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UI As you are aware, Dr. W.C. Wi negard , Presiden t o f the Un iversity o f Guelph , las t year m ade kn own t o t he Universi t y co m ­ mun ity h is w ish to resign in Ju ne, 19 75.

Yo u r Boa rd of Governor s acceded re gret­ fully to his w ish , recognizi ng t hat his dis­ tinguished lead ership and personal vision had been , in large measu re, responsible for devel oping during his presidenc y a tru l y integrated unil'ersity from the previous Fede rated Colleges .

Under the University of Guelph A c t y our Boa rd is respon si b le for the ap poin t ment of th e President. A President ial Search Com­ mittee, rep resentative of a w ide range of university interests, was entrusted with the tas k of seeking a new president. That committee ma de a unanimous rec om ­ mendation to th e Board. The Boa rd of Governors has accepted the recommen­ dation and has today designate d Profess or Do nald F. Forster as ou r next President and Vice Chancellor. H is appo intment wi ll be effective Jul y 1, 1975.

Professor Donald F. Forster President Designate

Professor Forster is well known to some of you as the Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto . He has held a su ccession o f importa nt positions at that University. In 1965 he w as app o inted , at the age of th i rty-o ne, Exec utive A ss istant to President Claude Bissell of th e University of Toronto. From 1965 to 196 7 he served as Execu t ive Assistant to the Pres iden t , f rom 196 7 to 1971 as Vice Provost and Executive Assistant to t he President.

In 1971 he was prom o ted to the position of Ac t ing Vice-Presi dent (A cademic) and Provost. In 1972 he was appo i nted V ice­ President and Provost of t he Un iversity of Toront o . I n each of these se ni or acad emic administrative positions his wo r k has con­ sistently b een charact er ized as excelle nt .

Dur ing h is administrative career he has continued to t each economics in the University's Department of Political Econom y .

Professor Forster 's t rai ning, ach ieve­ ments, and exper ience admirab ly f it the needs of ou r un iversity at this t im e.

Professor F orster shares ou r ambi ti o ns for t he university . He appreci ates o ur established strengths and the opportunities which lie before us. We believe that he can provide leadership at a t im e wh en all of us are det ermined to achi eve excellence in every aspect of the Unive rs i ty's activities. We believe that he can provide leadership at a time when stable enrol men t

and b ud getary restrai nts presen t new challenges. We bel ieve that Professor Forst er has the profeSSi onal and personal q ualities required to realize our aims and objectives.

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V ice-President F orster, born in Toronto in 1934 , was trai ned in t he fi el d of Political Science and EconomiCS, He took his B.A. in 1956 at the U ni versity of Toron to and h is A .M. f rom Harvard U niversity in 1958.

In 1966 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fel low and in 1957 w as awarded an Imperial Oil Fell owsh ip .

Hi s rapid rise at the Uni versity of T oro n to through the ra nks of Lecturer (1960), Assistant Professor (1 963 ), Assoc iate Professor (1965), to Professor in 1970 at t he age of 36 is clear evidence of his acco mp li shments as a teacher and his di stincti on as a scholar. He is co-editor (with M. H . Watki ns) of Economics : Canada, Toronto, 1963 and co-author (with M .A. Bienefeld ) of Econom ics f or Busi­ ness, T oronto , 1964 . He is co-puthor also, w ith J .W. Pic kersgill, of three volumes of The MacKenzie K ing Record. In addition he has pub lished many arti cl es i n the field of econ om ics and p o l itical science . From 1964 to 1967 he w as Rev iew Editor for the Canad ian Journa l of Economics and Poli tical Sc ience. From 1964 to 1970 he was Assist ant Editor of the Ca nadian A nnual Review. In 19 70 he spent the su mmer as Economic A d viser to the Mi n ister of Economic A ffairs and Develop· ment Pl anning, Government of Tanzania .

In t he eight years of Dr,. Winegard's presidency w e have seen remar kable ch ange and growth o n the camp us - a vastly enlarged staff, f ac ulty , and student body, the construct io n of many fine new buildi ngs, and , m ost impor t ant of all, a ma rked growth in t h e range and quality of our academ ic p ro gramm es. President Winega rd h as built well and we thank him for it.

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T he Board of Governors believes that President Designate Forster is emi nently qualified t o leed the University i n making a unique contrib u t ion in this new and challenging era.

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

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Autumn, 1974 Volume 7, Number 4

Contents

2 To Alumni and Friends Profess o r Donald F. Forster, presently Vice-President and Provo st of the University of To ronto , will succeed Dr. W inegard in June , 1975 as President of th e Uni vers ity of Guelph .

5 Landscaping Guelph's Campus Visitors to the Unive rs ity are always impressed at the harmony that exists be twee n natural features and man -made struc tu res. Rest assu red, the beauty of the Guelph camp us is no accident.

PICTURE CREDITS: Page 23 Ro semary Clark ; pages 12 and 13 Aud io-visua l Services .

UN IVER SIT Y OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDE NT: Dr. W. C. Wi negard .

PRESI DENT : Mr. T . R. (Dick) Hilli ard, OAC '40.

SEN IOR VICE-PRESIDENT : Mrs. J. D. Shortt) Bandeen, Mac '57.

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8 An Emigrant at OAC In 1880, a young man nam ed Edward Ffolkes journeyed from England to Canada whe re he enrolled at OAC. Using the viv id acco unts from Ffolkes' diary, Professor A. M. Ross offers a detailed view o f student life at Guelph 94 years ago.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs. J. B . (Doreen Ke rn) Dawson, Mac '54; Mrs. R. P. (Valerie Mittler) Gilmor, B.A . '72; Dr. Wm. C. (Bill) Ha ck in g, OVC '69 ; Mr. J. A. (Jo hn ) Wil ey , OAG ' 58.

S ECRETARY: M rs. A. R. (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes, Ma c '62.

DIRECTORS: Mr. P. D. (Peter) Ander son , Well '68; Dr . D. A. (Donald) Barn um , OVC '41; r. G. R. (George ) Gree nlees , OAC '62; Mr. M . G. (Mi lt) Greer, OAC '41 ; Mrs. M . ( Lind a Su lly) Keith , Well '67; Mr . J. N. (John ) Maye s, OAC '69; M rs.

J. R. (S hirley Jackson) Robin son , Mac '4 8; Dr . Jean Rumney , OVC '39; Dr. D. I. Silve r, OVC '72; Mrs. S. W. (Pat Damude ) Squire, Mac '63; Mr. M. C. (Michael) Streib, Well '69.

EX-OFFI C IO DIRECTORS: Mr. R. W. (Robert) Close, B .Sc. '69, Preside n t, Arts and Science s Alumni As s ociation ; M r. J. A. (J o h n ) Ecc les, OAC '40; Presid ent, O.A_C. Al umni As so ciation; Dr. H. J. (Howa rd) Neel y , OVC '51, Presid ent, O.V .C. Alumn i ASSOC iation; M rs. T. G. (Na n cy West) Sawyer, Mac '62; Pre si dent , Mac-FACS Al u m ni Ass oc iati on; r. T. (Tim ) Haw kins, Pres id ent U.G.C_S.A.; Mr. R. (Robert) N u lsen , Pre sid ent, U niv ersi ty of Guelph Students' Assoc iation ; Mr J. K . (John) Babcock , OAC '54 , Di rec tor, Alumni Affairs and Oevelopment.

12 Festival Week Celebrations The Uni ve rsity of Guelp h witness ed the birthday party of the c en tury from J uly 6 to 14 as the Centennial Festival and Alumni Week highl ighted the year- long OAC anniversary ce lebrations.

14 Intercollegiate Athletics - a Guelph Tradition From the early rough-and -tu mb le days ,of the Aggies to the present-day streamlined tactics of the Gryphons, intercollegiate athletics at Guelph has offered co untless thril ls and memories .

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Campus highlights

The Guelph Alumnus is publis hed by the Dep3rtment of Alumni Affa i rs and Development, in co-operation with the Depa rtmen t of Info rm ation, UniverSity of Guelph.

The Editorial Co mmittee is compris ed of Editor - David G. Smith, Publication s Office r ; Art Director- Lyle Docherty, BA '72; J. K. Babcoc k , OAG '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development; Ro se mary Clark , Mac ' 59, As sista nt Director, Alumni Programs; D. l. Waters t on , Director of Information; D. W. Jose, OAC '49, Assistant Direc tor o f Inf ormati on.

The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph Alumni Association is c ompr ised of Mrs. S. W. (Pat Damude) Squire , Mac '63, chairman; Dr. Allan Aust in, Robert Mercer , OAC '59 ; G_ B. Powe ll , OAG '62; James Ru sk , OAC '65; M rs. J. W. (Joan Ellerington) Tanner, Mac '5 7; Ex-offi cio : J . K. Ba bcoc k, OAG '54 ; T. R. Hi lliard, OAC '40; Co rre sponding members : D. R. Barol1 , OAC '49 ; G. M . Carman, OAC '49; and H. G. Dodds, OAG '58 .

Undelivered cop ies should be returned to Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2Wl.

23 Alumni Tour in Europe A traveling party of 44 alumni and friends enj oyed two weeks in seve ral Euro pean c.oun tries whe re they saw the s ights and visited with alumni now living abroad.

Contributors to this issue Scott Tayl or is production coordi nator and staff wri ter fo r " Th e Starting Line-up " - Canada's only national inte rcollegiate sports ma gazine . Professor A . M. Ross is ex-chairman of the Dep artment of Engli sh and author of The College on the Hill - an historical account o f the Onta ri o Agricu Itu ral College 's Ii rst one hundred years.

Cover design by Lyle Docheriy; photograph by Dan Thorburn.

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Landscaping Guelph's Campus

ATURE lovers struggle continually against the kind of urban development thai destroys trees, wildlife and natural land features. Conservation groups picket and petition to save waterways and forests; hom e owners plant trees to disguise barren and featureless urban housing developments; and one determined surburbanite made headlines by perching in a tree in a vain attempt to save it.

The Guelph campus provides refreshing testimony that development can be green, lush and beautiful. Scores of majestic trees, some of them planted in the nineteenth century , form a dignified setting for Guelph's eclecti c mont age of contemporary and historical architecture.

Of course the beauty of the Guelph campus didn 't just happen. It is the result of careful planning, selective preservation, meticulous grooming and co-operation from a team of experts , Since development of the Uni versi ty began in 1965, individuals and committees within the Unive rsity have worked to preserve the best of the existing landscape in the face of rapid growth and construction.

The University's Lands ca pe Advisory Committee has saved many beautiful and unusual trees by instigating design changes and minor relocations of new building s, The new building that will house the Sch oo l of Hotel and Food Administration, now under construction, progressed through several design concepts, Th e approved design will cause minimal damage to the stand of conifers along the northern edge of the campus, To save the trees, which date back to about the turn of the century, the new structure is being built on an existing roadway, Even the location of steam co nduits is calculated to minimize environmental damage, Landscape design on the campus goes back to the 1880s when the Professor of Agriculture, William Brown, commissioned landscape consultants to draw up a landscapi ng plan for the new campus.

The plan included scores of nati ve and

exo tic trees which in the years to come would serve as a teaching aid to students in horticulture, botany and landscape architecture, Professor Brown himself, in his ca pacity as farm manager, supervised the planting of hundreds of trees on the ca mpus, Survivors of th at early planting include the double row of sugar maples on the east side of Gordon Street; unfortunately the western row of maples have succumbed to the ravages of time and road salt.

Other botanical octogenarians include the spruces around Johnston, Mills and Creelman Hall s, The planting of trees and sh rubs continued regularly until about 1960 and resumed again after completion of the University Master Development Plan in 1965, Drawn up by Project Planning Associates Ltd " the plan lays out a general landscape to complement the placement of buildings, services, roads, walkways , and parking areas. It includ es recommendations for plant materials along the major roads and walkways.

Landscaping over th e last eight years has followed thes e guidelines, with minor revision s depending on availability of plant materials and ecological considerations, About 5,000 trees and shrubs have been planted in accordance with the recommendations, The master plan calls for a variety of plants and landscaping styles, Cont emporary walkways and plazas complement stately traditional plantings and the University's varied architectural styles. Foliag e ground covers , wood chips and stones surround century-old trees and provide attractive, low足 maintenance areas to co ntrast with the acres of lawn, Planting styles span the century - from the traditional areas around Johnston Hall to the ultra modern design around the OVC's new laboratory animal building, The informal setting of evergreens and boulders in front of the soil science building contrasts with the calculated arrangement of planting boxes

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by the crop science building.

While the master plan specifies landscaping along major walkways and roads, it doesn't make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings, existing buildings and parking lots. Such detailed planning depends on building design, snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns.

Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966, the demand for landscaping design has been considerable, with most of it being done by off-campus consultants.

Project Planners, for example, designed the areas around the Arts building, McLaughlin Library, the Power Plant, Crop Science building and Lambton Hall, all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966. The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas: the pedestrian spines, the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building.

Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker, OAC '65, Head of Grounds. Mr. Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete, the volume of landscape planning is more manageable.

All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee, made up of landscape architects, horticulturists and other campus representatives. The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory, assembled in 1966 and updated every five years. The location, species, size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings, walkways, underground services and roads. If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans, alternatives are considered. This may involve moving the tree if possible, rerouting a road, path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings. Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature

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trees, but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature.

To the great envy of home gardeners, new trees planted on the campus look like trees. The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into "treehood" are rarely seen on campus.

Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height.

Because of the long-range development plan, the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future. With the careful attention in the nursery, the young trees quickly grow and fill out. After five or six years of pampered nursery care, a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches.

Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping. Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings. Starters come from a variety of sources: natural settings, the old horticulture garden and commercial sources. In addition, the campus features ground covers such as grass, wood chips, and stones. Ground covers, when used properly, facilitate maintenance, discourage weeds, help retain moisture and enhance appearances.

Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesn't eliminate the need for year-round care of the campus's 160 acres of lawn, 4.0 acres of trees, shrubs and hedges, 4.5 acres of ground covers and flower beds, 35 acres of parking lots, 22 ac res of roads and 11.4 ac res of walkways. Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students, visiting groups and home gardeners. Most trees, shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring. 0

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An Emigrant at OAC

by Profess or A. M . Ross

HE contribution which students of British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined. Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable. Year after year these students provided , for example , many star players for football teams , entire cricket teams , trained performers for dramatic productions, officers for the Literary Society, authors for the O.A.C. Re view, the first Rhodes scholar, interesting men in classes , and finally, a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage.

It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensi ve account of the British students at the OAC. over the past century. Rather, the article focuses upon one such student, Edward G. E. Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn, England.

My choice falls upon him , not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC. in the years 1880-1881.

When Ffolkes came to Guelph , October 30, 1880, the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural

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College and Experimental Farm. James Mills , in office since 1879, had just accepted the new title , president.

The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows : James Mills, M.A. , President, Professor of English Literature and Natural History.

William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) , Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent.

J. Hoyes Panton, M.A., Professor of

Chemistry.

E. A. A. Grange, V.S ., Professor of

Veterinary Science.

Alexander McTavish (First-Class Prov o

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Mathematical Master.

P. J. Woods, Instructor in Farm

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James Forsyth , Instructor in Horticultural

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James Mcintosh. Instructor in Mechanical

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Thomas Johnston, Bursar.

Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario, in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons . In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered ,

eight fewer than the year before. A year later the number registering had slipped to 63. Meanwhile , the number of non足 resident students nearly doubled : from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881. One-half of the 26 came from Britain. For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment.

How did it come about that OAG. was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874?

How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18, a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire, hear about this Canadian college? One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown, the voluble farm superintendent , when he went overseas to buy stock for the College; he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada .

Brown's emphasis upon the O.A .C . as being a place where a young man was taught " practically" appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves.

By his own admission, the O.A.C. was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could " learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing"

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before going west to take up land in Manitoba. Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Brown's account of the O.A.C.'s educational theory and practice very attractive. That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmer's son in the 1880's was not at all surprising. Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home. Neither Dr. Mills' Circular nor Brown's speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers.

At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home: his pipe of tobacco, his glass of beer, the delights of the ballroom and concerts , five o'clock teas , sailing , billiards , college suppers, and evening dress. At the OAC. he found that "waistcoat, tie, and collar are quite unnecessary , not to say unheard of articles, as of course we have not time to change after work".

He was , furthermore , puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing "knickerbockers". Indeed , he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing. His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work.

What he needed was a "pea jacket" .

Aunt Fann y' s knitted waistcoat was suitable for "swagger occasions" , but what he should have had was a "woo llen waistcoat with sleeves"; h is tweed

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trousers, too, had to be replaced by red canvas overalls and trousers made of "pilot cloth".

On his arrival in Guelph, Edward was asked, as soon as he got off the train, to play halfback in a football match against the town, which the College won

by two goals, As it was Saturday, October 30, All Hallows' Eve, Edward went out "singing for apples" and collected nearly half a bushel in a bag, On the following Monday he and other new students wrote the matriculation examination s in grammar, composition,

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geography, and arithm eti c. The results sh owed that Ffolkes "doubled everyo ne else's marks getting 357 out of a possible 400".

Like other stud ents at the O A C., Edward Ffolkes kept a diary; it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years , and severa l of these diaries have survived . Edward 's daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions.

On December 6, 1880, for ex ample, he w as "thrashing in the experime ntal barn, whei'e all the specimens of g rai n are tested , bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union ", which had been established in 1878. Like his contemporary , Os car Chase*, he reveals the practical auste rities of his education: getting up at 5 :30 a.m. to wor!< four or five ho urs a day at two cents an hour; learnin g to harness tea ms ; cleaning, feeding, an d littering cattle; glazing double windows, d itch digging, up to his knees in freezin g water; spreading manure; acting as farm clerk (boss job); feeding the steam chaff-cutter; assisting the shepherd; pulping tu rn ips ; using a crosscut saw in the bush; and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm 's steam engine.

Unlike many other students , Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour, for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada. He did not, however, accept the ac ademic work of the classroom in the same spirit. He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home t hat the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance. The lect ures, he asserted , were " decidedly ha rd work" and took up " too much of a student's time" . Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations, he found the papers "h o rrible" .

Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming, Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm, the scrub woman's activities so energetic, and the 9:30 p.m. curfew so confining that he thought "the sooner he sloped the better". He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College , where he drank "absent friends " and tried to forget those horrible papers which , he asserted , had knocked him up a little.

During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances; in the next to five.

*Alexander M. Ross, The College on the Hill.

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I. PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA,)IINATIONS, EASTER, 1881.

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2. Whit t gu idp,~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1'p.'1uirp,~ to be d rain c<l, and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ci e ntly co ,u\ udcu u n der two of the most opposite condition s j 3. State wh~ t is m e tnt by " inj u(l ici ous com l)i ,ut.i on of m.'\ tedal " in f" n cc building, and exph in Lhe tel'ms "severance damages," ,. ~ :\Cd l W.l. ter d l' ill," and "gradient " in .con nection w ith road ma ki ng.

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2. D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r, fl' om a.ny point of cornparisolil..

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2. Explain the terms base, ato m, salt, lrtten t h ea t.

3. G ive the pn'p<lrll.t.iOll and p roperties of chol.c (l ump andji.•'e damp.

4. \Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r ll.u la. in chem ist ry 1 l ;, \'e t he formulas for the three t'itri()ls, and di sti ll glli~l . t hese C01U pO\l llds fro "l e:wh oth er.

5 N t10le three metals lig l1tt> r thun wa.t,' r, a llli <;ive th eir p roperti es.

6. \Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlr J s I't'prese.nte I,y Ca Co" II X 0 " N If 3' N il. II U 0" with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJit;y.

7. Give the p rc p ~ mtion a nd p )'or'~l'ti e s of n itro!,en .

8. N a me th e ehffe ren t form s ill w hi ch ' itir;a a nu alnmina occu r , a nd g ive t heir u se.

9. DeBcriue a lamp !lame, a nd e xplai n the action ot the B n n s~ n h urn cr.

The New Year's custom of "calling" amused him. He knew of one gentleman who called on as many as 130 different families in Toronto between 11 :00 a.m . and 6 p.m. on that day.

Throughout his brief year at the O.A.C ., Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular student. He not onl y took part in sports but also participated in the Literary Society of which he became Vice­ President. Debating appealed to him , and he told his mother about the subjects: "Resolved that ambition is a virtue"; "Resolved , that vanity is conducive to the

happines s of man"; an d "Resolved that chewing is injurious to health". This last topic is interesting because Ffolkes maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate or badl y aimed spitting made the walls and floors in residence "simpl y hoggish" .

On February 18, 1881 Ed wa rd acted the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society entertainment. In this connection he remin d ed his mother that "all the En gl is hmen here are popular", a fact whi c h he may have thought would be a consolation to her when it came time

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And fi e rce as Vrcmy \ fc\'(> retl ulootl." fo r her second son, Robert, to come to the OAC. Robert Ffolkes, however, had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa. Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Robert's intentions to those in power at the College: Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa , they will fire him out before he has been there a day, Iowa being in the United States. The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land? "Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so." Lecturer: "Well, the sooner you do it the better ; you can go and pack up you r trunks now, and a team shall be ready to take you to the station, for the eleven train." They lent him money to get home, and sent him away at once, I had to kiss the Bible, and swear an oath, and sign a document, I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College, when I sent in my request for admi ssion.

What happened eventually to Robert is not known. Although he did come to the OAC. for the Fall Term of 1881, he did not stay any longer than his brother did. Perhaps he , too, sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West.

Edward Ffolkes ' references to the City of Guelph are very limited. Then as now, town and gown were di sparate elements, but in Edward 's day they were, geographically at least, much more apart.

When Edward first came to Guelph, a

boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits.

It must have proved very conve:lient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city.

On Saturdays he could attend entertain­ ments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall.

But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward : it was "a splendid town", even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out!

Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming, Edward Ffolkes' determination to go to the " northwest" never wavered.

The "dearest wish" of his heart was to be self-supporting. "Whilst I am at Guelph College" , he told his mother, " it is impossible to be self-supporting , for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 .80 per week".

Edward always remained skeptic al of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer, even of the outside work: In fact, from what I can see, the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England. All the stock comes direct from England, and the implements are exactly the same, and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing, winnowing, etc.

Much better it was , he thought , to serve out an apprentice ship period with a succe ssful farmer in the area where you intend to settle. It was his opinion that his brother Bob "cou Id no more leave the College after a three years' course and

farm a thousand acres, than fly to the moon". Bob, he said, "would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing ".

By March 22, 1881 , Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm. That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations : of the five papers he seems to have written, he received honour standing in agriculture and English compo sition and failed in organic chemistry , veterinary anatomy, and bookkeeping. He never mentions these results in his letters home .

That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain. However, he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer.

Two years after he left Guelph, with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home , he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield, Manitoba , with plan s to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring . The two years had, however, been desperately hard ­ so hard that in his last letter to hi s mother, September 23, 1882, Edward Ffolkes spoke of "those days of martyrdom and slavery". His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration.

It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes' year at the Ontario Agricultural College, which was edited by Edward's uncle , that gives historical significance to the very rare book, Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul , Trench, in London in 1883. 0

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HE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs' birthday party of the century.

The days and nights from July 6 to 14 were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the ,once-in-a足 lifetime event.

Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars, tractors, steam engines, horse drawn carriages, and floats; an "Olde Tyme" outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza; a gigantic birthday cake; six-horse hitches; alumni reunions; skits of the past, visits from dignitaries; and a beard-growing contest.

Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC. Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities.

The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students wh,o lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm.

Now, with a student population hovering near 10,000, and an 11 ~O-acre main campus, the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers, teachers, research scientists and businessmen out into the world.

The College has provided Canada's agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas, while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries.

You've come a long way baby!

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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

a Guelph Tradition

by Scott Taylor

Opposite page: Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College B asketball Team. Left to r ight, W. Toole, '11; W. H. Smith, '12, manager ; E. W. White, '12; C. Main, '11.

Above: An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940's.

CCORDING to legend, a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by the head and wings of an eagle , the body of a lion , and the tail of a serpent.

Since 1968, this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis , has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph.

Today , the "College on the Hill" has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition. The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic

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Union basketball champion, an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner, and an Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist. The list of team and individual crowns that have been w on since O.A.C . first participated in athletic s as the " Aggies" is extensive indeed, and not to recall in some manner, the glorio us history of athletics at Guelph; first as O.A .C. and MacDonald Institute , then as O.A.V.C. an d Mac., and finally as the University of Guelph , would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College.

On September sixth of this year, the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown , a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history. The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the G ryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt, the leading receiver in Gryphon history, highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold.

Through many seasons of success , the losses have come as well. In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney, the passing combination was from Jim Wright, '61 A to Dave Hume, OAC '61 , but it wasn't quite enough as the O.A.V.C. Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past. The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled "Great is the Fall " . He wrote: There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining one's position at the top . This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were. Gone was the mighty, invincible Redmen machine that

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flattened all the opposition without mercy . . . Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels, and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph. Due to this, every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter, and played their best against our squad.

However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph. In 1934, Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC. Aggies, F. G. "Baldy" Baldwin, led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time.

W. F. " Bill" Mitchell, OAC '38, quarter足 backed the Aggies of '34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterback's the

Above: Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions, 1949.

Right: Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions, 1925-26. Left to right, Prof. A. W. Baker, '11 coach; J. W. G. McEwan, '26; J. E. Ridley, '27; J. R. Currey, '29; L. M. Schenck, '26 , captain; L. Young, '27; R. Graham, '29; Geo. Thompson, '27; H. Potter; A. T. Rintoul, '26, manager.

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entire sports program at the University of Guelph , as Director of Athletics. Included on that same team, which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations , was a hard-nosed " middle" known as "Haley" Hales. He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales, OAC '34, Member of Parliament, who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service.

The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation, is a vast area to research . Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes, in the professional ranks. The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ, B.Sc.(P.E.) '71 , of the Ottawa Rough

Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett, B.A. ' 72. As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows, former Gryphon Organ, is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league.

Fewer people may know that lockett , 1971 's All-Canadian hockey goaltender, former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team , and of course a graduate Gryphon, has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league.

Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s. A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren . In 1969, Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the C.I.A .U. cross-country championships. He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up

by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the C,I.A,U , team championship as well. Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe, last season Sharpe was an O,U,A ,A, All-Star , an All-Star team member at the C,I.A,U , championships , as well as the lalter tournament 's Most Valuable Player, This past summer, Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Men's Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nation's finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score, on an outdoor court, and in a driving rainstorm,

International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players, however, This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them , Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer, while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country ' s " B" team on a tour of the United States, In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canada ' s World Student Games Team in Moscow , and when one adds the name of O,U,A ,A , champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A, M, Porter Trophy winners, Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph , "The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic

Union by A, M, Porter, OAC '20, the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada, as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920," That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the O,U,A,A, wrestling season, It is appropriate that O,A,V,C, 足 University of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre , (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) , From Coach Wright, OAC '33 , in the thirties , to Coach Schlegal in the forties , through Coach Glen Peister , OAC '50, in the seasons of the fifties , with Coach Bob Heinrich, OAC '5SA , in the early sixties, and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm ,

Rugger at Guelph,

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Aggie, Gryphon, an d Redm en grapplers have been the prime ta rget for the opposition eve ry year.

One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of ba sketball . Behin d people like Sharpe, AI Grunys, Denni s K rawchuk, and graduating seniors Paul Allen, B.Sc. (H.K.)'74 , and Phil Smith, B.A . '74, the University won a national c hampionship in 1974. When Garney Henley took over as head coach how ever, the University of Guelph po ste d a dep ressing one win足 17 loss seaso n. Many times du ring the ne xt few yea rs Coach Henley was fo rtunate to have a succ essful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Foo tball League 's Hamilton Tiger-Cats to co nso le him . However thr o ugh hard wo rk , and with players like Mark Walto n, B.A. '72, Chester Graham, B.A . ' 73 , an d Wayn e Morg an , B.A. '72, Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd a nd Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram.

In 1956, howeve r, with Tom Mooney at the helm , a group of ball players had the word s " Take Off" as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior inte rc o llegiate ranks. Led by Murray Atkinson , OAC '60 , who later beca me the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year A wa rd , and by Bill Dimson , OAC '57A. w hose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow fo r all w ho kne w him , the O .A.V.C. Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermedi ate level, losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec isio n to the eventual c hampi o n, Weste rn. Dims on's name has not been fo rgotten at Guelph ; a plaque presented annually in his ho no ur goes to the school's Most Valuable Bas ke tball Pl aye r. Am ong t he win ne rs of th e Bill Dim so n Memorial Award , are present holder Bob Sharpe, and Guelph's first official All-Canadian basketball player, Wayne Morgan.

Top: An OAC swim team, resplendent in their tank suits.

Above: University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli.

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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph.

In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball, John Kelley and Dave lane of this year's gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973. lockett's hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloo's national crown. led by little Adam Brown, who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season, forward Bill Hanson, defenceman Doug McKay, and goaltender David Moote - all O.U.A.A. AII-Stars足 the Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories. Such a year was 1960, when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max O'Neil, OAC '61, Wayne lopp, and Bill German, OAC '61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster.

Hockey , football , basketball , and wrestling certainly aren't the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels. Cross-country teams, boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level.

The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding . Alumni Stadium, opened officially on October 17, 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons, but houses the large multi-purpose "Gryphon Room" where accommodation can be made for karate, wrestling and other related activities. It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus.

There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who , although they don't fly the banner of the Gryphon, still aid in the public's knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph. Librarian Yvonne Saunders , who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist , and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department, who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games , spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity.

It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women.

The University of Guelph has a successful women's program as well , and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute.

With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics, and coaching ice hockey, Val (Millar) Freeman, B.Sc. (P.E.) '70, heading the intramural program and coaching basketball, and Joni Johnson, Anne Stallman, and Pam Wedd, B.Sc(H.K.) '74 , taking the coach's reins in a variety of activities, the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success.

The most hardware to come in women's athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink. Mrs. Peterson's pucksters have captured the Ontario Women 's Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times. A record unequalled in the last decade.

At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis. Mrs. Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future.

With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year, the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976. Names like Sharpe, Deschatelets, Saunders, and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past. In old Librannis, in yellowed newspaper clippings , and on the nameplates of trophies, people such as "Goomer" Raithby, OAC '51; "Poker" Mills, OAC '34; and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the O.A.V.C. Aggie athletic machine. 0

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Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak , however, A. W. Mcinnis, Director of Residences, recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation. A student government足 sponsored " tent city" saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there).

apartments, but with fewer sales, the predictable result is fewer apartments.

A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future, and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk.

The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept. 1973.

Last year at mid-August, approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence. By May 15 of this year, more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen, the University's 3900 beds were taken by mid-May. The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester. Many students took out a year's lease instead of an eight month agreement, resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago.

Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods , the University 's married students' residence located on Stone Road. Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester; this year that figure was cut to 12.

Despite these figures, the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall.

Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus.

"Tent City" near the East Residences.

The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city, explained Mr. Mcinnis. He noted that because of high mortgage rates , those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property.

In addition, Guelph's attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices.

This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older, but extremely large homes. When sold , these houses are often converted into 20

Orienteering grant The University of Guelph , often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America , will benefit by a grant of more than $42,000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada. The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A. Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics. Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation, and is presently the president of the group.

Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada, and is now taught at all levels in many schools. The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside, and attracts thousands to meets in Europe .

Enrolment increases Guelph 's largest complement of students began classes in September. Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year. Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register. Part-time undergraduates number 600; part-time grad students, about 150.

A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students.

Orientation featured free concerts, football games, hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors.

The University of Guelph Choir, led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt.

Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several well­ received performances in the Maritimes.

The choir performed in Charlottetown, New Glasgow, Sydney, Antigonish, Halifax, Dartmouth, Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning, recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen. Along with works by Handel, Bach, Rossini, Cherubini, Schubert and Vaughan Williams, the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey.

"One of the main reas,ons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir", commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon, College of Arts. "The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group, so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development. Proof of the new level attained is that this year, at the end of the tour, the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handel's Passion,

which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975."

Before the choir departed for the Maritimes, an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear. The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances.

The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel, which is part ,of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada. Consequently, when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background, they're listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J. S. Bach.

The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University. A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented, "Right from the opening of this work, the

audience could hear a well-trained, professional choir. The singers' close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear."

The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival. A Yarmouth critic wrote, "The audience, which gave the visitors two standing ovations, was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel. The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel."

The program was presented once more after the choi r's retu rn. They sang in St. Andrew's United Church, Sudbury on Sunday, October 6.

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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology, A group of 125 adults and c hildren to o k part in a va riety of games followed by a tour of the ex pe rimental ba rn s and orchards, Then everyon e enjoyed a chicken barbecue, Prizes fo r the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey,

Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald , OVC '49; Richard Birc hal l; Kenneth Hammill , OAC '51; and John Wood began their three-yea r terms on July 1 as new membe rs on the Uni ve rsi ty 's Board of Gove rnors , Professo r Archibald, 55, a senate appointee to the board , graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a D,V,M , degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science , Professor Archibald has bee n on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studie s in 1963, a posi tion which he st ill hold s,

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North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the Wo rld Wildlife fund , He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti o n Council of Ontario, and vice -chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba, Mr. Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge, England, and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f th,e University of Toronto, He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OA C, OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience , Ken Hammill , a 195 1 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is vice­ president and a director of Omark Canada Ltd , in Guelph, Mr. Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity co uncil sin ce 1962 and has served on the fin ance , personnel, parks and recre atio n committees, He has also been a ci ty re presentative on the Grand River Co nservation Authority, John Wood, 34, studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion , He is presently vice-president (m anu fac turin g) and a director of the \N, C. Wood Company in Gue lph. He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Co mmerce, the Guelph Industrial and Economic De ve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club, Mr. Wo od also se rve d as c hairm an of the Canadi an government appliance mi ss io n to Euro pe in 1968,

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Ri c ha rd Birchall , 59, is president of the Canadian National Spo rtsmen 's Show and the Toronto Internatio nal Boat Show, In addition, he is c hairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Researc h Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph, He is a director of the 22

"Aggie Week 74" was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition.

Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute, defeating other co mpetitors suc h as Pre sident Winegard who milked two o unces, last ye ar's champion Mike Jenkinso n, OAC '63 with 11 ounces and Professo r Richard Vosburgh , acting dean of Famil y and Consumer Studie s, with three ounces.

Animal sc ientist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr, H, 0, Brani on, assistant to the president,

who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright.

Monster ball competitions , bed races, chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games , won bY , OAC Class '77,

Forme r chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently hon,ou red its former chairman, Pr ofe ssor J. C, Rennie , OAC '47 , who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rc h division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food .

Pro fesso r Renni e j.o ined the fac ulty in 195 2, and was c hairman from 1965 to 1971. Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of re sea rch during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W. E. Tossell, OAC '47,

Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Da rrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120,330 towards its $160 ,000 objecti ve, A total of 2,396 gifts have bee n received from alumni, fac ulty, professi o nal staff and other suppo rters of higher education . Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27,247 have reached a new high and exceed th e final ta bulation of $25,977 achieved in last year's fund drive on the campus.

The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more, In addition, 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club .

Mr. Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members, He al so stated th at th e Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd . is attracting man y new and increase d gifts. Under th e term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of in creas e over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5,000,

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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop (collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library, Main Floor Gallery, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.