Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1980

Food Mining

UN IVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH

AWMNUS Winl er 1980 Vol. 13, No. I

UNIVER lT V O F GU EL PH A L UMNI AS SOCIATlON HONORARY PRES IDENT: Professo r Donald F. Fo rster.

PRESI DENT: Janice (Ro be rt so n) Part low, Arl s. '70.

PAST PRESIDENT: W. Ken Bell , CBS'73.

SENIOR VICE-PRES IDENT: Dr. Tom DeGreer, OVC '54.

VICE PRES I DENTS : Dr. Cl iffo rd Barker, OVC'4 1; Ma ry Budd. Arls '72; Peter McM ull en, CPS '76; Patricia (Shie r) Mig ht on, OAC '64; Richa rd Moccia, CBS '76; Jane (Vollick) Webster, FA C5 '75 .

SECRETA RY: Jackie (Wemyss) Wrig ht, CBS '74.

DIRECTORS : Ewa rl Carberry, OAC'44; Les D unn,

CBS '76; Elizabeth Heeney, Mac '7 I; Lynn (Morrow)

Feath erston, Mac '68; Barba ra Hinds, CSS '74; Edith

LeLac heur, Arts '72; Pat ( Honey) Lonergan, CSS '68;

Deb bie McLell an, CPS '76; Mel Po land, OVC '44;

Ambrose Samu ls ki. CBS '73; Tom Sawye r, OAC'59A

and '64; Barry Sta hlbaum, CPS '74; Anne Vaughan,

Arl s '78; Dr. Stan Wa rd, O VC'36 .

EX -OFF IC IO DIRECT ORS: Joh n K. Babcock, OAC '54, Direclo r o f Alumni A ffai rs . nd De>'elo pm enl ; Nancy Brown, OAC '79, Presid enl , Uni versil y o f G uelph Ce nlr. 1 Siud enis Associ. lio n; Dr. C. Robert Buck , OVC '46, Presidenl , O VC Alumni Associ' lio n; Judith Car,;on, . ArtS '75, Presidenl, Coll ege o f A rts Alumni Associ. ti o n; James Dance, CSS '74, P resid enl , CS lumni Associati o n; Ba rbara Dell, Mac '68, P r esid ent , M ac足 FACS Alum ni Associ.lion ; Kathryn Martin , CBS '76, Presid ent, G r. du. le Stud ents Associ. lio n; Richar d Moccia , CBS ' 76, P resident, C BS Alumni Associ'lion; Gle nn Powell, OAC '62, P residenl, O AC Alumni Associ. li o n; William Sanford, CPS '73, P resi d enl , C PS A lumni Associati on.

TREASURER : Jim J Elmslie.

ASSOC IATE SECRETARY: Rosemary Clark , Mac '59.

Th e Guelph Alumnus is published by the Depa rlm en l of Alumni Affa irs and Development in co-operalion with the Depa rtm e nt of Information , Unive rsity of Guelph .

The Editorial Commillee is comprised of Edilo r Derek J . Wing, Publicatio ns Officer; Art Direct o r - Erich H. Barth ; John K . Babcock, OAC '54, Direclor o f Alumni Affairs and Develo pment; Rosemary Clark , Mac '59, Ass istant Director for A lumni Programs; Patricia G. O rr, De ve lopme nt Officer; Douglas Wat erston,

Director of Information; Don ald W. J ose, OAC '49,

Assistant Director of Infor ma ti on.

The Edi torial Ad visory Boa rd of the Universit y of Guelph Alumni Association is compriscd ofRoberl Esch , C PS '70, Chairman; Lorene Arc hdekin, CS5 '74; Dr. Allan Austi n; Dr. Donald A. Bra nu m, OVC '4 1; John Bowles, CSS '72; Peter Ho henadd , OAC '75; Olive (Thompson) Thompson. Mac '35; Sandra Webs ter, CSS '75. Ex-Officio: John K. Babcoc k. OAC'54; W . Ken Bell , CBS '73.

Undelivered copies should be returned to the

Departme nt of Alumni Affairs and Deve lopme nl ,

Universi l), of Guclph. G uelp h, Ontario l>.i I G 2W I.

Food

They're doing it over one mile down

by Thomas H. Peters, OAC '48

Agriculturist with the Ontario Division of the Inco Metals Company at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury in Northern Ontario, Dr. Thomas H. Peters, OAC '48, received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Sudbury's Laurentian University during its spring convocation, 1979. Tom Peters joined Inco following graduation from Guelph in 1948, was appointed Assistant Agriculturist in 1956, and became Inco's Agriculturist in 1973.

It should be noted that, since its inception in 1916, Inco's Ontario Division Agricultural Department has been headed solely by O.A.C. graduates. Initial department head was the late Tennyson D. Jarvis, OAC '00, and he was followed by the late Clarence D. Ferguson, OAC '16, who handed the reins on to Qare Young, OAC '35, who retired in 1973.

Over the past 20 years, Tom has made significant contributions to the improvement of the Sudbury environment through his dedicated work in the revegetation of tailings and other industriaIJy affected land in the Sudbury area. His research abilities have pioneered new techniques in land reclamation and he has gained international stature in the field of industrial revegetation.

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wo graduates of the O ntario Agricultural COllege and one from the College of Social Science are members of a research team working to utili ze geothermal heat energy available in the mines of the Inco M etals Company at Copper C liff, O ntario.

Ellen Heale, O AC '76; Mike Peters, CSS '73, and Dr. Tom Pe ters, O AC '48 , are involved in two current research programs. T he first project, under way since 1978. is the growing of vegeta bles underground. This is a joint program with Sudbury's Laurentian University and has recently received a three-year grant from the N atural Sciences and Engineering Research C ouncil of C anada to assist in the funding of the project.

T he seco nd project utili zes heat energy in mine ventilation air as a source of heat required for greenhouse operation.

T his is being handled by a team under the leadership of Ellen H eale. The early stage

of the program is funded jointly by the Regi o nal M unicipality of Sudbury and the [/leo Metals Company.

In the S udbury area, rock tem­ peratures increase by 0.55° C for every 30.48 m of depth. A large volume of air is used for mine ventilation and its temperature is moderated by various methods, depending on the season, to provide a re asona ble temperature at the underground work place. Movement of air through the mine, and ultimately to the ventilation shaft exit, allows the air to reach a fairly constant temperature. At the 1.7 km ( 1.05 mile) level of Creigh ton Mine, the air temperature remains within the 24.4 °C to 25.5°C range.

The use of waste heat energy for the production of greenhouse crops has been under review at Inco since 1975 as part of their energy conservation program. [n 1978, as a result of discuss ions with several members of the Bio logy Department of

Laurentian University, a pilot program fo r growing vegetables undcrground was inititated.

F or residents of the mid-Canada area, the benefits to be derived from .such a program , particularly if adapted to the more remote sites, are numerous. Fresh salad-type vegetables, readily available at lower cos t and impro ved quality, would be of immediate benefit to consumers. Lower costs would result from the reduced use of hydrocarbon fuels for he a ting and transportation . T his would not only benefit consumers, but Canada as a whole, with a reduction in the expenditure of foreign exchange. Both programs are being developed in such a manner that they will be adaptable for use at other si tes.

Tomatoes, leaf lettuce, radis hes and English cucumbers are the vegetab les currently being grown at the mines.

Hydroponic and standard greenhouse container systems are being used in the study. The use of different light sources, including high pressure sodium, metal halide, f1 uorescen t and incandes ce n t lamps and various mixtures of the same are under experimentation. D ay length, lig ht intensity and nutrient feeding techniques are o ther growth parameters being investigated .

Due to the isolation of the growing site, over 1.6 km (I mile) underground. efforts a re being made to maintain a disease- and insect-free environment. In addition to reducing insecticide and fungicide costs, the potentia l exists for propagating disease-free s trains of various species, for example, strawberries, in such an environment.

The tomatoes which have ripened to date a re smalkr than those grown under greenhouse conditions, but are similar in taste. Also, the num ber of fruit set per cluster is lower than normal.

Future studies in the underground growing program will include investigations of nutrient requirements necessary under these environ mental conditions, light requirements at different stages of plan t growth, as well as species and variety tests.

Early in 1979, the Inco M etals Compa ny developed a research proposal to design, construct and stud y an experimental greenhouse which would use exhaus t mine ventilation air for heat. The idea of using presently wasted heat energy for food production is extremely important.

This three-ye a r project was separated into two phases. The first phase was the design and construction of a 13.9 m 2 prototype greenhouse at Inco's Copper

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Almost one mile below the surface of the earth, Mike Peters, CSS '73, left, and his father, Dr. Tom Peters, OA C '48, with seedling tomato plants at an underground growing site at Inco's Creighton Mine.

Cliff South Mine . This greenhouse is located 22 .9 m from the exhaust air exit.

Ventilation air is pulled through an insulated steel pipe (50.8 cm) by a fan powered by a 7.5 kw motor.

Since mine air contains particulates ( I mg/ mJ), air is forced through a rock filter bed under the floor of the greenhouse. In addition to removal of the particulates, gabions (0.91 m x 1.22 m) filled with riverstone prevent rapid fluctuations in air temperature by serving as a combined heat sink/exchanger.

Mine air is also sa turated; it has a relative humidity of 99.99 per cent. If this air was vented directly into the greenhouse, condensation and plant dise ase problems could occur. In order to prevent humidity or dust problems, mine ventilation air is used to provide a temperature blanket of air around the greenhouse. Air is channelled between an outer corrugated fibreglass covering (Lascolite) and an inner film of 8 mil. polyethylene. Air is vented through an adjustable stack-vent in the roof of the greenhouse.

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Ellen Heale, OA C '76, in a greenhouse heated by mine exhaust ventilation air.

Winter and summer ven tilation air temperatures at the Copper Cliff South Mine range from 7-12 °C and 1O-13°C, respectively. Supplementary heat, as required, is provided in the greenhouse by electric baseboard heaters. The so uth wall of the green house is sloped to intercept the maximum amount of winter sun and the north wall is well insulated. A high­ pressure sodium lamp is the supplementary light source.

Several varieties of greenhouse tomatoes are growing in the green house at the present time. English cucumbers, leaf lettuce, spinach, bedding plants and other greenhouse crops could also be grown in this environment. Tests are presently under way to study environmental conditions within the greenhouse, determine energy requirements and monitor plant growth and development rates. Final assessment of results will take place in the spring of 1980, and, if significant conclusions for the development of an economical and energy-conserving unit are established, the second phase of the project will be

implemented. Design and construction of a 418 01 2 test greenhouse will be fo llowed hy experimental studies a nd assessmen t of plant growth, growing procedures a nd market productio n.

There is a definite potential for using geothermal heat energy to grow greenhouse crops. T he und ergro und program a nd the experim ental greenhouse, which uses min e ve ntilatio n air as a so urce of heat, provide exa mpl es of method s to conse rve and utilize hea t energy . Year颅 round production of high qu ality fresh vegetables in northern co mmunities could be a realistic and economically feasible concept. 0

U of G Also Into Waste Heat Res earc h A research project designed to learn if low grade waste heat from industrial processes can be used success/ully to grow vegetables in southern Onta rio was announced last November by the University and Te xaco Canada Inc. A Departmen t of H orticultural Science team, headed by Professor Herman Tiessen, OAC '5 1, will provide scientific and operational supervision of the joint project.

Texaco Canada will pro vide th e funding as well as the site and the heat. Th e site is at Texaco's oil refinery at Nanticoke near Dunnville, Ontario. Th e heat will be low grade waste heat produced during th e cooling process involved al th e refinery. Th e low grade heat could not be utilized for other purposes.

The initial phase of th e !lVO- to three路 year project entails th e construction ofjust more than a third of an acre (0.135 hay of greenhouses consisting o/two comm ercial scale houses of 8,000 sq. ft. (744m2) each.

One will be ojJibreglass, the other of glass.

The waste heat available at Texa co '.I' Nanlicoke rejinery would heat about 100 acres (40.5 hay ofgreenho uses, according to Dr. Tiessen. Utiliza tion of even a F action of the total available waste heat t hroughoul Canada could signijicantly increase vegetable production.

Because Texaco '.I' N anticoke oil refinety is new and high ly efficient, it produces less waste heat than do most older refineries. Therefore, if the experiment proves successful at the Na nticoke refin ery , the implications for oil rej!neries which produce greater amounts of waste heat would be signijicant. 0

Trapping

Old Sol

at

Guelph

by Don Jose, OAC '49 Solar energy research a t the University of Guelph embraces a number of widely di verge nt approac hes to harves ting the ab undant and pollu tion-free ene rgy of the su n for prod uctive uses .

At one end o f the range, Professor Ron F awce tt, D epartme nt of Chemistry, has developed a new and much cheaper method o f producing solar cells th at can store the sun 's energy as electricity. On the o ther hand , a gro up of fa culty members in the School o f Engineering is working on a variety o f approaches to ha rnessin g th e sun 's energy as heat. ow head ed by Professor La mbert O tte n, the group has developed, for eva luation of effectiveness, a number of very small scale models o f various types of farm buildings that could be adapted to install a ti on o f so lar heating panels. The next step will be the construction of a research structure th a t will consist of five segments, each a cross section o f a different building design.

In a recently completed rel a ted project, a two-year study involved the use of solar hea t to reduce the cost of drying grain ha rvested at too high a moisture conte nt to store safely. The results in this case have been disappointing. In the very good season ex perienced in th c fall of 1978, the energy ge nera ted cos t considerably more than a n eq uivalent amount of electrical energy . In the fall of 1979, with only two m orni ngs of suns hine during the drying period, the electrical backups were called on almost constantly.

"We have no problem capturing sol a r energy," says Dr. O tten, " but what we gain in drying during th e day is lost during the humid nights ." T he overall efficiency, measured against a control bin dried by conventional methods sho wed no significant benefi ts. T he superior quality of grain dried by this low tempera ture technique co uld only justify the \!Ise of solar energy if th e collectors were also used for ho me, bam, o r swimming pool hea ting.

The experimen ts, however, we re not without some de gree o f success, because they provide d ata fo r computer models.

These mode ls co uld be used to set up a microprocessor which , in turn. would measure o utside termpera tun: and humidity to trigger and control he a ters a nd drying fans. In this case the heat so urce would be incidental. Another use of th e models wou ld be to investigate the feasibility of solar-assisted , low颅 temperature volume drying in an y loca ti on where suitable wea the r da ta are av ai lab le .

T he models are co nlp lex and it will take another year to complete them. Dr. Gauri M ittal , a pos t doctoral feJI ow, has recently joined Professor Otten to work o n the models . "Solar dryin g has excellent potential," says D r. O tten, "in the prairie provinces, a nd even in O n tario's Essex and Kent counties, beca use they have a n ea rlier drying season and do not suffer the extreme ranges o f humidity."

Meanwhil e, we must wait for dramatic environmen tal changes-or re ly on no n-solar energy as a drying source.

The technique developed by D r.

Fawcett and his resea rch assistant, D r.

Andrzej Baran ski , could revolutionize the production o f photo voltaic cells and reduce the cost several times.

University of Gl:elph researchers have shown that effective energy-caJlecting devi ces can be produced using a film o f cadmium sulphide produced by electrodepositio n. This process is similar to that used in dep ositing an intact metal film in processes such as chrome plating.

At the prese nt time , to produce electrical current from solar energy, scientists use a cell contai ning single crystal silicon or else cadmium sulphide produced by the much more expensive process of vapour deposition . The reduced cost of the new process hold s promise of not o nly cheaper but also more wide路 spread application of solar-generated electrici ty to serve a variety of energy needs. 0

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ove's Dean Hands Over Reins

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e nnis Howell completed two terms as dean of the Ontario Vete rinary College at the end of 1979. D uring that period, hc guided the continent's oldest veterinary college through a period of intense and rapid expansion, marked by a 50 per cent student increase and a $12 million building program.

D r. Ho well came to the O.V .c. from his native England in 1967 to take the position of '1ssociate dean (research), and was appointed dean when Dr. T revor Lloyd Jones, OVC '34, completed his term of office in 1969. A graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, London, D r. H owell worked with the British Agricultural Research Council Institute for Research on Animal D iseases and for G laxo Laboratories Ltd . where he was the veterinary director before he came to Ca nad a.

His tenure as dean has been marked by an extremely close liaison with alumni of the College, evidenced by his desire from the first to meet alu mn i at any time and almost any place. D ennis and Elsie Howell have become friends of alumni throughout Canada and the United States.

Alumni have come to look for the "Guelph room" set up by the dean at the conferences of the American and Canadian Veterinary M edical Associa tions.

It is a tribute to the close links forged with alumni that the America n organization Frie nds of U niversi ty of G uelph Inc., made the d ea n a n ho nora ry life member last year, a n honour which he treas ures. " I am a strong pro po ne nt of the interacting role of students, alumni a nd faculty to make a sound institutio n of higher education," D r. Howell to ld readers in a recent edition of the O. Vc. Alumni Bulletin. " The O. V.c. has a fine reputation for staunch interaction between its constituent groups."

O n another occasion he pointed o ut that "alumni serve a very important function in terms of advice and support."

He so ught, with great success, the help of al umni in equipping new buildings as th ey sp rang up on the west side of th e campus during a period of increasingly tighter money. And he was always grateful for alumni su pport of cultural ac tivities in d onatio ns of works of art and arch ival material. H e also sought the advice of al umni on administrati e matters where he considered graduates " have a real responsibility ... and should express their views ."

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by Anne Middleton

Elsie and Dr. Dennis Howell, righI, with honorary life membership presented by Friends of University of Guelph president Dr. Grant Misener, OA C '35 and 0 VC '38.

D r. Howell has always been con足 cerned that the O .V.c. should live up to its reputation as one of the wo rld 's leading veterinary schools and research institutions. When building on Canadian campuses had practically stopped and the capital freeze of the 1970s loomed la rge, he was able to get funding. During his tenure the College grew with the addition of the Path ology/ Veteri nary M icrobiology and Immun ology Buildin g, the Labo ra tory An imal Buildin g, the Eramosa F ield Station , and extensions to Cl inica l Stud ies and the O .V.c. 's main build ing. At th e same time, fre shm a n intake grew from 80 to 120 and research programs expanded .

Although nego tiations in the political arena were not always smooth, Dr. Howell was usually able to maintain good will.

Former dean Trevor Lloyd Jones says that one of D r. H owell's important contributions as dean was the success he had in cultivating o utside support for the College and University. "He also showed talent and aggressive zeal in encouraging the best poss ible relati o nships between the College a nd ou tside agencies. " Dr. Jones adds. An other colleague commends him for his success in a ppeals. " He very seldom gets a direct 'no' - the door is usually left open for further negotiation."

Jim M illington, ove '69, a past president of the O .V.c. Alumni Associatio n, also commented on the former dean's abiliti es. " He has a remarkable talent for dealing with the bureaucratic process", D r. M illington says. " H e is usually able to circumvent opposition in any appeal."

Dr. M illington also poin ts to D e nn is H owell 's co-operation with a lumni and with students. (Jim Mi llington was in his final undergraduate year when D r . H o well became dean .) "Dennis is very approachable - he was available for students and alumni who werc often treated to tea and cookies during informal discussion in the dean's office. " T o the O.V.c. Alumni Association Boa rd of Directors, " he offered his help bu t neve r pushed," the G uelph veterinarian points out. H e considers the dea n was " th e ri ght man for the right time."

When he came to G uelph, D r. Ho well recogni zed th e College as one of the six top veterinary institutions in the world .

While he was here the O.V.c. had both its American and British accredi tations renewed , and underwent dra matic gro wth so th a t at th e end of his tenure D r. H owell was able to report, "the facilities wc have now can be measured favorably with comparable institutions around thc world ." In this regard he credited alumni with their financial help which " can make all the difference between bein g good and being outstanding."

Percy Smith, who was Vice-President, Academic, during much of the time Dennis Howell was dean , comments o n Dennis's de dication to th c deve lo pment of the O.V.c. as a great professional co llege with a special significance in the field of health sci ence. " H e worked with enorm ous energy and great goodwill to prom ote the College," Dr. Smith says. " But he showed a real concern for th e University as a whoIe, exemplified by his active, voca l and resourceful mem bership on such bodies as the Board of Undergraduate Studies and Sen ate."

Dr. H owell's in terest in the total field of health scie nce has led him to take a very ac tive role in th e ongoing debate on the cost o f clinical fa cilities. He was at th e helm of th e O ntario C o uncil fo r University Health Services when th a t body completed a survey of the cost of clinical instructi o n in schools of veterinary medicine, de nti stry and optometry and made a plea for increase d funding for these faculties which do not have publicly supported hospitals at th eir d isposa l as do the med ica l schools. D r. H owell continues to represe nt the Unive rs ities of G uelph, Waterloo, Toro n t a nd Western O nta rio in these negotiations with the Ontario gove rnment.

In 1975 he prese nted a rep ort on the need for a school of veterina ry medicine to the M aritime Provinces Higher Educatio n C ommission, recommending

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New Dean of that a veterinary college with places for 200 und ergraduates be built at the University of Prince Edwa rd Island in C harlottetown, with the school giving prefere nce to students from the three Ma ritime provinces and Newfoundland, Reg Thomso n, OVC '59, former Chairman of O .v.C's Department of Pa thology, is now in C harlottetown carrying out planning fo r the proposed college.

Dr. Howcll also played an importan t part in getting Sault Ste . Mari e's Algom a University College back on its feet after its threatened closure in 1976. At that tim e a Royal Commission reco mmended that the provincial government withdraw financial support from the Ii beral arts college, an adjunct o f Sudbury' Laurentian U niversity.

The dean was a ppointed chairman of an interim Board o f T ru ste es set up by the Ministry o f Colleges and Universities in 1976 to operate the college for a yea r.

D uring that time he spe nt three to four days of every week in Sault Ste. Marie. As a result, the college was a ble to resume operations und er its own de a n. Dr. H owell continues as chairman o f th e board a nd is also presid ent of the Algoma College Associatio n.

Dean Howell's ac tivities were not confined to Canada. In addition to frequent travels to the United States for professional gatherings and alumni meetings, he has been a n intrepid wo rld traveller, visiting veterin ary schools, universities and research instituti of)s on every continent. Last summer he was Com mo nwe alth Fo undati o n lec turer in I ndia, Sri Lanka, Australia, N ew Zealand and Malaysia where he renewed ties between the O .V.c. and the Univ ersiti Pertanian - Malaysia . D u ring Dr. H o well's tenure as dean, the college entered into an agreement with th e Canadian I nternational Development Agency to help the newly-established veterinary school in Malaysia, a link that continues with exchanges of faculty between the two institutions.

One of the grea test tributes D r.

H owell has received in the course of his professional career ca me last yea r when the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeo ns in England m ade him a Fellow, a tri bu te to his co ntributions to veterinary medicine in Canada and overseas.

D r. Howell is currently taki ng six months' administrative leaVe, somewhat o f a "busman 's holid ay," while he carries out Canadian and intemational co mmitments in the field of education and veterinary medicine. 0

D r. Douglas Maplesden, 0 VC '50. r. D ouglas C. M a plesden , OVC '50, succe eded D r. D ennis H owell as dean of the O n tari o Veterinary College o n Janu ary I, 1980. The new dean brings to his post a background that includes both large and sm'all animal practice, seve n yea rs as a clinician at his a lma mater, and many years of research an d administration in the pharmaceutica l industry.

After private practice with Dr. Robe rt B. Turnbull, OVC '45, at Staforth, Ontario, a nd two years as herd veterinarian a t Flat Top Ranch , Walnut Springs, T exas, Dr. M apksden retu rn ed to the O ,V.c., spending se ven years o n the fa culty. In 1961 he joined the pharm aceuti ca l firm of St eve n so n ,~ urn e r and Boyce in Guelph as veterinary director, later beco ming vice-president, technical se rvices. He then moved to N ew Jersey where he became executive director, animal he a lth research , a nd general manager of th e a nimal h ealth di visio n for CISA-G EIGY , la ter becoming director of animal heal th research at E. R .

Squibb and So ns Inc. "The O.V.c. has had th e reput a ti o n of turning out gradua tes who are well trained in the science an d art of veterinary medicine," says D r. Maplesd en, He points out th a t both a stron g clinical emphasis and a good scie ntific backg round are important, and he und erlines his dedication to both.

H e is quick to add, however, th a t continuing education courses are Important to ma ke the best professionals, "including Ph.D.s" but that " not a ll take them, so the college years are very important."

This makes it vital , h e says, that faculty be "ve ry much up to date ." They need to take sa bbatica ls at th e ri ght places and th ey need to keep up to date in their reading.

D r. M aplesden does no t fo resee an

over-supply of D .V.M. graduates in the

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fu ture. 'T ha t degree provides one of th e best scien tifi c backg ro und s it is possi ble for a gradua te to obtain," he says. Thus if gradu a tes should decide not to practise, (and while they wou ld need further grad uate trainin g for another career), they wo uld be more than ab le to co mpete w ith other biological science graduates.

Looking down the road , th e new dean sees the need for m ore research and more grad uate students in pa thology, toxicol ogy, and equine resear ch. t:e also says that we must ens ure th at research funded by the Ontario M inistry of Agriculture and Food (O MAF ) is geared full y to the probl ems o f food production with a nim a ls in O n tario so that ma xim um ben efi t from th e dollars can be glea ned .

There is also a distinct ne ed, according to the O.v.c. de an, for additional funds for rese a rch rel ated to pets and co mpanio n animals, Such an imals contrib ute a very significan t psychological fact or for m a ny peop le living a lone, he points out.

D r. M aplesde n acknowled ges the excellent rappo rt that exists between the O. ,c. and the Ontario Veterinary Services Bra nch and between the O .V .c. and fed e ra l officials. "We must ensure that such li a iso n is maintained a nd expanded," he emphasizes.

Then he points to his ow n backgro und that includes a M aste r's degree from th e O. A.C. and a n agriculturall y o riented Ph .D . from Cornell, as well as experience in both large and small a nim al practice. H e looks forward, he says, to maintaining and strengthening the co-opera tion th a t now exist between the O.V.c. and both the O .A.C. and the C.B.S. H e iooks forward to "many more j o int ventures" between members of his faculty and those in such departments as Animal and Pou ltry Science and N utriti on.

D r. M aplesden also foresees many more joint appointments betwee n the O .V,c.'s clini cs a nd Animal a nd Poultry Science . The "task force" appro ach to research, as opposed to a single researcher working more or less alone, is also very much in his th inking.

F inally, Dr. M a plesden predicts continued a nd increase d emph asis at the O.V.c. on continuing edu catio n a nd special symposia. " W e're goi ng to s tress that becau se it 's important," he says. He foresees that such sympos ia will include session s fo r professionals, and sess io ns geared to the needs and interests o f interes t groups-livestock breeders, producers and hob byis ts. D

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He's For

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o r the past two years, F . Prior Smith, OAC '66A, has been talking to Canadian Snowbirds. Nothing strange about that because, unlike singer Anne Murray's famou s snow-birds, Prior's kind listen, understand and tal k back.

Prior's con ve rsations begin in November but the stage is set in late September and early October.

The leaves and the temperatures are falling. Squirrels are gathering nuts for the winter and it is dark around suppertime.

The snow tire commercials are on the radio again and fuel oil dealers are starting to make their rounds.

It's the time of year when h un dreds of thousands of Canadians are thinking about warm sunny days and pleasant cool evenings down south. It happens every year. Canadians get visions of snow dri fts, sub-zero tempera tures and ice storms and they decide there is another place they would rather be for a few weeks or months.

Th at is where Florida comes in. There are many exotic places in the sunny south but for anyone of a number of reasons, Fl orid a gets most of the Canadian traffic.

Accurate figures are hard to come by but it is generally estima ted that 1.5 million Canadians visit the state during the winter season.

The annual migra tion begins in the last week of October and continues through until mid-April. Many Canadians have taken up full-time residence in Florida, mainly in the south east F lorida G old Coast region of Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach and in the G ulf Coast region of T ampa, Clearwa ter and St. Petersburg. In some areas of th ta te, Canadia n developers can not build homes fast enough to accommodate the influx.

One thing all of the Canadian Snowbirds (as they are known in Florida) share is a desire to keep in touch with what is happening back home, especially in Southern Onta rio.

Two years ago, Pri or, a Toron to news broadcaste r and ten-year veteran wi th CFRB in Toronto, assembled a modest fiv e-station radio news network in the major Canadian tourist regions of Florida.

The news from Canada has been aired six days a week ever since. In that initial year, the Canadian N ews Update was aired in the Fort Lauderdale region, Daytona

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F. Prior Smith, OA C '66A.

Beach, Tampa-Clearwater- St. Peters burg, Panama City Beach and My rtle Beach, South Carolina. Since then, the Canadian News Update network has gro wn to the point where it now cove rs practically all tourist regions of Florid a, the Bahamas and Myrtle Beach. This winter season, the broadcasts are being aired on 14 U .S. stations.

A Toronto native, Prior is no stra nger to the news business in Canada or to listeners of Toron to's CFRB (his brother, Derwyn, is News Director of CFTO -TV).

His arrival at CFRB in the fall of 1969 was preceded by the customary eam-as足 you-learn training experience that practically every broadcaster endu res.

There were farm broadcasts and brief stays at CKLY Lindsay, CHYR Leamington, and CISS Corn wall , before his first taste of the big time, CI A O in Montreal, CFRB's sister station .

After one year at CIAO it was back home to Toronto and CFRB, and he has been there ever since doing all forms of news work from municipal coverage at Toronto City Hall to traffic reporting. In the past ten years, he has covered al most

every major news story in Eastern C anada and just last year his work on the Air Canada crash at Toronto In te rnational Airport resulted in CFRB's win ning the Radio and TV News Directors' Award for spot news coverage.

The idea of radio news in F lorida was sparked by his first visit to the Sunsh ine State in 1974. Dissatisfied with an existing news service based in Fort L auderda le, he decided to test the waters in Florida broadcasti ng circles and q uickly found a wide open ma rket.

T he ba ll got rolling when F ort Lauderd ale area radio station WLOD (now WPI P) ju mped on the idea and just as quickly fou nd an advc rtiser, T he Royal Trust Bank of F lorida, which sponsors the program to this day. T he Royal Trust Bank is just one of man y b usinesses in the State with Canadian ownership, control or affi liation. O ther sponsors, C anadian and American, joined in to reach the big Canadian audie nce during the win ter months and the Ca nadian News U pdate broadcasts gradually expa nded to one F lorida city after another. T he program became so popular along the F lo rida Gold Coast (the region betwee n Miami and West Palm Beach) that it has been aired year-round on WPIP since the fall o f 1977.

It has been a slow but steady gro wth for the one-man operation which just recently adde d the med ia sales ex.p rlise of former Toronto Argonaut playe r and G eneral Manager, Dick Shatto. T he former Argo peren nial all-star running back and executive with CFRB and the Toronto Sun moved to F lorida earlier this year a nd handl s most of Pri or's time sa les work from his base in T arpo n Springs, j ust north of Clearwater.

Prior's wife, AIlana, who spent five years as T oronto C ity H a ll secretary to then Alderman and now Toronto Mayor John Sewell, handles the office work and ,t he couple's twO children, 8-year-old G len and recent arrival Timothy.

The Smith home for the past three years, a 125-year-old stone house on half an acre near Brampton, On tario, is also Prior's base station whe re, over groundlines and through microwave 足 transmission, he talks from his modern broadcast studio to 14 radio sta tions "exposed to a variety of management egos and deadline pressures" that keep him "hopping but happy" "I've been to Florida four times," he explained, " but never strictly for pleasure - always on busi ness. May be one day, when I ca n fin d the timc, I'll try being a Snowbird myself. " 0

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Professor McNinch, who joined the O.A.C.'s D epartment of Horticul ture in 1957, nurtured the program from the concept stage. In 1962 Professor Harold Crawford , 0;\( '58, became his assistant.

Professor Gary Hutchison , OAC '58 , joined them in 1965 when agricultural courses were added to the program . A recent staff additio n is student counsellor Wendy Elrick, OAC '76, who is completing a Master's degree in Land Resource Science.

Combining a full-time job with study, as most of the ODA and O D H diploma students must, is convenient but exacting.

"The simple fact that they have persevered on their own during evenings and week足 ends for three to five years tells a lot about their self-discipline a nd interests," observes James Pook, OAC '72. A keen horticulturist with the city of Hamilton ,

ODAs

by Andrea Mudry Fawc ett

Mr. Pook subsequently completed the ODH in 1976.

For their diploma , students must successfully com plete assignments in 15 courses, write three genera! knowledge exams invigilated by a local school teacher, and submit a short thesis.

Agricultural students can specialize in one of three areas: animal prod uction, crop production or genera! agriculture.

Horticulturists have eight options: park horticulture or management ; nursery operations; landscape contracting; landscape design ; landscape maintenance; commercial floriculture; turf management and general horticulture.

Beca use the courses are designed to provide the scientific principles and practices behind the practical methods used in agriculture and horticulture, a con tin ued

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What is attractive Wendy Elrick, OA C '76, doing? Turn the page for an answer.

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very spring at convocation time, a unique group of students arrives on campus to graduate. Most have never seen the University before . Some have travelled great distances揃-from the Maritimes, western provinces and the United States 足 for the occasion. Older than the average student, they have come to receive the Ontario Diploma in Horticulture (O DH) which is achieved through correspondence or independent study. This spring the group will be joined by the first graduates of the Ontario D iploma in Agriculture (O DA).

More than 300 graduates have received their ODH since the distinctive program was established in 1960. During the same period of time 14,000 other adults, interested in lea rning but not seeking a diploma, have found the courses ideal for brushing up on a su bject or delving into an entirely new area of agriculture or horticulture in spare time at home. Currently, more than 3,000 students are enrolled in the program which is offered through the Independent Study Divsion of the University's School of Part足 time studies and Continuing Education.

"Funded by the Ontario M inistry of Agriculture and Food (OM AF), the program was established at the request of the horticultural industries," explains Professor Ted McN inch, OAC '49, Chairman of Independent Study.

Traditionally, European immigrants had provided expertise in the trade. Howev;:r, by the late 19505, post-war immigration had subsided while horticultural industries had flourished, creating a pressing need for a training program.

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minimum of one year's practica l experience is required before the diploma is granted. "Before they come to us the majority of our students have had extensive practical experience," comments Professor McNinch. "So it is dem an ding to create courses which inform and excite them, but rewarding too."

Joerg Leiss, now production superintendent for Sheridan Nurseries, came from a family of horticultural specialists in Germany and had 16 years of experience before em barking on the program. He was one of the first ODH graduates in 1963 . A prospective member of this year's first ODA graduating class, William Holden has had extensive experience both on the farm and in industry as a designer and draftsman for Shur-Gain Ltd. Mr. Holden , who hopes to re tire early and take up full-time farming, is impressed with the varie ty of benefits which can be derived from the program.

"Whether I farm or not, the courses I took in the three main areas of animal science, financial management and horticulture have already been useful in many ways both on the job and at home." After researching his thesis on commercial rabbit production Mr. Holden decided that raising the animals would only be economically viable as a side line. O nce his diploma is granted, he expects a raise both in pay and professional status.

individuals occasionally take courses to develop a personal or professional interest.

Now a farmer and commercial pilot at Echo Bay, Jim chose several courses on cattle and farm financing. Horticulture is extremely popular for hobbyists.

A multi-media kit, recently developed

by Professor McNinch and his colleagues as part of their on-going research to improve teaching methods, is a major contribution to correspondence education.

These creative self-learning kits offer three complementary learning processes in the form of filmstrips with a hand-viewer, audio cassettes and traditional text books.

The hand-viewed filmstrips also make it economically feasible to provide students with numerous high quality illustrations.

Custom designed binders neatly store the contents.

Since many of Independent Study's courses are enhanced by presentation in the multi-media format, the faculty is currently adapting their past publications to the new approach. "Weed C ontrol in Turf' by Professor Clayton Switzer, OAC '5 I, dean of the O.A.c. ; "Tree Fruit

Production" by Professor Ben Tesky, OAC '49, recently retired from Horticultural Science, and "Nursery Management" by Professor Glen Lumis, H orticultural Science, are among thos already revised . " Soil Conservation" by Pro fessor Len Webber, OAC '39, who recently retired from Land Resource Science, is in the works.

"Further possibilities for this multi足 media approach seem endless," says Professor McN inch. Already the Division has developed mini-kit versions for the hobbyist on indoor plants, deciduous trees, propagation of tropical plants, f10wer arranging, and machinery and fieldwor k, at a reasonable cost. T he larger kits are also being used in classrooms on campus and at other universities and colleges.

For further information about the Diploma courses or the creative self足 learning kits, contact the School of Part足 Time Studies and Continuing Education, Independent Study Division, Room 154, Johnston H alL University of G uelph, Guelph , Ontario N IG 2WI, or call 824足 4120, Ext. 3375. 0

Wendy is studying plant propagation by using one of Independent Study's creative self-learning kits.

Diploma graduates have been active in alumni affairs, surprisingly so considering that they spent their undergraduate years largely isolated from the campus and each other. Bill Earl, O D H '63, Parks Supervisor for Toronto ; Frank Bernt, ODH '70, Landscape Supervisor for the Ha milton Parks Department; Stu H olland, ODH '63, retired Forestry Supervisor for T oronto; and Joerg Leiss have all been members of the O.A.c. Alumni Association's board of directors. G raduates also strongly support their own OD H G raduates Association, which was formed in 1965 .

Attracted by Independent Study's reputation, allied industries, organizations and educational institutions have asked to use the Division's courses in a variety of ways. For example, the Edmonton park system has enrolled groups of its employees and developed in-service training to augment the ODH program.

Olds College in Alberta has been allowed to use some of the D ivision's courses and materials for its own students.

Like Jim McLarty, OAC '72, many

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With the wheel's kick and the wind's song • • •

by Martha Leibbrandt

t is January 1978 in the Canary Islands.

A group of young people on holiday, including several Canadians, has been sharing apartments in Tenerife . One of them, Richard Scott Ruddock, OAC '77, meets a Frenchman who owns a sailboat, a 35-foot trimaran named " Trigo of Sussex," moored in Las Palmas harbour.

The lease on the Tenerife apartments expires and Richard accepts an invitation to take up lodgings on board.

It sounds like the beginning of a movie scenario, doesn't it? Small boats bobbing at anchor, a close community of yachtsmen and friends from around the world, glorious weathe r, superb scenery, sparkling seas. But for Richard , who had worked the previous summer paying off his debts following graduation with a B.Sc.(Eng.) degree, the adventure to follow was to be even better, an exciting culmination of his holiday abroad his last fling before settling into the sober routine of earning a living.

As Richard relates it, the Frenchman, Richard Doze, wanted to sail across the

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south Atlantic to Martinique . He invited Richard to join the crew and, after some hesitation and investigation both about the seaworthiness of the boat and the ability of the captain, Richard agreed.

The Frenchman, Richard and a Norwegian girl called Sofie became the crew. There was also Marvran, a year-old Newfoundland dog. Their navigational equipment consisted of "an accurate watch, some fairly basic maps and a sextant. " Their emergency equipment was an inflatable dinghy and a radio transmitter/ receiver with a 200-mile operating range on an emergency frequency.

Their beds were narrow wooden benches covered with foam mattresses, their food canned goods, lentils, pasta, rice, fruit, flour and cheese. Their source of power over the Atlantic was the trade winds, which they hoped would fill their sails by the time they reached the Cape Verde Islands, 800 nautical miles south of the Canaries, and blow them westward to Martinique.

Richard had learned to saiJ aboard "The Pathfinder," a sail training vessel out of Toronto, but he admits he had never before sai led the open sea. Sofie knew less about sailing, but had a strong constitution an d did not succumb to seasickness even when the captain, the most experienced sailor, was so ill a t one point that he had to direct operations from his bunk .

Richard agrees that there was an element of risk in the whole undertaking and admits that if he had to do it again he would prefer to be "not q uite so close to nature." Speaking of their minimal emergency equipment, he puts it this way : " If you have problems and you capsize, with or without a radio it doesn't make much difference. T he worst thing that would happen in a trimaran is capsIZIng; once you capsize you can never right it again." But, he goes on, whe n one opts for this kind of experience, one has to come around to a different way of looking at things. Besides, he says, 180 sailboats. some much smalle r than theirs, followed the same path to the Carib bean that year. In fact , a Swiss taxi driver who owned the boat moored beside theirs in Las Palmas met them later at Cape Verde, sailing the same route singlehandedly.

Yet the first leg of the journey, from the time they left Las Palmas on February 26 un til they reached Puerto Grande on Cape Verde eight days later, was hard , Richard admits. They had to get used to a fairly monotonous ro utine: four hours for each of them on watch and the rest of the time spent catching some sleep, checking the setting of the sails, doing repairs, taking sightings with the sextant twice daily and ch arting their course . There was a good deal to keep them busy.

Though he continually marvelled at the grandeur of sky, stars and sea, and of wave systems that were never the same two days running. Richard fo und dur ing the late watch , alone at night, that he h ad "a lousy feeling inside," a pervading anxiety of falling overboard. When the seas got rough, with 25-foot waves at one point, he was afraid because he didn't know the boat's limitations or its continued over

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strengths, what to worry about and what not.

But all went well. T hey reached Puerto G rande, rested and took on fresh water and supplies. But then, on the out journey as they were sailing south west between the two main islands, high winds funnelIing between the land masses suddenly whipped the seas into a fury.

With too much sail exposed and the sea running in the opposite direction, their rudder broke. Entirely dependent now on the manipulation of the sails to steer their course, they managed to make it back to port.

By comparison, the rest of their journey across the Atlantic was tranquil.

They left San Pedro Bay with a rebuilt rudder on March 18. The weather was consistently good: hot days but always tempered by the cooling trad e winds; the nights cool, but never chilling thanks to warm sheepskins and woollen army blankets.

Although they had no refrigeration, an area near the hull was cool enough to keep cabbages, eggs, cheese, green peppers and oranges for a period of time and they had homemade bread every day -"rather dense, but very good"-baked in a French pressure cooker atop their butane two-burner stove and spread with butter out of a can. I:lying fish, attracted by the running lights, regularly spiralled out of the waves on to the deck, providing them with a dish not unlike bass or perch .

At mid-Atlantic a huge Russian ship "like an army transport" suddenly appeared over the horizon and passed close by; sea terns flew about their boat, but generally refused a moment's rest on board , even though they were so far from land .

One hundred and fifty nautical miles from Martinique, the winds died. For three days they waited, so enticingly close to civilization and yet so far. Then the wind filled th eir sails once more, and they reached Martinique on April 9. It had taken them 2 I days to cover about 2,000 nautical miles between Cape Verde and Martinique .

The "quite beautiful" sunrises and the halo of light in the darkness indicating approaching land were the most memorable episodes of the whole experience for Richard. Ironically , he feels that it is only in retrospect that he really appreciates them. "At the time I was never totally rel a xed, always counting the days." Still, he has some wonderful memories. Thank goodness for retrospection I 0

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she's a terror for her size L enah (Field) Fisher, Mac '22.

by Linda Manning, Arts '75

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n the 1922 Ontario Agricultural College yearbook, there appears a short but apt verse: She's little but she's wise She's a terror for her size!

The lines refer to Lenah Field, Mac '22, who, over the past five decades, has pursued a variety of careers including dietitian, teacher, restaurant owner and politician. A petite lady of barely five feet, Lenah (Field) Fisher has about her an air of gracious femininity laced with an ample dose of determination.

Back in 19 I 9 when Lena h Field was attending Ma cdonald Institute, it was announced that the Prince of Wales would visit the Ontario Agricultural College.

Miss Field decided that somehow she would find an opportunity to speak to him. Some 60 years later, that moment is still preserved in a photograph taken on the day of his visit. Included by him years later in his memoirs, it shows the dapper, young prince on the steps of the College and, front stage centre, laughing and looking up at His Highness is Lenah Field.

She smiles as she recalls the incident. "A group of us walked across the campus afterwards," she says, "and I chatted with the prince. He said he didn't know whether he could stay for the dance that evening." There is a pause. "He remembered me though," she continues, "because later that day I received a box of cigarettes stamped with the gold insignia of the Prince of Wales."

There is an in teresting footnote to this

story. Several years later, the prince's visit to Africa was made in to a movie and sent to Canada for distribution. " I had just arrived in Montreal," Lenah recalls, "and my host offered to take me to the theatre to see the film. As we entered the foyer, I could see a life-sized promotion picture of the prince in the background . There were several exclamations upon my arrival and I was immediately mobbed by strangers asking me end less questions about the prince . The puzzle was solved when someone pointed out to me that I must be a close friend of the prince as there I was with him in the photograph. It was a shock to realize that the G uelph photo had been used to promote the film's Canadian tour."

After graduating from Macdonald Institute as a dietitian, Lenah Field interned at Sick Children's H ospital in Toronto and then went on to post­ graduate studies at Lakeside H ospital in Cleveland, O hio . While there, she designed a series of special diets for diabetic children.

She returned to Canada several years later to become the head dietitian of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Montreal.

During that time, she developed a special course for interns in her dietetics department , instructing them in the expertise of buying for large institutions.

"My courses were very popular," Lena h says, "and I always found positions for my graduating students."

D uring this time, there was a drive

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for funds for the nurses' residence a t the Queen Elizabeth. A produce co mp any, with whom Lenah dealt regularly, had donated a cheque for only $50. The hospital director was annoyed and Lenah suggested that she might be ab le to get the amount i.nere asc d. " He (the director) didn 't think I could d o it," Le nah remembers," but he gave me the cheque and told me to try. For the next tw o days, I politely refu sed to order when the salesman pho ned . The third day the owner was at the hospi tal asking me whether I was sudd enly findin g fault with his produce. I whipped o ut th e c heq ue," Lena h continu es, " told him he had unmiti gated gall giving us a cheque for $50 and to re it up in front o f him . He hesi ta ted, th en wrote o ut a second one for $500. Wh en he handed it to me, I asked fo r ano th er zero and handed it back.

There were a few tense m Ol11en ts th en ," she r eca ll ~, " but he took it back a nd add ed the third ze ro."

Lenah tells abo ut a city-wi de sur vey th a t was undertaken in Mo ntrea l to de termin e the prices paid by large in stitutio ns fo r food. Res ults revea led th a t Le nah was the best buyer in the en tire city, o utm atchin g a ll ot her in stituti ons including hotels. " I was offe red positio ns a t several major hote ls after that, including th e Mount Royal," Le na h says, " but I had o th er plans." These includ ed marriage to rubber company executive Do na ld F isher and te mporary retirem ent from the o utside career world .

The Dep ressio n had begun and Le nah volunteered her services to the city of Montreal. Food vouch ers were being given to needy families and Le na h's job was to find o ut whether each family was buying wisely. "An interestin g job," Le na h comm en ts, " th o ugh not always pleasant."

Wi th experie nces in T oronto , Cleveland and Montreal behind he r, it seems, in re trospect. inevitable that Le n a h would return to Co bourg, wh ere she was born and raised. D uring visits home, in the 1930s, she discovered that her fami ly ho me was regularly hese iged hy America n tou ri sts from the daily Roc hester ferry.

The charmin g seven-room dwellin g had been given as a wedding present to her father by her gra ndfa ther. Prio r to giv ing it to his so n, Mr. F ie ld had re nted it to th e Koerber family, wh ose daughter had become the sile nt film sta r Ma rie D ressler.

Lenah persuadcd her p arents to convert their ho m e into a restaurant, retaining its peri od furniture , silver a nd dishes. Called The M arie D ressler House, it attracted C anadi a n and Am erican tourists who enjoyed its distinctive French

Lenah Field, laughing and looking up at the P rince of Wales on the steps of Macdonald Institute durin g his visit in 1919. cuisine and attentive wa itresses. It was a preferred place for summ er emp loy m e nt a nd many hi gh sc hool girls, including thi s writer (back in th e '50s), donned the sedate black uniform and stock in gs and spent the summer ushering wide-eyed tourists past the tinkling music box to the Button Room for dining.

Lenah's restaura nt thriv ed, partly because of Maurice, its French chef, but mostly because of this lady's incredible knack for public relations. T he restaura nt gained an international reputation and was frequented by visi to rs and celebriti.es from all over the wor ld . In 1974, Lenah sold the establishment to a res ta ura nte ur who promised to re tai n its distin ctive qua lity and fare.

In 1956, after the death of her husband, Lenah began to take an acti ve interest in politics. "It was rumoured," she says, "that they were going to tear down (Cobourg's) Victoria Hall I couldn ' t bear th a t. Why, my grandfa ther attended its ope ning in 1860 by the Prince of W a les (later to be Edward VII ) and was on the town council during Confede ra tion year. had to do so methin g l" Lena h was elected to Cobourg's tow n co un cil in 1959, but in stead of being elected C hai rm an or Public Bu ildings, as she had hoped , she was relegated to the ga rbage co mmittee . Undaunted, she took more th a n the usual councillor'S in te rest in th e city's re fu se and was often see n riding o n the municipa l truck s o verseein g ope rati ons. She eve n put o n coveralls and rubber boo ts a nd washed down eity streets during cleanup week. ex t year, when she topped th e polls,

she became Chairman of Public Buildin gs and bega n a 15-yea r stru ggle to have th e tow n ha ll restored. She had it name d a provincia l la ndm ark and later, by cashing in a few politi cal IOU s in Otta wa, a Nati ona l H istoric Si te . Lenah hopes that her beloved "Old L ady of King Street," now in its fin a l phase o f restoration, will soon be re turn ed to its 1860 splendour.

In 196 1 Lenah was elected Deputy Reeve of the co un cil and remained in this position until her political retirement in 1975.

She was awa rd ed the Order of C anada tha t year- a great ho no ur for any C an a dian ci tize n a nd mu ch dese rved by this ene rgetic and accomplished lady.

Subsequen tly, Audrey McN augh ton, a well-kn own Canadian artis t, painted a life足 sized portrait of Lena h in reco gnition of her service to the life and culture of the community. This portrai t ha ngs in the Art Gallery in Victoria H all.

Currently, L enah is a G overnor of Sir Sandford Fleming C ollege in Peter足 borough a nd is ac tive with a nu m ber o f . bodies includ ing th e C o bourg C ha mber of Commerce, G rea t Pine Ridge T o urist Co uncil , th e C o bo urg Libra ry Boa rd and the Heritage Association.

If you visit Le nah at home these days, you will be gree ted a t the doo r by her latest "undertaking" - a beautiful, lanky W eimaraner p up py christened C hancellor von Cobourg. "He's as str ong as I a m already, " Len ah says, "and smarter, tool" As I bid her goodbye, I think it would be quite an accomplishment to be smarter than Lenah (Fie ld ) F isher, th e invin ci ble M ac girl of 1922. 0

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The writer, Harold B. Disbro we, OAC '23, right,

with Turkish farmer friend in 1925.

by Harold R Disbrowe, OAC '23

Dear Mr. Wing: At a time when young university graduates are experiencing difficulty in obtaining suitable employment, memory takes me back to the time of my own graduation when a similar condition prevailed.

In the months prior to graduating from the OA. C in 1923, 1 sent out dozens ofjob applications and went for numerous interviews-all to no avail. My lack of success was due partially to my youthful appearance-I was 21 years old and looked about 17. A more telling factor was that there were just too many of us, including a large number of older men who had returned from the First World War. In the end 1 had to sell Ie jor casual labouring jobs: a few months as an apiarist in the jar north; a horrible winter job working out-oj-doors at a paper mill and a temporary job as an apiary inspector in my native county, Norfolk, in Western Ontario.

As no one in Canada seemed much impressed by what 1 had to offer, 1 slarted to send enquiries jurther afield. One was addressed to the H.Q. of the International Y M. CA. in New York City. Surprisingly if yielded a quick response: they had an enquiry for someone with my qualifications to teach in, of all places, Turkey. The president of the instilUtion was a Canadian; would 1 be available for an interview?

The upshot was that 1 met the president oj International College, 1zmir, Turkey, between trains on a station platform. When he departed 1 had a

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contract to teach at International for three years at the munificent salmy of $600 per year plus living and travelling expenses.

As you can appreciate, it was a unique experience, one that extended my horizons to an unbelievable extent. Its practical result, and this should interest young grads who are at loose ends, led to a lifetime career in education when 1 relUrned to Canada: three years as a junior in the former Apiculture Department at O.A. C; thereafter as a secondary school teacher; and jor 20 years prior, 10 my retirement in 1965, as principal of Elmira District Secondary School.

AI my age, one often Ihinks of the past, and 1 have recenlly PUI down on paper some recolleCiions of my experiences subsequenl 10 my appointment at 1nlernalional up /0 the lime 1 actually starled /0 leach.

May 1 say as an "Old Boy," Ihal the articles 1 find mosl enterlaining in the G uelph Alumnus are Ihe ones thai deal with people and their experiences. It is with Ihis in mind Ihal 1 summoned the courage to submit the enclosed article. 1 hope you will find il interesting, but if il does not meet your standards you may be assured there will be no hard jeelings, as 1 understand what an edilor's dUlies are.

Trusling to hear jrom you, 1 remain, Yours sincerely, Harold B. Disbrowe, OA C '23

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n August 1924 I left my farm home in Western On tario and em barked on what for me, a young man of monumental inexperience, was an incredible journey.

Through a remarkable chain of circumstances I had obtained a teaching appointment in the N ear East, and had a pocketful of travellers' cheques and transportation vouchers that would take me over the Atlan tic and across Europe to Izmir in Turkey.

It was my first trip abroad. In fact, apart from a recent excursion into Northern Ontario, it was my first opportunity to leave the confines of my native Western Ontario. Needless to say. 1 was pretty excited and looked forward eagerly to the experience.

The journey to Quebec City, my point of departure, was uneventful; but I was glad I had allowed an extra day for sigh tseeing in the old French ca pi tal, for I was captivated by its O ld W orld charm, as I have been on many subsequent visits. At the end of my brief stay r boarded the old Canadian Pacific liner The Empress of France, and we sailed in late afternoon, moving down the great St. Lawrence Ri ver past lonely little towns whose tin-clad church steeples reflected the rays of the setting sun.

On the crossing I experienced all the characteristic aspects of life on a transatlantic liner, a mode of transportation that was then at the apex of

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its popularity. I met interesting people, joined in the deck games, explored the cavernous depths of the ship a nd participated in the d aily pool on the distance travelled.

The passengers quickly became an intimate if briefly co nsti tuted community.

Being separated from their customary responsibilities, and with unaccus tomed leisure, they speedily formed new uninhibited friendships. Some of the young people engaged in traditional shipboard romances, and there were some astonishing go ings-on amo ng some middle-aged midwest Americans. But in the final hou rs before landing, it was interesti ng to observe how the old guarded formali ties reasserted themselves .

On the last evening a t sea there was a benefit concert in the first class saloon. I remember being impressed by the presence of Senator Raoul D andurda nd, a dignified white-bearded gentleman who was Ca nada 's representative at the League of Na tions.

T he next day we docked at Southampton, and a few hours later I was in London, established in a small hotel near Wa terl oo Bridge. From my window I could loo k o ut ove r acres of chimney pots.

The British Empire was at its zenith; this was the imperia l capital. It seem ed strangely familiar. O thers have told me of sharing this sensation, which derives I suppose from havi ng read and he ard so much abo ut the historic m etropo lis.

It wa the year of the British Empire Ex hibition at Wembly, an d London was filled with visitors from all p arts of the world. The streets were bright with colour a nd alive with people in assorted national garb: turbann ed sikhs, sari-clad women with caste marks on their for eheads, burnoose-shrouded Arabs an d Africa ns, and many others from those exotic parts of the Empire " east of Suez."

I visited all the historic shrin es: Westminste r A bbey, S 1. Paul's, T he Ho uses of Parliament, The Towe r and all the others. It was wonde rful to be there at 23 . Each d ay was filled with intere st.

T here we re othe r sigh ts as we ll: changing the guard at Buckingham Palace, the Horse Guards a t Whiteha ll, the sidewalk artists of Trafalgar Squ are, th e buskers who en tertained the the atre queues and double-decked buses and squa re-rigged taxi cabs. Less agreeable were the indications of growing nati onal distress: groups of unempl oyed veterans marching throu gh th e streets carryi n g bitterly-worded signs, numerous stree t

hawkers and everywhere the sight of idle men.

I went up to Boston for a couple of days to meet my a unt and some othe r English rela tives. Th e trai n with its gleaming engine and immaculate coaches travelled at h igh speed ove r the green countryside. As we passed through picturesque qu a int villages, its whistle shrill ed at the crossi ngs where gatekeepers held back the farm carts and an occasional motor car. Soon we were in fen country, and shortly thereafter in Boston.

M y aunt, a maiden lady o f E dwardian elegance , welcomed me to her home where she lived attended by an anci ent maidserva nt. Wh ile I was with he r she took me to Benington village where my father had spent his boy hood, and where his father was the parish vicar for more than 40 yea rs. I saw the old rectory, and the 13th century ch urch wh ere grandfather had preached. Then we walked to the R oman Bank at the edge of the Wash, and ca me back across the fields , stopping midw ay at a cottage for tea.

Shortly thereafter I was aboard the Paris Express and speedi ng toward s the capital. We arrived in due co urse, but th ere was no time fo r sightse ein g. I just had time to stretch my legs and dine a t a co nvenient sidewalk cafe before boardin g the train for the southeast and Italy.

NI through th e night we travelled a t high speed across France, a nd by daylight we were in the A lps. A t noon we entered the famou s M t. C enis tunnel , an d when we emerged on th e o ther si d e of the Npine peaks we were in Ita ly. Then came the lo ng desce nt to the Piedm on t Plain and Turin, where we arrived in the late a ftern oon.

As at Paris, I had only a brief time a t my disposal before resu ming my journey. I employed it by din ing, and th en exploring in the vicinity of the station. I recall littl e of what I saw, but remember very well the shock I received on entering the sta tion lavatory, to find it presided over by tw o elderly harrid ans who cha ttered lik e magp ies as they wen t a bout their work.

W hen I boarded the train for the

The administration building at i nternational College, izmir, Turkey.

On the last day of Augu st, hav ing returned to London , I resumed my journey by go ing down to Dover and tak ing the channel boat to Ca lais . The Chan nel Lived up to its rep u ta tion- it was a rough crossing a nd I was horrib ly seasick. When I went shakily ashore the customs office rs in their kepis, and the sholltin g, ges ticulating, blue-smocked porters were visible evidence that I was in France.

sou th, I en tered a compartment th a t already had an occupant, a tall fai r-h aired youn g man in a faded green twe ed jacket a nd grey fl annel trousers. It turned out that he was also a Can adi an , and like me, bound for In ternational Co llege.

My new travelling companion was Kenneth Kirkw ood o f rampton , Ontario, a veteran of the R oyal N aval Air Service and graduate o f the Un iversity of T oro nto . con tinued 0 ver

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A few years after our meeting he was amo ng the first appointees to the infant Canadian Diplomatic Service where he had a distinguished career and rose to ambassadorial rank.

Kirkwood had originally contracted to go out to International College in Septem ber 1922. He was in Eu rope en route to Izmir when he received an urgent message to return to England and await further instructions. T he reason for the interruption of his journey was the Greek debacle in Asia M inor in which Izmir was almost totally dcstroyed. He waited in England, employing hi s time in study for a whole year before taking up his duties at the college when it reopened in 1923. Now he was returning, after vacationing in Europe, to fulfill the fin al year of his con tract.

It was pleasant to have as a travell ing compani o n one wh o was familiar with the area through which we were travelling, for during the late s ta ges of the First W orld War Kirkwood had been stationed at Bar, from where he had flown pa trols over the Adriatic. He entertained me with stories of his squadron 's efforts to keep track of the Austro-Hungarian navy, whose units seldom put to sea. It had apparently been a good place to be; such perils as he experienced were not of th e enem y, bu t of the ramshackle wood and canvas sea足 pla nes that they flew.

It was a slow journey down the east coast, but there was much of interest and we enjoyed it in spi te of the excessive heat. Those were the early days of Musso lini's dictatorship , a fact of whi ch we were reminded by the presence o f some officious black-shirted militiamen on the train. It took us three day s to trave] from Turin to Brindisi. On arrivi ng there we learned that ou r ship, the Puglia, which was to carry us to Greece, wo uld not m ake port for two more days.

Brindisi was hot and dull, and we soon exhausted its sightseeing res ources.

We did have one small adventure however that landed us briefly in jail. We were taking snapshots of the harb o ur o ne afternoon when we were arrested by a militiaman and marched a t bayonet point to the local hoosegow. After a couple of hours in the cooler our films were confiscated and we were released. We were warned to stay away from the harbour where, it seems, there were some naval install ations.

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Seylaz of I nternational C ollege who had recognized K irkwood. He was returning to Izmir aner vacationing in hi s native Switzerland; with h im was Max Vaucher, a young Swiss wh o , like me, was going out to International on a three-year assignment.

The Pugli a was a small coastal steamer of Italian regis try , whose milieu was the Adri a tic and the waters of the Greek Pclo pennesos. She carrie d only a few passengers but served them well ; the small cabins we re comfortable and the meals superb. She took us across to the Greek coast an d then crui sed leisurely around th e peninsula, stopping at a number of islands, including Corfu and storied I thake.

Our passage through the unbelievably blue waters of the Aegean was like a pleasant dre a m . The sunlit days and velvety nights sped swiftly, and all too soon we were at Piraeus, the port of Athens. We passed through customs and took the ten-minute ride to the capital where we were soo n installed in a comfortable hotel.

In Athens I was introdu ced to the Mediterranean custom of the siesta. From noon until 4:00 p.m. the streets were deserted while the population stept. In the evening the town came alive again and the coffee houses and sidewalk cafes were filled with happy chattering crowds unti,! well past midni ght. Professor Seylaz, an old hand in these parts, sa w to it that we observed the local custom; our sightseeing was accomplished during late afternoon and eveni ng hours.

We had three days in Ath ens while awa iting the ship that would take us across to Izmir.On the first day we chose to explore so me of the city's fine shops , and then hired a carriage a nd Wl:f<~ drawn to the Acro polis on the heights overl oo king the city. Here we picked our way over several acres of marble chips and fr agments to view that ancient architectural wonder, the Parthenon .

The view from the heigh ts was equall y inspiring; we could see the red足 tiled roo fs of the city stretching ou t in all directi ons, and in the distance the olive groves and parched hills of Attica. We remained until darkness ove rtook us. As we drove down the stee p incline from the heigh ts, we could see the pattern of the city's streets outl.ined by thousands o f twinkling lights.

On another afte rnoon we went to Phaleron to swim, and afterwards dined at an open-air restaurant on the beach. We

saw the yacht of Admiral Lord Beatty, the hero o f Jutland , in the bay, and close hy its honour guard, a G reek gunboat. As We drove into the city that evening we passed the Royal Palace, un occ upi ed of course f(l G reece was temporarily a re publi c, and saw the mustachioed wool-skirted E vzone guards at their posts.

On the last eve ning we settled our accounts at the hotel and drove down to Piraeus where we board ed the K hed ivial Line steamer I-' amaka for Izmir. T h e next morning when we came on d eck we were cruising within sight of the island of Chios, near th e A natolian coast. W e continued and at midday e ntered the G ul of Izmir.

As we moved down the gulf toward our destination, we could see the gentle mountain slopes on both sides. P rofesso r Seylaz pointed out two peak s o n our righl which he said were "The T wo Bro thers."

At the narrowest part of the gulf we could see the earthw orks of the Turkish harbo ur defences atop which a few khaki-clad figures were moving. Soon after, the old city of Iz mir, glistening likc a jewe l at the end of the gulf, came in to sigh t.

As we drew closer we could see the quay 'ide and the marhle-fro nte d building, that faced it. Be hind, 011 th e slopes to the right, were ac res of rcd-tiled roofs; their uniform expanse was relieved b y wh ite domes an d minare ts and clusters of cypress trees. As we came closer we observed that lhe marble build ings of the waterfront, a nd acres more behind them , were hu t em pty shells. This was th e fonner G reek Q uarter, which was burned out and to tally d estroyed when Izmir fell to the Turks in 1922.

The anchor had n o sooner splashed dow n than the ship was surrounded by caiques mann ed by boatm e n in baggy pantaloons and black-tasseled red fe zzes; they shouted and gesticulated to a ttract the passengers and gain their patro n age.

As we watched another caique approached, and its passe ngers, two younf men, ran up the ladder a nd warmly greeted Seylaz and Kirkwo od. Vaucher and I were introduced to H airre din Bey, the college bursar, and Me hme t A li Bey, 足 one of th e teachers. Wit h their help we quickly completed the formalities and were rowed ashore .

On the quay a Chevrolet touring car was waiting; its driver was Professor Caldwell, a South Carolinian and member of the college faculty since 1899, As it was impossible to accommodate everyone in the car it was de cided that Vaucher an d I,

being newcomers, would be given the preference. The others haikd a carriage and were driven off to the railway station to take the train to Kizilcullu, where International College was located .

On the esplanade smar t victorias pulled by teams of wiry Ana tolian ponies were travelling briskly over the paving stones. Their passengers were fez-topped Turkish Beys accompanied by veiled ladies who looked mysterious and attrac tive behind their semi-transparent yashmaks. We left the tranquility of this scene and plunged into the maze of narrow streets that led to the city outskirts and the college.

Caldwell used a referee's whistle to clear a way through the crowd . With shrill blasts he piloted us Ihrough the congested narrow streets. T he crowds parted reluctantly to let us pass, and then filled in again behind us.

At a narrow intersection we were confronted by a camel train; a dozen huge beasts with bulging panniers clinging to their sides blocked our way. The fierce looking driver dismounted from a diminutive donkey at the head of the procession and came striding to the side of the car. He and Caldwell argued with much hand waving until the latter with a shrug of resignation gave way . With shrill

Mrs. MacLachlan who gave us tea, and then escorted us across the campus to MacLachlan Hall where we were to reside.

Here we were introduced to two of the tutors: Archie Macfarlane of Philadelphia, and Charlie VanZanten of Holland , Michigan . By the time we had settied in, bells were sounding in the hall. It was dinner time.

Escorted by our newly- met colleagues, we descended to the dining hall on the ground 1100r. Here there was anothe r round of introductions as we made the acquaintance of various faculty mem bers, both Turkish and American, who had assembled for the evening meal. There

Subjreshmen group at International College, Turkey, in 1924. Harold Disbrowe is fourth from right in the front row.

In the bazaar area we were engulfed in a sea of pedestrians: countrymen in red-sashed baggy trousers, veiled women, street hawkers, hammals walking in a stooped position under their great burdens, and thousands of ordinary folk in fez or kolpak. At the open stalls the merchants and their customers shouted and gesticulated as they haggled. To my unaccustomed eyes all was confusion. But our driver was unperturbed, and calmly guided the car at a snail's pace through the enveloping throng.

As the car's horn was not working

whistle blasts he backed the car into an intersection, and there we waited while the camels wheezed and grunted past under their burdens.

Soon after this we left the crowded streets of the city, and sped up the valley road to our destina tion . At Kizilcullu we turned into an avenue of mulberry trees, passed through a set of iron gates, and drew up in front of Kenarden Lodge, the home of Dr. Alexander Mac Lachlan, International's president.

We were made welcome by D r. and

were no students as the new term had not started. We all sat down together at one long table.

Late that evening before retiring, I stood at my window looking out across the vineyards towards the dark shadows of the mountains. I could hear the clank of well足 buckets and the creaking of a turnstile as some peasant in an adjoining field watered his vines. Occasionally a donkey let forth his " hee-haw," and from the distant hills there came the obscene cry of a j ackal. They were sounds that would become very familiar in the years ahead. 0

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They Shall Be Gathere

by Bob Logan A little over one hundred

years ago a l""lmember of the teaching staff of the fledgling Ontario School of Agriculture moved in to his new quarters. One of his first tasks was to un pack his few books and place them on a nearby shelf. Little did he know that with thi s simple act he was establishing the base for the University of G uelph library.

Over the years individual collections built and developed in helter-skelter fashion in widely separated parts of the three founding colleges. Then came the first really organized effort to bring all the collections under one roof. W ith the financial assistance of one of O n tario's best known families, the Masseys, a centrally loca ted library was conceived and constructed .

Until the late 1960s the M assey Library served a growing student population which threatened to overflow onto the roads and lawns and into the nearby pool. But it was not only the student body which grew at an alarming rate . The collection of books and periodicals which was already of notable quantity was increasing more quickly than space could be found to house it.

Eventually, the library spread into Z avitz Hall, and once again the collection was spli t.

D uring later years the Colleges became the Federated Colleges, and, in 1964, the University o f Guelph. With these developments came the vital need to dramatically increase the library's holdings. The provincial government established the O ntario ew Universities Library Project (ON ULP) and, from a base at the University of Toronto, a selection of materials was made and shipped to an already overcrowded library system at Guelph .

Concerned that an indispensable service was becoming an ungovernable situation, the University began consideration of an expanded facility. A new library building was needed , and a decision was made in 1965 to strike a committee. But this would be a committee with a radical difference. In a break with traditions which a re honoured even today in many acade mic communities, the University of G uelph declared that thi s committee would involve more than professorial and university administrative personnel. This library building committee would a lso include library personnel.

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The McLaughlin Library.

And They Were

This may well have been justified by the fact that librarians were traditionally members of the academic community and therefore legitimate claim a nts to a role, or the University may have been demonstrating the liberal view for which it was destined to become known. Whatever the reason, librarians were appointed and became active and responsible members of the committee.

Many of us remember our college days when borrowing Ii brary ma terials was a frustrating activity. Libraries were viewed simply as sto rage places for books, as they still are in many places. T he act of borrowing required patience, go od penmanship and forms in triplicate. If an item was not on the shelf when you needed it, another form was required-in triplicate. Libraries seemed to be supporting the printing industry; when they weren't printing books they were printing forms-in triplica te. And a ll those forms had to be filed, one by title and one by due date. One way or another, fast efficient library service was little more

than a dream for both library staff and library patrons. The classical conditions for revolutionary change were in place; rapid growth, new discoveries, frustration and pressure . It was within thi s context that the library building committee begar. its delibera tions.

T he committee concluded that the University needed a centralized collection both in terms of location and administration . Based on this decision it chose the geographic centre of campus fo the new building a nd decreed that only one library wo uld exist. Collections previously distributed within various departments would gravitate to the librar upon its co mpletion.

The Library building committee also concluded that the new library would be the primary study space on campus. T his meant that more space in the residences could be allocated to living quarters. In addition it recommended that the library be " open-stack. " T hat is (0 say the users should have direct access to the books on the shelves. This would free library staff

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from the task of chasing book~ and make it possible to offer other services.

One further major recommendation stipulated that there be no permanent interior walls except where they were needed for structural support. There were several pertinen t reasons for the acceptan.e of this concept. W alls divide spaces artificially, more often than not creating such waste areas as lo ng unusable corridors. Walls also tend to lock people into one system, one irreversible direction.

Open areas, on the othcr hand, permit easy movement of materials and people.

They permit a system to change in response to changing needs, a space to fill a variety of purposes .

Another reason for pressing for the open concept was rapidly changing technology. Science had just proven that large air-conditioned and moisture足 controlled spaces were no longer necessary in order to enjoy the advantages of electronic automation; equipment was becoming smaller, less susceptible to environmental change, more portable, and less expensive. If maximum advantage was to be taken of these factors then a building of maximum flexibility was essential.

But why shouid electronic automation e nter into the equation?

Wha t were the kinds of tasks which were costing th e Library most in terms of staff time? C hecking manu a l check-out forms, separating them and filing them ; checking hold forms, separating them and filing them. No matter where you wen t you ran into those thre e activities: checking, separating and filing. And weren't they the kind of routine activi ties that could be more effectively ha ndled by computers? If these and other library routines could be handl ed more effectively, more efficiently and with less effort, if we could save time , money, and effort, and offer increased serv ices by taking advantage of technological advances, had we, in good conscience, any choice? The answer was a clear and resounding " no ."

And so the decisions were made. The new U niversity library was to he a centralized study space with books o n open stacks in a building offering maximum flexibility and the opportunity to take advantage of whatever resulted from rapid techn ological growth.

In August of 1968 Massey Library

and Zavitz Hall were vacated, departmental collections began to filter into the centralized collection, the new building was opened to the public and an even more exciting period of growth and development began .

The University library was designed to handle 620,000 volumes and 8,000 students. Since at opening our numbers were far below these figures it was felt that some excess space could be shared.

Until 1975 University administrative offices occupied almost half of the second and third floors, and from 1975 until 1976 th a t space on the second floor was used by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Ex tension Education.

During this period of occupation many of the limits on campus growth had been revised in an upward direction . By Decem bel' 1972 enrolmen t had reached 8300; 9300 one year later ; 10,100 by December, 1974. The library, designed to hold 620,000 volumes, had already surpassed this projected figure by several thousands. In fact, by 1974 th e library shelves held some 750,000 vol um es.

Amo ng faculty there were those who applied strong pressure to have the library reduce the n urn ber of desks a nd carrels ;vaila ble to students, thus increasing the floor space for book stacks. Since the com mitment to study space had already been made, and was in fact part of the philosophy of the building, this pressu re was resisted; other means were at hand.

One of the easiest solutions to the space problem was redistribution . Some areas had been se t aside as lounges and for permanent display of works of art from the University's collection. These preserves were expensive and difficult to justify under conditions of provincial

Margaret Beckman, Chief Librarian, and Bob Logan, Public Relations, with a library computer terminal.

financial restraints and they became early victims. M oving desks and carrels to these reclaimed territories freed other spaces for book stacks. The careful study of other areas permitted the red istribution of activities in such fashion th a t both capacity and se rvices were improved.

The twin plagues of any libra ry short of space are th e increasing rate o f publication and the physical size of printed material. However, the techn ological advances for which the library had prepared itself began to prove the value of that earlier decisi on.

A child that had been nurtured in wartime proved a valued ally in the library's war of space; its name was microfilm . A tool of darin g spy thrille rs, of "Five Fingers" and "OO?" fame, micro fi lm established itself in many ways as a librarian's best frien d. It occupied a fract ion of the area required by its paper copy ; it was less likely to deteriorate as quickly as paper a nd it was mo re easily replaced . If microfilm ha s a disadvantage it is partly rooted in traditi on, and partly in its need for viewing equipment. In traditional settings library administra tors have ignored the na ture of the information on the film and have lumped.all microforms, (microfilm, microcard and microfiche) into one collection isolated from the ir paper print counterparts . They have further com pounded the students' problems by hiding the microfilm readers in a distant dark cubbyhole.

At the University of Guelph it was reasoned that those using microfilm were less concerned with its form than with the information it conta ined. On this basis, where the libra ry holds both paper and microform copy o f the sa me ma terial, they a re shelved side by side on o pen shelves.

In this way a re ader may conve niently read recent iss ues of a journal in their original paper form, and earlier iss ues on microfilm.

By the same reasoning, microform readers and reader-p rinters have been placed centrally o n each subject floor. The a rea required for this kind of eq uipment is more th an justified by the space-sa vings earned by the compact nature of microforms.

Because of the kinds of contacts the public has had with many public libraries, librarians have been caricatured as shush ing fu ss pots interested only in keeping "their" books neatly dusted and arrange d on the shelves, disco uraging every reaso na ble effort to take a book out of the Library. This reputation is undeserved, a nd has resulted fr o m a contin ued opel'

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misinterpretation of the "charge-out" routines and from sometimes overenthusiastic attempts to protect collections for future generations.

The intent at Guelph , however, was to encourage usage. As soon as the new open-stack, study-space library was opened an automated check-out system went into operation requiring fewer than five seconds to borrow a book. The introduction of this new system made it possible to serve greater numbers of borrowers with fewer library staff. It also increased the kinds of services the library could offer and the accuracy of its records.

The major disadvantage lay in the face that the automated equipment had no direct connection with the computer. The system was, in the jargon of computer people , off-line, and therefore its printed records were at least 12 hours out of date.

Nine years were to pass before the library would be able to offer its community the advantages of an on-line circulation system.

In the meantime statistics showed that the average borrower in North American universities and colleges used 6.7 books per year. Figures at Guelph showed 14.2 items per se mester. Since this University operates on a tri-semester basis this figure translates into 42.6 books per borrower per year, almost seven times the North American average.

The years after the library building was opened, the staff took stock of its collection and faced potential disaster.

Over that period the loss factor averaged a bout 2.6 per cent-a total of 7.3 per cent of library materials had disappeared in three short years. Agai n, technology supplied an answer. At about this time several companies were devising means of

detecting hidden materials. W e've all encountered some of this equipment at airports and clothing stores. Early in 1972 a "book-detect" system was installed, the second of its kind in .Canada. A survey of the collection in 1973 showed th a t losses had been reduced by 85 per cent.

The latest step in automation was the in troduction in September of 1977 of an on-line circulation and enq uiry system.

What did the book-detect and the automated circulation systems mean to the average student? It meant that there was a better chance of finding a wanted book, and when found there would be no check足 out hassle. The circulation system offers the library user several other features . It is now possible to check the availability of a book; to search it by call number, author, or title; to place a hold on a needed book which is not immediately available.

Borrowers can check their own records to determine that their names and addresses are correct, to remind themselves of those items they have charged-out, to verify any fines assessed to them, or to see whether or not the books they placed on hold are available for them .

So much for automation in the present scene. But what about the vaunted flexibility of the library building and its systems?

When the present build ing was occupied in 1968 the collection was so distributed that the science materials were located on the fourth and fifth floors, and the H umanities occupied the second floor.

Over the course of the next few years the library suffered more elevator service disruption than had been anticipated. A careful study highlighted the fact that this is a science-oriented U niversity, therefore more science traffic is to be expected.

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Heavier traffic presupposes more mechanical problems. The logical solution was to reduce elevator usage, and the logical means was the movement of science materials to the second floor and their replacement on the fourth and fifth floors by the Arts and Humanities.

Incidentally, this kind of change is made using only library staff an d usuaIly without the need to take a single book off the shelves.

In like manner, the areas now occupied by those selecting, buying, and cataloguing books and doing the other administrative tasks necessary to the efficient operation of a library can be vacated and altered to public space with a minimum of effort. In view of the fact that the proportion of persons occupying such space has been reduced from 60 per cent of the library staff to 40 per cent, it is not impossible that such alteratioN could be considered as one of the steps in the future.

What else does the future hold?

Computerized catalogues? Access to the library catalogues and enq uiry systems from office or home computer terminals?

Computerized interlibrary loans?

Immediate access to any academic library in North America? I really don't know, my crystal ball has gone dim. But whatever the direction, the intent will remain足 increased availabil ity of materials, faster and more efficient service, fewer ba rriers between patrons and their information needs , a high level of flexibility in order that full advantage can be taken of improved technology or management techniques, and more personal contact between the library user and knowledgeable competent and considerate staff. 0

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A recent gift to the University, The Fa mily He rald and Weekly Star collection is /lOW on microfilm. L to R are: John Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and De velopment; Jean Hill, Head, S erials Division; Jo hn M oldenhauer, Collections Librarian, and David Mc Rae, Binding S upervisor.

by John Moldenhauer, A rts '68 Everyo ne loves to receive gifts and we a t the Uni versity of G uelph Library are no exception. In recent years the fl ow of materi a l donated to the library has increased tremendously. Our gifts come from many sou rces ; alumni, students, faculty, staff and from members of the ge neral public.

Alumni have been particularly generous. Donated books and journals arrive regularly and much useful material find s its way to the library's shelves from this so urce. Sometimes gifts co me to us because a ho use is silllply too full and someone has decided that th e time has fi nally co me to do some housecleaning.

When people rclocate they often decide to di spose of unwanted books and the library may receive a call. A move from a house to an apa rtm en t often results in a truckloa d of hooks and journals coming our way.

Some a lumni donations are the result of deliberate purchases by don o rs a nd pr se n ted to commemorate an eve nt or an indi vidua l. In such cases, the it ems have an a ppropriate gift plate mounted in them recording th e donor's name and pertinent information. Often such donations are made afte r consulting with library staff who can sugges t useful titles which are needed. W hethe r se lected by the donor or th e library the chose n book becomes a useful and va lued part of the library's holdings.

Some of th e most welcome gifts in rece nt years are those of an archival nature. O ur archival collectio ns sectio n is a fairly new development and there are many gaps to be filled before it approaches completion. O ve r th e years many publications originating on campus

were not preserved. Where have all the old dance cards, programs and special menus gone?

Some of our sen ior a lumni are "savers" who have kept many mementos and souvenirs which they acq uired and used as students. Anything, however ephemeral, which rel ates to the University as its founding colleges is needed. A donation receiv ed last year was a com plete set of the first student newsp aper on campus, the OA CIS. Prio r to this generous gift the library had o nly a few scattered issues but Dr. W. H a ro ld Minshall, OAC '33 , one of th e student staff of the paper, had kept the se ries .

Student scrap books or photo albums are equally desirab le an d several of these have been donated. Each piece of archival material we acqui re improves our understanding of campus life in yea rs gone by.

T he Alma M ater F und is another important source of gift material for the library. Each yea r the library is allotted an amount from the Alma M ater Fund for purchase of materials needed for the collection. These funds are used to acquire "special" titles which will be of permanent use. Expensive sets or limited edition reprints are often purchased with Alma Mater Fund financing. Scarce books or subject collections are other likely candidates.

Fo rtunatel y th e a mou nt of m o ney available to the lib ra ry from the Alma Mater Fund has increased substantiall y over the last few years. It is hoped that this trend wiH continue as it allows all alumni to share in th e growth of the University Library's coliections. 0

Acid Rain

Soil and plant scientists at the University of Guelph have fo und no evidence th a t cro ps in southern Ontari o are becoming damaged by aci d rain.

In controlled experiments at the Ontario M inist ry of Agriculture and Food (O MAF) horticultural station at Sim coe, plants were sprayed with acid solutions of varying strengths. It was necessary to use a solutio n te n times more acid ic than the most acid rain sample mo nitored by Environment C anada to produce a ny pl a nt da m age, according to Pro fessor Do ug Ormrod , H orticultu ra l Science.

Acid rain is even less likely to detrimentally affect the agricultural so ils of so uthern Ontario, most of which range fro m p H 6.2 to pH 7.6 (neutral re ad ing is 7.0). " It m ay do so in 500 to 600 years," according to Professors Eric Beauchamp and Bob Sheard, M .SA , OAC '54, Land Reso urce Sc ience, " but, beca use of the eno rmous buffering capac ity of these soils, the effect of aci d ra in now is ha rdl y noticeable."

Southern On tario soils are generally well endo wed with such alkaline elements as m agnesium, potassium and calcium, a ll of which tcnd to counteract so il ac idifi ca ti o n.

In th e areas where soil acidity is a prob lem (the Canadian Sh ield, for example), limestone can be app li ed easil y to cultivated la nds. One reaso n that ac id rain prese nts m o re of a problem to forested a reas is that it is difficult to incorporate limestone into the forested land to adjust the soil pH. The acid spots occurring in so me soils in Ontario's Essex, Kent and Middl esex Counties a re probably due to nit rogen fertilizer rather than acid rain, say the soils specialists. H owever, acid rain would fu rther aggravate the occurrenc e of these spo ts.

Although no d a m age to crops o n Ontario farmland fro m acid ra in has been found, nor is it expected, Professor Ormrod would like to see a research projec t set up to study this phenomenon in depth.

Th e pollutants (sulphur di oxide and nitrogen dioxide) at the levels a t which they presently occur in the atmosphere, produce an acid rain actually beneficial to pla nts in so uthern Onta ri o, according to Professors Sheard an d Beauchamp.

Nevertheless it wo uld be better if such chemica ls were applied as fertilizer to land requiring them for food production, the professors believe. T his would protect the forests a nd fresh-water anim a l life from the acid rain menace. 0

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Pooi-Leng Wo ng. CBS '79.

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The Long Road Between

Pooi-Leng Wong and PL, CBS '79

by Jane Selley, Arts '70

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ooi-Le ng Wo ng, CBS '79, (better

known o n cam pus as PL) gradu ate d from Gue lph's Wildli fl Biology program an d currently ho lds a tec hn ical posi ti o n wi th Professo r Roy C. Anderson, C ha irm an . De pa rtm en t of Zoo logy, College of Biologica l Science. S hor tly after gradua ti on . he visited he r native Ma lays ia an d was reunited with her pa rents after a separati o n of eight yea rs.

PL's Cather had th e fore sigh t in the ea rly 1970s to recogni ze tha t th ere was a dim future for his ethnic C h inese daughter if she stayed in Ma laysi a . T h is is a co untry whe re. by law. 30 per ce nt of the bu sin ess community must be Ma lays.

T he C hin ese we re th e educa ted segment o f society in the early 1970s and

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whil e th e inten t of th e in tegra ti on an d education progra m was a n admi rable goal. th e esca la ti on o f the progra m proved too sudde n. Al th o ugh the itu atio n was simi lar to th e plight of the Vietn a mese e thn ic C hinese curren tly bei ng expe lled from the ir co unt ry, uch extre me and inhu mane measlires were no t take n in Ma laysia.

W hen she was 16. PL 's father se nt her to anad a to live with a n allnt cmd to atte nd high school. Lea in g hom e for h er was not a real ity until she arrived in To ronto . She had spen t three ex hil ara ting d a . jou rneying to Ca na da a tri p th at ~ he did no t rea lize would res ult in hl!r perm anen t reside nce he re.

No thin g had prepared her for the cultu re shock tha t gripped her up o n la ndin g. T he vas tness of C a nada a nd th e complex iti es of d aily liv ing were beyond h ' r co mp rehen sion. She lived in ni onville, O ntario, with he r a lln t and un cle a nd the ir seven ch ildre n. peop le who m she h ad neve r prev iously m ' t. wo rking in her spare ti me in the ir grocery store to pay her room a nd boa rd .

PL is no slouch. T his i, a girl wh o, as a yo un g r hil d in Mal aysia. had sec re ted away her ~ p ndin g mon ey so th at she mi gh t a tte nd a p riva te girl's school to lea rn Engl ih .

But she had not stu died o rt h

Bako, a typical fishing village in Sarawak.

American history or culture and the United States was a name with no connections. Canada had been non足 existent until the plans unrolled for her education here.

Her parents had no compunction about their sacrifices for their daughter's well-being, and she has an untold amount of love and admiration for them both, one uneducated and the other with grade 3 education, but very able to make such a difficult and farseeing decision for her.

Launched into a Canadian high school, PL found herself unable to relate to Canadian teenagers. She became a "loner" and lunched by herself for three months. She was known as an unconventional person, with others finding much difficulty relating to her ways. She was unable to identify with the North American need for a social life, material possessions, outward appearance and money. Uncomfortable in large gatherings, she still finds five persons a crowd.

However, when she met Lise Nicholls (currently a biology student at Guelph) in her latter years at high school, PL was introduced to some of the pleasures of the Canadian wilderness-hiking, canoeing, and the beauty of the national parks.

Always keen on the world of science, she found the similarity between her native

Malaysian wilderness and that of Canada enough to make her finally feel at home.

For the last four years she has attended the University of Guelph , and two years ago became a Canadian citizen.

This past summer she and Guelph undergraduate C harles Francis, son of the Canadian High Commissioner to Malaysia, journeyed together to visit their parents. PL visited her family in Ipoh, where she says the change in the standard of living in eight years is remarkable.

When she left only the very rich owned cars or motorbikes. Today, almost every young man has a motorbike and every other household owns a car. In keeping with the increased traffic, roads are now paved. New homes are being built and these are brick, rather than the wooden shacks she remembers. By law, each new home must include indoor Dushing plumbing.

No t forgetting their biological interests for a minute, PL and Charles took the opportunity to visit Sarawak for a month. Much of this area is forest reserves and natural parks and there they netted, identified and took standard measurements of birds, a job they did for their own enjoyment. However, a copy of their results was given to the government wildlife department. PL also collected

parasites from crows, a bird on which no work has been done in Malaysia. She then travelled to Hong Kong where she stayed for three days and visited an ornithologist and then journeyed to the New Territories, a large conservation development that contains many parks and farms.

Pooi-Leng Wong may consider returning to M alaysia for a brief time, for she enjoys the tropical life and especially the food, but now she really considers Canada her home. Her plans for the future are not settled , but with her enthusiastic attitude and many interests she has a broad spectrum from which to choose. We wish her well. 0

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by Jennifer Butt, A rts '80 Professor George Bedell and Mrs. Bedell with Professor Janet Wardla w, Dean , College of Fami0' and Consumer Studies, centre, at a farewell lun cheon for George.

HAFA Director Retires

ollowing his recent retirement as the first director of the School of Hotel and Food Administration since the enrolment of th e charter class back in 1969, Professor G eorge Bedell can look back at tcn remarkable years . This was a decade in which the School grew from a dream into a unique entity with a national reputati on and with alumni throughout Canada 's hospitality industry.

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It took vision, confidence and experience to start from scra tcn in building this School, which offers Canada's only four-year university degree program in hotel and food administration. Professor Bedell arrived on campus in June, 1969; the first 26 student entered in September.

Together they sweated through four years of insecurity, wondering whether industry would hire the graduates and whether their management background would be adequate for the realities of the working world . The first three graduating classe ~ entertained such worries, but the success of each successive class was more than reassuring. The majority of recent graduates could choose from several job offers .

Out of that modest beginning developed a school with eight faculty members and 400 students . Indicative of the School 's success, more than 700 applicants vied for the 125 available posi tions th is year.

Following the graduates' upward progress through the hospitality industry has provided George Bedell with a constant source of satisfaction. Future developm ent of Canada's hotel and restaurant industry will be determined largely by HAFA graduates. They are 24

already in decision-making positions in the upper echelons of management and have successfully branched into fields beyond hotels and restaurants. HAFA alumni have even return ed to campus to hire current graduates.

The graduates have established the School's image within the industry, but the management-oriented program owes much of its design to George Bedell. H is previous experience with the National Restaurant Association in Chicago and on the faculty a t Michigan State Uni versity was invaluable in tailoring a program that would prepare graduates for to ugh management decisions in the working world .

G enerously supported by industry, the School enjoyed a good rela tionship with industry from the start. These ties have been further strengthened through industry-supported research, faculty consul ting with hospitality firms and continuing education courses and seminars contracted by ind ustry and conducted by some of the G uelph faculty.

The industry has also been extremely co足 operative in hiring in-course students for summer jobs.

A " busman's holiday" would aptly describe Professor Bedell's current sabbatical. He is travelling in Europe, the United States and Canada, combining relaxation with observations of faciliti es and management practices. He says he enjoyed tremendously the ten years at the helm of the School, but looks forward to the change of pace next fall when he returns to a full schedule of teaching.

Colleagues and friends from across campus honoured Professor Bedell and his wife, Louise, at a luncheon at the University Centre. 0

Reprinted from the Ontarion.

ary Lee G reen, CSS '74, has travelled to the top ranks of hockey to become the younges t NHL coach in its history - an astounding achievement in just five ye ars.

G ary's career is a fairy-tale succcss story both in the world of hockey and ill the growing field of sports psychology.

Born a nd raised in Tillsonburg, Ontario, he com bined his passion for hockey wi th an innate talent to achieve in any field of interest.

Ga ry was as amazing as a student as he now is as a hock ey coach. Majoring in psychology. he completed his general B.A. in just two years, taking six straight semesters. He played left-wing fa r the Hockey G ryphans for both seasons (G a ry jokes " mostly left-bench"). At the same time G ary co-wrote two books on the psychology of hockey, The Goaltender and Goaltending and The Canadian Hockey Library. Perhaps his most spectacular feat, however, occurred in his final summer semester when G ary attended the University full- time and , at the same time, ran the Tillsonburg HOCkey School with Jack Valiquette. " At 5:00 a.m. Jack would honk his horn to make sure I was awake when he drovc past my place," G ary explained. " We'd start teaching at 6:00 a.m. and go until noon. Then I'd drive to G uelph for afternoon classes and come back to Tillsonburg to teach from 6:00 p .m. until II :00 p.m. We did that six days a week for eight weeks and on Sundays we went from 8:0U a.m. until 2:00 p.m. - all for $150 a week."

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by the Vancouver Blazers of th e WHA

and was then sent to their farm team in No rth Carolina . He did , however, have enough foresIght to realize he would never make it as a professi onal hockey player and quit in November, 1974. He came back to Ontario, newly married to his high sch ool sweetheart and unemployed.

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A year later he bought the company, merged it with the Can/ Am Hockey Group, and became a senior partner of the G uelph-based, world-wide organiza tion.

It was at that point that Gary's coaching career began. Although he had already organized a coaching symposium in Belleville which was attended by former Russian N ational coach Boris Kulagin, Green's real experience originated with the Peterborough Petes when he took on the job of assistant to Coach and G eneral Manager, Roger Neilson.

Gary recalls, " It was a losing season足 we finished last in our division, but I probably learned more as a result. Roger is not the type to be satisfied when he's losing and he worked day in and day out to turn the team around ."

Perhaps Gary will find that experience more valuable than he anticipated as he tries to lift his last place

Washington Capitals to a playoff berth.

And, if his ensuing record with the Petes is any indication of this man's ability, the Caps will find themselves with a Stanley C up before too long.

One year after his salary-free apprenticeship with Roger N eilson, G a ry took over the position of Coach and General M anager of the Peterborough Petes. At just 24 years of age he was the youngest Junior "A" coach ever. He guided a team which was not expected to make the playoffs to the national championships. They suffered a heart足 breaking loss in the final game of the Memorial Cup round robin series, bu t came back the next year to win, defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings 2-1 in overtime at Verdun, Quebec.

The 25-year old Green had coached the Petes to their very first Memo ri al C up Championship, something former Peterborough Petes coaches Roger Neilson and Scotty Bowman were un a ble to achieve. Gary's appointment as the O H A

coach of the year put the icing on the cake.

This year Gary is pouring his hard work and dedication into the Washington Capitals just as he did with the Peterborough Petes. And it has been a tough battle. He took over his coaching duties at mid-season after starting o u t with the Caps' farm team, the Hershey Bears.

On top of this upheaval, eight key players were missing from his lineup . But Gary was no t about to give up.

On December 26, 1979 his coaching de but at M aple Leaf G ardens brought his Ca pitals an 8-2 victory, fo llowed two days later by a 6-2 routing of C hicago at home.

In Toronto, G reen had only three players sitting out with injuries, one of them Washington favorite Dennis M aruk. Gary smiles, "We can live with that. But you give me any team in the NHL that is missing eight or ten key players an d see if they can win hockey games."

Green is dete rmined to win. He says his te a m is going to make the playoffs even though they have to play " 600" hockey to do it. C ritics smile and say reen was fine in the Juniors bu t he is too young and inexperienced to coach in the H L. He and his players say oth erw ise.

Gary sees his youthfulness as an advantage both beca use he has a young team (the average age is 23) and because it is a source of inexhaustable energy and constant innovation.

G reen never uses the same tactics twice and player motivation is certainly a major facet of coaching.

Once G ary stayed up most of the night preparing a short video tape of clips from the Petes' O HA victory game in the previous season . H e set this dramatic action footag e to the theme from the motion picture Rocky . Gary ran the ta pe for his team moments before they skated on for their crucial game against the Niagara Falls Flyers . The Petes, needless to say, came out victorious.

Since his abrupt appointment as coach of the Caps G ary has made some significant changes. The most obvious one appears in his team's goaltender Wayne Stephenson as the regular starter. Gary has worked hard to improve his team's conditioning, enforce a disciplined system of hockey, and improve the team's diet.

The players seem unanimously pleased with their coach and his improvements. They are a young team, but they have a great deal of potential.

And if any man can transform the Washington Capitals into a winning hockey club, G ary Lee G reen is that man. 0

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CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS

President Donald F Forster.

New Programs Two new in terdisciplinary programs re­ c~ived assent a t a late 1979 U niversity of Guelph Senate meeting, a nd changes to the existing Canadian Studies pro­ gram were also approved. Begin ning in the fall of 1980, it will be possible for B.A. students to enrol in general or hon o urs progra ms in M anagemen t Eco­ nomics or to take a minor in M a the­ matical Science.

Man age ment Economics draws on existing strengths of the U niversity to create a business program stressing an­ alytical and quantitative skills. ft differs from traditi o nal university studies in this area by combining the practical thrust of business with the more analyt­ ical orientation of economics, a nd em­ phasis is placed o n computin g, mathe­ matics and stati stics.

Students may stud y Ma na gemen t Economics in either the honours or general programs, taking courses in the interrelated areas of business an d eco ­ nomics in roughly equal proportions.

The double maj o r in the general pro ­ gram requires s ucc~ssfu l completion o f 20 courses, whil~ the combined hon­ ours requires completion of 28 courses with a 70 per cent ave rage.

The thrust towards analytical and quantitative skills does not mean tradi­ tion al business courses will be ign ored.

Core requirements include courses in accoun ting, production, finance an d ma rketing as well as in economics and quantitative methods.

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can choose their optional courses from a range which includes the economics of regulation, consumer behaviour, per­ sonnel management, business ethics and industrial sociology. H onours stu­ dents choose one of four clusters of subjects to complete their program .

T hese are: business sys tems analysis, quantitative methods, business and eco­ nomic policy and general business eco­ nomics.

T he new courses of study do not repl ace business administration which is available as a minor in the honours B.A. program. It is expected that grad­ uates of both honours progra m s may enter the second year of a M aster of Business Administration program a t some universities, although, to do this, course work must be planned carefully.

Graduates of the new program will be well prepared for business and pub­ lic service careers or for further study in business, economics and law .

Senate also approved the introduc­ tion of a new option for B.A. students­ a mino r in Mathematical Science in the honours B.A. program. This combina­ tion of mathematics, statistics and com­ puting and information science is de­ signed to meet the needs of students in the arts and social sciences where there is an increasing interest in quantitative approaches.

Students pursuing this minor will be required to take two calculus courses and eight o th er courses chosen from mathematics, statistics and com­ puting and informatio n science, at least on e from each discipline and at least two a t the 300 level.

The Canadian Studies progra m will he expanded as a re sult of changes approved a t Senate. The former minor honours program will be repl aced by a new course of stud ies that allows stu­ dents to take a general maj o r, honours m ajor or minor in Canadian literature and hIstOry , French and English litera ­ ture in Canada, Canadian hist ory and politics or Canadian puhlic policy and administ ra tion . 0

Margaret Childs 36 Years Later A career spanning more th an 36 years on th e Guelph campus ended with the retirement, las t Oc to ber, of Margaret

Childs.

Miss Childs, who has been secre­ tary to three successive presidents of the University, began her employment

M argaret Childs at her retirement "luncheon special. " on a temporary basis in the soils d ivi­ sion, D epartment of C hemistry, O.A.c.

It was August 9, 1943 ; the late D r. G.l .

C hristie, O AC '02, was president of the O .A.c. then and the soils division was housed in the old horticultural building which was situ ated where the .library stands now .

I! was war time. N umber 14 Wire­ less School was part of the campus scene. It was also a common sight in those d ays to see D r. C hristie, looking

rath er like Sir Winston C hurchill with his homburg and cigar, making his way down what is now Wi negard W alk. As he passed by, he would invariably tip his hat and say "Good morning," Miss Child s recalls.

By November 1945 M iss C hilds was transferred to full-time and by Jan­ uary I, 1946 she had become part of the permanent staff, working for the late Professors H enry G . Bell , OAe '05 , and G erald N . R uhnke, O Ae '23, in the Department of Soils. for by this time the division had achievcd depart­ mental status. M iss C hilds and one other secretary had their hands full at­ tending to the business of this depart­ ment which now boasted ap p roxi­ matelya dozen faculty members.

In addition, during the slack times between C hristmas and Ne w Year's and again in June, farmers would 'ar­ rive on campus for Short Course Wl6ek and the F arm and H o me Week. M iss Childs, as part of her duties in exten­ sion, would be responsible for getting reports on th e proceedings to the media. At 4:00 p.m. every afternoon she would hurry over to her office to type up the news, then run up the stairs to the third f100r of the old chemistry building to crank out copies on a hand­ operated mimeograph. After that she

would set to work to address and stuff 100 envelopes one by one a nd get them in the mail.

After a series of stro ke s forced Professor R uhnke to relinquish the chairmanship of the department and assume new duties, the department came under the jurisdlction, in Decem­ ber 1948, of the late C lifford D . G ra­ ham, OAC '29 , in the De partmen t of Agriculture in Toronto. A short time later, Professor R uhnke, as director of R esearch in the new Office of G radu­ ate Studies and Research, and M iss Childs as his secretary, moved into new quarters in Johnston Hall. She was to work therc for approximately ten years.

The O ffi ce of G raduate Studies and R esearch enrolled students in the Master of Science in Agriculture pro­ gram for the University of Toronto.

Miss C hilds had been involved in this work from the beginning, and even after she had moved back to the OAe. in August 1958 to work in the president's office, she continued to keep the records on campus re search up to da te as well as to enrol M S A students for the Universi ty of Toronto.

In January 1962 M iss Childs was asked to become secretary to O.AC. president Dr. J. D. MacLachlan and when he became president of the new

nive rsity of G uelph some two years later Miss Childs became secretary to the U niversity's first president. She re­ calls the time leading up to this mo­ ment with a good deal of satisfaction.

Ever since his appointment as president of the O .A.C. in 1950, she said, Dr. MacLachlan had worked hard towards the establishment of the University.

Miss Childs remem bers those years as very challenging too, but, she ad­ mits, she enjoyed the challenge and felt privileged to be one of the few who knew they were ultimately going to be part of a univ ersity.

After D r. M acLachlan's retire­ ment, Miss Childs continued her role as secretary to Presiden t William C. Wine­ gard and President Do nald F. Forster.

President Forster gave a party in her honour at his home and, on the day of her retirement, staff members on level 4 of the U niversity Centre gave her a "luncheon special" of their own.

After such a busy life, it would seem unlikc1y that Miss C hilds would sink easily into leisure, despite her pro­ fessed intention to do so, at least for a while. She is, however, looking forward to enjoying her house and garden, in­ dulging her zest for fJshing, and plan­ ning a first trip to England some time this year. 0

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Judith asby, C urator of Art, said " a se rious gap in the U niversity's C ana­ dian art holdings has been filled wi th the purchase of these very significant Milne watercolours."

Gap Filled In University's Collection of Canadian Art Snow Coming: M ain Street.

The University recently acquired two important watercolours by prominent Canadian painter David Milne (1882­ 1953) through money provided by the Alma Mater F und and matched by Wintario.

T he earlier watercolour, painted in 1920 while he was living near Boston Corners in the Adirondack Mountains, is an unusual landscape view which in­ cludes a portrait of the artist's wife.

Milne's characteristic early style, in which he used sketchy lines in a limited range of colo urs and left areas of white paper to create an overall rhymthic

pattern, was developed during the Bos­ ton Corners period. This work is being repatriated from a private collection in the United States.

The second is an example of his later, more lyrical, watercolour style in which he worked on very wet paper to create freely-flowing colour washes with muted details. This view from his studio window in Uxbridge, Ontario, dates from 1941.

One of the drypoint etchings, "Painting P lace," M ilne's only print produced in a large edition, was also recently purchased since his early styk

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An art collector for many years and a former member of the University Art Acquisition Committee, Professor Ross presented an oil by Henri M as­ son, a colour linocut by Mary W rinch, an 1860 chromolithograph of H alifax Harbour by William Hickman, and a woodcu t of Professor George Munro Grant, Principal of Queen's University,

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Mrs. G elberg brings to her new position an active ba ckground in com­ munity activities as well as considerable business experience in the areas of marketing and advertising. M ost re­ cently, she was a member of the W el­ lington D istrict H ealth C ouncil , serving on .its executive committee.

O ther community activities of the new Board mem ber have included par­ ticipation in the Comm unity Service Council, the G u elph and D istrict Asso­ ciation for the M entally R etarded, the Guelph Arts Council, the Edward Johnson F oundation, the Guelph Pub­ lic Library Board, and others.

In the areas of consumer and ad­ vertising research, Mrs. Gelberg served successively with Proctor and Gamble Co. of Canada Ltd. , M acLaren Adver­ tising Co. Ltd., and G ulf OiL M rs. G eJberg was born in SI. Catharines. She and her husband, Law­ rence, have two d a ughters.

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Except for three years (1942-1945) in th e military service with the Cana­ dian N avy, M r. H illiard spent the next 20 years working in various capacities with the Ontario D epartmen t o f Ag ri­ culture. H e was D ep uty Minister of En­ ergy Resources from 1962 to 1966, and Deputy Minister of Public Works from 1966 to 1972. In Februa ry, 1972, he re­ turned to the On tario Ministry of Agri­ culture and Food as D eputy M inister.

He retired in 1976. Tn 1979, he came out of retiremen t and accepted a part­ time positio n at the U n iversity as co­ ordinator of the Applied Agriculture Program in the University School of Part- Time Studies a nd Continuing Ed­ ucation.

Me. Hilliard was awarded a Cana­ dian Centennial M edal in 1967 and an O.A.c. Centennial M edal in 1974. He has been an honorary life mem ber of the C anadian Society of R ural Exten­ sion since 1974, and continues as a member of the executive co mmittee, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Since 1978, he has been a mem ber of the O.A.c. Alumni Association board of directors.

Mr. Hilliard and his wife, Audrey , re side in Guelph . Their children, both of whom gra dua ted from the Univer­ sity of G uelph, are Timothy , CBS '76 and Marcia, F ACS '78.

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D. Michael McMillan is president of Biltmore I ndustries Ltd., of Guelph, and a former director of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce.

M r. McM illan says th a t his favour­ ite spare time activity at present is helping with the fund raising for the M acd onald Stewart Art Ce ntre which has just been esta blished in Guelph . He finds relaxati on in a number of athletic

David M urray. activities, including membership in th e Guelph Professional M e n's Hocke) Club.

Mr. M cM illan was rai sed and edu· cated in Guelph, and graduated from the Uni versity of Wes tern Ontario. He is married and the father of four chil­ dren .

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History professor David R. Murray has been named one of the three members of Senate to sit on the Board of G over­ nors of the University. Professor M ur· ray j oined the history department in 1967. Before coming to Guelph he was a tutor in history at Churchill College, Cambridge, England.

Born in Saskatchewan, David Murray received his B.A . from Bishop's University in 1962, his M .A. from the University of Edinburgh in 1964, and his Ph.D . degree fro m the University of Cambridge in 1968.

His und e rgraduate and gra duate years were distinguished . While at Bis hop's he was the recipient of the president's prize in ~ ngli s h , the lieu ten­ ant-governor's bronze medal in history and the chancellor's prize as well as other honours and awards. The history professor's gr aduate work at Edinburgh was taken under a Commonwealth schola rship and, in 1963 , he received the Daniel Stewart Prize in political eco nom y from that university.

Dr. M urray a lso received Ca na da Council pre-doctoral fellow ships in 1964-1965 and 1965-1966 and JODE War Memorial scholarships from 1966­ 1967 to pursue his d octo ral work .it Cam bridge University.

I n addition to his respon sibilities a t G uelph, Profe ssor Murray served from 1971 to 1972 as residen t historian in the Department of Externa l Affairs, Ottawa , and as fellow-co mmoner a t C hurchill College, C ambridge, from 1977 to 1978 0

Favourite Fantasies Became Reasonable Realities Contrary to what you might think, a really good dream cannot bc put to­ gether overnight. About 25 members of the International Association of Stu­ dents in Economics and Commerce (AIESEC) know it takes months to bring it to perfection.

This is the second year that the G uelph branch of A1ESEC has mounted an auction of favorite fanta­ sies to raise money for special projects.

Under the leadership of Theresa Kane, prospective F ACS '8 1, vice-pres­ ident, special projects and co-ordinator of the dream auction , students worked

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for three months preparing for the event which took place in mid-Febru­ ary in the University Centre courtyard.

What would you fancy? A dinner for two at Churchill's in Guelph fol­ towed by an evening with Oscar Peter­ son and transportation to and fro by chauffeur-driven limousine? O r would you rather have had a splash in the Athletics Centre pool with a group of your closest and dearest? You could have invited 100 gllf:stS, but the auction package provided 50 invitations to get you started.

If hockey is your passion, then perhaps you may have wanted to bid on an evening with Dick Beddoes at M aple Leaf Gardens. The package in­ cluded a seat beside Beddoes at the We dnesday night game, a hockey stick autographed by players who were Maple Leafs at the time of auction, an opportunity to accompany Beddoes to the television studio for his post game show and transportation to and from the game in a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba.

But if you long for more su bstan­ tial discourse, then luncheon with Pres­ ident Donald Forster; the acting dean of the College of Family and Con­ sumer Studies, Professor Richard Bar­ ham; Physical Sciences D ean Earl M ac aughton ; O.V.c. ean Doug M aplesden, OVC '50; Social Sciences Dean lack Skinner and O .A.C . Dean Clay Switzer, O AC '51, may have been the best dream of all.

T he AIESEC students tried to in­ clude a dream for everyone, whether it was to Oy with a stunt pilot, explore the University of Guelph tunnel system or hobnob with Harry Worton, MPP at Q ueen's Park. hey also tried, wherever possible, to gather their dream components from G uelph's downtown merchants, since promoting the downtown area is con­ sidered one of the AIESEC group's priorities. Their first call last fall was to Peter Mercer of G uelph's Downtown Board of Management and with his co­ operation they approached the other businessmen for goods and ser/ ices.

Every year AIESEC conducts stu­ dent work exchanges among the Asso­ ciation's member countries. These stu­ dents generally pay their own way, but some of the auction money will be used to take foreign students arriving in

Guelph this summer to places of inter­ est such as N iagara Falls. Some of it will also go towards transportation costs of those who attended A IESfC's National Congress which recently met in Montreal.

The congress was an even t the G uelph members would not have wanted to miss. In the presence of some 250 people representing some 26 universities across the country the two­ year-old branch from Guelph won the award for the best local committee in Canada for their work in fulfilling Al ES EC's objectives and programs.

AIESEC national committee president, loan W ilson, travelled from Montreal to attend the dream auction. 0

Bob Forshaw Night Friends and associates are planning to honour Professor Robert Forshaw who is retir­ ing and returning to British Columbia this spring. Bob has contributed to the welfare of many and the evening will be an opportunity to say thank you and to wish him well.

The Bob Forshaw recog­ nition njght committee would greatly appreciate bearing of any recollections, anecdotes or reminiscences of your associa­ tion with Bob over the years.

These will be bound and pre­ sented to Bob on the occasion.

Please send to Guelph Campus Co-Operative at address below.

The event will take place in Peter Clark Hall, University Centre, University of Guelph, on April 19, 1980, with a SG­ cial hour at 6:30 p.m. and din­ ner at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets, at $12.00 per per­ son, are available (rom Guelph Campus Co-Operative, Box 1150, Guelph, Ontario NIH 6N5 or at Room 451, Univer­ sity Centre, University of Guelph. Please make cheques payable to: Bob Forshaw Re­ tirement Dinner.

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The Department of Zoology welcomed a new chainnan December I, 1979.

Professor Roy C. Anderson, who has been with the Department since 1965, has played an active role in creating the College of Biological Science and was its first acting dean.

A long-time member of University Senate, he served on the Committee on Academic Priorities and was its chair­ man from 1975 to 1977. Professor An­ derson has served on many other Uni­ versity committees and boards and was the President's Academic Colleague on the Council of Ontario Universities.

For three years he was a mem ber of the Advisory Committee for Academic Planning.

Born in Camrose, Alberta , his burning ambition as a high school stu­ dent was to become a professor. H e regards his undergraduate education at the University of Alberta as the out­ standing experience of his life and today is known as an excellent under­ graduate teacher. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. and 11 M .Sc. students.

Roy Anderson received his B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1950, and his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1952. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1956. The zoologist subsequently re­ ceived N ational Research Council post­ doctoral fellowships and studied nema­ todes at the Ro thamsted Experimental Station, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Faculte de Medicine, Paris.

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* * * Professor Ted McNinCh, OAC '49, has been appointed C hairman of the Inde­ pendent Study Division of the Univer­ sity's School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Education. H e retains his position as associate professor in the Department of Horticultural Science.

Professor McNinch headed independ­ ent study when it was part of the Office of Continuing Education; that office was discontinued when the new School was established in September 1979.

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ta blished. Currently, some 3,000 stu­ dents are enrolled in the two programs which offer 22 courses in agriculture and 45 in horticulture.

Developing techniques to improve teaching methods for remote learners has been one of the professor's primary concerns.

* * * Thomas F. Powers has been appointed Professor and Director of the School of Hotel and Food Administration , suc­ ceeding Professor George D. Bedell.

Professor Powers comes to Guelph from The Pennsylvania State Univer­ sity where he was professor-in-charge of the degree program in food service and housing administration. Previously he was a member of faculty at Michi­ gan State University and Morris Brown College and was employed in manage­ ment capacities with hotel, restaurant and consultant organizations.

A graduate of H arvard University and the Harvard G raduate School of Business Administration , D r. Powers obtained his Ph.D. degree at Georgia State University. He has been engaged in several research projects and is the author of several textbooks and numer­ ous published articles. He currently holds the positions of editor for the Journal of Hospitality Education, and executive vice-president of the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education .

* * * Mark W. Waldron has been appointed Thomas Powers.

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Samuel R. Luker has been appointed Chairman of the Part-Time and Gen­ eral Studies Division of the University's School of Part-Time Studies and Con­ tinuing Education. Professor Luker re­ tains his academic appointment with the Department of Fa mily Studies.

A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, he has an Honours BA and an MA in psychology. He is also certified as a registered clinical psychologist.

During his career, Professor Luker has lectured at a number of O ntario universities and for the Ministry of Ed­ ucation. He has also had a private practice specializing in child and family therapy.

Since coming to the University in 1965 , he has lectured in several depart­

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He became involved in adult education and the needs of mature students pri­ marily through his workshops for the former Office of Continuing Education.

Mark Waldron.

A native of Grimsby, he joined the horticultural faculty of the O.A.e. in 1957. In 1959 he became responsible for developing and directing the inde­ pendent study program leading to the Ontario Diploma In Horticulture (ODH). Agricultural courses were added in 1965, and in 1978 an Ontario Diploma in Agriculture (ODA) was es­

Director of the University'S School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Ed­ ucation. The School was officially es­ tablished September I, 1979 primarily to meet the needs of students in part­ time and full-time general studies. The new School includes the responsibilities of the former Office of Con tin uing Ed­ ucation of which Professor Waldron was Director.

A native of Quebec's eastern town­ ships, Mark Waldron graduated from McGill University in 1959 and ~rom the University of Wisconsin in 1968.

Before coming to the University of Guelph in 1971, he was Director of Ex­ tension at Macdonald College and As­ sociate Director of Continuing Educa­ tion at McGill University in Montreal.

He has also been a commentator and supervisor for the Canadian Broadcast­ ing Corporation in Toronto and Wind­ sor. 0

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Dean Janel Wardlaw.

Dr. Janet Wardlaw, D ean of the C ol­ lege of Family and C onsumer Studies, has set aside her administrative hat for several months in 1980 to become a visiting professo r in th e De partment of Health Behavior and H ealth Education at the U niversity of M ichigan's School

ICS Gets

VAX A Virtual Address Extension (V AX ) minicomputer, the product of Digital Equipment Corporation ( D EC) , May­ nard, Massachu se tts, arrived on campus last December and is now installed in Roo m 114 of the Institute of C omputer Scie nce (I CS) building. Professo r Kats Okashimo, Department of C omputing and Inform a tion Science (CIS), was in charge of installation and the initial se t-up.

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On Jan uary 7, 1978, Mrs. Betty Ray Goldhart lost a long battle to cancer.

He r intense feline interest lives on at the O.V.c. , th o ugh , thanks to a gift she gave during her lifetime and a lega cy following her dea th.

M rs. Goldhart, a lifelong resident of the Toronto area , was born in 1918 .

Following secondary education and marriage to industrialist Irwin Gold­ hart, she obtained her first Burmese cat, named "Treclaire." This initial as­ sociatio n developed into a strong inter­ est in the breeding and exhibitio n of purebred species.

of Public Health. She is especially in­ terested in their approach to the behavi o ural and public health aspects of nutrition .

The six-mo nth leave will end in July when she will return to start a fur­ ther three-year term as dean. Professor Wardlaw had planned to take a ye ar's leave in 1980 at the end of her term, but when the se lection committee in­ vited her to consider taking another term, she decided to continue. " Being dean during the form ation and evolu­ tion of the College of Family and C o n­ sumer Studies has been both exciting and rewarding, " she comments. "Since 1969 we have experienced many changes and innovations within the College and at the same time it has grown considerably."

Developed to complement the other disciplines on the Gue lph ca m­ pus, the College of Family and Co n­ sumer Studies encompasses a unique

range of disciplines. Wi thout any exist­ ing models to follow, th e C Ollege has evolved in to a dynamic associat ion of faculty with diverse academic back­ grounds but with a common interest in applying the ir basic disciplines to peo­ ple-oriented iss ues.

"In the past five years," o bserves Professor Wardlaw, " the faculty have established effective cross-disciplinary lines of communication and thro ugh this effort have developed some unique approaches in both teaching and re­ search . In the past year research output has increased dramatically and th e mo­ mentum co ntinues ."

Dr. W a rdlaw feels it is useful for administrators to take a few months away to gain a new perspective . " After returning from my las t leave , I had a renewed appreciation for the U niversity as a whole and a better insight into our particular concerns within this C o l­ lege." 0

CIS chairman, Professo r Jim Lin­ ders , proposed the purchase of the stand-alone minicompu ter for teaching computer language to C IS students last spring. The Computer Services Council agreed to the idea and the proposal was re com mended to Vice-President, Academic, Howard Clark. Me mbers of both CIS and ICS trave lled to Iow a State University, a user of the V AX system, and to D EC's head office to assess the minicomputer's abilities. Ob­ viously pleased, G uelph signed the con­ tract for the VAX in September.

Although the unit can support 64 terminals, only 30 will be connected

during the initial period. Complete with overhead projector and screen, these terminals will form part of the first computer Jang uage Jab to be estab­ lished on campus As the computer la nguage lab is vital to the tea ching efforts of C IS, th e depart men t's needs will ha ve first priority. H owever, such areas as the Department of Animal and Po ultry Sci­ ence and the Schools of Agricultural Eco nomics, Extension Education and En gi neering will be using the lab for undergraduate demonstrat io ns and in­ struction in using this technol ogy in their own disciplines. 0

For the next ten years, Mrs. Gold­ hart worked to develop a line of Bur­ mese cats in four colours : sable , cham­ pagne, blue, and platinum. These were registered under " N azca," her cattery name. She also was instrumental in C a nada in orga nizing day-long se mi­ nars to inform cat breed ers o n health­ related topics.

Thro ugh practical experience, she gained an understanding of the genetics of colour inheritance and birth d efects and began to see the need for further research in this area. Providing contin­ ued financial support to the Depart­ ment of Biomedical Sciences a t the O .V.c., she specified this assistance should be used in the study of congeni­ tal defects in purebred cats .

In 1977, she gave $5,000 to estab­ lish th e Betty Ray Goldhart Awa rds and Fellowship. U ndergradu a te stu­ dents with first and second highest marks in Me dical Gen e tics, who ha ve completed the si xth semester of the D .V.M . program , rece ive awards of $100 and $75 re sp ectively . A g raduate student of hi gh academic standi ng. pre­ ferably pursuing studies in health-re­ lated genetics, received a fellowship of $250.

After Mrs. G oldhart's death , the University was bequeathed a final gift of $5,000. This has been ad d ed to her original contribution a nd the Betty Ray Goldh ar t Fellowship for graduate stu­ dents has been increased to $750 an­ nuall y. O

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ALUMNI NEWS Named Alumnus Of Honour '79

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Dr. R. J. (Rusty) McDonald, 0 C '45 , of Woodstock , an international1y recog­ nized veterinarian, was named Alum­ nus of H onour by the U niversity of Guelph Alumni Association at Ho me­ coming Weekend '79 . Rusty is general manager of Western O ntario Breeders

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Terry Laidlaw, OAC '79, of Norval, Ontario, and George Sikma, OAC '79A, of Newcastle, On tario, each re­ ceived $2,500 graduation scho larships at a special ceremony during the 0 .A.c. Agricultural Conference held a t the University in early January.

The Samuel Carr Scholarship and the William Pa rk Carr Scholarship are awarded an nual1y from the estate of the late Samuel Leister Carr to studen ts who return to full-time farming. The presentations were made by M rs. W . H .

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The winners must have demon­ strated willingness to accept responsi­ bili ty and leadership both o n the Uni­ versity campus and in their home com­ munities as well as to maintain a go od academic standing.

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Inc., a position he has held since WOB I was formed ten years ago .

The Alumnus of Honour Award recognizes significant contributions to the University and/or other areas of activity, including: a national cause for Canada, service to community , the world of science or education or leader­ ship in business, industry, or alumni af­ fairs.

Dr. McD onald has served dairy farmers in Oxford Coun ty and sur­ rounding areas as m a nager of artificial insemination services since 1946 and is wel1 known across Canada and beyond as a pioneer and innovator in the field of artificial insemination. In 1952 he helped organize the Ontario Associa­ tion of Artificial Breeders and served as its first president. He was a lso a mem­ ber of the Agricultural R esearch Insti­ tu te o f Ontario and a member of the Council of the Ontario Veterinary As­ sociation.

An alumni volunteer for years, he worked up to campaign chairman of

Terry Laidla w, winner of the Sam­ uel Carr Scholarship, has returned to the family dairy and fruit farm near Brampto n wh ere he is developing a fi­ nancial stake in the farm operation. He has been a ctive in 4-H and Junior Farmer activities in Peel County and in the N orval United C hurch. H e was president of O .A.C. '79 in his gradu a t­ ing year, and was active in College Royal activities and in various athletic endeavours.

George Sikma , who has received the William Pa rk Carr Scholarship, has rented a 116-acre farm near his ho me farm at Newcastle , and has long-term plans to own his own dairy farm. He was an acti ve member of 4-H clubs in Durham County and of the Durh a m Holstein Club. George was treasurer of OAC. '79A in both his first and sec­ ond years. 0

the University's Alma Mater F und in 1977. C urrently he is chairman o f the newly-created Commemorative G ifts Division of the Fund. Rusty has a lso participated in a wide variety of co m­ munity ac ti vities. He was the orga ni zer and first president of th e Wo odstock Minor Hockey Association, and long­ time chairman of the Arena Bo ard. He is a founding member of the Wood­ stock Curling Club, a past directo r o f the Oxford Go lf and Country C lub, and an active member of the Wood­ stock Ski C lub.

A member o f the Chalmers U nited Church, he has served as chairm a n of its board of stewards. He is a past director and president of the Wo od­ stock Y.M .C. A. and the Woodstock Ag­ ricultural Society, and past direc to r o f the local U nited Appeal.

Des pite all this activity, R usty a l­ ways has had time for his fa mily . He a nd Helen are parents of Jean Re illy o f Wa terloo, Cath erine Jones of Lawto n, Oklahoma and John of Windsor. 0

Commemorative gifts ... . . . honour individuals or the ir memories. A commemora tive gift to the University of Guelph can take many fo rm s but is always thoughtful a nd appropriate . Alumni often honour former classmates and friends through such gifts .

For more information , send for the brochure entitled " Commemorative G iving."

One or more can be obtained by writing to the Ch airman, Commemorative Gifts Di vi­ sion ; University C entre, Room 40 1; U niversity of G uelph ; G uelph, O ntario N I G 2W I.

Your Nominations Are Invited

The Honours and Awards Commiuee of the University of Guelph Alumni Association invites nominations for the Alumnus of Honour and the Alumni Medal of Achievement. These awards will be presented at Homecoming '80.

The O.V.c. Alumni Association Honours and Awards Committee in­ vites nominations for the O.V.c. Dis­

tinguished Alumnus Award .

The Alumn us of Honour recog­ nizes annually an alumnus who has brought great honour to his or her Alma Mater and alumni through signif­ icant contribution of leadership and service to one or more of: a ca use for

Canada: community ; science or educa­ tion; business; industry, or alumni af­ fairs.

The Alumni Medal of Achieve­ ment is awarded annually to a recent graduate (within the past ten years) who brings distinction to his or her Alma Mater through contributions to country, community or profession .

Any graduate of the O.V.c. is eli­ gible for the O.V.c. D is tinguished Alumnus Award. The award recognizes the sa me contributions as outlined for the Alumnus of Honour.

Each nomination should contain the nominee's full name, address, busi­

ness afliliation and title, year of gradu­ ation , family, details of con tri bu tions which entitle the nominee to the award, and any other information which may assist the selection committee, including names of persons who have first-hand knowledge of the nominee's accom­ plishments. The nominee should not be advised of the nomination.

Please forward your nomination

by April 30 to Honours and Award s Committee Chairman , University of Guelph Alumni Association , or the O.V.c. Alumni Association, Depart­ ment of Alumni Affairs and Develop­ ment, University of G uelph , G uelph , Ontario NIG 2WI. 0

Hall Of Fame For Dr. Ken Wells,

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Two men whose names are well known on campus, Dr. Kenneth F. Wells, OVC '38, and the late Sir William C. Mac­ donald were honoured recently at the Canadian Agricultural H all of Fame.

The Canadian Agricultural HaJJ of Fame Association recognizes distin­ guished service to Canadian agriculture with the hanging each year of portraits of those honoured. The portraits m ay be seen near the entrance to the Coli­ seum at Exhibition Place in Toronto.

The Coliseum provides the site for the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

Dr. Kenneth Wells spent all his working life as a public servant. He re­ ceived international recognition for his contributions to animal health pro­ grams both in Canada and abroad. Ris­ ing through the ranks in Agriculture Canada, he became chief veterinary of­ ficer in 1955 and, later, veterinary director general, a position he held until his recent retirement.

Dr. Wells became well known for his role in organizing the national con­ trol program for pullorum disease of poultry and in controlling outbreaks of hog cholera and foot and mouth dis­ ease. Dr. Wells also played a key role in the founding of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the U niver­ sity of Saskatchewan.

Sir William Macdonald is remem­ bered for his con~ributions to Canada's educational system and for his encour-

I Dr. Ken Wells, 0 VC '38, right, at Hall oj Fame ceremony with his son, Craig, and daughter Kathy. agement in the production and use of better seeds for farm crops. In G uelph he is known for providing the Macdon­ ald Co nsolidated School (at the corner of College Avenue and Gordon Street and currently being renovated and con­ verted into the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre), the first consolidated rural school in Ontario and one of six funded across Canada .

His name is also preserved in M ac-

donald Hall and Macdonald Institute which, through his financial generosity, were built on the campus.

The Macdonald Stewart Founda­ tion has more recently given support to build Macdonald Stewart Hall, the new Hotel and Food Administration exten­ sion to Macdonald Institute , and a grant to assist in the renovation of the Macdonald Consolidated School for the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. 0

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High Honour

Dr. Leslie Laking, OA C '39.

Dr. Leslie Laking, OAC '39, Directo r of the Royal Botanical G ardens (RBG), Ha milton , was appointed a Member of th e Order of Canada on December 17, 1979, and will be invited to an investi­ ture at Governmen t House in the spnng.

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the Ha milton-Burlington-D undas area and created by provincial statute in 1941 , appointed D r. Laking assistant director and h or ticulturist in 1946 and, in 1954, director.

His career a t the Royal Botanical G ardens has combined that of adminis­ trator, educa tor, lecturer, writer and broadcaster. He has seen the profes­ sional and support staff grow from four in 1946 to the prese nt 28 and the grounds staff increase flOm a skeleton staff borro wed from .he H a mil ton Parks to some 60 at full summer strength. Throughout this same period he has served o n the staff of the Biol­ ogy Department, McM aster University, with responsibilities in plant taxonomy.

Paralleling his in teres t in develop­ ing horticultural plant collections at the RBG, Dr. Laking has assis ted in the founding of severa l specialist organiza­ tions including the Canada Iris Society, the Ontario Regional Lily Society, the Rhod odendron Society of Canada and the Hamilton Branch of the Ontario In ­ stitute of Agrologists. He h as served as both president and as an executive member of most of these as well as a double term as a member of the C oun-

cil o f the O ntario Institute o f Agrolo­ gist .

As pres ident of th e Am erican As ­ socia tion of Bo tanical G ard ens and Ar­ boreta in 1966-67, and with continuing involvement since then, he has been a st rong supporter of that organiza ti o n linking in a professional manner the botanica l gardens and arboreta in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

In 197 1 after completing a quarter ce ntury of se rvice a t the RBG, Dr. Lak­ ing was honoured by both M cMas ter Un iversi ty and the U n iversity of G uelph, with the de gree Do ctor of Laws h onoris causa. In 1978, he was elected a Fello w of the Agricultural In­ stitute of Canada by his associates in the n a ti o nal p rofessional body embrac­ ing p ursu its in agriculture and horticul­ ture.

D uring his term as director of the RBG , he has pro mo ted the concept that the pl ace of a botanical garden in the cultural and scientific life of a na­ tion must be of the same order and stature as th a t attained by our grea1t museums, at th e same time never losing sigh t of the fac t that both exist to serve ma nkind. 0

12 Maple Syrup and Pancake Festival, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Arboretum - J. C. Taylor Nature Centre.

15 O.A.C. Alumni Association Seminar - "Chemistry of the Food We Eat." 9:30 am to 4:00 pm.

19-26 AAHA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

3 Mac-F ACS Alumni Association Seminar- "Money Sense for the SO's" 9 Continuing Education Conference - "Human Sexuality."

20-22 Alumni Weekend.

21 Annual Meetings at Guelph: Friends of U of G Inc., Mac-FACS, O.A.C., O.V.c. and U of G Alumni Associations.

6-1S Summer Campus.

10-13 CVMA Conference, Moncton, N.B. 19 Centennial Banquet, Associate Diploma in Agriculture.

21-24 AVMA Convention, Washington, D.C.

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Farm in Guelph. One hundred years o f Associates in Agriculture will be cele­ brated this summer on Jul y 18 a nd 19 with a wee kend of class reunions, a Universi ty open house and a reunion banquet on the evening of July 19. If

yo ur class hasn ' t a lrea dy pla n ned a re­ union , get in touch with yo ur executive and let's make this ce ntennial celebra­ tion one we'll all remem ber. F urther details will be forthcoming. 0

Letters To

The Editor

Dear Derek: I am lileased lu rep orllhallhe seventh Universil y uf C;uelph Choir Tour (our f ourth overseas lOur), was an unqualified success.

The choir presenled 13 concerls. plus several shari appearances, and on all occasions represemed Ihe Universily very well indeed.

The standard achieved by Ihis ch oir of5 I voices lV as 01 leaSI equal 10 Ihe slandard of Ihe 1977 choir which loured Germany.

Included inlhe choir were 3 I undergraduales. len graduales. and len slaff orlacullY members.

Thef/nan cial side of Ihe lour came oul renwrkably \1'1'/1 despile Ihe increase ofrelail sales lax in Brilain/rom 7-1/2 per cenll o 15 per cenl. Th e 1$10,000 gram from Ihe Alma Maler FUlld. a grant of $4.000(rom Ihe Onlario MinislryofCullureand Recrealion.

Ihe IWo cheese drives. and direci financial comribUlions by a/l members of Ihe choir iusl he(o re leaving Canada enabled us 10 hreak even. wilhin $100 or so.

In lerms of edu cat ional valuefor all members. especially for the sludenls, Ihe imp arlan ce of lhe lour ca n hardly be overslressed. The chan ce 10 sing in excellenl cOllcert halls (as in AberYSlwylh and Edinburgh). in lovely old parish churches (as in Loughhorough and Perl h), and in greal calhedrals (such as York Min sl er and SI. Giles) is in ilself a greal reward. BUI in (lddili on. Ihe members visiled hisloric coslles, stayed in Welsh homes, and made conlacl wilh Ihe music-lovers who allended our concerls. Among Ihe people who came 10 hear us were. of co urse, Guelph alumni who live in Ihe Uniled Kingdom as well as many Canadians on holiday overseas.

Finally, I should men lion I hal we received encouraging lellers and phone callsIrom Ihe cull ural division of Canada House in London andfrom On Iorio H ouse also. They were/ully aware of our lour and helped 10 advertise our co ncerls.

Th e lasl IW o concerl s. Ihosein Edinburgh. were cerlainly our besl performances. We were Ihefirsl Canadian group 10 p erform in The Queen's Hall in Edin burgh.

On behallof Ihe choir [ wish 10 Ihank all alumni. Ihe directo rs oflhe Alma Mat er Fund. Ihe Deparlm ent of Music. Concert Managemem of Ihe Dep artm ent of Musi c and olher hranches of Ihe Universily for Ih e encouragemenl and supporl which we received.

Yours sincerely.

Dr. Murdo A>fac Kinnon Tour Manager

Dear Derek:

So yo u are il1leresled in "Leflers 10 Ihe Edil or". Well, perhaps Ihis is more of a personal one in Ihal I sincerely wish 10 express my pleasure in pursuing Ihe Guelph Alumnus and, Ihanks 10 Donna Webb I believe. silling 01 your lable 01 Ihe H omecoming '79 alumni receplion and dinner-dance.

I have one small complaint though. (Oh, I was very pleased 10 receive Ihe Guelph AI umnus Dalelines 1980; even look il 10 work with me 10 peek 01 once in a while an d I have made reservalions al Ihe Billm ore MOlel in Guelphfor March, June and OC/ober in order 10 allend on- campus alumni evenls). fll beforced 10 remove said Dalelines issueFomlhe wall every lim e I wish 10 look al Ih e lovely yo ung lady onlhe cover. What aline looking yo ung person.

Wilh all good wishes and hoping 10 see yo u 01 Alumni W eekend in Jun e.

S incerely, John Buckley. OAC '35 Cryslal Beach, Onlario

* * * Dear Derek. fl has nOH! been six years since Ilasl roamed

Ih e Guelph campus as a studem. Yel, religio usly, Ihe Universil y has mainlained its correspo ndence wilh me through Ihe words in Ihe Guelph Alumnus. [feel much Ihe same as aFiend who has been remiss in his replies 10 lellers.

However. Ihe Universily is an inl egral pari. or link, in a chain of evel1ls Ihal are Iorming m y future. And I hope Ihe chain co nlinues 10 grow as il has sin ce gradual ion.

Allhough j have been unable 10 sellle into a specific career, each evenl or en coul1ler has been like a golden charm. On e day. I shall be able 10 sil back and ponder il s beauty.

During my undergradualeyears I began 10 wrile poelry as a means of bringing myself out of I he various depression s a young man goes Ihrough. B v turning Ihese negalive feelings inlo a posilive (crealive)/o rm, I found myself em ergingfrom Ihese moods ral her quickly and relalively unseal hed.

Wh en I had amassed a ralher small colleelion o/poelry, I vemured 10 submil il 10 a periodical Ihal was carried on campus 01 lhallim e. I remember how Ih ey chose Ihe one poem which was Ihe Shortesl andfar from being m y favourile. As an "arlisle nouveau" I was shallered and seldom wrote poetry again Llnlil recent years. However, I no w wrilefor Ihe sheer love ofil.

I am saddened, Ihough, Ihat songs have become so popular as 10 relegate poelry 10 a back seal . I would n OI have you Ihink Ihall do nOllike music. I only wish I could wril e a song. Ho wever. IIee! a poem to be nearesl surrealism in 01'1. where il may be appre cialed 01 various levels. II is nOI m erely lislened 10 bw read andsludied. Songs make il very easy for aliI' minds 10 be lazy. as we ali 100 ofI en forego Ihe Iyricslor Ihe m elody.

Bw ralher Ihan minimize Ihe value of m y treasure by Irying 10 con vince people 10 share iI, I would like 10 leave Ihis subJecl.

In apprecialion for Ihe Universily's efforts in rep orling affairs and evenlS 10 Ihis ungracious alumnus, and in a/eeble allempl 10 make amends(or my silence, I would lik e 10 co nlribul e a p oem 10 Ihis magazine.

I would be privileged ifyou choose 10 prim il .

A seed Ihal flies Thr ough wind and lime, In search of/ erlile soil 10 bind, Grows weary, wilhers up A nd dies, if roo IS aren'l set Wilh in a lim e.

'Twas Hope's sweel so ng Ihalfilled Ihe air Wh en so}ify, breezes sell led on YoungJertile soil Rich, wilh a coal o/Jlo lden wheal 足 And bold blue sk ies were beckoning To share a single grain olsan d.

Bw. lim e and wind had only paused; An d life wasJusI Ihe san ds he crossed.

Yours Iruly.

Michel M ousseau. CSS '73

* * * Dear Derek: iflhere is a liny ' pace in any publicalion could yo u please say" Thanks Canada/or helping our hOSlages."

Also Ihank yo u agafn(or Ihe very useful calendar in Ihe Guel ph Alumnu s.

Virginia H. R eed, ODH '66 Willo wick. Ohio, USA

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Alumni Elections to Senate It is again ti me to ca ll fo r n o mina tio ns to fill alumni sea ts o n th e Se nate o f the Universit y of Guel ph.

Eae h yea r, the th ree-yea r te rms of o ffice of th ree of th e nine al um ni sen a t o rs e xp ire. Ret irin g A ugu st 31 , 1980 a re F ran k Arc hibald, OAC '39, W J ohn Bow les, CSS '72, and D r. V. C. Rowa n Wa lke r, O VC '47. Th e terms o f office o f G ordo n B. He n ry, OAC'3 4, Mrs. Mary ( Ro bert. o n) Mc G ill iv ray , Ma c ' 36 , a nd J o hn R . F lcgg, A rt s '68, will ex pire A ugust 3 J, 198 1. Cha rles (Ch uck) Broa dwell , OAC ' 54, Bill T o lto n , O AC '36, and Dr. R obert ( Herb) Wri ght , OVC' 38, will si t on Sena te unt il A ugu st 31. 1982.

Th e ab ove in c uments, with the exceptio n of W . John Bowles. CSS '72, are not eli gib le to be re nomina ted .

Elected in 1979 t o co m plete t he u ne x pired term of Mis s Gretc hen MacM ill a n, CSS ' 70, wh o res ign ed he r seat in 1979, J oh n Bow les is el igible for re no min at io n. A ll al u m ni w ho have graduated fr o m the U nive rsi ty of G ue lp h or its fo und ing co ll eges are eligi ble to n o m in ate me mbe rs to Se na te. Since the Senate mee ts at leas t o nce a mo nth fro m Se ptember to Ju ne, t he pos ition of alumni se nator i. a wo rkin g posit io n, not an ho norary o ne. Acco rdin gly , on ly ca ndi dat es who will be in a pos itio n to a tt end meeti ngs sho uld be nomi na ted . M o reove r , n ominees m ust no t be registere d fo r a degree or di pl o ma a t t hi s U nive rs it y, nor be a mem be r of th e teac hin g o r a d m ini st ra tive sta ff o f t hi s Unive rsit y. as those g rou ps are o th erwise re prese nted.

T he form be low mu t be sig ned by t\VO g rad ua tes a s no min ators a nd ma y be used to nom ina te u p to t hree ca ndidat es. No minatio n s will be a cce pted if received a t t he Al um ni Office by A p r il 14, 1980.

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