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responding for Upsilon. Betty Johnson told with feeling of "Our Mother," passed an act which granted this site to the University. This site was in-
and Helen Davis in reply told what the girls meant to her. creased in 1915 and now consists of five hundred and forty-eight acres
at the extremity of Point Grey. The waters of the Gulf of Georgia form
Greetings from Alpha Rho and from Alpha Sigma were delivered by more than half the boundary of the University campus. I n 1913, F. F.
Kathleen O'Leary and Florence King, and Alice Davidson and Constance Wesbrook M.A., M . D . , C M . , LL.D., was appointed President of the
Johnson told of the hopes and aspirations of Beta Kappa. The program University. In 1918, Dr. R. E. McKechnie was elected chancellor and
closed when we all rose and sang "The Garden of Alpha O." has been re-elected continuously since that date. On the death of Presi-
dent Wesbrook in 1918, L . S. Klinck, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture,
The five pledges of Alpha Sigma Alpha were then formally pledged' was appointed acting President, and in 1919, President.
by Kathryn Matson to Alpha 0 . They are Margaret Carson, Jean and
Betty Black, Jean Balfour and Grace Parkinson. From its opening in 1915 until the summer of 1925, the university
carried on its work in temporary quarters on part of the site of the Van-
On Sunday a Panhellenic tea was given at the home of Mrs. Birk couver General Hospital in Fairview.
of Gamma Phi Beta, honoring the new group. Quantities of fall flowers in
all the shades of yellow decorated the rooms where the members of Beta Construction work was commenced on the Science Building at the
Kappa and their guests mingled with representatives of Gamma Phi permanent site in Point Grey in 1914, but was interrupted because of
Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, war conditions. Work on this building was resumed in 1923, and later the
Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi and Alpha Delta Pi, the other sororities on the same year work on the library was begun. Both these buildings and nine
U.B.C. campus. Everyone was most cordial, and Alpha O felt fortunate others of a less permanent nature form the university quarters. At the
to have a chapter among the others. The campus will be closed to national beginning of the session of 1925-26 the university commenced work in
groups now for the next five years. these new quarters.
'British Columbia Chartered University in 1890 Affiliated with the University of British Columbia are Victoria Col-
lege in Victoria, B.C., where the first two years in Arts and Science may
By E D I T H B I C K F O R D , Beta Kappa be completed, the Anglican and Union Theological Colleges on the cam-
pus.
THE creation of a University of British Columbia was first advocated"
in 1877, but it was not until 1890 that an act was passed which esq tAlpha f§igma <yllpha Sxisted Two years
tablished a body politic and corporate, named, "The University of
British Columbia." Some of the work normally done in a university was By K A T H L E E N C U M M I N G , Beta Kappa
begun in 1894, when an act was passed which permitted the affiliation
of high schools in the Province with recognized Canadian universities. *TN T H E spring of 1930 "Alpha Sigma Alpha had its beginning, but it
In 1899, Vancouver High School was affiliated with McGill University was not officially organized as a sorority until the following fall.
in order to provide first year work in arts, and took the name of Van- During the summer while the University was not in session, the girls
couver College. First year work in arts was offered by Victoria High
School when it became Victoria College by affiliation with McGill Uni- held informal meetings at which plans were made for the forming of a
versity in 1902. I n the same year Vancouver College undertook the sec- local sorority. Through Helen Tripp Davis of Alpha Phi chapter who is
ond year in arts. living in Vancouver we heard that Alpha Omicron Pi had placed our
university on the expansion list as a place for a chapter of their fraternity.
In 1906, the McGill University College of British Columbia was! It was then we decided to make Alpha O our goal. We made frequent
established at Vancouver by the Royal Institution for the Advancement visits to Helen's home (which have become more and more frequent as
of Learning of British Columbia. The scope of work undertaken by this tune passed). We started communication with Alpha O and every girl
college was gradually increased until at the time it was taken over by dreamed of the day when she would wear a pin like Helen's. On Octo-
the University of British Columbia, it was giving three years in Arts and ber 30, 1930, the Panhellenic of the University officially recognized our
Science, and two years in Applied Science. When the University of viuup of eighteen girls as the local sorority, Alpha Sigma Alpha. On
British Columbia opened in the autumn of 1915, both the McGill Uni- "vember 3 at a simple but very impressive ceremony Helen Davis
versity College of Vancouver, and Victoria College, which since 1907 Pinned on us our local pins. The violet was the flower of our local and two
had been a part of it, ceased to exist.
.ades of mauve the colours. We had our first rushing season at the be-
A site commission to decide upon a site for the proposed university J ginning of the year 1931 and were very pleased with our results both then
was appointed in 1910. After a thorough examination of the Province da n at the following fall rushing.
the Commission recommended the vicinity of Vancouver, and they (MB
cided to place the University at Point Grey. I n 1911, the Legislature ° n the week-end of February 20-22, 1931, we had the pleasure of
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