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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Waite, P. B. (Peter Busby), 1922-     Subjects     MacKenzie, Norman, 1894-1986.     University of British Columbia -- History.     University of British Columbia -- Presidents -- Biography.     Canada. Parliament. Senate -- Biography.     College presidents -- Canada -- Biography.     Legislators -- Canada -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Waite, P. B. (Peter Busby), 1922-       by title:      Lord of Point Grey :...       by call number:      378.111 M157w     Search the Web     Waite, P. B. (Peter Busby), 1922-     MacKenzie, Norman, 1894-1986.     University of British Columbia -- History.     University of British Columbia -- Presidents -- Biography.     Canada. Parliament. Senate -- Biography.     College presidents -- Canada -- Biography.     Legislators -- Canada -- Biography.       MARC Display

Lord of Point Grey : Larry MacKenzie of U.B.C. / P.B. Waite. by Waite, P. B. (Peter Busby), 1922- University of British Columbia Press, 1987. Call #: 378.111 M157w Subjects MacKenzie, Norman, 1894-1986.   University of British Columbia -- History.   University of British Columbia -- Presidents -- Biography.   Canada. Parliament. Senate -- Biography.   College presidents -- Canada -- Biography.   Legislators -- Canada -- Biography. ISBN:  9780774802857 (hc.) 0774802855 (hc.) Description:  xi, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  Few university presidents could be considered 'to the manner born.' Larry MacKenzie was the exception. He discovered this talent when president of the University of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1944. He became president of the University of British Columbia in 1944 and served for eighteen years. Although UBC's present eminence owes much to many people, as biographer P.B. Waite points out, 'it is basically Larry MacKenzie's creation.' His importance to UBC is inestimable. No doubt demography alone enjoined UBC's considerable expansion, but Larry gave it force and focus. He established the Faculty of Graduate Studies and introduced professional faculties such as law and medicine. He was a marvellous doer; but more important, he could recognize talent in others, like his 'chief expediter,' Gordon Shrum, UBC's redoubtable head of physics and dean of graduate studies. Larry's big archive at UBC has enabled Waite to essay the life of a marvellously adept and humane president who loved his work and his students, a vital and great-hearted Canadian who had lived and worked, as one could say, a mari usque ad mare. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 378.111 M157w Non-circulating Closed Stacks Add Copy to MyList

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