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

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Kickapooa Start Campua ful!! leaning i i'Kichapoo's members pose with downtown talent used in their pep meet to advertise the annual California-UBC rugby game. Club worked with Bill Sparling to promote campus spirit during rally week which led to revamping of athletic setup. When a handful of students formed a pep club a few years ago, it is doubtful if many of them realized it would become the organization which is the Kicka- poo club of today. The main purpose of the group has been to promote student spirit and during the '50- '51 term this purpose was successfully carried out. An extensive campaign finally buried Old Man Apathy un- der a deluge of pep meets, giant bon-fires and lively stunts. Nov. 4, the club staged the huge Homecoming Parade which consisted of dozens of clever and colour- ful floats from campus faculties and clubs. The Kickapoos spearheaded the Bellingham In- vasion in a streamer-decked bus and formed the main cheering section. Club members broke many a day's usual programme with startling performances of in- sanity. A six-foot rabies-ridden white rabbit was hunted on the campus and finally slain in the Audi- torium. Club President lack Barnet won the Annual Kickapoo Fishing Derby in the Library pond. His winning catch was a corkscrew and two cans of sar- dines. Programmes of Kickapoo pep meets saw names such as the Hoosier Hot Shots, Ole Olsen Barnie Potts, Claude Logan and Iuliette. 7 A.M.S. elections received the blessing of Kickapoo antics and voting interest was boosted. em era o alim ofgoreai in '51 Promoting campus interest in Forestry was the aim of the Forest Club during this year. Members of the executive concentrated on teaching fellow foresters through public speakers and organized tours. i'Members of the Forest Club executive line up in front of the Forestry Faculty building. Activities included their own year annual, intramurals and stags. 76 Besides having to watch the operation of mills and lumber camps as part of their courses the Forest Club organized tours for the members of the club. Another important activity of the club was intra- mural. They entered a team in many events and al- though they did not win any it developed a closer spirit amongst the members of the club. Led by Fourth year Forestry student Bill Batten, the club started plans for forming into a regular un- dergraduate society. To increase spirit in the club an annual was put out for the third time. A large part of the work was done by Publications Board photographer Paul Iaffery. Editor of the book was Vic Bardell, who used Totem cuts to save on the cost of producing 48 page annual. Because they were off in a campus corner by them- selves they were seldom heard from. Social activities were another part of the Foresters activities which started with a stage beach party. Towards the end of the year, the club could see the possibilities of their own Undergraduate Society and receiving their own grant from the Alma Mater Society and not the EUS.

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C' Ns-jf ,let ,J lance. Although initially a social club, the UBC Dance Club has also become somewhat of a cultural society and a service organization, as is evidenced by the ac- tivities of the past year. These fine-sounding words must explain in part why the UBC Dance Club has grown to the large mem- bership of some 400 students who attended their regu- lar noon-hour sessions this last year. Of course, they didn't all come at once, because there was a choice of days: Monday, Wednesday or Thursday at noon for ballroom dancing, and Friday at noon for square dancing. There were extra classes on Friday evenings, too, but they were for the student instructors. It was on those Friday nights that the in- structors were taught the steps of the waltz, the rhumba, the tango, the samba, the foxtrot, and the quick step, which were passed along to the members at the regu- lar sessions. Patient and hard-working teachers were Miss Kaye Visini and Mr. Grant Vincent of the Vin- cent-Visini Dance Studio. These dance sessions are the club's most important activity. As for the other activities mentioned in the first paragraph: 1 First-during the summer the Square Dance demonstration group won the Pacific Northwest Teen Town Championship Trophy at the Competition in Haney. Then-after noon hour classes were organized, the Dance Club sponsored a free Football Dance, and later in the term, staged a successful tea dance, The Pre- Exam Iam . All two hundred students at the tea dance had a gay time enjoying those last few minutes of freedom before exams. Al Berry, director of the Square Dance Section, and emcee for the Iam kept dancers mixing and meeting new partners. Proceeds from this function were turned over to the War Memorial Gym Fund. The Christmas holidays and spring season saw the Square Dance group giving shows for other organiza- tions, also in aid of the Gym Fund. i'AIthough the Dance Club has been on the campus only two years they have a membership of over 400 students. Instructions in all kinds of dancing is given to the club members free of charge. Vincent-Visini dance studios instructors help students get kwirks out of their steps.

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ii ad mtl l ix, W 4 l l X Jyraaa Ban , ymp any The Varsity Band this year took its usual part in campus athletics playing at football, hockey and bas- ketball games. Although these events were the main purpose of the band, its activities were not confined to sportsg it marched in the Homecoming parade played at the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Brock Hall, appeared at all the campus pep meets held in the armouries, and even played at the bonfires during the campus rally for a better football team. The annual free concert was presented in the Auditorium on November 30. As for the past 14 years the band was lead by world famous Arthur W. Dalamont whose work has always been the driving factor of the band. The graduation of Iohn Hutton this year will cost the club one of the best presidents in its campus history. He has devoted a great deal of time and energy to the band and under his guidance has furnished what turned out to be a maior part of life at UBC. Activities of the band were late to start this year. Arthur Dalemont and other members of the Club were on tour in England with the Kitsilano Band. They did not return from England till the 15th of October. The University Symphony Orchestra, under mus- ical director Colin Slim and under the administrative guidance of its president, Bob Hickson, and others of the executive, has once again completed a musically and artistically, if not financially, successful year. ikepresenting two types of Music on the campus was the Sym- phony and Brass Band. Both bands were led by capable leaders. i'Above: Colin Slims conducts symphony orchestra. i'Below: Brass Band with Arthur Dalemont at the left of band. f Soloist of Syml phony is at right. 77