Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1984

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS Winter 1984 Vol. 17, No. I

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. Burton C. M atthews. OAC '47.

PRESIDENT: Barry Stahlbaum, CPS '74.

PAST PRESIDENT: Jan e ( Vollick) Webster, FACS '75.

SENIOR VICE路 PRESIDENT: G lenn Powell, OAC '62.

SECRETARY : Ross Parry, CSS '80.

ASSO CIATESEC RETARY : Rosemary Clark, Mac '59 .

TREASUR ER : Jame s J. Elmslie .

VICE路PRESIDENTS: Sue (Beatty) Davidson , CSS '82; Dr. Ron

Downey, OVC ' 61; Linda McKe nzie路Co rdi ck, Arts '81: Liz O'Nei l .

FACS '74; Bruce Richardso n, CPS '82; Jan Watson, CBS '75.

DIRECTORS : Dave Barric, OAC ' 53A ; Lorrie (Rol ston) Cose ns,

CBS '79: Dr. Peter Fo rte, CPS Ph . D. '74; Ginty Jocius , OAC ' 70;

Alvin Jory, CSS '74 ; Lorna (Innes) Lawrence, M ac '68; Bill

Macdona ld, Arts '78; Rob Milne , CBS '8 I; J anice (Robertson)

Partlow , Arts '70 ; Dr. 1. Harol d Reed , OVC '55: Jim Tho mso n , CPS '79;

Dr. Donald Wil so n, OVC '66 .

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR S: John Babcock , OAC'54, Director of

Alumni AfTairs and Development; Ron Ball, PreSident, Graduate

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

College of Biological Science Alumni Associatioo; Will

Walke r, HAFA '80, President. Hotel and Food

Administration AJumni Association; Bob Megans. President ,

Central Student Association: Dr. Wendy Park er, OVC '7 1,

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

President, OAC Alumni Association; Margo Shoemaker, Art s

'79, President, College of Arts Alumni ASSOciation; Connie

(Hau ka) Jasin skas, HK '7 6 , President. Human Kinetics Alumni

Association: Lucas VanVeen , CPS '74, President , College of

Physical Science Alumni Association; Rita (Klassen) Weigel,

FACS '77 , President, Mac-FACS Alumni Association.

The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Departme nt of Alumni

Affai rs a nd Develop ment in co-opera tion with Information

Ser vices. Uni vers ity of Guelph .

EDITOR. Derek J. Wing. Publication s Manager, Department of

Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Edi torial Committee is compri sed o f the Editor, Derek Wing; Director John Babcock; Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, Assistant Director, Alumni Programs, all with the Department of Alumni Affairs and Deve lopment, a nd Erich Barth , Art Director; Donald Jose, OAC ' 49, Press-Publicity, and Direct o r Douglas Wate rston , all with Information Services.

The Editoria l Advi sory Board of th e University of Guelph a lumn i Assoc ialion is comprised of Ross Parry. CSS '80 , Chairman ; Dr. O .

Bri a n Alle n, CPS '72; Dr. All an Aust in; Dr. Donald Barnum , OVC '41; Richard Moccia, CBS '76; Janice (Robe rt so n) Partlow , Arts '70, Olive (Thom pso n) Thompso n , Mac '35; Sandra Webster, CSS '75: Ex-officio: Jo hn Babcock , OAC '5 4 ; Barry Stahlbaum , CPS '74.

Undelivered copies sho uld be returned to the Department of Alumn i

Affairs a nd Developme nt , University of Guelph, Guelph , Ontario,

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A sample of horse brasses from the exhibition "The Horse in Art and Science," a history of horse brasses and the OVC, on show recently at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.

A 40.year TransforDlation

From Freshman to P r esident An Interview with President Burton C. Matthews, OAC '47, by Andrea Mudry Fawcett

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welcome back to the University of Guelph and, unfortunately, to the problems of underfunding and overcrowding.

May I ask why you choose to become a university president again?

M. I enjoyed the presidency at the University of Waterloo. If! hadn't, I'm sure I would not have considered another. The fact that it was the University of Guelph which extended the invitation is important. An offer from any other university probably would not have resulted in a similar response. Many years of my life have been spent here . I came to Guelph 40 years ago last September as a freshman, and except for three years in the United States to do graduate work, studied then worked here until 1970.

I did not leave the presidency at the University of Waterloo because I tired of the position, but simply because I had been there for eleven years. It is my firm belief that the

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President Burton C . Matthews, OAC' 47, his wife Lois, and their family. Standing: sons David, left, and Tom , HAFA'76.

Kneeling : daughters-in-law Jane , left, David's wife, andPatricia, Tom ' s wife.

position of president should not be occupied by the same person, however competent, for much more than a decade. Change in leader足 ship gives an institution a new stimulus, and should occur on a regular basis. Hence I'm looking forward to the next five years to see what stimulus , what contributions I can make to the further advancement of the University of Guelph. .

Despite all the problems of underfunding to which you referred, I still remain enthusiastic and confident about the place of the university in our society . In fact, as society becomes increasingly complex, the university is becoming more, not less, important to the welfare of our province and nation.

A. Since leaving Guelph in 1970 you have gained extensive administrative experience as president of the University of Waterloo and chairman of the Ontario Council on University Affairs . How have you changed as a result?

M. I suspect I' ve learned a few things about administration along the way. Before leaving Guelph, I had spent four years as department head of Soil Science, and then four years as vice-president, academic. When I went to Waterloo, one thing I learned rather quickly, was not to impose "the way of doing things " that worked in one institution after another. On the other hand, the skills required to get along with people, and to bring people together for a common objective are similar no matter where you are because people are people .

I prefer to involve others in decision足 making , even concerning matters which I must ultimately decide. Often I work with advisory committees which enable me to exchange ideas with well-informed personnel. In that way all the arguments and all the facts are out on the table and evaluated before a decision is made. Then , even if some people disagree with the decision , they will understand the rationale.

It is also important for an administrator to be able to delegate responsibility and authority. At Waterloo, I used to say to my colleagues, "if any desk in this institution is going to be clean, mine will be clean first."

Most people really do want the opportunity to make decisions, and I like to provide that opportunity whenever possible.

A. There is much concern and debate regarding future enrolment patterns at universities. What do you foresee regarding the number of students at Ontario universities generally, and at the University of Guelph in particular, over the next decade?

"Most people really

do want the opportunity

to make decisions

and I like to provide

that opportunity

wherever possible."

M. To express an opinion regarding future enrolment is to take a guess really. I have no reason to disagree with the view expressed by the Council of Ontario Universities in its recent brief that university enrolment will probably hold fairly steady for about the next decade. The University of Guelph should continue to maintain its share of the total enrolment, and therefore remain reasonably constant.

A. Does it seem likely that the number of part-time students will continue to grow?

M. A continuing increase in the demand for study on a part-time basis seems likely. The extent to which that demand is met will depend on the ability of institutions to be innovative in contd. over 3

delivering quality academic programs, especially to students who cannot come to the campus. Distance education is a great opportunity to provide more people with access to university courses. This form of teaching used to involve putting a professor in a car and sending him down a windswept highway in the middle of winter.

Today, technology has become the new basis for distance education and audiotapes, televisions, interactive television are being exploited for educational. purposes. Several universities , including Guelph and Waterloo, are using these new technologies to provide better service to part-time students. This area requires more inter-university co-operation which, perhaps, we can promote in the years ahead.

A. Is there any point in Guelph being aggressive and trying to gain more than an average share of students?

M. The answer depends on the method of allocation of government funding . The University of Guelph does not need to be bigger to be better, but it may need to be bigger to survive financially. Unfortunately , the present formula for distribution of government funds among the universities is enrolment-driven. Hence every university is forced to maintain or increase enrolment in order to maintain or increase its share of the insufficient funds which are available. But many universities, including Guelph, are in a dilemma because they are reaching the limit in terms of physical capacity.

When I was chairman at OCUA , we proposed a new formula which would lessen the pressure on universities to increase enrolment at all cost. Essentially, this formula would allow each university to receive a constant share of the money available each yearregardless, within certain limits, of rise or decline in enrolment. The basic idea is that, since funding is so constrained, all universities should have the same percentage increase in funding annually. That proposal has not yet 揃 been accep.ted. It now seems that the present formula will remain in place at least for 1984-85.

A. If Ontario universities are chronically underfunded, and this situation seems unlikely to change, how will you deal with this situation at the University of Guelph?

M. On the operating side, we'll just have to cut our costs to fit whatever money we have.

Although I am confident that, for capital purposes, Guelph will receive significant amounts of government funds, there will be a need for additional money from non足 government sources such as business, industry, foundations and individuals.

The University of Guelph should

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seriously consider embarking on a continuous program of private fund raising for capital purposes, scholarships and academic enrichment. However, proceeds from non足 government sources will never be sufficient to replace the shortfall in operating funds which I sense we have in the University. We're just going to have to continue to adjust the expenses on the operating side. We certainly must not run operating deficits.

As for the Ontario Veterinary College, the problem of accreditation is so serious that the federal and provincial governments must provide a major part of the funding to upgrade the facilities . Both levels of government seem to have recognized this responsibility. We will likely need some private support as well.

A . Teaching and research are the two basic functions of the University. How do you view their importance?

"As I see it,

the presidency is a

'persuasion post.'

It is the o ther peo ple

in the institution

who reaDy make

things happen."

M. That is a question I've been asked many times. It is not possible for me to say how important it is that there be research in a university without somebody then saying that [ don't value the quality of teaching. Clearly, both are essential in a university, and they complement each other. [f a professor is to remain up to date in his field, he must constantly be doing some frontier research as well as reading the literature. I n terms of the amount of money spent annually for research by Ontario universities, Guelph is in the top three.

Tn addition to substantial grants and contracts from industry and federal and provincial government departments which one finds in most universities the University of Guelph also has a unique feature in the large Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food research contract. Of course, it is also essential that the University he recognized, especially

by students and potential students, as an institution where high-quality teaching is valued and rewarded.

A. What sort of ideal relationship would you like to see among the various academic disciplines on campus, especially since Guelph is particularly strong in the life sciences?

M. First, all disciplines, whether they belong to the arts or sciences, must be good in their own right. Excellence is a goal toward which all must strive. Second, each discipline should try to be different , in terms of its particular emphasis or thrust, from counterparts at other institutions . That difference should reflect the difference, the uniqueness of the total University of Guelph. I've always argued that each university should have its unique aspects, and "dare to be different. " The special strength in the life sciences is one of the unique aspects of Guelph. Wherever possible, the various diSCiplines should reflect that uniqueness.

Needless to say, all of the disciplines are important. Our graduates in the physical sciences, for example, should certainly be competent as physicists or chemists .

However, as university graduates, they should also have an understanding of the social environment in which they are going to Jive their lives, and some appreciation for the culture of our society. Such knowledge derives from study of the social sciences and arts.

A. As an alumnus , do you have any suggestions for ways in which Guelph graduates can become more active?

M. Alumni have a significant role to play in support of the University. Beyond the substantial contributions of time and money made by Guelph alumni, the good public relations they can provide in their local communities is extremely important. In talking with young people about opportunities at the University of Guelph, for example, alumni can be very effective since they are people of stature in their communities.

A. Have you developed a set of priorities for your presidency?

M. No . The first thing I have to do is take time to discover the priorities and directions that the institution is currently following. Then I wil li try to ensure that those priorities and directions are kept under constant review . Thus, over time, the University's priorities will continue to evolve, and will be shared by many people within the University. As I see it, the presi足 dency is a "persuasion post. " It is the other people in the institution who really make things happen. 0

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Chancellor WiUia

A.Stewart

An Interview with John Hearn

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Thefourth Chancellor ofthe University of Guelph, WilliamA. Stewart, LL.D. '76, of London , Ontario, assumed his new role on July I, 1983, succeeding The Honorable Pauline McGibbon who completed her official duties as Chancellor at the June Convocation ceremonies.

In 1964, while Bill Stewart was Ontario's Minister ofAgriculture, the University of Guelph was created and the operation ofits three founding colleges, the On/ario Agricul­ tural College, the Ontario Veterinary College and the Macdonald Institute, was transferred from the Department ofAgriculture 10 become the nucleus ofthe new University.

Bill Stewart's interest and supportfor that move, and his co-operation and assist­ ance in carrying it out greatly facilitated the establishment ofthe University, and ensured his continuing interest not only in the tradi­ tional disciplines but also in the development ofprograms new to Guelph.

He spent 18 years as a member ofthe On­ tario Legislature, 15 ofthem as a member of the Cabinet. Among his efforts as Minister of Agriculture and Food was the sponsorship of the Act that established the Agricultural Re­ search Institute of On/a rio set up to ensure the continuance ofa high level ofagricultural re­ search in Ontario. His inlerest in education was also expressed in the establishment oftwo new schools ofagricultural technology at Cen­ tralia and New Liskeard during his Ministry , while existing colleges at KemptvilLe and Ridgetown were improved and expanded.

BiLL Stewart is a director ofSilverwood Industries Ltd., the Bank ofNo va Scotia, Hardee Farms International Ltd. and Ontario Hydro. He is a member ofthe executive of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and an honorary director ofthe Canadian National Exhibition.

The new Chancellor, who holds honorary degreesfrom the University ofGuelph and the University ofWestern Ontario, has long main­ tained a keen interest in the University of Guelph, and has been afrequent visitor both during his period ofpublic office and since his retirement . 0

ne prediction that can be made with confidence about the University of Guelph's new Chancellor, Bill Stewart, is that he is unlikely to be content with a purely ceremonial function. His long and distinguished career in public service guarantees he will play an active role in his new office.

If Chancellors enjoy little in the way of direct power, they enjoy a great deal in the way of influence. Bill Stewart knows his way around the corridors of power.

"Part of my job as Minister of Agriculture and Food" he says, "was to reconcile many different elements, to weigh and to balance what were often widely different points of view, and then to reach fair decisions and workable settlements. It seems to me that a university calls for similarly reasonable balance. " I have watched, and to SOme extent been involved in, the development of the University of Guelph since the days when the Federated Colleges were established as a forerunner to the University . I have always been impressed by the dedication, the high quality and the public spiritedness of successive faculty and administrators.

"As individuals they fought for what they believed to be right. This has to be truer today than ever before. Restraint imposes regrettable brakes on many endeavours that are clearly worthwhile, and the situation calls for that much more wisdom, balance and good sense.

"Limited though the Chancellor's role may be, some things are clear to me. 1 am convinced of the desirability of fonning closer ties with the students. Most of them only see

their Chancellor on that all-important graduation day - culminating many years of hard work when they kneel before the Chancellor to receive their degree.

"I have discussed the role of the Chancellor with Chancellors of other universities who have sought to establish closer ties with students through their Councils and similar bodies. Each reported that it was a worthwhile endeavour.

"I was moved, during the Fall Convocation, my first as Chancellor, by the splendid calibre of the young men and women who now become the standard-bearers of the good name of this University. We can be proud of them. It is important that they should be proud of us . " Bill Stewart has strong views on the value of the work ethic and the desirability of students combining practical experience with their studies. His own experience in agriculture, and more recently with industry, convinces him that academic studies should have direct exposure to the workplace to clarify for students both the reality they will be facing - and the importance of their present studies.

"In this respect, I think alumni also have a role to play. They are familiar with the hard reality of the work world. Everything that can be done to make that knowledge and experience available to undergraduates must inevitably pay handsome dividends."

It was clear while talking with Chancellor Bill Stewart that here was a man with ideas on many subjects and one whose experience will be used with discretion, balance and good sense throughout his tenn of office - to the benefit of the University of Guelph. 0

The Chancellor and his wife, Edythe, with their four daughters and four sons-in-law.

Front row, I to r: Gay Slinger, Barbara Shipley, Bill and Edythe Stewart, Norma Brock and Marilyn Jenken. Back row, I to r: John Slinger, CSS '74; Richard Brock, Tom Jenken, OAC '64, andBevShipley.

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All Creatures / / Great

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and Small

lUI... '93

By John Hearn

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inda Kazienko , OVC '84 , should have known better. She was giving an intra­ muscular injection to a big Black Angus from a position where she had been taught she shouldn't - and found herself sailing through the air towards an undignified and oderiferous landing in a pile of bovine organic waste material. "That's when I realized," she said, "that I was no longer in the class­ room."

Linda is one of 120 OVC students who rounded out the completion of their third year by working, through the OVC Extemship Program , with practising veterinarians in all parts of Ontario during the past summer.

Their collective adventures would be able to provide material for a dozen more episodes in a well known television series.

''There was a collision, on the road close to the clinic, involving a load of Here­ fords from the west. Several of them were injured but half a dozen or so escaped and I was helping , armed with a tranquilizer gun which none of us had used before, to

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round them up. " We stalked this one steer for more than an hour through woods and swamps.

We finally gol a dar! inlo her and down she wenl. So far, so good! Th en, just as we were pUlling a rope around her neck, she took off like a charging rhinoceros, tearing around a IOO-acre field with the two of us hanging on like grim dealh and everyone else laughing Iheir fool heads off· We were bruised from head to fool. " The Extemship Program, voluntary this year but due to be incorporated into future curricula, was launched by Dr. C. Robert " Bob" Buck, OVC '46, co-ordinator of Extemship Liaison, and Dr. John F. "Jack" Cote, OVC '51, associate co-ordinator of the program.

The purpose was to expose students to the reality of field experience. "There is much more to being a veterinarian than caring for animals," says Jack Cote . " There are economic factors in livestock production which may be critical, and these must be

understood. There are also emotional factors involved in the caring for companion ani­ mals. "

''They can leach you back-room medicine, but the front office is a whole differenl story. To have to go out there and tell someone that their pet is dead and have them just sit down right there in the waiting room and howl - well, nothing prepares you for that. " It's not easy to tell an older person who has had a dog, say , for many years, that il should be put down. It's just like one of the family. We had to put down a pet rabbil belonging to a liLlle girl. She came in the next day and brought me a gift for trying to save it - I thought it took so much for her to be able to do that."

Finding host practitioners who would be willing to take part in the program meant going through the Ontario Veterinary As­ sociation directory and writing to those mem­

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bers whose practices fcll within thc desired category - at least 50 per cent food producing animals.

The response from the practitioners, almost all of whom are OVC alumni, was immediate and enthusiastic. "We received .

125 affirmative replies complete with addi­ tional information that had been requested," reports Bob Buck. " The practitioners agreed to involve our students in the whole spectrum of veterinary practice."

The host practitioners were invited to participate in a meeting, on campus , to clarify the program and share new ideas, and met face-to-face with the students. Both parties were required to sign contracts covering conditions and dates.

While on campus, the host practitioners took part in a full day of activities which included discussion on such projects as "The Practitioner as Role Model, " "Observations Pertaining to Epidemiology," "The Use of Computers," "Health Management Phi­ losophy," and "Reproduction: Clinician/Stu­ dent/Practitioner Interaction ."

Overseeing the program kept Jack Cote on the road for the greater part of the summer, travelling some 15,000 kilometers in the process, while visiting nearly all the prac­ titioners and drawing up reports: "Caught up with Dr. William Kam , OVC '54, who was out with Anne Harlowe, OVC' 84, aI/ending afeeder pig with prolapsed rectum. Anne did the surgery. It was very neat and when completed you would not have known anything had taken place.

"Dr. Karn commented that he had never seen callie so well anaesthetized, and that was because Anne had shown him the intraven­ ous method of administering locals. It was a good example of two-way information be­ tween practitioners and students."

* * * "Pat Meyers, OVC '84, came in with Dr. Reginald Reed, OVC '77. They had just finished some equine work and were goin g oUI 10 castrate a colt. " Pat was very enthused about the Ex­ ternship Program. He said that until he started applying his knowledge, he didn ' t really realize how much of it he'd stored away. He thought that after the exams his mind was just a jumble - but Dr. Gerald Lothrop , OVC '66, said he had never had a student who had such expertise in re­ productive work."

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" Farm call with Dr. Robert Popper, OVC '81 , and Cathy Truscott, OVC '84, to castrate a year-old bullfor a small backyard farmer. Cathy had done her first caesarean a week earlier on an aged cow and they wanted 10 salvage a calf which was two or three weeks premature. The surgery went well and they god a healthy live calf."

bours on the scene and we formed a human chain, passing piglets hand-over-hand into the yard. In the end we only lost six animals, but I stank of pig for days after. " For some of the students this was their first exposure to small-town life.

"Everything didn't believe it. life if you're an but three hour' s

closed at five 0' clock .

I mean - it's a great hour's drive from the city, drive is a bit much."

On the other hand, another student com­

mented:

" I was brought up in Toronto but now the whole place seems crazy 10 me. It's nice 10 get inlO T.O . once in a while, but J'd hate to live there."

For the students, the most valuable aspect of the experience was the chance to measure the validity of their academic studies against the realities of field practice.

Students were required to keep log-books and to write up 12 case histories which collectively presented a broad view of vet­ erinary life in present-day Ontario. Their reports were further augmented by comments from the host practitioners who confirmed that the learning process was indeed a two­ way street, and that the future for even closer ties with the OVC looks very bright.

Bob Buck pointed out that the Externship Program is different from orthodox co-op programs where students are paid by the host. In this instance they received a modest allowance from the College and the host practitioners were paid an honorarium in acknowledgement of their teaching roles.

Framed certificates of recognition were pre­ sented to participating veterinarians, affirming their constructive contributions to the pro­ gram.

Participating students were unanimous in their opinion that their hosts made the best use of every opportunity to allow them to participate in a wide range of field ex­ perience, always emphasizing prevention but with full realization that emergencies are never more than minutes away. " We saw smoke coming from afarmyard down the road. It was not one of our clients but we rushed right over there. It turned out that one of the barns contained 40 sows , each with ten 10 J5 piglets. We were frantically trying 10 undo the wing nuts at the back of the pens when the fire spread 10 the barn.

"We had to get out of there until the firemen had the fire somewhat under control and had cut a hole through the back wall.

By that time there must have been 50 neigh­

"I know all the possible causes of many conditions, but had no idea which were the most common and where to start look­ ing. " "A nimals don't know that they're not supposed 10 have more than one disease at a time. " "Yo u're dealing with people who may be lacking in formal education but have a wealth of practical experience. At the other end of the spectrum you run inlO agricultural graduates, who know a great deal about disease processes. " It's quite an art 10 be able to relate 10 all these people at whatever level they're at. You almost have to develop a second lan­ guage.

"They teach us all these 24-leller words at the OVC but you can't use them with the general public. If you do, far from thinking you're smart, they only conclude yo u' re stupid, and trying 10 blind them with science because you don't really know what's wrong with their animals. You have 10 be able to tell people what you're doing in language THEY understand."

The host practitioners offered their own evaluation of the program. Both as profes­ sionals and as OVC alumni, they tempered their approval with incisive comments that will provide invaluable feed-back to OVC policy makers . " There is no doubt about the success of the program" concluded Jack Cote.

"Preparations for 1984 are already under way and both students and practitioners are looking forward to next summer." 0 7

Our Grateful Thanks to:

Charles S. Humphrey...

Charles Humphrey.

By Robin Baird Lewis. Arts. '73

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harles S. Humphrey, former partner in Guelph's Hart Chemical Company Canada, Ltd., has generously provided a $50,000 endowment gift to support an annual $5,000 graduate fellowship in Chemistry.

In 1974, the Departments of Chemisry at the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo com­ bined to become the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (GWC)2, one of the most diverse schools of graduate educa­ tion in Chemistry in Canada. At the Centre, opportunities are available for graduate study in all of the traditional areas of chemistry, from analytical through inorganic, organic, biological, physical and theoretical chemistry.

Interdisciplinary research programs, the hybrid trend of the future, also exist in chemi­ cal physics, environmental chemistry, or­ ganometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, surface science, the chemistry of energy stor­ age and transfer , and toxicology.

The faculty and students of the ten-year­ old Centre welcome the valuable assistance which the Charles S. Humphrey Fellowship has given . Designed to ease ihe financial bur­ dens of outstanding graduate students in inor­ ganic chemistry, registered in the Ph.D. pro­ gram, the Humphrey Fellowship may be used in the Masters program should there be no suit­ able candidate at the Ph.D. level.

The donor and namesake of the Hum­ phrey Fellowship was born in Hornell, N. Y., USA, in 1903, and attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y. In 1940, with encouragement from Ralph Hart, president and owner of Hart Products Corporation, N. Y., Humphrey located an ap­ propriate site on Victoria Road for the fledgl­ ing firm, Hart Prod ucts Company, Canada Ltd., and assumed the duties of sales manager

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and vice-president from 1940 to 1947.

At this point, Charles Humphrey was in­ strumental in bringing the late I. E. "Mannie" Birnbaum to Guelph to assist him in managing the new firm. Birnbaum subsequently served ten years (from 1964 to 1974) as a member of the University of Guelph's Board of Gover­ nors, and as chairman of the Board from Janu­ ary I, 1971, until June 30, 1973. He became a Fellow of the University in 1978 .

Together, Charles Humphrey and Mannie Birnbaum managed the Hart plant until 1951 when they exercised an option, obtained ear­ lier from Ralph Hart, to buyout the American interest in their company. They remained sole owners of Hart Products , Canada Ltd., with Charles Humphrey as president from 1947 until his retirement in 1963. In 1960, they sold the firm to Lever Bros., Limited, Canada.

The Charles S. Humphrey Fellowship was first awarded in 1981, when Uwe M.Oehler from Owen Sound was the reci­ pient. A specialist in inorganic chemistry with a reputation already gaining international re­ spect in his field, he used his Fellowship to de­ vote full-time attention to his Ph.D. thesis topic, "Endor Spectroscopy of Aminoxyls," in order to produce valuable research results in this developing area of chemistry.

Although no Humphrey Fellowship was awarded in 1982 while the director's office of the (GWC)' program moved from Guelph to Waterloo (the directorship's location alter­ nates every three years), two awards were

made in 1983. The recipients were Richard P.N. Veregio of Winnipeg, Man., and Susan F. Vice of Oshawa.

Richard Veregin earned" A" and "A + " grades while obtaining his B.Sc., and his M.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Manitoba. In the spring of 1982, Richad bcgan his Ph.D. studies at Guelph under the direction of Professor Colin Fyfe, and continud his envi­ able record with an impressive aptitude for re­ search and an average of 96 per cent in Il is course work.

Susan Vice joined the (GWC)2 research group on the Waterloo campus after complet­ ing her B .Sc. at the University of Western On­ tario in 1980. She quickly showed outstanding talents in M .Sc. course and lab work and transferred to the Ph. D. program in May, 1981.

Susan's average grade on her completed course work was 89 per cent and her com­ prehensive exam and laboratory work have been excellent.

On September 24, 1983, theseoutstand­ ing candidates were each presented with an award of $5,000 at the University of Guelph during the (GWC)2 Annual Saturday Seminar.

On behalf of these three Humphrey Fellowship recipients, as well as those in the future, the University of Guelph is grateful for the altruistic and determined foresight of donors like Charles Humphrey who provide practical support to those succeeding them in chemistry research . 0

•..Benjamin P. Newman

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hree big, beautiful , long-legged mares are, at a combined worth of over $565,000 , the most recent valuable additions to the University of Guelph's equine research program.

Donated to the University by Benjamin P. Newman, president of Newman Steel Ltd., St. Catharines, the trio of world-cham­ pion American Saddlebred mares arrived on campus last winter.

All three mares are chestnut in colour.

Jolie is the tallest at 16. I hands , Set the Style stands at 16 hands, and Personal Touch is just over 15 hands.

Currently, the OAC and the OVC jointly maintain a herd of about 50 horses and 80

ponies variously kept at Arkell, Puslinch and on campus. The development of the herd has been supported by donations of animals and breeding services from across Ontario .

Both Dr. John Burton, OAC '62, pro­ fessor with the Department of Animal and Poultry Science, and Dr. Russ Willoughby, OVC '57, chairman of the Department of Clinical Studies are grateful for, and delighted with, this development.

Equine research at Guelph has grown considerably over the past decade. Early emphasis was in respiratory, cardiac , digestive and reproductive diseases and lameness problems. Recently, research in exercise physiology, nutrition and management and

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studies designed to identify causes of irregular performance have been added. l'he pedigrees of the three mares show an impressive combination of championship blood. Jolie's sire was Oman's Desdemona Dcnmark, ranked first on the American sire ratings for a number of years and the producer of some of the all-time great saddle horses.

Jolic's dam's sire was Grand Command and her second dam, Fluffy McDuffy, was a world champion in Lexington , Kentucky.

Personal Touch's sire was Jubilee's Stonewall and her dam was Cedar Creek Forty Four. Personal Touch has won fine­ harness championships throughout Missouri.

The most valuable mare, Set the Style, is a five-time world champion with victories to hcr credit at every major horse show in America. Both her sire, Mountjoy's Premier Starheart, and her dam, A Perfect Mate To A Perfect Jewel, produced world champions.

As their ancestry proves, all three mares havc bloodlines of the highest quality, as well as individual attributes in their confor­ mation, that promise many productive breed­ ing years issuing championship offspring of cqual or greater value.

Set the Style with equestrian Abbey Newman and Abbey's mother Sheila Newman.

According to Dr. Burton, such breeding possibilities present a very optimistic picture regarding generated income for the equine

and Silas J. Smith

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he Silas J. Smith Scholarship in Crop Science is endowed by a share of the Smith estate which came to the University of Guelph upon the death of Silas John Smith 's widow, Myrtle Rey Smith, in 1982.

An annual award of $1,000 will be offered to students in a Crop Science major entering their third semester. The candidates must have demonstrated high academic standing and have been involved in extracur­ ricular activities.

The first presentation of this award is scheduled for the OAC awards presentation in the fall of this year. Interested students must apply to the Assistant Registrar, Student Awards, by April I. Silas Smith, a man of energy and imag­ ination, was one of O ntario's earliest pioneers in plant nutrition.

Born in 1890 in Hartley, near Lindsay, young Smith learned of the need for fertilizers when he visited business colleagues in C hatham around 1910.

By 1911, he had established his first fertilizer business, Chatham Fertilizers, in Chatham East. Three years later, in order to benefit from the phosphate and potash based by-products of the nearby Canada and Domin­ ion Sugar Company, Silas constructed a major processing plant there.

Silas Smith.

In the early part of this century, after producing their first few virgin crops, nearly all of the worked soils in southwestern Ontario tended to be low in phosphate. The lighter soils were also low in potash and nitrogen, and the heavier soils degenerated as they were drain ed of nitrogen. With Chatham Fertilizers, S.J. was determined to produce and promote suitable fertili zers that would correct these deficiencies.

Travelling the countryside by horse and buggy, S.J. was his best salesman as he

program. But it takes time , knowledge, and patience, to develop high-quality animals with proven ability. The present cost of the mares' upkee p could be recouped by the sale of foals at their six-month "weanling" stage, or later, as year! i ngs . .folie and Personal Touch were success­ fully bred last year, and are due in late June or early July. Set the Style was also bred but did not conceive and will be bred again.

Apart from breeding, Dr. Burton says, these horses can also be used as a part of the Universi ty's teaching program and in valuable research projects which will not interfere with growth or performance abilities of the animals. Such a procedure might be a study of the palatability of diet supplements. Data collected from this area of study does not harm the subject, but could be very important to the improved health of other animals .

With the Newman horses, the equine program has had its first access to the highest quality in the American Saddle Horse breed.

Benjamin Newman's generous gift of these three mares truly represents a much appreciated vote of support for the equine program at the University of Guelph. D

carried sample bags of fertilizer and encour­ aged farmers to experiment, explaining the best means of applying and benefiting from his products.

As early as 1912, he found a natural ally in Ontario's Department of Agriculture when it opened an office in the same building as Chatham Fertilizers. Agricultural repre­ sentatives combined forces to persuade farm ers to give Smith's products a try.

Fortunately, the crops in Kent County in the early 1900s, which were sugar beets, tobacco and tomatoes, gave an immediate visible and profitable return on fertilizer investments and other agricultural com­ munities quickly adopted the use of chemical fertili ze rs. Meanwhile, Kent' s fields yielded substantial quantities of quality produce which attracted the food-processing industry .

Subsequently, seed growers also were drawn to the region. Most of the seed com for C anada is now grown in Kent, and the balance in adjoining counties. AI.though many people were involved in the development of agri-business in Kent an d its environs, few contributed as much as Silas Smith.

Ge nerous with agricultural prizes at county and school fairs, Silas Smith spread his contagious enthu sias m for achievement in a most practical way during his lifetime . ow, 13 years after his death, his legacy of encouragement towards continued improve­ ment in agricultu re lives on at the University of G uelph . D

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Vegetarians Enjoy Some Health Benefits

By Mary Cocivera Exerpted from a FACS SHEET

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erbal teas , tofu and sprouts have en足 tered Canadian gastronomy as part of a wave of interest in vegetarian eating, and an emphasis - among some at least - on fitness and health.

Vegetarian diets , of course, are not new. Various religious and cultural groups have practised vegetarianism for centuries while other societies eat very little meat for purely economic reasons.

What is new is that many people in affluent countries are consciously turning their backs on meat and discoveri ng the mainstays of a vegetarian regimen .

A vegetarian diet may counter some of the major health problems of North 10

Americans, notably obesity and heart disease. We are told to reduce the amount of fat we eat and increase the amount of fibre . This can be accomplished by cutting back or eliminating meat and emphasizing fresh fruits and vegetables, legu mes and whole grains.

Nutritionists in the Department of Family Studies believe that those considering the elimination of animal products from their diets should be aware of the drawbacks as well as the benefits of a vegetarian diet. " There's more to being a vegetarian than simply eliminating meat from the diet," advises Professor Donna Woolcott,

FACS '69. "Planning a vegetarian menu takes ski ll because you have to combine protein from several plant sources."

Recent converts to vegetarian diets are often members of communes or rel igious sects. Their restrictive dietary practices are more likely to be based on emotional and spiritual grounds than on scientific or medical evidence. They reject conventional med icine and seek spiritual fulfillment through diet and lifestyle.

In the most extreme cases, these new vegetarians follow restrictive di etary precepts that fly in the face of modem nutrition science. The Zen macrobiotic diet, in its most refined stage, calls for eating little more than brown rice . These extreme diets are really dangerous, especially for young children, warns Dr. Woolcott. Cases of rickets and protei n deficiency disease among children of new vegetarian parents have been reported.

Vegetarians who consume eggs and dairy products - often called lacto-ovo vegetarians - have little difficulty obtaining the required vitamins, minerals and protein.

Vegans - those who exclude all animal products - have to be much more careful in planning in order to ingest sufficient vitamin B 12 , a nutrient found only in animal products. Many vegans take vitamin BI 2 supplements.

Protein From Plants Canadians tend to associate protein only with meat, but protein also comes from cereal grains, legumes and nuts .

Professor Jean Sabry points out that, world wide, 65 per cent of the protein consumed is from plant sources. In Canada and other western nations, only 40 per cent of the dietary protein comes from plant sources, but peopl e in developing countries get 80 per cent of their dietary protein from plants .

Vegetarians must be aware that plant prote in is less efficient in meeting body

needs than animal protein. Proteins are made up of amino acids. Essential amino acids - those that cannot be manufactured by the human body - must be included in the diet. Animal-based protein contains all of the essential amino acids in satisfactory proportions.

Proteins from vegetable sources, on the other hand, are low in one or rnore of the essential amino acids. Grains, for instance, are relatively low in lysine; legumes and nuts are low in methionine.

Individually these plant proteins are considered poor quality for the human diet.

Vegetarian meals should be planned so that the amino acids in proteins from two classes of plant foods - grains and legumes for instance - can complement each other and provide a higher quality protein . Dr. Sabry points out that ethnic culinary traditions often have this com­ plemcntarity built right in.

North American favourites, the peanut bUller sandwich, or baked beans and brown bread combine legumes and grains. Lentils and rice is a popular dish in the Middle East, while tortillas and beans have nourished Mexicans for centuries. National cuisines can provide inspiration in planning vegetarian meals.

If milk and eggs are part of a vegetarian dict, menu planning is easier. Many traditional dishes combine cereal with milk, beans with cheese or eggs and grains. Macaroni and cheese, rice pudding, pizza, tacos, and French toast are familiar combinations.

Canada's Food Guide, with its four well-de­ fincd groups of foods, can be used to plan vegetarian meals.

Micronutrient nee ds Nutritionists have learned much more in the last decade about the body's need for micronutrients and their place in the diet. Professor Rosalind Gibson and her colleagues have compared the dietary intakes of iron and zinc of vegetarian women and the general population.

She says there is a potential problem with vegetarians because the bioavailability of these minerals is lower in a vegetarian diet. The higher dietary fibre intake appears to iohibit their absorption. An organic acid, phytate, which is found in the outside layers of cereal grains and in legumes and nuts, also inhibits absorption of these minerals. A typical vegetarian diet is high in phytate because it contains more plant-based foods than the average diet.

Converts to vegetarianism may go through a period of adjustment in which their bodies adapt to the lower availability of minerals. They may, Dr. Gibson says,

suffer slight iron deficiency, but she doesn't believe it would be clinically obvious. In view of the potential problem with iron absorption, vegetarians should eat plenty of foods that are high in vitamin C. The iron in plants is non-heme iron; the absorption of this type of iron is enhanced with vitamin C.

Diet and Heart Disease Epidemiological studies have established a positive relationship between meat in the diet and the incidence of coronary heart disease. Nutritionists around the world, Professor Nina Mercer, Ph.D. '81, included, are attempting to identify the factors re­ sponsible for this positive correlation.

"Fat content of the diet certainly may be a contributing factor," Dr. Mercer says. Canadians consume about 40 per cent of their calories as fat, but are being urged to reduce this level of fat consumption.

Vegetarian diets usually provide less fat.

Lacto-ovo vegetarians typically consume 15 to 23 per cent of their calories as fat, while strict vegans could have as little as IO per cent fat in their diets.

Researchers have established a re­ lationship between elevated plasma cholesterol levels and an incrcased incidence of coronary heart disease, but no one can predict from plasma cholesterol levels who will have coronary heart disease. Dr. Mercer explains that choles terol is one of several kinds of lipids (fats) circulating in the blood. It is manufactured by the body and is also a component of some foods.

Researchers are trying to determine how diet affects the level of cholesterol in the blood. Dr. Mercer says that it's not necessari Iy the amount of dietary cholesterol, but the amount and type of fat and the type of protcin in the diet that affects the level of plasma cholesterol.

Saturated fats - usually of animal origin - may stimulate the body's production of cholesterol or make it more difficult for the body to eliminate it. Polyunsaturated fats - those of vegetable origin - may lower cholesterol levels by facilitating its removal from the body. One of Dr. Mercer's research projects has demonstrated that polyunsaturated fats could also reduce the body's syntb~sis of cholesterol.

pressure, lower body weight, less atonic constipation, and reduced incidence of premature coronary artery disease, maturity­ onset diabetes and some types of cancer."

Why, then, are vegetarian diets not prescribed to victims of high blood pressure, heart patients, and those trying to lose weight? Dr. Mercer explains, "In the real world, doctors and nutritionists have to face the problem of compliance . For someone used to eating steak, a low fat, whole grain and vegetable diet may be unpalatable.

You can't expect people to change a lifetime of habits overnight, even if they know rationally that they should eat differently and exercise more."

From a health standpoint, there may be some advantages to a vegetarian diet, but Dr. Sabry believes that meat will always play an important role in North American diets. People eat meat because they like the taste. Meat , fish and poultry are good sources of many nutrients, including protein, iron , zinc and the B vitamins.

Meat is also a prestige food. History has demonstrated repeatcdly that as incomes rise, so does meat consumption ..

People who decide to become vegetarians may need help in meal planning and cooking. Because vegetarianism is not widespread in our culture, many new vegetarians are not used to planning meals by combining different plant proteins.

Education is the answer.

Vegetarians should be made aware of the special needs of infants, children, adolescents and pregnant and lactating women . A vegetarian diet can provide the necessary nutrients, bu t care is needed to ensure adequate intakes of vitamins, minerals and energy. A gradual transition to vegetarian eating to allow the body time to adjust to the fibre and bulk is advised.

Vegetarian eating can be a wise health choice, but, contrary to some claims, a vegetarian diet will not induce inner peace, produce mental highs or lead to miraculous health changes. Canadians are increasingly ' enjoying vegetarian meals for what they are - a delicious alternative. 0

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Recommended Reading Best of All Worlds "In some ways vegetarians, particularly those who eliminate only a few types of animal foods, have the best of all possible worlds," says Dr. Mercer. " Vegetarian diets tend to be lower in total fat and protein and higher in dietary fibre. Long-term vegetarians tend to have lower blood

Ewald, E .B., Recipes for a Small Planet.

Ballantine Books, New York, 1973. $3.50.

Lappe, F.M., Diet for a Small Planet.

Ballantine Books, New York, 1971. $3.95.

Smith, E. , Vegetarian Meal-PLanning Guide, Hyperion Press, Winnipeg, 1979. $5.95.

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He's a Mountain Diver

By Robin Baird Lewis, Arts '73

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here are people who climb mountains and there are others who move them.

Then there are those who dive off one ­ not in desperation, but in competitions of skill and aesthetic form.

One of those who encourages others to dive off a mountain is Lyn William "Skip" Phoenix, CBS '70, a Human Kinetics graduate from Guelph's B.Sc. program.

In 1980, with an idea, enthusiasm, and with entrepreneurial skills accumulated during a decade as a diving coach and competitor, Skip approached his target, Canada's Wonder­ land mountain, the man-made strucrure and impressive centrepiece of the multi-million dollar theme park located about eight miles north of Toronto, near Maple.

Initially, Wonderland officials were skeptical about his scheme for diving classes at their mountain pool, but agreed to give it a try. In the past three years, the popularity of the combined diving classes and perfor­ mances has grown steadily and everyone concerned agrees that the display adds sparkle and excitement to the park's daily enter­ tainment and, at the same time, promotes skilful competitive achievement.

At the outset, news of Skip's scheme basically was spread by word of mouth by Skip and his colleagues through the network of swim clubs, fitness centres and institutional athletic departments in the Toronto area.

Competitive and non-competitive classes were formed to cover an age group from seven to 27 years, although the 18 to 23 age group is now where most of the seriously competitive students are. However, the major­ ity of divers are in the group aged eight 12

Skip Phoenix, CBS '70, and student divers.

to 13 years. The group, feels Skip, could be the source of Canada's future divers, who are committed and soundly trained from their earl y years.

The summer dive classes at Wonderland are conducted daily, using a variety of regula­ tion-level diving boards at the mountain pool and topped by the 18.5-metre platform (double competition height) stretching out over the mountain waterfall. This dizzying position doesn't seem to faze those who aspire to compete with the cliff divers of Acapulco.

In fact, the opportunity to train on the l8.5-metre board has encouraged some stu­ dents to travel to Mexico, and, thrilled to represent Canada, they have made impressive showings. "After an experience like that, they come back eager for more," says Skip proudly.

A realist, Skip knows that there are few naturals in the diving world. He estimates that only one in ten of his students has reasonable talent, and that the special instinctive diver appears only once in 200 students. In the face of these odds, Skip also knows that the opportunity at Canada's Wonderland can be vitally important in developing a bank of talent from which a strong and experienced national team can be selected.

The goal, as Skip sees it, is to develop a Canadian diver profile that can match and beat the U.S. competitors who have dominated North American meets for so long.

With his business partner and his fellow diving coaches and trainers, Skip Phoenix is sure that the diving talent in the Toronto area can be tapped to produce excellent competitive results. After growing success at the Wonderland classes and displays, Skip is satisfied that local diving training has

gained a sound and impressive reputation.

Incidentally, by attending the University of Guelph, Skip joined a family tradition: he was preceded by his father Henry, OAC ' 38; his mother, Mary, Mac '40, and his brother Leigh, OAC '67 .

At the Quebec/Ontario Universities Athletic Association meet in 1970, Skip won a first in the three-metre board contcst and a second in the one-metre . In the Canadian Athletics Union National Championships in the same year, Skip placed fifth in the onc­ metre board and sixth in the three-metrc board competitions. He received a gold "G" University atheletics pin for lettering four times in his sport.

Encouraged by his successes and a 'love of the sport, Skip began a teaching career in secondary schools and specialized in diving coaching. Over the years, he grew .anxiol!ls to discover and develop Canadian diving talent in a more aggressive way.

Skip is convinced that his own cx­ periences explain his personal motivation behind the Wonderland project.

"As a diver I was frustrated by the lack of challenges in Canadian competition.

That frustration did not reduce when I began to coach, so I decided to try to do something about it. I wanted to better the sport, and as the sport of diving grows, I grow too.

In sports management I expand myself and 1 find that very satisfying. " From international Pan-Am meets to the demands of the Commonwealth games and the Olympics, Skip Phoenix and his team from Wonderland are preparing them­ selves to attain goals that a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine.

Through Skip's enthusiasm and a desire for satisfaction, the medals are in sight. 0

Coach Of The Year

By John Hearn

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om Dimitroff was named the Ontario Univ ersities Athl etic Assoc iation (OUAA) football coach of the year for 1983 and it's typical of the man that, in stead, he wo uld rather have had the o pportunity to re-play th e Guelph Foo tball Gryphon s ' final losin g OUAA League game against the Toro nto Blues. The fact that the Gryphons had scored dec isive victories in the two previou s big games over Western and Laurier was no consolation .

After all, "winning is what you're supposed to do. " Tom' s greatness as a coach, and the respect he enjoys from both playe rs and fellow coaches, stems from th e fact that he ha s only one standard - cxcellence.

The only pass ing grade ac ceptable to him is an "A + ". Anythin g less suggests insufficient dedication, a state of mind of which he is an implacable enemy.

Fell ow members of the University's Departme nt of Athl etics describe him as " inte nse" and "demanding." The inten si ty is immediately obvious to anyone who mee ts him . To m is physically powerful but the formidable mus culature and the great bull neck are stand ard trademarks of football players. Wh at Tom Dimitroff radiates, above all, is a wealth of . psychi c authority that packs even more punch than the menacing body.

Some me n rule by fear. Others by force of personality. Tom is clearly one of the latter. He does n't just dema nd the best from his playe rs, he e licits a determination to mee t his uncompromising standards.

He hails from Barberto n, Ohio , USA, attended college at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and went on to quarte rback the Boston Patriots and the Ottawa Rough足 riders.

Hi s coaching career began with Miami University, continued with Kansas State University and th e n on to the CFL as offens ive co-ordinator of the Ottawa Rough足 rid ers. Thi s in c luded the 1976 season when the Roughriders walked off with the

Grey Cup. Tom moved on to the Hamilton Ti-Cats as head coach , leav ing there two years later, in 1979, to become head coach of th e Football Gryphon s.

Since then, th e Football Gryphons hav e gone from strength to strength. Following a s ucc ss ful 5-2 seco nd place final OUAA Leag ue standin g in 1982. Tom entered the 1983 season with a fir st team that had just lost six all-stars and, undoubt ed ly, it was his success in re-buildin g the Football Gryphon s that earned him his coach of the year selection.

Attractin g new players is central to Tom Dimitroff's job. He has to be in close contact a t all time s with hi g h sc hool coac hes, kee ping tabs o n potential stars, seeing them play, talking to th cm and pursuading them that their future points to the University of Guelph.

Academic distinction, a nd an excep足 ti o nally beautiful campus with a wealth of facilities, he lps attract th e kind of athletes we want. The success of our athletes, and the media coverage they enjoy, he lp s keep the University in th e public eye and ha s a positive e ffect o n recruitme nt in general.

"People so metimes ask me" Tom says, "what I do in the o ff-season. What off- season? In many ways, that's the busiest time of my year. " Whatever passes for an off-season for Tom Dimitroff lasts at best only from No ve mber to the e nd of January, at wh ic h tim e pre-season training sta rt s again in earnest for aspiring Gryphon football ers.

What Tom refers to as a "semi-mandatory minimum of three ho urs a week of weight足 lifting, footwork and conditioning." begins a fitne ss/ag ilit y prog ram desi g ned to enhan ce physical and me ntal toughness and build team unity. This co ntinu es through to the first week in April. after which training starts to get seri ous.

In the meantim e, Tom will be doing hi s own homework , s pendin g many hours studying films of important ga me s. analy z ing the strengths and weakne sses o f individual opposing playe rs and giving that meticulous attention to detail that di stinguishes perfection from mere excellence. He can be forgiving of physica l exhaustion but has littl e tolerance for menta l mistakes, e ither hi s own or hi s players.

Department of Athleti cs Di rector David Copp describes Tom Dimitroff as "incomparably the best situation analyst eve r knew ." Tom' s ass istant coac hes temper th eir accounts of the kind of demand s he places, both on them and hi s players. by recounting stori es of the support th ey get from him and the loyalty they enjoy.

Born leaders don't have to be bullies, and Tom Dimitroff is clearly a bo rn leader.

Congratulations Tom . 0 13

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NEWS

ON AND OFF CAMPUS

OfficiaUy Opened Last November

Gerontology Research Centre A cting President Dr. Howard Clark offi­ cially opened the Gerontology Research Centre Thursday, November 3 ina cere­ mony which marked the culmination of more than 12 years of studies carried out at the University of Guelph.

Dr. Clark says the establishment of the Centre represents a major development of the University's research programs in the social sciences. "It recognizes the rapid development of strong research capabilities related to gerontology in the College of Family and Consumer Studies and the Col­ lege of Social Science and should be a major provincial resource in an area of growing social significance."

The Departments of Family Studies, Geography , Psychology, Nutrition, Human Biology and Sociology have all, at various times, been involved in research into the human aging process, a fact which, as Dean of Research Bill Tossell, OAC '47, says , " contributed significantly to the selection of this University as the location for the Gerontology Centre, rather than the other universities that also applied for the privilege.' , The official opening, held in Macdon­ ald Hall , wa s attended by more than 100 members of the University administration, representatives of the Social Science and Humanities Research ' Council of Canada which provided the $297,000 to fund the Centre through its first three years, govern­ ment officials, members of organizations involved in care of the elderly and faculty members who have carried out funded gerontological research.

The Centre' s director, Professor Anne Martin Matthews, says the Centre is one of only four in Canada. She sees its main function as that of developing systematic and concentrated research activities both by and for academics, government and service providers. A major mandate of the Centre is to foster collaborative , multi-disciplinary approaches to the studies of a broad spec­ trum of issues affecting Canada's aging population.

She says the Centre , while acting as a stimulus and co-ordinator for gerontologi­ cal studies in general , will tend to specialize in two main areas of research : the aging family and the environmental aspects of aging.

"Guelph has a traditional interest in 14 M" -­

the rural environment and it is here that the social consequences, of both aging and the draining off of younger people into the towns, will be most evident. Some southern Ontario towns already have 16 to 18 per cent of their population over 65 years of age," she explains . "The cost to munici­ palities of providing the extra health care needed by the elderly out of a dwindling tax base is just one of the social problems we have to face ."

Amy Cousineau, FACS '72 , assistant to the director, feels the Centre has an im­ portant research co-ordination function to play. "Part of our role is to help ensure that researchers are not duplicating each other's work . By acting as a clearing house for all gerontological research, past and pre­ se nt, on and off campus , we will evolve into an important resource centre to which workers in all disciplines can look for infor­ mation. Our job is also to bring interested people together to re late complementary as­ pects of research being carried out by differ­ ent people . " One of the most important facilities to be developed by the Gerontology Re­ search Centre is a comprehensive collection of research papers - a major library func­ tion which , backed by computerized files, will provid~ a significant re source for everyone engaged in related studies.

The Centre will provide consultation, technical and clerical services to research­ ers, sponsor conferences, workshops and seminars and provide a base for scholars pursuing studies in aging. 0

Gerontology Scholarship The Mac ' 38D Graduate Gerontol­ ogy Research Scholarship Fund Committee, comprising Ellen Downie, Mary Singer, Doris (Zin­ kann) Durrant and Jean (Nairn) Car­ ter, is absolutely thrilled with the marvelous alumni response to the project.

The initial objective was a ONE-TIME scholarship with a target of $2,000 . However, to date, $6,575 has bee n collected and the Committee has raised its sights and elevated the target to $10,000 - a sum which , when invested , could support an ANNUAL scholarship of $1 ,000.

There is a great need for re­ search in Gerontology and the Com­ mittee asks that alumni " talk it up with anyone interested " and create further response that will boost the fund " overthe top. " Cheques should be made pay­ able to the University of Guelph Alma Mater Fund, with the specifi­ cation that your donation be chan­ neled into the Mac ' 38D Graduate Gerontology Research Scholarship Fund, and mailed to: Department of Alumni Affairs , Room 273, Johnston Hall, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario NIG 2Wl . 0

Dr. Anne Martin Matthews, director, at the official opening oflhe Gerontology Research Centre with, left, Dr. Donald Bain, director , St. Peter's Centre , Hamilton; and president of the Canadian Association on Gerontology, and Lawrence Crawford, provincial co­ ordinator for senior citizens, Seniors Secretariat, Province of Ontario, Far left is Dean ofResearch Bill Tossell, OAC '47, andfar right, then Acting President Dr. Howard Clark.

Named and Appointed

and in industry, would far exceed the suppl y in the next few years, and focused attention on the need for agriculture graduates to pur­ sue advanced study.

Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Profes­ sor Kay received an M.Sc. degree from the OAC in 1966 and completed his Ph.D. degree at Purdue University in 1969 . 0

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P rofessor Bev Kay, OAC '65, was ap­ pointed chairman, Department of Land Re­ source Science, effective July I, 1983. He succeeded Professor Ken King who has re­ sumed teaching in the Department.

Dr. Kay has been a faculty member of the Department since 1969, teaching un­ dergraduate and graduate courses in soil chemistry and supervising graduate stu-

Dean Awarded Gold Medal OAC Dean Freeman McEwen received the Gold Medal A ward of the Entomological Society of C anada during its annual meeting in October. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions by a Canadian scientist to the study of entomology or to the affairs of the Society.

Dr. McEwen was cited for a range of achievements including his outstanding contributions to research and scholarship; application of scientific and technological expertise; his advisory roles to provincial and national agencies, industry and the gen­

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dents. His own research interests have centred on the behaviour of soil and plants under winter conditions.

The new chairman has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects related to the productivity of On­ tario soils . These have involved faculty members from the Department of Crop Sci­ ence, the School of Engineering and the School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education, as well as his own Department. (n 1979, he was invited to be a visiting scholar in the Canada-Japan scientific ex­ change program. He spent six weeks at the Institute for Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, where he was able to further his research on ground freezing.

In 1979-1980, Professor Kay carried out a study of th e long-term needs in Canada for scientists with post-graduate training in disciplines related to agriculture. Hi s widely quoted report provided a base point for planning in Agricultural Education . It concluded that the need for such graduates in posts in university teaching and research,

A. Willoughby, OVC '57, has been appointed chairman of the OVC's Department of Clinical Studies . He suc­ ceeds Dr. Michael R. Wilson . Dr. Wil­ loughby has been associate dean, research and resources, at OVC since 1978.

He was born and raised on a pure bred livestock farm at Alameda, Sask. He first studied agriculture at the University of Sas­ katchewan, and then enrolled at the Ontario Veterinary College. After graduation he practised near Grenfell, Saskatchewan for four years before enrolling for graduate study at Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at the OVC since 1965.

In addition to a number of awards of merit and citations, Dr. Willoughby has been an invited visiting professor at the fac­ ulty of veterinary medicine, University of .

Ghent , Belgium, and the faculty of veteri­ nary medicine, University of Sydney, Au­ stralia. He served as secretary of the Ameri­ can College of Veterinary Internal Medicine from 1972 to 1981 .

In spite of his administrative duties, he has maintained an active research pro­ gram. His work has included studies of en­ vironmental effects on animals, heavy metal tox icity , and respiratory function tests for animals. Currently, he is studying heart-respiratory rates and gait analysis in horses, especially those with a history of inconsistent performance. 0

eral public; his administrative skills, and his extensive service to the Society.

In his research efforts, the dean ha s focused on achieving practical solutions to problems facing the agricultural and hor­ ticultural industries.

While recognizing the practical need for continued limited use of pesticides, he has stressed the introduction of programs of management that would minimize the need for pesticides. These efforts have in­ cluded his fostering of research on biologi­ cal controls, and the establishment of a Biological C ontrol Laboratory at the Uni­ versity to stress research and large-scale field trial s of various biological control methods.

His concern for practical application of his research has led to the formulation

of integrated pest management program s for a number of important crops. He is co­ author of Th e Use and Significance of Pes­ Licides in Lhe Environment, a textbook that is widely used.

As a founder and acting director of the Canadian Centre for Toxicology, he has worked to ensure that Canada wo uld have a major centre dedicated to providing re­ search and post-graduate training in all mat­ ters related to toxic agents, whether of ag­ ricultural or industrial origin.

Dean McEwen is a past-president of the Entomological Society of Canada and of the Canadian Pest M anagement Society.

He has also been a member or chairman of many provincial, national and interna­ tional committees related to insect pests, toxicology and the environment. 0

Bev Kay, OAC '65.

Carl J. Corcoran, of Grafton, Ontario, has been named to the Board of Governors of the University of Guelph. His duties commenced with the September 1983 meeting of the Board.

Carl Corcoran, who is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, is presi­ dent of IBM Canada Ltd. He first joined IBM Canada Ltd. in 1951 in the Data Pro­ cessing Division. After various interna­ tional appointments with IBM, he became a vice-president of IBM Canada Ltd. in 1974. He was named to the Board of Direc­ tors of IBM Canada Ltd. in 1979 and be­ came president in \982.

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Dr. Russ Willoughby, OVC '57.

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The Can adian Centre for Toxico ogy

Pathology and Toxicology. He also chaired an International Committee on Hazards As­ sociated with Dioxin in the Great Lakes.

In the past half dozen years, he has been active on 25 major national and inter­ national committees and task forces related to health or food safety. These have in­ cluded: the U.S. National Academy of Sci­ ences Committee on Toxicology; the World Health Organization (WHO) Committees on Criterion Documents on the Toxicology of Environmental Chemicals; the WHOI Food and Agriculture Organization Joint

Expert Committee on Food Additives, and committees on the u.s. National Cancer In­ stitute and the U.S. National Toxicology program.

He is a graduate of McGill University and obtained his doctoral degree in Toxicol­ ogy and Pharmacology from Queen's Uni­ versity. Dr. Munro has maintained active involvement in pertinent research along with his administrative duties. He is the au­ thor of over 60 scientific papers, and has contributed 40 major reports to books, pub­ lished documents and conferencs. D

Ian Munro.

Ian c. Munro, of Ottawa, began his duties as director of the Canadian Centre for Tox­ icology on December I, 1983. The new Centre, sponsored jointly by governments , industry and the Universities of Toronto and Guelph, will provide a focus for research, teaching and testing services to meet the emerging needs of society in Canada in this important field.

Dr. M unro, whose headquarters are at 645 Gordon Street in Guelph, began work immediately on finalizing, building plans for facilities to be built on both the Toronto and Guelph campuses. Support from both the federal govern ment and the province of O n­ trio has been assured for construction. T he first phase of building, at both locations , is expected to be completed within four years.

It is expected that the two levels of govern ­ ment wi ll provide $20 million towards the costs of the first phase while industry pro­ vides an additional $3.5 million.

Ian Munro has most recently been di­ rector general, Food Directorate, Health Protection Branch, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa. In this position, he was responsible for the activities of his Branch related to microbial hazards, nutritional sci­ ences, chemical safety and other matters re­ lating to the health and safety of the Cana­ dian public.

In announcing the appointment of Dr. Munro, Dr. Emanuel Farber, chairman of the board of directors of the Centre, com­ mented on how fortunate the Centre is to se­ cure a director of Dr. Munro's calibre and experience. Dr. Munro is clearly a leader in the field of toxicology, both nationally and internationally, stated Dr. Farber.

Among the many committees which Dr. Munro has chaired, or of which he has been a member , several have been related to toxicology. He was chairman of the Tripar­ tite Toxicology Committee, (U.S., U.K., Canada) and is a member of the Interna­ tional Life Science Institute Experts in 16

Senior Alumni Record History

The University of Guelph senior alumni group , Alumni-in-Action, formed in Feb­ ruary 1983 under the chairmanship of Jim Baker, OAC ' 28, has mobilized a core of some 30 volunteers. This group involves alumni who responded to a questionnaire submitted to senior alumni of the Federated Colleges of the University, residing within about a 35-mile radius of the campus.

At the first Alum ni-in-Action social function, some 70 senior alumni and spouses gathe red at the Arboretum Centre for a luncheon meeting last October. Th is occasion provided the opportunity for par­ ticipants to become better acquainted and, more particularly, to meet with and hear a heart-wanning address by Dr. W illiam A. Stewart. Our recently-appointed Chan­ cellor enthusiastically endorsed the ,. Alumni-in-Action" concept, referring to its two-pronged benefit of providing invalu­ able service to the University while, at the same time, renewing the contact of senior alumni with their Alma Mater through lei­ sure time volunteer service.

In more specific terms, Jim Baker indi­

cated that projects brought forward by Uni­ versity Library personnel were deemed to be the most urgent at this time, and the first to be tackled would be the recording of oral history pertaining to the founding colleges. He stated that this would be accomplished by group members teaming up with specific alumni known to have note­ worthy recollections .

Harvey Pettit, OAC '32, and Elsie (Hume) Pettit , Mac '34, are co-ordinators of the O ral History Project.

The first concre te step in this particular project took place December I, when a workshop was held to provide guidance to prospective members of the interviewing teams . Leaders of the workshop were Nancy Sadek, archivist, and Dr. Alan Brookes, Department of History, both of whom have had considerable experience in oral history .

Senior alumni interested in becoming involved in Alumni-in-Action should con­ tact Jim Baker, cl o the Alumni Office, Room 105, Johnston Hall, University of Gu elph,Guelph,Ontario,NIG 2Wl. D

At the first Alumni-in-Action social function are, from left to right: Jim Baker, OAC '28 , group president ; Edythe Stewart, Chancellor Bill Stewart , Harvey Pel/iI, OAC '32 , and Dr. SIan Ward, OVC' 36 .

Letter to

the Editor

T he

following letter was received by Rosemary Clark, Mac '59 , assistant dire}:­ tor, alumni programs, and passed on to the editor. Thanks Paul. Ed.

Dear Rosemary: 1 fulve jusl received and read Ihe Fall .83 issue of the Guelph Alumnus and am moved 10 offer congratulations. What a change. The simple bulletin type of its be­ ginning fuls evolved into an altractive magazine with a wide variety ofcontent.

The story of the life of Dr. Marian Soltys by John Hearn is a remarkable story of a great and remarkable man ; and I'm sufficiently vain to feel a sort of cultural kinship with him as I'm sure many other individuals do who feel the frustrating influ­ ence of the facts revealed in his "Super ProfPhilosophy ...

1 hold with pride the degree of B.S .A. that 1 received from the OAC at Guelph when Dr. Soltys was just two years old, having been born February 16 . 1884; but I'vefelt for afew years now the dehumaniz­ ing influence of rapidly changing science and technology. The knowledge that a man of Dr . Soltys' age and ability recognizes the true situation gives some hope that, dur­ ing the general world-wide ferment of the next few years. a renaissance similar to that ofthe time ofMartin Luther may occur.

Cordially yours Paul E. Angle, OAC '09 55 Belmont Street Toronto. Ontario M5R 1R f

College

Royal '84

T he theme for this year's annual CoJlege Royal and Open House Weekend is "60 Years To Celebrate." A variety of ac­ tivities, including the Woodsman and Flower Arranging competitions, have been added since the first College Royal in J925.

This year' s College Royal will run

from March 3-11 inclusive . March 10 and II will bc Opcn Housc Weekend.

Many of the events that originated with the first College Royals still continue today.

Some traditional highlights include the Cat Show, Dog Show, Square Dancing Compe­ tition and Old MacDonald's Farm. During Open House Weekend the University will offer a wide range of exhibits, displays and activities for the public.

In conjunction with the 60th anniver­ sary, the College Royal '84 executive will be holding special activities for alumni.

Campus tours will be held on the Open House Weekend which will give alumni a chance to see the campus and the changes that have taken place since they attended the University.

Displays will be set up in the Univer­ sity Library depicting the history of College Royal. Another activity that has been in­ cluded this year is a Square Dancing compe­ tition for alumni on Sunday , March II , which will be open to all years. You may not have danced for a number of years but we encourage you to get together with other alumni and enter a set.

Should you desire more information, or would like to enter the Square Dance competition, contact the College Royal office, P.O. Box 484153, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N I G 2W l.

Phone (519) 824-4120 , Ext. 8366.

College Royal offers something for everyone, so we encourage you to attend this event.

Edina VanderWielen, FACS '84 College Royal Director, Library and Alumni.

Stewart Lane

Fund

B ob Kerr, OAC '68, chairman of the Stewart Lane Commemorative Fund, re­ ports that $15,567 has beeo received on be­ half of the Stewart Lane Commemorative Award. Bob expressed his gratitude to the friends and associates of Professor Lane, and indicates that further gifts would be welcome. The objective of the Fund is $20,000 .

The Fund will recognize the 37-year association that Professor Lane has had with Agriculrural Economics at the University, with students at many levels, with commu­ nity organizations, governments, agri-busi­ ness and farmers and with Ontario agricul­ ture through his great interest in extension education and the communication of infor­ mation and ideas.

The Stewart lane Commemorative Award is to be a major honour for a member of faculty in Agricultural Economics. The recipient will have made the most outstand­ ing contribution, during the previous year, to the development and communication of practical values for the benefit of the ag­ ricultural community.

Donation cheques should be made payable to the University of Guelph, on behalf of the Stewart Lane Commemorative Fund, and mailed to: Department of Alumni Affairs, Room 273, Johnston Hall, Uni­ versity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG2WI. 0

CODling Events March

2-27

Stewart and Letty Bennett Collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.

3- 11

College Royal '84. Open House 10-11.

8-10

Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Conference, Wheels Inn, Chatham.

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Annual Meeting, CBS Alumni Association.

General Meeting, CPS Alumni Association.

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Alumni Leadership Conference.

April

6-7

O AC Alumni Curling Bonspiel.

May

5

May 29 -

June 1

Spring Convocation.

June

18·20

1984 Gueph Conference on Human Sexuality, "Sexuality - A Search for Values."

June

22·24

ALUMNI WEEKEND '84.

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Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar atthe U. ofG.

Annual Meetings: OAC, Mac-FACS, OVC, Arts, CSS, CPS and U. ofG. Alumni ASSOciations.

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP

• Artificial nte Igence Editor: Bob Winkel

By Dr. Larry RendeD , Dr. Mohamed Kamel and D avid Coles, D ept. of Computing and Information S cience.

" A computer can do only what it is pro­ grammed to do." This familiar bromide has, in the past, been cited as vague reassur­ ance that mach ines are not capable of intel­ ligent behaviour. In fact, computers have demonstrated intelligent characteristics; this exciting and promising pursuit is the arena of Artificiallntelligence (AI), which is sometimes defined as the science of mak­ ing computers do what humans consider intelligent.

Generally speaking , as soon as AI dis­ covers a phenomenon or technique, it ceases to appear mystical and no longer seems intelligent. (During its three decades of existence, AI has spawned whole new fields within computer science. "If it works it isn't AI," is another maxim.) Logical deduction was once considered to be the exclusive realms of human thought , but no longer. Will intuition and consciousness follow suit?

Here, at the University of Guelph, sev­ eral scientists and research assistants are working on two related areas called machine learning and pattern recognition, investigating methods that allow programs to improve their performance on tasks such as solving problems and understanding vi­ sual scenes. Underlying these increasingly successful computer systems are principles or laws of effective learning and structure of knowledge.

This research is broad, drawing not only from computer science, but also from

. mathematics, engineering, and psycholo­

gy. In fact , the University's Department

of Psychology is also interested in machine

learning and related issues. Recently some

members of the Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) and Psy­ chology have shared expertise.

Last summer, some CIS faculty and staff attended three American and interna­ tional conferences where papers were pre­ 18

sen ted and scientists exchanged knowl­ edge. Papers from Guelph appeared in the published proceedings of these confer­ ences .

More R eliable Th an Humans Last October, during National U niver­ sities Week, Dr. Anton Labonte, from Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, spoke to an interested audience about AI accomplishments and goals. This well attended and entertaining lecture presented a broad overview of the field.

Dr. Labonte mentioned some impres­ sive results that are now becoming more familiar to us all. For example, some AI systems are even more reliable than hu­ mans, such as one for medical diagnosis created at California's Stanford University.

Other potential applications of AI include intelligent processing of increasingly mas­ sive information. Imagine fast retrieval of specific knowledge from the eight million scientific journals extant, based only on input in the form of an English description of requirements.

AI is a fast-growing field. This is a result of several coincident and persistent tendencies. During its short history, Al has produced many useful capabilities similar to the medical diagnosis example, so con­ tinued motivation is strong. Moreover, rapid progress of technology has produced tremendous computational ability in the current generation of hardware.

Coupled with this capability, recent significant advances in research have facili­ tated powerful and complex models, dem­ onstrating many interesting phenomena.

500 Times Faster Currently, AI is undergoing a state of transition, whereby several of these phenomena are being unified into emerging

theories. These principles will ultimately allow us not only to construct truly intelli­ gent machines, but more important, to per­ mit greater understanding of ourselves.

This may happen soon. Computer hardware has advanced so that, comparcd with the technology in 1964, computcr speed is now about 500 times as fast; mem­ ory is roughly 500 times as large; hardwarc occupies approximately one per cent of the volume, and the cost is about 1,000 times lower. Japan recently announced their "fifth generation project " to increase com­ puter power by many more factors of tcn, and the U.S. and Canada are respond ing.

What about AI itself? It has experi­ enced about one wave per decade since the '50s. In the beginning, there was much suc­ cess in machine learning, with automated problem solving and recognition tasks accomplished using methods somewhat akin to human cognition and perception.

Shortly before 1970, many researchers began to place more emphasis on represent­ ing knowledge about a task to help guide and speed its processing . Even though com­ puters are extremely fast, the problems tackled are so difficult that clever means must be used. Out of this work came com­ mercially viable systems, called expert sys­ tems, to diagnose disease, analyze chemi­ cals automatically, prospect for minerals, detect political uprisings , and design com­ puters themselves.

The newest wave in AI is learning.

At this time, machine learning is re-emerg­ ing to gain knowledge, automatically, from the computer's own experience.

Now Recognizes Spoken Words Pattern recognition has seen similar success. It has produced systems to read typed and handwritten characters, recog­ nize spoken words, interpret visual scenes, predict weather patterns, and identify de­ fects in manufactured parts. While pattern recognition is easy for humans, it is very difficult to construct a comparable com­ puter system.

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The primary reason for this is that the recognition task is interpretive, and features in a given pattern may be too weak to form an accurate interpretation. Consider, forex­ ample, a system for understanding visual scenes from two dimensional images. How can even a cube be recognized in all its orientations?

What is required is some "meta­ level" capability; a system must be able to model and reason about its own under­ standing and performance . In addition, the ability to generalize knowledge from indi­ vidual experiences is important. As with AI, a very impOitantpart of pattern recogni­ tion is learning.

In order to function intelligently by human standards, a computer must be able to sense its environment, learn and store knowledge in a memory, and reason deduc­ tively and inductiveiy, i.e. from general rules to particular cases and from specific examples to general rules. These are pre­ requisites of learning and pattern recogni­ tion.

though the basic actions of the sol ver are programmed directly, so that the primary task can be pursued, the way in which the solver searches for a solution to the problem is provided by the control structure.

Even though computers are extremely fast, they are easily defeated if intelligent guidance is not used. One could supply this intelligence by human means simply by . 'plugging in" an appropriate control struc­ ture.

EXTRACTED INFORMATION

Automated Learning How can learning be automated') Imagine two programs as shown in the dia­ gram. The lower component is a program designed to carry o~t some primary task like solving a problem. As input, this solver is given specific problems to work on. AI-

PROBLEM

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Grad News

Lorraine (pieck) Tawfik, B.Sc. '80, lives in Concord and works as a biostatistieian for Wyeth Ltd., in Downsview.

Bev Gibson, B,A, '68, now lives in Oshawa where she is an assessment quality control officer with the Ministry of Re­ venue.

Paul Galatsis, B.Sc. '81, is working on a Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry of Indiana University, Bloomington.

Ann Rose (Patrick) Sutherland, B,Sc, '71, lives in Mississauga and teaches at The Student School for the Toronto Board of Education.

Wayne Burlanyette, B.Sc, '72, now of Aurora, is a systems analyst with Network Data Systems of Toronto.

Paul Kuras, B.Sc. '77, is pharmaceutical manager for the Bryson Big V Drug Store in Windsor.

David Minard, B.Sc. '77, of Grimsby , works as a quality control supervisor with Magic Pantry Foods of Hamilton.

Jim Hardy, B.Sc. '79, of Waterloo, is support and training manager for CPA Data Systems, also of Waterloo.

The higher-level program in the dia­ gram is the learner. If the learner is properly mechanized, it can observe the actions of the solver and modify the control structure accordingly. To do this, the learner needs to measure and represent knowledge which it stores and refines over a period of time.

Of course, automating these capa­ bilities is difficult. How, precisely, can it be done') Involved are principles of knowl­ edge -- presentation and knowledge -- ac­ quisition, techniques from mathematics and statistics, and study of animal develop­ ment and human cognition. Although re­ sults are still partial, application of emerg­ ing theories has sometimes resulted in per­ formance exceeding human capabilities with some tasks.

It is in the area of learning that the University of Guelph is active and, as suggested earlier, has been successful in tackling these issues. Unique results have induded optimization of performance under certain conditions.

Current research involves modeling genetics to stabilize performance, and in­ ductive inference (generalization) of con­ trol structures from even the most elemen­ tary data without any prior knowledge ex­ cept a description of the primary task.

Guelph seems to be the only university in Canada tackling this latter, very difficult problem. 0

Math in China

T im Bray, B.Sc. '81, living in Vancouver, B.C . , is a software engineer for Microtel Pacific Research of Burnaby.

Mark "Army" Armstrong, B.A. '82, of Nepean, is working as a methodologist for Statistics Canada.

Paul Francis Bracken, M.Sc. '82, is working on a Ph.D. in Physics at the Uni­ versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Bruce Richardson, B.Sc. '82, of Guelph, is associate systems engineer for Amdahl Limited ofToronto.

David Siminovitch, Ph.D. '82, now re­ sides in Melrose, Mass., USA, and is a post-doctoral Fellow in the Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 0

One of two Canadian members ofa delega­ tion of 60 North American educators who visited the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the Chinese Mathematical Society last summer was Professor Rod Gentry , Department of Mathematics and Statistics. At Fudan University are, I to r: Zhou ling-Qin, vice-president academic, Fudan University; Professor Wang Shi-an , mathematician, Beijing University and Dr. Rod Gentry.

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

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

The Fruits of Their Labours

Alumni artists Felicity Redgrave , '73, and Robin Baird Lewis , '73 , M.A. ' 78 , have each received special recognition. Robin was communications officer with the Uni­ versity's Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, and is now teaching art at Erindale Secondary School in Mississauga .

A graduate of Honours Fine Art, Felic­ ity now resides in Halifax, Nova Sco tia.

Since graduation she has pursued a busy career as an artist. This year her hard work was rewarded when she received a Canada Council " B" Grant.

Distance has made it impossible for Felicity to enter our annual Dimensions Art Show and Sale. However, she has been an avid supporter of the project. For this reason, the directors of the Arts Alumni As­ sociation are particularly happy to relay Fecility's good news to other alumni.

Issue number 30 of the Journal of

Raithby House.

Grad News

Thanks to th e increasing number of alumni who are returning reques ted career updates , it is becom ing fa r easier to publ ish this col­ umn. Your interest and co-operation are g reatl y appreciated . Remember, letters to the ed itor are also most welcome. A special thank you is ex tended William Ludlow, '74; Felicity Redgrave, '73, and Wilfred Ed. Van de Ven, '75, for their letters.

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Canadian Children's Literature carried a very favourabl e review of a children's book , Red is Best, illustrated by Robin Baird Lew is. The book was written by Kathy Stinson and published by Annick Press Ltd. , Toronto. [n 1982, it won the IODEChildren 's Book of the Year Award.

The rev iew, by Professor Jo hn Fern s, associate dea n of Hum an ities, McM aster University, also critiqued another Stinson/ Lewis collaboration entitled Big or Lillie.

Once again, th e publisher is Annick Press.

Robin is no stranger to the pages of the Guelph Alumnus. A re production of a Lewis watercolour adorned th e cover of the Spring issue 1980. An accompanying sto ry reported on Robin 's one-woman sho w in the University' s Faculty Club . Since th at time, Robin has also rec eived a Canada Council Grant.

Robin is also familiar to alumni as the JohllSton Hall.

featured artist in an on-going College of Arts Alumni Association gift promotion.

For th e pas t two years, sets of her Landmark Prints have bee n presented to Careers Night panelists and guest adjudicators at the an­ nual Dime nsions Art Show and Sale.

We loo k forward to reporting their fu­ ture successes as we ll as those of any other Arts alu mni artists. 0

The Landmark Print Series is still available from the Arts Alumni Association for $19.95 plus tax. Each shrink-wrapped package contains four 8'12" x 11" litho­ graph prints depicting University o.f Guelph campus scenes . Anyone illlerested in pur­ chasing a set of prilllS can contact Depart­ ment of Alumni Affairs and Development, Room 105, Johnston Hall , University of Guelph , Gu elph, Ontario NIG2WI. (519) 824 -4120 , Ext. 2122.

South Residence Scotch Pines.

The BullRing.

Anne (Morris) Atkinson , ' 73, lives in Guelph where she is a consultant fo r th e Wellington County Separate School Board .

Mary (Gauld) Campbell, '77, works as a

William Ludlow, ' 74, resides in Bur­

Julie (Russell) Thur, '78, has moved from

lington and is the manager, Training and Development, for Rogers Cable Sys te ms , Toronto.

Guelph to Golden Lake . Juli e is the im­ mediate pas t pres ide nt of the Co llege of Arts Alumni Assoc iation . We will mi ss her at the Board of Direc tors mee tings.

research assistant at McM aster University , Hamilto n .

Wilfred Van de Ven, '75, has pursued graduate studies in languages and is now teaching full-time at RMC , Kingston .

Stephen Marissink, '79, is an RCMP con­

Margret (Bathke) Neuhofer, '70, is a man­

Katie (ShoenhoetTer) Kortekaas, '76,

Cathy Stratton, '80, is empl oyed as a so­

age ment consultant employed by Stoakley­ Dudley Consultants, Mississauga .

lives in Whitby and is purchasing manager with the Durham Board of Education .

cial worker with Brant County Soc ial Ser­ vices. 0

stable statio ned in Red Deer, Alta .

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Careers

The second annual College of Arts Alumni Association Careers Night was held in November. An audience of over 70 ac­ cepted the Association's invitation to attend the evening panel discussion.

Two career placement specialists and six Arts alumni addressed the theme of "creating a competitive edge in the job mar­ ket." After the fonnal panel discussion, Dean David R. Murray of the College of Arts thanked the guest panelists and pre­ sented them with tokens of appreciation.

Chainnan Margo Shoemaker, '79, presi­ dent of the College of Arts Alumni Associa­ tion, then suggested that the panelists and their audience adjourn for refreshments and infonnal discussion.

The guest panelists offered future arts alumni candid appraisals of the value of Arts degrees in the working world as well as valuable job search tips:

Lowell Gifford, a counsellor with the Univcrsity of Guelph's Counselling and Student Resource Centre, initiated the panel discussion. He urged in-course students to hone their job search and interview skills by taking advantage of the programs and resources available on campus.

Recruitment specialist Karen Lee, office services manager with The Co­ operator's (Insurance), Guelph, agreed that both a saleable image and a skills profile were essential features of marketing oneself in the workforce. She emphasized the rela­ tive importance of appearance, communi­ cation skills and composure during a job interview.

The six alumni panel members related a broad array of experiences. Collectively, they ascribed success to versatility, an abil­ ity to accentuate the positive skills acquired in their respective areas of academic study, and a willingness to actively and vigorously launch a career search.

The alumni panelists also emphasized the importance of developing prospective

employment contacts by getting involved in clubs, associations, volunteer work and career-related employment while at univer­ sity. Valuable insights were offered by each of the following alumni: Roger Allan, B.A. '74, actor, stage and film, Toronto.

Sarah Kolasiewicz, B.A. '81, M.A. '83, assistant co-ordinator, 1984 Learned Societies Conference , University of Guelph.

Robin Baird Lewis, B.A. '73, M.A. '78, communications officer, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development/freelance illustrator, Guelph.

Dr. Ted Noble, M.A. '69, Ph.D. '80, counsellor, Thistletown Regional Centre fo r Children and Adolescents, Toronto .

Donna Palmateer, B.A. '81, M .A. '83, lecturer/editorial assistant, Canadian Chil­ dren's Literature, University of Guelph.

Gay (Kozak) Selby, B.A. '79, program­ mer, Wellington County Museum , Fergus.

The Careers Night committee is grate­ ful to al l those who participated as panelists or as membe rs of the audience.

The comm ittee also wishes to acknowledge the financi al and organiza­ tional assistance offered by the Office of the D an of th College of rts , the Student Administrative Arts Council and the De­ partment of Alumni Affai rs. 0

Panelists and ArlS A.A. representatives at the Association's 2nd Annual Careers Night .

Front row, 110 r: Linda May Bell, '72 , director; Karel! Lee, Gay (Kozak) Selby , '79; Sarah Kolasiewicz , '8 I, Donna Palmateer, '8 I , and Margo Shoemaker, '79, Association president. Back row, I to r: Robin Baird Lewis, '73; Roger Allan, '74, Dean David Murray, Association honorary president, and Dr. TedNoble, M.A. '69.

Dean David Murray , in the rear, and Arts President Margo Shoemaker, '79, extreme right, with recipients of the Association's DELPHA awards which are presented 10 University ofGuelph alumni entering graduate studies in English, History and Philosophy.

L to r: Sheila (Bates) Cavanagh, CPS '77; Catherine Smith, '83; Christian Varela, '83.

Achievement H istory professor , Gilbert Stelter has been honoured by Moravian College, Beth­ lehem, Pennsylvania, USA. A graduate of the College in 1956 , Dr. Stelter was named the 1983 recipient of the alumni association ' s Comenius Award for "outstanding achievement."

The award, named for John Amos Comenius, a 17th-century Moravian bishop and educator who is cons idered the " father of modem education ," was prese nted at the annual Comenius Society di nner held last October.

Dr. Stelter is president of the Canadian Urban History Association, which pro­ motes research on the urban past and pub­ lishes the periodical, Urban History Re­ view, and is a member of the editorial board of The Urban HislOry Yearb ook, published by the University of Leicester Press in England. 0 21

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alum ni Association

ALUMNI BULLETIN

Editor: D r. Cliff Barker, '41.

OVC Artifacts Those who attended the OVC Alumni As­ sociation Annual Meeting last June will re­ call viewing the display , in the Macdo nald Stewart Art Centre , of OVC museum arti­ facts and the Art Centre horse brasses in the adjacent gallery area.

This exhibition , entitled "The Horse in Art and Science," was to have been re­ moved in October, however , it was retained until January through public interest.

During November , the Centre was vis­ ited by the directors of the National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, who showed great interest in the 35 items in the display - paintings, veterinarians' signs, photo­ graphs, dental instruments, obstetrical in­ struments, a farriers' kit, 69 antique British horse brasses and miscellaneous items.

A very interesting item was the 1876 gouache and watercolour, on paper with

Photographed in the anatomy Laboratory during the session 1942-43 (by V.R. Brown, '35, anatomist) are, front row, L to r, W. Moynihan, L.H. FLeming , G.E. GiLbertson , C .F. Morris, R.D. NewLon, R.H. Fills; middle row, Lto r; G.A. Peterson , H .W. Reube r, 1.L. ALbright, 1.1. Carney, M.E. PoLand, H.R. Steadman, 1.F. Crawley; back row It o r: 1.C. Dalton , E.W. Browne, 1.E. Vandendriessche, G.B. Murray and L.c. Fritz.

Ofthe above, 12 obtained their degrees in 1944.

gol d leaf, by Alfred Russel Colman, a n OVC 1876 g radu ate. T his paint ing was do­ nated to the University on the closing of the estate of A .R. Colman , Jr., '04, by his granddaughter and her husband, Bill Fox, OAC ' 36, of G rimsby . 0

Retirements F acuIty

retiring at the end of the first semester of 1984 are D rs. Ji m Archibald, '49, and Cliff Barker, '41. Retirin g later will ~e Drs. Fran k Milne and Arthur G raham . 0

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Members of the class of OVC '41 who joined the OA C contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps photographed on the front steps of the OVC during Ihe winter of 1940-41 were, front row It o r: Forbes Colgate , D .A . Barnum, R .B. Murray, C.H. Bigland, V.A. Ellis , R . LeGrow, D . BUllerwick ; second row, I to r: K .C. Campbell, L.G. Coleman, 1 .S. Clark , W.l. Rainey, H .F. Gibbs, D .C. Reid; third row I to r: V.H. Reid, H.C. Collins, R .W. Groves , R.1. Marshall, S .H. Maude; back row, I to r: E.C. Chamberlayne, 1.A . Ellioll , LD . Woolsey, C .A . V. Barker.

Flashback

Andrew Smith , Toronto, grandson of OVC founder Professor Andrew Sm ith, stands between paintings of his great grandparents . Th e paintings were gifts to th e Univ ersity of Guelph some years ago and are on display from time to time at th e Macdon ald Stewart Art Centre . Centre Director, Judith Nasby is on th e right.

Alumni who preceptored with the lat e Dr . Joe John son , ' 19, of Waterlo o, aI/ended the hanging of his portrait in the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame. Surrounding Jo e's wife, LeI/ie, are, l to r, Dr . Clem Reeds, '42 ; Dr . Bob Buck, '46; Dr . Norm Schmidt , '3 9; Dr . Russ McDonald, '45 ; Dr . Archie Ma cKinnon , '43; Dr. George Boyce, '42, and Dr. Dalt Docksteader, '41.

In Memoriam

For Seniors

Dr. Matt R. Campbell, '39, died on Feb­ ruary 9, 1982. Last address was 839 Polly Street , Billings , Mont. , USA.

Effective October 17 , 1983, the following was circulated in the Department of Clinical Studies , OVC. "The human/animal bond becomes in­ creas ingly important as people get older and begin to lose fri ends , children and partners.

To demonstrate our recognition of thi s fact, and to support pet ownership by seniors, we will institute a po licy of veterinary care at cost for a maximum of two pets per senior citizen. These people will be asked to show their "Golden Age " cards to the billing clerk or clinician in charge of the case." 0

Ethiopia Dr Ann Lonergan, '79, has advised Dean Douglas Maplesden, '50, of the arrival of the hospital and labora­ tory equipment donated to her for use in Ethiopia . This equipment will be used by the faculty of Addis Ababa University rather than at the Institute for Veterinary Assistants, Debre Zeit Shoa, where she is teach­ ing techni cal assistants.

Dr . Don Barnum, '41, wh o retired lastfall , received many gifts at a large retirement party . Faculty colleagues presented the above composite photographs taken in 1940 and 1983 showing him in th e same labora­ tory in 1941 and 1983 - just a little longer in th e hair in 1983 . 0

Dr. Ed E. Ballantyne, '43, died on June 30, 1983 . Last address was 9333 - 158th Street, Edmonton , Alta .

Dr. H. Andrew Le Claire, '43, died on April27, 1983 . Las t address was Swift C ur­ rent , Sask.

Dr. W. Clayton Newby, '43, died on March II , 1983. Last address was 34365 Old Yal e Road , Abbotsford, B.C. Dean Douglas Maplesden , '50, and Schofield Memorial lecturer Dr . Duncan Sinclair, ,58.

Dr. Donald G. Davis, '48, died on May 16, 1983. Last address was R.R. #I , Pus­ linch.

The 1983 Schofield Me morial Lecture was given by Dr . Duncan G. Sinclair, '58, D.V.M . , M.S .A. , Ph.D. (Queens), pre­ sently Director-General of Operations; Med ical Research Counc il of Canada. Dr. Sinclair's topic was " Teaching and Re­ search: Antipathic or Symbiotic')" This, the 14th Annual lecture , e m­ phasized the challenge in professional schools to-day to reinforce the sy mbiosi s between teaching and research that distin­ guishes educatio n from training. 0

Dr. Charles E. Benn, '49, died on May 4, 1983. Last address was 34 Maple Cres­ cent, Peterborough.

Dr. Percival D. Armstrong, '50, died on September 2, 1983. Last address was 148 Woods Street, Stratford.

Dr. Thomas D. Ford, '55, died on Sep­ tember 6 , 1983. Last address was 25 Glen­ fore st Road, Orange ville. 0 23

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The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US

Editor: Dorothy (Hoather) Barnes. '78.

DiscipHne, Discipline

The title for this profile is a harsh word­ one that conjures in the mind pictures of ty­ rants, oppressors and slave-drivers. All of these aptly describe the necessary task­ masters who help to create a champion power lifter.

Peter Perry, '74, seven times Canadian power lifting champion in the 198-pound class, stresses the importance of discipline and tells of how it has unquestionably helped him in the three most important areas of his life--education, physical fitness and business pursuits. He is a sales agent with the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Canada, London.

Peter received an honours degree in Geography and Geology, and it was at Guelph that he was introduced to power lifting.

When asked what was the most impor­ tant facet of his Guelph days he replied, "the semester system. It's excellent for dis­ ciplining oneself and for goal-setting in both short- and long-range projects.

Peter arrived on the Guelph campus in­ tending to get his degree while continuing his interest in wrestling . He holds a black belt in judo. His room-mate, by pure chance, turned out to be Bill Gvoich, Arts '73, then head of weight training.

When Peter found he was having difficulties combining a wrestling program with academic studi es, it was a reasonable transi tion for him to move into weight lifting.

He has nothing but si ncere praise for Bill Gvoich, who presently has his own Cana­ dian academy of sports and fitness in Hamil­ ton and who, Peter believes, "is the found­ er of power lifting championships in Canada. " Bill is a three-time Canadian champion. Bill's brother, Ned, FACS '75, is also a power lifting champion.

With these two associates, it 's no sur­ prise that Peter turned his interests to power lifting and, with expert coaching by Bill, finally established himself as a champion of the art.

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PelerPerry, '74. sport which, he believes, will shortly be given Olympic status. fn 1971, after three years of training , Peter came third in Canada "due to their excellent coaching," he says. "Every athlete has to have a natural base as it's a big asset to do things correctly from the very beginning." He believes he was given that natural base at Guelph.

Peter competes in 198- and 220-pound classes, holds a number of Canadian lifting records and currently is dead-lifting 720 pounds. In 1979 he ·won the North Ameri­ can championship and that year placed fifth in the world championships in Finland.

He doesn't believe in taking steroids, and retired from competition for four years because some opponents used the drug. But he says: "There are a lot of strong guys around who don't use drugs. " Peter feels there should have been much more control and discipline in the use of steroids, feder­ ally, from the beginning. They have been around since 1955.

While interviewing Peter, at the Bob Hayward YM /YWCA in London, it was re­ freshing to listen and watch him as he was

quick to give praise to his fellow athletes.

He proudly introduced me to John Sarch, president of the power lifting club in Lon­ don. John , he states, was involved in the or­ ganization of the world championships, held in London in the fall of 1983.

The events were held at London's Cen­ tenoial Hall and 15 countries paticipated.

John was quick to point out that the event was the larges t World Masters Champion­ ship ever for groups aged between 40 and 49, and 50 and over. He tells me the oldest weight lifter there was 71 years of age.

He also proudly mentioned Precious MacKenzie of New Zealand who partici­ pated. Precious is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's strongest man for lifting, pound-for-pound. He is 47 years of age, weighs 123 lbs., and lifts I ,339lbs. John also proudly announced that London is the leading city in power lifting with about 99 per cent of the athletes originating from the Bob Hayward "Y".

Noticing two females in the gym, asked Peter if women were very much in­ volved in the sport. He believes the interest of women is growing and stated that women in their 20s to 40s lift in world championships and are becoming very competitive. Peter's wife, Jane, is also a weight lifter.

Peter is adamant that the disciplines es­ tablished while studying at Gueph have had a tremendous impact on his successes.

Peter's training demands three three­ hour sessions every week. He believes, "power-lifting is a part of my identity, my source of good health and my way to invest­ ing in my life. One thing that diSCipline and power lift ing has taught me is that nothing in life is easy, but if you work at somethin g hard enough and lo og enough you' JI achieve your goal."

When asked to summarize his achieve­ ments he observed that " a treme ndous

number of good athletes never find their

right sport . I was lucky enough to be in the

right place at the right time , the University

of Guelph , and to be introduced to the right

sport, one I could excel at. As a result of

this, I have a well balanced, and exciting

life - academics, travel, family and hobby.

Who could wish for more?" 0

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Grad News Thomas Whillans, '75, is an assistant professor, Environmenta'l and Resource Studies , Trent University, Peterborough. j a net (Lackner) Boyle, '76, is a teacher and she and husband, Br yan, OAC '76, live at Lakeshore R()ad, R.R. #5, Forest, Ontario. NON 110.

Julie (Livingston e) Hammond, '76, lives with husband, Dean, O AC , '76, at 103 Highgate Lane , Cherry Hill, N.J" USA. Al'lyle (Waring) La ngille, '76, is president of ConsultAsia Inc., P.O, Box 458 , La Cite, Montreal , Que. Lynda Berg, '77, has moved to California.

Shc works in stock options with Kiddy Pea­ body and Co" 707 Wilshire Blvd., Califor­ nia, USA , Kim Price, '78, is self-employed as an illustrator. Her office is at 108 Louther Av­ cnuc, Toronto.

Cindy Sarthou, '78, is practising law. She is with the United States District Court, Aberdeen, Miss.

Eve (Dolovai) Snowden, '78, and hus­ band , David , live at 43 Waggoners Trail, Guelph.

Vicky Sutherland, '78, has transferred to Calgary, Alta., with Transport Canada , She is an air traffic controller, which sounds ex­ citing. Perhaps Vicky will drop us a lengthier note telling us more about her job.

Cheryl W endt, '78, has a new address. She livcs at 10227-119 Street, Edmonton, Alta., and is a consumer credit officer with the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Rick Moran, '79, is customer systems manager for Bell Canada, in Toronto.

Raymond Pursiainen, '79, is an internal auditor with F ,W. Woolworth. He lives at 2 Silver Maple Court, Apt. 1608, Brampton with wife janice (Tumey), CBS '79. john Rounthwaite, '79, and wife, Mu riel (Dick), CBS '80, are residents at 44 Jackes Avenue, Toronto. John is a stockbroker with Thomson, Kernaghan Co . Ltd. Patricia (Walsh) Erdie , '79, has changed her marital status but not her residence. She still lives in Ancaster. Her brother-in-law, Dr. Peter Stewa rt, is an OAC '68 grad,

Peter Marquis, '80, is continuing his studies, He is in his second year of a Ph.D, program in Psychology at The City Univer­ sity of New York .

Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter, '80, is a kidney transplant perfusionist with Metro Organ Retrieval and Exchange on College Street, Toronto. Elizabeth and husband, Dr. Tony R uyter, OAC '79 and OVC '83, live on R.R,# I, Stouffville.

Douglas "the Stoych" Stoyan ovich, ' 80, lives on Hollis Court in Brampton. The Stoych is clerk, level 3, with the LCBO at Toronto International Airport, Tenninal # I . He is married to Sandi.

Cathy (Fu ranna) Dowling, '81, is an economist with the Ontario Ministry of Treasury and Economics, Frost Building , Queen ' s Park, Toronto. She and husband, Bob, live in Downsview, Ronald Earle, '81, lives in Vancouver, B.C., and has a teaching assistant position with the Richmond School Board .

Bill Mitchell, '81, is living at 106 Seagram Drive, # 113, Waterloo. Bill's wife is Clare (Brown), '81.

Willie Prescott, '81, is an internal auditor for U.S. Services, Islington. Willie and wife, Debra (Walker), FACS '80, live in Whitby. jane Wharton, with the Ottawa Education. Jane nett, CPS '81, Court, Nepean.

'81, is a supply teacher Roman Catholic Board of and husband, Bob Sten­ live at 243 Thistledown

Bruce Barnes, '82, is a geologist with Teck Explorations Ltd . in North . Bay. He lives with wife, Maureen (Sinclair), '81, on R. R# I, St. George.

Boz Bosgoed, '82, is a sales representative with William Neilson Ltd., Toronto. Boz and wife, Kelli (McCullough), FACS '82, live at 14 15-585 Proudfoot Lane, London.

M arg Connor, '82, is self-employed as Margaret Connor Research Services , Oak­ ville . Marg' s father, Desmond, who lives in Victoria, B.C. is an OAC '57 grad .

Ross Nichols, '82, has married Alison (Ridgley), Arts '83, and they live in Ridge­ town. Ross is a constable with the Ontario Provincial Police, Ridgetown Detachment.

Wanda Sheldrick , '82, is a geological as­ sistant with the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.

Nathalie Lauriault-Kirby, '82, is married to Dr. Gordon Kirby, OVC '83, who is at the Bowmanvillc Veterinary Clinic.

Av ril " Av" Peaker, '83, is a loaning offi­ cer with Central Control and Investments Ltd., in Kitchener. Av tells us she is to be married in April ' 84. 0

Behind the Veil Carol (Gzarnecki) Blackwell, ' 74 , and husband, Walt, '75, together with young sons Jonathan , 3 , and Aaron, I, are in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Walt is there as chief-planning and perfonnance, Saudi Telephone/Bell Canada International. As Carol puts it, " the boys and 1 are earning hardship pay." She tells us they will be back in Canada sometime in July, 1985, and will have lots of tales to tell of their globe-trotting adventures.

Carol also volunteers to send us report s from "behind the veil." Carol, we wel­ come such rcports for our alumni readers but , unfortunatel.y, cannot augment ·your hardship pay. For those who are interested , Carol and Walt can be reached c/o Saudi Telephone, P.O. Box 6350, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. Happy globe trotting Carol and Waltand family . 0

In Memoriam.'

Richard Ward Smith , '73, died March 10,.

1983. We have no details, but his last ad ­ dress. was 1095 Croydon Drive, Windsor. 0 Rob McCarthy, '78, died November 26 , 1983, in a freak accident in Zaire, while on a group trip to Africa with a British trave l finn, Encounter Overland. The body was flown home , and a memorial service was held on Monday , December 5th in Ot­ tawa. His home address was 2881 - 40 I Richmond Rd ., Ottawa, K2B 815 . 0 W a lter "Wally" Chic.k , '82, died at his family's cottage near Burks Falls, Sep­ tember 17, 1983. Wally had just begun a position with the Ministry of Corrections at the Toronto West Detention Ce ntre . He was a member of the Hamilton- Wentworth As­ sociation of Volunteer Probation and Parole Officers. I am told that Wally was exc ited about hi s new position and looked forward to a new and interesting career. It is indeed a tragedy that he lost his life due to a freak accident while canoeing. 0 25

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The College of Biological Science Alumni Associatio

BIO-ALUMNI NEWS

Editor: Dr. John Powell.

Fish Stress Studies

By Dr. John Leatherland and Dr. David Noakes, Department of Zoology

A

number of scientists interested in stress have suggested that there may t>e a con­ tinuum, ranging from distress, through stress, then unstressed to the opposite ex· treme of boredom.

Distress refers to situations or cir­ cumstances in which animals are clearly in some immediate and real likelihood of physical damage, and is obviously an unde­ sirable condition for any animal. While it might seem that an unstressed condition should be optimal, and perhaps something beyond that even better, that appears not necessarily to be the case.

Somewhat paradoxically , the opposite extreme proposed for this continuum, boredom, is often manifested by abnonnal, behavioural and/or physiological stereo­ typed responses. As Hans Selye, the best known pioneering worker in the study of stress acknowledged, the trick to the game is to manage stress without distress. Recog­ nizing what constitutes stress, and avoiding excess of distress is not as simple as might appear, desirable though it might be.

The definition of stress in fish, as in other animals, is not always clear. Usually the term is used to define the physiological or behavioural response of the fish to en­ vironmental stressors such as temperature shock, handling , and soon.

Many researchers argue that the stress response is exhibited in three successive stages. An initial (primary) response to the stressor takes the form of a rapid stimulation of the adrenal gland homologue and eleva­ tion of blood epinephrine (adrenalin) and corticosteroid levels. The secondary re­ sponse is exhibited in the fonn of altered blood chemistry (e.g. changes in cell counts , amino acid as ion levels). The ter­ tiary (chronic) response results in a reduc­ tion of growth , a lowering of fecundity and an increased susceptibility of the animal to infectious agents.

Behaviour is often used as a very sensi­ tive indicator of both the physiological and psychological well-being of animals. A

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good deal of behaviour is clearly a con­ sequence of underlying physiological mechanisms and processes, and so would be expected to be an externalized indication of internal physiological processes.

It is perhaps less widely appreciated that behaviour itself can have significant physiological consequences. Behaviour is, perhaps , the most rapid and flexible means by which animals can respond to their sur­ rounding s.

Animals must choose, almost continu­ ously, among a bewildering array of poten­ tial stimuli', and from a variety of potential behavioural responses. The functional con­ sequences of behaviour, particularly as they relate to the animal's response to potentially stressful (or distressful) situations, are of major interest. It is not just the coincidence of our research interests that underlies our common interest in stre ss .

There is also a growing consensus that both physiological and behavioural meas­ ures may be the most appropriate to use if we are to judge the state of animals as being distressed, stressed, unstressed or bored. The applicability to intensive animal holding and rearing is obvious but, in prin­ ciple, animals living under more natural conditions can also be subjected to the same type of analyses.

Of course the response of an individual to any set of circumstances will depend on a number of factors, both intrinsic and ex­ trinsic. It is clearly not possible to categorize situations for any animal as being stressful or not (with some obvious exceptions of extreme conditions) without some further knowledge of the animals and circumstances involved.

The genetic history of the animal (whether domestic or wild born, for exam­ ple), its early experience (whether reared under the present conditions or in a different type of environment), its recent experience (familiar with the particular situation, or exposed to it for the first time), and so on, may all profoundly affect the respon se,

in both physiological and behavioural tenns.

Studies in the laboratories of the au­ thors are aimed at furthering the undcr­ standing of the stress response physio'Jogy of fish in laboratory (or hatch ery) situations.

The effects of population density stressors, handli"ng stressors, asphyxiation stressors during netting procedures, and the effects of social (hierarchy) stressors are of par­ ticular interest. 0

From the Dean During the decade since its inception, the College of Biological Science has de­ veloped a strong reputation with special em­ phasis in the areas of population and whole­ animal biology . The major thrust in the next ten years will attempt to increase our profile in other aspects of biology.

Our plans for development in the near future will be in Molecular and Cell Biol­ ogy . We would be remiss if we did not exploit these topics , which include Bio­ technology. to their fullest potential on this campus. Our efforts wili be to strengthen these areas in microbiology and botany .

The College has also made recommen­ dations to create a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics to ensure that our students are aware of the recent advances in a field wh ich is having such a great im­ pact on so many di sciplines in basic biol­ ogy, agriculture, and veterinary medicine.

The expansion of the College into these new directions, in a meaningful way, will depend upon the availability of capital grants to ensure support space for these ac­ tivities.

The College is, and always will be, interested in high standards, thus your sup­ port in recommending the College and its programs to potential students will be ap­ preciated.

I will be most pleased to meet you, the graduates of our College so , when in Guelph, do drop in to McNally House to say "Hello." 0

need it at the end of the race you must have enough water in your system."

Tracey ran in two other marathons in 1983 - Bermuda in January and Ottawa in May. In Bermuda, Tracey was the sixth woman , finishing at 3:00:24 and, in Ot­ tawa, she was the second woman, by six seconds , finishing in 2:54: 19.

Tracey is training now for the Olympic trials in Ottawa. She feels she has a chance of being in the top three, although she ad­ mits that anything can happen - the top runner could be injured at the last minute or the tenth ranking person could have a good day. Canada sets high standards for the trials, she says, and only those who meet those standards make the team. 0

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F or Tracey Robinson of Guelph, the longer the race, the better. The 20-year-old Human Kinctics student was the second Canadian and the fourth woman to complete the 1983 Toronto Marathon. Achieving a personal best of 2:42: 18 over 26 miles, 385 yards, Tracey placed 62nd overall in a field of 4,085 runners.

This is the third marathon for Tracey , who has been funning for five years , av­ craging ten miles a day. She trains with the cross-country team after school and was voted " Most Valuable Player" last year.

Further recognition came when Tracey was named the first winner of the $700 Bill Taylor Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is the first one on the Guelph campus to combine academic and athletic achicvements. Funds for the scholarship wcre raised by friends and associates of AMF Canada Limited, located in Guelph .

Tracey lifts light weights during the winter to maintain muscle tone but admits she doesn't like track running. "It's so bor­ ing going around in circles," she says, "especially since Ilike to run long distances and that means going around the track quite a few times. Even in the winter, I still like to run outside, although you have to watch your footing."

Training for a marathon means in­ creasing her weekly mileage from 70 to 80 or 85 miles for two to three months bcfore the event. She also tries to do a longer run, 20 to 22 miles, once a week.

Tracey Robinson.

In Toronto, the course was fairly flat and the clouds kept the sun off, even though the weather was humid, she says. "I was hoping to come in under 2:45 at a strong, even pace but anything can happen in 26 miles. You can get cramps or start out too fast so you're never sure if you'll finish.

I was lucky to have a teammate, Steve Thomas of Waterloo, running with me, pacing me."

Tracey says she didn ' t notice the humidity in Toronto because of the water and sponge stations every 1.5 miles along' the route. She stresses the importance of drinking water in a race, even though it may not seem necessary. "You have to start drinking early because by the time you

College Honour Roll - Spring '83 Semester 5: BRANIGAN, Sheena.

Hometown 92.0

Nutrition & Biochemistry.

Don Mills.

89.4

Microbiology.

Thornbury.

Ronald Award Only with the help of CBS alumni will we be able to offer the $1,000 Keith Ronald Graduate Fellowship award in 1984. This Fellowship is awarded for academic excel­ lence and identified potential to a graduate of the College of Biological Science who is intending to pursue graduate study in any area of Biology atGuelph.

You will be pleased to know that Dean Bruce Sells has allocated, from the College Advancemenet Fund, $1,000 for the Fel­ lowship . Our Alumni Association has do­ nated $1,500, and this sum has been matched by the CBS Students Council. So far, faculty members have contributed $300.

In order to reach our $10,000 goal which, when invested, will maintain the annual Fellowship, we are earnestly seek­ ing the generous support of CBS alumni.

Send your donation, payable to the Univer­ sity of Guelph, to: The Keith Ronald Graduate Fellowship Fund, Room 273, Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N I G 2W I. 0

Semester 6: MEACHER, Cheryl.

Cheryl has achieved the College Honour Roll for the second time.

In the Summer 1983 issue of the Guelph Alumnus, under the heading "Where Are

They Now?" we listed 20 names of students who had been entered on the CBS

College Honour Roll, Fall 1976 to Fall 1977. Here are three responses that have

been received.

Jeffrey Chernoff, '77, (Winter '77) is a student in theOVC's D. V .M. program.

Janis Kay, '78, (Winter '76 and Winter '77) graduated from the OVC in '82. She

married Bernard Ferguson, OVC '79, and working together, have purchased a practice,

the Ferguson Animal Hospital in Chatham.

Barry Rosenberg, '77, (Winter '77) went on to earn a Master of Social Work

degree at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is married, and lives inThunder Bay. 0

In Memoriam We sadly record the death of Maureen Jones, B.Sc. '82. A Biochemistry grad­ uate, she had been working as a research assistant, investigating hypertension, at the University of Toronto. She was struck and killed by a boat while swimming between her cottage dock and an island near Gravenhurst. Friends who wish to pay their respects are asked to make a donation to the Heart Fund. 0 27

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The Ontario Agricultural College

~lumni

Association

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

Clay Switzer, '51 , Deputy Minister

Former dean of the OAC, Dr. Clayton Switzer, ' 51, became Ontario's Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food January I . The announcement was made by Premier WiHiam Davis on December 9, 1983.

A fonner chainnan of the Department of Botany, Clay Switzer was appointed dean of the OAC in 1972. He completed his second tenn in that office June 30, 1983, when he returned to the De partment of Botany to continue his research and teach ­ ing related to turfgrass and herbicides.

He obtained hi s Master's degree from the OAC in 1953 and took a Ph .D . in plant physiology at Iowa State University in 1955. He has been on the faculty of the OAC since that time, except for a period in 1968 he spent as a Ford Foundation visit­ ing professor at th e University National del Sur in Argentina and in 1975 and 1978 as a visiting professor at Hawkesbury Ag­ ricultural College in Australia .

Clay is president of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. His tenn will be completed in August , 1984. He is past-pres­ ident of the International Turfgrass Society and the Ontario Insti tute of Agrologists, and past chainnan of the Ontario Weed Committee.

He is a director and member of the executive of the Royal Agricultura l Winter Fair, a member of the Ontario Economic

A special gift from students in OAC Centennial year, 1974.

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Clay Switzer, '51.

Council and a director of the Ontario Foun­ dation fo r Rural Living. He recently com­ pleted a term as a member of th e Science Council of Canada. He was made a Fe llow of the Weed Sc ience Society of Ameri ca in 1983.

Two of Clay's chief joys as dean of the OAC were his continual co ntact with students and the special activities that sur­ rounded the celebration of the centennial of the College in 1974. One feature of the centennial was the presentation of 100 OAC ce ntennial medals to o ut standing members of the agricultural community in Ontario.

The enthusiasm that was characteristic of Clay Switzer, along with his easy way of relating to people, made him an effective medium for co mmunicating the concerns of the agricultural co mmunity to urban au­ diences. That effec tiveness has bee n ac­ kno wledged on all sides. For exa mpl e, wh ile president-elect of the Ontario Insti­ tute of Agro logists he was a key participant in a program at the SL La wrence Centre in Toronto, "Agriculture on Main Street, " to tell consumers about the food chain.

The internation al profile of the campus was always important to Dean Switzer. He took great satisfaction from th e introduction of the minor in International Agriculture that was planned by his predecessor , Dean Rick Richards, O AC ' 38. Clay supported the many international efforts of th e College and his own trave ls included a study trip to the People's Republic of China in pre pa­

ration for formal links with agricultural edu­ cation there. He asserts that a "major inter­ national thrust" is an integral part of the OAC pol icy, but notes that current funding levels make outside support essential for international projects.

In spite of all else, Dean Clay Switzer appeared regularly in classrooms and to supervise graduate students. One dean­ watcher comments: , . He got through an in­ credible amount of work by starting very early in the morning."

Did he have any disappointments when he handed the dean's office over to hi s successor') "Yes," he admitted. He would have liked to be able to mark some other projects "compl eted." The Master of Agriculture degree is well on the way to introduc tion, but he says he would have liked to see it fully achieved . "} became convinced of its need during visits to United States campuses in 1975," he says.

He had also hoped to see a minor in Agricultural Commun icatio ns added. The program would prepare graduates to fill roles in this important field.

Another unfilled concern lay in the area of curriculum, explained Clay. "Fann­ ers must be abl e to integrate infonnation from a variety of sources and diverse disci­ plines in making their decisions. They are the only ones who can put all the facet s together. " Cl ay is afraid that universities have tended to graduate students not well pre­ pared to integrate all the specialties. He hopcs to see the O AC develop a series of integrative courses that would address thi s conce rn.

The loyal and enthusiasti c support of O AC alumni for the campus is a tradition.

Before becoming dean, C lay Switze r was part of that support . During the pas t ten years he has actively encouraged it in many ways and opened hi s ho me to the Alumni Association officers.

C lay' s wife , Dorothy, is a Mac ' 52 grad; their son, John, is an Arts '78 grad, and their daughter , Karen, grad uated from th e CSS in ' 79. 0

Twin Calves attheOAC

The OAC Crest The oldest proof of the armorial bearings of the Ontario Agricultural College is in the window of the Massey Library, built on campus in 190 l. However, previous to today's known crest, there was another one.

II was composed of the three letters OSA (Ontario School of Agriculture) .

Dr. F. C. Harrison, a graduate of 1892 and founder of the Bacteriology Department of the OAC, is credited with having formed the presently used logo which was adopted on March 30, 1903, by ajoint committee of students and faculty. The design was regis­ tered with the Department of Agriculture on September 19, 1903.

The Logo, a free standing renaissance shield, is composed of three major fie.Ids. Each field represents one of the letters in the acronym,OAC.

l. The right top field of the shield, repre­ senting "0", is the coat of arms of Ontario, the red cross of Saint George on a white field. And, below, a branch of thre.e golden maple leaves on a green background representing our ties with the Province of Ontario.

2. The left top field, representing " A" , is a black iron plow, in a golden back­ ground, symbolizing agriculture, engineering, science and soil. Below, in a blue, for loyalty, background, is a golden sheaf meaning harvest, abun­ dance of life and unity.

3. In the lower field, representing "c" for College, is an open book , on a golden background, inscribed with the motto "Nulla dies sine linea" -no day with­ out learning. The book is the symbol of study and the liberal arts.

Beneath the shield, upon a white scroll, are borne the words Ontario Agricul­ tural College in black upper case sans serif type. The colours of the College are blue and red . 0

The first project in Canada in which re­ searchers have implanted two embryos into a surrogate mother to produce twin calves, has been carried out at the OAC. "The importance of the research is that one of the most inefficient parts of beef production is the cost of keeping one cow per year to produce an average of less than one calf per year," explains Department of Animal and Poultry Science professor, Jim Wilton. "If two calves can be produced - thereby doubling production - there

is an immense improvement in efficiency.

The method also makes it possible to have specialized meat-producing calves and spe­ cialized surrogate mothers."

Dr. Wilton says that the surrogate mothers, obtained through special crosses, can be small to med ium in size so that feed costs are reduced. They have high levels of milk yield and are able to give birth to calves fairly easily. Due to genetic spe­ cialization , their calves have high growth rates, a good level of muscle relative to bone and, therefore, a high retail value.

In thi s first transfer, 31 surrogate mothers were used and nine sets of twins and five singles obtained. Jim plans to re­ peat the project with some improvements in collection and transfer procedures. 0

YEAR'58

25TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT The class ofOAC '58, and the OAC Dean's Office are pleased to announce a project of lasting value to the OAC and the food production industry. It is called the:

Agri-Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Guelph This novel project will bring an outstanding Agri-Entrepreneur to campus for an appropriate period of time. He or she will present seminars or con­ tribute to courses on a variety of subjects such as:

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developing entrepreneurial skills opportunities in agriculture the future of agri-business what is sought in new employees

At the same time, the person may pursue personal studies, attend classes,

and consult with faculty and students. A key feature will be the Entre­

preneur's availability to students for bull sessions, beer busts, and private

discussions. This is a great opportunity for a successful agricultural execu­

tive to re-establish links with the OAC, span the generation gap, and build

bridges between business and academic communities.

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Applications and/or nominations for Agri-Entrepreneurs in Residence are

invited. If you wish to be considered, or know someone who would do an ex­

cellentjob, write to:

Agri-Entrepreneur in Residence,

c/o R. Wm. C. Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer, OAC '58,

10 Eton Place, Guelph, Ontario. NIE 3L5

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Farmland Study The federal Department of the Environ­ ment recently released a report entitled Ag­ ricultural Land Use Change in Canada: Pro­ cess and Consequences. The study dealt with the period from 1961 to 1976.

The study found that the greatest changes in land use took place at the fringes of agricultural heartland, the older estab­ lished farming areas.

The greatest single loss was found to be on the retreating margin, mainly in east­ ern Canada in places like northern New Brunswick and the Gaspe Peninsula. A con­ siderable amount of such lands was aban­ doned, much of it unimproved , and this accounted for nearly 60 per cent of the total national farmland loss which totalled about 4 million hectares.

In western Canada , the frontier was still advancing, especially in the Peace River district. Total gain was about 1.4 mil ­ lion hectares, and more than half of this . was improved.

The report indicates that Canada ex­ perienced a net loss of about 1.4 million hectares total farmland and a net gain of 2.4 million hectares of improved farmland.

Losses in the east exceeded gains in the west in total, but the gains in improved land in the west more than made up for the losses in eastern Canada.

The loss of farmland to urban expan­ sion was significant, as most of the land around urban areas is prime agricultural land . It becomes more important when one realizes that prime agricultural land is only one half of one percent of Canada' s agricul­ turalland.

The study concluded that loss of prime land is caused by economic factors.

The report has generated considerable discussion and, no doubt, will result in some recommendations which may reverse or, at least , slow down the trend . 0

Cheese Whiz

Honoured Professor Donald M . Irvine, '42, Depart­ ment of Food Science, received the Pfizer A ward in June, 1983, for outstanding cheese research at the annual meet ing of the American Dairy Science Association in Madison, Wis., USA .

Don spent seven years on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin before return­ ing to Guelph as a faculty member in 1957 .

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He has developed new varieties of cheese and introduced improved techniques in cheese making at both universities.

He was chairman of the Department of Dairy Science (now Food Science) at Guelph from 1947 until 1966 , and has

Donald Irvine , '42 . continued his teaching and research at Guelph since that time . He has been particu­ larly well known for hi s short courses on "variety cheeses" and hi s encouragement to the Canadian cheese industry to diversify the products offered to consumers.

Don has developed a method of pro­ ducing cheese from skim milk powder. It is thought that this co uld be a major break­ through in supplying food protein to developing countries whose people have not been able to utilize skim milk because of digestive problems.

Don has been active in the affairs of the Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology as well as the American Dairy Science Assoc iation. Born in Toronto, he grew up in St. Catharines where his family operated the Sanitary Dairy for many years. 0

'3 8 Grad to HaUofFame

Frederick Masson Campbell, '38, is one of three prominent Canadians elected to the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in rec­ ognition of their outstanding and distinctive contributions to agriculture.

For 25 years Fred Campbell served as general manager of the Ontario Stock Yards in Toronto . Prior to that he served for 14 years with the Extension Service, Ontario Department of Agriculture.

He gave leadership to the introduction of the Dutch auction system of selling in Canada. This method was first used in the selling of cheese, veal and hogs. He also introduced auction selling of livestock at the Ontario Stock Yards, a system that still exists.

During his years as manager, the

Ontario Stockyards expanded and strengthened with a new large exchange building being constructed which improvcd service to livestock producers.

Fred served many organizations. He was director of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, president of the Canadian Stockyard Managers' Association, and vice-president and secretary-manager of the National Livestock Markets Association.

He also served as a trustee of the American Li vestock Marketing Association .

His portrait was unveiled during the Canadian Agricultural HaJl of Fame ban­ quet at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, November 13, 1983. The two others named were Alexander " Mac " Runciman and Senator Harry Hays. 0

Weed Team

Triumphs

The OAC triumphed at the North Central Collegiate Weed Contest held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA . Department of Crop Sci­ ence professor, Jack Dekker, the team coach , says the Guelph team won decisively over teams from a number of well known agricu Itural cOlleges.

OAC's graduate student team, with 657 points, topped second place Cornell University (532) by a wider margin than separated Cornell from ninth placed Penn­ sylvania State University (427). Guelph also placed second at the undergraduate team level.

Dr. Dekker sa ys that the graduate team scored a near total sweep - a first in both problem-solving and sprayer calibration and second in herbicide injury and weed identification. Mike Donnelly, '82, Thorn­ dale, was the overall contest high scorer with a first in sprayer calibration and a sec­ ond in weed identification . Neil Harker, Guelph, trailed Mike by only one point to give' him second place in overall scores in­ cluding a perfect in weed identification.

Fellow team members Brad Hedges, ' 82, Harrow, and Jeff Quinn, Salford, main­ tained the same high standards to ensure a decisive win .

Undergraduate Loretta Krasko, Smith­ ville, a last-minute conscript to the OAC weed team, scored the triumph of the day with a stunning 99 points in the critical field problem-solving section. Rob Annett, Bothwell, received first-place honours for the contest's highest undergraduate score.

Barb Westfall , Point Edward, took third place honours and Jan McDonald, Westmount, Quebec , rounded out the undergraduate team performance. 0

Fibre Award

Leigh Phoenix, '67, an associate professor at Cornell University, has been selected to receive the Fiber Society Award for distin­ guished achievement in Fibre Science. The announcement was made by Robin W. Dent of the Albany International Research Com­ pany and president of the Society.

Dr. Phoenix is recognized for his out­ standing accomplishments in his research dealing with the mechanics of textile struc­ tures, particularly with mathematical mod­ eling of the strength of fibre assemblies and the prediction of textile materials under end-use conditions. In addition, he has pub­ lished extensively in scientific journals.

Of added interest to alumni is the fact that Leigh's father, Stu, is a graduate of '38, and his mother, Jean (Guest) a Mac '40 grad. They live in Aylmer. Leigh's brother, Skip, is a CBS grad of '70. 0

Mailbag

Dear Mr. Caldwell, Over Ihe years I have had the pLeasure oftaLking with you on afew occasions.

In the Summer 1983 edilion of the Guelph Alumnus you have, in the OAC Alumni News section, a spLendid article entitled "Financial Managemenl Relaled to Agricullure." Ifound it very inleresting; it covered the farm financial situalion com­ pletely and very accuralely.

The appraisal oflhe silUalion is excel­ lenl and should be helpful to all farmers and would-be farmers who read il. Having been a farmer all my life, I am knowledge­ able in Ihe matleroffarmfinances.

May I say a word aboul how I found farming in Renfrew Counry , on a good farm. I was born in 1900 and had a 14-year apprenticeship as my father's helper from 1914 to 1928. From 1928101967 my wife, Dorcas, and ourfamily were full-lime farm­ ers for 39 years. For the pas I 16 years we have been retired and reside in a house Ihal suils us in Renfrew.

Our farm policy was 10 sell as much good qualiry produce each year as possible, mostLy grain and beef callie. We expanded our business, bUl onLy as 0pp0rILmity oj­ fered and never by extensive borrowing.

We paid offlhefarm mortgage 10 myfather in 14 years.

The years on Ihe farm were good in thaI we had a fine training in Ihe mailer ofhandling money. This has been very help­ ful in our years of reliremenl. Invested wisely , our modesl savings have given us

good reI urns and a capitaL gain each and every year ofour relirement.

We still have 50 acres of rough pasture land near Cobden, on which we paslure afew good quaLity Hereford cows and sell the calfcrop each autumn , realizing a small profil.

As you know, all of our farmers are nol in financiaL difficuLties. My bank tells me thaI 60 per cenl of our farmers are in a good, solvenl posilion loday.

I am always pleased 10 meet you and I commend you very highLy on the arlicle in IheOAC Alumni News. Besl Wishes.

Dorcas and A. Russell Kirk, OAC '23, 103 Quarry Avenue, Renfrew, Onl. K7V2WI

* * * GentLemen: Enclosed is a personal check for $5 to renew my annuaL OAC ALumni Associa­ lion membership. I've been intending to renew for some time but have negLected to do it. Pardon the deLay. I aLways Look forward to receiving the Guelph Alumnus and the OAC Alumni News , even though I only attended the OAC degree course for a half year in the fall way back in 1920, in the class of 1924.

It was a fine course in agricuLture, and those were the happiest days of my life. I have always appreciated the opporlu­ niry of having attended the OAC for even a half year.

I have attended the Alumni Weekend June get-togethers five or six times since Ihen. Hope I can arrange to attend the 60th 1924 class anniversary reunion al Guelph next June. While sending in my renewaL I can't resist sending in thefoLLowing: Canadians love 10 brag aboul the big fish that Ihey have up in their northern areas.

We, in the Stales, like 10 brag aboUl the largestfreshwaler sturgeon in the world that are in Ihe Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho. The sturgeon get to weigh aboul 500 Ibs. or more, and gel to be six to eight feet long.

The story goes that, years ago, a fel­ low caught one of these big sturgeon but couLdn't pull it in by himself. Afarmer near­ by was cuLtivating his potatoes, with a mule, and the fisherman asked Ihis farmer if he would use his muLe to help him pull Ihe sturgeon in. The farmer said' 'Sure."

They hooked the muLe to the fishing line and instead of pulling the sturgeon in, the slurgeon pulled the muLe into the riverl Best wishes, Herman Berg, OAC' 24, 713 Cass Ave. , Kingsford , Mich., 49801. USA. 0

NEWS Graduate NEWS J. Morley Lawrence, , 17, has retired and is living at Huron Lodge, Windsor.

Alan Robertson, '24, has retired and is living in St. Catharines.

Arthur Bell, '34, has retired and is living in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. John "Jock" Appleton, '35, has retired and is living in Fenelon Falls.

Harvey Cochran, '40, is acting assistant Deputy Minister, Agriculture Canada, Almonte.

Dr. Maurice Smith, '42, retired in August 1983 from the University of Guelph and is living in Guelph.

Edwin "Ted" Brent, '48, is sales man­ ager, United Extrusions Ltd., Orangeville.

Harvey Moore, '50, is vice-president, sales with Prange Foods Corp., Benton Harbour, Prange, Mich., U.S.A. Donald Slinger, '50, has retired and is liv­

ing in Port Severn.

Donald Huff, '51, is area manager, United

Co-ops of Ontario , Lindsay.

Robert Kelly, '51, is managing director,

Paillette Ventures Ltd., Toronto.

Kenneth King, '51, is a professor with

the Department of Land Resource Science,

University of Guelph

Keith Clarke, '53, is an agricultural en­

gineer with OMAF , Vineland Station.

Robert Dechert, '58, is chief, client ser­

vices, Farm Credit Corporation, Ottawa.

David Valentine, '59, is a teaching master at Sir Sandford Fleming College, School of Natural Resources, Lindsay.

Robert Allen, '60, is manager, agricul­ tural research, Del Monte Corporation, San Leandro, Calif., U.S.A .

Norris Hoag, '66, is director, Agricultural Representative Branch, OMAF, Toronto. contd. over 31

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Keith McFarlane, '68, is with External Affairs and has been posted to the Canadian Embassy in Caracas, VeneZuela. His work is to promote agricultural exports to Ven­ ezuela and the Dominican Republic.

Bryan Boyle, '76, is an agricultural repre­ sentative with OMAF, Petrolia.

Christine Brajsa, '82, is agriculture officer with Agriculture Canada, Moncton. N. B.

Susan Beckman, B.L.A. '77, is a land­ scape architect with the City of Gloucester.

Roy Foster, '82, is a graduate studcnt in extension education, Universi ty ofGlIelph.

Richard Upfold, '68, is extension co-or­ dinator with the Crop Science Department , University of Guelph.

Shelagh Campbell, '77 , is a food tech­ nologist with Marks and Spencer, Missis­ sauga.

Eric Harrop, '82, is personal loans officer with the Bank of Monlreal , Hanover.

Murray Ellis, '69, is district manager, ag­ ricultural chemicals, Monsanto Agricul­ tural Products, West Des Moines, la., U.S.A.

Peter Frows, '77, is a missionary with Campus Crusade forChrist. Winnipeg.

Diploma Graduates

Klaus Neilsen, '69, is a research scientist with Agriculture Canada, Nepean .

Deborah (Jones) Neil, '77, and husband John, '78, are farming at Orton. John is a sales representative for Master Feeds, Baden.

Joseph Wybenga, '71, ODH '83, is supervisor of parks, Borough of East York, Toronto.

Don Risebrough, '77, is di strict represen­ tative, Holstein-Friesian Assn., Ontario Branch, Brantford.

Kwang-Poo Chang, Ph.D. '72, is a pro­ fessor at the Chicago Medical School, De­ partment of Microbiology , North Chicago, Ill. , U.S.A .

Stewart Brown, '78, is a teacher with the Bruce County Board of Education , Ches­ ley .

Donald Good, '72, has established his own law firm in Ottawa , having been called to the bar of Ontario in 1981. He specializes in environmental and agricultural law .

John Neil, '78, is a sales represe ntative with Master Feeds, Baden.

Louise (D'Angelo) Krissa, '79, and hus­ band, Jim, live in ElkPoint, Alta.

Richard lstead, '72, is technical manager - western Canada, CIBA-Geigy Canada Ltd. , Regina, Sask.

Debra Littleford, '79, is an environmental biologist with Beak Consultants Ltd .• Mis­ sissa uga.

Roger Pommainville, '72, is an agriculture teacher, Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute, Vankleek Hill.

David Darby, '80, is senior loans officer, Royal Bank of Canada, Hinton, Alta.

Catherine Fryer, '73, is a food tech­ nologist with Fries and Fries. Canada Ltd., Mississauga.

Kenneth Harling, '73, is an assistant pro­ fessor with the School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education, Uni­ versity of Guelph.

John Hendry, '73, is a farm management specialist with OMAF, Woodstock.

William Burden, '75, is a dairy farmer at R.R.# I , Kinburn.

Patrick Doyle, '75, is senior engineer with Trans-Alberta Utilities, Calgary. Alta.

Raymond McBride, Ph.D. '75, has estab­ lished a consulting firm, R.A. McBride Consulting. Varna.

David Beckerson, '76, is a lecturer and Ph .D . student at the University of Guelph.

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Elizabeth Wise, '82, is district manager, Pfizer C&G Inc. , London.

Stephen Hood, '80, is a biomedical en­ gineer with the Ontario Research Founda­ tion. Mississauga.

Terry Hood, '80, is agrologist , public lands . Alberta Energy and Natural Re­ sources, Grande Prairie.

Robert MacDonald, '80, is technical di­ rector, Abell Waco Ltd., Can., Rexdale .

Herman Van Genderen, '80, is a silage inoculant specialist with Pioneer Hi-Bred Ltd. , Chatham .

John Moles, '32A, '36, former general manager of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, and his wife, Marsha, Mac '36, have recently moved to Guelph.

Harold Corby, '36A, is retired and is liv­ ing in Warwick, England.

Donald Ainsworth, '5IA, is president , Don Ainsworth Ltd., Willowdale.

Sy Laogeraap, '68A, is owner, Agri-Com­ puters, Peterborough.

Peter Armstrong, '75A, is farming at Ashgrove Farms, Markham.

Peter Milton, '77 A, is agricultural assis­ tant, leadhand, Research Services Station , University of Guelph, Arkell.

Robert Uppington, '78A, is foreman, Maple Farm Supply Ltd., Bolton.

Ruth Preston, '8IA, is a counsellor with Volunteer Service, Teen Girls' Home, London.

Bryan Sleep, '8IA, is a feed maker, Mar­ low's Feed Service , Blackstock.

Joan Watt, '8IA, is volunteer co-or­ dinator, Women in Crisis. Guelph.

Darlene ShewfeIt, '82A, is a primary prod­ ucts inspector. Agriculture Canada, Food Terminal, Toronto .

O DH Graduates

Jack Westlake, '80, is a farm management specialist with OMAF, Markdale.

Klaus Weesjes, ODH '69, has retired to Sydney, B.C.

Steven Beierl, '81, is a horticulturist, with CUSO. He and his wife, Susan (AUsapp), '81, are in Papua, New Guinea.

James Norquay, ODB '82, is a staff de­ velopment assistant, Ministry of Labour.

Toronto.

Kerry Dupuis, '82, is a science teacher with the Metropolitan Separate School Board, Mississauga .

Lillie Coulson, ODH '83, is in business as Lillie Coulson, Landscape Consullant, Delta, B.C. 0

Macdonald Institute/College of Family and Consumer Studies Alumni Association

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

Foodservice in AustraHa

By Dr. Elizabeth M. Upton, School of Hotel and Food Administration Because the School of Hotel and Food Administration's Bachelor of Commerce program specializes in developing capable foodservice managers, I was invited to speak to the Third Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Dietitians which was held in Sydney in early 1983.

My trip was funded both by Abbott Australasia Proprietary Limited as well as the state dietetic associations. The Austra­ lian dietetic profession consists primarily of clinical practitioners and is keen to devel­ op capable foodservice managers and ad­ ministrative dietitians.

My presentation was entitled "Train­ ing and Career Opportunities For Dietitians in Foodservice Management" and, basi­ cally, it described the Institutional Foodser­ vice Management curriculum. It was a very innovative concept to Australians to have an academic program which focussed on economics, personnel , computer applica­ tions and management.

The development of administrative di­ etitians in a university program was a new concept to Australian dietitians, and they were sincerely interested in seeing how they might begin to move in the direction of a sound base in foodservice administration.

I was housed in a flat at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, and spent much of the first week observing foodser­ v,ice facilities in diferent hospitals in Syd­ ney.

The organization of food service in hospitals in Australia is different from that in Canada. The people in charge of the administration of foodservice to hospitals are, for the most part, catering officers.

These people are technically trained, and are reasonably capable, but lack broad and comprehensive management experience.

The dietitians, on the other hand, are sci-

Dr. Elizabeth Upton.

ence graduates involved entirely in clinical practice.

There was not always good communi­ cation between the catering officers and the clinical dietitians. The Australian Dietetic Association is interested in developing cap­ able administrative dietitians to be in charge of hospital foodservices .

From Antiquated to

Very Modern The foodservice production and deliv ­ ery systems varied considerably from state to state and hospital to hospital. They ranged from rather antiquated systems to some very modern cook/chill systems. In . the states of South Australia and Queens­ land, the hospitals were serviced by supplies of frozen food from large central commissaries. This system was not entirely satisfactory for many of the hospitals.

I will have to admit that I have yet to see a frozen food system that is im­ plemented satisfactorily. In many hospitals the system of delivery was decentralized and trucks of hot food were being delivered

considerable distances with individual tray service done in a decentralized fashion .

This poses real challenges to the service of high-quality food .

There are some very well-equipped technical and community colleges in Au­ stralia that appear to turn out well-qualified cooks, chefs, and bakers. I had some stimulating discussions with faculty mem­ bers at two of these colleges who were inter­ ested to learn of the kinds of projects, and work experiences, in which students of our School of Hotel and Food Administration at Guelph participate. Useful information regarding marketing projects and computer applications in the hospitality industry was exchanged.

Following a week in Sydney, 1 spoke to the state dietetic associations of Victoria, South Australia and Q ueensland in Mel­ bourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, respec­ tively . These dietitians were particularly in­ terested to hear of the development and use of computers in foodservice in Canada.

Some of these dietitians will be attend­ ing the International Congress of Dietetics to be held in Toronto Jul y J to 6, 1984.

Many were interested in a post-Congress seminar in computer-assisted foodservice management that will be sponsored by the School of Hotel and Food Administration.

A\,oung Profession In the state of Queensland, the profes­ sion of dietetics is very young. It seemed to me that the young dietitians in the very large hospitals in Brisbane were having to establish themselves in a way that Canadian dietitians had done in the decades of the '20sand '30s.

These young dietitians were just be­ ginning to establish their place in the hospi­ tal hierarchy and their rapport with th e med­ ical profession. They seemed to have still ahead of them the establishment of the vahle of their place on the medical team.

Clinical dietitians all had offices sepa­ rate from the foodservice facility, and the major problem seemed to be the distinct barrier between clinical services and admin­ istrative foodservices.

It was strange to me to see that, in so me hospitals in Queensland, only the contd. over

nurses and doctors could eat in the hospital cafeteria. This was one of a number of prac­ tices which seemed to me reminiscent of several decades ago.

Everywhere I went , people were inter­ ested in the subject matter content and the cumculum in both the Hotel and Food Ad­ ministration and Institutional Foodservice Management majors. The degree of special­ ization offered in our two majors provided a source of wonder to our colleagues in Australia. The limitation of a science de­ gree for a clinic~1 dietitian made it virtually impossible for dietitians to be employed anywhere but in the health care field.

A Need for Management SkiUs

As a profession, dietitians in Australia are looking for employment in foodservices other than the health care field. They realize a great need for management knowledge

and skills. One of my projects while in Australia was to develop a cumculum at the Masters level for dietitians interested in developing expertise in foodservice ad­ ministration .

In addition to my visits to foodservices in Australia, I was privileged to be in New Zealand for one week. At Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, South Island, I participated in a half-day seminar for dieti­ tians and accountants.

This seminar included one paper on the dietetic performance indicators de­ veloped by dietitians in Ontario as well as a paper on management evaluation. The audience at the seminar carne considerable distances, and all of us enjoyed an excellent exchange of ideas and experiences.

In Auckland, on North Island, I dis­ cussed with about 50 dietitians the program of continuing education as it is practised

At Careers Night '83

The Mac-FACS Alumni Association spon­ sored Careers Night ' 83, October J7, in Peter Clark Hall , University Centre. Some 150 students and eight faculty members en­ joyed a light dinner prior to the panel pre­ sentation by nine graduates of the College of Family and Consumer Studies.

Opportunity for students to discuss careers with the grads followed the formal presemation .

Bonnie Kerslake, '83, and her com­ mittee of Gail Murray, '78; Susan Thatcher,'83; Susan Hutchison, '84 ; Dr. Donna Woolcott, '69, and Donna Webb, alumni liaison co-ordinator with the Alumni Office, were pleased with the excellent re­ sponse to the Careers Night.

At the conclusion of the evening, the Mac-FACS Board of Directors hosted a din­ ner for the panel members, who were:

Mariette (Perreault) Denis, '78, Con­ sumer Studies. Mariette has worked for the past five years with Hostess Food Products in Cambridge , and holds the posi tion of quality assurance supervisor.

Paul Fralick, '78, Child Studies. Paul is a faculty member and co-ordinator of the two-year Early Childhood Education pro­ gram at Mohawk College.

Theresa Hogan, '78, Family Studies. In her position with the Ministry of Health, Theresa travels from her office in Toronto to provide administrative consultations for home care programs in Northern Ontario.

and recorded by dietitians in various pro­ vinces of Canada. The New Zealand Diete­ tic Association is about to embark on a continuing education program for dietitians and was interested in our views of both voluntary and mandatory continuing educa­ tion. Our meeting developed an excellent exchange of ideas on the subject.

It was an exhilarating, stimulating time to discuss, to learn and to see new ideas in action. It was very interesting to see a profession with which I am familiar having to operate with different ground rules and terms of reference.

The experience made me appreciate the value of variety in the development of specializations of dietitians here in Canada, and confirmed in my mind the wisdom of educating clinical, community and ad­ ministrative dietetic specialists for greater flexibility. 0

Heather Martin, '79, Child Studies.

Heather is a young mothers' support worker for the Catholic Children's Aid Society in Willowdale. She was the head of a Metro­ wide task force regarding teen mothers .

Susan Reid, '81, Child Studies. Presently enrolled as a Masters student in the Centre of Criminology at the University of To­ ronto, Susan has worked at a nursery school; for the federal Young Canada Works program; with TV Ontario, and the Addiction Research Foundation.

Pat (Davison) White, '76, Family Studies.

Pat has been employed as a credit counsel­ lor for the Family Service Bureau of South Waterloo since 1977. 0

Barbara (Wells) Billey, '81, Applied Human Nutrition. After her internship at Victoria Hospital, Barbara moved to the Metropolitan General Hospital in Windsor, where she is a therapeutic and out-patient dietitian.

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Katbi Bull, '74, Consumer Studies. Kathi has built a very successful career and now holds the illustrious position of vice-presi­ dent and media manager for MacLaren Ad­ vertising in Toronto.

Judi Cremasco, '81, Applied Human Nu­ trition. After her internShip at the Hospital for Sick Children, Judy is with the Depart­ ment of Public Health, Borough of York, as a publ.ic health dietitian/nutritionist .

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Careers Night speakers and others. Front row, Ito r: Heather Martin , '79; Pat (Davison) White , '76; Dean Richard Barham and Theresa Hogan , '78 . Back row: Bonnie Kerslake , '82, Careers Night chairman ; Paul Fralick , '78; Kathi Bull, '74 ; Jean (Fuller) Hum e, '64 , president , Guelph Branch, Mac-FACSAA; Marielle (Perreault) Dellis , '78; Susan Reid, '81 , arulJudyCremasco, '81.

Grads Active in Labrador Nutrition educati o n on the Labrador Coast is being introduced through the Ex tension Service, Me morial University of New­ foundland with funding by the Health Pro­ motion Branch of Health and Welfare Canada . The two-year project is designed to increase nutrition awareness and influ­ ence food habits of residents of the Lab­ rador coast.

The project, directed by Dr . Mary Alton Mackey, '65, is based at the Labrador Institute of Northern Studies in Goose Bay. Dr. Mackey and her staff are linked with health education progra ms ac ross Canada in developing resource mate rials to meet the specific needs of coastal com­ munities , As a major food retailer in Canada's far north, the Hudson 's Bay Company

created a nutrition updating program in 1978. Colour-coded shelf markers indicat­ ing nutritious foods, and a basic co lour poster featuring the four well-defined food groups as listed in Canada's Food Guide , have been successfully introduced by a nu­ tritionist following testing in five Inuitcom­ munities.

Co-operation from across the country and across the years wa s demonstrated in September of '8 3 when a worksho p entitled "Food and Nutrition Issues: Looking Back to Plan Ahead" was prese nted in Goose Bay. It was organized by Dr. Mac key with the assistance of Carolyn Maybee, '78, nu­ trition education specialist with the project.

Invited to participate were Marjorie Schur­ man, '69, nutritionist with the Hudson 's Bay Company, Winnipeg, and Dr. Jean

Alumni Association Awards Seven students within the College of Fam­ ily and Consumer Studies were presented with awards sponsored by th e Mac-FACS Alumni Association at the B.A.Sc . awards reception held last fall . Association pres i­ dent, Rita (Klassen) Weigel, '77, and Guelph Branch president Jean (Fuller) Hume, '64, were pleased to extend con-

gratulations to the winners on behalf of the

Association .

Mac-FACS Alumni Scholarship win­

ners Lisa Martin, Semes ter 5, of Weston,

Applied Human Nutrition, and Judith

Broadworth, Semes ter I , of Beaverton , A p­

plied Human Nutrition, were unable to at­

tend the awards reception. 0

SteckJe, ' 52, nutrition consultant with the Medical Services Branch of Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa.

For further info rmation o n this project write to: Nutrition Education Project, Lab­ rador Institute of Northern Studies, P.O. Box 309, Station" A", Goose Bay, Lab­ rador, AOP ISO . 0

For Ginny

Congratulations to Virginia " Ginny" (Shortt) Bandcen, '57, who was the 1983 recipient of the Phyllis Mieklejohn Award.

The award is presented annually to a person who has made outstanding contributions in the field of Family Studies education.

The prese ntation took place at the On­ tario Family Studies/ Home Educators As­ sociation conference in Toronto last Oc­ tober.

Ginny retired from teaching Family Studies at the Guelph Collegiate and Voca­ tional Institute last June. Currently she is free-lancing as an education consultant and has recently presented Far,lily Studies workshops.

During the summer of 1983 she was busy teaching at the University of Toronto and is in the process of writing a pa per for the Canadian Home Economics Journal .

In her spare time , Ginny enjoys play­ ing squash and restoring the family home­ stead at Rodney . She is currently residing at 12B Suffolk Street in Guelph .

We extend congratulations and best wishes to Ginny as she pursues her exciting new career. 0

In Memoriam Alumni A wards winners. Back row, I to r: Marilyn Green, Blackstock, Ma c-FACS Alumni Entrance Award; Rita (Klassen) Weigel, '77, presiden t, Ma c-FACS Alumni Association; Cynthia Bond, Woodstock , Class of 1930 and Guelph Branch Mac-FACS Alumni Associa­ tion Awards; Jean (Fuller) Hume, '64, president, Guelph Branch Mac-FACS Alumni Association . Front row: Charlene Siemens , Bolron, Mac- FACS Alumni Entrance Award; Julie Simpson , Kanata , Mac-FACS Alumni Entrance Award, and Mary Gooyers, London , Anne E. Barber Mem orial Award.

Agnes J. (Reder) Jones, '190, February 21 , 1983, in West Flamboro.

Mac·FACS Alumni Seminar

Lorraine (Ferguson) Morwick, '280, April , 1983,inGuelph.

"Aging: Myths and Realities" featuring Current Issues in the Area of Gerontology Saturday. April 28. 1984. University of Guelph For further det a ils write to: the Alumni Office, Room 105, John ston Hall,

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. NIG 2WI, or call (519) 824-4120, Ext. 2122.

Vera C. (Stock) Wood, '210, date un­ known , in Montebello, Que. Gertrude W. (Sorensen) Hepworth, '270, May 25 , 1983, in Cambridge.

Ethel M. (Reynolds) Boose, '29D, June 25,1983,inCaledonia.

Mary Helen (Elder) Hose, '310, July 31, 1983, inNiagara Falls.

Mary Marguerite (Rappolt) Watson,

'360, July 26, 1983 , in Hamilton. 0 35

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C~ng

All Alumni

Nominations Sought for Alumnus of Honour

and

Alumni Medal of Achievement

• The ALUMNUS OF HONOUR was established to recognize an alumnus who has brought great honour to his or her Alma Mater through a significant contribution to one or more of the following: a national cause for Canada; service to the community, the world of science or education; leadership in business or alumni affairs .

• The ALUMNI MEDAL OF ACHIEVEMENT was established to recognize a recent graduate (within the past ten years) who has brought distinction to his or her Alma Mater through contribu­ tions to country, community, or profession.

Present members of the UGAA Board of Directors or full-time employees of the University of Guelph should NOT be considered for these awards. All nominees should be living at the time of nomination and should NOT be advised of the nomination.

If you are awa~ of an alumnus whom you feel should be considered for either of these awards, the UGAA Honours and Awards Committee ask that you submit the name of the nominee and, if applicable, a list of names and addresses of colleagues, friends, community leaders who will provide supporting information on the nominee to: Bruce Richardson, CPS '82, Chairman, Honours and Awards Committee, University of Guelph Alumni Association, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1.

This office wiD send to you, and all supporting parties, a standard nomination form which must be completed and returned to the above office by May 1, 1984.