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Cooke (family)

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-597
  • Family
  • 1901-1997

Beatrice Cooke was born in Nanaimo in 1901. She taught school for several years before marrying. She raised six children before she became an undergraduate at UBC. Cooke received her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1959 and a BSW in 1960. She worked as a social worker until 1965. Cooke was widowed in 1960 and married Albert C. Cooke in 1963. In addition to her career as a social worker and mother, Cooke wrote short stories and poetry. She died in 1997.

Albert C. Cooke was born in 1895 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He received his BA from the University of Manitoba in 1917, a BA (1923) and an MA (1926) from Oxford. Cooke served in the army during World War I. After his discharge from the military, Cooke embarked on a lengthy teaching career at several institutions, including Wesley College, Winnipeg (1919-1921, 1924-1929), Brandon Collegiate Institute (1923-1924), and the University of Manitoba (1928-1929). Cooke taught in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia between 1929 and 1963. Albert Cooke died in 1986.

The Corporation

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-598
  • Corporate body
  • [ca. 2004]

The Corporation, a film released in 2004, is a groundbreaking documentary about the identity, economic, sociological, and environmental impact of corporations' dominance and dubious standing as an institution. Based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan, the film portrays corporations as legal persons and how this status has contributed to their rise in dominance, power, and unprecedented wealth in Western society. The Corporation exposes corporations' exploitation of democracy, the planet, and individuals' health through case studies, anecdotes, and interviews. In addition, the documentary includes 40 interviews of CEOs, critics, whistleblowers, corporate spies, economists, and historians to illuminate corporations' actual character further. The Corporation was co-created by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar and associate producer and writer Joel Bakan. The film, coordinated by Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and edited by Abbott, has received 26 international awards and was awarded the winner of the 2004 Sundance Audience Award and Best Documentary at the 2005 Genie Awards.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Facilities Planning

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-599
  • Corporate body
  • 1979-

The Department of Facilities Planning was created in 1979 in response to growing concerns over campus development. Since then, the board of Governors approved a new campus plan, and much-related planning and urban design studies have been prepared and implemented. The Department was responsible for maintaining the campus, planning activities, and the creation and development of major capital projects through facility planning studies, design development drawings, and functional programs. The Department merged with Physical Planning and Development in 1988.

UBC 50th Anniversary

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-600
  • Corporate body
  • 1915-1965

In 1965, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) conducted a series of interviews with prominent alumni and former faculty.

Riddehough, Geoffrey B.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-601
  • Person
  • 1900-1978

Geoffrey Blundell Riddehough was born on March 18, 1900, in Bramhall, Cheshire, England. Educated in Penticton, B.C., he became a UBC Fairview graduate, earning a first-class honours B.A. (1924) in Latin and English and being awarded the Governor General's gold medal as head of his graduating class. Riddehough joined the UBC faculty in 1933 and remained a member of the Department of Classics for the next thirty-eight years. While at UBC, he pursued his education, obtaining an M.A. (1939) in classics and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1951) with a thesis on the medieval poet Joseph of Exeter. While studying at Harvard, his dissertation essay De Medeae In Iasonem Odio won the Bowdoin Latin Prize (1950). At UBC, Riddehough specialized in Medieval Latin and was noted for his satirical verse.
Riddehough was a prolific writer, and a number of his essays, poems, and short stories were published in various journals and newspapers. Two of his better-known works were his collection of verse, Dance to the Anthill (1972) and the posthumously published Rueful Rhymes: The Satirical Verse of a Couple of Antibodies (1994), co-authored by Geoffrey A. Spencer. Riddehough was familiar with several languages, including French and Cornish, and was versed in ancient Greek and Latin. An interest in the paranormal led Riddehough to participate in a Wicca witch naming ceremony on the Isle of Man. In addition, he wrote numerous short stories about his female witch persona, Anaitis, and the majority of the correspondence from Riddehough within the Pegeen Brennan and Doreen Nalos sousfonds are signed with the Anaitis symbol. Riddehough died suddenly on April 6, 1978, in London, England, returning to Vancouver after visiting Malta.

Hawthorn, Harry

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-602
  • Person
  • 1910-2006

Harry Bertram Hawthorn was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1910. He completed his B.Sc (1932) and M.Sc. (1934) to become a civil engineer. During the Depression, Hawthorn worked for New Zealand's "Native School Service." Unable to pursue his studies in science in the small communities in which he worked, he became interested in the humanities, studying history extra-murally. He earned his B.A. in 1937. The years spent in the "Native School Service" had an arguably strong influence on Hawthorn. He was offered and accepted a fellowship to study anthropology at the University of Hawaii in 1938. The following year he was offered another company to research anthropology at Yale University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1941. While there, he met Audrey Engel, who later became his wife.
Hawthorn's appointment to the University of British Columbia faculty in 1947 added Anthropology to the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology. His objectives upon coming to UBC were to:
"... establish his discipline in an academic setting of the University and the Province; to offer anthropology as a contribution to the general education of a broad group of students and to begin the selection and training of a few specialists; to establish problems for ethnological research; and, in keeping with conviction that scholarship should be useful as well as decorative, to discover possibilities for the practical application of anthropology in the Province and the country."
In 1949, Hawthorn was asked by the Provincial Government to study the problems confronting Doukhobors in British Columbia. He assembled a team of scholars from various disciplines to investigate different aspects of the issue. The subsequent report (1955) helped ease the Doukhobor's concerns and encouraged increased cooperation among the Doukhobors, non-Doukhobors and the government. In 1954, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration commissioned a comprehensive study of BC's Indigenous Peoples'. Hawthorn again assembled a research team that completed its survey in 1956. In that same year Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology separated from Economics and Political Science to form a new department with Hawthorn as its head, which he held until 1968. Hawthorn undertook a third large-scale interdisciplinary research project in 1963 -- The Survey of Contemporary Indians of Canada (1966, 1967).
In addition to the above-described activities, Hawthorn and his wife Audrey also played a significant role in developing the UBC Museum (later the Museum of Anthropology) and, in particular, developing the collection of West Coast artifacts. Hawthorn served as a member of the UBC faculty until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2006.

Vancouver Art Gallery

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-603
  • Corporate body
  • 1931-

The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) has a growing collection of over 11,600 artworks and is the most comprehensive resource for art in British Columbia. The gallery is the principal repository of art produced in the province and related works of Canadian and international artists.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of University Extension

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-605
  • Corporate body
  • 1936-1970

Before establishing the Department of University Extension (1936), the University of British Columbia was engaged in three main extension activities. These included the provision of vocational courses for returning soldiers (1917-1921), the dissemination of agricultural information to the province's farmers through short courses, and the Extension Lectures Committee (1918-1935), which coordinated lectures by university faculty throughout the region. A Carnegie Corporation grant of $50,000 helped to establish the Deptartment of University Extension in 1936. Robert English became its first director. Between 1936 and 1970, the department, first under English, then Gordon Shrum and later John Friesen, expanded the scope of its activities. The department continued until 1970, when, after a re-evaluation period, the university changed its name to Continuing Education. This transition reflected changing public demands and a shift in emphasis toward professional and continuing academic education.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Health, Safety, and Environment

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-606
  • Corporate body
  • 1993-

The Department of Health, Safety, and Environment are responsible for creating and coordinating a healthy and safe working environment for University faculty, staff, and students. It provides programmes, services, training, and assistance on health, safety, and environmental matters. Municipal, provincial, and federal regulatory agencies require many of these activities, such as the Greater Vancouver Regional District, the Workers' Compensation Board, and the Atomic Energy Control Board. The Department also operates the University's Chemical Waste Processing Facility. Before 1985, workplace health and safety issues were the joint responsibility of Physical Plant / Plant Operations and Human Resources, along with departmental safety committees and several committees with representatives from across the University. In 1985, the Department of Occupational Health and Safety was established. Over time, environmental issues also became the Department's responsibility and to reflect this; it changed its name to Health, Safety, and Environment in 1993.

Futrell, Michael

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-607
  • Person
  • [20--]-2009

Michael Futrell was an expert in Russian History and literature, international traveller and philanthropist. Futrell was Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at UBC, 1967-72.

Hedt, Barbara

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-608
  • Person
  • 1940-

Barbara Heldt was born in New York. Heldt is a Professor Emeritus of Russian at UBC. She is perhaps best known for her study of Russian literature by women and is credited with introducing gender analysis and feminist perspectives into Slavic studies.

Petro, Peter

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-609
  • Person
  • 1946-

Born in Slovakia, Peter Petro began his studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava in English and Spanish. He emigrated to Vancouver in 1968 and continued his studies at UBC in Russian and Spanish, B.A. in 1970 and a Masters in Russian literature in 1972. In 1977 he was appointed to teach Russian language and literature in the Department of Slavonic Studies, UBC and was Chair of the Program in Modern languages.

Turner, C.J.G.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-610
  • Person
  • [20--]-2013

Christopher J.G. Turner taught in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies from 1971 until his retirement in 2000. He was Acting Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies from 1989-90.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-611
  • Corporate body
  • 1980-1994

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Education (VPAE) was established in 1980 as part of the Faculty of Education. The Department combined the previously separate programs of Art and Music education and was given responsibility for teacher education in arts and music at the elementary and secondary school levels. This was done in close cooperation with the Department of Fine Arts and the Department (later the School) of Music. VPAE also sponsored a series of lectures for faculty and students by visiting education professionals, called the "Quarterly quorum." Its studio and performance courses were transferred to the Faculty of Arts in 1988. The Department was discontinued in 1994 as part of another reorganization of the Faculty of Education, when four departments, including VPAE, were merged into two new departments. During its early years, the Department was led by Dr. J.A.S. MacDonald (1980-1983), and Dr. Ronald MacGregor (1983-1994).

Martin, Dick

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-612
  • Person
  • [20--]

Dick Martin became an employee in the Library at the University of British Columbia in the early 1970s. He was an active member of the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE), representing the clerical and Library workers. He was instrumental in establishing the UBC branch (Local 1) of the AUCE in 1972.

Smith, Dorothy Blakey

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-613
  • Person
  • [20--]

Born in Leeds, England, Dorothy Blakey Smith emigrated to Canada in 1913. An outstanding student, she was a member of the University of British Columbiaʹs first graduating class in Honours English (1921). Smith earned MA's from UBC (1922) and the University of Toronto (1926). She obtained her doctorate from the University of London (1933), writing a thesis entitled A Study of the Publications of the Minerva Press, 1790‐1820. Smith was appointed to the Department of English in 1935. In 1957, she joined the staff of the Provincial Archives as a researcher and editor. She remained there until her retirement in 1968. She received an honorary degree of Doctor in Letters from UBC in 1978.

MacPhee, Earle D.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-614
  • Person
  • 1894-1982

Born in New Brunswick, Earle Douglas MacPhee earned his M.A. and B.Ed. (1920) from the University of Edinburgh after returning from overseas duty. He held regular and visiting faculty appointments in psychology departments at Acadia, Alberta, Toronto, Iowa, and Chicago during the next decade. In 1929, he pursued a business career until 1950, when he was appointed Director of UBC's School of Commerce and Honourary Bursar of the university. Along with Senator Don Cameron, MacPhee helped establish the Banff School of Advanced Management in 1952. He was appointed as the first Dean of the new Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration in 1956, which he held until his retirement in 1963. Keenly interested in his Scottish heritage, MacPhee published several works on his clan, and, in 1981, he was appointed as Commander of the MacPhee Clan. For more biographical information about MacPhee, refer to his autobiography entitled Footsteps (LB 775 M36 A3 1966).
Initial attempts to establish a commerce undergraduate degree program began in 1916, with the impetus coming from the Vancouver Board of Trade. Shortage of funds temporarily delayed the implementation of the suggested program, but continued interest resulted in the introduction of five courses in 1929. In September 1939, Ellis Morrow became head of a separate Department of Commerce within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Under Morrow's direction, the department grew, and in 1950, its status was changed to a school under the leadership of MacPhee. Six years later, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the establishment Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.

Wickberg, Edgar

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-615
  • Person
  • [192-?]-2008

Edgar Wickberg was a professor of history at UBC from 1969 to 1992. Born in Oklahoma, he served in the US Army before earning a BA and an MA in history from the University of Oklahoma. In the 1950's he studied Chinese and Japanese language and Asian history at the University of California (Berkeley) and completed his Ph.D. in 1961 with a thesis on modern Chinese history. Wickberg taught at the University of Kansas from 1960 to 1969, with extended research periods in Taiwan. After joining the faculty of UBC, he taught courses on modern China and modern Chinese economic and social history. He made several research trips to mainland China, mainly Guangzhou (Canton), Nanjing (Nanking), and Hong Kong. In 1992 he was named Professor Emeritus at UBC. His main research interests are the history and current relationships of Chinese people outside China; land tenure systems in southern China since the 16th century; voluntary associations and ethnicity in Chinese society and overseas Chinese communities; and comparative histories of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and North America. Wickberg also helped establish an exchange relationship between UBC and Guangzhou's Zhongshan University and the Vancouver Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee. He has published several articles and two books: From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada, which he wrote in collaboration with four other researchers and edited (1982), and The Chinese in Philippine Life (1965).

Lehmann, Fritz

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-616
  • Person
  • 1936-

Fritz Lehmann was born in 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree at Oberlin College in 1958 and his master's degrees (1961, 1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from the University of Wisconsin. From 1962 to 1964, he was a research fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies, affiliated with Patna University in India. He subsequently was a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin and an instructor and assistant professor of history at Temple University. He joined UBC's Department of History in 1967. Apart from a one-year teaching exchange at Dalhousie University in 1987-88, Lehmann remained at UBC until 1994. His area of particular interest was the history of India and the South Asian region, particularly the role of Islam in the region, technology and its relation to the culture and development of the area, and Urdu language and literature. He also taught classes in East Asian and general world history and conducted extensive research into railroads and railroading in Canada and South Asia. Known as a dedicated and inspiring teacher, Lehmann also lectured frequently on Indian and Islamic topics for UBC Continuing Studies, the Alumni Speakers Bureau, and other groups within and outside UBC. In addition, he was involved with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, serving on its board of directors from 1980 to 1985 and other academic organizations.

British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-617
  • Corporate body
  • 1932-

The Association was originally titled the B.C. Music Teachers' Federation was founded in 1932. The British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association (BCRMTA) is the representative body of the private music teacher's profession in British Columbia. With associations from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it founded the Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (later called the CFMTA) in 1935. In 1947 the organization received a provincial legislative charter. The bylaws of the Association are set up according to Section 10 of "An Act Respecting British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association."

Brown, E.K.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-618
  • Person
  • 1905-1951

Edward Killoran Brown was born in Toronto in August 1905. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1926 and taught at Toronto and Manitoba's English Department. He won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1943 for On Canadian Poetry.

Logan (family)

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-619
  • Family
  • 1887-1971

Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia, Harry Tremaine Logan, was born on March 5, 1887, in Londonderry, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Vancouver High School; McGill University (Honours Classics, 1908); Oxford University (1908-11), where he was a British Columbia Rhodes Scholar; Presbyterian College (McGill, 1911-12); and New College Edinburgh (1912-13), where he studied Theology. Harry Logan and Gwyneth Murray met in Oxford in 1909 and were engaged to be married in 1911 when Logan returned to Canada. They were married in 1916, shortly after the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders arrived in England. Gwyneth Murray was born in 1888 in Oxford, England, the daughter of James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. She attended Oxford University for a short time but later moved to Cambridge University, studying mathematics and physics. From 1912 to 1916, she taught at the Perse School for Girls at Cambridge. Logan taught Classics at McGill University College of British Columbia from 1913-15 until his career was interrupted by war service. He later returned to Oxford, where he received his Master's degree in 1919. In 1920 Logan began teaching at the University of British Columbia, where he was successively Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Classics and Head of the Department of Classics until 1952. Professor Logan left the University of British Columbia in 1936 to become Principal of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, Vancouver Island, where he remained until 1945. In 1946 he became Acting General Secretary of the Fairbridge Society in London, England, and Secretary between 1947-49. He returned to the University of British Columbia in 1949. His many activities with the University include his senate membership (1930-48); Member of the Board of Governors (1941-46); Trustee of the B.C. Canteen Fund; Editor, UBC Alumni Chronicle; and, notably, author of the first official history of the University, Tuum Est (1958).
During World War I, Logan served as a trooper in the King's Colonial Cavalry and King Edward Horse in Oxford (1908-11). Later, he was with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and Canadian Machine Gun Corps (1915-18) as, successively, Lieutenant, Captain, and Major. He was mentioned in dispatches and won the Military Cross. In 1919 he prepared the official history of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He later commanded the 12th Canadian Machine Gun Brigade, Vancouver (1924-27), and the UBC Contingent, Canadian Officers Training Corps (1928-30), as Lieutenant Colonel. Harry Logan died in 1971.

Budd (family)

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-620
  • Family
  • [20--?]

The Budd family were part-owners of the building known as "The Gables" at 5700-5736 University Boulevard, in the commercial area near UBC known as the "University Village." Henry Budd was involved in the construction of the building and was later a member of the "University Hill Syndicate," which owned the property.

Canadian Association of University Teachers

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-621
  • Corporate body
  • 1951-

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is the voice for academic staff representing teachers, librarians, researchers, general staff and other educational professionals across Canada.

Canadian Historical Association

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-622
  • Corporate body
  • 1922-

The Canadian Historical Association / La Société Historique du Canada is a bi-lingual charitable association devoted to fostering the study and communication of history in Canada.

Humphrey, Ruth

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-623
  • Person
  • 1898-1984

Helen Ruth Humphrey was Associate Professor Emerita and taught English at U.B.C. from 1945 to 1963. She was born in Hampton, New Brunswick and took an Honours B.A. in English Language and Literature at Oxford in 1926. She then taught at Victoria College from 1927 to 1945. Humphrey was a long-standing friend of B.C. artist Emily Carr whom she met when she was teaching at Victoria College, and Carr was a struggling artist. She was apparently among the first friends who discovered the potential of Emily Carr's writing and encouraged her when she began her second career as a writer after ill-health prevented her from going into the forest, travelling with her van, or sketching at summer cottages. There is also some evidence that she assisted Carr with her early short stories. Humphrey received an honorary doctorate from Mount Allison University in 1977, recognizing her services to Canadian literature and teaching. She died on October 21st, 1984.

MacKenzie, Norman A.M.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-624
  • Person
  • 1894-1986

Norman Archibald MacRae "Larry" MacKenzie served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1944 to 1962. He was born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. After returning from a brief farming career in Saskatchewan in 1913, MacKenzie enrolled at Dalhousie University and joined the Canadian Army two years later. After returning from overseas service, he studied law at Dalhousie, Harvard and Cambridge Universities. Called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1926, MacKenzie began a prominent career in international law. In 1927, he went to the University of Toronto, where he taught law for thirteen years. MacKenzie became president of the University of New Brunswick in 1940. In 1944, he became president of the University of British Columbia and served as president for eighteen years. MacKenzie became a Canadian Senator in 1966.

Canadian Sociological Association

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-625
  • Corporate body
  • 1965-

The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) was formed in 1965 and had 189 members. By the 1990s, membership had grown to over one thousand members but saw a significant decline after that. As a result, the CSAA was renamed the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) in 2007. The CSA is a professional association that promotes research, publication and teaching in Sociology in Canada. Membership comes mainly from sociology departments in Canadian universities.

Carroll, Ann

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-626
  • Person
  • 1934-2014

Anne Carroll (née Caruk) was born on July 9th, 1934, in Manitoba. She attended University in Winnipeg and, in 1956, joined the RCAF in Vancouver. In 1988 and 1989, Carroll interviewed seven members of the Faculty Women's Association. Interviewees included: Bea Wood, Violet Eagles, Alex (Alexandra) Hrennikoff, Marjorie Peebles, Maebritt Jeffels, Helen B. Akrigg and Jo Robinson. Each of the women speaks about their own life and career and their involvement with the Faculty Women's Club.

Carrier, Lois J.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-627
  • Person
  • 1930-2010

Lois Jacqueline Carrier received her BA from the University of Saskatchewan and BLS (1952) and MLS (1968) from Toronto. She came to the University of British Columbia Library as head of the Social Sciences Division in 1966 and served in this capacity until 1984, when she became a general reference librarian. Carrier served as President of the Association of British Columbia Librarians (ABCL) in 1968. The ABCL was established in 1966 to provide continuing education for librarians and encourage study and research on professional librarians in the province. The organization concluded operations in the early 1970s. Carrier retired from UBC Library in 1988.

Canadian Women's Army Corps

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-628
  • Corporate body
  • 1941-

Faced with shortages of workers in wartime services and production. The Canadian Women's Army Corps was formed on the 13 of August 1941.

Playhouse Holiday

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-629
  • Corporate body
  • 1953-1974

Playhouse Holiday officially traces its roots back through several organizations to 1953, at which time the Holiday Theatre was established by Joy Coghill, Myra Benson and five other artists. The name Holiday was chosen to represent the spirit and enthusiasm of the organization. The Holiday Theatre, which operated between 1953 and 1965, toured the province's staging plays for children. In the mid-1960s, the Holiday Theatre joined with the Playhouse Theatre Company. It formed a third branch, the Holiday Playhouse, which was designed to encompass the educational activities of the two organizations. Holiday Theatre presented a repertory of plays for Vancouver audiences and expanded the creative drama classes, and Holiday Playhouse expanded the touring operation and developed new forms of presentation. In May 1969, the Holiday Theatre and Holiday Playhouse activities were again amalgamated with the activities of the Playhouse Theatre Company. The new organization, Playhouse Holiday, operated from 1969 to 1974.

University of British Columbia. Faculty Association

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-630
  • Corporate body
  • 1921-

The Faculty Association of UBC was first constituted in 1921, with the object being "the consideration of matters that were of interest to the membership of this Association, especially of such matters as cannot be legally discussed by the Faculties of the University." Membership consisted of all teaching staff members holding the rank of instructor or above. Officers consisted of a President, a Vice-president and a Secretary-Treasurer. By 1930 the Association's objectives had evolved to promote, direct and control activities not already apportioned to other University bodies, including obtaining insurance and recreation, acquiring buildings and land and promoting good fellowship. Non-voting membership was open to teaching and laboratory assistants and long-term members of the Library and clerical staff. By 1931, the Executive was changed to include a Treasurer and three members of the Committee. In 1951 it was made compulsory for all teaching staff members, from instructor to the President. Also created were several standing committees to deal with pensions and group insurance, medical and hospital services, personnel services, salaries and promotions, and the Faculty Club. In 1975 the Faculty Club and the Association separated. In 1975, it created the office of Executive Director, providing it with continuity of administrative and political presence on campus. The Association has also continued to be concerned with salary negotiations and fringe benefits, defence of academic freedom, professional ethics, University government and the University environment. In 1975 members sought certification under the Labour Code. Although the Faculty Association did achieve this, a Framework Agreement for Collective Bargaining was voluntarily negotiated between the Faculty Association and the University. Since then, efforts have been expended on salary negotiations, putting pressure on the Administration and the government to restore adequate funding to higher education in British Columbia, providing support to the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia pressuring for gender equity.

University of British Columbia. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-631
  • Corporate body
  • 1917-

In 1914, L.S. Klinck, Professor of Cereal Husbandry at Macdonald College, McGill University, was appointed as the University of British Columbia's first Dean of Agriculture. During UBC's first two sessions, there was no teaching undertaken in the Faculty, although a general course in agriculture was given by Klinck, which was open to third and fourth-year Arts students. The first students in Agriculture were enrolled in 1917/18. In 1917, the Faculty consisted of Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and Poultry Husbandry. Later, the departments of Dairying (1919), Agricultural Economics (1940), and Agricultural Mechanics (1947) were added. In 1955 the Faculty was reorganized into Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Mechanics, Animal Science, Plant Science, Poultry Science and Soil Science. In 1969, the Faculty's name was changed from the Faculty of Agriculture to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and later, Food Science was added. In 1986, Animal Science and Poultry Science departments amalgamated to form a new Dept. of Animal Science. In 2005 the Faculty's name was changed again to Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

University of British Columbia. Faculty Association. Day of Concern Committee

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-632
  • Corporate body
  • 1984

Born in New Westminster, Ture Erickson became Head of Sedgewick Library in 1965. Erickson participated in the Day of Concern Committee in 1984. Reacting to the ongoing cutbacks in educational funding and the perceived negative impact on the quality of education, members of the Faculty Associations from B.C.'s three universities organized a "Day of Concern" for September 8, 1984. The committee coordinated the planning for the public event, which was intended to allow the university community members to explain the severe situation confronting the universities and education in general.

Ridington, William (Robin)

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-633
  • Person
  • [20--]

William Ridington - also known as Robin Ridington - joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at UBC in 1968 after completing his Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1963, at Harvard, Ridington began studying the Dane-zaa (meaning “real people”), historically referred to by settlers as the Beaver people. Dane-zaa traditional territory is around the Peace River in Alberta and British Columbia.

Leung, S. Wah

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-634
  • Person
  • 1918-1989

S. Wah Leung was born in China. He received his early education in Canada and attended UBC as a student from 1937 to 1939. After graduating from McGill University in 1943, he completed a Ph.D. in physiology at the University of Rochester (1950). From 1951 to 1960, he was associated with the Pittsburgh School of Dentistry. In 1961, Leung moved to the University of California and then to UBC in 1962 to become the first Dean of Dentistry. He retired in 1973.

Panych, Morris

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-635
  • Person
  • 1952-

Morris Panych is an award-winning Vancouver playwright, actor, and director. Born in Calgary in 1952, Panych received a diploma in Radio and Television Arts from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UBC in 1977. He has since performed in and directed many stage productions and became a prolific writer of original plays in which he has acted, directed, and produced. His first play, Last Call, A Post-Nuclear Cabaret, was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Toronto). Other plays by Panych include Contagious (1984), Cheap Sentiment (1985), and Simple Folk (1987). During the early 1990s, Panych wrote plays for young people, including The Cost of Living (1990) and 2B WUT UR (1991). Panych was artistic director for Vancouver's Tamahnous Theatre from 1984 to 1986. Shortly after that, he won seven Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards to produce his play 7 Stories (1989). In addition, Panych has received Jessie awards for acting in and directing the works of other playwrights, most notably for his direction of Sweeney Todd (2000). In 1994 he received the Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play The Ends of the Earth. Panych has continued to write, and six books of his plays have been published by Talon Books (Vancouver). These include 7 Stories (1990), The Ends of the Earth (1993), Other Schools of Thought (including Life Science, 2B WUT UR, and The Cost of Living) (1994), Vigil (1997), Lawrence & Holloman (1998), and Earshot (2001). In addition, Panych has appeared in film and television productions.

University of British Columbia. Institute of Industrial Relations

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-636
  • Corporate body
  • 1960-1977

The Institute of Industrial Relations was established at the University of British Columbia in 1960 to facilitate an interdisciplinary research and education program. Although it supported industrial relations studies at the graduate and faculty levels, the Institute was not a teaching faculty nor granted certain degrees or diplomas. Instead, the Institute lent support to faculty research and to students engaged in graduate programs interested in focusing upon various aspects of industrial relations. The following individuals served as directors of the Institute: W.A. Carrothers (1960-1962), J.T. Montague (1962-1968), S.M. Jamieson (1969-1970), Noel Hall (1971-1973), Donald McRae (1974) and Mark Thompson (1975-1977). The activities of the Institute were suspended in 1977.

MacLeod, Hector

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-637
  • Person
  • 1887-

Born on Prince Edward Island, Hector John MacLeod received a B.Sc. from McGill University (1914), M.Sc. from the University of Alberta (1916) and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1921). He developed the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Alberta, serving as professor and head of the department from 1924 to 1936. In 1936, MacLeod joined the University of British Columbia faculty as professor and head of the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and then Dean of Applied Science (1950-1953). The new Electrical Engineering Building at UBC was named the Hector MacLeod Building in 1964.

Smith, Anne M.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-638
  • Person
  • [20--?]

Anne Smith began her association with the University of British Columbia as a student, graduating with a B.A. in 1921. She later received a B.L.S. from the University of Washington and an M.A. in Library Science from Michigan. Smith joined the U.B.C. Library as a reference librarian in 1930. Later she became an assistant librarian in charge of reference and information services. During two interregna (1949, 1951), Smith served as acting University Librarian. Interest in international library cooperation led her to accept a term appointment at the Japan Library School, where she taught cataloguing (1953-54). After retiring from U.B.C. in 1964, Smith continued to teach courses in the U.B.C. School of Librarianship.

University of British Columbia. Division of Plant Science

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-640
  • Corporate body
  • 1955-

The Division of Plant Science was established in 1955 when the Faculty of Agriculture was re-organized. At that time, the division absorbed the plant science subjects of the Department of Agronomy and the Department of Horticulture. The Faculty of Agriculture was then comprised of four departments and two divisions: the Departments of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Mechanics, Poultry Science and Soil Science, and the Divisions of Animal Science and Plant Science. In 1955, V.C. Brink became the chair of the division and retained this post until 1970. During Brink's leadership of the division, the faculty expanded. In 1955, there were three professors of horticulture and two professors of agronomy. A sixth full-time faculty member was hired in 1960, and a seventh in 1962. Several sessional lecturers were also hired. The division offered courses in agronomy, horticulture and plant science, and in 1964 plant protection courses were introduced. In 1963, a Master's Degree in Plant Science was offered, and in 1966, a Doctoral program was instituted. In response to increased enrolment and the availability of funds, a new building was constructed. The new complex, the present H.R. MacMillan Building, housed both the Faculty of Forestry and the Faculty of Agriculture. It was officially opened in July 1967. In 1969, a new curriculum was introduced that contained thirteen graduate-level courses. In addition, all courses offered by the division were now categorized under the heading of Plant Science. At that time, the division was renamed the Department of Plant Science.

Klinck, L. S.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-641
  • Person
  • 1877-1969

Leonard Sylvanus Klinck (1877-1969) was born in Victoria Square, Ontario. He completed his first degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1903 and continued his studies at Iowa State College (MSA,1905). Klinck then assumed responsibility for the cereal husbandry department at Macdonald College in Quebec. He first visited Vancouver in 1914 to consult with University of British Columbia President Wesbrook in planning the future of UBC and was invited to become Dean of Agriculture. In accepting the position, Klinck became the first appointment to the UBC faculty. Following the sudden death of Wesbrook in 1919, he became UBC's second president. From this time until UBC's retirement in 1944, Klinck supervised the physical building of the university through the Fairview campus days, the war-delayed move to Point Grey, the controversies of the 1930s and the trying times of World War II.

Mawdsley, Dorothy

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-642
  • Person
  • 1898-1993

Mary Dorothy Mawdsley was born in Florence, Italy, in 1898. Her parents were British and were studying in Italy at this time. She received a BA from McGill, an MA from UBC and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and began teaching in the Department of English in UBC in 1927. She was appointed Dean of Women in 1941 and held this position until her retirement in 1959.

McCrae, Helen

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-643
  • Person
  • [1907?]-2001

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Helen McCrae received her B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.S.W. from UBC in 1948. In 1950 she joined UBC’s School of Social Work as fieldwork director. She was appointed Dean of Women at UBC in 1959 and held that position until her retirement in 1973. McCrae was then honoured with the title of Dean Emerita of Women.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Agronomy

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-644
  • Corporate body
  • 1916-

The Department of Agronomy was established in 1916 as part of the Faculty of Agriculture. It was responsible for research and education in the agricultural economy related to field crops, soil and fertilizers. The first two members of the Department were Leonard Klinck, also Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, and P.A. Boving, who became Department chair in 1917 and retained the post until 1930. During 1916 and 1917, the Department cultivated a small portion of campus land for experimental work. In 1917, the first course, Agronomy 1, was offered and several short courses for the community and returning war veterans. By 1919, the Department had developed a full range of courses leading to a Bachelor's Degree. In 1930, G.G. Moe replaced Boving as Department Chair and retained the post until 1954. During its early years, the Department concentrated much of its efforts on public education and outreach. However, during the late 1920s and early 1930s, it suffered from substantial budget cuts because it was seen to have little relevance to average farmers by provincial legislators. Recovery from these setbacks began in 1933 with the cooperative efforts of the Provincial and Federal Departments of Agriculture, which led to many joint Department-government projects, such as research on seed development and the Dominion Experimental Farms. The Department was disbanded in 1955 when the Faculty of Agriculture was reorganized. Its functions of teaching plant and soil science were split between the Plant Science Division and the Soil Science Department.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Food Sciences

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-645
  • Corporate body
  • 1968-

The Department of Food Sciences was created as part of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1968. Michael Shaw served as acting head for the first year of operation until William Powtrie from the University of Wisconsin assumed that position.

University of British Columbia. Health Sciences Centre

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-646
  • Corporate body
  • 1950-

The origins of the Office of the Co-ordinator of Health Sciences date back to the early years of the Faculty of Medicine, which was established at the University of British Columbia in 1950. Instruction was carried out on campus, and clinical courses were taught at many city hospitals. The 1950s were growth years for the faulty as staff members were assembled. In 1959 a new team was appointed, and the faculty and the Board of Governors granted permission to the Faculty of Medicine to plan for a university Hospital. With grants received by the Rockefeller and Markle Foundations, the faculty members launched a study to investigate health care delivery and medical education in the Western World to apply the findings to the UBC situation. The investigation led to a broadening of scope from a teaching hospital to the idea of a Health Sciences Centre where all members of the health team would receive their education from the same teachers, in the same classrooms, working on the same patients, to merge the various professions into a more effective working unit. In 1961 the Provincial Government approved the Health Sciences Centre concept and accepted the plan to build a hospital later, but the financial arrangements were not clarified. A grant from the Leverhulme trust enabled the first Co-ordinating Committee to be established in 1961. The committee realized that the B.C. Hospitals Act (1960) would require additional legislation if a teaching hospital were selected. In addition, the University required a more significant representation on the administration board of the hospital if the educational function was to be successfully carried out. In 1963 the Provincial Legislature passed the University of British Columbia Health Sciences Act.
The Co-ordinating Committee remained an informal organization until 1967, when the president of the University established a temporary committee known as the Curtis Committee to study the administrative structure of the Health Sciences Centre. In 1969 the Curtis Committee issued the president's Temporary Committee Report, Administrative Structures of the Health Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia. The report respected the earlier recommendation that the health team concept be implemented and called for establishing an office of the Coordinator of Health Sciences and a Coordinating Committee. The Coordinator of Health Sciences was to be the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee and serve on several committees of the University, including the board which administered the hospital. The coordinator's function was the same as the Coordinating Committee's, with the additional responsibility of acting as the spokesman for the Management Committee, the President and the Senate. The Coordinator and the Co-ordinating Committee of Health Sciences would report to the Management Committee, the president, and ultimately to the Board of Governors. In 1970 the Board of Governors approved the administrative structure, and in the following year, the Co-ordinating Committee was formalized. The title of Interim Director was changed to Co-ordinator of Health Sciences. Six divisions were established under the umbrella of the Office of the Coordinator: Continuing Education, Health Services Research and Development, Interprofessional Education, Hospital Administration, Business Administration, and Health Systems.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Co-ordinating Committee and the coordinator's office were involved in the planning and construction the Health Sciences Centre facilities. Funding was provided by the Provincial Government, the Health Resources Fund (1966) of the Federal Government and donations from various private foundations. In 1959 work began on three permanent Basic Medical Science Buildings, later developed into a health sciences complex. In 1964 Woodward Library was built, with additions made in 1970. In 1966 construction began on the Psychiatric Unit, completed in 1969. The Dentistry building was built in 1966, and the Instructional Resources Centre in 1972. The Extended Health Care Unit in 1979, and the final Acute Care Unit was opened in 1980.
Several individuals have held the Coordinator of Health Sciences. Dr. J.F. McCreary was the first coordinator, appointed Interim Director in 1967. In 1970, this position was formalized as the Co-ordinator of Health Sciences. From 1959 to 1972, McCreary also served as the Dean of Medicine for the UBC. He was replaced upon his retirement in 1975 with Dr. Harold Copp, who served as the Acting coordinator between 1975 and 1977. Dr. B.E. Riedel took over in 1977 and remained Co-ordinator until 1985. In that year, Dr. Larkin served as Acting Co-ordinator for six months until the present Coordinator, Dr. Low, assumed his position. Lloyd Detwiller was also a significant figure in the functioning of the Health Sciences Centre, acting as Consultant-Administrator from 1962 until 1972 when his work was changed to that of Administrator. Detwiller retired in 1983.

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