Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1984 by University of Guelph

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS Fall 1984 Vol. 17, No.4

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI

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HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. Bun Malthews, OAC '4 7. PRESIDENT: Gle nn Powell , OAC '62 . PAST PRESIDENT: Barry Stah lbaum. CPS '74. SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: Ross Parry, CSS '80. SECRETARY: Linda McKenzie-Cordick. Ans '81. ASSOCIATE SECRETARY : Rose mary C lark, Mac '59. TREASURER: James J . Elmslie .

VICE·PRESIDENTS: Sue (Beatty) Davidso n. CSS '82: Dr. Ron Downey. OVC '6 1; Je an (Fuller) Hume, Mac '64; Raben Munson , O DH '63: Bruce Ric hardson, CPS '82; G ary (Koza k) Se lby, Ans '79 ; Jan Watson, CBS '75 .

DIRECTORS : David Ai rdrie, CBS 'S2; Dave Barrie, OAC '53A; Ro b Barron , CSS '78; Dr. Peter Fone, CPS M .Sc. '70 , Ph .D. ' 74; G inty Joci us, OAC '70: Grant Lee, CSS '73 ; Bi ll Macdo nald, Ans, '78; Rob Milne, CBS '81; An Peppin, OAC '41: Dr. Harold Reed, OVC '55; Rosemary (Schmidt ) Smith. FAC S '79; J im Thomson, CPS '79; Dr. Don Wilson, OVC '66. EX·O FFICIO DIRECTORS : James J E lms lie, director, Department of Alumni AO'airs and Development; Jo hn Currie, CSS '70, president, College of Social Science Alumni Association; Barbara Finnie, HAFA '78; president, Hotel and Food Administration Alumni Association; Connie (Hauka) Jasin skas, H. K. '76, president, Human Kinetics Alumni Association; Ginty Jocius, OAC '70 , president, OAC Alumni Association; John King, president , Central Student Association; Gail Murray. FACS '78, president , Mac-FACS Alumni Association; Dr. Wendy Parke r. OVC '71, president, OVC Alumni Association; Bri an Rennie. pres ident , Graduate S tudent s Association ; Margo Shoemaker. An s '79 . president , College of Arts Alumni Association; Lucas Van Veen. CPS '74 . presiden t , CPS Alumni Association; Dr. Chris Wren. CBS '77. Ph. D. ' S3, president , College of BiologicaJ Science Alumni Association,

The Cuelph Alumnus is publi shed by th e Depanment of Alu mni Affairs

and Development in co-operation with Info rmation Services. Univers ity of Gue lph.

ED ITOR, Derek 1. Wing, publications manager, Depanme nt of Al umn i Affairs and Development.

The Editorial Commiltee is comprised of Derek Win g , ed itor; James J Elmslie, director; Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, assistan t director, alumni programs, all with the Department of Alumni Affairs and Deve lopmen t, and Eri ch Banh , an directo r; Donald Jose, OAC '49, press ·publicity, and Douglas Waterston, d irecto r, all w ith Info rmati on Services,

The Editori al Ad visory Board of the Uni ve rsity of G ue lph A lum ni Assoc iati on is co mpri sed of Ro", Parry, CSS 'SO, chairman ; Dr. O. Brian Al len, CPS '72 ; Dr. A llan Aus tin ; Dr. Do nald Barnum , OVC '41 ; Richard Mocc ia, CBS '76 ; Janice (Roben so n) Pan low, An s '70 ; O li ve (Thompso n) Tho mpson, Mac '35 ; Sandra Webster, CSS '75; EX-DfficiD: James J Elmslic; Barry St.hlbaum, CPS '74. Undelivered copies should be returned to the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontari o , NIG 2W\.

By year 2000... By Andrea Mudry Fawcett Information Officer. Information Services hat happens whe n two contemporary revolutions - in ad ult education and in tec hno logy - join forces? The remark ab le res ult is distance education, which has been described as the most significant developme nt in educa ti on s ince World War II, "Techno logy is s imply ob literating the geographical a nd time constraints for adu lts studying at home," explains Dr. Mark Waldron , director of the Unive rsity Sc hool of Part-time Studies and Continuing Education and a specialist in ad ult ed uca tion. "By the yea r 20()(), most familie s w ill have their ow n home- based learning ce ntre whic h will include a personal compute r with educat ionaL co urseware co nnec ted to a com prehens ive co mputer net work, " Telidon , a form of te levi s ion which permits two-way dia log ue, will be used to provide responses to tes ts and qui zzes when you are ready to test your mastery of a subj ec t. O ne 24-hour-a-day sate llite channel, which receives signals across grea t di stances without the need for complex terrestrial links by wire or by mi c rowave, co uld be dedicated to adult education, Colour videotape pl ayers will be a lmost as common as today's tape recorders," The University of Guelph is helping to lead th e way towards that not too-distant future in vari o us way s. Ea rl ier thi s year, educators from institutions across Canada met at the Universi ty for the workshop, Contemporary Communication Syste ms a nd Di stance Education, Organized to prese nt the latest instru ction a l tech no logy, the work shop enabled participants to discu ss the pros and cons of various comm uni ca tion systems, As did many o thers at the works hop, Norma n Mc Kinnon, of the Ontario Ministry of Education, a ttended to dete rmine how s uc h tech nolog ica l wonders ca n improve the Minis try 's di s tance education programs, He was particularly inte rested in compu ter-assis ted learn ing as a component for seven computer study co urses the Mini stry is deve lopi ng. Computer confere ncing was seriously co ns ide red by workshop member Pierre Imbeau of the Quebec Federation des Cgeps as a mea ns of reducing communication problems with students, Intent on finding ways to improve his province's information system for farmers, Jim Burk, of Saskatchewan Agriculture,

was impressed w,ith the potential of Telidon. Despite the relatively recent upsurge of intefest, learning at a distance is not new. Queen's University was offering COUfses by correspondence in the late 1800s. More reccntly th e University of Waterloo has developed the largest univefsity-level di stance education pfogram in th e co untry. In weskm Canada, Athabasca University was the first institution devoted entifely to distance educa tion. In 1983, as a result of the high degree of intercst by educators and the public, the Canadian Assoc iation for Distance Education was formed and the Council of Ontario Univefsities established a standing com mittee on distance education. Dr. Herb Armstrong, former dean of Grad uate Studies at Guelph, is chairman of the new committee. The University of Guelph's invol ve ment with distance education is far from theoretical or new. Its Independent Study division has offered non-degfee home study courses in

• • most families will have their own home-based learning centre Horticulture since the late 1950s and in Agricu'lture since the mid- 1960s. Students can take a few courses for ge nefal intefest, or meet a'll the academic requirements to attain an Ont~f io Diploma in Horticulture or Agriculture. Now a division within the University School of Part-time Studies and Continuing Education und er the chairmanship of Pro fessor Ted McNinch, OAC '49, Independent Study has been a pioneer in distance educa tion. Eight years ago, Professor McNinch and hi s col'leagues developed a multi-media kit

comprising a textbook, audio cassettes and filmstfips, with handviewer, which is used for many of th eir courses. Now they are develop ing a video cassette package to further improve visual illustrations of COUfse materi al. Two years ago, the Universi ty launched Guelph Distance Education in response to the grow ing dem and fOf degree-cfed it courses by home stud y. The sky is th e limit for thi s new program according to Professor Sam Luker, chairman of Part-time and General Studies , the division of the Univefsity School that administers the program. " Distance education fit s weil into the busy lifestyle of many adults because it's so flexible," he says. " Students don't have to wOfry about attending classes at a set time ; they can study when it's convenient, whether that means two o'clock in the morning or on a weekend. One student went to England for the fail and took th ree courses with hef." Professor Luker is keen but cautiou s in using tec hnology as part of Guelph Distance Education courses. Like his colleagues, he stresses that a hi gh qu ality product mu st always be the ultimate concern of ed ucators. " The most sophisticated technology is usel ess if it's unsuited to the courseware or the courseware itself is unsound." Regardi ng technOlogy, the Division of Part-time and General Studies is, initi al ly at least, relying most heavi ly on word process ing to economically pfoduce and disseminate course materials. Some of the courses , such as Principles of Disease, are acco mpanied by audio cassettes and slides on microfiche. Courses in mathematics and psychology are being conside red for students who ow n home computers. Recentl y, Part-time Studies co operated with TVOntario in presenting " The Chinese, " a television series that enhanced a degree-credit co urse offered by the division. In program planning for the home mar ket, Professor Luker and his colleagues are

. intent on developing a series of high-quality

service courses, such as Introductory Psy

chology, Economics and History. They are

also specializing in subject areas such as Family Studies. which are rarely offered by distance education at other universities. Courses which can lead to a certificate, in demand by specific professional groups, are under development. Producing an entirely new program of courses is no mea n feat. Since distance education students seldom talk directly to their in structor or "cl.assmates" in order to gain directions , obtain information, or exchange ideas or encouragement, they are very dependent upon the course material. "The aim of eac h auth or, or lecturer, is to produce a course for the students th at is complete in itself, a teaching- learning unit rather th an just an information source," says

Ri chard Leavens, assistant chairman of Part time Studies who is responsible for course development. Each course demands ac tive participa tion. Having read extensively, the student is directed to do exercises , write an essay or turn to ot her relevant materials. Assignments. which are mailed in and returned with comments and a grade, are an integral part of every course. For the final exam , students who lives within 100 miles of Guelph travel to the campus. Otherwise, the Registrar's Office arranges for the exam to be taken at institu tions near their homes. As va ried as the Guelph Di stance Educa ti on students are in terms of geogra phy (the first registration came from Inu vik, N.W.T. ) age, educational background, work expe ri ence and reasons for studyin g, they emphatically agree that strong moti vation is the detennin ing factor. Jane Olsen , who lives in th e cou nt ry near Perth , Ontario, has fitted many hours of at home study around the demand s of raisin g a family and nursing. "I've reached a point in my life where I do such thin gs becau se I'm really interested ," she expla ins. Brent Hackett , of Guelph, more pragmatically took courses in communications and stati stics towards becoming a FeJlow of the Insurance In stitute of Canada. A credit counsellor for a community centre in Corner Brook, New foundland, Daisy Bennett stud ied personal and famil y fi nance to improve profess ionally. Now that the home market is developing nicely, Professor Luker is beginning to cast hi s sights much farther afield. "The develop ing countries have a great need for adult ed ucation, which our University can help to meet with distance educati on" he observes. " These countries are becoming more indu s trialized, more affluent, and require extensive expertise in many areas." He adds that, technologically, suc h an undertakin g would probably require the use of international computer network s with in stantaneou s feed back. Despite such deve lopme nts and plans, some lecturers continue to spend the first five minutes of class looking for a piece of chalk' 0 3

What's in a Name?

By Barbara Bennett. supervisor. Technical Processing Section. McLaughlin Library

djacent to th e informat ion desk on the main flo or of the McLaughlin Library, han gs a portrait of Colonel Robert Samuel "Sam" McLaughlin. Those of you who we re on campus in 1968 will recall the naming of the Univers ity's new library in ho nour of the Oshawa philanthropi st, a nd others w ill recall the day, in June 1969 , when he toured the Library. With the former president of the Univer足 s ity of Guelph, Dr. William Win ega rd , he unveiled his portrait, a photograph take n by the ce le brated portrait photographer Cavouk. Sam McLaughlin seemed a quiet man, not the least excited about the publicity over hi s o ne million do llar co ntribution to the Unive rs ity's Development Fund . I've passed his portrait alm os t daily for the past 16 years , and often have wondered about his life, person a lity, and the love of mankind he obviou s ly possessed. I'd read that he was the chairman of th e board of Genera l Motors of Canada, and I knew of the McLaugh lin Planetarium, but that was the limit of my knowledge of him . I felt that I could not let the 15th anniversary of the building pass without finding out more about thi s mall. What m ade

him tick? How did he a mass hi s wealth? Was he born "with a s ilver spoo n," or did he have to work for hi s fortune? Why did he choose the University of Guelph as the recipi e nt of one o f hi s magnanimous g ifts? I did so me digging a nd ca me up with a story so inte re t足 ing th at I felt it should be shared. Colonel McLaughlin 's gra ndfather, John, arrived in Canada in 1832 fro m Northern Ireland, purchased some land and home足 steaded hi s property nea r what is now know n as the village of Tyrone, a few Illil es no rtheast o f Oshawa, Ontario. John 's e ld es t so n, Robert, was born in 1832. Being the eldes t, Robert shou ldered an import a nt s hare of the daily farm tasks. He helped cut a nd stack thou sa nds of cords of wood in a n effort to clear th e land . From thi s hard work grew a love for wood, especia lly its qualities and mood s. Robert spen t hi s le isure hours shapi ng wood, and axe hilndles were his first products. Th e income from these helped to bo lster the family's finances. Whe n Robe rt married, hi s father gave him a wedding gift of SO acres of un cleared land . Robert c leared the land and built a. home and driving s hed which he used as a work-

Rohert Sam ual "Sam" McLoughlin.

General MolOrs of Canada execwives with Sam McLaughlin at the wheel of a M(Laughlin Model F. Circa 1929.

shop. Here, he continued to make axe handles , whiffletrees for wagons and other sundries that various neighbours needed. In 1867 he gave in to his urge to build a culler. He had seen pictures of them in catalogues and, with the help of some travel ling journeymen, blacksmiths and upholsterers, produced the fi rst McLaughlin culler which is now on display in Upper Canada Vill age. The qu ality and workmanship was so good that he soon received orders for more. [n 1869 he decided to leave the farm , move 10 nearby Enniskillen, and set up his own establishment. He started out with a staff of four people, and diversified to include the making of carriages. Within a few short years , the McLaughlin Carriage Shop outgrew Enniskillen , where there was no bank, it was a long way from the nearest railway, and all supplies had to be carted in. With hiS wife, and family of five chil dren : Jack, George, Mary, Robert Samuel, and Elizabeth, he made the daring decision to move to Oshawa. Robert Sr. (the " Governor" as his family affectionately called him) bought land and constructed a building that would house hi s growing business. In the early '80s he invented th e McLaughlin gear. The gear was all of that part of a carriage between the bod y and the wheels - springs , couplings, chassis and the mechanism that permilled the front axle to swivel and thus steer the vehi cle. Robert's improvements made carriages safer and smoother riding and revo lutionized the car riage industry. The McLaughlin gear turned the McLaughlin business into a miJlion dollar-a-year enterpri se. He patented his invention and sold over 20,000 sets, during the next few years, to other carriage makers. Jack, the Governor's eldest 'son , left home before th e business needed him. He allended university and moved to the United States. As a chemist, he later established the Canada Dry Beverage Company. George and Robert Samuel, the other two sons, became apprentices in their father's bus mess when th ey turned 16, and had 10 work long hard hours (70 hrs/wk) for their $3 salary, $2.50 of which was deducted for room and board. At the end of their appren ticeships, it was obvious that George had the personal qualities suitable for sa lesmanship, whi Ie Sam's apt itudes leaned towards engi neering and design. By 1892, larger buildings had to be lound, and the Governor made George and Sam partners in the bu siness. Branch offices were opened, the first of which was in Saint John, New Brunswick. Because of George's abilities, the Governor relied upon him to get each branch office operating smoothly and eflectively. By the turn of the century, 143 CUller and carriage body desi gns had evolved . These

designs, many of which Sam created (he had taken a correspondence course in dra fting), reflected local preferences, In December 1899 , disaster struck and the Oshawa plant burned to the ground, leav ing 600 employees out of work , Temporary buildings were found in Gananoque, and within weeks the McLaughlin Carriage Company was operating again. Meanwhile, about 15 towns or cities were trying to entice the Governor to build his new factory in their localities. However, because of his loyalty to Oshawa, he chose to rebuild on the original site. In return , Oshawa offered him a loan of $50,000 to be " repaid when co nvenient." By the time they were read y to move into the new building in July 1900, over 3 ,000 carriages had bee n built in Gananoque, The whole McLaughlin family had worked hard in the face of disaster. The McLaughlin name meant quality work manship, and the Governor's mollo "One grade only, and that the best" was still the selling point for their products. In 1901, while the carriage business was booming, the first automobiles were making their noisy debut on Canada's roads. The company's Oshawa bookkeeper bought one. It had a one-cylinder gas powered engine, was chain-driven, and had no doors, top, or windshield , Sam's first involvement with thi s car was when the bookkeeper commissioned him 10 help make the vehicle more comfort able. When it rained the driver and passe ngers go t soaked. Sam devised a top - a rub

berized sheet that filled over the ca r's body with four head holes cut into it. Wearing proper hats, all passengers were kept reason abl y dry. When Sam drove the car, he immediately fell in love with it. He persuaded brother George that the future of their company lay in the automobile, but the Governor was not convinced , Because Sam was an individualist, he couldn't agree with his father's belie f that these" horseless can'iages" had no future on Canada's roads. Sam spent his vacations tourin g the newly created automobile companies in Can ad a and the United States, askin g question s, con/d, over

Sam McLau ghlin, circa 1882, cC'n1re, back /'OIV, with brothers and sisters Ja ck, Georg e, Mary (/nd Elizabeth.

The McLaughlin Ca,.ria/?e Sh op, Enniskillen. Ontario. circa 1875,

driving cars and seeking advice. He then convinced his father to let him give the automobile-building industry a try. He went south of the border to see his old friend "Billy" Durant, whom he had met IS years earlier at a carriage convention. Durant had recently bought the ailing Buick Motor Company (named after its owner, David Buick) and Sam had decided that the Buick engine was the best he'd seen. In 1907 he and Durant signed a IS-year agreement to make McLaughlin cars in Can ada, using Buick engines. The body design was created by Sam, using the same excellent workmanship that went into the carriages. A section of the carriage plant was set aside for car production and, in the first year, 193 McLaughlin Buicks were produced. In 1915, Sam made arrangements to produce a second line of cars, Durant's "Chevrolet" line (named after Louis Chevrolet, a racing car driver) which was a lighter, less expensive car than the Buick. Realizing that running the gear, cutter and carriage and car companies was too difficult, Sam and George approached the Governor about the possibility of selling the cutter and carriage company to competitors. Their father had already made the decision to retire, had no interest in "the horseless carriage", and wanted to pursue his art and painting hobbies, so readily agreed to the sale. His comment was "Go to it, boys." Meanwhile, Durant had formed General Motors by combining his Buick and Chevrolet companies, buying out and taking over the Oakland, Cadillac, and Oldsmobile Companies, and acquiring several other related businesses. [n 1909, Henry Ford and Durant made a deal that would also have included the Ford SlUdelilS Pele Bus({l/o IIlId Darlel1e Allisoll.

Motor Company in the General Motors Com pany. However, Ford insisted on a cash settlement rather than acquiring shares in General Motors, and asked for $9,500,000. General Motors' bankers refused to loan Durant that kind of money on the grounds that "the Ford business isn't worth that much." Oh, how history is made' fn 1918 the McLaughlin Motor Company joined General Motors, to form General Motors Company of Canada, with the agree ment that Sam and George stay and run the company. George retired in 1924, but Sam stayed on, first as director, then as chairman of the board of GM until his death on January 6, 1972 in his IOlst year. He vowed he would quit when he was no longer useful, but the company always needed his expertise. During those years, he continued to expand the business, and, during World War 11, devoted the plants to working for the war effort, producing items for the armed forces. During his active life, he married and raised five daughters. Busy as he was, Sam's other interests and hobbles included cycl ing, horse and yacht racing, curling and bowling. Sam gave mil ions of dollars to education and charitable causes. Besides the University of Guelph Library, he sponsored the McLaughlin Planetarium at the Royal Ontario Museum; the McLaughlm College at York University; the McLaughlin Engineering building at Queen's University; the McLaughlin Pavilion at Toronto General Hos pital, and other projects too numerous to mention. Sam and his family treated Oshawa with the same love and respect the City gave them: he acquired the title "Colonel" when he was made an honorary Colonel of the Ontario The McLoughlin Library.

Tank Regiment, whose headquarters are in Oshawa; he built the bandshe lll in the City's Memorial Park; the McLaughlin Maternity Wing at Oshawa General Hospital; McLaughlin Hall, the Nurses Residence; donated a 160-acre park, "Camp Sumac," to the Oshawa Boy Scouts; purchased, remodelled and equipped, a Girl Guide House, and among others, built the McLaughlin Public Library. Sam served on the Board ot' Directors of the Toronto Dominion Bank from 1917 to 1959. He loved people, and belonged to many clubs and organizations that worked towards the betterment of mankind. He was made a Companion to the Order of Canada in the first honours list in 1967, and was bestowed with honorary degrees from many universities. His friends said that he never lost "the common touch." At Sam's 85th birthday celebrations, Canadian financier E.P. Taylor, described Sam as: "A man With a voice of brass, a body of iron, and a heart of gold." fn 195 I, Sam set up a foundation for the advancement of learning, teaching and educa tion in the medical, mental and therapy fields. When he died, his estate was worth $37.5 million, much of which was put into this foundation. There you have it. the story of the man in the portrait. The bow tie and the pipe were as much a part of him as his wiry shock of hair, his bushy eyebrows, and his clipped moustache. Sam's niece, Dorothy McLaughlin Hen derson, wrote: "Because the radical and rapid changes in the history of Canadian highway transportation will provide no opportunity for the McLaughlin story to be duplicated, it seems important that it not be forgotten." 1 agree. 0

UGAA Offers Future Sec urity.

Jim Brady, HAFA ' 78, regiol1o/lnanager, Wendy's ReSlOural1lS of Canada Inc.

Fast Tracker Returns for AMPUl By John Hearn

im Brady, HAFA ' 78 , was back on campu s this summer, attending the School of Hotel and Food Admini strati on's (HAFA ) Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry (A MPHf). For a youn g man who is a relati vely rccent graduate, thi s return to his Alma Mater as regional manager, North Central Region, for Wend y's Restaurants of Canada Inc., marks him , without a doubt, as a fas t trac ker, even by hospitality industry standards. Jim was hired for Wendy's while he was still on campus. Carole Row se ll , HAFA '74, now with Com monwealth Hol iday Inns , offered him th e job. As Jim says, "I needed work. Wend y's was engaged in rapid expa n sion at that time and the opportuni ty looked good. They put me to work in one of th eir Toronto outlets where I had to learn every as pect of store operation. Later they made me a manager." Jim, who hails from Terrace Bay, in the Thunder Bay area, atterided high school in Oakville and spent a yea r at the University of Western Ontario in search of a general BA, but there was somet hing about the hos pitality industry with its high-energy, people-oriented image. that always attracted hi m. He kn ew also that hi s future lay in management, hence his choice of HAFA for the training which would take him where he wanted to go. Hi s ambitions began to be realised from the moment he joined Wend y's. The late '70s was a rapid growth period

for the fas t food indu stry in Canada, and Jim soon found himself entrusted with th e demanding task of opening new stores. This mea nt hiring and tra ining new staff while building sal es from a standing start - long hours, hard work and heavy responsibility. When Wendy's decided to extend its operati ons into western Canada, they trans ferred Jim to Winnipeg. Man. He was then just one and a half yea rs out of HAFA. He spent two years th ere before being appointed regional manager and moved to Calgary, Alta., where he stayed until July 1983 when the compan y moved him back to Ontario. Jim now looks after 19 Wendy's stores in the Kitchener, Barrie, Peterborough area includ ing greater Toronto. Fi ve area ma nagers report to him , and he in turn is directly responsible to the vice-pres ident of opera tions. It's a fair measurement of Jim's stature in the Company that he should have been chosen to attend the AMPHI course. A limited registration summer school for se nior industry leaders, AMPHI is a HAFA creation which was established at the urging of the hospitali ty industry as an ed ucational showcase for its most prom isi ng managers. With the fee cur rent ly running at $5,500 fo r the four-w eek course, AMPHI is unapologetically elitist in concept. The co urse is based pri mari Iy on the case-teaching method and a team of HAFA case writers has bee n coveri ng the country

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durin g the last three years compiling a substantial body of relevant, hospitality indus try-related , Canada-based cases, some 60 of which are studied during the four-week course. Thi s is just the kind of material Jim Brady th rives on - the careful analysis of sales and profits, the development of business plan s, budget projections, personnel develop ment and marketing. The pace during the fo ur-week course never slackens - but then, Jim Brady never slackens. However, he man aged to find time durin g 198 1 to get married. He and his wife, Catherine, live in M ississauga. 0 7

The First Day on My First Job By Robert G. "Fred" Hill, OAC '50 of old families in a small neighbourhood t was back in mid-May 1950, but the passage of 30 years and more has not dimmed the memories of that trip from Guelph to Toronto, nor the first day on my first job. Work on a farm, where there were plenty of jobs to do, and a stint in the aIlTlY were never referred to as jobs. Before the actual graduation ceremonies at OAC, over which Viscount Vincent Massey presided, I had been interviewed and was offered a job for the summer with the Farm Economics Branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, located in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings in Toronto. I was told that, since I would be visiting farmers in Ontario, I would need a car - so I bought a new one. The job was important, so important in fact, it was necessary I get there exactly on time; otherwise the government would fall; the crops would wilt; the cows would dry up, and there would be no pump kins for Hallowe'en. Progress and speed have produced amaz ing results. In those days you had to travel almost 70 miles to get from Guelph to the East Block of the Parliament BUildings. Since then the construction of Highway 401 has shortened the distance to 62 miles. Not being clairvoyant, on that morning I had no foreknowledge of the 401, nor was I interested in breaking the speed record. It was three years since I'd driven and I was being careful on the strange roads with a strange car. At the outset, my main concern was to try to steer the car in a path about half-way between the edge of the ditch and the middle of the road. And there were other cars to dodge; if one came within two feet, it was bound to scrape off paint or bash a fender. Images of the car ending up in a junk pile before the trip was over gave way to visions of what my wife Eileen and I could do with that big salary. For years we'd lived on the veteran's allowance of $75 a month which had increased to $125 on the bil1h of our daughter, Janet. Now we would have almost $200, and on top of that there was the mileage paid for driving my own car, as well as expenses for room and board while I was away from Toronto. Of course, one or two bills would have to be paid and we would have to buy a few things. For instance, there was the home town bank manager who agreed, on the phone, to grant a loan of $1,600 to buy the car. The ties

I About the Writer Head of the Production Research Section, and a senior economist, R. G. Fred Hill, OAC '50, retired from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food in 1977. His career as an economist might never have been had he not accepted, in 1950, summer employment in Toronto with the Ontario Deparment of Agriculture (aDA) prior to intended registration, later that year, with the Ontario College of Education. The eldest of a family offive boys, Fred was born, in 1916, un a JOO-acre farm near Richmund in the Ollawa Valley. He grew up there and, at age 17, with a "duty" to ful fill, dropped oUI of school to work on the home farm. After joining the Cameron Highlanders, in 1940, he served as a machine-gunner in Iceland, England, Africa, Sicily, Belgium and Holland, and returned to Canada and the farm in 1945. His English bride of 1945, Eileen Lloyd, joined him there in 1946. Twu years of study at Kemptville Agricultural Schuul were followed by a muve to the OAC where he registered in the 2nd year of the Class of' 50. Hooked by Econumics by the fall of 1950, he accepted a permanent job with the aDA, took a leave of absence in 1952 10 obtain an M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Illinois, and returned to the Farm Economics Branch, aDA, in 195J. He made a move to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration in 1957, was posted to England the same year with the task of "selling Canada to skilled people," and returned to Canada in 1959. A seven-month stint with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ouawa in 1964 was followed by a return to the aDA in Toronto where he worked until retirement. His wife died sume five munths after his retirement. Continuing Education is uppermost in Fred's mind. Since retirement he has allended the University uf Toronto, where he earned a B.A. in History. He regularly allends the University of Guelph Summer Campus. 0

come in handy at times but they can only stretch so far. I would have to pay back part 01' that loan before starting to the Ontario College of Education in the fall. But that was some distance down the road and, as I turned off Highway 6 east on to the Queen Elizabeth Way, the world was an open oyster, gleaming and sparkling like the dew in the early sun of that mid-May morning. Within half an hour, I crossed a bridge onto a street called Lakeshore Boule vard and suddenly cars were crowding in from at I directions. Thoughts of the luxuries associated with higher finance flew out the window as I fought with all the traffic For mere survival and I can remember thinking: "That Econom ics Branch must be one heck of a big outfit, bigger than all the car and oil companies combined. Just about everyone in Ontario who is not milking cows must be working fvr it, and by the Iicense plates even a few from the United States. They are all converging onto the same road and everyone is trying to claim the exact spot where I am. Or maybe they're just prejudiced and are trying to force a small English car off the road." [n referring to the length of time it takes for substances to dissipate their harmful effects of radiation, scientists use the term "half-life." On the Lakeshore that morning, the posted speed limit of]O miles per hour was the "half-speed" of the traffic. Street signs appeared and flashed past with growing rapidity. Someone had said the East Block was easy to find, "Just go along Front Street to University Avenue and turn left." Thinking I should make a turn soon to get onto Front Street, I swung left on a street called Spadina. In the right lane with one eye on the left lane traffic and the other swivelling between the car in front and the street signs on the right, I caught a glimpse of Front Street as r drove past. At the College, the profs had spent hours telling and showing us how to solve a problem, but no one had taught us anything about getting out of a mess like this. They had spoken about tracing the main characteristics of this or that to its origin or root. Charac teristic or not, Spadina looked like a main street, so I decided to follow it to its origin or whatever; it must go somewhere. Today, with the march of progress, it ends in a ditch, but that day, its twists and turns seemed to end at Bloor Street. I figured the Parliament Buildings lay

somewhere to the east and turned right on Bloor Street. It was stop and go, stop and go, and hy now if a ear came within one foot, I was sure I had lost a yard of paint. Finall y und er a stopli ght, there was a sign on the right-hand corner marked Uni ve rsity Avenue hut on th e left-hand corner was a sign marked Avenue Road, or was it University Avenue? How in thunder was I to kn ow? Logic is a wonderful thin g and it now took over. Once that light changed all those cars would take off as if they were on the Indianapoli s racetrack . Should I swin g left from the ri ght-hand lane, I would get it first from those going east, and if J survived that, those driving west would fin ish the job. After all of those perce ptive deducti ons , and in the interest of self-preservation, I turned right and eventuall y came to a red stone structure which I surmised was the Parliament BuiJdings. But there was only one huilding. After I had circled three of four hlocks and parked, a policeman pointed out the Eas t Block. I was 15 minutes late, and amazed to see it still standing. Inside th at great stone edifice there was no more peace and tranquility than on Bloor Street. I had met Dr. H . L. Patterson and 1. B. Nel son, OAC'24 , the director and associate director, at Gue lph where th ey ass ured me that when I came to Toronto I would learn the fCw detail s required for the job. They didn't even seem to notice I was a few minutes late and, after a general survey of th e offi ce and pointing out my desk, they turned me ove r to Etta Redden. Even tod ay, with all those people trained in the details of computer programming, there probably are very few more thorough than Etta Redden. After reams of forms had been fil iled out and refilled, there was the oath of secrecy. There was no let up inJhe stream of detail s after lunch. Attendance record s were to be filled in this way an d ex pense acco unts th at way. But these were simple compared to large yellow crop record sheets and something called the "DHlA Record Book." George Hunt, OAC '49 , spent the afternoon introduc ing me to the intricac ies of th ose fOlms.

In order to determine th e cost of produ c in g milk, thi s kind of dat a was needed about th e farm operati on but not th at. Inform ation from slips accompan ying the milk cheques had to be recorded in speci fic columns. The length of time and th e size, make and value of a spec ific machine used in doing a particul ar job were to be recorded in other columns. And there was someth ing called "l ive stock credits" which had to be added - or were they to be deducted? I guess I never did ge t the differe nce betwee n credit and de bit reall y sorted out. In one place an item can be a credit and in an other. a debit. It 's j ust like switChing the names of subsid ies and hand outs fo r dumpin g taxes; it all depends on how you want to look at it. But th at was not th e end of the after noon. George Hunt, in his own way, was just as thorough as Etta Redden and before I left that eve ning he showed me how to operate the Marchand calculator. Now this was a big gree n machine th at too k up ab out a qu arter of the top of a des k. It had rows and rows of buttons, which yo u pressed to add, divide, multipl y and goodness knows what else. When these buttons were pressed, the machine went into a convulsion, dials began to whi rr and fi gures began to pop up in little squ ares on a bar th at altern ately jerked to the left then paused and jerked again before it fin ally came to res t, with the decimal place in the correct position. The dec imal place could be changed just by sliding a little pointer along the bar. By the time I left the offi ce that evening I was sure it was n't quite th at simple, and th at J must have missed a link somewhere between the buttons that were pressed and the location of that pointer. Otherwise. I could just close my eyes and wherever J pointed there would be the decimal point. That machine was so advanced it could do just about anything except miJk cows or teach calves to drink out of a pail. I had made arrangements to stay with my cousin on Madison Avenue fo r a week or so durin g this stint of induction training. No one in the office was quite sure of the location of Madison Avenu e. but it was out there

so mewhere - kind of north and west. I nosed th e car into the 5:00 p m. traffic and found all of those people to be in twice as bi g a hurry to get ho me as they had been to ge t to work , and there seemed to be twice as man y of them. Horns were bl as tin g and tires were screa ming as , once again , I drove along Bloor Street, thi s tirne looking fo r Madison Avenue. By luck, the stop-and-go si tuation had stop ped just where I coul d see the sign for Madi son on the ri ght. Looking for house numbers on a busy st reet can be a trick y bu siness and there were a number of near misses on Madison as we ll as on Bloor. At last there was the house and the lane where I co uld park . I sat in the car for a few minutes , soaking up waves of re lief and th inking about all th e events since I left Guelph. 1 had made it th ro ugh the first day on my first job . There must have been a hundred miracles workin g that day or I would have wrec ked the car. I'd driven east into Toronto, blinded by the risin g sun. When J le ft the .offi ce driving west, I'd bee n blinded by the setting sun. In the offi ce, I could have been blinded by all those forms , on whic h every " i" had to be dotted and every " t" crossed. And there was that infernal Marchand calcul ator with all those whirring di als and that decimal point that always came up in the ri ght pl ace no matter where you put it. I vowed then and th ere that if I ever got out of Toro nto. the crops could rot and the pigs and hens could die of Newcastle disease or whatever, but no one would ever get me back in that terrifying jungle aga in. The next morning, th e situat io n looked a little di fferent. After all, I had dri ven throu gh all th at traffic, and J had located the East Block and the house on' Madiso n Avenue with out an accident; and I had managed to fill in a few forms and at least look at others. May be tod ay I could pin down that wre tched decimal point on the Marchand . Thus persuaded , I went back to the office. Fo ur days passed, however, before J nosed that car bac k out into Madison Avenue traffic. 0

Class of OAC '50, Economics. The writer of this article, Robert " Fred" Hill , is second fro m left·

"You teachin'

'im fer

a Vet

Doc?" In

January 1983, one oj ave's oldest gradn ates, Dr. Har vey R. McE wen , avc '13, died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at the age oJ 93 years. an two occasions he was visited by Dr. Cliff Barker, avc '41, director oj the avc museum and editor oj the OvC Alumni Bulletin, who obtained oral history on the aVCJor the period 1911 to 1913 . Dr. Mc Ewen's son, Arnold, oj Winnipeg, has donated several articles from his Jath er's estate to the avc museum. In addition he has related several an ecdotes Jrom his· experi ences as a veterinarian's son and assistant while his Jather practised in Stonewall, Man., Jrom 1913 to 1936. We believe alumni will find these reminiscences interesting.

By Arnold McEwen

Dr. Harvey McE wen. avc '13, at aRe 9/.

Dr. Har vey McEwen, avc '/3 , at age 23.

reproduction of the accompanying por trait - now brown-stained - of Dr. Harvey R. McEwe n appeared on page 23 1 of the 1913 issue of the Torontonensis. The ed itor that year se lected a four-line rhym e for . " But this graduate which ended with they'd also make me love a drink." Well, even in his College days , I doubt it applied to Dad . As far back as T can recall he was ac tively anti-liquor, a teetotaller all hi s life, and he was a very sensi ti ve person. For decad es that year-book had been stashed away in a box in his attic , and only recently re-di scovered as I was cleaning the attic just a few years ago, after mother passed away. Pointing to his graduati on picture, I sa id "Boy that's a pretty snazzy suit you have there." "Well ," he laughed, " it wasn't mine. Don MacKay (a Toronto Dentistry grad uate) rented it and I borrowed it from him ."

Typical. He neve r had an ex tra dime to throw away an anything that didn't really matter, and I had the sneak ing suspician that since the rhyme was so far from the truth, it reall y was intended as a rather far-out jo ke. At any rate my theory seemed to satisfy Dad. If co rrec t, that editor could be forgiven, particul arly after his foresighted vision con tained in the shOli last se ntence of the acco mpanying thumb-nail sketch which stated "We predict for him a bright future." Yes. Ah yes. That did happen. My life most reme mbered with Dad was drivin g for him, shooting with him , and helping him on trips - In th at order. Lots of each , and it's not too easy to se parate them , th ey all seem to roll Into each other. And if any of you reade rs are not too keen on shoo ting, it means losin g some of you right now. A typical example - I was seven at the

time, a very small seven. Kid s called me " Runty." I neve r grew until I was in high school and by then it was too late. I got " Runty" until we moved out of Stonewall when I was 18. It was only after proving myself with 4 ,350 hours as fir st pilot during World War I th at people in that town started calling me something else. At seven my arms were no bigger than a pool c ue - no bigger around , that is. The house-call trip ove r spring gumbo was scary, out to Marquette, one of the greatest out-ot~ seaso n goose stop-overs in No rth Americ a (direc tl y in the mid-contine nt flyway). The farmer was Me nno nite, no Engli sh. I was careful handin g Dad the folded-up V- pointed punch-like instnlment which he placed ove r the horse's shoulder, we ll down one side of the neck. He gave it a quick tap with hi s o pe n hand and blood poured out into a pan held by the farmer. The farmer's nei ghbour held the twitch . I don't know why all that blood was supposed to be pouring out. Dad kept lookin g over his shoulde r at dozens of flocks of " wavies" (blue geese and snow geese) which were cacklin g pas t the willow-lin ed lane leading to th e field. The horse was standing in the lane. " Get my gun son. " The n he ran about 150 yards down the willows - Bang' Bang l and ran back to th e car with two birds. Took about 190 seco nd s (he ran the 100 ya rd s at college in und er 10 seconds), and res umed the operatio n just as though nothing had happened. The farme r never uttered a word, just as tho ugh it was all part of the sa me bizarre blood-letting business. On the way home, another call and into a pig pen with muck up past my ankles. Sow birthing but nothin g was happening. Dad got two out, both dead. " You get the m out son. "

He could not work his mu scular arm in far enough. My pool-cue sized arm worked like a charm while he gave me all the specific directi o ns to remove seve n more dead pi glets. I don't ever remembe r anything happe n ing to me that was more embarrass ing. The farmer looked at me, looked at Dad, and with a twinkle in hi s eye he said ve ry qu ietly "You teachin ' ' im fer a Vet, Doc') " I think that jo b was the very start of my thinkin g, late r, that I would never make it as a Vet. I had so me pretty set ideas, at least o n muck a nd dead pigs, that las ted the rest of my life. And these ideas became mixed with other negative reac tio ns - like the countless times my major task was nothing more than swatting away at blood-sucking flies and mosquitoes swarming aro und Dad's unprotected back as he sweated thro ugh a bunged-up foal , stripped to the waist, a breezeless evening and sloug hs eve rywhere. Spring time to most prairie dwellers is the magical re-birth of all things beautiful, the treme ndo us release of un see n forces , the ex citing start of another brand new year-1 933 . Cutting colts. That's where spring was at - with us. "Chec k the masculator son - is that handle going to hold ')" The previous year a big brute of a ho rse managed to bust loose of our throwin g ropes, the mu sc ulator swing in g wildly as the animal cras hed through the trees. We managed to .Iocate the instrume nt about an hour late r. It probably had bee n stripped off by small trees and stepped on one of the handl es was sheared away, in any event, it had to be re-welded. So here we were - at it again. Mud all around as usual. Except fo r illegal goose shooting, spring was always a heck of a bo ring season for me. Always meant the annual onslaught of books, frantic catch-ups

In 1927 , Dr. Har vey McEwen, ave' 13 , with Jean th e Third and his 6-year-old son , Arnold, the author of this article.

on overdue studying , and fretting a bout those detesta ble de partmental exa ms. We had four colts to c ut that evening. Three went down in grand style. Like a ballet performance, our tea mwo rk was supe rb . The fourth was an unca nn y animal, see med to know exactly how to jamb everything thrown his way and o ur te mpers fl ared faster than the flie s. That wild horse screamed and sno rted hi s hatred - you'd think he actually KNEW we we re about to masc ulate his masculinity - the brute. We fi xed HIS wago n. Dad was working furiou sly, hand s a flying. I was in my usual close safe position behind hi s le ft shoulder. But that fourth animal di sturbed his conce ntration. This time, instead o f cutting th e cord and throwing the organ over to his ri g ht, he did a quick cut and-throw motio n clea n over hi s le ft shoulder - "splat" - out of nowhere. It was the tremendou s rel ease of an un see n force alright. It even gave me an exciting brand new start smack in the kisser' If you think the 1927 snapshot, on thi s page, of Dad a nd me exe mplifies a pro ud horse and a proud owne r - right o n. Jean was the horse's name - Jean the Third to be exact - and like her predecessors, she was a fast trotter. Dad always went for classy mares. Good legs to handle dee p s now, or the infamo us Red River g umbo, and a deep ches t to go wtih it - some dirty trips were 60 mil es there and back. Or one, like the time he didn't clear the edge of town, whi ch almost e nded in di sas te r. It was a howling snow storm. Jean was pulling the cutter. Dad was ti g htly bundled in with bu ffalo cap, buffalo coa t, buffalo rug and bu ffalo ga untlets. He neve r heard the trai n co m ing. Only at th e last insta nt , too late, did he recogni ze the e ngine's headli ght. He reme mbe red flying throu gh the air. About 20 minutes later, as trainmen somehow located him deep in a s nowdrift 75 feet fro m impac t, hi s first word s were " Where's my horse')" His buffalo clothing had le ft him without a scratch, just a sore elbow. " There," came the re pl y, "your horse is stand ing back there." And there she was, mo tionless, just a few yard s down the road on the same side of th e train as Dad , with part s of the ripped harness trailing down. The cutte r was co mpletely demolished, but Jean had stood her ground, like the trul y bred champio n she was. And wh at about the man ') He walked the mare bac k to borrow anoth er c utte r, and assemble more thin gs in anoth er medic ine bag, and finall y reac hed hi s sic k animal that sa me ni ght' What a bout th at man') What about th at Vet ') All three of Dad's mares were prize winners. You could count the bright ribbons in our bam. Ei ght red and o ne blue. And none of them "g ive-aways." Oh you bet' There was COn/d.

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plenty more at stake other than serious competition at the cou ntry fair In Stonewall. Good Heavens l a man's very reputation was put right on the line l At that time, too, there was another Vet still practicing the same territory. As things turned out, though, Dad never had to replace Jean the Third. And, well, back roads got better, Fords got faster and, three years after that picture was taken , the greatest troller in the country was put out to pasture to roam her life away in well-earned com fan and luxury. Sitting next to his Dad in the buggy seat, the tiule six-year-old shaver is me. For thi s photo, Dad is applying some state-of-the-an horsemanship - sub tle left-handed single finger rein control. " Nothing to it son," he'd gri n, "just use a bit of patience." It was the son of horse-sense he applied to everything he tackled. Dad's B .y'Sc. was four years old before he was able to affo rd his first automobile. It was a seven-year-old 1910 Model T Ford. (See picture on opposite page). A real Tin Lizzie it was, sagg ing doors and all. Gone was the

of that Interlake cou ntry. Never one to panic in any situation, Dad dug the axe out of the wooden box (he always carried an axe for just s uch an emergency), found a two-inch scrub-oak tree to st rip, c ut it down and wired it across both ends of the broken axle. " By that time," he said, " the sky was staning to get light and I made it home slick-as-a-jig right on tim~ for breakfast. " The window beside the car in this picture looked in on Dad's "front office," with our living quaners behind it. The hou se was half way down Main Street in Stonewall, Mani toba. (He rece ived high school education in that town but was born on a farm about three mi les to the nonh-east.) Although the adjacent barber shop and pool hall was completely destroyed by fire a few years later, our house was saved by a bucket brigade made up of practically all of the town's men. Since we moved out of the area in 1938 our hou se and office has , until recently, been continuously occupied by several successive veterinarians. Fourteen Hours To Live

Dr. Har vey McEwen, ave ' /3, ill his 1910 Model T Ford , outside his SlOn e wal/, Man iIOb~l, office.

o riginal single seat at the back end, replaced by a big wooden box carry-all. And long gone was the original folding carriage . top. But, somehow "01' li zzie" managed to get him there and back. The real trick was to get it staned. For colder days Dad carried wood kindling and coal. He'd dig a hole under the engine and get a small fire going to heat the crankcase oil. Even so, he went through life with a crooked wrist, from the hand-crank of the motor that backfired on him one time too many. It was in this same vehicle when, 15 miles out and heading home, that he abruptly found himself bouncing along in total darkness. The big headli ght acetyle ne cy linder (yo u can see it strapped to the running board) had apparently run itself out and, as was bound to happen soo ner or later, the front axle cracked when it struck one of the jagged rocks that constantly lurked in the hay trails 12

A cold mid-February day it was, when Dad was alened by an extra-long ring on hi s office phone. That sec re t code from the Stone wall exchange operator meant only one thing - you've got an incoming extra-Iong distance call. This one was from a farm east of Beausejou r, a 130-mile round trip using the new gravel highway east from Winnipeg towards the Ontario border. Simply driving that big city road - as . we caJled it - was ex.citing, a brand new experience. Up to that time it had been limited mostly to gumbo, that got as slippery as a pig in the rain , or poor gravel at best. It was a February in the '30s, and Dad now had a big new 1930 grey Essex - the one with rear springs that constantly bottomed out with every bump sending up clouds of choking dust into the back seat. When I acted as Dad's chauffeur, it made not a particle of difference to Dad, during the life of that car, that the minimum age to buy a driving licence was still a long way off. 1 was dri ving as usual on this trip. The horse was sick, sorry looking, and a difficult case. I had the medic ine grips but they remai ned closed while we stood around the animal, Dad asking one question after the other. He probed and felt all over, around the belly, neck, and in its mouth. He carefully examined the manure and we went outside to look around the haystack . Still more questions and on into the house for more information from the farmer's wife, since s he had been the last to harness up. Then quietly he decided. " That horse has 14 hours to live." I just about fell over. The stunned farmer simply looked at

him . "Well then. " asked his wife, "what ever's wrong?" Never in my life had I ever heard Dad admit to defeat. So when he said " I can't do a thing for that horse" 1 was doubl y astonished. And this time nobody said anything for what seemed like ten minutes. Finally he was speaking again, non e of which made any se nse to me. "That ho rse needs an operation. But ifT operate I'll kill him . And if 1 don't operate, that animal will be dead in 14 hours," he repea ted . So what were they supposed to do ? They could call in another Vet from Winnipeg, Dad suggested - referring to Dr. Mungo Lewis who had formerly practi ced around Stonewall at the time Dad started up - or they could ge t some more blankets to keep the animal as warm as possible. Again the burning ques. tion, this time from the farmer - "What do you figure's wrong ?" I was closely observing Dad's face for an answer. 1 just KNEW he understood the trouble but I felt he was NOT going to commit himself. For what reason I had no idea. With the flourish of a train conductor he flipped the gold pocket-watch from hi s lower vest-pocket - four o'clock. "You give me another call. . say around seven o'clock tomorrow morning," he announced. "and I'll tell you what we might do." As cenain as the black eastern sky lightened to the sun's late rising, at seven o'clock sharp an ex.tra-long ring on the phone signalled that, again, an extra-long-distance ca ll had come throug h from Beausejour. • " Three hours ago you say? Tell you what I'll do," he continued. "don't disturb the carcass (some farmers would immediately c ut it up for meat) and I'll be right over. We'll exam ine it first." A trip back that day meant he would not c harge for it, and also he'd have to get a substitute teacher to handle his Sunday School class. Otherwise it was an uneventful drive. Except for his explanation , that is. " Well, I 've had a few like this in my time," he said, " and every last one of them gives me the dickens of a time. Unless 'I'm wrong I think we might find a nail or a piece of wire in there somewhere. " By the time we arrived the carcass had been dragged out behind the bam, and with the temperature outside a frosty 12 degrees below Fahren heit, Dad proceeded, with his bare hands numbing on the bloodied knife, going in straight for the hean.. "See that?" and we all poked heads down as he help open the incision. There, undisturbed in the chest cavity, a piece of wire about four inches long had lodged itself in the heart, the animal had swallowed it ~ Dad mis sed hisrather secretive diagnosis for death by only two hours. 0

- ON AND OFF CAMPUS

NEWS

Barbara Abercrombie.

Dr. Ron Downey, ave '61

Jim Elmslie.

Susan Mclver.

Barbara M. Abercrombie is University secretary and secretary of Senate. Her appointment was effective August 7, 1984. Most recently she had been assistant secre tary, York University, Toronto, a position she held for nine years. A graduate of York University, she had been on the staff at York since 1969, when she returned from a three-year stint teaching English in India as a CUSO volunteer. In 1981, she successfuJ Iy completed the highly regarded Senior University Administrators' Course offered by the School of Business Administration, Univer sity of Western Ontario. She is concerned about the lack of communication between universi ties in Ontario and Quebec and about future demands that may be placed on unilingual universities in the preparation of graduate students. In order to contribute to both of these objectives, she completed, last year, a French immersion program at the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres. The University of Guelph recently established a University Secretariat to provide centralized services for the various boards and committees of the University. The University secretary will head the Sec retariat and also serve as secretary of Senate, the academic policy-making body of the University. As secretary of Senate, Barbara Abercrombie succeeds the late Walter Vaughan. Professor John Powell has been acting secretary of Senate in recent months.

Archibald, OVC '49 , who held the position from April, 1980 until last January when he was appointed acting associate dean of research, OVC, a post he will hold until his retirement December 31. Staff veterinarian, Dr. Denna Benn, OVC '76, has held the position of acting director of Animal Care Services in the intervening period. The director, who reports admin istratively to the dean of research, is respon sible for the administration of the central animal facility and the provision of animal health care and other services outlined in the animal care policy. The director provides advice and assistance to faculty members who use animals in instructional and research programs, and generally provides a focal point for animal care matters on cam pus. Dr. Downey received both D. v'M. and M.Sc. degrees from Guelph and completed an internship in surgery and a residence in radiology at the University of California. He has been on faculty since 1964 . He was a major contributor to the development of small animal internal medi cine at the College and introduced, in 1965, electrocardiography at the teaching hospital as a practical diagnostic tool. Dr. Downey received an Ontario Con federation of University Faculty Associa tion s' Award for Teaching Excellence in 1979 and was nominated for the Norden Dis tinguished Teaching Award in 1981. He is current president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and vice-president of the World Veterinary Congress which will be held in Montreal in 1987 . 0

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Dr. Ron Downey, OVC '61, has been named director of Animal Care Services for the Univers ity. He will continue to hold a faculty position in the Dep artment of Clinical Studies while carrying on the half time appointment for Animal Care Services. Professor Downey replaces Dr. Jim

James J. "Jim" Elmslie, previously assistant director, Development , has been appointed, effective October I, 1984, direc tor. Depanment of Alumni A ffairs and De velopment until retirement, March I, 1985. John Babcock, OAC '54, submitted his resignation, effective October I, 1984 , as

Appointments

Alexander Morrison.

Dr. Ole Nielson, ave '56.

director of the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development to pursue other interests. The University wishes him every success in his new undenaking. During his 18 years as director, John saw the alumni body grow from 10,000 to the present 42,000 . He made a valuable contribution to alumni, to campus life and, as well , promoted educational excellence at the University of Guelph. Notable among his accomplishments are: the organization of the University of Guelph Alumni Association in 1966 and the expansion of college and school alumni associations from three to II; the introduc tion of the Guelph Alumnus publication to keep alumni informed; hi s work on a multi tude of committees; his direction of the Development Fund , the Hospitality Industry Founders' Fund, the Macdonald Stewan An Centre Capital Fund, the annual Alma Mater Fund, and basic planning for a new Capital Fund for the Guelph Centre for Equine Research. Through his effons, over $25 mil lion was rai sed during hi s tenure of office.

Susan B. Mciver, is the new chairman of the Depanment of Environmental Biology. Dr. Mciver is noted for her work as a teacher and graduate student supervisor as well as for her research and admini strative abilities. She fills a position left vacant by the death, last September, of Professor John B. Robin son, OAC 'SO. Professor McIver is the author of over 60 papers, and has given invited lectures in many pans of the United States, Britain and Europe. She has been at the University of Toronto since 1967, as a professor in the Department of Zoology with a cross appointment in the Faculty of Medicine's Depanment of Microbiology. She has taught courses on anhropods as parasites and vectors, biology of animal viruses, has given a six-week series on med ical parasitology for prospective Medical COn/d. over 13

Officers of Health, and has pre sen ted occa sional lectures to student doctors, nurses and medical technologists, also on medical parasi tology. She received her B.A. in Zool ogy from the University of California at Rive rside, and her Master's and Ph.D . degrees in Entomology from Was hington State Universi ty. Much of her research has concerned th e neurol og ical basis fer behavior of medi cally important insects such as mosquitoes and blackflies. She is a resource sc ienti st for the Canada Bitin g Fl y Centre in Winnipeg, and chairman of the Science Policy Com mittee of the Bi ological Council of Canada. She is a member of the section on Tropical Medici ne and Parasitolog y of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and is presi d e nt of th e Entomological Society of Canada.

and Master's degrees in Science from the University of Alberta and hi s doctoral de gree in Bioc hemi stry and Ph ys iology from Cornell University. In addition, he holds a Mas ter of Science degree in Phar macology from Michigan State University. After working fo r three years as a nutri tion researcher in industry, Dr. Morrison joined the research laboratories of the Food and Drug Directorate in 1959 and held the rank of Assistan t Deputy Minister since 1971. During the past 20 yea rs, Dr. Morrison has served on more than 30 national and international committees and consultancies related to food, nutrition, hea lth and tox icology. He is au thor of more than 100 tech nical papers in the fie lds of nutrition, bio chemistry, toxicology and pharmacology.

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Dr. N. Ole Nielsen, OVC '56, of Saska toon , has been named dea n of the OVC for a five-year term , effective January I, 1985. He wi ll succeed Dr. Douglas Maplesden, OVC '50, who will complete his term as dean on December 31. Dr. Nielsen was dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medic ine at the University of Saskatchewan from 1974 to 1982. He has been at the college since its founding in 1964. His interests encompass com parative medicine, the study of phenome na basic to diseases of animals and man, an area where ve terinary researc h has made important con tributions. Much of hi s resea rch has in volved the effect of Escherichia coli en terotox in s in gastrointestinal ailments of swi ne. Ole Nielsen is no stranger to the Guelph campus. He received the Schofield

Dr. Alexander B. Morrison is the new chairman of the Department of Food Sci ence. His appo intment, effective September I, is for a five-year term. Dr. Morrison was Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Protec tion Branch , Department of National Health and Welfa re, Ottawa, prior to his appoint ment. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Medi cine and the Chem ical Institute of Canada, he is a certifi ed speciali st in human nutri tion, American Board of Nutrition. As Assistant Deputy Minister, Dr. Morrison was responsible, among other thin gs, fo r a program designed to eliminate health hazard s in the physical and soc ial environment. Dr. Morri son rece ived his Bachelor's

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Medal from the University and was a Wine ga rd Visiting Professor in the Depart ment of Pathology in 1982. He was Medical Research Council Vis it ing Scientist at the World Hea lth Organiza tion Escherichia Centre, Statens Serum In stitute in Copenha ge n, Denmark, in 197 1-72 and Visiting Scholar in the Patholo gy Department of the University of CaJi fo rnia at San Diego and at the San Diego Zoo fo r the 1983-84 academic yea r. Dr. Nielsen studied agriculture at the Uni versity of Alberta and rece ived his vet erinary ed ucation at the OVC and the Uni ve rsity of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1963. He has practised in Alberta, served as a research assistant for the Med ical Department of Brookhaven National Labo ratory in New York and taught at the Univer sity of Minnesota. He se rved on the board of directors and govern in g commi ttee of the Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization , and was chairman of the board of directors of the Prairie Swine Centre. He has also served on federal and provincial health care commit tees, and has been involved in the gove rn ment of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Associ ation. He is also a member of the American Veterinaray Medical Association and the American Association fo r the Advancement of Science. Hi s comm unit y interests a re wide, ranging fro m the Saskatchewan Natural His tory Society to the provincial Environm ental Advisory Council and city and regional planning and deve lopment committees. Dr. Ni e lsen and his wife, Marilyn (Wilson) Mac '55, have a family of three, Margo, David and Gordon. 0

She was cha irm an of the Guelph United Way in 1982 and has been a member of the boards of many local gro ups including the Guelph Public Library.

*' * * So/etle Gelberg.

Jim Hunler, OAC '49.

Boyd Malchell.

Bruce Slone, OAC '53.

To Board of Governors Solette Gelberg returns to the Board of Governors after an absence of one year. She was previously an appointee of the Lieuten ant-Governor in Council. She is we ll known loca ll y for her participation in community activities and has a background in marketing and ad vertising. 14

She is c urrently a member of th e Ontario Hea lth Disciplines Board, a lay board which is the avenue of appeal for dec isions of the complaints committees of the colleges of physic ians and surgeons, dentists, nurses , pharmacists a nd optometrists in the province.

James D. "Jim" Hunter, OAC ' 49, joined the University's Board of Governors July I. Executive vice-preside nt and director of Canada Packers Ltd. , Ji m Hunter is no stranger to campus. He is a founding mem ber of the Alma Mater Fund's Century Club and worked on the successfu l Macdonald Stewart Art Centre capital fund campaign. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with a major in Chemistry. He has spent all of his workin g life with Canada Packers , starting wi th the firm in 194 / be fore he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, and returning on graduation from Guelph. He became a director of the com-

pany in 1975 and executive vice-president in 1978.

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ics , served with the RCNVR during World War II , and worked with Massey- Ferguson and Urwick-Currie before joining Cara Operations in 1962.

Boyd Matchett, of Toronto, has been reap pointed to the Board of Governors for a second term. He recently retired as vice chairman and chief executive officer of Cara Operations Limited. Widely known in the food service industry and on campus, he has been involved with the School of Hotel and Food Administration's Advanced Management Program for the Hospitality Industry since its inception. He is a director of the Sunnybrook Medical Centre Institute, Boots Drug Stores and Keg Restaurants. He graduated from the University of Toronto and the London School ofEconom

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Bruce Stone, OAC '53, associate dean of the Ontario Agricultural College, is a Senate appointee to the Board of Governors. He replaces Department of Crop Science chairman Jack Tanner, OAC '57, who has just completed his three-year term. Pro fessor Stone is a well known personality in rural Ontario where he has done much to introduc~ farmers to practical applications of up-to-date research. Dr. Stone grew up on the family dairy farm at Forfar in Leeds County. He gradu ated with a Bachelor of Science in Agri culture with a major in Animal Science and

with a Master's degree in 1954. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1959. His wife, Nora (Bowles) is a Mac '53 grad. He taught in the Department of Animal Husbandry at Guelph in the '50s and in the counterpart department at Cornell Univer sity in the '60s, returning to Guelph in 1966 as a professor in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science. He has been associate dean for the last year. Dr. Stone has consid erable international experience, and has served as acting chairman in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science. He speaks frequently to farm groups around the province as well as to scientific meetings. He is also very interested in com puterized livestock production system s and, in 1981-'82, spent a year's sabbatical at the University of Cali fomi a at Davis upgrading his computer knowledge. 0

A1UlDni 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 , 1985, are Dr. Kenneth A. McDermid, OVC ' 51 ; Janet Watson, CBS '75, and Susan (Lang ton) Shantz , Mac '69. The terms of office of Richard D. Moccia, CBS '76; Donald C. Rose, Arts '80; and Tony K. Sobczak , Arts '77, will expire August 31, 1986. H. Clark Adams, OAC '56; Jack George, OAC '48, and Patricia Grenier, Arts '72, will sit on Senate until August 31, 1987. The above incumbents, apart from Janet Watson who is serving a partial term, should not be renominated. All alumni who have

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graduated from the University of Guelph or its founding 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 thi s University, nor be a member of the teaching or administrative staff of this University, as those groups are other wise 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 by January 15, 1985. 0

We nominate the following graduate(s), ordinarily resident in OntariO, for election to Senate for the three-year term commencing September 1, 1985.

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Man to: Tbe Secretary, University of Guelpb Alumni Association, Alumni Office. Jobnston Hall. Unlwerslty of Guelpb. GUELPH. Ontario NIG 2WI

Alumni-In Action

Letter to

the Editor Dea r Derek:

When Alumni-in-Acti o n was first organi zed, concern was expressed that the name mi g ht be interpreted as "A lumni In ac tion." Report s, which reached the executive committee in September 1984, amply dem onstrate that such concern was quite un fo unded. The only need was the oppor tunity to provide a service' The mammoth task of providing ample registration a nd in formation personnel for the Learned Socie ties Conference hosted by the University of Guelph last spring brought forth a request for assi s tance by the organizers. Senior alumni were invited to help. Jac k Palmer, OAC ' 38, and hi s wife Do (Stuart), Mac '36, served as co-chairmen of volunteers for thi s event, which involved 30 senior alumni manning the desk during 16 days of the conference, clocking in so me 250 hours of volunteer e ffort . The Palmers admitted that they had a bu sy time organizing the volunteers, who in turn e njoyed their experiences and look for ward to further opportunities of this nature. In his report to the executive, Jack relayed the extreme ly generous praise, with re spect to the service provided, which con ference chairman Dr. Earl MacNau g hton included in hi s remarks at the close of the con fere nc e. Fu rther req ues ts were soo n forthcoming. As a result, four volunteers assisted at regi s tr a tion during Alumni Weekend '84. At the Poultry Science Association meetings, at the end of July, six senior alumni provided valuable assistance at the reg istra tion and information desk for three days. Flo rence Partridge, Mac '26, one of our most valued members, also assisted with guided tours of the City of Gue lph, and Fred lerome, OAC '33, provided hi s expertise with the "rooste r run" (an eye-opening early-morning jogg in g sess ion throu g h th e Arbo retum organized fo r Association attendees). The Alumni-in -ActlOn Oral Hi s tory Project, adopted earli e r, is under way. Three taped conversations with graduates of the 1920s have been completed , and from re port s presented to the executive, it's evi dent tha t others are in the works and ready to roll thi s fall, before prospective candidates go into hibernati on in Florida for the winter. This is viewe d as an on-going project, intended to record ex perie nces of some of the older generation of grad uates, related to the ir University life. S e nior alumni have indee d found a niche, and Alumni-in-Action has a raison d'etre. 0 16

I wanlto thank you for the recognition given to my book, A Sc hool man's Odyssey, in th e Summer '84 issue of the Guelph Alumnus. For some reason, I derive more satisfaction from the appearance of some thing like that in the Alumnus, than any other publication. Something to do wilh Ihm old devil th e ego, I su.ppose; the desire to leI oldfriel1ds and associales kn olV thaI you've done something wOrlh while. Th e customary high qualiry of the Gu e lph Alumnus was maintained ;11 the Summer' 84 edition. I particularly enjoyed the accoum by Adam Graham, OAC ' 23, of his boyhood on a NOr/hem Ontario farm. I was a sophomore when he appeared al Ihe College, and remember so well his bucolic appearance , somelhin g he has not enlirely oU/grown , even at 90. The success he made of his life belies Ihe scornful dismissal by John Kenneth Galbraith, OAC '28A and '31, of his Alma

Hall of Fame Inaugurated Thirteen of Guelph's former athletes and six builders were induc ted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in September at an inaugural dinner in the Arboretum Ce ntre. David Copp, director, Athletics, initi ated the idea of honouring the Uni ve rsity's outstanding a thletes, and, together with Shirley Peterso n, Bud Folusew yc h, CSS '7 1, and Dick Free man of the Department's staff, made the evenin g a me morable oc-

Maler. If Galbraith had said, in 1948, thm admission requirem enl s were low, and course con/en! somewhat elemen/Qry, he would have been right. Howe ver, hefailed /0 recognize Ihe contribution of Ihe intang i bles, and an aonosphere thaI developed self confidence and a desire to achieve. In thaI respecl, Ihe record speaks for itself One can only speculale as 10 whal the lifeofAdam Graham would have beel/like if he had 1101 had Ihe opp0rlunilY 10 enrol at Guelph in 1919. Harold B. Disbrowe, OAC '23, 17 Farm Manor Court, London , Onl. N6H 4J2

Alumni Winter Carnival February 1·3, 1985 Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston $85 per person (adult) double. Workshops, swimming, sauna etc. Write to: Alumni Office,' Room 131, Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., N1G 2Wl for brochures and reservations.

casion for the families and friends of the athl e tes. The first inductee was B ill Mitc hell , OAC ' 38, who was sy nonymous with athlet ics at Guelph for 33 years as a player, a coach, and later as the director of athletics. Builders induc ted into the Hall of Fame were Professo r Jack Baker, OAC ' 11 ; Fred B a ldwin , Professor Bill Bl ac k wood, Mildred McQueen, Professor Ro ss Cavers, OAC ' 29, a nd Val (Millar) Free man , CBS ' 70. The names of those e lec ted to the Hall of Fame will be on di splay in the Trophy Roo m at the Athletics buildin g. 0

Alhleles inducted inlo Ihe Athletic Hall of Fame are, front row, lefllO righr: Wayn e Morgan, CSS ' 72; Linda Kazienko, OAC ' 78; Richard Deschmelels, Arts '80; Anne (Wallon) Grape, Arts ' 74; and Ken Lockell , CSS '72. Back row, lef! 10 righI, Bruce M orris , OAC '77; Mike Chepesuik , OAC '30: Bob Sleckle, OAC '52; Gerry Organ, CBS '71; Bob S harpe, CSS '77; Gralll McLaren, CBS '70; Brad Pirie, CSS ' 79; and Bill Mitchell, OAC '38 .

IFrS FOR ALL SEASONS Ideal for giving at graduation, birthdays and festive occasions. These items have been de颅 signed especially for the University of Guelpb. Most items bear the University crest, making .thema unique reminder of your Alma Mater. Issued in co-operation with the Guelph Campus Co-Operative, University .Centre.

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ALUMNI NEWS Editor: Dr. Harvey W. Caldwell, '51.

Director, New Plant Biotechnology Centre

Dr. Ken Kasha. One of Canada's most highly respected plant geneticists, Ken Kasha, crop scientist, has been named director of the University's new Plant Biotechnology Centre. The Guelph group, to involve between ,30'\040 faculty members, will become part of a plaIn biotechnology network being set up across the country. Dr. Kasha explains there was some urgency in getting the Centre started as Can ada is behind the United States, Japan and many European countries in the develop ment of biotechnology. As defined by the Canadian Agri cultural Research Council, biotechnology is the application of techniques such as genetic engineering, including recombinant DNA,some enzyme processes, cell fusion, plant cell and tissue culture, and process and systems engineering that are relevant to spe cific agricultural research programs. The techniques have important applications in improving food production and, hence, are of importance not only for Canadian agri

culture but also on the international agri cultural scene. The Guelph scientists are working in the already well-established plant cell and tissue culture research area as well as in plant transformation (including genetic engineering); plant/microbial interface, including nitrogen fixation; and plant breeding. Dr. Kasha points out that the plant transformation group will be strengthened by the recently established Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. The plant breeders, he explains , will identity prob lems and evaluate products and techniques developed in conjunction with the other groups. The new director sees his role as that of co-ordinator - getting people from various di sc iplines together, identitying funding so urces and assi sting researchers in apply ing for available money. He will work with an executive committee, still to be named , made up of representatives from each of the research areas. The appointment is a halF time one for Dr. Kasha and a secretary, yet to be appointed. He will continue to carry his own re search , as well as teaching and gradu ate programs. The Centre will link with the recently established National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon, Sask., and other centres across the country. It will promote joint research proposals between universities and other institutions , such as the proposal submitted for a strategic grant from the Natural Sciences and Engi neering Research Council by Guelph and Unive rsity of Waterloo scientists working in biotechnology. As well, negotiations are currently being carried out by the two uni versities on a proposed Guelph-Waterloo Biotechnology Institute. Guelph has a long history of involve ment and a reputation for excellence in the plant sciences. "We will be building on existing strengths," Dean of Research Bill Tossell, OAC '47, says. Negotiations are already under way with industries for con

tracts in plant biotechnology. The new Centre will be largely mis s ion-oriented, helping to make research from thi s multi-disciplinary group available for practical application in an increasingly technological world .

Innovations Need Recognition Winner of the second annual Ernest C. Manning $75,000 award for his research into haploid barley breed ing Profe sso r Kasha feels strongly that Canadian innova tions need more recognition. "The Manning Award's sole objective is to promote innovation in Canada," he says. "All nominees for the award got pub licity and recognition in keeping with the aim of the award, which is to try to coun teract some of the negative impressions that no one in Canada develops innovations." Dr. Kasha first became interested in plant genetics when he was an undergradu ate at the University of Alberta in the 1950s. He has since worked with barley, alfalfa , wheat and triticale, but of these barley has been his chosen area for haploid research. The Bulbosum method of haploid pro duction is the s pecific area of research for which he received the Manning Award. Haploids are cells with half the nOimal com plement of chromosomes. The Bulbos um method takes its name from the fact that it resulted from a cross between common bar ley (Hordeum vulgare) and pollen from a wild species of barley (Hordeum hulhosum). A high frequency of feltilization of the barley egg cells occurs, resulting in embryo development. However, the bulbosum chro mosomes are eliminated by this process, leaving only barley traits in the embryo. The embryos are then removed from the seed and cultured to produce a haploid barley plant. Chemical treatments can induce the chromosomes to double back to the normal complement, or diploid state. This second set of chromosomes produced with the haploid technique are genetically identical to those of the original haploid. The result is the creation of a variety with complete uni

formity in traits such as height, maturity, yield levels and resistance to disease. ]n plant breeding, two strains are usu ally crossed to create a hybrid. Researchers then proceed with five or six generations of inbreeding to achieve uniformity in the traits. With spring barley, this can take two to three years whi Ie winter barley takes four to five. Using the haploid technique, this pro cess takes only one generation. Because the

second set of chromosomes is an exact rep lica of the first set, a new variety can be produced and licensed for sale to farmers in five or six years - a process that usually takes ten to 12 years. Dr. Kasha's haploid research also has implications for world trade. Canada pro duces 10 million acres of barley a year, sec ond only to wheat which is about twice that amount. Of that barley crop, 90 per cent is sold for feed or export while the other 10 per

cent is made into malt. Canada exports malt and barley to China, Japan, the United States and Italy, among others. The haploid technique can also be applied to other grains, particularly wheat, he notes. "Since wheat is Canada's main crop, we should be concentrating on that." For the past fi ve years, Dr. Kasha has been supervising work at Guelph on wheat haploids - an area that will be the focus of future research. 0

The Morwick FaDlily Scholarship

Frank Morwick. '27. and his wife, Lorraine (Ferguson) Mac '28 .

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The family of the late Professor Frank Firth Morwick, '27, and his wife, the late Lorraine (Ferguson), Mac 'i8, have provided monies to the University that will fund the Morwick family SCholarship, an annual award of $500 available to a student enrolled in a graduate program related to Land Resource Science. Eligibility for the scholarship is as follows: "The student must have demonstrated an outstanding academic ability (in both course work and research), and qualities of leadership and understanding. The recipient will be expected to have contributed to, and participated in, all phases of Departmental activities. The student's research will con tribute to a fuller understanding for the plan ning and use of land resources." Frank Morwick was born in Jer seyville, Ontario and graduated with a B.S.A. degree. Arrangements had been completed with the University of Toronto the previous year to grant the M.S.A. degree, and he and Orner A. Lemieux, '26, were the first to receive that degree in 1928. Frank had alreacly spent several sum mers on soil survey and recei ved a perma nent appointment at the OAC in 1928. His position was described as a soils specialist in the Department of Chemistry. " For several years he taught a course in Analytical Chemistry and, with a 1936

transfer to the "Old Hort," (where the McLaughlin Library now stands) he con tinued teaching a course in Glacial Geology which he had developed earlier. ]n 1937, the geology course was discontinued and a course in Soil Morphology and Classifica tion began. For several years Professor Mor wick led various soil survey parties and acted as overall co-ordinator of surveys. The Department of Soil Science was established in 1945 with the late Professor Gerald N. Ruhnke, '23, as head of the new department. In 1948 he resigned to become Director of Reseach for the Ontario Depart ment of Agriculture. Professor Morwick was appointed acting head of the Department from 1948 to 1949, after which the headship passed consecutively from Professor Ford Stinson, '34, to Professor N.R. "Rick" Richards, '38. Professor Morwick resigned from the department in 1961, terminating a formal association with the Department which had spanned 33 years. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and had been chairman of the Canadian Soil Science Society. In 1961 he was made a Fellow of the Soil Conservation Society of America. He died in 1963. Lorraine (Ferguson) Morwick, Mac '28, came from Parkhill, Ontario. She grad uated from Stratford Normal School and taught in Eramosa township near Guelph for three years before enrolling at the Mac donald Institute. After graduating, she taught for a year in Vancouver, B.C., before her marriage to Frank Morwick in 1929. The Morwicks settled in Guelph and were very active in community, college, and church affairs. Lorraine died in April, 1983. The first Morwick Scholarship was presented on June 8, 1984 to Cameron D. Grant, '80. Cameron graduated in Soil Sci ence and was subsequently employed as a research assistant in the Department of Land Resource Science. He enrolled full-time in an M.Sc. program in Soil Science in 1982. His thesis research is in soil conservation.

Cameron's outstanding academic pro gram, as well as his leadership and enthusi astic participation in Departmental pro grams, were cited as the basis for his selection for the scholarship. Cameron will be pursuing a Ph .D. degree in Australia in 1985 with the support of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Scholarship. The scholarship was presented to Cameron by Jean (Morwick) Smith , daughter of Pro fessor and Lorraine Morwick and the wife of George E. Smith, OAC '52. Jean and her sister Barbara (Morwick) Tate, Mac '56, arranged the scholarship with the full sup port of brother Jim F. Morwick and cousin Mary (Morwick) Hudson, Mac '54. 0

Tanner, '57, to Head Study Crop Science professor Jack Tanner, '57, is to chair a task force to study ways to improve Ontario'S wine and grape industry in the long term. Ontario Agriculture and Food Minister Dennis Timbrell announced at the 1984 Niagara Peach Festival that the task force will analyze the problems and examine oppOitunities for Ontario's wine and grape industry. It will also develop ways in which pro ducers, processors and government can work together to enhance the performance and prospects of the industry in the long term, he said. "This action," added Dennis Timbrell, "is supported by my colleague, Deputy Premier Robert Welch , who is cur rently heading a committee looking into the immediate concerns of the industry, par ticularly this year's anticipated grape surplus. " The task force will complement the work of the Welch committee by, together, developing short- and long-term options for a more prosperous industry. 0 19

U of G/lBM Co-op·Agreement The University of Guelph and IBM Canada Ltd. have signed a co-operative agreement to create and integrate agricultural informa tion systems that will result in improved productivity for Canadian farmers. Computers donated to the University by IBM Canada will be used by students and faculty in the classroom and for research. The computers will also be used to build a database of agricultural information and for the development of new agricultural appl ications. All information from the resulting cen tre of agricultural computing expertise will be made available to members of the agri cultural community and others who can benefit from the information. Under the agreement, IBM Canada Ltd. has donated two IBM 4300 Systems, an

IBM Series/ l computer and 40 IBM Per sonal Computers as well as other hardware, associated software and maintenance. IBM Canada Ltd. systems engineers are working closely with faculty to provide technical assistance. The list price for the equipment and services IBM Canada Ltd. has donated is more than $1.8 milJion. The University will invest about $3 millionin facilities, person nel, communications equipment and soft ware. The total investment in the project will therefore be more than $4.8 million. The co-operative agreement was signed by Board of Governors chairman Cecil Franklin, Pres ident Burt Matthews, '47 , and Carl Corcoran, president of IBM Canada Ltd. Carl Corcoran said: " The University of

.Crop Scientist Retires

Ritchie Cowan, '39, retired in November, 1983. He began his professional career as an agronomi st at the Dominion Experimental Research Centre at Harrow in southwestern Ontario. He subsequently was transferred to Nappan, N .S . and eventually to headquarters for Canada Agriculture Research in Ottawa. He also served on the staff of the Department of Agronomy at Macdonald College, McGill Univers ity, Montreal, Que. In 1984 he joined the Department of Crop Science at the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State Univers ity, Cor vallis, and, over the next 28 years, served as teacher, researcher, and administrator. In 1976 he accepted an assignment with the lnterna

tional Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Los Banos in the Philippines. From late 1977 until retirement he co-ordinated IRRI's program in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Dr. Cowan has been a member of the American Society of Agronomy s ince 1942, and the Crop Science Society of America since its inception. He served as pres ident of the Western Society of Crop Science in 1957-1958, the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) in 1961, and the American Society of Agronomy in 1972. He served in many official roles with the American Forage and Grassland Council (AFGC) and as its president in 1973. He has been an ardent promoter of greater attention to seed technology, both on a national and

Principal, Ridgetown CAT w. Taylor, '73, assumed the posi tion of principal at the Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology September I. Dr. 1. Clare. Rennie , '47, A ss istant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Agricultl)fe and Food (OMAF), made the announcement last July. Principal of New Liskeard College of Agricultural Technology since 1980, Don majored in Animal Science at Guelph and has a Master's degree in Animal Bio chemistry from the University of Alberta. Donald

Since joining OMAF in 1975 , he has worked as a dairy cattle specialist, co-ordinator of a dairy herd improvement program, and as associate director of the livestock branch. " Don Taylor has demonstrated his abilities during his .four years at the New Liskeard College," said Dr. Rennie. "He has taken the College through a period of expansion both in the number of students and also in college facilites." Don Taylor replaces Jim MacDonald, '50, who is retiring after a 34-year career

Guelph has a world-wide reputation for innovation in the application of science to agriculture. It has also exercised a lead ership role in applying information tech nology in this field. I am pleased we are able to participate in this project which will bring many benefits to Canada. " President Matthews added: "This pro ject with IBM Canada will allow us to provide guidance and direction to improve agricultural productivity not only in Can ada, but in many other countries that look to us for assistance. " This is the 13th co-operative agreement IBM Canada Ltd. ha s undertaken with Canadian colleges and universi ties s ince 1982. These agreement s focus on ways to improve. Canadian productivity through the use of computer technology. The benefits resulting from every project are made freely available to all interested parties. 0

international basis. In this role he has served on many committees and panels for seed pro ducers, marketing and certifying agencies. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota and is a Fellow of the American Society of Agron omy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For his promotion and encouragement of the wise use of for ages as an important livestock feed resource, for soil conservation, and aesthetic improve ment of the environment, he has been recog ni zed by the A FGC as a recipient of their Medallion Award and the CSSA with their Honour Award. He plans to continue contributing to the Oregon State University Department of Crop Science, as Professor Emeritus, and international agriculture through short term consultancies. 0

with the mini stry. Jim served as assistant agricultural represe ntative and agricultural repre sentative in Lanark and Lambton counties before becoming head of the live stock sec tion at the Ridgetown college in 1957. He was appointed the first principal of Centralia College of Agricultural Tech nology in 1967 and was named principal at Ridgetown in 1979. .. During his career with this ministry, Jim MacDonald has made an outstanding and dedicated contribution to the ministry's education, research and extension pro grams," said Dr. Rennie. 0

In Memoriam W e regre t to announce the following death s. Charles Arthur Whetham, 'lOA, on April 26, 1984 in hospital in Cambridge. He was 97 years of age. He lived alone, keeping hou se for himself, until a year before hi s death . His so n, George, '53, reports hi s father's e njoy ment in attendin g the Alumni Weeke nd Golden Anniversary dinners.

Ginty Jocius , '70 , left, presidenl of th e OACAA, presented

Ih e 1984 OACM Graduation Awurd to Andrew Quinn, '84A .

Th ese arefour ofOAC'sfaculty who retired in 1984 . Seen with Ih eir respective wives are, leJi to right : Maurice Smilh , '42, and Catherine; Phil Burke, '43, and Phyllis; Lloyd Busch , '42, and Kay; Jack Ketcheson, '44 , and Belly, Arts '83 .

Jonathan Alexander Munro, '20A, ' 22, o n March 8, 1984, in Springfield, Illinoi s, U.S .A . Dr. Munro was chairman of th e De partment of Entomology, North Dakota State Unive rsity from 1926 to 1951 ; ento molo g ist for the U.S. go vernm e nt in Boli via, the Philippines , and Le banon from 1957 to 1960, and was an entomologist with the Los Ange les California State and County Arboretum until retirement in 1966. He was a membe r of the Sigma XI and Phi Kappa Phi societies and author of many sc ientific articles on beekeeping and other entomological subjects. Dr. Munro was born in Embro in 1896. His wife, Hope (Beatty) predeceased him a nd he is survived by his daughter Jane Dos land of Springfield, III. .Dr. Munro estab lis hed an e ndowed scholarship, the Bea tty Munro family memorial fellow ship in Agri c ulture. Edmond F. Pineau, '21, o n May I , 1984 at Orleans, age 89 years. Harvey D. Leek, '22A, in Mount Albert, wh ere he farmed . Details unknown. Edward A. Carter, '31, on May 3,1984, of Hawksto ne, in his 75th year. Bruce Hodgins, '38, in hos pita l at Peterboro ugh on May 22, 1984 . He had bee n with the ARDA Branch, OMAF, be fo re retirement. George W. Anderson, '42, on May 13, 1984 at Gu elph. John Ronald Breen, ODH '66, on Febru ary 29, 1984, suddenly of a hea rt attack at hi s ho me. He had been with the Departm e nt of Lands and Forests, Oro no.

OAC Dean Freeman McEwen accepts the key 10 the new OAC lrophy showcase from Greg Iller, president of the OAC Student Federation (SFOAC). Located in the courtyard of the University Centre, the displa y cabinet , built with SFOAC funds, is the first permanent home for all major OAC trophies.

Merle R. Wilson, ODH '73, in Dece mber 1973, at Newport Beac h, California, U .S. A. Robert H. Miller, '82A, on May 23, 1984, of ca ncer, at ElmvaJe. 0 21

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John Munro, '35, has retired from Jordan Ste. Michelle Cellars Ltd., and is living in Fort Erie. John Vamplew, '55, is crown attorney, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Brockville. Harry Seymour, '61, wa s recently appointed president of Dominion Securities Pitfield Inve stment Management Ltd., Toronto, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dominion Securities Pitfield Ltd. Mary McNiven, '75, and her husband, Sven Skretting, have returned to Canada from Scandinavia and are living in Vaudreuil , Que. Mary is teaching in the Department of Animal Science, Macdonald College, McGill University, Montreal.

John Miller, '82, is working with Emlaw Acres Dairy Farm, Milford.

Timothy Ross, '79, is a sales agronomist with Northup King Seeds Ltd., Fort Saskatchewan.

Lloyd Mitchell, '82, is farming at Owen Sound.

Robert Chipman, '80, is farming at Bridgetown, N.S. David Darby, '80, is senior loans officer, Royal Bank of Canada, Wood stock . David Eaton, '80, B.Sc.(Eng.) is head, diving tests and evaluations, Defence & Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Downsview. Lori Eddie, B.L.A. '80, is a landscape architect, Eikos, Granville Island, B.C. John Fedorkow, '80, is fruit farming, SI. Davids.

Larry Maher, '82, is a farm supply man ager, Cargill Ltd., Moose Jaw, Sask. Kevin O'Connor, '82, is owner/operator, McLellen Turf Spray, Stouffville. Colin Okashimo, '82, B.L.A., is a land scape designer/ planner, Belt, Collins and Assoc iates International, Singapore. Sherry Quehl, '82, is special projects officer, Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation, Toronto. Patricia Brookfield, '83, is owner, The Plant Mister, Port Stanley. Thomas Burns, '83, is landscape co ordinator, Ministry of Transport and Com munications, Downsview. His wife, Janice (Manton), '83, is a seed analyst in training, Oseco Inc . , Brampton.

Kevin Simpson, '77, is an account executive with Richard so n Greenshields, Kitchener.

Kevin Macisaac, '80, has been working as a soils and crops specialist with the govern ment of New Brunswick for the past four years. He reports that, in August, he moved to Bear River, Souris R.R. #1, Prince Ed ward Island, COA 2BO. He is operating a dairy and cash crop farm.

Geoffrey Parker, '77, B.Sc.(Eng.) is a project engineer with Geocon Inc. , Georgetown.

Robert Macrae, '80, is a graduate student, with the Department of Botany at the Uni versity of Toronto.

Gary Bauman, '78, is a technical sales represe ntative with Uniroyal Chemical, Elmira.

Loretta Mikitzel, '81, M.Sc. '83, is regis tered for a degree at the University of British Columbia, Department of Plant Science.

Karin Hamblin, '78, is a veterinarian, OVC '82, in Kentville, N.S.

Jacqueline Murby, '81, is barn manager King Cole Ducks Ltd., Aurora.

Paul Bezaire, B.L.A. '79, is a land scape architect, City of Windsor.

David Robinson, '81, is with Discount Stereo, Kitchener.

Nancy Brown, '79, is a research associate, Agricutural Economics , University of Guelph.

Muriel Archer, '82, is a commodity account executive, Richardson Green shields of Canada Ltd., Calgary.

Douglas Clapp, '79, B.Sc.(Eng.), is a res ervoir engineer, Blain Engineering Associ ates, Calgary, Alta.

Stephen Broad, '82, is a farm manager, John Gilvesy Fanns, Tillsonburg.

Richard Stasiuk, '75A, is a horticulturist, Canadian Hydro Gardens Ltd . , Ancaster.

Nick Groot, '82, is milk supervisor, Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Associa tion, Toronto.

Kenneth Baker, '77 A, is general manager, Toronto Ski Club Inc ., Collingwood and also manager of Concoctions , Catering & Leisure Life Services, Collingwood.

Randy Fielder, '76, is feed and crop repre se ntative, UCO, Guelph.

Graham Gable, '79, is manager, Northern Ontario Wild Blueberry Farm, Kirkland Lake. Candy Keith, '79, is a horticultural techni cian at the New Liskeard College of Agri cultural Technology. David Rogers, '79, is a swine technician with Olds College, Olds, Alta. He and wife, Lexie (Holmes), '77, have two sons, Trevor, 2 and Samuel, I. 22

Mark McConnell, '79, is farming in Dun dalk.

Raymond Kelly, '82, is a quality control inspector, Research Food Ltd., Downsview. James Koegler, '82, is working with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington. Anthony Lavalee, '82, B.Sc.(Eng.), is a design engineer with American Can, Can ada Inc., Rexdale.

Dianne Coker, '83, is quality assurance supervisor, Richardson Foods Ltd., St. Marys. Murray Eby, '83, is group life insurance underwriting renewal clerk, Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, Guelph . Robert Hutchison, B.L.A. '83, is land scape architect , Waiter's Landscape Con tracting, Thornhill. Joel Robson, '83, is owner/operator Rolling Ridge Fanns, Arva. David Steckle, '83, B.Sc.(Eng.), is a design engineer with Ma ssey-Ferguson Industries Ltd. , Toronto. 0

Diploma Graduates

Douglas West, '80A, is a salesman with Agrico Canada Ltd., Belleville. James Zavits, '82A, is primary products inspector, Agriculture Canada, Newmarket. Myrna Cressman, '83A, is a sales person with Full Circle Foods, Kitchener. 0

Macdonald Institute/College of Family and Consumer Studies Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor: Carol Telford.Pittman, '75.

Past President's Report By Rita (KJassen) Weigel, '77. On behalf of your 1983-84 Board of Direc tors of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association, I bring you greetings. One of the many grati fying experiences that I have had as presi dent of the Association over the past year, is to see in action the loyalty and enthusias m for the College and for th e Ass oc iation of alumni members. Your Board of Directors in particular has been very active throughout the year, expen ding a tremendous amount of time and energy in making it a very suc cessful year. The Board is organized into seven committees. The Careers Night, Honours and Award s and Student Affairs commit1ees worked primarily in areas relating to FACS students, while the Seminar and Alumni Affairs committees focussed on activities dealing with Association members. In addi tion, there are Finance and No minating committees. Directors se rved on one or more committees throughout the year. year. This year, focu s was given to increas ing the individual director's involvement in activities of the Board and to increasing the accountability of each committee in its area of responsi bility, with a view to increas ing the Boa rd's effectiveness. The result has been the success of a large number of Association projects. Careers Night '83, the first alumni event of the year, was held in the fall with the theme "Seeding Your Future." It featured a light dinner for FACS students and faculty followed by a panel presentation and group discu ss ion with the recent FACS grads. Throughout the year, the Association has sponsored or subsidized a number of activities instituted by student organiza tion s. These included a s ign language course arranged by the Class of '85, a concert for area chiJdren, featuring Don Coughlin of "The Treehouse" and organized by the Child Studies Club, and a diabetic work shop which the Nutrition Club planned. In addition, the Association gave finan cial support to College Royal , a nd provided judges at the cake baking competition.

Rita (Klassen) Weigel, '77

The Association also undertook the funding of a special project in honour of the 60th anniversary of College Royal, the slide tape prese ntation of a "History of Mac donald Institute and the College of Family and Consumer Studies, 1903-1984." This was a project initiated and produced by a FACS '84 student, Edina Vander Wielen. Anyone wi shing to view this slide-tape show can obtain a copy from the University Library. In February, a graduation party was held for the Class of '84 , another important opportunity to promote the Mac-FACS Alumni Assoc iation among FACS student s. Scholarships were presented to both graduate and undergraduate students by the Association throughout the 1983-84 year. Two new sc holarships were instituted this year, the Mac-FACS Graduate Entrance Scholars hip of $2 ,000 for a candidate returning to academic study after an absence of at least five years, and an undergraduate sc holarship of $300 which has been taken over from the Guelph Branch of the Mac FACS Alumni Assoc iati o n. This year's annual Spring Seminar was in the area of gerontology, a topic that spark ed considerable interest among our mem bers. There were 182 participants at the day long seminar entitled "Aging - Myths and

Rea lities." Also, the Associati o n once again had the pleasure of s ponsoring graduates of 50 years or more at the Golden Anniversary Dinner on Alumni Wee kend '84. In addi tion, fo ur is sue s of the Guelph Alumnus once again co ntained College and alumni news for our members under the guidance of Mac-FACS Alumni New s editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson, '66. Severa l specia l projects were also introduced by your Association thi s year. First of all, a " Needs Assessment Survey" of alumni was undertaken involving a sam ple of members and non-members of the Association. The survey was designed to provide direction to the Board in sa tisfying the wants and needs of Macs-FACS gradu ates, and in aiding the College and its stu dents in the most effective ways. Results of the survey have recently been complied, (see article in this issue) and will form th e basis for some changes and new activities by the Board in 1984-85 . A very special and exciting fund-rais ing project (see article in this issue) has been initiated by the Association in the Child Studies area this year. This project was developed in response to an urgent need by the College for the redevelopment of an out door play facility to complement its Toddler and Presc hool Lab Program. News on the progress of thi s project will be forthcoming in the Ma c-FACS Alumni News . There are several people whose activities on your Board of Director s deserve special recognition and thanks. Dr. Donna WooIcott, '69, served as an advisor from faculty to the Board over the past two years. Her input and perspective was mu c h valued and appreciated. Our thanks is also extended to Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson, '66, who has acted as the Ma c-FACS Alumni News editor for the Guelph Alumnus for the past 20 issues , and to outgoing directors Liz (Sinclair) Bell, '73; Elaine (McCrossan) Smith, '68; Susan Thatcher, '83, and stu dent represe ntative Susan Hutchison. Last of all, on behalf of your Board of Directors, I would like to thank all members whose loyalty and support for the Assoc ia tion, the College and the University has been evident during the past year. 0 23

From

the Dean Dr. Barham.

always look forward to bringing you news of our activities, achievements and interests. As I write this letter it is still summer, but our planning, and many of our activities, are well geared up for fall. Indeed, even while drafting this note to you I have been chatting with Olive (Thompson) Thompson, '35, and she has been telling me of her group's hopes for a first-class Golden Anniversary celebration in '85. So all of you '35s, why don't you make a commitment now to take part in that great event during Alumni Weekend '85 and make it one of the very best ever? Just thinking for a moment of the sum mer, I should mention that HAFA's second offering of the Advanced Management Pro gram for the Hospitality Industry (AMPHI) was another outstanding success. There were also more participants than for our first offering of this program last year, and the involvement of senior managers in thi s advanced training program has now gone international. AMPHI is very obviously a fine exam ple of one of the many ways in which univer sities are interacting with industry and commerce to provide for information and technology transfer, together with the provi sion of opportunities for advanced training. Despite the fact that the Annual Guelph Conference on Human Sexuality has received recognition over many rece nt years, I must nevertheless acknowledge, once again, the continuing strength of that program. Supported so well, admin istratively, by the University Sc hool of Part time Studies and Continuing Education, the Department of Family Studies once again attracted people to the University, more than 600 of them, from the length and breadth of Canada, and from across the border. Both with respect to the quality of the papers, workshops and theme addresses, and also with regard to the administrative arrangements which support this profes sionally-oriented conference, the Univers ity, and indeed our College, have both earned a most enviable reputation. One further event over the summer which has been particularly significant in the life of our college teaching programs has been the first work term of our first co-op

students within the Family Studies major. I have no doubt that we shall find an oppor tunity in the future to teJl you more about our experience with co-op education, but right now I can tell you that the employers/super visors of our third-year students appear very enthusiastic about the talents and capabilities of our co-op students. For their part, our students are finding the co-op experience enormously enriching for both academic and professional develop ment. We shall add the co-op option to the Child Studies major by selecting the first students in this field during the Fall and Winter semesters, thi s being in anticipation of the first Child Studies co-op term next spring. I know that many of our alumni like to know how our undergraduate programs are going, and how our enrolment situation stand s. At the undergraduate level, the B.A.Sc . program continues to sustain the s ignificant increase in new admissions which Dr. Janet Wardlaw mentioned in one of her letters to you in 1982. As I write, the prospect for the fall looks to be that we will likely overshoot, a little, the target which is a shade beyond the number enrolled in '82. Applied Human Nutrition and Child Studies continue the pattern of recent years in being partic ularly heavily enrolled. I ask you to let young people thinking of our pro grams know about the character of our Con sumer Studies and Family Studies majors , and of the very interesting career paths which can follow graudation in these fields. As usual in recent years, HAFA's B.Comm. program is full and we had to disappoint many keen and well qualified applicants. Our graduate student enrolment is now also at an aU-time high. We have ten new graduate students admitted this fall to Con sumer Studies, and 16 to Family Studies. Both departments have a two-year program, their combined total enrolment this year, then, being 56 students. Of course, this level of activity at the graduate level enlivens our teaching activities, both graduate and under graduate, and it also makes a very vigorous contribution to our research programs. I think that I should mention that our substantial development of the graduate pro grams, and especially the increase in the number of students whom we are serving, has put enormous pressure on our need to provide them with an appropriate level of financial support. We are des perately in need , now, of additions to our graduate awards programs, both in the fonn of fel lowships and in the form of financial assi stance to enable students to present their research findings at scholarly conferences. Ju st recently I have heard of the impact whi ch students in GefClntology, in Family Therapy and in Human Nutrition have made at conferences in Canada, the U.S.A. and

the United Kingdom over the summer. It is a great delight, of course, to know how well their work is being regarded, but we are in desperate straits in trying to meet appropri ate levels of scholarship assi stance, and in providing funds to enable them to travel and present their research findings. In this regard, let me give you one last reminder about the super effort which the Mac '38s have been putting out to fund a scholarship in Gerontology. I am going to ask you to do something in helping them to turn their scholarship into a major award. I see that I am rapidly runnning out of the space that I may use, so I must draw this letter to a close. But before I do, I must mention that we have a very comprehensive and vigorous program of research going on within the CoUege. Indeed, I guess I should keep you in touch with this aspect of our activities in a future issue. Let me mention a couple of projects, though, partly because of their likely gen eral interest and partly as a preview of what I shall concentrate on in a later issue. As a further example of the university/ industry interface, of which I spoke above, some research by Professors Watts and Goldman, both in the Department of Consumer Stud ies, might be of interest to those of you connected in any way with the dairy in dustry. These faculty members are currently working on a grant from the Dairy Bureau of Canada aimed at providing a sensory evalua tion and characterization of se lected vari eties of imported and domestic speciahy cheeses. This work is just one aspect of a major grouping of studies which involve the expertise which the Department of Con sumer Studies has drawn together in the field of sensory evaluation. It has been a long time in coming, but at last there seems to be a growing national consciousness, if not conscience, about the situations and needs surrounding child care in Canada. Molly McGee's recent OMAF report, relating pertinently to the concerns of rural women and rural fami I ies in Ontario, can now be added to the long list of reports which have spoken to this issue. In regard , then, to the second project which I shall mention, we are delighted that Dr. Donna Lero, Department of Family Studies , working collaboratively with a net work of research workers right across the country, heads up a team which has been awarded a sum in excess of $100,000 by the National Tas k Force on Child Care. Their immediate task is to investigate, more thor oughly and more deeply than has been the case up until now, the need s , preferences and concerns of parents in regard to child care in this country. I'll let you know more about our research programs in a future issue. 0

It's Joan's Goodbye

The Annual Meeting of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association was held at the College ofFamily and Consumer Sllldies , during Alumni Weekend ' 84 . Some of your newly elect ed Board of Directorsfor 1984-85 were included in this pre- meeting photograph . L to r: Dean Richard Barham, honorary president; Lois {Ferguson) Arnold, '71, director ; Gail Murray, ' 78, president; Joan (Anaerson) Jenkinson, '66. outgoing Mac-FACS Alumni News editor; Rita (Kiassen) Weigel, '77, past president; Stephanie Spurr, '84 , director; Bonnie Kerslake, '82. first vice-president ; Liz (Sinclair) Bell, '73, outgoing director, and Carol Telford Pilfman , '75, incoming Mac-FACS Alumni News editor.

FACS '78 On behalf of the Class ofFACS '78, classmates Anne Elliott and Myrna (Fleming ) Pringle presented tw o prints to the un iversity art collecti on in mem ory of Carol (Page) Silim. Carol 's class mates establi shed a

memorial fund upon learning of her sudden death, September 3, 1981. An original Co ke Sm yt h lith og raph entitled " Indians Bartering," and a 1831 print of one of the earliest known views of the City of Guelph were accepted on behalf of the University by Dean Richard Barham . 0

Grad News.

Sherry Elizabeth Greenwood, '76, is a nutritionist, Arvak Mgt. Inc ., London, O nt.

Sylvia Dawn, '67, is department head of Family Studies, York Board of Education.

Elizabeth (Van Osch) Sullivan, '77, is a dietitian with the Sunnybrook Medical Cen tre, Toronto.

Mary Louise (Walker) Mancell, '69, is owner of The Fabric Shoppe in Wa.lkerton. Pat ADn (Doughty) Forster, '73, is a renal di e titian for Hotel Dieu Hosp ital, SI. Catharines. janet C. (McGuigan) Kelly, '74, is a lawe yer in Nepean. Mary Pauline (Baechler) Horn, '74, is a systems analyst with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Miss issauga. Mayo McDonough, '74, is a marketing co ordinator for NEBS Business Forms Ltd., Midland. Margo E. Foy, '75, is accounts receivable supervisor for Westin Hotels , Calgary, Alta.

Loretta Linda Lantz, '77, is employed as a rural organization specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Sault Ste. Marie. Anne M. (Scott) jensen, '78, is a soc ial recreation supervisor for the Canadian Men tal Health Association, Timmins. Susan K. (Haslett) Scholfield, '78, is self employed as a spinner and hand weaver, Chatham. Susan j. (Peycha) McKinney, '81, is mar keting co-ordinator for Biotech Marketing Incorporated, Rexdale. Karen E. Graves, '83,. is manager, infor mation services, for the Canadian Restau rant and Foodservice Association, Ottawa.

It has been a pleas ure to serve as editor of the Ma c-FACS Alumni News for the past four years. I wish to extend my since re ap precia tio n to a ll those wh o contributed to our pages in the G uelph AlumnLls . Carol Telford-Pittman, '75, is your new editor and thi s is her first issue. Carol is loo king forwa rd to working with alumni and the College in the preparation of news for thi s publication. Please send Carol your news through the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, Publication s Office, Room 006, John ston Hall, Univer sity of Gue lph , Guelph , Ontario, NIG 2Wl. Carol recentl y completed her term as pas t-p reside nt of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association. In 1982-1983 she spent a year of studying on the Guelph campu s. She is now working on her M .Sc., part-time, and teaching, full-time, at Grand River Coll eg i ate in Kitchener where she is department head, Famil y Studies. Good luck Ca rol. I'm sure you 'll never have a dull moment editin g the Mac-FACS Alumni News. Joan (A nderso n) Jenkinso n, '66. 0

Paula E. (Slattery) Kerr. '83, is a project co-ordinator with COGEM Marke ting Resea rch and Consulting Ltd. , Toronto. 0

In Memoriam Gladys Eileen (Morrow) jenkins, '25D, 1984, in F lushin g, New York, U.S.A. Mary Elizabeth Child, '26D, June 15, 1984 , in Hanover, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. janet Katherine Gundy, '31D, April 2, 1984, in Unionville. janet Macmorine, '32D, March 24 , 1984, in Montreal , Que. Norah Patricia Milhausen, '39D, May 6, 1984, in Waterloo. Edna Blanche Pinchin, '24D, April 27, 1984 , in Midland. 0 25

The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP

Editor: Bob Winkel

Teaching Award for Lange

Professor Gordon Lange . P rofessor Gordon Lange, Departme nt of Che mi stry and Biochemistry, issues an o pe n invitation to hi s students to approach hi m anytime they need help - in the offi ce, labo ratory, library, or on campus. This ges ture reveals much about this outsta ndin g teacher and his commitment to teaching, but it's only part of the reason that he's one of nine Ontario Confederation of Unive rsity Faculty Associations (OCUFA) teac hing award winners in Ontario. A colleague in the Department, Pro fessor Nige l Bunce, call s Dr. Lange an a)J round edu cator. " He has tau ght and admin iste red large introductory co urses as we ll as small seni or-level courses, a nd he s uper vises gradu a te research. " Because he is s uc h a good lec ture r, he is often asked to teach a new co urse fo r the first time," says Dr. Bruce. Last se meste r,

Dr. Lange introdu ced Che mi stry Today, an elec tive des ig ned for no n-science students. While he was c hairman of the undergraduate curriculum co mm ittee, he steered through th e ho no ur s a ppli ed c he mi s try program a nd the co-o p o ptio n. He al so represented the De partme nt o n the toxicolog y B.Sc. co mmittee. In class, Dr. Lange manages to inform, awe, e nte rt a in a nd in s pire s tudent s of o rganic c he mi stry. Paul Di xon, a mature stu de nt in the A pplied Huma n Nutrition pro gram , ex plains why he's o utstanding. " He outlines everything very logicall y a nd puts no tes o n the board while he lectures. His organi zati on co uldn't be better. He gets to the poi nt , has g reat command of the subj ec t matter and e ncourages students to ask ques ti o ns which he answers thoroughly a nd di rectly during class. " Paul, who holds a Bachelor of Educ a tio n degree, ad mi ts he is a keen observer and harsh c ritic of teaching styles, but he has nothin g but admiration for Dr. Lange, par ti c ul arly hi s e fficiency and his concern fo r the stud e nt. Accordin g to Paul , s tudent s re li s h Lange's d ry sense of humour. " In the mid st of a co mpl ex ex plana tion and with a strai ght face, he ca n de li ver a one -line r that has everyone ro lling in the aisles the n co ntinue with out m iss ing a beat. " A bit of a performance is often neces

New D ire ctor for (GWP)2

Professor lain Campbell.

Professor lain Campbell, the new direc to r of the Guelph Waterloo Program fo r Grad u ate Work in Physics (GWP)2 has eve ry rea so n to view his new position with opti m ism . (GWP)2 has soared durin g its first three years of operation , benefitin g g rad uate stu dents and faculty at both un i ve rsit ies. During that time, annual researc h fund in g has increased from $1.1 million to $2.3 million a nd graduate e nrolme nt has risen to mo re tha n 50 M .Sc . and Ph .D . stude nts. O f

sary in large int rodu ctory classes to keep the students interested, Dr. Lange adm its. To keep the subj ec t re leva nt , he is continuall y on the loo kout for exa mpJ es and tidbit s he can use in lec tures. These bits of c he mi stry folklore com e from j o urna ls, news papers and eve n the Ontarion. The re's noth ing myste ri ous o r magic about de ve lo ping goo d lecturing skills, according to Dr. Lange. " Yo u have to speak loudly, e nunc iate clearly a nd be ve ry well organized. " He co ncedes that organization is one of his stre ngths. He lec tures without no tes - a feat tha t requires considerable pre pa ra ti o n a nd a sec ure g r as p of the s ubjec t. Dr. Bunce confirms thi s. " It is c has ten ing for me, and o thers in the Departme nt who have team-t aug ht wi th Dr. Lange, to observe th at he deli ve rs hi s lecture s at the mos t le is ure ly pace im ag inable. He is never ru shed, yet he is neve r behind or ahead in relati o n to the course outline, and hi s stu de nts' no tes are extre mely complete." Thi s is th e third OCUFA teachin g award in the Department of Chemistry and Bi oc he mi s try since 1975; Professor Joe Pok ipcak and Professor Bob Balahura are recent winn ers. Dr. Lange suggests that this is due to the hi gh quality of the courses developed fo r the unde rgraduate student. Hi s modesty prevents him from addin g that those excelle nt courses would not have the same impac t if they we re not metic u lo usly pre pa red a nd de li vered by outs ta nd ing facul ty me mbe rs like h imself. 0

the 62 faculty members, 26 are at Gue lph and 36 at Waterloo. Establishing the j oint progra m has increased the breadth and de pth of co ur se offerings and res earc h p os si bilities for graduate students. Offering perhaps the widest cho ice of courses in Canada, (GWP)2 is the second la rges t physics graduate progr a m in Ont ari o, says Dr. Campbell. Besid es th e o bvi ous advantages for students and facul ty, the re is a ve ry real fiscal benefit - duplica ti o n of courses has been eliminated . Th e eno rmou s ly s ucc e ssful G uel ph Wa te rl oo Ce ntre fo r Gradu a te Wo rk in

Chemistry (GWC)2, which was establi shed in 1974 , was the model for (GWP)2 . Presi dent Burt Matthews first made the sugges tion that Guelph and Waterloo establish a joint graduate program in physics while he was president of the University of Waterloo. " We had a s uccessful model to follow in (GWC)2," he explained. " There was no external pressure to establish the program, hut I could see potential bene fits because the two physic s department s had strengths that were compleme ntary. Don Forste r and I were both enthusiastic about a joint ini tiative, but preside ntial enthusiasm doesn't accomplish anything. It was the physics fac ulty members in both universities who got the program going." The first director, Profess o r Don Brodie, did much of the ground work of melding toge ther the two sets of graduate

regulations. After a year in the position he became dean of sc ience at Waterloo, and Professor lim Leslie took over. Professor Campbell credits his two predecessors with successfully overcoming the teething trou bles of the joint venture and pass ing on what he desc ribe s as a " going concern." Having a larger graduate centre results in some advantages of sca le. Dr. Campbell says (GWP)2 spons o rs di s tiil g uished lec turers and visiting professors. "We also have the resources to actively recruit students and we have much more to offer them when they're here. " Vans run between the two univers ities ferrying students and fac ulty to courses and seminars on both campuses. In the future, a private video link may replace some of the travel between Wate rloo and Guelph. Professor Campbell bec a me director

An Editor's Excursion

By Bob Winkel Having spent my last few summer vaca tions gardening, painting the house and doin g other such mundane things I dec ided, thi s year, to venture farth er afield. Travel guides and friends led me to a decis ion to tour the U.S. national parks of the dese rt so uth-west namely M es a Ve rde, Zion , Grand Canyon, Bryce and Arches. Of these only the first offers both significant ar cheologic al and geological di splays. Rather than give a general travelogue I'll confine my impress ions to Mesa Verde. The park is in south-west Colorado and consists of a large mesa, a fiat-topped moun tain carved into several sections by deep dead-e nded canyons. [n thi s park, as in many of the other parks, the canyon wa ll s provide a very visible and interesting view of geologic events. Depos itions of layers of sand by the action of water along a beach layers of o rgani c mate rial to form co a l seams , layers of clay sediment to form shale and layers of volcanic material are all evi dent to the observer. Wind erosion and g lac ial action, which form canyons , are evident from the hi gh po ints of the park which are 8,600 feet a bove sea level. A partic ularly interes ting form of erosion is found in the caves along the can yon walls. The layer of mate rial directly above the caves co ns ists of porou s (to water) sa nd stone. The layer below it is a shale which is , relatively speaking, impermeable to water. Rain falling on the mesa permeates down through the sa nd sto ne and, when it hit s the shale layer, moves horizontally to find an exit at the canyon wa.lls, creating "weeping wall s" or springs. When, in

winter, the water free zes , expansion res ults and the sandstone chips away, gradually for ging great caverns in the canyon walls. At the so uth end of the park, a great deal of evidence remains of the activities of the early inhabitants of the region. They were named the Anasazi, the ancient ones. Accurate representation of the various sty les of advancement in hou se- building skills by the inhabitants is demonstrated by road s ide excavation sites on the mesa. It appea rs that around 550 A.D. the area bega n to be populated by the ancestors of the mode rn Indians of the region . During the early peri od, lasting for about 700 years, they developed agricultural , ho use- building, po ttery-making and basket-weaving tech niques. Of particular interest to me was the development of the ir "architecture. " The earliest house was the pit hou se. It consisted of a circular pit about three feet deep and ten to 15 feet in diameter. Four posts were dug into the fioor of the pit and a roof was las hed to, and supported by, these posts. The wall s of the pit, in effect, formed the walls of the hou se. In a wet climate, or in low lands with high water table, such construction would be unacceptable but in the re latively dry mesas it was probably the simplest way to construct a permanent ·home. By 750 A . D., the pit idea had been largely re placed by above-ground ho uses, still made of mud and poles but in villages. Several pit houses continued to be main tained. It is evident that ce remonial o r re li g ious sig ni ficance was developing for the pit ho use. By 1000 A . D , masonry had deve loped and elaborate rectangu Iar apart ment complexes were bein g built, with some as high as three stories.

July I and the (GWP)2 offi ce will be located on the Guelph ca mpu s for three years. As director, he plans to continue building on the program 's successes. "I would like to con tinue the controlled expansion of the pro gram," he says. "The controlled aspect is crucial because we have high quality that we mu st safeguard. (GWP)2 has four Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and many of the faculty are world figures in their fields. This high qual ity ex pla ins muc h of the program's success... Professor Campbell would also like to encourage more of a se nse of community among students on both ca mpu ses. Faculty have already achieved this sense of com munity throu g h joint seminars, work on committees, collaborative research projects and annu a l social events. He plans to initiate more activities like this for the students. 0

Still the buildings contained one or sev eral pits called kivas. Around 1200 A .D., the society which had bee n living on the mesa moved to the cliffs, wh ere th e caves des cribed e arlie r were plentiful. Such a cave would have provided protec tion from enemies , weathe r and animals. The kivas are now quite deep, s ix or seven feet, and were obviously used to hold various ceremonies connected with reli gion. One interesting fe ature of the kiva is the ai r circulatio n method. An air duct - earlier form s of pit houses had an antechamber was constructed to brin g air d own into pit. A defiector, a slab of stone, was placed between the ventilator shaft and the fire to ci rc ulate the fresh ai r around the fire and to preve nt sudden down-draft s from di sturbing the fire . By th e year 1300 A.D . the cliff dwellers had abandoned their cliffs. A very plausible reason for thi s emigration is that an extended drought, lasting from 1276 to 1299 and determined from local tree rings, probabl y made c rop- growin g and hunting unacceptably diffi c ult. It is al so pro bably true that most of the tree s of the reg ion had been used up. As the guide stated, if soc iety uses up its resources faster than they are repleni shed, crisis must inev itably follow. The cliff house s lay undetected until di scovered by explorers in 1874. Since almost no weathering take s place under the se overhangs, the state of preservation is remark ab le. Mesa Verde Nati o nal Park was created in 1906 , when restoration and resea rch was begun in earnest. Stringent laws exist to curb vandalism, pil fe rage and amateur explorers. As a tourist, I was happy to see this link with the past but was grateful to return to the modern conveniences which we all take so mu ch for granted . 0 27

The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA

Acting Editor: Margo Shoemaker, '79.

1984-85 Arts Alumni Association

E.xecutive

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. David R. Murray, Dean. PRESIDENT: Margo Shoemaker, '79. PAST PRES: Julie (Russell) Thur, '78. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Wm. Macdonald, '78; Linda McKenzie-Cordick, '81. SECRETARY-TREASURER: Gaye (Kozak) Selby, '79. DIRECTORS; Debbie (Nash) Chambers, '77; Edith LeLacheur,. '72; Janice (Robertson) Partlow, '79. UGAA REPRESENTATIVES: Wm. Mac donald, '78; Linda McKenzie-Cordick, '81; Gaye (Kozak) Selby, '79. EDITOR; DELPHA, Terry Ayer, '84.

Moving?

Incorrectly addressed mail returned to the University by Canada Post costs your Alma Mater money. Alumni can make a worthwhile contribution simply by keep ing their addresses current. Please use this form to advise us of' an address change and, if possible, attach your old address label- it will assist us in making the correction swiftly. Return to: Alumni Affairs, Records Section, Room 006, Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2Wl. Name: _________________________ New Address: ____________________ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ City: _____ Province: _______ Area code: ______ Phone: Grad year: _ Degree: College: _ _ __ 28

Four Share First Prize

The third annual College of Arts Alumni

Associationjuried art show, DIMENSIONS

'84 was a great success. Of the entries, 37

were selected to hang by jury members

Ingrid Jenkner, Curator of Exhibitions,

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Ian McKay,

practising artist and sessional lecturer,

. Department of Fine Art, University of

Guelph,. and Tony Sepers, '79, practising

artist and proprietor of Sunspot Art Ser

vices, Fergus. Many of last year's participants entered again and, much to the gratification of our Association, many artists participated for the first time. Although the jurors declared their selections to be of high calibre, they decided not to award first prize as no one particular work stood out. Instead, the first prize was split four way~ ar,J awarded to four honoura ble mentions. The jury selected the following winners for $75, $50 and four $25 awards. Second prize - Debbie Thompson Wilson, '76, for" Revelation 1983," pencil and ink. Third prize - Jane McLaughlin, '78, At the show, I to r; Jane McLaughlin, . 78;

for "Ca!edon 2nd Line West," acrylic on canvas. Honourable mention - Stephen Ascough, '80, for "Arboretum Trilliam", pencil; Rob Kirby, '78, for "Between Sexes," mixed media; Wm. MacDonald, '78, for "Dairy Hill", oil; John Vander weit, BLA '81, '84, for" Learning Lady," sculpture in willow wood. An enthusiastic gathering was on hand for the official opening and to applaud the winners who received their prizes from Dr. Leonard Conolly, chairman, DepaI1ment of Drama, who was representing vacationing College of Arts Dean David Murray. Asso ciation president Margo Shoemaker, '79, introduced Dr. Conolly and the participating jurors to those assembled. This year, more people than ever came to view the show during Alumni Weekend. It seems that the night of the opening in the Faculty Club gives many alumni a spot to enjoy a quiet drink and visit with old friends. The hours of viewing on Saturday and Sun day also give alumni a place to reminisce as they view the art work on display. The com ments that were overheard were favourable

and most alumni were quite impressed. The Arts Alumni Association expres ses since re thanks and appreciation to all those who were instrumental in making th e show a success. A special thanks is ex tended to this year's pal1icipants, becau se without them a show could not be mounted. Next year's show is already 10 the planning stage. See you there.

Sidlofsky, '83 , Wins Medal J a mes Sidlofsky, '83, of Gu e lph, re ceived th e Win egard ~led a1 for 1984 . Awarded to the graduand judged to be the most outstanding student at the Uni ve rsity of Guelph eae h year, the Winegard Medal is the Uni ve rsity's most prestigiou s und er graduate award. Its winner must co mbine an outst anding academic record with active parti cipati on in extra-curricular activities and the personal attributes of a consc ie nti ous citizen. Jamie, who graduated with a B A. in Philosoph y and Spani sh at the October, 1983 Convocation, was on the Dea n's Ho n our li st in eac h of hi s eight semesters. He is now eorolled in the faculty of law at th e University of Toronto. Us ing the Univers ity of Gu e lph's semes ter sys tem he completed the eight semes ters of stud y in less th an three years. During two of those years , he was an el ected 11ember of the Uni vel'si ty Senate and, in 19 82/83 , was a me mber of th e Senate Executive, as well as se rving on o ther committees. He served as president of the Univer-

GRAD NEWS

Doug Abrahams, '78, is the director of the Arts Club Theatre, Drama Centre, Va n couver, B.C. Rosemary Collins, '79, fonner writer for the Ontarion, is sa iling a racing yacht around the world. Patricia Bligh, '68, married Patrick Bar ker, OVC '69, and is now living in North Portal, Sask . She is a customs officer for Revenue Canada.

Invitation to Arts Alumni At this time an invitation is extended to Alts Alumni , and especially to those who graduated between 1970-1975, to participate in Alumni Weekend '8 5. It will have bee n ten to 15 years since you left your Alma Mater. Take the opportunity to return to the campus to mingle with old fri e nds and catch

sity Hi spanic Club and as chairman of the student se nators' caucu s, as well as 'in a number of other stude nt ac tivities. As a member of th e Stude nt Petitions Committee of the Senate, he helped a number of stu dents to prepare and present their petitions to the committee, ac ting in what has been Jamie Sid/ofsky, '83, righi, wirh his dad, Sam Sidlofsky, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology.

David S. Hales, '70, is vice-president, Group Marketing Operations, North Amer ican Life In surance Co., Winnipeg, Man. Yvonne Dinien, '81, married Tim Ever son, CSS '80, and is living in Dawson Creek, B.C. Bob Kent, '72, is presently working as a musician in Montreal. Charlotte (~err) Ressling, '73, is a prop e rty management analyst living in San Antonio, Texas , U.S.A . James pronner, '75, is living in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

up with what has been happening. Join us at our annual dinner on Frid ay evening a nd at the opening of Dimensions '85. Take a moment now to mark the dates June 14 , 15 and 16 , 1985. Pl an now that yo ur targe t for that weeke nd will be the Univer sity of Guelph and a trip down memory lane. We will all be looking forward to meeting you. 0

desc ribed by a se nior faculty me mber as an ol11budsl11an's !'Ole. In spite of his man y on campus extra-curricular activities, he main tained a steady part time Job off-ca mpus. A graduate of Guelph Collegiate and Voc ation al Institute. Jamie S idlofsky at tended Colegio Dante Alighieri, Sao Paolo, Brazil in 1979 on the Rotary International Stude nt Exchange Program. At the Univer sity of Guelph he won a number of entrance ancl in-co urse sc hol ars hips and graduation prizes. On e faculty me mber has dec rib ed Jamie as a student who thinks pro ble ms through care fully betore coming to con clusions. and who ha s th e capa c ity for insight th at enables him to distin guish the significant from the merely obvious. His concern for excellence and his willingness to challenge ideas are aug me nted by a sen se of hum ou r th at enables him to relate eas ily to others anel their concerns. He is at pl'ese nt volunteering legal aid work tor those not qualitied t'or lega l aid and uoable to aftol'e1 counsel at the Centre tor Spanish-Spea king Peopl es. To I'On to. The Wincga rd Medal was presented by William A Stcwill1, LL.D. '76, Chan cellor ot' the Uni ve rsity of Guelph at the annllal Boarel of Governors/Senate dinner in May. 0

Valerie Raymond, '73, is the director, Sta tus of Women, Ottawa. Kimberly Kirkness, '82, is a library asso ciate at the University of Guelph. 0

In Memoriam The directors of the College of Art s Alumni Assoc iation were saddened to learn of the death of Elsie Lenora King, '73, of Guelph, in her 54th year. Our sincere sym pathy is ex tended to her famil y. 0 29

The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI BULLETIN

Editor:

Dr. Cliff Barker. '41.

D r. Currey, '29, D istinguished Alumnus for

1984 Dr.

J. Raymond Currey, '29, of the Cur rey Animal Clinic , Washington, D.C. 20015 was recipient of the 1984 OVCAA Dis tinguished Alumnus Award at the Associa tion's annual meeting .last June. Dr. Currey is a past president of AAHA and the District of Columbia Veterinary Medical Association, an honorary life mem berofthe AVMA, an AAHA Direc tor Emer itus, one of the incorporators of the Friends of University of Guelph, Inc ., and has been recognized by several national and state organizations for hi s contributions to vet erinary medicine in the United States. 0

Dr. Alan Secord, '29; OVCAA President Dr. Wendy Parker, '71 , and 1984 OVCAA Dis tinguished Alumnus Dr. 1. Raymond Currey, '29.

w. A. Dryden, '82, of Tavistock, a young

100-Year-Old Medal for OVCMuseum

blacksmith 25 years of age, bom in Scotland, entered the OVC in 1880 and graduated in 1882. He then moved to Elkhart, Indiana, U.S.A. , and finally settled in Columbus, Indiana in 1886 , practising there until his death on March II , 191 L His wife was Cana dian and both are buried in Kitchener. The Senior Anatomy Pri ze of 1882-83 ,

won by Dr. Dryden, is shown in the accom panying photos. This silver medal has been donated to the OYC museum by Dr. Dry den's g randdaughter, Jane Wei nen of Tul sa, Oklahoma , who brought it to our attention throu gh a letter requesting informati o n on Dr. Dryden. .., The medal was awarded by the Agri cultural and Ans Association of Ontario and is describe d as a stock strike depicting the arms of the Association, a plough, a railway locomotive, a cow and a horse. It wa s desig ned by JS. and A. and B. Wyon of London, Ont. The reverse bears the names of the recipient and the course. On th e edge is the date 1882-83. During the visit of the WeineI1S to the OYC mu ch biographical information on Dr. Dryde n was also presented which has bee n added to the OVC museum archive s. Do na tion s of this nature are of great value in developing th e history of the college during the time of Principal Andrew Smith. 0

Letters Dr. Dhiroobhai K. Desai, '47, responded to our special supplement with a letter con taining his career activities si nce gradua tion. Dr. Desai retired in November 1972 , after a long and varied career in India, the Sudan, Briti sh East Africa and Ghana. From July 1966 until retirement he was Director of Animal Husbandry, Gujarat State, Ahmedabad, India. Members of Year '47 may receive fur ther informati o n from Dr. George R. McGowan, '47, 435 Pitt St., Cornwall, Ont. K6J 3R3. Dr. Desai is prese ntly at 61 Sharda Society, Pa ldi, Ahmedabad -7 , Gujarat State, India .

Dr. Abe Kidd, '42, 4345 Harder Road, Victoria, B .C. V8Z 5L5. has sent the following anecdote: In April 1941, on a Thursday morning "The Chief' (Principal McGilvray ) walked il1lo our classroom and said ''A lright chaps, you will go home now as yo ur /inal exams begin at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. You will write all your papers during the next three days andfinish up Sunday evening. You will report across the road at 9:00 a.m. Monday morningfi)r two we eks armv ca mp. Good lUlL'" The above snapshot is of Kelly Griesback, '42 ; Bev Lupp, '42, and yours truly. The camp (on th e campus) was/iJl' those who were' il1 the Auxiliary who had to (llIend. Editors note: Ye ed itor, ' 41. well remembers the surprise announc eme nt to '41. [t shattered many of the class who hadn't s tarted studying for the U. of T. final exams. Prese nt-day students would probably descend e n masse on a dea n who issued such an, edict' 0

Many copies of Torontonensis have been received so that we now need especially only those of 1916 to and including 1921. Can anyone supply one of these?

Award

OVC '75

I O-Year Reunion 1:00 p.m., Friday, February I, 1985 (During the SOV Convention)

Sheraton Centre, Toronto $30 per person

(dinner. entertainment - prizes)

($10 deposits needed urgently)

Send money to: Pat Shewen

Dept. of Vet. Micro. & Immunology

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario N1G 2Wl

Dr. Gwen Zelien , '83.

Animal Welfare

Dr. Gwen Zelien, '83, has been awarded the Reed Rumsey Student Award by the American Association of Avian Pathologists . The award was prese nted at the annual meeting of the Association in July in New Orleans, Louisiana , U.S.A. Dr. Zellen was one of two chosen thi s year from candidates in the United States and Canada. The $1,000 award was made based on her past academic achievement, a narrative statement on her career goals and the quality of a research paper, in this case an applica tion of enzyme-linked immunosorbin assay for the investigation of infectious bronchitis virus in Ontario , whic h she later presented at the annual meeting of the Ameri ca n Vet erinary Medical Association. Dr. Zellen is presently working for Veterinary Laboratories Services, Ontario Mini stry of Agriculture and Food, located on the Guelph campus. 0

Dr. w. Jean Dodds, '64, chief of the Lab oratory of Hematology, New York State Department of Health, Albany, N. Y. , U.S.A. has been appointed president of the Scientists Center for Animal Wei fare, Wash ington, D.C. Dr. Dodds is the author of over 100 research papers, and is an authority on comparative studies of animals with inher ited and acquired bleeding di seases. She is co-editor of a book, Scientific Perspecti ves on Animal Welfare, published in 1982. Dr. Gregory Topolie, '71, Oshawa, received, in 1983 , a Certificate of Apprecia tion from the Hum ane Society of the U.S .A. for his work in humane education with the Durham Board of Education. During the 1984 Canadian Veterinary Medic a l Assoc ia tion Convention, held at the OVC, he received the 1984 Gaines Award for his work in Ontario providing assistance in develop ing humane education curricula for public schools in Canada and the U.S.A. 0

/984 avc graduates who recei ved alumni proficiency and other awards at Sprin g COl/ voca tion are. left to right; Judith Taylor. Burroughs Wellcome Limited Prize for clinical parasitology. avc Alumni Proficiency Prize - 211£1 and RogarlSTlJ Prize/or proficiency in small onimal surgery; Nancy Van Kooten. Andrew Leslie MacNabb Prize , Charles DUllcan McGilvray Prize, avc Alumni Proficiency Prize - /st , Andrew Smith Memorial Medal. w.G. ;)tevenson Mem orial Scholarship and Schering Corporation Prize; Nonie Smart, Dr. Samuel Downing Stirk Prize, avc Alumni Proficiency Prize - 3rd; Donald Dawson. avc Alumni Proficiency Prize - 3rd. 31

The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US

Editor: Dorothy Barnes, '78.

Building a Proud CSS Image By John Currie, '10, CSSAA President After a few years of building the College of Social Science Alumni Association into a worthwhile entity for the College, its gradu ates and its students, your board of directors is once again attempting to reach out for direction on steps we wish to pursue in the near future. By successfully linking and cementing the alliance between alumni, students and faculty, a strong image of the College will evolve. The last two years of the Association's existence have witnessed a strengthening bond between students and the Association. Through scholarships, receptions and meet ings, the Assoc iation is in touch with the as pirations of new graduates and the issues facing in -co urse students. Now we are

A Letter to the Editor T om Johnston, B.A. '80, M.A. '83, was so disturbed by a comment made by Donna Christie, ' 79, in the February 1984, CSSAA Newsleller, that he has expressed his con cerns in a letter to your PEGAS-US editor. Donna, whose major was Geography, reported that after looking for ajob related to her education, she took a pOSition that did not require the qualification of four years of university study. She is employed as a stationery buyer in Oakv ii Ie. Tom is dis turbed at the implication that Donna wasted four years at Guelph. Here are some of his comment s: There seems to be lillie doubt that Donna's present job does not demand a knowledge of flu vial geomorphology o r manuflcturing geography. Indeed, a uni versity degree of any kind was probably not 32

attempting to renew our links with faculty in an attempt to understand their issues and requirements within the University setting. We need your help to assist us with the fundamental question of IMAGE. We hope to address the following: • To what extent do students identilY with the College? Is it more with individual departments th an the overall College? We detect a certain lack of a sense of tradition within the College and feel , perhaps, that students would feel a stronger sense of affinity with the College through identifica tion with the year of entry rather th an the year of graduation. • Should there be required courses for Col lege of Social Science students?

prerequisite to her obtaining the job in the first place, but I fear that Donna may have seriously underestimated the real value of a university education. III addition to training people for spe cific occupations, uni versities provide an environment in which a set of more genera l abilities and skills can develop. The sorts of things I !>peak of include the ability to deal with new concepts alld ways of doing things 10 solve complex problems alld to mana/ie large amounts of unfamiliar information. University teach es people how to con vey information in writing, and orally, and to think critically. An ulldergraduate educa tioll also forces people to organize them selves , both in terms of lime and thinking, and to accept responsibility. Each of these skills is highly valuable in the job market where employers are looking 'for people capable ofindependent thought and who are well prepared /0 ('ope with future change. I don't mean to imply that a university is the only place where these skills can be learned, bUlfor those with th e interest, abil ity and the opportunity, university provides a fertile environment . We would be short-sighted indeed if we

• Are the courses offered by the College relevant to the jobs alumni are filling? We feel it would be advantageous to invite alumni to speak to students and faculty. Stu dent s want to hear practical advice regard ing real-life empoyment possibilities. • There is a genuine shared concern that the B.A. degree does not correctly identify social sc ientists. Consideration might be given to the establ ishment of a degree called Bachelor of Social Scie nce and have its insti tution retroactive to the inception of the College. What do yo u think? Let us know so that the College of Social Science Alumni Asso ciation can take a meaningful stand and, with the support of alumni, students and faculty, build an IMAGE of which we can be justly proud. 0

advocated using universities solely as train ing grounds for specific occupations. In the first place, the graduates of such a system would be largely unprepared 10 make a con tribulion in any area other than their chosen field. Second , people must be prepared to adapt to the changes that will inevitably occur. Finally, we do not currently possess th e analytical capability necessary to pre di('/ fwure job demands as accurately as we might. I suspect some economists would disagree . Yet the principle reason that DOl1na 's comm el1l disturbs me is not because she thinks this way, but rath er because her opin ions are not unique. It certainly appears that many poliiiciansfaiito fully appreciate the value of a university education or that the university system as a whole /leeds to be adequately maintained. We, as university graduates, must help others to understand what university is all about.

Tom's thoughts accurately desc ribe the value of a univers ity degree, and while it is not intended to initiate a "Letter to the Edi tor" column, Tom 's letter is so apropos that the opportunity to air it was irresistible. 0

Our Versatile Grad

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T ony F~rness, '81 , has bee n ve ry versatile since he grad ua ted fro m Gu e lph. In hi s rel a tivel y sho rt working caree r, he has experi enced two maj or ch ange s and we speculate on how many more he will nlake be fore e nterin g the sede ntary life of re tire ment! Curre nt ly, he is with the Hamilton- We nt worth Re g iona l Poli ce. Sho rtly aft e r g radu ation, Ton y joined the C a nad ian Arme d Fo rce s thro ugh its Direc t Entry O ffi cer Training Prog ram . Thi s

program require s th at a recruit o btain a uni vers ity degree before a ppl y ing fo r e ntry. Whil e in training a recruit ho ld s the title of 2 nd lie ute nant and promo tion to lieute na nt co mes onl y afte r mee tin g re quired s tan dards. To ny says this trainin g was the hard est thin g he has ever do ne. Whil e in tra ining the re a re so me be ne fi ts. Tony travell ed a lot and saw Canada from B .C. to N. S. " It was a ll ve ry ex citing" and he would recom me nd a career in the Armed Fo rces (or eve n two yea rs) to a nyone, male or fe male, as the ex pe rience of a life tim e. He believes the trainin g adds a va lu a ble face t to a re sume He left the ann ed fo rces , marri ed his childhood sweetheart , Nancy Lynn M as cio, ' 80, a nd was acce pted by the po li ce fo rce. He fi nd s thi s new fi e ld equall y excit ing, thrive s on the vers atili ty of the job and enj oys the w ide spectrum of peopl e with who m he co me s in contac t. He be lieves th at hav ing a deg ree he lped

Where Are Gra d News

You? Maxine Brandon, '76 , is the first to re spo nd to your edi tor's requ e st, in the S pring '8 4 iss ue, for grad news and te ll s us she is working in Miss issauga with Famil y Services, Peel County, as an ad ul t protec tive service worke r with the me nt a ll y ha ndi cap-. ped. S he s pends he r leis ure time in sea rch of pine a ntiqu es, trac in g her fam ily roots, looking afte r fo ur cats and arg uin g about ho usewo rk with fi ance, Dave Jep p. She woul d like to hea r fro m an yo ne who has successfull y sta rted a sma ll bu si ness - s he is considerin g a c han ge in he r caree r. If an yone can g ive he r advice, Max in e li ves a t 95, Brae mar Avenue, Lower Ap artmen t, To ro nt o, Ont. M5 P 2L3 . O u r s ec o nd re spo n se was f ro m Catherine Rankin, B_A. '74, M.A. '75, Psyc ho logy. She a lso ho ld s a doct orate in Biopsychology fro m The City Co ll ege o f New York. She is presently in vo lved with the Departm e nt of Psyc hol ogy, Yale Uni ver sity, New Haven, Co nn ., U .S .A ., w he re she is co nd uctin g res earc h o n th e b io log ical basis of lea rning. Cat hy tell s us she e nj oys readin g grad news and the latest abo ut happeni ngs with fell ow alum ni. I' m sure you a ll join me in offering congratul atio ns to Cathy. She li ves at 133 Cottage Si te, G-5 , New Haven, Con necti cuu , 065 11, USA . 0

Chin Keng Lee " Michael " , '81, w rites from west Ma laysia to let us know w hat hc 's do in g now, what he hopes to do in the futu re, what he mi sses after his stay in Canada and offers a suggesti o n for future grael s. O n hi s re turn to M alaySia, Mi c hae l too k a sa les executi ve positio n with Florier I nternati o na l th e n j o in e d hi s b ro th e r to export lumber to Eu rope. One and a half years later he elec ieled to go into hou s in g. A t present he is invo lved in cons tructin g ho uses anel bu ildings fo r light indu stry M ic hae l is pos it ive he co uld not have ac hieved sllc h progress with out a deg ree. He be lieves it has g ive n him mo re con fide nce in dealin g with busi ness ass ociates who have mo re con fide nce in him anel hi s work . It a lso he lps to earn a bette r sa lary. Whe n askeel what were hi s hopes for the future he sa id, " to see more Canad ians invest in Malaysia; see the O ntari o govern ment red uce tuit io n fe es; see a reduction in the nu clear arm s race and that the world wIll no t be des troyed . For futu re gr ads, his aelvice is, " don't be too c hoosy in yo ur j o b." Based on what Michae l has done this cou ld be interpre teel to mean try many ave nues before el eciding w hat you wa nt to stay with . Mich ae l te lls m e he miss e s h is favo urite spo rt s - baseba ll, ice hockey, foo tball and basket ba ll. He also wa nts to know w ho won las t season's Grey Cup. (The eas t, Mi c hae l, the To ront o A rgon a ut s.) Greg Stirling, '81 , of Yell owk nife, N. WT ,

him in both field s o f e nd eavour but does n't draw the line th ere. He be lieve s the same " is true to mo st occupati o ns these days , and th at's wh y it's mo re impo rt ant tha n ever before th at young peopl e pursue a pos t sec ond ary educ ati o n. " Hi s ad v ice to future grads is, "a u nive r s ity deg ree is o ne of the g reatest assets a perso n c an possess. E ve n if o ne d oe s n' t ac quire a jo b in a chose n field o f stud y the re are man y o the r ways th at yo u can ma ke you r degree work fo r yo u. " I believe that , w ith the way the jo b m arket is today, unl ess you are inte nd ing to ea rn an M. A., or a Ph. D ., the best course to fo ll ow o nce yo u have yo ur B .A . is to try to ga in as mu c h ex perience in as many related areas as poss ibl e . . w he n it comes ri g ht dow n to it, the m o re marke table yo u are the more likel y you'll get the Jo b yo u rcally want and, le t's fac e it , se lling yourself is rea ll y what it 's a ll abo ut. " To ny should know. Tha t's Ju st w hat he's do ne. He also be lieves the best times of his li fe were at G uelph , he has n' t reg re tted it and looks bac k on those years w ith ma ny fo nd mem ories. 0

if you read thi s arti cle, M ic hael would li ke to hear fro m you . M ic hael lives at 166-B Jalan Sirem , Off Ne ru Road , Kl ang , Selango r, We st Malays ia. Tze Him Au Yeung "Louis", '83 , is a s s is tant m a na ge r of S t a r H o u se Mc Dona lds , Kowloo n, Ho ng Kong. Hui Wing Tong , '83, is a man age r w ith the Ye u S hing Construc ti o n Co. Ltd., 22 Maw Wa h Bld g., 21 F Jord o n Road , Kowloo n, Ho ng Kong. Lip Few Yap, '82, is a shi ppe r with Sing Brun Shipping and Trad in g Sdn., Bhd., 25 2 nel F loo r, G ree n Hill Roa d , Ku c hin g , Sarawak , East Ma lays ia. Li p Fe n's bro the r, Chong Guan Yap, is a CPS '83 g rad. 0

In Memo riam

Carol J. Ti ghchelaar, '73, d ied s uelden ly last year in Australi a as the resul t of a car acc ide nt. O ur cond o le nces to Caro l's fa mil y. Sha ron Grace (Jakes) Scott, '71, los t he r fig ht wi th ca ncer in April 198 4, afte r a four year ba ttle . Her hu sba nd , Jo hn , h as reque steel thi s noti ce be posted to ael vise th ose fri e nd s with whom th ey h ave lost to uch ove r the yea rs. We offe r o ur co n do le nce s to Jo hn. 0 33

The College of Biological Science Alumni Association

BIO-ALUMNI NEWS Editor: Marie (Boissonneault Rush, '80

Fromthe

Dean Dr. Bruce H. Sells. To adapt to new challenges, and to ensure that the College of Biological Science remains at the forefront of the disciplines in life sc iences , it is essential to initiate changes which will allow us to achieve these aims. The CBS has evolved rapidly since its inception in 1971, and has developed strengths in whole-animal and plant biol ogy, phy s iology, microbiolog y, and nutrition. The College has recently realized that if it is to continue to develop and provide a leadership role in biology in Canada, greater emphasis will have to be placed on molecular and cell biology. With this pur pose in mind, the College has received approval to establish a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. This new department will be a first in Canada and will ensure that the University of Guelph participates in one of the exciting new branches of science fundamental to many aspects of biology, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The department will form a link to biotechnology by providing the basic underpinnings of thi s applied area. The new department will occupy, in

part, an extension to the south wing of the Botany & Genetics/Zoology building. Con struction of this facility will provide 8,000 sq. ft. of additional space by the spring of 1985 . Both teaching and research laborato ries will be constructed, together with the necessary support facilities. Initially, the new department will be made up of faculty members of the fonner Department of Bot any and Genetics. Further expansion of the facility is expected over the next few years to reinforce and expand the academic and research pro grams. This physical expansion will also

Th e new Departmenl of Molecular Biology and Genetics. See arrow.

Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund

As chainnan of the CBSAA Scholarship Committee. I am again seeking support for the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund. We have received almost half of the $10,000 prin cipal needed to make thi s fund self supporting. I realize we are an association of fairly young graduates, but if every one of us gave $5, we would be in a position to offer this fellow ship to a deserving student entering a graduate program . Who knows, maybe your $5 donation might help a budding Watson or 34

assist the Department of Botany, which has experienced crowded conditions over the past several years, and allow it to develop in new directions and, at the same time, take advantage of the advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Even at this time of financial restraint it is important that the University continue to be innovative and now, more than ever, alumni of the College of Biological Science can be helpful in providing support for new ventures to ensure that your University remains at the leading edge of the advance ment of knowledge. 0

Crick, Banting or Best, along their way. These things are not impossible if we can keep a thriving graduate program alive and well at Guelph. Once we obtain the $10,000 we will be able to award $1 ,000 annually to a new graduate student working in the biological field . One thing I might ask. Whatever you send, please note. somewhere on your cheque or money order, that you want it channelled into the Keith Ronald Fellowship Fund. Thanks a lot. Kri sta Sopha, '79 . 0

In Memoriam In May, News of the sudden death of Pro fessor George W, Anderson, OAC '42, who had recently retired from the Depart ment of Microbiology brought sadness to all those who knew him. Speaking for Marine Biology alumni. we had great respect for Dr. Anderson and we are sorry for the loss of this great teacher. Dr. Anderson's Marine Micro course brings back fond memories. 0

From the Pres.

Sitting at my desk on this hot summer day, it's difficult to envisage what information will appear noteworthy, later this year, when this issue of the Guelph Alumnus is mailed. The all-too-short summer will be over, and we'll be preparing for another cold season, and another "school year." Even after graduation it's difficult to escape the rhythm of the academic calendar, and I suspect that there are a growing number of CBS grads who now have chil dren entering early states of education. The F-l generation of CBS alumni' Now, that's something to think about. But back to the present. For all of us who were present, the second annual Guelph Island Weekend was a great success. I don't want to say too much about it as there are photos on these pages covering the event. Suffice to say, the weather was hot, the beer was cold, and we welcomed many new faces over last year, some from as far away as Alberta. I think the CBS Guelph Island Weekend is now established, and we can look forward to its growing presence during

Two New

Scholarships Birgit Braune, M.Sc. '80, York, received the Elgin Card Avian Ecology Award and

Graham 'Worthy, B.Sc. '79, M.Sc. '84, Guelph, was granted the Norman James

the annual Alumni Weekend in June. As every year, we'll soon be conducting our membership and fund-raising cam paign. Now is perhaps a good time to explain how your membership fees and donations are utilized. The main source of income for the CBSAA is through annual membership fees ($4 annually) and life memberships ($40). Annual membership fees are used for schol arships and general operating expenses, while money from life memberships is placed in a separate account and allowed to accumulate. The capital from the life membership fund is not touched, but the interest is used for operating expenses, such as mailing, and for scholarships which represent our largest expenditure. Funds earmarked for specific projects (i.e. Keith Ronald Fellowship) go into separate accounts. This year our total scholarship contri butions will be $5,000, however, at present, our income from interest and annual mem bership fees does not meet this expense and we are subsidized by grants from the Univer sity's Alma Mater Fund . We will be striving for self-sufficiency in the coming years. As I mentioned in the Summer '84

Aquatic Mammals Award. They are the first recipients of the two new $5,000 schol arships. Birgit Braune completed her Master's with distinction and was a subsequent win ner of the Guelph Sigma Xi D.G. Ingram Award for excellence in research. Her Ph.D. thesis, under the supervision of Department of Zoology professor David Gaskin, requires a study of the mercury uptake and

issue of the Guelph Alumnus, the CBSAA presents a graduate scholarship every spring. This year the $1,000 scholarship went to David Christopher Nunan, a gradu ate student in the Department of Zoology working with Professor David Noakes. Con gratulations, Chris. In addition to the graduate scholarship, the CBSAA also presents five annual under graduate scholarships of $400 each and, this year, will be introducing the Keith Ronald Fellowship valued at $1 ,000. Recently, the CBSAA made a donation to a scholarship fund for retired Professor John Powell I am sure most of you are famil iar with the energy and enthusiasm which Dr. Powell displayed over the past three years as editor of the BIO-ALllMNI NEWS section of the Guelph Alumnus, and as an active member of our Association's board of directors. I hope the above helps to explain a little of how the CBSAA works. If anyone has any questions or comments , please contact me through the Alumni Office. Christopher Wren, B.Sc. '77, Ph.D. '83. President, College of Biological Science Alumni Association.

elimination by Bonaparte gulls in the Bay of Fundy. Graham Worthy is writing, under the supervision of Department of Zoology pro fessor David Lavigne, a Ph.D. thesis on the energy requirements of seals. These awards honour not only the achievements of the students who have received them , but also recognize the faculty who developed the programs. 0

CBS Awards Two graduate students from the Depart ment of Nutrition have been cited for excel lence in research by the American Institute of Nutrition. This announcement was made during the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology held in St. Louis in early April. Doris E. Yuen and David E. Agwu, '80, received travel grants as semi-finalists in the graduate student competition among 70 nominees. Doris Yuen r~ceived an addi tional $500 as one of three final winners. She reported on a new approach to the pre vention of stunted bone growth in low birth weight infants fed intravenously. This is the second consecutive year that a student from the Department has won an award at this meeting. 0

Picture I: Keith Harris, '76; Eric Cosens, '80, and Chris Wren, ' 77, supervising the steak barbecue at Guelph Lake. Pictures 2 and 3: CBS alumni with spouses and children at the second annual Guelph Island Weekend. Picture 4: Marine Biology five-year reunion can you identify these grads?

Coming Events

contribute to excellence at the Uni versity of Guelph .

1984 February December

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at 2 :00 p.m . "My Porcine Pleasures Art and Reality. " A lecture by

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Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. New Porcelain and Stoneware by Heather Daymond. Cambridge. Cambridge. Your 1984 Alma Mater Fund gift - qualifies for a 1984 tax receipt if your cheque and po -t mark are dated no later than Dec . 31.

1985 Closes January

Mac donald Stewart Art Centre. "Visual Bestiary." A famil y-o riented educational exhibit of animals in art. A collaboration by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Sarn ia Public Library and Art Gallery.

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OAC Agricultural Conference Closing date for receipt of nominations for three Alumni Senators to fill three.year terms commencing September 1 . 1985 . (See nomination form on page 15 of

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15th Annual Human Kinetics Symposium. "Fitness in the Community." Overtraining children; corporate, rehabilitati ve and geriatric fitness; fitness and toxins. At the U of G.

Alumni Winter Carnival. (See detail s on page 16)

March

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Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference. "Amicultural Development in Northern Ontario." At New Liskeard.

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CoUege Royal Open House.

April

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OAC Alumni Association Curling Bonspiel.

June

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Spring Convocation.

Dr. W. Chandler Kirwin, professor with the Department of Fine Art.

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1984 Alma Mater Fund doses. Last opportunity to

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ALUMNI WEEKEND '85

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University of Guelph's 7th Annual Human Sexuality Conference. "Love. Sex and Intimacy. " For further in fo rmation co ntac t: Continuing Education Di v i~i()n , Johnston Hall. University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontari o, NI G 2WI . (5 19) 824-4 120 , Ex t. 3 11 3.

Alumni·in·Action Group plans Florida event Because many retired University of Guelph alumni spend all or part of the winter month in Florida, the ni ver 'ity of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation's Alumn i- in-Action gro up pl ans to organi ze an event in Florida, earl y in March 1985 , to prov ide an oppor tuni ty for those alumni to renew acquainta(1ces and to make new fri end . We're hoping this program wi ll become an annual event. 111e following members of the group have ag reed to ac t on a committee to arra nge the detail : Gordon and Ruth Wright . OAC '33 , and Mac '37: Morley and Willa Funston, OAC '32 and Mac '31: and Ross ClVers, OAC '29 , Detaib of the event wi ll be published in the Winter edition of the G llelph AIIIIIIIIIIS and the information will also be mailed to all known alumni who reside in Florid a. If you wish to receive notice of the event , be sure to end your Florida a d d re~s to Rosemary Clark at the Alumni Office. Uni ve rsity of Guelph , Guelph IG 2W I.