Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Spring 1993

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Rules The Guelph Alumnus writing competition will accept short stories, essays and poetry. An individual may submit only one entry in each category.

Entries will be eligible for one of three prizes: $500 for first overall, $300 for second and $200 for third.

The competition is open to all writers who have not had a book published in the category of their entry.

Members of the Guelph Alumnus advisory board and employees of the l!niversity of Guelph's Department of University Communications are ineligible.

Short stories and essays are limited to 4,500 words.

Poetry entries may include a single poem or a group of poems, but are limited to eight pages.

Entries must be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2- by 11-inch bond paper and must include a cover sheet that contains the title and the author's name, address and telephone number. Entries will be returned only if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included.

Entries must be original and unpublished. Manuscript changes will not be allowed after submission.

Entrants agree to allow the Guelph Alumnus magazine to publish their stories, essays and poems, along with their names, photographs and biographical information. No pseudonyms will be allowed.

Entries must be postmarked or delivered to the Guelph Alumnus by July 31, 1993. Submissions by fax will not be accepted.

The Guelph Alumnus will not enter into any discussion or correspondence with entrants other than the winners.

The decision of the judges is final , and winners will be announced in the December 1993 issue of the Guelph Alumnus magazine.

Send entries to the Editor, Guelph Alumnus, University Communications, Guelph, Ont. N1 G 2W1.

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COVER The delicate oyster mushroom is one of thousands of species of fungi whose biological role is to decompose forest debris. But it also plays a more sinister role as the carnivorous predator of microscopic programs. See our story about rhese fiendish fungi on page 8.

Cover phOlO by U of' G mycologist George Barron FEATURES

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Vol. 26, No.2 Editor Mary Dickieson Executive Editor Sandra Webster, CSS ' 75 Advertising Co-ordinator Ceska Brennan Contributors Barbara Chance. CSS ' 74, JulillOna Murphy Kanerva, Maurice Oishi. CBS Phd '92. Martha Tancock, Herb Rauscher, Martin Schwalbe Design/Production Cesku Brennan, Gabrielle Duval. Linda Graham, AI1s '77. Debbie Thompson Wilson, Arts '77 Editorial Advisory Board Trish Walker. CSS ' 77. M.Sc. 'l}O. Chair; Susan Blair, CSS '83; Lynn Jamieson. FACS 'ljS; Sheila Levak, HAFA '83: Denis Lynn, CBS '69; Karen Maillet Arts '83: Robin-Lee Norris.

CSS ' SO; Harold Reed, OVC ' 55; Brian Romagnoli , Ans '84; Peter Taylor, ArlS ' 76: Diane Welherall. OAC ' 84: Robert Wilbur, OAC '80; Bob Winkel, OAC '60

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Your winter 1993 iss ue was exce ll ent. I didn't do too well o n the 25th-annive r­ sary quiz, but 1 did note that the name of the horticulture professo r mentioned should have been Herm and not Herb Tiessen , OAC '5l.

Keep up the good work. I enjoyed every page.

Bob Wilcox, OAC '50 St. Catharines, Ont.

J was interested in the fall 1992 Alum ­ nus article "Women of the '90s," but what really caug ht my attentio n was the remark about the use of Macdona ld In­ st itute during the Second World W a r to train "army" cooks. The army may have trained cooks there at some point , but as early as December 1941, it was the air force.

T joined the RCAF (WD) in Novem­ ber 194 1, and we were sent to Guelph for training as cooks in late Nov e mber or December (at least prior to Pearl Har­ bor). We were barracked at the golf club and marc hed daily to and fro m the cam­ pus for meals and classes. As the first gro up of air women there, we were a bit of a novelty.

As the first Mac g rad uate to be there in uni form, T felt warmly received by civili ans - faculty and staff alike. It was a warm fee ling to hea r people, even those who didn't know me, ask: "Which

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I felt moderately uncomfortable with yo ur article "Women of the '90s." I am a graduate of both OAC and OVC and worked as a profess ional agrologist before returning to atte nd vet sc hooL The " firsts" of both colleges were there­ fore of some interest to me. It was di s­ maying to see that the section about the first OVC grad uate dealt almost entirely with her personal life.

Although I caut ion my own daughters abo ut trying to rewrite hi story in 11on­ racist, non-sexist terms - black people were treated as a nimals and women as property - I would have appreciated some ed itorial comment with respect to the late E. Barrie Carpenter, OVC '28.

Certainly she was not the only married OVC student - or faculty member for that matter - to have had an affair. Be­ cau se she was femal e, however, it did provide excellent grist for the rumor mill at the time.

In addition, her class standin g may well have refl ected not her academ ic

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A letter to R CAF radar technicians From 1940 to 1943, more than 5,000 RCAF radar technic ians and officers were recruited in Canada, trained at Canadian universities and dispatched overseas to serve with the Royal Air Force. The radar was secret; the location of each individu a l' s unit in the war zone was secret; and their hero ic tales remain hidde n in their personal military records. ,.and in their memories. Now it's time to compile a hi story of their unique contributions to the a llied war ef­ fort. I f you are o ne of the vete rans who received RCAF training in Guelph, pl ease write about your involv ement and share your anecdotes for th e benefit of future generation s.

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ability but judgments of her interesting soc ial li fe. Noble creatures that they are, faculty are not above bias, even in these '90s , althou g h now names are genera lly no t attac hed to written exams.

As a vete rinari an in a small animal prac tice , I would like to say that if Cliff Barker, OVC 41 , is correct in his s uspicion that thi s illu strious graduate started a cat specialty practice in Califor­ nia in the 1930s, then she showed ex­ traord inary fores igh t.

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When 1 la ter became a mess officer, I always considered myse lf lucky if I had a Mac girl on my staff. They we re spe­ cial.

Since retiring, we frequently attend Elderhostels and we've had Guelph graduates as instructo rs several times.

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U of G's new president comes home to Canada

Mordechai Rozanski says he achieved two lifetime goals when he stepped into the top job at U of G on May 1 - to return to hi s adopted homeland and to serve as president of a major Canadian university.

The Polish-born Canadian brings to U of G almost 20 years of teaching and administrative experience in the United States and a desire to repay Canada for what it did for him and his family. Most recently provost and vice-pres ident of Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., Rozanski says he se ized the opportunity at Guelph becau se " it was in line with my lifetime goal."

He first came to Canada with his parent s in 1953 at the age of seven and became a Canadian citizen five years later. He grew up in Montreal and was the first in his immediate family to at­ tend high school and graduate from university.

In 1968 , he received a BA in hi story from McGill University and won a graduate fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania to study Chinese his­ tory. While there, he obtained a Canada Council grant to complete his disserta­ tion and do research in East Asia for a year. He graduated in 1974 with a PhD in Chinese and Asian history and American-East Asian relation s.

As a historian , Rozansk i has a strong commitment to research and scholar­ ship. He has twice been named a top teacher of his tory. A fonner Lily Fellow at Stanford University and a past mem­ ber of the Modern China Seminar at Columbia University, he has published widely and delivered more than 80 papers and presentations on Chinese­ American relation s and international education.

Recognized for his expertise in inter­ national education, Rozansk i has been a consultant in this field to 30 colleges and universities in the United States. In 1980, he was named one of the five lead­ ing international studies program direc­ tors in the States.

He has spent most of his career as a faculty member and administrator at three American institutions: Wagner, where he is credited with rai s ing Gu elph Alumnus

academic standards; Fair­ leigh Dickinson Univer­ sity in Teaneck, N.J. , where he was involved in academic strategic plan­ ning and restructuring; and Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. , where he was associate provost for academic programs and faculty affairs and founding director of the centre for international studies.

At these institutions, Rozanski confronted many of the issues now facing higher education in Canada, and he hopes to offer new insights and s uggest creative ap­ proaches at Guelph.

A strong believer in the importance of col­ legiality, "aggressive" lis­ tening and participatory governance, he says he plans to be a visible Mordechai Rozanski president on campu s, in develop new collaborative funding op­ the community and at alumni gatherings. portunities.

"A president engenders confidence, Rozanski has an impressiv e record of not by inve nting vision out of whole going after funding from the public and cloth, but by articulating the idea of the private sec tors a nd of pursuing partner­ university ' that might be,' reflecting the ships with the corporate sector. In hi s manifest and latent interests of faculty previou s posts, he generated "out of and other members of the univ ers ity necessity " more than $5 million for community," he says. " But it is not a faculty de velopment, program and cur­ case of dictating : 'Here is where I want riculum development, library materials, us to be .' It is rather: 'Here is where you lectureships, faculty trave l, international and I have determined we want to go.' s tudies , co-op education and interactive The best vision is a shared vision." instructional vid eos.

Well aware of the financial proble ms facing postsecondary education in Canada, Rozanski believes his respon­ sibility will be to prev e nt the undermin­ ing of program s of high academic quality. " My approach has always been to try, where possible, to increase revenues, not solely to trim budgets ."

Using the potential of Guelph's Re­ search Park, he hopes to build on Guelph' s stre ngths in the biomedical sciences, veterinary medicine, environ­ mental sc iences, biotechnology, en­ gineering, food and related fields to

He also helped obtain scholarships for students who are educationally and so­ cially di sadvantaged and students with learning disabilities.

Rozanski will live in Guelph with his U.S.-born wife , Bonnie, and their 10­ year-old son, Daniel. Bonnie Rozan ski hold s a BA in physiological psychology from the University of Penn sy lvania and an MBA from Adelphi. She also received a PhD fellowship from Bryn Mawr College and was most recently manager of computing at IPS, a New Jersey divi s ion of Dassault International.

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Last fall , U of G opened the doors on a new degree program in environmental sc iences and, si nce then , has been flooded w ith applications from high school studen ts - 500 last year and 900 this year.

The response confirms the need for the program, says Michael Moss, as­ sociate dean of Guelph's new Faculty of Environmen tal Sciences, which will admit 120 of those applicants as first­ year s tude nts thi s fall.

What di sting ui shes it from other en ­ vironmental sc ience programs is its breadth and structure . "We knew we were on the right track when we designed an undergraduate degree that combi nes science expertise with com­ munication and problem-solving skills," says Moss. "And when we talked to gove rnment, industry and private co n­ sultants , they confirmed what we a l­ ready knew : that they need people who are aware of environmental issues and have well-defined technical ski lls, but

also understand the political process, economic principles and socia l issues."

Guelph's bachelor of science in en­ vironmental sciences program is designed to provide that balance. It draws course ma terial and fac ult y from 13 departments across five co lleges.

There is a common first year to en­ sure that all students have a so lid sc ience background - environmental chemistry, biology , physics and physi­ cal geography, with courses in econom­ ics and environme ntal issues. In second year, they ' re chalJenged to think critical­ ly in courses on environmental ethics, policy developme nt, problem solving and com munication.

Second-year students will also choose a major area of study: eco logy, environ­ mental monitoring and ana lysis, environ­ mental protection, earth and atmosphere science, geography, natural resources management, environmen tal economics and policy, or e nvi ronme trics.

The first program of its kind in Canada, environmetrics represents the mathematics side of env ironmental studies, with concen tration on the quan­ titati ve aspects - measurement , data

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Moss says the unde rgraduate program is the first step in the development of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.

He expects a master 's program will be in place within three years and a cert ifi­ cate in environmen tal steward s hip will be avai lable through distance education.

The faculty will also help develop in­ tegrative e nvironmental research when opportunities arise and a strong em­ phasis on environmental analy sis and development to promote steward ship of natura l reso urces.

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Construction set to go Site construction of U of G' s Village by the Arboretum retirement community could begin as early as this fall. Local developer Reid Heritage Homes Ltd . has the go ahead to begin Phase I of the project, which will cons ist of 150 homes - about 20 per cent of the total project.

To ensure viability , construction won't begin until at least 75 units are sold, but planners expect those first homes will be comple ted by the summer of 1994.

The village will be the first suc h retirement com munity in Canada within an urban environment and close to a university. The overall design will be based on a trad itiona l village setting with tree-lined streets. The community will eventually fea ture a range of recrea­ tiona l, socia l and shopping facilities as well as health services.

U of G will retain ownership of the land - situated south of Stone Road be­ tween Arboretum property and the Old Stone Estates subdivision - and the right to approve aU aspects of design

and construction, but will lease the land to the developer, who will be respon­ sible fo r market ing and construction.

Purchasers will own their own home s and pay a monthly site-leasing fee , which will be shared by the developer and the University.

Revenue from the project will add to U of G's Heritage Fund . Created in June 1991, the fund is an endowment that will provide a continuing and growin g source of financial support for the University.

Clark honored at convocation At winter convocation ceremonies in February , U ofG awarded honorary degrees to Dalhousie University presi­ dent Howard Clark, a former academic vice-president at Guelph, and hi sto rian Alison Prentice of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Professor emeritus honors went to retired profes­ sors James Harrison,English, and Doug Morrison, Animal and Poultry Science.

Retired pathology professor Bruce McCraw received the Medal of Merit.

Clark was at Guelph from 1976 to

1986 and was the driving force behind many initiatives, including the University's aims and objectives docu­ me nt Toward 2000.

Prentice is a pioneer in writing on women's hi story and the hi story of ed ucation. Through her work, ge nder has become an accepted category of his­ toric al analysis.

A member of the English department for more than 20 years, Harrison has published five books and written more th an 30 articles and reviews. Hi s most recent book, publi shed in 1991, was on writer Salman Rushdie.

Morrison graduated from OAC in 1949 and became first chair of the Department of Animal and Poultry Science in 1971. Hi s teaching and re­ search focused on environmental physio­ logy of domestic bird s and mammals.

McCraw is a specialist in parasitol­ ogy, but a lso tau ght OVC courses in comparative anatomy, em bryol ogy and hi stology. In addition to supervising his own graduate students, he served as graduate co-ordinator for 15 years in the Department of Patho logy .

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Bini's ne,I'l/iltlgi (Cyanthlls stercorells) are un de rgro und predators of micro­ scopic life forms,

Those fiendish fungi

hy Mary Dickieson A Gu e lph ho usewife o nce phoned Prof. sects in number of species and seco nd to George Barron for he lp afte r he r hus­ none in biolog ical sign ificance.

The scientific community' s mo st band was c hased o ut of the basement by pal e brown fungi that hi ssed at him, recent best g uess is that there are more They rea lly did, says Barro n, who brave­ than a million spec ies of fu ngi, but o nl y ly descended the sta irs to find a cluster about 10 per cent have been desc ribed. of large cup fungi (Peziza domiciliana) Most of them are mic roscopic in size grow ing thro ug h c racks in the fl oor, and unfamiliar to us, a ltho ug h we all Each one was ripe with milli o ns of enjoy the food and beverages produced reproductive cells , by yeas t fungi a nd we know the c urati ve When the hus band ope ned the back properties o f the blue mo uld Pcnicil­ door, the sudde n c ha nge in a ir press ure liU/n , Among the g iants of the fungi and humidity stimul ated the cluster of world are the mushrooms that some­ cups to release the ir spores, Th ey did times surprise us in wooded areas or under shade trees in the backyard , And this s imultaneo us ly with a hi ss in g sound sometimes in the base me nt. and a puff of white smoke, Not smo ke , really, but a cloud of milli ons of micro­ Wherever they grow, mu shrooms are scopic spores eac h invisible on its own, nothing more than fun gal fruit bodies, Barron has been responding to erupting for the sole purpose of produc­ queries like thi s for nearly 35 years. As ing spores, says Barron. They are the U ofG's resid ent mycolog ist, he's fre­ quently asked to id ent ify fres hl y picked or shrivelled fungal spec im ens or slig ht­ ly out-of-focu s pictu res. And occas ional­ Iy , he even inspects the sto mac h contents of an adventurou s two-year-old or a careless mu shroo m picker.

Barron embarked on hi s bio,log ical ad­ venture in 1954 w hen he le ft hi s native Scotland to purs ue a master' s degree at OAC. He we nt on to Iowa State College for a PhD , but ca me back to Guelph be­ cause he preferred the political climate in Canada. No w he's thinking about retiring, about writing two more books and about cataloging spec im ens to com ­ plete a disease herbarium for the D epart­ ment of Environmental Biology .

He describes his research interes t as the study of strange fungi. Mycology, says Barron, is a science driv en by curiosity rather than commercial gain , Cuhic I'ot caused by wood-decoyil1gful1gi.

But that curiosity has revealed a their OWI7 dehris. kingdom of organism s second on ly to inCuelph AIIII11I1I1S

visible portion of a complex system of tiny filaments called hyphae, w hi ch form the undergro und body of the fun­ g us. A marvellous design of nature, the fungus hypha is so fine that a bundle of a thou sand may be no thic ke r than a human hair, ye t each one has the ability to penetrate any pl a nt ce ll a nd even the ha rdest wood, Enzymes secre ted by the hyphae break down complex carbo hydra tes (wood cellulose) to nutritiv e suga rs needed to sustain plant growth, return­ ing carbon dioxide and water to the en­ vironment.

It is their remarkable capacity for biological degradation that makes fungi so interesting and so indispensable.

Without them, we would be up to o ur ears in organic garbage, says Barron.

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Th e barrel of the Haptoglossa mirabilis gun cell , below, ho ld s a harpoon-shaped projec tile that can be hurled thro ugh th e cell wall of a nematode or rolifer in a fraction of a seco nd.

Scanning electron micrograph by Jane Robb and George Barron

As generations of plants and trees succeed each other, the soil accumulates large quantiti es of residue, mostly in the form of cel­ lulose compounds, which are ex tremely resistant to decompos ition. Saprophytic mu shrooms - those that live off dead organic mate rial - are among the mo st efficient degraders of cellulose. Sometimes too ef­ fici e nt, they also attack cut timber, fenceposts and wooden siding .

Many spec ies of subter­ ranean fungi can't break down cellulose , but are equally important to the fo re st ecosystem. To meet their own nutrient needs, mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic relationships with plants and, inadvertently, help complete the carbon

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Captured by th e rings of the fungus Arthrobotry s (magn ijied 750 times), this nematode wo nn will be crushed as the nooses constriel. Carnivorous mushrooms have evolved such sop histi­ cated atlad systems to allow Ihem to supplemenl their carbohydrote diets with nitrogen/i'om living micro-organisms.

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cycle. All conifers and some deciduous species depend on mycorrhizal fungi for growth. Fungu s filaments adhere to the roots of the se trees and act as root hairs to absorb water and nutrients from the soil. In return , the tree gives the fungu s simple sugars manufactured in its leaves.

All organisms need carbohydrate for energy and nitroge n for protein syn­ thes is, and most micro-organisms like a carbon-to-nitroge n ratio of about 30: J. Wood contains 300 to 500 times as much carbohydrate as nitrogen - not a very attrac tive food source, yet many species of fungi thrive on decaying wood.

In a wonderful example of how or­ ga nism s adapt to survive, wood-grow­ ing fungi have evolved ingeniou s mecha ni sm s to capture microscopic animals as an alternative source of nitrogen.

Barron' s lab has identified more th an 150 species of carnivorous fungi th at prey on nematodes, rotifers and even bac teria. Some of these predators may also be cannibalistic, feeding on other spec ie s of fungi.

In muc h the same way that the familiar Venus 's -flytrap attracts its prey, fun g i lure these tin y animals to the ir deaths. The fun gus Arthrobolrys anchonia extends hyphal filaments, which form powerful circular rin gs that can blow up to three times the ir volume in a 10th of a second and crush a nematode worm caught in side.

Arthrohotrys o/igospora and Hohen­ huehelia are common wood-decaying fungi that sprout adhesive traps along their hyphal thread s and emit chemical s ignal s to attract un suspecting creatures.

Once caught, even the musc ular little nematode cannot break the fungi 's chemical bond . Strand s of hyphae in­ vade its body to release paralysing toxins and to di gest the corpse from the inside out. The study of mycology is not for the squeami sh.

Barron's micro scope has revealed evidence of some pretty nasty behavior Guelph Alumnus

Shaggy mane (Copr inus comatus) is one of several spec ies of wood-rottin g fungi that prey on bacteria as we ll as multice llular organism s.

Photo by George Barron

by those innocuous - and so metimes beautiful- mushrooms.

The familiar oyster mushroom (Pfeurotus ostreatus) grows placidly on living trees and fallen logs and is prized by hum an connoisseurs, but its under­ ground network of hyphae create a dead­ ly obstacle course for microscopic life forms. A nematode brushing against one of the fun gi's secretory cells will withdraw with lightning speed, but too late. A droplet of fluid from the ceU im­ mobilizes the victim, while hyphal threads come looking for it, growing throu gh the mouth to feed on still-living tissues.

One of the most sophisticated attack systems Barron has observed belongs to the fungus Haptoglossa mirabilis. He witnessed this fungus infect other or­ gani sms that ha ppened to touch it. There were no tox.ic secretions and no ad­ hes ive traps, so how could it pierce the hard- shelled ro ti fer?

Usin g electron microscopy, he and Prof. Jane Robb began looking for some sort of hypodermic needle, but found a harpoon. A soft-sided projectile hiding inside the fungi's gun cell can be propelled with such speed that it breaks throu gh the rotifer 's she ll , making way for a sma ller hypoderm ic that inserts an infective spore . The Haploglossa mirabifis gun ce ll is one of the most sophisticated single cell s found in any living organism.

The result of a happy lab accident was the di scovery th at some wood­ rotting mushrooms also prey on bac­ teria. In decaying wood, where nitrogen levels are low and bac teria are the most prevalent life form, these fungi have increased their chances of survival.

Barron' s graduate s tudent Susan Madzia has identified at least 20 species of mushroom s th at track down and con­ sume bacteria. Among them are the small puffball, shaggy mane, turkey tail bracket and bird' s nest.

It's a classic case of capita li sm at work in nature, says Barron. These fungi have simpl y cut out the midGuelph Alumnus

dlem an for a more efficient food cycle.

The biological role of soil fungi is mind-bogg ling. A shove l full of soil from anywhere on Earth is alive with microscopic organ isms, most of them fun gi. "Not one spec ies, but ten s of

thousands of species produce a hyph al map from coast to coast," says Barron.

They are the microbial leaders in the biodegrada tion of plant debris, yet the world' s immense boreal forests could not grow without them.

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by Mary Dicki eson

T h e 7:30 a.m. news reports that Guelph is blanketed by a to­ centimetre snowfall. Troy Shepherd groans and tries to hide under the covers. He doesn't like snow. And he doesn ' t like getting up early. But he needs to be in class by 8 a.m. because if he misses today ' s lecture on nucleic acids, he'll be lost in tomorrow's Jab. While Troy struggles with his conscience, Kim Bertling is already knee deep in snow, digging a path to get her 1991 Ford Festiva on to the street. Her first class isn't until 9 a.m. , but the parkin g lots fill up early on sno wy days. While the shovel works, so does her mind as she goes over the presentation she will give later tod ay on qu ality manage­ ment in the cosmetics industry.

Barb Muir is al so checking off item s on a mental li st. She ' s not wor­ ried about campus parking - she 'll take the bu s - but she doesn' t want to forget anything. A backpack full of books, lunch money , run­ ning gear, something to wear at squ are dance practice - yes , that 's everything.

Brent Raymond had planned to go for a run through the Arboretum thi s morning, but snow-clogged paths broug ht him back to East Residences. Now he'll have time for breakfast and some reading before hi s 10 a.m. class. Will it be gJacial geology, invertebrate zoology or th at Sports Illustrated article on rock climbing?

Rachael Robbins can ignore the snow and sleep in. She doesn't have any cl asses today, and she doesn ' t go on the air at the student radio sta­ tion CFRU until noon. But she' s lyin g awake, staring at the Big Dipper painted on her bedroom ce iling - a remnant of her " astronomy phase ."

She ' s looking for inspiration in the stars about a documentary film she pl ans to make on stress in univers ity students.

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Snowy days are good days to see ju st what students do at the University of Guelph. The most travelled paths run between the University Centre, the MacKinnon Building, the library and the athletics centre. A snow­ covered campus makes it easy to see how many footprint s there are. They crisscross each other, follow each other down the same path, sometimes walk side by side and often converge on the same doorway, but they are never the same. And neither are the students who leave those footprints behind.

The five students you will meet on these pages have much in common with Guelph's other 12,000 undergraduates in term s of age, family back­ ground, academic interests and leisure activities, yet they are all unique.

Their stories tell us a lot about the diversity of human nature and why it is that they are sharing some of the same educational pathways at the U ni versi ty of Guelph.

roy Shepherd was five tes late for his 8 a.m. class , but paid it wh e n he tried to sneak in and Prof.

Hami sh Rattray centred him out to s in g Happy Birthday to anoth er stud ent. It was o ne of those e mbarrassing mome nts that still has him laughing. He sa ys Gue lph is a fri e ndl y campu s. He c ame he re because of its strong program in the biolog ic al sc iences and because he liked the casual atmosphere. And he came because Gue lph is close - but not too close - to hi s home in Toronto.

Born in the Barbados, Troy liv ed in Trinid ad until the age of 13 , when he moved with his mother and s tep fathe r to Ne w York City. "Talk about c ulture s hoc k," he says . It was eas ie r whe n the y mo ved to Toronto a year late r. He fini shed high school at Malve rn Col­ leg iate and enrolled at U of G along with seve ral classmates.

The y got to know the campu s when they attended the summ ertime START program for new stud ents. He made his first U of G friends at START and

learned how to f ind hi s way around cam­ pus , how to pay a library fine, where to get the best muffins and why the Brass Taps is still called the Keg, even thoug h the pub was re named more than 14 years ago.

Now in his second year in biochem­ istry, Troy has se veral groups of fri e nd s on campu s - fri e nd s from high school . residence. the W es t Indies Student A s­ sociation , the Bioc he mistry Club and in­ tramural bas ke tball. When they get togethe r, it 's most like ly to be in the Unive rsity Centre, the Bullring or the residence lounge . He thinks these friend ships w ill be among his best memories of U of G. This year, Troy lives in South Reside n­ ces. He ' s he ard they were built in the 1960s for rio t control. The campu s grapevin e says the architect who des ig ned the cri ssc ross hallways and concrete stair­ we lls was be tte r known for hi s work in pri sons. An urban m yth, perhaps? " Probabl y," he says, " but have you eve r seen So uth Re sidences?"

Kiddin g as ide, he says he likes the reside nce . It' s convenient and economi­ cal , e ven if the cafeteria menu is predict­ abl e . Th ere ' s a pizza place and a we ig ht room in Mountain Hall, a lounge fo r pl ay-

Statistics on U of G's first-year undergraduates: 96% Canadian 94% English-spe akin g Canadians 93 % white 83% two-parent family 83% live in resid ence 79% high school avera ge above 80% 75% 19 years old 73% family income above $40,000 67% worked more than fi ve hours a week durin g hi gh sc hoo l 63% femal e 15% plan to work part-time whil e at uni versit y II % spend more th an 10 hours a week watching TV

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ing ca rds with friends and a TV for watch­ in g The Simpsol1s. On S aturday s, it's qui e t enough to study.

Troy depends on the Ontari o Stud ent Ass istance Program (OSAP) to pay 40 pe r cent of hi s educ ational costs. Hi s parents are contributing abo ut 20 per cent and his summer jobs in land scaping are s upposed to cover the res t.

He says university is the place where you learn how to motiv ate yourself. It starts by getting out of bed for those 8 a.m. classes , and it ge ts easie r as the se mester progresses tow ard final exams.

He's purs uing an inte res t in forensic science and has plans fo r a c areer in police work.

im Bertling sees univer­ a means to a n e nd. She wants a de­ in consumer s tudi es to help her get started on a marke ting career in the cos­ metics indu stry. "[ know right down to the job descrip­ tion what I want to do ," she says, "and I'm ready to do it. " She spent fiv e ho urs preparing for her IS

Reasons for going to university:

Reasons for choosing U of G

broaden kn ow ledge ge t a better job gain a gene ral education make more money prepare for graduate/ professional school im prove reading and st udy skill s become a more cultured person

good academic reputation speci al edu cati onal programs grad uates ge t good jobs good reputation for social activiti es co-op program U of G offered financial ass istance wan ted to live near home

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20-minute presentation on manag ing quality, but it was worth it becau se it gave her an exc use to visit Estee Laud e r' s Toronto office and a chance to leave a resume.

Kim is a workah ol ic at age 22. She's drive n by he r cnreer goal s and the desi re to ge t through unive rsity as quick ly as poss ible with as littl e de bt as poss ibl e.

For the pas t three years, she's maintai ned a B average, spendin g 17 to 20 hours a week in c lass and 35 to 40 hours a week working. She waits ta bles at Legend s res­ taurant and staffs the porter's desk in John ston Hall. And she takes a textbook to both jobs so she can use her bre a ks to catch up on readin g.

If there's a project or prese ntation to be don e , Kim volunteers to go first. " I like the professo r to k now it 's my own work , and I li ke to ge t projects out of the way earl y in the semester so I' ll ha ve more time later to study for exams."

The same day slle gave her presenta­ tion, she had coffee with a roommate in the Unive rsity Centre, covered the porter's desk over lunc h hour and at­ tended a lecture on the theory of evolu­ tion and a sem in ar in women's literature.

The n she sc raped the snow off he r car aga in , drove home to change clothes and worked at Legends from 4 to 10 p.m.

Tomorrow's schedule includes classes in quality assurance and communication m anage ment and another shift at Legends.

In first and second year, Kim spe nt a lot of time in the Athlet ics Centre weight room. But now , she's lu cky to find time to run the circuit even o nce a week. Oc­ cas io na lly , she ma y go w ith friends to a basketball game or a co ncert or stop off at the Keg, but most of her leisure time is spent at home (it 's cheaper to re nt a mov ie) or v isiting her boyfriend, a Guelph g rad now in c hiroprac ti c co llege.

Kim chose U ofG because of its busi­ ness and consumer programs and its proximity to her home in London, Ont. It was important to her to move away from her home town and have the experie nce of living on her own. K im ' s pare nts pay for her tuition and books, but liv ing ex­ penses are her respons ib ility.

She pays $3 15 a month for re nt o n a ho use that she shares with fo ur othe r women; $410 for a car p aym ent , in­ s ura nce and gas; $75 to $100 on te lephone bills; $40 for hydro; $140 fo r a loan payment ; and about $ 100 on e nter­ tai nme nt.

She a lso has a large r credi t card bal ance th an she would like and bi l ls fr om a readin g-week holiday in Cancun. " It was a great vacation, but it was money

What they say: 92% the government isn ' r doing eno ugh ro control polluti on 73 % nuclear disannamenl is attainab le 7 1% there is too much concern for the ri ghts of criminals 70% can do at least 15 push-ups 69% their academ ic ab iliti es and drive to ach ieve are higher tha n average 65 % sllldent s shou ld pay a gra ter share of the cost of un iversiry ed ucati on 62% couples sho uld live rogether before marriage 54 % the chief benefit of university is increased e<lrn ings 43 % can use a sewi ng machi ne 40% can type 40+ words per minute 30% speak a seco nd language flu e ntly II % believe married women should be home/fa mily ori ented Guelph AlulI7nlls

I didn ' t need to spend. " So the holid ay , like a new dress , means a couple of extra shifts at Legends be fore the bills ro ll in.

She says it 's short-term pain for long­ term ga in.

Kim still needs five courses to com­ plete her deg ree, but if the ri g ht j ob COmes alo ng thi s su mmer, she ' ll g lad ly f ini sh by corresponde nce . " I ' m not th e ki nd of person who needs to back pack thro ug h Europe to find myse lf," s he says. 'Tm more exc ited about ge ttin g started on a caree r. Ane! be­ sides, I'd like to see Europe when I can afford to go first class."

arb Muir has that good ggie spirit. Class activities are a l­ as important as her course work.

She g rew up on a mixed farm near Lakeside , Ont. , and came to Gue lph to major in crop sc ie nce. ''I'm inte rested in plants a nd how th ey grow ," says Barb, who will gradu ate in 1994 with a bachelor of sc ie nce in ag ri cu lture. She

What's most important to them:

Things that occupy their time:

become an auth ority in th eir field get married raise a family he lp others in difficulty be well off financially receive recognition from colleagues

45 % use rh e public library 42% use a persona l computer 35 % frequently dri nk bee r or wine 30% study with other student s 26% atle nd religiou s services 26% are bored in class 25 % playa musica l instrument

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Statistical data fr'om th e U of G Student Environment Study Gro up

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Student trends

V Biological science is now the most popular field of s tudy at Guelph. Next in line are the social scie nces, professional fields, arts and humanities, agriculture, bu si­ ness, engineering and education.

V In the last two years, the percent­ age of incoming students with a 90+ ave rage doubl ed. The numbe r of female students at U of G has ri sen from 51 per cent in 1982 to 63 per cent last year. Visible minorit ies remain at about s ix per cent. Less than three per cent of Guelph's undergraduates are foreign students, although there are many visa students in the graduate population.

V Almost all students receiv e first­ year marks that are considerably lower than the hi g h sc hool average that got them admitted to university . Many will fall back on a strategy they used in hig h sc hool and drop a course th ey aren't doing well in. Others will discover that they really ca n study on the fifth floor of the library without falling asleep.

V Statistics tell us that the four-year bachelor's degree now takes 10 semesters to complete instead of eight. Always popular among part­ time and mature studen ts, Guelph's three-semes ter system is now a greater benefit to full-time students who choose to take fewer courses per semester (often three or four). The average length of st udy for an undergraduate deg ree is now 10 semesters.

V Desp ite the rising cost of univer­ sity education, only 15 per cent of Guelph's first-year students receive stude nt loans and even fewer have part time jobs. By fourth year, more than half wil l be working part-time and an equa l percentage will graduate with a loan to repay. Tod ay's stude nts are also de pending on their parents to pay a greater share of educational expenses. Ye t, the average family income of first­ year students has increased only marg inally in the last four years.

Data supplied hy lh e University oj' Cuelph SlUdem Environment Study Croup.

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plans to stay on at Guelph to ea rn a m as ter 's degree in crop sc ience.

Barb spend s four to five hours a day in class and, thi s semes ter, is taking courses in plant breedin g, financial ac­ counting, world food sys tems, com­ puters and rura l ex ten sion studies. Most of these are optional courses, a break from the more technical courses she's al­ ready taken in plant pathology , crop physiology and weed science.

She spends a bout six hours a week ba lanc ing the books for the OAC Stu­ dent Fede ration (SFOAC) and another five hours at sq uare dance practice. La st Nove mbe r, s he was named junior caller a t the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto , and her OAC class sq uare finished among the top square dancers at CoIJege Royal in 1992 and 1993.

Barb served on th e College Royal Committee las t year, but this year ha s put her e nergies into SFOAC , Jr. Farmers and the OAC weed sc ience jud g ing team. She' ll be off to Virginia this spring for a com petition in weed identificatio n.

A workout in the Athl e tics Centre's circuit room is another of her daily routines, and once or twice a week she play s on an intramural vo ll eyball tea m.

If there's a break be tween clas ses, Barb head s for the library - to the fourth floor if she wants to study, to the second floor if she 's looking for some­ one to have coffee with. She almost al­ ways meets fri e nd s for lunch at the Keg .

She shares a rented hou se with several other students and makes good use of city bu ses and friends with cars.

They attend a lot of concerts, varsity games and Aggie pubs on campus and often go downtown or visit one of the ma lls on weekend s. Like many other stu­ dents, a big part of Saturday is devoted to study .

Between her pare nts' help and her s ummer jobs, Barb is ab le to manage financially without working during the school te rm. She's worked severa l su m­ me rs in landscaping, but has a job this year at a Cargill fertilizer plant in Ail sa Craig. It may well be a taste of the fu­ ture because she's hoping to build a career in the agricultural indu stry, per­ haps in pes ticide or herbicide product development.

Barb says she's made a lot of friends at Guelph - most of them OAC classmates. And her experience here has had a lot to do with a younger brother's decision to enrol in the dip loma pro­ gram this fall.

rent Raymond says ot a team playe r. One of hi s ssors says he 's usually the coach.

He tran sferred to Guelph 's new Facul­ ty of Environmental Sciences this year (see page 6) and is already o rga ni zing a student group . He also took the initia­ tive to esta bli sh an Akademia theme hou se in East Res idences and planned several outings for the students who live there - sk iing , horse back riding and th eatre trips.

Akade mia is a unique Guelph pro­ gram for first-year students that gives them a taste of both the arts and scien­ ces. Those enrolled in Akademia live together in res idence, take classes toge ther and usually socialize togethe r.

They diverge into their individu a l de­ g ree program s in second year, but now have the option of maintaining contact throu gh the theme house.

Brent also belongs to the Photo Arts Club , the Outdoors Club and the Scuba Club and takes karate. He occasiona ll y works for the Univers ity 's liaison office and campus tour program and is a volun­ teer at the Arboretum, where he does na­ ture inte rpretation for school programs.

He sees a ll these activities as prepar­ ing him for a career in eco-tourism. He wants to organize and lead travel adven­ tures that wi II teac h people how to co m­ mune with and protect the environment.

He' s inherited both hi s adventurous s pirit and his love of nature from hi s parents, Au stralian s who discove red Canada on a travelling jaunt and decided to settle he re. When he was five, they took him and an older brother on an around-the-world tour. Bre nt has continued to travel and now participates in just abo ut every individual sport there is - sc uba divin g , backpacking, kayak­ ing, rock climbing and cross-country sk i racing. Hi s idea of a good time is a canoe trip throu g h Algonquin Park with a fe w friends and a camera.

Bre nt is already cert ified in several of these sports and will be taking an out­ door leaders hip training course in Van­ couver thi s summer. The rigorou s lOa-day progra m includes sea ka yaki ng and mountain climbing.

In past years, he' s worked as the head cook at a Northern Ontario lodge and has e nte rtained guests with sl ide s how s of hi s travels. In future, he's hoping for summer jobs that involve planning Guelph Alumnus

wi Id erness adve ntures for youn g o f­ fe nde rs and phys ically challenged c hildren. And he' d like to appl y for a research g rant in zoology to study wild birds.

There are 270 Gue lph student s who hold C anada Scholarships (for studi es in the sc ie nces) and Bre nt is one of the m.

Hi s scholarships a nd summe r ea rnings cover half hi s unive rsity ex pe nses, and hi s parents pay the other ha lf. This te rm , his course load cons ists o f biochemi stry , stati stics, g lacial geology, ecolog y and in­ vertebrate zoology . Whe n he needs a brea k from all that sc ie nce, he writes poetry or impresses his fri e nd s with his bak ing talents.

achael Robins says th at ity is going to con sume fi ve or of her life, she wa nts to spe nd it doing more than just s itting around study­ mg.

"Spe nding a ll that time on acade mics is a was te," she says. "Get as muc h out of it as you can ." Ironically , it was a sprain ed ankle that slowed her do wn e nough to lead he r to thi s revel ati on.

Orig inall y from Alli ston, Ont. , Rac hael came to Guelph beca use she was inte r­ es ted in marine bi o logy and bec ause he r sister, an OVC g raduate, to ld her about the Akade mi a program. She was in the first class and g ives it hi g h marks for meeting people, but says it probabl y set he r bac k academi ca ll y. She was still takin g some first-yea r courses in second yea r to meet he r sc ience requireme nts.

Her point of vie w and he r priorities began to change in second year when she wande red into CFRU and s ig ned on as a disc joc key. She bega n with an early morning mu s ic progra m cal led A Brand New Day. She also joined the Ont ari o Public Inter­ est Researc h Group (OPIRG), began writ­ ing for the Ontarion and landed a part-time job at Thomas Entertainme nt in downto wn Guelph . By the end of the te rm, she was having a hard time getting up fo r a 9 a.m. sc ie nce class, but found it eas y to make her 6 a.m. CFRU date.

"That's whe n I knew I was in the wron g program ."

A spra ined ankl e ke pt Rachael o ut of schoo l last fall, so she took on another CFRU program - this time with a ta lk fo rmat - and got more inv o lv ed in Guelph Alumn us

media art s. She did a vid eo presentatio n for her father's hobby bu s in ess - build­ ing sailboats - and another for an OPIRG display. In Ma rc h, she applied to the On ta rio Arts Co unc il for a g ra nt to prod uce a video 0 1) stress in un ive rs ity st ud e nts.

Rachael has decided to switch her major fro m m arine biol ogy to drama.

She' s enro lled part time and says her favorite course is co ntemporary c ine ma.

She' s di scovering the library and is a faith ful user of the athletic fac il ities ­ squ as h, sw imm ing, aerobics and circuit tra ining . She also plays o n he r sister' s OVC intramura l volleyba ll te am.

The job downtown is both a stimulus for he r work in medi a arts and a necess it y to he lp her avoid takin g out a stude nt loan. She gets f inancial he lp fro m her parents and her sister, who's no w work­ ing at OVe. And she 's go t an unusua l summer job - assembling fireworks dis­ plays for the internati o nal competitio n held e ac h summer at Ontario Pl ace .

Rach ae l is licenced to handle fire wo rks and , this summer, will work at bo th Ontario Place and at a fire works event in British Columbia.

Photography Chie f photographer fo r thi s sto ry was Juli anna Murph y Kanerva , a fo urth-year student wi th a combined maj o r in Frenc h and fine art. Julia nna began her language studies at Wilfrid Laurie r University, but trans fe rred to Gue lph becau se she wanted to take photog raphy courses he re . It was a mo ve that pa id off. In March , o ne of her ph otograph s wo n the Guelph Creati ve Art s Associ ation Award at Vi e wpoints, an annu a l juried art ex hibit at the Mac ­ donald Stewart Art Ce ntre. A week late r, she was named one o f three top ex­ hibito rs at the on-campus Fine Art Ne two rk's juried sho w .

M arried a year ago, J uli ann a is now finishing he r degree part time. She does some suppl y teaching and is a lifeg uard at the U of G pool. She's a lso organi zi ng a fin e art student exc hange between Guelph and the Un ivers ity of Western O ntario to gain e xposure fo r student wo rk and create a ne twork of pee rs in the vi sua l arts.

She once thought she wo uld teach F renc h full time, bu t no w she ' s thinking about graduate sch oo l, more wo me n ' s studies courses and a career some whe re in the business s ide of the art world . She says photography will al ways be her pas­ s io n, but "only once in my life will I marry w hat I love."

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Writers need

daily exercise

by Mary Dickiesol1

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If you think that some day you'll sit down with your memori es and your dictionary and produce a terrific novel , you'd better get in s ha pe first. You wouldn ' t expect to run 10 kilometres on your 50th birthday without months of train­ ing , right? So, write.

And do it often. " If you're not writing all the time," say s English professor Janice Kulyk Keefer, "you're not going to be in the imaginative condition that allows the wonderful poem or astoni shin g story to emerge and perhaps be published."

A poet and noveli st , Kulyk Keefer teac hes creative writing at Guelph and urges he r stu­ dents to spend tim e every day at the typew riter or jotting down notes in a journal.

Writers need to exercise the ir sk ills, but they also need enco uragement. And that' s where the Guelph Alumnus can help. On page two, you 'II see the announcement of a new writing competition that offers a total of $1,000 in prizes and the opportunity fo r aspi ring writers to have their work read by a worldwide audience of more than 50,000 U of G graduates. You , the readers of this magazine, are in for a treat next December when we publish the winners of the first Guelph Alumnus writing competition.

And if you're a writer, here's a chance to share your work and pocket the prize money.

In a country where the average earn­ ings of writers is 7~':;, only $11,000 a ' -.~.' "fIo~' •• year, the financial

reward of competi­

tion s like this one

can help keep

writers writing.

For most crea­

tive writers, writ­

ing is a

basic

need ,

says

Kulyk

Keefer.

"It's part

of who

you are, something you hav e to do."

She co uld be talking about herself or any one of the students enrolled in her poetry course. Some of tho se st udents are fine art graduates, painters and sculptors looking for yet another way to ex press them selves.

Another student, who once worked as a prison guard, ha s already written a Harlequin romance and is now deve loping a collection ~t·

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of short stories. And one promising young poet hold s a PhD in chemistry . Good writers can be found in all walks of life and in al­ most any fi eld of endeavor.

That philosophy is one of the guiding prin­ ciples behind both the Guelph Alumnus writ­ ing competition and the proposal for a new Guelph graduate program in creative writing.

English chair Constance Rooke says her department plans to offer a ma ste r of fine art (MFA) degree in addition to its current master of art (MA). The MA program ac­ cepts students with an undergraduate degree in Englis h; applicants to the proposed MFA program will be welcomed from any under­ graduate program - whether geography, biochemistry, veterinary medicine, philosophy or mathematics.

"Our ambition is to develop the best master' s-level program in creative writing in Canada, " says Rooke. Core faculty will be Kulyk Keefer and poet Dionne Brand in the Department of English and playwright Judith Thompson in the Department of Drama. All are distingui shed Canadian writers rather than career acade mics.

Z:n Kulyk Keefer has publis hed 10 books ­ poetry, short fiction and her 1992 nove l Rest Harrow - as well as innumerable articles, re view s and contributions to anthologies.

She has received many writing pri zes, includ­ ing awards from two CBC radio literary competitions and a Governor General's Award nomination for Under EasleJ'n Eyes.

.Z:n Brand is the author of nine books, includ­ ing Women al the Well: Lives of Black Work­ ing Women in Ontario, and has edited several others, such as Canadian Women Poels and Our Lives. about Canada's first black women's newspaper. Brand 's poetry, essays and other work reflec t her interests in femini st hi story , black literary critici sm and Caribbean, African and African-American literature. She has been recognized by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council and a Governor General 's Award nomination. .ilJJ Thompson is not only an accomplished playwright, but a director and actor as well.

Her works have bee n performed across Canada, in the United States and abroad.

She ' s won two Governor General' s Awards and was nominated for a third. He r stage plays include The Crackwalker. White Biting Dog, I Am Yours and Lion in the Streets. She has al so written numerou s radio plays and sc reenplays for televis ion and film, including a recent television movi e called Life with Bill y Z:n 'Rooke brought accomplishments in both writing and teac hing when she came to Guelph in 1988. The Guelph Alumnus pub­ lished her s hort story Ja coh Blue Dog in the fall 1991 iss ue and applauded her academic contributions in a winter 1992 article on Gu e lph' s award-winning teachers.

In addition to these key faculty , stud e nts in the proposed MFA program would benefit from lectures and se minars prese nted by other Canadian and international writers and a mentor program that would g ive them the rare opportunity to have their work read and critiqued by some of the country's bes t­ known authors.

Financial con st raints have put the new MFA program on hold , but Rook e and other faculty are moving ahead with plans to strengthen the creative-writing component of established courses. The current MA pro­ gram is becoming more flexible to give st u­ dent s th e opportunity to do more creative writing. And reading courses are doubling as creative-writing courses.

One of Kulyk Keefer 's students, for exa mple, is producing a linked series of short stories. Another is studying Canadian women's literature to strengthen her own sk ills as a writer. And seco nd-year creative-writing courses in poetry and prose may be complemented by a fourth-year co urse for more advanced writers.

And now alumni and other writers off campus have the opportunity to benefit from the talent s of these Canadian writers. Not only have they provided advice and en­ couragement, but Rooke, Brand and Thompson will also serve as judges for the first Guelph Alumnus writing competition.

So, get writing. And send us your poetry or prose entry by July 31.

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Food

FACTS

Health-conscious consumers benefit

from U of G food research

and nutritional studies

by Martha Tancock

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hen the Canada Food Guide appeared after the Second World War, it was probably inspired by the spectre of hunger and deprivation that haunted the Dirty ' 30s and the subseq uent war years. It exhorted Canadians to choose from four equa l food groups and to eat a minimum amount of each to stay healthy.

Hal f a ce ntury later, a 1992 revised food guide takes its cue from a soc iety that has come to fear eating excesses . Public enemy number one is " fat, " a g ue rilla hidin g in our favorite foods and poised to sabotage our health. Where proteins like meat, eggs , fish and cheese enjoyed kingly status among foods in the old system, they wear lesser crowns in today's fooddom . Bread and potatoes - once the reviled Cinderellas of food - for dieters , at least, are elevated to royalty.

Donna WooJcott and Susan Evers of Guelph's Department of Family Studies played key roles in redesigni ng the Canada Food Guide. Woolcott , department chair, led the communication s and implementation com mittee that revamped the old and steered

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the introdu ction of new guidelines. Ev e rs, an expert in nutrition and disease, was a member of the sc ientific review committee that examined all literature and researc h linking diet and disease. Using the data on human nutrition collected by the review committee, WooJcOtl'S group made more than 100 recommendations to update the Canada Food Guide.

Many of the changes are the result of food research and nutritional knowledge accumulated in the past 50 years. Guelph researchers , with their roots in agricul ture, have contributed to that knowledge and have helped change Canadian s ' und erstanding of food and nutrition. Research conducted here has made a difference from the ground up in the way we grow, harv est, store, ship, process, preserve, labe l, sell and prepare our food. The media gobb le up pronouncements about fat and cholesterol, salt and minerals.

And hea lth-conscious consumers digest Guelph studies that reveal the links between nutrition and heart disease, cancer, aging, alco holism, vitamin retention and poverty.

Today, more than ever, food research at Guelph begins with a taste for healthy eating.

Confusing cholesterol Don't be fooled by food products claiming to be choleste rol free.

Vegetable oil and potatoes sepa­ rately as raw products contain no cholesterol, but that doesn't mean french fries are a safe food choice . Nutritional scientist Bruce Holub warns consumers that cooking - in thi s case , deep frying - may create a high concentration of harmful trans­ fatty acids. These raise the level of bad choleste rol (low-density lipoproteins) and lower the level of good cholesterol (high-den sity lipopro teins). So watch out for french fries deep fried in choles­ terol-free vegetable oils.

Fat and figures The new Canada Food Guide recommends reducing your die­ tary intake of fat to 30 per cent.

But it can be confusing trying to figure out just how much fat you're eating, says nutritional sci­ entist Kelly Meckling-Gill . A label on a block of cheese saying it contains 27-per-cent milk fat doesn't mean 27 per cent of the ca lories come from fat, as some people think. Food labels list in ­ gredients by weight from the largGlld/,,, A/III/II/II.\'

show people how to compare in­ gredients and make the healthi­ est choice. She's also taught cooking skills and shared innova­ tive recipes that offer enticing al­ ternatives to meat and potatoes.

Most people are armed with some facts about good nutrition , she says, but they don't use this knowledge to improve their diets and better their health.

Storing apples and pears Apples and pears will keep for months in cold storage. But Cort­ land, del icious and sometimes Mcintosh apples can develop storage "sca ld," an unsightly bronzing of the skin that does not, however, affect the flesh .

Horticultural scientist Dennis Murr is trying to identify factors in th e field, the storage atmos­ phere and the chemical nature of the apples themselves that might inhibit scald. He is also experi ­ menting with wrapping small quantities of pears in polyethy­ lene packaging as an alternative to bulk storage to extend their shel f li fe .

Red meat advantage est to the smallest, but there are twice as many calories in a gram of fat as in a gram of carbohy­ drate (grains, fruits and vegeta­ bles) . So if an ounce of cheese made with 27-per-cent milk fat has 100 calories, 75 of those calories come from the milk fat it­ self. Even low-fat cheeses made with 17-per-cent milk fat owe 56 per cent of their calories to fat.

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Under the banner of Four Warn, a little army of nutrition students keep vigil over the meals served three times daily in the dining rooms on campus and try to steer studen ts on the road to bal­ anced diets. For some students, university means having to make their own food choices for the first time in their lives . Four Warn volunteers mount weekly bulletin board displays, write articles and offer free yogurt snacks and breakfast-on-the-run muffins to those who would normally skip the most important meal of the day . They also organize an an­ nual nutrition fair and talk about sma rt snacking, Canada's Food Guide , the value of eating a vari­ ety of foods in moderation and the dangers of too much caffeine.

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Unbeatable salt Salt is a formidable foe , one not likely to be completely banished from our diets. For its flavor, its preserva tive power and its bind­ ing properties, which hold pro­ cessed meats together, salt can 't be beaten . In their search for salt substitutes to use in processed meats, food scientist Shai Barbut and his research team have come up with a combination that reduces salt by more than half and is still palatable to consum­ ers. Most processed meats con­ tain two-per-cent salt by weight.

But several meat-processing companies are now using the Barbut alternative, which con­ tains less than one-per-cent so­ dium chloride and uses potassium chloride and phos­ phate instead. Salt wasn't elimi­ nated altogether, says Barbut, because the flavor just can't be beaten.

Choose healthy foods Nutritionist Judy Sheeshka has some solutions to help clear up the confusion surrounding healthy eating and to make it more interesting. She has con­ ducted supermarket tours to

A flank of nutritional scientists is leading the charge to vindicate red meat, whose popularity has shrivelled as consumers search for leaner sources of protein .

Red meat and organ meats con­ tain high concentrations of glu­ tathione, a compound that boosts the body's immune de­ fences and helps flush out tox­ ins. Researchers Bill Woodward, Lyn Hillyer and Tammy Bray are extracting glutathione from meat to find out if the compound, ad­ ministered intravenously and orally, can buttress patients weakened by severe malnutrition - due to famine , cancer, AIDS or alcoholism - against infec­ ti on and disease.

Where there's a whey What do these two facts have in common - whey is a waste product in the produ ction of cheese, and ice cream lovers are squeamish about chemical additives? Whey proteins might be just the thing to replace those scary-sounding chemical emulsi­ fiers now added to ice cream to prevent ice crystallization and to slow meltdown , says food scien­ tist Doug Goff. Whey proteins could also be used as a substi­

tute gelling agent in foods, as a viscosity-bui ldin g agent in infant formula , as a protein carrier in in­ travenous solutions and as a thickener in meat batters - with the added nutritional advanlage of supplementing dietary protein.

Fish oil to the rescue For years, experts have told us that reducing dietary cholesterol can lessen the risk of heart at­ tack, but nutritional scientist Bruce Holub says this is not al­ ways enough . He has found a unique polyunsaturated fat called Omega 3 in fish and fish oils that will do battle against other risk factors in heart dis­ ease. Omega 3 fatty acid pre­ vents blood platelets in the blood from clumping together and from sticking to artery walls , where they can cause blockage .

Omega 3 also lowers the level of triglycerides in blood , a known risk factor in heart disease, and helps reduce blood pressure in people with mild hypertension.

There are two types of Omega 3.

EPA is rich in cold-water ocean fish like herring and mackerel.

DHA, considered an essential nu­ trient for brain functioning and vi­ sion, is rich in fresh-water fish such as rainbow trout , white fish , pickerel and lake trout. For full benefit , fresh or frozen fish should be microwaved or baked .

Forget deep-fried, breaded varie­ ties - the processing creates harmful trans-fatty acids that vir­ tually cancel out the good effects of Omega 3.

Testing a leaner taste What cattle, pigs and chickens

eat has a direct bearing on what

appea rs on your plate. For some

time , animal producers have re­

sponded to consumer demands

for leaner meat by changing the

diets of animals destined for din­

ner tables. But lower fat content

can result in changes in tender­

ness, juiciness and , most impor­

tantly, flavor. To find out just how

palatable the "new" meat is, ani­

mal scientists have been work­

ing with food scientist Elizabeth

Gullett. If it doesn't taste good,

people won't eat it no matter how lean it is, she says, and "there is no nutrition in food that is not eaten." Guess what?

There is little difference in the palatability of the fat and lean meat you buy at the supermar­ ket.

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She's a natural

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obbin Sotir's ten acity got her a rare place in the School of Land scape Architecture back in 1968.

Now it propels her as the North American pioneer of what co uld be cal led eco-engineering, using nature to control nature.

Sotir uses live plants and " livin g structures" like logs to stop erosion along rivers and hi g hways, control flooding and prevent land mov ements. The new name for thi s o ld science is soil bioeng ineering.

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The meth ods for controlling run-off, savi ng shorelines and reclaiming land are a sc ience tha t's at least 500 years old in Europe (Incl probably older in Asia. But American engineers still cling to modern, rigid eoncrete-a nd-steel fi xtures to so lv e soi l instability. Their resistance to using nature to con­ trol nature has led to confrontati ons as well as "great meet­ ings of the mind s" with Georgia-based Sotir as s he

c ri ssc rosses the continent on a mi ssion to spread the word abo ut soil bioengineering.

Although her meetings sometimes leave he r feeling "beat up and bleeding," others leave her "energized and delighted" as she slow ly gathers converts to thi s e nvironmentally friend­ ly, cheap, mainte nance-free and self-sustaining meth od of preventing erosion . " Some engineers are put out by what I say, but afte r seeing the projects and seei ng how it dovetails with conventional technology, they take a 180-degree turn."

Sotir, whose Atlanta firm is the only one in North America to offer expertise on "living systems," has made great efforts to align with engineers and speak the ir language. Indeed , she's begun to inv ent a language for soi l bioengineering . (In the new jargon, for instance, roots are fibrous inclusions.)

The engineering community is a " hard nut to crack," she

Bioengineering on the bayou A soi l bioengineering installation completed in February will stop slope erosion on a branch of Buf­ falo Bayou in Houston , Tex. The 35-foot riv erbank, composed of sandy soils, was unstable be­ cause of ground-water seepage from the top and erosion at the bot­ tom during times of high water. On­ going slope failures threatened mature trees at the edge of the river­ bank and a private residence

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located several yards back.

Robbin Sotir headed a bioengineering team that reinforced the base of the slope with rock. They shortened the length of the upper slope by forming a terrace halfway down that was wide enough to handle a bulldozer (Photo I).

A drainage system was insta lled along the top of the bank to slow grou nd-water seepage. It removes 750 to 2,000 gallon s of water a day from the s lope throu gh chimney drains that empty into the river.

Consultants also recom mended the con­ s truction of an earthen boom in the river along the front of the property to divert water away from the outs ide bend in the riverbank (Photo 2).

A crushed rock drainage course was installed at the back of the terrace to intercept seepage above the fill layer, and the slope face above and below was reinforced with plantings of willow cuttings to halt surface erosion (Photo 3).

As a bonus , the landowners will have use of the terrace as a walkway where they ca n enjoy the bayou.

Guelph Alumnus

woman 1 says, but it's a necessary ally whose

support she finds gratifying.

"1 know that a soil bioengineer, or

any other professional for that matter,

should not stand alone," says Sotir.

"It's incredibly important, if we're

going to have honest, ethical conduct

... to work together as teams" using

an interdisciplinary approach rather

than acting as separate cogs in a wheel.

In the past, for instance, hydraulic

engineers dealing with flooding have

focused on making sure water moved.

Now, she says, the scene has changed.

They must consider other issues like

water quality and impact on wi Idlife

and human habitats rather than take a

piecemeal approach.

"The environmental end of the cor­

ridor is just as important as the

hydraulic end. They are, after all, com­

pletely connected. And making the

connection between resources and

people is only common sense."

Ultimately, however, nature decides

whether to accept or reject attempts to

manipulate and control it, she says. "Nature surprises us. It ' s measurable maybe, but it's not at all predictable. Nature bats last, but usually gets a home run."

Sotir's interest in nature started ear/yo As a child in Edmon­ ton, she learned how to plant, prune, trim and weed flowers and shrubs by spending Saturdays in a neighbor's garden . In 1957, she clipped an Edmon/on Journal article about a new landscape architecture program to be offered at Guelph. She carried that article around with her for years. " I just knew it's what I wanted to do."

Others weren't so sure. Sotir says she had a hard time get­ ting accepted into the program in 1968, two years after it was established. She applied late and "didn ' t have the highest marks."

The school's founding director, Prof. Victor Chanasyk, told her there was a 50-per-cent female drop-out rate - one out of two had dropped out. But Sotir was tenacious. "1 know what I want ," she told Chanasyk and Prof. John Milliken. "This is what J want."

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PholOS co urtesy of Rohbin Suti,. and Associates

She became the only femal e in a c lass of 15 chosen out of 500 applicants. It was " me and the boys." Treated as an out­ sider, she found her classmates "nice as individuals , but not as a group." The school itself had provided a washroom for secretaries, but not for female students. StiU , Sotir stuck it out. " I was tenacious then and I'm tenacioLls now" when she encounters the "old guard. " Although she felt privileged to work with peopl e like Chanasyk and Milliken, she couldn ' t wait to " get out of there and do things in the real world." After stint s as a landscape architect for Ottawa and Edmonton firm s, she be­ came intrigued with landscape con struction, as it was then called, and began corres ponding with world-renowned ex­ pert Hugo Schiechtl of Au stria.

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This led to a five-year apprenticeship in Europe studying highway s lopes, oce an fronts, streambanks , shorelines and wetlands in the Netherlands , Italy, Switzerland and Ger­ many. "I was intent on soil bioengineering."

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hy Don Stephenson University Affairs and Development

Foundation update In the las t issue of the Guelph Alum­ nus, we anno unced that the University of Guelph was establishing a Crown fo und ati o n with enhanced tax benefits fo r donati ons to the foundation.

The am ount of a charitable dona­ ti on th at will qualify for a tax credit in any g iven year can total up to 100 per ce nt of a do no r 's ne t annual income.

Thi s could result in tre mendous tax savings fo r yo u if you ' re cons idering ma kin g a major co ntribution to the Unive rsity in 1993 or any year after.

When a pprec iated property is in­ vo lved, there may be a capital gain on makin g a g ift. The taxable portion mu st be bro ught into your income , but it can be handled in one of several ways to reduce tax payable.

The capital gain can be offset direct­ ly with the charitable tax credit, with any e xcess credit applied to other in­ come. It can be offset by the $100,000 life time capital gains exemption, or the do no r can elect to value the gift lower than the fair market value to reduce or eliminate any capital gains tax . It's important to get professional advi ce in these situations.

Bequests throug h wills can also be directed to the new foundation , there­ by saving substantial income ta x pay­ a ble by your es tate. Unlike life time g ifts, which allow excess c harita ble contributions to be carried forward for up to five years, ta x c redits assoc iated with bequests can only be claimed over a period of two years (the yea r of death and the previous year).

Depending on your income, other charitable donations and the size o f the intended bequest, you m ay want to restructure the gift to achieve o p­ timum tax savings during your lifetime and through your estate.

RRSP borrowing Us ing your payroll deduc tio n Canada Savings Bond (CSB) pl an, you can save your annual RRSP con24

tribution throug ho ut the year a nd deduct the bo rro wing cost (limited to CSB first-year inte rest rates). The loan rate is no rmally ve ry competitive with the m arke tpl ace. Indirectly, you will make the borro wing cost on your RRSP contributio n tax deduc tible.

Cross-border finances The book Border Guide is a mu st for anyo ne w ho has ever cons ide red investing or buying pro pe rty in the United States. It covers: IE!r ho w to avo id getting caught by flu c tu atio ns in Ca nadian c urre ncy and the dreaded do uble jeopa rd y o f U.S. and C anadia n estate taxes on rea l estate ho ldings; llSf' how to qu a lify for old age and so­ cial sec ur ity be nefits o n both s ides o f the bo rder; IE!r ho w to buy a re tireme nt home and deduct the mo rtgage interest from yo ur Canadian tax return; IE!r ho w to reduce the tax bite on Ca nadi an pens io n income and avoid the c1 awbac k; DW ho w to avoid taxes on RRSP withdrawa ls; and (i;j"" whic h U.S . inv estme nts a re exempt fro m U.S. income ta x and filing re­ quireme nt s.

We a re offe ring thi s 200-page book to Guelph Alumnus readers at a 25­ per-cent savings o ff the co ve r price.

To orde r, send $ 14.95 (whi c h in­ c ludes taxes, postage and handling) to Do n Stephenson , Uni versity Affairs and Deve lo pment, Univers ity of G ue lph , Guelph, Ontario N I G 2W 1.

Sotir knew , however, th at it wo uld be ha rd to get something new goi ng in No rth A merica . Afte r e xte ns ive scout­ ing , she set up shop in Atla nta in 1982.

The cl imate was pleasant , the a irpo rt ac­ cessible , the c ity conge ni al.

Robbin B. Sotir and Assoc iates, a core team o f seven e xpe rt s in stream processes, hydrology, c ivil eng inee ring and fi s heries biology , has pl anned and overseen anti-e ros io n projec ts - large­ ly for governme nt - all ove r the con­ tinent in the past decade .

The firm's biggest contrac ts have been on large rive r systems with the U.S. Army Corps of Eng ineers, o n federal and state hig hway projec ts, o n city and county wate rshed and urban stream corridors, and on nati o nal park s.

Most work is in the United States, a l­ though past projec ts in A lberta and British Columbia and c urre nt projec ts in Ontario have bro ug ht he r bac k to Canada.

Sotir a lways dra ws o n ex pert s o ut side the firm to fo rm inte rdisc iplina ry teams.

And altho ug h the re's lo ts o f wo rk a vail ­ able, she wants to stay small . " I want to keep up with the projects . . . so bigger is not a lways be tter. I do so il bioe n­ gineering best and pro ba bl y wo uldn ' t be a good office m anage r fo r 20 peo ple ."

Proof th at she ' s gai ning ground lies in the standard s manu als used by e ng ineers in the United St ates , Canada and the Caribbean. T he Soil Co nservati o n Ser­ vice of the U.S. Departm e nt of Ag ricul­ ture commi ss io ned he r firm to write a new cha pter o n so il bioengineering for its fi eld e ngineering bibl e . It also as ked he r to revie w and includ e bi oengineer­ ing me thods in an ex isting chapter.

Sotir does n ' t cru sade alone. Her hus­ band of 10 yea rs, A lton Simms , is vice­ pres ide nt of the firm and often travel s o n s peak ing e ngageme nts. The two wo rk o ut of a I 30-year-old fa rmhou se e ig ht minutes from ho me. And it 's the re that Sotir re news he r energy in her sa nctu ary , her garden.

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Participating in the program will offe r alumni the chance to "give back some­ thing to the school and they will derive the satisfaction of being able to positive­ Iy influence a younger person's career and personal development," he says.

Bring your swimsuit to Homecoming Homecom ing 1993 will feature a non­ stop pool party as Guelph alumni help initiate the University 's new eight-lane, 25-metre pool. First into the new "gold" pool Saturday, Oct. 2, will be com­ petitors in the annual alumni swim meet. The opening ceremony will take place at 11 a.m., followed by a swimmer 's brunch at Alumni Hou se.

On Saturday afternoon and Sunday, the gold pool and the 1958 vintage " red" pool will be open for family swim­ ming and other water sports. Try kayak ­ ing, skin diving, canoeing, underwater hockey and, yes, even sailboarding.

Swimming coach Alan Fairweather, CBS '75 (H.K.), is also planning an inner-tube water polo tournament for former intramural water polo players.

"We'll have a pool full if everyone shows up," he says .

Since it was built in 1958, the current pool has been the playground for more than 400 inner tube water polo teams, and training ground for some 400 var­ sity swimmers. The department has employed an equal number of student staffers who have taught swimming, fit­ ness and aq uatic sports to more than 20,000 sw immers. And there 's no way to count the number of people who have used the pool strictly for fun and fitness.

When it opens this summer, the gold pool will triple the water surface avail­ able to Guelph swimmers and give the aquati cs program some much-needed breathing space.

Engineers develop relationships

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The Engineering Alumni Association is developing a mentor program that wi.11 pair recent graduates with alumni who have 15 or more years of professional experience.

"We envision the mentor as someone who would be interested in the overall development of a younger person, " says secretary Doug Trivers, Eng. '85. The student would have the opportunity to select a mentor and develop a relation­ ship that would offer guidance in ca reer decisions and personal matters.

The amount of contact and the dura­ tion of the relationship would depend on Guelph Alumnus

If you have a mentor experience to share or if you 'd like to know more about the program , contact the Engineer­ ing Alumni Association through Feilders at 416-225-8642, Trivers at 416-771-7598 or David Lukey, Eng. '82, at 416-822-4681.

New York alumni greet Rozanski the needs and wishes ot the two pam lei ~.

The idea of a mentor program was proposed by Jim Feilders, Eng. '70, who developed a mentor relation ship with a young female engineer in his own firm and sa w the benefits to both of them. " Young engineers often are not sure what type of work environment would best suit them, how to properly solve work-related problems or how to handle professional relationships or of­ fice politics," he says. "Having someone with experience to consult and talk to can help sort out difficulties."

Mordechai Rozansk i began talking to U of G alumni within days of his appoint­ ment as Guelph's six th president. And on April 27, he was a guest at an alumni reception held in New York at Ontario House.

The even t was organi zed by Rob Stevens, CBS '8 5 (H.K.), an associate in health care with the financial division of the Toronto Dominion Bank in New York. He invited 95 alumni living in the New York area to meet Rozanski and to view a video about the University.

An open letter to alumni As YOll may well imagine, I am honored to have been selected as the president

of this great university - your great university.

I say your great university because I can tell you that years of experience

working to advance large and small American universities have taught me that

alumni are the indispensable foundation on which institutional succes and great­

ness are built. Your unstinting and generous support, your pride of association

and your thoughtful comments have shaped our present success and will ensure

our future.

Rest assured that we appreciate your contribution and that. as a result, we

recognize we have a responsibility to you. As stewards of your alma mater, we

must preserve your legacy and build on the good relationships you established

when you were students. We must make sure that your university moves from

strength to strength, so that you can always say you are proud to be one of the

builders of Guelph .

My wife, Bonnie, and son, Daniel, share my feeling that moving to Guelph

represents a homecoming for me, a chance to contribute to the Canadian system

that gave me a superior education and a vocation.l hope to meet many of you

over the next few years at alumni gatherings and University events. And I hope I

can count on your support for the University of Guelph.

Mordechai Rozan ki President University of Guelph 25

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they set are lofty ones - the best is none too good. And they left no stone unturned, going as far as recommending prereq uisites for student admission and fac ulty hiring policies.

Delegates to the two-day workshop looked at teaching, research and exten­ sion and made 21 recommendations that OAC Dean Rob McLaug hlin has incor­ porated into the college ' s new strategic plan. Many of the recommendations ­ the need to give students a global perspective, to develop better com-

dustry got together to talk about the fu­ ture of OAC. Invited by the OAC Alumni Associa­ tion, these peopl e represented various sectors of the agri-food industry, includ­ ing farmers , government extension workers, corporate executives and the self-made men and women who ' ve turned agriculture into agribusiness.

They didn't come to Guelph to ap­ plaud OAC for its past succes ses , but to tell administrators what they expect from the college in the future. The goals

Telling it like it is There were no shrinking violets at the College Inn Dec . 15 and 16 when more than 40 people from the agriculture in-

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The Weekend Workshop (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by profeSSional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre.

No m atter what their age, career stage or reason for transition, each pa rticipant will fmd this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to develop a personal action plan ­ and chart their next move.

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munication and leadership skills and to confront the cultural and ethical dilem­ mas facing agriculture - are already being addressed by OAC. Last fall , the college began a review of the B.Sc.(Agr.) degree program. The current program and courses associated with it will be discontinued in 1995 and replaced by a new curriculum that will stress personal skill development, multi­ disciplinary and integrative teaching, practical work experience and exposure to professional issues and ethics , wh i Ie still providing appropriate technical training and encouraging students to become lifelong learners.

Delegates to the alumni associa­ tion workshop looked not only at educational programs, but also at re­ search and extension activities. In all areas, they encouraged a team ap­ proach, better communication with industrial clients and consumers, a global perspective , more emphasis on accountability, reward s based on achievement, a higher profile for marketing skills and, at all times, a consideration for ethical and environ­ mental concerns.

Delegates recognized thai OAC's

client base has expanded over the

years to include not only farmers,

but also the processors who add

value to raw products, those who

sell them and those who buy them.

They talked about the need for a

more commercially driven research

program and said both the college and its graduates must be flexible and creative to stay in the foreground of change .

Association president Everett

Biggs said OAC alumni will main­ tain an ongoing dialogue with the college and the agri-food industry.

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gratulate new graduares with a hand­ shake and a package that includes their first Guelph Alumnus, the UGAA brochure and letters from individual alumni association s.

A pen-and-ink drawing of Alumni House is prominent on the new alumni membership card and on all UGAA materials to get out the message that Alumni House is your home on campus.

This year, the UGAA is working to es­ tablish operating guidel ines for the as­ sociation, increase services available to

alumni, develop the MasterCard pro­ gram and review the group life in­ surance program .

In April, the UGAA entertained alum­ ni volunteers at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The evening began in War Memorial Hall with the presentation of the 1992 Alumnu s of Honour award to Roberta Bondar, OAC '68 .

Plans are well under way for Alumni Weekend 1993, scheduled for June 18 to 20. We hope to see you at the UGAA annual general meeting June 20.

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UGAA president's report

by Rick Jordan, CSS '75 College and school alumni associa­ tion memberships are growing because of UGAA efforts to communicate with new graduates.

UGAA executive members are attending every convocation to con­ Gue/ph Alumnus

North American Life

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1992 Annual Fund results .. $L57 million was raised.anincrease .ofl2:2 [J~rcellloverl99L ·Therewas jncreasedpar­ ticipationamong alumni inArts.CBS, C§S, CPES Engineeriilg, HAFA; OAC BLA; Mac~ Diplollla and USRPD. .. .... ...

ConsliluenC); Arts CBS CPES CPES Eng. CSS FACS HAFA HMDC/AMPW Mac,Degree MaccDiploma OACBLA OAC-Degrec OAC-Diplo01i1 OACEng. o AC,.O D.AlODH USRPD

ove Subtotals

No. of donors

folal . giving

0/" parI.

19j37.26 4S:029j3 Il,4W27 L65K14 57.256.73 16,045.80 $,625,43 280,00 · 16,900.80 .. 43.475.08

7.9 5,555 6,970 · 11.8.

5A 1.968 6.7 599 ·· 8,709 11.3 4,192 VI 10,1 1.351

403

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1,024 1,356 56\> 9,927 3.774 948 638 103 4.116

20.1 19.7 10.0 16.5 K6 6.5 9.4 5.8 15..5

52,202

11.7

. 4.257:86 ..

271;176.65 21,880.72 4.430.68 3,417.9.1 360.00 t()4.505;2 7

630,296.93

Corporations Frieiids ..

Pareills Faculty/Sfaff Found./Assn.

Goverrmlel)l Sitidenls VCICfinics

211 ,325.69 224.70S ,57 93;319.29 90,290.92 200,089.24 · 15,671.77 29.,445.87 79;703;90

1:otal giv.jtig

1;574,849.18

Annual Giving Report Matching gifts multiply your gift Last year, 47 Canadian and American companies matched, doubled or even tripled the gifts made by their employees to the University of Guelph through the annual giving program, for a record total of $ n, l30. It's as easy as it sounds.

Ask your employer how to multiply the value of your gift to Guelph.

3M Canada Incorporated Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Aetna Cal/ada Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd. Arthur Andersen & Co. Ayerst, McKel/na & Harrison Inc. Bank of MOil/real BASF Corporation Boise Cascade Canada Ltd .

Campbell Soup Co . Ltd. Chrysler Canada Ltd. Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd. Dow Chemical Call ada Inc. Fiberglas Canada Inc. Ford Motor Company of Canada , Ltd. General Electric Canada Inc. Ginn and Company Hoechst Canada Incorporated IBM Canada Limi/ed ICI Cal/ada Incorporated In('o Limifed .fohn Labolt Limi/ed Kraft General Foods Canada McGraw-Hili Ryerson Limited

ResearchIBuildings $129,012

Merck & Company Inc.

Monsanto Canada Inc.

Nabisco Brands Callada Ltd.

NOVA Corpora/ion ofAlberta

Pfizer Canada Inl'.

Pillsbury Canada Limited

Pioneer Hi-Bred Limi/ed

Pralt & Whiflley Canada IIIC'.

Pruden/iallnsurance Company

ofAmerica Ralston Purina Canada Inc .

Rio Algom Limited Rohm and Haas Canada Inc Rothmans. Bensoll & Hedges Inc. Sara Lee Corp. ofCanada Lui. Sql/are D Canada The Coca-Cola Company The Mu/Ual Group The Toronto S/ar TransCanada Pipelines UNUM Charitable FOllndalion Upjol/ll CompallY o/Canada Ltd. Warner-Lamben Cal/ada Inc .

Xerox Canada Ltd.

War Memorial Hall $33,943

Annual giving reaches $1.57 million Annual gifts contribute to scholarships, athletics, academic programs, research activities, the library and special campus projects.

Class Projects $117,062

Pet Trust $285,925

Arboretum

$95,867

OAC Alumni Foundation $5,100

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Athletics

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$36,797

Library $93,164

Guelph Alumnus

Alma Mater Fund War Memorial Hall We're one-third of the way there. 1992 was the first year of a three-year project to fund renovations to War Memorial Hall.

Thanks to the generosity of our alumni, the renova­ tions are well under way. The main auditorium was rededicated and a plaque acknowledging alumni support was in taIled last June during Alumni Weekend.

Renovations include a new stage, seats, carpeting and curtains that complement the style of t.he 1924 building.

Wheelchair accessibility has been improved. The main floor once again provides an imposing setting for ceremonial, cultural and social occa ·ions.

But the project still needs alunmi support.

The Alma Mater Fund has committed a total of $360,000 to War Memorial Hall. And the Georgian lime tone building remains a priority project of the 1993 AMF drive.

With thanks to: Donors Class agents AMF Advisory Council The University of Guelph may ex­ perience funding cuts from other

sources, but financial support from

alumni and friends continues to

grow.

The 1992 Annual Fund surpassed

last year's tot.al giving by $171,000.

Alumni donations increased by 16.6 per cent. The parents

of toelay's Guelph students gave more. to help educational

quality, and non-alumni faculty and staff increased their

giving by 39.8 per cent. We did not achieve our goal­

perhaps $1 .7 million was overambitious - but we are

confident that the 1993 Annual Fund will top that mark.

Alumni contributed more than $630,000 and achieved

the goal of 15-per-cent participation in the three founding

colleges. In addition. CBS, CPES, CSS and Arts were

each successful in providing funds to establish new

scholarships.

Because of restructuring within the University of

Guelph Alumni Association, the AMF Advisory Council

now has direct representation on the UGAA board. 1992

also saw increased communication between AMF Ad­

visory Council members and college deans.

In the first year of its three-year commitment to War

Memorial Hall, the AMF received $33,000 in designated

gifts. We hope alumni will increase their support for this

project in 1993 and next year to help us achieve our over­

all goal. We're also looking to alumni to give undesig­

nated funds that can be used to award grants for special

campus projects. In 1992, $88,567 was allotted to 12 new

ventures.

Special projects by the dozen $88,567 from the Alma Mater Fund helped finance 12 special projects: ni' U of G Choir lour fit' Guelph conference on methodology and national census Iii" CBS interactive. multi-media laboratory .. Nutritional science public lecture d" HAFA student conference award Q' Veterinary continuing education program Q' Jazz Ensemble music and compact disc sets IS' The Routledge EncyClopedia of Common­ wealth Literature Chemistry & biochemistry lab equipment B' Arboretum entrance kiosk d" Art graduate scholarship Iii" Instruments for the Early Music Ensemble

Guelph Alumnus

For your past and future support of the Alma Mater Fuod. my 'iOCerethan~~

Lorraine Holding, Mac '71 Chair, AMF Advisory Council

* ofAlumni who provide ongoing financial support to the University Guelph channel their donations through the Alma Mater Fund.

In 1992. alumni contributed $630.296.93. * AMF donations from alumni made up 40 per cent of all annual gifts to the University in 1992. The total annual giving was $1,574,849.1 R. * Innumber addition to those who give every year, U of G also receives a of special gifts. Overall donations to the University were in

up 56 per cent in 1992 for a LOtal of$9,723.1 21- including $3,9 14.820 from rea1ized bequests. $1.941,078 from corponllions. associations and foundations, $12,489.138 in major alumni gifts. $593,236 from friends and $210,000 in special government grant".

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May to August - Each Sunday afternoon , the Arboretum features a family-oriented nature program. Learn about wildlife , wildflowers, birds and biting beastie s.

Free nature walks leave the Arboretum Centre at 2 p.m.

Until May 26 - The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre features an exhibit on the artistry of American landscape architect A. E. Bye. The art centre is open Tuesday to Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., Thursdays until 9 p.m.

Admission is free.

May 5 - The OAC Alumni Foundation 's annual general meeting begins at 5 p.m. at the Arboretum Centre . The executive committee meets at 3 p.m.

May 7 to 30 - The Guelph Spring Festival's 1993 season includes a musical adapta­ tion of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Beaver/Parker Duo, Relyea and Son, the Pan African Dance Ensemble, the Tokyo String Quartet, James Galloway with the Swing Sisters , the Manitoba Chamber Or­ chestra and the Edward Johnson music competition. For tickets , call the festival box office at 51 9-821-7570.

May 15 - The 17th annual All-Canadian University Association dinner will be held in Arlington , Va., at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel. To register, call Marjorie Foster, 301-229-2498.

May 20 - Alumni-in-Action holds its spring

luncheon at the Arboretum Centre , with U of G benefactor Herbert Axelrod, D.Sc. '78, as guest speaker. To order tickets , call Sue Lawrenson at Alumni House, 519­ 824-4120, Ext. 6963 .

June 23 - Bring a sketch pad and learn how to draw what you see , hear and smell in the great outdoors at the Arboretum, beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free . To regi ster, call 519-824-4120 , Ext. 2113 .

May 28 to 30- A UGAA-sponsored career­ planning workshop is scheduled on cam ­ pus. Pre-test is May 5 in Toronto , May 13 in Guelph . For details and a registration form , see page 26 .

May 30 - The Arboretum holds its second annual sale of rare plants . Offerings in­ clude native and unusual trees and shrubs and wildflowers that are generally not available from other sources . The sale runs from 3 to 5 p.m . at the R.J. Hilton Centre on College Avenue East. At 2 p.m ., a guided walk to look at spring colors in nature leaves from the nature centre .

June 1 to 4 -

Spring convocation.

June 6 - The Arboretum offers a special nature program, with a musical concert and family tour of the Arboretum grounds.

Tours begin at 1 and 3:30 p.m.; the concert is at 2:30 p.m. Cost of the concert is $3 for adults, $1 for children over five .

June 14 to 16 - The 1993 Guelph Con­ ference and Training Institute on Sexuality hosts its annual three-day conference on the theme "Sexuality and Life Enhance­ men!. " Pre- and post-conference workshops will also be held. For more information , call 519-767 -5000.

June 18 to 20 - ALUMNI WEEKEND Saturday: opening of the new OVC Learning Centre at 9:30 a.m. , auction at 3 p.m., golden anniversary dinner at 6 p.m.

Sunday: UGAA annual general meeting at 10 a.m. in Macdonald Hall 149, farewell brunch at 11 a.m . For complete details , see page 39.

June 19 - The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre unveils a sculpture called Stray Plow by Toronto artist Brian Scott in its outdoor sculpture park at 1: 15 p.m.

Aug. 18 to Sept. 6 - Vi sit the University of Guelph display at the CNE in Toronto.

You 'll find it in the East Annex of the Coliseum Complex.

Oct. 2 and 3 - HOMECOMING Highlights include the opening of U of G's new swimming pool at 11 a.m. Saturday, the football game at 2 p.m. and ongoing pool activities for the whole family.

Oct. 12 - A ceremony to rename the Human Biology Building in honorof retired professor John T. Powell will be held on site at 415 p.m .

In December, 450 alumni donned skates, pads and jerseys to compete in th e annual U ofG alumni hockey tournam ent. Four women's teams competed fo rth e fir st tim e, and OAC '85, leji, received lh e women' s championship trophy .

Th ere were 22 men' s teams. OA C '82 won th e competiti ve championship and th e Klein­ burp, Pigs won th e social division trophy .

Tournam ent orRan izers were Rudy Diemer, OAC '85, Brian Tapscott, OAC '8 1, Alfons Weersink, OAC '82; Mike Van Beek, OAC '8 1; and Bill S eegmiller, OAC '83.

Chancellor to lead tour

Chapter news C algary - Bruce Berry, Eng. ' 70, was local co-ordinator for an alumni gather­ ing in N o vember at th e D elta Bow Val­ ley H o tel. About 30 alumni and guests were on hand to pick up new alumni card s and hear U of G admi ss ions coun­ sellor Christine Toews, FACS ' 87 .

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Edmonton - Paul Valentine, OAC ' 67, and his wife, Anne, CBS ' 69 , or­ ganized a Nov. 25 gatherin g that drew 20 alumni. The Edmonton group is plan­ ning a picnic for June. For more infor­ mation , call the Valentines at 403-436-6202 or Alumni House at 519­ 824-41 20, E x t. 665 7.

U of G chancellor Linco ln Al exander will l ead a 12-day alumni crui se o f the Mediterranean departin g fro m Venice o n July 25. Rosemary Clark is accept­ ing boo kings for the ch ancello r 's crui se and f o r a gourmet and wine l over 's tour o f France and B el g ium th at depart s from T oronto Oc t. 8 and return s O c t.

J7. Th e itinerary has been planned by Prof. Jacques Pauwels, a native of Bel­ g ium w ho teaches Frenc h w ine history at H A FA. Fo r mo re info rm ati o n, con­ tact Clark at A lumni H ouse, 51 9-824­ 41 20 , E xt. 65 34.

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Arts Reta Gunn, '70, lives in Keswick, On!., and is a teache r in York Region.

Peter Link, '76, Gerry Mahar, CSS '75, and Diane Scaini, FACS '91, all work in the same division at Cano n Canada Inc. in Mis­ sissa uga, On!. Link was rec ently appo inted manage r of national accounts, Mahar is marke ting manager and Scaini is a product control planner.

Kelly Malone, '9 1, graduated in December from th e Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser Uni versi ty in Burnaby, B.C. She is teac hing Engl ish for Burnaby 's continuing education program and is an on-call teacher for the Burnaby and Coquitlam school dis­ tricts. "I look forward to each iss ue of the Guelph Alumnus since I'm so far awa y from my home university," says Malone. "While I enjoy living and working in B.C., I still mi ss the comforta ble and eas y atm os phere of the University of Gu e lph and Guelph itse lf."

Don Oravec, 'BO, work s in the Toronto Symphony' s marketing and public re lations department and owns the Fare Exchange Cafe on Irwin Av e nue in Toronto.

Jeffrey Spalding, '73, has a presence on campus even though he lives in Alberta, where he is directo r of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. One of his paintings was recently added to the U of G art collec­ tion at the Macdonald Stewa rt Art Ce ntre.

The acquisition was mad e through a tru s t fund es tabli shed by former chief librarian Florence Partridge, Mac '26D. Purchases are made through the fund in con sultation with students from a different college eac h year. The Spalding painting was chosen by students ofCPES. Craig Wells, '86, is an assistant art educator for the Winnipeg Art Gallery and is currently producing his own work with a Canada Council exploration grant.

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Derin Aylin, '87, ha s been living in Europe since graduation, but says she s till enjoys reading U of G news in th e Guelph Alumnus.

Last fall , she left a position as technical manager at Procter and Gamble to beco me product manager at Gla xo Ltd. and is curre nt­ ly located in Istanbul, Turkey. Aylin wel­ comes news from U of G friend s, espec ially mi crobiology classmates of 1987 . Write to her at Tepecik Yolu Sokak, Eliler, Istanbul, Turkey.

Stephen Basiren, '88, follow ed a path from Guelph to Davenport, Iowa , to Brockville, Ont., whe re he recently opened a practice in chiropractic medicin e. He earned a DC de­ gree from Palmer College of Chiropractic and passed the U.S ., Canadian and Ontario board examinations.

John Fortin, '76, ha s been tea ching biology

a nd scie nce in London, Ont. , but is moving with his wife, Joan Eastman, to Papua Ne w Guinea to head the science depa rtm e nt at a high school in Kimbe.

Grant McCullough, '74 , is J technical sup­ port analyst at Canada Tru st in London , 0111.

Bruce Reed, 'BB , recently completed a PhD in genetics at Cambridge University in England and is working at the Whiteheaclln­ stitute at MIT in Cambridge. Mass. In April 1992, he married Li z Mei ering, dau g hter of retired U of G e ng ineering professor Tony Meiering, in Bucholt, Germany .

Carolyn (Taylor), MA '85, and Chris Stewart, M.S c. 'B6, announce th e arrival of their fi rst child, Mich ae l David , on Au g. 26.

1992, in Guelph. Both geography graduates. she is a planner for the Niagara Esca rplnent Commiss ion and he works for EnvironlTlen t Canada at the Canada Centre for Inland Wate rs.

CPES

Scott Murray, '77, is a senior project manage r for DMR Group [nc o in Ollawa. He Jnd his wife , Judy, live in Kanata with their three daughters, Elizabeth. Jessica and Allison.

James Peters, '80, ha s been named tlirec tor of operating systems marketing for Tandem Compute rs Canada Limited in Markham, Ont..

Malawi orphans receive grad's help

A letter from Malawi brings us news of 1990 arts graduate lain Campbell and a poignant look at the fate of Malawi children or­ phaned by the AIDS virus.

A year after graduation, Campbell married Claudia Veldman, a Dutch nurse, and moved to Malawi to begin develo p­ ment projects for the Stephanos Foundation, a joint European and Canadian charitable organization operating in Africa. The couple now have a daughter, Sarah Louise, born in March 1992, and are adjust­ ing to their new environment.

"It was pretty rough at first get­ ting used to a totally different cul­ ture, being the only staff members here and not knowing anyone," Campbell says.

Since their arrival, they've helped establish a maize mill at Namisase. near the Mozambique border, and are planning a village for AIDS orphans to be built 24 Guelph Aluml1us

kilometres from Blantyre.

"The World Health Organization estimates that 30 per cent of Malawians are HIV positive or ac­ tually have AIDS, and we fully con­ cur with this as e menl," says Campbell. "Within the next eight years, there will be over 282,000 AIDS orphans in Malawi. Most have no means of support as the ex­ tended family is increasingly unable or unwilling to meet the needs of these children ."

The Malawi Ministry of Women's and Children 's Affairs and Community Services has ap­ proved the children's village, which will place orphans within a nuclear family. Five or six children will be cared for by a housemother, who may be a single mother, grand­ mother or other relative. Each fami­ ly will live in its own home within the village.

"This will remove some of the stigma of being an orphan and

living in a more institutional type of environment." Campbell says.

The co ncept was developed in the late 1940 by Austrian deve lo p­ ment workers. and there are now 64 children's villages in Europe and the Third Wo rld. Still . eac h project is a pioneering effort, he says, and advice is welcome from anyone with ex.pert ise and e xperie nce in child care or international deve lop­ ment. He also welcomes letters from classmates.

"I wrote to the Guelph Alumnlls because I tho ug ht some of myoid buddie m ight be interested to know what I'm doing. And I am keenly intere ted in what they are doing, so if my classmates reau this, don't hesi tate to write me," Campbell can be reached through the Stephanos Foundation, Box 2585, Blantyre, Malawi. or through the Canadian office for the o rphans' project at 8 Ch urch S t. , Springford, Ont. NOJ IXO.

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John Saiza, '89, writes with some good ild­ vice fo r job-hunting gradu ates - don ' t be afra id to relocate. Saiza spent his first year after graduation worki ng at a small chem ica l compiln y in Guelph and at Sleeman's Brewery and Malting Co. , but says he was "(1 bit down abo ut not having a chemistry­ re lated job of any signi ficance. " Fin all y, howeve r, one of his "feele r" resumes brought him a call from Du Pont Canada Inc., which had an opening for an analytical chemist at it s plant "east, east, east of Kingston, Ont.," in the town of Maitland.

Sa iza was one of three c8ndidates picked from hundreds of resumes to be interviewed fo r a job that had never been advertised. And he .Ianded it. "I'm enjoying the job, Du Pont is th e safest place I know to work and the peop le are family," he says. And the town is not ruu far east of Kingston, so he's planning to begin work on a master's degree at Queen's Universi ty.

Seng-Hua Tan, '82, is a sys tems anal ys t for the Cit y of Mi ssissauga , Ont. Hi s wife, La y­ Ken (C hon g), CSS '82, is a credi t assi stant with Paccm of Canada in Mississauga.

CSS

Andy Kissick, '82. married Bilrbaril Horton last September and they Iive in Port St. Lucie, Fl a. He is a financ iill analy st.

Grace Kon g, '87, writ es from Hong Kong to say he ll o to her U of G class lll<1! es and fr iend s. "Thank yo u fo r sendin g me the GI I('/ph A lu mnlls since I came back here from Ca nada . I am concerned abo ut all th e happenin gs in Gue lph. and every time I read th e Gu('lph A lu mnus, it rem ind s me of my bes t time in li fe ." She works fo r Oh Poong Indu str ial Company Limited in Kow loon.

Margaret Lambert, '89, works for the global corporate finance gro up at C itibank Canada in Toronto.

Judy (Zeiger) McKay, '83 , is a se ni or mana ge r in corporate finance at Pe::lt Mar­ wick Thorne in Toronto. She earn ed ::In MBA from McMaster Un ive rsit y in 1985 ;lIld a CA in 1986. She and her hu sba nd , Winfi eld , have one son, Winfie ld William , born Nov. ]. 199 1.

Table talk Some people say that beer, philosophy and Guelph grads olien go IOgel hcr. Bob Desautels might be Ihe fi rst t o agree, He'~ a 1975 HA FA graduate with a master's degree in philosophy and the creator of a ~uccessful chain of "Canad ian-style" pubs, He is president of Ne ighbourhood Pubs Inc. and employs ,ix other HAFA grads Ihroughout Ontario.

Tim Smith and Phil Reid, ' R9, and Frank Smyslo, 'l) I , are all part of the company's mtloagement team; Kendra Johnson, '91, manages the Peterborough AI11)S pub: Scott J a rrett, '92, runs the Bow and Arrow in Toronto; tlnd Sandy

Atanasoff, '92 and CSS '90, will operate a soon-to-be-opened pu b in KingMon. Neighbourhood Pubs began in Guelph at the Woolwich Anns when Desautels was teac hi ng at HAFA. He introduced the idea of a local pub that serves locally brewed beer and wine from small Ontario winemakers. The pubs' restaurants fea­ tu re ind igenous Canadi an fa re and cheeses from small Ontario chcesemakers, Not surprisingly, the Neighbourhood seven often find themselves «liking to othe r Guel ph grads when they phone in orders for beer, wine, cheese, maple syrup and, yes, sometime ' buffalo.

Dirk Morrison, '85, completed an M.Sc. in rural extens io n stud ies in 1992. He and hi s wife, Carole Anne (Duhaime), CSS '92, are living in Saskatoon. where he is an instruc­ ti onal designer with the extens ion divi sion of the University of Saskatchewan.

Marion Olmsted, MA '8 1, and Ted Guloien, MA '83. live in Toronto, where he is a management/marketing consultant and she is a psychologist at Toronto General Hospital. Their daughter, Sydney , is three and their son, Harry, is one.

John Styffe, ' 78, has moved to Switzerland with his wife and two chi Idren to opm a trade and consulting business and woul d like to hear from fellow grads at Staire Corp ..

Weberstrasse 8, Z8 - 8800 Thalwil , Switzer­ land. Telephone/fax: 0 I I 4 j I 722 1870.

Greg "Joe" Tarry, '76 and M.Sc. ' 79. is the fat her of six and principal ofTak la Hi gh School in Takla Landing, B.c' He writes to say he has fond memories of hi s stud ent da ys at UofG .

Mac-FACS Jud y Dufour, HAFA '89, has been with Hil­ ton Internati onal Hotels for more than three yea rs and is now national sales manager. wo rki ng out of Toronto. She says that whereve r she tra vels. she takes along great memories of U of G. Joyce (Purney) Jones, HAFA '88, 11as been work ing at th e Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper, Alta., but she and her anthropologist hu sband , Alan , "will be returning to the blue highw::lYs of America in May. We plan to tour rhe United States and Mexico to check out the soc ial atmospheres of small American townsh ips. Wish our travelling van good luck."

Patricia, Mac '68, and Peter Lue, OAC '65 and M.S c. '66, live in Mi ami, Fla. , where they ope rate th e company Sc ient ific Supplies an d Tec hnology .

Janne Mellow, '89, has a new job with Campbell Soup Company in Toronto as a consumer comm uni ca tions spec ialist. She says she ' d lo ve to hea r from olel friend s.

Louise Sylvestre-Paterson, '89, recentl y moved from Guelph to Kanata , On t. , where she operates a before- and aft er-school da y­ ca re program at the loca l French sc hool ­ and loves it!

OAC

Fmm h:f1 are Phil Reid, Santiy AlClllusoff, Frallk Smyslo, SCO/l Jarrett. Tim Smith, Kelldra Jvh"soll alld Bob De,lOlIIels.

Photo by Rod Corbell

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Orville J3ondoc, PhD '9 1, is an ass istant professor in the anima l- breedin g divi sion of the Inst itute of Animal Sc ience at UP Los Banos Col lege in the Philippines. He sends his regards to fac ult y, staff and stud ents of th e Cen tl'e for th e Genetic Improve ment of Livestock. " I always cheri sh th e kindn ess, hospi tality and financial help they offered me during my entire stay in Gue lph. " Clle/pItA/IIJJlJlII.,

GRAD NEWS Fred Boyce, '73. moved from Edmonton to the Ottawa area in the fall of 1991 and is emp loyed by Agriculture Canada in the gra in marketing bureau of th e grains <lnd oi lseeds branch. He and his family live in Kanata.

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KNOW BETTER HOW

Nicholas Clements, '84, of Silver Spring, Md. , will be enjoyi ng Washington's cherry blossoms this spring with renewed interest.

He and his brother recently sta rted a landsc apin g compa ny, Pan ora mic Land scape Services, to serve the W as hington and Bal­ timore areas. Previously, Clements was a senior specialist with Maryland's Che mlawn Services Corp. for almost eight years.

TO GIVE YOUR

ILY

Janet (Brown) Cringle, '85, liv es in New­ cas tl e, Ont., with he r hu sband, John, and their two children: Jerem y, 3; and Kati e, 2.

Describing herself as a "dom icile manager" who enJoys trad itional ski ll s like bread baking, she says she 'd like to hear from former class mate s.

GREAT RATES"'?

Larry Dickenson, ' 68 , is now se rv ing Canada as ambassador to Ind o nesia. During an official visit to South Sulawesi. he and his wife, Margaret (Boyko), Mac '68, met wi th three Guelph graduates who are working on the Sula wes i Regional Development Project.

U of G is the Canadian implementing agency for the prOJect, which is funded by the Canadian International Deve lopme nt Agen­ cy. John Duff, '73 and M.Sc . '76, is deputy field director for the project; George Bestari, '82 and M.Sc. '90, is devel opment planning co-ordinator; and Gabriele Ferrazi, USRP D '85, is trainin g co-ordi­ nator. Dickenson ha s been in public se rvice since graduation and has served in Vienna, Be lgrade , Mos cow , Brussels, Cairo, Seoul and , most rece ntly, in Kuwait, where he was ambassador from 1988 to 1992.

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Dwight Ferris, '90, is study ing medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. Sean Forestell, '86 (Eng.), moved on from Gu elp h to the University of Calga ry, where he ea rn ed a master 's in chemica l e ngin eeri ng in 1988 and a PhD in 1992. Last fall, he moved to Austria to work at the Laboratory for Somatic Ge ne Therapy a t the Vi enna In­ te rnational Research Co-operation Centre.

He is part of a team trying to deve lop a gene therapy aga inst th e HIV v irus , using rev tran s-dormant mutant s or T AR decors. "Our thru st is both academic and commercial, given our affiliation with the Uni ve rs it y of Vienna and large drug companies," he says.

Barry Irvine, '51 and MSA '57, retired last year from the University of Manitoba, where he was a professor of botany.

John Johnston, '70 (Eng.) and M.Sc. '72, was appo inted general manager and secre ta ry of the Farm Produc ts Appeal Tribunal last fall by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF). John ston worked as a hydrologic e ngi neer with the Department of the Environment afte r gradua­ tion. He then joined OMAF, work in g as a drain age e ngineer, manager of ag ricultural drainage and , since 1983, as se nior man ager in the resource s management branch.

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GRAD NEWS

"I'll meet you at the cannon."

Guelph students and campus visitors have been meeting at the cannon since the late 1870s. Originally an instrument of war, Old Jeremiah is more often a quiet reminder of happy times spent at the University.

The cannon is one of the earliest childhood memOl;es of Ernest Kendall, OAC '32.

He sent the Guelph Alumnus a picture of his brother, John. taken about 19 I 2, when the cannon graced a large display of annuals on Johnston Green. "I wish you could have seen those flower beds," he writes.

"Our introduction to the cannon was when we boys ­ Ernest and John Kendall, AIr Hales,OAC '31 and '34.

Don Buchanan, OAC '35.

John Harcourt, OAC '34.

Sid Simmons, OAC '32.

Walter Hill. Roy Hammond and Harold Parker - were taken by our babysillers day after day to the campus. The babysilters would sit under a tree to read and the cannon would Oq;upy us for the next hOllr at least.

"It was wonderful to climb the wooden steps of the carriage, swing ourselves over the glossy sides of the barrel and edge up the smooth sides to the end, where we would bend over the mouth and listen to the roar of battle in the faraway Crimea.

"When the war came along, we no longer needed babysillers and our imaginations ran wild. By now we felt we owned the old girl and she was the secret weapon by which we could defend all of Canada . The destruction we wreaked on the Huns was awesome.

"I don't think any of us ever returned to the col­ lege on the hill without first visit­ ing the cannon . It was a tragedy when they tried to render her useless by choking her with cement. But what hurt the worst was to see her disfigured with hideous paint in a so-called prank.

"We grew up with the cannon as a common bond.

When war broke out, five of us served in the Amlcd Forces; the others had impor­ tant places in the war effort. Five graduated from OAC. The cannon is still a bright spot in our memories of growing up and studying ill Guelph."

Another romantic tale comes from Beth Burrows and David Van Vliet, both CPES '91 (pictured at right). who met on campus and returned to Branion Plaza last summer for their wedding photos.

Classmates Brenda Burrows and Mark Rabb and Jamie Aalders, OAC '92, were attendants at the wedding and may have helped turn Old Jeremiah into a love note on more than one occasion.

Burrows and Van Vliet arc now living in Fergus, On!. She is a project engineer with RJ . Burnside and Associates Ltd. in Orangeville and he recently joined CH2M Hill Engineering Ltd. in Waterloo, after completing a master's degree at the Ulliver~ity of Waterloo.

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John Kelso, '67 and M.Sc. '69, recently returned to Canada after a one-year career­ development placement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in New Zealand.

He's now back to work with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sault Ste. Marie and plans to build a house on a 40-ac re par­ cel of land near the Sault.

Desmond Layne, '86 , began his horticul­ tural studies at Guelph , then went on to earn master ' s and PhD degrees at Michigan State University. He is now a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service at the Forest Sciences Laboratory in Rhinelander, Wisc.

He and his wife , Cheryl. have two sons , Stephen and Michael.

Bernice Mills, M.Sc. ' 80 and PhD '83, is vice-president of re search and development for Dynamark Management Corp. in Montreal. She al so holds an MBA from Con­ cordia University.

Kwadwo Opare, M.Sc. '69, was honored recently by the Sudanese government for hi s II years of service to Sudan while stationed there as a repre sentative of the Food and Agriculture Organi zation (FAO) of the United Nation s. The prestigiou s Order of the Two Niles is conferred only on people who have made major contributions to Sudan.

Now stationed in Kenya , Opare joined the FAO after teaching agriculture at the Univer­ sity of Ghana. Hi s wife, Akosua (Osei), FACS M.Sc. '76, al so taught at the univer­ sity - in the field of home science. Initially sent to Yambio in southern Sudan as FAO project manager, Opare later served as prin­ cipal of the Yambio Institute of Agriculture.

Eventually , he was appointed de puty FAO representative in Juba to develop programs and monitor all FAO programs in the southern states of Equatoria, Upper Nile and Bahr-EI Gha zal.

Most recently, Opare worked to provide seeds, farm tools, vaccines and animal drugs to the drought- and war-torn areas of western Sudan . Because there is no Ghana embassy in Sudan , he also voluntarily helped his fel­ low Ghanaians in the country.

Patrick Rogers, OAC ' 72, CBS '75 , M.Sc. and PhD '79 , writes to say he and his wife, Poppit, finally got the ir fill of moving house around the world and have settled in France.

He is a freelance wildlife ecologi st and repre­ se nt s an international labor contractor. sup­ plying low-cost skilled labor to construction sites in countries where it is in short supply.

The couple al so have a holiday cottage they rent out in the south of France. He passes on this address for the benefit of classmates: Mas d' Auphan, Le Sambus, 13200 Aries , France, telephone 90972041, fax 90972087.

Don Shields, '50, recently retired for the third time and says: " I think I've got it right this time." Formerly president of Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, he retired from that position and began a world tour, only to end up back in education as director of the Dubai Women' s College in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. After two Guelph Alumllus

GRAD NEWS years there , he took on a five-month project in Borneo with a college in Kota Kinabalu.

That project now completed, he is retired again and back at home in Etobi coke, Ont. Leslie Taylor, '73, was re -e lected mayor of Banff, Alta., las t fa ll.

Lisa ter Woort , '85A and CSS ' 89, is work­ ing in Thail and as an agricullural resea rcher for the Thai government. In her two- year CUSO placeme nt , she works wilh ca ttle/crop integ ration and, in her spare time, can be found cruis ing th e back road s of southern Thailand on her motorbike . Guelph grads visitin g Phatthalung are in v ited to call.

Michael Trant, M .Sc. '76, is working with th e FAO in Rome while on a two- year leav e from hi s job as head of the crops section at Stati stics Canada's agricultural division in Ottawa.

Lee Whittington, '79, is an information of­ ficer with the newly fo rmed Prairie Swine Ce ntre Inc. in Saskatoon , the largest swi ne re search facility in Canada. He is responsible for tec hnology transfe r to the Canadian swine industry. He s pen t the last 13 years in Ontario with the Shur-Gain division o f Maple Leaf Food s Inc., mos t rece ntly as a swine nutritioni st. Hi s wife , Grace (Bird), FACS '77, operates "Whittington's Choco­ late Treasures" fro m their new home. In On­ tario, she worked for 1 I years as a home

economist and rural organization s peciali st with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. She a lso earned an ed ucation degree from th e Uni ve rs ity of Western Ontario and taughl hom e economics in Woodstoc k.

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Gary Landsberg, '76 and CPS '72, is a busy veterinarian. He maintains a companion animal practice at th e Doncaste r Animal Clinic in Thornhill, Ont. , hos ts a "Pet Doc­ tor" radio show fo r Toronto 's CFRB - he ' s on the air each Saturday at 4 p.m. at 10 lOon th e AM dial - and is the new ly elec ted pres ident of the American Ve terinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB). He is the first C anadian to serve on the A VSAB ex ec utive .

Len Lobsinger, ' 34A and OVC '38 , and hi s wife , Jean, celebrated th e ir 50th wedding an­ nivers ary las l fall with an ope n house and dance atte nded by many family me mbers and frie nds. From Iheir home in Sarnia, Onl., Jean wriles Ih al " Len is also celebrating hi s 851h birthday , while I am nOI far behind. " Clayton MacKay, '70, became med ical director of OVC' s Velerinary T eac hin g Hospital in January. He has maintained a pri va te prac tice in Whitby, Onl., since

graduation and ha s served as presi dent of th e Ontario Veterinary Association a nd the Society of Ontario Veterinarians, as well as se cretary of the American Animal Hos pital Association.

Kirsten Ness, ' 91. and Derek Zakaib, '84 and CBS '80, were married last Feb ruary in Jamaica after a se ven-month courtship and two-day en gage ment. They me t in Kingston , On!., in 1991 when Zakaib was doin g a sum­ mer locum at the Kingston Ve terinary Clinic , where Ness is a small anim a l pra c­ titione r. Zakaib continues to do locums.

Andrea Pang, '92 , and Anthony Yu, '90, were married last June and hav e moved to Auburn, Ala., where he is a dermatologi st in th e small animal clinic at Auburn University'S College of Vete rinary Medicine and she is doin g a small a nimal inte rnship. [an Taylor, '43, ha s a unique souvenir from the admini stration of former U.S. Pres ident George Bush: a le tte r of commendation for his community se rvice in Wheeling, 111., and hi s work with Lions Club Interna tional.

Ret ired from his 32-year small anim a l prac­ ti ce , Ta ylor has 33 years of perfect atten­ dance with the Lions and has altended meeting s in 57 countri es . No wonder he was na med good will ambassador and inte rnation­ a l relation s chair by Whee ling Li o ns and th at the Tow n of Wheeling ce lebrates Ian Taylor Day to recognize its official ambassador.

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The fo llowin g dea th s have been reported sin ce the last iss ue of the Guelph Alumnus.

Full. notices, which a re usually submitted by family o r classmates , may appear in tbi s issue o r in a later one.

John Andrews, Arts '7 3, Dec. 20, 1992.

Charles Ashton, OAC '37, Jan. 3 l , 1993.

Carl Atwood, OAC M.Sc. '33, Jan . 5, 1993.

George Bannister, OvC '3 9, Nov . 19, 1992.

Greta (Heath) Bailey, Mac '27, Jan . II , 1993.

Syl via (Cassolato) Basso, AIlS '70, Feb. 8, 1993.

John Black, OAC '40, Jan. 3, 1993.

Emily (Schryer) Blue, Mac '08, May 17,1 992.

Will.iam Broadworth, OAC '63, Fe b. 4, 1993.

Lewis Briggs, OAC '32, Jan. 14 , 1993.

Carl Clark, OvC '48, Marc h 3, 1992.

Ru ssellClark,OAC '36, Ocl. 19, 1991.

Glenn Collacutt, O v C ' 29, Jan. 13, 1993.

Joan (Ansley ) Cooke, Mac' 120, Nov. 5, 1992.

Alice (Howell) Dearing, Mac '370,

Nov. 23, 1992.

Mary Ferguson, Mac '69 and M.Sc. '82,

May 5, 1992.

Dorothy (Fraser) Fox, Mac '290 , Oct. 18. 1992.

Leslie Gray, OAC '23, June 13, 1992.

Murray Haigh, BLA '7 1, Jan. 26, 1993.

George Harrison, OvC 'SO, Nov. 23, 1992.

June (Bailey) Holmes, Frie nd of Mac '54, Jan uary 1992.

George Kidd , OAC '36A and '39, Dec. 12, 1992.

Dorothy Luney, Ma c '4 1, March 2, 1993.

William McClung, OAC 'SO, Nov. II , 1991.

William McKellar, OvC '49 , Dec. 13, 1. 992.

John Munro, OAC '40, Dec. 4, 1992.

Jeanne (Levitt) Murphy, Ma c '41, Jan. 8, 1993 .

Mary (Keeling) Nicholson, Mac '34 , August 1992.

Marion (Wilson) Oller head , Mac '38, No v.9. 1992.

Clarence Plested, OAC ' 37, Nov. 16, 1992.

Roy Pugh, OAC '26, Oct. 26, 1992.

Edward Rigby, OvC '32. Jan. 20, 1993.

Alexander Robertson, OvC ' SO, Oc t. 7, 1992.

Marie (Pursley) Scheurman , Mac '480 , Nov . 5, 1992.

Edmund Sercombe, OAC '48, Sept. 16, 1992 Raymond Shreenan, OvC 'SO, Nov . II , 1992.

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Florine (Combes) Sinden, Mac '4 1, Dec. 23, 199 1.

Mervyn Small, OAC '49, Ocl. 23, 1992.

Lochie Smylie, OAC '55, Oct. 7, 1992 .

Ivan Sparling, Ov C '43 and OAC ' 37 , Jan. 7, 1993.

Honor (Foster) Stanley, Mac '37 0 , Oct. 6,1992.

Bella (Waugh) Stewart, Ma c '36, May 4 , 1992.

Brian Stuart, Arts '80, Dec. 22, 1992.

Frank Tarte, OAC M.Sc. '74, March II. 1992.

Helen (Lattimer) Taylor, Mac '28, Jan. I, 1993.

Terry Topolie, HAFA '74, Sept. II , 1992.

Judith (Bowler) Unrau, FACS '87, Marc h 1992.

John Webster, O AC '25 , in 199 I. Denis Wharton, OAC '24, Oct. 25, 1992 .

Antonio Wintersinger, AIlS '70 , Jan . 25 , 1993.

CPES

Peter McMullen, '76, di ed of leukemia Nov. I 1,1992, in Guelph. He was th e direc ­ tor of Computing and Information Services at U ofG , past cha ir of the Ducks U nl im ited Guelph Committee and a voluntee r w ith the Guelph Y outh Soccer Club. He is s urvived by hi s w ife , Mary Jane (Cull.iton), Art s '74 , a nd tw o daughters , Sarah a nd Becky. A tree wi ll be planted in the Wal!-Custance Me morial Fores t at the Arboret um in his memory.

Mark Seton, '9 1, died suddenly Aug. 9, 1992, in Ca mbridge, Ont. He had just fini s hed his second year in pharmaceutical studies at the Universi ty of Briti s h Columbia a nd is survived by his parents, Walter and Elke, a nd one brother, David.

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Norman Walford , '69 , died Dec. IS , 1992, in T oro nto. He served as exec utiv e director of the Ontario Arts Co uncil from 1989 until last October. when he retired becau se of ill­ ness. He was former ly ad mini strativ e c hie f of the Art Gall e ry of Ontario. He is s urvived by his compa ni o n, Paul de He uc k, o ne bro th er, Lyn, and a siste r, Joan .

Mac-FACS Katherine Beck, '22, died Ja n. 2, 1992, in Guelph. A life member of the Mac-FACS Alumni Associa tion, she was a di etitia n at Creelman Hall for 38 years and friend to all.

the stude nts who attended OAC , Mac and Ov C during that time. She re tired in 1965.

Ruth (S teele) Landon, '35, died in Simcoe, Ont. , Nov. 29,1992. S he and her hu s band , Robert, OAC '35 , operated Landon 's Nurs­ e ry in Simcoe fro m 1937 to 1990. A life me mber of th e Mac -FACS Alumni Associa­ tion , s he is surviv ed by her hu s band and two children, Barbara Bennett and Da v id.

Elizabeth Park- Wolfe, '79, d ied in Toronto Nov. 16, 1992. Her career began with th e Hud son Bay Compan y in 1980. She moved to Holt Renfrew in 1986 and was vice-pres i­ dent of sal es promotion and mark e tin g at the time of her dea th. She is s urvived by her husband. John, CBS '76. Frie nd s may donate to the Beth Park Scho lars hip Fund in care of Nancy Moore , Sa les and Promotion, Holt Renfre w & Co. L td., SO Bloor SI. W ., Toronto, Ont. M4W 3 L8.

Jean Wallace, M. Sc. '80 , died July 27 , 1992. in Ottawa. She grad uated from McGi ll University in home economics in 1967 a nd from the Royal Canadian A ir Force co m­ mand a nd s taff college in 1986. Her military career spa nned 25 yea rs and incl ud ed a tour wit h th e United Na ti ons in Egypt and va rious positi o ns across Ca nada. She was respo nsibl e for introduc ing cook/ fr eeze tech­ nology into th e mi litary food serv ic es sys­ tem. Ju st befo re her death , s he was named direc tor of food services.

Olive Wallace, '30, died Jan. 6, 1993, in Gu e lph. As we ll as her dip loma from Mac­ do nald Insti tute, s he receive d a teaching dip loma From the Toronto Normal Sc hoo l and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cornell Universi ty. S he taught publ ic sc hool, worked as a di e ti tian and served as s upe rintendent of Sherbourne House Club . S he w ill be remem­ bered by a lumni as an associa te professor of in stitutional ma nagement at Macdo na ld In­ stitute from t 95 I to 1968. She establi s hed se veral courses, including an extens ion course in hospita l food service s uperv isio n for th e Canadia n Hosp ital Associa tion , an d was a member of the HAFA sc holarship and cur ri c ulum planning committees.

Afte r ret iring from Guelph , Prof. Wallace lect ured at the Centra li a College of Agri c ul­ tural Techno logy and at the Doon campus of Conestoga College. A past preside nt of the Mac-FA CS Alum ni Association aDd an ac­ ti ve me mber of her c lass executive, s he was named Alumn us of Honour by th e UGAA in 1974. S he is survived by two brothers, Almer and Ivan, and one sis te r, Enid Sch ultze.

Janet (Stubbs) Welwood, '75 , of Parry Sound, Ont., died Oct. 10, 1992, as the res ult of an a uto accide nt. An elemen tary teacher for 16 years, she is s urvived by her husband, John, Arts '75, and two sons, David and Jamie.

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Harold Goble, '31, died March I, 1993, in Guelph. After complet ing an M.Sc. at Iowa State Univ ersity in 1933, he returned to OAC and taught economic entomol ogy for almost 40 years. Author of many scie ntific papers and bulletins on the biology and con­ trol of ins ec t pests, he was an adv ise r on in­ sect problems to Ontarians of all walk s of life. He retired from th e en tomology depart ­ ment in 1973 an d was named professor emeritus in 1974. He is survived b y his wife, Jean , a da ughter, ,Judy Palmer, Mac ' 62, and her husband , Nigel, OVC '63, and a so n, Robert, OAC '68, and his wife, Susan.

Morris Huff, '63, died Nov. 12, 1992, in Clare mont , Ont. In 1964, he joined th e Canada Departm ent of Agriculture in the farm economics and statistic s branch. He moved to the Ontario Mini stry of Agri c ul­ ture and Food in 1968 as sec retary to the On ­ tario Food Counci 1 and market deve lopm e nt speciali st. He also served as exec utiv e assis­ tant to the ministe r of agri cu lture and food and he ld positions in th e c rop insurance and policies and programs branches. He is sur­ vived by his wife, She ila , three childre n, Ian, Richard and Cheryl, and two stepchi I.dren , Laura a nd Nan c y Adam s.

Norman Hunt, '60A, of Fergu s, Ont. , died Feb. 2, 1993, as the result of an auto acci­ dent. Before moving to Fe rgus , he had a law practice in Stratford. He is survived by hi s wife, Gail (Lehrbass), Mac '60, and on e so n, Ja so n.

George McCague, '28, of Listowel , Ont., died Feb. 14, 1993.

One of the pion ee rs of farm marketing boards in Ontario, he began his career as an agricul­ tural re presentative for Huron County, then we nt on to become chair of the United Dairy an d Poultry Co­ operative, now known Georg e McCague as Gay Lea Foods.

After five years at the Harris ton plant, he turned to fannin g, but began an othe r career in th e Ontario public se rvice in 1959. He was ch air of the Ontario Milk Commiss ion and later the Ontario Publi c Stock ya rds Boa rd until hi s retirement in 1973. He th en ran a beef ope ration in Port Elgin. He is s ur­ vived by hi s daughter , Mary Horner, and three so ns, Dona ld, Mic hael and Douglas.

Gordon Peacey, ' 36A and '38, died Oct. 4, 1992, in Peterborough, Ont. He worked at Wind sor Utiliti es until joining the RCAF durin g the Second World War. Afte r the war, he re turned to th e hydro division of Windsor Utilities, whe re he re mained until his retirement in 1979. He was an honorary life member of Legion Branch #255 River­ side in Windsor. In retirement , he mov ed to Lakefi eld, where he continu ed legion acGuelph Alumnus

ti vities and wa s a membe r of th e Inde­ pendent Orde r of Foresters. He is s urvi ved by hi s wife , Frances , and their six c hildre n.

ra il way, but in her spare time, was an avid member of the By town Railw ay Society. She is survived by her brother, Robert.

Harvey Pettit, ' 32 and M.Sc.(Agr.) '49, di ed Jan. 20, 1993, in Guelph. He joined the OAC faculty in 1940 as a poultry resea rch specialist and ret ired in 1975. A life member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation, he was the first chair of Alumni-in-Action and started the group's oral hi story project. He was also Alma Mater Fund c lass agent for severa l years, wa s a me mber of the Pres ide nt's Cou nc il and rei nstated the annual Florida a lumni picnic. An ac tive me mber of the Guelph-Wellington Men' s Club, he is sur­ viv ed by his wife, Elsie (Hume) , Mac '34, one daught er, Jane Holland, Mac '67 , and her hu sb'iJ1d, Rudy , and one son, John, OAC ' 63 , and hi s wife, Rev. Barbara (Mason ), M ac ' 63. A tree will be planted in his memory in the Wall-Custance Mem o rial Forest at the Arboretum.

Gerald Walker, '33,di ed Nov. 13, 1992 , in Thornhill, Ont. He came to OAC from Scot­ land and , afte r g radua tion , managed a he rd of Guern sey cattle. In 1939, he joined the Canadian Armed Forces a nd sa w ac tive duty in North Africa and throughout northwes te rn Europe. He wa s awarded a me mbership in the Order of th e British Empire. Afte r the war, he joined the li ves tock branc h of th e On­ tario Department of Agriculture and remained there until 1948. w hen he le ft to man age Eaton Hill Farm near Toronto. He is surv ived by hi s wife, Frances, two so ns , Robin and Willi am , and a daughter, Jane .

.l.W, "Jim" Sinclair, ' 49, of SaubJe Beach, Ont., died Aug. 16, 199 1. Hi s career in th e che mica l industry took him to Norw ic h, Hamilton. Woodstock and London , Ont., as we ll as to Montreal. In eac h community, he played an ac tive rol e in the Lion's Club, the United C hurch and professional organiza­ ti ons s uch as th e IAPA and the Chemical In­ stitut e of Canada. Aft e r 34 years wi th C-I -L, he retired wi th hi s wife, Betty, in 1985. He is s urviv ed by hi s wife and four sons - Brad, Bl air, Jay and Je ff.

Howard Trueman , '2 1, died Nov. 27, 1992, in Hamilton , Ont. He was a n ag ricultural rep­ resenta tive in Woodstoc k an d Kemptville with the Ontario Departme nt of Agriculture and chief personnel officer for Agriculture Canada in Ottawa before becomin g exec u­ tive director of the Can adia n Freedom for Hunger Foundation in 1963. He received a n ho norary degree from St. Francis Xavi e r Universi ty and was a fellow of the Agricul­ tura l In stitute of Canada, the Am e rican As­ soc iation for the Adv a nceme nt of Science and th e Royal Geograph ical Society. He served on the board o f publications of the Unit ed Church of Canada and on the ed itorial comm ittee of the Canadian Geographical Society j ournal. He is s ur­ vived by his son, John.

Helen Tucker, '65 (E ng.), died of cancer in Orlean s, Ont., Feb. 12, 1993. A fter gradua­ tion , s he earn ed a B.A.Sc. in engineering from the University of Toronto and an M .Sc. from Ca rleton Uni vers ity. She had been e mploy ed by th e Nation a l Research Council in Ottawa for 25 years, mos t rec en tl y as se nior research officer. She s pent much of he r career solving problems for the mode rn

Herbert Warren, '29 , die d Oct. 17, 1992, in Victoria, B.C. As cit y parks admini strator from 1930 to 1970 , he helped build Victoria 's reputation as th e c it y of garde ns.

He wa s horticultural cons ultant to Butchart Garde ns from 1970 to 1985, a kee n out­ doorsman a nd an honorary life member of numerou s profess ional organiza tion s. He is survi ved by hi s children , John and Art hur, Louise Goldin g and Jea n Blundell.

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Cecil Doidge, '59, died Oct. 28, 1992, in Saska too n. He s pent most of his veteri nary caree r at the U nivers ity of Saskatchewan ' 5 Western Col lege of Ve terinary Medicine, achieving an internat ional re putation in mus­ cul oskele tal research. In 1985, he wa s named univ ers ity ma ste r teach e r. He is s urvi ved by hi s wife , Clara, and four sons - Blair, Gary , Rand al and Ian .

Norman McAninch, '39, died Nov. 27, 1992 , in Gu e lph. A me mber of the OVC fac ult y until hi s re tirement in 1988, he served on th e University ' s George Morris Celllre committee. He wa s a life member and form er direc tor of th e OVC A lumni Assoc ia­ tion and was Alma Mate r Fund class age nt for 13 years. He is survived by hi s wife, Mae , three d aughters, Ca ron C hilton, Arts ' 87, Cath erine Moi se and Jul ia, and two so ns, Bryan and Murray.

Melvin Poland, ' 44 , di ed Oct. 29, 1992, in Brantford , Ont. He practised in New Zea land fro m 1944 to 1948, then moved to Pa ris, Ont. , where he built a vete rinary cli ni c . He ret ired in 1984. A membe r of th e Canadian a nd Ontario Veterinary medical associations , many co mmunit y o rgani za tions and the OVC Alumni Association , he is survi ved by hi s wife, Marie, and the ir children, Anne Mogensen, Bruce ancl Carol, OVC '90.

Donations given in memory of the above alumni will help support scholarships at the Uni versity otGuelph it direct ed to the Alumni Memorial Fund. In 1992 , donations were made in memory of" Bert Foyston, OAC ' 15; William Parkinson, OAC '64

Jacqueline (Roy) Pote, Mac '34D, Michael Tompkins, Art s '90

Helen (Bates) West, Mac '30D

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-

A moment in time

by David Waltner-Toews "If you do not know how to die, never.trouble yourself; nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she willex- . actly do that business for you, take you no care for it." Montaign(' Through a room of nineteenth-century

marbles, two lofty rows of solid bodies,

poised likea gauntlet of choices

in the monumental cool stillness,

1 walk, pondering:

which would 1 prefer,

the sudden oblivion of a collision

the lingering death of a body

reclaimed by nature, cell by cell,

or this, like Lot's wife,

foreve r held in one pure, timeless moment.

And if 1could choose,

which moment? What is my final pose

without repose')

The sensuous hauteur of a young girl,

the wistful, arm-laden mother,

the rebellious man bent over, hands wrenched

against ropes at his back,

the hero ic warrior, blade raised, cocky. as crabgrass?

All are equally well-muscled, smooth

to touch, forever strong.

Pick your moment, your pose,

then look, there's Gomorrah

and for you, no tomorrow.

I pause, indecisive in this vault

of dis tilled discomfited time.

1 see people in mid-stride, mid-struggle, mid-sentence,

pushing against the stone, eager for life

too soon in death. They await a whistle ,

a kiss, or at least more visitors:

they couldn't let all hell break loose

with just me here. An audience is called for,

fleeing in screams

from th e miraculous bursting stone.

Some day all hell will break loose,

a me teoric collision maybe, or more likely

a frustrated general, or, most likely ,

just more of the same old acid rain, nucleotech,

technofix, biotech , the chronic exhaustion of progress

. into oblivion.

These smug statues will stiJl be here

gathering dust, with me, perhaps, among them.

Unable to decide

which pose is exactly right

I will be caught one day , stupidl y, off guard,

stealing candy from my daughter 's Halloween bag.

at the Ny Carlberg Museum,

Copenhagen, August 1988, rev ised May 1992, Guelph

(Reprinted with permission of the author.)

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About the poet:

Not many writers can fill a book with musings about vomiting. diarrhea and death and still leave their readers laughing. One who can is Prof. David

Waltner-Toews, avc PhD '85. A M0111(,1ll in Time comes from his most recent book, Food , Sex and Salmonella, a collec足 tion of essays dealing with David Waltner-Toews the intimaterelationship between our bodies and the environment that provides our food.

Originally from Winnipeg, Waltner-Toews inter足 rupted his education to hitchhike through Europe and Asia. He worked with the Mennonite Central Committee as a volunteer in rural India. Then he earned degrees in English and veterinary mediciile ancl a PhD in epidemiology. Teaching at Gue lph since 1987, his specialty is the epidemiology of zoonoses and food-borne di sease.

The author of four books of poetJ"Y and numerous short stories and essays, Waltner-Toews isabo known for his witty columns in Harrowsmith magazine.

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