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

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as f 'gptfg' ggi? 2, 4' Je' emits T . X Q if a... as s V :eww P'ainters work around new board set up in Mamooks' club rooms in the south basement of Brock Hall. During the year they produced over 2,000 posters and banners for campus clubs. amoolea ear! .flla 'or Cluba in eruice 'NOV To persons begging the services of Mamooks, this little word ap- peared this year to be the motto of the club. It wasn't so. Mamooks is a small group of people doing the work of a large service club. This year has wit- nessed the perennial problem of too few members, and too many jobs. President Barry Baldwin led club through successful year despite shortage of mem- bers to carry out work. Early in the first term the club had a large prospective member- ship. President Barry Baldwin and his assistants, Vice-President Iimmy Cullen and Secretary Ioyce Mac- 78 Pherson, had prospects of a great year for Mamooks. To their disappointment the membership of the club became much smaller as Christmas ap- proached. In spite of the decrease in mem- bership President Baldwin attained the club's big aim for the year, a new set of drawing boards. Over the Christmas holidays Mamooks painted the club room and tore old drawing boards off the walls. New boards were set up in the centre of the floor, so that twice as many people could work at the 'same time. Work on the overhaul of Mamooks was done entirely by members of the club. Starting the spring term oft with redecorated rooms, Mamooks turn- ed out tremendous amount of work. Each candidate for Mardi Gras Queen had six posters done for her. Close on the heels of Mardi Gras work came the election campaign. Hopeful candidates appeared in the south basement of Brock Hall get- ting posters and banners made for the elections. Besides mammoth amount of work on these two campaigns Mamooks had to do posters for clubs having speakers, war mem- orial gym campaign and for any other campus club that wanted posters to advertise their functions. A skeleton crew handled this work usually on one week's notice. Outstanding in the club for their work were Peter Lasowski, Dick Chong and lim Cullen, who turned out more than three hundred posters and banners between them. Throughout the year Mamooks handled the decorating for many dances and functions. The frosh ball and the Home- coming Dance were examples of the club's decorating ability. All decorating for the year was under the direction of Brian Biarnason. 5-

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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

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and iiye-racked members of the Iazz Society in a con- azz ociefy feeaffy Nucl fam Q-Seaaiona 'kMembers of the Jazz Society executive smile for Totem photo- grapher. Activities during the year include a iam session with Mel Torme. A peck of phonograph needles and endless hours to twirl those inspiring platters seem to leave the jam Led by ivory-tapper, Iohn de VVolfe, this select group meets weekly to lend an ear to the latest in jazz recordings and to discuss the various trends in this modern music. Holding the limelight of this year's widely varied program was the return visit of Mel Torme. interna- tionally known as the velvet fog voice . who gave a splendid rendition of all the old favourites. This club. which was formed to promote the un- derstanding and the appreciation of iazz as well as to publicize that type of music. has enioyed a great deal of popularity on the campus. These instrumentations and songs were originally founded on the blue moods and has since then develop- ed through its various schools until now it holds a prominent position in the music of today. The negro spirituals. which were brought from the depths of Africa. were blended into the music already existing in America to develop into what is now called iazz. As the grand finale to a lively year. the Iazz Society held their annual spring windup banquet at the Brock Stilllt state of I'21pIUl'C. . . . aa fipe Although not as active as they had been in past years. the pipe band was a standout again this year. Due to lack of men returning to the campus this year the club was under a serious handicap. VVith a few members the club had to curtail its activities. Men like Iohn MacKinnon, treas- urer of the AMS, had to drop from the band because of the heavy de- mand on their time in other activ- ities. As usual, however, the band man- aged to have at least two or three men at almost every function that they were asked to perform at. In the Remembrance Day cere- monies in Brock Hall the band had the best turnout of the whole year. They helped the United Nations Club put on their flag raising cere- mony at the end of the north mall. Biggest job of the year was the unofficial gym opening. Here alumni members got out their old Hall. anal Slzirfecf bagpipes and drums and turned out en mass. During half-time they played for the crowd attending the first bas- ketball game in new gym. For the third year they were led by old-time dance caller Pat Taylor. unea in '51 who was one of the originals. He revised marches and tunes to suit the smaller number of members in the band. Still the club added a touch of color to campus events even though they were small in number. 'A'Skirling Pipe Band played at Armistice Day ceremonies in Brock Hall on November ll. They also appeared at the unofficial opening of UBC's million dollar memorial gym. i i i 79