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Jan 19, 2015 · Tel 604 822 2484. Fax 604 822 9060. Email ceremonies.office@ubc.ca. 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.
UBC Reports | Vol. 53 | No. 10 | Oct. 4, 2007 John B. Macdonald. John B. Macdonald, UBC’s fourth president, visited campus recently. During his 1962-1967 tenure, Macdonald influenced the development of UBC and higher education throughout the province with his seminal 1962 report, Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future.
Feb 27, 2024 · And UBC—and all of British Columbia—desperately needed someone with a new plan. “UBC was facing a virtually impossible proposition,” MacDonald reflected in 2007. The baby boom had boomed, students were flooding out of high schools, jobs were requiring more and more education, and BC’s lone university had neither the faculty nor the buildings needed to educate so many more people.
John B. Macdonald fonds. – 1962-1967. 15 cm of textual records. Biographical Sketch The University of British Columbia's fourth president, John Barfoot Macdonald, was born in Toronto on February 23, 1918. Graduating with a degree of doctor of dental surgery from the University of Toronto in 1942, he served as captain in the Canadian
The University of British Columbia's third president John Barfoot Macdonald was born in Toronto on February 23, 1918. Graduating with a Ph.D. in dental surgery from the University of Toronto in 1942, he served as a captain in the Canadian Dental Corps during World War II.
John Barfoot Macdonald, OC served as the fourth President of the University of British Columbia from 1962 to 1967.
John Barfoot Macdonald (1918-2014) was a Canadian academic. [1] [2] [3] Macdonald was born on February 23, 1918, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [2] In 1942, he graduated in Dental Surgery from the University of Toronto. [2] [3] During the Second World War, he served in the Dental Corps.
