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A boss piece of work

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rofit, a magazine for Canadian

entrepreneurs, crowned engineer Mac Cosburn, OAC '73 Eng., best boss for 1990. He had the highest score of 317 employers surveyed by the magazine.

As one of four partners in the Markham, Ont., engineering consult­ ing firm Cosburn Patterson Wardman Ltd., Cosburn shares the best boss honor with Malcolm Wardman and two other Guelph engineering grads, Nancy (Scott) Mather, '80, and John Patterson, '76.

Cosburn scored 187 out of a poten­ tial 195 points on a survey that rated quality of work life, payroll, manage­ ment style and compensation. Accord­ ing to Profit, the questionnaire had a built-in bias for open management style, for building on employees' strengths and creating an environment that attracts and challenges top people.

The eight-year-old consulting firm employs 38 full-time and seven part­ time staff who design roads, sewage systems and water lines for municipalities and developers. (The Guelph bosses all specialized in water resource engineering.) The often lengthy projects - some can take up to seven years to complete - demand many skills and continuity, making it critical to hold on to employees and keep them motivated.

To relieve the stress in a high­ pressure workplace, the firm promotes a team approach, encouraging open communication, health and camaraderie. It offers profit sharing, pays for memberships at a local fitness club, sponsors baseball and hockey teams, hosts bowling-and-barbecue nights, an annual sailing excursion and ski retreats, gives away sports and theatre tickets, and holds team-build­ ing seminars. The firm has a standing offer of loans and advances for big purchases. It grants extended vaca­ tions and pays tuition towards employees' engineering, management

, Malcolm Wardman, Ma c Cosgrove and John Patterson.

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and accounting courses.

"It makes good sense to invest in our employees," says Cosburn. Few staff members leave, at least not to take up with competing engineering firms.

Cosburn suggests that his manage­ ment philosophy has evolved from his work as a volunteer. All three Guelph alumni partners held top positions in the student Engineering Society at Guelph and are now doing volunteer work in their communities. Cosburn chairs the Markham/Stouffville Hospi­ tal board, Patterson is president of the Muskoka Lakes Association, and Mather is president of a Thornhill nursery school.

"It's more of a challenge to motivate volunteers when money is not an incentive," says Cosburn, who says he has applied similar motivating principles - after much brainstorm­ ing with partners - at work.

Team building and developing

communication skills are essential to the success of an engineering com­ pany, says Mather. "Our greatest asset is our staff, and if we don't have good technical people who can communi­ cate well ... we will not thrive as a company or as individuals."

Patterson says the emphasis on team work without the "safety net" of titles or a hierarchical structure means "we're working with and motivating people on the basis of a strong per­ sonal relationship." In a small com­ pany where the demands are high and everyone spends a lot of time at the of­ fice, "if :you pay attention to people and give them the respect and motiva­ tion they need, their ability to produce is incredible.

"A lot of it just makes common sense. You should be prepared to dis­ cuss direction and be able to rational­ ize decisions with employees. This is the way things should be run for a happy, productive workplace."

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ALUMNUS Spring 1991

COVER With Canada's future up in the air, Canadians are using every means from a par足 liamentary commission to a telephone hotline to decide whether the maple leaf will remain intact.

FEATURES

Is time running out for Canada?

Profiles The Ontarian has covered it all.

This story looks at what Canadians are saying about their country's future.

Meet seven University of Guelph alumni whose careers provide inspiration to today's graduates.

A look at the student newspaper's 40-year history.

COLUMNS

Letters . . . . . . . .4 . . .5 Campus

Grad news Comment

The University of Guelph celebrates the appointment of a new chancellor and the 25th birthday of the School of Landscape Architecture.

Canadian anthropologist Marc-Adelard Tremblay offers insight on the way Quebecers feel about Canada.

Vol. 24, No.2 Editor Mary Dickieson Executive Editor Sandra Webster, CSS '75 Writing Barbara Chance, CSS '74, Marla Konrad, Martha Tancock Design/Production Chris Boyadjian, Arts '81, Penny Clemens, Gabrielle Duval, Linda Graham, Arts.'77, Ford Papple, Arts '76, Herb Rauscher, Debbie ThO! Ipson Wilson, Arts '77 Editorial Advisory Board Ro;emary Clark, Mac '59, Chair; Richard Buck, OAC '76A; Sheila Levak, HAFA '83; Denis Lynn, CBS '69; Karen Mantel, Arts '83; Robin-Lee Norris, CSS '80; Harold Reed, OVC '55; Brian Romagnoli, Arts '84; Peter Taylor, Arts '76; Agnes Van Haeren, CSS '86; Robert Wilbur, OAC '80; Bob Winkel, OAC '60; Marina Wright, FACS '85 and M.Sc. '88

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LETTERS

remov al of all unnecessa ry gender refer­ ences. For myself, th e gender-free term "a lumni" would be a much less offensive title for thi s publication .

Loretta Paoli I was rather offended by your article in the winter 1991 issue of the Guelph Alumnus entitled "Canine DegreeGranted."

Jean Little is a world-class writer of children's literature who was granted a well-deserved honorary doctor of letters degree. She certainly deserved more recog­ nition than a reference under her dog's "ac­ complishments." That her dog was even mentioned by President Brian Segal belit­ tled the magnitude of her accomplishments and the seriousness of her degree.

I wonder if a male scientist would receive the sa me treatment if he had a guide dog.

Tracy Siddall Toronto The international issue of the Guelph Alumnus has certainly been an eye opener for me and ha s made for some fascinating reading before sending the copy on to our son Arthur (Arthur Davis, OAC '82 and M .Sc. '85), who is pursuing graduate studies in botany at the University of Can­ berra in Australia.

Two of our sons graduated from U of G in the early 1980s - Peter with a bachelor of sc ience in fisheries biology and Arthur with a master of science in entomology I apiculture.

J had no idea of the scope of the University'S involvement around the world .

Congratulations on this most interesting and informative issue.

Rosemarie Davis Mount Hope, Ont. As a Guelph graduate and current Univer­ sity staff member, I receive the Guelph Alumnus with pleasure. I am writing, how­ ever, to ex press a couple of concerns.

At a time when our country is strug­ gling desperately to manage a serious gar­ bage crisis, I would like to strongly suggest that you switch to printing the magazine on a recyclable paper (non-gloss) stock, preferably recycled. There are many avail­ able on the market that would serve your purposes equal ly well. In fact, for me, it would improve the reading experience.

My second concern lies with the name of the Guelph Alumnus which , by defi ni­ tion, means "a male graduate." I am sure that when thi s title was chosen , the intent was not to conscious ly exclude the female graduates of the University, but it is a mi s­ take th at I believe should be corrected.

The inclusive language policy imple­ mented by U of G in 1988 requested the 4

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ticle on steward ship that "moral respon­ sibi lity tran sce nds legal ownership." In your article, these ideals are not applied to the University property in Puslinch Township, because the best use of that agricultural land is a grave l pit.

Virginia Hildebrandt OAC M.Sc. '82, PhD '86 Cambridge, Ont.

Please correct the misinformation found in the winter 1991 issue of the Alumnus regarding gravel extraction on University land s in Puslinch Township.

The agricultural usefulness of the Pus­ linch property, now slated for aggregate extraction, remains a concern of the ratepayers opposed to the "development."

Land classified as Class 1,2 or 3 is, by definition, prime agricultura l land. Seventy­ five per cent of the land wa s considered Class 2 by a University expert for the original application, but was downgraded to two-per-cent Cla ss 2 and 68-per-cent Class 3 by another University expert during the hearing .

Seventy per cent of the property is Class 2 and 3. The amount rated as Class 5 is part of a provincially significant wet­ land , Class I .

The board ruled that the quality of the land was a non-issue because of a previou s board ruling, which the township and resi­ dents lost. The fact remains that 60 per cent of the land (more than 200 acres) wi ll now become a lake, eliminating prime agricu ltu ral land and exposing our groundwater resources to pollut io n.

U ofG estab li shed a Centre for Soi l and Water Conservation and noted in an ar­

Editor's note: The information provi ded in our winter 1991 issue was based on the Ontario Municipal Board 's written decision regarding the University's request for an "extractive industries designation" of its 188-hectare Puslinch Township proper­ ty . Virginia Hildebrandt's concerns were shared by oth er opponents of the plan, and her testimony was considered in the OMB decision , which reads, in part: "The evidence revea led that during most of the University's tenure, the tillable la nd s have been cropped ... although being mainly in a Class 3 to 5 soil classification. The board does not doubt the evidence that these lands are capable of growing crops on a marginally economic basis, but this fact is not determinant, in the board 's view, on the best use that should be made of these lands after having regard for historical commitments." A copy of the entire deci sion is ava ilable to alumni in the reserve sec tion of the U ni versity library, or copies can be purchased from the OMB of­ fices at 180 Dundas St. W ., 7th Floor, Toronto, M 5G I E5.

Good news for the environment!

This is the first issue of the Guelph Alumnus to be printed on recycled paper. Called " RecGloss," the paper is manufactured by Repap Enterprises in Montreal and contains 50-per-cent recovered material.

That includes a minimum of 1O-per-cent post-consumer deinked paper, like the waste you put in your blue box. Another 30 per cent is post­ commercia l - paper scraps from mills and binderies that have been traditiona lly returned to the paper-making process. And 10 per cent is de-inked post-consumer, mostly returns from printing shops, which also helps to reduce la ndfill .

Another plus tor the environment is the alkaline paper-making process used to manufacture RecGloss. It uses less wood fibre per ton of paper and produces fewer pollutants than the conventional acid-based process.

And there 's more good news - about recycling your Guelph Alumnus. Ian Kirkby of the Recycling Council of Ontario tells us there are seven de-inking plants under construction in Canada or planned for the next five years. One began opera­ tion in Whitby, Ont. , in February. All will demand a steady supply of coated (glossy) paper.

The clay coating that makes magazines shiny helps to bind paper fibres in the manufacture of recycled newspri nt. Up to 30 per cent of the recycled paper used by these new plants will be coated. Municipal blue box programs that don't already accept glossy magazines will have to gear up to keep pace with the demand, says Kirkby.

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Alexander appointed chancellor Known for his informal style and a keen interest in youth, Ontario Lieutenant­ Governor Lincoln Alexander is en­ thusiastic about his appointment as chancellor of the University of Guelph.

"I never dreamt I'd be ca lled to serve as chancellor," he says. ''I'm ex­ cited and delighted. rve known about the University for some time and al­ ways had a great respect for it."

The new appointment fits in well with Alexander's experience as lieutenant-governor."My informal mandate has been, in part, to en­ courage and support the young people of this province, and thi s is in keeping wi th tha t ma nda te."

He views the appointment as an op­ portunity to share with the University community some of his experiences... as a member of the RCAF, a lawyer, a member of parliament, minister of labor, chair of the Workers' Compen­ sation Board, community worker and Iieutenant- governor.

Alexander succeeds former chancel­ lor Edmund C. Bovey, who died last spnng.

Convocation celebrates firsts U of G's winter convocation boasted some historic firsts: the presentation of the John Bell Award for outstanding teaching and the awarding of bachelor of commerce degrees to students in both agricultural business and the manage­ ment economics program in industry and finance.

Meteorologist Terry Gillespie received the first John Bell Award, named in honor of the late classic s professor John Bell , who taught at Guelph from 1972 to 1987.

Originally from Vancouver, Gillespie earned one of the University's first doctoral degrees in agrometeorol­ ogy in 1968, then joined the faculty of what was to become the Department of Land Resource Science.

His students consider him one of the University's most effective teachers and honored him last year with the Central Student Association's first award for outstanding teaching excel­ lence.

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Over the past 5 1/2 years of his term as lieutelUlnt- governor, LincoLn ALexander has visited more than 2 25 Onlllrio schooLs. Photo by Kitchener- Waterloo Record

Gillespie's contributions to educa­ tion have also been recognized by the U of G Faculty Association's Distin­ guished Professor Award in 1984, the OAC Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1986 and a 3M Teaching Fellowship in 1988.

Convocation honors also went to Rose Sheinin, a world-renowned microbiologist and an advocate for women in education, who received an honorary doctor of science degree.

Sheinin is vice-rector of Concordia University in Montreal.

Retired Guelph professor John deMan, first chair of the Department of Food Science, was named professor emeritus. ]n the first years of Guelph 's food science program, deMan helped develop an academic plan with a firm foundation in the sciences. This ap­ proach has given the program an inter­ national reputation.

Biologist makes honor roll Last December, U of G crop scientist Tis sa Senaratna was named to

Maclean 's magazine's annual honor roll of Canadians who have made a dif­ ference to society.

Maclean's applauded Senaratna 's work in the production of "artificial seeds," which could lead to increased crop yields and reduced dependence on pesticides. Collaborating with Guelph crop scientists Bryan McKersie, Ken Kasha and Doug Procunier, Senaratna discovered that placing his "artificial seeds" - dried somatic embryos - in water where genetic material has been dissolved causes the embryos to absorb the genetic material directly into their cells. Through a process not fully un­ derstood , the dissolved DNA gets into the cells when the tissues are being rehydrated .

This method of transferring genetic information has implications for the entire biotechnology industry. Imagine taller, straighter trees, beans or wheat that can resist drought and disease.

Maclean's did and honored Senaratna for an achievement that could aid in the betterment of the world.

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Landscape Architecture marks 25 years

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ith almost 600 alumni as tes­ timony to its success, the School of Landscape Architecture is celebrat­ ing its 25th anniversary.

Although the Ontario Agricultural College offered landscaping courses long before 1966, the school's opening was a historic first, says founding director Victor Chanasyk.

"I was the first landscape architect appointed to a university faculty in Canada, and we were the first pro­ gram to be established in this country," he says.

landscape architecture graduates have been accepted into leading graduate programs throughout North America.

They are also working as landscape ar­ chitects in Canada and around the world.

Colin Okashimo, a 1982 graduate of the BLA program, heads up a large

Historic past The 1950s saw a great surge in large­ scale landscape design, but it wasn't until 1959 that the Ontario Landscape Contractors Association and the Canadian Society of Landscape Ar­ chitects were able to convince OAC and the University of Toronto to take up the challenge of mounting a university pro­ gram of instruction.

The first undergraduate degrees were awarded in 1969. The graduate program was approved in 1973. Since then , the school's success has grown out of the diversity and backgrounds of its students, Chanasyk says.

"People come to us out of back­ grounds in soil science, music, biol­ ogy, sociology, engineering, philosophy, architecture, mathematics and fine art. The synergy that results from such an academic richness is awesome. It's an inspiration to both students and faculty."

Today, undergraduate and graduate programs are both ac­ credited by the American Society of Landscape Architects. The school's reputation around the province has grown through its efforts to serve 00­ tario communities in student projects and research. Some of those projects include planning urban watersheds, freeway locations, parks and landfill sites, as well as urban redevelopment and waterfront planning.

Future challenges

Top: Landscape architecture students critique a site plan in 1969. Bottom: Using today's technology, Prof Robert Brown and Chris Rankin, an exchange student from Scotland, create a com­ puter-simulated landscape design.

Alumni success Chanasyk believesoneofthe real marks of success of a university program is what its graduates have done. Guelph 6

consulting office in Singapore doing tourism and other developments throughout the South Pacific area.

Jane Roszell , a 1970 graduate, is director-general of national parks in Ontario. 1980 master's graduate Peter Rennie is in charge of the visual management of all forest harvesting in British Columbia .

"Our graduates have been a sig­ nificant force in changing public con­ science for the need to preserve the natural environment while developing it for use," says Chanasyk. "And we've helped the scientifIc community adapt its knowledge and skills from matters purely scientific and managerial to si te- pi ann ingpu rposes."

Photo by Herb Ra uscher

Not content to rest on its laurels, the School of Landscape Architecture is planning for the 21 st-century challenge of integrating human habitat and en­ vironment.

Suburban developments marked the latter part of the 20th century, says current director Walter Kehm, but a crack is appearing in suburbia's facade. The environment is beginning to raise its voice in protest against sub­ urban sprawl, and many single parents and senior citizens are leaving be­ cause they don't fit easily into the sub­ urban milieu.

Guelph's landscape architecture stu­ dents are 9n the front lines of rethink­ ing the design of communities. The school's strength lies in its ability to draw on the University'S strong contin­ gent of scientists and researchers in other fields, says Kehm.

"We work with sociologists, en­ gineers, agricultural scientists, zoologists, soil scientists, environ men­ tal leaders and community people to discover ways of planning for the new types of living habitats we will be re­ quiring."

The school's challenge in the future is to address the issues of the urban­ rural fringe and develop new com­ munities with integrated residential areas and working areas that combine resource stewardship with what he calls "the art of living - elegance to Guelph Alumnus

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Under the new agreement, the University will give the co-op a 20­ year lease for its operations in Johnston and Massey halls. The University-owned bookstore, which opened last fall, will continue to sell textbooks, as well as popular reading materials, trade journals, reference books and scholarly works.

In 1989, the co-op filed a com­ plaint with the Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Affairs after the University announced plans to take over bookstore operations on campus.

The complaint was followed by a $5 .5-million lawsuit against the University for breach of lease regard­ ing the co-op's former retail opera­ tions in the University Centre and the MacNaughton building bookstore.

Last June, the co-op lost an injunc­ tion application that would have al­ lowed it to remain in the bookstore location beyond the June 30 expira­ tion of the lease.

Under the new agreement, all is­ sues of dispute have been settled, legal claims have been dropped and the co­

the way we live."

He says the philosophy the school will impart to its students is that society's living patterns need to be less dependent on fossil fuels and that we need multiple-use buildings and com­ pact housing types that are still attrac­ tive and useful.

He believes the school's mandate over the next 25 years will be to edu­ cate students on the limitations of the natural environment and to develop an ecological basis for planning and design.

Co-op dispute settled After a year of controversy over who has the right to sell textbooks on campus, the University and the Guelph Campus Co­ operative have signed a compromise agreement that will allow the co-op to reopen a textbook operation.

In the fall of 1992, the co-op will expand its store in Johnston Hall into the space originally occupied by the co-op when the hall was built in the early 1930s.

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op has withdrawn its MCCA com­ plaint. The co-op will pay $12,500 in costs awarded to the University at the failed injunction hearing and will, in future, pay incurred physical resources costs for its two campus locations.

Help for small business Anyone who's ever started a small busi­ ness venture knows how difficult it can be to conduct a feasibility study, develop a business plan, obtain market data or implement sound financial planning.

These are some of the services offered

by U of G's student-run Small Business Consulting Service.

Now in its third year of operation, the project provides "real world" ex­ periences for Guelph business students and low-cost consulting services for small-business owners.

The students serve a Guelph-based client group, but have worked for small businesses as far away as Toron­ to and Niagara Falls. Consultants can be reached weekdays at 519-824­ 4120, Ext. 6472.

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At North American Life, ser­ vice is our priority - because it's you we value most.

To find out more, call us toll­ free at 1-800-668-0195; or contact Guelph's Consultant Jeff Jennings, (416­ 491-4046). We'll talk.

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Is time running out

for Canada?

by Mary Dickieson

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f - as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney suggests - Canada is worth $14 a second, then the decades already spent in constitution­ al debate make this a very valuable country indeed.

"As long ago as 1931, the British tried to wean us, cut us adrift in our constitutional sea," says political studies professor Bill Christian, but we waited 50 years before attempt­ ing repatriation of the Constitution, and still couldn't agree.

"Our constitutional problems are the result of our own inadequacies," says history professor Terry Crowley. We're getting farther away from a suitable amending formula, and tension increases with each failed attempt at constitutional reform, he says.

"From a historical perspective, the threat of Quebec's separation is the most serious situation the country has ever faced," says Crowley.

Quebec's Belanger-Campeau legislative commission has tabled a report calling for a sovereignty referendum in 1992, although it ap­ pears no one testifying before the commission favored outright inde­ pendence. Most Quebecers seem willing to consider the political breakup of the country, but only if a Canadian economic union is retained.

Quebec's Liberal party has also adopted a policy - from the recom­ mendations of a committee headed by party leader Jean Allaire - that would take most powers away from the federal government and give them to the provinces. Christian con­ cludes that this policy would be wors.e for Canada than separation.

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Photo by Herb Rauscher

In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, Prof. Higgins makes the observation that there is "time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of."

That's not the case in Canada, where our future as a nation demands immediate solutions.

Economic problems, regionalism and aboriginal issues loom in the background, but the Quebec crisis stands in the foreground of Canadian concern. There are those who believe the separation of Quebec is a "fait accompli" and those who think division should be avoided at all costs.

For this story, we've talked to some University of Guelph alumni and called on several faculty members to help analyse what Canadians are saying about their country's future.

Canadian history, he says. "One thing is certain. The strong central government we have now will not continue in its present form ."

If Canada maintains a strong

federal government, it will be without the province of Quebec ­ or the country may opt for some form of external decentralized federation that strengthens provin­ cial powers, Christian says.

Crowley sees Quebec's 1993 elec­ tion as the critical moment.

Federalism may be able to hang on until then because the Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa wants to give federalism another chance. But if it fails, Bourassa must act on his party's mandate or watch Quebecers elect a Parti Quebecois government.

Quebecers are not the only Canadians dissatisfied with their government. Canada's aboriginal peoples and both western and east­ ern legislatures have long recognized the need for constitutional reform.

Meech Lake Accord A French Canadian himself, Prof.

Daniel Chouinard, chair of Guelph's French Studies department, says many of his fellow Quebecers feel the current crisis is the result of the failed Meech Lake Accord.

"Had English Canadians said 'yes' to Meech Lake, they would have killed the push for sovereignty be­ cause the accord would have guaran­ teed a province where French was protected," he says. Instead, the failure was seen as a formal rejec­ tion of Quebec.

Elsie Wayne, a New Brunswick commissioner on the Citizen's Forum for Canada's Future, says that's the wrong interpretation.

Speaking at the commission's Feb. 27 session in Waterloo, Onl., she said: "Elijah Harper stopped Meech Lake, nO.t because he did not like

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Quebec, but because of aboriginal French-Canadian identity rights. It had nothing to do with French-descent Quebecers Quebec." believe strongly that their culture is She bel ieves that if the Allaire or valuable to Canada and should be the Belanger-Campeau committees preserved, says Chouinard. He had travelled outside Quebec, they thinks the rest of Canada should use would have found a welcome mat in the specificity provided by Quebec every province. to prevent the country from being In a speech given last December carried away by Americanization . in Toronto, Laval University A common culture binds French anthropologist Marc- Adelard Canadians together, says Tremblay.

Tremblay noted that the death of the And, like it or not, sets them apart Meech Lake Accord was the indirect from the rest of Canada. He defines result of Quebec's unwillingness to abide by the recent Supreme "CAMDA I~ MY JuDGM£NT Court ruling con­ IS WORTH ~I't ASECOND." cerning the use of Piill'[ MINISTeR :1IJI£OII1Y WAKCHS/' l1 f unilingual French signs outside busi­ ness estab­ lishments. Many anglophone Quebecers felt their rights were being sacrificed for the sake of the French language, says Tremblay.

cultural identity in terms of three things - a collective self-image that gives a group its di stinctive charac­ ter, a way of life embedded in social institutions and a projection into the future to ensure its con tinu ity.

Five million French Canadian s in Quebec have that. English Ca nada does not, he says. Crowley, however, questions the reference to English Canada, "which really isn't English," he says. The other 2l million people in this country represent a whole range of ethnic groups and dozens of different la nguages.

Because Quebec is becoming more like this multicultural society, many French­ descen t Quebecers feel they must take drastic measures to prevent their culture and lan­ guage from being eroded.

In his Toronto speech, Tremblay dis­ cussed the cultural­ identity crisis among Quebecers tha t "im­

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perils the survival of that francophone nation on the North American con­ tinent."

He says the national consciousness of French-descent Quebecers developed in the middle of the 19th century, when the Catholic church, the school, family and the French lan­ guage were the main ethnic institu­ tions of what was called the French-Canadian nation. Over time, the di stinctive principles of the cultural identity were gradually shifted from ethnic institutions to the nation-state embodied by the Parti Quebecois, with negative consequences, Tremblay says.

The patriation of the Canadian Constitution without Qu ebec's con­ sent, the 1981 /82 recession and the in­ vasion by anglo-American mass culture thwarted the efforts of the Parti Quebecois government of Rene Levesque and alienated many people from the culture of origin, he says.

Language issues have always taken centre stage. Although linguist s agree that language education is crucial for the survival of a culture, Tremblay contends that language alone is not enough to ensure cultural identity.

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North Americans and is the language of choice for three out of four i m­ migrants to Quebec, even though their children are educated in French. " It comes as no surprise that French is the only language facing a survival challenge in North America," he says.

French culture and language in Quebec are threatened by a population of varied religious beliefs, social statra and standards of living. The diversity of cultural allegiances within Quebec has been temporarily lost in the burial of the Meech Lake Accord, says Tremblay, but "to consider the French language as a ferment of social cohesiveness in such a multi-ethnic en­ vironment goes far beyond what it can provide."

Canada's bilingual policies were in­ tended to reconcile Quebec with the whole country. Instead, it has been a wedge between English- and French­ speaking Canadians. It should be remembered, notes Prof. Ramon Hathorn, that Quebecois did not believe universal bilingualism wa s a realistic answer to their own situation.

He teaches French-Canadian literature at Guelph and travels widely in Quebec.

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" I have yet to meet a Quebecer who thinks this is a good thing and should have been imposed on the rest of Canada," he says.

Success within Confederation Separatist feelings are based on more than a century of federal neglect of the francophone presence in Canada, particularly its cultural presence, says Hathorn. Still, Quebecois literature, music and art have become well known on the inter­ national scene, largely because of strong provincial government initia­ tives in these areas.

To promote its national identity, the Quebec government has established the equivalent of consulates in many countries and U.S. states. There are also at least 25 national associations of Canadian studies outside Canad a, each with a strong Quebec com­ ponent.

Political studies professor Henry Wiseman, who was rai sed in Montreal, notes that over the last 40 years, French-descent Quebecers have made great strides. Working within Con­ federation, they have already over­ come most of their grievances in terms

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The debate over Canada's future has provided a never-ending source of material for editorial illustrators like Philip Mallette, Arts '77. Mallette drew the caricature of Stuart Smith, left, for the Ontarian in 1977 when Smith came to Guelph to dis­ cuss - what else? - Canadian unity.

The other illustrations appeared earlier this year in Toronto's Financial Post, where Mallette's talent adds levity to even the most serious issues.

Editorial cartoons draw attention to a newspaper's opinion page and are often the first thing a reader turns to. Illustrators have to be aware of what's happening in the newsroom and in the community, says Mallette. They must also have the ability to visualize graphically an event or the human response it evokes.

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of language, investment, immigra­ tion, economic control and management of culture - all the key elements required to ensure continuity of French identity.

"Compare the situation of the Quebecois with that of the Tamils, Sikhs and other people around the world," says Wiseman. "You will see that Quebecers are much bet­ ter off than any others who con­ sider themselves an oppressed minority and seek national deter­ mination."

Time for action In Quebec, the separatist fac­ tion argues that the time is now or never to gain the provincial powers needed to preserve French­ Canadian culture and language, while those still embracing federalism say: "Let's not be too hasty. The rest of Canada needs time to accept our proposals."

Many Canadians outside of Quebec are frustrated by incom­ petent leaders who have failed to reach a compromise. Some are angry, believing Quebec is the bully on the block and needs to be taken to task for its unfair demands. Others are simply tired of the debate and are ready to sacrifice Quebec in the interest of getting on with life.

Former Alberta lieutenant-gover­ nor Grant MacEwan (see profile, page 16) says Quebec has always played an important role in Confederation, but admits there is a limit to the price the rest of Canada can be expected to pay for unity.

"We may have to recognize that sometimes a good divorce is better than a bad marriage," he says.

These viewpoints are counter­ balanced by the more traditional Canadian "wait and see" attitude that got us where we are today. If we wait

long enough, the political and economic winds in Quebec will change. If we wait still longer, the separatists' fears of cultural erosion will take place, and Americanization and diminished numbers will leave Quebec without the bargaining power it now has.

Many of our social, business and government leaders are encouraging us to air these feelings by getting in­ volved in the debate. And there are many opportunities to do so ­ through the media, provinciallegisla­ tive committees and Canada's national

soapbox, the Citizen's Forum. Only 100,000 Canadians have taken ad­ vantage of this forum.

At a cost of more than $27 million, it has gained an image as a very expen­ sive marketing tool for the Mulroney government. But it is an opportunity for all 27 million Canadians to add their $1 worth for the cause of unity.

"The money is spent," said one forum participant, "so we might as well make the most of it. Besides, Canada's future is too important to be left to the politicians."

U of G to host forum on Canadian unity

As an educational institution, the University of Guelph has an obligation to confront the issues that confront society. The University will host a major conference Oct. 24 to 26 to deal with the problems challenging Canada's future.

Canadians from all sectors of society are invited to par­ ticipate in discussions that will attempt to rise above

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political antagonism and avoid emotional roadblocks.

Participants in the Canada conference will discuss is­ sues such as Quebec separation, aboriginal rights and regional disparities, will analyse their consequences and will formulate a proposal for the future validity of Canada.

For more information about the conference, call the Division of Continuing Education at 519-767-5000.

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by Mary Dickieson The following stories focus on seven University of Guelph alumni whose personal and career achievements are an inspiration to new university graduates.

CROSSING THE BRIDGE FROM

VETERINARY TO HUMAN MEDICINE

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pendra "BiII"Narayan has al­ ways opted for the job that was the most interesting and the most fun.

T hat strategy - coupled with a lot of hard work - has helped him achieve a rewarding career in research and make some important contributions to both veterinary and human medicine.

Narayan is a professor of com­ parative medicine and neurology and director of the retrovirus biology laboratories atJohns Hopkins Univer­ sity School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where he heads a team of 25 scientists who study the patho­ genesis of viral infections. About 90 per cent of their time is devoted to analysing the HIV virus that causes

AIDS. Johns Hopkins is a long way from Narayan's na tive Guyana. Like many of that country's motivated youth, he left in 1956 when the political winds were beginning to turn to Com­ munism. He came to Guelph to attend OVC , earning his DVM in 1963.

Five brothers and sisters followed Narayan to Canada. Four still live in Ontario, but Chris, OAC '65 Eng., is chair of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.

After graduation, the young veterinarian joined a practice in Manitoba, but within two years, he knew he wanted to know more than how to treat sick animals. He wanted to find out why they were sick.

Narayan return~d to Guelph and completed both master's and PhD degrees. His research dealt with the pathology of avian influenza, a viral disease of the brain that was taking a deadly toll on chic ken and turkey flocks in O ntario.

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however, lost out to a new interest in microbiology when Narayan accepted a postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins to study viral infections. Two years later, he turned down the security of a position with Ontario's department of agriculture because his research was "too much fun to give up."

As an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, Narayan drummed up re­ search funding to continue his work on visna, a viral disease of sheep. His 1972 research findings describe visna as an interesting and unique virus in­ fection, without parallel in human dis­ ease. Not until 10 years later was it discovered to be iden­ tical to the HIV virus that causes AIDS in humans.

"Many of the char­ acteristics we had described in the 1970s - the virus's ability to hide, change surface codes, move among immune cells and demolish the brain ­ were reported in the human disease in the early 1980s," he says.

Taking advantage of Narayan's 10-year head start in AIDS research, Johns Hopkins expanded its program and built a $2-million laboratory facility to study the pathogenesis of the infection.

Narayan's re­ search asks a lot of questions, such as:

"Why does it take so long for an HIV­ infect d subj ect to develop the dis­ ease?" T he virus can lie dormant in human s for up to 10 years, four years in sheep.

The Johns Hopk ins team has dis­ covered that the virus spends this latent peri od within prec ursor cell s of the bone marrow and that these cells eventually carry the genome virus with them to the lung, spleen and brain.

The team has been able to speed up the onset of disease - from four years to six months in sheep. "If we can speed it up, can we slow it down?" asks Narayan . Or can they cause the precursor cells to avoid vital organs?

And can they do the same in humans?

The resea rchers are also ask ing why one breed of sheep, such as the Border Leicester, develops visna quickly, whereas others, like the Suf­ folk, can harbor the infection without suffering sym ptoms of the disease. Are there ho t genetic factors that make som breeds of ani mals and som e races of people more susceptible, and

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can they be altered?

Narayan works primarily with sheep and monkeys, housed adjacent to clinical and surgical areas and high­ tech laboratories that are staffed by molecular and cell biologists, im­ munologists and pathologists.

A key to the success of the research program, he says, is the proximity of all team members. On his morning stroll, he can speak to scientists work­ ing on every facet of the disease from the molecular to the clinical level.

And across the street is the univer­ sity medical school hospital, which has an active AIDS ward. Data can be im­ mediately compared with the progres­ sion of the disease in humans, he says.

The labs are also involved in re­ search on borna disease, a viral en­ cephalitis that affects horses and sheep in Germany and is closely related to a

behavioral disease in humans that is associated with schizophrenia.

Narayan recently completed a sabbati­ cal program in Germany working on this study.

Because of research commitments, his teaching duties are now limited to the postdoctoral level. He has wel­ comed several Guelph students, most recently Christine Zink, DVM '78, M.Sc. '82 and PhD '86, who is now an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins.

Narayan smiles at the comments of some of his graduate students who complain that their $18,000 stipends are too small. He says he and his wife, Moonie, supported two children while his Guelph earnings were only $3 ,600 a year .. . and still had a lot of fun .

The couple now have three children and live outside Baltimore's city limits, where he maintains a large garden of

native and cultured wildflowers. Gar­ dening is a pleasant diversion from the high stress involved in AIDS research, Narayan says.

"The HIV virus is the best adapted pathogen the human race has ever en­ countered. If HIV were spread in aerosol like chicken pox or measles, the human race wouldn't survive," Fortunately, it has an Achilles Heel - its sole dependence on body fluids.

Prevention is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS, at least in North America, where there is still a select group of susceptible people, Narayan says.

"With recent advances in drug and immune therapy and the development of vaccines, the future is not as grim as it appeared to be five years ago." But he predicts the disease will be prevalent well into the next century.

SETTING HER SIGHTS ON SUCCESS

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hen Frances Tanner-Dalrymple was a student at the University of Guelph, she spent long hours sitting outdoors,just enjoying the campus scenery. She wonders now if her sub­ conscious was preparing her for the time when she would need those memories.

About three years after graduating from the College of Family and Con­ sumer Studies in L982, she lost her sight as a complication of diabetes.

It could have been a devastating twist of fate, except that Tanner­ Dalrymple refused to be devastated.

Neither blindness nor a subsequent kid­ ney transplant has kept her from reach­ ing her goals, and her enthusiasm and determination remain intact.

One of those goals was to become a conference co-ordinator for a large Canadian corporation, and she has.

Two years ago, while recovering from the transplant surgery, Frances wrote a job description for the professional position she wanted and then sold the idea to Noranda Inc., one of Canada's largest internationa l companies.

"I was the expert they needed, and the fact that I'm blind didn't alter that."

Tanner-Dalrymple and her guide dog, Jade, make the daily trip by bus Guelph Alumnus

and subway from her home in East York to her office on the 45 th floor of the Commerce Court Tower in downtown Toronto. Here, she plans business meetings, conferences and various social functions for the Noran­ da family of companies.

Her office is equipped with an optic scanner, a voice synthesizer and a mat where Jade sleeps under the desk . She listens to memos and reports and labels them in braille for filing . She inputs her own memos, let­ ters, agendas and schedules into a table-top computer and lets the syn­ thesizer read them to her to check for errors before printing and mailing.

There is also a braille printer at her disposal.

The idea for this position was for­ mulated while Tanner-Dalrymple was still a student at Guelph. Although a family studies major, she took many elective courses in the School of Hotel and Food Administration and worked one summer in the University's con­ fe rence office.

After graduation in 1982, she worked for a large hotel chain in Niagara Fails, Ont., but had moved to Toronto to look for a job in con­ ference co-ordinating when fate inter-

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vened. While driving her new pink sports car in the spring of 1984, she noticed she couldn 't see the street lights. Within seven months, she was totally blind.

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It took her a few weeks to come to terms with her sudden blindness. "I was afraid I wouldn't remember the faces of people who are most impor­ tant to me and the places where I had good times." But quite the reverse has happened. Although she hasn't seen it for al most 10 years, Ta nner -Dal­ rymple remembers every detail of the walk from Macdonald Hall to Branion Plaza - the crosswalk on College A venue, the kiosk in front of Mills Hall, the number of steps and the three doorways leading into Creelman Hall, even the library ramp and the "barn" doors on Zavitz Hall she passed just before entering the bookstore.

Not willing to give up her career goals, she enrolled in a three-month rehabilitation program with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto, but left in the middle of it to take a French-language immer­ sion course at Laval University in Quebec City.

When she went back to the CNIB, she met Barry Dalrymple, who had also lost his vision because of diabetes.

"It was wonderful to have him there," she says. "He knew exactly how I felt, and that was important to me." His em­ pathy now benefits students at CNIB, where he is a rehabilitation teacher.

Tanner-Dalrymple worked in the CNIB public relations department for the next four years. She co-ordinated a public education program, went on the lecture circuit to raise awareness about the abilities of visually-impaired and blind people and gave tours of the CNIB facility. "It shocked some people to meet a blind tour guide," she says.

A month before she was to be mar­ ried, she learned she would need a kid­ ney transplant. Her brother Scott became the donor. . During her recuperation, she began looking for a Canadian company that needed the expertise of a conference co-ordinator. "I had to approach a large company to ensure that there would be enough work to keep me busy and interested."

One of the most unfortunate results of blindness is a loss of spontaneity, but the couple make up for it through careful planning. They plan every detail of their lives, from where to store a new pair of shoes to choosing a hotel for a holiday in the Bahamas.

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"Working in the kitchen or just get­ ting around the house could be dis­ astrous if wedidn't return everything to its place after use," Tanner­ Dalrymple says.

They rely on friends who visit every Monday evening to read the mail, match socks and go through the grocery flyers . In return, Tanner­ Dalrymple volunteers for the CNIB as a lecturer and a member of its client service and summer camp committees.

The couple are sports enthusiasts and can be found with their dogs, Jade and Tabby, at many of the Blue Jays home games. Like many other spec­ tators, they take a radio and enjoy the

cheering crowd, the smell of popcorn and the sound of the bat when it hits the ball.

They also enjoy swimming, skiing and music, and both love to travel. "It's important to be part of the scene in­ stead of being left out," says Tanner­ Dalrymple. Their enthusiasm is an inspiration to many of their sighted friends.

Tanner-Dalrymple believes it's im ­ portant to set goals and work w~th determination to reach them. By her own example, she challenges others to decide what they really want out of life and not to settle for anything less.

NETTING REWARDS FOR

THE FISHING INDUSTRY

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isheries scientist Geoffrey Hurley got his first job with Canada's East Coast fishing industry because he was bilingual - he could speak both English and Spanish.

When Canada extended its offshore jurisdiction out to the 200-mile limit, it was faced with the problem of monitoring a greater number of foreign fishing vessels .. . most of them Cuban and Russian. So in 1978, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans CDFO) hired two biologists who had the technical expertise and the needed language skills.

One of them was Hurley, a 1973 zoology graduate of the College of Biological Science who also had a master's degree from the University of Toronto and two years' experience working in Guatemala.

He had gone to Latin America in 1975 to learn Spanish, but got in­ volved in an earthquake relief pro­ gram and eventually stayed to set up a Canadian-sponsored fish culture pro­ gram in a remote village where over­ fishing had depleted lake stocks.

At DFO's Halifax branch, Hurley helped establish an observer program to monitor fishing vessels off the coast of Nova Scotia, then moved to the department's research facility in St. John's, Nfld., where he became known for his studies of squid.

These "insec ts of the sea" ha ve been the subject of folklore and social gatherings for severa l generations of Newfoundland fishers, but there was little understanding of how they spawn or why they would suddenly descend like locusts into New­ foundland waters, creating a flurry of activity in the fishing ind ustry and giving cause for numerous squid­ jigging parties.

Hurley was one of the first biologists in the world to reliably age squid, discovering that their life span is limited to a few months. After hatch­ ing off the coast of the Carolinas and Virginia, the larvae develop as the Gulf Stream currents bring them north. Here, the mature squid move in­ shore, especially around New­ foundland.

Their abundance varies from year to year, but when the squid popUlation is high, a gold- rush atmosphere reigns among the local fi shing community.

Most Newfoundland sq uid are frozen or dried for export to Japan.

St imu.1ated by an interest in busi­ ness, Hurley left DFO in 1980 to be­ come director of planning for one of Newfoundland's major fishing firms.

He was responsible for the fleet strategy of 32 offshore trawlers.

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timately brought the project to a halt, says Hurley. There were also some serious con­ cerns that pitted economic benefit against changes in lifestyle.

"The bridge may have been a boost to commerce and tourism," he says, "but many local people feared the development of a Coney Island mentality." Like his own family , many Maritimers love the ferry ride to P.E.I. Hurley's wife, Teresa, is a native Nova Scotian. They have four children and live in Cole Harbour, outside Dartmouth. The Maritime landscape provides inspira­ tion for Hurley's hobby of photography, which has netted him several amateur awards.

Both an appreciation of Photo by Image 4 Photography the Maritimes and his professional interest in fisheries have led Hurley to of several fishing companies and develop some real concerns about the Hurley opted for private enterprise, future of Canada's fishing industry. starting his own consulting firm in "Our resources could be better 1981. managed if they were not over­ Based in Halifax, H urley Fisheries managed," he says. He estimates the Consulting Ltd . specializes in fishery­ value of the past year's catch at $1 .3 related projects in development, en­ billion dollars, with management/ vironment, resource analysis and monitoring/deterrent programs cost­ aquaculture. Most recently, Hurley has ing about $700 million. managed DFO'sScotia-Fundy Ob­ "In some years, the cost of govern­ server Program, a $3-million-a-year ment management programs is as high project that employs 70 full-time ob­ as the value of the resource," he says. servers who board foreign and domes­ tic fishing vessels to monitor the Hurley would like to see a new sys­ tem developed that would enable DFO number and species of fish caught and to monitor the catch onshore and collect scientific data. wouldn't penalize fishers for providing Hurley Consulting has also good data. If a fisher reports only two provided independent advice to com­ out of three loads hauled in to avoid mercial fishing companies on govern­ penalties, then the data that govern­ ment stock assessments; conducted ment is working with to develop quality inspection of seafood products management strategies and set quotas and fish-processing plants, designed is skewed. hatcheries and evaluated the impacts He says it would be better to of commercial activities such as the reward fishers for their use of new construction of offshore oil-drilling ngs. technologies and practices that are en­ vironmentally sound.

Hurley worked for both Public Quotas are a necessary manage­ Works Canada and the P.E.I Fishermen's Association to assess the ment device, he says, but the number potential effects of the proposed New of fish caught may not always be as important as the location and timing Brunswick /P.E.I. fixed link. of the catch.

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come slowly, says Hurley, because boats and equipment are expensive, and traditions are deeply entrenched.

But he contends that better long-range environmental planning is needed and would provide more protection for Canada's fish resources than the cur­ rent deterrent program , which takes a fire-fighting approach.

Environmental concerns will playa major role in his own company's fu­ ture plans, he says, and through his work for industry and government, he hopes to contribute to the effort to make environmental considerations a top priority.

CULTIVATING A SECOND CULlURE

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high school trip to Expo '71 in Osaka, Japan, planted a seed of interest in Michelle McMillan that has grown into a deep appreciation of Japanese culture and a business ven­ ture that is motivated by her desire to study Japanese culture and art.

Ki Design imports traditional Japanese wares for wholesale distribu­ tion and retail sale in a small shop lo­ cated in an old stone foundry in downtown Guelph. It's a fitting home for a company that is Canadian dis­ tributor for Iwachu handmade cast­ iron tea ware, cookware and decorative items from Japan's Iwashimizu family foundry.

Japan is one of the few countries in the world where fire cast-iron ware is still made with traditional sand and clay moulds, says McMillan, a 1977 graduate of the College of Social Science.

"The business lets me maintain a connection to Japan,"she says. 'l1's wonderful to have a connection to the other side of the world, to know people there and to work with them . It makes me realize how small the world reallyis."

Now in its fourth year of operation, Ki Design also imports tools and pots for bonsai, the art of dwarfing trees and shrubs, and for ikebana, Japanese flower arranging . Every spring, the store's back room becomes a class­ room for instruction in bonsai.

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McMillan is a member of Guelph's university-based bonsai club and is one of the principal organizers of what has become an annual bonsai show at The Arboretum . The group is planning a two-day event Sept. 21 and 22 that will include bonsai exhibits and workshops, along with Japanese drum­ ming, dancing and demonstrations of Iaido, classical Japanese sword fighting McMillan's business takes her to a number of cultural events in Ontario, and she belongs to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto.

The Japanese community in Canada is very open, she says.

"Part of their mandate is to share their culture, and they are proud of the fact that there are many non-Japanese people who are part of their com­ munity."

She is a student of cultural history, her interest fine-tuned by several years of museum work. Simply by following her instincts, she has accumulated a broad experience in this field. ''I'm like a mole that burrows along underground in what feels like a good direction, then suddenly pops its head up and decides to stay for a while."

McMillan started her under­ graduate degree in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario, but an interest in clothing design led her to take a year off to apprentice as a pat­ tern drafter in Toronto's clothing in­ dustry. She went back to school at Carleton University, but quit again to enrol in a three-year program in

museum technology at Ottawa's Al­ gonquin Community College, specializing in exhibit design and preparation.

That course gave her practical curator training and summer jobs in a number of Ontario museums, includ­ ing Ottawa's National Museum of Man, the McMichael Canadian Collec­ tion in Kleinburg, The Log Farm at Bells Corners and both the Simcoe and Wellington County museums.

McMillan resumed university studies at Guelph, finishing the third year of the Algonquin program by cor­ respondence at the same time. In 1977, she earned both a bachelor's de­ gree in sociology and anthropology and a diploma in museum technology.

A student placement at the Wel­ lington County Museum turned into a full- time job tha t lasted two years.

Then in 1979, McMillan became assis­ tant director of the Guelph Civic Museum. Her job was to look after the collection, design and build exhibits, co-ordinate the volunteers and super­ vise other staff.

She was also responsible for educa­ tion programs. "It's important that both children and adults feel welcome and comfortable in their museum," she says.

For McMillan, the joy in museum work lies in the co-operative spirit that pervades it, the excitement of learning something new and the chal­ lenge of using artifacts instead of words to tell a story.

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Although no longer working full time in the field , she still does freelance work for museums and his­ torical projects. With her husband, Tom Wood, a carpenter at U ofG, she designed and built the museum gallery in Toronto's SkyDome.

The gallery traces the history of the site, which is actually land reclaimed from the lake. It's been common in many cities to extend the shoreline as a way of making room for expansion, McMillan says.

In many cases, garbage has been used as fill , so the "Under SkyDome" gallery displays bottles and dishes and some unique pieces such as an English spy glass and a French cannon that were excavated from the former gar­ bage dump and lake bottom . The property was al so the site of Toronto's first pumping station.

What's next for McMillan? She wants to spend some time in Japan to study the Japanese iron-casting in­ dustry, expand Ki Design to offer more educational programs and help establish a permanent bonsai collec­ tion in southern Ontario.

MAKING EVERY

MINUTE COUNT

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hen a reporter asks Alberta's Grant MacEwan for an inter­ view, he usually says something like: "Why do you want to write about me?

I can tell you someone who's more in­ teresting."

And then he might provide the would-be interviewer with a list of names - mostof them western pioneers and many of them people he has written about himself.

MacEwan is an incessant writer, and at age 88, he's got a lot to write about.

As a young man, he seemed a like­ ly candidate to carryon the farming traditions of his pioneer parents, but in­ stead he went on to excel in many ' other careers. He was a university professor, dean of agriculture, editor of the Western Producer, Liberal MLA, provincial Liberal leader, mayor and lieutenant-governor. He's still an author, newspaper columnist, Gu elph Alumnus

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environmentalist, community leader and man of many ideas.

"He's always got a li st of things waiting to be done," says his daughter, Heather Foran, of Calgary. "{ never try to keep track of his sc hedule."

MacEwan lives by a strict moral code and embodies a healthy respect for nature that ste ms fro m a childhood spent on the fam ily fa rm near Bran­ don, Man ., and later Mel fo rt, Sask. He earned his way to Gu elph to attend OAC by tending a boxcar fu ll of cattle along the way.

"Shorty" - he stood about six - foot­ four - played basketball a nd hockey a nd made many lifelong friends at G uelph. Agnes Wharry, Mac '26, and her late husband , Jim, OAC '26, of Peterborough, O nt., were two of them.

Ag nes Wharry's Guelph yearbook, signed by Shorty MacEwan , graces the archives at Edmonto n's G rant MacEwan Community C ollege, in recog nilio n o f the pride his classm ates felt when the new in stitution honored the then lieutenant-governor at its opening in 1971.

MacEwan earned OAC's dipl oma in 1923 a nd a bachelor's degree in 1926. He won a feJlows hip to take his master's at Iowa State College of Agriculture and later earned five honorary degrees from the universities of Alberta , Calgary, Manitoba , Guelph and Saskatchewan.

He began his career as an assistant professor at the University ofSas­ katchewan , later becoming dean of men and director of the agricultural school. It was during these years that he met and married a local schoolGu elph Alumnus

teacher, Phyllis Cline, who was to be­ come his closest compa nion for the next 52 years, until her death last fall.

On their honeymoon , M acEwan wrote his first book on anim al husbandry.

The young couple moved to Win­ nipeg in 1946 when MacEwan be­ came dean of agriculture at the University of Manitob a. It was here that a long and successful political career began in defeat. He ran for the Liberals in a 1951 federal byelection and lost.

When a new job took him to Cal­ gary, MacEwan was persuaded to try municipal politics. This time, he won.

While still an alderman, he went on to the Alberta legislature and served as Liberal leader. He lost his seat in 1959, but continued to serve on Calgary's city council and later be­ came one of the city's most popular mayors. His philosophy "Never ride when you can walk" kept him in close contact with his constituents.

Already a n accomplished author, MacEwan left the mayor's chair after three years to write full time, but the reclusive period didn 't last very long.

He was named Alberta's lieutenant­ governor in 1966 and chalked up more than 65,000 kilometres a year during the two terms he served. He was, and still is, a popular figure, as evidenced by the honorary degrees, the accol ades and the dozens of public appeara nces he still makes each year.

MacEw a n writes a regular column - now in its 35th year - for the ­

Calgary Herald and is working on his 49th book . . . about a nother of those western pioneers he says are more in­ teresting than he is. He began to write popular history books in the 1950s be­ cause he thought C a nadian children needed Canadi a n pioneer heroes to emulate instead of American legends like Davy Crockett.

Some of his own heroes include Crowfoot, the Blackfoot Indian chief who signed the historic Treaty Num­ ber Seven; James Walker, a North West Mounted Police officer during the early 1900s; and Marie Anne Lagimodiere, the first white woman to settle in the C a nadian West.

MacEwan finds it difficult to name modern-day heroes. In his Herald column, he reaches into Canada's his­ tory to find the kind of "honest" leader­ ship and foresight that could be used today . Conservation is a favorite theme as he encourages stewardship ­ of our natural resources, in our economic policies and among our political leaders.

Stewardship is also a theme in MacEwan 's own life. He 's a vegetarian and avid gardener who favors a good, long walk to the public library a nd never turns down the op­ portunity to promote his self­ appointed role as one of God's caretakers. According to his biog­ rapher, R.H. Macdonald, MacEwan is "no ordinary man" - he takes the time to m a ke every minute count fo r the future .

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS

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fCanada is serious about its "Green Plan" for protection of the environ­ ment, then Canadians need to know exactly what's happening to our climate, land, water and wildlife resources, why it's happening and what we can do about it.

Sheila McCrindle, a 1983 chemistry graduate of the College of Phy sical Science, heads a team of en­ vironmental analysts who are finding a nswers to those questions. The results will be published this fall in the federal government's State of the Environ­ m ent Report for Canada.

Environment Canad a is charged with producing a comprehen sive na­ tional report every five years, and it's a publication that's sorely needed, says McCrindle.

"If Canadians are going to reduce the amount of waste they generate, then they need details on how much waste is generated and wh at it is com­ posed of."

The 1991 report will estimate the quantities and types of household and industrial wastes generated in Canada, why they are produced and what steps are being done to start reducing them. l7

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"1 think there will be a few surprises," McCrindlesays. "Pollution control has come a long way and, in many cases, the levels of industrial pol­ lutants will be surprisingly lower despite an increase in production."

She thinks the changes can be at­ tributed to a new attitude of co-opera­ tive stewardship in the industries involved.

Other chapters of the report that deal with the problems of habitat depletion, ozone depletion and climatic change will show that these situations are becoming even more critical, she says. Canadians may be alarmed to find that only a tiny frac­ tion (3.5 per cent) of what they think of as vast wilderness is protected from exploitation.

The report will link human ac­ tivities to the environment, covering such topics as mining, fisheries, agriculture and urban settlement. It will also present regional case studies describing current environmental con­ ditions in areas like the Great Lakes Basin, the Arctic and the Prairies. And it will analyse some of the major en­ vironmental issues of the 1990s ­ toxic chemicals, waste management ­ and their implications for society .

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lication are recommendations for en­ vironmental policy. McCrindle'sjob is to report on the "state" of the environ­ me nt, not the "state as it should be."

She thinks it's important that her agen­ cy provide unbiased information that everyone can rely on.

The environment report may not make the best-seller list, but it will be widely used by government leaders, decision makers in business and in­ dustry, researchers, educators and many advocacy and environmental lobby groups.

McCrindle has been part of the state-of- the-environment reporting program since its inception in 1988, after working five years for Environ­ ment Canada in toxic chemical management.

Born in Scotland, she came to Canada in 1970 when her father ac­ cepted a teaching position at U of G. Prof. Robert McCrindle is still on faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The younger McCrindle enrolled at Guelph because of its environmental focus. She had planned to continue in graduate studies in toxicology, but found she had a talent for writing and project management.

In 1989, she accepted a position

that involved compiling a report on the health effects of acidic air pollu­ tion for Health and Welfare Canada, but returned to Environment Canada to work on the 1991 report.

McCrindle has also co-authored a book on endangered species of wildlife in Canada. Published last fall

by Western Producer Prairie Books in Saskatoon, the book is beautifully il­ lustrated with color photos and paint­ ings, but tells the painful story of the more than 79 species of Canadian wildlife that are threatened or in danger of extinction. Every year, al­ most a half dozen more are added to the list.

Available in most bookstores for $29.95, the book's principal authors are freelance writer Sandy Burnett and Chuck Dauphine of the Canadian Wildlife Service. The material is based on research conducted by the Commit­ tee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

Despite the large numbers of en­ dangered wildlife, the book does give an optimistic outlook for at least two species - the white pelican, which has been removed from the list, and the wood bison, which was down listed from endangered to threatened.

But happy endings for Canadian wildlife and the environment's resour­ ces won't continue to happen unless everyone gets involved, says McCrindle, a self-professed nature lover. When she's not hiking or canoe­ ing with other members of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, she's riding her horse, Chata­ qua, exploring the nearby Gatineau Hills or practising in the dressage ring.

She works in Hull, Que., but lives in nearby Aylmer with her four-year­ old daughter, Shonagh.

An important feature of McCrindle's home is the backyard compost pile. It's also important to her agency's"green office" campaign.

She and her co-workers recycle al­ most everything, including lunch scraps. "We can't have a compost pile in our high-rise office building, so we share the disposal duties."

Sharing resources is what recycling is all about, says McCrindle, and that's what all Canadians will have to do if they want to see the story on the state of the environment rewritten Photo by GregShaw before the next report in 1996.

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DRAWING ON THE IMAGINATION

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ost of us doodle, some of us even . draw, but few of us have the im­ agination or the technical ability needed to transform a doodle-pad dog into a big-screen movie star . .. in living color.

Once considered the domain of children, animated films are now win­ ning the appreciation of adult audien­ ces. Original music, special effects and the voices of the stars may bring people into the theatre, but it's the memorable personalities of the animated characters that keep audien­ ces coming back for more.

The growing popularity of animated films has created oppor­ tunities for talented artists like Robert Cowan, one of the animators who breathed life into a roguish German shepherd named Charlie Barkin and a lonely little girl named Anne-Marie in last year's hit motion picture All Dogs Go to Heaven .

At the Sullivan Bluth production studios in Dublin, Ireland, Cowan produced many of the 130,000 final drawings that made up the film.

Precision and persistence are crucial qualities in an animator, says Cowan, who began drawing as a hobby in childhood.

Originally from Thorold, Ont., Cowan graduated from the College of Arts in 1971 with majors in English and philosophy, earned an education degree at Brock University and taught elementary school in St. Catharines for five years before enrolling at the On­ tario College of Art in Toronto.

He spent a year learning about design, composition and color theory, then went back to teaching while freelancing as an editorial illustrator for the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun. At the prospect of "actually earning a living by drawing," Cowan gave up his day job in 1984 to work full time as a background artist on television's "The Ewoks." He had worked on several animated programs and two Carebears films when he attracted the attention of Sul1ivan Bluth Produc­ tions, one of only two producers of classical animation in the world.

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Character drawing by Robert Co wan for

All Dogs Go to Heaven The American company's studios are located in Dublin at the invitation of the Irish government - tax breaks in return for jobs.

Classical animation is a difficult art form. Drawings must be dynamic and interesting in themselves, but succeed one another flawlessly to create a per­ fect illusion of movement. "Precision is almost as important as creativity," says Cowan.

Yet the artist cannot let the left brain's insistence on perfection inhibit the right brain's spontaneity, he says.

"When that happens, the result is a flat, uninteresting drawing. So the realm of imagination must take precedence over the ability to draw in detail. All detailed drawings start out as rough drawings, and all rough draw­ ings are born of the imagination."

More than 1.5 million individual drawings were needed for All Dogs

Go to Heaven, which tells the story of a little orphan whose astounding ability to talk to animals leads her and dog Charlie on a canine adventure.

Audiences warm quickly to the win­ ning personalities of Charlie and Anne-Marie, as well as Charlie's dachshund sidekick, Itchy, the coward­ ly mongrel, KiJler, and beautiful Flo, the collie. Their voices are those of Burt Reynolds, Judith Barsi, Dom Le­ Luise, Charles Nelson Reilly and Loni Anderson.

People love animated characters most when they accurately mimic human nature. So the animator's task demands keen skills of observation, an analytical mind and a knack for caricature.

Cowan believes the most important elements of any film, whether animated or live-action, are story structure and character development.

"Audiences will forgive a great deal in a film as long as the story and char­ acters keep them interested," he says.

To this end, he becomes an under­ study to every character he works on .

To convey the anguish Charlie feels when Anne-Marie's tears are tugging on his heartstrings, Cowan acted out the scene to discover the gestures and facial expressions best suited to it. "In that sense, the animator identifies him­ self with the character's personality."

Since Dogs, Cowan has done some special-effects animation, designing and animating abstract elements like fire and water. He has also worked on a yet-to-be-released film, Rock-A­ Doodle, which depicts a rooster called Chanticler as an Elvis Presley type of singer. He's currently involved in a film called A Troll in Central Park, to be followed by Thumbelina.

Away from the drawing board, Cowan and his wife, Judy, fiJI their lives with real-life family adventures.

Their sons, Joel, 2, and Matthew, five months, provide the plot; the Irish countryside provides the scenery.

Bringing real life to the movie screen is what animation is all about, and it can be as much fun as you think it must be. Cowan animated himself in a one-second cameo appearance in All Dogs Go to Heaven. Look for him in the night street scene as a bathrobed man awakened by a chorus of howling canines.

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Alumni Weekend, June 21-23 University. Tour Alumni House and take a look at the transformation of a building 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

that was first constructed as Registration Lambton Hall

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a sheep barn and is now the centre of alumni business on In a departure from the tradi­ campus. tional barbecue, start your weekend with an informal 9 a.m. - Alumni association pasta dinner at Creelman annual meetings Hall.

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Alumni Weekend '91 presents a slide show with music and narrative that will entertain alumni of all ages.

Who was president of U of G when you graduated? How did you feel at convocation?

What was your favorite song during your university years?

Sixty ,:years of memories, his­ torical happenings and music will be captured as alumni and friends tell their stories from 1931 to the present.

Gather as a class or come on your own to experience one of Alumni Weekend's newest features.

9 p.m. - Observatory tours

Reach for the stars during an evening tour through the University's observatory.

Mac /FACS ­ HAF A Room 209 OVC-OVC Room [438 OAC­ Macdonald Hall Room 149 CSS - MacKinnon Room 305 HAFA - Alumni House boardroom (II a.m .)

9:30 a.m.

Sio-pitch tournament

9:30 a.m.

Guided nature walk at The Arboretum Experience the flora and fauna of The Arboretum.

Tours start at Alumni House and are sponsored by the CBS Alumni Association.

10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Guided walking tours

Visit your old haunts, see how the campus has grown and absorb the University's atmosphere. Guided tours will begin at Lambton Hall , or you ca n pick up a self­ guided tour booklet. To ar­ range special class tours, contact Alumni House one month in advance.

Noon - Alumni picnic

One of the most popular events at Alumni Weekend, the outdoor picnic brings many alumni together. ft's held on Creelman Plaza and Johnston Green. Come on your own or reserve a group of tables with your class­ mates. Reservations are re­ quired . .

Noon - Class reunion lunches

Reunite a team of friends and classmates for a day of slo­ pitch at the south quad diamonds. The innovative rules ensure a hilarious game - even for those unlikely to crack the major-league lineups. Gryph's Lounge and the Brass Taps will be open for after-the-game get­ togethers, or join other alum­ ni at the Alumni House barbecue.

OAC '31 Mac '36 OAC '36 Mac '41 OAC '41 Mac '56 0 Mac '71 Food Science '81 Noon - OVC luncheon

The OVC Alumni Associa­ tion will host a luncheon open to all OVC alumni and their guests.

2 p.m. - Lecture

by Audrey McLaughlin The Engineering Alumni As­ sociation will host Canada's NOP leader. She will speak in Guelph's new lecture hall in the engineering building.

2 p.m. - Campus showcase

SATURDAY 8 a.m. to S p.m.

Registration Lambton Hall 9 a.m. to S p.m.

Alumni House tours

See how your generosity as alumni has enhanced the

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A focal point for Saturday afternoon. Come marvel at the $24-million Axelrod fos­ sil coIlection or encounter na­ ture at the display of live birds of prey from OVC's Wild Bird Clinic. Experience the history preserved in the library's archives and get in ­

formation on continuing education courses offered by the University. Campus Junc­ tion and the University Bookstore will have memorabilia on display and will offer free coffee.

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Golden anniversary dinner

Complimentary tickets are provided for alumni celebrat­ ing 50 years of graduation or more. Additional tickets can be purchased. Classes being honored are OAC'21 , MAC '2I,OVC '21,OAC '26, MAC '26, OVC '26, OAC '31,Mac '31, OVC '3 1, OAC '36, Mac '36, OVC '36, OAC '41,Mac '41 and OVC'41.

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A casual get-together at Alumni House is planned for those not involved in a class reunion dinner.

6 p.m.

Class reunion dinners

Special dinner reunions are planned for OAC '46, OVC '5 I, OAC '51, Mac '56, OVC '56, Mac '61, OVC '61 , OAC '66, OAC '76, OAC '76 A, OVC '76, FACS '81, Eng. '81 and OVC '81.

SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. - Church service An ecumenical service will be held in War Memorial Hall.

11 a.m. - UGAA annual meeting The UGAA alumni planning

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Also available are alumni directories, at a cost of $30, and John de Visser's pictorial essay The University of Guelph - A Campus Porlrait at $35.

For more Alumni Weekend '91 information, call Alumni House at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6657. committee witt be asking alumni to vote on a mandate for change at the meeting.

Everyone is encouraged to "meet for the future" in Room 149 of Macdonald Hall.

Segal. At 12:30 p.m., the prestigious Alumnus of Honour award and the Alumni Medal of Achieve­ ment will be presented.

II a.m. - Farewell champagne reception

Artisl Bob Hamilton has captured th e beauty ofyour alumni home on campus ­ Alumni House - in this limited edition prinl. I I will be a vailnble during Ihe weekendfor $30, unframed.

A departure from the annual brunch, this year's final event for Alumni Weekend will be a Creelman Hall reception with U of G President Brian

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From cake mixes to the Cold War,

the Ontarion has covered it al

The Ontarion celebrates 40 years of keeping students informed

by Marla Konrad

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n the 1950s, the College Royal queen smiled demurely from the front page. By the 1960s, the smile was replaced by angry comments from student demonstrators, Communist sympathizers and anti-war activists.

The 1970s saw headlines that prevailed on the authorities to legalize marijuana . By the 1980s, student ac­ tivism had turned to the Cold War, seeking peaceful solutions to a seem­ ingly inevitable conflict.

And as the Ontarion celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the Univer­ sity of Guelph student newspaper still aims to fulfil its original mandate - to

keep students on this ever-growing campus informed.

Back in 1951 when the paper's first edition came out, keeping students in­ formed about campus life included reporting on the social activities of the students' wives club and publishing the results of research projects.

The lead story in the March 29, 195 I, issue showed OAC students wielding picks and shovels in the base­ ment of Massey Hall to make way for a student lounge. Another story sum­ marized the findings of a research project that compared commercial mix cakes with homemade.

Over the years, the paper has changed, reflecting changes on cam­ pus and in society, as well as the in­ dividuality of each new editor.

Former members of the Ontarian's editorial staff have settled across the country and as far away as Maryland, North Carolina and London, England.

Some have stayed in the writing profession, but most ha ve followed careers in other fields.

They include a veterinarian, a professor, teachers, private consult­ ants, a farmer, a city mayor, govern­ ment employees, homemakers, a CEO and a landscape architect.

The Ontarion 's first edilOr, Doug Robinson, and th e present editor, Fiona Christenson.

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'53, who was also involved with the paper from the beginning, thinks the name emerged because Ontario was the one common word in the names of OAC and OVc. But whatever the derivation of the name, she agrees the purpose of the paper in those early years was to be "a common force to the three colleges, to tie the campus together."

After graduation, Clutton taught school and did some hospital dietetics, then became a librarian I I years ago.

She still works at the public library in Burlington, Ont. Norry spent most of her career as a schoolteacher and now supply teaches in her home town of London.

Owen Slocombe, OVC '6 1, who was editor-in-chief in 1959, returned to his alma mater as a professor in the Department of Pathology after a four­ year veterinary practice in his Doug Robinson, OAC '53, looks homeland of Trinidad and Tobago and back fondly at his stint as the four years at Cornell University earn­ Ontarion's first editor-in-chief. "Back ing a PhD. then , the student newspaper was like a Brian Turnbull, OAC '61, who sat social club," he says. But it was a social at various editing desks in 1959, now club with a cause. Working with a Ges­ sits at the mayor's desk in Waterloo, tetner machine, Ontarion staff put out Ont. "In my day, there was not a lot of a weekly paper to keep students up to espousing of causes," he says. "The On­ date on campus news and events. tarion published a combination of Robinson's career path has kept reporting and entertainment." him in the communications business.

One of the highlights ofTurnbull's For years he had his own motion pic­ year as news editor was a train trip he ture company, doing productions for and Jim White, OAC '61, took out the agricultural industry. Now he West with the National Federation of works on campus as manager of the Canadian University Students. While Soil and Water Conservation Informa­ there, the two budding journalists tion Bureau. came in contact with another univer­ He still reads the Ontarion oc­ sity newspaper editor, Joe Clark of the casionally, but claims it has changed University of Alberta. almost beyond recognition. "Now it's "Back then, Clark had a reputation become an instrument for activism as a radical, controversial editor, al­ that doesn't necessarily reflect the stu­ ways stirring things up," says Turnbull. dent body. I guess it comes from the Back in Guelph, White, too, stirred need to say dirty words in print." up plenty of controversy in his year as Two theories exist about the . editor-in-chief. After reprinting a story naming of the Ontarion. According to from McGill's student newspaper Jean (Davis) Norry, Mac '52, who about a professor and a prostitute, worked alongside Robinson as Mac­ White was called in to see the presi­ donald Institute editor, the paper's dent. name came from the idea that OVC, "The story had got McGill's editor OAC and Mac might one day become fired, and some alumni suggested they the University of Ontario. should replace me as well," he recalls.

"So many of the agricultural, veteri­ White wrote another controversial nary and home economics colleges in article after a summer trip to the the United States had been named Soviet Union. "What I Like About after the states they were in," she says.

Communism," printed in pink type, "The name Ontarionjust evolved since stirred up a lot of comments and upset we thought for some time that that's a number of people. In it, he wrote: what was going to happen."

"We in the West are too soft, con­ tented, corrupted and fat to realize But Fran (Gosnell) Clutton, Mac

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how decadent our society has be­ come."

The following week, White redeemed himself by printing the other side of the story. "What I Don 't Like About Communism" appeared in the editorial spot in blue typeface, assur­ ing readers that "although our system still has many shortcomings, defects and discrepancies, it is considerably su­ periorto Communism."

White says he saw his mandate as "encouraging broader thinking on cam­ pus." Following PhD studies in com­ munication at Michigan State University, he moved into the consult­ ing business and now runs his own agricultural consulting company in Brampton,Ont.

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Sixties

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lola Price, Mac '63, took the reigns of leadership as the Ontarion's first female editor in the fall of 1962.

"Women hadn't really taken such a role in campus activities before," she says. "Editors almost always came fromOAC." Price says the Ontarion was a "friendly newspaper" in the early 1960s. "It was probably considered radical, but not as radical as I would like to have seen."

She now works for the Department of Fisheries as director of aquaculture and resource development, where her writing skills are put to good use edit­ ing and producing science papers.

Jim Rusk, OAC '65 and M.Sc. '70, was editor-in-chief from 1963 to 1964. He recalls pulling many all­ 23

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From politicians to pop stars

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Top. left to right PielTe Trudeau; Elton John; a 'Ta ke

Back the Night" demonstration.

Bottom left to right: Gryphons win the Vanier Cup;

Princess Anne visits Guelph

nighters producing the paper just before deadline. It wasn't so much a lack of time, he says, "but we were pretty much amateurs. There wasn't much professionalism of design or technique."

Rusk has come a long way from his amateur days at the Ontarian. Today he works in the Queen 's Park bureau of the Globe and MaiL. His 20- year career with the paper has taken him from farm writer to economics writer to bureau chief in Beijing.

His memories of the Ontarian are good ones. "The mandate of the paper was whatever the editor made of it," he says, "and] was controversial. ] was al­ ways raising issues that nobody wanted to talk about."

Rusk recalls getting hold of a list of private homes offering room and J:>oard to students and noticing that a couple of homes on the list stated "whites preferred." He says his headline "Racism Here" and the editorializing 24

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He so outraged members of the stu­ dent body and administration that one man "picked me up by the jacket lapels and shook me," and an anonymous student "kept sending me little boxes of horse turds in the cam­ pusmail."

By 1970, when Alan Ricketts, Arts '72 and MA '73 , took over as editor, "the Ontarian was very much the counter-establishment sort of news­ paper," he says. "At that time, anything that was anti-government seemed logi­ cal."

Ricketts himself was very much a part of the counter-establishment movement on campus, even after his stint as editor ended. When the FLQ crisis hit, Ricketts and an Ontarian col­ league decided to print a special two­ page bulletin containing the FLQ manifesto -- illegal under the War Measures Act -- and to drop hundreds of copies from a plane over a Saturday homecoming football game.

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Ricketts isn't sure what happened ­ whether the printer read the bulletin or whether the head of security at Guelph caught wind of the plan - but the next thing he heard about the bul­ letin was from a Vancouver Sun reporter who called an Ontarion staf­ fer at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, asking why the RCMP had seized the material from the printer.

"This all took place before Laporte was killed," says Ricketts. "At that time, the seriousness of the FLQ crisis hadn't really sunk in."

His radical reporting days ended when he left the On/arion and went on to receive a PhD in Canadian poetry from the University of Alberta. Now he does some critical writing in the Canadian poetry field, but makes his living in advertising.

When Paul Maurice, Arts '70 and MA '72, took the editor's job in 1971, his mandate was one he describes as "seeking political honesty and truth," although he admits some students on campus sa w the Ontarion as "radical '--------garbage."

"There was always a sort of feeling Now working for the Fergus bureau of that the paper was trendy and radical the Guelph Daily Mercury, Melanson - doing the '60s thing. I never saw says he prefers being a reporter to myself as that, but a lot of our writers being an editor. "As editor, you have to were. I invited controversy." balance so many fine lines," he says.

Maurice has continued to write Yet, his year as Ontarion editor was poetry, drama and short fiction since "a good learning experience." While he his Ontarion days, but has made a was there, the paper's mandate was "to living as an English teacher and now give the community the news they works in London, Ont. Lou (MacPhail) needed to know, to be interesting, to Fedorkow, BA '80, ODH '81, says the On­ tarion"changed my life." From her year as news editor, she recalls a dynamic crew, 100­ page issues and lots of staff-generated writing.

While she worked for the paper, Fedorkow also had a children's book published by McLelland and Stewart.

These days, her writ­ ing talents are focused on newsletters and speeches for the On­ tario Potato Growers Marketing Board, where she works as ex­ ecutive assistant.

Dan Melanson, Arts '89, opted for a career in the news business.

A selection of issues fromfour decades of the Ontarion.

The Eighties

and Nineties

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be as close to a newspaper as it could be and still be a place for intellectual discussion."

Melanson believes today's Ontarion doesn't place such a high priority on news. Rather, the emphasis is more on opinion pieces.

"We tried to be objective," he says.

"I wanted the Ontarion to reflect the majority opinion of the student body and not necessarily the loudest voice."

While editor, Melanson guarded carefully against using the newspaper as a vehicle for expressing his own views. "People are not always inter­ ested in your opinion. The paper's pur­ pose is to serve the community, not to advocate in the community."

The Ontarion 's current editor, Fiona Christenson, says her mandate is "to come out with a product that stu­ dents can take pride in. It's the students' paper."

In a recent editorial, she wrote: "The nice thing about the Ontarion is the fact that if you don't like what we are doing with the paper, you can volunteer to help change it. ... It's your paper. ... We are in the enviable position of being one of the few com­ pletely autonomous student news­ papers in the country."

With four decades of journalistic talent behind them, today's Guelph stu­ dents have a rich heritage. And, says Christenson, "it's quite an accomplish­ ment that it's still a growing concern after40 years."

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M

y warmest appreciation goes out to our hard-working volunteers and the donors who COD­ tributed to the success of our annual fund. The level of giving reflects a genuine concern for the University on the part of alumni, faculty, staff, friends, students and parents of stu­ dents.

One of the major goals of the 1990 annual fund was to increase the level of scholarship dollars by 25 per cent. This goal is now a reality - all Alma Mater Fund and OAC Alumni Foundation scholarships will be increased this year by 25 per cent. We will contimue to emphasize the importance of scholarships in attracting students to Guelph and in enabling them to have the quality education they deserve.

Last year for the first time, parents were asked to contribute to library acquisitions. This program was most successful; 572 parents contributed $31,500 to buy books.

Each book will bear a bookplate designating the Parents' Program as donor.

A special thank you to the Un iversity's faculty and staff, who donated more than $58,000 in 1990, an increase of about $23,000 over 1989.

For the first time in five years, undesignated funds will be avail­ able for special University projects.

Applications come to the AMF Ad­ visory Council through college deans.

I am proud of our achievements here at Guelph and I would like to thank my colleagues on the ad­ visory council for their time and effort. On their behalf, thanks to all of you who were so generous and supportive in 1990.

Sincerely,

How your gifts

were designated

27.9%

Scholarships & Bursaries

$363,217

21.7%

17.8%

11% 7.5% 4%

Pet Trust/ Dynasty $282,139

AMF Priority $232,248 Research,

Equipment

& Buildings $143,080 Class Projects Stud;~t scholarships were an AMF $98,166 priority in 1990.

Memorial

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$51,540

0.3%

3%

Athletics $39,628

1.7%

Arboretum $34,266

Academic Emichment $22,407

Library $32,783

OACAlumni Foundation

(direct donations) $4,504

Special thanks to: • Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council

representatives

• Class agents • College representatives • Donors

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Alumni House mortgage paid off

Gordon L. E. Nixon, OAC '37 Chair, AMF Advisory Council Gordon Nixon admires the marble­ topped conference table donated to A lumni House by a A C '37. Other boardroomfumishings were donated by OA C '34 and '36.

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ANNUAL REPORT

Matching gifts

Matching gifts multiply the value of your gift to the University. If you work for a matching gift employer, every dollar you donate is matched - doubled or even tripled - by a company gift. It's as easy as it sounds, so check with your employer on procedures to follow. [n 1990, 30 companies matched 67 individual gifts to Guelph , for a total of $8,510. We appreciate this support.

• Akzo America Foundation • American Home Products Corp.

• Arthur Anderson & Co. • Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Inc. • The Bank of Montreal • Bell Northern Research Ltd. • Campbell Soup Co. Ltd. • The Coca-Cola Company

• Digital Equipment of Canada Limited

• Dow Chemical Canada Inc. • Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. • Glaxo Canada Incorporated • IBM Canada Limited • ICI Canada Incorporated • The Noranda Foundation • NOV A Corporation of Alberta • Pfizer Canada Inc. • Pioneer Hi -Bred Limited • Procter & Gamble Inc. • Prudential Insurance Company of America • Raytheon Canada Limited • Rohm and Haas Canada Inc. • Spar Aerospace Limited • Square D Canada • Syntex Inc. • Torstar Corporation • Tremco Limited • Upjohn Co. Animal Health Division • Upjohn Company of Canada Ltd. • The UPS Foundation

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Total giving

Arts

5,005

173

3.5

9,042

CBS

6,213

312

5.0

17,036

CPES

2,361

176

7.5

15,803

CSS

7,787

414

5.3

25,538

FACS

3,852

449

11.7

18,357

HAFA

1,193

124

10.4

5,473

551

57

10.3

8,914

LA Mac-Degree

1,035

226

21.8

17,208

Mac-Diploma

1,433

333

23.2

37,402

OAC-Degree

9,738

1,744

17.9

209,098

OAC-Diploma

3,694

468

12.7

30,354

580

85

14.7

3,300

4,017

777

19.3

97,692

OAC-ODA, ODH OVC USRPD

89

3

3.4

175

910

95

10.4

5,191

48,458

5,436

11.2

500,589

5,840

1,701

29.1

282,172

Faculty/ staff

1,593

231

14.5

58,592

Corp/fdn / assn

5,193

418

8

462,622

61,084

7,786

12.7

1,303,978

Engineering Total Alumni OTHERS F riends/ parents

Total Annual

:, ~ ~

Who gave to Guelph in 1990?

Annual fund ­ $1,303,978 Alumni

.....

$500,590

Faculty, staff

.. 58,593

Friends, parents

. 282,173

Corporations, foundations, associations

.462,622

Other giving ­ Capital and

Special Gifts $8,8 87, 101

Government . $ 3,230,000 Corporations, Foundations, Associations 2,752,303

.2,258,698

Alumni .646,100

Other

TOTAL $10, 191,079

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ALlTMNI

Make your vote count at Alumni Weekend Alumni will be asked to approve a plan to streamline the structure of the University of Guelph Alumni Association at its an­ nual meeting June 23.

Proposed by the UGAA pl annin g committee, the pl an also includes a state­ ment of the associa tion's miss ion and ob­ jectives, and proposals for the

establishment of an alumni adv isory coun­ cil and a task force to investi ga te funding.

The UGAA board ado pted the prin­ ciple of the proposed structure at its March meeting, says committee chair Marg Hedley, Mac '64 and M.Sc. '8 1. And the board accepted the proposed mission state­ ment for UGAA - "to sustain and strengthen the Universi ty of Guelph and its constituent groups through culti va tion of alumni co-operation and involvement."

Under the new plan, the number of board members will be decreased from the current 37. By red ucing the number of rep­ resentatives from each alumni associa tion , the board will make room for new alumni and student groups to be represented.

To strengthen the poli cy -m akin g function of the board's exec utive com mit­ tee, members will represent the total UGAA body rather than individual alumni associations durin g their terms.

The plan also call s for clearly defined terms of reference and accou ntab ility for both alumni volunteers and Univ ersity staffin Alumni Affairs and Community Relation s. And it ca ll s on the UGAA com­ mittee structure to pl aya grea ter role in planning and co-ordinating ac tivities and in de veloping poli cies, with board meet­ ings reserved for management and policy deci sions.

If ado pted , the pl an will be imple­ mented in th ree phases, beginning with the proposa l to streamline the board of direc­ tors. Pha se 2 would see the development of the adv isory council. With membership spread througho ut the world, the council would add a global perspective to UGAA policy decisions.

Phase 3 would investigate the feasibi lity of the UGAA becoming finan­ cia ll y se lf- sufficient.

Alumni artists honored

Treat yourself to a special dining experience at the

Whippletree Restaurant Licensed under LLBO Reservations 519-767-5035 Located on the 4th Roor, University Centre, near the north elevators.

Three alumni were among the award win­ ners at the Macdonald Ste~wa rt Art Centre's 10th annual Viewpointsjuried ex­ hi bi tion in Feb ru ary. The Guelph Creative Art s Association Award went to Ralph Beney, Arts '75 , of Fergus, for his fabri c co nstruct ion Quiet is the Night, Soft is the Breeze. Renata Fitzgerald, Arts '73, of Guelph rece ived the Wellington County Brewery Aw ard for her painting Doney's Ditch, and Annette Dyon, Arts '76, of Orton , won the Bookshelf Cafe and Cinema Award for her painting Talisman.

A time for all seasons More than 200 sun lovers ga thered in North Port , Fla. , March 6 for the annu al alumni picnic. Two thousa nd miles to the north , other alumni were waxing their ski s for a day at Ontario's Horseshoe Resort near Barrie.

Fl orida picnic speakers included OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin, OAC '69 and PhD '77; Jack <;aII in , OAC '47, chair of the UGAA's Alumni-in-Action Commit­ tee; Judy Phillips, project co-ordin ator of The Village by the Arboretum; and Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, director of Alumni Affairs and Community Relations.

Organizers included Hel en and Don Moffatt, OAC '46, Norma and Maurice Wiancko, OAC '39, and Mary and Ted Brent, OAC '48.

Meanwhile, alumni sk iers took to the slopes Marc h 11 for a da y of family ac-

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tivities that included ski races and an out­ door barbecue.

Race winners were Steve Overholt , hus­ band of Carole (Chwalka), FACS '80, Keith Hankinson, CBS '79, his son Greg and guests Bryon and Trevor lones.

Association news This fall, the Mac-FACS Alumni Associa­ tion will conduct a survey to evaluate the continuing education needs and interests ofMac-FACS alumni. The results will help formulate a continuing education strategy. To finance the project, the as­ sociation will not hold its traditional education seminar at this year's Alumni Weekend . The association meets lune 22 at 9 a.m. in Room 209 of the HAFA build­ ing. A tour of the college and the dean's refurbished office will follow.

The OAC, Mac-FACS and CSS alum­ ni associations entertained graduating stu­ dents and their class executives this spring to help acquaint them with association ac­ tivities. The Mac-FACS group combined their reception with the students' ring ceremony.

Sports-minded members of the OAC association attended the annual bonspiel April 5 and 6 at the Guelph Curling Club and are looking forward to a golf tourna­ ment scheduled for Sept. 6 at Guelph's Victoria Golf Course West.

The CSS association held a coffee and dessert reception March 21. Guest speaker was Prof. Terisa Turner of the departments of Political Studies and Sociology and Anthropology. In-course student scholarships were also presented.

Chapter events Calgary and Edmonton - Alumni from these two cities met in February with University host Chuck Cunningham, who was participating in an out-of-province ad­ missions liaison program .

About 28 alumni gathered in CaYgary at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel, where they enjoyed campus memories as told by Lawrence Ogilvie, OAC '21, and a visit with HAFA professor lohn Patterson, who was also in town. Janet Hutchinson, CBS '79 H .K., was the local organizer.

The Edmonton event was sponsored

by Molson Breweries, through the efforts of recently retired vice-president Harley Deeks, OAC '50, and his wi fe, Barb, Mac '48. The local contact for Edmonton alum­ ni is Juanita Olson, CSS '74.

London - Forty-five people turned out for the London, Ont., chapter mystery din­ ner Feb. 16. After they discovered "who Guelph Alumnus

did it" they decided " who will do it" for next year. The 1991 /92 executive commit­ tee is Linda Chanyi, CPS '69, president; Jodi Stanley, CBS '88 H.K., vice-presi­ dent; Judy Stewart, Mac '67, secretary; Doug Beswick, CBS '88, treasurer; Mary Lynn Redmond, F ACS '84, past president; and George Burkholder, OAC '74, and Marg Smillie, Mac '64, members at large.

The new executive is already planning a summer picnic. Watch for details in the mail.

Ottawa - In January, the chapter held a bonspiel at the Richmond Curling Club with a turnout of 50. Members are now planning a 50th-anniversary chapter din­ ner for late summer or fall. Watch for details.

Notable notes The Class of Mac '60 celebrated its 30th an niversary with a reunion last May in New York City. About 15 members at­ tended the weekend excursion, which in­ cluded touring, dining, shopping and attending a show. The highlight was din­ ner at the home of Fran (Murray) Gizis.

Last year's Mistletoe Pub was a great success, with more than 300 alumni in at­ tendance. Alumni Affairs would like to ac­ knowledge the generous donation from OAC '81 A and all those who attended the party. This year's event is scheduled for Dec. 6.

Vanier champs score hockey success Calling themselves the Vanier Cups, a team of ex-Gryphon football players from the 1984 Vanier Cup team took the cham­ pionship trophy at last December's U of G alumni hockey tournament. They defeated the Dipper Oldies in a well-contested game, says organizer Peter Walsh, OAC '81. The OAC '82 team won the consola­ tion round against the Grey Gryphons.

Sixteen teams played in the fourth an­ nual alumni tournament. Many are al­ ready planning for the [991 games, which run Dec. 6,7 and 8 in the twin-pad arena.

The co-ordinating committee hopes to see 20 teams in this year's event. Teams should send a representative and $325 entry fee to a campus organization meet­ ing Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Athl etics Centre lounge.

For more information, calJ Brian Tapscott, OAC '81, at 519-842-2185 or 767-3115 or Laurie Graham, FACS '87, at 519-824-4120, Ext. 2160.

COMING

EVENTS

May 13 - The HAFA Alumni Association will host a professional development seminar on 'The Development of Success" at 6 p.m. at the downtown Board of Trade

Centre. For information , call Paul

Buchanan, HAFA '85, at 416-756-9056.

June 14 to 16 - The Class of OVC '71 will meet at the Bayview-Wildwood Resort.

Contact Joan Gough, 519-674-5456.

June 17 to 19 - U of G's Department of Family Studies presents the 13th annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sexuality. Workshop topics will focus on improving relationships in the 1990s.

June 21 & 22 - Alumn i Weekend! See pages 20 and 21 for a complete schedule of events and alumni association annual meetings.

July & Aug ust - Alumni will host send-off parties for students in their home towns who have enrolled at U of G. To participate in your area, call Betsy Allan, 519-824­ 4120, Ext. 6533.

July 26 & Aug, 4 - Canada's National Youth Orchestra will perform two free public concerts in War Memorial Hall during a two-month stay at U of G. The University will be home base for the orchestra's summer training session and concert tour, wh ich will take it to com­ munities across southern Ontario. To reserve tickets for the Guelph performan­ ces, call the UC box office, 519-824-4120, Ext. 3940.

July 5 t08 - Grant MacEwan, OAC '26, will serve as honorary chair of the 75th-­ anniversary celebrations at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary.

Anyone interested in attending should con­ tact the SAlT alumni office at 403-284­ 7010.

Sept. 6 - The OAC Alumni Association holds its annual golf tournament at Victoria Golf Course West in Guelph.

Sept. 21 - OVC will host the second annual Pet Trust Super Match dog show on cam­ pus. For information on showing your dog, contact ProShows at PO. Box 119, Princeton , Ont. NOJ 1VO, 519-458-4518 or 416-283-2653.

Sept. .2 7 to 29 - HOMECOMING! Sept. 28 - The annual general meeting of the Human Kinetics Alumni Association is tentatively scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the School of Human Biology lounge.

Oct. 31 - OVe's 1991 Schofield Memorial

Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Peter

Doherty, chair of the department of im­

munology at St. Jude Children's Hospital in

Memphis, Tenn., at 3 p.m. in War Memorial

Hall. The topic is cell-mediated immunity,

and the lecture is open to the public without

charge.

Nov, 2 & 3 - OAC '81 A, mark this date for a

class reunion. Details coming in the next

issue of the Guelph Alumnus.

Nov. 5 - The OAC Alumni Foundation holds

its annual scholarship dinner at The Ar­

boretum Centre.

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Arts

Michael Westhead, '84, is a surveyor in North Carolina. He and his wife, Janet, had their second child last October.

CBS

David Airdrie, '82, is a writer for The Medical Group in Mississauga, Ont. David Anderson, '80 H.K., lives in New­ market, Ont., with his wife, Heather, and their children, Amber and William. He is a chiropractor at Davis Chiropractic Clinic.

Actors, musicians and song writers David Archibald, '76, and James Gordon, '75, are touring schools and children's festivals in Canada with their new musical, Jim and Dave '5 A wesome Environmental Adven­ ture. It's about two boys whose summer vacation plans are thwarted by the sorry state of the environment. During the skit, Jim and Dave find poisoned fishing holes, garbage-covered campsites and deforesta­ tion, and they vow to mend their ways and turn themselves into environmental crusaders.

The one-hour musical is their first col­ laborative venture, although Archibald has wrilten music for"SesameStreet" and Gordon is known as a member of the folk group Tamarack. Promoting their musical is Sue Richards, CSS '84, of SG B Produc­ tions in Guelph.

The duo says the idea for Jim and Dave's adventure came from a desire to teach kids about environmental degrada­ tion and what they can do to help stop it.

So far, they've taken the message to more than 15,000 schoolchildren in Ontario.

Derin Aylin, '87, is a technical manager in product development for Procter and Gamble Co. in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been working in Europe for three years and says he'd like to hear from former classmates. "I would be a willing guide to anyone who might wish to see the beauti­ ful, 'unspoilt' Mediterranean coast."

Nancy (Forbes) Blake, '80, is a speech and language pathologist at Mico College CARE Centre in Kingston, Jamaica, where she lives with her husband, Balfour.

Linda Boot/and, '82 and PhD '90, is a postdoctoral research associate in microbiology at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Her current research involves the study of a fish virus, its molecular biol­ ogy and life cycle in salmonid fish.

Gordon Devries, '82, operates Naturescape Ltd., a landscaping company in Cobourg, Ont. Jim Empringham, '7 I, is superintendent of schools for the Oxford County Board of Education. He and his wife, Charlotte (Whitehead), FACS '72, live in Woodstock, Ont., where she is a microwave cooking consultant.

Ronald Berlett, '75, is an enrolment agent for University Scholarships of Canada and owner of Berlett Tax Consultants in Listowel,Ont.

Susan Farlinger, '74 and M.Sc. '77, is a management biologist in marine species for the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Prince Rupert, B.C.

Stephen Coopman, '89, is associate direc­ tor of the Solar Stage Northstar Theatre in North York, Ont.

Spencer Greenwood, '87 and M.Sc. '90, is a doctoral student in the department of biochemistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

MaUhewHenry, '86, MA '90 and CBS '86, and Florence Rodwell, Arts '88, have moved to Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, N. W.T. Matthew teaches grades 7, 8 and 9; Florence is working as an adult educator for Arctic College.

Alison Taylor , '87, has been working in Toronto for four years as a community relations field officer for Ontario Hydro.

She plans to marry John Palmer May 2:' and move to Ottawa.

Christian Varela, '83 and MA '85, lives in West Vancouver, B.C., ar,d works as a freelance translator.

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John Gunn, PhD '87, is a biologist for the Ministry of Natural Resources co-opera­ tive fisheries unit in Sudbury, Ont. His wife, Kristen (Adamson), Arts '87, is co­ ordinator of a workplace literacy program for the Sudbury Board of Education's con­ tinuing education centre.

Gayle Jesperson, '82, is a plant pathologist for the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. She is married to Bon Wah Choo, CSS '84.

David Lewars, '86, is a production super­ visor for Nestle Enterprises in Brockville,

Ont. He and his wife, Barbara (Edwards), OVC '86, live in Kemptville.

Robert Lipman, '88, and his wife, Beatrice (Hoekstra), OAC '88, are living in Cal­ gary. He is a senior real estate appraiser for Linnell Taylor and Associates.

Catharine (Cook) McDermid, '77, is an in­ come maintenance officer for the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Ser­ vices. She works in Owen Sound and lives in Port Elgin with her husband, Murray.

Mary Power, '85, is a technician with the department of microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Richard Procter, '80, says he may dust off his old Guelph biology notes someday, but for now he's enjoy­ ing his work as a computer consultant in Sydney, Australia.

He's on contract to a large investment and insurance com­ pany, AMP, but also does freelance work. After five years in Australia, he says he feels out of touch with family and friends and "things back home in Canada." But he and other Canadian ex pa tria tes recen tly had a sm all reunion with Jane Siberry, '79, after she performed in a Sydney bar.

Ross Rains, '74, is director of the Navigators of Canada, a Christian or­ ganization serving university students on

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Canadian campuses. He and his wife, Sandy, live in London, Ont., with their four children and look forward to hearing from classmates and U of G friend s.

Fred Raynor, '86 H.K., is a certified or­ thotist in the prosthetics/orthotics depart­ ment of West Park Hospital in Toronto.

Last September, he married Cathy O'Neill, CBS '86.

CPES

Heather Gordon, PhD '90, is a visiting fel­ low at the National Resea rch Council of Canada's Institute for Biological Sciences in Ottawa.

Mathias Haun, '86 and CSS '86, earned both a bachelor of sc ience degree in ap­ plied chemistry and a bachelor of arts de­ gree in international development from U of G in the sa me year. He is now a lab tech­ nologist with the Canadian Red Cross Society in Ottawa.

Lawrence Jackson, '68, has been ap­ pointed president and chief executive of­ ficer of Brewers Retail Inc. He was formerly president of a large packaged goods company.

Aye Kyaw, M.Sc. '71, ha s been appointed deputy director of the Burma Medical Re­ search Institute in Rangoon, Burma. He is currently on leave at the Centre for Dis­ ease Control in Atlanta, where he is prepar­ ing to set up a pilot-scale hepatitis vaccine project in Burma.

Geoffrey Oliver, '84 , lives in Kitchener, Ont., and works in Waterloo as a program­ mer analyst for the Lutheran Life In­ surance Society of Canada.

Bruce Ramsey, '80, M.Sc.'84 , has com­ pleted his PhD in molecular genetics at Carleton University. He is working in the Marine Gene Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifa x.

Deborah Richmond, '89, teaches chemi stry and biology in Kitchener, Ont., for the Waterloo County Board of Educa­ tion.

David Truman, '72, is a proj ec t manager for Telecom Canada in Ottawa.

Nova Woodbury, '83, is senior marketing analyst for CN Rail in Toronto.

CSS

Karleen Burke, '86 , has moved to Toronto after working in marketing in Montreal for four years. She is now employed by Zim­ mer of Canada Ltd . as a customer service representative for two of the company's medical supply divisions.

Brian Cozzarin, '87 and OAC M.Sc. '90, is in the policy branch of Agriculture Guelph Alumnus

Alumnus returns to campus Don Ziraldo, OAC '71, president of Inniskillin Wines, was entrepreneur-in­ residence at U of G during the fall semester. He spoke to students and facul­ ty and gave a public lecture on entrepreneurship in the 2 I st century.

Ziraldo has won a number of awards for his business achievements, in­ cluding a U ofG Medal of Achievement, an honorary degree from Humber Col­ lege and a Canadian Business Achieve­ ment Award from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

He is also president of !nniskillin Napa Vineyards Inc., Ziraldo Farms and Nurseries 1971; a director of the Wine Council of Ontario, the California Opimion Vineyards and the Canadian

Canada's market outlook and analysis division. He and his wife, Rhonda, live in Embrun,Ont. Mark Davidson, '8 3, is a financial analyst with Pill sbury Canada Limited in Willow­ dale, Ont. Brad Henderson, '84, is a chartered ac­ countant with Ontario Hydro. His wife, Doreen (Spiteri), F ACS '84, is nutrition program manager for the City of Scar­ borough .

Douglas Jennings, '78, and hi s wife, Bev Juno, Arts '79, live in Winnipeg, where he is business development manager for IBM Canada Ltd. Stephanie Lynne Machel , '9 0, is special as­ sistant to Perrin Beatty, federal mini ster of health and welfare, in Ottawa. She also has two sisters studying at Guelph - Carla, who is in her first year at OAC, and Heidi, who has just completed a four-month as­ signment in Africa for Canada Youth Out­ reach. Last spring's convocation was a happy occa sion for grandparents Margaret and Arthur Rusnell , OAC '49, of Klein­ burg,Ont. Tannis Maynard-Langedijk, '89, writes from Vancouver to say that she remembers great times at U of G and is looking for­ ward to a Guelph visit. She is now working as a maintenance technician for Van Her­ ricks Environmental Planting, but plan s to become a primary schoolteacher. She'd like to make connections with other Guelph alumni in Vancouver.

Karen Pitblado Ludwig, '88 and MA '89, ha s been appointed researcher/lecturer at the Human Development Council for a joint project to anticipate the health-care demand s in 10 years of an aging popula­ tion in St. John, N.B. The project is spon­ sored by the city, the Centracare .

Foundation and the University of New Brun swick , where she continues to teach.

Photo by Davi d Thomas

Wine Institute; chair of the Vinter's Quality Alliance; and treasurer of the Niagara Falls Brewing Co.

Helen Murphy, '82, has been appointed vice- president and treasurer of PolyGram Holding, Inc . Murphy joined the New York firm last March as vice-president of inves­ tor relation s.

Sheila Wachta-Milne, '86, lives in Toronto with her husband, James, and works as a freelance writer.

Maureen Morris, '76 , is manager of busi­ ness development for the B.C. Ferry Corp. in Victoria .

Pensa Roleas, MA '87 , has been named chief of the research and development unit at the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea.

Laurie Ross, '85, is project supervisor for Quaker Oat s Co. of Canada Ltd. She and her husband , Richard Cadman, Iive in Bowmanville, Ont. Daniel, '82 , and Brenda (Fawns) Smith, '8 I , live in Sault Ste Marie, Ont., where he is shift supervisor at the Northern Treat­ ment Centre.

Teresa Tummillo-Goy, '86, went on to earn a law degree from York Universi ty and is now articling with Shortt Hanbidge Snider Mitchell in Waterloo, Ont. Patricia Vandermaas, '85 and MA '87, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto.

Mac-FACS

Karen Cressman Anderson, '82, and her husband, Craig, live in Montreal, but are working for a year in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Mennonite Central Committee interim country representatives. They have worked for MCC in Burkino Faso and Brazil.

Mary Ballantyne, '83, has been named director of services for the Children 's Aid Society of Simcoe County. She and her hus­ 3/

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band, Paul Rabinov itch , a lawyer, live in

Barri e, Ont. Th ey have two children .

Sue Broadley, '75, is head of the famil y

studi es department at East Elgin Second­

ary School in Alymer, Ont.

Catherine (Mahon) Brown, '86, is a parent­

al support worker fo r the Ontario Region

of Waterloo Soc ial Services. She and her

husba nd , Bruce, li ve in Waterloo.

Heather Burrow, '85 , is working with

Fro ntenac Youth Services in Oshawa , Ont.

Sandra (Far rell) Chow, '87, is attending

teacher's coll ege at the University of

Toronto. She and her husband, Stephen,

li ve in Ham ilton .

Susan Cochrane, '75, is vice-president in

charge of marketing a nd consumer ed uca­

tion for Tambrands Ca nada Inc. in

Willowdale, Ont. She was director of

spec ialty products for Best Foods Inc.

John Cunningham, '76 HAFA , is a

so ftw are co nsu ltan t for lC. Computer Ser­

vices in Kitchener, Ont.

David Dias, '87 HAFA, is a sa les repre­

sentati ve for Procter and Gamble Co. in

Toronto. He is married to Patricia

Sponder, '86 HAFA , who is director of

sales for the Horseshoe Resort Corp. in

Barrie. They li ve in Bradford.

Donna (Luce) Gracey, '60, is head of the

family studies department at Humberv iew

School in Bolton, Ont. She is married to

Charles, OAC '58 an d MSA '59, a panelist

on the Ca nadia n Internatio nal Trade

Tribun al in Ottawa.

Linda (Strong) Johnston, '61, work s as a

cl erk for Reve nue Canada in Ottawa. Her

husba nd , William, OAC '59, is audit direc­

tor for the auditor ge neral of Canada.

They Jive in Ashton.

Anne (Mathieson) Loesch, '83, li ves in

Gloucester, Ont., with her husband , Randy .

She works as a hos pital food se rvices of­

ficer at Ca nada's National Defence Head­

quarters.

The Wispa and WispaJong hoists from Waverley Gle n have been engineered to ease both the strain, and the worry, associated with the lifting and traversing of disabled and elder­ ly persons. Sturdy enough to withstand the rigors ofprofes­ sionaluse, these simple-to-con­ trollift systems also are ideal for use in a private home.

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For more information about the Wispalong Lift Systems, contact:

Waverley Glen Systems Ltd. 2700 Dufferin St., Unit 81 Toro nto, On tario M6B ~3 Telep h on e : 416­ 784-0128 Outside Toronto area, call Toll-Free 1-800-265-0677

lola (Walker) Potter, '36, is retired a nd

lives in London, Ont. , with her husba nd,

Joseph .

Angela Saunders, '88 , is a medical repre­

sentati ve responsible for marketing phar­

maceuticals in Barbados for Sterling Drug

Intern ational. She plans to visit Ca nada in

September.

The Canadian Swim Coaches of Ca nada

have na med Marion (Cormode) Sweet­

man, '65 , 1990 coach of the yea r for her

accomplishments with the Lightningbolt

Swim Club in Lindsay, Ont. She was

selected Ontario fema le coach of the yea r

in 1989. Among the swimmers Sweetman

coaches is her daughter, Nancy, who won

a go ld meda l in the 200 -metre individual

medley at the 1990 Commonwealth

Games and another at the LEN Interna­

tionals in Rome . Coaching from th e stands

Cu e/ph Alumnus

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is Sweetman's husband, George, OAC '65 , who practises dentistry in Lind say.

Deborah Wetmore , '75, is man agi ng direc­ tor of Wetmore Financial Programs in Tokyo, Japan.

Britta Wright, '89, is a teacher at the U of G child-care centre. Her husband , Peter, HAFA '90, is manager of the Olive Garden Restaurant in Mississa uga.

Colleen (Ball) Zavrel, '83, works for the Children's Aid Society of Kingston and Frontenac County. She and her husband, Peter, Arts '85, live in Godfrey. He teaches at Leslie McFarland Elementary School.

OAC

Reginald Balch, '21 A and '23, was recent­ ly named to the Hall of Fame of the As­ sociation of Registered Professional Foresters of New Brunswick. He was recog­ nized for hi s contributions to the science and practice of forestry and his pioneer re­ search on the biological problem of pest management. Born 96 years ago in England, Balch ca me to Canada to be a cowboy, but got ajob milking cows in­ stead. He served in the Canadian Field Ar­ tillery in the First World War, then enrolled at OAC. After graduating, he earned a master's and doctorate in forestry at Syracuse University. Balch wa s ap­ pointed officer in charge of federal en­ tom ologica l research for the Maritime provinces in 1929 and later became direc­ tor of the forest biology lab in Fredericton.

He was responsible for a successful project in pest management that introduced a num ­ ber of parasites and a virus to control the European spruce sawfly.

Amarinder Bawa, '83, teaches and does resea rch in food technology at Punjab Agricultural University in Lud ­ hiana , India. He joined the uni ver­ sity in 19 85, after two years as a scientist at the Amarinder Bawa Central Food Tech­ nologica l Resea rch Institute at Mysore. His researc h papers on meat science and technology have won two national awards.

Byron Beeler, M.Sc. '63, was elected vice­ pres ident of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair last year for a two-year term . He has been a fair volunteer since 195 8. Yice­ president of the agricultural division at Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., Beeler is also president of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists. He chairs the public affairs com mittee of the Crop Protection Institute of Canada and serves on the exec utive of the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame.

Guelph Alumnus

Guelph grads form nucleus of research team

Radioacti ve waste that is a byproduct of nuclear power production ­ and what to do with it - is the concern of seven Guelph graduates who work for the research division of Atomic Ener­ gy of Canada Ltd. (AECL). The graduates, along with other sc ien­ tists and support staff, work in the environmental science branch From left to right: Malcolm Stephenson, Brian Amiro, Roxana of AECL's Roshon, Keith Reid, Lyn Ewing, Glen Bird, Marsha Sh eppard alld Whiteshell Steve Sheppard.

Laboratories in Pinawa , Man. Lyn (Tibbles) Ewing, CPS '68, is a Their job is to determine what will hap­ technologist who conducts experiments pen if nuclear waste - now stored safe­ on plants and so il s and how they interact ly at power reactor sites - is buried in sealed containers deep in the ground. with the atmosphere to produce or AECL has been tracking the move­ receive contaminant gases. She is also ment of contaminants through the bio­ the computer programmer for the atmos­ sphere si nce 1978. The job of the pheric research section.

Guelph graduates has been to Another technologist with a link to brainstorm all the possible pathways U of G is Roxana Roshon, who worked that contaminants might take from the at AECL until September, when she underground vault to the food chain. moved to Guelph to begin a PhD. Each of the Guelph graduates has a When the others have completed unique role to play in the team effort. their models, Keith Reid, CBS PhD '77, Marsha (Joynt) Sheppard, OAC PhD collects all the information and puts it '77, does experiments on a variety of into one co mprehen sive computer contaminants in systems as small as soil model, which si mul ates the flow from cores or as large as whole bogs, and the beginning deep in the ground to the does the soil modelling. lake or well , the ga rden or air, the food "Soil can be contaminated in many supply and, most importantly, to ways," she says. "The unique aspect of humans, then beyond to the environ­ our study is the underground source. My ment. job is to see whether contaminants Their results are being closely would come up from below if we buried monitored, and, so far, they are sa tisfied a waste disposal vault deep in the with the results. "[ approac hed the job ground." with a healthy skepticism about nuclea r Closely related to her research is waste," says Reid. "I was very concerned the work her husband , Steve Sheppard, with agric ultural and industrial waste at CPS '74 and OAC M.Sc. '75, does on Guelph," but most of my concerns have food chain modelling. "I track how been answered. radioactive materi als might move from "The waste is dangerous, there's no pl ants to animals and finally to humans," doubt about that," says Reid , "but there's he says. not a lot of it - less than I / IOOth of one Lake modelling and supporting per cent of the waste produced by coal­ studies are done by Glen Bird, OAC fired generators."

PhD '82, and atmospheric modelling by "Most people don 't realize that Brian Amiro, OAC PhD '83. Malcolm about 50 per cent of Ontario's electricity Stephenson, CBS '79, M.Sc. '83 and comes from nuclear energy," says PhD '86, studies the fate and impact of Marsha Sheppard. "And the nuclear contaminants in lakes, with particular waste from producing Ontario's emphasis on processes occurring in sedi­ electricity since the 1960s is only equal ments and the interface between the geo­ to the volume of one olympic swimming sphere and the biosphere. poo l."

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Steve Bennett, '4 lA and '43, send s a leiter full of grea t memories from his Guelph ex­ perience. Like many other yo ung men who ca me from the Caribbean to st udy at OAC, he travelled north with tropical cargo aboard a steamship and was good­ natured about the initiation duties given to the "frosh" during their first few days at the college. "It was a wonderful time and it pulled our Class of'43 tightly together," he writes. Bennett was a member of the boxing team and played right wing in soc­ cer.

"Yes, I wish I could reli ve those days ... the many weekends I spent with my fine student friends who invited me to their homes, the kindness and helpfulness of the great teac hers and professors. I am ever thankful to OAC and Canada , which pl ayed such a great part in influencing my ac hievement s in life."

Bennett went on to earn a veterinary degree from Colorado State Un iversity. He is retired from active practice, but con­ tinues to be involved in breeding and promoting water buffalo on the interna ­ tional market. Instrumental in eradicating tuberculosis in water buffalo in Trinid ad and Tobago, he also developed a hard y "mea t" strain ca lled Buffalypso unique to the is land. He ha s received numerous inter­ national awa rds for his work with wa ter buffaloes and has also been recognized for his work with thoroughbred horses in the Caribbea n. His daughter, Charlene, Arts '79, is also a U ofG graduate. They li ve in Curepe, Trinid ad West Indies.

Douglas Blakey, '71 , became principal of

Upper Canada College in Toronto Jan. I.

He has been on faculty at the COllege since

1975 , served as chair of the science depart­

ment, was vice-principal, academic, for

five years and senior boarding

housemaster of Seaton's for six years.

Dirk Booy, '78 and USRPD MA '88, is a

consultant in Arusha, Tanza ni a, for the

Christian Reformed World Relief Commit­

tee. The agency is involved in projects re­

lated to health, agric ulture, fi sheries,

grinding mills, biogas energy production

and water projec ts. Booy's work is sha red

by hi s wife, Joanne, and their two children .

Kitty-Jane (Welter) Bouma, '79 , and her

husband, Jerry, '76 and M.Sc. '77 , have

moved to Edmonton , where he has been

Western Canada mark eting manager for

the Shur-Gain divi sion of Ca nada Packers

si nce September 1990. She graduated last

October from Waterloo Lutheran Semi­

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Tom Bruulsema, '83 and M.Sc. '85, and

his wife, Bette-Ann, returned to Ancaster,

Ont. , after four yea rs in Banglades h wi th

the Mennonite Central Committee. Tom

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Ivan Buchan , '67 A, li ves on a 1~O-acre cash crop farm nea r Wood stock,Ont. He is a sa les repre­ sentative for Right Way Real Estate.

Cameron Clark, '53, vetera n of more than 30 years of overseas Ivan Buchan development work , was the subject of a feature article in the la st issue of the Guelph A lumnus, in which we incorrectl y described Peterborough, Ont. , as his home. Although originally from Peterborough, he now lives in Kingston .

James Connor, '43, and his wife, Norm a, live in Ormond Beac h, Fla. He is retired from Polk Com munity College, where he was director of Allied Hea lth and Biologi­ ca l Sciences.

Pat Crosscombe, '84, was recruited by CUSO in 1989 to work as a dairy exten­ sion officer for the Kampangsaen Dairy Co-operative in Th ailand .

Lloyd Curtis, '71 and M.Sc. '74, ha s been named business director of a new divi sion of BASF Canada Inc. that incorporates both the com pany's former ag ricultural and fine chemicals di vision s. He was pre-

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viously manager of the agricultural chemi­ cals division.

Steve Elder, '82 and CBS '78, was recently appointed director of the biomedical en­ gineering department at Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. Timothy Fretz, '81, has been posted to Washington, D.C., for two years as program director for the Mennonite Central Commit­ tee. In February 1990, he returned from 3 112 years Timothy Fretz in Ethiopia, where he worked with a team of expatriates and Ethiopians to develop local expertise in reforestation and soil conservation.

Mary Louise Grossman, MLA '90, has just returned to Ottawa after spending four months at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. She is an urban design assistant for the National Capital Commission.

Norris Hoag, '66, was appointed executive director of the education and research division of the Ontario Ministry of Agricul­ ture and Food last September. He is responsible for managing Ontario's five colleges of agricultural technology, the Horticultural Research In stitute of Ontario, the Ontario Agricultural Museum at Mil­ ton and the ministry's contract with U of G. He was previously director ofOMAF's

animal industry branch.

Steven Holmes, '87 A, and Jennifer Eastman, FACS '88, were married last winter. Steven is assistant superintendent at the Devil's Pulpit Golf Association in Caledon Village, Ont., and Jennifer is a product specialist for W.H. Brady, Inc. in Rexdale.

Leafond Johnson, '57 A, recalls his first OAC experience. He arrived from Jamaica at about 10 p.m. and was roused from his bed a few hours later by a group of sophomores who insisted that the first­ year students don OAC caps and ties and run into the city and back. "It was great fun," writes Johnson , who teaches science, accounting, Engli sh and agriculture at a secondary school in SI. Mary, Jamaica. He also operates a farm in his spare time.

Johnson says one or two of his three children may also study at U of G. "I really enjoy reading your alumni magazine and am .looking forward to visiting our great al ma mater soon."

Brigitte and Brian Kaufman, '84, have a new baby daughter, Stephanie, born in February 1990. The Woodstock, Ont., couple also has a son, Nathan.

Sara (Bond) McCreery, '87, married Liam, CSS '86, in May 1990. They are cash crop farmers near Woodstock, Ont., and she works for Well s Greenhouses and Landscape Services in Innerkip.

Robert, '67, and Marylyn (Clarke) Mc­ Roberts, Mac '67, live in Ottawa, where he is pastor at Calvary Baptist Church.

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David O'Drowsky, '86 A, is studying at the University of Vermont's school of natural resources, majoring in recrea tion manage­ ment. After graduation, he will return to Ontario to the operation of D E Landscap­ ing Inc. in Acton and Oakville, Windy Ridge Farms and Great Lakes Irrigation Contractors.

Hugh Pearson, '78 and M.Sc. '81, has moved from Hamilton, Ont., to Oxford Station to begin a teaching position at OMAF's Kemptville College of Agricul­ tural Technology. He is lecturing in plant science and horticulture.

Jean Szkotnicki, '75 and M.Sc. '80, was ap­ pointed executive director of the Canadian Animal Hea lth Institute last fall. Formerly assistant manager of the Ontario Cattlemen's Association, she also helped establish the Wholesome Food Council of Canada.

Parviz Shimi, '72 M.Sc., is a researcher at the Plant Pests and Diseases Research In­ stitut e in Tehran, Iran.

David Trudell, '77, has set up a consul­ tancy specializing in structural, civil and agricultural engineering in Markdale, Ont. Kenn Tuckey, '61, is provincial apicul ­ turalist for Alberta Agriculture. He and his wife, Joan (Kalbfleisch), Mac '60, live in Edmonton.

William, '79, and Sharrie Woodley, FACS '79, live in Stratford, Ont., where he is a dairy feeding specialist for the Shur-Gain division of Canada Packers.

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Ronald Austin, '67, of Winnipeg is a veterinary pathologist with the Manitoba Agriculture veterinary services branch. He is married to Doreen Dolchuk , an economics graduate of the University of Manitoba.

V.A."Harvey"Becker, '88, is practising at the Bracebridge Animal Hospi tal. His wife, Ellen, FACS '86, recently completed her education degree at Brock University.

Bob Curtis, '6 I , recently retired as first chair of the department of health manage­ ment at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island . He was a member of OVe's faculty for more than 24 years before taking the P.E.I. posi­ tion in 1985. Bob and hi s wife, Connie, welcome visitors, especi ally in the winter.

Garnet Hyslop, '47, is retired and lives in Dundas, Ont., with his wife, Jean.

Basillkede, '7 I , is a professor of mor­ phologic pathology at the Atlantic Veteri­ nary College, University of Prince Edward Island. Before he took thi s position in Oc­ tober 1989, he was professor and chair of the department of veterinary pathology at the University oflbadan in Nigeria .

George Joseph, '69, is senior veterin ary of­ ficer with the foreign diseases unit of the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industries and Energy in Canberra, Australia . He recently retired as deputy director of the Veterinary Research In­ stitute, Malaysian Veterinary Services, after 27 years and reloc ated in Australia with his wife, Kitty, to be close to their daughter Sarah, who studies in Canberra.

Robert Little, '50, is retired from Agricul­ ture Canada's health of animals branch in Medicine Hat, Alta. He and his wife, Marguerite, have five children. One son is a graduate of the veterinary college in Sas­ katoon and is practising in Drumheller.

In January, the Ontario Veterinary Medi­ cal Associa tion named Clayton MacKay, '70, Ontario veterinarian of the year.

MacKay practises small anima l medicine and surgery at the MacKay Animal Clinic in Whitby, Ont. He is active in organized

veterinary medicine and has held position s with the College of Veterinarians of On ­ tari o, the OYMA, the Canadian and American Veterinary Medical association s and the American Animal Hospital As­ soc iation. MacKay has also helped popularize the importance of veterinary medicine through his work as edi tor of a pet column in the Toronto Star and con­ sultant to CBC Radio Noon. He and his wife, Mary Lynn, have two sons. David is a student at U of G and Michael work s in Whitby.

Emmanuel Okeke, M.Sc. '77 , is assistant director of resea rch and production at the National Veterinary Research Institute in Vom , Nigeria, where he lives with his wife and four children. Okeke's research at Guelph involved the study of infectious bursal disease (18D), a virus that affects young chickens. When he returned to Nigeria, he helped develop an IBD vaccine that was commercialized in 1979. He would like to extend that work to the development of a polyvalent vaccine that would provide control of the disease around the world. His memories of Guelph include his first experience with a Canadian snowstorm and the "diligent guidance, encouragement and kind coun­ sel" of his faculty supervisors; Jan Thorsen, '55, and Bruce Wilkie, '65.

J. Bruce Parlia­ ment, '52, received the Canadian As­ sociation of Animal Breeders award of merit in September 1990 for his contribu­ tion to the develop­ ment and success of the Canadian ar­ tificial insemina­ 1.8. Parliament tion industry. As a regulatory veterinarian with Agriculture Canada's health of animals division, he has played a key role in developing rigorous health standards for Canadian Al centres.

Willard Persson, '40, was recentl y honored by the American Anim al Hospita l Association for outstanding service to the veterinary profession. Hospital director for

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After a decade of involvement in the development of the Equine Research Centre and four years as its first director, Russ Willoughby , '57 , retired from the centre last fall.

Paul Woods, '85, is doing double duty as a resident in small animal in­ ternal medicine at the University of Wisconsin's school of veteri­ nary medicine and a graduate student in the school's department of veterinary science.

1. Paul Wo ods The American Cancer Society recently gave him a grant to study the biophysical effects of radiant heat-induced whole-body hyperthermia in dogs.

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Scott Reid, '87 , and his wife, Fenella (Barclay), CPS '84, are enjoying thei r work as partners in the Dunnville Veteri­ nary Clinic in Dunnville, Ont.

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David Cartwright, '69, of Harvey, N.B., died in a traffic accident Oct. 24, 1990. He was acting chief biologist for the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resour­ ces and was recognized for his pioneering research into the toxic effects of PCBs on humans, wildlife and the environment. He is survived by his wife, Wendy, and two children.

Mac-FACS

Norma (MacPherson) Murrie, '40D, of Orillia, Ont., died Jan. 12, 1991. After serv­ ing in the Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1945, shejoined the YMCA World Ser­ vice Volunteers and served in Holland and Germany. She also served as YWCA direc­ tor in SI. Catharines and Long Branch, and was the first volunteer service co-ordinator for the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia.

Predeceased by her husband, Doug, she is survived by two children, Christy and John.

Carole Ann (Cochlan) Squires, '61 D, of London, Ont., died Jan. 25,1991. During her career, she worked as a home service consultant for the London Public Utilities Commission and was employed by the Western Fair and Raceway Association before moving to Kitchener 10 years ago.

Last summer, she returned to London , where her daughters, Susan and Vicky, live.

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Herbert Aitken, '34, of Mississauga, Ont., died Jan. 25, 1991. A charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists and a member of the Canadian Institute of Food Science, Mr. Aitken was retired from Ash­ ner Food Products Ltd. He is survived by his wife, Hannah, and children, Linda and Roberl.

John Arnott, 39 A and '42, of Orono, Onl., died Feb. 4, 1991. Formerly editor of Canadinn Beekeepin g magazine, he is sur­ vived by his wife, Margaret, Mac '41.

Joseph (narney) Gray, '23, of Kingston, Onl. , died Jan. 24, 1991, at the age of 99.

Before enrolling at OAC, Mr. Gray taught school in Saskatchewan and served in the Canadian Forces in France, where he was wounded in 1918. After graduation, he joined the Sun Life Ass urance Co. of Canada and remained there until he retired in 1957 as associate treasurer in charge of mortgages in Canada and the United States. He was predeceased by his first wife, Gladys, in 1948 and his second wife, Guelph Alumnus

MEMORIAM

Ruth, in 1976. He is survived by his wife, Geraldine, three sons and one brother, Leslie Gray, OAC '23, of Regina.

Wray Hartley, '31, of Norwich, Onl., died Dec. 27, 1990. After graduation from OAC, he took over the family dairy farm.

He was also actively involved in com­ munity work, was a school trustee and township reeve, and was a board member of the Norwich Credit Union , the Oxford Soil and Crop Improvement Association and the local branch of the United Co­ operatives of Ontario. Mr. Hartley also received a 50-year pin from the St. John's Masonic Lodge No.1 04. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and four children.

Albert Papazian, '42, of Winona, Onl. , died Nov. 12, 1990. Born in Turkey, he came to Canada as an orphan and was in­ dentured to a Dunnville area farmer. He was one of the few boys from Georgetown Orphanage to receive a postsecondary education. Mr. Papazian and hi s wife, Mary, farmed in Winona until a few months before his death. He was a Stoney Creek councillor for seven years and helped found the Georgetown Armenian Boys Association, the Sa It fleet Growers Co­ operative and the Winona Peach Festival.

He is survived by his wife and children, Sonya and Edward.

Mohamed Sharom, '70, M.Sc. '74 and PhD '78, of Guelph, died at McMaster Medical Centre Feb. 16, 1991, after a short illness.

He was an environmental affairs specialist for Du Pont Canada Inc. of Mississauga and is survived by his wife, Frances, CPS '75, an associate professor in U ofG's Department of Chemi stry and Biochemistry; two children, Jeffrey and Sofia; and six sisters in Malaysia.

A Mohamed Sharom Memorial Fund has been established at U of G and is being co-ordinated by Prof. Gerald Stephenson, Department of Environ­ mental Biology. Contributions to the fund should be made care of Alumni Affairs, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N I G 2W I. Grant Snyder, '22, of North Amherst, Mass., died Jan. 5, 1991 . He was retired from a long teaching career during which he headed the department of horticulture at the University of Massachusetts. Known to most of his students as "Prof.," Mr. Snyder received tributes from many who recalled his dedication to horticulture, youth and education and his concern for people and the world.

Mark Stephenson, '79A, of Belmont, Onl., died in a traffic accident Jan. 23, 199 I. He operated a dairy farm and is survived by

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his wife, Brenda, and three children.

Morris Yemchuk, '36A and '38, of Thunder Bay, Onl. , died Nov. 28, 1990. He is survived by his wife, Nellie.

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Thomas Maxwell , '55, of Brinston, Onl., died OCI. 13, 1990. A veterinari an at Bancroft Animal Hospital, Dr. Ma xwell was formerly supervisor of the medical laboratory department at Algonquin Col­ lege in Ottawa. He was a member of the OPP auxiliary force and was veterinarian for the police tracking dog. He was also in­ terested in farmin g and achieved pedigreed buckwheat seed status in Eastern Ontario receiving several awards for hi s efforts. H ~ is survived by hi s wife, Kathryn .

Howard Poulin, '38 , of Bellingham, Wash., died Sepl. 5, 1990. He served in the U.S. military for 27 years and saw duty in Europe during the Second World War and in Vietnam. Col. Poulin and hi s wife, Lucille, lived in retirement in Bellingham and Cathedral City, Calif.

Honorary

William A. Stewart, HDLA '76, of London , Ont., died Dec. 8, 1990. Former U ofG chancellor, Mr. Stewart played an integral role in the estab­ lishment of the University. As On­ tario mini ster of agriculture from 1961 to 1975,he Willinm A. Stewart sponsored the acts that estab­ lished U of G, as well as the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario and two schools of agricultural technology at Centralia and New Liskeard.

He served as chancellor from 19 83 to 1989, received an honorary doctor of laws in 1976 and was awarded a 25th anniver­ sary medal from the University in 1989.

The new wing of oves large animal facility was named in his honor in 1989.

Mr. Stewart also held an honorary de­ gree from the University of Western On­ tario. He wa s an honorary director of the Canadian National Exhibition and a mem­ ber of the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fam e. He is survived by his wife, Edyth , four children, 14 grandchildren and a sister.

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Cultures clash in Canada

From an interview with anthropologist Marc-Adelard Tremblay, Laval Univer­ sity, Quebec, who received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the Univer­ sity of Guelph in 1984.

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anada prides itself on being a multicultural society that is tolerant of many different ethnic groups, yet the country's "two found­ ing cultures" are still searching for a common ground.

As an anthropologist, I know that Canada's unity problems are not caused by an antagonism or flaw in human nature, but are the result of cul­ tural construct and the strong disagree­ ment between two cultures.

There are deep historical misunderstandings between English­ speaking and French-speaking Canadians. Since the Second World War, successive Quebec leaders have tried to regain provincial powers that had been lost to the federal govern­ ment during the war.

The rest of Canada has also tried to gain greater regional powers, but in 38

the West, the Atlantic provinces and Ontario - especially in light of the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement ­ regional interests have been very dif­ ferent from the interests of Quebecers, whose specificity has led them to seek exclusive powers in the fields of education, health, social services and communication.

I know many people don't like the expression "specificity," but this is what it is in cultural terms. As an anthropologist, I can't deny the fact that Quebec has a strong specific culture that differs from the rest of Canada. Seventy-five to 80 per cent of all Quebecers have a common origin and shared traditions.

If you ask a Quebecer what is the meaning of being a Quebecer, the first response will be: "My identity comes from my history." Second are the ways of life that create a same­ ness in society and in future aspira­ tions.

These three components - past, present and future - are all mixed into one single vision that is unique.

And people want to preserve that. It has become a basic, fundamental value.

To those anglophone Canadians who wonder why it's so important to Quebecers to preserve their French language and culture, I would say: "Ask yourself why you want to keep your own English language?" and they will have part of the answer.

We want to keep our culture be­ cause it's a reason for fidelity. What we have been so far has made us the way we are now, and it's only by remaining what we have always been that we can continue to give Canada the vitality, motivation, aspirations and strengths that have benefited it.

The separatist movement in Quebec was, in part, an emotional issue in the 1970s. It's not emotional anymore. When you have hundreds of business people and industrial and so­ cialleaders - not just cultural leaders - embracing separatist lines, it be­ comes a rational discussion.

Because Quebecers are considering sovereignty in rational terms, they will have to consider questions such as the current economic recession and economic ties with the rest of Canada

and the rest of North America. The recession and unemployment rates as high as 14 per cent in Montreal might change people's attitudes completely in the next six months or so.

In addition, people in Quebec are becoming a ware of the levels of aspiration of the other ethnic and cul­ tural groups that exist in the province.

Even with Bill 10 I, which requires that children be educated in French, more than 60 per cent of the im­ migrants who remain permanently in Quebec make the linguistic shift to English. This is another factor that enters into the overall picture.

Some Quebecers feel threatened be­ cause, in proportional terms, we are declining. We're no longer 33 or 30 per cent of Canada's population.

We're down to 26.7 or 26.8 per cent and, by the turn of the century, we might not even be 25 per cent. These sovereignists believe Quebec will never achieve gains in its respective powers at the provincial level.

In the early 1980s, I wrote that the decentralization of Canada was in­ evitable. I predicted it would happen in Quebec and in the other provinces at the same time. Now, there are so many unknown variables that it's im­ possible to predict how quickly the provinces will embrace greater regional powers. In the last 10 years, the most notable reaction from the rest of Canada has been a negative reac­ tion to Quebec's efforts.

Yet, 85 to 90 per cent of Canada agreed with the Meech Lake Accord, but not the 100 per cent needed to adopt it. If we are to find a common ground for unity, all Canadians will have to do more than think in constitu­ tional terms. The possibility of Quebec's sovereignty should provoke a rational - not an emotional ­ response across the country.

Editor's note: One of Canada's foremost anthropologists, Marc-Adelard Tremblay is a professor at Lnval University and former president of the Royal Society of Canada. Throughout his career, Tremblay has worked hard to establish strong ties with English-speaking colleagues by being a member of many Canada- wide organiza­ tions.

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Packard Bell, in conjunction with Campus Junction Computers, introduces the new ALUMNI MICROCOMPUTER PURCHASE PROGRAM. Now, as never before, University graduates can buy their computers at student prices. And it's as easy as A-B-C. Packard Bell computers are fast becoming one of the top-selling computers in Canada. In fact, we are the top-selling computer in many of Canada's university computer stores today. So when you buy a Packard Bell computer, you can be sure you're buying an A + machine.

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And that's not all. Packard Bell won't forget you once you've graduated to our computer. We offer FREE 24-hour 800 Hotline Telephone Support with no restrictions on the number of calls you make. All Packard Bell computers are fully IBM compatible and come with a one-year parts and labor warranty.

Now you can buy a Packard Bell AT, 386SX, 386 /25 , Notebook, even a printer, faster than saying 'School's over - I'm out of here."Order by mail , phone, fax or in person. Pay by cash, certified cheque, money order or credit card. And delivery?

Campus Junction Computers will ship your new sys­ tem right to your place of business.

You've worked hard to get to where you are today. Take advantage of Packard Bell 's ALUMNI MICROCOMPUTER PURCHASE PROG RAM ­ you've earned it'

FOR MORE INFORMATION Call 519-824-4120, Ext. 8695 FAX 519-837-3434 ...

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Offer expires Aug. 15, 1991

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loin the Class of '91 at the University of Guelph Research Park The University of Guelph's 30-acre research park offers space for the construction of major laboratory and office buildings ... right across the street from the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculture and Food facilities . The Office of Research and the University's Real Estate Divi sion are meeting with prospective tenants for the park itself and for the University's own Research Park Centre, a multi-tenant building.

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The centre will open in July 1991 , shortly after Agriculture Canada's regional head office . The facilities of Semex Canada and Agriculture Canada's health of animals pathology lab are already in operation .

For more information, call managing director Ralph Eades or project co-ordinator Judy Phillips at 519-767-5003 , or Fax 519-837 -0353.

Tel: (519) 767-5003

Fax: (519) 837-0353

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