Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1983 by University of Guelph

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FaU 1983 Vol. 16, No.4

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORAR Y PRESIDENT: Dr , Howard C. Clark, PRESIDENT: Barry Stahlbaum, CPS '74,

NewPresident

r. Burton C. Matthews, OAC'47, will become the fourth president of the University of Guelph January 1, 1984. Cecil Franklin, chairman, Board of Governors, said the five-year term was unanimously approved by the Board at its regular monthly meet ing September 22. The following announcement by Chairman Franklin was made to all members of the University.

Dr . Mallhews. OAC ' 47,

PA ST PRESIDENT: Jane ( Vollick) Webster, FACS '75 , SENIOR VICE· PRESIDENT: Glenn Powell, OAC '62, SECRETAR Y: Ro ss Parry, CSS '80, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY: Rosemary Clark, Mac '59 , TREAS URER : James, J, Elmslie,

VICE· PRESIDENTS : Sue (Beally) Da vidso n, CSS ' 82; Dr. Jim

Henry , OVC'55; Linda McKenzie·Cordick, Art s '8 1; Liz

O'Neil, FACS '74; Bruce Richardson, CPS'82; Henry Stanley ,

OAC'55; Jan Wat so n, CBS'75,

DIRECTORS : Dave Barrie, OAC' 53 A; Lorri e (Rol ston)

Cosens, CBS '79 ; Dr. Ron Downey, OVC '61; Dr. Pete r Forte,

CPS Ph , D , ' 74; Gi nty Jocius, OAC '70; Alvin Jory, CSS '7 4; Lorna

(Innes) Law rence, Mac '68; Bill Macdonald, Art s '78; Rob Milne,

CBS' 81; Janice (Robertson) Partlow, Art s '70; J , Harold Reed , OVC

'55; Jim Th om so n, CPS '79,

EX·OFFICIO DIR ECTORS: John Babcock, OAC'S4 , Oirector of

Alumni Affairs and Oevelopment; Ron Ba ll , Pres ident, Graduate

Students Association; George Dixon , CBS Ph , D. '80, Pres ident ,

College of Biologicat Science Alumni Association; Will

Walker , HAFA '80, President, Hotel and Food

Administration Alumni Association; Bob Megan s , President ,

Central Student Association; Dr. Wendy Parker, OVC '71,

President , OVC Alumni Association; Don Risebrough , OAC '77,

President , OAC Alumni Association; Margo Shoemaker, Art s

'79. President, College of Arts Alumni Association; Co nnie

(Hauka) Ja sinskas, HK '76, President, Human Kinetics Alumni

Association; Luca s VanVeen, CPS '74, President, College of

Physical Science Alumni Association; Rita (Kla sse n) Weigel,

FACS '77, PreSident, Mac-FACS Alumni Association,

The Guelph Alum"us is published by the Departme nt o f Alumni

Affairs and Development in co-operation with Information SerVices, UniverSit y of Guelph . EDITOR. Derek J , Wing, Publi cations Manager, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development. The Editorial Commillee IS compnsed of the Editor, Derek Wing; Director John Babcock; Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, AssiSlant Director, Alumni Programs, and Robin Baird Lewi s , Art s '73, Communica ti ons Officer, all with the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, and Erich Barth , Art Director; Donald Jose, OAC '49, Pre ss· Publicity, and Director Dougla s Watersron, all with Information Services. The Editorial Ad viso ry Board of the Uni ve rsity of Gue lph alumni Associatio n is comprised of Dr, 0 , Brian Allen, CPS '72, Chairman; Or. Allan Austin ; Dr. Donald Barnum , OVC'4I, Richard Moccia, CBS '76; Ross Parry, CSS'80 , Ja nice (Robertson) Partlow , Art,70 , Oli ve (Thompson) Th ompson, Mac'35; Sandra Webs ter. CSS '75; Ex·offi ci o: John Babcock , OAC'54; Barry Stahlbaum, CPS '74. Undel ivered copies should be returned to the Departme nt of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, NIG2Wl.

Dr. Matthews is known to many of you either as the chairman of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA); the former president of the University of Waterloo, or the former vice-president, academic, of the University of Guelph, He began his career.at the Ontario Agricultural College as a lecturer in the Department of Soil Science (now the Department of Land Resource Science) in 1948. Following a Ph,D , in Soil Chemistry at Cornell , he returned to Guelph in 1952, Rising rapidly through the academic ranks, he became a full professor in 1957 a nd head of the Department in 1962, In recognition of his administrative abilities he was appointed vice-president, academic, in 1966, a role he filled until 1970 when he was installed as the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Re signing from that presidency in 1981, he assumed the position of vice-chairman of OCUA, becoming chairman in March 1982, Dr. Matthews' training, background and experience are an admirable match for the needs of our University at this time. He recognizes our traditional and new-found strengths and is committed to preserving these strengths while developing the new opportunities that are before us . He shares with us the commitment to excellence in every aspect of the Universi ty 'S activities-from the provision of an exciting undergraduate liberal education to the development of the most advanced research, We believe he has the necessary personal and professio nal qualities to lead us in the achievement of the high goals we have se t for ourselves in the difficult days ahead, Dr. Matthews, born in Kerwood, Ontario in 1926, completed his B,S.A, at Guelph under a Harcourt Bursary in Chemistry, During his undergraduate studies he co-captained the intercollegiate football team, and was awarded the Wildman Trophy in 1946 for his athletic prowess. An Agricultural Institute of Canada Scholarship se nt him to the Univers ity of Misso uri for an A,M. degree in 1948 before completing his Ph .D . at Cornell under a Clinton DeWitt Smith sc holarship. Hi s publications include 40 scientific papers and major reports in Soil Science as well as numerous OCUA documents. He is a member of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, serving as its president from 1959-60. He was a director of the Ontario Soil Survey from 1962 to 1966, a member of the Council of Ontario Universities from 1970 to 1981 and a director of the Ontario Education Re search Council from 1972 to 198 1. In recognition of his contributions to university education, he received honorary doctorate de grees from the University ofSherbrooke in 1979 and from the University of Waterloo in 1982 . Pre sident-Designate Matthews will come to a University of co nsiderable national and international repute . We believe that he is eminently qualified to provide the necessary leadership during a difficult period and that, with the close support of senior administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni, he will help the University of Guelph consolidate and enhance its position and reputation in the challenging years ahead. 0

Clarence Gagnon ( 1881-1942) , "L' Eglise de Baie SI. Paul," oil, 6" x 9 '12".

80 Muse um Quality Art Works On Permanent Loan to the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre By Robin Baird Lewis, Arts , '73

arely does a public gallery have the opportunity to introduce to the public previously unviewed works of renowned ar足 tists. But just such an honour has been given to the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and the University of Guelph. The opportunity is the result of a bequest from the estate of the late Stewart and Letty Bennett to the Ontario Heritage Foundation of a significant private collection of 99 museum足 quality art works. An industrialist, farmer, cattle and horse breeder, art collector and past member of the Un ivers,ity of Guelph's Board of Governors, Stewart Bennett died in August, 1982. His widow, Letty , died two months later. Their estate provided several large bequests includ足 ing one of $600,000 to the University. (See Guelph Alumnus, Summer '83, Vol. 16, No . 3, page 12, for article reporting this bequest.) While the Ontario Heritage Foundation retains ownership of the Stewart and Letty Bennett Collection for the people of Ontario, adequate storage and exhibition facilities had to be located. A province-wide search resulted in a decision which amounted to a coup for the University as well as the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.

Front cover: Paul Peel (1860-1892) "Still Life," oil, 15-3/4" x 12-1/2" An impressive proportion of the Collec足 tion, 80 works were permanently loaned to the University of Guelph Art Collection for public display at the Art Centre. The Art Gallery of

Ontario (AGO) , in Toronto, received 18 works and one painting by Tom Thompson went to the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery in Owen Sound. conl'd over

Horatio Walker ( 1858-1938), "Barnyard Scene , " watere%ur, 12 '12" x 18" .

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The Bennett Collection is one of primarily Canadian works . Most are oil paintings, however there are some pieces in watercolour and a few Europea n drypoints and etchings. The scale of the works is generally small, the largest measuring two by three feet, and obviously selected by the Bennetts to suit the domestic scale of avai la ble wall space in their Toronto and Georgetown homes . Nearly one-third of the Collection is dominated by works by Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942) from the earl y 1900s. The jewel颅 like colouring and pleasing compositions of these pieces, perhaps explains the Bennetts ' partial ity to this beloved Quebec arti st. Another well represented artis t is Horatio Walker ( 1858-1938) whose watercolours of barnyard scenes, of chickens and cows, probably attracted the Bennetts through their interest in agriculture. Members of the Group of Seven are also represented in the University' s portion of the Collection, with one Lawren Harris (1885- 1970) from the Algoma period 1913-1919, and two by J. E . H. MacDonald ( 1873-1932) from his eai-ly years. There are three Tom Thomson (1877- 1917) oil s on panel from the post-1914 period, and four A . Y . Jacksons (1882-1974), one of which is a poignant study of a war-torn Ypres landscape during the Firs t World War whic h must have

lames W. Morri ce (1865-1924 ) , " Brittany Pastorale," oil, 12 '12" x 17".

had special significance to Stewart Bennett, for he served with the Royal Engineers in that conflict. The Collection al so includes si x delightful oils of French and Venetian scenes by J. W . Morrice (1865- 1924); two A. J . Munnings

(1878-1959) , a British painter who excelled at animal portraits; two unusual French Canadian landscapes o f Arthabaska. Que ., by M arc A ure le de foy Suzor-Cote ( l869路 1973) ; a reclining figure study by Sir John Lavery ( 1856路 1941 ) , and an unusual Otto Jacobi

A . Y lackso n(l 882 -1974 ), "VillageofSt. TitedeCap, " oil , 8 %" x 10 '12".

Clarence Gagnon (1881 -1942), "Franc;ois Paradis in the Forest," gouache, 8'/2" x 9'/2".

(1812-190 I) portrait of a young girl, since Jacobi was better known for his landscapes while in Canada . There are also some dry point etchings by Anders Zorn (1860-1920). Overall , the Collection represents the personal tastes of Stewart and Letty Bennett. They clearly preferred works executed in the period 1890 to 1930. Slewart Bennett began the Collection in 1947 with a few Krieghoffs which he later disposed of when he was attracted to the works of Clarence Gagnon. With the accumulation of works by Thomson, MacDonald, Jackson, Morrice and others , Stewart Bennett set a solid foundation of reputable Canadian artists to which he added the Suzor-Cotes and a noteworthy Paul Peel (1860-1892) still life in 1949, as well as a few more Gagnons later inthe 1950s. There is speculation that it was J. S. McLean, founder and first president of Canada Packers Inc., who introduced Bennett to the joys of collecting Canadian art while Be nnett was vice president of the corporation from 1946 to 1965. Ingrid Jenkner, curator of exhibitions at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, suggests that Ste wart Bennett may ha ve been insp ired by the displays of McLean's coll ection of Cana足 dian art in the corporation's offi ces and boardroom. But, whereas McLean enjoyed direct contact and friendship with many artists in the role of a leading patron of Canadian art, Stewart Bennett and his wife were less interested in the works of contemporary artists and preferred to purchase work from dealers in the styles they found most anractive to add beauty to their Toronto apartment, and" Scots足 dale," their Georgetown farm. By 1965, at the age of73, Stewart Bennett conducted his last recorded art transaction, thus

ending what had developed into a considerable management task of correspondence and cataloguing to maintain his interest. He was careful to authenticate each work, verifying its provenance or ownersh ip history. Out of the correspondence that came with the Collection, comes an impressive if materialistic fact: the University ofGueJph will be adding, to its Collection, at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, over $1 million worth of Canadian art due to the Bennett Collection. Ingrid Jenkner is delighted that the University Collection at the Art Centre is so well augmented by the Bennett additions. Some formerly thin areas, such as work by French Canadian landscape painters, have been greatly strengthened by the arrival of the Cullens, the Suzor-Cotes and the many Gag足

nons. The works by Lavery and Munnings also help to signify examplcs of British artists who influenced Canadian painters of their day. Consequently, the two collections dovetail with little redundancy. From the University's standpoint, the predominantly rural aspect of the Bennett additions certainly suits the campus, so rich in rural traditIOn. The various portraits of cattle and horses enhance works that already exist in the University's collection which have been donated by alumni. Such a sudden influx of re-discovered Canadian art has naturally prompted exciting exhibition plans at the Art Centre. Ingrid Jenkner conveys the enthusiasm of all the Art Centre staff when she explains how the small Tom Thomson oils, with their fresh and lively handling, will present a perfect complement beside the large, more deliberate, studio piece by Thomson entitled "The Drive." The Paul Peel and Jacobi works will surprise many because of the unusual choice of subject matter by a pair of 19th century painters who were better known for other compositions. After formal cataloguing was completed this past summer, Art Centre personnel made a co-operati ve arrangement with the Tom Thom足 son Memorial Gallery and the AGO to arrange a loan to the University of their Bennett pieces in order to launch an extended exhibition of the complete Bennett Collection. The exhibition will open in January, 1984, and continue for an extended period during that year to help celebrate Ontario's bi-centennial. The Stewart and Letty Bennett Collection exhibition should prove to be one of the most exciting shows of the winter season, so be sure to visit the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Plan a special trip to your Alma Mater-anaesthetic pilgrimage. This rare opportunity to view an assembly of Canadian art of this distinction should not be missed. 0

Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), "Siesta -

Lady Lavery," oil, 10" x 1]3/,".

President and Friend 颅

He wm Not Be Forgotten

The three flags in &ont of the University Centre were at half-mast in August to symbolize public mourning for the death August 8 of Donald F. Forster, <19, the University of Guelph 's third president. . The private grief o f an institutional family for its leader and friend continues. TIme a nd deed will duD the s e nse of loss as Guelph strives to fulM the visio n Donald Forster held for this University. At the funeral service August 11 in Wa r Memorial Hall Dr. Howard Clark, acting president, delivered the following eulogy.

he sudden loss of a leader and friend brings together quickly those of us who follow, both to commemorate and to cele brate a life. Although it was relatively brief in duration 路, the life of Donald Frederick Forster, son, brother, uncle, friend, president of the University of Guleph and president-elect of the University of Toronto, was ric h in accomplishment and warm with deep perso nal in vol ve ment. The early years as a st udent were marked by sc holarl y achievement. He graduated with the Governor General' s Medal in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 1956 and then went on to Harvard where he held two distinguished graduate fellow ships and where he completed his Master's degree. Returning to Toronto in \960 , his commitment to the University as a genuine academic, was readily apparent. He taught Economics, served as residence don, and exercised his considerable scholarly talents . As assistant editor of the Canadian Annual Review, he wrote annual succinct anal yses of the performance of the Canadian economy for nearly a decade. With colleagues, he published texts in Economics. Jack Pickersgili recruited him to co-author the last three volumes of the Macken zie King Record and even in recent years, as university administration placed its increasing load upon him , his interest in sc holarship was sustained through joint work with colleagues, resulting in historical articles on Canadian politics. Claude Bissell detected early Don Forster's potential as an academic administrator and named him his executive assistant at the University of Toronto in 1965. Don rose rapidly through the academic administrative siructure at Toronto, becoming vice-president in 1970 and serving , with great distinction, for three years from 1972, as vice-president and provost. His love for his Alma Mater neve r diminished, and his dedicat ion to the

The late President Donald Frederick Forster .

University, as well as his conviction that he could help Toronto through a difficult period , led him to accept the presidency when it was offered to him earlier this year. His greatest contributions as an academic administrator were made during his eight years as president of the University of Guelph . He came to Guelph as a neophyte in areas such as agriculture and veterinary medicine, but as his knowledge grew, so did h is respect and affection for farming, for rural Iife and all those engaged therein. He often referred humourously to himself as a "country boy," but underneath that humour was a shrewd perception of the needs and importance of agriculture in an

increasingly industrialized and urbanized Ontar路io. His great success as a president lay in his openness to others, and in his sensitivity both to people as individuals and to their often oppos ing views. As far as time would permit, his door was open to indi vidual s tudents, faculty and staff me mbers . Senate meetings were conducted by him, as its chairman, in a gentle but skilful manner so as to arrive at a well-accepted co nsensus after all view-points had been heard. During his presidency, meetings of the Board of Governors were opened to the public, consistent with his belief that openness and effective communication were essential

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characteristics of a vital university communit y . He greatly strengthened relatio ns between the Universit y and the community of Guelph and the surrounding Wellington County. Those sometime tenuous links between " town and gown" received new life through his approaches which were often refreshingly innovative. A creation in which he took particular pleasure, the Macdo nald Stewart Art Centre emcrged , through his touch, as a unique co-operative venture between the C ity , the County, the School Board, and the U ni versity. Do n showed a particular appreciation o f the importance of ceremony in the Universi ty and took painstaking care to ensure that every detail of each formal function was correct. Co nvoca tions, with Pauline McGibbon as chancellor, were times of special joy for him as they were occasions for celebration by the U n ive rsity and its g raduate s. Graduands' smiles , th ank you's and so metimes delightful e xchanges with the chancellor evoked warm chuckle from the preside nt who was beside her. To D on, these were roy al affairs to which he bro ught great personal presence and yet a warm, relaxed and informal touch. Also, as pres ident of the University of Guelph, he co ntributed in a major way to the wider academic world of Canada as well as to other aspects of our national life . He served as chairman of the Council of Ontario Universities , had been on the Board of Direc tors 0 fthe Associat ion of Univers ities and Colleges of Canada , and was recently a key member of a commi ttee of that body atte mpting to sol ve the long issue of federal- prov incial fiscal trans fers in post-secondary education. Recentl y, he was appointed to the Economic Council of Canada, an opp ortunity he welcomed becau se of th e involvement it gave in national policy- makin g. This description of his career, so tragic all y short even th o ugh outstanding in other senses, does little to reve al the warmth, the compass ion, the gentleness - the human concern that shaped his professional life. For Donald Forster a university was a human community where, as Disraeli p ut it , " light , liberty and learning would flouri sh." His deep interes t in the well-being of students was re flecte d in the individual welcome he extended in his home, to new student s, just as it was evident in his mentorship of man y yo ung persons as students, graduates, or young faculty members, to challenge, sustain and support them as their careers and lives extended. His complete commitment to the Univers ity as " a people place," as well as his gentleness, was best summed up b y a remark he once made that he' 'w ou ld never knowingly harm another human being for the sake of any academic regulation . " Hi s many acts of kindne ss were little

known to the public at large. When the Univers ity faced an unanticipated housing shortage for students, Don quietly accommodated two students in his horne until the necessary residence space became ava ilable. It was a typical gesture, done quietly and without publicity. His warm friendship for man y of the University s taff who served him in the office, in the house, or the car, was similarly expressed through quiet acts of assistance and kindness . To those who did not know him well, D on presented the picture of a very private person. Underneath the publ ic exterior was a warmth and bubblin g lo ve of fam ily and friends . He had an easy rapport with faculty colleagues and , even on busy days, would relax informally with the m over a sandwich in the Facul ty Club. He liked nothing better after a day of University business than to kick off his shoes and relax over dinner with famil y mem bers, or close friend s. Don was a giving man, a good man, and those who knew him best were to uched mos t. He lo ved the mem bers of his own family deeply and hi s ho urs with them , in Toronto or Parry Sound , were times of special pl easure. He was strongly attached and stead fastly loyal to his friends, and the y to him . At each Co nvocation, Don Fors ter would remind the graduates not to forget the ir Uni versity. Donald Foster , son, brother, uncle, sc holar, teacher, president and fri end will not be fo rgotten- what he has created will endure a nd what he was as a person will be remembered with love, admiration and gratitude. 0

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FaDlily

Dear co lleagues of Donald Fo rs ter: My mother, Verna Fors te r, joins the Gates family in extending to the enti re University of Guelph community our heartfelt thank s for the many kindne sses extended to us at the time of Don's untimely death . The immediate res ponse by all th ose involved was deeply appreciated. The details concerning the funeral were impeccable . Th e serv ice was beautiful and the rece ption was overwhelming. We are also most grateful for the hospi tality extended in meetin g our perso nal needs regarding meal s and accommoda tion. It is most difficult to adequ ate ly express our gratitude. All of us, incl ud ing the family, will cherish the fond memories of Don' s tenure at the Univer si ty of Guelph. Yours si nce rel y. Kathy and Ed Gates,

Janel, Barbara, Debbie , Sandy,

and Verna Forster.

Donald F. Forster Memorial Fund

and governance and indi vidual student needs related to educational and career goals. ContribUlionsji'om th e university communit), are already being received. It is hoped the Forster schola rships will have a valu e ofat least $1500. Th e number awarded annually will depend on th e funds collected. Th e awards will be madefrom the interest earned on the prinCipal in the Memorial Fund. Proceeds from the fund will be used 10 provide scholarships to students registered Contributions to the Donald F. Forster in an undergraduate program at the Mem orial Fund are being received throug h Uni versity of Guelph who. in the opinion of the Department ofAlumn i Affairs and a commillee offaculty , students and alumni. Devl?lopment. Room 273 . Johnston Hall. exh ibit qualities of scholarship and interest University of Guelph. Guelph. Ontario. in the University community which are in NIG 2 WI. The Uni versity will also use interest keepi ng with th e ideals of Donald Forster. These scholarships. wh ich will be known as from the Fund 10 establish a Donald F. Forster Memorial Room in th e McLaughlin Forster Sch olars hips, will commemorate Libra ry. It will contain material related 10 his life and service and. particularly. will undergraduate Library collections. 0 recognize contributions to University life

T he University ofGuelph has es tablished a memorialfund in memory of the late Donald ForSler, President of th e Unive rsity from 1975 to 1983, Acting President Dr. Ho ward Clark. has announced. The terms ofrl?ference fo r using th e fund have been dra wn up by the University in conjunction with thl? Forst erfamily. The terms of reference are asfollows:

Ergononlics at the School of HUnlan Biology By Dr. Robert D. Webb n five years, the Ergonomics program at the School of Human Biolog y has gone fr om nothing to a thriving concern with under-grad uate and graduate courses, frequent seminars to occupational audiences , and a range of research and development projects. Simply described, Ergonomics is the application of life-science knowledge about human characteristics to maximize well-being and performance in any setting. One important emphasis is the integration of multi-disci plinary knowledge . Another is the emphasis on human beings as components in systems. (

A need that is paramount is co-operation between life sciences suc h as Psychology, Biomechanics and Physiology, technical disci plines and professions , and special interests. A team approach is the rule as no single person can possess all necessary knowledge. The logical home for Ergonomics in any university is in a multi-disciplinary institution such as the School of Human Biology. Within the B. Sc. programs at the School, Ergonomics is introduced to third- and fourth year undergraduates through several courses. The philosophy is to lead students, who already have a good understanding of human function and structure, to see how this knowledge can be applied within a man/machine system context. Courses lead to an understanding of system concepts, the ways in which human factors affect these systems and how environmental factors affect the human component within the systems of which we are all part. Most of the courses are project-based and students are encouraged to find projects outside the university environment. Students from Psychology and Engineeringj.oin with students from Human Biology and Human Kinetics. One course concentrates on field trips to settings as diverse as a steel foundry, a home for the aged, light manufacturing , a postal depot and a large hospital, among other sites. Together, these courses form the basis for a joint submission with the Department of Psychology for a minor degree in Ergonomics. After completing these courses , students emphasizing Ergonomics at the undergraduate level can only be considered to have had an introduction to the topic. Ergonomics is not suitable as the sole focus on an undergraduate degree. Rather it is better to concentrate on a single discipli ne at the undergraduate level with Ergonomics restricted to a minor degree level.

Dr . Robert D. Webb.

A professional education in Ergonomics is best undertaken at the graduate level. A critical component of any education in Ergonomics is familiarity with the occupational and other contexts in which knowledge of human function and structure is to be applied. Ideally, undergraduates would have one or two years occupational experience before coming to further education in Ergonomics at the graduate level. At the graduate level, education should not attempt to turn psychologists into physio logists or engineers, or vice-versa, but rather to lead all discipline special ists to a better understandi ng of other perspectives as well as ways and means of functioning co-operatively as members of problem-solving teams. Research sk ills, as well as established knowledge, form an essential part of any graduate education . The joint graduate program in Ergonomics with the Department of Psychology is moving towards this ideal. New courses at the graduate level are being taught jointly between the School and the Department. Part-time students, with a suitable background from the occupa tional environment, are invited to apply. Research theses on applied topics in the laboratory and the field are encouraged. Despite this educational perspective, research and development have not been ignored. Many seminars and talks to occupa tional audiences have been given over the last few years. Accumulatively, audiences now number in the tens of thousands. Much of the

interest has come from occupational health and production engineering specialists. From such activities have sprung many projects concerned with text book applications of Ergonomics in industries ranging from light manufacturing to office systems, from con struction to health care. Over 20 technical reports have been produced over the past four years on topics ranging from work space de sign to training, and from manual materiaLs handling to heavy vehicle assessment. The income from these projects has largely paid for equipping the Ergonomics laboratory. Work on these projects ha s in turn allowed identification of issues needing further re search. The Ergonomics unit has recently completed studies on the effects of lifti ng behaviour , of specially designed safety sym bols, and human factors such as whole body vibration in forestry off-road vehicles. Current work, funded by Health and Welfare Canada , incl udes a project on intra truncal press ures as an index of stress during repetitive lifting, and the physiological effects of handarm vibration as a means of diagnos ing individuals who might be vulnerable to vibra tion white finger disease. O ther external activities in which the Ergonomics unit is active include the Canadian Standards Association Technical Committee for Guidelines on Ergonomics in Office Systems, and the Technical Committee for an International C onference on Occupational Ergonomics . T his conference, the first of its kind in North America, will be held at the Toronto Harbour Castle Hilton, May 7 to 9 , 1984. Participants will include major figures in Ergonomics as well as researchers and occu pa tional users from a range of fields. Ergonomics as a term may be new to some, but the basic components have been with us for a long time. The focus is ourselves. The need to integrate human beings into increas ingly complex systems becomes more critical as the costs of human error degrade the competitiveness of industry and produce dis comfort and injury in all walks of life. The School of Human Biology, situated at the University of Guelph, in a Canadian university with an international reputation for excellence in the life sciences, is well to the fore in the development of thi s exciting area of education and research. 0

Colin Okashimo: Steward of

the Land By Robin Baird Lewis, Arts '73.

ewarding careers can be found in our own back yards-a discovery that Colin Okashimo , OAC '82, Landsca pe Architecture, found was true in more than one sense in his graduating year. During his final semes ter , Colin was the recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honour Award, given to promising undergraduates who have been selected by their school. After this preliminary recognition, the honoured student then may s ubmit work to be considered for the AS L A Dis tinguished Undergraduate Competition. Colin was en couraged to participate and won this further award in the Design category, one of seven categories in the 1982 competition. Colin's en try , a "fast-food cluster, " wh ich reworked the intersection of Gordon and Wellington Stree ts in Guelph into a fresh and pleasing urban design, won over a field of about 50 highly competent entra nts . Profes sor Cameron Ma n, director of the University's School of Landscape Architec ture , reports that "we are all very proud of Colin. To my knowledge, he is the first Canadian student to achieve this honour, and he was competing with the very best talent from across North America ." A few years ago, Colin was cons idering engineering as his field of study , but changed his mind when he heard of Guelph's program in Landscape Architecture. "While in high school, I was really surprised to hear that there actually was a recognized profession that combined my in terests in the outdoors with planning structure, the way landscape architecture does. And it was right here in Guelph, practically in my own back yard- it was great," says Colin enthusiastically.

Colin Okashimo , OAC' 82, BLA ., second from left, recipient of the American SOCiety of Landscape Architects Distinguis hed Under graduate Award for 1982, with his family. L 10 r: Colin's marernal grandmorh er, Miyko Anzai, Colin, his father Professor Katsumi Okashimo, Departm enr of CompUfin g and Information Science , his mother Mary and his paternal grandmother, Him Okashimo.

Of the two programs offered in Landscape Architecture in Ontario , Colin was attracted to the Guelph option for its well-tuned combina tion of courses and electives which spanned the arts and sciences, for its convenience to his family home in the city, and for its accredi tation from the ASLA. The University of Guelph Undergraduate Calendar for 1983-84 descri bes Landscape Architecture as the "social art of designing land for optimum human use and enjoyment." It also sta tes that while Landsc ape Architecture "is based on design, its unique responsibility is to relate the biological and social worlds in such a manner as would result in an enriched and humanistic en vironmenl." Colin senses that mankind is more strongly recognizing surrounding natural ecosystems and is planning accordingly, using designs that are both flexible and protective. To do so is to become a true " Steward of the Land," which is the full definition of a Landscape Architect. With this in mind, Colin admits; " W hen you think about it, looking after the land just about encompasses life." Immediately upon graduation in the spring of 1982, Colin was off to British Columbia to take a short-term appointment with a small landscaping firm. Unfortunately, due to the economic squeeze, the longer-term job prom ised to Colin did not materialize. Undaunted, Colin returned to Guelph and promptly acquired enough free-lance work to cover air fare to, and expenses at, the ASLA conference in Hawaii where he was to receive his two awards. Apart from the well-deserved holiday such a location provided , Colin also welcomed the c hance to establish some valuable contacts for his fledgling business in Toronto-c. K.

Okashimo and Associates. The Hawaiian connection proved invalu able. While there, he was invited to Singapore to assist a prominent landscape architecture firm that had a generously-funded government mandate to design a new capital city in Malaysia on a 1 ,700-acre inland site. According to one source , Colin's clients have approved his ideas a nd ha ve w hisked away his plans' 'before the ink was dry." He has travelled with the company's directors through fore sts to visit building sites, and work s long hours to keep up with the increaSing demands of this complex project. A fe w months before he left for the Far East, Colin had reflected upon the realities of his profession. In the light of hiS most recent accomplishme nts , his comments demonstrate an optimism , dedication and vision tint attracts good fortune. "Sure, th e design industry has felt the chill of all our recent economic difficulties," he admitted, "but success really depends on what you can do, and what you ' re looking for. Landscape Architecture is still a very young profession- but not a trade. It' s exci ting and very beneficial to be invol ved in the early, growing stages of the profession while j t refines its own definition." From all the evidence, this hectic but happy time for Colin is just the opportunity he believed could happen. His expertise and energy are helping him gain valuable experi ence and international distinction which will support him well in his career. Landscape Architecture graduates from Guelph, like Colin Okashimo, can truly lay claim tD being " Steward s of the Land ." It is exciting and heartening to see them make such an energetic impact on the global community. 0

Dr. Marian Soltys OVC's PhUosophicai Super Prof By John Hearn

hen he retired from the OVC in 1974, Dr. Marian Soltys' veterinary mi cro 足 biology students decided to honou r him, They clubbed together to buy him a tankard inscribed with the words" Super Pco[" It was both a token of esteem and affect ion a nd, by Vla y of a citation, the y told him that what they were doing was not so much to acknowledge what 0\" had taught them in Microbiology, but for the insights he had given them into a philosophy of life . Dr. Soltys, even at that time, had a great deal o f life to philosophize about, one that could be tra ced back to other times and other cultures. He was born in 1907, in what is now Poland but was then part of the old Austro足 Hungarian Empire . The Kaiser ruled Germany and Britain ruled an e mpire on which the sun never set. The Czar of all the Russias was doing his best to cope with the loss of his navy to the Japanese and the shock of the 1905 rebellion. Worse was to come . Acro ss the Atlantic, it would be another five years before a man named Tom Wilby would make the first automobile crossing of the Dominion of Ca nada from coast to co ast, a remarkable feat in a country w ith no paved roads, no gas sta tion s and no American Express. Young Marian went to school足 bilingual, of course; everyone spoke both German and Polish - and, in 1914, the firs t of the World Wars changed the shape of Europe and his life, but not sufficiently to pre ven t him from atte nding the Uni ve rsity of Lwow and later graduating with a D.V. M. and a D.v. Sc. For Europeans of hi s generation, the intermission between the two World Wars was of fl ee ting duration - about the same span of time that has elapsed from the assass ination of Jo hn F. Kenned y to the present day. Hitler ca me to power in 1933 and, barely 12 years later, lay dead in hi s bunker beneath the ashes of 50 milli o n corpses. Philosophers of life must take time and place into acc ou nt, and those were VERY phil osophica l years ! By 1936, D r. Soltys was already engaged in research work as head of an army medi cal corps bacteriological laboratory and, with the coming of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army into Pol a nd in 1939, he sl ipped quietly away to Romania. 10

Dr. Marian Soltys .

What foll o wed was one of those World War Two sagas whi ch a hundred movies have reduced to c liches -the acq uis iti o n of fal se papers and a new identity as a car penter, the brushes with the Gestapo, the escape to Buchare st pretending to be as leep in a railw ay carriage with a R o manian newspaper over his face so that the border guards wo uld not s uspect him of being Polish. There was the c land es tine hel p from the British and French embassies; the forged visa via Italy to France; the re-establishme nt of his prop er identity in France; his flight, after the fall of Dunkirk, in the ho ld of a coaler whi c h made its way to England via the Bay o f Biscay under a hail of Luftwaffe bombs, a nd he surfaced, at last, in Churchill's fortress Britain. It was, however, the end o f the war for Marian Soltys. As an officer o f the Polish Medi ca l Corps he was a member o f an army which li s ted more officers than other rank s and it was not long before he was back on medical

re sea rch at the University of Edinburgh . There, he earned a medical Ph . D . for researc h work in tuberculosis - a s ubject on w hich he emerged as a recognized and widely quoted authority , particularl y after the publication of hi s book

The Tuhercie Bacillus li nd Laboratory Me thods in Tuberculosis. In 1947, aft er two years at the University of Cambridge and two years at Glasgo w Univers ity as a lecture r, he accepted an appointment as senior lecturer at Liverpool Univers ity. It was in Liverpool that he met Audrey Claire Sabine . They were married in 1949 and shared all his subsequent adventures . In 1952, he was asked by the Li ver pool School of Tropical Med icine to go to Africa a nd establi sh a new research institute for the study of trypano-somiasis (sleeping s ick ness ) - the first of a series o f appoi ntments, each of which would itself be a ,. fi rs t." The Solty's family went to Ke ny a, with two ve ry young children , at the hei gh t of the Mau-Mau troubles . He

worked for some time in Nairobi, at the headquarters for the High Commissioner for East Africa, selling up an institutional structure and later assembling staff at Tororo in Uganda. It was during this time that the Dean of the University of Cambridge Veterinary College wrote to ask Dr. Soltys to come back to England to take charge of a new School of Veterinary Microbiology. Dr. Soltys would have welcomed the opportunity but the leller was sent to Toronto , Canada, not Tororo, Uganda. The Dean was about to give up but decided to fire off one final telegram to Uganda asking Dr. Soltys why he had not replied. It arri ved just in time for Dr. Soltys to accept the appointment which led to 12 years in England and a senior membersh ip at Kings College. It would be a mistake to view these years as Dr. Soltys' quiet years as a Cambridge don. By now his graduate students were spreading around the world, achieving positions of influence from which they would invite him to come and teach - a year in Khartoum in the Sudan and another in Utrecht in The Netherlands. An invitation to establish a research institute in Pakista n wa s aborted by the India/Pakistan war. Throughout this period his stature as a world authority on sleeping sickness continued to grow. The World Health Organization invited him to be a consultant on thi s disease. In Cambridge , meanwhile, he wrote his second book, Ba cteria and Fun gi Palhogenic to Man

Dr. Soltys and assistant at Kenya's Re足 sea rch Institute for Sleeping Sickness.

and Animals, which became a standard textbook. Dr. Trevor Lloyd Jones, OVC '34, then Dean of the OVC, met Dr. Soltys in Khartoum in 1963. It took three more years to lure him to Guelph where he remained until his retirement in 1974 - interrupted only by a year of teaching in Australia and short stints in Nigeria , Mexico, Costa Rica and the West Indies. While at the University of Guelph, Dr. Soltys was honoured by the Royal College of Pathologists of Great Britain which elected him Fellow of the College for his contribution to medical science. Dr. Donald Barnum, OVC '41, who was chairman of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology when Professor Soltys joined the Department in 1966, speaks of his contribution in opening up a world view which was both scientific and cultural. It led to extensive work on trypanosomiasis among his colleagues during the ten years that followed, and to an enhanced relationship with students, particularly with graduate students from overseas. Exactly what the word " retirement" means to Dr. Soltys has never been satisfactorily explained. He was 67 when he stepped down from the OVC faculty and promptly left for Malaysia, where he spent four years establishing a veterinary school at the request of CIDA. His third book, Introduction to Veterinary Microbiology, was published in Malaysia. Soon after his return from Malaysia, the Univers ity of Guelph awarded Dr. Soltys the title of Professor Emeritus and he was invited to teach at a newly established American university in Dominica, W. I., where they tried to sign him up for another two years - but he decided to come back to Guelph to write another book. We have at last reached 1983. Professor Soltys is now 76 and looking very much like a man who is only waiting for the phone to ring to start him off on another of his many lives. In the meantime , his wife, an accomplished musician, is teaching him to play the piano. Professor Murdo MacKinnon, the first Dean of the College of Arts, now retired , de scribes Marian Soltys as "a world renowned scientist who is equally at home discussing literature, art, music, theatre or comparative religion, a man who epitomises everything we understand by the term" liberal education." At a seminar on "Education in the '80s " last year, Professor Keith Ronald, the first Dean of the College of Biological Science, expressed the view that a Ii beral education was not something a student could obtain from a smorgasbord of arts and sciences, but only from exposure to the life experiences of a many facetted teacher. He might well have been talking about Dr. Soltys. When his students awarded him his "Super Prof" tankard, they knew what they were doing . 0

Dr. Soltys was the dire ctor of Kenya's Research Institute for Sleeping Sickness.

Some Super Prof

Philosophy

" It is not so long ago that we were able to teach studel11s the whole range - virology, bacteriology, immunology and mycolog y. Now students ha ve difficulty in coping wi th the sheer quantity of information which must be absorbed in anyone of these disciplines."

* * * "Studellls are gelling more and more critical of their professors and respect no one who is less than outstanding. The pressure of studel1/ evaluation on fa cu lty is enormous."

* * * " Th e cultural ran ge offaculty, and therefore their studel11s, is becoming ever narrower. There was a time when talking about the way in which anthrax is transmilled to man might logically lead from sheep to wool and from wool to oriental carpets andfrom oriel1/al carpets to the teaching of Islam. Not any more , I think. I find it ever more difficult to keep up with the prolIferation of technical journals alld scientific papers."

* * * ' 'The world is becoming an ever more dan gero us place. We ha ve to face up to 'the doctor's dilemma' - science has been successful in keeping more and more people alive while, at the same time, developing te chnologies to make them redundant." II

The Gryphon Club

he Gryphon Club has ju st completed its fourth year of operation and is proud to boast an all-time high in membership. In the fall of 1982, Dave Copp took over at the helm of the Department of Athletics and continued to refine the organization and its objecti ves. The newly eLected executive, which includes co-chairman Ken Miles and Tom Arnott, staff co-ordinators Dick Freeman and Bud Folusewych, CSS ' 71, and member-at-large Frank Abbey, is busy preparing the 1984 projects. The 1983 campaign, with the theme "Catch the Spirit" and with a target of$15.000, is well underway with in excess of$6,000 having already been received. The achievement of our goal will have dramatic impact on pLanned Club projects. A Cyro-Temp cold pressure therapy unit was purchased during the year from the initial year's funds. This system dramatically speeds recovery and significantly reduces pain and di scomfort in treating arm and leg injuries . One need only spend a few moment s in the Alumni Stadium treatment room to witness the value of this equipment in helping injured Gryphons back to the line-up. Short specific projects highlighted the 1982 campaign. The hockey project was the purchase of new " FLAK" protective equipment a nd un iforms. Over $2,500 was donated to thi s project with fantastic resuLts. Our football program benefited from the purchase of two Kod ak Analyst Projectors from Gryphon Club funds. Coaches and players alike can now spend more specific time analyzing game film s, refining tech nique s and preparing for opponents. A late campaign addition was a wrestling project to purchase a new wrestling mat. With donations just beg inning, over $1 ,000 of the $4,000 project has been realized. Gryphon Club new sletters have been reinstated as a regular monthly communication to oor members during the competitive season. As well, our executive ha s been meeting monthly with reso urce people to ens ure an organized and orderly approach to Club matters. The enthusiastic and pos itive atmosphere at the se gat merings is a vit al sign of the strength of this organization: "T.ogether- working for an improved Gryphon future . " After a fantastic summer, another Gryphon season has rolled around . The 1983-84 season promises to be yet another succe ssful one for Guelph and we would like to invite

you to join in and help make it our best yet. The Gryphon Club was formed to allow a vehicle for former Gryphons and friends to make a formal impact on Athlet ics at Guelph. The impact is at least three -fold-your physical presence and su pport at Gryphon games provides an example for today 's student-athletes of the fe llowsh ip and camaraderie fostered by intercollegiate athletics-your succes ses serve as examples, both in sport and in the business world , of what awaits tod ay's Gryphons. Your assistance in identifying high school athletes in your area who may want to attend Guelph and wear the Red and Gold is in valuable. In many cases a few words from an alumnus or friend of the Gryphons is the deciding facto r in helping these student-athletes pick Guelph as their new home away from home. Mak ing our coaches aware of these individual s is all it takes . A third form of support, and one with a growing sig nificance , is your generous financial support. Your gifts have funded several key projects these past year s and hopefully will again thi s year.

1983/84 Specific Projects Wresding New mat. Coach Iacovelli w as able to secure a grant of $4,000 towards the total price of $8 ,000. . ........... $4,000

Hockey Skate sharpener. A portable sharpener to use both at Memori al Gardens and on road trip s

..... $750

Football Weightroom. The plan is to establish a permanent site in Alumni Stadium for year足 round weight training

... $5,000

General 1909 Lounge renovations. Renovation s have begun on the 1909 Lounge on the main floor of the Athletics Centre. It is hoped to be the site of a Hall of Fame and an area where we can greet alumni and host visitors to campus

$10,000

Membership Application NAME: __________________________________ What is your occupation? _ __ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ ADDRESS: ________~-------------------- --------------------------------------AMOUNT OF GIFT: $ __________ _ __ PHONE: (home) ___________________________ (business) _ __ __ _ _ _ __ __ __ _ COURSE & GRAD YEAR: _ _

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Make cheque payable to: University of Guelph Alma Mater Fund and mail to: Alumni Affairs and Development, Room 273, Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N IG 2W 1.

NEWS

- ON AND OFF CAMPUS

1983 UGAA Medal of Achievement Awarded to Missionary in Africa Reverend Brother Paul Desmarais, S .1., OAC '72, M.Sc . '78, is the recipient of the 1983 UGAA Alumni Medal of Achieve足 ment, an award that was established to recognize a recent graduate (within the past ten years) who brings distinction to his or her Alma Mater through contributions to country, community or profession . Paul is the director of the Kasisi AgricuI.tural Training Centre, which was started in 1971 by the Roman Catholic missionaries at the Kasisi Mission about 35 km east of Lusaka in Zambia, Africa. Unfortunately, Paul will not be able to return to Canada for another two years so, as yet, the medal has not been presented. Following his selection by the honours and awards committee, Paul was advised by Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, assistant direc足 tor , alumni programs, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, and a request was made for further information on himselfand his work. The following letter is the result of this request.

Dear Rosemary: As requested , here are afew lines regarding my activities and a short history of the Kasisi Agricultural Training C entre (KATC) Our first step, in 1971, was to clear 100 acres of bush for the training farm. During the rainy season, November to April, we hand stumped the trees, often digging holes ten feet deep to cut the ro ots . I still rem ember finishing stumping an area which had been so thick with bush that we couldn't walk through il. One villager came up and said, " We didn't think we co uld do it ." That, to my mind, was a grea t learning expe rience. Knowing that th ey co uld clea r the bush themselves was a most important beginningforfuture endeavors. During the dry season we made bricks for future housing. A big ant hill near a water supply was chosen at th e site. Ant hills COl1lain more clay and make beller bricks. Two people would mix the clay and water, and an other two would put the resulting mud int o forms. The bricks were left to dry inlh e stlnfor a week or so and put

Paul Desmarais , 'OAC' 72. il1lo a kiln. At th e end of th e dry season our kilm cOl1lained 70,000 bricks . The many trees stumped th e previous rainy season were used to burn the bricks . At the end of a week of steady burning, th e fire reach ed to the top of the kiln. The bright glow fr om it could be seen f or several da ys afterwards. There are ten trainee's houses and two instructor's houses now built. Families come to KATC for three years . The whole family is learning during that time. Th e trainees learn aboll/ crops, e. g. corn, soybeans, sunflower, peanuts and velvet beans , vegetable gardening , broiler and livestock management. The staff include s two Zambians train ed in tropical agriculture, one Irish Jesuit working on appropriate technology, plus myself. As well as the training at KATe, th ere is an extension service to area farm ers, there are demonstration plols and research

is conducted in conjunction with th e government research station . Last year an appropriate techn ology workshop was included. Th e aim is to train those leaving school as blacksmiths; to help sustain an increa sing agricultural produc足 tion , and to alleviate so me of the toil of the village life. At th e end of three years training, the trainees have bought a pair of working oxen , ox equipm el1l, e.g. plow, plamer, cultivator, ridge plow, harrow and possibly an ox carl. Th ey might als o have bought two or three heifers and an irrigation pump. As well as the working tools, they have the confidence that they can improve as farmers. They have the knowledg e and skills and motivation. Many come with nothing but determination and leave with a sizeable investmenl.They often say that th ey didn't believe they co uld accomplish so much. Nothing is fre e. Perseverance and hard work wins the ballle. Many coming into the program have had no formal education. Well, Rosemary, this is a very quick and sketchy view of our work here. If you need more information either myself or Father Nash, in To 1'0 /1/ 0 , would be glad to assist. Th e co ulllry has had fWO consecUlive poor rainy seasons. In some area s the people are suffering rea l hunger. Will close, wishing you the besl , Sincerely yours , Paul Desmarais, S.J. , OAC '72, Kasisi Agr . Training Celllre, Box 30652, Lusaka , Zambia.

Dense bush in 197 1- now th e Kasisi Agricultural Trainin g Centre , Zambia, Africa.

Acting Appointments

Dr. Howard Clark, acting president.

Dr. Janet Wardlaw, acting vice-president, academic.

the special request of the Board of Governors, and in accordance with Section 14(2) of the University of Guelph Act, Dr. Howard Clark was appointed acting presi dent of the University of Guelph following the untimely death of President Donald Forster on August 8 . The appointment was originally to be effective September 1 when the office of president was to become vacant August 31 due to the late President Donald Forster' s proposed move to assume the presidency of the University of Toronto. Dr. Clark will serve as acting president until Dr. Burton C. Matthews , OAC '47, assumes the presidency on January 1, 1984.

Dr. Clark has been vice-president, academic, since August, 1976. A former chairman of the Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, he has maintained an active research program at Guelph over the past seven years, and continues to supervise post-doctoral fel lows. He was recently installed as president of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Dr. Clark is a graduate of the Univer sity of Auckland, New Zealand. He holds a Ph. D. degree from both the Uni versity of Auckland and the University of Cambridge as well as a D .Sc. degree from Cambridge .

Get Listed-Internationally

Are you involved in international development work? Is there a pressing global issue which particularly concerns you') Have you lived for an extended period in the Third World') If your answer to one of those questions is "yes" then the Univer sity of Guelph Centre for International Programs would like to hear from you . The University has had a public commitment to international development for many years. This commitment has been demonstrated through extensive involve ment in development assistance projects overseas and development education on campus and in the local community. The Development Education Program at the Centre for International Programs is an educational resource which is very much involved in promoting dialogue , reflection and action on important global iss ues. It does this in part by maintaining a resource 14

centre, by acting as a centralized source of information, by providing speakers and resource people and assisting with the design, planning and implementation of development education projects by Univer sity and community groups and individuals. As part of these continuing efforts, an I NTERN ATIONAL DEVELOPM EN T REGISTER is currently being established. To date, the Register consists of a computer listing of over 200 faculty, staff and students at the University who have expertise or experience in the developing world or interest in a specific issue of global concern. We are now interested in hearing from alumni of the University who may wish to enrol in the Register. In this way, it will then be possible for you to share your relevant experience with current University of Guelph students.

Dr. Janet M.

Wardlaw was named acting vice-president, academic, of the University of Guelph, effective August 15. The announcement was made by Cecil H. Frank lin, chairman of the University's Board of Governors on behalf of the executive com mittee of the Board. Dr. Wardlaw recently completed 13 years as Dean of the University's College of Family and Consumer Studies. In that role, she planned and carried out a major transi tion in the teaching and research efforts of her college. A nutritionist and professional dieti tian, Dr. Wardlaw has been a member of the faculty at the University of Guelph since 1966. She previously served on the faculty of Food Science at the University of To ronto, with the Michigan Department of Health and with the Canadian Red Cross . A graduate of the University of To ronto, Dr. Wardlaw completed a Master's degree at the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. degree at Pennsylvania State Univer sity. She is past chairman of the Canadian Dietetic Association's Special Committee on Education and Internship, a former member of the University of Guelph Board of Governors, and past chairman of a number of other professional committees . The appointment of Dr. Wardlaw as acting vice-president will permit Dr. How ard Clark to devote his full attention to the responsibil ities of the Office of President until such time as the Presidential Search Committee completes its task and a new president is installed. 0

Eventually , the listing will be available on the University ' s computer system and will be used in three ways. I. For information. To enable individuals to contact other individuals interested in similar issues or with experience relevant to the ir needs. 2 . For education. To assist Development Education Program personnel to more effec tively co-ordinate campus and community groups and various activities. 3. For interest. To develop a profile of University involvement in international development. For a regi stration form or other infor mation, contact: Wilma Van Berkel , Development Education Program, Univer sity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N IG 2W 1. (519) 824-4120 Ext. 3778 . 0

8,825 Miles toAttend a Conference

at Guelph? It's true that Nancy (Wilson) Stuart, FACS '70, B.H .Sc. (Child Studies), and husband, John, travelled from New Zealand to Canada and attended the Fifth Annual Guelph Sexuality Conference while they were here. It would be false (but rather nice) to state that they made the trip primarily to attend the on-campus June conference sponsored by the Department of Family Studies and the University School of Part time Studies and Continuing Education . "We read about the conference in the

coming events column in the Spring '83 issue of the Guelph Alumnus," explained Nancy, "and timed our visit so what we would be able to attend ." Nancy and John have been in New Zealand for five years, working as medical social workers . They are employed by the Marlborough Hospital Board at the Social Work Department of the Wairau Hospital , treating both in-patients and out-patients from the region surrounding the hospital. According to Nancy, the aspect of social work is relatively new in New Zealand and does not receive the recog nition or have the status in that country that it does in Canada. "The conference was a great opportu nity to keep in touch with the profession," said Nancy, "it reaffirmed the soundness of many of the theories that we practice. " The parents of two youngsters , the Stuarts live at 121 Maxwell Road, Blen heim, New Zealand. 0

Nancy ( Wilson) Stuart , FACS' 70 , and hus band John , will apply Fifth Annual Guelph Sexuality Conference theo ries to medical social work down under in New Zealand.

AlUDlni Elections to Senate

is again time to call for nominations to fill Alumni seats on the Senate of the University of Guelph . Each year, the three-year terms of office of three of the nine alumni senators expire. Retiring August 31, 1984, are Phillip Chan, HAFA '75 ; M. Christine Hurlbut, Arts '74, and Lorna (Dennison) Milne, OAC ' 56. The terms of office of Dr. Kenneth A . McDermid, OVC '51; Royden J . Ritz, OAC '72, and Susan (Langton) Shantz, Mac '69 , will expire August 31,1985. Richard D. Moccia, CBS '76; Donald C. Rose, Arts ' 80; and Tony K. Sobczak, Arts '77, will sit on Senate until August 31 , 1986. The above incumbents should not be renominated . All alumni who have graduated from the University of Guelph or its founding

Nomination Form

colleges are eligible to nominate members to Senate. Since the Senate meets at least once a month from September to June, the position of alumni senator is a working position, not an honorary one . Accordingly, only candidates who will be in a position to attend meetings should be nominated. Moreover , nominees must not be registered for a degree or diploma at this University, nor be a member of the teaching or administrative staff of thi s University, as those groups are otherwise represented. The form below must be signed by two graduates as nominators and may be used to nominate up to three candidates . Nominations will be accepted if RECEIVED at the Alumni Office by January 15, 1984. 0

We nominate the following graduate(s), ordinarily resident in Ontario, for elecllon to Senate for the three-year term commendng September 1, 1984.

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Honoured

D r. Dennis G. Howell, former Dean of OVC from 1969 to 1980, and now with the University's Centre for International Pro grams, has been elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. The Academy is an international, non-official institution of individuals from the academic arenas of natural sciences, social sciences and humanitie s , who work toward a world order in which human dignity is honoured in deed as in word. In July of this year, Dr. Howell was also honoured by the American Veterinary Medical Association, when he was awarded the XII International Veterinary Congress Prize at the Association' s annual meeting in New York City. This prize recognize s Dr. Howell' s contribution and service to veteri nary medicine through education and vari ous international organizations. As well, Dr. Howell shares with Dr. Kenneth V. F. Jubb of the University of Melbourne, Australia, the honour of having an award named after him. The award, a gold medal together with a cash amount, will be known as the Howell-Jubb Prize. It has been endowed by the faculty and alumni of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the University Pertanian Malaysia (Agri c ultural University of Malaysia). 0

Oversight

Corrected

D ue to an oversight, credit was not given to Toronto artist Barbara Braunoehler for the portrait of the late President Donald Forster, in the official robes of the president of the University o f G uelph, depicted on the cover of the Guelph Alumnus, Summer Issue, Vol. 16, No.3, and the portrait of Dr. Paultne MacGibbon, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and former Chancellor of the University which appeared on page 8 of the same issue. Barbara emigrated from Germany and settled in Toronto in 1953 . She studied at the Artist ' s Workshop and Central Techni cal School in that city from 1960 to 1967 , specializing in portraiture. Barbara has shown her work in a number of team and solo exhibition s throughout the Toronto area. Well re spected for her sensitivity and accurate detail, her work is very popular in political, academic and artistic circles. 0 16

Four Generations a t Guelph

D uring spring convocation last June, the Steckle family added' 'patron of the arts" to their already established reputation for maintaining the Guelph tradi tion-succeeding generations of Guelph alumni. They officially presented, to the University of Guelph Art Collection, a four-piece sculpture , "Pioneer Family," created by sculptor Josef Drenters from old agricultural implements found on the Steckle family home farm, on Bleams Road, Kitchener. The farm , founded in 1833 and still maintained by the Steckles, will be designated a Heritage Farm this year on its 150th anniversary. A pioneer family, the Steckle clan boasts four generations of Guelph alumni , the most recent graduate receiving his degree last spring. The first Guelph grad in the family, the late Oscar Steckle , graduated from the Ontario Agric ultural College and Experi mental Farm in 1882. He kept a diary of hi s College life, and the volume is now in the OAC archives. In the second generation, the late John Steckle, OAC '20, (Animal Husbandry) , married Susannah Chase, OAC '21 , (Horticultural Science), who was the first female graduate of the OAC. Their daughter, Jean Steckle, Mac ' 52, and thei r son, Robert Steck Ie, OAC '52, (Animal Husbandry), followed in the third generation. Now their nephew , David Steck Ie, OAC '83, (Agriculture Engineer ing), completes a near-perfect one hundred

year cycle for the family. In 1974, on the occasion of the OAC's 100th Anniversary, Jean Steckle presented the University with a sculpture of her mother, Susannah (Chase) Steckle, created by the artist, Yamamoto. Donating Josef Drenters ' free-form, wrought iron works this year seemed to be a natural follow-up for Jean. Jean's career ha s led her along an international path. After graduation in 1952 , Jean received her doctorate and worked for the United Nation s Food and Agriculture Organization from 1958 to 1971, based in Rome , although she spent most of her time in West Africa. She returned home to work with the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa and is currently working for Health and Welfare Canada and with the Indian and Inuit Health Service . Further honour for the Steckle family comes in the recognition this year of Bob Steckle, Jean' s brother, who wrestled for the University of Guelph and then in the Olympics . He was named to the Canadian Wrestling Association's Wrestling Hall of Fame in May. It would seem that 1983 has been an exciting year for thi s family-with the Heritage Farm designation, a new Guelph graduate and a national sports honour. The University is delighted to share in this through the donation of the sculpture, " Pioneer Family," and wi shes the Steckles many more successes . 0

The Steckle family presented a four-pie ce sCldpture, "Pionee r Family," to the University of Guelph Art Collection in June. The sculptLire graces the courtyard of the Animal Science and Nutrition building. Left to right , Dr . Roger Ha cker, chairman , Animal and Poultry Science ; David Steckle, OAC '83; Dr . Jean Ste ckle, Mac' 52; Robert Steckle, OAC '52 ; Ing rid Jenkn e r, curator exhibitions, Macdonald Stewarl Art Centre, and the sculptor, Josef Drenters of Rockwood.

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor: Debbie (Nash) Chambers, '77.

1983·84 Arts AluDlni Association

Arts Grad Wins Winegard Medal

N ichole Didicher, '83, of Cambridge, received the Winegard Medal for 1983 at spring convocation. Awarded to a graduate who best combines an out-standing academic record with extra-curricular activities, the Winegard Medal is the most prestigious undergraduate award bestowed by the University . Nicole, who received a B.A. with specialized honours in English, graduated "with distinction" with a cumulative aver age of 85 per cenl. She' was on the Dean' s Honour List in each of her eight semesters. A senior faculty member desc ribed Nicole as one of the most gifted students encountered in a lifetime of teaching. Another offered high praise for her scho larly potential ; a sonnet submilled in one of the classes drew comments about •• her facili ty with poetic language ." On another occasion, she submitted a full-length paper on the heroic couplet written completely in heroic couplet. The paper has been sub mitted to a scholarly journal. Nicole's teachers consistently com mented on her wide-ranging interests out side her specialized studies, her wit and modesty. Although not a music student, she is a talented musician . She has sung in the University Choir throughout her University career; has been a member of the Collegium Musicum; took part in College Royal, and

Executive

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. David R. Murray, Dean. PRESIDENT:

Margo Shoemaker , '79.

PAST PRESIDENT: Julie (Russell) Thur, '78. VICE-PRESIDENT: Wm. Macdonald, '78. SECRETARY -TREASURER: Linda Mc Kenzie-Cordick, '81. DIRECTORS: Linda May Bell, '72; Edith LeLacheur, '72; Janice (Robertson) Part low , '70; Gay (Kozak) Selby, '79.

UGAA REPRESENTATIVES: Wm. Mac donald, '78; Linda McKenzie-Cordick, '81; Janice (Robertson) Partlow, '70 . EDITOR, DELPHA: Chambers, '77.

Debbie (Nash)

Back a Winner - Now!

times of economic restraint alumni support and involvement are becoming more and more crucial elements of the University's development. The College of Arts Alumni Associ ation is very grateful to alumni who have " backed a winner" and directed their Alma Mater Fund contributions to our Associa tion scholarships as well as to College of Arts special projects such as the recently created , MacKinnon Scholarship. Without active alumni, it would have

been impossible to mount Dimensions '83 as a full juried art show complete with prize money . Hopefully, future donations will augment the Dimensions Fine Art scholar ship fund launched by the annual show. In the past, the s hare allotted for scholarships from the Alma Mater to the College of Arts Alumni Association Fund enabled us to initiate both the De/pfw. and the College of Arts AI umni Association (see "In Memoriam" item this pa ge for name change) scholarship programs.

Nicho/e Didicher, '83 .

participated in fencing courses. She also enjoys sailing and is interested in costume design and construction. A graduate of Galt Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Nicole won four gold medals and one silver medal at that school. The recipient of a number of in-course awards while an undergraduate at Guelph , she has received a graduate scholarship to Queen's University . The Winegard Medal was presented to Nicole by Chancellor Pauline McGibbon at the annual Board of Governors/ Senate din nerinJune. D

If our assi stance in the promotion of the College of Arts is to grow, our College's alumni involvement and participation must al so continue to grow . Remember , our Association is eager to accept volunteer planners and participants for our activities such as our annual Careers Night and the Alumni Weekend art show, Another way we can all share in the future of our College is to respond to the annual solicitation for membership. (See membership application form bottom of page 19). Better still, come out and allend a meeting of the Board of Directors as a member-at-Iarge. Get involved and "back a winne r. " 0

Arts Show'83 An Outstanding Succe ss By Judy ( Main) Carson, '75. Our second College of Arts Alumni Association juried art show was twice as good as our first. With 55 entries and 37 acceptances selected by jury members: Professor Chandler Kirwin , professor of Art History with the Department of Fine Art; Brad Blain, '75, director of the Kitchener- Waterloo Art Gallery, and Valerie (Fortune) Liddell , ' 77, art teacher for the Wellington County Board of Educa tion (Centennial CVI) a very exciting show was mounted. The primary goal of the show is to raise money for the College of Arts Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Unfortu nately , only one painting, a winner, sold during the s how held in the Faculty Club from Friday, June 17, during Alumni Weekend and for the week following. It's possible that the private nature of the Club , and the limited use of the facilities during the period of the exhibition, ad versely affected sales. However, the help fulnessofthe Club's manager, Dave Over ton, and hi s staff, has proven invaluable in staging the show and official opening the se past two years. Many of las t year's participants en tered again, and the jury selected the following winners for $100 , $75 and $50 awards: Best in Show-1st, Loretta ( Dunn ville) Hindemarsh, '79, for "My Sister in

S/anding 1101': Bill Ma cDonald, ' 78, Associalion vice-pres idenl and honoura ble meluion recipiel1l , Dean Murray and Brian JohnSlOn, '82, 2nd prize winner . Sealed left , juror Valerie (For/un e) Liddell, ' 77, righI, Lorello (Dunn ville) Hindemarsh, '79, beneath her lSI prize work " My SiSle r in her Bath Bothered by a Bee."

her Bath Bothered by a Bee," coloured pencil; 2nd, Brian Johnston, '82, for " Mys tery of Righteousne ss vs Mystery of Ine quit y ," ink on acetate; 3rd, Rob Kirley, '81, " Untitled ," eucalyptus etching. Honourable Mention - Grace Porte ous, Mac '39, "My Window, " mixed media; Jim Charter , '77, " No . 22," oil; Bill MacDonald, '78, "Water Stree t Bridge ," oil. An enthusiastic crowd turned out for the official opening and to applaud the winners who received their prizes from College of Arts Dean David Murray, who was introduced by our College of Art s Alumni Assoc iation president Margo Shcemaker , '79. The success of the show and the improvements in planning and execution were due to the hard work of Bill Mac-

Donald , '78, and Marta Grze siowski , '79. Special thanks to Norm McCollum , OAC ' 66 . Next year' s show is in the planning stage . See you there. 0

In Memoriam

The directors of the College of Arts Alumni Assoc iation were saddened to learn of the sudden death of Donald L. Webster, '72, o f Guelph. Donald was an acti ve member of the College of Arts Alumni Association and held the pos ition of vice president at the time of his death. In recognition of his service on behalf of alumni, the College of Arts Alumni Association Scholarship ha s been renamed the Donald L. Webster Scholarship. 0

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI BUL ETIN

Editor: Dr. Cliff Barker, '41.

Accreditation Notes from the Dean As reported in the Summe r ' 83 iss ue of the Guelph Alumnus , the OVC has been placed on limited accreditati o n by the Council of Education of the Americ a n Vete rinary Med ical Association. The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association an d the Ontario Veterinary Associati on were represented by observers who we re mem bers of the site visit team. There are ten essen tia l categories for which a ve te rinary college mu s t meet minimum s tandard s in o rder to obtain or maintain full accreditati o n . These are: organization, finan ces , physic al facilitie s and equipment , clinica l re so urces, library and learning resources, enrolment, admis sion, faculty , curricula , and continuing and post graduate ed ucati on. The main areas of concern at the OVC by the Council of Educatio n were: finances,

physical facilities and equipment, and fa culty. These were no s Uf1Jrise as the OVC had reported to the Unive rs it y and the Ministries tha t these areas were deficient. The Ontario univers ity sys tem has been underfunded for many yea rs but OVC' s finan cial problem pre sents a unique deficiency. Our problem was caused basi cally by too Iowa payment per veterinary student by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. When the co ll eges at Guelph were taken into the 'University system nearly twenty years ago, a pay men t level was set without tak in g in to cons id eration that vet erinary medici ne is cos tl y because of the clinica l compo nent and the fact tha t the College has to maintain a veterinary teac h ing hospital yea r round. There is no question that OVC students are among the best trained in the world. But in order to main tain this standard we have been overworking ou r faculty, leaving them with ins ufficient time for scholarly activity. We do not have the modern facilities in

Distinguished A1umnus '83 D r.

w . Kenneth Mc Kers ie , '52, recei ved the OVCAA 's Di s tingui shed Alumnus A ward for 1983 at the 0 VCAA Annual Meeting held during Alumni Weekend '83. President Arch ie McKinnon, '43, cited the accomplishmen ts of Dr. McKersie since his Guelph graduation. A part of that June citation follow s. " Dr. Mc Kers ie is a person w ithin our Association who, indeed, merits the excep tional ho nour for hi s myriad of achieve ments and effort s, both professional and public. " H is record is one of energetic service coupled with strong and dynamic leadership abilities. H is effort s are further acknowl edged si nce ' the y are completed with a gentle hand, a quiet voice, a kind and generous demeanor, but a strong deter mination.

j Imm ediate OVCAA Past Pres ident Dr . Archie McKinnon , ' 43 , left, and OVCAA Distinguished Alumnus for ' 83, Dr . Ken McKersie, '52, of Dea rborn , Michigan ,

USA. "Ken McKersie pursues a broad spec trum of interests and serves an equally wide horizon of persons. This award also recog nizes the pas t and ongoing contributio ns he

clinic s and Biomed ical Sciences necessary to attract the bright young professors that we mu st have. Fonunately, the pro vincial and federal governme nts realize o ur pli g ht and have g ranted us $500,000 fo r the planning phase for construc ti on and renova tions in order to help bring the phySical plant up to stature . The total cos t of OVC construction needed on campus is in th e $18 to $20 million range and we expec t $8 to $10 million for phase one . In addi tion to this construction, the OVC Eramosa Research Station also is in need of ex tensive renovations and construc ti on. Th e Ontario M inis try of Agri c ulture a nd Food recognizes the impo rtance of a modern research s tation for the OVC and is helping th e Uni ve rsity address thi s pro blem . The Governments o f Ontario and Canada recogni ze the importance of a strong veterina ry profession in ma in tai ning a healthy economy. I belie ve they will s up po n the OVC to bring it up to sta ture and regain full accreditation. D

has made to his college, city and commun ity . " In addition to numero us professio nal ac ti vities and achie vements in which he ha s worked to promote the worth of o ur work, he has un selfishl y worked o n many civ ic programs. "This honour, to such a well deserving individual as Ken McKersie, will attach additional esteem to the award as well as bring honour to our profession and o rgani zation and all the preceding rec ipien ts." Ken is ch ief of staff a nd director, Dearborn Heights Anim al Hospital , Inc., 25049 West Warren A venue, Dearborn Hei gh ts, Michigan. He is a pas t pres ident of the Mi ch iga n Veterinary Medi ca l A ssoc ia ti on , the C re s twood Community Hea lth Council, th e Kiwanis Club of Dea rb orn Hei g ht s, the Dearborn Heights Chamber of Commerce a nd the Southeastern M ichigan Veterinary Medical Association , and was a charte r member and director of the Wayne County Veterinary Association. 0

Alumni Funding Imperative

Front

.the Pres. Dr. Wendy Park er, '7 1. Greetings to all. I am delighted to be president of the OVC Alumni Association and thank you all for your enthusiasm and support during Alumni Weekend '83. The event was a huge success with better attendance than we've ever had before. Our annual general meeting was he.ld Saturday afternoon, June 18, at the Mac donald Stewart Art Centre and marked the opening of the " Horse Brass " exhibit. These museum items from the Unive rs ity's permanent collection, have been, over the years, donated by you, nurtured by Dr. Cliff Barker, ' 41, and sponsored by your Associ ation. The major event of the evening was the presentation of the OVCAA Distinguished Alumnus Award to Dr. Ken McKers ie, '52, whom we congratulate h eartily and thank profusely for his eloquent and short accep tance speech. This year we will pursue, with vigour , more Alma Mater Fund projects for the O VC . We can o nly suc ceed with your dOllati ons. We will continue to pay for the large anim al e ndoscope and arth roscope-the O VC large animal clini cians are forever grateful- and submit new proj ects for considera tion. The ove is st il.1 a great school and need s yo ur supp ort thr o ugh Alumni Association membership and don ations. Join now and be assured of receiving the a VC Alumni Bulletin in the future n

The following is exce rpfed from a repOrl presen/ed by Dr . Archie Ma cKinnon , '43, oU/going pres idenl, af fhe AssociGiio n' s Annual Gen eral Meefing durin g Alumni Weekend ' 83.

W hen I was ejected

president of our As sociation two years ago, I indicated to you that if governments continued to tighten the purse s trings for university funding, then alumni of Canadian universities mi g ht soon have to assume a greater role in the financing of their Alma Maters . I recog nize that it will be a long time before alumni gift s will fund cap ital projec ts of the magnitude facing the OVC at the present time , but there are many smaller proj ec ts that are in the re a lm of possibility-projects that would not be prov ided for in grant s, or ones that would ha ve to be deferred or cance lled beca use of insufficient funding. During the past two years, this A ssoc i ati on ha s given special attention to it's role in providing project financing at the OVe. Although the Assoc iati o n has a ve ry good fin ancial base, revenue from our investment capital o nly allow s minor projects beyond graduate fellowship and tra vel fellow ship award s a nd proficiency prizes. One of these mino r projects, com pleted last fall, was a $ 1,500 grant to the Guelph Chapter of the Canadian Veterinary Students Ass ociation for the renovation of the stude nt's loun ge. Our money provided the materials and the students provided the labour.

Four

Generations D uring Spring Convoca tion John Malco lm " Mac" Baker, '50 , and his wife, attended the graduation of their daughter , Nanc y, who has become the fourth generation veterinarian in the Baker family. Great-grandfather M. e. Baker gradu ated from the Montreal Veterinary College in 1879. Grandfather e. B. Baker graduated from the OVC in 1923. Mac Baker, '50, subsequently obtained an M . Sc. from C o l orado State College in 1951 . The Baker practice in Montreal is the oldest veterinary practice in Canada carry ing on continuously with the family name .

At Convocation, Nancy Baker, ' 83, with he r father" Ma c" Baker, '50. For many ye ars M. e. Baker was associated with the Mc Eachran family, who owned a share in the practice, at the same time teaching Anatomy in the Montreal Veteri nary C o llege of which Duncan McEac hran was principal. 0

For the financin g of larger projects, we mu st look to our role in the Alma Mater Fund. Therefore, it is most important that we have a strong vo ice on the Alma Ma ter Fund Advisory Council. Represe nt atives from all seven college alumni as soc iations make up this council. In the pas t year , the g uidelines th at govern th e function s of this co uncil have changed -to the satisfaction of our Association - and we think it will operate more smoothly in the future . Our Associ ation has also appointed a committee to study proposed projects at the OVC and report on a reg ular basis to our representatives on the Advisory Council . In this way, we will continue to kee p the m os t urgent OVC projec ts before the Counc il. I ha ve reponed , in the avc Alumni Bulle fin , the special project amounts re ceived by the OVC from the 1982 Alma Mater Fund campaign . From the 1983 ca mpaign we have been assured of $30,000 for the' purchase of large animal clinica l e quipm en t. Furthe rmore, we have a commitment to ad d $10,000 from OVC Alumni Association fund s to this $30 ,000, if it is necessa ry , in ord er to complete the purchase of all the arthroscopic accesso ry eq uipment needed. 0

Fund Established As a tribute to the late Dr. Donald G. Davis, '48, a memorial fund ha s been est ab li shed by his friend s, the income from which will be used to provide a Don Da v is Me morial Award to be presented annu a lly to a membe r of th e Univers ity of G uelph co mmunity e ngaged in applied research in the equine area . D o n Davis practised veterinary medi cin e for 18 years in Uxbridge, Ontario and then worked 16 years fo r the Ve terinary Services Branch befo re his appointment, in 1982, as director of the Anima l Indu stry Branch of the Ontari o Mini s try of Agricul ture and Food. During his lifetime Don touched the lives of many peo ple in a vari ety of ways a nd always in a warm, friendly and unpretentious manner. He will long be remembered for his infecti ous wit and charm by a ll wh o knew him . Those who would like to be part of this mem or ial to Don are reque sted to se nd their contributions , payable to the Uni versity of Guelph on behalf of the Don Davi s Mem or ial Fund , to: the Department of Alumni Affairs a nd Development, Room 273, Johnst o n Hall, University of Guelph , Guelph , Ont. N I G 2W I. 0 21

The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US

Editor: Dorothy (Hoather) Barnes. ' 78.

1983·1984 CSS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Executive

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. John Vanderkamp, Dean . PRESIDENT: John Currie, '70. PAST PRESIDENT: Pat (Honey) Lorner gan , '68. VICE-PRESIDENT: Frank Kennes, '82. SECRETARY: Marian (McLellan) Mc Gee, '81. TREASURER: Grant Lee, '73 . DIRECTORS: Dorothy (Hoather) Barnes, '78; Robert Barron, '78; Jim Dance, '74; Candi Drescher, '83; Jeff Jennings, '69; Mike Pocsai, '81; John Watson, '69; Sandra (Pickford) Webster, '75. Ex-officio: Linda Busuttil , '84 , President CSS Student Gov ernment. UGAA VICE-PRESIDENT: Sue (Beatty) Davidson, '82 . UG AA DIR ECT ORS : Alvin Jory , '74; Ross Parry, '80. EDITOR, PEGAS-US: Dorothy (Hoather) Barnes, '78.

I ncorrectly addressed mail returned to the University by Canada Post costs you r Alma Mater money. Al um ni can make a worthwhile contribution simply by keep ing their addresses current. Please advise us of an address change and, if possible, attach your old address label-it will assist us in making the correction swiftly. Mail to: Depar tment of Alumni Affairs, Records Section, Room 006, Johnston Hall , University of Guelph, Guelph, On tario, NIG 2Wl. 22

A Note from Our Pres.

"Where are you?" That was the theme of our successful membership drive last year. Many of you responded to that question from Jeff Jennings, '69, and John Watson , '69, to let us know where you were and what you were doing. These tidbits of info r mation about our fellow alumni and, more importantly, our friends, will cont inue to be published. It's a good way of keeping track of those people who came to be very special to us at the University. Grad news is but one service we can provide for you. What else would you like us to do? We offer programs for our members at least three times a year-at College Royal, Alumni Weekend, and Homecoming. Are there any specific activi ties you would like us to arrange') What time

of the year is best? The response to many of our functions in the past has been small. The directors of your Association very often seem to be acting in a vacuum-we don't get feedback fro m you. This Association exists for YOU. We hope that you want to get invol ved, and stay involved , with those people you had good times with at the University of Guelph. We as k that you keep up your member ship and encourage others to join. Let us know the kinds of programs and events that you are interested in attending. Your directors met in September and will meet again every other month through out the coming year- we encourage and look forward to your input. 0

First Venture for CSSAA

The Association's first party of the season was held in March to meet year '83 College of Social Science graduates. It was a wine and cheese party hosted by the College, student government, and yo ur Association. The purpose of the get-together was twofold - to celebrate the end of six or eight se mesters of grinding study and to outline the functions of the University of Guelph Alumni Association and of the College of Social Science Alumn i Associa tion. We believe this was ac hieved . Donna Webb, alumni liaison co-ordi nator, Department of Alumni Affairs and De velopment , outlined the function of the Department to about 40 students who at tended the gathering. She explained that, as graduates of the University, they automati cally beco me members of the Uni versity of Guelph Alumni Association. However, she stressed, to become a member of the College of Social Science Alumni Associa tion one MUST JOIN. John Watson, '69, chairman of the CSSAA membership committee , discussed the three methods available to grads to join.

These are: Life Membership -$50. Life Membership Pla n-$6. plus nine consecu ti ve annual payment s of $6. Annual Membership-$5 . (In year of graduation the fee is $3. ) Pat (Honey) Lonergan, '69, then CSSAA president , and Dean John Vander kamp briefly outlined why grads should join , and what the benefits were . Those directors pre se nt mingled with the students answering que stio ns about the Association and discussi ng their general concerns. It see ms the most important topics for graduating students were jobs, exams and the alumni association-in that order. While this was a first ve nture for the CSSAA, it appeared to be beneficial to those who attended. We look forward to welcoming all new grads as members of the CSS AA. You can help us grow as a viable College Alumni Association with your support. In the meantime, congratulations to all you new grads . Let' s hear from you from time to time. 0

Grad News

Gloria (Farrow) Guitar, '74, lives at 94 Hone Ave., Hamilton and is a teacher with the Hamilton Board of Education.

Alan "Monk" Marr, '68, is director of T. V. commercials for Partners Film Com pany, Toronto.

Mike McKean, '74, has been transferred from Guelph to Kowloon, Hong Kong with Johnson and Johnson Ltd. Mike's wife , Nancy (Abell), '73, joined him after she completed her M.B.A., in August. Their new address is lot 247-250, 00223, F9 Las Pinadaf, Clearwater Bay Rd., Kowloon, Hong Kong . A past director of our Associa tion, Mike has made an invaluable contribu tion. We wish him much success and happiness in his new assignment.

Kate (pratt) Moggach, '69, is unit co ordinator with the Brockville Psychiatric Hospital. H ans (Wo u ter ) Wychers , '70, has changed his employment. He is district sales manager for Steelcase Canada, in Markham. J im Hewer ,'71, tells us he is now married and is manager for Nabour Stores, at Speers Road, Oakville. His wife, Catherine, is a graduate of the University of Toronto. Mary (Turk) Baker, '73, 167 John St., London, is staff education instructor for St. Joseph's Hospital , London. .Victoria (Long) Bisa nz, '73, and her husband live at 6 Lincoln Court, St. Thomas, Ont. N5R I E4. Victoria is a teacher for the Elgin County Board of Education, in St. Thomas. Cathy (O'Keefe) Blackman, ' 73, of 868 Tanager Ave., Burlington, Ont. L 7T 2Y2, is now a section manager, methods, for Bell Canada, Toronto. Michael Boland, '73, of Toronto, is a teacher with the Peel County Board of Education. Michael's wife, De bbie (Ches ley), '74, is also a teacher and is employed by the Metropolitan Separate School Board, Toronto.

E d Otten, '74, is teaching for the Metro politan Separate School Board at Senator O'Connor College School in Don Mills. Patti (Sniderman) Collins , '75, is living at 129 Liverpool St., Guelph, N IH 2L4. Her husband , Joseph, is an Arts '75 grad. Patti is a teacher with the Wellington County Board of Education. Colin Co mrie, '75, lives at 21 Beaucourt Road, Toronto. He is a technical assistant with Oatercom Industries.

Sylvia (Paskaruk) Dorosh, '75, Ii ves at 326 Gordon Street, Guelph. She is a management consultant for the city of Toronto. David Moote, '75, has changed his em ployment and is now a teaching master, golf course technical program, with Seneca College , King Campus . He and his wife, Carol Ann, live at 69 Lo ngboume Cres., Brampton, Ont. L6S 2R8 Barbara H. Taylor-Johnson, '75 , is a registered nurse with St. Michael's Hospi tal , Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Pe ter Edward J o hnson, HAFA ' 76. Ellen (Mitz) Hutt, '76, is a teacher with the E.W. Pratt Secondary School. She lives in High Prairie , Box 212, Alta. , TOG lEO. Shawn Sexsmith, '76, is a realtor working for Remax in Saskatoon , Sask. De nnis Young, '76, works for Canada Employment and Immigration, Stratford, as an employment counsellor. Lori Harvey, '77, is a residentail counsel lor with the Brampton/Caledon Association for the Mentally Retarded in Brampton. Robin Horne, '77, and his wife, Irene, are living in Stewart, B.C. He is a teacher with school district #88, Terrace , B.C. Lorna (Duncan) Stew art, ' 77 , is assistant administrator at Richmond General Hospi tal, Richmond, B.C. Margaret (Cooper) Desau tels , '78, is living in Canmore, Alta . She is employed by the Sundance Inn in Canmore. 0

Gary Dobbie, '73, is manager, business planning, at the T.O. Bank , Alberta Branch, Edmonton. Gregory Goy, '73, still resides in Glouces ter, Ontario , but he is now co-ordinator, local housing market analyst, with Canada Mortgage and Housing, in Ottawa. J oseph Guiry, '73, has changed his em ployment and is a geological technologist for Shell Canada Re sources Ltd., Calgary, Alta.

College of Social Science awards were presenred re ce ntly. Among th em were th e J. W. Skinner Honours .)chola rship and the Alma Mater B.A. In- course Scholarships. Above: Donald Graham. Gu elph. re ceived the J.w. Skinner awa rd from Dean John Vanderkamp. Below: Three recipients of th e Alma Mater a wards. one for. Christoph er Heap. Port Dove r; Laurie Pea rson. Brantford and Carrot Whynot, Toronto. with Professor Mike Matthews. chairman, Depa rtment of Psycholo gy, left and, right. Professor Bruce Fors ter, Departmel1l of Eco nomics.

Wayne Ha ll, '73, is employed as a teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Educa tion in Kitchener. Sheryle Lackey , '73, who lives at II Overlea Dr., Kitchener is a teacher with the Wa~erloo County Board of Education in Kitchener. 23

The College of Biological Science Alumni Association

BIO-ALUMNI NEWS C areers

egister

F o ll ow ing the an nouncement, in th e Spring '83 issue of the Guelph Alumnus, that the College of Biological Science was estab lishing an alumni caree rs regi ster, we have enjoyed an excellent response. Listed below are those who have registered.

Na me Airdrc , Da ve . '1:1 2 Andru siw , Victor, 1:12 Arm St ro ng . Ted , '74

MajorISpeclllliz.. Microbi ology

Microbiology FI Sh', W 'lifcEcology

Bak er , Robe n . '74 Bamsey . Sheena, '77 8 c3I1 y. Juli a. '8 1 BeaUdoin , (Kel ly) Karen, '79

Microbi ology Marine Biology Microbiology

Be re1.iuk . (l arocque ) Mary . '!:I I Bird , David . '73

Unspec ia lized Zoology

Bowen , Dr . Don . '7 1

Zoology Fis h: w 'lirt-/ Para sit. wildlife Un spec ial il.ed . Marine Bio logy Fish : W ' lifeJParasi1. Zoolog y Genetic s Marine Bio logy Microbiolog y Nutrltion/ H . K, Mi erobiol ogy Genetic s Genetics Zoo logy Microbiology Fish& Wildlife Human Kinet ics Fisherie s & W ' lI fe Nutr ition Un s pcci ali z.ed Un s pcei all ·l.ed Zoology Microbiology Fish & Wi ld lire Marine Illo logy Un speeia lized Zoology Wildlife Zoo logy Un speciali"l.ed Hum an Bi o logy Zoology Mic robio logy Uns pec iali zed Fis h & Wildlife Wildlife Genelics Zoo logy M ic robiol ogy Unspcc ial lzed Manne Biology

Bowe r. Su san. '74 Bru sny k. Law rence. '8 1 BurnSide, Yvonne . '76 Ca lm s, Jane t , ·82 Cawthorn , Dr. Richard. '73 Chappe ll , Perry, '81 Co nne rs . Dr . Jennifer, '75 Cosens , LOrTIe, '79 Cunl1ingham, He ather, ·8 2 Dibb lee, Lynn, 'SO Dodso n, ( Ke nn ed y) Barbara, 'SO Duke , Louise. ' 78 Dunl o p , Kathr yn . '80 Durbin, John, '78 Duva l, Paul , '68 Ec kers ley, Mike , '75 Erhart , Jim , ' 78 Fa rme r. Gi l. '74 Farnwonh , Edward , ' 78 F i t~p a tr ic k , Dennis , ' 75 Fosler . Ken , 'S I G aul t , He le n , ' 7S Glenn, Gre gory ,'72 Gre idanu s. Do nald , '74 HaJJ . Armslrong . Jea n , '7 5 Hoover , Barbara, '78 Ho pe, Nancy. '73 HowsaOl, Heather, '81 Hurley. Geo frrey, '7 3 In ksler, Mark, '79 Jan se n, Vi ncenl, 'SO John stOn , Gav in , 'SO Kel.le y, Douglas, '76 Ke mpe , Jane . ' S2 Ke rr , Ste ven. '77 Laing, Sha ro n . 'SO Lans bergen , Joa nne . '7 . Lee , Jo hn , '7 5 Le. ~fl s, Mary ' 79 Lemmon , Gerald. '7S L ind v ik , B<.:th, ' 76

Zoology

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Editor: Dr. John Powell .

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Nam e lill ie , Jo hn , '72 Lo we, Douglas , '68 Lo yn cs , Dr. Richard , '70 Ly nn, Dr Den is. '69 MacRae, Andrew , ' 7 1 Mahon , Rob in , '8 1 Me Blain , William, '69 McCloy. S usan, '79 McC reary ,Jill, '79 McCuaig, Larry , '74 McDo well, Do n , '8 2 McEwen , Cath y, ' SO Mc Kee, Pau l. ' 76 Mc Rucr , Je ff. ' 72 Me linc huk , Ross , ' 76 Mitc hell , G le nna . "76 Moccia . RIcha rd , '7 6 Moore , Brell , '74 Mo ~c l , Phil , ' 77 Onelin . Kev in , ' 81 O · Ro urkc . Penn y, '77 Paekm an , Gl e n , '74 Pai nt er. Scou , ' 7) Panneton , David , ' S I Pate·l ur, Pe lu·Ann . ' S2 P ercy , Gayle , ' 79 Pev-ack, Do ugla s . '7) Proeler. Rick, '80 Reid, Dr. Steph anie, '75 Reinhardt,Ortynn , ' 8 2 Rendell,Carol, '78 Rewca stle, Cathy , ·~W Robbin s, Harvey, ' 80 Ross, lan , '82 Ross, Nikki . 'S I Ru sh, (B o iss oneault) Mari e , ' SO Sa rftean t , Beth. '79 Schau s, Da vid . '74 Sherin , Tim , '81 Sippel . AI , ' 75 Sm ith , Brian , 'H2 Smith , Jana , '8 1 Sm it h , Stephe n J .• '77 Sobchuk , Mark . '78 Soper, (McAule y) Kri sta . 'SO Spencer. Wa yne, '75 Sian Ic y. Julia , ' 82 Sle vtn s.on , M arv in, '7 5 S utlon, Mitchell, 'HO Swanso n ,Gary , 'S2 S"!,.tramko, Les, ' 7) Tay lor,Slan , ' 82 Th o mson , Doug, '7M Tlmme rman,Arl, '80 Trace y , Ross , '82 T s uji , Teresa, '79 Ward , Rick , ' 8 1 Watso n , Alan , ' 73 W atso n , Jan , '7 5 W illm s , Shane, ' 77 Wo od s worlh , En e, ' 76 W oo lve n, Robin , '7) Wright, Denni s, '7 1

MajorlSpecil:lli z , Section L oca lio n Marine Bi o log y Wood .~ lce Z F iS h & Wildlire Z Red Deer, Alta. Mi crobiology Ho uston , Tex. USA M Marine Bio logy Guelph Z Nutriti o n N ' O s hawa Fi s h Biology Z Da n mo ulh, N .S . Zoo lo gy Edmo nto n , Alta. Z Un s peciali :ted U T oronto Microbio lo gy C hes tervill e M Nutrition O s hawa N Ecology Sept-lies , Que , BG Whitehorse, Yukon Ecology BG Marine Bio lo gy T o ro nto Z Marine Biology Ha lifa x, N .S . Z Wlldlire R.:: gina , Sas k . Z Zoo logy Ric hmond Hill Z Ma rine Bio logy Z Erin Zoolog y Z Ed mo nt on . Alta . M Oakvi lle M icrobio lo gy Zoolo gy White ho rse , Yuko n Z Marin e Bio logy van cou vc r, S.c. Z Marin e Biol ogy Halifax , N .S . Z Marine Bio ./ 60Iany Z BG Burli ngton M IC robiology M Montreal,Que . Unspec iali7.ed West Hill U Marine Bio logy ln uv ik, NWT Z Zoolog y/ Marine Bio . Halifa x , N.S . Z Ecology BG Toront o Un speeia li zedlDV M Kcmptville U NUlritlon N Gue lph Ma rin e Biology VictOria, S.c. Z Wild life Winnipeg, Man . Z Fi sh & Wildlife Sault St c . Marie Z Zoolo gy Z Cal g ary. Ali a. Un s pec iali:.r.ed U Calgary , Ah a . Marine Biolog y Guelph Z Biolog y U Calga ry , Alia . Microbi o logy London M Fish & Wil d life Toro nto Z F ish & W ildlife Gue lphfforo nlO Z Zoo logy Hamilt o n Z Mic robiology M Lo ndo n Marine Biology Dartm o uth. N. S . Z Fish & Wildlife Geraldton Z Mari ne Bio lo gy Z Gu elph Fis h & wildlire Z Pond Inlel , NWT Mi crobi o logy ToronlO M Zoology/Nu trition Z Mississauga Human Bio logy T o ro nl O H Physiology H O lds, Alta . Fish & Wildlife Wheatley Z Unspeciali :ted U Toron to Fi sh & Wildli fe BrarnplO n Z Fi s h Whe al ley Z Zoology Z Gue lph ZoQlogy Z ToronlO Un speeiali zed Ca lgary, Alta. U Marine Bi o log y Guelph Z Mari ne Bi o log y Z M ississauga Marin e Biology Z Toro nto Fi s h & Wildlife Sas kat oon, Sask. Z M icro b lo log)' M Ki lchener Zoolog), Z Winnipeg , Man .

Zoology

Nancy Hope, '73, teaches, and has done so for the past eigh t years, is hap pily ma nied and thoroughly enjoying life in northern Alberta; 85 11·96 Street , Grande Prai rie, Alberta T8V 3C8 .

John Durbin, M.Sc. '77 , manages 450 water bodies in Saskatchewan as recre· ational fi sheries supervisor with th a t prov ince 's De partment of Park s and Renewabl e Resource s. About 25 per cent of the water bodies are managed for introduced tro ut , the rema inder for native species, such as walleye, northern pike and perch.

Geoffrey Hurley , '73, works at the re cently completed fi sh and fi sheries section of the MOBIL Venture site environmental impact station called EIS for short.

Marvin Stevenson, '75, and Nutrit ion M .Sc . ' 78 , is in Port Perry with United Co·operat ives of Ontario as a feed spec iali st.

Unspecialized Ken Foster, '81, is a Crops Ph ysiology techn ician with Agriculture Canada at the Lacombe Research Station , Lacombe , Alta. Petra·Ann Patczur, '82, writes: ''I' m prese ntl y working as an overnight·awake residential counsellor at a group home for men tally reta rded adolescents in West Hill ." 24

Fisherie s & Wildlife Dr. Susan Bower, '74, continues with her postdoctoral research fellowship in Parasi tology at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station , Nanaimo, B.C. Dona'ld Gaeidan us, '74, has fulfilled a life-long ambition-farming with 250-head of feedlot beef. He says" ... the Guelph course of study was not exactly related, but there are many similarities between wildlife and cattle, especially when trying to handle them. " Douglas Herman, '77, is product manager with Upjohn Company of Canada (Pharma ceuticals), living at 38 Norbert Road, Brampton, Ontario L6Y 2K I.

Bill Hunter, '78, has the position of laboratory technician with the Sunoco refinery in Sarnia. Lorrie (Ralston) Cosens, '79, and Eric Cosens, '80, live at 511-89 Westwood Road, Guelph NIH 716. Lorrie is a lab technician with the Department of Land Resource Science at Guelph and sits on the boards of directors of the UGAA and the CBSAA while Eric pursues graduate studies with the School of Rural Planning and Development, is involved with the Alma Mater Fund and is also on our Board of Directors.

Kim Poole, '81, is a wildlife biologist in Yellowknife with Wildlife Service, Department of Renewable Resource s, Government of the N.W.T.

julia Beatt)', '81, works as an environ mental technician with the Ministry of the Environment , Waste Management Branch, B. C., collecting and assessing water quality samples, biological (Maeroin vertebrate, bacteriological and fisheries estimates) samples, writes reports on such, and re sponds to pollution complaints regarding discharges to ambient water systems.

Hum a n Biology

Genetics

Mitchell Sutton, '80, is a dental student at the University of Toronto and" needs sleep pretty badly." He was in Israel this summer for a fraternity-ba sed tour/dental practice program.

Kathryn Bailey, '73, is in her third year of Human Medicine at the University of To ronto, and will be clerking at Toronto General Hospital during 1983-84.

jean (HaU) Armstrong, '75, and Ted Armstrong (Fish and Wildlife '74, M.Sc. '77) of P.O. Box 2265, Cochrane, Ontario POL ICO, tell us that Thomas Edward was born to them on Nov . 6, '82-a brother to Heather-who is three plus-and that Jean is aquatic/waterfront director in the summer and free-lancing for the Ministry of Natural Resources otherwise. Ted is still district biologist for the MNR and regional co-ordi nator for Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas. janet Beaver, '74, and Paul McKee, '76, have moved to 52 Norma Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario L6S 4H2. Paul is an environmental consultant with IEC BEAK Consultants Ltd., in Mississauga, while Janet is a water scientist with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Central Region , located in Don Mills. Caroline Barrett, '76, works at the To ronto General Hospital in the coronary intensive care unit. She tells us that Scott Watson, '76, is hatcheries manager at Dorion with the Ministry of Natural Re sources and that Beth Lindvik, '76, is working on fi sh diseases in Nanaimo , B.C. Action has been taken re the Marine '76 newsletter , and Rich Moccia, '76, is suita bly subdued and repentant.

Kathryn Dunlop, '80, worked as a high school Physics teacher and , by choice, is now at the University of Western Ontario studying Physiology . 0

Telidon Needs You The University's Telidon Produc tion Centre is producing a program for high school students about B.Sc. degree programs. They ' re in need of "grad profiles"-just a few lines naming employer, job title, job de scription , grad year, degree and specialization and featuring a job related quote. Please forward profiles to: Betty Bean-Kennedy , Telidon Production Centre, Day Hall, University of Guelph , Guelph , On tario NIG 2Wl.

Annual Event Alumni Weekend, '83, was en riched with the addition of the first annual CBS Guelph Island Week end. The scheduled events included a midnight campfire, the Dean's Bar becue and a Canoe Tour. It is hoped that this annual Island Weekend will attract class reunions-let's remember that the class of '74's tenth anniversary is in 1984. Anyone wishing assistance with organizing reunions, but espe cially on Island Weekend ' 84, please contact the Alumni Office or the CBS Dean's Office.

College Hon our RoD Semester 05: SOTO, Tina. ADAMS, Lance. MEACHER , Cheryl. Semester 06: WALTER , Michael.

Winte r '83

87.0 Marine Biology 86.6 Microbiology 86.4 Microbiology

Home town Thorold Georgetown Collingwood

Sudbury

FREITAG, Rex.

88.2 Genetics. Minor - Statistics 85.2 Unspecialized

Semster 07: O'CONNOR, Sandra.

89 .5 Unspecialized

Burlington

Semester 08: ARMSTRONG, Doug. NOLTE , Annette. CHARLEBOIS, Robert. FARBRIDGE, Karen. WELLS, Thomas. BROWN, Carolyn. DuQUESN A Y, Catherine.

87.0 86.6 86.4 86 .0 85.6 85.4 85.4

Willowdale Guelph Sudbury Kettleby Sarnia Brampton Guelph

Wildlife Biology Human Biology Genetics Zoology Botany Genetics Fisheries

Bolton

The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALU N NEWS Editor: Dr. Harvey W. Caldwell, '51.

1983-1984

OAC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Executive

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. Freeman McEwen. PRESIDENT: Don Risebrough, '77. IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Henry J. Stanley, '55. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: Ginty Jocius, '70. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: David Barrie, '53A. SECRETARY/TREASURER: R,H. (Dick) Ellis, '46. FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE: Dr. Jack Tanner, '57. STUDENT FEDERATION PRESIDENT: Greg Iler.

First Recipient of Award

Professor Ted McNinch , '49, chairman of Independent Study, School of Part-time Studies and Continuing Education, became the first recipient of the newly-created Norman High Award at a recent awards banquet sponsored by the Ontario Associa tion of Continuing Education. Presented by the Honorable Dr. Bette Stephenson , Ontario Minister of Education, the award recognizes "outstanding contri butions to continuing education in On tarlo." Professor McNinch was instru mental in developing the Ontario Diplomas in Horticulture (ODH) and in Agriculture (ODA) correspondence programs at the University of Guelph. Dr. Norman High. ' 40, was the first chairman of Extension Education at the OAC. Professor McNinch and Dr. High were members of a committee that en visioned a diploma-level correspondence program for horticultural personnel who were in service. In 1960, Professor McNinch became chairman of the new program, which was later expanded to include agriculture courses. In the '70s he developed the multi media learning package. Guelph became

the first school to use filmstrips which were coupled with audio cassette commentary to support the print portion of its correspon dence courses. "Restructuring the ' course delivery system and writing our own texts," said Professor McNinch, "has kept tuition costs down. In addition , the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food has provided financial support for the Independent Study program from the beginning." Professor McNinch emphasized that the program is the product of teamwork and co-operation among horti cultural groups, the University and the provincial government. "Jt is successful," he said, "because it is viable, economical and user friendly." Dr. Stephenson observed that the con cept of education is changing. Numbers of school-age children are declining and we have a " post-adolescent boom" demanding alternative learning methods. In the future, almost every citizen will need to participate in some form of part-time study to enhance job skills. " This clearly means continuing education programs like the ODH and ODA will become even more important," she said. 0

CLASS '83 REPRESENTATIVE: Murray Porteous, '83 . CLASS '83A REPRESENTATIVE:

Valerie Wert, ' 83A.

CHAJRMAN, OAC ALUMNI

FOUNDATION: Gordon Nixon, '37.

EDITOR, OAC ALUMNI NEWS. Dr. Harvey Caldwell, '51.

DIRECTORS: Phil Boyd, '80; Norris Hoag, '66; Dr. Leslie Laking, '39; Wes Lane, '7[ ; Catherine Lowry, '78; Norman McCollum, '66A; Ross Milne, '55; Robert Munson, ODH '63; Keith Murray, '65A; Art Peppin , '41; Ron Piesanen , '64; Dan Rose, '60; Tommy Thompson, '36; Elizabeth Wise, '82; Murray Woods, '56. 0

Minister oJ Education , Dr. Belle Stephenson , views a colour filmstrip, part ofa multi-media learning package explained by ProJessor Ted McNinch, , 49, at a recent awards banquet in Toronto. Ted McNinch received the Norman High AwardJor his contributions 10 co ntinuing education in the province oJOntario . He is the chairman oJlndependent Study, a division oj the Uni versity School oj Part-time Studies and Continuing Education.

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Alumni Respond to S u rvey During Review of Minor in

Inte rnational Agriculture

In January of 19~3 , on behalf of the B.sc. (Agr.) Program Committee and the OAC International Programs Committee, Dean Switzer appointed a committee to review all aspects of the Minor in International Agriculture. Committee members were: Professors Jim Shute, School of Agricul tural Economics, chairman ; Don Grieve, OA C ' 55, De partment of Animal and Poultry Science; Mike Jenkinson , OAC '63 , assistant to the dean of the O AC , and Dick Protz, Department of Land Resource Science. The following is excerpted from the report of findings and recommen dations.

Background Planning for the M inor in International Agriculture was initiated in 1970 and the Minor first offered as part of the BSc. (Agr.) program in 1974, with the first group of seven students graduating in 1976. Since then, some 115 students have completed the Minor, with many others taking one or more courses offered within the Minor. The objectives established for the Minor from its inception were: 1. To promote an aware ness of agricul tural production systems in developing countries.

2. To stimulate an understanding of the social and economic implicationsofagricul tural development. 3. To familiarize students interested in working internationally with agricultural production and development. It has always been expected that the majority of students taking the Minor would not be planning to work in developing countries but that they would aU benefi t professionally, nevertheless, from a study of tropical agriculture and the issues affect ing the global food system.

Grad Survey All graduates of the minor were sur veyed by mail concerning their views of specific courses , of financ es, of the Field Trip course and of the value and content of the Minor in general. Of the 115 graduates, three had no current address and one had died, leaving III of whom 53 returned comments, for a rather encouraging re sponse rate of 48 per cent. One-half of all the respondents graduated in lnl and 1982. They wrote to

us from across Canada and from Sudan , Congo , Zambia, Colombia, Thailand, Bri tain and the USA.

Conc::lusions I . The Minor, as presently constituted, is meeting most of its objectives and is functioning well. We wish to suggest modifications to improve it, rather than propose radical restructuring. 2. The Minor in International Agriculture is s trongly s upported by former and present students. 3 . Enrolment in the Minor is declining at the moment, as OAC enrolment in general is declining . 4. The Minor cons istently appeals to only a limited number of B.Sc. (Agr.) students . Additional publicity may not influence a larger participation rate but it should serve to inform students In their early semesters who are not fully aware o f the Minor. 5 . Significant numbers of B .Sc (Agr.) students take some courses which are in cluded in the Minor but do not complete the Minor. 6. Students, both present and past, want a greater social science emphasis in the Minor . 7. There are promi s ing opportunities for the OAC to collaborate with the B.A. International Development Program and with other institution s both in Canada and in the Third Wodd. 8 . There is a fairly widespread feeling on the part of both faculty and student respon dents that the international commitment within OAC is weakening, that inter national acti vity is a luxury and that, in the words of one graduate , "some of the faculty are getting stale . " 9. The Field Trip course is the most distincti ve and indispensable feature of the Minor. Financial constraints to partici pation in the Field Trip are not significant. 10. Present course offerings in the Univer sity are largely adequate, even to meet the additional needs identified by students. The principal constraint on taking additional elective courses-in social science, for example-is the multiple use students wish

to make of a minimal amount of elective time . 11. The Minor constitutes a liberalizing educational experience for students, meet ing most of the criteria established by the Advisory Committee on Liberal Education.

Summary In the view of the committee the Mi nor in International Agriculture is bas i cally sound a nd appears to be meeting its Objectives reasonably effectively. We be lieve that it should continue as part of the B.Sc (Agr.) program, w ith minor re visions in course content and approac h. T he Field Trip is one of the principal strengths of the M inor and needs to be continued and stre ngthened, as indi cated, despite enrol ment fluctuations. The impact of the Minor on students is considerable . Among other consequences, it has exerted a positive and liberalizing influence on participants. However, if the Minor is to flourish, the OAC and Univer sity of G uelph commitment to international development will need to be somewhat more fo cused and certainly more visible. 0

Year '33 I ncluding year members, wives and

guests , 102 attended the 50th

anniversary of graduation of year '33

during Alumni Weekend '83 in June

at the University.

Tiny Landerkin and Bill Rea

man from British Columbia and Bert

Martin from Green Valley , Arizona,

USA, jOintly cut the large, decorat

ed anniversary cake provided by

Food Services.

Of the 49 year members pres

ent, 35 had sta rted with year '33 in

September of 1929. Included in this

number were 22 from the degree

course and 13 from the Associate

Diploma in Agriculture course. As

well as the usual toa sts and reunion

activities, much time was spent in

renewing acquaintances and re

miniscing about the years spent on

campus. A special in memoriam

tribute was given for 51 deceased cla ss members . Noted for its annual reunion s, year '33 plans to continue this tradi tion by announcing that it will hold its 51 st consecuti ve annual dinner on November 12, 1983 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. 0

Arthur and

Reunio ns and a Presentation

Elsa Stewart

Honoured Two Guelph alumni were among 71 appointments to the Order of Canada an nounced in June by Govemor General Ed Schreyer, cha nce llor and principal Com panion of the order. Husband and wife, Arthur Stewart , '33, and Elsa (Stewart) Stewart, Mac '32 , of Pakenha m , were made members of the order. Arthur and Elsa have applied their resources to the benefit of their community, agriculture and their Alma Mater, the announcement states. The Stewarts, who were named Fel lows of the University of Guelph in 1971 , ha ve carried out a model farming operation under the name Braeneath Farms since 1940, and contributed much to livestock breeding in eastern Ontari o. B oth have been active in the affairs of the University of Guelph and its colleges, Elsa by making available entrance bursaries for students from the area to attend the University of Guelph and scho larships for students in the College of Family and Consumer Studies. She has also been acti ve in the restoration of historic buildings on Ma in Street in Pakenham. Arthur has been acti ve in the affairs o f the University having se rved as president of the OAC Alumni Ass ociation , vice chairman and director of the O AC Alumni Foundation and as a member of Senate . He served for years as Reeve of Pakenham in addition to having many ci vic and agricul tural involvements. 0

Class 0/,48

Missing

T wo Guelph graduates on faculty with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College ( NSAC) were omitted from the list that appeared in the OAC Alumni News section of the Summer '83 issue of the Guelph Alumnus. They are: Philip R. Warman, M .Sc . '72 , Ph.D. '77, and Craig J. Miller, B .Sc. (Agr.) 'n Prior to their appointments to NSAC, Philip Warman was on the faculty at the Macdonald Campus of McGill Un iversity at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que. Craig Miller obtained an M .Sc. at the Universi ty of Alberta. Both are in the soils division at the Department of Chemistry at NSAC. 0

Gordon Henry, '34, left , and Aif Hales, '34 , prese nted a portrait of Edmond "Ed" William s , '34, to the OAC on beha If ofthe Class of' 34. Following the death ofEd Williams, in 1974 , one half ofthe residue ofhis estat e, a bequest to the University ofsome $500,000, established th e Mary Edmund Williams Fellowships. The 12-14 $4,000 annual f ellowships are available to studentsadmilled to a Ph.D. program in a department or school ofthe OAC. . After a lIfe interestfor Ed William s's widow, the other halfofthe estate ' s residue will co me to the Universiry to in crease the amount available for awards.

The Rutabaga King Excerpted from the Oakville Beaver By Ann Havprich T hey called him "the rutabaga king", "Mr. Potato" and "a tree's best friend." But mostly he answered to the nickname " Dick" -short for Richard. And when he died in June, at age 77 after losing a battle with brain cancer, Dick Goodin, '33, was remembered not so much for his devotion to rutabagas, potatoes and brees, but because of his human qualities and sensitivity, kindness and his concern for others. "He was a man in the finest sense of the word," recalled Oakville Ward Two school board trustee and long-time friend Len Crosier. "He was a very sensiti ve and kindly man. He always said what he thought. You always knew where you stood with him." Crosier, who served with Goodin on the Halton School Board during the late '60s and early '70s, said the Tavistock Square resident "left Oakville and Ha lton a far better place in which to live."

Dick Goodin, '33. Born in Spencerville, Dick graduated with a degree in agronomy. [n addition to farming on his own, assisting agricultural representatives and lecturing several short courses in the province, he joined the Department of Agriculture as a representa tive for northwestern Ontario. In that capac ity, he pioneered work in co-operatives, milk-marketing and grower/buyer relations. He was transferred to Toronto in 1942, where he served as assistant director in the Field Crops Branch, and later as secretary and marketing development officer with the Ontario Food Council from 1963-68. Dick was closely associated with the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement As sociation and was active in practical pro jects to improve crops and marketing prac tices. He also served as secretary of many committees including seed marketing, On tario Potato Grower's Association , O ntario

Those Caldwell Macs

By Clive Lewis. O ne of the joys of the Canadian autumn is the opportunity to sink one's teeth into a big McIntosh apple. For Dr. Harvey Caldwell, '51, editor of the OAC Ahimni News. that joy is increased by the fact that the Macs he sinks his teeth into are named after him. He'll be eating his "Caldwell Macs" again this fall. After moving to Guelph in 1954, Harvey planted a number of fruit trees in his back yard. In 1958, intending to replace an apple tree that wasn't growing too well, and that had never produced any fruit, he cut it off below ground with an axe. Before he could dig up the roots he was called away and, some time later, when he went back to finish the job, he found a shoot had appeared. He let it grow and when the tree began to fruit, two or three years later, he found he had an exceptionally firm, juicy red apple, and was glad he had spared the

little shoot. The apples were scab resistant year after year and, as an added bonus, kept very well over winter. Although Harvey knew he had an exceptional apple , it wasn't until he saw a newspaper article in 1973, claiming that McIntosh were not being recommended in the Guelph area because they would neither colour nor mature well, that he realized just how exceptional his was. He showed the apple to Professor Everett Franklin, '47, and Ben Teskey, '49 , of the OAC's Department of Horticultural Science and, in August of 1973, had a call from the Horticultural Research Institute of Ontario, Vineland Station, requesting some buds, which he supplied for further testing. In 1977, Harvey received a letter from OMAF's Dr. Aleck Hutchinson of Vine land about the tree that had produced "beautiful apples, blush red and firm at maturity" in the trial plots at the research station. It seems that apple production requires

Rutabaga Producers Council, Canadian Horticultural Council and the Ontario Ma ple Producers Association. Sheila Craigie Goodin, of O ak ville, fondly recollects the letters her father would receive at their Tavistock Square home under the alias June Conway . "That's when he was secretary of the Rutabaga Council, and I'm not sure whether he picked the alias or whether the council picked it, but Dad would recei vemail from all over the United States and Canada requesting his secret rutabaga recipes ... he was always at the rutabaga producers' booth at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. After retiring in 1968, Dick concen trated his efforts on the potato which, his daughter said . he regarded as "a wonderful, staple food. " Mo re recently, he took charge of agriculture-related tours through the Clare Burt Travel Agency in Brampton. Dick earned many awards and citations in the course of his life, but among those he cherished most were the Centennial Me dal presented to him , in July 1967, for his contributions to Canada's agriculture, and being named Maple Syrup Man of the Year, in 1971, for his contributions to the maple syrup industry. In the words of Sheila, Dick had "a real zest for living." Dick is also survived by his wife, Ruth Alison, and daughters Elizabeth Anne MacDougall of Guelph and Janet Ruth Simpson of Oakville. There are also four grandchildren . 0

as much patience as any other single ingredient. A bud grafted to Mailing 26 dwarf rootstock, which Harvey is using, reaches about 36 inches in its first year. By the end of its second year it had reached a height of six to eight feet and, barring mice, contd. OI'er Harvey Caldwell, '51, wlrh rhe original Caldwell Mclnrosh rreeillsr before ir breaks Inro leaf

deer or frost damage, it should produce apples in its third or fourth year. Malling 26 root stock is used because it provides a sturdy tree that doesn't require support, and it can be harvested from the ground. In partnership with a friend, Harvey budded 5,000 trees last year. He has received reque sts for stock for trial from southern Ontario as far east as Belleville and as far north as Collingwood and Renfrew. It now looks as if, some 25 years after he "spared that tree," Harve y's "Caldwell Mac" will soon be commercially available for us to sink our teeth into. 0

InMemoriam

Emmerson F. Hickling, '22A, '23, May 2, 1983, at Eden , N.Y. , US A , of a heart attack. Hi s wife, Muriel, died in March. He was an expert at hybridizing lilies and had many listed on the Lily Register in London, England. He made a great contribution to lily culture and the beautification of the world, and was very proud of his Alma Mater. William L. Kerr, ' 21A , ' 25, on May 28, 1983 , at age 81. He had been living in Saskatoon, Sask. Donald Creelman, ' 27 A, at age 78, on May 20, 1983, in hospital in St. Catharines. Donald was the son of Geor ge Christ.ie Cr eelman (1 869-1928), an 1888 graduate who was president of the OAC from 1904 to 1920. A native of Guelph, Donald later moved to Vineland to work with the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board. He retired to a fruit farm at R . R. # I, Beamsville. Donald 's son, who bears the name of his illustrious grandfather, George Christ.ie Creelman, '60 , is with Labat! Breweries in Halifax, N. S.

Grad News

Wentworth Richardson, '22, has retired and is living in Lennoxville , Que. Joseph Brown, '34, has retired and li ves in Spring Bay , Mani toulin Island. Kenneth McRae, '43, has retired and lives in London. Archie McKenzie, ' 44, has retired as general manager, tractor and equipment operations, Ford M otor Company of Canada Ltd., and is living in Burli ngton . Francis "Bill" 'Varren, '46, is project advisor Agriculture Canada, Sri Lanka. Bi U is one of a team of four Canadian sc ientists sponsored by CIDA to develop a methodol ogy to promote a type of agriculture to replace the slash and burn system. It is a two-year assignment which, it is hoped, will lead to a more efficient and permanent method of farming. Gordon "Mac" Coutts, '53, is general manager, Grand River Conservation Au thority, Cambridge. Agnes (Bubik) Kormendy , '56 , is a re search associate , University of Toronto.

Diploma Graduates Alexand er Ansell, ' 57A, B ,S ,A. ' 60, and M.Sc. ' 72, is environment superintendent. Ontario Hydro, Willowdale. Wally Schaus , ' 63A , is a farmer and li ves tock broker with Elmwood Livestock Services, Elmwood . Donald Mitchell, ' 77 A, is a bus operator with the City of M ississauga, Transit D ivi sion. Laurence Fantin, '78A, is assistant man ager, Leo n' s Furniture, Burlington. His wife is Lois (Taylor), ' 79A. Alfred Primeramo, ' 78A , is executive vice president , Ship's Chandler Brand Products Ltd . , Midland. Richard Hammond, ' 79A, is vice presi dent, T .G. Hammond Ltd., St. Marys. Bernard Hogervorst, '80A, is technical sales assistant, P ioneer Hi-Bred Ltd., Chatham . John Alle n, '80A , is co ur se super intendent, Club de Golf Piedmont in the Laurentians, Que.

ODH Graduate s Lyle Pettigrew, '61, is an executive, Accegro Services , Indianapolis, In., USA. Grant Hagerman , '67 , is co-ordinator of the reading language and culture division, Tokyo YMCA College of English, Tokyo, Japan.

Marie Golanch, '71, is a sales represen tative with C & C Distributing , Missis sauga. C amille Beneteau , '82, is a nurseryman at Mori Nurseries, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 0

James Garrity, '28A, '28, on June 14, 1983. Details unknown at time of writing. Richard "Dick" Goodjn, '33, onJ une 12, 1983, in hospital at Oakville. Dick had retired as assistant director, Field Crops, OM AF, and Secretary and Market Development Specialist, Ontario Food Council. (See article, page 29). J ohn Bromley, '37, in Women's CoJJege Hospital, Toronto, on June 7, 1983. Greville Harrison, '38A, on March 29, 1983, in Calgary General Hosp ital. Kenneth Robertson, '59, at Wigtown shire, Scotland. 0

Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited generously donates two $ 10,000 scholarships each year to OAC graduate students, one in the area of soil conse rvation and one in the area of corn quality. The first of this year' 5 recipients was Jane Sadler-Richards, '80, a Crop Science student studying in the soil conservation area. Left to right are: Dean Clayton Switzer, '51; Jane Sadler-Richards, '80; Bill Parks, '65, presidenl, Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited, Chatham; Dr. Jack Tanner , '57, chairman, and Professor Terry Daynard, '65 , of the Department of Crop Science.

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Macdonald Institute /Colle ge of Family and Consumer Studies Alumni Association

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

From

the Dean Dr. Barham.

M any thanks for th e warm greetings and welcome which you extended to me in the Mac-FACS Alumni Associati on Alumni News in the Summer '83 issue of the Gue/ph Alumnus. During the time that I have been at Guelph I have had several opportunities to meet both individual members and groups within our Mac-FACS Alumni Association. I also see around me, here in the life of the Col lege , so much ev idence of the interest and supp ort which you give to our stud ents and our programs . Obviously enough we are especially fOI1unate , in our Coll ege, to have such a substantial and di sti nguished association of alumni supporting us in the challenges which we face, and sharing in

our achievements. I hope that all of yo u who are graduates will also have a sense of our interest in you, as Mac-FACS Alumni , and of our wish to recogni ze and celebrate your achievements too. J look for ward , warmly and genuinely, to meetin g more and more of you . And speaking of our distingui shed alumni, wasn't it great , als o, to read in the Summer' 83 issue of the Guelph Alumnus that a Mac grad, Helen Chri stine Abell, '38D, has been ('ecog nized through the Alumnus of Honour Award' 83 . Th ose who have met Dr. Abell know her as a lively , interesting and personable high achiever who has made the world her stage for contributing to the lives o f other people. Congratulations on your well deserved award, Helen . As I begin a term as dean , I cann ot help be ing mindful of the extraordin ary contribu足 tions and leaders hip which have been pro足 vided over these pas t seve ral years by Dr. Jane t Wardlaw as dean o f this College. We have all enj oyed an op portunity this last summer , so me us directly and others indirectly , to express our re spect and g ratitude for the dev oted energies and penetrating judgeme nt she has directed to our interests , whether as enquiring students ,

in-course stude nts, alumni, staff or faculty .. I am deeply co nscious of what Janet has given to us all, and want to add my very si ncere thank s and good wishes to those whi ch ha ve alread y been ex tended . We are so deli gh ted , Jane t, th at following yo ur administrative leave you will be continuing, as a faculty member in the DCpa(1ment of Family Studies , to sha re in the life and work of this academic co mmun ity. Well, he re I am having taken up as much space as I dare, and I have n't yet passed on news of what is going on in the College . I am afra id that it will have to wait until my next letter to you. Before I concl ud e, however , I must just rem ind yo u of John Hearn 's arti cle on the AMPHI Experience in the Summer '83 issue of the Guelph Alum nu s. We pass on our co ngratulations to Professor Tom Powers , and hi s colleag ues in the School of Hotel and Food Administra足 ti on, on the quite outstanding conduc t of their Advanced Manage ment Program for the Hos pitality Industry . AMPHI was a mos t ambitious und e rtaking and it ach ie ved, I ca n as sure you, a standard of excellence and of rema rkable s uccess . My greetings , and good wishes to you all. 0

In Memoiiam

W e regret to a nnounce the deaths of the following alumni.

Reba A. Kappele , , 16D, February 14, 1983 , in Dundas .

Grace (Fralick) Green, ' 300, April 20, 1983 , in Toronto, Grace taught Home Economic s to thou sa nds of Toronto public sc hool pupil s during her 34-year ca reer . Alumni Weekend ' 83 p rovided the opporruniry for many graduates to celebrate class reunions -Ma c ' 33, above, (25 in arrendan ce ), '38 (49), ' 48 (38), '58 (30), '63 (17), FACS ' 73 (30) and' 78 (27). Class pictures were taken marking th ese very special events, but, unjorrunately , we're unable to reproduce th em all. However, seeinx that it was Mac ,33's 50th Anniversary they dese rve special considera tion.

Helen (Snyder) Smyth, '300, April 13, 1983 , in Kitc hener,

Jean (Westover) McCracken, '37D, Dece mber 2, 1982 , in Kin gsv ille. 0 31

Is Infant StilD for You? By Catharine (Clark) Tozer, B.A.Sc., '80, Child Studies

a situation familiar to most alumni, didn't have a clear idea of what I wanted to do once I graduated. After ten months of resume revisions, research and only one or two responses, I did, however, manage to find a challenging and rewarding field of child development which I hadn't previ ously considered. Infant stimulation programs have been growing in size and number over the past five years and there are now about 40 "Infant Stirn" programs in Ontario that served a total of 1600 infants in 1981. Each program varies slightly, but mo st infant consultants travel to the homes of parents with infants under three years of age who are "at risk" for slow development. The infants may already have been diag nosed as having Down's Syndrome, cere bral palsy or spina bifida, or may have simply had difficult or premature births. The Bayley Scales ofInfant Develop ment are administered in the home and ; if delay is detected, the infant consultant designs individual program plans using a curriculum guide such as the Yulpe or Education of Multi-handicapped Infant Scales. Games and exercises for the babies are taught to parents who stimulate their children's learning. Also "at risk for delay" may be children of single mothers, mentally re tarded parents or native familie s. Obvi ously, the infant consultants need to be constantly developing their communication and teaching skills. Most Infant Stirn pro grams can offer staff a number of in-service and conference opportunities in a continu i ng effort to keep staff education up to date. Advocating the importance of cog nitive development in infancy to the com munity means that many In fa nt Stirn consul tants get involved in public speaking en gagements. In our program we also write a weekly infant development column that is published in nine s mall newspapers; we're de veloping a pamphlet series for health nurses, an Infant Stirn in-service for health professionals, a videotape of a Bayley administration and a slide presentation for local medical associations. There are about 110 people working in Infant Stirn across O ntario, and of these there are only three or four FACS grads. The rest come from backgrounds in psychology, nursing, physiotherapy, spe cial education and early childhood educa tion. About 66 per cent of Infant Stirn s taff hold a university degree-that's astound 32

Catharine (Clark) To zer, '80, leji, Infant Stim staffer, makes a housecall. ing when yo.u consider that the average starting salary is usually somewhere be tween $12,000 and $18,000 per annum. One of the problems is that Infant Stirn is so new that there is no pool of experienced people , and there is no specific Infant Stirn training program or diploma. Why aren't more FACS grads competing for the Infant Stirn jobs? Infant Stirn is a demanding and some times depressing field. Sometimes our staff are the first professionals to discuss the infant's handicap, such as Down's Syn drome, with the parents and this is an awesome responsibility. Self confidence can take a beating when we have to build on our education by learning more about physical development, pediatric physiotherapy, medicine, public speaking, communicating with the family physician, pediatrician, hospital , social workers and the parents.

In many way s it' s Illore parent edu cation than infant education since we're teaching parents how to help their babies learn. A very deep belief in the importance of development in infancy and its long term effects is essential. It is often very rewarding to work with young families and the infants frequently surprise us. Conseque ntly, Infan t Stim is a challenging area in child development for the person with an interest in infancy , someone who is responsible, compassion ate, emotionally mature and "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ." The ideal candidate for employment in Infant Stirn would be someone withas many courses related to infancy as possible, courses on counselling, special education and curriculum, and volunteer or summer experience with handicapped children of any age. Some programs have separate psychometrists to administer the Bayley Scale; in others the infant consultant must be able to administer the Bayley, score it, interpret results and compose a written report. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a workshop or any specific course available to learn any of this once you have graduated. A list of most Infant Stim programs is available from the Ontario Association for Infant Development (OAID) , Susan Berry, Treasurer, 30 Dupont SI. E., Waterloo , Ontario N2J IN8. Contact with OAID is a must for anyone with an interest in infancy. I would be pleased to receive com ments or questions regarding Infant Stimu lation at the following address: Catharine Tozer, Haliburton-Kawartha-Pine Ridge District Health Unit, P.O. Box 337, Cobourg, Ontario K9A 4K8. 0

Your Mac-FACS Alumni Association board of dire ctors for 1983-' 84. Front row, I to 1': Elizabeth (Sinclair) Bell , '73, director; Carol Telford-Pillman , '75, immediate past president; Linda (WOlfe) Markle, '73, secretary-treasurer, and Elizabeth O'Neil, ' 74, vice-president UGAA. Back row , 110 1': Bonnie Kerslake, '82, second vice-president; Lois (Fergus on) Arnold, '71, dire ctor, Jean (Fuller) Hume, '64, president , Guelph Bran ch , and Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson, '66, editor, Mac- FACS Alumni News. Absent from the picture: Rita (Klassen) Weigel, '77, president (who was still recuperating in the Guelph General Ho spital following the arrival of 10 Ib 2 oz firstborn Brandon John); Gail Murray, ' 78 , first vice president, and Elaine (McCr ossan) Smilh, ' 68, director.

A Tribute to Katherine Beck

K atherine M. Beck, '220, was honoured by the Mac-FACS Alumni Association at their annual meeting in June. A plaque was presented to the University to be installed in the lounge of Maids ' Hall. The lounge will be known as the "Katherine M . Beck Lounge" in appreciation of her 36 years of dedicated service as chief dietitian, Creel man Hall, from 1926 to 1962. Maids' Dormitory, as it was called when it was built in 1914 at the same time as Creelman Hall, provided accommodation for Katherine and her female staff of around 40 who worked in the dining hall. it was home to staff who came to Guelph from rural backgrounds. In 194 I, the Royal Canadian Air Force used Maids' Dormitory as their Sergeants' Mess . After the war it became Maids' Hall, a student residence. Following her graduation from Mac donald Institute, Katherine completed a dietetic internship at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, then continued further study at Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, USA. After working for a year in a private hospital in Detroit, she returned to her home in Guelph and assumed the pOSition of c hief dietitian on campus. Katherine recalled many interesting highlights of her years as dietitian. The staff was a pleasure to work with-they were keen and eager to learn. Their pay was approximately $26 a month plus board. Three times a day they prepared the meals, set each of the .round tables with

special linens and dinnerware featuring the OAC monogram or crest, and served the meals-family style. Looking after three tables, each seating ten kept the staff busy "they almost needed roller skates" Katherine observed. Homemade bread, milk and, occa sionally , ice cream from the Department of Dairy Science, eggs from the Department of Poultry Science and meat from the 'Ontario Reformatory and the Department of Animal Science were provided for preparation by the staff. The meals were superb, espec ially the banquets . Katherine took great pride in serving the finest quality of foods, and alumni still talk about the many "four-star" banquets they enjoyed in Creelman Hall. When the Royal Canadian Air Force was on campus, food service in Creelman Hall was changed to cafeteria style. This prompted antics in later years when students swiped air force trays and hid them in mysterious places. For a few days following the liberation, students ate their meat, potatoes and vegetables out of soup bowls . Another time all of the cutlery disappeared. No doubt alumni could relate many interest ing tales as to many other antics that took place in Creelman Hall. Mac-FACS alumni were pleased to pay this tribute to Katherine Beck during Alumni Weekend. She is indeed a very special lady, and has left many an alumnus with fond memories of her years on our campus. 0

L 10 r: J oan (Anderson) J enkinson. ' 66, Mac-FACS Alumni News edilor; Carol Telford-Pillman, '75. immediale pasl presidenl, and Kalherine Beck, ' 220 , in whose honour Ihe lounge in Maids Hal! has been named Ih e ., Kalherine M . Beck Lounge."

Grad News

M yrn a (Bannan) Thom pson, ' 61 , is head of Family Studies, Innisdale Secondary School in Barrie. Sue P a r ker, '70, is execulIve dietitian with Versa Services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Toronto. Cathe ri ne R als ton, '71, is a research assistant with the School of Hotel and Food Administration, University of Guelph. Mary Nisbet , ' 72, graduated as a registered nurse in '75 and is working with the coronary care unit at the Sunnybrook Medi cal Centre, Toronto. Mar ily n Nixon , '72, is a fashion consultant with Judith Fashion , Waterloo. Linda (H agg ith ) P a t k a u, ' 73, is an ex perimental foods technologist with H.J . Heinz Co. of Canada , Ltd., Leamington. Lorna Reid , ' 73, is a program cons ultant with the Toronto Board of Education. Ly nne (Miller ) Van W yck, ' 73, is owner and proprietor of Sun Country Farm Mar ket, Highway 20, R .R .# 1, Smithville . Evi (Ester) Ad ler, '75, IS a personnel assistant with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Hamilton. Susan (Johnston) Cunningham , ' 7 5 , is a part-time teacher at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough . Carol (Little) Fraser, ' 76 , is a se nior credit coun sellor with Credit Counselling Service of York Region, RJChm ond Hill. Linda Lantz, ' 7 7, is a colo urs' consultant with Colours in Chatham. Nanc y (Hill) Clark, '78, is owner o f " Muskoka W indsurfing" at LI78 Eglinton Ave. W. Toronto . Mary -Anne " Mad " Dean , ' 78, is a Fam ily Stud ies teacher at Bowmanvil!e Senior Public Sc hool. Carol (Bartlmec ht) Gott, '80, is an infant development con s ultant with the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit in Orangeville. S usan (Lillie) Trainor, ' 80, is teaching jun ior kindergarten and nursery sc hool at Alma College in St. Thomas . 0 33

The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

CIMP Editor: Bob Winkel

Catalysts in the Courts By Professor Nigel Bunce,

Department of Chemis try

This article was taken from "Science Corner," a weekly series featured in the Guelph Daily Mercury. Experimental results, obtained in part at the Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, have triggered a law suit in the USA which could involve millions of dollars in patent royalties. According to a recent article in the magazine Nature, the issue is the chemical constitution of certain synthetic compounds called zeolites. Over the past decade, zeolites have become very valuable as catalysts for all sorts of industrial chemical reactions, most importantly in the petrochemical industry. A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction but is itself unchanged by the reaction. Zeolites are crystalline materials that have an unusual molecular architecture. They contain regularly-spaced holes and channels which can be tailor-made to accommodate" guest" molecules of certain s izes. Some zeolites occur in nature as clays, but most of the zeolites used industri ally are man-made materials . One use for these substances that goes back several years is as drying agents; certain zeolites have exactly the correct sized pores to accommodate water molecules. Since water molecules are rather small. they can be removed selectively from substances whose molecules are too large to fit into the channels. The chemical structure of zeolites is . complex. The three chemical elements involved are oxygen, silicon and al uminum.

Both the silicon and the aluminum atoms are surrounded by oxygen atoms in such a way that every s ilicon tailor-made atom and every aluminum atom is joined to four oxygen atoms. The overall structure is that of a giant molecule, where each of these units just described is bonded to its neighbors by the expedient of two central atoms-aluminum or silicon-being joined simultaneously to the same oxygen atom. Depending on the ratio of aluminum to silicon. the zeolite will contain a variable number of metal.lic species-technically ions-which reside in the channel s of the aluminum-silicon oxygen framework . In 1972. the Mobil Oil Corporation presented a series of synthetic zeolites which they called ZSM-5. This catalyst leaped to public attention shortly afterwards when Mobil disclosed that it was "shape selective" for molecules of the gasoline type. That meant that molecules of the kind found in gasoline fitted preferentially into the pores and, because of this, other sub stances such as methyl hydrate could be converted in one step into high grade gasoline . The patent covers zeolites of a particular type having silicon to aluminum ratios in the range 10 to 4,000. Subsequently, the Union Carbide Corporation, which has long been pro ducing zeolite drying agents, patented a new material which they called Silicalite . This, it was claimed, differed from the ZSM-5 family by being 100 per cent silicon and oxygen in the framework; any aluminum was present in the channels, not in the framework .

The research which has led to the controversy is a collaborative venture be tween chemists at the Departments of Chemistry of the University of Guelph and the U niversity of Cambridge, England. At Guelph , Dr. Colin Fyfe and his students have been studying zeolites by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. NMR is a technique which gives very detailed information about the chemical environments of different atoms . It has been used for many years to study liquids, but only within the past fi ve years or so has it been possible to apply this method of analysis to solids. At the time when Mobil and Union Carbide took out their patents, NMR analysis of zeolites was not possible , and even today , there are very few laboratories . in the world capable of carrying out the necessary experiments. Using the NMR technique. Fyfe and his collaborators showed that "the silicalite structure is essentially indistinguishable from that of the siliceous zeolite catalyst ZSM-5." In particular , the aluminum atoms in silicalite are not confined to the channels outside the framework , but arc actually inside the framework. In other words, according to this new method of chemical analysis. Silicalite and ZSM-5 are the same material. Mobil has therefore claimed in court that Silicalite is an infringement of its earl.ier ZSM-5 patent; while Union Carbide has sued Mobil , asking the courts for a declarat ory judgement that Silicalite does not in fringe Mobil's patent. These cases are yet to be heard. 0

Engineering Failures Are (ThankfuUy)' Rare By Professor Jim Hunt, Department of Physics.

1878, Queen Victoria opened the longest bridge in the world, a structure which spanned the Firth ofTay in Scotland. A little over one year later , it collapsed with a train on it, during a winter gale, causing great loss of life. Engineering failure s occur frequently, but it is a credit to the engineering profes sion that those which involve loss of life are very rare compared with the number of times complex engineering projects are required to perform their service. How many successful bridges are there relative to those which collapse? Nevertheless, when large engineering structures do fail, they often do so spectacu larly and tragically. I n fact, the failure of iron and steel structures was so frequent in the 19th century that Queen Victoria ap pointed a special commission to look into the matter.

Professor Peter Eglestaff.

Physicist Ho noured Professor Peter Egelstaff, Department of Physics, has received the Canadian Associ ation of Physicists (CAP) 1983 Medal for his outstanding contribution to physics. Only one CAP medal is awarded each year, and the recipients constitute a roll of honour of some of Canada's most distin guished scientists. Peter Egelstaff is the first member of his Department to receive the medal. The announcement of his award, coming so soon after the election of Dr. Gabriel Karl to

When the Crystal Palace was opened for t;1e Great Exhibition of 1851 , the Queen would not visit it until the builders had te sted it. They crowded workmen onto a second floor gallery and had them march in step, then in broken step and, finally , jump up and down. Engineers would not be so free with human life today. It is not surprising that Queen Victoria' s commiss ioners were unable to explain the failures they were set to investi gate; it was due to a complex group of phenomena called " metal fatigue. " Metal fatigue occurs in materials under certain repeated stress conditions, and although engineers have developed rules to contain and control it, it is still very imperfectly understood in a fundamental way. Metal fatigue was responsible for the mid-air explosion of three De Havilland Comet aircraft in the 1950s, and removed that company forever from serious competi tion in the jet aircraft indu stry. Other companies profited from their disaster. Failures of large bridges are not a phenomenon of a past era only. The giant Tacoma Narrow s suspension bridge went into giant oscillations in a high wind in 1941 and collapsed spectacularly. Fortunately, failure due to faulty load analysis is almost a thing of the pas t, but a recent example of the problem wa s the collapse of the Hyatt-Regency hote l walk ways on July 17, 1981, in Kansa s City, in the USA. Actually , the original engineering design seems to have been adequate, but at some time a crucial change was made which totally altered things.

the Royal Society of Canada and the awarding of the Herzberg Medal to Profes sor Barry Nickel in 1981, reflects the growing stature of this University in the world of physics. The CAP medal is awarded for distin guished service in physic s over an extended period of time, much of which must have been carried out in Canada. Professor Egelstaff's career has been divided between technology and basic sci ence . As leader of the Chalk River group which built the first phased rotor neutron spectrometer, he succeeded in making the first comprehensive measurements of the thermal neutron "scattering law" of reactor moderator materials. He has also made many contribu tions to neutron spectrometry- the best known being the development of cold neutron sources and the high speed chop per spectrometers used in the Chalk River experiments. Follow ing the publication of papers on nuclear and solid state physics between 1952 and 1962, Professor Egelstaff studied

The original design (Figure I) had the support beams for the two walkways hang ing from hanger rods of sufficie nt strength for both walkways and their occupants. The original design required threading and rods all the way from A to B to properly support the upper walkway.

Somewhere in the construction pro cess , someone decided that thi s was too complicated and changed the design to the simpler one in Figure 2, presumably think ing it was structurally the same . It is not. In Figure 2, the load on the nut at C is doubled and this is where the walkway failed, killing over 100 people. Fortunately for us , engineering is a highly skilled and responsible pro fession- when major disasters occur it often is because good engineering practice has been ignored. 0 This article was taken from "Science Corner," a wee kly serie s featured in the Guelph Daily Mercury .

the atomic behaviour of liquids by neutron scattering. He designed and built a rotating crystal time-of-f1ight spectrometer on the University of Toronto electron linear ac celerator which proved to be very versatile in the study of the dynamics of dense gases and liquid water. More recently he has been engaged in the study of the structure of dense gases, the beha viour of water molecules near the freezing point and the structure of water ab sorbed in clay usi ng a spec trometer he built for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., at Chalk River . To further his work on the microscopic dynamics of gases , he has been granted extensive facilities at the Institut Lane Langevin, Grenoble, France. These experiments form a careful attack on one of the most long-standing and intractable prob lems in physical science. Professor Egelstaff's CAP medal was presented at a banquet during the CAP Annual Conference in Victoria, B.C., and he addressed a plenary session of the conference. 0 35