United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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vox Published by the United College Student Association VOLUME TWENTY-NINE 1955-56 Honorary Editor . Dr. W. E. Swayze Editor ..... Roman March Advertising Manager . Pia Rengers Sales Manager .1.Norm Larsen YEAR REPS. Theology: Fourth Year: Third Year: Dick Kendal R. March Sylvia Hryshko Second Year: First Year: Collegiate: Carol Bennett Greg Sammons Doris Stitz PHOTO CREDITS: Harry Backewich Grad pictures .Eaton’s (courtesy Brown and Gold) The editors wish to acknowledge the help and advice of The Wallingford Press Limited Rapid Grip and Batten Limited “VOX” thanks every advertiser in this issue for his consideration.

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REVEREND WILLIAM CREIGHTON GRAHAM By E. G. D. Freeman Bill Graham and I were students forty-five years ago in the University of Toronto. For about twenty-five years after graduation, we saw nothing of each other. He took various courses in post graduate work at Harvard and other places, taught in the Wesleyan College in Montreal, spent time in archaeological research in Palestine, served in World War I, and was for many years a valuable and highly respected scholar in Oriental Studies and Hebrew in the University of Chicago. In 1938, we met again here in Winnipeg. Both of us came to United College at the same time, he to serve as Principal and I to lecture in the Faculty of Theology. The seventeen years of his principalship were great years for the College. All mortgage indebtedness was retired, endowments were built up, the student body was doubled, the staff increased and strengthened, scholarship and bursary funds were enlarged, the new Library and Theological Building was built—debt free, high standards of scholarship were consistently maintained, good relationships esta blished with the University, and new bonds of good will set up with the Church and the College constituency generally. Dr. Graham won the confidence and respect of all who knew him. Not only was he a scholar of inter¬ national reputation, but he proved to be an outstanding administrator. The personal qualities of the man played an even greater part in creating the respect in which he was held than did his gifts as scholar and administrator —-his Christian faith and life, his courage, his intellectual enthusiasm and his unselfish self-giving. He did with thoroughness everything to which he set his hand. I never knew him to deliver a poorly prepared speech, whether it was a five-minute talk at chapel or a forty-five minute address to a learned body. His lectures in Old Testament were superb. He found it difficult to “suffer fools gladly”, and sometimes pinpricks annoyed him greatly, but on any important issue he preserved a judicious outlook. Where college interests were concerned, he never spared himself—not even during the last months of his tenure of office when failing strength and ill health made the going very difficult. The first Principal of United College had many marks of a really great man. His influence will be long felt, not only in the College, but in the lives of hundreds of young men and women. DAVID MURRAY By Alfred D. Longman Colleagues, students, and a host of personal friends, were distressed beyond measure on the afternoon of February 24th, when the grievous word came of the passing of Mr. John D. Murray, Assistant Dean and teacher in the Collegiate Department. Impelled by emotions too deep for words, all who knew him sought to express their profound sense of personal and community loss. Numerous and spontaneous have been the tributes paid to one whose friendship countless men and women have grappled to their souls “with hoops of steel”. Universal and sincere is the recognition that his life, his ideals, and his influence have marked him as the trusted friend and the devoted Christian gentleman. We honor him for the fine personal qualities which endeared him to students and staff alike, for his great gifts as a teacher who inspired in a host of young men and women a new and vital interest in our rich literary heritage, and for the kindly, patient and sympathetic undertanding with which he met all students who seriously sought his advice or help. All who knew him as an outstanding athlete with a keen and continuing interest in sports, admired him above all for the consistent manner in which he carried his high sense of sportsmanship into every realm of life. The College will ever remain indebted to him for an incalculable contribution to its life, its growth, its significant traditions, and its impact upon the people and community it serves. As an undergraduate, as Senior Stick, as a graduate, as a teacher, and as an executive officer, he has loyally, and not without personal self- sacrifice, devoted virtually all of his adult life to the United College and its high purposes. May we be worthy of that contribution. 4