Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1981

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

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AWMNUS Fall 1981 Vol, 14, No, 4

UNIVERSITY OF GUE LPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATI O N HONORARY PRESIDENT: Professor Donald F, Forster .

PRESIDENT: Jackie (Wemyss) Wright , C BS '74, PAST PRESIDENT : Dr. Tom DeGee r, OVC '54.

SENIOR VICE,PRESIDENT: Jane (Vollick) Webs ter, FACS '75, DIRECTORS: Brian Allen, CPS '72: Linda Allen, CPS '72: Peter Anderson, Well. '68: Cliff Barker, OVC '41 : Debbie (Nash) Chambers , Arts '77: Les Dunn, CBS '76: Lynn (Morrow) Featherston, Mac '68: Peter Forte, CPS M .sc. '70: Eli zabeth Heeney, FACS '7 1: Alvin Jory, CSS '74: Edith LeLac heur, Arts '72; Richard Moccia, CBS '76: Patricia (Shier) Mighton, OAC '64: Elizabeth O'Neil, FACS '74; Ross Parry, CSS '80: Dr. Mel Poland, OVC '44 : Glenn Powell. OAC '62; Clare Rennie , OAC '47: Ambrose Samulski, CBS '73: Margo Shoem ake r, Arts '79: Dr. Stan Ward, OVC '36, EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: Larry Argue, OAC '58, President, Ontario Agricu ltural College Alumni Association; John Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and De,elopment; Rick Brown, President, Uni..rsity of Guelph Central Student Association; Greg Couher, President, Graduate Students Association; Jim Gallivan , CBS '73 , President, College of Biological Science Alumni Association; Mary ( Webber) Henry, Mac '66, President Mac-FACS Alumni Association; Barba ra ( Port er) Hinds, CSS '74, President, College of Social Science Alumni Association; Dr. Archie MacKinnon, OVC '43, President, Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association; Barry Stahlbaum, CPS '74, P resident, College of Physical Science Alumni Association; Julie Thur, Arts '78, President, College of Arts Alumni Association.

TREASURER: James Elmslie.

ASSOCIATE SECRETARY : Rosemary Clark. Mac '59.

The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development in co-operation with the Department of Information. U niversity of Guelph .

EDITOR: DEREK J. WING, Publication s Ofricer, Department of Alumni Affairs and Developm e nt.

The Editorial Commitlee is compri sed of the Editor, Derek Wing: John Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development ; Erich Barth, Art Direc tor, Department of Information : Rose mary Clark, Mac '59, Assistant Direc tor for Alumni Programs: Dougla s Waterston , Director, Departm ent of Information; Donald Jose, OAC '49, Press-Publicity, Department of Information: Robin Baird Lewis, Arts '73.

Deve lopment/Communicatio ns Officer, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph alumni Association is comprised of Ewart Carberry, OAC '44, Chairman : Dr. Allan Austin; Dr. Donald Barnum , OVC '41; W . John Bowles, CSS '72 : Judith Carson, Arts '75: Pet e r Hohenadel, OAC '75: Janice (Robertson) Partlow. Arts '70: Olive (Thompson) Tho mpson, Mac '35: Sa ndra Webster, CSS '75; Ex-orricio: John Babcock, OAC '54: J ac kie (Wemyss) Wright. CBS '74.

Undelivered copies should be ret urned to the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph , Ontario N I G 2WI,

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1981 Style

College of Biological Science freshman were greeted by S ophie,

understanding could spell disaster. On,t ario needs the teaching capabilJities, the educated generalists produced by arts and science programs, the special,i sts, and the research contributions of its universities."

"Muddling through is not a 路viable alternative for the future."

President D.F. Forster.

Rejects "University of Ontario"

The report clearly reject s the concept of a "U niversity of Ontario" in fav our of the continuance of the autonomy of the individual universities, a lthough with certain limitations.

The committee makes clear that it considers the present university system in Ontario "first class." It is equally apparent that present, or reduced, levels of funding cannot support the system in a first-class condition without some rationalization of the sys tem.

Restructuring

According to the report, s uch restructuring of the univer sity system would include one or more of the following measures:

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By Don Jose, OAC '49 ither increase the funding for universities o r rewrite the objectives to match the fundi~g available.

That, in essence, was the message of the final report of the Committee on the Future Role of Universities in Onta rio, which was released in Augus t by the Mini stry of Colleges and Universi ties.

Thc document is "proba bly the most significant report on the university system in Ontario in 20 years," according to President Donald Forster. He says, '" am very pleased with the Committee's main funding recommendations which, in my judgement, will provide minimum effective operating support for the next decade, if implemented ."

Professor Fors ter also notes that the proposals for restructuring and reshaping the sys tem seem to follow inevitably if the Committee's main recommend a tion is not adopted by the government. "Muddling through" is not a viable alternative for the future , he says.

The 13-member Committee, which included Allan Marchment, chairman of the University of Guelph 's Board of Governors, was appointed in November, 1980, by The Honourable Bette Stephenson, Minister of Colleges and Universities, in response to initiatives from university officials. The term s of reference were as follows: 路- -To develop a public statement of objectives for Ontario universities in the 1980s expressed in operational terms;

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-To relate the cost of meeting these objectives to funding levels; -To consider modifications to the funding mechanism that would provide appropriate processes to encourage voluntary institutional adjustments and inter-institutional co-operation to meet these objectives; - To define more clearly the appropriate joint roles of the individua l institutions, the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), the Ontario Council on University Affa irs (OCUA) and the Government of Ontario; -To recommend s uch other policy changes as a re judged likely to improve the ability o f Ontario universities to meet agreed-upon objectives.

Specific Recommendations

The report includes specific recommendations on how the province's university system could be tailored to match lowered funding levels, although it is very clear that such readjustment is undesir a ble. The report notes that the temptation might be for the province and the universities to "muddle through" the next decade in much the same way that they ha ve been doing for the past four or five years. Such an approach would "ensure the demise of quality universities in Ontario," the report states.

"The committee perceives that the

importance or strong and healthy

universities is not widely understood, " the

report notes . "For Ontario, this lack of

- reducing the number of universities; -changing the character of some or all of the universities, and limiting their range of ac tivities; and -grouping universities in two or more categories with different missions .

Such an approach would result in an Ontario university system that might look like this: Ontario would have one comprehensive university capable of offering a very broad range of high quality programs at a ll degree levels. There would be not more than four full-service universities offering a more res tricted range of high quality programs at a ll degree levels . In addition, there would be four or five special-purpose institutions, including some designed specifically to serve Northern Ontario.

Of the remaining institutions, the report sta tes , some may have to be closed, and the others, to the extent that the accessibility objective is to be met within the total funding limitations, will have to be restructured. These institutions would offer high quality undergraduate instruction in arts a nd science and perhaps the early years of progra ms in high demand, s uch as engineering and business.

Some programs, now offered at some of the latter institution s, would have to be maintained, even though the roles of the universities that now support them would have changed. These programs, it is proposed, would be transferred to other a ppropriate universities. Similarly, there may be programs at the comprehensive, the full -service, or the special-purpose universities that would be eliminated or transferred. cont'd over

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cont'd from p.3 AccesslblJlty It points out that much remains to be accomplished in making Ontario un ,i ver­ sities equally accessible to people from all social and economic groups in the province.

The report recognizes particular responsibility towards two groups: Franco-Ontarians and those who live in Northern Ontario where secondary school retention rates a nd university participation rates are low, also, native peoples, part-time students, women and the handicapped.

Objectives The objectives for the Ontario university system, as set out in the Committee's interim report, are: -developing a more educated populace;

-educating an d training people for the

professions;

-providing for study at the highest

intellectual level ;

- conducting basic a nd ap plied research,

including development and evaluation, and,

- providing service to the community.

These follow closely the set of objectives included in the 1978 report of OCUA, which in turn rel a te to a similar set offered in 1967 by The Honourable William Davis, the then Minister of University Affairs.

The 50-page report contains a chapter on each of the five terms of reference, one on such additional matters as stalling and external relations, another outlining a possible restructured sys tem, and a summary of its recommendations.

The report examines changing enrolment trends in rece nt years and comments favourably on the willingness and ability of the universities to respond to changing manpower needs and studen\ preferences, even in the face of funding restraint.

Funding Model The funding model recommended by the Committee is one that would meet the costs of innation with a small additional increment to provide for "progress through the ranks." This cost arises because of the large numbers of faculty members recruited in the I 960s and early 1970s because of rapidly expanding university enrolments.

The re s ult is a faculty body with a relatively low average age and very few members a t or approaching retirement age.

The funding model includes $25 million annually to provide for repl acement of equipment a nd furniture. It would also take no note of changes in enrolment.

The recommended level of funding, the report says, can be justified in terms of Ontario's critical need for economic a nd

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social development. "Ontario needs educated mind power and both basic and applied research if it is to have any hope of succeeding with its economic development goals as well as its goal of providing quality and accessible services for the people ."

Ontario has made an enormous capital investment in its universities. The 1981 replacement value of this investment has been placed at $2.3 billion, the report states. The province's moratorium on capital spe nding has been in effect for nine years now. Annual capital grants are much below the amount needed to replace and renovate the universities' physical pl a nts, which are seriously deteriorating.

Short-run, stop-and-go policies present universities with serious difficulties, the report states. University programs run on long cycles. It takes years to train doctors, engineers and scientists.

The report begins the cha pter on allocation of funds with the comment that revising the way funds are allocated to universities is not a mag ical solution to in adequate funding. " If tot a l funding is inadequate, the individual shares will also be inadequate."

Formula Funding Many submissions to the Committee dealt with funding and funding mecha ­ ni s ms . Formula funding received both support and opposition. The report comments that the concept of m a king formula funding insensitive to enrolment changes within upper and lower limits is worthy of consideration. The nature of those limits, however, must be examined.

Should the limits be on total enrolment or enrolment in individual programs 1 The methods of se tting , reviewing and adjusting such limits and whose respon sibility that is, also demand attention. [n an enrolment-based formula, expansion at one university can come only at the expense of another, the report states.

The principles that guide the design of the formula must be in line with govern­ ment policy, whose aims may include: equity of funding for universities; institutional accountability; sta bility and adaptability on the part of the universities; efficiency in university financi al management a nd the promotion of different roles for institutions.

"If total funding is provided at the level recommended by the Committee and accessibility continues to be one of the basic policy goals, then the current enrolment­ based formula would appear to be one that serves the purposes well," the report states.

"If, on the other hand, total funding is not provided at the recommended level and accessibility is no longer the goal. the grant allocation mechanis m could be m ade

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insensitive to enrolment. " Funding stringency does not necessarily promote institutional role differentiation, the report notes. Since operational revenues are enrolment-related, there exists a tendency to seek additional enrolment. Across-the-board reductions in expenditures may be used in order to retain programs and preserve income-generating capacity. Developing a different role involves the "winding down" costs of eliminating old programs.

Governance The report notes that the universities "obviously want to remain autonomous; yet there is recognition that some planning of the system is necessary." It says that assuming the needed level of funding is provided, the current roles of government, the institutions, OCUA a nd COU are to be m ai ntained, a lthough with some modifica­ tions that a re needed to meet current problems and opportunities.

It describes university autonomy as important for the maintenance of academic freedom. "To fulfil their mandate, universities must be free to make the basic decisions on who sha ll teach, what shall be taught, and who shall be taught. They should a lso be free to determine internal allocation of resources," it notes.

Having sa id that , the report also points out th a t when universities receive a major proportion of their finances from public funds. they must be accountable for the expenditure of those funds. Autonomy ,is also limited to the extent that in a multi-university system it is unreasonable to expect th a t each institution will be publicly funded to offer any program it might want.

The report concludes that OCUA "should pursue a stronger role in the areas of progra m authorization and should continue to promote institutional role differentiation . COU should continue to be a voluntary organization. It must assist OCUA, however, in formul a ting advice on academic programs. playa strong role in graduate program a ppraisal s, and more vigorously pursue joint programming."

Research Universities should continue to develop closer links with industry and government, particularly when research relevant to the academic mission of the universities is involved.

The report warns, however, that : "They should be careful not to sacrifice long-range, non-glamorous research which will payoff in the long term . The demands of industry are necessarily short term, but industry, too , ultimately depends on the results of long-term research." 0

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Misener Bursary Highlights

Annual Meeting of Me mbers of

Frie nds of University of Guelph, Inc. A reception was held in St. Louis, Missouri, at the horne of Dr. Bert Mi tchell, OAC '60 and OVC '64, and his wife, Mary (Townsend) Ma c '60 .

Dr. Owen Stevens, OVC '56, left; Dr. A. Grant Misener. OAC '35 and OVC '38, President, and OVC Dean Dr. Doug Maplesden, ove '50, right. imed to coincide with the American Veterinary Medical Association convention in St. Louis, Missouri, the Annual Meeting of Members of the Friends of University of Guelph, Inc., the Corporation representing nearly 1,200 Guelph alumni resident in the U .S.A., was held in July.

Their 1980/81 Annual Report indicated that, in the fifth year of operation by the Corporation, gifts including donations to the Alma Mater Fund, gifts in kind, alumni memorials, and endowments, surpassed all previous years in numbers and dollar amounts with a total of $30,718 .

At 'the buffet; to r, Dr. Bill Barnes, OVC '59, Vi ce-President & Treasurer; Dr. C. Robert Buck, OVC '46, and Dr. Richard Julian, OVC '52 .

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President of the Corporation since its inception, Dr. A. Grant Misener, OAC '35 and OVC '38, recently established an endowment gift of $10,000 to endow a bursary fund in his name. This fund will provide a number of bursaries annually for students in the D.V.M . program .

In addition to sponsored a wards and gifts of kind, the Corporation authorized grants totalling $18,700 for an aggregate grant program of $43,025. These included a $1,000 grant for each of the seven college a dvancement funds; a grant of $4,000 for the OVC small animal clinic; $3,000 for library book purchases; $2,000 towards Alma Mater scholarships; $1,000 for Arboretum collection development, and $1,700 for sundry purchases. 0

At the reception , directors with Dean Maplesden are, I to r; Dr. Murray Phillipson, OVC '49; Dr. Bill Barnes, OVC '59; Dr. Bert Mitchell , OAC '60 and OVC '64; Dr. Cuts Ferraro , OVC '47; John Babcock, OAC '54; Dr. Lou McBride , OVC '38; Dee (Hancock ) Donovan, Mac '39; Dr. Doug Maplesden , OVC '50; Dr. A . Grant Misener, OAC '35 and OVC '38, and Dr. Owen Stevens, OVC '56. Missing from the picture are directors Dr. John Lindley, OAC '53; Jan (Russell) Peck . Mac '49, and Dr. Vince Ruth, OVC '38.

At the reception, left to right; Delores Ferraro, Carol Barnes, Mid (Taylor) Misener. Mac '35; Trudy Buck and Peggy Willoughby.

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Dean for a Decade

By John Hearn his has not been an easy article to

T write. To editorialize about Dr. Earl B. MacNaughton would be presumptuous. To do justice to his career and achievements would call for many times the space available. It would be nice to report a pleasant fireside chat with the retiring dean of the College of Physical Science but Earl

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MacNaughton has nothing to say that does not open up huge areas of enquiry.

Professor Bob Winkel, Academic Assistant to the Dean , sums it up when he says that when Earl MacNaughton picks up a subject he does not put it down again until he knows ALL about it-a large statement which half an hour in Earl's

Dr. Earl B. MacNaughton.

company tends to confirm. His work on the President's Advisory Committee on Pensions and Benefits provides an example.

"What you are talking about is not just the pension scheme itself, but how it relates, both now and historically, to p ublic service and other university pension schemes in Ontario. Since I thought that as chairman of that committee I ought to know what I was talking about, I had little choice but to go through a lot of actuarial calculations to satisfy myself. There 's a filing cabinet full of them - Pat Lafferty was good enough to check them."

Pat, his administrative assistant, suggested that Dean MacNaughton's only relaxation was to go to the COllage ncar Gravenhurst, but added that he never went there without a briefcase and never stayed long anyway.

Dr. MacNaughton defended himself.

"When you have a mass of calculations , or writing, or course preparation to do, it ma kes good sense to get right away somewhere and stay with it until it's fini shed . My colleagues exaggerate. I frequently took no work at all. What is more, I always found time for do-it-yourself building, sw imming, water skiing, boating and sa iling and otherwise relaxing with our family - including two grandchildren."

Bob Winkel spoke of the dean's capacity for listening, a characteristic which, he said, did tend to make for rather prolongued meetings.

Dea n MacNaughton commented on that. "I like to let people have their say.

When I'm meeting with the chairmen of my depa rtments I'm meeting with highly intelligent and responsible people whose input is essential to the good operation of the College. After all, a dean has most of the say in the selection of these people.

He'd be a darned fool not to listen to what they have to say - even if that means a meeting running an hour overtime."

Pat Laffe rty alludes delicately to the

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dcan's wcakncss for putting things ofr. Thc dean himsclf addresses the mattcr in more forthright tcrms.

"I havc sometimes been accused or procrastination, but y'know , as often as not, problcms which appeared to be mountain足 OllS at the time become rar more manageable ir you give them a while to settle down. Again it's a matter or giving whatever time it lakes to listen to people, get second opinions if necessary - and, possibly, evcn to let tempers cool."

Although it becomes obvious that Dr. 'vIacNaughton enjoys nothing better than getting his teeth into a problem and staying with it until it's solved, he has many other interests including high fidelity reproduc足 tion and listening to good music. He has been a long-time supporter or the Guelph Spring Festival and the Guelph Music Club .

His contribution to the pensions committee is legendary. Perhaps less well known is the part he played in the design of thc Physical Science Building. He called his

colleagucs together and said --揃 "Look, we'rc going to have to live with this building for a long time so we'd better makc sure it's right. " He then adds, almost casually, that when the pouring of concrete had reached the Jrd iloor, President Winegard called him and said he had better start thinking in terms or a new College and a dea n's office and pulling Mathematics and Statistics out of the Arts Building and getting them all under one roor- but not to do anything which would slow down construction. " Well - we managed it ," he says in one brier sentence which does little justice to the drastic re-thinking at short notice which must have taken place. "The end result is a rine building-a monument to the '60s."

This, as a brief portrait or an indefatiguable mind, might be good enough if it wcre not that it leaves out what his colleagues unanimously regard as his greatest strength-his affection and concern ror people, something which staff.

New Dean Can't Get Along Without Research

r. Jack R. MacDonald, the recently appointed Dean of the College of Physical Science, has been chairman of the Department of Physics since 1975. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a member of the technical starf of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hili, New Jersey.

As dean, Proressor MacDonald will continue to be involved in the research laboratory. "There is no question that the rirst priority of the dean's orrice is to play lhe role of the administrator," he notes.

"However, it is important in a maturing College, and one with a commitment to excellence in research, for the dean to make his contribution to that research erfort. In ract," he says, "I would not have taken the job ir I had not thought I could continue research ."

Dr. MacDonald says his present sabbatical year has made it clear "that I can't get along without research. Nothing is as thrilling," he adds, "as the achievement of success in the la bora tory."

The new dean enjoys the function of working with people that one encounters in an administrative position. He notes that he rirst came to the University from the Bell Laboratories because of the challenge of an administrative position-a role he first found himself in as a student in various organizations.

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Dean Jack R. MacDonald.

to be the keynote of his administrative style. Shared or delegated responsibility has always been an important part of his administrative philosophy. "In this sense, leadership involves co-ordinating the erforts of the talented people who are working with you ."

It may take a little time to reach a

faculty and students alike learned was always, immediately and endlessly available to them .

The adage that no man is a hero to his sccretary is belied by both Hilda Mann and Eileen Johnson who worked with Dean MacNaughton ror many years. "Nicest, 1110St considerate, sympathetic, understanding , kind" - both of them used thcse words a nd many of their synonyms when they spoke of him.

We have not, fortunately , seen the last 01' Earl MacNaughton. He has only retired as dean. He has returned after, what was for him , a long vacation-four weeks in Europe-and the University can look forward to several more years of his selfless service. 0

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S",! {lage 28 Jar Dr. MacNaughton 's Jinal '"Lelfer From the Dean" to members oJthe Col/f'ge oJ Physical Science Alumni Association.

consensus without compromising principles, but when that is achieved, everyone is involved. Such a process ensures that everyone understands what is happening, and that everyone feels a part of the decision.

He notes that such a system works well at the departmental level, and he looks forward to using it in the larger setting. If such shared responsibility works, it will ensure that he has time to continue in the laboratory.

The new dean praises the high quality of faculty members in each of his four Departments; the scholarship and research in the College and the College's reputation in physical sciences.

He graduated from the University of British Columbia; then he was named a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.

While at Bell Laboratories, he spent a year as a visiting professor at Stanrord University. He was also a visiting research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, and an associate of the faculty of graduate studies at Rutgers University.

From 1976 to 1978, Dr. MacDonald served as chairman, physics discipline group, Advisory Council ror Academic Planning, Ontario. In 1978, he was elected to Guelph's Board of Governors. At the same time, he served as chairman of Senate's Board of Undergraduate Studies.

He and his wife, Lillian, and their sons Mark, 14, and Ian, II, live in Guelph. 0

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By Nora (Young) Stoskopf, Mac '59 Nora Stoskopf is Canadian secretary-treasurer for Our Little Brothers orphanage home in Mexico. She and her husband, Professor Neal Stoskopf, OAC '57, director of the University's Associate Diploma Program, have been involved with the orphanage, as active volunteers, since 1974. onciano Dominguez, OAC '79A, a nd Jorge Antirico, OAC '78A, are two young members of a big family of more than 1,000 orphans currently living, working and studying at Our little Brothers (OlB) home, school an d farm located in Miacatlan, Morelos, Mexico.

Through the auspices of Friends of Our little Brothers in Canada, and the sponsorship of Christina and Lorimer Massie of Nordic Farm near Eden Mills, both Ponciano and Jorge obtained the Associate Diploma in Agriculture at the University. During summers, both students worked at Nordic Farm learning up-to-date techniques in animal husbandry.

The immediate practical result of their brief but extremely useful Canadian training, resul ted in Jorge helping to manage the orphanage farm in 1980, while Ponciano took charge of animal production in Miacatlan.

The aim of the orphanage is to become not only self-sufficient in the production of food needed by the orphan s, but eventually to aid the Morelos region of Mexico by helping small-operation farmers in the neighborhood to apply proven agricultural techniques. This is the goal that has been set by Dr. Edwin J. Well hausen, former director of the Rockefelle r Foundation in Mexico, who is currently superv ising OlB agricultural production and training.

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Morelos, with supplemental irrigation , are ideal for year-round crop an d animal production . Although the soil is not the best, with proper management and water control, almost any kind of crop can be grown. There are, in fact, very few places in the world that a re better suited for agricultural production.

The OlB farm consists of about 70 hectares (175 acres) of which abo ut 60 hectares (150 acres) are available for the development of very intensive year-round crops and livestock production systems.

The major aim is to produce the corn, beans , vegetables and animal protein needed to provide a varied and well-balanced diet for the OlB family in a self-sustaining intensive continuous足 cropping system (two to three crops a year on the same land) with liberal use of fertilizers,irrigation an d efficient protection against crop pests.

Since the basic diet of most Mexicans consists of corn (in the form of tortillas) a nd beans, the production of these two items receives first priority. Studies in human nutrition have clearly demon strated that children from the age of ten years on, will develop normally on a basic diet consisting of 75 per cent corn and 25 per cent beans; so OlB is attempting to produce corn and beans in this proportion.

Accordingly, at the present rate of consumption, abou t 65 tonnes of corn an d

20 tonnes of beans a re needed annually.

Reports indicate that these req uirements have been fully met, at a fractioll of retail costs, since January 1980, an d will continue to be met in the future. In 1979 OlB won the Ministr y of Agriculture prize for the best fields of corn a nd beans in the area.

With proper management and timely operation, during the rainy season, the needed co rn and beans can be readily produced on 15 hectares of land in a period of six month s with so me supplcmental irrigation. In a good year, there might even be a surplus. OlB is using improved varieties and doing their best with modern avai lable production tec hnology. The corn seed last year was provided gratis by the Dekalb Hybrid Seed Company, through their subsidiary in Guadalajara.

Hybrid 8 666, which has been found to be the most productive hyb rid in the middle American tropics , is used for production. It has performed excellently and has become the centre of attraction for operators of small farms in the Miacatlan a rea . Bean seed was multiplied from a small sa mple of the high- yie lding variety, Jamapa, donated by the experimental station in Veracruz.

This year, with seed provided by the International Maize and Wheat Improve足 ment Centre, OlB is increasing seed stock of a new variety of corn with improved protein quality. It is well adapted to the farm, although its yield capacity is somew hat lower than B666. This variety ca rries the high lysine gene which rai ses protein quality to about that of milk . In experiments in Guatemala, children suffering from severe cases of protein malnutrition have recupera ted st rikingly on a diet consisting solely of this corn s upplemented with vitamins and minerals.

Tortillas made from this corn would be especially beneficial to children below 10 years of age.

In an a ttempt to improve both quantity and qu a lity of protein in tortillas, about 10 to 15 per cent soy beans have been mixed with corn without modifying the ta ste. It was found that by doing this, protein in the tortilla could be raised from about 9 to 17 per cent and improve its biological value to a point where it compares very favorably with that of the protein in milk. The problem is growing the soy beans. So far, for various reason s, this hasn't been very success ful.

Other vegetables are grown to supplement co rn and beans. Besides supplying ad ditional protein and energy, they provide a good source of minerals and vitamins, expecially A, C, and B Complex.

Production has greatly expanded, from small plots between rows of citrus trees , to large-sca le production in half-hectare plots as part of regular farming operations.

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Every few weeks (weather permitting) half-hectare plots of "super swcet" sweet corn, calabacitas (squash), cucumbers, tomatoes and the highly nutritious "Tomates de Cascara," uscd in making delicious sauces to spice up the basic corn and bean diet, arc seeded. Usually these plOLS provide surpluses which can be sold to offset production costs.

Construction is now completed for the production of 5,000 broiler chickens every nine weeks, at an average weight of about 1.8 kg each. With an expected mortality rate of about 5 per cent, even with the best of care, each lot of 5,000 can be expected to produce about 8,555 kg of meat every nine to ten weeks, and, if repeated every ten weeks as planned, the venture can be expected to yield about 42,750 kg of meat per year. So far, broiler production is going well.

This is a self-sustaining poultry unit.

Thus, at the end of each nine-week growth pcriod, about 3,800 units (80 per cent of the survivors) with an average weight of 1.8 kg each, will be sold commercially to recover production costs. This will leave about 950 units (or about 1,710 kg of meat) for home consumption every ten weeks. When <lppropria te storage facilities become <lvailable, this will be used at the rate of 171 kg per week to improve the diet of pre-school children.

PI<lns are being made for milk

production at an ultimate rate of 300 litres per day. This can be done with a herd of 25 cows. Installations are well along. A silo for corn silage has been completed, and the corn to fill it is growing in the fields. About 30 tonnes of sorghum grain is on hand for supplemental feeding, and by-products from the production of the basic food staples will be used as roughage. A by-product of cows is, of course, manure which is of tremendous value in vegetable production.

Arrangements are being made with Friends of Our Little Brothers, Canada, to obtain funds for the purchase of additional cows.

In September, 1978, a fish project began at OLB. Its purpose is to supplement the diet of the children and to prepare young people for careers in the expanding field of fish culture. The major crop will be Golden Hybrid Tilapia (T. moambica X T. horonorum) . This fish has been chosen because of its appealing color, fast growth rate , wide range of tolerance to environmental conditions, and the fact that the cross-bred hybrid produces between 96 and 100 per cent male offspring, thereby minimizing the problem of over reproduction and stunting.

Fingerlings in production ponds receive kitchen scraps, waste from the tortilleria, and manure from 15 to 20 pigs in pens on a hillside above the ponds. Also, 100 to 200

ducks and geese hcl.p fertilize the ponds. It was estimated that, with a year-round growing season, this system would produce 10 to 15 tonnes of edib'le fish per year.

The water source for the fish project is a well. The water is pumped up and gravity-fed to the ponds. When necessary, de-oxygenated bottom water is drained from the ponds and used for irrigation of vegeta ble gardens below the fish ponds.

Other fish, such as t he herbivorous grass carp, are stocked in the ponds to take advantage of untapped food sources. It is planned to stock freshwater shrimp, and mussels, at a later date.

The farm provides interested members of the OLB family an opportunity to learn and gain experience in practical intensive food production systems involving a combination of plant, animal and fish production. This is especially valuable for those who are preparing themselves as rural school teachers. Also, there is a great demand for young people with this kind or knowledge and experience as rural developmen t workers.

OAC's Ponciano Dominguez is at present in charge of initiating production of broiler chickens, and handling a small herd of dairy cows that Friends of Our Little Brothers, Canada, have donated to the Orphanage. Jorge Antirico has gone on to study Business Administration at the Tecnologico in Monterrey, Mexico. 0

Anyone who desires to donate funds or

expertise 10 Our Lillie Brothers orphanage

home. or who requires further information

regarding the institution. please contact

Nora Stoskopj, J 2 Evergreen Drive.

Cuelph. Ontario NIC 2M6.

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At the orphanage. a herd of pigs feeds not only people but also fish which. in turn. feed people.

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he Ontario Veterinary College, according to the Annual Announcements (calendars) of Andrew Smith, principal and owner, was founded in Toronto in 1862. At that time, Smith was one of the lecturers during the winter course on agricultural subjects sponsored by the Board of Agriculture of Upper Canada.

It was not unti l 1866 that diplomas were issued to those who completed studies at what was referred to, in The Canada Farmer of that year, as the Upper Canada Veterinary School. The issue of May I, 1866, contains the following comment by publisher George Brown.

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Robert Robinson, OVC '66.

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"The final examination for the granting of diplomas to the pupils attending thi s school, was held on Tuesday the 26th of March last, within the Agricultural Hall, corner of Yonge an d Queen Streets, Toronto . Three students presented themselves for the certificate of the Board, having attended the prescribed number of sessions entitling them to a n examination for a diploma.

"We have already stated, in an earlier issue of our journal, that before a student is eligible for exam ination he must, at least, have attended the Veterinary School for three winter sessions, and at the sa me time must satisfy the teachers thereof, that he has seen a certain amount of practice with a qualified veterinary s urgeon. The session commences in the middle of January, and for professional students, extends to the end of March. In addition to this course. Mr. Smith has a class for dissection and anatomical demonstrations, commencing the 1st of November a nd lasting for one month. ''The examin a tion s were conducted verbally, similar to the examinations at the London and Edinburgh Veterinary Colleges, and the subjects on which they were examined were anatomy and physiology of the horse and other domestic an imals, the diseases of the horse, chemistry and veterinary materia medica.

The three gentlemen who went up for examination , a nd who were s uccessful in obtaining the certificate of the Boa rd of Agriculture declaring them qualified to

practice the veterinary ar ts in Canada, were

Robert Robinson, Tullamore, County of _

Peel; William Elliot, Sandhill, County of

Peel , and George Kempchell, Vaughan,

County of York.

"T he board of examiners consisted of Mr . Merrick and Mr. W a lters, veterinary surgeons, Royal Artillery; Mr. Hume, V.S., Hamilton, and Dr . Li za rs, Toronto; together with the teachers of the school, viz. , Mr. A. Smith, V.S. lecturer on anatomy and diseases of the horse; Mr.

D.M. McEachern, V.s., lecturer on //Iilleria medica: Dr. Bovell, and Professor Buckland, of Universi ty College. At the close of the examinations Mr. Merrick congratulated the several candidates on the successful manncr in which they comported themselves during a very stringent examination. The answers elicited showed a great amount of careful study; alike creditable to the pupils a nd to the teachers of' the school."

In 1870, the Upper Canad a Veterinary School was renamed the Ontario Veterinary College and the first Annual Annuuncements were mailed by Andrew Smith for the session of 1875-76. Annexed to the announcements was a register of graduates who held the Diploma of the Board of Agriculture . The earliest graduates are the three men mentioned in the 1866 article of George Brown with addresses now as follows: William Elliot , Elora; George kempchell , Ingersoll and Robert Robinson, Tullamore.

Until ea rly May of 1981 nothing was known of these first graduates. Through a chance visit to the OVC library by grandson Leonard Robinson, R. # 3, Everett, Ontario, we now have a brief history of Robert Robinson, V.S. (Ont.) \))66.

Leonard Robinson has, at his farm, many of the account books and other items from his grandfather's estate including the diploma shown in the accompanying photograph. This diploma is in excellent condition, in the original frame, and is highly trea sured by the Robin son family Only a brief story of Robert Robinson may be pieced together through family letters and articles in The Canada Farmer.

He was born in Armagh, freland on September 23, 1836. At the age of three or four he came with his parents to a farm in Vaughan Tow nship near Woodbridge, Ontario, later moving to lot 23, concession 5, Chillguacousy Township, Peel county.

He wa s educated at the Brampton Grammar School and attended medical

With their grandfather's 1866 dipluma are, left, Ella Thompson and, right, Leonard Robinson. Centre is Leonard's wife, Wilma.

sc hool in Toronto for three years.

During this time his home address was TullalllOre, a smal l village containing a few stores and St. Mary's Anglican Church of which he was superintendent. Reverend Carey of this church advised him to discontinue medici ne as a career, because the profession was overcrowded, and to enter the ministry. fnste ad Robinson attended the Upper Canada Veterinary School. A few months after graduation, in a letter to George Brown that was published in The Canada Farmer, he relates his handling of a nearly strangled horse, sav ing the animal's life by tracheotomy Until about 1869, Tullamore boasted of having one of the路 first Canadian veterinary su rgeons competent eno ugh to be asked by Andrew Smith to be part of his College faculty. Robinson did not accept but acted occasionally as a n external examine r of final-year students.

In 1869 Robinson married Mary Jane Graham (born in Ontario on August 18, 18 37) and th a t year they built a home on a farm (lot I , concession 7, Albion township) near Tormore, about three miles south of Bolton, Ontario. Mrs. Robinson wa s, for a few years, the local postmist ress while her hu sban d farmed a nd practised as a veterinary surgeon. I n their home, shown in the accompanying photo, three sons and two daught ers were born. The last surviving son died, at age '137 , a few weeks after his neph ew visited the OVC library. This was unfortunate because an interview with him could have provided much more information about Robert Robinso n.

Robert Robinso n died on August 22, 1901, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bolton, Ontario . For the las t few years of his life his health precluded extensive farming and most of his land was rented for pasturing cattle. Handbills advertising his pasture for rent a re part of the historic materials in the estate. In addition there are personal American Civil War letters and family photos. The accompan ying photo of him is not dated.

Instruments used in his practice were dispersed about 1933 . Some 01' these have been identified in th e County of Peel Museum an d Art Gallery, Brampton , Ontario. Mrs. Robinson died on April 2, 1915, a nd is buried in the same cemetery as her hu sband.

Leonard Robinson intends to have the 1866 diploma and his grandfather'S photo ret ained by his sons. The diploma is a very valua ble source of inform ation on the early history of th e College, supplementing the articles of George Brown and advertising of Andrew Smith which appea red in Th e Canada Farm er between 1862 and 1875.

Very little information is ava ilabl e concerning the course of studies super vised

by Andrew Smith or on the method of exam ination for the diploma.

Th e Robinson diploma shows dates of March 27, 1866 and May I , 1866. The reason for the difference in dates is related to the meeting of the Boa rd of Agriculture.

The examiners held oral examinations on March 27th and, it ca n be assumed, at the conclusion held a meeting to discuss the ca ndidates. Eventu a lly each exa miner signed the diploma. The examination date does not coincide with the meeting of the Board of Agriculture, thus final ap proval was not given until the Board's meeting in Toronto on May Ist, a ttested by the signatu re of the President. As of that date, Robert Robinson was approved by the Board to practise as a veterinary surgeon.

The diploma has t he signa t u re of Duncan McEachran, Edinburgh , 186 1, a cla ssmate of Andrew Smith who came to Canada in 1862, pra ctised in Woodstock, Ontario, a nd was a faculty member of the veterinary school until he disagreed with Smith over admi ssion standards. The Robinson diploma is probabl y one of the first a nd last attesting to McEachran's association with the school.

Can we visualize Smith a nd McEachran signing this diploma at the same time~ Were they still on friendly terms in March 1866~ fnOctober 1866 McEachran established his own school, th e Montreal Veterinary College, with standards of admission higher than those in Toronto. McEachran and Smith su bsequently disagreed violently on veterinary education and McEachran's Montrea l Veterinary College eventu a lly closed in 1903 after becoming part of McGill University Finally, how wa s this diploma stored for /15 year s~ Proba bly in farmhouse a ttics a nd, latterly, in the upper rooms of the Leon a rd Robinson farm home, naturally air-conditioned . It is hoped this important artifact of OVC history will continue to survive, in its virtually original sta te, in the Robinson family. 0

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proves to have potential. crop scientists. weed specialists and plant geneticists involved in the rcsea rch would work on methods of cultivation. harvesting and increas ing the yield.

Oil-producing plants may become a valuable so urce of some type of oils, but it will be virtually impossible to grow enough oil to satisfy North American demand .

Professor Rattra y cites research that estimates 700 million aC res of non-edible oil crops would be required to meet the annual dem a nd for oil in the United States. Only 300 million acres are now under cultivation for all types of agricultural production in the U.S. He feels, thollgh, that inedible oil crops could supply some of the raw materials for the petroc hemical industry, which currently uses only a small portion of the total crude oil consumed.

Plant Compounds From Cell Cultures

By Mary Cocivera

he medicine man of times past acquired his power from a knowledge of plant-derived mag ic cures, includ ing hallucinogens, pain killers, fever red ucers and skin sa lves . Modern doctors still use drugs derived from plants. vaccines from micro-organisms, and antibodies from a nimals.

Scientists today are taking renewed interest in such natural chemica l factories as plants, bacteria and yeasts, drawing on a host of 20th century biotechnologies to induce a variety of living "factories" to produce medically or economically important compounds.

Weeds the world over are being scrutinized anew as possible sources of petrochemicals a nd fuels, for which North America has develo ped an almost insatiable appe tite. Soaring fuel prices, uncertain supplies, and the alarming dependence on imported oil have spurred the sea rch for oil substitutes.

This search has turned up some interesting oil sources in the plant kingdom: the Cobaifera langsdorfii tree in the Brazilian jungle produces a sap nearly identical to diesel fuel; the jojoba bush in

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California yields a substitute for spe rm oil, and the gopher plant (Euphorbia) produces a petroleum-type oil. Closer to home, the ubiquitou s milkweed has the potential to supply petroleum-like compounds for the petrochemical indust ry.

Milkweed: A New Lease on Life

That milkweed could become economically important may stagge r th e legions of farmers who wage a continual battle aga inst this tenacious perennial.

Biochemist Professor Hamis h Rattray, Dcpartment of Chemistry, College of Physica l Science, sees milkweed not as a weed but as a crop of potential economic importance. Its characteristic milk y latex sap is a mi xture of compounds including fatty su bsta nces dispersed in water. These fatty materials could be used either as a fuel or in the production of plastics, lubricants a nd other industrial chemicals.

Dr. Rattray is involved in research on milkweed, sow thistle a nd two species of spurge to determine their la tex content, th e variability of the latex content over the growing seaso n and the exact chemical c'omposition of the sap. If milkweed sap

The medicine man had crude, but effective, ways of getting the active chemical compounds from plants- he chewed, mashed , pulverized, boiled or dried the plant to make potions. sa lves or incense.

Chemists involved with sy nthetics have succeeded in duplicat ing many natural compounds, a nd for so me "natural" compounds, such as vitamin C, sy nthesis is the cheapest method of production. Other natural products a re so chemicaHy complex that sy nthesis has not been achieved or is not commercially feasible.

Compounds th a t are still extracted from plants include digitalis, codeine and the steroids used to make oral contraceptives. Commercial extrac tion methods are more refined than the techniques used by medicine men, a nd most of the plants are grown as crops instead of coll ected in the wild.

With tiss ue culture techniques now bcing developed, it may be possible to circ umvent growing, ha rvesting and extractio n to obtain these medically importa nt compounds. Tissue culture involves growing clones of plant cells on a chemical medium in a laboratory. If these clones can be induced to prod uce the ac tive compounds found in the mother plant, they become living chemical factories that are ind epe ndent of climate, soil fertility, location or the labor force . Professor Brian Ellis, a plant bi oche mist with the Department of Chemistry, predicts that sy nthesis of compounds by plant cultures has definite possibilities, but he warns that there are still major hurdles to be overcome.

Pharmaceutical companies, in search of cheaper, more dependable sources of plant-derived medicinal compound s, plunged into tissu e culture in a big way 20

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years ago when the techniques were first developed. They succeeded in growing beautiful cultures but, disappointingly, the cultures didn't produce the desired compounds. About five years ago, plant biochemists started looking more closely at thcse cultured tissues and discoverd that the apparently homogeneous cultures were in fact heterogeneous. There is a large degree of variability within the culture and in individual cells' ability to produce chemical compounds.

A High Degree of Randomness

By looking at individual cells in a culture, Dr. Ellis can find individual highly productive cells, but he warns "We cannot guarantee that single high· producing cells will lead to high·producing cultures. There appears to be a high degree of randomness."

Using a technique called microspectrophotometry, Professor Ellis can measure the absorption of ultraviolet (U. V.) light by a single cell and use the data to calculate the chemical production level of the cell. If more than one compound is involved, as he suspects is often the case, the U.V. absorption technique cannot identify the individual compounds, but by adding U.V. Ouorescence analysis to his microscopic technique, he hopes to provide a qualitative and diagnostic dimension to the study of individual cells.

Many biologically active plant derivatives may in fact be mixtures of compounds rather than individual, isolated compounds, and the activity may depend on synergistic effects. Dr. Ellis feels it isn't unreasonable to expect that tissue cultures could be a source of these active mixtures.

This study of tissue cultures is leading to a better understanding of the basic mechanism of chemical production in plants. "These plant chemical systems are exquisite, complex systems," says Professor Ellis. "Plants have had to adapt to their environment and one of their major resources has been chemical versatility.

They cannot escape; they have to stand and fight." Specifically, he is trying to determine what factors inOuence chemical production; whether each cell has the potential to manufacture every compound found in the whole plant; how specialization occurs within the tissues, and what triggers and shuts off production of specific compounds at specific times in the plant's life cycle.

Biosynthesis With Mlcro·organisms

Commercial·scale production of chemicals from plant cultures is still in its infancy, but micro·organisms have been used for centuries in industrial processes

such as wine and cheese production. Recent significant strides in recombinant DNA technology have fueled intense scientific and commercia I interest in microbial biosynthesis. Molecular biologists are now developing ways to get micro·organisms to produce new compounds and to excrete the substances they produce, thus eliminating the necessity of sacrificing a productive culture to collect the products. Elegant new techniques involve embedding the organisms in a gel and continually Oushing with chemicals to nourish the cells and carry away the compounds produced and excreted.

The bacterium Escherichia coli has been the focus of much of this interest because it has been extensively studied. Its genetics are relatively well understood and there are proven methods of maintaining productive colonies. The Chemistry Department's Professor Janet Wood, a biochemist interested in molecular biology, calls E. coli an "ideal chemical factory." It is rapidly self·duplicating (generation time is as little as 20 minutes) and with gene splicing techniques now being developed, it could be tailor·made to produce any of a whole range of biochemical compounds.

E. coli is a fairly typical bacterium. Its chromosome is a single DNA molecule.

Within this molecule are the blueprints for the potential manufacture of 2,500 to 3,000 proteins.

Strains of E. coli are now availa ble that can make clinically·important proteins previously available only by extracting animal tissues. For example, the hormone insulin, and the anti·viral factor interferon, can be produced by special strains of E. coli. Alternatively, gene splicing can also equip organisms with new and useful capabilities such as the ability to consume oil spills or degrade environmental pollutants.

Still Some Barriers to Hurdle

Several obstacles remain between the new biotechnology and widespread commercial·scale use. When the structure of the DNA molecule was revealed in the '50s, it seemed that the method of genetic expression in all living things was basically similar. Molecular biologists have since . discovered that there are fundamental differences between prokaryotes like E. coli and eukaryotes like yeasts and higher plants and animals.

Professor Wood says that eukaryotes go through a more complex editing process in translating the sequence of nucleotides in the DNA molecule into a sequence of amino acids in an enzyme or other protein.

These inter·species barriers have hindered the transfer of genetic segments from higher organisms into bacterial cells. Now,

she says, "tricks" have been devised that permit the expression of eukaryotic genes in bacteria. Alternately, eukaryotic genes can be transferred to a eukaryotic micro· organism such as yeast.

Besides the inherent difference in the way the genetic code is edited and expressed, there are other major problems.

Foreign proteins are sometimes unstable in the producing bacterial culture. Living systems, even the relatively simple E. coli, are finely·tuned factories. The built·in roadblocks to runaway production of any single substance must be overridden in a producing culture.

Dr. Wood's research, focusing on the mechanism of transfer of substances across the cell membrane, could have an impact on the design of organisms that excrete the substances they produce. A related interest is the amino acid metobolism within the bacterial cell, particularly the production and breakdown of the amino acid proline.

She is working on a strain of E. coli that would produce and excrete large quantities of proline.

In this redesigned organism, the built·in control mechanism for limiting proline production would be overridden, proline breakdown would be prevented, and proline would be easily transferred from inside to outside the cell. If a proline producing culture is achievable, she reasons, it should be possible to develop strains of E. coli that excrete not only the amino acids, but other important nutrients and such compounds as antibiotics.

The far·reaching quest for renewable resources has brought scientists face·to·face with plants, plant cultures and microbes as potential sources of pharmaceuticals, fuels, nutrients, industrial chemicals and biological compounds. Previously ignored "weeds" may become crops of economic importance and biotechnology will continue to open new vistas for the production of substances beneficial to man. 0

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The 2nd Annual "Western Connection" has come and gone. The 1981 "w.e." picnic was an overwhelming success.

Some 50 alumni and family members were present at this year's picnic. The picnic was held at the home of Bill Ma cMillan, OAC '48, near Sanford, Manitoba. The lovely outdoor selling

Our many thanks goes out to all

and the warm hospitality conveyed by the MacMillans made the event very who contributed in making this "w.e."

enjoyable. t he best ever.

The day's activities began with rib­

Thanks, tickling reminiscing, and was followed by a barbecue which was second to none.

Bill Charlton, OAC '78 The picnic finished with games f or 649 Linden Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 young and old.

the first time have sufficient advanced standing not to be classified a s Semester I. The increase in Semester 1 of the B. Comm. program was planned. 0

Enrolment Climbing Total full-time and part-time undergrad­ uate enrolment at the University of Guelph is up 3.1 per cent over last year, according to figures released by the Office of the Registrar.

A total of 10,515 full-time and part-time undergraduate students are on campus this fall, compared to 10,198 last year. This fall's enrolment is also up over the projected target of 10,435.

The best enrolment news is in the B.A. program where there is a 10.8 per cent increase in full-time freshman en­ rolment over 1980, and a 10.3 per cent increase in total enrolment over 1980.

Full-time undergraduate enrolment in the General Studies program continues to climb, as anticipated, with a 26 per cent increase in Semester I enrolment over last fall and a 39 per cent increase in total enrolment over last year.

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The B.Sc. program is also up in total b y 3.2 per cent, as well as the Associate Diploma in Agriculture pro­ gram which has increased by 4 per cent.

Declines in total enrolments a re noted in B.sc. (Agr.) and B.sc. (H.K .) programs and an anomaly exists in Se­ mester I of the B.L.A. program where students coming into the program for

Part-time 1981

B.A. B.Sc. Gen. Studies Other TOTAL

Target

1980

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360 81 414 225

360 81 414 225

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1080

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1981

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1980

Total 1981

1980

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI BULLETIN

Editor:

Dr. Cliff Barker, '41.

Our New P resident Graduates of the University Avenue (Toronto) era of the OVC will recall the new and modern anatomy laboratory and the anatomical instruction of Dr. Herman D. Nelson.

Dr. Bill Thomson, '22, sent this photo of the class of '22, taken in 1919.

Dr. Thomson was employed for many years by the Health and Animal s Branch in Western Canada. After retir­ ing, he served many years as secretary­ treasurer and registrar of the British Columbia Veterinary Medica l Associ a­ tion, being succeeded a few years ago by Dr. J.A. Forsyth, ' 58 .

I f anyone has any addresses of these OVC gradua tes from 1922, we would appreciate them.

Students presently at the OVC may also recognize the white heavy dissection tables, moved from Toronto to Guelph in 1921 and still in use a t Guelph . 0

Korean Son

Professor Young-So Lee, former dean of the Veterinary College at Seoul Nation­ al University in Korea, visited Dean Douglas Maplesden, '50, at the Ontario

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Dr. A.J . "Archie" Mc Kinnon, '43, of Cambridge, Ontario, was elected Presi­ dent of the OVC Alumni Associ a tion at the Annual General Meeting in June.

Following gradu a tion , he served in World War Two and then joined Con­ naught Laboratories Ltd ., Toronto. Dur­ ing pa rt of 1945, and until 1947 he was a member of the Department of Pathol­ ogy a t Guelph. From 1947 to 1962 he was in general practice, firstly in Rich­ mond Hill and then in Cambridge. He has been managing director of Salsbury Labora tories Ltd. , Kitchener, since 1962.

He has been a councillor of the Ontario Veterinary Association, a direc­ tor for four years of the OVC Alumni Association, a director and president of the Canadian Animal Health Institute; a director of the Canadian Feed Industry Association; a member of Senate, Uni­ versity of Guelph; a member of federal and provincial drug advisory committees and is a member of the Rotary Club of Galt.

Archie, his wife, Pa t, and daughter are sailors, skiing enthusiasts and occa­ sional farmers. 0

Class of '22 Identified

Dr. Thomson has identified the students and fa culty in this 1922 photo as follows: frolll row, lefl 10 righl: H.I Tingley , W. Thomson, C.R . Penhall, A.L. Ni cholas, O.A. FOSler, M.D . Lumsden, Dr. HD . N elson , '12, C. W. Smilh . Back row, lefL 10 righl: R.R. Ormislon , E.F. Johnslon , HE . Erick son, HM . Owers , H.H. Anderson, E. W. Bond and HM. Honeywood.

Veterinary College recently.

Professor Lee's main interest to visiting Guelph stems from the close association he had with the late Profes­ sor Francis W. Schofield, '10, who was head of Pathology at the Ontario Veteri­ nary College when he retired in 1955.

Born in Rugby, England, in 1889, Dr. Schofield had been a missionary in Korea many years ago and returned there in his retirement. He died in 1970.

Dr . Lee's link with Dr. Schofield was so close that he referred to himself as Dr. Schofield's Korean "son." 0

Retired Dr. A.E. Ferguson, '50, retired las t May after 29 years as an OVC faculty mem­ ber. Graduating from the OAC in 1938 with a B.S .A., he immediately became a member of the OAC Department or Poultry Husbandry and, in 1939, re-

A Put-Down

This form le tter was sent by th e OVC Regi strar to women applicants for ad­ mission to the College. At th a t time , the College was responsible to the Depa rt­ ment of Agriculture , Province of On­ tario, a nd affiliated with th e University of Toront o.

April 14, 1959

Dear Miss In response to your recenl lell er. I am happy to forward a brochure which describes th e course in Veterinary M ed­ icine at this College. It will. I believe, answer m ost of th e questions you ha ve ill mind.

I think I should point out 10 you that as things now stand. professional openings for women in the veterinary jield are rather limited. Certainly. there are openings in research and laboratory work. but few women are suitable for establishing themselves in large animal practice. For this reason. and also be­ cause we have a preponderance of male

In Memoriam Dr. A.H. Kennedy, '29, Port Willi a ms, N .S ., on January 19, 1981. Dr. Kennedy was a fa culty membe r of the OVC for seve ra l yea rs, tea c hing di sea ses of rur­ bearing animals. He received the D.V .Sc. degree from the University of Toronto in 1933 .

Dr. H.E. Macdonald, '29, of 905 Broad­ view Ave., Toronto. (Date unknown) .

He received the OAC Diploma in Ag ri­ culture in 1924. A nephew is Dr. H.K .

Brown, '50.

ccived the OAC diploma as a Poultry Specialis t.

From 1942 to 1946, he se rved in th e RCAF . While on leave of absence from th e OAC during 1946-1950 he at te nded th e OVC graduated in 19 50, a nd, in 1952, tra nsfe rred to the OVC faculty to become poultry di ag nosti c lab.o ratory di­ re c tor in 1954.

In 1969, he became a faculty mem-

applicants. our Comrnillee on Admis­ siollS is held to a quota of four women per year. these to be granted admission on a competitive basis.

Criteria of selection may include academic transcript s. past interests. age. Inotivation and future plans . and any other factors which the Commillee deem s relevant. Also. it is our policy to defer th e applications of women until the files of male applicant s have been reviewed . I may say. in conclusion. that competition for entrance is unus ually keen at the presen t time .

If you are the kind of person who f eels that veterinary medicine is th e professional goa l for you, th ese fa cts should 110t deter you in your resolve to becom e a veterinarian. They are out­ lifled to give you a clear and fair picture of how your application will be dealt with. and of the possibilities for success in yo ur chosen vocation. Yours truly .

REGISTRAR. Ed. note: T ake hea rt la dies- tim es have really changed. In the class of '85 the men are outnumbered by 62 to 58 ' 0

Dr. A.H. Watt, '35, of 287 Vansittart Ave., W oodstock. June II, 1981. Dr. W a tt pra ctised for ma ny yea rs in Wood· s toc k until his hea lth forced him into retirement. During hi s College years he was an active wres tl er, competing in the Briti s h Empire Games.

Dr. F. Rushton, '36, of Toronto, on June 27,1981.

be r or the De pa rtment of Clinical Stud­ ies, re tirin g as Professo r. In 1980 he was awarded emeritus s tatu s in the North Eastern Conference on Avian Diseases and, in 1981, received the Award of M e rit from the Ontario Poultry Council.

Dr. Ferguson has a uthored , or co­ authored, numerous sc ient ific pa pers and popula r a rticl es on diseases of poul­ try and hou se hold bird s. 0

Nominations please The O.V.c. Alumni Association Honours and Awards Committee invites nominations for the O. V.c.

Distinguished Alumnus Award.

The award recognizes an alumnus of the O.V.c. who has brought great honour to his or her Alma Mater and fellow alumni through significant contributions of leadership and service to one or more of: country, community, sci­ ence, education, profession and/or Alma Mater.

Please forward your nomina­ tion by January 15, 1982 to Ho­ nours and Awards Committee Chairman, O.V.c. Alumni Associ­ ation, Department of Alumni Af­ fairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG

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Agriculture in 1948 and was a ppointed Deputy Ministe r in 1975 .

Dr. A.L.W. Harris, '46, of Coburg, the spring or 198 1.

In

Dr. R.L. Saito, '49, of Edmonton, Alta., on June 30, 1981.

Dr. G.R. Collier, '66, of Penhold, Alta., on May 19, 1981.

Dr. W,J, Storry, '41, of Lucky Lake, Sa sk., in November 1980.

Dr, J.G. O'Donoghue, '42, Deput y Min­ ister of Agriculture, Albert a, July 4, 198/ . He joined th e Department of

Alumni Assoc iation Pas t Presidents' wi ves who died in June 1981 were: Mrs. A.E. Cameron, Ottawa, and Mrs. H.M. LeGard, W eston. 0

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The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US

Editor: Brad Coddington, '72.

Our Executive for '8 1-'8 2

HONORARY PRESIDENT:

Dr. John Vanderkamp, Dean.

PRESIDENT:

Barbara (Porter) Hinds, '74.

PAST PRESIDENT:

Jim Dance, '74.

DIRECTORS:

Nancy Mott, '81. Tim Norman, '80.

Dorothy Barnes, '78. Brad Coddington, '72. John Curry, '70. Jeff Jennings, '69.

Grant Lee, '73. Tom Poier, '78. John Watson, '69. Sandra (Pickford) Web­

ster, '75.

VICE-PRESIDENT:

Michael McKean, '74.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR:

Rob Cleave, President, CSS Student

Government.

TREASURER:

Jim Dance, '74.

UGAA V.P.:

Peter Anderson, '68.

SECRETARY:

Pat (Honey) Lonergan, '68.

UGAA DIRECTORS:

Alvin Jory, '74. Ross Parry, '80.

At a Recent Board Meeting Were ...

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I Front row: Barbara (Porter) Hinds, '74; Pat (Honey) Lonergan, '68; Nancy MOI/, '81; Dorothy Barnes, '78, and John Curry, '70. Back row: Brad Coddington, '72; Michael McKean, '74; Grant Lee, '73; Jim Dance, '74; Jeff Jennings, '69; Tim Norman, '80, and John Watson. '69.

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RSS Mee ting

August 18 to 23 saw a gathering of more than 200 participants (the untime­ ly mail strike caused registration to be lower than expected) at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Socie­ ty (RSS).

This is only the second time the RSS has had its annual meeting in Canada. Members attended from Cana­ da, the U.S., Mexico and France.

Professors Eleanora Cebotarev and Hans Bakker, of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, were co­ chairmen of the meeting at which a special effort was made to invite French­ speaking members to share their re­ search experiences, and to this end, a translation service was provided.

Field trips offered participants an opportunity to view, at first-hand, some of the more interesting aspects of this region's agricultural areas.

One of the field trips allowed par­ ticipants to compare Mennonite farming with other farming activities in the dis­ trict.

A second field trip offered an op­ portunity to view "Change and the Con­ flict in the Urban Fringe" as illustrated by the escarpment lands adjacent to high-value food land and the city of Burlington.

Eugene Whelan, federal Minister of Agriculture, presented an opening-night address on "The Importance of Agricul­ ture in Today's Society."

A second guest speaker, Dr. Gon­ zalo Arroyo, from the Centre de Re­ cherche sur l'Amerique Latine et Ie Tiers Monde based in Mexico and Paris, presented "Comparative Analysis of Ag­ ricultural Development in Several Latin American Countries."

Other topics dealt with farm la­ bour, rural development, the changing structure of agriculture, rural planning practice, and group farming. 0

Departmental News Geography Department Activity on many fronts characterizes the present state of the Department. A rcvised undergraduate curriculum has cume into operation and an attractive brochure prepared by Professor Mike Moss outlines the na turc of the program which provides a greater degree of inte­ gration between the various specializa­ tions within the discipline.

Professor Alun Joseph acted as co­ ordinator of the London Semester dur­ ing the winter semester and he, along with Professors Philip Keddie and Bill Nickling, took a field party of students tu south-west England in late August.

Members of the Department con­ tinue their involvement in the multidisci­ plinary Land Evaluation Project with Professor Barry Smit as research direc­ tor. Professor Julius Mage began a majur new interdisciplinary research project on foreign land ownership in Ontario. Professors Jackie Wolfe contin­ ues with a major role in the work of the R.D.O.P. Professors Kenneth Kelly and Mike Moss are both working on books, Professor Robin Davidson-Arnott has

Grad News 1968 Marg Forbes is employed by the Wel­ lington County Board of Education and is teaching at Centre Wellington Dis­ trict High School in Fergus.

1969

cxtended his research on beach shore processes and Professor Gerald Bloom­ field continues research on the multi­ university Historica l Atlas of Canada project.

Severa I mem bers presented pa pers at the Lus Angeles meeting of the Asso­ ciation of American Geographers in April. Papers were presented by Profes­ sors Fred Dahms, Reid Kreut zwiser, Julius Mage, Barry Smit and K.C. Tan at the Canadian Associ a tion of Geogra­ phers meeting at Corner Brook, New­ foundl a nd , in early August.

Departmental personnel has been enhanced by visiting faculty. Shaf H. Rahman and Dr. Brian T. Preston have been active in the teaching program visitor from Auckland , New Zealand.

Two new visitors joined the Department in September.

Professor K.C. Tan returned from a sabbatical leave spent partly in China and Professor Kenneth Kelly will be spending part of his leave in London working on the India Office archives.

Other sabbatical pla ns for faculty in 1982 include research in the arid areas of Arizona and the agricultural regions of New Zealand .

Psychology Department Professor Roland Chrisjohn Joined the Psychology faculty in July, replacing

1971 David Barnum is in Edmonton, Alberta, working for Guaranty Trust as an assist­ ant mortgage manager.

1972 John Duchene is employed by the Na­ panee Region Conservation Authority as general manager.

Robert Wigmore is an assistant vice­ president with BBC Realty Investors in Calgary, Alberta.

David Kwasnicki is working in Moncton, N.B., as na tional sales manager of Ca­ vendish Farms.

1970

1973

David Coons is working for the Ontario Ministry of Na tural Resources in Thun­ der Bay as a recreational areas foreman.

Mary (Bishop) Robertson is employed as an education officer with the Ontario Agricultural Museum in Milton.

Michael Miner is managing director of International Briefing Associates In Vancouver, B.C.

Pieta (Van Dyke) Schneider works as research officer with the Ministry of Labour in Victoria, B.C. 0

Professor Larry Cousins. In September Professors Mary-Ann Evans and She­ lagh Towson joined the faculty on term appointments, replacing Professors Gor­ don Hemsley, Anita Myers, and Jean Walters who held similar appointments.

ProCessurs Harry Hurwitz and Andrew Winston rejoin the faculty a fter sabbati­ cal leaves and Professor Michael Sobol began his sabbatical year in September.

There has been a striking increase in the number of research grants award­ cd to facu Ity in 1981. The number of NSERC and SSHRC grants exceeds th a t of all previous years. Increasing rcsearch interest in gerontology is sig­ naled by substantial grants awarded in­ dependently to Professors Linda Wood, Dan Yarmey, and Wayne Gatehouse, who a re investigating different aspects of aging. Professor Ben Gottlieb has received a "re-orientation" grant from SSHRC which releases him from regu­ lar duties to study and plan research in gerontology.

The Department's B.Sc. program in psychology is now in place. A new faculty venture is the establishment of psychology prizes, the first of which were awarded last fall. An award for graduate students is being set up in memory of the late Dr. John Tong, and the Department is pleased to acknowl­ cdge the contribution of College of So­ ci a l Science alumni to this venture. 0

Speakers

Wanted

Your Association is planning a Careers Day on Saturday, January 23, 1982, to present to College of Social Science students an oppor­ tunity to talk to people from a wide variety of occupations. Alum­ ni who are interested in participat­ ing as speakers and require further information are asked to contact Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, or Donna Webb at the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, Level 4, Uni versity Centre, Univer­ sity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N 1G 2WI. (519) 824-4120 Ext. 2122.

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The College of Biological Science Alumni Association

BIO-ALUMNI NEWS CBS Alumni Association

A Bengal Tiger and Three

Pachyderms

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Professor Keith Ronald, Dean.

PRESIDENT: Jim Gallivan, B.sc.'73, Fisheries & Wildlife Biology, M.Sc. '77, Zoology .

PAST PRESIDENT: AI Sippel, B.Sc. '75, Fisheries & Wildlife Biology, M.Sc. '77, Pathology.

VICE-PRESIDENT: Les Dunn, B.sc.

'76, Fisheries & Wildlife Biology .

SECRETARY-TREASURER: Marie Rush, B.sc. '80, Marine Biology.

DIRECTORS: Sheena Bamsey, B.Sc. '77, Microbiology; George Dixon, PH.D. '80; Kathy Knipe , B.Sc. '79 Biological Science; John McCutcheon, B.Sc. '72, Food Science, M.Sc. '77 , Nutrition; Margo Tant, B.Sc. '76, Zoology; Jan Watson, B.Sc. '75, Marine Biology.

UGAA VICE-PRESIDENT: Moccia, B.Sc. '76, Marine M.sc. '79 , Zoology.

Editor: Dr. John Powell.

Richard Biology,

PRESIDENT, STUDENT COUNCIL: Leslie Slight.

Mike Hackenberger, B.Sc. '81, Zoology, past-president of the College of Biologi­ cal Science Students' Council and hard worker for Horizons ' 8 I, has swung his interests to the husbandry of three Afri­ can elephants and a Bengal tiger.

His work as contract consultant at the African Lion Safari, near Cam­ bridge, seven da ys each week, gives him the opportunity of prosecuting his life­ work: the breeding of threatened species and, eventually, the introduction of cap­ tive-bred progeny to a natural environ­ ment.

Mike can justify animals in captiv­ ity ". , .not from an exploitive point of view but for maintaining genetic viabili­ ty. Elephants need assistance now ­ other species later," he said, continuing with "do you realise the veloc ity of popUlation drop in Africa is alarming.

Twenty years ago there were 20 million

elephants, today they number but one million."

Sophie, the only African elephant in North America which givcs rides, has Mike in charge of her training, the presentation of acts, and the World Wild-Life Fund benefits, receiving 10 percent of all of Sophie's earnings.

"She's not afraid of mice but when a duck ling squeaked at her, she turned and ran lik e mad. " He is training the Bengal tiger as an educational animal to assist him to "preach the preservational conservation­ al ethic, particularly in schools, and already has it riding the elephant-quite a fea t.

Soon, he will be receiving two more I'cmale e le phants and one male; for breeding purposes, and his life will be packed with pachyderms.

In the winter he inte nds to follow a "physi o logical - nutritional bent " in graduate school at either Guelph or Michigan State, studying wh a t?-ele­ phants of course. 0

College Honour Roll-Winter '81 Home town

Semester 5: FACULTY ADVISORS: Microbiolo­ gy-Professor Margaret Hauser, OAC '46; Botany & Genetics- Professor Lue­ Kim, OAC '61; Zoology-Professor Dennis Lynn, B.Sc. '69 , Marine Biology; Nutrition- Professor Olga Marti nez; Human Biology-Professor John Powell.

EDITOR, BIG-ALUMNI NEWS: Professor John Powell , Human Biology.

SMITH, Dean.

87.6 ADAMS, Linda.

86.8 BRITTON-FOSTER,Tim. 86.2

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Listowel.

Westmount , Que.

Toronto.

89.2 89.2 85.2

Unspecialized.

Microbiology.

Unspecialized.

Brockville.

Woodslee.

Toronto.

91.6

Unspecialized.

POrl

Semester 6:

McGUIRE, Marcia.

RUTTEN , Henrietta .

FISH ER, Richard.

Semester 8:

GEALE, John.

Please help us to help you.

When corresponding, or up­ dating information or address, do tell us not only your year of graduation but your discipline.

Human Biology.

Unspecialized.

Unspecialized.

Hope.

Henrietta Rutten and Richard Fisher received the award for the second time.

The College of Biological Science Gold Medalist for this year is Mary Murdoch - Human Kinetics.

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B.Sc. '69

Graduate

News

Catherine (Robinson) Badger lives at 151 Woodlawn Avenue, Brantford.

Dr. Jim Irwin whose wife, Jane (Taylor) graduated in '75, has a double interest; that of farmer and reeve. His respective addresses are Thistledown Farm and Local Government District of Park, Lake Andy, Manitoba.

B.Sc. (H.K.) Geoff Cox, '70, is still teaching in Corn­ wall. A new arrival is Brendan, the same name as Brian Ker's son. Brian, '70, is working at the "Y" in Belleville.

Murray and Nancy (Bernhardt) Peavoy, '70, wish to hear from you and introduce you to their three children Chris, Jan and Beverly Lynn; Box 232, Mattawa, finds them.

Stephen Warmington, '72, is a teacher with the Wellington County Board of Education in Guelph and lives at R.R. i't 3. Fergus. H is brother is studying at thc OVe. William Macdougald, '74, his wife and children, Julie, Laura and Jeff, would like you to call if travelling near Strat­ ford. He's a farmer. R.R. #1, Fullerton.

(519) 229-6647.

Claude Bourassa, '76, IS a chiropractor and he and his wife live at 142, 5th Avenue, Cochrane.

Rodney Palmer, '76, and Sheree, his wife , live at R.R. #3, Corbyville . He is a teacher at Brockville Collegiate.

Kathleen Howard's parents both gra­ duated from Guelph and Kathleen now works as a program developer for Parks and Recreation in Thunder Bay. She graduated in '77 .

Dennis Levesque, '77, and his wife, De­ borah, live at 4 Pachino St., C FB Peta­ wawa, where Dennis is a lieutenant and a pi ,lot.

Barbara Sault, '77, now lives at 16 Hopperton Drive, Willowdale, having graduated from the University of Wind­ sor.

Marilyn Neal, '78, is a n orienta tion and mobility specialist at Sir Frederick Fras­ er School, 5722 University Ave ., Hali­ fax, Nova Scotia.

B.Sc. '7) AI Coutts is a microbiologist with Mol­ son Brewery (Ontario) Ltd. whose com­ pany address is 640 Fleet Street, Toron­ to.

B.Sc. '73 Donna (Uren) Hainish ha s moved from Brampton and her new address is 1958 Burnhamthorpe Rd. E., Mississauga.

Dr. Jacqueline (Jenkins) Sower by and John, OVC '69, may be contacted via Box 106, King City.

Yosh Yasui and wife, Cristine, Arts '75, live in Hamilton, although he is a con­ sultant with Environmental Consulting Services Ltd., 70, The Esplanade, To­ ronto .

B.Sc. '76 Joanne (Miller) Hinton is a chartered accountant , married to Davie, '75, living at 2515-17th St., Calgary, Alta.

Joanne's brother, Don Miller, graduated from the OAC in '78.

Kathy Martin is currently studying a t the University of Utrecht, the Nether­ lands on a Rotary Scholarship, her home address is R.R. #8 , St. Thomas.

Eric Richard and his wife, Elizabeth (Litke), '76, who also graduated in Biol­ ogy, live in New Brunswick where Eric is chief agriculturist to the New Bruns­ wick Beekeepers Association. Elizabeth is a technician in chemical engineering at the University of N.B.

B.Sc. '74 Mike O'Reilly is married to Louise (Pammelt), Arts '72. They live at 305 Sandford St., Apt 110, Newmarket.

Mike is currently finishing further post­ graduate studies in instrumental engi­ neering technology.

Tim Ross is an assi s tant grower wit h Leaver Mushrooms in Campbellville.

B.Sc. '77 Ken Allison (Fish & Wildlife) and wife, Ruth (Smith), FACS '75, live at 282 'D' Craig Henry Drive, Nepean.

B.Sc. '75 Barry Allen works as a project teacher for the Alberta Board of Education in Calgary. His father is Dr. L. Allen, OVC

'51.

Deborah (Bradley) Darby and husband, William, '74, live at Fort Frances, where Debora h is federal fisheries inspector for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. William is district biologist for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Re­ sources.

Betsy Gordon works for Gordon Enter­ prises, 303 - 2171 WZND, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Shamus Grayston is information services co-ordinator for the Aylmer District, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

George and Nancy Petrie currently reside in Toronto where George is re­ gional manager with the Canada De­ partment of Fisheries and Oceans. They also operate their own business.

Betty (B1yhouwer) (Fish & Wildlife) and Tom Hasenack, CSS '76, live in Paddle Prairie, Alta.

Steven Mantle (Zoology) is married to Val, Arts '78, and he teaches at the Bayridge Secondary School, Taylor Blvd., in Kingston.

Tom Mason (Bio. Sci.) is a zoo keeper at the Metro Toronto Zoo. Two of his cou s ins and his brother graduated from Guelph: Dr. Gordon King, OVC '59; Norma King, MAC '77, and John Mason, OAC '75.

David Sippel (Biology) and wife, Anne, live at 95 Parkdale Drive, Sault Ste. Marie.

Stephen (Marine Biology) and Susan (Whitfield) Smith, Arts '77, and their two children now live in Nova Scotia where Stephen is employed as a bio­ statistician by the Marine Fish Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanogra­ phy.O

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Macdonald Institute/College of Fam ily and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS

Editor: Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson, '66.

From the Dean

Janet Wardlaw

Outreach and liaison are important ac­ tivities of the College of Family and Consumer Studies as we seek to broaden under standing of the College so that we can better serve the wide community to which we relate .

Conferences for professionals, non­ credit evening and weekend courses, and public lectures, are as much a part of our outreach program as are our FACS Sheets. with which you are familiar, and the credit courses scheduled on week­ ends and evenings for the convenience of part-time students. All these services complement the secondary school liaison activities carried out in co-operation with the Registrar's Office.

We know that the contacts which we make with alumni, community lead­ ers, industry personnel and professionals in many fields, through these services, increases their appreciation of the wealth of opportunities for young per­ sons interested in the people-oriented undergraduate programs offered by

Family and Consumer Studies and Hotel and Food Administration.

These outreach activities presented by the College could not go forward without the co-operation of faculty members. During the fall, winter and spring semesters of 1980-81, faculty members, in co-operation with the Uni­ versity School of Part-time Studies and Continuing Education , presented nine professiona lly-oriented con ferences and seven non-credit continuing education courses.

They assisted in the preparation of six FACS Sheets and, as individuals, presented countless speeches to com­ munity and professional groups and re­ sponded to many requests for TV and radio interviews, often in co-operation with the Department of Information. In addition, faculty members co-operated in the presentation of II credit courses in the evenings or on weekends, rather than during regular University hours, which accommodated part-time stu­ dents, many returning to university stud­ ies and some involved in professional activities relating to the interest of the College .

I began this newsletter with the intention of telling you of some recent conferences and outreach activities and, as I considered the multiplicity of activi­ ties, it occurred to me that I would share with you the significant involvement of our faculty in these College activities.

The exte nt of their involvement is indic­ ative of their commitment to the con­ tinuing development of the CoHege of Family and Consumer Studies and its service to the community. They, and I, appr eciate your co-operation, as in­ formed alumni, in presenting to your as sociates , families and friends a picture of the College as it functions in thc 'lWs.

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In Memoriam Margaret J. (Sandercock) Douglas, '36D, passed away in March, 1981 in Burling­ ton.

Dorothy M . Hagey, '220, passed away in Brantford on J une 27, 1981 .

Elizabeth (Coy ell) Bain, '360, passed a way May 26, 1981.

Joan (Ellerington) Tanner, B.H.Sc. '57.

A memorial service was held for Joan at the University's Arboretum Centre on Thursday, July 23, 1981. She was a member of the M ac-FACS Alumni As­ sociation, G uelph Branch. Joan is sur­ vived by her husband, D r. J.W. Tanner, OAC '57, Chairman, De partment of Crop Science, University of G uelph, and family, Robb, Rick , and Becky. 0

Request Form for FACS Sheets Name (please print) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Gr ad. year:_ _ _ _ _ __

Address:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Postal code:_ _ _ _ _ _~

Please send me the FACS Sheet(s) indicated below :

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Preparing for Tomorrow's Consumer.

Name (please print): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __

Travel: Accessible and Responsive to Consumer Needs.

Address: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Please send FACS Sheet to my colleague indicated below:

Return to: Dean, College of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, O ntario N lG 2Wl.

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The Aim-Total Immersion An Advanced Management Program for Senior Managers in the Hospitality In­ dustry (A M PH I) is being developed by thc School of Hotel and Food Adminis­ tration at the University of Guelph. The program is being launched after a year­ long fcasibility study which involved a survey of chief executive officers of Canada's largest hospitality firms. "Our research indicates almost unanimous agreement that the problems of senior managers are not being dealt with effec­ tively in existing corporate or industry training programs, " according to Profes­ sor Tom Powers, the School's Director.

"When the hospitality industry was dominated by small companies with sin­ gle-unit operations, a personal, intuitive and informal management style was often highly successful. In today's large companies with multi-unit operations, thc challenges management must re­ spond to are multipersonai. abstract and formalized; that is, more complex.

A M PH I will stress the development of conceptual and interpersonal manage­ ment skills in particular, skills which are not being adequately addressed in pre­ sent management development pro­ grams." The development of AM PH I will be guided by a Policy Advisory Board made up of senior hospitality industry executives.

Boyd Matchett, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cara Opera­ tions Ltd., is chairman of this board.

Mr. Matchett was a management con­ sultant before joining Cara in 1962. "In many ways Mr. Matchett is ' Mr. Man­ agement' in Canada's Hospitality Indus­ try," says Dr. Powers. "His perspective will be invaluable."

Guelph has received a U.S. $50,000 matching grant from the Statler Foun­ dation and expects industry contribu­ tions to bring the total development budget to $175 ,000 .. Funds will be used to develop a detailed curriculum for the program and then to support the devel­ opment of hospitality industry cases.

AMPHI will rely almost entirely on the case method of instruction. Cases, dealing with the hospitality industry, will be developed during a two-year research project, and will emphasize problem-solving based on analysis rather than precedent. The first class will come to Guelph in April, 1983, for a four­ week intensive program . "We intend nothing less than to change the way executives think. To achieve such an ambitious goal, a total immersion pro­ gram is needed." according to Professor Powers.

At its first meeting in late April, the Policy Advisory Board discussed

admissions criteria, fee structures and enrolment strategy. Enrolment will be limited and participants will be accepted on the basis of professional achievement and company recommendation. Formal educational background will not be a fa ctor. The typical participant will be a line operations executive with multi-unit responsibility . A limited number of cor­ porate staff personnel and senior execu­ tives from supplier companies may also bc admitted.

The Board anticipates that tuition fees will be about $5,000, including food and lodging, for t he four-week session.

Because AMPHI is unique in the world, the Board projects a "world class" enrolment strategy. It is antici­ pated that the vast majority of partici­ pants will come from Canada, but there appcars to be a continuing world-wide market for North American know-how.

Faculty for AMPHI will be drawn from the University of Guelph and from the School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario.

The course is designed to meet the continuing needs of the hospitality in­ dustry. The broad-based curriculum will cover operations planning and control, marketing, finance, management of human resources, and policy formula ­ tion s. " Developing top level executives is a firm 's best investment in the future," says Dr. Powers. "We intend to help with that vital process." 0

Mac-FACS AA Executive For '81 - '82 Front row, Ito r; Rita (Klassen) Weigel, '77, 2nd VP; Carol Telford-Pittman, '75, /st VP; Mary (Webber) Henry , '65, preSident; Elaine (McCrossan) Smith, '65, director. Back row, Ito r; Pat (Davidson) White, '76, director; Dr. Margaret McCready, honorary president emeritus; Cathy Rowe, Class of '8/ rep, and Darlene Jewel, preSident, FACS-SAC

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Careers

Night '81

In October, "A Look at Today's Career World" was presented by alumni FACS students. Seated, I to r: Rita (Klassen) Weigel , '77, co-convenor; Susan Reed, '81; Marny Roman, '78; Carol Yamamoto, '81, and Sherri Terrell, '78. Standing, I to r: Elaine (McCrossan) Smith , '65; Karen Buchan, '77; Cathy Smith, '78; Louise (Parrot) Boothby. '78; Barbara Smythe, '74; Carol Telford-Pittman, '75, co-convenor; Ian White, OAC '52, and Linda Crezar. '80.

Grad News Through it's alumni file updating activi­ ties, the Alumni Office receives news of graduates throughout the year-some recent responses are briefly reported here for your interest. As a graduate, yo u may wish to share your career achievements with us . Detailed descrip­ tions are most welcome as well as photo­ graph s of you, either personaJ or career rcla tcd. Please add ress correspondence to: Mac-FACS Alumni News. Depart­ ment of Alumni Affairs and Develop­ ment. University of Guclph , Guelph, Ontario. N I G 2W I.

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1978

Jane (Quinn) Lowe is a free-lance home cconomist in Red Deer, Alberta.

Maxine Ragg is a systems engineering representative with I.B.M. , Ottawa.

Lynn (Munkley) Thomas lives in Toronto and is a producer with CBC Radio's current affairs program, "As It Hap­ pens."

Joanne (Dalbello) Watson is a diet tech­ nician at Nipigon District Memorial Hospital.

1972 Jillian Routet is a park planner with Parks Canada in Calgary, Alberta.

1974 Diane Thompson lives in Ottawa and is a research officer with the Consumers Associa t ion of Ca nada .

1975 1941D L. Gerda Holt is a field worker with Meals on Wheels in Winnipeg, Manito­ ba.

Rita Benson is a teaching master at Sheridan College, Oakville.

1947D

Shirley Koskey is an endocrine nutrition­ ist with the Victoria Hospital Corpora­ tion in London.

Marian (Morton) Cormick is tour co­ ordinator with the Edmonton Art Ga l­ lery, Alberta.

Marlene (Pfaff) Oatman is executive ad­ ministra tor with the Ontario Public Health Association, Toronto.

1955D Barbara (Edwards) Wolfe is exec utive director with the Indian Friendship Cen­ tre, Grand Prairie, Alberta.

1961 Carol (Gill) Christie is guidance chair­ man with the North York Board of Education.

Wendy Orchard is a housing analyst with the Ministry of Housing, Queen's Park, Toronto.

1977

1979 Daphne (Olver) Davis IS a nutritionist with the Ottawa Athletic Club.

Judith Ann (Stephen) Duguid is a textile analyst with Simpson-Scars Ltd. In Scarborough.

1980 Catharine Clark is infant education con­ sultant with the Haliburton, Kawartha, and Pine Ridge District Hea lth Unit, Cobourg. D

HAFA Grad News 1975 Michael H. Greer is senior product man­ ager with Canada Packers Inc., Toronto.

1977 Janet (Smith) Smith-Patterson is assist­ ant manager with Foodex Inc., Pon­ derosa, London.

Brenda (Bremmer) Phillips is a mental retardation coun sel lor at the Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Ha ndi­ capped, Goderich.

Geoffrey E. Hart is manager, Roasters Restaurants Ltd., Prince Arthur St., Toronto.

I. Grace (Bird) Whittington is home cconomist with the Ont a rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food, London.

Brian E. Carberry is garde chef at Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel. The Hague, Holland. D

1965 Dyann (Simpson) Gray is a consultant with Dyann Gray Associates, Aurora, Colorado.

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP

Editor: Bob Winkel

Slipping out of the

Spotlight

Since I completed my deanship of the College of Physical Science on August 31, 1981 , your editor suggested that I include some reminiscences in this, my final "Letter From the Dean."

Renections on the past were easy as I engaged in the monstrous task of clearing out the "miles of files" that had accumulated during 25 years as Head of Physics, Associate Dean of Wellington College and Dean of the College of Physical Science. The dean's job con­ cerns people and resources, and thus the highlights of recent years relate to stu­ dents, staff, faculty and buildings.

When I joined the Physics Depart­ ment of the "College on the Hill" in 1948, five faculty members taught the courses in physics, mathematics and sta­ tistics. With only 150 faculty members in the College, one soon knew them all and with fewer than 800 students in the degree program, one had the opportu­ nity of gelling to know most of the student body.

The OAC was affiliated with the University of Toronto for degree grant­ ing purposes and , at one time, the final examinations were set by OAC faculty members and shipped off to Toronto for approval and printing. Faculty members actually received a stipend from the University of Toronto of about 25\0 per paper for marking.

A special feature of the small col­ lege operation was that each professor developed his own repertoire of courses and, if these happened to be first- or second-year courses, he could be sure that every student who went through the OAC would have had him as a professor at one time or another. Thus, during a pcriod of 17 years in the old Physics, Mathematics and Statistics Department, I have had the pleasure of teaching a host of students who keep popping up

Dean Earl B. MacNaughton.

throughout Ontario, Canada and other parts of the world. Some of them are faculty members of the University to­ day.

I became head of the Physics De­ partment in 1956 and a glance at an OAC calendar of that year reveals that when I retired I was the only current faculty member who held an administra­ tive position at that time.

There was relatively little growth on the Guelph campus during the '50s, and the early '60s was a period of considerable frustration for President

Maclachlan and the heads of depart­ ments of the Federated Colleges. The establishment of the University in 1965 finally provided the desired opportunity for further development of the depart­ ments of the founding colleges. This was particularly true for the physical sciences. Chemistry, Physics and Mathe­ matics and Statistics were transferred to the new Wellington College of Arts and Science. I had the pleasure of serving as Associate Dean of Wellington College, in charge of the Physical Science depart­ ments, during the early years of the University.

In the first few years of the Univer­ sity, much of our resources went into the establishment of the new Arts and So­ cial Science departments, the construc­ tion on the new Arts Building and replacement buildings for Agriculture departments.

Fortunately, the importance of the physical sciences and their need for space was recognized in the new master plan for the University; it referred to Physical Science phase I, II and III. Planning began in 1966. I, and several faculty members in Physics and Chemis­ try, had a large input in this planning.

The new Physical Science Building was completed and occupied by the fall of 1969.

It is interesting to recall that, at the time the concrete was being poured at the 3rd noor level, it was becoming abundantly clear that, as a result of acadcmic administrative reorganization, l here was goi ng to be a College of Physical Science. President Winegard agreed that it would be wise to include a dean's office and space for the Depart­ ment of Mathematics and Statistics. As luck would have it, we had made provi­ sion in the original plan for a small planetarium on the 4th noor. This pro­ vided space for a dean 's suite, and by another major alteration of the architec­ tural design, we were able to include a string of 22 additional faculty offices on cont'd over

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Coincident with the establishment of the College of Physical Science, in 1970, was the establishment of a De­ partment of Computing and Information Science. Unfortunately, this develop­ ment came too late to be included in the Physical Science building.

We can be proud of developments in the physical sciences at Guelph since the establishment of the University. The strength of a university is in its faculty, its staff and its students. I believe the College is in fine shape. I must give credit to a large number of chairmen

(Brown, Colter, Janzen, MacKenzie, Egelstaff, MacDonald, Newton, Smith, Capstick and Linders). and I am proud to have had a leading role in the recruit­ ment of all of these except the first.

When I came to Guelph in 1948, I had to choose between a teaching career at the OAC and a research career in molecular spectra at NRC. I have been most happy with my decision to come to Guelph. In particular, I have enjoyed my work with students, teaching, coun­ selling, and the extracurricular associa­ tion with students and with alumni.

Also, it has been a great pleasure and a sa tisfaction to have worked with four presidents (Reek to Forster), three vice-

presidents, many deans and a host of senior officers in the Administration.

The College has had a good I II years, and it can continue to have good years if people continue to pull together as they have done in the past. I have received the best of support from a host of faculty. It is this willingness to serve that makes good departments, a good College and a good University. The College of Physical Science is a most important unit of the University. I am sure it will continue to be such. As I slip out of the spotlight, I wish my successor, Dr. Jack MacDonald, the best as he steps into the pleasantries and the prob­ lems of the future. 0

Scholarship

tlvlty, to focus their attention on condi­ tions related to aging.

The Council was set up in January 1980 and is a registered charitable orga­ nization. Its mandate is to promote and support gerontological and geriatric re­ search in Ontario.

Following Guelph, Dr. Szewczuk gained his Ph.D. in biology and immu­ nology from the University of Windsor.

He did original research in immunology at Cornell University and then at McMaster University. He has published over 20 papers and 21 abstracts in scientific journals. He is currently work­

ing at Queen's University elucidating the inOuence of aging on the immune system and exploring how changes in that system may account for how we age.

The immune system is very impor­ tant in establishing the absolute individ­ uality of each person, and in defending the body against foreign tissue and in­ fection. The immune system is also important in both the growth and devel­ opment of the person and in the process of aging. Therefore, information on how it works, and how it may alter over a lifetime, is of great significance. 0

The Board of Directors of the Geron­ tology Research Council of Ontario re­ cently announced the award of a three­ year research scholarship to Dr. Myron Szewczuk, BSc. '71, M .Sc. '72. The award is for $30,000 annually and is renewable once. Four one-year research fellowships and personnel support for one established research scientist, were also announced. These awards are to enable research investigators, who have demonstrated competence and produc­

CPSAA Executive for '81 - '82

Seated, I to r: Claudia (Wunder) Farrell, '78, secretary: Barry Stahlbaum, '74, president: Brian Allen, '72, treasurer: Alex Vano, '71, director. Standing, I to r: Ann Patkau, '8/, director: Dean Jack MacDonald, honorary president, and Bill Sanford, '73, immediate past-president.

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Free!

For four years now, Professor Nigel Bunce, of the Department of Chemistry and Professor Jim Hunt, of the Department of Phys­ ics, have contributed a weekly co­ lumn called, "The Science Corner" to the Guelph Daily Mercury. A selection of these articles has now been gathered and bound together in a handsome, soft-cover book.

The articles generally deal with chemistry and physics as applied to medicine and biology. If you would like your own free copy, please send your request to: R.G. Winkel, Dean's Office, College of Physical Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, NIG 2W 1. Requests will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis since supplies are limited.

The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor: William C. (Bill) Tolton, '36.

Let's

Have

One for

Old C.A.

When grads of recent years and students of today cross from the University Li­ brary to the University Centre for a quick one at the Brass Taps or some student bash in Peter Clark Hall, do they ever cast a curious glance to their right, to that excellent example of Ed-

Charles A. Zavitz, '88. wa rdian country life-style, to that brick and stucco structure with its little plaque identifying itself as " Zavitz Hall " ry Occupied currently by the Depart­ ment of Fine Art, the modest structure is, today, overshadowed by its neigh­

bours and frequently shows signs on its windows of a somewhat carefree tossing of pl aster and paint. The structure has an interesting history and is intim ately associated with the man whose nam e it now bears. Within its rooms was man­ aged most of the work in plant selection th a l added so much qualit y to the brew now considered so vital as a part of University life .

Who was Charles A. Zavitz, OAC '88, and what was his contribution to the suds') The answer to both questions is-everything.

Dr. Zavitz, as he was called to­ ward s the end of his long career on campus; was almost inva ri a bly referred to as "C.A," He was one of the group of students of the Ontario Agricultural College to receive the degree of B.S.A . in the first graduating cl ass of 1888.

There were only five of them; students who had completed the original two -year course and elected to proceed for a further year to attain th a t first Canadi­ an degree granted for studies in agricul­ ture.

"C.A." was taken on staff immedi­ a tely to ca rr yo n the work of plant selection and, eventually, plant breeding which he had already begun as a stu­ dent. He was to remain at those tas ks - as a plant introducer, plant selec­ tor, plant breeder, teacher and extension specialist-for the next 40 years. He did not quit his post until 1929, when he returned home to Middlesex County in retirement.

Although he lived through the years of great expansion on campus, including the building erected for him just before cont'd over

Left to right: J.A. Craig, J.J. Fee, G.c. Creelman. B.E. Paterson and Charles A. Zavitz . The first graduating class in the Department of Agriculture. They received the B.S.A. degree on October 1, 1888.

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World War One, he would not recogni se it tod ay. Most of a ll , he would miss the experim enta l plots that filled th e fields where Alumni St adium a nd the East Residences a re now found . He kn ew every squ a re inch of those acres, for it was th ere tha t he did hi s testing a nd hi s plant breedin g.

When he start ed, the tota l staff of t he College numbered seven and the student body tota lled 105 . As for hi s wor k load, read this-"Mr. Zavit z was required to ass ist Professor Brown of th e Agriculture Depa rtm ent and Professor c.c. James of the C hemi stry Depa rt­ ment, covering such deta il s as fi eld work with th e students, live stock feedin g experiments, and work in th e fa rm da iry as well as in th e Chemi st ry Buildin g."

And this wa s when he was still a senior student, working towards his degree.

When he wrote th e fin a ls, he took hon ours in 10 of th e 1\ papers submit­ ted.

His life- wo rk bega n when the Col­ lege moved into the gra in-vari ety tes ting fi eld in ea rn es t a nd, evcntua lly, into pl a nt breedi ng as well. Th e need for better plant va ri eties, a nd some cla rifi­ cati on of th e multitude of varieties and confu sion in na mes in common use, was rec og ni zed by all . "C.A ." had th e job of straightening out the mess and homing in on th e selections.

He bega n it a ll in a small room in

the Chemi stry Building with a space for storage of seeds in the basement. For t he first fiv e or six years of th e new pro­ gra m, he did all the work of seedin g th e tri a l plots, ha rv esting and putting t hc sample plant s through a mini a ture thres hin g machine.

Whil e fi eld-crop testing had be gun earlier , la rge ly through the Experim en­ tal Union which had its beginnings in 187 9, it was under "C.A. 's" direction that thi s productive approach too k hold .

In the course of time, some 3,000 va rie­ ties of grain seeds for fa rm crops were tes ted. A large proportion ca me from abroad, no ta bly the pl a ins of north ern Asia . In all , over 100,000 individua l experim ents were carri ed out for the pur pose of determinin g which varieties we re the most suit a ble for repr oduction for commercial use in Ont a rio. A few seeds of a promising selection would be multiplied until en ough seeds we re on ha nd to go out to th e Uni on for tes ting.

From those te sts, seed s would be se nt ac ross the province for commerci a l pro­ du cti on.

Th is was long before the days of genetics a nd sc ientific pla nt se lection .

Bu t it was from thi s va st gen e pool that the hybridi za tion bega n th at was to crea te the grain var ieties th a t bea r such names as the fa mous OAC '21 barl ey .

But Dr . Zavit z did not sti ck solely to the ca mpu s. As a lecturer a nd speaker

Eggsactly as It Was

All the hassl e about egg ma rketing and poultry produc ers during the last few months has tended to obsc ur e some very bas ic truths. Ontario consumers do ge t

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good eggs, a ll th e time, a nd a t pri ces th a t have not increased a t a nywhere near th e rat e of wages a nd sa la ries, not to mention ma tern ity leaves.

OAC grad s have been instrumenta l in this poultry-production miracle. Here is a n excerpt fr om the memoirs of J ohn Edwa rd Mclnt yre, ' 2 1, one of th e pio­ neer improvers of the egg bu sin ess in the Maritim es.

"A problem in the poultry bu siness wa s th a t nobody had hens producing eggs in th e fall, du e to th e habit of late hatc hin g, a nd so it was almost imposs i­ ble to bu y fresh eggs in la te fa ll or winter from loca l producers. " Apa rt from the co mmon hom e use of wa ter-glass as a preservative, so me sma ll-operati on country merchants ex-

at farm ers' gatherings, hc went into cvery country in Ontario, exce pt Mani­ toulin Isl a nd , a nd that was in the days of the slow tr a in a nd the buggy on unim­ proved country roads.

The res ult s of his labours wi ll prob­ a bl y rem a in rel a tivel y unknown, but it has been es tima ted that , even before his dea th , the improvements in Ontario yicld s of just wint er wheat, barley and oat s were worth three milli on bushels pcr year .

But Dr. Zavit z has an oth er, cven more abiding, cla im to fame. He was the father of agricultural college expan sion and teaching . He not onl y trained the sta ff a t Guelph but taught the men wh o were to become th e presiden ts of the Ma nitoba Agricultural College and th e University of Briti sh Columbia, a nd the dean s of agriculture a t the Uni ve rsities of Sas katchew a n, Alberta a nd McGill University. To which can also be added more tha n 30 facult y on sta ff ira agricul­ tura l colleges in the United Sta tes.

By the acad emic sta ndards of to­ day, Cha rl es A. Zav itz would probab'ly not ra nk very hi g hly as a scientist. As a ma n, a leader, a teacher of men and as one who had a profound innu ence on his genera tion , he surely deserves a n ex tra thought wh en you uncap a few or wa lk by that modest building bea ring his name. After all, it wa s his barl ey that built t he brewing business. 0

cha nged mercha ndi se for ea rly fa il-pro­ duc ed eggs, kept th em in an y kind of stora ge, then tried to pass them off as fr es h eggs at a higher price in th e town or villages, in lat e fall or winter .

"To put a st op to thi s, it beca me necessary to introduce and enforce ca n­ dling regul a ti ons. My fir st move wa s with the largest produce distri butor a t Ba thurst. I bought a doze n eggs off th e counter and took th em to my office for ca ndling. " Onl y tw o were found fit for coo k­ ing . A coupl e I broke turned my secre­ ta ry's stomach . I returned th e others, got my money back , a nd talk ed the storek eeper into ca ndling a full case of 30-dozen he had just receiv ed from a sma ll-operation country dea ler. Res ults: onl y 20 eggs were found fit for con­ sumption . Th a t opened his eyes and ended his connection with questiona ble storage practices." 0

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Changes

in the

Chaw

Burley tobacco is another Ontario crop that has been changing through the efforts of OAC grads . . While a very minor segment of agriculture, this type of tobacco has a long history dating from Indian times in North America. Its strong flavor and bitter smoke was the balm of the early settlers. It was the "weed''' used for the cigar, the pipe and cspcclally-the chew. As a result, its acceptance by polite society was rarely JOYOus. The hardy voyageur, and those country types so vividly portrayed by Krieghoff, used it. Perhaps even your own Celtic great-grandmother relished her stub of a pipe. Recent archeological diggings on the sites of old military and naval establishments invariably come up with piles of old clay pipes, many still stained by that strong early "baccy."

In more recent times, many a dirty, dustry barn thrashing was made bear­ able only by frequent pulls on the plug kept in the back pocket of the overalls.

But, says Tom Welacky, '75, in a recent issue of Agriculture Canada's The Lighter, production methods in the eady '60s changed to growing new-cul­ ture Burley for use in cigarette blending.

The old girl was taking on some class; the new plants were bigger, with up to 26 leaves. More plants were grown per acre and improved methods were needed to handle the smaller, more delicate leaves.

Burley never did receive the tender loving care lavished on its more fashion­ able sister, the light Virginia nue-cured type destined for mild cigarettes. It was this boom crop of the '30s and '40s that put many an Aggie through Guelph.

In the days before mechanical har­ vesting, any young fellow- who could stand the hours of stoop labor, the dust, and the heat in those fields around Delhi and Tillsonburg could come back to Guelph with a nice little nest-egg. He would also bring bulging muscles and a healthy tan.

Experimental tobacco harvesting equipment is being developed to reduce labour needs.

The Burley crop was handled in traditional ways also, but it was pro­ duced in smaller fields, perhaps just a couple of acres or so on a farm, instead of t he big spreads operated by the producers of the nue-cured type.

However, Burley-growing and cur­ ing has now been moving out of its old pattern just as more popular sister Vir­ ginia has done. When the change was made from the old, heavy varieties with their 15 to 17 leaves and plants set widely in the rows, some changes in harvesting followed.

It was Walter Scott, '37, who brought in the new ideas. He had ob­ served the changes already well under way down in Kentucky where machines had been designed in the '60s to improve the efficiency of stalk-cut harvesting.

This U.S. mechanization, however, had not come up with a method suitable for the smaller Ontario fields. Agriculture Canada's Harrow, Ontario, research sta­ tion took on the job using the basic Kentucky approach modified for On­ tario conditions.

Walter Scott's system reduced the time required to harvest the taller, more numerous and leafier plants and Im­ proved the quality of the resulting leaf through reduced handling in field and barn . G rower acceptance has been slow, admits Tom Welacky, but this is not surprising for a crop with traditional methods of long usage. As more refine­ ments are brought out at Harrow, faster and better methods are taking hold.

More changes are in the offing as bulk­ handling systems are tested to further improve the quality of the cured leaf

while still further reducing labour re­ quirements.

Burley, in spite of being much the older crop, may never become as glam­ orous as its newer sister Virginia, but it still has a role in Ontario farm business.

This in spite of its lack of social accep­ tance dating from the days of those stinking pipes and the knothole marks­ manship of some of its users-and OAC grads are right in there making those changes . 0

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is m a de up of apartments a nd the occu­ pants are som ewh a t younger than we and generally respon s ible for our activi­ ties." These activities cover everything from card games and craft classes to team ga mes such as shufneboard as well as "fitness and fun " classes in the morn­ ings . There are orga nized trips, some as long as two or three days, a nd bus outings to take in shows and other activities.

Visiting entertainment groups are pa rticul a rly interesting for Cliff and Jean for since they still live close to where he taught for so many yea rs, these volunteer entertainers in c lude some of his former pupils.

"We have travelogues, colour movies and, a t a ge 85, I a m finding this a nice place to be."

And then they have memories: not only of their former pupils in the arca where he taught for 35 years, but of th e ir very active life betwcen retiremcnt in 1961 and the sale of their home of 50 years in 1979 . During thi s tim e, whilc they were sti'll ahle to move about with compa rative ease, the Pilkies travelled.

Winters in Florida as a mallcr of course, but at other times of thc year came trips abroa d. The longest period abroad was in 1961/62 , immediately after retirement, wh en they travelled to Switzerland to tea ch at Ne uchatel. This gave them the opportunity to cover pret­ ty much all of Western Europe including a climb to the top of Mount Vesuvius with a pa rty of th e ir s tudents.

In 1964 it was a three-month tour of the American Southwest, South America two years later, and a round­ the - world trip in 196 7. Then it was off to Alaska, the Holy Land and Russia .

While s till active at Eas t York Collegiate, Cliff taught s ummer courses but still man a ged to vi s it ma ny Ontario locations as well as the Maritimes, Peace Rive r and Yellowstone Park. "We have pictures of these trips, " he adds "so we c a n enjoy just remembering."

President of hi s class for a numbcr of years, Cliff has now resigned and handed th e reins over to another but still looks forward to reunions.

Life , even after 20 ye a rs in retire­ ment, can be a busy, rewarding and enjoya ble a ffair, just as it is for Jean a nd Cliff, but, re me mber, they built up a lifetime of support for it. 0

wa y to interest people in what was happening in their parks , and to ac­ quaint city dwellers with th e joys avail­ able. practically free of charge, by tak­ ing advantage of what his department had created for th e m.

Tomm y 's wa lks became institutions in thems e lves. Armed with a knobby wa lking stick, selected from his collec­ tion of same, and wea ring a battered tweed ha t for id e ntifica tion, he would lead a trail of hundred s a cross fields a nd through woods. His jaunty headpiece, necessa ry to prolect his balding head in all weathers, was notorious long before it beca me a fashion for the Jet set to wear s uch things. His canes, gifts to him, were used ma inly for ornamental purposes. To conduct a large group a long a three-mile route is no mean fe a t

in Metro Toronto. When hi s stentoria n voice showed signs of giving out, it was a ugmented by a portable bull- ho rn.

Tommy was a child of the city; his father had been gardener to Casa Lom a a nd , la ter, to the Toronto cemetery sys tem. Tommy's love for na tural bea uty and hi s life work, the Metro Toronto parks system, will be his abiding memo­ rial, for the system was hi s creation.

Starting with a very small staff, a nd so me nond es cript pieces of property, he has s upervised its growth to be one of the finest in any cit y a nywhere .

Commenting on the c urtailment in his life-style, Tommy explained . "When I first s tarted to carry one of my canes, it was to point things out a nd to wave direction s, but now, I find I really need It - to lean on ." 0

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Preparing for Retirement

Th e prop e r life- style for C anadi a ns who have reached the a ge of retirement, with a score or more of busy years still to be lived, is one that is very much in the news of late. There are hundreds of such perso ns who are graduates of the OAC and who ha ve been engaged in occupa­ tions where mandatory retirement a t 65 is in effect.

Most OAC grads who report back to their Alm a Mat e r seem to ha ve been able to pl a n a proper life-s tyle well ahead for their golden years. Here is one example-Cliff Pilkey, '23, who, per­ haps, has been able to meet the chal­ lenge better than most.

"We are lucky," he writes, describ­ ing the retirement home where he and hi s wife , Jean , reside in Wexford, a suburb of Toronto. "Half of our building

Tommy Puts Up the Cane Tommy Thompson , '36, the colorful a nd controversial figure who retired from the Metropoli,tan Toronto parks system to take on the tough t as k of straightening up the Metro Zoo , has finally called it quits. A s of mid-June, he relinquished his post and ceased hi s famous "walks" around the Zoo and through parts of the pa rk s system.

Tommy had a severe heart attack some three years ago but, on recovery , returned .to his exacting role and con­ tinued his walking tours but at a some­ what reduced speed and scale. He in­ stituted the walks many years ago a s a

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Three OAC Grads Who Left Their Marks

Earnest McCallan, '97 Bermuda is a winter vacation land for many Canadians . It has been one for a long time, weB before aircraft made the trip so easy and fast.

But Bermuda is an island with virtually no large supplies of drinkable fresh water and a rather shallow soil, making agriculture a somewhat tricky venture. In fact, market gardening or horticulture would be a better descrip­ tion. Lily bulbs and onions are a major part of the island's commercial produc­

tion for export markets .

The success the island's growers have in providing fresh produce for their thousands of visitors can be attributed to the pioneer work of OAC grad E.A. McCallan, '97, who, following gradua­ tion, went to Bermuda to head their agricultural research at the Paget East station. He remained for more than a half century, retiring in 1954. He died 14 yea rs la ter.

In the early years, before tourism was so important, the island growers crea ted a market for early vegetables in the nearest large city- New York. It was, in fact, once called the "market garden " of that city supplying 400,000 bushels of winter-produced fresh vegeta­ bles by ship. With the market changes ,

and especially tariff protection for grow­ ers in Florida and California, U.S. sales shra nk drastically. Canadian markets took some of the surplus for our growing season is the reverse to theirs. They grow in the winter but produce nothing in the hot dry summers when Canadia n farms are highly productive.

Bermuda lilies became a major crop 10 the '20s; by the end of that decade nearly 6,000 cases had been exported.

White lilies from Bermuda stocks be­ came a feature of the Easter season .

Today, however, it is the. demand for fresh vegetables and flowers for the island's tourist hotels that keeps the horticultural enterprises going on the very limited land and water available for such purposes. 0

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William McCallum, '94 Before chemically produced artificia l rubber-like materials were discovered, there was a search for North American sources of latex from natural sources to replace the huge amounts imported from elsewhere on the globe. During wartime periods, this search became particularly intensive .

And it was an OAC grad who found a commercial source in a plant that grew abundantly in the deserts of the American southwest. It is the guay­ ule plant, a form of Mexican sage brush.

The discoverer was Dr. W.B. McCallum

of the class of '94 . While substitutes from labs have removed the need for this secondary natural source, the ground­ work has been done and is available today in time of need.

Dr. McCallum was the son of Alex McCaBum, a bursar of the College, and his boyhood was spent on campus in one of the old stone houses still remaining.

He graduated in one of those classes near the end of the last century which went on to make the OAC famous . One of his classmates was Dr. W.R . Graham.

Dr. McCallum remained on staff for several years under Dr. Harrison, work­ ing on plant studies, which was followed by a period of postgrad work at Ames, Iowa and a Ph .D. in plant morphology at Chicago where he also spent some years in research.

From there he went down into the

southwest as professor of botany at the University of Tucson for a year or two until he assumed full-time research on native rubber-yielding plants. After a search of the plants native to the area, there came selection of strains that were productive and selection of the best soil and moisture conditions for the crop.

Some of this research and some of his plant nurseries were in Mexico where many revolutions resulted in destruction of his work. His brother, Frank, also an OAC grad, helped him.

As chief botanist of the American Rubber Producers Inc. , Dr. McCallum succeeded, after twenty years of trial and error, in getting both the plant strain and the culture worked out for a commercial natural latex source. He retired in 1947 and died seven years later. 0

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Hans Ellen, '72A Hans Ellen, '72A, was featured recently in the Christian Farmer in a double­ page story dealing with his nearly three years in Bolivia and Guatemala as a CUSO volunteer getting Baptist Mission farms back into production .

Hans went to the Chapare region of Bolivia to work in a joint program being

undertaken by the Canadian Ba ptist Overseas Mission Board and the Bolivi ­ an Baptist Union. He worked there with the rural people, cutting trees and clear­ ing underbrush and stumps to make the land productive and to introduce vegeta­ bles and other crops such as peanuts and soybeans to give the people a better and more balanced diet.

Potatoes were introduced as a win­ ter crop-a crop few had even consid­ ered for a jungle region-and, before too long, 34 families had their own gardens.

Hans also paid a four-day visit to a tribe

of Ura Indians in the heart of the region, walking in over ten miles of rough trails and wading through streams and rivers, one nearly 150 feet wide. He cleared a demonstration plot of land , sowed an initial garden and left seed for the tribe to start other family garden plots.

Hans extended his CUSO contract and spent a third year in the tropical rain forest area before returning to Canada and further studies a t the Baptist Leadership Training School in Calgary. 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor: Debbie (Nash) Chambers, '77.

Only at Guelph You Say?

Quality rather than quantity has become the by-word of graduate Arts programs at the University of Guelph.

In response to the changing de­ mands of graduate students and innova­ tions within specific disciplines. tradi­ tional areas of concentration have been revamped and new areas of expertise have been introduced.

The ability of the Departments of English, History and Philosophy to keep pace with the times has helped them to establish and maintain international re­ putations.

The Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Carlton Gyles, OVC '64, is confident that Guelph's graduate Arts programs have a bright future ahead of them.

Dr . Gyles believes that the nex t few years will reaffirm his conviction that bigger is not necessarily better. Both Dr. Gyles and Dr. David Murray, Dean, College of Arts. agree that Guelph's low student/teacher ratios have fostered a high quality learning environment which allows both careful supervision and close contact with faculty research interests.

Although financial restrictions cur­ rently negate the possibility of develop­ ing further graduate programs in Fine Arts, Languages or Music, the con­ tinued concentration on successful courses of study can only enhance the reputation of existing programs.

Although Dr. Gyles is a graduate of the OVC, a nd was a faculty member there. he has developed a broad know­ ledge of activities within other colleges through his membership on the Univer­ sity Senate and several University com­ mittees. Dr. Gyles is quick to point out tha t even though the Arts grad ua te progra ms are little over a decade old, rapid inroads have been made due to the emphasis a Il colleges have placed on

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both teaching and faculty research.

A recent Ontario university survey of publications per faculty revealed that, in the Arts, Guelph ranked first overall followed by Trent University and the University of Toronto. The ever-increas­ ing numbers of top-calibre graduate scholars attracted to graduate Arts pro­ grams testifies to the respect publica­ tions have won for departments as well as individual faculty members.

I n addition to foreign students hold­ ing commonwealth scholarships, numer­ ous Canada Council and Ontario Grad­ uate Scholarship recipients have chosen . to work with Guelph professors. Dr. Murray is particularly proud of the College of Arts' recent scholarship re­ cord.

External scholarships are very im­ portant since young colleges. such as the College of Arts, do not have elaborate in-course sc holarship or bursary funds.

Despite thi s problem Guelph ha s main­ tained a high profile nationally.

The academic year 1980-81 was a very fruitful one for College of Arts scholarship candidates. The University of Guelph achieved a first by being the only university to have two Queen Eliza­ beth II Scholarship recipients. Not only were they in the same College, but Elizabeth Bloomfield and David Howie were bot h registered in History doctora I programs. David is currently completing a Ph.D. in Scottish Studies. Elizabeth has had her urban history thesis passed with distinction , and holds a Canada Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Further national recognition has been achieved by two M.A. students.

Beverly Lemire was awarded the Cana­ dian Federation of University Teachers' H.G . Reid Scholarship to complete her M.A . in British History. She is now at

the University of Oxford on a common­ wcalth scholarship. The other student, Gordon Hak. ha s accepted a Canada Council scholarship and is continuing his work in Canadian Social History at Simon Fraser University.

English

The Department of English Lan­ guage and Literature ha s a modest grad­ uate program which has a present enrol­ ment of 16 students. Course offerings run thc gamut of British and North American literature. One of the newest areas of expertise is the st udy of Canadi­ an and commonwealth literature. To date. the program has drawn interest from as far away as Africa and Asia.

Although the Department attracted No­ bantu Ra se botsa, '80, of Botswana. many foreign students who are willing to come find they cannot afford foreign students' fees.

Dr. Douglas Killam. Department chairman, is very well known throughout literary circles for his work in common­ wealth literature. If he is successful in involving the Department in the com­ monwealth scholarship program he wi'li be able to call on his teaching contacts around the globe to increase foreign student enrolment.

These negotiations may be aided by the favourable response already achieved through the Department's pub­ lication of the periodical World Lilera­ lure Wrillen in English. Additional pub­ licity for the progra m may also be garnered in August 1983 when the De­ partment hosts the 20th annual confer­ cnce for the Association of Common­ wealth Literature and Language Stud­ ies. However, the efforts of faculty members such as Dr. Elizabeth Waters­ ton, Dr. Doug Daymond , Professor Nancy Bail ey and Dr. Killam him self, have already advanced this nedgling area of concentration.

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His t o ry

Alth oug h the Department offers tradition al areas of co ncentration ,in Ca­ rwdian, American , Briti sh a nd European history, two rela tively new specialties have high gradu ate enrolment s. Dr .

Wacla w "Stefa n" Stra ka , cha irman , is very plea sed with the fas t-pa ced devel­ opment of the Sco tti sh Studi es a nd Community Developm ent progra ms.

G uelph is in a unique positi on sin ce it is the onl y North Amer ica n university to offer a degree in Scotti sh Studies. The program is hi ghly respec ted in Scotl a nd as well as a mong Scottish sc hola rs in Ca nada .

Lnlike Scotti sh S tudies, th e empha­ sis on Communit y Developm ent is a rel ativel y new fe a ture of th e hi story curri culum. Over the pas t fi ve yea rs th e effort s of Dr. Gilbert Stelter a nd Dr. Alan Brookes have respectiv ely es tab­

ta nce of Gu elph Mas ters gradu a tes at for eign uni versitIes is indi cati ve of the qu a lit y of sc hol arship In prog ress.

Within the pa st few yca rs Guelph grads have bee n offered doct oral candid ac y at the University of Oxford, th e Universit y of Glasgo w and th e Uni ve rsit y 0 1' Lon­ don as well as a t universiti es throughout Ca nada. The benefits of close supervi­ sion a nd th e prom in ent reputati ons of individu a l fa culty mcmbers have a lso prompted first-cl ass stud ent s to rema in a t Guelph to obta in further degr ees.

Bes idcs the teaching ex perience mad e ava ila ble by supcrvisi ng se min a r secti ons of courses a nd scssi ona l posts, G uelph 's Hi story graduate stud ent s are given th e opportunit y to study with Visiting lecturers a nd to present their own papers at dep a rtm ental co ll oqui­ um s.

Valu able expos ure to ne w resea rch

Centre, Queen Eli zabeth II scholarship recipients Elizabeth Bloomfield and David

Ho wie with, left, Professor Gilbert Stelt er and, right , Profe ssor Ted Cowan .

li shed Urb a n History a nd Rura l History as vital entiti es . At te ntion given to these fields ha s set G uelph a pa rt from th e majority of Ca nadi a n uni ve rsiti es.

Und er the co llec tive la bel of Com­ munit y Development, urba n form , ur ba n fun cti on, rura l and ur ba n society , rni gra­ tion and settlement patterns within a '\I orth American se ttin g ha ve been ke y concerns.

Dr. Stra ka co ntends th at the re pu­ tatI on of History graduate progra ms has bee n secured by the continuing enrol­ ment of hi gh-ca libre gradu a te students.

Besides the obvio us prese nce of seve ral nation a l, prov inci a l an d commonwealth sc hola rship winners, the Department has also mai ntai ned a stea dy number of ni ve rsit y of Guelph scho la rship hold­ ers.

Dr. Stra ka beli eves th a t th e accep­

method s a nd the work of leadin g sc hol­ a rs is a lso mad e avail a ble through th eir pa rtici pa tion a t conferences hosted by the Depar tment. In addition to hosting a Sco ttish co lloqu ium severa l tim es a yea r, Gu elph is closel y associa ted with the Agri cultura l H istor y Conferen cc a nd seve ral other a nnu a l conferen ces.

Guelph had the dis tin ction of host­ ing a n intern a tion a l urba n hi story con­ fc rcn ce in 1977 and Dr. Stel te r will agai n co-ordin a te a conferen ce on The Politi ca l Eco nomy of Canadia n/ Ameri­ can Urba n Dev elopm ent slated for the Universit y of G uelph in Au gust, 198 2.

Philosophy

Dr. William Hughcs, cha irman of the De pa rtm ent, has rea so n to be proud of his De pa rtm ent's record . In a prov­ in ce- wid e a ppra isal, completed by thrce

exte rn a l consult ants, th e Depa rtm ent was acc redit ed with hi gh qu a lit y tea ch­ ing a nd a prol ifi c publica tion record.

Thc Depa rtm ent's 21 fac ult y members a re ge nerall y youn g in compari so n with dcpa rtm ents elsewh ere, a nd the reputa­ tio n of the Department has been built on th cir mounting caree rs. Dr. Hu ghes be­ lic ves that they have collecti vely pub­ lished much good materi a l a nd that the numbcr of fac ult y members ensur es not onl y a breadth of course c,rferin gs but a cross -fertiliza tion of ideas.

Due to th e sco pe of fa culty research int erest s, it is not surpri sing that the Department' s gradu a te stud ents ha ve equ all y va ried interes ts. Although the Department's progra m gene rall y at­ tra cts a few for eign students, most stu­ dents a re Ca nadi a n. Sin ce the Ph.D. progra m will not admit Guelph M.A. grads, sev eral Maste rs gradu a tes ha ve c hose n to ta ke Ph .D.s in Brita in , Eur ope and the United Sta tes ra ther than re­ main in Ca nada .

T wo deci sions , in pa rticul a r, have kept up enrolment since the first Phi los­ oph y program was introduced in 1966.

First of all. th e low average age of faculty members and the acade mic cli­ ma te of the times encouraged G uel ph to become inv olved in a joint doctora l pro­ gram with Mc Mas ter University . Since that time the associa tion has wo rk ed well a nd produced man y first-ra te grad­ ua tes.

The second decision was gea red towa rd s giving gradu a tes a co mpetiti ve cdg e in th e job ma rk et. As in the other two graduate prog ram s, student s are offcr cd addition al fundin g as teachin g or resea rch assi sta nts. Th e Department of Phil oso ph y offers Ph . D. students class ­ room expe ricn ce by providing th em with the opportunity to tea ch a lec ture sec­ ti on of a course. If succcss ful in th is stag c, th e stud ents ma y be offered ses ­ siona l positions in th eir las t year.

Future students may ben efi t fr om a recent proposal to de ve lop the Philoso­ phy of Science as an area of concentra­ ti on. It is felt th a t Gu elph is a good pla ce to begin such a project beca use of th c strong sc ience orre nta tion of th e Uni vc rsity as a whole. Las t year, a hopefu l st ep was ta ken when Professor Leama n helped to co- ordin a te a maj or conferen ce with rep rese nta ti ves of the OAC a nd the OvC on th e ethics of trea tment of a nim a ls in resea rch a nd ag riculture . 0

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