Flag Notifications – Archives

Category for archived UBC in memoriam notices.

Michael Gerry

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance.   Professor Emeritus Michael C.L. Gerry passed away on February 7, 2015. Mike completed his bachelors and masters studies at UBC and returned in 1967 to teach in the Department of Chemistry, becoming Professor in 1981.  Mike received many […]

John Meech

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance. Dr. John Athol Meech passed away on February 9, 2015. Dr. Meech joined UBC in 1989 and during his time at UBC had tremendous influence on many students in the department of Mining Engineering as well as others at UBC and in […]

William Nicholls

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Friday, February 13, in remembrance. Professor William Nicholls passed away on November 10, 2014. Professor Nicholls came to UBC in 1961 to form one of the first major non-sectarian programs of religious studies in Canada. In 1964, Religious Studies attained full department status, with […]

Mahmoud Manzalaoui

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, February 2, in remembrance. Professor Emeritus Mahmoud Ali Manzalaoui passed away on January 21, 2015. Dr. Manzalaoui was appointed Professor in the Department of English in 1969 and taught there until his retirement in 1989. Mahmoud was a specialist in Middle English Literature, which he […]

Frederick Gornall

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Monday, February 2, in remembrance. Professor Emeritus Frederick A. Gornall passed away on December 21, 2014. Fred came to UBC’s Faculty of Educational Science in 1959, where he specialized in the teaching of botany and flora. Dr. Gornall was Chair of the Department of Science Education from […]

Stephanie Grothe, Neil Mackenzie

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, January 22, in remembrance. Stephanie Grothe passed away on January 11, 2015 at the age of 30. Stephanie came to UBC from Germany four years ago to study in the Laboratory for Atomic Imaging Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. […]

Verna Splane

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Sunday, January 18, in remembrance. Dr. Verna Huffman Splane, OC, FAPHA, passed away on January 10, 2015, aged 100.  Professor Splane played a major role in raising the status of the nursing profession both nationally and internationally. Verna and her husband and colleague, Richard […]

John Macdonald

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Sunday, January 18, in remembrance. Dr. John Barfoot Macdonald, OC, FRCD, passed away on December 23, 2014. A distinguished scientist and administrator, Dr. Macdonald was President of UBC from 1962 to 1967. His advice led to the establishment of Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria […]

Angus Gunn

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, December 18, in memory of Angus Macleod Gunn, Professor Emeritus of Social and Educational Studies, who passed away on December 10, 2014 Born in 1920 in Invergordon Scotland, Professor Gunn moved to Vancouver in the late 1950s and earned a BEd […]

Irving Guttman

  The BC Flag (Main Mall and Agronomy Road) will be lowered on Thursday, December 11, in memory of Dr. Irving Allen Guttman, CM, OBC, who passed away on December 7, 2014 Dr. Guttman was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from UBC in 2009. He was the founding Artistic Director of the Vancouver Opera. In his later years, he […]