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Alumni who live in Canada will notice that this issue of the Guelph Allmmus has rwo covers. 111e outside cover contains information ahout an exciting new credit card arrangement reached hetween the University of Gudph Alumn i Association (UGAA) and the Bank of Montreal.

The Bank of Montreal MasterCard card, especially for University of Guelph alumni and spouses, faculty and staff (living in Canada), features a photo of Johnston Hall, a~ well as the distinctive MasterCard logo. An application foml for the card is part of this cover and all those eligible, including current MasterCard card holtkrs, arc encour­ aged to fill it out and send it in.

"TIle card offers all the benefits of a MasterCard 3ml then some. Best of all, the UGAA will henefit from every purchase made on the card, generating extra revenue for the University," says UGAA President Dan Rose , OAC 'S7A & '60. "I strongly urge alumni to support the University through this venture."

Affin ity card - as thc MasterCard alumni card is called - is a term you will hear more about in 'om ing years. An afiiniry card is a credit card associated with a special interest group such as an alumni association, charity or socia l dub . It offers special benefits to members of that group. You will hear more about Guelph's afilnilY card in future issues of the Gllelj}/J Alumnus.

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Dr. Brian Segal, who became Guelph's ftfth president and vice-chanceUor September I, was phOlographcu on campus by John Majoross)' for the inside cover A story about Dr. Segal can be I()und on page 2.

INTRODUCING GUELPH'S NEW ~ PRESIDENT: DR. BRIAN SEGAL Among the hundreds of new faces at the University of Guelph this fall , was Dr. Brian Segal, 4'5 , who officially moved into the president's office September 1.

Formerly president of Ryerson Polyteehnical Institute, Toronto, Dr. Segal was the unanimous choice last December to succeed Dr. Burt Mat­ thews as fifth president and vice­ chancellor of Guelph. In January, he began Visiting the various colleges, departments and laboratories.

"I've learned a great deal meeting faculty, staff and students. Now I plan to go back and visit all academic and administrative departments," says Dr. Segal. So far, he is impressed with the diversity and quality of scholarship and research at Guelph , and lhe tremendous commitment of faculty and staff to the institution. He says he has also noticed a genuine concern for studencs and student life on canlpus.

During his first year at (,udph , Dr. Segal plans to meet as m;my people as possible. He will be speaking to many groups, fund raiSing and helping to develop proposals to the goverrullent.

He will study University issues and draw up an agenda for the next few years that "will cover the waterfront".

From his previolls experience at Ryerson , Dr. Segal has gained the undersranding that universities are colle tive enterprises. Wille more people who have a St:IlSC ofownership in an institution, the better off it will be."

He has also learned that "one doesn't import a vision to an insti ­ tution; one helps the institution shape the vision it wants by listening LO many points ofview and encouraging stimulating discussion on future direc­ tions."

Dr. Segal explains that t:ach college and department at Guelph has its own vision and his task is to make sure all arc moving in [he same direction. "A president is in a unique position [0 bring together a diversity of views tor a sense of harmony 'nle role demands that I have an under-

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standing of the institution as a whole.

I must ask myself where [ think the

institution ought to be in three years and what I am doing to move it in that direction."

If Dr. Segal's past accomplishments are any indication, Guelph is in good hands. His academic credemials arc in the field of social policy, hut his career has led him into public policy and telecommunications, where he has published widely. lie is credited with moving Ryerson out of debt and solidly into the uni­ versity sector over the past eight years through upgraded curriculum, improved facilities on campus, and involvement in groups like the Council of Ontario Universities.

In 1987. he established a reputation as aile of Canada's foremost thinkers on the future of post-secondary education when he organized and chaired the first ational Forum on Post -Secondary Education. He see his strengths in government relations and public affairs as assets (0 Guelph.

'We don't just have a responsibility to solve our problems imernally, we have to find ways to get govt'rnmcnts to react differently to the future of universities, ;md find ways to get the people of this country to understand that much of their own future is tied to the success of universities."

Dr. Segal says most people don't understand what is going on at uni­ versities in general but he feels that Guelph has done a better job than most institutions in communicating its activities to the public. lie feels

this f.1ct is reflected in the increase in applications for enrolment at Guelph .

Dr. Segal believes the hest emis­ saries for the University are iL'> alumni . ''):'ou don't start thinking about alumni the day after they graduatt:. You start thin.king about them the day they walk on campus. If you have alumni who have had an exceUent experience as sllldcnts, they become the best messengers and supporters of the institution."

Dr. S 'gal says a university has a responsibiliry to alumni " to contin­ uously increase its quality and thereby increase the credentials that alumni received there" .

Dr Segal is married to fiunny Segal, dire(.'{()r of the policy services hr.1nch of the Ontario Min istry of Ci tizenship.

111ey have three children: Matthew, 11, Scot[, 14 and Jill, 18.

PRESIDENT'S

SCHOLARSHIP

WINNERS

The 1988 winners of the UniverSity'S top entnmce award, the President's Scholarship, have been announced. The award, instituted last yt:ar to recognize students of outstanding acad­ emic and leadership abilities, is worth ii 16,000 over four years.

The winners aCt:: Savila Chaudhari of Peterborough who will study biophysics; Crystal Drummond, Peterborough, human kinetics ; Suzanne LeBlanc, Barrie, agcicultural science; Joost Loijens, Nepean, biology; Tim Mau, Ottawa, poli­ tical science; Deborah Robinson, Mississauga, biology; Jim Rush, .\1eaford, lJuman kinetics; Lindsay Tomlinson, Aurora, veterinary medicine; Christine Weber, Terrace, B.C, political studies; and Anne Wideman, Elmira, human kinetics.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH:

IN THE BEGINNING

Following is an edited e.:'(cerpt from The University of Guelph: The Achievement and Challenge 1964­ 1989, tl history written byJudith A. Colbert in celebration of the Univer­ sity's 25th anniversary. During the next year, the Guelph Alumnus will feature further selections from this book. Coming next: The Colleges . . .

The Buildings . .. Campus Life . . .

I n the 1960s, winds of change were blowing in Ontario. Both urban and rural traditions were giving way to new methods anti ideas. In education, the need for more facilities to accommodate increasing numbers of students would soon be desperate.

Already there was a need for more equipment, increased research, greater expertise and higher standards of achievement to keep pace with the ever-growing body of knowledge and the inteUectual challengc it repre­ sented.

Within the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College and Macdonald Institute, these pressures found expression in the desire to grow towards univer ity status. As CoUeges under the Depart­ ment of Agriculture, they lacked degree-granting status ( degrees were awarded through the University of Toronto) and graduate work was limited. Although their reputation was high and their achievements considerable, the CoUegcs wanted to move with the times.

In 1962, in an effort to integrate and consolidate activities. the OAC, OVC and Macdonald lnstitutc became the Federated CoUeges of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. A Board of Regents replaced previous advisory boards, and J.D. Maclachlan, who had served as OAC president since 1950, became president.

On May 8, 1964, Ontario Premier John Robarts and Minister of Agri­ culture William A. Stewart introduced the University of Guelph Act to the Ontario Legislature. It provided for the establishment of an independent

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university with its own Board of Governors. Its president was to be J.D. Maclach lan and its Board of Governors was to be chaired by T.A McEwan.

Jurisdiction over the Federated Colleges was lransferred from the Department of Agriculture (Q the Department of niversity Affairs. The implications of this transfer werc enormous.

To thc people ofOntario, especially rural Ontario, the transfer meant that institutions of vital importance to their way of life were being changed.

On campus, approximately 1,200 employees were transferred from the payroll of the Department of Agricul­ ture to the payroll of the University.

R~"J>Onsibility for capital construction and maintenance moved from the Department of Public Works to the University which faced the "hallenge of estahlishing facilities according to a whole new campus plan.

Above all, the move from civil service to university signalled a change in attitude, opened the door [0 research , and broadened the base of current activities through an intensi­ t1cation of the basic scicnces and the increased presence ofthe humanities and social sciences.

The transfer meant the establish­ ment of a contract between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Uni­ versity of Guelph that has been successfully renewed for 25 years.

This contract, which enables the govcrnment to buy ccrtain research,

teaching and extension services from the University, has given a distinctive char.lcter to the University, shapcd its growth and helped make it the pro­ minent research institution it is today.

The transfer al 0 meant that one of the foremost agricultural coUeges on the cominent, the oldest veterinary college in orth America and the major school of household science in Canada acquired the freedom to grow and become part of a world-class univcrsity while still being connected and responsive to the extemIed rural communities they traditionally served.

It meant the story of the University of Guelph could begin.

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS 2 JANUARY/ FEBRUARY

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January 12 Keynote Address & Opening Ceremonies War Memorial Hall & University Centre Courtyard January 21-February 26 Exhihition of Work by Fine Art Graduales Macdonald Stewart Art Centre January (TBA) Presentation - Researcher of Distinction Award February 1 Graduate Achievers Lecture University Centre 103 February 2 Pre-Convocation Event February 3 Winter Convocation

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February 15 Graduate Achievers Lecture niversity Cemre 103 February 22 Graduate Achievers Lecture

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CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR

ACCEPTS POST AT WESTERN

By Barbara Chance, Public Relations and Information

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Marjorie Millar, former director, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, is now vice-president external , University of Western Ontario, London. She began her new duties September J. Marge came to Guelph in March 1985 to lead the University into a major fund -raising campaign. Just three and a half years later, The Campaign has surpassed its original goal of S60 million by S4 .7 million and has raised the profile of the University across the country.

Campaign co-chair John Bassett, chair of the executive committee of Baton Broadcasting, says The Cam­ paign goal would not have been reached without Marge's effort and leadership. "Marjorie was a terrific partner on the capital campaign," he notes. "Western is damn lucky to get her."

Marge is pleased The Campaign "proved to the niversity community that there was private support out there for Guelph. And very pleased that it increased the profile of the niversity. There are a lot of people to thank for that achievement," she says.

"The early success of The Campaign is really, in large part, due to (former) President Burt Matthews because of his support and willingne s to make the connections for Guelph. He represented the University with great care and vision to corporate leaders across the country."

But there are also hundreds of faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the niversity who deserve thanks for their volunteer efforts and dedication, she emphasizes. "The Campaign wouldn't have been a ~'Uccess without everyone pulling in the same direc­ tion."

Although Marge is proud of what The Campaign has achieved, it's not the only achievement she remembers at Guelph. She is most pleased that alumni have created a permanent

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new home for the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development and alumni on campus with Alumni Housc.

"We have received hundreds ofposi­ tive comments about this building, and it's a place I'll always love to visit."

At Western, Marge is in charge of alumni affairs and development, media relations, un iversity relations, Foundation Western and the univer­ sity's theatre and an gallery.

The Campaign Continues Marge is confident her fornler staff at Guelph is well-trained and wel1­ poised to handle the ongOing alumni and development programs. "I had a wonderful staff, and theywill continue the links with corporations, founda­ tions, alumni and friends that will allow the next director to strengthen private support for the niversity."

The Campaign cominues on a pro­ je t-by-project basis. The Environ­ mental Biology/Horticultural Science

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complex is designed and construction begins in 1989. The Athletics redeve­ lopment began this fall with con­ struction of the twin-pad arena. Other projects are in the early planning stages.

Although The Campaign has ' Uf­ passed its original goal, there are outstanding proposals that volunteers and staff are continuing to pursue.

Funds are sti Urequired for the Library, the FACS addition and the OVC Learning Centre.

"With a final effort," states Marge, "The Campaign wrap-up celebration during Guelph's 25th anniversary in 1989 will he one in which all parti­ cipants can take great pride."

TELEMARKETING PROGRAM

A new telemarketing program has close to 5 million. Calls for The been implemented in the Department ofAlumni A1Jairs and Development. It is called the Advancement Support Centre ( ASC).

"The PHO E/MAIL program for The Campaign was so successful that the department decided to continue with a permanent in-house program," explains Susan Lawrenson, ASC co­ ordinator.

Susan, a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier niversity. will co-ordinate a staff of 30 student callers and clerical workers who will raise money through phone and mail contact for the Alma Mater Fund as we ll as special projects and class projects. She also plans to rent the department's telemarketing faci ­ lities to other groups who want to use them.

Susan began working for the Univer­ sity in August, 1986, as progranl assistantforllle Campaign's PHONE/ MAll program. This program raised

Campaign will cominue until the end of December.

Susan's program assistant is Heather Ryan, a former student caller for the PHO E/MAfl program, who is earning a degree in consumer studies at Guelph.

Ifyou would like more information about the department's telemarketing services, contact Susan or Heather at Alumni House, (519) 824-4120, ext.

8200.

Thank You for taking the time to talk to our student calle rs about The Campaign and for pledg­ i n g your suppo r t . To receive an income tax receipt for 1988, we need your pledge

by December 31.

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A boardroom table for Alumni House will be a gift from the class Of OAC '37. The chairs will be a gift from the classes Of Mac '57D and OAC '57.

Many classes choose an annivt:rsary year or the occasion of a reunion to mark their commitment to their alma mater by making ~'Pecial gifts. The e gifts provide important nect:ssities like scholarships, library books , building renovations and teaching resources. Some of me more recent unique gifts havc included a solar greenhouse, an entrepreneur-in· residence program, and Alumni House renovations and furnishings.

Class gift projects are selected by a committee of class members or through a mailing to all members which asks them to select a project from a short list drawn up by an executive. In some cases, donations are collected first and a projecr is selected on the basis of the total collected.

Any anniversary, whether it is five or fifty-five years, is the perfect time to renewyour conunitmenL to Guelph.

Whether your class is remembered through the gift ofa hook or building, today's sntdents will know that Guelph alumni have a stake in the University'S future as well as its past.

Following are some current class gift projects under way. Class mem­ bers are congratulated for their effort...

FACS '83 has a new ongoing com­ mitment to purchase library books in the Family and Consumer Studies field . Donated funds arc turned over to the Library Acquisitions Depart­ ment for appropriate purchases.

Mac '570 and OAC '57 are r.t.ising funds for boardroom chairs for Alumni House.

OVC '49 will provide a portrJit of Dr.

The class of OAC '51 raised 151,000 as a 35th anniversary project. The money is being used for undergradu.ate scholarships in OAC Class members jack Raithby (far left) and Stan Boyd preset'lted the first scholarships this year to Lisa Wishart, Susan /ler, Brian Terpstra and Hugh O'Neill. Absent forphoto was Ingrid Vaivads.

Andrew MacNabb to hang at OVe. Dr. MacNabb is the only former OVC Dean (1945-52) whose portrait is not hanging on the walls of the College.

OVC '48 has voted to establish a minimum $25,000 schOlarship fund over the next three years, with the interest to carry the scholarships.

OVC '38 has raised S6,000 as a 50th anniversary project. This money will purchase a piano for the student lounge at the new OVC Learning Centre.

OAC'88 is the I OOth graduating class from the OAC degree program. To mark this milestone, the class has taken on a special project. The S20,000 principal collected over three years will establi h scholarships for OAe graduate students.

OAC '64 is mid-way through a three­ year project in honor of its 25th anniversary in 1989. The target of

25,000 will he used to refinish the second-floor lounge at Alumni House.

OAC '51 is in the final year of a three­ year 35th anniversary project to raise S51,000 for undergraduate scholar­ ships in OAe. Recipients must demonstrate leadership skills in College or University extracurricular activities. The first of these scholar­ ships were presented this year (see photo).

OAC '40 is in the final year ofa three­ year project for scholarships, with almost half its S 10,000 target raised.

OAC '37 will raise S12,000 to provide a boardroom table for Alumni House.

This class has already refurbished a display cabinet in Johnston Hall.

In addition to these projecls, nine other classes are in the process of setting up projects or considering some for next year. lfyou would like to discuss a class project, contact Paulette Samson at Alumni House, 824-4120, xt 6183.

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The

sun shone on Gudph's Home足 coming '88 game September 24 as the Gryphons downed the Waterloo Warriors, 31 -14. in front of about 7.000 cheering fans.

A parade, organized by the Central Student Association (CSA) before the game, featured J'5 floats and high spirits. lennox-Addington won the residence category, and FACS-SAC won for best coUege or group.

Following the game, there were pubs and reunions around campus.

Alumni House was also open for tours during the day.

Two hundred and thirt}T people attended the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame Dinner in Peter Clark Hall the night before the game to honor

outstanding University athktes. Guest speaker was Gary Green, CSS '74 , a fonner National Hockey League coach who now runs Canl Am hockey school and broadcasts for TSN. This year's Hall of Fame inductees are the late Glynn "Griff' Griffiths, OAC '30 (basketball. wrestling, track, football, gymnastics. swimming, fenc ing) , Dave Hume, OAC '61 (football ) , Pa r ScoHie, OAe '28 (hockey, soccer, rugby, baseball ),Jean Steckle, Mac '52 (archery ) , Tony TenWesteneind,QAC'81 ( voUyeball), and Don Westlake, CBS '72 (football, wrestling). Builders inducted were Dick Brown (fonner championship football coach) and Wendy Parker, ove '71 ( former game official, facu lty

adv isor, women ' s ice hockey manager).

Also present at the Hall of fame Dinner were 1'5 members of the 1958 men's championship hockey team who were honored with a special plaque.

On Thursday evening hefore Homecoming. the Student Alumni Association organized a barbecue at Alumni House for new students.

ApprOximately 400 attended. niver足 sity of Guelph Alumni Association board members, inclutling President Dan Rose, OAe 'S7A & '60, helped cook and serve. The event was also supported by Food Services, Canada Packers Inc. and the SA.

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Parade participants did lots of cheering. There UJere J5 floats in this year's parade.

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The G'yphon cheerleaders did some fancy fonnations to get the crowd enthused.

1988 Hall of Fame inductees are (front row, left to right) jean ,\'Ieckle, Mahina Griffiths (acceptillg Oil behalf of her late husband, G~ytln "Griff" Griffilbs), and Wendy Parker; (back ,nu', left to right) Dal'e flume, Pat 5Jcollie, Dick Brown, Don Westlake, and Tony Ten Westeneilld,

flJe (i'J'phOllS dowrted Ihe Waterloo

WaniOl"$ 31 -14.

Members Of the 1958 tnen's championship hockey team present at this year :'> Hall ofFame Dinner were (front row, left to right) Laurie Van Zant, OAC '58A, Don Dauis, OAC '58, Stu O'Nei~ OAC '58, coachAI ingleton (retiredfrom Ihe School ofEngineering), Wayne Lapp, OAG' '58A & '61, Murray Maltby, OAG '58, lIlId Geor:f{e MaxuleLl, OAG' '58A; (back roUI, left to right) Ma.x 0 'Neil, (JAG '6 1, jay Westoll, OAG' '61, Robbie Keilh, OAC '60, Peter McCarthy, OAC ')9A, Bill Germall, OAC '0 /, Bob Buck. OAC '59A, TomSall'yer. OAC '59A & '64, Murmy ArmstIYmg, ')9A, and Owen Gibb, OAG' '59, Absent were George In'ing, ()VG' '59, Vic Wor1hy. OAG' '60, Lyle PettigreuI, OAC '61, DOll Ward, OrlC '6J,jolm Hunt, OAC '60, Doug Vamell, OAC '61, and ROil C/an'idf!,e, OAC '59 [- '61.

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the deadline for the Gryphon Spirit Contest

Send your cartoon caricature of the Gryphon and/or a sporting cheer to Alumni House by January 1,1989.

For more information, call (519 ) 824-4120, ext, 2102.

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Celebrate the University's 25th Anniversary at

Homecoming '89 About 400 new students, like the ones pictured abo l'e, enjoyed a bameclle organized by the Studeflt Alumni ASSOcUltiOn.

September 28, 29 & 30

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University of Guelph

Alumni Travel Program 1989 South Pacific Islands Air/Sea Cruise February 1-19 From $4,559 (from Los Angeles

West Indies & The Panama Canal March 5-12 From 52,065

South American Adventure March 10-25 53,819 Canadian (from Miami)

China/Yangtze River Adventure May 8-26

S5.429 from Vancouver)

Journey of the Czars July 24­ August 6 Approxi­ mately $3,BOO (from Toronto)

Danube River Adventure August 17-31 Approximately S3.800 (from Toronto) All tours by INTRAV Prices subject to confirmation at time of booking. For further Information. contact Rosemary Clark, Director, Alumni Affa irs, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1. 824 -4120, ext 2122.

FLORIDA ALUMNI

PICNIC

Wednesday, March 1, 1989

North Port Yacht Club For further infonnation, contact Rosemary Clark, Director, Alumni Affairs, (519) 824-4120, ext. 2122 8

]'zl'O hundred aud thirty alumni andfriends enjoyed a

boat cruisea/Joard the

lhlfilllu August 30. It {l'as sponsored by the Toronto Chapter.

CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

AunU1.i Chapters across the country are keeping busy. The Vancouver Chapter hc\d a family picnic at Trout Lake June 4 and is busy preparing for its next vent. For information, con­ tact Janey Bennett, CSS '75 , at 986·8177.

Toronto Chapter members had a cruise around Toronto tlarbour aboard the paddlewhccler Trillium August 30. The cruise included dining, dancing and door prizes.

The Ottawa Chapter held its annual family picnic September 18 and kicked off its bridge season September 24. The bridge games are played once a month unril March and you can join in anytime by eomacing Ann (Passmore) Mogan, Mac '62, at 729-7816. A closing dinner will be held in April. Prizes will be awarded at that time, The Ottawa Chapter also held its first "Night at the Races" October 22 at the Rideau Carleton Ract:way. The Chapter's annual bonspiel is being planned for late January or early February at the Rkhmond Curling Club. For more infonnation on this event, contact Henry Stanley. OAC '55, at 829-9308.

A car rally, followed by prizes and a barbecue, will be hosted by the

Ottawa Chapter May 28, 1989.

Alumni from the universities of Waterloo and Wt:stem will also parti­ cipate. For more mtomlation on this first-evcr joint venture, contact Ottawa Chapter president Greg Dolhan, HAFA '81 . at 839-'57'19.

111e Nova Scotia Chapter held a "GoLf Day" at Grandview Golf and Country CLub, Dartmouth, on September 14. If you would like information on Nova Scotia Chapter activities, contact Geoff Hurlcy, CBS '73, at 462-2987.

Staff and students at Guelph­ London House in London, England, would like Guelph alumni living in London to be included in one ofthcir activities, A local contact is needed to help gather these alumni together. Lf you can a..<;sist, write to Betsy Allan, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph , Ontario NIG 2Wl. The London (On t ar i o), Edmonton and Toronto Chapters arc looking for planning committee members. Lf you can help, contact Betsy at (519) 824-4120, ext 6533.

She can also answer enquiries about any of Guelph's other alumni chapters or the VoLunteers In Support of Admissions eVI.S.A) program.

PLANNED GIVING:

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

The Department of Alumni Affairs and Development has hired its first ­ ever planned giving officer.

Don ' tephenson joined the staff at Alumni House in May to develop creative planning vehicles for people who want to make donations to the University.

"The great thing about planned giving is that it offers something for everyone - from the person who wants to make a gift hut doesn't have a lot of money to the person who has a lot ofmoney but whose main interest i tax savings. We can tailor a giving program to benefit each situation," explains Don. The most frequently-used vehide for planned giving is a bequest made through a will. This is one of the simplest methods, but not always the most tax-advantageous, advises Don. Another vehicle is life insurance.

"This is a good way to multiply a gift upwards by tenfold ," says Don. There are three or four options to consider when using thi vehicle. Each has a significantly different tax result.

Gift annuities are a means to ensure not only that a person 's desire to leave money to a charity will be carried out, but that he or she will also be able to receive an income, all or a pon ion of which will be tax free for his or her lifetime, explains Don .

He predicts that tnlSL'i will become a more popuLar method of giving in the future . lllese "living gifts" allow donors to sec their generosity in action while they are alive. In addition, other benefits include ta.'C savings, e 'Cape from capital gains ta.'C and lifetime incomes.

Gifts of residual interest allow a donor to make a gift of property or art work and take a tax deduction now.

The donor can then continue to enjoy this property or artwork for life with the knowledge that upon his or her passing, it wiU be transferred to the University.

Don looks forward to working with individual donors to help them match their interests [0 those of the Univer­ sity. He will lise newsletters, bro­

chures, seminars and one-on-one contacts to raise awareness of the:: various methods of charitable giving as wel l as financial, estate and tax planning.

"Through planned giving, the department is providing a broader service. We can act as educators and advisors," he says.

The concept ofp lanned giving ha. been around a long time and is highly utilized in the U.S. where Don says, "philanthropy 3.'1 a whole is entren· ched in the human psyche." An esti­ mated S3S0 million will be realized in planned gifts to higher education in . orth America this year.

Until recently, Canadian institution. lOok a reactive rather than pro-active approach to pLanned giving. ow, many are hiring planned giving officers and implementing prognU1ls.

"We have to develop planned givi ng instruments wh ich reflect Canadian ta.'C and estate Laws rather than trying to copv what our American counter­ parts use," says Don. He decided lO accept lhe position as Guelph's first planned giving officer because of the "ground-floor oppor-

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Don

Stephenson llInity" and challenge:: it represe::nts. lt also gives him a chance to build on his pa.<;t experiences in financial ser­ vices as a marketing officer. brokerage consultant, salesman, manager, pro­ duct de::veloper and seminar leader.

A 1976 graduate of the l niversity of Western Ontario, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in ~ociology/ Psych()­ logy, Don is a Registered Health l!ndcrwriter and a Fellow of the Life Manageme::nt Institute. He also writes a column for Canadian MOlle), c\aLler. lie is married with rwo daughte::rs and lives in Kitche::ner.

Do you want lo learn more about planned giving, be::quests, life insur­ ance. annunities or trusts~ Please contact Don at Alumni House, ( 51 t) 824-4 120, ext. 6')../ I .

O MB GRAVEL HEARING

usLinch Township 's proposed official plan, which includes several contentious new regulations that would limit aggregate (gravel) extraction, goes before a hearing of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) November 16. The University of Guelph, TeG Materials anll several other companies requesting approval for aggregate operations will make presentations at the hearing, expected to last [W( months. llle proposed p lan changed the land designation from gravel extrac­ tion to agriculture, and contains a clause prohibiting extract ion below the water table. About 80 per ce::nt of the nive::rsity's deposit is below the water table.

Extensive environmental studies of the site, commis ioncd by the ni ­

versity, show that the operation would not affect ground water Ic::vels or quality.

In conjunction with aggregate producer, 5t. I.awrence:: Cemem, the University also intends to usc the 464-acre site, locate::d on the:: south side:: of Highway 401 at the Hanlon Expressway, to research and demon­ strate how aggregate can be extrdcted with minimal environmental affects.

For furthe::r informalion r a bro­ chure concerning the University's real estate plans, contact the Real Estate:: Office, (519) H24-4120. e::xt. 6113.

Editor's Note: The University's land development plan is featured in the Winter 1987 issue of the Guelpll Alumnus, on pages 10 and 11.

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Editor: Marie (Bo issonneault) Ru)h, '80

has received provincial government awanb in recognition of her distin ­ guished performance in (he field of amateur sport. She also f(~ceived a Celehration '88 medallion from the federal government for showing the Olympic Spirit in her contributions ro the community through span.

Kim Middleton, CBS (UK) '83, sU'ims/or herself and others. ( Photo courtesy ofKilchener- Waterloo Record)

Kim wants (0 continue working in the field she's in now and, once she becomes less serious about her own swimming, would Like to coach swim­ ming for the Special Olympics. She woukl also like to continue swimming in Master's Pool Competitions and incorporate some travelling with this.

KIM MIDDLETON CONQUERS

ANOTHER LAKE

Km1 Middleton, CBS (HK) '83, has found a perfect way to comhine her athletic ability with a desire to help others. As a marmhon swimmer, she has raised thousands of dollars for people with mental and physical disabilities.

Kim knew from an early age that she:: wanted to work with people. She also excelled in athletics and was interested in human movement, so she enrolled in the Human Kinetics prugran1 at Guelph after graduating from Milton District High chool as an Ontario Scholar.

While attending university, she did volunteer work with handicapped children. This led to a pan-time job with the Guelph and District Asso­ ciation for (he Mentally Retarded soon after graduation. he is now a full-time counsellor for the Guelph and Wellington Association for Community Living. She leaches life skills to residents in a group home.

Kim began training for maralhon swimming in 1983 after a knee injury prevented her from pursuing her tlrst love, running. Alan Fairwe::ather, the University's varsiry swim tea111 coach, recalls that she walked inro his office and said, "I would like to swim across Lake Ontario." Widlout thinking too much , he agreed to coach her. Then he saw her swim.

"She had a long, long, long, long way to go. She wasn'l even an average:: recreational swimmer," he says.

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Rut his patient coad1ing and Kim's determination eventually won over her inexperience. In 1985 ~he SWa111 36 miles acros~ Lake Onrario from Niagara-on-the-Lake [() Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto and raised S12,000 for the Ontario and Guelph Associa­ tions for the Mentally Retarded. In 1986 she swam a 22-mile marathon race in Lac St. Jean , Quebec and in 19H7 she swan1 ,0 miles in Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching, between Barrie and Orillia, to raise S10,000 for the Gut:lph and Orillia Associations for the Mentally Retarded.

This August, after a lean' from her joh for training, Kim triumphed over six and a half foot waves and numhing winds to become the first Canadian to complete a double crossing of Lake Erie (approximately 35 miles).

In the process, she raised thousands of dollars for the Arthritis Sociery.

Her future swimming goab include crossing the English Channel and competing in marathon races. She continues to be coached by Alan Fairweather.

While Il1llch of lGm ' swimming is to challenge herself athletically, raising money for worthy causes is added incentive. lGm has received numerous awards, both scholasti and athletic. In 1983, she was chosen as one of 50 Canadians to attend the firsl Olympic Academy of Canada, ( lniversiry of Calgary. She

Waryl Lehmann, CBS (IlK) '83, has always {)eell actil'e in sports, in­ cludiJlg track at Guelph, (Ind bas a strong interest in the Olympics. In 1984, she alter/tied the Canadian O~)!mpicAcademy, VaIMon"n. Quebec and this slimmer, she llIas chosen as one of tUlo Can£ldum delegates to attend the InternatiOIUII Olympic Academy. O~)!mpia. Greece. A leacher al Saugeel/ District Secondaty Sc"l1ool, Port Elgin, IHaI)' met with educators from around the world anti shared i~/etls and expen'ences regarding the role of OlympiC ideals in education 111 thePfx)IO ( left to n"gbt) are Deallna Binder, tbe other Canatiian delegate and also ll'riter/co-ordilullor of lbe Calgmy O~vmpics educational kit,­ Dr.jobll POll 'ell, retired lIuman Kille­ tics professor from Guelpb who lec­ tured at tbe Academy,- Mary,- and Dr. Fernand Landry. professor at Laflat Unil'C>t·sity. Quebec, who also lect ll1'ed a' the Academy.

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GUELPH GRAD RESEARCHING DOWN UNDER

When Leslie Newman went to Australia for a holiday after completing her master's degree in marine biology at Guelph in 1982, she had no idea she would still be mere six years later.

As luck would have it, Leslie landed a diving assistant's job with the Australian Institute ofMarine Sciences in Townsville. She spent the next eight months diving out on the Great Barrier Reef. She also studied coral trout populations for the Gre-Jt Barrier Reef Marine Park Aumority and did research at James Cook University in Townsville on a voluntary basis.

After a year in Australia, Leslie applied for an Australian Biological Resource Study grant to examine the Australian planktonic molluscan fauna.

She received the grant and took a pOSition with Dr. Jack Greenwood at the University of Queensland. Then she received a scholarship from the niversit)' of Queensland to work toward a Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Greenwood. She had earned her B.Sc. from Guelph in 1979 and her M.Sc. in 1982 under the super­ vision of Professor Susan Corey. She tudied planktonic molluscs from the Bay of Fundy while working on her master's degree and fondly recall summers at the Huntsman Marine Laboratory in S1. Andrews, New Brumiwick.

Now Leslie is studying the biology of holoplanklOnic molluscs from Heron on the southern Great Barrier Red and from the Lizard Islands on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Her study focuses on the taxonomy, reproductive and feeding biology of pteropod and heteropod molluscs.

She is discovering they act as hosts for fish parasites and they concentrate dinoflagellate toxins.

Leslie found it difficult to get funding for her field work. However, she received awards from the Austra­ lian Coral Reef Society, the Hawaiian \II alacological Society and the Australian Museum as well as travel concessions from ANSETT Airlines and Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service. Last year she received a fellowship from the Australian Federation of University Women

which will enable her to complete her field work.

Funding isn't the only difficulty Leslie has faced . Her field work in­ volves daily plankton tows around the Great Barrier Reef in a 14-foot aluminum dingy. Contrary to popular belief, the weather is usually foul since the reef is influenced by strong southe-dSterlywinds.ln summer, there are cyclone warnings and rain to contend with.

Plankton samples are sorted inmledi­ ately for live pteropods and hetero­ pods. This is only possible by working

at a research station on the reef. if conditions permit, Lestie has loan ofa shark cage for prolonged observation of plankton. The cage is a must, not only for protection, but also because Heron Island Resort regularly dumps its garbage in the location where lesLie samples. Once, while preparing to dive into 200 metres of water, Leslie and her assistant heard a loud thud . A shark was tasting their aluminum boat and Leslie's assistant mutinied!

Working in northern Australian waters during summer presems another problem. Not only docs the plankton tow coUect heteropods, but also stinging jeUyfish. When the nets are brought into the boat, cries of pain can be heard, especially from Leslie who has an allergy to jellyfish.

The result is usually red welts from head to toe!

Despite the bad weamer, sharks and jeUyfish, Leslie is in love with "life down under" and plans to stay there for some time to come.

JIM ATKINSON RECEIVES OCUFA

TEACHING AWARD

Professor Jim Atkinson. CBS Ph.D. '78, received an Ontario Confeder­ ation of niversity Faculty Associations (OCUFA) teaching award for 1987. nlis is Ontario's highest honor for excellence in university teaching.

Jim teache in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and is also winner of this year's University of Guelph Faculty Association teaching award for OAC. He says it's hard to define what makes a successful teacher. "There is no specific for­ mula," he admits. "But if you enjoy doing something. yOll put mat much more into it."

Jim, whose area is comparative animal nutrit ion, says it's important for teachers to have empathy for meir students and to pass along a sense of enthusiasm for the subject being taught.

Jim received his Ph.D. at Guelph in ] 978, after earning a B.Sc. at the niversity of Manchester and an M.Sc.

jim Atkinson, CBS PhD. 78 at the UniversityofLondon_He taught in the Department of utrt ional Sciences in CBS until moving to OAC in 1986.

In addition to his love of teaching, Jim enjoys rugby lie played on the University's intercoUegiate te-ml while a student and now coaches. This gives him an opportunity to interact with students in a non-academic setting, he says. He is also active on the execLltives of the CBS and Uni ­ versity of Guelph Alumni Associations.

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Editor: Karen (Hawkins) Ma ntel, '83

MATURE STUDENT FINDS

UNIVERSITY ENJOYAB LE

"MIND STRETCHER"

17JefolloUJing article, written by Dave Sapelak, is edited and reprintedfrom thejune 15, 1988, issue a/the Royal Tribune newspaper, Guelph.

"I

don't know what life would be like if one stopped IC'.u-n.ing."

That's the philosophy which took Helen O'Reilly, Arts '88, back to school eight years ago. And now that she has earned an honors BA. with distinction, she has beglm snldies for her master's degree.

"Fantastic," i the way daughter Christine describes her mother's accomplishment. "I've been able to tease her about getting her homework done," she says.

When Helen and her husband Michael moved to Guelph from Mississauga, she found she had time on her hands which went heyond the emhroidery and dressmaking she did.

She worked as a secretary and read a lot.

When a brochure came from the Un iversity, she browsed through it for an offering requiring no pre足 requisites. "I'd left school in 1941, and being 39 years out, I wondered how I'd do," she recalls.

She enrolled in philosophy's critical thinking course. It taught her to read critically, particularly in pOlitics. "It makes a real difference when you read the texts ofpolitical speeches. It was like a Pandora's box - you can't be the way you were once you've opened it. But the things which were let out are, perhaps, just a little more plea~ant," she says.

That first course wasn't as intimi足 dating as anticipated; so the next semester, it was two courses. "It sort of snowballed from there," she says.

Her studies put her work at Guelph General Hospital and most activities with the embroidery guild on hold.

Helen had no real aspirations for further education when she left high school in Belfast. She was always

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interested in writing, though, and says that helped with her degree work. "It sharpens any skills you have."

Despite this edge, Helen sllccllmbed to burning the midnight oil more than once. "Amid my groaning at 3 a.m., I kept asking myself, "Why am I doing this'" She remembers her son called late one night. "I told him I had just had two cups of coffee and had to finish a paper." He laughed and told me I was a real student now.

"University isn 't all fun and parties.

It isn't easy when you have five term papers, five mid-terms and five finals that crowd you", she says. "I've learned a lot about young people and their pressures. " " I began competing with myself," she remembers. "I wasn't going to throw those first courses down the drain." She switched out of general studies and into the B.A. program.

TI1at meant dOing science and/or math. "I had never <.lone any science, but I would never contemplate doing math. I'd be hopeless!"

She settled on zoology,md geology courses. History is her real love.

"History is fascinating because you can touch things that people used and produced," she says. Along with 26 other students (including four "older than average"), she auended a special semester in London, England.

The progran1, tailored around the discipline of the attending professor, allowed her to do hands-on research in history.

Working through archival material whet her appetite for doing further historical research. In her graduate program, she wants to investigate women in Elizabethan and Stewart England.

Return ing to school after 47 years has been an enjoyable "mind stretcher" for Helen and she "highly recommends it" to others.

Helen O 'Reill)', Arts '88

Arts Alumni

Association

Board of Directors,

1988-89

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. David

Murray,

Dean

PAST-PRESIDENT Linda McKenzie-Cordick, '81 PRESlDENT Nancy Fitzpatrick, '86 VICE-PRESlDENT Sarah (Wyau) Nadalin, '82 UGAA REPRESENTATIVFS

Margo Shoemaker, '78 indy Abeele, Ph.D. '87 AMF ADVISORY COUNCn. REPRESENTATIVES Linda McKenzic-Cordick, '81 Terry Ayer, '84 SAAC REPRESENTATIVE Joanne Bmce, '88

FRENCH-SPEAKING COMPUTERS ASSIST

TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

F

or the past five years, Dana Paramskas, French Studies, Depart­ ment of Languages and Literatures, has been teaching French grammar to a computer. She is developing a software package to enable students to use a microcomputer as a gramma­ tical tutor in French composition.

The Guelph Grammanalyser ( GRAMMA) wiJI serve as an expert system to filter French compositions before they are handed in to the instructor. The software will work much like a word processing speller.

Students will type their compositions into a word processor and check it

ARTS PEOPLE

Professor Len Conolly, chair, Drama, has been appointed associate vice-president, academic, for a five­ year term beginning January I, 1989.

He has been on faculty at Guelph since 1981 and will continue as a professor of drama.

Professor Doug Killam, former chair, English Language and literature, is teaching African literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. While there, he will colla­ borate on a companion to African lilerature, to be published by a British firm .

For the past seven years, Professor Killam has been involved with a unique Canadian Intern a tional Development Agency project in Cameroon which trains teachers to develop teaching methods based on local stories and oral legends. He expects to travel at least once more to Cameroon to oversee the project before it winds up next year.

Five years ago when English Language and Literature Professor Peter Brigg plucked an ad from a University bulletin board, be never imagined it would lead to a book and an adventure in China.

Professor Brigg, author of banghai Year, saw a notice inviting teachers to work abroad. Less than a year later,

themselves with GRAMMA . The system will point out where errors occur, but will not correct them, says Professor Paramskas. GRAMMA may tell students that a sentence lacks a necessary adverh , that words arc misplaced or that the subject in a sentence docs not agree with the verb. If the students cannot correct the mistakes on their own, they can ask GRAMlVlA to provide help in the form of "clues."

The initial version of GRAMMA will be field tested within the next year. A marketable version should be available by 1990.

he arrived with his family in China to teach at the Institute of International Economic Management for a year. ") wanted to immerse myself in another society." he says.

He didn't think seriously about writing a book at first. but found himself scribbling notes about his experience on scraps of paper. In his book, he uses anecdotes and sketches to portray the vibrancy and excite­ ment oflife in Shanghai. The language barrier prevented him from recording China in as much depth as he would have liked.

Back in Guelph, Professor Brigg says his experience in China has "enormously enriched my ability to talk to students about the world ," ProfessorTerry Crowley, History, returned to Guelph this spring after six months in Shenyang (Mukden).

China, leaching English as a second Language, He recalls at his first meeting with the freshman class in Shenyang. students were visibly shaking. "I was the first foreigner they'd ever met. At the second class, the size had doubled.

They aU brought their friends to see the foreigner," "I enjoyed attempting to understand another culture," he says. "It was the most wonderful experience in my 18 years of teaching, But it also makes me appreciate individualism, incentive and our multi-cultural society, And it was nice to come home and not be stared at anymore! "

ARTS ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION

NEEDS YOU

The Arts Alumni Association was formed in 1975 and ha<; sponsored a number ofsuccess­ ful events over the years, in­ cluding Dimension Art Shows and Careers ights. It also pro­ vides six scholarships annually.

A smaU core of dedicated volunteers has kept the Arts Alumni ASSOCiation active until now. The talent, creativity, energy and support of more students and graduates from the College ofArts would inject some new life into the organi­ zation.

Why get involved? Because you can interact with a group of highly educated, motivated and interesting people who share a common bond. You can work toward improving the niversity and continue your lies with your alma mater. You will enhance your own degree and increa.,e the quality of life for the students who follow. In addition , you meet both old friends and new who can help you form a career network.

Belonging to your alumni asso­ ciation gives you the chance to give back to the institution that has given you so much. And you will enjoyyoursclfin the process.

So, take this opportunity to get involved - no matter where you are! ontact your Arts Alumni Association today through Alumni House, Univer­ sityofGuelph NIG 2WI; (519) 824-4120, ext 2102. lfyou can't become actively involved at this time, perhaps you have some idea! about what the association should be doing.All suggestions will be appreciated and seriously considered. Let's hear from yOll today!

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EdilO r. Bob Winkel, '60

TEACHER TURNS

RESEARCHER/ENTREPRENEUR

Atrer I 1 years of teaching chemistry at Fanshawe College in London, Martin Bosch, CPS '69, M.Sc. '71. was seeking a new challenge.

"I love teaching but I love re­ searching too. I felt I couldn't do both well at the same time. So, I decided to get out of teaching and concentrate on research ," he explains.

While switching directions, Martin became an entrepreneur. He bought a small company called Tricorp Manufacturing and after that, "things began to open up." Swift Chemicals, a division ofSwift Meats, was disposing of assets in Guelph. Martin bought the company, added it to the one he already had and called the whole operation Tricorp Chemical Special­ ties. TI1e Guelph-based company, of which he is preSident, now produces No-Name soap bars for Loblaws stores and Steinburgs across anada as well as its own brand-name soap. It is also the largest supplier of concrete addi­ tive mixtures in Ontario, and the largest importer and distributor of fats and lard oils from the .S. into Canada.

When Martin bought Swift Chemi­ cals, there was a stipulation that required him to stop the .oap by­ product discharge from being a pollu­ tant to the city. He accepted the challenge, put his research skills to work and corrected the problem in the time allorted. He feels he owes it to society to make his industry environmentally safe. He also gets a sen e of satisfaction from seeing his research utilized rather than "put in a drawer somewhere."

With sales tripled and a staff of 20 to 2'5, Martin plans to expand his own line of soap and rename his business The Guelph Soap Company. By then, the name will have come full circle.

When the soap factory was established in 1881, making it the oldest re­ maining soap factory in Canada, it was called The Guelph Soap Company.

From the 1920s up to 1965, it was

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called 'The Wonderful Soap Company and then Swift Chemicals took over.

Martin hopes to open a retail store in his plant and sell soap at factory prices. He would also like to offer tours so people can see how soap is made. " It's the teacher coming out in me again," he says.

When not busy researching and running his operation, Martin, father of three, likes to golf and curl and is involved in Kiwanis.

He says without the background in chemistry he got at Guelph, he would not be able to do what he does today.

He now he lp ' Guelph students through an annual Tricorp Chemical

Martin Bose};, CPS '69, M.Se. 71

SpeciaJitics scholarship in organic chemistry. lie advises students that the key to success is not an Aaverage, but the ability to put what they learn into practical usc. "If they can lift their education off the textbook pages and into reality, they can become leaders instead of followers. "

CPS GRAD WINS OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP

A

Guelph graduate student in physics has won a prestigious scholar­ ship to take a doctorate at Oxford.

Andrew Hin1e, CPS '86, wa<; a'warded a scholarship from the Royal Comnus­ sion for the Exhibition of 18:; 1. Only 10 are presented each year throughout the Commonwealth. TI1C award is currently worth about 11 ,000 pounds ( 23,OOOCanadian)pcryearandwill cover Andrew's tuition, board and living expenses for three years. Thc scholarship was established by Prince Albert during the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 to bring students from the colonies to study at Oxford or Cambridge.

Andrew left for Oxford in Scptem­ ber, where he read for a D,Phil. in particle physics. He had just com­ pleted his M.Sc. in physics at Guelph, working under Professor John impson, who received an exhibition scholarShip in 1962.

The two have been trying to mea­ sure the mass of an elusive type of particle ailed a neutrino. The exis­ tence of neutrinos - sub-atomic particles that tend to go right through matter - has been accepted for a long time, but the type that Professor

Andreu' Hime, ngbt, witb Professor j obn Simpson.

Simpson and Andrew have been studying is much heavier.

If their observations are right, the mass of this type - the 17-keV neutrino - is several hundred times greater than that of the common neutrino. The research has raised skepticism among other physicists because the heavier neutrino would have to decay within the life of the universe to fit the standard model of physics.

While at Oxford, Andrew hopes to collaborate on a project that performs preci ion tests of the standard model of particle physics and searches for possible physics beyond the standard model.

CPS PROFESSOR RECEIVES

OCUFA TEACHING AWARD

Nall('}' Vaughan presents the Walter N VaughcmMedaJ, rlilmedill nzemory of her husband, to PhD. stu.dent Heather Gordon

VAUGHAN MEDAL AWARDED TO CPS STUDENT Heather Gordon, a Ph.D. student in the College of Physical Science, is winner of the 1988 Walter . . Vaughan Medal. The medal is awarded annually to a Guelph student who has made outstanding contributions as a student member ofsenate and also mainrained a high academic record. It is awarded in memory of the late Walter Vaughan who was secretary of senate from 1977-83.

Heather, a native of Ottawa, came to Guelph in 1984 as a research assistant in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, after earning a B.Sc. at Trent Univer ity and an M.Sc. at Brock niversity. She has also taught malh and chemistry in a Nigerian secondary school for CUSO. She has a number of academic prizes, including Guelph 's R.H.F. Manske Prize for exceptional promise as a graduate student and the 1985 departmental Jab Demonstrator Award for her work in updating the second year physical chemistry laboratory.

She has been a student member of

senate for the past year, serving on its committee for information techno­ lOgy, the search committee for a new University president, and the pre­ sident's advisory conunittee on equal rights for women and men. She is also an active member of the Graduate Students Association and is on the campus child-care building committee.

Professor John Hubert, Mathematics and Statistics, received an Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) teaching award for 1987 This is Ontario's highest honor for excellence in university teaching. He is also winner of this year's University of Guelph Faculty Association teadling award tor the College of Physical Science.

Professor Ilubert says he doesn 't want to give his tudents answers. ]-k wants to show them how to find answers. His enthusiasm for statistics is evident. .. [want everybody to know and appreCiate the importance of statistical science and the role it plays," he says.

For Professor Huhert, one of the most enjoyable aspe(.;ts of his work lies in the challenge of developing difJerem teaching styles for different course levels. His work in biostatistics means he deals with people from many disciplines, such as pharma­ ceutical manufacturers and toxico­ logists. It takes a lot of work to stay abreast of the latest developments.

Professor Hubert holds a B.Sc. from

ProfessorJohn Hu.bert

the University of Windsor, an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has wr(tten three textbooks and co-authored sevcrallahoratory manuals.

Away frol11the classroom, Professor Hubert enjoys golf. Hc runs the ni­ versity's golf tournamcm and has been organizing his department's tour­ nament for 14 years.

PROFESSOR

EMERITUS

R et ired Professor Innes MacKenzie has heen honored as a professor emeritus.

He joined the Department of Physics as chair in 1967 and initiated its development as a world·class academic unit.

Hi research leadership is attested to by his invitation to give the opening address at the 1988 Ninth ]ntemational Posi­ tron Conference in Belgium, his membership on the Natural Scien(.;es and Engineering Research COlmcil physics grant committee and his receipt of the 1987 Sigma Xi Medal.

Profess()r 11l1lC!s MacKenzie

Professor MacKenzie retired in December 1987 as a scholar of international stature, an effective administrator ,md a highly respected teacher.

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Editor: Sa ndra Couch, '84, M.A. '87

CSS GRAD RECEIVES

WINEGARD MEDAL

Glenn

Peirson, CSS '87, is recipient of the Winegard Medal for 1988.

Awarded annually to the graduand judged as most outstanding student, the Winegard Medal is the University's most prestigious undergraduate award. It is named for Bill Winegard, a former president of the University.

Glenn graduated with an honors BA in pS1'chology and philosophy and is now enrolled in the medical program at McMaster niversity, Hamilton. Although most students headed for medical school choose a science program, he says the flexibility and broad scope of Guelph's BA program were more suitcd to his educational goals. (;lc:nn is a volunteer for the Chris· tian Medical and Dental Society of Canada. lit: has worked as a sports

counsellor at a children's day camp, taught autistic children, tutored high school mathematics studentS, worked with emotionally disturbed teenagers and supervised student volunteers at St. )0 eph's Hospital and Home in Guelph.

During University, Glenn played intramural sports and was a member of the University choir ami Guelph Chamber of Commerce. An accomp' lished singer, he has competed in the Guelph Kjwanis Festival and Edward Johnson Competition. He is a member of the Ontario Youth Choir and is lead singer at the Metropolitan l'nited Church in Toronto.

Listed on the dean's honors list for aU eight semesters at Guelph, Glenn received a atmal Sciences and Engineering Research Council award

CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES LAGGING IN

ASIAN STUDIES

As

the 21 st century dawns, Canada could be left behind in industry, technology and sodal s iencc if it doesn't adapt to the globalization of information flow and recognize the growing role Asian countries will play.

Professor Victor Ujimoto, Sociology and Anthropology, a specialist in Japanese studies, says Canada is lagging behind Asia-Pacific nations when it comes to industrial relations, deve­ lopment of new management tech­ niques, scientific advancement and the role of social science in informa­ tion technology. In addition. he says, our knowledge of these countries is poor, and preoccupation with free trade with the United States means the situation will get worse.

By the year 2,000, 70 per 'ent of the world's population will live on the Asian continent, says Professor jimoto. By that time. Asia wi L1 provide at least ')0 per cent of the world's output ofgood" and services. Japan is now the largest source of capital in

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the world, the largest donor offoreign aid ro less developed countries and spend" more than douhle what Canada spends on research and development as a share of its economy.

In spite of technology that allows new information to be shared immediately in any part of the world , language and cultural barriers are keeping Canadians at arms length from the primary sources, says Pro­ fesso r Ujimoto. He uggest Canadian attitudes need to shift dramatically to recognize the growing importance of the Pacific world.

To remedy the situation, says Pro­ fessor Ujimoto, Canadian educational institutions should addre s the pro­ blems and prepare the next generation for what lies ahead. He points to Australia, where 15,000 high school students study Japanese and where indonesian is a major second language.

Canadian students must "face the challenge" through Language study, comparative social science and exchange programs, he says.

Glenn Peirson receil'es the Winegard Med<i1 from chancellor William A. SleU'lirl. in 1987 10 study the neuropsychology of singing. lie implemented and analysed research on handedness in relation to cerebral asymmetry.

His other academic awards include the Skinner Medal awarded by the College of Social Science and the Psychology Award for high academic standing.

CONDOMINIUM

RESEARCH

Professors Marion Steele and Clive Sothey. Economics, are research ing the reasons people buy condominiums.

Initially, the research will analyst' the choices made by Vancouver households. Thc number of individuals in the family unit, income and marginal tax rate wil l be taken into account. Among Canadian cities, Vancouver and Toronto have the most condominiums. 'l1lere arc Significant numbers of them in Ottawa as well.

Professor Steele predicts the onc-yC<tr study will show that investment is a major motivation for condominium O'wnership.

The study of the demand for condominium ownership has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Re­ search Council.

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PH.D. PROGRAM OFFERED

IN GEOGRAPHY

The College of Social Science is now offering its first Ph.D. program.

The Department of Geography re­ ceived approval from the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS) for a Ph.D. program in rural resource evaluation and environmental analysis.

The program involves the inter­ pretation ofspecific resources within the rural community, says Professor Michael Moss, chair, Geography. P'Mti­ culac emphasis is placed on prohlt:ms that involve both environmental and socioeconomic factors. The Depart· ment has already established an international repULation for its work in this area.

The OCGS approval recognizes the existing strengths of Geography's master's programs and the research drorts of its faculty, says Professor Moss. Coming less than two years after the initial proposal was approved

by Senate and 15 months after the proposal documents were forwarded to 0 GS, passage of the program "places a lot of recognition on the department for its past work and potential for the future."

The new program will support three or four Ph.D_ students each year.

ALTERED CLIMATE WILL

AFFECT FOOD PRODUCTION,

TRADE POLICIES

By Mary Dickie on, Public Relation and InformJlion By the year 2,000, me world will begin to see results of a global warming trend. Nothing will be more affected than food production.

DctoresLation, burning offossLl fuels and some agricultural practices have increased the amount of carbon dioxide and orner "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere. Over the next few decades, these higher concentrations will increase the global mean temperature by an average of three degrees. This will extend Canada's growing season and may make agri­ culture more viable in the north.

Canada won't be alone in this experience, says Professor Barry Smil, Geography. Production potential in major food crops wiU change in many world regions, as will the current world food distribution system. There will be winners and losers in the international food marketplace, largely based on how weU nations adjust socially and economically to the changes.

Research at Guelph has made an initial step in assessing Canada's comparative position in food pro­ duction and trade. Previous research has been limited to regional predic­ tions of changes in crop production without considering what will be happening in other parts of the world, say Professor Smit.

If, aspredkted, Canada experiences an increased potential for wheat production, rhen so will the SSR, turning it from customer to compe· titor. Al£hough the production poten­ tial for wheat many increase, will the economic potential decline? This is just one question being addressed by a land evaluation group at Guelph in a study commissioned by Environment Canada. The study assesses the impact of an altered climate on Canadian production and trade opportunities in six major crops relative to other regions of the world.

Changes in production patterns are difficult to predict, but Canada has taken a leading role in assessing the implication of global warming, says Professor Smit.

"SMALL TOWN

CANADA"

During a sabbatical last year, Professor Frederic Dahms, Geography, took an extensive trip around "small (Own Canada", taking in southern Ontario, the top of the Great Lakes and eastern Ontario, through Quebec, around the Eastern Townships and the Maritimes.

The result f his travels is a book, The Heart ofthe Country (Deneau Publishers and Co. Ltd.). It offers a look at small towns and rural communities, tracing early settlers, climate and landscape.

Professor Dahms' wife Rutb, an accomplished artist, drew the many sketches included in the book as well as painting the front cover.

Photos of ghost towns and bw;y, expanding villages, rail­ ways, factories, mjUs, dams, harbors and heritage buildings appear throughollt the book, plus historical anecdotes of villages and explanations ofwhy some villages no longer exist.

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OAC PEOPLE

Gideon Silverthorn, 92, lslington, came to Gut:lph to see his grandson Jeff, Ottawa, graduate with a bachelor of landscape architecture degree this year. He hadn't been able to graduate when he was an OAC student, because he had to take over the family farm after his father died in 1918. However, he says his OAC education helped him a lot. It gave him a chance to meet people and exchange opinions.

"Over half of your education comes from gerting acquainted ," he says.

Relired Professors Gordon Macleod, OAC '')0 , and John Summers, OAC '53, MSA '59, Animal and Poultry Science, were each honured as professor emeritus at spring convocation.

Peter Hannam, OAC '62 , wa~ among 100 Ontarians to receive a spe ial award marking the lOath anniversary of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Foo<.l (OMAF). A sllccessful GueLph -;trt>a farmer, he has served as president, Wellington Coul1lY Federation of Agriculture, president, Ontario Federation of Agriculture and as a long-stan<.ling member of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.

Also receiving Centennial Awards were two former OAC faculty. Doug Morrison, OAC '49, former chair, Animal and Poultry Science, was noted for setting up research progranls in conjunction with OMAF. He is direc­ tor of the Yonge Street Mission and president of the Shantymen's Christian Association, Toronto. Rick Richards, OAC '38, a former OAC dean, con­ ducted a study of OMAF for the provincial government and was first chair, Canadian Agricultur.tl Research Council. He also served as president of the Ontario Institute ofAgrologists, the Canadian So iety of Soil Science and the Agricultural Institute of Canada.

Brent Tegler, who is working towards a Ph.D. in environmental

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jeffSill'erthorrl, OAC '88 and gralld­ father Gideon

Bill HOll'ell, OAC '4 9

biolob'Y, has received a 198R Young Canadian Researchers a\\'ard from tht: International Developmt:nt Re­ search Ct:ntre. His research will mea 'ure tht: extent to which local vegetatioll can control wind erosion and dust in the Sahel region of Mali, where the plants that reduce wind t:rosion ha,-e been overconsumed, resulting in hard. dry unproductive terrain.

W.E. (Bill) Howell, OAC '49, has retired following a distinguished career of(eaching, research and exten­ ~ion over 35-1 / 2 vears in the Depart­ ment of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Saskatdlewan, Saska­ toon. He has been named professor emeritlls.

He received an M.Sc. in 19')0 and a Ph.D. in 1952 from rhe nivcr~ity of Minnesota, prior to joining the faculty at U of S. J lis comributioos in [he developmem of regional artificial breeding programs among ranchers, community pa.<;tures and breeder co­ operati\'es earned him an Order of Merit from the Government of Saskatchewan in 19H:S. The Canadian Society of Animal Science awarded him a Certificate of Merit in J 984 and the Agricultural Institute of Canada elected him a Fellow in 198'). He was declared Teacher of the Year by rhe Saskatchewan Vocational Agricultural Association in 1987 and recognized by tht: Saskatchewan heep nrceders A<;sociation with an award the same year for his service to the sheep industry Bill and hi~ wile Detty continue to reside in Saskatoon where Bill is involved in Kiwanis, the Natural His­ tory SOCiety, Riverside Country Club and univlTsity actitivies.

Professor Terry Gillespie, OA Ph.D. '68, Land Resource Science, ha.<; reccived 16..300 under tbe provincial govt:rnment's University Research Incentive Fund program to work with Campbell S ientilk Cmada Corp_on a new wemess durdtion sensor tor use in pest management.

Dan Sheehan, OAC '87, a water resources engineering graduate stu­ dent, School of Engineering, won second place in the student paper awards at the annual meeting, Cana­ dian Society of Civil Engineers , Calgary. His presentation Hydraulic Capacity of River illlets_ was co­ authored by Professor Trevor Dickinson .

Robert James Hilton. professor emeritus, IlonicuLrural Science, and ant: of the founders onne Arboretum, has had the research and services building on College Avenue named in his honor.The R.J. Hilton Centre was officially renamed in May.

Professor Bryan McKersie, Crop Science, has received the CD. Nelson Award of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists. The honor recog­ nizes outstanding ontributions to research in plant physiology by a young scientist under the age of 40.

OAC

RESEARCH

Landmark Contract A landmark 528.7 million contract for research, education and services has been signed between the Univer­ sity and the Omario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF). The sum is the largest ever received by the University from OMAF. Since the first such agreement in 1968, the contract has comprised a major por· tion of the University's total annual research income.

"OMAF's commiunent has made Guelph's research unique among uni­ versities in Canada," says Dean of Research Ltrry Milligan. "Thanks to the partnership, the niversity has quickly become a rese'drch-intensive institution, and one that is good at technology transfer."

Drier Tomato The tomato processing industry uses mainly the fruil's flesh , not its juice, making a tomato's water content mostly waste. In May. the University and a leading Ontario food and bever­ age processor launched a three-year, 5330,000 project to find a "drier" tomato.

Efforts to create low-water tomato varieties have centred prinlarily on breeding techniques and genetics, while ignoring forces that affect tomatoes' dry matter content. So, Professor Michael Dixon, Horticul­ tural Science, in 'onjunction with two colleagues at Memorial and Waterloo universities, is looking at the biophysical reasons governing the "dryness" of tomatoes. Even a minor decrease in water content means a tremendous revcnue boost to the industry, he says.

Transgenic Poultry Dr. Jim Petitte, a postdoctoral feUow , Animal and Poultry Science, and Professor Rob Etches, department chair, have developed a method for producing "chin1eric" chicks - chicks created by mixing cells together.

The researchers transferred embryonic cells from one chick embryo to another, allowing them unprecedented access to early chick embryos. It's at this stage that trans­

genics - the introduction offoreign genes into a living organism - has proven most successful in other species. Transgenics is heralded as an important frontier in biotechnology.

In poultry, it holds possibilities for disease resistance and the develop­ ment of improved commercial stocks through the introduction of new, beneficial genes.

Affects of Alternative Crops The University has received a $398,000 federal contract to study how groundwater is affected by planting alternative crops in tobacco fields. Tobacco requires less nitrogen fertilizer than other crops being planted in former tobacco fields . The study will look at how much water contamination the added nitrogen will cause and explore the effects of different tillage and irrigation methods on this contamination.

The research is part ofAgriculture Canada's tobacco diversification plan to develop alternative crops for Ontario's tobacco fields.

Controlling The Environment niversity engineers can control the weather - at least within a small building 12 feet square and eight feet high. An environmental control chamber, purchased last year by the School of Engineering with a S46,250 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grant, has become a focal point for many research efforts looking for solutions to problems caused by the environment.

Earthy Solution Applying industrial waste to soil has become an acceptd - if not popular - disposal method for Ontario's swelling production of chemical ell1uent. The waste is even­ tually broken down by soil microbes, but the process is slow. A team of researchers led by Professor Paul Voroney, Land Resource Science, are in the midst of a three-year, 1420,000 project designed to boost the microbes' efficiency and make "land farming" a more viable disposal alternative.

Milk Ads A unique study at Guelph shows there's an S8 return at the retail level for every $1 spent on milk advertising

in Ontario. By comparison, butter advertising nationwide results in almost a 2 : 1 return ratio.

Professor Ellen Goddard, Agricul­ tural Economics and Business, collected quarterly data on con­ sumption, advertising expenditures and prices of both milk and butter from 1971 to 1984. She expressed her analysis in 1981 dollars.

Wade McLean, OAC '88, received an award Ihis year in memory of}. Ed Ridley, OAC '27, who died in December, 1986. The one-time only

award. for a desenJing student in dai,y SCience, was made possible by a do nation from Ed's daughterDorell TaylO1; and was presented by his friend.]im Baker, OAC '28.

Correction Dear Editor, It was a distinct pleasure and surprise to see my nan1C in print, especially in the company of the other fine individuals named in the article OAC Grads

Prominent in Land Stewardship (Vol. 21 , 0.3). nfortunatcly, Mr. Peters made an error in saying I grad­ uated from OAC. I graduated from the College of Biological Science in the honors ecology program in 1978 and continued on with my master's in that College.

Yours truly, C.B. Powter,

Research Manager & PreSident,

Canadi.'U1 Ltnd Reclamation Asso­

ciation

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]be 25th allniversary of the first class of imlependenl StU(~Y (corres­ [lOndence) students to graduatefrom Guelph with an Ontario Diploma in Horticulture UXIS celebrated this year when eight of the 22 class members of 1963 came to campus for a ban­ quet. T7Jey are (left to right): Tony Hooydonk, London, George Leiss, Mississauga, Karl Elias, Bob Vanderhoop and Bill Earl, all of Toronto, Willie Hessentbalet; London.

Cor Van Girlkel, Oshall'a and Bill Fraset~ Hamilton.

]be OAC C/tISS of '8 8 was the 100lh degree class to graduate since the College was founded. In recognition ofthis milestone, the class donated a tree to the ALumni House gardens.

Making the presentatioll dun'ng Alumni Weekend was Larry J::urig, OAC '8 8, with a little help from Stewart Bolton and john Rosbak.

OAC '63.

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Graduates from the Black Dragon River Consortium project. Guelph campus, are (left to right) Guigiang Wang, Environmental Biology, Chunzu Liu, Agricultural Economics and Business, Changqing Song, Agn'cultural Econo­ mics and Business, Xiao Pan, Rural Extension/ Computer Studies, RlIichang Zhar, Land Resource Science, Qinqua Zhang, Agricultural Engineering, Guijie Wang, Agricultural Economics andBusiness, ll.Jitb her son David and hllSband Zbiyong Huang, Environmetlfal Biology. (Photo by Richard Buck)

BLACK DRAGON RIVER

CONSORTIUM

By Rich ~rd Buck

T he largest population in the world is feeding itself and is beginning to export food . Through a very uniqut: project, the -niversily of Guelph is playing a vital role in Lhis accomp­ lishment.

For the past four years, Guelph has been in partnership with the Univer­ sity of Alberta and Olds College, Alberta, in a project designed to strengthen the academic foundation of two Chinese agriculnlral education institutions in the province of Heilongjiang, north China, along the Russian border.

Heilongjiang means Black Dragon River, referring to the main tributary running through the prOvince which is the breadbasket of China. The project is thus named, The Black Dragon River Cunsortium.

The project graduated its firsL class of 66 students in August, and these graduates have relUrned to China to teach what they have learned about Western agricultural research , pro­ duction and teaching methods. The graduates were all junior facully members from Heilongjiang Agricul­ LUral Land Reclamation Univcrsily (HALR ) and Liu He Training College

(LHTC) . They received English language training and studied in Alberta and Omario at the under­ graduate and graduate levels.

While in Canada, the junior faculty students were visited by study tour groups of senior scholars, adminis­ Lr:llOrs and managers from the Chinese sLatt: farm program. One of the pur­ poses of these study tour groups was to minimize resistance from the senior group (Qward the new ideas that the junior group would implement upon returning to China.

Another component of the project includes lhe Lransfer of library materials, teaching equipment and specialized equipmenL for applied research , to the two Chinese institu­ Lions involved.

"I11e project is in its fifth and final year. It has been supported hy the Canadian InLernational Development Agency, the Chinese government and private companies.

Not only wil1 the project help the Chinese modernize thc agricultural teaching system in Heilongjiang Pro­ vince and carry out applied research aimed at increasing agricultural productivily, it will also strengthen ties between China and Canada for future trade and culturJl relations.

DR. GEORGE FISHER NAMED

1988 ALUMNUS OF HONOR

Dr. George Fisher, ave '44

A

tireless promoter of agril.:ulrure and veterinary medidne, a community and church leader, and a respected veterinary scientist, George C. Fisher, OVC '44, has been named the Univer· sity ofGuelph'sAlumnus of Honor for 1988.

A native of Sackville, N.B., George attended Mount Allison University before earning his DVM at ove He served in the Canadian Navy during the Second World War and spent a year and a halfwith the United at ions Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis­ tration immediately after the war.

One ofhis duties was to take boatloads of horses from North America to war· ravaged Europe for agricu ltural purposes.

His veterinary career took him from private practice in Ormstown, Que., where he met his wife Norma, to P.E.I, where he was director of veterinary services and provincial animal pathologist for 10 years. During this time, he developed and organized the Veterinary Services Program and the Artificial Breeding Program for P.E.I. He also served as president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, of which he is a Life member. Under his presidency, the Association launched the Canadian Veterinary journal.

In 1961 , George joined the Quaker Oats ompany of Canada as manager

of veterinary services. His flair for communication became apparent when he co-ordinated the Vetascope presentation at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto. This experience served him well when he becanle director of an exhibit on Canadian agricullUre at Expo '67, Montreal.

From 1969 until retirement, George was head of the Veterinary Services Labor.ttory, Ontario Ministry of Agri­ culture and Food, Kemptville. He taught courses to KemptviUe students and instructed federal and provincial meat inspectors.

George has earned the respect of veterinarians and the agriculture industry, particularly the producers.

He is an internationally recognized authority on mastiti control, specifi­ cally in the area of milking machines.

He organized and chaired the Canadian Committee for Mastitis Control and Prevention and was general chair of the international symposium on mastitis in Montre-.t..l in 1987 He:: has authored scientific and layman's publications on mastitis control and made many presentations on the subject.

Beside::s his contributions to his profeSSion, George has given gener­ ously of his time and talents in other areas. He helped re-organize the Junior Farmers in P.E.1. and worked for many years with the Boy Scouts of Canada. An engaging bilingual speaker, he has given leadership training and effective speaking courses to farm. groups across the country, A member of the Rotary Club for 40 years in several provinces, George has served as District 2 Governor and Chair of the Rotary International Zone 2 institute. He is currently Ontario/ Quebec co·ordinator of the Rotary International project, PolioPlus, which seeks to immunize all children of the world against pOlio.

George also serves his church at the local and provincial levels. He was director of Anglicans in Missions and organized the visit of the Arch­ bishop of Canterbury to Ottawa and Kemptvi lie. He is now on the execu­ tive committee of the Ontario diocese.

Editor: Or. Harold Reed, ewe '55

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Clouds · Lake Superior

HARRIS PAINTING

DONATED IN

MEMORY OF ove

GRAD

A major canvas by Lawrcn Harris dating from the 1920s has bee::n don­ ated to the niversity's art collection at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

by Dr. Frieda Fraser of BurJingron, in memory of Dr. Edith Williams, OVC '41.

Clouds- Lake Superior is an

examplc of the perfectly still stylized views of Lake Superior that Harris, a member of the Group of Seven, painted shortly before turning to abstraction. It is an important addition to the University olJection, forming a comparison work to The Drive painted by Tom Thomson in 1917 and acquired by the University in 1926.

Dr. Fraser, a retired physician, and Dr. WilJianlS, who died in 1979, were lifelong friends. One of the early female graduate from OVC, Dr. WiWams set up the St. Clair Veterinary Clinic, a small animal pr.tctice in Toronto which she operated for about 25 years. She also played an active role as an Alma Mater Fund volunteer.

She served as chairman of the special gifts division in 1971 and as campaign chairman in 1973.

After her death, Dr. WiUiams' many friends and associates collected funds to establish the Edith B. Williams Memon"al Bursary which is awarded annually to an undergraduate in the DVM program.

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ove PEOPLE

Dr. Joe Geraci, Pathology, has received the New England Aquarium's prestigious David B. Stone Award for distinguished service to the com­ munity and environment.

Dr. Geraci has studied aquatic animals and their environment for 21 years. He has reported on the effect of polJution on marine marrunal mortali­ ties for the American and Canadian governments. His study of the epide­ mic thal killed hundreds of harbor seals in 1979 identified an important link in the transmission of influenza viruses from birds to man101als. He was also instrumental in the rescue, rehabiliation and release of three pilot whale calves found stranded on Cape Cod beach in 1986. L'LSt winter, he oversaw the investigation of 15 humpback whale deaths on Cape Cod. He is currently involved in an xtensive study of the mortality of dolphins along the east coast of the U.S. Or. Geraci serves as health advisor to numerous institutions and agencies, including Canada's department of fisheries and oceans, the New England Aquarium and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He joins a distinguished list ofDavid B. SlOne Award recipients, including television documentary producers/ authors Captain Jacques­ Yves Cousteau and Sir David Attenborough.

Dr. CllffBarker, OVC '4 1, is among 100 Ontarians who received special awards marking the 1OOth anniversary ofthe Ontario Ministry ofAgriculture and Food (OMAF). He was cited for being a pioneer in artificial insemina­ tion which has left its mark on the Canadian agri-food industry. The retired OVC professor also won the Order of Canada in 1986 for his work in this field and was named a life member of the American Dairy Goat Association in 1987 for his research work in the field ofartitlcial insemina­ tion in dairy goats. He has co-authored two book., on the history ofveterinary medical associations.

Also receiving an OMAF centennial award was Dr. Trevor Jones, ove '34 , a former dean of OVe. He is

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currentl) Canadian co-ordinator of a project in Nicaragua, training animal health technicians for the Canadian Save the Children fund.

Dr. Peter Conrad Wozniak, OVC '83, graduated earlier this year with top honors from the niversiry of Ottawa's School of Medicine. He received ten awards, including medals for the highest standing throughout the entire medical course, the highest standing in clinical medicine and the highest standing in obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. larry McClure, OVC '81 , M.Sc. '87, has won the first Governor­ General's Gold Medal as the master's graduate with the highest academic standing at Guelph last year. He competed with ahout 280 master's students in M.A., M.Sc.. MLA and MAgr. programs.

Dr. McClure practised in Kelowna, B.e., Toronto and the Ottawa area and travelled in Africa before returning to Guelph to do his M.Sc. in veterinary microbiology and inmlUnology. He and his wife, Dianne, are going to Indonesia, where he will work on a project with the Canadian International Development Agency.

Professor Pat Gentry, Biomedical Sciences, has received 11,210 under the provincial government's University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) program to work wi Lh Scmex Canada on specific biochemical testing for genetic evaluation.

Dr. R. J. (Russell) McDonald, OVC '45. was honored at an Appre­ ciation Night in Woodstock, ovem­ ber 14 , on his retirement from Western Ontario Breeders Incorpor­ ated. He went to Woodstock in 1946 to help the Oxford Holstein Club establish and operate the frrst artificial insemination services. These services evolved into the Oxford and District Cattle Breeding Association which became the Western Ontario Breeders Incorporated in 1969. Or. McDonald has been general manager since 1952.

He was also instrumental in forming the Ontario Association of Animal

Dr. Rj. McDonald, ave '45

Breeders in 1952 and served as its first president.

Dr. Brian Wilcock. OVC '73, PathOlOgy, received a niversity of Guelph Faculty Association teaching award this spring.

Dr. Harold Reed, OVC '55, Clinical Studies and Dr. Chuck Roe, OVC '50, Population Medicine, have retired.

OVCAlumni

Association

Board of Directors,

1988-89

HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. .0 . Nielsen, '56 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Dr. N. man, '84 PRESIDENT Dr. B.c. Buckrell, '68 VICE-PRESIDENT Dr. D.C. Wilson, '66

SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr. G.c. Boylan, '46

DIRECfORS Dr. B.N. Bonnen, '79 Dr. R. Clement, '88 Dr. R. '. Downey, '6] Dr. J.R. Gordon, '69 Dr. J.A. Richardson, '74 Dr. D.M. Smith, '78 Dr. James Stowe, '69 UGAA REPRESENTATIVES Dr. S.L Gillingham, '86 Dr. W.H. Harris, '68 PRESIDENT, GUELPH CHAPTER, C.V.sA

J. Earle

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DR. ROBERT CURTIS NAMED 1988

DVC DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

The ovc Distinguished A1l1mnus Award is presented annually to OVC graduates who have hrought honor to their alma mater and fellow alumni through significant contributions of leadership and service to country, community, science, education, pro­ fession and/or alma mater.

This year's recipient, Dr. Robert Curtis, OVC '61, has more than ful ­ filled the requirements in every category. During his career at OVC, he wa." farm service co-ordinator, hospital supervisor, and a professor in Clinical Studies. He left OVC to chair the Department of Health Management at the new Atlantic Veterinary College. Prince Edward Island .

Bob has published information for livestock produccrs extensively in both scientific journals and thc lay press. Hc has given over 50 talk'> at professional meetings in six ountries.

He is a reCiplent of the orden Distinguished Teacher Award and the niversity of Guelph Faculty Association's teaching award. He is also a three-time winner oflhe award for teaching excellence given by OVC smdents.

Bob's commitment to preventive medicinc has won hinl the respect of both livestock producers and fellow practitioners. In 1986, he earned the Schering Award for his dforts in advancing large animal medicine.

Bob has been an honorary president to four OVC classes, a church elder, Cub leader and Rotarian. He and his wife Connie have also raised four children: Gmnt, a 1981 graduate of CBS; Glen, a 198] graduate of OAC; Linda, a graduate of The University of Western Ontario; and Carolyn, a graduate of Conestoga College.

One letter in support of Boh's nomination for ove Distinguished

Dr. Bmce Robb, ove 71 (right), fOt'tnerly of the ave Alumni Asso­ cia tio 11, presen ts Dr. Robel1 (Bob) eurtis with the ave Distinguished Alumnus award.

Alumnl1~

stated: "Bob's people­ oriented approach to life and his dedication towards getting to know every student have given him new friend at every tum."

GUELPH GRAD WINS AWARD FOR

RESEARCH IN FODT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE

Dr. Alex Donaldson, ove Ph.D. '69, is this year's recipient of one of two resear h medals awarded by the Royal Agricultural Societ)' ofEngtand_ TIle award was presented by the Duke of Gloucester at the Royal Show at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, July 4.

Dr. Donaldson i!> acting head of the Division of Epidemiology and head of the World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Institute for Animal Health, Pirhright, Surrey, England. He has investigated factors which determine the excretion, sur­ vival and transmission of foot -and­ mOUlh disease, particularly its po­ tential for spread by wind between farms.

Foot-and-mouth disea'>e - a virus disease of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs - is highly contagious, and thc accepted comrol and eradication

policy in the event of outbreaks is the slaughter ofall infected and in-contact animals. Consequently, any outbreak can have serious economic effects for fanners a~ well as the nation, since embargos on the exportation of ani· mals and animal products will follow and remain in opration for several months after the disease h,L'> been eradicated. Britain suffered a large epidemic in 1967-68 when more than 2,300 farms were affected. necessitating the slaughter of over 400,000 animals and resulting in a loss of 300 million. Canada experi­ enced its last epidemic of the disease in 1952.

In work done over a 1';-year period at the Institute of Arriolal Health, Dr. Donaldson and his teanl determined the quantities of airborne foot-and­ mouth disease virus excreted by different species of infected animals,

the environmental factOrs which influ­ cnce the survival of the disease virus when airborne, and the minimal doses which can infect livestock when they inhale the virus.

Having obtained this data, Dr. Donaldson collaborated with meteoro­ lOgist.. from the Meteorological Office, BrJcknell, to develop mathematical models for analysing and predicting the risk of the airborne ~1>read of the disease during outbreaks. The modets were successfully used in 1981 to forecast the spread of the disease from northern France to Jersey and the Isle of Wight. The advance warnings alerted the farming com­ munity and veterinary services and this, in turn, greatly assisted in the speed with whidl the disease wa') recognized and eradicated. Resulting costs were therefore considerably reduced.

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Edi tor: Carolyn (Redden) Moore, '84

FAMILY STUDIES PROFESSOR HEADS

NATIONAL CHILD CARE STUDY

By Ma ry Oickieson/ Public Relation and Information Where did your children spend the day while you were at work~ Were they well-cared for in a safe, plea..ant environment or did you worry about them all day? Can you afford the kind of care you want them to have~ Is i[ available in your community~ If Canada is [0 develop an dfective day care system, we need answers (Q these questions, says Professor Donna Lero, Fanlily Studies, who is heading a ill .2-million, three-year research pro­ ject on -hild care for Health and Welfare Canada.

The largest social science study ever funded in Canada, tht: national child-care survey will involVl: inter­ views with more than 33,000 families this fall about their child-care needs and preferences, child-care methods they now use, and family situations and employment factors that affect child care.

"When Canada implements a national child-care strategy, it will be the largest social program undertaken since post-secondary education," says Professor Lero. "Yet we still don't know the answers to basic questions such as what kinds ofcare do parents most want and need."

The research team includes co­ diret:tor Alan Pence, niversity of Vic(Qria, Hillel Goelman, University of British Columhia and Lois Brockman, University of Manitoba.

The team arc among the founders of the National Day Care Research Network Hie need for a study of this scope has long been recognized, says Pro­ fessor Lero. Recommendations appear in the 1986 report of the Liberal government's task force on child care and the 1987 report of the special parliamentary committee on child care.

The researchers arc adamant, how­ ever, that their national survey should not be accepted as a substitute for

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Pm/essorDonnaLero, FamilySludies, will head a national research pmject 011 child care in Catuukl.

government action. ''W(:'ve never said funding for day care should wait until the results of our study are known," says Professor Lero. "Government funding should be provided where services arc obviously needed, but it is dear we need a bener under­ landing of long-term needs in child care" Professor Lero estimates 80 per cent ofchildren in day care are t:ared for by people who have no fomlal training and are not regulated by a provincial government. Although many of these arrangemems may be good ones, she says, there is no quality control.

In some communities, parents feel lucky to find any affordable babysitting service. The number of women re­ entering the work force has depleted the supply of available private care­ givers. The expense and Limited hours oflicenced day-care facilities may not meet the needs of low-income single parents, shift workers or families who need after-school care for older children. In some cases, latch-key children are care givers for younger siblings.

Tension created by child-care pro­

blems affects family lite and job performance. Poor-quality care can result in conflict between parents and children, between parents and babysitters and between the parents themselves. nstable child -care a.mmgementscan lead to absenteei m, interrupted career plans and care­ lessness on the job due to worry ­ indicators of the social and employ­ ment t:osts of inadequate day care.

The national child-care survey will he one of the most comprehensive studies ever completed in Canada.

The large sample size is required to obtain adequate numbers of fanlilies with infants , preschoolers and school-age children. Child -care ser­ vices and needs vary greatly across these age groups.

TIle survey must also ensure ade ­ quate comparisons across rural and urban communities, income gcoups, parents' employment patterns, and single and two-parent families. It will study patterns of neighbourhood support and hild-care needs of parents who do not work outside the homc.

Because child-t:arc services fall under provincial jurisdiction, the study mllst provide a representative sample from each province toensure reliable provindal, as weU as national, esti­ mates and comparisons. Interviews will be conducted by Statistics Canada staff in English or French.

Don't Miss the

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For details, contact

Ruth Kelly at (416) 585-4390

HUMAN SEXUALITY

CONFERENCE DRAWS PRAISE

Ten years ago, a Hwnan Sexuality Conference was launched at Guelph as a cont inuing education conference sponsored by the Department of Family Studies. Three hundred parti­ cipants attended the two-day event.

This year's conference ran for eight days, attracted 800 participant., and featured 50 speakers including world-renowned psychosexual thera­ pist, "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer.

'We have really achieved the stature of a national conference. In fact, we are THE major annual human sexuality conference in Canada," says Professor Ed Herold, Family Studies. Dr . .lames Nelson, professor of Christian ethics at the United Theological Senllnary in Minneapolis, who was this year's plenary speaker, goes one step further by saying, "} believe that the Guelph Sexuality Conference is THE out­ standing conference of its type in North America." Dr. Ruth praises the conference as a forwn for making society more "sexually literate."

Professor Herold started the con­ ference with a fanlily planning fellow­ ship from Ilcalth and Welfare Canada_ The fellowship allowell him release time to organize the first conference which revolved around Adolescent SeJ."UaliIy. "I had been teaching sexuality courses for seven years and attending human sexuality conferenet:s in the nited States. I felt there was a comparable need for such a confer­ ence in Canada," Professor Jlerold recalls. "At the beginning, I wasn't sure if it would continue on an annual basis but it kept getting uch high evaluations from participanb, that we decided to carry on."

Professor Herold says the high calibre of the Guelph conference is reflected in the fact that it still draws uch a large number of participants, even though many conferences and workshops dealing with topics of sexuality are now offered throughom Canada.

"We do our best to meet the needs of our participants. 'There are different streams of workshops for teachers, nurses, doctors, social workers, clergy

and therapists. And we :tre quite the risk-takers when it comes lO speakers.

We continually invite new speakers and have had no problem getting them to present It's such good recognition, that our speakers are usually invited to other conferences as a result."

Professor Herold says there arc new issues to deal with each year.

AIDS was the focus of discussion in a number of sessions this year. The conference has also dealt with topics like exual abuse of children, sexual assault, adolescent pregnancy and birth control.

"SeXllality perplexes people. Des­ pite all the knowledge out there, a need still exists to update this know­ ledge and improve our skills in terms of teaching and counselling," says Professor Herold.

Although he has a comnllHee to help organize the conference, Pro· fessor Herold, still works long hours on the evenr. He admits it uses up time he would like to spend on other projects, but because it meets such an important need, he feels it is worth the time spent.

Dr. Rlllb praises Guelpb collference.

The conference is also good for the niversit)', he says. One of this year's conference speakers, Sue Johanson, a sex counsellor and talk show host, commented that "nothing the Univer­ sity has,. done to re-shape its agricul ­ tural/veterinary image has been quite as signit1cant as the Human SeXllality Conference. It says that Guelph is truly a cosmopolitan university."

Planning for each conference begins at least a year in advance. 'TI1e 1989 conference will be held June 19-21 with the theme ~e;)""1.u,Uity and Values.

The keynote speaker will be the internationally-known sex educator, Dr. Sol Gordon.

For further information or a bro­ chure on the 1989 conference, con­ tact the Continuing Education DiviSion, Lniversity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario I G 2W 1, or telephone (') 19) 824 -4120, ext 3956.

COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT FUND

A

n«.:w College of Family and Consumer Studies Achievement Fund will provide recognition to faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of Mac-FACS. The fund , started with seed money from the Ma -FACS Alumni Assoc­ iation, will receive gifts made in honor of individuals on their retirement, promO(ion, or other significant occasion, or gifts made in memory of deceased faculty, staff, students, alumni or frienlls . It has potential to grow into a substantial endowment for scholarships, faculty and Staff recognition, and special projects within the College. Contributions may be deSignated to one or more of these areas.

A collective fund will consolidate the administration of individual dona­ tions and memorial funds. Money will

be allo ated by a committee repre­ senting faculty, staff, students, and the Mac-FACS anll HAFA Alumni Associations_ The fund will be a permanent memorial to those in whose honor or memory donations arc made. Indivi­ dual name~ will be on a recognition hoard in the CoJlc:ge. [n addition, these individuals will he named in descriptions ofscholarships or award., made through the fund. The Guelph AiummL5 will run an annual art icle about the fund, with an update of individuals honored or remembered.

For more information, contact the Dean. College offamily and Consumer Studies, (519) 824 -4120, ext. 2400, or the Director of Development, Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, ext. 6'5 7.

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PRESIDENT'S

MESSAGE

T

his issue of the GuelplJ Alumnus provides the first opportunity for the new Mac-FACS Alumni Association Board of Directors to share plans for the coming year with iL'i members, and graduates of Macdonald Institute and the CoUege of Family and Con­ sumer Studies who have not yet become members. As a graduate of both Macdonald Institute and the College of Fanlily and Consumer Studies, I look forward to my year a'i president of this Association.

The College of Family and Con­ sumer Studies grew out of the strong heritage of Macdonald lnstitute which was noted for its progressive approach in the field of home economics.

Undergraduate and graduate programs offered in FACS continue to show leadership in applying principles of physical and hehavioral sciences to improve the quality of life for indivi­ duals and families.

FACS PEOPLE

Mary

(Grobb) Anderson, Mac '59, of KHchener, has been elected chair of the Ontario U JCEF com­ mince. She has heen involved with UNICEF in and out of Canada for more than 14 years.

She hegan her work with the agency while she and her hushand were teaching in high schools in Uganda, Africa, from 1967 to 1969. She parti­ cipated in UNICEF field trips, teaching nutrition to the natives.

In her capacity as chair of the Ontario committee, Mary will travel throughout Canada, Elaine Ferguson, FACS '84, who is pursuing a Ph.D, in applied human nutrition, ha'i received a 1988 Young Canadian Researchers award from the International Development Re­ search Centre. She will design a new technique for assessing nutrition level'i of pre-school children in Papua New Guinea, Her research will create a dietary assessment tool for other less industrialized nations as well a<; liter­ ature on nutrition in Papua New

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The Mac-FACS Alunmi Association is a network of graduates who have developed through their educational opportunities, and contributed their expertise to strengthen their profes­ sions. The important link between the College and its alumni enhances the leadership in College program areas.

For the past year, the Board of Directors hou; been evaluating the Association's acitivities as a step towards increasing membership, Plans are being made to increase visibility of the Mac-FACS Alumni A<;sociation among studems and graduates, The Association provides support to stu ­ dents through scholarships, funds for activities, and Careers Nights, It now needs to look at what it can do for its members, A planning committee will define the educational role of the Association, and propose appropriate activities, You can help by letting us know what activities or services you want. Send your ideas to me at Alumni House, We would like to meet your needs whether you graduated in 193., or 1988.

Guinea. Elaine is also a recipient of the H.H. Har hman Foundation Scho­ larship for academic proficknq and leadership, Professor Rosalind Gibson, Family Scudies, ha<; received the Mead Jolmson Award for exceUence in scien­ tific writing.

Professor Gibson's latest research project has demonstrated a marginal nutritional zinc deficiency in a small population ofapparently healthy boys who were consuming a normal mixed diet. She says more research is needed to establish reasons for these findings and to d<:termine how prevalent lhis defIciency is among children in general.

Loretta Difrancesco, FACS '84 , who is pursuing a Ph.D, in Fanlily Studies, has received a graduate stu­ dent award from the Canadian Dietetic Assodation , She is also a redpient of the H,H. Harshman Foundation Scholarship for academic proficiency and leadership_ Louise Parrott, FACS '711, has received a memorial award from the

Mac-FACS Alu.mni Association

~"(e­

cutive members meeting recently to plan for tbe corning year were (left

to ngbl) Lorraine Holding, '7 J, past presidenl, N(/ncy Plato., '8 1Jirst ltice­ president, and Mar~~ (McKellar) Hedley, '64, M.Sc '81. president, The Mac-FACS Alumni Asso iation look., forward to a year of phmning and expansion, We hope all members, and other graduates of the College of Family and Consumer Studies and Macdonald Institute, will be part of (Jur growth, Margaret (McKellar) Hedley, '64, M.Sc. '81 Canadian Dietetic Association. She is pusuring a master's degree in health administration at the University of Toronto, FACS Dean Richard Barham is on sabbaticaL During this time Professor Bruce Ryan will be acting dean and Professor Betty Miles will be acting chair, Fanlily Studies.

Yuppies and punks have shared the limelight during the past decade, In the 1960s, hippies stole the show Which group cares more about consumer goods and the image they are projecting? 111e yuppie , YOll say?

Not so, says Professor Grant McCracken, Consumer Studies.

As a cultural anthropologist, Pro­ fessor McCracken is breaking new ground mles by studylng 20th cell nlry culture and how it influences ollr consumption. He explores his themes in Cullure and Consumption: New

Approacbes to the

,~)lmbolism

0/

Consumer Goods mutActil'ilies, pub­

lished this spring by Jndhma University Press,

GRAD NEWS

Lincoln County Board of Education, St. Catharines

ARTS

Allan Ross, '81 , is an RCMP constahle, Surrey, B.C.

Garry Bard, '82, earned a Bachelor of Laws degree, Queen's University, Kingston in 1985 and was called to the Ontario bar in 1987, He is practising entertainmt:nt law in the Beaches area ofToronto where he lives with his wife julie. He asks friends to gel in tOuch, Susan Blais, '86, recentl), marrit'd Or.).

Keith Colquhoun, OVC 'R8. TIley live in Cargill, Onto Susan teaches Grade.) and French at Mildmay Public School and Keirn practises at the Walkerton Equine Clinic Judith (Miller) CroWD , '68, is dt:puty administrator, Ct:nter for Unique Leamers, Rockville, Maryland.

Catherine Guthrie-McNaughton, '77, is a librarian, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Robert Herman, '75, is an art instructor,

Catherine (Gilliatt) Walker, '74 , is a lawye r wirn Green, Spencer in Halifax.

Chri<; White, '81 , is an editor/ writer, Esso Resources, Calgary.

CBS

Barbara Hoover, '78, is visitor activities co·ordinator, Canadian Parks Service, Environment Canada, Kitchener.

Joanne Lansbecgen, '74, is a laboratory technician, Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, TIle Netherlands.

Marie Legrow, '80, is a Scientist, Ontario Hydro, Toromo.

Brett Moore, '74, chief, Natural Resource Protection, Environment Canada-Parks, is married to lenore Gibson, FACS '74, director, Pinecrest Co-op Nursery School.

They live in Ncpean.

Gina Ebanks, '84, is a~sistam scientific officer, Cayman15lands aturaJ Resources Labor.ttory, George Town, Grand Cayman.

Michael Oldham, 'RO, is assistant regional

Jim Empringham, '71, principal, S<....uorth District High School , is married to Charlotte Whitehead, FACS '72, a microwave cooking consultant, Empire Cooking &hool. The)' 1iVt' in Exeter.

Beverlee Ritchie, '80, is a fisheries hiologist, Ontario Ministry of Namrai Resources, Beardmore.

Steven Hale, '79, is supervisor, Orthotics and Prosthetics, Calgary General Hopsital

ecologist. Ontario Ministry of Resourct:s, London.

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Vicki Sahanatien, is a national park warden, Canadian Parb Service, Honey Harbour.

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programmer, SRI intemational, is married toJane Salunan, OAC M.Sc. '80, a planner for Midpeninsula Open Space Districr.

They live in Paulo Alto, Ca.

Parvez Ahmad, '77, is associate professor, Chemical Engineering Department, King Abdul Aziz University, )eddah, Saudi Arabia.

Susan Klein, '85, is a progran1Iller analyst, Systems Development Department, Digital Equipment of Canada, Toronto.

Frank Beraro, '8'), is a programmer, Quantum Information Resources, Toronto.

Rob Lake, '77, a geologist with Consultant Geologisl, L married to Susan Kay, OAC '77 , a benefit analyst, Petro Canada Inc. They live in Calgary.

Susan Black, '79, is a pharmacist , British Columbia Children's Ho~,pital, Vancouver.

Tammy (White) Cook, '83 , assistant purchasing manager, Princess Margaret Hospital, is married to Andrew Cook., CBS '83 , senior group underwriter, ' un Life of Canada. They live in Toronto.

Wayne Martin, '78, an environmental ' hem ist , Poilu tech Ltd .. Oakville, is married to Sheelagh cataghan, Arts '80.

Stephen MaxweU, '73, is senior project analyst , Esso Petrokum Canada Ltd. , Toronto.

Dr. Gregory Coulter, Ph.D. '85, a hio· organic chemist, Synthetech Inc., Alhany, Oregon, is married to Silvija Nancy

Margot Sadler, '82, is a medical student, Dalhousie University. Halif.tX.

Trusis, '8,) .

Nick Schrier, '85, is chemistry laborawry co-ordinator, Department ofChemistry & Biochemislry, University of Guelph.

Sandy Fumerton, '82, is a program analyst, May & Baker, Mississauga.

Dr. Allan Johnston , '83, a biosensor

Craig Sibley, '81, is territory manager, Amershan1 Canada Ltd., Oakville.

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Alexandra Adamson, '70, teaches basic aduLt education , Hastings County Board of Education, Belleville.

David Aikens, '74, is ski patrol foreman, Fernie Snow Val1ey Ski Ltd., Fernie, B.C. Sharon (Greenslade) and Bill ArkeU , hoth '81, live in Aurora and work in WiI1owdale. Sharon is marketing co­ ordinator. Digitech Canada, a computer hardware distributor, and BiB is manager of business development , Execueom Systems Software.

Gordon Barnes, '84, is preSident, Pure Fahrication, Mississauga.

Lynda Berg, '77, is a swck broker/trader, Cantor Fitzgerald, l.os Angeles, Ca. David Brian. '84 , is a teacher, Canadian Overseas 5<.'condary School , Kowloon, I long Kong.

John Burns, '86, is export sales manager,

HONORABLE

MENTION

Aumni House received an honorable mention from the Guelph Arts Council when it ' handed out its 1988 Heritage Awards. Jurors called Alumni House, "a unique and imagina· tive transformation of a sheep barn into office space for 35 employees and social space for University alumni. A very well· executed re-adaptive use."

The Heritage Awards honor individuals, groups, companies and governments who have made outstanding contributions to the preservation, restoration or development of heritage properties, or who have put "new life" into older buildings in the city.

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For further infonnation send your resume to CUSO, BA·9 135 Rideau St" Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 9K7.

The person we 're looking for has skiHs and experience and can live on a modest salary .

Canparrs Automotive International Ltd., ("ambridge.

Keith Long, '7 J , is manager, Aspen Sports, Snowmass Village, Colorado.

tor, administr,ltion, Ile.uth and Welfare Canada, St:arborough.

Peter Clarkson, '83, is a park warden , Parks Canada, Jasper, Alta.

Mark Maslen, '78, a hydrometric techni­ cian, Environment .anada, is married to Ann Macaulay, CBS '76. They live in Guelph .

Patricia O'Reilly, '83, is manager, Internal Communications, Suncor Inc., Toronto.

Robin Cochrane, '79, is a professor, A<:adia l 'niversity, Wolfville, .S. Steve Finestone , '84 , is marketing director, Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance, Ottawa.

Alison (Sargeant) Hounralas, '86, a social worker, Durham Social Services, Oshawa, is married to Bill Hountalas, Arts '84 .

Michael McMuUen, '76, is vice president, Human Resources, Ikea Inc. , Plymouth Meeting, Pa.

Peter Ruzzo, '82, is a probation officer, Minist!)· ofCorrectionaJ Services, Oshawa.

John Memmott, M.A. '74 , is a pyscho­ logist, Midwestern Regional Centre , Palmerston.

Terry Smialy, M.A. '81 , is a special education teacher, . Y City Board of Education, Great eck, Long L~land .

Michael Miner, '70, is director, Inter­ national Briefing Associates Inc., Hull, Que.

Karen (McDonald) Jurascbka, '85, greenhouse operator, Ct."adarfield Green­ houses, Freelton, is married to Rene Juraschka, '85.

Suzanne Morpbet, '80, is senior editor, CBC, Yellowknife, NWf.

Claude LeBlanc, '86, is a probation officer, Omario Ministry of Correctional Services, Cobourg.

Michael Nicholas, '76, is a partner! soliCitor, McCarthy & McCarthy, Toronto

Cindy (Rennie) Lindsay, '80, com­ munications specialist, OMAF, is married tojim Lindsay, '77A, who fdfll1!> Burnside Farms, Elora.

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Rebecca Jane Patchett, '8'5, is a social worker, New Zealand PreSb}1erian Social Services.

Wref Nix, '70, owns Queenstreet Station Fashions & Gifts, Cookstown.

Joanne (Goodwin) North, '78, is direc­

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Bill Stady, '75 , is a golf professional, Stady ~pOrLS, Elmira.

Peter Timmins, '80, b a stock broker, Thomson Kernaghan, Toronto, Norman Walford, '69, is chid of administration and corponlte secretary, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Robin Wardrop, '85, is hotel a~istam manager, Ilyau Regency, Grand Cayman, British West Indies.

Dr. Robert Willi'iton, '72, is executive director, EldcrhosteI Canada, Toronto.

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EV _E _N _T_S_

November 9·20 Royal grilu ltural W int er Fair (60th An niver aryl, Toron to November 19 Vani r Cup Game, Toron to December 2·4 OAC D ir1 0ma Hockey T urnament December 4 Pr sident's Counci l Christmas Party

January 17 HA A Alumn i Career~ Night

'anuary 21 Hu ma n Ki neti cs/ Hu man Biology Student Symposium : Transplants

MAC-FACS

Debra (Edward) Botman, '84 , is a renal dietit ian, Hotel Dic:u Hospital, St. Catharines.

Heather Campbell, '86, has completed her B.Ed. at Queen's Lnivcrsity, Kingston and will teach Grade 5 at 'Ibe Columbus &:hool, a private Colombian-American school in Medellin, Colombia, for the next two years.

Elinor Charters, '81 , is services co­ ordinator, New Business Developmem, A.C. Nielsen, Markham.

Susan Dudley, '86, is marketing research analyst, MirAcle Food Man, RexdaJe. Faith Hallward, 'H6, is a nutritionistl dietitian, Hamilton-Wentworth Home Care Program, Hamilton.

John Hanlon, '85 (HAFA ), is a financial analyst, Burger King Canada Inc ., Mississauga.

PRESENTS: FOR ADUlTS LeHer from Wingfield Farm Wednesday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.

War Memorial Hall Tickets - $8.50 to $1 1. 50

Fair November - A Show and Sale of Fine Canadian Crafts Thursday, Nov. 17 to Sunday, Nov. 20 U niversity Centre Free Admiss ion

The National Ballet Friday, Jan . 20, 8 p.rn.

Ross Hall John F. Ross High Schoo l Tic kets - $10,50 to $ 16.5 0

FOR CHILDREN Eric Nagler

Cathy Henning, '82, is market research manager, Boots Drug Stores, Toromo.

Joanne (Stager) Klausnitzer, '86, is program co · ordinator , Kitehener · Waterloo Meals on Wheels.

Kimberley Lafferty, '83 ( HAFA ) , is controller, Umbenino's Restaur.mls Inc., Vancouver.

Claire (Tallman) Lightfoot, '79, has been a dietitian at Campbell River Cener.1I

Hospital for eight years and is now also community nutritionist for Nonh Van­ couver Island and an instructor at the local college in Campbell River, B.C. tihe ha); a small private counselling and con­ sulting practice as well.

Captain Elaine White , '84 (HAFA ), is a food services officer, Canadian Forces Base, Toronto.

Sunday, Jan. 29, 1 p.m .

War Memorial Hall All Seats $6.00

OAC

Tickets availabl al the

Univer ity Cent re Box Offi e.

VI SA and Mas terCard accepted.

Howard Armstrong, '80 ( Eng), is pro­ ducts engineer, Westeel, Winnipeg.

Fo r furth er information

rega rding th ese r any other

University entre events,

please a1l 824 ·412 0, exl. 394 0.

Bill Bossuyt, '87, of Aylmer, is leLhnical sales representative, Agricultural Chemi­ cals Division, BASF Canada Inc. He works with farm supply dealers and grow rs in five southwestern Omario counties.

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Faye Campbell, '68, is senior counsel.

Departmcnt ofJustice, Ottawa. lain Johnson Davidson-Hunt, '88, is a Mennonite CentrJ..l Committee volunteer, working as an agricultural extentionist in Bolivia. He is introducing citrus and other cash nops and teaching proper us!.: of dle canh in a foresl preserve 160 km nonh of Santa Cruz. His wife KerrH, a Wilfrid lauricr Unive rsity grad, is hdping to feed and raise mbbits, chickens, etc. They have two horses for ploughing the fields. carlos Dominguez, M.Sc. '77, is working for the:: Minister ofAgriculture in Maputo, Mozambique, develop ing human re ­ source~ for the seed sector.

Diane Duncan, '84 , works for Agricom, the national grdin~ marketing agency of Mozamhique, Maputo.

Peter Evans , '82, project director , AgriStudies/ CanWest Inc. , Toronto, is married to Marge Misek, School ofRural Planning and Development, '83.

James Fuller, '48, is executive vice­ preside n t, Chemical Division, Akzo Chemicals BV. Amersfoort , The Netherlands.

John Ghetti, '79A, received a B.Sc. degree in petroleum engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, and works for Teit:Cll Oilfield, Wayene, Louisiana.

Anne Grimes , 'R7A, married Joe Palm1eri, 'H6A, July 16. Joe is lead singer forjoshlUl and Anne is a gardener, City of Toronto.

Art Groenveld, '84 (Eng), is nood plain inspector, Grand River Conservation, Cambridge.

Darlene (Gottschalk) Guy, '72, a teaching master, Durham ,oUq~e, Oshawa, is married to Stuart Guy, '72 , a dairy farmer ( Guymaplcs Farm ) and self­ employed personal financial planner.

Brent Harley, '76 (BiA), is principal planner, SNO·Engineering Inc., Lyme, New Hampshire.

Peter Hohenadel, '7SA, is vice-president, communications, Ginty Jocius & Asso­ ciates, Guelph.

Thomas Kopf, '78 (BiA), i:-. director of plann i ng . Bloodgood Arc hile c ts & Planners, Des Moines, Iowa.

Janice (Tait) Kubik, '8,3, consultant, New Bruru.wkk Farm Debt Review Board , is married to Dino Kubik, '82. They live at Harvey Station, N.B.

Hoechst Canada Inc., is married to Pat Ambrous, CBS '73, ove M.Sc '"79 They livl: in Regina.

Oswald Zachariah, M.Sc. '87, is are· ~earch officer, Industrial Development Board, 5t. John's, Antigua, West Indies.

Blair BosslIyl, OAC '87 Paul McCabe, '80, and his wift: Jane, arc the proud parents of a hahy girl. They live in Aurora.

Greg More, '76, is vice· pre~ident , n,e Ontario Glove Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Waterloo.

Paul NodweU, '86 COlA ) and his wife Ellen live in Costa Mesa, C.1., where Paul is project manager, Peripian Group Land· scape Archilcct~ and Planners. lIe is consu l t ing to th e Walt Disney lmagineering Co. a~ area development co·ordinator for the EuroDisney Theme Park in Paris.

Rob Neill, '81 , is marketing manager, Sandoz Ltd., Des Plaines, III. Marilyn (Hewitson) Robinson, '73, was ,Iwarded a Shell Merit of Fellowship, Queen's University, for sciencc teachers' courses inJuly. Twenty·five teachl:r~ from across Canada arc aw.trded thl: fellowsh ips annuaIJy. Marilyn has taught science at Perth and Distri t Collegiate Institute since 1976. She and her hu:..band Larry Robinson, '73 , operate a mixed farm near Perth . They have two children, Amber, 6 and Gregory, 4.

Lawrence Rydholm, '68, i:, a <:hira· practor, Vickers Heights, Ont.

Jim Vrncent, '79, is district manager, Southern PrJiries, for Monsanto. lie is also president, Canadian Agri·Marketi ng Association (Alberta). Ife and hi!> witt: Mary Ellen Amup, CBS (HK) '79, arc the proud parents of a new daugther, Heather Dawne, born july 8. 1l1ey live in Calgary.

Ray Wadsworth, '86 (ODII), b nursery supervisor, Community Servi<:es and P-Jfks, City of Rt:gina.

Valerie (Luckhardt) Wilton. 'H;, a sah.:s representative, Monsanto Canada Inc. , is married to Craig Wilton. They li\e in Coalhurst, Alta.

Doug Yungblut, '72, Ph.D. '79, national accounts manager for feed additives,

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Dr. Marlene Cole, '77, is assistant to the Chief, National Institutes of Health, B 'thesda, Md. Dr. Ronald Dunphy, '78, is a regional veterinarian, Department of Rural Agri· culture and orthern Development , 51.

John's, Ntld.

Dr. Karen Galbraith, '80, pre~ident, L.egacy Holsteins, Atwood, is married co Stephen Dolson, OAC '7fl.

Dr. Barbara Homey, '82. w()rk~ at Kemptville Veterinary d iagnol>tic laborJtory.

Dr, Tony Knirsch, ',)7, is director, Clinical Rt:search, pfizer Inc.. Groton, Connecticut.

Dr. Paul Manley, '7-f , is assistant pro· fessor, School of eterinal)' Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Dale Smith, '80, has returned to OVC as assistant professor, Department o f Pathology, pecializing in wildlife and zoo animal diseases. Prior to this, sht, was J lecturer in pathology, ('niversity of Zimhahwe in Zimbahwe, Africa.

Dr,John Sproule, '4 2, rt:cently married Irene C;ordon and they reside in Kelowna, 11.C. Dr. ~pruulc retired in 1979 alter :'7 },l'ars ,L., regiona l veterinary director, Agri · culture Canada, Calgary.

Dr, Robert Wright, '78, is co·ordinator for the equine program and special pro· jectS, a newly·created OMAF position. lie Jook~ after new programs in h usban dry and extension education for the horsl: indu~try, as well a..~ his duties as assistant to the an imal industry branch director, and b located at thc Guelph Agriculture Centn:.

Dr, Carolyn Wybenga, '8) , who practises at l.istowel Veterinary Clinic, and john Beist:!, a teacher at Listowel District Secondary School, were married July 2.

Tin:y live in Listowei.

Dr. Chris Zink, '78, forrnt:r Winegard Medalist , is a.'>sistant professor, Division of Comparative Medicine, The john Hopkins l ' niver~it)' School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Sht' is doing rescar'h on animal modcl~ of A1DS.

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Geoffrey A. Miller, '82, Toronto, died March 8, 1988. lie was assoc iate box oOice manager, S1. LtwrenCl: c.entrt:, Toronto. He is survived hy a hrother, G. Ross Miller, OAC '7,)A.

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Robin C. Best, M .Sc '72, Ganges, A.C., dil:d Dec. 17, 1986. He is sUIYived by his parenh and wife Vera. In memory of his intere:.t in the aquatic mammals ofElrazil, the Society for Marine Mammaloh'Y. Oregon Stale University, ha.~ l:l>tahlishcd a fund to help ArJZilian students and scien· tists \'\lorking on these specie:..

Dr, Wen-Hwa (Tony) Kwain, M.Sc. '6'1, Ph.D. '68, Aurora, Ont. , died May I I ,

1988. He wal> a senior rest:arch scientist, Ontario Mirtistry of Narural Resources.

He is survived byhiswifc Mingju (Irene), OAC M.Sc. '68 and three children.

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Dr. Michael Zbozny, '69, M.Sc '72 , VancouVl:r, B.C., died Fl:h. I), 1988. He was a ~tockhroker, Wesl Coast Securities Ltd., Vancouvcr. lie is survived by his mothe r.

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Thomas S, Potter, '75, Ewbicoke, Ont., died june 2, J 98R. lie was district opera· t ions manager, Tilden Car & Tnick Rentals, Hamilton. He b survivt:d by his parents, Thomas and jl:an.

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MAC-FACS Sharon M. (waU) Barton, '7?1, London , Ont., died injan, 1988, She b survived by her husband Barry and mother Margaret.

Kathleen M. Oarvis) Busch , '420 , Guelph, died June 14, 1988. She issurvin:d by her husband Uoyd Busch, OAC '42, and four children, Beatrice Craven, '300, Guelph, died july 16, 1988.

Carolyn G. (McArthur) Embury, '280, Toromo, Ont, died Aug, 6, 1988, She is survived hy her husband Frederick and five sons, Marjorie A. Harris, '28D, Burlington , Ont., died June 7, 1988, Margaret Hm.'ton·See, '330 & a friend of classes OAC '35 & OVC '38, ISlington, Om" diedjuly 31 , 1988, She is survived hy two 'hildren, Eleanor D. (Muirhead) Young, '2,)D, orth Ferrisburg, Vermont, died May 2, 1988, She is survived by her hushand, Dr. William G. Young, friend of OAC '26, and four children.

OAC G. Ian D. Cameron, '38 friend) & '39, St. Catharines, Ont. , died Aug, 7, 1988. He is survived hy rwo sons.

John M.W. Cass, '41A & '44, Fergus, Ont" died Aug. I I , 198/t He is survived by three children,

C. Wesley Dew, '40, Branrford, Ont. , died june 16, 1988, He served in the RCAF, was manager of Maple Crest Farm, Maple, Om., and had farmed near Wood· stock, Ont" for the pa~t .~6 years, He is survived by his wife Marjorie and two children, P. Michael Dewan, '22, Ingersoll, Om" died July 29, 1988 He is survived hy his sons David Dewan, OAC '54 , John and Wilfrid and daughters Marie, Patricia, Margaret and Helen, HaroldB. Disbrowe, '2IA& '23, London, Ont., died July 10, 1988. He worked in Turkey as a farm director and teacher at International College, 17111ir, and in Canada

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as a Iecrurer in apiculture uOlkr the late Professor Eric Millen, OAC, and later as a high school science teacher. He retired as principal of Elmira District ~condary School and movt:d to London where he hecame a freelance writer. Jn 1981 , his book, D()u '11 ()n the Farm, was published.

It describes rural life in tht: first 2'; years of this century, In 19R4, .4 SCh()()";/afl's Odyssey, was published It umtains select d memoirs ofhis tt:aching day!>, He is survived by three children, G.A. Shennan Heeney, '42, Belleville, Ont., died July 7, 1988 He !>erved as a lieutenant in the RCA, Second World War. He is survived by his wife largaret and four 'hildren , ElmoreJ. HeUyer, '2.'S , Dunnville, Ont., died July 30, 1988 lIe is survived by two children .

George Hull, '.30. IslinglOn, Ont., died June 18, 1988, lie served in the RCAF, Second World War, and was former prin· cipal of North Albion CoUegiatt:, Toronto.

He is sunived by his wife Olive :lnd two children, Vernon R. Hunter, ' 17, Burford, Ont. , dkd June 21, 19R8, He farmed al Cavan , Ont. until 1944 when he moved to Burford where he worked a.~ a carpenter until his retirement, He is survived hyhisdaughter, Sylvia Hunter, who was arts adminis· trator/ concert manager, Depanment of Music. from 1978 to 1984, Patrick I. Kumchy, '50, Onawa, Om., died May 5, 1987. He is survived hy his wife Stella and four children, Willis Ray Lapp, '27A, \.omox, B,C , died May to, 1988. He is sun'ived hy two daughters, Edgar . (Lindy) Leckie, '37A & '41.

Willowdale, died July 12, 1988 He wa<; captain of the 1938 OAC national cham· pionship football tearn and played pro­ fessionally with the Balmy Beach teilm in the 194()s, including one Grey Cup ganle, He was a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, Second World War. He relired from Imperial Oil, Toronto, nine year~ ago Hc is survived by his wife Helen and five children Arthur H.S. Martin, ' 24, Kitchener, Om" died July I , 1988. He "'>as director. Soil and Crop ImprovemeO[ Department, Government of Ontario, for 28 years and received an OAC Centennial Medal in 1974, He is survived by his daughter, Barbara, aylor,

WilliamS. Martin, ':HA& '37, Brampron, Ont., died Aug. 8, 1988, He is survived by his wifeJean (Robertson), Mac '37, and three children.

Leslie H. McMillan, '37A & '40, Ottawa, died in June 1988. He wa.~ director, Livestock Division, Agriculture Canada, when he retired in the early 1980s. He is sun1ved hy his wife Anna, Arthur G. Richmond, '21,\ & ' 2:\ , I.ondon, Om., died June I, 1988. He sen'ed in the Canadian Corps, First World War. and wa.~ retired a.~ a '><.:condaJ]' school pnncipal. He is urvived by his wife !'.ola, Arthur C. Robertson, '46 & honorary president of '')IA, Almonte, Ont, died June '), 1988, He wa~ retirnl from the Department of Agricultural Ec()nomic~ and Business, OAC He is slirvived by his wife Dorothy and lWO daughters.

Henry A. (Harry) Smallfield , 'ISA & '21 , Guelph , died July 7, 1988. He wa~ formerly a professor, Dairy Department, OA( , lit: IS survived by his sons, Richard and Robert Smallfield, OAC '') 2, and dalighter.Joan Boyer, Mac ' ')1.

OVC Dr. Hakom Holm, ' .~8 , Bourbon , Indiana, died in June 1988 Dr. Mona McCardle, '-i8, Linu~ay, Ont. , died Aug. 17 , 1988. She is sun'ived by her hushand AlJan McCardle, OAC '')2, Dr. J. Ronald Smith , '-i'), Stoulfville, One ., dleliJuly 17, 1988 Heis survived by . his wil<: Ruth and four children.

FRIENDS Evelyn M. (Holm) Couling, Guelph, dicdJuly 2,1988. She wa"pn:deccased by her husband , Professor Gordon CouHng. a former faculty member at the L ni\ersity, in 1984. onna B,1elJa Watts Walker. Winnipeg, died May j I , 1988. She once v()rkcd a'i assistant to the Dean of Women , Mat'don:Lld Institute, She is sun'ived by a si~ler md brother Marjorie E. (WeUs) Ward, a friend of the <.:lass of OAC '13. ToroOlo, died JlIne I , 1988. ~he is survived hy a twin siSler, .\1arion Khdl.

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