UBC honours sterling silver teachers, scholars

Veteran faculty share a strong sense of community Stories

by Don Wells

A total of 49 faculty will be inducted into UBC's Quarter Century Club tonight at the University Centre in recognition of 25 years of academic service to UBC and its students.

When they arrived on Point Grey in 1976, Paul McCartney and his new band Wings were touring Yugoslavia and Nadia Comaneci had just won three gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. In California, NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise and Viking 2 landed on the planet Mars.

The three faculty members profiled here exemplify the impact UBC faculty members continue to make upon the lives of individuals and communities both within and beyond the university's gates.

Other new Quarter Century Club members include:

Agricultural Sciences: George Kennedy, Agricultural Economics; Brenton Skura, Food Science; Michael Pitt, Plant Science

Applied Science: Linda Leonard, Nursing

Arts: Paul Mosca, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies; Gernot Wieland, English; Marvin Cohodas, Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, Fine Arts; Jacques Bodolec, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; Michael Bovis, Michael Church, Graeme Wynn, Geography; Klaus Petersen, Germanic Studies; Stephen Chatman, Music; James Russell, James Steiger, Psychology

Commerce and Business Administration: Alan Kraus, David McPhillips

Continuing Studies: Francis Andrew

Dentistry: Bruce Blasberg, Colin Price, Oral Biological and Medical Sciences; Alan Lowe, Michael MacEntee, Oral Health Sciences

Education: Marvin Westrom, Curriculum Studies; Donald Fisher, Educational Studies

Law: Donald Egleston, Robin Elliot, Keith Farquhar, Marilyn MacCrimmon

Library: Patrick Dunn, Koerner Library

Medicine: Bernard Bressler, Anatomy; Robert Molday, Biochemistry; Gary Quamme, Donald Studney, Medicine; Jack Rootman, Ophthalmology; James Carter, Alexander Ferguson, Paediatrics; Ernest Puil, Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Felix Durity, Surgery

Science: Gary Bradfield, Anthony Glass, Paul Harrison, Botany; Paul Harrison, Earth and Ocean Sciences; Robert Miura, Mathematics; William Unruh, Physics and Astronomy; John Petkau, Statistics; Anthony Sinclair, Zoology