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Newly Elected as
AluDlni Senators Following the annual election for three of the nine alumn i seats on Senate at the niver ity, the followin g three alumni have been elected to replace those who have fulfilled three- year ter ms:
Dr.
Kenneth
M c Dermid,
OVC
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worked in a large animal practice in Stayner following graduation , and then pursued post graduate studies at the University of Toronto where he received a Diploma in Veterinary Public Health. i\s a pub,lic health veterinarian, he worked at the St. Catharines-Lincoln Health Unit. In 1957, he joined the Department of Agriculture (Ontario) as assistant to the provincial veterinarian, L ivestock Branch. In 1964, the Department's Veteri nary Services Branch was formed, and Ken became responsible for the Com municable Diseases Division . In 1974, he became director of the branch and, recently, with the reorganization of OMAF, he became executive director,
Beef Sire Test Centre
Left to right: Hon. Douglas Wise man; President Donald Forster; M in ister of Agriculture and Food, Hon. Dennis Ti mbreIl, and Professor Tom Burgess, OAC '42.
Dr. K. M cDermid, OVC '51.
Quality Standards Division. He is a life member of the OVC Alumni Association, and he and his wife, Florence, have three children.
Royden Ritz, OA C '72.
She is a former editor FACS Alumni News and a of the Mac- FACS Alumni Her husband, Roger, is a OAC '71.
of the Mac life member Association. graduate of
Susan (Lang ton) Shantz, Mac '69, M.Sc. '75, was the home economist with the
Royden Ritz, OAC '72, worked in sa les
Home Economics Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food for the Waterloo region from 1969 to 1976. She continues to do free-lance work with OMAF through local 4-H clubs. Susan is a research consultant, so cial research, for Harvey Associates of Edmonton, Alta. She does free-lance work with correspondence courses in goat farming for the School of Part-time Studies and Continuing Education at the University of Guelph.
with Maple Leaf M ills, in Leamington, and was sales manager of the Ontario Seed Division when he left the company to join the Toronto Dominion Bank, in Toronto, where he is presently manager, Agricultural Services. Royden is a life member of the O AC Alumni Association, and active in alumni affairs as secretary/ treasurer of the class of O AC '72. He participates regularly in alumni programs. He and his wife, Nancy , have two children. 0
For Presi dent Donald Forster, April 15 had aspects of "third time lucky" when he was joined by provinci a l cabinet ministers , and other officials, for the opening of the new Beef Sire T est Cen tre at the Arkell Research Station. The new facility is the third major building inaugurat,ion at Arkell si nce President Forster arrived on campus, a nd, for the first time, the weather was fine. When the poultry facil ities were opened in 1975 , showery and windy weather forced the ceremonies ' into a new ma nure shed. When the swine facil ities were opened two years ago, the rains were torrenti al and the ceremonies were held in a machinery shed . According to Professor Tom Bur gess, OAC '42 , Department of Animal and Pou ltry Science, the purpose of beef sire testing is to evaluate bulls on their potenti al for live-weight gain, and, thus,
provide information to the breeder. The new barn at Arkell, with ca pacity for 120 bulls, is the largest of several operated by the Ontario Mi nis try of Agriculture and Food. It is under the supervision of Professor Burgess , who has been involved in bull testing in Ontario since 1950, and complements an older barn at Arkell ha ndling 100 bulls. At the opening ceremonies for the $330,000 facility, the Honourable Den nis T imbrell, M inister of Agriculture and Food, spoke of the rapidly increas ing demand for bull testing by beef breeders. The Honourable Doug Wise man, M inister of Government Services and himself a beef farmer, a lso par ticipated in the ceremonies, as did the chairman of the Beef Cattle Perfor mance Association, Tony Arkell, who's great-grandfather was the settler after whom the village was named. 0
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