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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