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VOL U ME 11, N U MBER 4 CHRISTMAS ISSUE DECEMBER 1955

CONTENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS

Chairman of the Board of Governors '55 Postgrad Patter Business and Professional President 's Page Correspondence Cuts Winter Activities

GEORGIANNALS Prof. Com pion Principal's Page " Y" Award Scholarship Frantic Freshmen .

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From the C hairman of the Board of Governors:

I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity through the pages of "The Postgrad" , of extending to Sir George Williams alumni and their families very best wishes for a M erry Christmas, and a Bright and Successful New Year.

I knmv you are keenly interested in the progress of the new building, and am glad to report that certain sections • will be ready for occupancy late in December, when the College and Schools are scheduled to commence the task of moving. It is hoped that the whole plant, comprising new College and renovated Y.M.C.A. buildings, will be available by the close of the academic year in the Spring of 1956.

I am sure the alumni and students v,1ill be favourably impressed by the new structure. In appearance it is modern and spacious. The corridors are long and wide, and the common areas both large and cheerful. We trust its halls will resound with the fine spirit which was so evident in the old building and annexes. Incidentally, the annexes will all be abandoned at the end of the current school year, and we will find ourselves operating completely within the boundari es of the nev,1 College and adjoining "Y" building.

And so, at this the festive season, we can reJ01ce in the achie"\.'tment of a . cherished dream, and can look forward with every confidence to the future. M y sincere compliments and a H appy Holiday to all!

B. W. ROBERTS

December 1955 3

'55 by IRMA MANDELZYS

Jacques Allard, B.Sc. - working at Shawinigan Chemicals at Patent Agent.

Joseph R. Beaulieu, B.Comm. - plan­ning to do post-graduate work at the U. of Toronto leading to an M .A. in Econ­omics next year ( 1956 ) .

Rhoda Belenkee, B.A. - going to England by Dec. 1955.

Gerald J. Cleary, B.A. - working as a Cost Accountant at Canadian Inter­national Paper Co.

Morley Coviensky, B.A. - working as bookkeeper a t Righ t Made Garment -h is main interest is readings in the field of Social Science.

Ian George Cummings, B.Comm. - is a Methods Analyst for Canadian Resins & Chemicals.

Harvey R. Donaldson, B.A. - is a Civil Servant with the Dept. of National Defence.

Mr. and Mrs. George Porges ( the

former M ary Angelakies ) both B.A. -now living in Edmonton, Alberta. Mrs. Porges is a student at the U. of Alberta in Education, while Mr. Porges is a school teacher with the Edmonton Public School Board a nd he shall receive his Bachelor of Education from U. of Alberta this spring.

Eliza beth Berzins, B.A. - studying for B.Com. at S.G.W.C .

Kenneth Gough, B.A. - a gradua te student with an assistantship in Speech Pathology and Audiology at State Uni­versity of Iowa.

Douglas H eslop, B.A. - is a member of the R.C.M .P .

Leo Wynnyckyj , B.Com. '53, B.A. '55 - is a Graduate student at University of Western Ontario in Business Adminis­tration.

Albert Hudon, B.Comm. 1954, B.A. 1955 - now in Geneva, Switzerland.

Heinrich Von Glatz, B.Comm. 1955 -working at Dominion Tar & Chemical Co. as an Accountant.

Mr. James A lexander R. Watt , (Continued on page 13)

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The Postgrad

By BOB HAYES

Our congratulations to Tom Plunkett, B.A. '50, on his appointment as town manager of the Town of Beaconsfield . Tom, who was one-time editor of The Georgian, had been executive assistant director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities until he was named to this new post. H e has also lectured at the college for the past five years and has given courses in Public Administration and Municipal Government and is the author of a book ­"Municipal Organization in Canada" . All the best, Tom ... Nancy and Laurie Braithwaite finally getting settled in their new home on the Lakeshore, just a short block away from Newlyweds Bill Shaver and Eleanor Grant ... Sincerest sympathies to Steve Montague on the sudden death of his brother last month .. . Sir George's one and only M .P., Bill Hamilton, busy commuting between Ottawa and Montreal and keeping speaking engagements ... Dave Novek heiping to spread the name of the college around through the pages of The H erald, where he's reporting in between lectures ... Dave Brown, formerly with Northern Electric publicity department, out West to a new job ...

K ee ping in Touch ... Our "lumberjacks" did themselves proud at the recent annual McGill Outing Club's woodsmen's competition when they axed their way to third prize behind Macdonald College and Lava l University . .. That last high school graduating class was the largest in history .. . Sir George's NFCUS Trophy - presented each year to the university who has contributed most to the betterment and advancement of the federation in Canada - went to Dalhousie U . .. Students staged a variety spow in aid of the Neil Compton Fund, MC'd by Bernie Tonchin, at Budge Hall in O ctober - All our best wishes to Prof. Compton for a speedy recovery . . . The Georgian's Sports Columnist Garry "Good Evening" DeGeer asks: What happened to the 'Good Old Days?' With a tear in his eye he wonders what ever happened to the Robert Jones', Bobo Swail's, Tom Parrott's, Indian Richardson's, Max Shenker's and John Hannan's. We used to ask ourselves the same question, Garry, but we used to find them up at the 'B' . But for everyone's information Max and John are up at McGill ... What next - students have fonned a Sir George branch of the Canadian Rocket Society - its purpose to build and test solid and liquid fuel rockets. No launchings near the new building, eh .. .

Random Ramblings . .. Don Slater in the texti!e business .. . A second boy for the Guy Brennan's, who has switched his base of operations from Quebec City to Montreal . .. Jean Des Rosiers busy in the real estate fi eld a rid living in his own home out St. Lambert way ... Paul Gordon, Arts '51 , practicing law .. . Denis Allard middle-aisled it recently . . . The M cFarland's, Chris and H eather, expecting their second bundle from the stork . . . In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vineberg are the proud parents of a baby boy ... Phil Beaudette living in Beaurepaire ... Janet (Mosca) Baxter welcomed a boy into the family- a brother for Valerie and son for Ken . .. '48er Ken Williams a radar officer with the RCAF R eserve ... From the same year Granger Robertson with Granger et Freres . . . Jacques Belair and Tom H echt off to Europe on separate jaunts . .. Joan and Alex Shatilla expecting a playmate for Karen . . . Bill :r.,estage, a bowler of some note, doing medical documentation with Nestles . . . George Palmer

(Co ntinue d on page 7)

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still active with the Ottawa R epertory Theatre . .. Bill Copping has joined the permanent Navy ... Jane Hammond coaching the college's Junior WOBL entry .. . Bill Lestage, a bowler of some note, doing medical documentation with Nestles . . . George Palmer still active with the Ottawa R epertory Thea tre ... Bill Copping has joined the permanent Navy ... Jane Hammond coaching the college's Junior WOBL entry ...

Things Maybe You Didn't know . . . Prof. Philip T. R . Pugley's division has the largest enrollment of undergraduate Commerce students in Canada . . . Georgian speedsters placed 2nd at this year's Ottawa-St. Lawrence Valley track meet - We seem to remember the college being lucky to sneak into a sixth spot in the standing - Nice show, fellows ... Things are humming in the corridors with the Sir George Rifle Club setting their sights on the biggest year yet - Stand back everyone! . .. H enry Emond president of the Cercle Frarn;ais . . . 60 degrees and diplomas awarded by the college in November for presentation at the June convocation ... George Trim heading this year's Winter Carnival scheduled for the week of Feb. 6 . . . And add three new clubs in the evening division - music appreciation group, dramatic society and a jazz club .. . H ere's hoping that American Exchange program, which has become such a great success in the past years, isn't going to be dropped this year . . . That reminds us - What ever happened to the Proofreader Prom? ... The Christmas Ball at the Windsor on Dec. 17 ... As reported in The Georgian - John Hannan told the Pre-Law Society of Sir George that law exams are eight hours long and last for three days. John, I think you've been misquoted a nd they spelled your name wrong too . ..

We've learned that Art Cohen, B.Sc. '52, has obtained his engineering degree this year a nd is demonstrating physics at Sir George besides working as a metallurgist at Dominion Engineering . . . James Dick, '47, spends his days at Canadian Bronze and his evenings lecturing at SGWC ... Congratulations to Muriel Gold, B.A. '53, cooperator par excellence on the Publications Committee, and Maurice Gold, B.Comm. '50 on the acquisition of a future Georgian . .. H earty huzzahs to Dave Zacharin (an executive) on his engagement .. . and similar salaams to Irma Mandelzys on hers ... This a utumn cheerful one for Roger Vershingel, he has added a Ph. D. in Chemistry after his name ... Roger Alphonse Latour, B.Comm. '52, announces he is not a lost alumnus. H e is Office Manager at Shirriff's Ltd .. .. And Ken MacKeracher who did a lot of leg-work for The Postgrad is now in St. Catha1ines. H e is with the Y' as Boy's Work Sec'y . . . Clayton H. Cameron, B.A. '49, is now with the Y at Victoria, B.C .... Harold H. Lawton, B.Sc. '47 waves to us from Moncton, N.B., to show us he isn't lost. H e's a Sales Supervisor with Bristol Labs ... Louise E. Lewis (nee Daniel ), B.A. '44, lives in Verdun and recently presented hubby with a future SGWC alumnus . .. Happy to hear from Lillian Overland, B.Sc. '48, who is now at Columbia M edical Center, working on hormones .. . Vernon Bartlett, B.Sc. '50, (whom many know as the man of many voices) .. . is not lost, he lives m Valois. Shirley Elspeth Pope is now at the Providence Hospital School of Nursing and would like to hear from other SGWC grads in the area of Portland, Oregon . . . friends will find Phil Beaudette with Aetna Life in Montreal · . . . and Robert Burnell is now settled in St. Anne de Bellevue .. . by the time you read this Lucy Valentin and Sydney Sevcik will have middle-aisled it at St. Kevin's ... and Paul Dufort, B.A. '55, will have performed the same pleasant walk with Arlette Cote . . . also Fred Collins with Jean King ... Congratulations to them all . . . A few more chages of address ... William Gelfarb, B.A. '50 now in New York .. . Ruth May Yancy (nee Bishop ) now in Pierson, Florida ... Mrs. H elen Fairbairns (nee K endee), B.A. '49, now at MacDonald College ... John J. McNally, B.Comm. '52, now in Montreal West ... John W. Graham, B.Sc. '50, wants big dances . . .

Guess tha t's all till next time, but in the meantime have yo urselves a very M erry Christmas and the best of New Years in 1956.

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T om Plunkett, B.A. '49, has been ap ­pointed town manager of the Town of Beaconsfield, announced M ayor John H . Stethem recently. M r. Plunkett served as editor of The Georgian, and after grad­uating from SGWC obtained h is M.A. from M cGill University. H e was then appointed Executive Assistant of the Canadian Federation of M ayors and M unicipalities and since that time has been concerned with the development of the Federation's year-round research and information program. M r. Plunkett's surveys and recommendations were the basis for the establishment of the City of Cornerbrook in Newfoundland.

Mr. Plunkett is also a par t-time lecturer at SGWC, and is a member of the Institu te of Public Administra tion of Canada, the Canadian T ax Founda­tion, and the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada .

Mr. Plunkett is married and has one daughter 8 years of age. (See 'PATTER' ) .

M aureen Gordon, B.A. 1951, has been appointed Director of the Occupational T herapy Department of the Valley View Hospital in Paterson, N.J.

K en Campbell, B.Comm. '48, has been awarded the degree of A.C.I.S. (As­sociate Chartered Institute of Secre­taries) . H e is also the publisher of The Northern Beacon, of Rosemere.

Dr. Alexander Bartoshuk, B.Sc. '49, who held the position of R esearch As­sociate in the ' Psychology Dept. of the Allan M emorial Institute of Psychiatry, is taking an appointment as an exper­imental psychologist at the Burden Neu­rological Institu te, Bristol, England.

John D . Jackson has been appointed Boys' Work Secretary of the Interna-

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t,,t Alu,ntri 1940 - Earl B. Dechene, B.Sc. 1944 -:-- I srael H . Sh tern, B.Sc. 1950 - Andrew K ollar, B.Comm.;

H enry H . Y. Chow, B.A. 195 2 - Anne Leach, B. Comm.; Bruce

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December 1955 9

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

by LEONARD ROSENBERG

President, Association of Alumni, Sir George Williams College

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I expect we all have realized how much closer

each successive · Holiday Season appears to be in

relation to the preceding one. And now we find

ourselves, once again, in the midst of the most recent.

In this nostalgic vein I wish to extend m y sincerest

best wishes to all of our m embers - to those of you

whom I know personally as well as to all of you

whom I represent as the president of our Alumni

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B.Comm. 1955 - attending Univei-sity of Western Ontario, School of Business.

Jean-Paul Dufour, B.Comm. - at­tending McGill School, 1st year Law.

Roland Dufour, B.Comm. - working as a salesman at Nesbitt Thomson & Co.

Issie I. Finkelberg, B.A. - in 2nd year Law at McGill U. - expects to receive B.C.L. degree next year.

George G. Fowler, B.Comm. - is a Sales Representative for Addressograph­Multigraph.

Meer (M yer ) Friedman, B.Comm. -is working for S. S. Matthews, while at­tending 1st year C.A. courses at McGill.

Robert F . Gill, B.Sc. - wirks as Chemist at Dominion Tar & Chemical - also has an interesting hobby - Glass-blowing. .

Julius Gordon, B.Sc. - is a graduate student at McGill U. (Donner Bldg.? ), also his wife is attending S.G.W.C.

Joan Gravel, B.A. - working as a T.V. librarian at Cockfield Brown & Co.

December 1955

- has many fine things to say about the Postgrad and the Assoc. ( might be inter­ested in helping with the Postgrad ) -worked on the Georgian.

Gerald Greenblatt, B.Sc. - attending McGill School of Social Work.

Andrew S. Gyuro, B.Sc. - works as Department Supervisor at Charles Frosst.

Georgina B. Harris, B.A. - has many hobbies besides looking after h er two babies.

Eric H arvey, B.Comm. - is an As­sistant Statistician at Consolidated Paper Corp. a lso has interesting hobby - plays Bongo Drums.

Herman Kammer, B.Comm. - works as an Assistant Auditor at Dr. J. Pfeiffer, C.A., while continuing studies at McGill U. for C.A.

Dorothy King, B.A. - is a secretary at C .N. Express.

Edgar Knight, B.A. - is a teacher at Westmount Junior High School.

Arwed Koch, B.Comm. - is Assistant /Continued on page 15)

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to Export Manager at Canadian R esins & Chemicals. His interests in order of preference a re: his job, girls, cars, alco­holic beverages.

Arthur G. Laws, B.A. - 1st year student as M cGill School of Social Work.

Ian A. MacLeay, B.A. - is a graduate student at McGill - would be glad to help the Assoc. in any way he can.

John M erakian, B.Sc. - is a chemist at Steel Co. of Canada.

Gordon McGillivray, B.Sc. - is an Office Supervisor at the Bell T elephone. . Kenneth McKeeman, B.Sc. - is a salesman for Chemical Developments of Can.

Marian Reynett, B.A. - is a clerk a t Aluminum Co. of Canada.

Kenneth Roberts, B.Sc.- is in Grad School at McGill in Biochemistry - he is in his qualifying year.

Thomas Shaw, B.Sc. - is in the Pur­chasing Department at the DuPont Co. of Canada .

Robert Sloan, B.A. - is a salesman for Aluminum Co. of Canada - he is also interested in developing his writing ability for radio and T.V. (may be inter­ested in writing for Postgrad ).

Norman Goodman, B.Comm. - is As­sistant Sales Manager at L. Cohen & Sons.

Albert V. Hudon, B.Comm. 1954, B.A. 1955 - now living in Geneva, Switzer­land - since the 1st of September, 1955.

\ t\1illiam H. Waddington, B.A.--Work­ing as M ethods Engineer at Canadair -while studying for B.Comm. at S.G.W.C.

Tony Marciano, B.Comm. - is a Cost Accounting Clerk at Fry-Cadbury - he is active in social activities for Italia n

December 1955

Clubs. Gwendoline E. Pilkington, B.A. - lec­

turing in English at S.G.W.C. - her husband is also a grad of S.G.W.C.

Pat Preston, B.A. - studying in England.

Leonard Varah, B.Comm. - working as an Auditor with P. S. Wise & Co. -while studying towards C .A.

Jean Cuffiing, B.A. - is a secretary at Aluminium Co. of Canada.

Vivian Todd, B.A. - is a teacher with the Westmount School Commission.

Mykola Switucha, B.Sc. - is a M etal­lurgist at The Stee l Co. of Can. - while studying at McGill U. Extension for a diploma in M a nagement and Business Administration.

Ronald Reider, B.A. - studying at Carleton College in Ottawa for Bachelor of Journalism. · Elo Rae, B.Sc. - working as a chemist at Canadair.

Ted Abramovitch, B.A. - "Plans to continue studies in painting for several yea rs, afterwards shall stud y for an M.A. degree in Fine Arts.

Sidney R . Drake, B.Comm. is working as Comptroller at Canadian Under­writers Assn.

Dave Brown, B.Comm. 1953, B.A. 1955 - Public Relations Counsel with Editoria l Associates Ltd. in Calgary, Alberta.

Elliot Larman, B.A. - studying Social Work at School of Applied Social Sciences Western Reserve U. in Cleve­land.

John T. Tittcl, B.Sc. - an Army Of­ficer at Valcartier, Que.

John Derenne, B.Comm. - is a Sa les R epresentative for McColl Frontenac

(Continued on p a ge 16)

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Co1·1·espo1ide1iee Cuts Shulom Friedman, B.A. '52, B.Sc.

'53, writes that Mrs. Friedman (Florence Steinberg, B .Sc. '5,!J) has

, recently presented him with a future Georgian. Mr. Friedman is in Med. II at Ottawa U. and informs us that Gregory Jackerow, B.A. '53, and Tony Chiassoin, B.Sc. '53, are in his class. Other SGWC grads, Harry Letts, Denis Deslaurier and Mrs. Jackerow, are starting Med. I.

A glossy scene of Paris' l' Arc de Triomphe informs us that Richard C. Martin, B.A. '49, spent a pleasant 3 months in the British Isles. No info about his Paris visit, however.

Myles MacDonald sends pleasant wishes to the editor and suggests more attention be paid to news of graduates' undertakings. He is mar­ried to Dee Roberts and they have adopted a six-year old boy. Mr. MacDonald is executive director of the York County Council of Social Agencies, York, P enna .. He is also very active in other social service organizations

Wi11ter Acti v ities Graduates in the Montreal area will

soon receive a letter from Gerry Miller, the Social Chairman, asking for specific information regarding views on Film Nights and Dinners. From the answers, Gerry hopes to have an idea of the number expected at the events and at the same t ime he hopes to organize a mailing list which will include only those persons interested in the events.

Graduates are asked to cooperate by returning the answers promptly.

'66 • • • (Continue d from page 15)

Oil Co. Roxolana Kiziuk, B.A. - is a teacher

at Media Friends School, while her husband is studying for his B.A. Associ­ate at Temple U. in Philadelphia.

Dick Lavoie, B.Comm. - is a tech­nician at Northern Electric.

Bruce Robertson, B.Comm. - is a Naval officer on the H.M.C.S. Stada­cona, Halifax.

Joan Webb, B.A. - is a Stenographer with W. de M. and H. M. Marler, Notaries.

William Schneider. B.Comm. - is a Clerk at H enry Morgans.

Ross Neale, B.Comm. - is a Method Supervisor at Avon Products.

John Burke, B.Sc. - is an Engineering Associate with the Bell.

Leo-Paul Bonin, B.Comm. - is a Methods Engineer at Northern Electric.

Willam Hamilton, B.Sc. - is a Sales Engineer at Millspaugh, while getting a B.Comm. at S.G.W.C.

Marshall Lebeau, B.A. - is a Sales Representative with New York Life Insurance, while studying still for a B.Comm. degree as well as a C.L.U. degree (insurance) . .

Reminder ... Reminder ... '55 grads, fill in reference sheet and return promp­tly to Association of Alumni office.

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Dynamic Professor Neil Compton, h ead of the English department a t Sir George Williams College was stricken with polio this summer. Professor Comp­ton began the summer term by lecturing in his usua l courses, bu t fell ill on the fourth of August.

Although confined to an iron lung during the ea rly period of his illness his condition has so much improved that now he is being periodically released from the hung for intervals up to four hours wit h only a respirator, a nd four minutes by himself. With the reports of his improvement being more a nd more optimistic it is expected that Professor Compton will return to school in time to lecture in the summer term. Unti l his return, however, Dr. Waterston will as­sume most of his duties as well as act as the head of the English department.

An interview with Dea n H a ll revealed that, although the period of convales­cence will take several months, Professor Compton is optimistic, and appreciates the kindness shown by both students and faculty alike.

When the news of Professor Comp­ton's illness became known the students who were taking his summer courses, a long with the day and evening societies, presented him with a cash gift. In ad­dition the Students Council immediately set up a committee to fonn the Neil Compton Fund.

The Nei l Compton Fund, at this date, has almost but not quite attained its goal of $1,5000. Besides collecting from individual students, the Fund was aided by other col lege organizations, including the Association of Alumni.

At an executive meeting of the As­sociation it was decided to send official well-wishes to Prof. Compton.

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Entrance in to College, Joseph Marcil, Betty Brandes, Pearl Langston, Peter Maslanka and Joseph Gauvin. To Grade 11: J. Y. Tellier, F. V. Roberts, J . R. Noel and Joseph Di Ioia. To Grade 10: C. H . Lewis and D. J. Boyack. To Grade Nine: Gordon Prendergast and Edda . Menges. E;ntrance to High School : Carla Ma:ffini and H. Van Der V liet.

Abner K ingman scholarships for the evening courses were won by: C . F. Gaebel, Margaret Lief, R. G. Brazil, D . W. Wyles and H enrietta Weyland.

Scholarships awarded to YMCA fel ­lowship students: Peggy Lawless and Al Simpson.

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IDEAS AND OPINIONS

AFTER THE sanguinary drudgery of years spent in climbing clown from the

trees of carelessness; after the dull eras of errors and the scrabbling march of

pathetic pasts came the birth of love. Be it in history or be it in myth, if not out of

truth then out of need ... a consciousness of man's dignity or divinity was born.

That we have larded (yes, larded ) the remembrance of that event with vulgar

sentimentality, that we have starred and sprangled the meaning of that event with

the fragile t insel of commerce is only a reflection of our disordered past. We mean

well. . · : ) ) ,

We want to love our neighbour, we yearn for peace on earth a nd deeply wish,

in our hearts, that goodwill prevail among men. But we are afraid . Our minds

still roam the long-remembered trees and all our yesterdays murmur fears into

our ears.

But why need we listen to the subversive sussurations, of atavism - we, who

have created symbols, who have, out of the symbols, created poetry. Surely these.

are firmer, healthier seeds to sow into this fertile world.

It's Christmas-time, a time for you and me to look around fearlessly. Suspicion

is a shaky base to build a world upon. Let us ?nce more affirm and once agam

assert the realistic_ validity of that ·birth (histo1ical or mythical - you are free to

choose. ) Let us make, together, a world of peace, an eternity of good will.

Decem ber 1955

M erry Xmas,

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( c:over by Elvah Laycock, evening student, S.G. W.C.)

TfIE USEFULNESS OF ENGLISH 101 'VERBAL ABILITY A MUST'

(reprinted through the courtesy of Chemical and Engineering News)

V ERBAL ability is rated as essentia l in all jobs open to engineers.

William D. Mcilvaine Jr. told the Amer­ican Society for Engineering Education at Penn State University recently. This was one of the questionnaire results Mc­Ilvaine, director of engineering extension and placement at the Universitv of Alabama, presented to the ASEE. ·

Much prodding on the part of the English department at Alabama for an employer's rating of verbal ability in technical fields was the 'go' behind Mc­Ilvaine's questionnaire. It was sent to 30 employer representatives (recruiters ) who call regularly at Alabama seeking technical talent. Most of the employers contacted do their recruiting on a na ­tionw~de basis. A few of the employers contacted were from smaller organiza­tions with operations only in Alabama or in the Southeast.

Mcilvaine says that probably the best ~age of the importance of verbal ability 1s the fact that 29 out of 30 recruiters to~k time out to reply to the question­naire and a lso to write a letter varying from 3: paragraph to two single-spaced typewntten pages. Every reply indicated that v~rbal ability was highly important, accordmg to Mcilvaine.

Each employer was asked to rate verbal ability as compared to technical competence when considering new em­ployees for various types of technical positions. Verbal ability was rated most essential in the fields of management training and sales. In these fields verbal ability was rated more important than technical ability.

Look~ng at the results more closely, Mcilvame found that verbal ability was rated an important factor in research development, design, test and mainte~ nance, and application work - the fields where the majority of respondents did not rate it as important as technical competence. Verbai ability and technical ability received neck-in-neck ratings in

December 1955

A Prelinii11,a1·y Note Professor Fraser's novel A WHITE

STONE (Philosophical Library, New York ) h as Montreal, mainly, as its locale. So, too, with the recent novel SON OF A SMALLER HERO by Mr. Mordecai Richler. However, R ichler starts with St. Lawrence Main and works westward ; Fraser starts with West­mount and works eastward.

There is a further coincidence in that each writer, directly or indirectly, sug­gests something of 'the role in the com­munity of Sir George Williams College. Nonetheless, quite different interpreta­tions derive.

In his novel, Professor Fraser attempts to balance realistic, classic, and roman­tic elements, His work is somewhat in the tradition of Pater's MARIUS THE EPICUREAN and Bellamy's LOOK­ING BACKWARD.

production operation and general trai"u­mg. However, verbal ability had a slight edge.

More recruiters rated verbal ability above technical competence in tdching. Actually, teaching was included in the ques_tionnaire only by accident, says Mc­Ilvame. But the rating tha t 13 recruiters accorded to this field certainly provide engineering professors with a reason for being more careful with their oral and written communications, obse1ves M c­Ilvaine.

From other replies and from Mc­Ilvaine's expe1ience in placement work, he concludes that :

• Employers evaluate verbal ability when hiring technical personnel for technical as well as semi-technical work.

• Employers believe in continuing edu­cation beyond the degree.

• Employers still look to the bachelor's degree program for good basic edu­cation in written and oral communica-tions. ·

• Educatio~al institutions have a great opporturuty to serv,e employed person,s and e1;11ployers by P:oviding evening educat10n on effective communica­tions.

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MIXED BASKETBALL H. GORDON McFARLANE

Executive Assistant Montreal Parks & Pl a ygrounds Assc .

Since there are verv few ou tdoor basketball courts in ·M ontrea l, the M ontrea l Parks and Playgrounds As­socia tion decided to experiment with one to find out if a basketball court could contribute to a summer programme when the weather is hot a nd the interest low.

T his summer was certainly hot and basketball interest was low in the com­m unity of Ville La Salle. Most of the time it was impossible to find ten boys at one time who wa nted to play basket­ball. Then we came up with the game of mixed basketball.

Each team had three boys and three girls, Team A had boys as forwards and girls as guards. T eam B had boys as guards and girls as for,vards. The court was divided in half and no player was a llowed to play over the centre line. T hus we had boys at one end of the court p laying boys rules when the ball came over to their ha lf, and girl_s at the other end p laying girls rules when the ball was in th f'ir half.

We played 8 minu te quarters and at the end of the quarter the boys and girls who had been playing guards became forwards, and the forwards bacame guards.

W e used this type of basketball with father and son games. T he fathers had

a diffe rent set of rules at their side of the court than the regula r rules at the sons side. ( ex. fathers could double dribble more than once ) _ This made for a lot of laughs and everyone enjoyed themselves.

This mixed basketba ll I think would be excellent for small high schools where there . a re not enough basketball players in a class or grade to have separate inter-class leagues. H owever, there should be enough p layers for a mixed inte r-class league.

RULES Modifications Tried 1. A held ba ll at the centre line

between a boy and girl which results in a jump, the jumps were alternated between two boys and two girls. The same was true of the start of each quarter .

2. When Team B's girls scored on Team A's girls, Team A's boys took the ball ou t at centre court. Similarly, as Team A's boys scored on Team B's boys, Team B's girls took it ou t at centre court.

3. We also tried the regu lation way, that is, that the team scored upon took the ball out underneath the basket.

(Ed. Note: The author would certainly appreciate any comments on this Tried Basketball. - Especially fr om Y M CA Fellowship secretaries,)

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BOOK REVIEWS ( Ed. Note: Miss Eleanor Magee, B.A .-B.Sc., has volunteered to ed,.it book reviews for Th e Postgrad. Graduates wishing to contribu te articles or to obtain in forma tion regarding policy may write to her care of the Association .) ·

JUDITH HEARNE. Moore, Brian. London, Andre Deutsch, 1955. 223 p.

This is the story of a middle-aged spinster, Judith H earne, who fights a losing battle against her own inadequacies, handicapped by her necessarily frequent moves from one Belfast bed-sitting room to another. In reality, she is poor and plain, she has few friends, and has never ·had a lover, nor is now likely to have . one. But Judith does not realize that her life is lacking in these relationships. Instead, she visualizes h erself as a deeply religious person, as a valuable friend, and as an attractive woman, prevented only by the limitations of her boarding-house life from meeting a man who will desire her. ·

As the story opens, Judith is settling into yet another boarding-house, whose owner. Mrs. Rice, supports a worthless son, Bernard . Judith deludes herself into thinking that she has found a lover in the person of Mrs. Rice's _brother, James Madden. The brother, recently returned from America, thinks that Judith has money, and seeks, by paying attention to her, to persuade her to invest this supposed capital in a business venture he is contemplating. Judith reads in this attention an attempt at courtship, but is cruelly disillusioned through the scheming of Mrs. Rice's intelligent, unhealthy, fat and selfish son.

Judith, in order to avoid constantly facing her own failures, has been a secret drinker in the past, but has been able for the last six months to resist the desire for alcohol; now, however, stripped of her illusions about her love affair, she turns to drink for courage, and as results, loses her boarding-house, and learns that th~ one friend who she thought valued her most has only pity for her. Finally, when she finds nq help or consolation in religion she has a nervous breakdown.

The book ends with Judith Hearne in a Catholic nursing home, bereft to her illusions about friendship and love, but rejecting despair by turning again to her picture of the Sacred Heart and her photograph of her aunt for comfort and a feeling that while they watch over her, a new place becomes a home.

This is not an enjoyable book but it is a book which cleverly enlists the sympathy of the reader for its main character. Brian Moore shows an uncanny knack for characterization, and an unerring understanding of Judith. He treats her with a commendable lack of sentimentality. Such an unusual approach makes the book an arresting one for the reader, for the author depicts with unemotional clarity the various situations in which he places Judith. Too, he shows good attention to

. detail in the portrayal of his supporting characters, for example the priest who, through his lack of understanding of her needs, fails to satisfy Judith's religious doubts. ·

The book is a serious study of the main character but there is a touch of humour in the nursing-home scene when Judith spontaneously takes a bottle of gin to he_r alcoholic friend, jolly Edie Marrinan. However, one weakness of this book, whose obvious purpose is to give a careful portrayal of Judith, is the too great emphasis on

1the scenes which involve only Bernard, his uncle and the young maid.

These scenes do not add to the reader's understanding of Judith. This is a thoughtful book, and one which is recommended to the serious reader,

who is interested in widening h is knowledge of human nature . E. MAGEE

/Continued on poge 391

December 1955 2$

Arts Graduates No Longer Cinderellas

THE GRADUATE in liberal arts ­once the "Cinderella" of college

men - is coming into his own, says the Unemployment Insurance Commission, in a recent bulletin.

After the Second World War the ac­cent on specialization was so great "the arts graduate was the 'Cinderella' among graduates," says the UCI bulletin on supply and demand of university grad­uates in the labor market.

Now the arts graduate is sought preci­sely because he is not a specialist," says the report. It finds shortages of grad­uates in almost every profession except law.

Of lawyers, it says "Supply and de­mand will be more or less in balance. Therefore any material · increase might pose a problem. If students do not ap­pear to have the requisite ability or intelligence they should not be advised to follow this course."

Graduates in a new specialization -

secretarial science - have great oppor­tunities ahead of them. NES says :busy executives concentrate on 'the most im­portant parts of their responsibilities" and want secretaries who will "do a bit of organizing and take the detail work off their hands."

"This means that the job of secretary is changing from one of simply applied skills to that of a more complex pattern," says the bulletin. "If the secretary has the necessary training and background she will come through and may even become a vice-president of the com­pany."

The report notes many universities do not carry a regular course in secretarial skills but "the ambitious arts student can acquire these at local business schools or by summer courses."

"Over the past year or two the general attitude of the business world towards the arts graduate has been changing,"

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the bulletin says, It quotes a United States su1vey which

found companies eager to hire liberal arts graduates "because they want men who can deal with people, and later be­come executives."

"College graduates generally are given the preference" in newspaper work, the bulletin comments. It says Canada pro­duces so few graduates in journalism that it can absorb them all, and newspapers seek for further recruit from other sources,

The bulletin comments on several other professions:

Agriculture - " Numbers ( of grad­uates ) are not enough to fill the needs."

Architecture - "For the next two years graduates will be less than 100 .. . unless conditions in Canada change drastically, these numbers will be too few to supply the needs,"

Dentistry - '.' . . . there is a shortage of dentists in Canada and ... it has reached a really critical stage."

Engineering - "Even with , . . in­creases in enrolment the profession will not be overcrowded."

Forestry - "A 5 per cent increase in enrolment in this course would pose no difficulties in placement."

Geology - "This demand has consist­ently been greater than the supply of graduates available each year.

Household scien-ce - "Shortages ( of fu lly qualified dietitians ) will continue.

Library Science - "The outpu t of graduates is not nearly enought to supply the present demand."

Medicine - "The shortage of doctors continues. T he good old 'fami liy' doctor shows signs of disappearing but there is still a great need of him. The rural areas of a ll provinces feel the pinch."

Nursing - "The shortage of nurses has not changed nor is any change anti­cipated."

Pharmacy - "A shortage of graduates from this faculty has been experienced over the past 10 years and shows no sign of a lleviation."

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Miss Peggy Lawless and Allan Simp­son, two YMCA fellowship secretaries, have been awarded scholarships by Sir George Williams College, Dr. K. E . Norris, principal, has announced.

Miss Lawless is awarded the John W. Ross M emorial Scholarship established by the late John W. Ross, president of the Montreal YMCA from 1905-1915. The scholarship is awarded annually to a YMCA Fellowship student on the basis of academic standing after h aving completed at least one year at the col­lege.

Mr. Simpson receives the Birk-Beaton M emorial Scholarship, which was es­tablished by the Metropolitan board of the Montreal Association in memory of the late Gerald W. Birks, president of the YMCA from 1922 to 1950 and the late John W . Beaton, general secretary from 1920 to 1951. This scholarship is awarded annually when merited, to a YMCA Fellowship student on the basis of academic standing after having com­pleted at least one year at the college.

Miss Lawless is a native of Peter­borough, Ont. , and Mr. Simpson's home is in Brantford, Ont.

Libra ,·y Redone Du1•i11,fl Summe,·

Due to the untimely disappearance of a great many library books plus the construction of the new building, the Sir George Williams College Library has take on a new look this year.

The librarian's desk which has always been located at the left hand side is now relocated a t the right hand side where it covers all the course books. The only way a student can take out one of these books this year will be by asking the librarian to get it for him.

Also with the new building coming right up against the left hand wall the windows have had to be closed.

Outside of these basic changes the · library remains much the same, with the YMCA section on the left and the col­lege area at the right.

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SPORT IS UNPREDICTABLE .

by ALEC FINEBERG

SI NCE this article is being written only hours after the Grey Cup game was played in Vancouver, it is natural

that this football contest should be prominent in our mind as an example of the unpredictability of sport.

Not that the fact that the Montreal Alouettes lost to the Edmonton Eskimos should be so terribly surprising. Before the game, the odds were just about even (please excuse the pun ) . But the man~er in which the game progresseq dunng the second half was startling. to say the least . T he Als, who were a lways famous for their strong second-half drive, and who led 19-18 at half-time, were beaten 34- 19 ; that is, they were shut out during the second half of the game. T his happened in spite of the fact that Slingin' Sam Etcheverry completed 30 ou t of 39 forward pas_ses a feat resulting in a gain

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th rough the air of well over 500 yards­a record for Grey Cup games. But the ext remely deceptive ground attack of the Eskies proved too much for the Als. The Westerners tore through the East­erners' line time after time for large gams.

In the opinion of the writer, the turningpointinthegame occurred during the 3rd quarter, when the Als, ahead by 19-1 8, had possession of the ball. They had gained about 9½ yards on 2 downs. (During the season, the slogan, "Go. Als, Go" became famous, since most of the time they went for the necessary vard or so on third clown "--- a nd usually {nade a first clown ) . But in this instance, they kicked on third down, and once the Eskies got their hands on the ball, there

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was no stopping them. But, in a ll fairness , it must be admitted that the Edmonton Eskimos were the better team on the day's play, and_ are worthy holders of the G rey Cup.

R eturning to the unpredictability of sport, we noted that on the last Saturday of the Big Four schedule, Ottawa, the last-place team, humbled Toronto, a nd H amilton trounced the Als. Then in the semi-final play-off, the Toronto Argos, who had been beaten badly by the H amilton Tigers a ll during the regular season, bea t the Tigers by 4 points in H amilton, in a thrilling game which saw the lead change hands 7 times.

Then came the Eastern final between the Argo and the Als, during which Toron­to astonished the Montreal spectators by taking a 24-9 lead a t half-time. But the Als staged a tremendous rally, and finally

won by the score of 38-36, to gain the right to play in the Grey Cup game.

Turning to another sport, the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won the World Series this year - after losing the first 2 games of the se ries to the New York Yankees. No other team in history had lost t_he first 2 g:ames, and then won the best-of-seven sen es.

In hockey, the National Hockey League has produced many upsets during the current season. At time of writing, New York and Chicago - perennial door-mats of the league - a re in second and third p lace respectively. And Detroit and Toronto, usua lly fighting for first place, a re presently battling to climb out of the bottom positions. Only Canadiens are showing their true colours, riding along serenely in firs t place.

In closing, the writer wishes all Geor­gians a Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy, healthy, and Prosperous New Year.

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CANADIAN POETRY: MODERN by IRVING LAYTON

T HE FIRST thing to say about the new poetry is that it is not new. The trouble is that most Canadians are not aware of any kind of poetry in Canada-new

or old. But within the past two or three decades there has been a most interesting and astonishment development in the field of poetry, despite the vast apathy of the Canadian public. That this should be so .. . may be accounted for by the fact that only just now, Canada is emerging from colonial status.

One might say, in all introspective honesty, that Canadians suffer from a colonial inferiority complex. They cannot really believe, although people have arisen to ' assure them, that Canadians are capable of producing first rate poetry, painting, or music. Instead they await approval from the British--or even American-critics. And then the cry is taken up by other Canadians. The Canadian poets, knowing this, still prefer to have their volumes published in London, or New York, 01

Chicago. They feel sure this is the stamp of approval, which will impress their apathetic fellow Canadians .. · .

Our critics ( with such notable exceptions as A. J. M . Smith ) have saved Canadian poetry badly. Without the least fear of contradiction, I say there is no critic in Canada capable of evaluating the new writing of the past three decades.

H ere are my reasons for saying this : first, many of. our critics have received their higher education in English colleges and universities. I call them Anglo-Canadians. When they returh to each in Canada, the viewpoint they hold is an English one. Therefore, they look down with condescension on the efforts of Canadian poets.

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Certainly they are not prepared to understand the life and vitality that su rges through the minds of our contemporary poets. Secondly, there is a feeling on the part of these university professors that Canadian literature is so insignificant that when they commence writing their world-shaking theses they overlook Canadiana. They write, instead, for the hundredth time, another volume about Herman M elville's Mob)! Dick; going through the fine metaphysics of the whale. This offers a large scope for the display of their talents.

Not only are the universities at fault . .. a very false idea of poetry is given to generation after generation of unfortunate and victimized pupils in our public and high schools as well. T hey are taught to believe that poetry can only be ma.de a.bou t daffodils and stars, or the acceptable sentiments of sentiments of nostalgia, wistful­ness, and melancholy.

The real world of our fellow Canadians is something quite different, but you never get poetry telling the pupils something about the industrial world that has grown up around them . .. no poetry abou t strikes . . . a.bou t industrial dislocations. Actually, no realistic, contemporary, circumstantial poetry ever gets into text books.

• Why is it Canadians are not taught to read their own poets? For after all is said and done, there should be nothing more important for Canadians than to know the poetry being produced today ... since that poetry which is a live and vital and good, is the reflection of the life th at a majority of Canadians live. It reveals to them their own minds . .. the quality ... the feel ... the tang. T here is no other way for Canadians to know what the sum and substance of their minds add up to unless they get it directly frqm the poets. They are the only ones qualified by their gifts and talents to tell the people. T he scientist can't do it. The huckster won't. And

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neither will the politician. That is why there are artists in every generation and in every country. If Canadians exhibit an_ indifference to art, it only means they do not care about the road they are travelling.

There are two kinds of poetry: there is the poetry of the acceptable ·sentiments, and there is the poetry which is critical and exploratory. Most people stop at the first kind . The average man or woman who read Byron's " She 1rnlks in beau.ty like the night," or Wordsworth's " M)I heart leap up when I behold a rainbow in the sky," feels a nice, steaming sensation about the heart. It is this that people mistake for the aesthetic emotion.

Here, of course, is where the schools are to blame. By the time the students have left the high schools theiy should know that good poetry is critical, exploratory . . . that really good poetry disturbs people, shakes them up and breaks down certain habits and associations in their minds. They should know that disgust, hatred, violence and even vice are permissable roads to salvation. No one could read good poetry- Donne, Milton, Shakespeare-without knowing that. Yet our students leave not only high schools, but a lso colleges and universities, feeling that the poetry of acceptable sentiments, the familiar album-pieces, is really poetry. And if the modern poet has the audacity to use one or two four- letter words-which Shakes­peare, Byron and Pope used before him-the genteel finger of reproach is im­mediately waved at him. This is not poetry, Canadians never use these words- such is the claim of these misguided you ths. It is a libel, therefore, for a poet to use those four-letter words, without which it would be impossible to carry on a civilized conversation.

But these products of our modern educational system do not want to read this

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type of disturbing poetry- this _ poetry of the modern sensibili ty. Instead, they indulge themselves in what I call C.A.A. poetry, a large school of ' respectable' Canadian poetry of the Canadian Au thors' Association. But this is not poetry. I t is what is found in the Montrea l Star and Gazette . . . poetry that is consoling, lovely, tender, and perfectly meaningless.

Modern poetry, I would say, began in Canada with the publication of New Provinces in 1936 under the leadership of A. J. M . Smith. This anthology introduced such new poets as A. M. K lein, Leo K ennedy, Robert Finch, F . R . Scott, and E. J. Pratt, who were incorporating the new techniques of Eliot, Pound, and Yeats. T he new sensibili ty, contained in this book, and resulting from the First World War and the dislocation caused by the depression- such sensibility was expressed by rhythm and vocabulary: tempo and imagery. With the exception of E . J. Pratt these poets did not fi nd publishers until the active decade of the forties.

T he newer poets of this decade, D udek, Souster, M iriam Waddington, m yself, and others, had been fo rmed by the depression of the thirties and the Second World War- years of misery and tumult. Experiences of these years were in the marrow of our bones and when we came to write poetry, it was tough, realistic, and critical. We felt a society that was capa ble of condemning millions of people to unemploy­ment .. . capable of producing war . . . a society in wa nt of a ll values and all meaningful p urpose in the satisfaction of the daily lives of its people; is a diseared society. .

T h is is what the poets of the forties were complaining about. Souster, stationed a t an air base, wrote fi erce and furious poetry . .. Dudek, working for an advertising agency, wrote that same kind of critical and bitter poetry . . . and so did I.

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October 9th saw the second annual New Evening Students' Orientation Night swing into action with over 300 new "Owls" a ttending the event.

The evening started off in Budge Hall with talks by Dr. Norris and Dean H . F. Hall and then moved on to the YMCA Cafeteria and the Willingdon. Room where the evening clubs rally, under the chairmanship of EUS Clubs Chairman Joan McIntyre took place. The rally featured booths by all the evenmg clubs, plus displays by joint activities such aS Prism and the Georgian. The affair was topped off by a dance to the music of The Silvertones. Under the chairmanship of EUS Pres­ident Jack Poirier and Vice-President John Millons, the orienta tion night was a success. " Its aim was to acquaint .even­ing students with the night college and its activities and we fee l that this was more than adequately accomplished," said Poirier.

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Of course, certain things that were troubling K lein, Scott, Smith, and Pratt were not troubling us. These earlier poets, writing in the magazine Preview, were still t rying to decide whether th is was a moral universe or not ; the poets of the forties decided it was not. To speak of this being a moral universe created for the edification of mankind, just didn't make sense when we saw the countless inhumanities about us. Vh accepted the biological fa cts of the struggle for existence after seeing young boys rid ing the rods looking for jobs in the late thirties.

And so it went. One cherished conviction after another . . . religions, ethical, politica l, socia l ... was subjected to a fi erce criticism . T he magazine First Statement was a direct result of th is ambitious tirade against society. "\Ve of First Statement considered ourselves the Canadians . T he Preview of Scott, Klein, and Page was looked u pon as the cosmopolitan, sophisticated magazine, but somewhat alien. Between the two of us existed a healthy situation of rivalry and controversy . . . somethi ng that Canadian art needs more . .. as a stimulus.

Out of these two literary magazines, Preview and First Statement, came Northern R eview, with J ohn Su therland at its h ead . This hap pened because First Statement had the printing press, and Preview had the talented writers. By the amalgamation of the two we though t we could-and did-edit a fine magazine. (Sometimes in a more dismal and morbid momen t it occu rred to me, as we were gathered together a t editorial board meetings, that if a bomb should d rop i t would wipe out Canadian Literature for the next twenty-five years.)

At the end of the fi rst six mon ths of publication, a review of R obert Finch's poetry printed in th is magazine a lienated the Preview members and ' theiy withdrew from the edi toria l board . A year la ter there was fu rther dissention in the ra nks . . .

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due partially to Sutherland's religious conservatism, and the res t of the editorial board withdrew; thus leaving him in sole charge, Then Sutherland, since he controlled the only Canadian literary magazine, was able to say that there was no Canadian poetry being published in Canada, This, of course, was true, as Mr. Sutherland was not printing any.

With Northern R eview hostile to our poetry, two new li ttle magazines came into existenc,e. One was Contact produced by Raymond Souster, It is a fellow like him, who works in a bank, goes home in the evening, turns the crank of the mimeograph machine to produce his magazine, and p.uts out the money from his own pocket, that can make Canadians proud of their poets , .. and ashamed of themselves, for now I hear that he can not find fifty readers. Throug Contact he has introduced contemporary French Canadian, German, Russian, and South American poetry­a veritable cultural exchange. The United Nations doesn't do any more than Raymond Souster, and they have a much larger budget.

The second of these avant-guarde publication was Civ / n in Montreal. It started out as a mimeograph sheet edited by Aileen Collins and several other working girls ... who paid for the expenses out of their own pockets. Now, after the seventh issue, Civ / n is printed although financially unstable due to the apathy of the public.

During the past year, however, there has been a 'renaissance' in Canadian Literature, which bodes good for the future of Canada in the literary world , With the publishing of such books of poetry as F. R. Scott's E vents and Signals, A. J. M. Smith's A Sort of Ecstacy in 1954, and several new volumes in the offing, as Louis Dudek's Europe, Canada's literary future looks exceptionally bright .

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Beginning on Tuesday with an official velcome by the Dean and The Principal,

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After the official welcome on Tuesday t he male students were entertained with a stag ·while the females were entertained with a luncheon thrown by the Women's Club. Then there was a tour of the college and its annexes, followed by a three hour tea dance m Budge H a ll. Wednesday was the day for the Clubs Rally at which the Frosh were intro­duced _ to the many clubs which operate m the college. This was followed by a Fun Parade, where they were made to do such things as clean Edward VII's Monument on Phillip Square, with ooth brushes no less, serenade shoppers

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SON OF A SMALLER HERO. Mordecai Richler. London, Andre Deutsch. This, as Henry Seidel Canby said of 'Arrowsmith', is "a harsh book, a hard

book, an illuminating book .. . " It is a good book, too ; if only because it is the promise of finer things to come from Richler's pen.

When Mordecai Richler will have thrown off the shackles of his self­consciousness, when his present omniscient bitterness will have been aimed solely at those aspects of life which the author truthfully dislikes, he will be considered a fine, even great writer. In the meantime, with this novel, Richler emerges as a solidly equipped novelist, a writer endowed with an excellent gift for perceiving character and a sure sense of atmosphere.

'Son of a Smaller Hero' is the story of a sensitive young man, Noah Adler, born in Montreal and brought up in the city's various Jewish districts, anxious both to dissociate himself from what he considers a distorted heritage and to discover a milieu in which acceptance of himself will be based on his individuality. His attempts at dissociation provoke his grandfather, M elech Adler, into active rejection of Noah. And for different reasons the other members of the famil y follow suit. The search for sympathetic territory in which his inchoate desires and ambitions will crystallize brings Noah in contact with an intellectual group of people.

Even towards this group, for reasons not made too clear by Richler, Noah cannot feel sympathetic. Despite a passionate affair with a professor's vvife, ( a tritely contrived affair whose social repercussions, however, are brilliantly depicted ) he considers himself as having been only 'useful' psychologically.

The incident which finally is instrumental in driving out Noah completely from the inherited ghetto of " . . . no real walls and no true dimensions . . . ", from that life in which, "The walls are the habit of atavism and the dimensions are an illusion ... ", is the death of his father, Wolf Adler, in a fire . The Jews of the city

~ presume the death to be heroic, that Wolf died in an attempt to save some sacred scrolls from an iron box. Noah and Melech, know, however, that the box contained money.

The father's death also brings an inevitable rupture between Noah and the professor's wife and eventually Noah goes to Europe.

Richler's description of the Laurentians, geographical and social, his handling of the terrible search for Wolf Adler's . body in the ashes, his assured . use of authentic dialogue and dialect in the family scenes are evidence of a good writer. His continuous attempts to waste his bitterness on deserted air weaken the story by interfering with his characters' motivations.

It may be of interest to note that Richler spent two years at Sir George Williams, was on the editorial staff of The Georgian, and also worked for The Herald, in

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