In memoriam

Lives and legacies.
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Sharon Roscoe, BSc’63
Sharon Grace Roscoe (née Furnival) passed away on December 9, 2015. Born in Ottawa, the daughter of Dr. George M. Furnival and Marion (née Fraser) Furnival, she graduated with a BSc from UBC, with...
Michael Deland, BSc’63, MSc’65
Michael passed away April 22, 2016, in Melbourne. From Vancouver, Michael moved to the University of Connecticut for a PhD in genetics, after which he spent three years at Purdue University in the...
Helen Kathleen Gray, BLSc’62
August 4, 1920 – June 13, 2016
Pullikattil Chacko Simon, MSc’60
March 1, 1913 – March 8, 2017
Barbara Howard, BEd’59
1921 – 2017
Denis F. R. Gilson, MSc’59, PhD’62
Born in London, UK, on November 18, 1934, Denis died on January 22, 2016. He obtained, in 1957, a BSc from University College, London, and did his MSc and PhD degrees at UBC. He held a post‑graduate...
Neil William Macdonald, BA’58, MA’60, MPE’91
The first in his family to go to university, Neil earned three degrees from UBC: a bachelor’s and a master’s in psychology and another master’s in physical education.
Bernard Anthony Heskin, BASc’58, PEng, FEC
August 20, 1934 – December 17, 2016
John (Jack) Cooke, BA’54
Jack passed away peacefully in his sleep at Vancouver General Hospital at the age of 85 on November 1, 2016. Born in Vernon, BC, Jack was the second of three children born to Edward and Irene Cooke.
Raymond Ernest Counsell, BSc’53
Raymond E. Counsell, PhD, passed away peacefully on March 21, 2016, in Bonita Springs, FL, with his wife Liz by his side. Ray was born in Vancouver in 1930. At the age of 10, he was hired as a...