Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1980

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH

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Init-ation of a

FaU 1980 Vol. 13, No.4

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION H ONORARY PRESIDENT: Professor Donald F. Forster.

PRESIDE'-lT: Dr. Tom DeGeer, OVC '54.

PAST PRESIDENT: Janice (Robertson) Partlow . Art s '70.

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT Jackie (Wemyss) Wright, C BS '74.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Dr. Clifford Barker, OVC '4\: Ewart Carbe rry , OAC '44; Peter McMull en. CPS '76: Rich a rd M occia. CBS '76: Anne Vaughan, Arts '77 ; Jane (Vollick ) Webster. FACS '75.

SEC RETAR Y: Barry Stahlbaum , CPS '74.

D IRECTOR S : Brian A llen , CPS '72: Peter Anderson, Well. '68; Les Dunn . C BS '76; Lynn (Morrow) Fea the rs ton, Mac '68 ; Eli za beth Heeney. Mac '7 I : A lvin Jor y, CSS ' 74; Pat (Shier) Mighton. OAC '64: Edith LeLacheur. Arts '72; Debbie ( Na sh) Chambers.

Arts '77: Dr. Mel Polan d, OVC '44 ; Ambrose Samulski.

CBS '73; G lenn Powe ll, OAC '62; Dr. Stan W ard, OVC '36.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: Frances Adam s.

Presid ent, Uni ..ersity of Guelph Central Student Association; Jo hn Babcock. OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affa irs and Development; Dr. C. Robe rt Buck , OVC '46, President, O.V.c. Alumni Association; Judi th Carson, Art s '75 , President, Arts Alumni Association: Ba rbara Hind s, CSS '74, President, C.S.S. Alumni Associa tion; Pat Legris, President . Graduate Students Association ; Ka re n (S nyder) McDougall . FACS '7 3, President, Mac-FACS Alumni ~ssociation; Dr. Clare Rennie. OAC '47, President, O.A .C. Alumni Association; William Sa nford . CPS '73 , President , c.P.S. Alumni Association; AI Sippel, CBS '75 , President, C. B.s. Alumni Association.

TR EASURER : J a mes Elmslie.

ASSOC IATE SEC R ETAR Y: Ros ema ry C la rk , Mac '59.

The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Depa rtment of Alumni Affairs a nd Deve lo pment in co-operation with the Depa rtme nt of Information , Universit y of Guelph .

The Editorial Commill ee is comprised of Editor, Derek Wing, Publica tions Officer, Department of Alumni Affa irs a nd Developme nt; John Babcock, OAC '54. Direc tor of Alumni Affairs and Developm ent : Erich Barth, Art Di rector, Department of Information; Rose mary C lar k, M ac ' 59 , Ass istant Direclor for Alumni Programs; Douglas Waterslon, Direclor of Informalion; Dona ld Jose, OAC '49, Assislanl Director of Informalion.

The Editorial Advisory Boa rd of lhe University of Guelph Alumni Assoc ia lion is com prised of Ewarl Carberry, OAC '44 , Chai rm an; Dr . Allan Austin: Dr .

Donald Barnum, OVC '4 1, W. John Bowles, CSS '72; Judilh Carson, Art s '75; Peler Hohenadel , OAC '75 ; Olive (Thompson) Thompson, Mac '35; Sa ndra WcbSle r, CSS ' 75 . Ex-Officio: John Ba bcock , OAC '54 ; Janicc (Robertson) Pa rtlow, Arts '70.

U ndeli vered copies s hou ld be relurned 10 lhe

Departmenl of Alumni Affai rs and Developm enl,

University of Gue lph, Guelph, Ontario N I G 2W J

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Pedagogue

By Harold B. Disbrowe, OAC '23 endless di sco uragi ng year F oraftera seemingly graduating from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1923 , I moved from one stop-gap labouring job to anothe r.

As a senior student I had confidently looked forward to a position in agric ultura l research or extension work. But potential employers were singula rl y uninteres ted in wh a t I had to offer. Then, un ex pectedl y, on a day in la te September of 1924, I found myself in a classroom fac ing a class for the first time. The place was Izmi r, Turkey where, through an incredible happenstance, I had been engaged to teach at International College. It was the start of a career in education that was to las t for 40 years.

Internat ional College was a boys' school a t the preparatory and college level.

It wa s a n American Institution, but it s founder and president, Dr. Alexa nder MacLac hla n, was a native of Wellin gton County in Ontario. He was a remarkable Canadian whose achievements are un fo rtunately little known to his co untrymen. During the First World Wa r the work of the college was allowed to continu~ without interruption. This extraordinary concession was due entirely to the high regard in which Dr. Mac Lach lan was held by the Turkish a uthorities. For , as a British subject, he wa s a n enemy a lien a nd technically a prisoner-of-war.

At the war's end the victorious a lli es, in a n act of monumental folly, permitted Greece to take possession of the Turkish

provinces bordering the Aegean. This was galling to the proud T urks who, in due course, reorgani zed their sha ttered forces and drove the Greeks into the sea. In th e process of reoccupying Izmi r, prac tically the entire ci ty wa s burned to the ground.

The ca tac lys mic events , which I have so briefl y desc ribed, happe ned within the space of three yea rs- from 1919 to 1922.

W hen I arrived in Izmir the only indications of the recent conflict, and its aftermath, wer e ac res of burned-out buildings and overflowing refugee camps.

I had been engaged to teach agriculture, but learned afte r J a rrived that it would be another yea r befo re this would be possible. In the meantime I was expected to teach Engli sh to beginners. T he college dean , Dr. Reed , ha nded me a Berlitz te xtbook and a timetabl e. T wo yo ung American associates, Archie Macfa rlane of P hiladelphia, and C harl ie Va nZanten of Michigan, were more helpful: t hey gave me a flash course in the "Methode Berlitz."

With this meagre preparation J stepped into a classroom for the first time to confront several rows of bright-eyed boys, each with a bright red fez perched on his head. I experienced a mo ment of pa nic, but this was quickly di spelled by th e obvious friendliness of my pupils a nd their desi rc to please.

T he Berlitz method of langu age instruction is what is known in Ca nadian schools as the "direct method. " It is a common sense approa ch that involves the active use of the language from the start.

On the very first day my pupils acquired a vocabulary of a doze n words or more, a nd learned to use them correctly in a se ntence.

Each day their vocabulary was cxtended, and new sentence stru ctures were learned. Wi thin a month th e boys could carryon an intelligible, if somewhat limited, conversation in English. When the introductory phase was over they were introduced to the Latin alphabet, and learned to read and write as the y advanced with their lessons.

After two years of this kind of instruction students acquired a considerable Ouency in English, and were ready to proceed wiLh the extended curri cululil .

After four years of preparatory st udies they were qualified to enter the college department and, afte r a further four years, qualify for a Bachclor of Arts degree. At thi s stage their English was impeccable.

I found teaching to be very satisfying work. There were no disciplinary probl ems of any significance, and the stud ents wcre eager to learn. T he on ly difficulty I encountered resulted from their unr estrained enthusiasm. So eager were they to participate in the b sons, they could hardly contain themselves . When so meone was slow to respond , the hand-waving and finger-snapping of the others grew fr antic, and often they would jump from their seats a nd shout out the answer.

Althou gh respectful, thcy treated their teachers with democ ratic friendlincss and affection. It wa s a good relationship.

Something of its spirit is conveyed by a letter I received from one of my pupils during the long su mmer vacation. lie had studied English with me for eight months, and was concerned lest the coJlege authorities overlook his application to register for the nex t school yea r.

Depart ment. T he lessons went quite well.

By the followin g summer, when I took over my new ass ign ment. I had acquired an elementary knowledge of spoken T urkish . I nevcr did master the A rabic sc ript in which the lan guage was then written.

O n a recent vis it to T urkey I could hardly believe it was the same countr y where, at the time, I was a bout to make my modest contribution to ag ricultural ed ucation. It is now a bustling Western-sty le democra ti c society with all the appul"lena nces of modern civili za tion .

In 1925 it was a medieval oriental state- backward but colourful, and attractive in its simplicity.

The peasan ts stiJi ploughed their fields with a pointed stick , harvested grain with the sickle, and threshed a nd winnowed it by hand. Grea t areas of the country were unserved by railroads, and ordinary roads were non-exis tent. The people, 90 per cent of w hom were iJi i tera tes, were unmista keabl y Eastern in their appearance.

On the streets one sa w fe ned and turbanned men, vei led women, and workmen in baggy shalvars and sa nd a ls. It

property extended southwest to the river valley and, in the op posite direction , to an area bordcring the mai n campus.

I n the au tumn a number of boys from interior poin ts were sen t to mc for practical instruction in ag riculture. T hey worked along with me a nd my farm workmen , and learned to ca re for lives tock aNd usc the farm equipment. But my principal responsibility, I learned , was to improve the productive ca paci ty of the farm.

It was a formidable task. We had little in the way of eq uipment, and such livestock as we possessed was of very poor quality.

We did have an excellent team of stu rdy .English drat't horses. They had been sol d- off and left behind when th e Bri tish occupation forces departed.

My chief helper was Hassan Bey, a fine but irascible elderly man whose birthplace was the island of C rete. He wore the characteristic tall leather boots and red cummerbund of the C retan, and spoke G reek better tha n Turkish. There were also several fa rm hands, st urdy a nd likeable but illiterate young men from th-: interior.

Hassan Bey lived with his family in a

Th e co w barn at Int ernational Colleg(', lzmir, Turkey .

AI/gus' 10. 1925 My Good Tea cher: HolV are yo u? I am very well here. All days I am taking a walk in orchards. "/"his year I shall come to co llege agaill. Before two weeks I sem leller to Hairredin Bey ab out this, because J shall rome / 0 college when school is open.

Here is a good gentleman who knows French very well. All days for olle hour I take French leconfrom him. I als(} study English. If yo u walll to wri Ie lett er 10 me, you write th e fo llowing address: Guedas Bagdaely Z ade Mehmed Bey, Of his son, M ehmed Ibrahim

M idway through my first year I started takin g Turkish lessons in preparation for ta king over th e Ag ricultural

was a scene right out of the Arabian N ights.

In J une , I moved t.o the college farm where a number of buildings had recentl y been constructed. These included a stone building containing the office and living quarters of the director, a nd a dormitory and boarding facilities for students. As well there was a small dairy, some poultry houses, a nd various stables and outbuildings. All were situa ted in a bea utiful pine grove overlooking the Meles River, on the banks of which Homer is sa id to have bcen born. A few hundred yards to the north we re two fine old Roman aq ueducts, one of them still in usc. O ur

cosy apa rtment attached to the cow barn.

He openly disapproved of practically every change I proposed , and subverted my efforts when he could. However , during the late disturbances he had loya lly guarded the property and successfull y stood -off would-be looters. On this account I efltertai ned a basic respect for him and, though it was difficult, overlooked his acts of minor sa botage. Eventually we reached a modu s vivendi: he dev oted himself to the care of the livcstock, which he did very well, and ceased to interfere in other matters.

The students a nd farmha nds were pleasant to work with, and I became ver y contd. over 3

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a ttached to them. The farmhands were simple men whose engaging dependancy aroused my protective instincts. After a time, to my surprise, I found that I had become their trusted confidant in all sorts of matters. I safeguarded their money, doctored their small ailments and advised them in their personal affairs.

On winter evenings I was often their guest in their snug quarters in one of the farm buildings. Here, in front of an open fire, they told me of their villages and families and asked many questions about my home in far-away Canada. My relations with my students were in the same intimate pattern, for we took our meals together and their dormitory was adjacent to my own sleeping quarters.

While associating with the members of my small establishment, I learned to observe and respect the customs of the country. During the observance of Ramazan when Moslems fast during the daylight hours, I allowed them to quit work early, and arranged hot meals for them at midnight and before sunrise. In the merry-making week of Bairam that followed, I made no demands at all except for the performance of minimal essential chores. They were appreciative, and nothing was lost by this leniency: when the celebrations ended they returned in good spirit and worked harder than ever.

I knew that to convert the farm into a productive unit by Canadian standards, we would need better equipment and livestock.

I discussed these matters with Dr .

MacLachlan and he gave me a free hand.

We speedily imported some modern tillage and harvesting implements, including a tractor and a grain separator. We also brought in from European sources some good dairy cattle and poultry breeding stock.

Those European cattle were accustomed to fresh forage, something not commonly available during the lengthy dry season. We met their requirement by converting an area formerly used for growing vegetables, to producing alfalfa.

The experiment was enormously successfu,l, and cutting after cutting of succulent growth was produced . For winter forage we emulated the local farmers and planted vetch. It was easy to grow but difficult to handle, as the leaves tend to drop off during curing. We minimized this by piling it into old-fashioned haycocks to cure before moving it.

An interesting sidelight of some building renovations that we undertook at this time was a brief excursion into the realm of archaeology . While excavating for storage shed footings , we uncovered several square yards of beautiful Roman mosaic, undoubtedly the remnants of the floor of an

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ancient villa. To destroy it was unthinkable, so we built the structure over it. This humble structure was probably the only one of its kind anywhere with an authentic Roman mosaic floor.

I was only at the farm two years, a short time in which to produce significarH results, but within a relatively short time it became a valued asset of the college. The first grain harvest produced a bumper yield, the result of using better quality seed; the imported dairy stock demonstrated their superior productive capacity and their Turkish counterparts responded nobly to an improved diet. It was the same with the poultry operation. For the first time in anyone's memory, supplies of milk, butter and poultry products were available to the coll\ege community. When the time came for me to leave, I had the satisfaction of knowing that the enterprise was a going concern with the potential for further improvement.

At the farm I was separated to some extent from my colleagues on the main campus. However, I had a bicycle and pedalled up to MacLachlan Hilll each afternoon for tea in the faculty room. On occasion I also joined them for a meal' in the college dining hall. Then, too, my associates liked to visit the farm and few days passed without someone dropping in to see what I was doing.

The country was still in an unsettled state. It was safe enough during the daylight hours; but going out at night was risky business. I was always a little apprehensive when returning to the farm late at night. However, I moved swiftly on my bike and Hussein, the night watchman, always waited for me at the farm gate.

There was only one occasion when I felt menaced at my little outpost. It was late in the night when Hussein awakened me: "Disbrowe effendim," he whispered, "Khirsizler arilerimiz icin geldiler." (Some thieves have come for our bees.)

College bee hives.

I had just established some colonies in modern hives and had no wish to lose them.

I rose and went with Hussein to the back door where we peered into the darkness.

We could hear movements in the vicinity of the apiary. I shouted into the darkness: "Ne istersiniz," (What do you want?) The

answer was a rifle shot that crashed into the side of the building over our heads .

With remarkable lack of discretion, Hussein and I returned the fire, carefully blazing high in the tree tops, he with his shotgun and I with the navy Colt that Dr. Reed had given me. SOllleone cried out in alarm : "Our bakalim, gideoruz!" (Stop, we are going:) In the silence that followed we could hear them running down the slope at the rear of the property. We followed, feeling quite brave by this time , but they scrambled over the wall and disappeared.

We returned to my quarters to find the building buzzing with act,ivity. The boys were awake, and the farmhands had gathered; all were talking excitedly. A patrol of gendarmes, attracted by the shots, came trotting up the avenue to sec what had happened . I explained everything to the ongasi, and he and his men took off in pursuit of the mauraders; a fruitless gesture, for they had made good their escape. The incident provided material for , speculative conversation for days afterward.

Professor Seylaz, who was Dean of Residence as well as chairman of the French department, was my most frequent visitor. He was older than me, perhaps 45, and very different from anyone I had previously known . He was a product of European culture, and with him I came to enjoy something new in my experience- an intellectual friendship. Through him I became acquainted with a whole new world <if thought, and some of the intellectual values that are the basis of civilization.

The man was a superb teacher, highly respected and loved by his pupils. He spoke three languages, and possessed an intimate knowledge of the classics. As a young man fresh from the Normal School at Lausanne, he had gone to Russ ia to tutor the children of a rich landowner. After several years he returned to his native Switzerland to study for a university degree. He joined the faculty of International College in 1913 , and served it for the remainder of hjs life.

We were, of necessity, a self-contained group but our campus community was a sizeable one, and we did not lack for things to do. The senior faculty often entertained , and during the holidays there were numerous expeditions to places of interest.

The entire area abounds in the relics of Hellenic civilization, and the sites of such ancient city-states as Ephesus, Sardis and Pergamus are all within a few hours journey from Izmir. There are many others of equal interest at more distant points.

These places of venerable antiquity were once the centres of an advanced civihzation , and their imposing public buildings of marble were of more pleasing design and permanence than anything produced by those who succeeded them .

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The inhabitants were corrupted by their own pro:;perity, and succumbed to the enticements of rna tcrialism and self-indulgence. They beeamc decadent and weak, and were destroyed by less able but hardier people.

The excursions were highlights that were indulged in at intervals. My common form of recreation, of which I never tired, consisted in visiting the bazaars of Izm ir.

This was easy to accomplish as there wa s a unique commuter service between the city and the villages of our valley.

From Izmir the railway ascended thc valley on a steep gradient, and each morning and at intervals during the day, an upward-bound train would drop off a fcw coaches at Buca , a village above us on the slope. At hourly intervals a coach was reI cased and, with a brakeman at the controls, it coastcd down the valley. It stopped at the villages along the way, and finally glided silently into the station at Izmir, some six miles from its starting point.

The bazaars were somc di sta nce from the station, and to reach them J often engaged onc of the old-fashioned victorias that abounded on the streets. It was great fun to spin along the esplanade behind a team of wiry Anatolian ponies, with a whip-cracking [e/.-topped coachman on the box.

We clip-clopped over the paving stones past crowds of colourful pedestrians, and tramcars pulled by sad little ponies wearing straw sunbonnets through which th eir ears protruded comically. As we went along I could see, on my right, the ships in the harbour surrounded by clusters of lighters and caiques and, on my left, the marble-faced burned-out buildings that faced the waterfront. It was a delightful animated scene of which [ never tired. At Konak Square I dismissed my carriage a nd walked thc remaining distance to the bazaars.

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The bazaars were segregated according to their specialty: the rug mercha nts in one street, leather workers in another. and so forth. In some shops, craftsmen using primitive tools worked at their trade. There were no set prices for the merchandi se; the a mount the customer paid was determined by his skill in bargaining.

The rug bazaars were of special interest, for they were and arc known throughout the world . H ere one could find not only the rugs of T urkey, but those of all the Eastern co untries where they are made.

During my stay I bought several fine specimens; the negotiations for them were protracted, involving much bargaining over cups of thick black Turkish coffee.

There were coffee houses in the bazaars where grave-faced Beys sat smoking the narghile, or water-pipe, an d conversed with their friends. I experimented with this interesting device but found it too strong for my taste. I preferred the pastry salons where one could choose from a bewildering assortment of sweet concoctions. Afterwards it was my custom to stroll through the courtyard of "Buyuk Cami", the Big Mosq ue, and make my way through back streets to the railway station.

These were spare time diversions; we were usually preoccupied with more prosaic affairs at the college. It was a boarding school and, as well as fulfilling their classroom duties, the tutors were obliged to supervise the students in residence. Of course, after the first year, I had my own small establishment at the farm. But before this I shared the supervisory tasks on the main campus. I presided at table in the dining hall , took my turn at supervising the study hall, and putting the boys to bed at 10:00 p.m.

The school week was divided in an unusual manner. On Friday, the Moslem sa bbath, there was no school. Some of the students went home on Thursday evening

Turkish/arm student and tractor.

and returned on Friday evening or Saturday morning. There were classes on Saturday, bu t we closed again on Sunday.

The majority of the students chose to remain at school over the divided weekend .

T hey were free to leave the campus on Friday however, and most of them went to the city where they attended mosqu e and afterwards went shopping or to the movies.

On Saturday evenings we had our own movies in the assembly hall, and they were attended by students and faculty as well as our neighbours from the viHage.

International Collcge as I knew it was a happy placc both for its students and faculty. Turkey was at peace after more than a d~cade of continuous warfare. After losing everything the proud nation had regained its independence, and its youth was burgeoning with the exciting prospect of bringing their backward land into the 20th century. Events of great significance were transpiring outside the college compound, and I was an interested observer of all that occurred.

In 1927, near the end of my three-year tenure I was offered a permanent faculty post. I was strongly attracted to the prospect, for my life a t the college had been most agreeable. It had provided me with an opportunity to perform sOllie useful work in a place where it was needed; a remarkably fine group of associates; a serene life-style; and an unparalleled opportunity for personal growth. But an inner instinct warned me that the growing atmosphere of nati{)nalism might presage difficulties ahead for foreign institutions.

D uring a lengthy lifetimc my judgement ha s not always been unfailing, but on this occasion my instinct served me well. In 1937 this fine school after 50 years of existence, was forced to close its doors, and many of its faculty, in the midst of the great Depression , were faced with the gloomy prospect of rea rranging their lives. 0

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Ca nad ian a rti st, wh o, it has bee n sa id. " with ex pert ma stery of tec hni ques, crys ta lli zes the ga mut of hUI11 a n experien ce.

He is a cata lys t, a lan d mark. a true precursor, a nd a bove a ll. a dy namic, unforge tta ble dra ugh tsma n whose viril e gestures ca pture the esse nce of th e hu ma n spirit."

With a sho wi ng of his work currently runnin g at the Gallery Moos, Ca lga ry, Walter is in t he midst or preparing for two upcomi ng a rt shows. Some 40 pieces, bron ze castin gs, drawings a nd cem ent fondu e sculpture a re fea tured in th e Ca lga ry showin g.

The dra ugh tsman, print ma ker, a nd successful scu lpto r, is now prepa ri ng some pieces for a showin g a t the Art Gal lery of Ha milto n in the sprin g of 198 1 a nd a n exhibiti on a t Ga llery Moos, Toronto, in th e fa ll ofl 98 1.

Born in Otta wa in 1939, Walter en te red the Onta ri o Co ll ege of Art in 1955 , where he fo llowed the traditional academic trainin g; dra wing a nd pa inting from the life model. Durin g the nex t two decades, he honed his crea tive express ion as a scholarsh ip stud ent trave ll ing in Europe a nd as a n M .A. printmaki ng student in the United States. He ca me to the Uni ve rsit y in 1967 to teach dra win g a nd printmaking.

The Fine Art professor has been ex hibitin g hi s prin ts a nd pa intin gs sin ce _ , 1967, a nd he has pa rti cipa ted in exhibitions in Texas; El le nsburg, Was hin gton; Luga no, Switzer la nd; London , Engla nd and Fiorentin a, It aly, as well as in Toront o, Windsor. Ha milt on, Oshawa, Ki tchen cr- Watcdoo and Guelph . Some of his print s have a lso been in Nati onal Ga ll ery of Canada a nd Art Ga ll ery of Ont a rio travellin g ex hibitions.

Hi s first public co mmi ss ion was ror

thn:e rclicf sculpture~ on a humanitarian theme for the niversity of Watcrloo in 1975. This was followed in 1977 by a relief" entitlcd "Mother and Child" for the Kitchencr Court House. /\. year's study Icave in 1978-1979 enabled Walter to live and work in France .

While there, he executed several sculptures and drawings.

His large ecmcnt fondue sculpture, entitled "Reclining \""oman ", was recently cast in bronze at the Artcast foundry in Georgetown where Walter has most of his casting done. He trusts thc expertise at the foundry. and he likes the convcnience of being ablc to oversee the various stagcs of the work. He also cnjoys doing the finishing himself.

"Reclining Woman" was cast in bronze for the Kitehener- Waterloo Art Gallery. Gallery representatives commissioncd the bronze after seeing the cemcnt fondue sculpture in a Toronto exhibition.

Casting a bronze sculpture involves many time-consuming steps. First,'a sectional rubber mold, reinforced by a plaster casing, is formed around the original clay sculpture. This mold, when hardened, is removed and reassembled without the original but with a suspended ceramic core that will determine the thickness of metal in the final bronze sculpture. Molten wax is then poured into the empty space between the rubber mold and the ceramic core.

The rubber mold is once again removed and a wax replica of the original (with a ceramic corc) is exposed. A wax sprue and risers (which, .later, will allow molten metal to be introduced into, and gasscs to escape from, the cavity which will be the final sculpture) are carefull y <lllached to the wax figure at this point in the production.

The ncxt step, a ceramic sheil, or "investment," is built up in la ye rs around the figure. For a large figure, this procedurc takes several months. When the ceramic shell is set, the wax is melted out with stcam and the shcll (complete with core) is thoroughly dried in a kiln. The shell is now ready for molten bronze to be poured in.

When the bronze cools, it contracts.

The shell cracks and can be broken off.

Pieces that adhere, and the core, are removed by chiseling and by sand-blasting.

Finishing the piece may takc another month. The bronze sprue and risers, as well as any other metal burrs, must be rcmoved.

Finally, the picce is polished or given a patina finish, as desired by the artist. 0

"Russian Boy." Bronze relief, 1975. 44" x 27".

"Crouching Figure ." Bronze, 1972. 13" high.

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CITY ANIMAL HOSPITAL LTO. DEVON PARK SHOPPING CENTRE, FREDERICTON, N.B.

Dr. Don Barnum, ave '41, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1.

Dear Dr. Barnum: You may recall asking me if I'd like to suhmit a summary of my hroadcasting experience to you for possible inclusion in the Guelph Alumnus. We discussed the mailer over coffee in your office at the a. vc last summer.

I have typed (?) some details of that fascinating and very rewarding part of my life and you'll find the copy enclosed.

Please edit where applicahle and do not hesitate to lOSS it all in the can should it not he suitahle for your purposes.

Sincerely, Dr. Raymond A. "Sandy" McAllister, '63.

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t began when a full-time announcer for one of the two stations in my home town of Saint John, N .B., took a long lunch hour at his favourite club and did not get back in time to host a ,Jive western music group. I was suddenly catapulted from the non-paid job of record library assistant to part-time announcer. That was 1951.

My association with the broadcasting business remains intact to the present day. I found on-air work easy.

Following a year as a patient in a TB. sanitarium, I hired on with CHSJ in Saint John at a starting salary of $40 a week.

Some time later, one of the veteran announcers on the staff suggested that if I ever had any thoughts of going on with my educa tion, now was the time to take the steps necessary to get myself out of the radio business and into university. J took his advice then, but have found since, as do most all who associate themselves with radio and TV., that it's impossible to be free of this delightful affliction.

The practical aspect of my association with broadcasting was that it gave assurance of a regular summer job and, thus, the financial means to carryon with my education.

One can never discount the wide range of experience the job gives. In my case, training was acquired in all areas of operation, from on-air to writing commercials and gathering news. The ethics that apply to broadcasting are as stringent as those currently applicable in most professional associations. One must exercise care to report just what's fact and nothing more.

1 recall on one occasion doing a Sunday afternoon special program on the annual Fredericton Dog Show and saying that the owner of the best of breed winner, a Canadian Forces jet pilot, had no doubt been giving some thought to how his dog might do as he flew over the city. The pilot

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called from a nearby motel to inform me that while Oying a jet aircraft one's thoughts do not wander to dogs and dog shows. Later. the series of movies dubbed "Airport" drew that bit of straight足 laced ness into question.

While stationed in St. John's, NOd., as veterinarian-in-charge at Newfoundland Farm Products Ltd., I became active in the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists. Not only did I serve several terms as the local president, but was the director for Newfoundland on the national board for five years. During this time I hosted a weckly winter season children's show on what was referred to by CSC employees as the "all Newfoundland network of the CSc." Every Saturday morning, along with my two chi'ld assistants and 3S invited school children, we taped two programs back to back.

Hosting the show was great fun, but I also got the chance to put on my veterinarian's hat for my special IS-minute segmcnt that dealt with basic animal care, animal demonstrations and, in a quiet way, the topic of sex education.

Onc time I attempted to deal with the latter by showing the T.V. audience an egg and drawing on the blackboard the subtle changes occurring therein since fertilization. r questioned the viewers on how they thought the chicken got into the egg and was about to leave them in suspense until the next week when one of my cute little 9-year-old assistants blurted out that she thought the chicken got into the egg in the same way as the caramel filling gets into a chocolate bar!

As the weekly load of 100 to 200 letters poured into the show the producer, Derm Breen, seemed surprised that only a small percentage were from children. The remainder were from pet owners of a II ages wro lived "out around the bay;' a long way from organized professional veterinary service.

My last lull-time Oing at radio ended

in 1974, 23 years after it all started. With

the opening of my new practice here in

Fredericton, I found it impossible to carry

on. For six years r had worked as the

co-host of the CBC early morning show,

"Information Morning," heard in Saint

John and vicinity, but produced and aired

from Fredericton. The program began at

7:00 a.m. and ended at 9:00 a.m. The CBC has early morning shows of this type all across the country in the same time slot.

The pace of the show could be hectic. I arri.ved at the studio at 6:00 a.m. and got weather, sports and special notices ready.

One of my main but unofficial duties was to supply a little "colour" to the program.

This was easy because my little stories revolved around Cambridge, Queens Co.,

N.B. I have a farm in the area and grew up knowing most of the residents, a number of whom arc retirees and very funny people.

Their frequent arguments and learned discussions, many of which I hcard and would regurgitate on the air, occurred in Dave Smith's grocery store. Dave always claimed that if each one of them had spent a nickle in the store for every hour they'd spent there, he'd have been a millionaire years ago.

Thoughtful radio producers in Frcdericton still call me to do an odd item for various programs, and some I try to oblige. The hours of the day seem so filled with that other job I have- veterinary medicine.

I note from an earlier edition of the Guelph Alumnus, a story and pictures concerning the mayor of Guelph, Norm Jary. Through these columns I'd .Iike to thank him. The finances he provided me with for weekend announcing duties at CJOY during my freshman year at Guelph wcnt toward a good cause-getting my DVM degree.

In reccnt years I have enjoyed doing voice-over work for the Canadian Council on Animal Care. Their efforts produced a slide presentation which they have shown to world airline officials to convince them of the need for humane care and treatment of their animal passengers. On one such trip to Toronto I also recorded a series of one-minute radio spots for the prestigious Ontario Veterinary Association. It felt good

to finally bc applying myself, in the

broadcasting business, in a way that would directly benefit my own profession.

On that note, let me point out that all of us in the profession should 'be dellighted with the work of Dr. Paul McCutcheon. a classmate and an innovator in the T.V. field as far as veterinary medicine is concerned.

Certainly from the stand-point of public relations, through T.V. Ontario's "People and Pets," he's the James Herriot of Canada, and we, the veterinarians of Canada, are the benefactors.

While doing the Saint John early morning show one day, we announced a provincial highway safety and driver a wareness program being sponsored by a city service club. To focus attention on the program the club bought a donkey and organized a contest for the public that involved SUbmitting a name for the beast.

The winning name was Kenny B. Cautious, or, freely translated, "can he be cautious."

Kenny was seen at all public functions that summer, wa lking in parades, carrying highway safety banners on his back and generally attracting as much interest and comment as the premier of the province. A physical examination was even arranged and reported in the local paper. Suddenly Kenny disappeared from the headEnes. No mention was ever more made of him. He had wandered on to the highway and was killed by a truck. A sad end for a successful and very popular highway safety promoter. 0

Kenny B. Cautious and Sandy.

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Professor Simon would integrate shopping and residential a reas, ena bling residents to survive without a car. They could walk to the store, thc recreation centre or the school.

Shelter

Energy Effiency

t he Key t o the Fut ure

A FACS sheet

by Mary Cocivera ouses have been designed, communities planned and entire cities built in response to cheap, unlimited energy supplies . The house in the suburbs, the daily commute, the weekend cottage- these have become the status symbols of the energy-intensive good life in North America.

Bedroom communities have bred a dependence on the second and third car, which has created more traffic and a demand for more highways, and that, in turn, has spawned more distant bedroom communities. Surrounding all major cities, these suburbs cannot effectively be served by mass transit. Residents cannot even buy an evening paper or a jug of milk without driving to the regional shopping centre.

H

Energy Crunch Forces Change Municipalities may soon face a financial crisis in delivering services to these far-flung communities. Building and maintaining roads and sewage facilities, and providing social services are not only gobbling up fuel , but are becoming prohibitively expensive .

Every Canadian's dream of a house in the suburbs may soon suffer the same fate as the elongated eight-cylinder gas guzzler that once dominated the highways. The energy crunch is rapidly deflating the surburban dream. In its place rises a vision of a downtown townhouse, house or apartment, within easy reach of stores,

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services, workplace and mass tr a nsit.

The energy issue has not really changed the way Canadians live, as yet, but it cannot help but have a major impact in the future. Professor Joan Simon, an architect in the Department of Consumer Studies, feels that energy costs have been only partially responsible for a rebirth of inner city neighbourhoods. Convenience makes inner city living not only more acceptable than suburban living, but, among young professional couples, downright chic.

Dramatic Changes Abe ad "As fuel costs go even higher," says Professor Simon, "we'll see more radical changes not only in individual houses, but in the design of whole cities and communities." She is particularly interested in designing energy-efficient housing and communities.

Energy-efficient communities envisioned by Professor Simon would be located along mass transit corridors, with clusters of houses arranged among green areas. Such communities would involve higher density development than today 's standard subdivision, but the cluster arrangement and effective landscaping would provide more privacy and more open space . Such communities would require fewer roads and thus would result in significant savings in building and maintaining such facilities.

Incentives for Innovation Need ed Because the Canadian housing industry is extremely competitive and dominated by a handful of ,l arge developers, innovations are stifled . The new-home buyer has little choice in the style of house or the type of community-- the vast new developments are disappointingly uniform .

Innovations in housing are coming from small builders who do one or a few houses at a time. Their "in-fill" building occupies empty lots in estab'lished neighbourhoods, and replaces demolished buildings with residential facilities . In-fill building has rejuvenated entire city neighbourhoods . Professor Simon feels this important source of innovation could be encouraged through government incentives that would minimize the financial risks involved for these small builders.

"The problem with Canadian housing today is not quantity," explains Professor Simon. "The rush to provide houses for the post-war population explosion has now passed. I would like to see government focus its housing policies on quality innovations rather than the number of starts. " Exciting, energy-eff,icient, solar-heated homes a re being designed by architects and custom built for individuals, but such dream houses are beyond the reach of most Canadians. These so ~ ar innovations will eventually trickle down to the mass housing market as more Canadians become aware tha t energy efficiency is not only desirable, but achievable with the technology available today. Government demonstration projects and the publicity about solar homes in the popular press will help increase awareness. Changes won't come to the mass housing market until consumers make their dema nds known. "Canadians are learning that there's more to buying a house than the trim on the kitchen cupboards," Professor Simon notes wryly .

Innovative community plans have met with resistance from municipalities and planning boards partly because the cherished image of a house in the suburbs dies hard . As we'll, innovations represent a 足 radical departure from the traditional grid of streets . Rising energy costs will soon force a re-examination and re-eva,l uation of this suburban pattern .

Conservation Saves Fuel Now Conservation is by far the most

accessible , realistic and inexpensive means

of reducing energy consumption in the

home. Currently, Canadians consume 20

per cent of their fuel in residential uses.

Space heating burns up the lion's share, followed by water heaters and large electrical appliances. Until the energy crunch of the '70s . residential energy consumption increased at an annual rate of 5 per cent. In the last few years, this rate of increase has slowed to 3 per cent.

Conservation-minded consumers have help now in the form of Energuide labels attached to major appliances. This label rates the appliance's fuel efficiency and enables the consumer to compare the relative efficiency of different brands. Such labels certainly will not bring a bout the replacement of all inefficient appliances in homes, but they will encourage manufacturers to achieve competitive efficiency.

Heating the Home Houses built today meet stiff insulation standards. Owners of older houses can achieve dramatic and immediate savings in home heating costs by "retrofitting". Individual home owners could sa ve as much as 40 per cent on their annual fuel bill by improving the insulation in their homes.

Government figures indicate that if all existing houses were upgraded to present standards, Canada would save an equivalent of 2.5 billion gallons of oil annually, or a Whopping 37 per cent of its heating fuel. Obviously, older homes are the biggest offenders and their owners have the most to gain by retrofitting. As a further incentive, the Canadian Home Insulation Plan (CHIP) will rcimburse owners of homes, built in 1961 or before, up to $500 for insulation materials used in retrofi tti ng.

Insulation isn' t the only mea ns of conserving fuel. Professor John Auld, M.A. '72, Department of Consumer Studies, stresses that home owners can significantly reduce their hcating requirements by caulking cracks, installing storm doors and windows, lowering temperatures and

covering fireplace openings when not in use.

Numerous fuel saving devices have come on the market for home use that can reduce fuel consumption even further .

Examples include automatic Ou dampers, thermostats with timers , more efficient furnace burners and improved heat-o-Iater fireplaces and wood stoves. The wood stove industry is booming, but Professor Auld cautions that only homeowners with access to a Jow cost (or free) wood supply will realize any savings. There are also safety and pollution issues to be considered.

Looking to the future, Professor Auld sees us going much further in conserving energy. He believes the ideal house is one which disrupts the environment the least and takes advantage of natural fea tures such as landforms and trees . As a demonstration of this concept, he is building a small "bio-shelter" which combines residential space with a producing greenhouse. The house will be heated by passive solar energy with a back-up wood-burning stove. This dwelling, based on the same principles as The Ark in Prince Edward Island, is on a seale within range of the average Canadian.

Solar technology may soon be within reach of everyone, Professor Auld predicts, not just the few who can afford to have an architect design the solar house of their dreams. Techniques and equipment are being developed now that could adapt existing homes for solar heating, but complex legal, technical and political issues must be resolved.

Consumption vs. Price Canadians have already cut back on residential energy consumption. Professor Loui se (Bazinet) Heslop, Mac '67, Department of Consumer Studies, recently completed a study on electricity use among residential consumers over a five-year period in which rates more than doubl~d.

Consumers who were most aware of the price increases were the most su ccess ful in decreasing their consumption. Professor

Heslop was encouraged to note that among her sample, electricity consumption had actually decreased over the five-year period.

As this study clearly indicates, high prices provide an effective incentive to reduce consumpt,ion, but changes in the pricing structure could bring residential consumption down even further. The system as it stands now awards large electricity users a lower rate per unit.

Professor Heslop suggests instead a structure in which the rate per unit increases as consumption increases.

Another possibility is a Oat rate for a base amount of electricity, with rel a tively high rates for each additional unit.

Changes in Life Style Adopting a more energy-efficient life style will involve more than pulling on a wool sweater. If fuel prices increase as sharply as planned, Canadians may have to make severe adjustments. Professor Lila Engberg, Department of Family Studies, is interested in knowing how families will make these adjustments. Who will have to sacrifice activities? Will rural families be affected more than urban families? Will family members stay home more? Will they do more together? Professor Engberg will examine these questions in a study in Halton Region, conducted through the University'S Rural Develo pment Outreach Project.

Canadians are on the threshold of a period of great change in housing, energy consumption and city planning. Innovators in the field welcome the opportunity to re-examine our cities, life styles and communities. They accept the task of making improvements while, at the same time, bringing our consumption-oriented, energy-intensive life styles more into line with the earth's finite resources. Shortages and high prices of energy will determine the future design of individual houses and the city-scape, and will ultimately shape life itself. 0

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Stompin' at the Dead Moose

he professors in the Department of Psychology are beginning to observe T their colleague, Dr. H. Davis, with professional interest.

Dr. Davis has a split personality, an a.lter ego, as it were. But his Mr. Hyde is not induced to emerge simply by the bubbling of potions.

The key, rather, is Elvis Presl ey singing Tha t's Alright Mama. It is at tha t point that Dr. H. Davis, psychology professor, becomes Hank Davis, Canadian Rockabilly Legend.

This is no psychic delusion . Dr. Davis says he really is the Canadian Rockabilly Legend, and his latest album, Stompin' at

the Dead Moose, is testimony enough .

Hank Davis, it turns out, has been recording rockabilly albums, 45s and 78s, since 1958.

Academics and rockabilJy may seem an odd mixture, but the two have always co-existed in Hank Davis's life .

Davis was an honours student at Lincoln high school in Yonkers, N.Y., when he first heard Elvis Presley and the early rockabilly artists who record ed for Sun Records.

That sound, a cross between blues and country and western, left an indelible impression on the young Davis, and he took up guitar in a new way, trying to imitate

the rockabilly sound and write similar songs.

With a few like-minded friends, he formed a rockabilly band and, in 1958, when Davis was a 17-year-old Grade 12 student, they decided to make a demo record.

"It cost us $15 for an hour in the recording studio," says Davis, "and we recorded a couple of my songs. They charged me three bucks to cut a 78-rpm record, which you could take home and play for your friends and impress them, or take around to the music-pu blishing companies in New York City."

Hank tried the latter approach.

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" I took my record to eight publishing houses. Six said , 'You don't know what you ' re doing, son,' and two offered to publish th e song. They took me back into the studio, with the same studio musicians who played in Ed Sullivan 's orchestra on S unday nights , and , within a month, my song was on the market, nationally distributed, and was getting played on radio WK BW ."

A lthough Davis's initial success came easily, he contcnds that it had nothing to do with the quality of his material. " My first record was garbage," he recalls. "I think I knew that then, whcn [ was 17 years old. The song was called Get Lost Baby, and if I saw a copy now, I'd be moved to break it. " Once his roekabilly career was launched, the young Hank Davis found he had trouble keeping up with his school work.

He played a lot of hookey in his senior year, while hanging around the stud ios in New York City. His academic career was saved when an understanding teacher, named Tom Wilbur, covered up for his absenteeism and even accepted a copy of

Get Lost Baby in lieu of a major assignment.

Hank concentrated on music. He recorded two more records in 1959, and went on to record for such labels as Wizz, Stacy, Mala, Dauphin and Folk Art. His songs were played on the radio, but none did particularly well commercially.

"I was very busy making records between 1958 and 1965," says Hank. "But I ncver had a big hit. My records would sell 3,000 copies, and then disappear. I'm lucky I never had that big hit, because then I wouldn't have returned to school."

Hank Davis did return to school. He enrolled in college and continued to record albums as he earncd his B.A. , M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology.

"I never planned to become a Ph.D.," he says. "I just kept going to school and it happened."

Slowly, academic pushed music to the background, and by the time Davis joined the faculty at the University, music was little more than a hobby. None of his colleagues knew of the "other" Hank Davis.

A phone call from a high school friend changed all tha t.

"The call was from Winnie Winston, a guy 1 hadn't seen for 16 years. He played pedal steel guitar in a country band, and he called to say that he had dreamed of me three nights running, and thought he'd better look me up."

Hank invited Winston to his farm near Puslinch, and Winston brought his pedal steel along.

"We sat around the house playing, and we got real good real fast," says Hank .

"We decided to do a recording session and scc what happened."

Davis and Winston booked time in the Merccy Brothers Studio in Elmira. They recorded 10 songs in 10 takes.

Later, they visited a second studio.

Everything about the sessions pleased Hank . except thc cost.

"I said to myself, 'if we' re going to keep making records, I might as well build my own studio at the farm.' [just went out and bought the equipment and now we record at my place. " The result has been three rockabilly albums on Hank's own Ducktaillabel, including the current Stompin' at the Dead Moose. All are nationally distributed, and Hank is again on the radio.

He has also recorded a children's album on Red Squirrel Records called Songs of Animals and Imagination.

"I didn't mind telling my fellow

professors about the children's record," says Hank , "but I wasn't sure how they'd react to the rockabilly albums."

He got his answer. The Stompin' at the Dead Moose album jacket features a photo of chesty women of questionable repute and a drunk splayed across the parking lot outside the fictitious Dead Moose bar.

All the people depicted in the photo are members of the University'S psychology department.

So Hank Davis has a new recording career. As a bonus, he has just found out that his old records are a hot item in Europe, where a rockabilly revival is taking place.

"I went to a rock and roll convention in Toronto where I met a rockabilly record collector from London, England," Hank says. "He must have had 100,000 45s, and he really knew the history of rock and roll.

"I introduced myself, and he knew my name' He said 'I thought you were dead,' I said , 'No I've never been dead.'"

Although Hank never made money in his early career, his old records are now quite valuable collector's items.

"This collector actually had a copy of Get Lost Baby," Davis says. "He told me tha t another collector in Europe offered him $750 for the disc. And he didn't sell it!

I said, 'Where is this guy? I'll sell him my only copy.' " Because of this collector interest, Davis has compiled two new albums of his old songs for European release. The recordings are old and scratchy, but that is the way the collectors like them. It lends authenticity.

So, with a new-found career as the Canadian Rockabilly Legend, and new-found European interest in his old records, Hank Davis must once again face that old dilemma: What will he do if he has a hit record?

Now, he performs only occasionally, in cafes, at Mariposa. What if the public demanded more of Hank Davis? Would his academic life again suffer?

"I would have to make big decisions between music and school," Davis says.

"But I can't imagine leaving my work at the University. I can't imagine a beller life."

It looks as though the teacher who covered for Hank Davis so he could graduate from Lincoln high school knew what he was doing .

He saved a fine academic career .. and got himself a free copy of Get Lost Baby in the process. What the hcck, it's worth $750 now. D

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News From Guelph

CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS

That "Western Connection"

The Frst annual "Western Connection" held on August 2 was a roaring success.

A lively group of about 35 alumni and family, represenling almost every Uni­ versity of Guelph college, poured into Birds Hill Park, near Winnipeg, to take part in the festiVities.'

The Western Connection brought together graduates who had found their way into Western Canada. A common tie to the University brought together grads of all ages, ranging from Bob Almey, OAC '21 , 10 Russ Barker, OAC '80. Much of the time was spent telling stories and rek i ndling fri endships. Hid­ den talents were revealed on the base­ ball field, at the barbecue pit and during the three-legged race. The day ended with plans in the making for more of these get-toRethers to keep the Guelph spirit alive in th e west.

Be sure to inform the alumni office

A t the first "Western Connection'" in Birds Hill Park, near Winnipeg. if y ou 've moved west so thal y ou can be contacted for future "West ern Connec­ tions."

Sincerely, Don Massey, OAC '78.

Bill Charlton, OAC '78. 0

Art Centre Opening

Gallery technician Rob Freeman, Arts '74, preparing the first exhibi­ tion.

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The Macdonald Stewart Community A rt Centre was officially opened with a fanfare on ovember 7, 19 80.

Among the many notables who took part in the ceremony were Dr. Pauline McGibbon, the University's third Chan­ cellor; the Honorable W illiam G. Davis, Premiere of Ontario; David Macdonald Stewart, President of the M acdonald Stewart Foundation of Montreal, and Charles C. Ferguson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Art Centre.

T he public is welcome to view the opening exhibition, a selection from the University'S collection of Canadian art.

It will hang until January 11,1981, and may be viewed Tuesdays to Fridays between 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m.; Sat­ urdays between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. , and Sundays between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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Macdonald Institute/College of Family and Consumer Studies Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor: Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson, '66.

From The

Dean In writing to you on my return from six months of administrative leave, I want first of a lII to acknowledge the contribu­ tions which Dr. Richard Ba rham, Dr. Jean Sabry and Dr. Kathleen Brown made in order to make my leave possi­ ble.

You have enjoyed " Letters from the Dean" from Dr. Barham, and many of you met him at Alumni Weekend and so know of his role as acting dean. Perhaps YOll arc not aware that to take his place as chairman of the Department of Fami­ ly Studies, Dr. Sabry and Dr. Brown each served three months as acting chairman of that department.

When I think of all three making rather major changes in their work ac­ tivities and responsibilities, I find it difficult to adequately express my ap­ preciation. T hey made a finc team of "acting administrators" and their col­ Icagues and I are gratefu'l to them.

As Dr. Barham mentioned to you , I spent the winter semester at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in the Department of Health Behaviour and Health Education. As a nutritionist, I had been interested in the experiences of Dr. George Kawash, of the Department of Family Studies, when he spent a sabbatical year there in the Department of Health Behaviour and Health Education, and was delighted that it was possible for me to spend a semester there as a visitor.

The nutritionists in the Department of Family Stud ~ es work closely with their social science colleagues in the College of Family and Consumer Stud­ ies. With this collaboration, our focus on the broad ficld of hcalth behaviour has beeomc important in both the teaching and rescarch progra ms a nd we share many interests with our Michigan col­ leagucs. Professor Kawash a nd r enj oyed greeting Dr. Irwin M . Rosinstock,

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Chairman of the Department of Health Behaviour and Health Education, nt ­ versity of ichigan , and a pioneer in the health behaviour field, when he came to the University of Guelph as the keynote speaker in the day-long sym posium on " N utrition and Il ealth Behaviour" which was presented by the Department of Family Stud ies and the Office of Contin uing Education at the end of October.

A highlight for me while on leave was the opportunity to attend the Socie­ ty for N utrition Education meetings in Montreal. T he Canadian program com­ mittee, including Dr. Donna Woolcott of the Department of Family Studies, did an outstanding job and the many com­ pliments which they received from their American colleagues were well deserved.

O ur faculty members - Donna Wool­ cott, George Kawash, Rosalind G ibson, Helen Hale and Jean Sabry were im­ portant contri butors to the program and it was truly re wa rding to have not only old friends but strangers come up to me to comment on the quality of G uelph's contribution.

T he summer provided me, on my return from leave, with a period when, with meetings somc what in abeyance, there was more oppor tunity tha n oth er seasons provide to catch up with faculty members and students on the activi ties of the past six months.

The case writing wor ks hop spon­ sored by the School of llotel and '"ood Administra tion with support from the Hospitality Founders' Fund ; the special luncheon event in recognition of HA­ FA's highly successful first ten years; the second conference on H uman Sexu­ ality entitled " Sex Education is For Life: Sexuality and the Life Cycle" with approximately 450 in attendance; the Consumer Studies Club's "Consumer Journalism Connection" and the C hild Studi es Club concert featuring De nnis Lea, were among the events which, just for a moment as I hea rd about th em, made mc wish ! had been in Guelph to participate. The last two events were

supported by the Mac- FACS Alumni Association S pecial Activities Fund.

Special activities continued in the fall ~ em e ste r. Professor Terry Crooks , who is associatcd with the H igher Edu­ cation Develop ment Ccntre at the Uni­ versity of Otago in N ew Zealand, visited us during the first week of Scptember and shared with us his research interests in teaching assessment, particularly as it relates to student evaluation of teaching.

T he Department of Consumer Stlldies in association with the Office of Continuing Education and the Direct Selling Education Foundation presented a two-day conference on "The Conspicu­ ous Cons umer " which was followed by the Department of Family Studies con­ ference on" ut rition a nd Behaviour."

O ur first Executive in Residence, Mr. G uy French, P resident of American Can Compa ny, Canada, visited the Collegc in October.

T he J.P. Harshman Lecture took the form, this year, of a debate on "T he Place of Advertising in Canadian Socie­ ty" with Bob liver, P resident of the Canadian Advertising Ad visory Board and Lynn Gordon, broadcaster, consum­ er advocate and author, as the debaters.

Th ree new FACS S heets are listed in th e tear-off included in this issue. The FACS S heets are an information service of the College, and important in inter­ preting to the public the broa d range of interests and concern s in the College of Family and Consumer S tudies. You will notice that in the tear-off we have invi ted you not only to request the FACS S heets in which you are interest­ ed, but, if you wish, to list a colleague or friend to whom you would like to have FACS S heets forwarded. We have asked you to tell us of their particular area of in terest, or occupation, so that we can send the FACS Sheets which wiJI be of greatest interest.

We look forward to welcoming many of you at the Mac- FACS Alumni Seminar on May 2, 198 1. G uelph IS a nice pl ace to come back to.

Janet M . Wardla w, Dean.

To the

Fortunately, the facts when assem­ bled presented a strong case to save Beech Hall:

Rescue

By Brenda M . (Pew) Elias, '75 In February, 1979, residents of the Beech Hall apartments learned in a most unfortunate way that their homes were destined for demolition- they read about it in The Toronto Star.

The Borough of York Non-Profit Housin g Company announced that Beech Hall was to be phased out, the residents were to be rcioeatcd, the build ­ ingsdcmolished and the site put up for sale to private development. The land had an estimated ma rket value of $1 million.

The first building of ' its kind In Metropolitan Toronto, Beech Hall is a 128-unit, low-income housing project de­ signed for senior citizens. It was built in 1952 and completely financed by Cen­ tral Mortgage and HOllsing Corporation under the limited dividend program with a $575,000 mortgage loan at 3 1/2 per cent interest over 40 years . Although the project was only 28 years old , the deci­ sion was made to phase out the apart­ ments seemingly because some repairs were needed. ot only were the senior citizens who lived at Beech Hall and the surrounding neighbourhood lel't out of any discussions held by the . on- Profit Housing Company, they were not in­ formed of the final decision before it was rcleased to the press!

As a recent student of Family Stud­ ies with an interest in housing and gerontology, I was presented with an opportunity to put my theoretical knowl­ edge into action on an important com­ munity issue. Although I was employed

by York Community Services, a multi­ service agency, to work with senior citi­ zens in the Borough of York- strategies to ~;ave Beech Hall had to be implement­ ed in very subtle ways.

For the next ten months, a strong campaign was launched by the Beech Hall seniors and their supporters that focused on changing the six to five vote held by council to demolish the build­ ings.

This mcant filling the council chambers to capacity with seniors and their supporters at every meeting, pre­ senting briefs to council and participat­ ing in the proceedings that lasted three to six hours at each session.

I. There is a shortage of affordable, good quality housing for senior citi­ zens in Metropolitan Toronto, and all population projections point to an increasing demand for low-income housing.

2. The senior cit,izens at Beech Hall, as elsewhere in this country, have a basic right to continue to live in their own community with reasonably priced rents. By preserving Beech Hall a standard of quality would be maintained that is difficult to find ,in urban areas today ,--it has nearly two and a half green acres with mature trees and rose gardens (the pride of many resident gardeners), 16 two­ storey buildings with eight units in each which comprises an intimate scale of low-density housing rather than modern high rise apartments.

Many residents had lived in Beech Hall since it opened in 1952 and therefore had now reached ages well into the 80s. It was most distres­ sing to all parties concerned to relo­ cate these people unnecessarily.

3. Finally, the municipal decision-mak­ ing process must involve the local 0 longer are neigh­ community. bourhoods willing to tolerate hasty decisions and this has been demon­ strated by members of the older pop­ ulation as well as the younger genera­ tion. Thus the Borough of York Council could not ignore this com­ munity without suffering political conseq uences.

From an organizing point of view there were several strategies used that proved to be very effective in this fight to save Beech Hall: a) Four generations of family members, including grandchildren, great gra nd­ children , and neighbours of all ages, united with senior citizens and pre­ sented their concerns in a strong voice to local government. b) T ransportation is a key barrier to the participation of senior citizens. When a free bus was arranged through a local church , large numbers of sen­ iors would attend meetings, petition their community, participate in fund raising, etc.

c) When involved in an intense emotion­ al issue such as housing, efforts must be sustained to keep up the morale of the senior citizens and supporters.

Continuous social events, such as barbecues, picnics, bus trips, com­ munity petIlIoning, fund-raising meetings and railies, were organized to channel the tension and anxiety in a positive way to ward off despair.

As you may have guessed, this story has a happy ending. The Beech Hall Housing Co-operative for senior citizens was formed in April 1979 and , after months of negotiation and campaigning in the Borough of York, an agreement to lease the land for 45 years to the Housing Co-op was accepted. The tran­ saction was finally completed on Janu­ ary 8, 1980.

Since this experience 'has reaf­ firmed my personal belief that alterna­ tives and choices in the housing market must be made available to all age groups, let me take this opportunity to describe one housing alternative- the Housing Co-operative.

The Beech Hall Housing Co-opera­ tive is the first project in Canada to be organized by a group of senlior citizens, aged 55 or over, who have joined togeth­ er to provide housing for themselves.

The people who live there form the membership, and each member has one vote in the affairs of the co-operative.

Every year the members elect, from among themselves, a Board of Directors to manage the co-opera tive. M em bers make monthly payments which cover their share of the common taxes and all operating costs. There is no ' profit to anyone, and members are not required to make a down payment.

Co-operatives depend on the active participation of their members which includes helping with the planning and design of the project, making decisions about where repairs are needed and how many staff to hire, and making rules and regulations to ensure a comfortable liv­ ing situation.

Thanks to the work of many dedi­ cated seniors and supporters of Beech Hall, the renovated Beech Hall Housing Co-operative opened its doors to all former residents and new members on September I, 1980. D Brenda Elias is now employed by the Ministry of Community and Social Ser­ vices. Adult Servi(,es Division. at I heir Toronlo area office. as program con­ sultant. senior citizens services. Ed. more Mac-FACS news over

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Mac '55ers - a quarter century later.

25th and a Cookbook to Boot

Hughes , and Marilyn and Ole Nielsen from the west and Lorraine and Gerry Oliver from Quebec. We missed 14 class-mates, Marg and Bill Towill and Olive Walla ce, '30, who were unable to attend.

As a memento of our 25th anniversary, the committee compiled a cookbook, Affectiona tely Yours. It consists of favourite recipes from Ma c '55ers and former staff There are a few available, if anyone's interested, please contact Dorothy Campbell, 12 Japonica Crescent , Brantford, Ontario, N3R I N6.

Yours sincerely, Wanda Lowry, '55. 0

Dear Joan: Mac '55 's 25th anniversary reunion, last July, was outstanding. Carrying out our tradition of exciting get-to-gethers, 25 Mac '55ers, eight former staff and 23 spouses attended a lovely buffet dinner at the Cutten Club, followed by dancing to a D.J. and lots of visiting.

Ross Chapple asked the blessing, Jean Hillis toasted Ma cdonald Institute , and Edith Bray responded.

Maxine Brightwell toasted the fa culty and Dr. Margaret McCready responded.

Pat Fraser toasted Mac '55. Dorothy Campbell chaired the evening and Wanda Lowry brought greetings fr0'!1

members who were unable to attend.

Several class members and spouses stayed in Mills Hall and gathered on Sunday morning for a campus tour conducted by two University students.

Included in the tour was Macdonald Institute (the new faculty and student lounges), Ma cdonald Hall, the Arts Building, the University Centre and the Athletics Centre. After the tour, we gathered on the lawn in front of Lennox and Addington Hall for a chicken barbecue and a final farewell to everyone.

We were especially pleased to have Joan and Dave Court ice, Gwen and Don

IN MEMORIAM

NELLIE (HARCOURT) HART, 'OSD, December 21,1979, in Whitby .

W.R. REEK, '12D, March 2,1980.

FERN HOTTEN, Michigan, U.S.A.

ANN M. (TAYLOR) RICHARDS, '36D, March 18, 1980, in Toronto.

MILDRED (PRICHARD) '24D in Harriston .

JEAN HURST,.'39D, in Toronto.

BARON,

'14D,

in

Detroit,

MARION 1'. ROBERTSON, '12D. KEN足

VIOLET A. SAUNDERS, Cambridge.

'38D,

in

CECILIA S. BELL, '07D, in London .

GOLDIE (McLAUCHLAN) NEDY, '30D, in Owen Sound.

BRENDA D. BROAD, '73, July 28, 1980, in Toronto.

ELSIE O. LEVY, '24D, March 30, 1980, in H a milton .

ELEANOR '2SD.

A. AILEEN (THOMPSON) BUFFAM, '26D, August 14, 1980, in Toronto.

ELIZABETH H. (DREW) LLOYD, '2SD, July 20, 1980, in Hamilton .

I. ALENE SNURE, '22D, September 5, 1980, in St. Catharines.

HARRIET (LEE) CHURCH, '32D.

LOUISE E. (HANNA) McCONKEY, '27D, September 18, 1980, in Guelph.

JEAN E. (LINDSAY) SPENCE, '47D, May 17, 1980, in Thunder Bay .

LENAH A. (FIELD) FISHER, '22D, August 7, 1980, in Toronto .

MARGUERITE J. NEILSON, '48D, August II , 1980, in Portage, Michigan , U.S.A.

HELEN G. (CASSELS) STEWART, '09D, Feb. 14, 1980, in Toronto.

KAREN A. FOSTER, '7S, August 5, 1980.

AILEEN A. (PRESTON) PARKS, '26D, March 17, 1980, in Ottawa .

GRACE M. (DONNELLY) WHITNEY, '33D, in Consecon. 0

(O'NEILL)

SIMPSON,

LENA M. DINGLE, '26D, Feb. 2, 1980

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

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Editor: Bob Winkel.

By George and

Another

Hemophilia, an inherited condition in which the blood does not clot normally, used to mean a perilous, painful and orten short life for those who suffered from it. Now, thanks to modern medi­ cine, pooling of knowledge and co­ ordinated action, hemophiliacs may look forward to full, productive lives.

One of the most ambitious under­ takings so far to help upgrade hemo­ philia care around the wodd was the first confercnce of the World Federation of Hemophilia Societies held at B0nn, West Germany, last October. With some 1,500 peoplc from most countries of the world in attendance.

Responsibility for organizing the cvcnt was in the hands of Department of Computing and Information Science professor Ron George and Dr. Martin Inwood, a hemotologist at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario, and facul­ ty member at the University of Western Ontario. Both men also chaired, jointly, with others from Germany, two of the sessions.

But Professor George, whose eldcr son, Mark, is a hemophiliac, concedes that the positive outlook ill the care of hemophiliacs is of recent making. In 1959 Frank Schnabel, a Canadian and himself a hemophiliac, founded the Ca­ nadian Hemophilia Society, (CHS), which, every two years, until 1977, held a medical congress on the disease. Such congresses were certainly productive, says Professor George, but were highly technical, intended for medical experts only.

In 1977, when Ron George was president of the CHS and Dr. Inwood chairman of the CBS national medical and scientific advisory committee, they organized a workshop in Winnipeg that

Professor

ROil

George.

invited the participation of a wide cross­ section of people- representatives from government, the Red Cross, paramedics and doctors-and what was more impor­ tant , the hemophiliacs themselves. Re­ commendations from this workshop, says Professor George, are expected to take ten years to implement.

The first conference of the World Federation of Hemoph·ilia Societies, also founded by Frank Schnabel, was de­ signed along similar lines. Professor George and Dr. Inwood worked hard to see that all countries attending and all representative groups, had a chance to contr.i·bute in some way.

The meeting took ptace in Bonn, because Bonn has one of the finest hemophilia treatment centres in the world. Under the leadership of Professor Doktor Medizin Hans Egli, the centre offers very comprehensive treatment and startlingly new approaches. It is truly "a fantastic centre," says Ron George.

"They bring paticnts in by helicopter, if

necessary," and the orthopedic surgeon there thinks in terms of the rehabilita­ tion of joints without recourse to sur­ gery, a traumatic experience for the hemophiliac.

"The greatest danger for a hemo­ philiac," explains Professor George, "is internal bleeding, usually around the joints." Once the blood gets into the joint, like acid, it eats it away . "By using exercises, applying weights to the legs and having patients lift them, the Bonn centre has reduced bleeds in knee joints

by SO per cent," he adds.

"Unfortunately , ar ound the world there is skepticism about what is being done at Bonn ," says the Professor, "and by holding the meeting there organizers exposed the centre to the world , let the staff explain what they were doing and allowed delegates to draw their own conclusions. " Topics discussed at the conference included legislation, social action, insur­ ance, patient care and blood resource management on the national and inlt er­ nationa l level. Participants looked at the comprehensive hemophil,ia clinics from the point of view of the hemophiliac's immediate environment - how he is treated and how he accepts treatment.

They also examined the role of Hemophilia Societies, decided what ought to be done at the national Ilevel, noted the differences from country to country, and carried the study right down to the role of the local auxiliary.

The di scussion was further illuminated by poster sessions. A mini medical con­ gress took place following the end of the conference.

What was perhaps most significant about the conference was that in every discussion the hemophiliacs themselves had the first opportunity to air their views. In fact, a great deal of planning went into the attendance of these impor­ tant participants from around the world.

The ship, Britannia, was moored right outside (he Beethovenhalle, which overlooks the Rhine, and which was the site of the conference. This ship, COn/d. over

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equipped with all necessary medical equipment , was home to the hemophiliac delegates during their stay. Being only a step away from the daily sessions, they were able to come and go with a mini­ mum of difficulty.

Diligent Effort Also Needed at Local Level As Professor George speaks proudly of his 19-year-old son coming second in a recent badminton tournament, attcnd­ ing Wilfrid Laurier University and hold­ ing a summer job in computing, it is hard to believe that Mark is a Factor 8 severe hemophiliac. Mark is able to follow such an active life even though dependent on his injections of blood concentrates three times a week.

M a rk 's annual injections, in turn, depe nd 011 1,000 to 1,500 blood dona­ tions a year. Blood concentrates are processed from components removed fir st from the blood ; what is left is suitable for all other blood needs . for Factor 8 hemophiliacs, it is impo rtant tha t these components be removed quickl y, within five to six huurs. Bluod from the Guelph area is rushed to H amilton where the components are removed, deep frozen, and then sent to the U.S. where they are proccssed into blood concentrates. There is still no place in C anada engaged in this final

processing and able to fill the complete needs of the 2,000 hemophiliacs who livc here.

Yet the needs of Canadian hemo­ phi'l'iacs far outweigh their numbers.

Because blood must be processed quick ­ ly for the 1,200 Factor 8 hemophiliacs who live in Canadian urban areas, they determine the total amount of blood that must be collected in those areas ca ch year.

For this reason , conferences such a s the one at Bonn are useful in coming to grips with problems on a world leveL believes Professor George, but must go hand-in-hand with diligent effort locally.

Now pa st president of the CHS, he has accepted the post of first chairman of the board of tru stees of the Canadian Hemophilia IF oundation , a sister group of the CHS, whose prime task will be to raise funds for hemophilia resea rc h. Yet another aspect of Professor George's involvement with hemophilia is his work in setting up a large data base made up of information on individuals afnicted with the disease. fn thiS multi -phased in terdisciplInary study, Professor George is working with principal investigator Dr. Martin Inwood.

"As in most rare diseases, obtaining good care for the patients is hampered by the lack of a consistent data base on the problems faced by patients and

Graduate News

1968

1972

Duncan "Herb" Bell doesn 't Iltkc bosses.

H e is self employed as a chartered accountant in Burlington.

Robert Larrett is systems supervisor for Canada Permanent Trust of Toronto.

Stephen Pavegla is teaching mathemat­ ics for the Lanark Board of Education in Smiths Falls.

1969 Dr. Dayid Brown is interning at Scarbor­ ough Ge neral Hospital.

1970 Keith M c Phee is teaching school in Brockville.

primary

,Jack Mulchinock has left St. Andrews C ollege and is now a systems consultant for Arrnadalc Co . Ltd. This includes managing the computer facilities at To­ ronto's Buttonville airport. Let 's keep those birds nying Jack!

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1973 Joanne (Priamo) Bright is tutoring high school students in mathema tics in Chili­ wack , B.C. while also keeping young Keely and husband, Howard, happy.

1974 Greg Jacques has become plant manager for Atco Metal Resources Ltd. Products Division, in Calgary, Alta., where they ' re producing specialty products for the oil and gas resource industry.

health care workers. It is hoped that the project can be an example of what can be done, using computeri / ed data bases to identify major inconsistcncies in hcalth ca re across Canada , for rare health problems ," says Professor George.

Professor George is involved in data collection, analys is, and building of the data basco The building of large data bases is an important part of thc instruc­ tion and rcsearch emphasis of thc De­ partment of Computing and Information Science at the University.

The project involves gathering of bas ic data on the geographical incidence of the disease, blood prod ucts used in treatment, and basic levels of carc of both those previously identified and those that can be ide ntified by the results of the study. Field workers will be employed to gather the data across Canada .

Extensive use will be made of thc [l1edia to encourage participation on the part of those previously not id entified, and to Inform th e publIc. This phase of tbe project wIll cost $65,000, which has been raised through private donations to the Canada Hemophilia Society from Canadian foundations and corporations .

The Physicians Services Incorporated Foundation contributed $17 ,500 towards the project. 0

1976 Bruce Morton is working as an applica­ tions engineer a nd sales rcpresentative for Watershed E nergy Syste ms of To­ ronto .

J ohn SIUTCh is senior chemist at Divergy (Can.) Ltd . He and his wife, Joan ( M oore), '76 , live in Stoney Creek.

1979 Nelson Beayington is programmer for GEA C of Ca nada in Vancouve r, B.C. Carol (Boreham) McRae is compule r programmer for G uelph Hydro.

In Memoriam

Sharon L. (Roberts) C urle, '67, was killed in an automobile accident in Fort Victoria, Z imbabwe, on April 28 . Our sympathies go to Sharon's husband, Da­ niel, their four young sons, he r pa rents and her sisters. 0

The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

We've Gone About as Far as We Can Go So suggests Professor Nea l Stoskopf, '57, Director, Associate Diploma in Ag­ riculture Program, for while ag riculture has made immense contributions over the past two generations in providing the world with food , there are pressures building up which will call for a major reassessment of the role of the farmer and farm education. Speaking at the young peoples' conference sponsored by the United Co-operatives of Ontario last July, he said: "Modern agriculture can be de­ scribed in superlatives. Based on an index rating using 1967 as 100 so that a ll of the items have equal weight, compa risons can be made between the fi,ve-year period prior to World War One and the second half of th e '70s, in North America."

I. Tota l farm productivity increased from an index value of 44 to 118, or by a factor of 2.68.

2. Crop production per hectare doubled (2.04 times) with index values In­ creasing from 56.4 to 115.3 .

3. Productivity per livestock unit in­ creased from 45 to I 10, or 2.4 times.

4. Total national fertilizer use increased from an index of 6.8 to 164 .5, (for N, P, K), or 24.2 times.

5. Labor inputs declined, i.e. total hours used for farmwork declined from an index of 333 to 70.8, or 4. 7 times.

6, Labor output per hour increased from 13.4 to 167.5, or 12.5 times.

7. The number of persons supplied with farm products by one farmworker increased from 7.1 to 65.0, or 9.2 times."

It is this productivity that has been a major factor in our affluence but , he pointed out, "the law of diminishing

Germany and Austria is va lued in Cana­ dian dollars at $1 9,000 to $22,000 per acre. Foreign speculation of our appar­ ently low priced land will force land prices up. Government land use policy , or the lack of it, has, and will, force land prices upward . The loss of prime agri­ cultural land to purposes other than agriculture is of concern not only on land values but for future generations .

L and Ownership

Professor Neal Stoskopj, '57.

returns appears to have caught up with these increases. Stated otherwise, the inputs to farming that are required to cause further desirable change in any of the above items ma y not be justified economically. " Professor Stoskopfs guess is that farmland values in Ontario are currently about $1,500 per acre. A loan purch ase at 11114 per cent interest, would cost $168.75 per acre. If a 100 bu./ac. corn crop is produced, $1.68 per bushel must go to interest charges alone. When amorti7.ation of the loan and other in­ put s arc considered, it scems impossible to make a profit growing corn on land of this value, and land valu es will continue to rise.

Agricultural land in Switzerland ,

Land ownership is a deep-seated consideration for Canadians. Many set­ tlers were attracted to this continent because land ownership was possible: any person over 21 could become the owner of 160 acres of public land if he lived on it for five years and improved it.

"The famil y farm on which I grew up was purchased in 1832 for $1.00 an acre," he s ta ted .

The desire to own land is reflected in the fact that in 1976, 77 per cent of Ontario farmland was privately owned, While ownership fills a basic need and allows for long-range planning, the faet remains that because investment in land now represents the largest single item (51 per cent of total farm investment) it has an overriding effect on proper long­ range planning. The concept , the reasons and the need for private land ownership needs overhauling.

As land values rise so does the necessity to extract more from the land.

Only crops with a high return can be justified; rotations that include soil­ building crops may not be profitable.

Consider the import of this state­ ment by Professor Stoskopf. " On my home farm, purchased in l832, only 150 years of" agriculture has been practised; many fields, because they were oft en seeded to perennials, have not been plowed 100 times. Already, over half of the " native" organic matter is .gone. We cannot continue to farm in a fa shion that may reduce future productivity."

The handwriting is on the wall. cont. over

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flock and the country cgg trade. Pub­ lished in 1913 , it was a la ndmark study of rural farm opera tions. "Farm Poultry

Fresh

and Egg Marketing in Ontario County" was issued as bulletin No . 208 and has been a collcctor's item for a generation.

EGG

As It Really Was

Anyone?

Did you get cracking this morning in response to those lively T. V. advertise­ ments for fresh, health-giving eggs from Ontario poultry farms, economical and readily available 365 days a year?

If you did, you should make a bow in the direction of a modest, courtly, white-haircd gentleman who is remarka­ bly spry for a 93-year-old . He still gardens and is prepared for his 14th annual automobile license test beca use hc still drives to town regularly.

Jim Hare, '08, and his wife, Kate, still live in the beautiful stone house on the banks of the Credit River. They have lived there in active retirement for many years although rapidly developing housing and a huge new bridge now threaten their tranquility.

Jim was one of the second group of O.A.C. grads to go out under the agri­ cultural representative and teaching pro­ gram, that unique Ontario scheme of rural education. He was the first to serve in Ontario County. It was a three-way arrangement between the department of agriculture, the local school board and the county council.

It was the council that provided Jim with his transportation- a motorcycle-­ to get up and down those dusty gravel roads. His job was to teach agriculture in thc schools, arrange school fa ,irs, help with farmers' clubs in seed improve­ ment, livestock improvement and, in his spare time, bc a general handyman for the rural industry of the county. Quite a handful in 1908! There were few teach­ ing aids and communication methods, and little acceptance of the role in those days.

It was the improvement in the farm poultry flocks which scemed to be the mosl rapid means of improving the farm lifc, for it was the regular "egg-money"

thaI kcpt the tablc going in many an Ontario farm house. The O.A.C. had established the first poultry depa rtment in any degree granting institution in North America and , under the dynamic Professor William R . Graham , '94, there was a drive for better poultry management , better pou ltry stock and, by this means, a better life on the farm.

Improvement was badly needed.

In spite of what some folks today would have us believe, those "good old days" on the farm were far from being ideal. That nostalgic picture they have today of healthy hens scratching in the barnyard, and producing those hatfulls of lovely fresh eggs, simply does not agree with the facts.

Jim Hare knows this, for he was the co-author of one of the first, if not the first, economic study of the farm poultry

Thc authors, Hare and Benson , sur­ veyed the county and the trad e to dis­ cover just what the s ituation really was.

They found that at lea st one egg in six that got to market was stale or actually bad. "When the consumer has many such experiences (getting eggs that were unfit to use) he naturally lea rns to regard eggs with a degree of suspicion , " states the introduction to the survey.

The industry was suffering from simple neglect, even by farmers themselves, a nd it was the purpose of the study to find out where the weak spots in the trade existed and to discover some marketing system whereby the heavy loss in eggs might be curtailed.

Their survey of 448 farm s in the county showed that about two-thirds of them were not interested in farm poul­ try. Farm f10cks were small, often poorly housed and inadequately fed, of indis­ criminate breeding and often past their usefulness as egg-producers . "The feed­ ing of the adult birds during the summer season is, with a large proportion of the farmers visited, either entirely neglected or done in a haphazard and irregula r manner."

The bulletin pictured some of the

contd. over The way it was done in 1911 .

Ph OtO hy N.N. , S ullow.\', Godericll. Prillt by o.A/A.F

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cOn/d. henhouses in use; dark, unsanitary, draf­ ty and decrepit. It was no wonder tha t fully 15 per cent of the flocks showed evidence of serious disease infection.

Three-quarters of the flocks were badly infested with insect pests.

As for the handling of eggs them­ selves, the report speaks volumes. "Care­ less, neglectful methods as well as wet and dirty range yards often result in a large proportion of dirty eggs ." The regular hunts around the barnya rd for hidden nests uncovered eggs in variou s stages of incubation and these, too, went into the weekly ba sket to the market.

About one farmer in eight did not even provide nests in which his bird s could lay eggs!

While the la rge wh olesale dea lers did have egg candling rooms for inspec­ tion, a great ma ny eggs got through to the ultimate co nsumer without ever oncc being checked for qualit y.

The report concl udes on a more hopeful note . There were ways to im­ prove the situ a tion through marketing methods, better housing and better poul­ try man agement. The authors listed 20· findings and suggestions for improve­ ment.

Get Cracking Today!

Since that repo rt made its first impact, a grea t deal has happened to the Ontario poultry business in the past 67 years . T he egg business has been trans­

1980 Graduation Awards'

formed from a haphaza rd affair into a huge industry, highly scientific and well managed , providing a steady source of economical and healthy f05ld in a way that yo ur grandmother would never have dreamed possible.

It was graduates like Jim Hare who helped bring this about. He left the Ag. Rep. service to ente r poultry grading a nd extension . Many of his later years we re devoted to the improvement of the turkey, anothe r miracle of agricultu ra l progress. But that 's another story.

So, when you next handle a lovely, fresh Ontario egg, which cost you so rema rkably liUle in cash, give a nod to Jim Hare, '08 .0

From

Autumn L eaves a collection of

poems published

in 1978 by

J. Alex Munro, '22

Can I Glenn Powell. '62, Im mpdiate Past President. O.A.C. Alumni A ssociation , and gold medallists Karen Bowles and Lome Allin.

Gordon N ixon, '37. Chairman, O.A. C. Alumni Foundation, gold medallists Joan Elder and Charlene Blaney . and John Babcock. Director. Department of Alumni Affairs and Development .

Can I help it if 1 stumble

While J carry heavy loads?

Yes, J can lighten my burden

And be thankful f or good roads.

Can I help it if I grumb le

Toiling through the heat of day?

Yes. if f'll just be more cheerful

And think how til spend my pay.

Can / help it if I quarrel

With a m ember of th e team?

Yes , 'cause it's a wasted elIor!

A nd can win no self esteem.

What one needs to meet such problems

Is an understandinK heal'/.

Meet the other person halfway

And let's hope he'll do his part.

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COllages on Huron ,,>'treet, Torullt o. /3" x /9".

Wat ereolour.

Some Canadian Places

Peter Large, '58, will be holding his second showing at Toronto's Merton Gallery sometime next spring, probabl y in March. His watcrcolours were on display in the same gallery for three weeks last May and June. Entitled "Some Canadian Places", the disptay of his work was well received.

While Peter is an employee of Shell Canada and is now back in Toronto as their sales and advertising manager, he has been in several other offices of the company across Canada. Wherever he

has been , and while travelling on his own as well, he has kept a n eye open for scenes that might make a picture. The resu Its Cil n be seen in a nu m ber of private and public collections across t hi s count ry.

Even though Peter did take some evening courses in drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art in the early '60s, his lalenl is largely a na lural one , developed on his own.

He has received wide recognition.

He was twice winner of the Shell Cana足

da competition s in Toronto ; twice re足 ceived honourable mention in the exhibi足 tions of the Federation of Canadi a n Artists and has been named an associate of that federation.

He has held previous one-man shows in galleries in Toronto and in the M uskoka area as well as bcing shown in exhibitions in Vancouver. His works can be seen in the Calgary collection of Shell Canada and in the Federation of' Cana足 diafl Artists collection in Vancouver. 0

Two doors , Hibbs ('ave, Newfoundland. /3" x /8 " .

Watereolour.

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

UJ~ DELPHA ~ Edit." Debbie (Na.h) Chamber., '77.

NUMBE R IZ

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THIS ISSUE Sl .!)S

OF r.-R IT !CISM

AND

JOURNAL

Ht.V1 EW

tion is helping make Guelph an impor­ tant centre in children's literature, a field that has seen unparalleled interna­ tional growth in the last decade.

Co-editors, Mary Rubio and Professor Elizabeth Waterston proudly observe that major Canadian literary scholars publish in CCL and that CCL's articles and reviews ensure awareness of Canada 's increasingly distinctive litera­ ture for children both at home and abroad.

When the University pioneered its children's literature course in the early '70s, there were few such courses offered in Canada, and those that ex.isted often did not include any Canadian selections.

Mary Rubio and Glenys Stow, also an instructor with the Department of

Kids'

stuff

When Mary Rubio , an instructor with the Department of English Language and Literature and co-editor of the jour­ nal Canadian Children's Literature, (CCL), picked up the telephone last week , the caller was Irene Aubrey, head of the Children 's Library at the Nation­ al Library in Ottawa. Irene requested some cx.tra copics of CCL to take to the children 's literature conference organ­ ized by the International Board on Books for Young People which will be held later this fall in Europe. Such requcsts are not unusual.

Bcgun at Guelph in 1975 to fill a specifically Canadian need , the journal now serves both the national and inter­ national community of children's litera­ ture specialists. This schol a rly publica­

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Mary Rubio.

Elizabeth Waterston.

Eng. Lang. and Lit., were preparing an anthology of Canadian children's litera­ ture at the same time that they were trying to design a children's literature course which carried a good representa­ tion of Canadian selections. The re­ search for both projects called their attention to the prodigious lack of schol­ arship in this area. Even if scholars should want to write about the field in Canada, there was no scholarly journal which specialized in publishing such ar­ ticles.

During an informal luncheon in 1974 with Professors Elizabeth Waters­ ton and John R. Sorf1eet, Mary and Glenys talked about their frustrati ons.

Thc consensus was unanimous- a new

journal was needed. By the end of that week, eCL was in its formative stages.

An editorial advisory board was care­ fulJy selected, and the first issue of the journal was published in the spring of 1975. Dr. Sorf1eet, who was also an editor of The Journal of Canadian Fic­ tion, was its first editor. The first year's issues were funded by the personal con­ tributions of the four editors (Sorf1eet, Stow, Waterston, and Rubio) and by advance subscription income. The num­ ber of subscribers has steadily increascd since the journal first appeared.

CCL has acted as a catalyst in stirring up interest in a neglected field, and, in the years since CCL first ap­ peared, Canada has taken many other steps to bolster its children's book indus­ try. A children's book sect,ion a t the National Library in Ottawa has been established, a children'S book centre has been set up in Toronto, and children 's literature conferences are now being funded. As welt, the number of chil­ dren's books published each year has been increasing as the field has become more visible. More and more Canadian content is being added to courses across Canada as professors read, write, alid research in the field, and CCL continues to act as a solid forum for serious analysis and discussion of the books published for Canadian children .

CCL has brought out a number of special issues. An early one was devoted to the works of L.M . Montgomery, one of Canada's most enduring children's writers. Forty years after her death , her world-wide book sales still run into the thousands each year. Another issue fo­ cused on children's drama and theatre.

Children's playwrights and theatres are very active all across Canada, but again, there was, before CCL, no regula r forum for serious discussion of their activity. A recent special issue discussed fantasy in Canada and CCL has, in addition, pub­ lished interviews with a number of Ca­ nadian writers and illustrators. It has also called attention to some fine Cana­

dian children's writers who are well­ known in many countrics but relatively unknown in Canada.

I n the words of one Canada Council assessor: "eeL has gone far to create its own field of interest, and that is an important one for our country." In the words of another: "eeL is thc most important scholarly journal dealing with literature that has bcen initiated in re­ cent years."

Although eCL. has unpaid editors, reviewers, and staff (excepting one paid

part-time secrctary), as well as free office space provided by the University, publishing a journal is an expensive business. A significant portion of eeL's current expenses are met by its subscrip­ tion income, and it has had extensive grant support from both the Canada and Ontario Arts Councils. In the last I g months, however, these granting agen­ cies have been faced with their own cut-backs and, as a result , their grants are not increasing as fast as production expcnses.

Linda's legal

This lady loves the law. Linda Ratcliffe, '70, took a rather roundabout route to

her recent call to the Ontario bar. After, graduating from Guelph in English liter­ ature she set out for Teacher's Collegc.

However, after six months of teaching hi,gh school, Linda reconsidered her ca­ reer path and returned to U. of G. to undertake the honours year in English.

Shc had decided that law was where shc should be. so she set out to improve her academic record. The com­ petition for placcs at law school being what it is, Linda was not accepted into law on her first application. Undaunted,

Graduate

NEWS

she enrolled in the M.A. program in Extension Education at Guelph and proceded to attain exceptional grades .

The following year, Queen 's Uni­ versity accepted her. Now she practises with the firm of Korz, Logan, Foell and Ratcliffe in Cambridge , Ontario, with family I'aw as her specialty.

Separation, divorce and child cus­ tody battles seem grim to some, cspe­ cially those who are embroiled in these undertakings, but Linda finds the work of sorting out the tangled webs others spin vcry satisfying.

She is thc second woman to take up

1972 Lyle Gauley and his wife, Catherine, are living in Hamilton. He is teaching for the Hamilton Board of Education.

eel. hopes that the shortfall be­ tween diminishing grants and escalating production costs will be met, in part, by individuals and corporations who choose to make tax-free donations to the Uni­ versity, car-marking them for eeL. Anyone wishing to subscribe or to obtain more information about the journal should writc: eCL Co-editors Elizabeth Waterston and Mary Rubio, Depart­ ment of English Language and Litera­ ture, University of Guelph, Guelph, On­ tarioNIG 2WI.D

practice in Cambridge. Both are at the samc firm. As she establishes herself, she will begin to broaden her case load, tak'ing clients with a variety of legal requirements .

Very recently, Linda bought a house in Cambridge to provide a home for Bart and Pip, her dogs. While she was a student at Gue.lph and Queen's, she kept a great dane, two terriers and a tortoise. Her bachelor apartment in Kingston was slightly crowded by this menagerie. Oh yes, she also has a horse which she boards at her father's country home near Cambridge.

If you're looking for legal help from a practical , bright person with a dry sense of humour, Linda 's your woman . 0

Worth a 1,000

1967 Bob McWilliam and his wife, Helen , now reside in Windsor. Bob is a librari­ an at the Windsor Public Library.

In the Homecoming '80 parade.

1974

Larry Marklow lives in Missi ssauga and is a history teacher at G lenforest Sec­ ondary School.

1969 Ernesteen Royale is currently a depart­ mcnt head employed by the Peel Board of Education.

1970 Catherine Beatty resides in Lcthbridge, Alberta, and is assistant curator of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

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1976 Rita Posts has moved to Hamilton and is employed as an order typist at Dofas­ co.

Dorelia (SchoHen) Webster and her hus­ band, Francis, live in Peace River. Al­ berta. She is a teacher at Northland School, Division # 61. 0

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI

BULLETIN

Editor: D r. Cliff Barker, '41.

From The

Dean Since my words to you in the summer issue of the O. Vc. Alumni Bulletin, alumni have met at C .V.M.A. and A.V.M.A . annual meetings. It was in­ deed rewarding to all of us at the O.V.C.

to meet with so many alumni at these meetings, but we'd like to increase alum­ ni participation.

The O.V.C. Alumni Association made possible the completion of the addition to the small animal hospital facilities while gifts from friends in the Atlantic provinces, the Friends of Uni­ versity of Guelph Inc. in the U .S., and others, provided much of the equipment.

The open house for this addition was a success.

At the A VMA the Alumni Associa­ tion and the O.V.c. had a boardroom reserved and the turn-out of graduates was tremendous- included were even a couple of graduates of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Next year we hope to have an O.V.c. room at the CVMA meeting in Winnipeg as well as at the AVMA.

Dr. E.E. Ballantyne Honoured

Dr. E.E. Ballantyne, '43, addressed the O. Vc. convocation on June 5 after receiving an honourary doctor of laws degree. The University News Bulletin published the following information re­ garding the bestowal of the honour:

Dr. Ballantyne, now retired from his post as executive-director of special environmental projects for Alberta, has been a pioneer and an innovator throughout his career.

Graduating from the O.V.c. as a gold med a list in 1943, Dr. Ballantyne

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became provincial animal pathologist for the province of Nova Scotia. Later, first as .director of veterinary services and then as deputy minister of agriculture in Alberta , he pioneered programs and ser­ vices in veterinary and human health control in such areas as brucellosis and rabies.

He organized the first vaccination program in Canada in brucellosis re­ stricted areas, and was responsible for a large scale rabies control program. The service he developed has since been used as a model for other provinces.

Dr. Ballantyne was instrumental in establishing a swine health program and food residue committee in Alberta.

Through his efforts, three agricultural colleges and the horticultural research stations were expanded in that province.

He was, in addition, one of the founders of the educational leave system for gov­ ernment employees as well as of a public administration course at university level.

While still deputy minister of agri-

The students are again hard at work in the fall semester. The first year of the D.V.M. Program ('84) has slight­ ly more women than men while the new prevet year has the reverse. The percent­ ages very closely approximate the per­ centages of each sex that applied, so we feel we have a reasonable admissions system. In any case, women and men appear to do equally well in farm animal or companion animal practice.

We at the O.V.c. need alumni support. So those of you who are act,ive, keep up the good worlc, and those of you whom we don't see too often, please come and visit. Many who couldn't attend the various meetings this year, dropped in to see us during the summer and we all appreciated this.

Douglas C. Maplesden, '50, Dean. D

culture, he developed the legislation, budget, and organization for the pro­ posed Department of Environment of which he later became deputy minister.

He served as chairman of a number of provincial bodies set up to deal with environmental protection and, at both national and international levels, par­ ticipated in the United Nations Confer­ ence on the Human Environment at Stockholm in 1972 and in the Confer­ ence on Human Environment ill the Northern Hemisphere in Japan in 1974.

From 1975 until his retirement as executive-director of special environ­ mental projects in Alberta he has been actively involved on the intergovernmen­ tal committee for the Mackenzie River Basin.

It was in recognition of his work, particularly in services and control pro­ grams for animal diseases communica­ ble to man , and his governmental role in conservation of the environment in a manner compatible to the development of Canada's major energy sources, that the University conferred an honourary doctor of laws degree on Dr. Ballantyne. D

Appointment

Dr. Peter Eyre was a ppointed Chair­ man, Department of Biomedical Sciences, on August I , 1980.

Dr. Eyre graduated from the Royal (Dick) Veterinary School of the Univer­ sity of Edinburgh, in 1960, with the degree of B.V.M.S . (Veterinary Medi­ cine) and, the same year, became a member of The Royal College of Veteri­ nary Surgeons, London, England.

After a short period spent in private practice, Dr. Eyre returned to the Uni­ versity of Edinburgh where he obtained a B.Sc. (Medical Pharmacology) in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965. He was a Lecturer in Pharmacology at the Uni­ versity of Edinburgh from 1962 to 1968.

In 1968 Dr. Eyre joined the De­ partment of Biomedical Sciences at the O.V.C. as an associate professor and

Freshmen, '28 The above photo of three O.V.c. fresh­ men was received from the esta te of the late Dr. S .L. (Stew) Shane, '32, of Guelph. Dr. Rendle Bowness, '32, has identified the three persons as, left to right, Dr. Shane, Dr. J.N. (Jimmie) Mull and Dr. Dugald L. (Dug) Mac­ Lean and made the following comments:

In Memoriam

Dr. Peter i:"yre.

was promoted to professor in 1974. He has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 1975 he was the recipient of the Norden Award for teaching excellence and in 1978 became a founding Fellow of the American College of Veterinary Pharmacology.

"The snapshot was taken about the first of October 1928. In that year most of the O.V .c. freshmen were housed in the tower of old Johnson Hall-three in a room.

"The hazing period for freshmen extended from the first day of the term until late November. We wore stuffed dogs bearing the O .V.c. mark a nd jazz garters on the outside of both pant legs .

The garters sported black and white ribbons.

"Kangaroo courts awarded further indignities for real or fancied offences. I recall having to propose to Stew Haslett in the stairwell of Macdonald Hall after "lights out" one night, dressed in the bottoms of Ted Barton's pajamas, (he was the smallest in our class). Stew wore the tops and demonstrated for the young ladies what a well. endowed Scot had beneath his kilt .

"Stew Shane came from Leonard , Ontario, having graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1927. He was a good student and athlete, participating

Dr. .Jack H. Beattie, '41, 14 Budd Lake Road, Hackettstown, New Jersey on May 13 , 1980.

Dr. .LE. Patterson, '25 , 35200 Drake­ shire Place, Apt. 102, Farmington , Michigan , 48024. Mail returned de­ ceased.

Or. Harold F. (; ibbs, '41, 556 King Street East, Hamilton, Ontario on De­ cember 28,1979.

Or. Percy Priestley, '25, 78 Springbank Crescent, Kitchener, Ontario on Thurs­ da y, July 17, I 980-aged 83 years. 0

As a faculty member of the U niver­ sity he has se rved on a large number of committees at university, college and department levels.

Dr. Eyre's research activities have centred on immunopharmacology of pul­ monary diseases of domestic animals, physiology and pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system, and phar­ macology of the cardiovascular and re­ spiratory sys tems.

He has received substa ntial grants from the National Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engi­ neering Research Council of C anada, Medical Research C ouncil, Ontario Ministry of Health , Agriculture Cana­ da, the Ontario Racing Commission , as well as several research contracts with pharmaceutical companies . Dr. Eyre is the author or co-author of over 120 scientific publications, eight book chap­ ters, and 50 conference papers. Dr. Ey re is married, with three children. 0

in hockey, rugby and boxing.

"Jimmie MuJl came fro m R ush­ ville, Indiana, and was an extremely good looking man who seemed out of place in the rough and ready act ivities of our group. Dug MacLean from Win­ chester, Ontario, excelled at hockey and was a crackshot in rine competitions." 0

Nominat io ns

pleas e

The O.V.c. Al umni Associa t ion

Honours and Awards Commi ttee

invites nomina tions for the O. V.c.

Distinguished Alumnus Award .

The award recog nize' an

alumnus of the O.V.c. who has

brought great honour to his or her

Alma Mater and feUow a lumni

through significa nt contributions

of leadership and service to one or

more of: country, com muni ty, sci­

ence, education, profession and / or

Alma Mater.

Please forward your nomina­ tion by January t 5, 1981 to Ho­

nours a nd Awards Committee

Chairman, O.V.c. Alumni Associ­

ation, Department of Alumni Af­

fairs and Development, University

of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG

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In Memoriam

Judi Stemch has been promoted to the position of physical education depart­ ment head in one of the high schools of the orfolk Board of Education.

The University community was sad­ dened by the news of the death of Psychology professor John Tong in July.

Dr. Tong joined the Department in 1967, coming to Guelph from New Zea· land where he was on the faculty of the University of Auckland and also director of the clinical research unit at Kingseat Hospital. Prior to that , he held a num­ ber of clinical positions in hospita,ls and in the prison system in England.

Born and educated in England, Professor Tong was a member of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He saw ac­ tive duty during World War Two and was wounded and taken prisoner-of-war.

Professor Tong gained the respect of both colleagues and students for his teaching abilities, and he supervised a large number of graduate students who have gone on to successful careers. He was also a productive researcher with published works in a number of areas.

His early work included research in clinical psychology, trans-cultural stud­ ies of mental illness, and experimental psychlopathology. In recent years he turned to studying the effects of alcohol, nicotine and caffeine on factors underly­ ing human performance and a number of these studies have already been pub­ lished.

Professor Tong is survived by his wife, Sybil, and son, Richard. 0

Beth (Wilkinson) Taylor te aches elemen­ ta ry school students in the Wel l ington Co unty Board of Education school sys­ tem.

Graduate

News

1969 Glen Inglis has enrolled in the Mastcr of Divinty program at Knox College of the University of Toronto.

Jeff Jennings is a division manager with North American Life in Don Mills.

1972

Faculty

News

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John Auld works in Montreal at the Royal Victo r·ia Hospital as a staff nurse .

Randy Chapman owns, and is the presi­ dent of, Fire-Rite Limited in Whitby.

1973 John Appleby farms in the Brechin area of Ontario.

1974 David Hortnoll is a chartered accountant working at the same firm as BiH Mok­ riy, Thorne Riddell of Toronto.

Alvin Jary works for the Onta rio Minis­ try of Agriculture and Food in Toronto as an economist.

Professor Dan Yarmey, Psychology, pre­ sented an invited paper, entitled "The Elderly as Eyewitnesses," at the Univer­ sity of Alberta conference on the Psy­ chology of Eyewitness Testimony. The confe rence was attended by lawyers, police officers and psychologists.

Professor Yarmey also attended the annual meeting of the Canadian Psycho­ logical Association held in Calgary and served as the moderator of the paper session, "Theoretical Aspects of Mem­ ory."

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Professor Bob Webb, Ergonomics Unit, School of Human Biology, and Professor Mike Matthews, IPsychology, participat­ ed in a two-day seminar entitled "Ergo­ nomics: Linking Well-being and Perfor­ mance" at the Royal York Hotel, To­ ronto. Over 50 participants from govern­ ment and industry attended. Topics in­ cluded training, information processing, manual materials handling, workspace design, and environmental factors at work.

1975 Rick Antaya is employed by the City of Kitchener as an area supervisor.

Thomas Bogart is practising law with the firm Bogart and Partners in Toron­ to.

1976 Peter Bailey is an accountant Wiebe, Baker, Roche of Toronto.

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Kate Laperle works as library technician in the bibliocentre of Centennial College ill Scarborough.

1970

1979

Linda (Nolson) Bruce teaches at Ccnten­ nial College in Scarborough.

Carol Carty has enrolled in the graduate studies program at Carleton University.

Brian Ross is a psychological consultant with Project Neeeheewan Inc . in Win­ nipeg, Manitoba.

Linda (Gorzichuk) MaHon is administra­ tion officer at a Toronto branch of The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

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Professo r William Christian , Political Studies, spoke at Quebec Day at the John Ross Col l!egiate in Guelph on the subject, "The History of Separatism in Canada."

He also gavc a talk to the Guelph Kiwanis Club on the topic, "Problems of Constitutional Reform in Canada," and he attended the recent meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association in Montreal , where he commented on a paper on Thomas Hobbes.

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Political Studies profcssor , Patrick Kyba, has received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Re­ search Council to begin research on a biography of The Honourable Alvin Ha­ milton , M.P., former leader of the Pro­ gressive Conservative party in Saskat­ chewan, and Minister of Agriculture in the Diefenbaker government. 0

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The College of Bio logical Science Alumni Association

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O-ALUMNI

~ NEWS

Editor : Jane Se lley, Arts '70.

Available! Four at $250 The Advisory Council of the Alma Matcr Fund has made available $1000 from thc Alma Matcr Fund for thc College of Biological Scicnce to estab­ lish scholarships, and to foster support for such scholarships from e.B.S. alum­ ni. Accordingly, the e.B.S.A.A. has set up four Alumni Association Alma Mater Scholarships of $250, three of which will be awarded to undergradu­ atcs who ['uJfiU the necessary criteria of the awards, and one to a graduate studcnt.

Conditiolls and terms established to govern cligibility for the undergraduate award state that the student: I. must have registered at the Universi-

How t o Howl Have you ever seen a reversing stream~ Or had a lesson in 1'101 f howling~ Over 40 alumni and friends who braved the cool, damp wcather at Cyprus Lake Provincial Park on the Bruce Peninsula last summer can answer yes to these qucstions. The group was attending thc first Intcrpretive Weekend organizcd by the e.B.s. Alumni Association.

Thc weather did not dampen their enjoyment of thc various evenlts includ­

ty for two semesters prior to app!ica­ tioll for thc award.

2. must be a full-time student with a full five-course complement for each semester.

3. either a) have highest overall semes­ ter average, b) have highest semester average in the respective semester, i.e. 3, 5 and 7, c) have a good academic standing and be active in e. B.S. activities.

Applications should be made to the University of Guelph Awards Office by January I of each year following the relevant semester.

ing, a guided walk along the rugged Georgian Bay Trail in Cyprus Lake park, a trip to Dorcus Bay to view the wildflowers, and a film presentation by Fathom Five park staff. Although high winds on Georgian Bay forced cancella­ tion of a trip to Flowerpot Island, many alumni took in the sights of Tobermory or hiked a section of the Bruce Trail.

The e.B.S. Alumni Association hopes to make this an annual event and welcomes suggestions for the locale of In terpretive Weekend '81. 0

El igible graduatc studcnts must have been registered at thc Univcrsity for two consecutive scmcsters prior to application; must have a good academic standing and have been active in CB.s. activities, and may not have held an award in two previous semesters. Ap­ p ~ ieations :dlOUld be made by May 15 each year.

Alumni making donations to the Alma Mater Fund who wish to specifi­ cally des,ignate that their monies be used for this purpose , may so indicate at the time of donation. T he CB.S.A.A. now offers six alurnni schGlarship to under­ graduate students. [J

Floating

Part o/t he J-/ol1li'('ulning 'SO p arade: I:.'!!en Mlirr(/y al/d Megan L.uke, Human Biology.

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Green Spleenwort?

Al though the name may conjure images of things slimy and untouchable, green spleenwort is in reality a tiny, delicate fern. Its pretty three-inch fronds a re found in clusters, nestled in crannies among moss-covered limestones. Alumni attending the C.B .S .A.A. 's Elora Gorge Wallk were lucky enough to find two or three examples of this unusual northern fcrn.

The group enjoyed the guided na­ ture walk along the scenic gorge when the C.B.s.A. A. again presented its tradi­ tional contribution to the University's Alumni Weekend '80 activities.

This year. the walk attractecl about 40 enthusiastic alumni, representing five colleges and a cross section of the years from OAC '27 to CPS '79. Some were keen botany buffs and bird watchers, whi,Je others were along for the pleasant wa 'lk and spectacular scenery. Guides Dr. Jim Goltz, OvC '77, and Margo Tant, '76, fielded questions from the group and provided historical and bio­ logica l details a long the way. The weather was gorgeous, mosq uitoes non­ existent, and nobody fell over the edge; all in all, a very successful expedition.

The rroposed bridge across the gorge that caused much controversy, is now a reality, and its co nstruction is now complete. Fortunately, the footpaths a long the east edge have not been de­ stroyed and visitors still will be able to

enjoy t he non hern section of t he gorge with its Lover's Leap and Flower Pot Falls. Next year, it will be noisier but st ill beautif.ul and the Elora Gorge Walk will still be held.

Plan to attend-if only to check out thc green spleenwort' 0

In Memoriam

Ed Towell, '75, died August 2, 1980, a t the age of 28, after a prolonged illness.

Ed had been with the Department of Microbiology for five years, successively as buyer, storekeeper, and supervisor.

Before his untimely death, he had been hoping to leave Guelph for studies to­ ward full-time work as a Christian mis­ sionary.O

1981 C.B.S. 10th Anniversary Celebration

As you can see folks, we're hard at work, planning what we think will be some exciting events for the 1981 e. S.S. 10th Anniversary Celebration. We're makin g a special request for pictures

recalling the past decade. We'll take loving care of each and every submission and will guarantee that all correctly identified originals will be returned to the owners. Please send a ny pictures of

your years at C.B.S. outlining people, places and events, to: Dr. R.E. Subden, Department of Botany and Genetics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, IG2WI.O

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Framed Diplomas The University of Guelph Alumni Association is pleased to offer you, as a graduate of the University, a strikingly handsome replica of your diploma in metal, accented with a coloured velvet border and attractively framed in basswood.

Your diploma is only as lasting as the paper it is printed on, so that's why we suggest having it reproduced on metal in a 12-step process us ing photosensitized ink so it will las t forever. It's the perfect way to display your diploma wherever your career takes you. Just complete the order form below.

From the informa tion provided by you, we can make an exact duplicate diploma.

Plea se print:

'Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________

Address: _______________________________________________________________________________________

'Degree earned: ______________________________________ ' G ra dua tion year: ______ ___

â&#x20AC;˘ EXACTLY as on your diploma. To ensure accuracy , we recommend you forward a photocopy of your diploma with order.

NOTE! Graduates of 64 and earlier MUST SUBMIT original diploma. Please use registered mail.

Replicas are available in silver or gold colour metal with blue , red, or black velvet accents in the border. When ordering please state colour combination. If not specified , the standard combinations of Silver / blue and gold/red will be used. The metal replicas come in two sizes: actual size of the University diploma which is 8-1 / 2" x 11" with outside frame dimensions of 11" x 13-1 / 2" or reduced to 5" x 7" with outside frame dimensions of 7-1/2" x 9-1 / 2" .

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Unit price

5" x 7"

$40

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$50

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Ontario resid ents a dd 7% Provincial Sales Tax Postage and handling @ $2 pe r unit Total Send cheque or money order payable to ASCOTT ENTERPRISES to: UGAA Alumni Gifts, 8 Sanderson Road, Toronto, Ontario M9V lC7. No cash please. Allow four weeks for delivery .

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