In memoriam

Lives and legacies.
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R. Gordon Knight, BASc’49
July 14, 1921 – May 16, 2014
John Louis Tiedje, BASc’44, MASc’45
John was born on April 18, 1921, in Princeton to Henry and Mary Tiedje and died on July 18, 2013, in Sarnia, ON. John spent most of his youth in Trail, BC, where his father worked at the Cominco...
Frances Blackmore Sparzani (née Lee), BA’44
Frances Blackmore Sparzani was born in 1923 in Toronto, the only child of the late Frank and Mona Lee. Her family moved to Vancouver, where Frances attended Prince of Wales High School and Havergal...
Betty Jane (BJ) Margaret Warner (née Matheson), BA’46
Betty Jane Margaret Warner passed away on January 16, 2014, having recently celebrated her 90th birthday. She was predeceased by her husband, Bill, BA’47, LLB’48; brother, Jack; sister, Claudia; and...
Craig MacPhee, BA’47, MA’49
Dr. Craig MacPhee, World War II veteran, former University of Idaho fisheries professor, died Tuesday, October 9, 2012. While attending UBC, Craig played on the school’s rugby team. His time at UBC...
Anson Deane Meldrum Burnside, BA’48 (Zeta Psi), (1926 – 2009) Beverly Marguerite Burnside (née Hartree), BA’48 (Kappa Alpha Theta), (1925 – 2010)
“On this superb natural site we stand within – a cathedral as boundless as our wonder, quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply, choirs the winds and waves. Its organ thunder, its dome the sky.
Stanley John Heywood, BEd’49, BA’49
Born March 18, 1925, in Vancouver, the only son of John Albert and Lillian (Burton) 
Heywood, Stanley died February 21, 2014, in Tucson. He is predeceased by his first wife, Joan Olive Murton, and...
Gilbert Gordon Brown (Gib), BA’50, BEd’57, MA’64
June 20, 1921 ‑ March 22, 2014
John Gordon Gilmour (“Jack”), BSF’50
John, who loved his family, dogs, planes, sailboats, trees, and the wilderness, died in Vancouver on March 31, 2014. John grew up in Saskatoon with his identical twin, James, in the home the Gilmour...
Donald Watson Munro, BSF’51
September 4, 1923 ‑ October 13, 2013