Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Frederick Moore Clement took degrees in agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College (1911) and the University of Wisconsin (1922). After serving two years as a lecturer in Horticulture at Macdonald College and two years as director of the Vineland Experimental Station, he came to the University of British Columbia as Professor of Horticulture in 1916. Clement became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1919. He led the faculty for thirty years before retiring in 1949. In recognition of his accomplishments and special interests, he was, in 1940, appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics. Clement's outstanding contributions to this institution make him one of its most notable pioneers.

George Frederick Curtis was born in England in 1906. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1927 and was named a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a BA in Jurisprudence in 1930 and a BCL at Oxford in 1931. Curtis came to the University of British Columbia in 1945 from Halifax, where he had practiced law and taught at the Dalhousie Law School. He became the founding dean of UBC's Faculty of Law. He continued to serve in this capacity until stepping down in 1971. Curtis faced considerable challenges as the Faculty began with a total budget of $10,000 and two army huts that provided offices, a reading room and lecture space.
During his career, Curtis made significant contributions to legal education, scholarship and practice in the provincial, national and international arenas. In recognition of these contributions, Curtis received many honours and awards. The Universities of Dalhousie, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and UBC (1982) granted him honorary degrees. He was named a member of the Order of the Coif in 1964, and in 1986 the Law Society honoured him as the first recipient of the Law Society Award 1986. He received the R.J. Hnatyshan Award for Law by the Canadian Bar Association in 1995. That same year, Curtis was inducted into the Order of British Columbia at a convocation held in Vancouver's Law Courts on October 13 to mark the 50th anniversary of the UBC Law School's founding. In 2003 he received the Queen's Jubilee Medal. He was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in the fall of that year. Dean Emeritus George F. Curtis passed away on October 23, 2005, at age 99.

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.

The Vancouver Women's Musical Society began as the Vancouver Women's Musical Club in 1905. In 1906, Esther Beecher Weld and Walter Coulthard the mother of BC Composer Jean Coulthard, guided the incorporation of the Club.

Jean Coulthard was born in Vancouver and began her musical training with her mother, Jean (née Robinson) Blake Coulthard, at the age of five, and by nine was writing her first compositions. In 1928, Coulthard won a scholarship from the Vancouver Women's Musical Society, enabling her to enrol in the Royal College of Music in London, England and to study under Ralph Vaughan Williams. Upon receiving a Licentiate in Composition from the College (1932), Coulthard returned to Vancouver, where she taught music at St. Anthony's College and Queen's Hall College (1932-1938) while continuing to develop her skills as a composer. In 1935, she married Donald Adams, a noted local designer. Coulthard was asked to join the newly created Department of Music at the University of British Columbia in 1947. She remained on staff as a senior instructor and lecturer until her retirement in 1973. After retirement, Coulthard remained active in education, as a faculty member at the Shawnigan Lake Summer School for the Arts (1974-1976), the Victoria Conservatory (1977), the Banff Centre Composers' Workshop (1978-1979) and the Okanagan Music Festival for Composers (1975-1985). Coulthard has composed extensively for orchestras, chamber groups, piano, voice and choir. Well-known compositions include Cradle Song, Threnody, Canadian Fantasy, Ballade "A Winter's Tale," and her opera Return of the Native. Coulthard has acted as an advocate for the Canadian music community as both a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (1951-) and as a member and associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre (1959-). She has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Order of Canada (1978), the Order of British Columbia (1994), and honorary degrees from UBC (1988) and Concordia University (1991), in recognition of her significant contributions to Canadian music.

Dr. Robert A.J. (Bob) McDonald was born on April 5th, 1944, in Brandon, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BA and an MA (inaugural winner of the W.L. Morton Gold Medal); he later earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He was appointed assistant professor of History in 1978. With more than three decades of teaching at Simon Fraser University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Victoria and UBC, Bob has educated thousands of undergraduate students in Canadian and British Columbia History. In recognition of his academic commitments, Bob received the Killian Teaching Prize from UBC in 2000. McDonald published a book on Vancouver's early History, Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 (1996), and many academic articles on BC and Canadian History. In addition, he edited the journal BC Studies and served on the boards and committees to raise awareness of the History of his adopted city and province, Vancouver, B.C. McDonald was also the Seagram Chair at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the Vancouver Historical Society president. He retired from teaching in 2012 but continued his research, sitting on the UBC History Department almost daily to work on his contribution to the book Party Conscience: The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada (2018), and finally, his long-awaited book on the first 100 years of BC politics. He was in the final stages of finishing that book when he passed from a stroke on June 19th, 2019. He was 75. A scholarship fund has been created at UBC in McDonald's memory.

Jean Elder was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto (1953) and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1964). She joined UBC's Department of History in 1964, where she specializes in Medieval History. Dr. Elder has been involved in several organizations, including the University Senate and several University committees, the Historical Association (Vancouver Branch), and the Academic Women's Association.

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.

William Kaye Lamb was born in New Westminster, BC, on May 11, 1904. He lived first in New Westminster and later on the family farm in Surrey, B.C. From childhood, Kaye was passionate about ships, reading about them and collecting information, producing charts of their histories and construction (tonnage, length, width, passenger capacities, etc.).

When it was time for him to enter high school, his parents decided that it would be in Kayes best interests to move to Vancouver, so he was turned over to the care of his uncle, Joseph Kaye Henry, a faculty member of McGill College and later a Professor at its new successor institution, the University of British Columbia. The Henry home was located on the west side of Beach Avenue, near Stanley Park. Thus, from an early age, Kaye had around him the things that would greatly influence his life a house full of books, an academic atmosphere, an uncle with a special responsibility at UBC for the library, and, best of all, a waterfront view of the harbour traffic coming in and out of Vancouver Harbour. Watching the ships come and go, he became enthralled by seagoing vessels.

He attended King George High School in Vancouver. After graduation, in the fall of 1923, he enrolled at UBC in the Faculty of Arts. Here he was taught by a remarkable group of professors who were significant influences on his intellectual life. In addition, he also worked as a student assistant in the UBC library, thus bringing him into contact with the field that he would work in for most of his life.

His outstanding performance at UBC earned him a Nichol Scholarship, which provided three years of post-graduate study in France. By 1928 he was in Paris, attending courses at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques and he remained there until 1932. However, he interrupted his stay due to ill health (which had kept him out of school for several years earlier in his life) to return to Vancouver in 1929/30. While recuperating, he completed the requirements for an MA in History.

Following his return to Paris, he began work on his Ph.D. for the London School of Economics under the direction of the famous Harold Laski. His work was done mainly in two great libraries, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the British Museum in London. As a result, he had an opportunity to observe much about how major libraries should be run. In 1933 he was granted his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, with Laski signing off his Ph.D. thesis. Another benefit of this work was that he became comfortably bilingual, which would serve him well in his later career in Ottawa.

He returned to Vancouver and, in 1934, was named Provincial Archivist and Librarian of BC. In this dual role, he established the foundations of his career to follow. He also became Superintendent of the Public Library Commission. Next, he started his career as a historian, founding and then editing, for ten years, the British Columbia Historical Quarterly. Next, he began writing for publication, concentrating on exploration by land and sea, the fur trade, and British Columbia. After he retired from the Federal Public Service in 1969, this career picked up speed. The following two decades were perhaps the most productive of his life, culminating in 1985 with the publication by the Hakluyt Society of his four-volume edition of Vancouver's Voyages, the 256-page introduction of which, a book in itself, is the definitive biography of Captain George Vancouver.

His tenure as BC. Provincial Archivist and Librarian was not long. In 1940 he was named Chief Librarian of the UBC Library, a post he held for nine years. During his time at UBC, the library grew both in collections and in buildings. A notable achievement was the acquisition and merging of the collections of two great friends of Kayes, Judge F.W. Howay and Robie E. Reid, constituting Canadas greatest collection of Pacific Northwest Americana and British Columbiana.

In 1948, he accepted the appointment of Dominion Archivist with the Federal Government in Ottawa on the proviso that the Government would agree that his assignment would also include responsibility for preparing the way to establish a National Library. In 1950, the Canadian Bibliographic Centre was established as a precursor to the National Library, and on January 1, 1953, the National Library Act came into being.

Under his direction, both the National Library and the Archives grew tremendously and occupied a new purpose-built building in Ottawa. Both were institutions of significant national and international standing when he retired. He held the National Librarian and Dominion Archivist posts until 1968 and 1969, respectively, when he retired from the Federal Service. He then returned to Vancouver, again to the west end where ships were always visible outside his high-rise windows, and his major writing career as a historian carried on.

Throughout his life, his interest in ships and the sea never wavered. In a life of exceptional achievement, he set the standard for capturing the essence of the west coast's maritime history. As a young man, barely approaching his teens, he asked and received permission from the Marine Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway to board and explore the Company's ships when they docked in Vancouver Harbour. "I crawled over every Empress that plied the Pacific," he later recalled. His explorations were matched by voyages aboard the Princesses plying BC's waters. His publications were many and included seminal works on the Hudsons Bay Company's pioneer steamer Beaver, the CPRs Empresses, and the Princesses. In all of his scholarly pursuits, the maritime world always seemed to find a place. In his edited collection of Dr. John McLoughlin's letters from the Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company, Dr. Lamb's notes and appendices on the company's Pacific Coast fleet of ships, captains and maritime activities could stand alone.

Since this historian was an archivist too, it is not surprising that this love of ships and the sea gave rise to a significant collection of maritime photographs, plans and ephemera that began when as a lad, he wrote to the offices of the world major shipping lines. He asked for any materials they had, and, not realizing his age, they complied and sent a wealth of brochures, berthing plans and publicity materials. All of these archives were kept and augmented by Dr. Lamb throughout his life. As a result, they are a unique and significant record of passenger travel by a liner on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the first half of the 20th century.

Dr. Lamb married Dr. Wessie M. Tipping, a French Professor at UBC, in 1939, and they had one daughter (Mrs.) Elizabeth (Lamb) Hawkins. He died on August 24, 1999, in Vancouver at the age of 95.; He wrote extensively, and a bibliography of his publications can be found in the Series Level Description Publications.

He held many positions in national and international organizations, and more on these can be found in the Series Level Description Personal Papers.

He also received many honours, including the Order of Canada and ten honourary degrees. These are recorded in more detail in the Series level Description Personal papers. A number of personal memoirs are also located there.

Marion Gilroy was born in Nova Scotia in 1912. She received her BA from Acadia University (1932) and completed an MA at Toronto (1933). While working as a research librarian at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1933-1940), she completed a Bachelor of Library Science degree from Columbia University (1939), where she attended as a Carnegie fellow. In 1946, Gilroy moved to Saskatchewan to become supervisor of the Saskatchewan Regional Libraries (1946-1963). While promoting the development of regional libraries in the province, she also completed graduate study in librarianship at the University of Chicago (1959). In 1963, Gilroy left Saskatchewan to undertake a teaching career as an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Librarianship. She taught several courses on public libraries, special libraries, readers' services and book selection. Gilroy also published several articles, surveys and reports on regional library systems and library needs across Canada, such as Montreal Island and Northwest Territories. After she died in 1981, her papers were donated to the Archives.

UBC is a founding member of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, which was created to deepen the understanding of Indian and Canadian scholars about each others society and culture.

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.

Herman Northrop Frye was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and raised in Monston, New Brunswick. A Canadian literary critic, he is considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

Herbert John Davis was educated at Oxford University and graduated with a degree in Classics in 1914. He was a professor of English at the University of Leeds, Toronto, Cologne, and Cornell.

Herbert Woodfield Paul was an English writer and a Liberal MP.

James MacFarlane Daniells was born in England in 1867. He came to Canada before the turn of the century but returned to England after a short time. In 1910, after some business reverses, he emigrated with his family to Victoria, B.C., where he worked as a builder, first in James Bay, then on Cook Street. Eventually, he built a home on Cochrane Street, where he lived until he died in 1951. Mr. Daniells was an overseer in the Gospel Hall and was a devout student of the Bible. Constance Maynard Daniells, née Stevens, was born in England in 1876. In 1901 she married James Daniells, and they had one son, James Roy Daniells, who was born in 1902. She died in 1957.
Constance and James joined the Plymouth Brethren in Victoria. The Plymouth Brethren were a sect of Christian believers originating in the early 19th century in Ireland. Brethren's baptism ideas were differing (RD was baptized by immersion), and they expected the second coming of Christ. The Lord's Supper was observed each Sunday. The Brethren tended to follow new leaders and to divide to form new congregations. They were fundamentalists and considered the scriptures the only true guide. There were no officers in Victoria Hall. James Daniells was one of the "overseers" for a time. The privileges and duties of the ministry depended on the ability of the members.

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.

In response to the growing need for professional librarians in Western Canada and with strong support from UBC President Norman MacKenzie and University Librarian Neal Harlow, the School of Librarianship was established at UBC by Samuel Rothstein in 1961. Housed in the upper north wing of the UBC Main Library, the School operated as a professional school within the Faculty of Arts and Science. It opened with an enrolment of 30 students and four full-time faculty members. In May 1962, the School graduated its first Bachelor of Library Science (BLS) class. In February 1963, the School's program was accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA). ALA accreditation allowed the American and Canadian Library Associations to recognize the School as fully meeting the accepted standards for graduate education in library and information science and enabled the School's BLS graduates to seek employment in Canadian and American libraries. In order to incorporate new technologies into the curriculum and prepare students better for their professional careers as information specialists, the School replaced the one-year postgraduate BLS program with a two-year program leading to the degree of Master of Library Science (MLS) in 1971. The School's MLS program was later re-accredited by ALA in 1976, 1985, 1992, and 1998. In 1981, in conjunction with the Department of History, the School offered a two-year program in Archival Studies, leading to the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) degree, the first graduate program in archival studies in North America. The first Archival class comprised eight students and one full-time faculty member.
In 1984, the School changed its name from the School of Librarianship to the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). In 1990, both the MLS and MAS programs were made subject to the academic policies of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Still, the School remained within the administrative jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts. In 1995, the School graduated the first students with the newly re-named Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS). In 1998, the School initiated a Joint MAS/MLIS program and a First Nations concentration in the MLIS and MAS programs. In 1999, the School offered a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature program (MACL) in conjunction with the Departments of English, Language and Literacy Education and Theatre, Film and Creative Writing. In response to the educational needs of already working professional librarians and archivists, the School also offered a continuing education program leading to the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS). In September 2003, the School admitted six students to its inaugural Ph.D. program in Library, Archival and Information Studies. In 2020 the School's name was changed again to the School of Information to reflect the evolution of the information professions and changes within the disciplinary areas of the library, archival and information studies.
Since 1961, the Directors of the School include Samuel Rothstein (1961-1970), Roy Stokes (1970-1981), Basil Stuart-Stubbs (1981-1992), Ken Haycock (1992-2002), Edie Rasmussen (2003-2009), Caroline Haythornthwaite (2010-2015), Luanne Freund (2015-2020) and Errik Kwakkel (2020).

The School 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.

Sydney M. Friedman was born in Montreal, Quebec, on February 17, 1916. He attended McGill University, receiving a BA in 1938, MD, CM in 1940, and (after serving as a Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF, his Ph.D. in 1946. He married Constance A. Livingstone in September of 1940. Their personal and professional relationship was to last over 50 years, and much of Friedman's work was carried out with her assistance.
Upon receiving his doctorate, Friedman began to teach Anatomy at McGill until he moved to head the fledgling Anatomy department in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia. Friedman would retain his position as professor and department head from 1950 until 1981.
In addition to his administrative and teaching duties, Friedman was an extremely active member and leader in various organizations with regional, national, and international interests. Among these were the Canadian Association of Anatomists, serving on the Council (1955-57), and later as 2nd Vice-President (1962-3), 1st Vice-President (1963-64), and President (1965-66). He was also an executive member of the American Association of Anatomists (1970-74). In addition, he was a founding member of the BC. Heart Foundation, and also served on the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the Research Study Committee of the American Heart Association, the Scientific Subcommittee of the Canadian Heart Foundation, the Defense Research Board panel on Shock and Plasma Expanders, the NIH Hypertension Task Force, the International Society of Hypertension, and the Council of the Canadian Physiological Society. Friedman was active on The University of British Columbia campus as well, as a member of the Senate and the Faculty Association; as an integral member of the House Committee of the Faculty Club (1957-59); on the first faculty committee involved in the selection of a University President (1960); and on the Committee on Faculty Participation in University Government (1960-65).
Friedman also won numerous awards and honours, beginning in 1955 with the Premier Award of the CIBA Foundation Awards for Research in Aging. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1963. In 1971 he was named Pfizer Travelling Fellow of the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's Annual Lecturer. In 1981 he received the Outstanding Service Award from the Heart Foundations of Canada; in 1982, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists; and in 1987, the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Canadian Hypertension Society. In 1992 he received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada.
Friedman was a prolific author, publishing some 200 research papers over 40 years despite a heavy workload. He also wrote and illustrated a popular textbook entitled Visual Anatomy. The book consisted of hand-drawn anatomical illustrations with relevant text on the opposite, facing page. The book was first published in two volumes, Head and Neck (1950) and Thorax and Abdomen (1952). It was extensively revised and re-published almost twenty years later (1970-72) in three volumes, Limbs and Back, being added in 1972.
Friedman's research was primarily concerned with hypertension, blood pressure, and ageing, particularly renal physiology and the role of electrolytes and fluid balance in maintaining blood pressure levels. His research took him through several disciplines, from morphology to electrochemistry. He was the first to demonstrate that the hypertensive process can become irreversible. A diminution of neurohypophyseal function plays a fundamental role in ageing. Despite his concentration, Friedman could correspond with many other researchers on matters unrelated to his interests. By the sheer volume of correspondence, it is clear that Friedman was more than capable of lending his expertise to various research interests. Although Friedman reached retirement age in the early 1980s, he continued researching the early 1990s before retiring and living in Vancouver. He died in 2015.

The Nature Trust is a non-profit organization establisted to conserve areas of ecological significance in British Columbia.

Walter Young was born in 1933. He received a BA in Honours History and English at UBC in 1955. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He gained a further BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in 1957 and an MA in 1962. On his return to Canada, Young taught political science in Manitoba and Toronto. He then returned to UBC in 1962 as an instructor in political science. Young received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1965; his thesis was titled The National CCF: Political Party and Political Movement. Young remained at UBC until 1973 when he moved to the University of Victoria as Chairman of the Department of Political Science. While at UBC, Young was very active in faculty and administrative affairs. He worked with several committees, was co-chairman of the new Arts I programme and was deeply involved in collecting materials for the Angus MacInnis Memorial Collection for the UBC Library Special Collections Division. He continued his writing career during this period, completing two books and many articles and book reviews. His primary scholarly interest was Canadian socialism. Young wrote books and papers on M.J. Coldwell, the CCF, the NDP, and socialism as a whole. He was also a founding member of the NDP, worked actively for the Ontario NDP while living in Toronto, and was vice-president of British Columbia's NDP in the mid-1960s. He was involved primarily in research, advertising, and policy-making. Young was also founder and co-editor of BC Studies and founded and directed the BC Legislative Internship Programme. He died in 1984.

William Tierney Lane, a pioneer in Municipal and Planning Law, acted as Municipal Solicitor and District Prosecutor for the Municipality of Richmond and as Commissioner for Regional Development for the Greater Vancouver Regional District while lecturing in the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC for 23 years. As first Chairman of the Agricultural Land Commission, he also made significant contributions to preserving agricultural land in BC. After retiring from private practice with the firm of Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang, he continued to support and be actively involved with UBC by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Campus Enhancement.

Dr. Lawrence E. Lowe (March 29, 1933, June 17, 2016) was a faculty member in the Department of Soil Science in the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (now Land and Food Systems). Born in Toronto and educated in England, Lowe attended Oxford University (B.A. 1954, M.A. 1958). He went on to graduate work at Macdonald College, McGill University (M.Sc. 1960, Ph.D. 1963). He joined UBC as an assistant professor in 1966, after soil survey and soil research work in Alberta. A specialist in the field of soil chemistry, Lowe's research focused on soil organic matter. He was promoted to associate professor in 1970 and professor in 1975. As Associate Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences from 1985 to 1991, Lowe held responsibilities for student counselling, admissions, records, curriculum matters, and teaching. He retired as professor emeritus in 1994.

Joan Coldwell is the founder of Hedgerow Press. Established in 2004, Hedgerow Press was based in North Saanich and has published books by B.C. writers and artists, including Jane Rule

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.

John Davidson was the first Provincial Botanist for British Columbia. He was also the first Director of the UBC Botanical Gardens. The UBC Botanical Gardens is the oldest university botanic garden in Canada, having been established in 1916. David Measday continued to be active with the President's Advisory Committee on University Enhancement after his retirement. In addition, he spearheaded the naming of the Davidson Arboretum.

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.

Eva-Marie Kröller was born in Germany, and earned her undergraduate degree (Staatsexamen) at the University of Freiburg, and her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Alberta. Following appointments as sessional lecturer, SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, and visiting professor at UBC's Department of English between 1978 and 1983, she joined the Department in 1984 as an assistant professor; she was promoted to associate professor in 1987, and to professor in 1993. She specializes in comparative Canadian and European literature, with an emphasis on travel writing, literary history and cultural semiotics. She was chair of the comparative literature programme at UBC from 1990 to 1995, and served as editor of Canadian Literature from 1995 to 2003, for which she won the 2004 Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Professor Kröller has been appointed an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1987-88), a Killam Faculty Research Fellow (2009), and Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin (1992), and at the Nordamerikaprogramm, University of Bonn (2001). She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. She has also won several UBC awards: the Killam Research Prize (1995), the Killam Teaching Prize (1999), and the Dean of Arts Award (2002). She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022.

The UBC Learning Exchange was established in 1999 to establish a community presence for the University in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). The Learning Exchange's first initiative was the Trek Program (named after UBC's Trek 2000 vision), which placed UBC student volunteers with eight non-profit organizations and two elementary schools. In 2000 the Learning Exchange opened a storefront office at 121 Main Street, offering free computer access to DTES residents. Other programmes followed, including a music appreciation course partnered with the UBC School of Music; volunteer opportunities catering to students during Reading Week; ESL conversation programmes; and computer training, tutoring, and after-school activities. The Vancouver School Board was the primary partner. Funding and support came from various sources outside the University, including TELUS, HSBC Bank of Canada, the Kahanoff Foundation, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and Dr. Lloyd and Mrs. Kay Chapman. In 2002, the Learning Exchange began working with UBC faculty members to formally integrate students' community-based experiences into their academic coursework, an approach called Community Service Learning (CSL). A new Learning Exchange programme was established at UBC-Okanagan in 2006. Two years later, the Vancouver programme moved into a larger storefront office in Chinatown. In 2009, in support of the Learning Exchange's contributions to UBC's strategic vision, the University began providing ongoing core funding.
The Learning Exchange worked parallel with the UBC Community Learning Initiative (CLI), founded in 2006 to develop curricular community-engaged learning opportunities. There was a great deal of overlap between the two programmes. They initially reported to the same Director, Margo Fryer. However, in 2011 the Learning Exchange and CLI were separated into two distinct units, each with its director. The Learning Exchange reported to the Vice-President, External Relations.

Robert Leduc was Deputy Chairman of the Division of Industrial Education [1952? -2002]. A division under UBC's Faculty of Education.

As the University of British Columbia took over training Industrial Education teachers, the Faculty of Education established the Division of Industrial Education (INED) in 1958, funded by the Ministry of Education. Acting for the Faculty of Education, Ron Seal was Chairman (1958-1979), and Robert Leduc was Deputy Chairman. Teaching took place at Vancouver Vocational Institute from 1960 to 1967 and later moved to Burnaby Vocational School. In 1967, a new facility called the Industrial Education (IE) Teacher Training was built and opened by UBC adjacent to the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby.

Sheila A. Egoff was born in Maine and raised in Galt, Ontario. She moved to British Columbia in 1962 and was a founding faculty member of the UBC's School of Librarianship, where she taught children's librarianship and literature until she retired from teaching in 1983. She wrote several books, including The Republic of Childhood, the first major critical survey of Canadian children's literature, in 1967.
In 1984, Egoff began work on classifying the Arkley Collection of Early and Historical Children's Literature for UBC Library's Special Collections, and later co-compiled with Ronald Hagler an extensive bibliography published by the UBC Library in 1998, entitled Books That Shaped our Minds: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Selections Chiefly from the Arkley Collection of Early & Historical Children's Literature in the Rare Books and Special Collections, the University of British Columbia Library. Rose and Stanley Arkley donated their collection of British and American children's literature, dated from 1767, to UBC Library's Special Collections Division in 1976. The Arkleys provided funding for cataloguing and purchasing children's literature, now known as the Arkley Collection at Rare Books and Special Collections.

David Lloyd Fischer is an award-winning Alumnus of Western (English Lit.), UBC (MFA - Stage Design 1979), and CBC Institute of Scenography (Diploma - Television Design). He received a Jesse Award for Achievement in Theatrical Set Design and three nominations as a Production Designer for a Leo Award for Achievement in Art Direction. He and his work have been profiled in Work on Paper.
His 25-year career as a Production Designer afforded him opportunities to work across Canada and internationally in Ireland, France, Russia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. He worked on forty film and television projects, twelve-stage productions in Western Canada, and co-designed for the Ramses II Pavilion at Expo 86 in Vancouver.
He is a member of the International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 891. In addition, he is a past member of Canada's Associated Designers, the Director's Guild of Canada and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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.

Current Anthropology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press and sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The journal was founded in 1959 by Anthropologist Sol Tax. It is devoted to research covering the full range of scholarship on human cultures and other primate species. Current Anthropology publishes research across all sub-disciplines of anthropology, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology, ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics. Cyril Belshaw of the UBC Department of Anthropology and Sociology was editor of Current Anthropology from 1975 to 1985.

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.

Richard Bedford Bennett was born in New Brunswick in 1870. Bennett was prime minister of Canada between 1930-1935 and was broadly criticized for his response to the Great Depression. As prime minister, he created the Bank of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board and the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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.

Charles Beresford Bourne was born in Barbados in 1921. He married Barbara (daughter of Glenville and Dorothy Farmer) on 20 August 1949. The Bournes have three children: Frances, Peter, and Angela. Charles Bourne received post-secondary degrees from the University of Toronto (BA 1945) and St. John's College, Cambridge (LLM, 1947), and the University of Toronto (SJD 1970). He was called to the Bars of Middle Temple (1947), Barbados (1949), and British Columbia (1957). He began his academic career at the University of Saskatchewan in the College of Law in 1947. He remained there until 1950 when he accepted a position at the University of British Columbia, an associate professor from 1950-1957, and then a full professor. Bourne served as Academic-in-Residence of the legal Bureau Department of External Affairs, Ottawa (1971-72), Honorary Solicitor and member of the Board of Governors for Vancouver School of Theology (1971-80) and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (1962-92). He also served as president of the Canadian British International Law Association (1961-64) and the Canadian Council of International Law (1978-80). Bourne was a member of the UBC Senate and served as an advisor to the President with responsibility for relations between the University and the Faculty Association (1975-1986). Bourne specialized in administrative, constitutional, and international law, emphasizing international drainage basins and environmental protection. He retired from UBC in 1986.

Charlotte Scott Black (1902-1979) was born in Nelson, B.C., in 1902. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in Home Economics in 1925. She began teaching in Vancouver schools in that year. Black joined the faculty of the School of Home Economics at the University of Washington in 1941. Her primary responsibility was the establishment and development of the Home Management House. When the Department of Home Economics was established at UBC, she was invited to join the faculty and accepted. In 1946, she was made head of the department following the resignation of Dorothy Lefevbre. The status of Home Economics changed from a department to a school in 1951, and Black then became director until her retirement in 1965.

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.

Esther Birney (née Bull) was born in 1908 in London, England, active in a Trotskyist group. She met Earle Birney in London while studying at the University of London (1935/36). She returned to Canada with him, and they were married in 1940. Esther Birney received a degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto. She remained active in this field until 1978. She and Earle Birney were divorced in 1977.

Born in 1900 at Ridgetown, Ontario, to Dr. Del and Eunice Marr, Frances was the eldest of three siblings. Although the family was shaken by the death of her younger brother Charles at the age of three, and despite an early problem with stuttering, Frances Marr remained an optimistic person, devoted to her father and fascinated with the piano. Frances began playing the piano at an early age under the tutelage of Whitney Scherer. Later she would study with Thomas Martin at Alma College in St. Thomas. Eventually, Frances moved to Toronto to study at the Conservatory of Music under Paul Wells. Although she felt her study under Wells was unproductive, it was at this time that she had the opportunity to play her first professional accompanist engagement. At this engagement, she met her future husband, Harry Adaskin, whom she would marry in 1926. Initially, Frances would accompany her new husband and his band, the Hart House String Quartet, on their many tours throughout North America and Europe. In 1938, Harry Adaskin quit the quartet. He and Frances began to tour, with Frances' piano the sole accompaniment to Harry's violin. During this period, she would strike out on her own, appearing in the ensemble music and comedy act "The Town Tonics." In 1946 the couple and Harry's younger half-brother Gordon, whom the couple raised as a son, moved to Vancouver. Harry was offered a job with the new Music Department at The University of British Columbia. Frances was to accompany him to every class until his retirement in 1973. Interestingly, Frances Adaskin played her first solo recital at 75 and continued to play until shortly before her 90th birthday.
Frances Adaskin's accomplishments in music are many. However, she was an entertaining writer writing humorous anecdotes and stories. Many of which were published by Saturday Night Magazine in the 1940s. She also wrote her memoirs, entitled Fran's Scrapbook: A Talking Dream, in book form, which, as of 2002, remains unpublished. However, the crowning achievement of a lifetime of artistic achievement occurred in 1976 when Frances was awarded the Order of Canada. Frances Adaskin died in 2001.