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

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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

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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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i'Varsity Christian Fellowship held regular meetings to plan speakers such as Bob Munger. University religion clubs carried on in the familiar pattern that had been set many years ago. Each club planned their own discussion groups, church parades and other activities. Student council broke Walter Ewing's idea of hav- ing cluhs operating on a self-sustaining basis. Treasurer Mackinnon gave the five religious clubs a 'token bud- get' of fifteen dollars. B'nai B'rith Hillel foundation took an active part in student affairs for the tenth year. Centre of their activities was Hillel House, behind Brock Hall. Here memhers gathered to eat lunches, study or iust to lounge around. Parties were held at Christmas and twice through- out the term. On the campus they staged a dance in Brock Hall. Function of the club is to unite Iewish students on the campus into a closer knit group. Discussion groups were held on problems of general interest. During the year a counsellor from the synagod had ampud Jzefigion his office in the club rooms and was available to help members with their problems. The SCM programme is very full, but only a small part of it comes to the attention of the student body. Three camps and conferences have been held since Sep- tember. At the Thanksgiving weekend camp. the students studied the four Gospels and several prominent speakers were heard on Christianity in relation to in- ternational and social problems. A dozen students at- tended a Western Regional Conference at Christmas, at which they studied Christian doctrine and Christianity in modern society with students from four western Universities. In February, a work camp was held at Iackson Avenue Baptist Church, where students helped renovate the building, studied the Baptist position in the World Church, and the work of Church in depressed areas. On the campus, four continuous study groups were held in each term, the topics ranging from Bible and doctrinal study to human relations and World affairs. The worship programme consisted of monthly services in the College Chapels, University services at Christmas and Easter, and afternoons for meditation at downtown Churches. Speakers and bull sessions were periodically pre- sented to the Campus on topics of interest to the students. The social life of the SCM consisted of fort- nightly firesides and several parties. This whole programme is planned first, to deepen the faith of Christian students applying it to University thought and adult life, secondly, to encourage enquirers to search for Truth in Christianity. 'kOnly club on the campus to have a 'Coke' machine in their club room, was the Newman Club. Below left members play bridge between lectures. At the right are members of the executive which were responsible for the running of club and the upkeeping of the reconverted army hut which was used as a club room. 80