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Two girls from the first class of dental auxiliaries at the University are shown lighting their candles from a taper held by the director of the school, Miss Margaret Berry, right. The twenty young ladies from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario were present at ‘“‘capping exercises” signifying completion of their first year of a two-year program. Beginning next spring they will be qualified to work with public health services teams to provide examinations, surveys, dental health education, x-ray services and assist with and provide many other office and labora- tory procedures.

This, and subsequent classes of dental auxili- aries, will be filling a real need in Alberta by increasing the services of the dental profession.

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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE—

Honorary President, Dr. Walter Johns; President, Dr. Donald R. Stanley °40; Vice-President, Dr. A. Venor Calhoun '53; Past President, Haughton G. Thomson °38; Executive Secretary, A. G. Markle ’48; Honorary Secretary, A. D. Cairns ‘38; Honorary Secretary Emeritus,G. B. Taylor 23, '25; Sten Berg 54; Ross Bishop °47; Evan- geline MacDonald ‘57; Dr. J. E. Bradley ’40; Roberta Moreland; Norman Anderson; Dick Williams ’60; Don Brinton ’51; Bob Edgar ’55; Cc. H. McCleary ’35; L. E. Kelly '58; Al Arm- strong °49; Allan McQuarrie ’41; Dr. Bruce Hatfield '48; Bruce Burgess 48.

EDITOR— A. G. Markle, Alumni Office, U. of A.

ADVISORY BOARD— Dr. Johns, Dr. C. M. Macleod, Dr. D. R. Stanley.

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Features

5 FALL CONVOCATION

7 THE CHANCELLOR’S CHAIR 11 YOUR UNIVERSITY

13 A TRIBUTE

14 IN MEMORIAM

16 ALUMNI REUNIONS

17 THE ALUMNI FUND

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As the months go by the growth of the University continues at an ever-increasing pace. Since the Spring Convocation in Edmonton two buildings have been officially opened—t he Engineering Building addition, and the Student Health Service Building, both on the Ed- monton Campus. Construction on the magnificent new Education Building is ahead of schedule and we hope it will be open by the Fall of next year. Work is also proceeding on the new Van de Graaff Building to house the six million volt accel- erator we are obtaining with the as- sistance of the National Research Council. The same is true of the Armed Services Building and the new Advanced Studies and Research Library. Most gratifying and indeed most exciting of all is the fact that construction has at last begun on the two new residences and the Food Services Building in Edmonton, largely with the help of a loan from the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, but with the backing and aid of the Provincial Govern- ment and, we hope, of the Canada Council as well. The benefits which will result from these units in pro- viding accommodation on the campus for over 1,200 students will be in- calculable. We expect that residences for the Calgary Campus will soon be in the planning stages as well.

Libraries

The two new libraries, one on each campus, which are now under con- struction, deserve special mention. In spite of the current emphasis on scientific research, in which the Uni- versity of Alberta has made sub- stantial progress in recent years, the quality of a university must depend in large measure on the quality of its library resources. Canadian uni- versity libraries with a few notable exceptions, have not been adequate for more than undergraduate educa- tion and professional training, and even in these areas their adequacy has in many cases, been open to question. The University of Alberta is faced with the difficult problem of bringing the Edmonton library up to

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the standard needed for: graduate study and research in the humani- ties and social sciences, and the Cal- gary library to the standard of a good undergraduate library wit h special collections in a few selected fields. This will require substantial sums of money as well as careful and judicious selection by the faculty and a great deal of special effort by our own competent library staffs, professional and non-professional alike. We have made good progress in the last few years but we have a long way to go yet.

Registration

Registration continues to grow in both summer and winter sessions and on both campuses. In the sum- mer just past the registration in Ed- monton was 2,811 while the figure for Calgary was 957. The size of the enrolment in Calgary is especially noteworthy when it is realized that this is only its second year of opera- tion as a separate summer school.

The enrolment of full-time stu- dents this Fall reached 9,364 made up of 7,602 in Edmonton and 1,752 in Calgary. If the figures for partial students, evening credit program, and diploma nurses (all of whom are registered with us) were added, the total would be in excess of 10,000. Increases have occurred in all facul- ties except Engineering. Some det- tailed figures for the Edmonton cam- pus may be of interest. These are given by faculties with both gradu- ates and undergradutes included and with comparative figures for 1960- 61 given to show the changes in the last two years:

Faculty 1962-63 1960-61 Agriculture ccc 207 157 Arts and Science ...... 2449 1754 Commerce 257 Dentistry 136 Education 1615 Engineering nrc. 941 1075 Household

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There were 1,505 graduate degrees awarded by the University of Al- berta up to and including 1960. In 1961 and 1962 the total was 285. The figures for Ph.D’s are of special in- terest—34 awarded up to 1960, all of them in the period 1951-60, and 47 in the last two years. The figures have fluctuated from year to year, but there has been a steady, indeed a dramatic increase from 47 graduate degrees awarded in 1957, just five years ago, to 156 in 1962, including 94 at Fall Convocation— a record for any Convocation in the Univer- sity’s history.

At recent installation ceremonies at the Uni-

versities of Singapore and Malaya the University of Alberta was ably represented by Ivan L. Head ’51, a member of the office staff of the High Commissioner for Canada in Malaya. Ivan is shown shaking hands with the Chancellor of the University of Singapore.

The Chancellor’s Chair

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E. P. Scarlett

T IS MOST fitting that at this Convocation, through the co- operation of the Calgary Branch

of the Alumni Association, a Chan- cellor’s Chair should be presented to the University of Alberta, Calgary, by the General Alumni Association. It is equally appropriate that the de- sign incorporated in the chair should symbolize the origin of the name of this city—Calgary. For it is one of the ironies of fortune that the pre- sent generation of Calgarians think of the name of their city as being vaguely derived from somewhere in Scotland and as carrying with it the meaning, “clear, running water,” a most inadequate version of a most romantic circumstance.

The Chancellor’s Chair was presented to the University of Alberta, Calgary, by President Donald R. Stanley at Fall Convocation on behalf of the General Al- umni Association. In his comments Dr. Stanley paid tribute to the efforts of the Calgary alumni branch under the direction of Bob Bannerman ’49 and to Dr. Earle P. Scarlett, former Chancellor of the Univer- sity, for his history of the Chair, reproduc- ed here in full.

Below the coat-of-arms of the Pro- vince of Alberta the chair has two heraldic designs facing one another. One is the crest of the Clan Macleod a bull’s head with two white flags with the motto, ‘Hold fast.’ The other is the crest of the Mackenzies, a stag’s head and the motto ‘Virtute et Valore. We are indebted to Mrs. Kila Mackenzie, Beathaich, Calgary, Isle of Mull,Scotland, for the inform- ation concerning these two crests. These pictorial crests symbolize the story of how Calgary got its name, for it was from the conjunction of members of these two families that still another Scots place-name found its way to the Canadian West. That takes us back nearly eighty-seven years in time to the founding of the first settlement at the confluence of the Bow and the Elbow Rivers where prairie and foothills meet.

Prior to the coming of the Police this locality can in only one instance be connected with any person or event. On November 17, 1800, David Thompson, the explorer, with Dun- . can McGillivray, a fellow officer of

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the North West Company, and four men travelled south from Rocky Mountain House pitched camp on the Bow River just east of its junction with the Elbow. Then more than seven decades later the curtain of history rises. In the summer of 1875, the year following the famous march of the North West Mounted Police to the west and the building of Fort Macleod, as the result of rum- ours of impending trouble on the North Saskatchewan, Assistant Com- missioner Colonel Macleod moved out of Fort Macleod with a Police detachment. He met Major-General Selby Smythe, the commander of the Canadian militia, at the Red Deer River, and then, satisfying himself that all was quiet, returned south, but before doing so despatched “F” troop of the Police under Inspector Brisebois to proceed to the junction of the Bow and Elbow Rivers and build a fort, a task which was carried out. By November a log fort with surrounding stockade was establish- ed, and Christmas was duly and abundantly celebrated within its walls.

In the following month, January, 1876, Colonel Macleod and his im- mediate superior, Assistant Commis- sioner Irving of the Police came up from Fort Macleod to the Bow River post to find the Inspector Brisebois, without authority or consultation with superiors, had issued an order that the fort was to be called Fort Brisebois. This was promptly countermanded by Irving, and in a letter to the authorities in Ottawa, February, 1876, he recommended the name “Fort Calgary”, which, he said, had been suggested by Colonel Mac- leod after a place in Scotland which meant “clear, running water.” Ot- tawa officials agreed, and so Calgary II was born.

Why Calgary? The answer con- cerns the person of Colonel James Farquharson Macleod. Macleod was born in 1836 in the Island of Skye, a member of one of the cadet branches of the Macleods of Dunvegan. He came to Canada as a child, was edu- cated at Upper Canada College, Tor- onto, and Queen’s University (1854) , and in 1860 was admitted to the bar

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CALGARY, ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND

of Upper Canada. He served during the North West Rebellion of 1869-70 as a brigade-major when he was mentioned in despatches and award- ed the C.M.G. Some time between 1871 and 1873 he visited Scotland, and during the course of that visit spent a few weeks in the Island of Mull with Mr. J. Munro Mackenzie and his family in the hamlet of Cal- gary. The Mackenzies were friends of Macleod’s people. It was that visit which provided the background and circumstances for the subse- quent naming of the police fort on the plains of the Canadian West.

Colonel Macleod returned to Can- ada, was commissioned in September, 1873, Superintendent and Inspector in the newly formed North West Mounted Police, and in 1874 was pro- moted to the post of Assistant Com- missioner, in which capacity he took part in the march west, built Fort Macleod and commanded in the west. Later he was Commissioner of the Police until 1880, then Stipendiary Magistrate of the North West Ter- ritories, and in 1887 Judge of the Supreme Court of the North West Territories. He died in Calgary, the place which he had named, in 1894.

To return to the Island of Mull and to Calgary whose name was destin- ed to be carried across the Atlantic and to flourish in Alberta, the grand- children of Mr. J. Munro Mackenzie whom Colonel Macleod visited early

in the 1870’s have told the writer that the visit was a memorable one. Mr. Mackenzie lived in what is still called in the district “Calgary House” or “the auld hoose.” The family say that young Macleod tried unsuccess- fully to persuade Mackenzie to re- turn to Canada with him. They re- call that a picture of Fort Calgary, Canada, sent later by Colonel Mac- leod, hung in their home as long as they can remember.

The Island of Mull, the ancestral home of the MacLeans (Clan Gil- lean), is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, south of Skye and west of Oban. It is a land of mountains, valleys and purple moorland, a place where “the whaups are on the heath- er and the white birds on the sea.” It is rich in the legends of old Celtic mythology and the history of the Lords of the Isles. To the south-west a mile of sea and swift tidal streams separate it from Scotland’s most historic spot—the holy island of Iona, sacred to the memory of Saint Col- umba, and the burial place of an- cient kings and chieftains. The ham- let of Calgary is in the north of Mull, twelve miles from Tobermory, the principal town of the island, and is reached over a high, switchbacking, twisting, exhilarating road. As far as records tell, it has never been any- thing but a small place, comprising some six or so stone dwellings.

Calgary lies within a small bay fac- ing out to the Atlantic and is en- closed by great promontories of black voleanic rock. The view out to sea is wide and delightful, a magnificent panorama of the storied Hebrides. Straight ahead is the rocky island of Coll, and further away and to the north are the mountainous islands of Muck, Eigg and Rum, and the great black Cuillin mountains of the Isle of Skye. To the south one can make out the island of Staffa, famous for its great sea caves and its pillars of basaltic rock. The chief feature of Calgary is the stretch of white sand at the head of the bay known in olden times as Ban Traigh (“the white shore”), but today called more pro- saically “Calgary Sands.” Living in the hamlet today are the Mackenzie descendants of the family which Colonel Macleod visited, and mem- bers of the Macquarrie family. It is a quiet place of solemn beauty visit- ed by mist, glints of sunshine and At- lantic wind and rain.

The meaning of the word “Cal- gary”, like all Gaelic words, could provide hours of discussion. There are conflicting opinions concerning the derivation of the name. In a summary way it may be said that in Gaelic the word is “Calgaraidh.” The people in the district maintain that it is made up of the two roots— “Cala” meaning “port” or “harbour”, and “Gary” meaning “wall” or a variant, “rough”. Thus the name may be regarded as meaning “walled or rough harbour.” Unlike its neigh- bor “Calgarry” in the Isle of Skye, with the accent on the second syll- able, it has always been spelled and pronounced in the manner we follow today—Calgary.

It is a far cry from the purple moors, the ruined castles and the Atlantic surges of Scotland and the

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STUDENTS PLAN UNION EXTENSION

Plans are underway to build an extension. to the present Student’s Union Building within the next three years. The extension, to be con- structed south of the present unit, will contain approximately 140,000 square feet of space.

There will be three development stages. A committee has been estab- lished to determine what facilities and services are needed, to study various methods of financing, and to prepare written plans in the form of a brief to be approved by the Board of Governors. Plans and working drawings will be prepared by an architect and it is anticipated that construction of the building will be- gin in the summer of 1964, with a tentative completion date set for the opening of the ’65-’66 fall term.

ADVANCED STUDIES AND RESEARCH LIBRARY UNDER CONSTRUCTION The expansion program was in- Building of an Advanced Studies and Research Library at the rear of Convocation Hall is itiated by the undergraduate body

progressing satisfactorily. The main doors will face west. The main floor will house all admin- a li be Seat d s il istrative library departments including circulation, union catalogue, bibliography, general order @0Q W1 e designated primarily to office, cataloging, reference and periodical departments. The second, third, fourth and. fifth floors meet the needs of the undergradu-

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staff lockers and washrooms, staff and student lunchrooms, document stacks, maps, binding, $3,000,000 will be raised from student periodical storage, audio-visual, microfilm storage, archives, photo lab, and rare books. fees for the purpose of constructing

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Julian L. Laychuk, 29, a lecturer in modern languages, is only the sec- ond Canadian actively teaching Rus- sian. The High Prairie born Mr. Laychuk has even taught Russian in the Soviet Union.

As the language becomes increas- ingly popular in the colleges and uni- versities of North America, educa- tion authorities are concerned about the supply of teachers—for the Iron Curtain automatically shuts out all hope of employing Russians for the job.

More than 600 institutions in North America now offer courses in Rus- sian. However, most of the teachers are drawn from Europe.

Dr. Orest Starchuk, head of the Slavonic division, said that these teachers are imported from many parts of Europe.

“The cost of importing them and the cost of enticing them to come to this country is fantastic,” said Dr. Starchuk.

Evidence of the popularity of the Slavic language is that 300 students of the university have registered for Russian classes this year.

Dr. Starchuk said that most of these are merely taking the course as part of their education, but about “a dozen” are interested in the lang- uage. He said he can only hope for “four or five” to make it.

The course is a lengthy one. Mr. Laychuk reckons on four years at the university, then one year for an M.A. degree and two more years— at least—for the doctorate degree.

Mr. Laychuk studied Russian for four years before getting his B.A. with first class honors. He travelled in Russia studying in Leningrad and Moscow and for his M.A. wrote on Soviet Policies Towards Literature After Stalin’s Death.

He will return to Europe next year before taking his doctorate.

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Homecoming Banquet and Ball, 1963

On Friday evening, February 22, at the Macdonald Hotel, Edmonton, the Tenth Annual Alumni Home- coming Banquet and Ball will be held for graduates and friends of the University. In the absence of a similar function in 1962 it will be appropriate in February to honor

two golden and two silver annivers- ary classes. They are 712, ‘13, and 37 and 738. A “silver and gold” theme has been selected and the price has been established at $10 per © couple. Alumni are asked to ring their calendars now so as not to miss this important social event in ’63.

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STAFFING OF UNIVERSITIES

A new estimate has been made of the number of university teachers who should be recruited by Canadian universities and colleges in the ten years from 1961 to 1970: a total of about 23,000 at an annual rate rising from 1,300 in 1960 to 2,000 in 1965 and 3,500 in 1970. Analysis of ap- pointments made in the three years 1956, 1957 and 1958 indicate that nearly half (43%) of the new teach- ing personnel came or returned from other countries.

Fortunately, enrolment in Can- adian graduate schools is rising, but for some time at least there will be much dependence on_ recruiting abroad.

BASIC STATISTICS FOR 1961-62

Basic university statistics for 1961- 62, some of them estimates, are com- pared with those of the previous year:

Universities and colleges with de- gree-conferring powers (except those whose power to confer degrees was limited to the field of theology) —45(44), of which 8(8) were hold- ing some of their degree-conferring powers in abeyance while federated or associated with, or affiliated to, another university.

Enrolment of full-time students at university level—128,894(114,000). Undergraduates — 121,547 (107,482), graduates — 7,347(6,518). Men —— 95,770 (86,488), women — 33,124 (27,- 512).

Enrolment as a percentage of col- lege-age population, 18 to 24 years — 7.59% (6.6%). Men — 11.2% (9.8%), women 3.9% (3.2%).

Degrees earned — 26,555 (23,006). First degrees — 23,430(20,227), ad- vanced degrees — 3,125(2,779).

Median salary of full-time teach- ers — $8,387 ($8,151).

University expenditures — $343 million ($282 million). Operating (including research) — $211 mil- lion ($180 million), capital — $132 million ($102 million).

—Canadian Universities Foundation

Forty years ago the late F. M. Salter became a lecturer in the department of English. He was a young man, perhaps in his middle-twenties; but his life had not been soft or sheltered. Among other things, he had been a salesman, a coal-miner, and an undergraduate; and he had served in the front-line trenches. After two years with us he went back to his graduate studies in the University of Chicago. Fifteen years later he returned, to our great satisfaction, and this time he came for good. He was now exper- ienced in teaching and research.

His students will long remember him. They knew they were listening to honest lectures given by a man who really wished to instruct and interest them. “I guess you’re lucky if you have three or four good courses,” said a graduate of some ten years ago to me and then went on to name the ones that had counted for him. “Of course,” he began, “there was Salter’s.” Nobody worked harder for his students: not only in preparing lectures, but also in the painstaking correction of written work. Copious comments in his spidery writing filled the margins of essays. There were also the many hours gladly spent in interviews. Freshmen, seniors, post-graduate students—all of them, as long as they were in earnest—could count on his help.

One result of this generosity was that, during term-time, little or no time was left for research. Some of the things he hoped to do were never com- pleted. But some things of importance were. Under Professor Manly of Chicago Mr. Salter had become a thorough student of early English drama. He discovered and published a new manuscript of one of the mystery plays in the Chester Cycle. He made the Chester plays his subject when he gave The Alexander Lectures in Toronto (1953-54), published under the title Medieval Drama in Chester. He was, of course, pleased, but with his usual modesty also surprised, when Toronto marked the excellence of his work by giving him an honorary degree. It is a matter of great regret that he did not live to publish his new edition of the whole Chester Cycle. He also did much work on the sixteenth century poet, John Skelton. His Royal Society paper (1945), John Skelton’s Contribution to the English Language, is of first-rate importance. This is not the place for a discussion of work planned and partly finished. There was to have been a book on Shakespeare.

Besides teaching and research, there were extra tasks willingly under- taken for the University. For atime he became editor of The New Trail, and during the war he gave lectures to undergraduates preparing for the R.C.A.F. These and other burdens were cheerfully added to his full teach- ing load.

All those who care for the welfare of the place should remember that he, more than any other person, started The Friends of the University of Al- berta.

—R. K. Gordon

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NEW ASSISTANT DEAN OF MEDICINE

Dr. D. F. Cameron has been named Assistant Dean of Medicine at the University of Alberta succeeding Dr. J. S. Thompson who is spending a year studying at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan.

Dr. Cameron graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.A. in 1947 and an M.D. degree in 1949 after having interrupted his medical studies for a period of five years during which he served with the Canadian Army overseas. He was with the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in the Mediterranean and European theatres of operations as brigade major of an armoured brig- ade. During the post war period he was officer commanding the 19th Alberta Dragoons.

Affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine since 1951 Dr. Cameron presently holds the position of Assist- ant Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Professor in the depart- ment of Anaesthesia.

A past president of the medical staff of the University of Alberta Hospital and the Alberta division of the Canadian Anaesthetists Society, Dr. Cameron is a member of the hospital board of the Royal Alex- andra Hospital.

SPENDING OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

Median expenditure by foreign students in Canadian universities and colleges during the college year 1961-62 was $1,966, as compared with $1,612 in 1956-57. Of the amount re- ported as spent by foreign students, almost one-third was provided by their parents. A second third came from scholarships, fellowships, and other student aids, while the balance was made up from part-time earning, summer jobs, loans and other sources.

Some 82% of all foreign students who received scholarships fellow- ships, or bursaries were assisted from Canadian sources. Half re- ceived grants from Canadian univer- sities (average $1,167) and nearly 30% from the Federal Government and its agencies (average $2,375).

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Du Memoriam

COLONEL E. H. STRICKLAND

Edgar Harold Strickland, M.Sc., D.Sc., F.E.S.A., F.R.S.C., died at Vic- toria, British Columbia, on May 31, 1962.

Dr. Strickland was born in England at Erith, Kent, on May 29, 1889. The best characteristics of the English distinguished him throughout life integrated, in a way which few have achieved, with New World enterprise and breadth. Dr. Strickland studied at Wye Agricultural College in the neighboring North Downs from 1909 to 1911. Under the auspices of the British Colonial Office, with a view to service against sleeping sickness in Africa, he came to North America to attend Harvard University on a

Carnegie studentship from 1911 to 1913. There, he earned an M.Sc. degree under Wheeler. His services were then loaned to Canada to obtain two years of field experience—by opening a one-man field station in the attic of a sheep barn at Lethbridge.

War intervened. Strickland went overseas as a private with the 196th Battalion and served as Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, until he was wounded in September, 1918. His service in the First World War foreshadowed greater contributions in the second. From 1935 to 1940 he was commanding officer of the University of Alberta COTC, from 1936 to 1939 aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant-Governor and from 1942 to 1944 commanding officer of the Canadian Army Basic Training Unit 133 at Wetaskiwin, Alberta. He was awarded the King’s Jubilee medal in 1935 and the Coronation medal in 1937.

Either Colonel Strickland’s military career or Professor Strickland’s entomological career should have been sufficient for any ordinary man; nobody, aware of his enthusiasm as a soldier would have suspected an equal enthusiasm in such a different field. And yet he managed to exhibit both at the same time in his teaching of entomology and in his caring for the interests of veterans after the Second World War.

In 1919, a crucial period in stored product entomology, he was placed in charge of this work at Ottawa, moving to Lethbridge again during the sum- mers to complete his classical studies on parasites of the pale western cut- worm. It was from this work that he was invited to join the faculty of the University of Alberta in Edmonton as Professor of Entomology and head of the one-man department, in 1922. Except for a period during the Second World War when he felt he could leave this to younger men, Professor Strickland was the department of entomology, alone until 1946, until his retirement in 1954.

Generations of students remember his introductory course in entomology as a highlight of their time spent at the University. At least one of them from an early year remembered it will enough to ensure that both his son and his grandson registered in it. From this course they got more than entomology; more than one of them has told be that his philosophy of life dated from lectures in this course.

In 1953 Professor Strickland was honored with a fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1954, at the University which he served so well, he earned a Doctor of Science degree with his research in entomology. He was a charter member and an honorary life member of the Entomological Society of Alberta and was its first president. He was an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Canada, and in 1952 he was elected a fellow of the Entomological Society of America.

In 1924 Strickland married Alice Fairfield of Lethbridge. Their two daughters, each an engagingly different blend of their parents qualities, are married and there are four grandchildren. The charm of their home in Edmonton was translated with characteristic enthusiasm into a new home in Victoria on Strickland’s retirement. Their many friends will ever re- member, not just the unfailing hospitality, but a certain indefinable quality, the warmth of tweeds and the quiet dignity of times alas past, which pervad- ed these places.

Scientist, soldier, teacher, philosopher, Strickland was also a philan- thropist in the best sense. Shrewdly directed, this unobtrusive activity has been known to few, least of all those who benefited. He wished it so. Pro- fessor Strickland made his generous contract with life early and kept it to the end; we can but temper our sorrow at his passing with gratitude for his life.

Contributions to a memorial fund may be sent to the Department of Entomology; details may be obtained from the department.

—Brian Hocking

SHAKESPEAREAN AUTHORITY RECEIVES HON. LL.D.

Distinguished actor, director, and Shakespearean scholar, B. Iden Payne, Department of Drama, Uni- versity of Texas, delivered the Con- vocation Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Fall Convocation in Calgary in November along with Howard L. Seamans, Ottawa, formerly of Leth- bridge.

For several summers Professor Payne has been guest drama direct- or at the Banff School of Fine Arts where this year he produced Shake- speare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”.

For many years Dr. Seamans was associated with the Lethbridge Ex- perimental Farm where important work was done in the field of de- veloping insect-resistant plants.

VALUE OF CANADIAN DEMOCRACY STRESSED AT TORY LECTURES

“A nation cannot be indifferent to claims of freedom without being in danger of losing it,” said Mr. Justice Samuel Freedman, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, at one of two H. M. Tory Lectures delivered. recently at the Jubilee Auditorium. The Lectures were sponsored by the Friends of the University.

Mr. Justice Freedman said Can- adians were fortunate that “the words of British law have been heard and heeded in Canada when freedom was threatened.” He con- ceded that law is not always an in- fallible instrument.

A first-rate speaker in the ora- torical style, Mr. Freedman was heard with intense interest by large audiences on both evenings.

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ALUMNI REUNIONS “a backward look” These are the days when birds come back A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look... Emily Dickenson

The birds come back, as Emily Dickenson wrote, to take a backward look. To take a look at what? They come to see (whether they put it this way or not) the image of themselves of 5, 10, 15, 20 years and more ago. They come to see themselves as they were in the days before they made the great commitments—to this or that profession or business; or com- munity; or political party; or church; or club; to this or that kind of shop- talk and gossip that passes for con- versation.

They come to look back to a time before the walls of life closed in on them, when they were free; when like lazy young Olympians they could hold life at arm’s reach and regard it smilingly; when impres- sions, intuitions, ideas were free and fluid, came with lightning-like rapidity, demanding no immediate commitment, and were baited with none of the poison of partisanship; when, for the last time, perhaps, they were whole men and not specialists or professionals, each grinding his special axe or making his special plea; when they were true amateurs of knowledge (even if they didn’t know it then), fashioning, according to their own lights, often fumblingly (perhaps between supper and the movies), their notion of the good, the true, the beautiful, and fashioning it regardless of party, or creed, or coterie.

Here, perhaps for the last time, they were able to be detached, dis- interested, dispassionate—or, such is the privilege of youth, as passionate as they chose, and no one would say them nay. Here was a time of free and open conversation, of ideas on the loose—even the immortal bull- session—when there was no fear of treading on someone’s toes; when a chap could speak out without fear of losing his job, or his social standing, or his chances of re-election.

It wasn’t an ideal world; I re- member we did our share of time- serving, and intriguing, and back-

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A long-time and devoted member of the University staff, C. H. (Charlie) Hosford, passed away recently, He is shown in a familiar pose in the Bookstore that he founded om the campus in 1912. Charlie was the friend of many thousands of undergraduates who made his hearty acquaintance up

until his retirement after 40 years service in 1952,

At that time he held the record of the longest

continuous service of any member of the University staff.

biting, or just plain vegetating. But I never knew a professor to flunk a student, or a dean to expel him, for

his opinions. Here was the nearest

thing to a truly open and free arena

most of us have ever known. After that, we had our ways to make—and our amateur standing was gone for- ever.

We come back, I think,-to get a look at this again—to renew the dream of innocence which we have never quite given over, to remind ourselves what true conversation really is, to regain the sense of wholeness which in our grimly specialized lives we tend to lose, to savor the Olympian atmosphere once more.

An academic reunion should not only reunite—it should renew, re- mind, reinvigorate, recharge, re- dedicate. It should reunite in a way peculiar to itself—unavailable in any fraternal order or country club or wining-and-dining society, charming and heartwarming as such institu- tions can be. It should remind us of a four-year experience we once had that subsumed everything that we have since met, led us to those Olympian heights from which we saw (for once in our lives) the panoramic view, and from which many of us have had to scuttle, often with un- becoming haste. It should remind us that once in our lives: we ate im- mortal bread, we drank immortal wine.

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The fourteenth season of Studio Theatre officially began in October with a produc- tion of “Juno and the Paycock” by Sean O’Casey. Highlights of the extended sea- son will include major productions, special events, the second Western Canadian Edu- cational Theatre Conference, and the sec- ond season of the popular outdoor “Torches Theatre” in June through August.

There have been several new building openings since “The New Trail” last went to press. One of these was the Student Health Services Building located west of the Colonel Mewburn Pavilion and south of the Research Council of Alberta Build- ing. At the official ceremony the opening address was delivered by Dr. Walter H. Johns, President of the University, and a memorial plaque was unveiled by Dr. J. F. Elliott, clinical professor of medicine.

New facilities for the Faculty of Pharm- acy were also opened recently.

Up until 1949 the Faculty of Pharmacy had been housed in the Arts Building. In September of that year, the school moved into new quarters on the third floor of the Medical Building. They re- mained there until this year when they were moved to the main floor of the newly renovated Medical Sciences Building.

During the 1961-62 term, 197 under- graduates were enrolled in pharmacy, an increase of about 60 per cent in seven years.

Still another official opening was that of the new addition to the Engineering Build- ing. An outdoor function in September, the guest speaker on that occasion was Dr. G. A. Gaherty, chairman of the board of directors of Calgary Power Ltd.

Several major staff appointments were made to the University this fall. One of these was Miss Violet Archer, composer, pianist, teacher of theoretical subjects and composition, to the position of associate professor of music. Miss Archer, a gradu- ate of McGill and Yale, recently returned to live in Canada after teaching at Am- erican universities for several years. In addition to academic assignments at the University of Alberta she will act as music theory consultant to the Western Board of Music.

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An instuctor in musie at McGill from 1944 to 1947 and assistant professor of music at the University of Oklahoma from 1953 to 1961, Miss Archer taught two sum- mer sessions at the University of Alberta in 1948 and 1949.

William A. Preshing, assistant professor in the Faculty of Commerce, has been ap- pointed assistant professor and assistant dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Alberta, Calgary.

Mr. Preshing received B.Ed. and B.A. degrees from the University of Alberta in 1952 and 1957. In 1956 he was awarded a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Two University of Alberta scientists have been awarded grants by the Life Insur- ance Medical Research Fund in New York to conduct heart research.

Dr. Lawrence B. Smillie received $18,700 to conduct reserach on the structure of enzymes and proteins.

Dr. Charles W. Nash received $20,460 for research on how parts of the heart

and artery system react to drugs when there are certain other chemical changes in the body.

Dr. Bohdan R. Bociurkiw was recently elected president of the Canadian Associa- tion of Slavists. Dr. Bociurkiw is a special- ist in Soviet government in the department of political economy.

Dr. John A. Hostetler, member of the sociology department, was recently award- ed a “substantial” grant to study the edu- cational system of Alberta Hutterites by the United States department of health, education and welfare.

Fellowships and scholarships worth $67,- 590 have been awarded to 36 Canadians engaged in physical education and recre- ation.

Post-graduate scholarships of $2,000 for one year’s study were awarded to 17 ap- plicants, including Miss Patricia Austin, associate professor of physical education.

Included among recipients of smaller post-graduate scholarships were A. F. Af- fleck, associate professor of physical educa- tion, and Stephen Mendryk, associate pro- fessor of physical education.

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wa An employee with the provincial govern- ment since 1924, Munroe MacLeod, has retired as superintendent of the Edmonton suburban inspectorate.

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Dr. Betty Mitchell, staff member of the department of drama at the University of Alberta this year, was honored recently by the new Allied Arts Centre Theatre in Calgary.

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Dr. M. E. LaZerte was recently elected president of the Canadian College of Teachers.

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Robert H. C. Harrison has been appointed manager of the Calgary Downtown Busi- ness Association.

Dr. E. R. Tinkham is one of two ere- mologists (experts on desert life) in the United states.

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Dr. J. C. Jonason, inspector of high schools for Alberta, was recently elected president of the Canadian Association of School Superintendents and Inspectors.

29 Dr. Herbert E. Morris has been elected a vice-president of Monsanto Research Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Chemical Company.

"32 The principal of the Vermilion School of Agriculture since 1945, Newcombe N. Bent- ley, has resigned his position to accept a position with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Mr. Bentley will be staff officer at F.A.O. headquarters, Rome. "33 The head of the department of animal science, Dr. L. W. McElroy, has been awarded a fellowship by the Agricultural Institute of Canada. 35 Administering the affairs of a city the size of Vancouver is a man-size job, but the council has one woman in its strength of ten, Mrs. Marianne E. Linnell (nee Pear- son), chairman of Vancouver’s Civic Audi- torium Board.

36 L. Landucci has been appointed assist- ant superintendent of C.M. and S. with headquarters at Trail, B.C. ox A former chairman of the Calgary Public School Board and now on the staff of the University of Alberta, Calgary, Luther Goodwin, recently received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington. 38 W. G. Siddall has been appointed super- visor of budgetary control for C.M. and S. at Trail, B.C. °39 A Camrose pharmacist, M. R. Johnstone,

is the new president of the Alberta Phar- maceutical Association.

Orest N. Demco, personnel superintend- ent of Canadian Chemical Co. Ltd., has been elected president of the Personnel Association of Edmonton.

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The new deputy director of works for the Canadian Army is Lt.-Col. L. J. Brown.

R. P. Dixon was recently installed as president of the Alberta Institute of Agro- logists. Mr. Dixon is supervisor of dairy herd improvement for the Alberta depart- ment of agriculture.

42 The first full-time alumni secretary at the University of Alberta, J. C. G. Brown, was a recent visitor on the campus. Mr. Brown is with the department of external affairs in Ottawa.

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Of all the people who talk of the book they are going to write “someday”—few and far between are the ones who sit down and write it.

Not so with Edmonton housewife and former newspaper woman, Mrs. Wilfrid Walker (nee Margaret Macleod), who has

SALTER MEMORIAL PRIZE

The late F. M. Salter of the English department is shown seated in his office in the Arts Build- ing. Following his death a number of former students and friends, announced the establishment of an F. M. Salter Memorial Prize to be awarded annually to a student in the Shakespeare course, at the discretion of the department of English. Donations to the Prize are being welcomed and should

be made directly to the Bursar of the University.

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recently had her first novel, “Come Down From Yonder Mountain”, published by Longmans.

Dr. C. B. McPhail, associate professor and head of the department of public health dentistry at the University, was one of nine Canadian dentists honored with fel- lowships by the Canadian branch of the International College of Dentists.

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Ohio State University recently conferred a Master of Science degree on Dr. Alan D. Fee.

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Dr. G. W. Govier, dean of engineering at the University, has been appointed chair- man of the Alberta Oil and Gas Conserva- tion Board.

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Marcel Lambert, Progressive Conserva- tive MP for Edmonton West, is the new speaker of the House of Commons. He succeeds Roland Michener ’20, who was de- feated in the last election.

A Calgary born surgeon who has been making a name for himself in the United states for the past twelve years in back in Canada.

Dr. Lloyd D. McLean, 38, has accepted the dual appointment as professor of sur- gery at McGill University’s faculty of medicine and surgeon-in-chief at Mont- real’s Royal Victoria Hospital.

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Clare McDermott has left Peking after

25 months as Reuters correspondent there. "49

Dr. Fred N. Spackman has been appoint- ed resident in internal medicine in the Mayo Foundation at Rochester, Minnesota.

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Early in October Rev. Ed Mullen began administering to countless numbers of family and personal problems as the pas- toral director of the United Church In- stitute of Family and Personal Counselling with offices in Central United Church, Cal- gary.

At time of this writing it is the first Protestant church-endorsed family and personal counselling service in Canada.

Albert E. Hohol, administrative assist- ant of the West Jasper Place School Dis- trict has been named by the school board to succeed Dr. Peter Bargen ’59 as super- intendent. Dr. Bargen is leaving Jasper Place at the end of the year to become superintendent designate of the Edmonton Public School Board.

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Agricultural extension work in Africa is similar to, yet quite different from that in Alberta, according to Ron Harvie who re- cently returned to Edmonton from a three- year tour of Africa with the British Colon- ial Service.

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Both Mr. Harvie and his wife Peggy graduated from the University in 1951. Mrs, Harvie (nee Peggy Cross) received her B.Sc. in household economics in 1951.

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Wm. A. Preshing, associate professor in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, has been appoint- ed assistant dean of the Faculty of Com- merce at the University of Alberta, Cal- gary.

The University of North Dakota recently conferred a Master of Arts degree on George H. J. Porozny.

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Geraldine R. Grant was among 359 per- sons receiving master’s degrees from Long Beach State College at annual commence- ment exercises held recently.

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Rev. Ronald Dougan is one of two full- time hospital chaplains in Edmonton.

Sidney H. Simmonds has been awarded a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering by the University of Illinois.

While at the University he did research work in the field of structural engineering and geology.

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An engineer before taking his law degree at Dalhousie, John L. Lowery was recently presented to the Alberta Bar.

Vladimir Salyzyn has been appointed a member of the economics staff at the Uni- versity of Saskatchewan.

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The new president of the Edmonton Young Liberal Association is Edward Saddy.

After completing a research program at the University of Wisconsin medical school, Allan D. Rudzik received a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology.

A former president of the students’ Un- ion, Louis D. Hyndman, has been named executive assistant to the federal minister of citizenship and immigration, Hon. Robert A. Bell.

The State University of Iowa has award- ed a Ph.D. degree to John H. Terfloth.

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F/O P. B. Nelson and Mrs. Nelson (nee Lois Wynnychuk °55) have been posted to Goose Bay, Labrador.

Edwin M. Perrin was recently awarded a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.

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A former head of the engineering depart- ment and public relations officer with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Fred C. Jorgenson, has been appointed principal of the institution.

Mary P. Hendrickson recently received a Master of Arts degree from Ohio State University.

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Allister R. McKenzie who received a M.Sc. degree in agriculture at Fall Con- vocation has been awarded an Australian Commonwealth Scholarship for studying plant pathology. Mr. McKenzie is the first Alberta graduate to go to Australia under the Commonwealth plan. The scholarship is for a full two years with all expenses paid.

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A graduate student in the department of dairy science, John Engelhardt, has been awarded a $4,000 scholarship by the In- stitute of Food Technology.

John H. McNeill has assumed a position as lecturer at Dalhousie University.

A masters degree in business admini- stration from the University of Chicago was recently conferred on Cyril E. Sapiro.

Irene Prothroe will direct four plays next year for the Allied Arts Centre’s new resi- dent drama group in Calgary.

Miss Pat Jackson has joined the staff of the University of Saskatchewan as a physi- cal education instructor. Another Alberta graduate associated this year with U. of S. is Harold V. Weekes ’48, now an associate professor of English in the neighboring in- stitution.

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Mrs. Garvin McGettrick (nee Kathleen L. Newcombe) has been awarded a Master of Musie degree in music literature from the University of Rochester.

The new associate supervisor of 4-H Clubs in Alberta is Mrs. Louise Maguire (nee Roose). Mrs. Maguire was employed with the Canadian Western Natural Gas Company prior to her work with the Al- berta department of agriculture.

An employee of the Provincial Guidance Clinic, Miss Eveline Wheatley, was re- cently awarded a $350 bursary in social work by the Kinette Club of Edmonton.

Wallace B. Foss was recently awarded a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering by the Carnegie Institute of Technology.

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A. Buse was one of the recent winners of a Commonwealth Scholarship enabling him to take two years of post-graduate study in Britain.

G. R. Jorginson is now in Marville, France, teaching at the senior school there.

A Ford Foundation Fellowship for post- graduate study in law at Harvard Univer- sity was recently placed with Anton M. S. Melnyk. Mr. Melnyk won the George Bligh O’Connor Silver Medal in Law and the Carswell Prize in Law for third-year stu- dies while at the University of Alberta.

Donna K. Birdsell has been selected as a member of a group of twelve teachers to introduce the experience approach method of teaching in grade one in Toronto.

Medical Alumni Association

A successful dinner meeting of the M.A.A. was held in the Palliser Hotel early in October.

Several short reports were heard one of which indicated that the Association was in a healthy state financially and that the John J. Ower Memorial Trust Fund had be generously over-subscribed.

New M.A.A. executive officers are: Dr. Nelson Nix, past-president; Dr. A. L. Hep- burn, president; Dr. J. E. Bradley, vice- president; Dr. F. D. Conroy; Dr. L. John- ston; Dr. N. Bertrand.

In the course of the program Dr. J. B. T. Wood, class of ’37, toasted his Alma Mater. The reply was made by Dr. D. F. Camer- on, Assistant Dean of Medicine. Guest speaker for the evening was Dr. M. G. Taylor, Principal of the University of Al- berta, Calgary, who spoke on the topic “Higher Learning and Society.”

Dental Alumni Association

The eighth biennial meeting of the D.A.A. was held in Edmonton in September in conjunction with a refresher course on the campus.

The secretary-treasurer’s report indicat- ed that the Association’s bank balance was $662 and that the total approximate num- ber of dental graduates was in the neigh- borhood of 640. Dr. R. Laskin of the De- partment of Sociology at the University was guest speaker. His topic “Some Aspects of Medicare.”

New officers are: Dr. A. V. Calhoun, past president; Dr. D. M. Buchanan, president; Dr. R. W. Turner; and Dr. J. E. L. Mathie- son.

Toronto

A repeat picnic was held in September at “the old schoolhouse”, home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bevan, Kleinburg.

While we haven’t heard officially, we are assuming that it was a successful out- ing again in every way.

New branch officers are: Ben Tanner, president; Mike Bevan, past president; Mrs. Fred J. Heath, vice-president and secre- tary; J. Del McNeely, vice-president and treasurer; Mrs. Stan Ward, social convenor; Mrs. Ray Bassett, Mrs. Daniel Duff, Roger

DR. JOHN UNRAU

The Varsity Christian Fellowship Branch of the General Alumni Association has established a Fund to assist worthy students and graduates of the University of Alberta in the areas of Christian leadership and scholarship. This will be the Dr. John Unrau Memorial Fund. Dr. Unrau, prior to his death in March, 1961, was head of the Plant Science Department of the Faculty of Agriculture. During this period he served the V.C.F. chapter on campus as sponsor.

Contributions to the Fund may be sent to the following address: Box 661, University of Al- berta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Harding, Mrs. Brian Wallace, Don Brund- age, Clarence Gerbrandt, LeRoy Lees, and Stan Ward, executive members.

Early in November a meeting of the branch executive was planned with Dr. Johns, President of the University, who was enroute to Ottawa to attend a National Conference of Canadian Universities

Ottawa The presidency of the Ottawa branch of the G.A.A. has changed hands. The new incumbent is Mrs. T. I. (Donalda) Coram. Arrangements were also made to meet with President Walter Johns during his stay in the Capital City on November 6th and 7th.

ENROLMENT RISES

Approximately 8,250 daytime stu- dents are enrolled on the Edmonton campus this year. This represents a population increase of roughly 750 over last year’s registration of nearly 7,500.

The largest faculty on campus is education, with 2,004 registrants. This is followed by the faculty of science with 960 students and en- gineering with 842 students.

RESEARCH GRANT TO STUDY TREADMILL PERFORMANCE

A significant federal government National Fitness Research Grant of $17,750 has been awarded to the School of Physical Education.

The research, to be conducted by two members of the School of Physi- cal Education staff and two staff members of the Faculty of Medicine, will study the comparative effects of training in various sports as mea- sured by a treadmill performance test and certain physical measures.

The research team is made up of Drs. M. L. Howell and J. F. Alexand- er, School of Physical Education and Drs. B. J. Sproule and R. S. Fraser, Faculty of Medicine.

The Government of Canada Na- tional Fitness.Research Grants are designed to assist research personnel to investigate problems in the fitness field, thereby contributing materially to the improvement of the fitness of the people of Canada.

ALUMNI IN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

The University of Alberta has 20 of its graduates in External Affairs throughout the world. As such she stands second amongst universities of the four western provinces.

They are in Ottawa, J. C. G. Brown ’42, Glen Buick ’61, Ralph E. Collins ’35 °36, John A. Dougan ’42, J. D. Foote °42, P. M. Roberts ’49 ’51, Glen Shortliffe ’60, M. H. Wershof ’28 ’30 58; G. E. Hardy °48, Vien- na; Ivan L. Head ’51 ’52, Kuala Lumpur; B. A. Keith ’40, Tokyo; Arthur Kroeger ’55, New Delhi; G. C. Langille *40 °46, Quito, Equador; R. S. MacLean *49 ’50, Paris; T. P. Malone °36, The Hague; J. O. Parry 43 49, New York; C. A. Ronning ’39, Laos; H. B. Singleton ’50 ’53, Indochina; J. S. Stan- ford ’56, Paris; D. Stansfield ’39, Canberra.

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SCARGILL NAMED DEAN AT U.A.C,

Dr. M. H. Scargill, a senior mem- ber of the University staff, Calgary, has been appointed dean of U.A.C.’s faculty of arts and science.

Dr. Scargill moved to Calgary in 1959 after eleven years at the Uni- versity of Alberta in Edmonton. He was educated at the University of Leeds and the University of Michi- gan.

He is director of the Lexicographi- cal Centre for Canadian English located on the Calgary campus. He also is the author of four books and numerous articles and currently is one of three editors of a series of school dictionaries now being pub- lished in Canada.

He is a consultant for a new inter- national dictionary being prepared in Chicago.

VARSITY STRING QUARTET

The Board of Governors of the University of Alberta in cooperation with the Edmonton Symphony Society and the Calgary Philhar- monic Society has approved the formation of the University of Al- berta String Quartet.

This quartet will be the first sub- sidized professional quartet in West- ern Canada. It was brought into existence through the fine coopera- tive spirit which exists between the University of Alberta and the two symphony orchestras of the province.

The players are: Thomas Rolston, violin, assistant professor of music; Marguerite Marzantowicz, violin; Quenten Doolittle, viola, assistant professor of music education; Talmon Herz, cello, sessional instructor.

This quartet is not only the young- est permanent quartet in Canada but also the most unusual—the violist and cellist live in Calgary and the two violinists in Edmonton.

The musicians rehearse and play regularly in each orchestra as well as teaching at the two universities in Edmonton and Calgary. When emergency quartet rehearsals are called they think nothing of driving to Red Deer.

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MARRIAGES

Miss Marlene A. Anderson to Dale A. Lucas ’61

Miss Faye M. Bacon to Lorne R. Hatch ’61

Miss Sheila W. Bateman to John Hlynka ’59

Miss Jacqueline Berlinguette to Louis Parai °59

Miss Carol E. Bristow to Reginald F. Chandler ’62 Miss Bonnie N. Bryans ’61 to Alberto L. Borea

Miss Rosemary C. Burchell to Dr. Roger Tessier ’62 Miss Helen M. Casavant to David W. Mitchell ’61 Miss Catherine C. Christou ’57 to Ralph A. Thrall Jr. Miss Jeanie S. Clark ’41 to Alfred G. Tronningsdal Miss Ansley E. Day ’62 to Dr. William A. Armstrong ’62 Miss Donna Deeprose ’60 to Raphael A. Diaz

Miss Beverly A. Finlay ’62 to Thomas J. Sawyer ’61 Miss Marna D. Gant to Dr. Michael F. Gzaskow '62 Miss Emmy Giesenger to Dr. E. A. Rakochey °59 Miss Myrna M. Halvorson to Dr. Gary B. Gibson ’62 Miss Janet L. Henning to Donald Storch ’62

Miss Donna Huestis ’59 to Arnold Enger 57

Miss Michelle Jespersen to Dennis Mercer ’62

Miss Donna R. Kinlock ’59 to Douglas S. Eby

Miss Jean M. Kuzio ’59 to Jack N. Agrios ’59

Miss Carol J. S. Lang to Glen W. Lavold ’62

Miss Lorraine B. Law ’61 to Ronald H. Brown

Miss Margaret I. Lynch to Leon F. Thomas ’59

Miss Patricia McCleary ’58 to Garry Meadus ’59

Miss Helen B. McKee ’59 to Al L. Maberley ’60

Miss Sheila Maloney to Christopher Davidson ’60 Miss Turid Minsos ’61 to David McLean °59

Miss Jane A. Montgomery to Kenneth R. Schrag ’62 Miss Barbara M. Murphy ’61 to John J. P. Kehoe ’62 Miss Jehryl Mustard to Robert G. Walsh ’61

Miss Lynne Newcombe ’61 to Garvin McGettrick Miss Jacqueline A. Oliver to Dr. John N. Nasedkin 759 Miss Kathleen P. Power to John D. Dewar 755

Miss Judith A. Prochinsky to Robert W. Cook ’62 Miss Linda J. Rennie ’62 to Allan A. Warrack ’61 Miss Phyllis G. Roos ’61 to William G. Webster ’61 Miss Dora Schnell 56 to William Bilko °58

Miss Sharon A. Seymour to Edwin N. Turner ’59 Miss Barbara J. Shortreed ’56 to Dr. Howard W. Whitlock Miss Patricia Smith 62 to Douglas G. Scraba ’61 Miss Patricia M. Sturko to Edward G. Hauptmann ’60 Miss Joan E. Woywitka to Daniel R. Prowse 59

Miss Arlene M. Young to Richard A. Nobbs ’§2

DEATHS

Rev. Thomas John Stainton ’18—a pioneer of the United Church in Al- berta.

Donald Bruce MacKenzie ’28—prominent Edmonton lawyer and veteran of World War II.

Mabel F, Jobe ’39—a graduate in household economics.

Floyd Lutic ’50—vice-principal of the Airdrie school.

John O. Sibley ’55—chief geologist for Medallion Petroleum Ltd.

Dr. William Copeland McCalla ’56—known internationally for his work in botanical fields.

Dr. Donald Neil MacCharles ’59—well-known Medicine Hat physician and surgeon.

Dr. Garnet H. Cutler—organizer of the first field crops department at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Claude Vernon Jamieson—head of the department of oto-laryngology at the University until 1932.

Rev. Dr. Robert Erskine Pow—prominent church figure throughout West- ern Canada.

Dr. R. A. Rooney—honorary professor of prosthetic dentistry.

@ The date... . Friday, February 22nd, to coincide with Varsity Guest Weekend on the campus The occasion... TENTH ANNUAL ALUMNI HOMECOMING BAN- QUET AND BALL The place... The Macdonald Hote! The time... Reception, 6 p.m.; Banquet, 7 p.m. The special classes . . .112, ‘13, ‘37, ‘38 The theme... Silver and Gold The fare... $10 per couple

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