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Volume 31, Number 2
Winter 1975

The University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta

Contents

2 The Battle of the Crows and
other Rowan Escapades
From the papers of E.A. Corbett,
with an introduction by
Jeanette Rothrock,
New Trail Staff
6 Student Loans: Bonus or Burden?
by Sylvia Vance, New Trail Staff
8 The Six Dowagers—a history of
the first buildings on campus
by New Trail Staff

13. What kind of Trail?

15 The University of Alberta
Senate—an unbiased appraisal
by Neil Henry, Executive
Officer of the Senate

16 Campus Reporter

20. The Alumni

22. = Alumni Fall Homecoming 1975

24 The Branches

Editor
Advisory Committee

Jeanette Rothrock

Willard Allen (Associate Vice-
President, Academic), Chairman
Neil Henry (Executive Officer
of the Senate)

Alex Markle

Jeanette Rothrock
A.G.Markle

A.S.Knowler

Richard Kerr

Esther Fraser

Greg Hickmore

Chris Standring

Sylvia Vance

Alumni Affairs Editor
Business Manager
Design

Staff

Published by The University of Alberta for its alumni and friends.
Editorial Office: University Publications Office, telephone 432-4991.
Contents copyright The University of Alberta: requests to reprint
material may be directed to the Editor.

William Rowan (1891-1957) was the first Head of the Zoology
Department, and a pioneering researcher in his chosen field. This
Department, and the University, honored him this year by
designating a “Rowan Memorial Term” in which zoologists at the
University took a new look at the field that Rowan started: the
effects of light on animal life. This year marks the fiftieth
anniversary of Rowan’s first publication on the importance of the
photoperiod (day length) in triggering migration and reproductive
behavior of birds.

In a mid-November commemorative symposium called “Light
and Animal Life,” zoologists reported on diverse photobiological
effects from the subcellular to the population level: biochemistry of
vision, daily and annual rhythms in animal behavior, schooling of
fish, navigation, hibernation, migration of species as various as sea
turtles, coral reef fishes, blood parasites, tropical birds, microscopic
stream invertebrates, and evolving mammals in the age of
dinosaurs—all affected in some way by the light environment.

Scholarly visitors brought in for the symposium presented
seminars on the role of the pineal gland in birds, light and human
medicine, and the role of reflectors in vision. Jean Lauber,
Associate Professor of Zoology, who organized the symposium, said
“In the call for papers, | told people they could choose any topic,
as long as the word ‘light’ appeared in the title—it was amazing
what people came up with. Light has some kind of effect on almost
everything animals and humans do. There was even a paper on the
possibility of ‘light pollution’.”

The Zoology Department has also provided a more permanent
memorial to Professor Rowan by designating one of its laboratories,
Room CW306 Biological Sciences Building, as the Rowan Memorial
Laboratory. A zinc plaque on the door so designates the room. On
the walls inside are hung Rowan’s picture and his Flavelle Medal
from the Royal Society of Canada, as well as a number of
photographic enlargements of Rowan’s animal sketches and
drawings. “We want to be sure that every one of our Zoology
students of the future is made aware of the contribution to biology
by William Rowan,” said Chairman of Zoology, J.R. Nursall.

The> Battle> of the> Gows
and> other ‘Rowan Freapades?

Left, William Rowan with his pet squirrel. Right, A sketch by
Rowan of the Champlain Monument and Post Office in Quebec.

from the papers of E.A. Corbett,

in the University Archives

There were certain extra-curricular activities which occupied my
time as Director of Extension at the University of Alberta and one
of them, which had nothing whatever to do with my
responsibilities, | would like to include at this point simply because
it makes what I think is a good story.

One of the most interesting characters among the professors at
the University of Alberta in my day was William Rowan, PhD, DSc,
head of the Department of Zoology. Rowan [was] a graduate of
London University and came to Alberta in 1920, about the same
time as | arrived on the scene. During the sixteen years | was on
staff at the University of Alberta, Rowan was a next door neighbor
of mine. Our youngsters played together and shortly after my
arrival we became friends.

My first meeting with him occurred when he telephoned me to
come over to his lab for tea. He handed me a poisonous looking
mixture of tea and Klim with his right hand, while in his left hand
he held up for my inspection a cat’s brain which he said was “a
most beautiful specimen.” He flipped the gory specimen into some
sort of container, picked up a plate of biscuits and passed them
around. That was my first and last tea with Professor Rowan.

He used to drive a battered old Model-T Ford with flapping
curtains and when on a Saturday he took his wife and five small
children out on shooting or specimen-hunting trips, he had a
chicken wire contraption around the back seat to keep the kids
from falling out. He looked for all the world like a poultry-man on
the way to market with the youngsters like chickens peering out
from their wired cage.

He was completely devoted to teaching and research, but his
hobbies were shooting, sketching and music, at all of which he was
especially good. Since my hobbies were shooting and golf, we met
only on one level of interest—the destruction of prairie chicken,
wild ducks, geese, and Hungarian partridge. He recognized my
total lack of scientific knowledge and on our trips together he
never discussed his work with me. When | watched him break a

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hole in the ice of Beaver Lake in zero weather and immerse
himself, completely naked, to dredge up from the bottom some
sort of submarine goo, | hadn’t the remotest idea what he was
after. Once when he was thus occupied, an enormous flight of
blue-bills appeared in the offing. Rowan ran out of the lake,
grabbed his gun and for the next half-hour with nothing on but a
ragged old sweater over his bare body, blazed away until the flight
had passed.

Rowan’s gun was an ancient model, a number 12 double
barrelled hammer gun in which the action was so rickety that only
he would dare to handle it. He had a theory that a shotgun should
never have its barrels cleaned, and as long as | knew him, his
“fowling piece” looked like something out of a museum.

| only became interested in his scientific experiments when
Rowan announced in 1932 that he intended to capture 500 crows
alive. If you have ever attemted to capture one crow alive you will
understand what a colossal undertaking this was bound to be. All
that summer, with the help of students, professors, boy scouts, and
farmer friends, Rowan went about this business of catching live
crows with all the single-minded devotion of an Aimee Semple
MacPherson “bringing in the sheaves.” We worked a good deal of
the time at Beaver Lake, where there were millions of crows. We
used all sorts of contraptions, paper cups with bird lime in them,
not very successful; traps, etc., but the most effective method
proved to be a series of fish nets hoisted on twenty-foot poles. This
operation had to be carried out after dark, and Rowan found the
ideal place for it on the outskirts of Edmonton. Here there was a
small valley with thick groves of poplar trees on the south and
north.

One night in the fall of 1932 three or four carloads of boy scouts,
students, and other ranks, myself included, repaired to this scene of
battle. We carried sticks and flashlights and we advanced in single
file towards the bushes on the south side of the Saskatchewan
River. The nets had been set up in a line of about fifty yards in the
little valley. The theory was that by flashing our lights and banging
the trees, the crows would fly across to the north side of the valley,

and in their flight run head on into the nets. When this happened,
as it did, the nets which were operated on pulleys were quickly
dropped by two lads stationed by the two poles, and the crows,
sometimes as many as two dozen, were disentangled and placed in
gunny sacks. The operation was then repeated from the north side.

It happened that there was a small Catholic church nearby and
the caretaker and his wife lived in an adjoining cottage. That
summer there had been a great deal of excitement concerning the
activities of a Klu Klux Klan organization, led by a man by the name
of Maloney or Mahoney. There had been fiery crosses burned on
the hills in various parts of Alberta and incendiary speeches and
demonstrations against Roman Catholics. The aged caretakers,
aroused by the sound of marching feet, the crash of sticks on trees,
the shouts of the marauders, looked out their window and saw
what appeared to be a torch-lit army approaching through the
woods. They were convinced the Klu Klux Klan was on the move
and the church would be burned down. They immediately
telephoned the Edmonton police and in a few minutes a carload of
cops appeared on the scene.

It was a little difficult for Rowan to explain exactly what he was
trying to do, but most of the police were aware of the fact that
strange things go on inside university laboratories and the lads
departed, more convinced than ever that professors are queer fish.
The newspapers got hold of the story and for the next year Rowan
and his crows were a constant source of interest and amusement to
the press. Rowan became the most widely publicized character in
the university.

Well, what was he trying to do?

For several years Rowan was studying bird migration and two
striking facts emerged from his investigations: first the incredible
regularity of migratory movements, particularly of the larger
species; second the advanced state of the gonads of birds coming
north through the Edmonton district. In view of the theories then
current, the migratory journey was just an expression of sexual
behavior. Therefore, Rowan argued, if one could artificially
stimulate the gonads to the customary spring excitement in the fall,
they might be sufficiently bemused by love to go north in the
winter instead of south (a consummation not unknown among
human beings similarly excited).

Rowan began experimenting with this idea as early as 1924. In the
fall of that year he had trapped a number of juncos and divided
them between two aviaries made of packing cases and discarded
mosquito netting. These stood in the back yard of Rowan’s house,
far removed from any sources of extraneous warmth. Up to that
time many scientists believed that the gonadal development in
birds depended on the rising temperatures of spring. In order to
eliminate the warmth factor, the birds must be kept in a cold
temperature and submitted to artificial lighting all night long.

Of this experiment Rowan said, “l was probably the only person
in Edmonton hoping for low temperatures, but my wishes were
amply granted, the minimum to which my birds were exposed
being 52 degrees below zero Fahrenheit—84 degrees of frost.”

“In spite of such drastic temperatures, the males of the
experimental aviary began to sing during December and were in
fact developing spring testes. The controls next door, under the
shortening days normal to fall, attained a minimal stage of
development in October at which they remained stationary through
the winter.”

(The controls were kept in darkness at night while the others
lived in a blaze of light.)

Experiments of this kind were continued for several years, but
one of the major difficulties was that it was impossible to tell with
these small birds whether, on release, they went north, south, east
or west, and to quote Rowan: “It became apparent that we would
have to find better guinea pigs of the airways, birds universally
familiar and large enough to be followed on release, and

unprotected by law, so that we could legally ask the public to
collect them for us. The obvious answer was the crow, omnivorous
and easy to keep, avian vermin that might be shot by anyone at any
time and a species that migrates in Alberta with great regularity.”

By 1931 Rowan had 500 crows available for the great experiment.
Having trapped the crows, they were released in large chicken-wire
cages built on the banks of the Saskatchewan River on the south
side, just west of the High Level Bridge. The experimental cage was
100 feet long, lit with twenty-five 500 watt standard electric light
bulbs.

“Food consisted of all the rotten eggs that Edmonton candlers
could produce, the entire output of dogs and cats from the city
pound, an occasional horse; hundreds of pounds of fish, cabbages,
stale loaves, buttermilk, etc. When we finally released them with
tails resplendent with the most brilliant Duco obtainable—they
were crows to be proud of.” (from a paper presented to the Royal
Society of Canada in 1946)

Before the crows were released in November, 1931, a campaign
appealing for co-operation was initiated through the press and
radio and rewards offered for every yellow-tailed, highly sexed
crow caught or shot anywhere. To make doubly sure of the validity
of his experiment, Rowan chartered a rickety old airplane from the
now famous Grant McConnachie and flew three or four crates of
the crows south to the vicinity of Medicine Hat, where they were
to be released on the same day as those in Edmonton.

In 1929, when Rowan had carried out his first more limited
experiment with crows, the birds had been liberated in Edmonton
in November long after the last wild crow had gone. Both controls
and experimentals had been liberated at the same time. If Rowan’s
theory was correct, the yellow-tailed experimentals would fly north
and northwest and the controls would high-tail it for a warmer
climate.

After a few days of breathless expectation, reports began to come
in. A squatter’s wife on the Athabasca River, one hundred miles
north of Edmonton, had learned of the experiment and the reward
on the radio and sent in the first one. Two substantial flocks were
reported as having been seen on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake,
about 150 miles north of Edmonton nine days after their release.
But in the main, the experiment did not offer enough evidence to
establish Rowan’s theory. One of the reasons for this was the
enormous stretches of sparsely settled country north and northwest
of Edmonton and the difficulty of recapturing specimens.

In 1931 it was decided to release some of the birds 250 miles
southeast of Edmonton so that the experimental birds would have
some 300 miles of settled country ahead of them as they travelled
north and west. The intention was to fly the birds down to
Medicine Hat in southeastern Alberta and then turn them out.

“Through circumstances beyond our control,” said Rowan, “we
came down at less than half the distance at a small place called
Hackett and sixty miles west of Hackett once again began the
limitless wilderness. Once more we lost fifty percent of our
illuminated (northbound) group, but less than thirty percent of the
rest... . To summarize at this point: north-bound birds came
entirely from the illuminated groups and to this there was no
exception. All other groups either did not travel at all or went
south.”

During all this time Rowan, who was an excellent teacher, carried
on his class work but spent an increasing amount of time in the
field. Wherever he went he was news. This was partly due to the
spectacular character of much of his experimental work, but also to
a well-developed dramatic sense, a gift for humorous description of
the experiments he was carrying on; and a devilish delight in giving
newsmen highly colored yarns about animals, birds, and fish. The
newspapers were full of stories, vastly exaggerated, about his
exploits. The result was that he was so widely known that it was
never difficult for him to obtain the co-operation of farmers, boy

scouts, or the RCMP when he needed assistance.

The results of this experiment are told in a small book published
by Rowan, and they are sufficiently well established to confirm his
theories regarding bird migration and win him a Doctorate in
Science from the University of London.

One of the stories about Rowan appeared in a Toronto
newspaper just before the Second World War. According to the
news report, taken from a London paper and which | happened to
catch purely by chance, Dr. William Rowan, Canadian scientist,
carrying out certain researches in London was vastly intrigued by
the fact that enormous groups of starlings came into London from
the suburbs every night and parked themselves on the roof of the
National Gallery on Trafalgar Square and other surrounding
buildings. One night coming out of a Westend theatre, Rowan,
whose ear is trained to the sound of every bird note, in spite of the
roar of taxis and buses, heard the sounds of the twittering birds,
saw hundreds of them on the surrounding roofs and his curiosity
was aroused. Why should starlings, the most nervous of birds, leave
the bossy dells of Surrey and Middlesex and crowd into the city at
night as if, like human beings, they loved the blare of lights and the
city noises?

He immediately decided to collect samples, take them to the
University College lab and examine their innards. (Gonads, |
suspect. Great fellow for gonads, was Rowan.) According to the
news story, one dark night in January he repaired to the roof of the
National Gallery with his trusty shotgun and a supply of No. 6 shells
and waited till the theatres were out and the noise of the crowds
and the city traffic would drown the reports of his shots. He blazed
away at the starlings. Some of them fell on the roof and others
flopped in the iron-railed moat around the building. Rowan picked
up those on the roof, descended to the moat and was furtively
picking up his birds when one of London’s Finest looked over the
railing and said “Nah, then, Wot goes on ’ere?”

William Rowan trained as an artist before he became a zoologist.

Among his many wildlife drawings are these of Canada geese and

a screech owl, the latter a rare bird in Alberta even in Rowan’s time.

If this adventure had taken place on Jarvis Street, Toronto, Rowan
would probably have been shot. But in London cops have had a lot
of experience in dealing with mad people and Rowan was politely
escorted to the nearest police station, where he explained that he
was not trying to steal a Rembrandt, just collecting a few specimens
for laboratory tests. He was warned about the law against shooting
off firearms in the heart of London, and at 2 a.m. he was at work in
his lab. What he discovered would probably require a dissertation
before the Royal Society of Canada, but the incident made a front
page story and finally found its way into Canadian papers.

In 1935 L.W. Brockington, at that time City Solicitor of Calgary,
spoke at the monthly meeting of the Philosophic Society of the
University of Alberta. Convocation Hall was packed to the doors
and | doubt if there has ever been so much laughter in that hall
before or since. During the course of his remarks, he referred in
passing to Rowan and his crows, and read a poem of his own
composition which ran as follows:

Twa corbies sat on a Rowan Tree

And they were fey as fey could be.
And the yin unto the tither did say,
“Where shall we migrate this fine day?

The year is late, the snows doon fa’
But something stirring within my glands

Turns my thoughts to northern lands.”

As one of the crows with his painted tail flies off
towards the north, the other one alone on the tree and
all ready to take off for Florida says:

Yon corby must be foo or fey
Wha can love in December as he does in May.

by Sylvia Vance, New Trail Staff

It was a sunny spring day, and the graduates looked slightly
embarassed in their new clothes and shiny shoes. Some caps and
gowns were askew, but most were primly in place. Parents looked
fondly on their children, and younger brothers and sisters were
either proud or annoyed, depending on their age. It was an
important day in the graduates’ lives: degree in hand they were
stepping out into the “real” world.

The real world had a different set of expectations. While
students, they were expected to be only that. But graduation
implies a secure and fulfilling job, perhaps marriage, a family, and a
new home. For those graduating to a severe debt, many of these
expectations would remain unaccomplished. One may achieve job
security, but with payments on student loans due, the time to select
a rewarding and challenging job is not available. Marriage may be
possible but financially impractical. If partners in a marriage believe
that one or the other should remain in the home to care for young
children and both have student loans, having children must be
postponed, or, in the case where the couple has graduated in their
late twenties, a decision against a family is the only practical one.
Saving for a down payment on a home is out of the question.

Loans for those in need are available in Alberta. The Provincial
Student Finance Board has set guidelines for students which outline
expected contributions from summer savings and assist students
in preparing a budget by suggesting the amount one can request
for such things as room, board, books, and clothing. But most
students do not realize the magnitude of the debt they are incurring,
nor do they realize what is entailed in repaying the debt.

Dick Kimmis, a student counsellor who sees students with problems
complicated by debt, feels that no student should be allowed to
borrow over $3,000 without counselling and budget advice. Patti
Browne, Assistant Dean of Education, who interviews a number of
incoming Education students, does not believe that any amount
of money should be loaned without required briefing on the
possibilities of repayment difficulties. She states that many of the
people she has dealt with had no idea of what their future income
might be in terms of what their living standards might demand of
that income. None of the students | interviewed realized that their
loan had a floating interest rate (interest is calculated at the rate
prevalent at the time the loan is consolidated, not at the time the
money is borrowed). While the number of students interviewed
was minimal in comparison to the number who have student
loans, the interviews did confirm other statements made about
the general lack of knowledge regarding the student loan system.

Those students who recognize the burden of debt are affected in
other ways. Another student interview revealed the situation of a
woman who had worked two years in order to save enough money
to attend University and was now working three days a week as
well as carrying a full course load. Although she stated that her
marks were good, she also admitted that she only worked, slept,
and went to school. The social time she allowed, Saturday night,
was usually spent sleeping—she was simply too tired to go out. One
has to admire her perseverence, but an aspect of her education of
some value, that of engaging in social activities with individuals
from many backgrounds and the ability to become a part of the
University community, was sadly lacking.

Decisions regarding programs are also affected. The 1971 Honors
Program Study states that “It should also be realized that Honors
students in fourth year are often under some degree of financial
strain.” In some cases, students may decide not to continue with an
Honors program since one year of school with full financial
assistance means $1,500 or more of debt. If one is taking an Honors
program in the Arts, the debt is incurred generally without any
knowledge of what kind of job or what level of income to expect at
graduation.

The 1973 Senate Task Force on Student Finance Summary of

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Guidelines suggests that “In contrast to present policies, we support

a system of income contingency repayment where loans may be
repaid over variable period of time, depending on the ability to
repay.” As yet, the policy of repayment has not been changed, and

although salaries have generally increased since the publication of
. the Task Force Report, many Arts graduates, at that time 60 per
cent, are still making less than $500 per month. If a student has
borrowed throughout a four-year program, the repayment scheme
may require $100 a month or one-fifth of that person’s income.
Budgeting the remaining $400 could prove difficult, especially if
there is a family to support.
Of the groups of students who borrow money to finance their
education, the single parent carries the heaviest burden. The
| amount borrowed is greater than that borrowed by a single person,
and there is little hope of being able to support children and make
loan payments on the wages received after graduation. Most of
these people have been recipients of social assistance before
attending University and are going into debt in order to take some
pride in eventually being able to support their families. In contrast
to the prevalent attitude towards those receiving social assistance,
they are taking steps towards “self improvement.” Yet, the
Department of Health and Social Development provides no
assistance for those who wish to further their education in this
manner. They will pay for a maximum two year program directed
towards employment. Again, the difficulty occurs in the repaying,
not in the borrowing, of the loan. An income contingency
repayment would not be satisfactory in these cases. Even though a
single parent may make a good wage, the cost of maintaining a
family and repaying the loan could be in excess of that salary.

In comparison with other provinces, Alberta’s repayment scheme
is similar to that of British Columbia. Saskatchewan’s scheme
appears to be more realistic. The student is allowed six months
interest free (as in British Columbia and Alberta) and one month
interest free for every $50 borrowed. Under these guidelines,
students could pay back $50 per month and pay off their debt
without ever paying interest. If the balance of the loan is not: paid
in the time allowed, a flat 6 per cent is charged. Moreover, the loan
systems of different provinces are not comparable. Saskatchewan,
for example, has a large number of $1,000 bursaries available. These
bursaries are comparable to the Province of Alberta grants of the
1960s. Loans would only need be taken out if the students’
requirements exceeded that amount Although solicited
information from Ontario has not yet arrived, one person
interviewed had applied to that province, even though he did not
think he filled the residency requirement, since Ontario will only
lend up to $800. Any justified amount requested over this ceiling is
given in bursary.

None of the students interviewed felt that they should be
completely supported while attending University. Most felt that
marks should be taken into account in a consideration by the
province of remissions on loans or a bursary system. At present,
one may receive a remission of up to 25 percent on his or her
Alberta Student Loan depending on a policy which changes from
year to year. In one instance a remission may depend on a
residency requirement of three years, in another it may depend on
contributions from summer employment or by parents. Although
the remission policy should be flexible, the student has Jittle
recourse if she has been passed over. No statement of policy can
be received from Provincial Student Finance, and, as a result, no
student can easily appeal what may have been an arbitrary decision.
Students also felt that a briefing regarding the obligation of loans
would be helpful, and all felt that a more flexible and generous
loan and repayment scheme should be implemented and that
bursaries and grants should be available to those with proven ability
and need. Our prosperous and progressive Alberta government
should agree.

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There is a handful of buildings fixed in the several nostalgias of all
the people who have graduated from The University of Alberta
over the past half-century. In 1925, all that comprised the University
campus were the three residences, Athabasca, Assiniboia, and
Pembina, the Arts and Medical Buildings, and, of course, St.
Stephen’s College, already an affiliate of the University for
seventeen years. The “temporary” North and South Labs had also
been built, as had the Power Plant. Of these, all but North Lab
remain.

Over the past few years, the future of several of these buildings
has come into question. It may be that some will be demolished.
Graduates of the future may look back with something less than
fond memories of afternoons spent searching for elusive classes in
the Tory Building or gazing at wall after wall of textured concrete.

Those who have been close to those oldest six buildings at one
time or another may well ask how much longer these structures will
be allowed to survive as reminders of the past and corners of
genteel collegial tradition in a very modern, very large campus.

St. Stephen’s College
St. Stephen’s College, although not officially part of the University,
has been an affiliate since 1908, before either the College or the
University had any buildings on their present site. It was established
by the Methodist Church under the name of Alberta College in
1903, well before the Methodists and Presbyterians joined to form
the United Church of Canada. In its earliest years the College was
an affiliate of McGill University in Montreal.

The red brick structure of St. Stephen’s College, completed in
1910 at a cost of $140,000, was the first building of any kind on

campus, not counting a derelict barn. The founders of the College
were the first to take advantage of the University Senate’s 1909
decision to allow sites on campus for denominational colleges.
Seventeen years later, a site was similarly provided for St. Joseph’s
College.

In 1954, St. Stephen’s required renovating. The building was
rewired, the grounds were landscaped, the north and south
entrance steps were rebuilt, and a new organ and carpet were
purchased for the chapel. By 1972, however, the College had
relocated to a newer building just south of the old one. The college
board decided to demolish old St. Stephen’s since it needed
extensive repairs and the College residence was unable to compete
with other newer and better equipped residences. That decision
was postponed at the last minute to accommodate the Alberta
Child Development and Research Foundation, which had arranged
to lease the main floor for offices on the condition that they
maintain two other floors which were being used for student
housing. The terms of this lease expired last June and a new lease
has not been signed. The repairs needed to bring the building up
to modern standards are beyond the means of the College and,
while there are those at the University who are reluctant to see the
old building go, University funds are not available for an
undertaking of such magnitude. Tenders for demolition have been
set aside temporarily, but St. Stephen’s fate continues to dangle
uncertainly before a variety of boards and committees.

The three residences

The three residence halls, Athabasca, Assiniboia, and Pembina,
were the earliest University buildings on campus. Athabasca was
opened in 1911 and housed staff and students as well as providing
teaching, library, and administrative facilities. Just over a year later

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1. The class of ’25 will remember the University
campus as it is here with the manicured lawns
in front of the Arts Building, a playing field
where St. Joseph’s College now stands, and the
three residences in a location which is relatively
secluded from the rest of the campus. 2. The
old Medical Building (now Dentistry-Pharmacy
Building) in 1929 before additions doubled the
existing space. 3. The back of St. Stephen’s
College complete with those unique cylindrical
fire escapes designed to evacuate the sick on
mattresses when the building was used as a
convalescent hospital for veterans of World War 1.
4. The stained glass windows of the Chapel
located at the north corner of St. Stephen’s
College.

Assiniboia was opened to relieve a state of congestion that the
University has seldom been without. Reg Lister’s memoirs recall the
scene of Athabasca’s early days.

The building stood by itself, surrounded by bush. Where the Arts
Building now stands, were an abandoned basement excavated in
1908, and two old shacks. There were no sidewalks or roads. The
trails to Athabasca came around sloughs or across the field from 112
Street. There were no trucks or cars in those days and everything
had to be hauled by horse and wagon ... bricks, stone, lumber,
furniture, equipment. It was quite a job and often the wagons
would get stuck in mud up to the axles.

In 1913 work was completed on the Athabasca Annex, which for
years was the social centre of the campus, holding the dining room
and gymnasium.

During the same year there were difficulties in obtaining funds
to build the third residence, which was to be called Pembina Hall.
The Board of Governors had been counting on its completion for
the 1914-15 academic year, for the University’s growth had been
such that Pembina would be indispensible by then. To complicate
matters, it had become virtually impossible to get contractors to
tender for the building because of the University’s remote location.
As a result, the University’s administrators were forced to take
greater responsibility for the design and construction of the
buildings being erected as well as those being planned. Cecil
Burgess was then hired to teach architecture in the Faculty of
Applied Science and to supervise construction on campus. One of
his first actions was to reject the wood frame construction which
had been used for Athabasca, Assiniboia, and St. Stephen’s College,
in favor of concrete, which was used for Pembina and which was an
important factor in saving Pembina from demolition.

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1. Pembina’s doors were officially reopened on November 27, 1975
after more than a year of facelifting and pulling up the slack of its
internal workings. Opening ceremonies included as guests Maimie
Simpson and Mrs. J. Grant Sparling, Deans of Women and Matrons
of Pembina from 1951 to 1960 and 1960 to 1968 respectively. 2. To
the credit of its restorers, the foyer of Pembina Hall has changed
little since this photo was taken in 1935. Carpeting has been added
and the ferns have yet to be replaced, but essentially the room
remains the same. 3. An Egyptian motif transforms the dining hall of
Athabasca in preparation for one of the annual dances.

provided for the renovation and possible extension of the old
residences. Less than a year later, the Board of Governors
abandoned this part of the plan and actually passed a motion to
have all three buildings demolished and replaced by a phased
development of modern housing for graduate students.

By 1971 Athabasca Hall had been closed and Assiniboia
converted to office space. Pembina was still used as a women’s
residence, but its days appeared to be numbered. Meanwhile a
reaction to this trend of discarding the past was growing on
campus, and in response to protests by students and staff, the
Board reversed its decision to raze the old residences. Now a
program of extensive renovations has begun, starting with Pembina,
whose concrete structure made it least costly to restore.

The most urgent renovations had to do with bringing the old
buildings up to fire and safety code standards, installing interior fire
doors and fire stairs, for instance. Mechanical, fire alarm, and
electrical systems had to be replaced completely, and new utility
services had to be installed.

The exteriors of all three buildings are still in good condition,
but, except for Pembina, renovation will mean virtually gutting the
old residences and replacing the wooden frames, floors, and
staircases. The costs involved could compare with the cost of
constructing an entirely new building.

Pembina’s renovation was completed this fall, and, after a year’s
sabbatical, the building is back in harnass as a residence for senior
students. Every care was taken to preserve the original charm of the
old residence—the dark wood, polished marble, and cozy parlors
all remain, and so does the tradition.

Athabasca and Assiniboia are pateintly waiting their turns. With
the exception of a small post office in the basement, Athabasca was

closed in 1971 for reasons of safety. Assiniboia Hall is being used as
office space, its years as a residence long past.

But the wait appears to be drawing to a close. Tenders will be
received in the new year for the interior reconstruction of
Athabasca. If all goes as planned, it should be finished by the last
half of 1977, and possibly by then the long wait will be over for
Assiniboia too.

The Arts Building

Sixty years ago this fall, the Arts Building, the University’s first
teaching building, was officially opened. That opening was recalled
by R.K. Gordon, who for many years was a professor of English and
at one time Dean of Arts and Sciences.

At last the Arts Building was finished. It was formally opened in the
fall of 1915 with a special convocation of impressive length and with
so many speeches that the last three were mercifully cancelled.
Honorary degrees were bestowed. A gilt key, made of wood, was
presented on a cushion of the Chairman of the Board to the
Chancellor, as a sign that the building was now open.

An old geography textbook published in 1910, the same year
that St. Stephen’s College was built, includes an artist’s rendering of
a building it called “the University of Alberta.” Remarkably, the
building bears no resemblance to any one structure on campus
then or since. Instead, it appears to be a combination of several, St.
Stephen’s College, with its twin turrets, and the three residences,
with wings at right angles to the central spine. Further investigation
led to the conclusion that the drawing may have been based on an
earlier plan for the Arts Building, which, for some reason had been
rejected. It appears that at one time it had been intended that the
motif established in St. Stephen’s College, the first building on

1. Opened in 1915, the Arts Building provided enough
administrative and teaching facilities to enable the residences to
return to their primary function of housing the staff and students.
2. The memorial organ was dedicated in 1923 to those lost in World
War |. Damage from humidity and age have necessitated the

purchase of a new one.

campus, be continued in the Arts Building. The architect of the
unused design was apparently R.P. Blakey, provincial architect for
Alberta. If R.P. Blakey had had his way, the campus may have taken
on quite a different appearance.

Instead, the Arts Building was designed by a Montreal architect,
Percy E. Knobbs, who in fact designed the University’s first detailed
long range plan. Included in Knobbs’s plan for the Arts Building
was an allegorical sculpture of Ancient Learning as an old man with
a lamp and a scroll and Modern Learning as a woman with an open
book on her lap and a globe at her feet, all perched magnificently
atop the central entrance. The unfortunate (or fortunate)
combination of a shortage of stoneworkers and insufficient funds
prevented the sculpture from ever being executed. The limestone
blocks for the proposed sculpture had been brought from Quebec
and Indiana, machine-cut in Eastern Canada, shipped west, and set
into position above the main doorway, where they remain to this
day, unchiselled, a conversation piece to those who observe them.

What began innocently enough as a request to the Board for
replacement of the organ in Convocation Hall has snowballed into
preliminary studies on renovating Con Hall and possibly the whole
Arts Building. Before the organ can be installed, the heat, humidity,
and ventilation systems will all have to be brought under control;
dust will pose another problem: increased dust levels from any
renovations undertaken after the installation of the organ could
cause severe damage to it. Funds have already been approved by
the Board of Governors to hire consultants who will determine the
extent of modification required by Con Hall before the new organ
can be installed, and serious thought is already being given to the
rest of the Arts Building. It has been found, for instance, that as a
result either of its Montreal architect’s foresight or sheer good luck,

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1. This belfry-like structure crowning the Medical Building has been
the object of nearly as much scorn as praise. 2. In 1948, the

Medical labs looked like this. The familiar brick wainscotting is
about all that remains. 3. Along a pathway that could only have
been shovelled by hand, a rare view of the Arts Building with the
Power Plant and South Lab to the left.

the Arts Building should adapt easily to the new electrical and
ventilating systems that have been planned for it.

The Medical Building

When the returned soldiers trooped back to University in 1919,
they substantially increased the University’s need for expansion.
Despite material shortages, work was begun the following year on
the Medical Building. Its opening ceremonies were held on
October 7, 1921. They were the last opening ceremonies for a
University building until after World War II.

An impressive building, it doubled the existing classroom space
on campus and made way for a number of significant changes,
including the establishment of a complete program in medicine.
Before this, medical students were required to travel east to McGill
or Toronto to complete their training.

In the years that followed, extensive additions were made to the
building, and in time the additions themselves were doubled,
substantially expanding the amount of teaching space available.

Today, the old Medical Building is called the Dentistry-Pharmacy
Building, The Faculty of Medicine having moved to more modern
quarters, and houses the Faculties of Dentistry and Pharmacy and
the School of Dental Hygiene. While there are no immediate plans
for renovation or expansion, these faculties appear to be bursting at
the seams and some discussion has already been raised over the
possibility of filling the open space in the middle, around which the
original building and its additional portions now stand.

The Power Plant

A discussion of the fate of the University’s oldest buildings would
be incomplete without mentioning the old Power Plant. Finished in
the autumn of 1915, the Power Plant controlled the lifeforce of the
campus until 1968. Today, except for sheltering some minor

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maintenance functions, it stands practically empty.

Nevertheless, there has been no suggestion of having the
building torn down. Far from it—the building has been highly
sought after for a number of different purposes in recent months.
One of the main contenders has been the Graduate Students’
Association, who envisage renovating the Power Plant as a social
centre for graduate students. Another bid, by the Department of
Geology, would have an extensive paleontological collection
located there, and yet another proposal would turn it into a day
care centre. So, while no one quite knows what the Power Plant
will become in the future, it is certain that the building does have a
future.

St. Joseph’s College Jubilee

On March 19 the year of Jubilee for St. Joseph’s College will start.
To help us celebrate properly we would like all past residents,
students, and Newman people to share in the events planned.
Please send us your address and tell us in what way you were
connected with the College so that we may bring our records up to
date. Among the activities planned is a get-together in early June of
all past residents. Please send your address to Jubilee Celebration,
St. Joseph’s College, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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The University of Alberta Senate

an unbiased appraisal

by Neil Henry, Executive Officer of the Senate

The reorganization of the Senate three years ago introduced into
University politics a new, occasionally unnerving, sometimes
irritating, often stimulating element. Those who are irritated tend to
regard Senate members as the ones who rush in (not fools, of
course) where others (angels presumably) fear to tread. The other
and less prejudiced view is that the University can only benefit by
the conscientious scrutiny of a group of intelligent lay people who
bring to the table as faithfully and as even-handedly as possible the
concerns and needs of the people the University is intended to
serve.

The two year effort of the Task Force on Entrance Requirements,
for instance, markedly increased the tempo, if it did not initiate, the
University’s current reassessment of its entrance requirements.
Their final report, “The Problem of Quotas,” which was presented
last fall made abundantly clear that a significant part of the growing
public uncertainty about the University stemmed from fear of
biased and ill-considered criteria for admission to quota faculties.
The Task Force in fact could find little evidence of bad faith on the
part of the University but it could and did make quite clear that
some rationalization of admission requirements was absolutely
necessary and that public education about those requirements was
equally essential for the mutual benefit of the University and its
prospective students. The efforts of this Task Force aiso illustrates
the other central mission of the Senate: to attempt to explain the
University to its public. As with a number of other task forces, this
one produced a background paper on the complexities faced by
the University in admitting students to faculties where enrolment is
restricted, distributed it to interested people and discussed it with
them.

Neither the report on quotas nor the second major task force
report presented last fall, “On the Future of the Extension
Function,” pretended to be definitive analyses of their subjects;
they combined insight into the issue on the part of the Task Force
members with a survey of the views and attitudes of that part of the
public who were concerned about the issue. In both cases the
University got an enlightening point of view from outside of the
University. For what is probably the largest publicly supported
institution in the province, outside the Provincial Government, that
is something of value. And in the process, a number of fairly
influential members of the public and of the government gained
some insight into the complexity of the University’s problems.

In hope of coming closer to the reality of extension and public
service at the University, the Extension Task Force is presently
working on a report which will try to identify the internal issues
and obstacles in the way of making the University more responsive

to the needs of Albertans outside the on-campus, daytime credit
programs. The views being sought and the situations being
analyzed are those of the University itself and of its faculty. In so
doing the Task Force hopes to contribute positively to the on going
debate within the University about the extension and to clarify the
University’s legitimate achievements and dilemmas to the general
public and to the provincial government.

Because of its unique position within the University, its general
detachment from the internal conflicts and loyalties of this massive
institution, and its power under the Universities Act to investigate,
the Senate has also undertaken or been asked to undertake studies
of University situations for the use of the University, although
always with the desire to fulfill its mandate to “enhance the
usefulness” of the institution. Within this past year, the Senate has
published reports on the Library Acquisition Fund and on the Status
of Academic Women. The “Report on Academic Women” was
discussed in the last issue; the report on the Library Acquisition
Fund publicized the concern of many academics, especially in the
humanities and social sciences, that their primary research and
teaching instrument had reached a point where continuing
financial restraints would damage it irreparably.

The Senate has the weaknesses as well as the strengths of an
almost entirely voluntary membership. Of its 55 members, eight are
faculty, including five senior members of the administration, and
five are students. The greatest number (43) are members of the
non-University public. A few of these are appointed by the Alumni
Association, the Minister of Advanced Education or the Board of
Governors but all are busy people, often with professional lives,
who contribute their time and energy out of an essentially positive
commitment to the University. This situation somewhat restricts
their ability to develop a comprehensive knowledge about the
University and it occasionally limits the depth of their
investigations. Both these are situations which Senate recognizes
and which it tries, and will continue trying, to remedy. On the
other hand, the non-University lives of Senate members, with their
widespread contacts in many areas and levels of society, is precisely
the source of their value to the University.

The Senate, then, like the rest of the University, comes something
short of perfection. This may be an enduring situation; despite its
decisive change in structure and direction three years ago, it is and
perhaps should always be, an evolving institution, Reconsideration
by the Senate of its role at the University is almost an annual event
in one form or another. In a body which is concerned with being
responsive to changing circumstances and issues, and which must
keep its critical faculties alive, that is as it should be.

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campus reporter

Enrolment Increases This year, as of September
19, there are 910 more persons registered at the
University as full-time students than in 1974.
This is an increase of about 4.7 percent over last
year’s enrolment. In 1974, as of October 15,
there were 19,448 full-time students; this year,
there are 20,358. When the 3,793 part-time
students are added, along with the 282
miscellaneous (which are, in fact, nurses at the
University of Alberta Hospital) and the usual 243
“others,” the total enrolment is 24,676. As A.D.
Cairns, the Registrar, points out, these figures
are not exact, and it will be some time unti! the
figures become stable. Nevertheless, this is a
record enrolment. Some of the most interesting
figures available deal with the increases and
decreases in enrolment in the various faculties
and schools. The faculty which shows the largest
numerical increase this year is Education: there
has been an increase of 473 students, bringing
last year’s enrolment of 3,728 to 4,201 this year,
This is a percentage increase of 12.7 percent.
S.C.T. Clarke, Director of Special Sessions,
points out that surprisingly enough in Summer
Session the number of Education students
enrolled is decreasing: in 1970, Education
students made up 70 percent of the enrolment;
in 1975, this figure has dropped to 56 percent.
In Spring Session, Education also showed a
decrease to 41 percent of the total enrolment.
The faculty showing the greatest percentage
increase this year in Winter Session is
Engineering. In that faculty, the number of
students increased by 231, giving a total
enrolment of 1,532 compared with last year’s
total of 1,301. This is a 17.7 percent increase.
Agriculture had the third largest percentage
increase this year with an increase of 10.4
percent based on an additional 82 students over
last year’s 784. The faculty showing the third
largest numerical increase and the fourth largest
percentage increase was the Faculty of Business
Administration and Commerce. That faculty has
a total of 1,883 students enrolled, which is 101
more than last year and an increase of 5.6
percent. In Spring Session, this faculty now
accounts for 10 percent of the total enrolment,
and in Summer Session the number of students
from Business Administration and Commerce
has also increased. The Faculty of Arts showed a
slight increase in enrolment—24 students—
bringing its total to 2,974; the Faculty of
Science, however, dropped in enrolment by 65
students to an enrolment of 3,314. The number
of Arts students enrolled in Spring Session has
increased to 15 percent of the total. Graduate
Studies and Research has increased in Winter
Session enrolment by 68 students which brings
its total to 1,901. Smaller faculties exhibited
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overall enrolment in them the slight changes
become significant. Rehabilitation Medicine
gained four students this year, bringing the total
enrolment to 301. Household Economics,
however, lost students—about 55, which is a
significant proportion of fast year’s 405. Library
Science also suffered losses this year: a decrease
of 14 students from last year’s 58. Physical
Education’s enrolment dropped from 761 in
1974 to 720 in 1975. S.C.T. Clarke says, however,
that the proportion of Physical Education
students enrolled in Summer Session in 1975
“has increased markedly.” Medical Laboratory
Science, Dental Hygiene, and Dentistry appear
to have remained fairly constant in their
enrolments. Law shows an increase of 22
students to 488; Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences increased by five students to achieve a
total enrolment of 389 students; and the Faculty
of Medicine rose in enrolment from 687 in 1974
to 754 in 1975. The Director of Special Sessions
maintains that enrolment is also increasing in
Spring and Summer Sessions. Spring Session
enrolment has been increasing steadily every
year: in 1973, total enrolment was 2,081; in 1974
it was 2,676; and in 1975, it had reached 3,078.
Summer Session reached a peak enrolment in
1970 with 4,612 students registered. it then
declined each year to 3,578 in 1974. Although
Mr. Clarke could not provide exact figures, he
believed that 1975’s enrolment in Summer
Session would be well above the 1974 figure.
This increase seems mainly due to the larger
number of Business Administration and
Commerce and Physical Education students
registered in Summer Session, These figures are
interesting as indicators of trends and patterns,
indicators of changing student interests, and, as
a consequence, of the changing role of the
University.

Thailand Project !! On September 1, the first
group of ten secondary school principals and
assistant principals from Thailand arrived in
Edmonton to begin a five-month “short-term
intensive training” program. The program
involves the observation and study of
educational administrative procedures. Thailand
Project II is being undertaken by the
Department of Educational Administration with
the government of Thailand providing the
funding from a special loan from the
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank). Project II is
designed to give the principals and assistant
principals training in the administration of
secondary schools. One day a week will be
spent on campus receiving theoretical
background in educational administration, and
four days a week will be spent in city high

schools. In the high schools, the Thai
administrators will be assigned to a senior high
school administrator, and will observe, discuss,
and report on the various procedures of
secondary school management and
administration. The theoretical background
which they will have received will enable the
students to generalize their field experience,
and enable them to apply that knowledge and
experience with more flexibility when they
return to Thailand. This project is the only one
of its kind in education being undertaken in
Canada.

Canadian Theatre History A project is
underway at the University which will provide
some of the raw information whereby literary,
cultural, and social historians can begin to write
the history of early Canadian theatre. Gerald
McCaughey of the Department of English is
heading a research project which is
accumulating facts about the theatre in eastern
Canada up to the end of the nineteenth
century. The information is being stored in a
computer and will provide a pool of
information which will help historians to fill in
the gaps in Canadian theatre and cultural
history. The project will give historians hitherto
scattered or inaccessible information from
which they can make generalizations about
Canadian life and culture in the early years.
Professor McCaughey found that there was very
little comprehensive information about the early
theatre in Canada so he began to investigate the
situation and the project began. He decided
that the best means of storing the information
was the computer, partly because of the sheer
quantity of information and partly because of
the ease with which the computer can make
amendments and update as new information
comes to light. The facts about Canadian theatre
history are taken primarily from old
newspapers—such as the old Montreal Gazette
and Herald. This past summer, Dr. McCaughey
had the assistance of six undergraduate students
who were kept busy reading microfilms of old
newspapers. The computer lists the year, month,
and day of a given play’s performance, its title,
the names of the actors, the theatre or place in
which it was performed, and the name of the
newspaper from which the notice was taken
along with date and page number of the paper.
All the information available, that is, is stored in
the computer. Reviews of the plays are also
being xeroxed for a separate file. The choice of
facts included in the information bank is
determined mainly by the sort of facts which
are available and which can be easily
programmed. This means that dates, places, and
names are primarily recorded. When these

things are programmed, the computer organizes
and arranges them, and can scan the material to
come up with all sorts of interesting
information. For example, the computer can tell
you that Shakespeare’s King Lear was not
performed in Fredericton during the years 1845
to 1860, but that during the same period the
melodrama Luke the Labourer was performed
six times. Then, for comparison, King Lear was
performed in Montreal four times between 1820
and 1826 alone. From data of this kind, the
social or cultural historian can begin to make
certain generalizations about the relative
sophistication of the preforming arts and the
societies they performed for in Montreal as
compared to Fredericton. To make the facts
collected more readily available, Professor
McCaughey; Frank Bueckert, Professor of
Drama; L.W. Conolly, Professor of English; P.L.
Freeman, a law librarian; and E.S. Neils, a
retired Edmonton businessman, have founded
the Institute of Canadian Theatre History. This
group will sell theatre information to interested
parties at cost, and its members will ultimately
contribute more information to the pool of
data.

Research Grant Received for Wild Oat

Study Early in September, the Department of
Plant Science was given a $20,000 research grant
for the study of wild oat control. The grant was
presented by Henry Friesen, chairman of the
Wild Oat Action Committee, a committee
whose members are drawn from all segments of
the grain industry, on behalf of the United
Grain Growers. The grant is the second of two,
the first of which was matched by the Alberta
Agricultural Research Trust. The grant came
about as the result of concern aroused by the
extensive grain losses which western grain
farmers suffer owing to wild oat infestation. The
total loss from wild oat infestation has been
estimated at about 350 million bushels worth
approximately $9 million. Up to 1959, about 30
percent of the grain shipped from prairie farms
was wild oats; at present, about 41 percent is
wild oats. Current research into the control of
wild oats is focusing on the effects of combined
herbicides, said W.H. Vanden Born, chairman of
the Department of Plant Science. The UGG
grant will be a considerable aid in furthering
this research.

Grant to Transplant Group The Medical
Research Council and the University of Alberta
have signed an agreement establishing for a
second five-year period the MRC Group for
Transplantation Research here at the University.
The group is to receive approxiamately $2.5
million over the five-year period to continue its
research on the causes of rejection of tissues

used in transplant operations. This research
group was originally established at the
University of Alberta in 1970 and was the first
major MRC group formed here. It has since
been joined by a protein research group set up
in 1974 with an MRC grant of more than $3
million—the largest grant awarded to this time
by the Medical Research Council. The aim of
the research conducted by the Transplantation
Group is to combine clinical and theoretical
research to provide insight into the processes
which take place when the body rejects foreign
tissue. Research is aimed at the understanding
and eventual manipulation of the mechanisms
which govern tolerance to self and foreign
antigens. Applied research in man is aimed at
monitoring the immune response to human
tissue antigens of a number of different
antibody and cell-mediate immune parameters
in transfused dialysis patients and after renal
transplantation. Projects are directed also at
finding human cells that react as homozygous
cells in the mixed leukocyte reaction with a
view to developing a new method of tissue
typing for use between unrelated individuals.
The main aim of the research group is to
combine the clinical work and the applied
work. The group is headed by J.B. Dossetor and
Erwin Diener; Dr. Dossetor directs the clinical
work while Dr. Diener directs the applied work.
Five years ago when the group was formed, it
was hoped that by this time a new approach to
rejection of tissues in man would be achieved
by controlling immunological processes. While
this has been relatively successful in animals, the
research and application of the findings has just
now reached a point where it can begin to be
applied to humans. The award of the large grant
for another five years’ work leaves the
Transplantation Group very optimistic about the
chances for successful future developments. Dr.
Dossetor says that the pattern of research taken
by the group is well determined: “We have
established the main streams and it will really be
those which will be followed. But at the same
time one hopes that the system isn’t so
stereotyped that it wouldn’t adapt quickly to
something new.”

Matrimonial Property Report The Institute of
Law Research and Reform, a group formed by
the University, the Provincial Government, and
the Law Society of Alberta, issued its final report
on the property rights of husband and wife on
October 8. The report contains
recommendations for reform of the law
governing the division of property when a
marriage is ended either by divorce or the
death of one spouse. The Institute, which
regards the existing law as unsatisfactory, has

been studying the problem since 1971. The
report contains two proposals: a majority
proposal and a minority proposal. The majority
proposal is based on a principle of deferred
sharing; it preserves existing legislation which
permits the couple to make property
arrangements to suit themselves during the
period of their marriage, but upon divorce or
after a period of separation, property gains
made jointly by the couple during the marriage
are divided equally. This proposal sets out as
many guidelines as possible by statute, and gives
more assurance to each party as to his or her
respective rights. The minority proposal,
however, contends that each case is different
and the specific set of statutes put forth by the
majority proposal could not effectively deal with
all the various situations which will arise. The
minority proposal, then, gives more discretion
to the courts while putting forth certain
constraints and guidelines. Copies of the report
may be obtained from the Institute of Law
Research and Reform, 402 Law Centre,
University of Alberta.

Radiopharmaceutical Centre

Considered Radiopharmaceuticals are radio-
active drugs used in the diagnosis and treatment
of disease. These drugs are used by ail the
major hospitals in Edmonton as well as the
University of Alberta; at present, all the users
buy and store these drugs individually—a
wasteful practice since most of these
compounds have a relatively short shelf-life. In
the fall of 1972, the late R.E. Bell, former Chief
of Pathology at the University of Alberta
Hospital, suggested that a central supply source
for radiopharmaceuticals be established in
Edmonton. The proposed centre would be self-
sufficient and would engage in the manufacture
as well as the distribution of compounds for use
in Edmonton hospitals and laboratories. The
suggestion to locate the centre in the Dentistry-
Pharmacy Building on the campus was based on
the value seen in having a close association
between the centre and the University’s Division
of Radiopharmacy. The centre would offer a
research component which would bring
scientists in the community and the University
together in a particularly useful way. The
association between the Faculty of Pharmacy
and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the proposed
centre would be mutually beneficial since they
would share equipment and facilities. In
addition, the alliance of the service and the
teaching functions of the University would help
to ensure a high standard of radiopharmacy and
clinical nuclear medicine in northern Alberta. A
comprehensive study of the feasibility of the
concept and implementation of the

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radiopharmaceutical centre revealed a number
of advantages to be gained from the
undertaking. There would be better cost
effectiveness with an estimated average saving
of $77,000 per year over a ten-year period;
improved quality control; development of
better techniques in preparation of materials;
development of production methods for
compounds in demand only occasionally which
are not presently available from existing
suppliers; provision of a facility for instruction
and training of pharmacists, radiopharmacists,
medical residents, and nuclear medicine
technicians; and the possibility of a residency
program in radiopharmacy which must now be
taken elsewhere and which would help fill the
existing void of professionals in this field. While
the proposed centre will have only facilities to
service the greater Edmonton area, it is
anticipated that in future it could be extended
beyond that. And it would also serve as a model
system for other centres.

The W.R. Zeidler

Memorial Scholarship

and Loan Fund

The University relies heavily on the generosity
of private individuals for the establishment of
scholarships, special funds for student
assistance, funds for special research projects
and to accommodate many other related needs
of the University community. That there are
those who choose to extend their generosity to
the University as a means of commemorating
certain events or as a tribute to loved ones is
particularly meaningful, because of the faith it
represents in the importance of the functions
being served here. Those of us at the University
look forward to the opportunities of expressing
our appreciation to these people, not only for
their gifts but for the significance which they
hold.

From time to time we will be using this
space in New Trail to recognize the generosity
and acknowledge the gesture of faith
demonstrated by particular individuals to whom
the University is grateful.

One such individual is Mrs. W.R. Zeidler,
president of W.R. Zeidler Limited, who has
established a special loan fund and scholarship
for students of Forestry Sciences in memory of
her late husband. in October 1974 on the
occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the firm
founded by the late W.R. Zeidler a cheque was
presented to F.V. MacHardy, then dean of
Agriculture and Forestry, establishing the

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scholarship. This scholarship consisted of three
$500 awards made annually to three students of
outstanding merit wo are entering each of the
second, third, and fourth years in Forestry
Sciences. In addition, monies were provided to
establish a loan fund to be administered by the
Department of Forestry Sciences allowing
Forestry students to obtain small interest-free
loans during the academic year. A number of
successful students in Forestry Sciences are also
given the opportunity for summer employment
in the Zeidler Forestry Operations.

The Zeidler firm which is still centered in
Edmonton, began in 1934 as a sash and door
manufacturer with a staff of three. Today it
employs more than five hundred in Alberta and
British Columbia having become widely
diversified over the past four decades. The
millwork plant which was the foundation of the
entire wood-based industrial complex remains,
however, an important facet in the overall
operation.

W.R. Zeidler learned his trade as a cabinet-
maker in his native Germany before emigrating
to Canada in 1927. While employed by a local
lumber firm he continued to work during off-
hours on his intricate wood inlay projects. It was
this interest in wood and in the painstaking
craftsmanship required to turn it into long-
lasting and beautiful projects that led him to
establish his first millwork operation.

The business began on a part-time basis in a
tiny factory on Whyte Avenue. Still in use today,
the company’s original plant now houses the
Zeidler door factory where solid core doors
from the millwork plant receive their faces and
are trimmed, sanded and finished.

Although the company’s millwork products
can be found in virtually every western
Canadian centre, some of the more noteworthy
examples of their craftsmanship can be seen in
the Edmonton Court House, the Alberta
Government Telephones Tower, the Edmonton
and Calgary Jubilee Auditoriums, The Cagary
Court House and in a number of buildings on
campus, here.

The late Mr. Zeidler was well known in
Alberta and across Canada for a number of
reasons. Among these was his involvement in
the development of this province’s forest
resources. He pioneered the use of Alberta’s
white and black poplar, once considered to be
the weeds of the forest industry. Of her
decision to support the University through the
gifts mentioned, Mrs. Zeidler said she could
think of no greater tribute to the memory of
her late husband than to establish in his name
the scholarship and loan fund for the students
of forestry, a field for which he had always had
a great love.

Conferences

After the huge Learned Societies Conference
hosted by the University of Alberta in June, one
might think that the University’s appetite for
conferences, symposiums, and lecture series had
been satisfied, at least for a while. If anything,
however, it seems as if the appetite has been
whetted, and that is good for the University
insofar as these events are a central and
important part of the university world—the
interaction of minds and the exchange of
knowledge. Between June and November there
have been many important conferences and
symposiums held on this campus or hosted by
the University.

ICOGRADA Conference From July 7 to 12, the
International Council of Graphic Design
Associations (ICOGRADA) held its first North
American Conference on this campus.
ICOGRADA is an association of graphic
designers and artists which was founded in
London in 1963 for the purpose of promoting
graphic design and for collaborating and
exchanging ideas. The purpose of the
conference held at the University of Alberta was
to focus attention on the importance of graphic
design; hence the theme “Education for graphic
design, graphic design for education” or
“Edugraphic.” Walter Jungkind, Professor of Art
and Design, and current president of
ICOGRADA, chaired the organizing committee.
Delegates from Germany, Great Britain,
Holland, Japan, the US, and many other
countries as well as Canada attended the
conference.

Photochemistry Conference The University of
Alberta was the host institution for the VIII
International Conference on Photochemistry
held from August 7 to 13. These conferences are
biennial events and previous conferences have
been held in Jerusalem, Bordeaux, Munich,
Tokyo, and Brussels. Four Nobel laureates
attended this conference: Robert S. Mulliken of
the University of Chicago, Melvin Calvin of the
University of California, Sir George Porter of the
Royal Institution in Britain, and Gerhardt
Herzberg of the National Research Council of
Canada. The conference was presided over by
chairmen Harry E. Gunning, President of the
University, and Otto P. Strausz, Director of the
University’s Hydrocarbon Research Centre.

Multiculturalism Conference From September
3 to 6, academics, government officials from all
levels, union leaders, business executives, and
community leaders participated in a conference
on multiculturalism and third world immigration
to Canada. The conference was open to the

public. The format of the conference was
centred around the presentation of papers
followed by formal and informal discussions as
well as panel discussions. As one of the
organizers, G.S. Paul, Professor of Sociology,
said, the aim of the conference was to “present
hard facts so that policy directions could be
derived from them later.”

Symposium on Man-Made Earthquakes The
Institute of Earth and Planetary Physics of this
University in co-operation with the University of
British Columbia organized an international
symposium on man-made earthquakes at the
Banff Centre from September 14 to 19. The
symposium was first suggested to D.I. Gough,
Director of IEPP, by UNESCO. Scientists from 22
countries, including China, attended the
conference to discuss induced seismicity and
issues such as the effects of nuclear power
plants. Owing to the urgency and importance of
the topic, funding was provided by the
Canadian government, the University of Alberta,
and UNESCO.

Jane Austen Bicentennial Conference 1975 is
the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
English novelist Jane Austen (Pride and
Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma,
Mansfield Park). Sponsored by the Department
of English, this bicentennial conference, held on
October 3 and 4, drew major speakers from
Canada, Great Britain, and the US, as well as
delegates from all over Canada and the US.
Numerous papers were presented and seminars
conducted in order to increase the
understanding of Jane Austen’s achievement as
well as to honor it.

Locke Workshop The Department of
Philosophy held a workshop and symposium
from October 3 to 5 on the English philosopher
John Locke (1632-1704), author of An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding. Papers were
delivered by scholars from Canada, Great
Britain, and the US on various topics concerning
Locke’s philosophy such as his concept of
personality, his analysis “of ideas and knowledge,
and the relation of Locke to science and
platonism.

Theoretical Psychology Conference From
October 14 to 17, the Centre for Advanced
Study in Theoretical Psychology held a
conference entitled “Conceptual issues in
humanistic psychology.” The aim of the
conference was to discuss the alleged failure of
psychology to accommodate the most clearly
human aspects of life. The numerous delegates

St. Joseph’s College

and participants in the conference concentrated
on the conceptual presuppositions of the
discipline in the effort to create a constructive
critical forum for the discussion of fundamental
questions about psychology.

Samuel Johnson Conference The Samuel
Johnson Society of the North West, which is
composed of scholars from thirty-two
universities in northwestern Canada and United
States, held a conference at this University on
October 17 and 18. Papers delivered at the
conference dealt not only with Dr. Johnson
(poet, critic, lexicographer, and essayist) but
with a number of topics on eighteenth-century
literature in general such as the verse of
Boswell, Gray, and Goldsmith, and the nature of
literary history.

SAPHER Conference The Students’ Association
for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
(SAPHER) of the University of Alberta hosted a
Western Canadian Physical Education
Conference on October 30 and 31, and
November 1. The theme of the conference was
Sports Festivals, and that topic was especially
relevant since Canada will host the 1976
Olympic Games and Edmonton the 1978
Commonwealth Games. A number of speakers,
including M.L. Van Vliet, Dean of the Faculty of
Physical Education and Chairman of the 1978
Commonwealth Games; Tom Bedicki, Director
of Sport Canada; and R. Kriegel, former sports
director at the Esalen Institute, took part in the
various discussions on the nature and function
of sports and physical education in our society.

Engineering and Social Responsibility The
Faculty of Engineering, the Engineering
Students’ Society, and the University of Alberta
Chaplains’ Association presented a three-day
symposium entitled “The Engineer: world-
maker? world-shaker? world-breaker?” from
November 2 to 4. The purpose of the
symposium was to discuss the role of the
engineer and his social responsibility. A number
of guest speakers delivered papers which were
followed by group discussion; topics such as the
present state of engineering education, the
dimensions of social responsibility in large-scale
resource development and the nature of the
engineering enterprise were discussed. The
guest speakers included professional engineers,
engineering educators, a representative of the
Canadian International Development Agency,
and a theologian.

Nursing Research Conference From November
3 to 5, the School of Nursing of the University
of Alberta directed and co-ordinated the 1975
National Conference on Nursing Research. The
conference was sponsored by the schools of
nursing from the Universities of Alberta,
Calgary, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The
theme of the conference was the development
and use of indicators in nursing research, and
guest speakers attended from Great Britain and
the United States as well as eastern Canada.
Topics such as the family decision-making
capacity of community health nurses and the
special research project underway at the
Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto were
discussed.

Light and Animal Life Symposium = This
symposium on photobiology entitled “Light and
Animal Life” was sponsored by the Department
of Zoology in honor of the first chairman of the
Department of Zoology, William Rowan.
Professor Rowan, in his experiments on the
relation of day-length and bird migration, was
instrumental in establishing the fact that light is
an important environmental factor. Papers and
seminars were given with topics spanning a
wide range in the field of photobiology
covering such things as the effects of light on
the migratory habits of many animals, on
migration and navigation behavior of species
such as sea turtles, coral reef fishes, and blood
parasites. Guest speakers came to deliver papers
on the biochemistry of vision, and on
photobiology and human medicine. The
conferenece began on November 10 and
concluded on November 21. On November 21 a
laboratory in the Biological Sciences Building
was dedicated as the William Rowan Memorial
Laboratory.

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the alumni

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It was a Homecoming affair for the Right
Honorable Roland Michener, BA, who returned
to the campus last summer to be inducted as an
honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Mr. Michener, Governor-General of Canada
from 1967 to 1974, was elected for his “great
contribution to the encouragement of learning
and Canadian life.”

730

Clifford L. Ash, BSc, a physician who has
dedicated his life to cancer research and the
treatment of cancer patients, has announced his
retirement. Senator Donald Cameron, BSc(Ag),
founder of the Banff School of Advanced
Management and chairman of the Board since
1968, has retired as chairman.

"31
Zella J. Fry, BA, is a member of the Department

of English and specializes in Speech-Theatre-
Media studies at Kean College, New Jersey.

732

P. Duncan Hargrave, BSc(Ag), former
superintendent of the Alberta Horticulture
Research Centre at Brooks, was named recently
to the Olds College Alumni Hall of Fame.
George Semeniuk, BSc(Ag), has been named
Professor Emeritus of Plant Science at South
Dakota State University.

"33

William Strojich, BSc(Ag), retired, is busy doing
volunteer work with Canadian Executive Service
Overseas. During the fall, he returned to Nigeria
to advise a number of private companies on
piggery, poultry, market gardening, land
clearing, and land development operations.
W.A. Cairns, BSc(Eng), has been named general
manager of Cominco Limited.

738

J.E. Birdsall, BSc(Ag), former principal of the
Olds College, has been named to the College’s
Alumni Hall of Fame.

40

James A. Morrison, BSc, is president-elect of the
Chemical Institute of Canada.

"41

Allan F. McQuarrie, BSc, the Victoria
“weatherman,” has retired. Allan is past
president of the Victoria Branch of the General
Alumni Association. A.V. Marcolin, BSc, has
been named group vice-president of Cominco
Limited.

742

Bruce Willson, BSc(Eng), former president of

Union Gas Limited and Canadian Bechtel
Limited, is chief consultant to the government

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George Semeniuk

energy department concerned with investment
in the oil sands project.

744
Richard Hill, BSc(Ag), has been appointed

manager of the Ontario region for Shur-Gain
Division, Canada Packers Limited.

"45

George Govier, MSc, former chairman of the
Energy Resources Conservation Board, is chief
deputy minister of the provincial Energy
Department.

"46

Lloyd Grisdale, MD, Associate Dean of
Medicine, is the first full-time University official
to hold the position of president of the
Canadian Medical Association. William Astle,
BCom, has taken over as provincial president
of the St. John Ambulance Association.

"47

C.B. Nyberg, BSc(Eng), is manager, exploration
technical services, Gulf Canada.

H.B. Scott, BSc(Eng), is president and chief
executive officer of Syncrude.

"48

Robert Strother, BCom, is senior vice-president
responsible for government relations, Husky
Oil. Donald M. Cameron, BSc(Pharm), registrar-
treasurer of the Alberta Pharmaceutical
Association and vice-president (western region)
of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association, has
been presented with the Alberta Achievement
Award for Excellence for his contributions in
the field of pharmacy and pharmacy education.
Lorna Shaw, BSc, is Chairman of the Medicine
Hat College Board of Governors. Arthur B.
Metzner, BSc(Eng), University of Delaware, has
been awarded an honorary doctorate by the
Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. M.J.
Heney, BCom, of the Department of Industry,

Allan F. McQuarrie

George Govier

Trade and Commerce, has been appointed co-
ordinator of the grains group of the Wheat
Board. The Ontario Mining Association has
named P. Ray Clarke, BSc(Eng), as president.
Mr. Clarke is vice-president of Texasgulf
Incorporated. R.J. (Dick) Rousseau, BSc(Eng),
has been named manager of drilling and
production services with Flint Engineering and
Construction Limited. R.P. Douglas, BSc(Eng),
has been appointed group vice-president of
Cominco at Yellowknife. The National Red
Cross Water Safety Service advisory committee
has as its chairman, Murray F. Smith, BEd.
Donald D. Lougheed, BSc(Eng), is senior vice-
president of Imperial Oil Limited.

"49

L.D. Rogers, BCom, is co-ordinator of special
projects with Gulf Canada. Director of public
relations for the Alberta Wheat Pool, Allan W.
Beattie, BSc(Ag), is president-elect of the
Agricultural Institute of Canada. R.H.J. Elliott,
BSc, has been appointed vice-president,
exploration, of Canadian Homestead Oils
Limited. Beaufort-Delta Oil Projects Limited has
D. Lindsay Hay, BSc, as assistant to the
president. R.G. Reid, BSc(Eng), Imperial Oil, has
left his post as company president to become
executive vice-president of Esso Europe
Incorporated, London, England.

”50

Robert H. Cronkhite, BSc(Eng), is serving as
Deputy Minister of Transportation in charge of
construction. Fred Harvey, BSc(Eng), is assistant
chief bridge engineer with the provincial
government. The manager of plant construction
of Flint Engineering and Construction Limited,
Calgary, is D.S. Borwick, BSc(Eng). In moments
of frustration during his six years as mayor, Ivor
Dent, BEd, would say “I can always go back to
being a teacher.” In a way, the voters of

Edmonton gave him his wish: he is back in
school, principal of Rundle Elementary School.
Howard Atkin, BSc(Eng), retired, is with CIDA as
advisor to the Government of Jamaica.

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W.L. Garth Greenaway, BSc, is personnel

manager of the Porta-Built Industries Spruce
Grove plant.

752

Nicholas J. Lashuk, BSc(Eng), is manager,
pipelines, with Alberta Energy Company
Limited. Canadian Arctic Gas Study Limited has
appointed M.E. (Mel) Carlson, BSc(Eng),
director, operations and maintenance. A.R.
Gittens, BSc(Ag), Professor and head of
Department of Entomology, University of Idaho,
was recently presented with an Outstanding
Educator of America Award for his contributions
to college teaching and the administration of
college teaching programs.

753
A member of the Attorney-General’s

Department, Yaroslaw Roslak, LLB, has been
appointed director of criminal justice.

754

Roman P. Fodchuk, BSc(Ag), has taken a leave
of absence from teaching in the Faculty of
Environmental Design, University of Calgary.
Lois Racette, MD, has been named to the
Medicine Hat College Board of Governors. Carl
Hare, BA, will spend a year teaching at the
National Theatre School in Montreal. J. Barton
Fairbairn, BSc(Eng), is senior mining engineer
with Kilborn Engineering (BC) Limited. Gulf
Canada appointments include R.K. Craig,
BSc(Eng), manager, new energy resources. First
President of the University of Lethbridge,
Russell J. Leskiw, BEd, is superintendent of field
personnel for the British Columbia Department
of Education.

755

J. Boyd Lowery, BSc(Eng), has been appointed
regional counsel, Imperial Oil’s western region.
R.P. Havelock, LLB, is a vice-president with
Atlantic Richfield Canada, Limited. An
Edmonton lawyer, Jack F. Pecover, BA, has been
awarded a $5,500 Canada Council grant to assist
an investigation of a 15-year-old Alberta murder
case, the conviction and execution of Robert
Raymond Cook of Stettler.

"56

The first President of Lakeland College is Robert
E. Olsen, BEd. The College is a joint venture of
the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments,
with administrative offices in Lloydminster, and
the main campus located in Vermilion at the

Lloyd Grisdale Donna Fraser

former Vermilion College. Roger Kerans, LLB, is
the national president of the Kidney Foundation
of Canada. The president of Halliburton Services
Limited is L.F. Maier, BSc(Eng).

"57
The newest district court judge for Alberta is
William Stevenson, LLB.

758
The new president of Ralph M. Parsons

Company Limited is Donald J. Cameron,
BSc(Eng).

759

Peter K. Symborski, BSc(Eng), is vice-president
of William Brothers Canada Limited. A
promotion to vice-president, operations,
Halliburton Services Limited, has been
forthcoming for R.W. Pollock, BSc(Eng). E.M.
Braithwaite, BCom, is vice-president and general
manager of Sunningdale Oils Limited, Canadian
operations.

61

Donna Fraser, BA, is on leave of absence from
the University of Calgary to serve as provincial

co-ordinator for International Women’s Year,
Women’s Bureau of the Alberta Government.

"62

Russell & Needham Architects Limited,
Medicine Hat, have a new addition to their
firm, Robert F. Manuel, BSc(Eng). Bruce S.
Rawson, LLB, a senior Alberta civil servant, is
now federal Deputy Minister of Welfare. Roger
Blake, BSc(Eng), one of the youngest Canadians
to head a mission, is Canadian consul in Rio de
Janeiro.

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John Brosseau, BEd, is president-elect of the

Canadian Guidance and Counselling
Association. Calgary lawyer, Ross A.

Charles M. Lockwood

Mackimmie, LLD, is Chairman of the University
of Calgary Board of Governors. Mr. Mackimmie
is past president of both the Canadian Bar
Association and the Law Society of Alberta.

64

Manager of engineering for Monmax-H and G
Services Limited is Ronald T. Clare, BSc(Eng).
George Lackonick, BSc(Eng), serving as
Canadian Forces Liaison Officer to the US Army
at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, has obtained an
MBA (with distinction) from Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey.

65

The acting executive secretary of the Alberta
New Democratic Party is Ray Martin, BEd. Jim
Whitfield, BPE, head of the boys’ physical and
health education program at North Collegiate, has
been honored as teacher of the year by the Rotary
Club in Barrie, Ontario. G.W. Sinclair, BSc(Eng),
is vice-president, engineering and construction,
with Alberta and Southern Gas Company

Limited. Rene Day, BSc(Nu), has returned to the
University after study at the University of

Hawaii. Elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Society,

she was chosen to the “Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities and

Colleges.”

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J. Wilson Loree, BSc(Ag), heads the farm

management branch, Alberta Department of
Agriculture.

"67

Bob Wanzel, BPE, at Laurentian University, is
training men and women for careers in sports
management or careers with companies which
manufacture sporting equipment. Rao Evani,
PhD, of Central Research-Physical Research
Laboratory, Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan,
has been promoted to associate scientist.

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Stanley K. Riegel, BSc(Pharm), is studying the
New Testament at the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland.

69

Ernest W. Loch, BCom, is commercial
representative for Young and Biggin Realtors,
Toronto. Naomi Hersom, PhD, has been named
Director of Elementary Education at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia. John R. Armstrong,
BSc, received a Master of Divinity degree from
Wycliffe College, Toronto, and will serve the
Anglican Church in Beaverlodge.

70

Jean Wilson, BSc(HEc), is regional home
management specialist for Calgary and southern
districts, provincial Department of Agriculture.
H. Norman Watts, MSc, is associate professor,
School of Recreation and Physical Education,
Acadia University. The driving force behind
Calgary Galleries Limited and its originator is
Margaret (Marmie) Hess, BEd. The city archivist
in Vancouver is R. Lynn Ogden, BA. Charles M.
Lockwood, MBA, is the new director of the
University’s Faculty of Extension. The
department was recently granted faculty status
in recognition of its increasing importance in
taking the University to the community. Ronald
G. Holland, BCom, is serving on the alumni
advisory committee of Lambda Chi Alpha
international fraternity. The fraternity is one of
the largest in North America with more than 200
chapters and colonies and 130,000 members.
Brian W. Taylor, BEd, is assistant professor of
Education, University of New Brunswick. Owen
E. Burkholder, BA, is pastor of the community
Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Gerry Thurston, BA, is director of extensions
programs, Theatre Calgary. Philip Jensen,
BSc(Ag), is supervisor of farm records and
analysis, Farm Management Branch, Alberta
government. Ivan Tomek, PhD, is with the
Department of Computer Science at Acadia
University. ““Foremothers” is a weekly column
about some of the distinguished women who
have helped to make Saskatchewan a better
place to live. The writer of these stories is
Candace Savage, BA, who describes herself as a
former clerk, reviewer, reporter, editor,
proofreader, and researcher. The recreation and
parks superintendent at Terrace, British
Columbia is W.E. (Bill) Casey, BPE.

"72

Sue Nattrass, BPE, is the first woman in history
to crack the men’s international trapshooting

team, chosen by Sports Afield Magazine. She is
captain of the women’s All-America team for

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the second straight year on the strength of her
.9795 shooting average, the best score of all
women trapshooters in North America. Al
Burden, PhD, is chairman of the Division of
Liberal and Applied Arts, Red Deer College.
"73

D.W. Bell, BEd, is deputy director, Western
Industrial Research and Training Centre,
Edmonton. Lorette Toews, PhD, assistant
professor at Acadia University School of

Home Economics, is a member of the

provincial task force concerned with the status
of women in Nova Scotia. E. Benjamin Toane,
MD, a general practitioner in Spirit River, is
Canada’s first physician with a teaching
certificate in transcendental meditation, a
relaxation technique taught by Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi. Don Gross, LLB, is associated with
the law firm of Andreassen and Murray,
Camrose.

"74

Barkat Ali Soomro, PhD, is associate professor,
Department of Botany and Plant Breeding, Sind
Agriculture College, Tandojam, Pakistan. John
DenHeyer, BSc(Ag), is supervisor of the
province’s tree nursery at Oliver. Len Fullen,
BSc(Ag), has joined the Department of
Agriculture as an agriculture economist.

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Mario Botto, PhD, is an instructor at the College
of Cape Breton. His courses include computer
programming, statistics, and number theory.
William H. (Bill) Cosford, DDS, is associated with
the Dixon Dental Clinic, Drumheller. Alan
James Pollock, BSc, is with Canadian University
Services Overseas serving in Papua, New
Guinea.

In Memoriam

Byron Franklin Tanner, LLB’24, lawyer, real
estate agent and farmer.

John MacDonald Oswald, BSc’30, in Toronto.
Ernest Hay Watts, MD’30, professor and
chairman of the U of A Hospital, Department of
Anaesthesia 1934-51, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Wallace S. Niewchas, MD’31, prominent
physician, in Edmonton.

Robert Ronald Glasgow, MD’31, in Edmonton.
Merrill Wolfe, BA’41, active participant in a
large number of community activities and
president of Edmonton Motors Limited.

J. Foster Irwin, BSc(Eng)’49, well known mining
figure, in Edmonton.

Douglas Gordon Ethier, BSc’68, in a light plane
crash near Cremona, Alberta.

Dorina Caffaro-Rore, BA’74, campus resident.

Alumni Fall Homecoming 1975

1. An Arts graduate of 1925 and subsequently
Students’ Union President 1925-26, Percy G.
Davies, Q.C. (right) makes the acquaintance of
President and Mrs. Gunning. 2. Miss Helen
Chalmers, MA’25, was obviously delighted to
receive her golden memento from President
Gunning. 3. A visitor from afar, Mrs. Jean
Lehmann, BA’25, receives a warm Homecoming
handshake from Dr. Gunning. 4. A member of
the first graduating class in Medicine, Dr. Dan
Weston (right), returned from active practice in
Santa Monica, California, to reacquaint himself
with his Alma Mater. 5. Distinguished alumnus

and continuing long-time member of the
University’s Department of Extension, Col.

Eric Cormack, BSc(Ag)’25, shares a warm
handshake with the President. 6. A highlight

of the Homecoming proceedings was the
welcome accorded Cliff Bissett, B;Comm’25,
former Golden Bear football star, returning to
the campus in his 50th anniversary year. It was
particularly fitting at the Saturday afternoon
football classic that Cliff should be invited to
participate in the opening kick-off. 7. There were
Silver Graduates too, Class of 1950. Many of the
ladies came together at the Homecoming Wine

and Cheese Party. From the Class of Nursing:
(left to right) Aileen (Robinson) Knight, Consort;
Francis (McLelland) Bacon, Moose Jaw; Joan
(Hawkins) Day, Edmonton; Eve (Sawka) Trott,
Edmonton; Jean (Lewis) Kimmel, Portland,
Oregon; Lorraine (Gillies) Harris, Edmonton;

Vi (Fautley) Coutu, Saskatoon; Dorothy (Murray)
Beattie, Grande Prairie. 8. Hands across the
years are extended by five notable golden
graduates in Agriculture: (left) Malcolm McAra,
Calgary; T.P. (Tommy) Devlin, Sidney; Dr.
Alfred Leahey, Victoria; George A. Mail, Tucson,
Arizona; and Norman G. Lewis, Ottawa.

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The Branches

1. It was “ghosts and goblins” night in Ottawa when the U of A
alumni gathered at the Unicentre, University of Ottawa.
Contemplating a portion of the Hallowe’en pumpkin dinner motif
are Joanne Litven, BA’65 and her husband, Walter. 2. The University
party, which included the Chancellor, enjoyed immensely an open i
house alumni branch meeting in Montreal at the home of Don,
BEd’49, and Beth Duff, BEd’48. Sharing a moment of conversation
with the hostess, centre, were left Mrs. Muriel Rostrup, and Mrs.
Betty Sterling. 3. A fine afternoon tea party was held with U of A
graduates and their spouses at the Lakeshore Boulevard Club in
Toronto on November 2. During the course of some short business
proceedings, Wilson Sterling, President of the General Alumni
Association, was afforded the opportunity of making a presentation,
for distinguished long service, to the branch registrar, Mrs. Jessie ad
Heath, BA’38. eis

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