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

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inflicted himself on the Pub during the austerity years of 1948-49 when he quickly became a sports editor. Last year, short of staff, Frost work- ed almost every sports page himself and concentrated on news instead of columns and features. Early in the new year, another re-adjustment was necessary. Sports Editor Ron Pinchin, who had put out many a sports page alone, was forced to withdraw from the Pub. A blank sports page brought a bevy of new editors early in the year and things looked fine. But on the city desk, senior editor Danny Goldsmith was faced with the same prospect. A former Victoria College writer, Iohn Napier-Hemy, stepped in to replace him. On Monday, attractive Ann Langbein edited The Ubyssey when she wasn't clallying with Editor Frost. Her assets were utilized by the Pub to quell irate subscribers and engineers. Wednesclziy after- noon. Mari Stainsby Cnee Pineoj, the Pub's only married woman, edited the paper. She was assisted by her husband, Don Stainsby, Cunder the alias of lim Rossi, a former senior editor himself and Totem editor during the boom years of 1947-48. Incoming copy was handled by lim Banham, ex-editor-in-chief of the Pub who also handed out assign- ments when senior editors weren't around. VVomen's editor this year was Ioan Fraser, who contributed a readable column entitled Let's See Now , and compiled features about campus female personalities. Energetic Tommy Hatcher, a pharmacy student, was head of The Ubyssey's photography department, which kept The Ubyssey supplied i'With a shortage of reporters, the produc- tion of the Ubyssey fell largely upon the members of the editorial board. Starting early in the morning of press day the Editor had not 'put to bed' the paper till after midnight. Members of the staff were Jim Banham, copy editor lstarting top of left hand panellp Joan Fraser, women's editor, Tommy Hatcher, photographer-director, Joan Churchill, CUP editor, Ron Pinchin ltop right hand panellp Mari Stainsby lnee Pineol, Thursday senior editor, John Napier- Hemy, Friday senior editor, and Ann lang- bein, Monday senior editor.

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x ffm tMEE . . s More than any other campus or- ganization, the Publications Board felt the end of an era in 1950-51. For one thing, enrollment dropped, which meant there were fewer per- sons to make news. In the second place, many veterans who had provided impetus with their matur- ity in the field of journalism at UBC, had graduated. The first big blow came at the beginning of the year when Vic Hay, named to head the Pub the year previous, failed to return. Lacking some credits necessary for him to begin his course in graduate studies, the department of veterans administration refused to pay his fees and grant and he was forced to withdraw. He announced his resignation at an emergency meet- ing of the editorial board and 92 wm editors lost no time in electing former sports editor Ray Frost to the Pub's highest post. Despite the early drawbacks and the necessary re-adjustments, editors and reporters continued to give students three papers a week which gained them honorable mention for news writing and editorials at the annual conference of the Canadian University Press in Ottawa, attend- ed by Editor Frost during the Christmas holidays. In addition to this, the Pub had the usual charges of high handedness and inconsidera- tion of the general student body hurled at it. Despite these the pub. managed to weather the storm with a closely knit editorial board. When he took over his post, Editor Frost was virtually an un- known quantity to students. Frost i'Raymond Herbert Frost lead the Publica- tions Board through a hectic year success- fully, despite a shortage of staff and money. Frost started his iournalistic career at Britannia High in Vancouver four years ago. During his first year on the campus he was Associate Sports Editor of the Ubyssey, the following year Sports Editor and was finally elected Editor-in- Chief after the resignation of Vic Hay last fall. uetfii Q f 4 r.

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Cahn ! with newsy pictures. Ioan Churchill waded her way through dozens of exchange papers every day and kept UBC informed of the doings at other universities as Canadian Uni- versity Press editor. Ubyssey editors also did their share to keep the campus thinking in columns about almost everything. Editorial assistant Les Armour creat- ed the usual number of storms in And All That and Iohn Napier- Hemy, who wrote 'iThe Bird Cage , was touted as the Iabez of the future. lim Banham went on crit- icizing the cinema ln This Corner and started a second column en- titled Brickbats designed to give students a slant on the news behind the news. There were a dozen or so people who were as integral a part of the staff of the Publications Board as were the senior editors and desk- men who performed the mechanical functions of putting out the news- paper. One man, whose name never appeared in the masthead, but who probably met more people during the year than all the rest of the staff, was Bill Poole, Pub secretary and manager of the lost and found department, one service of the Pub- lications Board. Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Bill wrapped Ubyssey's for mailing, compiled and typed classified advertising and looked after hundreds of students who had lost everything from books to overcoats to umbrellas. Bill also found time to cram in studies for his third year law course. Quiet and soft-spoken, Bill managed the department in an efficient manner. A number of other people appear- ed in the masthead but never went to the print shop with the senior editors to put the paper to bed. Among them were Les Armour and Hal Tennant, who pounded out editorials and columns with unceas- ing regularity. Armour, a philo- sophy major. alternately wrote ed- itarials and then hurried downtown each evening to work the night side shift on the Vancouver Daily Province. How he managed this and kept up his high scholastic average remains a mystery to most Pubsters. Armour's cohort in editorial writ- ing was Hal Tennant, who had convulsed the campus for years with his column entitled Once Over i'Two pubsters that never got a 'by line' on their writings were Hal Tennant lleftl and Les Armour lrightl. Their writings, the editorials, were the opinion of the whole editorial board. Both Armour and Tennant worked nights in downtown papers. John Brockington lcentrel, kept campus readers up to date on Fine Arts. Bill Poole, top, looked after lost and foundp was pub secretary in spare time. Hardly . His smoothly written ed- itorials and logical thought did a lot to making Ubyssey policy some of the solidest in years. The Publications Board's literary quarterly. The Thunderbird, really hit the doldrums this year, but not because of a lack of material. Les Armour compiled the material only to find that there were no funds to subsidize the book forthcoming from student council. In addition to this a dearth of advertising would have made the magazine a financial flop. So Armour had to shelve plans for the magazine and turn over a legacy of short stories, articles and poetry to the editor for the com- ing year. The Pub resorted to a simple method of turning out a student directory so that scholars would know Where their friends were liv- ing this year. Instead of having the names retyped into lists from regis- tration cards the editors sent the cards direct to the printers and cut more than a month off production time. When galley proofs were ready, a covey of readers, headed by editor Hugh Cameron, tore into the proofs for a week and the book appeared well ahead of those of past years. f T 94 .J '