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T H E A L U M N I U B C

@mONICLE Volume 39, Number 4 Winter 1985

5 News in Brief

6 President David Strangway

Anne S h a r p Campus and alumni welcome an outstanding geophysicist and

academic administrator as UBC's 10th president.

9 The Mind of A Machine

David Morforz UBC's computer scientists are at the leading edge of

artificial intelligence research.

13 Women's Resource Centre

Kelley 10 Burke An outreach program of the Centre for Continuing Education

helps women (and men) with career and educational planning.

14 Million-Dollar Donations for Law, Commerce

Terry Lauerzder

15 History's Top 100

Dnzlid Cnrey, BA'38 UBC grad and former Rhodes Scholar created his own television program on "100 decisive events in history"

16 17 Scenes from Class Acts

Homecoming '85 Compiled By Terry Lauerzder

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Spring 1986 edition of the Chronicle will contain ballots for elections to the Alumni Association's Board of Management.

Graduates will elect a vice-president and a treasurer for one-year terms and three members-at-large to the Board of Management for two-year terms. The vice-president automatically becomes president in the following year.

All UBC graduates are eligible for these positions. To be nominated, you must send your name, address and year of graduation, along with a brief statement of your willingness to run and the signatures of five nominators who are also graduates of the Univer- sity.

This information should reach Cecil Green Park by January 31, 1986. Please direct inquiries to Linda Tretiak at 228-3313.

Dan Spinner Executive Director

SEASON'S GREETINGS

The Board, Volunteers and Staff of your Association would like to take this opportunity to wish all UBC graduates and their families a very happy holiday season and peace and prosperity in the New Year.

We would also like to thank all those who contributed to the Alumni UBC Innovations Fund and other alumni funds. Your generosity will help the University continue to be a world-class leader in the fields of education, research and community service.

CLASS OF '25 REUNION

A SUCCESS The Class of '25, which celebrated

its 60th Reunion Luncheon at Cecil Green Park June 14, 1985, would like to thank all those who sent letters and other messages regarding the reunion. The Class appreciates your kindness.

ChromcleiWwk-r 1985 3

We've lost addresses for the following UBC graduates. If you can help us locate any of them, please call or write: Alumni Records 6251 Cecil Green Park Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 (604) 228-3313

We Need Your Help! The Alumni Association

maintains a mailing list of graduates for the University. This list is required for the regis- trar's mailing for the Senate and Chancellor elections and other purposes.

But maintaining addresses for graduates is becoming more difficult each year, because of the size of the list (113,000 names and growing by 4,000 each year!), the mobility of graduates and financial restraint at the University.

If you can volunteer some time to help us (it doesn't matter where you live) please write or call the above address.

Engineering Irvine James Adair '38 Robert J Adair '52 Robert J Adams '55 Thomas Aitken '46 Alan E Allsebrook '55 Albert A Andersen '51 G Allen Armstrong '50 Henry W Armstrong '49 Bert Auld '46 Charles L Bailey '54 Edward G Bazeley '56 Adrian E Beggs '48 James D Bell '40 Edward Benson '43 David J Berryman '45 George M Blair '49 Alan W Blyth '49 George W Bowers '51 Ralph K Bradley '48 Richard J Bradshaw '49 Philip G Brewer '50 Donald H Brown '54 Gordon F Brown '50 Robert S Brown '48 Jack I Butcher '52 Alastair G Campbell '45 Donald T Campbell '50 George C Campbell '43 Gordon N Campbell '50 Patrick D Campbell '47 Munro M Carroll '53 Harold V Casson '42 Carlos F Castro '50 Peter Charles '49 Camon G Cheriton '49 Joseph Chlopan '52 Elof Christensen '41 Ray Christopherson '53 Charles D Clarence '49 James R Clark '37 Kenneth lvor Clarke '51 Wm Ellsworth Clow '53 Harold M Coverdale '43 Arthur G Cracknell '55 Henry M Curran '42 Robert N Denluck '48

Commerce Ronald P Alair '53 John Atkinson '55 Donald A Baillie '63 Gordon H Beamer '47 Walter G Beatty '48

William A Black '57 Eugene Bergstrom '48

Thomas L Boa1 '55 T Gordon Braidwood '52 Alan E Broad '57 Alan Wm Brown '47 Donald A Brown '63 James R Brown '48 John R G Bruce '64 Peter R Bulman '55 Winston 0 Cameron '51 Valentine A Christie '55 Frederick T Cousins '48 Arthur F Coutts '54 Neil S Dalgleish '56 R Alexander Davidson '70 Douglas A Davis '47 Israel N Finegood '55 Robert W Ford '43

David R Forsyth '63 Gray A Gillespie '48 Henry B Greenhough '51 Robert L Haas '48 Terence Hall '49 Neil A Hamilton '53 Peter W T Hamilton '64 Frederick A Hoad '47 Harry J Horne '42 John D Kellman '49 Kenneth J Keoughan '50 Donald Leavitt '63 Kenneth R Mackay '54 Hugh A MacMillan '51 James M MacNicol'55 AI M Martin '50 John K Maynard '57 James D M Mills '53 Mitsuo Miyashita '61 John D Murphy '66 Laura M Olson '45 Wm M Ouimette '47 Robert C Peacock '46 Edmond E Price '59 Hugh T Rae '53 Stephen M Rinald '60 Peter R Romanchuk '56 Kenneth G Scott '66 Hughie L Smith '34 David J Stewart '55 Ronald K Stewart '57 Johnstone A Weber '37 Wm Laird Wilson '48 Joseph A J Young '49

Forestry Dennis R Bailey '50 Janox Batay '59 Albrecht Behm '70 Jozsef Bodig '59 Percy L Brooks '56 Lloyd Alan Campbell '55 Gary Douglas Croston '70 Joseph Csizmazia '63 Hubert Doppelreiter '73 James R Gilmour '50 Andrew Herczeg '61 Graham R Hillman '67 Joseph H Huntly '60 Brian E Huxley '62 Joseph Krewaz '56 Wm Kenneth MacLeod '49 Alfred H Marsh '50 Wm G McCallion '64 Hugh McGregor '51 Russel C Modeland '66 Wm Forbes Murison '51 Norman P Nichols '50 Edo Nyland '57 Leslie Raboczi '60 Douglas Lee Raynor '78 David M Robertson '79 James W Skene '60 Istvan Spuriga '59

Library Sciences Lynn Mary Ackroyd '78 Deborah A Armitage '69 Susan E Barre '70 Tak-ling Chan '71 Shirley E Craig '81 Deborah J Duncan '72 Patricia L Forde '70

Daphne H Garland '61 R Anne Gray '70 Rachel MacNab '67 Robert T. Mathison '67 Robert C McFadden '74 Lesley E North '71 Shannon S M Ricketts '78 Frank H Robinson '64 Carol S Stamenov '69 Douglas R Webster '76 Vicki L Whitney '67 Catherine H Wood '70

Medicine Roy B Cunningham '64 Samuel K Gooldy '77 Hugh John Hargrave '64 Richard P Helmer '72 George Jackson '64 Arthur C Roberts '63 M Ann Stewart-Burton '58

Nursing Lynda J Allan '70 Frances M L Ashe '73 E M Gail Baird '66 Clara V Bjerkan '40 Susan K Blagborne '72 Janet Church '52 Mary Isabelle Clark '48 Edlin De Rosenroll '49 Samuel K Doku '71 Marg Anne Ferguson '45 Dorothy G Gallon '27 Lynne F Gardner '69 Mary Helen Gibbs '65 Rose J Heaton '61 Pauline N G Hume '48 Janet Cranston Ives '64 Cora May Jensen '48 Norma J John '73 Phyllis T Johnson '74 Dorothy Johnston '46

Rehab Medicine Mary Lynn Kydd '70 Nyl McGunigle '70 Heather L McQuarrie '70 Marguerite J Millar '67 Judith B Munro '70 Gloria F Schmuk '69

Social Work Kathryn A Alexander '64 Shirley June Arnold '54 John C Bannister '65 Rose Blinder '54 Phyllis H Brinks '54 Helen M Broome '56 Joan A Brown '62 Lynn F Foster '66 Claus A Hallschmid '71 Sara E Hughes '65 Jadwiga Karpowicz '59 Oi-Sim Nerissa Lo '67 D Phyllis E MacLaren '63 Jean Hislop McFarlane '71 Myron Daniel Muckey '61 Joe C Peters '62 Orla J L Petersen '68 Gillian Ann Potter '55 Patricia L Sharp '57 Jacques H B Vaneden '57 Jean Birch Wilton '51

4 ChronicleiWtnter 1985

NEWSINBRIEF

REUNIONS Victoria Normal School l l

l l

1953 graduates of the Victoria Normal School are invited to the school reunion, August 8 to 10, 1986 in Victoria. If you would like to attend or if you can supply names and addresses of fellow graduates, please send to Ken Leighton, 1747 Mortimer St., Victoria, B.C. V8P 3A9.

MUSSOC celebrates 70 years in 1986

The UBC Musical Theatre Society (MUSSOC) celebrates 70 years of productions with Joseph Stein and Jerry Bocks Fiddler on the Roof, opening at the UBC Old Auditorium January 30, 1986 at 8 p.m.

A MUSSOC reunion is also planned and alumni across North America are being contacted. The February 1 performance of Fiddler on the Roof will be a special alumni performance, gathering all past and present members to help celebrate the anniversary. A reception for alumni will be held after the performance.

The show continues January 31 and February 1, and then from February 3 to 8. Tickets are available after December 1, 1985 at the AMS Box Office. Phone 228-5656 for further details.

Fraternity Reunion in 1986

A dinner will be held Saturday, May 24, 1986 at the Vancouver Four ~ Seasons Hotel to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Gamma Omi-

cron Chapter of Beta Theta Pi. The evening will include a number of prominent Beta speakers and is an excellent opportunity for out-of-town Betas to visit Expo 86. For further information contact Doug Conn, 977 Hampshire Road, North Vancouver, B.C., V7R 1V1, (604) 732-1236 (office).

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THE MISSING CLASS OF '49

Norm Watt, UBC's director of extra- sessional studies, recently decided it was high time a notable gap was filled in the gallery of portraits of phys ed graduating classes that line one of the hallways of the War Memorial Gym- nasium.

Watt was annoyed because there was no composite picture of the class of '49, the first one to graduate with Bachelor of Physical Education degrees. Watt had good reason to be annoyed - he was a member of the class.

With the help of the Alumni Associ- ation, retired professor Doug Whittle

z and Reid Mitchell, he contacted each

2 of them - and asked that they send a < portrait for mounting. All but six p responded. 5 Early in September, Watt and five 5 other members of the class presented g the composite, suitably framed and d ready for hanging, to the School of

Physical Education at a reception in the gym's faculty lounge.

- 5 member of the class - there were 44

NEVILLE SCARFE 1908 - 1985

A memorial service was held Octo- ber 13, 1985 for former UBC Dean of Education Neville Vincent Scarfe, who died October 8 at the age of 77.

Dean Scarfe was born in England and educated at the University of Lon- don. He taught there for 16 years before becoming dean of education at the University of Manitoba in 1951. He was regarded as one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of education when he was appointed to head the newly organized Faculty of Educa- tion at UBC in 1956. The Scarfe Build- ing, home of Education at UBC, was later named in his honor.

Besides education, Dean Scarfe also took an active interest in his academic discipline, geography. In 1975 he received the National Council for Geo- graphic Education's G.J. Miller Award for "distinguished service to geo- graphic education."

Dean Scarfe was also a prolific writer and public speaker. In recent years he was president of the Brock House Society for seniors and served as a volunteer with the UBC Speakers Bureau.

He is survived by his wife, Gladys, three sons and six grandchildren. m

Six members of the Physical Education class of '49, left to right: John Pavelich, Reid Mitchell, Norm Watt, Basil Robinson, Marg (Laing) Willis and Terry Nelford.

ChroniclelWinter 1985 5

After a career spanning two and a half decades, including a N A S A appointment and the

presidency of Canada’s largest university, an outstanding scientist and administrator curnes

tu UBC.

President David Strangway

DAVID STRANCWAL

UNIVERSITY o r : PICTURED IN tIIS

TORONTO OFFICE, SAYS UBC’S MAJOR STRENGTH IS AN OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND STUDENT BODY.

BY ANNE SHARP

0 N SATURDAY MORNINGS, UBC’s new president, David Strangway, likes to set aside time from his other duties to work in his lab or meet with graduate students and colleagues. By his own admission, ”doing science” may be an unusual hobby, but he says that he finds a

kind of balance there, even while his major role is that of chief administrator.

“This is going to sound peculiar, but in a way, I find scientific research rather peaceful. The pressures are there but the time scale is very different. You can sit and talk about issues or you can think things through or argue about whether one way is the right way to go and so on. ‘ I

Strangway, 51, is a world-class scientist and a top academic administrator - a unique combination that will serve him well in the role of president of the University of British Columbia which he assumed November 1,1985.

He thinks a positive balance is achieved when teaching and research are of equal importance in a university. Universities such as UBC are most effective, says Strangway, when these two activities are “part and parcel of the same beast, done by the same people in the same place.”

”Academics in research institutions, without the teaching require- ments, are less likely to get back to the basics and the broad picture of their discipline,” says Strangway. ”So many times teaching and research are seen to be in conflict with each other but they should be complementary. One should not be done to the exclusion of the other.”

Strangway’s life has been, in his words, “influenced by opportunities to be in different places and different environments.” He was born in Simcoe, Ontario in 1934, the son of medical missionaries. During his early years he attended school in Angola and Rhodesia, where his father was surgeon in a United Church mission.

Strangway took all his academic training at the University of Toronto, culminating with his PhD in 1960. From 1956 - 1958 he headed the geophysics program for Ventures Limited (now Falconbridge). Later, he was research geophysicist for Kennecott Copper’s explora- tion arm in Denver, Colorado and remained active as a consultant for that company until 1970.

Strangway began his academic career teaching at the University of Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining U of T’s physics department in 1968. He became involved in planetary sciences, which did not exist as a discipline when he was a student.

One of his most exciting scientific opportunities - working with NASA - came when Strangway was a young academic. He became a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lunar Sample and Anal- ysis Planning Team, which oversaw the secur- ity of lunar samples and was involved in sum- marizing the findings of the first Apollo mission. Taking leave from the University of Toronto in 1972, he accepted the invitation to become chief of NASA’s geophysics branch in Houston.

“When I first got involved with NASA I was at MIT in 1968, which was well before the actual Apollo landings, but at the time the excitement and scientific opportunities had become very real. Some of my colleagues at MIT were involved in some of the early phases - planning, instrument design and so on. I suddenly realized that the kind of things that I was interested in doing were of direct rele- vance to the lunar work.”

Despite its title, Strangway’s position at NASA was not a typical civil service job. His most memorable recollections of that time were the missions themselves and the excitement of being in the back room of the control centre.

“There was tremendous suspense. We had to be ready to make rapid responses if something went wrong with the mission or if some- body said, ’Look, there’s only a few minutes left, what do we do first?’ All the training, the priority setting, the team sense that went with this, and then culminating in the actual missions - that’s what was so exciting at the time.”

While at NASA, Strangway was one of those responsible for the geophysical aspects of the Apollo missions, from experiment selection to astronaut training, site selection and mission support. He became interested in elec- tro-magnetic methods of exploring the lunar environment and in studies of the magnetic field, especially in determining its early history.

“It was an opportunity to do things in a totally different environment,” he recalls. ”It really made you stop and think because the environment was sufficiently different while the fundamental principles were the same, so the applications were really quite dissimiliar.”

Strangway is still NASA’s principal investigator for lunar samples, and he plans to bring some of his research activities to UBC next summer.

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“I’ll obviously not be doing nearly as much esearch as I have been doing, for this (the JBC presidency) is a full-time occupation. I vould like to keep a small amount of activity ;oing, however.“

EFLECTING ON THE value of his university education, Strangway says, ”It gave me the opportunities, it opened

loors for me and I guess the key thing was hat it kept me going with the notion that here were always new doors to be opened.“

David Strangway opened many new doors IS an academic and scientist. When he left \IASA to return to the University of Toronto IS head of the geology department, NASA Jermitted him to transfer his $750,000 labora- ory to the campus. During the following pro- iuctive research years, he coordinated a pro- Josal for a $1 million grant from the National iesearch Council, the largest such grant ever iwarded in the earth sciences. Strangway also ‘ound time to play a volunteer role for various lational and international geoscience groups md he promoted the development of the 3ntario Geoscience Research Fund, which ‘unds research that has industrial applica- :ions.

As the seventies came to a close, Strangway Jecame more involved in academic adminis- :ration. He was appointed vice-president and xovost of the University of Toronto in 1980 md in 1983 he served a year as acting presi- Aent of the university. He assumed the posi- :ion on three weeks notice after president-elect Donald Forster died of a heart attack.

During his term as provost and then as president, Strangway actively promoted the university’s interests with provincial and municipal governments. He raised the criteria for awarding tenure and enhanced the admis- sions process. He felt that, in spite of financial Aifficulties, ”it was important to retain some ability to take action as opportunities presented themselves.”

Describing the management style he’ll bring to UBC, Strangway says he is a fairly open person and likes to be as consultative as the timetable permits him to be.

”If people understand what the issues are, they’re more willing to go along with the tough decisions. . . , When the issues haven’t been expressed clearly and people haven‘t had a chance to grapple with the issues themselves, then they don’t have an interest in the process.”

Strangway also likes “a sense that you can see things happening”, an understatement for a man whose experience and accomplish- ments include academic, industrial, government and administrative dimensions. Although Strangway says it is too soon for him to speculate on how he’ll tackle UBC’s problems, he does think that a university can not be readily compared to an industry where the results are easily defined as bottom-line numbers.

“You can’t define the results of a university in anything like that. It’s really an attitude, the atmosphere, the sense of excitement about what you’re doing. If, as an administrator, you can help to strengthen that feeling, then you‘ve done a lot of what you have to do.”.

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Developing computer vision systems has placed UBC scientists at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence research.

The Mmd of a Machine

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

MACKWORTH (LEFT) AND Bo6 WOODHAM:

RESEARCHERS ALAN

THEIR UBC RESEARCH "VERGES ON THE MAGICAL".

BY DAVID MORTON

0 N ALAN MACKWORTH'S desk in UBC's Computer Sci- ence Building, there is a three- inch figurine of Mickey Mouse dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from the Disney

film Fantasia. Mackworth got it last August in Los Angeles where he served as general chairman for a major conference on Artificial Intelli- gence (AI). He describes the conference as exciting, since it involved some 5,500 AI experts from around the world - the largest of its kind ever held.

However, aside from reminding Mackworth of the conference, the figurine also draws a parallel between the story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice and AI research. In Fnntnsin, the Sorcerer's Apprentice, wanting help with his lab chores, conjures a brigade of mops into action; some mop while others toss buckets of water on the floor. Soon the mops and buckets get out of control, and when the inexperi- enced Sorcerer's Apprentice cannot find the spells to stop them, the story ends in a night- mare of drowning and floods.

"There is a whole mythical level here, in which mankind has been given computers, that he is wanting to create artificial intelligence with these tools, and that they may get out of hand," says Mackworth.

"Yes, I do think of that sometimes." By most accounts, computers are not yet at

the stage where they can get out of hand like the mops in Fantasia, and whether they ever will is matter of some debate among philosophers and scientists. Certainly, some of the developments arising from Professor Mack- worth's work, and the work of two of his colleagues at UBC, seem to verge on the magical.

ChronicleiWmler 1985 9

Artificial intelligence has been a field of research for about 25 years now, and the world is only beginning to see its advances. “Expert systems” that can diagnose a disease or point geologists to rich mineral deposits are being used more widely as their accuracy and efficiency continue to impress their human ”peers”. Another AI device, the Kurzweil Reading Machine, translates the written word into computer-generated speech (Chronicle, Spring 1983).

Mackworth, Bob Woodham and Bill Havens, are researching computational vision. They are teaching computers not only how to see, but to understand and interpret what they see. Their work is being applied in a number of important areas, notably in remote sensing, or the computer interpretation of aer-

I THINK. . . THEREFORE I AM? T HAT AI HAS been dubbed ”experimental epistemology” or

“applied philosophy” has raised the eyebrows of some philosophers who believe the notion of creating intelligent behavior in a machine is impossible.

AI researchers such as Mackworth and Havens are trying to find an adequate way of representing the thought processes of the human mind in a computer program. How the human mind works, in fact, is a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries. Theories abound, but no-one has any sure answers. How can a computer scientist possibly shed any light on the question?

AI researchers say they can use computers to test epistemological theories. By writing programs that imitate knowledge theories, such as those of Immanuel Kant or David Hume, computer scientists claim they can tell which ones work and which ones don‘t. They can even come up with theories of their own.

Ronald de Sousa, a philosophy professor a t the University of Toronto, has mixed feelings.

”Computers can provide no conclusive evidence on how humans think,” says de Sousa, who was a visiting professor at UBC last year. A computer model of a knowledge theory may be fundamentally similar, but different in the way it is executed in the machine as opposed to how it may be executed in the mind, he says.

To illustrate the difference, de Sousa uses the example of computerized chess programs, which use large amounts of computer power to calculate six to eight chess moves in advance. They reorganize their strategy with each move.

Chess masters, on the other hand, think only two or three moves in advance and do periodic checks on their overall position. Simply by looking at the chess board, they are able to tell whether or not they are in a good position.

But, just because chess programs have been successful, doesn’t mean these programs can throw light on how humans play, de Sousa says. Computers, in fact, are unable to evaluate their position like chess masters, by glancing at the board.

Mackworth agrees there is a difference between the way the mind might manipulate information and the way a computer might. He refers to the dichotomy as ”the sufficiencyhecessity problem”, meaning that computer scientists have established sufficient means for computers to perform intelligently, but not necessarily the ”human” means.

”Computer scientists haven’t come up with a totally sufficient answer to this problem,” says Mackworth.

Nor have they answered another problem referred to by de Sousa as ”the frame problem.” In other words, what information is it necessary to ignore in order to understand a situation?

If a glass of water is moved to the edge of a table, for instance, someone nearby may see that it is within reaching distance or that it may fall off the edge. The computer might register the move differently. Depend- ing on how it is programmed, it may be led through a series o f questions such as “If the glass has moved, what has happened to the table?” or ”Has the water inside the glass changed?”

A human might understand the situation easily, but a computer must have a means of filtering out irrelevant information in order to do so.

“In a sense, the frame problem becomes the central issue in epistemology for the computer scientist,” says de Sousa. “Well, there’s a little more to epistemology than that. AI is good for checking out certain ideas and even trying out new approaches, but it doesn’t have all the answers.

ial photographs and satellite images. Working with Peter Murtha in Forestry, they

have put their computers to use in identifying insect-infested forests from infra-red satellite images, compiling a plant food inventory for a reindeer range in Canada‘s north and determining environmental effects on native lands of nearby industry in Ontario.

Satellites and airborne scanners provide the raw data and the computers use programmed information to draw inferences from what is sensed in order to reach conclusions for the scientists.

The advantage of using a computer in remote sensing is not only the detailed output it can produce, but the timeliness with which it can get things done. To diagnose an insect- infested forest by traditional methods is time- consuming, allowing the insects time to move on to do further damage. Computer-assisted remote sensing can diagnose the problem quickly so immediate action can be taken to stop the infestation from spreading.

Mackworth, Woodham and Havens are the chief faculty members at UBC’s Laboratory for Computational Vision, from which they con- duct most of their research. The lab is funded by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engi- neering Research Council and the prestigious Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Although the three researchers work jointly on many projects, each has his own specializa- tion. Mackworth, who founded the lab in 1974, and Havens (who did his PhD under Mackworth) are interested in different aspects of knowledge representation. Woodham, who has a joint academic appointment in the facul- ties of Computing Science and Forestry, studies image analysis.

THEORIES OF VISION The process of enabling a computer to see

draws heavily from research in other scientific disciplines, notably the neuro-sciences and psychology. But in translating neurological and psychological principles into programs, the computer scientists have developed some of their own theories about human vision.

“There is a level of theory,” says Mack- worth, “where you can talk about what‘s going on in vision regardless of what machine it’s working in - whether it’s a biological machine, a human machine or a traditional computer.”

The level of theory Mackworth is talking of is the computational approach to vision; thus the name for their lab. In their vision programs, the UBC researchers use a series of mathematical and symbolic computations to mimic the neurological or psychological functions of the eye and brain. These computations demand a special computer language called Lisp, which allows symbols or strings of symbols (such as calculus equations) to be manipulated.

“A map, for instance, is literally a bunch of lines and symbols on a page,“ says Woodham. “It is only by applying our knowledge that we can derive the implicit meanings in maps - for example, identifying a watershed or a river system.“

The process of extracting those crude

images and putting them together again in the mind is analogous to the way the UBC researchers write programs. The lines and symbols can be embedded in the computer using Lisp, and they are reconstructed using the knowledge programmed into the computer.

Giving the computers knowledge of what they see has been the task of Mackworth and Havens. Together they have written several versions of a map-understanding program they call Mapsee. The system uses hand- drawn sketch maps in the interpretation of aerial photographs. According to Mackworth, each version used a different psychological model of knowledge representation.

One system, Mapsee2, is a ”schema-based” system that draws on the work of the 18th- century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. A later version of Mapsee, written in collabo- ration with Ray Reiter (now a t the University of Toronto), uses a “logic-based” system.

“The computer is actually a valuable tool in testing different theories of knowledge,” says Mackworth. “Rather than speculating for hours and hours and writing endless papers about different ways to represent knowledge, you can actually try them out on the computer and see if they work.“

INTELLIGENCE VERSUS KNOWLEDGE It is this aspect of AI research that has been

called ”Applied Philosophy” or “Experimental Epistemology”. While the labels earn a smile from AI researchers, they draw sneers from others. Philosophers regard the notion that

intelligent behavior can be replicated in a machine as a fallacy. True intelligent behavior, they say, consists of living a human life, the ability to have subjective experiences to form intentions for the future. There is something fundamentally different about humans that a machine cannot replicate.

Computer scientists, depending on whom you talk to, believe that we already have intelligent machines. If I Q is a measure of a person’s ability to solve problems and perform certain tasks, then computers are equally capable and equally intelligent.

”The fact that human beings are capable of what philosophers call intelligence is proof that machines can be made to do the same,” says Woodham. ‘‘I see no reason intrinsically why human intelligence is any different in kind from any other intelligence we might hope to achieve in animals or in machines.”

I t is here that the Sorcerer’s Apprentice figurine on Mackworth‘s desk, lifting its magic wand into the air, takes on a menacing appearance. Are we creating a world of malevolent machines lacking in moral sensibil- ities?

“Not likely,” says Mackworth. “The problem with morality will not come from robots, it will come from the programmers. If it ever happened, the moral liability would be on the programmer and the designers of the system, not the machines.”

“My ultimate goal in AI,“ adds Woodham, “is not to build a machine version of a human. My goal is to pursue this universe of the mind - of reason, thinking, intelligence and knowledge - to whatever length I can.”.

BIIL HAVENS, ASSlSTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, worm WTTFI

ALAN MACKWOIITH os ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BOB WOODHAM A N D

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Continuing Education’s downtown centre, unique in Canada, offers career and educational counselling.

BY KELLEY Jo BURKE

R UTH SIGAL is not a motherly person, exactly. Like the

Women’s Resources Centre itself, its director is warm and supportive, but professional. From square one, she makes it clear that the people who come into the centre will be wel- comed, and respected, but the onus is on them to do something with the assistance offered to them.

“We don’t do a lot of knee-patting here,” Sigal says smiling. “We’re not a support group. If people need that kind of counselling we send them to an appropriate service. But that’s not our function.”

Sigal’s conversation is full of “ing” words: deciding, planning and changing. The downtown centre, an outreach division of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Contin- uing Education, is unique in Canada, in its emphasis on career and educational planning for women.

The centre functions as a drop-in centre, a downtown classroom, and a psychological and vocational guidance service. All the programs at the centre have the same goal; to give women the skills, information and confidence necessary to find their place in educa-

5 tion or the workplace. 4” Although part of the University, the

resource centre is only partly funded 5 by it. Sigal’s salary is the only cost cur- 2 rently covered by UBC. The rest of the

operational funds, including the rent on the Robson Street office, is gener-

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ated by the centre. Sigal, understandably concerned at a time when no-one is safe from the budgetary knife, points out that with those figures, the centre is a bargain for UBC.

Especially during the peak periods of fall and spring registration at UBC, there is an enormous demand for the centre’s services. In one day, staff can handle more than 40 drop-ins, and as many telephone inquiries. The centre meets this demand through the efforts of about 50 volunteers who work as counsellors. Sigal, a biochemist who returned to UBC to become a counselling psychologist, trains and super- vises the 50 women, 80 per cent of whom are UBC alumni.

They offer three levels of assistance

Ruth Sigal, Director of the UBC Women’s Resource Centre.

f Women. s n riesource Centre

to their clients. First there is the free initial counselling session with one of the volunteers. Following that, the counsellor recommends which, if any, of the programs would best help the individual. They range from work- shops in areas such as job search, assertiveness training, and stress management (around NO), to assistance in selecting a university program, to a complete life-planning sem- inar, with psychological and vocational testing, and follow-up counselling (around $200).

“We see all sorts of women here,” Sigal says, “Mature women wanting to re-enter the work force after several years away, working women wanting to find a more fulfilling career, young women trying to make their first decisions. And recently, we’ve been getting more men in here, young ones mostly, who also want some help in making career decisions.”

One major task for the resource centre staff is to reach out into the community and convince people that going back to school is feasible and necessary in an ever changing techno- logical world.

“Studies show that most people will have around eight different jobs in their lifetime,” says Sigal, ”if they work throughout. Unfortunately, many people feel that once they’ve chosen a career they’re stuck. But learning is a life-long process.

”Women in particular, who have been out of school for a while, find the prospect of going to a university, especially one as large as UBC, terrify- ing. They lack confidence, feel that they aren‘t smart enough, and that they’ll look foolish among all the young people. To go out there just to inquire is so frightening that they just keep putting it off. But here, we’re downtown, accessible, relaxed, with an unstructured atmosphere. They can begin here.”

School isn’t always the answer for the people who visit the resource centre, but Sigal says, “it doesn’t matter what a person chooses to do, as long as she starts to make her own decisions.”

Said Sigal in a recent issue of Cana- dian Living, ”Too many women have a ’waiting’ theme running through their lives. . . . Waiting for someone or something to come along and rescue you is no way to live your life. The best remedy is to stop waiting and start getting what you want.”

The Women’s Resource Centre is located at 1-114 Robson Street, and the telephone number is 685-3934.

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MILLION-DOLLAR DONATIONS FOR LAW, COMMERCE BY TERRY LAVENDER

The University of British Columbia has been the recipient of two especially noteworthy donations in recent months - one from Vancouver busi- nessman David Lam and the other courtesy of the computer manufac- turer IBM Canada.

The David Lam Management Research Library in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administra- tion was opened June 6, 1985, thanks to the generosity of David Lam and family, who donated $1 million towards its establishment.

David See-Chai Lam and his family arrived in Vancouver in 1967 from Hong Kong. Now one of the city's most successful real estate developers, Lam said at the library's opening that he benefited greatly from the evening courses in Commerce he took at UBC. Two of his three daughters have graduated from the university.

Lam said, "I want to thank the Uni- versity of British Columbia for giving me the education and skills which assisted me in succeeding in the opportunities offered in Canada. My contribution to this library is but a small payment on the debt of grati- tude which I owe."

The library now operates out of four reading rooms in the Henry Angus Building. It will have a comprehensive selection of material on business activities and corporatelfinancial reports and periodicals. Other research material will be accessible through computer data bases. A major focus of the library will be Pacific Rim economic activities. A special CommercelMBA alumni campaign is now underway to endow the library's operating costs.

On October 17, 1985, UBC and IBM Canada announced the establishment of a Cooperative Project on Comput- ers and the Law. Under the agree- ment, IBM will provide over $2 million worth of computing equipment, programs and services to UBC.

The project will include computer literacy courses for law students, lawyers and judges; programs to enable computers to teach law; "expert" computer systems to help lawyers identify legal issues and relevant research materials; and a judicial data base to aid judges with the complex task of sentencing. Computer classrooms will be established at both the Law Faculty and Continuing Legal Education.

Gifts such as those of David Lam and IBM Canada enable the Univer- sity of British Columbia to maintain its high standards of excellence.

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From Egypt in 3000 B . C. to the Man on the Moon, a UBC grad presents a course on 100 decisive events in historu.

Hlstory's 100

BY DAVID CAREY, BA'38

David Carey, BA'38, a n d Britislz Colunl- hia's Rhodes Scholar for 1938, recetltly dczlised, wrote and rlnrrnterl "ZOO D ~ C ~ S ~ Z J P Ezlents in History", zohich was broadcast ojr R North Carolim PBS station. The Chronicle asked M r . Cnrey lrvzu he llnd c o t m to do the series, ami a unizlersity cow t i n u i q edclcatiorl course C J ~ the s u m title. This is his reply:

A NYONE WHO HAD the opportunity and privilege of sit-

ting at the feet of Professor Soward, Dr. Sage or Dr. Freddie Wood back in the 30s generally ended up inquisitive for more. They not only equipped you, if you listened, to pass the year's exams, but more importantly, whetted your appetite for more and more information, of the kind that had to be discovered on your own.

A fairly busy life did not leave me many opportunities for this kind of reading, although helping to put the pieces together in Europe and Asia after World War I1 gave me a chance to be involved in an important slice of history.

The opportunity came on retirement. I found myself in Knoxville, Tennessee, home campus of the state university. So, I called up the continuing education department and asked if they would like me to give a course during the upcoming semester. To the woman who answered, I suggested, "How about 100 decisive events in history?"

She was understandably a little non-plussed as most of the courses in the extension department tended to be on the practical side - real estate, tax planning, assertiveness, gourmet cooking, pregnancy after 40 and so on. But after a pause she said, "Well, why not? Come in and we'll set it up."

So, I was confronted with the pros-

pect of giving a course and only two events out of the 100 were clear in my mind - the first, Egypt around 3000 B.C., and the last, Man on the Moon.

Now came the fun part. How to select the events and literally put them in capsule form, so that, in a two hour lecture you covered 10 events. In this I was greatly helped by a fellow Rhodes Scholar, who had a PhD. in history.

The classes were well attended, and I was asked to repeat the course in succeeding semesters. The word apparently got around and I was approached by the regional PBS station about a televised series. This developed into 26 half-hour programs, with four events covered in each program, and a half-hour intro- duction at the start of the series. I nar- rated it using maps, pictures and film clips to illustrate the narration. The regional station has plans to distribute it around the country.

I learned a lot as I researched and prepared this material. For instance,

June weddings became traditional because it was the Anglo-Saxon habit to take the annual bath in late May. Anglo-Saxons had a great antipathy to bathing. Among the other things I learned were the importance of pep- per throughout history and how a Turkish harem operated.

I was also intrigued by some of the "what ifs" of history. What if Varus the Roman general, sent by Augustus in .A.D. 9 to put the modern areas of Germany and Poland under control, had succeeded? In fact, he was deci- sively beaten by Arminius, a Ger- manic chieftain who conducted a kind of guerilla warfare in the marshes and forests of Germany. As a result, Roman power and culture never again tried to cross the Rhine. Supposing Varus had been successful and that area had come under the Franco-Latin culture that moulded Europe in the next many years, would we have had two world wars in this century? There are so many more "what ifs".

As I taught the classes and did my research, I came to realize how much our history is learned in longitudinal divisions. For instance, I asked the class if they all knew about Cleopatra. That was fairly easy. Elizabeth Taylor had made her pretty well known. So I asked for a rough date as to when she lived. This was a little tougher. So I said, "Well historically, she was a con- temporary of Jesus."

There was a gasp. They all knew about Cleopatra and they all knew about Jesus. They had never put the two together. Of course, when Joseph and Mary fled to escape Herod's tan- trums, it was to Cleopatra's Egypt. She actually died in 30 B.C.

In the same way, few could tell me what was going on in Europe around the time Columbus discovered Amer- ica. They were quite amazed when I told them Joan of Arc had recently been burnt at the stake, Martin Luther was turning the religious world upside down, Guttenburg had invented type, Michelangelo was doing the Sistine Chapel, and so on. Again, they knew of these events, but had never put them together.

Throughout the series, I tried to "lateralize" history. When dealing with events in Europe, we'd switch to what was going on in Russia, or China, or Japan.

So, my thanks to the Sowards, Sages and Woods of the past, and a salute to their counterparts of today, who intrigue and stimulate us to reach out for new ways of doing things and to search for fresh truths.

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SCENES FROM HOMECOMING ’85

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J.V. Clyne, BA’23, former B.C. Supreme Court Justice, UBC Chancellor and MacMillan Bloedel Chairman and CEO, has published his memoirs, lack of All Trades. The Vancouver Sun calls the reminiscences “outspoken”, with opinions on subjects ranging from socialism to capital punishment . . . . The family of D.H. (Doug) Rae, BASc’23, celebrated his 90th birthday recently with a surprise party. Among the guests was E.C. (Wilkie) Wilkinson, BASc’23. Both are veterans of the First World War and both took part in the Great Trek of 1922. -

30s In appreciation of their long association with port development in Canada, Gordon W. Stead, BCom’33, BA34, and Norman Hacking, BA’34, were recently presented with honorary memberships in the Canadian Port and Harbour Association. . . . Harold W. Smith, BASc’35, is retired and living in Dunrobin in eastern Ontario. He was with Cominco for 10 years and the federal Energy, Mines and Resources department for 30 years . . . . Maverick B.C. Social Credit MLA Jack Davis, BASc’39, is author, publisher and distributor of Populur Po1itic.s: Hozu to Make Democracy ” o r k . Another UBC alumnus, David Schreck, PhD78, will be the NDP candidate in Davis’ constituency, North Vancouver-Seymour, in the next provincial election. -

40s Marion (MacDonald) Wright, BA’43, MA’49, was presented with the Clifford J. Robson ”Distinguished Psychologist in Manitoba” Award in April 1985, in recognition of her efforts towards establishing a doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Manitoba. . . . Carleton University economics professor H. Edward English, BA’45, PhD (Berkeley), is teaching at the International University of Japan while on sabbatical. The focus of his work in recent years has been Pacific trade relations , . . , James M. Cameron, BCom’48, retired this year after 37 years of public relations for Cominco. In 1961 he was president of the Trail Smoke Eaters, the last Canadian amateur hockey team to win the world championship. . . . Living in Victoria is Richard Clifford, BSF‘48, BCom’49, who retired in 1983 after working 29 years for the B.C. Ministry of Forests. . , . New chairman of the UBC Board of Governors is William L. Sauder, BCom’48. Sauder, president of Sauder Industries Ltd., was

appointed to the 15-member Board by the provincial government in 1981. He succeeds Vancouver lawyer David McLean. -

50s Roy Sadler, BA’51, has won awards for his work in co-operative education from both the Co-operative Education Association of the U.S.A. and the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education. As manager of co-op programs for IBM Canada, he has built the largest corporate co-op program in the country . . . . Joan M. Whiley, BA’51, a staff writer for the Port of Seattle, has received her Public Relations Society of American accreditation . . . . Margaret M. (Guest) Hoehn, MD’54, a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Colorado, has been a guest speaker at international symposia in Buenos Aires and New York on Parkinson’s Disease . . . . President of the Institute of Management Consultants of B.C. is Godfrey Chowne, BCom’55, a partner in the firm Chowne, Beatson Management Consultants. . . . M. Jean (Bulman) Woodley, BA’55, married Dr. W.R. Woodley on November 14, 1984. She is involved in music education in Vernon . . . . Anne Konrad, BA’55, has had her first book, a novel called The BIuc lur, published. A high school English teacher, she lives in Toronto with her husband, Harvey Dyck, BA’56, MA’58, and their family . . . . Bernard Eisenstein, MD56, is associate medical director of William Beaumont Hospital in Troy, Michigan. -

60s Bob Gayton, BCom’62, PhD (Berkeley), a partner in Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, has recently rejoined the firm’s Vancouver office . . . . Gary Geddes, BA’62, was one of five regional winners in the 1985 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize, for his volume of verse, The Tcrmcottn Army. As winner of the Americas area regional prize, Geddes is being considered for the. grand prize, the winner of which will be announced shortly. . . . Duncan G. Thomas, BASc’62, is the new executive vice-president and general manager of A.J. Forsyth and Co., a steel service centre . . . . John M. Curtis, BA’63, AM, PhD (Harvard), is senior policy advisor, multilateral trade negotiations, with the federal external affairs department. . . . G. Harvie Barker, BA’64, BD (Montreal), received his STM degree from the University of Winnipeg recently. His wife, Elizabeth (Leroux) Barker, BHE’64, MSc (Manitoba), teaches at the University of Manitoba . . . . Scott Hylands, BA’64, stars in a CBS cop series, Night Heat, set in the streets of Toronto. The Yellowknife-born

actor has been acting for 20 years, first on Broadway and later in movies and television . . . . Merv Magus, BEd’64, has published his fourth volume of hockey- related cartoons, Hockey Is A Funny Game ZV. He says the only way he can pay for this “hobby” is to teach junior high school in Burnaby . . . . Yaro Igor Starak, MSW64, invites his former classmates to contact him or visit him in Australia. He can be reached through the University of Queensland’s social work department in Brisbane , , . , ”I have over 40 U.S. and foreign patents in photopolymerization and electronic materials”, writes J.E. Gervay, PhD65, from Wilmington, Deleware. He’s a research associate for Dupont Photoproducts and Electronic Products . . . . John C. Kerr, BA’65, has been elected chairman of the B.C. Council of Forest Industries . . . . Time Magazine Washington correspondent Ross H. Munro, BA65, leaves Washington for New Delhi soon to become Time-Life News Service’s South Asia bureau chief . . . . Susan (Miller) Suart, BSc’65, MSc (London), heads the reference department of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information in Ottawa. . . . Henry L. Suderman, BASc (Chem)’65, MBA’69, moved from London, England, to Calgary where he is manager, corporate loans, for the Bank of British Columbia’s energy department . . . . The University of Toronto’s new dean of forestry is UBC science grad J. Roderick Carrow, MSc’67. . . . Frank Gannon, BEd’67, MEd’73, and his wife Betty run a career advisory service in Richmond . . . . After 11 years, Louise Hager, BA’67, BLS’70, and her partner are selling Hager Books in Vancouver’s Kerrisdale area to pursue other interests . . . . Lorena J. Kanke, MD67, a clinical instructor of obstetrics and gynecology at UBC, has been elected chairman of the British Columbia Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists . . . . R.T. J. Laing, BSc’67, who has worked in New Orleans, London and The Hague, is now in Sumatra, Indonesia, as chief geophysicist with P.T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia . . . . I.B. Matiru, BEd’67, MA’70, is an editor for Oxford University Press in Nairobi, Kenya. She and her husband, Havelock Thairu Matiru, BSF’70, have four children . . . . James Ray Richards, BCom’67, is a vice- president in the merchant banking group of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. . . . Gary Watts, BA’67, BD, STM (Saskatchewan), BHJ (Regina), PhD (McGill), has just moved to Camrose, Alberta after 10 years as a penitentiary chaplain in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. He is now an

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assistant professor of religious studies at Camrose Lutheran College . . . . Merle Herbert Reagh, BA’68, has a new position as consultant for the B.C. education ministry’s modern languages branch . . . . Bruce G . Boaden, MBA69, has taken a sabbatical from the University of Natal in South Africa t o work on a self-help housing research project. He is a professor and head of the department of quantity surveying and building economics at the university , , . . Chrotlicle Editorial Committee Chairman Peter Jones, BA’69, has been elected vice-president of Burson- Marsteller, a public relations consulting firm. Jones is general manager of the firm’s Vancouver office . . . . James Parkes, BCom’69, is president of the Western Rehabilitation Society, which operates the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre and Pearson Hospital in Vancouver. . . . Hannah Polowy, BEd-E‘69, MEd’71, EdD78, of UBC’s education faculty, is the first non-Russan educator to be awarded the Anton Makarenko Medal by the Ukrainian republic’s ministry of education. Dr. Polowy, whose ethnic background is Ukrainian, received the medal for her “dedication to internationalism in education, contributions to Canadian education and for her advocacy of humanitarianism, collective process and social responsibility.” -

70s Roslyn Kunin, PhD70, is a regional economist for B.C. and Yukon for Employment and Immigration Canada. She also chairs the Vancouver Economic Advisory Commission . . . . Jean Anne Wightman, BA70, has graduated from the University of Guelph’s Master of Landscape Architecture program and is now employed as a sessional instructor in that university‘s landscape architecture school , . . . Nancy Enright, BA’71, has just had her new book, Nancy EnrIghyht’s Catladian HerlJ Cookbook, published by Lorimer Press in Toronto . . . . Melanie J. Friesen, BA71, is director of creative affairs, United Kingdom, for MGMiUnited Artists’ motion picture production divisions. She worked as an agent, representing writer and director clients in both the United Kingdom and the United States . . . . A. Craig Lahmer, BSc’71, is a partner with Arthur Andersen & Co., Chartered Accountants, in Toronto . . . . Stephen Nikleva, BA’74, plays guitar, while Enrico Renz, BA’81, sings for Vancouver new wave band Red Herring. The group recently released its first record, a six-song e p called ”Taste Tests” . . . . Sales and marketing manager for Unity Paper Tubes in England is Robert A. Mackenzie, BSF’71. He and his wife Julie had a son, William, in April, 1985. . . . Garth E. Pinton, BA72, has been appointed a partner with Dunhill Personnel Consultants, a Vancouver management and professional search firm . . . . K.S. Chunsi, MF’73, is senior forest research officer in charge of forest products utilisation at the Tanzania Forestry Research Institute in Tanzania , , . . Elizabeth Gallaher, BHE73, and her brother Patrick run B.C. Playthings, a North Vancouver store that sells only “participating play” items. The store is now in its 10th year of

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business. . . . Art Ponder, BEd’73, is now a professor in Memorial University’s educational administration department in St. John’s, Newfoundland. . . . Peter Sammon, BSc’73, MSc’75, PhD (Cornell), writes from Calgary that he is a partner in Dynamic Reservoir Systems while his wife, Christine (Hellwig) Sammon, BA’78, MLS (Wisconsin) is head librarian at the Alberta College of Ar t , , . . Now an assistant professor of psychology at Long Island University in New York, Rhianon Allen, BA74, PhD (CUNY), was formerly with Columbia University’s department o f psychiatry. . . . Joseph P. Dion, BA’74, MA (Toronto), ME5 (York), manages policy development for CITL in Toronto . . . . S . Allison Fader, BA74, LLB’79, is a mdsters student in public administration at the University of Victoria . . . . David M. Mark, MA’74, is an associate professor of geography and director of the cartographic laboratory at the State University of New York at Buffalo . . . . “Back to the university and still in Nigeria,” writes Sagary (Tertius) Nokoe, MF’74, PhD76, from the University of Science and Technology at Port Harcourt, Nigeria, “Tom See, Richard Yand and Sandy Segaran should get in touch” , . . . Jon Pearkings, BSc‘74, has established a specialized computer support centre in Edmonton . . . . Bruce Ruddell, BEd’75, is composer-in-residence at the Vancouver Playhouse on a seven month contract. He has written music for “A Man For All Seasons”, ”K2” and other recent Playhouse productions . . . . Donna Wells, MLS’75, was recently appointed city librarian for Swift Current, Sask. This follows work for a public library in Nigeria with CUSO and the birth of her daughter, Laura Ehizofua Wells, June 1, 1984 . . . . H. John Yagi, BSc (Pharm)’75, is working on his MBA a t the University of Toronto. He owns a pharmacy in Guelph, Ontario . . . . Joylene Campbell, MLS’76, is Lakeland Regional Librarian in North Battleford, Sask. She is also a member of the provincial board of the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum. . . . Ronald Walter Green, BA’76, handles distribution services for 50 stores of the Hometown Hardwares chain. He and wife Jay live in Leduc, Alberta . . . . President of both Vertek Engineering and Silvan Natural Springs Ltd. is Rinaldo Lampis, BASc’76, of Vancouver. . . . Ani1 Ram, BSc’76, BSc (Pharm)’XO, is chairman of the B.C. Pharmacists Society for 1985-86. He owns a drug store in Parksville . . . . Bruce Rutley, BSc (Agr)’76, has returned to B.C. as agriculture program coordinator at Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek. . . . Carol Schmitt, BComm’76, and Steve Schmitt, BSc (Agr)’76, are busy in Coronation, Alberta. She runs her own accounting firm while he has opened a training stable . . . . Barbara Schwab, BHE76, and James Schwab, BSF’76, live in Smithers with their three children, Anthony, Klara and Theresa . . . . Dennis Sexsmith, BA’76, MA’80, writes that he “has joined the B.C. exodus, moving to Saskatoon to assume teaching duties in art history at the University of Saskatchewan . . . . William Clifford, BSc’77, MScF (New Brunswick), received his doctorate in medicine and the gold medal for the graduating medicine class from the University of New Brunswick in May 1985. He is now in residency in

Winnipeg. . . . David I . Cocking, BA’77, BLA’85, is with Vaughan Durante Ltd. Landscape Architects, doing Expo ’86- related work as well as large scale residential development planning studies . . . . For his discovery of a new technique of dating oil deposits, T. Mark Harrison, BSc’77, of the State University of New York at Albany, has been named a U.S. Presidential Young Investigator, worth $25,000 for five years . . . . Frances K. Pohl, BA’77, MA’80, received his PhD in art history at UCLA in September 1985. He is an assistant professor in art history at Pomona College, Claremont, California . , . . Joan M. Schwartz, MA’77, is back in Ottawa after 10 years in England pursuing research and writing in the history of photography. . . . Gregory W. Taylor, BSc’77, MD (Dalhousie) recently started his medlcal practice in Erin, Ontario . . . . William H. Black, BASc’78, and Hedy (Hampel) Black, BEd-E’78, live in New Westminster. She teaches school in Surrey while he works for Westbay Instruments Ltd. They have a one-year-old daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth. . . . Ron Fulton, DMD78, is doing graduate periodontics at UBC’s Faculty of Dentistry. He and wife Debbie have a daughter, Lauren, born on May 25, 1985 . . . . Ronald J. Hall, BSF’78, MSc (Alberta), works with the Canadian Forestry Service in Edmonton as a research officer and study leader. . . . Director of marketing for Can- Tan Sun Systems Ltd. in Vancouver is Frank Ingham, BEd’78 . . . . David Burns, BCom’79, is a senior marketing coordinator with Informatics General Corporation in Woodland Hills, California . . . . Archie Johnston, BCom’79, is a manager in Thorne Riddell Chartered Accountants’ national auditing resources department. . . . Susan (Mitchell) McKechnie, BCom’79, LLB’83, and J . Cam McKechnie, LLB’83, were married on March 16, 1985. . , . Bell-Northern Research employee Steven M. Schnider, BASc’79, completed his Masters of Applied Science in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto in 1985 . . . . Edmand Yuk Man Wong, BA’79, is senior press information officer with the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong. -

80s W.L. Craig Campbell, BCom’HO, is returning to Vancouver via east Africa after a two year tour of duty with the Melbourne, Australia office of Price Waterhouse. . . . Roman Depka, BASc’80, works with Telecom Canada in Ottawa . . , . Keith Fraser, BPE’80, completed a 600-kilometre bicycling marathon recently. The marathon‘s route took him and other hardy cyclists from Vancouver down through Washington State and back again in 40 hours. . . . Norman Grusnick, BASc’80, is a sales engineer in Vancouver with General Equipment Ltd . , . . William R. McKinnon, BA80, was recently appointed Vancouver branch manager for Continental Air Freight Ltd . . . . Wellington, New Zealand resident Kellie Reynolds, BCom’80, is audit manager for Arthur Young Chartered Accountants . . . . Laila Johnsen, BSc (Agr)’80, married Pat Salm July 20, 1985 in Williams Lake . . . . Kevin Todd, BSF‘SO, MA’85, MFS (Canterbury,

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’acific Management in Vancouver. . . . )avid James Tiplady, BASc’84, just started vork at Hydrogeological Consultants Ltd. n Edmonton , . . . Bradley E. Waugh, 6684, expects to wrap up his Master’s legree at Queen’s University in Kingston ~y December 1985. He and wife Renee Iomesetti (UBC‘s AMs vice-president for 983-84) had a baby girl, Ceilidhe Michelle )n May 17, 1985 . . . . Lidia A. Wolanskyj, dFA84, won the Brixton Festival Poetry ’rize in 1984 and is now a council member )f the Federation of B.C. Writers . -

Births Steven John Baillie, BSc’Bl, and Kanya M. Godwin) Baillie, a son, Matthew Alastair, 4pril 13, 1985, a grandson for W. Garth Sodwin, BA’57, and a great-grandson for Kathleen M. (Inglis) Godwin, BA’25 . . . . 41an E. Banfield, BSc’76, and Beverly Sanfield, a daughter, Heather Nicole, May 30, 1985 in Mission . . . . Ellen :Nightingale) Berry, MA’80, and Jim Berry, a son, Andrew James, August 20, 1985, in Kitchener, Ontario. . . . Barbara [Anderson) Blewett, BEd’78, and Fred W. Blewett, a son, Todd William, April 29, 1985 in Williams Lake, a brother for Katie , . . . Miriam Bowles, BEd’72, and Kevin Bowles, a son, Owen Wesley, September 14, 1985, a brother for Jeffrey . . . . Huston Tupper Cameron, BSc (Pharm)’82, and Marie Anne (Skuta) Cameron, BSc (Pharm)’82, a son, Eric Makoto, June 8, 1985 in Vernon, a grandson for Mavis (Huston) Cameron, BA’47 . , . . Gary Christiansen, BSc (Pharm)’79, and Janet (Hapa) Christiansen, BHE’78, a daughter, Tanya ienelle, August 1, 1985. . . . Susan Jane ?lark, BA69, and Robert Allen Clark, a $on, Todd Allen Clark, August 16, 1985 in Houston, a brother for Philip Mathew . . . . Bryan Coles, BPE’76, and Suzanne Coles, a 3aughter, Melanie Alicia, September 3, 1985, a sister for Carolyn . . . . Celia [McArthur) Corriveau, BEd’79, DED83, and Jerry Corriveau, BCom’77, a daughter, Cody Mellissa Corriveau, July 29, 1985, in Vancouver, a granddaughter for Pamela Temple (Mrs. D.A. Carson), BA’55, BSW’84, and William McArthur, BSc‘63 . , . , Patricia Demco, BEd’68, and Thomas Alan Demco, MD73, a daughter, Alexandra Lauren, June 5, 1985, a sister for Christina, Anthony, Brittany and Elana , . . . Alan J. Deschner, BSc’73, MSc’76, and Susan J. Whiting, a daughter, Monica Joanne Deschner, July 30, 1985 in Halifax . . . . Clint Ellison, BSc(AgrP7, and Janet Lawrence, a son, David, July 13, 1985 . . . , Susan Eyre, BA’76, LLB79, LLM (London), and Robert Mouat, BASc’73, MSc’76, a son, Matthew Eyre Mouat, July 18, 1985 in Vancouver, a brother for Emily . , . . Greg Gourlay, BCom’82, and Maureen Gourlay, a son, Graehme Timothy Maxwell, July 4, 1985 in Vancouver. . . . Norm Grusnick, BASc’80, and Cathy Grusnick, a daughter, Veronica Catherine, October 1, 1985 in Surrey. . . . Margaret-Anne (Paton) Huestis, BEd’76, and Greg Huestis, a son, Tyler Paton Huestis, October 15, 1985 in Hope . . . . Barbara A. (Coan) Johnston, BA’77, and John R. Johnston, BCom’78, a daughter,

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In Memoriam Correction: Notice of the death of John C. Phillips, BSA'52, was published in the Fall 1985 Chronicle. We have since learned that this notice was based on erroneous information and that, in fact, Mr. Phillips is alive and well and working for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Kenya. We deeply regret any distress or trouble this may have caused Mr. Phillips, his family or friends. H. Gordon Baker, BA29, March 1985. George Dennis Bishop, BA'42, MA (Toronto), July 18, 1985 in Victoria. Most of his working career was spent as a labor economist with the provincial government in Victoria. He was an avid tennis player, keen golfer and world traveller. He served in the RCAF during World War 11. He is survived by his wife Helen, children Roger, Paul, Lorna and Barbara, 5randchildren Torr, Sofka, Eden, David and Aaron, brother Charles, sisters Dorothy Margison and Joyce Newman. He #s predeceased by his brothers Philip %hop and Reverend Ernest Bishop. Frank Braybrooks, BASc'50, October 3, 1985. rhomas S . Byrne, BA'26, June 1985. He is survived by his wife Lena. fohn Chappell, BMus'63, MM (Illinois), 'une 25, 1985 in Vancouver. A 19-year nember of UBC's music faculty, he was ~reviously associated with Vancouver's rheatre Under the Stars, the Vancouver nternational Festival and the CBC, for Nhich he wrote many scripts and film ;cores. He conduced many UBC choral youps over the years and specialized in 15th and 16th century European music. He s survived by his mother and father, Mr. Ind Mrs. John Chappell, and by four isters and a brother. +elen Creelman, BA'24, January 1985. Nilliam Crow, BSA'50, June 8, 1985. 3eorgina Emily (MacKinnon) Elson,

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survived by her husband, three daughters and two sons. Jerrold M. Fitzsimmons, BASc’51, July 14, 1985. Dorothy Olive Franklin, BA49, October 3, 1985 in Vancouver. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she attended school in the Vancouver area and Ottawa, before attending UBC. She was active in the Point Grey Golf Club, the Canadian Ladies Golf Association, Thrift Shop and the junior League of Vancouver. For the past 13 years she was in business with Jordans Contract Sales of Vancouver. She is survived by her mother Mrs. Maude G. Smith, husband Harry J. Franklin Sr., sons Harry Jr. and William Allan, and brothers Alan Robinson Smith and Major William Herbert Smith and their families. Vernon E French, BEd’68, June 22, 1985. He is survived by his wife. Claude Andre Galibois, BEd’58, May 5, 1984. Virginia Erminia Glanville, BEd’68, August 8, 1985 in Vancouver. She is survived by her husband, R.M. Glanville, BA’64. Garnet Russell Hardy, BA’37, August 20, 1985. Marcel A. Huel, LLB’5I. December 18, 1984. He is survived by his wife. Dr. Arthur Clark lohnson, BA’44, MA’46, July 2, 1985. Arthur George Larson, BASc’27, BASc’39,

worked as a municipal engineer f o r the University Endowment Lands and for Burnaby, and did topographical surveying and mapping for the Dominion Government Columbia River Survey. He later worked in Manitoba and Quebec. finally serving as associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba from 1945 to his retirement in 1968. He later owned and operated a tourist resort and motel. He is sur\rived by hls wife, Margaret. Frances (Simms) Leng, BA34, March 23, 1985 in Vernon. She taught math and languages at the Vernon Senior Secondary School for more than 30 years, retiring in 1973. Besides organizating a host o f extra- curricular acivities at the school, she was also involved with the Altar Guild o f All Saints Anglican Church, the University Women’s Club, Okanagan Historical Society and the North Okanagan Naturalists’ Club. She is survived by her husband George, and brothers Keith, Bill and Eric Simms and their families. Karen E. (Wilde) Lowe, BSN’74, RN, February 27, 1985 in Honolulu. A lecturer at the UBC School of Nursing from 1975 to 1977 and later at the Vancouver Vocational Institute, she is survived by her husband David, BFA’79, daughter Katherine. parents Audrey and Doug Christie, BSA’41, sister Barbara and brother Terry. Lila Charmaine Macdonald, BEd-E’67, November 29, 1979. She is survived by her parents, Lila and Hamish Macdonald. John A. McCharles, BA’28, April 26, 1985. G.W.H. Norman, BASc’26, April 3 , 1985.

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1985.’He is survived by his wife Ruth and four children and 10 grandchildren. Shirley Peck, BA’43. Noboru Takahashi, BASc’60, July 23, 1985. He is survived by his wife Jean. Stanley J. Taylor, EdD’81, March 11, 1985. Helena (Bodie) Whitmore, BA’18, April 2, 1985. At UBC, she participated in the Players Club under Freddie Wood, playing the lead role in “Merely Mary Ann” in 1917. Robert Hamilton Wright, BA’28, MSc, PhD (McGill), DSc (New Brunswick), August 10, 1985. Dr. Wright was a noted chemist in the area of noxious odors, malodorous emissions, water quality and insect behavior. He taught at the University of New Brunswick from 1931 to 1946, and then went on to the i3.C. Research Council. After his retirement he carried out research for the Food and Drug Organization of the United Nations and World Health Org. He is survived by his wife Kathleen Joan (Creer) Wright, son Dr. Ian G. Wright and daughter Mrs. R.]. Maynard, and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son Dr. Robert Leslie Douglas Wright. Robert Orr Bruce Young, BASc’29, June 15, 1985 in Victoria. Employed for 39 years by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, he is most noted for directing the blowing up of Ripple Rock in 1958 to aid navigation near Vancouver Island. This was the largest man-made non-atomic explosion of its time. He is survived by his wife Norma Mavis, daughter lren Harris and son Dr. Robert N. Young, and by seven grandchildren.

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