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UNIVERSITY erGUELPH

ALUMNUS

On The Cover

Winter 1989 Vol. 22, No. 1 University of Guelph

Alumni Association

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Si.:niOf \ 'ju.:-Pn::-.iticnt

Or Jim Alkul.""'. eus Ph,D, 7H O\'C 'l() l;r,mt Ltc. (. ~~ '7,J..., \t.A. 'RO Hut h Milnt: r, CPS 'R'; Kd l h Murr.t.~' . O,o\C '61A Sanh (\);. Y'J.H ) 3uaJiIl, Ans 'HZ

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RuthJ.nnc !'tnidc.::r. FAc'''' '7'S

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Arthur Grubbc. OAe '41

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Dr. Onu) Ahcdl', An.... Ph.D. '87 Chri:-.loph c:r CoullholnJ. C ~ '86 J~Ultl ( ~l:Lnlt: )' ) Cn::uncr. FACS 'H; Or. St.: ott C illifl~ J:lm , OVC 'H6

Donna ( l w..:t: ) (. r'J( -y. FAC$ ' ('t() Or. Billl l":trn..... OVC '(~. MSc.:. 7 1 RII... h<lfti Joruan . C~.... ' 7~ 'X',lIr llA( '-IM Kru Ll: Ri t.: hnc.bon. Ct~ Xl Margo ~hl)(: nl.ll.:cr. Aru '7,-), M.A. 'H l

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Pre,ldeO!, Horelll Food AdminlliitrntJo ll AJunml A.ssoclatlon '\'Jr~l

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p",.ldenl. College of A.rts Alumni A..socilltlon Douglas lI.lo t'!<o . H I( '7iJ.

President, Hum an AssocIatlon

K.in~tics

AJumni

M'rgarc, ( McKellar ) ) 1. ~It"). FACS '64. \1 So: 'H I Preslden' , illac·FAa; Alumni

John, Pat and Gwynne Tucker braved a chilly November day to be photographed for our front cover by John Majorossy. The Tucker family has been closely connected with the Univer· over its 25 year history.

Pat graduated with a B.Sc. in Agriculture (Horticultural Science ) in 1965, the year after the University was officialJyestabLished. "When I started ( my course), there were only 2,800 students on campus," he recalls. He spent the next 23 years as head ofthe Grounds Department on campus, retiring lasl]uly.

Pat's daughter, Gwynne, earned a BA (Honors French and German) from Guelph in 1977 and graduated from the Master of Lihrary Science program at The University of Western Ontario. She works as a librarian for Midland Doherty ltd. in Toronto.

Pat's son, John, earned a B.Sc. (Engineering) in 1978 and works for Revenue Canada (Customs). He lives in Grimsby with his wife, Anna ShellOn, a B.Se. '79 (Animal Science) grad, and their four children. His twin brother, David, earned a B.Sc. (Human Kinetics ) in 1978 and Lives in Vancouver.

Pat's wife, Ruth, has worked in various departments around campus, and currently works at OVe. The whole family Lived in a house behind the Arboretum which they rented from the University between 1966 to 1984.

Pat, John and Gwynne were photographed in front of Zavitz Hall and McLaughlin Library, a contrast between old and new bUildings on campus. A story about building expansion during the last 25 years is on pagt: 2. Other 25th anniversary stories wiUappear throughout the year.

4"""lallon John Juyner. CU~ '77. CPS 'H:\

Preslden" College of Biological Scicnc(' Alumn I Association C:lthl c Lowry. OAC 78. M.Agr. '8H Preslden•• OAC AlumnI Assocl.:ltlon ( ;\;"rry Q ui n n

Director, Alumni AJJ:ah5 II O~elopmen t ( ,(';11):: sano C'Nl n .

President. Ccnu-aJ Stud-en( Msocbtlon ) o"'I'i1 Wood, . CIl!> 'H7 President. Gnduate .5tuden~ ~\;lIion

Lucas V:tn \·c.:cn, ( ~ '7-1 ""'sldcnr, ColJege of PhY"lcal Science AJumru A...'iSO(::iaLivn Alu mnj ·in·Alt iofl

Ch.•lrm:tn Sl:.lff AdvLo;,t l ( &.

A"soci3tc &'"Otl :try

Iknrv Orr. OAC

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Ro...cmary C: L.lrk, MJe '')9

The Guelph Alumllw; is publisnnl tn Fchru.JJ) \l a~ , Augu....t and ~O\·l~ m ht · r ,

by (he Ot..-pa.nmc:nt of Atum m Affl.i~ :lnul k'\'dopml:nt

P.dilor: Joanne Wallen

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Editor's Note Alumni living in Canada who received the fall 1988 Gu.elph Alumnus know about the MasterCard alumoi card now offered through an arrangement between the Bank of Montreal and University of Guelph Alumni Association ( GM). lfyou missed that issue and would like to know more about the card and receive an application form , contact Sarah Nadalin at (519 ) 824· 4 120, ext, 6531 or watch for ads in upcoming issues.

With the exception ofstudents in their graduating year, the card is not available to undergraduates. Graduate studel1l may apply. The card's annual S10 fee is waived the first year. If you already have a Bank of Montreal MasterCard but want a Bank of Montreal MasterCard alumni card instead, indicate in writing that you want your other card cancelled. There is no space for this on the application form, so send a separate note and include the account number of the card you want canceUed. Where the application form asks for your nivcrsity alunmi number, fill in your student identification number if you still have it. If not, leavt' it blank.

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BUILDING THE GUELPH CAMPUS

Following is the second edited excerpt from The Achievement and Challenge, a history written by judithA. Colbert hI celebration afthe University 's 25tb anniversary.

Throughout the year, the Guelph Alumnus will feature further selec­ tions from this book. Coming next: The Colleges . . .

One of the first challenges faced by the new University of Guelph was the need for an expanded campus.

Projected enrolment figures provided an indication of the task facing the Board of Governors in 1964. Starting from a base of 2,000 students, they set out to accommodate 15,000 stu ­ dents by the 1980s, forecasting an annual increase of about 1,000 stu­ dents each year.

In addition to increased student numbers, the Board also had to be concerned with the growing range of fu nctions to be carried out in the new institUlion . The addition of its own administrative services and an entire college of arts and sciences made immediate demands upon existing space and faci li ties_A new library was also urgently required. Older facilities in the founding COlleges had to be upgraded as well.

Project Planning Associates Limited of Toronto was engaged to develop a campus master plan, with Richard P. Dober and Sert-Jackson Associates as design consultants. By May 1965, the

University of Guelph Long Range Development Plan was complete for pubLic viewing. Academic buildings were situated to facilitate pedestrian traffic. Related disciplines were clus­ tered. ReSidences, parking lots and primary roads were kept to the canlpus periphery.

In addition to a campus pLan, the Board of Governors recognized the need for additional student housing.

Evan Walker, a don at New College, University of Toronto, who had just completed a master's thesis on univer­ ity residences, was authorized to produce a report by 1965. He con­ cluded the n iversity would have to

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Looking over (/ model of the new Soulb Residence for students ill 1Y66 are (left to right) IE. Millward, Vice-President Administratioll; D.H. Scott, Db-ecto/~ Pbysical Resources; T W McEu'an, Chail; Bow-d ofGovernors; Hall , Stanley Randall, Minister of HOllsing; and Dr.).n. MacLacblan, President. provide 12,000 housing units by 1980.

Meanwhile, the last buildings to be erected by the Ontario Department of Public Works were opened in 1965. 'These included the Chemistry­ Microbio logy bu ilding for OAC and the Avian Pathology, Wildlife Diseases and Virology building for ove In January 1965, tenders were kt for Lambton Hall, a co-educational residence facility. In September, con­ struction began on what is now knoVo.'11 as the MacKinnon building. According to the master plan, a second faCility for social sciences was to follow, but it was not built because o f budgetary constraints.

Construction began in 1966 on a building for Crop Science, an expan­ sion of the Central Utilities Plant, the Maclaughlin Li brary, and South Resi ­ dence. The latter was a 1,662-bed facility which included 1,000 single rooms, giving Guelph one of the largcst, hy percentage, single-roomed residence systems in North America at that time.

In 1967, work began on a Physical Sciences building, now known as the MacNaughton building. By fall 1969, Alumni Stadium was being built.

Early plans were am bitious. Massive provincial funding was available to Ontario universities for capital pur­ poses. The University's first fund­

raiSing campaign, launched in March 1965, reached its target of87. 5 million by 1968. At one point, David Scott, the niversity s tlrst Director of Physical Resources, had six teanlS of architects working on projects worth a total of 60 mil lion. Meanwhile, the bu iness ofprOviding an education to growing nu mbers of students con­ tinued in rented quarters in down­ town Guelph and make-shift locations throughout campus.

Because of severe financial con­ straints in the 1970s, construction was reduced, although residence construction persisted . Lennox ­ Addington was begun in 1969, and Wellington Woods and East Residence in 1970. In addition, renovations were carried out in Mills Hall ( 1968), Macdonald Hall ( 1969 ) , Watson Hall ( 1970 ) , Maids Hall (J 971 ), and Johnston Hall ( 1972). Work on the A.A. Thombrough building for engi­ neering began in 1971 and construc­ tion on the UniverSity Centre got underway in the summer of 1972.

Renovations LO academic buildings included Landscape Architecture ( 1968), Creelman Hall (1968), and what is now the Reynolds Building ( 1970 ). Construction on the Human Ki n etics, now Human Diology building, began in August 1972 and Macdonald Stewart Hall, home of the

School of Hotel and Food Admini 'tra­ tion was underway in 1973.

In these and succeeding years, other miscelJaneous renovations and addi­ tions were carried out, noticeably major extensions at OVC, the J.D. Maclachlan building for Agricultural Economics (1975) and, in partici­ pation with the City of Guelph, Wellington County and the Wellington County Board of Education, the crea­ tion of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (1979).

In 1986, the former President's

Carriage House, built in 1879, was transformed imoAlumni House. sed as a sheep barn until 1967, it was designated as a building of his(Oric and architectural interest by the City of Gudph in 1982.

Following the period of restraint and relative inactivity from the early 1970s through to the late 1980s, the mood of the campus has come full circle. With the current capital campaign f"dising more than $65 mil­ lion, the stage is set for a second wave of physical expansion.

ASC OFF TO SUCCESS

The new Advancement Support Centre (ASC) in Alumni Affairs and Development is off to a successful start thanks (0 the generosity of alumni.

ASC callers are now contacting the parents of students currently enrolled at the University. Funds raised through this new Parents Program initiative will go directly towards the niversity of Guelph Library. lfyou would like more information about the ASC program, contact Susan Lawrenson or her assistant, Heather Ryan, at Alumni House, (519) 824­ 4120, ext. 8200.

FEBRUARY TO MAY February 15 'Achievers - Peter Anderson, lawyer February 21 "Science Noon - "Marine Mammals & Man: onflict & Competition," Keith Ronald, zoologist & director, The Arboretum February 28 Science oon - "How Science Has Changed Agriculture," Clayton Switzer, Deputy Minister, Agriculture & Food March 7 Science oon - "The Science of

Reading a Wine ~bc1 , " Ron

Sub<ien, geneticist, Microbiology

Department

A C is a telemarketing program which employs students to raise money through phone contact with alumni and friends for the niversity's annual fund as well as special projects and class projects.

"Phone solicitation is the new trend in fund raiSing because it is the most cost effective," explains Susan Lawrenson, ASC Co-ordinator.

The first assignment for ASC was to wrap up calls for the University's capital campaign. Approximately 2,200 1987- 1988 graduates were contacted. "The response was overwhelming," reports Susan. "The pledge rate was 40 per ent and pledges totalled over S130,000 from these recent graduates. Alumni from other classes were also contacted, bringing the final total to 5250,000 as of December 7."

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

March 8

Achievers - PhilJip Chan,

restaurateur

March 10-12

College Royal Open House

March 14 Science Noon - .. Forensic Science - Closing in on Crime," Harold Peel, Chief Scientific Advisor, Central Forensic laboratOry Services, RCMP

Susan Lawrenson, ASC Co-ordinator, says phone solicitation is the new trend in fund raising.

March 21 Science Noon - "From Ecology to Toxic Wastes: a Personal Journey," Donald Chant, Chair & President, Ontario Waste Manage­ ment Corporation March 28 Science Noon ( March is Social Scit7lCe montb.

Contact the College Of Social

Sdence for details of Lectures,

NAME SWITCH In the fall 1988 issue of the Guelph Alumnus, two names

appeared out of order under the Hall of Fame inductees' photo on page 7. Wendy Parker was identified as Malvina Griffiths and vice versa. Our apologies for any confusion this error may have caused

seminars.)

May 30-june 2 Convocation 'Achievers' lectures to be held in Centre 103 at 5 p.m.

Unil~ity

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, 'Sdence Noon to be held in War Memorial Hall at J2 noon.

, , 'COllfc.>renc:es will be hekJ throughout the year. For registm­ ti01l and information, call (519) 8244120, ext. 3045.

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SINGAPORE CHAPTER FORMED

On

a recent trip to the East, Rosemary Clark, Director of Alumni Affairs, was warmly welcomed by alumni in Singapore. Ofthe 2.6 million inhabitants of this tiny Pacifk Ri m island, 90 are graduates of Guelph.

Evidence of Guelph alumni is present in the tropical landscape which is under the capable direction of Dr. Stan Chua, OAC '61 , Com­ missioner of Parks and Recreation.

Many of the hotels have been land ­ scaped by Colin Okashimo. OAC (BLA ) '82, and Peter Smulders, OAC ( MLA) '87, who work with Belt Collins and Associates In ternational, a land­ scape architecture firm.

Guelph grads in Singapore also work as computer experts, teachers, researcher , and external affairs personnel. Some are students and one is a veterinarian.

On short notice, 1'5 of these alumni gathered for dinner at the Holiday Inn. From this meeting, it wa$ decided a ingapore Alumni Chapter should be formed. Terence and Elaine Yong, CPS '8'5 and CS5 '85 respectively, will act as co-ordinators. All those present volunteered assistance. Any Singapore alumni interested , can contact Terence and E[aine at 469-6629.

ALUMNI CHAPTER

EVENTS

LONDON

Inaugural Dinner & Dance

Friday, April 14 Watch for details in your mail or ca ll Chuck & Noreen (Stone) Broadwe ll, OAC & Mac '54, at 4 73-5 708, or George Burkh older, OAC '74, at 667-094 1.

OTTAWA

Tri-University Car Rally (with Western & Waterloo) Saturday, May 28

For more information, contact

Greg Dol han, HAFA '81 , at 839-5749.

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Gathering on campusfor· a VI.SA. workshop thisfall were (back row, left to right) Lany Meek, CPS 77, Len Conolly, David Hill, CSS '84, Robin Opersko, OAC 79, Ken Linington, OAC 72, Heather Linington, OAC '80, Nancy Plato, FACS '8 /, Charles Billard, OAC '8 6, Chuck Cunningham, andDavisMyers, OVC '69, Dons '72; and (front row, left to 1ight) Lynne (Hodgins) Myers, Piccinin, CBS '88, Shonna Giles, CSS '88, Mari~ytl Weber; Mac 70, joan (Macintyre) Styan, Mac 70, and Betsy Allan, OS '83. Absentjorphoto was Vicki Bournan, CBS 77

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V.I.S.A. WORKSHOP

Aumni involved in the Volunreers in Support of Admissions ( V.I.SA ) program met on campus for a work­ shop this fall. The purpose was to update the volunteers on the Uni ­ versity's adm issions and liaison philosophy and to let them know what an important role they playas niversity anlbassadors.

the volunteers about various recruitment publications heing handed out to secondary school students.

The VI.SA work hop, the l1rSl of its kind, was well received by the 12 volunteers who attended . says Bet iY Allan, AJumni Liaison Co-ordinator.

She hopes to organize such workshops every other year to keep new volun ­ teers informed. If you wou ld like to become involved with the V.ISA. program in your dty, contact Betsy at Alumni House, ('51 9 ) 824 -4120, ext.

Alumni are valuable resource people for prospective Guelph stu­ dents. TIle V.I.S.A. progranl arranges visits between ;llumni and secondary school students and their parents.

The alumni answer questions about the -niversity's curriculum, canlpus life, and their career paths. Visits to schools in Chatham , Bran tford , Simcoe, Ottawa, London and St. Catharines are planned for this spring.

ALUMNI TOUR MUSEUM IN ENGLAND

Len Conolly, Associate Vice­ President, Academic, welcomed the volunteers to the V.l.S.A. workshop on behalf of the niversity. Chuck Cunn ingham, Assistant Registrar, Liaison, spoke on the University's liaison goals. Nancy Plato, OA Liaison Co -ordinator, spoke on student recruitment at OAC, and Shonna Giles, Liaison Officer, Registrar's Office, told

group of alumni living in London, England toured (he Victoria and Albert Museum in the fall. The event was organized by Laurie King, FACS '74. If you would like more information about future alumni events happening in London, contact L1uric at 17 Cavalier Close, Dihdcn, Hampsh ire, Great Br itain, 504 STU; (0703 ) 842-816.

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ALUMNI CHINA ADVENTURE

By Rosemary Clark,

Directo r of Alumni Affairs

NTrip of a lifetime" describes the Alumni China Adventure which took place October 22 (0 November 7, 1988 1shared this unique and unfor­ gettable travel experience with 22 Guelph alumni and friends.

Following an overnight stop in Tokyo, it was on to Shanghai, famous for its Bund along the Huang-p'u River where Chinese of all ages gather to practise graceful Tai Chi Chuen exercises and talk with foreign guests.

A visit toone of the Children's Palaces included a concert for an enthusiastic audien c e. Children p layi n g Oh Suzannah on their accordions for the foreigners brought cheers from our group.

From Shanghai, a day trip to Suzhou (Ook us through the countryside to see massive tlelds of rice. Suzhou is home to many beautiful gardens. A visit to the Silk Weaving and Embroidery Institute wa a highlight.

A one-hour train ride back to Shanghai was replaced with what was to be a three-hour bus ride. A few miles out of Suzhou, the bus went slower and slower, stalled, started again, a few miles later stalled again, and fina lly, came to a dead stop. After several attempts to fIX the engine, the driver admitted defeat and sent for another bus.

After three days in Shanghai, we flew to Beijing, China's capital, where we walked on Tian An Men Square, the largest plaza in the world ( it will accommodate a hall· million people ) and site of Mao Tse Tung's Tomb and the Great Hall of the People. The Forbidden City, opulent palace of the Chinese emperors, was massive and impressive. We walked the Great Wall ofChina, north of Beijing, which has become quite "touristy" with hawkers selling souvenirs. We were fascinated by the Ming Tombs, burial grounds for Ming Emperors. No trip to Beijing would be complete without a traditional Peking Duck dinner which we enjoyed one evening.

Next we boarded China Air for

Photographed outside the Hong Kong Hilton on the Alumni China Adventure were (front row, left 10 righl), Lome Beitz, 0 VC '52, Iris Beitz, Helen Abell, Mac '38, MllrielAndrew, OAC '40, Marilyn O'Connor, Laura Whyte; (second row, I to r) , Betly Ander-son, Mmy McKenzie, Mac '37, Ellen Scott, Mac '40, jean McKenzie, Maurice Q'ConrlOt: OAC '52A,john Whyte, OAC '56A; ( third row, I to r),jim Dodds, OVC '63, Carolyn Dodds, Elsie Sanders,julie Scott, Roy Pearn, OAC '63; (fourth row, I 10 r) , john Radf01·d, Al Anderson, OAC '49; jim McCague, OAC '40,janel McCague, and Betly Radford.

Xian ( by this time we were lIsed to the cramped aircraft space ) where the terra cotta warriors were dis­ covered in 1974 by a group of pea<;anL<; digging a wel l. A museum has been bu ilt to cover the figures in the dig where archaeologists continue to work. After two nights at the beautiful Golden Flower Hotel, we departed for Guilin.

Gui lin is on the Li River, along whose banks are bi7.arre limestone mountain peaks rising sharply in no particular formation. A day cruise on the river took us leisurely through these peaks, herds of water buffalo, and small farms.

O ur last stop in Ch ina was Guangzhou ( formerly anton ) on the Pearl River, 140 miles upstream from Hong Kong. We visited the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Yuexi u Park, and the five -storey pagoda. The Garden Hotel provided a full Cantonese dinner.

We travelled by train through the Chinese countryside, rice fields , pineapple and orange groves, to our final destination ·Hong Kong. The night lights are magn ificent with skyscrapers, harbor and sea sur­ rounding the island. It's a shopper's

paradise - but one is ea<;i1y "taken" if not careful.

Besides a local guide in each city, a national guide from the China International Travel Service accom ­ panied our group. INTRAY, the company which made our arrange­ ments, also provided a tour e cart, so we were well looked after. The hotels were quite luxtlrious and Chinese or American food always available.

There is much construction underway in China and free enterprise has entered the scene. The country will never be the same on another visit - be it in a week, six months, or a year.

Upcoming alumni tours include : West Indies & the Panama canal, March 5-12, (from $2,065); another China/ Yangtze River Adventure, May 8-26, (from $5,429 from Vancouver);Joumey of the Czars, July 24-August 6, including a cruise on the Vo lga River (app rox. $3,800); Danube River Adventure, August 17-31, through s even countries, plus a Black Sea Cruise to Istanbul. Watch your mail for brochures or contact Rosemary Clark at Alumni House.

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Friday, June 16

JO:OO a.m .-9:oo p.m.

Registration for alumni and guests Noon

Gryphon Golf Tournament Victoria Park Golf Course }·OO p .m.-5:00 p.m .

Campus Walking Tours (self-guided tour information available) Plan to visit professors in their departments (by appointment) 5:00p.m .

OAC Alumni Association Directors' and Past Presidents' Dinner (by invitation)

Awards Presentations: • Distinguished Teaching Award • Distinguished Extension Award • Distinguished Researcher Award 6:00p.m.

Welcome Alumni Barbecue 8:30p.m.

Concert sponsored by Guelph Spring Festival, 'The Gents" War Memorial Hall

Come and celebrate the University's 25th Anniversary with a special con­ ce rt by "The =--G1fE LPH- Gents" , Canada's most versatile a - SPRING­ cappella choral group. Their reper­ toire includes madrigals, Victorian parlour ballads and "pop" songs.

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A li mited number of scats arc heing held for alumni.

Saturday, June 17 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Registrdtion for alumni and guests 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Tours of Alumni House 9:00-11:00 a.m .

Arboretum Nature Walk sponsored by CBS Alumni Association

Tickets will be available through the general Alumni Weekend '89 regis­ tration form which is sent to all reunion classes and special groups.

If you arc OT a member of a reunion group, please contact the Alumni Office by mailing the form on page 8 or by phoning (5 19) 824 -4120, ext. 2102.

Special Alumni Ticket Price: S12 (Orchestra and Row A of Balcony)

9:30p.m.

Gala Dessert and Coffee Party Creelman Hall

9 :00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Slowpitch Tournament South Quad 9:00a.m .

Alumni Association Annual Meetings • Macdonald Institute-Family and Consumer Studies • Ontario Agricultural College • Ontario Veterinary CoUege 10:00 a.m .

OVC Alumni Brunch Awards Presentation: OVC Distinguished Alumnus "The Gents. "

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Cutten Club

Schedule of Events

10:30 a.m.

Tours. demonstrations and feature presentations: College of Family and Consumer Studies (Macdonald Institute) li.OOa.m.

Alumni Association Annual Meetings:

Noon College of Biological Science Picnic Guelph Lake Conservation Area

1:00 p.m.-430 p.m.

Children's Program Alumni House.: Gardens

• College of Arts • College of Social Science • School of Hotel and Food

Administration

130 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tours, demonstrations and feature presentations: Ontario Agricultural College

Noon President's Picnic and Awards Presentations:

• Agricultural Economics and Business • Animal and Poultry Science • Crop Sci ence • Lwd Resourcc Science

• Alumnus of Honor • Alumni Medal of Achievement

followed by U.G.A.A Auction Creelman PLaza

Noon 'Class Reunion LWlcheons:

- Mac '33

- OAC & Mac '34

- Mac '39

- OAC'39

- Mac '49

- Mac '54

- Mac '540

- Mac '590

- Mac '69

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FACS '84

.Note: The above classes will also be attending the 25th Anniversary Dinner

i:30 p .m.-4:00 p.m.

Open House - Tours of Equine Research Centre and OVC Wild Bird Clinic 2:00 p. m.-4:00 p .m .

Free time - class business meetings, college activities 2:0()4-GO p.m.

Massey Coffee Shop Reunion All Massey muffin lovers welcome l

4jOp.m.

Mac '69 Reception and Painting Presentation Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Renew your class fn·endshlps.

6:00p.m.

25th Anniversary reception followed by dinner celebrating the fll'St quarter century of The University of Guelph Athletics Centre

Class Reunion Dinners - Mac & OAC '24 - Mac & OAC '29

- OAC '44 - ove '49 - OAC '49 -

OAC '';4 ( off campus ) OAC '59 Mac '64 OAC '64 CBS '79 FACS '79 - OAC '79 - OAC '84 - OAC '84A

Other Reunion Gatherings

Children can have fun at Alumni Weekend too.

- Eas( Residence Roomies, lanark 4.1 & 4.2 (Sept 'SI -Apr. '82 ) - SchooL of Rural Planning and Development Alumni

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Schedule of Events 6:00p.m .

Golden Anniversary Reception followed by dinner: - Mac '39 - OVC '39 - OAC '39 A" a break from tradition , Golden Anniversary alumni will join with aLI other classes and special groups to

take pan in thc Univcrsity's 25th Anniversary celebration at the Athletics Cemrc. Compliments of OAC, OVC and Mac·FACS Alumni Associations.

9:00p.m.

Alumni Dance Athletics Centre

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Sunday, June 18

9:()O a.tn.

Church Service Arbo retum lUj Oa.m.

U.G.A.A. Annual Meeting, followed by Champagne Brunch and outdoor concert Alumni H o us~ Patio & Garden

2:00p.m.

Major Donors & Alumni Reception

and Unveiling of a sculpture by

Evan Penny, winner of the 1988

sculpture competition spon­

sored by Imperial Tobacco Ltd.

Donald Forster Sculpture Park

Major Exhibition of art acquisi­

tions funded by alumni donations

over the years.

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

(1st floor galle ry)

Enjoy good jood and some reminiscing on the Alumni House Patio.

A final program with reunion and activity details and locations, as well as a registration form, will be printed in March and mailed to all reunion classes and groups. If you are NOT a member of a reunion class or group and would like more information, please nll in the form below or phone (519) 824-4120, ext. 2102.

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Name: _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ College & Year: _ _ _ _ __ _ __ __ _ __ _ __ FuLlMrulingAddc~:

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Other infonnatjon required: _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Address to: Laurie Malleau, Special Events Co-ordinator, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1.

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CAMPAIGN PROJECTS

TAKING SHAPE

Funding for The Campaign has surpassed 164 million to date, reports Gerry Quinn, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development. Ofthis total, .831 million is from the private sector .md 533 million from government.

"We are grateful for the encour­ agement, commitment and support we have re{'eived from the public and private senors, especially from alumni, faculty and staff, and friends ," says Gerry.

Academic enrichment and scho­ larship projects have received funding above the original target. However, rhe upward tug of inflation and rising building costs have forced revised target lcvds for major projects like the Environmental Biology/ Horti ­ culture building. ''We have made significant strides towards the enrichment and future success of the University, but much

more remains to be achieved," emphasizes Gerry.

Dr. Brian Segal, in his installation address, acknowledged contributions of alumni , friends , and private sector support but referred to the continuing need for privdte support: "lfwe are to better succeed in matching our accomplishments with our abilities, we will have to aggressively pursue ways of generating more resource funds. " As of November 24, alumni had contributed $5 ,619,31 4 to The Campaign.

"The past three years have gener­ ated enormous momentum and recognition for Guelph as a world­ class university. It is exciting to sec the visible resuits of The Campaign as projects like the Athletics Centre and the Environmental Biology/Horti­ culture Building take shape," says Mary Cocive r a , D ir e c tor o f Devdopment.

University representatives and guests celebrated the opening ofthe 60th Royal Agliculturai Winter Fair in Toronto in November. Ian W Mun-ay. Board of Governors Chair, hosted a reception to introduce Dr. Brian Segal, the University's fifth President and Vice-Chancellor, and to honor the Univ(.~sity ·s long-standing participation in the Royal. Shming in the festivities were (Iejf to right) Dun Rose, OAC '57A & 'GO, UGAA President; Dr.Jim Pinkney, avc '3 7; Kathie McLaughlin. CBS 75; Dr. Burt Matthews, OAC '4 7, fomzer University President; and Dr. Rob McLaughlin, OAC '69, E.xecutive Direct01; Education and Research Division, OMAF.

PARKING LOT

TO ICE SU RFACE

T he construction crew arrived in early November to start the twin pad arena across from the Athletics Centre.

By late 1989. Gryphon hockey players will abandon "Pygmy Gardens" and hit the international -sized rink.

Another practice rink will accommo­ date the scores of recreational skaters on campus.

You can pu t your name on one of the 1,300 seats in the hockey rink for S1,000. Call Alumni House for details.

Renovations t o the existing AthLetics Centre will be started later in 1989 and will complete the first phase of the athletics facil ities redevelopment Plans are underway now to explore funding options for thc 2S-mctre, eight-lane ~wimmjng pool. which will be the second phase of the redevelopment program.

UNIQUE GIFT ROderick Robbie of Robbie, Young and Wright , architects for the Environmental Biology/HorticuLture building, received a tmly unique gift when his firm's partners and staff donated 5500 to The Campaign 10 celebrate his 60th birthday.

"Now he'll have a place to stand," says Ann Percival, Project Architect.

"We wanted to commemorate Mr. Robbie's 60th birthday by giving him a gift that would be close to his heart.

He has been involved with the Univer­ silyofGuelph over a number ofyears and has been especially keen on this project. So, as a staff, we decided this contribution would be the ideal gift.

We projected that it would buy two square feet of building."

The Environmental Biology/ Hort­ iculture building is the flagship project ofThe Campaign. Originally, huilding costs were projected at $21 million.

However, inflation has pushed costs to 524 .5 million . Of the revised objective, SI9,357,144 has been pLedged: S16.5 million from govern­ ment funding and $2 ,857,144 from private sources.

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ALUMNI DEPARTMENT

APPOINTMENTS

Geery Quinn was appointed in September 1988 for a one-year term as Director of Alumni Affairs and Development He will also cOOlinue as Director of Public Relations and Information for the University during this time.

Gerry earned a BA in 1967 from Waterloo Lutheran (now Wilfrid Laurier) niversity. He came to Guelph from Seneca College in April 1986. At Seneca, he served as Director of Promotion, Advertising and Public Re lations; Director of the Eaton Hall Management Development Centre; and pecial Assistant to the President.

He has over 20 years ofexperience in busines~ management and marketing in both the public and private sectors.

He has also served on the Committee of Presidents for the 22 OOlario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology.

Gerry and his wife, Virginia, have two daughters , Beth -Anne and Heather. Beth-Anne is a second year student at the University of Guelph.

Janet Cater has joined the Depart­ menl of Alumni Affairs and Develop-

Gerry Quinn

janet Cater

ment as Assistant Director , Communications, replacing Mary Cocivera who is now Director of Development. She wiU co-ordinate publications and public re lations activities for the department.

Janet brings an extensive back­ ground in alumni , development and communications. She has served as Research o -o rdinator, University Relations, University ofWaterloo; Co­ ordinator of Alunmi Affajr , Wilfrid Laurier University; and most receOlly as Co-ordinator of Marketing Programs at WATCOM , a computer software company in Waterloo.

Janet is an avid horse-lover and rider. She has one daughter, Amy, 10.

COME TO COLLEGE ROYAL

"A

chievement and Challenge" is the theme ofthi year's College Royal which takes pLace during the Uru­ versity's 25th anruversaryyear. Alumru are invited to participate in the 65th annual student-organized College Royal Open House weekend March 1 1 and 12. There will be events and displays aU over campus.

The niversity of Guelph Alumn i Association will host an Open House for alumni at Alumni House during the weekend, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and II a.m. to 5 p .m. Sunday.

Alumni arc also invited to ancnd the

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College Royal Ball Saturday, March 4.

Tickets are available through A1umru House.

The a1unuti square dancing compe­ tition is one of the most popular CoUege Royal events. The competition is open to all Guelph alumni but the sets need not be made up totaH), from alumni. Come on out and have some fun , Sunday, March 12.

For further information, contact this year's College Royal President, Carol Taylor, at the College Royal office, (519) 824-4120, ext. 8366.

PROFESSORS NOT

OVERPAID, STUDY

SHOWS

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acuIty members and seruor admirustrators at Ontario uru ­ versities are paid less than professionals in comparable jobs in government and private industry, according to a study commissioned by the Council of Ontario niversities.

Only juruor managers and full professors are paid competitive salaries, the study conducted by Hay Management Consultants concludes.

The study found average faculty salaries in Ontario in J 987 ranged from 38,000 for an assistant professor to 65,000 for a full professor, while jobs ith comparable responSibility averaged 859,500 ingovemmenL and 87 J ,000 in private industry.

Senior university adminis­ trators were found to be earnmg about S 124,000, compared with S 107,000 in govemment and 8187,000 in industry. Depan­ ment heads earned about 857,000 in a university, $48,000 in government, and 554,000 in industry.

The consultants also studied the nature of academic work and concluded that academics devote at least as much, if not more, time to their jobs as anybody elsc in the work force; that sabbaticals are essential to research and scholarship; and that tenure is an essential cle­ ment of the safeguards needed to ensure integrity ofscholarsrup and tcaching.

The study noted it takes a long time before academics reach the top of their salary scales and said the performance appraisal system applied in Ontario uruversities to those seekjng tenure and promotion is, "in our opinion, far more rigorous than procedures gener.1Uy employed in the pri­ vate or public sector."

Editor: /3ob Winkel, '60

LABORATORY TO HAVE

MAJOR IMPACT ON RESEARCH

By Owen Robert ,

Offi e of Research

A statistical consulting laboratory, named in honor of the late Professor Gordon Ashton , has opened on campus.

TIle Ashton Statistical L'lbofatory has received a three-year, S108,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ( NSERC).

"At this University, there is a major emphasis on tife sciences," explains Laboratory Co-Ordinator Brian Allen, CPS '72, M.Sc. '73, Mathematics and Statistics. "There is a great deal of variabilily in researdl results with animals and plants, so there has been mueh demand for statistical con­ sulting The laboratory wiU have a major inlpact on research at Guelph, particularly in providing statistical computing support to scientists."

Co-ordinating the service with Professor Allen, is Professor Andrew WilJan, Population Medicine, ove Professor Ashton joined the ni ­ versity in 1956 as the first practising statistician and became part of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics when it formed 10 years later. He retired in 1974 and was named professor emeritus the folJowing year.

The SERC gram has been used to hire full-time statistician Dan Ryan, who provides statistical support for research projects and programs .

Researchers will be offered advice on experimental de ign , statistical computing, data analysis, and data management.

Professor Allen, who is jointly appointed to Animal and Poultry Science, collaborated on 1.30 research projects last year, while teaching, and supervising graduate students. "The establishment of this laboralOrv formalizes what has been occurring here for quite some time," he says.

Graduate students working on problems emanating from statistical consulting or collaborative research

have written theses on new sampling procedures for determining whether foodstuffs contain unacceptably high bacteria levels, alternative methods of estimating spatial correlation in soil properties, and an assortment of sequentia.l sanlpling procedures for sampling insects to determine if their numbers exceed an economic threshold. "from our perspective, the labor­ atory also provides us with a con­ tinuous supply of interesting, new statistical problems to solve," says Professor Allen. "Manydevclopments and advances in theoretical metho­ dology have come out of problems in the life sciences."

The Ashton Statistical Laboratory is

Graduate Studies Dean Doug Onnrod is just one Of the scientists that statistician Professor Brian Allen, right, has been consulting with on research projects. Professor Allen is he/ping co-ordinate the new Ashton Statistical LaboratoT)'. an independent component of the Mathematics and Statistics Clinic, which has a leaching component as well as a consulting capacity. The laboratory will not have a teaching capacity.

CPS RESEARCH

DELPHI Project

Professor Jim linders, Computing and Information Science, has received 594,164 from tbe University Research Incentive Fund (URlF) program to develop the DEl.PHI Projec t, an alternative to mainframe computer systems. It involves the creation of a "distributed systems environment" based on the use of workstations interconnected within local area networks.

Shrinking Computer Chips Advances in integrated circuit technology are straining the space available on the tiny microelectronic chips used in today's computers.

Guelph researchers have discovered how to cut the number of inter­ connections needed on individual chips by up to 50 per cent, which in turn , will help reduce chip size and lower production costs.

Working under the supervision of Professors Dilip Banerji and Jim Linders, Computing and Infonnation Science, and visiting professor AnIO Majumdar of the Indian Institute of Technology, graduate student Shailesh

Sutarwala has created a software package called GREGMAP. "GREGMAP enables design engi­ neers to look at all the intercon­ nections, eliminate some of them , and make better lise of existing ones," explains Professor Banerji.

'The program is being tested at AT&T Bell labs in Murray Hill, N.J. , for possible use in their design auto­ mation environment.

Mass Spectrometer Acquired The Universiry now has a 5500,000 mass spectrometer, an analytical instrument designed for separating ions acco rding La their masses .

Located in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the mass spectrometer wi Userve SO professors and their research groups in the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Gf".tduate Work in Chemistry, as well as other researchers in the DiverSity and in area industries. It was purchased with a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grant.

Mass spectrometry was recently used to investigate the incidence of PCB contamination in soil at St. Basile-\c-Grand.

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A LETTER HOME William Gerald (Bill) TOiler; OAC '22, diedjU1lUa1y 30, 1988. He spent over 50 years ill the dairy business, starting right after graduation with Royal Dairy in Guelph. Dun'ng the Second World War, he served with the 16th Reserve Battery, retiring with the rank ofcaptain. Two ofhis children married Guelph grads. His cklughter, Chamlioll. married Glen Henderson , OAC "49, and their cklughter, jane, is a HAFA 77 grad.

His son, Sean, married Angela Silvestro, Arts '69. Recent/y, Bill's granddaughter, Gretchen MacMiLkm, CSS 70. MA. 74, brought tbe fol­ lowing leiter to Alumni House. It was written by Bill to his fatber in Collingu'ood on Sept. 29, 1918 and describes a freshman 's life at OAC. It has beer? edited due to its length.

Dear Dad, The fun started here the first night.

Everybody was asleep when splash, I was soaked with cold water and pitdled on the floor with the bed on lOp of me. I let a yell out, got up and saw the joke.

The room was upside down , the bedding soaked and also myself. Jim didn't get any of the water. I got his share. The sophomores had keys to our doors and just at the right time, they doused water on us in rwo paper bags, dumped both beds together, then rushed to the next room and repeated. [didn't find out how this was done until afterward. 1 had to take off my pajama top and dry off. Then, we freshmen gathered in the corridor (2 a.m.) and taiked till 20 after 3. The next night, 16 of us sat up till 12 o'clock, waiting for them to come back but they didn't.

Saturday evening, the sophs gave us little red skull caps for 50 cents. We have to wear them unti l after Sports Day and can't speak to any girl until then cjther. [f we do and arc caught, we get our hair shaved off - one strip straight back and another from ear £0 ear. Two fellows had it done and uch

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a Sight! They went to the barber and got it cl ipped close as soon as they could.

After they gave us our caps, we paraded downtown to the picture show and started a rumpus. Then we went oul and paraded through the stores and in for ice cream.

Monday was Flag Day. TIle freshmen have to defend a flag on a ten foot pole against the sophs. lithe freshmen hold out for 20 minutes, they win.

But it has only been done once. We held il fo r about two minutes. We were three to one against the sophs but not organized. They charged u in a olid back. We had big George in at the pole and he would grab a soph and haul him down fro m the pole but one climb 'd onto one of our men and grabbed the tlag.

The fu n began before the tlag fight.

"A" division of the freshmen were in the fields doing student labor w hile "B" were inside at laboratory work.

The sophs started rounding up groups of freshmen and locking them up to keep them out of the fight. A couple were put in a little shack bur they found a screwdriver, took the door off and got out. Two more were loaded in a basement room of the gymnasium but bent a window bar and crawled through.

Another bunch were digging ditc hes and had a soph for a boss but didn 't know it. He took them to the barn about 2:30. When they were in the little room, he shut the door and locked it. We heard abollt it and went to find them. As we got there , they broke out into a big room with straw in it but the sophs heard and got there ahead and they were having a free-for-all in the straw while some were guarding the doors to keep us out. Three of us broke through and got into the scrap. The sophs graduaUy beat liS. Our eyes, mouths and noses were full of chaff They tied us up and carried us into a cement silo and nailed the door shut. We got untied and heard someone pulling out the nail and yelling to us to shove on the door. We burst it open. It was the girls taking this course that had let us

William Gerald (Bill) Toner, OAC '22, at age 15, a few years be/ore he entered OAC. out. We got over to the campus just in time fo r the tlag fight.

Books here cost a lot. I have every­ th ing down but not totaUed and have 3.75 left to get a pair ofboOLS_I have to use my black ones for working. My tan ones hurt my feet and arc too fine for everyday use, so I think 1 ought to get another pair. I saw a pair down­ rown, about 7, like military boots (a lot of fellows have them here ).

Most of the fellows would like to go home for Thanksgiving but haven't the price so we're thinking up some stunts. One is to walk. to Kitchener ( 16 miles) and ride back on the train.

Another is to go to Toronto on the electric rai lway (S 1.85 return). And another is to stay here and have a feed some place. I'd like to go to Kitchener.

When you come down , remember not to come on Sunday because visi­ tors aren't allowed at the CoUege or on the grounds Sunday. If you come on TIlanksgiving or some Saturday, it wou ld be alright. Bring my suitcase, cash box and books,john Barleycorn, Crooked Trails and Straight, and A Singular Life. Paul sent for his books and we exchange. (Editor's Note: Paul Saunders, OAC '23, and Bill later married sisters).

Paul is an awfully nice fellow. He had a brother killed at the front and another wounded. His father is in the Customs Department al Ottawa, This is some leuer, isn 't it? Jim wrote one as big to a girl and is started on another one home. PerL'"}' has written to eight girls and hasn't had an answer yet.

I guess I hetter stop. Write soon.

Your loving sao, Gerald

OAC

RESEARCH

Artillcial Seed OAC researchers have filed a patent for the technology to mass produce "artificial seeds," an important step in the propagation and preservation f valuable and desirahle plant species.

A team led by Professor Bryan McKersie. Crop Science, and Research Associate Tissa Senaratna, spent 10 years creating the genetics and environment to favor th commercial development of non-sexually derived or "artificial" alfalfa seeds.

Their process - essenti.1l1y an alter­ native to using cuttings to reproduce or clone plants - can produce 6,000 seeds from a single plant in 60 days and can be applied to other plant species. ntil now, no one has been able to dry these artificial seeds to practic.llly package, ship or store them. By introducing a combination of nutri­ ents during embryo growth stage to mimic nature, the researchers initi­ ated a developmental process that provides the seeds with tolerance to drying. >

Computer Softwear For Farmers A unique computer softwart: pack­ age is now offered to Ontario tanners.

Called BEAR (Budgeting Enterprises and Analysing Risk), the package is the first designed to help farmers si mply amI realist ical!y forecast finan ­ cial risks, returns and expectations. It was created byJim Brown and Cathie Lowry, OAC '78, M.Agr. '88, Research Associates, Agricultu,dl Economics and Business, with assistance from OMAF. OMAF's extenc;ion specialists are able to teach the progranl to fanners.

Earliest Potato Ontario's earliest maturing potato variety, the Eramosa, has received full registration from Agriculture Canada.

Developed at Guelph by Professor Robert Coffin, Horticultural Science, the Eramosa often produces accept­ able yields in Ontario in as little as 70 days -nve to seven days before the earliest varieties now available [Q Ontario producers.

Being quick on to the market is imperative for potato producers. They eam twice as much selling potatoes during the first week of harvest than later when the market get glutted.

The Emmosa is one of four new varieties registered from the Guelph potato breeding program in 1987/ 88.

Others include Red Golet, Rose Gold, and Saginaw Gold. Growers and gardeners interested in obtaining seed stocks of these varieties should con­ tact local seed inspection authorities.

URlF Support Three OAC research projects have received funding support from the niversity Research [ncentive Fund (URIF) progranl. The progran1 en­ courages university -industry collaboration.

Professor larence Swanton and research as.<;ociate Brent Mersey, Crop Science, and Professor Chris Hal!, Environmental Biology, have received 572,000, with matching support from Hoescht Canada, for a three-year pro­ ject to create herbicides from natural components.

Professor Peter Pauls, Crop Science, has received 26,500 to study how flow cytometry can lessen variability in some microspore cultures. His project is supported by Allelix Inc. Professor Yukio Kakuda, food SCience, has received one of VRIF's first feasibility study awards to inves­ tigate new and innovative teLhno­ logies to improve production and manufacturing processes of peanut butter and other peanut-based pro­ ducts. The study is co-sponsored by Canada Packers.

Fall Raspberries Allan Sullivan, OAC '76, M.Sc. '78 & Ph.D. '85, Horticultural Science, and Ph.D. st udent Jean-Pierre Prive, M.Sc. '88, are part of an international teanl af scientists from Canada, the .S., Australia and England, La-operating to refine fall -bearing raspberries, a rop with great pOlentitll for Canadian farmers .

Instead of maturing in July like conventional raspberries, fall -bearing raspberries grow through slimmer and are ready for harvest hetween late August and mid -September. depending on the growing location.

CLASS DONATION Alex Hemy (tight), secretmy oj the Year '51 GAC Fund-Raising Commit­ lee,presellts UniL'ersity President, Dr. Rl'ian Segal, u'ith 551.000 raised over the lasl two years by GAC '51 as a 351h (lIIl1ilJersaryproject. 77Jeprojeci still bas a yearul1li1 cotnpletioll, wilh 8,000 above tbe objective being rai ed to date. The presentation was made during tbe class ' 37th alll1ual reunion ill OCloher, at wbich lime Ihe class cballellged all otber classes 10 meet orstu1Jass tbeircOlltribution 10 tbe Ullil Jersity. The 55 i,O()() has been used to establisb jil1e al/nual IlIldergrcidll£lteauJardsoj 1,000eacb ill tbe (JAC de£!,reeprogram.

CAREER

DIRECTORY

The OAC Alumni Association

is compiling biographical pro­

files of OAC graduates to be

listed in an Alumni Career

Directory. The directory will be

used by graduating students who

may want to contact those listed

if they have studied similar

di cipline or are working in

areas that the students are

interested in for their own

careers.

if you are willing to be listed

in the directory, please phone

Alumni House, (519) 824 -4120,

ext. 6657, for more information.

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OAC PEOPLE

Lany Dickenson, OAC '6 8

Lawrence (Larry) Dickenson, OAC '68, has been named Canadian Ambassador to Kuwait by the Department of External Affairs. He is also accredited as Canadian Ambass­ ador to the neighboring countries of Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

After graduating from Guelph, Larry joined the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce. lie served abroad in Vienna, Belgrade, Moscow and Brussels; as Counsellor (Com­ mercial ) in Cairo from 1979 (0 198 1; and as CounseUor (Commercial) and Consul in Seoul from 1981 to 1984.

He worked as Director, European Com munity Relations Division , Ottawa, from 1984 to 1986, and was Director General, lmernational ul­ (Ural Relations Bureau, Ottawa, from 1986 until his recent appointment.

He is married (0 Margaret Boyko, Mac '68, who, while in Ottawa, taught English as a second language to new Canadians for the Board of Education.

Their daughters, Tonya and Christa, are studying at Queen's University, Kingston.

Professor Lambert Otten, School of Engineering, has received theJohn Clark Award of !.he Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineering. The award recognizes Society members who have produced outstanding work in teaching, research, extension or indu try in ooe or more of !.he fields

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of electrical power and proce sing, energy, and food engineering.

Professor Ouen has worked in the agricultural eogineering profession for 15 years at Guelph. In more than 40 research projects, he has applied the fundanlentaL<; of heat and mass transfer to the problems of grain drying, solar energy usc, ethano l production, and warming ofchickens using microwaves.

Dr. James Townsend, OAC '56, employed by the Department of Agricultura l Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Manitoba, since 1968, visited Peru last year in co-operation with the Faculty of Human Ecology , University of Manitoba, and Canada's International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) Jim gathered information for a pro­ posal to IORC for research into Andean crops. lne potential for small ~cale mechanization of production and processing of these crops, and several crop storage problems, were also assessed.

William A. Stewart, University of Guelph Chancellor and former pro­ vincial Minister ofAgriculture, is one of 100 recipients of an Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Centennial Award.

Chancellor Stewart served under the Conservative party as provincial agriculture minister from 1961 to J 975 and was responSible for a signi­ ficant amount of legislation assisting Ontario farmers. He has received honorary doctorates from the ni · ver ities of Guelph and Western Ontario.

Murray Hawkins, OAC '';3, re­ ceived a Distinguished Alumni Award from The Oh io State niversity this fall for his outstanding service as a teacher and visiting professor to that university.

After graduating from Gue lph , Murray earned his M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the nivcrsity of Alberta in 1964 and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1967. He is employed by the Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta and was recently named Associate

Dean, External Relations, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry.

Murray's credentials as a researcher in agricultural marketing have been an asset to business and government.

He and his wife, Pauline, live in Edmonton.

Pro f essor Emeritus J ohn Summers, OAC '53, MSA '59, has been elected a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association. His work on protein requirements of pullets and their ability to self-select a diet led to a new and economical pullet feeding program.

Professor Emeritus Gordon Macleod , OAC '50, has received the Golden Award of the Canadian Feed Industry Association for his research and contributions to the feed industry.

Professor Larry Schaeffer , Anin1al and Pou It ry Science, has received the J.L. Lush Award in animal breeding and genetics from the American Dairy Science Association.

Professor Frank Hurnik, OAC Ph.D. '71 ,Animal and Poultry Science, has received the Humane Award of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association for his outstanding achievements in the study of animal welfare.

Professor Terry Gillespie, Land Resource Science, is one of 10 reci­ pients of the 1988 3M Tea hing Fcllowships. This award recognizes Canada's premier university educators.

Professor Gillespie has been a member of the agrometeorology group at Guelph since 1968, when he earned one of the first doctoral degrces granted by the Department of Land Resource Science. His current research involves the sear h for an alternate way to use acreage taken out of tobacco production, the use of prevailing weather conditions to minimize applications of pesticides, and a study relating the presence of rain and dew to the severity of ozone damage to plants. He also supervises graduate students and employs a number of undergraduate research assistants for summer field work.

Barry Micallif. M.Sc. '87, a resear 'h assistant in the Department of Horti­

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cultural Science, has received the Herbert Armstrong Award of the Guelph chapter of Sigma Xi (Research Society ofNorth America). The award is given to the student with the best M.Sc. thesis over the last 12 months.

Barry's supervisor was Professor Barry Shelp.

Professor Lloyd Edgington , Environmental Biology, has received the award ofmerit of the northeastern division, American Phytopathological Society. The award recognizes his contributions to pathology, especially fundamental and applied research on systemic fungicides, the development of policies and procedures for safe and effective use of fungicides in agriculture , undergraduate and graduate education, and professional so ieties.

David Coyle, OAC '78, has received the first J larvey W . Caldwell Fellow­ ship, from Dr. Caldwell, OAC '51. who is retired from the faculty of Agricultural Economics and Business.

The fellowship is given to a student in rural extension studies who has completed at least two semesters with high academic standing.

OAC's dairy cattle judging team of Chris Gwyn, Gloria McVeen, Carolin Turner, and Arthur Versloot placed second in an inter­ collegiate judging contest at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass. Eight teanlS were entered. The OAC team placed first in the Jersey and Guernsy sections and team members Gwyn and McVeen placed third and fourth respectively in individual competition.

Professor Stewart Hilts, Land Resource Science, has received a conservationist-of-the-month award from the Ministry of Natural Resources in recognition of his promotion of landowner conservation of important natural heritage sites through the development of a stewardship pro­ gr'dm for the Natural Heritage League.

Onder the progr-am, landowners can make a handshake agree ment to conserve the natural features of their properties.

Canada's first Master's ofAgribusiness Management graduates in FebrtUlry 1987 were (seated, left to 11ght) Linda Frew, Cathie LOWry, Sue Fowle and Kathy Merriman; and ( standing, left to right) Ron Gulka, Scott C,ray, David Stauffer, RalfDietertJim Sanderson, Ian Cowbrough, and Pierre-YLJes Gasser.

UNIQUE PROGRAM OFFERED

A unique new program is being offered at the University of Guelph.

The Master's of Agrihusiness Management progranl, a professional graduate program leading to a Master's of Agriculture degree, was imple­ mented by the Department of Agri­ cultural Economics and Business in 1986 to meet a growing demand in farming and agribusiness for people who combine management skills with technical agricultural expertise.

Program C -ordinatorTom Funk says, to his knowledge, it is the only one of its kind in the world. He compares it to a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, but with an agricul­ tural orientation.

The progranl is geared toward peo­ ple interested in training for management positions in modern agribu iness or traditional farmers who want to learn business manage­ ment skills to make their operations more successful. "The program is appropriate for hoth these groups and, to some extent, it can be tailor­ made to fit the individuaJ." explain" Professor Funk.

A requirement for acceptance into the program is an honors under­ graduate degree. "It makes sense ro have this degree in some area of agriculture. But we have one woman in the program who has a degree in geography and a man with a degree in geophysics. One-third of our parti­ cipants have been female and we are

actively recruiting from all over Canada," says Professor Fu nk. .lass size is kept sniall - 1'; to 20 participants - to ensure participation in discussions and close contact with faculty. The intensive four-semester program stresses decision-making, communication, and leadership. H gives student hands-on experience solving agricultural business problems through case studies, a co-operative work term, and a management training project. Specialized cour es specifi­ cally re lated to agribUSiness are offered. Some of these include: Agri­ cul tural Policy, Farm Taxation and Law, and Commodity Marketing. lbere arc also basic management courses like Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, and Economics.

The first Master' of Agribusiness Management class graduated in February 1988 and the graduates are employed in a broad range of agri ­ business, including chemical, feed and food processing companies, agricultural banking, government, and farming operations. The second class will graduate this February and a th ird class is half through its course content.

For further information on this unique progr'dm , contact Professor Funk, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph , NIG 2Wl; ( 519) 824 ­ 4120, ext. 3427.

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Editor: Ka ren (H awkins) Mantel, '83

GRADS SCULPT WILDLIFE FIGURES

Rob

Moir, Arts '85, had a temporary job in a plastics factory, and Sally Lawrence, Arts '87, was hand rolling ice cream cones, when they spotted an ad which read: Two Sculptors Needed, Earlton. "We didn't even know where Earlton was but we figured we had nothing to lose," recalls Sally.

They followed up and learned that Pierre Belanger, owner of Northern Frontier Zoo in Earlton, wanted a large wildlife scu lpture to comple­ ment a giant bison scu lpture which was already there. They also learned that Earlton is a small French-Canadian community in northeastern Ontario, about two-hours north of orth Bay. "We quit our jobs and hounded Pierre until we got an interview," says Sally 'The artists prepared for the inter­ view with months of research in libraries, zoos and museu ms. They came up with the idea of four wolves surrounding a moose and made sketches and models. They also wanted to do the sculpture in wood.

Belanger liked the idea for the pose but wanted the sculpture in fibreglass.

After more research, this time into a chemical called polyethylene glycol 1000 (PEG 1000), Rob and Sa lly convinced Belanger they could success­ fully do the sculpture in wood. PEG 1000 is a non-toxic, wax-like sub­ stance that works by diffusion and prevents green wood from decay and cracking.

Belanger hired Rob and Sally with a three-month government job creation grant which he matched with his own funds. They began work Ju ly I, 1985. Howt.'Ver, the three-month stint turned into a two-year labor of love.

When the govcrnmem grant ran out, the artists supported themselves with odd jobs like tree planting, and dona­ tions from family and friends. They had access to a workshop only at night and had to walk six miles to get there. "The tlrst winter was really rough. We were discouraged bur deternlined. Besides, once we weren't

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Sal/v Lawrence, Arts '87, and Rob Moir, Arts '85, with the wild hoar, fallOW

deer, and bison heads they created in low relief me/Cil. being paid anymore, we felt we had more artistic control," says Sally.

Often, the artists would see animal fonus suggested by the natural shapes of local cedar which they would cut and assemble before carving. The carpentry was a great challenge. Some of the wood pkces weighed 200 pounds. "We started out w ith gouges and mallets but a log house builder showed us how to use power tools, like a chainsaw and disc grinder It is not common to use such tools in traditional sculpture and some artists would frown on it. But we couldn't have compLeted the project without them ," explains Sally. 'n,e moose is made up of several pieces of varied sizes of wood bolted or screwed together and countersunk with dowel so no metal is visibLe. "We tried not to hide the resulting jigsaw puzzle effect as we find the techn ical process tells a story as well ," says Sally.

The nd result, unveiled July 25, 1987, is the depiction of a rare and dramatic moment in nature. The sculpted figures arc life size and Sally explains, "The scene is open to imagination since you really don't know the outcome of the confronta­ tion (between wolves and moose)."

Since completing the project, Rob and Sally have had two showings of

their landscape paintings in Elora.

TIley also completed a second com­ missioned sculpture project in the fall for Grand View Famls, a huffalo ranch near TIlornbury. They welded two life-size bison heads, a fallow dt'er head, and a wild boar head in low relief metal to be mounted on gates. The metal was salvaged from automorive graveyards and dumps, welded , and then 'opper plated.

Rob and Sally are graduates of the Ontario College ofArt, Toronto. TIley came to Guelph to expand their knowledge and turned to Guelph again when working on their recent projects. 'They got pointers on animal anatomy from Guelph biologists and advice about sculpting and welding from Professors John Fillion and Jeff Poklen. Sally was ablc to usc the EarltOn sculpture to cam the extra redit she needed to complete her degree from Guelph . '" sent photos and letters documenting my progress and got my credit by correspondence," she explains.

The artists now live in Charlton, a small town south of Kirkland Lake, and are working on a proposal for a comm issioned sculpture in that area.

As for the future , Rob says, "We may have to work at odd jobs to make ends meet but we will stick to our art one way or another."

ARTS GRAD DISCOVERS

SPECIAL AFFINITY FOR

SCULPTURE

Making a living as a eulptar is a tremendous challenge. It is a challenge that John Vanderweit of Rockwood has accepted.

John was introduced to sculpture as part ofa course requirement while studying for his degree in Landscape Architecture at Guelph. Encourage­ ment from his professors at that time, planted the idea of perhaps pursuing a Fine Art career at a later date.

After graduating with an Honors Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1981 , John went to the University of Wageningen in The Netherlands on a three-month research stipend.

Frequent travelling within that country, particularly to art museums and galleries, as well as subsequent years of travelling in Europe, re­ awakened John's idea of becoming a Fine Artist.

Upon returning to Canada, he enrolled in the College of Arts. It was an easy transition from landscape architecture because his interest in that subject had he en primarily in design "Sculpture is, in essence, pure design," he explains.

Since graduating with an Honors Bachelor ofArts degree in 1984,John has freelanced as a landscape archi­ tect, worked at construction, and more recently taught a wood sculpture course in the Department of Fine Art,

all on a part-tinlc ba..<;is to support his developing career as an artist. "This past year was the first in which I have been able to sculpt on a full-time basis," he says.

John has been involved in gallery showings and juried shows as well as accepting commissioned work. "Many public sculpture competitions seem lucrative but at this stage in my career, I would prefer to be producing art and not submitting proposals," he explains.

While John has worked in stone and metal, his preference is for wood.

"There is enough used wood available if you keep your eyes open, without having to cut any specifically for the purpose of sculpting. For obviolls environmental reasons, I do not buy exotic wood."

John's sculpture to date has been primarily figurative . He focuses on bold, emotive gesture and, as a result , his figures have a somewhat primitive cast to them. "1 look for heauty in silhouette and form_ I enjoy incorpor­ ating design principles and sculptural ideals," he explains. He prides himself on the level oftechnical sophistication he has attained. He feels that technical excellence should be present in all art forms.

Aside from the hours devoted to sculpting, John paints, draws, and is

John Vallderweit, OAC '81 (BlA),

Arts '84

This Vanderweit sculpture, made jronl black lilainul llIood, is entitled "COllered Woman "

an avid phmographcr. He travels at every opportunity and recemly spent a year in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. He is married to Christine Robart-Vanderweit, Arts '83, who is finishing a degree in Apparel Production Management at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto.

SOMETHING EVERY LIBRARY Will WANT ...

Retired English Professor ELizabeth Waterslon is compiling a bibliography of published Canadian travel books written before 1900. It will list and annotate memoirs ofBritish, American and European visitors who kept records of their travels throughout the country.

TIle first complt:te bibliography of the period, Canada to 1900: The Travellers, has been 25 years in the making and will be a valuable tool for historians and literary scholars who

want insight inro Canada's early pioneers.

Although there are geographically specific lists of travel books (for Upper Canada, Lower Canada and orthern Canada) , Professor Waterston says this wiU be the first comprehensive listing.

She has received almost $39,000 from the Social Sciences and Humani­ ties Research Council to complete the project, which she began under a Canada Council grant in 1962.

Co-investigators ofthe bibliography

are Ian Easterbrook, co-ordinator of media production and distribution, Office of Educat ional Practice, Bernard Katz, head of the University library's humanities and social science division, and Kathleen Scott, Arts '83.

The bihliography will be available this year in bound volumes and on tloppy disks. That way, any travel books that come to light, or existing books translated into English, can be added to the database. "It will be something every library in Canada wants," Professor WaterslOn predicts.

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Editor: Marie (Bo iss onneault) Rush, '80

ANCIENT FOREST DISCOVERED ON

NIAGARA ESCARPMENT

By Mary Dicki eso n, Public Relations and In fo rmation The previou estimate fo r the oldest livi ng trees in Ontario has more than doubled with the discovery of eastern white cedars up to 723 years old clinging to the d iff face of the iagara Escarpment. Professor Doug Larson, Botany, happened on the ancient forest last su mmer at a research site near Milton.

Many of the trees an: located within conservat io n areas, where they have been touched, photographed, and even vandal ized by hikers and climbers. ntil now, no one realized their exceptional age because most are small and defonned. It was a surpri e, admits Professor L'lfson, to discover that some were rooted more than 200 years before the fi rst European settlers landed on Canadian shores.

Because of exten ive logging in the carl 1900s, most of todats mature forests in southern Ontario arc bet­ ween 50 and 80 years old with only the occasional specimen as old as 150.

The cliff forest probably survived logging, fire, sett lement, and paving because it is inaccessihle, says Pro­ fessor Larson. The oldest specimens he has dated overhang the edge of the escarpment and emerge from cracks in the face of the limestone cliffs.

To the Scientist, this ancient forest offer a source of biological material never available before. "It is probably the last piece of undisturbed habitat in Ontario," explains Professor Larson.

Through the study ofannual growth rings, geologists and climatologists can interpret weather patterns and climate changes that have occu rred in Eastern Canada. Geneticists can answer questions about the stability of DNA over long periods of time.

And environmentalists can acquire a better understanding of how chemi­ cals and acid rain have affected plant growth.

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to stop growing in times of stress to

PmJessor Doug Larson, Botany, is (!..ydted about tbe discovery oj ,m ancient Jorest along tbe Niagara Escarpment that contains some oj the oldest lilling trees in Olltan'o, including tbis 723 -year·old white cedar tbat hangs oller a clifJ near Milton.

With Natural Sciences and Engi­ neering Re earch Counci l funding, Professor Larson has studied the Niagara Escarpment and cliff face ecosystem for two years. His research team has 1 oked at the biology of the cedar that enables it to survive where no other trees grow.

The eastern white cedar is one of the most common Ontario trees, thriving in wet, swampy areas and often used as backyard hedges. It also grows o n bare rocks without soil along c liff edges. These trees are survivors, but not competitors, says Professor Larson. They can survive in areas of extreme wet and dry condi­ tions, but tend to die when there is competition fro m other trees.

Cedars can root anywhere along the trunk or branches and seem able

maintain life in the root system. In core samp les taken from trees more than 400 years old, Professor Larson has counted annual growth ring no bigger than the width of two cells. In the plant world, only mosses and lichens are known to grow that slowly.

Professor Larson believes his dis­ covery will be duplicated along the entire It::ngth of the escarpment. "I'm convinced a thorough survey of other cl iff areas in O ntario will reveal living trees m ore than 1,000 years old."

Unfortunately, within the puhlicly owned area.-; of the escarpment, [here are ft:w young trees and seedlings to maintain the ancient forest. Studies conducted on both private and public lands reveal that undergrowth in the undisturbed areas is 10 times more dense than along hiking trails.

Human traffic within the conser­ vation areas, as high as 19. 1 people per hour in summer, has eliminated seedli ngs and undergrowth, resulting in erosion of the layer of organic material on the forest tloor that nor­ mally promotes new growth. Professor Larson estimates it would take at least 30 years of zero traffic to reverse the cycle but believes puhlic access to nature areas is crucial to their protec­ tion. He feels the knowledge that an ancient forest can survive in the midst of Canada's most populated area will help develop an appreciation for nature and encourage hikers to stay on the trail. MotiVating people to protect 600-year-old trees will also help preserve other plants, he says.

CBS '77 Yearbook­ 10 Years Later If you didn't receive your copy, contact Barbara Brooks at Alumni House, (519) 824-4120, ext. 6544.

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN SPRAGUE

ON HIS RETIREMENT

Professor j.8. (John) Sprague was the scientist-itl-charge of Pollution Studies, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, St. Andrews, New Bnmsuick, f rom 1958-1970. Hejoined the College ofBiological Science faculty in 1970 to teach courses on the animal kingdom, polluted waters, aquatic toxicology, and fish husbandry. as well as Jurthering research in the field ojaquatic toxicology. Upon his retirement in 1988, ProJessorSpraglie left behind a long list oj research puhlications, books ami chapters in books. Bul most important, he lejt behind a good impressioll 011 his Jonner students, one Of whom shares the following tnbute.

By N if Hut hin so n,

BS 7 8, Ph.D. '84

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arrived in John Sprague's lab in 1979, the era of the "vine-li ke runs of tubing and extension cords" which were part and par(;e1 of a university aquatic toxicology lab. John would periodically ask us to th in lhese out for viSiting NSERC sciemists but the vines had a life of their own. Visitors to the lab were always impressed that such a random collection of equip­ ment and graduate students had produced the quality of research associated with John, bur we were not surprised.

The first thing I noticed in the lab was a dusty "statue" of(former gradu­ ate student ) Peter Hodson. We left offerings of dead rainbow trout at its feet in hopes we would do as well in the federal civil service as Peter.

When (another graduate student ) George Dixon left.John had a "statue" of him put up beside that of Peter We left offerings of strong liquor in hopes we would do as well as George in academia. I'm being facetious about all of this of course. There was an excellent reputation associated with the lab and we all worked to maintain it.

Ove r the years, John provided a "home" for (graduate students like) Doug "Rube Goldberg" Stendahl, Rick

Brd.d1ey (who drank only chocolate milk ) , Doug Holdway (who we sent to Australia), and Alvis Fogcls, whose research produced the immortal and oft-misinterpreted Jolm Sprague line: "A fish is a fish ."

By the time I graduated in 1984, the vine-like runs and tottering head tanks were gone. ThL]' were replaced by (graduate studenl) Colin Macdonald's gear for field trips to Baffin Island; an Atomic Absorption Sp ectrophotometre which only seemed to work for Gerry Mackie's students; ( graduate student ) Rob Korver's " occulotoxatron", a computer-controlled, fish-watching gizmo which left Rob free to pursue his taste for obscure punk rock; the beginnings of ( graduate student ) Joanne Parrott's future in fathead minnows; and a brand new surface for the lab fioor. The latter came in a can marked "swine-shine", a fining tribute to dlOse w ho had occupied Room 057.

What I think impressed us most about John was his generosity in all forms ofsupport, and the freedom he left us to pursue our creative leads.

He never failed , however, to remind us of the importance of scientifk method, logic, and valid stalistical orientation. At the sanle time, over his famo us dinners of cheese sand ­ wiches and lemonade, we learned that John not only taught water pollution biology, but practised a sound environmental ethic, sailed well and often, and gave his expertise on petroleum and trace metal pollution to the Inuit of the Northwest Terri­ tories and the I ndians ofSal mon Arm , B.C., \1lhen federal bureaucrats threa­ tened to overwhelm them. 'These qualities were as important to our development into well-rounded scien­ tists, as were our lessons in aquatic toxicology.

And now John has retired from university life. Although [ think he will remain active in the ( aquatic toxicology ) field he pioneered, I' m also reminded of a telling incident. r met John and his wife, Lois, on board the Flagfish-2 at a small marina n

Professorjobn Sprague Vancouver Island for severa! days of sailing in 19R5. John came bound ing lip the wharf, wJving his berthing lip enthUSiastically "Look .Il this," he roared , "John Sprague - no fixed address!"

I hope you enjoy itJohn, and thanks for everything.

Editor's Note: Neil Hutchinson now studies water quality in Ontario lakes at the provincial government's Dorset Research Centre, near Algonquin Park.

ALBANIA VISIT

Professor David Gaskin. Zoo logy. visited Albania recently, when:: he mel with the directors of the Cultu ral and Foreign Affairs Committee and Centre for Biological Research. and with meml1l' rs of the PSRA AcaJemy of Sciences and the ForeSI Re!->earch Institute.

While there, he looked at nlh-e , citrus, and sunf1owl:f cult ivat ion methods, eX'U11inct\ forestry practices at several altitude levels 10 2.000 metres :md surveyed the shellfish culture operations at Burtrinl.

Professor Gaskin says one of Ilis objectives during lhe visit was to initiate discussion with Albanian offi­ cials about the development offuture technical ancl scientific co-opemtion between [he two cou ntries. His involvement in this mission stems fro m a long-standing interest in the fauna, flor;!, conserVation and land and costal belt usc in the sOllthern 13alkans. He has published a nu mber of articles about the zoogeography of l.epidoptera in Greece .U1d western Turkey and has carried OUl several field expeditions jn both countries.

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THE "UPSAND DOWNS"

OF A LIFT LOCK

OPERATOR

Beth McL'lchlan, CSS '85 & OAC '85, of Fenelon Falls, says her job

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the first successful female lift lot:k operalor on the Trent-Severn Water­ way (TSW) has - if you'll pardon the pun - its ups and downs.

TSW is a recreational waterway, stretching approximately 250 miles from L'lke Ontario to Georgian Bay. As a Heritage Canal, regulated hy Environment Canada, this scenic route provides passage to leisure craft hy means of 43 locks, two hydraulic lift locks and one marine rai lwdY. Beth operates the Kirkficld hydraulic lift lock whidl she:: describes as an "amazing" madl ine that moves boat (raft1c upstream and downstream simultaneou Iy. With two water -filled chamhers travelling the vertical lift of 49 fee t, it is the second highest lift lock in [he world and, says Beth, "quite a thrilling sight to hehold."

Beth spends most of the summer in the antral tower, 50 feet above road traffic. From this perch, she has the best view of the chan,bers ascending and descending, and also looks down on a panorama ofsparkl ing water and rural landscape.

"Each day I am confrontcd with a com rol panel of colored lights, switches and dials. When I graduated from Guelph, I never expected to be working in such a highly technical, mechanical environment The terms crossover valve, solenoid, limit switch and grease gun were not in my vocahulary," says Beth.

After graduating in 1985 with two degrees - a Bachelor of Arts (Geo­ graphy) fro m the College of Social Science and a Bachelor of L.andscape Architecture from the Ontario Agri ­ cultural Coll ege - Beth had several landscape architecture contract jobs.

Following an unsatisfying yea r in Toronto, she decided to return to her nativ<: Bro -k Township. lhere she heard about the job opportunities on

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the TSW, app li ed, and was offered her current position.

B~th says her education in the B.A. and B.LA. programs at Guelph has helped in many aspects ofher unique career. The "team effort" concept learned in peer projects has b~en invaluable and her background in geography gave he r knowledge of water management, ecological and biological systems, and geolOgical formations. "And, of course, the flower beds were made my responsibility," she adds.

Generally, TSW employces work throughout the navigation season, from May to October. At Kirkfield Lift Lock, the lockn,aster, Beth and one other Lo k operator, work fro m 8: 30 a.m. to 8::)0 p. m., six days a week.

Because of the long hours. their pay is pro-rated throughout most of the wi nter.

Beth feels many pt:oplt: might regard her job as "fun in the sun. " TIle opportunity to work outdoor -in good w~ather , get a good tan. meet thou­ sands of people, and have the w inter off, can be advantageous. But, says Beth, those long, humid days haking in the hot sun are tiresome. ;U1U lift lock breakdowns can result in traffic backlogs and overheated boaters.

"Your personal life is almost non­ existent during the months your family and friends are most activt:. But with November to April fTee , I can catch up on personal projects. I also have the flexibility to supplement my incomc with my landscape design skills during this time," explains Beth.

As a female in a non-traditiona l female job, Beth felt a responSibility to prove women capable of being lift lock operators. "J believe the reason more women have not tried to break into this fi eld is because the job is physically demanding and very stress­ ful at times. Also, the time schedule is

Beth MculChlan, CSS '8 5 [.,. OAC '85

not conducive to regular family life," she says.

During her first year as a lock operator. Beth feels she has proven herself capable and looks forwaru to her second year. "Although a few tourists regarded mc as an oddity, I never fd t any discrimination from them , management or fellow employees. The men I worked with were patient and supportivt'," she says.

The TSW can provide a wonderful hol iday, cnthuses Beth. "If you are in the area next summer. drop by to say hello and see the Kirkficldl.ift Lock in action."

Come to the

Third Annual

CSSAlumni

Association Dinner

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Thursday, March 16 6-9 p.m.

Arboretum • Greeting from Dr. Brian Segal • A tinlc1y and interesting topic to be presented by guest speaker,Joe Makin, CSS '74 (Political Science), orth Asia Relations Division, External Affairs.

For details, call Alumni House

(519) 8244120 ext. 6533

CAN ANIMALS COUNT?

By David Thomas, Public Rela tion and Inform atio n T here is no evidence that animals can count the Saflle way people do, says Professor Hank Davis, Psychology, but there is evidence they can be taught to use numbers.

"Animals don 't usually live in an environment that creates a need for numerical competence," he explains.

"We throw them into a little world in the lab where, [0 cat well and have a good relationship with the trainer, they have to use numbers. It's a good way to define intelligence - adapt­ ability," Professor Davis has done a lot of work with rats. "Rats are very good adapters, They -an accommodate many changes."

In his most recent work, Professor Davis used rats' sense ofsmell to see if they could exhibit transitive inference.

That's when someone makes an ordered series out of paired com­ parisons. "Transitive inference is someth ing we do all the lime. It's a logical process that says that , if you

know Dave is taller thanJoe anuJoe is taller than Mike, then you know Dave is taller than Mike," explains Professor Davis.

TIle rats were exposed to different ordered pairs of smells. They had to choose between two tunnels, the doors of which each had a unique smell. The rat were laught to choose one of the two odors. When tested with a combination they had n 't experienced before, they were able to choose the "correct" one. AH of this relates to using numbers, Pro­ fessor Davis says.

The subjects had to use a hierarchy to determ ine the correct choice, "Transitivity relates to ordinality. [f a rat knows numbers, it must also know three comes after two and two after one," he says.

In his early work, Professor Davi set up a situation where rats had to choose the proper tunnel from a set of six to get their food. To control other perceptions the ral might use, such as spatial sense, he varied dis­ tances between the tunnels. To con­ trol for sense of smell, each tunnel

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'1 think all mammals sbould master the three ''p's': Prey - Predation ­ Prime Numbers (by Dallid Pigginsj had food placed in it, but was blocked so the rat couldn't get the food .

"In every experiment I've done, the animal would attend to the alter­ natives. It wasn'l until I controlled Lhe alternatives thal they attended to number."

Professor Davis has also worked with raccoons, horses, and cows to determ ine their numerical compet­ ence. He has just completed a review paper on si milar studies hy other psychologists. It's a growing field .

Researchers have worked with animals as diverse as ravens, chimps, monkeys, seals, cats, mice and parrots.

CAR INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION

There is still discrimination in the Ontario car insurance system despite announced changes in how insurance firms can classify risks, says Professor Michael Hoy, Economics. "The dis­ crimination has just shifted to other groups," he explainS. TIle new insurance classification system, unveiled this fall by the provincially appointed Ontario Automobile Insurance Board, eli ­ minates traditional categories such as sex, age and marital status. Insurers must now use driving experience, previous accidents, claims and dis­ tance driven to assess risks.

Other drivers - especially young women -will subsidize the costs of insuring young male drivers, who are, on average , poorer drivers , says

Professor Hoy. Women's premiums could rise by as much as 30 per cent under the new classification system.

"Insurance by its very nature is discriminatory because insurers can't predict exactly what risk an individual bears," explains Professor Hoy. Some will be charged too high a premium and others too low.

It's hard to say which :.ystcm is fairer, he says. Under the old system, drivers with the same degree of risk paid different rate. . TIlat is what economists call horizontal discri­ mination, There are lots of examples ofprice discrimination that aren't seen as SOCially discriminatory, notes Pro­ fessor Hoy. "Children under two often

fly free. Elderly people pay less for some goods and services. But we don't consider that unfair. " What cou ld be more important are some negative economic conse­ quences of the insurance board's system, he says. If unsafe drivers have lower premiums, they don 't have to bear as much of the buruen of their risk as they used to. So they won't have as much incentive to drive care­ fully, he says, And if the board sets a range of rates that insurance firms may charge - including a minimum premiwn ­ there will be more non-price com­ petition in the industry, such as advertising gimmicks. That is much less efficient than price competition, Professor Hoy feels.

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Editor: Dr Haro ld Reed, O VC '5 5

DR. HARRY ROWSELL RECEIVES

CANADA'S HIGHEST HONOR

Dr.

Harry Rowsell, ave '49 , received the Order of Canada at an investiture in Ottawa November 8 in recognition of his contribution £0 the welfare of experimental animals.

According to the Chancellery of Orders and Decorations, Dr. Rowsell's appointment as Oftker of the Order indicates the international scope of his achievements. The Chancellery desc r ibes Dr. Rowsell's accomp­ lishments as follows: ''Veterinarian, pathologist, animal welfare advocate and humanist, he is recognized and respected throughout the world for his outstanding contrihutions to the promotion of the responsible and humane treatment of animals in bio­ medical and scientitlc research.

Through his foreSight and tlynanlic leadership as founder and current Executive Director of the Canadian

Dr. Hany Rowsell, ave '49

Council on Animal Care, an effective system of animal care has been developed and implemented in Canadian universities and research laboratories. "

Dr. Rowsell has served on the faculties ofOVC, Western CoUege of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan , and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. He ha.<; been honoreJ by China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, the United States, and the nited Kingdom, as well as re­ ceiving honorary doctorates from the 'niversities of Saskatchewan and Guelph, and many other Canadian awards, including the first Canadian Veterinary Medicine Association Humane Award.

During the 1960s, he made impor­ tanc contributions to research into hemostasis and thrombosis and he has authored more than 200 publi­ cations. He also completed two four­ year terms as president of the inter­ national Council for Laboratory Animal Science.

VETERINARY TRAINING IN CENTRAL AMERICA

By Mary D ickieson, Pu blic Relations and Informa tion The University will provide training for faculty at veterinary medical schools in Costa Rica and Colombia as part of a four-year development project that could have far-reaching effects on public and animal health in Central America.

Animal health as it rdates to live­ stock production and veterinary pub­ lic health wiU be emphasized in the exchange oftdching faculty between OVC and veterinary schools at the ational niversity of Costa Rica in San Jose and the ational niversity of Colombia in Bogota.

The Canadian International Deve­ lopment Agency (CIDA) will contri­ bute more than $730,000 towards the S l.l -million project.

Rabies, tuberculosis and other diseases carrietl by animals arc threats £0 public health throughout Central America, and the agricultural sector

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suffers economic losses from decreased animal production as a direct result. The CIDA project will train veterinary faculty who can teach and, by multiplier effect, increase the numhers of veterinarians trained to address these diseases.

Fivevcterinariansfrom each Central American institution will study at OVC over the next four years, while up LO six Guelph faculty will travel to Costa Rica and Colombia to present short courses and assist with field investigation projects.

The link will stimulate research collaboration among the three veter~ inary schools, SdYS Guelph's Project Director Jan Thorsen, Veterinary Microbiology,md Immunology. It will also provide valuable training ground for Guelph studellls in the new ave graduate program in international veterinary medicine. Now under consideration by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, the proposed diploma program will require work

in a Third World setting as a critical part of the curriculum. lhe graduate course is a natural extension of the University's invol­ vement in the developing world, says Professor Archie MacKinnon, Direc­ tor, Centre for International Programs.

Over the last 10 years, Guelph has completed more than 100 inter­ national projects in 38 countries. The new C1DA progranl in veterinary training is "a concrete expression of the University's commitment in Central and South America," he says.

"We can usc a great deal of the expertise Guelph has to offer," says Dr. Luis Rodriguez of Costa Rica. His institution hopes the program will help its faculty train veterinarians better prepared to deal with current problems like bovine respiratory diseases, endemic vi.rJ.\ infections thal affect the digestive tract of cattle and leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted from animals to humans by insects.

WILDLIFE DISEASES, EQUINE MEDICINE AND

FOOD SAFETY TOP OVC CONFERENCE

W ildlife diseases, equine medicine and food safety were topics at OVe's second annual fall 'OIuerence in October. About 200 registrants and 50 speakers from across Canada and the United States participated.

The annual Schofield Memorial Lecture, hosted by OVC as part of the conference, was given by Dr. 'Thomas Yuill, niversity of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. His topic , Wildlife Diseases: So Whal? Who Cares?, discussed the prevalence of parasitic and infectious organisms in wild birds and mammals and tIle dangers they represent for humans and domestic animals. This theme was carried into the conference pro­ gram with sessions on wildlife medi ­ cine, control of disease in wild popu­ lations, monitoring disease in game­ ranched wildlife, ani mal welfare issues, and wild life rehab ilitation .

Sessions on equine medicine, with diagnostic labs and tours of the Equine Research Centre, were also held.

In recognition of the 100th ann i­ versaf)' of the Omario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAf), several sessions were included on regulacory medicine, These dealt with the role

of provincial and federal veterinarians in 'ontrolling food safety and moni ­ toring animal health and disea.,e. "The· regulatof)1 medicine sessions were some of the most successful of the whole conference," says Or.Jim Stowe, OVC '69, Extension Co-ordinator.

Hands-on labs were offered in small animal reconstructive surgery, ophthalmology and equine radiology and pathology. One of the conference objectives was to familiarize veterin­ arians with the diagnostic and treat­ ment faci lities available to their patients through referral to OVe. "The wet lab ' are a very important component of the conference. OVC has facilit ies to offer hands -on experience," explains Dr. Stowe. lnitiated last year as part of oVe's 125th anniversary, the conference represents a new thrtlst in aves commitment to provide continuing education opportunities for veter­ inarians and animal health care workers, says Dr. Stowe. In addition to sponsoring programs, OVC makes its facilities and resources avai lable to veterinary associations and related groups, such as the American Veter­ inary Computer Society, which will meet on campus this summer.

Dr. Thomas Yuill (left) receives the Schofield Medal from Dr. Bruce Hunter, PathOlogy.

Above is parI of the cborllS from the musical revue, "Vets II: Hats Offand Hands Out to OMAF." w17'tten and directed by DavidArchibald, Arts 76, for the 1988 0 VC conference.

WILD BIRD CLINIC PINPOINTS AVIAN DISEASE

By Owen Roberts,

Office of Resea r h

Researchers at the Wild Bird Clinic - Canada's only such facility -have identified avian di'iOrders n<:.'Ver before pinpointed in wild bird popUlations, CLinic Director Bruce Hunter, Patho­ logy, says conducting routine blood and fecal examinations of wild birds brought into the clinic has led to identification of such maladies a., lungwornl and cenain blood parasites.

Dr. Hunter says these problems were known to exist to some extent.

But the submission to the clinic of great homed owls and bald eagle chicks with massive blood parasite infections, or the identification of

fatal lungworm infestations in bur­ rowing owls, hawk owls and screech owls, suggest.. these types of infections may be important in the species' population dynamics.

ResearcIlers are also trying to deter­ mine whether birds of prey are a source of disease to commercially valuable species.

"We've set up a collection program for a blood serum bank, to study if wild birds are potential vectors for certain diseases," Dr. Hunter says.

"For example, there have been no studies to investigate whether wild birds that prey or scavenge on live or road-killed rabid skunks or foxes are involved in the transmission of rabies.

Birds do not get clinical rabies, but

we don't know if they pass it on," 111e Wild Bird Clinic is part of OVe's teaching hospital During 1987, the clinic's fifth full year of operation, it handled 230 birds of prey, water­ fowl , and shore birds.

Injured birds wert: received from private citizens, humane societies, conservation centres and the Ministry of Natural Resources. Many of the birds treated have an excellent chance ofsurvival, especially larger birds less susceptible to stress. "Our main man­ date is fix and release," says Dr. Hunter. Typically, birds arrive needing medical attention for trauma caused by guns, cars or farm machinery, and plagued by broken wings, severed talons, and eye injuries.

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Editor: Carolyn (Redden) Moore, '84

GUELPH AND GHANA

TOGETHER AGAIN

The family unit is an important social and economic resource tor any country, says FACS Dean Richard Barham, but for a developing nation like Ghana, West Africa, it takes on added importance. "The study of the family is central for continuing deve­ lopment in that country," he explains.

The Ghana-Guelph Home Science Project is strengthening fami Iy stuilies by laying the foundation for the formation of a graduate program in the Department of Home Science at the University of Ghana in Legon . The four-year inter-university project received approval for approximately S500,000 funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (erDA) in September 1986, with both universities providing facilities , teaching salaries, administration, and housing for exchange faculty.

The project has three main objec­ tives: to provide graduate level study, including doctoral work, in Canada (not necessarily Guelph) for Univer­ sity of Ghana faculty and prospective faculty; to promote dcvelopment of research progr-.uns through short-term faculty exchanges between Guelph and Ghana; and to provide materials required by the Department of Home Science in Ghana, including micro computers, books and journals, and two vehicles to be used for research and field work Although this is a new project, Guelph's ties with Ghana go back to the late ) 960s when Ghanaian government officials were concerned about food shortages, and anxious to increase agricultural research and upgrade teaching and extension within the country. They approached CIDA for help and erDA, in turn, commissioned a feasibility study by the UniverSity of Guelph, a natural partner in a venture that woukl combine joint projects in agriculture, fanli1y and consumer studies, and veterinary medicine.

The feasibility study Jed to a full ­ scale erDA-funded exchange program

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in 1970. The program continued wnil 1978 and then a statement of "con­ tinuing links" was drawn up between the two institutions to enable co­ operation on a reduced scale for another five years.

Nabilla Williams was one of the original participants in the Ghana­ Guelph exchange. She earned her M.Sc. in family Studies, with a spec­ ialization in Child Studies, at Guelph in 1974 and went baek lO Ghana to teach human development and child studies. She also operated a lab school for child studies and conducted research.

Nabilla was back in Guelph from August to ovember last year as part of the faculty exchange in the Ghana­ Guelph Home Science Project. " I canle back to revitalize and familiarize myself with new things going on in human development and child studies.

The latest book r had was published in 1984 and there have bcen a lot of changes in course content since then."

Joanna Nsarkoh , head of the Department of Home Sciencc in Legon, spent three months in Guelph to deal with the administration of the project. Those assisting Dean Barham with project design, administration and advice from the Guelph end, have been Professor Rosalind Gibson, and retired Professors Lila Engberg, Jean Sabry, and Janet Wardlaw.

Currently snldying for their M.Sc. degrees at Guelph through the project are Mirianl Ohene (Family Studies) and Alfred Sakyi (Rural Extension Studies ). A third student (Clothing and Texti!es) is at the University of ManitOba.All will go back to University of Ghana faculty positions.

The niversity of Ghana has more than 3,000 students. Home Science is part of the Faculty of Agriculture.

There are also faculties of arts, SCience, social SCience, medicine, law, adminis­ trative studies and African studies.

Most ofthese have graduate programs.

Home Science does not have a grad­ uate program but the one to be

Nabilla Williams, FAC,)M.Sc. 74, and FAC5 Dean Ricbard Barham, dis­ cussed the Ghana-GueljJh Home Science project when Nabiila was back all campus thi past summer at/dJall

implemented through the Ghana­ Guelph project "will set the standards for West Africa, and so far, all of Africa" says Nabilla.

From Ghana's point of view, Nabilla explains the project is valuable in strengthening faculty and teaching at the university in Legon. For both countries, says Dean Barham, the project is valuable in strengthening international rclations and advancing research. He hopes to see it extended past its initial four-year period.

"Sexuality and Values" June 19-21, 1989 The niversity of Guelph's 11 th annual sexuality conference will feature Dr. Sol Gordon, as the keynote speaker.

For further information, contact Continuing Education, University of Guelph, NIG 2Wl , (519) 824-4120, ext. 3956.

HAFAHostex

Reception

April 25, 6-9 p,m.

Suite 625, South Tower

Harbour Castle Weston, Toronto

For more information, contact

Lisa Wilson, (416) 596-5451

NANCY SAWYE R: A

VOLUNTEER FUND RAISER

WHO GETS THE JOB DONE

o~e

Fund raising is not of Nancy (West) Sawyer's favorite activities.

"If I had to sell raffle tickets, ( would rather buy them all myself," she con­ fesses. But when this Mac '62 graduate believes in a cause, she raises funds cheerfully and successfully. And Nancy helieves in the University of Guelph. "( believe we are who we are and what we are, both aL-ademically and socially, because of our days spent at Guelph. And that's why it is important to give something back," states arrcy.

As Chair of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association's 75th anniversary project from 1975-1978, Nancy spearheaded a campaign which rdised S90,000 from Mac-FACS alumni to refurbish a wing of Macdonald Institute. The faculty and student lounges were redecof'..:led, the foyer upgraded, and two classrooms given facelifts.

"Some people felt we should have waited until Macdonald Institute's 100th anniversary to take on such a project, but I wanted to do something that my mom's generJtion would be able to see," explail15 Nancy whose mother, Helen (Bates) West, is a Mac '30 grad and member of the niver­ sity's first senate, who still maintains a close affiliation with her alma mater.

Nancy's fathe r, the late Dr. Roy West, was an OVC '30 grad.

When Nancy was asked to lend her volunteer services again two years ago to chair the Mac-FACS committee for the Alumni Division of the Uni­ versity's capital campaign, she already knew the Mac-FACS alumni potential for giving when a specific College project was the goal. " I committed myself on the condition we have a capital project for FACS," explail15 Nancy who is pleased to know the niversity is including a FACS addition among its highest priorities for government funding. "We have waited a long time for this," she ays.

Rosemary Clark, Director, Alumni Affairs, says, "I asked Nancy to chair the Mac-FACS committee for The Campaign because she always does a

superh job of anything she takes on and because she is so eloquent in her presentations."

As Chair, Nancy enlisted 25 volun ­ teers to personally canV'olSS about 125 Mac-FACS alumni. Betwe::e::n the indi ­ vidual solicitations and the PHO E/MAII. progrdIll, more than $800,000 was raised ­ over twice as much as the $400,000 target Nancy feels the success was due to the large numbers who gave. "it wasn't just a few huge benefactors. Jt was a lot of people giving a \iute," she says.

Even though Nancy's job is finished, she wants to see the Mac-FACSproject through "until the very last nail is pounded in." She also wants those who committed over a five-year period to know it is important to keep [heir pledges coming in until 1992. H[ don' t want people to fall into lethargy because we were so successful. We need all the money that was com­ mitted and more," she explains.

Meanwhile, Nancy is busy with her work as Membership Chair for the Canadian Federation of University Women. She served as President of the University Women's Club for

Nancy (West)

Sau')!e/~

Mac '6 2

Burlington in ) 987 and in previous years, has served in various pOSitions on the Mac-FACS Alumni Association executive, including President [n the past, Nancy has worked as a home economist and teacher. She and her husband, Tom, OAC '59A & '64 , have rwo sons.

Nancy says be ing a volunteer has helped her grow as a person. "You don't have [0 he:: paid in order to learn new skills. Above aU, I learned people skills. r have made:: many personal friends and received the support ofso many alumni and those who work a[ Alumni House. I just want to say thank you."

FACS CAREERS NIGHT Approximate(y 2{)() students attended the 1988 FACS Careers Night sponsored by the Mac-FACS AlumniAssociation this fall. Here, Charlene Ryan, FA C5 '87, a Child Placement SUPetViS01~ Municipality of Toronto, discusses her career. She u'as olle of 19 lIolunteer alumni !.peakel'S to participate ill the evellt.

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JEAN SABRY HONORED AS

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

The niversity bestowed professor emeritus status on retired Family Studies Professor Jean Sabry during fall convocation. A Guelph faculty member for 19 years, Professor Sabry was honored for her contribution to scholarship in human nutrition.

Professor Sabry is still active in research. She is the principal investi­ gator on a Health and Welfare Canada funded project to investigate nutrition practices of native Indians in Northern Canada. She supervises a Guelph Ph.D. student on this project while serving on supervisory committees of two other doctoral students in applied human nutrition.

Professor Sabry is recognized as a leading scholar in human nutrition

and is Editor of the Jou.mal of the Canadian Dietetic Association. She serves on an expert committee of Health and Welfare Canada to develop policy in (he area of preschool nutri­ tion. The National Institute of Nutri­ tion has commissioned her to write a document on Nutrition andRed Meat Consumption in Canada. ,he was a member of rwo expert committees that developed The Recoml'nended Nutrient Intakes for Canadians ( 1975, 1983). She continues to serve as a consultant to Hoffman La Roche and Kraft Foods.

Before joining Guelph's faculty, Professor Sabry was Associate Pro­ fessor, Food Science, University of Toronto. Early in her career, he Wtl'i Associate Professor at Beimt College

CHANGES AT FACS

Recent curriculum changes in the Department of F,unily Studies have led to the deletion of the Family Studies major with it associated emphase..<; in Family Services and Geron­ tolOgy. In its place, are rwo new majors: Gerontology and Family and Social Relations. Both have been approved by the Ontario Counci l of Univer ity Affairs and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities.

"Although there arc many similari­ ties to the old program, these are rwo new programs and not just name changes," emphasizes FACS Acting Dean Bmce Ryan.

In the Family and Social Relations major, the focus is on understanding the development of human relation­ ships within families over the Life cycle. It further develops the central objectives of the former Fanlily Ser­ vices emphasis. The Gerontology major provides a multidiSCiplinary perspective to the study of aging. It enhances the progr.tm of study avaH­ able under the gerontology emphasis in the old major.

The Department of Family Studies has completely revamped its graduate

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curriculu m as well, says Professor Ryan. It now offers many new courses, including: Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy, Parent-Child Relations, Parent-Child Interventions, Treating Violence and Abuse Within Families, and Seminar on Divorce, Single Parenting and Remarriage.

The Ontario Council of Gr.tduate Stud ies (OCGS ) has also given approval for the Department to change the name of its Master of Science program in Family Studies (including Child Studies ) to Family Relations and Human Development. The new name is more descriptive of the pro­ gram's emphases.

The University Senate has approved a Ph.D. progranl in Family Relation and Human Development. The pro­ granl proposal is under review by the OCGS and the Department hopes to admit the first students by fall 1990.

Professor Ryan reports that, for the first time, the niversity has limited enrolment in rwo FACS majors within the degree program. Applied Human utrition wi ll be limited to 65 stu­ dcntsfrom fall 1988 and Child Studies to 80. TIlese limits will keep student numbers in balance with resources.

Retired Family Studies ProfessorJean Sabry was namedprofessor enwritus at fall convocation. She is pictu.red wit/) Dr. Brian Segal who Wll-S offi­ cially installed as the University's fifth President and Vice-Chancellor dun'ng convocation ceremonies. for Women, research assistant at the American University of Beirut and research instmctor at Pennsylvania State niversity, where she earned a Ph.D. She also attended gr.tduate school at Cornell niversity and was Assistant Professor, niversity of Manitoba. She earned an under­ graduate degree and M.A. in House­ hold Science, niversity of Toronto.

SQUARE DANCE

WINNERS

A

group of FACS and OAC grads and students, calling them­ selves Hay Fever, won second place out of 13 sets at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair's square dancing competition in Toronto in November.

Lisa Thompson Gail Lewis and Debbie Kiely, all FACS '87, Dawn Staiton, FACS '88, Ken Irwin, OAC '88, Mark Gemmell and Jeff Brick, OAC tudents, and Sid Fuller, plan to compete in the College Royal square dancing competition in Guelph in March and the Canadian Open square dancing competition in Dundalk, Ontario inJune. Their caller is Brenda Watson, FACS '87.

GRAD NEWS

ARTS

Jorge Santos-Nuez, M.Sc. '7R, is Product :oAanager, Veterinary Division , Rayer of Colomhia, Dogota.

Ron Aston , '79 , Agency Executive , Imperial Oil Ltd., Whyte Ridge, Man. , is married toJanet Cowtan, '72, Cin:ulalion Manager, Mercury Publishing, Winnipeg.

Brian Stephens, '83, is a scientific technician, Sea L1mprt'}' Control Centre, Department ofFisheries and Oceans, Sault Ste. Marie.

Wayne Bridge, '8'5, is Barn Manager, Hybrid Turkeys Inc., and a self-employed musician and music teacher. lie is married to Bonnie Kerslake, FACS '81, a Child Life Worker, ~is:o.issauga Ho~pila l. lhey have one child and live ne,lr Conn, Ont.

David Sturch, '74 , is Marketing Manager, Metals & Alloy!> Company Limited , Toronto.

BiU Fairbairn, '83, is Associate Director, Inter-Church Committee on I (uman Rights in Lati n America, Toronto.

Scott Fletcher, '8'5, is a radio announcer, CfCYIQ9.1, Charlotte(m-vn.

Fraser lnkpen, '8 1, is a teacher/ li brarian, Mount Pearl Senior High , Mount Pl'3r1 , ;\;l1d.

Mark Merryweather, '7 9, mar r ied Marilyn Turner in spring 1988 and re­ ceived his doctorate in information science from Nova University, Fort L1udenlale, ria., in summer 1988. Ill' is working as an information consultant in Toronto.

Sylvia Tschursch-Bovair, '78, b an ad saks representative, Reader's Digl.:st , Toronto.

Don't forget to

CELEBRATE

the UniversitYs

25th Anniversary at

Homecoming '89

September 28, 29 & 30

leslie (Dafoe) and Peter Uhlig, '8 I, have moved to Saul t Ste. Marie where P 'ter works for rhe Mi nistry of Natural Resources, Forest Resources Group. Ihey have a two·year-uld son, Nicholas.

George Van Drunen , '81 , Research Data Manager, Hybrid Turkl}'s Inc., is married to Hilda Tymstra, FAc.e; '80.

Carole (Hobkirk) Wallace, '7H, is a physiotherapist , anaimo Regional Gcnerdl Hospital, anaimo, B.C Thoma..',Wheaton, '85 , is senior biologist, MacLaren Plansearch Inc. (Laval in ), Toronto.

CPS

Rob Close, '88, progrdmmer/ analyst, Ontario Centre for Advanced Manufac­ turing, Camhridge, i~ married to Diana Calligan, FACS '87, a diet technician , Henderson General Hospital , Ilamilron.

CBS

Dean Kemper, '78, is an engineer, ~Iinistry of Transportation , WiJlowdale.

Pamela Cowtan, '78, worked seven years for 11le Nature Tru~t of B.c. , a non-profit organi7.:ltio n dedicated to preservation of tlora and fa una in B.C. She retired as Execurive Director to move to San Francisco, but recently moved hack to Canada 10 marry a Vancouver anaesthetist.

She is now on the Board of Directors of lhe Stanley Park Zoological Society, and also ~pends time trJ.ining her dressage horse, Weibsell.

Kent Moore, '79, is a professor, l 'niversity of Toronto.

Josh Munan, '8'5 , is te'Jching in Awasa, Ethiopia [or the Hope InLernationa l Development Agency.

Deborah (Dawson) Stelzer, '7'5, Mana­ ger, Systems Engineering, EDS of Canada, Ltd., Whitby, is married ro Eckhard Stelzer, '7-i .

Gayle Percy, '79, teaches chemistry and general science in Jqaluit, N.W.T. and since graduation, has also taught in Nigeria, West Afriea and Inuvik, N.W.T

HEY!

Lois Peturson Rees, '77, a systems ana­ lyst, Husky Oi l, Calgary, is married to lance Rees, CSS '75 Peter Plank. '79, is a chemist, Air ProdUCL~ & Chemicals Inc. , AlentClwn, Pa. Frank Schreurs, '84 ,isaquali ' :l....~urance chemist, Kelluggs, London.

Dr. John Thurtell, '82, is Senior Staff Physicist, Mobil Research and Develop· ment Corp., Princeton, .J.

Look for details in the May issue of the Guelph Alum nus

The University of Guelph

Alma Mater Fund

Advisory Council

is recommending re-naming the ALMA MATER FUND, the ALUMNI FUND Thi recommendation has been submitted to the nlversity's Board ofGovemors for approval.

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Kelvin 0 , '87, is an underwriter execu­ tive, American International Underwriters Ltd., Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Amy Bates, '77, is a corporate lawye r, Convergent, Inc., San JoSt:, Ca.

Marcella Lo, '87, is a welfare worker, W.c.S.Y . Care & Attention Home, Kowloo n, Hong Kong.

Annette Bauman, M.A. '88, is Program Co-ord inator, K·W Extend ·A·Family, Kitchener.

jeffrey Lozon, '76, is ExeclItive Director, Glcnrose Re habilitation Hospita l, Edmonton.

Paul Beirnes, '85 , is a flight attendant, Wardair Canada, Mississauga.

Brad Bowering, '84 , is Eastern Region Sales Representative, Canadian Kenworth, Mississauga.

Doreen Cashaback, '75, is a registered nurse, Scarborough Grace Hospital.

March 1

Florida Alumni Picnic

(North Port Yach t Clu b)

March 2

Viewpoints Opening

(Macdonald Stewart Art Centre)

April 7-8

Mary Ellen Miller, '85, is Recreation Programmer, Special Needs, City ofBarrie Recreation Department.

Rhonda Cherry, '83, is a correctional officer, Ontario CorrectionaL In. titute, Bran1pton.

WilHam Mitchell, '81 , an editor with the Ontario Milk Marketing Board, is married to Clare Brown, '81 , an assistant pro­ fessor, University of Waterloo.

Dawn DeCunha, 'RO, is a psychoeduca­ tional consultant, York Region Board of Education, Toronto.

Kathy (Stefan) Moreside, M.A. '86, is a probation officer, MiniStry of Correctional Services, London.

Sandra (Vennette) Eansor, M.A. '88, is a psychometrist, Essex County Roman Catholic Separate Schoo l Board.

Mike Farlow, '78, is the first manager of Fanshawe College's Tillsonhurg Centre.

He is responsible for development and maintenan e ofprograms in the southern part ofOxford County and area, including Adult Education, Conti nuing Education, Preparatory Studies and the Futures program.

Pauline (Quarry) Goodfellow, '77 , teaches at Sheridan CoUege, Oakville.

Lisa Graham, '83 , is a vocational instruc· tor, Oakvil le Association for the Mentilly Retarded.

February 23

Mac-FACS Graduating

Students' P rty

Lisa McDonald, M.A. '88, is Clinical Co­ ordinator, Addiction ReSC'Mch Foundation, Toronto.

Manon (Koomen) Harris, '85 , is a special education teacher, Ramona nified School District, Ramona, ·a.

Leslie (Bartlett) Hastie, M.A. '88, a psychometrist, The Child's PLace, Windsor, is married to Gord Hastie, OAC '86.

Dick Hunter, '7 3, is D<.1>uty Regional Di rector, Ministry of NaturAl Resources, Thunder Bay.

Frank Morris, 'SO, a sales representative, TSB International Inc . (Telecommuni· cations ) Service Bureau, is married to Cynthia Cracknell, Arts '77.

Nick Nicoloff, '69, is a social worker, Catholic Children's Aid Society, Toronto.

Solomon OIubunmi Oyedjji, '84 , is Execlltive Director, Oyediji Oil Services, Bayo Oyediji & Co. Ltd., n)aden, Nigeria.

Dr. Robert Payne, '70, is a professor, Rye rson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto.

Leo Pellizzari, '84, is a policy analyst, Ministry of Consumer and Commercial ReLations.

Catherine (Durnford) Rennie, '84 , is a futures clerk, Bums Fry Ltd., Toronto.

Mark Russchen, '85, is a sales repre­

sentative, Kerr Steamships, Toronto.

HowardSaslove, M.A. '79, is StaffTrainer, Alherta Social Scrvices, Edmonton.

May 5-June 3

Guel ph Spring Festi val

Keith jones, M.A. '79, is a psychologist, Alberta Mental Health , Lethbridge

Philip Soltys, '79, a LV. production officer, Ontario Lottery Corporation, Toronto, is married to Rowena Chow, Arts '78.

May 6

President's Council Di nner

janice (Smith) King, '85 , is a registered nurse, Cambridge Memorial Hospital.

Allen Taylor, '76, is acting Area Manager, Probation/ Parole Services, Islington.

AC lum ni Association Bon piel

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Carrie Valade , '86, is Supervisor, Childre n's Residence, Essex City Asso­ ciat ion fo r the Mentally RetardnL

Judy (Hirett) Cutler, '79, a diet itian, HlIronia Regional Centre, Orillia, is married to Robert Cutler, OAC '79.

Tim Westacott, MA '83, b a. ales mana­ ger, Dunn & Rradstreet International.

England. !-Ie and his w ife , Susan , have a sCl'en-month·old son, TIlomas. 'nley live in Slafford, StaJTordshire.

Jane (Barclay) Evans, '84 , is Senior Textile Technologist , Retai l Researc h Uiho r<ltorits, Markham.

Heather Hamilton, '85. is a programmer analyst, Union Gas, Chatham.

Hannah (Wan) Wong. '79, is a teacher, Pri ncess I.ikeLike Elementary S 'hool, Ho nolulu, Hawaii.

leslie (GiJbert) Haslen, '87, is a nut ri­ tionist, Nu tri-System, Oakvi lle.

MAC-FACS

Ross Kirkconnell, M.Sc '87 , is a research assistant, Ontari o Advisory Council on Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons, Toronto.

Marilyn Bird, '87, te-aches high S(;hool math and family studks for the WellingtO n Co untv BoarJ of EJucation and lives in PalmersLOn. laurie (Kumpf) Blackwell, '85 ( HAFA ),

is Food Scntice Manager, A&W FooJ · sen ' ces, London.

Lori·Ann (Peter) leigh, '87, a teacher, London Roman Catholic &: hool BoarJ, is ma rri ed to Adam Leigh, CSS '85, a researcher, Ministry of Corrections.

Catherine (Wood) May, '78, a case­ worker, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Patricia Regi on, Dryden, Ont , is married to Warren May, CBS '78.

lola Price, '65, is Director, Aquac ult ure and Resource Oevtlo pmen t Branch , Department of Fisheries and Oceans, O tta".... a.

Bill Robson, '73 (I-lAfA ), is Dean of Rus in es-~ Ad ministration, Uishop's Uni­ verSity, Len noxville , Que. He coaches and plays rughy and enjoys skiing. He and his wife have just moved into a !lew ho me in orth Hatley.

Paula (Sands) Shewfelt, '78 , is a speech and language resource teach T, Simcoe Coun ty Board of h lucation, Midland.

Mary Sidley, '84 ( HAFA ) , is General Manager, lIoliJay Inn, Edmonto n.

MaryJo Stems, '78 ( HAFA ), is Manager, Safaris De [inat ion lanagement. Safaris is a gro und operator \'lorking wit h caporate meetings, incentive groups and com'Cn · tions in Toronto and area.

Lisa Wilson, '84 ( HAFA), is Assistant to the Puh lisher, fl are Magazine, Maclean 1I11nll.:r I.tJ., Toronto.

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Dr, Jim Anderson, '73, is Market ing M'lOager, Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Denis Angers, M.Sc. '85 , re(:eived his Ph.D. in soil science from M 'Gi ll University, Montreal, and is a soil conser­ vation n:search scientist at the Agriculture Canada Research Station, Sainte-Foy, Que. Dr. Paul Banks, Ph.D. '88, a rapeseed breeder, G.l.E. Pioneer Franu:, is married to Dr. Eugenia Valdes, Ph .D. '88.

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Brian Basterfield, 'fH ( RIA) , Prin<.:ipal Lanu~(;ape An:hilect, Meweu Mc(iuire Bastcrfidd, Peterborough, is married to catherine Trimble, FACS '79 Brian Beattie, '86A, Farm Manage r, R.A. Ikaa ie & Sons , Avon dale Harare, Zimbabwe, is married to carolyn Nickie, '86A. Russell Boals, '75 (Eng.), is Ikgional Chief, Water Resources Branch, Emiron ­ meot Canada, Regina.

Wayne carney, '70 & M.Sc. '71 , is Busi­ ness Manager for Specialty Polymers in Nort h America, part of Rohm and Ilaas Company's Industrial Chem icals Business Group. He manages sales, marketing, manufacturing an ti r~eardl efforts for specialty polymers used in water treat­ ment , mining applications and laundry detergents. He lives in Cherry Hill , N.J. Brian Friesen, '79, District Service Manager , Canadia n Ke nworth Ltd ., Mississa uga, is marr ied ll) Janet Blackmore, FACS '78.

Thomas Forster, '80, Formu lat ion Managu, RalslOn Purina Canada Inc. , Wo odstock, is marr ied to Brenda Sorensen, '82 .

Friday, June 9

Trafalgar Golf Club

(South of 401 at Trafalgar Rd. )

John Gleason, '78, is As-<;istanl Vice­ President , Bank of America Canada, Tom nto.

Limited number of tickets and

further infomlation available from:

Shirley Pl:terson, Department of Adl letics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, IG 2Wl;

Christian Horbasz, '83, Policy Advisor, OMAF, Toronto, is married to carol Badzioeh, FACS '83

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FrederieJohnson, '76 ( BLA), is a pro­ fcs.~or , DepartmeI1l of Park Administration and LandscJpe Architecture , College of Agricultuf<lJ Sciences, Texas Tech Uni ­ versity, I.ubbock.

Dr. Frank Kappel, '76, an Agriculture Canada research scientist at a research

Wayne Carney, OAC 70, M'sc. 71 station in Summerland, B.C. , is married to Karen Bedford, '79, M.Sc. '72.

Steve Loader, '75 ( RIA ), is a Landscape Architect, Department of Parks and Recreat ion, Corpof<ltion of the City of Windsor.

Dr. Brian McOnie, '80, graduated with his OVM fro m the Western College of Veterinary Medicine , niversity of Saskatchewan, last May, and nowpractises at St. Marys Veterinary Clinic, St. Marys, Ontario. He is married to Christine Peckham, OAC 'SO. Craig Miller, ' 77 , a n d Kathie Sutherland, FACS '77, became parents of a new son on May 26 , 1988. Angus James is a brother fo r Alexander, 6, andJonathan, 3. Craig is Assistant Professor of Soil Scicnce, Nova Semia Agrkultural College, Truro.

Colin Murray, ' 71), a gcologist, Ocelot ImJustries Ltd., Calgary, is married to Lois I..ounsbury, FACS '77.

Dr. Tom Papadopoulos, Ph.D. '8'5 , is an Agriculture Canada rese.uc h scientist, Harrow.

Dr. Kashmiri Rahe;a, Ph.D. '88, is a scientist, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Division of Animal Genetics, Izatnagar.

Drv Seaton, ''58, is Agriculture Direc tor, Booker Agriculture [ntemational, Oxon, K

Joe Sturgeon, 'S4A, Manager, South Ea.-;tern Farmers Co·Op, Moncton, N.B., is married to Bonita KeUy, '83 Samuel Tang, '86 ( Eng.) , is a water resources engineer, Ecologistics Limited, Waterloo.

Irvine Teeter, ''56, is President , Huron Design & Engineering, D~l~hwood , Ont.

Cal Thlcke, '86 ( BLA), is Senior Site Planner, Ecosign Mountain Recn:ation Planners Ltd, Whistler, B.C Tim Welbanks, '80, ha.~ been appointed President of the newly formed O ntario Forage Council which represe nts and promotes the interests of the fo rage industry provincially and nationally. Tim works as Agro no my Services Manager fo r Pioneer Hi-Bred limited, Chatham.

OVC Dr. Brenda (Foster) Bastian, '86, has opened Bast ian Veterinary Hospital , a new small anima! and eqUine practice in Peterborough.

Dr. Cecil Doige, '59, formerl y head,

Department of Veterinary Pa thology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of askatchewan, is now Asso· ciate Dean of Research there.

Dr. Lome Greenaway, '58, elected to the Ho use of Commons in 19 79, has stepped down to become Oeputy Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in B.C Born in Bella Coo la, B.C , he represemed the Carihoo-Chilcoti n constituency.

Dr. Brad Hicks, '82, is Vice·President, Operati ons, Pacific Aqua Foods Ltd ., Vancouver. Formerly, he was Provi ncial Fish Health Veterinarian , B.C Ministry of Agricul ture and Fisheries.

Dr. Terry Hubens, '72, fo rme rly a small ani mal practitioner, Victoria, B.C , is Minister ofState for Vancouver Island and the Coast, and Minister respo nsible for parks.

Dr. G.A. (8en) Mitchell, '64 , has Idt his post as DirectOr of the Bureau of Veter· inary Drugs Canada to become Director of Survdllann: and Compliance at the Cemer fo r Veterinary Medicine of the .5.

Food and Drug Administration, Rockvi lle, Maryland .

Dr. Don Wilson, '66, is chair, Canadian Veteri nary Medical Association Practice Committee and works at Bay-Vet labs, Brampto n.

Dr. Petere. Wozniak, '83 , is completi ng his residenq in Family Medici ne, St. Joseph 's Health Centre, Lo ndon and continues to practise veterinary medicine, mainl y on a consultant basis, w ith a specific interest in oncology. He grad uated as a Doctor of Medicine Magna Cum Laude from the University of Ottawa, 19RH.

IN MEMORIAM

ARTS

Sheila 8. Camm , '73 , Oakville, Onl., died Oct. 12, 1988. She is survived by her husband, [an Healhcote, and parents, Thomas and Ruth Canlm.

CBS

Jodi Corr, '82 ( HK), Burlington, Ont., died Oct. 22 , 1988 She is lovingly remembered hy her hushand, David Willis, '79 ( HK), her parents, Dr. John and Carol Corrand family ofWi ndsor, and HK friends and staff.

MAC-FACS

Barbara Ann Alsop, '240 , Beaverton, Ont. , died July 27, 1988. Before her retirement, she was a dieti tian at Fai rvi w Hospital, Cleveland.

Edna (Medley) Petch, '360, Keno ra, Ont., died Aug. 25, 1987. She was pre­ deceased by her h usband, Alben Petch, OAe '39, in 1986. She is survi ved by two sons.

Ethel S. (McKenzie) Plummer, '280, Onawa, died in May 1988. She is survived by her husband, Dr. PercyJ.G. Plummer, OVC '28, and two sons.

Jean (Batty) Roberts, '260, Toro nto, died Sept. 24, 1988 She i~ survived by three child ren.

Frieda e. Ruston, '250, Stratfo rd , O nl. , died Oct. 7, 1988 She was retired as a dietitian fo r the Hospital Branch, Ontario Government.

Marjorie H . (Henderson) Thomas, '340, Guelph, d ied Aug. 17, 1988. She was predeceased by her husband, Pro­ fessor Norman J. Thomas, OAC '23.

She is survived by three children.

Ruth (Allen) Wells, '320, Toronto, died Aug. 4, 1988. She had been a dieti tia n for 5.5. Kresge C mpany fo r over 25 years.

She is survived by her sister, Jean.

Mary Alice Cauthard, '56, Toro nto, died Oct. 9, 1988. She had been employed by East York Collegiate, Toronto.

Thomas M. Armstrong, '20A & '22, Toronto, died May 26, ) 988 Christopher Banlen, '84A, Trc!awney, Zimbabwe, was killed in a car accident Sept. 9, 19R8 Leonard A. Bick, ' 30, Guelph, died Sept.

13, 1988 He is survived by his wife, Nellie (Barclay), Mac '28, and rwo children, including Sheila Reed, Mac '59.

Dr. Alan D. Claremont, '57A & '6 1, Corvall is, Oregon, died Ju ne 7, 1988 He was a former Associate Professor in phy. sical e du cation, Orego n tate University.

He is survived by his wife, Catherine, parents, George and Constance, and three children.

Dr. W. Hartwell Colclough, '4 1, Chilliwack, B.C. , died Sept. I , 1987 Neil C. Darrach , '4 2 , MSA '4 7 , Mississauga, Ont., died Oct. 18, 1988. He W.L~ retired as President ofthe Continental Group of Canada. He is survived by his wife , Evelyn , his four children , including daughter, Jane E. Mamak, C55 '69, and the ir mo ther, the former Doris German, OAC '42.

Kathleen 8,M. (White) Graham, '290, Owen Sound, Ont., died Aug. 23, 1988.

OAC

Kenneth S. Ellsworth, '20A & '23, Ridgeway, O nt., died Sept. 8, 1988. He is survived by his wife , Violet, and two so ns, including Brian Ellsworth, OAC '59.

Ina M. (Stapley) Irwin, '300, T ronto, died Sept. 9, 1988. She is survived by a daughter.

J. Roben Almey, '2 1, Winnipeg, died July 17, 1988. He is survived by his wife, Olive.

Chester B. Ferris, '38, Caledonia, Ont., d ied July 27, 1988. He is survived by his wife, Orma.

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Paul Hasenecker, '85, Toronto, died Aug. 21, 1988 while V'JCationing In Africa.

He is survived by his parents, llelcn and Joc, and two sisters.

Harold D . Scotchmer, '32A & '35, Winnipeg, di ed May 25, 1988. He is survived by hi!. wife, L<.:nore, and two da ughters.

George T. Jackson , '25, Ottawa, d ied Sept. 2, 1988. lie is survived hy fi e ehildrcn, including son Carl Jackson, OAC '60.

James D. SmitJl, '4 1A, Port Huron , Mich. , who died inJ une IY86, was inducted into the La mbton Sports I JalJ of Fame OCl. '5 , 198B as a member of the 1938 champion­ sh ip Junior Imperial football team of Sarnia. He rep resented OAC in the 13'5· pound weight c b ss of the senior inter· collegiate bo xing fina l in Mo nlreal in 1940, losing a close three round decision.

He also played rugby and orh r sport ' at OAe. He is survived hy hb wife, Betty.

Robert W. Kelly, '51 , Owt:n Sound, Ont., died Aug. 14, 1988. He was Managing Director, Association l~llamies, Division of Paillette Ventures Ltd., Toronto. He is survived by two children.

Charles F. MacGregor, '62, M.Sc. '67, Exett:r, Ont., died ov. 6 , 1988. Ht: was Regiona l Manager, OMAF , Centralia College, Hu ron Park. He is survivcd hy his wife. Susan.

G.F. Harold Sumler, '55 , Lindsay. Ont ., died in Sept. 1988. He is survived by his w ife, Irene, and son , Deane Sumler, OAC '65.

Norman Mcleod. 'J 8 , Embro, Ont., died in April 1988. He is survived by hb son, Bruce Mcleod, OAC '51 .

Dr. Bruce E. Twamley, '35 , Gode rich, Ont., dkd Nov. 5, 1988. He is survived by his w ife , Murkl, and two Mepso ns.

Leslie H. McMillan, '37A & '·40 , Ottawa, dicd in June 1988 He left Agriculture Canada as Chicf of the Grading Scctio n, Livcstock Oivision. He retired in the early 1970s from the AgriculturJI Division of Industry, Trade & ommcrce. He is sur· vived by h is wife, Anna, and t""o children.

F. Gordon Webster, '25A . Evanshurg, Alta., died March 14, 19BR He is sun;ved by h is wife, Jean, and four children.

Earl Mighton, '31 , IslingtOn, Ont. , died Oct. 1, 1988. Following graduation, he worked in the Botany Dt:partment at OAC and then went to Campbell Soup Company where he hecamt: head ofthe agricultural division. He later worked for the Ontario Department of Agriculturt:. lie was an early presidt:nt of the OAC Alumni A"so· ciation and one of the founders, original directors and most recently honorary chair of the OAC Alumni Foundation. He is survived hy his wife, Rut h, and four -hildren, including son, Dennis Mighton, OAC '64 and Dennis' wife, Pat (Shier) Mighton, OAC '64.

Albert E. Whidden, '21, Antigonish, N.S.. died in May 1988 Ht: is survived by his wife Isabel.

Dr.James R.Smith, '45 , Stouffville, Ont. , dkd Ju ly 17, 1988. He was employed by the Ontario Ibeing Commission.

PROFESSORS Professor Victor Lotter. Department of P~;)'chol ()gy, dkd in Guelph 0 t. l-i , 1988.

He had been a member of G u clph ' ~ faculty si nce 1967. He is survived by his wiJc, An n, and three 'hil<.lrt:n.

STAFF Marlene Pike , ~ecretary in tht: Depart­ menl of hne Art since 1975 , died Oct . 2, 19R8. A Marlene Pike Memorial Fund ha~ been eMahlished.

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FRIENDS

Dr . l. Guy Anderson , '36, Stoke Mandcyi ll , Aylesbury RlJ(.:ks, England, d icd Aug. 16 , 1988. He is survived by h is wife, Joan.

Madalyn K. Birnbaum, Guelph, died Sept. 12, 1988. She was predeceased by her hu 'hand, Mannie. She is survived b) three sons.

Dr.). Blair Ardiel , '48, Clarkshurg, Om., died ov. 2, 1988 lie is survived by hi ~ wife, Nona, and tlm:e ch ildren , Dr. Ardis Ardiel, OVC '83 , Holly (Ardiel) Barns, FACS '83 andJohn Ardiel, OAC '77

Dr. George P. Grant, Iialifa.:..., died Sept.

17, 198f\. lie had been employed by th<.: Classics Ikpanment, Dalhousie University, and rece ived an Honorary Doctor of tellers degn.:e from Guelp h in 1980 I Ie is ~ urvive d by his wife, Sheila, and six children .

William G. Newman, '51 , Claremont, Onl. , died Ocl. 12, 1988. lie was a former Min ister of Environment, Minister ofAgri· culture and Food (1975 -79), an d Durham-York MPP for the Progressive Conserv-,ltive party ( 1967·75 ). He is sur· vived by his wife, Molly (Mitchell), Mac '53 and three children.

Dr. Richard J . (Dick) Humble, '52, Guelph, d ied Sept. 16, 1988. He was a former OVC faculty member and most rt:cenrly worked for Veterinary Sen'; ces Laboratory, Guelph. He is survived by h is wife, Ooris. and sons, Dr. Richard Humble, C S '74 , and Timothy and Gregory Humble, both HAFA '79

Earl M. Reddick, '46, Kemptville, Onl. , died D<.:c. 29, 1987. He is survived by his wife, Hazel.

Dr_ David G. Lott, '48, Ganges, B.C. , died ug. 9, L98H He is survived hy his wife, Joan.

Walter Ru seU, '44 , Durham , O nt., died June 13, 1988. He i-survived by h is wife, Evelyn and a daughte r.

Dr. Nicholas A. Salvatore. '70, Lagrange, Ky. , died August 24 , 1988. He i: survived by his wife, Rita.

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Dr. Ray L. Schmidt, '31, Kansas City, Mo., died Sept. 8, 1988 Ht: is survivcd by his wife, Gladys, and a daughter.

John S. Keshawarz, Jonesboro, Ark., d ied Aug. 1'5, 1988. He was As i~t:.l.nl Professor , Industria I Engi necri og , Co lu mb ia Statt: Community College , Co lumbia, Te nnessee. lie is survived by his wife, Margaret Kuper, Arts '70, and two children.

MargaretW. (Christie) Stewart, Guelph, died Aug. 14 , 1988. She was predeceased by her hushand , William J.A. Stewart, OAC '24. She is sun;ved by daughters, Sheila Inniss, Mac '54. and Marilyn Stothers. friend of Mac '54.

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Are you rich, f;U110US, getting married, having a baby?

Arc you teaching, writing, studying, travel ling)

Arc you winn ing awards. starting yo ur ow n business, retiri ng'

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My news is:

Use e xtra paper if necessary. Why not send a photo too' A head and shoulders shot would he fi ne. Black and white preferred. Photos will be returned on request.

ReluJ"fllo, Guelph Alumnus, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2Wl.