UBC Alumni AffairsAs a Theatre major in the beginning years of that department, my student life centred around the Old Auditorium. I was a member of the Players’ Club, worked on Mussoc [...]
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The Old Auditorium
The Old Auditorium is one of UBC’s original buildings. Over many decades it has been a hub of student activity and a favourite venue for musical and theatrical performances. Since walls can’t talk, we asked alumni to send us their recollections about this campus landmark.
R. A. Hawrelak
I remember the Old Aud well, especially the rivalry between the nurses and the engineers regarding who could put on the filthiest skit. Those yearly sessions were jam-packed and we [...]
Mary W. Ross
“Mom, I can’t believe it! Your name is scrawled in huge letters on the ceiling backstage at the UBC Auditorium.” I could just picture my daughter at the other end [...]
John R. Bennest
I was a member of the UBC Film Society from 1966 to 1971, and fondly recall operating our carbon-arc-lamp 16mm projectors in the tiny projection booth of the Old Aud [...]
Rae Ackerman BA’65
(Director, Vancouver Civic Theatres) As a theatre major in the beginning years of that department, my student life centred around the Old Auditorium. I was a member of the Players’ [...]
R. A. Hawrelak BASc’58, MASc’60
I remember the Old Aud well, especially the rivalry between the nurses and the engineers regarding who could put on the filthiest skit. Those yearly sessions were jam-packed and we [...]
Mary W. Ross (Spilsbury) BA’63
“Mom, I can’t believe it! Your name is scrawled in huge letters on the ceiling backstage at the UBC Auditorium.” I could just picture my daughter at the other end [...]
John R. Bennest BSc(Physics)’71
I was a member of the UBC Film Society from 1966 to 1971, and fondly recall operating our carbon-arc-lamp 16mm projectors in the tiny projection booth of the Old Aud [...]
Sally Olsen BEd’70
I was at UBC in 1960-61 for my first year at university and had my psychology class in the Auditorium. There were so many people in that class, but none [...]
Don Munro BSF’60
(Professor Emeritus) Surely one of the historic events was when, on a weekend with nobody there, the entire ceiling collapsed. As a student in the ’50s I watched Premier Bennett [...]
Joy Yorath BA’65
In the early 1960s my friend was in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Mary Stewart (the Olympic swimmer and mascot of the BC Lions) had a lead [...]
Marian Smith (MacMillan, Hansen) BA’64
I don’t remember any specifics about shows in the Auditorium, but I do remember Psych 100 classes there. I think there were more than 500 of us in the class! [...]
Robin Richardson BA’71
I remember Robert Stanfield speaking in the Old Auditorium, not during an election campaign, but after he was elected leader of the Progressive Conservatives, and at a time when many [...]
Don Chutter BCom’44
The reasons why so many UBC grads have memories about the Aud are because it was a multi-purpose building and in earlier times was the hub of many student activities. [...]
Brenda Guild BSc(Zoology,Hons)’72
In April of 1969, on a sweltering morning, I had an exam in the Old Auditorium, which was a tinderbox. I was 17, finishing first year science. Several hundred of [...]
Bill Bartlet BASc(Elec)’48 and Milla Bartlet (Wardle) BA(SGWU), attended UBC 1943-1945
The old Auditorium is the building we remember best about UBC. We first met in the quad, between the east side of the Auditorium and the old Arts building, in [...]
Barbara Dalby (Harper) BA’57
I attended UBC in the years after the war when all venues on the campus were over-crowded. The sudden influx of ex-service people stretched to the limit the few small [...]
Fred Lipsett BASc’48, MASc’51
I started at UBC in 1943 and joined the Players’ Club. I failed my audition for the fall plays, but had indicated an interest in stage work on my application. [...]
Ed Freeman BA’56
I was pleased to read that The Players’ Club has been resurrected. I have many pleasant memories of my time as a member. During 1952 to 1955 I was stage [...]
Amuri R. Moore (Johnson) BA’39
Most fun were the noon hour pep meetings, especially those emceed by Norm de Poe. We practiced yells for the football and basketball teams, sang Hail UBC and My Girl’s [...]
Persis Wiltshire BA’68
I remember the place as the lecture hall for History 100, back in 1964. The class was so large it was the only place big enough to take us all. [...]
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