ing.ca/artists/individuals. • Mary Tapsell, B.Sc. '81, works for the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board in Yellowknife, where she is manager for environmental impact assessment. She says "hi" to all her old friends and can be reached at tapsell@theedge.ca. "It would be great to hear from you:' • Gary Teare, DVM '86 and PhD '97, his wife, Cecilia Rajanayagam, M.Sc. '98, and their children, Adrian and Mara, relocated in January 2005 from Toronto to Saskatoon, where Teare took up the position of director of quality measurement and analysis at Saskatchewan Health Quality Council (HQC). The HQC reports on the quality of health care in the province and works with stakeholders and partners to improve the delivery of health services. He also holds academic appointments at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto.
1990 • Rob Argalis, BA '91, is cycling his way across Canada to raise money and awareness for the Arthritis Society. This is not just any cycling feat. He's using a modified ice cream tricycle to
Rob Argalis
remind people that everyday tasks can be a struggle for people with arthritis. "My mother is one of the over four million Canadians with this disease;' he says, "and her struggle provides my incentive for this project,
which is called 'Spoking for More."' He started in Vancouver early in May and will cross Canada and the northern United States to finish in Halifax in August. (Details at www.spokingformore.com.) • Jennifer Barrett, BA '96 and MA '01, is the new senior development manager for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at U of G. She and her husband, Dan Hirashima, BA '01, were married at the Arboretum Sept. 22, 2001. He works for Sleeman Breweries Ltd. • Peter Buchanan-Smith, BA '95, received a 2005 Grammy for his art direction on A Ghost is Born, the best-selling Nonesuch CD by the band Wilco. He is the former art director of the New York Times op-ed page. His first book, Speck, was published in 2002 and won J.D. Magazine's Design Distinction Award. Most recently, he was an organizer of and featured designer in the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Fresh Dialogue symposium. • Michelle Charbonneau, B.Sc. '90, Andrea McLeod, B.Sc.(Env.) '99, and Jeff Smylie, B.Sc.(Eng.) '91 and M.Sc.(Eng.) '97, are all members of the City of Mississauga's environmental team. They use their collective knowledge and expertise to help the Ontario city stay on top of environmental issues. Although their Guelph degrees vary, the three co-workers say they share fond thoughts of Guelph, including the beauty of the campus, the good friendships that were formed and the "anything goes" way of life. All three agree that thei experiences at Guelph built strong loyalty to the school. • Tanya (Eluchok), B.Comm. '95, was married Oct. 2, 2004, to Michael Wickett and is expecting a baby in May 2005. She's a client manager for Consumer Impact
Tanya and Michael Wickett
Marketing and is currently national field manager on the Microsoft account, working from London, Ont., with a marketing company based in Toronto. • Patricia (Freeman), B.Sc. '94, was married July 31, 2004, to Christopher MacKenzie. They
Patricia and Christopher MacKenzie
live 111 Scarborough, Ont., where she works at Innovative Food Brands in Brampton as quality assurance supervisor. • Paula (Baia), B.A.Sc. '98, and Tim Gallagher, B.Sc.(Eng.) '99, were married May 24, 2003, in Brampton, Ont. They've been living in Virginia for five years, where Tim is a water resource engineer at Dewberry and Davis in Fairfax. He's also working on a master's degree. • Sarah Goudy, B.Sc.(Agr.) '99, is a new account executive at AdFarm in Guelph, helping to manage the company's clients in the animal-health, crop-protection and seed sectors. After leaving U of G, she earned a degree in graphic design from Sheridan College/York Univer-
sity. For the past three years, she was a marketing associate with Syngenta Crop Protection. • Muhammad Naeem Khan, PhD '97, joined the University of Punjab in Pakistan in january as a professor of zoology, after serving as professor and dean of the Faculty of Fisheries and Wildlife at the University ofVeterinary and Animal Sciences in Lahore from 2003 to 2004. From 1996 to 2003, he was director of the fisheries department for the provincial government of Punjab. Khan describes himself as a "proud student of Guelph professor John Leatherland:' • David Kraus, BA and B.Sc. '90, recently finished building a house on a 55-acre farm outside Leamington, Ont., where he lives with his wife and three-year-old son, Justin. Kraus is a high school biology teacher and program representative for the Wetland Habitat Fund. He has restored 20 acres of farmland back into natural wetland, forest, prairie and meadow habitats. • Christy Lyon, B.Sc. '95, started a new job last July as a landfill engineer at one of the three city landfills in Calgary. She was married one month later. • Anne Malleau, B.Sc.(Agr.) '95, M.Sc. '98 and MBA '02, was recently appointed executive director of a new Animal Compassion Foundation established by Whole Foods Market, a natural and organic foods supermarket. Malleau was formerly communications co-ordinator for U of G's Colonel K.L. Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, where she served on the steering committee and was a presenter at the International Society for Applied Ethologists meeting in Prague in 1997. • Andrew McDonald, PhD '93, has written and edited several
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