Between 1908 and 1911, representatives of 16 organized nursing bodies met in Ottawa to form the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses (CNATN). By 1911, CNATN comprised 28 affiliated member societies, including alumni associations of hospital schools of nursing and local and regional groups of nurses. By 1924, each of the nine provinces had a provincial nurse's organization with membership in CNATN. In that year, the national group changed its name to the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA).

The Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia was first constituted under the British Columbia University Act 1908. The Board originally consisted of the Chancellor (who served as chairman) and the University President, ex-officio members and nine individuals appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor. The Board is now composed of fifteen members. It includes elected members of faculty, students and full-time employees, and eight people appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
The Board of Governors is charged with the management, administration, and control of the University's properties, revenue, business, and affairs. With the approval of the Senate, the Board establishes procedures for the recommendation and selection of candidates for presidents, deans, librarians, registrars and other senior academic administrators as the Board may designate. The Board also appoints the president, deans of all faculties, librarians, and other teaching staff members. The Board has the power to fix salaries and define duties and tenure of office. Members of the teaching staff may not be appointed, promoted or removed from office except upon the president's recommendation. The Board fixes the fees to be paid by students; administers funds, grants, fees, endowments, and other assets; and, with the Senate's approval, can determine the number of students that may be accommodated at the University. The Board is required to seek the University Council's approval, which, in turn, must seek the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council before incurring deficits.

The Faculty of Applied Science was one of the first faculties at the University of British Columbia. In 1915, with the official opening of the University, the Faculty of Applied Science appointed Reginald W. Brock, its first Dean. He would serve from 1915-1935. He was followed by John N. Finlayson (1936-1950), H.J. Macleod (1951-1954), Henry C. Gunning (1954-1959), David M. Myers (1960-1965), William Armstrong (1966-1969), W.D. Finn (1970-1979), L.M. Wedepohl (1979-1986), Axel Meisen (1986-1997), Michael Isaacson (1997-2008), Tyseer Aboulnasr (2008-2011), Eric Hall (pro tem, 2011-2013), and Marc Parlange (2013-present).
In the Faculty's early days, courses were only offered through the Second Year in Civil, Mechanical, and Mining and Metallurgy Engineering. The Faculty now oversees two Schools, the first from the former Department of Architecture, becoming the School of Architecture (1949) and later the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2005), and the second from the Department of Nursing and Health, which became the School of Nursing (1950). There is also a School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan, established in 2005. The Faculty currently offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, architecture/landscape architecture, and nursing.

The Fisheries Centre was founded in 1992 as a research unit within the Faculty of Graduate Studies to facilitate and foster research and training in freshwater and marine fisheries' scientific, social, and legal aspects. However, its origins date back to 1953 with the establishment of the Institute of Fisheries. According to the 1953/54 UBC Calendar, the Institute's objective was "to give, at the graduate level, broad and advanced instruction in various fields relating to the best use and management of the fisheries resources... [including] biology, economics, law, commerce, engineering, nutrition, technology, etc." By 1959 its programmes had expanded to include cooperation with the Vancouver Public Aquarium, the federal Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, and the UBC Institute of Oceanography. The Institute's name changed to Animal Resource Ecology in 1970. It made this change reflect its expanded focus on "theoretical ecology, applied ecology and population genetics and relate them to specific ecological systems - freshwater and marine communities, mammal, bird, fish and insect populations and human systems" (1970/71 UBC Calendar). The Institute's activities remained closely tied to those of the Department of Zoology. It also interacted with Agricultural Sciences, Forestry, and Community and Regional Planning. The Institute was discontinued in 1988 but re-established as the Fisheries Centre in 1992. In 2000 the Centre was re-organized into two sections: the B.C. Fisheries Research Section, and the Marine Mammal Research Unit.
The directors of the Institute of Fisheries / Animal Resource Ecology were: W.A. Clemens (1953-55), Peter A. Larkin (1955-63, 1966-69), Norman J. Wilimovsky (1964-66), C.S. Holling (1970-75), W.G. Wellington (1975-80), J.D. McPhail (1980-81, 1986-88), and C.C. Lindsey (1981-86). Since its re-establishment, the Fisheries Centre's directors have been L.M. Lavkulich (acting, 1992-93) and T.J. Pitcher (1993- ).

Mark Thompson received his undergraduate education in economics at Notre Dame University, graduating with a BA in 1961. He completed graduate work at Cornell University, earning an MS (1963) and Ph.D. (1966), specializing in collective bargaining, labour law, and labour movements. Thompson joined the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration in 1971 and served as director of the University of British Columbia's Institute of Industrial Relations from 1974 to 1977. In addition, he has served as an arbitrator in several labour disputes in British Columbia.

John Tait Montague was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After completing undergraduate work at the University of Western Ontario (1943), he went to the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, where he received his MA (1947) and Ph.D. (1952). Montague worked in the federal Department of Labour from 1948 to 1962. He came to the University of British Columbia in 1962 as the first permanent director of the Institute of Industrial Relations and continued in this capacity until 1969. Montague also taught some labour economics courses at UBC.

The history of the Warren family dates back to the 1700s in England. Harry Warren accumulated extensive documentation of the history of the Warren
family. Harry V. Warren was born in Anacortes, Washington, in 1904. He completed his B.A. (1926) and B.Sc. in geological engineering (1927) at UBC. In 1927 he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his doctorate in natural science in 1929. After completing post-graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, Warren returned to UBC as a lecturer in the Dept. of Geology and Geography in 1932. By 1945 he had been promoted to professor. Amongst his numerous outstanding contributions, Warren pioneered the study of biogeochemistry, in which plant life is used to help detect the presence of trace elements. He also studied the link between geology and medicine, particularly the impact of trace elements on health. Throughout his career, Warren received numerous honours as a scholar, teacher and amateur sportsman. Although he retired from the University in 1973, he remained active in multiple organizations and published a wide range of articles.

Albert Edward Richards earned his B.A. (1923) at the University of British Columbia, M.A. from Wisconsin, and Ph.D. from Cornell University. As president of the Alma Mater Society in 1922, Richards led the "Great Trek" from the old Fairview Shacks, through the streets of Vancouver, to the University's unfinished site at Point Grey. This demonstration and other organized student activities were undertaken to protest the overcrowded conditions at Fairview and delays in moving the University to Point Grey. Richards went on to work for the federal Department of Agriculture and achieved distinction as an agricultural economist. He received an honourary degree from U.B.C. in 1949.

The Players' Club was founded at the University of British Columbia in 1915 by Frederic Wood, who served as honourary president and director of all plays staged from 1916 to 1931. The objective of the organization was to provide training in the theatre arts for UBC students. Each spring and fall, the club performed one-act plays throughout the province. Such tours contributed significantly to the cultural life of B.C.. In addition, they helped integrate the activities of the university with the outlying areas of the province. The Players' Club disbanded in 1966 following the institution of the Department of Theatre at UBC. However, it was revived in the 1990s.

John Wesley Neill was born in Salford, Ontario. He earned a B.S.A. from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1938. Neill came to the University of British Columbia in 1949, succeeding Frank Buck as supervisor of Campus Development. He was made an assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture. In 1980, he became the Director of the Landscape Architecture program.

The Department of Botany was established at UBC in the early 1920s. The Department of Biology split into the Departments of Botany and Zoology. In 1940, Botany was again reorganized into the Department of Biology and Botany and remained in this form until the mid-1960s, when it again became the Botany Department. For background information about this development, refer to Box 5-1. After the split, the biological functions of the Department were assumed by the Life Sciences Council, which was responsible for restructuring the relationships between the life sciences. In explaining this new arrangement, the UBC Calendar (1985/86) states: "Biology is not treated as a department but a field of study. Programmes are sponsored, and instruction is offered cooperatively by the Departments of Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Oceanography, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Physiology and Zoology."

Samuel Mack Eastman (1882-1968), who became the University of British Columbia's first professor of history, was born in Oshawa, Ontario. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, Eastman used fellowships to study at the University of Paris (1908-1911) and Columbia University (1911-1912). During these years, he developed a keen interest in international affairs. After leaving Columbia, he went to Calgary College, where he taught history and introduced International Studies. Eastman moved to UBC in 1915. He remained at the university until 1925 (with a brief interruption between 1916 and 1918 for war service). In 1919, Eastman became head of the Department of History, holding the position until 1925, when he resigned to work in the International Labour Office in Geneva. He fled Europe after the collapse of the Western Front (1940). He returned to Canada, taking a position at the University of Saskatchewan. Eastman retired to Vancouver in 1949 and became actively involved in Canada's United Nations Association and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

The University of British Columbia's Development Office was established in 1986/87 with funding from the university's General Purpose Operating Fund and cost recovery on donations to the campaign. The Development Office has been a part of External Affairs since 1999/2000. Its primary function is to advance the university's vision by increasing private sector funding for campus initiatives. In addition, the Office provides fundraising expertise and assistance. The Development Office has established a strong base of ongoing donor support for UBC. It develops effective campus-based fundraising programs and approaches. The Office also raises money annually on behalf of UBC faculties, programs, and projects.
The Development Office includes Faculty Fundraising, Campaign Operations, Gift and Estate Planning and Awards and the UBC Fund.

In 1988-89, Ann Carroll interviewed seven members of the Faculty Women's Club. Those interviewed 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.

The Fraser River Model Project, which ran from 1948 to 1961, was designed to improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. The National Research Council of Canada funded the initial construction and operation of the model. The University of British Columbia provided land, office, laboratory space, materials, engineering, and administrative supervision. The University's support continued after the Federal Department of Public Works took over the model's operational and financial control in 1953. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the world's largest and the only one of its kind in Canada. The model's horizontal scale was 1:600, the vertical scale 1:70. Edward Sinclair Pretious of the Department of Civil Engineering was the director of the project.

Gordon Raymond Elliott was born in Vancouver in 1920 but spent childhood in Pemberton, Williams Lake, and Revelstoke. In 1942, Elliott joined the Canadian Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a navigator on Lancaster bombers based in England. In 1945, Elliott was injured during a plane crash and was sent home to a Vancouver hospital. Upon his release, he attended UBC from 1947-54 and earned a B.A. and M.A. in History. Elliott taught in Williams Lake briefly before enrolling at Harvard University, earning a second M.A. in History. From 1957-65, Elliott taught in the English Department at UBC. During this time, he encouraged novelist Margaret Laurence to publish her first books. In 1965, he joined the Department of English faculty at SFU. He taught courses in Canadian Literature until 1985 when he retired as Professor Emeritus. Over the years, he edited Canadian texts such as British Columbia: A History by Margaret Ormsby (1958) and wrote several books of his own. Elliott was also a leading member of the Vancouver Historical Society, serving as Vice-President (1968) and President (1970-1972). He introduced ethnic history as a field of study for the Society with a speakers' series on local ethnic groups. Later, he launched a publication program with three local histories, the Occasional Papers Series. Elliott died in 2006.

Terzaghi went to the Technical University in Graz, Austria, to study mechanical engineering. He graduated with honours in 1904. After WWI, he began a study of the properties of soils in an engineering context, and this was quickly recognized as an important new contribution to the behaviour of soils. He later accepted a job offer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Wartime Information Board was established in 1942 to co-ordinate existing public information services of the government and to supervise the release of information in or to any country outside of Canada. The Board wound up operations in September 1945.

The International Labour Office is the permanent secretariat of the International Labour Organization. The Labour Organization brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member states to set labour standards and devise and promote decent working conditions.

The UBC Curling Club was established in 1957. Initially launched for men, a women's team was founded the following year. Intramural teams competed against each other. Some teams also competed in city leagues and local bonspiels. In 1959 a team from UBC competed against other Canadian university teams for the first time.

Seymour Levitan was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 but missed the Vietnam war. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He went on to join the Department of English at UBC, where he taught from 1966 to 1972. In addition to his work teaching English, Levitan also became well-known as a translator and editor of Yiddish poems and stories. Paper Roses, his selection and translation of Rachel Korn's poetry, was the 1988 winner of the Robert Payne Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University. He also helped organize the Jewish Film Festival and the Chelm Film Series.

William Griffith was a professor of Adult Education at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Chicago. He also taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Along with being an active member of the Commission of Adult Education, the President of the Northwest Adult Education Association, the Chairman of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education and the President of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, he also served on the committee of the Adult Education Research Conference. He had varied research interests and was active in several organizations such as Planned Parenthood and Programs of Studies and Training in Correctional Education. William Griffith, casually known as Bill Griffith, also chaired the program committees for the AEA/USA and the NAPCAE national conferences and the Research Section of the National University Extension Association. He wrote extensively on Adult Education matters and contributed to the Adult Education Association Handbook Series in Adult Education in 1980-1981. In 1972-1973 he was named a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Fellow to Australia. He was awarded the AEA/USA's Research to Practice Award in 1980. He died on August 12, 1996, at the age of 64.

The Anglican Theological College (A.T.C.) of British Columbia, located in Vancouver, was registered with the Provincial Department of Education. The Board of Governors met for the first time in 1912. Its main function was administering provincial Anglican theological education until 1920 when the separate teaching colleges, Latimer Hall and St. Mark's Hall, became a unified body of faculty and students in "The Anglican Theological College of British Columbia." The College erected a building and moved into its final location on the University of British Columbia campus in 1927. It continued to operate until 1971 when it merged with Union College to become the Vancouver School of Theology.

The Asia Pacific Business Institute (APBI), formerly the Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies (CAPBS), was founded in 1985 and administered jointly between UBC, SFU and UVIC with funding from the Federal Government. The organization's purpose was to coordinate, develop, and disseminate information to enable Canadian business people to deal effectively with the Asia-Pacific region's diverse business practices and cultures. In 1986 it was decided to close the CAPBS and reestablish it as a non-profit Society that would administer its finances. Thus, the CAPBS became the Asia Pacific Business Institute with Joe Weiler as its executive director. The APBI dissolved in 1990.

Henry Forbes Angus was born in Victoria in 1891. He studied at McGill and Oxford University before serving with the military during World War II. He joined the UBC Department of Economics in 1919 and was head of the department from 1930 to 1956. He also served as the first Dean of Graduate Studies at UBC from 1949-56.

Cyril Shirley Belshaw was born on 3 December 1921 in Waddington, New Zealand. He received an M.A. from Victoria College, New Zealand and a Ph.D. in 1949 from the London School of Economics. Before coming to the University of British Columbia in 1953, he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. Belshaw arrived at UBC in 1953 and joined the Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology. In 1959 Belshaw was appointed as acting head of that department, serving as official head from 1968 to 1974. He remained on staff as a professor until his retirement in 1987. The suspicious death of his wife Betty Joy Belshaw in Switzerland in 1979 saw Belshaw go on trial for her murder, but he was acquitted. Professor Betty Joy Belshaw taught at the Department of English. Belshaw also served as president of the Faculty Association in 1960, and in 1961 he was appointed director of the UN Regional Training Centre at UBC. He was also involved with the Senate Committee on Long-Range Objectives. In addition, he served as a consultant to the UN Bureau of Social Affairs and as editor of Current Anthropology. Outside the University, Belshaw actively participated in numerous national and international academic initiatives such as the Social Science Research Council, UNESCO, and the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (among others). Following his time at UBC, Belshaw continued to write and maintained publishing through Webzines of Vancouver.

Paul Axel Boving was born in 1874 in Denmark. He studied at the Alnarp Agriculture Institute in Sweden, and in 1916 he joined the newly formed U.B.C. Department of Agronomy as an assistant professor. He taught Agronomy 1 and 2, as well as several extra sessional courses to returning soldiers. His primary areas of interest were the study of weeds, turnips, seed production, cultural methods and fertilizers. During 1925 and 1926, Boving was absent on sick leave, during which G.G. Moe was acting head of the department. Boving resigned in 1930 due to ill health but remained in the department until his retirement in 1939. Shortly after his retirement, Boving was awarded an honorary doctorate. He died in 1947.

Born in Calgary in 1913, George Philip Vernon Akrigg received a B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1940) from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of California (1944). He began his UBC teaching career in the Deptartment of English in 1941. The author of many scholarly articles and books, Akrigg continued his research in British Columbia history after his retirement in 1978. He died in 2001.

Helen Manning was born in Prince Rupert in 1921, grew up in Victoria and attended UBC in Vancouver for her third and fourth years. She earned a BA in 1943. At UBC, she met and married Philip Akrigg [1913-2001], who taught in the English Department. Akrigg wrote her Master's Thesis on the History and Economic Development of the Shuswap Area in 1964. The couple had three children, Marian, Daphne and Mark. They owned a lakeshore lot on Shuswap Lake at Celista and spent summers there.

The Akriggs co-authored 1001 British Columbia Place Names and two volumes of British Columbia Chronicle.

The University of British Columbia Professor Vladimir Joseph Krajina advocated for the formation of ecological reserves throughout the 1950s amidst the increase in logging in the Province. Krajina had a remarkable life, having emigrated after World War II from Czechoslovakia, where he had been an Intelligence Service leader. During the war, he was captured, served time with his wife in a concentration camp and narrowly missed execution. After the war, Krajina joined the UBC Botany Department, where he taught plant ecology for over twenty years and developed a reputation as a distinguished teacher, botanist, ecologist, and conservationist.

Helen Hubbard Wolfe Sonthoff was born in Rochester, New York, on September 11, 1916. She was educated at Smith College (AB 1937) and Radcliffe College. She taught for some years in Massachusetts and Washington, DC before coming to the University of British Columbia in 1958 as a Teaching Assistant. Sonthoff, a teacher and scholar of Canadian Literature back when Canadian literature was still struggling to establish itself as a field worthy of study, gained a tenured appointment as an Assistant Professor of English at UBC in 1968. Her writing was on the fiction and poetry of such contemporary figures as Phyllis Webb, Milton Acorn, Eli Mandel and Leonard Cohen. She promoted their work on the CBC as a reader and critic from time to time. Sonthoff served on numerous departmental and faculty committees, and in 1972 she was elected to a three-year term on the University Senate as a representative of the Faculty of Arts. As a fledgling Women's Action Group member, she contributed to the first Report on the Status of Women at UBC in 1973. Sonthoff was also an early supporter of education for Indigenous peoples at the post-secondary level and worked with colleagues in Arts and Education to give exceptional help to Indigenous students. In 1976, Sonthoff and her long-time partner, writer Jane Rule, moved permanently to Galiano Island after retiring from the English Department. Sonthoff passed away in Victoria, B.C., on January 3, 2000.

The Historical Society of the University of British Columbia was established in 1919 to provide a forum for discussion and independent investigation of the historical problems of the day. The original constitution established three classes of members: honourary, associate and ordinary. The Society initially imposed a fourteen-student membership limit, but later this was amended to allow twenty active members. No attempt was made to limit the number of associate members (former members of the Society who graduated). The Society annually awarded a $25 prize for the best essay in Canadian history and the Historical Society Gold Medal (donated by E.W. Keenleyside) to the outstanding graduating student in history at UBC. Each year a banquet was held at which a prominent speaker would address the club, or a paper would be read by one of the members.

James Frank Richards was born in Winnipeg, and he earned a BSA (1958) and MSc (1960) at the University of Manitoba. He then went to the University of Minnesota, completing his Ph.D. in 1963. Richards joined the Department of Food Sciences at the University of British Columbia in 1964. Since then, he has participated in numerous administrative activities and published widely in food science. After serving as assistant and Associate Dean, Richards became Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 1986, serving in this capacity until 1997.

Ken MacDonald is an award-winning Vancouver art director, set designer, and playwright. After receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1972 from the University of British Columbia, Ken began his career as a set designer. He has designed for all of the major theatre companies in Vancouver, such as Arts Club Theatre, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Vancouver Opera, and for many productions at the Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage in Toronto, the Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and an opera at the Banff Centre. MacDonald is a frequent collaborator with director Morris Panych and has designed the premieres of the plays 7 Stories, Vigil, Ends of the Earth, Lawrence and Holloman, Earshot, The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, and other plays written by Panych. Other selected credits include Hysteria, Amadeus and Sweeney Todd (CanStage) and Hamlet, Art and Arsenic and Old Lace (Arts Club in Vancouver). His opera credits include Susannah, The Rake's Progress and The Threepenny Opera at the Vancouver Opera. MacDonald is a recipient of 14 Jessie Richardson Awards, a Gemini, and two Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

This organization was composed primarily of social democrats who opposed deportations of Japanese Canadians during World War II.

John Laurence Russell Meredith was known as “Laurence,” “Laurie,” and “Larry.” Before attending UBC, he worked for a lumber camp. This allowed him to interact with the Kwakwaka'wakw ("Kwakiutl") First Nation. He wrote four articles about the nation that the Library of Congress published. The publishing fees allowed him to attend UBC. He graduated in October 1929 with 2nd class honours in English and Latin. While at UBC, he was literary editor of The Ubyssey, president of the Letters Club, winner of the University Prize, English honour student, member of the Players' Club, and the Publications Board. After graduation, he moved to London and became a teacher. He soon joined United Press International. He joined the RAF during WWII.

George Eulas Foster was a Canadian politician and academic. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Classics and Ancient Literature at the University of New Brunswick. He served as a Member of Parliament and a Senator in the Canadian Parliament for over 45 years.

The Department of Nursing was established at UBC in 1919. In 1924, the Departments of Nursing and Public Health were merged to form the Department of Nursing and Health in the Faculty of Applied Science.

Albert Milton Moore was born in Lancashire, England. He attended high school in Windsor, Ontario. Upon graduation, Moore attended Queens University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors and a minor in philosophy. After joining the Royal Canadian Air Force, Moore spent four years at the RCAF Overseas Headquarters until he was discharged in December 1945. In 1951, Moore earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Chicago. He also completed post-graduate work in theory, international trade, and public finance. He was regarded as a Canadian taxation expert, having served as research director and staff economist for several royal commissions, including one on the gasoline price structure in BC. Before joining the Department of Economics at UBC, Moore was a research associate with the Canadian Tax Foundation and an economist with the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in Montreal. He became a UBC faculty member in 1959 and later served as department chair for three years. His publications include a book entitled Forestry Tenures and Taxes in Canada and numerous articles and monographs on such subjects as the Carter Royal Commission on Taxation, sales and commodity taxes and taxation for the financing of higher education. In 1984, Moore was honoured as Professor Emeritus of Economics. Moore died in 2007.

The UBC Musical Society (MUSSOC) was one of the first Alma Mater Society student clubs formed at UBC in 1916. Its original aim was to allow students to present concerts on campus. On occasion, it also performed off-campus in Vancouver and Victoria. In 1930, the Society expanded its repertoire to include operettas, beginning with Garden of the Shah and later, including Gilbert and Sullivan productions as The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, and HMS Pinafore. In 1950, the Society began presenting twentieth-century operettas such as The Student Prince and Maid of the Mountains. In 1957, with Call Me Madam, the Society embarked upon a series of Broadway musical comedies, including Damn Yankees and Lʹil Abner. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, work by Rodgers and Hammerstein, including Carousel and Oklahoma, were performed. Apart from the 1980‐81 seasons, the Society performed at least one musical per season when there was no production. The Society came to an end in 1989 after its performance of The Best of MUSSOC: A Celebration! however, it was revived in the late 1990s. The musicals are all put on by volunteer student casts and stage crews. The directors and choreographers are the only paid professionals involved.

Neville Vincent Scarfe, UBC's first Dean of Education, was born in Essex, England, in 1908. He attended the University of London, graduating with first-class honours in geography. After teaching geography until 1935, Scarfe became Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Education at the University of London, where he remained until 1951. Internationally recognized for his research work in the teaching of geography and the principles and philosophy of education, he became Dean of Education at the University of Manitoba in 1951 and remained there for five years. In 1956, Scarfe became the founding Dean of Education at UBC. A consolidation of the Universityʹs School of Education and the Provincial Normal School had given rise to the new Faculty of Education. He continued to guide the faculty until his retirement in 1973. Throughout his career, Scarfe wrote over 100 articles and gave numerous speeches around the world on education. Always an advocate for educational reform, Scarfe was particularly critical of the Chant Report on Education (1961) findings.

Otis Johnson Todd was born in Garland, Pennsylvania, in 1883 and died in Vancouver in 1952. He earned a BA from Harvard University in 1906, and after teaching Greek for six years, returned to Harvard, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1914. After three years at Carleton College, Minnesota, Todd moved in 1918 to the fledgling University of British Columbia. After 1922, he was a professor of Greek, after 1932 professor of Classics and from 1941 until his retirement in 1949 head of the Department of Classics. Todd was also keenly interested in sports and served as president of the Dominion of Canada Football Association (1947-1949).

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.

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.

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.

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.