The ‘clubable’ debate bubbles HAVING A dinosaur eye open for the disgusting, I see thai a few addlepated academics have resigned from the Vancouver Club because it refuses to allow women members. The academic reactionaries in question include David Strangway, presidenc of UBC, and the ap- propriately named Bill Saywell, president of SFU. The Vancouver Club is well rid of such pretentious, flower-power generation loonypips. It is because of folk like them that some men are taking to skirts while wimmin wear the pants and males are be- ing discriminated against. Am I against women? No. Just wimumin, Nor am 1 a club man, unless my West Van watering hole can be counted as a club. What I am against is idiocy. In London, the Garrick Club has also just voted to keep women away from its portals. None of its members have been daft enough to resign on that account, of course, bui the fem-inspired fuss has been furious. _ To show that I am not alone in my prehistoric attitude, I in- troduce Mary Kenny, who writes for The Sunday Telegraph. “‘No,”’ she wrote. ‘‘I shall not be crying into my cornflakes this momning because I have not been permitted to join the Garrick Club. And I do not feel miffed that Mr. Derek Nimmo has pro- nounced women ‘just not club- bable’.... “It would be absurd if the law Doug Collins ON THE OTHER HAND forced clubs to accept ali and sundry, since the very definition of a club is that it excludes some people, or even some groups. “Those who have rot been to Oxford or Cambridge are not en- titled to join the Oxford and Cambridge Club, which is ex- tremely unfair on the 97% of the population who are not Oxbridge graduates, but if the regulation did not exist there would hardly be any point in the club at all. “A club is a place that accepts those who are ‘in the club’ and keeps out those who are not. And if men want to have a club which is exclusively masculine they are entitled to do so. The same prin- ciple applies to women.’’ Miss Kenny goes on to Say that while there are women battering on the door to be admitted to men’s clubs, there are no men pleading to be admitted to women’s clubs. “It is as though those women who want to enter men’s clubs do not, at heart, want to join the ladies. They want to join the men because they think, fundamental- ly, that men are somehow ‘better. “This, curiously, is the very reverse of feminism.”’ (Good point, Mary. Just think about it, girls.) “The argument used for desegregating men’s clubs is that career women are at a disadvan- tage in making business contacts by not being able to prop up the bar at the Garrick. “On this principle, gentlemen’s clubs in New York have been for- cibly opened to women, though forcibly desegregating a club nullifies the fundamental! principle of private life whereby you may socialize with whoever you please.”’ (Watch for those nitwits over in Victoria to pass a similar law. Mark my words, it’s just a matter of time.) Miss Kenny continues. “It may be true that business | Former WV police chief, NV RCMP sergeant passes away MOIRA MACBRAYNE, a former West Vancouver Police chief and North Vancouver RCMP staff sergeant, passed away on Aug. 8. MacBrayne was 80 years old. MacBrayne was born in Perth, Scotland, but was raised in Ed- monton. Before starting his police carcer he served two years in the Royal Canadian Army based in Esquimalt. MacBrayne then joined the B.C. Provincial Police force in 1932 and served in several detachments around the province. When North Vancouver went into receivership in 1934, Mac- Brayne and a second B.C. Pro- . vincial Police constable were deployed in North Vancouver. The two were the sole police of- ficers responsible for policing North Vancouver from Deep Cove to the Capilano River. . MacBrayne served with the B.C. Provincial Police until the RCMP took over the policing duties of most of B.C. in 1950. He then went to work with the RCMP and served in the Ocean Falls detach- ment before being appointed staff sergeant of the North Vancouver RCMP detachment from 1953 to 1956. In June of 1956, MacBrayne was appointed the fourth police chief of the West Vancouver (643) 725-249 FORMER WEST Varcouver Police chief Meira MacBrayne passed away Saturday. Police Department. At the time of his appointment the West Van- couver Police Department only consisted of 13 constables and one civilian worker. MacBrayne held the position of police chief until his retirement in 1974, at which time the police force’s staff numbered approxi- mately 80. He also served as president of You can help too. the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in 1979. West Vancouver Police Insp. Grant Churchill worked under MacBrayne and said everyone tespected the job he did. “Chief MacBrayne was a real supporter of the police officer. In many ways he was ahead of his time in that he was very much in- to the community style of polic- ing. ““He was a stern man but very supportive of the constables. He introduced the youth fiaisun sec- tion, I have nothing but very good things to say about him,"’ said Churchill. MacBrayne is survived by his wife Daisy, sons David and Don, daughter Lorna Calderwood and seven grandchildren. —- A memorial service will be held for MacBrayne today at the Boal Memorial Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Rd., in North Vancouver at 2 p.m, TREASURY BILLS INSURED TERM DEPOSITS CANADA SAVINGS BONDS RSPs and RiFs TAX SHELTERS MUTUAL FUNDS DIVIDEND TAX CREDITS BLUE-CHIP STOCKS & BONDS ® Working closely with you or § f your accountant, our advisors Bare trained to identify needs, assess risk, and execute a sensible, comfortable ap- proach to investing. 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