John Westlake (Vaselenak)

[A]nother man came to join us, John Westlake, a graduate of Toronto and an expert in tax law because we had put on a course on tax law. John Willis had done the same thing at Osgoode. Those were the first two tax courses in Canada in law schools . . . .
—Dean George Curtis

John Westlake taught us constitutional law, which would have been in third year. . . . [H]e was a shy quiet man. He was, I think quite interesting intellectually and we enjoyed that. He taught an interesting subject but he didn’t really "click" as a teacher.
—Professor Diana Priestly

Fred Carrothers

He was a graduate of the first class. So Fred was a lecturer on a one-year appointment. . . . Fred stayed on the second year to get enough money to go to Harvard, with the Bennett Scholarship.
—Dean George Curtis

[H]e taught me Agency and he was very young. He hadn’t been in the Services and he was quite new at teaching. Very earnest and I think we liked him as a teacher . . . .
—Professor Diana Priestly

Dean George Curtis

[T]he Dean had a flair, he would regale us with stories and deal with only matters of principle. He didn’t have time for much detail. He was running a new faculty, and he was recruiting and he was raising money and trying to get a building built . . . all of those sorts of things. But he was . . . I don’t recall him skipping lectures or anything like that . . . as far as I can recall he was there full-time when he was scheduled to be there. But we knew that he was very busy with other things.
—Chief Justice Allan McEachern

When he was really in top form for a lecture you couldn’t beat him. You never forgot his lectures.
—Professor Diana Priestly

Raymond Herbert

He put a human face on the place. He looked after people who deserved some help. He was unfazed by people with titles. He liked everyone from the janitor to the King and he treated them the same.
—Professor James MacIntyre

After the war, he entered UBC and graduated near the top of his class with a compacted B.A./LL.B. degree in 1949. He was called to the Bar the same year. . . . He became a Bencher of the Law Society in 1973, the first academic to be elected. In 1980, he was elected Treasurer, the head of the 26 Benchers.
—"In Memoriam: Ray Herbert" (1995), Spring The Gryphon 20