Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1994

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Inside: The winners of the first annual GZlelph Alumnus writing contest

She's not getting older, she's getting faster Don't let aging put a cap on your abilities , says 39-year-old Guelph alumnus Kathy Hunt.

A speed skater for only two years, she's a Canadian champion at the master's level and is challenging the times of competitive skaters less than half her age.

Last year she was only two seconds off the Canada Cup qualifying time for the SOO-metre sprint and six seconds off the qualifying time in the 1,000- and I ,SOO-metre events. And she just keeps getting faster.

"I really feci I have a long way to go before I reaeh my peak in speed skating," says Hunt, a mother of four who contends she is a more fit athlete now than she was as a teenager.

More physically fit and mature enough to focus on the technical aspects of speed skating.

She may be skating in circles, but she speeds past the doubting Thomases who "categorize me as going nowhere because I'm 39."

In this photo, Hunt skates past a suction cup marking the oval during practice with the K-W Se110ma Speed Skating Club.

Photo hy Mm1in Schwalbe, U orG Photographic Services

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Winter 1994 CO V E R To introduce the winners of the fir!'.1 Gue/plJ AIUIllI1lI.l' writing compelition.we've cho!iert a pai nting by U o f G fine art stu­ den/Tal'as Lachowl>ky . A young artisl with high ambition, Lac howsky is .orig-ina)ly from S udbury . OnL He i~ a graduate . of th . heridan College art program,. hal'> jl)$t completed an honors BA in Gue lph 's Departmcnlof Fine Art and plans to . coniinlle hi.. education aUhe master' level. His pa inting Figure in Tllrn/oil provides a visual cl ue to the human emotions and fr~l il i t ie.exp l orcd by fo ur yo ungCanadian writers. The ir sLOries and poetry were selected as the best Ollt o f more

than 400 entries. and thl:: GuelpIJ A IiIIlIl7I1S is proud to bethe first LO publish them. See page 6 . .

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For more than 20 years, th e University of Guelph Concert Management has spo nso red a series of free noon-hour concerts. Every week during my four years at the University, I was able to hear su perb performances of a varie ty of music by world-class artists.

At these conce rts, which were usuall y per­ formed to capac ity crowds, I met stude nt s from all parts of campu s, as we ll as staff and faculty. There were a lso many residents of the city of Guelph , and often thi s was their onl y co ntact with the University and its facilities.

Last spring, it was announced that the en­ tire bud get for the series would be e liminat ed. Future membe rs of the Uni ver­ sity community will be deprived of this c ul­ tural oppo rtunity. I hope ot her U of G graduates will join with me in asking that this decision be re-eva luated and th at this ex­ tremely valuable facet of Uni ve rsit y life be rei nstated.

Kaye (Powell) Royer, Arts '86 Burlington,Ont. The letter from Eileen Entwistle, Mac '38 0 , in th e spring 1993 Cuelph Alumnus reminisc­ ing about th e Seco nd World War cook's sc hool really too k me back.

In Septe mber 1940, I quit be ing a graduate student in the horticulture department and signed up with the RCAF. We had been told th ere was an urgent , immediate need fo r airc rew trainees. The need was so urgent that I found myse lf coo ling my heels on guard duty at RCAF Je rico Beach near Vancouver.

That said , I will refer you to the foll ow ing excerpt from an as-yet unpubl ished manuscript - Illy personal account of Second World War days.

As soon as our qu art ers were assigned, we were orde red to parade in fati g ues. Step it up! Step it up!

Cp!. Hutcheson then called for anyone mus ical. The talented promptly envision ed themse lves playing in a band and took one step for wa rd . Those suckers had to unl oad a piano and carry it up the steps into the offi cers' mess. I go t an assignment more suited to Illy mu sica l talent s - washing a very large garbage truck. Eas ier than lifting a pian o, but not exac tly what I had in mind when I volunteered for airc rew.

One such duty brough t a wry smile. I was one of a crew washing and polishing the til e fl oo r of the kitchen. This was Ilands-and­ kn ees duty, starting with a sc rub brush and a chunk of the sergeant major-' s revenge­ coa rse yell ow soap th ,lt came in huge block s c ut into chunk s with a sa w. As I scru bbed away, a corporal cook came ove r and spoke to me.

"You loo k ve ry famili ar. I' ve seen yo u somew here. Were you in Toronto Manning P oo l ~"

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" No, corpora!." " It wasn 't in the cooks' sc hool at Gue lph , was it~" " It was. Do you reme mbe r the fe ll ow in the long white lab coat who gave you .Iec ­ tures on handling fruits and vegetables')"

Bill Grierson, OAC '38 Winte r Haven , Fla. Fi rst , my compliments to yo u and your staff for th e excellence of th e sp ring 1993 Cur/ph Alum/1us magazine.

As a registered dietitian/nutritionist stru g­ g ling to keep up with new inform at ion in nutrition - and not doing all th at well in a province where health care is so under­ funded - I rea lly enjoyed Martha Tancock 's "Food Facts."

If I had a wish for a ll Canadians, it wo uld be that th ey all had easy access to accurate and up-t o-date nutritional informat ion so th ey could make informed fo od choices. I suspect that if a llthe small. und erfunded , un­ derstaffed and stru gg ling 1-800-Dial-a­ Dietitians could be replaced with one cross-Canada se rvice with many computer­ based fil es, many lines and man y peop le to answ er them , it mi gh t he lp a little . But sadly, health and nutrition are provincial respon­ sibilities.

The facility wh ere I work (Arbutus Soc iety for Children) has a new name to bet ­ ter renect its 67-ycar exi stence: Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health . It 's located <It 2400 Arbutus Rd. in Vict oria, S.c.

Secondly, thank s to staff in Alumni Af­ fairs for con firmin g my lifetime membership in the Mac-FA CS Alumni Association.

Finally , I appreciate and enjoy the "Grad News" and " In Memoriam" sect ion s of th e Cue lph Alu/1//1u.I. but I do fee l really out of touch with details of the 196 1 g raduates from Mac, OAC and OVc.

Anne (Heslop) Simmons, Mac '61 Vi ctoria, B.C. A story in the la st issue of th e Curlpl! Alum­ mentioned bri e fly the grad uate scholar­ ships endowed by the Mac ' 38 c lass. I would like to personally applaud membe rs of thi s class for th e ir imagination, energy and co m­ mitment.

They've come a long way in 10 years.

Their current sc ho larship investm en t of $50,000 lies well beyond th e ir initial dreams for a 50th-anniversa ry class project. Now , for their 55th yea r, they're reac hing for a new targe t of $55,000.

Back at th ei r chlss reunion in 1983 , th e Mac '38s started th e ba.1I rolling when they decided to fund a one-time gradu ate sc holar­ shi p o f $2.000 - marking their 50th anniver­ sa ry, the beginning o f a new emphasis on gerontology in th e Department of Fami Iy Studies and the prospect of es tablis hin g a Gerontology Research Ce ntre.

Canad a's population is aging quite rap id­ Iy, and th erc is mu ch to be underst ood and lea rn ed about the impact and needs co n­ nected with this important change.

The Class of 'J8 had no idea how far that /7U S

anni ve rsa ry ball was goi ng to roll. By Oc­ tober 1993, 12 graduate sc holarships of $1,000 each had been awarded.

The Mac '38s have an outstanding, cheer­ ful and persevering c lass comm ittee. Jean Carter has worked with boundless en­ thusiasm with Helen Abell, Peggy Black, Ellen Downie, Doris Durrant, Mary Kelly and Betty Walberg. They' ve been joined in their effo rts by man y fri e nds and well­ wishers.

At the ir Jun e re union , class members heard about the impressive con tributions that past winne l-s are now makin g in their profes­ sional lives and were de li ght ed with the SlIC­ cess ful return on their inves tment. Now, they want to reac h even further in supportin g schol arship by raising th e value of their two annual awa rd s 10 $ 1,500 each.

T hi s exceptiona l c lass want s eve ry one to kn ow that contributions to th e enhancement of this award are open to all a lumni and friends of th e University. Donati ons to the Alma Mater Fund can be designated to the Mac '38 Ge rontology Scholarship. Le t's give th e m a hand r

Richard Barham Dean, Coll ege of Family dnd Consu mer Studies Las t spring, my wife, Stella, and I visited Britain to pursue OLl, int eres t in early and an­ cient British history. One of our projects in­ volves trying to locate the trail of an ea rly British free think er, Pelagius (circa 360 to 422 AD).

One refere nce locat ed a tumulus ill th e ch urch ya rd at Casteel Caerinion in Powys , Wales , as being a monumen t to Pelagi us . We found th e church yard in tllis little com­ munity in a beautiful va lley neal' We lshpool , but no one could help us out directly. They did reco mmend that we talk to Ion Trant, a loca l historian , researcher and writ er who was retired on his farm at Maeswa r, Powys.

The hilly co untrysid e mad e map read ing a c hallenge, but with help from friendly loca l folks who kn e w Trant , we eve ntually fou nd him. We had a good visi t and discuss ed many malters of mutu ,)1 interest. It turn ed outti1at he's a 1938 graduate ofOAC, ancl he asked us to wish members of his c lass well.

William Harley, OAC '46 Hmley. Ont.

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President asks the tough questions Six month s into his te rm as president of the Uni vers ity of Guelph, Mord ec hai Rozanski has given the Uni versity com­ munity one of the mos t diffic ult tasks it can face - crit ica l se lf-ex amin ati on.

The official buzzword is "strategic planning," but what it means is ultim ate­ ly deciding what the Uni versity does well and ca n continue to do in the future with less money.

Di mini shed revenues and bud ge tary constraints will be a continuing fact of life, says the pres ident. By the end of 1996, wh en Ont ario' s soc ial contrac t may end , G uelph wi ll have to absorb an annual $ 1O-mill ion cut to it s base bud get. It will also have to meet ad di­ tion al obligations related to equit y ad­ ju stme nts and compe nsati on.

This can ' t be done by tinkering with department al budgets or ac ross-the­ board cut s, says Roza nski . " We mu st reali stically identify our priori ty areas and ~ h a p e our fin ancial planning around them."

He admits th e process won ' t be eas y. Strateg ic planning will "chal­ lenge com fo rtable as sumptions and force us to ma ke diffi cu It choices ."

Unlike other instituti onal renew al ef­ forts. thi s proce ss wi ll focus on do ing diffe rent things, not just doing things differentl y, he says . That means fund ra ising, investing and rea ll ocating, not just cuttin g. It mean s recognizing strengths and opportunities, not just weaknesses and proble ms. And it mea ns making cont inual im prove­ me nt s in qualit y, not just findin g new sources of support.

Financial stability is th e immediate stimulu s for the process , but not the ul ­ timate goal, he says. "We must dete r­ mine where the Uni versity as a totality sh ould be head ed in orde r to buil d on its hi gh qu ality into the 2 1st centu ry."

The process is o pen to in put from the entire Unive rsit y community and alumni. The presid ent expec ts a draft plan by the summe r of 1994 , with im ­ plemen tation in 1996 .

lion. The total surpassed the 1991 /92 fig­ ure by abo ut $100,000.

G uelph researchers attracted inc reased support from the Natural Sciences and Enginee ring Research Council , business and industry , non-profit orga nization s, the Medica l Research Counc il and the Social Sciences and Hum anities Re­ search Counc il. Ove rall , the three fed eral grantin g counc il s provid ed 5.2 per cent more sup port to Guelph in 1992/93 than the yea r before, des pite having their bu dgets fro zen.

These increases compensated fo r a decline in research support from prov in ­ cial gove rnment progra ms, which dro p­ ped nearl y 20 per ce nt Lo $5.2 milli on.

This figure excludes researc h fund ing th at fa lls und er the Universi ty'S lon g­ te rm agreeme nt with the Ontario Mini s­ try of Agriculture and Food (OMAF).

Base fu nding in th e O MAF agreement was c ut about 10 per cent, but th at was prim aril y in non-research areas such as ex te nsion, the dipl oma program and ove rall servi ce costs. Des pite the reduc­ ti on, the O MAF agreeme nt continues to ..

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be the single la rgest source of su pport to the University , accountin g for $33.6 mil ­ l ion last year.

U of G nets award The Aqu ac ulture Assoc iation of Canada (AAC) recently named the Univ ersity of G ue lph as instituti onal winner of the assoc iation 's first " Aquac ulturi st of the Decade" award. "The aqu ac ulture in­ du str y is only I 5 yea rs o ld in Can ada," says AAC president Julie Delabbio, CBS '78, " but the li st of Guelph gradua tes that are .inv olved in today 's in ­ du stry is most impressive. At the award s ba nquet , the li sting of Guelph grads read like a page from a who 's who in Canadi an aquaculture ."

Retirement village homes now on sale Home sal es in the Village by the Ar­ boretum reti re ment community bega n with a grand openin g in Septembe r.

Guelph dev e loper Reid Herit age Homes Ltd. announced plans for bo th sin gle­ storey to wnhouses and detac hed bun ­ ga lows in Ph ase I con stru cti on. Prices ran ge from $ 151.900 to $ 185,000.

Plans fo r the Vill age by the Ar­ boretu m include full y brick ed, air-con­ diti oned homes that are whee lchair access ible, with direct entry from th e ga rage . The community will feature a sec urity ga te house and wi ll be land­ scaped wi th mature trees . Each lot wi ll have an und erg ro und sp rinkler syste m.

Law n maintenance and snow remov al wi ll be handl ed by vi ll age staff.

Included in the price is a member­ ship to a planned recreati on ce ntre that will feature a 500-sea t auditorium , lice nsed lo unge, indoor swimmin g pool , exercise room , library, TV roo m and post offi ce, as we ll as banki ng and med ical check-up f<l ci Iitie s.

The I 12-acre site has been desig­ nated as a ret ire ment community by the Uni versity of Guelph He ritage Fund. Reve nue fro m site-leasin g fees will add to the endow ment fun d and prov ide a continu ing source of support fo r the Un ive rsi ty.

The Vill age by the Arbore tum sal es office is loc ated at 36 Stone Rd. W., just off Gordon Street. Fo r more in fo r­ mation, ca ll 519-767 -500 I. :1

1st Prize

Catherine Dean Lennoxville, Quebec

First pri ze in the inaugural Gu elp h Alumnus writing competi­ ti on goes to Catherine Dean. a 36-year-old writer from Lennox­ ville, Que. He r short story Matrilineal describes a mothe r/ daughter rel ationship cau ght up in one of the mos t controversial social iss ues of our time .

Dean grew up in Ontario and began to write when her

thoughts matured beyond the verbalization of school-day

events. " I always felt that I had to write down what was going

. on around me." She has written poetry and several short stories and is workin g on her second nov el, but Motrilineal is the first to be published.

Dean belongs to a writers' group in Len noxv ille. One of the other members brought in a copy of the Guelph Alumnus and in­ vited her friends to e nter the writin g competition.

Dean he rse lf has fond me mori es of Guelph. Her older

daughter was born here in 1985 when her hu sband, Andrew,

was teac hing in th e Department of Mathe matic s an d Statistics .

They now hav e two daughters and are livin g in Oxford ,

England , during a one-year sabbatical from Andre w's faculty

position at Bishop's University.

This year in Engl and may be a profitable one for Dean 's writ­ ing career. Not only has she seen publication of her first short story , but a British publi sher is also co nsidering he r novel Mi sericurdia, the story of a woman wh o survives a car accid en t that claims the life of her only child.

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Editor's note: Whe n we introduced the G uelph Alumnus writing competition las t May, we were already looking ahead to thi s winter iss ue when we could publi sh the win­ nin g entries. We wanted to e ncourage and re wa rd new writers and let ou r reade rs be the first to e njoy the ir work.

Th e competition received 404 entries of poetry, short stories and ess ay s. They came from all over Canada and the United States as we ll as from Europe and Australia.

They came from writers as youn g as 10, from student s and alumni and from their family and friends.

Thank you to everyone who entered and to aU those who thanked us for providing the opportunity. Your enthusiasm has rei nforced our commitmen t to make thi s an annual event.

We are al so indebted to the judges, all Guelph facult y members: Constance Rooke, chair of the Department of En gli sh, poet Dionne Brand and playwright Judith Th ompson.

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3rd Prize

Maria Ford Lethbridge, Alberta

David Carroll Toronto, Ontario

Maria Ford is a 20-year-old English student at the Univer­ sity of Lethbridge in Alberta. Her poem Carnil'ol was in­ spired by a childhood friend whom she met again as an adult.

Ford says she was st ru ck by the contrast between the woma n's "incredibly normal" adult lire and the abu sive c hildhood she had survived. "I wanted to say some thin g about the person behind the abuse, rather than simply talk about the abuse itself. " Originally from a rural area nea r Red Deer, Ford has been wr itin g poetry since high sc hoo!' " I tried to wri te fic­ tion, but it came ou t sou nding lik e poetry" She will, no doUbt, cont inue to write, but plans to pursue an academic career. Right now, her interest lies in 20th-cen­ tury Canad ian Iiter<lture.

In addi li on to her studies, Ford is co-editor of Whets/one, a biannual literary publication produced by Ih e Uni versity of Lethbridge's Engl ish department. That's how she found o ut abo ut the Curlph Alu/JInus writing com petition - from a notice that cros sed her desk at Whr/s/Ol1r.

Like many other student s, Ford started uni versity "with high expectat ions about my writing ... thinking I knew it all." But after four years of undergraduate studi es , she' s found it's really tru e thai "the more you know, the more yo u rea lize ho w littl e yo u know. "

Third-prize winner David Carroll writes for a li vi ng. but Co ld-Blooded is the first sho rt story he 's ever hac! published.

The 27-year-old Toronto resident wri tes for a children 's show on radio station CJRT, does som e free lance writin g for magazines ane! proe!u ces a wee kly column ca lled "Ci\y Slick­ er" for the H olihllrlOI1 COltn l r Echo. And now , finally , a reware! for the creative writing that cons umes many of hi s off-work ho urs.

Even vacations and hobbies ca n' t stop the writer in Carroll from thinking about writin g. He was returning from a vaca­ ti on trip to SOllth Carolina - listenin g to the drone of hi s Honda 450 Nighthawk - when he came up with the idea for Cold-B lo()(/cd.

He also cyc les under his own power and visited th e U of G ca mpu s la st summe r while participating in a c harily bikeathon for multiple sc lerosis.

Ca rro ll began his radi o career writing com mercia ls after comp leti ng a BA in radio and TV arts al Ryerson Polytechni­ ca l Institute in Toronto. Now he puts logether a dail y pro­ gram of stori es and music for c hildren , wh ich airs on FM 9 1 I weekdays at 6:.10 p.m. A col leag ue who works on the station 's arts program told him about the Cllelph Alul1lnus writing compe tition.

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Honorable Mention - The judges have awarded honorab le mention to Stephc n Stamp for his poem FIring into the Wind.

Originally from Peterboroug h, Ont. , Stamp holds an un­ dergraduate degree in Engli sh from Trent University :lnd one in creati ve writing from the University of Victoria (UVIC) in British Columbia. He is now completing a graduate degree at the University of New Hampshire.

Stamp has been writin g seriously since high sc hool, has con tributed poetry to severa l literary publications and even publ ished hi s own book of poems - with the help of a co l­ leag ue who owned an old hand-fed printing press.

He al so wrote for several uvrc publications, including the university's alumni mag.azine, and ha s an art ic le about Canad ian novelist Joa n Barfoot in th e November issue of Books ill Canadu.

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by Calhfrine D ean

My mother used to say that epitaphs should read like pocketbook honorific: "You'll laugh! You'll cry!"

"Poignant!" "Solace in these troubled times." " ... praiseworthy ... a densely peopled, turbulent fast­ paced epic." "A bravura performance." "Imaginative, explosive in its rich tell-all imagery!" "A Joycean tour de force of indomitable richness/richesse!" (In the world of literary grandiloquence, both exist. To be perverse, my mother would argue in favor of the latter.) "A flawed classic." "Brava, Brava, Brava!" To be read emphatically without caesura. Emphatic, without caesura, as I always figured my mother's life would be.

At leas t yo u ha ve yo ur religion , peo ple tell me weepily, projec ting the ir ow n desires for a philosophy or a guid­ ing force on to me. Aureoles are as evanesce nt as vapor trail s. In s uffe ring, we are all brought up short. My religion above a ll e lse is brought up s hort. " When you were a blastocy st in your fath er 's e ye ... " My mother had brought a long a little picnic of prosc iut­ to e me lone, cevic lle, goat cheese , Greek o li ves and baguette to s hare during my lunch hour. As I wiped a stream of o li ve o il off m y c hin , s he took advantage of the s ilence to monolog ize.

Mono logize is a word my mother would hav e hated, but to deliver a monolog ue does not sum it up accurately and I can ' t stand the conflat ion of transitive and in­ tran sitiv e ve rbs, so monologize it stands.

"There are laws against spreading as hes, but everyone breaks them, Greta, and who 's going to do anything about it? I was at a fun e ral where the son let hi s mother' s ashes blow off a cliff and I cou ldn ' t help thinking, wouldn ' t it be awfu I to get a bit of someone 's eye in yOlll· eye. It ' d be like ea tin g cow's ton g ue, which is why I never eat cow ' s ton g ue ."

A s we sat under the shade of the evergreen trees, which could have used

a good trim according to my mothe r, s he told how she c ribbed a few lines from Elizabeth Barrett Browning for a cake for my father on Val e ntin e's B.C. Before children. She wrote: " How do I lov e thee, let me count the ways ... " The n in brackets, in pink icin g in her trademark scrawl, "Cont inu ed on nex t cake."

It is eidetic, reinforced from th e pic­ tures of her, before I was bo rn. in a ra zo red pi x ie haircut , wearing s horts a nd black running shoes . That is who I see whe n J think of her. The photographs defined her. I think of moth e r as a wise young gir l, in he r un­ w ie ldy braid s that her sister would braid tight e nough to make her cry, hold ing he r baby brother on her lap. Mother after three babies wincing, as her father ta kes a movie of her picking flow ers, from behind. In her sable hat, her black cape an d blac k driving gloves .

She tri ed to erase the image of herse lf bare foot in sea l mukluk s and Dad ' s bathrobe with the grey argyle pattern , rac ing th e ga rbageme n in the dead of winte r; tipsy after a cock tail in a C hinese restaurant, wiping chopsticks off with linen restaurant napkins and sec reting them inside her purse because she cou Jdn't say no. "We keep them in

business," s he'd say in se l f-justi fication.

My mother and her fri e nd s believed in the retroactive li fe. Tabula rasa. That was when she cam e up with the line: "I believe in retroactive birth control." But I knew one of he r claque of sc hoo l friends had put he r up to it whe n she came in one day and announc ed: "I am a non-traditional. mother." It didn't jive with the mother who appropriated my sc hool projec ts, w ho stayed up ha lf the night sewing a jumpsuit for my home eco nom ics class. (When I ha nded it in , it go t an A; Nancy got a C , Winnie a B).

It was too tight in the crotch a nd 1 swear my mother made me wear it as puni sh­ ment for having had to sew it. It could be said that Mother's school friends we re a lot like me, only successful.

Wh e n I was nine or 10, we used to playa game.

"Matri c id e?" She didn ' t look up from the eve nin g paper as s he drilled m e .

"Killing one's mother. Matri , mothe r." " Matriline al ?" " Coming from the s ide of o ne's mothe r. " " Fratricide'? " "Killing o ne's brother." " Good! Now killing a parent - not to be confused with father killing. Remem ­ ber, this one is different."

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"Patricide."

"Good girl. There' s no fooling you!"

It was getting boring. "Does patrician come from pater?"

"Think, Greta, P ater Noster. Now, you know the Pater Noster. " She moved into the kitchen. "Oh, look it up, Greta, I can't spoon feed you all my life ."

When I was 25, my parents divorced.

I never thought my father could handle that, but he remarried an aggressively content Iri sh woman with two success­ ful children, a daughter and a son, exact­ ly a year apart. She 's fond of saying that after I had Keenan, I had completed my family. If you 'd ever met Keenan (Keen ie, she calls him) , you wouldn ' t hedge your bets on that. After marrying Moray, my fath er never me ntioned my mother's name again.

My mother went on to study film and make an award-winning documen tary on homeless people before publi s hing an acclaimed biography of W.O. Grif­ fith. I plotted out my study plans so they would never converge with my mother's, nor my sister Na ncy' s. Nan studied labor la w, but e nded up with three kids and a small business that Mother and Father both helped to sup­ port. Winnie is an ardent feminist work­ ing through her third sugar daddy. She has used her s poil s to trave l to China, Spain and to watch the Berlin Wall come down.

I e nded up flunking miserably out of a major of German and Slavic studies. I befriended a security g uard and two of the janitors at women's res idence, but otherwi se life at universi ty was a lo nel y, mi sera ble experie nce. For the next five years, I worked in the kitchen wares department at Sears. "You can never have too many whi s ks," my mother often said during the first three weeks I worked there. She must have duplicated every non-electrical kitchen appliance she owned, and then some.

Mother was feeling the need to be a family, so we began going out for lunch.

For nostalgia 's sake, I made her take me to the place on King Street we used to go on th e way back from the denti st. In those days, I got the sen se that she missed me as much as I missed her and looked forward to dental and doctor's appointments as much as I did . Mother used to say often (she liked her own jokes) that if you kept the o il hot enough, it would kill any kind of bac­ teria. Harry' s had the stuff of good home cooking - hamburger steak G llelph A/llnulII"

smothered in fri ed onions, Parker Hou se rolls, hot turkey san, homemade french fries with the skin still on.

A s my mother was fond of saying, things change. The hamb urger patties were frozen. The Salisbury steak had been sitting in congea led g ravy for God knows how long, and the place had been refurbi shed in black and red, with a ll the warmth of a striptease joint. When I saw the drink list, I tried to spirit it away from my mothe r - the drinks were called Freddie Fudpucker and Blowjob. " You ' re only drawing attention to it.

God, Greta, you ' re such a puritan.

Sometimes I think you think I never had sex. " "You mean you did?"

How quickly we lap sed into required responses. I can reme mber my mother using that light bante ring tone on the phone with her s isters and her mothe r. " It 's not like it used to be."

"As it used to be."

"Your trouble is that you want the whole world to stay the same. for you. " " Your trouble is that you don't."

After far too muc h time spent arguing over th e bill. I conceded.

Mother is not unsentimental. She favored a lunc h place we had bee n to in the past - Pomme d ' Amour - on the rive r Nepenthe. She used to quiz me on Greek gods when we went the re , and I used to mix up the Greek and Roman gods. I never rea lly learned their stories - beyond Prome theus and Hercules and Echo and Narcissus . I was far more interested in Superman , Green Lantern , Batman and the Atom , with a secondary interest in Wasp Woman , Antman and the Flash.

We a lways managed to get the same table , just out side the screen door, over­ looking the water, and I would tel l my m o ther th e same thin gs, verbatim , as I watched the amber-colored water flow out of the turbine s across the way. I don't think my mother reme mbers those times the way I do . Behind her dark glasses and careful attentive demeanour was a mind in motion, planning birthday parties, wondering at the vagaries of marriage , thinking about the optician , the garden , what dimension s of wood to buy to make the fence she built behi nd the rock gard en.

The cafe is furnished w ith the sa me unfinished antique chairs and tables.

That's th e beauty of antiques, they last, and watermarks and chipped wood only add charm to them . They sti II served herbal teas and sandwiches made of

cream cheese, elderberry jam, watercress . The de sserts mad e heavy use of fruit, halvah and carob.

Mother was still taking off her jacket while she started in on th e conversation.

Unive rsity life had made her earnest. ''I'm not so sure pornography should be done away with."

"Get serious, Mothe r. You 're just saying that to be e ri s tic." " He uri stic is not the word you're thinking of. Heuristic is a way of ed ucat­ ing yourself. You mean e ristic ... " " I sa id eri stic." " Did nol. " "Did." ''I' m not going to argue the point , al­ though you did say heuris tic. It' s just like hermene uti cs. Peopl e are always mixing up he rmene utics and herme tic and , believe me, th ey ' re not the sa me thing."

What people? .Ju st who are these people my moth er hangs a round with anyway, I wondered. So this is what pas­ ses for conversation in the unive rs ity crowd. I reali zed I'd made the right decision to cut my losses. ''I'm not being controversial, Greta.

Pornography, like everything else, has its place."

"What are you saying, Mother? Give the sex offende rs some ca rdboard cutouts and masturbatory literature and they' ll leave the wome n and children alone')" An older woman at the table next to us glowered at me.

"God, you're a square, " Mothe r sa id.

"For one thin g - so th e y do away with we ird sex, things like bestiality - well , then, just te ll me, what happens to works of literature like Lcda and the Swan? I'm not say ing I'm fo r extremes.

I just don't like to hear .. ."

Th e eavesd ropper's face fell. She blu shed from her dyed rootstalks down (brown th ey were , ringed with black ­ for some reason, it reminded me of a monk's pate) , going back to her own conversation animatedly. I wondered how long it took Moth e r to think up that one, or if she had liberate d it (liberated - that was Ca rl ' s word). School had made her inte lligence s lightly deriva­ tive. She ' d have to start footnoting her co nversation if she wasn't careful.

Carnival

hy Maria Foul

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Soph ie you wove through dark crowds orange hai r the breath of a dragon ran a trail o f li ght behind I followed but co uld not catch.

When the rid es lit up I thought [ wo uld lose yo u embarrassed to face the barkers w ithout you who co uld look them strai ght in the eye with your fi erce tongu e.

Upside down in The Zipper red -faced you looked like the world of frenz ied spinning li ght beneath us yo ur tri colored eyelids strea ked hair purple fin gerna il s that cut cresce nts into the palms of your sc rea ming hand s.

Elephant ears hot dogs co tton candy the appl es we pee led ca ramel from and flung behind the rid es .

We ate popcorn on the gra ss in the darkness of the ca rni es' trailers watched the big-haired women come and go like trains

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[n shopping malls you fingered lÂŁlIne sequllls silk.

W e pranced around dressing room s in the cos tumes of women.

At 14 yo u seemed made for the st rapl ess the low cut LOOK yo u sc reamed [AM A WOMAN and laug.hed your ban shee laugh when the cl erk s with tight ja ws told us to leav e.

You wore the tightest

j eans brightest l ipstick

that T- shi rt with

a hot lap a co ld tap

on the breasts.

When eyes foll owed you

you grinn ed and hi ssed

thru st your hip s

to the tune

of the po unding

in you r head .

Slipping into ca vern ous arcades you fused with the games steered ca rs into eve ry obstac le.

J cheered for yo ur on- scree n kickboxi ng talent but M s Pac man was your fa vorite your frantic work on the controls relieved panting of swear words eve ry time you ate a blue ghost.

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Whe n you turn ed 16 your shaggy-ha ired m other bo ug ht cak e hotdogs and we huddled in s leeping bags to watch ho rror mov ies.

You clung to my arm in wide -eyed de li g ht wh e n I hid my fac e screa med shook sweat off my bac k in the ni ght.

In Edmonton we meet aga in the years flip by like shuffled card s.

You wea r black roots red lips say It' s Halloween le t's be mon ste rs.

In your o range shag apartme nt we wrap yo ur breasts w ith a ten sor slick s hort hair bac k beco me men .

I let yo u back co mb my hair s lash my cheekbone s w ith blush dress me in ne on scarv es and lace stoc kings.

We practi sed dan c ing piro uettes splits sash ayed into the world yo u told me you we re going to.

Whe n your mother ca lled c rying fo r you a ll I could thin k o f w as wakin g to your fa ther's belching drunk laught e r the splotched blue s hirt he ble w hi s nose in w hi Ie y ou s lept.

Guelph Alliml1 us

Y o u kno w the parties th e haunts introdu ce me to beauty school fri end s.

I watc h yo u knife throu g h the c ru sh thro b with hare m girl s Dracul a the human c rayon.

Y ou are sm ea red red yell ow blue in th e lights that turn you on off until you blin k out in the strobe .

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COLD­ BLOODED hy David Carroll " I'm terrified of Pap smears ," Lester found himsel f say ing, after the th i rd or fou rth d ri n k.

Emmy narrowed her eyes at him. "How could you poss ib­ ly know?" she inquired .

"I went to the gynecologist with an old girlfriend once.

Watched him pry her open and e verything."

Emmy looked away. ''I'm a medium long."

"Oh?" She nodded. "It pays to remember your size, otherwise the doctor will tear you to sh reds. Usually I go through two or three boxes of Kotex after a visit."

Lester took a s ip from hi s drink. It was his first date with Emmy , and she was proving to be a most engaging conver­ sationalist. The two of the m worked at Orphen-Gladys In­ corporated, one of two church-supply companies operating out of the Metropolitan Toronto area. She headed up the in­ ventory department; he processed her orders and Iicked her stamps. Lester was new, strai g ht out of college, but he'd grown fond of Emmy's fac e and the things she told him over the phone.

"I detest my mother," she declared one night. "She's domineering, egotistical, mul e -h eaded, alcoholic ... " " No problem," said Les, overeager to he lp. "There's a number you can dial for support ... " Emmy begged him not to look it up. " I want sympathy. not support! " she cried.

She called him late at night mostly, usually under the pre te nce of discuss ing some thing work-related. Often she was drunk and upset. Les would ca ress the rece iver as though it were her hand; he would say: ''I'm right here " when he really was not.

Emmy portrayed her mothe r as a porcupine, seemingly friendly, but all quills and barbs. "S he hates people - that's he r problem," Emmy said. "It's the booze that does it. She's ve ry sad. I'm always feeling sad for her."

There was a moment of silence. Lester sensed she was crying; he could almost smell the sa lt. " Why do I keep run­ ning back to her after all the garbage she's piled on me?"

Emmy said. " I tell you, Leste r, no matter how old you get, you ' re still a little kid when your mother is in th e room. " Lester asked what her fath er did for a living. Emmy

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replied, with disdain, that he'd been a businessman. " What's wrong with that?" Les ter wanted to know.

Emmy snorted. "Businessm e n are scre we d. They screw eac h other and then they go home and brag to their wives a bout who they screwed that day and who they'll screw tomorrow. My dad was a businessm an a nd all he ever did was screw me. People who live with bu s inessmen are sc rewed. " It was strange. Emmy was always so co llected at work.

She was a handsome woman, 36 years old, wore s loppy sweaters and flowery tights, hardly any makeup and ribbons in he r hair. Had a raspy voice and pu g nose , blinked too often and was s trangely alone. The next morning, Lester strode into her office and gave her the phone number of the Alcoholism Foundation. Emmy stiffened, then acted as if she didn't know what he was talkin g about. As if she hadn't phoned him at all. Later in the day, she approached him and sa id: " What are you doing tonight after work?"

"Nothing," said Les. "Good," she said, and then she asked him out on that date. For a moment, Lester felt uneasy. He and Emmy had never soc ia lized outside of work before , and he suddenly felt aware that she was his boss. He was re minded of the time in high school when the coach too k the entire football team o ut for dinner and bought a round of beers eve n though everyo ne was underage. Les s ipped hi s drink uneasi­ ly , as thou g h he were smoking dope with a narcotics officer.

The coac h had laughed and said: " Bottom s up, down the hatch ' " "Come on," said Emmy, awaiting his answer. "I've go t a teensy story to tell you."

Lester apo logized and said, yes, of course he would come. He loved her stories. They were Iittle more than snap­ shots act ua lly: vignettes risen unbeckon ed out of th e cav ity of her past. They often struck without warning, leav in g Emmy thou g htful and sad. Like the one where s he was five , ridin g on the back of her dad 's Honda Goldwing , di sp la y ing the peace s ig n for all to see. And the time she left a baske t of toads unde r the hot s un and later returned to find them dead. "They fried," she sa id, tears coming to he r eyes. " I killed them, it was my fault. I loved those stupid toad s."

Guelph Alumnus

Lester smiled a nd und e rstood. It touched him to see pain.

At the cafe, he watched Emmy lean back in her chair. She tee tered back , the n forward , the pegs of her chair finaJJy coming to re st on her toes. " Doesn't th at hurt?" asked Lester, concerned.

Emmy smiled wickedly, as thou g h she' d bee n sco.lded for growing up too fast. " Never mind me," she sa id. ''I'm cold-blooded.

I've go t a hig h pain thres ho ld. " Lester took a s ip of his rum and Coke. "Did you call that number I gave yo u?" he said , Emmy lifted her c hair and retracted her feet. " Please," she sa id , " let 's not talk about m y moth e r. I'm sorry I bothered yo u last night. You must think I' m a c razy o ld maid, I was lonel y, that's all. You know how it is. How are you?" " Good," said Leste r. " I we nt to the symphony last week," "N o !" she c ri ed, " What did you hea r?" " E lgar' s ce llo concerto, Paul To rtelier was the celli st. " "Do you enjoy the ce llo very much?" " Yes," " That's odd," she said , tapping the side of her purse, " .I had yo u pegged as a bass man. The ce lio, now that 's sen­ sua l. My g irlfri end plays ce llo, and she's a real sexpot. " (Here, Emmy pick­ ed up a serv iette off her lap, w iped the condensation off th e table and con­ tinu ed talking,) " Her name is Guisep­ pina, but eve ry one ca ll s her Josey.

She's Italian . S he' s got hypoglycemia."

Les furrowed hi s brow at thi s ap­ parent non-sequitur, but Emmy did not stop to explain, "Personally , I prefer bas s men," she went on. " Cello men are notoriously cold- hearted, wherea s bass men are direct and honest." " Obviously, " Les ter interr upted , "yo u' ve never met a ge nuine cello man," "Au contraire," sa id Emmy, wra p­ ping he r fingers aro und the nec k of he r champagne flut e, "Obv io us ly yo u've never me t a hypog lycemic wo man. " At that they both lau g hed and or­ dered anot her drink. "Now then," sai d Leste r, " tell me your sto ry."

Emm y blushed. "It's not a rea l vignette," she sa id. " I just had a dream las t night, and you we re in it."

"Oh?" Lester said. " Yes," she sa id. "We were stan di ng Cllell'll AlllnJnll s

Flying into the WiiId I' ve fe lt like that.

I.have felt exactly like that :;parro w fl y ing into the w ind over [hi!; wi nter fi eld , .

Every feat her straining, Marki ng progress by row; or, slower, stalk ­ by cambered stal k, R ustle or trees , treaming by.

toge ther in a blue dese rt anci you pi ck ­ ed a snake off the sand and handed it to me. I was scmed of it and knocked it to th e ground, and it smashed in pi eces.

You were o utraged . You wouldn ' t speak to me for the rest of the dream beca use I'd broken your snake."

"Fa ll e n serpents," Leste r murmured, "Sounds symbo li c," " Sound s c lic he," she correc ted.

"What do you s uppose it means?"

"Who knows')" he sa id, "Something to do with God ')" " Ma ybe I worship yo u," she sa id.

"Maybe you're forbidden fruit."

Em my ran he r finger around the rim of her gla ss. " No doubt ," she said.

Lester peered back throu g h the murk of hi s cock ta il , hi s prospects c lear ly im­ provin g by the minute .

A cou ple of hours later, Les hopped on a stree tca r go ing east. It was late and he was tight and the stree tca r was jammed with Frida y-nig ht rev e ll ers. As he sa t down, a young man with dark gla sses began pl aying flu gelhorn in th e back seat. He perfo rmed Round M id­ nighl, II Don' I Mean a Thin g If II Ain' I COl Thai Swing and When You Wi sh Upon a Star. People cheered and clapped and laughed o ut loud. Les tapped his boot o n the plasti c seat in front of him. Next, the guy played a Beatles tune: Michel/e , Mo Bel/c. which reminded Les of Geraldine and made him fee l sad.

Geraldine, Les got off at Ra in s fo rd Avenue and watc hed the streetcar draw away , sweeping the mist in to lazy pirouettes, He wal ked east , pas t Greenwood race track, w here, in summer, you cou ld

hea r the cheering of th e betters eve ry 20 minutes, as the horses trotted around the final post. Some­ time s Peter and Les would wa tc h the horses being paraded throug h th e winners' c irc le . Peter was Lester 's roommate, and they lived toge ther in a basement apa rtment on Ridl ey St reet. Th e ne ighborhood was g ro tty, but the re nt was low and the place boas ted a furna ce row . room whe re Pete r did his glassworks. He had a contrac t for nin e panes per month. Hardly full time, but it kept him off une mploy­ me n t.

Wh en he entered the apartme nt , Leste r spotted four new pan es on th e oak sec retary: red and blue, red and blue. He frowned. Pe te r was al­ ways lea v ing hi s c reation s o n dis­ pl ay like that. Ego, thou g ht Les. What e lse is new ') Peter was in the dinin g room.

"Cut yourselP" Les inquired, whe n he saw him. T here were three or fo ur Band-Aids on Peter's ha nd s.

"Yeah," Peter gr unted. " I bought a g lass c utter today. It rattl es like a God damn Pinto, bu t it was aliI could af­ ford. Which rem ind s me , I've got that rent cheque fo r you, Sorry about th e delay."

Lester accepted the c hequ e. It was smudged with blood, Peter offered him a beer. Les ac­ cepted, <lgain st hi s bette r judgment , for he'd already had three o r four too many. Pe te r scoffed . He was a heavy drink er. Sometim es he would wa lk to the Lesli e Street Sp it and get drunk all alone while the sun went down. Other times he would ge t into fights. Stran ge ­ ly e no ugh, he was neve r hungover. It was nothin g for him to go to bed drunk and viol en t a nd ri se the next mor n ing w ith a ga lling sen si ti v ity. " I don't ge t turn ed on muc h any more," he admitted one m o rnin g over a honey butter sandw ich. "Sexually, I mean, But when I do, it ' s by ladi es wi th unu sua l fe atures, yo u know , like high fo reheads. Man , you wouldn ' t believe what a hi g h fore head does to me, I o nce marri ed a g irl wit h a high fore head. She was c ute as a button, but completely unph o togeni c . I had to sta re at he r face it lon g time before I figured out why. Turned o ut her eyes we re set too close together. Th at' ll ruin a prett y g i1'1."

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Skaters with speed, skill and a love of sport hy Mary Dickiesol1

On her ninth birthday, Suzanne Francis, OVC '57, received a pair of skates and a Scottie dog - two gifts that would shape the rest of her life.

The first led her to the Canadian Figure Skating Sports Hall of Fame; the second launched a distinguished career as a vet­ erinarian and dog breeder. A determined competitor in both arenas , Francis ha s returned her winnings in kind as a volun­ teerjudge for both figure-skatin g events ancl aJl-breed dog shows.

The birthday skates were originally given to Franc is to help strengthen an injured leg muscle, but they clid far more than that - they helped turn her into a champion. Rank ed fourth in the world from 1950 to 1953. she is the only female in the hi s­ tory of Canadian figure ska ting to be th e sen ior national cham­ pion in all three disciplines - singles, pairs and clance.

Her partner in pairs and dance was Wallace Distelmeyer, now a figure-sk<Jting coach in Toronto. They perfected the modern-day death spiral. performing it first in internat ional competition in 1947. The next year, they won a bron ze med,lI at the world pairs c hamp ionship in Davos , Switzerland. and a bronze Olympi c medal in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Francis continued to skate during her first yea r at OVe. but the demands of sport and sc hool became too gre'H. So at th e nge of 23, she hung up he r skates forever.

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Photo courtesy of the CFSA

Instead, she reached for new heights, devoting more time to judging figure skating and to her love of animals. In her second year ill OVC, Francis began to breed German shep­ herds, and one of her dogs was the rec ipi ent of the first suc­ cessful Sk in-graft operation performed at the college. When she asked her professors what to do about a dog's leg that wouldn ' t heal, they asked her to find the answer and as sist in the surgery. Her researc h wns later published.

In 1960, Franci s joined the Toronto practice of Edith Williams, OVC '4J, and bought it three years later. During the 19605 and ·70s. she expanded her kennels to include minia­ ture schnauzers nnd Doberman pinschers - earning Canada's top breeder award for Doberma ns. The sale of her Toronto practice prompted a move to King Township, where her fami­ ly was involved in horse breeding, showing and racing . Fran­ cis was the first female vet in the country li censed to practise at Canad ian race t r:.lc ks.

Tragedy struck in the mid 1970s when a bout with cnncer forc ed her to se ll the fmm and put veterinary medicine on hold. Franc is moved bnck to Toronto. When her henlth im­ proved, she bought nnother practice in Brantford , which she qill owns and operates with the hclp of an associate, Lorna (Childs) Mantle, OVC 'R I and OAC '77.

Fnlllcis underwent qundruple-bypass surgery earlier this yenr, but missed only two months at work and was bnck judg­ ing dog shows in three . Over the Slimme r, she judged dog shows in Newfoundlnnd , Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, On­ tario and British Columbia.

She 's travelling Jess ofte n as a figure-skating judge, having retired from international judging. But Francis will continue her work national ly as both a judge and a bu iId er of the SpOI'l.

She will be in Edmonton, Aim. , Jan. 12 to 16 for the Canadinn championships, an important competition for Canadian hope­ fuls heading to Lillehammer. Norway . in February for the Olympic Games.

Francis has been one of th e Can:.ldian Figure Skating Association's (CFSA) most dedicated volunteers for 40 years.

"1 think everyone sho uld be involved in volunteer work of some kind," she says. ''I've nlway s preferred to work with the youth of this country. And the sport is in my blood ."

Active on the CFSA board of directors and member and chnir of numerous judging and technical committees, Frnncis has hel ped shape the sport in Canada. And it hns changed a lot s in ce her 1948 Olympic performance, she says. "You ca n ' t compnre the performances of former world and Olympic cham­ pions to those of today. We did what we had to do to win at that time. Those performances would not sta nd up against today 's world championship performances, but the athletes would . .1f they were skating in today's sport, the early skaters wo uld still disp"l Y the same fortitude nnd dctermin at ion that made them champions. ,.

For her contributions to skating - both on and off the ice­ Frnncis was n:Jmed to the Canadian Amnteur Sports Hnll of Fnme in 1988 and to the Canadian Figure Skating Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. 0 GilI'll'''

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PennI' Schull: (lml Sle l'(, Sears per/clJ'{1/ a dl'(llh spiral. o /clIl1i liu /' mOl '1' in pai rsjig u/'(' skal ing Ihll l W(/ S P(,l jcCI('d hy 1957 Cue/ph gradu(/I!' Su:annc Fra ncis.

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Skating popularity grows Winter is upon us, and Elvi s is b:lck, Not the sin ge r. the skater. And with him are Browning, Slipchuk, Chouinard and Pres ­ ton. If you ' re trying to picture those names on the back of a hockey sweat er, forge t it. Thi s is Canada 's oth er number one winter sport - figure sk:lting.

And in th e Univers ity of Gue lph twin ­ pad are na - like arenas allover th e country - figure skate rs are increa sing in numbers because of the success and popularity of Canadi:ln athlete s lik e Elvi s Stojko, Kurt Browning, Michae l Slipchuk, Josee Chouinard and Karen Preston .

Thirty- five wome n tried out last fall for the Unive rsity 's varsity team , Some Guelph skaters, like coach Steve Sears and Penny Schultz, are former national competitors. Sears retired from competi ­ tion la st year to concentrate on coachin c and his studies ,It Guelph. He 's enrolle d~ in an hon ors biologica l science program , with hi s eye on medical school. Schult z and her partner Scott Grover we re Canadian novi ce and junior pairs cham­ pions in 1984 and 1985, She now com ­ petes in singles events on the U of G team, These skaters enj oy a far different at­ mosph ere than did Suzanne Francis when she came to Guelph in 1953 to C ue/I'h

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study vete rinary medi cin e, Sh e was the lone skate r practis in g e very morning from 5:30 to 7: 30 a,m. in the old Quonset arena.

Last year, th e U of G fi gure-skatin g team fini shed second in Ontario Univ e r­ sity Athle tic Assoc iati on (OUAA) events.

It wa s a " very close" co mpetition , says Sears, who hopes to earn the first-place trophy this year in hi s third year of coach ­ ing the team, The OUAA team will in­ clude 16 skaters compe tin g in free skate , dance , fours and prec ision skating, The Gue lph team will host an in vi ta­ tional competiti on on campus Jan , 28 and will be at the O UAA champion ships at Quee n's Unive rsit y in Kin gston, Ont. , Fe b, 12 and 13. Spectators are alway s welcom e at these events, And you can al so see the team pe rform in exhibition at College Royal March 19 and 20.

These Guelph stud ent s learned to skate und er the au spices of the Canadian Fig­ ure Skating Associ ation. , . and volun­ tee rs like Francis. Some hav e skated in competition before her c riti cal eye and have benefited from he r advice. And , like he r, they are both keen competitors and e nthu siastic fan s of the sport . , . in the U of G arena, at the Olympi cs in Norway and in all those communit y arenas where figure skatin g begins.o

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Fle xibilit y is the key to lifelon g fit ­ ness, say s speed skate r Kathy Hunt, OvC '81 and CBS ' 77 , but attitude make s th e difference in ath let ic performance, Sh e kno ws that from ex­ peri ence, She grew up in a sport­ ing family in Sault Ste. Marie, Onl. , co mpeted in downhill skiing and eques trian eve nt s and sti II en­ joys man y differe nt sports - run­ ning. road rac in g, mountain biking and hiking , wind surfing, hoc key, roll er bladin g ,1l1d swimmin g.

Wh en she enrolled at U of G in 1973 , Hunt was virtually a non­ skater, but she s igned up for the women's intramural hocke y team any way and, in her third year at Ove. mad e th e varsity team , "That says a Jot about how muc h women' s hockey has im ­ proved." she say s, " 1 didn ' t come close to the skill of today' s fe mal e hock ey playe rs. " Hunt met her husband, John, OVC '8 1, at Gu elph and worked most rece ntly in his practi ce in Newr y, Ont, For the last two years, she has divided her time amon g kids, skatin g and renovat­ in g their Brusse ls-area farmhou se.

In the summe r of 1991, two roll er-b lade competitors inv ited her to try speed skatin g. "My first Conl in l/ I'd on

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day was Sept. 26, and 1 was hooked from the very first time ," s he says . Now she skates tw ice a week with the K -W Se rtoma Speed Skating Club.

Three of the Hunt c hildren - Carla I I, Bryce, 9 , and Brett, 6 - have all ' joined Mo m at the rink to try the sport the mse lves. Last yea r, Carla fini shed consis te ntly in the top three in her age category. Three-year-old Cay Ii is still manoe uvrin g roller blades around the farmhouse kitc hen. And John, who's on call several ni ghts a week, plays hockey on a loca l recreational team.

Hunt says the whole idea behind speed skating is e fficiency, transferring phy s ical power and strength into faster forward motion. She loves the exhilara­ tio n of the spo rt and says there are added thrills in indoor short-track skat­ ing , w he re s katers start en masse, take ti g ht corners as a pack and try to out­ ma noe uvre eac h other on the stra ig htaways. Th e re 's considerable s kill and strategy involved in knowing whe n to pass yo ur competitors and ta ke the lead, she says .

In contras t, the Olympic-style long­ trac k events pit skaters again st the clock. With only two skaters on the ova l, competitors focus intently on their own bodies and their skates. Speed s kate rs at both short- and long-track meets skate four distances; winners chal ­ lenge individual race records and ac­ c umulate points towards an overall ranking.

Coached by Klaus Hanje, Hunt now holds 10 provincial speed-skating records for women in their 30s and two Canadian and two North American reco rd s ... so far.

She skates so fast that she laps peo ple. Lap counters lost trac k of Hunt ' s c ircuits at the Ontario s ho rt-track c hampion ships last March when she shaved almost 12 seconds off the Canadian and Ontario record in the 777 ­ metre e vent.

Officials refused to giv e he r the Canadian record becau se they didn't believe a master skater could skate that fa st. But she repeated the feat a few weeks later in Champaig n, III. , to claim the North American record for the 777­ metre race. She finished second overa ll at the Champaign short-track meet; a fall in the SOO-metre e vent cos t her the North American titl e.

Eventually , Hunt plans to skate pas t the master's group to challenge those yo un ge r competitive speed skaters vy­ 109 for pos iti o ns at the Canada Cup. 0 16

Close encounters

by Martha Tancock

No w he 's a concierge in a navy blue suit, general manager of Somer­ H ad Stephen Burchert followed hi s set House by the Sea, a 138 -unit first inclinatio n and become an en­ residence for active, indepe nde nt gineer, he would never have met seniors on the sceni c a nd pos h D a ll as Pierre Trudeau, Robin Leach, Road in Victori a, B.C. A ta nned, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brooke natty, graciou s man at your serv ice ­ Shi e ld s, the Kin g of Jordan, David "Sir," "Madam," "This way, please, Foste r, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, your party's waiting fo r yo u in the Mikhail Gorbac hev, Me l Hurtig, sitting room," "Allow me to take Charles Bronson, D avid Suzuki, B.F. your luggage ."

Skinner, Zamfir, George Lucas Shortly after gradu ation, Burch e rt Gloria Steinem, Sally Struthers' and went back to Banff, recruited as a othe r s parkl e rs among the world's manage me nt train ee by Canadian g litte rat i. He wo uld never ha ve heard Pacific Hotels at the very same Banff Ma rce l Ma rceau ta lk.

Springs Hote l he'd wor ked in afte r The 1979 HAFA g rad had planned hig h sc hool. to be a c ivil e ngi nee r - until he en­ He had a wealth of expe rie nce , countered Grade 13 physics. A some of it ga ined in a tornado of ac­ hitc hhiking trip out west after high ti v ity three weeks before hi s first schoo l turned into the archetypal rite semester at Gue lph , w he n the hote l of passage. Burchert discovered bar­ was short- staffed and he had to e arn te nding. He aba ndoned physics for the sc hoo l fees he hadn ' t saved all Singapore Sling chemistry and hotel summer. He cou ld do three jobs in dynamics. one 19- hour day - front desk for W a iting on tourists in hotels in e ight hours, dishwashing for e ig ht, Banff and Lake Louise, Alta., held pub doorm an fo r anot he r three. more a llure than bridge blueprints. It On full time at Banff Springs, was abo ut as routine as bungee jump­ Burche rt worked in the front office JIl g . You ne ve r knew who'd walk in food and beverage control, as ' through the door or what wou lei go ni g ht auditor and at the bell desk of wrong. " It 's a job where every day is the gra nd o ld ho te l in Canada's most different," he says. famous national park. F rom hi s "first He loved the "excitement, the real job" as assis tant food and dynamic atmosphere," the changing beverage manager, he was promoted clientele. And being a " kind of a to beve rage ma nage r in charge of 10 hype r g uy ," he was neve r twiddlin o bars and lo un ges with revenues of $5 hi s thumbs. b million a year.

Burchert came home and s ig ned He left Ba nff Springs to become up for a bartendin g course a t G eorge assis tan t food and beve rage manage r B row n College , switched to a bar­ of the Banff C e ntre , tending management prog ra m form e rl y the Ban 1'1' at Ryerson Poly technical In­ School of Fine Arts. stitute, then, at the last minute, After five years, he enrolled in the degree program was invited to re turn at Guelph. It offered courses in to the renovated 860­ every aspect of hotel business. room Banff Sprin gs Just what he wanted. to take over th e Eighteen years ago, Burche rt newly computeri zed used to be known as "Bri 110 " at front office, one of Guelph. His signature look was the most respon s ibl e an Afro hairdo and aviator jobs in any hote l. shades. And his best fri end s Stephen Burchert us ({ Despite irreg ular Cu!?/ph gradualC'. were Aggies. hours - ni ght shifts, Cuelph AlumNUS

holid ays , New Year 's Eve - Burchert slalomed dow n the fast lane in his off hours. He took to the hill s 120 to 130 times a year, ran for town council on a platform to re present the youn g in a business-oriented community and m ar­ ried hi s w ife, Sha ITY , in 1988.

When son Mitchell was born, Burchert' s long hours at the hotel began to interfere with hi s family life.

He and Sharry pulled up stakes and relocated to Victori a, a bi gger town w ith ni cer weather and cl oser to he r home town of Nanaimo.

Hours are stable, weekends a re free and the stress leve l is "a th o usand times less," says Burchert, althoug h it' s no small challenge being respon­ sible for 135 reside nts and 40 staff.

And there are distractions. He had to move his office desk away from the window, turning hi s back on the mag­ nificent snow-peaked Olympic M ou n­ tains.

Since Burchert started at Somerset House in 1991, occ upanc y has doubled to 92 per cent. Marketing and community relations are part of his job. He' s involv ed with the Victori a Geronto logy Association, the c ity's senior activities , the Chamber of Com­ m erce and Touri sm Victori a. He's also a membe r of the Kni g hts of Columbus.

And he has more time for his fami­ Iy. Sharry is a real estate agent, Mitchell is now five and Elliott is two .

Burche rt has take n the m hiking and biking in every park a round .

But ... " I'd kill to go Sk iing," he says, thinking of Banff. And "I do miss the dyna m ic atmosphere of the hotel and all the VIPs. " He has vivid memo ri es of his meetings with Ho l­ lywood idols, star inte ll ectual s, capitali st g ia nts and o ther sec ular gods.

Because he worked odd hours, hi s encounters were serendipitou s and surprisin g ly ped es tri a n. Like the time he c hatted about marlin fishing and trav e l with in somniac Lee Marv in , the only hote l res ident w ho had res ponded to a midni g ht fire alarm.

Or the time he successfully begged to atte nd a dinner with his boss and Cueljl"

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seven of Japan's wealthiest and most powerful busine ssme n. Or the time he arranged for a lower-floo r room for songw riter and record producer David Fos ter, who is afraid of elev ato rs .

Or w hen fonn e r Soviet president Gorbac hev was meeting with Cana­ di an lead ers in Banff and Burchert noticed that th e RCMP and KGB security officers who were stationed aro und the room full of world leaders were communicating fev e ri shly by w rist radio - on ly to overhear one te ll anot her to ord e r him a rye and Co ke if he got to the bar first. Those sa me KGB officers had Burch ert paged at 2 a.m . to open the liquor cabinet for

more Canadi an whiskey.

Now , in stead of hi s reperto ire of close encounters with the rich and fam o us, Burchert talk s about hi s postage collection. He collects stamps wi th a brewery theme. An " avid bre weria na collector," he saves beer bottles and o ther brewery-related paraphernalia. On e day, he ' d like to set up a hotel as a beer museum. Each room would be decorated on a brewery theme. "Y ou don 't see man y theme ho tels ."

Like hi s fe llow HAFA graduates, Burchert is never sho rt of new ideas for the hospita lity indus try. 0 17

Probing the mysteries

hv Margarel Boyd

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ast summer, University ofGueJph physics . mussels, crab, brittlestars and anemones. professor George Renninger spent a month in The bacteria probably use sulphur com­ the mid-Atlantic trying to focus a microscope pounds found in the hot water; higher life­ forms lik e sh rimp may well feed on the whi Ie the ship underfoot vibrated to the tune of its en ­ gines and rocked from side to side in the ocean waves. bacteria. Renninger says it's interesting Renninger was one of 19 sc ientists from six that each of the chimney sites in the mid­ Atlantic seems to harbor a different species countries who participated in an Atlantic voyage to of shrimp, suggesting that evolutionary study animal s living near the blasting heat of hydro­ thermal vents deep under the sea. Animals that Ren­ changes take place quickly in this unstable environment. ninger says are literally " living on the edge of death" and could be holding secrets about the origins of life.

The science crew on board the At/antis II Ge o r~e ROII/illger consisted of microbiologists , geologists, The project originated from Wood s Hole Oceano­ Photo by David Thonm Iipid biochemists, evolutionary biologists, graphic Institution in Mas sac husetts, as part of a ecologists and e lectrophysiologists. They relied on a deep sub­ French-American collaboration. Earli er expeditions had docu­ mented the geophysical properties of hydrothe rmal vents, but mergence vehicle (DSV) called AI1'in to locate and coll ec t this wa s the first concerted effort to study the biological en­ spec imens from the vents , 3 1/2 kilometres beneath the surface. vironment created by these underwater hot springs.

Rennin ger's role was to study vision in th e shrimp found living near the vents. His shipboard experiments were desig ned Ai/ontis II sail ed southwest from Sao Miguel Island in the Azores in early June, following the mid-Atlantic ridge to th e to lea rn whether these shrimp have visual function, a question Tropic of Cancer. You might picture the ridge as a volcanic that was first asked seven years ago when the shrimp species Rimicaris C.locu/ato, meanin g "without eyes, " was discovered. fault line running along the bottom of the Atlantic where the ocean floor is still expanding from the accumulation of material Since then , the sc ientific community has speculated that prominent wing-like structures under the shells of the shrimp that bubbles up from the centre of the Earth. are actually highly modified eyes.

Th ere are four known sites along the ridge where hydrother­ Woods Hole scientist Cindy Van Dov er had asked the vision mal vents release water that has been heated by the hot magma question of ana tom ists like Steve Chamberlain of Synlcuse underneath. Rich in minerals and carrying high lev els of sul­ University, Both were involved in organizing the 1993 voyage phur, the water is forc ed up through holes or vents at tempera­ that enlisted Renninger to test the th eo ry of deep- sea sight. tures of up to 380 C The surrounding rock can get up to 70 C When the hot water meets the cooler (2 C) seawater, the Chamberlain and oth ers ex amin ed specimens of si1rimp minerals precipitate, forming chimneys coated with iron caught Oil ea rlicr expeditions, and th ey agreed that the wing­ pyrites. And clinging to the sides and edges of the chimneys like structures are ind eed eyes, eve n though they are located on are several species of animals - including bacteria , sh rimp, the shrimp's back instead of its head,

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Structured like the eye s in other shrimp species and simil a rly con­ nected to the animal's ce ntra l nervous sys tem, the eyes of Rimicaris exoculata a ppear to have li g ht- se ns itive membrane like other inverteb rate photorecep­ tor ce ll s, says Renninger. A littl e bit of ev idence and more ques­ tions. [f dee p- sea shrimp can see, what do they see at the bo ttom of the sea, wh ere there is no light from the sun?

Further invest igatio ns fo und a difference be tween the photo­ receptor cell s of deep-sea cru s­ tacea ns and animals that live near or a bov e sea level. It was known that the photorece ptors in th e eyes of all animals tea r down and reb uild their li ght- sensiti ve membrane. Most hav e a daily turnover of photosensitive membrane, and it was believ ed Crew 0/1 huard th e Atlanti s Jl /JI"epare to !aunch I/Ie Alvin. the deep slI/JI7l1'rgel1ce "('hie/c IIsed iii co//eel that thi s process evol ved to com­ sh ril1lpji'ol1l hydrul hem/{/ / , 'e11lS /o('(t( e(/ 0 /1 (he mid-AI /a l7lic rid ge.

Pensate for seasonal ch anboes in Photo by C rai g Dicbon, Wood, Hole Oceamlg raphi c IINitllti on lig ht inten sity. But dee p- sea crus­ Thi s voyage, however, failed to provide conc lusive evide nce . ht' d I ' E ven th oug h s h nmp ' taceans, specificall y thi s s peci es of shrimp , have photoo'j' slg tn eep-sea s lrtmp. we re co I­ receptors so small that there isn't roo m fo r the sheuding and lected in li g ht-tight co ntain e rs, light from the DSV was stron g synthesis of pho tosen siti ve membrane to occu r. e nou g h to des troy the lig ht-sens itive membrane of the "eye."

So a new theory was deve loped. Bec au se deep- sea shrimp are not exposed to daily and seasonal cycles of ambie nt light, " The DSV Ah'in was litera ll y blinding the animals." says Re nninge r. This was confirmed by microscopic studies don e they would not need to modulate their ability to capture li g ht aboard the Allantis II. H e w o uld lik e to re peat the e x pe rime nts, ph oton s. But they w o uld still need a li ght so urce to ha ve vi sual capabilities. usin g diffe rent wavelengths o f li g ht on the Ahin to protect the vi sual functions of the shrimp.

The spec ialized eyes of Rimicuris oO(,lIlala led sc ienti sts to investi ga te the poss ibility of a light source within the chimneys that, w hen it was round, would prov ide rec iproca l ev id e nce to supp o rt the theory of vis ual function. Without lig ht, the eyes w o uld have disa ppea red in s uccess ive ge neration s, as happe ns to animals th at live in tot al darknes s in cave s.

Light-se nsitive came ras were used in a deep-sea dive to verify th at the re is light emitted from the hot-water chimneys.

The Allonlis II c rew built a light sensor of their ow n that detected li g ht in the range of 700 to 900 nanometres - probab­ ly produced by the hea t fro m th e rocks around th e ve nts. Such black-body radiatio n is not visible to the human eye, w hich sees light in wave le ng th s from blu e at 400 nm to red at 65 0 nm .

The presence of li g ht fro m some source at deep- sea hydrothe rm a l ve nts has a lso ra ised the poss ibility of dee p- sea photosynthes is. Because hydro thermal ve nts have existed along oc ea nic ridges as lon g as the oc ea ns the mse lves have ex­ isted and lon g before sea life, some sc ie nti sts s pec ulate that life may have originated at these ve nts. It's safe to bet that future deep-sea ex pedition s will be looking at photosynthe sis capa biliti es in the bac teria that cling to hyd rothermal ve nts.

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As hap pens in most sc ientific explorations , however, Renninger found some thin g he wasn't re ally looking for. He was able to record ne rv e impul ses from shrimp antennae , which act as sensory receptors. The long antennae of deep- sea s hrimp we re found to be sens iti ve to the presence of s ul p hide compounds, which are ple ntiful in hydrothe rmal ve nts. The sc ientists spec ulate that thi s may be the "distant" sen se, rathe r than vision , that g uides the shrim p back to th e vents and helps the m find new one s to colonize. " Although we didn ' t learn much in a po s itive sen se about the animals ' v isual function, we lllay have stumbl ed on to a se nse that is more important to the shrimp in terlll S of the survival of their species ," say s Rennin ger.

Other ex perime nts looked at s hrimp ecology and diet, the temperatures assoc iated with th e vents and bacterial popula­ tion s, including the poss ibility that some of th e bacteria have a magnetic sense.

Renninger 'S research was fu nded by the U.S. Nation a l Science Foundation. 0 t9

Global diversity makes

by Andrea Mudry Fawc ell Indian ecolog ist Vandanah Shiva does n't want he r country to e mulate the weste rn world' s pre ferred im age of "one class, one race and o ne gender." Nor does she we lcome the so-called Green Revolution , which she says has le ft a wave of destruction in India and muc h of the developing world.

In stead, the inte rnationally known Guelph graduate values the diffe rences amon g people and nations.

Shiva was on campu s this fall to give the Unive rsity's inaugural Hopper Lec­ lure. Establi shed by the International Development Research Centre to help peop le better understand iss ues in inter­ national development, the lectures hip is named after the centre's first pre sident, David Hopper, a Fonne r faculty me mber at U ofG .

In her address, "Monocultures of th e Mind ," Shiva stressed the importance of maintaining div e rsity in th e world. "Cul­ tural diversity is no luxury in our times - it is a survival imperative, " s he said.

"Monocultures impov e rish , culturally and ecologically."

"Cultllral diversity is no luxury in our times - it is a sllrvival imperative."

The major in stitutions be ing developed tod ay - in ag ric ulture, economics, politics and knowledge­ are often based on destructive monocul­ turalthinking, said Shiva. "Whether it is the stru ctural adjustme nt of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund or the Dunkel draft of the GATT agree­ ment, the liv es and environment of th e Third World are se riously threate ned as a res ul t."

The ecologist charac terized the Green Revolution - the West 's panacea for modernizin g and feeding the Third world - as an ex ample of a biologica l monoculture. "It introduced Third World farmers to the global markets of fertili zers, pesticides and seeds, and dis20

integ rated their organ ic links with their in science pol icy, which involved her in soil and community." questions of how sc ience and tec hnol­ In the Punjab, frequ e ntly touted as a ogy ca n affect natural resourc es . " U . s uccess story of the Green Revolution , standing India and its complexity ... th e result ha s been massiv e dislocation became as basic a challenge as df r­ of people's lives and violence, s he said. standin g th e foundations of "tlt.prP A record 20,000 people have died in the theory," she says. last few years, and violence to women During this p l ' ab¢gMiS{Oli~ and children has become commonplace.

The region 's violated so il has become waterlogged or salinated.

Throughout the last decade, in 10 mi xed forests 0111 li1()IlOc;ultural .pine . books, numerou s articles and lectures planting s. }< . aro und the world , Shiva has promoted "I had spent m ) c hitclhood summers the importance of a diverse agric ultural tre kking in the m o nl:ainsandwas ' base, environmental considerations and dr~:~-me1h ' tallis , fOl::estsailcl the rol e of women. Sh e has been interna­ tionally re ad and quoted. Britain's Manchester Guardian has described he r as "one of th e wo rld's most prominent radi ca l sc ienti sts . . .. she defines the , tQtJIJy iK link s between ecol og ical crisis, colonialism and the oppression of : g~li~tbJ* women."

Shiva' s route to such prominence has been a cir­ cuitous one. Born into an uppe r-class family in northern India in 1952, she completed two deg rees in phy sics at Pun­ jab University. Her inte ll ec tual journey to N0I1h America wa s pro mpted by a s upervisor 's in ­ s iste nce that she s imply acce pt essenti a l questions concerning quantum theory.

"Critical inquiry has a lways been a drivin g force for me," she says. "I found various papers discu ss ing these qu es ­ tion s, including one by Tom Settle. a professor in Guelph 's Philoso phy Department. I ap­ plied to come because philosophica l training would e nable me to beller understand phys ics. My sense of science is that if you are looking at a sys­ tem, you should be a ble to look at it in all its aspec ts."

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I, ecologi­ says Shiva, za tion of knowhip between sc ientists orkers - usually women · ·.• "'·'·th'~··+<'>.I1'I. This reciprocal exchange nt·""""'''" ~ a double enrichment, she says. of the sc iences must be respectful of knowledge systems."

This vision of pa rtnership based on mutual respec t should extend around the globe and to many aspects of life, she says. "In North America , the variety of people ' s cultural back­ grounds provid es an op­ portunity to create a productive and strong society. " In an effort to affect legi slative decisions in India, Shiva recently opened an office in Delhi that helps groups represent themselves to government. " Communityem­ powerment means sup­ port from behind. It is so easy for people in positions of privil ege to take over so­ cial or political processes ."

Cu rrently , much of he r energy is direcled against claims of inte llectual

s also e ncouraged by the attention her book The Violence of the Green Revolution has aroused in international circles. " I was rece ntly at an FAO meet­ ing in the Pacific where the y discussed sustainable agriculture and my writing at some le ngth."

Shiva believes India will eventually move from the non-s usta inable chemical agriculture adopted by its policy makers and will create "a ne w economic and cul­ tural re vival where the land is treated as a place where livelihoods are generated in most creative and rich way s."

India has many of its own so lution s, she says. Recent data , for example, show that production could eas ily be doubled by judi c ious use of labor, a resource the country has in abundance.

The fact is that large agricultural hold­ ings are simply not sustainable - social­ ly or politically - in India, says Shiva.

"Their development would require the displacement of 600 million people - 75 per cent of the population - who are mainly on small peasant farms now."

This compares with two per cent of the population who farm in North America.

"Such a mass ive displacement would cre ­ ate a global crisis ," she says. 0 21

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"You heard that Jan e Wilbury has Leishmaniasis? I don't know why people go to places like Africa. The re are enough disea ses to go around without importing those of th e Third World."

"Is she going to be okay? " Life is not a touching process. I have crafted meetings with my mother with the inte ntion of procuring sentiment, but the meaningful portions of my life have been serendipitou s. My moth er ignored th e question in favor of staring a hole through the waitress 's head in a fruitl ess attempt to get served. She lit a ciga rette .

At 42, s he had tilken up smoking in the interests of losin g weight. " Me nthol? If you ' re going to smoke, you mi g ht as we ll smoke tobacco , Mother. It 's like smoking a candy cane , for God's sa ke ." " You've hea rd that Aunt Jane has Alzheimer's ?"

"Oh jeez, Mother. How long have you known? You neve r te ll me anything." " I swear I ju st found out. You children are always accu s ing me of that.

Your father went to see her the other day. It 's so sad. By the time you realize what' s happening, there's no recovery in sight." " That's why I've stopped using deodorant and aluminum foil. " "You ' re not serious') " "This is the woman who has stopped drinking because it kill s brain cell s, but she' s got to stop pe rs pi ri ng."

"You've been watching too m any hac kneyed doc umentaries. I f aluminum c hlorhydrate is my worst vice ... " "And smoking." " You know I don ' t smoke. I just take it up for a while, drop some weight and g ive it up again. It ' s not smoking pe r se.

It ' s yo ur father ' s fault really . For years I ca lled my pocket money smoke money, and for yea rs he teased me. In a thoroughl y corruptible mood, I took up smoking for a week, gave it up and had the inalie nable ri g ht to call it sm oke money after that."

"Mom." "It ' s moot now, anyways . I make m y money and pay m y own ed ucation ." " What would you do if you got Alzhe imer 's or ALS or something like that'? " "In a word , I'd kill myself. No of­ 22

fence , baby, but I would never inflict that on my family, or on my real sel f."

"I know. I feel the same way."

Her eyes misted . The n she found th e waitress and sent bac k her Waldorf salad . " What kind of Waldolf salad has oranges and g rapes? " "Waldorf sa lad Veroniqu e?"

She ignored that and fought me for the cheque again.

Moth e r's taste predominated th e hou se. Dad had ta ke n his dri ftwood and his little bronze nudes. The picture of him holdin g the cat had been moved from the living room into the spare bedroom.

I f you're not right the re, in that ho use , in th e thick of thin gs, nobody in that famil y will take the time to exp lain just whe re everything e xists - in wlUlt state. The path to the hou se is mined with small bombshells: "God! You didn ' t kn ow they broke up? I told you that - months ilgO." " Of course Joanne does n ' t live th ere any more - has n't in fiv e years." " Blac k 's'? I hav en 't shopped the re for years, Greta. The produce has n ' t been decent in that store for nea r­ ly three years."

Sund ays I used to come to officiate Nancy and Carl ' s screa ming contests with Mother. I don ' t mean cuss-ups or anything. Literal/y. Nancy had the best one - a kind of wrap-ilround sound.

The Phil Spector sound in a scream.

Mom's scream was e ntire ly pitiful. It se nt Nancy into spasms of hiccups that lilsted two hours, in one of our more mem o mble sessions. They used to rest th e ir voices all week to prepare. Mother was always competitive and she was developing a good ful some vibrato th at milde up for her lack of range. Whe n she de ve lo ped il nod e on her vocal cord, we too k up Japanese painting. " Lumphoaden o ma. " Doctors love th e space accorded by technica l words.

Mother wrote it down as if she would be called upon to s pell it and rearrange its component parts. " 1 thou g ht it was j ust a node - on my vocal cords." " It was. Thi s is something completely unre lated." He said it as if she were a fool for asking. " Look , a lump on th e neck of thi s size is an e ntirely different matte r, and the tests s ugges t a Iym ­ phoad enoma. " "SuRgest," my mother said late r. " What is that supposed to mean.? SUR­ gest.ln that instant, I wondered if we were talkil1R ahout the power of sugRcs­

tion , or a kind of coup de corps and the kind of internecin e war/are it suggests. " " What is thi s exac tly? Is it cancer?" she asked.

"You have a cancer of the throat. " " Why wa sn ' t it dia g nosed sooner'?" " It wasn't prognosti cil ble. " "Prog nosticilble?" "I lough ed aloud at the neologism. !-Ie must ha ve thoug ht I was of/ my stick , already." "You mean I was asymptomatic?"

"U ntil now , I s uppos e ." He tried to touch her hand.

"Is it w orth asking ho w long I will live ')" " It ' s a lways worth asking." H e he s it<lted. " A fe w months ," he said , looking at hi s shoes.

She came ho me that ni g ht with two cans of Poppycock , a black cherry cola , a box of Godiva choco lates and a bottle of Aspirin .

W e s plit it down the middl e as we tri ed to figure out what to say to the o thers . Mom despe r<ltely wunted to keep it from Nancy , who had rece ntly recovered from a miscarriage .

After crying and com miserating, Carl let m y mother have it ilbout th e smok­ ing, totall y ignoring the fact that she hadn't smoked e nough for it to be il fac­ tor. "Christ, Carl ," I told him, "she' s in­ hilled more second-hand s moke off other peopl e than she ' s ilctually inhal ed off il c iga re tte." Carl wasn't buying it. I can take Carl being a whiny bas tard , but I begged him not to tell the doctor, be­ ca use I knew it meil nt on top of every­ thin g else , th ey' d have an exc use to treat her like shit becau se of it. Of course he did , and th ey did. Nancy tried to mediate between the two of us , be­ cause 1 swear, th e re were times I wished the illness would m etastas ize on to Carl.

Winnie could e ither be v iewed as the ultimilte optimist or the ultimate es­ c apist, but like Thomas , s he wilnted proof. I faxed her a copy of the doc to r ' s report, but Winnie did not find it s uffi­ cientl y tangible. She would not c ut her trav e ls short until it was too late . She has to live with that , but I'm sure she does and riltionalizes it just fine. "] wil nt to remembe r Mother as she was ... at least I re me mber Moth e r in all he r virility. " I love Winnie. She mu st be doing somethin g right, to get pilid hand­ some sLims of money by the diplomatic corps, but let 's say Winnie has a non­ traditional ty pe of intellige nce. For those of us at home, life see sawed be­ tween drama and me lodrama, before the cance r drained my mother of eve rything.

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When they se nt her home, r kn e w that was it. She had a remission. She was full of energ y, happy to be alive for the first time in months. We went to visit a bird sanctuary toge ther.

"1 used to mix lip aviary and apiary . Birds don't sting, I gu ess. Although when I wa s a c hild, I used to think hummingbirds did . Do you remember the wonder­ ful film my father took of the hummingbirds?" Before I could answe r, she broke into song. "Birds do it, bee s do it , e ven educated fl e as do it. Let ' s do it. Let ' s fall in love." She was de sperate to be funny and I laug hed with my teeth c lenched . We went shopping together, buying a lot of new hardbac k book s to dec lare our o p­ timism. " You can have these, if I don't ge t to the m." r ignored such statem ent s. Mothe r stayed up late into the night reading them and had to sleep during the day, but the pain ke pt waking her up. We had hired a nurse to admini ster the drugs and she was stingy. When she told my mother off for showing s igns of becoming an ad­ dict, my mother fired her. r wish I had bee n there to see it.

Still, she hung on. The ne xt drug brought hope, and then desperation, and this was repe ated many tim es . " Eve n the Romans broke his legs."

She could see me ne rvou s ly puzzling out the non­ sequ itur.

"On the cross, Greta, they bro ke Jesu s' legs to hasten his death." " Corne on , Mothe r, we'v e been through this. " "You ' re a liar and a chicken. You lied to me and I won't forgiv e you ," she said , just before vomiting blood all over herse lf and the chair.

"Lied a bout what?" I asked he r, knowing fu II we ll what she would say. Sh e sat the re wa iting for me to cl ean her up. I was furiou s with he r. She was making a point. She could have told me she was going to be s ick.

Now I 'd have to wash everything and I didn ' t have the time. I had to be out ~:tnd Nan cy was corning in.

"You promised me a proper death." " Une Mort Douce. I see you ' ve bee n reading Simon e de Beauvoir. If your reading is correct, then you should know there 's no suc h thin g." She was cryin g out of sheer frustration and ange r with me, and winnin g argu­ ments with my sick mother gave me no pleasure. As I cl eaned he r up, I made my decision . This had gone on and on. Soon they 'd take her bac k to the hospital and shie ld her pain from the mselves and us for who know s how long. Mother would be stuck with her own pain .

After we said our goodbyes , I came into her roo m again. Though Dad had left th e house an hour be fore , hi s presence was fresh. I mad e a silent supplication, ti ed the tourniqu et around her arm and administered the overdose .

Our love was uniqu e . I could neve r e xplain it to you .

Whe n I kill ed her. she we ighed 8S pOllnd s. It was like e xorcis ing a gilost. She had a smile on her face , a know­ ing s mile. When I think of it, it still comfOl1s me . She didn ' t reawaken. She didn't stru ggl e . Thi s was my mother 's wish. 0 Footnote: 1. Let' s Fall in Lo\'c , Cole Porte r,

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Shaping the future of the UGAA Have your say in developing a new mission What's you r vision for the niversity of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation?

What kind of future call we as alum ni c reate togethe r for our associa­ tion? T hese arc questions be ing asked of all Guelph a lumni :I.'> the lIGAA develops a new mi ssion statement.

A ' H • t.an ing point, the UG A board o utl ined a draft sratement­ presented. be low for commen t. T he devdo pmelll of a new m ission rep­ resents a defi nitive step in an ongoing process of renewa l for the UGAA. Fi ve years ago , tht; association cond ucted a survey 01' a lumni to help formulate goals. And th ree years ago, representat ives from all o f the alumni a sociations met at a retreat in BalTie, On!., to review rhe finding. atld deve lo p " plan to ~trengthen al umn i network.s. Part of that plan included a proposal to reo UTI ture the UGA A and reduce the size of the board.

In June 1992. UGAA members approved byl aw re visions to imple­ ment those change· and struck a pl an ning cOlllmi ttee to carryon the momentum. Chaired by Mar~1 Ann (Amadio) Rangam, FACS ' 79. the strategic-planni ng com mi ttee has he lped the G AA draft this mis­ sion statement. Ran gam a ' ks you to le t the GA A board know if it describes your re lat ions hip with ­ and defines your ex pectations or - the association.

Your input o n the draft m ission i~ essent ial. Send your comments

by Dec. 3 I, 199:1. They w i II be incorporated into the fi nal statement, which wi ll go be faTe the UG AA board for approval next spring and will be presented to all Guel ph alumni at the C1 nnua l meeting in J une.

Once it has been approved , a ll UG AA com m ittee!; will use the l11i~ ­ sion statement a a template fo r dec ision mak ing. It will work like a lens to focus every effort on the rea l purpo ' e of the u.. ociation, says Rangum . And it will be upd ated regularl y to cnsureviability. ··W 've tried to capture the values and the strengths of the . G A in this mis­ sion statement." ow, she aY5. "it'~ time for alumni to have a say in. shap ing. the future of the UG AA. Mal...e you r voice heard."

UG A A mission statement The Univer~ ity of Gue lph Alum ni A~sociation is a community of alumni and studen ts of the Un iversi ty of Guelph and the founding col­ leges , Our ll1is-;ion is 10 suotai n aod strengthen the Universi ty by:

>- promoting ommunicmion among alumni and between .llumni ,lIlei . the niver:ity com m unity; cncouraging opportunities for lifelong learning; - enabling participation in the affairs and activities of the niversity; and ."!"­ rostering partnerships between the University and the public.

As an 'lssoci ation. we wi ll accomplish thi: by working together to mobilize all our sk ills and re ·ources.

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Questions for alumni I . What feelings does the draft mis!'.ion statemcnt evoke for you about the UGAA and its future direction?

2. an you visuali7e your persona l role as a graduate with in this dmft · mission statcment?

3. Arc there any aspects of the UGAA role missing o r ~u'e there aspecls of the statement lhat do no! reflect how you want your UGAA to operate'?

4. What are your general comments or feelings about the draft mis­ sion statement?

Reply to Tri~h W"lker, Director of Alumni Affairs. Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph , Om. I G 2W I, phone."i 19-R24-4120, Ext. 2122, fax 519- 822-2670.

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GUE"i~PH GRYPHONS

The seven people inducted thi s year into the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame are an apt reminder of the broad scope of U of G 's athletic program s. As builders and athletes , these Gryphons are honored for their participation, competitiveness and advancement of sport.

Mary Beverley-Burton A faculty mem­ be r in the Department of Zoology , Bever­ ley-Burton was inducted as a builde r becau se of he r ongoing s upport for ath­ letic programs - 13 years as faculty representative on the Athle tic s Advi sory Council, five years as ad­ vi ser to the field hockey program and a strong proponent of women 's ath­ letics . An annual award given in her name recognizes the outstanding rookie fe male athlete at U of G.

Don Mason Mason came to Guelph in 1958 whe n a ne w pool was opened at OAC. He coach ed the Red­ men team s for ei g hl years , achieving a record fiv e con­ secutive Ontario Inte rcollegiate Athletic Association s wimming championships, and guide d the G ryphons into the Ontario and Quebec Univ e rsity Athletic Associa­ tion (OQUAA) in 1965. He also coached diving, served as intramural director and was the first coach of the wome n' s hockey team. Through cam­ pu s and community work with the Can adian Red Cross Society , Ma son wa s respon sible for thousand s of Canadian s le arning to s wim.

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Sevenjoin Hall of Fame

Ross Junke An all-round ath­ lete. J unke le t­ tered three years in football and hockey and one year in basket­ ball. He played in the 1938 Memorial Cup hockey final and was a member of the 1939 and J 940 Dominion Inter­ mediate Intercollegiate Champions in football. He graduated from OAC in 1942, served in the Canadian Army and was decorated in 1965. He earned a teaching certificate , but worked as an agronomist for eight years before set­ tling back into the classroom . He retired as a principal in 1981 and now lives in SI. Catharine s, Ont.

Mike Lackowicz An outstanding performer in the pool, Lackowicz swam undefeated in dual-meet com­ petition in all four of hi s years as a Gryphon, was a OQUAA/Cana­ dian Intercol­ legiate Alhletic Union (CIA U) finalist and a member of the All-Canadian Team from 1966 to 1970. He he ld nine out of a possible 13 team record s, se veral of which stood for 18 years.

Lackowicz completed a degree in landscape architecture in 1970 a nd late r coached the Gryphon swim team for a year. He now lives in Cambridge , Ont.

Kim Miles His hockey prowess got him inlo th e GlIinncss

Book olRccords for scoring the fast es t goal from the start of a hock­ ey game: three second s against the Unive rsity of Wate rloo. Miles lettered in hoc key for

four years and was OUAA All-Star in 1976. He was Gryphon captain of that team, leading it to the University'S first OUAA hockey championship. Hi s goal-scoring record held for IS years.

A 1976 graduate in human kinetics, Miles played profess ional hockey in G e rmany , but e ventually returned to Canad a. He live s in the Toronto area , close enough to maintain ties with the Gryphon s. He has served as president of both the Gryphon Club and its hock­ ey chapter.

Bill Sproule A 1959 graduate of OAC, Sproule lettered two years in basket­ ball and four years in football and was th e 1958 recipient of the Wildman Tro­ phy. The football Gryphons won the OQUAA champion ship in 1955 and finish ed second in 1957. The fol­ lowing year, they came first in the On­ tario Intercollegiate League Champion ship. Sproule' s basketball career included contribution s to the 1957 Intermediate Inte rcollegiate Con­ ference champion s hip team. He now lives in London, Ont.

Henry Vandenberg Vandenberg was a member of the basketball Gryphons for five years and was team captain for three. He played on the 1974 CIAU championship team, earned the Bill Dimson MVP Award in 1977 and 1978 and was OUAA first-tea m AIl­ Star three times. Vandenbe rg holds the team record for the most point s in a game - 41 scored again st Brock University durin g the 1977/7 8 season.

He graduated in 1977 from the College o f Social Science and now lives in Oakville , Onl.

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Lester pretended not to be li ste ning.

He disliked contradictions, and Peter, a foul-mouthed rogue whose greatest con­ cern was the use of classic rock songs in TV commercials , was a dandy. Leste r found it hard to believe that this monosy llabic thug could speak so te nderly about women and love. Bette r, he thought, if he spoke like Big Moose.

The lovable dimwit. Saying "DUH" and

all that.

"You should meet this girl I work with," Lester said, forge tting that he'd meant to keep Emmy a secret.

"High forehead ?"

"No, a turned-up nose . There' s some­ thing about her that could make me for­ get everyone else."

Peter flicked the ash of hi s cigare tte.

"Eve n Geraldine')" Leste r nodded. "What do you suppose that means?" he said.

Peter probed his ear with a finger, ob­ served what he had amassed on its tip,

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then flicked it across the room. "Could be you need to get laid," he said .

After an hour of television (LA Law, America' s Most Wanted, replay s of the Montreal game), Pete r went to bed.

Leste r wasn't tired, so he took a hairdryer to the icebox and spent a half­ hour defrosting the freezer. The ice came off in thick, dec isive sheets. After a while, the hairdryer s tarted e mitting shocks, so Les fixed himself a drink and sat down to watch some more TV. He watched The DOlin g Game until it depressed him , then he called Emmy.

He knew it wa s a stupid thing to do, but rum gave him an egotistical hig h. It made him feel important , like a rock star or something. He didn't kn o w of another drink that did thi s, Whenever he drank rum , he usually wound up gazing into the mirror, rapt by hi s reflection as though it were a Rembrandt. All he'd see was th e rugged Iine of hi s jaw, the jaunty slope of his ey e brows, the tint of blond in his hair. He didn't notice the ga ping pores on hi s nose or the wattle under his chin where the years pi led up, Emmy was already asleep. ''l'm sorry," he said, "I've been fee l­ ing lonely e ver s ince I le ft yo u and I panicked, " " We shouldn ' t be talking tonight ," she croak ed, "You're tampering with a good thin g." ''I'm sorry . I've been thinking about you ever since J go t home."

This seemed to interest her. "Is that so?" she asked , kittenishly.

"Yes," he purred, "I've bee n wonder­ in g what you loo k like asleep. " " It's not pretty ," she said . " My hus­ band used to complain that I sleep with my eyes open. It s pooked him, Some­ times J sl eep with my mouth open , too, " " Sounds inte resting, Do you drool?"

"Th e bed 's soaking," "Please," Lester swooned. "You ' re burning my ear. " She laugh ed. "And here I th o ught you were clean-cut," s he said. " A young in­ noce nt."

Lester was chomping at the bit. " Want to talk dirty')" "Not dirty ," sa id Emmy, " Rapturou s, " " Fine , rapturous, Le t's talk rap turou s, I'll talk you to heaven, if that 's what you want."

Emmy let out a breath, giggled, said OK, "What are you wearing')" she began, like she were young.

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Afte rward s, they breilthed separate ly: Guelph A/wnn ll.1

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Emmy in the gauzy comfort of he r mahogany tongue-in-groov e bedroom, and Lester in the bluish gnze of his TV. "Was that OK?" he said tenderly, at last.

Emmy 's voice echoed: 'Tm not sure.

I've forgotten your face."

Lester did not respond.

"What are you doing tomorrow?" she sa id after a while.

Lester yawned. The inside of his mouth felt like velvet. ''I've got some er­ rand s to run ," he sa id.

"Oh," s he said, di sappointed.

"Why'?"

"I thought we could go for a driv e.

There 's something I want to show you ."

Lester was curious, but remained aloof. ''/' II call you Sunday," he said. " Yeah , right," she sniffed and abrupt­ ly hung up.

Stunned , Lester sat in the dark for a moment, then he turned his attention back to the TV. She ' ll be fine , he thought, za pping past starving Ethiopians, a cure for baldness, fre eze­ dried cat food and solid zirconia. She had a high pain threshold.

Saturday was lost to the subsequent hangov e r, feelings of remorse and want­ ing to call Emmy. Les s pent the entire afternoon on his front porch, reading books of redemption under flann e lette comforters. A warm so uthern wind blew all of the leaves off the trees, ex cept for the willows, which always fell late.

The nex t day, he mounted his motor­ cycle and rode out to Effingham, the sad, du sty town where he was born. It was an odd journey. For years he had avoided Effingham's greying strip mali s, it s bankrupt Dairy Queens, its vast swee ping asphalt parking lots .

Th e re were untamed memories the re, ghosts he ass umed he would never es­ cape. Like th e Have-a-Nap Hotel, where he worked for three months when his mom hit menopause and threw him out of the house . Or Hole In One Donuts, where Jeevan Viveganthen got beat up for be ing as blac k as coffee. And Seaway Garage, where he bought hi s first bike. Coppell 's Corners, where he took his only spill.

Thi s time, however, Effingham struck him as romantic. Maybe eno ug h years had passed, or maybe he had grown les s cynical. R ega rdless, he rode through the downtown streets feeling detached and aloof. From Aquadale Driv e to Old Coach Road, where he held hands with Maddie Ritt outside Bruno's Pi zzeria.

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He had seen her, years later, at a mall in the city. She was holdin g :.t plum­ colored skirt up to a mirror. Les ran to a phone and had her paged , the n followed her through the store, just to watch her move.

Les sped on, pas t the filtration plant to Dalhousi e Beach, which was littered with leaves and cordoned off with plas­ tic fences. He revved his machine and rode eas t to Lakebreeze Public - hi s very firs t sc hool , where the portable caught fire .

Almost home, barrelling pa st the ar­ mories where he once broke hi s leg, he spotted Roddy Beetha m, the autistic man-child who'd terrified him as a kid with hi s vacuous glare. He was careen­ ing down the curb same as ever, face rutted with pockmarks, hair razed at th e sides. A Camaro crammed full of adoles­ cent girls erupted in jeers as they passed him. Roddy waved frantically, bea t his chest with hi s fist s. Lester smiled but was unmoved, and realized that he wa s vi ew ing Effingham as an outsider would, with a charmed, if indifferent, curiosity. He laughed ins ide his helm e t.

No longer was he Effingham's im­ prisoned subject; no longer could he be implored to ca re.

Rounding the corner of Geneva and Lakeshore , he spotted the yellow brick of 280 Raspberry Line. He parked be­ side the collapsing gabion wall and was me t by Gretta, his mother' s beloved s pringer. A mome nt late r, she herself came into view, around the side of the house with a rake in hancl. " Lester!" she yelped , recog nizing her son in his leathers. She hugged him like a toolbo x while Gretta rolled at their feet.

Le ster took his mother's ann and led her inside. "C up of te a')" she said, plac­ ing the kettle on the gas slove. Leste r nodded and picked up a maga z ine from J 979. The year his dad died. He sat down at the harvest table where he once did hi s homework. Ka y Keiser was play ­ ing on the ste reo as always.

"Now then ," sa id Mrs. Provost , " tell me why you're here. " She set two mugs, a potte ry teapot , and a brass tray full of Triscuits and cheese down on the table . " You should be snuggling with a girl in­ stead of your old mum. What ever hap­ pened to Geraldine? You need another G e raldine. " Les ter smiled Sheepi shly and turned the page to a movie review of Pril'O/e Benjamin.

"I should toss out those old maga­

zines," said Mrs . Provost. "Have a garage sa le or something."

Lester looked up. "Nobody would ever buy this garbage, Ma ," he said , a little too hars hly.

Mrs. Provost folded her hand s on her lap. " You're rig ht, of course. Nobody ever buys any of my garbage. " She looked critically at her son, at his hands , hi s wrists. At le ngth , she sa t down and produced a sock she'd been darning. " Oh," she said suddenly. "I forgot to tel.1 yOll, l'm gelling a roommate."

Lester crimped his eyebrows in dis­ belief. Ever since his father died , his mother had maintained that she enjoyed being alone. Liked reading and writing on the verandah all alone. Liked kee p­ ing the house the way sh e wanted: com­ puter on the vanity, dictionaries by th e bathtub. Pine cones on the mantle, stray kittens in the basement. Les swallowed and asked why the sudde n change of heart. " It 's just that this living alone is ge t­ ting a bit tired," she explained. "The olde r you are, the tougher it gets. I mean, the aimlessness, the utter purpose ­ lessness. Thinking, maybe I'll go to a mov ie. No, not another mov ie; you've seen four this week! Maybe go home then. Go home and take a nap. But you can't do that, there' s nobody the re. So I think, maybe to a bar then, maybe meet some new peopl e. But you can imagine me in a bar'" she snorted. "So I think , go home anel s lee p. Get a good night 's rest. And I think, maybe I'll do that. So I do," She placed her thimble upside down on the table. "I 've been lone ly ever s ince your father died," she we nt on.

"For a while I thought I'd meet so me­ body, but the truth is , I'm too old . May­ be I'll take out an ad in The Chronic/e."

Lester nodded, but deep down he knew that his mother would never find a roommate. She was a freelance writer, which meant clacking typewriters at 3 a.m. , endless pacing and rotten pay.

And who would want to liv e in Effing­ ham?

"A ny new projects?" he said, to change the subject.

She nodded. ''!' m doing an article on the revelation s people hav e on their deathbed, you know, when they finally reali ze nobody will be joining them when they bit e it. It's supposed to be quite a traumatic enlightenment. There's a name for the phenomenon, but I 've forgotten what it is."

"Did Dad have th at')" Gllel"h Allin/nilS

Mrs. Provost pressed her threading needle through the epidermis of her index finger. "He most certainly did not," s he said, adding, after a pause: "But I did."

"You think about death too much," Les obse rved.

"I can ' t help it. I've got so muc h to do and I'm running out of tim e." " What do you have to do'?"

Mrs. Provost pu lied the needle out of her finger. "Reading," she sa id. "I've got reading to do. Did you know that even avid readers who get through a book every three or four days will still only read 6,000 in their life time'?"

Lester put down the magazine . "So what does that have to do with dea th '? " His mother rubbed he r hand s. They were as red as a rooster 's comb. "Noth­ ing, " she said quietly. " It' s just that I love life so much. I can't bear to see it go."

This was a lie and they both knew it.

Mrs. Provost lost her zest for life back in '79. There was a silence as she rooted through her sewing bag. Les ter asked if she'd sold the a rticle in advance.

She shrugged. ''!imelin(' bought first and second right s. They're a new-age journa1."

She said it without enthusiasm. as though her writing was no longer a pas­ sion but a me an s to an end.

"They pay up front'?"

She shook her he ad, no.

When Les ter arrived home , he found a note in Peter' s illeg ible scrawl: "Pu g nose called, very upset, call whe n you get in or el se ." Worried to death, Lester called her up. He imagi ned her dead in the bathtub or something. As it turned out, she just wanted to see him. " It' s Sunday," she said. "I thought you were going to call me . I thought we were going for a drive. " Lester d idn't say anything for a second. " I just got in," he said quietly. ''I'lll tired and I'm cold" Emmy did no t appear to hear him. " I thought we were going for a drive ," she repeated.

Les ter wanted to hang up. Teach her a Jesson. In stead, he said: " Why don't you pick me up ')" Les hung up just as Peter came through the front door. " Guess what I heard today?" he said. Lester shrugged.

Peter took off his glasses and shook his head. " I heard Buddy Holly's It's So Easy on a toi let cleanser commercial. It Curll)It Alumnus

ALUMNI

Give your career a boost W hether you 're looking to hire or to be hired, look to yo ur alma maie r for he lp. Remember Ihe Counsell ing and Stude nl Resource Centre (CS RO? It 's a lso an a /lIn1n i reso urce centre thal o ffer~ a g rad ua te referral service and a rec ruit ing service.

On Feb. 15, the CS RC w ill co-host ajob fair al Bingeman Park in Kitchener. O nt., that w ill be open to students and a lumn i of G uelph, COIl­ estoga o llege, W ilfrid La urie r Universi ty and the niversi ty of W aterloo. A dmi<;~ion is free fo r job hunters, but employer~ wil l pay a sma ll fee to el Up:1booth or display.

Abou t 100 employers are expected. representing private­ sector compan ies, governmen t agencies and franchise or­ ganizations that have permanenl, contract or summer positions available. For' more in­ fornmtion, call Bever­ ly Gi lbert at U of G Career Service;;. 5 19­ R24-4l20. Ext. 6202.

When you're on l:ampus, visit the areer Centre lm:ated in the Univer 'ilY Centre to gel informa­ tion about occupa­ tions. furthcr educa­ tion. job ~ear'ching and emp loyers, as well as employment listings and publica­ tions.

Each fall and winter semcster.

Career Service' also

offers small-g roup programs on voca­ tional assessment, skills as. e s ment. res ume and cover- Ie rrer writ ing, inte r­ view sk.il ls and jo b-searc h strategie ·.

Educ ation fa c ult i e~ visit the campus in Octobe r, and an MBA fair is held in early o vem ber.

Pick up a schedule of a ll the career­ development progra ms at Career Ser­ v ices o r ca ll Ex t. 2213.

Alumni can a lso part ic ipate as e mployers or employees in a grad uate re fe rral service. T here is no ch arge to ' m ploye rs. but U o f G a lumni pay $60 10 receive n tices of empl oyment opportunities in thei r fi e ld for o ne year, Call Bonnie Palteson al Ext. 2394 fo r morc in fo r­ mation .

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t('tllII dej('t.llcd " ,\'tll"<'IIII<'<II1I the lIo/l/('['ol/lillg .\wi/llll/('('t. Ajier the "ictcJI), . al/lmni <'I(i(lyed OIIC/lillg CI'I"(,IIIOllil'.1 ]i>1" Ihe lll'lI' pool alld (/ /1t.lIl­ clIke htU/lC'l! (/1 Allllllni ! ! OIlS(, . Pic/llrl'd a/lol'l': (J swpri.\·(' elilry ill the \I'oll/ell' s ! ()()-/I1etrc /1Ock,\'I I"III>.(' n:lay . .Jefl" " . nga" Sumner, CPLS '93, is illji-OI1l . ulld ill tlte .I·I'('O/ll! mw. h:/i III rig/II, (Ire Rick (If

''Helena'' Morris. CBS '9~, Scott Sum ner, CBS ' Y3 . tllIt/ sllldl'lIl Mark "Helga" LUb.. Lcti. David Lavery, Arts' 86 . (/1/(1 P;llricia (Fitzpatrick) l.andn'. CHS '87, (,11;01' (/ lall stack.

Ph~ll(1s by Mary Di,k'i, ,nil

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ALUMNI

The new Gucl ph stude nts and thei r pare nts teamed a little bit about the niversity, campus life and the ca reer c hoices of Guelphalumni .

Alum ni vo lu nteers who aue nded the Barrie send-off wcrc Irene (Bevila cqua ) Alderdice, FACS ' gl) , Anna C hapin, S '7 1. Morris Gervais,OAC 'X9. S heila Hollidge, FA S '89, and T om Smith,OAC

Historical tour offers taste of the grape

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In SI. Cathari nes : Janet (Takata) Diebel. Eng. R6. Tammy Green, FAC S '9 1, Joe Kita, CB S '92. Hnd JenlliferMerry, OVC '93 and OAC

'S, , What if apolcon had had another glass 6f champagne before laking to thc 'balllefield at W a1erloo? Or if he'd offered a glass of the 10c,,1 bub bly to lIlt: Du!"c of Wellington'?

Such question~ po. ed by historian .Iactlues Puuweb brought Frenc h his­ tory to life for a group of 35 Guelph . alumni and friends who aCl:ompanied him in October on a gourmet and wine lover' . tour LO France and Bel­ gium. Pauwels is a sessionallccturer who teaches a course on the history of winemaking at the School of Hote l and Food Administration.

Orgllnil.ed by Ro~elllary Cla rk . director or advancement programs, the tOUf covered Illany topics of inter­ est - agriculture. archi tecture. hor- . ticulture. viticu lture and fine dining.

Pauwels.took alumni to historic chateaus in the Loire, C hef and Indrc River alleys. ear the village of Vo uvray, they visited vintner Miche l Paris; who ser\'lcdlocal cheeses, me.its and brealil:! to com plement his w ines. Nea r Reims, the group ampled some of the finest champagnes produced in '. the winery o f M .L. Seconde. ..

T he gciurmet and wi ne. lover's lour : lopped for two nigh ts in Brugge, Be l­ gium- including dinne r on the . orth Sea at K nok ke -'- a nd travelled thrQugh Flmlders Fields for a vi~ if to the anadian War Memoria l nt V imy Ridge, . .

New students meet grads In August, U orG alumn i in Bilrrie, . ~I.Catha ri nes, W indsor. London and Ottawa attended send-off recept ion ~ for locnIstudents, just befo re the s t u ~ dents began the ir fir ' t semester .\1 Guelph...

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In W indsor: Shari Cunningham.

CSS '72,Ste ve Dllnnelly, ove ' 90, Fowzy F ath y, O VC '93, Carol (McCa llum) O'Go rman, HAFA '79, and DQug Roma nek, HAFA '79.

In London: G len Austin, Eng. '84, Laurie (G r aham) F arquha rson, FAC '87. M ichael M arritt, OAC '75A. Clnd C ath y (Woodburn) Van W ynsberghe. Art:-. '6X. In OUaw::t: .James Hutchison, OV C '47, Loui e (Dorschner ) Le Blant:, FACS '80, and T im W a de, HAFA

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Chapter news Niagal'a - J ean Whitty, M ac '39. c onvened a IUllcheon for the Niagara branch of the Mnc- FACS A lum ni As­ sociation Sept. 27. 11)1)3, In ultcn­ <lance were: Ve rna (G rantl Brown.

Ma rie Brow n and J ea n (Wood) Bartet! '40, Jackie Dimock, '47, C ecelhl(Goulding) .Johnson,' 3R, Georgina ( C hapma n ) Whittaker and ,Joan (Tripp) N ixoll,'36.and Eila (Ross) La" 'S()l1. ·;oW. Guelph - Shirley Ann (McFee ) Holmes, Mac '62, convened amect­ ing of the Guel ph bi'anc h clf the Mac­ FACS Al umn i Assoc iat ion oilSepl.

30. Giles! speaker was Bruce Holub, O A C '67, a p mfessorinl hc Depart­ ment of Nutritrol1al Sciences, who cli:-;­ cussed new dietary stJ'Utegiesfor pre venti ng heandiSC'lsc. A Video on th i~ to pic isavailable. frpm Ad a nce­ mentProgru ms at ~Illln ni House.

Other officers the branch arc Dorothv (Alhm) Switzer, ' 52 .

Laurie ( McKibbo~)Hrown, ' RR , .

Marnie(Ponikowski) W¢bb, ' 92.

Rosemar)' Clark, '59, .a nd Nora (Bowles) Stone, '53 , .

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was di sg us tin g. I swear, ] ' m going to write a le ne r to the editor."

Leste r had an hour before Emm y was to arri ve, so he ran a bath and c limbed ins ide. From where he lay in the tub , with th e bathroom door slightly aj a r, he could see th e reflection of the gree n a nd red livin g-room rug on the back of th e raised toil et seat. He squinted his eyes and it lo ok ed lik e home: the corduroy lawn of 280 Raspberry Line, the e lm s in full le af, hi s fath e r' s scarlet Bu gati .

Th e re was a knock on the front door.

Four a brupt , pe rfunctory clunk s. Emm y , earl y o f course. Peter let her in . " Hang on' " Leste r shouted.

Emm y heard hi s voice and strod e illt o the bathroom, making no attempt to div ert he r eyes. "Hurry up," sh e said brusque ly. " You don't want to be late ."

As yo u trav e l northwest on Hi ghwa y

27 , the N iagara Escarpment straddl es the ho ri zon like a g razing brontosauru s.

It was muc h colde r than it had bee n e ar­ lie r in th e da y, and the highwa y wa s w hite and blac k with road salt and rain .

Emm y was s il e nt. Les twitched eve ry tim e she ra n ove r a pothole. " Wh e re are we going')" "Uphill Ce metery."

"Wh at for')" Emm y sta red straight ahead. "My mo the r 's buri ed there, " she said . Les te r didn ' t kno w ho w to react. He said he was sorry, but it sounded ins ince re .

The ce me te ry wa s a lnrge one , with mnni c ured lanes and dedicated trees.

Les go t o ut o f the em and stretc hed hi s legs . It wa s late in the day, and hi s shad o w stre tched from the parking lot to th e cemete ry gate. "Where is she?" he asked. " Sec ti o n B, Row II," said Emmy , s it­ tin g dow n o n th e grass , showin g no in­ te nti o n of ac tuall y going there . " So und s like a conce rt ti c ke t, eh') A tic ke t to he ave n."

Leste r walked from grave to g ra ve, whi sper in g the names engrav ed o n the he ad sto nes . Some of them were s ha ped like pagodns, with Cantonese script a nd orient a l nam es. One read: "Evelyn N g, 1988-1 99 1. W e live in the hearts we have loved. " Emm y stood up , withdrew a c igare tte from he r bnc k poc ket and lit it while shi e ldin g he rse lf from the w ind . Thi s done , she pl aced her free hand in he r ri g ht poc ke t and leaned again st a tree with the air o f someone who is waitin g for a person o f e minent importance . Sh e e xhal ed , unconsciously flaring he r GI/('//Jh A /I//I//I/I.I

nostril s, then placed her right hand back inside her pocket. The wind whistled be­ tw een her denimed legs, and a red leaf snagged under th e toe of her boot. She rai sed her foot slightly off the ground, allowing the leaf to ru st le away. A cru el grin broke her face wide open. She could hav e held it there, helpless, had she wanted to. " 1 remember my wedding perfectly," she sa id sud denly. "Ju st before I walked up the ai sle, Mother told me m y mar­ ri age wouldn't last. That was supposed to be the happiest day o f my life, but Mother wouldn ' t even let me have that."

Lester wondered why she was doi ng this to him . To prove that there were region s of our soul s not even lovers ca n claim? And gaps so wid e they cannot be crossed?

"How did sh e die?" Lester said at las t. " She drank ," Emmy answered. "Did herself in."

"Oh." There is a horror to suicide that el udes re ality. Wh at appears so plausible on th e movie screen seems comic up close. The deaths on TV are so lemn affa irs, airbrushed and maudlin and laced with pathos. In rea lity, suicid e is a joke. The whole thin g struck L es as melodramatic. Had Emmy's mother been so cliche in l ife?

Emmy paced back and forth between th e grav es, anns l ocked at her sides, eyes glued to the ground. A cl ump of brow n hair fell ac ross her face. After a fe w minutes, she sat down beneath a chestnut tree. Lester sat down beside her and tried to kiss her ear, but she fought him off, despa irin g: " D on't make me hate you, too ."

Lester walked over to a varni shed park bench and sat cl own w ith his back to Section B . "We're all in pain," he sa id to him self. "It is ju st a matter of degrees."

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When it got clark, th ey drove to her house, a nonclescript bungalow in a working-class neighborh ood. Sh e parked her car in a bottle-s trew n lane ancl led L ester past a gatherin g of ga r­ bage bins to th e sicl e door. Insid e, th e house stank of grilled cheese sand wiches, which remind ed Lester of university and Geraldine and made him feel sad. A house th at smells of grilled cheese sa ndwiches is sad .

They slept in the same bed, but did not fool around . "It ' s better thi s way," said Emmy. "For now, at lea st. " L ester agreed. He was too tired to Guelph Alumnus

COMING EVENTS Currently until Jan. 2, 1994 - The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre features the work of Toronto artist Regan Morris with an exhibition called "Last WorkS." The centre is open Tuesday to Sunday from noon 10 5 p.m., Thursday until 9 p.m . Admission is free.

Dec. 4 and 5 - Alumni Hockey Tourna­ ment. Spectators welcome.

Dec_ 16 - Alumni-in"Action Christmas reception for international students.

Jan. 3 ~ Deadline for donations to the 1993 Alma Mater Fund. Cheques post­ marked by Jan . 3, 1994, will receive tax receipts for 1993. See page 39.

Jan. 9 to Feb: 13 - The Arboretum invites fam ilies to its Sunday nature walks. Walks are free and leave at 2 p.m. from the J.C. Taylor Nature Centre.

Jan. 28 - Aggie Good Time Banquet.

For informalion, call the OAC Student Federation at 519-824-4 120. Ext. 8321 .

Jan. 28 -Invitational figu re-skating com­ petitiQn on campus, hosted by the U of .

G varsity team.

Feb. 12 - U of G's figure-skating team competes at the OUAA championships at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. Feb. 15 - Job fair at Bingeman Park in Kitchener, Ont., co-hosted by U of G's Counselling and St ude nt Re source Centre (see page 27). Admission is free for job hunters. .Feb. 25 to March 7 - U of G South American adventure . For information , call 51 9-824-41 20, Ext. 6534.

Feb. 26 - Register teams for the Norman McCollu m Diploma Hockey Tourna­ ment by calling Bruce Johnson at 519­ 766-4297.

Feb.2i to March 27 - The Arboretum features maple syrup-making demon­ strations each Saturday and Sunday love. H e held Emmy's arm until sh e fell asleep, then he let it go and rolled aw ay .

He woke up once during th e ni ght, in a cold sweat. H e'd dreamt of hi s mom, all alone with no dad, sitting home, darning sock s, watching TV, drinking soup . The thoug ht of her drinking soup all alon e made him sad. He w ondered if she drank gin and toni c any more, as she had when his father was alive. And did she still go swi mming at the Yevery week . .. and did she sti ll cook roast beef, with potatoes and carrots') A nd did she really talk to Gretta, all day, all al one? Call her "punkin '" and " love," while washing dishes by th e sink? Sud­ den ly, L es was bawling , like a baby , like aj erk. Cryin g fo r his mommy, all al one in th e dark. H e rolled over and

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from 9:30 a.m . to 3:30 p.m. A great family outing, and it's free.

March 2 - Florida Picnic at Port Char­ lotte Yacht Club . For information, call 519-824-41 20, Ext. 6963.

March 7 - The Mac-FACS Alumni Association 's graduate student recep­ tion and ring ceremony run from 5 to 7 p.m. at Alumni House.

March 14 - Ski day at Horseshoe Val­ ley, featuring discounted rates for alum­ ni and family. For information, call Sue Lawrenson at 519-824-4120. Ext. 6963.

March 14 to 25 - Panama Canal crui se.

For information, call Rosemary Clark at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6534.

March 19 - CBS Alumni Association annual meeting, 3 p.m., Alumni House.

March 19 and 20 - COLLEGE ROYAL. Alum ni House will welcome visitors . during College Royal, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

March 24 to 27 - Signs of Spring craft show and sale, University Centre. Free admission. For dealer information. call 519-824-4120, Ext. 2896.

March 25 and 26 - OAC Annua l Bonspiel. For infonnation , call Sarah Nadalin at 519-824-4120 , Ext. 6533 .

April 9 and 10- G ryphcon gaming con­ vention. For information, call in March to 519-824-4120, Ext. 2896.

April 23 - Opera Hamilton's production of Macbeth, with discou nted rates for alumni. For tickets, call Alumni House, 519-824-4120, Ext. 6963.

May 25 - Alumni-in-Action annual meet­ ing and luncheon at the Arboretum .

June 17 to 19 - ALUMNI WEEKEND. Anyone interested in hosting a reunion during Alumni Weekend, Homecoming or at any other time of the year, call Sue Lawrenson at 519-824-41 20 . Ext. 6.963. faced Em my. Her temples were twitch­ ing. She is hav in g a ni ghtmare, too, he thou ght. About her cold-bl ooded mother and her propensity for pain. And th e grief th ey had in common , and the love they turned away.

Feeling deso late, L ester climbed Oll t of bed and w alked ac ro ss the cold .linol eu m to the kitchen. H e made a honey butter sandwich an d sat down at th e table. Feeling inspired, he took a piece of paper fro m a pad on the frid ge and quickly transcribed hi s racin g thoughts. More than once in the en su ing years , he would reread that page and enjoy a ti gh tne ss in hi s throat. The paper shone in the silvery light. Every last w ord was in his mother' s handwrit­ ing. O

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Arts Elizabeth (Siezieniewski) Chapple, '69, is literacy supervisor for the Barton Branch of th e Hamilton Public Library.

Ruth Ann Hossie, '74, is a cus tom costume maker for Paramount Studios in Studio City, Cal if. Credits include Slar Trek .' The N exl Generalion and Slor Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Linda (Hutsell) Manning, '75 , of Cobourg,Ont., knows a lot more about dinosa urs s ince the publica­ tion of her most rece nt book.

Dinosaur Do)'s. One of the many successful authors among Guelph's alumni , Manning is bes t known for her children's book s and stories for young adults. She ha s al so writt e n poetry, ne wspaper and magazine a rticles a nd literary re views. Born in Manitoba, Manning s pe nt most of her childhood in Ontario, studied radio and television art s at Ryerson Pol y tec hni cal Institute in T oronto, attend ed

Toronto Teache rs' Co ll ege, taught for two yea rs in a one-room school and eve ntually completed an Engli s h degree at Guelph.

Dinosaur Days wi ll soon be fo ll owed by a picture book called Monsler Monlhs and col­ lections of short fiction and poetry.

Harold Matthews, '89, and Nancy Wallace, OAC '89, were married (n October and are making their home in Inge rsoll, Ont., where he is a real estate agent with Realty World-Landex. She teac he s biology a t North western Secondary School in S tratford.

Pamela, ' 89 , and Timothy McCarroll­ Butler, Arts ' 88 , are li ving in Hamilton, Ont. , where he teaches high sc hool art. S he is a theology sllIden t a t the Universit y of Toronto.

Kelly Nathan, '88, wr ites to tell us she e n­ joyed the front cove r of th e lasl Guelph Alumnus, which had some of he r friends and former professors linin g up for a dip in the University's new swimming pool. She and Rabin Vairavan, CSS '90, have mov ed to Parksville, B.C., with th eir tw o sons: Nimai , 4; and Dhruva, I. The two grads have opened a retail outlet in Nan aimo for art ob­ jec ts. including limited-edi tion prints. posters and oil paintings.

Antonietta "Ton i" Seucharan, '83, is art manager for Wedding Bells magazine in Toronto.

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Angela Carney, '89, is a technologist for Hos tess Frito-Lay in Cambrid ge. Ont. Stuart Chalk, ' 78 , is an installation inspec­ tor wi th the Departme nt of Cons um e r and Corporate Affairs, responsib le for the va lid a­ tion of weighin g and meas uring devices before they can be used for trade purposes.

He li ves in Bell ev ill e . Onto Heather Devine, '82. hasn't let motherhood tie her down. She and her husband, Andre Denis, have tw o children and she st ill teaches flying near their home in Dollard­ Des-Ormeaux, Que. Donna Koopmans , '86, is a research tech­ nician at the Toronto Gene ral Hos pital Max Bell Research Centre.

Pat (Leech) King, '80, received an MA in speech and langua ge p<lthology last spring from Templ e Unive rsit y in Phi lade lphi a, Pa. She li ves in Somerdale, N.J .. w ith her family

.Guelph alumni find careers in applied health sciences . 'O ver the ye'lr::-.. a large number of Guelph graduates have opted for careers in health care. m any of Ihem in the expandin/f fields of allie.t.! hea lt h.

At least 15 ot the 400 S ll1 denL~ enrolled at the Michener Tnstilllte in Toron to ­ and five or Its emp loyees - arc Guelph aluillni. e~ t led aillong the city's teaching

ho ' pitals, the institure prov i de~ train­

ing in the high-tech fielt.!s of

chiropody, eyltitechnology,

cytogenetics, rad iography. medi(;ul

laboratory technology , nuclear

medicine, molecular genetics and

re~piratory til rapy. It also provides

continuing educ:.lliol\ programs for

these professions.

Most Michener diploma programs

are two to three ytms long, including

one year lif pract iCcll expcl'ienccin a

ho~pital. Every year. as many a~ 2.000

applicants vic ror lhe school'li 2CX) fir ·t­

year posi tions .

Among the GuCiph alumni cUITently working at the insti.lUte is Mary Ca ugh ill­ T im bers, CPS :&9, a program consu lt an t for con tiilUi n.ll education. On the fu ll -time faculty are M-arg C arter, C BS '78, and S ue Du n ingto n, CBS '79, whoteach respiratory thempy; ,l une MacDon ald , CBS '74, a specialjst in medicallabor:ltory technology; ami rnoiecular genelicist Ter esa (K orc h uk ) Selan de r , CBS 'H:'i .

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The'se gradllilll's rook lii1le olllfin' a pholo at Ihe l'vticliel]er I lIslilllle: It:li 10 righl.

Kelly !-Iamilloll. Marg Car/('r. JUfIe MacDOl/ald. Anile B II£'l..llu./J. Sandra Muorman, Kim R£'smer:' M{lJ ~\, ClIlI/!,hill-Timhel~~ lind Teresa Selander.

Photo courlesy of The Michen"r Institute

Michener': student body boas lsthe fo l­ lowing Guelph a1umn i: An n Boekhoff.

CBS '9 2. who is studying cytolechnol gy ; Ke ll y Hamilhin:CBS '92. J efl'Mainland, C B '92, M a r y Huu w. FACS ,92, an d Kerry M ad :'y, C BS -92. nlll;lear medicine; M arcie Hkkm ott, C B '93,

radi 'g raphy; Mike Kampen. BS '93.

Tracy Da r lin g ton . CBS '93, And rea Miller, BS '92. :lOd Jenni fe r Harriso n, CSS '93 , respiratory therapy; Kim Res mer, CBS ' 93, chiropody: and Sandra Moorman, OAC '90. and S haro n .

Hle nK1Jrn, C BS '&8. cytotechnology.

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Susan Leisaunieks, '87, is a teac her at Mono and Amaranth Public School near Orangeville , Ont. .

Teresa Laumen, ' 89, was married I<l st Augu st 10 David Hamilton Smith. Both have edu~cation degrees from th e Univers ity of Briti sh Columbia and are wo rking and living in Burnaby. The wedding took place in Laumen ' s hom e town of Renfrew , Ont.

CPES Sved Ahmed, ' 84, has mo ved from Lond on, ant., to Regina, Sask.. where he is associate professor of mathemat ics and stalistics at the University of Regina.

Kim Middleton, CBS '83, I'II;oys Ihe rt'hirlpool at Ihe 0(,/,2 opening o(U ofG's nell' 11001- u./(/I· cly/i"om Ihe m('lre-high wm'es she hall led only ati'w weeks eorli('/' H'hile al/emp/in<~ 0 dOllhle crossing oj La/.: I' OI1{(Jrio . The I'eleran maralhon swil7lnt('/' wos pulledflOl11 Ihl' H'Oler suffering fmfi7 hypolhermia aJlertighlin,!!, wind, ('o ld and ct./Ilel1ls/fJr 39 hours. Slill, she hasn' I ruled 0111 anolher al/empl fle.rl SI.111I 111 1'1'. Shoring 1/71' whir/pool ore Koren and ./eijBmwl1, c/7ildrl'l1 of'/ol1dsca/lc archill'elure professor Ro /J('I'I BIOH'n.

Pholo by Mary Di ckieson and works in area schools as a speech pathologist.

Naomi Laing, '86, fini shed a PhD at Mc­ Master University this year and is now a posld octoral fellow in the departmenl of pharmacology at Fox Chase Cancel' Centre in Philade lphi a.

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Chris Brittan , 'R6, reports thai despite these times of recession . he is slill em ployed by Australia 's Northern Territory Depa rtment of Mines and Energy as the network and sys­ tem administrator for its net work of 200 Sun computers. He warns Ca nadians not to be mi sled by Australia's cold-sounding " north­ ern territori es," whi ch actuall y li e some 12 deg rees so uth 01' the equator. Ch ri s and his wife, Andrea, ha ve enjoyed Darwin' s 30 C tempe rature s for eight years, but are about to experience wi nter again during a holida y in th e United Kingdom. It \ViII be a first ex ­ perience for th e ir sons, Karl , 6, and /'\d rian , 4. Brittan s~l ys they are unlikely to make it to Canada , but "if an yo ne knows th e where · abouts of Betsy Zel ler or Greg Hingston, please email brittan@d me.nL gov.aups," Bernard Duchesne, '90 , is a software en­ gi neer with Nuron Data in Palo Alto. Calif,

Anne Masson, ' 87, works in Toronto as ex­ ec utiv e assistanl at Dee pa Mehta Films Inc.

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Suzanne Frick, ' 88, is a training consultant operating he r own business in Gue lph, Per­ form anc e Dynami cs Group.

Greg "Joe" Tarry , '75 and OA C M.Sc. '77, earned degrees al Guelph in soc iology and extension educa tion , then an edu cation de­ gree at Simon Frase r Univers it y. He was

Michael Ferweda, ' R5, is now working as techni cal support manager for Unitel Te leco mmunic ati ons in Toronto.

Harvard Business School encourages application s from Ca nadians with unde rgraduate degrees in all academic disciplines and a career interest in general management.

Tom Burns, 'RS and MA ' 90 , writes from Melbourne , Australia, 10 say that every iss ue of th e Gue/ell Allimflus brings him news of a cla ssmate or fri end from U of G. "Without fail , I see a nam e mentioned th at I kn ow­ and am thrilled to hear of th e ir most recent news - a topic di sc ussed or a pi cture di s­ playe d th at brings back fond memori es."

Burns is working on a PhD al the Royal Mel­ bourne Institute of Tec hno logy and works for th e Victoria Po li ce in the Di stri ct Infor­ mation and Support Cenlre. He I ives in a sub­ urb of Me lbourne with his wife, Ma xine, and their children, Travis, Katherine and Steven.

They 'd lik e 10 hea r from oth er Guelph grad s vis iting or li ving in AuslI·alia.

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recently awarded a three-year fellowship and leave fro m his posi tion as headmaster at Takla Regional Education Centre in Takla Landing, B.C , to pursue a PhD in adult and ex te nsion ed ucation at th e University of M in­ neso ta. He invites U of G friends to contac t him al th e department of adult and vocation­ al education at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Mac-FACS Holly Brown, '78, is a clinical dietitian at Soldiers' Me morial Hospital in Orillia, Ont., specializi ng in diabetes education. She and her husband , Earl, have two so ns, Brian , 9, and la n, 4.

Susan (Devereux) Gloyd, ' 72, teaches fami­ ly studies a t River Heights School III Caledonia, Ont. She is married to Bryan, OAC '72.

Cheryl Holmes, HAFA '92, recently sent her alumni association a not e from Bangko k, Thailand, where she is working with Dus it Hotels & Resorts, one of th e country 's lead­ in g five-star hotels. She says there' s a large group of Canadian profess ionals in the city and invites fellow Guelph grads to vis it.

Gordon Johnson, HMDC '89, is general manager of Delta Brunswick in Saint John, N.B . H e was fo rmerly al a Delta hotel in Whi stler, B.C

Jacqueline (Sulman) Keenan, '4 1D , ha s retired from the retail clothing business and liv es in Port. Stanley, Ont. Edward Nowicki, '78, is direct or of hospital services at the Bellevill e Genera l Hos pital in Belleville,O nt.

Margaret Patten, '85, invites other FACS grads to visit her in her new home in Kam­ loops, B.C She moved there last summe r to teac h early chi ldhood ed uca tion at the University College of the Cariboo. The move foll owed graduati o n from Concordia Univers ity in Montrea l, where Patten earn ed a mast e r's degree in c hild study . Her thesis involv ed a stud y of young children's at ­ titud es about senior citizens. She train ed six seniors to work with presc hoolers and found that the interge ne rational project s uccessful­ ly c hanged negative attitudes to pos itive ones. As a Concordia research as s is tant. she also contributed to a resource book of co­ operati ve ac tiviti es fo r young ch ildren that was published by the universi ty' s Centre for th e Study of Classroom Processes.

During the summer, Patte n entertained Janet Milley, '8 1, a hom e-town fri end from St. John 's. N nd. They enjoyed a Roc ky Mountain camping and hiking trip before Milley returned to her home in Boston, Mass. Milley also has a master 's degree in child s tudies and worked on diabetes re­ searc h at the Jos lin Diabetes Centre in Bos­ ton for several years before returning to sc hooL She earned a law degree at Boston

College and recently accepted a pos ition with a firm in Portland, Maine.

Elizabeth Selby, '79, o f Whitby , Ont., is vice-principal at G.L. Roberts Collegiate Vocational Institut e. She is pursuing an edu ca tional doctorate in curriculum at the Ontario Institut e for Studies in Educa tion.

Hannah Tait, ' 92, is on a three-year assign­ ment in Cabo, Brazil, for the Mennonite Central Committee. Originally from Kitchener, Ont., s he was last employed in Canada as a nutritioni s t at La Cuisine Chloe in Montreal.

Christine Wieczorek, '77, is a mana ge r at the lndeka Group in Oakville, Ont.

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Trevor Adams, '9 1A, and his wife. Jan e tt e, rece ntly began a three-year ass ignment in Gungu, Zaire, with the Mennonite Central Committee. They ' re working in the areas of agricultural de velopme nt and community health . Prior to the posting, Adams worked in a tree nursery in Burford. Ont. Everett Biggs, '48, was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame Nov . 14 during the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. A form er Ontario deputy mini ster of agricul­ ture, Biggs was ci ted for the impa ct he had on federal policy. He played signifi ca nt roles in deve loping a vision of orderly marketing

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for many fa rm produ c ts , in e stablishing the dairy policy for Canada and in creating U of G and the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario. Now re tired , he remain s a trusted advi ser to agricultural organization s, govern­ ment s and tbe Univers ity. He is past presi­ dent of th e OAC Alumni Assoc iation.

Gerald Callen, Eng. ' 66 and M .Sc. '67, and his wife, Bonnie (Towrissl, MA '92, of Gu e lph are th e proud parents of a son , Andrew Charles, born Aug. 18, 1993.

Dennis Darby, Eng. M.Sc. ' 68, was in­ stalled last summer as a board member of the Am e rican Socie ty of Agricultural En­ gineers. He is al so president of th e Canadian Society o f Agricultural EnD (' nnis Darhy gineers. Darby has wo rh:d as a con sultant , assi stant engin eer , regional enginee r and, for nearly 20 ye ars, as fann-structures engineer with Albe rta Agriculture in Le thbridge. He is respons ibl e for th e farm- structures specialty and related program s fo r the prov i nce.

Barbara Dawicke, M.Sc . '91 , is a senior biologica l sci enti st at th e Univers ity of Florida in Gainewill e working on th e biological control of insect pests. She is a lso ac tive in the Gain e sville Human Right s Cam­ paign and the Florida Entomological Soc iety.

Alexander Enyedi, '81 ancl M.Sc. '8 5, is a new ass istant professor in plant phys iology

New turfgrass facility up and growing

Even before the Gue lph Turfgrass In­ stitute (GTl ) celebrated the offici al opening of its ne w fac ility in Au gu~ t. the bui lding wa serving the ed uca­ tional needs o f rhe indu try. · One of the first events held there was the 24th annual turf managers ' course, sponsored by the institute.

OAC and U of G' s Office o f Continu­ ing Education.

Fi fty peo ple from seve n provinces 'a me to the GTI to study principles of tu rfgrass management , soils and nu triti on, orna mental plant swdies and ide nti fi cation of diseases . in­ sects, he rb icides and weeds.

At the top of th is year's class was Marie Thorue, OAC ' 81, turf market · sille ' upervisor with Fisons Hortic ulture/Green Cross.

The GTi w as the first research anel information ceti tre cSlabli hed to serve the turfgrass ind ustry. Its new ho rne. across Vic toria Road from the Unive rs ity's Arboretum, i na med the G .M. Fro ·t Researc h and lnfol111a tion Ce ntre in honor of henefa ctors Be th and Mac Fros t.

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grail,'; /lIStillfle. llIJr'i('ullllral science {Jl'Oj'i'.I'sor Jac k E ggens, OAC .65, M .Sc. '66 and PhD ' 70 .11'/1. cong{'((wla/('.I' lOp st/ldent Marie Thorne,OAe '8 1. as academic co-or iin l/lOr Pat Tucker, OAe .65 , preSl'I1IS {/ cerr(/kate 0/ acllin·('/1/ (tIll. The trin are p iell/red in (mn l 0/ the ill s/ i I/IIII'S n(, II'fac ilily.

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in the de partmelll o f biological sci e nces at We ste rn Michigan Uni vers it y. After earning his maste r 's at Gue lph, he completed a PhD in plant pathology at Pe nnsylvania State Unive rsity in 1991 and he ld a pos tdoctoral fe llow ship at Rut ge rs Unive rs ity in Ne w Jer­ se y. He is marri ed to Andrea Bower. Arts '83 , ancl they have o ne son, Nathani e l, born in 1992 . They curre ntly res ide in Kalamazoo. Mi c h.

T welv(' U ofC gradual l'S w (' n ' seleC/('d 10 participale inlhe fiflh c/oss oflhe AdmnC('d AgricullUral Leadership Progrum (AALP) spul7sor('d by 117(' Onlario Minislry ofAgri culwre and Food, th e UnivNsily o/Cuelph. th(' Onwrio F('dermion (if AgricullUre (lnd Ih e Foundo­ lion/or Rural Living. Fuml row, I('ftl o righl: Carol Williams, OAC '(1,4: AALP execUlil '(' dir('c/or Patricia (Shier) Mighton, OAC '64 and M .Sc. ' 93 ; OAC Deon Rob McLaughlin, OAC '69 and PhD ' 77, Alice Uher, CBS '79: and Cathy Bartolic, OAC '83. Middle row .

Agricultural Lwdership Tl'lIst (ALT) dir(' clOr Mike Jenkinson, OA C '63 : AALP curriculum direC/or Rick Upf'old, OAC '68 ond M .Sc . . 70; Stanley Sajovinic Jr., OAC .8 7A, Geraldine Rounds, OAC '84 ; Martin Harry, OAC ' R2: John VanderBurgt, OAC ' 91; and ALT dir ec­ tor Jack Hagarty, OAC '6/. Back row: David Start, OAC '73 A ; Jack Fraser, OA C '73: Charles Stevens, OAC '76 ; Jim Anstice, OAC '75A ; und Jim Fischer, OAC '76 und M .Sc. '92 .

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Brian Fawcett, '79, has a new pos ition as project econ o mi st in th e agriculture de part­ ment of th e Asian Dev elopment Bank in Manila , Philippines . Hi s inte rnational e x­ pe l'ience in c lud es fiv e years in Ne pal as ir­ rigation planning advise r ancl de puty director of the Canadian International Deve lopment Agen cy (CIDA )-funded Water ancl Energy Re source s D ev elopment Proj ect and 4 1/2 years in Ke ndari. Southea st Sulawesi, as regional planning ,lclviser to th e provinci a l government und e r the Sulawes i Regional Developm ent Project.

Fawce tt and hi s Nepal ese wife , Phylame Sherpa , ancltheir sons, Douglas , 6. and Danie l, 5 , then mov ed to S urkhe t, Ne pal , wh e re he wa s proj ect director of the CIDA­ funded Karnali Integratecl Rural Deve lop ­ ment Project. Now in Manila , he invites U of G friends ancl colle agu es to write or vi s it.

Roy French, ' 63A. and his wife , Donna . are enjoying a ne w home in the Fene lon Falls ,

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we are builclin g n e~r Dor'se t. we manage to keep quite bu sy." says Roxan ne.

Cheryl Masanic, Eng. '88, rece ived a doc­ tor o f med icine degree in M ay from M c­ Master Uni versity. She is now internin g at Hamilton Ci vic Hospit al.

Christopher Naese, ' 8.') , was recentl y tran s­ ferred from the T oronto o ffice o f Ques t Inter­ national to M edford . Ore., w here he is respon sible fo r international mark etin g of Quest' s clehydrated fru i ts and vege ta bles.

Ke y mar'ket areas ~re Asi a Paci fi c, Europe ancl Latin Am eri ca. H e says M ed fo rd is close to the Californi<l bord er, w ith a climat e milder th an Ont ari o, spec tac ul ar scenery and

great opp onuniti es f or outdoo r acti v iti es. He in vites fri ends ;lI1d cla ssmates to w rit e to him at Qu es t Internation al. P.O. 0 , M edford , Ore. 97.')01 Jay Reesor, ' 79. is another G uelph graduate w ho is volunt eerin g w ith the M ennonite Central Commill ee. He's in northeas tern Haiti w ith hi s famil y . wo rkin g w ith peasant farmers on soil eros ion co ntrol ancl proj ec ts to increase soil fertility ancl y ields.

Pat Rogers, '7 2, has bee n a gra duat e on the move, but he and hi s w ifc. Poppitt. are now somewhat settled in Ar-I es , Fran ce. He works as a freelance wildlife ec ologist ,lIld is the I iaison in France for an internati onal labor

Ian James. OAC '82 . .1'1'1 a COllailian r('('(!r(/

on Lahul' Day ,\'eC'kend " 'ill1 his 15-hour 23­ kilomclrc swim ({ crOSS Lake Erie. He s,,'am liJe hacksll'OKe all Ih e II'('.\, / i·om Pelc!' Island 10 Leaminglon. D ill .. raising aholll $43 ,{)()() / iJ/' muscular ciysl1'uphy rcsearch . Th e Toroll­ 10 nOli, 'e is a furi1li'l' Sjlrinl swiml1ler wh o narrowly missed - hy a jiau ion of'a second - a place on Ihe 1976 and 1984 Canaliiall Olympic S",il1ll(,(II IIS. HI' now Ii" es ill Cue//Jh and l e(fc h es llr ~/ishing .

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Onl.. area. After co mmutin g dail y from Lakefi eld to T oront o for more than 16 years - he was a fo reman wi th M etro T oronto Parks and Property - Frenc h has become golf cours e superint enden t at th e Sturgeon Point Golf Club.

Deborah (Stock) Harper, '8 3, operat es a dairy farm with her hu sband, Robert , near Mount Forest, On!.

Roxanne (Jaspers-Fayer), Eng. '8.') . and Stephan Eszes, Eng. '8.') and M .Sc. ' 87. can attest to th e fact that one-j ob caree r's ,n'e a thing of th e pa sl. Th e co upl e li ved in Oak­ ville and Burlin gton , Onl. , fo r severn I ye,lrs while both work ed for eng ineerin g consult ­ ing finn s. In the earl y I 990s. th ey made three big mo ves. Geographi call y, th ey mo ved to Guelph. Profess ion<lll y, Stephan became a con stabl e w ith the W aterloo Regional Police Serv ice, and Roxa nne l<lunched Cl eartech Documentation, a techni­ cal w riting and research serv ice for enginee r­ ing and pl anning firm s. The co uple ha s two children: Stephan , 3; ancl Bria n, I . " Betwee n our careers , two children ami "1 co tt age th at

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con tractor supplying low -cos t ski lled labor to cons tructi on si tes in count ri es where it is i n short supply. The co uple also run Engli sh­ language courses and rent u hoi iduy cO llage in the sout h of France. He inv ites lellers from U of G fr iends to Mas d-Auphan , Le Sambuc , 13200 Ari es. France.

M.F, Miller, ' 38 . was th e 1992 M <Jn of the Year fo[' Northea stern Pennsy l va nia . He and hi s w i fe, Vi rginia, li ve near th e town of Montrose.

Rudolf Waelchli, M. Sc. '81, is work ing in the embryo laboratory of OVC' s animal bio­ tec hno logy ce ntre, Hi s w i fe, Chris Winder , '84 and OAC '79, wo rk s pri vu tely as a cytologist and ve terinary research tr<J nslator.

Both also hav e ve terinary meclical degrees from th e University of Zurich in Swit7.er ­ land .

David Shaw, Eng. '73 and M .Ag r. '89, ha s moved from th e Elm ira , Onl.. branch of the Roya l Bank to RBC Dominion Securities.

He is work ing in th e Guelph office of th e broke rage f irm as an in ves tm ent adviser for both bu sinesses and individuals.

Rup ert Leong C hong Yeo, Eng . '85. has joined a new co mpan y in M alays ia. He is tech nica l ma nager for Newera EC]uipment Supply in Selangor. He and his w i fe have a two-year-old son, Adrian .

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John Basterfield, '80 an d OAC '75 , and Margaret Lisson, '82, are bot h practisin g in Vi ctor ia. S.c. - he at the Am bul ato ry Farm Veterinary Serv ice and she at th e Juan De Fuca V eterinary Cl inic .

Carolyn (Wybenga) Beisel, '85, says she has th e bes t of both wo rld s - tim e at home with her fami ly and a half-tim e job. She has tw o sons, Peter, 2 1/2, and Dav id , eight months, and works in large-an imal medi cine and surgery at a ve terinary clinic in Chat sworth, Oill. Her husband , John , is a teacher, and they li ve in O we n Sound . " W e never expec ted to settle in this part of On­ tario," she says, " but the rec rea ti onal oppor­ tunities - boating, fis hing , hiking, bikin g, skiin g - are fabulous, and th e people are ve ry friendly. Come and visit and see for yo urse lves."

PhD ' 70. Jukel is " 'orking '" LUlI/jiml Luhs ill Cui'lph.

Kenneth Kilpatrick, ' 76, rece ntl y com ­ ple ted a Ja w degree at th e Univ ers it y of Sas­ katchewan and is ~rticling wit h a firm ill W eta ski wi ll, Alta. His wi-fe , Vi cki, is a pha['­ macy graduate of th e University of Alberta .

Carolyn Langford, GD '76 and M .Sc. '81, ca me to Guelph with a DVM from S<Js ­ katoon. She recentl y gradua ted from SI. Paul University in Oltawa w ith a degree in theol­ ogy and has been ord ained a deacon in th e Ang lica n Church of Canada . Lan gford has resigned her posit ion as a researc h sc ientist wi th Ag['icu lture Ca nad a to become deacon in cha rge of a rural two-po inl pari sh and ass istant curat e at a large parish in Smith Fa lls , On!.

George Morri s rec eived an honorary degree from U of G in June unci , in November. was indu cted into Ih e Can.ldi<Jn A gri cultural Hall of Fame. He is founder and ben efac tor of the George M orri s Centre, a ca mpus thi nk t<J nk devoted to research on agricultural po licy.

The Hall of Fame recogn ized him fo r hi s in­ vo l ve ment in Ihe research ce nt[·c and hi s many other cont['ibulion s to ugriculture. A fou ndin g membe r of the Ontario Seef Im­ provement Assoc iation and the Ontario Grain Corn Cou ncil , he was one of th e first Ontario farm ers to promote corn as a feed for bee f cattle,

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Call for reservations (519) 843-5936 525 St. David Str••t North, Fergus, Ontario NIM 2K5 The U of G Arboretum oflers Ihe following winter wor'r<shops: Jan. 8 - winter bird survey; Jan. 19 & 26­ owl idemnica[ ion ; Feb. 4 or S - owl behavior; Feb . 8 ­ growing nalive plams trom seed; Feb. 21 , 28. Mar. 7, 14 & 21 - home gardeninp; March 8 & 10 - pruning; AprilS & t2 - idemrtlCalion 0 spring warblers; April 27 - wood­ cock behavior.

For informatio n on f.es and registration, call 51~824-4t20, Ext. 4110.

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FOR SALE: OAC cardigans. na~ cable kn~ with red Irim and lull-color college crest; sizes . M. L and XL ; $60 plus $S poslage .

Proceeds 10 the Siudent Federalion 01 OAC 10 benefit all Agg ies al U 01G.

To order. conlaCI SFOAC. 103A JohnslOn Hall, Un ivers~y

01 Guelph ,Guelph. Omario N1G 2Wl. St9-824 ·41 20, Ext.

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The foJ/owing deaths ha ve been reported since the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus.

Full notices, which are us ually subm itted by family or c lassma tes , may appear in thi s is sue or in a later o ne .

John Arbuckle, OAC '67A, Nov. 7 , 1992.

Isabel Boundy, Mac '350, Sep t. 25 , 1993.

James Bovaird, OVC '15 , Oct. I I, 1993, at age 101.

Armand Braida, OAC '51 , March 14.

1993.

Delores (Highgate) Brooks, Mac '57, Aug. 4, 1993.

Josephine (Farrow) Campbell, Mac ' 420 , Jun e 28, 1993.

Harold Davidson, OAC '36, Sep t. 3. 1993.

David Erwin, OAC '52A, Janua ry 1993.

Irvin Goosse n, OVC '44, Jul y 23, 1993.

Ralph Hawkins, OVC '47 , Jul y 23,1993.

Charles Kingsbury, OAC '49 and MSA '5 1, June 29, 1993. .

Audrey Lightbourn, Mac' II 0, Aug. 25, 1993, at age 100.

Geraldine "Gerry" Madden, OVC '38 , Sept. 4, 1993.

William Martin, OVC '43, Oct. 4 , 1993.

Donald McKerrall, OAC ·34A .

July 2,1993.

Marshall McMurchy, OAC '32A & '35, Ma rch 11 , 1993.

Robert Radmore, OVC '40, Jul y 25.1993.

Bruce Scott, OAC '51, April 30, 1993.

Elizabeth (Thompsun) Simone, M ac '360, Aug. 13, 199 3 Philip Telsihews ky, OVC '52. Nov. 1, 1992.

Kevin Wyant, BLA '81 , Oct. 24, 1993.

RussellYoung,O VC '36 , Oct. 10. 1993.

Arts Donald Dixun, '72 , died Jul y 12. 1993 , in Oakville. Ont. A fo rm e r teacher with thc Halton Board of Educ<ltion and th e Graduate Faculty of Education at Brock University, he is surviv ed by hi s partner. Bill Eki ns.

Anna (Sidley) Woodley, 'R4 , di ed Dec. 27, 1992 , in Rossland, B.C. She had pre vio us ly worked in mark e tin g for Conklin Show, in Ontario and had re loc ated to B.c. with her husband. Doug. She was working for Kanas­ ki s Coun ty Tourism at th e tim e of he r death .

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Gert Broechx, '92, of Alfred , Ont. , died in September. Hi s body w as recovered from the Niaga ra Ri ve r Sept. 24,1 993. At the time of hi s de<lth , he was a second-yea r DVM stu­ de nt in OVe. He is survived by hi s parents.

Ed ward and Mar ia , and fo ur older bmthers .

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Rebecca (Macintyre) Harper, '73 , of Grafton , Ont. , di ed Ma rc h 22, ] 993. She was in strument<J1 in founding a mobile resource cen tre in the Cobourg area for the U nited Ch urc h Publishing House and was ac tive on severa l nat io nal church board s. S he is s ur­ vived by her hu sband , Joe, and two sons, Andrew and Daniel.

Timothy Smith, '78, died July 26, 1993. in Guelph. He was general manager of Ranger Metal Products Limit ed of Guelph and is sur­ vived by hi s parents and seven s is ters.

Mac-FACS Joan (Thomson) Ferris, '59, died Sept. 14.

1993, as the result of <J traffi c accident while in Russia on a CESO project with her hu s­ band. Paul. OAC '58. In additi o n to her hu s­ band, s he is s urvived by three dau g hte rs, Cathy. Barb<Jra Coo k and Linda Cianfrogna.

Mary Goldie, ' 250, died in London , E ng land , Aug. 29 . 1993 . Bo rn in Galt, Ont., she moved to England afte r g radu at ion and became sec retary to th e Earl and Co untess of A thl one. a position she he ld for 35 yea rs.

The Qu ee n honored her for her lo ng se rvice to the Royal Famil y by appointing he r a Commander o f the Royal Victorian Order.

Christine (Jennings) Smith, '33. of Port Stanley. Ont.. di ed Aug. 14. 1993. She w as also a graduate of the Univ ers ity of We s tern Ontario a nd an active me mbe r of th e Kit che ner a nd St. Thomas art gall e ri es. She is survivecl by he r husband . Teskey. o ne so n.

John . and three daughters . JoAnn May sey.

Colleen Baldwin and Jud y Ross.

Carole (McArthur) Varga, '63, died in Or­ lando. Fla., Jul y 6 , 1993. She was employed by t he Marriott Corporat ion as a food super­ viso r at a private hospit:li in Orlando and is surviv ed by he r husband. Joe . and four child ren, E ri c. T ania, Mark and Scott.

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Allan Bruwn, '21. of Peterborough. Ont .. died Sept. R. 1993. /-Ie W<JS a comme rc ia l bee keeper in Pe te rborough Count y for a l­ most 45 ye ars a nd an act ive partic ipant in sever.Ii agricultural o rganiLation s. He is sur­ vived by hi s son, Stewart, OAC '47, and daughter. Marjorie Adamek . Mac '50.

Clare Burt, '41 and ·38A. di ed in Brampton , Ont .. Jul y 29, 1993. He ow ned and ope rat ed Clare Burt Tra vel. to urin g the worl d as an un offic i<J1 ambassador for Canada. He is surv ived by his wife, Milli e. and two childre n, Rose and Ron.

Ross Chapple, ' 54, died suddenly in Cambridge, Ont., Oct. 24, 1993. He was a teacher at Eas twood Co ll eg ia te for Illany yea rs and was head of th e g uidance depart­ ment. He is survived by hi s wife, Jean (Keeler), Mac '55, son , Jo hn , and daughter, Elizabeth Goetze, CBS ' 87 .

Harold Cotton, '42, dled ·Sept. 7,1993. at hi s summer ho me in T o bermory, Ont. He is s urvived by his w ife , Ma ry, three dau ghte rs, Penny, Linda and Val e ri e, and one son, Robert, Ans '76 .

Howard Gorsline, '37, di ed June 27, 1993 , in Winnipeg, Man. During hi s career, he work ed as terr itory representati ve for a feed compan y in Eas te rn Ontario , in the field­ seed and grain sec ti o n of the War Time Pri ces and Trad e BO<Jrd , for Manitoba Pool E leva tors and for Imperia l Seed in Win­ nipeg. He eventuall y bo ug ht th e Canadian operat io n of Imperial Seed and so ld the bus i­ ness to hi s e mployee s at retirem e nt.

Pred eceased by hi s I'irst wife, Chri stine, he is survived by hi s wi fe , Joan , two daughters, Maril y n LeBrand and Sandra Wilson, and three s tepchildre n, Lynn Mac Do ne ll and W illiam and Mark Ol se n.

Arthur Gould, '39, of Brockville. Ont., died Sept. 24 , 1993. He joined the Roya l C<Jnadian Army after g rad uation and wa s s ta­ tioned at Kingston , Pe ter borough and Ot­ tawa before ret iring as a captain in 1965. He then spent two ye<J rs with Guaranteed Trust before t'lking it job with Canada Customs at th e Ivy Lea Bridge and R ockpo rt. He retired in 1988. Predeceased by hi s first Wife. Leafa, he is survi ved by his wife , Mary , and fo ur ch ildre n. Donald. John . Di<Jnne Curry and Arlene Jo rda n.

Nelsun Huwe, '24 A, o r Paisley. Ont .. di ed <JS the result or an auto acc id e nt ill Pon Perry June 16. 1993 . He is surv ive d by his da ug hters , Mary Armbrust, Mac '64 , and Dorothy Needham , o ne son. Douglas. OAC '62 . and a s iste r. Isabel Rayner , Mac ' 3 1.

Rud e rick Long, '54, died in To ro nt o Oct. 20 , 1993. He was re tired vice-president o r Direct Energy <Ind is survived by his wife.

Marietta, son, Bradlcy. a nd daughters, Carol­ A nn Kuchmak and Ja nice Mill s.

Jonathan Nelson, '24. died July 21,199\ in G ue lph. He was a strong supporter of the A lma Ma ter Fund and ,el'ved as a c lass agen t for sever<J1 years. /-Ie is surviv ed by hi s w il'e.

Edna. and dau g hte l·. (;allnt Scutt , OVC ' 69. and her hu s ba nd. Juhn , CBS '7 1.

Warner Newton, '45, died Se pt. 23. 1991. in Na naimo. B.c. Ori gi na ll y from B.C .. he re turn ed to Chilliwac k after g r;ld uation to wo rk in ho rticulture. but lat er became an in­ stru c to r fo r air clde ts anel a building in spec­ tor for th e Cmwd a Mortgage anci /-l o us ing Corpc)\'ati o n. He worked for lllall Y years in the constru c tion trade and sold re,ll estat e before retiring in 199 I. Mr. Newto n was acGuelph AJ/.f/l/ll/.ls

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tiv e in hi s community in the Kiwanis Club, the Nanaimo Search and Rescue team, the Nanaimo Ham Radio Club, Nanaimo Beekeepers Association, A shlar Lodge No. 3, Masons and Sh rin ers. He studied art at Malaspira College, was past president of the Na naim o Arts Council a nd was a me mber of the Canadia n Federation of Art ists. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Ethe l, and daughter, Eliza bet h Nordlund.

Alexander "Sandy" Pearson, ' 42, ofS tin sv ille, Ont. , died Sept.

29, 1993. After obta inin g hi s Gue lph degree, he se rved wi th th e ClIladian Army in Canada, En g land and France from 1942 to 1945, Sand,. Pearsol1 then completed graduate work at Iow a State University.

Frolll 1945 to 1983, he was a faculty melll­ bt:r at U of G in th e Departmen t of Food Scit:nce and Iaught the ice crea m short course - whi c h has been running annually s ince 1914 - for 28 years. Former cha ir of the departme nt , Prof. Pearson was a lso a con-

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su ltant to th e dairy and ice crea m in dus try in Canada and abroad. He is especially kn ow n for his work with Laura Sec ord , Beatrice Foods and Dairy Queen. He rece ived an OAC Alumn i Di stingui shed Teach ing

Award in 1976 and was hon ora ry preside nt

of the OAC Class of 1962. He was a membe r

of the Presiden t' s Coun cil and se cretary­

treasure r of his class. Away frolll the Univer­

s it y. Prof. Pe arson was an avid camper,

carpenter, mu s ician, winemaker and photog­

rapher. He is s urvi ved by hi s wife, Helen

(Jeffrey), Mac '41, hi s so n, Jeffrey, his

dau gh ter. Barbara, and two gra ndchi ldre n.

C linton Shoemaker, '24, died June 4, 1993,

in Sca rborough. Ont. He began hi s career in

1925 at Napanee Collegiate Institute, wllere

he taught agriculture , science and sports. He

a lso taug ht at Scarborou g h and R .H. King

co ll eg iates and was at Malvern Co llegia te 35

years before re tiring. He is s urvived by hi s

daughters . Barbara Marsh and Sh irl ey Pearce.

John Spry, '37, of London , O nt. , d ied July

18 , 1993. His career was spe nt in the fie ld of

education as a teac her and ad mini strator. He

was al so active in the Masonic Ord e r, serv­

ing a te rm as deputy gra nd master of the Lon­

don distri c t. Predeceased by hi s first w ife,

Jea n (Card iff) , he is survived by hi s wife,

Jean (Shi pl ey ), one daughter , Wendy Hart,

and a son , David.

Norman Synnott, '23, di ed in Barrie , O nt. , July 30. 1993. Rem e mbe red for hi s contri bu­ tions as a teac her at Barrie Ce ntral Collegi ate and his community wo rk , he is surv ived by hi s wife , Thelma , on e son, Bruce . and three daughte rs, M y rna Bayless, Syl Via Hodgeu s and Nancy McKe raghen.

John Thomas, ' 68A , died Se pt. 24, 1993, in Burlington, Ont. President and co-founder of G reen Thumb Land scaping of Burlington, he was a m ember 01' the Burlington O ld­ Tim e rs ' Hock ey A ssociation and the Oak­ ville Racing Pigeon Club. He is su rvived by his wife. Kathy. and three dau ghters, Ke ll y.

Shauna R ainey and Ke ri.

Gerard "Dutch" van Dorsser, '3 7, died Aug. 7, 1993, in Pe terborough, Ont. After g raduation . he ran the blood bank at th e Royal Vi c toria Hospital in Montreal , then be ­ came a tec hni cal cons ult ant for th e meclical­ suppl y divi sion of Ingram Bell Ltd. in To ronto. whe re he remained until retirement.

He was a life me mber of the OA C Alumni A ssociation and a me mbe r of th e Pres ident' s C ouncil. He is survived by hi s w ife , Fred a, a nd two sons , John and Peter.

Mark Warren , ' 83 , of Plainfield, Ont., di ed July 27, 199 3, as a result o f a tractor acc id e nt on hi s Farm. He was employed as a bull-test technician for th e Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. W e ll -known in the bee f industry, he had bee n treasurer of th e

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th en opened a sma ll -a nimal practice in las Vega, in 1950. He was on the Nation al Board of Vete rin ary Medi cal Exam ine rs for th ree terms in the. I 960s and 1970s. was sec retary- treas urer of the Clark Coun ty Veteri nary Medica l Association and p;-tst pres ide nt of th e st;-tte associat ion. Named N'evada Vete rin ar ian of the Year in 1968 and 1985, Dr. Phillipson represent ed th e state in the American Veterinary Med ica l Assoc ia­ tion (A V MA ) for 20 yea rs. was an honor-roll membe r of th e A VMA il nd il mem be r of both th e Wes tern Veterinary Conference and the Fl yi ng Veterin aria ns Assoc iation. He was also il life member of the OVC Alumni Assoc iation ;-t nd o n th e board of direc to rs of Fri enu s of the Universit y of G uelph.

FA CS student Shari Owel1 , right , has hf'el1 c/7usf'n as the first recipif'l1t ora schularship awarded hy Holt R f'I1ji-e H', Torontu, ill memorr offorl1ler "ice-presidel/t Eliza beth Park-Wolfe, FACS ' 79, ",Iw died in 1992 .

Tlte Belh Park M ('mo rial Sc/lOlarship was 1'.1' ­ rahlished hr lite cOf1lpam' 10 IJUlI'ide an 0 11­ nual aH'(/1'(1 oj' $3 ,000 for a Canadian sfLldenl il1ferested in Ihe/ash ion unrlte.rlile indllstry. Ol-l'en is.li·ol1/ Ril 'en'iel-l', N.B .. a fuurth- yeor student in 1(')(liles and clothing.

She is IJiC/t.ired here wilh consumer studif's p/'Ore.lsor Ann e Wilcock , FACS '73, l1 'ho co ­ ordina/ed Guelph applicafiol1SjlJr lite scholarship.

Photo by Mary Di ckie'on Hastin gs Co unt y Catt le men' s Association , chair of th e Quint e stocke r sa le co mmittee and a director of the Hastin gs Fa rm Business Mnnagemen t Assoc iati on. He is survived by hi s wife, Julie. and infant son, Graeme Ma rk,

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John Ha milton , '36, of Lakehurst. N.J.. died Aug. 3 1, 1993 . Born in Gue lph , he moved to Clinton, N.J. , afte r grad uation and practised there for 30 yea rs. He was a vet­ erinarian with the U.S. Department o f Ag ri­ cultu re for 12 years, retirin g in 19 78 . A membe r of th e U.S. Vete ri nar ian Associa­ ti on, he was one of th e first Ame rican ve ts to start an artific ia l breeding unit for ca ttle. He is survived by hi s wife, Glady s, and son, John.

Murra y Phillipso n, '49 , died April 12, 1993. Aft er grad uation , he served bri etl y on the fac ulty of the New York State Co llege of Veterina ry Medicine at Cornell Unive rsity,

Milton "M ickey" SaYa n, '45, died Aug. 21 , 1993, in Guelph. He we nt from OVC to th e Universi ty of Wi sconsin, wh ere he rece ived an M .Sc. in 1949 and a PhD in 1956. He jo in ed the faculty ofOVC in 1958, teac hing and conuu ct ing research until hi s retirement in 1983. He is su rvived by hi s wife, Beryl. o ne da ughter. Carol Chezi. and two so ns, Ala n nnd Robert.

Faculty El iLa beth Upton , retired from th e School of Hote l and Food Admini st rati on, d ied Sept. 4.

1993. in Guelph . A gradu ate of th e Univer­ s it y of Toronto and Corne ll Un ive rsity , she bega n her professional caree r as an ild­ ministrative diet itian at To ront o Gene ral Hosp ital an d late r joi ned U ofT's facult y of househo ld sc ience. She came to G uelp h in 1969 and reti red in 1988 . Th rougho ut her ca ree r, Dr. Upton was acti ve in provinc ial and nat iona l assoc iations re lat ed to diete tics and served as pres ide nt of th e Ca nadia n Dieteti c Assoc iati on in 1970/7 1. She co­ ed ited two success ive vo lumes on the hi sto ry of th e dietetic professio n in Canada and was honored last Ma y when th e most rece nt volum e, Canadiall Dil'lilian,l' Makin g if Di/~ f('l' C'I1CC', was launched. She is survived by tw o s isters. Marjorie Tripps and He len Moxle y, and a brot her. Bruce. T he El izabe th Up ton Memorial Fund has been esta bli shed at U of G. Dona tions can be sent to Alumni House.

Friends May Ball of Kings ton, an t.. died Aug. 25, 1993. A grad uate ofQ uee n' s Unive rsit y, she had a long and di stin gui shed teaching ca reer in Northern Ontari o. She was a membe r of the Maclac hl an Soc iety and le ft a bequest to U ofG's Department of Horti cultural Science to estab li sh the Mrs. Fred Ball Scho larshi ps.

Donations given in memory 0/ the above alumni will help support scholar­ ships at the Un iversity o/Gu elph if directed to th e Alumni Memorial Fund.

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Nominations sought for alumni awards Alumnus of Honour The Un iversity of Gue lph A lum ni Associ,t­ ti o n (UGAA ) will recognize an alumnu s for significant co ntribu ti ons to co mm uni ty se rvice, sc ienc e, education. bus iness, in ­ du stry. the ,lrtS or a lumni affai rs. To be aWilrdeci durin g Alumn i Weeke nd in June 1994.

Alumni Medal of Achievement A grad uat e of til e ):IS t 15 ye;]rs will be recogni zed by th e UGAA for co ntribu­ tions to country . comm unit y. profession or [he wo rld of arts and lette rs. To be Hwa rd ed durin g Ju ne convocati on ce remonies.

Alumni Volunteer Award T hi s new award will be prese nted by the UGAA to a grad uate who ha s demon ­ strated loyal ty and commi tment [0 the Un iversi ty of Gue lph by suppo rtin g it throu gh vo luntee r work . To be prese nted du ring Vo luntee r Week in Ap ril at U of G's ann ual vo lu nteer recept ion.

To obtain nomination fo rm s for th e abov e awards, con tHct CH ria Bradshaw, UGAA Nominatio ns Committee. A lumn i House . The dead line for nominations is Feo. 11 , J994.

OVC Distinguished

Alumnus Award

Prese nt ed annua ll y by th e OVC Alumni Assoc ia tion, this awa rd recog ni zes a gradu,tte who has brought ho no r to th e col­ lege and fe llow alum ni through leade rship and se rvice to country. scie nc e, educat ion , profess ion o r alma mater. To be presented at th e OVC lunc heo n du ring Alumni Wee kend in Jun e.

Send nominations to th e OVC Alumni Assoc iati on. c/o CH rl ;1Brad shaw. A lumni Hou se. by April 29, 1994.

George Bedell Award of Excellence Thi s award is presented to a grad uat e of th e School of Ho te l and Food Admin istra­ tion who bes t re prese nts the sc hool in terms of profess iona li sm. ac hi evements and co ntributi ons to the hospi tal it y in­ dustry. To be presen ted in the spring of 1994.

Nomin ators should se nd the ir name, te lephone numbe r (home and business) al ong with th e name of the nomin ee to the George Bedell Award Co mmittee. c/o laurie Mall ea u, Alumni House . Th e dead­ line is Feb . 28, 1994.

Award committees ror the above can be reached through Alumni House at th e University of Guelph, Guelph, On!.

NIG 2WJ, 519-824-4120, Ex!. 6544.

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When your phone rings,

think U of G! The next lime your phone rings, think about the

University of Guelph. Let the ringing be a reminder

th at time is running out for the 1993 Alma Mater

Fund .. . and we still need your help to reach our

$ 1.7S-million annual giving goa l.

Goal: $1.75 million

$968.61 as of Oct 31 1993 Th ese Guelph sludel1fs hm'e lalked / 0 18.657 a/um.ni th is year - vj]erillg a/dellclly gr{'elillg/rom Univ(,l'Sily a/Guelph and asking Ih el1l/o support Jll(, Alllla M(ff('r Flllld. /11 lOp /'Ow.jI'O/II leli, are: Sain ond Kalhalino Angonov. Sal/om row : Lisa Harris, Seall Prall. !? ichard \lO//WIS . Melissa /1('1'l'illru.It and Jv dy Hay. Photo by HCI'hlBtaullCbll!r

Any contribution -large or small - is important to the University and its students. Your Alma Mater Fund donation wi II help fund scholarships and bur足 sa ries, provide academic enrichment and support special campus projects like the restoration of War Memorial Hall.

Our thanks to the 3,794 alumni who have already

contributed. As of Oct . 31, J 993 , AMF donations

had reached $366,264, moving toward our J 993

goal of $600,000. Join us in supporting the Univer足

sity and help pu sh alumni contributions over the top.

Please send your gifts to : Alma Mater Fund,

AI.umni Hou se, University of Guelph, Guelph , Ont.

N IG 2W 1. Donations postmarked by Jan. 3, 1994,

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e' d pro babl y w ince at the desc ripti o n , but yo u mi g ht call Rich Moccia's ho bby Ze n and th e art o f motorcyc le ra c ing. He re lates th e sport to e verything e lse in his life, muc h like a Buddhi st a ll ego ry.

"The re's a m e ntal pa rt to racin g th at requires a n ability to re la x and foc us ­ the same sk ill s yo u require in your wo rk Of in an y o the r spo rt ," he says .

A two-tim e Gu e lph g rad uate, M occ ia is an assoc iate professo r in the De part­ me nt o f Animal and Po u ltry Sc ie nce, co­ ordina to r o f U of G 's new M .Sc. program in aquac ulture and direc to r o f the Alm a Aquac ulture Station. He says g iving a good lec ture o r focu sing o n a re­ searc h p ro bl e m de ma nd s th e sam e m e n­ ta l sk ill s as motorcyc le rac in g.

And like o ther sports, imm e rs in g yo ur se nses in th e mome nt is a n integ ra l pa rt of the pleas ure, says M occ ia . " llik e th e sme ll o f two-s tro ke o il and gas . th e s mell o f burnin g c lutc hes , the heat a nd th e v ibrati o n of the e ng in e. " It ' s simil a r to th e w ay o ther athl e tes react to the sme ll o f sweat , he says . " It 's part of th e sensory in put s that ma ke it fa mili a r."

But fo r Moccia , w ho h old s an ex pe rt lice nce in o ff-road rac in g, it is n ' t j ust th e familim that sto kes hi s 24-year pa ss io n.

It 's th e c amarade ri e of othe r dirt bike ri de rs who are "fi ll ed w ith p iss and vinegar" and th e ir sha red pa ss io n for " the co ntro lle d ed ge, " he says. " Yo u c an o pt to stay aw ay fro m c hal­ lenges and, as a result. yo ur limits be­ come w hat yo u arbitraril y se t in you r mind. Th ose becom e th e ed ge of yo ur wo rl d." W o rd s o f w isdo m from a race dri ve r and a teac her.

In M occi a's min d, limits de fin ed by tw o w hee ls tra nscend a dirt trac k. " Rac in g m oto rcycl es , as corny as it m ay sound. he lps me wi th m y jo b. Com­ pared w ith th e c ha ll e nges yo u deal w ith o n th e trac k , the rea l wo rld seem s m uc h more manageable bec au se yo u have con­ fid e nce in yo ur limits and yo ur a bility to e xte nd you r lim its."