Gordon Shrum : an autobiography / / with Peter Stursberg ; edited by Clive Cocking

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780549903321
• Autore: Shrum Gordon <1896-1985.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver : , : University of British Columbia Press, , 1986
• ISBN: 1-283-22629-4; 9786613226297; 0-7748-5698-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations, plates
• Altri autori (Persone): StursbergPeter; CockingClive
• Disciplina: 370/.92/4
• Soggetti: Educators - British Columbia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Just A Farm Boy -- Among Intellectual Giants -- Rough Passage Overseas -- "Halt, Action, Front!" -- The Elusive Green Line -- Extracurricular Professor -- Chief Expediter -- The Politics of Power -- Building Public Power -- The Instant University -- "Berkeley North" -- Last Days at Hydro -- Twice More into the Breach -- The Easy Good Times are Over -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fearsome, tireless, dynamic, a master builder and management superstar -- the late Dr. Gordon Shrum was all of these. He was also a man who achieved more after age sixty-five than most do in their entire lives and who, until his death at age ninety in 1985, was widely considered 'the greatest living British Columbian.' This autobiography traces Shrum's beginnings on a southern Ontario farm, through his school and university years in Toronto, his distinguished academic career at UBC and his post-retirement careers as chancellor of Simon Fraser University, head of B.C. Hydro, Robson Square, and the Vancouver Museum.