Barbara "Bim" Schrodt was born in 1929 attained her Ph.D. in Physical Education in 1979 at the University of Alberta. Schrodt held tenure as a Physical Education Instructor at UBC from 1957 until her retirement in 1994. Schrodt also coached the UBC Women's Field Hockey Team from 1957-1977 and served as the Women's Athletic Director from 1957-1963. Schrodt has served in various administrative positions at the local and national levels and actively established the BC Women's Field Hockey Federation in 1966. Schrodt has published several articles on the history of athletics in Canada. She was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.

Peter Secord Lampman was born on 23 June 1867 in Stamford, Ontario. He completed high school in Thorold, Ontario and attended Trinity College and Osgoode Hall in Toronto. Between 1888-1892, he read law with firms in St. Catherines, Hamilton and Toronto. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1892, he came to British Columbia and was called to the Bar in 1893. For two years, he practiced law with George Powell in Victoria. In 1895, he left the practice to become Secretary of the British Columbia Law Society, a position he filled until 1905 when he was appointed judge in the County Court in Victoria. He remained on the bench of the County Court until 1936 when he retired. He was active in the North Pacific Tennis Association and the Senior's North West Golf Association. On September 26, 1901, Peter Lampman married Cecelia Maud Prior, daughter of Colonel E.G. Prior. They had one son, Thomas E. Lampman. Peter Lampman died on November 20, 1940.

Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Series began in 1972 and is currently ongoing. The Lecture Series sponsors academics from various fields and other prominent figures to lecture at the University. UBC faculty members often nominate potential lecturers. The Cecil and Ida Green, Lecture Series Committee makes the final decision on which guests to sponsor and invite to lecture at UBC.

The Centre for Human Settlements was established at the University of British Columbia during the United Nations Conference of Human Settlements in Vancouver (May 1976). Administered by a director responsible to an inter-disciplinary Board of Management chaired by the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Centre was created to provide a research focus for issues relating to human settlement. One of the centre's main objectives was the provision of access to the audio-visual reference library of video tapes of the 240 presentations contributed by 140 nations participating in the 1976 conference.

UBC Senate established a Home Economics Committee in 1918 to look into the feasibility of providing Home Economics at UBC. The committee recommended that a course be made available for enrollment by 1920. A Bachelor of Household Science was suggested as a suitable degree. Unfortunately, the recommendation was not adopted due to a lack of finances. However, the actual establishment of a course did occur until the early 1930s. After holding classes in the campus army huts and enduring a fire in 1948, the new Home Economics Building opened in September 1949. Dorothy Lefebvre served as the first head of the Department of Home Economics. She resigned within a few years and was replaced by Charlotte Black, who served as director until the 1960s. In 1951, the program's status changed as it became the School of Home Economics, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Graham E. Johnson was born in Sheffield, England, in 1941. He joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1970 and taught until his retirement in 2006.

William E. Willmott was born in 1932 in Chengdu, China, to Canadian Methodist missionaries. During the Second World War he was sent to India, with other missionaries’ children, to avoid the Japanese invasion. He later attended Oberlin College in Ohio (B.A., sociology), McGill University (M.A., anthropology), and the London School of Economics (Ph.D., social anthropology) – for the latter degree, his research focusing on the Chinese diaspora in Cambodia. His first academic appointment came in 1961, teaching anthropology at the University of British Columbia. While at UBC (1961-1973), Willmott researched the history and social development of the Chinese community in British Columbia. In the course of that research he conducted interviews with prominent members of the local Chinese-Canadian community. He later moved to New Zealand, where he spent the rest of his career as professor of sociology at the University of Canterbury. His teaching and research continued to focus on China and the international Chinese community. He died in 2021.

Cinema 16 was formed in 1960 to show films at the University of British Columbia for series pass holders. Because members of the Canadian Federation of Film Societies could only charge its members for film showings, the UBC Film Society had split its operation in 1960 into two groups, one of which was Cinema 16. By 1970 Cinema 16 had a separate constitution and aimed to encourage film as an art and as a medium of information and education through film showing and to promote the study and appreciation of films through lectures and discussions.

The Valedictory Committee of students graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1931 decided to assemble a collection of source material concerning the history of British Columbia to stimulate future students' interest and assist them by providing adequate resources to support such research. The Valedictory Gift Committee coordinated the collection of books, documents and artifacts. However, in light of the Provincial Government's concerns, which felt that the accumulation of archival material by the University interfered with the mandate of the Archives Department, the students restricted their efforts primarily to collecting published books and newspapers.

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver was the first arts council in North America. CACV was instrumental in creating the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium, the UBC School of Music, the first Vancouver Film Festival, and many other Vancouver’s cultural institutions and events.

The functions of Convocation, whose members include the Chancellor, President, members of the Senate, all faculty members, and all university graduates, are primarily electoral. Members of Convocation elect the Chancellor, who serves as chairman of the body, and the Registrar acts as its secretary and maintains the roll of Convocation. It has the power to confer degrees, including honorary degrees, and award diplomas and certificates of proficiency. The preliminary meeting of Convocation, which was convened in 1890 as an initial step to establishing a provincial university, failed due to political polarization. However, at a meeting held in Victoria in 1912, over 400 of the 739 registered convocation members elected Francis Carter-Cotton as Chancellor and fifteen elective Senate members. The Provincial Government regarded this event as a launching ceremony for the University.

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). In addition, Cooke taught in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia between 1929 and 1963. Albert Cooke died in 1986.

Elmer Kim Nelson was instrumental in developing the criminology programme at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. Criminology became part of the School of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology in 1956 but shortly after became a program in the School of Social Work.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) believes that education is a human right for all and that access must be matched by quality. The Organization is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education.

Ture R. Erickson grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia. Erickson became a librarian and played a role in the development of the Sedgewick Library at UBC. He was a member of the Day of Concern Committee in 1984. A committee that was formed in reaction to cutbacks in educational funding.

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.

Michael Shaw was born in Barbados in 1924. In 1943, he came to Canada on a scholarship to attend McGill University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in biology. In1967 he moved from the University of Saskatchewan - where he was the University's first plant pathologist - to Vancouver, where he became Dean of Agricultural Sciences at the University of British Columbia. In 1975 Shaw resigned as dean to become the Vice President of University Development. His responsibilities were the overall planning, including financial, coordination and development of academic affairs for the University. In 1977 his responsibilities were substantially expanded due to the political climate of the University. In addition to his previous duties, Shaw was also responsible for authorizing changes in the complement of faculty members and support staff. Therefore, his title was changed to Vice President of Academic Development. In 1980 the office of the Vice Presidents underwent a significant shift after the resignation of Vice President Vogt (Vice President of Faculty and Student Affairs). The functions of Vogt's office were transferred to Shaw, whose title was changed to Vice President Academic and Provost. In 1983 Michael Shaw left the Vice President's office to resume his research on the effects of rust-related plant disease. Shaw has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours. He received the gold medal from the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists in 1972. In 1973, he was the fifth Canadian scientist to be elected a fellow of the American Phytopathological Society. He remained at UBC for 22 years.

George Van Wilby was a University of British Columbia student who completed his BA in 1921 and an MA in 1924. While on campus, he was well known for documenting various aspects of campus life through his photographs. Some of his photos were used to illustrate the UBC student yearbook, The Annual. Wilby was later a zoology instructor at UBC and did post-graduate work in biology at the University of Toronto. He also compiled the 1925 Alumni Directory.

The Department of Zoology was separated from the Department of Biology and established its own department in 1920. Charles McLean Fraser (1872-1946) became head of the new department in the same year. In the earliest days, alongside Fraser, the department functioned with just two other staff members. R.C. Treherne lectured in economic entomology and insect morphology, and H.A. Dunlop was a loan assistant who assisted with zoology and botany classes.

The Graduate Student Association was formed in 1958 to promote the welfare of graduate students and the University; and to organize social, intellectual, cultural, and recreational activities for postgraduate students. The GSA was a subsidiary of the Alma Mater Society. The President of the GSA was a member of the AMS Student Council. The Graduate Student Association was composed of officers who were elected from the various university departments as students in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. The five leading executive positions of the GSA were President, Vice-president, Secretary, and Treasurer. In addition, six officers were chairpersons of the following committees: the Public Relations Committee, the Social Activities Committee, the Cultural Activities Committee, the Special Services Committee, the Sports Activities Committee and the Club Night Committee. The GSA operated from the Thea Koerner Graduate Centre, administered separately. In 1982, the Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Centre were merged. The succeeding body was the Graduate Student Society, whose operation continues today.

Heinz Peter Oberlander was a Canadian architect and Canada's first professor of urban and regional planning. He enjoyed four decades of teaching, research and public service in Canada. He became the founding Director of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning, the founding Director of the Centre for Human Settlements, and a Member of the Order of Canada.
Oberlander, OC, PhD FRAIC LLD (HON), was born in Vienna, Austria on November 29, 1922. He emigrated with his family to Canada in 1940 to escape Nazi-occupied Europe and earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1945 at the School of Architecture at McGill University. Oberlander became the first Canadian to earn a Master of City Planning degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 1947. Subsequently, in 1957, became the first Canadian to obtain a Doctorate in Regional Planning from Harvard. After graduation from Harvard, Oberlander worked first in England before returning to Canada in July 1948 to work for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Department of Research and Education. There he wrote a brief to the Massey Commission on the need for federal government fellowship support of the arts and sciences. The brief prompted UBC President, Norman MacKenzie, to ask Oberlander to launch Canada's first professional program in Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), established in 1954. Oberlander became the founding Director of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and subsequently founding Director of the Centre for Human Settlements, devoted to planning research. From 2001 to 2002, he served as the Applied Planning Assistant Program Advisory Committee chair, which provided advice in setting up the APA Program at Langara College. From 1995 Oberlander served as Adjunct Professor in Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He was concurrently UBC Professor Emeritus in Community and Regional Planning until his death.
Oberlander's commitment to public service work in British Columbia and Canada included being the co-founder of the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board in 1949. He was also Chair of Vancouver's Town Planning Commission in 1967 until he resigned in opposition to the city's ill-fated freeway plans for Downtown Vancouver. In 1970, Oberlander served at the federal level for three years as the inaugural Secretary (Deputy Minister) of the newly established Federal Ministry of State for Urban Affairs. During his three-year tenure, he created a tri-level consultation on urban development among federal/provincial/municipal governments for the planned re-use of redundant federal lands for local community needs. These areas included Vancouver's Granville Island and Toronto's Harbourfront.
Between 1998 and 2008, Oberlander also served as a Federal Citizenship Court Judge. Oberlander's international public service began in 1952 with work on a three-member team assembled by the United Nation's Centre for Housing, Building and Planning in New York. In 1958 he was asked by the UN to assist Ghana in developing a national housing policy. Later in 1976, Oberlander created the UBC Centre for Human Settlements, which served as a depository for audio-visual materials from the 1976 UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I). Between 1980 and 1990, Oberlander served on the Canadian delegations to the UN Commission's annual meetings on Human Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1996 he was appointed Special Assistant to Dr. Wally N'Dow, Secretary-General for the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, Turkey. In the early years of the new millennium, Oberlander became instrumental in securing Vancouver, BC, as the 2006 UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF 3).
In the 1960s, Oberlander worked extensively with Thompson, Berwick and Pratt, an architectural and planning firm in Vancouver. During the 1990s, Oberlander maintained his professional involvement as Associate Partner with Downs/Archambault and Partners (now DA Architects & Planners) in Vancouver.
His many awards included an Honorary Doctorate from UBC in 1998, the President's Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Institute of Planners at its inaugural presentation in 2006, a Civic Merit Award from the City of Vancouver in 2008 and posthumously, the United Nations Scroll of Honour Award on World Habitat Day, October 4, 2009, for his work and dedication in improving global urban living conditions.
Oberlander married architect and fellow Member of the Order of Canada Cornelia Hahn in 1953. The pair collaborated extensively on professional projects throughout their marriage until his death on December 27, 2008.

Charles Humphries earned his BA from McMaster University and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He joined the Department of History at UBC in 1966, where he taught Canadian history. In addition to his academic activities, he was very active in preserving historic sites in British Columbia and Canada. He was a longtime supporter of the Vancouver Historical Society and the British Columbia Historical Federation. Through the 1980s and early 1990s, he was an active member of Canada's Historic Sites and Monuments Board and the BC. Provincial Heritage Advisory Board. A good part of Humphries' research focused on the recruitment of Canadian machinists to work in British munitions factories during World War I and the lives of Canadian miners. Other research interests included BC society during WWI, the Machine Gun Fund, and letters from the front. Humphries died on June 18, 2005.

Coral Wesley Topping was born in Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario, in 1889. He was educated at the Perth Collegiate Institute, Perth, Ontario, and then at Queen's University, Kingston (BA, 1912), Columbia University (MA, 1921, Ph.D., 1929), the University of Washington, the University of Southern California, and the Union Seminary and Wesleyan Theological College (STD, 1925). He served as Governor of Kingston Jail (1917-1919) and taught sociology and history at the College of Puget Sound (1923-1925) before coming to UBC in 1929. From 1929 to 1954, Topping taught sociology in the University of British Columbia's Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology and directed the Social Work program from 1929 to 1943. After retiring from UBC in 1954, he accepted an appointment at Union College (later part of Vancouver School of Theology). Topping was also a prolific writer of scholarly articles, fiction, and poetry.

The UBC Department of Medicine provides teaching to undergraduate students, medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral training for specialist physicians and Ph.D. scientists. Clinical services are delivered by physicians, counsellors, and support staff: primary physicians and other specialists to any of nearly 350 faculty members with specialist credentials. In particular, the Department provides research, teaching, and clinical services related to the nature, cause and prevention of adult diseases -- it is at the forefront of this field in Canada, representing 17 subspecialties and comprehensive training programs. The Department of Medicine was established in 1949 as one of the founding departments within the Faculty of Medicine and is now the Faculty's largest Department. As of 2007, the Department consists of 16 divisions: Allergy and Immunology, Cardiology, Community Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Medical Oncology, Nephrology, Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology.

In 1985, the Department of Occupational Health and Safety was established. Over time, environmental issues also became the Department's responsibility to reflect this; its name was changed to Health, Safety, and Environment in 1993.

The Department of Pathology is under the Faculty of Medicine. It is one of the twelve departments initially set up under UBC Medicine when first established in 1949. The Department is now known as the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine offers electives to medical students to enhance the student's understanding of disease causation and the processes underlying the induction, progression, and regression of disease; and the knowledge of laboratory tests in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The Department also has research teams pursuing questions about the causes, consequences, and control of degenerative, inflammatory, and infectious diseases of heart and blood vessels, interstitial and airways diseases of lung, cancer and carcinogenesis in adults and children, diabetogenesis, coagulation and blood diseases, lipid disorders, environmental risks to water, food and air, inflammatory and degenerative brain diseases, developmental biology and fetal-maternal relationships, imaging technologies and data integration strategies, and clinical-pathological correlations that rely on genetic, pathological, environmental, clinical, and demographic information.

Nicholas N. Poppe was Russian, born in Yantai, Shandong, China. He began teaching at the Institute for Modern Oriental Languages in 1920. He spoke fluent Mongolian, and his research focused on studies of the Altaic language family.

Ernest L. Watson was born in Saskatoon, Sask., but grew up in Vancouver. He attended the University of British Columbia, earning a BASc in 1940. After working in the private sector, he returned to UBC in 1952 as a part-time lecturer in Agricultural Engineering. He earned an MSc from the University of California (Davis) in 1955. Watson specialized in food processing engineering and continued to work in the department until his retirement in 1980.

The Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration is the Sauder School of Business predecessor. Earle MacPhee was appointed as Dean of the Faculty in 1956, and he held this position until his retirement in 1963.

Ellen Stephen was born in Manhattan and moved to New Orleans when she was 12 years old. She graduated with degrees in writing from Mills College and Stanford University. She joined the Order of St. Helena in the Episcopal Church in 1964 after completing her MA in Creative Writing. She has published several poetry collections as well as spirituality titles. An experienced spiritual director, she travels extensively as a speaker about religious life. In addition, she serves as a consultant for religious communities. Ellen Stephen still lives in a convent where she is working on her third full-length play.

Elvi W. Whittaker received her bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from UBC in 1955 and 1957, respectively, and later earned a second M.A. (1971) and doctorate (1973) in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to UBC as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology in 1973; she was appointed associate professor in 1975, and full professor in 1991. Dr. Whittaker has served as the President of the Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) and as President of the Social Science Federation of Canada (SSFC) (1993-94) and was a Member of the Board (1989-95). She also served as a Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, UNESCO (1994-97) and consultant to UNESCO. Dr. Whittaker also served in the following positions: Anthropological representative on Aid to Scholarly Publications (1991-93) and on SSFC Women's Issues (1991-93), on the Task force on the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, and chair of Scholarly Book Awards (1992). She retired in 1997 and received an honorary degree (LL.D.) from UBC in 2005. Dr. Whittaker has been awarded the Weaver-Tremblay Award for Distinguished Service (2004) and Women’s Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2011) by CASCA. She was awarded the UBC School of Nursing Centenary Medal of Distinction in 2019.

May Brown (née Adams) was born in Alberta in 1919 and moved with her family to Surrey, B.C., in 1927. She earned her teacher's certificate at the Provincial Normal School in 1940. She later obtained a Bachelor's degree from McGill (1947) and a Master's degree from UBC (1961), both in physical education. After teaching in several public schools, Brown joined UBC's Department of Physical Education (now the School of Kinesiology) in 1947. She remained at UBC until 1955, during which time she also coached the women's swimming and field hockey teams. In her honour, UBC Athletics instituted the May Brown Trophy in 2007 for each year's outstanding graduating female athlete. She was also involved with the YWCA and the Canadian Camping Association. In 1972 she was elected to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and remained on the Board until 1976, serving as chair for the final two years. In 1976, May Brown was elected to the Vancouver City Council and served four terms as a councillor until her voluntary retirement in 1986. She also ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1978. In addition, Brown served on the Greater Vancouver Regional District Executive Committee and chaired the Planning Committee. She was also a director of the Pacific National Exhibition, Chairperson of the Vancouver Regional Transit Commission, and a Director of B.C. Transit. May Brown has been acknowledged for career achievements by a UBC Alumni Achievement Award, a Sport BC Award, a YWCA Woman of Distinction award, membership in the UBC and B.C. Sports Halls of Fame, and membership in the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada.

Frank Ebenezer Buck was born in Colchester, England. He received his early schooling and initial training, mostly in the printing business and journalism. On coming to Canada in 1902, he worked as an associate editor on a newspaper. He maintained a private practice in landscaping work. Buck later entered Macdonald College, graduating with a BSA in 1911. Buck obtained a Diploma from Cornell University. From 1912 to 1920, he served as Assistant Dominion Horticulturalist in charge of landscape architecture and floriculture work at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. When the University of British Columbia required ornamental horticulturalists in 1920, Buck was selected to handle the tremendous task of landscaping the University campus. He was also active in town planning work and belonged to numerous associations. He officially retired from the UBC faculty in 1949 but maintained his interest in campus development in an advisory capacity.

Reginald Walter Brock was born in Perth, Ontario, and he graduated from Queen's University with an MA in Geology. His many professional appointments included his work as a geologist with Dawson Survey of British Columbia (1897), the Chair of Geology at Queens University (1902-1907) and the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada (1907-1914). Brock became one of the first four men selected by the University of British Columbia President F.F. Westbrook to form the nucleus of the new university's staff. In 1914, Brock became Dean of Applied Science, although his career was interrupted by war service (1914-1919). He returned to the University in 1919 and continued as a geology professor and dean. He tragically died in an airplane accident alongside his wife in 1935.

The Western Universities Battalion was formed in 1916. Its membership was drawn primarily from students and alumni of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. The organizers felt that a distinctive western unit composed exclusively of men of similar backgrounds would be desirable. To this end, they sought to attract "those earnest, studious men of practised intellect and proved ability, who are most fit to play their parts as leaders of men in the most difficult and complex science of modern warfare." The recruiting and organization of "D" Company (British Columbia) were entrusted to Major R.W. Brock. The unit was housed on the University of British Columbia campus, with drilling, marching and arms training on the King Edward High School grounds. "D" Company joined the rest of the W.U.B. at Camp Hughes in Manitoba in the fall of 1916, and members of the Battalion saw their first action in Europe in 1917.

The Canada Music Week/Semaine de la Musique Canadienne is an annual nationwide festival sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association (CFMTA) to introduce Canadian music to students, teachers and audiences; to encourage and promote Canadian music, musicians, and music teaching; and to emphasize the significance of music in society. The committee is made up of nine provincial chairpersons, other branch chairpersons and a national chairperson.

James D. Campbell is a Canadian art writer. During his university days at McGill University, he and Zsolt Alapi established a literary magazine called Atropos. It was founded in 1977; the publication appeared only four times before ceasing operations in 1981.

Rita Butterfield joined the staff of the Library at the University of British Columbia in 1961. She became head of the Acquisitions/Accounting Department in 1966 and then head of the Circulation Division the following year. Butterfield retired from UBC Library in 1985.

This was an officer training programme based on one already established in the United Kingdom.

The Canadian Children's Illustrated Book Project consists of three interrelated research projects on Canadian children's illustrated books and publishing: Canadian Children's Illustrated Book Project (funded by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)), Canadian Children's Illustrated Books Project / History of the Book in Canada (funded by SSHRC) and Canadian Children's Illustrated Books Project / Hampton Regional and Alternative Children's Publishers Project (funded by Hampton). The research was used for Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Illustrated Books and Publishing by Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010) and for articles in The History of the Book in Canada, Volume 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). Judith Saltman is a Professor at the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies and Chair of the Master of Arts in Children's Literature Program at British Columbia.

The Women's Athletic Association was established at the founding of UBC to oversee all-female athletic activity. The Women's Athletic Executive was initially composed of an elected president, appointed team members, and faculty. In 1940, following the Men's Athletic Association model, the executive changed to a directorate system to more balanced representation and was more representative of the Alma Mater Society. The Women's Athletic Directorate continued to oversee the constitutions and budgets of the athletic clubs and ensure that both clubs and individuals taking part in sports on campus or representing the AMS abided by the rules of the Directorate. Through constitution revisions around 1946, the Women's Athletic Directorate continued to meet as an independent body. However, it became dependent upon the Men's Athletic Directorate for funds and policy.

Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review is devoted to the critical, historical and biographical study of literature in Canada and the systematic review of new Canadian books. The journal consists of studies of established and lesser-known writers, essays on new writers and contemporary literary movements, articles by poets, novelists and dramatists on their arts, and Canadian writing by English, French and American authors. It publishes articles in both English and French and initially, each year, issued a bibliography of books and essays in the field of Canadian literature. The idea for the quarterly originally came from the Department of English at UBC. Publication began with the assistance of a Koerner Foundation grant and with subscriptions from hundreds of individuals who sent them before the first issue. The first issue came out in the summer of 1959. George Woodcock was the first editor, the business manager was Inglis Bell, the circulation manager was Basil Stuart-Stubbs, and the typographer was Robert Reid. George Woodcock was succeeded as editor by William New in 1977. In his first editorial, Professor New paid tribute to George Woodcock when he stated that Canadian literature was built into the independent journal of opinion and analysis.