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

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grofic or flue armera- armereifeat For weeks ahead stickers were pasted all over the campus advertising the Farmers' Frolic on lanuary 26. Theme of the barn dance, which was held in the armouries, was 'Aggie Khan'. lust what 'Aggie Khan' meant was kept top secret until the night of the dance. As patrons entered the barn dance they were greeted by Aggie Khan and students beseecher Totem photographer Bob Steiner to have their picture taken contemplating world problems in it. Aggies added a touch of history when they Wheeled the first 'stone boat' the university owned into the centre of the dance floor. Wagon was used to haul stones away from the site of the first buildings built on the campus, includ- ing Science building. Dean Eagles claimed that some day it would be an antique, but over half of the students at the dance had never seen a Stone Boat' before. Large part of the evening was spent trying to get the balloons that had been suspended from the roof of the armouries in a net. Finally after making human ladders in an attempt to get them dovvn, an Aggie executive member got the stand that they had used to put them up with. YA hoe and an old wash tub went a long way to make farmers' frolic a success. Pride of the evening was Aggie Khan. Every- one including winner of the-costume prize spent a few minutes visiting. Intermission had an added sparkle when patrons tried to get balloons down from ceiling. Below couple dressed in hard-time clothes cuddle.

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i'Dances held in Brock Hall every Saturday night were staged by ca mpus organizations to increase coffers. Dance above was Pan-Hellenic Alumni Association which turned proceeds over to the Women s Dorms. aiurclag ight sbancea from opu ar As sure as there are exams every year, there will be a dance in Brock Hall every Saturday night. Students trudge to the campus for the dances which have become traditional with U.B.C. Dances varied from hard time to square dances. They were sponsored by campus clubs to increase their deficient budgets. This seemed to work for every- one except the Arts Undergraduate Society who lost money on the two dances they staged. The first one they sponsored Treasurer Iohn MacKinnon had to get Fort Campers and Dorm Residents to come to Brock Hall so that there would be more than four couples there. Their Paddy Day dance was a comparative suc- cess with over ZOO couples there. Even at that they lost money. i'Swing your partner was a familiar ring to Brock Hall. Here couples danced until their feet dropped, to square dance records piped from Rad Soc offices. 52 i'Film Society enioyed one of the best dances of the year. During dance movie proiectionist added a touch of reality to the evening by playing movies on north wall of the lounge. During the fall term, football dances were held, but after Christmas they changed to basketball dances. Dances were not open to every student as Clubs often sponsored Saturday night does for their own members. But the majority of time students had to pay admis- sion prices to gain access to Brock Hall. Club which sponsored the most 1 dances was the Dance Club. Aim ' on campus was to have every- one dancing. Next to them came the Radio Society with music piped from the South Basement. Rad socers had little trouble making a finan- r K Q cial success. '4-

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.flfilfion .Lanai gym For its memorial to the dead of the last two wars, U.B.C. students have built a new million dollar gym. lt is a practical monument, one which shows the initiative, deter- mination and courage of the stu- dents to embarck on such an am- bitious program. Early in 1945 Student Council decided that the war memorial for the students of the University who gave their lives in the two world wars would be a modern gymna- sium complete with swimming pool and other facilities. The Government of B.C. on the request of the Student Council and the Board of Governors started the fund-raising campaign with 3575.000 At the fall general meeting in '46 students raised their Alma Mater 54 fee from 1513 to 11215 and allocated five dollars to the gym campaign. A general student drive was or- ganized with fund-raising antics on the campus, parades through the streets of Vancouver, and appeals over radio programs to bring the student drive to liS175,000 by the end of 1947. Students authorized Stu- dent Council to borrow 3150.000 whenever necessary to start con- struction. Meanwhile students still continue to pay five dollars out of their AMS fees to the campaign. In October of 1948 university au- thorities confirmed site of the struc- ture. After a student delegation went to Victoria, provincial government contributed 3200.000 to the construc- tion of war memorial, bringing their total contribution to E275,000. In 1949 contracts are let for the con- struction of the gym, but costs soared to such an extent that the swimming pool had to be left out. The loan authorized by the gen- eral meeting in 1947 was negotiated and the five dollars per year slated to retire debt. Then a campus committee was set 'kU.B.C.'s million-dollar gym as it looked on February 23, the day of the unofficial student opening. Below shows progress construction of the gym early in the fall term. Overhead steel was installed during the summer months. After it was up steel pillar at left was removed. Construction took 17 months to complete and gym is the largest in any Canadian university. 1