The Alumni Association and Athletic and Sport Services Dept. are joining forces
to host a gala dinner saluting the achievements of UBC graduates.
The dinner will honor winners of the UBC Alumni Awards and inductees into the
UBC Sports Hall of Fame.
The Alumni Awards recognize nine individuals for their outstanding
achievements. Among those being honored this year are Alzheimer’s researcher
Prof. Emeritus Edith McGeer, one of the founders of UBC’s Alma Mater Society,
Evelyn Lett, and former head of Athletics, Bob Hindmarch.
Inductees into the university’s Sports Hall of Fame, which salutes the
individuals and teams who have contributed to the university’s long history of
sports excellence, include Father David Bauer and the 1947/48 men’s basketball
team.
One individual, 10-time Big Block winner and former Alumni Association
president Charlotte Warren, is doubly honored. Inducted into the Sports Hall of
Fame, she will also be awarded the Blythe Eagles Volunteer Service award from
the Alumni Association.
With its theme, Celebrating Excellence Through Achievement, the 1996 UBC Alumni
Achievement and Sports Hall of Fame Dinner will be held Monday, Nov. 18 at the
Hyatt Regency hotel. Between 800 and 1,000 people are expected to attend.
The events will be hosted by journalist Allan Fotheringham and educator Rick
Hansen is the keynote speaker. Both are UBC graduates. Dinner chair is UBC
Chancellor William Sauder.
Among the many prizes that will be awarded to dinner-goers are a $12,000 trip
to London and Berlin on the Concorde, a flight for two anywhere in Western
Canada Air Canada flies, and the use of the Molson Suite for a Thunderbirds
hockey game. Two Grizzlies tickets will be given away at each table.
Net dinner proceeds will be used to support UBC Alumni and Athletic
scholarships, bursaries and development. BC TEL is lead sponsor of the
event.
Tickets for the dinner are $125 plus tax. For more information, call event
organizers Portfolio at 685-4888, Athletics at 822-8205 or the Alumni
Association at 822-3313.
