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h i s i s m y last op p ortunity to share my thoughts on this “President’s Page,� and I want to begin by saying thank you for reading my remarks over the last 11 years. I hope my enthusiasm for the University of Guelph has inspired you to dust off your degree and to value it anew for the connections it affords: professional, social and intellectual.

In my first president’s column in the winter 2004 issue of this magazine, I promised to be a tireless advocate for the University of Guelph and for the overriding value of public education as an agent of social change. I said that I would work to push the University’s innovation agenda in all aspects of its mandate: teaching and learning, research and public service. And I stressed my belief that universities should step forward and accept responsibility as the moral, social and intellectual conscience of society.

I have tried to keep those promises during my time as president, and I have been inspired again and again by the number of people who not only share my goals but also turn them into action on a daily basis. Our faculty and staff, Guelph students and alumni, and the many friends who believe in the University of Guelph have given me more personal support than I could have hoped for.

As I look back and reflect on my time as Guelph’s president, I find myself thinking about my own alma mater. I remember a day when I attended convocation at the University of Bristol as a newly minted graduate and was simply blown away by the convocation ceremony and by the accomplishments of the Bristol alumni being honoured that day. I have felt those same emotions many times at Guelph convocations and alumni gatherings, and particularly when I learn of the truly amazing things that my former students are doing.

It is inspiring for all of us on campus to know that our graduates, wherever they are in the world, are using their Guelph experience and the knowledge gained here for the greater good.

I have said many times over the years that one of my regrets is not being an alumnus of the University of Guelph. In fact, I’ve said it so many times that the Ontario Veterinary College made me an honorary alum in 2012. I am immensely proud of that honour.

Key to the success of any university – and any university president – is the engagement of its alumni and friends. I am indebted to the ongoing support, advice and friendship extended to me by U of G alumni and many others who believe in the University’s vision.

Your commitment to Guelph is inspiring. Your endorsement is invaluable, and your financial assis-

tance during the BetterPlanet Project campaign has been incredible.

What I wish for my successor is that he, too, will receive your support. The Board of Governors has named Franco Vaccarino as Guelph’s next president. He is currently principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough and a U of T vice-president. Please welcome him to Guelph and, when you have the opportunity, share your understanding of why this University is such a special place.

I believe Guelph stands apart from other universities because it is built on the strongest of foundations and because everyone in the University community means something to the community. That fundamental level of caring is one of the reasons I wanted to be president of the University of Guelph, and it remains the reason I will always be proud to have held this coveted position.

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Murray Receives National 3M Fellowship acque l i ne M urray, a history professor and director of Guelph’s firstyear seminars program, has received a 3M National Teaching Fellowship, considered Canada’s top teaching honour.

Sponsored by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), the awards recognize exceptional contributions to teaching and learning.Winners receive a citation and participate in a three-day educational retreat.

Murray’s students and colleagues praise her creativity, innovation and use of technology in her classes, and applaud her for helping to refine undergraduate learning objectives. In support letters, they note her work with inquiry-based learning in first-year seminars and distance education courses.

Murray served as dean of the College of Arts from 2001 to 2006. She was appointed as inaugural director of first-year seminars at Guelph in 2011, and has

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worked to improve and expand the initiative. The seminars are designed to provide an interactive small-group learning experience for new university students. “I am a passionate believer in the transformative power of education,� she says. “My own experience as a student underlies my approach to teaching and learning. I want to provide students with opportunities to feel the exhilaration of new knowledge.�

In 2013, Murray was one of five Canadians to earn innovation awards for teaching and learning from Desire2Learn and STLHE. She won U of G’s John Bell Award for outstanding contributions to university education that same year.

She has made three volunteer trips to Ghana and is working with an African colleague on cross-cultural technology and pedagogy. As a historian, she studies theology and cultural ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage and family, especially in the Middle Ages.

U of G consolidates regional campus programs he university of guelph announced in March that it will consolidate the academic and research programs delivered at its Kemptville and Alfred campuses.

Intake to academic programs at the two campuses will be suspended for the fall 2014 semester.The delivery of academic programs at Kemptville and Alfred will cease by the end of 2015, but current students at both campuses will be able to complete their programs.

The University’s Ridgetown Campus will remain open. “We are operating in an era of scarce resources,� said U of G president Alastair Summerlee. “We must make difficult decisions together with changes that minimize duplication and preserve programs that are unique and central to our mission.�

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Research projects at Alfred and Kemptville will be completed or relocated to Guelph or Ridgetown by the end of 2015. The University is expected to continue managing field crop research facilities at both locations.

U of G has managed research and education programs and related facilities at Alfred and Kemptville since 1997.

Despite efforts over several years to introduce new revenue-generating educational programs and attract new students, enrolment at both campuses remains stagnant while operating costs have increased. Costs per fulltime equivalent student are substantially higher at these campuses, Summerlee said.

Consolidating the regional campus programs will eliminate about 112 full-time

positions as well as a number of part-time and casual positions. “We regret that valued employees will be affected by this decision,� he said, and confirmed that the University will work closely with employee group leaders to support laid-off employees.

The University has an important responsibility to help sustain the productivity and vitality of Ontario’s agriculture and food industry, Summerlee said. “Our focus must continue to be on providing training that best supports the province’s priorities for agri-food research, education and outreach.�

The Ontario Agricultural College offers more detailed information on its website about the consolidation process and the impact on students, staff and alumni.Visit www.uoguelph.ca/oac/.

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ng l i sh p rof e s s or emeritus Thomas King received two major literary awards this spring for his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. The British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was announced in February and the RBC Taylor Prize in March. The awards include $40,000 and $25,000 prizes, respectively.

The jury for the RBC Taylor Prize wrote: “Histories of North America’s Native Peoples abound, but few are as subversive, entertaining, well-researched, hilarious, enraging and finally as hopeful as this very personal take on our long relationship with the ‘inconvenient’ Indian.�

In accepting the award, King said he tapped into his own background — from his history studies and teaching of native history to his experience as a

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native affairs activist — to write the book. It dissects idealized myths such as the fictional characters Hiawatha and Tonto, the realities of native land claims and the commercialization of North America’s indigenous people.

The B.C. jury cited The Inconvenient Indian as a “wry, iconoclastic and important book that challenges us to think differently about both the past and the future.�

In 2004 King won the Trillium Book Award, Ontario’s premier prize for literary excellence, for The Truth About Stories, published from his Canada Massey Lectures. Presented in fall 2003, the lectures were recorded and broadcast on the CBC Radio program Ideas.

King’s earlier books include the novels Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both still taught in Canadian schools.This year he is publishing The Back of the Turtle, his first novel in 15 years.

His books have been short-listed twice for the Governor General’s Award.

He has won the Canadian Authors’ Award for fiction and the American Indian Film Festival Best Screenplay award for Medicine River. He received the Aboriginal Media Arts Radio Award for Dead Dog CafÊ Comedy Hour, a popular CBC Radio show he starred in and created. He received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for arts and culture in 2003 and was named to the Order of Canada in 2004.

Born in Sacramento, Calif., King is of Cherokee and Greek descent and has built relationships with many groups of native people from California to Utah, where he completed his PhD in native studies. He came to U of G in 1995 and retired from the School of English and Theatre Studies in 2011.

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tem cell therapy at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) Health Sciences Centre is yielding promising results for treating tendon injuries in horses. Two horses were recently treated with allogous stem cells, or cells that were banked and transplanted from a donor horse – a medical first in Canada and among only a handful of cases reported worldwide. “The results are encouraging,� says Prof. Judith Koenig, an equine surgeon in the Department of Clinical Studies and OVC’s Equine Sports Medicine and Reproduction Service. “Now we want to attract more cases so we can continue to evaluate stem cell therapy for the treatment of tendon lesions, ligament and joint injuries.�

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One of the horses, a two-year-old racing thoroughbred, injured the superficial digital flexor tendon in its right front leg. “The injury was career-ending in severity using conventional therapies,� says Koenig. Since she injected stem cells into the injured tendon, the horse has shown remarkable improvement. “We were absolutely astonished,� says Koenig. “At three months, the tendon looked as good as it would after six months of healing.�

The other horse, a Hanoverian breeding stallion, received two stem cell injections to treat a chronic injury to its left hind leg that prevented the horse from mounting.

Koch was the first to establish a protocol for collecting and differentiating stem cells from equine cord blood, a process that is non-invasive and simple compared to obtaining cells from embryos or bone marrow. Subsequent research by Koch’s and Koenig’s graduate students has shown that, compared to cells from other sources, stem cells from cord blood have equal or greater potential for healing connective tissue, muscle and bone.

Allogous stem cells also offer one key advantage over autologous therapy in which the patient’s own cells are used: time. It can take two to four weeks to collect cells from the patient’s bone marrow, blood or fat, and then culture the millions of cells required for injecting back into the injured tissue. The process takes only four to six days with cord blood, including overnight courier shipping to the treating clinician. Horses can be treated within days of being injured.

When treating soft-tissue injuries, timing is everything, says Koenig. Studies of tendon injuries treated with stem cells from bone marrow have shown that horses are much more likely to re-injure the same tendon if they’re not treated within 44 days.

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The Better GRIPP opens cryo facility lant agriculture professor Praveen Saxena is looking forward to June 25, when he’ll stand beside Philip and Susan Gosling for the official opening of the Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation’s (GRIPP) cryopreservation facility. It will be used to store the germplasm of endangered plant species, particularly trees.

The Goslings have supported conservation projects at U of G for many years, including Saxena’s plant cloning research for the last four years. “I first met Philip Gosling because of his interest in saving the American elm tree, a species decimated by Dutch elm disease,” says Saxena.

“Little did I know then that our discussion would lay the foundation for a uniquely Canadian institute to protect plant diversity.”

The Goslings have since donated $5.5 million to support GRIPP research, build the cryopreservation facility, create a professorship in integrated plant production systems and the Gosling Chair in Plant Conservation, and establish a Gosling Foundation Plant Conservation Endowment.The institute also provides the opportunity to train post-doctoral research associates, graduate and undergraduate students.

The GRIPP mandate is interdisciplinary, says Saxena, so those students will come from other U of G departments and other institutions in Canada and internationally. The institute already works with botanical gardens in several countries where significant tree species are endangered.

“GRIPP supports an international, multidimensional plant conservation program at the behest of our benefactors,” says Saxena, who is the director of GRIPP and holds the honorary chair in plant conservation. “The Goslings are generous donors who believe in supporting projects solely for the benefit of the environment.

“Philip Gosling’s vision, and his substantial financial contribution to promote conservation research, sends a strong message that the extinction of plants and the ecosystems they live in and support is unacceptable.”

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The BetterPlanet Project campaign has funded more than 1,000 student awards, including a graduate scholarship received by David Lee, a professional musician and writer who is completing doctoral studies in the College of Arts.

He’s looking at Toronto’s improvised music scene of the 1970s and ’80s to discover how improv jazz brought together many disciplines: musicians, dancers, actors, artists and writers.

Lee plans to write a book about the era and says Guelph is a hub for improv studies.

“There’s nothing like it anywhere in the world, so it’s the place for me to be right now.”

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Saxena says the institute focuses on endangered plant species because they are often overlooked by other funding agencies seeking a more immediate return on their investment.

“Cloning a tree is challenging, time-consuming and expensive but vital to the planet’s biodiversity.”

The technologies being developed by GRIPP researchers can also be applied to many species used by the ornamental and landscape industries, and even high-value food and agricultural crops.

The cryopreservation facility will provide an economical way to preserve plant biodiversity, adds Saxena. “We can save mature plant shoots and embryos in the cryo bank for long periods of time, and then multiply them in large numbers when needed. It allows us to be prepared for disasters caused by disease, climate change and human activities.”

Planet Project GFTC legacy gift benefits Canadian food industry

RESEARCH CENTRE TO ADVANCE POLLINATOR HEALTH he School of Environmental Sciences will use a $750,000 donation from Bayer CropScience Inc. to create a new Centre for Beneficial Insect Health.

The centre will emphasize sustainable pest management in agriculture, including work on field and horticultural crops, greenhouse production, insecticide resistance and biological insect control.

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Several GFTC Legacy Fund board members pose in front of the University’s BPP donor wall with U of G president Alastair Summerlee. From left: Michael Collette, Ted McKechnie, David Jennison, Petra Schennach, Summerlee, Don Wilcox, Len Kahn, John Hamilton and Harold Schooley.

aintaining Canada’s prominence in the food industry by investing in future leaders is the aim of a $3-million gift to U of G from the Guelph Food Technology Centre (GFTC) Legacy Fund. GFTC was established on the Guelph campus in 1994 as an independent, not-for-profit organization to help processors and manufacturers make the Ontario food industry even more competitive. Every year, centre staff work with more than 1,500 Canadian businesses and train more than 3,000 professionals. GFTC was acquired in 2013 by NSF International, and the legacy fund was established using proceeds of sale from the merger.

Over the next five years, the fund will support 98 undergraduate and graduate scholarships and work programs worth from $2,500 to $14,000.The scholarships will support academic study, research and co-op placements in food-related fields spanning several Guelph colleges.

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ports education that will build technical expertise, expand technology applications and promote innovative solutions for the future competitiveness of Canadian food processors and manufacturers,” said Don Wilcox, chair of the GFTC Legacy Fund.

The awards will be available to students pursuing everything from food engineering and nutrition to agri-business and agricultural economics. Eligible graduate and undergraduate students will be enrolled in the Ontario Agricultural College, School of Engineering, College of Biological Science, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, and College of Business and Economics.

Rich Moccia, associate vice-president (strategic partnerships) and a longtime GFTC board member, said: “This scholarship gift is at the perfect intersection of public, private and academic sector needs.

It will drive much-needed academic recruitment and nurture the professional skills most in demand by our food industry.”

“This investment will support new teaching, research and outreach efforts of critical importance,” said U of G president Alastair Summerlee.

“Pollinator health is important for sustainable agribusiness, the food chain and the economy.”

Kamel Beliazi, president and CEO, Bayer Cropscience Canada, said: “At its heart, Bayer is a research and development company. We live our commitment to research and development in everything we do.

“Through our support over the next five years, critical work will be done to champion the issues of beneficial insect health and sustainable pest management in agriculture.

This includes world-class research and collaborative work with industry, government and other researchers globally in the area of pollinator conservation and bee health.”

The Centre for Beneficial Insect Health will build on expertise in the Ontario Agricultural College, which is home to North America’s largest research and teaching apiary. The centre will also promote outreach and awareness among farmers, industry and the general public.

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ne of the first things

Alastair Summerlee plans to do this summer after stepping down as U of G president is to go for a walk â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a really long walk. With only a guide and a small group of travellers, he will trek a portion of the Kalahari Desert, beginning in Botswanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Okavango Delta and ending in Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kar and Ghanzi. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four weeks, walking from six in the morning to six at night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my way of helping me make the transition, both because my mind is never off whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on at the University of Guelph and because I am 110-per-cent connected electronically here,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do something that will put me out of electronic communication with the world, then it will be really hard for me to make that separation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping by the end of roughly four weeks that I will have made that transition completely.â&#x20AC;? Laughing, he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can imagine my family saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we just pay for therapy? That would be a whole lot cheaper.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just my kind of therapy.â&#x20AC;?

Summerlee will complete an 11-year term as Guelphâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president this summer. He became the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seventh president â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the first internal candidate named to the post â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in 2003. His second term was extended by a year to coincide with the end of the BetterPlanet fundraising campaign and the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th anniversary this year. By the time his successor, Franco Vaccarino, enters the presidential suite in mid-August, Summerlee will be roughly midway through that long desert walk.

Returning to Africa seems a fitting bookend to a presidency that has engaged the campus community in humanitarian activities here and internationally. Among international development projects championed

by Summerlee during the past decade were the Bracelet of Hope campaign to help build an AIDS clinic in Lesotho and the Shine a Light project to improve education for girls and women in refugee camps in Kenya.

Much of that activity occurred during the six years he spent helping to lead World University Service of Canada (WUSC).

Before joining that organization in 2004, he says, his reaction to media images of poverty and starvation overseas mirrored that of many westerners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would change the chan-

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A president looks backâ&#x20AC;Ś

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Often at work at 4:30 a.m., Alastair Summerlee now looks forward to a vacation from U of Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constant electronic demands.

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nel because I couldn’t deal with it emotionally,” he says. Besides, was it really his problem – let alone a concern for U of G? Yes, it was. That’s something he learned on his first trip to Africa as WUSC chair in 2007. There those television images turned into real people. Four years later, Summerlee visited the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya for Somalian refugees. Standing outside a reception centre, he watched a woman beyond a barbed-wire fence gesticulate in a pantomime of starvation. “Looking into her eyes changed my life,” he says.

“It made me realize that, from my position of privilege, I needed to do what I could to change that. And I can do that most effectively by empowering other people and helping to bring education to the refugee camps, and by speaking out about issues of intolerance and injustice.”

Besides encouraging Bracelet of Hope and WUSC’s Shine a Light campaign, he began the President’s Dialogues at U of G in 2006, gathering international experts to discuss important contemporary issues from global citizenship and human rights to climate change and world hunger. He also helped bring the international Universities Fighting World Hunger summit to Guelph in 2011 for its first time in Canada.

No lone crusader, Summerlee has sought to engage other U of G members – especially students – in bringing such projects to life and in making a difference in the lives of others, both far and near.

Guelph was the first university in Canada to partner with the Leave for Change program, which sees staff and faculty spend their vacation time volunteering for projects in a developing country. Locally, humanitarian and volunteer efforts at Guelph include the annual Trick or Eat campaign to collect food for area food banks; U of G students have had the highest participation in Canada since the campaign began in 2001.

The University also routinely raises more than $500,000 a year for the local United Way campaign.

Engagement: the Guelph difference Engagement – student, staff and faculty – accounts for much of what Summerlee calls the Guelph difference. “We don’t consider ourselves strictly a teaching or research university. We truly believe that teaching,

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research and service are equally valued. That makes us different from any other university. No one has the kind of student engagement that we do.”

He says more than 70 per cent of Guelph students volunteer – along with their downtown neighbours, who have the highest volunteering rate in any Canadian city. One example is Project Serve Guelph, a one-day event each September where U of G students help out 20 local organizations.

Students – and their teaching and learning – have always been central for Summerlee. Known as an innovative instructor, he received a 3M Teaching Fellowship in 2003 – the first Canadian president-elect to receive the prestigious award. Among other accolades, he received a Distinguished Professorial Teaching Award from the U of G Faculty Association in 1991. Ask what he sees for the future of university education, and he points to Guelph’s first-year seminars (FYS).

Designed as interactive, small-group courses, these seminars are taught by passionate instructors and cover topics across Guelph’s teaching and research strengths.

Studies show that students in these courses work five times as hard as they do in their other courses, says Summerlee.

Imagine having every undergrad spend their first two years here taking only a single FYS in each of their first four semesters.

Then imagine sending them away for a year’s worth of experiential learning elsewhere in the community, the country or the world.

“For somebody, going to work with the homeless in downtown Guelph is just as challenging as it might be for somebody else to go and work in the refugee camps. For somebody else, it could be going to work as a waiter in a café in Nice – and imagine how their language skills would have improved at the end of that time.”

Then bring them back to campus and cap their program with a year-long project on a topic that arouses their passion. “At the end of that, I’m utterly convinced you would have individuals with skills that are relevant to the workplace, and they would have a global perspective about issues. Most of all, they would accept and manifest the responsibility of learning when they need to and would know how to do it.”

Maybe most important, he says, you might end up with students and graduates

who believe in themselves. Summerlee graduated from veterinary studies at the U.K.’s University of Bristol at the top of his class, but not without struggling. “By my second year at university, I thought that I was useless. I share that with students here because I want them to understand that it’s perfectly natural to wonder about what the future is going to hold. And that’s not wrong, it

becoming president in 2003. Along the way, he has received numerous awards for academic and humanitarian contributions, including the International Quality of Life Award from Auburn University in Alabama, the “Award of Highest Honour” from Soka University in Japan, and the YMCAYWCA of Guelph Peace Medal. He also received an honorary degree from the University of Bristol.

shouldn’t be de-motivating, it should actually motivate you to make a difference.”

Summerlee arrived in Guelph in 1988 as a biomedical sciences professor and moved through the administrative ranks here – associate dean of the Ontario Veterinary College, dean of graduate studies, associate vice-president (academic), provost and vice-president (academic) – before

Inventiveness: U of G's Reputation Beyond his presidency, what lies ahead for Guelph?

Summerlee points to the $200-million BetterPlanet Project campaign, which has attracted donations from more than 64,000 individuals. That fundraising effort wrapping up this year is intended to point the University toward the future by focusing efforts on research strengths in food, health, environment, communities, and teaching and learning.

Guelph has 1,800 graduate students and 36 Canada Research Chairs, as well as other industry-sponsored chairs and research positions, working on everything from DNA barcoding, to omega-3 eggs and milk, to stroke recovery robots, to seniors’ nutrition. During his tenure, Guelph research revenue has grown to $125.4 million a year from various sources, including the U of G partnership agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Ministry of Rural Affairs, the federal TriCouncils, other government departments and ministries, business and industry, and non-profits and charitable organizations.

Other research-intensive universities have more dollars per faculty member coming in, says Summerlee, although Guelph ranks first in number of research dollars among comprehensive universities.“But what’s important is the output, the inventiveness. Per capita, we’re the most inventive university in Canada.”

Guelph researchers also work in 70 nations.

Come August, Summerlee will find himself walking through another country.Yes, he’ll miss the fourth floor of the University Centre for all the daily yo-yo of issues and emotions. “One of the absolutely spectacular things about this job is that there isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t go from ‘I couldn’t be in a more rewarding, more fulfilling job if I tried,’ to ‘When am I going to

get out of here, this is driving me nuts.’”

This winter, amid deliberations over how to address the University’s projected $32million funding gap over the next three years, Summerlee worked with other administrators to consolidate programs at U of G’s Kemptville and Alfred campuses, with attendant job losses.

“It’s the antithesis of what drives me, which is to make people’s lives better. By virtue of being in this position, I’m forced to make some people’s lives worse.” Balance that against the “absolute dogged strength of those people still working in that same team who ask, ‘How do we treat people with respect, with dignity, and support them in that change?’”

The job has also afforded Summerlee the chance to meet inspiring individuals, notably Nelson Mandela and the Aga Khan. Most compelling, he says, was the young man from a Kenyan refugee camp who had been among a few chosen to come to Canada for school.The student asked Summerlee about leniency for a friend who had barely missed the cut-off criteria. Told no, he said, “If I withdrew, would you take him instead?”

Seated in his UC office, Summerlee pauses. He’s told this story a few times, but today tears still flow as he says, “That was a moment of thinking, ‘I am interacting with someone who is beyond remarkable – that they can see and touch their future, one that is so different from the bleak future they have in the camp, yet give it up for another human being.’” Another pause – and he adds, “Needless to say, the friend did come to Guelph, we found a way to do that.”

Those are among 11 years’ worth of experiences that Summerlee will carry on his journey through the Kalahari. On that trek, he’ll be seeking new purpose. After returning to Guelph in the fall, he will focus on research initiatives in cancer and anemia. He plans to continue a couple of humanitarian projects, including serving as the volunteer chair of the Hunger Solutions Institute in Alabama. But he says he has yet to figure out the rest of his career.

In a sense, he’s facing that unknown future again. “I realize that part of my own comfort and stability is feeling that I have a purpose. I don’t know what that purpose is going to be after July, so that’s why I’m going to go and walk.” ■

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earching through a 2,000year-old trash heap in the Jordanian desert, Prof. Andy Sherwood, School of Languages and Literatures, made an unexpected discovery. Among the bones of dogs, camels and other local animals, he and his team found fish bones and mussel and clam shells. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes over an hour to drive to the coast by car on the modern highways,â&#x20AC;?

Sherwood says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In antiquity, it would have been at least a two-day trip for a fast donkey. So how did they get these fish and shellfish to the site? We think they must have had some kind of water bags to transport them and keep them fresh.â&#x20AC;?

Unexpected discoveries are at the heart

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of Sherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s archeological expeditions.

This site, a fortified Roman camp dating from 106 AD, held more surprises. The camp commanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s luxurious living quarters included elaborate mosaics and a private bath with an artificial floor raised on bricks so heated air could keep the room warm. Archeologists also discovered a latrine system that flushed wastes with running water, and a long aqueduct that brought water to the community.

It was that aqueduct that got Sherwood invited to the Jordan site. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spent summers working underwater off the shore of Israel searching for an artificial harbour built

by King Herod â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yes, the King Herod mentioned in the Bible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew roughly where it was supposed to be from the liter-

ature of the time, but not exactly,â&#x20AC;? Sherwood says. Even with those historical descriptions, finding the harbour wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as easy as you might think.â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to do all our excavating and measuring under water, where you can often only see a few feet in front of you.â&#x20AC;?

The harbour they uncovered turned out to be an immense structure with a curved breakwater that was 400 metres long, all of it now submerged well below the surface of the sea.

Twice during that underwater work, big storms knocked their excavating equipment into the trenches and covered them with sand so that the ocean bottom appeared perfectly flat. The debris stirred up by the storms reduced visibility as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To find the equipment, we would have

By Teresa Pitman two divers go down holding a rope between them, dragging on the bottom,” says Sherwood. “The hope is that the rope will catch on something that might be part of the equipment.”

He and his students – he often has 25 to 40 participants – experienced another kind of storm in Jordan: sandstorms. The storms were visible a long way off, providing time to take shelter, and usually left roadways and gullies filled with sand.

“Canadians are actually quite good in these situations,” says Sherwood. “Digging out of a drift of sand isn’t much different than digging out of a snowdrift.”

Sherwood, who grew up in Alberta, started at the University of Calgary intending to major in math or physics. His life

changed when he took an elective course in mythology. Although he’d read Norse mythology before, this course introduced him to the stories of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Fascinated, Sherwood asked the professor about similar courses, and the prof introduced him to the classics department.

After completing an honours degree in classical archeology and history, Sherwood contemplated graduate school but was warned by every professor in the department that this was not a good time to go into classics.

Not easily discouraged, Sherwood went to the University of Victoria for his master’s and then to Princeton for his PhD in a double program of classics and classical archeology. After teaching at the Univer-

sity of Victoria, the University of New Brunswick and McGill University, he came to the University of Guelph. “When I arrived, it felt like I had been here for 10 years,” Sherwood says. “I just fit in with my colleagues – we understand and work together so well.”

Not to say that he didn’t enjoy working with colleagues in the past. Sherwood says he gets great pleasure out of connecting students with old friends when they are looking for sites to work on or schools to attend. “People know me, so when I tell them a student is serious and someone they want to work with, they trust me,” he says.

In the classroom, Sherwood brings Greek and Latin languages, Greek and Roman history, and Greek and Roman art

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and architecture to his students. In summer, he brings the students to digs, where a different kind of learning takes place.

His students learn a lot, for example, about boredom.

“I warn them about this,” he says. “I remember my first dig, in Israel, where I spent the first few weeks just digging in the dirt for eight to 10 hours a day. It was incredibly boring. But then something happened. I had dug a trench down about a metre and a half, and finally I came across a bone.”

After carefully cleaning around the bone, Sherwood guessed it might be the skull of a horse. The site supervisor pointed out that there had been no horses in this part of Israel at the time, but an expert

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confirmed that it was a horse skull. After more cleaning, Sherwood took a break while a photographer visited to grab some shots of his discovery. After taking the pictures, the photographer stumbled and crushed the skull.

“The photographer avoided me for days after that,” says Sherwood. “But the point is, I wasn’t bored anymore. The weeks of tedium are erased by that moment when you find a piece of pottery or a coin or a skull – something that nobody has touched for 2,000 years.”

Sherwood’s most recent dig was in Romania, where he and his students uncovered a Christian basilica built on the edge of an earlier sanctuary. Hidden inside was a shaft of quarried blocks that descended

three metres into the ground and connected to a tunnel leading to an open field.

“They have lasted at least 2,300 years and are absolutely rock-solid,” he says.

He speculates that the structure was used by the sanctuary for a hero cult.

When people made offerings outside the building, someone could enter the tunnel from inside and make prophecies from the bottom of the shaft. Less clear is why this structure would have been incorporated into the basilica.

The tunnel also gave Sherwood’s students an unforgettable “Indiana Jones moment.” When they went down to explore, they found five or six large snakes staying cool in the stone-lined tunnel.

This summer, he will take students to a

Pages 14-15: A CanadianRomanian team excavates a basilica and tombs in Orgame, Romania.

Page 16: Students begin and finish uncovering the foundation of an Orgame farm house, and Andy Sherwood views a Byzantine stylite pillar at Um al-Rasas, Jordan.

Page 17: Underwater excavation of King Herod’s harbor off the shore of Israel – point A on the satellite image; point B marks the site of a Roman camp in Hymayma, Jordan; resting at a victory monument in Adamklissi, Romania; Sherwood at a Roman structure at Um al-Rasas; and student Dan Attrell climbs down into cult shafts and tunnels at the Orgame basilica.

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site in Turkey called Pompeiopolis, a city established by Pompey the Great during the time of Julius Caesar. Excavations in this area have been under way for just five years but have already uncovered a large Roman house, the central marketplace and a Roman theatre. “The bottom two-thirds of the theatre still has the original marble and is in almost perfect condition,” says Sherwood.

The Guelph students will work on an odeum – a small theatre situated near a larger one and used for plays appealing to a smaller, more cultured audience.

Sherwood finds it interesting that here, on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, “the people saw themselves as cultured people.

It’s not inexpensive to build such a vast

marble theatre and to have this smaller theatre to go with it.”

Part of our fascination with the Greeks and Romans is that they wrestled with many of the same problems we do today.

The story of Oedipus Rex, for example, discusses the growing conflict in Greek society between those who believed everything happened because of gods and those who credited human agency and urged rational thinking. Not that much different from today’s debates between creationists and evolutionists.

“My students often comment on how modern the Greeks and Romans seem,” says Sherwood. “They were the root of western civilization: our ideals of beauty, art, architecture all come from them.”

As he prepares his students for their expedition to Turkey, Sherwood reminds them about being observant by telling the story of an incident in Jordan.

After another tough day, he was walking back from the dig site with his colleagues. A colleague’s boot caught something in the sand. All Sherwood saw was a smudge – perhaps a grey stone – but his friend picked up the object, rubbed it clean and discovered that it was an ancient gold coin. After careful excavation, his colleague found 16 gold coins plus two gold hoop earrings with pearls – all buried in the sand for 1,500 years. These rare items are now in a museum.

Keep your eyes open, Sherwood says.

You never know what you’ll discover. ■

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BUSINESS PROF INSPIRES STUDENTS WITH “CALL TO ACTION”

s a child, Melanie Lang didn’t dream of becoming a professor, but growing up in a family of small business owners instilled in her a sense of community and social responsibility that she now passes on to her own students.

“I was drawn to business, specifically marketing,” says Lang, a professor of marketing and consumer studies at U of G. “I was really intrigued by the relationship that companies and brands had with their consumers.” She observed those relationships first-hand, helping out as a child in her family’s chain of hardware stores in the small town of Quyon, Que. Her family was well known in town for other reasons: her father, Edward McCann, served one term as councillor and three terms as mayor, and her grandparents were business owners and volunteers. At an early age, Lang learned that being active in the community was her social responsibility. She received an award at 15 for starting a youth program.

Growing up in a politically and community-oriented family, Lang says family discussions often revolved around current events in town. Whenever someone raised an issue, she says, someone else would ask, “‘What are you going to do about that?’ There was always that call to action.” Complaining about a problem without trying to do something about it wasn’t an option.

With her small-town roots, Lang was drawn to Guelph’s sense of community. Unlike most prospective students, she had never visited the campus before deciding to attend U of G. Instead, she relied on word of mouth. “Everybody I talked to who went to Guelph had nothing but good things to say, and I valued their opinions – and I haven’t looked back.” Some of her friends were already attending another Ontario university to which she had applied, but they had mixed reviews about their academic experience. “Everybody had great things to say about Guelph.”

As the oldest of six children, Lang paid her own way through university. “I knew that whatever path I chose, it was going to have to be self-funded,” she says. An entrance scholarship from U of G helped pay her tuition in first year.

After completing her bachelor of commerce in 2002, she decided that “I’m not ready to be done with Guelph.

I knew that I wanted to do something else. I knew that I still had more to learn.” She completed a master’s degree in marketing and consumer studies at U of G in 2005.

Her presentation skills earned praise from her instructors, and she realized that she felt comfortable in front

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of a class. As a teaching assistant in a first-year introductory marketing course, she enjoyed working with students in small groups because she wanted to be actively involved in their learning, especially when they had an “aha” moment.

Today, Lang sees a lot of those moments in her own classes, where she uses her ingrained “call to action” to inspire her students to do more than just memorize facts and figures from a textbook. As director of the Co-operators Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship at U of G, she oversees a program in which groups of students work with small businesses, not-for-profits and organizations to help them develop business solutions.

Students benefit from applying their classroom knowledge to real-world problems, while the clients benefit from the students’ expertise, saving time and money.

“They’re coming to us because we have a valuable set of skills,” says Lang, “and the students have a knowledge set in an area of expertise that the clients are looking for.

While our clients have been busy working in their business, we can help them work on their business.”

To get students thinking outside the textbook, Lang brings the classroom downtown to Innovation Guelph, part of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce. There, her students take part in “idea labs,” where they participate in hands-on problem-solving activities. During one session, each group was asked to develop solutions for issues facing local youth, such as employment, volunteerism and voting. The students then pitched their solutions to local youth organizations. “I’m not just giving them a multiple-choice exam,” she says. “It’s about applying their knowledge and putting solutions into their very capable hands.”

Teaching moments aren’t restricted to the classroom. Lang wants her students to learn how to become contributors to society by being active in their community. “My goal for my students is to teach them about citizenship. While they are here at U of G, they are members of the Guelph community.” Her own involvement in the community and commitment to education led to her being named one of the Guelph Mercury’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2011.

Lang’s sense of community extends beyond Guelph.

Knowing that many of her students move away after they graduate, she hopes they take the skills and knowledge they gained in her classes to make a difference wherever they go. She doesn’t want her students to be the only beneficiaries of their education, so she encourages them to use their skills in their community.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want them to brand themselves solely by their degree or job,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want them to see themselves beyond the job. Where can they make a difference? Are they volunteering in their community? What are they paying forward?â&#x20AC;?

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and high school sweetheart, Paul, and their two daughters: Hannah, 10, and Beth, 8. Choosing Guelph for her education and her profession proved to be the right decision for Lang. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the right place, and it was the right path for me.â&#x20AC;? ) )

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U of G’s “better planet”

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hen The BetterPlanet Project

(BPP) fundraising campaign was publicly launched in September 2010, U of G president Alastair Summerlee talked about the $200-million goal and how the money would be used to accelerate research that will improve our quality

of life and to infuse academic programs with learning experiences that develop leadership skills and citizenship values.

As the fundraising campaign closes this summer, the impact of BPP donations is being realized across campus. The campaign has funded 20 new and six existing research

IMPROVING ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH

Haessler

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Giving to achieve results…

Cancer specialist Paul Woods with DVM student Nadia Rosanova and their patient Ramona. pened in 2012, the Mona Campbell Centre for Animal Cancer is the most comprehensive animal cancer treatment and research centre in Canada. Located at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), the centre promotes collaborative clinical research that helps all species, including humans.

Its name honours the late Mona Campbell, a businesswoman and longtime animal advocate who donated $9.5 million to OVC, half of which supported the centre.

Other funding for the cancer centre came from donations to the OVC Pet Trust Fund.

Campbell died in 2008, leaving a bequest that capped her 20-year philanthropic relationship with the University. She served as a trustee for the Heritage Fund and personally supported various programs related to animal welfare and equine issues. Campbell was a strong proponent of the Pet Trust Fund, which provides learning, health care and research to benefit companion animals.

The new cancer centre emphasizes an interdisciplinary team approach to treatment, ranging from medical, radiation and surgical oncologists, technicians, interns, graduate students and support staff to a clinical counsellor for clients making difficult decisions for their pets.

Clients have access to a level of care similar to what you find in human medicine.

In fact, OVC dean Elizabeth Stone says many of the cancer therapies being developed at the cancer centre will deepen our understanding of cancer as a disease that impacts both our pets and ourselves.

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■ Wolf Haessler, B.Sc.(Eng.) ’66, was looking to the future when he created new undergraduate scholarships and donated to the University’s new state-of-the-art engineering facility. “I want to help more qualified young people have a successful career in engineering and help the School of Engineering grow its reputation.”

Haessler is the founder of Skyjack Inc. and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs.

■ As a Guelph undergrad, Eileen Watson, BA ’13, volunteered in Peru with Project Serve. She helped with a public health program and sports development for the local children. “I was so inspired by these communities and their sustaining bonds that I wanted to be part of similar communities in Guelph.” Watson took a service learning course, volunteered at an elementary school and donated to a U of G fund that helps other students participate in travel and experiential programs.

■ When Robert Whitelaw sold the thriving agricultural company, Agrico Canada, he brought the company’s papers to the University of Guelph library archives and noticed how cramped the facilities are.

“Sometimes it’s a simple matter of awareness that’s needed to find funding for an important project,” said Whitelaw. Now he and his wife, Rosalie, are helping the library create more space for the archives.

vision moves us forward chairs and professorships, state-of-the-art facilities, and more than 1,000 student scholarships and awards. It has provided the resources to expand teaching and research programs in areas where U of G innovations are answering the BPP promise to improve life in Canada and around the world.

Not only are Guelph students learning from world experts in their field of study, but BPP gifts have ensured that more U of G courses offer hands-on experience, leadership training and opportunities for students to become engaged citizens.

The best analysis of the campaign comes

from the donors who responded to the BetterPlanet vision, students who benefit from their support, and faculty and staff who are turning financial resources into innovations. Read some of their comments here and a complete campaign report on the BPP website: www.thebetterplanetproject.ca.

FOCUSING ON FOOD AND FAMILIES

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…giving from the heart ■ Harry Barrett, BSA ’49, has been a U of G supporter since the early 1980s, primarily because of his student experience at the Ontario Agricultural College. “The faculty at OAC is the best, but the University offers more than just academics. I made lasting connections.” Barrett’s donations benefit the Arboretum, the library, the OAC Teaching Trust and scholarships that recognize students who share his conservationist values.

■ Long-time champions of education, Gail and Bob Farquharson’s most recent gift to U of G supports the new Health for Life Initiative. “We have a great deal of respect for the ground-breaking innovation behind Guelph’s education and research,” says Gail. Their donation will support research on nutrition and personalized health assessments. Bob also contributes to U of G as a member of the BetterPlanet Project advisory council and the Board of Trustees.

■ Twenty years after graduation, an alumni event in Vancouver made Jennifer Wilson, B. Comm. ’89, examine the impact her Guelph education had on her career.

She decided to donate one hour’s wages each month to U of G programs for students with disabilities. “Just imagine if every alumnus donated an hour a month – the cumulative impact would be as profound as the University’s impact on us.”

From left: Guelph students Sonya Lafeur and Lauren Renuland receive Harshman Foundation scholarships from Grace Harshman. he Harshman Foundation has supported U of G programs related to family wellbeing for more than 50 years. The foundation funds several scholarships for Guelph undergraduates and graduate students. It also sponsors the annual Harshman Lecture and has provided conferences and courses taught by visiting experts in areas such as family law, gerontology and social services.

During the BetterPlanet campaign, Grace Harshman extended the foundation’s U of G partnership to include a graduate scholarship in food systems, as well as undergraduate research assistantships and operating costs for the Garden2Table program and the Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming.

“I was very impressed with what’s being done in the organic garden,” she says. “So much of our food is no longer natural; I was interested in the organic garden because it promotes food grown in a healthy sustainable way.”

Harshman hopes giving school children a hands-on gardening experience through Garden2Table will encourage them to make more nutritious food choices. In a U of G pilot program, elementary school groups first worked in the garden, then took vegetables right into the kitchen where university students in U of G’s hospitality program taught the kids how to prepare and cook the food in healthy ways.

The Harshman gift will allow Garden2Table to benefit a much greater number of children and families. “This is another level of support – one that promotes healthy families through nutritious food – that we want to provide to the University of Guelph,” she says.

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UGAA Awards of Excellence

he University of Guelph Alumni Association launched its alumni awards program in 1970 and now honours three outstanding graduates each year. The following awards were presented on campus March 25.

Promotion and retired from that position in 2007. Because of her contributions, the office is considered the authoritative source for nutrition and healthy eating policy in Canada.

Bush has served as a board member for several professional associations, chaired a task force on dietetic education in Ontario, and was an adviser for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.

She was honoured by the Canadian Public Health Association in 2007 and the Dietitians of Canada in 2008.

Bush has also dedicated her time and energy to numerous community organizations, and created a student bursary through the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Learning Opportunities Trust. In 1997, she received U of Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alumni Medal of Achievement.

Alumni Medal of Achievement Mary Bush

Alumna of Honour M ary B u sh , B. H . S c . â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70 and M.Sc. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;75, is a pioneer in nutrition and public health. Her work has impacted the lives of millions of Canadians.

Between her Guelph degrees, she worked for Health Canada as a food specialist, and later held a variety of positions at public health agencies, including Nutrition Educon, the National Institute of Nutrition and the Ottawa Carleton Health Unit. She returned to Health Canada in 1990 and spent the next two decades serving in roles with progressive responsibility.

Bush was a key player in developing nutrition labelling, distributing a guide on dietary reference intakes and creating successive versions of the Canada Food Guide. She was the first director general of the Office of Nutrition Policy and

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A nne M i ne r, BA â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 8 0 and MBA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;99, is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and a popular speaker at business functions. She is also a philanthropist and a champion for women and children.

Miner founded The Dunvegan Group Ltd. in Calgary in 1987 and relocated to Woodstock, Ont., in 2012.

The marketing and consulting firm specializes in customer care, retention and growth. The company developed a proprietary customer retention metric â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Dunvegan Affinity Ratingâ&#x201E;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to improve measurement of customer satisfaction and retention.

She is director of the Cambridge chapter of the Public Speakers Association, a member of the Market Research and Intelligence Association, and a founding member of IMPACT: International Membership of Professional Advisors, Coaches and Trainers.

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Anne Miner

She was one of the first Canadian researchers to receive the certified marketing research professional designation.

Miner has written several books, including Measuring Up! A Guide to Success with Customer Satisfaction and The Bottom Line on Customer Retention: It Pays to Care!, and contributed to Succeeding in Spite of Everything.

She also provides leadership and mentorship in her local community.

Miner was instrumental in revitalizing the Oxford Women in Networking group. For her companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25th anniversary, she asked each employee to select a local community program to receive one of 25 donations worth $500 each.

Miner hosts the Rogers television program Women of Courage, which recognizes courageous women in her community.

Alumni Volunteer Award R og e r T h om s on, DVM â&#x20AC;&#x2122;75, is a distinguished veterinarian whose humanitarian and volunteer contributions have helped improve the lives of people and animals in Ontario and around the world.

He grew up on a farm in Bruce

matters County, Ont., and came to U of G after completing a B.Sc. at the University of Toronto.

Thomson worked at a mixed-animal practice in Uxbridge before running his own practice, the Kincardine Veterinary Service.

He contributed to the development of his profession through volunteer work with the Grey-Bruce Veterinary Association and on the complaints committee of the College of Veterinarians of Ontario. In 2005, he joined the Wyeth Animal Health team. Now semi-retired, he consults for clients in the animal health industry.

Looking Back at Our Roots hinking about Guelph’s 50 years as a university, I was inspired to learn more about the roots of the University of Guelph Alumni Association (UGAA). The campuswide group began with the Alumni Weekend tradition and much support from graduates of the founding colleges. UGAA was incorporated in 1966 with a membership of more than 10,000 and a campus heritage dating back a full century.

Today UGAA represents more than 100,000 alumni and is supported by committed volunteers and some amazing affinity partnerships.

On its first anniversary, UGAA helped the University’s newly established development fund by auctioning crockery retired from Creelman Hall. In 1970 the first Alumnus of Honour award was presented to Frank Palmer, BSA 1913, beginning a tradition we maintain today.

By 1976, UGAA had mobilized alumni support for an annual giving fund, a student scholarship endowment, the launch of the Arboretum and the construction of Alumni Stadium.

Over the years, UGAA has organized numerous events, including large picnics that have brought alumni from all over. By its 20th anniversary, UGAA was planning and fundraising to support the restoration of Alumni House, which opened in 1987.

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Thomson has stayed involved with his alma mater as an active member of his class and by serving on the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) Alumni Association board of directors. He also helped plan and present at OVC’s inaugural Global Development Symposium in 2012. Later that year, he represented the college at the Pan-American Health Organization Conference.

He serves on the board of directors of Veterinarians without Borders- Vétérinaires sans frontières (VWB-VSF) and has led initiatives in Ilima,Tanzania. His focus on poultry production aims to educate and empower communities to reduce poverty.

Here at home,Thomson was recognized by Bruce County 4-H for 25 years of leadership.

In 2001, the alumni concourse in Rozanski Hall was created through a $500,000 donation.

In 2011, the Alumni Legacy Scholarship was founded to aid students who carry on their family’s tradition of attending the University of Guelph. That same year, UGAA pledged $1 million over 10 years to revitalize the first-year seminar program, supporting innovative student-focused education and the success of future alumni.

To help celebrate the University’s golden anniversary, we kicked off the Gryphon statue fundraising campaign with a lead gift of $150,000.

The 10 alumni currently serving on the UGAA board are proud of our accomplishments and our association’s history. We hope to continue to make a mark on campus, support our students and future alumni, and celebrate what it means to be a Gryphon.

We look forward to seeing many of you this Alumni Weekend attending the Gryphon statue unveiling, dancing at the Conversat Ball or enjoying the Sunday picnic that will especially honour families with three or more generations of U of G grads.

To learn more, visit www.alumni. uoguelph.ca.

BRAD ROONEY, ADA ’93 AND B.SC.(AGR.) ’97 UGAA PRESIDENT

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.?HB8=,/?>2HCI F?G<=H@ 7B?>GDI H*@BHEEHCI he Unive rsity of Guelph-Humberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4,500 grads regularly receive The Portico magazine, but this issue contains something special: the first G-H alumni newsletter. Exclusive to Guelph-Humber alumni, The Spiral joins seven other alumni newsletters produced and distributed through The Portico; every Guelph grad receives a copy of their college newsletter stapled inside the magazine. The newsletters are provided courtesy of Guelphâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s college deans and the G-H provost.

You can read all eight alumni newsletters at www.uoguelph.ca/theportico.

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Find more U of G alumni news and events at www.alumni.uoguelph.ca

2014 a Year to Remember his year, the University of Guelph marks its 50th anniversary and the celebrating has begun! There are many opportunities for alumni to get involved and pay tribute to our alma mater, its rich history and the wonderful memories created here on campus.

U of G’s anniversary coincides with the end of The BetterPlanet Project fundraising campaign, although the University’s “better planet” vision will live on for years to come.

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From left: Serge Desmarais, U of G’s associate vice-president (academic), congratulates award recipient Kent Bretzlaff and thanks donor Murray McEwen.

Awards ceremony brings together students and scholarship donors hen the Murray McEwen Engineering and OAC Safe Water Bursaries were presented at the University-wide awards ceremony Feb. 4, McEwen spoke about his motivation for supporting post-secondary studies at U of G. The bursary endowment provides $1,000 each to six undergraduate students in water resources

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engineering and agricultural studies related to clean water.This year’s recipients are Kent Bretzlaff, Dylan Forrest and Katelyn Lutes.

Their benefactor is also a recent award winner: McEwan was named to the Order of Canada for his philanthropy and contributions to community and world food markets.

1994 GRADS CREATED A LEGACY In June 1994, these Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) classmates celebrated their graduation and promised to support their alma mater by purchasing life insurance policies with the University of Guelph as beneficiary. More than 50 class members supported this generous act of philanthropy; their gifts will eventually be used for agriculture-related programs. The legacy they created is remembered on their 20th anniversary for its affirmation of OAC’s rich past and dynamic future.

As The Portico goes to press, we are closing the gap and expect to reach our $200million goal by campaign end. More than 65,000 donors have helped the University achieve this milestone. Thank you for your generous support.

I hope you will plan to join us on Alumni Weekend. One of the highlights will be the big reveal on Saturday, June 21, as the much-anticipated Gryphon statue is unveiled at the corner of Stone Road and Gordon Street. New this year, Alumni Weekend will feature the Conversat Ball, a signature celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary. We will also welcome back several generations of Guelph grads at our Legacy Family Picnic on Sunday, June 22.

Let’s celebrate the University of Guelph and its first 50 years as we look forward to the next half-century of changing lives and improving life.

JASON MORETON, BA ’00 ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT ALUMNI ADVANCEMENT

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Spread Your Wings University of Guelph Alumni Travel Educational Travel for Alumni and Friends

Make your legacy a better planet.

For information on bequests and planned giving, please contact Ross Butler at 519-824-4120, ext. 56196, rbutler@uoguelph.ca, or visit www.alumni.uoguelph.ca

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h e n P aloma N u Ăą e z , BA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;02, is onstage, she truly is living in the moment. She performs and teaches improvisational comedy with Second City in Toronto and, over the years, has learned the secret is to just go with the flow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With improv, everything you create in the moment is unique and genuine to that moment,â&#x20AC;? says NuĂąez. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you are busy planning what to say, then you have already missed what is happening.You have to let go and trust that you can create something just by looking at your scene partner and connecting with them.â&#x20AC;?

If it sounds nerve-racking, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because it is. NuĂąez, who has been doing comedic improv for more than nine years, still gets nervous sometimes when she goes onstage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nerves are a beautiful part of it,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can

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either do well or do horribly depending on how you handle that nervousness.You just have to learn not to fight it. If you just accept the nervousness, then it gives you a charge of energy and propels you forward.â&#x20AC;?

NuĂąez always wanted a career as a performer, but it was an experience at U of G while she was completing an honours degree in drama that helped give her the confidence to pursue one.

Prof. Judith Thompson, School of English and Theatre Studies, taught many of her classes, and one of NuĂąezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals was to earn a 90 per cent on an assignment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really hard to get over an 80 per cent in Judith Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes.

If you did, that meant you had talent.â&#x20AC;?

NuĂąez finally attained a 90 per cent in her fourth year when she played the lead role in her friend Dalbir Singhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play Halal.

Thompson told her she had a lot of potential. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That moment was an arc for me in my university career towards becoming an actor.â&#x20AC;?

After graduating in 2002, NuĂąez headed to Toronto. It was while she was auditioning for roles in television and film that she decided to take comedic improv classes at Second City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been a bit goofy and I really liked the freedom that improv offered,â&#x20AC;? she says.

NuĂąez then enrolled in the Second City Conservatory where she took classes in premise-based improv. She learned to create sketch comedy by focusing on point of view and using the filter of comedy to reflect back the oddities of the world around us, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creating sketches through improv is about writing on your feet.You never actually put pen to paper, but rather you learn how to bring in a premise or an idea to create a performance with an ensemble, and then improve on it night after night until it becomes a polished gem.â&#x20AC;?

It was while NuĂąez was enrolled in the Second City Conservatory that she met her husband, Kevin Whalen, also an improv comedian and instructor with Second City.

Whalen belongs to the Second Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national touring company, a group that performs Monday nights at Second City.

NuĂąez is currently an understudy for the national touring company.

Besides their work with Second City, the couple does a sketch called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dylan Goes Electric,â&#x20AC;? performed at improv festivals across Canada.

NuĂąez is also a member of the improv ensemble Bad Dog Repertory Players with the Bad Dog Theatre Company in Toronto. Only two years

news old, the 14-member ensemble has already been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award.

“It’s been like magic,” says Nuñez. “Despite having our own careers and egos, we have all agreed to check them at the door and make some great pieces of art that we can with people. You can put the best comedians in the world together, but if they don’t get along and connect, it can be a mess.”

Her work with Bad Dog Repertory Players is called longform improv, which is a series of scenes connected by themes or narratives. The ensemble produces a new sketch every couple of months and performs at the Comedy Bar in Toronto.

She has also worked in beat improv, taking the plot and characters of a known movie, television show or play and building improvisational comedy around them.

“The plot is lined up so that you hit different beats in the story, but all the dialogue is improvised. You take liberty with the characters and exaggerate them. It’s basically satire.”

One of her most successful sketches, which she co-produced and performed with a cast of improvisers, is called “Throne of Games.” This beat improv sketch was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for best live performance and was part of the Toronto Fringe’s Next Stage Theatre Festival last year.

To find out more about Nuñez’s performances, follow her on Twitter @palomanunez.

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Andre Bordeleau, BA ’79 and MA ’84, was a Canadian national team member in rifle shooting with a moving target and was Ontario champion in 1984. He recently published his first book, Flags of the Night Sky, which explores the many depictions of stars and other celestial bodies in flags from around the world.

■ Jim Hardy, B.Sc. ’78, recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of Campana Systems, a company he co-owns with Grant Roberts and Brad Bell.

The award-winning firm employs more than 100 people in Canada and Australia.

■ Jacki Hollywood-Brown, B.Sc. ’90 and M.Sc. ’93, has moved to the United Kingdom with her family, as her husband, Lt. Col. Kevin Brown, now works with NATO. ■ David Johnston, B.Sc. (Agr)’79, is director of environmental health and safety for the Toronto Hydro-Electric System.

He was selected as Canada’s 2013 Safety Leader of the Year and appeared on the cover of the December/January issue of Canadian Occupational Safety magazine.

An accompanying editorial says Johnston received three nominations for this award and describes him as “an excellent example of the qualities every safety leader should possess.”

■ Juri Peepre, BA ’76, was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2013 for his role in protecting the Canadian wilderness.

Although Peepre now lives and focuses much of his conservation

Before the Gryphons: Redmen

efore the Gryphon was adopted as a mascot for the University of Guelph, sports teams with players from both the agricultural and veterinary colleges were known as the OA-VC Redmen. Members of the 1963 Redmen football team gathered last fall for a 50-year reunion. Back row, left to right: Pete Myronyk, Pete Kukk, Don Taylor and Doug Brown. Front row: Michael Thorpe, Doug Goudy, Billy Dempsey, Dave Goslin, Jim McMillan and Ken Taylor.

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effort in the Upper Columbia Valley and East Kootenay of British Columbia, he spent most of his career in northern B.C. and Yukon. He worked on a variety of large-scale conservation issues. “Helping to protect our wilderness has been a privilege and my passion for decades,” he says. Peepre is also co-author of Three Rivers:The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness, which was a 2005 finalist in the B.C. Book Prizes competition. He has coauthored two Yukon guidebooks with his wife, Sarah Locke.

■ Sharon Stevens-Lay, BA ’78, received a 2014 Canada’s Outstanding Principals award from the Learning Partnership.

She oversees the Peel Board of Education’s alternative schools, satellite programs and field cen-

tres for students who face additional challenges in achieving their educational goals. She says: “None of this would be possible without the stellar undergraduate education I received at the University of Guelph.”

■ Michael Vanzieleghem, B.Sc. ’77, began semi-retirement on Aug. 1, 2013, after 30 years in the workforce. He was senior director of scientific affairs and medical communications with Optum, a division of the United Health Group. Still consulting, he now spends more time on volunteer work and with his family. He and his wife live on Amherst Island near Kingston, Ont., with their five dogs. He says they plan to visit Guelph this year and might “splash a little paint on Jeremiah for good luck.”

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Miguel Fernandez, BA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;86, moved to Australia after graduating from U of G, and earned two masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees and a PhD. He has been a licensed psychologist for more than 20 years and is an associate professor; he runs a private practice, and consults with schools on assessments and behaviour management issues. Fernandez has published several papers and is currently gathering clinical evidence about a new form of brief therapy for publication. â&#x2013; Christine Forber, PhD â&#x20AC;&#x2122;88, is a long-time member of the Canadian Federation of University Women Mississauga.The group recently published a book entitled Extraordinary Lives: Inspiring Women of Peel. All proceeds go to the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charitable trust to provide postgraduate scholarships. Books may be ordered from TKTK.

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Jagwant Kanway, PhD â&#x20AC;&#x2122;81, is a senior technical adviser and adviser in organic agriculture with International Traceability System Ltd. in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Formerly, he was professor and head of the Department of Vegetable Crops at Punjab Agricultural University. â&#x2013; Chee Lee, B.Sc.(Agr.) â&#x20AC;&#x2122;85, of Segamat Johor, Malaysia, is semi-retired and working parttime as the smallholder of an oil palm estate. He also does mission work in Cambodia.

Scott Legge, B.Comm. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;86, has returned to food service and hospitality consulting after seven years in association management. As a senior member of the food service and hospitality business unit of WSP Canada Inc., he consults in food service facility design. â&#x2013; Ernest Rogers, BA and B.Sc. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;85, of Bedminster, N.J., has earned the certification of

Ridge, B.C., competed in a reality show called Be the Boss Canada on the W Network. She and another employee of Nurse Next Door were tested on their business acumen and their leadership, marketing and sales skills.

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Forensic Medical Investigator Level V and diplomate status from the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.

Diplomate status is a high honour earned only by a few highly skilled forensic scientists.

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■ Gary Stickles, B.Comm. ’93, recently opened a Hawaiian-themed restaurant called Mokus in Fonthill, Ont. ■ Tammy Tipler-Priolo, B.A.Sc. ’90, has moved from North Bay to Newmarket, Ont., with her husband, Clark, and daughter, Erica.Tammy will still run her genealogy business, The Ancestor Investigator, and will resume writing and painting. She would love to hear from old classmates.

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Jennifer (Clarke) Brush, B.Comm. ’07, was married in August 2013 in Lambton County, Ont., but now lives and works in Fort McMurray, Alta. She was recently promoted to supervisor of recruitment and training at the MacDonald Island Park recre-

ation complex, which serves the Wood Buffalo region.

■ Jennifer Christie, B.Comm. ’06, is a territory manager for John Deere and was selected in December 2013 as a Telus Young Leader in the Women’s Executive Networks list of the top 100 most powerful women in Canada. She is also a director of 4-H Canada and is involved in many youth programs.

■ Valerie Hawke, B.Sc. ’01, lives in Alexandria,Va., with her husband, Brian, and family.Their second child, Adele Elizabeth, was born Feb. 25, 2013, a little sister for Matthew.

■ Noah Jensen, B.Comm. ’06, recently became a partner with Szczepski, Racolta, Jensen & Co. LLP, a public accounting firm in Cambridge, Ont. ■ Jacqueline Swaisland, BA ’03, is an immigration and refugee lawyer who specializes

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She has appeared numerous times before the federal court and administrative tribunals on immigration-related matters.

She co-authored the books Inadmissible to Canada:The Legal Barriers to Canadian Immigration and Canada’s Refugee Determination Procedure. She teaches a course on immigration and refugee law each year in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.

■ Devon Turcotte, BA ’02, and Matt Spilchen, BA ’02, plan to marry in May 2014.

They have a daughter, Sophie, born in November 2012. Matt

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Joseph Van Damme, R.Dip. ’54, Dec. 29, 2013 Joyce (Torrance) Warner, B.H.Sc. ’60, March 22, 2013 Ernest Weiss, BSA ’45, March 20, 2014 Frances (Millard) Whillans, DHE ’41, May 19, 2013 Joanne White, R.Dip. ’80, Nov. 16, 2013 Keith Wilkinson, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’67, May 26, 2013 Angus Wilson, BSA ’49, Aug. 27, 2013 Richard Woolger, ADA ’52, May 20, 2013 Murray Young, BSA ’51, Nov. 29, 2013 Richard Zbarsky, DVM ’76, March 28, 2014 FACULTY & STAFF Gerald Adams, retired from the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, Jan. 22, 2014 Paul Gilmor, former provost and director of student services, June 20, 2013 Jean Harvey, Department of Philosophy, April 20, 2014 Hugh Kirby, retired from the Department of Psychology, May 12, 2014 Janet Wardlaw, former dean of the College of Family and Consumer Studies, Jan.17, 2014 To honour alumni who have passed away, the University of Guelph Alumni Association makes an annual donation to the Alumni Legacy Scholarship.The scholarship is available to all U of G students who have completed at least one year of full-time studies and are immediate relatives of an alumna/alumnus of the University. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic achievement and volunteer contributions to the University community.

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