University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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oar of governor Youll prohahly never see them in the caf, their footsteps never echo in the mill and press of the quad, and their activities seldom rate hold-face type in the newspapers. liut hehind all the fuss and fanfare of campus life. they work quietly to keep the wheels of Canadas young giant among universities whirring softly and smoothly. I-leaded hy Chancellor liric Hamher and Presi- dent MacKenzie, the nine-man Board of Governors is the final court of appeal and the top policy-making hotly in university affairs. And somehow, despite wrestling with a multi-million dollar program, ponder- ing requests ranging from athletic scholarships to PRESIDENT NORMAN A. M. MacKENZlE, C.M.G., M.M. AND BAR, K.C., B.A., LL.B., LLM., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.C., this university's favorite man from Pugwash, Nova Scotia, completed his sev- enth term as the guiding power of UBC last year, and took up permanent a b o d e with his family in the brand new white house on the tip of Point Grey. 25221 i I A.-.uf- w A, f courses in organ grinding. they managed to keep Ul5C's how headed into the waves and make almost everyhody satisfied that higher education hasn't foundered yet. This year, the hoard lost one of its veteran leaders, Dr. Austin li. Schinhein, who set an ever-higher stan- dard among Vancouver surgeons for more than two decades. Dr. Schinhein will he remembered in annals of the university as the man who, unohstrustively hut persistently, led the long struggle which culminated in our medical school. The hoard will rememher, too, the unstinting efforts of Chancellor Hamher who, despite serious illness through much of the year, continued to exer- cise a lasting influence on the ever-trouhled course of a university caught in the seas of post-war expansion, heset hy the storms of a grave international situation, and harassed hy the need to provide education for more students in the face of steeply-mounting costs of living. 26 'lr UBC's Board of Governors met throughout the term to cope with the problems of management, administration, and the constant demands of our energetic student body. THE HONOURABLE ERIC W. HAMBER, C.M.G., B.A., LL.D., served double duty at UBC as the chairman of the Board of Governors, and as a member of the senate in the capacity of Chan- cellor. Hamber was forced to spend some months of the past term in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and was sorely missed during his absence. His regal robes were a wel- come splash of color in official cere- monies.

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'A'Miss Dorothy M. Mawdsley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean of Women, saw a life-long dream come true with the con- struction last year of UBC's first modern resi- dences for women stu- dents on campus. Dean Mawdsley campaigned for the residences, served as patroness for campus affairs, solved countless co-ed problems, and still found time to take her place with her colleagues in lecture-hours. i'WaIter H. Gage, M.A., Dean of Administrative and Inter-Faculty Affairs, listened to and helped solve the problems of students from first year to graduate studies. He straightened twisted timetables, helped plan future courses and, in this year of chopped budgets, answered many student pleas for finan- cial assistance. Academ- ically, Dean Gage em- ployed his attributes to guide students down the difficult road to mastery of Mathematics. i'R. M. Bagshaw, UBC bursar, sat in the chair of high honor in the ad- ministration building and helped students dispose of their hard-earned summer money. Mr. Bagshaw handled schol- arships and bursaries, and assessed fines on students who were latet in paying fees. He seemed to disappear near the end of October, but suddenly popped u p again early in January to collect second session payment. i'Leslie W. Dunlap, head of UBC's library for the fall term, supervised a staff of 50 permanent members and some 260,- 000 books. Under his iurisdiction were the ac- quisitions department, cataloguing department, circulation department, reference department and serials department. Dr. Dunlap left UBC early in the spring term for a position with the Na- tional Archives in Wash- ington, D.C. Before his departure, Dr. Dunlap saw the near-completion of the G. G. Sedgwick Memorial Reading Room. foficy a4cfminiJ ization When historians leaf back through the hectic pages of 1950-51, it may well appear as a year in which mankind stood at the crossroads. Cn the one hand, the Utopia made visible by man's mastery of the forces of nature invited hope and cheer: on the other, the Hell thrown open by the A-bomb and the H- bomb and the titantic struggle of two mighty world powers invited gloom and gave limitless scope to the ever-present school of pessimists. The position of a university at such a time present- ed many complexities. Its organization and manage- ment required skill and ingenuity of the highest order. The demands of technology required ever-more skilled specialists, and the never-ending problems of society required, as always, broad liberal education. And the taxpayers pocket was far from bottomless. VVith the continued decrease in enrolment, the post-war peak showed signs of levelling off, and a new problem: VVhat is normalacy and how shall it be developed? added to the difficulties of our university. But through it all, President MacKenzie and Professor Geoffrey Andrew, his unflagging assistant f Geoff to almost everybodyl, still found time to wave a friendly greeting to students as they strode briskly across the quad. Between sessions with the Royal Commission on the Arts and Sciences and stumping trips through the hinterland, President MacKenzie guided the building program, laid the groundwork for a new school of fine arts, eased the new medical school through its birth- pangs-and even wrote letters to the editor of the Ubyssey. i'Gregory Andrews, Assistant to the President, had a tough iob of curtailing university spending. Because of heavy building program and expanded faculties, UBC found itself S700,000.00 in the hole, with professors asking for a straight 51,000.00 raise. While President MacKenzie beseeked governments for higher grants, Professor Andrews had to curtail budgets. KN.. ,W 5 Z If Z7