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ALUMNUS Fall 1992

COVER In 1892, the only course open to women at Guelph was buttemlaking. But for today's female students, the sky's the limit! Susan Markle, CSS '92, posed for cover photo

by Ross David on-Pilon and Ceska Brennan to help us how what a difference 100 year can make.

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Razzle dazzle on the basketball court

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From the I 890s to the 1990 . women have changed the fa e of the Gue lph campus.

Three Universily of Guelph graduates Lalk about why Ihey chose the Women's Studies Program .

Ther ' never a dull moment in the Gryphon's " House of Slam."

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The light goes on wh n Irene Kock.

CSS '83, suggests a new approach to energy production.

Vol. 25, No. 3 Editor Mary Dickieson Executive Editor Sandra Webster, CSS '75 Advertising Co-ordinator Ceska Brennan Contributors Barbara Chance, CSS '74 , Robena Franchuk. Martha Tancock, Herb Rauscher, Manin Schwalbe Design/Production Linda Graham, An.s '77. Debbie Thompson Wilson, Ans '77 Editorial Advisory Board T rish Walk r, CS '77, M.Sc. '90, Chair: Richard Buck, OAC '76A; Sheila Levak, HAFA ' 83; Denis Lynn, CBS '69; Karen Mantel, Ans '83; Robin-Lee om ', CSS '1\0; Harold Reed.

OVC '55; Brian Romagnoli, Ans '84; Peter Taylor. Arts '76; Agne!. Van Haeren. CSS '86; Robert Wilbur, OAC '80; Bob Wi nkel. OA '60,

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Marina Wright. FACS '85 and M.Sc. '88 The Guelph AillIIlII/~f is published in May, September and January by the University of Guelph. in co-operulion with tlle University of uelph Alumni Association. Copyright 1992. Ideas and opinions expressed do not necessari ly reOecl those of the OA A or the University. Copies of (he Gue/ph Alumnus editoria l policy are available on request. Anicles may be repnmed without permission if credit to author and publkation is given.

For circu lalion and edi torial inqui ries, contact the editor; advenising inquiries, the advenising co-ordinator. Univer 'ity Communications, University of Guelph. Guelph. Ontario 10 2W 1, 5 19-824-4120.

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LETTERS

r am a Nigerian Guelph alumnus

living in Nigeria. I would like to register my concern regarding the break up of Canada into two or more countries, espe­ cially based on ethnic lines . You see, some of us (Nigerians) who studied in Canada cherish our association with the Canada we know as she is constituted now .

Our exposure to Canada as a multi­ ethnic society was part of the education we acquired in your country. Nigeria, like Canada , is a multi-ethnic society whose unity and pride lie in our very rich diversity. Even though ethnic rival­ ry and suspicion rear their ugly heads now and then , we have been able to ac­ cept these as part of our maturing process. We continue to forge ahead as a country, believing that one day a more acceptable solution will be found for our national problems. One would like to see this accommodating attitude dis­ played by Canadian s towards their eth­ nic and other national problems.

Those of us who knew each other in Canada during our student days are com­ pletely detribalized Nigerians. We con­ tinue to associate with one another in a more sincere way than some Nigerians who have not experienced the joy of coming from a multi-ethnic country like ours. We want to keep our fond memories of Canada as our rallying point. We are all part of a family called the Maple Leaf Club. Please don't kill thi s happy family. Don ' t break up Canada - for God 's sake and for the sake of thou sands of foreign nationals who passed through your higher institu­ tion.

Niyi Kehinde, CSS '85 and OAC BLA ' 86, Abuja, Nigeria In a recent edition of the Guelph Alum­ nus, you requested that former res idence life staff write in to say what they are now doing. r was on staff in 1988-89 in Maritime Hall and 1989-90 in East.

Being a residence assistant gave me exposure to many different people. It helped me accept the differences in the people I meet. There were some rough times, but when I think about those years, I hold fond memories. The most valuable thing that came out of my two 4

years on staff is the friendship that r maintain with some of my fellow residence assistants. In Maritime, we came together as strangers, but developed relations hips that I feel wil.1 last a lifetime. The people r worked with made being a residence ass istant an exceptional experience.

I am now in Japan, teaching English to adults and students . I have completed only a few weeks of my two-year con­ tract, and I'm enjoying every minute of it. The people are very friendly and help­ ful. The food takes some getting used to , but I'm enjoying trying new things . I know there are other people who are toying with the idea of teaching in Japan . I urge those people to pursue the idea . Japan is a great experience that a person should not pass up.

I hope all is well at the University of Guelph .

Theresa McDonald, CSS '90 Hokkaido , Japan It has come to my attention that some in­ correct information was printed in the spring 1992 issue of the Guelph Alum­ nus. I would like to correct this informa­ tion and tell you more about our organization.

First Aid Response (FAR) is not cur­ rently asssociated with the Central Stu­ dents Association. The team is supported by the University w ith a grant of funds from the Mini stry of Colleges and Universities Women 's Campus Safety Initiative.

FAR is a group of 60 volunteer first­ aiders on the Guelph campu s whose aim is to enhance current emergency medi­ cal services.

Each team member mu st attain qualification by taking first-aid courses

offered by the Heart and Stroke Founda­ tion, the Red Cross, St. John' s Am­ bul ance, the Canadian Ski Patrol and the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada.

Team members al so participate in train­ ing sessions to famili arize themselves with FAR equipment and procedures.

FAR is on call weekly during in­ tramural sport s events Sunday to Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight and for week­ night and weekend recreational skating.

FAR al so attends special events such as orientation, the beach volleyball tourna­ ment, the Billy Taylor IS-kilometre run and College Royal.

FAR recruits yearly for the upcoming season. There is an information meeting in November and applications are avail­ able outside our office in the twin pad arena. (There is a big red cross on the door; you can ' t miss it.) Recruitment in­ volves an interview and a practical ses­ sion. If you have questions, please contact me on campus at Ext. 8488.

Jennifer Puddy, Director First Aid Response I am writing in reference to the skill-test­ ing math question .

Being an Arts graduate and much less than a mathematical genius, I took up the chaUenge to do the ski II-testing math problem in the privacy and com ­ fort of my own home . Alas, my futile at­ tempts did not produce either of the respon ses given!

A step-by-step explanation of how to arrive at the correct solution to this prob­ lem would have been a much-ap­ preciated addition to the article .

Susan Gentilcore, Arts '87 Toronto, Ont.

A cause for pride The C anadian Council for the Advancement of Educ ation has awarded the Guelph Alumnus an honorable mention in its annual competition for best alum­ ni magazine. The award is a tribute to the many talented people in University Communications who work on the Guelph Alumnus, the alumni who serve as volunteers on the advi sory board and the staff at Alumni House who ensure that alumni activities are reported.

The University of Guelph also received three first-place CCAE awards: • in the category of best communications program in student recruitment for its student publications, video, poster, school visits and information nights, • for best communications program in community outreach - last fall's con­ ference on Canadian unity, and • for best achievement in creating or changing a visual identity for a series of publications based on the slogan "Breaking New Ground."

Guelph Alumnus

AN IDEAL BUSINESS

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Res ea rc h-driven corpo rati o ns are brea kin g ne w g round at th e Univers ity of Gu e lph R esea rc h Pa rk Ce ntre .

This 30-acre Park Centre al so accomm od ates tenants wh o c hoose to construct th e ir o wn office and laborato ry fa cilities .

Space is av a ilable no w fo r you to jo in Semex Ca nada, Tremco Limited, the Ontario Dairy Herd Im p rov e ment Co rpora tion, Geo rge Mo rri s Centre, LIPID Anal ytic a l Laboratories and A griculture Ca nada in th e University of Guelph Researc h Park .

Take adv anta ge of exc ~pti o nal g rowth opportu nities in an id eal bu sin ess settin g . Call Ral ph Eades or Jud y Phillips, Rea l Estate D iv isio n, University of Gu elph .

Tele phon e (51 9) 767 -5003: or fa x (5 19) 837-0 353.

Th e Resea rch Pa,./,: is a pm/eel of lh e Office oj" R es ealch and Ihe Un/rel'S /ly" s R eal E.~ lol e DI\'/s/ol1 .

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====== LETTERS ======= 1 am writing as a result o f readin g Maria (Bradalenti) Finelli's, Arts '88, le tter in the winter 1992 Guelph Alumnus. I am a member of OAC '35 and, so mewhat si milar to Maria , was appointed one of seven student assistant dean s for the fall of 1934 and winter of 1935. I was res pon­ s ible for the residence discipline of about 50 freshmen on the fourth floor of the new administration building - now known as John ston Hall.

It was a wondelful experience. Certainly there were inc ident s, but I refused to ac­ knowledge them as problem s. I believe I can say we were truly friends.

One of my boys, Bruce Beer, OAC '39 and '36A, later became a successful and an hone st politician. Then there wa s a very enthusiastic young man who lived two rooms down from me. Just after getting into bed one night, it suddenly soun ded as if an earthquake was erupting in my friend's room. I ru shed to the door and there he was, pyjamas and all, roaring down the hall in the opposite direction, car­ rying a fetal pig in his hand. He had just found it between the sheets on hi s bed.

Yes, being an assistant dean was an ex ­ perience I will never forget. Perhap s it has helped me to meet explosive situations in life ... even when I came out sometimes s lig htly underestimated.

I spe nt the major portion of my working years with the federal civil service , cus­ tom s and excise, st3I1ing in Bowmanville in 1939 and retiring in Pe terborough in 1972. I was 60 then.

While in Peterborough, I started grow­ ing gladioli to supplement my income and, from 1950 to 1973, grew about five acres each year.

Now living in Fort Erie, I am st ill grow­ ing glads, but it is now at the pure delight level. I am working with a few rather im­ portant and beauti ful varieties, taking a crack at maki ng certain di seases unwel ­ come. Then there are two very old and dear varieties that I am trying to coax back closer to their original glory. One was in ­ troduced in 1931 by our own Dr. Palmer, who wa s the head of the Vineland Ex­ perimental Station and lectured in the hor­ ticultural department at OAC. Picardy se t the whole g ladiolus world on fire .

I have many interests a head of me­ one of these is movin g to the new retire­ ment village the University is building on Stone Road , the Village by the Arboretum.

See you there after 1996.

John Buckley, OAC '35 Fort Erie, Ont. 6

Families keep coming back

It seems that almost all of the Guelph alumni I meet have a connection to the campus that goes beyond their own degrees. Sometimes it's an uncle or a brother, a grandmother, dau g hter or cousin. Sometimes it' s a ll of these.

Families keep coming back to the University of Guelph.

And so it is with the women in the famil y of Beulah Tuck, a Macdonald Institute graduate of 1926. She's the first generation. Her daughter, Nancy Curtis, Mac '59, is the second genera­ tion. And granddaughters Laurie Fraser, FACS '83, and Deborah Banks, FACS ' 87, are the third genera­ tion of women to ea rn Guelph degrees.

Beulah Willi am son came to Mac­ donald In stitute in 1922 with hopes of becoming a hospital dietitian. Classes were hard , but the soc ial life was gay, she says - tobogga ning parties, pic­ nic s, dances and long walks with your beau. She remembers a classmate from Boston who was the talk of campus when she showed up with penned hair.

After graduation, Be ulah went to work at Hamilton' s International Har­ vester plant, where she met her hus­ band , an IH engineer. She quit work to stay home with their three daughters, but beca me involved in the Ontario Home and School Council and did some supp ly teaching.

Nancy followed her mother to Mac­ donald Institute with s imilar ambitions.

She majored in foods, married 13 days before her 1959 convocation ceremony

and, almost immediately, began teach­ ing sc hool. While s he was at home with three children, Nancy ran a fruit and vegetable farm (now pick -your­ own strawberries) and continued to supply teach . She also served as a municipal councillor. Her hu sband , John Curtis, OAC '59 and M .Sc. '65 , is princi pal at the Kemptville Agricul­ tural College in Kemptville , Ont. Following family tradition , Deborah is a teacher. Her hu sband, Scott Banks, OAC '87, is a farm manage­ ment specia li st for the Ontario Mini s­ try of Agriculture and Food in Lambton County.

Deborah and Laurie say family tradi­ tion played a role in their deci sion to at­ tend the University of Guelph , but it was their spec ific interest s that led them to the College of Family and Con ­ sumer Studies. Deborah majored in child studies; Laurie in consumer studi es with a speciali za tion in te xtiles.

She had dream s of working in the fashion indu stry, but changed her focu s when she realized that would mean living in a large city. Today she is an administrative clerk in the provin­ cia l court in Pembroke, Ont., serves as a union steward and is training for a positi on in budget analysis. Her hu s­ band , Jim, is a parks superintendent for the Mini stry of Natural Re sources and they have two children.

Obviou sly, these women have strong family va lues that supersede the in ­ fluence s of university or career. They also have strong beliefs in the value of educa­ tion and accolades for the courses they took at Guelph. Each one says her diploma or de g ree program provided a broad range of knowled ge that ha s been a benefit to both her career and her per­ sonallife. I think that's a tribute to Macdonald Institute and FACS, which have careful ly evolved over the pas t 90 years so that each s ucceeding generation of students can say to right) Beulah

that.

Thre e Renera/ions a/women graduates: (left Tuck , Nancy Curtis and Laurie Fraser at Laurie's 1983 con ­ vocation.

Mary Dickieson, Edilor

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President resigns After completing four years of a five­ year term as U of G pres ident , Brian Segal has left the University to become publisher of Maclean's magazine and senior vice-president of Maclean-Hunter C anadian Publishing . Academic vice ­ President Jack MacDonald will be ac­ ting president until a successor is named.

During Segal's tenure, U of G made progress in it s bid to improve the quality of students and began the process of tightenin g its belt. Applications rose more than 60 per cent and the percent­ age of Ontario sc holars among entering students climbed from 16 to 67 per cent.

The Heritage Fund was establi shed, securing the future through the manage­ ment of revenue generated from U of G assets. including property.

Segal al so saw the need for internal economies. He implemented a review of non-teaching units and established a spe­ cial cap ital fund to renovate Zavit z Hall the OvC Learning Centre, the swim- ' ming pool and building additions. A review of academic structure is pending.

An Employment and Educati o nal Equity Office was established during Segal' s tenure ; U of G played host to a national conference on Canadian unity; and research funding climbed to $66. I million - a 42 per cent increase - in a five-year period.

I Segal CUI U o/C's 25th annil'ersary cake in 1989 with former presiden ls Bill Winegard and Bllrl Malth ews as guests.

Cutoff marks increase The final tally isn't in , but it' s a sure bet that U of G has more O ntario scholars amon g its first year student s thi s fall th an ever before. An overall inc rease in the quahty of applicants to Guelph has led several academic programs to raise their cutoff marks to 80 per cent or higher. The move will help keep fall en­ rolment down to the target level of 2.730 new students. The cutoff for all BA program s is now 80 per cent, except for the co-op psychology prog ram , which is 8S per cent. Last semester's

cutoff for most BA programs was 78 per cent.

The B.Sc. in engineering program moved its cutoff from 78 to 80 per cent for the regular program and to 87 per cent for the co-op program. The B.Sc . program now requires an 81 per cent average for admission, up from 7S per cent. he entran ce cutoff for HA FA ' s regular B. Comm. program has gone from 67 to 70 per cent.

For the first time, the Univers ity has impleme nted a student profile form that enables stude nts involved in significant e xtracurri c ular activities to be con­ sidered for admission , even if their averages may be slightly below cutoff levels. Three to five per cent of places in all program s were taken by student s admitted under these conditions.

Convocation honors to 1,600 Mo re than 1,600 degrees and diplomas were awarded during spring convoca­ tion ceremonies in June. U of G also awarded five honorary degrees, two medals of merit and made two faculty members professors e meritus.

Honorary degrees William Fyfe, professor of geology and former dean of the fac ulty of science at The Univers ity of Western Ontario, is

We're building bridges between town and gown

Among the 12,000 people at­ tending conference at U of G this summer were 600 members of the T imber Framers Guild of North America. While they were in Guelph, the framers put their talents to work and built a covered bridge ver the Speed River clo e 10 the junc­ tion wilh the Eramosa, just north of the campus off G or­ don Street. T he project was supported by the city. which now has the focal point fo r a river-side park that boa ts a unique covered foot bridge.

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cons idered the foremost earth sc ientist of the present day.

Jame s Ham, former pre sident of the University of Toronto, is known for hi s contributions to the engineerin g profes­ s ion, industrial sa fety and Canada ' s na­ tional research institutions. Isadore Sharp, founder, pres ident and chief ex­ ecutive officer of Four Seasons Hotel s and Reso rts, was named "Corporate Hotelier of the World" in 1988 for hi s professional contributions to the hospitality indu stry and volunteer work in public health.

Medals of merit During his four decades on faculty at OVC, Donald Horney, OVC '51, developed an international reputation as a large animal surgeon with expertise in bovine surgery.

Harry Downie, OVC '48 , joined the college faculty in 1948 and played a key role in the creation of the Department of Biomedi ca l Sciences.

Joy Kogawa's award-winning novel

The people who care for the animals used in teaching and research at U of G and the s ix research stations it operates have received national honors for a job well done. The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) named the University's animal-care staff and Animal Care Committee (ACC) the 1991 /92 winners of their award of excel ­ lence for fac i lities exceeding 15,000 square feet.

ACC director Denna Benn estimates there are more than 1,500 people at U of G who share the honor. "Those involved in occupational health , maintenance and technical work are all a part of the suc­ cess of animal care here," she says.

The Universi ty has animal -ca re facilities in the departments of Animal

Obasan was instrumental in creating the climate of opinion that led to the Canadian government's compensation of Japanese Canadians for their loss of liberty and property during the Second World War. Professors emeritus Ro y Anderson, retired chair of the De partment of Zoology, is an expert on parasitic diseases of wild mammals and birds. He hold s numerous awards for his research into the understanding of parasitic diseases and their potential sig­ nificance to ecology and wildlife management.

Jim Raeside, a retired OVC professor who remains an active researcher, is known for hi s contributions to reproduc­ tive biology in the area of steroid biochemistry.

Accolades for animal caregivers

and Poultry Science, Nutritional Scien­ ces, Psychology, Microbiology and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Human Biology, the Equine Re search Centre, the research station s at Arkell, Pon sonby. Elora, Alma , Puslinch and Eramo sa, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and the Wild Bird Clinic, the Central Animal Facility, the zoology animal facilitie s and OVe. The award, which normally goes to a single facility, was shared becau se of the consistent quality of care in all these areas.

A CCAC panel of animal health-care professional s and representatives of the humane movement conduc t regular site visits at all 170 Canadian facilities where animals are used for research.

Research highlights Transgenic field testing at the Elora Re­ search S tation expanded this summer to include genetically engineered soybeans, as well as canola and alfalfa plant s that contain foreign genes.

Developed by crop scientists in Guelph , Europe and the United St ate s, trans­ genic plants are being evaluated for their ability to perform under field con­ ditions , an essential step in the deve lop­ ment of new varieties. The soybeans

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Ahove: ave Wild Bird Clinic lechnician Rebecca Alkinson, seen here wilh bald eagle Akeela, is jusl one of Ihe hundreds of sWjf. facully and volunleers who care for animals on campus. AI righl: Pel er Del'ries. super­ visor of Ihe animal wing of Ihe Deparlmen! ofAnimal and POlillry Science , gives his sheepish-looking friends a snack.

Photos by Sherry MacKay, Office of Research

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tes ted are be ing developed with a built ­ in res istance to he rbi c ides. The c anol a pl ants ca rry microb ia l ge nes th at may be use ful in aiding hybrid seed prod uc tion , a nd the alfa lfa plant s ha ve stress­ to le rant ge nes o bt ai ned from membe rs o f the cano la and tobacco family .

Ho rti c ultural scie ntists at U of G are work in g w ith sc ie nti sts at the Ont ari o M ini stry of Ag ri c ulture a nd Food to de ve lop be ller-qu a lity homegrown pea rs th at ca n be sto red lo nger for mid -winte r consum pti o n. Prof. Sam Lougheed, O AC '58 , a nd rese arc h ass istant Kay Hu stwit hope thi s re searc h will ultimate­ ly redu ce pear import s into Onta ri o.

They' re looking into techniques fo r har­ vesting, storin g and pac kag ing Ontar io pears.

Doroth y G oe ttl er, a g radu ate stude nt in fa mil y studies, is beg inning a stud y of fa ther-d aughter relationships to answer questi ons a bout the influe nce fathe rs have o n the ir d aughters' de velo pme nt.

Traditi ona ll y, psyc hol ogy and soc io logy have put the mo ther at the centre of the fa mil y, but G oettle r hopes to shed some lig ht on the e ffect the fathe r-d a ughte r re lati onship has on wom en 's c areer c hoices and fa mil y goa ls. o f G resea rchers in the Departme nt of Biomedica l Scie nce are coll abo rati ng

wi th co lleagues at the Uni ve rsity of I l­ lino is and Mount Sina i Hospita l in T oro nto to cond uc t h um an cl inical trials o f a ge neticall y eng in eered fonn o f the birth ing hormo ne, re lax in. Re laxi n is produced natura lly by hum ans a nd anima ls. Jt loosens the li ga me nt s o f the pelvic g irdle and softe ns the cerv ix and vagi na durin g the birthin g process. Tri­ als w il l be co nduc ted in G rea t Britain and Aus tra lia to dete nn ine if the ho r­ mo ne ca n he lp lessen the pa in a nd com­ p i ica tions assoc iated with medi ca l procedures that in vo lve the fe ma le re produc ti ve sys te m. Gue lph Pro fs.

David Po rter and Alas ta ir Su m me rlee will be inv o lved in bl ood a nd ti ss ue ana ly sis to assess fluctu ations in bl ood honno nes and blood press ure .

Going to the dogs -

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Hebert named to Royal Society

OVC' s annu al Supe rM atc h Dog Show w ill be he ld Se pt. 19 fro m 9 a. m. to 5 p. m . T he all- breed confo rm ati o n and o bed ience show w ill fea ture de monstra­ ti ons of agility , fl yba ll , mu sica l dr ill and a presenta tion by the Me tro T o ronto Po li ce Canine Un it. Clinic assess ment o f dogs ' eyes , skin, blood , heart a nd hi ps w ill be av ailabl e to registra nt s. T he dog show will a lso feature to urs of OVC and noo n-ho ur sem inars w ith Prof.

Donal McKeown , OV C ' 58, o n the be ­ havior o f pure bred dogs and Prof.

Rocking to the strads U o f G 's collec tio n of fi sh foss il s will go o n to ur thi s fall wi th a ra re qua rtet of S tradiva rius instru me nts from the S mithson ian Institution . Both foss il s and Strad s we re c o llected by American pu blis her Herbert Axe lrod , w ho has placed them in these insti tu­ ti ons to pe nni t their use in edu cation.

The American String Q uarte t wil l perfonn concerts for e lementa ry sc hool children in fi ve O ntari o ci ties.

A selec tio n of 11 O-million-yea r o ld fo ss ils fro m th Axelrod c ollec tio n will be on di splay for the concerts.

Xe rox and T he Royal B ank ar spon­ soring the Strad Rock Tour, w hich will be at T oro nto ' s Pantages T heatre on Nov. 2, Cante rbury H igh School A udito rium in Ottawa on ov.3, Gue lph 's War Memori al Ha ll o n Nov. 4 , the Lond on Education Ce ntre Guelph AI,lmlllls

Haro ld Poo k o n cost effec ti ve vete ri­ nary ca re for ke nne ls. Admi ss io n is free an d c rate si lling se rvices w il l be avail ­ able . O vera ll proceed s will go to th e pu r­ c hase o f an EEG mac hine for epilepsy di ag nostic work . For more infonnati o n, call Marth a Le ibbra nd t at 51 9-82 3­ 8800, E xt. 44 14 .

Auditorium on Nov . 5 and Westda le o lleg iate Audi to rium in Ha milton on Nov. 6. C oncerts will be he ld at 10 a .m. and 1:30 p.m. in each loca tion.

A lumni who wo uld like to a tte nd any o f the concer ts shoul d ca ll Rosemarv Clark, at Alumni House, 5 I 9-824- • 41 20 , E xt. 65 34.

Pro f. P aul Hebe rt , c ha ir of the De partme nt of Zoo logy, has been na med a fe ll ow of the Roya l Soc iety of C anad a. A water ecolog ist, He bert is par­ ti c ul arly inter­ e sted in wa ter Pa ul H ehe,-' reso urces an d la ke ecosys te ms. He ca me to G ue lph two years ago a fte r fo ur ye ars as direc­ tor o f th e Grea t Lakes Institute at the University of W ind s r. Hi s lab di s­ co ve red the ze bra m ussel in the G rea t Lakes.

He s it s o n provi nc ial advisory co m­ mittees on water po ll ution and env iron­ me ntal hype rse nsitivit y. i · de veloping a man agemen t mode l for O ntari o lakes and is co-o rd ina ting a g rant app licati o n to stud y the impac t of human ac tiv ity on No rth Ame ri can water systems.

Picture th is T he class of 0 C '5 1 has a soluti o n to that ba re spo t on yo ur o ffice or livi ng room wall. T he class still has pr ints of a com m i ' s ioned painting o f an On ta rio farm by Barr), McCarthy, A rt s ' 75.

Proceeds go to the OAC A lumn i F und.

For info rm a ti on ca ll Al umni Hou se , 5 19 -824-4120, Ext. 2 122.

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Women of and the 100 A century ago,jew women strode across Johnston Green. Apart from th e fl eet­ ing presence of a f ew faculty wil'es, the most visihle woman all campus was th e matron in cha rge of the men's residence. In 1893 ,jive misses appeared 10 allend a short course on bUller making at th e dairy school - the first femal e students on campus.

111 the intervening decades, women 's presence and impact on campus have grown as times and values hal'e changed. Wh ere th ey vvere limited to a 'l"~~'~IfIf'tlR~.,·.~periph era l course in butter making at the Ontario Ag ricultural Colleg e 100 years ago, th eir choices of study a re unlimited today at III the University of Guelph .

The first campu r man e involved OAC student George Creelman ",' a. ,... and the president's daughter, .

Ada Mills. They were married in 1892.

Macdonald !nstitute opened ill 1903.

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,;{t.. t;" ;~'e real inspiration

It 's just a theory, of course, but it could be th at the idea for Macdonald In stitute originated at l ames Mill s ' s dinne r table , a nd no t w ith Adelaide Hoodless. At Mills ' s family tab le sat seven c hildren, including five daughters. At the foot of th e tabl e sat Mrs. Mills, who hosted reg ul ar gatherings of faculty wives.

Her fireside c ircle delved into litera­ ture and art. The ladies wrote essay s, held debates and devoted much energy to charity work. No doubt those discus­ sion s, as we ll as Mill s's plans for the coll ege, we re topics at family meal s .

At these family dinne rs sat in v ited gues ts suc h as George Creelman, OAC 1888 . A s he cou rted th e e ldest Mills daughter. Creelman picked up on the presid ent 's concern about the education of wom en. And when he succeeded his father-in - law as president of OAC in 1904, he became th e ch ief recruitment officer for M acdonald In sti tute .

Perh aps Mill s opened the dairy Sh0I1 course to women in 1893 to test the waters of support among the farming communit y a nd the back benchers in Queen 's Park. T he fac t that the OAC diploma and deg ree programs didn't ac­ cept women until the end of Creelman's presidency may te ll us ju st how cold the waters we re.

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The first female ' lu­ dents on campus were five women admitted to an OAC dairy short cour e in 1893.

1903 Adelaide Hoodless argued Ihal rural women needed sci en­ title knowledge just a~ much as men.

In afin-de-siecle climate cool to wome n' s pursuit of hig her ed uca tion , (now M acdona ld-Stewart Art Centre) Mill s opted to develop a school of where rural c hild ren would learn nature domestic scie nce. After Canadian mil­ study and manual training as part of li ona ire Sir William M acdonald rejected their school c urri cu lum. In the first his first solitication, Mill s e nl is ted the years of Macdonald In stitute. rural help of OAC dairy professor l ames Robertson, a friend of M acdonald's . a nd teachers did sign up to learn how to Adelaide Hoodless. a Stoney Creek teach these su bjec ts. But home woman who had ta lked her way around economics quickly overs hadowed them so uthern Ontario as th e most popular course. in a bid to im­ prove trai ning op­ po rtunit ies for homemakers.

They appealed to Macdonald's desire to prov ide a be tter ed uca tion for rural C anadi ans and persuaded him to build an institute to tra in teac he rs - both male and fe male - and a women's residence. He a lso ag reed to bankroll a consolidated The early /900s- a Macdonald In SlilUle class in clolhll1R construct ion. schoo l Gue/ph Alumnus

the 90s years between

Early success

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In 1992.65 per cenl (){ Ihe Universily's sludenls are women. They ('ons lilule a majoril)' of Universily employees. allhoilf!,h men Sli /! dominale facully and ad­ miniSlralive ranks. Alld among alumni. Iheir l1umhers almoSI equallhose of men.

Bur nilmhers alone can' I show Ihe eagerness wilh which 20lh-cenlury women have grasped educalion' s hrass ring . Nor can Ihey adequalely reJleu lh e in­ fluence women hal'e had on Ihe characler and Ihe progress of Ihe Unil'ers ily . To ilnderslUl1d Ihal. rake a closer look atlhe women who had all impao on Ihis in­ Slilulion al'er Ihe past 100 years and al Ihe women - and men - wha increased the apparlunilies for women (() sludy al a posl-secondary lel'e l.

Macdonald In stitute owes much of its early succe ss to the efforts of three womell: Mary Urie Watson, prin­ cipaJ until 1920, her successo r Olive Cruickshank, prin­ c ipal until 1941, and Katherine Fuller, su perintendent of the womell ' s residence for 27 years. Mac enrolment nearly doubled ill the 1920s as OAC numbers declined ill a depressed agricultural economy. In 1928, there were 34 male graduates from OAC and 82 female graduates from M ac.

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In the late 1920. . campus rules relaxed and women were pcnnilled to go [or walks with male student~. Hops became popular and Sunday nights were reserved for parties WiLh hot choco­ late and cake.

OAe's degree program opened LO women in 1918. Susanna h Chase. OAC '21, was the first graduate.

In 1905, a male student dresseu as a woman wa.~ apprehenued in Macdonald Hall.

OYC's firs t fema le graduate was an American , E. Barrie Carpenter,OV '28 .

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B )the time OAC opened in J874, several U.S. colleges had already started pro[vams in domestic science . Women in Ontario had to wait another 29 years for MacdonaLd Institute.

Female pioneers in male domains The first women to graduate from the agricultural and veteri­ nary colleges at Guelph were Susannah Chase, OAC '2 1, and E. Barrie Carpenter, OYC '28. Both followed their fathers' footsteps to Guelph, but that was aU they had in common.

After completing two years at the Nova Scoti a Agricultural College in Truro, Chase enrolled in OAC's horticulture pro­ gra m . Her father, Oscar Chase, was an 1882 Guelph graduate. She then returned to the Annapolis Yalley and operated a farm in partnership with her brother for six years, and wa s the first woman president of the Nova Scotia fruit growers association. In 1928, Chase married an OAC classmate, John Steckle, OAC '20, and they settled on the Steckle family farm near Kitchener, Oot. She continued to contribute to agriculture, planting the first commercial orchard in Waterloo County , and was also known for community work with the Children's Aid Society, the YWCA and her church.

The Steckles were followed to Guelph by their son, Robert, OAC '52, and dau ghter, Jean, MAC '52, both members of the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame. Jean won the first Dominion Championship in archery and was a strong supporter of com­ petitive sport for women on campus. In 1974, she donated a sculpture of her mother, which sit s in John ston Hall.

OYC' s first female graduate is a my stery. The daughter of H.T. Carpenter, OYC 1888, of Detroit, she was married and 30 when she and her hu sband enrolled at OYC in 1924. Class­ mates say a college scandal erupted over her affair with a Cue/ph Alumnus

younger classm ate; her spouse Charles Sprake failed at the end of third year and Barrie was divorced when she returned the next fall. She graduated in J928 at the bottom of her class a nd little is known about her veterinary career. OYC historian Cliff Barker, OYC '41, believes she worked in her father's practice and later set up a clinic in California speci ali z ing in cats. She may have eventually married the classmate who was part of the ill-fated love triangle.

OAC and Mac slUdenlS rohofifiGning in 1922 .

Phoio courtesy or Beulah Tuck, Mac '26

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Postwar metamorphosis During the Second Worl d War, Macdonald Institute turned over its fac ilities to the war effon and suspended classes. Its cl assroo ms we re used in stead to train wireles s ope rators and army cooks .

What mi ght have been viewed as a setback for Canadian wo men, howev er, led to a postwar impetu s to reviv e the instit ute' s program s.

Und er Dorothy Lindsley, assoc iate director from [946 to 1949, Macdonald Institut e e me rged as a fu[l- fledged co ll ege with a one­ year dipl oma prog ram and a fo ur-yea r degree program . Marga ret McC ready , appointed principal in 1948, made researc h in home economics a priority a nd added new fac ilities and more fac ulty .

1948 stitute graduate were

awarded full member­

ship in rhe OAC Alum­

ni A oeialion. Annual

fees were $1 .

.Jean Rumney was Ihe

Culture and women

tirsl Canadian woman

graduale from ove in 1939.

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The Fireside Ci rcle started by Mrs. Mills at th e turn of the cent ury was car­ ried on by her daughter Ada Creelman .

When OvC mov ed to G ue lph from Toronto in 1922, the circle ex panded an clthe campus gained the theatrica l talen ts of Agnes Gri eve "Scotty" McLean . Fro m 1926 to the mid - 1950s , she directed two or three produ ctions each yea r, one of which capt ured the surprising attenti on and praise of a New York actors' magaz ine .

While Mc Lean was building interes t

in the atre arts, Florence Partridge, Mac '260, was establ is hing an art col­ lec tion. As OAC librari an, she showed the work of many loc al arti sts in Massey Library. The library 's acquisiti ons are now part of th e University art collecti on.

Partridge guided the transition from

college library to a facilit y th at served first the Federated Co lleges the n the new Univ ers ity.

Women in OAC By 1930, there were females in al­ most ev ery OAC cl ass and the coll ege had hired fe male facu lt y Alice Purdy, a chemist, and Isabe [ Pre ston, a plant breede r. From De nmark came Vi Enge lbrecht to teac h fi eld hu sbandry and from Ho ll and , Loui se Hcringa , who tau ght horticultural sc ience until [964. /2

Mac's popular "diamond-ring" course - a three-month course in dome::.tic science - was dis­ continued in the 1 930~ .

Macdonald Institute comes of age The second bi g c hange in Macdonald In­ stitute prog rams ca me in the late '60s at the urging of Preside nt J.D. MacLac hl an, who piloted a me rger of the three foundi ng colJ eges into a univer­ sity . He chalJ enged Macdo nald Instit ute to prove th at its home economi cs foc us would be re levant in th e 1980s .

Janet Wardl aw, dea n from 1969 to 1983, answered th e c hal.lenge. Lead ing a fac t- finding miss ion, she re-e xa min ed Sir Willi am Macdona [d 's ori gin al objective - nature stud y, manual tra in­ in g and domes ti c sc ie nce - and the in stitute' s con tinu ing goal to improve the statu s of the Canad ian famil y.

The fac ts rev ea led th at Canadian fam ili es had radical­ ly chan ged. More

women we re workIn g, creating the n fo r day care. Families were more mobile, dec reasing the influ ence of th e extended famil y and increas ing the need for SOC Ial se rvices. More co uples we re

re lying on tw o incomes, so they were buying more and makin g less at home.

Ou t o f th is fact-findin g mi ssion a new co llege emerged with a double emphasis on fam il y and consumer studies. The School of

Hotel and Food Ad ­ mini strati on (HA FA) was created in 1969 to an swe r the ex pressed need of a grow in g hospital ity industry in Canad a. And graduates now had ex panded op­ portuni ties in ma rketi ng, consumer relati ons, retai I merch andising, product deve lopment , so­ cial work, day care, educ ation, financial counse ll in g and housing manageme nt.

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A sillg-song ill Soulli Residence ill Ihe laIC 19605.

T he Mac degree program offered new career opportunities for graduates, enabling them to compete with other univ ersity graduate s in Canada for professional jobs and graduate school positions - ev en outside the home economics field.

Des pite new opportunities for women, traditional family values re mained stro ng. Stude nt s in the new degree program studied home making along with bacteriology and chemi stry. The M acit e o f the '20s who had described knitting as a quaint old sport from the Midd le Ages would have been surprised to see knitting need­ le s clic king again in the' 50s.

T he two decades following the Second W orld War produced some of the college's most di stinguished career women - and some of its most traditional homemakers.

In 1953. the Olllarioll ran a story to debate whether women had gone 100 fa r ill their bid for eqUality .

economics. bu t many Mac­ donaJd Institute graduates used their degrees as a springboard into profes­ sional schoab. graduate re­ search and [he world of

business.

In a 1957 prank. a group of OAC lotudents turned a bull loose in Macdonald Hall. A fearless Macite grabbed the ring in its nose and led it back to the bam.

Every student on campus was assessed 68 cents to pay for the damages.

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1962 - lola Pr ice was named first woman editor of the OlllllriOIl .

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When Macdonald In stitute hecame the College of Family and . / ~. '-, ~ ~ . ~' Consumer Studies in 1969 , the college calendar was rewritren to eliminate the de­ scriprion "a training groundfoJ" homemakers ."

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Integrating men One of the greatest challenges was integ rating men into the college. A gender balance among faculty was achieved quiCk­ ly as the college augmented its home-economic s base with a variety of disciplines - sociology , architecture, psychology and bu siness - where men dominated the field of qualified candid ate . The integ ration of male students has been more diffic ult.

"The women's movement has made heroines out of women who move into traditionally mal e p rofess ions suc h as medicine or engin eering," says W ardlaw . " Bu t the first men who enrolled at FACS did not become heroes to other men. " T be first male FACS gradu ate, a teacher working at an inne r city sc hool, had majored in child st udies to learn more about child deve lopment. The new program in hotel and food administration attracted greater numbers of men , but only a few ventured into the family and consumer stu d ies options.

Even today , students in these programs are predominantly female.

Th ese were not eas y changes, es pecially for alumni, says Wa rdlaw. E ighty per cent of the Institute's graduates respond­ ing to a 1967 fact-finding survey said tl1e col lege should prepare students for a vari e ty of li fe styles, should highlight communication sk ills and decrease emphasis on manual skill s.

Wardlaw cred i t ~ the alumni association for maintaining loy a l­ ty thro ugho ut the process of change. "Each generation of grad uate s still believes the education they receiv ed was the best ," she says. "And, for the time , that is probably true. ·'

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Numbers bring change The sheer numbers of women who hav e applied to OvC over th e past 20 years have changed dramatically the face of the college and th e profession. Female students have outnumbered men since the early 1980s, although women total only one-quarter of OvC alumni. Jean Macdonald, an assi stant to six different OvC deans, says th e num­ bers began to in­

1970 Throughout the 1960s. U of G expanded its residences. making the University more ac­ ce~sible to women students. By the 1970s, student services were shifting from a posi­ tion of control over to one of co-operation with student" making them partners in the educational proce~s.

crease in the early 1970s during th e tenure of the late dean Denni s Howe ll.

Following the lead of Ontario's new human rights legislat ion, college offi­ cials ensured th at OvC's admiss ion policy put all applicants on equal foot­ ing. With up to 600 applications for 100 class positions, th e women and men ad­ mitted to OvC are th e cream of the crop.

O ver the years, SOme adm ini strators have worried about assign ing women ni g ht duty in th e clinics , some faculty feared they would be snubbed by farm clients , and some male stud en ts com­ plained because th ey were fierce com­ petitors , but the numbers of women students at The last College Royal queen was crowned in 1975. The next year a celebrant was chosen.

OvC have continued to grow. And be­ cause it 's a collegc that draw s on its own graduates for facu lty , the number of women in those rank .~ ha~ also grown as more qualified female candidates entered th e profession. Today, women make up 75 percent ofOvC"s student enrolment and 20 per cen t of its faculty.

Many es tabli s hed veterinarians in On­ tario hav e recogni zed the talents of OvC' s female stud ents because of the externship program which places stu­ dents in private veterinary practices.

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Appointed in 1970, Margaret Evan.

History, was the first female department head outside FACS.

Changing attitudes change society Sometimes soc ial change moves at a snail's pace. Despite th e effo rts of women like Ad e laide Hoodless, OAC was into its fifth decade before it opened Macdona ld Institute. And, ten years later, a frustrated Mac feminist complained abo ut th e level of com­

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The women \ movement on campus led 10 the development of a Women's Resource Centre.

And in 1979. the Women'~ Studies Program was established. placency among her coeds when she tried to inte rest them in the student's co uncil. Five women didn't know what it was and one said 'There's no us e making a fuss about it."

That was not the attitude of the women at Guelph in th e 1970s, nor of today 's femal e students and staff. Femal e s tu­ dents in the 1970s have left a legacy that proves they did care about their role on campus and in society. They were interested in issues such as femini st philosophy, female sexuali ty, spirituality, abortion and sex ual harassment. When they didn't find what they needed in th e University library, they formed a Women's Is sues Collective that eventually gained statu s as a student club and, in 1985 , be­ came the Women's Resource Centre (WRC ). Today, both female and mal e volunteers work in the resource centre and use its materials for both per­ sonal and classroom use.

WRC is part of a network of women's groups on campus

that grew throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Students Against Sexual Assault, the Central Stud e nt s Association's safety awareness com ­ mittee and women's commissioner and th e University's gender relations com­ mittee.

In 1979, the Universi ty established a program in women ' s s tudies, giv ing st u­ dents the opportunity to begin a n ex ­ ploration of women 's rol es in and contributions to soc iety.

During the 1970s, women took ad­ vantage of the educational opport unitie s created for them by th e formation of the University of Gu elph. From day one, the new college s of Arts, Social Science and Biological Science a nd th e sc hools of Hotel and Food Administration, Landscape Architec ture and Rural Plan­ ning and Dev e lopment ach ieved a balance of male and female students.

Women became a dominant force in OvC . The number of female students in agriculture, phy s ical sc ience and en­ gineering have also grown, but much more slowly, w hil e FA C S has fought the opposite battle of tryin g to attract more men into its programs.

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At the forefront of controversy With the exception of Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar, no one has put the the University of Guelph in the news more often this past year than Gwen Jacobs . Jacobs is a part-time stu­ dent at Guelph whose name became a household word in Canada when she walked topless from Johnston Green to downtow n Guelph.

Jacobs didn't see why she shouldn't have the same privilege as men she saw taking off their shirts to beat the heat on a hot day. She say s the act was a per­

sonal victory, becau se it meant

that she had overcome her own inhibitions, and a challenge

to a legal sys tem that continues to tell women what they can and can not do with their own bodies.

She was arrested and eventually fined $75 for committing an indecent act.

This spring, she lost her first bid at ap­ peal, but won the support of many other women and men who par­ ticipated in a weekend of protest marches in ear )j July .

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In 1992. engineering professor

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In 1989. U of G opened it employment and educational equity office. and the next year.

a day-care centre was opened on campus.

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sy among women faculty and stuff when she brought her four-week-old ~on to campus.

The Central Students A 'sociation operales an after­

hours bus for ' tudenl~ who live off ampus and a . afe

walk program between locations on campus.

This fall. students will help open a safe

house. offering 24-hour emergency

services.

Carole Stewart

Changing campus roles It was also the 1970s when the Univer­ sity administration began to look candid­ ly at the status of women on campus.

The late Norma Bowen, a psychology professor. headed a presidential task force that found women dominate in the tower ranks of faculty and lower salary grades of office staff, while propor­ tionately more men occupied the higher­ salary job grades. Of 149 full professors at U of Gin 1975 (not counting assis­ tant professors and lecturers), only six were women. A bright spot in the promotion of women was in the College of Arts, where four female department heads were appointed in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, Prof. Susan McIver, En­ vironmental Biology, and OAC' s first female department head, chaired a com­ mittee that looked at salary discrepan­ cies between men and women and began to outline a plan for change. U of G established committees to deal with sexual harassment and gender relations and appointed Prof. Janet Wood, a biochemist, as co-ordinator of employ­ ment and educational equity.

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Janet Wardlaw broke into the senior administration at U of G when she was named acting vice-president in 198 3 and associate vice-president, academic in 1984. About the same time, Margaret Beckman moved from a position as chief librarian to executive director of information technology.

A 1989 censu s of employment equity led to concrete goals in terms of hiring women, members of visible minorities, persons with di sabilities and abori ginal

people. For example, 37 per cent of new faculty hired within the past two years were women , equalling the percentage of women graduating with PhD degree s in Canada.

Today, U of G has five female depart­ ment heads. Su san Pfeiffer is as sociate dean of graduate studies, Jane Watt is as­ sistant vice-president, human resources and Carole Stewart, chair of philosophy, was just appointed dean of art s. She is the first female dean outside FACS.

Mournin g th e loss of 14 women killed in the M ontreal maSSi/cre in 1989 .

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Names and Faces o

How many do you remember?

There are dozens of women who have played a ignificant role in the University's history over the past 100 years. Some you've already read about and a few more are listed here. Test your memory by matching the women listed at right with their accompli hmenl..

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1. An DAC graduate of 1946. she later be­ came a leading profes or and research scien­ tist in the Department of Microbiology. .>

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11. A Mac '27 D graduate, he D employed many D aggie as banquet D waiters during her service as D dietitian in D Johnston Hall.

D She once erved D tomato soup to D the convocation speaker, who was both late and tottering, then had to wash hi long white beard.

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2. She taught clothing and textiles for about 25 years, first in Macdonald Institute, then in the College of Family and Consumer Studies.

3. Pioneers in the development of the Guelph Campus Co­ operative.

4. A protes or of psychology in the 1970s, she headed the University's first task force on the status of women.

Isobel and Flo Moore Mary Beverley-Burton Ann Barber Loui se McConkey Elsa Stewart Edith Kidd Joan Budd Edith Bray Margare! Bec kman Katherine Beck O liv e Wallace Shirley Peterson Evelyn Renou f orma Bowen Margaret Hau ser Tammy Bray Sheil a Trainer Liz Honegger Pat She wen

5. She succeeded Katherine Fuller as "house mother" at Mac Hall and remained there until 1956.

12. A nutritionaJ cientist, she recently won a CBS college teaching award and was ap­ pointed acting associate vice-pr sident, academic.

6. She works in the Department of Zoology, but i former president of the U of G staff association and . everaJ campus committees dealing with women ' i sue • uch as day care and maternity leave.

13. A counsellor in the University's Coun­

elling and Student Resource Cenlre. she

was one of the primary authors of of G' exuaJ harra ment policy.

7. A professor since 1968, she is a parasitologist with par­ ticular intere t in tropical fi h parasites and a feminist who worked diligently to improve the status of women at Guelph and in the entire university sy tern.

8. A Macdonald Institute graduate in 1932, she provided seve raj scholarship and bursaries for Mac-FACS students and was named an honorary fellow of the University - along with her husband, Arthur, DAC '32 - in 1971 .

9, he plays to win. A pioneer in Canadian women' hockey, she promoted women' athletics on campus for 30 year , coached the women's hockey team to six champion­ ships and will be named to the Gryphon Club HaJl of Fame in September.

15, An OVC '59 graduate. he was a specialist in fur-bearing animaJ and the first full-time female professor at DVe. 16. W ith three D VC degree. he joined the faculty in

biomedical science and became a partner in the develop­

ment of a shipping-fever vaccine for cattle,

17, A Mac '22 graduate. she was appointed dietitian at Creelman Hall in 1928. a po t she held for w 11 over a quarter of a entury,

10. A secretary at Mac­ donald In titute for 44 years, she was given

a life membership in the Mac-FACS Alum­

ni Association whef'. she retired in 1963.

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14, Concert manager at U of G from 1%5 to 1976, she was in trumental in the formation of the Guelph Spring Fe tival.

18, Chief librarian from 1971 to 1984, she

directed the development of the Geac

automated library system. which U of G has

sold around the world. She was later ap­

pointed executive director of information

technology.

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mater for more than 20 years,

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Who needs women's studies?

We do!

Rememher th e aftersha ve commercial wh ere th e woman snuggles up to th e man and says , "Ummm , you smell good" ? Well, that woman was not Susa" Markle, CSS ' 92. She auditioned once f or just such a commercial, th en decided sh e couldn't stomach th e m es­ sage: that a woman 's lo ve could he houghtfor the price o/a bottle o/sha v­ ing lotion.

When joan Kotarski, CSS '82, was in high school, she wanted to kn ow where the women were when pioneers were ex­ ploring and settling new fr ontiers. With th e naivete of a school girl, she ac­ cepted women's ahsence f rom h.istory hooks as a sign that th ey weren' t in­ 1'01red in great e ventS...until she began some exploring of her own .

hese three women don't know each other. Their e xperien­ ces and their goals are very di ffe rent , yet there is a com­ mon thread in a ll of their lives . It' s not because eac h one is a Univers ity of Guelph graduate, but becau se the y were all drawn to thi s campu s by the Women's Studies Program . And because of it , developed a greater apprec iation for the diver­ sity of all women .

Kotarski was one of Guelph' s first women' s studies graduates. A mature student and single mother when the pro­ gram began in 1979, she began enrolling in women ' s studies courses to answer some o f her question s about the history of women. Too many of the other course s she'd taken seemed to dev alue the role of women in our heritage and our culture.

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Welldy Burk, CSS '84, has always wanted to care f or children - pre/er­ ahly her o\-lI n and hope/idly withoUlthe added pressure of hal'ing 10 work o ut­ side th e home . Sh e' LL achieve that g oal in J anuary when she and Iwshand, Robert, CBS '85, have th eirfirst child.

Th at' s wh en she' /I rea/ly put her univer­ siry education to the tesl.

ported to be human behavior is really the behavior of white, middle-class males. Female behavior is either not presented or is presented as a deviation from the m ale norm.

The idea of an academi c program focu sed on women was bandied about for several years before Boehnert and profes­ sors o ra Cebotarev, Soc iology, Donna Lero, Family Studies, and Loi s Gottlieb, then in Engli sh, organized a committee to draft an introductory course and develop a c urriculum. They were fortunate bec ause student petitions had already prompted some departments to create a few new courses focu s ing directly on women . Those meagre offerings in Engli sh, languages, sociology and psyc hology became the foun­ dation of today's program . /7

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first time t have port of the female, works of wome~ sexuality, women in the modem family.

Forty-six women have concentrated in the field, g raduating with either a general major or an honors minor in women's studies. T he program has grown enou gh that, beginning next spring, students wiJl be able to choose the field as a major in the honors program.

So , does an honors degree in women's studies make you a strident fe minist ? Do women's studies courses also teach ad­ vocacy , lobbying techniques and placard waving? Prof.

Boehnert might laugh if she didn't know that there are still people on campus and in the community who harbor such mis­ conceptions - about the program and about feminism.

There might not have been a women's studies program anywhe re in North America if the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s hadn't pressu red educational institution s to review their curricula. But the program at Guelph bears little resemblance to any organized movement. In fact, one of the criticisms from some graduates is that courses don't delve deeply enough into feminist philosophy. Markl e says she would have liked more information on how women can deal with the legal, economic and political realiti es of modem society and "the ap pearance of equality."

Yet, many of the women who specialize in women's studies are mature students and often typical of those who support the women's movement. In her recent biography, former Ms. magaz ine editor Gloria Steinem acknowledges that femini sm

has always drawn its greatest advocates from women with severa l years of work experience - they may hav e more to be angry about.

Markle says her feminist beliefs developed somew here be­ tween acting school and the aftershave commercial. The Women' s Studies Program helped her to put her own life ex­ periences into the context of women's social history.

Kotarski g rew up in a family where female roles were high­ ly valued. "J thought the world was a place of equality, and why couldn't I be (equal)'J" It was the women's movement that gave her the vocabulary to define those feelings. She says the Women ' s Studies Program provided a new perspective on why men have traditionally held power.

Feminist ideology, however, was not Burk 's quest when s he signed up for women's stud ies.

She has never thought of herself as a feminist.

(What does the word mean, anyway, she asks.)

Her social values are very traditional. She XI> classmates and professors probably thought her­ post-graduation job as a nanny was a caree ti le backwards. She didn ' \. After all, she t . k ..... ~ women's studies for a well-rounded e u6atio)1 r(>.

In,lOf' h rprepare for the biggest career of all hood.

Burk c hose women's studies becaus fered a strong family studies component and the freedom to explore other di sc iplines, \.ike art and psychology. She already had a Senec.~ C ' liege diploma in early childhood education ~htlll she

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came to Guelph and has since eamed a chef's training diploma from George Brown College. For the past five years she has worked as a private executive chef for a securities firm in downtown Toronto. In the future, when she ' 5 at home with her children , she plans to open an in-home day-care centre.

Markle so ug ht out the Women 's Studies Program when she became disillusioned with her acting career. Acting is an honored but unstabl e profess ion. And after eight years of being typecas t as someone's girlfriend or mother, she was ready to look for something more satisfyin g. She tumed to psychology and women's studies, received her Guelph deg ree in June and begins graduate work in developmental psyc ho l­ ogy thi s fall at the University of Toronto on the way to an academic ca reer.

She says acting is a sister to psyc hology. Unde rst anding the role of a female character in a script is akin to und erstanding the role women have played in society. And that's what women's studies is all about. 'The actor's work involves in-depth study of people, human behavior an d the dynamic s of relationships. I've just switched from the artis­ tic to a more sc ientifi c way of study ing hum an nature," says Markle .

Kotarski is co-ordinator of volunteer programs and st aff development at the Guel ph and Welling ton Women in Crisi s centre. She was a crisis-line volunteer during her stu­ dent days, then went o n to the University of Briti sh Colum­ bia to eam a graduate degree in anthropology and eventually returned home to Ontario. Peo ple who deal with the victims of wife abuse, se xu a l assault, c hild neglec t an d attempted s ui c ide need a spec ial kind of train­ ing. "We can't resc ue anybody ," say s Kot arski, "and we don't offer so lution s. But we e ncourage women and children who are in an abusive or stressful situation to ex­ plore the othter options th at are open to them."

Openjng up new options - for men as well as wo men - is tHe primary goa l of women's studies. Boe hnen thinks every ul) iversity student should be aware of the importance of gender and have the benefit of knowledge a bout the roles wQmen have pl ayed in the development of their societie .

More than anything else, the Women's Studies Program at Guelph re vea ls women with interests and aptitudes in all fields of endeavor - medicine , politic s, law , psychology, economic. , educat ion, religion. If you can't name a 20th century female achiever in each of those areas, then you're living proof that women's studies programs are stil l needed.

BOehnert adm its she once thought the program might put it­ seJ f ot o f business by integrating knowledge of women into the main 'trean1..9f on iver sity courses and research. But, she ays. lhe-program is needed now as much as ever as a stimulu s to th university commUllilY . It o ffers a viable way to sensitize

student s and faculty to the human i s ue", ,1no concerns of women a nd ensures that their roles in societ)( ru;-e not over­ loo ked. f Not a ll, but rno t WQ en 's studies cour:;c. are taug ht by female faculty becay,se they ' re more in terested and beca use it's important to provide ' tudenl with fc mal,e academic role models . Although the student body in the mid - 1970s was 48 per cent female , less th an nine I~er Ct~nt of the facu Ity were women , and most of them taught in the Gollege of Family and Consumer Studi es. The need to provide role models is just as valid today with abo ut 60 per cent female students and only 19 per cent female fac ulty members.

Muc h like the women it champions, the Women ' s Studies Program had to w ait for the kind of ac ce ptance that brings financial bac kin g. A budget allocation in 1990, administrative s upport and office space came after the Universit y began to emphasize interdisc iplinary progra ms and fo und Women 's Studies to be a lad y in waiting.

Ironically , that interd iscip lina ry scope is what women's studies students have always liked best about the program.

"The bi gges t benefit of a universi ty ed ucati o n," say s Burk, "is gai ning the a bility to open yo ur mind to new ideas. :d ucati o n can help you communicate, create and co pe with the challen ­ ges we all face in life."

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or a few seconds, the gym is quiet. except for the squeak of rubber soles on polished hardwood and the dull thud of a basketball again st the floor. Gradually, the sound of run­ ning feet and bouncing ball becomes loude r and fa ster.

Then , suddenly , it disappea rs. The athlete in red and go ld is airborne, to the cheers and whistles of a bleache r full of kids.

High above the head s of imaginary opponents, #42 casual­ ly drops the ball into the hoop and grins as his feet touch down again . And the crowd explodes with applause.

This guy has got the ir attention. And he' 1.1 need it, because his real purpose he re is more important than showing these kids how to slam dunk a basketball. He 's here to te ll them why they need an education if they want to score in life.

It was last spring in the middle of exam week when five Gryphon players and basketball coach Tim Darling took their talents and their s tories to the Prince of Wales School in Hamilton. They were invited by Nick Toth, Arts '77, who teaches mathematics at the inner city school.

U of G and the Prince of Wales School share the Gryphon mascot, so Toth has been twinning the two to give hi s Hamil­ ton students a chance to discover "what's out there after high school." He had already taken some of hi s Grades 6, 7 and 8 students to a Guelph Gryphon home game and had another group on campus for College Roy al. And he 's got plans for a foray this fall to U of G' s Ichthyology Institute .

Gryphon forward s Floyd Cobran , Tim Mau and Shawn Taras, guards Humphrey Hill and Rich Weslowski and coach Darling dazzled their young audience with their bas­ ketball skills, then delivered a strong message about staying in school and stayin g off drugs.

"The only reason I went was because Coach sa id we could tell the kids anything we wanted," says Cobran. Twice he held the young audience spellbound - when he performed his airborne slam dunk and when he described how he had dropped out of hi g h school because he thought it was a waste of time. Darling and Hill told similar stories about dropping out of school , experimenting with dru gs, watching friends go to jail and, finally, getting a second chance at university.

Weslow sk i hit home when he talked about watching hi s dad play football next door to Prince of Wales School in the Tiger-Cats' Ivor Wynn Stadium. He said his father' s best ad­ vice was to put as much effort into your studies as you do in your sport.

Mau reminded the kids that they are an important part of Canada' s future. And Taras' s experience at Guelph s howed them how diligence and hard work can payoff, both on the court and in the class room. He moved from role player to starter on the Gryph.on team while completing a master 's de- j gree III computer sCience.

Several of the Gryphon players came to Guelph as mature students. "I needed another chance at getting an education," says Cobran . He liked the relaxed atmosphere at U of G and believed Darling really meant it when he said: "We ' ll help you do well in the classroom." The coach did mean it.

There's a poster in the locker room reminding players that only a cap and gow n can outperform a Gryphon uniform.

The athletics depattment runs a student athlete deve lop­ ment program for all fir.st-year varsity athletes to help them learn time-management skills and develop good study

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habits. The basketball team also has a faculty advisory com­ mittee that pa ir ' each player with a professor in his dis­ c ipline. But Cobran is quick to po int out that hi s best tutors hav e been his own teammates. Last year" quad included studcnts in computmg science, engineering , politi ca l studies, wildlife studies. sociology ancl arts. It also included two President's Scholars (M au and Harry Frielink) and one of the first recipients of the prestigious Dick Bmwn Scholar­ ship (Chris Baldau fl.

"U of G expects to see higher academ ic averages for all G I'yphon teams because the Universit 's enrolment cutoff for most programs now exceeds 80 per cent. Some sports writers are predicting that such high academ ic requi rements wi ll mean a lean future for Gryphon varsity sports.

Darling admits the higher cutoff makes recruiting more difficult, but he's certainly not throwing in the towel. The team 's past record shows that scholarship and sportsmanship make a good combi nation. He ' ll add another Dick Brown Scholarship winner to the roster this fall and is already planning for the 1993 Ontario championship.

Darling' s team finished third in Canada last year, afte r two consecutive silver medal wins in the national champion­ ships. jt was an exciting year th at saw the Gryphon s main­ tain their rank as the best drawing un iversity team in the country .

•, 0 one else even comes close," he S3yS. Cobran may think the U of G campus is ca lm and slow-paced, but inside the " House of Slam," the 2,000 cheerin g fans beh ind the home team bench are anything but ca lm and the on-co urt action is fast-paced and excitin g.

For the past six. years. Darling's dual role as coach and hawker has created a lot of excitement for home town fans.

The Gryphon hoopsters now have a weekly phone-in show on local ca ble TV that draws as many as 50 ca ll s a week.

Coach and his players are frequen tl y stopped downtown by enthus iastic fans o r youngste rs asking for an autog raph.

The ce lebri ty role is one the Gryphons take se riously, says Darling, who has never tumed down an invitation to take his team on the road to talk with younge r athletes. The depart­ ment also operates a summer basketball camp on campus for boys and girls aged 7 to 19.

Gryphon basketball 1992/93 Pre-season games Oct. 15 Oct. 17 Oct. 18 Oct. 20 Oct. 23 Oct. 24 Oct. 30 Nov. 1 Nov.4 Nov. 6 & 7 Nov . 13 to 15 Nov . 21 & 22 Nov. 24 Nov. 28 Nov, 29 Dec. 28 to 30

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ALUMNI CAREER PLANNING

WEEKEND WORKSHOP

NOVEMBER 13, 14 & 15, 1992

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This highly successful workshop, developed by Sharon Crozier, Ph.D., University Counsell ing Services, University of Calgary , is th e first step for an alumnus who is considering a career move.

Discussio n, structured exercises and experimental activities will lead alumni to ga in insight into a personal career / lifestyle analysis and assessment , career info.rmation resources, networking skills and much more.

The Wee kend workshop (Friday evening through S unday afternoon) wi ll be facilitated by professiona l counsellors from the University of Gu e lph and Student Resource Centre.

No matter what their age, career stage or reason for transition, each participant will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal ac tion pl a n - and chart their n ext move .

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In order to provide individualized career in fo nna tion , registrants are required to attend one of two pre-testing sessions. The Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory and the Mye rs- Briggs Type Indicator will be administered and resu lts tabulated prior to the workshop. Pre-testing dates are as follows: Toronto: Wednesday, Octobe r 14, 1992; 7:00-8:30 p.m .

Guelph: Thursday, Octobe r 22, 1992 ; 7:00-8:30 p .m.

Pre-test locaUons will be confirmed at registration.

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Th e registration fee of $225* inc lud es administration and tabulation of the Strong-Campbe ll Interest Inventory and the Myers -Briggs Type Indicator, materials , two lunches and refreshment breaks.

'Tuition fees in excess of $100 are income tax deductible.

Enrolmen t is limited to 20 registrants .

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Membershi p has its privileges c w alumni cards bring added con­ venience and privileges to U of G graduates. Available from Alumni Hou se, the membership card represents both the University of Guelph Alumni Association (UG AA) and college or pro­ gram affiliation. It guarantees library borrowing privileges at no cost, athletic centre memberships at staff rates, stu­ dent prices for Homecoming, free admis­ sion to the Lniversity Centre lecture series and campus pubs. lts benefits also include discounts on continuing educa­ tion programs, travel packages and spe­ cial alumni programs s uch as sk i days and evenings at the theatre, opera and the racetrack.

Membership cards are available to all U of G graduates and associate members of UG AA. Pick up a card on campus at Alumni House, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Department of Alumni Affairs, Univers ity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N lG 2W l. The Mac­ FACS and HAFA Alumni Associations will mail cards to their members this fall.

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sociation now offers an associate mem­ bers hip to class friends, retired faculty and professional st aff. All persons so designated on June 21, 1992 are auto­ matically associate members, but, in fu­ ture, persons seeking associate me mbership mu st apply in writing to the UG AA board.

(The changes in G AA membership do not affect the Guelph Alumnus mail­ ing list) The bylaw revision also streamlined UGAA business functions and reduced the association board of directors and the executive. There are 20 members on the 1992-93 board, including one repre­ sentative from each alumni association.

And there are seven members on the UG AA executive.

OAC alumni look ahead

The OAC Alumni Assoc iation is or­ ganizing a di sc uss ion about OAC's role in the future of Canadian agriculture.

Under the leadership of new president Everett Ri ggs, OAC '48, the associa­ tion is asse mbling a group of SO people from the farming, manufacturing and food processing sectors to help the col­ lege set its agenda for the next century.

"We need input from alumni and other people who are functioning in the 'real world' to help us build programs The designation of as soc iate member­ that will meet the needs of tomorrow ' s ship was created through a bylaw society," says Dean Ro b McLaughlin, revision at the UGAA annual meeting in '69 and PhD '77. He is leading the col­ June. In addition to regular UGAA mem­ lege through a similar process of selfbership (all U of G graduates), the asevaluation. He welcomes the sense of vision mem­ bers of the alumni association's think-tank may bring to the planning process.

During discussions this fall and at a two-day cam­ pus meeting in December, the group will consider questions such as: What role should OAC play in the development of new knowledge? Does the col­ lege have a responsibility to Show your Guelph co lors . Join Ihe Vanier Cup provide educational oppor­ Parade of Colors Nol'. 2/ allhe SkyDome in tunities for those people al­ Toroll/O. For details, call Trish Walker, CSS ready in the industry '77 und M.Sc. '90, direClor of alumni affairs, al through professional 5/9-824-4120, E XI. 2/22. development courses, con­ tinuing education, technolCu e/ph Alumnus

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P lease call or send us your new executive listings. Phone 519-824­ 4[20, Ext. 6541 , FAX 519-822-2670 or mail to n iversity Affairs and Development, Alumni Ho use , U nivers ity of Guelph , G uelph , O nt.

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ogy transfer? Should OAC be involved in public education - Royal W inter Fair displays, speaker' s bureau , public school programs explaining the agri­ food sector') Where are college resour­ ces best spent - research, service, degree or diploma programs') OAC and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) are now reviewing the status of the two-yc:ar diploma program, including a proposal that would discontinue the program at Guelph while strengthening programs at the other agricultural colleges. Those schools might be restructured to special­ ize in particular areas such as dairy, crops, beef and s heep production.

Di sc uss ions at the OAC Alumni As­ sociation annual meeting in June revealed some opposition to the proposal for both sentimental reasons ­ OAC history rests on the birth of the diploma program - and financial reasons - the program is more cost-effi­ cient at Guelph than at the other col­ leges. But Biggs says the membership agreed to table the issue until the association's "think-tank" has tabled its recommendations .

Also at the annual meeting, the as­ sociation decided to continue its involve­ ment in campus activities such as convocations, OAC guest lectures and careers nights and to continue support­ ing the Student Alumni Association and the OAC Redmen hockey team .

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Top: CBS alllmni display till' if associatioll/ogo. From hit. John Hag足 geman, '82. Jennifer (Aitkens) Warris, 'li2 , Sylvia Main. '81, Lori (Mcintosh) MacKay, '83, Sharon (Radauskas) Cuddy, 'S3 , Ed Snucins. '83, Lori (MacSemchuk) Wrigley. '83, and usan Shaw足 Mann. '82. AhOl'I': Ric Jordan. CSS ' 75, is UGAA presidew/or 1992-93, and Rosemary Clark. Mal' '59, was slIrprised hy both UGAA and the ove alumni assoriarion with (wtiticare.1 0/ apprecia足 tioll/or her 11 years of service 10 Gllelph alllll/l1i. Left: Joan Kuhnt.

CSS ' 72, IJrollght dWI/-:htas Stepal1ie alld Kathaine to Alumn; Weekend to shllw them wl!atlllliversity is all ahml/ . Till' ~irlst(Jlmd (/ pirtllre of their grand/ather, the late Wm, Kay .Jr,. ill the OAC ' 42 yearbuoJ... Lower hit: Keeping worm at the slo-pitch IOlirnamefll .

AI the Moc -FAC Alumlli A:..sociatioll al1llllal meetilll(: (from left) Joanne Poel, '82, Bonnie (Arnott) Mcintosh, ' 82.

Susan Woodhouse. ' 82, France.'i Tanner,' 83, Ill/d Bonnie (Kerslake) Bridge, . 82.

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ALUMNI Bondar has been a local and nation al volunteer for Girl Guides of Canada and was made an honorary member in 1986.

One of her many honorary degrees came from Guelph in 1990. She was named chair of the Canadian Life Scien ­ ces Subcommittee fo r Space Station in 1985 and was a member of the Ontario Premier' s Council on Science and Tech­ nology .

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Alumnus of Honour

When she was named U ofG Alumnus of Honour, Robe rta "Bob­ b ie" Bondar, O AC '68, was described by classmate Bob Hunsberger, as "a brilliant role Rohel'lO Bondar model for young women interested in non-tradi­ tional areas of science and engineering and an oustanding ambassador for the University of G uelph." He was talking about much more than her historic flight into space Jan. 22 on the space shuttle Discovery.

Bondar came to Guelph in 1964 with an interest in entomology, but ultimate­ ly earned her degree in zoology. She went on to The University of Western Ontario for M.Sc. studies, Toronto for a PhD in neurology and McMaster University for an MD. She was assistant professor of neurology at McMaster and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic for the Hamilton- Wentworth Region when she joined the Canadian Space Program in 1983. Her current research looks at blood flow in the brain during microgravity and lower-body negative pressure.

Paq uette recognized for achievement Derick Paquette, BS '78, was awarded the Alumni Medal of Achievement at spring con­ vocation ceremonies June 4 for the College of Biological Derick Paquelle Science.

Paquette is chief of family practice at Guelph's two hospitals and a dedicated volunteer whose efforts have crossed in­ ternational boundaries. He has made many trips to Romania, at his own ex­ pense, providing support for health-care workers as well as medical suppl ies, clothing and toys for homeless children.

He has also enlisted support from phar­ maceutical companies and the Si sters of St. Joseph ' s, who have joined his or-

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OVC honors McEwen Ken McE wen, O VC ' 5 I , received the O VC D istinguished A lumnus award at Alumni Weekend. After graduating from the college in 195 I, McEwen began his career as a veterinary health officer in G rey County, Ont. He was on faculty at ove from 1956 to 1964, working in veterinary extension, then returned to the public health field . He was director of the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculture and Food's diagnostic laboratories and communicable disease division, and chaired the Ontario Milk Commission, the Farm Products Market­ ing Board and the Farm Products Ap­ peal Tribunal. He held the latter pos ition from 1979 until his retirement earlier this year.

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ph an relief program. We ll over 20 ton­ nes of donated equipment and supplies have been shipped to Romania.

Closer to home, Paquette provides voluntary medical service at the Sexual­ ly T ransmitted D isease Clinic in G uelph and works with the G uelph Distress Centre, the Teenage Parent Program, G uelph- We llington W omen in Crisis and the C hildren 's A id Society .

Paquette earned hi s medical degree from McMaster niversity and did post­ graduate work at M cMaster and at Memorial University in Ne wfou ndland.

He worked in an underscrv iced area at the Bonav ista Pe ninsula Health-Care Com plex in Bonavista, Nfld. before moving his family practice to G uelph.

In 1983-84, he lectured on campus in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and is a frequent guest at CBS careers night.

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former members to scour their memories and their photo al­ bums for material that could be included in a published history of the ol'!~anization. If' you have photos or stories, send them to Andre Bordeleau at 2400 Keller St., St. Laurent, Que. H4K 2P8.

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ALUMNI

Popera Attend Alumni Night at the Opera in Hamilton Jan. 30 for the show Papera.

To order half-price tickets call Sue Lawren son at Alumni House, 5 J 9-824­ 4120, Ext. 6963.

of the Department of Chemi stry and Biochemistry . This is the first time the award ha s gone to a fac ulty member out­ side of OAC. But Prokipcak is certainly no stranger to the Agg ies. He 's been on faculty for 25 years and teaches two first-ye ar chemi stry courses that attract a large number of OAC student s.

The award for extension work went to Prof. Gary Kachanoski, who joined the Department of Land Resource Science just over six years ago. Hi s efforts have been a prime factor in the success of two major in itiatives in Ontario: the Til­ lage 2000 program of the Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement Pro­ gram and the Partners in Nitrogen pro­ gram designed to implement a nitrogen soil testing system.

The recipient of thi s year 's OAC alumni award for di stinction in research is Prof. Larry Martin of the George Mor­ ris Centre. Martin joined U of G in 1982 and served as chair of the Department of Agr icult ural Economics and Business from 1986 until 1990, wh en he became director of the George Morris Centre.

He has served on nine indu stry advisory committees and has consulted with government, agricu ltural commodity groups, trade representatives, academics and the media.

OAC says thanks Durin g the spring and summer month s, the OAC Alumni Assoc iation passed out its annual awards that recognize the contributions of of faculty and alumni in teaching , research and extension work.

Brothers Carl, OAC '70, and David Loewith,OAC '75, of Lynden, On!. , were awarded the assoc iation' s outstand ­ ing se rvice award.

Both are consulted frequent ly by OAC fac ulty and are often asked to lec­ ture in OAC courses.

The Loewiths operate a 130-cow dairy farm that is a favorite de stination for student study tours and for interna­ tional visitors. They were early adopters of such technology as calf hutch hous­ ing and total mixed ration s and are now interested in robotic milkers. They operate their farm on the basis of low labor, high efficiency and family cooperation, and have shared their ex­ perti se on cam pu s, in farm gat herin gs across Canada and in five other countries.

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Rotary sponsors new environmental scholarship The Rotary Club of Brampton has be­ come the fir st organization to sponsor a sc holarship for OAC s new environmen­ tal sc ience program. The $4,000 sc holar­ ships tie in with Rotary' s intern ational acceptance of the environment as a priority iss ue , says Everett Biggs, OAC '48 , a member of the Brampton club.

Former deputy mini ster of agriculture and food in Ontario, Biggs is also the new president of the OAC Alumni As­ sociation.

AMF funds available The Alma Mater Fund Advi sory Coun­ cil has announced that $88 ,000 in un­ designated fund s from the 1991 campaign are available for special cam­ pus and alumni projects. Last year the fund supported eight such projects, in­ cluding a continuing-education survey

for the Mac-FACS Alumni Association.

The 1992 campaign, headed by in­ coming chair Lorraine Holding, FACS '71, is committed to funding War Memorial Hall renovation s. It will also fund scholarships, facult y- and student­ related activit ies and continuin g-educa­ tion material s for alumni.

A ceremony rededicating War Memorial Hall during Alumni Weekend recognized alumni who served in both world wars and alumni and students whose labor and money helped to build the memorial. .

Travel with us U of G grads and friends can take ad- . vantage of a broad spectrum of travel opportunities in 1992-93.

Western Mediterranean A delu xe two-week cruise on the Song of Norway to Spain, France, Ital y and Greece, Oct. 6 to 19, from $3,899.

The South Pacific Fly down under and explore the cities of Auckland , Queenstown, Christchurch, Melbourne and Sydney, Oct. 27 to No v. 12, $5,445 from Toron­ to.

Canary Islands and Morocco A 13-day, air-sea cruise aboard the Song of NO/way to Teneri fe, Las Pal­ mas, Santa Cruz, Agadir, Casablanca, Gibraltar and Barcelona, April 1993 , from $3,500.

Dutch Waterways A 14-day adventure, including a six ­ ni ght cruise through the canals and waterways of Holland plus three days each in Paris and Geneva, May 1993, fro m $5.149.

Bulgaria Mounta ins, monasteries. museums and the beautiful countryside of Bulgaria , thi s tour highl ight s the country's rich history of 7,000 years, May 27 to June 19, 1993, $2,799 from Toronto.

Arctic Coast Experience An opportunity for bird-watchers, wildflower enthusiasts. natural ists, photographers and hikers to vi sit the Arctic, land of the midnight sun, July J 8 to 28 , 1993, from $3,500.

For in forma tion, contact Rosemary Clark at Alumni House. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N IG 2WI , 519-824-4 120, Ext. 6534.

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COMING EVENTS

The challenge is on!

When the Mustangs come to Gue lph Sept. 12, they'l l be backed up by 3,800 st udents as part of Weste ll1 ' s frosh week activities. "Too bad they' ll see their tea m lose," says promoti o ns co-or­ dinator Dick Freeman who is saving 4,000 seats in Alumn i Stadium for Gryphon fan s. "This could be the seaso n 's biggest c hallenge and the larges t crowd ever at a Gryphon game .

Don't miss it."

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September - Globe thistle and but­ terfly bu sh are in flower in the Arboretum 's Gosling Wildlife Gar­ den . Tours Sundays at 1 and 3 p.m.

Sept. 11 - OAC golf tournament. To register, call Ext. 6533 .

Sept. 16 - UC noon-hour concert with Moxy Fruvous , free . The fall schedule continues Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14 and 27 and Nov. 4 with the Hard Rock Miners , reggae music, Miles and Porteous, Montreal Dance and Jerry Watson the billiard pro.

Sept. 19 - Pet Trust SuperMatch Dog Show at OVC, 9 a.m . to 5 p.m .

See page 9 for details.

Sept. 22 - The annual Women's Studies Lecture Series presents U of T physicist and U of G honorary de­ gree recipient Ursula Franklin , who will re flect on the importance of women' s studie s to other disciplines, 8 p.m., McNaughton 11 3.

Sept. 23 - Fall habitat tour of the Arboretum at 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 - New student barbecue hosted by UGAA and the Studen t Alu mni Associa tion , 5 p.m., Alumni House pati o.

Sept. 25 - Homecoming weekend begins with a beach volleyball tou r­ nament , 5 to 7 p.m., socia l, pool play and cooed teams of four, $40 per team. Registe r by Sept. 8 at 519­ 824-4120, Ext. 21 02 . Gryphon Club Hall of Fame dinne r, 6 pm , $50 per person (inc lude s tax-deductib le receipt) . For tickets, call 519-824­ 4120, Ext. 6133 .

Sept. 26 - HOMECOMING! Beach volleyball tournament all day . Alumni House tours, 9 a.m . to 2 p.m. Human Kineti cs Alumni Association genera l meeting at 9 a .m .; Engineering Alu mni A ssoci ation at 10 a .m.

Charity walk-a-thon at 10:30 a. m.

Pre-game gathering for alumni at Alumni House , 11 a.m .; entertain­ ment at the stadium , 12 :30 p .m .

Gryphon s vs. Wi lfrid Laurie r at 2 p.m. Alumni dance at 8 p.m . For informati on , ca ll 519-824-4120 , Ext. 2 102.

Sept. 26 - The Ottawa-Carlton alu m­ ni chapter begins its ann ual mixed bridge club . For information , call Bob Miller, OVC '48, and his wife , Evelyn , at 613-729-8383.

Oct. 1 - Schofield Memorial Lecture .

OVC will host Steven Arnoczky, profe ssor of veterinary surgery and director of the laboratory for com­ parat ive 0 rthopaedic research at Michigan State Un ive rsity . His topic is "How veterinary orthopaedic re ­ search is saving you r knee s. Adm is­ sion is free for the 3 p.m. lecture in

War Memorial Hall, reception to fol­ low .

Oct. 4 - Guelph Bonsai Show at the Arboretum Centre 11 a.m. to 6 p.m .; includes demonstrations, Japanese cultural events and bonsai sale , ad­ mission $4.

Oct. 27 - Dori s Anderson, author of The Unfinished Revolution, will dis­ cuss the status of women in 12 dif­ ferent European and No rth Ame rican coun tries - a Women's Studies lecture , 8 p.m., McNaughton 113.

Nov . 10 - Th e Rankin Family per­ form s East Coast and Celtic music, 8 p.m., War Memorial Hall. For ticket informati on , call th e UC box oHice at 5 19-824-4120, Ext. 4367 .

Nov. 10 to 21 - Look for the U of G display at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto .

Nov. 19 to 22 - Fair November , a craft show and sale in the UC. Open Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m ., Saturday til16 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p .m. Free admission.

Nov. 21 - Vanier Cup. To join the Gue lph color parade , call Alumni House. For tickets call the Vanier Cup Hotline 416-288-9546 .

Dec . 4 to 6 - Annual U of G hockey tournament. To register , call Brian Tapscott, OA C '8 1, at 519 -7 67­ 3 11 5.

Jan. 9 - First regular OUAA season home game , men's basketball, Mc­ Master, 2 p.m .

Jan. 26 - Th e Women's Studies Lec­ ture Series hosts Glenda Simms, presid ent of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women at 8 p .m.

Jan. 30 - Alumn i opera night at Ham ilton Place . To order half-price tickets for the show Popera, ca ll Sue Lawrenson at 519-824-4 120 , Ext. 6963.

Feb. 20 & 21 - Norman McC allum Diploma Hockey Tournament. For details , call Bill Clausen, 5 19-824­ 4 120, Ext. 26 10 March 3 - Florida Picnic, North Port Yacht Club, 11 a.m. When you gel to Florida, ca ll George Jackson, O AC '49 , at 813 -466 -3751 for details.

May 6 - Madame Butterfly at Hamil­ ton Place. Alum ni can order half­ price tickets by calling Alumn i House, Ext. 6963 .

May 14 to 16 - Barrie Central Col­ leg iate in Barrie, Ont. , invite s all forme r students to the schoo l's 150th anniversary . For information, call 705-726-1846.

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Sean Turner M erryweather, Jan. 31 in Mis­ sissauga, Ont. They'd al so like t') say hello to fel low fine arts graduate Ca rol Sargent, '81, who is mu se um educator at Upper Canada Vdlage in Morrisburg , OnL

Arts Tracey Ak itt , '87, teac hes Eng lish as a foreign language to stude nts at lntercoop Language School in Rome, Italy.

Andre Auger, PhD '92, ea rned his doc­ torate part tim e while working for U of G as director of th e Counselling and Studen t Re so urce Centre. Auger conceived and led Guelph' s fir st Krakow semes te r, has se rved o n almost every major Se nate committee concerned with ed uca ti onal is sue s at U of G and has authored se veral papers o n the sub­ ject of university life and service. !.iraduatin g last February, he was the College of Art s nominee for the 1991/92 Forster Med al, which is awarded to a graduate stude nt dis ­ pla ying lead ership and academic qualitie s. In Jun e, hi s wife, Marion, CSS '87 and MA '92, received a master 's degree in soc iology and anthropolo gy.

K aren Osborne, ' 88 , is studying art conse r­ vation at Sir Sanford Fleming College in Peterborough,Ont .

Loretta Paoli, '86, was one of the or­ gani zers of a festival of art.s event th at ran concurrently with th e 1992 Guelph Spring Festival. Th e fringe fe stiv al featured the alter­ native visual and performance art of a num­ be r of local arti sts. Kevin Hogg, Arts '82, te chni ca l director at Ed Vid eo in G uelph , ad­ judicated an exhibition of s ite-spec ifi c work s in downtown bus s he lters, and Guelph art hi story pro fe ssor Tom Tritschler adjudicated an e xhibition of outdoor sculpture.

Elizabe th Starr, '81 , has complet ed a PhD in educ ational psychology at the University

Mary Grove, '82, and Camero n Hinklev. CSS '8 2, would lik e their U of G'fri e nd s and classmates to know they will ce leb rate their fourth wedding anniversa ry Sept.

2 3. Those re membering the d ay in­ c lude Jeff Haus wirth , CSS '82, who was bes t man, and wedding g ue sts Lynn (iii bank, CSS '84, Mabel (Zurbrigg) Wyatt, Mac '39, Robert Procunier. OAC '40 , Ruth (Nelles) \1cFadzean, Mac ' 34, Brian 1usson, Arts '85, Sarah (W}'a tt) Nadalin, Art s '82, and Wi lfLade.

Jim Irvine. '69, tell s us that he, too , enjoy ~ keeping up with new s of the Univers ity and other Wel ­ lin gton College graduates. Lik e Dawn M o nroe , ' 69, and Dou g M oy niha n, ' 69 , who wrote to us earlier , he would like more new s from graduates o f Wellin gton Col­ lege from the lat e 19605 and early 1970s. "I have many fond me mories of my yea rs at Gu e lph , as th e fac ulty of art s wa s going through it s early g rowing pa ins under the capable g uidance of dean Murdo Ma cK innon .

"As fo r my new s since gradua­ tion : I ha ve bee n e mployed with the Ontario government (mini ­ SHi es of Tran sportati on, Treas ury and E c onomic~ and Attorn ey Ge neral) in human re sources , strategic policy and planning and financ e and administratIon. I am currently a senIor hum an reso urces co nsult ant with th e Mini stry o f the Attomey General in Toronto."

Mark Merryweather, '79, and hi s wife, Marilyn Turner, an­ no un ce the birth of their fi rst child, 28

of Albena and is now in a research position at the University o f London, England.

T racy Swayze, '90, writes that she is com­ pleting a program in e lementary education at Niagara University in Lewiston , .Y. She will graduate next spring with a master 's of education.

Suzanne Wiseman, '89, has been working as a child an d youth worker at Oolagen Com­ munity Services in East York , Ont. , but plans to beg in a bachelor of edu ca tion pro­ gram at McGill University thi s fall.

CBS H a rold Aukema, M.Sc. '88 and PhD '92, wa s the 1991/92 C BS nominee for th e graduate Forste r Medal for achievem e nt in academic work and leadership. He c urrently hold s a postdoc toral pos ition at Tex as A & M University. O riginally from Ridgetown,Ont. , ukcma came to Gue lph to carn a B.Sc. in animal an d poultry science from OAC, then continu ed on to do graduate wo rk in nutritional sc ien­ ces. Whil e a graduate student, he taught several co urses , served on the Graduate Students Associa­ ti on, ",as co-chair o f a nutritional researc h eve nt for two yea rs and was a youth leader in the Gue lph community. He also re cei ved two graduate sc holarships, an SERC sc ho larship and a 1990 best stu­ de nt award from the American Oil Che mi sts Society .

Designed for success

T hi. lithograph print by fine a rt student Shannon Lumley won first place in 1.1 de~ign competition sponsored by the Framing Experience in Guelph . The contest helped k ick off a anada-wide pro­ gram that will award more than $50,000 next year in fine lIrt scho larships, The franchi ed hain of 40 stores and galleries will offer scholarships to high school and university .lrt students as part of its program to promote Canadian an, say John W illiams, HA A '80, who is director of retail development for Framing Experience Ltd .

The idea developed by Guelph owners Donna and Blair Stew;U1 was adopted by

the company's natiunal dealer group. which includes a num­ ber of Guelph alumni.

Among them are Chris ­ top he r W ilson , H FA '86, lind Jane F er g uson -Wilson, Arts '85. who ope rate Wilson Art Ltd. in Vancouver. Fram­ ing Ex perience owner., in O n­ lario include Robert C arter, H AF ' 84, of Brampton, Brenda V u rville, Arts '77, of Ham ilton, Catherine Hawt horn, rts '83 , of Scar­ borough, J effrey Bray, 0 C '88 BLA, of Stratford and Gary Tay lor, SS '79, of nionville.

At $50,000, this will be Canada 's best-funded art scholarship program, says Williams.

Ja m es Duthie, '83 and O AC M.Sc. '86, is a resea rch as s ist a nt at Oklahoma State nive rsity in Lane. Okla. Afte r eaming G uelph deg rees in botany and environmen­ tal biology, he co mpleted a PhD at North Carolina State Univ ersity.

He worked in th e departme nt of plant pathology a t the Universit y of California before mov ing to Ok­ lahoma .

Song Lee, '82 and PhD '87, is an assistant professor at the Univer­ sity of Manitoba in Winnipeg . He is married to Ja nne (Ta mblyn ).

'90, and they hav e a son , C hri s­ toph e r.

Bob McLean, '78, and Martha Law, had the ir second c hild, Alis ­ tair [an Law Mc Lea n, Feb. 29, a brothe r for two-year-old Malcolm.

After leav ing U of G . M I. ean completed a Ph D at th e Univers ity of C algary and is now an ass istant professor of microbiology at Qu ee n' s. They live in Kings ton, Ont., where Law works as a fl o ral des ig ner.

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GRAD NEWS G ilbert Proulx, PhD ' 82, was rec en tl y ap­ pointed man ager of the wildlife sec tion of the Alberta Research Council. He is a lso an adjunct professo r in the department of fo re stry at the Univ e rs ity of Albert a.

Catherin e Wisem an, ' 8 1 H .K ., has been en ­ joy ing a v is it to E ngl and, on leave from he r positi on as a speech pathologist at the Hu gh Mac M illan Centre 111 Toro nto.

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Vincent Ogaye, M.Sc. '91, re turned to Ke nya after grad uati on and is working as a hydrologist with the Coffee Re sea rch Fo un­ dation in Ruiru.

Steven Oliver, '79, and hi s wife, Barbara , announce the alTi va l of a so n, Pe ter, on Fe b.

23. They al so hav e a two-ye ar- old daughter, Laura. Oliver is a medi ca l o nco logy repre­ sentativ e in pharmace utical s fo r Cyanamid Canada .

Michael Organ, M.S c. '86 and PhD '9 2 , earned his first Gue lph degree from CBS, then began grad uate work in or­ gani c c hemi stry. He re ce ived his PhD in June and was n ame d winner of thi s year' s Mi cilOid Organ Forster Medal for ex­ ce ll ence in academic and lead ership sk ills.

The med a l is awarded ann ua ll y to a g raduate student in memo ry of the late Dona ld Forste r, form e r U of G pres ident.

Organ c urrentl y holds an NSERC postdoc ­ to ra l fe ll ows hi p at Sta nford Uni ve rs ity and has been the reci pi en t of numerou s other ['e­ searc h sch o larships from NSER C, U of G and severa l private in st itution s. In addi tion to res earc h activi ties, he helped deve lop an advanced OI'ganic c hemistry laborato ry at Gu e lph and co-wro te th e co urse manu a l. He talked to local hi gh sc hool stud en ts about careers in science and organi zed a plannin g con fere nce on the fut ure o f gradu ate stu dies at Gue lph. In Jul y, he rece ived th e Uni vers ity 's Communit y Servi ce A wa rd.

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se rv ed o n the co -ordina ti on and sc heduling co mmittee, wro te a monthly column for the assoc iati on ne wsletter, managed the grad lou nge fo r four years an d organized the fi rst grad student baseball. to urn a ment at Gu elph and the firs t inte runivers it y tournament fo r grad uate student s across Ontario.

Ivan Pak-Ki n Hon, '8 6 , is a stati sti c ian in the finance di vision of the Bank of No va Scoti a in T o ront o.

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Brad Inglis, '9 1, recent ly acc epted a pos i­ tion as execu tiv e director of the Big Brothe r A ssoc iati o n in Ca mbridge, On t.

Lisa K a donaga, M .Sc . '92, was th e CSS nominee for the 199 1/92 Forste r Medal , the Uni vers ity' s top gradua te aw ard. She earned her unde rgradu ate degree at McMaster Univers ity in he r home to wn of Ham ilton , then came to Guelph to complete a mas ter 's in geograp hy. She is now beginning a PhD at the Univ ersity of Vict oria in British Colum­ bia. She has al so been asked to work o n the Mackenzie Bas in impact s tud y by the C anad ian Climate Centre.

Kadonaga was a vo luntee r for the OVC Wild Bird Clinic , se rved on the USRP&D publ ication s committee, worked as a teac h­ ing assistant in geography an d was a re ­ se arc h ass istant on a G rand River cl imate chan ge and wat er-qualit y projec t. She has also done vo luntee r work a t Hami lto n' s Royal Bot ani­ cal Ga rden s, the Bruce Trail an d as an archeo log i­ ca l excava tor. Las t yea r, s he won a national w riting competiti on for a fable about th e arctic le mmin g.

Liam, '8 6, and Sara McCreery, OAC '87 , are new pare nts. G eorge Samuel was bo rn Jan . 8.

The McCree rys ope ra te a cas h crop farm near In­ nerkip , Ont. Stephen Sind Ie, '92, received hi s psyc ho logy

degree at winte r 1992 co nv oc ation and was married in June to Jen ni fer Parke r. The cou ple res ides in Kitch e ner, Ont. Lynda Thompson, '92, has acce pted a posi­ tion with the Ontario Milk Mark e ting Board , whe re she wi ll supervise the da iry prin cess prog ram. She was Ontario Da iry Princess in 1989/90, representin g Pee l Region, whe re her fa mil y operates Elmlawn Farm s.

Janet Wright, MA '79, was rea pp oi nted last spring as c hai r of soc ial sci e nces at Augu s­ tan a Universi ty Co ll ege in Camrose, Alta.

Wr ight, who is c urrently on sab batical, is an assoc iate professor of psy chology.

Wi nston Wong, ' 90, still has the Gryphon spirit. A deve lopm e nt pl anner with th e heritage polic y branch of th e Mini stry of Cul­ ture an d Communicati ons in Toronto, he says Guelph "w ill always be a spec ial place for me. Go Gryphons, go l"

Mac-FACS C ynthia Ball, '83, is a paper conservator at the Gl enbow Museu m in Calgary. Pre­ vious ly, sh e was at the Winnipeg A rt Gal­ lery. Since leaving Guelph, Ball has earned a degree in art hi story from the Univers ity o f Winnipeg an d a mas te r of art con servation from Queen's. She is married to Michael Wes brook, CSS '8 4.

This gro up of FACS grads decided 10 leI us share Ih e fun Ih ey had on a recenl Irip 10 Germany Sampling Ihe champagne al a small village wine f eslival ore ,from left, Kim Kaufman-Harbin son, '87 . of Dwell So un d. Olll.; Debbie Kiely, '87. of Guelph: Rose Piss, '88. of LeaminglOll. 0111., Gild Kim Ailken, '88, of Guelph.

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GRAD NEWS

Award-winning students join alumni ranks

mong U orG's newest alumn i are seven

1992 graduates who were nominated by thei r colleges for the niversity's most pres­ tigious undergraduate award . the Winegard Medal. Named for forme r pre ident Bill Winegard, the medal recognizes excellence in academic achievement. motivation, leadership and citiLenship.

Nicolas Tremblay, C PES '92. of Montreal graduated with a degree in biological ngineer­ ing. While at ofG , he was dire tor of French House and co-founder of Club de la Fran­ cophonie, taught in the College of Ans secon~-Ianguage men­ tor hip program and wrote a weekly French column for the student new. paper The Peak.

Volunteer activities took Tremblay to Indone ' ia one sum­ mer on a Canada World youth exchange program. across Canada on a SAVE Tour to talk to high school students about the environment, and into the United States. where he or­ ganized a coast-to-coast yout h tour by steam locomotive. He spent this summer in Bralil on a Canadian development project.

Bea trix Rei ner, CBS '92, of Calgary has received a number of research scholarships in the area of ecology and will begin graduate studies this fall at the University of Calgary in aquatic ecology. Originally from Ot­ tawa, she was active in sevenll tudent clubs and intramural ~pons, was a volunteer at the Arboretum and played n ute in the U of G Band.

Mar k Mdnn i , A rt.~ '92, a Guelph native who earned hi' degree in drama, is now ex­ ecutive assistant to CBC Toronto's vice­ president for entenainmenl. As a student, he managed several campus produc tion and the 1990 Eramosa ommunity Players project in nearby Rockwood . The nex t year. Mcinnis played the title role of Peer Gynt in U ofG'~ production of Ibsen's play.

He was a volunteer technical a 'sis­ tan t at the (nner Stage, a disc jockey with Radio Gryphon and a 111m critic for the 0I1111l'ioll.

Kelley Cavan, CBS 'R7, FACS M.S c. '88 and PhD '92 . received a doctorate in ilP­ plied human nutrit io n at winter 1992 con­ vocation . then lectured in th e Departm en t of Fam il y S tu dies until the spring. whe n ~ he began a study on the fi~h intake of th e Vi etnam ese popu lat ion in Hami Iton throu gh a Mini ~ try of the Environment g rant. She plans a career in public health nutrition with em phasis on internationa l nutrition. Her PhD research was conducted in Guatemala. Cavan was the 1991 / 1992 FACS nominee for th e Forster Medal fo r academic achievement and leadership.

Richard an d C heryl (Ridout) K in g, both '78, recen tl y moved from Mi ss issa uga.

Ont.. to Calgary. He was transferred by Petro-Canada, hi , e mployer for 13 years, to begin a new posi tion as senior system~ ana lyst in the Calga ry office. The coup le has tw o children: Bradley, 7; and Lauren, 4.

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C a r rie Foerster , CSS '92, o f Elmira, Ont., completed a double major in political tudies and international development and i now enrolled at 0 'goode Hall Law School in oronto.

At Guelph, she was a mem­ ber of Interhall Council, several student club and served as an arbitrator on the inlranlural pons appeals committee.

She represented U of G at two international student conferences and was a peer helper for foreign . tudents. While attending U of G's first Krakow semester,. he tutored Polish university students in English.

Linda Kelly, FACS '9 ,of Guelph came to university as a mature tudent to study un­ umer studies. She will attend the Faculty of Education at Nipi sing niversity Col­ lege this fall and hopes to teach in native school or other non-traditional setting.

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needs children and taught basic ,kills to adults. She was a volunteer at the local dis­ lress centre and worked on campus in stu­ dent housing. he also participated in the Krakow seme~ter.

Jan Beattie, '66 . is the new cha ir of FHn· shawe Coll ege's board of governo rs. A Woodstock, Onl.. res iden t and a teacher and coun se llor at Ingersoll Di stri ct Col· legiate Institut e, she has been a membe r of the Fan sh:l we board since 1987. She has also se rved the coll ege on th e Woodstock campus advisory co mmillee and on a task force for a new campus. Be,Htie is a me m­ ber of the Brantford Flying Club and past­ presi dent of the Universi ty Wom en's Club of Woodstoc k:

In 1987. Harry Stod d a rt, OAC '92.01' Bradford,Ont .. received one of the first of G 16,( Pre ident's Scholarships. He hasj u t com­ pleted the co-op program in agricu ltura l economic and business and is now doing graduate work in that field . toddart has received several aWilrds. including the OAC Class of '55 leadership award. He served on the College Royal commitree for four years and was chair in 1992. He wa. on student ounci l and par­ ticipated in intramural pons, square dancing and Junior Farmers.

Jen nifer trickland , OVC '92. finished first in her clIlS~ of I() I DV M graduate!.. Ot­ tawa is her home lown, but she is now working in a mixed ,mimal pra tice in Markdale, Onl. Her future plans include an intern!onip in large animal medicine and . urgery, followed by graduate studies.

Strickland aho has a Guelph degree in wi ldlife biology and has received numerous scholarships from the niver. ity, indu try and Canadian Girl G uides.

She was an O VC volunreer. played in­ tramural spons and was a member of the var!oity diving team.

Gayle Lewis, '90, was rece ntly appointed communications officer for th e Ontario Milk Marketin g Board She has sup ervised th e board's dairy princess program si nce 1989 and was a dairy princess herself in 1986/87. Lew is is origina ll y from a family dairy farm in Middlesex Coun ty.

Ariel (Dalgety) Mann, '59, retired in June as head of th e family studie s department at Wallaceb urg Distri ct Secondary School in Wallaceburg,O nt.

Lisa Pelletier, M.Sc . '84 , and Tim Cormick, OAC '83 BLA. hav e a new daught e r. Hay ley McCrea, born last February. The y also have an old er daugh ter. Maxine. Pel letier and Connick both work in Toronto, where he is with the Gay lord Group and she is a therapi st with the Family Se rvice Assoc iation.

Jannetle Tanguay, M.Sc . '86. is vice­ president at Mark et Vis ion Resea rch in Toronto.

Doreen (Hunter) Wilson, '68, is a dietitian at St. Thomas-Elgin Gene ral Hos pital in St. Thomas, Ont. She ha s drawn on thi s expe rience to write a book on weight loss, now in its second printing .

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Brian Cameron, '81, wri te s to sa y he en­ joyed the two-part article on biotechno logy research that appea red in the win ter and spring 1992 issues of the Guelph AlumnLis. He is one of many Guelph alumni with ex ­ perience in the biotechnology fie ld , having comp le ted a master' s program in animal reprod ucti on at th e Univ ers ity of Alberta. He is now di s tri c t agriculturalist for Albe rt a Agriculture in Ponoka.

Scott Campbell, '66 and M.Sc. '70, works fo r the Departme nt of Fis heri es and Oceans' Northwest Atlantic Fishe ri es Centre in St. Jo hn 's, Nfld., as direc tor of the northemcod scie nce program. He has a lso worked for the department at the Freshwater Institut e lab in Winnipeg. He holds a PhD from the Univer­ sit y of Edinburgh.

tinuing ed ucati o n at Ridgetown College of Agriculture in R idge town , Ont o Glenn Hulkowich, '86, has seen a Jot of Canada since leaving U of G. He worked briefly in th e environmental resource in ­ du s try, then joined the Canadia n Aimed For­ ces. He is now a pilot, posted with a 433 CF-18 tactica l fighter squad ro n at CFB BagotviJle , Que Ian Jones, '86A, and Barbara Page, '89, were married Oct. 26, 1991. They opera te a mi xe d beef fa rm just ou tside of Midland, Ont. He also work s for Mits ubi s hi Electronics and s he is a sa les representat ive for the Co-operators General Insu rance Co .

William Kataryn czuk, '58, is retired from the Ministry of Transpo rtat ion, where he was head of operational planning, and now runs his ow n managem en t conSUltin g se rvice in Richmond Hill , Ont.

Richard Cantin, '88, is a te chnica l sa les rep­ rese ntative for Novas Internatio nal In c. o ut of St. Loui s, M o.

Van Long Li, M.S c. '90, is a PhD candidate in finance and banking at Dong Bei Univer­ s ity of Finance and Economics in Dali an Liaoning Pro vin ce, China.

Robert Dice, '81, is entert ainmen t agent for Frontline Attractions Inc. of W aterloo, Ont. He is marri ed to Shelagh (Feith), FACS '81.

Evan Fisk, '89 , has completed the first year of a DVM program at the St. Kitts Isla nd (We st Ind ies) campus of the Ross Universi ty Schoo l of Veterinary Medi cine, based in ew York City. He hope s to return to Gue lph to comp lete the degree at OVe.

Jeanne Lukenda, '84 BLA, has been named an associate of the firm Sasaki Assoc iates, Inc., in Watert ow n, M ass .

Barbara Miller, '79, has been appo inted director of OMAF' s food indu stry competi­ tiv e ne ss branch. She was formerly e mployed

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by the Campbe ll Soup Company in several marketing and sale s pos itions . Before joining Campbell' s, she worked for Silverwood Dai ri es/Au lt Foods Ltd . Originally from a mixed farm near Exeter, Ont., Miller worked [or OMAF as a junior agriculturali st co-or­ din ator while studying food science at Guelph . She also holds an MBA from Queen' s University.

Duff Moore, '88 and M.S c. '92, was one of th e first student s in U of G 's undergraduate co-op program in food sc ience. He com­ pleted a master 's degree th is spring and was nominated by OAC fo r the annual Forster Medal, which recog ni zes exce llen ce in academic and leade rs hip sk ill s.

Moore wa s a teac hin g assistant at Guelph and conduc ted resea rch on peanut quality and the manufacture of peanut butter. He also participated in College Royal and in­ tramura l sports. As a member of th e Food Sc ience Student Committee, he he lpEd in­ itiate pro cedures to ease the trans ition of foreign student s in to graduate program s, and he se rved on the Gu e lph Co-op Student As­ sociation .

M oo re is now a projec t scien ti st at Ortech International in Toron to, doing con tract re­ search in health ca re and pharmaceutical produc ts.

Marga ret (S hea) Moore, ' 86, will defend her PhD thi s summer at the University of

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Wayne Pease, '77, was a sales repre­ sentative in the poultry industry for several years, but is now with the Bank of Nova Scotia in listowel, Ont.

It's all in the family

During the past 17 years, the Univer­ sity of Guelph has been a second home to members of the Sanderson family of GOITie, OnL. Christine and Leonard anderson have clocked up a lot of miles driving back and forth tween the family farm and the University. bu t The Sallder.mll/amily grads (Ie/I II) righl): Melanie, Rob, Joanne. their most Donald. Lloyd, Lallrallnc and Mary . memorable trip was the one they made in ment at ea e International in Hanli lton, June to attend the grad uation o f their O nt. younge t daughter, Melanie, HAFA '92, J oanne, OAC '83, also studied ani mal who is the fifth Sanderson to receive a science and now works as admi nistra tive Guelph degree. manager of W ood lynn Farms ltd . in Melanie's older siblings - three sisters Delaware, O nt. l ast March, she marri ed and a brother - and two brothers-in- law Rob Anell, O AC '83, and they live in also graduated from U of G .

Bo well, Ont .. w here he wo rks in the Laura nne (Sanderson) M a pplebeck Anetl family fanning operatio n. was the firs t. earning a B.Sc. in anima l M a r y, FACS '84, completed her deg ree science in 1979 and a master' de gree in in c hild stud ie. , then went on to eam a extension education in 1982. Her husband , B.Ed. at the Universi ty of Toronto. She is Lloyd , has Guelph degree in crop science th closest to home, teaching at Howick and horticulture. Both work at the ova entral School. Me lanie, on the Olher Scotia Agriculture College in T ruro . hand, is off to Australia after working on Brother Do na ld gTaduated from the campus this summer with food services chool of Engineering in 1980 a nd is now and conferences. a senior engineer in agricultural equip­

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'47, received an honorary degree May I from the Nova Scotia Agri c ultural College . A fonner facul­ ty member at U ofG . Rennie left in 1974 to join the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculture and Food , served as deputy mini ster and retired last year as a spec ial adviser. He was in­ ducted into the C anadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1991.

Kevin Rogers, ' 82A. is ass istant general manager of the North York Farmers Feed and Grain in Newmarket , Ont. Alan Smith, ' 78, is operations manager for Van Waters & Rogers limited in l o ndon, Ont. Dawn Spires, ' 79, is a mines rehabilitation inspector for the Ontario Mini stry of North ­ ern Development and Mines in Sudbury. She wa s formerly an environment officer with the Mini stry of the Environment.

Jackson Strapp, ' 52, has retired aft er 35 years as a United Church mini ster in Alberta British Columbia and Ontari o. He and hi s ' wife, Marion - a church organist for some 50 years were honored last summer by th eir cong regati o n in Timmins, Ont. , and are now enj oy ing the opportunity to travel.

Nekkalapudi Subrahmanyam, PhD '73 , is dean of the Sc hool of life Sciences at Central University of Hyderabad, India.

After g raduating from Guelph , he Joined the genetics dep a rtment at th e Au stralian Nation­ al University , then returned to India in 1978.

A fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, he was vis iting profes sor at the In­ stitut e of Crop Genetics and Breeding at the Swedi sh Univ e rsi ty of Agricultural Science s from 1984 to 1989.

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Jonathan LaMarre, '86 and PhD '92, prac­ ti sed veterin ary medicine in Woodstock, Ont., before re turning to Guelph for g rad uat e work in pathology . He is now at th e Univ e r­ s ity of Virginia on a postdoctoral fellow ship.

This s pring, LaMarre was hon o red by OVC as the coll ege nom inee for the Forster Med a l, the Universit y's top graduate medal.

He received many researc h aw ard s while at Gu e lph , including a bursary for travel to othe r labo ratori es, enabling him to vis it scienti sts in Lo ndon, England and T en­ nessee . He a lso completed a short- term ap­ pointment at Vanderbilt Univ e rs ity, wa s ranked s ixth out of mo re than 300 ap p licant s for a Medi ca l Research Council fellowship award and publi shed se ve ral papers on his work in the study of human plas ma.

W.R. "Wally" Nicholson , '42, has been practi si ng ve te rinar y medi c ine in W eyburn, Sas k. for 46 years. He and his wife, M abel. mi ssed th e 50th anniv ersary of his class during Alumni Week en d, but they did se nd rega rds to other class mates . Veter inary medic ine has been a rew ard ing ca reer, says Ni c hol so n, who has returned to campu s many ti mes ove r the years to aLlend refreshe r courses . "I have been fortunate in ha vin g a number of new graduates work with me; they've helped to keep me current in my thinki ng." M arried 50 years las t summer, the Ni cho lson s have two daughters, fo ur grandchildren and a great g rand chi ld .

Archangel Omara-Opyene, M.Sc . '91, carne to Gu e lph from Makere re Unive rs ity in Kam pala, Ugand a. After g raduating, he bega n doctoral studies at Mi ssiss ippi State Uni ve rs ity and rec e ntly trans ferred to the University of Calga ry.

Adam Socha, M.Sc. '86, works For the On ­ tari o Mi ni stry of the Enviro nme nt , develop­ in g standard s for haza rdou s contaminant s.

H~ is prin c ipal author of a recent repo rt on haza rd ous substances rec ommended for phase-o ut. It represen ts the first comp reh e n­ sive sc reening, haza rd ev a lu ation and rev ie w of toxic chemic a ls that per,ist or ac cumulate in the environme nt and identifies 2 1 substan ­ ces as candidates for possible ban o r phase­ out in Ont ario.

Remembering Old Jeremiah

While doing orne spring clean­

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a ti me o r two and used as a me s­

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T he cannon was manufactured Shorry WhillallS in Brita in abo ut 1800, probably saw military serv ice in the War of 18 I2, came to Gue lph about 1878 dents pryed it loose from its concrete and was used to train O A m ilitiame n moorings, ha L ted it onto a truck and unti l the tum of the ce ntury. Si nce then, moved it to its present locntion in Branion it's been a place to take photos and an nc­ Plaza. As the tory goes, one enterprising complice in student pranks. A t one time. it engineer donned a hard hat and divel1ed a was though t to be permanently i.nsta lled ce ment truck destined for the University on the lawn near Mi ll s Hall. T hen. o n Centre construction site to provide the April 13, 1973, a group of engineering st ubase .

Jim Schroder, '42 , and th e late Charles Roe, ' 50 - both former professors at OVC - were awa rded volunt ee r service a wa rds in 1992 by the Ontario Ministri es of Citi zen­ ship and Culture and Communications.

Schroder was reco gnized for hi s work with the Guelph Art s Council and Roe for su pport of the Sunrise Equestrian Centre for the Dis­ abJ ed.

Nigel Taylor, G rad uate Diploma '78 , has wr itten a book abo ut wha t it 's li ke to be a ve terin a rian instead of a rock 'n roll s inge r

(hi s first c areer c hoi ce). A Vet Called Nigel was published in Great Bri ta in last fall by Man darin an d in c lud es stories abo ut the yea r he s pent as an int e m at OVe. T ay lor says hi s second no vel, now in th e planning staoes. will te ll eve n more . anadian sLOri es.

T aylor has a prac tice in Plymouth , Eng land , and is a reg ular g uest on Going Lil'e.' - BBe TV 's top childre n 's prog ram.

In 1990. T aylo r was vote d the seco nd most popular expert on British c hildren's telev ision . " ( d idn ' t do too badly fo r a ru c lph g rad, " he says.

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hyJ. David Corry, OAC '81, Crawl ou t of bed at 4 a.m. It' s July - time to pho tog raph su nrise over fertilizer tanks at a liquid fertilizer manufacturer. The next four hours wiU be spent photographing the plant and facilities and a series of fie ld cro ps from cano la in bloom to chest­ high rye.

W aiti ng for August is a two- wee k ass ig nment tha t wi ll put more than 12,000 kilometres on my 4 x 4 as I criss-cros s Alberta to photograph SO different locations for an audio-visual pro­ gram that has to be produced and delivered by the middle of the month . These are the g reat ass ignment s that make my job as an ag ricultural photog­ rapher fun' I g rew up on a dairy fa rm near Atwood, Ont. , so I know the differenc e between Holsteins and Guemseys and have an app reciation for farm ing and the industries that se rve farmers . That' s im­ portant in thi s job. I a lso have a deg ree in soil science fro m G ue lph and severa l yea rs of indu stry experience.

After graduating in 198 1, I moved to North Battlefo rd , Sask., te sell agricultural herbicides for Elanco, a divi sion of E li Lill y Canad a Inc. Thi s was quickly followed by a move to Calgary to sell Elanco indu strial herbicides to railroads , uti lJtics and the Departmen t of National Defence . I covered Western C anad a for two years and travelled coast to coast for the next 2 1/2 years. After a short stint se llin g Eli Lilly' s human pharmaceu ti ca ls, I moved to Sandoz Agro Canada Inc . and southern Alberta. I've always believed that farmers and the agricultural communit y are the greatest people to deal with.

D uring those yea rs o n the road, r noticed a real need in the industry for pho tograp hic services . No one was s uppl ying a soliJ base of agricultu ra l knowledge and understa nJin g, com­ bined with creative and technical photog raphy skills. Th at sounded like me, so I left Sandoz in March 1990 and st3I1ed full time in my own agricu ltural photography business - Jay­ Dee Media. It was an idea that's worked.

I operate from Calgary, but put no restrictio ns on geog­ raphy. I have trave lled the Orient extensively and shoot for a stock agency in Hong Kong. And I've pho tographed Australia, as well as most of Alberta. On assignment, I'll go 34

anywhere, do anything to get the s hot - that 's my job - pro vide what the c li e nt asks for, then always turn around, look over my shou lder and shoot wha t 's be­ hind me. Seven out of 10 times, that's an equally exc it­ ing or an even better shot. I'll shoot anywhere - from the roof of a grain elev ato r or crawling on my knees to chase a grasshopper through a grain field. One of my clients says: "We ask you for barley and we gel barley, not wheat."

In addition to s till photography, I produce audio­ visual prog rams for na tiona l sa les meetings, awards program s and dealer promo tions.

Recently , Ja y Dee Media : Ag ricultural and En vironmental Photog raphy and Audio-Vi s ual Des ign has expanded to in­ clude Ja y Dee Agstock, a photo stock agenc y dedicated to agriculture and rural living. I now represent the work of other photographers with o ther areas of specialty and geog raphy.

I've been able to co mbine two of my lov es - agric ulture and photogra phy . I've been lucky enough to work in all 10 province s and to trave l ove rseas. I've also had the good for­ tune to train under some of the top photog raphers in N orth America.

And whe n I'm not on the road , J get to network wi th col­ leag ues in the industry who serve with me o n the inte rnational e xec uti ve boa rd of Farm House Fraternity, the 4- H On Parade subcommi ttee and the 'algary Stampede and Ex.hibition board. I' m a pas t d irector of the Calgary chapter of the Canadian Agricultural Marketing Association a nd the In­ tegrated Vegetation Management Assoc iation of British Columbia.

I can say with out a doubt that this is a gre at life and the op­ portunities abo und ... even outside the traditional agricultural industries.

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Th e foll o win g death s hav e been re port ed s ince the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus.

Full noti ces , whi ch are usu a lly submitted by family or class mates , may appea r in thi s issu e o r a late r on e.

Martin Benum, OOH ' 63, o f St. Bo ni fa ce , M an., Ma rc h 6 , 1991.

Jnozapas Berzanskis , OAC ' 53 , o f Pa lm Coast, Fl a., June2 3, 199 1.

Harley Black, O AC '33 A, .of We lland port , Ont ., in Decem be r 199 1.

William Carlyle, OV C ' 39, of Edm o nt o n, Feb. I I, 1992 Beverley (C ole) C ollier, CBS ' S9 , o f Sarnia , Ont ., March 16, 1992 .

Major Cliflord Cuthbertson, OA C '42 , of Olla wa, Nov. 30,1 990 .

Joan (Humphrey), M ac '49D , and Donald "Doc" Daugharty, OAC '5 0 , in Apri l and May 1992 res pecti ve ly. (See li st ing under Mac- FACS).

David Erb, MLA 'S I, of Mi ss issa uga , Ont ., Jun e 15 , 1992.

Inez (Graham) Harris, Mac '2 SD. of Ollawa. March 12, 1992 .

Brian Hawker, C BS '79 , o f Van co uver, March 1 1, 1992.

Dorothy (Watson) Heggie, Ma c '49 D, o f Lo nd o n, Ont., May 9, 1992.

Hope Johnston, Mac '26 D, of Hal ifax , April 15, 1992.

Colin Jones , OAC M .Sc . '76, of Gibso ns, B.C. , Aug. 2 I , 199 2.

Eunice (Long) Kilpatrick , Mac '3 5D , o f Toro nto, Marc h S, 1992.

Amie (Le Drew) LeGrow, Mac ' 3S D, O DH '7 9 and OAC ' S2 A, o f Vanco uv e r, April 2S, 1992 Lloyd Levie, OVC '43 , o f Sault Ste. Marie, Ont ., in A pril 199 2.

Carman McN a ry, O VC '5 1, of S ton y P lain , Alt a., Mill'c h 19, 1992 Florence (Spackman) Meredith , Mac '25 D, of London , Ont. , and Naples, Fla. , Jan. 30, 1992.

M a ri (Cooper) Munro, M ac '36 D, of Will owd a le, Ont., in Ju ne 199 1.

Lillian Nelson, Mac '23 D, of Avo nl ea, Sask., Jun e 26, 199 1.

Daniel Parker, OAC '50 , o f Os ha wa, Ont. , Aug. 12, 199 1.

William Pelton, OAC ' 52, of Regi na. Sas k. , in 199 1.

John B. Smith, OAC '23 & M .Sc. '32, of Lo nd o n, Ont ., Dec. 11 , 199 1.

William White, OAC ' 49 , of Ne pe an, On t., Marc h 6, 1992 Eleanore ( Robinson) Winchester, Mac '23 D , of So utha mpt on, Ont., May 16, 1992 .

Jack Wish a rt, O AC ' 31 A & '34 , o f Amprior, Ont ., M ay 14, 199 1.

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Arts Nancy Fraser, '78 , of Ed m onton, di ed in

January 1992 as the res ult of a ca r acc ide nt.

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Barry Hughes , '75, o f Be ll ev ill e , Onl. , di ed Marc h 2 I , 1990. He was empl oyed by No rth­ e rn Tel eco m Limited and is survi ved by hi s w ife , C onnie (Spea kman ), CSS '79 .

Mac-FACS Joan (Humphrey ) Daugharty, ' 490, di ed A pril 26, 1992 , in Lond on, Onl. He r hu s­ ba nd , Donald "Doc" Daugharty, OAC '50, di ed s ix days lat e r M ay 2 . They are survi ve d by th e ir children - Jo hn , James, Kim Wick ­ ens. Ja ne Lu c as and Susannah .

Harriet ( Kennedy ) Edwards, '22 D, former­ ly o f Ho ney Harbo ur, Ont., di ed Ap ri l 14 , 1992, at age 91 . She is surv ived by three daug hters.

Helen ( Bates) West , '3 0D , of Free lton , On l. , di ed Ju ne4 , 1992. Al ways acti ve in U o fG a lu mni acti vities, she was a m embe r of the Un iv ers it y 's firs t Senate an d a fo undin g me mbe r of th e boa rd of directors o f UGAA .

She was a lso a fo undin g me mber o f the Uni versi ty Wo me n' s Club of Bu rlington an d a life long me mber o f th e Art s and Lelle rs Clu b. She is su rv ived by da ughter Nancy Saw yer, M ac ' 62 , and her hu sba nd Tom, OAC '59A & '64 , and daughte r Mary Helen Simps on, Mac '67, a nd he r hu sba nd Allan, OAC ' 65. She is a lso surv ived by a si ste r, Belle Shirlaw, Mac ' 26; a brother, .James, OAC '22, and hi s wife , Marjorie, Mac '27D ; two ne phe ws, in c ludin g Jim Bates, OAC ' 60 ; a nd five grand c hildre n. She was predeceased by her husband, James West , OVC ' 30.

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James Allan, ' 14 of Dunnv ill e, On l. , di ed May 9 , 1992, a t the age o f 97. At th e time of ftis dea th , he was one of th e o ldest liv in g grad uat es o f OAC. El ec ted may or of Dunn vill e in 1923 , Mr. All an se rved for 16 yea rs as reeve, de put y ree ve a nd warden of Hal d il1land Count y. In 1951, he was el ec ted to the Ontari o leg is la· ture and represe nt ed Haldim and -No rfo lk for the next 23 years. He beca me m ini ster of hig hway s in 1955 an d the fi rs t mi n ister of transport tw o years later. In 1955, he was ap­ point ed p rov inci allrea sure r, a nd hi s first bud get in 1961 brou ght in a three-pe r-cent

sa les tax.

Mr. All a n a ha served as mini ster o f eco no mics and de ve lopm en t, minist er o f publi c work s, c ha ir of th e treas ury bo ard and ch air of the Ni ag ara Pa rk s Comm issi on. The Burlington Bay - Jam es N . All an Sky way o ver the Hamilt on Harbo ur, the Fansha we Co ll ege cam pus at S imc oe, Ont., a nd a Lake Eri e prov inc ial pa rk all bear hi s name .

He al so served terms as preside nt o f th e Child re n 's A id Socie ty, vice-cha ir o f the Ha l­ dim and W a r Me morial Hosp it a l, pres ide nt o f th e G ood Roads A ssoc iation, di stric t de put y g rand master of th e Masonic O rder and gran d m as ter of th e G rand Lodge of Onta rio in Canada. !-Ie was a me mber of the Scott ish Rit e a nd a Kni g ht o f St. George.

A li fe membe r of the OAC Alumni As­ soci atio n and a support e r o f the Alm a Mater Fund, Mr. All a n wa s rec og ni zed by the UG AA as th e 1975 Alum nus of Hon o ur an d rece ived an hono rary doc tor of la ws from the Uni versi ty in 1970 . He was predeceased by his w ife, Lilian (H a rvie), Mac' 14 D, and is surv ived by hi s daughte r, Jean Sabiston, Mac ' 4 9 D, a so n, Ha rvi e, a nd e ight g ran dchildren, in c luding Peter Allan, A rts '74 .

Jean (Smith) Angus, '48 , d ied A pril 30 , 1992. in Sault Ste. Marie , O nl. S he is sur­ vived by her hu sba nd , Thomas, O AC '49, tw o da ug hters, Eli zabeth Sch iks and Jean ie Perki ns, a broth er, James Smith, OAC '4 1, a nd a s iste r, Margaret S mith , Mac '33 D. Ra lph Boyce, '4 5, died sudd enly Ma y 19 , 1992, in Gue lph . After gradu ati o n, Boyce worked with Aye rst , Mc Kinnon a nd H a ni s, th en co-fo unded a pharm aceutica l compan y for the ve ter inary pro fessio n. Whe n Steven ­ son, Turne r an d Boyce was so ld to Laba tt s, Bo yce s ta yed on as a consultant. Mos t rece nt­ ly, he was inv o lve d in th e pa rtnership of Boyce & Ha rrison Ltd. o f Gu e lph . He is su r­ vived by hi s wife, Jea n , hi s so n, Gregory, CPS '7 4, and two dau g ht e rs, Sall y Turt o n an d J ill Kirkup .

Ross Gilbart, ' 44 , di ed AprilS , 1992, in To ront o. Hi s ca ree r in c lud ed pos iti ons w ith Masse y-Harris, Cam pbe ll So up and the agr ic ultu ra l di v is ion of CI L. Mo st rec en tl y, he was in re al es tat e assess m ent. M r. Gilbal1 was a horse e nthu s ias t a nd freque ntly e nt e red hi s horses whe n UGAA he ld an a lumn i ni g ht a t the rac es. He is survived by hi s wi fe, Doroth y, and three c hil dren.

Henry "Harry" Hinchley , '2 3 , of Re nfre w, On t, di ed Feb. 25, 1992. Afte r g radu ati on, he managed cream eries in Tam worth and Sharbot La ke an d wa s offic e man ager w ith Be ll ev ill e Crea meri es until 19 32, wh e n he we llt to Re n frew w ith th e Uni ted Co -op era­ ti ve Co. Lt d . He later mana ge d UC O crea m­ e rie s in Ren frew , A rnpri or an d Co bd e n for I 1{ yea rs. In 1953, he started B. F. Pro pan e Lim ited , from whi c h he retire d in 1965.

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Mr. Hinc hley devoted man y of hi s retire ­ me nt yea rs to researching and writing loca l hi story. He wrote for the Renfrew M ercury for more than 20 years, was appo inted offi­ cia l town hi storian in 1974 and wa s re spo n­ s ibl e for the designation of many loca l historical sites and heritage buildings. He was recog nized by Renfrew with a c ivi c award in 1982 and a bicentennial award in 1984, and was a member of the Ma so nic Lodge. He is survived by a so n, James .

Donald MacDonald, '66A, of Cal edon, OnL, died Ma y 2, 1992 , as a res ult of a heli copter cras h at the Ford Mo tor Plant in Oakville , Ont. He was e mployed by Canadian Helicopters Ltd . and is survi ved by hi s w ife, Eleanor.

Piclon, Onl. He s tarted hi s career as a fieldman for Ralsto n Purina in Eas te rn Canada, then joined Ihe Ontario De panmenl of Agriculture in 1945 He ta ugh l in th e soil scie nce department allh e Ke mptville Col­ lege of Agriculture until 1962 , when he moved to ToronlO as direclor of ODA's crops branch. In 1964, he beca me director of extension.

A year later, he wa s named depuly mini­ sier of the Nova Scotia De partment of Agriculture and Mark elin g, a posilion he held until retiring in 1972. Me Parks received the Dis tin gu is he d Agrologist Award in 19R2 and was a life me mbe r of Ihe OAC Alumni Associallon. H e is survi ved by hi s wi fe , Hazel , and fiv e son s , including David, OAC '67, and hi s wife, Anna , Art s ' 69.

Robert McGee, '54A , of Courtright and formerly of Kintore , Ont., di ed Marc h 21, 1992. He was a teach er and fOlmer principal of Mooretown Publ ic School. and is surviv ed by his brother, Charles, and tw o ni eces, Jane Hammond and Susan McGee, CBS '86.

Donald Simpson, ' 39, di ed Jan . 27, 1992, in Halifax. Following war serv ice, he joined the Velerans' Hospital ill KingSlon , Onl., Ihen moved to Camp Hill Hosp ital in Halifax as a bacteriologi st. He retired in 1972 and is sur­ vived by three daught e rs.

Cameron McTaggart, '35 , die d Feb. 4, 1992. He was a life member and pas t presi­ dent of the OAC Alumni A ssoc iation and a three-year director of UGAA. Raised on a farm in Middlesex Count y, OnL, McTagga rt ca me to OAC w ilh a T Ealon Compan y sc holars hip ea rne d Ihrough Ihe Junior Farme r organi za ti on. He la le r worked as a farm mana ger and agricullural consultant, and operated a farm eas t of Aurora, OnL, speciali zing in Angu s cattle and sheep. He serv ed three te rm s as presi­ dent of the Ontario Aberd een -Angu s Associa­ tion and was a represe nt at i ve from the Canadian association to th e record board of the Canadian Nation a l Liv es tock Records.

He chaired the record board for tw o years.

McTaggart also served on Ihe board of the Canadian Sheep Bree de rs Assoc iation and was a chaner me mbe r of the Ontario In s titute of Profess ion a l Agrologi sls a nd bOlh Ihe On­ tario and Canadian AgricullUral Hall of Fame Association s; al so serving on the steer­ ing co mmitt ee of th e Ontario association.

He is survived by hi s w ife, Margaret, Mac '35, and IWO so ns, in c luding John, OAC '62.

Ruth (Garland) Marcou, M.Sc. '90, died May 22, 1992, in St. Th omas , Ont. She was regional manager of OMAF's rural services branch at Ihe time of he r dealh. A former home economist for Elgin Counly , she is sur­ vived by her hu sband , Don, and Iheir children, Chri s and Jo hn.

William " Bill " Parkinson, '64 and M .Sc , '69 died Marc h 25, 1992, in S I. John' s, Nfld.

He had been pres ide nl of The Garden Men Lid. in Sr. John 's. He is survi ved by his w ife , RUlh , and two daughters.

Douglas Parks, ' 40 , died May 22, 1992 , in

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William Dorward, '56, died April 9, 1992, in Vancouve r. Fo ll owi ng g radua tion , he prac­ li sed briefl y in Ry ley, Alta. , Ihen began a large animal partn e rship w ilh Albert Elliott, '50, in Cam rose, In 1964, Dr. Dor ward began a 25- year ca reer with Agriculture Canada , se rving wi lh th e Animal Disease s Researc h In stitut e in Lelhbridge, Alta" and as direclOr of the Animal Palhology Laboralory in V anco uv er. He was aClively in­ volved wilh Ihe Albe rta, B.C and Canadian Velerin ary M edical asso cialions, the Kin sm en Club, Ih e Boy Scouts of Canada, Ihe Maso nic Lodge and Ihe Canadian Water Ski A ssoc ialion. He is survived by his wife , He le n, a nd c hildre n , Charlene and Bill , .Ir.

Robert 1. Hill o n of Guelph , founding direc lor of Ihe Ar­ boretum , di ed Ma y 28 , 1992. He c a me to Guelph in 1956 as head of Ih e De part­ men I of Horti cu ltural Science, afler lec lUr­ ing al Macd o nald Col­ lege and th e RJ Hi/ron Univ e rsity of Albena.

Und e r hi s direc ti on, a new horticullUral degree cUiTiculum and vocalional correspondence courses were dev e loped at Gu e lph. Th e School of La nd sca pe Archileclure was formed and direc led under hi s aeg is.

Dr . Hill on was inSlrum en tal in c reatin g th e Univers it y ' s I 65-hec lare Arboretum in 1970 and direc ted it s programs and growth until his retire ment in 1978. O ver the ye ars, he rece iv ed many honours - U of G profes ­ sor e me ritu s, fellow of the AgricullUre In­ stilUt e of Canada, the Royal Horticullural Soci ety and Ih e Royal Sociely of Arts, honorary life me mber of Ihe Canadian Soc ie ty of L andscape Archilecls, Ihe Canadian Soci ely for H0I1icuilUrai Sciences and th e W es le rn Canadian Sociely for Ho r­ ti c ullure . Predeceas ed by his wife, Jan el, he is s urvi ved by s ix c hildren.

Th e RJ . Hillon Memorial Fund ha s bee n es tab li shed to honor D r. Hilt o n 's achie ve ­ me nts a nd int e res ts. II w ill SUppOI1 g rad uale stu den ls w ho ca rry out research in th e Ar­ boretum with native planl material. Do na­ tion s m ay be se nt to Alumni Hou se, Univers ity of Guelph, Guelph, Onlario N I G

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Friends

Christopher Gill, CBS '74, OVC '78 , GD '80, di ed Apri I 8, 1992 , in Vancouver afl e r a le ng lh y illn ess. Born in O s ha wa, Onl. , he had li ved in Vancouver s ince 19R5 and was a graduat e s lud e nl at Simon Fraser Uni vers it y , He is s urvived by his parents and one brother.

Eve lyn Paterso n , friend 10 hundred s of stu­ de nts during he r 38-year career in the Office of the Reg islrar, di ed Ma y 7 , 1992, in Gu e lph . He r brother, Jame s, a Unive rsil y emp loyee in Ihe maintenance departme llt for 28 yea rs, died Ma y 16, 1992,

Eldred Holmes, '51, of Allislon, Onl., di ed in Apri I 1992. H e was a veterinarian at Ih e Beeton Ve le rinary Clinic and is survived by hi s wife , Ann e , a nd so n, Clare, OVC '76.

Eugen e Pe te rso n of Windsor, Ont., di ed April 2, 1992. His eSlate will provid e general sc holars hips at U of G in memory of hi s lal e wife, Gertrude (Henry) Peterson, M ac '27D.

Faculty Prof. G era ld Robin son of Ihe Deparlme nl of Biomedical Sciences died April 4 , 1992. He is survived by hi s w ife, Barbara , hi s fiv e son s, Sie ve , Da v id , Alan , Don, and Ted, and one daughter, Nancy, OAC '87. A m em oria l fund has been es tab li shed in his name.

Arnold Somerville, who brought th e Ke n­ lu c ky Fried Chicken franchi se to Gue lph in Ihe ea rly 1960s, died May 13, 1992, in Free l­ lon , Ont. He served on a numbe r of commit­ lees a l U ofO, includin g Founde rs oflh e School of HOlel and Food Admini stra lion , a nd was president of the Canadian Res ­ taurant and Foodserv ices Assoc ialio n in 1965.

Donations given in memory ofthe above alumni will help support scholarships at the University ofGuelph ifdirected to the Alumni Memorial Fund, 36

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What to do with

Cruickston Park?

in 1968, a large farm estate featuring an hi storic English­ style manor house was bequeathed to th e University. In 1990. after manag ing most of the prope rty for 17 years , U of G took full possession of Cruickston Park Farm . Now it' s loo king fo r sugges tions on what to do with it.

Few people kn ow abo ut the beq uest from the late Michae l Wilks Keefe r, who ra ised Hereford cattle and played a significant role in the develo pm en t o f liv estock farming in this part of Ontario. He had no connection to the Uni ve rs ity other than his keen interest in agriculture. Two years after he died in 197 1, h is wi fe, Marga re t, and two sisters. EI iza and Petrina, asked U of G to manage the fa rm . ..........:. ~ ... ...., :. . -. '. ,

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Petrina Keefe r died in 1975 a nd 198 1 and left U of G an ad­ - .. ditional $2.5 millio n. After Margaret Keefer died in 1990. the Unive rsit y ass umed res pons ibility for the whole pro per­ The manor 011 Crtli ckSlO11 Park Farm. ty, which comes under the jurisd iction of the new Heri ta ge fa nn buildings and fiv e other homes, including a 150-yea r-old Fund. stuccoed log cabin , which is one of the oldest dwellings in Cruickston Park Farm li es south o f Hi g hway 40 I and north Wate rloo County. of Cambridge at the con tlue nce of the Grand and Speed A Cruic kston Park ad v isory committee headed by Prof. Jim Riv ers. The property features a mi x of agricultural land, fl ood Taylor, Land scape Architecture, has prepared an infonnation plains, mature wood lots , limestone c liffs. wetland and ag­ paCkage for distribution to interested parties. To obtain a gregate depos its. copy. write to Real Estate Di vis ion, University of Guelph , In addition to the 39 -room mano r hou se, there are numero us Gu e lph , Ontari o NIG 2Wl. ,-

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Let's put a plug in it!

by Irene Kock, CBS '83 magine trying to fill a sink full of water without putting a plug in the drain. It's not an effective way to use the sink or the water. Yet, this is much like the way we use electricity.

The production and use of energy have led to devastating effects on the planet, including acid precipitation and global warming due to fossil fuel use, flooding of vast tracts of land for hydraulic mega-projects and a legacy of radioactive contamination created by the nuclear industry.

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It makes sense to change the way we produce and use energy to reduce en­ vironmental destruction. And it starts with putting the plug in the sink. Per­ haps we should also ask whether or not we need a full sink of water.

A new approach to energy policy ­ demand management - is beginning to take hold. It means looking at the end use of the energy and providing the most appropriate form of energy to fit the need. It focuses attention on the ser­ v ices that energy prov ides, such as light­ ing and heating, rather than on the continuous supply of more and more electricity to meet demand. Often, ser­ vices can be maintained or improved while energy consumption drops. There is enormous potential for energy sav ings in virtually every area enf'rgy is used.

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Canadians use more energy per person and per unit of economic output than people in any other country. If we were as effi­ cient in our use of energy as Denmark, for example, we could shut down all our coal and nuclear generat­ ing stations and obtain enough electricity to meet our needs from existing hydraulic generating sta­ tions. In Ontario, we could save more electricity than the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station will ever produce, for much less than the $14 billion spent on it so far - assum­ ing that Darlington is even­ tually completed and used.

Alternative projects, such as the production and installation of energy-efficient lights and applian­ ces, wou Id create more jobs than another mega-project. Unfortunately, many utilities are still at the stage of providing water to fiJi the sink, rather than providing the plug.

In addition to the huge potential for energy efficiency and conservation, there is an equally impressive potential for small-scale supply from the inde­ pendent generation of electricity.

NUGS, as these projects are known, in­ clude industrial cogeneration - the use of one fuel to provide process heat and generate electricity - and backyard wind and solar power projects.

NUGS are not flourishing in Ontario, partly because these options have to compete on an uneven playing field with nuclear, coal and hydraulic sta­ tions. The negative environmental im­ pacts of the mega-projects are excluded from the electricity rates that Ontario Hydro charges its customers.

Ironically, there is great potential for small-scale hydraulic generation of electricity at existing locations that were abandoned by Ontario Hydro years ago in favor of the electricity mega-projects.

Yet, it is unlikely that these or other NUGS will be developed. The price the utility is wiUing to pay for privately produced power has actually dropped

because of an electricity surplus.

The potential for solar and wind power is often misrepresented by in­ dustries that could lose customers to these alternatives. Simple building tech­ niques could take advantage of passive solar energy for new structures - using sunlight, shading and natural ventilation to provide most of the lighting, heating and cooling requirements.

An active solar system for space heat­ ing uses solar collectors to heat fluid or air, which is then circulated to a heat storage and transfer system. This same principle can be effectively used to heat water. Photovoltaic cells convert light into electricity, which can be used im­ mediately or stored in batteries.

Wind power combines ancient knowledge with modern engineering for a clean and economical electricity source. Wind power can also be used directly for mechanical power.

Decentralized wind generators can make a significant contribution to our power supply, when combined with other options as a backup.

Conservation, efficiency and renew­ able energy sources are real alternatives to dependence on nuclear and fossil fuels. And energy efficiency is the key to economic success. A real commit­ ment to conservation and diverse, small­ scale electricity supply options will build resilience and flexibility into the energy system. This approach is also an essential step in healing the planet.

Irene Kock is an active member of the Nuclear Awareness Project, a non­ profit citizens' group that tries to raise awareness about nuclear issues and safe energy alternatives.

Kock helped research and produce two issues of Irene Kock the Environmental Resource Book for the Ontario Environment Network and has completed three research projects on nuclear issues - food ilTadia­ tion, nuc1ear power station emergency plan­ ning and the potential hazards of the nuclear fuel chain. She is now a member of the na­ tional steering committee of the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout.

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