Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1992

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COVER Good reaching need s Fecognition . . . fro m educators, from society and from student s. In thi s issue of thc Guelpli AIUli lllus, we sa lute th~ University of Gue lph 's good teachers . . . (ovid photo by Martin Sc h\va lbe

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Are Canadians less generou s than Americans?

A N~\:V Spirit of GiviJig .

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Edil i;rMary Dick ieson .

Execurive Editor Samka vVchster. CS S '75 Contrrblltors;B~lI'bara Chancc:CSS '74. R~beri il Franch;, k: Ma rtha .Tancock. Herb Hallscher, Ow~n Robe rt s. Ma rfili Sch wa lbe . Design/Production C hrj, Boyadjian . Arts 'R I.G abri ell eDu vitl , Linda . Gra lUIIII , Ari s :77, DehbieTIl\Jmpson Wils'l)ll , An s '77 . . Editorial Athisory lI oal'(~ Tri shWal ker.CSS ·77.M.Sc. '90; Ciwir: Richa ru ·t3 llck, oAt ' 76A: She il a Lcvak. HAFA 'il3: D elli s Ly nn. cns

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visors. We like Finelli's idea. If you are a former resident assistant or hall advisor, write to us about your ex­ periences at Guelph and your present career.

I graduated in 1988 with a degree in history, but a degree was the least thing I gained at Guelph. In my first year, I desperately wanted to get involved, so I started a club called Redhead s Canada.

We were approved by the Central Student Associa tion and soon had more than 100 members.

In my second year, I applied for a position as a resident ass istant in Maritime Hall. After two years, I was hired as a hall adviser in Prairie Hall.

The residence sys tem and people like Irene Thompson gave me the oppor­ tunity to participate in the growth and education of other students. Residence leaders playa vital role for students that choose to live in res idence.

My experiences with the Guelph residence system opened the door to two careers for me. The first was as the residence life co-ordinator at McMaste r University. As a Gue lph resident assis­ tant, I al so had an opportunity to be in­ volved in sex education and health promotion. This experience has led to my current position as health educator for McMaster.

Guelph's residence system was con­ sidered a leader in Canada because of the training it provided for students.} understand, however, that due to recent budget cutbacks, the residence system has been reorgani zed.

Perhaps in a future issue of the Gue/ph Alumn us, you could do a piece on some of the former residence leaders - where they are and wh at they are doing. We were a large and influential group. Often, when people di sc uss their University experiences, many of the best memories and strongest friendships were a result of living in residence. I think a lot of your readers would like to find out what their resident assistants and hall advisers are doing now.

Maria (Bracalenti) Finelli, Arts '8 8 Hamilton,Ont. Editor's note: U of G's residence sys­ tem still provides training oppor­ tunities for students hired as resident assistants. The duties of the former hall advisors are now performed by full time staff who act as area super­ 4

I have just read the latest copy o f the Guelph Alumnus. I enjoy receiving it and keeping up with news of the campus and our graduates.

I always read the grad news in the hopes of seeing a familiar name, but there are very few. In fact, news from grads of the late 1960s and early '70s is seldom, if ever, there! I always have a feeling of disappointment and even resentment.

Thi s time, after these first feelings had passed, I thought that if I did not con­ tribute my own news , how could I ex­ pect others to do the same? Here is my latest job change. May be thi s informa­ tion will encourage friends who see it to let yo u know what they are doing .

I am now head of reference and infor­ mation services at Employme nt and Immigration Canada in Hull, Que. Formerly , I was head of the Brymner Satellite Library at the National Ar­ chives in Ottawa.

Dawn Monroe , Arts '69 Orleans, Ont. I am a Guelph graduate living in Japan, and I would like to respond to an earlier request from the Guelph Alumnus for communication from alumni living out­ side Canada. I would Iike to share not a story or a hobby, but a brief opinion. llive in Fukuoka, Japan, and am the marketing liai son representative for a Canadian-based manufacturer. While in Asia , I have also been fortunate e nough to work on a project developing sports cam ps as a means of c ultural exchange between children of different countries, and to run a sk i program in the Japanese Alps, bringing a team of forei gn instruc­ tors to Japan . [ have had the opportunity to trav el, meet and do bu siness with people from several different countries, which leads me to an observation about Canada that has been offered in the past, but is worth repeating .

As a Canadian, I am usually proud of the way my fellow citizens conduct themselves abroad, as well as the way Canad a as a nation functions in the global are na. I believe Canada should be commended for efforts made nation­

ally and internationally to foster better cross-cultural understanding.

Generalized statements are consistent­ ly made about the nature of Canadians being different from Americans - we are better globally informed, more sensi­ tive, etc. Insofar as that may occasional­ ly be true, we have reason to be grateful, but we cannot assume it to be true just by virtue of our pass ports. There is still a lot of enlightening to be done.

I have had the benefit of a g lobal ex­ perience, which is invalu able. And I would like to see institutions such as Canadian universities promote an inter­ national focus to give as many Canadians as possible the advantage of cross-cultural global ins ight.

Offering intelligent, international education and understanding is a great way to prepare people for productive citizenship, whether it be in bu siness, politics, science, education or humanitarian pursuits.

Laurie Grant, CSS '87 Fukuok a, Japa n I enjoy read ing the Guelph Alumnus. I especially enjoyed the articles on "Rais­ ing Kid s" and "Wandering Through Words" in the fa ll '91 issue. Being a primary school teacher a nd a FACS grad , I found the articles very informa­ tive. I was proud to see so many U of G grads as authors of children's literature.

Keep up the good work.

Lori (Fidlin) Adema, FACS '83 Norwich,Ont.

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Changing landscape Unity should be Canada's goal Words like preservation, compromise and understanding dominated the discus­ sions at U ofG's fall conference "Canada: Break Up or Restructure."

Even when pressed by question s of what would happen if Quebec dec ided to separate, most panelists - prom inent leaders in Canadi an business, c ulture, politics and media - quick ly turned the tables to discuss what Canada should be doing to ensure a new viability.

About 1,400 people registered fo r the th ree-day conference; more than half were high school students. The message they heard was that it's time to com­ promise to so lve cultural and constitu­ tional iss ues before it's too late to salvage the country 's economic prosperity.

U of G publis hed a supplement on the findings of the conference in the Dec. 4 issue of the The Globe and Mail. Copies are available from University Com­ munications at the University of Guelph NIG2Wl.

The campus landscape c hanged forever last fall as U o f G completed construc­ tion, renovation and demolition projects that will have g reat impact on e nviron­ me ntal studies , fine art and veterinary medicine.

The $27 .S -million Edmund C. Bovey complex was officially opened in Sep­ tember, the largest construction projec t the campus has ever seen. In its 160,000 square feet, the comple x provides g reen­ hou ses , laboratories, growth rooms and office space for the departmen ts of En­ vironmental Biology and Horticultural Science. These disciplines had identified a need for new facilities in the early 1960s, but public sentiment did no t catch up to acade mi c need until the mid­ 1980s when it became the ri g ht time politically to promote the environment.

Most of the teac hing and research ac­ tivities hou sed in the Bovey complex are direc tly re lated to environmental protec tio n and food production.

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Try your best "You are about to join an illustriou s group of alumni th at is leav ing its mark in communities aro und the world, and you are expected to do no less , if not more."

That's what former Onta rio lieutenant-governor Lincoln Alexander to ld graduates at morn­ ing conv ocation Oct. 4 , when he was installed as chancellor. "You are about to become part of a ski ll s bank from which leaders will emerge," he sa id. "Try your best to be the best. Individually and collec­ tively, you can make a difference."

At afternoon con voca tion, the University awarded a n honorary de­ gree to Indian dairy sc ientist v erghese Kurien , who introdu ced dairy co-operatives in India .

This year for the first time, U of G held an evening conv ocation ceremony to avoid an overflow of gradu ates and guests in War Memorial Hall.

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The new Zavilz Hall fealure s a {wo-slorey, glass­ enclosed sculplure sludio IhallelS passersby see who!' s happening inlh e campus au world.

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equal length of time for new fac ilities to accommodate its prog ra ms. But thank s to a $S-million faceli ft, the old fine art studios in Zavitz Ha ll have become the new fine art building.

Again , public sentiment had much to do with the completion of thi s project, because the 77-year-old building was s lated for demolition until 1989. Once considered an architec tura l rei ic in the campus core of mode rn concrete struc­ tures, Zavitz Hall became the objec t of a g rassroots move me nt to preserve it as a hi storical and sym bolic patt of the cam­ pus landscape.

The refurbi shed Zavitz Ha ll provides a well -organized , safe environme nt for all of the hamme rin g, painting a nd weld­ ing th at goes on there. And the hi storical ambience of the building provid es a fit­ tin g e nvironment fo r the stud y of art, which is very much a lesson in the cul­ tures that have come before us. "One of the things that art does is enable peop le to connect with who they are and where they have come from," says de partment chair Ron Shuebrook.

Anyone wh o took classes in Zavitz Hall can app rec iate some of the new amenities: a slide library, a mini gal­ lery to house the stude nt print collec­ tion and larger ga lle ries to show studen t work.

The demo liti o n of Ove' s old grey barn brou gh t mixed fee lings from many people who re membe r it as the hospital's recove ry ward and the s ite of College Roya l's Old Macdon ald 's Farm. In its place , howeve r, OvC will build a learn ing centre tha t is ex­ pected to become the college hub, welcoming an ex pected 15 ,000 visitors each year. It will contain several large lecture theatres a nd classroo ms, as well as a cafeteria, an expanded library with audio-visual facilities, compute r labs and an open cen tral courtyard. The building will also conta in facilities used in Ove's continuin g ed ucation prog ram .

The 70-year-old barn was origin al­ ly used to house s ick animals und e r treatme nt at the hospital. The uppe r floor held s leeping quarte rs for stu­ dents on duty . More recently , the building held animals used for teach­ ing and research.

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chemistry and phy sics had to tra ve l back and forth to classes. Now, the class itself travels the 26-kilometre distance via microwave s, thanks to a ne w $1-million Electrohome classroom education link - a North American first in interactive vid eo ed ucation. "'In a co-operative ve nture with the Wellington County Board of Education

Campus firsts "'In November, U of G hosted the win­ ners and judges of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, one of the world 's most prestigious literary awards. The writers came to Guelph for a news conference and public readings the day after pri zes were awarded in Toronto . Thi s was the first time the awards have been presented in Canada. They were ad­ mini stered by Gue lph Eng li sh professor Diana Brydon , who is also president of the Canadian A ssoc iat ion fo r Common­ wealth Literature and Lang uage Studies. '"Fish lovers can now enjoy Ontario­ grown Arctic char, Atl antic salmon and spring-spawning rainbow trout. Stocks of these fish varieties were re leased to commercial fish farms la st fall, after 18 months of quarantin e at U of G 's Alma Aquaculture Resea rch Station.

Greenhouse conference still growing

*Microwaves are makin g it poss ible for graduate stude nts at the univers ities of Guelph and W aterloo to take the same class s imultaneou sly. Previously , students and faculty involv ed in the Guelph-Waterloo grad uate programs in

Ahout 1/)00 people helped kick off the Arhoretum's Children's Forest Restoration Project.

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and the Wellingto n County Se parate School Board, U of G is offe rin g On­ tario acade mic cred it courses on campus for mature students and other adults who need to fulfil credits for admission to postsecondary prog ram s. Courses are held weeknights and run for about 15 weeks each. For information, call Con­ tinuing Education at 519-767-5000.

For 13 yea rs, the De pa rtment of Hor­ ticultural Science has co-ordinated the Canadian Greenhouse Conference.

Billed as the marketplace for grower tec hn ology, the conference is designed to provide information and know-how for g ree nho use operators and their e mpl oyees.

Growing with th e greenhouse in­ dustry , the Octobe r conference attracted mo re th an 2,000 people this year, and more than 140 ex hibitors filled the double a rena complex for the two-day event. Nex t year ' s conference will be held Oct. 20 and 21.

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Universities face the public

Righi: Jim Zavilz,OAC '82 A, was on hand for the reopening of his great­ grandfather' 5 Intilding ­ Zm ,itz Hall .

October should hav e been named Univ ers ity Month in light of all the public attention levelled at Can ada's university system .

Be lts were tightened before Thanksgiving when the Ontario government reclaimed $9 million in previously announced transfer payments to univ ersities. The claw back cut the University of Guelph's 1991/92 operat­ ing grant by more th an $500,000 .

Two weeks later, 250 U of G students joined a protest of about 700 On­ tario students who mar­ c hed on Queen 's Park to demand tuition free zes and more go vernme nt at­ Above: Guelph dentist Lowrie tention to education.

J ones/ils teeth il7lo thejibregloss In the midst of the Oc­ replica of U of G' s prize tobe r funding cris is came cOI!/aconth specimen. The real the Smith Commission specimen resides in the Ichth yol­ report , which sa id that ogy Institut e, I)lt/the replica will Canadian universiti es have be used as a teaching aid. It also managed budget reduc­ formed port of the Uni versity's "Lil'inf', Fossils" displayal tions successfully without Torol1lo' s Royal Agricultural jeopa rdizing the q ua lit y of Wim er Fair. ed ucation. , Left & below: H omecoming has be­ Former Ontario Libera l come something of afashion sho w. leader Dr. Stuart Smith headed the independent commiss ion for the As­ soci ation of Universities and Colleges of Ca nada (AUCC). He said the quality of univ e rsity Below: ove s an­ g raduates has not declined , l1ual SuperMotch despite the fact that dog show at­ Canadi a n universiti es a re lracled 800 dogs and th ousands of receiving less in te rm s of dog lovers to cam ­ real dollars per student than they did 20 years ago. pus il1 Sept ember .

In fact , the Smith report said the universit y system' s major proble m is an imbalance between teaching and researc h functions (see story, page 13). The report also looked at problems in at­ tractin g and retaining stu­ dents and how to demonstrate the quality of univers ity educ ation.

AUCC has es tablish ed a tas k force, headed by U of G preside nt Brian Segal, to evaluate the commission's 63 reco m­ mendations.

Coinc iding with the Smith report was a controversial Maclean 's magazi ne fea­ ture that rated Canada's 46 unive rs ities.

Guelph was ranked number eight, behind McGill , Queen' s , Mount Alli son , Toronto, McMaster, Acadia and the Univers ity of Briti s h Columbia.

Maclean 's collec ted in­ formation on students, faculty, finances and reputation and ranked in­ stitutio ns in 12 different categories, such as student­ teacher ratio , ope rating budget per student and residence spaces per stu­ dent. Gue lph had the fourth-highest operating bud ge t per student and the fifth-highest number of resid ence spaces per student.

Despite criticism of its me thodology , the Maclean's article was dubbed "e n­ joyable reading" by Segal. But his ad ­ vice to prospective stude nts is to investigate the uni ve rs ities them selves, rather than allowing third-party sources to dete rmine their c hoice.

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The George Morris Centre, U ofG 's think­ tank for agrifood policy , has moved to a new loca­ tion, named its first board of directors and appointed Kathryn (Little) Cooper, OAC '85, as ex­ ecutive director.

The centre ' s new of­ fi ces are in th e U of G Re­ search Park Centre on Stone Road . The new board, c haired by OAC dean Rob McLaughlin,OAC '69 and PhD '77, has 14 me mbers represe nting agri food interests from across Canada.

Cooper had bee n with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food for six years in the d a iry plant in spection pro­ gram , the dep uty mini ster's office, as part of a strategic planning team and as program manager for regulatory stand­ ards in the livestock inspection branch.

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INSIDE THE BOVEY BUILDING

Remember the days when the Department of Environmental Biology was spread across campus in II different locations and the Department of Horticultural Science had to forgo some research activities because the greenhouses were too old to fit with modern climate-control mechanisms?

Those days disappeared this September with the opening of the Edmund C. Bovey complex. There are many advantages to having horticultural scientists - with their knowledge of plant production, nutrition, physiology and storage - and environ­ mental biologists - with their knowledge of insects, diseases, weeds and environ­ mental management - together in one space.

On these pages we've outlined a small sample of the work these scientists do.

You'll see that their research promotes environmental protection and the production of a safe and abundant food supply.

Photos by Don Hamilton ... Horticultural scientist Judy Strom­ mer grows petunias and peas. She's trying to modify the genes already present in the plants to increase their chances of survival by making them more resistant to root rot and environ­ mental stresses like drought.

Environmental biologists John Sutton and Peter Kevan are using bees to help control strawberry rot. Sutton is working on a biocontrol method that involves spraying a naturally occurring microfun­ gus on strawberry plants to control strawberry rot. Kevan developed a dis­ penser that fits on a beehive, so that bees emerging from the hive will each carry more than a quarter million spores of the biocontrol fungus. In the course of their rounds, they leave 10,000 to 50,000 spores on each flower, enough to prevent infection in the flowers and fruit.

Anyone who loves raspberries will agree that southern Ontario's normal two- to three-week season is much too short. Horticultural scientists Alan Sullivan and J.P. Prive think fall-bearing raspberries may be the answer. In field trials at six different locations, they've identified two varieties - Redwing and Autumn Bliss - that show potential for cultivation.

.... Ground-level ozone at ambient sum­ mertime levels in Ontario reduces crop yields and costs about $60 million a year in lost farm­ gate revenues. Horticul­ tural scientist Beverley Hale is studying a natural plant enzyme called super­ oxide dismutase that may prevent ozone injury when enzyme levels are elevated.

Using gene transfer technologies, scientists can artificially boost the gene that controls super­ oxide dismutase produc­ tion in forages. Now they want to find out whether the enzyme can be trans­ ferred to other plants to reduce the effects of ozone.

... Many projects under way at Guelph are improving our ability to replace chemical pest control with biological controls - the deliberate use of one or more living organisms to decrease the numbers of another organism. Profs.

Jack Alex and John Laing are on the lookout for fungi that attack weeds and bugs that devour problem insects as methods of safe biological control.

An example of biological control in action is the carnivorous stink bug above feasting on a Colorado potato beetle. Another example is the pirate bug that will eat anything its size or smaller. Prof. Jonathan Schmidt is trying to economically mass rear these insects so they can be used to fight pests in greenhouse plants like cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and chrysanthemums.

The insidious pirate bug is also a predator of thrips, white flies and mites.

Like insects and fungi, some bacteria can also do the environment a lot of good. Environmental biologist Jack Trevors is developing methods to better use bacteria in the breakdown of waste and for metal recovery in such places as dumps, soils and old mine sites.

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~ The greenhouse complex has 26 separate zones fitted with curved glass to absorb mo re sunshine and reduce heat loss. Pes ts and plant disease in half of the research greenhouses are control­ led by biologica l method s, reducing th e amount of pes ticides used by 75 per cent compared with four years ago.

The potato is a major vegetable crop in Canada, but the production of high-quality seed potatoes is susceptible to virus infections, and the present sy s­ tem of multiplyin g seed potato stock is too lengthy, Horticultural sc ienti st Vince Souza Mach ado leads a research team that is combining in I'itro techni­ ques and off-season multiplication in greenhouses to gen erate larger quan­ tities of early-generation seed stocks.

~ GJen Lumis foc uses on the production and maintenance of trees and shrubs - the use of porou s soil mixes, slow-release fertilizers and irri gation.

He is also developing a protocol of the new technique of pot-in-pot growing that uses conventional 30- and 60-1 itre containers.

Canada's oldest insect collection - and one of the country's largest - is a frequently con sulted resource in U of G' s new Bovey Building. About one miIJion specimens, some dating back to the midd Ie of the last century , are care­ fully hou sed in 2,000 drawers.

If you've got a weed or insect pest in your garden or lawn and you don ' t know what it is, you can find out by CO I1­ tacting the Pest Diagnosti c Clinic lo­ cated in the Bovey complex - fund ed by the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculture and Food. Director Marilyn Dykstra can be reached at 5 I 9-824-4120, Ext. 2700.

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The disposal of pla stic pesticide con­ tainers is both an on-farm and a landfill problem. Prof. Keith Solomon 's lab is te sting the safety of fence posts and curb stops made from recycled pesticide containers.

'Greellhou se roses 'are al ~ water. So they 're using

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CANADA#1TEACHERS

An apple-polisher's totally biased look at seven of Guelph's top teachers

by Martha Tancock

e all remember our fav orite teac hers. We also rem ember th e tou g hest, the meanest, the ugliest, the funniest. W e remember what they wore, the jokes the y to ld , the mistakes they made , the way they wrote on the black­ board, their verbal and physica l ticks and their com ments. Especially the com ­ ments - on tests, on report cards, on es ­ says , in front of the who le c lass. A teac her can leave a profou nd impress ion and have an influence far beyond the classroom.

Students, too, have an impact on their teachers. The polished apples secretly pl anted on a teacher 's desk, the spark in a student 's eyes, enthus ias tic exchanges in c lass, the request for hel p - these are gestures that give teachers some sense of effectiveness. At university, those polished app les come in other forms ­ as fa vorable student evaluations and peer recognition.

In this story, we focus on seven professors at the University of Guelph who have rece ived such "apples" for reasons that revea l they are as different as Courtl ands and ru ssets.

They are wa ter resources engineer Trevor Dickinson, microbiologist Norm an Gibbins, agrometeorologist Terry Gillespie, chemist Go rdon Lange, physici st Ernie McFarland, ornitho log ist Sandy Middleton and writer and litera ry critic Con stance Rooke.

Their backgrounds, their disciplines , the ir teaching styles are a ll different, yet they have much in common. Together, they hold some 2S teachin g awards, in­ cluding Canada's prestigiou s 3M Teach­ ing Fellows hips.

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A student's father once said: "Allv teacher who can stimlllate as much discllssion around our dinner table as you hape deserves al1 award."

the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the awa rd s recog­ nize excellence in teaching and ac hieve­ ments in improving the qu a lity of teaching a nd learnin g . Since the awards were first offe red in 1986, at leas t on e Guelph professor has rece ived it each year. With seven 3M Fellows at Guelph, the University 's faculty is among the top-rated leaching faculties in Canada.

Among the other apples received by this group of seven are award s presented by their own colle ges, facul­ ties, a lumni and students . Beyond thi s, recognition has come from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty As­ sociations and corporation s. And in 1991 , the U.S.-based Counci l for the Ad­ vancement and Suppo rt of Education named Gill esp ie Canadian Professor of the Year.

These are some of the University of Guelph 's best teache rs. They routinel y participate in teach in g work shops and sem inars to improve the ir own sk ills and to help othe r Guelph teachers build theirs. Yet , no ne of them has any for mal teacher training.

For them, teachi ng does not end at the classroom door. Some of their fond est memories, in fact, are not of the class­ room, but of li stening to and hel ping in­ dividual stud e nts wrestle with life deci sions.

Fairness, hig h expecta ti o ns, inte ll ec­ tual rigor, sensitivity and th e se nse tha t students and professors are on a journey of discovery together are common char­ acteristics of these award- winning edu cators.

U ofG' s 3 M Tea ching Fellows : clo ckwise f rom Ie/i . ConSlance Rooke , Sandy Middlelon.

Norman Gibhins. Gordon Langl'. Trevor DickinSOI1 . Ernie McFarland and Te rry Gil/espie.

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Prof. Trevor Dickinson

School of Engineering

Trevor Dickin son sees himself as a kind

AI the turn of the century, schoolboys rvho tried to impro\'c their marks hy.f7alfering the teacher

were known as apple-pol ishers.

Over the veal'S sllch schoolyard hrihery cl'oh'cd into the more fitting tradition o.fgil'ing an apple to the teacher ([s a s)'nzhol o.f admiration.

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of intell ectual dating service . Hi s role is to introduce one friend to another friend - th e subj ec t of engineering to the stu­ dent of e ngineerin g. And he ad mits that would be diffi c ult to do "if you didn't like one or th e other."

Dickinson him se lf studied at Guelph (OAC '61 and MSA '64), then the Univ e rsity of Toronto and Colorado State be fo re returning to teac h he re in 1967. Whe n he first started teaching, he had the luxury of working with senior and graduate students who were already inte rested in water reso urces enginee r­ ing, his specialty. But he was un­ prepared for the "60 terrifi ed face s" in his first introductory course.

The course had taken him month s to prepare, but "it struck me immediate ly that I had to go bac k to the drawin g board, that there was mo re to teaching than just the material. I had to start focu sing some attention on th e stu­ dents."

Finding the balance between subj ect and students sparked Dickinson 's inter­ est in pedagogy - how do we Jearn and what are the best ways of dealing with the materia]'? Not only has he tried to ac­ commodate s tudents' differe nt learning styles (individual study, group ass ign­ ments and lec tures ), but he has al so di s­ covered his own preferred teaching me thod - working with student team s . " I suspect univ ersity students learn far more from one anothe r th an from the faculty, which is not to say we don ' t have a rol e to play in their ed ucation ," he says. " Inc reas ingly, I help students get together as opposed to have it hap­ pen fortuitously." Dickinson also invites students to take some respon s ibility for the ir own learning, encouraging them to choose which lea rning me thod th ey are most comfor ta ble with.

He believes grou p dynamics are as im­ portant as the material. "There 's thi s no­ ti o n not only among stude nts but also of society that enginee rs s it alone dreamin g up des igns at their computers. In reality , they spe nd the bulk of the ir time d ea ling with people, w ith c lients, with commit­ tees, with colleagues."

Dickinson he lped des ign the Unive rs ity's engineerin g curriculum to refl ect thi s reality.

In addition to his pass ion for teaching, Dickinson has maintained a pass ion for his subject by keeping his fing er in ap­

plied researc h. He has found a happy balance of teac hing and research , but recognizes th e increasing pres sure on young faculty to get "more and more re­ sea rc h dollars, wh ethe r the research is rea lly leading to th e develo pment of new ideas or is simply ge nerating papers." He participates in worksho ps to help other faculty deal with such pres­ sures.

Ultimately , th e memorable mome nts for Dickinson are not necessari Iy in the classroom or in the Jab. Recalling a fail­ ing A student who was wrestling with his career choice and came to him , Dickinson mu ses: "Perhaps one of the main things you can offer students is a real listening ear. Althou g h my advice is not like ly to be as impo rtant as the dec is ion s they're able to come to on the ir own, it's a privilege to be part of­ and poss ibly influence - th e ir life decisions. A Jife change like th at is like­ ly to be far mo re s ignificant than any re­ search paper we publi s h."

Prof. Norman Gibbins Microbiology PhD in hand, Norman Gibbins stepped o ut of Birming ham University and on to the resea rch track. For six years, he worked in Canada and New Zealand before accepting a researc h pos ition in Guelph 's Department of Micro biology in 1967. He had to teach only one course a year and " disliked every minute of it. " Perhaps hi s antipathy stemmed from arriving here and being told he had three week s to prepare to teach a new course on a su bj ec t he knew little abou t. "It was the worst situation you could find yourself in," he says. And it put a nega­ tive spin on everything he did in the classroom for about f iv e years.

Afte r hi s department moved in 1971 into the newly formed College of Biologic a l Sc ie nce , Gibbins's attitude to teac hing matured . The microbiolog ist began to value teac hing more than re­ search in the larger huma n context.

T eac hing is crucial in the continuity of learning, he says . From a pe rsonal point of view , G i bbi ns believed others cou ld do the researc h he had been pursuing , but hi s teaching style was his own ­ hi s ex pression of individuality.

Gibbins has broadened his focus over the yea rs, from the narrow research pur­ suit to an inte rdi sciplinary approach to Glfe/ph Alul1/n us

teaching. When he enters an introd uc­ tory class at the beginning of a se meste r, he sees hi s students as partners in a "learning expedition." He tells them there is no suc h thing as microbiology, that there are no boundaries to this dis­ cipline, that microbiology can be placed within the total context of human ex­ perience and that sc ience and art are both "part of what it is to be a concerned human intellect."

So he talks about Georges Seurat, the 19th-century Frenc h pointillist painter who died young of diphtheria.

Microbiology and art. He talks about Mary Mall on, a typhoid carrier in New York in the early 1900s who was dubbed Typh o id Mary . She was forcibly jailed for decades because she would not submit to voluntary restraints.

Microbio logy and ethics.

"It is important to show explicitly that making connecti o ns is not only accept­ able but to be e ncouraged," he says.

Gibbins is teaching first and second­ year microbiology, and also leads a science sec tion in the new course " Intro­ duction to Higher Lea rnin g." H e is also director of AKADEMIA, Guelph's inter­ di sci plinary first-year program that mar­ ries the sc iences and arts. "My hope is that AKADEMIA will act as a nucleus and generate interes t in and requirement for a broader ap proach to underg raduate programs."

In the m eantime, Gibbins foc uses on hi s studen ts. H e is always available in hi s office and offers additional review sessi ons. "Teaching and my students are my first priorities."

Prof. Terry Gillespie Land Resource Science A headline in a January 199 1 issue of the University 's newspaper says it all : "Gi lles pi e top teac her - again!" Since 1984, the Guelph agro meteorologis t has been recogni zed nationally and interna­ tiona lly for hi s teaching excell ence, as well as by stud ents, fa c ult y colleag ues and alumni.

Gilles pie never actually planned to teach. Wh at he rea lly wanted to be was a weatherman. Inspired by a sci ence teacher who had been a navigato r in the Second World War, he fixed his career sights in Grade 9.

"It was stuff you could really get your hand s on. You could see cloud s and feel humidit y. " Cue/ph Alumnus

After g raduatin g in physics and math, Gillespie s igned on with Canada's Meteorolog ical Services, which spon­ sored hi s master's degree, and started his weather career in Goose Bay. Later transferred to Montreal, he encounte red farme rs whose questions about frost protection, so il moisture and irrigation sparked an interes t in the connection between weather forecastin g and . agriculture .

At the time, the Unive rs ity of Guelph offered the only course in Canada in this spec ific area. Gillespie started hi s PhD in 1965 with "no particular intention to be a university teacher." Three years later, he was a junior faculty member in a department expanding its e xpe rtise in field crop ecosystems.

Like many new teac hers, he imitated the "information transmi ss ion mode" of those who had taught him. But he drifted away from thi s format, con­ vinced that it wasn't effective.

T oday, he makes sure stud ents hav e texts or referenc e material s co vering the basic curriculum, then uses class time to illustrate applications and clarify dif­ ficult points. He always tries to reme m­ ber what it's like to be grappling with new concepts.

Over the years, Gillespie has become a master in the use of visual aids. And not just in the classroom.

When he lectures around the world, for example, he is ofte n asked how the name Guelph is pronounced . So he ~ demonstrates. He puts hi s foot in a was­ tepaper basket and says : " Imag ine you are pulling your foot out of a bucket of yogurt ... Ga-well-ff."

Wastepaper baskets are eclipsed by more sophisti cated "tools and toys" Gillespie uses to demonstrate more com­ pi icated theories in his classes. Infrared thermome ters that look like Star Wars guns measure the tem perature of the sur­ face they are aimed at, twirling instru­ m e nts measure humidity and a three-dimen sional computer image can show the movement of weather fronts better than Styrofoam models.

But more th an the lectures, Gillespie's labs and tutorials are where the realleaming occurs. "I feel strongly that practice is the key to learning." So he pil es on the proble ms. " It 's important to be fair to studen ts," he says . " In my experience , yo u can c halle nge students with hard work, but you have to say: ' This is what I e x­ pect. '" Surpri ses on tests are not fair, he says.

On the teaching track Dr. Stuart Smith 's clarion call for a commitment to teaching at Canadian universities elicited a brief sigh of relief at the University of Guelph.

The former leader of the Ontario Liberal Party head ed an independe nt inquiry into the quality of the nation' s senior educational institution s. The report released last October confirmed that U of G is - and has been for some time - on the right track when it comes to teaching support.

Many of the 63 recomme ndations made in the Smith report have already been implemented at Guelph.

The University wrestled with the re lativ e importance of teac hing and re­ search in its 1985 aims document, Toward 2000. In di sc uss ing U ofG and its future role, the authors recog­ nized the e levated status of research activity and m ade the point that ad­ minjstrators will hav e to show leader­ ship by supporting and adopting values that give teaching "eq ual status" to research.

Guelph is one of the few univer­ sities that have forged an agreement with faculty that allows them to desig­ nate teaching as a clear emphasis. A faculty membe r whose previous ac­ tivities were focused on research may choose to spe nd more time teaching and can requcst performance evalua­ tions and promotion recomme nda­ tions based on this teaching e mphasis.

Smith's emphas is on the recogni­ tion of teaching as scholarship echoes a special report by Ernest Boyer for the Camegie Foundation in the United States. In Scholarship Reconsidered, Priorities o/'the Professoriate, Boyer says students and faculty alike can be losers in a system that recogni zes and reward s researc h above teaching. He urges universities to " break Ollt of the tired old teaching versus research debate and define, in morc creative ways , what it means to be a scholar."

Hi s ca ll has not gone unheeded . In his multifaceted definition of scholar­ ship as discovery, integration , applica­ tion and teaching , Boyer has provoked much debate in the United States and Canada.

At Guelph, a Senate committee is evaluating the reports and Smith' s recomme ndations to determine if they offer further benefits for students and facu Ity on this campus. !3

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Faculty may be embracing a broader , rec;ognition Qfscholarship, but .the University funding system and the em­ phasis on r~search still 'p revails, lJ of , G experience h,,15 shown tha.t ittakes both aphilosophiql ami a financial c;ommitmcnt to encourage the kind of , teaching expertise that leads to 3M Fel!Qwshij)s , ' This commitment underlies the ' University'S 1985 aims and objectives document, TOI-1'(ird 2()OO, which says teaching and research nre essential con­ tributors to the Uilivei'sity' s mandate to serve society, Few Canadian universities have been as explicit in siatingtheir institu­ tionalobjectives: And Guelph stands alone in its commitmenl to specific ' " learning object~ves (see page 16), Toward 2000 says U of G grad pates should possess a love of learning, depth andqreadth of understanding, independence of thoughi"a Sense, of historical dev~Jopment, a global under­ standing, rnoral and esthetic maturity, literacy, nLlIneracy <-lnd an additional ' language ,: , President Brian Segal says tea,c hing "i~ the single most importantprocess through which knowledge is trans­ ferred and through which compreben­ sionis developed, But committed teachers know full well that imparting ' knowledge is only one'e1ement in the teaching-le~rning process," The equa­ tiOn must also incorporate vil'lues, ate titlldes and excitement about iliquiry, Good teachers'-:'I.ikegood univer­ obligation to create sities ~ have , new knowledge" whether In the library, the laboratory or'the studio, ' TheUniversjty Guelph isa reo search -Lntensi ve instit u tion, receiv ing lTI.orethan $62 II1illion las.! year in re­ search grants: The research component here and at other Cani1dian universities witi become even more important as ,society continues to ,demand new solu- ' iionsto national and global problems, The issue for univ'e rsities is not how to "rebalance''' teaching and research, but how to continually imrjrove teach- , ing and le~rning , says Segal. "We have, to ask ourselves: "How cim we ,eng<lge al Lofoui' undergraduates in the ' scholarship and~research work of',our faculty?' lfwebelieve there is an inter­ dependence between teaching and re­ search , then interdependence is not

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U of G's commitment to teaching'sup­ , port dates b,ick to 1966 whcnthe newly 'formed university created a committee on methods of instruction that evolved into 'the Teaching Support Services(TSS) working group ()f20 , iridivjdmils 'whose primary function is to suPPOt1 good teaching practices " U of 0 bas al ways budgeted specific funds to support teaching services on camp\Js 'and joined with McMaster University and the Liniversities of Waterloo. and Western Ontario to es­ tablish the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Guelph professors can avoid the classroom nightlnare Prof. Norman Gibbinswent through by taking ad­ vantage of teaching workshops and seminars, new factilty orientation and peer helper sessions, Last year, 292 faculty members attended the 36 workshops oft'ered by TSS. One of the strengths of U of G's teaching support 1I10dei also dis tin­ , guishes it from others, says Mei-fei Elrick, TSS instructional development associate, A faculty member is 'second­ ed for a three-year.term to work 40 per cent of the time ' as a co-o'rdilHltoL ·'It ' s a collegial modellhht comes outof an U1iderstanding at the Univer­ sity that faculty 'need to talk to facul­ ty ," says 'Elrick, Guelph's 3M Fellowsrecognize this and get together almost every 1110nth, Prof Tre vor Dickinson says TSS has also been ;'incredibly important" not only in improving teaching, but in nur­ turing cros$~campus contacts, "Without TSS, this kind of cross­ fertilization doesn't happen," he says, Turning good teacher is ;'not some sort of cookie-cutter effect," says , Elrick, "Thcll's what's sO exciting, They ' re not 'uppo~ed to be alike," She brushes aside the notion that good teache~s ar~ born : "Why is there a mysierious quality associated with .I aching? Nobody says researchers are born, What's crucial is that pebpk want-biher people to learn ; they want them :ro undersrand what they're ex­ cited about and they recognize how alive knhwleclge is :Theyask: 'WI,HlI can I do t6 make this information inter- ' csti,ng't o stud'e nts'?'"

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Prof. Gordon Lange Chemistry and Biochemistry The names of those s tudents determined enough to find Gordon Lange in the maze that is the MacN aughton Building wi II be forev er etched in the chemistry professor's me mory, If they make it to Room 337, he will enter their names on a visitors ' list, keep track of their progress, give them pep talks when necessary and recogni ze them in class, Thirty to 40 s uch students out of an in­ troductory chemistry lecture of 300 will search him out and receive this care ful attention, For Lange, knowing at leas t a few students ' names creates a more in­ timate atmosphere, especially when he's asking or an swering question s in class, Lange gave up a caree r in indu stry for academia afte r two years of testing butter flavor in a commercial lab, " I found out it was not what I wanted to do for the res t of my life ," he say s, His firs t academic placement was a teaching postdoctoral fe llowship, "I was able to learn something about teaching without the pressure of conducting my own research, " Lange has, however, succes sfully mar­ ried research and teaching, and rejects their exclus ivity, He is equally c hal­ lenged teaching first-y ear rooki es as he is guiding postgraduate re searche rs, The unde rgraduates consistently write "ex ­ cellent prof ' and " the best I've had " on their teac hing evaluations of Lange, And four of his recent gradu ate students have gone on to become professors of organic chemi stry, a testImonial to his in spiring mentorship, To be good , a teacher has to have respect for students, say s Lange, and "the students have to know that you like your topic." His own teaching style is fastidious, "I try to impart information in the cl eares t poss ible way" by going through problems logically and sys­ tematically, He charts theories and for­ mul as on the blackboard , demonstrates using three-dimen s ional molecular models and conducts experiments in class, Students appreciate an organized presentation and variety in a 50-minute lecture, he says, Lange has no trouble making hi s mate rial relevant. He will, for exampl e, relate the discovery of a putrid corpse in France , where he spent a sabbatical in 1987 , to a lesson on amines - putres­ cine and cadaverine ­ and chemical decomposi tion, C uelph AI/I/1/I1/1S

A firm believer in a broad , interdi s­ ciplinary education, Lange helped design "Chemistry Today," a science course for arts students. "Without some knowledge of fundamental science, people cannot make in formed dec isions" about things that touch their daily liv es , he says. Things lik e deter­ gents, cobalt treatments, atomic energy, depletion of the ozone layer, the green­ hOLlse effect and environmental problems.

A quiet man who considers him se lf "somewhat of an introverted person," Lange nevertheless enjoys the perfor­ mance aspect of lecturing and bel ieves teachers are "born" to a certain extent.

Large classes develop a certain per­ sonality of their own , and he thrives on the interaction with students.

"It's rea lly very gratifying to get a positiv e respon se from students."

Prof. Ernie McFarland Physics A year or two after the Chernobyl dis­ aster, Ernie McFarland was preparing a lecture based on the Sov iet nuclear reactor's malfunction. The physics professor had to dig and scrounge for material. It took him an entire Sunday to di stil it into a SO-minute lecture.

McFarland rarely giv es a lecture the same way twice. He is perpetually look­ ing for new ways to prese nt his subject, "like a surfer looking for the perfect wave."

He spend s a lot of time preparing for classes. If it's a lecture he 's taught before, he revi ews the material for at least an hour. If it's a new course, it takes him a few day s to mull over his lec ture.

McFarland plans a lot of demonstra­ tions, which he says are crucial to under­ standing the material and keeping students' interes t. Just writing formulas on blackboards "can be deadly," he says. And so can 8 a.m. classes.

Hal fway through one recent early morning lecture, he brought in a two­ metre aluminum rod and began stroking it with a damp sponge until it produced a painfully high-pitched and penetrating ring.

It was a legitimate demonstration of forced damped osci Ilators, but it al so woke everybody up, including th e people three classrooms down the hall.

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McFarland started out as a high school math teacher, then became a lab instructor at the University of Western Ontario. Now an associate professor, he has learned over the years to spend less time on detail s and more on general prin­ ciples - " trying to see the forest instead of all the trees."

He used to write all hi s notes on the board and have students copy them, but this didn't guarantee accuracy or under­ standing. Now he often hands out photocopies to go through derivations of complex formula s.

He tries to show how physics appl ies to sports and everyday ac tivities.

Making the subject relevant is one way to excite the interest of students, says McFarland, who comes with the requisi­ te enthusiasm for hi s subject.

An element of suspense hangs over his lectures. Students know that some­ time during the semester, McFarland' s technician will likely sabotage one of his demonstrations -like the time 144 ping pong balls fell from the ceiling on to hi s head. Or like his 40th birthday, when all his studen ts stood up, threw ping pong ball s at him and sang "Happy Birthday."

McFarl and is an educator beyond the confines of the University community.

He liaises with high sc hool s and has been involved in developing a new physics curriculum for the Ontario Min­ istry of Education. Thi s gives him some insight into the level of understanding students bring to universi ty courses and how he can challenge them. He was also science consultant for Eureka, a TVOntario science show.

But McFarland says the best part of teaching is "s itting with a student and working one to one."

Zoology professor Sandy Middleton knows the power of visual images and analogies.

On the surface, the Scottish-born or­ nithologist is a tie-and-grey-flannels con­ serv ativ e. But underneath the surface is a frustrated Gilbert and Sullivan fan, a ham , a storyteller and a friendly guy.

All too aware of the birdwatcher stereotype - binoculars, deerstalker cap and tramping through jungles ­ Middleton has taken it to ridiculous

lengths in the classroom. But not often.

"It took a bit of guts," for instance, to wear a camouf\Clged hunting cap featur­ ing a stuffed, spring-mounted goldfinch on top. He says ruefully that students will likely remember the cap more than the lesso n.

Hi s more successful ploys are telling stories and using anCllogies on which to hang "meaningful pictures" for his stu­ dents. Take enzymes, the cata lysts that speed up the chemical processes of life.

Middleton liken s them to jets flying back and forth betwee n Toronto and Vancouver, a speedier process thCln walking the distance.

Until he discovered that some stu­ dents didn 't understand them, he used Gary LClfson " Far Side" cartoons to in­ troduce questions on eX Clms. And he makes it a point never to use the sa me exa m. Writing new ones is "one of the hardest things 1 do," he says, and he refuses to use pu bli shers' handbooks of sClJl1ple questions.

Middl eton counts himself lucky be­ CClu se zoology - especiCllly ornithology - is inherently interesting. Peopl e are curious about animals and bird s. Still, he has ev olv ed from a teacher who dis­ pen sed information to one who acti ve ly involves the student in the process of learning. ''I'm convinced that if you present the appropriate quest ions, students can ar­ rive at the answers without me telling them."

A proponent of a liberal arts educa­ tion, Midd leton regrets the pressure on univ ersities to "train" rather than "edu­ cate." He says students and society in general expect a university degree to guarantee a job - and narrow qualifica­ tion s. But in a world where people can ex pect to change jobs several times in their lifetime, a liberal arts education would "better equip individuals to cope with an increasingly complex world. " Middleton is keen on teaching stu­ dents to become inde pendent learners.

"They would hav e no fear of th e world they are entering becau se they'd have the keys to being fle xible and adapt­ able."

Early in his career, he was riding the fast research track. But with the respon­ sibility of a baby daughter and young wife, he sat back and examined his prioriti es. Since then , his family has come first. And thi s shows in the class­ room, where perso nal values come through.

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To this list, the zoologist might add curios ity and connecting. He believes in the sa bbatic al refreshment of travel for the professor who is curio us about dif­ ferent perspec tives, And he va lues the excitement that comes with making in ­ tellectua l connections. He wo u Id lo ve, for exa mple, to have an opportunity to teac h a course studying birds as symbols in hi story, literature , mu sic and art.

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A fanfare of rock mu sic some times greets first-year students as they hurry into Constance Rooke's " Literature and the Mod ern World" class. The mus ic has a textual connection to what Rooke plans to talk about that da y. But she won ' t tell the m what it is. It ' s one way she piques their c uriosity.

Rooke received a 3M Fe llowship in 1987, when she was o n faculty at the Univers ity of Victoria, and ca me to Guelph in 1989 as c hair of the Depart­ ment o f English Language a nd Li terature.

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Prof. Constance Rooke English Language and Literature

When she started teaching, s he was "endlessly conscientious" about editing and correcting e rro rs in students' essays.

It took her a while to realize it wasn ' t helping very much; what s he had to do was figure out why they hadn ' t inte rnal­ ized the rul es of g ra mmar and punctua­ tion, She learned the n to work from the inside o ut, from where the students them se lves are.

She encourages students to find the ir own essay topi cs, because she believes that good writing happen s only when students have a genuine interest in w hat they are trying to say. She wants them to develo p their ow n critical position s, to inte rrogate these positi ons and to un­ dersta nd that it can be intellec tually re­ specta ble to c hange one's mind.

Rooke eschews the authoritarian model - me teacher, you student ­ and likes best to ask questions that she doesn ' t have a clear answe r to herself. It is not uncommon for her studen ts' names to appear in the footnotes of he r ow n literary criticism. In this way, the classroom is a catalyst for her own sc holarship.

"Very few of my c ritical essays ha ve not in some way arisen out of my teach­ ing o r fed back into it. Teaching and resea rch revital ize one another. I have leamed an e no rmous amount from my students, "Good teac hing has a lot to do with authentic concern , You reall y do have to care, both about people and a bout your s ubjec t. And you can' t fake e ither of th ose things . Students know, " I do this work beca use I'm pas­ sio nate abo ut literature, but the motiva­ tion is rea lly circular. I'm passionate about literature beca use r believe it can improv e the quality of hum an life and change the world - bec ause it can he lp peo ple,"

John Bell 1942-1987 John Bell was the Univers ity of Gu elph 's first 3M Fellow and among the first 10 uni versity professors in Canada to rece ive the national teac hing award in 1986.

Revered as a leader in prom o ting teac hing excellence he re and a broad, the classics professor is remembered for his contributions to undergraduate educ ation at Guelph.

He was chair o f the Department of Lang uages and Litera­ tures when he died in 1987.

In 1991, the Unive rs ity created the John Bell Award to recogni ze outstand­ in g contributions to education . Terry Gillespie was the first recipie nt.

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What's 5% of (52 - 14 ) x

162 _ 84 + (256 - 133) ???

-v49 If you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of solving this problem ... you may be suffering from math anxiety, and you're not alone! hy Roberta Fral1chuk

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ay, a social worker, keeps me ticulous files at work, but his chequebook hasn't bee n balanced since 1985 because hi s blood pressure goes up and hi s palms start to sweat every time he think s about it. His last attempt was two years ago, when he was happy to have a di sc repancy of just over $200. He quit while he was ahead.

Anita is a bu si nessw oman who'd rath e r eat her annual repon than figure out wh ether a cup of coffee in Brussel s for 70 Belgian frclnc s is expensive or not.

Jeremy is a high sc hool student who was doing well at his part-time job in sales until the cash reg ister broke. He spent an entire afternoon trying to calcu­ late sales tax with a pencil and paper.

That night he dreamt he was being chased by a huge pe rcentage sign.

These peopl e are not stupid. They suf­ fer from math an xiety - and they're not alone.

Ok, let 's see a show of hand s for everyone who hates long division. What about word problem s? Calculu s') Geometry ? Surprisingly enough, in a technologically oriented society like ours, it's quite fashionable to have math anxiety , says math professor J ack W e iner.

"YoU go to a party and peo ple ask what you do. When you say you're a mat hematician, they say: 'Oh, I never liked math ,' then they avoid you for the rest of the e vening. You end up in a corner with the psychiatrists and other mathematicians ."

Yet Weiner and other ex perts agree there are few people who are really in­ capable of understanding math. For most, the anxiety is a learned response Gue/ph Alumnus

to a traumatic incident, often something that happened wh en they were children, and is reinforced by remarks made by parents, teachers or friend s.

Someone tells little Mikey he 's dumb because he can't re member which way the mouth of the "greater than" sign goes , and soon he not only hates "greater than " signs, but also divi sion s igns , fractions, square roots ... and eventually everything that looks even vaguely mathematical.

Some people 's math anxiety doesn't actually show up in their school pelior­ mance. "S tudents often make adapta­ tions to get the marks, but they ' re not comfortable," says math profes so r Joe Cunso lo. "They feel they're a fraud, and they know one day their Wate rloo will arrive." Th ey may be doing well in sc hool, but somewhe re ov e r the next page lurks an e nemy math concept with their name on it.

A good teacher can sometimes cure those symptoms, but it takes time. Gary Fl ewe lling, math consultant for the Wel­ lington County Board of Education, says the teacher plays a big role in this iss ue and must be prepared to spend extra time with math -anxiou s students. You can't teach math in a disconnected fashion , he says. That may re inforce the student's perception that math is beyond her ken.

And if her parents can't help, it' s also beyond her kin. Kin, especially parents, play an important rol e in forestalling or encouraging the development of math anxiety, say the experts. Forcing a six­ year-old to do an hour of fla sh-card drill is not the best way to demystify math.

Talking with the teacher can help, but most of all , confused kids need s upport.

That doesn't mean telling them: "That's

okay, Suzy, I can't do math either."

Hugs and reass urance are better.

So is math anxiety a disease without a cure? Is Anita , the businesswoman, forever doomed to be gypped by waiters in fore ign countries?

No, the re is hope for the math an xiou s . Many school board s offer help in the form of re-entry math classes. U of G offers a precalculus course to prepare students for more advanced courses . And many community colleges offer basic finance and mathematics courses.

There are also suppol1 groups to help the math anxious overcome their fears and gain confidence in their abilities.

Lack of confidence is one of the most de bili tating featu res of math an xiety, says Weiner. Aids such as calculators can help boost confidence, as long as they 're used with an understanding of the underlying concepts, he says.

Practice, too, is vital, although the amount of practice necessary varies depending on what kind of "math per­ son" you are.

With some hard work, then, even the most math anxious should be abl e to face the world and whatever price checks, percentage reductions, com­ pound interest, currency exchange or metric systems it may throw at them.

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Using biotechnology

The first of a two-part series on University of Guelph accomplishments in genetic engineering. hy Mary Dickiesol1 remember writing a story almost 10 years ago about Guelph research in biotechnology. I was fascinated by the idea that scientists could manipulate the genetic traits of plants and animals under a microscope at the ce llul a r level.

And it was tempting to get caught up in the excitement of a new buzzword that promised to cure disease, create new foods and clean up the environ­ ment. But the Guelph scientists I talked to then warned me to keep my feet on the ground.

Biotechnology, they said, is just a definition for a new set of tools ­ powerful tools, but tool s that a re depend­ ent on the knowledge and understanding of those who use them.

Scientists at Guelph and around the world are still learning how to use the tools of biotechnology, but they ' ve mastered the first steps, including the ability to identify and manipulate single­ gene traits in both plants and animals.

In this story, we ']] look at some of the biotec hnology projects in plant genetics under way at U ofG. In the next issue of the Guelph Alumnus (Spring 1992) , we'll take a similar look at resea rch in animal genetics.

Biolog ica lly based technolog ies are not new to food production. Many dif­ ferent civilizations over thou sand s of years have made bread from yeast, yogurt from bacteria and tea and wine from fermented fruits.

Ev en transgenic plant species are not new. Red wheat - the largest cereal crop in the world - combines genetic material from three different but closely rel ated species. Durham wheat, from which pas ta is made, combines two species, and the hybrid of durham wheat and rye is triticale.

What is new in genetic engineering is that sc ienti s ts can now go beyond sex ual barriers to combine the genetic

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traits of two distinctly different spec ies.

Even in transfers of genetic material be­ tween related species, genetic engineer­ ing is often simpler than breeding because it eliminates the need for years of backcrossing.

Guelph plant scientists like Judy Strommer are e xc ited about the pos­ sibilities of genetic engineering, but are cautious about its application. " Biotec h­ nologi s ts walk a path bounded on one side by what can be done and, on the other, by what is worth doing," she says.

Because of these concerns, Guelph scientists consider ethical issues when choosing research objectives. And most laboratories, like Strommer's, are con­ serv ative in approach. Her work searches for crop improvements by remodelling rather than reconstructing the gene tic complement of a plant.

One project is trying to modify a gene responsible for pigment production in the pea plant. By modifying the gene's expression, Strommer and her col-

leagues hope to e nhance res istance to fungal infection without affecting pea flavor. Over the next eight years, she will isolate the gene, analyse how it is expressed in the pea plant, modify it, reintroduce it back into the pea, then evaluate the products.

Like other projects with tobacco and petunia plants, thi s research is aimed at learning some bas ic rules about the ex­ press ion of genes in foreign pl ants.

In a similar project, environmental biolog ist Paul Goodwin is us ing biotec h­ nology to study the ability of microbes to cause plant diseases.

Bacterial blight of beans and fungal stem canker of canola, two major plant diseases in Ontario, are used as model systems to help researchers unders tand the chemical changes that take place in the plant before the visible damage of wilting leaves and discoloration appears.

When Goodwin's lab determines which disease-resistance mechanism s sho uld be enhanced, plant breeders can use the knowledge to develop new plant varieties that can counteract the harmful effects of the pathogen.

Most plant-breeding program s now use both conventional techniques and newer methods of tissue culture and Guelph Alumnus

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gene transfer. Tissue culture tech­ nologies permit rapid propagation of large numbers of disease-free plants.

Tiny pieces of a plant, called explants, are cultured in the lab in a nutrient medium. Explants can be stimulated to produce multiple shoots - each shoot is then grown into a plant - or can be in­ duced by hormones to produce an unor­ ganized cell mass referred to as a callus.

Potentially, every cell in the callus mass can be grown into a new plan!.

The technique is used by horticultural scientists Javed Qureshi and Praveen Saxena to propagate geraniums and other greenhouse plants that are com­ monly reproduced by the time-consum­ ing method of stem cuttings.

Horticultural scientist Vince Souza Machado is using tissue culture tecl-t­ niques to shorten the time needed to produce disease-free potato tubers .

Tissue culture is one of the four areas of biotechnology research being ex­ plored by Guelph plant scientists. Others are working with molecular biologists to study the plant microbial intetface (plant health and nitrogen fixation) and to develop new knowledge in plant trans­ formation. Some of the most visible and exciting results are being seen in the fourth area, plant breeding.

Botany professor John Greenwood has discovered that trees, like bears, bulk up and store extra nutrients to prepare for winter. His research shows that as winter approaches, trees store three to five times the normal amount of nutrients in their bark and new wood to use for new growth in early spring.

"We assume that increased levels of vegetative storage proteins means better survival and even the potential fo;- in­ creased yield," he says.

And that leads to the potential for using gene transfer technologies to im­ prove temperate hardwoods by transfer­ ring genes from species that secure proteins well to those that do not - a process similar to hybridization of seed s to create a hardier strain of plant.

In an updated version of Guelph's 13­ year-old asparagus-breeding program, horticultural scienti st David Wolyn is developing procedures to transfer single Guelph Alumnus

genes that will improve asparagus resis­ tance to disease, insects and herbicides.

In a new project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, crop scientist Larry Erickson is trying to im­ prove the nutritional properties of cassava and enhance its resistance to disease.

Cassava is one of the most important sources of food energy in the tropics. A hardy, woody shrub, it produces large carbohydrate-rich roots that can be cooked like potatoes and processed into cereal, flour, alcohol and animal feed. It can endure drought, poor soils and low inputs, but disease is often a prob­ lem in the hot, humid climate of the tropics.

DNA containing genes specifically en­ gineered for cassava will be attached to tiny gold particles and shot into cassava tissue, from which a plant with the new trait can be regenerated. This technol­ ogy will speed up the genetic improve­ ment of a crop difficult to breed using conventional techniques.

Erickson is also developing a geneti­ cally engineered male sterility system for hybrid alfalfa. His involvement with hybrid systems began in the early 1980s when he worked with Prof. Wally

Beversdorf on a project that produced four patents for processes used in hybrid seed production.

Hybrid plants often have desirable traits inherited from both parents that have sig­ nificant economic importance for crop yield. Almost all varieties of corn grown in North America are hybrid varieties developed through conventional plant-breeding progra ms, which rely on the sexual transfer of genetic material.

Working at the cellu­ lar/molecular level, however, genetic engineers can be more precise in their goals for developing field and or­ namental crops, and can en­ courage the international exchange of materials through the use of disease­ free tissue cultures.

There are many environmental and economic reasons for genetically en­ gineering plant species that are able to withstand the onslaught of disease pathogens without heavy appl ications of chemical s. And in the fight against weeds, genetic engineers are developing new plant species that are resistant to preferred herbicides, which break down quickly in the soil.

Herbicide tolerance is one of the goals of canola research being carried out by Beversdorf. If fact, he developed the world's first herAbove: Tissue culture regeneration. Below: Graduate st udent bicide-tolerant canola in X/ao Q/u looks for the "little genetic s witch" that will /Urn off 1983. Throughout the the gen.e respon.sible for male reproduction in plants.

1980s, he has combined conventional plant breed­ ing and genetic transfer technologies in this en­ deavor. In 1989, he began field tests on transgenic canol a that contains an alien gene taken from a bacterium.

The gene carries the blueprint for an enzyme capable of detoxifying the active component of a commercially avail­ able broad-spectrum her­ bicide.

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the enzyme in the ti ss ues of the canol a plants. And the hybrid a l ien gene con­ struct was inserted into canola cells using an agrobacterium vector.

Early field trials show that transgenic canol a plants are capa ble of withstand­ ing commercial he rbicide application .

The transformation provides an example of modifying a plant 's ability to cope with environmental stres ses.

Work is a lso under way in several laboratories to e ngineer genes and trans­ form canola to improve disease and in­ sec t tolerance.

A second transgenic canola line that has been in field trials since 1989 is one carryin g DN A from the Brazil nut (Ber­ thol/etia exce /sa HBK). This new canol a includes a gene that controls the storage of methio nine protein. By in­ creas ing the plant 's ab ility to store protei ns, sc ienti sts will improve its nutri­ tional value as livestock feed rations.

Tran sgenic canol a that also contains modified storage capabilities for lipid s (vegetable oils) may e nhance the nutri ­ tional value of canola vegetable oil a nd e nab le deve lopment of new industrial products.

Last summer, field tests of two more tran sgenic cano las were conducted at the Elora Researc h Station. The new canola lines will fo rm the basis of a pol­ lination control system that may allow the economical commercial production of hybrid canola seed.

Genetic engineering is important for Canadian agriculture for many of the sa me reason s that hybrid corn vari eties were developed - to improve the grow th potential , yield and vigor of commercially important c rops.

There are also compe lling soc ial reason s for pursuing genetically en­ gineered plants. Despite the Earth's tre mendous variety of plant life, just s ix c uJrivated grains are res ponsible for 85 per cent of all hum an nutrition - either con sumed directly or fed to livestock for meat production.

Since 1915, the world's population has doubled from 2.5 billion to five bil­ lion, largely because of increases in the world production of these cereal grain s.

Look ing to the future, if statisticians are correct in their estim ate that the world population will double again in the next 50 years - while arable land inc reases only fi ve per cent - we'll need food produc tion techniques as revolutionary as ge net ic e nginee ring just to feed ourselves.

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ost of us have looked through a gineered agrobacteria that pass on the microscope and have some con­ DNA through an infection process. cept of what a single plant ce ll looks The re is also a new method de­ like. But ins ide that veloped by Guelph cell is the DNA crop scientist Tissa tangle of literall y Senaratna, in which thousands of gen es. dried somatic Genetic e ngineer­ e mbryos (plant ing is simple in ceJls) are placed in theory - just pick water that contains out the gene you dissolved genetic want and move it material. During to a new plant ­ rehydration, the but far from embryos absorb the routine in practice. ge netic mate rial The study of directly into th eir human ge netics has cell s. progressed to the None of these point where many me thod s is fool­ geneticists are con­ proof, but all are vi­ fident that the inter­ able and are being national Human perfected by Genome Project Guelph scienti sts will identify almost who need the tech­ all of the 50,000 to nology of genetic 100,000 genes in tran sfe r to improve the human body the qualitative traits within the next 15 of plants under in­ years. Animal and vestigation. plant geneticists In addition. tec h­ don't have th at niques for regenerat­ kind of resource ing whole plants background, so from tran sformed locating the desired Top: AgroiJac/aium allaci7l' d 10 a plant cells are gene can be much emerging for many microspor!' hl'gins Ihe jJl'OCCSS ofe!'11 akin to searching economic species dil·isiol7. 80110111: Rehydral ed somalic alfalfa el1lhryos hal'l' ahsor/)ed DNA [ha l for the proverbial such as alfalfa, was dissoh 'l'd in walt'l'. need Ie in a hay­ canola, geraniums, stack . potatoes and even coniferous trees.

TIlere are many ap proaches to gene isolation and tran sfer, but generally, the Tissue cu lture techniques can shorten desired gene is spliced to isolate it from the time needed to produce di sease-free the thousa nd s of other genes contained plants. They can also benefit cross­ in the cell nuclei and is then g lued to a pollinated plant s like alfalfa by piece of bacterial DNA using an en­ reproduc ing large numbe rs of new zyme called ligase. The gene can then plants with the same genetic makeup as be cloned or multipli ed to million s of the parent plant. precise copies, us ing the metabolic Traits that have been successfull y machinery of bacteri al ce lls. transferred includ e stress tolerance, TransfelTing the cloned DNA from co mpos itional change and male bacterial ce ll s to plant cells is the next sterility. Modification of quantitative step. Methods of gene tran sfer include traits suc h as yield is more difficult. direct insertion of DNA into the ce ll Knowl edge of how these large r ge ne nuc leu s using a needle; dissolving the complexes are re g ulated at the ce ll wall and subjecting it to an electric molecular level is more limited, and current, which allows DNA to diffu se techniques for the transfer of comp lex into the ce ll ; shooting plant cell s with traits are not yet perfected ... but are DNA-coated pellets from a particle gun; not far off. and cultivating plant cells with en­ Cue/ph Alumnus

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e n years ago, plant scienti sts at Guelph were already looking to gene transfer technology as a way of im­ prov ing the nutritional quality of plants and their ability to resis t di sease, insects and environme ntal stress.

Those goals haven ' t changed. In fact, the objec tives in mos t cro p-breed in g programs have n't changed appreciab ly for decades, says crop sc ienti st B rya n Mc Kersie. Only the biotechnology too ls are new , a long with the synergy created by comb ining tec hnologie s in tiss ue c ul­ tu re, prote in e ngi neering and ge ne trans­ fer with conventi onal pl ant breeding.

McKersie is o ne of seve ral Guelph sc ie nt ists working o n the deve lopment of a lfa lfa hybrids. Their progress demonstrates the snowba ll effect of biotec hno logy as it lead s scienti sts from one new discovery to th e next.

Since OAC profe ssor Ch arles Zavitz first introd uced a lfalfa to Ontario in the ea rl y 1900s, sc ie ntists hav e recognized the need to develop hybrid s that would offer more uniform plant production, bet­ ter di sease and stress to lerance, and greate r use as a lives tock feed .

Because a lfa lfa plants reprod uce through cross- ferti Iizatio n, the nex t ge ne ration is not identica l to e ith e r parent, making it difficult to maintain a des ired c haracteristic throu gh trad itional plant breeding.

So McKers ie and resea rch assoc iate Ti ssa Senaratna developed art ifi cia l a l­ fa lfa seed s - dried somatic embryos.

The offsp rin g obtained through clonal propagat ion are identical to the parent.

They have also deve loped a techniqu e to dry the somatic e mbryos - rat her like true seeds - to put them in a state of hibernation for transpo rtat ion and storage. With a rtific ial seeds, the costs inv o lved in the maintenance of growth rooms, storage and transportation cou ld be minimized.

Another part of the snowball effec t is the work of horticultural sc ie nti st Praveen Sa xe na, who is developing tec h­ niques to obta in large numbe rs of somatic e mbryos from alfalfa and im por­ tant o rname ntal spec ies .

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Iu s cell s using the sa me method, which he call s the "surfboa rd phe nome no n" be­ ca use the wa te r front calTies the ge ne tic material into the cel ls.

Th e procedure may have major implications for the e n­ tire biotechnology industry because it 's through the ex ­ c hange o f ge net ic informa­ tion that new stra ins of plants can be developed. It also has implications for th e tran sfor­ matio n of anim al ce lls suc h Above: Bryan McKersie.lefl. and Tissa Senararna with ar­ as spe rm ce ll s. lificial alfalfa seeds. Top leji .· Hundreds of sematie em Other Guelph scient ists bryos grow in a cullure dish .

Photo by Owen RobertS plan to field test transgeni c a lfa lfa containin g ge nes as ­ Still more developments includ e the soc iated with stress tol erance th at have ability to transfe r new ge ne tic materia l been transferred from other pl an t into the somati c em bryo. spec ies. One gene ca lled superoxide dis­ Senaratna discovered that dried mutase o btained fro m a re lati ve of tobac­ somat ic ce ll s will absorb ge net ic co, is involved in tolerance to stresses material th at ha s been disso lved in water such as freezing, icing and flooding. because cell me mbranes ac t differently Another gene, a lcohol de hydrogenase, from normal during the we t-dry inter­ was obta ined fro m a re lative of ca no la. face . Thro ugh a process not fully under­ ADH is involved in tolerance to pro­ stood, the di sso lved D NA ge ts into the longed flood ing . When plant roots a re in cell s when the tissues are being a flooded state, they run short of re hydrated. oxygen. The e nzyme ADH stimul ates Senaratna be li eves the process will the production of ethanol , which is also work with other dry tissue, and has tran sported to upper plant parts where bee n able to insert DNA into s ingle cal­ the re is oxygen and is meta bol ized.

In 1990, c rop sc ientist Steve Bowley bega n fie ld testing tran sgenic alfalfa at 'psing" the 'past to build the future , ., . the Elora Research Station. Alfalfa . (;eneticengi!1eering may ho ld th e . plants containing a marker ge ne were . p[onjise 'Of the fut ure, but convention- . grown to e va lu ate the ir weedi ness and . al crop:.&reeding programs at U of G competitiveness in preparation for next 'Ire h erping tOpa y fqr that progress, yea r's proposed trials , w here resea rc he rs In the past fft yea r!;, the Departme nt hope to test the SOD- and ADH-tran s­ . of 60p S cience .~as released 20 cul­ formed plants. . ti"vars ~lgd obt,iined severnlpatents As part of the fi e ld test protocol. the . that have now generated $ 1 million alfa lfa plants will be ha rvested before 'in roya lli,es.ThecI;titivars inClude . flow e rin g to prevent tran smi ss ion of the ·three w,hite oeitn ·varieties developed gene to othe r alfa lfa plants. All genetic with' Agri C u~ture' Canad a, a dozen material will be incinerated or CO I1) ­ soy b.ean varieties for Ont.ario, .. pos ted, and the test plot left fa llow fo r . Quebec and Ellrppe, arid the 'first four years afte r te rmination of the triaL North Ameritan-bred' wintei' canola, Bowl ey plans to observe the tri a l ove r whichst~li ·h.oids a~ignific~ll1t share " three winters fo r grow th performance, of.the NOrth Amei:icari.markei.. survi va l and abi lit y to to lerate stress .

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Transferring technologies to the marketplace he licensing cf artificial seed tech­ nologies developed by University of Guelph crop sc ientists Bryan McKers ie and Tissa Senaratna demonstrates that innovation is not limited to the research lab.

White Rose Nurseries Ltd. has sup­ ported the research effort throughout the patenting process , and wants to develop and market the technology for produc­ ing artificial seed s from somatic embryos. Negotiation s are complete be­ tween White Rose, the University and th e Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food to have the company dev e lop the process for commercial application in ornamental plants like geranium s.

For U of G , working with White Rose Nurse ri es represents th e successful mar­ riage of academic research and market­ ing know-how. The matc hmaker was the Office of Research , headed by vice­ president Larry Milligan.

The job of moving new ideas out of the University and into industry fall s within the mandate of Brian Cox and Chris Ostrovski in collaborative re­ search and development. That means working with inventors like McKersie and Senaratna to define their idea so that prospective industrial partners can understand the concept and see its com­ mercial applications. It also mean s securing the technology throug h patents, which may cost more than $10,000 per country, It can take many years, espec ially in biotechnology, to have a patent granted, says Ostrov ski. "It is important to have an industri al partn er as early as possibl e in the commercialization process be­ cause it enables co-development of the product and establi shes a long-te rm relationship with the industry."

One of the rewards fo r these efforts is watching revenue flow back into new University research, he says.

U of G developed a strategy for in­ du strial interaction in 1982. One objec­ tive was to increase research collaboration and industry support for ongoing proj ec ts. Industrial research contracts grew from $ 1 mill ion to $3

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million in the first three years and , last year, reac hed the $5-mill ion leve l.

The second objective was to imple­ me nt a program in tec hnology tran sfer.

The University's strategy recognizes that we live in a world where the marketplace is the only viable way to get new id eas and inventions into the hands of consum ers. " Simply handing new technologi es over to indu stry without ex pecting a return on successes would be shirking our public responsibilities ," says Ostrovski . "The sale or lice nsing of tech­ nologies and royalties returned to univers ities provide a reasonable return for public and corporate ta x investments in education and research. " Nevertheless, Milligan notes that th e intent of the U of G industrial strategy is "to develop researc h findings that have benefits for our larger community, both in terms of the advancement of know­ led ge and the improveme nt of life and living."

The g rowth of activity in technology tran sfe r has been parallelled by the growth of Guelph researc h in biotech­ nology . Ostrov ski has a list of 33 inven­ tions that have been recomm ended for development and commercialization.

Seven are so exc iting, they are classifi ed as urgent, and six of those are the results of biotechno logy re search .

So, he says, " If your bu siness is in the market for advanced technologies, or you know someone who is, let's talk."

He would like to promote sy mbiotic relation ships between the University and alumni who can use a Guelph inven­ tio n to generate more bu siness in their own companies.

"W e look for companies that offer the University the best return, and th at in­ cludes a lot more than money," he say s.

Technologies aren't alway s picked up by the highest bidde r, but may go to companies that demon strate a long-term interest in working with the University - by funding ongoing re search , hiring graduates or setting up co-operative training progra ms .

An important part of Gue lph ' s in­

dustri al strategy was to formalize an in­ ventions polic y th at defines ownership of inventions deve loped on cam pus.

Under the policy, professors Bruce Wilkie and Patrici a Shewen of the De partm en t of Ve terin ary Mic ro biology and Immunol ogy sh are in the royalties (along with U of G and OMAF) from a shipping fever vaccine they developed in the early I 980s. The vaccine was licensed to Langford Inc. of Guelph and is now marketed in North America under the brand name Pres ponse. Gross royalties to date have totall ed $200,000.

In addll )n, the University received a $200,000 research developm ent grant co-funded by Langford and the National Research Council.

U of G inventors hold 29 internation a l patents, 21 rece ived si nce 1984. It' s im­ portant to patent each viable market, says Ostrovski . For example, a novel process for plant hybridization developed by crop sc ienti st Wally Beversdorf is patented in the United States, France, West Germany and the United Kin gdom, In the biotechnology area, Canadian patents are scarce. Unlike th e U.S. government, which granted a paten t for the " Harv ard mou se," the Canadian gov ernment will only grant patent protection on s ingle-ce ll life forms. That leaves out many new crop cultivars, dev e loped throug h genetic transfers, which can onl y be protected through the new plant breeders ' rights leg islation.

And like many other countries, Canada has adopted a policy that makes an idea unpatentable if it has been pub­ li shed first. For those w ho value the traditional acade mic freedom to publi sh research results, it means some adju st­ ment in thinking to deal with the realities of the bus iness world .

Des pite patent concerns, McKers ie thinks genetic engineers will continue to feed on an open exchange of informa­ tion . "Developments in biotechnology are happe ning so quickly, we've got more to gain through open communica­ tion than we have to lose," he says .

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Triathlon training is an individual exercise

hy Stephen Fleck, CBS' 85 He broke th e Ontario record in the 199 1 Ironman Tria/hlon;n Pen /ie/on, On/.

After peop le get over the init ial shock of wh.at an Jronma n Triathlon in volves2.5-mil e sw im , 122-mil e cyc le, 26.2­ mile run - the question I hear most ofte n is: "How do yo u find time to train for an event like that')" There is no doubt that the di stances are intimid atin g. They still scare me.

Factor in the weather - it was 35 C with high hu mi di ty for the lron man World Championship in Hawaii - and yo u have an event th at ca n be brutal.

Stran ge as it may seem , Jronman events worldwide have a fairl y hig h finislling percent age, a testimony to each athlete' s physical and mental preparation and the drive to fini sh an event that many ha ve ca lled "the ul­ timate test of human endurance."

How do I find time to train for an event of thi s magnitude') I ask myse lf thi s que sti on now and then. " You mu st train full time, all day" is what people often say to me . Actually , J wo rk full time se lling advert is in g and writ ing fo r two sports magazines in Toron to - Ski Trax and Pedal. J also have a few ot her commi tments and try to spe nd as much time as possi ble with fami ly and fr iend s.

Full-time professional tri athl etes may be ab le to sw im , run and cyc le for seve n or eight hou rs a day, but I can't .. . and I don't think ['d wa nt to.

I attribu te my success as a triat hl ete to four key points - experience , comm it­ ment , workin g with what I've got and organizati on.

Firs t, [ have 15 years of endurance sport tra ining to dra w on. For many years, it was trial -a nd-error trainin g, bu t now ['ve reached the point , at age 30, where I know what works for me and what doesn't. It 's no secret th at all of the best marathon runners and triathletes are in their 30s.

Secondly, I'm committed to a fitne ss ­ oriented and hea lthy li festyle. [f it' s out­ doors and invo lves some form of physical exertion, I'm in to it.

The third point, and probably the most import ant, is working with what's avail able. Li ke most things in life, trainC uelph AlumllllS

ing for an [ron man Triathl on involv es figuring out how muc h you have to work with - in th is case, ti me - and ge tt ing the most out of it. Many people waste hours of train ing by not identify­ ing what has to be done in a specific workout to get the most out of it. Other athletes will understand when [ say th at you ca n ride 50 mi les or you can reul/y ri de 50 miles.

Finally, everything ha s to be or­ gani zed on a seasonal, monthly , weekly and daily basis. I keep a trainin g log and refe r to it to keep th ings on track.

Havin g spec ific goal s wit hin each time frame focuses my effort s and keeps me moti va ted , even during the off-season win ter month s.

So much for the theories. What does all this mean') Weekly averages can be a mi slead ­ ing representati on of what's goi ng on. A typical spring or summe r week will see me train a total of 11 hours, with 6,000 metres of swi mming, 175 miles of cycling and 35 miles of running. But some "hell weeks" are double thi s, and other weeks are half or eve n less. Thi s is known as the "hard-easy" princ ipal of trai ning - stress the body to its maximum, then let it recover. Rest is an impor­ tan t component of the training program.

Typica lly , I train for one hour before work and one to two hours after­ wards . Each sport is done three to fou r tim es a week.

Weekend s are re served for long bike rid es of two to five hours and long runs of two or three hours.

It seems like a lot of time, but I economize by incorporating workou ts

into comm utin g to and from the otli ce.

And if friends are driving somewhere, 1 will cycl e th ere. A I ~O- mil e rid e goes by much faster if it is a point-to- point ride . The motivation to fini sh is ll1uch highe r.

That 's it in a nuts hell. Of co urse, the bottom line is to have fun because if it isn't fun now , it surely won ' t be fun at mile 15 of the marathon in an [ronm an Triathlon. I' m just out there havin g a good time. Honest.

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He didn't want to sell the family farm, so he gave it away. obert OA C "48A and '5 I, R has a diploma in agriculture, two univ ers ity deg rees and almost 40 years Skillper,

in publi c educ8ti on, but he rccognizes that much of what he knows that is real­ ly imp ortant to thi , world he learned tramping aro und on th e family farm.

So Skipper and his wife, Barbara, dec id ed to gi ve that S8me ex.perience to future generations of chi Idren. They gave their 20-heetare farm east of Tilbury, Ont., to the Kent County Board of Educa tion so th at sc hoolch ildren co uld learn firs t hand about Canada' s rural heritage from their own farm.

The Skipper farm. with it s buildings and memorabilia dating back 100 years, will become a cen tre for outd oor studies . The Skippe rs wi ll remnin on the property, and hope to act as resource people as they continue to care for and develop the farm.

Robert Skippe r was born and misecl on th e farm. He left school in 1937 at age 14 to work the property during the Dcpc ssion. After erving in the aimed forces during th e Second World War, he came to Guelph to study at OAC. He also attended the !liversity of Toronto and spent 4S yea rs working in education and agric ulture.

In 1980, Skipper re tired and moved back to the farm. He and hi s wife turned the ir attenti on to the property, re storing the fa rmh ouse, planting thou sands of trees and building a bridge and a ponel.

And th ey began to think abo ut what wo uld even­ tually become of the properly, says Skipper.

Not wanting to see it swal­ lowed up by a large cash­ crop ope ration, they hit on th e id ea of bequeathing it to ge nerations of school­ chil dren as a unique living classroom.

In August 199 1, they of­ fered the farm to Kent Count y sc hool officials,

who we re ove rwhelm ed by the idea.

Bill Green , the boa rd 's director or ed ucntion, says offici'lls nre plann in g n cur­ riculum of st ud y for all grndes, and n c la ssroom may be bui lt in th e loft of the barn.

Th ere is much on the farm to interest c hildren, both hi stori ca ll y and en­ vironme ntall y. The Skippers planted a wa lnut grove and a fr uit orc hard , as well as th ousands of trees in wi ndbreaks and shelterbeJt s. They also planned for wa ter conser­ vation by bu ildi ng grassed Roher! S~if7f7('/' sOI'('d ill(' (lId school hell froll! IiII' one -room ditch banks and water­ school his tillh('l III/ende(/. way s. A decorative bridge Photo by Jolle Sims, LOlldoll Frei' Press was built using timb e r~ ['rom Skipper hopes th e farm ex. perience the origina l fa rmh ouse. will increase children's awareness of Besides th e agricultural value of the their her itage, some thin g he says has a fa rm, th e property contains a barn full plac e in the ed uca ti onal sy,tem. of Canad ian a memorabilia that chronicles Ontario farm life fwm 1890 He envisions a barn exhibit of early on, says Skipper. There are cooking dairying. with th e fa rm 's cream cans, uten sils and croc kery used by his separator, churn and butter press, to mother and grandmother, farm tools, an show a littl e bit about rural Ontario. old sc hoo l bell He's al so conce rn ed about develop­ and hi s grand­ ing patri oti sm and prese rvin g Canada's father 's onehistory . " If we don' t sa l. vage thi s st uff now, th ere won' t be much left. " 1908 to 1959, th e res idents of Spa rrow Lake , Ontario, Prom were connected to th e rest of th e world through the Cl ipsha m family telephone com pany.

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started the compan y, usin g orth ern Elec tric magneto and b<ittery-operated phones to con nect th e southeast area of Spar­ row Lake to th e Se vem Bridge exc hange.

His son, Esmond Clipsham , took ove r the family business in 1928, after earning an OAC degree in 1923. Es mond's sisters, Orilla and Lois, also ca ill e to Guelph to attend the Macdonald Institute.

It was th e new University of Guelph LI1at welcomed mem­ bers of the nex t generatio n of tile Clipsham family - Robert , OAC '67 Eng. ; Elaine Hu ghes. f ACS '6R ; Alan, CPS '69; and Carol Craig. CPS ' 70. And the tradition continues with Lind a Clipsham, now a stude nt in the College o f Ans. Cflclp h AlflJl/ll flS

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Bogie was a Canadian?

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athleen Scott, Arts '83. has alm ost 2,5 00 bits of Canadian movie trivia at her fingertips, including the

name of the 195 I motion picture in which Humphrey Bogart

played the pan of a Canadian. And she' s looking for more.

Scott is the com puter consultant on a University of Gue lph­

based resea rch team that is prepClring a compreh ens ive list­

ing of feature films m<Jd e in or about Canad<J and Canadians.

They are especia lly interested in loca ting Canadian refer­ ences in fea ture films made in langu ages other th an Frencll and En glish.

One of those refe rences comes from The African Queen , wh ere Humphrey Bogart refe rs to him se lf as Canadian.

Scott, who is de veloping the databClse struc tures and in­ dexes, was co -reci pient of a Social Sciences and Humaniti es -"",........-.

Resea rch Council grant of almo st $50,000, along with Ber­ nard Katz of the U of G Li bra I')', Pau I Sa Imon of the Depart­ The film research team wou ld like to hea r from Guelph ment of Drama and private researcher Ian Easterbrook. alumni around the world who can give movie titles or name Scott worked on campus bet ween 1978 and 1990 and has the producers of film s with Canadian references - regionally wo rked with th e archive units of the Guelph Publi c Library produced movies. foreign films that I'efer to Can ad a and films and Guelpl1 General Hosp ital. She also worked with shot in Canaela. If you can help, write to the Canadian Film Easterbrook, Kat z and professor eme ritu s Eli zabeth Waterston Project , c/o McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. on The hCl\'ellers, a bibliography of Canadian travel writing.

Guelph, Ont ario, Canada N IG 2W J.

It takes a strong stomach to be a scientist von Windheim, CPS Ph D '9 I, JeSko can attest to that statement. He en ­

dured two gut-wrenching , two-hour

flights ove r the Gulf of Mexico in a KC­ 135 airp lane to find out if sem icon du c­

tors can be "grown" in very low gravity.

Affectionately known as the " Vomit

Comet," the modified 707 was lea sed

from NASA's Johnson Space Centre in

Hou ston, Texas, by the Canadian Space

Agency. It flies in a roller coaster-like pattem that provides brief periods of

"microgravity," a gravitational force one-thousandth that of normal gra vit y.

During the fli gh ts. the plan e flew a

parabolic pattern, climbing at a 45­ degree angl e to an altitude of 34,000 feet, then curving back down in descent at 45 degrees to 20,000 feet.

This cycle was repeated 40 times in each flight. At the peak of each curve. or parabola , the plane experiences 20 to 25 seconds of microgravity.

During these periods of low gravity, von Windhei m operated th e CI/elph AII/IIIIIII.\

electroche mi ca l cel1s of an experimental cabin depressurized at high altitudes. appara tu s designed by his PhD supe r­ Then hc flew a series of loops and sp ins visor, Guelph chemi st Mike Cocivera. in an aerobatic bipl<Jne ca ll ed a Pitts The 24 cells used an electrical current Spec ial to 11elp him ge t used to the un­ to depos it a thin film of cadmiu m usual forces and the nau sea typi cal of selenide, a semiconductor. on differe nt the paraboli c flights. metal elec trodes. The goal

of these initial experiments

was to demonstrate the

feas ibil ity of making bett er

sem icon ductor films with

improved electrical conduc­ tivity and crystalline

structures.

Cadmium se len ide was

chosen because it ha s

many applications, includ­

ing use in transi stors,

photocopying machines and video cameras,

although other semiconduc­ tors wtll be grown in later experiments.

Von Windheim, who is

now comp leting postdoc­ toral studies at North Carolina State, spent months preparing for the

KC-135 flights. He had to

pass the physical used to

screen air force pilots and

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Homecoming highlights Alumni Stadium swelled with fan s for the traditional Homec om ing football game, which ended much like the en­ tire Gryphon football season ­ in a disappointing loss. Toronto defeated the Gryphons 16 to I 1 in a close-fought game that provided an exciting afternoon for fans. The Gryphons ended the season in sixth place with two wins and five losses.

Another Homecoming high­ light was the induction of seven former athletes and The /99/ Gnpi10n Spu)'/ s Ha/! a/Fu/17 e induclees are.from Ie/I. CI/Or!('.1 BclchallliJeJ'. iJcUlie Brel/I/ull . coaches into the Gryphon Club SUI11 Benincasa. Bud Fo!us(' ll'Ych. Bllrl MOI//I(,II'S , Rar Irwil1 ({lid Sill' Sclier!! J'.

Ph o\(l by Herb Rausl'her Sports Hall of Fame. Among them was Robert "Bud" member of the 1947 Canadian cham­ Folusewych, Arts '71. A gridiron per­ pionship football team. He was named Nom inations sought former during his student days, he made rookie of the year by the Ottawa Rough The niv ersity of Guelph Alumni As­ an even greater contribution on the Rid ers in 1946 and helped the team ea rn sociation is seeking nominations for its coaching staff. He was assistant football it s 1951 Grey Cup championship. coach for six ye ars and head coach of annual ,1 ward s to be present d during Hockey is the sport of inductees Irwin Alumni WeeKend 1992. The G AA the Gryphon hockey program for fiv e, and Scherer. Irwin was named Gryphon ,1I1 Alumnus of Honour will recognize winning three Ontario championships. male athlete of the year in 1981 and He hold s the di stinction of being the for contri butions to a Can adi an cause, Scherer was female athlete of the year only coach in Gryphon hi story to win community se rvic e. profess ion, the arts in 1983 . Jrwin also won the W.F. or alumni affair,. T he Alumni Medal 200 games.

Mitchell sportsmanship award, was of Achievement will be awarded to a Also inducted as a builder was fonner team captain and most valuable player U of G president Burt Matthews, OAC of the last 15 years for con ­ graduate in the 1980 Ontario university hockey tributions to country, community, '47, who was cited for his leadership playoffs. Scherer was most val uabl.e role in gathering support for improve­ profess ion or the world of arts and let­ player for women's hockey in 1983 . Sh e ments to campus athletics facilities. He ters . Nominations should be sent to th e is now a member of the national fastball was instrumental in earmarking fund s UG AA Nominations ommittee. Alum­ team and captain of Canada' s 1991 ni House, by March 15, 1992. for the new twin-pad arena and multipur­ World Championship hockey team. pose gym. Matthew s was also a gridiron [n addition , the ove Alumni s~o cia­ tion invites nomin ations tor its Oi tin­ standout as a student and was winner of guished AlumlJus Award , which will the Ted Wildman trophy in 1946.

Inducted as athletes were Sam be presented at OV C's June convoca­ Mark the date Benincasa, HAFA '84, Chuck tion. The award rceognilcs a graduate for Alumni Weekend! who has bro ught honour to the college BeJchamber, OAC '40, Bernie Brennan, OVC '5 I, Ray Irwin, HAFA and fellow alumni through leadership June 19 to 21, 1992 and service to country, science, educa­ '83, and Sue Scherer, Art s '83 . tion, profession or alma mater. , omina­ Benincasa was captain of the Gryphon football team and Gryphon tion s mu st be received by the O VC athlete of the year in 1983. He was Alumni Assuciation by April 30.

Ontario universit y All Star four years Until the end of February, the OAC running - 1980 to 1983 - and All Alumni Foundation will acc ept nomina­ Canadian in 1982 and 1983. tions for the T.R . Hilliard Distin­ An all-around athlete, Beichamber gui shed Agricultural Extension earned varsity letters in basketball, soc­ Award . I 'amed in memory of the late cer, rugb y and track between 1937 and fonner deputy minister of agriculture, 1940 and was team captain of the 1939 the award rccog ni ze s contributi ons 10 Dominion Championship basketball agricultural extension in Ontario and is team. not limited to U of G alumni. For I110re Brennan earned Gryphon varsity let­ information , call the 0 e dean ' s office ters in football and hockey and was a at 519-824-4120, Ext. 22R4.

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Reunions

ove '71: T went y- three members of thi s clas s cele brated 20 years in veteri­ nary medicin e last summ er at the Bayv iew/Wild wood Resort on Sparro w Lake . Spec ial gues ts at the reun IOn were O VC '7 I surrogate parent s Wendy and Russ Willough b y, OVC ' 57 , who have he lped many veterinary stu de nts throu gh the fi rs t tw o vulne rable yea rs.

Ru ss Willoughby re tired las t yea r as director of the Equine Rese arch Centre .

It proved to be a reunion weekend with everythlIlg from storytelling to Charli e C haplin-li ke anti cs , th anks to organi zers Joan a nd T ed Gough.

of the turfgras s indu stry. The $ 1.500 awa rd is the on ly Canadian sc ho larshi p spec ific to the di sci pline of turfgrass sc ience and management. And it is an addition to Monsant o 's earli er $25,000 donati on to the Guelph Turfgrass In stitute.

The 199 1 in augural aw ard went to Paul Vanderwerf, OAC ' R8, of Yarker, Ont. , who is stud ying th e enviro nmental impact of spreading compost on turfgrass.

Last call for Scandinavia An all-Gu elph alumni tri p to Scan­ dinav ia will depart May 20, 1992 , for a 16-day tour th at includes visits to Finl and and Sweden. Travellers will enj oy Helsinki 's rich mixture of Empire Byzantine and art nouveau arc hitec ture and vi sit Stoc kholm 's archipelago of more than 24,000 island s.

Trave l broc hures are av ailabl e from Rosemary Cl ark. director of ad vance­ ment programs, at Alumni House, Uni versity o FGuelph, Gu elph, Ontario N IG 2W 1, or by ca ll ing 519-824-41 20.

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O ne good turn deserves another When Mark Lawton was iJ graduate stu ­ de nt at th e Univ ersit y of Gue lph , he recei ved sev eral sc holars hips th at hel ped him earn hi s 191\ 9 PhD in tur fg rass pathology. l le remembers ho pin g for th e chance to one da y repay some of tha t kindn ess, bu t littl e did he know th at his chanc e would com e in less th an two years.

Lawton now works in produ ct deve lopment for Mon santo Canada Inc. and was instrumental in se tting up an an­ nual tu rfgruss resea rch fellows hip.

Th ro ugh the Gue lph fe llowshi p pro­ gram, Law ton Fo und a unique way fo r his employe r to su pport the betterment Gll e/p h AI/lill I/II.,

U of G alumni in Barrie, London and Ottaw a tea med up with Alumni AfFai rs and Admi ss ions staff last August to wel­ come ne w Gu elph s tud e nt ~ from these areas. More th an 100 stud ents and paren ts came to hea r about th e Univer­ sit y of Gue lph and the career path s of so me of its graduates .

Every gift grows Ev ery gift gro ws as part of the Alm a Mater Fund. Contributions tow ard the 1991 goa l of$ 1.6 million will help in­ crease AMF sch olarships for U of G stu­ de nts and should be mailed to the fund at Alumn i Ho use, University of Gue lph , Guelph, Ontario N IG 2W I. Cont ribu ­ tion s postmark ed by Jan. 2, 1992, will recei ve tax credit for 1991.

Chapter news The U of G alumni chapter in Ottawa celebra ted it s 50th anni versary Sept. 22 with a picnic at th e Agri culture Can ada experiment al farm. Alumni from the 193 0s to the 198 0s we re in attend ance .

UGAA board report

by Grant Lee, President

Th e UG AA boa rd has initi ated seve ral new program s thi s year and is in the ad­ van tageou s posit ion of deali ng with in­ creased revenu es from its ongoin g projects.

North Americ an Life insurance, th e Bank of Montreal Ma sterC ard, alumni tour prog rams and the cam pus portrait book are generatin g on goi ng revenues.

In the last fiscal year, these program s contributed to a $20,000 gift to the library.

Proceed s From the Mas terCard pro­ gram are earm arked fo r library deve lop­ ment. Indi vid ual alumni who app ly for a UGAA MasterCard pay a redu ced inter­ est rate and an an nual se rvice fee of $12 .

One dollar of that fee is returned to the association , alon g with a pe rce ntage of every retai l purc hase. To date, the program 's 2.000 card holders have con­ tributed almost $1 0,000 to the UGAA .

In response to alumni reques ts for more continuin g education oppor­ tunities, the UGAA has endorsed the di s­ tance education course "The 5,000 Days. " Alumni recei ve the co urse at a reduced cost of $ 105 (regula r pri ce $ 125), of whi ch $5 goes to the UGAA for library development.

The UGAA board has seve ral bylaw revi sions to imple ment pl anned restru c­ turing of the assoc iati on that are bein g ci rc ul ated to indi vidu al alumni associa­ tion s for comments. Th e board is al so worki ng more closel y wi th the Stud ent Alumni Associ ation, whi ch has initiated an ori entati on program For transfe r stu ­ dents and is consid ering a new student­ sponsored scho larship .

Future UG AA plans include a pro­ gram to ass ist alumni in re tirement plan­ ning and a publi cation on the benefits of belongin g to th e assoc iati on. The board invites alumni to ge t in vo lved in plan ­ ning alumni ev ents by callin g Tri sh Walker, director of Alumni Affairs, at 5 19-R24-41 20, Ext. 2 122 .

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~ Don't Miss the Glittering 25th Anniversary Season May 1 to 23, 1992 Paul Frey, Ange la H ewitt,

Cleo Laine and the

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the Rembrandt Trio,

1992 Nati onal Vocal Competition

and much more!!!

M ark your calell dars f or the 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner celebratillgollr Founders {lIId honouring .

F OLiilding Festival President Murdo MacKinnon · Saturday, May 2, 1992 - 6:30 p.m. .'. Creelm an H all U niversity of G uelph For 1992 Festival brochure write:

Guelph Spring Festival

Box 1718, Guelp h, Olltario

N 1H 6Z9 or p holle

(519) 821-7570 2X

Anytime - The UGAA-sponsored con­ tinuing educa tion course "The 5 ,000 Days" looks at environmenta l pe rspec­ tives and human choices. Register by calling 519-767-5000 .

Jan . 5 to Feb . 23 - Every Sunday, the Arboretum will o ffer a guided nature walk on a different theme each week, suitable for families . Walks leave the nature centre at 2 p.m.

Jan . 18 - The Ottawa alumni chapter will hold a bonspiel at the Richmond Curling Club , beginning at 9 a .m. Ca ll David Kroetsch at 6 13-995 -50 11 .

Jan. 11 Dress wa rml y a t the Arboretum's 13th annual winter bi rd sUNey , beginning at 8 a.m.

Jan. 31 - This is the date for the Aggie Goodtime Banquet. For information, call the OAC Student Federation at 519-824-4120 , Ext. 8321 .

Feb . 1 - Each Saturday evening begin­ ning Feb . 1, the Arboretum 's Theatre in the Trees will feature the Norm Foster comedy My Darling Judith. For ticket info rmation , ca ll 519-824-4120, Ext. 2113 .

Feb. 2 - A ce lebra ti on of w inter in the Arbore tum features guided wa lks a t 1 and 3:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m . concert presented by the Department of Music Admission is free .

Feb . 8 - Th e Arbo retu m o ff e rs a nightsta lkers' owl prowl beginn ing at 7 p.m . Dress warm ly for a gu ided wa lk th a t w ill discuss the behavior, adapta­ tions and ecology of owls in the Guelph area. Cost is $2 for adults, 50 cents for children over nine. Register at 519 -824­ 4 120, Ext. 3932 Feb. 9 - The Guelph Collectibles Fair includes comics, records , posters and sports memorabi lia . Open from 11 a.m . to 5 p.m . in the University Centre, the fair costs $4 .50 genera l, $2 .50 for stu­ dents.

Feb. 22 & 23 - The 11 th annual OAC diploma hockey tournament will face off in the twin-pad arena. To register a team , call Greg Cornforth at 416-659­ 1906 or John McNiven at 705-734­ 5763.

Feb . 29 to March 29 - Maple Syrup Days ru n at the Arboretum on Satur­ days and Sundays fr om 9:30 a .m. to 3:30 p.m . Bring your fami ly and enjoy a taste of maple syrup making .

March - The CSS Alumni Association will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 1992. Watch for details of an ann iver­ sary event to be held in mid-March.

March 4 - The annual Florida alumni picnic will be held at the North Port Yacht Club. For information , call Ted Brent a t 813-629-2432 .

March 9 - Mark this da te for the Mac­ FACS Alumni Assoc iati on's graduate student recepti on and ring ce remony to be held at Alumni House .

March 14 & 15 - College Royal 1992 March 16 - ReseNe this date for an alumni family ski day at Horseshoe Val ­ ley . Alumni Affairs has arranged for dis­ cou nted lift tickets , lessons and hotel rooms . For information , call 519-824­ 4120 , Ext. 6963 .

March 21 & 22 Du n geons and Dragons and other board games will be fea tur ed at a two-day Gryphcon Gaming Conven ti on. No reg istration is necessary : just drop in at the University Cen tre and play.

April 3 & 4 - The second annual OVC alumni hockey tournament will be held at the U of G arena. Call Grant Maxie for details at 519-824-4120 , Ext. 4357 .

April3 & 4 - The OAC Alumni Associa­ tion wi ll hold its annual curling bonspiel a t the Guelph Cu rl ing Club . Call Alumni House for deta ils, 5 19-824-4 120, Ext. 6657 or 6544.

April 9 to 12 - Signs of Spring, an exh ibition and sa le of Ca nad ian cra ft s, runs in the Unive rsity Cen tre Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m . to 5 p.m . For informat ion, ca ll 5 19-824-4747 .

April 12 - The Arboretum begins its spring program o f Sunday afternoon nature wa lks . Enjoy a different theme each week . Guided walks leave the nature centre each Sunday at 2 p.m.

April 13 to 17 - It's exam week. Don 't forget to book delivery of an exam sur­ vival kit for your Guelph student by call­ ing 519-824-4120, Ext. 6302.

April 21 - Details wi ll follow for the HAFA A lumni Association 's spring reception .

May 3 - Families are welcome as the Arboretum celebrates spring . The after­ noon features guided nature walks at 1 and 3:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. concert sponsored by the Department of Music .

May 13 - Chancellor Lincoln Alexander will be the guest speaker at the Alumni­ in-Action annual genera l meeting , which wi ll be held a t noon in the Ar­ boretum Cen tre . For detai ls, ca ll Alumn i A ffairs, 519-824-4120 , Ext. 2102.

May 13 - Pierrefonds Comprehen sive High School in Montreal is planning a 1977 class reunion for the May 23 weekend . If you 're one of the 400 stu­ dents in the 1977 class, call reunion organizer Pat St. Laurent at 514-620­ 8977 for information .

June 2 to 5 - Spring convocation .

June 20 & 21 - Alumni Weekend 1992 .

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Food in the North Ba y r'egi on, He and his wife, Tammy-Lou , live in Powa"an with their infant daught er, K,lthryn Gr'ace,

Joseph ziz, 'R7, lives in Toro nto, wher'e he works in the sales division or an importing company,

Bre nda (Scearce) Md ,a ~' . '~I, is a pediatric phys iotherapist. bu t is cu rTently sta ying Ht home wi th two young chi ldren, She and her hu sband , Mi chael. make rheir home in Burlington,Onl.

Marn y Fo rrest, '79 , is teaching secondary school in Petawawa, Onto, where her hus­ band , Major Edward Gagnon, is stationed at the Canadian Fo rces base,

.Janis Milliken , 'Tri>, is a recent graduarc or the DVVI program at th e Atl antic Veterinary Colk ge in Prince Ed wa rd bland, She rece ived firs t-c lass honor's and a patho logy ach ievemen t scholastic award I'lli' 1991, A large animal anesthetist, she lives in Cliarlolletown,

Elizabeth (l\igh) J ohnson, 'R3, and her hu ,, ­ band, Bradley, li ve in Dor,et, Onto She is a wa tercolor painter.

Patricia Mocha, '7 1, teaches for th e Wat er­ loo, Onto, separate school board, David Mullen, PhD 'R5, is assistant profes­ sor of humanities at Univer"iry Coll ege of Capc Breton in Sydney, N,S, From April to August 1991, he was a visiting research fel­ l o~atthe Calgary Institute fo~' the HUlllan­ it ies, where he prepared an essay on the Scottish covenanters of the 1040s, J a ne Olson. '86, i'i a registered nurse ancl ad­ ministrative associate at a health-care ccntre In Carleton Place, Ont. Mary Sanderson. '73 , i,s practising law with th e firm Lerner' and Associates in Toronto, Andrew Stephe ns, Arts '91, participated in an Environmental Youth Corps pro ject last summe r that made th e wat er bubble in Five Poi nts Creek, Working nea r' Putnam, Onl., Andrew's team cleaned silt fro 111 the bottom of thc channel and built structures to re in ­ force stream banks, The result was deep er­ flowing, raster, co lder wa ter that bubbles over a gravel streanl bed, Alread y, there are vis ibl e increast's in th e number olminnows and trout.

Goretti (Sollsa) Tomada, '89, wor'ks as :J rnar'keting assistant for Sha ver Poultry Breed­ ing F:Jrrns Ltd, in Cambridge, Onl., where s h~ li ves with her husband~F'lbiall , Michael Tompkins, '90, is all ending la w sc hool at th e Universit y of Geor'gla,

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Barba ra Bruinse- Fracassi, '~6 , is a reg istered llLlI'se at Toro nto's Hospital for Sick Children in the pediatric inte nsiv e-Gu'e unit.

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last summer by the facu lt y of mcdicine at the Univ ersidad 'ac iona l de San AL:ustin in Are­ quipa, Peru, Dennis is head of the depart­ ment of foods ,md nUll'ition:.lt the Univcrsity o r :vLrnl toba and was in Peru to rev iew a proj ect on Andean foods that is jointly operated by the Manitoba departm ents of tood s and nutrition and agri cultural engineer­ ing, Jim Tow nsend, OAC '56, co-ordinates th~ engineering component of this project, which is funded by th e Int ernat ional Deve lopment Resea rch Ce ntre in Ottawa, David Galb raith, ' R2, recentl y completed a PhD in biulogy at Queen 's University and now holds a Natural Sc iences and Engineer­ ing Resea rch Co unc il postdoct ora l fe llo w­ ship ar the Uni ve r,ity of Kent in Cilnterbury, Eng.land, Linda (Ru ssell), '70, and James ;os ncJi, '7 1, li ve in Richmond Hill. Onl. She is assis­ tant controller for Scholastic Publications Inc, ilnd he is managcr of lands policy ror the Mini-;try of Natural Resoucces (MN R) , Cheryl King. '77, rccei vcc\ an M ,Sc, and PhD from Queen's University, where she is now an assistant pwfessor in tile school of rehahilitation therapy, She was Ca nadian Heart Fellow from 19R4 to 1986 at th e Univer,ity of A lab<l111a and a Queen 's ni vers it y National Scholar l'com 198610 1991,

Kevin Ferguson, '80, and his wife, SUlanne, announce rh e birth of th e ir daughter, Caitlin Charlotte, May 19, 1991 , The y live nea r' Aylmer, Onto

Lee Kru mh olz, '82, and Catht'rine I.Irown­ Krumholz, f ACS 'R2 , have mo ved fWlll California to Arlington , Ma,s, Catherine, who was in the medicine di vision of en­ doc rin o logy at Stanfocd Univer,>ity, i, now a consultant to the Unil (: r"it v of JVlas­ sacllu,ells rVlEdical Cen tre ~ l.c:-: has llloved from the Stallrord College uf !3iologica l Science to a position as ;ssr stant pr~fesso r of ci vil engineering at the MIT.

Dennis Fitzpa tri ck, '75 and M,Sc, ' 77, was named an honorar'y pro fesso r or med icine

Ed wa r d Male k, 'RR, IS a meat inspect or' with th e Ontario Ministry of Agr iculture and

Mich ~lel VeJl, '75, is head of the business unit tor the Vitamin ADE Group of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in Basel. Switzer­ land ,

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F ra nk Reindl, 'R5, is managing Tlell Ri ver Lodge and farm in British Co lum bia's Quec n Charlotte Islands, He says the lodge is a great place for fish in>!, hunting and re la xing, Donald Sift on, '70, li ves in New Jersey , where he is director of operations fo r Amecican Cyanamid, Ro bert T onus. '8R, is pan of ,I n en thu,>i astic group of Ontarians who are working to rejuvenate th e Black Creek ware rsh ed in the northwes t area or n\~tr opo litan Toronto, As mana l!c r of the BlaCK Cr'eck Rcl1abi litation Proje~t, he i, alwa ys Inolsing for vol untee rs to help plant trees, r'epair eroding , tream banks or c lean up debris in the va ll ey, The project team hope'i to improve water lju ulity, wildlife habitat and t1 00d control in Black Creek, .James T rottier, ' R~, is an MI R fish eri e, management hiologist in Th under B<lY , Ont. His wife, Shan n IIeath- 'rottier, is a 1990 graduate or th e Co llege of Art:;,

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Mchran Alaee, PhD '91, holds a visi tin g scientist position with the Canada Centre I'm Inland Waters in Burlington , Ont. He is mar­ ried to Katherine (Taylor ). FA CS ' )) -1.

Kathry n (BI'odl' rick ) Bolger. '7 1, teaches mathematic, to r the Wellington County Board o r Educati on and li v e~ in th.: rural Guel ph area with her husb and, Te n-y.

Ke r r~' (O d ishaw) Blake, 'n , and he r hus­ band, Ken, live in SI. Albert, Alta, She was employed with the RCMP forens ic laboratory in Edmonton until 1990 as all al­ coho l specia li st, but is no w at home caring for two young chi ldren ,

Kris tina Curren , 'XX, of Kunata , Onl., is completing graduate studies with th e whal e research group at Memoria l li rlivcrs it y of Newfoundland in SI. John's, Thomas Irving, '78, M,Sc, 'R4 and PhD 'YO, is a 'ienior researc h a~sociate in the

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divis ion at the National Radio Astronom y Observatory in SOCOtTO, lew Mexico.

Following

the faith

Lawrence Thooko, '91 M.Sc., is working as a hydro logist for the minis try of wa ter development in Nairobi, Ken ya.

More than 250 Jesuit priesls attended th e 1991 Congress of Eng lish-speah.ing Jesuits in Canada that was held on ca mpu ~ last sUlllmer. Many had received their religious training at Gue lph 's Ignatiu s Co llege, and some were also graduates of the Univt! rsity of Guelph .

Founded more than 450 years ago, the Jesuit brother­ hood sends its members around the world, where they work in areas such as ed ucation , soc ial justi ce and world deve lopmcnt. The 199 I meeting was the first in 10 yea rs for Canadian Jesuit Brother . Pictured at left are the Gue lph alumni who at ­ tended. Front row: J illl Prollt, OAC ' 78 and CSS MA ' 87. Annatto Bay. Jamaica: J.P. Horrigan, CSS '71, Toronto. Row 2: Jim Oeshaye, Arts ' 70. Guelph : David Shulist. OAC '8 1 ancl S RPD MA '90, Toronto: Paul Des marai s. OA '7 1 and M.Se. '78, Lusaka. Zambia. Row 3: Jilll Kell y, Arts '84 and MA ' ~7 , St. John 's, tnd .: Michae l Kolarcik , Arts '73, Winnipeg; Rob Brennan. Arts '73, l'vlontreal. Row 4: John Perry. ,.\ ns '69 , Bhutan. India : Ovey Mohammed, Arts MA '71. Toronto: John Govan, Arts '69

biochemistry depal'tment at Cornell Univer­ sity.

Bruce Joy, '87. has moved from London to Nepean, Ont. , wi th Mandel Scientific . He is a technical repre,en tative for th e compan y, which supplies t-cscarch equipme nt to government and uni versi ty laboratories.

George Ming Ho Wong, '86, wrote to tell us he is in Campbe llto wn. Australi a, work­ ing as an ana lys t programmer for rh e Univer­ sity of Western Sydney-MacArthur. " ['m always proud to be a grad uate of the Uni ver­ si ty of Guelp h," says George. " I wish you all the best."

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Kathryn Burns, '76, is a mercha ndi sing manager for Laura Secord Ltd. in Scar­ borough,Ont. Clifton Carr, '75, is enjoying retireme nt in Thombury,Ont. Andrew Fors)'th, '85, is manager of institu­ tional custody for the Montreal Tr ust Co. of Canada in Toronto. He and hi s wife, Lauri e, live in Ajax.

Photo by Mary Dickieson

and MI\ '70, Guelph. Row 5: Daniel Phelan, Arts '69, Guelph: G.B. "Monty" Williams, Arts '72 , Regina: Alex Kirsten , CBS '7 1 and Art s '74, Win­ nipeg: Paul Crouch, Arts '73, Winnipeg.

Row 6: Francis Johnson, OAC '49 and MSA '52, Toronto: Keith Langstaff, Arts '70, Scarborough, Ont.: Len Altilia, Arts '69, St. John 's . Nfld. Absent : Hugo Keller. OAC ·48A.

Michael Milburn, M .Sc. '87 and PhD '90, and Maren Oelbermann, CBS '9 1, we re lll il lTied in November 1990 in Vancouver and (I re now running the ir own research and consulting bu siness dealing with the problem of non-ioni zi ng electromagnetic energy.

Ruth Milner, '85, is head of the computi ng

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Ruth (Nickle ) Fox, '84, was married thi s Se ptember and li ves in Toronto. She says she enjoys reading "Grad News" and cam · pus news in the Cuelph Alumnus. " Ir keeps me up ro date on what's happening at the Uni vers ity and helps me feel connected to the place where I spent four of the bes t years ormy life ."

Sheila (Hooper ) Hammond, '7 1. recently completed an M.S c. in family st udies and works as a therapist at the Universi ty's Mar­ riage and Family Therapy Centre . " It 's grea t to be back at Gue lph, 20 yeal's later," she says. " Nothing much has changed, exce pt my perspective perhaps and. of course, the computers in th e Jibrary."

Donna MacDonald, ' 89, works as a claim approver for th e Prudential In surance Co. of America in Scarborough, Onto She and her husband, Scott, live in Oakville.

Gerard Perreault, '88, is all admi ni strative manager wi th Marie Claud e Robert & As­ soc iates in Montreal.

Turn your TV into a teacher U of G's Independ en t Study Division offers more than 70 ed ucati onal videos on topics as varied as training border collies. making maple syrup and planting an avian gar­ den . Videos are $35 each, plus GST. For a complete listing, ca ll 519-767 -5050.

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Who's Raymond?

First-time customers to Gue lph' s new Yarmouth Stree t res taurant alm ost al­ ways ask "Who ' s Ra ymond?" So ow ners Bryao Hunt, FACS 'X9 HAFA , and David Ogilvie, CSS 'X~, delve into th eir considerable know ledge about the in ven tor of Canada 's fir st tread le sew ing machine, Originall y fro m Massachu~sett s, Charles Raymond :Jrri ved at the ,S , patent office with pl an, for his new si ngle-s titch scwing mac hine right on the heels of a man named Singer. Un­ daunted, he left LJ ,S, haberda~hers to Singe r and moved to Guelp h, where he proceeded to bui ld sewing machines for Canad ian and overseas markeh, After 30 yea rs of operation on Yarmouth Street. th e co mpany was purc hased by White Sewing Mac hines in 19 16, The Ra ymond bui Iding ' s newest en terprise is looking for the same kind of success, and its owners seem to have much of Raymond's cntrepreneurial spirit. Bryan anc! David have based this Frolllleji, 8 I'\'{ll 1 1-111111 , Dm'iel Ogi/l'ie alld new ven ture on their combined tal ems, , he/Dare ClarAC', Pholll hy Mary Dickieson Both have several years ' ex pe ri ence in John Ogil vie, Enginee ring, and Bryan is the hosp italit y industry , including the ni versit y's fast food, cafeteria and ban­ th.: so n of Prof. Jim Hunt , Phys ics, quet facilities and the Whippl etree dining Dave's father is ca mpus police officer room, Raymond 's chef, Dave Clarke, Stuart C larke, als o worked on camp us as sous chef in The y are look ing for Raymond ma­ thc Whippletree, And lheir U of G ti es go chines to di splay in the restaurant. If you even deeper; David is the so n of Prof. ha ve one, ca ll 519-837-8618,

Mac-FACS Linda Andry, '83 HAFA, is stud ying al'­ cheology at Saint Mary 's University in Halifax. She also maintain s two pan- time jobs at th e uni ve rsity, as a li bra ry clerk and research ass istan t. " Li fe ce nainly isn't boring," she says. " ll ove th e Maritim es.

Wha t a place 10 li ve l" Karen Blake, '87 HAFA , is human resou r­ ces supervisor at th e Toronto Airport Mur­ ri olt Hotel and is takin g adva nta ge or professiona l development oppo nuniti es at U of G. She is enro lled in a ce rti fic~te program in person nel management th ro ugh Continu­ ing Education, J ell Boland, '88 HAFA, recently joi ned H.J , Hein l Co. of Ca nada Limi ted as a marketing rep rese nt ati ve in the bakery products division. He previ ously spent three ye ars as a consu ltant with th e hote l. touri sm and food servi ce division of Price Wale rh ouse. Jeff lives in Univnvi ll e, Ont. , and co ntin ues to do freelance consul ting with the Lei sure Man agemen t Group, a Toronto consulti ng firm specializing in Ca ribbea n-based hotel and resort projects.

C hristin a Camilleri-Pankratz, '87, has moved to Kelow na, B.C., where she is

manager of th e Bi oscan Wel lness Co rpora­ tio n. " My deg ree in app lied hum an nutriti on has enco uraged me to pursue heu lth preven­ tio n in bu siness," she says. " We are a grow­ ing company and hope to ex pand out Easl soo n, hopefull y pl"Oviding Jobs for vth er Gue lph graduales," Paul Carter , '8 2 HAFA, is sa les admin istra­ ti on manager for CJ nada Packers Inc. in Mi s­ sissau ga, Onl. He und hi s wi fe, Mary Ann e Kell ey (E nri ght), CSS X\, live in Geo rge­ tow n. They have two children and "hopeful ­ ly they' ll be Gu elph grJ(h,- ' says Pa ul.

Annie Dorrell , '85, works at Ihe Temi skam­ ing Ch ild-Care Ce ntre in Earlt on, Onl. She wrote to usk if other FACS 'X5 gruds are in­ terested in a reunion. If so, co nta ci Ihe Mac­ FACS Alumni Assoc iation or Alu mni House.

Bobbi Duncan, '89, and Brian Wiechers, CBS '88, we l'e marri cd ias l June in Keilieby, Onl. They have moved to Moo.')onee , where both are teaching school. ,june (Waterhouse ) Eas ton, '41, and her husband , Beve rl y, OAC '36, are living in retire nien t in Cedur Spr ings, Onl. Faye (W illiams), '64, and Ronllid Ford, OAC '63 and M,Sc . '65, are both minis te r­ ing in Sa.') ku tchewan . Fuve is min iste r of TI~ird Avenue Uniled Church in North B~tt l eford,

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Denise (Sc ragg ) Heid ema n, FACS '86. is th e garbage expert at th e Miss issa uga Hosp i­ tal. As manager of was lc manageme nt for non-patient areas. she juggles the inlerests o f m e dic~J and se rvice staff with th e demands of the hospitnl's safety de partment and the se rvices offered by va['ious was te manage ­ ment com panies.

Denise 's ro le in waste manage me nt was fealured in a T o/{m/o t\1ogo:iJl(,c'a l1i cle last summe r that app l,[uded the hospital 's recy­ clin g and was te reduction programs. Befo['e joini ng th e h osp it~l. she wo rked in th e food and beverages department at Mc Ma ster Uni vc [·sily.

Laura Konantz, FACS '81. was featured las t fnll in the T Ol()11/o SIIJI'S " Women on the Move" column . Laura hit th e runnin g tr~i Is for' fun when she was a student ~lt Gue lph . but she's been burning up th e pn vement eve r since. She trains dail y and com petes in fo ur annua l marathons, as we ll as seve ral srn~ller races. She wo [ls for Canada Lite Ass uran ce Co. in Toronto.

Jane (Sword), 'SOD, and William LeLler, OAC '50. live in St. C ltiJari nes. Ont. She is a home maker ~nd he i, ~ retired seconda ry sc hoo l teac he r.

Dohert y, li ve in Vancouver. where she is a chilcl-care counsellor at the Jeri cho Hill Schoo l for the Deaf.

Joanne Poel , '82. taught sc hool for eight years in Brampton. Ont., and now teac hes se ni or kind erga rt en at St. Mary's Schoo l in Till so nburg. With th e move. she has pur­ ch<1 sed an older home in Ingersoll.

Joyce Purney, '88 HAFA. and co mp~nion AI Jone:, shou lcl he so mew hcre in Cen tral America fOI' the C hri s tm ~s ho lida ys. They are stud ying Cent['al America n and Mexica n ancient Indian cultures and plan to return to Canada nex t summ er. When she isn' t globe trotting, Joyce is assiSl<lnt manage r at Cu l­ tures Galleria in Loncl on, Ont. Michael , '78 HAFA , ancl Dianne (Bedford) Traub, FACS '81, moved to Ollawa in Oc­ tober. Formerly general mana ger of Central Park Lod ges in K it chener, Michae l is now with the c-ol11pan y's O tt a\V~ ['acility .

Wendi Van Natter, '91, is projec t co­ orcli nator of a substan ce ab use preve nti on program for the Niagara bran ch of the John Howard Society .

Sarah Nyman, '85 , ancl her husband. Pat

Dong fiabcock, '50. of Collingwood. Ont, returned from S['i Lanka, where he served as a vo lunteer wi th the Int e rnati onal Executive Service Corps to help a beer manufacturer impro vc brewe ry ope[·ations .

He is retired senior' vice-presiclcnt of Stroh Brew ing Co. h ~s

Jeff Burke, '84. ancl hi s wife. Caro l, rece nt­ ly moved f!'O m Vancouver to COlju ill al11 , B.C JeJ'f moved to th e Vancouver' area five yea rs ago because of a co mpan y tran sfe r frol11 Toron to. After th e co mpan y was do\vnsized e;,rlie r this yea r, he ~·,{~rt e cl hi s own bu sin ess . Ingrcdient'; West - whi ch rep resen ts five Ontario fo od ing['eclien t manufacturer, . Jeff writes that he ami Carol ha ve moved to "yupp ie co nd o heaven. where we enjoy th e , un set over Georgia Strait ~nd the Gu lf Is land s, ancl no Illorlgage pa ymen ts

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Veronica Little, '560. and he r hu sband.

D o ugJ~s, li ve in Vass, N.C Jennie (Beaudoin) Moore, '83, is dieta ry manage r 1'0 [' Extendicare in We sthill . Ont. Her hu sba nd . Gordon, '84 HAFA , is empl oyed by In ves tors Syndi cate Ltd . in WiUowda le

tario M inistry o r Agr iculture and Foocl agri c ultu ral ['ep['ese ntati ves branch for one ye ~ r . He h ~s been wit h Oi\l1AF since 1974. serv in g as director o~'Cen tralia and1\c: w Lis­ kea rd co ll eges, regio n ~l manager of th e agricuILU['al represe ntati ves b['anch for No rth ­ ern Ontario and head o f the farm bu siness l11an~ ge m e nt secti on ~t Ridg ctow n Co ll ege.

Timothy Allen, '87 , has [noved from the Windsor, Ont, office ofCE. Jami eson & Co. Limited to th e Toron to branch. whe['e he is regional mana ge r.

William Allen, '72 allCl M.Sc. '73, w~s seconded in September' as direc tor of th e On­

Gregor.\' Clark, X1A. was recently ap­ pointed general s,1 les manager for North America by Grodania A/S ur De nm ark. He was previo us ly empl oyed at th e Groclan Production fac ilit y in Milton, Onto Brian , '78. anel Kathy (Oore) Collis, Arts '7R. are li vin g in Winnipeg, whe re B['ian is head of processor sen'ices for the Manitoba

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Depa rtment of Agriculture's dairy secti on.

They ha ve two young children, Erin and Brianna.

Akhmad Fauzi, M.Sc. '9 1, is a lecturer in the faculty of fisheries at Bogar Agricultural University in Indones ia. He sa ys he bopes to keep in touch with U orG alumni. "BrJvo, U of Gin he says.

Stephen Fleischauer, '86 BlA, is wo rk ing for the City of Toronto as an urban designel·.

He and hi s wife, Toula (Roumeliotis), CS S ' 86, still li ve in Guelph.

Hugh Fraser, '79 and M.Sc. '9 1 Eng., is employed by OMAF as an extensio n agl'icul­ tural eng inee r at Vine land Station. Hu gh ancl his wife, Judith (Kerr), HAFA '78, live in St. Catharines with the ir three child rc n, Darcia, Ashley and Trevor.

C.L Andre Gordon, PhD '91, and hi s wife, Dianne, M.Sc. '91, are li ving in Kingston , Jam aic a, where he is produ ct development manage r for Grace, Kenn edy & Co. Ltd .

Wayne Hamilton, MA '9 1 USRPD, is assis­ tant director of the Intern ati onal EducJ ti on Centre at Saint Mal-y's University in Halifax.

Gordon Hastie , '86. his wife , Leslie (BartleU), CSS MA ' 88 , and their 15 -month­ o ld son, Grahaln, live on a 200-acre farm near Hano ver, Ont., where Gordon works as hatchery mange r for Horizon Chicks Ltd. le slie is a member of the resource and preve nti on team at Bruce-Grey Children's Se rvi ces in Owen So und. The team deve lops programs to prevent mental hea lth probl ems in children.

Charles Heath, OAC ' 34 and ' 3 J A, was one of fo ur people honored las t f'all at tile an ­ nual Tobacco Rec ogniti on AWards in Delhi, Ont. Secre tary of the Ontario Flue- Cured Tobacco Growers' Mal'keting Board f'rom 1957 10 1975, he was ci ted fOl' hi , administra­ ti ve leadership. Charl e, was in strum ental in organi zin g and installing the Dutch au cti on clock system of ,e llin g Ontario tobacco and orga ni zed the ficst tobacco tl'ade fair in 196 1..

He was Tobacco International' s Man of the Year in 1973 and was one of only 100 OAC graduates to be awarded a Centennial Medal.

Len Kahn, '85, has moved back to Ontal'io to work ror Cyanamid Canada Inc. in Markham. He was fonn erl y a I'esearch as­ sociate with Chase Econometrics in Bab Cynw yd , Pen n.

Jeanne Lukenda, '84 BLA , was recentl y prom oled to associate landscape architect wi th the firm of Sasaki Associates , Inc., in Waterto wn, Mass .

Michael Mederick, '66, is cO-OI'dinator of' contract [11ultiplication for OSr:CO Inc. in Brampton , Onl. FOI'l11e rl y, he was pan o f th e Maple leaf Mills research station in Halton , Onl., and,froml981 to 198 7, wasare­ search agronomist with Albel1a Agriculture at Lacombe, Alta.

Joan McKellar, '79, ha s left Agri culture Canada's Summerl and Research Station in British Columhia and is a sales I'e pre ­

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Candidates for th c University's 1110,t prc,­ tigious entrance award 'I re nominated by th ei r hi gh school principals Jnci are evalUated on the basis of leadership and academ ic ahi lit ie'S. The Myrony b live nea r Millon. Ont, where linda tcacl1L's al W.l. Dick Elel11en­

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Guelph grads are habit-forming

If you take a look at th e diplom as hang­ ing on the offi ce wall s at the environmen­ tUlmanageme nt firm Gartner Lee imited, yo u'll see a lot th at ~ a y "Univer­ sity of Guelph."

Of 120 employees at the Markham, Ont.. company, 13 hold deg rees from Guelph. Their fi elds r<l nge frol11 agri cul­ ture and earth science to consuiller studies.

Thc company does not senrch specifi ­ all y for G uell h grads. says human resou rces co-ordi nator Nancy Halinda , FA "X9, but Guelph's programs can be an adv <lntage for those seekin g work.

"Guelph is Ill <lki ng great stri des ill focli. ing on progra ms on the environmcnt and cnvironmentalmanagcmcn!." she says. "The cou rses are bro ad and give a good overv iew , anclthey prepare stude nts for up-and-c )ming issues ."

Ganner Lee em ploys people frO I11 a wide range of fields for its mu ltidisc ipli ­ nary cnvi ro nmcnta l m<1nage ment projects, The 01l1 pany is o rten "sked by municipali ties to do the environmental studies and obtain appro als for new landfi ll sites. Indu str ies may contact them to in v stigat and aid in the cleanup of chem ica l spills. The Cl)ll1pany al so hand­ les enviro nment<ll projects for th e federal and prov incia l govCIll Il1Cnts, Tn additi on to Halinda , whose deg ree is in con~ U ll1cr studies. the other Iuelph graduates at G<l rtner Lee are senior wa ter reso urces engi nee r Brian A dcl1l~~' , OAC 'X2: landscape arch itect Norm De­ Fraeye, OA MLA ' )'\2; senior environ­

mental economi st Catherine Dowling, CS S '!) I and M. Sc. '8!): sen ior biologi st and shareholder Tom Hilditch, OAC ' SI : se nior hydrol og ist Richard Hubbard, C BS ' SO; marketin g co-or­ dinator Alison Johns, FACS 'X7: en­ gineering geo logist Gary Markotich, CPS ' 77 : senior carth sc ienti st and prin­ ci pal of the firm, Dun McQuay, OAC '68A and CSS ' 72; seni or environmental pl anner Paul Neals, OAC ' 71); senior biologist and director of thc Vancouve r branch, David Osmund , OAC '69; scnior hydrogeo log ist and principal of the finn .

Glenn Reynolds, OAC 'n: and seni or hyd rogeologist/geoph ys icist, principal of th e finn and mana!!cr of the New York of­ fice, David Siaint!: CB S ' 78.

At th c Uni ve rsit y of Guclph . th ey were enrolled in programs as div erse as agricu l­ ture, consumer studies , earth science, fi sheries biology, geomorphol ogy , landscape arch itecture, resource economics and plann ing. water resources engineerin g and zool o"y.

The strength of G uelph' s programs, especi all y in earth 'cience, biology and agriculture, lies in thei r 4uality and di ver­ sity, says Rey nold ,. Hi s own deg ree in earth science gave him a backgro und in soil chemi stry, hydrogeology, meteorol­ ogy and geology that has proved useful in his wo rk with ground water problems, He says the num ber of G uelph grads on staff is a credit to the Uni versity, ·' ....Ve are very kee n on hi ring very good people, and good people come out of Guelph and ap ply hcre."

tary Sc hoo l. Pete r ow ns and operates Pro moserv Plus in Miss issauga. oHel'ing prom otional and adve rtisin g services to co r­ pOt'ate clients. They als o have two da ughte rs, Andrea and Heather.

Paul Nichol , 'S 7 and MA ' 9 1 USRPD. is co mmu nity development co-ordinator for the Count y of Hu ro n. He and his wife, Kathl ee n MacNeil, FACS 'S 9 HAFA, li ve in Bru sse ls.

Ont. Makha n Pandita, OAC PhD '69, is cl ean of the co ll ege of agricult ure at Haryana AgricullU ra l Univer­ sity in Hisar, Hary ana , Indi a. After grad uat­ ing from Gue lph , he worked as a fed eral re­ sea rch sc ientist at Chalk Rive r and in Ma klwl7 Po ndita Ott aw a until 197 1,

when he relU med to Ind ia as a professor of

vegeta ble botany. He was head of th e depart ­

ment fro m 1977 to 1985, was on fore ign as­

sign me. n Iraq from 19RI to 19S3 , and

, erved a, a con sulta nt in Sri Lanka in 1989.

Gordon Riddle, ' 86 and M.S c. 'SI) , has

been appointed reg istra tion spec ialist at Ciba­

Geigy Canada Li mited in Mi s s i ~s auga , Ont.

He is marri ed to Claudi a, who is compl eti ng

doctoral stud ies in th e Depa rtm ent of Land

Resource Science.

Fransjan Roesink, ' 85, an d Donna

Cleland , Arts ' 85, rece ntl y Illoved from

Toronto to th e Netherland s. A chartered ac­

co un ta nt with Arthur Anderson & Co "

Fransj all rece ived a three-yea! transfer to the

company's Hag ue offi ce, DOlln a has le ft the

wo rk force temporari ly to care fO I· th eir

daug hter, Ki rstell , born in ju ly.

Bunita (Kelly), OAC 'S4, and Joseph S turgeun, OAC ' 4A, wo ul d li ke to hear from classmates . Wri te to th em at Bo x 63.

Sussex, N.B. EOE lPO. Rhod erick Trainor, ' 76A , is wo rking at th e Hamilton Golf and Co untry C lub in An­ caster, Ont. He is ma rried to S usan (Lillie), FACS 'S O. J ohn Wallace, '53A. ' S\! anci MSA '62, recentl y retu rn ed to his home in Pri nce Ed­ ward Isla nd a['ter 3 1/2 years in Tanz.a ni a. where he worked as a train ing ad vise r on a Canadia n [tllern ati onal Deve lo pment Age n­ cy-sponsored wheat project admi ni stered by Agric ullll re Canada . Before Tanzani a, John w~ rked in Ind ia wit h thc DI'yland Ag ri cul­ tural. ProJect , anoth er ClD AlAgCa n proJec t.

U (J{ C gmds at Carlil eI' Lce Lilll iled are, seatedfrofl/ I('ji, Don Mc Quay , Tom Hilditch.

Catherine D(IIl'ling (,I nd DO I'id Osmond . Ston dil1g are Nancv /l alinda , Ric hl/rd I-Iuhhard.

Alison J oh ns . Pa ul l ea ls , G lenn Reynolds , Norm DeFru f!ye and Brian Adency.

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Willia m, ' 73 , and Rose mary (Stinson ) Woods, CBS '72 , wrot e to tell us they are enjoying th ei r Alul1I ni D ir(!('/ (J ry and to up­ da te us on their farmi ng operatio n. They raise bro il er chickens at Belwood, Ont. . and WlI Jiam works as a co nsultant/ field person for th e Farm De bt Rev iew Board .

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Rhiannon (Sansom) Butler.

'90 and CBS '89. was married last March to I~ wye r Larry Butle r and liv es in Atlanta.

Geo rg ia. She' s working in a large animal (primarily equine) practice and says alulllni news from U ofG is " liKe purrof home .., David Caslellan, 'X7, has left the an imal hosp ital in Sault Ste M,lI-ie, Ont. , to wo rk for Agriculture Canada in COl1lwal1, Ont, where he lives with hi s wife. Louise, Ans '77.

Richard Faintuck, 'RS. moved last summ er fmm Morin ville.

A lta .. to a ve tel-i nill-y practice ne ar Engl ewood. Colorado.

They call him the James Herriott of Ormstown .John Whitehead, ove '52. saiel he Idt a little bit lib: James Herri ott aft cr th e taping of a T V prog ram that l'eatured hi s 40-year ve terin,lI'Y pnlcti cc in Ormstown. Que. The seg­ ment will be show n this winter as part of a serie called Cli lluda ill View_ Whitehead found himself in front of th e telev ision cameras after bein g .I oil" W'hi/c hc(/(/ nallled Veterinarian or the Year by the Veterinary Med ical Practiti oners of QuebcL·. He W,lS hon ored last sUlllmer at a banlluet attended by his wife_ Ann, his children. Jan e, Michael and Da vid. and :lO() member, of the association.

Alulllni files ~ u gge~ t Whitehead is the onl y OVC graduat e to be hon ored by th e Quebec co rporat ion in rec ent times.

Despite all th e <ttlention_ Whitehead says he is lookin g for­ ward to retirement ne xt June.

Brian Lauzon, '85, has a pri va te practi ce in equine vc:: teri nary medicine in New York State.

Ken Leslie. ' 74 and M.Sc. '8 1. was th e 199 1 winner of the Schering L3I'ge Animal Award. one of the IllOS\ pl-es tigiOlls awards in Canadian ve terinary medicine. He has also been named Vet of the Year by th e Amel'i can Assoc iati on of Bovine Prac­ titioners. Leslie is an associate professor at

OVC and director of the college's dairy herd l1l u na g ~{llent certificate progralll . He i ~ llldl'­ ried to Barbara (Cowan), '79 and M.Sc. '9 1. depuIy reg istrar for th e Colkgt of Veterinariuns of Ontario .

Robert McMartin, '69, and hi s wire, Sharl ee n. li ve in Nobleton. Ont. After graduating from Guelph . Nadzri Sali m, '7 3. co ntinued hi s studie s in vet.c l-i-

Ilary epidemiolog y in Me l­ bourne. Australia. and Davis .

Calif. He has si nce returned home to Mala vsia , where he heads the department of VL't cri ­ nary clinical studies at th e LJ ni vers iti Pertani ull Malaysi a.

He \Hitl's that he is already loo k­ ing for wa rd to hi s 25th-yeal' c1;.l s'> re uni on in 1995.

Audrey Suuccar, '86 . and her hu ~ han(l. I'aul Beel', CPS ·R.I . ha ve mo ved to l lxb l'idge , Oil! .. but /\udrey is st ill empl oyed at th e Cui/elwood Vill age Animal Clinic ill Seal-borough. .James Thomp~on. '82 ,md D.V.Sc. '9 1. is assistant pro ks­ Sll\' of th criogc nol ogy at Texas A & M U ni " c l-~ it)' .

Jocelyn Wellington, ' g.:l-. prac­ tises veterin ary medicin e in Lon­ don. Ont .. specialiLing in de rlllatolog y. He r lather . .10 eph . o r' CO I-UIl­ na . Onl .. is ,I 195 1 gr.lllu ;IICof Ove. Uarr~' W ilkes, -61. i, li ving in Aurora. Ont.

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Steven \ \ 'il. on, ·WI. helped open a new veterinary clinic la ~ t .Iul y in KOlllokn. Ont .. and i, no w practi in g the re. It ' s ca ll ed th e Komoka-Kilworth Animal CliniC.

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University of Guel ph's Arboretum, was established in

recognition of th severe depletion of our forests. It is

never too la te to be a vi tal part of the effort to sa ve and

improve our air and water for the fu ture of our

children, by planting trees. This program is our small

part of the major endeavor to reforest and to reduce

the greenhouse effect, improve air quality and provide

food and cover for wildlife. The Memorial Forest Pro­

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.j Th e following deaths have been rep orted since the last issue of the Cuelph Alumnus.

Full notices, which are us ually submitt ed by family or c lassma tes, may appear in this issue or in a later one.

John Barlow, OAC '42, Aug. 24.

Janet (King) Barnett, OAC ODH '67.

July 25.

John Bennetl, OAC '6 1A, May 28.

John Brethet, OAC '56, Nov. 4.

Reinhard Brettschneider, OAC ODH '79, Nov . IS , 1990.

Colleen Brown, Art s '70, Sept. 15.

Florence (.Jordan) Carter, Mac '29 D, Sept. 30.

Andrew Clerke, OVC '52, June 19.

Cynthia (Street) Craven, Mac '47D, Aplil7.

George Elliot, OVC '51 , in Jul y.

James Fear, CBS '75, Oct. II .

Jean File, Mac '39D, Aug. 25.

Catharine Fromm , M ac '27, No v. I. John Gallagher, OVC '41 and OAC '37 A, June 20.

Douglas Gillespie, OAC '59, in 1990.

Nancy Gordon, CSS '77, Oct. 20.

Kathl)' ne Hill, Mac '31 D, June 28.

Owen Karr, OVC '37 , April I. Arthur Latornell, OAC ' 50, Sept. 6.

Roland Lombard, OVC '36, Oct. 10, 1990.

Ursula (McDonald) McGregor, Mac ' 40, Aug. 26.

Nushin Mota hedin, CBS '90, date unkn own.

George Murray, OVC ' 46, Oct. 14.

Elizabeth (Burl) Perry, June 28.

Edward Phillips, OAC '40 , Sept. 21.

William Pollard, OAC '49, Sept. 19 .

Noble Postle, OAC '33A and '36 , Aug. 6.

Jack Sadler, OAC ' 40, July 12.

Morris Sanderson, OAC '42 , Nov. 17.

Walter Scott, OAC '27 and '25A, July II. James Sinclair, OAC ' 49, Aug. 16.

Roy Sinclair, OVC '39 and OAC '36, Aug.S. Peter Smith, OVC '86, July 14 .

James Sylvestre, Arts '76, Aug. 30.

Arthur Synnott, OAC '43, Sept. 3,1990.

Ronald Thornber, OAC '38, Sept. 3.

Charles Tinsley, OAC '40, date unknown .

Edith (Loney) Watson , Mac '36D, Aug. 26.

Robert Williams, OVC '54, Aug. 20.

Jean (Borden) Wright, Mac '39 D, July 16.

world wide as a stage design er for te lev isio n and fea ture films. While still a stude nt at Guelph, he wo rked in produ c tion design with th e Guelph Spring Festival and the Gu elph Light Opera Company. Canadians wi ll reme mber hi s re -creation of Second W orld War battles for ABC's mini- ser ies War and Remel17hronCf. Other work s in­ cluded If Looks Could Kill, Navy Seals and his last film, Dying Young. Mr. Comtois was married to Veronica (Hadfield), Arts '73.

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John Barrie, '75, of Charlott etown, P.E.l., died Aug . 27 in a kayak accid en t in British Columbia. But hi s sp irit is a li ve and we ll in the he3lts of his family in Cambridge, Ont., hi s many friends and Guelph classmates.

Hi s former roomm ate Brian Dempson, CBS '75, of St. John ' s, Nfld ., wri tes that John Barrie was one of those people who had a profound effec t on everyone he met.

He "was a lways doing and learn ing some­ thing new, so me thing different, so methin g with a bit of adventure assoc iat ed with it.

"John worked wi th LGL Consultants in S t. John's, Nfld., and hi s ex pert ise in diving and identification of marine in verteb rat es took him from Ala s ka to Lancaster Sound , BatTin Isl and, and many point s in between.

Sometimes he woul d be gone for seve ral month s, eithe r due to his work or because o~' an add itional travel adventure ... but he aI­ ways returned to Newfoundland.

"John learned to play the fiddle and be­ came an integra l member of the Come From Away strin g band, playing at loca l even ts and in a n enterta inment sho w during a royal visit by Princess Diana. He developed a vast network of fr ie nd s and colleagues during his 10 years in Newfoundland."

Mr. Barrie left hi s job as a fisheries biologist in 1986 to join the first class of th e new veterinary schoo l at the University of P.E.!. He graduated in 1990 and was work­ ing with the Moore-Clark Co. in Campbell River, B.C. , at the time of hi s death.

"If eac h of us had a little more of John Barrie in us, I'm co nvin ced that there wo uld be no shortage of sm iling faces ," says Dempson. "Whe n we think of John, perh aps we ' ll stop and think about ho w much of life there is to enjoy. John did."

Arts Colleen (Brennan) Brown, '70, of Langley , B.C., died Sept. 15. She is surviv ed by he r hu sband, Rev . Michael Brown, MA '70, and four children.

Guy Comtois, ' 72, of Los An ge les , Calif., died of cancer April 23 . A nati ve of Hawkes­ bury, Ont., Comtois w~s in demand 36

Mac-FACS Margaret (McMillan) Whyte, Mac '3 1D, of Seaforth, Ont .. died Aug. 7. She was predeceased by her husband, Nick, OAC '33, and son T om. She is survived by so ns John, OAC '56A, of Lind say; Nick, OAC '66A, of Seaforth: Bill, OAC '72 A, of

Seaforth; a nd daughters Mary Van der Molen, M~ c '56 D, of Clinton; a nd Margie, CPS '72, of Guelph. She is also s urvived by 16 grandchildren, in c luding Jeff Whyte, OAC '80A ; Brian Whyte, OAC '93; Crys­ tal Whyte, FACS ' 93; and Murray Whyte, OAC '93A; and two g reat-grandchildren.

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Robert Allen , 'S6A , of Rockwood, Ont .. died July 30. He is survive d by hi s w ife, Shirley (Small), Mac ' 58, and tw o sons.

Leon Claus, '20A and '22, of Canton, N.Y. , died in August. As a student , he exce lled in rugby and boxing and wa s an athl etic manager. He was known on ca mpu s as a "first-class s tude nt wi th a fund of good humor ancl more than his share of com mon sense." and was indu cted into the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame in 1990.

John Davidse, OAC '85 , of Chatham, Onl. , died sudde nl y Sept. 17. He was assist ant man~ger of tbe Ontario Soybea n Growers Mal'ket ing Board and is s urvived by bi s wife, Joan (Kitras), FACS '85 Alexander Davidson, '34 A, of Stouffville, Ont., died Aug. 1 J. He is survived by his wife, Lillian; one son , Grant, OAC '83; and a daughter, Carolyn, OAC ' 84.

John "Jack" Denholm, OAC '37, of Eagle Lake, Ont ., died Sept. 14. He is s urvived by his wife, Catherine, OAC '37, who now li ves in Toron to. The Denholm s were lon gt im e s upp orters of the University of Guelph who attended many a lumni e vents o n campus and participa ted in th e alumni travel program.

John Dowling, '41, of Howe Island , Ont., died Aug. 19. He is surv iv ed by his w ife, Joyce, and children Michael and Mary; Peter, OAC '73, and Dianne (Fines), FACS '73; Brian, OAC ' 72 and Chris: Matthew and Sharon; Kevin and Ann; Greg a nd Caroline: Madeline, CSS '80, and Michael Cassidy; Kathleen and Juan Kalala; Monica and Don Kotowych; Mary a nd Rick Munroe; Teresa, FACS '77, and Keith Schneider; Patricia, OAC '78 and Calvin Lane, OVC '81; and Bridge t a nd Gordon Camp be ll .

Angus Gregg, OAC ' 16 and '14A, of Rock­ wood, Ont., died Sept. 25 at th e age of 98.

He is believed to have been the las t surviv­ in g member of the First W o rld War Canadian Field Artillery, 55th and 56th bat­ teries, which saw se rvice in France and Bel­ g ium. The 56t h battery was formed on campus and consis ted en tirely of OAC stu ­ dent vo lunt eers. After the war, Mr. Gregg joined th e building industry and served th ro ugho ut th e Second World War with the W arti me Housing Corp . in Easte rn Canada.

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He was later building inspector and zo nin g admini strat or for Trafalgar Township and Oakvill.e. He is surviv ed by hi s wife, Carol, his son, William, OVC '61, and three grandsons.

in OAC' s poultry department from 1933 to 1963, he was predeceased by two wives, Lois in 1954 and Madolin in 1987. He is sur­ vi ved by a son, Donald, and a daughter, Di ane Whitefield.

Thomas Graham, '24A and '28, of Guelp h. di ed Aug. 25. Well-known in horticultural c ircl es throughout Canada as a vege tab le ex­ pert and for his research with tomatoes, he was a professor in the Dep,lJ'[melll of Hor­ ticultural Science from 1946 to 1969.

Prior to that, he was assis tant superinten­ dent of an experimental farm at Morden, Man., su perintendent of the McFadden Seed Company in Winnipeg and assi stant secretary of the Canadian Seed Growers Asosciation in Ottawa. He is survived by his wife , Eve lyn.

Frederick "Ted" Hut!, '21A, of Ithaca.

N.Y., died Sept. 6. Born in Guelph, he had a long assoc iation with the Guelph camp us.

Hi s father was a horticulturist and professo r of landscape ga rdenin g from 1893 to 1913 .

Following his own graduation. Ted Hutt ea rned adva nced degrees in animal genetics and was professor of poultry hu sbandry and animal genetics at Cornell Un ive rs ity. which named him professor eme ritus after hi s retire­ ment in 1965.

The author of se veral books and scientific papers, Dr. Hutt established the H. L. Hutt Memorial Fellow ship in horticultural science in hi s father's name. He is surviv ed by hi s daughter, Margaret Neff, and two sons.

Bruce and Frederick.

Keith Holder, OAC '49, of Burlington.

Ont., died Sept. 3. He retired in 1978 after 23 years with Agriculture Canada and is sur­ vi ved by his wife. Keitha, and one son. Paul.

George Hosie, OAC '33, of Wate rl oo, Ont., died June 23 and is surv iv ed by his wi fe.

Marga ret. A secondary sc hool teacher by profession, he was an active communit y vo lunteer and a life member and past lieutenant- go vernor of Kiwanis Interll at ion al.

Clarence Huntsman, OAC ' 21A and '24, of Beamsv ille, Ont. , di ed luly 22. A professor

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Frederick Lewis, '26, of SI. Thomas , Ont., died Aug. 10. He began his teaching ca re er at SI. Thomas Collegiate Institute in 1929 and retired as principal in 1966. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Mabel (Clapp), Mac '260 .

Norman Scott, OAC '37, of Stratford, Ont., died Oct. 10. Nicknamed "the gardene r with the golden thumb" by Pierre Berton. Mr. Scott was known for his horticultural and merchandising skills. He operated Brookdale­ Kingsway Nurseries in Bowmanvi lle fo r 20 yea rs, then started the first horticultural co n­ sulting practice in Canacl<l. He was a member of many horticultural societ ies and assoc ia­ tions. a founding director of the Ontario Science Centre, a six -year comm ittee mem­ ber of the Royal Agricultural Fair and a mem­ ber of U of G 's Board of Governors from 1965 to 1970.

A longtime suppo rter of the Universit y.

Mr. Scott was instr umen tal in es ta blIshing the School of Land sca pe Architecture, as well as the American Society of Consulting Arborists and the Ontario fn stitute of Profes­ sion al Agrologi sts. He is survived by his wife, Ruth ; hi s son, Owen, OAC '65; hi s daughter-in-law , Barbara (Carter), CSS ' 68 and MA '73; hi s daught er. Janet Leeson, FACS '67, and hi s son-in-law. Bruce Leeson, OAC '68 and M.Sc . '69 ; and four grandchildren .

John Stewart, OAC '41 , of Ail sa Craig.

Onl., dicd Aug. 15. He is survived by his wife , Madel yn, and so n, Brian. He wa s a farmer and agricultural co nsu ltant and served

three terms on U of G' s Board of Governors from 1966 to 1974.

ove Adam Bundza, OVC '74. of Nepean. Ont., died Dec . 25, 1990. He earned a graduate diploma in pathology at OVC in 1974 and worked in the pathology section of the Animal Disease Reseal'ch Institute in Ottawa in support of Agriculture Canada's agrifo od sa fety and animal hea lth programs .

Ellen Cummings, '89. of Ottawa, died Sepl.

23 after a lengthy illness. She is surviv ed by her parents. Lucille and Kealey, a brother and a sister. Her class mates and the stud ent chapter of the OVC Alumni Association hav e establ i.shed a memorial fund in he r name that will co ntribut e to the OVC leam­ ing centre building project. Ellen Cumming,' s name will be inscribed on a bl'ick in a wa ll adjoi ning the frollt en trance .

Indivieiuah or groups wishi ng to co ntribut e are asked to send dona ti ons to Maire Prat schke, OVC Dean' s Office, University of Guel ph NIG 2WI. Roy Sinclair, ' 39 and OAC '36, of Thunder Bay , Ont., di ed Aug . 5. He was a member of both the OAC and OVC alumn i associa tions and is survived by hi s wife. Doris.

Peter Smith, 'R6 , of Richards Landing, Ont ., died July 14 . He is surviv ed by hi s wife, Anita Niessen, OVC 'R7.

Stan Vesselinovitch, OVC ' 57, of Chi cago, Ill., died March I I. A professor in the depnrt­ ments of radiology and pathology at the University of Chicago, he was an expel'! on the ca uses and prog ression of cance r. and was especially known for his work on liver tumors. He is surviv ed by his wife. Oraga, OVC '59; hi, daughter, Duskanda; tw o so ns, A lexande r and Andrew; and fOUl' grandchildren.

Faculty William Abrahamson, retired profes so r of chemistry, died May 12. He is su rvi ved by his wife. Corine, of Kitcl1e ner, Onl. When he retired in 1987. th e Departme nt of Chemi stry and Biochemistry held n symposi um in his hon or on hi s spec ialt y. th e molecular mec han isms underlying vertebra te visual transduction.

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anad ieJns are g iving Jess now to charit y then they did In the 1960s.

The re are more than 63,000 registe red chariti es in Canada, all see in g donations to their causes shrinking wh il e the needs for their serv ices are increasing. While Ca nadians are givin g less [0 the causes of their choice , Americans are giving more - twice what the avemge Canadian gives.

We tend to put <,'I)arity in the governme nt\ hand s, but tile cris is in contributions is beco ming morc ac ute because gove rnments are running out of money. In 1990, th e average Canadian donated on Iy about O.i:\ per ce nt o f pre­ tax income to charity. Canadian corpora­ tions contributed 0.9 per cent of their before-tax profits during tile same period, compared with 1.7 per cent by Ameri can corporati ons.

The Canadian Centre ('or Philanthropy 's I I/wgilll! campa ign is dc ignedto change publ ic attitudes towards giving and vo luntee ring in Canada. More than five million vo lun­ teers donate about one bi II ion hours of service to charitable activities. This is particularly significant From a strategic point of view for charities. Volunteers tend to give four times more per year per individual than do non-volunteers. It is simply a question of caring.

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tion enters its peak earn ing years, the challenge is to grab those graduates and make them real ize the good I iFe IS taking on a who le new meaning. Forget the BMW and the brie. Time with yo ur children. fresh air and a safe neighbor­ hood are more important to yo ur he alth and your chi Idren in the years ahead.

The message is clear - it is not going to happen on its own. If we want safc streets. dru g-free schoo ls. quality ecluca­ tion. good health ca re and responsibl e government policies to deal with the en­ vironment, we - each and everyone of us - as indi vidua ls are goi ng to ha ve to participate and cont ribute.

Wc ca nn ot let the econom ic environ­ ment become an exc use for inaction .

Promoting philanth ropy and encourag, ing people to plan and think about their giving is a worthwhile goal. We must cOlllbat the genera l public's relative in­ capacity to C<.ire, Corporately. we need to combat thc in­ difference of the marketplace and the in ­ competence of gove rnment. Corporate Canada is slow ly waking up and rea li z­ ing th at businesses ca nnot succeed where society fails.

Winston Churchill once said: "We make a li ving by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Only those who hav e nothing in them have nothing to giv e."

Giving better starts with giving a little thought. We have to think about our

giving. Start by making a list of th e ways you are already giving. set some goals for yourself. think about making it easy and mo re manageable through weekly or monthly payments.

Try making givillg a I'amily afFair; dis ­ cuss it as a family. Build som e positive values for the next generation. Think about volunteer in g. Think of the skill s you have and ho w we ll others cou ld benefit from yo ur in vo lve ment. Ask at your workp lace abo ut employee dona­ tion and voluntee r programs.

Helping out can change your life. [n an era when economic realis m tells us we cannot afford everything we would like to have, clearly priorities Illust be set and hard choices made. As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the so luti on, you're part of the problem. " There is a clea r need for a dee pe r and broader base of corporate and com­ Illunit y in vestmen t in thi s cou ntry by government. business and indi vid uals.

There is no doubt in my mind that giving is good business from everyone's perspective. Rencct on your own priorities and give it the attention and ac­ tion it deserves.

Your efForts will be rewarded not on ly with personal good fe eling , but also by the development and preserva­ tion of the kind of society we all wa nt to li ve in.

Doug Franklin.

Arts '72, is president and CEO of the Canadian Centre fo r Philanthropy in Toronto , and a promoter of th e I l1Iaginc cam­ paign to en­ courage increased gi ving to Canada' s charitable and non-profit organizations.

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