Inspiring artist

Sam Black, an outstanding artist and one of the country’s leading art educators,
died April 23 at the age of 84.

Black, a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education, was born and educated
in Scotland, graduating in 1936 from the Glasgow School of Art.

He served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers during the Second World War, attaining
the rank of major and winning medals for bravery.

Black arrived at UBC in 1958 where, with his enthusiasm, openness to new challenges
and creative energy, he quickly established a reputation as an inspirational
teacher.

He was an honorary lifetime member of the Canadian Society for Education Through
Art and a founding member of the International Society for Education Through
Art.

Black was accomplished in many different artistic media, including watercolors,
acrylics, oils, graphic prints, woodcuts, lithographs and metal sculpture. His
works are held in private collections and public galleries around the world,
and have even inspired a piece of music, composed for the Lethbridge Symphony
Association.

The university recognized his contributions with a Master Teacher Award and
an honorary degree. Black was also awarded a Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967.

In recent years he continued to create works of art while living on Bowen
Island.

Pioneering therapist

One of the pioneers of rehabilitation medicine, Margaret Rutherford Hood, died
in February at the age of 84.

Hood was the first head of the Division of Occupational Therapy when UBC’s
School of Rehabilitation Medicine, as it was then called, opened in 1961. She
continued as head until her retirement in 1979. In her final year at UBC, Hood
was acting director of the school.

She was especially interested in treating arthritis and developing programs
for occupational therapists that addressed both theory and practical training.

Hood’s contribution to the school has been recognized with the Margaret Hood
Graduate Scholarship in Occupational Therapy.

In 1997, the Margaret Hood Occupational Therapy Research Laboratory was opened
in her honour.

Hood received her diploma of Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto
in 1936 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UBC in 1970. She served as president
of the B.C. Society of Occupational Therapists from 1958-60.

She is survived by her brother-in-law Tom, nephews Don and Tom, niece Leanne
and their families.