Alumni Memories
Everyone has a tale or two to tell from their university years and we’d like to hear them. Student pranks, political sit-ins, campus visitors, favourite professors, those aggies….
Please send us your memories and we’ll publish (the publishable ones) here. Unless you tell us otherwise, we’ll include your name and degree.
Leonard Graholm BASc'60
“It was well after midnight, and the lights were out. My roommate and I were lying in our dormitory beds at Fort Camp, our window facing out to the Pacific [...]
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Rosalyn Cua an about-to-be alumna, currently a student of Interdisciplinary Studies A week before starting the final year of my BA program, I went into a state of mild panic. [...]
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Rob Cantin BA'61
In 1957 I enrolled at UBC and graduated 4 years later with a degree in physics/math. I taught school in Manitoba for the 4th year to pay off a UBC [...]
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Bronwen Curtis Souders BA'64
Setting: Acadia Camp, Easter week, 1964: Judy Cornwall, Education major, buoyant leader of our hut, and cafeteria worker, decided on an Easter Egg hunt to enliven the exam study period. [...]
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Les C. Hempsall BASc(Civil)'50
I was a veteran of four and one-half years as an aircrew navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After mustering out of the airforce in 1945, I began studying Civil [...]
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William (Bill) McGhee BA’46, BSF’47
Story #1 “I arrived at UBC in September 1937 after completing my grade 12 by correspondence in Port Alice, BC, where our school only went to Grade 11. Having played [...]
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Dr. Stew Madill
I read with interest the story of the Harlem Globetrotters and UBC Thunderbirds in the 1930′s and 1940′s. I played with the UBC Jayvees for one year 1952-53 and 3 [...]
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