course in Gerontology will soon include instruction in re-unionism. Ideally, such speakers should be able to make the man in his 40’s feel that he is simultaneously about 150 years old and just entering full fruition. He should feel a rare specimen and yet a comfortable sharer in what is by no means an uncommon lot. He need not necessarily be gratified with the rude jokes he has been expecting about his appearance, but the absence of such jokes must be explained in a way to win his confidence. The most difficult part of such a speech is to assure him that there is no progress . . . on the contrary . . . and yet there is quite a lot of progress after all, in which he shares the credit. Re must a.lso be told that as a representative of the children of darkness, he is wiser in his generation than the children of light. And yet he himself is also one of the children of light. Such oratory is a matter of splitting personalities rather than splitting hairs. Schizogerontics.

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13 U.B.C. ALUMNI CHRONICLE

GRADES

Elementary Education in British Columbia is generally considered to include that work carried on in the first six grades of the public schools. In a few districts this is preceded by a year of Kindergarten, but of recent years a shortage of trained teacher:; and accommodation has necessarily curtailad pre-primary work. The elementary grades comprise two general divisions: the Primary Division of Gradx I , I1 and 111; and the Inter- m2diate Division of Grades IV, V and VI. TIME ALLOTMENTS I N SCHOOL CURRICULUM

The work of the elementary school must always be largely concerned with teaching those fundamental know- ledges, skills, attitudes, habits, ideals and appreciations which are essential in the background of all citizens, no matter what their social or economic status may be. The Curriculum is therefore common to all students. In Grade I (and. optionally, in Grade 11) the school day is shorter by one-half hour than in the upper grades.

The following table shows the ap- approximate percentage of pupil-time devoted to the various school activities:

Grade I

Health and Physical Education Health Games and Exercises J ............... 10.4%

Language Arts Reading and Phonics Library I ............... 37.7%

Written Language I 9.3% Oral Language 1

Spelling ............................................... Writing ........................................ 3.7%

A4rithmetic ......................................... 7.476

Social Studies 1 Elementary Science ....................... 5.6%

Fine and Practical Arts

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Music and Appreciation ................ 5.6% Graphic Arts and Appreciation 1 g.3% Practical Arts I

Unassigned .11.1% (Recess, Assemblies, etc.)

PROGRESS IN ELEMENTARY GRADES

.The modern concept of learning as continuous growth makes the older concept of grades somewhat artificial. rhe name “grade” is still retained for edministrative convenience, but does not necessarily coincide with school- years. Chi!dren are not at the same stage of either physical or intellectual development when they enter school, - *This is the second of three articles on Edu- cation in British Columbia contributed by the Department of Education, Victoria, and written specially for the U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle. The third article will deal with Secondary Educa- tion and will appear in the Summer Number.

F I F I ,

tlementary tducatlon

in British Co

The film-slide brings the outside world to the class-room.

nor do thsy progress at the same rate. The important point to be observed in practice is that the child shall progress continuously, commencing each year from the last stage reached,

I1 111 IV V VI

9.3% 4.0% 4.0% 4.0% 4.0% 6.7% 6.7% 6.7% 6.7%

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33.3% 24.3% 19.7% 13.3% 13.3%

8.3% 8.0% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3% 3.3% 5.3% 5.3% 5.3%

6.7% 8.0% 8.0% 6.7% 6.7% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 4.0% 4.0%

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rather than either “repeating” or “skipping” grades,-both equally bad practices.

Throughout, learning activities are planned with regard for the different stages of development of the child, emphasis upon various phases of the programme being shifted accordingly. Both methods of instruction and selec- kbn of teaching materials must also depend upon the child’s increasing maturity and expanding needs and interests. By the end 6f the Elemen- tary Grades, the child should have as thorough mastery of the common tools of learning as is commensurate with

lumbia* his maturity and ability, and an eager- ness to use those tools in acquiring more knowledge. He is then ready to commence the first stage of his Sec- ondary Education. WHAT THE CHILD IS TAUGHT

The programme of studies for the elementary grades is published in two volumes, totalling about 850 pages. It therefore follows that any con- densation in a short article will be very sketchy. Nevertheless, there may be some value in presenting a brief picture, subject by subject and grade by grade, of what the child is taught. The reader should again remember that the picture presented here is of a normal programme for that non- existent, mathematical creation, the average child, who enters Grade I at the age of six with an I.&. of 100, and who proceeds evenly and continuously in all phases of his work throughout six grades in six years. The practical application, of course, involves almost every type of modification possible to care for the individual, who never does (or never should) conform to a fixed pattern.

Lezrninx to read occupies the largest portion of the child’s school-time in the elementary grades. About three- cighths of the sch0o1 day is devoted to this in Grade I, that ratio being very gradually reduced until i t becomes about one-seventh in Grades V and VI.

No one teaching method is used at any stage of reading, as experience has shown that a corGbination of many mcthods produces the best results. Initially, greatest emphasis is commonly placed on the “look and say” method until a minimum vocabulary is established, but phonetic analysis is introduced as soon as the child begins to establish a connection between appearance and sound (before the end of the first grade) and there- after is consistently taught as a means of word attack.

Just as essential as the teaching of reading skills is the teaching of the use of books with a view to both the pleasure and practical values to be derived from them. The library, therefore, must be an attractive part of the class-room environment, while children are given every opportunity and encouragement b9th to read quietly for their own enjoyment o r in search of information, and to read orally, thus sharinq that enjoyment or information with others.

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Closely associated with reading are oral and written language skills, the teaching of which occupies approximately one-tenth of the child’s time throughout the grades.

Oral language is taught through the media of organised conversation, oral reproduction of stories, the study and memorisation of poems, picture study, dramatisation and original story telling.

Written language begins as soon as the child has a small written vocabulary. Emphasis in written composition is on sentence and paragraph struc- ture a t th is level. Even at the Grade I level children are taught to compose simple stories of two or three sen- tences, and by Grade VI are expected to he able to write coherent, unified paragraphs on original themes. In the intermediate grades, instruction is given in writing simple friendly and social letters. Children also receive instruction in the use of the diction- arv and of reference books.

Spel’ing is not formally taught until the end of Grade I, but some informal instruction is given in that Grade on the child’s most common reading vocabulary. Commencing in Grade 11, svstematic and graded instruction is Fivrn, emphasising not only the correct Fp-l’ing of the words most commonly uscd at each level, but their meaning and connotation.

Handwriting is first taught in Grade I in simple manuscript. as the form c t f

individual letters is more closely related to the printed symbol. In Grade I1 the letters are joined together in cursive writing, and by the end of Grade I1 or early in Grade I11 pen and ink are introduced. Emphasis is placed on the importance of legibility and on a reasonable rate of speed, in all written work.

Arithmetic instruction is increased proeressively in the primary grades until it takes one-seventh of the child’s time in Grade IV and up. By the end of Grade VI, pupils are expected to have mastered the common processes with whole numbers, fractions and decimals, and should be ready for their wider application in practical work in Grades VI1 and VIII. Continuous practice is required throughout all grades in fundamental mathematical processes to ensure maintenance of ski!ls learned.

Social Studies in the primary grades often provide a core around which many other subjects may he unified. Work in oral and written language, graphic and practical arts, reading, general scisnce and health, can often he centred about the social studies units, which are designed to make full use of the natural traits of the child “curiosity about the world, imagina- tion, the desire to imitate adult life, the desire to acquire social experience. These units are based on topics at first connected with the child’s immediate

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The life of a Congo village becomes real when reconstlructed by pupils themselves.

environment, then expanding beyond it until the last half of the third grade concerns itself with such topics as industry, transpotration, and com- munication.

In the intermediate grades, this out- ward expansion is continued in a pattern of logical and systematic study of how other people live in other types of geographical conditions. At the intermediate level, children are taught to understand and to use such geographical tools as globes, maps, and charts.

Elementary general science is also closely a.ssociated with the child’s immediate environment. Through observation of seasonal changes the child is gradually led to observe changes in plant and animal life more closely. He is encouraged to generalise and to see relationships. From that stage he is ready .to proceed to the organised study of natural phenomena and the causes underlying them.

The chief purpose of music instruction in the elementary schools is to foster a natural love of music and to develop a growing understanding of i t in the child. Plenty of experiences are provided in song singing, rhyth- mic activities, listening to music, playing simple instruments, reading readi- ness activities at the primary level and developing reading skills at the intermediate level, and some original and creative activities.

The gra.phic and practical arts provide oppolkunities for creative expression and for the development of the child’s sense of appreciation. A great variety of media and activities are used. The primary aim of the programme at this level is “that pupils working thoughtfully with shapes, colours, textures and materials under sympathet.ic guidance. should experience the satisfactions resulting from artistic expression, should realise something of the discipline and order of art, and should come to perceive the beauty of art in the world around them.” (Programme for the Primary Grades, p. 307).

Health instruction at the elementary level is only a par t of the whole health programme. It is concerned largely with providing knowledge of practical value to ,the child in caring for his own physical and mental health and in protecting that of others.

The physical education programme is designed to foster in the child an appreciation of those activities con- tributing to total fitness, to develop a sound body and normal mental attitudes, and to develop skill in phycho- motor activities. Activities outlined are those best suited to the interests and physical maturity of the child at a particular level, and therefore tend to be more complex in the intermediate grades.

Character education is not a subject field, but is a recognised aim best attained through the spirit and atmosphere in which all school activities are pursued, both those activities held in school hours and those usually de- scribed as co-curricular. Many of the units in health and physical education, in social studies and in language lend themselves to a conscious teaching of moral and ethical values. Many of the school activities, such as assemblies, service organisations, and games, have character education as a major ohject- ive. STANDARDS

The idea of continuous progress has already been mentioned and is the foundation of promotional policy in the Elementary School. The chief rcsponsibility for the maintenance of high standards of work rests on the school itself and its administration. hut is supervised through the Depart- ment’s inspectoral staff. In addition to the school’s testing programme, Inspectors of Schools often carry out surveys in their own districts.

As a further service to the schools, the Division of Tests, Standads and Research periodically holds test. surveys in a specific field for all students i n a grade. Results are furnished the schools through the Inspectors, and these results are useful in determining the areas in which improvement is desirable. CONCLUSION

This brief rCsum6 of the programme of instruction for the normal child in the elementary grades has necessarily omitted much that would be of great interest to parents. No’ attempt has been made, except incidentally, to t reat of such important matters as special classes for the handicapped, the treat- ment of the fast learner, promotional policies, remedial training, homework assignments, etc. It was felt that the limited space available would he best used in giving those parents who read the “Chronicle” a picture of the programme to he followed by their children and the amount of time allotted to each aspect of it.

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At the

Sign of the

Totem In And About The University

GIFT HONOURING DR. ROSE

70th birthday of Professor W. J. Rose. Professor William J. R o s e , B.A. (Man.), M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. Cra- cow), LL.D., F.R. Hist.S., F.R.S.C., on August 7th of last year. On Mrs. Koerner’s invitation, a large group of University officials and friends gathered on the lovely lawn of her home to mark the occasion.

This timely gift came as a further contribution to the fund Mr. Koerner established several years ago in the University Library, for the Slavonic Collection, in honour of Dr. Rose, who is Special Lecturer of the Department of Slavonic Studies.

IMPRESSIONS OF A GREAT CONVENTION

The annual meetings of the Ameri- can Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America took place in Chicago from December 28 to December 30, 1955. Very nearly five hundred men and women, from all parts of the continent, attended.

The effort involved in traveling long distances to these meetings is worth making, for, apart from the fact that they keep one abreast of all the recent work being done in the broad area of Classical Studies, they also give one the opportunity of renewing friend- ships and of talking “shop” with colleagues and collaborators.

For the member from British Col- umbia, the most attractive lecture was that by Homer A. Thompson on “Ac- tivities in the Athenian Agora in 1955”. Professor Thompson was a member of Arts’26 and has been for many years Field Director of the excavations in the Agora under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies a t Athens. This pro-

ject is probably the most important excavation ever undertaken in classical lands and has produced a rich yield ever since its inception in 1932. As many in British Columbia already know, Professor Thompson is a fascin- ating speaker as well as one of the great archaeological scholars of our time.

The other archaeological paper of universal interest was by Carl W. Blegen, of the University of Cincin- nati, on “Excavations of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos”. It was at Pylos that Professor Blegen discovered, in 1939, some six hundred inscribed tablets, the first evidence of writing on the European mainland. It is known that the language of the tablets, which now number about thirteen hundred, is Greek and this in turn throws new light on our knowledge of the Greek Peninsula before 1000 B.C.

Among the philological papers which this observer found most interesting were those d e 1 i v e r e d on “Ancient Rhetoric” at an afternoon panel discussion.

It is always satisfying to see so many Canadians prominent at these meetings. Our friends from the Uni- versity of Toronto are regularly in attendance; and a surprising number of scholars from institutions in the United States are Canadians.

Robert J. Lenardon, Arts’49, and Elizabeth A. E. Bryson, Arts’51, attended the sessions. Dr. Lenardon is now Instructor in Classics at Columbia University; Miss Bryson is completing her Doctorate in classical studies a t the University of Illinois.

The writer returned to Vancouver with the conviction that these conven- tions are healthy activities and that the Classics continue to provide the broadest possible education, at least for the western world.

”M. F. McG.

HOME MANAGEMENT HOUSE OPENED

On March 8, the new Home Manage- ment House was officially opened at a campus ceremony. Printing date of the Chronicle is such that a full account of the opening must wait for the Summer Issue.

But Alumnae and their friends who have made this their project for a number of years are pleased to see the House finished and in operation. And as the months go by, they will be proud of this attractive, efficient and up-to-date centre.

The House is on Marine Drive a t the South end of Fort Camp. View windows face West towards the Gulf of Georgia. There are four suites inside: a two-bedroom suite where four girls keep house for a two w e e IC period; two smaller suites in which two girls keep house at a time; and a small suite for the supervising member of the Home Economics Depart- ment.

The first four girls moved in on

January 3, when the house-like many a family project-was barely ready for occupancy. The girls watched the painters finishing the job. They, then, in real fact, set themselves to create the homelike atmosphere they had discussed in lab and lecture. Before their stay was up, they had also managed to live on two different income levels and again put into practice some of the realities of family living.

Miss Mary Holder, B.Sc.(H.Ec.), M.S., Associate Professor in the School of Home Economics, is in charge of the House. The first four girls to take their training in the new House were: Lois Carlson, Audrey Dieno, Pat English and Elaine Gerber.

Miss Jean Gilley, B.A.27, was Chairman of the Alumnae Committee which worked so hard and successfully to raise funds for the building.

M.F. APPOINTMENT OF NEW DEANS

Dr. Gordon M. Shrum. O.B.E., MM.M., E.D., M.A., F’h.D. (Toronto), F.R.S.C., Professor and Head of the Department of Physics and a member of the staff of U.B.C. since 1925, has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies in the vacancy created by the retirement of Dean H. F. Angus, and Professor F. H. Soward, B.A. ( T o r o n t o ) , B.Litt. (Oxon.), F.R.S.C., Head of the Department of History and Director of Interna- tional Studies, has been appointed Associated Dean of Graduate Studies. In announcing the appointments Presi- dent MacKenzie stated, “I feel that the University of B.C. is most fortunate in having distinguished and able men like Dr. Shrum and Pro- fessor Soward for appointment to senior academic and administrative posts. They are known and respected across Canada and throughout the world for their scholarship, their ability and their practical common sense. They will in their own ways do much to carry on the traditions and continue the work that Dean Angus has so well founded. This joint appointment has been made because of the expanding work in graduate studies and because we feel that for the time being it is desirable to have the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural and physical sciences well represented at this level of administration.” I

O.B.E., M.M., E.D., Soward, B.A.(Tor.), Prof. G. M. Shrurn, Professor F. H.

M.A., Ph.D.(Tor.), F.R.S.C.

B.Litt. (Oxon.) F.R.S.C.

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Dean 5. N. F. Chant David Corbett

ARCHITECTURAL DISPLAY

“Architecture, Man and His En- vironment”-an Architectural exhibition of the School of Architecture, including the Pilkington Prize Awards for 1955-was shown in the University Art Gallery in January.

SHAW FESTIVAL

A unique celebration of the centen- nial anniversary of George Bernard Shaw’s birth took place at the Univer- sity of British Columbia, Monday, January IF to Saturday, January 21. The Festival featured Shaw readings, lectures, a movie, and production of Shaw’s epic-“Back to Methuselah”.

Dean S. N. F. Chant of the Faculty of Arts and Science opened the Fes- tival with his lecture “Shaw, Goad to the Intellect”. Professor David Cor- bett, of U.B.C., lectured on one of the most controversial aspects of George Bernard Shaw’s life-“His Politics”, and George Woodcock, distinguished writer and critic, gave two lectures entitled, “The Quintessence of Shaw” and, “Shaw, The Playwright”. Lister Sinclair, U.B.C. graduate, outstanding Canadian writer, dramatist, poet, and critic, gave readings from Shaw on Monday and Wednesday of the Fes- tival week. Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleo- patra”, a film produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains and Stewart Granger, was shown by the Campus Film Society.

Climaxing the Festival, the U.B.C. English Department and the Players’ Club, under the direction of U.B.C. Dramatics Director, Miss Dorothy Somerset, presented a condensed ver- sion of Shaw’s play, “Back to Methu- selah”. This work consisting of five distinct plays covers man’s history, past. present and future as Shaw saw it, and constitutes the essence of

George Woodcock Lister Sinclair

Shaw’s social and religious views. The staging and scenery for the play, which extended in time from the Gar- den of Eden to 31,000 A.D., presented major problems which were solved by means of projected scenery.

FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS

The Frederick Wood Theatre Work- shop has presented three plays thus far this ,year. The first, directed by Yvonne Firkins and presented Febru- a ry 14-18, was Henrik Ibsen’s tragedy

Scene from ”Rosmerrholm” by Henrik Ibsen. From Left: ‘Kro’l‘-Laurie John; ‘Johannes Rosmer’-Hans Hartog; ’Rebecca West’”Mar9- aret Robertson; ’Peter Mortensgard‘ - Art

Jenoff.

“Rosmersholm”. Two one-act plays by Canadian Playwrites were presented March 6, 7, and 8. The first, Poppy Maxkenzies’ “Rheba Without Tears”, won the Vancouver Commun- ity Arts Council One-Act Play-Writ- ing Competition for 1955. The second play, “The Jack and the Joker”, was written by Mrs. Gwen Pharis Ring- wood of Williams Lake. Mr. Robert Orchard, Head of the Drama Division, University of Alberta, directed both plays and chaired a panel discussion on playwriting each evening after the performances.

U.B.C. GRADS APPOINTED TO STAFF

Three U.B.C. graduates are among 12 new members appointed to the University teaching staff this year: Dr. Ross Stewart, B.A.’46, M.A.’48. Ph.D. (Wash.), Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Dr. George M. Griffiths, B.A.Sc. (Tor.), M.A.’50, F‘h.D.’53, Assistant Professor of Physics; Don- ald George Brown, B.A.’47, M.A.,

Gilbert Tucker Memorial Fund In memory of Dr. Gilbert Tucker,

late Professor of Canadian History at the University, a fund has been established to continue an interest in which he was eagerly and actively engaged at the time of his death. A s author, scholar, and teacher, and as Chairman of the Senate Library Committee of the University, he was ever concerned about the availability of research material on the Campus. To him goes the credit for securing a Carnegic Corporation grant to the University Library to provide publications relating to French Canada.

And he was working to obtain for the University Library the micro- print edition of the Sessional Papers of Great Britain for the 19th Century. This lat ter collection of over four and a half million pages of documents relating to the social, economic, and political history of Great Britain is one of the most important single sources relating to British history which could be conceived. A complete collection of this publication can be acquired for the university in the form of reduced facsimiles, and funds are being sought for this purpose. The family and the University have therefore established the G i 1 h e r t Tucker Memorial Fund to :,ecure gifts for this use. Contributions may be sent to Mr. Neal Harlow, Univers- ity Librarian, or to the University Accountant; they are deductible for income taxe purposes.

* * * MOZART FESTIVAL

In celebration of Mozart’s 200th Birthday, ten noon-hour recitals of violin works by Mozart (1756-1791) were given by U.B.C.’s own distinguished artists, Harry Adaskin (Vio- lin), Professor of Music, and Frances Marr (Piano). Of these musical treats held on the University Campus and beginning January 24, two still remain to be enjoyed, viz., those on March 20 and 27.

. Dorothy Somerset the Serpent (Sharon D.Phil.(Oxon.), Assistant Professor of Harry Adaskin and Frances Maw Seen at work

Skadding) in “Back to Methuselah“. Philosophy. in their studio.

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Makers of the Universitv-

Photo by Marlow

Evlyn F. K. Farris, B.A., M.A., LL.D. (Acadia and U.B.C.)

Now that our University has passed its 40th Anniversary, its early begin- nings are becoming a matter of historical record, and its founders, historical personages. Articles appear- ing from time to time in the Alumni Chronicle are doing much to refresh the failing memories of aging early graduates, and to provide interesting information to Alumni of more recent years.

There are those still living who recall the first Congregation Proces- sion, of May 5, 1916, as it wound its way from the Court House Grounds to the Ballroom of the old Vancouver Hotel for the first Congregation. Try- ing in vain to keep pace with the fast-stepping male members of the Senate and of the Board of Governors was a petite, brown-eyed, trim little lady, known in University circles as Evlyn Fenwick Farris, and in other circles as Mrs. J. W. de B. Farris. This dynamic and personable young matron had been elected in 1912 to the Senate of the then nebulous Uni- versity of British Columbia, founded by the new University Act of 1908.

In a day when few women were in public office, this was a mark of distinction and a recognition of the part which she and other women had had in making higher education a reality in our Province. In 1917 she was appointed as a member of the Board of Governors, and served in this dual r61e for 30 years. For eleven years of this term she was also Honorary Sec- retary of the Board.

During her years in office she saw the University grow from a small institution to the third largest in Canada; from a student enrolment of 300 in 1915 to approximately 6000 in

Evlyn Fenwick Farris By Evelyn Story Lett, B.A.’17, M.A.26, and A. Winifred Lee, B.A.‘17

1947, and from a Faculty of 25 to one of 700.

Today’s graduates, as they watch the august procession of Faculty, Honoured guests, Senate and Board, marching slowly from the Administra- tion Building to the Armoury may be able to spy, moving with the procession, a petite, brown-eyed, trim little lady, clad in a scarlet LL.D. gown and a rather over-powering black velvet hat. This is Evlyn Fenwick Farris, M.A., LL.D., 1956 edition. In 1923 her own Alma Mater, Acadia, conferred on her the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, in acknowledgement of her contribution to the development of higher education in British Col- umbia. And on May 14th, 1942, our University conferred upon her the same degree. The citation reads in part as follows: “You have. long since grown accustomed, Mr. Chancellor, to conferring degrees on Dr. Farris’ family . . . It is now high time that we offer distinction to Dr. Farris herself. The University of British Col- umbia has been her avocation, quite literally a second lifework. To record her long devotion would almost involve recital of the University’s actual history. We would therefore wish our gratitude to be not unworthy of our debt: ‘Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.’ ”

Evlyn Fenwick Keirstead was born in Windsor, N.S. in 1878, the daughter of Professor E. M. Keirstead of Acadia University. She received her prepara- tory school education in Nova Scotia, and in 1898 graduated from Acadia University with First Class Honours. The next year she was granted her M.A. Degree in Philosophy and Ger- man. The years 1899 to 1905 were spent in Middletown, Connecticut, where she taught History in the High School. She came to the West in 1905 as the bride of a young lawyer, also of the Maritimes, John Wallace de Beque Farris, who had already established a practice in Vancouver.

Realising the need in this young city for a gathering place for women with like intellectual and cultural interests, M.rs. Farris was instrumental in organising the University Women’s Club of Vancouver in 1907, and was elected its first President. The following year, in response to an urgent invitation from the University women of Vic- toria, she bundled up her two babies

-even in those days there were baby- sitter problems - and, with them, journeyed to the capital city. The conference then held resulted in the organisation of a similar club. I n appreciation of her efforts, she was some years later made an honorary life member of the Victoria Club. In 1919, the Canadian Federation of Uni- versity Women was founded, composed of clubs which had sprung up across Canada. Today it is one of the most influential of women’s national organisations.

While serving a three-year term as President of the Vancouver Club, she and the women associated with her worked tirelessly to improve conditions for women and girls, and particularly the laws governing marriage, and property. They also campaigned for a minimum wage act, and for the franchise, and with true feminine attention to detail, for lower steps on street cars! With other forward-look- ing women they established the first Parent-Teacher Association. The dual programme of self-improvement and public service established by herself and the other founders of the Uni- versity Women’s Club, has been a continuing tradition in that Club, which now has a membership of over 500 and is the second largest in Canada.

Sweet Girl Graduate.

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Photo by Marlow Dr. Evlyn Farris photographed with her hus-

receiving the Honorap Degree of LL.D. in band, Senator J. W. de 6. Farris, LL.D., after

1942.

But her liveliest interest, and ultimately her greatest contribution has been in the field of higher education. A s early as 1899 a beginning had been made in British Columbia, when Van- couver High School affiliated with McGill University, with the right to give one year in Arts. In 1906 a Board of Governors was named to administer this institution of higher learning under the name, “McGill University College of British Columbia.” Two years in Arts and two years in Applied Science were offered.

In 1908 a new University Act was passed, establishing and incorporating the University of British Columbia. This infant institution was still without students, and had not too many friends, particularly in government circles. But it did have a nucleus of interested graduates of other Uni- versities who banded together as a Convocation to implement the Uni- versity Act of 1908, further consolidated in 1912.

I t was in the critical year of 1912 that Mrs. Farris was elected to the Senate of this nebulous University, wh‘ch was not to become a reality, with students and buildings, and degree-granting powers until 1915. In 1917 she was asked to serve on the Board of Governors as well, and for thirty years she worked tirelessly for adequate financial support from the Government, for high scholastic standards. for adequate accommodation, and for a greater degree of public interest.

Realising that the girls of the Prov- ince, and their parents, were largely unaware of the opportunities opening for women in the new University, she addressed groups of girls in schools and groups of parents. So effective was her propaganda that nne U B.C. Graduate at least recalls many


thoughts from an address given by Mrs. ]?arris in King Edward High School in 1915-and her clothes!--a pzrfectly ravishing suit of apricot- colored taffeta!

Reading of the great work being done by certain British Universit’es for the adult population, she worked with members of the University Faculty to establish University Ex- tension Lectures. Speakers were sent to all parts of the Province, thus extending the cultural influence of the University, and its field of servi.:e. From this small heginning has grown the present University Department of Extension with its many and varied courses and services.

While Dr. Farris was devoting so much time to the educational needs of the Pmvince, she was equally busy :IS

th2 wii’e of one of Vancouver’s leading bsrristers and as the mother of four vigorous children-three sons and one daughter. It is rarely wise to claim a record but one might be safe in asserting that, in one field at least, the Farris family has established one. The only daughter Katherine, Mrs. C. Y. Robson, and the sons Donald F.. Ralph K. and John L. are all graduates of the University of B.C. Wallace Mich:tel Robson, a grandson, is also a graduate, and three grand-daughters a1.e now undergraduates. It is rumoured that little Susan Rachel Robson, the great grand-daughter, also plans to register in ano1;her 15 years!

And last but not least, her understanding partner through all these years--Senator J. W. de B. Far l is , Q.C.-was granted an LL.D. from the University of B.C. in 1938. Whate\.er may he true in other Universities, their’s is the first “husband and wif’o” team t 3 be so honoured by our Senate.

And, indeed, i t is as a wife and as a Mother that Dr. Evlyn is at her best. After 50 years of marriage she says with a warm smile, “I have only been able to do what I have done because Wallace has always supported ~ n c with his interest, his strength and his counsel-we have been together in everything. Particularly during his term a13 Attorney-General (1917-192:?), when t;he infant University still had all tocl few friends in governmental and other circles, did I appreciate the firm and effective stand he took in the Cabinet.” And when asked for her philosophy in raising children and keepin,q close to them in their maturity, she said, “I always planned to he home when they needed me, and now that they are grown I try not to interfere, but to give them support and kindness.”

And this, in a rather scattered and discursive vein, is the profile of one of the Founders of our University. Today, a gracious and alert 78, she goes hher unhurried. serene and pur- posefu.1 way, a charming hostess and a helpful companion to her husband,

an understanding and devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to her large family circle. and a useful example to all women of privilege. From her they can learn how to use their training and carry their 7,esponsi- bilities in the larger society, and also in the smaller world of thei.r homes.

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Directory of Alumni Contacts

Abbotsford-A. B. Thompson, B.Ed.‘47, Drawer 280.

Brit ish Guiana-A. W. Bell, B.A.’51, 106 La- maha St., Georgetown.

British West Indies-D. R. Dunfee. LL.B.‘49, Box 199, Port-of-Spam, Trinidad.

Chemainus-Gordon Brand, B.Com.’36, Vlctoria Lumber Co. Ltd.

Chilfiwack-Mrs. Connie Barber, B.4.’37, 525 Williams St. North.

Corvallis-la!n McSwan, B.S.A.’42, Botany and Plant Pathology Dept., Oregon State College.

Cranbrook-L. G. Trustcott, B.A.’4I, Mount Baker Junior-Senior Hlgh School.

Dawson Creek-Robert R. Dodd. B.A.’49, Car- michael & Dodd, P.0. Box 2185.

Duncan-”R. P. Dewar, B.Com.’49, P.O. Box 413.

Fernie-Ken N. Stewart, B.A.’32, The Park. Fort St. John-Lorne Downey, Principal, H lgh

Grand Forks-Hugh Sutherland, 6.14 ‘52, Box

Haiti-James W. Lee, B.A.Sc.‘47, M.A.Sc.’49,

Hammond-Malcolm M. Brown, 8 A.’39, 2413

Israel-A. H. Goldberg, B.A ‘48, 4 Safad St.,

Kamloops-Miss 6. D‘rwson, B A.’41), 120 St.

Kitimat-Richard Gosm, Box 280, Station A. Ladysmith-Dr. D. B. Quayle, 6.A ‘3:7, M.A.’38,

Provincial Shell-Fish Laboratory. Lethbridge-Murray M. Wigglns, B.S.A.’48,

P.R.F.A., Vauxhall. London, U.K.-Lt. Col H. F. E. Smith, Brltlsh

Columbla House, 1-3 Regent St., S.W.1. Malaya-W. F. Baehr, B.S.A.‘49, 1 Hampshtre

Drive, Kuala Lumpur. Mari t ime Provinces--Miss Norah Dowlin3,

B.A.’53, Assistant Librarlan, Publlc Llbrary, Truro, N.S.

Medicine Hat-Richard F. Gaffney, B.Com.’47,

Michigan-Dr. Lionel H. Laing, 6..4.‘34, 301 Box 251.

Minnesota-E. Robt. M . Yerburgh, B.A.‘31, Michigan Union, Ann Arbor.

Missouri-John G. MacDermot, B.A.Sc.’39, M.A.‘40, B.Ed.’46, Shattuck School, Farlbault.

Natal, Michel and Sparwood, B.C.-Mwris 1700 South Second St., Saint Louis 4.

Duncan, B.A.’40, Princlpal. Junlor-Senlor

Nelson-Leo Ganser, B A,, 6 Com.’35, B3x 490. High School, Natal.

New York-Miss Rosemary Brough, B.A.’47,

North Carolina-Dr. Paul H. Clyde, Dlrector Apt. 4L. 214 East 51st St.

o f the Summer Session, Duke University, Durham.

Osovoos-Mrs. Dorothy Fraser, B.A.‘32, R.R.I. Powell River-J. A . Lundie, B A.‘24, Public

Peterborough, 0nt.-N. L. Carlson, B.A.Sc.’51, Relations Manager, Powell River C:o. Ltd.

Pennsylvania-Dr. F. Wells Brason, B.A.‘40, Pathologist and Director of Labs., Harrisburg

QuesneCE. W. Hall, B.A.Sc.’38, Dlstrict En- Hospital, Harrlsburg

gineer, Dept. of Pub l~c Works.

Terrace-John C. Lawrance, B.A.‘32. Box 787. Revelstoke-A. W. Lundell.

Tucson, Arizona-Prof-sor Arthur H B-a’tle,

Vernon-Mrs. D. R. Cameron, 3001 41 Ave. B.A.‘28, M.A.’31, 125 5. lrvlno Ave. (121.

Williams Lake-Mrs. C. D. Stevenson, B.A.’27,

School.

279.

P.O. Box 296, Port-au-Prince.

Powerline Rd., R.R. No. 1 .

Haifa.

Paul St. W.

Winnipeg-Mrs. D. R. Wallace, 3G, 495 Lan- Box 303.

ark St. (9).

New Courses

Courtesy Meyers 5ruatos William G. Black, B.A.’ZZ, M.A., Ph.D. (Chi- cago), Chairman Senate Committee on Religious

Studies.

RELIGION AND HIGHER EDUCATION Section 99 of the University Act

states that “The University shall be strictly non-sectarian in principle, and no religious creed or dogma shall be taught.” This is similar to provisions with the same intent found in the legislation which brought into being the great majority of the provincial and state tax-supported universities of Canada and the United States. Careful study of the early debates on the controversial subject of the place of religious courses in such universities reveals that the educators and legislators of the founding period were concerned, not so much with the exclusion of religious studies as such, as they were with the fear that the universities might become sectarian and biased.

The history of our higher education in North America shows that these legislative provisions were on the whole successful in preventing sectarianism, but that, owing to exces- sive fear on the part of university authorities and the public, they led to exclusion of large bodies of knowledge of vital importance for students for their complete understanding of human behaviour and institutions, namely, the knowledge of the great religions of mankind, and especially of Christianity, the religion of para- mount significance in European and American history. The increasing ignorance of religious Literature and History shown by large numbers of college graduates finally awakened many colleges to the gravity of the situation and led them to experiment during the past fifty years with a variety of educational plans, which, while still ensuring safeguards against sectarianism, provided credit or non- credit courses dealing with religions and mainly, for obviour, reasons, with Christianity and Judaism.

Religiouj Studies By William G. Black, B.A.‘ZZ, M.A., Ph.D., (Chicago)

THE IOWA PLAN Perhaps the most successful of all

these schemes was the School of Religion, instituted a t the State Uni- versity of Iowa in 1925 as a result of the joint representations of Protes- tan t ,Catholic, and Jewish leaders. This School, which has been in continuous operation since its founding, provides a number of optional credit- carrying courses in religious studies. These courses are given by professors who, though nominated by the cooperating faiths, must be approved and appointed by the University. The Director and Staff are appointed and the administrative costs are paid by the University. Among the reasons for the long record of success at Iowa are, (1) the stress placed upon object- ivity and high scholarship; (2) the concentration upon the imparting of knowledge in hitherto neglected areas of human experience; (3 ) the refrain- ing from the use of the courses to make converts, and (4 ) the fine spirit of co-operation between representatives of the three faiths. U.B.C. ALUMNI TAKE INITIATIVE

In the June 1952 issue of the U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, the Editor, Mr. Ormonde Hall, outlined the “Iowa Ran” and presented certain reasons for the establishment at our own University of a “school of religion that would make available courses taught with conviction, but taught fairly, honestly. and without indoctrination.” In the autumn of 1952 the writer was asked by the Board of Management of the Alumni Association t o select a committee to study the matter. This Committee, consisting of Miss Mary. MacDougall, Father M. J. Oliver, The Rev. R. C. S. Ripley, Dr. L. W. Shemilt, Dr. John Grant, Mr. Joseph Brown, Mr. Leon Tessler, Dr. M. W. Steinberg, and myself, met frequently during the year, and, after consider- ing courses of studv and reports from various Canadian, British. and Ameri- can universities, reached the following conclusions: 1. That is would be desirable to make provision for courses in religious instruction at the University of British Columbia, these courses to cover fields such as, the history, literature, lan- guages, philosophy, theology, ethics, and contemporary problems of Chris- tianity and Judaism; 2. That they should be given by instructors appointed by the University, and also

approved by the respective com- munions paying their salaries, whether Catholic, Protestant, or other; 3. That the courses be given University credit; 4. That sufficient courses be made available to enable the student t o obtain up to a “minor” in the field of Religion; 5. That the cost of salaries for the professors or instructors be borne, in the main, by the Com- munions nominating such professors, whether Catholic, Protestant, or other; 6. That the administration be as simple as possible; 7. That the organisation be either a separate Dppartment or an “Institute”, to be directed by a Chair- man and by a Board, representing the major cooperating religious bodies. RECOMMENDATIONS SENT TO PRESIDENT

In 1954 these tentative recommendations were circulated to the Board of Management of the Alumni Associa- tion and also to the Past Presidents. Then at two subsequent special meetings they were discussed at some length, approved, and sent to the Pre- sident of the University for his consideration. Not only the Alumni Past Presidents, and the Alumni Board, but also the successive Presidents under whom our Committee served,-Mr. Gordon Letson, Mr. Douglas McDon- ald, Mr. Dudley Darling, and Mr. Peter Sharp,-gave constant support t o the work of the Committee. Noticeable throughout the discussion was the sub- stantial unanimity of purpose and

Ormonde J . Hall, B. Com.’42, LL.B.’48, Editor U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, 1946-1953.

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spirit of Committee members, regard- less of diversity of faith, and the strong endorsations received from the members of the Alumni Board representing the various faculties-Arts, Agriculture, Applied Science, Law, etc.

In the fall of 1954 the writer was asked by President MacKenzie to chair a Committee of the Senate on “Reli- gious Studies.” This Committee, originally consisting of Dean Andrew, Miss Mary Fallis, Professor Soward, Dr. William Gibson, the Hon. Mr. Justice Arthur Lord and myself, was extended to include Father Henry Carr, Mr. Dudley Darling, Rabbi Kogen, Professor Logan, Father Oliver, Rev. Principal Taylor and Rev. Principal Woodhouse. After a preliminary study of the recommendations of the Alumni Committee, three sub-committees were chosen to bring in recommendations concerning (a) proposed courses of study, (b) opin- ions on the legality of such courses under the “University Act”, and (c) administration and costs. The legal sub-committee, under Mr. Justice Lord, received a ruling from the University Solicitors which concluded as follows: “In our opinion, on the basis of the above cases, a generalised approach to religion is not in error under our Statute, hut the teaching of any such subject should not be carried out in such a manner as to indoctrinate, or inculcate into the mind of the student, any particular religious creed or dogma as above defined.” The administration and costs sub-committee, under Mr. Dudley Darling, concurred in the generally-expressed views that full control over all such courses should be exercised by the University, and that the lecturers should be appointed by the University. The curriculum sub-committee, under R o f e s - sor Logan, drew up outlines of three courses, mainly in the fields of Church History and Philosophy, which could, if approved, be given even for the year 1955-56. The general propos- als of this Senate Committee, which differed only on minor issues from those of the Alumni Committees, were circulated to the members of Senate, discussed by Senate on August 26, 1955, and then referred back to the Committee for further consideration in the light of the criticisms received.

At a meeting held on October 3rd, 1955, the Committee agreed upon the following recommendations:

1. That the University make provision for offering to students in the Faculty of Arts and Science the present or alternative optional credit courses in religion given by affiliated theological colleges (as they may be approved by the Faculty of Arts and Science and Senate), these courses to cover fields such as the Literature, History, and Philosophy of Religion. It is understood that such courses would comply with the provisipns of

SENATE COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES

2 1 U.B.C. A L U M N I C H R O N I C L E

the University Act. 2. That steps 1ea.d- ing to the approval of such courses and the appointment of the instructors would follow the normal university procedure. 3. That the existing provisions for theological students be continued, according to which d l students planning to enter theological training may take up to four courses in religion for Arts credit in their Undergraduate years, but that, for other students in the Faculty of Arts and Science, credit be allowed f o r rot more than one 3-unit course in Reli- gion in any one year, and not more than a total of two such courses in their undergraduate years; such ar- rangement to be continued for an experirnental period of five years and to be reviewed after that time. 4. That. the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science be asked to discuss with the Principals of affiliated theological colleges the nature of the courses to be offered.. and then to submit the p ~ o - posed courses to the Faculty of Arts and Science for its approval.

SENATE AND ARTS FACULTY GIVE APPROVAL These latter recommendations were

presented to Senate at its next meeting on October 19th, and were a11 approved. Shortly afterwards. in ac- cordance with Recommendation 4, Dr. Woodhouse, Principal of the Angli- can Theological College, submitted to Dean Chant an outline of a proposed credit course entitled “History of the Christian Church,” designed to ;3e offered at U.B.C. for study in Septern- her 1956. This course was approved by the Faculty of Arts and Science, and placed in the Department .3f History. Other courses in Religion will, no doubt, be submitted in the future, and will have to follow the same procedure if they are to be considered for approval. ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEM

There are certain cognate courses already being given at U.B.C., such as the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, in the Department of r%losoph.y, given by Father Henry Carr, C.S.E., LL.D., and “Literature of the Bible” given in the Department of Engli3.h by Professor Stanley Read. The new courses in religion could likewise he placed under certain departmental auj- pices, or alternatively they could, :ts originally proposed by the Alumni Committee, be placed in a special De- partment or Institute of Religio:1. The designation “College of Religior” as used in Iowa would be too preten- tious for the University of British Columbia. The designation “Institute“ may, to some ears, sound too proletar- ian, to others, too superficial! Perharts a “Department of Religious Studies” could be established, directly under the Deam of Arts and Science, while still leaving in their present Depari;- ments of History, Literature and Philosophy the courses of a natu1.e closely related to these Departments.

SATISFACTION OF ALUMNI Obviously, in a young and growing

University there must be adaptibility, willingness to eo-operate, and a spirit of fair experimentation. The Alumni Association is delighted with the de- cisions of the University Senate. The University’s tradition and position as non-sectarian continues to be safe- guarded. At the same time. as a result of the provision of a limited number of optional credit-carrying courses in Religion, courses which undoubtedly will be of the finest in scholarship, students will be able to explore and enjoy the great field of scholarship in religious studies and satisfy their desire to learn more about what many of us regard as the most important features of our civilisation. +

Athlone Fellowships Awarded

From Left, Standing: T. Michael Harris (Eng.- Phvsics): John Sutherland fChem.l. Philio Hunt. .. ~ ~. U.K. Trade Commissioner‘ at Vancouver; Ken

George E. Crombie, U.K. High Commissioner‘s Smith (Mech.), Peter Harvey (Elec.). Seated:

Office, Ottawa; Dean H. C. Gunning, Applied Science Faculty, U.B.C., and Dr. H. H. Burness,

Ministry of Education, United Kingdom.

The four Senior Engineering students seen here with members of the Athlone Fellowships Selection Com- mittee will spend two years studying in British Universities and Engineer- ing Firms. Their awards, made on February 21, and paid by the U.K. Government, cover, in addition to tu i - tion fees and a subsistence allowance, cost of travel to and from the United Kingdom, and of approved travel

within the U.K.

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Books by Alumni It is hoped, from time to time, to

publish in the Chronicle short reviews of works by U.B.C. graduates. The following are offered as reminders of a fast-growing list of books in widely separate fields of literary endeavour. Congratulations to the Authors and thanks to the Reviewers.

+ Norah Willis Michener, Ph.D.: MARlTAlN ON

THE NATURE OF M A N IN A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY. Editions “L’Eclair”, 138, rue Maisonneuve, Hull, Canada, 1955.

The Author graduated with the Class of Arts ’22 and looks hack with affectionate regard upon her Alma Mater with its “intellectually cosmo- politan atmosphere and rare tolerance in race, religion and colour”. Since graduation Mrs. Michener has lived a full life, most of i t in Toronto. She first studied music at the Royal Con- servatory, and later Aesthetics and F‘hilosophy in the University of To- ronto where, in June 1953, she received the degree of Doctor of Philo- sophy. This work on Maritain is a result of her Ph.D. studies. Dr. Mich- ener’s husband, D. Roland Michener, Q.C., LL.D., a Rhodes Scholar and Canadian Secretary of the Rhodes Trustees, is a Conservative Member of the House of Commons, representing a Toronto constituency. While Mrs. Michener shares her husband’s interest and activity in public affairs, she has given close attention to the varied domestic duties of wife and mother and hostess in her charming Toronto home.

The progress and development of the Author’s thinking, in the light of her wide experience, brought her finally to Maritain who seems to her to have found, for the individual, a helpful answer to the “statist totalitarian

Courtesy Gordon Rice Photography Toronto Norah Willis Michener, B.A.’22, Ph.D. (Toronto]

conception” of human nature. ”The most fundamental and most pressing

question of our time concerns the nature of man . . . Is he merely a glorified animal, whose existence may conveniently be cancelled out at

state? . . . any moment In the service of a totalitarian

”Has man an intellect capable of reaching truth? 1s there in fact any truth to be reached, or must he be content with the utter ’relativity of constantly changing opinion? . . .

”Is there really any such thing as moral right or wrong? Does it make any dtfference to a

and can get away with doing anything he wlshes man-if he possess by chance the ring of Gyges

-what things he may choose t o do?

answers t o these questions. A Frenchman by “Jacques Maritain has produced remarkable

bir th and long residence, a Protestant in up- bringing, and a scientist in his early training, he has become by choice, a philosopher, a Roman Catholic, and a resident of the United States. His philosophy is not just an intellectual elaboration which satisfies only a part of h is being. It is the answer to the quest of his life, to his search for truth on al l levels. . . , The close integration between his life and his work explains, in part, the enormous influence which he has had, both as a writer and as a man . . .

”This book has been written for serious students of philosophy. It presupposes a readlng knowledge of French. Nevertheless, it is my hope that many who have no formal training

French quotations, but who are concerned to in philosophy, or may be unable to read the

find a satisfactory philosophy for democracy,

those chapters on the person-both accessible may yet f ind much of the work-especially

and rewarding.“ (Excerpts from Dr. Michener’s Introduction). +

Earle Birney: DOWN THE LONG TABLE. McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto. . . . ments on his Book.

Flashbacks of the Author with a few com-

I first became acquainted with Earle Birney in the fall of 1926. By undergraduate standards, he was a pretty big man around the University of British Columbia-editor-in-chief of the Ubyssey and therefore, in those days, a member of the Student Council. The conjunction of offices pleased him, for it gave him a foot in what he chose to regard as the enemy’s camp. -he could tilt in the Council meetings against policies and then next morning write slashing editorials to the same end, whereon his senior editors, Sadie Boyles and Bill Murphy, smiled be- nignly while now and then sug- gesting even more blistering invective. At the end of term, Council, bloody with many barbs, gratefullv consented to the ‘reform’ Earle had been working for, and decreed that no editor would henceforth be one of its members.

Earle was arrow-thin and swift of passaqe, upreared more than six feet and tipped with a crest of red-gold curls-Eheu! fugaces-which he was ever shaking impetuously against some folly of the Powers; and he tastefullv valanced them, before sitting to his tvpewriter, with a green eyeshade of the sort then affected by barbers and journalists. Now and .again. in simple joy at the neat turn- ing of a phrase, he would rise and- I repeat, it was the vear 1926-jiggle a few delighted Charleston steps.

Above his thrashing feet, the trouser legs, cu t in the amplest style of Ox- ford, shook and rippled like a flying jib spilling its wind.

I looked up to him with naive trust, for he was a fourth-year English Honours man, deeply read in Chaucer and the curious lore of Cabell, confid- ently tracking his way across the high white snows of truth that gli t tered far above me. That is why, no doubt, when Dr. Sedgewick-the original of Chan- ning in Down the Long Table-set me to cut my teeth on a report for the Arnold seminar, I turned to Earle. Those were indeed days upon Olympus ”but s t i l l I marvel at his casual ease when he instructed me to know that the dialogue in the second part of Tristram and Iseult was ‘not very dramatic’. I was grateful for this opinion, put it in my report, and read it to the Sedgewick ears. I was startled, and even a little frightened, by the result. There was such a foam of histrionic sputtering, such a gasping and high indignant trumpeting, such an elevation and sudden dropping of fierce black brows-and at last the cold in- terrogation: “On whose authority-on whose, pray tell, do you make bold with this extraordinary pronounce- ment ? ”

I looked all round. Earle was making strange gestures of disavowal that I was too rattled to interpret. “Why”, I said, “I suppose it’s Mr. Birney’s authority.” Earle closed his eyes. “Mr. Birney,” sneered Dr. Sedgewick, “Mr. Birney!” He seemed to he very scorn- ful. “And his high authority, heaven help us!” He had laid hold of Mr. Birney’s ear and was tugging it, not too gently. Mr. Birney was meekly wagging his head and grinning in a feeble, silly kind of way.

I think now that Earle was right about Arnold’s dialogue-it is a bit stiff and artificial. Earle has a good ear for dialogue; and while he sat in Sedgewick’s seminars or through eve- nings beside the coal-fire grate in Sedgewick’s book-cluttered living- room, his ear recorded the highly char- acteristic and yet elusive rhythm of the Sedgewick phrase to give it back, after twenty years and more, in Down the Long Table. One never knows what a man is up to. I sat beside Earle in classes for several years, and together we damned Anglo-Saxon declensions, cursed the conjugations, and vilified the elaborate versification. But he truly enjoyed it all, and you can see as much, not only in the jollities of “Anglo-Saxon Street”, but also in the word-play of his prose. So also, when he strayed at leisure “through lost Chaucer’s soft sweet grass”, he learned how to put living men and women on a page. As I say, one never knows what a man is about-and Sedgewick, I guess, would have been amused and pleased to see himself sitting in place “Down the Long Table” and talking


Harold Sumberg, Courtesy Vancouver Province Earle Birnev, B.A.‘26, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto).

wikh the accents that enlivened many a discussion round many a seminar table not too long ago.

Department of English, U.B.C. Edmund Morrison, B.A.‘27, Ph.D. (Calif.)

+ and Faber, London, 1955. 9s . 6d.

This is a slight volume-fifty-six pages in all-but within its covers are thirty-one poems, all finely chiselled, all rich in those qualities that are manifest in true poetry. Basically, the central note is lyrical. From the opening “Invocation” to the concluding “Letter t o Dorothy Bazett,” the writer records his reactions to experiences of a dzzply personal nature-emotions Ppringing from friendship and love, from the observation of a Rembrandt painting or the remembering of an age-old tale. Here are no observations on the contemporary world struggle, no satirical thrustings at the evils that corrupt ou r society, no fearful brood- in on the coming destruction of man through the unleashing of atomic power. Here is no real violence; here, rather, are controlled tenderness and gentleness, which may turn at times t o a brooding, but not a morbid melancholy.

The individual poems leave the im- pression of exquisite craftsmanship rather than of hasty, fiery, passionate composition. The form of each is carefully worked; the language compacted, condensed, and at t imes difficult; each word carefully chosen, with a conscious-or perhaps an unconscious-poe- tic eye to the impact it will carry, to its connotational values. Some of the poems are very demanding; the reader must move slowly and carefully through words and lines lest the essence of the poem pass by unseen and unfelt. In other poems there is a shin- ing clarity that is as surprising as i t is refreshing. Rut in all there is poetry.

It is perhaps unfair to the writer to pick out individual items from this small gathering, but I should like. to do so, if for no other reason than to encourage others to read all these poems. General comments do little


Wilfred Watson: FRIDAY’S CHILD. Faber

for the poet or for his poetry.

brilliantly: The “‘Invocation” opens the volume

Of lost P.eneas, and you did take care of him Appear, 0 mother, was the perpetual cry

Though Dido felt the Iron of your whim. Our shrcuds are sea-rotten; and our keels

Our winded oar is master of our wills. Are rust and weeds; broken is our limb;

0 love, Teach us to love you, that we may Through burning Carthage take our way.

. . . .

I like, too. “The Boy and the Shep- herds,” a profoundly moving Christ- mas poem, which describes the cominK of the “unknowing shepherds” and the kings “bearded in wisdom” to the cradle of Christ:

And the shepherded kings Were amazed at the wit 3 f the woolwound Heart, quicker and surer Than they to follow The cockcrow star . . . To the cradle

And lastly, just four lines from the po&s reactions as he looks in wonder on Rembrandt’s famous painting, “Of Hendrickje as Bathsheba”:

King David’s royal sin before me glows:

Took David‘s eyes in an adultery Behold tlle captain’s wife whose beauty seen

Ignobly .Famous in its perfidy. So much for the poetry. Now just a

word about the poet. Dr. Watson is, of course, known to many Alumni of this University. Not only is he an Mumnus himself, B.A.’43, Ph.D.(Tor.), but he also taught in the Eng1is.q Department for a brief time after the war. He then completed his doctoral studies at the University of Torontc,, and was appointed to the English De- Dsrtment, The University of Alberta. At present he and his wife are in France, Dr. Watson having received. through the Royal Society, a Canadian Government Scholarship for study and creative work abroad. He will return to Edmonton at the beginning of the fall term. .

Stanley E. Read, M.A. (McGill’, Department of English, U.B.C. +

ING IN BIG BUSINESS - A HISTORY OF THE Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy: PIONEER-

STANDARD OIL COMPANY. (New Jersey, 1882- 191 1 ). Harpers, New York, 1956.

M.A. (Clark), Ph.D. (Radcliffe), taught Econo- Muriel I!. Hidy (n6e Waqenhauser), B.A.27,

mics for several years at Wheaton College,

research for a History of the Great Northern Northern Massachusetts. She is now doinq

Rai’way Company. No major business concern in the

United States has been the subject of such detailed study and research, and such intense and prolonged controver- sv, as St.andard Oil. Under the leader- ship of John D. Rockefeller and hi:; associates, it was one of the first in the field of manufacturini to pull many small competing producers together into one combine, and achieve the twin advantages of large-scalt? economy and near-monopoly on a national scale. In order to consolidate its position and streamline its opera-. tions, the Company pioneered in new forms of‘ corporate organisation, not- ablv the “trust” and the “holding companv”.

In the course of climbing to domin--

m c e in the oil-refining industry Stand- a rd Oil aroused widespread opposition. It was the target for frequent and prolonged legal at.tacks by Federal and state bodies, culminating in its dissolution by Court order in 1911. Standard Oil became the by-word for “trust”, and “trust” became syn- onymous in the public mind with a ruthless and grasping monopoly in a period that came to be known as the “muck-raking era.”

It was pxhaps inevitable that the history of a business concern occupy- ing this unique and in some ways un- enviable position would become somewhat distorted. Much of what later proved to be legend continued for many years to be accepted even by reputable historians as fact.

The present volume by Professors Ralph and Muriel Hidy seems to have been motivated by a desire to set the record straight and correct certain erroneous and unfavourable impressions about the early history of Stand- ard Oil. They were financed in their undertaking by the Business History Foundation, a non-profit organisation, the funds for which have been donated by a number of leading corporations, including the present- day Standard Oil of New Jersey. The latter also made available to the authors voluminous correspondence and records of company operations that have never before been published in book form.

The authors have done a prodigious job of historical research. The 800-odd pages are crammed with statistics and other factual data. much of it new, to this reviewer at least. The book is particularly valuable in providing de- tails as to “inside” operations of the concern, including such questions as the relationships of the head office with subsidiaries, and early efforts to work out a “committee system” of management; and its external relations with governments, with domestic and foreign competitors, and with the con- suming public. In general, the authors have done an excellent job of putting together a complex mass of factual data in clear and readable historical sequence.

One feels, however, that they would have done better to have “let the facts speak fer themselves.” The work is marred by what to this reviewer seems almost a compulsion to clear the corporation’s good name. The authors attack numerous critics of Standard Oil in rather p a r t i s a n fashion. One is terms a “gadfly” and “professional litigant”, and another a “self-constituted David t h r o w i n g stones at S. 0. Goliath,” (p.204). Even former P’resident Theodore Roosevelt is pictured primarily as a politician with “an appetite for big game in the industrial field.” (p.677).

Stuart Jamieson, B.A.‘35, M.A. (McGill),

Department of Economics, U.B.C. Ph.D (Calif.)

The cr i ter ion of a successful businessman is not primari ly a knowledge of facts and figures, but the ab i l i ty to analyze a problem and arrive at a logical solution. To do this, the executive consults specialists who can give him the facts and f igures on which he can base an intelligent analysis.

When invest igat ing the complex problems of establishing an estate, may we suggest that you consult the Canada Life representative. A specialist in a highly technical f ield, he can i l lustrate the protect ion and savings features of l ife insurance.

Schedule "A"

R. C. Palmer Memorlal ~ ~~ ~~~~ ~~ $ 641 . I7

Peter Schwerdt Scholarships ~ ~~~~ ~ 1,000.00 A. W. D. (Bil l) Knox Memorial.. ~~ .... 496.00

P. R. Brissenden Bursary-Scholarship ~ 250.00 Paclfic Brewers' Agents-Scholarshlps 5,000.00 lnstltute of Chartered

Accounts-Bursary ~~~~~~~~ ..... ~~~ 100.00 Slmmons & McBride Lectureship 500.00 Kinsmen's Chair o f Neurological

Poliomyelitis) ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .~ . ~ 5,000.00 Research (B.C. Foundation for

Finning Tractor

Peat, Warwick & Mitchel l - Company Scholarshlps ~~~~~~~~~. .. 1,500.00

M.A.C. - Rowing ~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ 24,007.06 Scholarships ~~~~ ~ . . ~ ~ ~ . ...~~ ~ ~ ~ 300.00

Muscular Dystrophy Research Fund

of Canaaa) . . (Muscular Dystrophy Assoclation

~~~. ~ ~ 3,000.00 Nursing-Students' Assistance Fund ~~~ 100.00 World University Servlce ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 439.20 B.C. Foundation for Poliomyelitis ~~ 5,000.00 Dr. W. S. Baird - Faculty of

Soclal Work 25th Anniversary ~~~~~~~~~~~ 61 1.50 Medicine ~ ~. ~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ 50.00

Class of '29 Students Assistance Fund ~~~~~ ~ . ~ .~. ~ ~~ ~ ~ . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Gilbert Tucker Memorial Fund ~~~~~~~ . 50.00 639.71

Class of '55 Memorial Loan Fund ~~~ 1,000.00 Sidney Roofing & Paper Company-

Scholarship ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~.~~ ~ . ~ . ~ ~ ~~~~~ 250.00 York Lectureship ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ . ~~~~ 500.00 U.B.C. Alumna Association Scholarships

(Major Objective) ~. ~. ...... .~ ~~~~ ~~ . 2,500.00

Schedule "B"

Home Management House ~~~.~~~ .. . ~ - ~ $ 820.15 Lcbrary . . ~ . . . . ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .. ~~~~ 75.00 Playing Fields .. ~ . . . . ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ .... 48.00 R. C Palmer Memorial ~~~~~ ..... ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 233.83

Varsity Outdoor Club ~.. ~~~~. . . ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ 193.1 5 A. W. D. (Bill] Knox Memorial ~~~ ........ 1,000.00

Sedgewick Memorial .... .~ ............ 90.00 A. H. Hutchinson Endowment fund^.^^ 5.00

Laura Holland ~~~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~ . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 10.00 F. G. C. Wood theatre^. .~ .~ .~~~~~~~~. . . . . . 105.00

Neurological Research ~ ~ .... ~ ~ ~ ~ . . .. ~~~ 115.00 Dorothy Myers Memorial ~ ~ . ~ . ~ ~ . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . 20.00

Convocation Founders' U.B.C. Lleut. J . D. Hamilton Memorial ~~~~~~~ 32.00

History Fund ~~~~~~ ~~~ ~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~ 528.00 Vlctoria College Library Fund . ~ . ~ . . ~ ~ ~ 3.00 Muscular Dystrophy Research Fund

(Muscular Dystrophy Association

M.A.C. - Equipment"~.~~ ~~.~.......~.~~ ~~~~~ 4.00 of Canada) . . . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . . . ~ ~ . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ 1.152.00

Asian Studies ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~.~~~~~~ ~~~~~ 100.00 Swimming Pool ~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~. . ~ . . 10.00 Engineers' Undergraduate Society -

Furnishing Fund ~~~~~~~~~~ 394.84 U.B.C. Students Co-op. Building

Fund . .. .~ ... ~ .~....~~~.... ~~. 42.00

Medical Students' Loan Fund ~~~~~~~~~~~ 2,170.00 Seattle Alumni Scholarshlp Fund ~ ~~~~~ 106.00

World University Service ~~~~~.~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5.00 Naval Alumni . ~ "" . . ~ .~~~ 10.00 Social Work 25th Anniversary Fund ~ . . 42.00

Schedule "C"

President's Fund ~~~ ~ ~~~~~~ ~~ $ 1 6,91 3.89 Residences - furnishlngs . .~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~. 1 1 9.80 U B.C. Alumni Scholarshtps

(additlonal grant) ~ ~ ~ ..... ~~ . ~ 500.00

Schedule "D"

Western Canada Steel Scholarships ~ ~ 1.000.00 Rebuild the Brock Fund .. . ~ ~ ~ . $ 1,500.00

Dolmage Towing Company Scholarships ~ ~~~~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~~~~~ ~ . . 500.00

NEW RECORDS ACHIEVED BY

U,B,C, DEVELOPMENT FUND

1955 Total Nearly $80,000

ALUMNI GIVING STIMULATES COMMUNITY SUPPORT

The U.B.C. Development Fund added almost $80,000 to University revenue in 1955 from 4,700 donors, thus establishing new records in Alumni and Community support of Higher Education in B.C. 1954 total was $50,000 from approximately 2,900 participants.

An accurate comparison with previous Fund campaigns is difficult, however, because the 1955 report includes several objectives, initiated and supported by the Board of Directors, which are not shown in the audited statement.

Audited total was $76,448.27 as compared with $50,201.20 in 1954. Direct contributors increased from 2,860 in 1954 t o 3 266 in 1955.

Added to these figures, in the Direc- tors' Report, are 1000 new graduates who contributed through a Class Gift and 500 alumni who donated solely to the Re-Build the Brock appeal. An additional $3,000 is also listed by the Directors--$1,500 from Alumni for the Brock and $1,500 for company scholarships promoted by Fund effort. ALUMNI ANNUAL GIVING

As the graphs on Donors and Dona- tions indicate, community support of the Fund has increased over the years in close relationship to the number of Alumni participants. The experience of 1955 furnishes convincing proof of this significant fact: the number of Alumni donors, direct and indirect, increased by over 70% while contributions from community sources increased by aproximately 100%.

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The amount of Alumni contributions increased as well, but not to the same extent, proving once again that the success of the Fund will always be determined by the percentage of Alumni participation rather than by the size of their donations, Alumni money is "seed" money-one dollar

from an Alumnus can be multiplied by one hundred from a "friend".

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COMMUNITY GIVING

The Board of Directors, under the aggressive chairmanship of Aubrey F. Roberts, and with the "ex officio" help of Dr. W. C. Gibson, conducted its most successful appeal to date for community and industry support of the University through the Develop- ment Fund.

Research in neurology, polio, an'd muscular dystrophy, received financial aid by means of special grants frorn organisations and by contributions from many individuals, while Scholar- ship, B-ursary and Loan funds for deserving students were further aug- mented by support from industry and professional groups.

Most notable single objective of th. 1955 campaign was the V.R.C.-U.B.C. Henley Rowing Fund which was organised by a joint committee and which enlisted the support of Alumni, Companies, Organisations and friends throughout Canada and Overseas.

DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS

The schedules below show the disbursement of Funds to the Universit:T in 1955. Schedule "A" lists earmarked donations turned over to the Uni- versity during the h n d year; Sched- ule "B" lists earmarked donations transferred to the University account on February 2, 1956; Schedule "C" lists the Major Objectives and include; earmarked donations and the Trustees' allocation of unassigned donations; and Schedule "D" lists three Object- ives not included in the Fund audited statement. ($1,300 of the fund dis- bursed is made up of 1954 donations).

1956 CAMPAIGN

Appointment of the new Chairman and Board of Directors of the Fund will be confirmed shortly. The 1956 appeal commenced on January 1st and to date over $5,000 has been contributed by Alumni and Friends.

The first notice will be mailed in April, but we hope that many :regular supporters will make their contributions before receiving this reminder.


Alumnae &Alumni (Items of Alumni news are invited in the form of press clipplngs or personal letters. These should reach the Editor, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle, 207 Brock Hall, U.B.C., for the next issue not later than May 1, 1956.)

1917 J. M. Ruchanan, B.A., has been ap-

pointed a Dircctor of The Bank of Canada and elected a Director of The Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company.

Major-General H. F. G. Letson, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., E.D., C.D., B.Sc., Ph.D. (London)’23, LL.D., Adviser to the Chief of Staff on Militia Affairs, returned to Vancouver in early February during an extended tour of militia units in Western Canada where he was making a study of developments since the Reserve Army was reorganised as the Militia in Septem- ber, 1954.

1919

1922 G. W. Bruce Fraser, B.A., has been

appointed Judge,of the New Westmin- ster County Coqt. He fills the post made vacant by the elevation of Mr. Justice Harry J. Sullivan of New Westminster to the Supreme Court of B.C.

1923 Mrs. H. F. Angus (n6e Anne Ander-

son) , B.A., was elected Chairman of the Vancouver School Board for 1956 bv acclamation at the inaugural meeting of the new Board, January 9.

1925 A. E. (Dal) brduer, B.A., B.A.

(Oxon.), Ph.D. (Calif.), President of the B.C. Power Corporation and the B.C. Electric Company, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Domin- ion Bridge Company, Limited, at the Annual General Meeting of the Comp- any in Montreal.

1926 Brig. William Murphy, C.B.E.,

D.S.O., E.D., Q.C., B.A., LL.D., has been macle President of Canadian Western Pipe Mills Limited, P o r t Moody.

1930 S. E. Maddigan, B.A., M.A., F‘h.D.

(Purdue), former Director of the B.C. Research Council, has been appointed Special Assistant to the Director of Metallurgical Research, Kaiser Alum- inum and Chemical Corporation, Oak- land, California.

Geoffrey G. Woodward, B.A., has been appo:nted Secretary, B.C. Power CGrporation and the B.C. Electric Company, Limited, its chief subsidiary.

1931 P. R. Hrissenden, B.A., was elected

President of the Vancouver Bar Asso- ciation at the Annual Meeting, Decem- ber 16, 1955.

1932 Charles J . Armstrong, B.A., Ph.D.

(Harvard), President, Pacific Univers- ity, Forest Grove, Oregon, has been selected as Head of the Oregon Col- lege Foundation-a financial pool for

the benefit of Oregon’s independent Colleges and Universities.

1933 Douglas McK. Brown, B.A., was el-

ected Vice-president of the Vancouver Bar Association at the Annual Meet- ing, December 16, 1955.

G. Neil Perry, B.A., M.P.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard) has been appointed Interim Governor of the State Bank of Ethiopia. Formerly with the B.C. Government Bureau of Economics and Adviser to Premier Hart on Federal- F’rovincial tax matters, he later became Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance with the Federal Government and then joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He originally went to Addis Ababa as Economic Adviser to the Ethiopian Minister of Finance.

G. Gordon Strong, B.Com., B.A.’34, President and General Manager of Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc., was elected President of the Ohio News- paper Association during its Annual Convention in Canton, Ohio.

1934 George F. Jones, B.Com., Librarian

a t Grosse Point, Michigan, U.S.A., has been appointed Librarian of the newly-established Burnaby Municipal Library System. He will return on March 15 to take up his position.

1-5 Walter F. Scott, S.A.Sc., M.A.Sc.36,

was elected President of the Archi- tect’s Division of the University of B.C. Alumni Association at the Annual Dinner Meeting, February 22, 1956.

1937 Philip J. Kitley, l3.A.. M.A.’49 Dir-

ector of B.C. School Radio Broadcasts, has been appointed by Unesco as Ad- viser to the Ceylon State Radio. He will visit schools in Ceylon and help with the instruction of teachers on school broadcast techniques. Prior to his last appointment as Director in 1944, he was a teacher for 16 years

Stephen E. Maddigan, B.A.’30, M.A., Ph.D. (Purdue).

on Vancouvey Island and in the Okan- agan.

1939 Frank Turner, B.A., B.Com., of the

London Life lnsurance Comgany is the new Co-Editor of “The T e a r Sheet”-the official organ of the advertising and Sales Bureau, Vancouver Board of Trade. He recently attended a two-weeks advanced course given by the Company on Estates Analysis, Security Programming and Business Insurance at London, Ontario.

1940 Douglas 0. Durkin, B.A., is the Pre-

sident of the newly-‘formed Company, Durkin and Rader, Incorporated, with headquarters at 53 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. The Company spwialises in industrial public relations and advertising.

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G. Gordon Strong, B.Com.’33, B.A.’34.

1942 C. R. Matheson, B.A.Sc., has been

appointed to the position of Develop- ment Manager with C. D. Shultz Ap- praisal Company, Limited. Mr. Mathe- son is a ragistered Forester.

Marion Murphy, B.A., Dipl. S.W., M.S.W. (N.Y.S.S.W. Columbia), Asso- ciate Secretary of the Family and Child Welfare Division, Canadian Wel- fa re Council, has just completed a Western tour in the capacity of consultant for Family and Child Welfare agencies.

1944 Ed. P. Friesen, B.Com., B.A.’45,

Ph.D. (Columbia), Consulting Psycho- logist with Stevenson and Kellogg, Limited, Vancouver, B.C., has been named President of the B.C. Psycholo- gical Association. This Association serves the interests of all B.C. Psycho- logists and promotes the ethical and scientific werfare of the Psychological profession.

1945 G. Arnold Johnson, B.Com.. has been

appointed Executive Assistant to Dr. H. L. Purdy, Executive Vice-president of B.C. Electric Company, Limited. He is mainly concerned with conver- sion of the manufactured gas system to natural gas.

1946 Kingsley C. Neil, B.Com., has re-

cently purchased the Orchard City Motors in Kelowna. He was for many years Sales Manager of E m p i r e Motors in Vancouver.

1947 Mrs. Cy P. Mark, (n6e Anne Lew),

B.A., B.Com., has been elected to the Executive of the Chinese Benevolent Association, and has the distinction of being the first woman in the history of the 66-year-old Association to be named to the eleven-member Execu- tive.

W. B. Richardson, B.S.A., has been re-elected President of the B.C. Branch, Holstein-Friesian Cattle As- sociation of Canada. Mr. Richardson

is Superintendent of Provincial farms with his headquarters at Colony Farm, Essondale.

1940 Raymond Burdett, B.Com., has been

appointed Credit Manager with Simp- son-Sears’ Nanaimo store. Formerly with the Coca-Cola Company in Van- couver, Mr. Burdett joined Simpson- Sears a year ago last March.

S / L :E. F. Clyde Underwood, B.A. Sc., currently serving at Air Force Headqu.arters as a Construction Eng- ineer, has been promoted to Wing Commander.

1949 Leslie Peterson, LL.B., M.L.A., wa.s

the successful Social Credit candidat.e in the ‘Vancouver Centre by-election, January 9.

Knute Soros, B.A.Sc., former As- sistant City Engineer in New Wes:;- minster, resigned his position to take a new position with the B.C. E1ectri.c Company, March 1.

William Street, B.A., LL.B., is tl-.e newly-elected President of the British Columbia Young Liberal Association.

Hugh Armstrong, B.Com., Business Columnist of the Herald for the last two years, will soon take on his new duties ELS the Herald’s full-time Busi- ness and Financial Editor. For the past five years Mr. Armstrong has been B:usiness Editor of “Western Business and Industry” and “Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry.”

Harolld Elmer Atkinson. B.S.A., has been elected President of B.C. Lumber Survey Limited, a retail dealers’ 01- ganisation.

Flight-Lieutenant Evan G. Cameron, B.A.Sc.,. currently serving with Cana- dian Joint Staff Headquarters, Wash- ington, D.C. has been promoted t o the rank of Squadron Leader.

G. Croydon Neilson, B.A., M.A., who received his Ph.D. in October, 1955, is now with the Defence Research Boarad, Suffield Experimental Station, Ral- ston, Alberta.

1950

1951 William A. Bradshaw, B.A., had the

distinction of winning the silver medal and the E.R.C. Clarkson Prize for scoring the second highest marks :in Canada in the final Chartered Asc- countancy examination.

Geralld Peter Browne, B.A., MA., currently studying at Merton College, Oxford,. has been awarded a $2,000 Scholarship by the Provincial Chapter of the I.0.D.E.

W. Biruce Hutchison, LL.D., Editor of the Victoria Daily Times, has r e - ceived .the Royal Society of Canada’s Lorne Pierce medal for distinguished contributions to Canadian Literature.

H. Colin Slim, B.A., M.A. (Har- vard), former Conductor of the U.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, has been alp- pointed Conductor of the Concord Orchestra, Concord, Mass. In addition to being the holder of the Naum- burg Scholarship in Music, he holds a Harvard Corporation appointment

Courtesy Vancouver Province

as a Teaching Fellow and is instruct- ing there in the First Year Music Course, while working towards his E;’h.D.

John R. M. Szogyen, B.A.!3c., has been appointed Assistant M:anager, Rotating Equipment Engineering, with the English Electric Company of Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario.

Leslie R. Peterson, LL.B.’49, M.L.A.

1952 T. F. Foote, B.A., has been appoint-

ed to a new position with D. Shultz Appraisal Company, Limited, and will now supervise and co-ordinate appraisal programmes. He has had experience in the insurance valuation, land valuation and assessment fields.

Selwyn P. Fox, B.A.Sc., h,as been awarded the Canadian Lumberman’s Association Timber Research Fellow- ship of $1,250. Mr. Fox is in his second year of post-graduate studies at the University of Toronto leading to the Degree of Master of Applied Science.

Joseph Tobin, M.S.W., for the past two years with the California Depart- ment of Mental Hygiene, has been appointed by the California Depart- ment of Correction to work at San Quentin Prison as a Senior Sociolo- gist.

Bruce Hutchiron, LL.D. Courtesy Vancouver Province


1953 Douglas Jung, B.A., LL.B.’54, Con-

servative candidate in the Vancouver Centre by-election in January last, established a precedent as being the first Chinese Canadian to enter political life in Canada.

1951 Frank S. Death, B.A.Sc., is the win-

ner of the B.C. Association of Profes- sional Engineers Gold Medal.

+ Biologists Meet in

East Lansing At the meetings of the American

Institute of Biological Science, held at the University of Michigan, East Lan- sing, September, 1955, seventeen members of the University of British Co- lumbia Convocation were present and papers were read in nearly all cases. ‘The graduates contacted Professor Emeritus A. H. Hutchinson of the De- partment of Biology and Botany, U.B.C., and a luncheon was held. The following is a list of the names, degrees and major research interests, together with the subjects of papers submitted.

Barr, Margaret, M.A.’52, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mycology-“Moulds from Western America”.

Beamish, I. Kathleen, M.S.A.’51, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wiscon- sin, Madison. Genetics-“Incompati- bility” ( 2 papers).

Bendel, Jas., B.A.(Tor.), Ph.D.’54. Now at Department of Biology, Queen’s, Kingston. Wild Life Studies.

Butler, Leonard, F’h.D.(Tor.). Now at Department of Zoology, University of Toronto. Genetics - “Linked Genes”.

Caldecott, R. S., B.S.A.’46, Ph.D. (Wash. State). Now with the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Genetics-“Induced Mutations. Radiant Energy”.

Cameron, William J., B.A.’49, Ph.D. (Cal.). Now at California State, Riverside. Genetics-“Supplementary Carbohydrate Controlling Genes”.

Cameron, Wm. M., B.A.’33, M.A. ’40, Ph.D.(Cal.). Now at Defense Re- search Board, Ottawa. Oceanography -“Cause of Currents”.

Cowie, Lillian, M.A.’51, Ph.D. candidate, Queen’s. Now at Department of Biology, Queen’s, Kingston. Plant Physiology-“Synthesis of C1-“Lab- elled Sugars”.

Davidson. J. F., M.A.’40, Ph.D. (Cal.). Now, Associate F’rofessor of Botany, University of Nebraska. Syn- thesis of Plant Groups-“Evolution”.

Grierson - Jackson, Wm., B.S.A. (Tor.), Ph.D. (Cornell). Formerly of the Department of Biology and Bot- any, U.B.C. Now with the Citrous Experimental Station, Lake Alfred, Florida. Fruit Preservation.

Katznelson, H., B.S.A.’34, Ph.D. (Rutgers). Now Chief, Department of Bacteriology ,Agricultural Science Service, Ottawa - “Antibiotics and Diseases of Bees”.

Knott. Douglas R., B.S.A.’48, Ph.D. (Wisconsin). Now with the Depart- ment of Agronomy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Teaching Genetics.

McRae, Donald H., M.A.’50, Ph.D. (Cal.). Now Chief of Division of Plant Growth (Commercial), F’hiladelphia.

Lewis, W. H., B.A.’51, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia - “Species and Hybrids of Roses”.

Nilan, R. A., M.S.A.’48, Ph.D. (Wis- consin). Now at the State College of Washington, Pullman. Genetics-“Ra- diation Effects on Cytology of Barley”.

Taylor, J. Wm., B.S.A.’47, M A . (Cal.). Now at Le Grand, California (Commercial). Pomology - “Growth of Peach Embryos”.

Contributed by Dr. A. H. Hutchin- son, Professor Emeritus, Depart- ment of Biology and Botany, U.B.C.

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The Faculty Dean Henry F.

A n g u s , B . A . , B.C.L., M . A . , LL.D., F.R.S.C., of the Faculty of Gra- duate Studies and Head of the De- partment of Econo- mics and Political Science, is retiring from his univers- Henry F. Angus, B.A.,

B.O.L(~McGiII), M,A.

of June. D e a n F.R.S.C. ity posts at the end (Oxon.), LL.D.(McGill),

Angus joined the staff of U.B.C. as As- sistant Professor of Economics in 1919 and since that time has served in many important capacities. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Dom- inion-Provincial Relations from 1937 to 1940, Special Assistant to the Secre- ta ry of State for External Affairs from 1941 to 1945 and a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation from 1949 to 1951. In June last Dean Angus was appointed Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission.

Dr. Gordon M. Shrum, O.B.E., M.M., E.D., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), F.R.S.C., Professor and Head of the Depart- ment of Physics, has been m a d e Chairman of three separate Commit- tees,-Executive, Advisory and Tech- nical,-appointed to supervise the University’s Fraser River Hydro and Fisheries Research Project. This project, made possible by a $50.000 grant from the R.C. Power Corporation, will endeavor to find an answer to the problem of generating power on the Fraser without damaging the multi- million-dollar salmon run.

Dean Myron M.

Myron M. Weaver. Dr. Weaver W h 0 has served as Dean

for seven years, will remain a teaching member of the Staff in Medicine. He came t o U.B.C. from the University of Minnesota in 1949, where his work as an administrator, both in education and research, qualified him for the dificult task of organising U.B.C.’s Medical Faculty.

In announcing Dr. Weaver’s resignation, President MacKenzie said, “Dr. Weaver has made an unusually fine contribution to the Medical Faculty, to the University, and to the community, in difficult and demanding cir- cumstances.”

Dr. Eric A. Anderson, Head, Depart- ment of Wood Technology, State Uni- versity of New York, College of


Forestry, has been appointed as Spe- cial Lecturer in the Faculty of For- estry for the period, February, March and April, 1956. Dr. Anderson is tk.e author of several publications in tke field of silvicultural relations, and h a had wide experience in teaching and research.

Ralph W. Baldner, A.B. (Miami), M.A. (Vanderbilt), Instructor, Depar-;- ment of French, who will be giving the Italian courses in the newly- created Department of Romance Stud- ies next; year, has recently completed a series of lectures on “Art, Music and Letters of Italian Renaissance” delivered this winter at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the University.

Lawrence L. Hongie, B.A.’50, Doc- teur de 1’Universite de Paris, is taking this yea.r off from his teaching dutim in the Department of Romance Studies to devote his time exclusively to research in the Bibliotheque Nationale a t Paris. He expects ultimately to publish a critical edition of the works of Jean Bernard Merian which should be an important contribution to the history of philosophy in general, and in particular to the history of French thought in the 18th century.

Paris Constantinides, M.D. (Viec- na) , Ph.D. (Montreal), Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy. and his U.B.C. Research Team, have found a way to arrest hardening of the arteries in rabbits with natural and synthetic chemicals called sulfon- ated polysaccharides.

The next step of this investiga- tion will be a thorough study of the poisonous side-affects of these com- pounds, and of ways of eliminating them. This stage of research could take several years, but it is an essential preliminary before the substances can be tried in humans.

John J. Deutsch, B.Com. (Queen’s) ’35, Federal Assistant Deputy Minis- te r of Finance, has been appointed t 3

succeed Dean Henry F. Angus as Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Deutsch has held several key economic posts in Canada including Re- search Assistant in the Department of Economic Research of the Bank of Canada, Special Wartime Assistant tO the Under-Secretary of State for Ex- ternal flffairs, and Secretary to the Royal Commission on Administrative Classification in the Public Service.

Dr. Kenneth A. Evelyn, B.Sc. (&IC- Gill), MLD., C.M. (McGill), F.R.C.F. (C), Research Professor ( Part-Time), Department of Medicine, and Director of the B.C. Medical Research Institute, has received a grant of $8,478 from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada to undertake a research project entitled “Assay of Enzymes of Human Skeletal Muscle”.

Dr. W. Leonard Grant, B.A.’36, A.M. (Harv.), Ph.D. (Tor.), Professor, De- partment of Classics, recently attended the annual New York meetings at

Columbia University of the Renais- sance Society of America, of whose National Council he is a member. While in New York he also attended the annual meeting of the Biblio- graphical Society of America held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In May he will deliver a paper on “Ren- aissance Latin Lyric Poetry in Italy” at the Pacific Northwest Branch of the R.S.A., during sessions to be held at the University of Oregon.

Margaret A. Kennard, A.B. (Bryn Mawr), M.D. (Corncll), Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Research, has been appointed Direc- tor of Mental Health Research for the State of Washington, with labora- tories at Western State Hospital, Seattle, effective April 1. Nmot long ago, Dr. Kennard was elected Presi- dent of the Western Institute of Epi- lepsy which will meet in Vancouver, September 6, 1956.

Professor E. D. MacPhee, M.M.. ALA., B.Ed. (Edinburgh), Director of the School of Commerce, Hugh C. Wilkinson, B.Com., Assistant Profes- sor, School of Commerce and .John J. Deutsch, newly-appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Eco- nomics and Political Science, were among the instructors at the 5th An- nual Banff School of Advanced Man- agement. The course is designed to meet the needs of business firlils who wish to train executives for r6les of greater responsibility.

Mrs. H. E. Penney, B.A. (Toronto), A.M. (Texas State C o l l e g e f o r Women), Associate Professor, School of Physical Education, has hecome the first Canadian President-Elect of the Western Society for Physical Educa- tion of College Women. The Society includes University and College teachers of Physical Education from Mon- tana, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, and British Columbia.

Professor H. Rocke Robertson, B.Sc., M.D. (McGill), F.R.C.S. ( E d i n .), F.R.C.S.(C), F.A.C.S., Professor and Head of Department of Surgery and Actlng Dean of the Faculty of Medi- cine ,was paid the outstanding honour of being appointed Visiting Surgeon- in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. In ‘connection with this appointment he gave a series of lectures on February 20-26.

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SPORTS SUMMARY - Close Games in the Hamber Cup Series

'Birds Lose to C-Fun in Basketball Finals

World Cup Rugby, March 22 and 24

by R. J. (Bus) Phillips, Athletic Director

FOOTBALL

U n i v e r s i t y of

Thunderbirds in-the Sir Winston 4th Annual Church- Churchill Trophv.

ill Cup game at U.B.C. Stadlum. Arrangements were completed recently when the Canadian Paraplegic Association made the Sir Winston Churchill Trophy available, and the financial problems were ironed out. Net proceeds from the game will go into a fund to aid the handicapped. University of Western Ontario accepted the invitation after McGill had announced that they were completely scheduled during the p r e - s e a s o n period. Plans also call for a composite mile relay team from Eastern Univers- ities to accompany the football squad, to take part in a half-time race against the U.B.C. team. Last year the football game with McGill ended in a scoreless tie, while our track team won a convincing relay victory.

GRASS HOCKEY

The University grass hockey teams have taken over first and second place in the Greater Vancouver Grass Hock- ey League. Coach Dr. Malcolm Mc- Gregor has done a tremendous job with the teams, and there never has been a greater on-campus interest in the sport.

BASKETBALL

Being a door-mat for other Ever- green Conference Teams has not been easy for Coach Jack Pomfret to take, year after year. However, the situation has changed and Jack is enjoying one of the most successful seasons in U.B.C.'s basketball history. Holding down 4th place in the 7-team league, the Thunderbirds have won 7 Confer- ence games, 5 more victories than any previous U.B.C. team. This has been accomplished with a young, inexperi- enced squad, filled with spirit and the

John McLeod and Herby Forward, Thunderbird Basketball Trusties, graduate this year.

desire to win. Twice named All-Con- ference forward, John McLeod has been a tremendous factor in the team's success. His 41 point effort against Central Washington tied the conference record. This will be John's gratl- uating year. The 1956 Thunderbirds have displayed a fast-breaking. crowtl- pleasing brand of basketball and w.e are confident they will make a very creditable showing in the B.C. Olymplc Playdowns.

There will be four B.C. teams involved - Alberni (1955 Canadian Champions), Eilers, C-Fun and U.B.C. A round-robin series starting on Fell- ruary 1'7, and continuing on successi1.e weekends, until March 3, decided the B.C. Amateur Basketball Champ- ionship. U.B.C. lost the finals to C-Fun in a total score, two-game series, 120-113. Seven players from the winning team, plus five others to tle selected from the other three, will form the B.C. Representative Team.

The Canadian Olympic Basketball Championship Tournament will take place a t t h e U.B.C. War Memorial Gymnae,ium on March 23. 24, 26, 27 and 28; The following Zones will he represented:

( a ) ELritish Columbia (b) Alberta (c) Ontario (d) Saskatchewan - Manitoba; Mon-

treal - Ottawa. (These two a.reas will play off before the tournament).

This will be the greatest basketball jamboree ever held in Canada. We are hopeful that some of the Thunderbirds will be chosen for the B.C. side.

Tickets will be on sale at Hicks Ticket Bureau and at the Universi1.y Athletic Office. Reservations may be made at the University r ight up to the date of the Tournament.

RUGBY

Vancouver and University p1ayir.g fields were hit hard by the unseasonal cold snap in November, with the result that rugby and soccer games were cancelled week after week. The Miller Cup schedule has not been completed, and may have to be dropped in favour of the McKechnie matches.

In spite of the long lay-off the Thunderbird team was ready for annual series with the University of California (March 3 and 5 at Berkeley and March 22 and 24 at U.B.C.), and their game against U.C.L.A. on March 31st. L,ast year California won the World Cup by a single point, in the thrilling four-game series. U.C.L.A. will play 3 games in Vancouver, o n March 30, 31 and April 2. They will field a big, fas t team of football play-

ers, including two or three All-Ameri- cans. The schedule has not yet been announced, but the Thunderbirds will probably play on March 31.

Berkeley won both games, March 3 and 5, with scores of 15-0 and 11-9, and so enters the two home games against the 'Birds, March 22 and 24, with a lead of 26-9.

SOCCER U.B.C.'s soccer

team has undisput- ed control of first place in the Main- land Senior Soccer League, h a v i n g won 12 st raight games in regular league play. In addition they are en- ~

tering the t h i r d John Fledrickson.

ince Cup competi- Captalin. tion.

This is one of the strongest teams we have had in years. We are trying to arrange a series of games in the San Francisco area against university or club teams.

round Of the Prov- ThunderbirJd Soccer

ICE HOCKEY I understand that an ice rink is

included in the long range plans for the University; until this facility is provided I do not believe we shall be able to compete in ice hockey on equal terms with other universities. During the current season our Thunderbird team has practised at 11 - 12 p.m., twice weekly, and played a limited schedule of exhibition games against local commercial league competition. This situation makes it exceedingly difficult for the coach, Dr. Bruce Mac- Kay, to prepare the team for a series against Denver University and Colo- rado College, and the annual Hamber Cup series against the University of Alberta. I do not think we should enter these competitions again until we can practise and play under more favourable conditions.

This year the Hamber Cup Series was played in Powell River on March 2 and 3, so as not to conflict with the B.C. Olympic Basketball Flay- downs. The pulp and paper town has a beautiful new arena, and hockey has become the leading spectator sport. We are indebted to the many 1Jnivers- ity supporters there who co-operated to make the series a success. The visitors won the two-game, total-score series in the second game in over-time. the 'Birds having won the first game with a score of 5 to 4. The final score was Alberta 8, U.B.C. 7.

Since 1950, when the competition was inaugurated, the series has alter- nated between Edmonton and Vancou- ver. The Golden Bears have won 5 of the six contests. +

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The ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ t of ~ ~ ~ h ~ ~ i ~ ~ l ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ate, who did not receive a questionnalre, were sent out a questionnaire during the summer to to write in and request One. graduates of the Department asking for their oplnion of the courses offered by the Depart- GRADUATE STUDENTS IN FORESTRY

gineering and also for suggestions of material ment In the l lght of actual experience in en- The Faculty of Forestry is attract- whlch they would have liked to see covered. The ing Graduate from Over

response to the questionnaire was excellent; the world. Registered this year are: well over 80% of those receivmg the question- K. Maezawa. JaDan: Kuo-Cheng Shen, nalre returned answers, which in many cases

and comment. Thls opportunity is taken to also included a personal letter of suggestions

thank those who replied, for their interest in the work of the Department and for their valuable comments. After the data have been analyzed I t is hoped that a full report of the results will be presented. It was not possible

Free China ‘(Taiwan); G. K. Elliott; Wales; J. K. Spiers, New Zealand; William Hancock, Ontario (and Bri- tish Columbia) ; Claus Ren6 Hacker and Dicter Mueller-Dombois, Ger- many; and R. Stettler, Switzerland.

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Two U.B.C. graduates are included in eleven Canadian Defense Research Board scientists who will go to Aus- tralia this year to participate in Brit- ain’s fourth series of atomic tests. They are: J. T. Flynn, B.Sc.(Alta.), M.A.Sc.’51, Ph.D. and J. T. Sample, B.A.’48, M.A., Ph.D.

LECTURES ON NUCLEAR POWER

A series of nine lectures on Nuclear Engineering was given on the Campus in January and February under the auspices of the Faculty of Applied Science, the University of British Co- lumbia, in co-operation with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. The lectures were designed to provide an introduction to the engineering problems that arise in the industrial development of nuclear power.

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CAMPUS NEWS AND VIEWS BY GORDON ARMSTRONG

BROCK HALL EXTENSION Final plans have been approved for

the $300,000 extension to Brock Hall. The new wing will include a smaller dance lounge, new Alumni offices, barber shop and college shop as well as accommodation for twenty-five student clubs. A games area is planned for the basement with ping-pong and bil- liard tables. Construction will start this summer. BROCK HALL ART COLLECTION

A collection of Canadian Art for Brock Hall has been started with the purchase of "Northern Image", an abstract by the noted Canadian artist Lawren Harris, one of the Group of Seven. It is hoped that with time and prudent buying a collection will be established that will rival that in the University of Toronto's Hart House.

This year's Student Council recently granted five hundred dollars to the art fund, and plans to ask the student body to vote an annual grant to the Collection.

NEW A.M.S. PRESIDENT

New President of the Alma Mater Society is first year Law student Don Jabour. Don served on the Student Council d u r i n g 1954-55 and organised the campus Pep Club. A I S o

to the 1956- Don Jabour. A.M.S. 57 Council on the President. first two election slates have been Allan Thackray (Law I), Treasurer; Peggy Andreen (Med. 11), Secretary; Robin Scott (Eng. 111), Undergradu- ate Societies Chairman; Tom Tonybee (Com. 11), President, Men's Athletics; Charlotte Warren (Corn. 11), Presi- dent, Women's Athletics; Lynda Gates (Arts 111), President, Women's Under- graduate Society; Kathy Archibald (Arts 11), First Member-at-Large. The new Council takes office on March 15.

With a programme of exchange scholarships, seminars and foreign aid throughout the democratic world, the World University Service Committee has been one of the most active organisations on the Campus. Working with a budget of six thousand dollars, W.U.S. is at present sponsoring five foreign students at U.B.C., while four U.B.C. students are studying in other par ts of the world. Chairman Peter Krosby states that the scholarship programme of the U.B.C. committee is the most ambitious in Canada, and adds that he is now negotiating for a Communist student to study a t U.B.C. next year.

Each summer the W.U.S. national organisation arranges a study tour and seminar in a foreign country. Last

WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Tentative Plans by University Architects showing Extension to Brock Memorial Hall.

year the tour was held in Japan and this year is scheduled for German:?. Attending the seminar from U.B.C. will be Larry Rotenberg and Kathy Archibald, both Arts undergraduate:;.

After eight years as business marl- ager of the Alma Mater Society, Mr. H. B. lIaunsell will retire on May :I, 1956. The Student Council will honcr him at a dinner a t the Faculty Club later this month.

Mr. Maunsell was hired to stabiliee the A.M.S. finances in 1948 after the Society acquired an eight thousand dollar deficit. He has established a business office that handles efficiently the student budget of over $200,000 each year. Mr. Maunsell's successor will be Mr. Ewing MacDonald, recenb ly Executive Director of the B.C. Cancer Society. TRAFFIC SAFETY WEEK

A display by the City Police Moto1,- cycle Drill Team and a driving competition in the Armoury highlighted a T r a f f i c Safety Week held on the campus February 3 - 10 by the Intel,- Fraternity Council.

University R.C.M.P. reported that the rush of traffic crowding the Malls and Boulevardes every morning and evening is unequalled anywhere in the city, and added that twenty-six ace.- dents each involving damage of over one hundred dollars occured on the campus last year.

To impress the students with the need to be safety conscious, I.F.C. dis- tributed "Let's Be Partners in Safety" bumper cards and presented best and worst driver awards at a monster pep rally starring Miss Chicago of 1955. A mock accident on the Main Mall vivid.- ly demonstrated the danger of careless driving. HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE

U.B.C. will hold its ninth annual High School Conference this March. Begun in 1948 as a Teacher Training project, the first Conference gathered together fifty-two students f r o m Lower Mainland schools. It has now grown into a two-day meeting draw- ing delegates from High S c h o 0 1 s throughout the province.

H. B. MIUNSELL RETIRES

The undergraduate committee planning and sponsoring the event is headed this year by second year Pre- Med student and former H.S.C. dele- gate, Dave Manson. Every H i g h School in B.C. and the Yukon is invited to send two representatives to the Conference. Information is the key- note of the gathering, and sample lectures, guided tours and addresses by Faculty, students and special speakers are arranged to tell the delegates as much as possible about the university and its facilities.

The High School Conference has been praised by members of the Uni- versity Administration, the B.C. Par- ent-Teacher Federation and the Prov- incial Government as an important link between the High Schools and the University. GRADUATING CLASS EXECUTIVE

Head of the 1956 Graduating Class is Commerce student B r u c e Williams. Other members of the executive are Ken Fawcus, Law; Ken Smith, Engin- eering; Joan Mc- Ivor. Home Econ- omics; and Lillian President, Graduating Marshall, Nursing. Class.

Bruce Williams,

ODDS AND ENDS - this winter's Mardi Gras was the biggest financlal success in its six- teen-year history: co-ordinators Martin Chess and Dorothy Bowell estlmated that over three thousand dollars would be turned over to the Muscular Dystrophy Association - highlight of a recent pep meet was A.M.S. President Ron Bray's "Love and Marriage" duet wtth C.B.C. singer Lorraine McAllister - for the second year in succession a U.B.C. student has won

Canadian University Students Art Competition: first place in the National Federation of

Bill McLuckie, third year Arts student, main- tained U.B.C.'s supremacy with his abstract oil painting "Visual Melody" - the Publications Board has announced plans to issue a Campus humour magazine, "Pique", this spring - the Ubyssey was the only English college paper to rank in the top three in both general and editorial excellence in the Canadian University Press Competitions - plans for the May conference of the Pacific Student Presidents' As- sociation at U.B.C. are being completed: the four-day affair will see more than two hundred delegates visit Vancouver.


MARRIAGES BAXTER-DALBY. James Cl i f ford Baxter to

Virginia Catherine Dalby, B.S.P.‘55. BERGER-CROSBY. Thomas Rodney Berger, B.A.

‘55. t o Beverley Ann Crosby. CAMPBELL-COCHRANE. Maurice R o b e r t s

Campbell, B.A.’51, t o Jean Margaret Coch-

CARSON-MILNE. Patrick James Carson, B.A. rane, B.A.’51, B.S.W.’52.

CAVE-SEYMOUR. George Derry Cave, B.A.’51, ’49, M.D.‘55, to Ruth Margaret Milne.

DYE-McCAWLEY. William Dye to Iris Beth M.D.‘55, to Judlth Egeton Seymour.

EDWARDS-MORROW. Dr. Allan Manning Ed- McCawley, B.A.’51.

wards, F.R.C.P., t o Lorraine Eileen Morrow, B.A.‘54, in Chilliwack.

ELLIOTT-PEARSON. Gerald Elliott, B.P.E.‘55, to Mary Jean Pearson, B.P.E.’55.

ENGLISH-MARCHESE. Donald Alexander Cooke English, B.A.Sc.‘SO, to Irene Josephine Mar- chese. B.A.’52.

FILBERG-FOLEY. Robert McCormack Filherg, B.Com.’47, to Marie Scanlon Foley, in Tho-

FORD-BROOKES. Lyman D. Ford, B.A.Sc.’54, t o masvllle, Georgia.

Beatrice Brookes. GARDOM-MACKENZIE. Gardy Basil Gardom,

B.A., LL.B.‘49, t o Thesesa Helen Eileen Mac-

GORDON-JACKSON. Roth G. Gordon, B.A.31, kenzle.

HAMILTON-PIERCE. Claude Ead Hamilton, M.A.35, to Elsie Mary Louise Jackson.

’50. LL.B.‘50, to Marian Buchanan Pierce, B.A.

HANNA-WILSON. Michael Ross Hanna, B.S.A. ‘52, M.SA.’55, to Mary Joan Wilson.

HARA-LEITERMAN. Elmer Hiroshi Hara tc Alison Catherine Leitman, B.A.’55.

HEILBRON-ASHBY. Herman Julius Heilbron, B.A.’53, to Jacqueline (Jackie) Ellen Ashby.

HINDMARCH-WILSON. Robert George Hlnd- march, B.P.E.’52, t o Florence Jean Wilson.

INGLIS-GIBSON. William L. Inglls, B.A.Sc.’34, t o Joan Ellzabeth Gibson.

LYNDS-CRANDALL. Lawrence Ralph Lynds,

MacRAE-HART. Ronald Douglas MacRae, B.S.F. B.A.‘51, t o Pegi Anne Crandall.

‘55. t o Jovce Lillian Hart. I McNlSH-CRANE. James A. McNish, B.A.Sc.’54,

OLDFIN-BIRKINSHAW, John Gerard Oldfin, to to Diana Mary Crane, In London, Englard.

Beverley LOIS Anne Birkinshaw, B.A.‘54. PIERCY-McKEE. Richard Arthur Piercy, B.A.’54.

PLETCHER-GROOTENBOER. James Henry Plet- to Dsrothy Irene McKee, B.A.’51.

cher, B.A.Sc.’55, t o Engellna Catharina

RILEY-GILLESPIE. Donald N. Riley, B.S.A.’53, Grootenboer, In Medicine Hat, Alberta.

t o Sheila Gillespie, B.S.A.’54, in Kamloops. ROSS-IVERSON. Kenneth Cameron Ross, B.A.

’39, M P.H. (Calif.), to Mildred Iverson. SAUNDERS-McDONALD. Peter Paul Saunders,

B.Com.’48, t o Nancy Louise McDonald. SMITH-ALLMAN. Geoffrey Oswald Smtth, t o

Mary Beatrice Allman, B.H.E.’47. SOLLOWAY-STEVENSON. John Francis Sollo-

way, B.S.F.‘49, to Mary Anne Stevenson. THOMPSON-BANKS. Thomas Daryl Thompson,

B.Com.’47, to Jean Kathleen Banks. WEBB-FRANKSEN. John Ki’burn Webb, t o

Eleanor Pau’ine Franksen, B.H.E.’54.

Orma Jean Waller, in Victoria. WHITTOME-WAKELYN. James Lawrence Whit-

tome, B.A.’51, LL.B.‘54, to Phyllis Gertrude

WIENS-POWELL, Capt. Edwin Wlens to Doro- Wakelyn, in Victoria.

thea Hamilton Powell, B.A.’49, B.S.W.’50, in Ottawa.

WIGHT-JOHNSTON. John Wight to Marjorie Edna Johnston, B.A.’48.

I

! WEBB-WALLER. Robert Webb, B.A.’52, t o

@bitunriPs DEATH OF U.B.C. PIONEERS

Tne fol.owing Convocation Founders have passed away recently:

WM. G. BASKIN, B.A.I. (U.N.B.), o f Pen- ticton, in January.

E. W. HAZELWOOD, Phm.6. (Tor.), of Trail. REV. JOHN WESLEY MILLER, B.A. (Tor.),

cember 28, 1955 in Vancouver. B.D. (Victoria Univ.)’l 1, M.A. (Tor.1‘15, De-

STUART STANLEY McDIARMID, B.Sc. (Queen’s), January 18, in Vancouver.

(Toronto), October 13, 1955. REV. CANON GEORGE H. WILSON, B.A.

Donald C. Buckland

DONALD CHANNING BUCKLAND

morning of February 15 after a short illness. Dr. Donald C. Buckland passed away on the

HIS loss is mourned by many friends, colleagues, students, and former students, and by the many organisations in which he was active.

their lives almost overwhelming dlf f icult ies that It is the lot of few men to face throughout

would defeat lesser men, and by overcoming them, to attain greatness and dignity. Donald Channlng Buckland was one of these - a brilliant, inquiring mind in a frail body, - cheerful, optimistic, and courageous in the face of constant affliction. Even when blind- ness struck in 1951 he did not falter; rather, he increased the tempo of his activities and refused to be handicapped. His supreme cour- age and his will to serve wil l be long re- membered by all who knew him.

Dr. Buckland was born in New Zealand 38 years ago, came to British Columbia as a child, and was educated in Vancouver. He recelved his B.A. in 1941 and B.S.F. In 1942 from U.B.C., his M.F. from Yale in 1943, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1945. Most of his adult l i fe was spent on research into diseases of forest trees and, in 1947, he became Officer

Pathology, Science Service o f Canada. Dr. in Charge of the Victoria Laboratory of Forest

Buckland came to the University in 1948 when the Powell River Company established a chalr o f Forest Patho!ogy. In all of his positions he served with distinctlon and complete devotlon.

try, and to the science o f forest pathology and He contrlbuted much to the profession o f fores-

he gave unstintingly of his tlme and energy to the Boy Scouts, to the Inst i tute for the Blmd, and to the Canadian Institute of Forestry. He served as Director of the Inst i tute for the Blind and as President of the Vancouver Sec- tion, Canadian Institute of Forestry.

Dr. Buckland’s activlties have beneflted

b u t w ~ l l live on to inspire others for whom many. He and his work will not be forgotten

despair. l i fe presents difficulties and moments of

God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform.

Kirstine, B.A.Sc.(Nurs.1’45, 4195 West Six- Dr. Buckland is survived by his wife, Jean

teenth; two daughters, Elizabeth and Dorothy; a son, Davld; his Mother, Mrs. Gertrude N. Buckland, Vancouver; three brothers, Dr. F. C. Buckland, B.A.Sc.’31, MSc., Ph.D. (McGIII), Vancouver; Al f red C. Buckland, B.A.Sc.’36, West Vancouver; and J. A. C. Buckland, B.A. Sc.‘43, M.A.Sc.‘47, Ph.D., Anacortes, Washing- ton, and two sisters, Mrs. F. s. Cresswell (n6e Elizabeth Channing Buckland), B.A.31, B.Ed.

Alaska. ’46, Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. F.H.B. Richards in

G.S.A.

Rochester, New York, on March 26, 1955, after DORIS JESSIE FULTON, B.A.’22, died in

a brief illness. Doris taught school in Vancouver for a number of years after graduating, then went east t o Rochester where she took employ- ment as Secretary to one of the Supermtendents a t Eastman Kodak Co. A t t h e t l m e o f her death she had just recelved her 25-year Service Medal. She had many Interests and hobbies, including golf, skating and photography. Dur- ing and slnce the War she gave voluntary

She a:so travelled widely In the US. and nursing help in the County Home at week-ends.

Canada. Doris is survtved in Rochester by her sister, Ruth, B.A.’18, M.A.’19, whose husband,

employed by the Eastman Kodak Company as Dr. John Russell, B.A.’17, Ph.D. (McGIII), is

Asslstant Head of the Laboratorles’ Chemical Divlslon.

DR. LAURA HOLLAND, C B.E., LL.D., dled January 15 in Vlctorla, after a long and distingulshed hfe of servlce In Social Welfare wo:k In Canada. Dr. Holland served as a nurse wlth the Canadian Army Medlcal Corps durlng World War I and as Dlrector of Soclal Welfare

Manager o f the (‘hlldren’s A id Society In Van- in Toronto from 1923-27. While she was

cower, 1927-31, her Board lnltiated the present system o f foster homes. She subse- quently held several posts In the Provincial Department of Welfare before retlring in 1945 as Adviser to t he Minister. She was 72.

Victoria, B.C., dled January 24, In Vlctoria. A t CYRIL JONES, B.A.Sc.‘23, Clty Engineer,

U.B.C. he was an active member of the Rowing Club. Following graduation he was for three years an Assistant in the U.B.C. Physics

wood College and a Surveyor, Mr. Jones had Department. A former Science Master at Brent-

been for many years with Vlctorla’r Clty Engln- eering Department. He is survlved by hls widow of 425 St. Charles St.; a son, Peter, in Vancouver; two daughters, Mrs. Pamela Stone. in Nanaimo, and a second in England.

28, 1955. Since his graduation In Mechanical JOHN MARTIN, B.A.Sc.‘50, dled November

dlan Car and Foundry Limited, Montreal. He Englneerlng, Mr. Martln had been wlth Cana-

IS survived by his wife, Annette; a son, Jamie; three daughters, Katherlne, Susan, and Mar- garet Ann of Vancouver; a brother, Galt, o f 1764 Alllson Road, and a slster, M r s J. W. C. Barclay, Sidney, B.C. He was 33.

DON MOORE, B.P.E.‘50, passed away sudden- ly September 28, 1955. Graduatlng in 1939

wlth the Flsherman’s Reserve and the Royal f rom Klng Edward Hlgh School, Don served

Canadlan Navy in World War II. A ”Big

Gymnastics and served on the Paclfic North- Block” winner at U.B.(’, he excelled in

West Gymnastlc Team during the years 1947- 49. Upon graduation, he taught at Trail High School and South Burnaby H igh School. Don

and teaching assoclates and his death is fe l t was hlghly respected by his fellow-students

to be a real loss to the teachlng profession.

daughter, Colleen, of 2871 West 4th; his He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, and

Mother, Meryl Moore of Vancouver; three brothers, Bill of Ottawa, John and Richard of Vancouver and one slstcr, Pat, of Brltannla Beach.

PAUL D. MURPHY, B.A.’29, died February 9. Admit ted to the Bar In 1932, Mr. Murphy was one of three lawyer-sons of Mr. Justlce Denis Murphy of the Supreme Court of B.C. He had been recently associated in legal

survived by a brother, Brig. Wl l l iam Murphy, practice wl th Mr. Dudley McGeer. He is

B.A.’26, LL.D.45, Q.C., two sisters, Mrs. M. McFaydn of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. John H. (Sallee) Creighton, B.A.‘23, M.A. (Tor.). o f Vancouver; two daughters, Denise and Beverley and his Mother, Mrs. Denis Murphy. He was 48.

FRANCIS MIDFORTH PAINTER, B.A.’25, died January 14, 1956, at the age of 55. A popular S6clal Studies Teacher at K ing Edward High School since 1933 and prior to tha t w i th Magee High School from 1929-33, Mr . Painter IS survived by his sister, Emily Painter of 3640 West Fourth and two brothers, Edward and Joseph, both of Campbell River, B.C.


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