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The U n i v e r s i t y has receiv- .d a gift of $100,000 from Senator Hartland deM. Mol- ;on and his brother Thomas, 2nd the Molson companies of Western Canada, to assist in ;he construction of a w i n t e r ;ports center.

Plans for the sports center are now being prepared by Thomp- son, Berwick and Pratt, Univer- sity architects. Dean W. A. Mat- thews, chairman of the UBC com- mittee dealing with the architects, said it was hoped construction would begin in April.

The offering of three new d e g r e e s in the faculty of grad- uate s t u d i e s has been approv- ed by the University of Brit- i s h Columbia Senate, Presi- dent N. A. M. MacKenzie has a n n o u n c e d .

Beginning in the next academic year the department of geography will offer a program leading to the doctor of pllilosophy I P1i.D. degree. the faculty of lair. will offer the master 01’ laws rLL.M.1 degree and the department of psychiatry will institute a pro- gram leading to the master of science X S c . I in psychiatry.

DEAN ANDREW TO HEAD CUF Dean Geoffrey C. Andrew,

UBC’s deputy president, has re- signed to become executive di- rector of the Canadian Univer- sities Foundation and the Na- tional Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges in Ottawa.

Dean Andrew, who came to UBC in 1947, takes up his new position March 1. The CUF is the organization which distri- butes federal aid to Canadian universities and colleges. T h e federal government announced in February that it was raising its per capita grant to univer- sities from $1.50 to $2. The grant is based on the popula- tion of each province.

Dean Andrew came to UBC after service with the Canadian government. H e is a graduate of Dalhousie and ,Oxford Uni- versities.

UBC TO TRAIN DENTISTS

The provincial government announced January 25 in the speech from the Throne in the legislature that funds would be provided for the establishment of a faculty of dentistry at the University of British Columbia.

The Throne speech also indi- cated that there would be an increased operating grant for the University in the coming fiscal year.

Dr. John B. Macdonald, presi- dent-designate of UBC, said it was “gratifying, though not un- expected, to learn that the gov- ernment of British Columbia is recognizing the growth of high- er education in the province through an increase in funds to the University.”

H e added: “I was pleased, too, to learn that the long- standjng need to establish a faculty of dentistry will be met through provision of special funds for this purpose.”

PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE Dr. John B. Macdonald visited the University of B r i t i s h Columbia late in January to confer with President N. A. M. MacKenzie, members of the board o f governors, and other University officials. President MacKenzie (left, above) was on hand to greet Dr. Macdonald at Vancouver International airport. Dr. MacKenzie will retire 4Julv 1.

LIBRARIAN‘S ANNUAL REPORT

Dol lar Devaluat ion HamDer ina L ibrary

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Dean Matthews said the center would be complete in December if construction got underway in April.

The center will cost a total of F500,OOo. The students of UBC have pledged $250,000 toward the cost of construction and the Uni- versity will provide a similar amount.

The building will contain a hockey rink measuring 195 by 85 Eeet and will have seating ac- commodation for 1500 persons. The center will also include eight sheets of ice for curling, dressing rooms and a coffee shop.

The center .will be constructed in the vicinity of the War Mern- orial gymnasium.

Dr. J. L. Robinson, head of geo- graphy department. said UBC h~ould be the first ~ e s t e r n Cana- dian university to offer the P1i.D degree i n geoqaphv.

IVTork u i l l bc> offered in three specialized areas - the geograph\ of western Canada with emphasiz on B.C. and systematic and eco. nomic gcography.

Dcan G. F. Curtis. head of the faculty of law, said that as par1 of the program leading to the LL.31.. studcnts would have t h e opportunity of specializing ir three areas - natural resources law. international legal studie?:

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when its resources attract schol- ars from other institutions.

Funds available to the library for the purchase of books held pretty well static, the report states, and more input is regu- larly needed to produce the same output in a period of constantly rising book prices.

Turning to the matter of staff, Dr. Rothstein says beginning pro- fessional salaries, once as good as any in Canada, have fallen be- hind those of Alberta and Toron- to. The UBC library has never been able to fill its complement of professional positions and four were vacant in the past year.

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says, “is that we are now paying

the UBC library reached 500,000 liblarian Dr. Sam Rothstein. Despite this the book stock at bia‘s library, according to acting

ported books.” the University of British Colum- almost ten per cent more for im-

Rothstein this ob- volumes in the past year, the re-

ser1:ation in the annual report of port states. A total of 37.556 vol-

the LTBC librarian Univer- umes were added to the library

sit) senate. collection during the year ending August 31, 1961, as compared to

an advantage of about five per 1 These increases WJarrant no cent i n the purchase of books j smugness, ~ r , ~ ~ t h s t e i n writes, outside Canada. he says. With the ~ and the UBC library will be truly deValUatioIl Of the dollar, pur- adequate only when it provides in Chasers now at a disadvantage large measure the materials need- of 11earlY five Per cent, he says. ed for advanced study by its own

“The net result,” Dr. Rothstein ~ faculty, and distinguished only

Canadian libraries once enjoyed 32,951 in the preceding year,

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TRAPPED 10,088 YEARS AGO

B.C. Lake Yields 0 l .d Sea landlocked as the W a t e r result of a fair-1 near Quesncl. which has a re- Salt \later trapped nearly 10.000

smells like rotten eggs. graphy who carried out the ob- lake by scjentists of the Institute phide, a very poisonous gas which tist:j a t Ithe Institute of Oceano- a land-locked British Columbia natural gas, and hydrogen SUI- a chemist, and one of three scien- years ago has been discovered in which is the chief component of according to Dr. Peter Williams,

.’ of Oceanography at the Univer- ser1;ations. Associated with Dr. Williams in sity of B.C. The salt water begins about 400 the Powell Lake work was Dr.

The ancient sea w a t e r was

ice which helped scour out the the bottom of the lake as the Coast about 80 nliles north of was covered with a vast sheet of depth but is only haif as salty at paper mill town on Canada’s west ago the area around Powell Lake centration of salt increases with near Powell River, a pulp and who says that some 13,000 years lakc, D ~ , williams says, ~h~ con- found in a basin of Powell Lake, William Mathews, a geologist, feci: below the surface of tile

Vancouver. water in the Strait of Georgia lake’s basin. Discovery of the trapped sea lesz; a mile away, When the ice sheet retreated,

water confirms EL theory that salt water flowed into the Powell Powell Lake was once an inlet of N O M A R I N E L I F E Lake basin to a depth of at least the sea and was cut off when the The sea water was trapped 200 feet above the present sea land rose thousands of years ago somewhere between 7300 and 12,- level. The scientists know the

,, after the disappearance of an ice 250 years ago, according to Dr. water rose to this height because sheet several thousands of feet Williams. It contains no oxygen the fossil remains of sea organ- thick. and: no lish or marine life other isms have been found at this

The salt water is the oldest than bacteria could live in it. height on surrounding mountains. trapped sea \r.ater yet discovered. The water contains methane, Powell Lake gradually became

ly common geological phenome- feet and Adams Lake, near Sal- non, according to Dr. Mathews. corded depth of more than 1,300

est sounding in PO\vell Lake was weight, actually up again feet has been recorded. The deep- the land. reIieve(l of an immense mon Arm, \\‘here a depth of 1,200 When the ice sllcet retreated,

until it attained its present height 1,180 feet. above the sea. The scientists became interest-

D E E P L A K E ed in Powell Lake as the result of reports by a Norwegian ocean-

The scientists think that even- ographer who found salt water at tually the salt water in Powell the bottom of two Scandinavian Lake will mix with fresh water lakes. The existence of such lakes and disappear. When this will in B.C. had been previously pre- happen they cannot predict sinre dicted by Dr. N. M. Carter, now the rate of mixing cannot be an official of the federal depart- determined. ment of fisheries in Ottawa.

As a sidelight to these investi- The third scientist involved in gations the scientists have found

was Dr. George Pickard, director that Powell Lake is one of the the Powell Lake investigations

graphy. The others are Quesnel Lake, of UBC’s Institute of Oceano- deepest lakes in the province.

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U.B.C. REPQRTS FACULTY ACTIVITIES V O L U M E 5. No. 1 J A N U A R Y - FEBRUARY, 1362

JAMES A. BANHAM. editor LAREE SPRAY HEIDE, assistant I President Attends VANCoUVER *! B - c l

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in cash. Published by thr University of British Columbia and distributed free of charge to friends

reprinted freely. and gradllates of thc LTniversity. Permission is granted for the material appearing herein to be PRESIDENT N. A. M. MacKENZIE attended recent

meetings of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement

PRESIDENT‘S CBC BROADCAST of Teazhing and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associa- tion in New York City. He is the only Canadian member of the boards of trustees of both organizations.

With DEAN GEOFFREY C. ANDREW he attended meetings of the National Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges i n . Ottawa and Canada Council sessions.

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This year m y report on the work and welfare of the University of British Colum- bia will understandabl?. be sw1ewhat differ- ent from those that I have given in the past, this because of m y o\\ ‘n decision to retire next July, the Board’s announcement of the appointment of m y successor, and the excit- ing election of a new C;x~ncellor and chair- man of our Board, the first time in the history of universties, I believe, that a woman has occupied both these offices.

About the University itself: this year our enrolment has gone up from 11,621 to 13,049. This has made more acute the problems of space, of staff and o f nloney that we have been wrestling xvith ever since 1944. In my own opinion, we have just about reached the end of our tether and unless more money and more buildings are forthcom- ing, and that imnlediately, lye will have to deny admission to this University to many of the sons and daughters o f this Province who, in normal circumstances. would be entitled to and should have n university education.

If this policy of linlited enrolment be- comes necessary. \ve will, ot course, deal with it in the approved and customary man- ner of raising our admission standards so high that only a limited percentage of our young people will be able to gain admission. There are those who vie\\- this as good and wise, but it does in fact mean, if endorsed, that far fewer of o ~ ~ r young people will benefit from higher education than their opposite numbers in the United States or in the U.S.S.R. and, because of the nature of our society, it will also probably mean that we. will perpetuate the process of ac- cepting the role o f helvers of wood and drawers of water for our friends and neigh- bours to the south.

If the money lvere actually not avail- able in our society I would be prepared to accept this state o f afTairs, though I would continue to fight against it. However, I do know that we in Canada and in British Columbia can find money for almost any- thing and everything provided it is either “practical”, e.g. highways or power develop- ment, or “popular”. e.g. cigarettes, liquor, e:xtertainment, or e\’en cosmetics.

However, we do have a good University and an unusually fine body of young men and women from every corner of this prov- ince, from every province in Canada, and from sixty or seventy countries across the world. This, of course. is as it should be for a parochial university that limits either staff or enrolment to its own sons and daughters is a poor and dull affair and is not worthy of the title “university.”

However, I told you at the outset that this address was to be solnewhat different because of +he unusual circumstances in which we at the University find ourselves, and so for the rest of my talk I would like to say this:

I t is difficult to give up the kind of life that has occupied all my attention and all my energies over the last forty years, but the moment comes for every’ man-no mat- ter how energetic he nlay still feel-when he should turn over his work and his dreams to others.

The passing years bring changes in everything, and certainly in the life of a university, in the people who teach in its classroom and laboratories, and in the sub- ject matter they offer to the young genera- tion. A university is the image of the society it leads and serves, and the changing pat- terns of social, political, and cultural life are reflected directly in its teaching. We know that month by month and year by year, new methods, new ideas, new tech- niques are being added at a n amazing rate to man’s treasury of knowledge. In the last quarter century, great energizing ideas have

come fronl scientists across the world, ideas During a visit to the Atlantic seaboard, President MacKenzie which have changed all our lives, and which 1 attended opening ceremonies of the new campus of Memorial Uni- can-if put to proper use-feed the hungry, ’ 1.ersity in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and visited Prince of Wales cure the sick, and usher in the long reign 1 College, Prince Edward Island, where he delivered the annual of peace. Put to wrong and improper uses, Robertson lecture. these same ideas can bring upon the world ~

the dark night of silence, misery and despair. BERNARD R. BLISHEN, assistant professor in the department And So these are anxious and unsettled o f anthropology and sociology has been appointed research director

days-daW for Young men and women who ~ for the Royal Commission on health services established by the fed- are energetic, vigorous and wise, and who1 eral government, can give expression of our aspirations to- i Mr. Blishen has been granted leave of absence to head the re- wards the Colnlnon good, can meet the 1 search staff of the commission which will investigate and report on threat of incursion dangerous existing facilities and future needs of health services in Canada. and can lend direction to a world in search * * * of solutions to its problems. PROF. RALPH D. JAMES, head of the mathematics department,

It is the Of a university to interpret 1 has been elected president of the Canadian Mathematical Congress. to each succeeding generation not O n l y the 1 [)tiler members of the department on the council of the congress are

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present, and a vision of what might one day be. The University of British Columbia has now reached a critical stage in its develop- 1 C. B. BOURNE of the law faculty has been appointed president merit, for it is at the point of becoming one ~ o f the Canadian branch of the International Law Association. of the great places of learning in the world. * * * It had a vigorous, robust, exciting youth. D R . V L A D l M l R K R A J I N A , department of biology and botany, when a handful of men endowed with re- i i on leave of absence and in Honolulu as visiting professor of plant markable foresight and a sense of mission’ ecology and taxonomy at the University of Hawaii. assisted at its birth in 1915 and brought it t + +

spirit Of the past, but the image PROFESSORS DOUGLAS DERRY and BEN N. MOYLS. * * *

with difficulty through the lean yeak of war and depression. The University came of age immediately following the Second World War with the returning veterans, for it grew suddenly to young manhood: and in the manner of ail young men it was a little awkward and a little ill-at-ease, but nevertheless full of fierce imaginaticn and

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D R . H. L . STEIN and W I L F R E D H. A U L D of the faculty of education arc co-authors of a nen- textbook entitled “Guidance” \!.hich has been accepted as the standard text for guidance courses in B.C. schools. The volume is published by W. J. Gage Ltd. Dr. Stein has been invited to chair a section on educational research at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Associa- tion which meets in February in Atlantic City. New Jersey.

splendid courage. It has now c o m e to its middle years, wiser, 1 hope, and more, W. G . HISLOP, associate professor of civil engineering. was one mature and richer in experience. ~ of tw.0 Canadian and 18 American professors to receive Fellowships

1 have bee11 privileged to &are directly f rom the Portland Cement Association to the graduate school a t in these last tlyo stages of its groxvth over purdue. The courses offered were i n concrete teclmologg, highway eighteen years, and I foresee a most excit- clconomics and planning and pavement design. ing future for the University of British * * * Colunlbia. Higher Once the’ HAROLD V . L IVERMORE, associate professor of Spanish, has privilege Of the feiv. ‘’lust and be ex- received ;I Gulbenkian Foundation grant of $5,420 to spend a year tended to every .. young citizen ” who has the ~ Portugal,

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. . desire tor self-creation and the capabilities to achieve it; and no force, short of the Bomb, can stop that forward march. If to a single young Canadian of this high level of intelligence we deny the right to trans- form himself by association with good men, good minds, and good ideas; if from a single young Canadian we take the excitement and exhilaration of discovering the beautiful things of this life; if we refuse him the pos- sibility of exploring the mysteries of the physical and spiritual universe, then we have failed in our responsibilities and in some way made one life less productive, less wholesome, less worthwhile. Where the emotional and mental satisfaction of human beings is involved, none of us can give anything less than the best of self-our maximum energy, our maximum attention. In all this world there is nothing more im- portant to any man than to assist the young to remake themselves and the world in which they live.

During my years at the University of British Columbia I have participated di- rectly and I hope with some success in such a process. At the same time. I have drawn from my xvork the deepest kind of pleasure and personal satisfaction. But no man accomplishes worthy goals without a debt to others, and I come to the end, of my presidency as a debtor.

Over the last eighteen years, thousands of persons in this province have assisted me in a great adventure: the building of a major University. And here I am speaking not only of the staff and students at West Point Grey but also of men and women every- where across British Columbia, and across Canada too, who have encouraged me, whc have helped me, who have urged me on. 1 wish it were possible to pay tribute to each of them fully and in turn.

But, since universities are concerned primarily with the training of young mer and women, it is natural that I should think

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* * * DR. W. C. GIBSON, Kinsmen professor of neurological research,

las been elected an associate member of the Physiological Society ,f Great Britain. * * *

DR. H. PETER OBERLANDER, associate professor in charge of mmmunity and regional planning, has been appointed by the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration for a short term mis- sion to the government of Trinidad and Tobago. He will advise through the town and regional planning division in the prime min- ister’s office on the establishment of an appropriate planning organ- ization. -4 $220.000.000 development program has been set up by the government. * * *

D R . M A X H O W E L L , school of physical education and reerea- tion, has been named president-elect of the physical education pro- fessional organization, the Canadian Association for Health. Physical Education and Recreation, at a convention in Hamilton. Ontario.

* * * W. A. G. VOSS, assistant professor in the department of elec-

trical engineering, has been granted the degree of Pl1.D. by the University of London. The degree of Ed.D. has been granted to D O N A L D C. HAMBLETON, assistant professor in education, by Teachers College, Columbia University.

* * * DR. KASPAR D. NAEGELE, of the department of sociology,

has been named by the Canadian Nurses’ Association to direct a cross-Canada survey of nursing education. The study will attempt to determine how nursing education should be tailored to meet the health needs of Canadian communities.

* * * DR. P. G. HADDOCK, of the faculty of forestry, was a forestry

consultant for Forestal Forestry and Engineering International Limited during December, and made a general assessment of a current reforestation program in southern Italy. He conferred with foresters in several parts of Italy and with government officials in Rome. - * * *

DR. J . A. JACOBS, director of the Institute of Earth Sciences, was named a distinguished lecturer by the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists during December and visited 10 centres in the U.S. and Canada on a 14-day lecture tour.

* * % * GORDON R. SELMAN, assistant director of extension, has been

appointed chairman of the B.C. Indian advisory committee.

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MASSEY GOLD MEDAL for the best piece of a r c h i t e c t u r e completed in Canada in the past three years has been awarded to the firm of Thompson, Berwick and Pratt, Univer- s i ty a r ch i t ec t s s ince 1912, for the Thea Koerner graduate center, pictured above. The center, opened this year, was a gift to UBC from Dr. Leon Koerner, and is named for h i s late wife . A silver medal was .awar ,ded t o the same firm for the new commons block in t he Mar ine Dr ive r e s idence deve1o :pmen t .

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EXPAND WORK IN ALL FIELDS

Geophysics Professor Directs New Institute

Establishment of an Institute of with thc faculty of graduatt Earth Sciences at the University ' studies. of British Columbia has been an- The Institute presently has 1: nounced by UBC's president, Dr., gradlate students doing advancec N. A . "I MacKenzie. j work in the field of geophysics

The president also announced In tkle past four years more thar that Dr. John A. Jacobs, profes- $200,000 has been received by the sor of geophysics at UBC, has University for work in this field. been appointed director of the Grants have been received Institute nhich will be affiliated 1 from the Canadian Exploration

Three New Collections Added to UBC Museum

Three collections of northwest coast Indian artifacts h a v e been added to the permanent col lect ion of the anthroDoloev m u s e u m at the University oi

The collections were purchased< nit11 funds provided by Dr. H. R. n/laciVillan, who has made a num- ber of grants to the UBC musem for the enlargement of its per- manent collection.

The first collection consists of xv h a 1 i n g materials purchased

Three Students Go to Seminar in Poland

Three University of British Co- lumhia studcnts have been named to attend the thirteenth interna- tional seminar of the World Uni- versity Service of Canada in Po- land during July and August.

The students are John Curtis, third year arts; Wendy Moir, first year Ian., and Bill Neilson, first year law.

A total of 40 students from all parts of Canada will take part in the seminar which begins with orientation seminars in Montreal during the last week of June, 1962.

The students will take part in group discussions aboard ship ivhile en route to Rotterdam, Hol- land. There they will board a train for Poznan, Poland, where introductory lectures lasting four days will take place.

The group will then visit War- saw and Crakow and take part in a two-week seminar in the uni- versity centres of Wroclaw and Poznan. Majority of sessions will be devoted to group discussions led by Canadian and Polish staff members.

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from families of Nootka Indians on t!le west coast of Vancouver Island and includes a whaling harpoon in use up to 1850 and rattles, ch,srms and dishes for thc whale feast.

The Nootka \rere famous as whalers and often pursued their quarry fo.r several days far oul to sea. They had many rituals and charms for the catching, kill. ing, and towing of the deac whale back to the village where the entire population turned oul for 8. feas':.

The second collection consist: of carvings in argillite, a black shale-like substance found on11 in the Queen Charlotte Island: where it was mined by the Haid; Indims and carved into elaborate figures and plates and bowls.

Included in the collection i: a carving of a medicine mar dressed in, ceremonial robes anc a carved clish which museum offi. cials say is probably the mosl elaborate example of its kind ir their collection.

T 11 e t h i r d collection wa: acqu.!rcd in London from Mr David G. Young, whose fathe] and other relatives were at one time surveyors and timber deal ers in B.C. The collection was made in B.C. before the turn o the last century and has beer in London for more than 60 years

It ~~ncludes a Nootka "soul boat' carved from whalebone and usec by medicine men in treating Illness, a series of painted Haida :anot: pad'dles, and a beautifully- :arved Haida food dish.

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Company, the National Researck Council, the Defence Researck Board; the Geological Survey oj Canada, the American Petroleum Institute. the US. office of Nava. Research, the Petroleum Re. search Fund and the California Research Corporation.

Dr. Jacobs said the Institute is presently carrying out work in the fields of geomagnetism, which is the study of the earth's mag- netic field; nuclear geology, or the determination of the age of rocks and problems relating to the origin of ore bodies; seismol- ogy, which is the study of the de- tection and prediction of earth- quakes, and glaciology.

In the latter field teams of UBC scientists have visited the Athabaska glacier on a number of ocasions to determine its age and movement.

In the future, work in all these fields will be extended, Dr. Jacobs said.

Dr. Jacobs has been professor of geophysics a t UBC since 1957. Born in England, he was educat- ed at the University of London which awarded him the degrees of bachelor and master of arts and doctor of philosophy.

For his contributions tb geo- physics the University of Lon- don this year awarded him the degree of doctor of science.

Before coming to UBC Dr. Jacobs lectured at the University of London and the University of Toronto. He is a member of num- erous professional organizations and has published more than 50 papers on geophysics.

Last summer Dr. Jacobs was in- vited to give two papers at an in- ternational symposium on cosmic rays and the Earth storm held at Kyoto, Japan.

Qn World Tour Dr. John K. Friesen, director

of UBC's extension department was one of four Canadians named to attend a conference on univer. sity adult education in Accra Ghana, during December a n c January.

Following the conference Dr Friesen embarked on a world :our which will take him to sev- eral other African and Asian zountries.

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first of the generations of students who came of age - emotionally and spiritually - during the time that I was President. I shall al- ways remember them with the deepest pride and aflection, for their faces are the faces of friends. I know that wherever I go or whatever I do, I shall con- tinue to meet them. Their youth will make me young again. and their sense of fulfilment will, at least in part, be mine to share. No man could-ask for richer re- wards.

From the faculty and staff 1 have received selfless and dedi- cated service. Some of them 1 count among my closest personal friends, for universities nourish between human beings a unique comradeship, and my life has been enriched and made the fuller by association with some of Canada's best minds and gentles1 of men and women. And to thi: I would add my respects and thanks to the Board of Gover. nors, both past and present mem. bers; they made my task the easier and my life the more agreeable by their wisdom and patient understanding.

My travels throughout British Columbia have taken me to al. most every community; from Kiti. mat to Kamloops, from the Crow's Nest to the Pcace, from the Yukon to the Unitcd States' bor. der, from Vernon to Victoria from Naramata to Nelson. 1 have met and come to knoM people from every walk of life merchants, lumbermen, lawyers, teachers, fishermen, miners, farm- ?rs, stockmen, and so many sthers. Many of them are good friends and I am grateful to them for their support and encourage- ment. There is everywhere in the Province a very real and a very intelligent interest in the growth of the University, and through the ycars I have been heartened by expressions of goodwill from every side.

.4 community has not only the right but the duty to criticize the educational programme offered to its sons and daughters, and during my presidency I have been challenged on many a policy and many a decision. This is in every way proper, and I shall al- ways be grateful for your criti- cisms; we are none of us infal- lible and it is only through ami- able disagreement and debate that institutions grow, evolve, im- prove, and become significant.

A great challenge now remains to my successor. Dr. John Mac- donald, for it is his responsibility to lead many generations of young British Columbians and others from outside British Co- lumbia through the exciting years that lie ahead.

At the same time, it is his re- sponsibility to attract and hold scholars and students from every part of the world, indeed to make this University a moving force in teaching and research in every field of human enquiry. I think he will accomplish that difficult mission, for he is a young man who has attained distinction i n the sciences and he is close t c the most recent developments in the general field of higher edu- cation. I would like to welcome Dr. Macdonald to the University and offer him my warmesl wishes for his happiness and success.

I am delighted thal one of my oldest and closest friends will be associated with Dr. Macdonald on the Board of Governors. Our new Chancellor, Mrs. Phyllis Ross, has

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been a member of the Board for the last four years. and her con- tribution to the ~vork of the Uni- versity ha:; been of great value, and I have personally benefitted by her knowledge and under- standing of universities and the principles for \vhich thcy stand. A distinguished graduatc of this University, Mrs. Ross had a note- Lvorthy career as an economist. and at the end of the Second World War she held the position o f chief reserve economist to the Canadian Tariff Board and the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission. She has been twice honoured by the University of British Colltmbia, having been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Senate and the Great 'Trekker Award by the students in 1954. As Chatelaine of Govcrn- ment House in Victoria. Mrs. RUSS revealed to every citizen of the Province her warmth, her af- feciion for human beings, her dcep interest in the life and pro- gress 01' the Province in all its \aried and many-sided aspects. 'I'he University is indeed fortun- rrtc to have so distingulshed and so gracious a lady as its new Chancellor. I congratulate ilks. Ross on her election and on be- half of the \\.hole university colll- munity 1 wish her success and happiness in her Chanccllorship.

At the same time I \vis11 to pay a personal tribute to Ann Angus. who was the other candidate for Chancellor in the recent election. She too is a close personal friend. Mrs. Angus has been associated with the life and work of this University for nearly forty-two years: as an honours student in English, as a member of the Sen- ate. as the wife of Dr. Henry Angus who. until his retirement, was head of the Department of Ecor?omics and Political Science and Dean of Graduate Studies. Ann Angus has had a particular and continuing interest in every aspect of education and many Of you will recall her valuablc work over the years on the Vancouver School Board. of which she was chairman. I know that we will always be able to count upon her sound advice and counsel, for her affection for this University com- munity is abiding and her inter- est in its progress and welfare is real and significant.

It is difficult for me to SaY everything that I can or \vould like to say in the course of this broadcast. May I leave you with this single thought. The benefits of education, extended to as many of the people of this world as possible. alone can solvc the grave issues which now confront us on every hand. nationally and internationally, politically and socially. Men who are enlight- ened, men who are tolerant, men who possess wisdom will never resort to war as a solution to their problem. I continue to be- lieve that all human problems, no matter how complex or intricate they may be, can be solved by in- telligence, mutual understanding and goodwill. I believe it is pos- sible, through a process of edu- cation. to assist young nations to find maturity, to bring accord be- tween the great powers, to drive out fear and want and poverty.

But if such goals are to be attained, then we must, all of US, be prepared to make the material sacrifice which will enable the young men and women who fol- low us to reach the limits of their mental capacities and so make :heir own very personal contri- bution to their community, their nation, and the world at large.

. 4 U.B.C. REPORTS January-February, 1962

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, ’ , Students. B nefit from Bequests to University The graduates whose names ap-

Tear below have neglected to in- form the University of changes If address.

Do you know the whereabouts If any of them? If you do, fill in ;he coupon at the bottom of this ?age and mail it to the Informa- ;ion Office, UBC, Vancouver 8, . B. C.

Mrs. J . W. Kennedy (Margaret C. Irvinej BA30: Shirley Noreen Kennedy, BA48: Wm. C. Kennedy, BA42; Patricia ?VI. L. Kennett. BA49; Margaret Patricia Kerr, BA34; Mrs. Anne H. K e y e s (Semakj BA49.

George Roy Lowe. BX38; Jean Agnes Lowrence, BA34; Claribel Lugsdin, BA31; Mrs. J . C. Lynch, BSA45 (Constance L. B. Still); Harold E. Lyons, BA38; Robt. Harvey Lyons, BASc39.

John Mackend, BA48; David Anthony Mackie, BCom48; Mer- vyn F. Madill, BA50; Fred Hiro- shi Maikawa, BA29.

Robt. A. Malcolm, BASc49; Mrs. John H. Manley, BA28, (Kathleen P. Baird); Berl Marantz, BASc49; Jean E. Margolis, BA31: Wm. J . G. Martin, LLB48; Rosetta Mar- tindale, BA37: Laurence R. Mas- ters, BSA45.

Glenn F. Matthews, BASc46: John C. Maxwell, BSA 42; Molly Meighen, BA41: Margaret E. Men- zies, BA48: Richard T. Merrick, BCom48; Delbert J. Miller, BX49; Mrs. Gertrude E. Miller, BA41; John E. Millman, BA53; Morton Mitchner, BA47. MA48; Leslie L. Mock, BA48.

Dorothea Monkman, BA42: Ger- ald Donald Moore. BA5l; Joan Ida Moore, BA48: John H e n r y More, BCom32: John George Mor- gan, BA31, MA34: Arthur Morris, BA47, MA48; Joseph Lee Morri- son, BCom43; Mary R. Morriss, ,

BA27; Norman Alan Morton, BA- Sc41; Stirling Morton, BA50; Max Everett Moss, BA41; Mrs. R. J. F. Moss, BA33, (Celia F. Lucas).

MA37; Georgina R . R.Iulholland, BA31: Wm. Horace Muncy. BA40: Rlrs. E. Bernice Murray {Young), BA48: James Alex McAllister, BA 43; Henry John McCabc, B.439; . David Frederick hIcColl, BA50; - Douglas Hugh McDonald, BX51.

Hector James JSacDonald. BA5l; Ian Ross LlacDonalcl. B.4Scjl; F 0 James R. MacDonald, BX50; Jean Graeme McDonald, BCom50; ’

Angus J . P. IlIcDougall, BXSc5O; Neil A. MacDougall. BASc50: Tho- mas G. MacFarlane. BX47: Donald John lLlcGrego1.. B.\SclO: Florence G. McGuiness. BM9. BSir.30: iVm. John RlcIntyre. B.139.

Donald Hugh McKay, BASc30; Katherine McKay, MA23; Mar- garet MacKay, BA34; Mrs. Wm. D. McKay, (Margaret W. Hubbs), BA33; Janet H. McKellar, BA39; Bruce James 3IcKendrick. BCom 46: Murray Everett McKenney, BA5O: Ian MacD. M a c K e n z i e, BCom49; James Conrad MacKen- zie, BA45.

Eliz. Anne McKinnon, BA39; Dorothy Eva McLaren. BA34: ’ Catherine A. McLeod. BA36: Don- ald Thomas McLeod. BCom46:

1 Margaret Phillips McLeod, B.432.

George Howard Mossop. BA33, a

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- The late Charles A , Banks,

forfner lieutenant- over ti or .B.C. has left more than $1.000.000 for the establishnlen1 o f a found- O f I ation to provide scholarships for /“\\orthy and deserving students i i ~ ~ science or. enginwring.”

h a l f the income going for schol- 1rsllips in the science or engin- :ering.

Thc remaining half will be used ! o establish a student loan fund for ”\ \or thy and deserving stu- 3tlnts i n a n y faculty.“

Dean \Vrrlter Gage, chairman of , lw UBC awards committee, said he \vas delighted with the be- Xwst. “Mr. and Mrs. Banks,” he xidcd. “have b e e n generous fricllcls of the University in the ~ a s l ;rnd this is iurther evidence .I( their concern for the education .)I dc~.;c~l~\.ing young men and \ \ Olllt’ll.“ * * *

L a u students in need of finan- cial assistance will benefit as the result of bequests in the nill of the late Mrs. Diana Ogilvy Irving. i\ 110 died August 28, 1961, leaving a n estate of $233,000.

Rlrs. Irving. a former writer for the Vancouver Province, willed the bulk of her estate to the University for .the establishment of the “Diana and P.A. Irving Scholarship Trust Fund.”

The UBC fund will be based on the residue of the estate.

In her will, Mrs. Ogilvy stated that it was her desire to advanct the cause of higher education ir B.C., and in particular to increast the prestige of the UBC lav faculty.

The \rill directs that assistanct to law students be made in tht form of $1,000 annual scholar ships. She stressed that the: must be needy and deservin! students of promise. * * *

Bulk of the estate of Mrs. Florence Evalina Heighway, who died Aug. 20, 1961, has been left to the University of B.C. and the Canadian Arthritis and Rheu- matism Society.

UBC \vi11 receive half of the $260.000 estate as a grant for med- ical training.

UBC Seeks Volunteers for Service Overseas

UBC’s colnnl i t tee on student s e r v i c e o v e r s e a s is recruit- ing, e i g h t graduates fur s e r v i c e i n Ghana and the British crmvn colonies of Sara\vak and Fiji. * At present. two graduate Imne

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GORDON THOM . . . alumni appointment wmonlists. Judy Footc and

locelyn King. are in Ghana mder the auspices of USC and iolunteers for Interriational De- -elopment, an American organ- zation. taking part in a rural ducation program for women.

‘l%e committee is currently re- Bruiting two engineers for Ghana, ‘our teachers for Sarawak and \ro agricultural technicians for ?iji. A l l applicants must be male Iachelors and hold a university legree.

Dr. Cyril Belshaw, chairlnan of the UBC committee. said finan cia1 support is being sought fron individuals and organizations tc pay transportation and supple mentary costs.

He said UBC hopes to recrui 20 graduates locally for serrict overseas. The national organiza tion Canadian University Over seas Service has set an objectivt of 100 graduates from all Canada

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recruited at the request of thc Canadian high commissioner il Ghana to teach at Achimotz grammar school near Accra.

The school. where Ghana‘: President Kwame N k r ~ t ~ ~ ~ a h wa! educa ted . appea led to UBC thro~igli the commissiotier i n De ct.1nber. The graduates rerrllitel are Graeme Balcom. BL4Sc’5; anc Lornr R. Lane. BSc’Gl.

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Association Appoints Assistant Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, director

of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences at -Palo Alto, Cal i - fornia, is one of six speakers remaining in the 1962 lecture series of the Vancouver In- stitute.

Dr. Tyler will adress the Insti. tute in the UBC auditorium or March 3 at 8:15 p.m. as part 01 Canadian Education \Veek.

Complete list of relnaining lec tures is as follows:

Feb. 10 - Walter Gordon. Toron to chartered accountant and for mer r o y a 1 comnlissioner. 01

“Canada’s economic prospects.’ Feb. 17 - Nicholas Goldschmidt

Vancouver Internatiollal Festiva artistic director. on “A nlusician’: visit to Communist China.”

Feb. 24 - Prof. George Volkoif head. UBC physics dept.. or “Nuclear magnetic relaxation.”

I\iIarch 3 - Dr. Kalpll Tyler. March 10 - Dr. =\lvin \Veinberg

director. Oakridge Xaliotul Lab orator)-. on “Scientific. organiza tion - its impact on conte~npor:~r> Society.”

RTarcIi 1; - Proc. I\.. L. Ilt)llanti lacad. L‘BC Asian studies drpt. on ”Modernization ~ r n d !r,rdilion t\;e clash in Xsia.’’

Gordon A. Thom, a com- merce graduate of the Uni- versity of B r i t i s h Columbia, has been a p p o i n t e d assistant director of the UBC Alumn Associat ion.

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Mr. Thom succeeds Tim Hol lick-Kenyon, recently appointec director of the Alumni Associa tion. Mr. Thom will be respons ible for the work of Alumni di visions, annual events and pro grams devoted to support of thc University.

Mr. Thom graduated from UBC with a bachelor of commerce de gree in 1956 and was employed bJ Imperial Oil.

While employed by Imperia Oil he was granted leave to stud3 at the University of Marylanc where he received the degree o master of business administra tion in 1958.

Mr. Thom has been active il alumni affairs as a member o the commerce division. He wa: chairman of the division’s gradu ate placement and graduate sem inar committees.

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and labour law.

Rhodes Scholar 1 the master of science in psychia. The nctv program leading t c

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The UBC Alumni Society il Great Britian has merged wit1 the Canadian Universities Societ: of the United Kingdom.

The CUS exists to help all Can adian graduates and student

by Najor-General The IIonom.-, The program nill train non- nlcdical graduates for psychiatric r c s c> a r c 11 in the increasingly. important area of mental healtl and I\ i l l pro\-ide the opportunit: tor mc~dical graduates to spccirtl i/e i l l the, field of psychiatry.

‘ ~ I I C I {)rcsitient also announw( 1 h a t t I I C Scwatc has approved thc otl’wing of an honours bachelol p rogran~ in the school of home economics.

31iss Charlotte Elack. director o f t h c x home economics school said 411 additional year noulcl bc addcd to the present program fo- t h c honours degree.

Hcquircments for the honour program nill include additiona science and other courses ant \\.ill a l l o \ v a broader selection o (‘ourws along the line of the stu tittllt’.; interest. “ll”lllllllllll~.ll,

lit-inq in Eritinn and arrangc formal and informal social func. tions and is active in promotin! the “Canadian scholar at Cam bridge” scheme w h i c h w i l provide a permanent scholarshi] equivalent to the Rhodes Schol arship at Oxford.

A place at Peterhouse, tht oldest of the Cambridge colleges has already been reserved fa this purpose.

UBC graduates or student interested in contacting the CU while in England should writ to Mrs. R. M. Stretton. 46 Ferr Road, Barnes, S . W. 13. Londol England. 11111111111111111~11,

ice. He was nanwd d c a ~ ~ of for. estry at UNB in IY-LS.

Dr. Gibson prepared several reports on forest prcoblenls iu B.C. for the F’ancou\.rr Founda. tion in 1955. ”1111111“111911191, 1

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