University of Alberta - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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Wm DR. WALTER H. JOHNS President of the University i . I A 1

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WALTER A. DINWOODIE Walter A. Dinwoodie, permanent business manager of the Students' Union for fifteen years, died December 20, 1962. He was 57 years old. Mr. Dinwoodie was born in the town of Lavoy, Alberta, formerly named Dinwoodie after his grandfather. Mr. Dinwoodie spent a number of years teaching school in the Vegreville district, and as secretary of Vegreville municipality. He was city commissioner in Wetaskawin before taking the Students' Union post. During the Second World War, he served with the RCAF. He is survived by his wife, Genevieve, one daughter, Marian, and two sons, David and Donald. During his fifteen years with the Students' Union, Mr. Dinwoodie won many friends among the student body and the community, and contributed to the growth of a strong and independent student government. In addition to performing his duties, he was always able to find time to discuss the many problems of university life with many students involved in extracurricular activities each year. He made the Students' Union function. He was the man who helped ideas become realities, who found the ways of making budgets something less than problems, who made the Students' Union the smoothly-functioning operation it has become. When Mr. Dinwoodie died, the Students' Union administered an annual budget exceeding a quarter of a million dollars, and had assets of more than one million dollars. Behind the dollar signs, the patient work of Mr. Dinwoodie defies measurement. The greatest tribute paid to him during his career came shortly before his death, when Stu- dents' Council appointed him planning adviser to the Students' Union. It was to be his task to take charge of developing a 352,500,000 expansion of the Students' Union Building. The students knew that with his guidance, the building would become one of significance, and would be out- standing among Canadian student facilities. His hours were not merely nine to five. He spent a great deal of his own time on student problems. Although modesty was perhaps the foremost characteristic of his personality, his tire- less industry was known to all. Walter A. Dinwoodie will not be soon forgotten. The West Lounge in the Students' Union Building has been renamed in his honor. But the greatest memorial to him is in the memories of the thousands of students who, over the years, enjoyed his friendly words and kindly assistance.

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tw or iE!.i- 4 55' A Q. 5 5 Q EE ' 5:ll' O M095 THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The Province of Alberta, lying between the prairies and the mountains, is a land of far horizons and challenging prospects in the physical sense. Its young men and women, perhaps as much as any similar group in the world, face great challenges in the spheres of education and of service to mankind. As we add to our knowledge in the fields of physics and chemistry, biology and history, agriculture and medicine, the horizons grow ever wider and the problems still unsolved grow larger in number and in scope. Knowledge, which once seemed about to fall into rigid compartments, is now spreading over the dykes like a river in flood and the student must seek to explore it in breadth as well as in depth. The biologist looks to the chemist and the physicist for an understanding of the living cell. The engineer calls for the utmost intellectual effort from the mathematician to help explore the reaches of outer space. The psychologist turns to experimental physiology to probe the secrets of human behaviour. In the social and economic fields the call to service on an ever broadening scale continues to be heard. Newly created nation states in the far corners of the world look to us in Alberta to accept their young people in our schools and universities for training and education. Perhaps more important still, they seek the energy and talents of our graduates to help them create the conditions in which their people can be fed and clothed and housed, and ultimately be joined together in an organized and viable society. The students who appear in this yearbook will share in the work to be done on a world wide scale throughout the coming years. We wish them well. Loa,tru7JQ Aw.. Walter H. Johns, President