UBC’s 25 Year Club welcomes 82 new members this year.
The club consists of staff who have given a quarter-century of service to
the university.
President Martha Piper will host a dinner for all 25 Year Club members on
May 7 in the Totem Park Residence Ballroom.
New members include:
- John Nicol, Audiology and Speech Sciences
- Roland Porter, Bookstore
- Rita Aitken, Campus Security
- Shelagh Penty, Chemical and Bio-Resource Engineering
- Patricia Miyagawa, Chemistry
- Ladislao Maximo Nazar, Civil Engineering
- Elaine Liau, Continuing Education Division, Health Sciences
- Marlane Paquin, Continuing Dental Education
- Victoria Ayerbe, Continuing Studies
- Michael Beaton, Continuing Studies
- Douglas Poulson, Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Goolshun Balsara, Economics
- Larry Howard, Education
- Mary-Jane Richardson, Education
- Margaret Stevens, Educational Support and Development Division,
Health Sciences - Marga Cinnamon, Financial Services
- Valerie Ann Loy, Financial Services
- Margaret Au, Food Services
- Audrey Bowley, Food Services
- Hsiu Hsiu Tsay, Food Services
- Chun Ming Wong, Food Services
- Paul Jance, Geography
- Frank Chu, Housing and Conferences
- Fleming Klitz, Housing and Conferences
- James David Murray, Housing and Conferences
- Khieng-San Chan, Human Resources
- Lynne Howe, Human Resources
- Caroline Bruce, Industry Liaison Office
- Eddie Au, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Jesus Guevara, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
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Nancy Hoeflich, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Chrisoula Kavouras, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Hajnalka Kerekes, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Maria Lacoumenta, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Patricia Anne Lenney, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Rosemarie Letzing, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Alistair McKee, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Nada Mikicich, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- David Minamata, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- George Nerreter, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- James Ramsay, Land and Building Services (Plant Operations)
- Nancy Wiggs, Law
- Jeff Barker, Library
- Neil Bennett, Library
- Judy Bond, Library
- Josephine Carney, Library
- Cathalina Chow, Library
- Lynn Jenkinson, Library
- Marika Kahle, Library
- Ellie Maze, Library
- Beatrice Poon, Library
- Sheila Porter, Library
- Joan Stuchner, Library
- Elaine Thorson, Library
- Joan Treleaven, Library
- Meily Wong, Library
- Judith Wright, Library
- Deb Furlong, Medical Genetics
- Heather Falkenholt, Medicine Dept.
- Mary Mager, Metals and Materials Engineering
- Primrose Gontier, Microbiology and Immunology
- Rolando Robillo, Microbiology and Immunology
- Helen Smith, Microbiology and Immunology
- Salma Mawani, Museum of Anthropology
- Lindsey Korchinsky, Office of the President
- Gayle Smith, Office of the Vice-President, Academic and Provost
- Eunice Liu, Office of the Vice-President, Administration and Finance
- Charles Ramey, Pathology
- Maureen Murphy, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Thomas Felton, Physics and Astronomy
- Lore Hoffmann, Physics and Astronomy
- Adoracion Urbano, Political Science
- Elizabeth McCririck, Psychology
- Stephanie Ross, Student Resource Centre
- Shurli Channe, Surgery
- Gayle Uthoff, Surgery
- Irene Amiraslany, University Computing Services
- David Amos, University Computing Services
- Herminia Banaga, University Computing Services
- Howard Davis, University Computing Services
- Paul Zablosky, University Computing Services
- David Tuokko, University Research Forest.
Jeff Barker
As a young
man fresh out of school, Jeff Barker was traveling around B.C., picking up jobs
in logging camps, canneries and as a short-order cook. Then a friend suggested
applying at the UBC Library.
He did it on a whim, but his life has never been the same since.
In the intervening 25 years he met his future wife, who also worked in the
library, and made many lifelong friends, including the guys at the Thunderbird
Winter Sports Centre, with whom he’s played Wednesday night hockey for as long
as he’s worked here.
As a library assistant, Barker catalogues and processes government publications.
He spends the other half of his time on the reference desk, helping students
and faculty members with their research.
“I like the fact that I work independently. I also like the relaxed attitude
out here — you don’t have to wear a suit and tie,” says the jean-clad Barker.
He’s seen many changes on campus over the years, but none loom as large to
Barker as the big move to Koerner Library, which involved the merger of Sedgewick
Undergraduate Library, the humanities and social sciences reference section
and government publications and microforms.
When he’s not at work, Barker enjoys hiking and biking on the North Shore
where he lives, coaching kids’ baseball and soccer and playing computer games.
Audrey Bowley
Audrey
Bowley’s official job title is sales attendant, but don’t call her that.
“I try to avoid the term,” she laughs. “I’m a waitress — I serve people.”
Bowley has served thousands of people since she joined the university. She
now waits on tables at Trekkers, but is best known to generations of students
as one of the venerable servers at the old Bus Stop Cafe.
With its three horseshoe-shaped lunch counters, vinyl-covered stools and classic
diner fare of clubhouse sandwiches, burgers and french fries, the Bus Stop was
a throwback to an earlier era, and the best-loved dining spot on campus.
“They always said it was the smallest, but busiest, food service outlet on
campus. There was always a lineup of people waiting to sit down,” says Bowley,
who worked at the Bus Stop for 17 years.
Why was it so popular?
“The comments we always heard were that it was because it was so friendly.
We were the moms and they were our kids. It was like one big happy family.”
Bowley loves her job so much that she also works several nights a week at
a family restaurant in Richmond.
“I’ve always had two jobs; I’ve done that for 25 years,” she says, “If I’m
not working, I’m bored.”
Nancy Wiggs
You could
say that working at UBC has given Nancy Wiggs a chance to let students have
their day in court. Hundreds of days, actually.
That’s because for 18 years she administered the Faculty of Law’s legal clinic.
While she worked there, the program used law students to provide legal counsel
for members of the public who could not afford lawyers and could not get legal
aid.
Joining the clinic as a secretary, before long Wiggs was working essentially
as a paralegal — screening clients, setting trial dates and arranging police
reports.
“It was absolutely fascinating,” she says, “and a lot of fun.”
The clinic was handling 300 to 400 cases a year and representing clients in
up to 100 criminal trials. The students would draft wills, arrange adoptions
and make appearances in small claims, traffic and family courts.
“There are not a lot of staff jobs on campus where you work closely with students
— and I did,” says Wiggs.
In 1994, Wiggs was promoted to senior administrator for the faculty. Now she
supervises a staff of 15 and works closely with the 45 full-time faculty and
the 80 lawyers and judges who serve as adjunct professors.
“This will sound funny, but in my present position I sit on a lot of university
committees, and I really like it. It’s a real eye opener. I enjoy the new challenges
of working with students, faculty and the university.”
