Guelph Alumnus Magazine, May 1971

Shopping for faculty: Is citizenship important? . . . page 3

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH July-August 1971,

Vol.

4, NO. 4

CONTENTS Citizenship versus Scholarship

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Sass Peepre and the great outdoors

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The Lecture Mystique

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Alumni Weekend

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Campus Highlights

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Appointments

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Alumni News

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CREDITS Design: cover, Ken Chamberlain; Photography: p. 4, 10, (bottom), 12, 13, 14. 15, 16, D. Bates; p. 6, 17, Audio-Visual Services; p. 8, 9, 10 (top), Prof. Alex Peepre.

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. W. C. Winegard.

PRESIDENT: P. W. COUSE, OAC '46.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: Dr. V. C. R. walk&. OVC '47.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs. J . D. (Vrrgrnra Shortt) Bandeen.

Mac '57: P. D. Ferguson. Wel '68: T. R. Hllltard.

OAC '40: Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57.

SECRETARY: Mrs. D. J. (Jean Kellough) King. Mac '52.

TREASURER: J. J. Elmslie. Development Officer, University of Guelph.

DIRECTORS: Dr. C. R. Buck. OVC '46: Mrs. B. L. (Pat Lumley) Canwell. Wel '68; Miss Jean Dewar, Mac '28; Dr. G. R. Doidge. OVC '52; Mrs. G. M. (Joan Anderson) Jenkinson. Mac '66: Mrs. M. S. (Linda Sully) Keith. Well '67: P. M. Lindley. OAC '57: Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57: D. W. McDonell. OAC '70: T. 8. Radford. Wel '67: C. G. Triven. OAC '67.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: R. G. Bennett. OAC '43, President. O.A.C. Alumni Association: R. D. Bever~dge.

Wel '67. President. Arts and Sciences Alumni Association: Mrss Rosernary Clark. Mac '59. President Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association: Dr. T. L. Jones.

OVC '34. President, O.V.C. Alumni Association; and J. K. Babcock. OAC '54, Director. Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Guelph Alumnus IS publrshed by the Department of Alumn~Affa~rs and Developrnent. Un~versltyof Guelph.

The Ed~torlal Coni~n~ttee IS comprrsed of Edltor-D. A. Bates. OAC '69. Alu~nn~ Officer: Art D~rector-Prof. K. E. Chamberlain: J. K. Babcock. OAC '54. D~rectorof Alurnnr Affarrs and Development: D. L. Waterston, Orrector of Inlormatron: D. W. Jose. OAC '49. Assstant Dlrector of Infornlatron.

The Edrtorral Adv~soryBoard of the Univers~tyof Guelph Alumn~Assoc~at~on: Glenn Powell. OAC '62, Chalrrnan; Mrs. G. M. Jenkrnson, Mac '66 and Mrs. J. M. (Kay Murdoch) Llttle, Mac '59, v~ce-cha~rmen: Dr. A. E. Austin. Dept. of English: and Mr. G. B. Love, Wel '69.

Ex-OH~clo: J. K. Babcock. OAC '54 and P. W. Couse, OAC '46. Corresponding members: D. R. Baron, OAC '49 and H. G. Dodds, OAC '58.

Undellvered copres should be returned to Alumni House. University of Guelph. Guelph, Ontarlo. Canada.

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About this issue Approximately three years ago, two Carleton University professors of English, Robin Mathews and James Steele.

Our report in this issue was initiated by a Council of Ontario Universities report that shows the University of Guelph had

shocked their academic community as as the nation with their findings regarding the citizenship of professors in Canadian universities.

in 1969-70 the highest proportion of Canadian academics of the 14 provincial universities; 69 per cent of Guelph's faculty (436 of 631) were Canadians.

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They said that the proportion of Canadian academics had fallen from approximately 75 per cent in 1961-62 to about 49 per cent in 1968-69. Worse still, they said, the rate of this diminution had increased sharply in the late 1960s.

"It is evident," they write in their book, The Struggle for Canadian Universities, "that if this trend continues for much longer, the net effect will be such that the Canadian academic will become a proper specimen for cultural anthropologists-from a broad."

For their efforts, Mathews and Steele have been both praised and cursed. Their supporters applaud Mathews and Steele's findings for revealing yet another part of

Last year, there was no discipline with less than 53 per cent Canadians. As with most universities, the lowest proportion of Canadians a t Guelph occurred in the humanities

and

social sciences,

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57 per cent respectively. Canadians held 75 per cent or more of the posts in the sciences save for physical s c i e n c M 6

cent.

For outdoor buffs who have a tendency to get lost while exploring, we present starting on page eight a sport that will make even the most timid camper an equal of David Thompson, or Lewis and per

Clark.

It's called

orienteering,

and it's a sport

Canada that is falling under foreign domination. The critics contend that scholarship is, and always will be, inter-

you'll be hearing a lot more about in the next few years according to Alex Peepre, professor of physical education.

On page 11, Professor Homer Hogan

national; that good teaching knows no geographical boundaries; and that a professor's citizenship has little or no effect on his teaching.

comments on the potential of a audiovisual teaching set-up at Guelph. The article originally appeared in the campus publication Teaching Forum entitled

On the next five pages, we look at the question of scholarship versus citizenship by means of an interview with University President, Dr. W. C. Winegard.

An

Immodest Proposal. Immodest?

Articles on Alumni Weekend, Convocation, campus highlights, and alumni news follow.

Dr. Winegard, why does the University of Guelph have such a high proportion of Canadians on staff when some other universities have only a bare majority, perhaps even a minority, of Canadian academics?

Is any effort made t o hire a specific proportion of Canadians?

I suspect that this is partially due to the fact that the founding colleges, in many cases, had t o train their own faculty. Looking at the University's calendar you'll find several professors who attended one of the three founding colleges as undergraduates and post-graduates.

That would, of course, have given the University a relatively high proportion of Canadians on staff in 1965. Another reason is that this University still emphasizes the sciences, and there is no shortage of good Canadian scientists. Since the University was formed, we have been hiring the best people we could find, but we haven't made any conscientious attempt t o hire just Canadians, and, of course, we haven't hired just Canadians. Almost by chance the University has a very high percentage of Canadians. and we are pleased with that. In many cases, we haven't been able t o go out and find Canadians. As a result, we have somewhere in the range of 65-70 per cent Canadians, about 10 per cent from the United Kingdom, 12 per cent f r ~ mthe Y.,$,& ,and the rest from other parts of the world.

Are there too many non-Canadian academics on our campuses today?

Do they wield too much power?

In our look at the issue, we ask University President, Dr. W. C. Winegard for his comments on

Will the proportion of Canadians at Guelph decrease as the University continues t o grow?

Citizenship

No, I think the proportion will end up much the same as it is now although I'm not at all sure the proportion of Canadians hasn't decreased over the past year from the 69 per cent we had in 1969-70.

We have been hiring in several areas where it has been difficult t o find Canadians, and applicants for the openings simply have not been Canadians. But since we will be hiring very few people over the next two or three years, I would expect that we'll end up with the same proportion we have now. say approximately 65-70 per cent.

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What disciplines and subject areas lack Canadian scholars?

The humanities and social sciences generally. I don't believe that there are even now large numbers of Canadians with high qualifications available in sociology, economics, agricultural economics, fine art, drama, etc., so it seems t o me that we are going to have t o rely on outside sources for academics for some time yet.

Why is there a shortage of Canadians i n these areas? Have Canadian universities been as "disorganized and inefficient" as Professors Mathews and Steele claim i n not realizing the need t o train Canadians i n these subjects?

Mathews and Steele apparently made the great discovery in 1968-69 that many of us made in 1962, perhaps even earlier; specifically, that Canadian universities did not have the faculty in disciplines other than the sciences t o cope with the large bulge in students that would be attending universities in the 1960s and 1970s. In the humanities and social sciences we realized we were going t o be in real difficulty. So we urged upon the government a building-up of the graduate strength in universities across the country. We urged special scholarships be established, and there were administrative efforts m a d e f o r example. at Toronto, I was part of an administrative shuffle that was t o put great emphasis on graduate work-so that we could produce people in the right areas t o teach in the universities. Well, those efforts made considerable impact. If we hadn't cranked the whole system up from 1962 on, we would not be talking about the number of nonCanadians we have now, but, in fact, practically the whole staff at our universities would be nonCanadian.

Scholarship

That c r a n k i n g - ~didn't ~ come in time for the first wave of students to hit the universities, so we had no choice but t o import large numbers of academics from wherever we could get them to help out in the educational system-there was simply no other way. Now the Mathews and Steele hysteria-what would we have done? The universities did what they could t o get trained academics, they had to have faculty. The alternative was not to take in the students. I think the universities realized that it was not particularly good to have a very large percentage of nonCanadians on staff, but then (1962) we had no choice. Now we do have a choice. The results in the last few years are beginning to show, so much .so in fact, that now we have swung the opposite way; some Canadians can't find jobs. Mathews and Steele say Canadian universities are overlooking Canadian academics. I doubt it. Most of the universities have taken a pretty responsible line. They advertise academic openings, and will take Canad~ansif they are as qualified as non-Canadians -naturally we prefer to take Canadians. But it would be a terrible mlstake for the universities that are supposed to represent excellence (whether we do or not is always open to question, but we are supposed to) to purposely hire someone without the proper qualifications t That just because he or she happens to have the r ~ g h citizenship. doesn't make any sense to me. Instead of decrying, and kicking the Americans. British and others we have in our education system, I believe Canadians should be damn thankful that they're here. or else their sons and daughters wouldn't be in univers~tytoday. To suggest that Canadians have been overlooked, and that non-Canadians are purposely belng hlred, as Implied by some critics of the university system, is just absolute nonsense.

'... we should be thankful

they're here ... our children might not be in college otherwise ...,

Figures put forth by both Mathews and Steele and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for 1969 show the bulk of new aowintments are .still going t o non-Canadians.

That may be so. Maybe the bulk of appointments across the country are goins t o non-Canadians but then we have to look at where these new appointments are comlng, what disciplines? They are in the soclal sciences. That's where we're short of faculty. That's where the students are flocking t o study. If you can find somebody from Great Britain or U.S.A. who has a PhD and two or three years teaching experience, it seems obvious t o me that you're going to take that person over someone in Canada who has just completed his cornprehensives for a PhD and still has a thesis to write. That situation in the social sciences I'm sure will go on for another two or three years but it is getting better.

Why should universities insist on hiring only teachers with PhDs? There are thousands of Canadians with masters degrees and partially completed PhDs. Couldn't more of these people be hired?

Perhaps, but I happen to believe that i f the professor doesn't know a lot more than the students, ignorance is going t o talk to ignorance and we're really not going t o get anywhere. I don't believe in the professor's standing up in front and preaching-that's lousy teaching.

I do believe in his leading the class in the discussion of the subject ar6a and he's not going to be much of a leader i f he isn't some kind of an authority in his subject. And there's one other problem. If a faculty member comes to the university to teach and has very long to go on his PhD, or has dropped out of his PhD full-time research t o teach before he has gotten a good start on the thesis, then he has that great axe over his head and is not sure what he should be doing.

What is his responsibility: To finish his degree in every spare moment or t o worry about his present situation, that is, the teaching and the research required by the university? Many people can solve this and they have. We've been particularly fortunate here with people with unfinished PhDs who have struggled along pretty valiantly to complete them. But there's no doubt that there's a terrible load on the person concerned.

Couldn't Canadian universities produce more PhDs if Canadians were given preference for available openings in graduate schools? You are on record as an advocate of Canada's responsibility t o train foreign students, but considering the economic situation isn't the time coming when foreign graduates will occupy places Canadian postgraduates should?

Sure it will and is already. We have some foreign students occupying places Canadian students could take. But I hope we'll never see the time in this country when we will keep students out of our universities because they happen to be foreign. However, if we are at the same time saylng we are golng to have to keep out a large number of Canadians because we can't afford them either, and therefore, we are going to have to have some sort of rationing of the number of noncanadians, that would seem to me to be fair. If we are forced by economic reasons to put a percentage on the number of nonCanadians in areas already rationed to Canadians, I think foreign students are capable of understanding that kind of problem. If you go back to the tight-economy days of the 1930s, large numbers of Canadians were studying in the U.K. and U.S., and they weren't kicked out by those countries. Currently, I believe there are more Canadians studying outside of Canada than there are non-Canadians in Canada. And there are few non-Canadians studying in the social sciences and humanities, the areas where Canadians are lacking. The vast majority are studying in areas where Canada has some expertise. I haven't seen the latest figures but I'm sure most non-Canadian graduate students come from economically lesser developed countries as one would expect just as Canada, as a lesser developed country in the 1930s, had to send its students elsewhere for train~ng.

To ignore tra~ningforeign students in our graduate schools now would be ignorlng the debt Canada owes to other countries.

How much power should nonxanadians be able t o exercise on Cana-. dian campuses? Should they occupy decision-making positions in the administration as well as teaching and research posts?

I don't see any reason to deny a man a job in a university on the basis of citizenship. It seems to me that if he's qualified to do the job and ~f in an open search such as the kind we have for senior posts he is the one the search committee feels most capable, then I think we should be prepared to let him do the job. After all, he is here and has decided to live in this country. Besides, it is against the Ontario human rights code to deny a man a job on the basis of citizensh~punless you can prove definitely that citizenship is a real function of the job. I'd hate to have to prove that. I know many Canadians who have gone to the U.S. and have taken positions of some importance. I'm sure i t has not been any less valuable for the U.S. to have them there I'm convinced that anyone would do the best job poss~bleregardless of what hls or her cltlzenship is.

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But doesn't citizenship affect some of a person's decisions, for example, in hiring practices? Mathews and Steele say Canadians are overlooked because nonxanadians often use a "grapevine system" of recruitment, and approach friends and former colleagues at other universities outside Canada rather than advertise extensively, both in Canada and abroad.

Certa~nlythere is a danger in using the "old boy" or "grapev~ne" network for new appointments, and that's why we have taken to advertising; everybody gets a chance to apply for positions that are available. We have tried to make all of our deans and department cha~rmenaware of the fact that it Isn't right to use the "old boy" network as their only source of information concerning available academ~cs.We must advertise; we must make sure that Canadrans have an opportun~tyto apply for the jobs that are available. We certainly don't want to make it difficult for a Canadian to find a job in

'. .. Canadians will get most jobs in our universities - no one wants it otherwise ...

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a Canadian university. I don't think the non-Canadians in senior administrative posts ignore Canadians; indeed, I would think experience in this university is just the opposite. The nonxanadians who are in administrative posts are perhaps the most sensitive about trying to hire Canadians. They are the administrators who go out of thelr way, who go beyond the realm of reasonableness to search out Canadians from every corner of the world. I don't think there's any valldity in the worry that non-Canadians get in and then bring in other groups of non-Canadians. I suppose this relates to textbook purchases too. Some people say our publishing industry is being sold down the river by non-Canadians who ignore Canadian authors' books.

As far as textbooks are concerned, like any small country, one has to admit that Canadian authors have not turned out very large numbers of textbooks either at the university level or at the high school level. In fact, I suppose there are more CanadIan textbooks being used at the hrgh school level than there are in our universities.

After all, our whole scholarly history is not very long. Until after World War II, most of the people in Canada who were connected with univers~tiesor senior research positions in government or industry had been tralned elsewhere, and had received their degrees in the U.S. or the U.K. Now some textbooks are being written in Canada and we use them, but it's pretty difficult to say we're not going t o use textbooks from other countries. What you do is try to find the best textbook that is available. In my own subject, metallurgy, I naturally recommend my own book to everybody (what else?), but I guess the one book I've told more people to buy than any other is a book written by someone at the University of Chicago.

Would a departmont chaired by a non-canadian and with a majority of non-Canadian professors be capable of emphasizing existing and pertinent Canadian materials in courses offered, especially courses dealing primarily with Canada? Are these departments capable of supervising graduate students who are majoring i n Canadian studies?

'. . . I see no reason to deny a man a job because of his citizenship ...

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I won't deny there are some areas of scholarship where it would be wrong for a department not to have a significant number of Canadrans because Canada is different from other countries, and one would hope that Canadian professors could give the Canadian viewpoint better than professors from elsewhere. If you want to talk about the particular economic situation of Canada or the federal structure of Canada, yes, 1 suppose the people who have grown up here would have betier feeling for that than others. That's if you're talking about special Canadian studies, but a general course in economics, or a general course In philosophy, it doesn't matter what the teacher's criizenship IS. There IS one other point that we have to look at here; many of the people from other countries, whether i t be the U.S. or the U.K.. may have a citlzenshrp that says one thing, but a background that says another. They may have spent many years in contact with Canadians; they may have spent vacations here or years on sabbatical leaves in Canada. Figures alone don't give you the krnd of information you want. You almost have to look at the individual case to see whether it could be done better by a Canadran.

And what about Canadian material in courses where applicable?

Should the universities stress that courses must deal i n part with available Canadian data, or that a specific number of courses dealing primarily with Canada be taught?

I don't know that one can really answer that. I know some departments have said that they're going to make as one of therr specialities, Canadian studles, and it may be a good thlng for them to do.

I would think that if they make that decision, they would have looked around to see what other universities are offering, and if they had found that there is a major gap in Canadian studies in an area then it may well be that the University of Guelph should move into it.

It would be quite wrong in some areas to over-emphasize Canada when most of the s~gnrficantwork is not Canadian, for example, English literature. I think i t would be a lopsided course if half of the

program that was offered in Engllsh literature concentrated on Canadians because surely in terms of English lrterature we're a drop in the bucket. We have had some good writers and they should be stressed.

There shoilld be programs and courses available t o study Canadian writrng, but i f we push that t o the extent that some English litera'ture that has come down through the centuries IS excluded, then surely we would be cheating the student rather than doing him a favour.

What is the University's policy then on Canadian content?

We urge that Canadian examples be used where a t all possible because lt IS good teaching. After all, most of the students in the classes are Canadians; therefore, if a professor can use a Canadian example he is relating h ~ ssubject matter t o something they have a feellng for. But we're not going to go out and inslst that people use Canadran examples. We're going t o let the professors teach as best they can by using the examples from where they feel they can draw them.

You mentioned earlier the danger of using the "grapevine" o r "old boy" technique of filling academic vacancies. Are academic openings advertised sufficiently i n Canada?

Oh yes, I thlnk so. At Guelph, we have a policy approved by the Board of Governors which says this University will advertise all academ~cand senior admintstrative positions.

We advertise all faculty openings in the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) Bulletin which is published several times a year. All administrative posts, including departmental chairmanshrps are 7dvertised in the Globe and Mail because of that newspaper's readership across Canada, and because there may be people In government or industry who don't read the AUCC Bulletin rnterested in such positrons. Occasionally, there may be an appointment open which we can fill immed~atelywrthout advertising; in fact, to advertise ~t may be a waste of everyone's time because we are sure a more qualified candidate for the job doesn't exist. In such a case we would hire that person, but I would be obliged to tell the Board that the position was not advertised and the reason why.

That is a one in 100 chance.

It has been suggested that the provincial governments enact legislatior? stipulating that only Canadians can hold positions from departmental chairman through chancellor inclusive, and that all academic departments aim for a 66 per cent Canadian faculty. What is your opinion o f such legislation?

1 thlnk that would be flogging a dead horse and I disagree with it in prlncrple. I'm quite convinced that Canadrans will get most of the jobs available in Canadian universities and that no one wants it any other way. If we legislate, then we are saying the universities will hire others in preference t o Canadians and therefore, we, the people, have t o prevent those drrty guys from doing that. That's nonsense! We're going t o hire Canadians where we can because it makes sense. To legislate saying we have t o hire 75 per cent Canadians means we might have t o pass u p hiring a qualified teacher because-'sorry our quota is filled'. A policy such as this in our universities, which are supposed t o be dedicated t o scholarship, strikes m e as nationalism getting rn the way of common sense. And I'm a nationalist, a strong proCanadian.

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'. .. we urge that Canadian material be used where possible - after all, it's good teaching ...

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INLAND, 1941. Alex "Sass" Peepre's love affair with Scandinavia's unofficial national sport, orienteering, began many years before he found himself in Finland's rugged countryside leading his squad against an advancing Russian army.

But he was never as thankful for having learned how t o use a map and a compass--orienteeringPs basic tools--as he was then when survival meant conquering harsh Finnish winters as well as the enemy.

The desperate urgency of wartime orienteering is just a memory for Alex Peepre -now Professor Peepre of the University's School of Physical Education, and the man alumni of the 1950s and '60s will recall as an instructor back in the days of compulsory physical education classes.

The 56-year-old, Estonian-born Peepre is a fountain o f bubbling optimlsm about the advantages which peacetime orienteering can offer a nation of 20th-century softies.

Orienteering, stated simply, is the perambulatory equivalent of car rallying.

Possessing only their compasses and maps detailing the nearby countryside, orienteers must plot a course that will take them through a series of checkpoints in sequence and then back t o the startfinish line. The orienteer managing this in the least time wins.

The graying professor, whose European heritage is readily apparent from his sharp accent and his occasional utterance of an Estonian phrase t o replace the momentarily forgotten English counterpart, has good reason to be optimistic.

Orienteering, a sport until five years ago virtually unkown t o Canadians, has now suddenly taken hold. The number of competltors showing up for meets is increasing annually; departments of education are beginning t o include it in their curricula; the University's "0" Club (Outdoors and Orienteering) is growing rapidly, and surprisingly, Professor Peepre estimates that 8 0 per cent of the club's 60-75 members are non-physical education majors, an indication o f the over-all appeal of the sport; and there's even a $300 orienteering scholarship available now for physical education students who are planning on a teaching career.

Professor Peepre feels there are several reasons why people have suddenly taken t o orienteering.

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Unless 10,000 Swedes are wrong Orienteering's the only way to enjoy the great outdoors

"It has a recreational value as applied in a practical way," he explains. "lt's a skill many hunters and fishermen find useful when they're out in a new territory, and, of course, boating enthusiasts and yachtsmen find i t helpful-it's a navigational skill.

"Secondly, it offers a wonderful motivation t o get people outdoors and out of their cars. If we want a healthy nation we must get people up and on their feet.

Many people enjoy hiking-almost every camper will talk a walk in the woods when he and his family are on holidays. People like especially t o hike in unknown country; it's more appealing psychologically, and more exciting than hiking in a more familiar area. If you have confidence in your ability to navigate in unknown territory, you can enjoy it all the more.

"Another reason is that orienteering offers a competitive challenge for people.

A person must compete with others as well as with himself. There are always decisions and choices to make; which route is best? Is it better to follow that path or t o cut across that field? This is what orienteering is all about."

Dr. John Powell, director of the School of Physical Education agrees: "It's challenging, and it's fun. It gets people out into the open air and allows each t o compete not only against others, but primarily against himself. If a person does compete against himself, it's much more important for him t o achieve some satisfaction in his efforts than just winning a race. What happens when a person is 50. 60, or 70 years old?

He doesn't want t o compete in a racing situation, but he does want t o compete with guile, experience, and subtlety; he wants t o go around the mountain instead of over it, and yet finish ahead of someone."

A recent meet at the University of Waterloo was typical of the broad range of participants which orienteering attracts.

Several local clubs sent teams of competitors for each class of competition while the over-50 generation was ably represented by Professor Peepre and several other gray-haired gentlemen. One young girl in her teens, her broken left foot wrapped in waterproof plastic bags, brought along two friends who seemed to enjoy slopping through boggy areas as

much as a family of four who were helping dad navigate through the woods while he kept his crutches clear of obstructions.

"There aren't many sports where the whole family can take part-there's usually some physical restriction involved which dictates the degree to which everyone in the family can participate. In orienteering, the family can compete on a very even level," Professor Peepre says.

"Orienteering is open to people of all age levels and both sexes. In competitive orienteering, we have found time and time again that brute strength doesn't matter. Perhaps you can run a mile in four minutes, but you have to know where t o run. Girls are very good in this regard.

They make a decision and stick to it. So it's a mental sport as well as a physical one. Often, you have to make decisions under stress. You're tired, perhaps lost.

You have t o find where you are, and get back on the right track."

Dr. Powell calls orienteering an "integrated sport . . a most complete one," a sport many athletes interested primarily in other activities have utilized for training. Grant McClaren, whose cross-country running exploits were the subject of an article a year ago in the Guelph Alumnus (Vol. 3. No. 3), and Bill Morrison, 1970 cowinner of the Ted Wildman Trophy were both active orienteers while at Guelph as were many other athletes. Both Dr. Powell and Professor Peepre know athletes-the calibre of Roger Bannister, first runner t o break the four-minute barrier in the mile-who have stated that had they encountered orienteering earlier in their careers they might have switched right then and there.

"People familiar with the international scene of athletics are wondering why there are so few good Swedes and Finnish runners anymore. The answer is simply this.

Orienteering is in their bloodstream now.

They don't want t o be 'straitjacket runners' going around and around the same asphalt track; they won't spend a time on 'straitjacket running' anymore," Professor Peepre says. His assessment is borne out by the overwhelming turnout last year of 7,000 participants for one local five-day orienteering meet in Skane, Sweden. Organizers are expecting 10,000 in 1971.

As the coach of Guelph's track and field, skiing, and orienteering teams, Pro-

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No one's too old or too young to enjoy orienteering. While Mrs. Riny Geddes and her sons Ewan, 5, and Glen. 7, (far left) stroll leisurely along the course, Bob Fawcett, a seventh semester ~ h v s i c a l education major, races agarnit ihe clock.

fessor Peepre now employs orienteering as a warm-up exercise for Guelph athletes.

He often sets up a "mini-meet" for athletes to navigate before getting down t o hard training. Orienteering itself is taught in two courses as part of the physical education degree program, and the School now sponsors a Guelph orienteering meet held every May which attracted 340 participants this year.

Orienteering's sudden rise in popularity -a direct result of Professor Peepre's efforts for many years to introduce the sport t o Canadians-has been attributed by observers as divine recognition for the professor's "missionary work" for orienteering. He laughs at that phrase, "missionary work," a misnomer, no doubt, coined by those who mistook his exuberance when describing the sport for a proclamation. But the analogy seems appropriate considering his efforts t o win acceptance for the sport which he recalls as "corning in very handy in wartime".

He was no stranger t o orienteering even then. It had been included in his boy scout act~vitiesand taught in Estonia's compulsory military training for high school boys. By the time he arrived in 1935 at the University of Helsinki t o obtain his bachelor of physical education

degree, the six times Estonia national ski champion (and later, for one year before the outbreak of the war, Estonia's national ski team coach) was himself ripe for conversion t o his newly-discovered sport.

Following the war, he lived in Sweden for six years where he became very active in orienteering circles, and today recalls those times with an admiring shake of the head exclaiming, "those Swedes."

He immigrated t o Canada in 1950 with the notion of introducing the sport t o Canada implanted in his mind by Bjorn Kjellstrom-the "father" of modern-day orienteering-who had briefly introduced orienteering t o Canada in 1948 with demonstration races in Montreal and in Toronto's High Park.

The first 15 years were not terribly fruitful.

"I worked for the YMCA, both in Toronto and in Guelph, and I just simply didn't have the time or the opportunity t o introduce it properly. The YMCA program was different from its European counterparts. There were many indoor programs I had t o supervise, although I was involved in some outdoor activities, and was able to introduce it t o some young people then."

He continued much the same following his appointment in 1956 as the director of the required physical education program at Guelph. He taught any interested students and took any opportunity t o discuss the sport at gatherings of physical education instrudors and coaches.

"It took many years of groundwork," he says, "until 1962 when John Disley, 1952 Olympic steeplechase bronze medallist and a keen orienteer, and myself were invited t o address the Royal Canadian Legion National Track and Field Coaches Clinics which have been held annually at Guelph since then. In 1965, 1 got the 'green light' from the University and the School of Physical Education t o set up our own annual clinics. This is how orienteering finally got introduced on a large scale. I really got involved, was able t o travel, and orienteering has now snowballed."

Since then, he has organized the standing committee on orienteering for the Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation which received in 1967 a government grant t o organize

three national c l i n i c s - a t the University of Calgary, Mount Allison University, and Queen's University.

Now that the sport has been accepted by the civilian population, Professor Peepre hopes to persuade the Canadian Armed Forces to adopt it. Historically, orienteering's military value has been recognized since its conception in 1893,but the military is often the last to act. Professor Peepre recalls the British army as being particularly obstinate and to prove a point the British orienteering organization issued a challenge. The 10 best orienteers from each group competed-the civilian team included two women and three junior members-and the army's interest in orienteering increased immeasurably when the civilians swept the first 10 spots.

"We hope to challenge the armed forces this year," says Professor Peepre. If history repeats itself, the armed forces may get a new training program t o go along with their new uniforms. D.A.B.

Above left, an unidentified orienteer copies checkpoint locations onto her map. Above, during a recent meet in Waterloo, Ontario, Professor Peepre punches card t o verify that he has visited that checkpoint.

We must overcome the lecture mystique

By HOMER HOGAN CCORDING t o many observers, universities are caught in an increasingly tightening vise: On one side, rising costs create a pressure for crowding classrooms and raising the faculty-student ratio, and on the other side, growing student protest makes it imperative to reduce "gaps" between teachers and students, and develop participatory education. I suggest that there is an e s c a p m n e so obvious, in fact, that only age-old prejudice and the blinding effects of lethargy and mistaken self-interest can explain why we all do not recognize it. Specifically, I mean the university-wide abolition of the lecture system and its replacement by a combination of small discussion groups and audio/visual workshops. By means of this admittedly revolutionary but entirely practicable change, we could reduce greatly both costs and student-faculty alienation, and as a result, vastly improve the quality of education.

Here are the ways it could be done at the University of Guelph: 1. By Senate decision, faculty members who use their free "development time" to prepare audio/visual programs for their courses would be considered to have produced, for the purposes of determining increment and promotion, the equivalent of articles published in learned journals.

2. A complete "audio/visual program" for a course would include the presentation of all the information and concepts normally delivered via lectures and not

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Homer Hogan is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. A noted author and poet, Professor Hogan's book, Poetry of Relevance, has been adopted for use in Alberta's high schools. He is currently writing three more.

readily available in good, easily understandable books. In preparing the program, the teacher could use any practical means of reproduction: mimeographed material, with the most important points underscored by color, art, typography, or even just a numbering system; dioramas; exh~bits;charts; tapes of readings, music, drama, or discussion; slides and v~deotapes of what can be interestingly visualized in motion (and that, of course, does not include the face of a lecturer reading his notes on a teleprompter!) The teacher might also be advised to have skilled speakers or drama students present his material i f they can project i t more effect~velythan he can.

3. The A/V programs described above would be located in "workshop" rooms where the student could go at any time to study and review as often as he likes. It is now technically possible for a student to play even videotape in a separate booth, stop the show when he can't understand the point being made, and then replay the puzzling portion of the tape until he comprehends it.

4. Instead of, say 3 0 students meet~ng three times a week to scribble down the fleeting Word of their instructor, students would now need to meet no more than once a week in a group of 10. At such sessions, there would only be discussion, questions, and, I hope, rigorous crossexamination.

5. 1 doubt that there is a student on this campus who would not heartily endorse these arrangements. But the changes would also allow us to cut the present classrooms in half, thereby supplying far more than the space needed for A/V workshops. If we raised academ~c standards so that we could have more independent students, it would also be possible for many courses to require students to meet only once every two weeks. And that would also enable us to increase faculty-student ratio considerably.

6. According to what I've been told, steps in this direction have already been taken by several science departments.

There is no excuse for the Colleges of Arts and Social Science not to move this way

too. The Language Laboratory, headed so of ably by Mr. Douglas Schwenker-ne the most dedicated and progressive educators on this campus-could be the basis for building an excellent A/V workshop system.

As I said before, the only real obstacles to adopt~ngthis Nay out of our present drlemma are prejud~ceand self-interest.

A recent example of the distorting effect of these forces is the report of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations which concluded, after a long study, that educational television "has failed whenever it has been used to substitute for a lecture conducted by the professor in person." Of course a TV lecture would be worse than a live one.

But TV "lectures" are not television education. TV comes into its own when i t is used for visualized motion in a workshop where the videotapes can be played and replayed by individual students working with individual screens. The idiocy of the OCUFA study was exposed when, soon after, McGill University reported the splendid achievements of TV in teaching chemistry, the McGill chemistry department having used TV properly in the sort of workshop arrangement described above. (See Globe and Mail, Dec. 23, 1970, p. 1).

Finally, I offer this suggestion for psychically rrdd~ngourselves of the lecture" mystique inherited from the days when the sermon and oration were the models for certified communication in universrties: At the next celebration of this mystique, the "commencement exercises," let us all burn our ghostly robes and hail our graduates with feast, song, and dance.

Alumni Day: Graduates approve projects to mark OAC's 100th birthday

OAC '71 year president T~~ schmidt (far left) who presented on Alumni Weekend the first class gift for the OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre, and Dr. Leslie Laking, OAC '39, (far right) director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, examine arboretum master plan. Looking on are Mrs. Laking and A1 McFadden, '71 vicepresident. At right, Gordon Bennett, OAC '43, auctions off dining hall crockery.

In June, 1974, graduates returning t o Guelph for Alumni Weekend plan to gather on a knoll centrally located in the former experimental field research plots east of the main campus t o take part in dedication ceremonies for the new OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre.

Earlier that day they may have witnessed similar ceremonies as the 100year-old plus Johnston Hall portico was declared an Ontario historic site; while munching on a chicken leg at the annual picnic luncheon, alumni may glance through a new book detailing OAC's 100 years of service t o agriculture authored by Professor Alex Ross, chairman of the Department of English; and philatelists may be able t o order first day covers of a commemorative stamp issued t o recognize OAC's 100th birthday.

These four items--Centre, book, historic site, and stamp-were unanimously approved by alumni attending the O.A.C. Alumni Association's annual meeting held June 19 as projects to mark OAC's centenary in 1974.

Elsewhere during Alumni Weekend, 12 OAC and Mac classes celebrated anniversary reunions as an estimated 750-900 alumni and their families returned t o the campus. The last regularly scheduled auction of antique dining hall crockery was held with Gordon Bennett, OAC '43, as auctioneer while Dr. M. G. "Moe" Freeman, OAC '55, directed the children's races. A band concert, campus tours, an exh~bitof Guelph memorabilia and the Rothmans of Pall Mall tapestry display hung in the library, and a punch party rounded out this year's activities.

Projects described At the OAC annual meeting, outgoing president, M. G. Greer, '41 introduced Paul Fisher, '11. chairman of a special committee of past-presidents which recommended the four centennial projects. and Dr. R. G. Hilton, arboretum director.

Dr. Hilton described the arboretum master plan adding that the first plantings of maple and locust varieties were underway. The 9,300 square foot Arboretum Centre, he said, would act as the administrative headquarters and meeting place

for the arboretum which will take another 10 years for total development.

The OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre will cost $237,600 exclusive of furnishings, site services, and cost escalation t o date of construction, said John Babcock, OAC '54, director of alumni affairs. Total cost, he said, would run $375,000 but an anticipated annual grant from the City of Guelph, which the University proposes t o use for capital development, would cover site services and certain other costs.

Mr. Babcock said that $250,000 would be required from alumni t o sponsor the Centre which has been adopted at the request of the Association by the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council as the major project for the three years 1972-74.

"It can be done." he said, referring t o past and current giving records of OAC alumni in the Alma Mater and Development Funds.

Mr. Fisher told alumni that the Association's board of directors would approach the Postmaster-General and the Ontario Historical Society for the commemorative stamp and historic site plaque projects' approval respectively.

Professor Ross' book, he said, was com-

plete up t o 1962, and that the Association would publish it and hope to recoup all or a major part of the cost through sales.

Portraits presented A highlight of the meeting was the presentation to the University of two paintings t o honour alumni. Dr. W. H. Minshall, OAC '33, presented on behalf of Year '33 the Evan Macdonald portrait of Professor Jack Baker, OAC '11, a member of the OAC staff for 4 4 years.

Following graduation, Professor Baker served as lecturer and associate professor until 1920 when he was named head of the then combined Department of Entomology and Zoology. a position he held until retirement in 1955.

Professor Baker developed the Entomology and Zoology program which included the first undergraduate major in Wildlife Management. In 1920, he chaired the committee which recommended the separation of course work for the diploma and degree programs, as well as establishing the third and fourth year programs.

He also played a major role in the development of graduate programs at Guelph.

He is a member of several entomological and conservation societies; retains an active interest in the navy in which he served as a captain in World War II including action at Normandy; and holds a Canada Centennial Medal in recognition of his contributions to education, conservation, and amateur sports.

The second painting was presented by Blair Dawson, president of OAC '54, in memory of Mrs. R. (Beth Duncan) Farley, "the only lass in '54," said Mr. Dawson.

Mrs. Farley died in 1958 in childbirth.

Entitled "37 Gloucester Street," the oil

by Albert Franck depicts an old Toronto house, and now hangs in the University's permanent Canadian collection. Class '54 also presented additional funds t o the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation for use as a "Beth Duncan Memorial Gold Medallist Award."

R. G. Bennett, '43, succeeded M. G. Greer. '41, as president of the O.A.C. Alumni Association for the next year.

Other officers and directors follow: Honorary President, Dr. N. R. Richards, '38; First V~ce-President,G. R. Greenlees, '62; Second Vice-President, F. T. Cowan, '65; and Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. M. G. Freeman, '55.

Directors: J. L. Alderman, '68; J. A. Eccles, '40; W. B. Fox, 36; S. W. Holland, ODH '63; G. W. Jackson, '49; J. N. Mayes, '69; D. W. McDonell, '70; L. J. Ross, '54; G. T. Sawyer, '64; M. K. Stewart. 57A; W. L. Teeple, '48; W. D. Toombs. '68; C. G. Trivets, '68; G. Weeden, '70A; R. Wilcox, '50; Faculty Representative. Professor A. M. Pearson, '42; Student Representative, Jack James, '72; and '71 Degree Representative, Tom Schmidt.

Mac directors elected At the Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association annual meeting, Miss Rosemary Clark. '59, succeeded Miss Frances Lampman, '54, as president. Other officers and directors are: Honorary President Emeritus, Dr. M. S. McCready; Honorary President, Dr. Janet Wardlaw; First Vice-President, Mrs. D. (Jean Fuller) Hume, '64; Second VicePresident, Dr. E. A. K. Gullett, '55; Secretary, Mrs. L. (Grace Virtue) MacDougall, '35; Treasurer, Mrs. G. C. (Margaret Snedden) Taylor, '59; Membership Convenor, Mrs. J. D. (Lynn Wilkenson) Creeden, '68; President, Burlington Branch Mac Club, Mrs. H. (Doreen Dowler) Dawson, '36; President, Guelph Branch Mac Club, Mrs. A. R. (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes, '62; President, Niagara Branch Mac Club, Mrs. F. G. (Eila Ross) Lawson, '39; Alumnae News Editor, Mrs. J. G. (Leslie Good) Snell, '64; and Assistant News Editor, Mrs. E. D. (Aili Saving) Heater, '56. Ex-officio: Mrs. J. D. (Virginia Shortt) Bandeen, '57; Miss Brenda Richardson, '71 representative; and Miss Anne McKelvie, '72, student representative.

Top left, Professor Jack Baker (right) OAC '11, whose portrait was presented to the University by OAC '33, reminisces with '33 classmates Professor Ted Heeg (far left) and Dr. Harold Minshall. At left, Blair Dawson, OAC '54 president,describes to unidentified visitor the Albert Franck oil painting presented to the University in memory of Mrs. R. (Beth Duncan) Farley, OAC '54.

Campus Highlights Convocation: Husband and wife installed as Fellows of the University Two drstrngurshed alumni were installed as Fellows of the University a t Convocatron exercises held May 28.

Robert Arthur Stewart, OAC '33, and hrs wrfe, Mrs. R. A. (Elsa Hevenor Stewart) Stewart. Mac '32, recerved the Fellow of the Universrty award. Thls award was establrshed rn 1969 t o recognrze persons who have had a srgnrficant involvement wrth, and have made an outstandrng contrrbutron to the Unrversrty. Total number of Irving 'Fellows' will be restrrcted to 25.

I n their Convocation addresses, both Mr. and Mrs. Stewart remrnrsced about their undergraduate days a t Guelph recounting many humerous incidents. Both speakers urged the graduates t o retain memorres of, and be proud of their assocratron with the Unrvers~ty.

"Come back and visit your professors," Mr. Stewart said.

Mr. Stewart, who for years served on commrttees working to clarrfy tax laws affecting agriculture, sard control of production of farm products is controversial.

"We lrve In a delrcate balance o f freedom and control," he sard.

"We must be alert at all times of the rrghts of people--laws must not control people," he said.

Mr. Stewart, 63. a Lanark County farmer since 1941, has been actrve i n both c o m m u n ~ t yand provlncral affarrs. He IS a past-president of the Lanark Cooperatrve Medical Services and the Cooperative Medical Services Federation of Ontarro. He is the current charrman of the Almonte Hospital Board of Directors, and an executive member of the Ontarro Hosp~talAssocration.

At the provrnc~allevel, he has worked on many commrttees, and has been long assocrated wrth the Ontarlo Federatron of Agrrculture, servrng as president rn 1948. He is an active member of the Agricultural l n s t ~ t u t eof Canada and the Ontario lnstrtute of Profess~onal Agrologrsts.

Actlve In alumnr affairs, Mr. Stewart served on the O.A.C. A l u m n ~Foundatron for five years, including a one-year term as vrce-cha~rman.He was presrdent of the O.A.C. Alumnr Assocratron in 1964, and sewed four years as an alumni representatrve on Senate. He and hrs wrfe acted as Lanark County co-charrmen for the Alumni Dlvrsron of the Development Fund i n 1966-68.

Mrs. Stewart was described by Presrdent W~negard"as a woman full of good

works," rn reference t o her many actrvrtres i n her commun~tyof Pakenharn, Ontarro.

I n 1966, she presented to the Renfrew and Ottawa Presbyterres of the Unrted Church the "Stewart House" complex t o be used as a Chrrstran Educat~onCentre.

She remalns actrve rn rts operatron as well as other Unired Church groups and organizat~ons.

She has devoted consrderable trrne t o the restoratron of many hrstorrc burldrngs In Pakenharn, and through the provrsron of apartments has provrded much needed accommodatron for newly-weds and senlor crtrzens.

An ardent supporter of Macdonald Institute-now the College of Famrly and Consumer Studres-Mrs. Stewart sponsored In 1965 the Mrs. R A. Stewart Fund ($2000) for proficrency awards for st~rdentsin that college.

Srnce 1955, she has also sponsored the Robert Arthur Stewart Bursarres, now numberrng 12 annual $500 awards to assrst students from Lanark. Renfrew, and Carleton Countres enterrng the first semester of a degree program.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart jorn Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, first presrdent of the Unlversrty, and Mr. T. A. McEwan, frrst charrman of the Unrversrty's Board of Governors, as Fellows of the Unrversrty.

Botanist and surgeon receive honorary degrees The d~rectorof Hamrlton's Royal Botanrcal Gardens and a noted Brrtrsh heart surgeon were awarded honorary degrees at the Sprrng Convocatron exercrses held May 26 and 27.

Leslre Lak~ng,OAC '39, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for hrs leadershrp rn the development of Hamrlton's floral showcase. Lord Russell Brock. 67, drrector of the Department of Surgrcal Sewrces of the Royal College of Surgeons at Guy's Hosprtal, recerved an honorary Doctor of Scrence degree for his work In closed heart surgery which IS generally acclarmed as havrng paved the way for open heart operations.

In hrs Convocation address, Dr. Laking, 54, sard no one need fear hrs condemna-

tron of the Unrversrty's arboretum "because of the fear of competrtron.

"I have supported the development of an arboretum here on thrs campus from the begrnnrng," he sard.

Dr. Lakrng sard: "It can be argued that two major arboreta arlsrng wrthrn 25 mrles of one another could serve better rf they were 100 mrles apart. The valid pornt IS that they are developrng where the need exrsts."

"The obvrous need at an rnstrtutron such as thrs, where many drscrplrnes wrll become rnvolved wrth rt, IS reason enough to develop such a facrlrty here," he sard.

"Furthermore," he added, "we must not forget the enormous publrc rnterest In such developments. The Royal Botanrcal Gardens cannot satrsfy the total publrc need. There are already rndrcatrons that our rnstrtutron must concern rtself wrth over use whrch IS surely comrng."

Dr. L a k ~ n gthen challenged the 125 englneerrng and landscape archrtecture graduates t o "have an affarr wrth your professron, your posrtron, your job; have an affarr wrth your every project."

He told students that the number of such ded~catedprofessronals IS decreasrng proportronately as the number of graduates competrng for jobs IS rncreasrng. I n a humourous vern he added: "As one krnd of 'affarr' becomes more common place, the other, whrch rnterests us here, appears to be decreasrng."

"Get rnvolved," he sard. "Develop that rare dedrcatron whrch elevates from the mundane to the excrtrng, brrngrng doublebarrelled sat~sfactronto the rnstrtutron or busrness you serve, and t o yourself."

Dr. Lakrng also challenged the graduates t o reverse modern desrgn trends, whrch, he sard, "have not brought about the potentral Shangrr-La of great archl~ e c t u r eand plannrng.

"Grve us st~mulatron, somethrng whrch excrtes the mrnd, but somethrng wrth endurrng qualrtres," he sard.

After graduat~on,Dr. Lakrng drd postgraduate work a t the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. He jorned the staff at Hamrlton In 1946, was appornted actrng director i n 1953, becomlng drrector In 1954.

Far left, newly-installed Fellows of the Unrversrty Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stewart sign University Regrster as Presrdent Wrnegard (left), Mr. T. A. McEwan (middle) and Chancellor Drew look on. At immediate left, Dr. James Archibald points out campus features to Lord Brock who received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Convocation.

In his address to 175 post-graduate degree recipients and BA graduates, Lord Brock described his impatience with those who debate at length the function of a university, calling the teaching or research question a "false problem."

"Obviously it (a university) must teach.

That is what most students go to a university for," he said.

"But, at the same time the university that does no effective research will lapse into futility and failure. Up-todate teaching cannot exist without research, and this is why I am impatient of a formal discussion on the topic.

"There are far better things that one can exercise one's mind with." he said.

Following Convocation, he told reporters at a press conference that organ banks would become a common feature in medicine before too long. Although he declined to predict when such banks would be establ~shed, he sald that his research over the last few years showed that animal hearts and kidneys could be kept alive for several days before transplantation in another animal.

He said delaying transplants was "infinitely better" than present procedures in which human transplants occur almost immediately after the death of the organ's donor.

Last year. Lord Brock invited Dr. James Archibald, OVC '49, chairman of OVC Clinical Studies Department, to join him and his research team for a SIXmonth sabbatical in organ transplant research.

Dr. Archibald told the Guelph Alumnus that Lord Brock is a very "resewed man who demands a tremendously high standard from everyone working with him.

"He runs the place like a ship's captain," Dr. Archibald said. "Outside of the lab he's a different sort of person. Mlnd you, during working hours he never says a harsh word-he's always polite-but you know who's running the show. This. of course, characterizes the quality of work and research he has carried out."

Dr. Archibald described his sabbatical with Lord Brock's team as "just a tremendous opportunity," adding that the Britlsh and OVC surgical teams are continuing a series of exchange visits.

Lord Brock, the Baron Brock of Wimbledon, sits in the House of Lords as a life peer, an honour granted him in 1965 for his contribution to medicine. He was named a Knight Bachelor in 1954.

Besides his many achievements in medicine, awards for which would fill a book, he is also a noted speaker and author, having written the biography of Astley-Cooper, a 17-century English statesman who was active in attempts to restore the Stuarts to the English throne.

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Mr. Justice Hall succeeds Col. Drew

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Mr. Justice Hall

The University of Guelph has a new Chancellor. On July 1, Hon. Emmett Matthew Hall, Justlce of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeded Col. the Hon. George A. Drew as titular head of the University.

Mr. Jllstice Hall, 73, who will be installed at the fall convocation exercises October 1, has had a d~strnguishedcareer in jurisprudence, education and public service, and has been a Justice of the Supreme Court slnce 1962. He is particularly wellknown in educational circles for his significant role as chairman of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, better known as the Hall-Dennis Report.

Prior to moving to Ottawa in 1962, Mr. Justice Hall lived in Regina where he was Chlef Justice of Saskatchewan and of the Court of Appeal. Previously, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan.

Following graduation In 1919 with a law degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Justice Hall was called to the Bar in 1922. He practised law in Saskatoon until 1957, when he resigned as senior partner in the firm of Hall, Magulre and Wedge, to become Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench.

While in Saskatoon, Mr. Justice Hall lectured at the University of Saskatchewan, and was a member of the University's Senate. He was also chairman of the Separate School Board and president of the Catholic School Trustees Association of Saskatchewan.

In 1961, he was named chairman of the Federal Royal Commission on Health Services, and in 1966 received the Bronfman Award from the Amerlcan Public Health Association in recognition of his achievements in the field of public health.

Recipient of many honors, Mr. Justice Hall was awarded an honorary DCL degree by the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1966 received an honorary D.Med. from the University of Ottawa. He also holds honorary LLD degrees from the University of Wlndsor, 1968, and University of Manitoba, 1969.

Born in St. Columban, Quebec, Mr. Justice Hall marrled Isabel Mary Parker of Humboldt In 1922. They have two children.

Col. Drew was the University's first Chancellor, and served for six years. In announcing Col. Drew's retirement at recent Convocation exercises, President Wlnegard described his as "a soldier, very young mayor of the City of Guelph, Premier of Ontario, leader of the opposltlon, High Commissioner to Britain, and defender of democracy."

A native of Guelph, Col. Drew has had an outstanding career in Canadian public Ilfe. In addition, he also has many ties wrth the City of Guelph and the University.

As a young lawyer in the city almost 50 years ago, he served as a part-time lecturer at the Ontario Veterrnary College. He is the son-in-law of the late Edward Johnson, one of Guelph's most illustrious sons. Although he now makes his home in Toronto, Col. Drew strll maintains an active interest in the Guelph Spring Festival, and. of course, in the University.

1,009 degrees conferred at Spring Convocation A total of 1,009 graduates received degrees at May Convocation exercises.

The breakdown of undergraduate degrees is as follows: B.Sc.(Agr.)-168; B.A.Sc.--110; D V M - 6 8 ; BLA-10; B.Sc.(Eng.)-21; Associate Diploma in Agriculture-68; B.Comm.-25; B.Sc.(PE)-27; BA (gen.)

-203; BA (hons.)--89; B.Sc. ( g e n . ) 4 2 ; B.Sc. (hons.)-92.

There were elght PhD, 59 M.Sc., and 17 MA degrees and two Graduate Diplomas In Veterinary Medicine conferred.

Consumers are crushed in rush to loose money says consumer advocate Circus showman P. T. Barnum's famous one-liner about a sucker being born every minute should be updated says Una Abrahamson, consumer editor of Chatelaine Magazine.

"It's more than one a minute," she said while delivering the keynote address at the Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association's annual seminar, held May 7 and 8, "and some people are almost crushed in the scramble to lose their money.

"As long as someone looks for something for nothing, right there will be someone to give you nothing for something," she told 125 Macdonald graduates attending the two-day seminar entltled "Selectivity in the Seventies."

"Why can't we be less gullible, and, above all, why have we forgotten that two-letter word, 'no'," she said.

Why are people being "conned" and "rooked," she asked. "Because we are basically greedy. How else can you explain people responding to an offer of 'Want to hold down household bills?

Send x dollars.' By return comes a paper weight."

Mrs. Abrahamson went on to describe the consumers' "Magna Carta" which includes, she said, the right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to choose, t be heard. and the r ~ g h to Desplte the government departments, the non-profit agencies, and the legisla-

tion, rules, and regulations established to protect consumers. Mrs. Abrahamson questioned the number of aware individuals, and she lashed out at the indiscriminate consumer.

On reading hazardous products labelling: "Are we going to learn to read packages or are we golng to continue to believe that once we've read instructions on one aerosol we've read them all."

On childproof containers and household poisons: "We have drug safety warnings, but who ensures that we store these items safely? I've never been able to understand why a child can get a cheap bottle of polish to drink while the expensive liquor is hidden."

She ended her address calling for an updated education for consumers.

"We have to learn to understand what makes business function, to know basic economics, and what makes government function. We must lift our eyes from the supermarket packages and look at professional services, living conditions, tariffs, we must begin to and education look at the problems of the nuclear age," she said.

"The concerned consumer understands that all cholces are competitive and there are few absolutes. When we come to understand that there is no free lunch, no free g~ft,then we'll be better consumers."

Following her address and the morning Interest sessions conducted by faculty of the College of Family and Consumer Studles, Department of Food Science Chairman John deMan, and Department of Education Program Consultants Ellen

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Dr. R. G. Hilton (right), arboretum director, and assistants are shown planting first varieties of maple and locust trees. Plantings were financed by alumni gifts to last year's Alma Mater Fund.

Downie, Mac '38, and Jerry Babcock, alumnae heard Professor William Neilson, Osgoode Hall Law School, talk about professional consumer law.

Mr. J. Blair Seaborne, assistant deputy minister, Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs addressed alumnae at the luncheon, and described the Department, its organization, functions, and some of the legislation it administers.

Following lunch and three afternoon sessions. Jean Steckle. Mac '52, the first research fellow under contract to the Canadlan International Development Agency at the University of Ghana, descubed the Home Science Department there chaired by Macdonald Institute's former dean, Dr. Margaret McCready.

This year's seminar committee was chaired by Alumnae Association First Vice-President Rosemary Clark, Mac '59. with assistance from Dr. Elizabeth Gullett, Mac '55, Mrs. D. J. (Jean Fuller) Hume, Mac '64, and Frances Lampman, Mac '54.

University Centre Building Committee reconvenes The University Centre Building Commlttee, charged with the responsibility of resurrecting the long-dreamt-of University Centre, has been called back into session

by President W. C. Winegard.

The 13-member committee, including newly appointed alumni representatives Mrs. A. D. (Mary Graham) Hales, Mac '32, and Dr. Nigel C. B. Palmer, OVC '63, has not met since April, 1969, when the Province announced its interim capital formula financing plans. Under the formula, Guelph had more space than ruled necessary and was, therefore, ineligible for provincial grants to fund new buildings.

The University Centre has had top priority for the past few years, and with projected student enrolment figures the University will soon be eligible for some provincial assistance.

Designed as the campus meeting place and social centre with facilities for students, faculty, and alumni, the University Centre was originally budgetted at about nine million. Addressing the committee's meeting on June 30. Dr. Winegard warned a building of this magnitude might seriously cut into the University's space entitlement for future academic buildings.

He suggested the committee attempt to reduce the building's 121,000 net assignable square feet (space supported by provincial grants up to $55 per square foot) to about 100,000 square feet. Estimated cost of the revamped building is $6.5 million.

Besides the provincial grants, the University Centre will be funded by student fees of $10 per semester, graduate student and faculty fees, alumni

gifts, an additional $250,000 from the Development Fund.

The committee hopes construction will start early in 1973 with completion by late 1974.

specific events as the development of the Lake Huron shore or the movement of industry to the County," he says.

"We may know for instance, how many people are leaving rural Ontario, but not what they feel are the vital factors in deciding whether to go or stay. We may Guelph social scientists know the extent to which social services undertake 'grassroots' opinion have become centralized, but not how project in Huron County important or unacceptable this is to local residents.

A project to seek out and record "grassA prime objective will be t o uncover roots" opinion about events occuring in information which would help governtoday's rapidly changing rural society is ment policy-makers become better being undertaken by a team of Un~versity acquainted with grassroots opinion. of Guelph social scientists.

The study, expected t o take about a The interdisciplinary project involves year to complete, is based at the Univerthe departments of geography, extension sity of Guelph. In addition, a field office education, economics, political studies, has been established in Clinton providing landscape architecture and sociology and a central point for data collection. anthropology. F~ndingsare expected t o yield information presently unavailable to planners, researchers and local governOAC graduates have easier ment officials. time finding jobs in 1971 "There is a clear need for comDrehensive research which will help incover Although Canada's economy was at a low today's rural perspective," says Dr. Ted point and unemployment at a high in Hadwen, a Guelph sociologist and colate May, University of Guelph B.Sc. (Agr.) ordinator of the project. "For the most part we know someth~ngof the economic graduates had a significantly better year in gaining permanent employment than and other changes faced by the residents last year. of predominantly rural areas, but not Following 1971 convocation exercises, how those individuals perceive these the number of graduates who were undevelopments." employed or whose status was unknown Huron County, in western Ontario has totalled some 2 1 per cent of the graduatbeen chosen as the study area because Ing class as compared t o 3 1 per cent of its predominately rural nature repreIn 1970. sentative of "classical rural Ontario."

Generally there were as many, i f not The important part of t h ~ sresearch, slightly more openings for this year's says Dr. Hadwen, is to discover how the graduates than in 1970, but positions rural population perceives the entire were slow t o develop and many graduates range of social changes it must face. were still waiting for replies after they "We may not know what general charhad left campus. acteristics of cultural makeup, institutional life, or senstivity to coming developGraduate study took the largest numments, lie behind attitudes t o such ber of students-almost 2 1 per cent.

The University's new Engineering building, to be built on what is now a parking lot between the Land Resource Science (Soil Science) building and the South Residence, Complex 'B', could be completed by September, 1973.

University officials are hopeful construction of the $2.4 million building will

start next January. I t will provide space for an expected enrolment by 1975 of 200 students; present enrolment in the School of Engineering is 125.

The Board of Governors approved last May the building's design, and authorized the director of physical resources t o have working drawings prepared.

Although this figure is about the same as that recorded last year, it is markedly lower than figures of 3 4 per cent and 2 8 per cent in 1968 and 1969.

The number of graduates entering government service increased sharply over the 1970 figures, but is still lower than figures recorded in the years 196769. Industry also claimed a large number of grads--some 19 per cent, again higher than in previous years.

One interesting fact brought out in the recently-issued figures is that farming claimed more than 11 per cent of the graduating class, as compared with only three per cent in 1968.

2,259 students enrolled for summer classes Final registration figures for the summer semester showed 2,259 students enrolled. an increase of 10 per cent over 1970.

Approximately 1,600 students were in the BA program, 367 in B.Sc., 114 in B.A.Sc., and 8 0 in the B.Sc.(Agr.) program; 98 were enrolled in other programs.

Of the total student population, 1,939 were full-time students, and 320 parttime.

Freshman enrolment increased t o 659 from 541 in 1970.

Appointments Mr. Kenneth G. Murray, OAC '50, has been appointed to the University's Board of Governors for a three-year term effective July 1, 1971.

Mr. Murray, 47, president of J. M. Schneider Limited, Kitchener, joined Schneider's as a salesman immediately upon graduation. In 1953, he was appointed livestock buyer and 10 years later became assistant plant manager. He was named general manager in 1967. and president in 1969.

A director of the Meat Packers Council of Canada, Mr. Murray represented the meat packing industry at the 1969-70 agricultural congress called by the Hon. H. A. "Bud" Olson, federal minister of agriculture. Mr. Murray is also a member of the agricultural committee of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Kitchener Rotary Club.

Coinciding with Mr. Murray's appointment, E. I. Birnbaum, a present member of the Board was appointed chairmandesignate t o replace Chairman R. S. Ritchie who was also reappointed for a six-month term ending December 31.

1971. J. M. Lindley, OAC '53, was appointed vice-chairman; Dr. John F. Melby, former chairman of the Political Studies Department was appointed on

Clockwise from top left, Murray, Capstick, Elrick, Jordan

recommendation of Senate to a threeyear term effective July 31, 1971 succeeding Dr. P. A. Wright, Department of Agricultural Economics; and S. G. Bennett was reappointed for a three-year term effective July 1, 1971.

Dr. C. K. Capstick has been appointed chairman of the new Department of Computing and Information Science.

As part of the College of Physical Science, the new department, which is located in the renovated old Physics building, will operate a distinctive teaching and research program emphasizing information processing systems in business and industry.

A member of the Operational Research Society and graduate of King's College. Durham University in England. Dr. capstick's experience with computer svstems has included construction of Gathematical statistical models of biological systems; modelling complex industrial systems; simulating alternative c a ~ i t ainvestment l strategies; and systems development planning. Most recently, he served as director for Group Management Services of the Perkins Engines Group of Massey Ferguson. His staff had world-wide responsibility for computers. systems analysis, programming, organization and methods, and operational research in the Perkins Engines Group.

Dr. David C. Jordan, OAC '50. has been appointed chairman of the Department of Microbiology in the newly-formed College of Biological Science.

Author of 45 scientific papers, Dr. Jordan has an international reputation in two diverse research areas: the mechanism by which antibiotics inhibit growth of bacteria; and the bacterial convekion of atmos~hericnitrogen into combined forms'for plant use. The latter area is an important process in the nitrogen cycle.

Until the formation of the College of Biological Science, Dr. Jordan was professor of microbiology in the Ontario Agricultural College. He hopes to maintain cooperative ties with OAC and other colleges of the University, and at the same time he and his colleagues in the Department of Microbiology hope to develop new and important emphasis in the area of general microbiology.

On July 1, the Department of Poultry Science and the Department of Animal Science amalgamated to form the Department of Poultry and Animal Science.

With the new department came a new chairman, Dr. W. Douglas Morrison, OAC '49.

Dr. Morrison, 43, who will come to Guelph on September 1, is currently director of nutrition and research of the agricultural division of Maple Leaf Mills Limited, Toronto, a position he has held since 1961.

Dr. Morrison, currently an alumni representative on the University Senate, is a member of many national and international scientific and professional organizations, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance-

Dr. David E. Eltick, OAC '53, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Land Resource Science, formerly known as the Department of Sail Science. He succeeds Dr. Murray Miller, OAC '53, who has headed the department since

1966.

An ardent supporter of anti-pollution programs and spokesman on environmental and natural resource issues. Dr. Elrick chaired a series of lectures and discussions on "Man and his Environment" at the University last year. He also edited the book Environmental Change: Focus on Ontario, written primarily by Guelph faculty, and has authored more than 40 scientific papers.

Dr. Elrick has been active in national and international soil science and related conferences, and served for one year as exchange scientist at the University of Grenoble, France.

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A noted author, Dr. Morrison was a member of the Canada Grains Council's Trade Mission to Europe this year and is chairman-elect of the newly-formed National Nutrition Council of the Canadian Feed Manufacturers' Association.

Dr. Freeman McEwen, an internationallyknown entomologist and well-known faculty member at Guelph, has been appointed chairman of the new OAC Department of Environmental Biology.

Dr. McEwen, a McGill University graduate (1950),came to the Guelph campus as professor of entomology in 1969,and has been active in the organization and coordination of the University's entire entomological program. He recently served as chairman of the OAC study committee which made recommendations for the reorganization of the College to enable it to meet more fully the needs of today's rural community.

In addition, Dr. McEwen presently sits on the board of governors of the Entomological Society of America, is a member of the pesticide advisory committee of the provincial health department and vice-chairman of the ODAF pesticide committee. He is also a member of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Ontario.

An expert in pesticide use and biological control of insects, he is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Dr. Frederick Vaughan has been appointed chairman of the Department of Political Studies, succeeding Dr. John Melby, chairman since the department was created in 1966.

A Halifax native, Dr. Vaughan, 36, came to the University of Guelph in 1967.

He recently returned from Britain where he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.

During his four-month stay. Dr. Vaughan undertook research for a book on political philosophy, his main area of interest.

Author of several articles on political philosophy and constitutional law, Dr. Vaughan was also senior editor of a recently-published book on issues in Canadian politics, and hopes to publish a volume on the political philosophy of Giambattista Vica this fall.

Dr. Vaughan received a BA from St. Mary's University in Halifax and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Before coming to Guelph, he taught at Royal Military College in Kingston.

Professor T. K. Warley has been appointed director of the recently formed School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education.

An internationally known agricultural economist, Professor Warley is a graduate of the University of Nottingham. He

From left to right, Pretty, Richards, Moles, MacKay, Ferguson

has held a number of positions in the United Kingdom and has been the organizer of agricultural economic seminars for a variety of organizations, including the United Nations.

Professor Warley is the author of numerous techn~calpapers, articles and books on agricultural economics, many of them dealing with the problems of government regulation of agriculture and international trade.

A sought-after speaker. Professor Warley has also been regularly involved on the committee on grain marketing in western Canada. He is also working with a group of international scholars on a book entitled International Economic Relationships in the 1960s, t o be published by the Royal lnstitute of International Affairs, London, England. Professor Warley will submit a chapter on Internat~onalAgricultural Trade Policy.

Alumni News Dr. Kenneth M. Pretty. OAC '51. has been elected president of the newly-established Potash lnstitute of Canada.

Dr. Pretty, who is also vice-president of the Potash lnstitute of North America obtained his M.Sc. and PhD at Michigan State University where he taught soil science for many years before becoming Canadian director of the now dissolved International Foundation for Potash Research. He is the immediate pastpresident of the Ontario lnstitute of Agrologists.

Dr. N. R. Richards. OAC '38. dean of the Ontario Agricultural College, has been named a Fellow of the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada.

The 5,000-member Institute's highest award was presented t o Dr. Richards at the Institute's annual meeting held recently in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In reading the citation for the Fellowship, Dr. T. H. Anstey, the retiring president, referred to Dr. Richards' contribution in the field of education and particularly his responsibilities for the reorganization of the curriculum in agriculture at Guelph. He also cited Dr. Richards' research contributions in the field of soil science.

Fellowships are presented annually by the lnstitute to members who have attained professional distinction with outstanding accomplishment in any field of agriculture. Fellows must have attained recognition for integrating scholarship, knowledge, leadership and experience.

Dr. Richards was one of six to receive a Fellowship this year.

Moles. MacKay. and Ferguson elected to Senate John Moles, OAC '36, Dr. D. Campbell MacKay, OVC '50, and Paul Ferguson, Well '67, have been elected to three-year terms as alumni representatives on the University of Guelph Senate.

They are succeeding retiring senators Mrs. B. E. (Joan Lennox) Colnett, Mac '54, Mrs. J. T. Hurst, Well '68, and Dr. W. H. Minshall, OAC '33.

Mr. Moles, general manager of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, told the Guelph Alumnus that he stood for election to support the agricultural aims of the University, and to make whatever contribution he could to the Guelph campus. the university he said, -it isgoingto be most important t o me that there be no decrease in the activities, curriculum, and importance of the agricultural part of the University."

Discussing the growth of the he said that he was not against expansion to the original concept (15,000 students by the mid-1980s) that there is a need for expansion, and also that the students who will attend will receive the type of education that will fit them for the jobs that will be available in the 1980s." The University Senate is currently discussing the possibility of limiting enrolment between 9-10,000 as reported in the Guelph Alumnus, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Enrolment last winter semester was approximately 6.600.

Regarding educational spending, Mr. Moles said he agrees with the current cutbacks: think it is time now to re-assess much of the spending," he said, adding that some money should be available for projects and research provided that such proposals can be proved productive.

"I would hate to see cutbacks for the sake of cutbacks," he said.

Active in alumni affairs, he is a past-president of the O.A.C. Alumni Association, and was the OAC chairman in the alumni division of the University of Guelph Development Fund. Mr. Moles also represented OAC on the University of Toronto Senate for one term. He is a member of several organizations including the OIA and AIC, and is a life member of the O.A.C. Alumni Association.

Dr. MacKay owns and operates, in conjunction with his son

Clayton, OVC '70, the MacKay Animal Hospital in Whitby, Ontario.

Dr. MacKay said that he stood for election because he is "very, very interested in education," and that he was approaching the task of fulfilling his duties as an alumni senator with an "open mind" on the many education issues.

He agrees with current thinking that university research should become more productive.

"Some research I just can't see at all," he said. "If it's good, sound research it's something that has t o be done, but, in my opinion, researchers should be searching for something before they start looking."

Dr. MacKay is a member of both the Ontario Veterinary Association and the Canadian Veterinary Association, and is a past-secretary of the Mid-Ontario Veterinary Association. He Telefund Division Of the has been active In the Alma Mater Fund, and is a life member of the O.V.C. Alumni Association.

Mr. Ferguson, a teacher at John F. Ross Collegiate in Guelph, told the Guelph Alumnus he would like t o see the University open its doors further to people who "don't meet the old and true criteria for admission.

"I think there are still ways left for the University t o incorporate people into its community who have a contribution t o make and who can receive tremendous benefits from the university community- I think we shouldkeep an 'pen eye On admissions policy."

Regarding the University's growth. Mr. Ferguson said that social pressure would probably demand that the University expand to about 15,000 students.

"Of course, we have to recognize in the meantime that nearly the criteria upon which the original plan was based no longer exist in terms of enrolment projections, in terms of capital funds available, and even operating funds," he said.

Mr. Ferguson is currently a director of the Arts and Sciences Alumni Association, and is that organization's vice-president to the University of Guelph Alumni Association. He is also the UGAA's representative t o the Committee on University Structure, Organization, and Government.

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