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Serving Canada is a team effort for this U ofGfamily n the early morning hours of Aug. 2, IDickenson, 1990, Canadian Ambassador Larry OAC '68, and his 22-year­ old daughter, Tonya, boarded a plane in Kuwait's capital bound for Vienna.

Leaving behind the Middle East countries of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Oman where he works as Canada's ambas­ sador, Dickenson was looking forward to hi s eventual arrival in Canada for a summer leave and reunion with his wife, Margaret, Mac '68, and youngest daughter, Christa, 19, whom he had last seen two months before.

According to diplomatic and world intelligence sources, the tensions be­ tween Iraq and Kuwait were running high, but there was clearly not going to be an invasion.

Within 15 minutes of the Dickenson' s departure from Kuwait, however, Iraqi forces stormed and cap­ tured the airport. The British Airways jet next in line for takeoff still sits at the occupied airport.

Dickenson first heard about the in­ vasion when he arrived in Vienna, so he caught the next available flight to Saudi Arabia and drove to the Kuwaiti border. There, he spent three unsuc­ cessful days trying to re-enter the country. In mid-August, he returned to Canada for a month to co-direct Canada's crisis centre.

His role inside Kuwait is restricted at this time, says Margaret, but "when Mulroney committed the air force, Larry went to find bases and negotiate places for personnel." Then he set up an office in Bahrain from which he continues to carry out Canadian em­ bassy operations throughout the Per­ sian Gulf.

Margaret and their daughters are based in Canada for the time being.

For the past two years, in fact , Margaret has divided her time be­ tween Ottawa and Kuwait. When the ambassador is travelling outside Kuwait, Margaret returns to Canada to spend time with their daughters and

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parents. She is also developing a na­ tional membership program for the Canadian Museum of Nature. "Larry and I decided this was an opportunity for me that couldn't be lost," she says.

"We were excited to find something so creative and beneficial that would take advantage of my experience and at the same time make an important contribution to the Canadian public."

When she's in the Middle East, Margaret provides support for her hus­ band and assists him in the entertain­ ing that 'is a necessary part of his job.

"My training in home economics is helpful," she says. "I do all the manag­ ing, menu-planning and supervising for large dinner parties and official receptions."

Larry and Margaret have worked as a team throughout their 23-year marriage. "We have a wonderful mar­ riage, a partnership. Our halfway­ around-the-world commute has only enhanced that relationship," says Mar­ garet.

They met at the University of Guelph in 1964. Says Margaret, "We met on the first day of school, within the first few hours in a physics lab."

After the lab, they stood together in lunch line at Creelman Hall. Within a couple of weeks, Marg aret says, "I knew he was a very special person."

The two married after their third year of school and then, after graduat­ ing, embarked on their career with the

foreign service. They spent several months in Vienna, then Yugoslavia, before a three-year posting in the Soviet Union. "That was a lovely, love­ ly time," recalls Margaret.

From Moscow, the family had a three-year posting with the European Economic Community in Brussels fol ­ lowed by a three-year stint back in Canada. The two-year posting that fol­ lowed in Cairo was "wonderful," says Margaret. "But at a week's notice we were posted to South Korea for four years."

Their diplomatic career has not al­ ways been easy. In Vienna, Dickenson's first day in the office coin­ cided with the 1969 bombing of the embassy. "He almost lost his life there," says Margaret. There have been other close calls along the way, but Margaret says the family views their career as "a great opportunity."

She is anxious for the tensions in the gulf to be resolved and is confident they will be. Shortly after talking with the Guelph Alumnus, Margaret and Christa were heading to the gulf for Christmas. "We have no reservations about going," she says. "I just hope we can help boost the morale of the Canadian troops and citizens, as well as our Arabic friends there."

"Life has been good," she says. "And there's no reason it shouldn't continue that way."

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COVE R Tbe watercolor painting by Debbie Thompson Wilson emphasizes the University of . Guelph's international focus on people.

FEA TU RE S

An international perspective ' HONG KONG: The city that

This special feature looks at the teaching, research and service programs which pro vide a . global perspective for·University of Guelph students.

University of Guelph alumni tal k about thei r

concerns for the futu re of this bustling city a nd their perso nal plans for 1997 when Hong Kong reverts to C hinese rule.

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Waiting for Kuwait: Anxious for political tensions to ease in the Middle East, the family of Canadian Ambassador Larry Dickenson wait for the day when they can return to their home in Kuwait.

Grad news . . . . . .. 29 This special issue features alumni who live outside Canada.

Comment

VoI.24,No.l Editor Mary Dickieson Executive Editor Sandra Webster, CSS '75 Contributors Chris Boyadjian, Arts '81, Barbara Chance, CSS '74, Gabrielle Duval. Linda Graham , Arts.'77, Marla Konrad, Herb Rauscher, Martha Tancock, David l homas, Debbie Thompson Wilson, Arts '77 Editorial Advisory Board Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, Chair; Richard . Buck, OAC '76A; Sheila Levak, HAFA '83 ; De nis Lynn, CBS '69; Karen Mantel, Arts '83; Robin-Lee Norris, Cs..<; '80; Harold Reed, OVC '5.5; Brian Romagnoli, Arts '84; Peter Taylor, Arts '76; Agnes Van Haeren, CSS '86; Robert Wilbur, OAC '80; Bob Winkel, OAC '60; Marina Wright. FACS ' 85 and M.Se. '88

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Audrey McLaughlin, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, comments on Canada's develop01ent assistance program.

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LETTERS

I am co-builder of Literacy House, Luck­ now, India. I have been an honorary con­ sultant to the Methodist Church in India for rural development and a local adult education association, which I co­ developed with support of World Literacy Canada.

India stands at the cross road - 'to be or not to be' - to be a progressive, dynamic, literate country with a mission of Panch Sheel (a five-point program

promoted by India's first prime minister, the late lawaharlal Nehru) or to be a fac­ tional and ever-looking-backward society.

Who is going to help the country at this crucial juncture? I think its best friend shall come from education.

India has gone ahead in formal educa­ tion, but, in non-formal education, is way behind. Perhaps our problem is the im­ balanced growth of education and literacy in urban and rural society. Consider the literacy among women. There are 30 dis­ tricts in my home state where literacy among women is four to 20 per cent. What a sad story. The question is, What can be done') My strategy of work is, more and more, the involvement of people at all levels and

making graded reading material available to people for self-education and discus­ sion. My strategy would involve the univer­ sities, not to teach the illiterate, but to evaluate and undertake research in adult education. I would very much Jike to ap­ proach the journalists in the country if it could be of help at the level of people in rural and urban regions.

This all should be done in such a way that the programs gradually and ultimately grow as part of the system of government in India.

Ernest C. Shaw,

OACMSA '64 Lucknow, India

Editor's note: Shaw visited Canada and the United States last summer for the first time in 26 years. He wrote to us through Prof. Archie MacKinnon, director of the Centre for International Programs.

Treat yourself to a special dining experience at the

Whippletree Restaurant Licensed under LLBO Reservations 519-767-5035 Located on the 4th Roor, University Centre, near the north elevators.

In 1984, I arrived at the University of Guelph with enthusiasm on one hand and uncertainty on the other. The former reflected my ambition while the latter reflected my fear of academic inadequacy.

Another uncertainty was whether or not Guelph was the "right choice" for me...This anxiety, however, rapidly disappeared while I was still worrying when it would get worse. I am sure that my psychology degree did not show me the "right therapy" for dealing with this anxiety. It disap­ peared because of the friendly atmosphere and beautiful environment that I was in.. J found myself being accepted and was con­ vinced that my decision was the right one.

After graduation, when I took my last walk on campus with the degree in my suitcase, I then realized how worthwhile it was forme."

In 1988, I flew to England in order to pursue my PhD in psychology. I went to Sheffield University working with a profes­ sor of psychiatry on schizophrenia. I have been involved with a couple of psychiatric hospitals. Then recently, I have been employed by the University of London to do some research on post-traumatic stress disorder. .. and am working in the stress clinic.

No words can capture the beauty and multicultural atmosphere of England. The Guelph London House may have con­ tributed to this beauty and certainly the culture. The British reserved attitude, how­ ever, makes me miss my friends at Guelph even more.

Man Cheung Chung,

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Enrolment increase Enrolment at the University of Guelph is at an all-time high. A total of 13,732 full- and part­ time students registered in under­ graduate programs in the fall 1990 semester. That's an increase of eight per cent over last year's record 12,723.

On the plus side is the fact that 30 per cent of the entering stu­ dents were Ontario Scholars, com­ pared with 25 per cent in 1989.

Also a plus is the reason for the unexpected increase - a higher number of acceptances from new students and more returning stu­ dents. Prof. Leonard Conolly, as­ sociate vice-president, academic, says this is a direct reflection of liaison efforts and the growing recognition of the quality of Guelph's programs.

On the negative side of these statistics is the fact that the University does not particularly want to increase enrolment. The added pressure has made some classrooms even more crowded and has required an additional $300,000 in operating funds to add extra sections of classes. The University will also reduce the number of students admitted in Jan­ nuary 1991 by two-thirds.

"We must make careful use of University assets, such as the Pus­ linch property, in order to main­ tain excellence in teaching and research despite the decline in government funding for educa­ tion," says Ferguson.

Sculptor moves into finals Fine art student Charles Courville was named finalist in the 1990 student sculpture com­ petition sponsored by the art ad­ visory board of the Toronto Sculpture Garden. He is the first of three finalists to be selected from 1990 to 1992 who will sub­ mit proposals for a 1993 installa­ tion at the sculpture garden.

Canine degree granted

Children's author Jean Little of Guelph received an honorary doc­ tors of letters degree at fall conAlmost 700 dogs and their best/riends came to vocation ceremonies Oct. 5. oVC's Super Match dog show las( September.

Visually impaired since birth, Look/or this to become an anl/ual ev~nl.

Little spoke to graduates about Photo by Tanya Carnah,1n the accomplishments of her guide dog, Zephyr, and President Brian Segal presented him with a "doc­ The agricultural usefulness of the tor of Iitters" honoris canine.

Puslinch lands was initially a concern Some 450 graduates received of some opponents, but became a non­ degrees and diplomas at convocation, issue because the land is mainly Class and Earl MacNaughton, founding 3,4 or 5 in quality. Ontario's prime dean of the College of Physical and Gravel extraction gets go-ahead agricuJturallands are rated Class I Engineering Science, was named an and 2. honorary fellow of the University.

The University of Guelph has received MacNaughton began teaching at the Environmental concerns have been the go-ahead from the Ontario Ontario Agricultural College in 1948. addressed since the mid-1970s, when Municipal Board for the extraction of He was later head of the physics the University began hiring consult­ gravel from its 188-hectare Puslinch department, dean of science for Wel­ to provide advice on how to ex­ ants Township property. lington College and, from J970 to tract aggregate deposits with Last June, the OMB granted the 1981, dean of CPS. to the ecosystem and how sensitivity University lands an "extractive in­ to progressively rehabilitate the lands dustries designation" and, in Septem­ following extraction . ber, rezoned the property to permit The University has an agreement gravel extraction. The OMB decision Construction continues with St. Lawrence Cement for royal­ also recommends that the Ministry of ties on gravel extracted from the Pus­ Natural Resources issue the University With more than a dozen construction linch property. All royalties will be a licence to extract. and renovation projects under way on deposited in the University'S endow­ campus, it's easy to see that there's a The University was one of a num ­ ment fund, and earnings will be used demand for both the gravel that will ber of parties - including aggregate to support capital needs for campus be provided by the proposed Puslinch companies, ministries, local and other buildings, equipment and other essen­ Township pit and for the revenue to interest groups - that participated in help pay for the University's capital tial initiatives, says Charles Ferguson, a 16-month OMB hearing into the projects. township's official plan on extraction. vice- president, administration.

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The construction and renovation projects now under way, nearing com­ pletion or about to begin, represent about $70 million, says Al Brown, director of Physical Resources.

Included in this list are: • completed renovations to the Ath­ letics Centre; • a 300-seat lecture theatre being added to the engineering building; • new chillers at the Central Utilities Plant; • a family housing complex to be built near Da iry Bush Hill; • a laboratory extension to the Axelrod building (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics); • a second- floor addition to the Richards building (Department of Land Resource Science); • renovations to Zavitz HalJ; • renovations to the library; • an extension to the Chemistry and Microbiology building (to house the Centre of Excellence in Bacterial Disease); • an addition to Maritime Hall; • construction of the environmental biology / horticultural science com­ plex; and • repaving on East Ring Road.

Funding sources include The Cam­ paign, the University's capital budget, departmental budgets, government grants and research contracts and a housing mortgage.

Recycle when you redial Here's a new idea for recycling old telephone directories - shred them

is funding at Canadian universities to find environmentally conscious uses for discarded directories. In Ontario and Quebec alone, 42,000 tons of phone books go into landfill sites each year.

Recently completed laboratory tests on the paper bedding were favorable, says Prof. Jock Buchanan-Smith, Department of Animal and Poultry Science. He and research assistant Pablo Colucci, OAC PhD '85, tested the paper for water absorption, am­ monia levels (when incubated with manure) and biodegradability.

The researchers have found no data to suggest that heavy-metal con­ tamination from newsprint inks would occur. Pilot trials with animals will look at the quantity of paper cattle might ingest as an indicator of toxicity and at the comparative cost of using phone books versus straw or wood shavings.

Animal welfare centre launched for use as bedding for livestock.

Tests are being conducted with beef cattle, chickens, sheep, pigs and horses to compare shredded phone books to the traditional livestock bed­ ding of straw and wood shavings. The project is one of four that Bell Canada

The University of Guelph's new Centre for the Study of Animal Wel­ fare was launched last fall with Prof.

Ian Duncan , Department of Animal and Poultry Science, as acting direc­ tor. The centre's mandate, says Dun­ can, will range from "the philosophy of animal welfare right through to the nuts and bolts of designing animal hus­ bandrytechniq ues."

As director, Duncan says his objec­ tives are to raise awareness of the centre and look for .support among producer groups, agricultural groups and industries that use animals, such as the cosmetic and pharmaceutical in­ dustries, as well as individuals and animal welfare organizations such as the Humane Society. He admits it's a mix that might generate controversy, but he thinks the debate will lead to a better understanding of the issues in animal welfare.

Anyone interested in getting in­ volved with the centre can contact Duncan at 519-824-4120, Ext. 3652.

Summer Surprise Renovations to Za vitz Hall are scheduled to be completed in 1992.

Photo by Jim Van Du sen

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When he left Guelph last summer, zoology professor Eugene Balon car­ ried two suitcases - one packed for Gue/ph Alumnus

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Coelacanth, by David Voorvelt of the JLB Smith In stitute of Ichthyology in South Africa.

the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, where he was pursuing the rare coelacanth fish species, and the other for the Soviet Union, where he became the first western scientist to visit the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Balon was in for a surprise at both destinations.

Female fish holds secret to life In the Comoros, Balon acquired a female coelacanth fish that was ac­ cidentally caught by a fisherman just outside the boundaries of a proposed national park. The unusual specimen - a large female in oestrus at the time it was caught - may help explain how the coelacanth reproduces.

Since the first living coelacanth was discovered in 1938 - fossils indicated the group had been extinct for 70 mil­ lion years - scientists have learned how the female fish nurtures and delivers live young, but not how the eggs are fertilized.

An international team of scientists will assemble on campus this winter to study the specimenThey hope to ex­ plain how the female compensates for the male's inability to transfer sperm.

Many scientists believe the physical characteristics of the coelacanths prove the ancient fish are ancestors of all land vertebra tes.

Radiation victims prove theory In Russia, Balon found a living radiation laboratory with data that supports his research in epigenetics -' the study of cellular regulation more basic than even the genetic code car­ ried by an organism.

Balon was surprised when Moscow's prestigious Severtsov InGuelph Alumnus

stitute of Animal Evolutionary Mor­ phology and Ecology invited him to visit the Soviet Union, and even more surprised to learn the itinerary in­ cluded Chernobyl. Only after he ar­ rived did Balon realize that the Soviet scientists wanted to show him the radiation biology and genetics laboratories set up within the 40­ kilometre contaminated radius of the disabled power plant.

Their observations of what is hap­ pening to plants and animals around the reactor site provide evidence to support Balon's theory that develop­ mental information found within or­ ganisms can override genetic distortions. Over the past 10 years, Balon has argued in scientific papers that even tremendous changes in chromosomes and DNA - in this case, caused by radiation exposure ­ will not alter the physical charac­ teristics of the phenotype or next generation organisms which survive the embryonic test.

"Most individuals with distorted genomes simply would not be allowed to survive beyond early ontogenetic stages," says Balon.

Almost every plant and animal species within the 40-kilometre radius has been found to have some distor­ tion of the normal chromosome and DNA patterns. During the first two years after the reactor explosion on April 26, 1986, normal growth was ac­ celerated two- to three-fold in species as varied as spruce trees and Chinese carps. Just as quickly, towever, the growth rate returned to normal.

Balon did see some visible muta­ tions in flowers , but he says the num­ ber of mutations observed by Soviet scientists is no greater than is normal-

Iy found in nature.

It rained the day Balon visited Chernobyl, so he was able to walk within 100 metres of the concrete-en­ cased reactor without wearing a mask, although protective clothing and boots were worn.

Balon says the Soviet scientists were eager to hear his comments, asked for suggestions and pleaded with him to invite other western scien­ tists to take an interest in C hernobyl.

"It was a terrible accident - 31 workers were killed in the explosion and thousands of local Ukrainians have died from leukemia. The need for scientific study of the aftermath is tremendous, but there is much that can be learned from Chernobyl to help us understand life."

Above, elon ga ted needles on the spruce tree are the result ofradiation exposure ­ note that th e needles are normal in both preceding and followin g years - but the mutation in the daisy is a common abnor­ mality, found in almost any wild growth of th e species.

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Editor's Note: . In this issue of the Guelph A/.umnus we've taken a look at how the U niversityof Guelph is meeting its global commit­ ments; in fact, why it has global commitments. If the University's primary goal is to educate Canadians, why should a development project in Indonesia or a faculty ' exchange program with a Polish university be so impor­ . tant?ln the pages that follow, we'll show you that the answer to both the hows and whys of the University's international activity is people.

The paper stretcher we needed to put this issue together couldn't be found, so we've had to settle for a vignette instead of an epic. More than 100 years of history and 205 countries -at last count - just won't fit into 40 pages. I'm · corlVinced that whatever spot you pick on the globe, some­ one in the University community was born there, studied · there,taught there, collaborates with a colleague there, has graduate studentsfrom there or has travelled there to teach or conduclTesearch.

The international section of this issue was written by Marla Konrad, Martha Tancock and Mary Dickieson; art work byDebbie Thompson Wilson. Photos were loaned to us by Eugene Balon, Dave Barbour for CIDA, Michael Brookfield, Cameron Clark, Chandler Kirwin, Bill Nitk]irig, Dahlia Restrepo, Rural Extension Studies and the University School ofRural Planning and Development.

For the wonderful stories that follow, we must thank the · several dozen faculty, staff, students and alumni who .recounted their experiences for us. They are the people who 'give the University of Guelph its global perspective.

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he" yO" step off a plaoe at the Beiji"g ai, port and one of the quarantine officers ap­ proaches you with a smile, a handshake and "How are things at the University of Guelph?" is it pure coincidence? Not at all.

He's one of thousands of people around the world who are friends of the University.

If you're wearing a U of G jacket or sweater you might have that same experience almost anywhere in the developing world. "Sometimes we fail to appreciate how well known this institution is in other parts of the world," says Archie MacKinnon, director of the Centre for International Programs. The University's 4,000 alumni who live outside Canada - in 114 countries and territories - are evidence of the far-reaching friendships Guelph has.

Many of these friendships predate the 1964 estab­ lishment of the University. The agricultural and veteri­ nary colleges have always had international involvements because of the strong sense of community within the agricultural sector, says University president Brian Segal. "The University is fortunate to have in­ herited that communal notion," he says.

In its 1985 aims and objectives document, the University reaffirmed its global interdependence and its responsibility "to develop a world view" in its students.

The Toward 2000 document outlined commitments in teaching, research and service.

Guelph's expertise in research and rural planning are in demand. The School of Rural Planning and Develop­ ment has become a key player in Canada's internation­ al development efforts. In turn, the University benefits Guelph Alumnus

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through greater opportunities for students and faculty. Mac­ Kinnon estimates the University receives a three-to-one return on every dollar invested in international develop­ ment. The budget for externally funded development con­ tracts exceeds $50 million - 10 times the amount under contract to any other Canadian university. Since 1969, Guelph has participated in 177 development projects.

In the next few pages, you'll read about many of these projects and the care with which they are handled. "When­ ever a university gets involved in international affairs in countries over which it has neither jurisdiction nor influence on public policy, ethical and moral issues will naturally arise," says Segal. "The larger our role in international development becomes, the more important it is to ensure that the activities we undertake meet the needs of students and maintain the values inherent in the University."

To this end, U of G Senate has established a committee and guidelines to monitor international activities. Within its mandate, the committee reviews proposed and ongoing projects to ensure that both the University's institutional goals and its commitment to human rights are not com­ promised. The evaluations are not always easy, says com­ mittee chair Mark Waldron, director of the School of Continuing Education. But through its deliberations, the committee has maintained the University's traditional focus on people. "Our focus is not on sustaining governments but rather helping individuals and groups improve their lot," says Segal.

The international perspective weaves its way into every academic and social program on campus. Students can take a minor in international agriculture, a degree program in in­ ternational veterinary medicine or a new course in interna­ tional business. U of G has long-standing links with Gu elph Alumnus

institutions in Latin America, Asia and Western Europe, and is quickly developing relationships in Eastern Europe.

The Chinese quarantine officer knows the University be­ cause of the short-term training programs offered by the School of Continuing Education. He and fellow workers came to Guelph two years ago as part of a training program that took them to universities across the country. The pro­ gram brings people from allover the world , says Waldron.

"They come to learn everything from how to make wine to food systems engineering."

The current student population on campus is working hard to echo the strong international profile of our alumni.

A new initiative called Sound Growth will use Canadian In­ ternational Development Agency funding to send students to work in developing countries. The initiative recognizes that "sound" personal growth has to have an international context. The students will also record their experiences for broadcast by university radio stations across Canada .

There are many opportunities to develop a global perspective without leaving campus. Within a two-week period in the fall semester, the campus hosted a Russian physicist working in spectroscopy, a goat-production specialist from Singapore, a Yugoslavian pianist and a Ger­ man professor concerned about the influence of rock music on political change in Germany. There were lessons in Rus­ sian and Mandarin , a coffee house to support Tools for Peace in Nicaragua and a chance to apply for a position with World University Service of Canada in Botswana .

U of G boasts more than 500 foreign students with which to rub shoulders, and many courses draw on the expertise of its well-travelled professors. It would be difficult to spend even one semester on this campus without gaining a feeling of rapport with the world community.

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and the University . . of Guelph have forged co-opera­ tive and mutually enriching relationships for more than 20 years. Agricul­ ture and veterinary science have been the most common, but not exclusive, bonds. From beekeeping to desertification, the initiatives have been diverse and rewarding. One of the first and strongest links was forged with the University of Ghana in 1970. The Ghana­ Guelph Project was the most comprehensive link between a Canadian and a foreign univer­ sity at the time, and it has had a profound impact on the in­ dividuals who participated, on curricula at both institutions and on Canadian development strategies.

The project began with a re­ quest from the University of Ghana in Legon for Canadian academics to help strengthen five departments - agricul­ tural extension, animal, crop, Ethiopian wom{in and child. home and nutrition and food sciences. With financial sup­ port from the Canadian Inter­ IDRC board before entering politics. national Development Agency Winegard was one of the first mem­ CClDA), 125 Canadians and bers of the administration to visit the Ghanaians participated in studies as

project.

For most, it was their fIrst ex­ diverse as the washfastness of

posure to development work. They Ghanaian cottons and the use of cas­

saw adverse conditions - lack of sava as a staple in poultry diets.

spare parts, scarcity of petrol, limited "We were determined to make it a diet, outdated equipment and inade­ partnership, not an aid project," says quate libraries. By encouraging these project director James Shute, Rural Ex­ visits, Shute guaranteed "support and tension Studies. understanding" from decision- ma kers.

In Ghana, many involved in the "We designed a damned good project have moved into key university project. It grew out of the '60s when and government positions. In Guelph, we didn't have a lot of experience.... the project inspired the introduction of It wasn't designed to be a model. But, a minor program in international I've heard CIDA still hauls out the con­ . agriculture. Of the Guelph faculty who tract when it is looking at university in the project, several took took part links." up international development work.

Janet Wardlaw, former dean of the The proof is in the enduring College of Family and Consumer relationship between the two univer­ Studies CFACS), is now chairman of sities. In 1986, FACS embarked on a the board of International Develop­ four-year project to help lay the foun­ ment Research Centre. Former U of G dation for a graduate program in president Bill Winegard, now federal Ghana's home science department. minister for science, also sat on the And computer specialists Ken Mac10

Kay, AI Dyer and Ted Swart are helping to modernize the university's information sys­ tems.

U of G has twice as many computer terminals on campus as are found in the whole of Ghana, says Agatha Gaisie­ Nketsiah, data processing manager for the University of Ghana. She was on campus last fall to study Guelph's com­ puterized record-keeping sys­ tems and library catalogue.

Once a computer science department is in place, the University of Ghana plans to offer consulting services to businesses and government.

"Universities have to set the pace for people, and if they don't have the technology, it sets the country back," says Gaisie-Nketsiah. Funded by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the project will enable the Ghanaian in­ stitution to help other univer­ sities in West Africa.

Echoes of success Many other African projects have echoed the success in Ghana.

• The Guelph- Yaounde Project launched in English-speaking Cameroon in the late 1970s was a unique venture between Guelph's Department of English Language and Literature and the University of Yaounde. It aimed to preserve in­ digenous folklore. Over seven years, stories passed on in the oral tradition were recorded and transcribed for use in school book­ lets, which replaced European models and are still being used.

• A pilot project was launched last spring to train Cameroonian women to help rural women's groups become self-reliant. Armed with backpacks full of learning materials - designed by and for Africans - these field workers will show isolated women how to imGuelph Alumnus

prove their quality of life through enterprise and interaction. The four­ year CIDA project is co-ordinated

by Elizabeth Cockburn, CSS '81, Rural Extension Studies. The initia­ tive came from a Cameroonian teachers' organization which has support from its Canadian counter­ parts. It is currently seeking help to produce and market the kits, which CUSO is already using in Nigeria and Ghana.

John McDermott, OYC '8 I and PhD '90, Population Medicine, spends eight months a year on the faculty of the University of Nairobi

and two other Guelph faculty spend one month each, while Kenyan graduates study at Oye.

• Campus radio is playing a peripheral role in a cluster of student overseas projects funded by CIDA . Of 20 stu­ dents destined for overseas posts, eight biology students have been working on an environmental educa­ tion project in Cameroon and others have been involved in tropical animal breeding, public health and parasite control in Kenya. Many will be documenting their experiences for broadcast by CFRU and other campus stations across Canada.

• The Kenya-Canada Beekeeping Project was initiated in 1971 by the late Gordon Townsend, OAC '38 and MSA '42. The project created cottage industries for impoverished rural villages. Guelph, considered one of the leading centres in tropical apiculture, sent apiculturists to East Africa to help design hives for in­ creased honey production. Students from Ethiopia and Kenya travelled here to study beekeeping. Within five years, Kenya moved from im­ porting honey to exporting its in­ creased production.

• In Tanzania, land resource science professors Ward Chesworth and Peter Yan Straaten have been work­ ing with a local team to identify rock that contains phosphate. They hope to build a small mine to grind such rock into natural fertilizer. In Ethiopia, they are studying the use of volcanic ash as an evaporation barrier to conserve moisture in soil.

• In Kenya, Ontario Yeterinary College (OYC) faculty are working with the University of Nairobi to upgrade graduate programs in veterinary epidemiology and economics.

Started last year with $1 million from CIDA, the six-year project is designed to train staff, develop field study and research projects and set up links with agricultural research institutions in Africa.

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The University of Guelph team gets stuck in the sand in Mali.

Culture shock in Mali Adjusting to Africa can be difficult. For geography professor Bill Nickling, spending up to three months every year for three years in the desert waste­ land of Mali was as much a cultural and physical challenge as an academic one. There to study wind erosion and find ways to retard desertification, he observed more than the shifting Saharan sands.

Mali is a classic example of the devastating effects of land overuse. What l'ittle vegetation is left is chopped for firewood and used to feed grazing herds of cattle and sheep. Methods of farming - plowing, burning crop stubb'le, turning sheep and cattle loose to graze on the stubble - are traditional but only accelerate the loss of topsoil.

The project was a co-operative one with Mali's Ecole Superieur Normale and the International Development Research Council.

Nickling 's recommendations for protecting soil will have to compete with entrenched social values. Owning sheep and cattle - whose hooves loosen the topsoil and make it more vulnerable to wind erosion - is equated with wealth and status.

Nickling's Guelph team had to adjust to both the desert climate and the local culture. Bouts of malaria and dysentery were aggravated by suffocating temperatures. Clean water, shade and mosquito nets became priorities.

By North American standards, the pace of work seemed frustratingly slow and class differences were appalling. It often took hours of painful negotia­ tion to arrange the exchange for goods and services. In Mali, women clearly did most of the domestic and farm labor and the division between rich and poor was dramatic, says Nickling. "It was a new experience for me. I was naive" about the frustrations inherent in development.

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Beijing exchanges

Guelph's first long-term involve­ ment in China began 10 years ago when the University entered an agree­ ment with Beijing Agricultural Univer­ sity (BAU) to exchange faculty and help strengthen the Chinese school.

Through that relationship, BAU be­ came familiar with Guelph's expertise in library systems and asked for help in a Chinese- and World Bank-funded project to construct an open-access library.

Planning for the library began in 1985, with Chief librarian John Black as Guelph's main adviser.

In traditional Chinese libraries, stacks are closed and reading rooms have specific functions and are limited to certain users. When BAU's new library is complete, everybody - stu­ dents, faculty and researchers - will be able to use any part of the collec­ tion.

This is a major philosophical change for BAU. Archie MacKinnon, director of the Centre for International Programs, says "the project has major implications for Chinese society .. . . It means that students will be able to look at and question political doctrines and scholarly works."

Political problems

The Creal Wall of China.

A series of firsts in China

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Guelph's reputation as an innovator started in 1973 when it sent . a group of 20 people, mainly Guelph faculty and students, to China to try to set up an exchange program with Chinese institutions. In those days before the death of Mao Tse-tung and the end of the Cultural Revolu­ tion, "it was a major coup to get a tour," says Prof. Mark Waldron, director of the University's School of Continuing Education and 1973 tour organizer. "We were one of the first Canadian university groups to get into China," he says.

As soon as the bamboo curtain began to lift, Guelph seized the opportunity to re-enter. In 1981, it became the first Canadian university to establish relations with an educational institution in China.

A few years later, Guelph helped design the first fully open-access library at

any Chinese university.

More recently, despite political tensions between Canada and China, three Guelph crop science professors were officially recognized in China for achieving the best results in a national agricultural initiative.

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As exciting as the library project is, it has not been without difficulties.

Black says after the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4,1989, some Chinese officials criticized the library design and charged that the project had been "subject to undue foreign in­ fluence."

Others suggest China 's official criticism of the library was a result of the deadlock between the Chinese and Canadian governments, whose relationship has been tense since the Tiananmen incident.

Black has not been back to China since he left two days after the student massacre. He wanted to visit the new library for its opening ceremonies in late 1990 but was concerned that his presence might be viewed as support for official national policies rather than simply the continuation of a collegial relationship with library staff. Rob MacLaughlin, OAC '69 and PhD '77, dean of the Ontario Agricultural Col­ lege did visit the library in October while attending an agricultural educa­ tion conference. He is optimistic that Guelph Alumnus

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the library will be open­ access as planned.

The BAU president is anxious to maintain the Guelph connection, says McLaughlin. "Neither he nor we want to lose the momentum we've gained."

Meanwhile, he says, "other Chinese univer­ sities are eyeing it and would be interested in tackling this sort of thing."

This would fulfill part of the initial vision that the library would serve as a model for the 68 other agricultural universities and colleges in China.

Black Dragon

Tensions between China and Canada were partially responsible for the premature completion of another of Guelph's China projects. The Black Dragon River Consortium, a four-year institutional strengthening project, began in 1986. The project was a co­ operative effort by Guelph, Olds Col­ lege in Alberta and the University of Alberta to help train managerial and technical personnel at two colleges in northeastern Heilongjiang province.

According to consortium academic co-ordinator Neal Stoskopf, OAC '57 and MSA '58, the projecl was success­ ful but "was terminated before we could complete our entire mandate."

He thinks the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA's) decision to withdraw funding was due partly to the June 4 incident. All three Canadian schools felt the program should have been continued. "We needed that project to carryon for 10 to 15 years," says Stoskopf.

In spite of the tension between Canadian and Chinese governments, the University has maintained its con­ tracts with China. President Brian Segal says, "We continue to have some modest involvement ... because we have always been of the view that we can be active in a country without being in agreement with all of a government's policies . .. . Our focus is not on sustaining governments, but on helpingindividuals."

Chinese wheat

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nized by the Chinese government as the country's number one initiative.

Professors Ed Gamble, OAC '52 and MSA '54, Rick Upfold, OAC '68 and M.Sc. '70, and Neal Stoskopf went to Heilongjiang last March to set up a program to help the province increase spring wheat yields. At the request of the national government, each Chinese province was invited to fund and organize a project aimed at in ­ creasing the output of a particular crop. "Of the 19 provinces which entered, our project in Heilongjiang was chosen as the number one project, the example of success for all the others," says Stoskopf. "Our wheat yield increases were phenomenal. The average yield in the province is around 2,500 kilograms per hectare, but our project yielded 4,700." The Canadian­ Chinese team effort out yielded other Chinese fields in the area by 600 to 800 kilograms per hectare.

With the memory of the success still fresh, the department of agricul­ ture of Heilongjiang asked the profes­ sors to assist in a longer-term project to improve wheat yield and quality in the province. They've initiated a new phase that will include winter wheat, and the project may be expanded even further. "Already sen ior Ch inese government officials want to develop it into other projects," says Stoskopf.

"And other provinces are saying 'Help us increase our wheat yields. '" With the tension between the Chinese and Canadian governments and CIDA's cautious approach to funding projects in China, the three made sure the project had U of G

Senate approval, even though they took it on without Canadian government sanc­ tion or CIDA backing. ''The project is funded entirely by the Chinese government," says Stoskopf, including the transportation and expenses of Canadian participants.

"We're on a shoestring budget."

In addition to benefiting individual departments and professors, these China projects benefit the university as a whole.

"We're building relation­ ships," says MacKinnon ."And those relationships are enrich­ ing our university and help­ ing us build bridges of understanding with the world's most populous nation and the most ancient surviving civilization on earth."

Expanding in Asia Elsewhere in Asia, the University is cementing its reputation as a truly in­ ternational institution as it sends its faculty and resources to play leading roles in projects throughout the region.

One of the most rewarding Asian projects has been a successful venture by the Ontario Veterinary College ­ begun about 1975 - to develop a clinical program in veterinary educa­ tion at the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM).

Today, aside from its competence in veterinary education, the school's most outstanding feature is its impor­ tant role in Southeast Asia - a role Guelph helped to bolster. The institu­ tion offers high-technology and veteri­ nary training for Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and other Asian countries and sponsors regional conferences and workshops. "For veterinary institutions in that area of the world, it's a four-star facility," says pathology professor Peter Little, OVC '62, who spent a year in Malaysia in the early stages of the project.

Guelph faculty are still regular par­ ticipants in short courses and conferen­ ces hosted by the Malaysian school.

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has been involved in CIDA-spon­ have also been active in Asia.

• Nutritional sciences adjunct professor sored agricultural projects in Pakis­ tan and India since his 1983 C. Young Cho, OAC M.Sc. '70, has retirement. He is a consultant to been involved in a decade-long un­ programs that would rehabilitate ir­ dertaking with the Tokyo Univer­ rigation projects in the two sity of Fisheries. He visits regularly, countries. "Most of the irrigation annually hosts a Japanese colleague projects in Pakistan and India are in Guelph and publishes collabora­ 30 to 40 years old and some are tive papers on fish nutrition . Cho 100 years old," he says. "My role has has also been involved in an ongo­ ing International Development Re­ been to draw up plans for rehabilita­ tion of these systems." search Centre project in the Philippines, Malaysia , Sri Lanka, • Prof. O.P. Dwivedi, Political Studies, Singapore and China. "These have was a key player in the formulation of an environmental code of con­ been development projects - all of duct adopted last October by the them regarding fish nutrition and diet formulation." ministers of environment from all • Professor Hugh Ayers, former direc­ Asian and Pacific nations. Dwivedi tor of the School of Engineering, was part of a non-government

group that met in Bangkok, Thailand, to develop a code that would help save the global environ­ ment for future generations.

• In Indonesia, professors Michael Moss and Alun Joseph, Geography; Clive Southey, Economics; Andy Gordon and Narinder Kauskik, En­ vironmental Biology, and Harry Cummings, Rural Planning and Development, have begun work with colleagues at Hasanuddin University in Ujung Pandang in the areas of agroforestry, land use plan­ ning, toxicology, resource economics and social impact analysis. The CIDA program will also permit student exchanges.

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~ he Sulawesi Regional Development Project CSS '83 and MA '89, research associate for the project.

"But that policy hasn 't worked very well yet, and one has challenged the University of Guelph's international agenda. But, put to the test of weakness is that the local and regional systems can't I weighing benefits to Southeast Asian vi 'lhandle it. Through this project, the University of Guelph is trying to address the weakllesses at the regional and lagers against unintentional support of Indonesia's oppressive policies in East locallevels."

Timor, the Sulawesi project has advanced to its second According to MacKinnon, "the University is interven­ phase. ingin Indonesia. We are engaging in activities which em-

The University's largest international commitment to power the people and which improve human rights . . . .

date, the Sulawesi Project is a co-operative effort by the We are, to put it bluntly, assisting people to change their

University, the Canadian International Development government."

Agency CCIDA) and the Government of Indonesia. Its On the other hand, says MacKinnon, the University

purpose is to improve the well-being of rural populations also has a moral responsibility to ensure that its involve-

in Sulawesi, says Archie MacKinnon, director of the ment will never be exploited. The Sulawesi project was

Centre for International Programs. the first to be reviewed by the University's new Senate

guidelines on international activities.

Phase I of the project was designed 10 help people Throughout Phase I, Guelph advisers worked side-by­ learn bottom-up planning. which would reduce their dependence and increase their quality of life. side with Indonesian counterparts. By the end of the train-

In Phase II, which began in May 1990, the University ing, they noted a vast improvement in their counterparts'

ability to analyze a project and come up with clear, well-

School of Rural Planning and Development will use $25 million of CIDA funding to provide technical services thought-out proposals.

and training in all four provinces on Sulawesi.

"We prepared their institutions to do a better job," says

Harry Cummings, who has had a IS-year involvement in

During the first six years, the University was drawn into the controversy over Canadian government relations Indonesian work. "We've given them permanent, long-

with Indonesia. Critics of Canada's involvement cite interm capacities to carry out development efforts . . ..

stances of human rights violations by the Indonesian Before Phase I, the people had no plans or proposals.

Now they are preparing plans." .

government and suggest that Guelph's participation is stren~thening the government's institutional powers to op. Ph~se I also tn,lplemented small projects the In-

press Its own people. doneslans had helped plan. Gue'lph sjob ~t that stage was

Participants of the project disagree. While acknowto recommend to CIDA projects for fundIn? A.mong,

ledging the central government's repressive record, they them :ve~e loc~l water supply programs, lITIgatIOn eft?rts,

say it is important to be a catalyst in changing policies estabhshmg a library, bUilding a, new school. and provld­ Ing a small boat for a fishermen s co~operatlve.

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U of G's European programs will rom one side of the con­ be enhanced by an emerging linkage tinent to the other, Europe between Ontario and the German state is home to some of the of Baden- Wurttemberg. It will provide University of Guelph's for faculty and student exchanges be­ oldest and newest tween universities and colleges within academic partners. New institutional the two regions. relationships are developing quickly in Eastern Europe, and they are stimulat­ In another European adventure, ing growth within Guelph's traditional OAC collaboration with a Scottish links to Western Europe. agricultural college attracted media at­ Among the oldest of these links are tention in Britain where research as­ the University's ties to European sociate Leah Braithwaite, OAC '85 agriculture and veterinary medicine. and M.Sc. '90, was testing microwave This institution owes much to Andrew equipment and procedures on Smith, the Scottish veterinarian who hypothermic lambs as part of the founded the Ontario Veterinary Col­ microwave research of professors Lam­ lege in 1862 and to another Scotsman, bert Otten and Doug Morrison, OAC Irish-educated Henry McCandless, '49, Animal and Poultry Science. who became the first principal of the As part of an agreement with Re­ Ontario School of Agriculture estab­ search Institute Ital in Wageningen, lished at Guelph in 1874.

Prof. Jack Trevors, Environmental Since these early days, the founding Biology, and his colleagues are study­ colleges and the University have ex­ ing methods for assessing survival and changed faculty, research expertise movement of genetically engineered and students. Guelph has honored bacteria in soil and aquatic many European scholars with microcosms. honorary degrees and has estab­ lished off-campus semesters in London and Paris to offer its students the chance to travel and study in Europe.

Among Guelph's long-stand­ ing relationships in Western Europe is an exchange program with Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands.

Predominant links are in the areas of rural planning and ex­ tension studies, geography, agricultural economics, crop science, sociology, computing sciences, landscape architecture and engineering. The two in­ stitutions produce a newsletter and jointly published a book on strengthening higher education in agriculture. U of G's CoSy computer conferencing system has made collaboration be­ tween Guelph and Wageningen faculty a daily occurrence.

An extension of this relation­ ship was Guelph's invitation to join Europe's Natura Network of institutions concerned with agriculture and food systems, Pine art professor Clu£ndler Kirwin at far right with which opened new links to in­ Va tican employees and Bernini's bronze sUltue of stitutions in the UK, Denmark, Urban VIII in the apse ofSt. Pe.ter's, Rome. and France.

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Prof. Larry Martin, distinguished professor of agricultural policy in the University's George Morris Centre, maintains links with the Universita Cattolica del Sacro in Milan, Italy. He conducts two seminars per year in Italy on futures-commodity trading and several students from that univer­ sity are studying at Guelph.

Campus connections Much of our art history and litera­ ture is accessible only in Europe. "Ar­ tists, like all researchers, need to understand the history of their interest and must keep current and knowledge­ able about the literature," and that means travelling to study pieces where they are housed, says Prof. Ron Shuebrook, chair of the Fine Arts Department. He regularly exhibits paintings, drawings and sculptural reliefs internationally. Other faculty are specialists in aspects of European art. Hendrik Horn is an art historian and authority on Dutch art. Chandler Kirwin has an interest in Italian art and is completing a book on the Italian sculptor, Bernini.

Mahmoud Sadek's genre is the art of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and Islam. He has con­ ducted several archaeological digs in Spain and Portugal and travels frequently to Egypt for research. And sessional instruc­ tor Reinhart Reitzenstein is part of a team representing Canada at a major group exhibition and symposium in Oslo, Norway.

The music and drama depart­ ments also find much of their his­ tory in the work of great European composers and playwrights. And the University library houses one of the world's finest collections of materials about George Bernard Shaw.

In the School of Hotel and Food Administration CHAFA), professors Tom Powers, Bob Lewis, Peggy Shaw and Jo Marie Powers have experience teaching at the Institut de Management Hotelier Interna­ tional in France, and HAFA has just begun a work /study ex­ change for students in the Charentes/Poitou area.

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.' ment makes it a desirable partner for • • many academic institu­ tions in the Second World.

"In the past few years, we have signed a number of agreements with institutions in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary.

And we're building relations in other Eastern European countries," says President Brian Segal. "We think it's important to offer what we can to our colleagues in those universities . .. and also to help sustain some of the values inherent in the changes that are taking place."

And, in science and technology, we don't want to sit on the sidelines and be left behind, Segal says. "In many areas, some of the world leaders are in these countries."

New institutional agreements were signed during a 1989 presidential visit to Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. They will in­ volve faculty exchanges in the arts, humanities and social sciences as well as in the physical and agricultural sciences. The University has also proposed that the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada establish a Canada-wide network of academic institutions with Eastern Europe and Soviet Union (EESU) re­ search interests.

Guelph's new agreements formalize relationships already established by in­ dividual faculty who have developed colleagues in the East. Political scien­ tist Fred Eidlin has travelled extensive­ ly in Eastern Europe since 1985 and, in the past two years, has strengthened University contacts in Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hun­ gary, Germany and the Soviet Union.

He envisions a national agreement that would create a consortium of Canadian universities and could help solve some of the logistical problems associated with East-West exchanges.

Polish scientists who wanted to visit Guelph to study poultry breeding might pave the way for a return visit to Yugoslavia by a sociologist from York University or a political scientist from Toronto.

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helped Guelph sociologist Sid Gilbert organize a sociology seminar in Guelph and a conference in the Soviet Union. Seven Canadians were able to travel to Moscow and meet 50 to 60 Soviet sociologists. A similar venture in political studies will bring Russian scholars to a conference next year at the University of Waterloo. Planning is also underway for exchanges between Guelph and Trent University and an in­ stitution in the former East Germany.

These joint ventures increase col­ laboration on both sides of the globe, while limiting costs to travel expenses, says Eidlin.

In other disciplines, the University has hosted a Soviet radio journalist, a plant pathologist and a food scientist who came to study computer applica­ tions in refrigeration. At the same time, U of G was negotiating an agree­ ment with a Polish academy to con­ duct joint research in turkey breeding, and faculty in the Department of Microbiology were establishing re­ search exchanges.

In turn, Eastern institutions have welcomed U of G's political scientists and sociologists, landscape architects,

crop scientists, engineers and profes­ sors of family studies and zoology.

There is even talk of establishing a Cracow semester along the lines of the London and Paris semesters.

These ventures reflect the scope of change that has altered Eastern Europe, says Archie MacKinnon, director of the Centre for International Programs. In the Soviet Union alone, "English has become a national priority, and academic leaders want to send 1,500 agriculture undergraduates to universities in the West."

Learning about Russia • If you're trying to hail a cab in Moscow, it helps to have a package of Marlboro cigarettes in your hand.

• Glasnost was not a surprise.

• Canada may feel like "taking off a pair of tight shoes," but it doesn't make everyone want to live here.

These observations are from some of the faculty, students, alumni and visiting scholars who've helped make the University of Guelph an active par­ ticipant in the "coming-out" of Eastern Europe.

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Private ellteJprise has survived - andflourishes - in Moscow's Saturday-morn­ ing bird market. Here Moscow's enrreprenellrs sell rare species oftropical fish, blldgies and other apartment-sized pets. Bred inil'/lit jurs and small aqllariums. a ral'eomamellfal fish worth $600 ill New York or Toronto sells.for ollly afew . rubles (abollt $ 10). The crowded bird market is a stark cOlltrasllOthe bf.llTenshel­ ves in rhe eir), 's government-rull grocery stores.

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A phone booth in downtown Moscow be­ tween Red Square and KGB headquarters.

Marlboro country Just as most Soviet citizens are clamoring for a taste of Marlboro cigarettes and other flavors of Western lifestyle, the country's scientists are eager to tap into Western literature, says zoologist Eugene Balon.

The Czechoslovakian-born profes­ sor - Balon left his homeland in 1971 - visited the Soviet Union last sum­ mer and was honored by the presence of eminent Russian scholars at his lec­ tures in epidemiology. "They were like sponges, eager to find out every detail."

And, in return, no details were hid­ den from Balon. He stood within a few hundred yards of the disabled Cher­ nobyl nuclear reactor, photographed a nuclear-powered military vessel and talked openly with Soviet citizens about their new- found freedom of ex­ pression.

Inside story ~ith the benefit of hindsight, it's obVIOUS that the policies of glasnost and p~restroika had been percolating for qUite some time. "There are people

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inside the system in these countries wh? .have not demonstrated or signed petItionS, but who made a decision a long time ago to work from within the system to change it," says Sovietologist Fred Eidlin. "It 's only recently that such people and their ideas have come out in the open."

Eidlin had expected the Soviet reform movement to begin much ear­ lier. The Communist empire was his­ torically doomed, he says, and the cost of holding together the satellite regions was enormous. Letting go of E~stern Europe and making peace with the West earned Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev a Nobel Peace Prize, but it also took a tremendous burden off the Soviet Union.

Eidlin developed his interest in Sovietology as.an undergraduate study­ Ing In Europe In the mid- 1960s. In 1970, he spent seven months in a Czechoslovakian prison on charges of aidIng and abetting subversion while working for Radio Free Europe. He wa s eventually expelled from the country and did not go back to Eastern Europe for 15 years. In 1989, he received a pardon from Czechoslovak president Gustav Husak that enabled him to revisit Czechoslovakia. It was a feeling that few North Americans have ex~erienced "visiting the country which had been forbidden territory for me for 18 years."

Comfortable Canada Elina Zavgorodnaya, a Soviet radio journalist lecturing at Guelph, hopes Canada can learn from the experience of her country.

In a guest article for the Centre for International Programs' Worldscape newsletter, Zavgorodnaya says what surpnses her most about Canada is the abundance of food in the stores the self-confidence of Canadian w~men the relative unimportance of one's ' nationality and the fact that "there is more socialism in capitalist Canada than in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." "What I have come to un­ derstand is that while there is no socialism as ideology in Canada, there are many social programs for the people. In my country, socialism as ideology exists, but it is the social programs which are wanting." . "! always had a very pleasant feel­ Ing In Canada - like taking off shoes

that are too tight - so much is done to make you comfortable."

Coming home Duska Stojsin , a Yugoslavian graduate student in crop science, also feels comfortable in Canada's multi­ cultural society. "When 1 go to a store In Canada, 1 hear so many different languages that no one seems to notice my accent."

This is Stoj sin's second stay in Canada. She came with her husband three years ago when he was a visiting professor. Both went home to continue their work in corn breeding at a Yugoslavian seed company. Ironically, when StoJsJn returned to Guelph in September to continue studying for her PhD, the couple moved back into the same apartment, complete with the same set of borrowed di shes.

"It felt like I was coming home" she said. "I know and understand Yugos­ lavia better than any other country, but my love for it does not stop me from loving another country."

Successful farming Engineering professor Walter Bilanski, OC '52 (Eng.), was part of a Canadian fact-finding group in Hun­ gary, Poland and the Soviet Union when he visited a small resea rch facility employing 870 scientists. "The human resources in the East are tremendous." He said Western scien­ tists have an advantage in things like computer technology and laboratory technIques - we're great at collecting data - but we've got a lot to learn when it comes to theoretical analysis of the facts we've gathered.

Bilanski is interested in Polish and Russian work in soil com paction and mechanization and is quick to point out vast differences in the develop­ ment of agricultural industries within Eastern Europe. Almost 7.0 per cent of the agricultural land in Poland, as well as 6.0 per cent of Hungary's land base, I~ stIilm private hands and produc­ tivity IS much higher than in the Soviet Union.

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American Indian tribes. Socio­ economic disadvantages, family violence, poorly educated parents and lack of housing often made children feel unwanted and more likely to dis­ play deviant behavior.

The study showed a link between parental attitudes and child develop­ ment. It "has application to any society that has minorities who are not able to fit into society and succeed," says Tari.

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"It behooves the West to take ad­ vantage of the political situation developing in Eastern Europe," sug­ gests landscape architect Victor Chanasyk. Joint ventures now will lead to long-term relationships at the national level. "We'll be selling our political and social philosophy to an important segment of the world and, in the process, be making friends."

Chanasyk would like to tap into the Eastern European appreciation of cul­ ture. During a lecture tour of the Uk­ raine this summer, he was impressed by efforts at architectural restoration.

Ukrainian landscape architects could benefit from our expertise in landscape applications with plants and we could study their successful ap­ proaches to urban design , he says.

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Third World or Europe.

Relationships with our neighbors in the western hemisphere seem too familiar to be called "foreign" exchan­ ges.

The familiarity that U ofG enjoys with the United States began even before Guelph was an educational cen­ ter. Ontario's agricultural leaders travelled south to visit U.S. land-grant colleges before establishing an agricul­ tural college here in 1874. The Univer­ sity has always welcomed U.S. students and, today, its l,600 U.S. alumni continue to strengthen Univer­ sity relationships below the 49th paral­ lel.

All seven University colleges now have strong ties to institutions in the United States - and beyond, to Central and South America. '.

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When the Ontario Veterinary Col­ lege welcomed its first "foreign" stu­ dent from the West Indies in the late l800s, it signalled the beginning of a relationship that continues today. It's no accident that these tropical islands now form the northern boundary for many of the college's international ac­ tivities. "We try to concentrate our development efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean," says professor Jan Thorsen, OVC '55, Microbiology and Immunology, because of the geographical proximity, OVC's past association with that area and the strong presence of the college's graduates there.

OVC's activities include training faculty at veterinary schools in Colom­ 18

bia and Costa Rica. Priority is given to workshops on aquaculture, zoonotic diseases, infectious disease control and preventive medicine in mixed live­ stock systems. The most recent request from Costa Rica , says Thorsen, is for a workshop on embryo transfer.

The Caribbean Plant and Animal Health lnformation Network, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency CCIDA), is co­ ordinated at Guelph by professor David Waltner-Toews, OVC PhD '85, Population Medicine. Guelph person­ nel work closely with experts in the Caribbean to develop a flexible net­ work of epidemiology units which can respond to the needs of the I I countries involved in the project. The information collected by these units will be used to develop local disease control programs and formulate na­ tional and regional agricultural policies.

Thorsen recently completed a plan­ ning visit that may strengthen the delivery of veterinary services at a school in Brazil. The four-year pro­ gram would involve OYC consultation in preventive medicine, animal health and disease monitoring.

These Latin American connections are crucial to the success of the ex­ ternship semester of OVc's new graduate diploma program in interna­ tional veterinary medicine.

Self improvement

Our motives aren't entirely altruis­ tic, says Thorsen. International ac­ tivities are good for faculty and students. "When we get too wrapped up in our own complaints about limited facilities and underfunding, a trip to Latin America can be a hum­ bling experience. It helps us to be in­

novative and appreciative of the ef­ forts of other scientists who work with much more limited resources."

Veterinarians are also interested in monitoring the health of Canada's live­ stock popUlations, which are always at risk from disease in other countries, says Thorsen. "Anything we can do to increase their capability to handle dis­ ease will lessen the possibility of inad­ vertently exporting the problem to us."

People spell success We'd all like to do something to benefit developing nations, says profes­ sor John Roff, Zoology. "When I think of what I can do personally, I must look at what I k now best, which is education. I can leave educated minds and expertise in people who are capable of making real changes within their own society."

The proof of RoWs theory is Dale and Mona Webber. They don't have Guelph degrees, but they owe a good deal of their education to this univer­ sity, he says.

The Webbers are faculty members at the University of the West Indies.

Roff met them when they were under­ graduate students. He supervised their graduate programs and they helped with his research on ocean energy processes. RoWs research plan is a world map with segments of water cited for study. "Each bit of informa­ tion adds to our understanding of how the oceans support life and are impor­ tant in the development of coastal management techniques designed to increase stocks of fish," he says. The Webbers have collected data from tropical waters and are continuing these studies on Jamaica's north shore.

Gu elph Alumnus

A rural scene in Colombia.

Roff says the key to successful inter­ national work is people - "Things get done by individuals, not organizations" - and the most successful links are made by individual members of facul­ ty. "The graduate student-professor relationship is a magnificent form of apprenticeship," he says. It can leave a kind of legacy in the developing world that aid dollars alone cannot buy.

Around campus Professor Rosa lind Gibson, Family Studies, is involved in a study in Malawi, Ghana and Guatemala to determine zinc deficiencies in children. Gibson believes the low in­ take of zinc in countries where people consume mainly vegetarian diets could be a contributing factor to short­ ness in the general population.

In an earlier Canadian study, Gib­ son found a correlation between zinc intake and height. Poorer countries are even "more likely to have severe nutri­ tional deficiencies than Canada," she says.

Guelph's expertise in international apiculture is as well known in South America as in Africa. Prof. Peter Kevan and postdoctoral fellow Franco Di Giovanni, En'/ironmental Biology, recently presented an intensive oneGuelph Alumnus

week course on pollination biology to 26 students at the Jardin Botanico, Universidad Nacional Antonoma in Mexico.

In consumer education, Jamaica is about to go from receiving help to helping others, says U of G professor Dick Vosburgh. He is co-ordinator of a CIDA-sponso red link between the Consumer Association of Canada and the National Consumer's League of Jamaica . Over the past 10 years, the program has helped the league develop consumer education programs for adults and schoolchildren , establish a complaint system and train volun­ teers and staff as representatives of consumer interest. The number of complaints handled by the league has doubled in the last three years, says Vosburgh. Most of them concern shod­ dy workmanship, poor service from government-run utilities and unfair business practices. The organization has 115,000 listeners for its weekly radio program, made presentations to more than 2,000 students last year and has doubled representation on govern­ ment and business committees.

For the past four yea rs, environmen­ tal biology professor John Sutton ha s been involved in a tillage conservation project in southern Brazil. In addition to his work in disease management,

Sutton was co-organizer of an interna­ tional workshop held in Brazil la st November.

In 1989, family studies professor Ed Herold helped to co-ordinate an in­ ternational workshop on AIDS and sexual behavior held in Montreal. Al­ most all the participants were from the developin g world: half of them, from Africa. Until recently most research on sexual behavior ha s been done in the developed world, especially North America, says Herold . But because of AIDS, sexual behavior research is now being supported by many developing countries. These governments view AIDS as a serious problem and many are giving AIDS prevention a high priority, says Herold.

Since the Montreal workshop, Herold has initiated a research project in the Dominican Republic that will survey young people on issues of sex uality related to AIDS prevention.

The International Development Re­ search Centre is funding the project to fi nd out how well Latin American s un­ de rstand AIDS issues - tran smission and prevention - and whether their sexua l behavior has changed as a result of AIDS fear. The data will be used to support AIDS prevention programs. continued on page 28 19

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Meet some of Guelph's international students:

Universiry isn't aLI work, as th ese visa students discovered when th ey agreed to pose for Guelph Alu mnus photo grapher Herb Rauscher. Cloc kwise from the top: Juan-Pablo Martinez -Soriano, Mexico; Dahlia Restrepo, Colombia; Slum kar Das, Bangladesh; Dianna Leal- Klepe zas, Mexico; Falima Candia, Paraguay; Maria Christina Osorio, Colombia; Maria-Ligia Paixao, Bra zil; AkUl e A zu, Ghana.

University welcomes foreign students

by David Thomas One ofthe easiest ways to bring an internation­ al perspective to university programs is to admit students from other countries."Interna­ tional students not only enrich our lives and broaden our perspectives, they help us to achieve a greater understa nding and apprecia­ tion for the global context in which we live," says international student adviser Don Amichand.

They also help raise academic standards­ they are, after all , top scholars in their respec­

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• Akute Azu followed family footsteps from his native Ghana to the University of Guelph. His uncle, John Abu, OAC PhD '76, "insisted" that Akute also come to Guelph and accompanied him to the University so that his introduction to Canadian culture would go smoothly.

The emphasis on management and economic principles in Akute's program is ideal because those skills are in demand in Ghana. Even though it is a poor country, Ghana has a lot of economic activity and is becoming more com­ mercialized. Akute says projects like the Ghana­ Guelph partnership harness that adventurous spirit and further the development process in his country.

• Every member of Choi-Lan Ha's class at Na­ tional Taiwan University has come to North America to do PhD work , although she is the only one in Canada.

She is studying immune functions in condi­ tions of severe malnutrition, and says her work is exciting and important for the treatment of malnutrition.

After a tough first semester, she has learned English - for which she credits two "very patient" roommates. She has also found good friends in A.K.A. Zubair from Nigeria and Mikko Regina from Finland who work in labs next to hers.

• luan-Pablo Martinez-Soriano and hi s wife,

tive countries - and they enhance research cide with federall government policies - about 20 percent of Guelph's visa students are programs.

The University has always had students funded by the Canadian International from the United States and the industrialized DeveIopment Agency - but seem to be at nations of Europe, but most non-Canadian odd s with provincial education policies. applicati ons now come from developing Ontario's differential fees mean international countries. Of the 502 international students students pay almost three times as much in now at Guelph, about 90 are from the Carib­ tuition as do Canadian undergraduates. The bean and Latin America, more than 100 from rate for graduate programs is three to five times as high.

Africa and 70 from China.

Most people agree that tax-supported They are drawn here primarily by the University's recogni zed areas of strength such univers ities s hould giv e preference to as agriculture , rural planning and develop­ Canadians, says Amichand. Even visa stu­ ment, food production and processing and dents would probably agree with the principle, veterinary medicine. These programs otTer the . but the reaJ,ity can pose a significant hardship.

"The $10,500 paid each year for my tuition expertise needed in the developing world.

The University's international goals coin- fees would buy a house in Mexico ," says

Guelph Alumnus

Dianna Leal-Klepezas, are from Mexico. Both are enrolled in graduate programs in plant pathology in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. J.P. says he applied to U of G because of the personal letter he received in reply to his en­ quiry. Already an established scientist in Mexico, he will return to fulfill the obligations of his government-funded scholarship.

University in Mexico is free to students, says J.P., but the competition to get there is tough. Only about 40 per cent of high school students pass na­ tional diploma exams and fewer than 20 per cent of the top sc holars earn admission to university.

"It's like a university full of Ontario scholars," he says.

• Chareif Abou Elela hopes he never ha s to live in one country for more than five years. Born in Egypt, he attended university in Qatar before com­ Picturedfrom left to right are international studellls: Shen Lu," China; Themhela Kepe. South Africa; Hong She/i, China; DU$ka Stojsin, Yugoslavia. ing to Guelph.

Unwilling to wait for Canadian International Development Agency CCIDA) funding, Chareif science and she a master's program in geogra phy. U of G is paid for his first two years at Guelph. "I knew I could prove both haven and sponsor for them. After the Ti ananmen myself as a scientist." He has and is now supported by re­ Square massacre, Canada granted them permission to stay search grants and funds from the Department of Molecular here permanently, but revoked their CID A scholarships.

Biology and Genetics. He and J.P. are two of six graduate stu­ It would be difficult to return to China after being exposed dents - from Qatar, Mexico, China, Kenya, India and Korea to the technology, comfortable lifestyle and freedom of ex­ - who are deciphering DNA codes in an attempt to identify pression they have enjoyed in Canada, says Lu. which are responsible for causing malignancies.

• Katherine Allan, a drama major from Eng land , admits she'd • Whitney Chin, a second-year vet student from Trinidad and never heard of the University of Guelph until a Manchester Tobago, says he doesn't mind paying higher fees than professor suggested she put it on her Rotary Clu b schol arsh ip Canadians, but his family has had to make sacrifices. application. She says British drama students move more It's tough going, but you have to look at where you're quickly into practical theatre, with less emphasis on obtaining going." He wants to open a mixed practice in Trinidad and a Ph D. Tobago after graduation.

• Da hlia Restrepo and Maria-Christina Osorio of Colombia, Fatima Candia of Paraguay and Ma ria-Ligia Pa ixao of Brazil • Ron McLaughlin , a PhD student in Clinical Studies, has earnings from a staff position in the James Archibald Small left professional positions to study in Guelph 's Departme nt of Animal Clinic and savings from his veterinary practice in the Sociology and Anthropology.

United States to finance his graduate studies. "I can see how • Thembela Kepe came from Grahamstown, South Africa to difficult it must be for a person from a Third World country." study in the School of Rural Planning and Developmen t. He hopes to teach agricultural development when he returns • Shankar Das of Bangladesh is doing a PhD in crop science with the help of a visa scholarship from the University and a home. Thembela's situation echoes that of many other graduate research assistant position. He says the department foreign students whose sc holarships don't provide for return has been very helpful in assisting with financing. visits. He will have to earn enough money to travel to South Africa to conduct research, then back to Canada to complete • Shen Lu and Hong Shen began their married life in China his thesis. before coming to Guelph. He is completing a Ph D in soil graduate student J.P. Martinez-Soriano. "My government said to me, 'Why are we paying for you to go to Guelph? We could send you to Harvard or Yale for the same money.'" In Trinidad and Tobago, where the local dollar is severely devalued and intlation runs ram­ pant, Guelph's tuition could cost up to a quarter of a million dollars for a bachelor of arts degree, notes Amichand . .

Ont~rio's differential fees were raised dramatically in 1983, and most universities - have seen an equally dramatic decline in the · - . number of undergraduates from other . countries. On the other hand, there has been a.

- small, btit steady, increase in the.number of foreign graduate students.

One m·ight think that these lost under­

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graduate students couldbe fo und in Ma nitoba, graduate students and future faculty members Saskatchewan or Newfoundland where there are in short supply ... not just in Canada, but are no differential fee . . ot so, says the around the world.

"Scholarly resea rch activity is international Canadian Bureau for interna tiona l Education.

CBIE says the academic reputation of a in scope," says dean of Grad uate Studies Doug university's programs is a bigger factor than Ormrod. "International graduates.tudents help to ensure that our scientists areas fully aware tuition fees in choosi ng an institution.

Most of the mi sing undergraduate stu­ as possible of worldwide knowledge in their dents are being educated at home, in accord­ . field. At the same time, they are one of the ance with ~he current thinking in international vehicles by which the UniversitydischaTges its development ag encie s. Many devel oping internationalobligations."

Even though there aren't likely to be addi­ countries also see the value of strengthening their own educational system s. For the same tional funds for more international stlldents in reasons, graduate st udents are able to get these fi scally tight times, Amichand would funding to attend Ca nadian institutions, says like to see more of them. " The rapport that is built up between the University and those stu­ Amichand.

And they art{ welcomed, at a time when dents is very strong and long term," he says.

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â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ The city

that

business

built

by Marla Konrad PhOIOS

by Julian Hawk en

espite growing apprehension over the 1997 Chinese takeover, Hong Kong is still a '"---------' money mecca for Chinese merchants, foreign traders and high financiers.

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Gue/ph Alumnus

s the morning sun

. pee ks ove r the east­

ern horizo n, the

. city's pul se is al­

ready throbb ing.

Hawkers are

fini shed se tting up their sta.ll s and are busy selling fruit and vegetables to early morning customers.

Along a busy stretch of road , doubl e-decker trams, bells clanging, are beginning to fill up with coolies and workers on the ir way to work.

The ferries have begun their ceaseless daily treks, shuttling hord es of people A street ii/ the Tsim Sha TsII; .I·hopping d,strict. between the island and the mainland . ~--~--------------~----~~~ This is Hon g Kong - the pear! of the trusted, part ic ularly in li ght of events in Be ijing's Tianan ­ Orient , the gateway to China - a bustling city of nearly six men Sq uar June 4, 1989, wh en tank s and machine gun s million people crammed into a tiny island and a few hec ­ were tu rned loose on una rmed protesters. tares of real estate on the edge of mainland C hina. "[ lost my confidence in C hina aft r the Ju ne 4th inci­ Half a world away, the city of Guelph prepa res to settle den t," says Margaret Tsoi, CSS '87 . "Before that ti me, [ down for the night. Students at the University pack up their planned to stay, but the Chin ese government ca nn ot be books, lights in the residence hall s go out one by one, and trusted," ~he says." [ believe qui et se ttles over the cam pus. everyth ing will change and Guelph and Hong Kong couldn't be more dissimilar.

Hong Kong will bejust like Climate, cu lture, langua ge and lifestyle are poles apart. In China in 20 or 30 years." spite of th eir differences, though , Hong Kong and Guel ph Lik e th ousands of other Hong possess a st rong link - hundred s of Hong Kong Chi nese Kong Chinese anxi ous to get a students have brought the richness of th eir heritage to U of foreign passpo rt within the next G, then returned to their homeland with the benefits of a six yea rs, Margaret and her Canadian education. pa ren ts have already applied to Hong Kong has come a long way si nce 1841 , when it the Canadian immigration was born as a British port to be used by British merchants departmen t - the most pop ular for th ei r trade - especially opium - in China. Al though forei gn immigration depart men t Hon g Kong no longe r sanc tions the opium trade, in 150 in Hong Kong. years it has emerged as one of the busiest ports in the world She'd be happy to return to with hundreds of container and cargo ships in its harbor at Canada, for althoug h she enjoys anyone time.

Ma rgaret Tsoi her job as assistan t branch [n spite of co ncern about 1997, when C hina will repos­ man ager with First Pacific Bank, sess the territory, Hong Kong' s harbor continues to thrive she mi sses th Canadian lifestyle. and the city's financial sec tor is booming. It still maintains "( mi ss th kind of li vi ng in Guelph. The pace was not so its place as the world' s third-largest financial ce ntre (after busy there: the re's more stress in Hong Ko ng from many New York and Lond on) and as th e cross roads and foc al so urces." If her immigration bid is success ful , Marg aret point of Asia, a position it has held for decades. hopes to settle in Toronto. [n Hong Kong, the financial sector, industry and Tiana nm en Square merely reaffi rm ed the decision of­ manufacturing ca rryo n six days a week. Even with the Edmond Choi, CPS '85, to return to Can ada. He went back thre at of Chinese intervention after 1997 , the downtown to Hong Kong to work in his fa mil y's busi ness after grad ua­ core is buzzing with activity as more and more buildings are tion and is now director of Sing Yip Toys Manufacturin g torn down to make way fo r ever larger fortresses of high Co. But withi n th e n xt few years, he an d hi s Hong Kong­ finan ce. bo rn Canadian wife, Annie Wong, CSS '87, will move to Investors know that the first few years of the [990s pro­ Toron to. vide plenty of tim e to recoup th eir investment. Even if large " obody can guarantee how it (Hong Kong) will change," corporations move their Asian headquarters out of the ter­ he says. "} mistrust the Chinese governm ent. They don 'l ritory by the mid-1990s, there is still time to reap a healthy keep their promises. Before 1997, we'll leave." profit.

Faced with an unce rtain future and caug ht in the dilem ­ Edmond and An ni e are the fortu nate ones among Hong Kon g's thousands of would -be emigra nts because th ey al­ ma of 1997 are more than 400 Hong Kong Chinese ready have the security of Ann ie's Canadi an passport, grad uates of Guelph and several dozen al umni of other whicl alm ost guarante s Edmond a trou ble-free entry to nationalities who are living in Hong Kong . As China's Canada . takeover of Hong Kong approaches, apprehension and fear abound.

Among those who pl an to stay in Hong Kong are people For many, China is a frightening neighbor not to be optimistic abou t the fu ture and others who are reali stic Guelph Alumnus

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about their chances of obtaining a foreign passport.

Susan Wan, CPS '85, is among the minority of Hong

Kong citizens who still maintain

faith in the Chinese government.

"I don't fear 1997 too much,"

she says. "There wilJ be some

changes in the first few years,

but the Chinese government

wants Hong Kong to be rich as a

commercial bridge.

Many students are looking

for a way to go back to Canada ,

. says Susan, "but my job is not suitable to apply to Canada."

She is a sales manager at China Susan Wan Merchants International Travel Services.

Unlike Susan, hotel and food graduate Winnie Chow, FACS '80, has the security of her husband's Canadian passport, but says she won't use it. Winnie, who is person­ nel manager at Hong Kong 's Furama Hotel, says she has more opportunities in Hong Kong. ''I'm quite positive, quite optimistic about 1997," she says. "If possible, we'll stay. Hong Kong needs everyone's support to keep the economy runntng."

Edward Lee, CSS '77, says Hong Kong has already lost some of its competitive ad­ vantage to centres such as Sin­ gapore and Tokyo, but he feels positive about the city's long­ term future.

"Hong Kong will lose some of the flair or glamor as com­ pared to what it used to be," he says. "But the Chinese govern­ ment will still encourage growth in the system because it's foreign exchange generat­ ing. As long as you don't really aggravate the future govern­ ment, you can sti II do your business."

Fourteen years ago, right after he graduated, Edward would have been happy to stay in Canada. "I enjoyed the quietness of Guelph and I wanted to stay in Canada at that time, but my visa had expired."

Now he has no desire to return to Canada because "the job market in (my) profession is difficult." He is assistant general manager and treasurer at the Banque Pari bas.

"I think the majority of the middle class is like me," he says. "They want to earn extra bucks up to the last minute."

So, like Winnie, Edward will stay in Hong Kong after 1997 ... but with a foreign passport in hand.

Another HAF A graduate taking advantage of Hong Kong's lucrative tourist industry is Eliza Fan, FACS '82, director of personnel and training for the CIM Hotel Management Co. She has seen first hand the effect that con­ cern for the future is having on the territory's economy and work ethic.

"The fear of 1997 has affected the working attitude," she

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says. "People are trying to reap whatever they can without spending time to sow. There are also big problems in mid­ dle management. Because of th e brain drain , people are being upgraded to a standard where they're not qualified."

Ronald Ko, CBS Ph D '7 J, agrees. In his position as a "reader" - a combina tion of researching and teaching - in the University of Hon g Kong's zoology department, Ronald sees a similar problem in the academic community.

"1997 is having a direct impact on what we're doing.

We're having problems with students not wanting to go to graduate school because they want to get out and get jobs.

Also, we're getting poorer qua li ty stude nts among the un­ dergraduates and a decrease in the nu mber of students."

With so many people leav ing Hong Kong for other countries (more than J ,000 a week, according to govern­ ment immigration sources), many jobs are available and

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Chinese jUri ks parked ill the lypllOOIl shelter of Causeway Bay.

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young people are choosing to take a salaried position rather than invest the time and money in an education.

Ronald feels luckier than many Hong Kong Chinese because he has held a Canadian passport for more than 20 years. Nevertheless, his own fut ure in Canada is uncertain. In his mid-40s, he believes he is "too early for retirement, but too old to be rehired. Universities want to hire younger people. I may have to change my profession altogether."

In spite of the uncertainty, Ronald is quick to point out that Hong Kong has been good to him and his family.

"Salaries in my area are almo st twice as high with the tax benefits.

Also, taxes are lower in Hong Kong, and the university provides me with The Peak 'ram 011 Hon KOI/' Island offers one of the city's best l'iews. low-cost hou sing, which Canadian univer­ sities wouldn 't do."

Like many of the multinational corporations that are still there are several Guelph graduates among them. building high-rise office buildings in Hong Kong, Alan Lee, Nicholas King, OAC '87, holds a British passport and went to Hong Kong after graduation from the School of CSS '79, says he moved there for the financial benefi ts. His Landscape Architecture to work for Belt Collins and As­ Guelph degree in economics has stood him in good stead and helped him rise through the ranks. soci ates. He realized that "for someone who 's enterprising, Alan estimates that between the earnings from his posi­ the opportunities are endless in Asia." tion as senior vice-president at Sun Hung Kai Bullion Co. For Nicholas, "Hong Kong has been the ri ght place to be and the profits from hi s own business, he earns more than because when I came, (Belt Collins) was very small, and $450,000 Canadian each year. "I would make a lot less that's enabled me to leapfrog more menial work. My level money in Canada," he says. of responsibility is beyond my years of experience."

Nevertheless, Hong Kong's uncertain political future has Last September, he left his job in Hong Kong to work on prompted Alan to begin looking to Au stralia for a passport. a master's of landscape architecture in urban design at Har­ "My first choice is Sydney, Australi a; my seco nd is Toronto. vard University.

Before June 4th, I thought the Chinese gov ernment was As 1997 approaches, Guelph graduates who hold only a reasonable and would not be barbarian any more. I pl an ned Hong Kon g passport are viewing China's repossession of the territory as a serious matter, and most are keeping all to be here forever. All these drea ms have been brok en. I don 't tru st them anymore." their options open. For som e, that mean s obtaining a As ten s of thousands of Hong Kong Chinese leave the forei gn passport at all costs to be out of the territory long territory for foreign countries, thou sa nds of foreigners are before the BeUing government and the People's Liberation flocking to Hong Kong to take advantage of the oppor­ Army begin calling the shots. tunities that exist there for educated professio nals. And For others, the desire for a foreign passpo rt is just a sec urity measure so they can continue to conduct their busi­ ness in Hong Kong after 1997, but still ha ve an option to leave should anything go wrong.

Others plan to stay indefinitely, hoping that China will be wise enough to leave Hong Kong to function in much the same way it does tod ay.

The choices are difficult, because they involve family, friends and memories of a thriving, vibrant place that is due to change. But at least these people and others who work in the impressive office towers on the island have the luxury of a choice. For the Hong Kong Chinese who sell fruit and so uvenirs in the street markets, there is only the hope that 1997 will bring them "business as usual."

Nicholas King

Cuelph Alumnus

Mar/a Konrad recently returned from a Iwo- year placement in Hong Kong as editor of the Asian Report maga zine. She is now a staff writer in the University's Departm ent of Creative Services.

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!.ALUMNI

Alumni fund established An Alumni Fund for Graduate Acti viti es was estab li shed last summer using the ac­ cumul ated contrib utions of alumni donors who have designated thei r gifts to th e Uni versity to support graduate studi es. The permanent endowme nt fund will be used to provide partial assistance for academic activities orga ni zed by grad uate students.

The fund has already helped with two activities, says Prof. Doug Ormrod, dean of gradua te studies. Assistance was give n to the Graduate Students Association to help host an all-d ay ga thering of grad uate stu ­ dents from neighboring universiti es and to another group of students who needed help to participate in a research conference .

"We hope to sponsor up to five more ac­ tiv it ies this year from this fund ," says Ormrod.

Send-off parties again in 1991

The Wispa and Wispalong hoists from Waverley Glen have been engineered to ease both the strain, and the worry, associated with the lifting and trave rsing of disabled and elder­ ly persons. Sturdy enough to withstand the rigors of profes­ sionaluse, these simple-to-con­ trollift systems also are ideal for use in a private home.

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For more information about the Wispalong Lift Systems, contact:

Waverley Glen Systems Ltd. 2700 Dufferin St., Unit 81 Toronto, Ontario M6B 4J3 Telephone: 416-784-0128 Outside Toronto area, call Toll-Free 1-800-265-0677

Beca use of their success last fall, alumni send- off part ies will be repea ted in 199 1.

In August, University of Guelph alumni from Barrie, London, Brantford and Ot­ tawa hosted se nd-off parties for area stu­ dents headi ng for the Un iversity of Guelph .

Organi zers included Kathy Brush, FACS '82, Lynn Jorda n, Arts '79, David Hill, Arts '84, Robin Opersko, OAC '79, and Larry Meek, C PS '77. About 30 alumni participated along with a bout 320 new st u­ dents and their parents.

The parties replace the form er VISA (Volunteers in Support of Adillission s) pro­ gram . They provide a valuab le service to stud en ts and parents who have question s abo ut campus life and subsequent career paths. And it gives alumni an opportunity to help the Un ivers ity by welcoming new st udents to their alm a mater. Anyone who wo uld like to get in volved in the 1991 se nd-off program, ca n ca ll Betsy Allan at Alumni House, 5 19-824 -4 120, Ext. 6533 .

Alumni Get Involved En gland - Christopher Dufault, OAC '82, of Cambridge got alumni together last summer fo r a wa lkin g to ur of Queen' s Col­ lege at Cambri dge University followed by aj azz and cocktail party.

Look for anoth er alumni gatheri ng in Cambridge during the winter 1991 semester of faculty members on study lea ve. Dufault is aga in the contact.

Wales - Edward Manley, OAC '84, of Cuelph Alumllus

Conwy, Geyedd ha s made contact with other alumni in Wales to encourage a get­ together.

Australia - Grads will be contac ted by mail for a pl anned gathering "down under."

Edmonton/Calga ry - Alumni will be in­ vited to help with a liai son eve ning for potential students this winter.

London - Despite a rainy August picnic, U ofG alumni are planning a mystery dinner in February. Detai.ls will arri ve by flyer, or contact Alumni House.

Associations help students October was a busy month for the Mac­ FACS and HAFA Alumni Associa tions.

Each held a careers ni ght for gra duatin g students, with a total of about 70 alumni and 270 students attending. The Mac­ FA CS group also hosted its annual mem­ bership coffee party.

In November, the OAC Alumni Founda­ tion held its annual awards banquet and handed out $40,000 in sc holarshi ps to entering students.

Attention 1982 grads Are yo u a 1982 graduate of biology, biologica l sc ience, bi omedical sc ience, botany, ecology, tisheries, fish eries and wildlife biology, genetics, geography, hum an biology, marine biology, microbiol ­ ogy, nutrition and biochemistry, wildlife biology or zoology? Jennifer Warris, CBS '82, in Toronto and Sylvia Main, CBS '82, in Winnipeg are planning a 1992 reunion for their class mates and friends. If you'd like to help on the planning com mittee, ca ll Jenn ifer at 416- 793-2 053, or write to Syl via at 32 Man chester Bl vd. N., Winnipeg, Man. R3T 3N9.

TRA VEL WITH FRIENDS Take advantage of one of the exciting Irlps offered Ihrough the UGAA 1991 Alumni Tour program

March 5 to 15 - Japan Tokyo and Nagasaki, plus a seven-night cruise Ihrough one of Ihe Orient's mosl inleresting lands on Ihe deluxe c ruiser Oceanie Grace. Ap­ proximale cost: $5,200.

June 2 to 14 - Elbe River Four-nighl c rui se from Humber 10 Bad SchanadaulDresden, Germany. Vi sil Prague , Czechoslovakia and Berlin - places that have shaped the fate of Germany loday. Approximale cost: $4,350.

June 27 to July 9 - Alaska Thirteen-day journey into Alaska's untamed fron­ tier. beginning with the Inside passage crui se from Vancouver to Ketchiken . Juneau, Skagway, Colum bia Glacier and Whittier. Followed by travel on the Midnight Expre ss to Anchorag e and Fair­ banks before fl ying back to Vancouver. Ap­ proximate cost: $3.300.

For more information, contact Barbara Brooks , at Alumni House, University of Guelph, 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544.

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COMING EVENTS

AnytilJle - The continuing education course 5,000 Days looks at environ­ ment.al perspectives and hum a n choices, h can be taken by cor­ 'respondence for general interest .or credi.t.Regist~rat 5'19-767 -50 10, J an . 11 :- The Ottawa C hap~er Alumni Bonspiel at the Richmond Curling Club begins at 9 a.111.'dnd ends with a 6 p.m. banqllei. Curlers and non~curlers are welcome. Con­ tact Gary Koestler; OAC '77, at .613-995~5880, or Dave Kroetsch, CBS ' 8(), at 613-995-50 I I. On campus. OAC 'S9A wiH hold a reunion pub in :Peter Clark Hall.

Feb_ ·2 ~. OA,C '90 members arc in­ vited, 10 an on-can)pu~· voHeyball iOllrnanientand reunion pub. .

Feb. 4 ~ The Mac-FACS .Alumni Assoc iation h(is t ~ ~its annual recep­ tion for graduating stUDents.

Feb. 10 ~ The an:nlla~Guelph Co llec­ tibles Fair takes plac~ from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m . in theUni verslty Centre.

Feb. 15 - San Francisco is'the site o f an All Canadian Universilies Alulll­ ni Dinner at Bimbo's Club. Contact June Arney at 415-~24-5487l)r the Canadian Con s u1ateOenera I, Public Affairs, 415A95'-6021.

Feb. 16 - To attend the London Chapter mystery din.ner, call Mary Lyn n Redmond, FACS'84.: ~L966S-0023 : Feb. 20 - TheCSS Aluillni Associa­ tionhosts its a'nnual reception on campus for graduating stodents.

M arch 6 .- T he; annual Florida Aluillni Pi.cnic takes place £Ii the North Port · Yacht Club. COlltact Don Moffatt, OA C'46,SI3-624­ 2~~

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Marc,h 13 - University of Guelph Performance Dance Ensemble per­ . forms at noo n' in the University Centre courtyard. Admission is free. . March 16 - The CBS Alulllni As­ sociation hosts its annual meeting ancr receptiun . at 4 p.m. , Alumni House.

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March 27 - The play Wingfield 's Folly by Dan Needles starts at 8 p.m. in War Memori al Hall. Tickets $ 17, or $ 16 ror seniors. Call 5 19-8 24~ 4120, Ext. 3940. . t\ pr il 3- The Karen Jamieson Dance . Company pcrforms in the Univer­ sity Centre co urtyard at nooll . Ad­ missi oll is free.

April 5 & 6 - OVC Alumni Hockey Tournament and OAC Curling ' Bonspiel take pla ce in Guelph '-:' hockey on campus in the twin -pad arena , curling downtow n. For infor­ mati{lO, call Alumni House. .

April 5 to 7 - Spring Craft Show in

the University Centre.

Apr il 13 - Alumni in Washington , D.C. should watch th e mail for details of an All Canadi,in Univer­ . sities Alumni Dinner on this date.

A p r il 17 - T he CSS Alumni

Association 's annual social evening

for members fea tures dessert and

coffee at the Arboretum Centre.

Ap ril 23 - HAFA visi\(irs io Toronto's HostEx, visit the HAFA hospitality suite, 6 to 9 p.m . To par­ ticipatc, contact Val Gyorgy, HAFA '88,416-940-05 II , or Lisa Wilson , HAFA '84,416-366-681 I. May 10 - Chicago alumni will receive details of the All Canadian Universities Alumni Dinner in ' the windy city on thi s clate.

May 15 - The AllIlllni-in ~A l'ti o n an­ nuallullcheon takes place at the Ar­ boretum.

June 14 to 16 - The Class of ove .

'7 1 will mee t at the Bayview ­ . Wildwood Resort. Contact J oa n

Gough, 5 19-674-545 6.

June 21 to 23 - Alumni Wee kend 1991' Co ntact Aluillni Ho use at 51 9-82 4-41 20 , Ext. 2102 for Oetails.

CORRECTION The OAC Diploma Hockey Tourna­ . ment will be held on campus Feb. 23 & 24. To reg ister it team,ealiGreg Cornfol:th at 416 -659 - 1906: Our apologies to Greg for any iacon­ venicnce.

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Cameron Clark, OAC '53 ,

and his family were the first foreign civilians al­ lowed into South Korea after the Korean Wac It was 1956, three years after the end of Asian cbnOict and a year after he decided he wanted a moreexcitin.g career than attending 4-H meetings as an agricultural representative in Ontario's Elgin County.

For UNESCO in South Korea, Clark set up the first government-sponsored school to train rural development workers. In 1958, the Food and Agriculture Organization (F AO) sent him to newly independent Ghana to train field workers in ruralextensioneducation. Eventually responsible for all of Africa, he was there until 1963 "when Africa wasjust so alive wi.th new independent movements and full of hope."

After a two-year stint atFAO headquarters in Rome, he took his family to Bangkok. His frustrating ;lllempts to establish a small farmers development program for Southeast Asia inspired a radical new approach to help­ ing the rural poor. .

Clark saw that benefits ofthe new tools, "improved" ,seeds and fertilizer offered through FAG went only as far as the more prosperous farmers. "FAO still bel ieves if you can get the beller farmers to get the technology, the benefits will trickle down to the poorer farmers. But this does not happen."

Faced with the dilemma that their efforts were per­ petuating a migration of landless farmers to the cities, Clark and his staff asked poor farmers what was wrong with the program. From their response, they developed the idea of "social collateral."

Poor fanners were encouraged to organize co-opera­ tives ancl approach banks for credit. These "people's par­ ticipation programs" were so successful that governments and development agencies.continue to implement them. " It was a strategy to get the poor to take responsibility for their own actions .... It was leadership for the poor by the poor."

Growing up on a farm near Peterborough provided the model for Clark's participation programs. In the 1930s, he accompanied his parents to a neighbor's(arm to listen to Farm Radio Forum. The CBC's agriculturaJbroadcast encouraged listeners to discuss the issues in groups after- ' wards. It was a pioneer in distance education . .

"The group learning experience became a part of my life tha.t I have used ever since. I learned the power of in­ formal small groups for teaching, developing positive at­ titudes and gettingconsensus." .

Now back in Peterborough, Clark helps parolees read­ just to community life, is a consultant for the World Bank and appraises development projects for Sharing Way.

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Canada has much to learn You are quite wrong if you think Canadian society has little to learn from the developing world, says sociologist Nora Cebotarev. "Canada has its own less-developed and underdeveloped parts and we should realize it. There is much we can learn through dialogue with other cultures."

Cebotarev notes happily that most of the Canadian stu­ dents she teaches are eager to learn about other countries.

She was graduate-student co-ordinator for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for four years and is well known in international circles for her research expertise on rural development, socio-economic change in rural families and women's issues.

Like many Guelph faculty, Cebotarev's international work has brought recognition to the University.

"We didn't know about the University of Guelph, but we knew of Nora's work in Latin America ," says Dahlia Restrepo, former dean of the Family Development Pro­ gram at the University of Caldas in Colombia.

In 1984, Restrepo and her colleagues asked the Canadian government to arrange for Cebotarev to help the university develop a family development curriculum.

The result is a four-year degree program in human development and family relations that is a dramatic depar­ ture from traditional top-down planning for social develop­ ment. Says Restrepo, "Our idea is that if you strengthen the family , it can be an agent of social change. Once families have developed their full capabilities and potential, they are beller able to rna ke a contribution to larger societal development."

The program matches each student with a family. The college's theoretical approach enables students to work with families in a participatory way. Students get 10 know the family and organize neighborhood meetings. They get people talking about how to improve their lives and in­ volved in making improvements. The aim is to introduce new skills of dialogue and planning that stay with the fami­ ly long after the student has graduated, says Restrepo.

The benefits of the Guelph-Caldas agreement have been far-reaching, she says. Students have worked with al­ most 2,000 familie s thus far and the program has 40 graduates. In addition, Restrepo and a colleague, Maria Christina Osorio, are doing graduate work at Guelph, and the University ofCaldas has received from the project new computer equipment for the publications department.

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present hit shows.

Janis has resumed her practice as an in­ dependent consultant specializing in theatre planning and management.

Flor Maria Buitrago, '88, and her hu s­ band, Jorge, are living in Lawrenc e, Kan. She is pursuing a PhD in Spanish and Por­ tuguese at the University of Kan sa s and says she would like to keep in touch with fellow alumni. "The years I spen t in that university were the best years of my study life."

Sarah Duncan , '88, lives in Toronto and is

employed as an editor for HBJ-Holt Col­ lege Publishers of Canada.

Joni Johnson, '77, lives in her home town of Adelaide, Australia where she is a land broker, artist and avid photographer. She immigrated to Canada in the 1960s to play tield hock ey, later coached field hockey at Guelph for several yea rs and earned her tine arts degree as a mature student. She writes frequently to friends in the U of G Athletics Department and ha s hosted many Canadian visitors in her Adelaide home.

Katherine Springford, '83 , was part of a

Janis Barlow on th e job.

Janis Barlow, '78, knows theatre from the

foundation up. As project manager for the restoration of Toronto's Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, she was charged with preserving the historic site as an architec­ tural showcase and turning it into a modern theatre facility to benefit Toronto's growing industry.

Janis grew up in St. Catharines and got an early start in theatre with the Press and Niagara Youth Theatres and as a technical apprentice at the Shaw Festival. She com­ pleted a double major in theatre and soc iol­ ogy at Guelph then added community college courses in interior design, arc hitec­ ture and technology.

Using her sociology degree, she went to work in the field of mental health, but soon got a job in Toronto at Theatre Plus as director of publicity, promotion and development. She later joined the cultural industries branch of the Ministry of Cul­ ture and Recreation and became theatre of­ ticer just before the Ontario Heritage Foundation purch ased the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres.

Nine years later, the largest theatre res­ toration project in Canada is complete, giving Toronto much-needed facilitie s to

Guelph Alumnus

team recruited last summer by an American Christian organization to teach English to high school teachers in north­ eastern China. No one talked about it, she says, but Chinese tension about the government's actions against students in 1989 was noticeable. Students were viewed with suspicion if they associated with foreigners, she sa id .

Katherin e is now lec turing part-time in the University's Department of English Langu age and Literature. She plans a three­ month trip to Australia this summer, then will begin a PhD program at the University of Alberta.

Katherin e Springford, righ t, with student.

Philip Stuart, '74 and CBS M.Sc. '75, has

pursued a long course of study since leav­ ing Guelph: an M.Sc. in physiology and a medical degree at the Universi ty of

Was university really like this?

~..~~ Pamela Protheroe, Arts '69, of Essex,

England, was in one of the first classes to take advantage of U of G's summer semester as a starting point for univer" sity.

"We were all untimely ripped from the womb of Grade 13 and found our­ selves one gloomy April morning in 1966 standing in lines in the early dawn with wet snow drizzling around us and being handed lists for a scavenger hunt: she says.

"It was a different world then. We painted daisies on our knees, dripped wax on bottles and stuek candles in them, threw tlower petals at each oiher while listening to leonard Cohen al ­ bums and strummed guitars - badly.

The summers were great - only 200 of us and 2,000 ladies in pot hats and gloves attending conventions. Lunch queues were ghastly. and we all lost a lotofweight." .

Pamela remembers a favorite professor who said he'd fail her if she used more than three booklets to write an exam in Old English, and the two "Mac girls" who were her roommates in Watson Hall. "[flynn and Gwen are out there reading this," she says, "[ expect you still remember when the Christmas cake fell oLit of the window and how I agreed to tint my hair red if you two did - so you did, and I didn 't."

Today, Pamela has three grown children and is in charge of the second language provision in Essex for the southeast area. Since Guelph, she has earned a master's degree in applied lin­ guistics at the University of Essex and is working part time on a doctorate "and a book on reading which will solve all the problems in the western world." She also lectures part time for . Trinity College in London. "[ am extremely proud to have graduated from the University of Guelph, which seems to be giving Cambridge all inferiority complex as far as science is concerned," she says.

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Western Ontario followed by postgraduate training in general surgery and urology in Ottawa and London. He is now a specialist in urology , practi sing at the Port Arthur Clinic in Thunder Bay where he lives with his wife, Tracy Brunton.

CBS

Sarah Grant, '80, is completing postdoc­ toral study at the Max -Pla nck-Institute for Zuechtungsforschung (the study of plant breeding). She plans to stay in Cologne, and has.lust received a fellowship to begin independent research on sex determ ination of flowers . She and husband Jeff Dangl plan to return to Canada in the late 1990s.

Mary Anne Hartley, 'S2, gives an annual pri ze to the student in her Lancashire , England, class who does the best imitation of her Canadian accent. She teaches sc ience to several groups of students in­ cluding adults and those with special needs.

Mary Anne has li ved in England since 1982 with her British husband and says her Canadian pronunciation of some word s - including the na me of her alma mater - becomes a Britishjoke. "Someone asked me how difficult it was to attend university in an Arab country' And there is a tiny village called Guelph in Wales, but no one thought it was big enough for a university."

Mary Anne is now completing a master's degree in behavioral ecology.

Chuck Allison, '76 HK , and his wife, Jackie (Cowper), '75 HK , know how busy Hong Kong really is. C huck is executive director of the Hong Kong YMC A which is building a new facility to accommodate 10,000 peopl e each week.

With the new facility will come new ser­ vices suc h as educational program s in lan­ guage training, computer technology and domestic skills.

He encourages alumni who travel to take advantage of the new facility when it opens in the fall of 1991. " We need the business plus it is a practical way of sup­ porting the development of people and countries in Asia as we channel funds generated back into these communities." ln addition to supporting YMC A ac ­ tivities, Jackie teaches at Ho ng Lok Yuen International School.

Laura (McMillan) D'Angelo, 'S8 HK, was married last summer to Dr. Greg D'­ Angelo. They live in Toronto where she works in marketing for Procter & Gamble.

Liz Hahn, 'S2 and M.Sc. '90, is completing a Ph D in cardiovascular physiology at Loyola University in Chicago.

Susan Hayes, 'SO, is a science tutor at New Zealand's C hristchurch Polytechnic.

Thomas Heinrich, '84, is a fisheries tech ­ nician at the Lake Erie Fisheries Station 30

operated by the New Yo rk State Depart­ ment of Environ mental Conservation. He and his wife, Joan, live in Fo restville, N.Y.

Susan McGee, 'S 6, is wo rking in regulatory affairs fo r Ve trepharm Inc. , a veterinary pharmaceutical company based in London , Ont. Anne (Sarvis) Vagi, '84, works for the On­ tario Minist ry of Nat ural Resources in the Ni agara district as the fisheri es enhance­ men t offi cer. She is married to Kevin Yagi and the y have two children, Katharine and Erica.

CPES

Christopher Cooper, PhD 'S9 , is a re­ search fe llow at Ki ng's College in London, England.

Bruce Mclean and Jill Pangman, both '79, landed in the Northwest Territories after a post-graduation, three-year world trek. Jill wrote a story about their adven­ tures in Africa which appeared in the February 1983 Guelph Alumnus.

Based in lnuvik, Bruce monitors the muskox and cariboo herds for the Ter­ ritories Department of Renewable Resour­ ces and is work ing on a master's degree ­ on muskox disease - from the University of Alaska. Jill is still writing, for Canadian Geographic and Up Here. She also works on wildlife projects and leads rafting, hiking and sk iing trips in the north for an adventure outfit called Ecosummers.

Babette Turner-Underwood, '86, was recently promoted from programmer analyst to management analyst at the Canada Post Corporation head office in Ottawa.

Peter Gillies, '72, (lnd his wife, Michelle, were injured last Septe mber when a gas truck ex ploded at a busy Bangkok intersec­ tion. Canadian Press reported more than 50 peopl e were killed and close to 100 others injured by the blast , which destroyed nu merous autos and businesses.

According to the Canadian Embassy , Peter and his T hai-born wife were two of the many people who were stuck in a traf­ fic j am when the ex plosion occurred.

The G illies were in Thailand to visit Michelle', fa mily. T heir home is in Na na imo, B.c., where Peter is a dentist.

He went into pri ate pra ctice after serving in the Ca nad ian Armed Forces.

Tom Kerr, '63, was recently nam ed vice­ president of operations for Sciex, a division of MDS Heal th Gro up of Thornhill, Ont, where he lives with his wife, Sharon (Martin), Mac '64, a home economist for Corporat e Foods Ltd. of Toronto. Their son, Michael, '90 , is a program mer/analyst for Prol ogic C omp uter Corporation in Picke ring.

Paul Kuras, '77, is di rector of Londo n­ area opera­ tions for Big V Drugstores.

He and his wi fe, Rasa, have four children and live in Lon­ don. A mem­ ber of the Lithuani an Comm unity Paul Kuras for I 3 yea rs, Paul promotes his famiiy heritage and wor ks with the com munity to support the Lithuanian independence movement, es­ tablish business li nks with Lithuania and lobby Canadian governments abou t Lithuanian issues.

Carly Williams

Carly Williams, '85, lives in Switzerland's Rhein Valley. "It 's very charming with Swiss cows grazing the fi elds and the Alps in the background." She is employed by Computervision GIS AG in its Heerbrugg office, but expects to move to Zurich in the near future. "My learning certainly didn't stop when I left school," she says. "Living in a foreign country, I learn something new every day."

Living in central Europe makes train travel very convenient, says Carly, but a car is a must for weekend ski trips to Swit­ zerland or Austria. ''I've made visits to France , Germany, Austria, England and ltaly." What does she miss about Canada?

"I really miss Canadian cheddar cheese and Chinatown in Toronto."

She invites fellow alumni to call her when visiting Switzerland .

CSS

John and Veronica Bagasel, both MA 'S9, are li ving in Boroko, Papua New Guinea, working at the Uni ve rsity of Papua New Guinea in the national capital district.

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raphy degree as a planner for KRT A Ltd. in Auckland, New Zealand.

Robert Govaerts, '82, is a director of the Corporate Trust Group and man age r of the company's Tortola offices in the British Virgin Island s. After graduating from U of G, he completed a law degree at the University of Windsor and studied at the Hague Academy of [nternation al Law . He articled for the Toronto firm of Mac­ Mas ter, Poolman & de Vries until called to the bar in 1986.

Robert joined Corporate Trust as lega l counsel and consultant in its Curacao, Netherland s Antilles office, was later United States representative in New York and is now in the British Virgin Island s where he lives with his wife ,Shirley , and son, Alex ander.

Shari Jennings, '8 5, of Toronto, works at Homeward family shelter in Scarborough and collects donations - money, clothing, sc hool supplies - for Gracias, an or­ ganization which supports a sc hool for street urchin s in the Dominican Republic.

Theresa Lau, '8 1 was one of man y Hong Kong Chinese students who heard about U ofG from other Hon g Kong alumni. "My fri ends introd uced Guelph to me. I liked the people very much. They were friendly.

I liked the environment. It was very good there." She has return ed to Hong Kong to Jive and work.

Leslie Liu, '8 5, hopes to leave Hong Kong to join the rest of his family in Vancouver within the nex t couple of yea rs.

Meanwhile, he is assistant general manager of Hong Kon g City Toys. He predicts that when the Chinese take politi­ cal co ntrol of Hong Kong in 1997 , they "will want financial help from Japan and America. Hong Kong is so important in term s of finances and economics. " But after the June 1989 incident in Tiananmen Square, he is more determined than ever to return to Canada. "Even if there's no change in the system, there's sec urity in a foreignpassport."

Leslie remembers the U of G as "a good university . Life over there (Canada) is not so tense or under pressure. People in Canada are nicer. [n Hong Kong, business is everything and the press ure is too high."

Karina (Forsyth) Lotz, MA '7 9, wrote to us from France where she lives with her French hus­ band, Gerard, and their 15-month-old daughter. She teaches Engli sh to adults. After graduation, Karina worked in Toronto as a research as­ sociate and manager of the data bank at the Karina LoIZ Dellcrest Children's GueLph ALumnus

Centre, then opened a private consulting business. In 1985 , she "too k time off to ful ­ fill a dream I'd had for a long time - to live for a year in France. It worked, but with une xpec ted consequences. [ fell in love and got married ." "[ would say that travelling is 'dangerous,' as [ have a brother who went to Australia for a few months and also married and sta yed there." Karina also ha s two brothers in Canada, both U ofG alum­ ni: Galin, OVC '79, of Milton , Ont., and Kevin, CSS '83 , of Nel son, B.c.

Jacquie Muir-Broaddus, '84 and MA '86, is an assistant professor of psychology and education at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Tex. After leaving Guelph , she com­ pleted a PhD in developmental psychology at Florida Atlantic University . She is married to Kirk Ja cquie Muir-Broaddus and they Broaddus live in Austin.

Guelph , she received a teacher's certificate from Queen 's University. When her two­ year contract is up ne xt year, she plans to drive - for the seco nd time - all the way back to Canada.

Robert Tanner, '79 and OAC '8 1, is vice consul, Canadian Consulate General, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he lives with hi s wife, a Fren ch linguist , and daughter. Pre­ vious posti ngs were in Argentina and Kuwait. Tanner's interest in international life began when his father, OAC professo r Jack Tanner, OAC '57 and MSA '59, took hi s famil y to Ghana for two years in the early '70s.

David Yip, '80, is a stafT training officer for the correctional se rvi ces depar tment in Hong Kong. He and hi s wife, Jeannie enjoy man y local events like the annual Drago n Boat Festival in Tal Po, Kow loon. In the photo below, David stand s in a dragon boat used in racing competition .

Claudia Ng, '87, of Hong Kong says the spirit in her city is pess imistic because of the impending change of government.

"Everybody wants to leave before 1997.

No one ha s confidence especially after what happened last year in Beijing."

Roderich Ptak, MA '81, says there are so me things you neve r forget from your university days - like the number of the closest pizza parlor or the quiet natural set­ ting of the Guelph ca mpus.

Rod erich did things in reverse order ­ earning a PhD from Heidelberg University in Germany in sinology then taking an MA in economics at Guelph. Thereafter, he was thrown back into Chinese st udies. He did a project in Toronto supported by the German Research Council. then he and hi s Hong Kong-Can adian wife went to Ger­ many where he completed post-doctoral work in sinology, wrote books and articles, taught China-related courses at Heidel­ berg, Marburg and Germersheim, becom­ ing a contract professor. He is now a Heise nberg scholar, devoting much time to research and hi s two Canadian-G erman children.

His wish for Guelph is that the Univer­ sity do more to promote Asian Studi es.

Evan Siddall, '87, graduated in law from York University'S Osgoode Hal l last June.

He is employed in the corporate services di vision of Burn s Fry Limited in Toronto .

Wendy Stephenson, '82, is te ach ing in a private elementary sc hool spo nsored by the Am erican Embassy in San Salvador.

After completing Women's Studies at

Da vid Yip

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Bonnie-Rae Brownlee, '82 , is a general ac­ counting officer with the Royal Bank of Canada in Montreal. She is married to Grant Bailey.

Peter Cheung, '83 HAFA , took hi s Guelph degree to Hong Kong and landed a job at the prest ig ious Peninsula Hotel but later rerouted hi s ca reer to work for a local church. Now he divides hi s time between 31

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teaching school and ministry involvement at the Christian Gospel Disciples Church.

"There was a need in this church," he says.

Like many others in Hong Kong, Peter is uncertain about the future, especially religious freedom, after 1997 when Hong Hong comes under Chinese control. There is a large Christian population in Hong Kong as well as adherents of Confucian and Buddhist religions found in mainland China. ''I'm sure there will be a lot of chan­ ges." Nevertheless, he plans to stay in the territory and "weather what storms may come." ~ Kathy Cowbrough, '67, is a fitness and nutrition consultant in Stirling, Scotland, where she lives with husband Graham Law, a town planner, and her six-year-old twins. After graduating, she worked as a home economist in Bruce County for two years then accepted similar jobs in Zim­ babwe and Zambia, where she met Graham.

Mary Dzikolidaya, '89, has returned home to Malawi and works as a professional of­ ficer for Natural Resources College in Lilongwe.

Jane Foster, '87 , and her husband , Richard Blinn, are living in Victoria, B.c. with their eight-month-old son, Benjamin.

Elaine Hamilton, '88, should be home in Canada by now but has spent most of the last year travelling and working in Australia and New Zealand. Her parents are Carman, OAC '57, and Pat, Mac '59.

Kathy (Andrews) O'Brien, '85, works at the public library in Orangeville, Ont., where she develops children's programs.

She a nd husband, Ron, have two children, Meghan a nd Jennifer.

Lisa Pelletier, M.Sc . '84, and Tim Cor­ mick, OAC '83 LA, live in Toronto with their one-year-old daughter, Maxine. She is the great-granddaughter of Mark Mor­ ton, OAC '26, and the niece of Heather (Cormick), Arts '76, and Mike Pratt, OAC '76 LA .

Nancy Plato, '81, and Paul Thiel, OAC '81, are new pare nts to Reid Thomas, born in September. Nancy is on leave from her job as liaison co-ordinator for OAC and

Paul is a field deve lopment manager for

Rhone-Poulenc Canada Inc. in Guelph.

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Robert Anderson, '67, has moved from Agriculture Canada's Ottawa office to the Agriculture Development Bra nch in Guelph as a senior economist. His wife, Irene, Mac '65, is te ac hing in Shelburne for the Dufferin County Board of Educa­ tion.

Noelle and Stephen Bachner, both '87 A, live in St. Thomas, Ont. Noelle is parts manager for Case IH dealership in Fingal and Stephen is farming cash crops and vegetables. They have one d a ughter, born last summer.

Margaret Bakelaar, '85, is director of plan ­ ning for the joint planning advisory com­ mittee of the Windsor- West Hants district in Windsor, N.S. Judy Bardgett, '89 ODH LA, has joined the Bermuda office of Onions, Bouchard & McCullouch as landsca pe desig ner and planting consultant.

Bill and Donna (Hanton) Code, both '85, are high sc hool science teachers and operate a purebred Simmental beef herd near Almonte, Ont. Natalie (Lostchuck) Cranston, '82 A, operates her own computer graphics com­ pany from her home in Lorretto, Ont. where she is also looking after twin boys born in September 1988 and a girl born in October 1989.

Hector Delgado, M.Agr. '90, is now a professor at the Instuto Technologico in San Carlos, Costa Rica.

Trevor Dickinson, '61 and M.Sc. '65, was named a 1990 3M Teaching Fellow. He is the sixth University of Guelph faculty member to receive the award. He was also named the University's Engineering Professor of the Year. Trevor specializes in water resource engineering.

James Fuller, '48, recently moved to Vic­ toria, B.c., after 22 years abroad. He has retired from Akzo Chemicals of the

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Netherlands. "I look forward to the various U of Guelph publications with news of in­ creasingly ancient friends and colleagues."

Michael Fulton, '86, is wholesaling lumber and plywood for Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd. (formerly Crown Zeller Bach) at the Edmonton wood products market­ ing centre. He married Colleen Keane of Edmonton last summer.

John Gibson, '79, married Catherine Milne last summer. They live in Foxboro, Ont., where he is owner-operator of Farmgate Gardens.

Ian Goltz, '84, is a hydrogeologist with Geomatrix Consultants Inc. in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Ping He, M.Sc. '90, of China is following the lead of many international students by choosing to change universities when they pursue higher degrees to broaden their academic experience. He is a graduate stu­ dent in the Department of Animal Science at the Universit y of Alberta, Edmonton.

Elenimo Khonga, PhD '8 7, would like to see a picture of the new environmental biology / horticultural science complex when it is finished. He remembers the crowded conditions when he completed his PhD at Guelph in environmental biol­ ogy. The Guelph Alumnus will cover the opening of the new facility next spring.

Meantime, Elenimo has resumed his duties as a lecturer in plant pathology and microbiology and is now head of the biol­ ogy department. His research involves the biological control of plant diseases, espe­ cially coffee diseases.

His advice to Guelph students: "Aim high, the top is always there for you to reach."

F.J. Makanjuola, M.Sc. '83, is the first paid-up member of the new School of En­ gineering Alumni Association. He is head of field operations for the Nigerian Sugar Company Limited in Jebba, Kwara State, Nigeria. "The promotion is a result of good education and se nse of direction incul­ cated during my studies for M.Sc. at Guelph," he says.

Gary Malott, '65 and M.Agr. '90, is the eastern regional sa les manager for Fred

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Gutwein & Sons of Francesville, Ind. Doug Marlow, M.Sc. '87, is the new Canadian district manager for Pargro Hor­ ticultural Products. Based in Caledonia, Ont., his respon­ sibilities include support to Doug Marlow Partek 's largest Canadian hor­ ticultural distributor, Plant Products Co. Ltd., and its customers. He will also over­ see sa les, development and expansion of the Canadian market.

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Denise McCraig, '87, says it pays to sharpen your resume. For the first two years after graduation , she worked in the horticulture and recreational therapy departments of the Homewood Sanitarium in Guelph. When she decided it was time for a new challenge, she went looking for a job in pharmaceutical sales and is now a medical sa les representative with I.e.1.

Pharma in Saskatoon . 'Tm very excited about my new job. My hard work in univer­ si ty is starting to payoff."

Anthony O'Neill, '82 , operates a garden centre in Spaniard's Bay, Ntld., where he lives with his wife, Marie-Claire.

W.H. Gordon Patton, '32, found a rew ard­ ing career in medicine, although his original intention was to become a medical entomologist like his father. After graduat­ ing from OAC, he returned home to Liver­ pool, England, and obtained a medica l degree in 1937. He applied for a position as medical officer in the colonial service, intending to specialize in medical entomol­ ogy, but wa s posted to the island ofSt. Helena in the South Atlantic. "Here there were no tropical disea ses," says Gordon, but there wa s a great need for surgical ser­ vices. He learned surgery while caring for the island 's 6,000 people. "\ gradually decided to abandon the insect world and become a surgeon ," he says.

Gordon also served as medical officer

"Of all the tenderfqots among.the fresh­

, men, I am sure that I was the most ex­

treme," says C.D. Hutchings, 33A &

measlires. "I established the first bench

" '36, who lives in Waterlooville, Hants., terraces on the island fOr coffee,

England. His youth Was spent in the vegetables and strawberries," he says.

British c.olonies oflhe Turks & C"icos Hutchings returned to extension

.' Islands, the Cayman Islands and work for the Britishgovernment to help

Jamaica, but he came to Canada in improve agricultural practices in the

t 1930 to spend the requ(red year on a colonies. There were stints on an

, farm before' entering OAC inthefall of English grain and pig farm, teaching in

1931. Hi s college career was marked a rural estate school ,Ind grow ing fruits

• by the recurrence of a rare mosq uito­ . borne disease picked up in the We~t In~ and vegetables in Scotland. He helped

to establish a department of agriculture

t dies and "the absolute kindness of

in the Cayman Islands and managed. an

professors ... and theirdedication to

American company's resort holdings on

the conversion of raw student material

to the distinguished status of a graduate . the Turks & Caicc)s tslands.

Forty-five years after graduation, he

ofOAe."

In his final year, Hutchi'ngs produced ' finally retired in 1981 and returned to .

. England with his Canadian-bor.n wife,

the monthly OAC Review. He and '. .

Jocelyn . t classmate John Smith, '36, made' plans

Now , looking forward to attending . to move to British Columbia'S grizzly

. Alumni Weekend '91 , Hutchings otTers ' bear country to harvest and market .

encouragement for University of blueberries, but the idea never bore Guelph endeavors in forestry research. fruit. Instead, Hutchings went to "I cannot think of any tield of human • Jamaica on the promise of a job with a endeavor ... in'volving the use of land Central American banana company,

which is as significant for the future or , but ended up working for the British

mankind as forestry." He thinks there is t government to develop plots for (he in­

a need for institutions lik e Guelph to . troduction ofnew pl ant species to

develop projectsin food forestry that Jamaica .

would provide food for peoplc and For the next 40 years, he worked in farm anill1als and prevent erosion on :' , a number of professio·ns. Onfamily . mountainous terrains such as that found ' I farm land in the mountains of Jamaica, in the Caribbean. he ex erimented with soil conse'rvation

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to the orthopaedic centre in Nairobi. He

later se rved in Accra and, finally , joined

the health service in Britain in 1955 . He

was a surgeon at Bretby Hall Orthopaedic

Hospital near Derby until he retired in

1975 .

Bill Pinder, 'SO, has recentl y moved from

London, Ont., to Niagara Falls. He is in the

nut busi ness and would like to say hell o to

friends Les Brown, '79, Greg Unger, '8 1,

and Joe McKenna, CSS '79.

Geraldine Quin , '78A , is horticulture su­ pervi sor for the University of Calgary's grounds department.

Bill, '83 and M.Sc . '86 , and Gwen Revington, CBS 'S4 and OvC M.Sc. '86, have recentl y returned to Guelph after a four-year stint at Auburn University in Alabama, where they recei ved their doc­ toral degrees in poullry science and botany and microbiology , respectively. Bill is now working as a nutritioni st at New-Life Mills Ltd. in Cambridge and Gwen is caring for their new son, Nicholas.

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Deogratias Rutatora, M.Sc. '88, has returned to his native Africa and is using his degree in rural extension studies at the agricultural institute at Sokione University in Morogoro, Tanza nia where he is in­ volved in small farm educational programs.

Arthur Scholey, '64A, is employed at the Globe steel and metal foundry in Weert , Netherlands.

David Stauffer, M.Agr. '88, is managing director of Globogal Ltd. in Lenzburg, Switzerland.

Jim Stockton, '59, used his OAC degree to complement his mini stry in Africa and Canada. Born on a farm in Dumfries Township, Jim had intended to serve the United Church in Canada's rural com­ munities. But, in 1962, he and his wife, Jes­ sie, accepted a missionary call to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) to teach farm­ ing. He was later minister at St. Andrew's United Church in Ndola. They returned to Canada in 1972. Jim served at Grace Street United Church before becoming minister at St. Andrew's in Peterborough, Ont., in 1985. He retired last summer, al­ though he continues to preach to the rural Bancroft/Carlow pastoral charge and works with youth and seniors groups.

These notes on Jim's career were sent to us by Agnes Roe Wharry, Mac '26 D, a member of St. Andrew's.

Jennifer Uhryniw, '84, is a United Church minister in Assiniboia, Sask. She and her husband, Don , are graduates of the Atlan­

tic School of Theology.

Peter Van Adrichem, '78, recently ac­ cepted a position as Canadian project manager of the Thailand Dairy Project sponsored by Shore Holsteins International Ltd ., International Livestock Management School, Semex Canada and the Thai government. The project is to develop Asian markets for Canadian cattle and genetics.

Peter is a former soil conservation ad­ viser with the Ontario Ministry of Agricul­ ture and Food in Kemptville, Ont. Raised on a dairy farm in Eastern Ontario, his in­ ternational experience began shortly after graduation from Guelph when he worked in dairy co-operatives in Thailand with CUSO. William van Diepen, '3 5, left OAC with a degree in horticulture, but had no idea it would lead him to a 37 -year career in the banana industry. Jobs were scarce during the depression, so he went on to do a graduate degree in sugar agronomy at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, then took a job with the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands International Inc.) in Central America.

He and his wife, Lona Adams, Mac '34, deceased 1982, lived in Spanish Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala for 23 years until he returned to Boston, Mass., as assistant vice-president of production. He was later promoted to vice-president of re­ se.arch and development and retired in 1974. During his career, "Panama disease"

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forced banana producers to change varieties of fruit and the introduction of the cardboard shipping box altered the field of insect research . "There was never a dull moment in the banana business," he says.

He lives in Ormond Beach, Fla., with his second wife, Polly.

Hector Varela, M.Sc. '90, is a graduate of rural extension studies and now a co-or­ dinator of rural programs at Estacion Ex­ perimental Agropecuaria in Buenos Aires, Argentina .

Robert Wittig, '87, majored in horticulture with a minor in international agriculture.

After graduation, he spent two years in Papau New Guinea with CUSO as an agriculture extension /s mall village development officer. Hi s home is in Embro,Ont. Rupert (Leong Chong) Yeo, '85, is living in Malaysia, where he is project engineer for Heaveatrade, Autoways Holding, Ber­ had. He manages the firm 's operations in rubber industrial machineries. He would like to get in touch with other water resource graduates and hopes to visit the University in the near future.

Jennie Yeoh, '85, has been a quality con­ troller at Vee Lee Oils Industries, Berhad, Malaysia, for the past three years. She was visited last summer by Professor Jim Shute, Rural Extension Studies, who brought us Ihis photo and news item . Vee Lee Oils is one of the major edible oil com­ panies in Malaysia . Jennie is also involved

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in product development and in setting up new plants for the palm oil refinery. She travels exten­ sively in Malaysia to monitor projects, but would like to return to Canada for a visit in a few Jennie Yeoh years."Most Malaysian stu­ dents have fond memories of Canada - nice people, not­ so-nice weather in winter. But summer and fall are great," she says. "I miss living in a temperate country where one can look for­ ward to a new season four times a year. In Malaysia, it isjust hot and rainy ."

gather information for a three-part article on pet medicine around the world. Veteri­ nary problems vary widely, she says.

Canine knee surgery is rare in Canada, but common in New Zealand where sheep dogs often suffer injuries. In Thailand and China, veterinarians and /or city officials have a hard time controlling the popula­ tion of stray dogs. Because of Buddhist beliefs, everyone claim s the strays when the officials try to remove them from the streets. Petra 's article appeared in Pels Maga zine in 1989/90.

Albert Zantingh, '86, is interested in U of G programs in developing countries. He is project director, supervisor and trainer in health and agriculture at Corozal Town, Belize, Central America.

Bill Drennan, '55, work s in Ottawa for the federal veterinary drug directorate.

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Robert"Chas" Anderson, M.Sc. '72, lives in Victoria , Australia and teaches at Mc­ Auley Regional Catholic College.

Ron Austin, '67, married Doreen Thor­ lacius one year ago in Winnipeg. Atten­ dants at the wedding included the bride's two children and Ron's three children, Patrick, Kenneth and Linda. Ron is a veterinary pathologist with Manitoba's agricultrue department..

Alain Bouvet, M.Sc. '85 and PhD '88, has experienced an unexpected twi st in hi s career. Instead of beginning postdoctoral research in Ottawa, he has accepted a three-year research position in Cambridge, England , to work for Britain's department of agriculture. He will be participating in the European BRIDGE project on gene mapping in the pig.

Andrew R. Bowles, '85 and OAC '81, has joined Hill's Pet Products, Canada as a veterinary professional service repre­ sentative for Ea stern Ontario. For the past five years, he has worked as a locum veterinarian and as a consultant for Veteri­ nary System s Inc. in Toronto, helping veterinarians computerize their office pro­ cedures. He lives in Toronto.

Petra Burgmann and Don Dawson, both '84, live in Nobleton, Ont. , with their new son , Skyler Alexander, born in September.

Petra practi ses veterinary medicine in High Park and Don, in Unionville.

Petra visited several other OVC alumni two years ago during a world trek to Guelph Alumnus

Michelle Cline, '88, is practising veteri­ nary medicine in Kent, England, where she lives with her husband, John, OAC '87.

Dave Courtice, '56, wi shes to announce his recent marriage to Gail Bush. They live in Port Moody, B.c.

Bill Davis, '55, supervises imports in the veterinary inspection branch of Agricul­ ture Canada. He lives in Mississauga.

Helen Drolia, M.Sc. '89, has returned to Thessaloniki, Greece, after completing her DVM degree.

Juan Garza, '67, is director of the national laboratories for the production of biologics in Mexico. After graduation from OVC, he was a professor of microbiology at the

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Dairy Commiss ion.

Bill Mclean, '55, has a medical practice in

Kitchener.

Paulo Miniats, '55 and M.Sc. '66, retired a

year ago from the OVC Department of

Population Medicine. Earlier in his career,

he practised for nine years in Alberta. His

daughter, Anita, '82 , is also a veterinarian

at the Secord Animal Hospital in Toronto.

Harold Reed, '55, is retired from the facul­

ty of OVC's Department of Clinical

Studies. He lives in Guelph and serves on

the Guelph Alumnus advisory board.

Nelson Listcr, Humphrey-R ees, Stewart Leedham andHoward Marlin, ove '55.

OVC grads reunite Veterin<lry college alumni from the clas­ ses of 1955 and 1960 held reunions last year. Twenty-three members of OVC '55 celebrated 35 years of "life after graduation" during Alumni Weekend in June. Updates on most of those attend­ ing are included in "Grad news."

OVC '60 'melin Calgary in Septem­ ber,hosted by D.W. Moore, whoor~ ganizedthe World Class 30th Rcunion.

Thirtv-one of the 39 class members at­ tended. "Paying no heed to the ravages

University of Mexico's veterinary college and served as dean in the late '70s. In his current position, he is respo nsible for hum<ln vaccines and immunology.

Bill Hanlon, '55, is retired from his prac­ tice in Illinois and now lives with his wife, Kate, in Schomberg, Ont. Jim Henry, '55, is direc tor of veterinary lab services for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and co-ordinator of the Canadian International Development Agency disease investigation project in Java. He and hi s wife, Donna, raise and train bird dogs as a hobby.

Ron Horning, '55, has a small animal practice in Chicago. While attending Alumni Weekend , he and his wife, Karen, "tried to understand Canadian politics."

Kenneth Kilpatrick, '76, is studying law at the University of Saskatchewan. He lives inSaskatoon with hi s wife, Vicki.

Stuart Leedham, '55, is still practising in Wingham , Ont. Nelson Lister, '5 5, and hi s wife, Betty, have lived in Lindsay, Ont. for 35 years.

They raise and train hackney ponies.

Ek Hee um, '85, returned to his home in Singapore to practi se after graduation.

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of time," says Moore; "we had a 37 -horse trail ride in the.Rocky Mountains and dinner at the Moore ranch on the High­ wood River." The foUowing day, 25 members hiked around Upper K<lnanas­ kis Lake, while others participated in a golf tournament.

The cl<lsS decided to contribute to a memorial scholarship for its honorary class president, the late C.K Roe. John Sankey, of London, Ont., was elected the new president.

world travels two years ago, reports that he misses the "peace and quiet" of Guelph and the pristine snowfalls. Ek Hee says some of hi s best memories are of Harvey's, the Blue Jays and ice hockey. He invites his friends to visit him .

Howard Martin, Bill Vivian and Jack Waye, all '55, have operated a small animal practice together in Hamilton , Ont. , since graduation.

Andrew McCormick, '82, has been named a veterinary professional service repre­ sentative in Western Ontario for Hill's Pet Products, Canada. He joins Hills after eight years in small animal practice at Mitchell Animal Hospital in Kitchener.

Humphrey Rees, '55, had the farthest to

come and the most to see at the OVC '55

cla ss reunion la st June. This was his first

campus visit since the '60s. The reunion

was "worthwhile and good for the soul," he

says, "for it was timely reminder of the

great privilege that Guelph conferred upon

us." He now lectures, operates a farm and

works part-time at a veterinary practice in

Devon, England.

CarIton Ring, '55, and his wife, Barbara,

attended the OVC '55 reunion last sum­

mer and sa id it was "a grand time."

Morley Rutherford, '55, works part-time

in a companion animal practice in

Brampton, Ont., and is a veterinary

premi se inspector for the Ontario Veteri­

nary Assoc iation.

Tom Sewall, '5 1, was named Veterinarian

of the Year for 1990 by the Alberta Veteri­

nary Medical Association. He was recog­

nized for his service to veterinary

medicine and the community. He and his

wife live in Brooks.

Ray Sammons, '55, says he is "doing less

and enjoying it more" in Smyrna, Del.

Harold Sherman, '55, has a mixed prac ­

tice in Dover-Fox Croft, Me.

Edwin Stu la, '55, is a senior resea rch

pathologi st for Dupont at the Haskell

Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial

Medicine in Newark , Del.

Jan Thorsen, '55, is a professor of veteri­

nary microbiology at OVC and serves as a

consultant to various countries including

Brazil.

Larry McClure, '81 and M.Sc. '88,just signed on for a third year as epidemiologist at an animal disease inves­ tigation centre for Java and Madura Is­ lands in Indonesia. He was hired by Jim Henry, '55 , (see above) for a CIDAlln­ donesia project after completing hi s ma ster's degree in epidemiology in 1988.

Between 1981 and 1986, he practised in Kelowna, B.c., Toronto and Pembroke, Ont. He and his wife, Dianne, have two sons.

Chris, '84, and Ruedi Wae\Chli-Winder, M.Sc. '8 I, live in Zurich, Switzerland , and are employed at the University of Zurich's veterinary college. Ruedi is head of the large animal ambulatory clinic and spe­ cializes in equine reproduction. He recent­ ly submitted a habilitation (equivalent to a PhD degree). Chris is involved in research concerning COPD in horses.

They have two daughters, Zoe and Amie, and spend their spare time hiking in the mountains. They try to visit Guelph each summer when in Canada.

Cliff McIsaac, '55, and his wife, Marie, live in Ottawa. He works for the Canadian

Bruce Watson, '55, has a companion animal practice in Calgary.

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John Sukosd, '77, of Vittoria, Ont., died Sept. 10, 1989, after an accidental fall while viewing a property-site in Illinois.

When Sukosd completed his degree in chemistry, he accepted a position as sales representative for Beecham Pharmaceuti­ cals in Toronto. He later moved to Weste.rn Canada as sales/technical repre­ sentatIve for Alchem, then back to Ontario as district sales representative for Calgon Chemicals in Brampton, eventually accept­ Ing a posItIon at Hart Chemical in Guelph.

He was in transi tion from a position as ac­ count supervisor, handling U.S. sales and ~arketing, to the position of marketing director for North America, Mexico and Puerto Rico at the time of his death.

He is survived by hi s wife, Regina, Arts '75, whom he met while both were stu­ dents at Guelph, and a son, Craig, 6. They are now maki ng their home in Guelph.

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E. Louise (Baker) McCollum, '36D, ofMil­ ton, Ont., died Sept. 19, 1990. She is sur­ vived by two sisters, Margaret Maclean and Ruth Wright, Mac '37.

Eileen (Matthewson) Slatter, '35D, of Dundas, Ont., died Sept. 12, 1990.

David Garrick, '40, of Ottawa, died Sept.

24,1990 ... a hero in the eyes of many people in Latin America, where he spent most of his veteri­ nary career on behalf of the United Nations. Garrick's widow, Maggie, has provided these details of his career.

Immediately after graduation from .OVS, Garrick operated a successful prac­ tice In North Toronto, but left in 1941 to join the Canadian Navy. He was com­ mander of the ship HMCS Shediac when the war ended. . After a short tenure at his alma mater, Garrick joined United Nations Relief and

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Albert Hunter, '32A, of Burlington, Ont., died Aug. 27, 1990. A dairy farmer and Dorset sheep breeder, he was past director of the Canadian Holstein-Friesian Associa­ tion, served on the sheep committee of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and was a frequent exhibitor and judge at livestock shows throughout Ontario. A life member of the OAC Alumni Association, he is sur­ vived by his wife, Reta, and four daughters, Marion Richardson of Bur­ lington, Margaret Dennis of Markdale, Ont., Lois James, CSS '70, of Russell, Ont., and Janet Hunter, CSS '74 of Austin, Tex. Arthur McArton, '37, of Toronto, died Oct. 7, 1989. He was assistant general manager of the department of industrial and agricultural development for Canadian Pacific Limited in Montreal before his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Grace.

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Arthur Thompson, '37, of Dunnville, Ont., died in August 1990. He is survived by his wife, Olive (Thompson), Mac '35. Both were active as alumni volunteers and class agents for many years.

OVC

Francis Fitzgerald, '37, of Framingham , Mass., died Sept. 8, 1990. His practice was at the Fitzgerald Animal Clinic in Fitchburg. He is survived by his wife, Vir­ ginia. A scholarship in hi s name has been established at OVe. Edward Phillips, '40, of Rogers, Ark., died June 7, 1990. He served on the OVC facul­ ty for a short time, moving to a career as a virologist for the U.S. government. He was predeceased by hi s wife, Gertrude.

Orville Privett, '42, of Austin, Minn., died in September 1987. The Guelph Alumnus was asked by OAC '42 class agent Glen Warlow to advise fellow classmates.

Albert Straby, '50 and MSA '53, of Lanark, Ont., died Sept. 10, 1990. A life member of the OAC Alumni Association , he was associate director of plant quaran­ tine with Canada's Department of Agricul­ ture until his retirement in 1983. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis.

Lt. Col. Kenneth Campbell, of Toronto, died in September 1990. He was a mem­ ber of the University's President's Council and of the board of OVC's Dynasty Trust.

He is survived by his wife, Mona, with whom he shared an avid interest in horses.

Together, they operated Mohill Farm in Puslinch.

Rehabilitation to assist in a program to send aid to the devastated countries of Europe. He took horses from Western Canada to Czechoslovakia and Poland for use in farming operations.

Garrick and .his crew were so moved by the conditions they found that they stripped the ship of drug supplies and gave away their'own clothing and spare boots.

He then turned his attention to the study of public health and became a public health veterinarian in the Simcoe County Health Unit. Within a few years, he was seconded by the World Health Or­ ganization to organizepublic health semi­ nars in Latin America.

He Was co-ordinating the work of several health agencies when, in 1964, he moved to Guatemala as director of food and drug control, with responsibility for all of Central America, Mexico and South America.

Among his successes in the field was the isolation of the virus Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis in the mountain region bordering Costa Rica and

Nicaragua . The implementation of con­ trols prevented its spread north to the United States and Canada, although now there are reports that - 25 years later ­ the virus has found its way to Florida.

In 1969, Garrick was asked by the UN's fAO to set up public health courses for veterinary students in the Caribbean.

He returned to Canada in 1971 to work in Ottawa with Health and Welfare Canada. Most of his colleagues remain in Latin America, and almost all his scien­ tific articles were published in Spanish to benefit the people he worked closely with.

"They (the developing countries) are waiting for young graduates to follow in David's footsteps," says Maggie Garrick.

But "it's not easy surviving jungles, in­ sects, insurrections and riots, and learn­ ing a new language or two. In addition, the politicos are not always receptive."

Nevertheless, "it's gratifying to know th~t there are health centres today that mIght never have existed without his help," she says. "David succeeded. I am proud. I think OVC should be proud of him ,too."

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ing urban problems and protecting the environment have not always been adhered to. Instead, much development assistance continues to concentrate on infrastructure "/n the middle of the 20th century, wesaw mega-projects, offering lines of our planet from space for the first time. credit and providing food aid.

Notwithstanding emergency Hisrorions may eventU1illy find that this vision had a greater impa ct on thought than situations, this focus is often ques­ did the Copernican revolution of Ihe 16th tionable in its impact and some­ century, which upset th e human self-i mage times works directly against the by revealin g that the earth is not the centre interests of the Third World poor.

Just days before the 1988 federal ofthe universe. From space we sawa small andfmgile ball dominated, nol by human election, Prime Minister Brian activity and edifices, but by a pattern of Mulroney addressed the United clouds, oceans, greenery and soils. " Nations and recommitted Canada to achieving an aDA-to-gross na­ tional product ratio of 0.7 per cent by the year 2000. However,just six months later, the first Conservative post-free-trade budget launched the biggest single attack on domestic social and international develop­ ment programs in Canadian hi story.

The 12.2-per cent cut in aDA for 1989-90 was the largest imposed on any program.

Clearly, the Conservatives made cuts in an area which they per­ ceived had a limited domestic con­ stituency.

The difficulties faced by develop­ ing nations are well documented.

Falling commodity prices and in­

by Audrey McLaughlin, Mac '5 5D creased input costs combined with the spiralling debt crisis widen the gap be­ anadians were no less affected by tween rich and poor. Harsh interna­ this observation - described in tionallending conditions have led to a the United Nations Brundtland Report drastic devaluation of currencies, fail­ - than any other global citi ze n with ing wage levels, chronic food access to electronic or print media. shortages and cuts in already meagre For Canadians, our international social services. links to the "small and fragile ball" Our challenge as Canadians, depend largely on the Official through bilateral and multilateral aid Development Assistance (aDA) ex­ and an increased role for non­ pendituresofthe federal government. governmental organizations, is to em­ Under successive governments, power people at the village and Canada's development assistance pro­ community level. Our developm ent ef­ gram has consistently fallen short of forts must reflect humanitarian prin­ its stated objective - to support ciples, human rights, equitable development of peoples and com­ distribution of wealth and environmen­ munities in the developing world.

We must respond tal sustainability.

Despite fluctuating degrees of to Third World proposal s positively public support for development assis­ for immediate debt relief, debt restruc­ tance, humanitarian and support aid turing and, where necessary, debt for­ are not always government priorities. giveness by public and private lending Moreover, our professed development institutions. commitments to enhancing food self­ sufficiency and energy security, reJievThe role of Canada's post secon-

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dary institutions is also critical. The University of Guelph has earned a solid international reputation in re­ search. Students and faculty can con­ tinue to contribute by supporting and developing the new technologies, skills training and community-support measures that are so desperately needed among developing nations.

Our universities are well positioned to foster public education and provide an arms-length approach to development assistance.

Canada must show international leadership and make the tough decisions necessary to halt the grow­ ing gap between rich and poor.

Canadians and their government can­ not solve all the problems of the developing world. However, we are well placed to greatly contribute to the solutions we all seek.

We already know the cost of failure . The daily human tragedy in lost and wasted lives is obvious. We are only now starting to grasp the im­ mense cost in global environmental and common security terms.

The challenge to assist developing nations is real. The so lutions are dif­ ficult, but within our grasp. Our task is to work together and put our best in­ tentions, con siderable resources and human skills to work to build a better global future.

The well-being of our "small and fragile ball" depends on it. r---~!:.

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Leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Audrey McLaughlin has develop­ ment ex­ perience teaching English in 1,,;,.._ _.....:..........._ _... Africa and

working as a social worker in Toron­ to. She was first elected to Parliament as the member from Yukon in a 1987 byelection and won the federal NDP leadership a year ago.

The Comm ent page offers a forum for Gue/ph alu mni 10 address topics ofpublic concern. To suggest an idea or submit an article, co/1laclth e editor.

Guelph Alumnus

It's a surprise who you'll meet...

... cows, pigs, sheep, cats, dogs, horses, seals , chickens, birds . fish and lots of people.

For fa mily fun, there's nothing better than a day at College Royal.

COLLEGE ROYAL

Share in the tradition -March 16 - 17,1991

Homecoming

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

was a

winning time ore than 3,000 alumni attended Homecoming '90 in September.

M They cheered the Gryphons on to a 53-14 victory over the York Yeomen.

It was a record-sening game, with third-year player Chuck Sims rushing for 331 yards on 31 carries. He set a new Ontario University Athletic Association single-game, rushing record, and became the top university ball carrier in the country with 582 yards in three games. Sims was named Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union player of the week.

Honors also fell to earlier Gryphon athletes at the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame dinner and at the ceremony which renamed the athletics centre in honor of fonner athlete and coach W.F. (81\1) Mitchell, OAC '3SA and '38.

But the Gryphons weren't the only wirmers at Homecoming .

Jim Feilders, OAC '70 (Eng.), won the grand prize in the Homecoming '90 draw. He receives air fare for two to Calgary and Banff, courtesy of Canadian Airlines International, through Royal City Travel of Guelph. Second-year child studies student Lisa Warren and third-year psychology student Michele Bartlett received weekend accommodation for two at the Four Seasons and Westin Harbour Castle hotel s in Toronto. The winner of a campus portrait book was Carrie Alyman, CBS '88.

Other Homecoming '90 sponsors were the University of

Guelph and Student Alumni Associations, J.M. Schneider Inc.

of Kitchener, Allelix Crop Technologies and the University.

for the University of Guelp'h Alumni Association awarCl s:

ALUMNUS OF HONOR

For contributions to a Canadian cause, community service,

profession, the arts or alumni affairs.

ALUMNI MEDAL OF ACHIEVEMENT

To a grad uate of the last 10 years for contributions to

country, comm unity, profession or the world of arts

and letters.

Dead line for nominations: April 1, 1991

and the

OVC DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD

To recognize a graduate who has brought honor to the

college ana fellow alumni through leadership and service to

country, science, education, profession or alma mater.

D eadline for nominatIOns: April 30, 1991

Write or phone for a nomination form to: Alumni Awards,

Alumm House, University of G uelph, Guelph, Ontario

NIG 2Wl 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544.

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Visit Alumni House Whether you graduated la t year or 50 years ago, you'll always find a welcome mat at the University of Guelph's Alumni House. The remodeled carriage house is home base for your alumni a sociation and will be the centre of activity for Alumni Weekend, June 21 to 23 1991 .

Come to Alumni Weekend. Bring your family to see birds from the Ontario Veterinary College's Wild Bird Clinic, fish fossils from the Axelrod Collection and theatre memorabilia from the library's collection of George Bernard Shaw material. Bring your running shoes for an eye-opening jog through the Arboretum, your quash racket for a fast- paced ga me at the remodel ed athletics centre a nd your skates fo r a turn around the ice at the twi n-pad arena.

Alumni Weekend will also include a barbec ue at Alumni House, the President's Picnic at Creelman Hall and a farewell champagne brunch.

College tours, an organized nature walk and the ever-popular slo-pitch tournament will give you a chance to ee what's new on campus. And the alumni associations' annual meeting will let you know what's happening with alumni groups.

Plan to be on campus when presentations are made to the 1991 Alumnus of Honor and winner of this year's Alumni Medal of Achievement.

In addition to the traditional golden anniversary dinner, 17 anniversary classes will hold special reunions at Alumni Weekend 1991: OAC '3 1

Mac '31

OVC '4 1

OAC '36

Mac '36

OVC '5 L

OAC '4 1

Mac '41

OVC '6 1

OAC '51

Mac 5 I 0

Food Science '8 1

OAC '6 1

Mac '61

Engi neering '8 1

OAC '76A

OAC '86

To request a complete Alumni Weekend brochure, call or write to Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N I G 2 WI, 519-824-4120, Ext. 2102.