Guelph Alumnus Magazine, March 1973

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH March-April 1973, Vol, 6, No, 2

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GUELPHALUMNUS

3 The January Jaunt

CREDITS:

Design: cover, Ken Ch amb erlain.

Ph otogra phy: p ages 5, 12, 14-16,

Dan Th orburn an d Dave Helsd on,

Audio-Visual Services; p ag es 3 an d 7,

Dave Bates.

Dave Bates, former Gue lph Alu mnu s editor, now copy editor with the Cou nt ry Gu id e, was th ere when a ban d of alumni met in To ronto for an ev eni ng of feast and re vel ry . On the opposite p age is the report he sent.

4 The COPSE Report : a blueprint for future learning?

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATI ON

Dr. Tom Set tle , Dr. Kath ryn Ko pf and Profess or Jack M illi ken, three members o f th e Sen ate co m m it tee that studied the dr af t re port of th e Com mi ss ion on Post-Secon da ry Education, offe r c omm ents on the report's final version.

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HON OR ARY PRE SI DENT: Dr. W. C. Winegard.

PRE SIDENT: T. R. HILLIARD, OAC '40.

7 86-year-Old recreates the past in carvings

SENI OR V IC E-PR ESI DE NT, M rs . J. D. (Vi rg in ia Sh o r tt ) B an d een, Mac ' 57.

Ivan Law of Oshawa, a grad uate of 1909, first turned to wood carving at age 79. Seven yea rs later his works include replicas of a blacksmith's shop, a saw mill and a c hu rch which opened its doors in 1837.

Mr. Law now rec eives some 400 vsitors a year who find tha t his basement houses antiques and family heirlooms as well as carvings.

VICE- PR ESI DENTS : D r. Sa ndra J. (Kelk) Che rn es ky, OVC '63 ; Miss F ra n c es Lam p m an, Ma c '54; Mr. A. C. M cTa gga rt, OAC '35; an d Mi ss Patricia M o l l, We l l '70.

SEC RET ARY: Dr. J. H. M i llington, OVC '69.

T REASU RE R: J. J. Elmslie, Development Officer, Un i ve r Sity of Guelph.

DI RECTORS: M i ss El izabeth Bra ndon, We ll '70; M r s. J. B . (Do reen Ke rn ) Daw son . Ma c '54 ; Dr. G. R. Do i d ge , OVC '52; M r s. I? P. (Val e ri e M i ttl e r) Gi lm or, B A '72; M . G. Gree r, OAC '41 ; M r s. A. R. (Sh ir l ey Ann M c Fee) Hol m es , M ac '62; M rs. M . (L inda Sully) Keit h , Well '67; Dr. W. H . M inshall, OAC '33; D r. Jean M .

Rum n ey. OVC '39; Mrs. S. W. (pat Damud e) Sq uire, M ac '63; and J. A. W iley, OAC '58.

EX-OFF ICIO DIR ECTOR S : A. L. Go uge , We ll '69, pre sid ent, Art s and Sciences Alumni ASSOCiat io n ; G. R. Greenl ees. OAC '62, president, O. A.C . Alumni ASSOCiati on : D r. E li zabeth Gu l lett, Ma c '55. president, Macdonald Institute-Family and Consumer Studies Alumni As s ociation; D r. F. D. H orn ey , '51, preSident, O.V.C . Alu m ni As soc i ati on; an d J. K . Ba bcock, OAC '54, directo r, Al umni AHa irs and Devel opment.

8 Saturnalia revisited : changing patte'rns in the

campus prank

The social climate of a campus tends to be reflected in th e so rt of pran ks and disru pt io ns that occur on it.

Initiation rituals, rai ds on other campuses, painting expeditions, plus th e trinity of booze, beasts and beauties - all of these were elements in student pranksterism in the years before Guelph became a University.

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The Gue l ph Alumnus is published by the Depart足 ment of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph.

Some $129,000 was raised in Guelph's 1972 Alma Mater Fund campaign, 44 per cent more than in 1971.

The Editorial Committee is comprised of Editor ~ Dave Webster, B.A. '71, Alumni Officer; Art Director ~ Prof. K. E. Chamberlain; J. K. Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development; Miss Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, Senior Alumni Officer; D. L. Waterston, Director of Information; D. W. Jose, OAC '49, Assistant Director of Information.

The Editorial Advisory Board of the UniverSity of Guelph Alumni Association is comprised of: Dr. J. H. Millington, OVC '69, chairman; Mrs. J. M. (Kay Murdoch) Little, Mac '59, vice-chairman; Dr. A. E. Austin, Dept. of English; G. B. Love, Well '69; and G. B. Powell, OAC '62.

Ex-officio: J. K. Hilliard, OAC '40.

D. R. Baron, OAC and H. G. Dodds,

Babcock, OAC '54 and T. R. Corresponding members: '49, G. M. Carman, OAC '49, OAC, '58.

Undelivered copies should be returned to Alumni House, UniverSity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Success breeds success

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Campus Highlights

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Alumni News

Food, drink and merriment at the January Jaunt

ROM the corners of the kingd om they came to wine , dine, and frolic : King s William and John , noted educators at a famous Ontario university; Lady Rosemary and Du chess Virginia , respected ladies of the alumni realm ; and many more - counts and countesses, knights and dames - all attra cted to Toronto the Good for an evening ca lled January Jaunt.

The fete began with a glass of cheer before the revelle rs we re musically enticed (via violin and accord ian ) into the

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Sutton Place Hote l's Roy al Hunt Room.

A deep c arp et of wood ch ips lent a

17th-centu ry atmosphere to the 20th足

century banquet, and a second round of

c heer was soo n pou red for all the guests.

Then , using only their fingers , the guests began their dinner - whole cauliflower, beef ribs , chicken halves , 10 courses in all- and January Jaunt began to live up to its advance billing as an evening of relaxed debauchery in good taste . The music got livelier , the sing ing louder; two lords leaped to the

floor to perform an ancient dance, lost in time since the Crusade s 足 the Aggie stomp.

As the eve ning wa ned the guests mopped their fin ge rs and c h ins , an d trave llers from afar retired to th eir room s, resting fo r the next d ay 's jaunt.

This c on sisted of a hike through Queen's Park and down University Avenue to Toronto City Hal l, an d was led by Sir Thomas (T hom pson, OAC '33, Metro's Parks Commissioner). 0

The COPSE Report:

A blueprint for future earning?

The final report of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education, which was released this winter, has produced various reactions.

The Toronto Star waxes enthusiastic over the report's " lifetime of learning" concept and its "exciting range of opportunities so that everyone can share the wealth of knowledge." The Globe and Mail takes critical aim at recommendations which it considers costly, impractical or out-of-date. At Guelph Dr. Tom Settfe, chairman of a special Senate committee that studied the commission's original draft report, said: "We endorse the commission's objectives but think that many of its recommendations wi/! not help attain them. " In this article the report's main proposals are summarized and questions on them are answered by three members of the Senate committee - Professor Settfe, a member of the Philosophy Department, Dr. Kathryn Kopf, chairman of the Family Studies Department, and Jack Milliken, associate professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and member of the University's Board of Governors .

The COPSE report recommends : • Education for everyone who wants it so that such neglected groups as factory workers, drop-outs, women, pensioners , nati ve peoples, and people isolated in northern communities could have a chance to fully develop their capacities. These groups could be accommodated through special entrance requirements at colleges and universities, and by a proposed "Open Academy of Ontario"; • An "open sector" in the system of higher educ ation. This area would be filled primarily by the Open Academy of Ontario which would deve lop programs for those people now outside the educational system. The academy would carry on educational radio and television broadca sting and WOUld, like a conventional uni ve rsity, have the right to examine students and grant degrees; • Councils to serve as buffers between government and educational institutions.

The government, or more specifically the minister of post-secondary education, would have responsibilities in four sectors: those of the universities , the community colleges, the open sector, and the creative and performing arts. In the university sector he would be advised by a council for university affairs which would distribute capital and operating funds , and plan and coordinate university matters ;

• Incentives for lower-income students.

These could take the form of grants that would be awarded in inverse proportion to family income , scholarships , loans that would be repayable ov er 20 or 30 ye ars, or payment of education costs in return for service on graduation; • Beller opportunities for women.

Unive rsities should draw up and publi sh plans to step up the number of women faculty and staff members , the report says.

They should also provide part-time positions and day-care facilities so that women may combine career with family responsi bi Iities ; • Separate funding for teaching and research programs. The present formula financing system under which the government subsidizes universities according to the number of students enrolled and the types of courses they are taking would be applied only to teaching programs. Separate go ve rnment financing would be provided for research work .

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Dr. Settle

Dr. Kopf

Professor Milliken

Will "education for everyone who wants it" mean lower academi c stand ards?

SETTLE: It is difficult to harmonize quality and universal accessibility.

The proposal that students be admitted to university without having to meet formal requirements implies a lowering of entrance standards. which in turn implies eit her a heavy failure rate . longer courses or lower uni vers ity standard s.

All of these options are unacceptab le .

We recommended in our brief to the commission that universities administer admission tests similar to the mature student tests that are now given at Guelph.

MILLIKEN: A great deal depends on the financing made available. If the fund s were provided, special courses could be set up to accommodate students who may be weak in some areas but st ronger than the entering students we have now in other areas. I don't think "education fo r eve ryone w ho wants it" necessaril y mean s a blanket lowe ring of admissions standards; it's an imposition on uni vers ities that has to be accommodated.

KOPF: In the draft report one had the feeling that if anyone wanted into course A at university B, he was to be allowed in, and th e n perhaps he would be failed out later. But the final report did at least suggest that some kind of screening would take place.

In reading the report I kept thinking to myse lf : 'Do those people know what has happe ned at Guelph ?' because many of the things they're proposing we already have here. We admit mature students who have passed a test to measure their ab il ity; we accept part-time students who are treated the same as other students.

I don't think 'education for everyone' has to mean lower standards. But whenever you start having what you might almost call ma.ss education, somewhere

along the line you're going to have to scramble for faculty. And in th e field of child studies it's very difficult to get faculty with the kind of expertise we need; right now they're very scarce in Canada.

The Open Academy of Ontario: a useful experiment or a waste of money?

KOPF: I think what 's required is a market analysis to find o ut just w ho reall y wants what the commission proposes everyone should want. Before the academy is put into operation I would like to see such an analysis, and then a pilot project. The government would have less vested interest in a pilot project than in a full-scale academy - it would be hard to have an academy fold even if it weren't meeting its objectives.

SETTLE: It is not clea r that the open academy with its experiment in television instruction is warranted in the Ontario situati o n. The experiment would be based on the British Uni versity o f the Air whic h uses television plus a system of tutors. But in Ontario there is a much smaller group of people who can ' t get to university and wish they could , and those who do belong to this group are sp read all over the province. Thu s providing tutors for the system would be extremely expensive and it should be very carefully costed before it is begun.

Good uni versity education is very difficult to provide through television.

MILLIKEN: We interviewed one of th e people intimatel y in vol ved in Britain's Uni ve rsity of the Air when we prep ared o ur Senate report. Unlike Britain, Ontario has a sparse population scattered over a very large area. The chap we tal ked to said that if there were under a half dozen students in a course, it would be cheaper to fly them to London than to establish that course in Edinburgh .

Thu s the question of distance and sparsity of population is one that is really important.

I suppose the open academ y will be a

use ful experiment ; I think it will be an

expensive experiment. I also think that insufficient energy has been given to exploring the capability of the present post-secondary institutions to mount the kinds of programs that they see this ope n academy as carrying on . We have an existing structure ; it seems si lly to ove rlay it w ith another s tructure rather than modify it to accommodate new goals.

The Council for University Affairs: an infringement on academic freedom?

MI LLI KEN I think the council may in some ways infringe on academic freedom but it is probably the best compromise we could expect. As long as the provincial government is providing the bulk of the funds for provincial institutions there is going to be some involvement of the government in those institutions.

The council may in fact be an effecti ve buffer: it is reco mm ended that the co unc il rather than the government divide the funds that are allocated to the uni versities.

This is , I think , an advantage.

SETTLE: The COPSE report recommends powers for the coun c il for university affairs which even the mini ster of colleges and universities does not enjoy. The council would have authority to "coordinate" academic programs at the various universities. Theref o re, if the universities were not unanimous on what institution should be allowed to se t up what program the co uncil could impose a decision.

The minister of co lleges and uni vers ities does not ha ve such authority ; he can refuse financial support but he cannot prohibit academic programs. In addition, the minister is responsible to the legislature and may be qu es tioned about his decisions; the council for university

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The COPSE Report :

affairs would ha ve no such check on its powers.

KOPF : I think that some coo rdination of the prog rams offered at co lle ges and uni versities is required, but I'm not sure the method proposed would be effective.

I would hate to say the council can't work , but I don 't see th at what's written in the report is all that reas suring .

Will Ihe incentives for lower-income students be effective?

MILLIKEN : I'm not convinced the y will work very well. Soc iolo g ical studies have been cited to the effect that lower­ income students fail to come to university for rea sons that are sociological, not economic in origin .

KOPF It may help some students but I'm not sure how man y. Certainly grants are an improvement over loans for low-income students. If you haven ' t had much in life yo u find that the thought of several thousand doll a rs in loans hanging over your head is pretty appalling, whereas if you' re used to a fair income you feel you can handle it.

SETTLE: I think that the incentives are better than the present incentives since they offer total grant and no loan at all to lower-inc ome students. The present system means that a student , whatever the income of his famil y, will be bound ove r the course of hi s studies to accumulate a debt of between $2,000 and $3,000. This is a very great disincenti ve, I would think , to lower income students w ho see debt as a really serious bar.

Wh et her the new incenti ves will produce what is desirable - the same mi x of socio-economic va riet y inside universities as we have in society - that is highly dubious. There are too many other factors that militate against students from lower income families co ming to uni versity.

About these factors the commission has nothing to say except that they exist: that is, it has no measures whatsoever for dealing with them. This makes one wonder whether the commission wa s as serious as it might ha ve been about the notion of acce ssibility.

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Will the women's rights measures work?

KOPF : I like them better than the earlier proposals for a quota on women faculty members . Quotas give too much chance for people to put down women by saying: 'The o nl y reason you were hired is because we had to hire a certain quota of women.' Women who had obtained their positions be ca use of high qualifications would be concerned about suddenl y being looked upon as being in these postiions only because of the quota .

There is discrimination in so me fields and so mething should be done about it.

Whether the new proposals will put enough pressure on faculties and administrations I don't know, but I'd like to try them . If the y don't work , something more rigid mi g ht have to be done.

MILLIKEN : I think they will work in part.

We ha ve to take these measures because univer'3ities tend to be dominated by the male , and are therefore self­ perpetuating in their proportion of males and females . But to go much beyond initiating a change begins to infringe on the rights of the male . It's a delicate problem and the Uni ve rsity of Guelph is probably already doing everything that is reasonably possible to so lve it.

I think there are several instances where the COPSE report closel y resembles material presented in our Senate brief ; we seem to have had at least some effect o n their recommendati ons.

SETTLE: This commission has modified its recommendations o n women's right s and is now fairly close to the position we adopted o n o ur Senate committee .

We recommended that the draft report 's proposed quota for women employees be dropped in favour of an " index of discrimination." This would be a standard by which it co uld be judged whether individual uni versities were pro viding sufficient opportunities for wo men. It w ould be better to publi sh how each university stood against that inde x and let the scandal of that publication be the goad , than to adopt some legal device like a quota.

The commission 's final proposal s are really quite c lose to our own position.

Should the funding of teaching and research be separated?

SETTLE: In our committee 's brief we claim the inseparability of teaching and resea rch . We argue that the quality of an indi vid ual 's teaching depends on his being an origi nal researcher in his field.

Fo r instance, an indi vidual , 'IIlO engage s in research has access to information that may flOt be publi shed for years .

Thr ough his own wor k or through contacts with o ther researchers , he may receive mate rial that is passed o n immediately to his studen ts, although it may no t appear in journ als until several ye ars laler , or in te xt books for several yea rs after that. A sep a rati on of the funding for teaching and research will lead to fin ancial juggling . and may cause an unhealt hy split between the tw o fields .

KOPF: I really do n' t see how you can separate teachi ng and researc h at the graduate level. Th e two are so integrated­ where does one stop and the o ther be g in ?

The present system gives everyone the opportunity to become competent in research. Time is allotted so that new facult y members may begin resoarch projects, or try out thing s that may not be possible when one has to apply formall y for research funds.

MILLIKEN: I ha ve the impress io n that what the co mmiss ion finally adopted is a face-saving compromise that retreats from the original bad idea of se para ting the funding for te ac hing and research.

The new separation they make is between research which is connected with teaching and researc h w hich is not.

Yet the distinction between the se two thing s is very difficult to make. I suppose that, due to the growth of knowledge and the change o f courses, every professor is doing research that is not directly related to teaching this year , but probably will be ne xt yea r or the year after that.

In its final report the commi ssion has simpl y side-stepped the issue.

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At left: Ivan Law, OAC '09A, stands beside a replica of a blacksmith shop he knew when he was young .

Below: Specimens of Mr . Law's carving stand on display in fr ont of antiques and family heirloom s.

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86-year-old recreates the past In carvings

By DAVE BATES

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ISITORS to the Oshawa home of Ivan Law, OAC '09A , usuall y drop in to see his work in wood carving , work he turned to a few ye ars ago at age 79.

Now 86, Mr. Law gets "a rea l kick" out of having compa ny: over 400 guests, mostly in church and school - affiliated groups with the occasional out-of-town tourist , came to see his work last year.

He particularly enjoys his visitors' reactions when they discover that his basement houses not only wood ca rving s but also an antique collection of famil y heirlooms and agricultural tools.

Most of his antiques and carvings represent fo nd memories for Mr. Law. Born and raised on a farm near Solina , Ontario , a co mmunity northeast of Os hawa , he farmed and m arke t-gardened most of his life, with side-adven tures in real estate and house-building.

Personal mementos include a hand­ woven blanket used by his grandfather and a quilt stitched by his mother.

A nutcracker, forged by a local blacksmith and purchased by Mr. Law' s father whe n Mr. Law was a young boy, inspired him to re create in miniature Clip Short's blacksmith's shop, com plete with smithy, anvil. racks of tools and an old cro ny of Short's , sitting on a stool and smoking a pipe. Other historical ly-accurate models he has built include a one-room schoolhouse, a local church (which was built in 1837 and ended its services last yea r). a log cabin , a New Brunswick­ style covered bridge, and a working sawmill - with a steam engine for authenticity and an electric engine for show.

His smalle r carvings inc lude woodsmen's sleighs loaded with logs , horses and cutters , animals , birds and people .

Many he makes as gifts for friends; he carves an item in lots , usually two or three dozen at on e time.

"I've lived in nine different hou ses , attended nine different churc hes and had nine operations ," he adds as an aside as he guides his guests th ro ugh his basement museum.

Although he has invested considerably in his wood carving hobb y, he takes great pleasure in having spent on ly 25 cents for all of his antiques. Some were family possessions but most ha ve been contributed, a few having come from visitors. When he shows a guest a tool or gadget, he usu ally has a story about its history and how it was used. Many items still function - apple peelers , husking pins , knit suspenders, coal oil lamps , and a met al cone -shaped funnel which once served as a hearing aid. " I should take this to ch urc h," he says.

"I usually catch only half of the sermons."

His interest in antiques and carving has been life-long - the antiques being

treasured remembrances of his youth ,

and the ca rvings an expression of the

talent he displayed in high school.

"I always got 100 in art," he says , pointing to a framed pencil ske tch of a buffalo he drew in Grade 9 which served as the model for his first wood carvi ng .

He st ri ves for realism in the nearly 200 buildings and animals he has carved , and find s some modern-day art somewhat messy, as if a youngster had been given so me paint "a nd told to push it around ." He 's also a stickler for detail. brought on in part by guests who point out a missing item on one of his models , such as o ne lady who noticed the boot scraper absent from the log cabin.

Ano ther guest had trouble determining the sex of an animal carving .

"Now I make them so people know ," says M r. Law.

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Right: This wagon sat for a single day in this place of honour on the beef barn roof. It was hoisted to its position the Thursday preceding this year's College Royal, and removed - by students from the School of Engineeringon Friday.

Saturnalia revi Changing pat Although pranks and practical jokes are especially associated with academic institutions, such playful reversals of the order of things have a long and venerable history. In ancient Rome, for instance, there was a ye arly feast of Saturnalia in which the normal order of events was disrupted, and slaves and masters reversed roles.

The colleges that joined in 1964 to form the University of Guelph belong to a different period of history. Yet they too had manifestations of Saturnalia and Guelph was, in the words of one alumnus , "one of the prankiest places in the world."

Below: The unauthorized cutting of trees , shown in this photo from the 1922 O.A.C. Year Book, preceded the building

of War Memorial Hall.

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N the night of November 4, 1955, an unknown number of students removed the front door of Macdonald Hall , coaxed in a thousand pounds of living , breathing steer and tied it to a stairpost.

Thus began one of the more celebrated incidents in the history of student pranks at Guelph. The beast was not content to stay at its post: it burst free of its tether, pranced into a nearby sitting room, relieved itself, tore up the carpet and trampled the furniture. By the time it was discovered , damage had been done to the tune of $1 ,000, and Guelph recei ved unexpected newspaper, radio and telev ision publicity across the country.

But Dr. J. D. Maclachlan , then president of the Ontario Agricultural College, was left with the responsibility for having the mess cleaned up. Therefore he assembled the students of the three colleges then at Guelph to an assembly in War Memorial Hall, and when no one stepped forward to take the blame he spread the cost of damages , as was the custom of the times , over the entire student body. The levy came to 68 cents a head ; things could have been worse.

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pranks in the days of the ancien regime - the era before the Uni ve rsity was incorporated in 1964. It in vo lved at least two of the three factors (alcohol, animals and co-eds , or to use other terms booze, beasts and beauties) that appeared , singly or in combination, in almost every equation for student disturbance. In those days beer and liquor were prohibited from the campus - although this prohibition was practically impossible to enforce. The women 's residences , on the other hand, were garrisoned off with a strict se t of rules that were quite effecti vely enforced. Farm animals were both accessible - they were present on the campus in considerable numbers - and symbolic of the agricultural and veterinary colleges.

To trace the history of college hijinks is not an easy task. One is presented with quantities of anecdotes from the 1950's but relatively little material from earlier times . Howe ve r, bits and pieces of anecdote do permit glimpses of these periods . One such story , which is related in Alex Ross' History of the OAC, may be entitled Creeping Jimmy and the Slippers. With a few melodramatic embellishments it may be retold as follows: III Ih~ lime of 0111' forefalhers, even

helweell 1885 alld 1890, IhNe lived a

presidelll of Ih e OAC whose lIame Ivas

James Mills. This s(/m~ lI1all illiwhiled

a room ill Ih e .I'II/delll residellce alld if'

"'as his won! 10 sa llv f o rth 011 eV(,lIing walks

Ihro ll!;h Ihis residen ce. Ihe belfer 10

supervise his char!;~s. For this purpose

he kepI oliiside his door a pair of slippers

wiill which he "'o"ld silen(ly slip from

I/(/If 10 half, alld for wllich he was by

disrespe c ljfll young men given the

opproiJriuus sobriquel of "Creeping Jimmy."

NOIv in Ih ose days a young chevalier whose nam e was George came 10 reside am on!; Ihi s same sludenl body. And il c{{me 10 pass Ihal one nighl he wellt furth , even 10 Ihe door of Ihis presidenl's room. bearing wilh him a vessel of Ihal s"bswllce calfed molasses. A nd 10, he slooped and pOII/'ed Ihis su bslance il1lo Ihe slippers which he found Ihere

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Right: This decoration, painted on the old campus water tower the night of October 5, 1960, remained on the tower for some time .

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In the campus prank Whether President Mills reacted to this molasses surprise with patience and fortit ude the bards do not tell us.

But they do say that the young chevalier's full name was George C. Creelman, the same who later married Pre side nt Mill s' daughter and succeeded him as president of the OAC. Th us from this tale we may draw two rather harsh lessons: one concerns the perfidy of sons-in-law ; the second relates to the disconcerting tendency among college pranksters to rise to positions of promin ence in later life.

Truly, as Hegel said , everything passes into its opposite .

The era that fOllowed the First World War was marked by vario us incidents .

Initiation , that practice by which sophmore students try to drub the living daylights out of the freshmen , was particularly seve re. Several articles in the OAC Review spoke ou t against initi ation excesses, which included the tarring and feathering of three freshm en in 1925.

Th e twenties we re also marked by the War Memorial Hall controversy. Campus opinion favoured building the hall in one location ; but the Ontari o government decided against this si te for ecological re asons - it would require that a fine row of trees be cut down. As a result a party of students went out in dark of night , cu t the trees, and gouged a hole into the lawn as a beginning for site excava tion. This party was said to inc lud e a man who later became Ontario's minister of public works, then minister of agriculture, then chairman of the soil co nse rvation committee.

Everything, as Hegel said , passes into its opposite . . .

Prior to the Second World War the OAC was one of the fe w residence co lleges in the world : that meant that every student w ho enrol ed at the college was required to stay in residen ce.

Among these students were a certain number who had been sent there because their parents had found them unmanageable.

"A residence college pretty well means you get all the characters ," says John Eccle s, OAC '40, "These boys had to let off steam somehow; the OAC was probably one of the prankiest places in the world."

But Mr. Ec cles particularly remembers the period immediately after the war when he took over as dean of men.

The place was basically out of control at the time , he recall s. The student body included former commandoes who had been trained to forage , and every morning some one of them would have brOken into one of the food stor age rooms and stolen whatever he wanted.

(Quantities of food were later fo und sta shed beneath the eaves in Mills Hall.)

Mr. Ecc les' most vivid experience co ncerned a near-riot in the Administration Building, now Johnston Hall. Students had emptied feather pillows onto the evergreens that fronted the building, giving it a false Christmasy look. In side, a fire had been lit: pictures had been burned off the walls and garbage was smouldering in the hallway. Clearly the persons responsible for these acts had crossed the thin , red line that separates pranksterism from sheer, wanton vandalism.

Such disruptions proved to be a temporary feature of campu s life. Some of the "problem students" failed their exams or left the campus for other reasons, and a few were exp elled, but most settled down to thei r studies.

Within a short time student pranks were assuming traditional patterns. There would be Hallowe 'en tomato fights, winter-time snowball fights and exam-time water fights. Painting exped iti ons were organi zed against such popular targets as "Old Jeremiah " (the cannon ), the Johnston arch and, for the more adventurous, the campus water tower.

Occasionally highly original tricks would be played. One group brought the parts of a Harvard trainer plane to the campus, and assembled them in a nose-dive position in front of Johnston Hall. The next morning th ere it was on the front campus - a plane which had crash-

landed during the night but which nobody had heard fall.

In the late forties and the fifties there occurred an intense rivalry between Guelph and McMaster - perhaps because it was in th ese years that the motor car put students at the two institutions within striking range of each other.

This rivalry centred on football games between McMaster and Guelph , which were members of the same football leagu e.

It was customary for gangs from each institution to raid the other during the week before the se games, and students at Guelph wou ld guard their campus­ they would set up an all -night system of sentries , with each of them posted to specific areas for regular shifts.

Guelph stude nts would also raid McMaster in order to play pranks and gather hosta ges. The pranks they indulged in included painting escapades, plus the dumping o f manure and the depositing of a calf fetus at the enemy institution.

Hostages were kidna pped to Guel ph, where A (for Aggie) and V (for vet) was shaved onto their heads. Th en, like trophies of war at a Roman triumph, they were kep t and paraded about, sometimes for severa l days , by th e students who had captured them. (Dr. H. S. Armstrong, at that time dean of arts and sciences at McMaster, narrowly

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Left: In itiation procedures could sometimes be gruelling, as shown in this photo of the classes of 1929 and 1930.

Dr. T. H. Jukes. OAC '30, submitted the photo but wrote that "fear of reprisals even 46 years later, prevents me fro m ' Identifying any of the people in it" Below : A hostage taken in a student raid In the mid·fifties has his head shaved.

escaped this fate when on one oc c asion he was acco sted by a marauding band of Guelph students. He was only able to convin ce them after long discu ss ion that he was not a student but a fa c ulty mem ber. Some yea rs later and under more peaceful circum stances , Dr. Armstrong did co me to Guelph; he is no w dean of the University's Faculty of Graduate Studies.)

In the fifties and earl y sixties student discipline was a recurring topic on Union Council, the student governing body that repres ented Guelp h's three colleges.

Th e late M rs. Mae Crawfo rd, who served as Union Council secretary throughout thi s period refe rred , in a history of the council that she compiled , to a number of student pranks. There were questions surrounding these pranks that were never fully answered, she sa id. These questions included the foll ow ing : • Who put the steer in Macdonald Hall?

How was it that no one heard anything when the front door was removed an d the animal led in?

• Who bricked in a re sidence door?

• Who bloc ke d an apartment door with toil et paper?

• Who c ut dow n the big tree on th e front ca mpu s? Was the fun worth $1500 ?

• Who went into the utility tunnel and turned off the electricity? (How lucky he was not to be electrocuted !)

• Who coloured the wate r supply green on SI. Pat rick's Day? • Who climbed to the top of the w ater tower to do the painting jobs?

• Who stole the silverware from Cree lman on the various occa sions ? (In 1959-60 academ ic year the sophmore OAC class was fined $500 because of missing silverware. At first the class would not pay; they relented only when refused permission to write their final examinations .)

Mrs. Crawford described tw o pran ks in detail : "At one time many peopl e received beautifully en graved in vitations to the home of the dean of me n. After accep tances started co ming in, a letter

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had to be sent out informing everyone that it was a student prank. I reca ll a chuckling student who saved me the embarrassment of sending a reply.

(What a chance was mi ssed to turn the tables on the students by going along w ith the gag! ) " The second incident occurred when 4-H clubs were meeting on campus .

The senior Aggies installed a table outside Mills Hall instructing all the visiti ng young ladies to enter that hallowed hall for their med icals .

They were met by young men dressed in spotless white lab coats w ho escorted them in . How many naive yo ung ladies recei ve d medicals that day was ne ve r divulged, but due to early detection the medical course was short and snappy."

Such incidents marked the life at Guelph in the yea rs before 1964. In the years since then campus hijinks have not enjoyed the same prominence. Today 's pranks are likel y to be put down as exhibitions of childish behaviour, rather than celebrated as daring and amusing disruptions of the order of thin gs .

The question is why?

A number of reasons may be advanced.

Some people suggest that when stud e nt rad ic alism came in in the sixties, pranksterism went out. Others note that certain pre-university c ustoms have been altered: for instance, initiation and the excesses that sometimes accompa nied it was replace d in 1965 with the more neutral orientation program. Other people say that the Unive rsi ty is now too big for practical jokes - there are no longer the close social ties which tend to spaw n such incidents.

Finall y, there is the argument that the permissive society has defused the tensions that used to build around drin king and relations between the sexe s, th e tw o main factors in the equati o n fo r student disturbances. Today there are no sped al rules against drinking - there are even pubs on campus - and th e strict regulation s that o nce co ve red the w omen's residences have been co ns ide rab ly

re laxed. But for whateve r re ason the manifestation s of Saturnalia that once rocked the ca mpus have co nsiderably declined; one of the prankiest places in the world has settled, perhaps temporarily perh aps permanently , into mo re subdued ways. 0

Do you have stories and pictures fro m the past d ays? We are seeking ma terial fo r a " Now it can be told " c olumn, in whi ch we shall , with yo ur permission, print tho se old stor ies b efore they fade from memory . We are also l ooking for pho togra phs th at may be used in Alex Ross ' Histo ry of th e OAG. Sen d your material to the Guelph A lumn us, Alumni Ho use, Univers ity of Guelph .

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lo!lst week year O .AC . 'bl voted not to pay the $500.00 fine imposed by the Disciplinary Committee for th e raid o n Watson. The year member~ drong ly feel that they are being unius~y prosecuted for a crime committed by unknown culp ri t s. Th t! decis ion reached by the comm ittee and the line of reasoning ap pc!lrently foll o.....ed have failed to convince the year tnat they should pay the fine.

The f"v ld('nc:C! p r"' ~f' nt ed wa ~ ap­ parl'nlly only wo rd of I outh an d sP(' ond hand a bes t. A n ull ide nli · fi ~d DIp is a ll eged to havp told the Dpan of Wonwn tha l "he r.,-· cO j.!"n i ud

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tht t hird Ru mours 31 "\: th a t ut the fr'i.t IUl"tUn lr the ,'onl m lttee mem ­ b" 1 ~ w(' re. lold t here wa l :\u rr i(' !('nt " vIdence to ('onv ic t '6 1, A letter wa s !len t t o t he p r¥.,l dent the year wh ic h !!aid : "If no names a re fort h t"onll nf( befor e t he Dille iph n ­ at.v Committ4:e con Vene!! T ut sdBY ;1\ 12 ' I ~ p'11 _ your yea r ma y be he ld respon!$ibl t Iln le!lS )'11\.1 cnn pro ve oth erw i~t," . A t t h e T u e~ da y m{'ctin ", ~ hert' was. in th e o pinion of t he comm lttl?t' ins f f id e nt {'VI ~

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Th~ ne xt d3Y furth e r . {Ov id, nee" wa ~ hrQu li!n l. for w ard and l he (lnr wa~ le vied . The "ou r C'C' lIf thi~ f ur t her "cvi dlmt'e" ap paro:-nll y wa " the Dlp who ha .. no t been n:amt'd . S he- did nut r1tlllW hf' m d ividu.\lllo; wn orn !>ht' !mppos~ {'d ly rec(l~n lz E'd , but t hE' DI$Clplin .

I)I }' COmttllttl:!'C arc ap parently ready to co n"'ld 0 he ar $ay. The principle, tha L a pnTt)' i~ innOC t'n\ u ll til pr ovi.'f' Ktu lty h ~ t been (,Oln­ plt,t ely 1 ~"!Ore d in t h l ~ "''':<e W h.e n

a pa rty hat Lo pr ov(' !-lis innocence to e,(.'ap'· pt TH (' u tlon . o u r l e ~a l ~J'I Lc m 15 (a lOt d ec hn l!lS!". An )' onl" for Si be ria ~ One h und r t'd ft'ld t wenty. flv(' mt'm ber of a yt"ar <lr;: be ,n ar fI ned (our doll:u). t'<leh becau'!'c an u m­ d(l rnlf:f'd g Irl I~ -.;;al d to have t Ql d ht!'t dea n I h~l t ~ he rec:o ~ n iz ed unt' 4,)1" fl1Grl!: m~mbt> r"$ ot' lh(> .... toa r.

F r om all re port' t he rp.$id ..'n(' e wn ~ In d llll-kn~ !' a nd a Ma le of uUe r chlllo". a nd ttlf' In ....a de r s w ere m8'ik~d d u nn fr l ht- r~i d P O" iti vl.' idt"nti f u:a t mn Ulld,,'!· ~h o.,e Cl T(· "lIn · '$ tll nl"pi I " 'If' ry im,)robi.l bh:" . If an indlv id Ull1 wa s Ide ntif ied , w hic h is very unlLk ... ly, do €':< it Il nJ V ~ Lhat only one yt"a r wa... I n\' n lv~d? Hard ·

ly urious, ;il"ld cont ra dic to r y li a\'e n'Ul"\ e out of Wat son t h l> rn id . O ne re fl on sai d ys in­ l h;u t h " re w(" rt' onl y f ou r \.'ol v4!:d another said th a t t heTt wt' re nln.. tY ~lu x. One rumo u r had It ~ hAL e 'c ape('~ (rom th e 0 R. had UpIU· the bc{!-$, whl lf' anQlhp r wa '§ thOll mcm~rs of each yf'ar o n eac h (loor in th e m e n'5o rl:'!Io idenet:" :"Ia ny

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Students March On City Canadian ne ..... smen hdd something to t"lk abo ut !.!lSt FriddY when 150 itudenh from various yeat\ in th e three Colleges disrupted the u~tJa l placidity of down -town Guelph by going on a " hunger ma rch". At noon, when it ..... as realized that the dining hall WitS clo sod for ceriain , a nucleu~ of indignant studenh fo rmed otJt~ide Creelm"n ~nd purpo~efully t r"mpe d to the Admini,tr~tion building . The group made its way to the O.AC. cafeteri", where the Dean o f Men w~, on the job to d iscourdge any possibility o f student entry . Once again out· side, the numbers of demonstrators grew rapidly dnd soon started it march down·town .

A vtl lll!uard of plnr3I'd·(, D.1 ry ml/: s lalw .,rl led Ole p;il'ade w tlll~ -support W;' :-I Jl~ Vl;; ll rrorll bt>hind by l'l tudenl$ dnv ll1Jt ca r ... a nd blo\\ JtJ.:' th"i r ha r na no j ~! l v. Hu ... tr·. QU I' traffiC wa , br ou j!:h l tu 3 1-1.1\ l4. ... t he concnU r!l t.' marched on Gudph s hou t i n ~ " W e wnn t food ." Th ey p r()(.'eedf!d to St. C(-' or~e'<;; sq uare , literally , wa rilunJ! n\'I.' r the m!l ln :<-trct't. Impa tient mot~ ri !lt'5 hunkl'd he ir hor nl'o in prGtl.''''t at the ,,;plrit ed or f~n ders wh ile Glit!:lph ite" re­ gl1 rd ~d t h em Wi th ob\·w u ... R" l or,. ish mtn t. ome of th.e .~ro up vut· li ned the lIit ll 8:t io l) over th~ r ad,o and photog-r a phe had pie- t y of opportu nitl(1.'1 for candi d ~ho ' ~ Their pur po'<r a ccom pl iShed. the d('nw .'raLor wert' q\! ic kh' on t heir way a ~9 i n--\l p lo t h e end of town and o\'er t he "', me r ou tl'" boc k to t h(" Coll ege.

It should be C-'mpha!<.' 7.r d tha t 1' 1· thou g h the n~o r(' h l' r!\ w(:re ob~t n~ · pel'o lls and ht"ld u p traffiC . th e y did ntit l Ol t,~r aT ca \l~e any dam· aJ!e. T h e ~t l,l de nt s :in.owed it "rellt­ er m e :a ~ut e of ro-mmo n sense than lhe ndlll iniloltrllllion cre dited t he m u-"i th in thnt they n: po<;ed th\? 11'. ju-tice d on e t o\\'a rd ~ Lr." m in way s wh h:h wer e n ut va nd ::ili !l.llt· ,

The :lC('oUn l or the ('h",i :'l of enn t !. lead ing t o t he dO !l in~ o f the din m t:' h al l hCI!' ~tn tzorbled so m uch t haL f ew Nu! iders know the tr ue s tory. In t he fiut pl ace. th .~ s t ea lill~ o f tht' a l minu nl tray !t rrom C ree lman IS not "a t radltIO f\ · a) Ap n l Fool jokl.' ''. f ndt"ed, t hi. is the fi r!'t tIme t h:tt the ~ra y" havE' been lok e n on th is particufa l' dat e. MorE'over, it was not Jloi n t. ~ ed ou t t hn the tra .... '! were :otto'"n

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Th,. lSecu rlty pohcf' di s play('d th(: ir u~t1;11 o rouJ!h ne,.. , n that t hl:' )' rom p tt'tcly OVE'r)ooh d th e trays du rln ~ theurumou red s earch t hruu J!h thll' budd in~ ea rly la s t w t:f'k ,

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when h.. th r l.!all· ned t o ' c I Q:'J~ hi! d m in ll hall IlIL ~ up pt.' r 1£I. $t T hu r ~d a y H E! sh ou ld hav e- reolized t hlH II th e ll a ys II' prt' 10 ISlay /lWa y, he had !.wo di :-l l n ~ l ef u l n lt ~rn a ll ve ~ .- to lo!\e f::l.c by not d O.$ ln R' Cr f'(: lman , or to dOSE! It a nd :t rOlh e the ~n· IIl1t .,. of f've r yufl e. 1·1.. fRiled tQ rt'a flze t h ~ t no one c nj{lytd . lop· pi n/: hl~ f(Jod fro m a cH~,,1 bow l.

St udent"! w e re ~t) d iuusled wi th tht bow a r rs OSlenltnl. th a l t-hfY w u ld h a ve d Isc losed th~ c ul pTl t~ e ve be fore C r~~Irr.n n wa ~ closed - it' Ur ey had k no..... n who t he cui ­ pri u we re.

He chose thE' wor M cou r s e fX)s . ~Ibl e. O .A.C. h:l s r ~c c i \' ed m uc h bad p ublicit y on accou nt of thi!J i ri ci d~t\L lLnd t he Co lle~ admi ni s,. l l'alo r5 h ave only t hemsclvc tel blame.

DIPLAND INVASIONS : p Tl n ~ ca me hll e to the ('3rn pus but it.:f btla led arnval b l'o u~h l 1 h~ u$u :l1 round of m i:5chl('v iQus out. break 5. Included In thia .....a vt' of VIolence were two r.a id 5 o n \Va 'o n Ha ll which had In re v rol f-nee. mil. · I :CIO Il ';; da ma ~ e a nd l hor ou ~ h plan . nin ~ than m OS l old Alu m ni ('are t o recall.

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al(!: ri o-lIld ut' lnj? on51<.L ultht Of hlJo d . t'd rlen d ~ produced tipp~d bed~ a nd dl'Sl I'oyed t h ~ nca lne. s a n d de('t)r;Hion'l of the H all With "urn .

H QtU volle ys of raw CJ: ~ , The im· pac t Ic it o vprall {·onfuJ.iOtl An d p~ n i(' (IS t he Awnkened J! :r1 ... !.trove bli ndly t h ro u v.h dnrk pnl'd halls t t he tf'l~ ph one , only to f md that lht' ltole phone scr v i e~ had bco(,' n dIS .

F'u pted A hm('ly trek to ~lae ­ Donald Hid l by a $Iee py de-a n I'ou!)£d a d mtnl"t r:l l('rs and r4!5u it · ed in a niKnt . loni vl~1 1 wh ich re· veal c.d no f ur th f'r \ lIva51(In$. Thc adve n t of morn l n~ brou ~ht Ln · t reased ev id e nce of wlde$pnead d e · faci nf( {l. nd lin ai-my of dunm ~ Wm)lerl.

T e 5.t."l;'{ln d rAid occ ur re d late Mon dll Y tv en inl{ Mar(' h 30th. A I· tll c bll~ t'u-.t n l Windows had betn ba rfed foll OWin g t he pr c· VIOU" r a id , a j;trourt of invaders fl)rced the,,· W'" Y Inlo th r· Commo n Room a n d J... und ry Ht)<.) m I" tbt' "ba,.N:leTlt. T he lu lt-.nl to ndus ()( t he "1I 0;.;t nn tlal f u rniturp Into tht! h a ll a nd tht' r()\l in~ back of l hE' r UIl J!8\'(-' UIlU H.l6 n o '_0 (t ra r t)' HU"nle,

At its lait meeting Union Cou:'Icif decided to join N.F.C.U .S., fhe Nd tional Feder~tjon of C~nadian Univenity Studenh. The coun· cil he ard a tall.: by two member ~ of the N.F.C .U .S . Promotion Com· mittee and became convi nced that N.F.C.U .S. would be ~ definite benefi t to the O,A, ·V.C .- Mac compu\ . fl'rf'n(' e is inK held :It the Un; ­ T ht' ftdera t ion it ess e ntll,l lI y a v ~r ll lty of ~a& k alc he wan a t Saska. chali,"~ fo r U ~ t o ~am more ca n· t aH w ,th other UnL\'el':II iti(''I. In Cana da With mo re , t r e~ S I:w i on ~~~h\~i5c~~(;T:~:f! l~i!ra~Ic~h~:~~ con t act w.th O n tArIO U l\iv f'rs ltu~•. ea rl y nt'Xl f al l. \.voTki n ~ as a li lted ody, C a na­ I n orde r t ha.t 1.-he n' won ', be d,a rt un ive r1itH's a re in a be tt~r any ti me lost ,n org.:m izlnlit' th e p(l~itl on to a sk for mQr e sc holar . (' on~rni \te e nex t fa l! It tem porary t!xecut lve has b<>en 5et up as fol~ sh i p!. and f ina nci al ht>l p for ~tu den t.s . N .F.C. U.S. _1"0 sponsor, low5: many c ultu ral p rol:"rllmmes !!oUch Cnal r ma n of N F .C. U.S. Commit· as till? Nat iona l D e bn tln ~ Fi na l" tee A nne H es lop , 61 Ma c. l hl? a n n~ al un iversit y !l enr in art, Vlce· Ch ai r rnan (at" O. V.C. a nd ph Qto ~r a phy and short ~Lory Bi ll G r e~g , 61 a.v .c. c ont ~ s ls VI(,f' ,Chairman for a .A .c.

OnE' s.tudt"' nt from lhi. ca m pus Bna n T ur nbull . 61 O.A .C. C h:ti r nla n for N .F'.C_ U.S. PubliCity will a tte nd t h.i, YI? j)T ' ~ 'Ieminu r at the U ni ver!J.it y Qf Mont rea l The Com mi ttee Ji m Wh ite, 61 O_A.C .. tOpH: is "The InClueJIC t' of Lh e Cnmrhltt4!t' Me m ber Va r ious C u ltur E! ~ ,..n Ca nad ifl n Na· Joanm' Jew so n, 60 Mllc. tion al Dt-\,cloplll enl." C a 1\ a d it Commitlec! Member Counr:lt award ed N.F .C.U.S. n Coh n Couper, 62 a .A .C. f/: rant of $ 6{)OO to be u sed for t his A It thO.!le }nte rested in I Nu'l1In ~ more about l\·. F .C.U.S. cou ld can · The nat io nal N.F. C U.S. tltct a ny of tnt' abov l!: peopl t'.

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T he r u~ look it.s second (n il t o tht! cJeaner:s a s wa te r dllm tl ~t" was -su rveyed and a neS5ed .

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SUCCESS BREEDS $UCCE$$

Annual fund achieves 44 per cent increase

HIGHLIGHTS • Record $128,534 was contributed,

an increase of $39,235 or 43.9

per cent over 1971.

• There were 639 new donors

among the 2,694 contributors

In 1972.

• Donors who had given before, but not in the previous fund year, numbered 1,022.

• The average gift was a record

$44.97 , up 36.4 per cent over

last year's average of $30.76.

• Number of Leadership gifts was

up 110 per cent.

• Campus support was outstanding

with 43.7 per cent participation

rate.

• A total of 568 volunteers served as committee members, Campus , Century Club and O.A.C. Centennial can vassers , and class agents to make the 1972 Fund a success.

• The annual fund has provided $362,174 for current campus needs in its first four years.

Summary of Allocations 1969 - 1972 $ 98 ,255 Scholarships 41 ,600 Arboretum Arboretum Centre

67,439

Alumni Stadium

80.391

Memorial Hall

27,000

Cultural Affairs

30,784

Academic Needs

16,705 $362,174

Campaign Chairman Jim Kenney opens gift envelopes with the help of Pat But cher, secretary to the fund director.

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"Guelph alumni and faculty have done it again" said Campaign Chairman Jim Kenney , OAC '44, as he reported on the dramatic increase achieved by the 1972 Alma Mater Fund.

The highlights of the successful cam paign are listed to the left.

The increase in the average size of gift, sparked by introduction of the Century Club, was a major factor in the substantial rise , Mr. Kenney said.

All gifts are welcome and needed, he said, stressing the importance of supporting the annual fund on a regular basis.

In expressing his personal th anks to all those who parti cipa ted , Mr. Kenney

stated: "Your support is making possible an expanded scholarship program, repayment of the Alumni Stadium loan, a good start on the funds required to build the Centennial Arboretum Centre , and help for a variety of academic, cultural and research needs."

"Government grants and tuition may underwrite basic operating costs , but our voluntary investment provides a vitally important boost to th e quality of academic and social programs on the Guelph campus."

The campaign chairman paid tribute to all the vo lunteers who played a role in making the 1972 campaign another

The sketch at right shows an entrance to the O.A.C. Centennial Arboretum Centre which is sponsored through the Alma Mater Fund.

t

I record-breaker for the Fund.

Performance of the newly-formed Century Club which succeeded the special gifts divi sion , was outstanding. Chaired

by Neil Darrach, OAC '42 , with Earl John son , OAC '46, Mrs. Christine (Ro bb) Hindson , Mac '54, and Dr. Donald MacDonald , OVC '57, serving as college chairmen plus 62 canvassers, this group is c redited with raising $57,743.

The class agent division, chaired by Mrs. Berenice (Kerry) Webber, Mac '40 , with college chairmen Dr. Bob Buck, OVC '46, Mrs. Lenore (McFadden) Grubbe , Mac '4 0, Pro fe sso r Mike Jenkinson, OAC '63, Mr. Alex Ross , Well '69 , and Dr. Stan Young, OAC '49, and 178 class agents produced an excellent res ponse totalling $20 ,353. " There is no doubt in my mind that class agents are at the heart of the campaign," Mr. Kenney said, "The good rapport established between class agents and their c lassmates renews interest in our alma mater and encourage s new and repeat gifts each year as well as do nations at th e leadership level."

An innovation in the large arts and science classes of 1969 and 1970 was the enlistment of several sub-agents to help in the writing and signing of the 1,400 letters required. Special mention s hould be made of the diligence of Robert McElhinney , B.A. '71, who signed letters to some 800 class mates .

Campus co-chairmen Professors Ev Franklin , OAC '47, and Gordon Couling and their vice-chai rmen Dr. Gordon Ashton , OAC '35 , Mr. Ed Boland , Profes so r John Carpenter, OAC ' 43 , Pro fessor Louise Heslop , Mac '67, Dr. Trevor Lloyd Jones, OVC '3 4, Professor Bob Kaill , MSA '63, Professor Sandy Pearson, OAC '42, Dr. Reg Shuel, OAC '41 , Dr. George Todd , and 87 volunteer canvassers personally solicited faculty and professional staff. Campus giving to the annual fund increased 30 per ce nt to $23,742 reflecting a higher average gift of $63.48 and a participation rate of 43.7 per cent. " This fine response is an example for all alumni to follow

and indicates that projects spo nso red by the Fund have good acceptance on campus and are worthy of wide alumni support" said Mr. Kenney.

A three-year ca mpaign to finance a project to mark the founding of the Ontario Agricultural College was established in 1972 as part of the Alma Mater Fund. Alumni propo se to raise a major portion o f the fund s required to build the O.A.C. Centennial Arboretum Centre . Chairman Go rdon Nixon , OAC ' 37, Vice-Chairman George Best, OAC '48, and some 200 co unty and area chairmen and ca nvassers rai sed nearly $10,000 in personal solicitati ons in nine counties and Metropolitan Toronto. This was a good start whicll produ ce d extra gifts and more interest in this project will be generated as we approach the 100th anniversary of the Guelph campus in 1974.

Design of all the literature used in the 1972 cam paign , plu s re spo nsibi lity for the September and Dec ember mailing s

which produced almost $12 ,000 , were the work of Derek French , OAC '58 , and his direct mail committee, Doug Colquhoun, OAC '58, John Babcock, OAC '54, Rosemary Clark , Mac '59, Dave Bate s, OAC '69, and Development Officer Jim Elmslie.

"It has been a real privilege to serve as campaign chairman thi s past year," said Mr. Kenney, who in bu si ness life is vice-president of Harold T. Griffin Ltd. "I sincerely thank President Winegard for his interest and suppo rt. Special thanks are also extended to all donors and to the 568 alumni vol unteers who gave enthusiastically and generou sly of their time and substance during 1972 to help mainta in the tradition o f academic and cultural excellen ce at Guelph." " My enthusia stic vice-chairman, Dr. Edith William s, OVC '41 ," stated Mr. Kenney, " has become ca mpaign

chairman for the 1973 Fund . Pl eas e let her

count on your continued support. "

SUMMARY OF ALUMNI SUPPORT -

1972

1972 Alma Mater Fund Amount Change No . of Given 72171 Gifts (Dollars) (%)

Development Fund Am ou nt Given (Dollars)

1,350 389 553 169 233

64,597 23,840 17,639 1,661 13,347

6,710 35 ,942 712 122 10,892

2,694 Other c redits

121,084 7,450

1972 AMF Proceeds

128,534

OAC .

OVC Mac/Facs Arts & Science Ex-Officio

+ + + + +

40.6 62.5 29 .1 7.2 43.7

54,378

+

43.9

All oca ted to AMFsupported projects.

End ow ment Funds received in 1972

10,300

+154 .3

To endow projects specified by alumni donors.

Development Fund Alumni pledge payments received in 1972

54 ,378

+

49.5

For capital building projects.

193 ,212

+

49.1

Total Alumni Supp ort in 1972

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"Everything is in sight"

With these words Dr. W. C. Winegard addressed the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council on the occasion of its annual meeting to allocate the proceeds of the successful 1972 Fund drive. The President was referring to the grants being made in support of the scholarship program, Alumni Stadium , Centennial Arboretum Centre, cultural affairs and other academic needs. "All the programs undertaken by the Council are on schedule," the President reported.

The Council has the task of determ ining which needs of the University to support, establishing project priorities, setting the campaign objective and recommending allocation of the proceeds.

In considering the 1972 Fund allocations Council Chairman George Jackson , OAe '49, and members representing the Un iversity and college alumni associations recognized the scholarship needs of the newer Colleges by establishing a new series of entrance scholarships in the Arts and Science programs. A special request which received favourable consideration was the University Choir appeal for help to finance its prop osed concert tour of Scotland.

The Arboretum Centre which has been selected by alumni as their major project to mark the O.A.C. Centennial received the largest allocation of funds with a grant of $63,389 , bringing the total collecled for this project to $67,439.

The cost of the Arboretum Centre is estimated at $375 ,000, which includes site planning and development. Of th is amount the Fund has agreed to raise $250,000 over a three-year period.

A number of classes celebrating reunions have indicated their intention of undertaking a special appeal to commemorate the Centennial year and prov ision is being made to have such contributions recognized through named sponsorship of arboretum collections or facilities. Work on the Centennial Arboretum Centre will commence shortly with the completion date scheduled for fall, 1973. This will allow time for the landscaping of the building and layout of the road system prior to the official opening during the Centennial celebrations planned for the summer of 1974.

Special mention is made of OAC Class '72 who contributed $1,072 towards the Arboretum Centre project upon graduation

and of Mr. Paul Fisher, OAC '11 , who provided funds to build a needed propagation greenhouse in 1972. In the first three years , the Fund allocated $39,500 to the Arboretum to support tree collections, signage, a tractor and other items needed to give the Arboretum its start.

Scholarships, bursaries and prizes will receive $27 ,195. This amount included $3,150 re-allocated from the previous fund.

Five awards totalling $2.500 were established on a continuing basis to help meet the scholarship needs of the newer colleges. Two scholarships of $500 each will be available to both the BA and B.Sc. programs and one $500 entrance scholarship is to be established for the B.Sc .(P.E.) program .

A total of $5,250 was allocated for Alma Mater Scholar awards. This will provide up to 35 awards of $150 each to freshmen students entering in the spring semester with averages of 80 per cent or higher. Students in all semester one programs offered at that time (B.A , B.Sc., B .Sc. (Agr.), and BASc.) are eligible to compete for these awards.

Grants totalling $10,000 will go to the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation to maintain its entrance scholarship program, the Macdonald Institute-Fam ily and Consumer Studies Alumni Association for its Dr. Margaret McCready Graduate Scholarship, and to the OYC. Alumni Association to continue its tra velling bu rsary p rog ram .

Other specific awards donated via the Fund include the R. A. Stewart, OAC ' 33 , entrance bu rsaries worth $6,000, the Mrs R. A. Stewart, Mac ' 32, proficiency awards totalling $2 ,000, academic awards made by faculty in the College of Physical Science, and other awards made in the names of Dr. W. H.

Incoming Campaign Chairman Dr. Edith William s discusses strategy for 1973 with Jim Kenney. The watereolour in the background by William Roberts is a purchase of the Alma Mater Fund.

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Nicholas Goldschmidt directs a rehearsal of the University Choir, prior to a concert tour of Sco tlan d to be sponsored in part by the Alma Mater Fund.

Minshall, OAC '33, and the late Lewis S Johnson. The total amount invested in scholarship incentives in the Fund's four-year history totals $98,255.

Alumni Stadium will receive $20 ,000 to help repay the construction loan.

The Fund has now granted $80,391 towards this major project. Together with gate receipts and rentals the stadium loan shall be paid off within about fou r more yea rs.

The University art collection will again be enriched through alumni support.

In addition to a cash allocation of $2,500 for art purchases , Dr. A. A. Kingscote, OVC. '28, donated a baroque oil painting va lued at $3,000. Not included in the annual fund total is another painting "The Riveters " by Alex Colville va lued at $4 ,000 which was purchased for the collection by the OVC. Alumni P,ssociation .

Mrs. Judith Nasby, curator of art, plans to hold an exhibit of works of art donated by alumni and purchases made from AMF grants in October, 1973 . " I am sure that alumni will be pleasan tly surprised at the number and quality of paintings , waterc olours and prints in the collection ," she said. The Uni versity collection of Canadian art is now of such importance that a grant to pay for the preparation of a catalogue has been received from the National Museums of Canada.

The final in s talment of $3,727 was paid on the concert grand piano completing the $9,227 purchase in itiated last yea r.

Dr. M. H. M. MacKinnon , dean of arts , advised the Council that this magnificent gift is being used quite frequentl y and is a source of great plea su re to the campus .

When Pre siden t Winegard personally announced to the University Choir the AMF grant of $2 ,500 to help finance their concert tour of Sco tland , the re was a spontaneous shou t of deli ghted approval.

The Choir plans to give 13 co ncerts during its short stay in Scot land and will attend the Edinbur g h Fes tival .

The Choir has been giving concerts to

Century Club well received One of the major reasons for the success of the 1972 Alma Mater Fund was attributed to the warm reception g iven to the introduction of the Century ClUb. In its initial year 448 alumni and faculty qualified for founding memberships.

Together they contributed $83 ,426, 64.9 per cent of the tota l received by the 19 72 Alma M ate r Fund. The results exceeded those of 1971 when 213 leadership gifts accounted for a substantial $32 ,581.

"One purpose of the organization" said Century Club Cha irman Neil Darrach, OAC '42, "is to recognize alumni and faculty w ho are vitally concerned and active in giving leadership support to the University of Guelph and its founding col leges through the Alma Mater Fund.

It also provides an opportuni ty to share with the members the plans and aspirations for the Unive rsity and its colleges."

Members hip is based upon donation of a gift, or gifts , totalling $100 or more

rai se money for the trip and so far have collected $7,000.

Historic agricultural books were donated by Hal Mason, OAC '21, in his continuing personal project to aid the library in building up its agricultural history collection. Grants in the cultural affairs area in the first four yea rs of the Fund total $30 ,784.

Gifts donated towards academic and research needs and miscellaneous projects are directed to the President's Fund for allocation. It will receive $1,800 to distribute in addition to $3,867 provided for other specific needs .

Alumni and faculty in the first four years of the Alma Mater Fund , have donated $362,174 towards AMF sponsored projects.

In addition , $27,056 has bee n receiv ed in endowment gifts the income from w hich will finance a var iety of sp ecific projects of interest to individual alumni.

during each c alendar ye ar. Most gi fts received were unrestricted but the re is provision for a donor to indicate the area of special interest in w~lich he prefers hi s gift to be spent. G ifts from graduates are credited to their cl ass totals .

Organization of the Century Club re lates in pa rt to th e 100th ann ivers ary of the Gu elp h campus whic h w as found ed when the Ontario Agricu ltu ral College was estab lished in 1874. Alumni and fac ulty who fulf ill the annu al membership req uirements du ring the organi za tional pe riod in advance of the Campus Ce ntennial in 1974 will qu al ify as found ing or ch arter members of the Cen tury Cl ub .

The OAC. Alumni Foundation pleasantl y surprised those who joined the Century Club in 1972 by forwarding each an attracti ve colour print of an original oil painting entitled "Campus Composite 1937" by the late Eva n Macdonald , A.R.C.A. Many members expressed their delig ht at receiving the print which brought back fond memories of campu s life. Foundation Chairman Gordon Nixon, OAC '37, sent the print as a token of appreciation for the annual grant the Foundation receives from the Alma Mater Fund to help maintain its sc holarsh ip program in agricultural science. The Foundation plans to contin ue the practice for new members until its supply of colour prints is exhausted .

Many Century Club members attended the Anton Kuerti Recital last October on the occasion of the presentation of the Steinway concert grand piano by the Alma Mater Fund. Following the recital they had an opportunity to meet the artist at a reception in the President's residence hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Winegard.

An annual gathering is planned at which Club members may meet senio r officers and faculty to learn first-hand about the projects and challenges of the Uni ve rsity. There will also be opportunities to att end a number of special events and academic occasions on campus .

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Campus Highlights 15,000 attend College Royal An estimated 15,000 people attended the University of Guelph's 49th annual College Royal, which was held on a cloudy , sometimes rainy March 9th to 11 th weekend , and featured displays and activities in all corners of the campus.

There was a 10-foot anaconda snake and a cattalo (a cross between cattle and buffalo) in the veterinary college , Old Macdonald's Animal Farm in the dairy barn poetry readings and piano recitals in the Arts Building , a magic show put on by the Chem istry Department, computer games and horoscopes in the Computer Science Building , samples of new and exotic foods in the Food Science Building, and an exhibition of the seals in a Zoology Annex . There were also

Above: College Royal Queen Charmaine Adams stands by presents a trophy to grand champion Don Werry .

as President W. C. Winegard

Below: William Stewart, Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food, right , visits with

a student at an OAC exhibit.

Left: Children make gingerly attempts to befriend reptile and amphibian show.

a boa constrictor at the OVe's

such perennial events as the fashion show, the dog show and the livestock show.

New this year were the guided tours of the residences, in which visitors were shown various types of on-campus accommodation.

Prizes for the best exhibits went to the Agricultural Economics Society, the Genetics Club , and the Fish and Wildlife Club. Winners of the best open-house award were Animal Science , Horticultural Science and Resources Management.

At the dog show the winner in obedience was Nancy Guest and the winner in conformation was Kathryn McBride .

At the livestoc k show the dairy champion wa s Don Werry , sheep champion was Shelley Munro, horse champion was Susan Stubinski and beef champion was Bill Lasby. The novice champion was Kath ry n McBride , reserve novice champion was Bob Kellam, grand champion was Don Werry and rese rve grand champion was Bill Lasby.

Guelph could lose under new system of financing The University of Guelph could lo se as much as $1.8 million in operating grants under the Ontario government's new system of "slip-year" financing , Uni ve rs ity President W. C . Winegard said last month .

Dr. Winegard was speaking after the announcement of the new system, made March 2 by Jac k McNie , the provincial mini ster of colleges and universities .

Under slip-year financing the government's ope rating grants to each Ontario uni ve rsi ty would be based on enrolment the previous year. This would benefit universities whose enrolment is dropp ing , but co uld harm the Uni ve rsity of Guelph where enrolment next fall may go up as much as five per cent.

However, Mr. McNie also said that adju stments would be made during thi s transitional year to accommodate in sti tutions whose enrolments are expanding. "These adjustments might help us," Dr. Wineg ard said , "' but exactly how much will not be known until the budget is presented. " (The Ontario government's budget was presented April 12, several w eeks after the Guelph Alumnus had gone to press.)

Scientists investigate James Bay region A group of Univers ity of Guelph scientists is studying micro bial phenomena in a region that has long been neglected by scientists - the Canadian sub-Arctic.

This group, which is specifically co ncerned with the James Bay area of Northern Ontario, set up a fully-equipped laboratory in Moosonee last summer, and has collected considerable data pertaining to the soil and aquatic environments of the area. Its aim is to establish a "bio logical baseline" - a set o f biological data which will describe the area, and against which future s hifts in its ecology ma y be measured .

The research group, which is coordinated by Dr. D. C. Jordan , chairman of the Microbiology Department, and includes members of the Land Resource Scie nce , Environmental Biol ogy and Zoo logy as well as Microbiology departments , has collected material to support the following generalizations: • The Moose River area (wh ic h includ es Moosonee) is no longer virgin count ry: traces of pesticides and heavy metals (fo r example, lead and mercury) are now to be found there. The mercury tra ces are at higher levels below the junction of the Abitibi and Moose rivers , and appear to come from the Abitibi ; • Fi sh are relatively free of parasitic and bacterial disea ses although two types of fish canc er, similar to those previously found in Southern Ontario , were discovered; • Blue-green algae, a type of plant life that is associated with forest mo sses , " fi xes " (o r co nverts) nitrogen from the air into nutrients that plants may use.

When fore st mosses are not pre se nt (for e xamp le , after a forest fire) soil temperature rises and acidity drops, but the number and va riet y of soil microbes increases. In such cases the nitrogen fixation which would otherwise be carried on by the algae is performed by soil bacteria ;

• Forest soi ls contain, about eight inches bel ow the surface, an impermeable layer wh ich water cannot penetrate.

Soil nutrients tend to wash down to this level and remain relativel y unavailable for plant growth . But in muskeg areas the se nutrients remain just below the le ve l o f ve getation and are thus mo re accessible to plants.

Data is still being processed­ 170 pounds of samples were brought back for analysiS last summer - so that the study will not be co m pleted befo re the end of the year. When it is com pleted scientists may have information to help understand and co unteract those shifts in the ecol ogy of the sub-Arctic that are e xpected as m an moves into this region .

Proton bombardment aids monitoring of pollution The air, earth and water around us contain s 90 natu rally-oc c u rring c hem ical element s, some of which are concentrated at high enough le vels to pose threats of po llution .

To find which of them may be dangerou s once required a cumbersome series of individual tests, but in 1970 a process was di scovere d by which tests could be run simultaneousl y for a large number of elements. Now a re sea rch group from the Uni ve rsity o f Guelph ' s Physic s Department is one o f half a dozen groups around the world working on the implications of thi s process.

Basi cally the proc ess consists of bombarding the sample one wishes to test (it cou ld consist of dirt particles from the air or ti ssue from the bod y) with either prot o ns or gamma rays , says Professo r lain Ca mpbell , who head s the Guelph research group. The samp le then gi ves o ff X-rays w hich may be charted in a spectrum; from this sp ectrum the concentrations of the different chemi cal elements can be measu red.

A sample may be bombarded wi th gamma rays using equipment within the Universi ty o f Gu elph . For bombardment with protons, however, it is necessary to take sa mple s to the proton accelerator at McMaster University. This second

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procedure has one big ad va ntage : it permits th e taking of far mo re sensi ti ve reading s; as little as 10-12 grams of an element can be detec ted .

The new process is significant both because it tests simultaneously for many c hemica l elements, and because it requires on ly minute sam ples of materi al. Thus it may be of great va lue in pollution co ntrol - for example, in the analysis of samples of dirt drawn from the air.

But it may also be important in medicine . Certain trace elements ap pea r to be necessary fo r people to remain healthy , says Professor Campbell. If th ese elements are present in the body in conce ntratio ns that are too high or too low , p hysio log ical disorde rs may result .

Thu s th e testing process may provide the means to m oni tor such disorders , and may ultimately playa day- to-day role in the field of health care.

Hotel and Food class forms alumni association The firs t graduating class of the School of Hotel and Food Administration has set up an alumni association.

Th e o rganizati on, officially named the Hotel and Food Administration Alumni Association, was se t up at a c lass party held in Cambridge, March 31. It gained as c harter members the 23 members of the class , the dean of the College of Family and Consumer Studies and the schoo l' s fi ve faculty members .

The purpose of the association is to support the interests of the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Administration , and to maintain relations between it and its alumni.

The fo ll owing executive membe rs, all from the c lass of '73, were in sta lled in office: pre sident, Ron Taylor ; vice足 pre side nt , Bill Robso n; secretary-treasurer, Elaine Robertson; and directors, John Garne tt and Paul Ru sh forth .

The members of the firs t graduating cla ss of the School of Hotel and Food Administration, seen at right , recently set up an alumni association.

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Der Keller operating with bar facilities If you feel like a mug of ale when nex t you visit the Uni ve rsi ty of Guelph you may find it in Der Kelle r, the German足 style cafete ria in th e basement of Johnston Hall.

Der Keller opened its bar facilities in Ja nuary and now serves beer (fo r 35 cents a mug o r $1.50 a ju g) as we ll as wine and liquor, from 12 noo n to midnight, Mond ay th rough Saturday. Thi s is in add ition to the German-sty le cuisine serve d since the restaurant was set up in the fall of 1970 , and th e steak suppe rs (serve d from 7:30 to 10 :30 at a cost of $2.50) that have become a recent part of the menu.

The opening week at Der Keller was rather boi sterous : the re were several incidents involving loud singing and va rious other excesses of t avern life.

At one point the cres t at the restaurant's entrance was ya nked off - it appa rentl y came away in two pieces - and borne away as a souve nir. But since January things have co nsiderably quieted down, according to bar manager Alan Molloy , w ho is a veteran o f 12 yea rs in the hotel business. Th e crest, which was found

in its two piec es in the East Res idence complex , is no w being repaired and may eventually be returned to its place.

And the atmosphere of the restaurant has beco me much more peaceful.

Thing s are much quieter here than in most pubs in Guelph , says Mr. Molloy.

There is no shuffleboard or simil ar game out of w hi c h argumen ts ca n develop; the c ustomers tend to s it quietly and carryo n discussions . Wo rking cond itions are also relatively good for the bartenders and waitresses , almost all of them stud en ts, who work on a part-time basis in th e res tau rant. Mos t of the customers are stude nts (a lthough Der Keller is open to everyone) and between them and the bar help there exists a sense of eq uality that is not always found in oth er pubs.

Der Keller which is licen ced to seat 155 pers ons , is pretty well full every evening . It is also comfortably full of people in the mo rning when the bar is not in opera ti o n, as well as in th e afternoon Thu s it has taken some of the populatio n pressure off the co ffee shop in the basement of Massey Hall - you can now walk into the coffee shop w ith out danger of suffocation amid the crush of bodies. You ca n even find th e occasional em pty seat

From left:

Paul Co use ,

Frank Graham an d

Archie McKen zie

Three alumni acclaimed to Senate positions

Alumni News

Letters

Three alumni candidates have been elected by acclamation as members of Sen ate Th e three candidates, Dr. Alan Alexander, M.Sc. '71 , Dr. Foster Vernon, OAC ' 39 , and Stan Whiston , BA ' 7'1 , wi ll become members as of September 1 and wi ll serve three-year term s.

Dr. Alexander, a native of New Zealand, took his grad uate degree in immunology and lectured at the OVC up to the end of last year. He is p re sen tl y director of clinic and research fa cilit ies at Modern OVA Trends Ltd. , Norval , Ontario.

Dr. Vernon has held a number of pOSitions connected with teaching and took a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Toronto in 1959.

He has served as assistant director of extension at McMaste r, and chairman for the Applied Arts Division at Seneca College , and is presentl y a consultant in leadershi p training with the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services M r. Whiston , who graduated in geography , was active in s tude nt affairs while an undergrad ua te. He held vari ou s student government posts , and was twice elected to the Senate where he served on fi ve commi ttees. He is currently a stude nt at the Osgoode Hall Law School and is also a director of the Guelph Campus Co-operative.

Paul W. Couse , OAC '46 , has been named vice-president, agricul tur al division , Maple Leaf Mills Ltd. Mr. Couse , who is president of the Agricultural Institute o f Canada and past president o f the Ontario Institu te of Pr ofessional Agrologists , has long been invo lved in alumn i affai rs. He is a past president o f the University of Guelph Alumni Association and the O.A.C . A lumni Association , as well as past chairman of the O.A.C. Alumn i Foundat ion. He has also served seve ral terms as an alumni member o f Sena te and was last yea r

appointed to the Board of Governors.

Galore, not gore

Frank Graham, OAC '37, has been appointed executive secretary fo r the OAC centennial planning committee ; he will be responsible for coordination and promotion of the specia l events that will be staged next year to ce lebrate the college 's hundredth bi rthday.

Mr. Graham has been advertising and sales promotion manager for Maple Leaf Mills Ltd, from 1956 until hi s retirement thi s year . He has also been president of the Canadian Feed Manufacturers' Association and the Central On tari o branch of the Ontario In sti tute of Agrologists.

Archie L. McKenzie, OAC '44, has been named general manager of Ford of Canada 's Tractor and Equipment Operations.

Mr. McKenzie joined Ford in 1956 after service in the Second World War , a term as an Ontario agricultural representative and four years as a farmer.

He has held a number of management positions with the company in Canada and the United States.

A note from Dr. T. H. Jukes , OAC '30, offers co rrections to the ol d co ll ege ye ll print ed in the "OVC at Guelph" article (Guelph Alumnus, November-December, 1972). He am ends the third line of the ye ll , w hich read " Hum orous , tumorous, blood and gore" in the art icle , to " Hu merus, tu morous , blood galore ."

Alumni award nominations sought Readers of the Aiumnus : The Honou rs and Aw ards Commi ttee so licits your help in nominating ca ndidates for the underno te d University of Guelph A lumn i Associa ti o n awards to be presented at th e 1973 Homecoming in Octobe r.

The ALUMNUS OF HONOUR aw ard

recognizes annual ly an alumnus fo r his

contribution to a nati onal cause fo r

Canada, service to h is community ,

scientific and edu c a ion al achievements,

and leadership in business , industry or

alumni affairs .

The ALUMNI MEDAL OF ACHI EVEMENT is presented to an alu mn us who has graduated within th e past 10 years , and is awarded for contribu ti ons to country , community, o r profession.

Please forward a let ter of nomination with background information by June 30 to me c l o A lum ni House , University of Guelph, Guelph , Ontario. Nominations previously presented are held by the committee for review up to fi ve ye ars.

Deadline for 1973 nominations is June 30.

Dr. G. R. Doidge, ove '52 Committee Chairman

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For further information please contact Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

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