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December 1996 Editor Mary Dickieson Executive editor Sancira Websler, BA '7."> Contributors Barbara Chance, B A '74 Li sa Lisle O wen Robe n> Design /production Chris B r>l'adjian, B A '79 Mary Dl ckieson Linda Graham. BA '77 KIMi K alkmall , B.S c. '79 Bill Whitehead Editorial Advisory Board Mal)1 Dickl e:;o n, chair Susan Bl ai r, BA '83 Guu s Ha za laar, BA '76 Klmi Kalkll1all , B.Sc. '79 Sheila L evak, B.C0I11111 . ' ~l Delli s Lynn, B.Sc. '69 Cr),stal MacKCl)" B.Sc.( Agr. )

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2<),010. 1. Copyri ghl 1996. Publica­ li on dales arc M Cl Y I, Sept. l aud Dec. l.

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Take time to hear the stories Writing rhis ieller is something I ha ve wanted to do for some rime. I want to tell yo u how a da y out of my life was so ri chl y reward ed by four now­ deceased graduates ofOAC: Kea n Deacon, BSA ' 30; Foreman Lawrence , BSA '43; Don Kenned y, BSA '33; and Lyma n Chapman , BSA '30.

I was asked to attend the alumni curl ing bonspiel in spring 1988 with these four men. Kean, Foreman, Don and [ mer early Saturday morning and drove to Guelph. Lyman, our fifth and cheer­ ing section , met us there. What a day I I heard so many stories about their lives and experiences.

They told of travelling by train through the 110rth­ em United States and ou r ro Wes tern Canada to show their cattle, They ra id abo ut their early teach­ ing experiences, They to ld about rhe ir farm~ , their methods, the ir love fo r the land and their families, As for the curling, we came second , missing the troph y by a small margin. I would have given an y­ thin g that da y to win fo r them, I ha ve never curled with such fierce com petitors. They were there to win , bu t when it was over, it was over. I realized later that al though they had not wo n the trophy for cu rling that day, they had won the Big Bonspiel of Life.

I wish I co uld share with yo u more details of that ciay, but what I can share with you is the sugges­ tion that you take the time to spend with peopl e who have been there and done that. There are but a few da ys that stand out in one's life. That day was one of mine, Bob GI'aham, ADA '68 Unionville,Ont.

A writer's thank you I wish to th ank yo u most sincerely for the generous pri ze awarded to me for my entry in the Gu elph Aluml1uslScotiaMcLeod writing competit ion, I con­ sider it a grea t honor, as wei I as an insp iration. My essay will be a chapter in my forthcoming book, Alhlele's FOOl OJ' How I Failed al Sports, Winning the award has convi nced me that at least one chap­ ter shou Id be a success I Also, congratulations on the obvious succ ess of the competition, which I hope has become a fixture on the Canadia n writing scene. You are giving Ca­ nadian writers an excell en t opportun ity, so pl ease don ' t stop!

Bob Nielsen, MA '7 1 Waterdown, Ont.

Remembering a volunteer This note accompanies a donation to the Alma Ma­ ter Fund in the name of Cam MacK ay, DVM '50 .

We all admire and respect those who rise and strive to keep logical order and harmony within 4

groups, es pecia ll y at tumu ltuous moments or when surrounded by an appa rent atm osphere of apathy, Without those peo ple, this wo rld would be in an eve n greater state of confusion , They are not al­ ways on an ego trip, and they get so little in the way of rewa rd. Their in fluence radiates fro m eve n the smallest circle into the larger group and eventu­ ally on to nati onal propo rtions.

As I read Cam's ob itu ary. I re lated him to that type of perso n, We need them so greatly, and they shouldn' t leave us so soon, A speci al kind of class ­ mate was taken that day, Geoff Rourke , DVM '50 Inciianapo li s, Ind.

Rare opportunity missed I just need to express m)' disappointment abou t the September reponing of the 25th-ann iversary class reunion for the 197 1 c lass, As someo ne who could 1101 attend the reunion, I. waited with anticipation for some news of the class and hoped fo r a gro up photo or something that would bring me up to speed on fello w graduates.

Thi s is a rare oppor1unity to upd ate forme r grads on a group of people we have mos tl y lost touc h with, I believe it is the responsibility of the magazine to at .Icast give so me coverage to suci1 a momen­ tous occas ion for those of us who could not be pre­ sent.

Merika (Hanych) Graham , BA '7 I Wi nnipeg , Man .

Editor 'S note: The Class of '7 1 group photo is quite large, and we aren ' t able to identify every­ one. As an alternati ve, we ca n show yo u how the Cl ass o f '71 commemora ted its anniversary.

At the 25th-anniversary re­ union for the Class of '71, Bill Bearss, B.Sc.(Agr.), left, and Peter Harshman, M.Sc.(Agr.), centre, pre­ sented John Mabley, vice­ president (development and public affairs), with a cheque on behalf of the whole 1971 class. The do­ nation , which has risen to $50,588, will benefit com­ puter-based learning pro­ grams on campus,

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Ontario writers take top prizes Three Ontario writers - Jenn ife r Footman of Brampton. Jilli an Horton of Londo n and Robert Nie lsen, MA '7 1. of Waterd own - received top honors in the 1996 Guelph Alumnus/Scoti a McLeod writing competiti on. They rece ived $500, $300 and $200. respec ti vely. after being chosen from a field of 450 entries. Footman's firs t-pla ce sto ry. Take (I Slrongn. appears on pa ge IR. Although she has publ ished three books of po­ etry. Footman says short-story wri ting is a new venue for her. T(fke (I S/mng el is se t in India, her birthplace. and draws on her personal experience as it desc ribes the fee l ings of a young woman strug­ gling to find a pl ace for herse lf in a new co untry.

Horron won second prize for a short story. al­ though she descr ibes herse lr as a pluyw r·ighl. Origi­ nall y from Alberta, she is completi ng a master's deg ree in creat ive writing at the Uni versity of Weste rn Ont,lrio and Jus t recently saw her play DOW' 1II1 performed at the Winnipeg Jewish Thea­ tre.

Nielsen hilS a master's degree in Engli sh from Guelph and now runs a small publi shing company ca lled Potlatch Publications. He also teac hes crea­ tive writing and has two books ready for pub li ca­ tion. His prize-winning essay comes from one of them, a co llection of essays ca lled A thlel e's FoOl Of' Hnw I Failed a l Spons.

The Guelph AllIl1Inus writ ing competition was established in 1993 to encou rage and recog nize the work of begi nning writers. Ju dges for thi s yeur's event were iris Tupholme, BA '79, editor-in-ch ief at HarperCollins Canada Ltd.: Dun Me lanson, BA '89. edi to r of I nf() Canac/o; and retired Eng li sh pro­ fessor Linda Marshall. Scotia McLeod Inc. hus sup­ por1ed the compet iti on for the past two yea rs.

New ventures well received Russia - One of the newest links in U of G 's in­ ternilti onal chain has bee n so successful thilt stu­ dents are already lining up [01' nex t summer's cour'se in Russ ia . "Soc iology of Russ ian Ag r'i cul­ ture and En viro nment" is a one-month mi x of clas.'­ room lec tures. fa rm tours and culrural events ex ami ning the agricultural and socia ltran sfo r'ma­ ti ons in Russia since the privat ization of the ag ri­ cu ltural ind ustry, Seven Guelph students took pan in 1996, bu t the program will expa nd to 20 stu­ dents in 1997.

Entrepreneurship - In Sep tembe r, U of G launched a nelV co ur~ e ca lled " Innovation <lnd the Entrepreneu ri al Process," a co-o perative effo rt be­ tween the Uni vers ity and The Competitors. a new­ economy marketing and ve nturing company based in Toronto, Available to undergraduate, graduate and open­ learning students. the ex perimental course is de­ C ll e/t ,h A 111111111 1.1'

In 30 C heat, the water hose was a welcome sight to the 1,665 first-year stu­ dents and volunteers who slithered their way Sept. 2 to a world record as the longest human centipede.

Tied together at the ankles, they walked 30 metres to beat the previous record of 1,601.

Photo by Martin Schwalbe

signed to prov ide an und e r~ landi n g 0 1' the en­ trep reneurial process and to prepare people fo r the new economy. It discusses how comme rc ial ir1I1o­ va tion takes place and the ex tent to whi ch it is purt of the global bu siness climate . The second part of the COUl'SC, whi ch beg in s in January, will give st u­ dent., practical experience in deve lopi ng viable business ideas.

MBA - Beg inn ing Jan, I , agri-food execu ti ves arou nd the wo rl d wi ll be ab le to srud y from the ir' horne or office towa rds an MBA in agriculture.

The elec troni call y delivered program is a distance ­ educa tion vers ion of Guelph's ex isting reside nt ial MBA in ag riculture. It was crea ted in co-operation with the Uni ve rsit y of Athubasca, which is interna­ tionally re nowned fo r its prog ram des ign anel de liv­ ery.

The onl ine MBA prog r'a m ca n accept 50 stu­ den ts in it s fir'st yea r and 100 in its second . It ·s tai­ lored fo r people who manage u large fann operati on, sell input s to the agri cu lture industry , work in food process ing or d istri buti on marketing, and munage agri-food interests in the governmen t and publ ic sec tors. For more informat ion about the distance MBA , ca ll the Office of Open Leuming at Ext. 6775.

For more information abo ut r'utu re o fferings , ca ll the Office of Open Leallling at Ext. 6775.

Canadians honored at convocation

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At fa ll convocati on in Octobe r', U of G awa rded honorary degrees to three distinguished Canadians - aq uatic bi olog is t Willi am Ricker, soc io logist and economi st J. Frase r Mustard and c limatologist Kenneth Hare. Tn addi tion, the Unive rsity named three of its own re tired fac ulty professor emeriti ­ Mary Ferna nd o. Pathobiology; Keith Betteridge, Biomedical Sci ences; and Doug Odegard , Philoso­ phy, The Uni versity also uwurded 406 underg radu ­ ate degrees and 194 graduate deg rees.

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Grad encourages innovation Guelph graduate Pe ter Hann am, BSA '62. pres ident of First Line Seeds of Gu elph, has joined forces with the Unive rsit y on Project SOY , a contest tha t o ffe rs cas h prizes of $2,500, $1 ,000 and $SOO to three stud ents who can comc up with ne w and inno­ vat ive uses for soy beans.

"Soy beans are a llex ib le commodity, and there have bee n hundreds of cre<lti ve uses fo r the m deve l­ oped over the yeal's," says H<ln nam. " We think there are man y more to corne , and we're loo kin g to stu­ dents to he lp fi nd them. " [n additi on to cclsh, Project SOY will give studcnts practica l research expcri­ ence and establish links with industry.

Retirement village enters Phase 2 The Village by the Arboretum re tire ment com plex has moved into its seco nd phase of construct ion, with 143 of the projected 575 ho us ing lots so ld . A new recreation centre will be comp le ted in the fall.

The fi rst res idents moved into the 44.S-hectare vil­ lage in 1994.

U of G reta ins owne rshi p of the lanel and the ri ght

to approv e all aspec ts 0)' des ign and constru cti on, but leases the land to Reid He ritage Ho mes Ltd ., which is responsible for marketing, construction. property mana gement and adm inistrati on. Pun;has­ ers own th eir own home and pay a monthl y land ­ lease fee. T he projec t is pa rt o r the Rea l Estate Div ision of the Un ive rsity 's He ritage Trust Fu nd. il n endowment fund crea ted in 1991 .

GUARD succeeds with public offering New hig h-technology business de ve loprne rll will soo n appear in the Canad ian marke tpl ace through the commcrcializa ti on effOit s of GUARD (Guelph Un ive rs ity Alumni Rese<l rch and Deve lopmen t). Fol­ lowing a successful initi<l l public offe rin g las t surn­ mer, G UARD hilS capi talization in excess o f $ 1() mi lli on. This inc ludcs $6.6 millio n from the publ ic o ffering; $ 1.24 million from alumn i, rr ie nds and cor­ porate sup po rters; anel U o f G 's $2.2- million equi lY holding (no contributio n W<l S made by the Unive r­ sity; this re prese nts the value of its awarded shares).

GUARD is a un iq ue public ly owned Ca nadian co rpo rat ion, with shares tracled o n the Albe rta Stock Exc hnnge under the sy m­ bo l GUA. T hrough ils commerc iali za­ tion effOlts, GUARD will creute new e mpl oy me nt op port unities for grad uare stude nts and move a step closc r to ad­ dress ing Can ad a's imba lance of Lmde in advanced tec hno logy prod ucts. Fu­ turc proceeds, relative 10 U o f G shares, will be used 10 support rese arch and scho larship at Guelph .

Libraries share resources T he provinc ial govern me nt has awarded a spec ia l grant to U 01" G, the Uni versity o f Wate rloo and Wil rr id LlUrier Unive rsit y to esta blish a jo int li brary sto rage racilil Y. The tr i-u niver­ sity library consortium annex will be located in the wes t end o f Guel ph on M"lcoll11 Road <md wil l house 4S(),OOO vo lumcs from the th l'ce unive rsiti es .

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The new ~ t ora ge fac ility will CO I11­ bi ne lowcr-usc libral")' hol d ings fro m the thl'ee uni ve rsities in one co llec tion, e limi nati ng duplicati on. Holdi ngs will be eq ua lly avai lable to membe rs o f each univers ity. In add ition, cam pus sp<lce will be freed up at a fra ction of the cost o f maki ng additions to ex isting library buil d ings . (j1l"'1'/} AlII /II I/ liS

Kudos for the Guelph community Literature - Engli sh professo r Janice Kul yk Kee fer's novel The Crl:'l'li Libwl"\' was shott-li sted for the 1996 Governo l· Genera l's ·Literarv Awards.

Publi shed by Harpe rCollins, the book h;s rece ived wide acel<lim r·or its poetic prose Jnci charac­ tel·ization. It foll ows a Canadian wo man's painr·ul search fo r identity Jfle r she di scovers a previously unsuspec ted Ukrainian background.

Teaching - Lilldscape architecture profe)sors Bob Brown, MLA 'R2 and PhD 'R5, and Ron Sto lt z were honored recently by tile Counci I of Educators in Landscape Architecture - Brow·n for his neative integration of resea rch and te<iching and Stoltz for a Ii I'etime of signifi ca nt contributions.

Sports - Gryphon foot­ ball prowess came to the forefront again thi s yea r.

Coach Dan McNall y was named the Canadian In ter­ collegia te Athletic Union Coach of the Year and his team brought bome the Ontario Uni versi ty Ath­ let ic Assoc iati on Yates Cup. The Gryphons lost the Cl1Llrchil i Bow l to Sas­ katchew<:ln, which we nt on to win the Vanier Cup .

Art - A des ign by sculp­ tor Peter Johnston, MFA '95, has been chosen for the entrance of the new Guelph civic centre, sched­ uled to open nex t spring. 1l1e three-dimensional piece is an eight-metre cu rved copper wallth <it will reflect both the Ilistory of the city ancl the fa ces of peo ple stoppin g to look at it. John ston completed a master's degree in fine art at U of G after wo rking as a professional artist for 20 yea rs.

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Environment - Tom Pet us, BSA AX, ha s been named Fellow of the Agri ­ cultural rn ~ titu te of Call­ ado. Em ployed by Inca Limited for 37 yea rs, he pioneered tJle agricultuml recl amati on of mine tail­ ings and degraded .Iand in one of the wo rld 's mos t ecolog icJlly di sturbed sites - the Sudbu ry basin . Much of tile c urrent worldwide mining reclamati on practice is rooted in hi s de ve lopment;)1 researc h and technicol ex.pertise.

Clockwise from centre top: Kulyk Keefer; Mogado; the Gryphons with the Yates Cup; Peters ; Johnston; Brown , left, and Stoltz, Photos by Kerith Waddington, Sotomon Krueger and Mary Dickieson

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Human rights - Line ll e IVl ogado, a third- yen r environme nwl sciences stude nt , wo n the 1996 Lincoln M. Alexander AWard fOI· del1lonstrat ing ex­ emplary leadership in elimin at ing racism. A mem­ ber of U ofG 's Race Relations Comm iss ion for two ye8 1·S, Mogado helps promote student c lu bs working for justice on cam pus and has organized rallies and wo rks hops on hum an ri ghts . She also writ es for news pape rs, pelt'orms political thea tre and speak s to community gro ups.

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Guelph grows with new agreement

by O""'C/1 Robcrts U olG Office a/Rcscorch

The Universi ty of Guelph has grown ... and so hu s its commitment to the agri-food industry.

In September, U 0 1' G and the Ontari o Ministry of Agri­ culrure. Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) struck a new partnership that will shift man y res ponsibilities of the min­ istry's education , research and laboratories division (ERLD) to the University, sta rting April l. 1997.

That mea ns the historica l connec tion between U of G and OMAFRA will be ex punded to include Onturi o 's three agricultural colleges and the Horticultural Research Institute of Ontario as well as state-of-the-art veterinary medical, research and regulatory laboratories that are now staffed and managed by the ministry. To fund these new respons ibilities , ministry support of the Univ ersity will ri se fro m the current $33 million annually to an estimated $54 million.

The new partnersh ip - which sees more than 400 OMAFRA e mployees Join the University - gives un­ precedented and unparalleled cohesiven ess to Ontario 's agri-food infrastructure. says Prof. LaiTY Milligan , vice­ president (researc h).

Milligan says the ag ree menr refle cts the ag ri-food indus­ try's clear demand that the inves tment in agricultural re­ search in Ontario remain a priority. OMAFRA and U of G ca n o ffer a broad researc h span from exploratory to rapid app lication while providing benefits and efficiencies that

wouldn 'r ex ist if they continued operating separate.ly.

"We can say with confidence that Ontario's position as the focal point in Canada for agri-food educa tion and re­ sefll'ch has bcen ass ured," he says. " By working toge ther over the yea rs, we've helped provide Ontario witl1 inex­ pensive food, new products and increasingly econom ica l and environmentally sound farlll practices. The ed ucation and deve lopment link among the University, the ag ricul ­ tural co lleges an d the breadth of Ontario's communities will make program deli very and fee dback unparalleled in North America."

Increasing U ofG' s outreach ha s positive implications for technology transfer, says Milliga n. Researc h results will be put into practice faster, and it wi II become cas ier to deli ver ag ri-food technology to all areas of Ontario.

"Thi s will lead to new opportunities fo r produce rs to be­ come more involved in agri-food research and 101' stu­ dents to take part in on-fann research, development and trainin g. " New educa ti onal systems will ar ise from the enhanced partnership, says Milligan. With an amalgamated system that includes th e University and the three agricultural co l­ leges at Alfred, Kcmpt vill e and Ridgerown, several as­ pects of agri-food education will become standard ized, including entrance policies and the cun'icula in the agri cul­ ture diploma programs. The colleges will be e ncouraged

"Ontario's position as the focal point in Canada for agri-food education and research has been assured."

Larry Milligan

to offer clusters of speci alized co urses that will be ava il­ able to students at all locations th ro ugh distan ce ed uca­ tion . College students will be able to take adv an tage of increased access to tec hno logy at the Uni versity and to a degree program. And as demands continue in the fooel sys ­ tem for greate r certification, enhanced training will be con­ ducted at the co lleges .

This new partnership was driven by the introduction of significant cost-cutting measures by the province.

OMAFRA transfer payments to U of G hav e until now ac­ counted for nea rl y 50 per cen t of the budget in the minis­ try's education, researc h and laboratories division.

OMAFRA was told that its budget would be cut by nearly one-third, meaning Guelph would sta nd to lose up to $10 million if the cuts were even ly spread across the division.

The Uni versity could have lost eve n more if the mini stry dec ided to restructure its operati ons in such a way as to further limit U of G's pallicipation in its programs.

"The loss of these revenues and programs would im­ pinge on the instituti on as a whole and not merely on the colleges traditionally associated with the OMAFRA pro­ grams," says Prof. Carole Stewart, dean of the Coll ege of Arts, who has been close ly invo lved with the restructur­ ing.

The partnership ho ld s many positive advantages for the entire University.

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New OMAFRA facilities built in Guelph - namely, the ag riculture and food laboratories - will pro vide U ofG resea rchers with a co re of readily access ibl e ana­ lytical and experimen tal se rvices. It will also give them ac­ cess to extensive lead ing-edge equipment. Tn some areas, thi s could decrease the need of facult y and departments to acquire certain kind s of equipment themselves. The Uni­ versity acq uires access to these facilities wi thout the need to take owners hip of the buildings, so it isn't forced to take on additional maintenance responsibilities.

The new associat ion wirh the agricultural colleges ­ Al fre d, Kempt viJJe anel Ridgetown - will give Guelpb re­ searc hers interested in rura l issues ne w bases and well-es­ tablished connections in the college comm unities .

Thi s could be an advantage not onl y 1'0 the ne wly devel­ oped grad uate program in rural studies, but al so to such ar­ eas as hotel and food administration , consumer studies and inte rnatio nal development, which have poten ti al for educational and research co llaboration with the colleges.

"The increased profi le of the University of Guelph in a larger numbe r of communities will be to the adv antage of us all, particularly in the uncertain financial times in whi ch we find ourselves," says Stewan. "We could well benefit not only in terms of increased donor support, but also in terms of student recruitment to all areas of the Uni­ versity."

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We ' ve reac hed the point in Canaela whcre univer. ity tuit ion ke~ can sing le-ha nded ly dr ive up the consumer price inde x. T hat's what happened in September, when tuition incrcascs o f up to 20 per cen t in Oillario a nd I I.R pe r ce nt nationally l1 udgccl thc an­ nual inflat ion rate li p 0 . 1 pe r e ntt o 1.5 pc r cen t.

Although the Seplember increase c<llig ht everyone' s atten tion , it i, part o f a trend in wh ic h recent Ontario govell1l11en ts have as ked ~ t uclenl. to shou lder a gre;t ter ~har o f the cost of po, tsec­ ondary education . Over the last I S yetlrs , tu iti on fees have in­ creased six-fold - ['rom S4 ()O to $2.450 per semeste r a t U of G .

Educ(ltion e xpe nses fo r G uel ph students o vera ll have do ubled in that ti me.

How have students been abl e to cope ') By borrow ing.

In Septe m be r, un ive rsit presidents in the H8 -mc m ber Assoc ia­ tion 0 1 Unive rsities and Co llege.. o f a nada (AlJCC) It::C1rn ' d that 60 per cent of Canad ian stu de nts are now fo rce I to borrow to fi ­ nance the ir highe r education. More a larmi ng. student de bt leve ls in Ca nada are close to - and wi ll soon ex(;eed - those of stu­ de nts at U.S. fo ur-ye ar priva te coll eges.

Average d ebt loads for C anadi an stude nts have (;Iimbed from $~,700 in 19l){) to 17 ,000 this year. A C _ re ported that the re a­ so n fo r the dramat ic increase is a combination of inne ased tui ­ tion fees and the elimination of grants from b()th federal and prov in inl st udent-aid policies in the early 1l)l)Os. Most stude nt borrowers partic ipa te in the Canada SllIdent Loans Progra m. Qualified students can re(;eive a maximum of 60 pe r cen t of their a'isesseci need to a limit of $5,600 each academic year. Ontario and most other provinces top up the fund, enabling Ontario students with the g reatest need to borrow up to _9,350 a year. The actual cost for a year of slUdy at U of G (including tui­ tio n. fees and e stimated living ex penses) is about " 11.000.

To meet expenses , one-third of Guelph stude nts work 1)<111 time during the school year. and I R per (;ent work more than 10 hours a week while carrying a full course load. Neverthe less, a 1995 campus surve y reported that only hal f of Guel ph \ undergradu­ ates have earnings greater than $5,000 a year. ancl 20 per cent in­ dicated that their family income was less than $4(),OO(). Without the availability of financial assistance, many of these students co uld not al\end university, says Peter Landoni. as s istant direc­ tor, Student Financial Services.

Forty-two per cent of Guelph students rely 011 loans from the Olllario Student As s i ~ tancc Program (OSAP), and as alulllni , they have one of the lowest clefault rates in the provincc.

When the provincial govemment gave universities the go­ ahead to raise tuition in Septelllber, it did not increase OSAP allo­ cations , but requirecluniversities to increase financial aid. lJ or G virtually doub led its bursary offerings \0 help offset the increase in tuition. Landoni says U of G is <llso generous in allowing de­ ferred tuition payments and granting short-term emergency loans for studellls with financial problems. "We don ' t want to see stu­ dents drop our because they can '[ afford to stay in school ," he says.

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Our

sociely decided long ago that educalion has an over·

all benefit for all of us. That's why we support publ ic educa­ tion from kindergarten rlghllhrough university. We invest tax dollars in universilies and colleges because they produce a skilled and innovative workforce and conduct much of the re­ search Ihat leads 10 nallonal competitiveness. Many of us also see value in the questioning and debate that higher edu· cation fosters, and we look to these inslilutions to develop to­ morrow's leaders.

Thousands of Guelph alumni and friends believe a univer­ sity education is so important, Ihey wanl it not only fo r them­ selves and their children, but also for their neighbor's children, Ihe kids across lown and Ihose who live in other parts of Ihe country. These are the people willing 10 go be­ yond lax dollars to dig deeper into th eir pockets and provide individual support for scholarsh ip and bursary programs at U ofG. Those awards are of tremendous imporlance to the Univer­ sity and the students who receive them. And the slories be­ hind the scholarships are lestimony 10 the real value of postsecondary educalion.

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investment pays off

A university degree is still the best door opener in Canada. University gradu­ ates continue to enjoy the lowest unemployment rates and the highest lifetime earnings in the country.

AChancellor's Story

In the words of U of G chancel ­ lor Lint:o ln

Icxandcr:

" Thl! value of an edut:ation is

one tha t t:a nnOl hI.' t:akulated .

Education is thl.! bu\ic toolt har i~

req uired to bui III

caree r. From

it

I ife and a

111) pe r~onal

e.\ pe­

rie nce, J Iwvc always va lued the

When you see a bargain, grab it!

If you believe in the value of postsecondary education and you like a bargain, then you 'JI want to hear more <lbout the provincial govemment's plan to match pri vale donations to studen t assistance fund s.

From now until the end of March 1997 , donations <lnel pledges - e ven three -year pledges - to the U of G ACCESS Opportunity Fund wiJl be matched dollar for dol ­ lar by the province.

It 's a one-time oppon unity to create a never-ending sup­ POlt system for young Ontari­ ans who continue to want a quality postsecondary educa­ tion.

Chancellor Linco ln Alex an­ der is heading a comm ittee of volunteers who are hoping to help Guelph stude nls claim a big chunk of the provincial pie. Commitl"ee members ure in vestment counsellor Tony Arrel!, retired zool ogy profes­ sor Mary Bcverley-Burton, lawyer Hugh Guthrie, market­ ing pmfess iona l Ginty Jocius, fund raiser Maril yn Robin son­ Murray and farm business­ m<ln H,mk Vander Pol. The chancellor and U of G presi­ C/lell'h Alumnlls

dent Mordec hai Ro za nsk i we l­ comed rhese volunteers abo<lrd when they publicly an­ nounced the ACCESS Fund Nov. 29 with $2. I million al­ ready committed.

Under the guidelines of the pro vincia l program, donations mu st be used to establ ish per­ manent endowments to help Ontario students who demon­ strate financi<ll need as wel l as academic merit. An award can be named in honor of an individu al, a corpol'ation or a graduating class.

The ACCESS Fund offers donors a one-time opportu­ nity to double their gift, while ensuring that the award will continue in perpetuity. It 81so answers the concern of many that univers ity educallon should be accessible to aJJ qualified students, even if they don't h8 vc the personal and family resources to pay fOI it all, Creating an endowment in support of student assistance is a way of acknowledging that we all h<l ve a respo nsibi 1­ ity to future generations.

If you'd like to know more about the ACCESS Fund matching grants, call Pauletle Sam son at 5 19-824-41 20, Ext. 6183.

ill1pol1ant:e of cducation."· Born in Torontllto working-cia,s parents. Alexan der served in the Roya l Canadian Ail' Fort:e. becal11e a lawyer, 'ilt in thc I louse of Commons. was a federa l cahinet minis ter, reprl.!­

sc nted Canada as an ohservl.!r a t the Un ited

at ions. hC'lded thl.!

Worke rs' Compe nsat ion Board of Ontario and served in On ­ tario as the 24th

licu t en~trJ t -go

emOl' re presenti ng the Queen.

He says he had Lhe advan tage of be ing

b On!

parents who advi,ed him t( take adva nwgc sy~ t elll ,0

ill Canada. to

Dr its educational

thaI. as a yo ung black persoll, he wou ld improve the

odds for sliccess.

"Ot her than money, there was not hi ng to prevent the son of a p()l1~r

C:lIl adian Pac ific Railway un ivcr ity and even tua ll y

to la~

and a maid from adv<lnc illg to

sc hoo]," say' Alexander, "My

service in the Air Force ass isted me in Stee l Company orCillada

al~o

tel'l11~

of li lit i()l1 . amI the

made a cOll trihut ion by offering

me emp loymel1l while 1 wa~ allemling

~chooJ.

My educat ion

wa.; my cm poWcmlCnl. Whe n Alexande r was installed as lJ o f G t:hancellor in 199 1, he ,aid : "I bel ieve we hold a trus t pa,sed Lo u, from all the gen ­ erat ions of Canad ians who

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before u\ . To mC'. it is viral

that we honor that trust wit h .111 uns hakeable dete nllinati lln

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to

accept, maintain and nurture education a.-. a vital co mponent to eco nomic prosperity and produc ti vi ty."

The chance llor's dcterm ination is unshakea ble as he works di ligentl y for the

ni versi ty of Gudph and it-" studeills . Most

rece ntl y, he has vol unteered to chair tht' Access Fund stee l'jng comminee in pursuit of strengthe m:d financia l a,s islll nce for students .

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Why does Uof Gneed more scholarships?

There are two key reasons why Guelph needs a strong program of sc hoJarsl1ips and bursa ries - to att rac t the best students in Ca nada and to remain access ible to all qu alified slUdents.

We want Canada 's best In 19R7, less than 20 per cent of Guelph 's se mester-one students had an ave rage o f at leas t SO per ce nt. By 1995, that number had gro wn to 72 pel' ce nt. In the J 996 Mac!ew7 's ranking of uni ve r"i ­ lic" Gue lph ranked first in its category in the percentage o f incom ing students with ilver­ ages of75 percent or hi gher.

A number o~' Iiaison efforts have contributed to the change, not the least of which is the Pres ide nt 's Scholarshi p program . Establi shed in 19X7, the program has groW Jl to 13 anllu al aW<lI'Cls of $2(),OOO eac h, pa id over fo ur yea rs. In totilt. 116 Presiden t's Sc holar­ shi ps have bee n awa rded to students from ac ro~s Canada who ex hibi t both academi c ex­ ce llence and outstanding lead­ ership.

Each year, mo re than 300 stude nts app ly fo r the awa rds.

Many who do n't win a Pres i­ dent 's Scholarship still co me to G uelph because of another cntrance awa rd or because they like what they leam about the University during the app lication process.

The President 's Sc ho larship prog ram was des igned to at­ tract stude nts who wo uld con­ tli bute pos iti ve ly to the cilmpus community and eVel1­ tunll y, th ro ugh their can.:c rs, to soc iety as a whole.

Over the years, Guelph 's Pres ident 's Scholars ha ve, indeed, taken leadership roles.

The last fo ur rec ipient s of the Wi negard Medal - U of G's highest undergradua te convo­ cati on aWMd - we re Presi ­ de nt 's Scholars, as we re many of the individual college nomi­ nees for the mcd<ll.

As k any raculty member <I t 12

President's Scholars and

Winegard Medallists

Guel ph and they'll tell you that top studcnts like these make a whole class perfo rm bette r. Thcy chal le nge other stude nts to rai se their own ex­ pectati ons, crcate a competi ­ ti ve atlll0.';phere and stimul ate mea ningful dcbate with pro­ fesso rs. With almost three­ quarters of our student body co ming in as Ontario Schol­ ars, the educati onal ex peri­ ence at Guelph is reachin g new heights. We are a better unive rsity because of them.

Tim Mau, BA '93 (lnd MA '95, was in­ volved in cam pus polit ics, se rved on Senate and led the bas ketba ll G ryp hons to three nati onal champi on­ ships. J h; was (I n Ont ari o final ist for a Rh odes Scholarship and is now co m­ pl eting u PhD in politi c,\I studi es at Ox­ fo rd Uni ve rsity on a Commonwealt h Sc holarship .

Yona Lu nsky , BA '94, says Guelph gave her the opponunity to comhine her love of the,ltre and he r caree r in ter­ est in psyc hology. Shc organi zed CO ill ­ Illunit y cve nts. voluntee recl to wo rk with loca l children and sa ng with sev ­ ela l chor(l l gro ups. She is now doing il PhD in Illental re tarda tion at Ohio State Univers it y

We must be accessible Last fall , U of G offered 500 new mel'it/need awa rds to inco ming stu dents, and 2,600 stude nts app li ed for them.

The $5 00 awa rds wou ld have purchased tex tbooks and sup­ plies for one se mester.

Uni ve rsity educati on is ex ­ pens ive, and when Ontari o univers it ies got the go-ahe ad in September to raise tu it ion 20 pe r ce nt, th ey wanted to make sure it didn 't become a student' s las t stra w.

Th e Ministry of Ed uc<1 ti on and Trai ning requ ired uni ver­ sities to put J 0 per cent of the increase into student assis t­ ance. U of G op ted to put in IX per cent and virtu all y do u­ bled it:, undergmduate bursary program to $ 180,000. Tuiti on reve nue ha,\ also put al1 othel' SSOO,OOO 111to stud enl aid for returnin g students - distrib­ uted on a Illost-n eeds ba.\is ­ and all oca ted $ 100.000 to a Uni ve rsity-based wo rk/stud y program. In total, U o rG will award $ I. X milli on th is yea r in unde rgraduate scholar'shi ps and bursaries.

It's a significant amo unt, but still on ly enough to help 25 per cent o f First-year stu­ dents and less th an 10 per ce nt of in- co urse stud ent s.

Deni se Watt, B.Se. '95, is stud ying medicine at Qu ee n's Uni ve rsit y. While at Guelph , she wOl' h.ed on an anti-ra­ c ism ca mpa ign, was a member of the va rsity sw im tc alll and chaired th e Womell 'S Inrerco lleg iale Athletic Counc il. She ,\I so vo luillce red at the lo­ ca l hospita l and Homewood Health Ccntrc.

Laura Beauie, B.Sc. '96, W,IS a student senator ro r th ree years . chaired the Stu­ den t Se nate Ca ucus and wa,; ac ti vc in intramu ral sports. She wo rked with mentally alld ph ysically ch.dlcilged childrcn ,llld W,I~ <I c<lreg ivet' in a tod­ dl er drop-in program. She is now do­ ing an MA in geography at th c Uni ve rsiry of British Colulllbi .1.

Major donors to the President's Scholarships + +

+ + +

rile.' larllllic, oilialli- , ,\rt alld I'..'ter V.ll!d 'r Pol The latl: FI~'d Metcalfe (,ced i!. Fr;IIl~ 1 1I1 alld IlIg nd !-rani-hI! Pat rid Letl Tile c't,lh:~ oj Cha rl es Il lIIlIph r~' ), JaL" I.()ng~ t a l lc and Lilli'lIl Stl'\\;!l t l ,hel C; "eil,l! A 1111111111.1'

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Reading The Unive rsity's acadcmic calend ar may not make the best-se lle r li st, but if yo u kllow how to read between the lines, yo u can find some pretty inte resting sto ries in what appears to be a totall y utilitarian publi cation. In a secti on ncar the back ca lled "Scholarships and Other Awards." there are hund reds of people stories - mostl y about graduates, but al so about corpo rate and indi vid­ ual fri ends of the Uni ve rsity who have du g into their ow n pocke ts to oller finan cial sup­ port to ful"ure gcnerations of students.

These are stories we don'r wa nt to forget because they ena ble us to remember the

Unive rsity's do nors and help

today' s students deve lop a sense of apprcc iat ion fo r the

education they are receiving.

• Psychology stu dc nts who be nefit from the NOlma

Bowen Me mori al Schol ar­

ship learn about a res pec ted

professor of the 19705 who

headed the Unive rsity's first

task force on the status of

wo mcn.

• A studcnt in organic chem­ istry will win thc annual

Guelph Soap Company

Sc ho larship est ablished by

Martin Bosch, B.Sc.'69 and

M.Sc. '7 1, a gradu ate of that

program who we nt on to

teach chemi stry before ven­

turing into bu siness . He is

now president of the Guelph Soap Company. an alumni representative on Se nate and a frequent visitor to campus.

• The Guelph Historica l So­

ciety prov ides an annual awa rd fo r a student of Cana­ dian history. It is named for loca l volunteers Ruth anc!

Ebner Poll ard in rec(1).nition o r their contri buti ons to thL:

society.

• Membe rs of the Macdon­ a ld Institute Class of 19 3~ have bccn fai thful contri bu­ tors to an endowment fun d th at now sta nds at $9R,OOO.

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The fund su pports two grad u­ ate scho larshi ps o r $ I .UOO in ge rontology.

• Sleeman Brewing Scholar­ ships 01' $2,000 are oflered annuall y to student s ente ring sc ience program s. In addi­ ti on to academic merit. these awards may consider finan ­ cial need.

• DVM students in fin ancial need can app ly for the Peter Rich Bursary. Estab li shcd by Co lwy n anc! Jean Rich of Puslinch, Ont. , and named for thL:i r son - a 19R I gradu ­ ate of the program - the bur­ sary fun ci prov ides $5,000 per year over fi ve years to stude nt.· with sub. tanti ,,1 need .

A never­ ending story The OAC C lass of 1933 trul y values ed ucation. Class members establi shed a g rad u­ ate scholarship for OAC stu­ (knts in 1948 . three years bdo re the college even had approval to offer its first mas­ ter's program. The $200 scholars hi p seL: ll1cd like a lot of money to Hemy Ive in 1948, because he couldn ' t bring money into Canada fro m hi s nati ve Jamaica. He fini shed graduatL: SL:hool in Canada and returned to the is­ land to work in the distillery business.

The OAC ' 33 award is now ' 1.000 and growin g.

Class membe rs sti ll get to­ gethe r each year for a re un­ ion and still support the sc holarship fund . In 1993, thcy in vited all the winners

to attend their 60th anni ve r­ sary and help out the endow­

ment fun d. It no w stands at

$80,000.

The cama raderie of thi s

class has bee n the catalys t

fo r othe r scho larshi p endow­

ment s.

Ed mund Will iams started

at Guelph in 1929 with the d ass of OAC ' 33. He was penniless, ha ving just lost hi s college savin gs in the stoc k market cras h. But he fo und a job th at paid 25 ce nts an hour anel talked the hL:ad of the chemistry dcpartment into lelling him s leep on a cot in the base ment. He COI11pleted the two- year program ill 193 1 and the BSA pro­ gram in 1934 before return ­ ing to hi s native Wales to work in the dairy industry.

True to OAC tradition , Williams was always invited to both OAC '33 and ' 34 re­ unions, but he wasn ' t able to attend until 1971 , when he tourcd the campu s and went home with a souve nir neck­ tie. His ties to Guelph and class mates were obviousl y much stro nge r than we kn ow because U of G has since re­ ce ived morc than ~ 1.5 mil­ li on from hi s estate to prov ide scholarships for OAC graduate studen ts. The Williams awards now tot al $ 135,000 annuall y and he lp enhallce the competiti ve ness of the college in attracting top grad uate stude nts.

One of those to p stude nts was Mark Lawton, a Williams fcllows hip winner

who complcted a master's de­

gree in 1985 and a PhD in turfgrass pathology in 1989 .

When he left Gue lph to work

in product deve lopment for

Monsanto Canada Inc., he

ca rri ed with him an apprec ia­

tion for the fi na ncial help

hc received as a student.

And just twO years

after gradu ation,

Ul wto n was instru­ me ntal in Mo nsanto's

deci sion to set up an

annual turfgrass

research fe llow-

ship at Guel ph.

He ehoreo-

a win-win-w in situation ­ repaying the kindness shown to him . hel ping future gradu ­ ate students and suppo rtin g

the bette rment of the tlll-f­

grass industry.

Brcnda Walsh. B.Sc.(Agr. )

'94, is thc nex t cha pter in

this sto ry. She received the

Mon santo fe ll ows hip in

1996 and says it boosted

both her finances and he r en­

thusias m for researL: h. For

hcr mas ter's project. she is

des igning a co mputer model

to predict the in cidL:nce of

do llar spot' disease in tlllf ­

grass.

Walsh has other reasons to

he grateful to alumni . Orig i­

nally from Co urlice, Ont.,

shL: rece ived a $4.000 OAC

Alumni Foundati on entrance

schol arship w hen she came

to Gue lph as an undergrad u­

ate and was awarded the

$400 Gary Putnam Memorial Scholarsh ip at graduation for

her hig h acad emic stilnding.

She says it was an emo tional moment when Putnam 's par­ ents presented the award to her in me lllOIY of their son, a former OAC student. She has the

photo hangin g in her apart­ ment as a meme nto.

Brenda Walsh

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Joan Ferguson, left, and Sarah Brown share a farm background with bursary donor Harvey Graham.

Photo by Peter Atkin

Passing the torch Two years ago, Harvey Graham, BSA '3lJ, and his wife, Fran, drove down to Guelph from the ir home near Lindsay, Ont., with thoughh or the past and the future cir­ cul at ing in their mincis. They eame to the University and established il bursary endow­ ment that now provides $ 1,375 to a fiN-year Guelph student who comes from a family farm in Victoria Count y. Harvey Graham grew up 011 a [aml there, and he and his wife still li ve in the area .

Graham graduated in the middle of the Depression, but found a .iob as a feed sa les­ man for Toronto Elevators.

He eventually moved home to manage four company mills ill the Lindsay area and told him self that if he was ever in a position to do so, he wou ld try to help other farm youth make it to col lege.

The first Graham bursary went to Sarah Brown , a grad uate of his former high school in Lindsay. She is srudy ing wildlife biology at Guelph. The 1996 winner was Joan Ferguson of Fenelon Falls. a BA student in geography. He r back­ ground on the family farm leads her to want to work in rural planning and develop­ ment.

Both women say they've

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Honoring a grad received friendship as well as financial aid from the Grahams . "' I was blown away

by Mr. Graham's involvc­ ment and the relaLionship he has with the Univers ity of Guelph," says Ferguson.

"I've lea rned a lot about the school from him. He's really inte rested in what I'm srudy­ ing and wants to make sure that everything 's going well in Guelph. "

Thanking a coach For sc holarship donor Patri ck Len, B.Sc. '74 and M.Sc. '75 . of Toronto, it was for­ mer Gryphon football eoach Dick Brown who made the rea l differcnce in hi s educa­ tion . Lett played both ofTen ­ siv e and de fensive line for Brown and was u CTAU AII­ Star. After graduati on, he worked in marine biology be­ fore going into finance and st,u1ing hi s company. Pierre­ pont Bancorp Limited.

In IlJ9 I. Lett e."ta hli sheci

Victor Sprenger

the Dick Brown President's Scholarships because he wanted to recognize the role Brown had played in hi . own life anci in the lives of other playe rs.

President 's Scholars are ch )sen on the basis of aca­ demic merit and leadership qualities, including leader­ sh ip in sport.

Onc of thc 1996 winn ers was Vi ctor Sprenger of Mil­ ton , Ont., a champion wres­ tler who chose Guelph paIily because of another Gryphon coach. ''I've known U of G wrest ling coac h Doug Cox for a long time," he says .

Third in last year's national high schoo l championships, Sprenger is studying biomedi­ cal scie nces at Gue lph.

Giving back Dorothy Britton was a 1939 graduate of Macdonald Insti ­ tute who died in 1988. Al­ though shc lived and worked in British Col umbia, she never forgot her Guelph he­ ginnings and wanted to givc something hack to the uni ver­ sity that started her career.

In her will , she left $ 1.12 million to estab lish a penna­ nent endow ment in the nl ­ lege of Family and ConsumCl" Studies in her name. The funcis provide a $ 14,000 doc­ toral fel lowsh ip. three $12,000 graduate fellow­ ships, up tn 10 an nual gradu­ ate awards of $ 1.500 and up to six undergraduate scholar­ ships of " 1.500.

When Ken Hammill, BSA '51 , retired from Blount Can ­ aela Ltd., the compan. hon­ ored him by establishing the Kenneth O. Halllmill ­ Blount Canada Scholarship.

Hammill is not only a gradu­ ate and supporter of the Un i­ versiry, but as vice-president and general manager of" the Guelph plant, he also recog­ nized U of G ' s importance to the city and the business com­ munity.

The 59,600 scho larship was awarded this yea r to John Quinn of Burlingl"On, Onl., who chose Guelph be­ cause of irs program in inter­ national development. Quinn .,ays academics arc hi s prior­ it y, bur he luves sport and played basketball. hockey and football at Les ter B. Pearson Seconcl,IIY School in Burlington. He was also in­ volved in school and com lllLI­ nity wo rk and says he hopes to go intu law or journalism.

Helping others Da vid Nevills is building a bursary endowment in mem­ ory of his wire , Tamllli.

B.A.Sc. '8 1, who died last May. She was a hi"h _,e1mo·1 teacher in Kitchcner, Ont. , who, with he r husband , wanted to he lp students in I"i ­ nancial need. Many friends and rami Iy members conrrib­ uted to the Ta mmi cv ills Memorial Scholarshi p, and now David Nev lih is making regular contributions to bring th e funclup to the " IO.ClOn level so the 'icholarship can be offered in perpetuit y. ('(1"1",, ;\I(1I1I1I11S

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How do you endow?

P

aul ette Samson, U ofG's cli­ rec tor of alu mni affairs and deve lopment, says the best way to ensure that an endo wment fund meets your gOJIs is to talk with i1 development o tli cer.

Disc uss yo ur opti ons. You'll want to know about uni versit y and government regul ati ons that gov ­ ern endowments. The name you choose is importa nt. And yo u' ll want to thin k about ho w or if you want to designatc the fund.

Most stude nt awards at Guelph are based on endowment funds be­ cause most donors want to ensure tha t the gift will be there fo reve r. says Samson . It 's the same thinkin g thot enco uraged the Uni versit y to establish its ge neral endow ment - th e He ritagc TI'ust Fund - in 1991. With government sup­ port of education shrin k ing. U of G must ensure its own futu re. Donors , too. are ac­ know ledging th at the ge nerati ons arc in­ te rdependent - that we ha ve a I'csponsibility to future ge ne rJtions.

The He ritage Trust Fund is the cornel'­ stone of G ue lph 's end ow ment fund s, which now total almost $70 milli on. Of that amount. ~37 mill ion rests in sc holar­ ship endo wments. What a change from the early 1980s when U ofG he ld onl y $2 million in scholarship endowments.

An end ow ment fund prov ides an inte r­ est-funded schoiJ.rsilip. The Uni ve rsity's Board of Governors has detelmined that the annual payout in awards sho uld be limited to I'ive per ce nt of the ori ginal bal­ ance (donati on). Interest income above that amount stays in the fund to protect against inflation and to guarantee g rowth.

There are no admini strati on fees c harged against endowments.

muni ty Icade rship and demonstra tes finan­ cial need.

Annual funding

Living memorials Many Gue lph awards were establi shed as living memorial s to alumni. stu de nts, fac­ ulty and friend s of the Uni ve rsity. A named mem ori81 can be e ndowed through a one-time gift or throu gh Illultiple do na­ tions, whi ch must total a minimum o f $ 10,000. Smaller fund s can be paid out of the prin cipal or direc ted elsewhere. U of G al so has a general Memori al Sc holar­ ,hip Fund. An yo ne can contribute to thi s fund in memory of a family member or fri end ~1I1c1 kn ow that the gift will sup port Uni versity-wide sch olarship priorities .

Changing scholarships Traditionally, a scholarship is awarded solely on the basis of academi c achiev e­ men t. whereas a bursary is based on finan­ cial need . But many don ors are now asking that the crite ria for awarding schol­ arships include a needs component.

Paul and Aileen Clarke of Blenheim, Ont. , created such a scholarship last sum­ mer when they established an endo wment as a tribute to Clarke 's far m heritage and their famil y's support of ag riculture.

Clark e is an e ngineer who taught phys ics at U of G in the late 1940s, but spe nt most of his caree r with the Fend Motor Company in Windsor. Aileen C lark is the daughter of the lme Robe rt MoHall, for­ mer head of the Physics De partment. The fo ur-year $ 10.000 Clarke Scholarship goes to a student from a farm backgro und who ex.ce ls in academic work and comLeft: Paul and Aileen Clarke, Top, left to right: Eugene Kraemer, Human Resource Manager for Blount Canada, Ken Hammill and scholarship winner Jon Quinn. Above right : Mildred and Grant Misener with OVC friend Jean McDonald.

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U of G has abo ut 3.000 cndo wed sc holar­ ships and bursarie s and another 300 that are I.'uncl ed annuall y by a clonor. A mini­ mum five -yeor commitment is required if you wish to name ;)1] annuall y fu nded sc holarship. Some individual s choose thi s route as their method of Jilnual gi vin g. but plan to eve ntuall y enclow the award throug h a bequest. A nUlllber of corpor,\te donors choose it for business reasons .

Buffet Taylor and Associates Ltd . of Whitby , Ont. . is an ex ampl e. Ove r the last 10 years. the co mpan y has given $ ~9. ()(){) to G ue lph students t'rom Durham Reg ion o r the counti e.<, of Northumberland ,md Peterboro ugh.

Designated awards Most U of G award s arc: dcsignat ed for Q spec ific degree program . are some times restri cted to stude nts ['rom a ce rtain geo­ g rap hic I-egi on and arc ofte n offered fo r exe mplary wo rk in a pani cular cOlll'se o r ac ti vity. Und esignatcd award s, howe vel·. give the Uni ve rsit y the most tle xibility.

The bu rsary e ndowment esta bl ished by Grant and Milclred (Tay lor) Mi se ner in the 1980s has few res tricti ons. e nabling G ue lph to direct it to studcnts with the g reatest need. Already. more than 50 stu­ dents studying in dOlens o f' different pro­ grams have received hel p fmIll th eir g ii't.

GranL A DA .]2, BSA ' ] 4 and DVM '3~, and iVlildred. DI-IE ' 36, live in hi s nativc Illinois, but ha ve al wa ys kept in touch wth the sch ool and their class mates. In fact, Misener was one of the found ers of Friends of Uni versity of Gue lph (see page 26). Fift y years afte r th e ir own co llege ex­ perience at Guelph . the Miseners gave the gift that keeps on giving .

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arold Whiteside remains undaunled by hi s role as pres ident of the University of Guelph Alumn i Association (UGAA) . He 's used to dealing Wilh some pre tty big wheels. So bi g. in fil ct, that they can weigh up to 12,000 pounds. And carry enou gh rubber to outfil 60 automobiles.

Whiteside is vice-pres ident, finance, and controller at Euclid-Hilachi Heavy Equipment Ltd. in Gue lph , which makes some of the biggest trucks in the world , for some of the largest mining and construction pro­ jects in the world.

Whiteside's expertise is in finance , but as a mem ­ ber of Euclid-Hitachi 's managemenl team, he says il is essential that he al so unde rstand the manuf<lcturing proccss - the wa y it looks from the shop tloor.

Cross-functional man<lgement and cross-functional probk m-solving teams at Euclid-Hitac hi help ensure that dec isions are made in the be, t interesl of the whole company , he says.

Whiteside sees a parallel to thal strategy in hi s ro le in the alumni associalion.

A manage ment ec onomi c ~ graduate of the College of S leial Sc ience. hc slarted out <lS a volunteer with lhe CSS Alumni Assoc iati on. But now , as pre.s ident o f the umbrell a group, he 's stepping back to lake a look at the big picturc on campus. Just like Euclid­ Hilachi " manage menl team, the assoc ialion benefits from the ex pe rti se of it s varied me mbership and pro­ viLi(:s a voice for all its constituents . he says.

In anolher parall el to the business world , the GAA has rece ntly unde rgone its O\vn strategic-plan­ ning proce s ~ and is in the midst of changes that will enable il to do a better job of serving the urrent needs of alumni and the University. ~ a y s Whites ide.

Much the samc thing is happening at Euclid-Hita­ chi , whe re the cornpany has determined it s long-term goah and is moving ahead to achieve them. By 2000, the Guelph plant will ha vc doubled its current rrodllc­ ti on and will be pmdueing SOO trucks a year, he says.

Euclid-Hitachi ' s product line consists of 10 mocl ­ e1s . ranging in sile from a smull truck wilh 40 .. ton ca­ pac ity to a 260-tol1 hauler. They carry price tags of $300.000 to $ 1.6 million US. Alth ough Euclid-I Iitachi ' s ilHe rnati onal headquar­ te rs is in Cleve land , Ohio, the Guelph plant is the site or all mth American manufacturing. Bodies and frarnes are f0ll11ed from plate steel, with electrical and mec hanica l syste ms assembl ed frolll parts . The planl usc s Cummins and Detroil diese l e n g inc ~ ,

Smaller models roll off the assembly line intact, but trucks large r lhan 60 ton s a re shipped in pieces and reassembled at the worksite. It took nine trac tor-trail­ ers to ship the 260-ton prototype when it was intro­ duced in Septembe r.

Eucl id-H itachi ' s 260 empl oyees can produ ce one of these monster trucks in 60 days, but that cycle timc is shrinking daily as the plant increases effi­ ciency , says Whiteside. In recent years, the firm added a robotic we lder to handle large jobs and reor- ' ganil.eel production lines; it is now ,installing new paint booths that can turn a truck body Euclid green in only one day.

"We concentrate on satisfying the customer," says Whiteside, and the company has ex. panded the tradi ­ ti onal husiness de finition of customer to include e ve­ ryone alon g thc produclion line, as well as the e nd use r. "The employees who cut steel and weld the lruc k body have lO be ahle to pelt'o rm their .iobs effi­ eienll y to sati sfy the needs of the assemblers, who are responsible for rollin g the truck out the door on time. " 'ati sfyin g all the customers is a goal he has set for thc GAA as we ll. Whites ide says th al during his term as pres ident. the associati on will work more closely wi th . of G pres ident Mordechai Rozanski , vice-president John Mabley and hi s stall in Develop­ ment and Public Affairs.

"We really have a joint vision," says Whites ide.

"How do we se rvice our alumni: how do we satisfy tbe alumni ancI support and strengthen the Uni ve r­ sily'?"

The W<ly to accompli sh these goals is by changing with the times, he says , and one of the biggest changes has heen the focus of aluIllni galherings . " It ', still imp0l1ant for alumni to meet soc ially to rekindlc fri endships anel memories , but our oraeluatc:, w:1nl to be more inv olved in the life of the Un ive r­ SilY. Alumni arc beeo mi n~ a very k l~ ell and integra l pan of providing fin anc ial resources. s upport and aid to the ad ministration of the Uni ve rsil Y. The days of alumni supporting only brid. s-and-Tll0l1ar projec ts are ove r. " Universilies are fi ghting areas of ope rating ex­ penses ; they 're righting in creasing student numbers and decreasing abilities to edu cale them in the way lhal was done historicall y - small classes , e tc. The Uni ve rsity is faced with some major challen ges . And there is a wealth of know ledge out there aJllong our

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We just have to tap into it."

Whiteside expects the next year to bring a fUl1her merger of the roles of the alumni association and the University to address the common goal. "Alumni need to understand the reality of what' s happening to the University, becau se only when you understand the reality can you support it."

His financial support is currently going to the Ac­ cess Fund, U of G's fund-rai sing effort to raise money for scholarships. 'This is an amazing opportunity when you realize that every dollar you givc wi 1\ be matched by the provincial government," he says.

Whiteside recognizes that the experience of many of today 's Guelph students is different than his. Be­ cause he grcw up in Guelph, he was able to live at home while earning his BA. After graduation, he ac­ cepted an accounting position at a company in Cam­ (;lIelph AlllmllllS

bridge, and his job financed part-time studies at the Universi ty of Waterloo and completion of his CMA designation.

Whiteside came to a management position at Eu­ clid-Hitachi eight years ago. He moved from general accounting to costing and budgeting, then served as director of accounting and planning before taking the position of controller in 1995.

"I have no doubt that my undergraduate degree gave me the basis for what I'm doing today," he says.

He believes a university degree is a near nece ss ity in today's business world. Even on the industrial shop 1100r, university education becomes an advantage for the person who wants to move on to the management team , he says.

The business perspective is an important one to bring to the University's alumni association as its members grapple with ways to support U of G and the students who will soon be contributing LO that business world.

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The g u c ~t, sit ill the C01l1I'O I·t of the air-conditi oned 11OLIW, eatin g the ir bU licil of titlin or whatever thcy ca ll it. She sh ould be with them, No, she can'l t;lke the m any more: Bl'acl t'ro rn Edmonlon exto llin g the .A. lherla way o r doing things: Harish Cram R:lilchi . who can' t keep his hands to himse lL Leon from Toronlo. who preserves a cl ea r ,race between him sc lf ;II K1 any of the Indian s as though a brow n skin could contJminate hi.s pcr[eet whit cne\S. Thcn tI H~ re's Lill y from Charl ottetown. who gigg les ne rvo us ly at every thing : Rene from G I<J ~gow , who spends he l' time tankecl on g in ; I'rei da frol11 Thunder Bay . who's Ilnlt'OJibw;l and. by God. she's [:,11' supe rim to the\e diCferent Indians.

If rvlaryJo has 10 li ste n to one more qory <J bout " ine[fil'i~nt India " o r the di['­ hculties of supp li es. or about oil and the iVliddle Eas t. or the imposs ibilit y or t'inciing <I good coo k. or hu w to make the best vind<lloo in Ille WOl'ill. she wil l go m<lci. Mad .

Through Fine embroidered leat he r sa nd a ls slle cli 'itil1g ui ~ h e~ every stone as the path becomes gnlVei. She wipes he r mango-J uice-sl ick, hands on her thi ghs. ll1e touch o f 'i ilk remi ncls her abo ut somethi ng - whill W<l~ il ') Si lk flo<Jts across hel' skin . feathe rs the f1csh between he l' Ihighs. little mo re Iha n a cobweb . She hated the gaud y co lors the minute she .\aw it - Bi ll' s present from hi s last tl'ip to Maclras. She always wears plain t~il orec l skirt s with blouses. the occasiO l1alneal. neutral pants.

Geol'gerown - home, whe re she was a lawyer. llOt Ihe wife o f Someone from Somewhere. She has no reason for bein g here. wo uldn ' t be herc but for Bill's insistence that it wo uld be the chance of a lik tirne t'or her to ..,ee India c lose up. It was hi~ idea thM they should TRAVEL before they staned a fam­ il y. So here she is, IQdies and gen tlemen. the pe d ec t wd'e ot a Canadian eng i­ nee r.

She had a vague romantic idea o t soft ni g hts. sitar mLi s ic. bazaar smells. herbs and jas mine -lovely , rich ja ~m in e , Nothing is as she imagined ilt o be. except for the jas mine, and in deed the jasmi ne is heave nl y. In this country,'ihc can' t do anything with out him - six month s of utte r boredom, She is not a good prisoner. not good at having to be ca re ful whe re she goes. not good at thinking about every move .

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A nebulo us decision floa t, III <lnd OUI o f he r mind. She wil l re­ turn . She will return. S he will lea ve Ind ia eve n if it means lea v­ ill ". Bill. She wil lle<l ve. She will ka ve.

S llC ambl es through tile gard ell gatc, ~d ill th e o lel slone wall.

011 toward, the viJl agc . Deserted. Too hot') Hav e the vill age Ls all gone ,lway') An allcient. towering banyan tree grows in the mid­ dle of the villJge. She has orten sat in its shade. wa llowing in a damp peJce. At first .she tried to respo nd to the c urious stare ' of the village rs. but evc ntua ll y they lost inl ere.s t in her and slle in them . Uncler thi s ban yan tree is thc one place she [eels at home In Ihi s da mnecl eounlry.

A slla llow clitch surrounds th c tree, and outsid e the ditch i.., a bench o f rough o ld wood. Pal'ls or the wood have been rubbed Sl1100tll by Ihe millions of people who mu st have sat there ovcr the years - people esc apin g fro 111 the sti ll , hot , elead a ir.

She lies on the bench, her back pressecl flat aga in st the coo l wood , and stares up inlo Ihe tree. Blue-boltles bu 7.7. rou nd a fresh cow-pa t on the du st l1ex t to her. Blue-b ottles') What an absurd name [or gi ant black fli cs.

She m il s 011 to her bel ly. stud ics the litt er in the di tch - bit s of papei', broken g lass. snakeskins, pieces of old combs. Thi S ditch has all the amcnities snakes demand - ,I fcw rocks, handy for water from the we ll.lust ne xt to the trec, sa fe from interrup­ tion. The co mpany h.ad warned pcople about sna kes in the orien­ tati on classes, but MaryJo is intrigued by th em, fee ls a bond with Ih em. They loo k earnes t, as d' they always ha ve so methi ng to do , someplace to go, JS if they are happy wo'-king.

She roll s over, reac hes do wn. picks up a stick. Vaguely, with­ out concelltmting, she dra ws a snake in the dust or the ditch. .Head with rorkedtongu e, a co iled body. Rustl ing dry -lear movement. She ho ld s th e st ick stilL doesn' t lxeathe, A cob ra dang les its head right up to he r face. She smil es to herself. [1'S as if her picture conlured a snake o ut of the hea t. Thi.., snake is a ll head. the spread hood Imkin g it appear as wide as a dove in fli ght. Lightning tongue dal1s in ancl out. It drags, s lides the rest of its bocly pandleJ to her and curls into a ne,l t coi I to hiss at her, much the way a cat purr.s whe n it has aCl.lusled itse lf to a co m­ Cortable spot in its owner' s lap.

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There wa, a , nake in the D i s n ~ y filill TIl'! .llIlIg/(' Book with mag ic eyes almost iden ti cal 10 thi s one ·s. What was it'-. name') Kaa'l Tha t's right. She's traveHing back Ihrou gh thc ye ars, gro w­ ing sma ll ei' and sma[ [er, you nge r and yo ungc'L back to the e ight­ yea r-old Mary]o who sa w he r first rea l, li ving snak e in Nassau Just a rter she had seen Till' .llIlIgl'! Book. Site had fallen in love with snJkes.

It moves its head ('rol11 siel e to side, and she Imag ines it con­ trols hcr, has her in its powe r. Lo)'ch' .\/lo/.;,!, Il/n.11 (,.\'lllIi.lil(, snokc inlli(' II'nrld. wilY lil/I '(' YOII (Dill!' lIer!' :) She slt'etches out her hand 10 to uch its hood. . cool. dry. Soft hiss breaking the si­ lence. Sill-; ting le of snakeski n aga in SI het flesh. Ci recn eyes, b[ uc eyes, ye llow-tl ec ked eycs , ey s of ange ls, of de vil s. whil e ~yc s . black eyes, cyes of all colors and no co lo rs.

She's in a tunne l, a long tunnel. All aro und hel', li ght !l oods in wa teltalls. dripping on to her. turnin g he r into a grcen. blue, ye l­ low ra in bow animal. Crunchy granules unde r her feel. Rice cov ­ ers the fl oor. She picks up a coup le of gl·ai ns. che ws on one , t,lsles the jasmine taste of hasmati ri ce, th en drops the other one into her poc kel. Eno ugh here to feed the wor ld. He r body ripples gree n diamond, ruby, sapphire. Light 311 around. a sun brilliallt ye t coo l, hot yet ic y, soaks thro ugh her fl esh int o her hea rt.

At thc end of the tunnel, she c limbs two bl ack marble steps on to a platfon ll that leads into a eircu [Dr room. The wa[1s th elll­ s~ l ves Cll'e luminous - r,ldiating 1[le ir own ~ncrgy . The whole of the floor i,s fil led, cove red, carpeted by Illlilions of sn akes.

Snakes of all co lors, kinds. shapes. sizes tangkd int o one snake boely. The hi ss ing and ,Ictivit y sto p as they aillifl' heads together.

She ginge rl y ste ps o fl' the plat ('0 I'm in to the ma ss o f snakes, and as she cioes so, her e[ress catches on a rail and rips as she pul[s it awa y. She is Moses, ,lIld the snakes are th e Red Sea. At the otilcr end o f the room, ste ps [cad up to massive bronze doors, Illoulclee[ and decorated with go ld filigree slwkcs. She pushes the ha ndle to open one half of the doors. In the middle of the room. a gold throne gl istens illlportantl y: 011 the throne is the longest, farte,[ snak c in th e world. She shuts thc doo r ca refull y a,s it il we re made o[ glass and tipt oes to the th rone. This god­ snake to we rs abov e her. JS lal\ as a tholls<lnd-year-old cedar, as long as a train: it is green but for two sil ver spOb under its hooli. lis multi colored cyes Dre the size of me [OilS . 1-\ crown of gole[ ;,c t

with elllerald s c ircles ih he ad . Litterecl aro und tile throne are rin gs of eve ry type, design, She 's sure the ,nake sm iics. It h i s ~e s and lowe r, it s heae!. to uchin g her chin wi th ils lon gue. By using the ti p of its tail, it picks up a ring fro m the noor and holds it out to her. Sh e accept s the ring and roll s it betwee n her thum b and forefin ge r. "T hanks," she says, It' , heavy, very hea vy , thick sil ve r. Set into the silv er is a tiny d iamond as bright ,IS a star. T H'iIlUC' . tl\'ill k!e litlle .ItoI' . So Im gllt. So IHighl , The slone is the eye of the god-sn,lkc; it changes to gree n, gold , blac k, whil e und back to greell.

T he sna ke yawns sO wide , she c;) n see down his throat , hear wa ves of the sea. Hard fang s aga in st her Ileck. longue ;lS rou gh as old ba rk, Co ld right into he l' bones, so co ld Shl' kn ows she can ' t move an eyelash, so co ld she ca n' t even shi ve r. She is be­ yo nd any move ment. A. way, aw,ly no,lts the rin g I'r olll het' fin­ gers. She reaches after it. bu t every time she tri es to ca tch it. he r finge rs meet on nothi ng but air.

N oise, She stra ins to let sorneLlne kn ow she's ali ve , but noth­ illg move s. Her li ps ,\ re froze n. A.rms fo ld ro und he r. The sme ll o f Bill's at'tersha ve , Stran ge vo ices ~a y in g she 's ali ve . She loo ks in to her husb and's eyes. He stro kes her hair gentl y, "Shhh.

You' ll be a lri ~ h t. Don 't mo ve."

B ack home from the hos pit al two ni gh ts late r, she fee ls as if she' d been hil on the head by a hamm e l', bu t at the S, lIn E: time so li ght- heacled she fl oats on 'lir. Phys ically te rrib le, but me ntall y strange, so strange, Almo .., t clrunk , she gigg le.s to he rse lf. E ve ry­ one should have a dance with a cobra to ge t ,\ good high on. Is it th e medic ine or the bit e ma king hel' t'cel so content , so wrap ped in the cotto n woo l') Bill sits on the edge 0 1' the bed, slumped ove r, hi s chin c upped in hi s hands. Her elress, draped ovet' the c ha ir, is torn . Whe n di d ti M happe n') WelL it ca n be mende d. Wh y hadn ' t she liked it be­ fo re'! Such lumino Lls colors.

She reaches Llp and stro kes hi s fa ce, " Hi , th ere. " He shudde r's awake and smil es. "Hi, there , yo u too. Nice to have yo u bac k." He ki s,es her on the check, "Fee lin g OK ')" "Sure, Fine, Just gre at. " "R ight. r' ve bee n , . . perh aps we SllO Uld go back. We coul d get a medical release fro m the contract. T hi s is . the last stra w

, . tOll much. You could have been killed, I can ,ec hoI\' much yo u hate it he re, Yo u must have bee n despera ll'. " "W hat arc yo u tal king about')" l lu mo uth dead dry.

"You know the snakes love the shade o r the tre e~ durin g the heat of the da y. You know that, ye t " Yet what')" "We ll . .. it's plain th at , . . yo u kn o w."

"No, r don'\. " " Pe rhaps you were heing stupid "" \\1 1\)' has she bee n .so angry with him before ) She can ' t remCJ1l ­ ber. India. Snakes and India ') Had she taken the ch,lnce to be bit­ ten' ) It was ,1 11 'lccident. She hael , ee n a be autiful sn,lke un de r the b,ll1yan tree , That \ ,til. It had bitten her.

He kis,ses he r hmld. " Let' s sce what hap pe lls. lJo wha t's be, t for us both - toge ther" "Wha te ve l' we want to do," She tr'ies hard to rcmem ber some ­ thi n ~, but can ' t remem be l' anything but a most beautiful snah.e, Th e most bea utifu l sllake in the wo rld . T he re WH, a sme ll. too.

Jasm ine. Sil c loves the sme ll ofj '1 Sl11inc. Now she smel ls jas­ mine. " I '; l11e il Jasmine. Funn y." "llle bush ri g ht outs ide is ill blo.ssoll1. It's lo ve ly. You were out of it, so I opened the winuo w. Didll'l think you 'd lnind .·' "B ut [love the sl11e ll of jasm ine." " You saiel til ,lt yo u want ed air cond itioning on a llthc ti l11e ,lnd the windows c losed" " I don ' t reme mbe r sayi ng th at. " "Sai d il the first weeK ha e. " " Well , things can change. You sh(l Ldd have askecl. " " We ' ve aske d very liu k: 1'1'0 111 each (lI bel' rece ntl y." " Nor much, " " Be bach. in a minute. " He leaves the roo m to I'etu rn in a cou ­ ple of millUt cs with ,\ bunch of.l<l.'ornine and ho lds it out to ih: r. " He re, have ,1 smell ." He g rins at he r ,IS if w'litin g for app ro val.

She sit s up , bu ril' s he l' nose in the flow ers, T he sce nt '0 .'itro ng it ma kes her head spir\. J,lsmi lle -so ft air brealh e.' throu gh the open window. " It was a be ,lLIti ful sn ake. I should t'in d out l1lore about snakes it' we are to st,l Yill India ."

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Jan. 24 - ove Alul1llli Association ,lnnlla l ge neral mcc tilll! 10 he helcl at th e OViVlA Conference in Toront~): cilli th e OVMA at 905 - ~)75 -0756 ror time and location .

Jan . 24 - Si Ath annu<l l Agg it: Good Time, [3any uel. se rni - i"orlll;1i, Cor alumni and stuclcn ts. ends Caree r Weck. C lI l Lorna at th e (l A C Studc nt Federati on.

EAt. X: 2 1. for dctails an d tic kets .

Jan. 27 to Feb. 1 - ['mlll('/i/.1 11/11c/'i('(//7o.l. a studcn t­ pro du 'Cd pia:' at the Inner Stage. X p.m.. tick eh~-1at the cloUI .

Feb. 1 - " Thin k G lobally . Act L oca ll y .. ' ;1 sy mpo­ siul1l spoll su l'ed oy thl' r:'acult y o C En viron l11cn t;il Sc iel1lx s, ') a.m. to 5 p.I11. , ~ 7 ['ceo T o re gister. ca ll Kath eli tlc Bi t zer . Exl. 7 89 57 . o r c-l11a il kbit zer(('l ullgucl ph.ca.

Feb. 6, 13 and 27 Thursda y s at ;\loon co nce n seri c . .

12: 10 p.m .. l\ i acKinnon 107. Cree .

Feb. 12 - Deadli ne i"0r n0111inations ro r OAC fac ulty awards: d istin Qui ... hed res ·archer. teac hing and C)(­ ten sion all a nl~ . Call June O 'G rad y at E;\ 1. 6fJ~ 7 or l.!-l11ai l a l ull1n i <!,D Llo~' u c lJ1h ca ror details.

Feb . 15 N orm M cCollum Diflloma Al umni Hockey Tournament. 10 ;1.111 . 10 i p.m., t'(1I1o\\"cd by "\I'ard, ce l'ernon y In GrYflh... Sports Lounge. Call Jack Bakl-.cT at :'1 I l)-X:\7-(} I 32 ror delaih.

Feb.19- Dead line for nOlll in;lIions Cor ni versityof Guel ph Al umni Associat ion awards. I-'or detail... . see page 2(, or en ll Sa rah Nadalin at Exl. 65 Yl .

'March 5 Florida alu ll1ni reunion . Ma ple Leaf ESlates. Port C harlotte. Fla. C lil Alumn i H ouse at Ex t. 667-1- for details.

March 6, 13, 20, 27 - T hursdays at Noon concert -;eri es.12:IOp.m .MacKinrton 107.lree.

Arboretum workshops Feb, 17 to March 17 onda y night se ri es on pract ical home garcien ing . 7:30 to SUO p.ll1. at the Arborel ull1 , Icc $50. pa yable by F·b . 12.

Feb. 20 & 27 Ont:-ciay works hops on home gardening , l) a.Ill. to 4 p.m.

March 13 or 15 - Ha ir-day incioor works hop on the art of flrunin g, I to 4 p.m" $25.

March - Mapit: Sy rup Da y s at th e Taylor Nature Cen tre. demonstral ions I I a.lll. to4 fl.l11.

Sa turd,lYs anc! Sundays . 10 a.l11. 103 p.l11 . week­ days during March Break ( II to 14), $2.:'1() adults. $ 1.50 ehildrt:n.

March 13 & 20, April 13 - Duck icit:ntif'ica tion wor k ~ h o p . two evenings and all -d ay fi eld trip, .,'5)) due by March 6.

March 27 - Work shop on horticultural grafting . $25 clue by March 20.

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March 15 & 16 - College Royal , I I a.l11 . to ~ p.l11.

Sat urday and Sunda y.

March 17 to 22 -- D rall1a Deparlment flrnduCI ion. Thc ,\I/uiil'.1 Tro gc£ir at the 111lIer Stage. " p.l11 . T ickeh ~ 6 Monday to Wedn t' ~ da y and $8 Thursday to Sat urday . call ihe l lC box olTice. Exr. -136X. Marc h 21 & 22 - OAC Alul11ni Annu;li ClI1'l in g B on ~ pi e l , liuelph ClI1'li ll g Club. Cdl JUIl(; O ' (jrad y al EXI . ()6') 7 to register Marc h 23 - Pan Alul11ni Skate at thc Uni versit y or C algary, brun ch at I I Ll.lll . ancl \ka t ing al 12 ::\0 p.m .

Call . or Ca l 403-220-7 1OX to register.

March 27 to 29 - Th ree o ne-act ..;wdcnt-directed produc ti ons run in lower M,lSSCY H all . X 11111.. li ck ets ~ 3 Lit th e doo r.

Marc h 31 - Dead line fo r gill, and Ill ed~es lu th e U of G Access Funci CUI' sludent as sisl allCe. April 3 to 5 - Th l'ee one-act <;tudc' lil-direcleu proullc­ ti ons, Massey Hall . X pnl .. ti ckets $3 at th e door.

April 18 - A ll Canad ian- U ni versi ty A lumni even t in Wa shington, D.C. The guesl ~pe aker w ill be Uni ve rsity of Albel1a presicient Rod Fra se r: ent er­ tainm ent includ es a barbecue anel sLJuare dance. If y ou li ve In the D .C. area. watch yourmail t'o rd e tail~ or call Sarah Nadalin. E;\ t. 6533.

June 6 to 8 - Fo rti elh reunion at Glenv iew Park Secondary Schoo l in Cambrid ge. On t: call 5 19­ 62 J -95 10 or fax to 5 19­ 62 I-SH60 for uelail s.

June 21 to 23 - A lumni Weekend. For informa­ ti on. call Sue Lawren­ son. Exl. 6963.

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To find out more about calendar events on campus, calJ 519­ 824-4120 or e-mail alunmi@! uog uelph.ca.

Class of '72 Relive memories al a 25th -ann ivt: rsa ry celt:­ bration during Iumll i W t:ekcnd . .I une 2 1, 1<)97. For information , ca ll Ext. 6:'13 _. fa x to 5 J9-X22-2670 or send e-ma il to alulllni@ uogue lph. ca .

The Macdonald Stewart Art Cen tre has added a new sculpture to the Donald Forster Sculpture Park.

Crab Legs by artis t Kim Adams is the sixth and fi­ na l work sponsored by du Mauri er Arts for the park .

Renowned Canadia n con­ tralto Maureen Forrester , a board member of du Maurier Arts, wa s on hand Sept. 26 for the unveiling .

Visit the park an ytime ; th e gallery is open Tu esday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m, and Thursdays un­ til 9 p,m.

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Guelph alumni support tops in Canada For the pa st six years,

Macleal/ 's magazi ne has published an an­ nual issuc on C anadian universities. In the area of alumni ,upport, the U niversity of Guelph has alway: ranked first or ~e co nd among uni­ vcr; ities of' i t, si7.e .

That says a lot about the commitment G uelph alumni have to the U nive rsity and the Irna Mater Fund (AM F).

In 19<)5, the Annual Fund rcceived SI,R72 ,2X4 to support ongoing projec ts such as scho larships and Pictured are representatives from the 20 classes that contributed the most to the 1995 Alma Mater Fund campaign. Front transition pro grams for row, from left: Arthur Ferguson, BSA '38; Gordon Wright, BSA '33; John Eccles , BSA '40; James Anderson, BSA '55; first- year studen ts.

William Mitchell, DVM '49; and Edward Brubaker, BSA '49. Back row: Russ Willoughby, DVM '57; Jean Lillie, B.H.Sc. '67; The 19<)6 A M F cam­ Murray Brown, BSA '51 ; Bill Gregg, BSA '53; Cliff Barker, DVM '41; Stan Young, BSA '49 ; U of G president Mordechai paign focused on the Rozanski ; Ann Smith, BSA '52; Glen Warl ow, BS A '42 ; Douglas Cunningham, BSA '48; Alexander Hunt, BSA '46 ; and need fo r computer Ken Murray, BSA '50.

Photo by Mary Dickieson laboratories, sc ho lar­ Earlier this faiL John Mabley, v ice- presid ent (dev elopment ships and fac ulty developm ent. The goal was $ 1.X 75 million, and public arfairs) , hosted the c lass agents respons ibl e fo r can­ ~1I1 c1 donations arc sti ll being tabul ated. vassing those top 20 c la ~ses. It was an opportun it y for the U ni ­ Ded icat cI AI'vIF vo lunteers w ho co ntact cla ss mates and ve rsity to say thank you for each person 's indi v idual dfort ancl fri end s and members of th e U ni vc rsit y community on behalf' of f'or the combined g in s o f th eir cla sse s. the A M F helped to make each year's campai gn a s uc cc~s .

The OAC classe s o f' 1955, 1949 and 1<)52 toppcd the li sl in 19<)5 , donat ing a comb ined total of $5 1,39 I . Tha t w as alm ost a T he harvest of graduat e donations cnjoyed by the U ni versity o f quarter or the $2 17 ,3 12 reali 7.ed by thc top 20 c l a~s dona tions, Guelph is th e direct re~ ult o r seeds sown on campu s in the first yea r of the U ni ve rsit y. T he sowers we re member,; of the 0 C Alumni Assoc iati on, w ho we re chal lenged by Tom M cEwa n, of G Board of Gove rn ors, to take pionee r chair o r the new the lead in building alumni support in th e founding coll eges.

Gord I ixon , OACAA presici nl at the time, accepted the challenge and set up it series o f mee tings wi th the exec utives of the OVC and Maccional d lnstitut e alumni associa ti ons. On Nov . 5, 1964. N i xon chaired a joint committee meeting in w hi ch members Jane McGillivray, DH E ' 34 , George Fisher, DVM '44, and Da ve Adams , BSA '49. approved a ciraf'tstate­ l11el1t of principl es that set the lOne for the alumni support Atill enjoyed toclay. The new association, it w as decided. wo ul d be set up " to rnobili 7,e on behalf of the niversit y of G uelph all the strength - moral, spiritual and financial - or its alumni ."

The niversit )' of G uelph Aluillni Associa ti on hcld its first genera l mee tin g at the 1966 Il umecoilling and w as incorpo­ rated De', 13, IlJ66. Now 30 years o ld , th e UGAA is still draw­ Three presidents celebrate 30 years of alumni involvement through the illg alumn i together ill suppol1 of the U niversity . it s alumni and UGAA. From left are current UGAA president Harold Whiteside, BA '82, ,student s. Read about current UG AA acti v ities in an interview U of G president Mordechai RozanSki and the association's first presi­ with president Harold Whitesid e on page 20. dent, Gord Nixon, BSA '37.

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Soggy weekend didn't dampen Homecoming spirit The play ing field was so soggy, the Department of Athletics cance lled th e Gl ory Bow l I'or Grypho n alumni , which is lrad iti onall y played on the morn­ ing of the Homecomin g game . The r<lin finall y stopped juS! be fore the 2 p.l11. kickoff. so the 3,250 fans stayed dry CI S they watched the G ryp hons el e­ feat the Toronto Blues .

Teams signed up for the annual softball tournCl ­ ment were di sappointed_ but most ineloor events were unaffec ted by the we t wea ther. Thc Aggie benefit dance drew 1.500 stude nt s. with proceeels going to the Olltal-io Fo un dation for Rural Li ving anel the Ont ario Farm Wome n's Netwo rk. T he Uni­ vel·.'ii ty of Gue lph Alulllni Assoc iat ion hosted 900 stuclents at Alumni Housc fo r the anllual new-.'i tu­ dent barbec uc.

Warm hearts warm seats in red rink Spec t,l[ors at the U or G Alumni Hockcy Tourna­ ment Nov. 29 to Dec. I sat in the red -rinJ.; bleac h­ e rs. which we re fundcd by proceecls from past tourn ame nt s. Commemorating the 10th anni ver­ sary of the tournament, ol'ga ni Le tS made .1 $6,000 donation to the Dep,rrt me nt o j" Athl etics to ,upport a bleacher-sea t pmjec t that wil l continue to benefit spec tat ors at other tourn amcnts. intram ural sport s and communit y eve nt s. A pluque has been instal led to ackno wledge the toum arne nl' s contribut ion. (; lI eflllt A 11111/1111.1

At the U.K. alumni recep­ tion, from left, are Mordechai Rozanski and Sean Garden, SA '93,

Rozanski meets grads in London U of G president Mordechai Rozan sk i and hi s wife, Bonnie, tra ve lled to England over thc Thanks­ giving weekcnd and met wi th 45 Guelph alumni and guests in London, The reception was also at­ tended by 16 studen ts and 22 business hosts and in­ structors involved with Guelph's study-abroad semester in London, The 16 students are B,Comm, in business and management economics, Their London term included an opportunity to work with British business hosts to cleve lop a practical under­ standing of international business, The University launched its London semester program in 1974 and later purchased Guelph Lon­ don House in Camden Town as a home base for the progmm, Since then, almost 3,500 students, fac­ ulty, staff and friends have stayed at the house while studying and travelling in Britain, Eli zabcth O'NeiL B,ASc. '74 ami M,Sc. 'tn, academic counse llor for the fall London semester, organized an evening reception for Guelph alumni to meet the president. He brought them up to date on happenings at the University and spoke of the

importan ce of Guelph's int ernational foc us, Sev­ era l of the 200 graduates who live in the United Kingdom sent news of family and caree r to share with other Guelph alumni, Those items are printed below.

During the U.K. visit. Roz,lI1ski ,lisa gave an in ­ vited paper on " Model1l.iza tion and US -China Re­ lations" at th e University of Camb ri dge, It was the opening lecture of a scminal' seri es for fa cult y and postgraduate students at the Centre of' International Studies.

Guelph students or alumni visiting Eng­ land to cont<1ct him by phone or fa x at 01752563554.

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Valerie Gossage, BA '86, was mar­ ried in Britain in 1990 [a DelTick Crook and has lived thel'e eve r since, She works in educational publishing, devel.­ op ing and edi ting materia.ls and books for teachin g English as a second lan­ guage. She is based in Oxford" but trav­ el s widely for her work and, in fact, missed the London reception becau se of a trip to Mex ico, Sh e says she doesn't gel to annda oft en enou gh, but ha, happ y memories of her time on thc Gue lph London semester.

Paul Manley,

,Sc, '84, is he,ld of bi­ ology and co-ord inator of ed ucation at a secondary schoo l in Plymouth , England. lie and hi s wife , Alison , have two chil ­ dren. Sarah and Harriet. He invites ( ; /1('/, ,11 , 1/111111111.\

Teresa Smith, BA ' 89. attended the London semesler in 1986 and enjoyed the city so much , she decided to Ill ake it her home. She is current ly workin g as a medical herbali st in London .

Eric Takens-Milne, MA '74, earned hi s Guelph degree in philoso phy and \-I·cn t to England with plans to complete <1 PhD, But instead of studying the phi­ losophy of architecture , he became an architect. He worked with a valiety of firms for more than 10 years, One or his laq:esl projects was the Swallow Royal Hotcl in Bristol. a US-million, three­ year project, Since then, he has written books for the building research estab­ lishment and gone back into teaching ­ guess what" - philusophy. He is now J lec turer at West Hens College in Wat­ ford and at the Univ ersity of Herlsfurd­ shire, He and hi s wife, Henrica, have two dau ghters. Racl1ael and Saskia, both at ullivel·sity .

James Usher-Wilson, ADA '29 ,md BSA '32, and his wife live in West Sus­ sex, but hi s hea lth has deteriorated due to a strokc .

Klara Vargha, DVM '86, is working

in a bu sy fi ve-veterinarian hosp it<ll in London , where she concentrates primar­ il y on fe line medicine . Sh L~ and her po­ lice sergeant husband. Ken. spend the ir free time tra ve lling as much as poss ibl e, Ln 1996, the y visited the Italian Alps. the Canadian Rockies anclthe Greek Is­ lands. V~lri' h a says ove 'X6 cla ssma tes are welcome to visit if they are tra ve l­ ling via London.

Elaine Warrell, MSA '59, says she's rounding off a career in inrcrnation,li crop-protec tion Joum,liism and publ ic af­ fairs by eliiting 3ncl publi shing Til t emp Pmrccr;oll Dil'('('{()JY , an interna­ tional who 's who in all aspects of crop protection, Of course, it in cludes an en­ try for OAC. Tim Westacoff, Mf\

'~,n , spent th e first 10 years o~· his ca reer working for Dun & Brad street Int ernationa l as a sa k s re presentative and bu siness devel ­ opment olTi ce l', then sales and project managcr. He no w has his own lab bu si­ ness (food technology), whic h has grown 1'10111 six employees to 12 thi s year and will gro w to 20 e ll1ploy ee~ by year's end. He and his wife, Sue, have one son, Tom, and a country home called Holly Tree F,lIm that has con­ sumedmuch or hi ~: ' pare time in renova­ ti ons.

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U.S. Friends meet The C hi cago-b;}~e d J'ri cnds of ni ve rsityof Guelph held it s annua.llllecting Nov. 2 with presi ­ dent Rene ZaJner, MA '88, presiding. Guest speaker was Pmf'. Constance Rooke, assoc iate vice­ president (aCademic), who spo ke about th e Uni ve r­ sity's stlcngths, c halle nges anc! priorities. Kathl-yn Elton, a.<;sis tant (Iit'ec tor for alumni progr<Jms, gave members an upda te on the Uni versi ty 's 1995 and 1996 fund-raising effort s.

Frie nds is a registered U.S. chant y that can ac ­ ce pt gift.<; fro m non-alumni Americans and issue tax. rece ipt s acce ptabl e to the lRS. Alumni living in the United States can now give directl y to U orG.

Left: Kathryn Elton, left, and Prof. Constance Rooke welcomed Rene Zajner to campus in October. Right: Pat Armstrong and Alan Watson admire her dog­ wood paintings in the Arbo­ retum boardroom. Below left : Monica Carsience and Greg Darter participated in a Department of Music alumni concert Nov. 7.

Dogwoods bloom at Arboretum Alth ough not a Gue lph g rad uate, arti st Pat Am1strong says she just naturall y tho ught of the Uni ve rsit y as an app ropria te site for her suies of fi\!e paintings o f dogwood bu shes. Eight mem bers of he r family, including brother Robert Me rrick , BSA '44. so n jim Crossland . ADA '74, and dau gh­ ter Pcggy Bri ght wel L BA '79, are graduates of lJ of G. Armstr'ong gave the five p<tinlings to the Arboretulll , where the y are no w cli,;p layed in the board roo m of the OA C Ce ntennwl Arboretum Ce ntre.

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Alumni fill concert hall Monica Carsicnce. BA '94, Greg Dorter, BA '93, ami John Zaelro. BA '78, teamcd up fo r an alumni conce rt Nov. 7 as part of the Depa rtment of Mu­ sic's Thursd ays at Noon concert scries. The free noon-hou r concerts are helel each Thursday through ou t the acade mic year in Room i07 of the Mac Kinnon Building.

Carsicnce , a mezzo-so prano, was accompanied

by Mary Loui se Vosburgh o n the piano . Doner as­ sisted on the sy nthesi zer whil e Uni versity of West­ e m Ontari o flutist Fiona Wilkin so n performed his co mpositi on Srl1/iJi()sis for Fllfli' {(li d f:'leu/Dllics.

The concert ended on a li ghte r note with Zadro im­ provi sing seve ral boogie -woogie numbers.

Zadro teaches at john F. Ross Sccondary Sc hoo l in G ue lph . Do rter is comp le ting a PhD in phil oso­ phy at Western. Carsience ha s just completed a B.Ed . degree at the Uni versity of Toron to and works with autistic ad ult s.

Anothe r alum ni co ncert will be held in April.

For detai ls abo ut schedu lecl pe rformers, cal l the Department of Mu sic at L t. 3127 .

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Ian Taylor, DVM '43, of Wh ee l­ ing, Ill. , was recently honored by hi s loca l Lions Club with rhe establishment of' a scho l­ arship in his Il ~me. [t wil l allow a blind or deaf child to attend a Lions summer carnp. During th e 3~ years he has been a Lions member, Ta ylor has attended meeting., in.'i8 co untries, including his birth co unt ry, Scotland. He emigrated with hi s pa l'e nts to Canada in the mid-I nos, stu died at Gue lph and spent mos t of his ca reer in a private veterinary practice in Wh ee l­ ing. La st year, he received a letter or congratula tions rrom U.S. President Bill Cli nton for hi s 50 yea rs of service devoted 1'0 animal wel fare.

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Onl., and is comp leting his 25 th consecu tiv e yeal' of coac hi ng I'oot­ ba ll ~t the school. In Sep tembel', he was induc ted int o the Wilfrid Laul'i er Universit y Sport s Hall or Fame for football. He played there a'i <I studell! rrom 1 96~ to 1971.

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Broughton ha s been ~n ASA E member for 31 years.

A prof'essor o f agricultll r ~ 1 engineering al McGill Un i­ ve rsity and an ex pert in d l'~i nage enginee ring and wa ter mallagel1lent, Broughton has been instrumental in heJping countri es such as Egypt, Paki slU n :lnd India install drainage and wa te r-Ill an~gement systems.

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Robert "Bob" Curtis, DVM '6 J and M.Sc. '6 ~, has been honored by Boehringel' Ingelhcim Ca nada Ltd. w ith tile es tablishment or tile 0 1'. R.A. Curti s Bovi ne Award Fund , whi ch w ill suppon studenl s .'i hmv ing ach ievement and int erest in bo vine medi cine. Cuni s 1m, taught ruminant he~lth managemenl for 35 ye<rr~. first at OVC ~nd 1l(1W at the l\t [ ~nt i c Vt;tcri nmy Col­ lege in Prin ce Eclwa l'd 1.,1'llld. The fund will be held jointly by th e two co llege.,. pl'oviding a yea rl y ,\wa rd for a st udent fmm each one. Paul Doig, DVM '60 and M .Sc. '70 , of Bochringer Ingc lheim was ,1 ~ ey player in es tabli sh in g the fund . The company is one of the wo rld 's leadillg animal-hea lt h cornpa nics. wit h

Kenneth Farrell, BSA '')0, rece ntl y retired as vice­ president, agri cu lt ure <lnd n,ltural resources, al th e Universit y o f Ca[iforni'l. Previou'il y, he w~s adminis­ tr ~tor of eco nomics and 'it~tist ics for the U.S. Depart­ ment of Ag riculture and direc tor of the N,ltional Ce ntre 1'01' Food ami Agri cu lture Policy <lnd Re­ sources for th e Fu ture in Washington, D.C. He and his wiCe. J'vlary, co ntinue to li vc in Oakland, Calif.

Arthur Maude, DVM '.'i2, ,lIld his w ife . DOI'is, me both natives of Gue lph . but have sren t most 01' tile past 44 ye ars in the San Gabriel Valley of so uthern C ~liforni,1. He still ope ratc'i a smal l-anim al practice, but the hour., me much Illorc rcl,j),ed than in p~'it years, partl y bec~use of th e csta bli shmellt 01' an emer­ gency pet clinic w itllil1 the practice that rcnlOvcd the duty of bein g on ca ll. He still serves on its bO<ll'd o f di ­ rect ors and is corporate secrc l,II,)' of Ihe clinic. Th e Maudes h<lve five dau ghters li ving in AI'i zo na , ld<lho, M ontana <lnd Nevada. The couple se es a lot of the COU IIlI'y as th ey tl'ave[ to v isit their d,lugh tcl's' t '~nli­ li es , whic h include 14 grandc hi ldren.

Edmunds Ozols, ADA '')7. I'e tired frolH th e On­ tario Ministry 01 Agriculture and Food in 1982 and no w com mutes annu ~ ll y between Cillacia and Lat via .

He received Can ada's Ce ntennial Medal in 1967 La st year, he was promoted to co [onel in th e Home Guard or Latvia ~nd wa~ awarded Lithuani a's Orde r of the Star.

The Class of '66A reunion. Front row, from left: John Elder, Don Crow, Rick Corewin , Ed Lagrois, Edgar Pilgrim and Murray Wolfe. Back row: Nick Whyte, Norm McCollum , Bev Hill, Jim Carson, John Creeden, Bill MacKay, Arch ie Sinclair, Ed Van Hoekelen, Dave Inglis, Glen Smyth, Bob Skerritt, Ross Johnson, ,Iohn Gaunt and Jim Caldwell. MiSSing from the photo are John Cassan, John Crispin, Willie Kuran and AI MacDonald.

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The OAC Class of '66A heJd it s 30th reuniol'\ July:W and 2 l althe O ld H omestead Campgrou nd in Bayfi ekl, Ont. T wenly -fuur 0[' the {)7 c lass mem­ bers att ended. Some thou ght the turnout was as good as il had been for many of th eir ~ a.m. clas ses at Guelph. They enjo yed a Saturd ay evening din ner cOLlnesy of Be v and Shir ley HilJ and a not-too-ea rl y Sund ay bre,r1d',lst organ­ i ze d by Norm McColl um. John Creeden and Bill MacKay helped with th e cooking. The class exeCLltive has organiLecJ Illany gel-togethers over Ihe ye,lrs and i s ,lir"eacly planni ng a reunion for 200 I. 27

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Carol Blackwell, BA '74. is a research assistant and projec t co-ordin:llor for the Ontario Rehabilita­ tion Technology COllsortium-Psychosocial Evalu­ ation Team, Sbe has two sons. JOllathon and Aaron. and li ves ill Willowdale , Geoffrey Cochrane, DVM '76. recently I'ece ived a graduate diploma in busines s administratio n from the School of Graduate Stud ies :md Resea rch at the Uni ve rsil y or Otta w,\. He alld his wife. Adele. operate Russell Velerinary Clinic in eastern Ontario.

Brion Hill, B,Sc, '76 alld DVM ' XO, allli his wile , Lourie Ponsford-Hill, BA '9 1, ha ve opened their OW Il busi ne ss in Woodstock, Ont. He h3s a praclice illilited to embry o Ir,lnsfe l- Jild ultrasound diagnostics: she runs Maple Hill Embryos Inc.. selling Canadian bovine embryos illlel'llati onally_

Don Milne, B,Sc, '7'K . moved from Olds, Alta. to Le thbri dge OVCl' a ye ,lr ago to assume the position of bl'anch manager 1'01' the Bank of Nova Scotia. He and his wife. Janet, and so ns , Scolt and Ryan, are e nJ oy ­ ing all that life in ,1 small tOWIl offers _Milne h:lS been with the bank for I [ years.

Louise O'Reilly, BA '72. li ves in Peterb orough, Onl" with her , on . Aaron. She works as a librarian in Ihe Trent University audio library ancl is involved with the loca l ,In gall ery.

Steven Oliver, B. Sc , '79, earned an MBA from iV1cMasler University in [996 afler si x years of part­ lime sludy, He worb in Oncology Products Services ror Wyeth-Ayerst Canada Inc , I-Ie and hi s wife.

Barhara_ ha ve two children: Laura. 6: and Peter. 4,

Ken Porker, BA '77, has returned 10 Ca lg;lfY 10 re­ Sliine his geo logical consulling prac tice in the perro­ leu m industry, He had bee n wo rking ill OnlMio as environme ntal systems co-ordinator for Williamsoll 's Prinling Materiab in C;rimsby_ where he initiated sev­ eral resea rch ;l nd developmcilt projech ror Ihe graphic ;Irls industry. He and his wil'e. Colleen, ha ve IIVO children: Quinn, 13: and AI:1ina_ 10,

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Lowell Ackerman, DVM '82, his wife, Susan , and their three children are li ving in Scolisda le, Ariz. He is a board-certif[edvetcl'inary derillatologist and has published 34 books and more than 2)0 book chapters ,md articles. He also 1ll,1IlUgCS a pet-health Web s ite at http://www. I·al11d yintemet.com/pe t/ind ex. htlnl . The Ackermans in vite e-mail frolll their Guelph friends at phi@ primcnet.coll1.

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Ann Campbell-Janz, B. Sc. 'X9 ,lI1d M.Sc. '95. o f Ncwlllark.el. ani. , is schcduled to begin a fi ve-ye'lr 1V0rk assignmelll in Zaire with her hu sband . Bruce, as re pres~n t~ti ves 01" the Mennonite Central Committee.

Both have p['e vious ly .servecl in Zaire witll thc devel­ opme nt and relief agency o f Nonh America[l Mennon­ ite and Brethren in Christ churches . A graduat e in I'ural ex tensi on stuciics, Ann last work ed as a co-ordi ­ nator with Ca nadian Crossroads [nt ernati ona l: Bruce worked 1'01' the C hri , t ian Childre n's Fund or Cill ada.

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Olayiwola Adeola, M.Sc. 'X6 a[ld PhD 'XlJ , Joi ned Purdue lni ve rsit y ,IS an assistant pro ressol' of animal science in IlJlJ I. He lVas pl'Ollloted to tenured associ­ atc professor in July IlJlJ6. He and his wire, Mope, and son , Tola, li ve in West Lafayelte , Ind.

Richard Besworth, BA '8X, and hi s wife, Denise (Sehgal), B.A.Sc. ' X7, livc in Br,lntpton, 0[11.. and both teach high school in Pee l Region. He teaches math and co mputer science ~t Applewood Heights in MiS\issaug~: she teac hes special ed ucati on and parelll­ ing at North Park in Bramptorl. They've been married rOt' five years and have two children, Hadey ~Ind Jah:e.

Jennifer Butler, R.A.Sc. '85 , is the mother or three and a professional home economist in Bathurst, N.B. Clle/jli! A/llmllll.1

Colin Christie, B.Sc. ' 137, i, gl'Oup underwriting [nanager at Sun Life of Ca[l ,[da in Toronto, where he h~ s work ed si nce gl'aduJtio[l. He and his wik, Susan. recently purchased a nc w hom e in i\lississ<tuga.

Mark Da wson, B.sc.(Ag [·,) '82. h,IS ope ned a new t[',[ining finn in Guelph, ca terillg 10 cOJllpanies and in­ dividuals in agribu siness. He brings 14 years or ~x pe­ riencc with such fimh as Clrgill. AgrEvo and Farlll Bu si ness CO[llIllUnicliions. The Ile w company, On the Mark Training. oilers corc serv iccs in lI-ainin g needs as.sesslllenl. pl'ogr,I[\l desig n, program delivuy, evaluation and follow up. U 01' G ['fi e nds are in vited to contact him bye-mail <ttmhda wso [l@ uog ue lplLca .

Susan (de Snoo) Berkhuizen, BASe. 'X) teaches fa[nil y studies in Madoc . ant. Sh e and her husband , Fred , li ve in Belleville with thei r childre n, Lynn and Lora.

Greg Boland, PhD ' X4. was cccentl y awarded the Go[·don 1. Grecn Award ror Outstanding Young Sci ­ entist by th e Canaciian Phytopathol og ical Soc iety ( PS). Boland is a prok sso r of plant pathology in U orG's Department 01 Environmental Biology, which he Jo ined in IlJ84 at the completion or his doctocal studies. His unde rgr'aduate ,mel [ll'l., ter' , degrees we re cOlllp lcted at Ac adi~ University in No va Scotia.

The CPS award ['ecog ni7.e, Boland's contributions to plant pat hology in l<mada throu gh research, teach­ ing ancl outre ,te h. Hi s re search is re l,l[ecito biological control of plant dise,lse, with special emphasi s on dis­ eases caused by scleroti,tl fungi and chestnut blight.

He has de ve loped a method of using fungi to provide biological contro l of danci elion s. In demand wo cld­ wide as a guest lecturer, Boland h~IS ~[ Is o chaired ami served on numerous COIllJllilieCS, including the pro­ gr~tn conlmittee and pl:lnt disease management com­ mittee of the Sixth International Congr ss of Pla nt Patho logy and CPS su bject commillces in di sease man~ geme nt, teaching and biological contl'Ol.

William Brown, PhD 'XJ, has been promoted to re­ sea rch associate pcofessor of racliol ogieal sc iences at BowJllJn Gray Schoo l 01' Medic ine in Wins tOIl­ Salem, N.C. He has bee n a research ass istant profes­ sor at the sc hool since IlJ92 , a ftC\' completing a re llowship at the Uni versity of Toronto faculty or Medic ine.

Denise (Lauzon) Dempsey, B.Se. 'X2 . recen tly Illov ed to Edillonton with her husiJJn cl, Williaill. and infant son, Yve,. After 12 ye ars or lVork.iu g as ,1\1 in­ forillation a[ld educ ati on co-ordinatOJ', she is cnjnyi[lg tht: change or pacc as a staY-,lt-lwlllc n1(1)1.

Rex Eng, M.Sc. '82, is all instructor in bi ology and Cll [nputer studi es ~t Riclwl ond Intcrnati onal Hi !!h Sc ho ol ami College in V'1I1cou vc r.

Gloria (Byers) Gibb, BA 'X6, is a credit rCpO rli[lg clerk 1'0 1' Creditel of Ca nada in Watc l'loo , ant.

Spencer GreenWOOd, B.Se 'R 7 ~nd M. Sc. 'l)(), earned a PhD ~t Dalhousi e Universit y and is no w ~ postdoc[or,tI rell ow in Gue lph's Departillent of Chelll­ istry and Bioche mistry. I-Ie is ;tlso pursuing it DVM. Greenwood is Ill<llTied to Dia nne Powell, B.Sc. ''1\7.

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Ruth Knight, B.Sc.(Agr.) 'Xc) a[ld ivl.Sc, '94, ,1I1d her husbancl, Tom Inglis, B.Sc.(Agr.) 'X9, ,Ire tc\['[lling ill the Belmore :lre<l of Ontal'io alld have ,I daughtcr, Erika , born in December 1SJlJ) Heather Lane, B.A.Sc. '89 <lnd M.Sc. '92. is co[\\­ pleting a doctor8te in hi gher-educatio[l adll\inistration at Bowling Grcen St,[te Uni ve rsity in Ohio ami is the new ly appointed de~n 01' students at Victoria Collegc, Uni vers ity of Toronto.

Kimberly (Lavigne), B.COIllIll. ·87 , and Robert Leigh, B.Se, ' X6, are li ving in Chal\\paigll , III. He is ,Ill ,1ssist<1nt professor of physics at the U[livcrsit y o r IJlinoi .s.

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3D 10 Oct. 4. 1996. The "nnuJI pi'OgralTl is a co-opna­ tive effol'l 01' OAC ami Ihc Ontari o In stit ut e of Agi'Olo­ gists. SJdler Richa rd s is J senior Ill'lll ager and a mcmber ot the board of dircctOI's ot Eco logislics Ltd .. one ot Ontario 's first en vironmental co nsult ing com­ pallie.'i. She has worked as a fonnet', extension s[lecial­ is\. rl.',carch writer and co mull anl, anel was awal'decl . 01' G 's Alumni Meclal o r Ac hie ve lnent in 1995 .

James Sefton, ADA 'tlO . is a lood in speclo r wi th Agrtculture and Agri -Food Can~lda ,mel run\ il beef and cash-cro p r'ann neal' Glencoe, Onl. He and hi s \Vi Ce, Me llisa, ha vc three ch ildren.

Dean Shantz, ADA ''Ii,7 and B.Comm.(At! r.) '91, is a tech ni cal sales representalive for Nutrilc LP in Elmi['a, Ont. He li ve) in Tavistock with his wile. Pat , and th eir tw o children : Emily, 3; ancl Mallhew, I. Allan Sinclair, B.Sc. '84 and SA ' 11.7 , recenll y moved to Lac La Blche, Alt,l., with his wife an d two chil dren to take on the dUlies or hospital adm ini stra tor thel·e.

Steven St, Clair, S.Sc.(H.K.) ' '11.9, is pract ising chi­ ropracti c medici ne in Gue lph at th e Family Chiroprac ­ ti c Cen tre on Go rd on Street.

Phil Thatcher, SA '86, is promotional manage r for Sleeman Brewery in Guelph. He', bee n with Ihe com­ pany since I9'Ii, fl.

Jan van der Hoops, B.Comm . ''Ii,2, and hi s family - Sono , Alene, Melanie and Seta - recc ntly moved fr om Calgary back tu On tari o. T hey are li ving in Oakville.

Suezanne (Kelly) and Kevin Weppler, both B.Sc.(Agr. ) '1\6, hav e relocated to ~(1exi co City. He is nat ional mmketin g manager for Elanco Animal Health . She was purchasin g co-ordinator for Maplc Leaf Poult ry in Toronl o until their so n, Wyall, was born in May. BOlh arc looki ng rorward lo ex perienc ­ ing Mexican culture ancl lea rn in g Spa nish and wo uld be pleased to hear fro m other gra ds 1,v110 are living or visiting in Mex ico .

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sa mple the crops in a fanner ' s fielcl , Afr i­ can e lepha nts w iII wa lk right ove r a high-volt­ age e lec tri c fence , but a Prof. Fred Dahms, left, helps Pat Rogers with a renovation project at one of Rogers 's cottages in Aries, France. row o f bitter-tasting co f­ l'ee plants will usu ally discourage their foraging.

That practical ~OJu ti O Il to a potential di saster comes i'roll1the experience.'i of a wildli fe consulr,llll wo rking in Afri ca. Pat Rogers, B.Sc.(Agr.) '7'2 , M.Sc. '79 and PhD '79, has devoted nearly 2() yeilrs to such c ndeavor). His Cls.'i ign­ me nts - mos tly for the United N:ltio ns Food and Agriculture Organi zation (FAO ) -ha vc focusecl o n conservation and the protection of wil d lil'e , while encou rag illg eco nomi c dcvelopment th rou gh farming, r;lr1c hin g an d tourism. [n the ea rl y 1980" he he lped init ia te a project to pro tect llol1hern white rhi­ nos in non heaste rn Zaire. Most of us know about the white I·hinos. the proJcct hav in.g rece ived much-needed publicit y throu gh sponsor:, hip by the Worl d Wildlifc Fund , UNESCO and o ther conse rva ti on groups. The rhino po pulation ha c! been decimated by hunters tractin g in rhin o horn . There we re on ly about 14 aniJl1als left in Garamba '\;ational Park when Rogers began camp<ligning for th e i I' protec t ion.

He W3S in Zaire as chief technical ad viser for an FAO projec t look ing at na­ tu re conserva tio n across th e coun try, nati on al parks and wildlife management.

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Morris spea rh eaded the birth of tl,e ann ual farm show. Bal'esich is a n ed it zldviser wilh the Farlll Credit Corp. in Simcoe. Onl.. ,md runs a cash -crop op­ erati on wi th his brolher in Newbury. He is also a di­ rec tor with the Lalllbton branch o r th e Ontario Federation of Ag ri c ulture.

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Extending thanks fronl Estonia

Lee-Ann Hayes, B.Comm . '<)5, is admini strati ve assistant at Wabco- Bennl['on Foundry in Wallace­ burg, Ont., and is wo rking 011 Le ve l 5 of her CGA designalion.

Kelly (Jean) Hetrick, BA '94, has been teac hing Engl ish in Japdn for tw o ye,lrs at hi gh schools an d universities. She plans to begin an MA co unse lling progl'al11 in 19 9~.

Valerie Hodowanski, B.A.Sc. '95 . rece ntl y COI11­ pleted a B.Ed . at the Univ ers it y or British Columbia and is no w teac bing fam ily studies in Grades 7 to 12 in 'vVest Vanco uver.

Jill Johnson, M.Sc . ' 92 , wo rk s at U of G as a pro­ gram cou nse llor for one of th e Uni ve rsi ty\ newest ue­ gree programs. the bachelo[' of sc ience in e nviron mental scie nces. The prog ram 's rirst Cld SS graduated ill June.

Lianne Johnson, BA '95, graduated ,I t lhe top o f her class in the pharmacy techni c ian program at C[m ­ hrian Co llege in Sudbury, Ont. She moved to British Columbi a last summer and is wo rking at Peop le ' s Drug Mart in Tumble[' Rid ge.

Brennan Jones, BA '93. earned il B.Ed. from Acadia Univ ersi ty in Ma y and is tea ching Grade 2 ror the Essex County Board or Education.

Peter Kebbel, BA '96, is a speciailst in compensa­ tion and pensions with Eco nomi ca l Mutual Insurance in Waterl oo, Onl. Hi s wife , Nancy (Kuntz), B.A. Sc. '96, is a manager with the Work ers' Compen ­ sa ti on BOilrd . T hey have tw o childre n, Ame lia <ln d T imothy.

Karen (Brownell) Knight, BASe. '94, works at Versa-Care Ccntre in Oshawil , Ont. She and her hus­ band, Brad, look forward to bea rin g rrom r['iends Sonja, Sara C" Sara G. and Taralee . Send e-tll ail to dn00294@mail. dul'llam.nel.

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B.Sc.(H.K.) '93, spent lasl summer in Ihe Queen C harlott e Islands o r Briti sh Columbia , but are now liv­ ing in th e Gati [le,IU Hills north 01 Ottawa. They we re married in DeCember 1994 and ha vc both been atte nd­ ing graduate sc hoo l. She studied arct ic seab irds while completing an M.Se. a\ Queen's Uni ve rsit y; he is a ph ys iot herapy stuci ent at the Unive rsity or Ottawa.

They invit e t'riencis to catch up vi a mail at T he Gate­ house, 57 Chemin Summ er, Cant ley, QC J::lV 313 , o r e-Illai I at s75 1626@aix. uottaw'l. ca.

Margaret Loosemore, BA '9U, is a g['aphic de­ signer and print consultan t in Austin, Tex. She Cil n be reached bye-mail atmloos emore@ao l. co m.

Ann Marie (Le CourtOis) . BASe. ' 90, dnd Scott Luce, BA '92, ,Ire li ving in Osceo la . Wi sc .. with their [X-Illo ilth-old son , Harri son. Sco tt is vice-pres [­ Gllf /ph A III!?II III ,

Tiina Kirik, B.S e. '92, is th e rirst Ca nadi,l\l student in th e vctc rilwry program at th e Estonian Ag ri cultural Univ ersit y (Eesti P611uIllapnclus Lilikoo l) in Tartu. She is pic­ tured here with a mu sc le prep ca lf ill the anatomy lectme room , but wan ts u\ to writ e abou t the lilmll'y at he r school. OV C a lumni recen tly senl a dOll<ltion 01' used textbooks, and Kirik wrote to say thank yo u. " I wo uld lik e 10 send thank, to OVC alumni and a specialth'lnk you to Da vid Hull (BS A '63) and OVC library stafr 1'01' the ir assistan ce in g<J th er illg much-n eeded learning material s to ex pand the ['e­ so urces 01 (l U[' library here. Alt hougll th e lan guage of instlu ct ion is Estoni an, Eng­ li sh i\ important as a sc:co nd language for rO['cign stud enb.

"I am proud to be the t'i['st Ca nad ian stud ent in the ve terinary rrog l<im here ill Tartu and to be able to bring learning resources hC['e frolll Canada . Now [ ,1m hunt­ ing 1'01 microscopes'" Kirik welcoJlles inquiries from otiler- (juelph alumni . Writ e to her at Estonian Agricultural UniverSit y. Departme nt of Illtem,[li otwi Re latioJls. Kre utLwa ldi 64 , Tartu. Estoni il EE140U.

dent o f sales al Ben ding Bnlllches Inc.: Ann Marie teaches Grilde 6.

Stephanie Machel, BA '90, WO ["ks for tile Re­

g ionallvlunicipality ot" Ottawa-Ca rlet on. She was 111,11­ J"[ ed las t Ja[lU ary to Otta wa law yer Dougl;)s Smith .

Karri Mcinroy. B.Sc . '9 1, ['ecellll y retllrnedlO Ca n­ ad ,1 after ri ve ye ars abro,ld in f\u str.Jiia and Scot land .

She obtaineci an M.Sc. in bioenginee ['ing whil e in Glasgow.

Sheryl (Royce) , BA '94, an d John McNiven, ADA '87 , were married in Jul y )995 and li ve in Hornby. 0[11. Sheryl recentl y ea rned an educati on de­ gree at York Unive ['sit y; John is <J dist['icl s;tles man­ ager with Northrup Kin g Seeds Ltd .

Tiffany (Lay) and Chris Meier, bO lh B.Se. '96, were married in Bur lington. Ont " Jul y 1:1. Jennifer McNaught, B .Sc( H.K.) '95, was a bri ciesm aid.

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Linda (Dawson) and Greg O'Brien, both BA '91, li ve in Hamilton, Ont. , wh ere she is practising fam il y, labor and insurance la w and h~ eci it s a trade maga­ zine. They met at Guel ph when bo th were e ditor~ at the Ollluriol1.

Michelle Wakelin , B.ScCH.K .) '94, is a legistered massage therapi st. She recently co mpl eted her co llege studi es along witb Dianne Moffat, B.Se.(H .K.l '92.

Al so workin g in massage the rJp y i... Wakelin's U o f G roommate Lori Cenedese, B.Sc.(H .K.l '94 .

Sheila (Wodskou) Phibbs, BA 'n , was married ill Jun e to Gl en, a fellow Haldimand Count y JuniOl' Fa rme r. They live in Jarvis, Ont. , but Sheila is still wOI' king for Jersey Canada in Guelph as assoc ia te edi­ tor of the Canodion ./C'rsey Breeder.

Richard Wenghofer, BA '92, rece ive d an MA from the Uni ve r'iily o f Western On tm io in 1994 anel is now vi ce -pre" ident o f a Cinancia l rn,lIlage ment cor­ porati on in To ront o. Hi'i wife, Elizabeth (Smoczynski), B.Se. '92, is an cpidemiol og ist with the Colkgc of Physi cians and Surge ons of On tari o.

The y ha ve a t\Vo-ye ar-old dau ghter, Grace .

Tracey Mazzocato, BA '9 1, earn ed a B.Ecl. at tb e Universi ty of Cal gary and is 110W teaching ~lt John Fmse r Secondary Schoo l in Mis sissauga, Ont.. work­ ing with dev e lop mentall y challenged teenagers.

Fraser Whitbread, B.Sc. '93 and M.Sc. '95 , moved this spI'ing to New Hamps hire, where he married Marya nn Nllwakows ki. I-Ie is now tech nical co-ol'di­ nator of SUIVILIS fo r Omega Optical in Brattl eboro , Vermo nt. Thei r home is a 1790 Ca pe Cod hou se in Swanzey, N.H . "There is life alter graduatio n," weitc.'i Whit bread . "Thanks, U of G, ("or ~I wonde rl'ul fi ve yea l's and two great degrees . No do ubt th ey've gone a long way in he lping me ge t wh ere I am today. Hello to all my Guelph fri ends, whercver th ey ma y be."

Janice (Galloway) Miller, B.Se. ' 93, gradu atcd fmm St. Clair Co ll ege in Winds or, On t., as a dental hy gieni st in 1995, was married in April 1996 to Carey and no w works and li ve s in Os haw a.

Glen Pyle, B.Sc.(H .K. ) '95 , wa s married Oct. 19 to Frances Roesch and is doing a PhD in physi ology and biophysics at the Uni versity o f Tennessee (Memphis) .

Stephanie Solomon, BA '93, heacied for Was hin g­ ton, D.C., after graduati on and work ed a'i a criminal in ves tigat or, th en a conso rtium (lge nt. She is 110 W stu dy ing at Nonh eas tern Un ive rsity lor a maste l" Sde­ gree in crimin a l Justice. She loves the prograrn , which sh e says benefits from some of th e top nill1ina l spe­ c ialis ts in the United Sta tes as teacher-so Shc 'd like to hear fr om Guelph fri ends. proks~ors and Theta sis­ ters . Her e-ma il add re:; siss k y ~ e@ n e t co m. ca.

Merrill Stephen, B.Sd H.K .) '9 1 an d M.Sc. '94. is enjoying the P,lcific Coast, wh ere she works as an in­ tcrp reter Cor the model forest projec t of Lon g. Beach, B.C. She li vcs on a sa ilboat anel sa ys she's taking ,Id ­ va ntage of the great sa iling in Barkley and Claquo t so und s.

Deborah Smyth, B.A .Sc . '94, comp leted a pro­ gram in hum<ln resources man age ment at Sheridan College in 1995 and i, now wo rkin g in the 11L1l11 ,[I1 re­ sources departm ent of FellCo Automotive in To ront o, Doris (Faust) Villeneuve, BA Se. '90, teaches in Ti mmins, On t. , and was marri ecl in Aug ust.

Shoun a (Courtney) , BA '9 1, and Chris Tiedeman, BA '93 , ph oto right , ce lebrate d the ir first weddin g anni­ versary J uiy 29. T hey met as stu cients in So uth Reside nces in 1989 and ha ve been toge ther eve r since. They are now liv­ ing in Barri e, Ont., where she is a te ach er and he is an ed ucat ional assistant.

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Gordon Wollenberg, M.S c. '90 ancl PhD '92 , suc­ cessfully eompicted the Ameri ca n College of Vet eri­ nary Palho logi sh' ce nil'y ing ex arninari ol1 in veterinary path ology in Se ptembe l' ,lilt! is now ,I mem­ ber of the college. He is an as.'i i, tant pro ks,<lr of ve t­ erinary path ohiol ogy at thc Universit y o f I1lino i,.

Abbreviations Bl\ = Bachel oe of arts B.A.Sc . = B<lchclor of ap plied sc ience B.CoJlln). = Bachelor of co mm erce B.H .Sc . = Bache lor 01' house hold science BLA = Bache lor of lands cape architecture B.Sc.( Agr.1 = Baclle lor o f sc ience in agri culture B.Sc . = Bachelor of 'icience B.Sc.(Eng.) = Bachel or 0 (" science in cn ginec rillf', B.Sc.( En v.1 = BJchelor of .'c ience in environme ntal science'i B.Sc.( H.K. I = Bachelor of 'ic icnce in hU/1l,11l kinetics B.Sc.( P.E. ) = Bachelor or ,ci cnce in phy sical eciucalion DV M = Doctor 01' vcteri,l<ll'y med ici ne ADA = ~socia t e dipl oma in agei c liiture DH E = Dip lolna in homc economics ODA = Ontari o diploma in agri culture OD H = Ontario dip lomJ in honiculture PhD = Doc tor of philosoph y GD = Graci uat e diploma MA = Master of arts M.Agr. :; Master of ag riCUlture MFA = Maste r of fine art MLA = MaSier of landscape C1I'chi teclurc M,Sc. = Ma'i tci' of se iencc

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Jul y 22, 1996 Roy Alkema, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78, May 28, 1996.

Irene Anderson, B.H. Sc. '65, Oct. 27. 1996.

Eric Blaney, BSA '27. Sept. 4, 1996 Kenneth Borisuk , BSA '35, June 15.1996.

Katherine Bousfield-Wagner, BA.S c. '80, Aug. 8, 1996.

Margaret (Smith) Bunnell, DHE '47, Oct. 24 , 1996.

Joseph Pires, B.Sc.(Agr.) '86, April 1993

Michael Provart, M.Sc. '70. Aug . 5,1996

James Rattray, DVM '38 , Au g. 24 , 1996.

Douglas Ross, BSA '39 , Se pt. 13, 1996.

Alma (Phillips) Rowan, ADA '57, 1995

James Savage, friend of BSA ' 27 , Sept. 27. 1996.

Thambipillay Selvarajah, PhD '70, 1996.

Harold Shillinglaw, DVM ' SO. June 17 , 1996.

Belle (Bates) Shirlaw, DHE '26. March 6, 1996.

Fred Campbell, BSA '3 8. Nov. 22, 1996

Dorothy Smith, DHE '27, May 12, 1996.

Mary Clark, DHE '38, Aug. 2R. 1996.

Gordon Smith, OD l-I ' 64, Aug . 20 , 1996.

Leslie Colebrook, BSA '38. Aug. I I . 1996.

Betty-Jo (Willmott) Stover, ADA '48,

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Keith Collver, BSA '49, Au g. LL , 1996.

William Corbett, ADA '48, May 1996.

Roderick Currie, DVM '71, Jul y 1995.

Dale Sumsion, BSA '64, Oct. 9. 1995.

Margaret Todd, DHE ' 39, Feb. 20, 1996

Doreen Dawson, DHE '36. Sept. 2 1, 1996.

William Telford, ADA '42 and BSA '45.

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George Elchuk, ADA '31, July 8.1996.

Ion Trant, BSA '38, March 24, 1996.

Russell Fontaine, ADA '36 and BSA '39, Au g. 6, 1996

Lawrence Whelan, BSA '41. Aug. 22, 1996.

Cleta (Watson) Forsyth, DHE '33. June I S. 1996 Robert Gahagan, DVM '42. Oct. 17 . 1996.

Marjorie (Steinhoff) Gibson, DHE ' 30, Sept. 8, 1996.

Donald Gillies, ADA ' 35 and BSA '38, Oct. 25, 19% Brian Gillis, ODH '77, Se pt. 22, 1996.

Jean (Clark) Hamilton, DHE '26. Nov. 26, 1996.

Michael Hawkins, ADA '64. May 10, 1996.

George Hendry, B.Sc.(Agr.) '67 and M.Sc. '68.

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George Herlihey, DVM '47 , Oct. 8,1996.

Frances Hucks, Dl-IE '26, Nov. 5, 1996.

Robert Jack, DVM '7 1, 1996.

Fred Jerome, ADA '30, BS A '33 and MSA '35, Dec. 1, 1996 .

Barry Johnston, ADA ' 56, September 1995.

Victor Lang, BSA '48. Oct. 10,1995.

Albert Lewis, DVM '39, Sept. 13 , 1996 John McKay, DVM '59, Jul y 25, 1996.

Helen McNairn, DHE '25. Sept. 26. 1996.

Ralph Mutrie, DVM '34, July 30. 1996.

Shirley (Cumming) Nolan, B.H.Sc. '59, Nov, 3, 1996.

Eric Pallister, DVM '39, Nov. 12, 1996 .

Mae Patrick, DHE '37. Au g. 30, 1996.

Helen Penhale, DHE '26, Sept. 30, 1996 Clfell)i! Allfl1/11lfS

Gordon Baux, DV M '42 , died Jul y IS, 1996 , in Calgary. Hi s ca reer sp<HU1ed 36 years with Agri cul­ tu re Canada in Albert a. He is survived by bis wife.

Simone; his son, Bi ll ; and hi s daughter. Jucl y Aikenhead .

Donations given in memory of deceased alumni will help support scholarships at the University of Guelph if directed to the Alumni Memorial Fund.

Send c/o Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N1 G 2W1.

For information, call 519-824-4120, Ext. 6183.

LeRoy Brown, BSA '42. of Lindsay, Ont .. died Ju ly 22 , 1996. He serveclthree yea rs in th e R ' AF after graduation, becom in g a navigator in 410 Couga r Squadron. After tile wa r, he became an agricultural representati ve witi1 the Ontario Department of Agri­ cu lture and serv ed 33 yea rs before rctiremenl in 1076.

A longtime commun it y vo lunteer, he was ac ti ve in the Ontario Institute of Agrologi sts and wa, ,ecretary of three international plowing malches. He is sur­ vived by hi s wife , Aili , three children and six grand­ chilcl[·en. Donations can be made to the Year '42 alumni fund through Alumni House.

Jeff Burnie, B.Comlll. '84, diecl sudd enl y Oct. 9.

1996. A captain in th e Ca nacli an Forces. he had served as a food-se rvices officer fo r 12 years. He was posted in Ca lga ry, Shilo. Man. , and North Bay, Ont., and did fiv e United Nati ons tours. He is survi ved by his wife, Ki m, and two children.

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Charles Campbell, BSA '50. of Kin gsv ille, Ont , died Jul y 4, 1996. He ca me to OA C ~fte r a distin ­ gui shed career as a ta il gunner in the RCAF during the Second Worl d War and went into teac hing aft er grad uati on. He ['etired as vice-principal at Kingsvi lle Dist ri ct High School. Ac ti ve in the Kingsv ille Le­ gion. he helped es tablish th e Legion 's milit3['y mu­ seu m in Kingsville and was awarded the Leg ion 's highes t honor, the Merit ori ous Service Meda l. He is survi ved by hi s wife , Grace, four child['en and Jn any grandchildren <:lod grea t-grandch ildren.

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Dale Charlton, B.Sc.(Agr.) '85, died Sept. 29, 1996. He was an employee or Ontario Swine Improve­ ment In c., an av id hockey player and a minor- hockey coach in his home town of Dresden. He is survived by hi s wife, Collee n, and four children, Kyle, Curtis, Kendr a and Cody.

Everett Franklin, BSA '47 and MSA '48, of Guelph died Oct. [, [996. A fonner professor in the Univer­ sit y's Department of Horticultul'a[ Science , he is sur­ vived by hi s wife, Eileen: three daughters, Margaret Gadd , Susan Adamowski, B.Sc. '70 , and Debra McCarthy, B.Sc. (Agr.) '78; s ix gra ndchildren ; and four great-grandchildren.

Jane Jones, B.Colllm. '95 , of La va[ , Que .. died Ju[ y 5. 1996. After g raduati on, she wo rk ed at Le Ce n­ tre She raton in Montrea[ , then set off on what was to be an extended world tour. A[thoug h un ab le to co m­ prete the tour du e to illness, she lo ved to tra ve l and managed to visit the United Slates, Ihe Ca ribbe;m and mu ch of Europe. She worked for three winter seasons in Verbiel', a ski resorl in the Swiss Alps. She is sur­ vived by her parents . Jon and Mal·garet.

Campbell MacKay, DVM '50 , of Cambridge, Onl., died July 26, 1996. A nalive of Owen Sound and an RCAF veteran of the Second World War, he t'o uncled MacKay Anima[ Clinic in Whitby in 195 7 a 11([ retired trom aClive practice in 1986. An aC li ve Ro­ tarian, be was a Paul HarTis Fel[ow and a member of church choirs in Whitby and POri Orange, F[a. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice: his son, Clayton, DVM '70, former director of OVC's Vetel'inary Teaching Hospita[: his daughter-in-[aw . MJrY Lynn : and two grandsons, Mich,le [ and David, SA '93 .

The Universit y of Guelph Alumni Association (UGAA) will present Ihi s award to a gradua te who has demonstrated loyalty and commitment to the University ofGuc [ph by SuppoJ1in g it through voluntee r work. To be pre­ se nted in th e sprin g at the UGAA' s annual volunteer reception.

Alumnus of Honor The UGAA recogni zes an alumnus who has brought great honor to his/hcr alma mater and fe ll ow alumni thr ough signif'icant contributions to community se rvi ce, sc ienc e, education, bus iness , industry, the arts or alumni affairs. To be aw arded during Alumni Weekend in June 1997.

Alumni Medal of Achievement A gradu ate of th e las t 15 yea rs will be recognized by tile UGAA for contribu­ tions to co untry, com munity, profession or the worl d of' arts and [etters. To be award ed dur ing Jun e convocati on ce remo nies.

To obtain nomination form s for the above awards, contact Sarah Nadalin, UGAA nominations committee, Aillmni House. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 14, 1997.

OVC Distinguished Alumnus Award Prese nted annu a l[ y by the OVC A[umni Associat ion , this il wa rd recog ni zes a gradu ate who has brought honor to the colJege and fello w al umni t[lro ugh le~ d e r ship and service to co unlry, science, ed uca ti on. profession or a[l11a m ~ ­ ter. To be presented during A[umni Weekend in June .

Nominall on fOllllS will be avai[abl e in the December issue of Tf}(: Mai [ co mpleted forms to th e OVC Alumni Association c/o Sa rah Nada lin, Alul11ni House, by Feb. 28, 1997.

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George Bedell Award of Excellence This aw ard is presented 10 a graduate of the School of HOle I and Food Ad­ ministration who best represents the school in terms of prot'css ionalr sl11, achi eve ments and cont ributi ons 10 the hospita[il y industly To be [)l'csL' nted in th e sp ring.

Nominatol's should send Iheir name, telephone nUl11ber (hom e and busin ess) 10 Ihe Geo rge Bedel[ Awal'd committee , c/o Laul'ie Mal[ ea u, A[ul11ni House.

The dead line is Feb. 28, [997.

Award committees fo r the above can be reac he d th r ough Alu m ni House at the University of Guelp h, Guel l} h. Ont. N 1G 2W I. Call 51 9-824-4 120, Ext, 6657, or e-mail toaillm ni@uog uel ph.ca.

Fred Presant, ADA '21 and BSA '23 , died

ov. l1 , [996. Arte r serving as a fi ghter pilot ill th e Firsl World War, he studied at OA C ancl th en bega n a ca ­ reer in agricullure . In [92R, he co-ro unded Toronlo Elevators, a grain co mpan y later bought oul by Map[e Lea!' Mills. Durinp. thL' Second World War, h e~l'rve d with thc Canadian r'orccs Train ing Co rps and wa, nam cd a melllbe r of thc Order of the Briti sh Emp ire.

Mr. Presa nr estab li shed himse lf' as a leade r in the Canadian feed indu,;try. He was made a fellow of the Agricu[tura[ InSlitutc of Ca nada in 1949 and named to the Canadian Agriculture Hall 01 Fame in 19R6.

He served on the exec uti ve of the OAC Alumni As­ soc iatio n and WJS it represe nt ati ve on th e Uni ve rsit y of Toronto Se nate. He was the fir st chair o t th e OAC Ad visory Board and later c h~ire d the Boa rd or Re­ gents of the Federat ed Co l[eges . This w~s one of the firsl StCps in th e creat ion o t th e Unive rs ity of' Gue [ph , which he also served as a member of Board of Gover­ nors. He was n~l)1 ed A[ul11nu s of' Honor in 1971.

PI'edeceased by his wife, Nora, DHE '25, he is sur­ vived by his daughter, Jo~n Rothman and his son, Fred. A life insuran ce policy provided by Mr Presant will contribute to sc holarships al Gue lph. Additional donations can be madc to the Fred Presant JVlcmorial Fund , payable to th e OAC A[u mni Fo undation, c/o Alumni House, Univ ersit y of Gue [ph .

Friends Margaret (Baker) Maclean of Maitland , Onl. , died Sepl. 2(), [906. T[le dau~hl cr 0 [' ['orlller OAC pro­ lessor A.W . Ba["c r, she prac lica[[ y grew up on cam ­ pus , alon g with hel' s iSlers, Ruth Wright, Ol-It: '\7, and th e [alc Loui se McCo llul11 . P l'edecea~cd by hel' husband , Findla y Barnes Mac lean, she i, also sur­ vived by her brother-in-la w, Gordon Wright, BSA . 33, andthn:e ste pchildren. Through her" ill , Mrs. Maclean has pro vidcd for a sc ho larship to be named in memory of her fathe r.

Fred Presant

Ruth Saison McQueen o[Gue [ph died OCl. [4 , [906. She was a large ly se lf-edu cated wO lnan who overcame ill health and modest beginnings to build an intern ational reputation as <l sc ienti st through her work at OV e. She was also a ta lented piani st.

Mrs. McQuee n was hired as a [aboralory tcchnician al OYC in 1945. She <.i ltencl ed a two-year prograll1 at Cambridgc University in Eng [,lIl d, where ShE studied th e blood typing of cattl e. and pioneered research that applied the lec hni que to Ihe production and breeding o r calli e, sw in e, dogs and mink.

After her rctirement in 1978, she married Duncan McQ uee n and de voted her time 10 community work.

She is .'iurvivec[ by her hushand.

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Cut/ine.· Suzanne Gray is a second-year student in zoology: Luke Williams will graduate in June 1991 witl7 a BA in English.

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