Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1996

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September 1996 Editor MMy Di ckieso n Executi,'e editor Sandra Webster, 8A '75 Contributors Barbara C han ce, 8A '74 Eli zabeth Dagg , 8A '93 Tina Veltri , 8A '95 Ke rith Waddington , 8A '96 Debbie Thompson Wilson, BA '77 Design/production Mary Di ckieson Lind a Gra ham , BA '77 Editorial Advisory Board Mary Dickieso n, c hai r Susan Blair, BA '83 G uu ~ Haza laar, BA '76 Klari Kalkman, B.S e. '79 She ila Levak , B.Comm. '83 De ni s Lynn, B.sc. '69 C rysta l MaCKay, BSc.(Agr.1 '93 Dan Me lanson. BA '89 Pau le tte Samson Riw Sterne, B .Comm . '87 C harl ene van Leeuwe n, BASe '87 Bob Winke l, B.Sc .(Agr.) '60

On the cover

More than 1,000 student at hletes have battled on the Guelph gridiron since rugby football was firsl played on campus 1 15 years ago, They won. They lost.

They became heroes in the hearts of their fan s and lege nds in campus hi story, Guelph's traditi on of edu­

4 A win in the locker room

cation and athletics has bred a school spiril that wou ld be hard to duplicate anywhere else .

5 Helping students

Cover design by Rick Coffey of Lionheart Lithography, Cambridge.

7 Campus

9 Football legends

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Gu elph (I SS N 0830·3630) , Vol. 29,

No.2. Copyright 1996. Publication

dates are Ma y I, Sept. I and Dec . I.

Thi s publica tio n is guided by Guelph' s sta ndards of qua lily and good tas te. Opinions ex pressed are those o r Ihe con tribut ors and do not necessari ly re ncctthe orue ial position o f th e Universit y or th e UGAA. Cop­ ies of the magaz ine'S ed itorial po li cy are available 0 11 re ques t.

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19 Research pays "The Gryphons don ' I love the ir school becau se of the football- it 's Ihe other way around . But foot­ ball is certainly a potent s ymbol of that deeper affec­ tion." These are the word s of alumnus Pat Tracey,

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who played more footba ll games in a Gryphon uni­ form tha n any other player.

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Gryphon Lair makes it to the Hall of Fame!

All-Canadian Kyle Walters, No. 12, and 1995 Wildman Trophy winner Kip Wigmore, No. 30.

Photo by Martin Schwatbe

he Gryphon locker room in

IUllln i tadi um has won a ner1h in the unadian ·ootball liall of Fame and M u cum . re p­ lica of the ry phon Lair will be insta lled next. pring as a pe nna­ nen t display at the Hmnilton , nt., museum. hosen in a nationwid ompeti tion. lhe 'lir will be ~ atllred in an interactive display thaI will invite visitor. to try on un i folm~, lis­ ten to the coach's pre-game instnlctions and re pcat the R udya rd Kipli ng poem that each Gryphon captain reads to inspire his play­ ers before a game.

Generall y off lim its to the public the Guclp h locker 1'00111 is

painted in Gryphon red, gold and black and is decorated with more tha n 65 action photos of fonner uelp h player:', including many who weI t Oil to play professional footbal l. Each locker has its own name plate, and inside the sec urity box is a list of f0l111er players who ha e used that locker since the sta liurn opened in 1970.

To get into the Lair, ph ers W[llk through the Hall of Honor. w hic h displays action photos of ue lph 's W ildman T rophy win ­ ners.On l"rio niversity thlctic sso ialion individual ehmllpions ,md school reco rd ho i I rs. T here is a si '-foot Grypho n pa inted on the wa ll , and a. players pass il on Iheir way to the fie ld. each one louche: the front c law for good luc k.

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U of G will meet the challenge, match the dollars Bct ween now an d the end of March 1997, the University will seek the sup port of its alumni and frien ds for an initiative that promis es to sig nificanlly e nhance financial resources for student assistance. ailed the niversity 0[" G uelph 0PPOI1u­ nity F und. it has been created with the help of a uniquc dollar-for-dollar matching-grant pro­ g ram announced by the Ontario government in May .

T he govel11 ment has c hallenged all Ontario colleges and uni e rs ities to increase endow­ ments for student assistance at a time when tui­ tion costs are steadily increasing. The average cost of annual. tuition for a student enlering Guel.ph this fall is $2 ,450. Te n years ago, it was $1,214; 20 years ago, it was $580.

A unive rsit y education re mains as sound an investmenr in young people as it ever was, and generous giving to the University of Ciuclph Opportunity Fund wi ll e nsure that well-moti­ vated students always have access to Guelph 's quality programs.

University president Mordechai Ro za nsk i we.l comes the pro vincial matching-grant chal­ lenge, calling it an " exceptional opportunit y" for Guelph to stren gthen its resources for stu­ dent assistance. Student aid throu g h sc holar­ ships and bursaries is a U of G priority , ex pressed public ly in Guelph 's s trategic-plan­ ning docume nt Making Change.

The Opportunity Fund will complement the University 's recent move to double its bursary program. Revenue generated from tuition in­ creases has enabled Guelph to award 500 ne w e ntrance award s of $500 each this fall. The 2,600 applications received for those new awards demonst rate a need among students for more financial aid.

Tuition reven ue has also provided an addi­ tional $500.000 unde r the Ontario Student As­ sistance Program and a $100,000 aHocation to a new Uni ve rsity-based work/stud y program.

In the 1996/97 acade mic year, U of G will award a total of $180,000 in bursaries and about $1.5 million in scho lars hips, including 13 President's Scholarships of $20,000 eac h.

Gifts and pledges to the University of Guelph Opportunity Fund must be cOlTunittecl before March 31,1997, to qualify for govern­ ment matching.

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From the president The U niversity's Board of Governors recently approved an av­ e rage 19.6-per-cent increase in undergrad uate tuition to take ef­ fect in Ihe 1996(97 academ ic year. This decision was reac hed only afte r the most careful consideration of practical altema­ tives, and Ihe U of G community re mains comm itted 10 e ns ur­ ing Ihn! a G ue lph education will always be accessible to qualified stude nts.

T o h Ip gua rantee G uel ph ' s accessibility to wcll-motivaled stude nts, 18 per cent of the tuition in­ crease will be direc ted to stu de nt as 'islance purposes, exceeding the IO-pc r-ce nt m.inimu m recommended by the pro ineial government.

This will place Guelph in the top half of universities in Ontario in student 5chol­ arship/bursary reso urces at the unde rgraduate level. AI­ mosl 950,000 will become available in this ac ademic year for fin anc ial aid , merit­ and needs-based entrance Chancellor Lincoln Alexander, left, and president Mordechai RozanSki , far right, signal the need to work with students to awards. the bursary program meet their academic and financial needs. and the work/study program.

Photo by Martin Schwalbe We ha ve moved filmly and decLsively at the Univer­ sity of Guelph to ease the im­ pact of a necessary tuition increase, and now the University has been g iven an exceptional opportunity to fUlth e r strengthen re­ so urces for student assistance, which we are calling the Univer­ sity of Guelph Opportunity Fund.

The Opportunity Fund is based on it pledge announced this May by the Ontario government. w hereby cach co.llege and uni­ versity in the province is challenged to enhance funding for stu­ de nt assistance purposes.

For every private endowment dollar raised be­ fore March 3 J, J 997. the province will invest a marched dollar.

The University'S distingu is hed chancellor, Lin­ coln Alexander, has agreed to serve as volunteer c hair for the U of G Opportunity Fund , which he be­ lieves offers meaningful potential for Guelph's abil­ ity to continue to attract se rious students irrespective of their financial background.

When you are asked to support U ofG's trust fund, please remember what a Guelph education has meant to your life and 10 the lives of those yo u cher­ ish. Your gift will help ensure that our university can continue to serve into the future with the aca­ demic distinction and student accessibility that have characte rized its past.

Give to U ofG' s Opportunity Fund, and the Ontario govern­ ment will match your gift dollar for dollar.

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Aquatic sciences receive LCBO funding U of G' s aqua ti c sc iences researc h fa cilit y will be buoyed up by funding from the Liquor Control Boa rd o f Ontario 's 1996 Shop the World-He lp Save the Animals campaign.

Guelph received $40,000 thro ug h the Wo rld Wild­ life Fund (WWF) , a partrrer a lo rrg w ith the Carradia n Nat ure Federati on (CNF) in the LCBO campa ign, w hi ch rai sed a total of$147 ,000.

The dorration wi ll be used to support co mpl eti orr of the H age n AquaJab arrd th e Axelrod Irrstitute of Ichthyology. arrd to enhance fa c ulty researc h ai med at protectirrg, preserving arrd managi ng aquati c re­

Parents support library

sources. Thi s s uppor1 builds on proceeds received from the 1995 Shop the World ca mpaign, whic h were used for resea rc h on loo n mOI1ality.

C BS dean R obe rt S he ath says he'" pleased that the WWF e nd o rsed U o f G 's project and represented the fac ility to participants during the promotiorr. "The e n­ hanced p ubli c awa rerress of the aquatic sciences fac il­ ity is illlpo rtant ," he sa ys. " It re in forces to the public o ur dedicati orr - alo ng with the WWF and C F ­ to th e mainte nance arrd protection of our natural re ­ so urces .. , The $40 ,000 earmarked for G ue lph co mes fro lll nin e of the wi neri es and d ist illeries that pa I1icipa ted in the ca mpa Ig n. They are Andres Wines Ltd., Sea­ gram Canada, Hiralll W a lke r Sa les Division . Gilbey Can ada Irrc. , Pelee Is land Win e ry and Vineyards Inc., Sainsbury and Co. Ltd .. Calona Vineya rd s, the Ma rk Anthony G roup . and Fea the rstone and Com­ pany Ltd .

T o date, $4.9 millio n of the $6-million fu nd-ra ls­ ing goal for the aq uati c sc ien ces facillty has been rai sed , allowing the Unl vers it y to corrSlruct two of the facility' s buildings and finish some interior roo ills. Eleven of 27 la borato ries in the H age n Aqualab are completed , and res earc h has begun.

Fund raisin g co ntinues for the balance of $ l.1 m il­ lion needed to ope n the comp lete fac ilit y a nd e stab­ lish an ope ratin g e ndowment.

"The breadth of Univers ity research in aqu atic sys­ tems and their co nserva ti on will be g reatl y e nh anced w ith the co mp le tion of this Fac ility ," says John Mab ley, v ice-pres ident (development a nd public a f­ fairs). "The Unlv ers it y is grateful to both the WWF and the LCBO for the ir support o f the aquatic sci-

OVC reviews curriculum OVC has received a $260 .000 g rant from the Max Be ll Foundation to s upp o r1 th e co llege's ongo ing pro­ ject of c urri c ulum re ne wal and deve lopme nt kn ow n as DVM 2000.

N o o ne recogrri zes the escalatirrg cost of a un ive rsit y edu catio n more th a n pa re nts, so it' s not surp rising that those who are able to give do g ive gerre r­

ous ly to U o f G 's parent li brary fund. Launched irr 1990, the Pare nt s ' P ro ­ gram has raised more th an $657 ,000 in g i fts arrd pledges. Stude rrt ca lle rs netted an all-tillle hi g h in pled ges ove r the past yea r, fin is hing in June with $132,466.

Pictured a bove are sOllle of the stud ents who made it happe n. E ac h o ne is a two- o r three-year veteran o t' the te lep ho ne cam paign . Front row , from left. are Azeeza Ali . Natalie Basaraba. Do nr~al y n Charles a rrd Lu ke Williams. In back are c hi ef librarian Mike Ridley , le ft, and progra m chair Han k Vander Pol, a 1965 g radu ate of OAC an d the pare nt of a U of U student. Money ra ised through the tele phone ca mp a ig n is used to buy library reso urces for un ­ dergradu ates. R id ley says th at Parent s ' Progra lll material is used more ofte n than most othe r reso urces in th e library .

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The grant w ill be used to hi re 3rr educa ti o n s pec ia l­ ist to work w ith OVC facu lty over the next fi ve yea rs

to irrtrod uce, im pleme nt and assess an outcomes­ based curric ulum. The specialist will a lso be acti ve in suppOlting irrte runiv e rs ity con s ultation. As part of thi s project, the information gathe red thro ug h curricu ­ lum de velo pment wi ll be shared with oth er vete ri­ na ry co lleges.

OVC has bee n involved in c urcic ulum re vie w s ince the laurrch of DVM 2000 in 1993 . Recogmtion of the importance of fa c ulty deve lopme nt and cur­ ric ulu m c hange was sparked by a 1988 re port of the Pew National Ve terinary Program in the Unlted States. It c alled for changes in ve terinary ed ucation in res ponse to the c hang ing veterina ry needs of soci­ ety. The re view was a lso supported by Max. Be ll.

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Uof Gwelcomes college students U of G continues to build on artIcu lation agreeme nts that a llow college st udents to tran sfer to university programs and vice ve rsa. Se nate has appro ved new agreeme nts between the FACS c hild studies program and Fanshawe CoJlege and the Loyali st College of Applied Ans and Techn ology.

Gradu ates of Loyalist and Fanshawe's early child­ hood educa tion diploma program will receive recog­ nition for designated advanced standing credits at Gue lph for completion of the B.A.Sc. in child stud­ ies . The communi ty college graduates admitted to Guelph can a lso par1icipate in the Uni ve rsity's study­ abroad programs.

Both Gue lph and community co llege graduates will be able to take pat1 in other U of G ar1i cu lation agreements, suc h as the one wi th tile faculty of edu­ cation at Nipissing College.

Tax credit boosts co-op programs The 700 students enrolled in U of G' s 3 1 co-op pro­ grams may find it eas ie r to land a place ment thanks to a ne w emplo yer tax credit introduced in the On­ tario provincial bud get May 7.

Beginning Se pt. 1, e mployers ca n claim a tax credit of up to 1,000 per co-op placement. The ta x sav ings to co rporations is equa l to to per ce nt of th e costs of hiring a student e nrolled in a recognized co­ op program at a uni versity or coll ege .

Interes ted employers ca n receiv e more informa­ tion through the niversity 's Cou nselling and Stu­ de nt Resource Centre at 5 19-824-4120, E xt. 4365.

CBS celebrates 25th The College of Biologica l Sc ience wiiJ throw ope n its doors Sept. 27 and 28 to welcome alu mni to a 25th-anniversary ce le bration. Eac h de pal1ment will participate in an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. both FI'ida y and Saturday, wit h decade room s se t up in the Axelrod, Animal Science and Nutrition, Chemistry and Biochemistry and PoweU buildings and in M cN ally House.

The Friday open house wi ll be followed by a mixe r at the nive l's ity Club from 6 to II p.m. and obse rvatory tours from 9 to II p.m. A dinn er and dance wi ll 'be he ld Saturday , beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Pe ter Clark Ha ll.

Although CBS was the last of U of G 's seven col­ leges to be fOlmed, its estab lishment in 1971 coin­ cided with an upsurge of interest in the biologica l sciences that is still go ing strong today. As a re sult, CBS now claims more than 16 pe r ce nt of th e Uni­ vers it y's total graduates - over 10,700.

A history booklet is being prepared by the college to docume nt it s grow th and wi ll be available durin g the anniv ersary weekend, along with ot her CBS memorabilia. For information on regi stration and ac­ commodation, call 519-824-4120 , Ext. 3343 , or se nd email totonip@u og ue lph.ca.

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Sarah Collin, left, and Michelle Perry prepare to leave U of G for a year of teaching in Japan.

Photo by Kerith Waddington

Japanese coup for U of G Sarah Collin , Mic hell e Pe rry an d Ric k Vise ntin are three 1996 Guelph graduates who are s pe ndin g the ne xt year teaching English in Jap an. T hey were c ho­ sen out of 3,600 provincial app licants to pal1i c ipate in th e international exc han ge and foreign-language teac hing program. Sociology professor Vi ctor jimoto, chair of U of G' s Japan Program. <;ays the first-time se lection of th ree Guelph students to par­ ticipate in the Japan Exc hange and Teac hing (J ET ) Program is a coup for the ni versit y. Launched in 1987, J ET is fund ed by the japanese Mi ni stry of For­ e ign Affairs. jimo to believe s today 's economy makes experie nce outside one's community impera­ tive. Collin , Perry and Vise ntin are continuing their education process, he says.

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At age 10, Pet Trust continues to meet needs with research Since it was estab li shed in 1986, OVe' s Pet Trust has funded more [han 100 resea rch projects to im­ prove the health of compan ion animals and enab le veterinanans to learn more abou t anima l beha vior and th e human/ pet bone\. One of th e most rec ent stud­ ies addresses a g rowing interest In ho listic medi c ine among veterinanans and pet owne rs.

For the first lime, a formal research projec t at a Ca­ 7

nadi an vete rinary school is bein g staged to study the efficacy of herbal a nd ho meopathic produ cts for pain and ca ncer treatment in dogs.

Practi ce- based clinical trials are be ing cond ucted und er the supe rvi sion of po pula tion medicine pro fes­ so r Bre nda Bonnen, B.Sc. '75, DVM ' 79 and PhD '88 , with e pidemio logy gradu ate stude nt Carol Poland, B.Sc.(Ag r. ) '83 and DVM '90. The clinica l tria l will have appli catio ns to human medi cine and ma y a nswer q ues tion s abo ut the place bo e ffec t in hu­ mans, Po land says .

Gryphon Club creates Medal of Merit

The traditi onal Homecoming Hall o f Fa me inducti o n cere mo ny will be a little unus ual th is yea r as the Gryphon Clu b we lcomes three at hl etes a nd a builde r, as we ll as an e ntire c ross-country tea m a nd a te lev i­ sion broadcaster. The annu al dinne r will be he ld Se pt. 27 in Pe ter Clark Hall.

CHCH spo rts comme ntato r Norm Ma rsha ll will be awarded the G ryphon Club 's new Medal of M e rit, es­ t.abli shed to recog ni ze outstanding commitme nt to Ontario spo rt. The awa rd enables the Uni vers ity to ho nor individu als outside the Gue lph prog ram .

Ho li sti c medic ine is an umbre ll a te nn th at includes Thro ug h his CHC H cove rage of Gryphon s po n s the fo ur main the ra pies of homeo pat hy, acupun cture, events, Ma rsha ll has inte rviewed many of the ath­ chiro prac ti c and he rbal medicine, as well as man y letes who a re membe rs of the Hall of Fame. o ther the ra pi es suc h as a romathe rapy, magne tic the r­ In addi tio n, th e Gryphon Club will ho no r th e a py a nd to uc h therapy. seven membe rs o f the 1969 championship c ross­ Bo nne n be lieves the OVC stu dy is a re tlec ti on of co untry team : Gra nt Mclare n, B.Sc . '70; Paul consume r de mand . "Cons ume rs are more edu cated, Ma nley, DVM '74, GO '76 and M.Sc . '78; Grant but also inte res ted in more natural and less in vas ive Must.ard , B.Sc.(Agr. ) '72; Barry Sn ide r, B.S c. '71 ; Kri ss C ro nin ; Pat Larry, B.Sc.(P.E .); and Jack forms o f the rapy ."

Galbraith , DVM '72. This tea m had the most success­ The cl inical tri al is be ing fund ed by pri va te do ­ ful seaso n eve r e njoyed by a cross-country team at nors. The lite rature re vie w is suppo rted by the Pet Guelph . The y were Ontario/Quebec Athle tic Assoc ia­ Tru st F und . tio n (OQAA) cham pio ns and Ca nadi an In­ te rco ll egiate Athletic Unio n (CIA U) champi o ns.

Indi vidual athletes who will be in­ du cted into the Hall of Fame are Jo hn He nry, DVM '6 1; Abe Fo lland , BSA '3 5; and La rry Hurd , DVM '7l. Prof. Victo r Matthews, Lang uages a nd Lite rature , w ill be indu cted as a builde r.

He nry excelled in football and hoc key.

He pl ayed o n the 195 8 and ' 59 fo otball tea ms whe n they were Onta ri o intercolle­ giate c hampio ns and semi- fin alists at the Atl anti c Bowl. He was Male Athle te o f the Yea r a nd Wildman Troph y winne r in 1960/6 1.

Hurd ea rn ed fi ve va rsit y le tte rs fo r his ex plo its in the pool. He was CIAU AI/­ Canadian in 1966, won two gold and o ne silve r Ontario Uni ve rsit y Athleti c Asso­ ciati o n medals, and set six U o f G sw im­ ming reco rd s. He was a me mber o f th e 400 re lay team that clocked th e fa stes t time in Canada in 1969.

Fo ll and was a famili ar face on the foot­ ba ll fie ld and the basketball co urt fro m D avid Count, eG A works 193 1 to 1934 , contributin g to severa l in p r ivate practice vvi th cha mpi onship wins. Notable was th e agribUSiness clie nts. H e's 1932 baske tball c hampi o nship a nd the afso a Certified Gene ral 1932 a nd '33 inte nned iate football cha m­ Accountant. Plo w forward pio ns hips. He rece ived the Wildman Tro­ vvith your own plans: visit us ph y in 1934.

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he ce le brated with fo ur CIA U champions, four On­ tari o champions and fi ve OQAA champions. He also se rved as meet director when Guelph hosted th e CIAU cros s-co untry championships in 1980 and 1984.

Tickets for the Hall o f Fame dinner are available throu gh the Departme nt of Athletics. Ca ll 5 J 9-824­ 41 20, E xt. 6134 or 6 133 , for informatio n.

Medal of Achievement

Grads join alumni ranks Some 2,060 U of G students graduated durin g seven convocatio n ceremonies in June. In addition, the Uni­ ve rsity awa rd ed six honorary degrees , two Univer­ sit y professor emeJitus honors and a Medal of Merit.

Honorary degrees we nt to nu triti onist Helen Guth rie , a leader in research in human nutrition; po­ litica l scientist Mart in Lipset, a senior schol ar at the Woodrow Wil son Centre fo r Internationa l Scholars in Was hington; dramatist Geo rge Lu scombe , found er of Toronto Workshop Produ ctions; OAC alumnus Ken Murray , retired CEO of J.M. Sc hne ider Inc.; statistic ian C.R. Rao, a pioneer in statistical th eory and applications; and toxicologist Stephen Safe , dis­ ting ui shed profe ssor at Texas A &M Uni versity and a fOlm er U of G pro fessor.

Retired veterinary science professor Brian Derbyshi re and retired ph ys ics pro fessor Jim Ste vens were g iven the title of University professor emeritu s.

The Meda l of Merit was awarded to retired zoology professor Mary Be verley -Burton.

New name, same location Alumni visiting or calling the campu s since July I ha ve been served by Uni ve rsity staff in a new admin­ istrati ve un it called Development and Public Affa irs.

Fonnerl y ca lled Unive rsity Affairs and Devel op­ ment, the unit has been restru ctu red by vice-presi­ dent John Mabley to include th ree ke y departments: a new unit ca lled Campaign Programs; Alumni Af­ fa irs and Deve lopment , which marries two pre­ viousl y separate unit s; and Communicati ons and Public Affa irs, a merger of Uni ve rsit y Communica ­ ti ons and Communit y Re lations. T he last is the de­ partment responsible for publication of the Cuelph Alumnus.

The restructuring coincides with a number of per­ sonnel ch anges th at w ill create a whole ne w manage­ ment team this fall. Paulette Samson has been appointed director of alumni affairs and develop­ ment , and searches w ill be launched to fill the direc­ tors' positions in Campaign Programs and Communicatio ns and Public Affairs.

Although th e greeting you hear on the phone may be different , Deve lopment and Public A ffa irs is still the place to ca ll for news of a lumni events and ac tivi­ ties. To talk to staff in Alumni Affairs and Develop­ ment, call 51 9-824-4 120, Ext. 6936. Yo u can reac h the C uelph Alumnus in Communications and Public Affa irs at Ext. 8706.

Guelph Aiumlllls

During conv ocation ce remonies in June, the UG pr 'sen led its Alumni Medal of Achieveme nt to Lynn Roblin, B.A. Sc . ' 80 and M.Sc. '82.

Alth ough her career is still 4uite young, Roblin '$ ex pertise in public health nutrition has alread y had a positive inlluence on anada's nutrition education programs and has earned her a national reputation in her field .

She completed an underg rad uate degree in human nutrition and a Illa ter's degree in human kinetics before beginning a career th at has included posi­ tions in sc ve ral municipal hea lth Icpartments. She now docs priv ate consult­ Ing.

Roblin worked on the Hea lthy Lifesty le Program deve loped by the On­ tario Ministry o f Hea lth and has had a national impact throu gh he r design work on the new Canada's Food G uide for Healthy Eati ng, a project o f Health and We lfare Canada . This is the most' wide ly used n utrition tool in the country.

She was also part o f a tea m that publis hed a unique recipe book for the Ca­ nad ian Dieteti Association. lIealrhy Pleasures is u collaborative e ffort in­ volving hers from across the country who developed recipes that are both healthfu l and interesting. More re ently, Robli n work d w ith co lleague Bev Callaghan 10 produce Suppertime Survival , a rec ipe book on its way to at­ tracting a nat io na l audienc . Her skills hav also bene fited the Canadian S ugar In, titute and led to the design of a teac her' s kit for use in school nutri­ tion programs ac ross ulnada.

Roblin is also a leader wit hin the UG AA and the Mac -FAC Alumni As­ sociation. She has served on both executi ves, on the UG A workplace/accl­ demic interface committee and on the B.A.Sc. prog ra m-planning committee, and has provided substantial input on behalf of al um ni to the nivcrsity'. strategic-planning process. She has even made herself available to represent alumni at . tudent orientation events and Olhe!' functions where students can benefit from her enthusiasm and talent.

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Visit the U of G Web site at http://www.uoguelph.ca and the

UGAA site at http://www.UGalumni.uoguelph.ca.

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S

ome say YOli ('(mIee! their

presence as you walk

across JOJlJ1stoll Green or

through Alumni Stadium .

The screaming fans, the

chill ill the air. the sounds

of hattIe echoing across

the field. It's a tradition

as old as Canada and a

RUniC

synoflyrnolls with

the autUnIn season .

Football.

Gentlemen footballers When the University or Guelph was rounded in 1874 as the On­ tario School or Agriculture, rugby football was beginning to gain a footholu as one of Canada's most popular new sports. It was a game brought to Canada by the British who had leamed it during their time at upper-class prep schools. These gentlemen footballers settled in urban centres and military garrisons and spent their lei sure time honing their skills at this rough and bru­ tal Sp0I1 and introducing it to the colonials.

The early game had 14 or 15 men on each side who were ex­ tremely skilled kickers and runners. It was an expensive sport bc­ cause the players provided their own playing gear and equipment. Most would he outtilled in canvas suits with woollen sweaters and socks topped olT with high-cut boots. Most teams could afford 10 buy only one football bladder to last a season or two, and few players wore protective equipment becau se it was

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considered "unmanly." Plide and a lack of clear rules caused many serious - sometimes fatal- injuries. But the dangers did not dampen the competitive Spilit of these early pioneers.

Guelph, Stratford, St. Catha rines, London and POit Hope took part in what is thought to be the first league-like structure in On­ tario. OAC was one of the colleges that had a rugby football team, along with Tri nity College, Ottawa College and the Toronto Rugby Cluh. There is virtually no trace of these early teams, and according to Guelph alumnus and fonner football star W.J. "Billy" Squirrel, OAC '07, therc is little mention of field SPOIts being played on campus between 1874 and IRR2.

During the college's formative years, students attended lec­ tures for half the day and worked the other half. Most frec time was taken up by reading over lecture notes and attending church.

Eventually, organized Sp0I1 was fonnally introduced into most Canadian universities and colleges as part of a new theory of

After leaving Guelph, Smirle Lawson played for the University of Toronto. Here he plunges over the McGill opposi­ tion in a 1908 game.

Photo courtesy Canadian Football Hall of Fame Museum

Story by Elizabeth Dagg. a 1993 BA graduate and an avid Gryphonfan. who is currently wriring a hisrory of rughyfootball in Canado

Historical material Fom Gryphon assistant coach Pat Tracey. the Universit y of Guelph Library archives and the Canadian Foothall Hall of Fame and Museum

education that promoted sport as a way to build moral, physical and mental character. Well-rounded graduates became the goa\.

Thc early OAC teams operated at junior, intermediate and sen­ ior levels . The players and faculty also initiated early intramural Or "inter-year" games that pitted first-year students against sen­ iors to boost school spirit.

The rugby football club struggled to survive in the early years, sometimes finding competition from the OAC association (or soc­ cer) football club too fierce. But even with a school population hovering at the 100 mark throughout the 1880s, the college still managed to field teams on a yearly basi s.

Although the football club wasn ' t stable, the players did meet with success during the 1880s. There wasn't much glory to be had in those days , however. The players might buy a cricket cap or spend a dollar on a team photo as mementos. The 1884 and 1885 seasons fielded one of the strongest teams in the history of

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the college, and by 1888, OAC was competitive enough to make a bid for the dominion championship (later renamed the Grey Cup). But the orange and black were honorably defeated by the Toronto Varsity seniors by 10 points. The College on the Hill would have to wait another 96 years before challenging for an­ other national championship.

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The formation of the OAC Athletic Association in 1892 strengthened the rugby football club. There was new recognition t-hat the college 's sports clubs needed patrons and a fan base to survive. The football club believed it couldn '( be a success "w ith­ out the aid of the fair sex." The opening of Macdonald Institute in 1903 strengthened the image of football as a spectator sport.

Popularity grew at all Canadian universities as femal e students became a growing presence on campu ses. The promise of female spectators even encouraged a larger turnout for fall tryouts and provided new incentives for better play.

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from Guelph to support their home-town boy.

Lawson went on to star with the Toronto Argonauts and was a world-renowned soldier, pathologist and hu­ manitarian. He is the only Guelph native to receive an honored place in the Canadian Football Hall or Fame and Museum.

The outbreak of the Great War brought the momentum the football club had developed to a temporary halt . With vast numbers of students enlisting to serve overseas, it be­ came difficult to recruit players. EventuaUy in 1() 16, the operation of all football unions was suspended due to the war.

Postwar boom Growing pains The popularity of rugby football continued to grow at Guelph, but the competitiveness of OAC seniors began to flag against other powerhouse teams in the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Union such as the University of Toronto, Ottawa College, McGill and Queen's.

Guelph's athletic association made a crucial decision to focus on intermediate- and junior-level play. In 1903, OAC entered a team in the intermediate series of the Ontario Rugby Football Un­ ion and had a successful inaugural season competing against teams from Berlin (now Kitchener), Galt and Hamilton . By 1906, OAC had developed a championship team, and the winners of the Western College Association took the pennant home for the winter. Six years later, the new red and blue won the Junior Inter­ collegiate Championship. The momentum had begun to build.

One of the greatest football stars ever to grace Canadian play­ ing fields was to be found on the OAC roster for the 1904 sea­ son. Guelph native Alexander "Smirle" Lawson learned the game on the playing field in front of Johnston Hall . The plunging haltback, nicknamed "The Big Train, " spent one season at OAC before transferring to the University of Toronto to study medi­ cine. There. he led the Varsity to its first Grey Cup win in 1909.

For the historic game, Lawson's father brought an entourage

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The First World War marked the end of Canada ' s inno­ cence, and football was no exception. The era of pure amateurism was coming to an end and was being re­ placed with semi-professional players and coaches. A great gulf emerged between clubs that maintained amateur status and those that were forging down the road to professionalism. Some univer­ sity and college teams found it increasingly difficult to compete at the senior level for the Grey Cup against teams stacked with paid coaches and players.

For the OAC "Aggies" football team, it meant great change.

The end of the war ushered in an era of stars on and off the field .

The 1919 Aggies found returning veterans ready to play on a dif­ ferent field of battle. Ted Wildman emerged as the college's first true grid iron star as an exceptional runner, passer and kicker on the 1919/20 squads. When Wildman died in 1931, Canada Packers donated a trophy in his memory. The trophy is still awarded annually to the graduat­ ing football player who combines aca­ demics, athletics, leadership and fair play.

The first Guelph teams, nicknamed the OAC Aggies, competed on Johnston Green at the front of the campus. When the Ontario Veterinary

Cu elph Alumnus

College moved to Guelph in 1922, both colleges fielded football teams, but the Aggies and Vets eventu­ ally melded into one OA-vC team, which adopted the name " Redmen ." From 1925 to 1949, they played be­ hind the veterinary buildings on the west side of cam­ pus, moving to the presenl site on Powerhouse Lane in 1950.

TIle [930s saw Guelph's new head coach and ath­ letic director, F.G . " Baldy" Baldwin , fo llowing in the footsteps of the "professional" coaches who had come before him, such as McGill's Frank Shaugnessy and Billy Hughes at Queen's. Baldwin brought to campus American-style coaching techniqucs that involved sci­ ent ific and regimented tactics . His playing career had started at Queen' s, where he was quarterback on a do­ minion championship team. He played college football in the nited States for three years. [n Guelph, Baldwin led the Aggies to three Canadian [ntemlediate Intercollegiate Rugby Union Championships and the team 's only undefeated season in 1936/37. His coaching record has yet to be equalled . When he left campus in 1945 , he continued his career as coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders.

At Guelph, Baldwin also nurtured his share of gridiron greats. He coached his SLlccessor, team ca ptain Bill Mitche ll, to stardom as the squad's starting qual1erback . Teammate All' Hales was the hard-nosed centre on the

Intercollegiate Championship teams of

1932 and 1933 . He went on to play for

the Toronto Argonauts be fore returning

to business. He served as MP for Guelph and Wellington from 1957 to 1974.

Call to war War again interrupted the progress of campus I'ootball. The end o f the Second World War marked the end of the Baldwin dynasty teams and the beginning of Mitchell' s reign. A lege nd in his own ri ght, Mitchell still had big shoes to fill. And he did, continuing the series of postwar wins that included a 1947 march to domin-

Cuel"h Alum nus

ion honors when the rugged Guelph senior syuad expelienced only one loss and trampled Ollawa in a 29-6 championship vic­ tory. They repeated the [eat one year later, defeating the McMas­ ter Rams 58-0 in the final game.

As a student at OAC. Mitchell was a star athlete in football, basketball and wrestling and rece ived the coveted Wildman Tro­ phy in his final year, 1938. He earned an education degree, served in the navy during the war and taught brie f1 y in Ollawa be­ fore returning to Guelph. He he ld every possible position in the football program - player, scout, coach, head coach and athletic director. He served as head coach for nine seasons and was direc­ tor of athletics until 1967.

Mitchell passed coaching duties and a winning tradition on to coach Jay Fry in 1953 . Fry coached only two years and was fol­ lowed in rapid succession by Tom Mooney, Don Hayes and Bill Graham. Mooney 's powerhouse teams of 1958 and 1959 were champions of the Ontario Intercollegiate Football Conference , where he relied on the talents of players like co-captains Murray Atkinson , Carl Jackson and Robbie Keith. The 1959 team posted one of the best seasons in the history of the Rcclmen . Only two teams, McMaster and Waterloo, were able to score against the Redmen defensive squad, which allowed only 19 points in seven league games, with four shutouts. The year ended with the Red­ men making the ir first appearance in the Atlantic Bowl, where they we re defeated by SI. Francis Xavier.

The euphoria was sholt-lived, however, as the Redme n I'e ll from victory to defeat in 1960, beginning one of the longest

droughts in the team's hi story . One sportswritcr in the 1961 Li­ branni described the great fall when he wrote: "Gone was the mighty invinc ihle Reclrncn machine that /1attened all the oppos i­ tion without mercy . . .. Every team in the league so ught to add to its own laure ls and to the humili ation of the Rechnen hy pro­ claiming that they, too, co uld defeat those fa rmers from Guelph."

On the wings of a Gryphon Thc new decade was a lO-year slump for the Guelph team, whcreas its riv a ls at Western, Toronto and Wilfrid Laurie r en­ joyed some of the ir hest scoring ycars. But as the interco llegiate football conferences continued to realign, other athletic programs at Guelph we re prospeling. The campus completed the transition from founding colleges to full-Iledged university. Student num­ bers grew, a new athletics facility was built under Mitche ll' s di­ rection, and the OA-VC Redmen - a name no longe r appro priate for a vars ity program growi ng in female numbers ­ gave way to the Un ivcrsity of Guelph Gryphons.

The Gryphon is a mythical crea­ ture known to the ancients as the guardian of treasures, particularly /. ~ go ld. It has the body of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle and a ser­ pent' s tail.

The inspiration for using the Gryphon at U of G is credited to Fred Gilbel1, M.Sc. '66 and PhD '68, who first gave the name to a G ue lph baseball team in 1966. The symbol and a logo design submitted by Mitchell was adopted for all U of G teams.

The Gryphon made one of it s first appearances in 1968 when a team of painters headed by Gord Mo lnar, B.Sc.(Agr.) '70, exe­ cuted a masterl y rendition on the roof of the field house at the so uth e nd o f the football fi e ld .

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Mitchell , fondly niclmamed "Mr. Gryphon" by his players, came out of coaching retirement to lead the 1966/67 squads. He did double duty as coach while preparin g to undeltake one of the Athletic Dcpal1ment's biggest projects - construction of Alumni Stadium. Mitchell was instrumental in raising funds from alumni donations to e rect the new stadium, which was ofli ­

cially opened Oct. 17, 1970. It is a state-of-thc-cIl1 fac ility, rival­ ling the best in Canada.

Mitchell hired his coaching repl aceme nt in 1968, and the lo ng rein of the legendary head coach Dick Brown began. Although Brown' s winning percentage is one o f the lowes t in the schoo l's coaching history , hc left. a mark that is still felt today. He ga ined the res pect of everyone he came in contact with and produced some extraordinary players. The 1970s was a decade charac­ te ri zed by out standing individual accomplishments on the Gryphon gridiron . Twenty-two teal11 mcmbers went on to play in the CFL. Brown nUl1ured the athletic gifts of Bruce Morris, the Gryphon's lead ing rusher, three-time All-Star and All-Canadian in the earl y 1970s. Mon'is was drafted hy the Calgary Stamped­ ersi n 1974.

All-Canadian Gerry Organ kicked his way to stardom from Guelph to the Ottawa Rou g h R iders. Organ is the only Guelph kicker to make A ll-Canad ian and went on to win Schenley'S Most Outstanding Canadian award. He returned to Guelph for the 1988 to 1990 seasons as an assistant coach.

Brown served as head coach [or l5 years and is still one of the most respectcd coaches in Canadian co llege football. He built a team spirit among the Gryphons and set the stage for a turnaround under his successor, Tom Dimitroff.

Building the dream Dimitroff arrived on campu s in 1978. An outstanding quarter­ back with the 1950s Ottawa Rou gh Rid ers, he brought prores­ sional coaching experience from stints in both the CFL and NFL. In 1983, his final yea r as head coach. Dimitroft"s G ryph ons finished s cond in the Ontario Uni ve rsity Athletic Association with a 5-2 record.

Dave Copp, who had succeeded Mitchell as athletic director in 1982, continued the 1-2 punch to huilding a winner when he hired re nowned Canad ian Intercollegiate Athletic Union coach John Musselman to replace Dimitroff. "Dimitroff built thc football program here to thc po int where wc are just one

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step a way from a nati onal cham pionship," said C opp in 19R4. " Under Musselman, we hope to take that next step."' T his was foreshadowing at its best. J u. t wee ks later, Mussel man propelled the Gryphons to the ir firs t national title as Vanier C up champions.

The 1984 sq uad finish ed the reg ular season in fourth place with a 4-3 record and wa. matched up wit h the unbea ten top­ ranked McMaster M a uraud ers in the lirst ro und of pla yoffs. T he game ended in vic to ry for the G rypho ns, who latcr defeated the Wcstcm M ustangs ror the Yates C up and the C algary Dinosaurs in the Ch urchi ll Bowl. The G r phons en te red Vars ity Stadiu m in Toronto Nov . 24 fo r the historic contes t wi th Ih be lief that " th is game is no more im pol1ant than any othe r." But this ballie was not desti ned to be just anoth e r game.

O ne sportswriter reco rded it like this: "Before a record crowd of 20,000 at To ronto ' s Varsity Stadi um, the G ryphons used the ir patented late-game he roics to ove rcome the M ount ies 22-1 3. The victory was a tot al team effort as 'eve nt l play rs made key plays.

Two touchdown passes from Rand y Wa lte rs to Pani Ceci, a blo k d fie ld goal by Ro b Pavan. an interce ption in the end zone

by Mike Knighto n, clu tc h third-do wn plays, a run by Juhn Godry and a reception by Brett Marshall , a tOUChdown-sa vi ng knockd w n by Pat Tr<lcey, a game- winning fi eld goal by T im Q ui rke, a great 'hart-yardage SlOp by the defensive line and a touchdo wn on the fi na l p lay by J d Tommy made G uel ph the nati onal cham­ pions for the lirst time."

These players' names e nte red th realm of lege nd as the Gryphons' detcmlination, positi ve atti tude and team spirit eam cd them a plac in the Univers ity 'S hallowed fo ot ball ha lls : • IS wc re named to the 19ROs G rypho n Team o f the De .ade, • 15 we re named OUAA Con fere n :e II-Stars, • five were namcd ClAU All-C an, diang, • 13 were drafted into the CFL, • five later played in Gr y C up champ ionships, and • three won the Gr y up.

From the afte rglow of the 1984 Vanie r victory eme rged the fu­ ture of G ryphon footbal l. A ne w head coac h bLe w into G uc lph from Acadia for the 1987 season . Dan Mc Nally was no st ranger to success. As a defens ive back on Acadia ' s [979 Van ier Cup team and a member o f th coachin g staff for the team 's se ond national title in L9 8 1, hc witnessed the maki ng o f a c hampio nshi p season and would t SI his tale nts on the fi e ld at A lu mni Stad ium.

Modern excellence One of the promises Mc Nally made as the G ry phons' ne w head coach was to " stri ve to give G uelph a football team that people can be proud o f, one that plays hard un the fielcl and produc .s g reat people o ff th e rie ld." Alt hough M c ally has yet to coach of G to a national c hampionship , he created .. o mething possibly more important. He cultivated exceptio nal athle tes and coaches who ha ve gone on to represent the Un iversity in both the arenas uf academics and profe ssiona l sport ac ros s Nort h A me ri a. spite a olitary Yates C up win in 1992, it ' s hard to look at McNally ' s G ry phons witho ut thinking o f G uelph as a football factory for the CFL.ln nine seasons, he has prod uc d 6 1 OUAA All-S tars, 19 CIAU All-Canadians and 13 CFL draft picks. Dur­ in the last three seaso ns, G uelp h ranked nu mbe r o ne in the CIA in fir~ t- ro u nd draft picks for pro foot ba ll and numbe r one in the O UAA co nfe rence in numbe r o f playe rs d ra fted.

A II-Camd ian rece ivers F rank Marof and Da ve Irwi n and line­ backer Mike O'Shea have enjoyed thrivi ng pro careers in the CFL. O'Shea was a first-ro und draJt pi k If the Ham ilto n Tige r­ Cat ·, the CFL' s 1993 Roo kie o fl he Year, a CFL A ll-Star and Ham ilton' s to p Canad ia n in 1993 a ncl 1994. After th ree yea rs with the Ticat , O 'S hea recentl y sig ned with the CFL Detro it Li­ o ns - a fea t fo r a Canadian-bred line backer and testimony of the ski lls of McNall y and his coac hing staff.

G ryp ho ns Alric k Da ug herty and Re yha n Agaog lu played to­ gether o n two E uro pean champ ionshi p teams be fore Agaoglu was picked up by the World League of Foot ball. Q uarterbac k Rob Kitc hi ng is now playing in Sweden in the E uro pea n Football Leag ue. Tom Di mitroff Jr. is a SCOll t fo r the De­ troit Lions.

Fiv e o f the last six W ildman T rop hy win ners have gone on to g rad uate sc hool , includi ng o ffe n­ sive tackle Rob Wesseling, who retired hom a prom is ing football career to stud. mathemati cs at U o f G. Guelph coaches have also prospe red . Forme r assistant coach Dennis M(;Phec is now e nj oying success as a coac h with the T icats.

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McNa lly has proven, like the playe rs and coachcs who came be fore him, that winning is just a sma ll part of the re ward. M usselman s ummed up the spirit o f G uelph fo ot ball w hen he said: "Footbal l is a tea m sport in the truest 'c nse o f the word. People come a nd people go ­ that ' s life. But there' s one th i.ng yo u cannot lose - that 's the lo ve for the game and the be lie f and faith in the program and the Gryphons. "

Guelph Alum nus

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F or the record . • Gryphon Football AII·Canadians 1969 1973 1973/74 1975 1980/8l/82 1981 1982 1982 [982/83 1984 1985 1986 1986/88 1988 1988 1988 1989 1991 1991 1992/93/94 1992 1992/93 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994

1995

Gerry Organ Dave Lane John Kelley Bruce Morris Mike Hudson Jeff Hale Pete r La ngford Junior Robinson Sam Benincasa PalTi Ceci Lou Godry AI Anonech Gu s Alcvizos Jim FalTell W asyl Saluchok Mike Shoemaker Dan Tocher Brya n M altby Frank Marof Rob WesseJin g Mike O'Shea Dave Irwin Sha wn Hagalty Charl es Ass mann Hug h Tharby Steven McKee Kevin Reid Kyle Walters

Kicker Running bac k De fen sive back Running back R ece iver Offensive line Defensive e nd Defensive back L inebacker Receiver Offens ive line Rece iver Offens ive line Receiv er Offens ive line Qualterback Receiver Defens ive back Rece ive r 01lensive line Linebacke r Receiver Defensive line Defensive back Defensive line Linebacke r Recei ver Defen sive back

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The University of Guelph has turned out some of the hestfootball players in the league. Fo/'tyJour of them are in U oj'G's Hall (~f'Fame. The University also claims 36 CIAU All-Canadians, 75 OUAA All­ Stars and nearly 100 players who have gone on to professional football.

Pictured far left: Jack Cote. Centre: Bruce Morris and Bill Mitchell.

Above: Michael O'Shea.

Right: Gerry Organ as an Ottawa Rough Rider.

Gryphon Club Hall of Fame Football contingent:

Gryphon records Most all-purp se yards in a c areer Most yards ru sh ing in a ca ree r Most yards rush ing in a " ame Most poi nts scored in a c aree r Lo ngest run from scrimmage Mos t receptions in a season Lo ngest interce pt io n relum Most QB sac ks in a career Most assi led tac kles in a seaso n Mo t tack les in a season Mosl inte rceptions in a caree r Most TO passes in a season Most TDs scored in a season Most games played in a career

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Mike Shoe maker - 5,598 Bruce Morris - 2,611 Chuck Sims - 331 Dan Walker - 175 Terry Wiggan - 103 yards Frank Marar - 60 Don Williams - 112 yards Mi ke 0 'Shea - 21 Todd StOlms - 94 Dan Wicklum - 119 John Kelley - 12 Randy Walters - II Parri Cec i - I I Pat Tracey - 5 I

Murray Atkinson A.W. Baker Fred Ba ldwin Chuck Belchamber Sam Be nincasa Bernic Brennan Han-y Brig ht we ll Dick Brown Ross Cavers Pa rri Ceci Mike Chespesuik Da ve Clarke Leon Claus Jack Cote Tom Dimitro ff 11'.

Glynn Griffiths Fred Dunbar Jo hn Eccles Ab Follalld Bud Folusewych Jay Fry Alfred Hales Sid Hen ry Mike Hudson Ray German Ga rney Henley Jo hn Henry Dave Hume Earl Hunt Robbie Ke ith

Dave L ane Jim McMillan Ed Millard Bill Mitchell Wayne Morgan Bruce MOiTis Gerry Organ John Sh ivas Bill Sproule Jeff Volpe Don Westlake Ted Wildma n Alt Wil son Gmd Wri g ht

FOlmer Gryphon linebac ker Steve McKee, left, say s he came to G ue lph because of the black shoes.

Black s hoes?

No t o nly did he like w ha t he heard when he me t head coac h Dan McNally, but th e Gryphons were also the only Canadian university team that wore black football shoes.

Guelph Alumnus

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U of G coaching s1ats (Coaches with minimum three seasons) Years \903-06 1912-14 1919-23 1924-26 1930-45 1946-52 1953-55 1956-60 1963-65 1966-67 1968 -78 1979- 83 1984-86 1987-96

Coach

Seasons

C.H. Hibberd D.W. Gilles K.W. Foreman D.Adams F.G . Baldwin Bill M itchell Jay Fry T om Mooney Bill Graham Bill Mitchell ("'o:ooovo)

Dick Brown Tom Dimi troff Joh n Musse lman Dan Me all y

W ins

Losses

4 3 4 3 11 9 3 6 3

12 13 16 6 54 38 14 26 5

7 6 8 14 23 32 10 17 18

10 5 3 9

36 26 19 34

48 16 13 44

Ties Winning % -

2

I

I -

2 1 -

2

.631

.684

.6 15

.300

.692

.542

.560

.604

.217

418

.590

.59 3

4 25

Historically, Guelph has had one of the country's top university jbothall programs. Since 1879, the school has compiled an uver­ all record of 315 wins, 298

losses and 10 ties, for a winning rate of 54 per cent .

OUAA coaching stats (1970-94) C oach

CIA U

OUAA

AIIAIICanadians Stars

Di ek Brown T om Dimitroff John Musselman Dan McNally

5

27

8

:n

5

27 61

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CFL

Draft Picks

22

12

21

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Football facts • Ra ndy Walters is the only Gryphon player named co-captain four times .

• Since \888, Guelph has won 30 confer­ ence and group championships.

• Dan Runge at 6'9" is the tallest playe r ever to wear the Gryphon uniform. He starred for the Jry phons in 1982/83 and went on to play four years in the CFL. •

Baldy Baldwi n coached the only unde­ feaLed G ryp hon season in 1936.

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Dick Brow n coached 86 Gryphon ga mes, more than any other coach.

All -Sta r huck Sims holds more • OU schoo l rec ords tha n any other playcr ( 17).

• Mark Brown is the only player in the his­ to ry of the school to be named an AlI­ Star on bot h offence (running back 1977 ) and dden (defensive back 1978).

Guelph Aiumlllls

Gryphon fails are rated No.1 ill

Olltario hy CHCH-TV ill Hamilton .

Highest-scoring victory games Date

Nov. 9, 1940 Sept. 23, 1967 Sept. 13, 1981 Nov. 13 ,1948 Oct. 14, J 955 Sept. 29, 1.990 Nov . 6, 1938 Sept. 24, 1960 Oct. 8, 1987 Oct. 19, 1935

Team defeated Petawawa L aurentian Seneca McMaster Que ' I1'S II York Varsity 1I Ryerson Wate rloo Western II

Score 103-1

62-0

59 -1 6

58-0

56-1

53-14

5\-3

49-0

48-6

47-1

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Gridiron notes

Homecoming at Guelph began during the fall of 1923 as graduate football play­ ers were invited back to the college to play the current varsity team . G.1. Christie, president of OAC in 1923, is credited for stalting the true Home­ coming tradition. He believed that a good cOllege football team and an annual event to honor alul1U1i would bring great attention and public relations to the college.

Some of the early Homecoming events were held in conjunction with a Halloween dance and the Royal Wimer Fair in Toronto. The class of 1933 or­ gani/cd an annual event at the Royal York Hotel and invited the varsity team to the dinner and dance.

Homccoming has evolved into one of the University's biggest celebrations.

It' s become a tradition for former Gryphons to return to play in a Glory Bowl game just prior to the annual Homecoming game. Thi ... ocial event attracts some 50 players and their fami­ lies each year.

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I Largest Gryphon crowds I 1984

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9,000 defeated Ca lgary 10,000 _de,::ate:W~er:J

Gryphon superstitions All athletes have superstitions, and thc Gryphon gridiron stjuad is no excep­ tion. Individual players have good-luck rituals like lacing up their cleats before donning shoulder pads and jerseys. All players tOllch the front claw of a six­ foot Gryphon painted on the wall of their locker room as they head for the field at home games.

Before each game, the team captain reads a verse from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Law of the Jung le." Only the dress roster is allowed in the locker room be fore a game - no coaches, ex­ tra playe rs, media or staff. After the ga me, the captain leads the players in the team song, " We're Gryphons ­ We 're Gryphons."

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Coach's preview for '96

Graduates The Guelph football program has gradu­ ated more than 1,000 student athletcs and captured 30 league and gro up championships. The fi rs t win was a zone championship in 1888; the last was the 1992 OUAA Yates Cup.

25th Man Booster Club Started in 1988, this alumni booster club now has 150 members, with Rick Kohler, ADA '85, serving as the cur­ rent chair. Over the years, club mem­ bers have donated more than $50,000 to support the football program, provid­ ing lield cquipment and travel gcar, video and computer equipment.

This summer, the Booster Club gave the locker room and the Hall of Honor a new paint job.

Head coach Dan McNally says t.his has been the best recruiting year this decade for the Gryphon gridiron. giving the team an impressive lineup of ncw talent to mesh with 19 returning starters.

Several linemen have g rown bigger and stron ge r, so Gryphon fans will see an offence more phys ical than before.

Most of last year's defensive line re­ turns intac t, with the experience needed for a more aggressive strategy.

A 'lot of the bctter qU3Jtcrbacks and rece ivers in the OUAA have graduated, and the Uryphons have reconfigured to deal with that. McNalty predicts this year's Gryphon team will playa more strategic game and that fans will see more running with the footba ll.

In addition to McNany, the 1996 coaching sta ff consists of Pat Tracey, ADA ' 83 and BA '87 , in recruiting and volunteer coaches Dudley Brown, B.Sc. '89, defensive backfield; Brian Cluff, BA '87, defensive line; Rudy Florio, running hacks; John LePore. B.Comm.

'87, receivers ; Rob Pavan, BA '89, line­ backe rs; Dave Shaw, outside lineback­ ers; and Reg Valentinuzzi, offensive line.

McNa lly and Tracey extend a hearty thank you to these men who give the ir time to work with the Gryphon stjuad. "

Get inside football Ron Aill1ola, offensive lineman for the Vanier Cup win in 1984, has spearheaded a new program to help Gryphon supporters get to know the players and coaching staff.

Gryphon lineman 's luncheons will be held every Thursday throughout the 1996 OUAA football schedule al Gryphs Sports Lounge.

The program offers an insider's view of Gryphon foothall with coach Dan McNally's video review of the last Gryphons ga me , a preview of the com­ ing game and a chancc to meet the Gryphon lineman of thc week and other featured players.

Cost is $40 for admission to all four Gryphon homc games and four lunch­ eons. For details, ca ll the Department of Athletics at 519-824-4120 , Ext.. 3406.

1996 Gryphon football Sept. 7 Sept. 14 Sept. 21 Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 26 Nov. 2&9 Nov.9 Nov. 16 Nov. 23

McMaster Waterloo Western Toronto (Homecoming) York McMaster Laurier Windsor Playoffs Yates Cup CIAU semi-final s Vanier Cup

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Agricultural research:

till a good investment for consumers and producers

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ince Charles Zavitz recorded the fi rst yield tests on cereal grains at Guelph in 1887, this campu s has been a leade r in agricultura l research.

T he forwa rd -thinking professor introduced some of Onta ri o's most popular ce rea l g rains, es tablished al­ fa lfa as a premier forage crop and devel oped the first soybea n variety to be li censed in Ca nada.

Following the Zavitz legacy , G uelph cro p scien­ tists have produced more than 100 new crop varieties and techn ologies. Their suc cess in crop produc tion has been parallelled by other Guelph resea rchers making advances in livestock production , food proc­ essi ng and e nvironmen tal protectio n.

As it was in Zavitz 's time . the Ontario gove rnment remains the biggest so urce of funding for ag ri-food research at Guelph . hi gh li ghted by a unique partner­ ship wi th the O ntario M inistry of Ag riculture, Food a nd Ru ra l Affairs (OM AFRA). Last year, OMAFRA in vested $30.3 million in V of G research ac ti vities.

Campus researche rs a lso rece ive significant support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada a nd othcr federal bodies and fro m industry gro ups and co rpora­ tions in the private sector.

The benefits of those resea r"ch eff0l1s are felt first and foremo st in Canada's agri-food industry, al­ tho ugh we a ll benefit as tax pa ye rs from the growth or an industry that generates e mplo yme nt fo r one in fou r Ontario la borers a nd continua lly feeds o llr gro w­ ing population wi th fewl'r resources . .. and at lower cos t. Canadians who spe nt 21.74 per ce nt of their dis­ posable inco me o n food in 1961 are now spe ndin g onl y about 13 per ce nt.

High returns Agricultural economists at Guelph have bee n trac k­ ing the econo mic impact of ag ri-food research in Canada since the mid- 1950s. Their data show an eco­ nomi c re turn of 40 to 1 on eve ry do ll ar invested in re­ search. Las t year 's OMAFRA investment, for exa mple, promises a retum of $ 1.2 billion to Ontario taxp:lyers over the next 10 to 15 years. P rof. George Brink.man , c hair of the De partme nt of Ag ricu ltural Economics and Bus iness, says that ill \' c~ting tax dol­ lars in agri-food rese arch makes good economic Cue/ph Alumnus

serrse and is " the most effec tive way to s upport the agri-food indust ry."

Educati on is another way to invest in agri culture, as are qu a lity-con trol meas ures suc h as meat inspec­ tion, g radin g systems and seed ass urance. Like re­ search, which develops new technologies and ne w manageme nt strategies, they all have the potential to c hange the way people do bus iness, says Brinkman.

The economic return from ed ucation and quality con­ tro l is abo ut 10 to one. Still high, he says , but not as high as the return from research.

Canadian taxpayers have also histori cally sup­ poned agric ulture in o th er ways - through direct gra nts to farmers, re bate programs and s ubsidies.

These kinds of direct transfer payme nts pro vide a re­ turn of one dollar's worth of benefit for eve ry dollar paid out by th e go vernme nt. In some cases, where ad­ ministrative costs reduce the value of the benc fit, the return may be less than one to one. From a tax­ payer' s point of view, re search is by far the best in­ vestment, Brinkman says.

Story by Mary Dickiesotl

Shared benefits A gricultural eco nomist Glenn Fox e x-plains how those phenomenal returns are shared by food produc­ ers and co nsume rs. In supply- managed commodities like milk. dairy products and pOUltry - where pro­ duction is limited by domestic demand - C anadian consumers get virtually a ll the gains fro m agricul­ tural researc h in the form of price red uctions. But in commodities like co m, soybeans, wheat, beef and pork - where Canada has an open border a nd ex­ port potential - cons umers realize about 15 per cent of the return. The bulk goes to producers in the form of efficiencies that lo wer production cos ts and im­ prove inte rna tional competitive ness.

Altho ugh our e xports co mpete in the g lo bal mar­ ketplace, Ollr share of world trade in these commodi­ ti es is relative ly small, says Fox, so changes in Canadian o utput don't have muc h of an e ffe ct on world prices . Thc price our producers receive for corn and pork and the price consumers pay in Can­ acta re llecl the world price. In most export com modi­ ti es , that mea ns the V.S. price because we trade

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primarily in the North American market, and the United States is the dominant player.

In these commodities, therefore, agricultural re­ search has its greatest impact on the cost of produc­ tion, giving producers the greater economic benefit.

In the United States, the situation is reversed be­ cause the agricultural industry is bigger relative to world production. New technologies that increase production south of the border do have the poten tial to affect world prices, says Fox. U.S. consumers are the chief beneficiaries of all agricultural research through the reduction of retail prices.

Consumers also benefit when research stimulates long-telm growth and competitiveness, and when Ca­ nadian production shifts from an imp0l1 to an export basis. Agricultural research has made that difference in many commodities. Corn was only a minor crop in the most southerly regions of Ont"rio until the de­ velopment of low-heat-unit hybrids. Through re­ search, hybridi za tion has expanded the range in which corn can be grown profitably and, in tum, has given livestock producers a cost-effective alternative to cereal grains in feed rations.

Research has performed another miracle in the hog indu stry by developing longer. leaner pigs that yield a higher-qu"lity product. Fox says the Cana­ dian hog indu stry has been on the leading edge of the wave in the development of breeds and management and grading systems, key reaso ns why its producers have been "ble to make inroads into U.S. and interna­ tional markets.

Riding the wave The hog industry also offers a good example of the spill-over effect in research, where leading-edge technology is soon picked up by competitors . As Ca­ nadian genetics and grading systems are imple­ mented in the States, for example , they may improve efficiencies in the U.S. hog industry th at will lower prices. "And th at means, if we don't continue with re­ search to stay ahead of the pack, we're going to see our prices go down," says Brinkman.

Both he and Fox believe that Canada - and espe­ cially Ontario - is poised to stay at the leading edge of agri-food research. Ontario has a good system for responding to research priorities, partly because of the long-standing relationship between the provincial mini stry responsible for agriculture and the Univer­ sity of Guelph. No other Canadian university has such a direct relationship with government, nor do in­ stitutions in most other countries.

New partnerships Fox predicts that the responsibility for funding agri-food research will be rebalanced among univer­ sity, government and private-sector pal1ners. Tradi­ tionally, Canada's private sector has co ntributed only 20

five to to per cent of the total cost of agricultural re ­ search, whereas in the United States, the private­ sector contribution is about 50 per cent. Part of the reason for the difference is Canada's slow progress in developing legislation to protect intellectual­ property rights. The private sector won't invest in re­ search if a reasona ble return on the investment is not assured.

Yet another part of the reason is biological. It's more difficult to protect varietal differences in true­ to-type cereal grains. which have been Canada's more important crops, than in crops such as com and soy beans, which have traditiol'lally been more eco­ nomically important in the United States.

What will change the pattern of research invest­ ment in Canada is a greater emphasis on protecting breeders' rights and the advent of biotechnology, says Brinkman. There are biological limits on what a plant can do and how efficient an animal can be in converting feed to gain, but biotechnology allows us to jump that limit into a new frontier, he says. The potential is telTific and the technologies are much easier to protect, making biotechnology research a more attractive investment for the privatc sector.

Fox believes univcrsities and government will need to re-evaluate the kind of research they under­ take. In addition to the key question of whether or not a project will gencr<lte a sizeable benefit for the industry, university researchers will need to ask if it has potential for private-sector investment. "Ten years from now, I would expect to see a greater pro­ pOl1ion of agricultural research in Canada being done by pl;vate firms," he says.

Fox thinks the success of university research ef­ foits will depend on how good we are at identifying the gaps between private-sector activities, then apply­ ing our research expertise to fill those niches.

Changing trade policy may also encourage more private-sector investment in research . Increasingly open borders worldwide mean more and more oppor­ tunities to sell commodities into specialized and bulk markets. With more competitors, the gain from re­ search may have a greater overall effect, even if the unit return is small. Tomorrow 's one-per-cent sav ing in production costs on a g lobal volume may be more valuable than last year's 10-per-cent saving on tradi­ tional volumes.

But both Brinkman and Fox warn that the opposite effect is al so possible; the global market has the po­ tential to cause substantial losses in the a bsence of new research. Future agricultural research may be valued for the losses it saves as well as the sales it generates.

"There are no guaranteed markets in this type of environment," says Brinkman. "Canadian agriculture can't rest on its laurels or rely on existing technol­ ogy."

George Brinkman

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Glenn Fox

Guelph Alumnus

U of G and OMAFRA enhance partnership n June, the Ontario Ministry of Agricul­ ture , Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) and the University signed a memorandum of understanding to fur­

ther develop their unique 30-year rela­ tionship. Later this fall, a new paItnership agreement will join together U of G and the ed ucation, research

and laboratories services of OMAFRA , including the colleges at Ridge town, Kemptville and Alfred and the HOIticultural Research Institute of Ontario .

" It will be an unbeatable combination, so lidifying Ontario's leadership in an ever-demanding agri-food

business and trade climate," says Prof. Larry Milligan, Guelph' s vice-president (research). It will also assure the University'S position as the focal point for agri-food education and research in Canada, he say s.

Over the years, U of G 's fundamental resea rch stre ngt hs have combined well with OMAFRA' s s up­ port and facilities, says Milligan. And working to­ ge ther has been pivotal to the success of the Ontario agriculture and food industry. The new agreeme nt re­ flects the agri-food industry' s demand that the integ­

rity of agricultural resea rch in Ontario remain a

priority. He says U of G and OMAFRA ca n offer a

broad resource base for research while providing

benefits and efficiencies that wouldn't exist if they

continued to operate independently.

"Research results will be put into practice faster,"

he says. "It will become easier to deliver agri-food

technology to all areas of Ontalio. We hope this

leads to new oPPOItunities for producers to become

more involved in agri-food research and for students

to take part in on-farm research and training."

At a time when there is an ever-increasing need to

reduce expenses and ma xi mize resources, thi s part­ ners hip is a positive means of maintaining se rvices,

s kill s and facilities that would otherwise be lost.

The ministry will reduce annual govemment spending by $20 million as a result of thi s partner­ ship, by eliminating duplication, reducing administra­ tion and developing a business-oriented environment

to increase revenue generation , say s Milligan.

" It' s clear that our future success will rely on our ability to streamline but also retain a strong founda­ tion th at will engender more ex ternal s upport and de­ pend less on go vernment funding. I expect that by setting up thi s infrastllJclUre and be ing increasingly responsive to sector needs, industry and producers will assume a greater role in spo nso ring research. It

will be a hi ghly efficient co-ordinated system that

serves stakeholders through the entire spectrum,

from basic research to applied field testing and pre­

product development. "

The memo of understanding signed in June pro­

vides a framework for building a detailed legal agree­

ment under which this proposa l can proceed. It' s

expected that the agreement will be implemented by

April I, 1997. Anyone wishing more information can

call the Office of Research at 5 19-824-4120, Ext.

6926, or access the e nhanced partnership Web site at

http://ww w.uoguelph.ca/resea rch/partners.

Slory reprinled from At Gue lph

Ontario poised to lead in agri-food biotechnology he June 1996 issue of AgriJood research in On­ Iorio presents an impressive report on agri-food biotechnology resea rch in Ontario. Editor Robyn Meerveld, B.Sc. '79, points readers to the important role

biotechnology will play over the ne xt 40 years as the province ­ and the world - faces a doubling of its population.

The publicati on makes reference to more than 70 biotech pro­ jects at U ofG, involving more than 80 sc ienti sts from areas as di­

verse as crop science, hOIticultural science, molec ular biology and genetics, environmental biology, biomedical sciences, popula­ tion medicine , animal and poultry sc ience, veterinary microbiol­ ogy and immunology, pathology and the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock.

Such dive rsity is poss ible because of Ontario' s collaborative re­ search network that links government, industry and universities.

The Guelph Food Techno logy Centre (GFTC) is one of the newest developments in that network. Opened in January 1995, Cuelph Alumnus

GFTC tackled more than 100 food projects in its first year, rely­ ing on collaboration with sc ientists of many di sc iplines.

GFTC serves the needs of small. family-based businesses and

large national corporations. Its first-year projects ranged in size from $500 to more than $ [ 50,000 and included product develop­ ment for export markets and the introductio n of new technologies to take advantage of market trends in prepackaged fresh foods.

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Last year in North America, more than 23,000 new food prod­

ucts were launched, but over 90 per cent failed and less than one per cent turned into $200-mi II ion winners. One of the key s to chang ing those statistics is the use of biotechnology tools to build a competitive edge thro ugh sa fer , more efficient process ing, im­ proved nutrition and new uses for existing products. GFTC ­ with its links to the growing network of agJ'i-food biotechno logy research in Ontario - is poised to take a leading role in that build­ ing process.

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Family hobby makes good horse sense T ry talking to Jack Reeves, BSA '52, about his champion Morgan horses, and he' lI te ll you a lot about hi s granclc hildren - how they like to ride along when he ' s showi ng in a carriage class, how they ' re always anticipating th e next horse show and how much they remind him a nd his wife, Kay, of their own two so ns when they first began to show some 30 years ago.

"Jt's like stal1ing all over again as ou r g randchil­ dren develop an interest in a hobby that has given so much pleasure to our ramil y," says Jack. ever mind the red and blue rosettes that paper a wall in the barn - he says the bigges t prize he ' s won in 30 years of showi ng horses is a c lose-knit family.

T he Reev es' s C hestnut Hill Farm is sit uated in the rolling hil ls north of Toronto at Uxbridge. They live o n 25 acres - mostly hay fiel ds and paddocks ­ with barn space for 30 horses, a l.6-kilometre tra ck and two indoor arenas. Sons Greg and G eoff and th e ir wives , Carol and C harlene, live nearby, and all of them - including Geoff and Charlene's six -yea r­ old so n, Mitchell, and four-year-old daughter, Madi­ son - are invo lved in training and show ing horses.

Jack is past president of the Canadian Morgan Horse Assoc iation. He served on the exec utive of the Ontario Morga n Horse lub for six years and was a direc tor of the Ameri can associat ion for seven. Al­ th o ugh his sons and daughters-in-law now train most of the riding horses Ja c k spends the better pal1 of his day in the barn and breaks and trains all the driving horses.

Now he works full time at developing his Mor­ ga ns and his grandch ildren. Jack says the Reeves fam il y isn't nearly as active on the show circuit as it was when Greg and Geoff were teenage rs. They never missed an Ontario event and showed regularl y in Quebec, Mic higan, New York and Ma~sachu se tt s, with some 15 appearances a l the world cham pion­ s hip in Oklahoma. Tha t' s a lso when they addeu most of the ribbons to the ba m wall, incl ud ing dozens of Canadian champions hips and six G rand National championshlps o r reserves.

And il all stan ed wi th a horse-sitting job back in 1966. Jack was working for a fi nn that ma nufactured chem ica ls used in wate r treatme nt when the com­ pan y boss was relocated to the U nited States a nd left him wi th two Morgan mares to loo k after. H is pay­ ment was a stud colt that he named Hippo tho us. " I' ve s ince learned that it's bette r to buy the foal and ha ve someone else look after it," laug h, Jack, but H ippi began the Chestnut Hill sta ble.

Next came Chestnut Hill' s mos t famous ma re, Ari stippi. Bom in 1968, she WOIl he r firs l ri bbo n at three months and her final one the day before he r death in 1987. With Greg riding in 1974, Tippi be-

Jack Reeves with grandchil­ dren Madison and Mitchell.

Photo by Robin Knight

And he calls this retirement Jack's career sta rted in 1952 when he took a post­ graduation job as field man for Canadian Canners in eastern Ontario. He describes himself as a typi ca l OAC grad: HI didn 't know very mu c h abo ut any ­ thing, but a little bit about a lot of things." Continu­ ing the football ca recr he'd started as an Aggie Redden, he played for the Cobourg Galloping Ghosts, a team sponsored by a c he mical company where he bega n a career in wa ter treatment. In 1969, he and two partners formed Specialty C hemica l Ltd. and built a plant in Aurora. Ont. He se rved as presi­ dent of the compan y until it was sold to Dre w C hemical, a subsidiary of Ashland Oil, in 1988. He was president of both companies until his retirement in 1992.

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came the first Canadian-owned Morgan to win a G rand ational championship. She won three in total.

He r progeny have also proven to be mUltiple win­ ners, notabl y Chestnut Hill Elite and Chestnut Hill Erica. The stallion Mr. T won 17 out of 20 classes at th e Canadian National Exhibition between 1985 and 1989 and was champion stallion at the CNE from 19R7 to 1990. He was also the 19119 champion stal­ lion for Canada and was Canadian-bred c hampion at the Ontario Mo rga n Ilorse Championship Class ic t~ve years in a row.

Whc n Mr. T was de feated at the classic in 1995, it was by two of his own foals, Chestnut Hill Specialty and Chestnut Hill T-Rex. Jac k says that' s what horse breed ing is all about - to produce a horse better than its parents. In addition, three of Mr. T's proge ny captured the top breeding c lasses for yearling, two­ year-olds and three-year-old s. Two-year-old Chest­ nut Hill Specialty went on to rank as grand champion mare of the show.

The Reeves family showed 10 horses at the 1996 Ontario classic , where Specialty was again the top Canadian-bred mare and reserve grand champion ma re of the show. She was also champion three-year­ old mare, with stablemate Ms Command taking the reserve ribbon.

Although shown for a new owner, T-Rex won top

honors again , including reserve grand champion stal­ lion. Chestnut Hill also showed the rese rv e cham­ pion gelding and wo n e ithe r a c hampions hip or reserve (a nd so met imes both) in pleasu re driving, westem pleasure and carriage driving.

Jack and Chestnut Hill Erica won this cross-coun­ try race at the Carriage Classic.

Photo courtesy Chestnut Farms

The award s are shared by the who le family be­ cause e ve rybody helps to train , s how and care for the horses, says Jack. "We work together as a family team and often dri ve aga inst eac h other in ca rriage classes. Be ing toget he r is what makes it fun. "

The Morgan breed T he Mo rgan is the o ldes t of Ame rica's light horse breeds, begin­ ning in 1789 from a single stallion named for hi s New England owner. Justin Morgan. Now something of a legend, the colt has predominantly thoroughbred and Arabian ancestry which has give n it strai g ht, clean legs and deep muscling over quarters and shoulders, with a short, fine head and large expressive eyes .

Much smaller than draft horses of the day, Justin Morgan's horse was overlooked at first. Then came the stories of a little bay sta llion that pull ed a log a draft horse could not budge, car­ ried a preside nt on a parade ground and outran the most winning qu a n er-mile race horse in Ve nnont.

The Morgan was al so one of the greatest breeding horses of all time, produc ing sons and daughte rs true to type and ability.

Barely over 14 hands, the bay stallion never weighed mo re than 1,000 pounds, and it was all musc le. He lived almost 30 years ­ the life time of two ordinary work horses - and maintained a spirited but gentle disposition.

These are also the characteristics of the modem Morgan ho rse.

A versatile breed, they ca n handle field worK, pull a buggy or work under saddle to handle cattle. And the Morgan is a natural for today 's interest in pleasure riding and showing. Man y con­ sider it to be th e idea l light horse, carrying not only the strength and e ndurance of a heavy horse, but al so the clean look and si lky mane of a thoroughbred , which makes it attractive as a show G/lelph Alumnlls

Chestnut Hill Mr. T shown by Jeff Reeves

horse. These a nimal s lea rn more quickly than other breeds and claim a more diverse range of abilities.

Morga n breeders can be found across th e United States and in almost every Canad ian province. Like Guelph graduate Jack Reeves , most are quick to point out the versatility of the breed­ g reat for sport , show and family pleasure.

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Alumni Weekend delivers awards, reunions and good times Alumni Weekend provides an annual opportunity for the UGAA to recognize outstanding alumn i through the prese ntation of its Alumnus of Honor and Volun­ teer of the Year a wards. The 1996 Alumnus of Honor is Ginty Jocius, B.Sc.(Agl.) '70. Volunteer of the Year is Bob MUITay, BSA '49.

President of his own marketing finn in Guelph, Jocius is an alumnus who has rem ained actively in­ vo lved with hi s alma mater. He' s a lso a co mmunity­ minded citizen and Rotarian. Murray, now retired from a career in the poultry industry, has taken o n a number of volun teer positions with the Uni vers it y.

Alunmi Weekend is also the occasion for the pres­ en tation of the OVC Alumni Assoc iat io n' s Di st in­ guis hed Alumnus Award. This year ' s recipient is Don MacDonald , DVM '5 7, a form e r member of Board of Governors who has don e much to adva nce public trust in the veterinary profess ion. In addition to meeting clients at Mac Donald Animal Hospital on Bloor Street in Toronto, he has adv ised hundred s of thou sa nds of pet owners via radio a nd tel evis io n.

While serv ing on the Ontario Veterin ary Assoc ia­ tion Counci l in the 1960s , MacDona ld hel ped launch the community college program for anima l-health tech ni c ians. He was chai r of th e provincia l licence and revie w board under the Animals for Research Act a nd se rved as Ontario representative - and later pres ide nt - of th e Canadian Veterinary Medical As­ socia tion.

Reunions Nearly every meeting room on campus was home to a class reunion, including the 25th-anniversary cele­ bration of the U of G c lass of' 197 \. Class members made it an evenin g to remember by ann ounc ing a gift of $47,S76 to benefit com puter-based learning programs on campus.

Starting a new year on the UGAA executive are, from left: incoming president Harold Whiteside, BA '82; first vice-preSident Dale Downey, B.Sc.(Eng.) '77; second vice-president Jim Weeden, B.Sc.(Eng .) '71 and M.Sc. '86; secretary Rita Sterne, B.Comm . '87; treas­ urer Gwen Paddock, B.Sc.(Agr.) '85; and past president Elizabeth O'Neil, B.A.Sc. '74 and M.Sc. '83.

Celebrating friendship and achievement at the OVC luncheon are, from left, Bruce Holliday, DVM '57; OVC Distinguished Alum­ nus Don MacDonald, DVM '57; Rod Davies, DVM '58; and Bill Whittick, DVM '55.

Association meetings Severa l alumni associations met during Alumni Weekend, including the UGAA, which elected a new s late of officers at its annual meetin g June 23. Retir­ ing pres ident Eli zabeth 0 ' eit looked back on some of the accomp li shments of the past year when a lumni: • hosted 1,000 first-year stude nts at a welcome bar­ becue, • formed an a lumni Senate cauc us, • opened Alumni House to oth e r univers ities by hosting the rirs t provincial association meeting, • donated through the Alma Mater Fu nd to reno­ vate a new home for the Office of' First- Yea r Stud­ ies in Day HaJJ, • cond ucted a thank- a-thon and visitat ion program to hear the voices of alumni from many parts of the country, and • establishe d a UGAA Web si te on the Universitv of Guelph home pagc - htt p://www.uoguelph~ca.

What makes the UGAA work, said O ' Neil. is its human s ide - "those folks who find time and e n­ ergy at the end of the day (0 s pend with the ir alma mater."

Dedication For the c lass of Mac '56, the highlight of Alumni Weekend was the ded ication of a quilted wa ll hang­ Ing made by class members. Commemorating the 40th anniv ersary of the c lass, the quilt displays the name of every c lass member and depict s s ignificant scenes in their lives. It hangs in the faculty lounge at the College of Family and Consumer Studies for eve­ ryone to enjo y.

Grand opening U of G president Mordechai Rozanski anet OAC dean Rob Mclaughlin welco med a large contingent from the c lass of OAC '43 to the official openi ng of a new multimedia learn ing ce ntre .Iocated in the Crop Sci ence Building. Computer equipment and renO V3­

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tions to the room were funded by a bequest from the late FOIman Law ren cc, BSA '43, a chem ist and teacher. His c lassm ates paid tribute to Law rence at the ribbon- cu tting ceremony, then tried out the new computer stat ions.

The comp uter labo ratory wi ll be nefit teac hing pro­ grams th rougho ut the college, sa id Me aughlin.

Every OAC st udent wiJi use it in every semester.

Roza nsk i c ited the new fac ility as an exam ple to be fo llo wed in other areas on cam pus. The develop­ ment of new leam ing tec hnologies is an importan t part of the future of univers it y teac hing, he said.

More than 70 G uelph faculty are a lready in vo Lved in devel op ing ne w course modules, and the ALma Ma­ ter Fund has estabLished a flagship projec t to he lp build up to f ive computer labs on camp us.

Student involvement During Alumni Wee kend , the Alma Mater F und pre­ se nted its annu al leadership awards to student ini tia­ tives th at promote in volvement, serv ice and leadership. Named in honor of the first AMF chair, Gordon Nixon, BS A ' 37, the $10,000 fund was share d thi s year by the Race Relations Commission , the F irst-Aid Response Team, Sena te Student Cau­ c us, College Royal's annual C urtai n Call produ ctio n,

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and a program that tea ches scie nce and enginee rin g works ho ps in elementary schools.

Tha nk you Alumni w ho corne fro m afar to aLle nd the weekend's activities ma y not realize th at many local bus inesses and compa ni es help SUppOlt the program. This yea r, U of G received donations fro m Cellular Co nce pts Bell M ob ilit y, Gatorade Sport Beverages , S ubway Sandwic hes and Salads. Eileen's Fl owers Ltd. , The Flower Store, Grower Direct Fres h Cut F lowers, Pinetree Gift Outlet, Zehrs Flowers, Mo nte's P lace, Petals and P lan ts Ltd., Th e Paper Fac tory, the U ni ­ versity Bookstore , Gryphs Sports Lounge a nd the Brass Taps.

Participating in the ribbon­ cutting ceremony to open the Forman Lawrence Multi­ media Laborato ry are, from left, OAC dean Rob McLaughlin and Lawrence's sister, Doris, and brother, Byron.

V olunteer of the Year

Bob Murray, BSA '49

Guelph Alumnus

Bob Murray exemplifies the true sp irit o f vo luntarism. H is devotion to the ni­ vers it y of G uelph stem s from a persona l belief that al.I those who recei ve the benefits of education and frie ndship from the Uni ve rsity have an obligation to pro vide s upport to their a Lma mater.

After s pending most of his profess io nal caree r in the poultry ind ustry, Murray retired as ge neral ma nage r o f Spruceleigh F arms , a division of Canada Pac kers, and is now a co ns ul tant to the industry .

Always an act ive member of hi s OAC class, he joined th e OAC Alumni As­ soc iati o n boa rd in 1988 and enco uraged a ll Aggies to take a greater interest in the future of OAC. He wanted them to recognize its distinctiv e contributi o ns to the Uni ve rsit y. As a resu lt, a lumni assoc iation membership soared.

Murray also worked to strengthe n the re lationshi p be tween alumni and s tu­ den ts by ensuring th at new students ha ve a c hance to meet a lumni . He e nco ur­ aged the development of the OAC Graduate Students' Association and introduced di stinctive convoca tion gowns for a lumni who serve as convocation ushers. He is now the OAC A lumni Association 's representati ve on Senate and is a member of the OAC Alumni Found at io n.

From the ea rliest days of the Uni versit y'S strategic-planning process , Murray insisted that alumni be fully invol ved in developing the st rategic plan. Hi s con­ tributions are reflec ted in the important ro le for alumni that was iden ti fied in the co mmittee's recommendations.

He a lso c ha ired the planning co mmittee th at conce ived the idea for Guelph Univ ers it y Alumni Resea rc h and Development (G UARD), a corporat io n that will fo ster the commerc ializat io n of U of G resea rch. Based o n the enthusiast ic recepti on GUARD has received, it m ay prove to be MUlTay's most importan t contribution to the future development of the Unive rsity .

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Share your knowledge T he Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iation is looking for g raduatcs who will vot unteer to speak at the annual F AC S C aree r ight Sept. 24. It runs on campus from 5: 15 to 7 p. m. in Pe ter Cl ark I la ll. Association vice­ presiden t K ar n Scholz, B.A.Sc. '93 , invites a ll FACS grads to ~ harc thei r k now ledge and e xpertise with tude nt s. For more infonnation, call Sc hot z a t 519-271-0055.

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All set for the traditional Sunday morning brunch are th ree members of the OAe class 01 '51 and their wives.

From teft are Bernard and Chris Flaherty, Arnold and Barbara (McDowell), B.H.Se. '53, Brown and David and Muriel Moote.

TILe OAC Alumn i Di;,ti ngui shed Faculty AW<lrds were presented d uring Alumni Weekend . W inner of th e Dist ing uished Research Awa rd wa: Prof.

C larence wanton , M .Sc. ' 77 , C rop Science . wh o hu , published more than 70 ref reed papers in sc ien ­ ti fi c journ a ls ,md a larg.e number of tech nical reports for the Ex pert Co mm illee ('I ll Weeds Re. earch. The Di ting uished Teaching A ward went to Prof. Jane F unk . Ag ric ultural Eco no m ics and Bus iness . She also rec eived th e Wagho rne Teac hing Fe llo wship from the OAC A lumni Fo undat i('ln. Prof. Frank Humik, PhD '71 , Animal an d Po ult ry Science , re­ ceived the D istinguished Extension Award for his comm itme nt to expanding knowledge of Ih sc ien­ tific bases of the welfare of agric ultural ani ma ls.

Senate caucus formed of G a lumni wil l be more invol ved in the dec ision ­ making process at G ue lph, tha nks to the estab Ii hmen t of a n alu mni Sena te caucus .

Made up of the nine a lu mni cU ITent ly appoi ntcd to Senate by the ir peers , the caucus meets monthl y to co-ordinate views of its indi vidual co nstituencies.

Alu mni have tradi tion a lly in tlucnced Un iversit dec i,' ion making by serving on co llege alumni a~so ­ ciations, the UG AA , ad visory committees. co uncils ancl boa rds. The ca uc us goes beyond these "Vl'n ll e~ , says a lumni senator Bob MUiTay, BSA ' 49, who founded the caucus. It b rings a broadly based , co-oJ'­ din ated al um ni prese nce an d input to the highest lev­ e ls of nivers ity gove rnment, he says.

In addition to M urray. the caucus COl s is t~ of chair Ma rk Ste venson, BA '93; Martin Bosch, B.Sc. '69 and M .Sc. '71; Mary Ann G rape, B.Sc.(H. K.) '76; Vem Hambley , DVM '62; Shirley Surgcone r, B.A .Sc. '72; and Elizabeth O ' Ne il. B.A.Sc. ' 74 and M.Sc. '83.

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Conservatory & Gardens Complex Alumni greet new students A gain this ,ummer. the U of G Alumni Association hosted send-off parties for new Guelph stud ents in fiv e Ontario comm unities: Barrit:. Halton. Londo n.

Ottawa and Windsor. For infonnation about how to ge t involved in future se nd-offs. ca ll Sarah Nadalin at 5l9-824-4120, Ext. 6533.

Community effort wins The Canadian Co uncil I'or the Advant:cment of Edu ­ ca tion (CC AE) has recognized U ofG' s 1995 Home­ co ming eve nt as one of the best alumni relations programs hosted by a Canadian uni ve rsity last year.

A silve r awa rd was presented to the Departme nt of Deve lopme nt and A lumni Affairs at the annu a l CCAE conven ti on held in June at Bishop 's Univer­ s ity in Lenno xv ille, Que .

Alumni o ffi ce r Laurie Malleau says the event was a co llaborativc effort in volv ing alumni, U nive rsity staff and mcmbers of the G uelph community. Many local me rchants participated in a co upon book, set up disp lays in their stores and co ntributed to a dow n­ town concer1 he ld during th e weekend .

With a silver awa rd for inspiration, the Homecom­ ing 1996 committee is work ing hard to make this yea r's e e nt eve n better. For a look at what's in store for Septembe r. see pages 28 and 39.

Left to right: Students Richard Voilans, B.Sc. '95, Jen O'Donnell, B.Sc. '95, and Sharon Bevington, and alumni officer Laurie Malleau accepted the CCAE award lor their roles in plan­ ning last year's Homecom­ ing.

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A project update Fund -raising goa l: $ 1 million Total committed 10 date: $258,7 95 Fund raising began: 1994 Class gifts:

OAC '49 OAC '52A OAC '51 OAC ' 53 OAC '55 OAC '65 Doug Robinson Memorial

In addition, the conservatory project has re ­ ceiv ed generolls SuppOr1 fro m indi vidual s and bus inesses.

The conservatory and gardens red e ve lo pment project was initiated by a lumni. T he fund-raising co mmittee includes C lay SVi itzer, BSA '51 and MSA '53; Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc . ' 59: and William Gregg, BSA '53 an d DVM ' 6 1, pictured above in front of th e co nservatory.

For more information, contact committee mem ­ bers through Alumni Hou se at 5 19-824-4120, Ext. 6544.

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September - OPIRG continues its 20th-anniversary celebration with an open house, dedication of the archives, the Public Interest College and a reunion gel -together. To get involved, call OPIRG at Ext. 2129 . fax to 519-824-8990 or send e-mai I to opirg@ uoguelph.ca.

Sept. 7 - FACS '91 reunion al Alumni House, call Ext. 6969 for details.

Sept. 9 - Ashley McIsaac performs at the twin-pad arena, 8 p.m., unlicensed, all-ages event. For ticket information, call Ext. 4368.

Sept. 13 - OAC Alumni Association annual golf toumament at Victoria West Golf Club. To register, call Sarah Nadal in at Ext. 6533.

Sept. 14 - LI NK potluck supper hosted by Alumni-in­ Action, call Ext. 6963 for information.

Sept. 14 - Arboretum rare-plant sale.

Sept. 14 - The Watchmen appear at Peter Clark HaJJ, 9 p.m., all-ages concert. Call Ext. 4368 for ticket information.

Sept. 15 - Children's Forest restoration walk, Sunday aftemoon at the Arboretum.

Sept. 17 and 18 - Arboretum workshops on growing native plants and insects. Call Ext. 2113 for registra­ tion information.

Sept. 21 - The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapter kicks off the season for its social bridge club. Two potluck suppers and fi ve games will be held throughout the year. Newcomers are welcome 1 RSVP to John, OVC '54, or Margaret (Fenton) McGowan, B.H.Sc. '54, at 613-828-7038.

Sept. 23to 29-HOMECO MING 1996 1 Oct. 18 - T hird annual all-Canadian alumni reception in New York City, 6 p.m., Canadian Club, 15 West 43rd St., Manhattan. For reservations, call 212-596­ 1320.

Nov. 21 to 24 - Fair November craft show and sale, University Centre, open all day and evenings on Thursday and Friday. Call Ext. 4368 for details.

Nov. 30 - Va nier Cup XXXII at SkyDome.

Ma rch 9, 1997 - F lorida alumni reunion, Maple Leaf Estates, POlt C harlotte, Fla. Call Alumni House at Ext. 6674 for details.

Come to the Bu llring!

Bullring post-game party, 4 to 8 p.m.

• All graduates of the '80s and '90s.

Get a f'-roup of friends together and drop in at the Bullring.

Call Ext. .., lO2 for details.

• Lambton Hall '86, Section 4A. • Student Housing Residence Life staff reunion for grads of the '80s and '90s.

Call Ext. 4892, for details.

• All former Bullring staff.

• CSA reunion.

Call Ext. 6743 to register.

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CBS 25th-anniversary celebration Sept. 27 • Open house - Axelrod, Animal Science and N ulri­ tion, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Powell buildings and McNally House - 2 to 5 p.m.

• Mixer at the U niversity Club (fOlmerly Faculty Club), 6 to I I p.m. , niversity Centre, Level 5.

• Observatory tours, 9 to II p.m., meet at the front door of Zavitz Hall.

Sept. 28 Cullege of Bio logic31 Sci <: Jl ce • Open house and decade rooms, 2 to 5 p.m.

- - 25 YI .•\ I\S • Dinner and dance, 6:30 p.m., Peter Clark Hall.

Accommodation is available at the College Inn (519-836-1240)

and Days Inn (5 19-822-91(2).

Souvenir T-shirts, mugs and history booklets will be available.

To register, call Ext. 3343, fax to 519-767 -2044 or e-mail to nip@uoguelph.ca.

Homecoming Sept. 23-29 - W el lness Aw areness W ee k, call Ext. 3327 fo r eve nts/ac tivities.

Sept. 24 - FACS Career Ni g ht, 5: 15 to 7 p.m. , Peter Clark Ha ll. All FACS gracls welcome. To volunteer as a speaker, call Karc n Sc hol z, B.A.Sc. '93, at 519-271-0055, or Laurie Malleau , B.C omm. '8 3, at 5 19-824-4120, Ext. 2102.

Sept. 25 • Homecoming kickoff at free noon-hour concert, Branion Plaza.

• Unive rsity barbecue, festival and marke tplace, 4 to l):30 p.m ., B ra nion Plaza. Call Central Stude nt Assoc iation, Ext. 6748, [or in formation.

Sept. 26 • Barbecue for new stuclents hosted by U of G Alumni Association, 5 p.m., Alumni H o use . Call Ext. 65 33 to voluntee r.

• Obse rvatory tours, 9 to 11 p.m., meet at the front doo r of Za vit z Hall.

Sept. 27 • C once rt, St. G eorge ' s Square, downtown Guelph, 3 105 p.m.

• Free movie night , Thornbrough 100.

• Gryphon Club Hall of Fame dinne r, 6: 30 p.m., ticke ts $50, Ext. 6 133 .

• \Velcome wagon information table, 6 to 10 p.m., are na .

• Agg ie social , 9 p.m .. are na, e ve ryone we lcome . C a ll Ext. 8321 fo r tic ke ts.

Sept. 28 • \Vclcorne wa go n, noo n to 4 p.m., Alumni Stad iu m ; 6 10 10 p.m. , are na.

• Stude nl/alum ni s wim meet, R:30 a.lll. Ca ll A lan Fairwea the r, E l. 2220.

• HK /I-IH Alumni Assoc iatio n annual mee ting , 9:30 a.m ., Po we ll Build ing .

• ngi neering Alumni Association meeting, lO a.m. , horn bro ugh 100 .

• Alumni House ope n house , 10 a.m. to I p.m.

• G lory Bowl, alumni footb a ll game, 10 a.m. , Alum ni Stad iwil.

• Intramural volleyball tourname nt. Call Ext. 2160 for information.

• UG AA 30th-anni versary reunion barbecue, II :30 a.m., Alumni Ho use .

• Foolhall game - G ryp ho ns \is. LJ of T BllIes, 2 p. m ., Alumni Stadium.

Ticke ts $ 3 in advance at the we lcome wagon.

• Class re unions: HAFA ' 86, FACS ' R5 a nd OAC ' 56A. • All-ages conce rt with licensed area, R p.m. , a re na. Alumni atlmilled at stu ­ de nt prices . Ca ll Ext. 43G8 fo r ti c kets.

Sept. 29 - Bonsai show. Arbore tuIll, II a.Ill. to 5 p.m.

Pick up an aluIllni card from Alumni House or the we lcome wagon. Bring it with ID for licensed e ve nt s. Pick up a Ho mecoming tabloid and enter the draw at the Wcl W IllC wagon. For information , caliS 19-R24-4120, Ext. 2102.

GUf/ph Alumnus

William Humphrys, ADA 'S3, move d to Victo ria , B. C., with his wlfe, Jean , a lter retiring from Ontar io go vernme nt service .

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Hugh Graham, B.Sc.(A gr.) '66. has retired a fte r 26 yea rs with the Ontario Ministry of the En vironment, whe re he headed the surve illance pro ­ gram fo r drinkin g water. He is now farmin g full time on a beef ope ration in Grey County.

Mary Hofstetter, BA '68, has left her position as preside nt of Ontario's Sheridan College to ass ume the ro le of general manage r of the Stratford Festi val. A longlime supporter of the visual and performing arts, Hofs tetter w ill ensure that business matte rs be hind the scenes kee p pace wilh the festiv al's qualit y presence o n stage. Be fore joining Sheridan in 1988, s he was vice­ preside nt at Hamilton's Mohawk College, after starti ng out at Kitchene r's Conestoga College,

Father and daughter compared notes at June convocation when Peter Kukk, B,Sc.( Eng.) '67, congratulated Lisa Louise on earning her B.Sc. degree. Here, Lisa shares the moment with her dad, mother, Virve, and her sister, Kristina, After a long career with Ontario Hydro, Peter Kukk took early retirement to open his own company, Rooster Enterprises, manufacturers' repre­ sentatives to the poultry industry, Lisa is an animal lover whose plans include community col­ lege and eventually work as an equine massage therapist.

Allen Jess, BSA '64 , relired in April after 30 years

Steven Ehrick, BA ' 73, has been appointed to the top

with Alberta Public Works in Edmonton. He was se nio r proj ect manage r for landsc ape developme nt of public buildings and in stitulions . Je ss and his wife, Margaret, live in Sherwood Park,

business affairs positi on at The Enc lave. a new full- se rv­ ice rec ord compan y in New York. He w ill also oversee the company ' s human resources policy and adm inistra­ li o n. Ehrick be gan hi s ca re er al the fam ed Seco nd City in T oronto, where he wa s stage produ c tion manage r, wo rkshop direc tor and theat re mana ge r. He later wo rked for two lap entertain ment la w firm s be fo re es­ tablishin g hi s own practice in 1988. He was pres ident of Sirius Mu s ic Corp. from 1988 to 1990 and managin g di­ rector o f True North Record s fro m 1990 to 1992.

Ken Burns, BA '75, is a locomo tive en gineer for Canadian Natio na l Rail ­ ways. He and hi s w ife, Trudy, ha ve fo ur c hildre n and one grandchild and are ac tive in c hurch and co mmunity service gro ups in th e ir home town of Alliston , Ont. Wayne Coston, M .Sc. ' 77, operates hi s own cons ult­ ing co mpany in Waterloo, Ont., spec iali z ing in agg re­ gate resources planning, developme nt and manag ing.

Caston Cartographics is a divis ion of the company thal deals in original printed antiqu e maps and c harts. Cana­ dian maps of the 17th and 18th ce nturi es - most by Frenc h c artograph e rs - are in demand by co li eclOrs who invest in antique maps fo r both th e ir histori ca l and des ig n valu e , Caston also provides an appraisal se rvice for maps, pl ans and surveys. Prev io us ly, he worked as se nior reso urces plan ner at Cumming , Cockburn Lim­ ited, and as executive ad mini strato r of the Ins tilute for Business and Economic Studies and ass istant to the dean of bus iness and economics at Wilfrid Lauri e r Uni­ vers ity , where he co mpl e ted an MBA in 19R7.

Carlos Dominguez, M.Se.(Agr.) '77 , is fini s hing a e ig hl-year post as traini ng officer for SEMOC Ida, a na­ tio nal seed co mpan y in Mozambique , He will turn hi s talents to private consu lting in the area of sustainable development and training with e mployers in the seed sector.

Cuelph Alumnlls

Theresa (Hogan) Firestone, BA Sc. '18, is pres i­ dent and CEO of the Canadian Wholesale Drug Assoc ia­ tion and is in the process of re locating the business offi ce from Mo ntrea l to T o ronto.

I?oderick Hodgson, BA 'n , has been working for the public works departme nt in Hud son , Que ., s ince 1982, but s lill relurn s to Guelph o nce a year' to look up friends and re li ve ca mpus mern Ol'ies. He is a ca plain w ith the Hudson Fire De partme nt and a past presid ent of th e loca l historica l socie ty . In Decembe r, he pubI iohed hi s third book on loca l hi stor y and is now writing a hi storical ad venture nov e l.

Eveline Kellman, BA ' 79, ha s re tired from th e Re­ g io n of Wate rloo Social Services, w here she worked as a paren tal-support worke r.

Kelly Krawchuk, B .Comm . ' 79, run s he r own s mall bus iness, doing boo kkeeping a nd color co nsulting. She ha s two sons, Evan and T y le r.

Barbaro Marshall, B.A.Sc. '76 , is a program man­ age r for the hea lth-protection divi s io n of the W e llington­ Dufferin-Gue lph Hea lth Unit. She lives in Ede n Mills with he r hu s band , Jose ph, her dau ghter, Claire , and their Be lgian shee pdog, Shad ow.

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Sue (Livingstone), B.A. '71, and Jeff McRuer, B.Sc. '7 2, li ve on a 16-ac re property in East Grove.

N.S. He is a marine bi ologist at thc Bedford Institute of Ocean og raphy, and s he works wLth special-needs stu­ dents. They have three cllildren.

Randy Parkin, BA '77, and his wife , Kim , have been in Calga ry si nce 1988, afte r stints in Yell owk nife and Edmonton. They have fi ve childre n. Parkin is a partne r in Key Consulting G roup Inc., doing leade rship deve l­ opment co nsulti ng. He says he 's been ho ping fo r a reun ­ ion of anyo ne who re members Jim's cow on th e wa ll of Grey I ab out 25 yea rs ago.

Amreek Singh, PhD ' 71, is the first professor in th e history of the University of PI'ince Edward Island to re­ ceive two merit awa rd s froLn the universit y fo r ex cel­ lence in teac hin g. He received the fiN award in 1989 and was hono red aga in ea rli er thi s year. Sin gll is a pro­ fessor of mic rosco pic anatomy at the Atl antic Vete ri­ nary College, where he teac hes both unde rgradu ate and gradu ate courses. He has supervised a numbe r of gradu­ ate stud ents anu has provided research trainin g to under­ graduates for 12 years with the support of Natu l'a l Sciences and Engi neering Research Council summer in ­ ternships. He stan'ed his career at vetel'inMY schoo ls in India and taught hi stology at the University or Ge neva before co ming to Ca nada, where he has held pos itio ns both at OVC and A Vc. A lifetime memher of th e O VC Alumni Associa tion, Sin gh is honol'ary class president of OV C '83 and '86. He and his wife have one so n.

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Sandy Gates Aldworth, B.A.Sc. '87, received her master's in c rimi ­ nology from Ottawa Uni ve rsit y in 1988. She lives in Parry Sou nd, Ont .. with her husband, Greg . and two chil­ dren, Trevor and Madeleine.

Janet Amare, B.Sc . '82, is thc president and owner of her own co nsulti ng company. which trains fac il.ita­ tors and ent re pre neurs. She says sile al so uses her ma ­ rine bi ology ed ucati on as a background guide when she takes gro ups of peo ple to the Bahamas and Hawa ii to swim with the do lphins. She li ves in No rth York , Ont. Steve and Noelle (Larocque) Bachner, bOlh ADA '87, are Ji ving in Grimsby, Ont., with their Iwo children. He wo rks at a local greenhou se: she is em­ ployed by a land survey firm.

Bonnie-Rae (Brownlee) Bailey, BASc. '82, and her hu sband, Gra nt , recently moved from Vern on, B. C., to Edmonto n with th eir son , Douglas, wh o was born in March.

Leroy, B.Sc. '82 , and Janet (Lilliman) Blake, B.Comm. '83, are living in the Ottawa area, whe re he is distri ct sales manager with He wlett Packard in the tes t and measures di vision. She is "c bef and chauffe ur" fo r Iheir three c hildren: Janso n, 9: Janelle, 7; and Lisa,S .

Me mber

Audrey Braschel (Knoll), B.Se. '84, wo rks at the ToronlO General Hospital as a senior cytogeneti c tech­ nologist. She and her husband, Hardy, have two da ugh­ ters, Melissa and Lea nne .

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Scoff Brayford, ADA 'R7, is farm manager at Bray ford Sod Farms in Alli sto n, Ont. He and hi s w ife, Nicole, and two -year-old da ughter, Laura Mae, recently mov ed into a new home.

Corrine Burke, B.A .Sc. '83, was rece ntl y hono red by MOLint Royal College in Calgary with a di sting uished manager award . She is operations manager of the col­ lege's City Centre Campus, where she has worked si nce 1990 and is credited with shapin g the re lativel y new campus into a successful ope ration.

Kyle Cachagee, B.Sc. 'R9, run s a canine unit fo r the Ontario Mini stry of Natura l Resources in Timmins, and wo rks with four-foOled fl'iend Cod y, who is tra ined to catc h poaellers by findin g hidden fi sh, game "nd fire­ arms. Cachagee and hi s wife, Carol , who also wo rks for the mini stry, liv e in Timmins w he re Caellagee started hi s ca reer as a co nservation officer.

Tom Carroll, BA '85, recentl y opened Art Services on Quebec Street in Guelph. Wi th the he lp of Marieke Wevers, DVM ' 9 1, he o ffers custom picture framing and maintains a fine art ga llery, th e city's onl y privately ow ned gallery th at features conte mp orary Ca nadian art­ ists. Some of Carroll's own paintings and prints are on displa y, Wh en We vers is n' t he lping at the framin g shop, s he maintains a locum practice, filling in for vet­ erin arians across Ontario.

Mary (Wondergem) DeWolf, B.Sc.( H.K.) ' 8 1 anel M .Sc , '87, recentl y moved from Paris to Amsterdam with her hu sband, T o m, and three c hildren, Katie, Mark anel Micllael.

Jeff Evans, BA 'RO, and Cecily Chiles, B.Sc . ' 90, liv e in Brights Grove, On t., whe re they are enj oying

the ir one-yea r-old so n, Owen, anel faithful dog, Pogue,

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Alec Drysdale, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83 and M.Sc. '89, and

Kathleen Zimmerman, B.Sc.(Agc) '86 and M.Sc.

'88 , li ve in Burnaby, B.C. , with their son, Erik.

Drysda le is a land office r fo r the Ministry of Environ­

ment, Land s and Parks. Zimme rman is program co-o rdi­

nator of the B.C. Hortic ultural Coalition in White Rock.

Markus Eymann, B,Sc. '82, is a s trea m restora tion bi­

o logist in Van co uve r. He works with strea ms damaged

by pollutio n and o ther forms of hum an impact. primar­

il y those providing a sal mo noid habitat.

Monica (Perry) Foell, BASc. ' 87 , and her fam il y liv e in Surrey, B.C., where she teac he s kindergarten for the Ri c hmond SC l1001 board. She has a one-year-o lel daughter, Allison .

Michelle Gietz, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83, starred Back Forty Enterprises In c., a greenhou se o perat ion, in 1995 w itll her Ilus band, Ronald. Their Alberta co mpany spec ia l­ izes in app lied agricultural research, T iley hav e three c hildre n.

John Groom, B.Se. '81, is a programmer/ana ly st for Ontario Notthland in North Bay. He and hi s wife, Ann Doner , hav e two childre n, Wesley and Jessica. Groom invites calls and e-ma il from Guelph friends at Jgroom"7 0nrO l@ontcOI.ontc.on,c3.

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One of those fortuitous OAC/ Mac uni o ns is that of Charles and No ree n (Stone) Broadwe ll , '54, who were recogn ized in Marc h for the ir tea m effott on be hal f of the Ontario Ins titute of Agrologists (OlA). They we re honored as a co uple by the OIA with the Norry ­ Hilliard A wa rd , g iven annu­ ally in recognition of an outsta nding dfott in th e pro­ motion of agrology. It wa s th e first joint award to a hu s­ band and wife, The Broad we lls brought public attention to the or­ ganization by handling pro­ m ot io n a nd corporate fund raising for the 1995 OIA co nfe re nce, which was hos ted by the western branch in the L ondon area.

Noreen and Charles Broadwell In charge of loca l a rrange­ joined the Ontario Bean Producers ' ment s, they s taged an ope nin g-nig ht M arket in g Board as ge ne ra l manager, dinner that provided g reate r expos ure a position he held for 26 yea rs until re ­ of the OIA to the agricultural commu­ nit y . The number of ex hibitors at the tirement. co nfe rence set an all-time record.

Charles says that he and Noree n working togeth e r over the years have Founded in 1960, the OIA is an o r­ ganization of profess ionals in agricul­ produced a sy nerg istic effect. They ture who se miss ion is to adv ance the now liv e in London and are both keen profess io nali s m of agrologists in se rv­ vol untee rs. Charles is chair of the Vic­ in g soc ie ty throu g h the agri-food indus­ toria Family Medica l Ce nt re advisory try. Charles Broad well is a c harter board, a Kiwani s C lub dtrec tor and member and was president in 1964/65. president of hi s OAC c lass. He' s fin­ In 1987/88, he served as preside nt of ishin g hi s first te m) as chair o f a pro­ the pare nt o rga niza tion, the A g ric ul­ vinci a l tribunal o n stable funding a nd tural Inst itute of Canada (AI C). was rec e ntly na med president e me ritu s of the Inte rnat ional Pulse Trade and In­ Hon o rs ca m e provinc ially in 1989 , du s try Co nfe d e ration - a g ro up of 30 when Cl.larles was named OIA Distin­ cou ntries involved in marketing peas, g ui s hed Agrologi st, and nat io nally in beans and lentils.

1990, when the AIC awarded him a fel ­ 10wship.In 1995 , hi s na me was added Both Cha rl es and Noree n are avid to Who 's Who In Science and Eng l­ golfers and a re inv o lvcd in church ac ­ I/('erlng. tivities and the co ndo corpora ti o n Charles sta l1ed hi s career in the s ugar beet industry , s pe ndin g 14 years w ith the Canada and Domini o n Sugar Compa ny, After the firm closed in 1968, he sw itc hed co mmodities and

w here they live, Noreen is petmanent c lass president of MAC '54 D a nd , to the delight of her family, earned a BA fro m the University of Western On­ tario in [994 .

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Geoff, BA ' 85 , and Janice (Langdon) Kirkham, BA '87, rece ntly moved to Barrie , Ont., and started a woodcraft bus iness and book dea lership . They ha ve one daughter, Anni e .

Ruth Knight, B .Sc. (A gr.) '89, and Tom Inglis, B.Sc.(Agr.) '89, are farming ne ar Be lmore, Onl., and have bee n adju stin g to parenthood since Erik a was born in December.

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Melanie Hammond, B .Sc.( Agr.) '8 8, was married in June to Les Prosser and li ves near La Corey, Alta., where she recen tly acl1i e ved one o f he r greatest ambi­ tions. She o pe ned he r o wn ridin g/training academ y and boardin g facility for Eng lish hunte r, Jumpe r and d res ­ sage ride rs.

Beth (Clapper) Johnson, B.A .Sc. '86, ha s wo rked fo r the Cit y of Windsor Child-Care Se rvi ces as a re­ so urce teac her fo r nine ye ars . She and he r hu sband have two sons: Brendan , S; and Jared, 2.

Mark Jordan, B.Sc. '8 I. , is a researc h scientist with Agri cu lture and Ag ri- Food Canada at the Cerea l Re­ sea rch Centre in Winnipeg. He an d hi s wife, Sha wn, have two children , Cole and Em ily.

Gwen (Van Esch), BA '9(), a nd Ed Kampen, B.Sc. '89, li ve in Ora ngeville, O nt., w ith thei r c hildren , Ju stin and Jessica. S he teaches part time at a loc al private schoo l, and 11(; wo rk s for Waterm a ke r, Inc. as a wate r­ qu a lity tec hnician and sal es represe ntative.

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appointed to the Simcoe C ounty steering committee, study in g the Simcoe C ount y Library Co-o perati ve.

Nancy (MacKinnon) Lucas, BASe. '86, rece ntl y enj oyed a hone ymoo n in Europe with her hu sband, Andy. They are living in Panama City, Panama, wl1ere he is a pilot for th e U.S . army . Within the nex t ye ar, they w ill be stati o ned in Baltimo re and South Korea.

Stuart MacMillan, ADA '82, is area s upervisor for wheat and soy be an produ ction for Pio neer Hi-Bred Pro­ duction Limited in Chatham, Onl.

Scott McCraw, BA ' 82, is manage r of operatio ns pro­ jec ts for Multiple Re tire ment Serv ices [nc., look in g into inte rnal conll'o l iss ues. !-.Ie join ed the firm a fter 10 years wi th Midland Wa lwy n Capital Inc. Lori Lynn (Proietti) McLellan, BA '85, says her years o f stud ying 1t Gu e lph didn't pre pare her fo r the hard es t jo b ever ... mo therhood . Bu t it' s the "mos t re ­ warding vocation ," she says. She and he r hu sband , Al an, celebrated the birth of th e ir first c hild , She lby, last December.

Laura McMillan-D'Angelo, B.Sc.(H.K.) '88 , ju st graduate d fro m the Univ e rsity of Kentu c ky law sch oo l and is estab lishing a bus iness and equine law practice in Le xingto n.

John Milligan, BA '86 , is working as a trad e m anager for He rshey Canada Inc. in Miss issa uga, Onto David Montagnes, B.Sc. '8 4 and M.Sc. '87, re­ ce ntl y began a new pos ition as ass istant professo r at the Uni versity of Li verpool. Wo rking in hi s fie ld o f marine b io logy, he is .'; tationed at Po rt Erin Marine Lab on the Isle of Man, which he says is "ju st Gu e lph spread o ver a large r area." The Is le o f Man is an inde pendent co un­ try in the middle of the Irish Sea th at 's a bout ha lf the size o f Lake Simcoe and has a po pulation o f70,000 .

"TI1ere a re lots of co ws and shee p o n the isl a nd , and they pro vide a pe rpe tual odo r th at's reminisce nt of Jo hnston Green w hen the wind was blo wing from the west," he says. " It 's a ni ce place to be when the sun shine s." His wife, Ramona (Juraitis), BA ' 83 an d MA '87, teac hes college-lev el En g li sh on the island.

George, BA '88, a nd Despina (Laskaris) Mortidis, FACS '86, li ve in Bow man v ill e, Onl. , with tl1e ir c hildren , Ria and Ste ph anie . Both wo rk fo r the Munic ipalit y o f Metro Toronto - he as a soc ia l serv­ ices work e r and she as s upe rvisor of soc ia l assistance.

Susan North, B.Sc. '82, is a hospital pharmacist in Vanco uv er and the mo the r of two c hildre n, Mi c hael and Kay la. She earned he r phannac y degree at the Uni­ versity o f Briti sh Columbi a in 1985 .

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Debley Phillips-Ross, B.A.Sc. '83, is a di stributor fo r Joico Haircare Products. She is marri ed, with two ch il­ dren, Sean and Shannon, and is an avid ski er.

Graham Rattray, B.Sc. '86, went on fro m Guelph to earn a PhD in chemistry at the Univers ity of British Co­ lum bia in 1992. He worked fo r a year in Hiroshima, Japan, before acc epting a lec turer position in the fac ult y of science and engineering at Ritsume ikan Uni versity in Kyoto.

Bonnie (Thom) Rodriguez, B .Sc. '88, works in phar­ maceutical sales for HMR Canad a. She was married in October 1995 to Paul Rodriguez. and li ves in Missis­ sa uga, Ont. Denise (Sehgal) Besworfh and Kathy Stan yon, both BA '87, were wedding atte ndants.

Marilyn Smith, B.A. Sc. '86, is a committee member of the Alzhe imer Di sease Society in Berkshire, England , where she lives with he r new hu sband, hri stopher.

Bonnie (Shorf) Steinsky, BASc . '8 1, is an elemen­ tary sc hool teac her with the Durham Board of Educa­ tion and lives in Pickering, Ont., with her husband,

Cyril, and tw o so ns, Andrew and Matthew.

Jeremy Thiam Tee, BA '82, is in Selangor, Malay­

sia, where he is a manage r for Mars Inc., res ponsible for

the growth of sa les in Mars candy products in Southeast

Asia.

Leon Walczak, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 86, works as an account manager for the Bank of Montreal in Blenheim , Ont. He also opera te~ a fam il y farm in the Chatham area.

Pamela (Savage) Widdis, B .A. Sc. '81, recentl y started a home business in nutrition counsell ing and is an independent distTibutor for Shaklee Canada. She and her hu sband, Lloyd , have two child ren, Colin and Paige.

Patti (Dyks) Wijsman, ADA '85 , keeps busy looking after three children, David, Joe l and Mieka , and work­ ing in both a loca l landsca pe bu si ness and the fa mil y re­ tail mea t store with her husband, Vince.

Joann (Block) Winther, ADA '85, and her hu ~ b a nd , Lo me, farm nea r Huxley, Alta. They raise ca ttle as we ll as show horses - paint and quarte r horses. They ha ve one daughter, Shelby Lynn.

Rene lajner, MA '88, has been named president of the Friend s of University of Guelph, the University' s charitable arm in the United States. Ba sed in Chicago, the Friends organization holcls its annual din ne r ancl mee ting eac h year in Octobe r. For informatio n about the 1996 meeting, call Bev Berry at Alumni House, 519­ 824-4 120, Ext. 6551.

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Melanie Broscomb, BA '93, known for the eyes in her an, has been working on he r own and with 10­ cal theatre productions at the Sander­ son Ce ntre in Brantforcl , Ont. In May , she was married in Ardentinny, Argyleshire, Scotland, to Graham Drinnan, a prod ucer, co mposer and musici an. They are now li ving in London , England.

Guelph Alumnus

Food from the past for the future hy Tina Veltri

S ome people lamen t the fact that the world' s popula­ tion will double by 2020 and worry about how we ' ll pre­ vent m ass starvat ion. Others, like Bill Tossell , try to do something abo ut it. His goal is to preserve the genet ic makeup of plants that w ill be important in meeting future de mand s for food.

A 1947 BSA graduate and 1948 MSA grad uate of OAC, Tosse ll is Guelph' s fOlmer dean of research, bu t he's now work ing for the Rome-based Intern at iona l Centre for P lant Genet ic Re­ sou rces (LPGR I). It' s one of Bill Tossell a gro up of internationa l agri­ c ultu ra l researc h cen tres around the wo rl d that c reated the Green Revolu­ tion back in the late 1960s.

Hi s work with th e ce nt re involves collecting and preserv in g the genes of variou s plants, so that future ge nera­ tions wi ll have access to food s that may otherwi se cease to exist. The ce n­ tre organizes a wide-ranging system of plant gene banks - from wild plants to breeding materials that are impor­ ta nt for use by plant breeders ac ross the wo rld.

The ce ntre's goals are threefold.

The fi rst is to co llec t plants and ge­ neti c material. T he n, when a co llection has been made, the centre arranges fOJ' storage of the seed s or plants so they w ill be available yea rs from now. This in vo lves work ing directly with devel­ oping countries to help them establish and o rgan ize their ge ne banks. The ce ntre 's final goal is to fonn an interna­ tional network of gene banks so that sc ientists around the world ca n he lp eac h other.

Tossell is c urren tly chai r of IPGRI's board of tru stees. He has also cha ired

the board of tru stees of the Interna­ tional Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia and a number o f external re view committees of the other centres.

He has worked with man y board s since re tiring from Guelph in 1987 and has delved full time into international co nsulting. " I consider m y c urre nt work with the centre in Rome fasci nating," he says. "I originally helped to create a new centre, recruited s ponso rs hip and worked with the Italian gove rn ment to arrange for IPGRI to be he adquartered in Rome."

His work earned him th e Agricul­ tural Institute of Canada's 1992 Inter­ national Deve lopment Award.

Tosse ll 's caree r at Guelph began in 1952. He was c hair of the De pal1ment of Crop Science and the first associate de an of OAC. In 1970, he became U of G's first dean of research, a position he he ld for IS years. H e was also foundin g direc tor of the Guelph-based Centre for Food Seculity.

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Sean Bray, '93, is returnin g to Canada afte r spendi ng

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a year teac hing scie nce and math in a small private sc hoo l in suburban Boston. Th is fall, he'll be teac hing Grades 4 , 5 and 6 at a private e lementary SCll001 in Oakville, ant. , and says he 's look in g forwa rd to catc h­ ing up with friend s.

Kim (Edgerton) Bryan, BASc. '9 1, has been work­ ing as a dietitian at Prin cess M argaret Hospital in Toronto. She and her hu sband. Mark, rece ntl y moved to A urora and became first-time pare nts wh en Matt llew Alexa nder was born in Dece mber.

Rebecca Burwell, B.A.Sc. '90, rece ntl y moved from Toronto to Cambridge, ant. , with her husban d, Paul Tonizzo, B.Se. '9 1, and started a bus iness called Ca­ reers by Des ign. She offers career-planning assistance to hi gh sc hool students and unive rsity graduatcs. Before the move, she worked with students at York ni ve rsity, Seneca Co ll ege and the Yout h Employment Serv ice.

Kathy Cascadden, B.A.S c . '95, and her 11usband .

Christopher Boyce, B.A. '94, were married in Ni ag ­ ara -on-the-Lake, ant , in July 1995. They now li ve in Madison , Wi sco ns in , w here he is emp lo yed by Pro ­ log ue Syste ms In c.

Philip Chan, B.S c.(Eng.) '93, wo rks tor E lectronic D ata Systems Canada in T oro nto . a subsidiary of Gen­ eral Motors. He is a systems en g ineer in the imaging ce ntre, de ve lop ing sol utions for rep lacing pape r filing sy stems witll de sktop imaging.

The 1959 Guelph football team narrowly missed the Vanier Cup when they were defeated in the semi-finals by SI. Francis Xavier University.

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Heather Clark, B A '93. a nd Gerard Walker, BA '88, were married in Jul y. She recen tly left her position as marketing and adv ert ising manager at a fitnes s reso rt to pursue an MBA. He teac hes for the Lin coln County Board of Educat ion and he lps coach tile "O nt<lri o cham­ pion" Gryp hon women's rugb y tea m .

Chris Cocek and Kelly Wyer, bot h B.Comlll. '90, were marri ed in Baddeck, .S .. in Au g ust. Kelly is a manager for savings products at Sun Life in Edmonton, A lt a.; Chris has been teaching e le mentary SC ll001.

T hey' re keeping warm in Edmonton. but hoping for an Austra lian honeymoon next yea r. Thcy'd li ke to hear from the HAFA '90 c rowd. Cal! them at 905-432 -9515 , or send e-ma il to ccocek@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca .

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brarian w ith the Albe rt R . Ma nn Library at Cornell Uni­ ve rs ity in Ithaca , , Y. H.e rec eived hi s MI.IS at the Uni versity of Western Ontario in 1995. Away from work, 11e enjoys cycl ing in th e Finge r Lakes region .

Rollande Dube, B.Sc. '94, and John Bueglas, M.Sc. '95, hav e marri e d and purchas ed an 84 -ac re farm in Ri ve r John, N.S., where Dube operates a plant propa­ gation business. Bueglas is an entomologist spec ializin g in biologi ca l contro l at the Nova Scotta Agric ultural Co llege in Truro.

Randy Duffy, B.Sc. '93, and Christy Mann, B .A. '93, were married in Jul y 1995. He is a resea rch techn i­ c ian at Ridgeto wn C ollege o f Agric ultural Techno logy .

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Kristine Finney, B.Comm. '94, a nd Robert Wilkes, BA '94 , we re married in Feb ru ary. She is manager of the Ballantrea Golf and Country Club near Stouffville, Ont.

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Anne Gardner, M.Sc. '91, is co-ordinatin g the Ijim Mt. Fo re st Project with her husband. John DeMarco, in Cameroon. The project aims to conse rv e tllc Jjim fore st throu g h the deve lopment of a system of community for­ est management. In thcir spare time, they home school their chi ldre n, Nicholas, Alexandra and Michae l.

Helen Gil/mor, ODA '94, lives in Ne w ington, Ont, where she rece ntl y opened a pet ceme te ry and cremato­ rium and pet boarding facility. She caters to tllc pet-care need s of retirees, travellers and people who 11ave been incarcerated.

Bryan Hamilton, M.Sc . '94, is a sys tems anal yst lor Consumers Gas Company in Toronlo.

Arzeena Hamir and Neil Turner, B.Sc .( Agr.) ' 92,

spe nt two years working in Thailand as agric ultural ex­

tensionists witl.l CUSO. Both are completing master's

degrees at th e University of London. Wye College, and

left in August for a nine-month placement in Gujarat, In­

dia, with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program . Class ­

mates and friends can co ntact them through AKRSP,

Choice Premises, Swastik Cross Road, Navarangpura,

Ahmedabad 380009.

Lynda (Formosa) Hendriks, BA '9 1, earned an MA from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1994 a nd is working in Burlingto n, Ont, as a hou sing co-ordi nator. She and her hu sband, Bart, will celebrate tlleir first anni versary Sept. 30.

Jacqueline Hutchison, B.Sc .(Agl.) '90, has started her own bus in ess doing translations from French to Eng­ lish. Her husband, Mike Dyck, M.Sc. '9 1, is pursuing a PhD at La va l University. They li ve in Ste-Foy, Que.

Ronald Johnson, BA '95. rece ntl y began a tutorin g serv ice in Guelph. LTL Tutorin g prov ides services to student s of any age and has worke d with both e ight­ yca r-old s and master' s candidates.

Karen Kapusniak, B.Comm. '92, malTied Ro bert Chin in April. They are both working as co nsultants in Istanbul, Turkey.

Valerie Kempenaar, B.A. '95, is e nrolled in a ma s­ te r 's program in s peec h/ lan guage pathology at Edinboro Uni versity of Pennsylvani a.

Helen (Lever) Maffini, B.Comm. '93, recentl y mo ved back to Canada from Singapore. She and he r husband li ve in Kingston, Ont.

Debora Rumble Matth ews, BA '95. is a researche r and chiroprilc ti c student in Toronto.

Kevin McDermid, M.Sc . '90, received a PhD from the University of Ca lgary in 1993 and is now in fourth­ yea r medicine at th e University of British Columbia.

Christina McRae, DVM '90, recently celebra ted the first anniversary of the opening of he r ca t hospital in Oshawa, Ont. King SI. Cat Hosp ital is the first veteri­ nary hosp ital in Durham Regi on exc lusively for cats.

Mc Rae says she is thankful fo r the work of Susan Cuel"" AIIIIIIIl/lS

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For U of G student Veronica Brenner,fi"cestyle refers to both th e lype of sk iing s he co mpe tes in and th e way s he's ea rning a university degree.

A member of the Canadian National T ea m , Brenner is a serious athlete w ho's had to make alternative arrangements to obtain a degree. Most st u­ dents attend regular classes o n ca mpu s, but Brenner does her courses via co rrespo nde nce.

"It's practica l," s he says. " )t' s the only way ) can work on my degre e right now."

The freestyle sk ier, who won fo ur World Cups thi s yea r, says Guelph has the ac a­ demic program s he wa nt s, but nol the physica l fac ilities s he Veronica needs to train . An Olympic hopeful , s he focuses her train­ ing on aeria ls, so s he needs access to to p-no tc h facilities s uch as th ose at Lake Placid, N.Y. She says Guelph we lcomes athletes w ith open amlS and fl1a k.es an effort to rearrange courses to s uit their s pec ial needs.

Thanks to the growth of distance ed ucation, sludents like Bre nn er don ' t have to toss their hope s of acquiring an ed ucation out the door. She can take all her electives a nd some re ­ quired co urses thro ug ll co rre s pon­ dence , which will significantly s ho n e n her stay on camp us.

"1 will have to attend school nea r the e nd because I ' m purs uing a sc i­ e nce deg ree," she says. " BUI for no w, I'm taking all of my e lectives at home - and getting good grades."

Althou g h compulc rs and Internet connections a re c hanging the way dis­ tance edu cati o n is delivered , Brenner says she s till "snail mails" her as s ig n­ ments to the Un ive rsity .

"I don't hav e a compute r, so I guess there's no other way, but I know lhat

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most classes 11ave a Web site ancl a conferencing system for communica t­ ing with other sluclents who are taking the sa me course. " Brenner says lh e o nl y nega tive as­ pec t of dislance educiltlon is the isola­ tion. "Whe never 1 receive a marked essay thro ugh the mail, I'm us ua lly in Europe or e lsew here compel ing , so J can't pick up a phone and contac t a professor to di sc uss any problems or co nce ms."

She also says s lle mi sses the social interaction with fe llow students.

Even thou gh di stance education re­ quires a great deal of self-motivation and can some times get lonely , Bre nne r says she'd ne ve r give up her ch a nce to continu e skiing compct itively. She 's ha ppy that corresponde nce co urses al­ low her to pursu e both 11e r dreams at one time.

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Tina Veltri. BA '95. otWelland, Onl , workedjix thc Guelph Alumnu s as Ilaficid placemcnt in a journalism progmm at Sh cridan Collcge .

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Lost Grads If yo u can help us locate any of the fo llo w in g alumni , co ntact A lu mni Record s, Uni ve rsit y of G ue lph , Guelph , O lll.

IG2WI. Fax: 5I l Hl22 -2760.

E-ma il: jeanw ro alumni. uog ue Iph. ca.

Marc Am ac her, BA ' 93 Karen Bach , B.Se, ' 9 3 Kathl ee n Beairsto, BA '93 Carrie Be lrose, BA ' Sl4 Scott Benne tt , ODA 'Sl3 Eve lyn Brosse au, BA '93 Marina Brown , B,A,Sc. '9 3 Debbie Bu sl" BA ' Sl4 Arthur Casse lm an, ADA '94 Ka -N in Chan , B .Comm.

'94 Rita Choi-Wan C han , BA '93 Ken nedy Court , ODH '94 Andre w Cross, BA '94 Douglas Ferguson, B .Sc, '93 Henry Froese, BA '9 3 Sandra Garraway, B .Sc. ' 94 Janeen Gilbe rt , B.A.Sc. '94 Neil Hadley, BLA ' Sl4

Smith, DVM '93, fo r occasional relief' work ciuring that

Samantha Hicks, B.Sc. 'Sl4, who is comp let ing a

first yea r.

maste r 's degree in bo tany and plans to continu e wit h a PhD in wetland eco l.ogy.

Mary Meuser, B .Comm. '96, ha s joined Ka bntac t Marketing in Guel ph as an account executive . She grew up on a swine and cas h-crop farm in Bruce County and took a co-op program at Guelph in agric ultural bus i­ ness, w ith wo rk te rms at Agric ulture and Ag ri- Food C anad a , the Roya l gric ultura l Winte r Fa ir, the Lambton Soil and C rop Improvement Association and C ropco, Kahlltacr. owned by Len Kahn, B.Sc,(AgL) '85 and 1.Sc . '90, provides m arketi ng and commu n ica ­ tion service:, [or c li ents in the ag ric ultura l indu stry,

Julie (Meadows) Paladino, BA 'Sl3 , and he r hu s­

John Wang, M .Sc. '93, is comp le ting a PhD at

band . Richard, celebrated th eir first an ni versa ry in June.

Both wor k for RTO Enterprises Inc. and moved to Ed ­ monton in Vlarch whc n both were promoted. She is in investor relati ons; he is manager of trainin g and deve l­ opment.

Karen Paroschy, B,Sc. 'Sl3, has spent th e last tw o years working with c hildren in Japan and will return in January to pursue a master's degree, Megan (Robb) Restrepo, B.Sc. ( H.K ,) '90. was mar­ ried in March to Jo rge Mauric io Restrepo in Mede llin .

Colombia. S he is te ac hing sc ie nce at the Columbus Sc hool and ca n be reac hed at co lumbu s@ mede llin .cet­ co l.ne t. co. inte rne t.

Merrill Stephen, B.Sc,( H .K. ) ' 9 1 and M.Sc. '94 , has sa iled away (literally) to Vc lu elet, B,C., where he is wo rking as an in terpret e r for the model forest proj ect of Long Beach, He says he's e njoying the great sa ilin g in Barkley and Cl aquot Sound.

Angela (Naylor) Stiles, BA '95, is an agricultural cons ultant at Price Wate rhouse in Mississauga , Ont. He r husband , Brent, B,Sc .(Agr.) 'Sl5 , is an animal­ hea lth specialist at Grober-De lft Blue Vea l Farms in Cambridge. They li ve in Gue lph .

Craig Hoppe, ADA'94

Lisa (Kenyon) Torres, B.Sc. '95 , was married in

Stacey Ja yne, BA '94 De nise Kane , B.A .Sc. '94

March to Jose Torres of Pu e rto Rico , an office r in the U.S. na vy. They a re stationed in South Caro lin a, w he re she is wo rking in hOle l adm inistration.

S he lley Kyle, BASc. 'Sl3

Suzanne Turcotte, BA 'Sl3 , teaches ESL, co mputers

C hristina Jolliffe , BA ' 94

Laurie Lafontaine, BASe. '94 Bee Wah Lim, BA 'Sl3 Sa ndra Lucio, B.Comm .

'94 G eorgina MacMillan, B.Comm. '93 36

Marie Viezner, B.C om m. '90, has been banqu e t sa les

S .Comm. '94, were married in August. He is ope l'ations mana gc r for TRIO, a food-servic e company. and she work s for the Ro ya l Ba nk as a personal-loans officer.

Donald Hayles, ADA 'Sl3

Tammy (French) Hayes , BA '94

as admini strator for the First C hri s ti an Re formed Church in London . O nt.. but hopes to eve ntu a ll y ret urn to the food industry to full y use her degree in dairy sc i­ e nce. She says she is now a full -tledged " c ity girl" be ­ ca use he r parents ha ve ret ired from the family farm near T hamt:sford, m an age r at the Rena iss ance Prague Hote l in the 'zec h Re public since 1993 . She handles arran f!elll c nt s for in­ ternational eOl11mercinl groups and co -chairs the hote l's waste -manage me nt co mmittee . Away from work , she i ~ involved in compe titi ve horse jUtllping.

Alex Morsel/i, B,Comm. '93, and Chantal Bolduc,

Lynda (Hackbart), BASc. '9 1, an d Laurie Timms, B.A.Se. '90, celeb l'ated th e ir first we dding anniversary in Au gust. Altl,ou gh th ey live in Guelph, Lynda is an e leme mary teacher w ith the W ate rloo County Board of Ed ucation and Lauri e works for the Campbell Soup Co. in Toronto as a produ ct manage r in marketing.

Darcy Ha wk ins, HMDC '93

Sharon Van Kampen, B.Sc. (Agr.) '92, is wo rkin g

and Canadian geog t'aphy with the North York Board of Education and is working on a master's degree in the so­ cio logy of education at OISE.

Steven Vamosi, B.Se, '93, rece ntly completed an M.Se. in evo lutionary eco logy at the Unive rsity of Brit­ is h Columbia and has rec e ived an awa rd from the Natu­ ral Sc ie nces and E ngineering Re searc h Co unc il to purs ue his PhD there. He li ves in Va nco uve r w ith

McMa ~ te r Un ivers ity, doing research on porpoises and dolphins in Southe a ·t Asia/Indoc hina

Lisa Watt, BA '94 , rece ntly com pleted an M in hi s­ tory at Me I\as ter Univ e rsit y and will enrol in the Uni ­ versity of Toronto' s Facu lty o f Education thi s fall.

Susanne (Bassitta) Wilmot, BA 'SlO, is a real e state accountant in Oran ge vi lle, Ont. She is also a ne w mother to Je nna Joanne Leonore, both in Ja nu ary.

Leisa Zacerkowny, B.Se. 'n , is wo rking o n a de ­ g ree in soc ial work at the Uni ve rs it y of Windso r, She wo uld like to sta rt a news le tte r for a lumni who were members of the Ukrainian Club between 1988 and ISl92, If you'd lik e to s ubmit a ne ws it e m, call her in Sudbu ry or send e- ma il to soke nse n@ mnsi.et.

Abbreviations B A = Bachelor o[ a rts B.A.Sc. = Bache lo r of appli ed sc ie nce B.Coffim . = Bac he lo r o[ co mme rce B,I-I.Sc. = Bachelor of ho use hold sc ience BLA = Bachelor of land scape arc hitec ture B,Sc,(Agr.) = Bache lor of sc ie nce in agriculture B,Se. = Bachelor of sc ience B,Sc,(Eng.) = Bache lor of scie nc e in e ngineering B,Sc.(H. K.) .= Bachelor of science in I,uman kinetics B.Sc. ( P.E.) = Bachelor of sc ie nce in ph ys ica l ed ucatio n DVM = Doc tor of veterinary med ic ine ADA = Associate diploma in ag ric ulture DH E = D iploma in home econo mi cs ODA = Ontario diploma in agricultul'e OD H = Ontario diploma in hortic ultu re PhD = Docto r ot' philosophy GD = Grad uate diploma MA = Ma ste r of arts M,Agr. = Ma ste r of agricul ture MLA Mas ter of land scape architect ure M .Sc. = Mas te r of Sc ience

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C ue/ph Alumnus

Michael Allen, BA '8\ , April 28, 1996.

Richard Allman, BSA ' 36 , June 25 , 1996.

Ross Cairns, BSA '45, March 11,1996.

Pauline (Stapells) Carnegie, DHE '24, May 25, 1996.

Margaret Crosskill, BA '72 , February 1995.

Ruth (Gibson) Currie, DHE '27, Ma y 29,1996 .

Beatrice Dempsey, DHE '27 . May 24.1996.

Reginald Dodson, BSA '42, April 21. 1996 .

Barbara Druiett, ODH '83, No v. 2 1, 1995.

Pamela Evans, GO '75. in 1995.

David Gilbart, BSA '6 1, 1995.

Mary (McMullen) Gilchrist, DHE '28, April 11 , 1996.

Thomas Gourlay, BSA '32, June 6, 1996 .

Andrew Guthrie, BA ' 89, June 12, 1996.

Lillian (Storey) Guthrie, DHE '39 , Febru ary 1996.

Edward Hanna, DVM '43, March 24, 1996 .

Smith Hilton, BSA '23, Dec. 29, 1994.

Pauline James, DHE '42,1993 Joan (Paterson) Lye, DHE '47, May 2. 1996.

Francis Lucas, BSA ' 32, hn . II , 1980 .

Elizabeth MacBeth, DHE '32, June 16, 1996 .

Jean (Broadfoot) Maund, DHE '37, April 1994.

Doreen McKelvey, BA '94 , May 26, 1996.

Ian McKenzie, B.Sc.(Ag r.) '66 , Feb. 11. 1987 .

Kenneth McRae, BSA '43, March 29. 1996.

Andre Methot, 8.Comm. 'R .'), March 29, 1996 .

Lloyd Milligan, BA '92, May 25, 1996.

Grace (Shuttleworth) Moogk, D HE '3 3, Ap ril 5, 1996 .

Douglas Moore, DVM '45 , Feb. 12.1996 George Musgrove, BSA '63, April 7, 1996.

Michael Newton, BA '73 . 1991.

Grant Patillo, ADA '27 , Jan. 3 1, 1996.

Dorothy (Dancey) Renwick, DHE '24 , in 1993 .

John Shifrer, DVM '64, 1982 Russell Snider, BS A ' 50, May 2, 1996 Brenda (Murray) Sparling, BA '71 , 199 1.

Carrie (Taylor) Stephen, DH E '33, April IR, 1996.

Elaine (Eckert) Stephens, BA '71. March 20. 1996.

Hattie (Gage) Stinson, DHE '30, April 30. 1996.

Frances (Conn) Wait, DHE '24, April 16, 1996.

Laverne Waller, DVM '43, May 19,1996 .

Lawrence White , BSA '41, May 19, 1996.

William Winslow, ADA '41. 1980.

Edward Asselbergs, MSA ' 52 , of Sf. Catharines, Ont., di ed June 4, 1996. The Dutc l,-born scienti sl came to Canada in 1950 to do gradu ate wo rk, then bega n his Cuelp" A/llml/IIS

caree r as a food research sc ienlist for Agriculture Can­ ada. In 1960, he developed the process for makin g in­ stant mashed potato tl akes, the patent tl,at is used wo rld wide. By 1962, he was working wit h th e Food and Agri culture Organizati on of the United Nati ons and moved to Rome, where he became chi ef of the tec hnica l divi sion. He retired in 1985 and is survived by his wife, Elizabet h, five children and six grandchi ldren.

Wilmot Code, BSA '40, died Marc h 26, 1996 , in Windso r, Ont. He was with the Depa rtment of Agric ul­ ture for 35 years, re tiring as chief of sta ll in 1972. He is survived by his wife, June.

Dieter GeiSSinger, DVM '60, died in Maiduguri, Nige ri a, April 13.1996. Born in Germany. he immi­ grated to Can ada at age 20. In additi on to hi s DVM, he he ld an M.V .Sc. and PhD in veterinary med icine. Dr. Geissinger taught at U of G for man y yea rs and relired to a new ca reer in Ni ge ria, where he contributed signifi­ cantly to the ve terin ary profess ion the re. He is survived by hi s wife. Hyloto, and e igh t children.

Gordon Henry, BSA '34. of Ingerso ll. Onl , died Ma y 30, 1996. His career in dairy sc ience las ted 38 yea rs at the Inge rso ll Chcese Company; he retired as general manage r in 1977. Hi s politica l caree r inc lu ded e ight yea rs as chai r of the loca l Scl1001 board and 10 years in the mayo r's cha ir. Mr. Henry was a communit y voluntee r and , in retirement, spearheaded a housing pro­ ject for Ingersoll se ni ors . No r did he forget hi s alma ma­ ter. He was permanent class pre~id e nl , se rved on Ihe Universi ly Senate and canvassed for the capital fund . In 1994, he was named Alumnus of Ho nor by the Un iver­ sity of Gue lph Alu mni Assoc ialion. He is survived by his wife, A leda . two daughters and grand chi ldren.

Brian Holmes, DV ' 76. of Aylmer, Ont , died May 31 , 1996. He was a partner in the Aylmer Veleri nary Clinic, a member of the Ontario and Ca nadian veteri­ na['y medical associations and the Coll ege of Veterinary Medi cine of Ontario , and a membe r of the Aylmer Opti­ mi st Club. He is survi ved by hi s wife, Anne, and two sons, M icl,ae l and Mark.

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. N1G 2W1.

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

Daisy (Richards) Keith, DH E '3 l , of Orange v lI le, Onto di ed Apri l 1. 1996. It was just a yea r :lgo Ihat she and her husband , Robert, BS A '32. shared their ca m­ pu s memo ries with ClIelph Aiumlllls ['eade rs, including the story of how they Illet at a Macd onald lnslitule dance. The Ke iths returned to campus for several alumni ga therings and to see their so n, Robert, B.Sc.(Agr. ) '60, dau ghter-in- law Dorinda, B.I-LSc. '61, and grandso n Jeffrey, B.Se. '87, grad uate. Dai sy Keith is also sur vived by anotlcer son, Sand y. a daugh ­ ter, Anne Wilso n, and Iheir families.

Laura Lindsay, BA '94, of Guelph. died in a ca r acc i­ dent in Ari zo na April 9, 1996. while returning home from a fi ve-mon th rour of the United States and Cenlral America. A drama gradu ate, she was a fami li ar stage performer in Gue lpl, and surroundin g co mmunit ies and had won severa l awa rd s for her performa nces in va riou s mus ic and thea u'e fest iva ls. She had also worked at th e Uni versit y Co-op Boo ksro re and the Cutten Club. SlJe is survived by her parents, Rob and Wendy. and a brother. Tom .

Laura Lindsay

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B.Sc. at Columbia University, wa s the die titian for women's residences at McGill University, the n worked at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Hospital until re tire ment.

Archibald "Archie" MacKinnon, DVM '4 3, di ed at hi s home in Cambridge, Ont., May 17, 1996. Like man y of hi s classmates, Dr. MacKinnon went straight from graduation into military service, working in a T oronto laboratory to produce gas gangrene antitoxin.

Afte r the war, he joined the OVC faculty, later e stab­ li shed a vete rinary practice in Richmond Hill, then bo ught a practi ce in Galt. In the early 19605, he took on the c ha lle nge o f es tablishing a Canadian subsidiary for Salsbury/Fromm L aboratories (now Solva y Anima l Hea lth Inc.) . H e se rve d on man y professional associa­ tion boa rds and was acti ve in the Uni vers ity as a sen a­ tor, mem be r of the Pres ident 's Counc il and e xec uti ve membe r o f th e OVC A lumn i Associiltion and OVC Ad ­ viso ry Counc il. Ln 1994, he was named OVC Distin­ gui shed A lumnus. H e is s urv ived by hi s wife, Pat.

Cecil Speirs, DVM' 51, died March 3 1, 1996, in Red Dee r, Alta. A native of Shaunavon, Sask. , he gradu ated fro m OVC to become the first veterinarian in th e west co untry of Alberta, between Calgary and Edmo nt o n. He was a farm-animal practitioner and , in 1963, moved hi s practi ce to Red Deer. He is sur vived by hi s w ife, Bett y, two sons, Dale and Neil , and two grand c hildre n.

Stewart Thomas, BSA '39, o f Wetaski w in, Alta., di ed May 9, 1996. He is surv ived by hi s w ife, Dorothy (McDougall), DHE '38: a son, Jim ; a dau g hte r , Mary; three g ra ndc hildre n; a nd one great-g randc hild .

Michael Walcroft, DVM ' 58, of Thornhill , Ont. , died May 29, 1996. He was vice-pres ident of Con­ na ught La bo ra tories, Ltd ., the largest producer of vac ­ c ine in No rth Ame rica . He is survived by hi s wife , Jane (Clifford), B.H.Sc. ' 59 , and two children.

Tammie (Thompson) Nevills, BA.Sc. '8 1, died May 13, 1996. A fte r gradu ati on , s he earned an edu ca­ ti on de gree at the Uni ve rs ity o f Western Ontario and be ­ gan he r teac hin g ca ree r in O we n So und, Ont. She also ta ug ht at Blueva le C o llegiate In stitute and Kitc hene r Co lleg iate In s titute in Kitc hene r, w here she was acti ve in the Sorop tomi st C lub. She is s urvived by he r hu s ­ ba nd , Dav id. A Tam mi e Nev ills Sc holars hip Fund ha s bee n estab li shed at the Uni versit y o f Guelph.

Charles Webster, BSA '3 5, died Sept. 29, 1995. He s pent mos t of hi s career in sales for the Merck Drug Co. A fter re tiri ng in 1968, he and his wife, Betty. purchased a far m north o f Milto n , Ont., and developed one of On­ tari o's pre m ier he rd s of Aberdee n Angus cattle. Mr. Webs te r ma in ta ined close ties to his OAC class. He was predeceased by hi s wife.

Roy Nichols, DVM '33, of Madi son, Wi sconsin , died M ay 9, 1996. A native of New Yo rk State, he lett Gu e lph to earn three mo re degrees in ve terinary medi­ cine be fore beg innin g an acade mi c career. He taught at Ohio State and Pu rdu e and was dean at the veterinary co ll ege at W as hin gto n State Univ ers ity before joining the Univ ersit y of Wi sco ns in, where he retired as profes­ so r em eritu s. He is surviv ed by two c hildren, Bruce and janice tv!atthews, a nd fiv e grand c hildren.

Trisha Wyman, B.Sc. '95, was killed April 18,1996. by timbe r wo lv es at a wildlife rese rv e near Minden.

Ont. It was he r fo urth day on th e j o b at Haliburton For­ es t and Wil d li fe Rese rv e, w here she had been hired to run the reserve's ne w wolf inte rpre tation ce ntre. She gradu ated from U of G las t s limmer with a degree in wildli fe b io logy a nd had previ o us ex pe ri e nce w ith wo lves throug h a summer job in A lgon qui n Park. She is s urvived by her pare nts, Jac k and Sa ndra, o f S udbu ry.

Augustine "Gus" Oyairo, DVM '64 , died Oct. II, 1995, in h is ho me tow n of Be nin , Ni geria. He ca me to OV C in 1959 w ith a sc ho lars hip from the Nige rian go v­

Faculty

e rnmen t and re turned a fter grad uat io n to ass ume va ri­ ous sen ior pos iti ons w ith the governme nt. In 1977, he retired fro m govc mment se rv ice and establis hed a pri­ vate ve teri nary prac ti ce. He was a lso ac ti ve in Rotary, s ports and several soc ial clubs.

Peter Seidl, M,Sc. '80, was wo rking in Bo livia May 7, 1994, w hen the sm a ll pl ane in w hich he and fo ur othe r e nviro nme nt ali sts we re fl y ing di sa ppeared some­ w here a lo ng the fli g ht pa th be twee n T eo po nte a nd La Paz. w hic h is located at the footh ills o f the Andes Mo unta ins. The s prin g iss ue o f the Guelph Alumnus in­ co rrec tl y ide ntlfi ed thi s loca tio n. Mr. Se idl was, in fac t, wo rking fo r the Wo rld Bank as an e nviro nm e ntal spe­ c iali st to estab lis h a network of monitoring sit es to test wa te r qu ali ty in re mote areas of Bo li via. Hi s fa mil y has es tabli shed a me morial sc holarsh ip at U of G . Dona­ tion s ca n be direc ted to the Un ivers it y o f Gu e lph , c/o Alumni House .

Ruth Sinclair, DHE '30, o f To ront o, d ied April 6 , 1996. After gradu ati on, she wo rked as a di etitian in Toronto, Calgary and Vanco uve r before j o ining the navy during the Seco nd World War. S he was stationed on the Wes t Coast and was o ne of the first fe ma le die ti­ tians to advi se on foo d pre parat io n fo r Ca nadi an nava l ships. Following he r na va l se rvice, she comple ted a 38

William Boyd. fo rme r professo r o f human a na to m y, di ed May 14, 1996 , in Fe rgus , O nt. He j o ined th e Uni ­ ve rsity in 1967 and ta ught in the Sc hoo l o f Human Biol­ ogy until his retire ment.

Augustine Oyairo

Margaret McCready, prin c ip a l and dea n o f Mac ­ do na ld Ins titute fro m 1949 to 1968, died Jul y 3 in To ro nto a t age 9 1. A me mbe r of the O rde r of Ca nada, she was named a U of G Fe ll ow in 1978 and was awa rded a ho no rary deg ree fro m McG ill Univ ers it y in 1984. Prof. McC read y worke d for the Red C ross Soci­ e ty, th e Univ e rs it y of A be rd een and M acd ona ld C oll ege at McGill be fo re co min g to th e Macd onald In stitut e in 1949. She too k up her dut ies a year aft er th e degree pro­ gram was in aug urated and was large ly respo ns ible for its dev e lo pm ent during the nex t 19 yea rs.

S0ren Rosendal, a pro fessor in the De partme nt of Pathobiology, di ed Jul y 8. He jo ined Gu e lph' s De part­ ment of Veterinary Micro b io logy and Immuno log y as an associate pro fesso r in 1978. He is s urvived by his wife, Lilian; hi s so n, Tho mas: h is da ug hter, Me tte; and one granddau g hter. Th e S0 re n Rose nda l Me moria l Scholars hip Fund w ill be estab li shed fo r an annu al award to an OVC gra du ate stud e nt. D o nat ions ca n be di­ recte d to the Uni ve rsity of G ue lph c/o A lumni House.

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