Pat Marchak, Professor of Sociology at UBC, gained her BA in 1958 and her Ph.D. in 1970. She was first appointed lecturer/instructor at the university in 1965 and joined the faculty in 1973. She was Dean of Arts from 1990 to 1996 and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology before becoming Dean. She is a past President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. She has served on the executive board of numerous Canadian and international associations in the fields of Sociology, Forestry and Ecology. She has been on the editorial boards of various journals, including the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, BC Studies, and Current Sociology. She served on the Board of the Open Learning Institute, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, and the Board of University Hospitals. In 1987 she was elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada and served for two years as the Vice-President of Academy II for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has also served as chair of BC. Buildings Corporation, and on the Forest Appeals Commission. Dr. Marchak is the author of numerous articles on political ideology, economic development, resources industries, and ecological issues' social context. Her books include Ideological Perspectives on Canada; In Whose Interest; Green Gold: The Forest Industry in British Columbia; The Integrated Circus: The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets; and Logging the Globe. She also co-edited Uncommon Property: The Fishing and Fish Processing Industries in British Columbia. Most recently, Dr. Marchak has served as a faculty associate with the Institute for Resources and Environment (since 1996) and as Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Distinguished Studies (2000), both at UBC.

The first Canadian chapter of the Phrateres was established at UBC in 1935 through the initiative of Clare Brown Harris, while president of the Women's Undergraduate Society. An international organization, Phrateres, was first formed at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles by Dean Helen Matheson Laughlin in 1924. The Theta Chapter at UBC was the eighth to be established on the west coast. Phrateres, which comes from the Greek word for sisterhood, seek to fulfil the ideals of the modern University and promote a spirit of friendliness among women of individual universities and of all universities. Membership in the organization, whose motto is "famous for friendliness," is open to both sorority and non-sorority women at a small cost. In addition, it seeks to enrich university life through a wide range of social and service activities, including dances, reunions, and fundraising. Theta Chapter is affiliated with the UBC Greek system (sororities and fraternities). Over the years has been subdivided into as many as twelve sub-chapters, named Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Eta, Zeta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Omicron and Sigma. As of 2000, Theta Chapter at UBC was the sole remaining active collegiate chapter of Phrateres International.

The Office of Physical Plant, responsible for engineering, maintenance, and planning on the University campus, was established in 1967. Previously, since 1943 these had been the responsibility of a Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds within the Bursar's Office and later the Dean of Administrative and Financial Services. Physical Plant was organized in four divisions, reflecting its responsibilities, in 1969: Operations and Maintenance, Design and Planning, New Construction, and Administrative Services. In the 1980s it was re-organized, with two departments, Plant Operations (1989-1997) and Plant (later Physical) Design and Construction, under the Director of Physical Plant. The two departments were further separated in 1988. Physical Design and Construction merged with Facilities Planning and this operation was renamed Campus and Community Planning in 2001. Plant Operations was eventually absorbed into Land and Building Services.

Peter Anthony Larkin was an eminent fisheries biologist, well-known and respected for his conservation, resource management, and environmental impact assessment. Born in New Zealand in 1924, he later moved to Canada as a child with his family. He received an M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1946 and a D.Phil, from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar) in 1948. Larkin was appointed Chief Fisheries Biologist for the British Columbia Game Commission in 1948. He joined the faculty of UBC in 1955 as a professor of zoology and director of the Institute of Fisheries. From 1963 to 1966, he was Director of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada's Pacific Biological Station at Nanaimo, B.C., but returned to UBC in 1966. He was again Director of the Institute of Fisheries from 1966 to 1969 as well as Acting Head (1969-70) and Head (1972-75) of the Department of Zoology; Dean of Graduate Studies (1975-184); Associate Vice-President, Research (1980-86); and Vice President, Research (1986-88). Larkin continued to serve as a professor in both Institute of Fisheries (later the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology) and the Department of Zoology until his retirement in 1990 and was appointed to the honorary position of University Professor in 1988. After he retired, he chaired the Royal Society of Canada's Research Evaluation Unit at UBC and the Science Advisory Committee of the Northern River Basins Study in Alberta. In addition, he served on the interim governing council of the University of Northern British Columbia. An author of more than 160 scientific papers, he served on numerous local, national, and international commissions addressing a wide range of scientific and public policy issues. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a recipient of the Order of Canada, and, shortly before his death in 1996, a recipient of the Order of British Columbia.

The Radio Society at the University of British Columbia was initiated in 1937 due to the Student Publicity Campaign. Founding members began working on "Varsity Time," an information variety show broadcast on CJOR that promoted the activities and goals of the University. In 1938, UBC Radio officially became a Literary and Scientific Executive club. During the 1940s and 1950s, the Radio Society (as it became known in 1942) worked with local radio stations to produce and broadcast programs highlighting University news and events. In 1950, the Radio Society began its first independent closed-circuit broadcasts to the University residences. By 1968, the Radio Society, then alternately known as CYVR, was broadcasting to a wider area using carrier current. Due to a new regulation by the CRTC requiring the licensing of carrier current stations, CYVR was closed down for six months in 1974 for operating without a license. The station resumed broadcasting later that year as CiTR. In 1980, CiTR changed its status from a club to a service organization to recognize its role in campus life. CiTR received a low power FM license in 1982 and a standard high power license in 1988. In 1983, the Radio Society began to publish DiSCORDER, a newspaper highlighting Canadian independent music. The Radio Society promotes campus events and the local music scene through its programming on CiTR and its publications.

Percy Saltzman was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1915. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in 1934, eventually moving to Montreal's McGill Medical School to become a doctor. In Montreal, he left McGill and married in1935. In 1943, he embarked on a career in meteorology as a Meteorological Officer in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (1940-1945) (BCATP), the Aerodrome of Democracy, following which Percy remained in meteorology as a full-time employee of the official federal weather service for 25 years (1943-1968). In 1953 he became Canada's first TV weatherman (1952-1982). He co-hosted the CBC show Tabloid and CTV's Canada AM. Saltzman gave thousands of weather forecasts, conducted numerous interviews, and was also involved in radio broadcasting. In 2002 he was awarded The Order of Canada, and in 2004 he became a member of The Broadcast Hall of Fame. He married twice in 1935 and again in 1988.

Peggy Thompson graduated from Point Grey Secondary School in 1972 before attending the University of British Columbia. Later, she became a screenwriting professor in the Creative Writing department at UBC. In addition, she has worked as a writer, producer, and director for film, television, radio, and stage.
Thompson is the screenwriter of Better Than Chocolate and The Lotus Eaters. Better Than Chocolate premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous international awards. At the same time, The Lotus Eaters was nominated for 11 Genie Awards and won three. She also won a Genie for the short film In Search Of The Last Good Man. Her short documentary film Broken Images – The Photography Of Michelle Normoyle has played festivals worldwide. It's A Party!, another short film, was nominated for a Genie. Peggy Thompson has also written for series television including Da Vinci's Inquest, Big Sound, *PR,* The Beachcombers, and Weird Homes. Her radio play Calamity Jane And The Fat Buffalo Moon was published by Blizzard Press and was staged in New York. Her stage work has been nominated for both Chalmers and Jessie Awards. She was one of four producers on the feature film Saint Monica, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the Cultural Expressions Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival and was nominated for two Genie Awards. Saint Monica received its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. She has recently produced the animated short Chanterelle Rain was the Executive Producer of the Crazy 8 short drama Sacrifice. She also co-authored, with Saeko Usukawa, the books Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Movies (1995) and Tall in the Saddle: Great Lines from Classic Westerns (1998).
As of 2017, Thompson is a Professor Emerita of UBC's Creative Writing Program and has served on the Women's Board of Directors in Film and Television Vancouver and Out On Screen. She is currently on the From Our Dark Side Screenplay Genre Competition's Steering Committee, a national competition for genre screenwriters run by Women in Film and Television Vancouver.

Richard Beverly Splane was born in 1916 in Calgary, Alberta. During the Great Depression, Richard worked in construction camps with Frontier College in Alberta. He then taught in a one-room school for two years. Following this, Splane earned a BA in economics and history from McMaster University (1944) and MA (1945), MSW (1951) and DSW (1961) from the University of Toronto. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, afterwards staying in London to complete a certificate in Social Science and Administration from the London School of Economics. He returned to Canada with his wife, Marion, to continue his education at the University of Toronto. After which he worked for the federal government in various important positions in the Department of National Health and Welfare, including Economist, Research Division; Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of National Welfare; Director, Unemployment Assistance; Director-General, Welfare Assistance and Services; Assistant Deputy Minister, Social Allowances and Services.
In addition to his significant contributions to the development of the social welfare system in Canada, Splane was also very interested in international welfare issues. He served as Canada's representative on the UNICEF Board. In addition, he was a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Social Welfare Policy and Planning. In 1973 he became a professor in the School of Social Work at British Columbia. He served as acting director of the School 1980/81. He retired from UBC in 1982. Before and after his retirement, he served on the boards of many organizations such as the International Council on Social Welfare, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the World Federalists, and the Vancouver Branch of the United Nations Association of Canada. He held many honours and awards, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was awarded honorary degrees from Wilfred Laurier University, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and UBC. He died in November 2015.
Verna and Richard were married in 1971 following Richard's first wife, Marion. After their move to Vancouver, they were active members of the University Hill congregation of the United Church of Canada. They undertook a study on Chief Nursing Officer positions around the globe, resulting in the 1994 publication Chief Nursing Officers in National Ministries of Health: Focal Points for Nursing Leadership. In 1996 they were awarded UBC's first ever-joint honorary degree.

John Ridington was born in West Ham, London, England, in April 1868, the son of William Richard Ridington, a building contractor, and his wife, Cecilia James Eleanor. He was the eighth of nine children. Four of his sisters died in infancy before his birth. The three who survived all married. They were Jane Ennor (Mrs. Alexander H. Guest), 1852-1942; Elizabeth Symons (Mrs. Joseph Henry Williams), 1856-1941; and Rosina Symons (Mrs. John Ellis Griffith), 1862- 1939. The ninth child and John Ridington's only brother was William Richards Ridington, 1870-1944. The details of John Ridington's education are not known. In later life, he claimed to have been a student at the London School of Art and the University of London; he also received training for a career in teaching. He was employed as a school teacher in rural schools of northwestern Manitoba, first in the summer of 1889 at Burdette, later at Rookhurst.
In January 1896, John Ridington became the publisher and editor of the Carberry News. On November 6 of the same year, he married Maggie Dykes Charleston. When fire destroyed the press early in 1901, he sold his interest in the paper and moved to Winnipeg where he became "special reporter, dramatic and art critic, and editorial writer" for the Manitoba Free Press, under the editorship of J.W. Defoe, with whom Ridington developed a life long friendship. In 1907 Ridington changed careers again and joined the firm of William Pearson Co. as a real estate salesman. In 1910 or 1911, he moved to Vancouver and became sales manager for Canada Western Trust Co. He invested in land development but lost everything in the depression of 1913. He was destitute to the point of borrowing money from neighbours. The only work he could find was teaching a course in English literature for the Vancouver Night Schools. His daughter Margaret Dorothy Ridington died on March 28, 1912. In later years when reporting the details of his life to biographical directories, Ridington eliminated these unhappy years from the record, stating that he moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 1914. By August 1914, he had found employment as the "acting librarian" of the new University of British Columbia. From May to August 1916, he attended summer school at the New York State Library, Albany. UBC President Frank Wesbrook nevertheless continued to search for an experienced librarian to replace Ridington. In June 1922, Wesbrook's successor, Leonard Klinck, finally changed Ridington's title from Acting Librarian and Cataloguer to Librarian.
Ridington's wife Maggie died on April 26, 1927. He married for a second time on August 8, 1929. Muriel Patience Fallows, the daughter of William W. Fallows and his wife, Patience Seale. John and Muriel Ridington's son John Fallows Ridington was born on May 29, 1930. John Ridington retired as University Librarian on April 31, 1940, at the age of 72. In the following years, he occupied himself by acting as Secretary to the Western Gate Lodge of the Masonic Order and writing the occasional column for the Vancouver News-Herald. He died on April 20, 1945. Painted in 1912 by his brother-in-law Malcolm Charleston, a John Ridington portrait hangs in the Ridington Room, Main Library.

Roy Bishop Stokes received his M.A. and M. Phil. From Nottingham University. After heading the School of Librarianship at Loughborough Technical College, he came to British Columbia in 1970. He succeeded Sam Rothstein as director of the Library School. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1982. Throughout his career, Stokes was interested in bibliography, and he published several books on the subject.

In 1943, Marjorie J. Smith became the first full-time instructor at the School of Social Work. In 1945, the School became the Department of Social Work with Smith as its first head. In 1950, the department's status changed, and its name reverted to the School of Social Work within the Faculty of Arts. In 1999, the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences was discontinued, and the Family Studies program was transferred to the School of Social Work. The School was then known as the School of Social Work and Family Studies. In 2007, the Family Studies program was moved to the School of Sociology.

Ian Ecott Efford was an ecologist and a professor at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Resource Ecology. He also served as director of the Marion Lake Project. Efford was asked to serve as an ecological consultant on the Skagit Valley project designed to raise the height of the Ross Dam on the Skagit River to provide more hydroelectric capacity for the City of Seattle. The proposal would have resulted in the flooding of some 5,000 acres of the Skagit Valley in British Columbia. Efford, as well as numerous other interest groups, opposed the development. However, adverse public reaction delayed plans to flood the valley.

The "Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives" conference was initially proposed in 1992 and was held at UBC in May 1994. A Steering Committee of grass-roots activists planned it, researchers, public policy practitioners, and leaders of non-governmental organizations from the feminist, environment, development, and peace communities. It was led and chaired by Ann Dale, then Senior Associate at SDRI. The conference produced over 100 policy recommendations leading to the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

The Sustainable Development Research Initiative (SDRI) was established in April 1991 to foster policy-relevant research on sustainable development. In addition, the Initiative encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among the faculty, departments, and centres at UBC and other institutes and programs undertaking sustainable development research in Canada and worldwide. In pursuit of this, the Institute has hosted workshops and conferences, including the 1994 "Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives" conference. It also coordinated research on sustainability and the relationships that connect and influence the environment, the economy, and society. After an extensive review, SDRI merged with the Institute for Resources and Environment (IRE) to form the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) in September 2002.

The Thea Koerner House Graduate Student Centre was donated to UBC by Leon J. Koerner in memory of his wife in 1961. The building received the Massey Gold Medal in 1961 for its architectural design. Incorporated under the Societies Act of B.C., the Centre is administered by a manager and a Board of Directors. The Board is composed of elected members and members appointed by the President of the University and by the Graduate Students' Association. The organization is intended to promote and serve the social, intellectual, cultural, and recreational activities of UBC graduate students.

The Press has editorial, promotion and distribution facilities for the books it publishes. At the same time, commercial firms, although controlled by the Press, do the design and printing. All books published by the UBC Press are subjected to peer review and must be approved by a committee of faculty members appointed by the University President.
The Press continues to concentrate a significant portion of its book publishing activities in four general areas of Asia and the Pacific, International Law, and Canadian subjects, emphasizing British Columbia. A wide range of academic disciplines in these areas, from the humanities through the sciences, is included. The Press also publishes works of special significance outside these areas when warranted. In addition to books and monographs, several journals and a yearbook are also published in association with the Press. Most notable are the journals Canadian Literature, B.C. Studies, and Pacific Affairs, as together they formed the primary impetus for developing a Publications Centre, turned Press, within the University of British Columbia. These journals continue to retain their "associative" relationship with the UBC Press. More or less concurrently, the Canadian Yearbook of International Law commenced publication under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association, also in association with the UBC Press. Aside from these editorial considerations, the UBC Press has also carried on an active book-publishing program, encouraging faculty members who wish advice on the publishing process to consult the Press.
In the early 1960s, the Executive Director of the UBC Press reported to the Deputy President of the University. The Executive Director also reported to a Faculty Board of 23 members to whom the Director was to submit an Annual Report. While the Board authorized all major policy decisions of the Press, it also facilitated the establishment of a supportive sub-committee whose mandate was to handle routine publishing decisions and any other, less significant, Press affairs. In1998, the UBC Press was granted the official designation of a University Department. As such, both the Press and its Executive Director report directly to the Vice-President, Research. A Publications Committee, as the descendent of the founding "supportive sub-committee," is presently the collective entity responsible for all publishing decisions.
Mr. James Banham, Information Officer at the University, who was Acting Executive Director of the Centre during the 1960s, initially oversaw the Publications Centre / UBC Press administration. In 1969, Mr. Anthony N. Blicq was appointed Executive Director of the UBC Press. Mr. Blicq acted in this capacity until 1983 when Basil Stuart Stubbs was directed to fill the resulting vacancy in an interim capacity. In 1984, James J. Anderson, who served in this executive capacity until 1990, relieved Mr. Stuart Stubbs. For the following year, Jean Wilson was appointed to the Acting Director until 1991, when R. Peter Milroy received the full executive appointment.

In 1990, Ann Carroll conducted interviews with nine members of the Alumni Associations Professor Emeriti Division. Those interviewed included: J. Lewis Robinson, Benjamin Nelson Moyls, Joseph A. Gardner, Beryl Elizabeth March, George Michael Volkoff, Sadie Boyles, Robert M. Clark, M.W. Steinberg, and Margaret Street. Many of the interviewees talked about student days at UBC and their professional activities and changes they witnessed in their departments during their careers at the University.

The Vancouver Institute was established in 1916 to serve as a liaison between 'town and gown' to provide general public interest lectures. As the first constitution states, "The objects of the Institute shall be the study and cultivation of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Music and kindred subjects employing lectures, exhibitions, publications and other means as may from time to time be deemed advisable." Organizations of a similar nature, such as the Women's University Club, the Art, Historical and Scientific Society, and the Archaeological Institute, were affiliated with the Institute. Each affiliated society was required to elect two representatives to sit on its Council. These societies initially provided various speakers. All lectures were accessible to the public and were initially presented at the Assembly Hall at the old Fairview campus of British Columbia. In 1925 the University was moved from Fairview to the new Point Grey site. The Institute organizers attempted to find quarters to remain close to the downtown audiences. However, they were eventually forced to follow the University to Point Grey in 1929. Free meetings, free discussions after lectures, financial support of the devoted few, and university affiliation and accommodation have been and remain characteristics of the Saturday night Vancouver Institute lectures.

A graduate of Oxford University and Cambridge, he was Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and Chancellor at Sheffield.

Ann Carey Messenger (née Parshall) was a Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1933, to Raymond and Lillian Parshall. Between 1951 and 1955, Messenger attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Awarded a Snell Scholarship from 1952 to 1955, she completed a B.A. in English Literature in 1955. In September of 1955, Messenger began studies at Oxford University in England; she attended Oxford under a Fulbright Scholarship in 1955/56 and a Snell Scholarship in 1956/57. After completing a second B.A. at Oxford, Messenger returned to the United States in 1957. She procured a job as a secretary at the Princeton University Library Rare Books Department. The following year, in 1958, she began her studies at Cornell University. She remained at Cornell for two years, teaching freshman composition and earning credits for a Hon. M.A. at Oxford, which she completed in 1961. During her first year at Cornell, she met William (Bill) Messenger, a fellow graduate English student. The two were married in Pittsburgh in 1960. After their marriage, they stayed in Pennsylvania, teaching at Bucknell University in Lewisburg for a year, before moving to California. In California, Ann taught, and Bill took post-graduate courses and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. In September 1963, she began teaching at San Francisco State College. While teaching, she continued working towards her Ph.D., which she was awarded through Cornell University in 1964; Bill completed his PhD. from Berkeley in 1968.
In August 1966, the Messengers moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to teach at the University of British Columbia (UBC). They immediately fell in love with the city and purchased a home in Point Grey. In September 1968, Messenger secured a job as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the recently established Simon Fraser University, attaining the rank of Professor in 1973. Her area of expertise as a professor was Restoration and 18th Century literature. In the early 1970s, she began to cultivate an interest in the forgotten female writers of the period. Her research developed in this direction. Bill became an Assistant Professor at UBC in 1969 and an Associate Professor in 1982.
In 1988, Messenger was diagnosed with the first of multiple cancers. As a result of her illness, she was unable to teach, and in 1990 she went on long-term disability. Despite her condition, her passion for bringing to light female writers of the Restoration and 18th Century encouraged Messenger to continue writing and editing books, papers, and journal articles on the subject, often hiring people to do some research she could not carry out herself. These works included the books His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (author, published 1986); Gender at Work: Four Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century (contributor and editor, published 1990); a new edition of Ellis Cornelia Knight's Dinarbas(editor, published 1993); Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825) (author, published 1999); Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry (author, published 1999); and The Works of Mary Leapor (co-editor, published 2004). In 1993, Messenger set up the Aphra Behn Endowment Fund, named after the female poet. This fund was renamed the Ann Messenger Graduate Endowment Fund in 1996. Despite Messenger's determination to fight her illness, cancer continued to reoccur, and she passed away on February 1, 1996. Bill Messenger, who had taken early retirement in 1988 to care for Ann, passed away on June 15, 2003, due to pneumonia and Alzheimer's Disease complications.

William "Bill" Tansley (1859‐1957) was born in Staffordshire, England. Apprenticed in a lawyer's office and as a coachbuilder, he later took up drawing and signpainting. He emigrated to Canada in 1903, living first in Dundurn, Saskatchewan. The following year Tansley moved to British Columbia and worked at a series of jobs before coming to the University of British Columbia as a night watchman in 1916. He later assumed responsibility for general maintenance, repairs and janitorial services at the Fairview campus. Well read and a natural storyteller, he was well-liked by students and respected by faculty. He later became curator of the Burnett Ethnological Museum located in the Library Building.

The Women's Undergraduate Society (WUS) was formed at the birth of UBC to consider and advance the interests of the women students through the promotion of extra‐curricular activities and speakers. All women students were automatically members of the Undergraduate Society. The executive's significant role was to coordinate the activities of the women's undergraduate societies in the various faculties. The WUS annually organized social activities, especially for the female freshmen (ʺfreshettesʺ) during the first few weeks of classes. In 1958 the WUS regrouped under the new name of Associated Women Students.

Established in 1907, the Vancouver Law Students' Society (VLSS) was initially open to all students-at-law and articled clerks residing in Vancouver. The objective of the Society was to organize educational and social activities for the city's law students. The group lobbied the provincial government and the Law Society to establish a local law school to promote legal education. The efforts of the VLSS resulted in the establishment of the Vancouver Law School. This school operated almost continuously from 1914 to 1944. However, when the University of British Columbia established a Law School at its Point Grey campus,1945, the Vancouver Law Students' Society ceased operations.

Richard Mattessich was born in 1922 in Trieste, Italy, and grew up and went to school in Vienna, Austria. He obtained his degree in mechanical engineering in 1940, his MBA in 1944 and a doctorate in economics in 1945 from the Vienna School of Economics and Business Administration. He was a research fellow of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and an instructor at the Rosenberg Institute of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1952 he moved to Canada and was appointed Head of the Department of Commerce at Mount Allison University (1953-59). From 1959 to 1967, he was an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1967, he was Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, holding the distinguished Arthur Andersen & Co. Chair. He retired in 1987 and the following year was named emeritus professor. He has also held visiting professorships in Berlin, Christchurch (New Zealand), Graz (Austria), Hong Kong, Parma (Italy), St. Gallen, and Tokyo.
Perhaps best known for introducing the concept of electronic spreadsheets into the field of business accounting, Mattessich has also pioneered the use of analytical and philosophical methods in accounting research. He has numerous books and articles to his credit, some translated into French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. His best-known books are Accounting and Analytical Methods (1964); Simulation of the Firm Through a Budget Computer Program (1964), which introduced the concept of computerized spreadsheets; Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology – An epistemology of the applied and social sciences (1978); Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research (2009); and Reality and Accounting – Ontological explorations in the economic and social sciences (2013). He also edited two anthologies: Modern Accounting Research: History, Survey, and Guide (1984) and Accounting Research in the 1980s and its Future Relevance (1991).
Mattessich has been awarded honorary degrees from Complutense University of Madrid (1998), the University of Malaga, Spain (2006), Montesquieu University in Bordeaux, France (2006), and the University of Graz, Austria (2007). He is also an honorary life member of the Academy of Accounting Historians. In addition, he has received several other honorary appointments and honours. For example, he has served on the governing boards of the School of Chartered Accountancy of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and the CGA-Canada Research Foundation. In addition, he has been on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

The Survey of Vancouver English (SVEN) was a multi-year project conducted by Department of Linguistics Professor Robert J. Gregg. A pilot survey from 1976 to 1978 preceded and was included in SVEN. SVEN ran from 1978 to 1984, and a final report was dispatched to Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. SVEN was an urban dialect survey of Vancouver-born residents seeking data concerning systematic sociolinguistic variables, such as phonology, vocabulary, and grammar. Both the Pilot Survey and SVEN began with questionnaires. The SVEN questionnaire, a modified form of the Pilot Questionnaire, was intricately structured and had over 1000 questions. Three hundred individuals were included in the final study, 60 of which were part of the initial Pilot Survey. The interview process took two years and resulted in 496 audiotapes that were subsequently transcribed. The transcription took over two years and resulted in 300 booklets, one for each interviewee. Data resulting from the surveys and data from similar studies informed the researchers

Gordon Merritt Shrum was a scientist, teacher, administrator, and the first Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. He was a Professor of Physics during his time at UBC.

Established in 1928/29, the Agriculture Club succeeded the Agricultural Discussion Club and the Livestock Club at the University of British Columbia. Student members of the Faculty of Agriculture felt that the work of the old clubs overlapped to such an extent that more could be accomplished if they were amalgamated into a single organization. At the outset, the club had three primary purposes. First, it would encourage debating and public speaking amongst students in the Faculty of Agriculture and oversee teams' selection for inter-faculty debates. Second, it would arrange for outside speakers to come to campus to talk on agricultural topics. Third, it arranged for evening meetings in different members' homes at which agricultural topics could be discussed.

Alison Rice is Assistant Professor Emerita of Nursing at UBC. She obtained a Midwifery Diploma from the Birmingham Maternity Hospital, a Bachelor's in Science (Nursing) from UBC, and a Master's of Science from the University of California San Francisco, a Maternal Nurse Associate. She became a Registered Midwife (College of Midwives of British Columbia) in 1998. In the early 1980s, along with Elaine Carty and several nurses, physicians, and midwives, Rice helped establish the Low-Risk Clinic. The Low-Risk Clinic was a pilot project for midwives that operated out of Grace Hospital; it later developed into the Nurse-Midwifery Service. Rice was a dedicated advocate for the legal recognition and designation of midwifery as a health profession in British Columbia. After several years of advocacy, consultation, and public hearings, in 1998, midwifery became a publicly funded, legally regulated profession in B.C. under the B.C. Health Professions Act. Rice had a long-standing interest in issues on women's health. At UBC, she taught women's health care courses, wrote, and presented papers on midwifery, including neo-natal care and maternal nursing. Rice was the first nurse practitioner to practice in the Planned Parenthood/Vancouver Clinic, playing a central role in developing their Cap and Diaphragm Clinics. She has also worked with the Vancouver Status of Women and the Center of Excellence in Women's Health. Rice was also involved with the Maternal Health Society and served as a past president of the Midwives Association of British Columbia.

The Biological Discussion Club at the University of British Columbia began in the early 1920s. Its goal was to stimulate interest in biological subjects at the university by reading papers of general interest and by other means as determined by the club. In 1949 the name of the club was changed to the Biology Club. The club finally ceased operation in 1965.

The federal government established Shaughnessy Hospital as a veteran's hospital in 1917. The facility was turned over to the provincial government in 1974 and closed in 1992.

The Office of Budget and Planning was established in 1984. Its function and its predecessors were responsible for designing new campus buildings and planning the allocation of office, classroom, and storage space; however, that function was transferred to Physical Planning and Development in 1988. Physical Planning and Development was later renamed Campus Planning and Development.

Born in Golden, B.C., Frances Woodward completed university degrees at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1960) and McGill University (B.L.S., 1961). After working at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia from 1961 to 1966, she joined the Special Collections Division of the Library in 1966. Woodward's areas of particular interest include British Columbia history and historical cartography.

The United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) is a national charitable organization establisted in 1946.

The International Law Association was founded in Brussels in 1873. It is headquartered in London.

In 1942, a campaign was mounted by the Vancouver Board of Trade to raise funds to support an air precaution unit for Vancouver. These efforts resulted in the appointment of volunteer civilian defence wardens in Vancouver. Wardens were assigned to one of six divisions and then to smaller districts. Wardens were trained in first aid, fire fighting, home nursing and police work. They were responsible for ensuring blackouts were carried out and organizing men and equipment in an emergency.

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) collection was assembled and maintained by Melva Dwyer, Head of the Fine Arts Division of the Library. The CACV was formed in 1947 following an extensive analytical study of the community's resources and needs in the general area of the arts. Its object was to "increase and broaden the opportunities for Vancouver citizens to enjoy and participate in cultural activities." The origins and development of the organization are fascinating in that several members of the University of British Columbia staff played a predominant role.

In the autumn of 1955, President Norman Mackenzie appointed a Committee on Automation to investigate "the University's total interest in computers and automation in general." The Committee consisted of approximately 20 members representing most of the research interests on campus and was chaired by E.D. McPhee. At the Committee's first meeting on November 16, 1955, four sub-committees were formed: Departmental Interests and Specifications; Training and Curriculum: Type Equipment; and Library Needs and Resources. The Committee held several meetings and prepared several reports on various facets of computerization.
The University of British Columbia Computing Centre was established in 1957 with the ALWWAC III-E installation. Because of the ever-increasing demand for memory and speed, the Computing Centre eventually replaced the ALWAC with the IBM 1620 in 1961. The IBM 7040 was introduced in 1964, and IBM 360/67 and IBM 7044 were introduced in 1967. Over the years, the Centre has continually upgraded its facilities to provide academic and administrative computing services to the University.
In the 1990s, the Computing Centre went through many significant changes, both structurally and functionally. In 1994 it became a core component of a new division known as University Computing & Communications (C&C). C&C initially had four main branches under it, known as University Computing Services, Telecommunication Services, Media Services (later ImPress), and UBC Press. In 1995 Information Systems Management was absorbed by C&C. In 1999, Computing & Communications became Information Technology Services (IT Services). In 2003, IT Services was restructured and, after removing two units that did not fit its mission, became UBC Information Technology "IT." In 2010 IT groups were amalgamated to form UBC IT. As of 2018, the department service offerings range from IT-related strategy, applications, infrastructure, to support services.
The department has had several heads since its inception. The title for the department head has evolved from Supervisor to Director to Associate Vice-President. Currently, UBC IT falls under the Associate Vice-President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Jennifer Burns (2015 "). Previous individuals holding the top leadership position over the years have included T. E. Hull (1957 -1964), James M. Kennedy (1966 1980), Alvin G. Fowler (1981 1985), and Jack L. Leigh (1986-1997), Ted Dodds (1997 2009), Oliver Grüter-Andrew (2009 2015).
Additional administrators of note include S. Werner "Vern" Dettwiler (Acting Head 1963-1965), Dr. Richard Spencer (Acting Head 2007-2008), Carol J. Bird, and Jim Tom. Carol was Assistant Director (1980-1990), Associate Director of Academic Services (1990-1993) and Director of Information Systems Management (1993-1995). Jim Tom was Director of Telecommunications (1992 1999), Director of Networks (1999 2004), and Director of e-Learning & Telestudios (2004).

Elmer K. "Kim" Nelson was instrumental in developing the criminology programme at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. The B.C. Prison Commission had called for UBC to begin training in criminology in 1950. Two years later, Nelson was appointed assistant professor of criminology in UBC's Department of Anthropology and Sociology. He developed a criminology programme in consultation with staff in the Faculty of Law, the School of Social Work, and the Department of Psychology. By 1956 his department had been renamed Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology, and he had been promoted to associate professor. Nelson's appointment at UBC was funded in part by the B.C. Attorney-General's Office understood that he would also serve part-time as a consultant to the Director of Corrections. As a consultant, Nelson initially was responsible for staff development and training and advising the Director on policy development. Later he helped plan the new Haney Correctional Institution, where he became full-time warden in 1956. Nelson went to the University of Southern California in 1958, where he headed the Youth Studies Centre and later served as Dean of the USC School of Public Administration. He also served with several bodies and institutes in sociology and criminology and published extensively on organizational behaviour and criminal justice topics. The criminology programme he founded at UBC continued until 1960 when the School of Social Work absorbed it; certificates in criminology were also offered through UBC Continuing Education until 1982.

The Pacific Science Institute was created in 1920 as the first Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference.

Paul Oskar Kristeller was a renowned philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Berlin on 22 May 1905. When the Nazi's came to power in the 1930s Kristeller moved to teach in the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy (1935-38). He later emigrated to the United States and lectured in philosophy at Yale University in 1939 and Columbia University 1939-68. He married in 1940 to Dr. Edith Lewinnek.

The Division of Animal Science had formed by consolidating the Departments of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in 1955. The Division of Animal Science became the Department of Animal Science in 1969. In 1986, the former Departments of Animal and Poultry Science was discontinued. Their programs transferred to the new Department of Animal Science. The Department has teaching and research facilities for studying nutrition, physiology, genetics, production management, behaviour, embryology, wildlife management and aquaculture science.

William Duncan Powrie was born in Toronto and later studied in the US. He went on to work both at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin. The UBC Department of Food Sciences was created as part of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1968. In 1969, Powrie moved to UBC as Head of Food Sciences.

Guy Palmer was born in England in 1913. After moving with his family to Canada following World War I, he attended the University of British Columbia. Palmer graduated with a BA majoring in zoology, in 1934. After graduation, he returned to England, where he worked for several years before enlisting in the army during the Second World War. Following the war, he returned to British Columbia and the UBC campus when he went to work for the BC. Research Council. He remained with the Research Council until his retirement in 1978. Palmer participated in theatrical productions with the Players' Club during his student days. However, he never lost interest in theatre. When he returned to work on the UBC campus, he performed a few productions. Perhaps more importantly, Palmer photographed dress rehearsals of major productions between 1954 and 1988.