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

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11... 'R ixiea cliuuafrafe flue H ook!! Behind the scenes of the pub were the photographers. This year's staff was the best that had been seen for many years on the Publications Board. All were considered professionals by Editor-in-Chief Frost and one had already passed examinations for the Professional Photographers' Association of North America. Headquarters for photogs was hut A7. behind Brock Hall. Nothing changed or was added during the year to the dark room equipment be- cause of a curtailed budget handed down by Treasurer Iohn Mackinnon. Only reason photographer budget landed in the black at end of school term was because of strobes owned by the laffery brothers and Bob Steiner. Starting in August of '50, the photogs started shooting pixs for Totem. Steiner finished colored pictures of buildings while Hatcher worked to put dark room in shape for the return of passing crew in early September. As year progressed pixies darted from one place to another gathering shots for Ubyssey and Totem. Largest job was shooting Greeks in one night. tvmf-nw Starting clockwise at the top: WTOMMY HATCHER, Director of Photo- graphy for the publications board. i'PAUL JAFFERY, fourth year Forestry stu- dent, spent a large part of his time work- ing on the forestry annual. Big iob for Totem including his own Fraternity's Pixs. 'WBRUCE JAFFERY, only Artsman on the staff, aimed for perfection in his 'portrait iobs', argued constantly with Photography Director Hatcher. 'kMicky Jones, lone engineer on pub staff, worked for Vancouver Sun taking campus pictures. 'WROBERT R. STEINER, work horse of pub. During six years at UBC Steiner made over 15,000 prints. This year alone total shots ran 2,000. 'kJOE QUON, Commerce man of the dark room, roamed around new Law building compiling a pictorial history. WDOUG. BARNETT, future doctor, took sports pictures for Totem. Continually ran afoul with Ubyssey's hockey reporter, Herm Frydunlund, when he failed to produce pic- tures for sports editor. 95

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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 '

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bb X Q If QE l wi J E il gm? is-4'-K ofem '51 . . . ampua Q i l fl' 7' -1 -HQ! Totem Editor HUGH CAMERON Starting in early summer Editor Hugh Cameron started planning Totem '51. It was decided by the editorial board that the book was to be the largest since the student austerity program started three years ago. Besides being larger it was to fulfill a dual pur- pose. First it was to portray the activities of all campus life which in the years to follow would act as a re- membrance of college life. Secondly, in the past five years a tremendous effort had been directed to pointing out the cultural and practical achievements of the university's scholastic work to the citizens of British Columbia. This pro- gram was due largely to the fact that the extensive ex- pansion of UBC, financed through the people by their elected representatives in the B.C. House. Therefore because many people who have put money into the university see the Totem, through friends that attend UBC, it was felt that the scholastic accomplishments should be regarded in a more favour- able light in the Totem. This formed the backbone of the policy of this yearls Totem. Style of the book came in for a revamping during Cameron's reign as editor. It was to switch from the Life Magazine style which had been used for the past three years to a more modernistic type. Every Friday during the summer when Cameron landed in Vancouver for his day off from the CPR boats, he headed towards Ward 8: Phillips, printers of the Totem for the past 14 years. There Vice-President of the company, Charlie Phillips, worked over ideas which could be incorporated into the mammoth book. When estimates from the printers, engravers, and cover makers were compiled, total cost of the year- book soared to an all time high of 317,000 Iohn Mackinnon, Treasurer, lost many of his grey l