Fearsome, tireless, dynamic, a master builder and managementsuperstar -- the late Dr. Gordon Shrum was all of these. He was also aman who achieved more after age sixty-five than most do in their entirelives and who, until his death at age ninety in 1985, was widelyconsidered 'the greatest living British Columbian.'
This autobiography traces Shrum's beginnings on a southernOntario farm, through his school and university years in Toronto, hisdistinguished academic career at UBC and his post-retirement careers aschancellor of Simon Fraser University, head of B.C. Hydro, RobsonSquare, and the Vancouver Museum.
This portrait is like Gordon Shrum: brisk, clear, forthright.
Preface
Introduction / Peter Stursberg
1. Just a farm boy
2. Among intellectual giants
3. Rough passage overseas
4. "Halt, action, front!"
5. The elusive green line
6. Extracurricular professor
7. Chief expediter
8. The politics of power
9. Building public power
10. The instant university
11. "Berkeley North"
12. Last days at Hydro
13. Twice more into the breach
14. The easy good times are over
Index
