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May 1995

On the cover

Edi tor Mal)' D;ckieson

When he was a graduate student at Guelph , Kevin

Executi ve ed ilo r Sandra Websle r, BA '75

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ConlribulOrs Barbara Chance, B A . 74 Ren ee Tava~c i a, BA '85 Design/prod uctio n Mary Dickieson Linda Grahatn. BA '77 Editorial Ad visory Boa rd T ri sh Walker, BA ' 77, M .Sc. '90. chai r Susan Blair, BA '83 Guus Hazalaar. BA '76 Klari Kalkm a n. B.Sc . '79 Shei la Levak, B.Comm. '83 De ni s Lynn . B.Sc. '69 Kare n M anl el, BA 'S3 C rySlal MacKay, B.Sc.(Agr. ) '93 Haro ld Reed. DV M '55 Dan Melanson. BA '89 Charlene van Leeuwen, BASc. '87 Bob Winke l, B.Sc.(Agr.) '60

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7 M aj oring in love

38 Pl aces of value

Inside U of G has the peIfect c limate for romance. That's what we hea r from many of the 10,000 alumni who gained both an ed ucation an d a life mate at G uelph.

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Johnston Green ranks #1 with alumni When landscape architecture professor Cecilia Paine asked alumni to choose the 10 places on cam­ pus they value most, they identified 77 different sites. But it was Johnston Green that topped the list of most alumni, with the Arboretum coming second.

Paine's survey identified not only p.laces of va lue, but also the reasons why they're valued. She was looking for a broad understanding of the relation­ ship between people and their environment and for specific information that wiU help university plan­ ners manage the campus landscape .

In addition to Johnston Green and the Arboretum, the top places of value were the University Centre, Johnston Hall, McLaugh.lin Library, Winegard Walk, Massey Hall , War Memorial HaH, the Bull­ ring and the Cannon .

This list reflects the combined choices of every­ one who responded to the survey, says Paine, but it does not paint the whole picture. One of the sur­ vey's most sign ificant findings was that there are so many places on campus that alumni value highly.

The beef barns, for example, didn't make the top 10 li st overall, but th ey were high on th e list of OAC grad uates. The OVC main building and Creelman, Mills and Macdonald halls were a lso highly valued.

In fact, almost every spot yo u can think of - and some that yo u can't - were identified as being im­ portant to someone. Some alumni were very spe­ cific in their choice of valued places: the treed area between Massey Hall and the library , the Inner Stage, the beehives off Stone Road, a lookout point in the Arboretum, the Massey Hall Coffee Shop, the TV lounge in the University Centre, the pagoda greenhouse and a doctor 's office in the health centre.

This is important information for planners and de­ s igners when deciding whether to renovate or re­ place buildings and la ndscapes, says Paine.

Also significant is the fact that a l.umni ide ntified both old and new places. The University Centre and Winegard W a lk, for example, weren't built until the 4

At Uof G, 300 students joined others across Can­ ada in the Jan. 25 protest against the federal govern­ ment's proposed social re­ forms, wh ich are expected to lead to the doubling of tuition fees.

Photo by Kerith Waddington

Doug Dodds

1970s, yet they ranked high enough with recent graduates to make the overall listin g.

The mixture of hi storical buildings and new land­ sca pes identifIed reinforces Paine's belief tha t a uni­ versity campus should create a sense of continuity.

The modern architecture of newer buildings in the campus core is balanced by older structures and many large trees. Students sitting on the steps out­ s ide the library can't help but notice the row of ma­ ture con ifers behind Raithby Hou se and think abo ut th e generations of students who have gone before an d will come after them, she says.

Funding for Paine's research came from the Alma Mater Fund and th e U of G Guelph Alumni Assoc iation, Physical Resources, th e OAC Dean' s Office and the Landscape Research Group at Guelph.

Board chair appointed Doug Dodds, president and c hief executive officer of the Sc hneider Corporation, has been appointed chair of U of G' s Board of Governors for a three­ year tenn beginning July 1. He succeeds Bill Brock, vice-cha ir of th e credit di vision of the Toronto Do­ minion Bank .

Dodds . who joined the board two years ago, has served on the pension and benefits, finance, mem­ bership and executive committees and has been ac­ tively involved in U of G's strategic-planning process. He is also a member of the University's Food and Nutritio n Advisory Council.

Tanya Lonsdale, a consu lting engineer and part­ ner in Braun Consulting Engineers Limited of Guelph, was voted vice-chair of B of G.

CBS dean named

Robert Sheath

Robelt Sheath, head of biology at Memorial Univer­ sity of Newfoundland, will become dean of th e Col­ lege of Biol og ical Science in July.

Born in Toronto, Sheath is a biology graduate of the Univers ity of Toronto and lectu red th ere before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Col umbia. He joined the department of bot­ any at the Univers ity of Rhode Isl a nd in 1978 and served as chair before moving to Memorial in 199 J .

Di rector of development named

Pam Healey

Pam Healey, BA '7 3, has been appointed director of developme nt in University Affairs and Develop­ ment. An English a nd fine art graduate of Guelph, she joined the University as a full-time staff mem­ ber in 1987 . She has extens ive ex peri ence in public re lations and fund rais ing on ca mpus and served as interim director of development for 14 months. Last year, she received an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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TAX TIPS Work begins on aqualab Construction on the first phase of a new aquatic sci­ ences facility is scheduled to begin this month. The $3.7-million phase will include an aqualab for ex­ perimental work on aquatic organisms and a re­ search and curatorial base for the Institute of Ichthyology.

The facility will be built with a $1.85-million grant from the Canada/Ontario Infrastructure Works Program, a $I-million equipment grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and money raised in a fund-raising cam­ paign that began four years ago. Operating costs will be covered by an endowment set up with funds from the campaign.

Major donors to the project are Rolf C. Hagen Inc. and ichthyologist Herbert Axelrod, as well as several foundation s, companies and individuals.

U of G honors five U of G awarded four honorary degrees during win­ ter convocation ceremonies in February and named retired engineering professor Trevor Dickinson pro­ fessor emeritus. More than 750 students also re­ ceived degrees and diplomas.

Honorary degrees went to Canadian composer John Beckwith, comparative literature scholar Edward Said, environmental engineer James MacLaren and world-renowned ichthyologist Eugenie Clark.

Physicists celebrate This year is the 100th anniversary of physics teach­ ing on campus. To mark the occasion, the Depart­ ment of Physics has built a wall-mounted Foucault Pendulum, which will be installed in June in the front foyer of the MacNaughton Building.

Made of brass and copper and mounted in an oak di splay case, the pendulum was designed by Prof.

Jim Hunt and tooled by staff in the campus metal shop. It will be unveiled when the Ontario Associa­ tion of Physics Teachers meets on campus June 22 to 24. Hunt has also written a history of the depart­ ment, which will be published this summer in the scientific journal Physics in Canada.

In 100 years of teaching and research, U of G has built a formidable reputation in physics. It is one of the most research-intensive departments at any Ca­ nadian university, yet its faculty are sophisticated and innovative teachers. The Department of Physics brought the first computer to campus. It pioneered the sharing of resources between universities with the formation of the Guelph- Waterloo Program for Graduate Work in Physics and led the way on cam­ pus in establi shing video links with classrooms at Waterloo.

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by Don Stephenson University Affairs and Developmenl

Crown foundation gift supports cancer research Retired veterinarian Blake Graham, a 1951 graduate of the Ontario Veteri­ nary College, has donated $200,000 each to OVC and McMaster University for co-operative research on cancer. The project will explore cytokine gene­ transfer therapy as it relates to breast cancer in dogs and humans.

Originally, Graham 's gift was in the form of a charitable bequest by will.

But the emergence of university Crown foundations and the concomitant tax benefits encouraged him to change his deferred gift to a series of out­ right gifts. Effective charitable-gift planning will enable him to deregister an RRSP tax free and shelter all capital gains and other income from taxes for four years.

"Directing my donations to the McMaster and Guelph university Crown foundations has allowed me to establish an appropriate memorial for my late wife, Barbara, and to do some creative tax planning," says Graham. "It is my hope that others will be encouraged to support this most important re­ search project."

Crown gift finances vet students Elaine Laurin's compassion for animal s and her long-standing interest in veterinary medicine prompted her to donate $75,000 to the University of Guelph Foundation.

"I was pleased to find a way to satisfy both my philanthropic needs and my financial-planning needs," says Laurin . "The University of Guelph Foundation proved to be the ideal solution."

The Elaine Laurin Award will support students throughout their academic career in the pre-veterinary year and the DVM program.

Foundation benefits donors The University of Guelph Foundation was established by provincial law and is empowered to receive charitable bequests by will and other gifts for the benefit of the University of Guelph. As an agent of the Crown , the founda­ tion issues receipts that can be used by donors against 100 per cent of their net annual income.

Donations to Crown foundations are treated differently from contribu­ tions made directly to U of G, which can be claimed only up to 20 per cent of the donor's net annual income. Donors can save 400 per cent more on taxes by using this gifting strategy. And excess contributions can be carried forward for five years.

Gifts of capital property to the Crown foundation are deemed to have been disposed of at fair market value. Where this results in a capital gain, the gain is subject to capital-gains rules and possible capital-gains taxes.

Correction An article that appeared in the December 1994 Guelph Alumnus incorrectly identified the U of G Heritage Fund as a Crown agency. The Heritage Fund is actually an endowment fund, although donations intended for endowment can be channelled through U of G's new Crown agency. For the highest in­ come earners, tax savings (tax credits) on donations to the U of G Founda­ tion can reach 52.3 per cent.

If you would like to confidentially discuss a specific situation or would like more information on the U of G Foundation, write to me at University Af­ fairs and Development, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N I G 2Wl, or call 519-824-4120, Ext. 6498.

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I read the story "Lured to the North" with interest. I graduated from M acdonald In stitute's di amo nd-rin g co urse in 1950 and received my ri ng from Aggie Bill Hough ofOAC ' 51. From 1956 to 1959, we lived in the Yukon on an experime ntal farm . Bill d rowned in a fishin g accident in June 1959, but r guess we were among th e pi o neers of Guelpb grads in the NOlth.

I organi zed a Wo men' s In stitute at Haines Jun c­ tio n, so the Federated Women's Institutes of Can­ ada sent me on field trips in tbe Northwest Territories and Yukon to start up more. I trave lled from one settlement to another, hitchhiking by bush­ pl ane, the onl y mode of transportation in the North in the 1960s.

Hitchhiking in thi s case mea nt ca lling up the lo­ cal charter plane serv ice to as k if they had a plane going into the next settlement along the Mackenzie River. When r called fro m Fort Simpson for a rid e to Yellowknife, I was lucky. There was a plane go­ ing, chartered by th e Department of Hea lth, with a spare seat av ail able that I could occ upy .

I was at th e floa t dock at 8 a.m. with all the other passengers, including a six- or seven-year- old Inuit boy who was obliged to sit on my lap to accommo­ date everyone. He was on hi s way to Edmonton for hospital treatment.

There was also a man from another government department, an inspector, who sat next to me on the plane. When we had bee n airborne for a few min­ utes, the ma n tried to put his arm behind my neck and ac ro ss my shoulders. I didn't know how to han­ dle this. Did he want to make a change of posture to be more comfo rtable or was it an advance to get my attention ?

I didn't have to reac t, however, because the little Inuit boy on my lap decided to take action. No word was spoken, but he made a fist with his hand and punched the man in the jaw. I smiled to myself and though t how clever the young boy was to immedi­ atel y come to my defe nce. Or was he claiming me as his territory bec ause he was on my la p? I c hose to think it was the former and was grateful to him for his courageous action.

Eileen Van Meer, Dip. (Mac) ' 50 Londo n, Ont. I wanted to wri te to say ho w much I enjoy peru sing the Guelph Alumnus. I also apprec iate that it is printed on recy cled paper. But I'm disa ppoi nted that Canadi an spelling has not been maintained in terms of keeping the it in words like colour, honour and behaviour.

Although I reali ze thi s is offic ial Canadian Press spelling, I think it is another small example of cul­ tural erosion due to American influences. It is espe­ c ially sad to see our institution s not ta ke a stand o n this issue.

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I very much enjoy your magazine, especially th e lat­ est o ne with the article "Lured to the No rth." I a m taking a Canadian history course ·- past, present and future - and it will be di sc ussed and e njoyed by all. We sen iors are very fortunate.

Audrey Lea man Tillso nburg, Ont. Cong ratulations, thi s is the first letter to the editor I' ve bee n emotional enough to submit. Sadly, it' s a complaint about the two short stories that were cho­ se n and printed as presumably the bes/ in your 1994 co mpetition.

Why in thi s era of increasing ma licious vio lence in our society , would you c hoose two stories that in an offbeat way seem to celebrate such acts?

I read the Jun e Bug story first and halfway through thought it was a little sick and a sad com­ ment on what the writer in the cameo as ide de­ sc ribed as "fun." If she was trying to make a statement abo ut violence and abuse of women, it didn't work for me. I just fe lt very sorry for the mind that created all these sad charac ters and angry th at you thought the sto ry was worth sharing.

So I th ought, okay, one of two, maybe it' s a co n­ tras t. I truly enjoy ed the first part of th e Behave sto ry. Great visual images of warm days in the coun­ try, happy family and a child with a mag ical charac­ ter. And then the father sadistically and inte ntiona lly injures his chi ld , and the magic child turns o ut to have plotted to injure her si blings in a similar sty le.

What did you wa nt me to understand by giv ing awards for these stories?

Lynn Gates, FACS ' 79

Barbara Henderson, B.A.Sc . '75

Hamilto n, Ont.

Toronto, Ont. Guelph Alumnus

Stories and inlellliews by R e nee Tavascia and Mary Dickieson

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D"id met SO,," in 1972, he knew immediately that he wanted to marry her, but she was more serious about marks than men. So, he soon learned that the couple who study together stay together.

They've stayed together for more than 20 years, adding the ir names to a romantic roster of 5,000 couples who majored in love while earning aca­ demic degrees on this campus.

With 15 per cent of its alumni married to another graduate, the University of Guelph is, no doubt, the best matchmaker in the Ontario university system.

Unofficially, of course.

You won't find matchmaking listed among the University's aims and objectives, but many campus traditions seem to encourage it. And every alumni gathering provides evidence that romance has al­ ways thrived at the College on the Hill.

One of the key reasons is that Guelph has always been a residential campus. Most of the students who attended OAC, Macdonald Institute and OVC before 1964 lived here for four years . . . and social­ ized here. Even the growth spurt that followed the formation of the University of Guelph didn't change things much because more and more resi­ dences were built to handle th e influx of students.

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Today, more than 4,000 students sti ll live on cam­ pus, giving Guelph the largest residence capacity in Ontario and the highest number of beds per capita of any university in Canada.

But there are other reasons for U of G ' s success as a matchmaker - the lush landscape, its reputa­ tion for friendliness and the emphasis on intramural sports and student activities .

In silhouette, Nora (Bowles), Dip. (Mac) '52, and Bruce Stone, BSA '53 and MSA '54.

Ask any group of alumni what they value most about their university experience at Guelph and you're sure to hear the word friendship. Mary (Graham) and Alf Hales told me about more than a dozen couples they knew from the early 1930s who met on campus and are still close friends. Nora (Young) and Neal Stoskopf told me a similar tale about their c lassmates from th e 1950s, and Debbie (Portwood) and Peter Bogaert said the same thing about the Guelph friends they made in the late I 970s. 'The University of Guelph is a real grass­ roots place and very friendly," says Debbie.

The married couples we interviewed for this story told us time and time again that it was friend­ ship that brought them together and that ensures a happy married life.

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Romantic precedent - Erna (Klassen), BSA ' 52, and David Witherspoon, BSA '50, far left, were at Gue lph during the post-war boom when men outnumbered women on campus six to one. By the time their son, Rob , enrolled in 1976, just over half the students were women.

Rob met his destiny, Carol Wurth, B.A.Sc, '82, (near left) in the fall of 1977 when she mo ved into Lambton Hall, where he was a hou se adviser. He kid s that "she was just another babe on the floor."

Like many U of G couples, they were friends for a few months before they began dating. Their first date was at the annual Zombie Emporium. "It was just before yo u had to have liquor licences on cam­ pus," he says. "The bartender for the evenin g would set up a bar in a designated residence room, and eve­ ryone drank Zombies, which contai n five kinds of lum and so methi ng else to give th em color."

Most of their dates were more subdu ed - meet­ ing for lunch in the cafeteria or shari ng a steak din­ ner at Derks. Rob rea li zed he was serious about Carol when he ag reed to attend a Dan Hill concert in War Memorial Hall. " It was a major sacrifi ce for me. His hit was Sometimes When We Touch and it made me wan t to throw up." But Carol was a true fan of Rob's music. He was into the folk music scene and played with several bands on campus, in­ cluding the Speed River Valley Mountain Boys.

Percentage of graduat­ ing class who married another grad: 1934 = almost 20% 1951 = only 10% because there were so many veterans ... but 42% of the female grads married classmates 1970 = 23% 1986 = over 14% 1990 = nearly 10% and still climbing 8

Retro-romance - Although Jane (Ingham), BA '71, and John Thompson, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 71, (right) studied at Guelph during the hippie decade, they remember a lot of good c lean fun. It started during initia­ tion week when Jane and other female frosh were forced to dress "half and half' with one hi gh heel and one flat shoe, lipstick on half their face a nd a grain sack for a dress.

The fun continued as they both go t in­ volved in campus ac tivities that eventually led them to each other. "I met John through the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship," says Jane. "As soon as we met, Ijust knew that he was the one for me. I think our interest in Christianity was probably the strongest bond between us. We also had a lot of mutual friend s. Through the varsity group, we found a terrific se nse of community that I'm not sure is present at other universities."

Rob is now director of the Ontario H011icuiturai Human Resource Council and Carol is a teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education.

They married three days before graduation in 1971. Today , Jane is a dairy educator for Prince Edward County and helps John run a dairy farm. They have two teenage dau ghte rs who aren't too interested in the current retro­ fashion look. "I don't think our children will wear bell-bottoms now because they don 't want to wear what we did," says Jan e.

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at 'l1 of (j Early romance - The amorous men of OAC found fe­ male partners on campus even before the opening of Mac­ donald Institute. George Creelman, who enrolled in the Ontario School of Agriculture in 1885, managed to earn both a degree and the hand of the president' s daughter, de­ spite the fact that he allegedly poured blacks trap molasses into the felt slippers James Mills wore to patrol the resi­ dence hallways at night.

Creelman married Ada Mills in 1892 and, according to Alexander Ross's College on the Hill , stepped into his fa­ ther-in-Iaw's shoes to become president of the college in 1904 - just in time to cut the ribbon on Macdonald Hall, home to Macdonald In stitute's female students and the site of a new social scene on campus.

Rules in the women's residence were strict, but over the years, Mac Hall' s half-hour evening hops (dances) launched many campus romances. Eleanor (Morgan ), Dip.(Mac) '34, and William Archibald, BSA '34, met there in 1933 while "someone played the piano and some­ one else was on the violin . She was the best-l ooking girl in the year," says William. "I just went up and asked her to dance and she didn't turn me down. " He says it was natural that classmates would date each other. They lived on the same campus and shared the din­ ing room in Creelman Hall. "Of course, the men were on one side and the women were on the other," he says. "You just didn 't go over to chat or you'd get laughed at by your classmates. " Eleanor and William say attending school at Guelph was the best thing they ever did, and they still come back to cam­ pus for Alumni Weekend each June.

When Jamie Aalbers, B .Sc.(Agr.) '9 1, and Rac hael (Parker), B .A.Sc. '93, abo ve, got married last summer, they filled the wedding party with Guelph grads.

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H.K. grads in Hong Kong - Jackie Cowper's patience was tested to the limit in 1975 when Chuck Allison negotiated tickets and a ride to a gymnastics meet in Toronto. He needed to film the meet for a class pro­ ject, but five people and Chuck's assortment of video equipment made for a pretty cramped VW Beetle, say s Jackie.

Both were in their final year in the School of Human Biology. Jackie fini shed in December and went to work for the recreati on department in Cambridge, Ont. Chuck finished in April 1976 and took a job with the YMCA in Yarmouth, N.S. The romance continued, howe ver, with a lot of letter writing and phone calls. They were married Oct. 1. 1976, and man­ aged to take in part of Guelph's Homecoming game on their way back to Nova Scotia. After several moves with the YMCA and the addition of four chi ldren , they moved in 1986 to Hong Kong , where they operate the YMCA Hotel in Kowloon.

Shirley Griffin , B.Comm.'91, and Jeff Milton, B.Comm. '86, above, met working in the Brass Taps, and when they got married, they had their reception on campus in the Bull­ ring. Shirley says it was great fun - danc­ ing, beach volleyball and dinner on the Bull­ ring patio.

Chris Earley, B.Sc. '92, and Jennifer Gibson, B.Sc. '91. below, c hose the Arboretum for their wedding. Chris works at the Arboretum, but they met at OVC's Wild Bird Clinic. Jennifer is now enrolled in the DVM program.

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Professor's daughter - Ruth Baker, Dip.(Mac) '3 7, was still in high school when she met her future husband , Gord Wright, B.Sc.(Age) '33. He came to supper one Sunday night with a group of students invited by her father, Prof. A.W. Baker.

Because Gord was a star athlete in football, wrestling and track and field, many of their dates took place after sporting events. The Bakers often hosted an open house, where there would be cards, piano music and singing. Or sometimes the profess or would lend his car, and a whole gang of students would dri ve to the Elora Mill or Eramosa Falls for hiking and a picnic.

They knew each other for several years, but married almost overnight in 1939 when Gord was vice-principal at a sc hool near Timmins, Ont. He phoned to say he would be in Guelph in two weeks and wouldn ' t that be a good time to get married?

The wedding took place in Community House - what is now the Johnston Hall boardroom.

Campus da nces ha ve created great memories for every generation of Guelph students - from th e formal dances that preceded the Second World War, the sock hops and the square dances to disco and line danci ng. Con versat was the social event of the year until the late 1970s.

Conversazione began in 1890 as an evening of topical con­ versation for OAC students and faculty. By 1904, it had evolved into a concert, and after Macdonald Institute opened , a promenade was added. A gentleman would offer his arm to a lady, and th ey would keep time to the orchestra's music as they marched through the halls of the administration building. In 1913, dancing was added, and Conversat evolved into a black­ tie affai r complete with elaborate decorations. In the 1970s, tuxedos gave way to more casual attire.

The 1913 Con versat committee, left, hired the Tony Cortese Orchestra and danced the two-step to When (he Midnight Choo­ Choo Leaves for Alabama. In the 1970s, Ellis McClintock and Opus II were favored bands. The crowds were always large. Al­ most 1,400 people attended in 1972, when the theme was "Alice in Wonderland" and the cost was $10 a couple.

Today 's campus dances are more casual, although many stu­ dents still don formal wear for the annual College Royal Ball. p1og r.llmm

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Family affair- Alfred Hales, B.S c.(Agr.) ' 34, met his

future wife, Mary Graham , Dip.(Mac) '32, at a Mac Hall

half-hour hop in the spring of 1931. He spotted her on the

dance floor and quickly tagged the fe llow she was dancing

with so he could introdu ce himsel f.

On their first official date, Alf made tbe mistake of step­

ping inside the vestibule at Macdonald Hall to say good­

night. Mary was grounded for two weeks as a result. "Mac

Hall had some rather strict rules in those days, almost con­

vent-like," he says.

Some of their best college memories centre around the

Conversats and Halloween dances, and they often went

with friends to the college bush at the corner of Edinburgh

Road and College A venue for picnics an d com roasts.

They were married in 1936. Al f' s sister Eleanor,

Dip.(Mac) '36, married Bill MitcheJI, Dip.(Agr.) '35 a nd

B.Sc .(Agr.) '38, and sister Catherine married Maurice

Smith, BSA '42. And Mary' s brother, Frank Graham, BSA

'37, married Joan (Eynon), Dip.(Mac) '37.

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Mistaken p ursuit - For Eleanor Smye, B.H.Sc. ' 54, and her future mate, Cameron C lark, BSA '53, love was born out of a case of mistaken identity.

Cameron started calling her because he thought she was the blonde woman he ' d admired at a square dance, but he would almost ignore her when they bumped into each other in Creelman Hall. Eleanor finally learned about hi s m' taken pursuit , but she wasn' t too taken with him anywa y because he was one of the second-year students who governed her frosh initiation.

Cameron remembers that Eleanor was dating someone else then , but says she must have " melted somewhere along the way because our first date was a sleigh ride in the winter of 1951."

One of their mo st embarrassing romantic moments happened after a Conver­ sat when Pete the cop caught them cuddling in Cameron's car. "Cam was presi­ dent of the student council and was supposed to impose discipline on people caught in cars," says Eleanor. "Pete had to report us to President MacLachlan, but he let us off. We were just beside Watson Hall, sitting innocently in the back of the car. Well, innocent by today's standards."

Right: Eleanor Smye and Cameron Clark at Conversat in 1952.

Left: A 1972 dance in the arena. Page 10, lower left: Conversat in Creelman Hall 1951 .

Tracy Irving, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 95 , says she and fiancee Reade Rintoul , B.Sc. '95 , are just as romantic as the Guelph couples of earlier years. "Flowers and choco­ lates may not be in , but I think it ' s romantic when Reade goes out of his way to do something just to make me happy or when I call home just to hear his voice."

Aggie Spirit - "We just kept

Business and p leasure - Audrey (Morrison), DVM '55, and Murray Martin, DVM '56, have shared a veterinary practice in Brandon, Man., since they were married in 1966 and say it's never been a case of too much togetherness. "We studied together at Guelph , so it was natural to work together," says Audrey.

She describes the 1950s as a time of conservatism.

Couples weren' t extravagant, but they often took the bus downtown to the Treanon or the Green Rooster.

On-campus dates might include a walk across the golf course at the CUllen Club or, when they wanted more privacy, a stroll through the horse barns and a java nightcap at the subterranean coffee shop under Massey Library.

It was a dry campus, but some stu dents would ex­ tend a campus dance by renting a room downtown in the Royal Hotel. "In those days, we had classes on Saturday mornings," says Audrey. "After one Con­ versat, some people came to class in their tuxes. And I remember once trying to keep awake while a pro­ fessor gave a seminar on diseases of the pig."

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bumping into each other." That's how Pam (Shantz), B.Sc.(Agr.) '92, describes the way she met her hus­ band , Dennis Joosse, B.Sc.(Agr.) '93, left. They both started at Guelph in the Class of'9 j, played intramural sports and served on the College Royal executive. They went to the College Royal Ball on their first date. " It was the first time anyone had ever given me flowers," says Pam. Other dates took them to Aggie pubs, movies in Mountain Hall , to­ bogganing behind Lambton Hall and even some college pranks. "When OAC '90 stole our class banner, we helped kidnap a member of the '90 executive and tied him to the cannon for a day," says Pam. She and Dennis married at the end of second year. The couple took time off after third year to travel, and Pam is now finishing a PhD in land re­ source sc ience at Guelph. Dennis, meanwhile, is working on a master's and has a full-time job with Manitoba Agriculture. They've endured the separation for almost a year, but will be reunited this summer when Pam moves west.

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Disco fever - Susan (Bereczi), B.A .Sc. '76 and David Beckerson, B.Sc.(Agr.) '76, splurged on their first date to attend the College Royal Ball.

"Susan was just so beautiful, even if we all wore polyester then. She wore her hair down her back, like Cher, and 1 had shoulder le ngth hair," says David. "1 were my one good suit and Susan sc wed her outfit.

The hottest spot off campus was Eddi e' s Disco Lounge . David recalls the long queues on Friday nights. "Everyone will tell you now they ne ver liked disco, but at the time everyone would line up at Eddie's, sometimes until mid­ night and still not get in."

David and Susan both lived in South Residence, but they weren't roommates.

It was a curfew-free zone in the 1970s, but double standards between the sexes were still part of the dating ritual. "To this day," says David, " my dad calls me on Sunday mornings to touch base . After 1 met Su san , he would phone my room and get no answer. Then one Sunday, he started phoning me at Sue's room, but never mentioned my sudden change of address."

"We sold our meal tickets and rented a fridge with the money. We loved to cook together," and often double-d ated, sharing potlucks with their friends.

David says a studious need to be thlifty encouraged friendships and stoked ro­ mance.

Diamond-ring course - Mention campu s romance to anyone who gradu­ ated before 1964, and you're likely to hear stori es about M acdonald Institute's infamous diamond-ring course . A tbree­ month training course in domestic sc i­ e nce, it was eliminated from the curriculum in th e 1930s, but the nick­ name Ii ved on for years after.

Even the metamorphosis to the College of Family and Consumer Studies didn ' t stop the teasing and jokes about Guelph's "Mrs. " degrees. Helen Karn was one of those FACS students who didn ' t like the jokes, but he r husband , Doug, admits he came to Guelph hoping to meet someone he would marry and farm with. " Mrs. " degrees? Who' s kidding whom , say the Karns. Marriage takes two, and half the Uni versity's 10,000 married grads are men.

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Cupid sees double - Helen and Monika (Bartolic) are twin sisters and, in many ways, both their academic careers and their hea rts followed identical paths at U of G. Both enrolled in the OAC Class of' 86, fell in love and married classmates, who just happened to be roommates.

W hen Leo Rastapkevicius asked Monika to C hez Leo fo r Valentine' s Day in 1985, she had no idea his roommates were catering the meal, nor that mai­ tre'd Doug Karu would one day malTY he r si ster.

Monika says the Aggies planned the perfect roman­ tic even ing right do wn to the after-dinner mints.

With no tipping' Mo nika first introd uced Helen and Do ug on Winegard Walk, then they met again at an Aggie hal pal1y. "I had on a cowboy hat and he wore a Goofy hat with the hanging dog ears," sa ys Helen.

Both women remembe r some pretty hilaIious es­ capades on the part of their spouses - like storm­ in g their house dres sed as raiders ilnd armed with water guns , or playing the part of Dr. Tongue and other wacky characters from Second City TV. They enjoyed Aggie pubs, the Keg and working on Col­ lege Royal. A nd they even studied together ­ sometimes. "There were several times when I was writing a final paper and Doug was typing it to help me meet the deadline," says Helen .

He len and Doug married a year after they met, but Monika and Leo waited five years.

Today, Monika teaches pesticide courses at Ridg etown College. Leo also teaches, and together they work a 20-acre cash crop farm in Dutton, Ont., growing strawberries, soybeans and melons. Helen and Doug run a dairy farm in Woodstock .

"Even now we say that it' s nice to have gone to sc hool together," says Monika, "to have all those memories together. "

International romance - Although Frema (Osei), M.Sc. ' 75, and Kwadwo Opare, M.Sc. '69, right, met in their native Ghana, their rel ationship developed while they were students at Guelph. They married here in 1975 in a Ghanian ceremony that included several other international stude nts and friends. A reception was held at the Guelph home of Prof. ] im Shute, director of the Centre for Inte rna ­ tional Programs. Frema and Kwadwo returned to Africa and have worked fo r se veral years with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Ghana and Kenya.

Friendship fuels romance - Although they had bee n friends for more than a year, it only took three weeks of dat­ ing for Debbie (Portwood), BA '77, and Peter Bogaen , B.Sc.(Agr.) '78, to realize they would marry. De bbie feels that a long f riendship can actually fuel a conrtship, and she attributes G uelph' s high romantic e nrolment to its small­ town atmosphere . They married in 1978, and now have four children and a 500-acre tomato farm. Debbie also works as an educational ass istant in Sarnia, Ont. Guelph Alumnus

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Romantic footsfeps- G uelph has alwa ys been a family kind of place, where new students are often followin g in the footsteps of older brothers and sisters, parents and even grandparents. So it's not surpri sing to hear stories like that of Na ncy and Mary Helen (West), whose parents met at Guelph a generation before they met their own spouses here .

Nancy says her mother, Helen Bates, had been a public school teacher before enrolling at Macdonald Institute. "I think the mles at Mac H all may have c ramped her style a little bit," says Nancy, "but Mother was head of the women's student co uncil and was ex­ pected to set an example for the younger wo men."

The exa mple she set for her daughters was a romantic one. She fell in love with a fellow stude nt, Roy Wes t, who came to OVC af­ ter completing agriculture studies in Manitoba. They both gradu­ ated in 1930, lower right. 'ancy and Mary Helen graduated from Mac Institute in 1962 and '67, respective ly. Both got married to O AC graduates ­ Nanc y to Tom Sawyer, D ip .CAgr.) '59 and B .Sc.CAgL) '64, and Mary Helen to Allan Simpson, B.Sc .(AgL) ' 65 and M.Sc. '66 , upper right.

Tom had one of the fe w cars on campus and , ni ck named Black Moria, it provided transportati o n for groups of friends to go down­ town for a movie or to the Ro yal Hotel. Every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. , ancy and Tom met in the lounge under the Massey Hall library for coffee and conversatio n.

Today , the Sawyers live in Burlington, Ont., and Tom is execu­ tive vice-president of the Fel1ili zer Institute of Ontario. Th e Simpsons mn a dairy farm in Van Kleek Hill , Ont. Love-at-first-talk - Dani elle St. Pierre and Roger Collins, left, met on the third floo r of the library . " He noticed me because I had my nose pierced - a short­ term thin g that just had to be experi­ enced ," she says. "For me it was love at fir st sigh t. Roger vaguely rem embers meeting me." Their first date was nine months later, a four-h our dinner at McGin nis Landing. " It felt as if we were real soul mates." Fro m the n on, they met nearly e ve ry day in the Uc. They both graduated wi th B .Co mm. de­ grees in 1993 and were married near Roge r' s ho me in Barbados the nex t Octo­ ber. Dan ielle is French Canadia n, but says she loves the West Indies. He works as a business manager; she mns a business in market research in Bridge town."

Arboretum wedding - During her first year at Guelph, some of De ni se Hill's new friends in South Residences kept tell­ ing her: "You're ju st like my friend Neil."

But it was severa l weeks before she finall y met Neil Fox, B.Sc . '94, right. Th eir cam­ pu s dates were often study dates or walks in the Arboretum, and a few days after Denise graduates in June, they'll be mar­ ried in the Arboretum. U ni versity chaplain Lucy Reid will officiate.

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Similar backgrounds - Neal Stoskopf, BSA ' 57 and MS A '58, believes the friendships that devel oped among stu­ dents in the 1950s stem fro m the fact that both men and women ca me from similar economic and socia l backgrounds.

His wife, Nora (Yo ung) , D ip. (Mac ) '59, agrees that ma ny ca me to Guelph because th ey didn ' t really know what to do after hi gh school and were looking for direction in their lives. The ca mpu s was still small , she says, and as in any small town, you knew everyon e and thei r family back­ grounds. Strong frien dships developed and continue to endure, she says.

In those post-war years, men outnum­ bered women by about six to one, so there was a cons ta nt rivalry among class mates to see who could ge t a date for the Friday­ nigh t dance. Nora was on the receiving end of those amorous Aggies. She was the daughter of campus c haplain William (Padre) Young and was bombarded wi th in­ vitations. She says it was g reat fun to tease th e Aggies, a nd she admits she would often give a fa lse name so they wouldn't know right away that her father was the c haplain.

It was Neal who fina ily won her hand , however. During his years as a professor in the Department of C rop Science, th ey were mento rs to many students and couples.

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Neonatal care gives premature foals afighting chance

by Mary Dickieson

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It's an ideal calendar picture for the month of May and a pretty typical way for a foa l to begin its life.

Unfortunatel y, some newborn foa ls aren't healthy enough even to stand on wobbly legs. Born prema­ turely or traumatized at birth, they're often unable to suckle or absorb colostrum and can quickly de­ velop fatal complications .

The prognosis can be bleak, but a team of neona­ tal specialists at the Ontario Veterinary College Teach ing Hospi tal is dedi cated to changing that pic­ ture back to one of heaIth and growth. ow in its seve nth year of operation, the OVC in ­ tensive-care unit for foals relies on veterinarians in th e large-animal hospital, a staff of 10 veterinary technicians and an am1Y of almost 100 students who sit wi th foals at night and on weekends to pro­ vide round-the-clock care.

When a critically ill foal arri ves at the hospital, it's met at the door by a vet and technicians equipped with a crash cart. Often the response team incl udes equine neonatol ogy su pervisor Ray Geor and tech nician Colleen Hill , who handle the diag­ nostic workup and begin treatment.

If 24-hour care is ordered, th e foal is mo ved to 14

the equine neonatal unit, where it rests on a foot­ hi gh bed of foa m rubber with a sheepskin flee ce, pillows, heating pads an d heat lamps for warmth.

Hooked up to oxygen and intravenous fluid s, the foal mu st be watched constantly so it doesn't pull out the tub es. It also needs to be turned every two hours to prevent bed sores and collapse of the lungs.

Foal W atch stu den ts are calJed in to monitor the fo al - and often the mare - between 4 p.m. and 8 a. m.

If possible, the mare is stabled within sight o f the foal to maintain the bond between them. If the foal is too weak to nurse, the mare is mil ked every two hours and the milk is fed to the foal through a feed­ ing tube.

OVC is the only facility in Ontario that offe rs 24­ hour neonatal care for fo als. Eac h spring, it treats up to 50 newborns ­ some thoro ughbreds, but also many standard-breds, Arabians, quarter ho rses and warm-bloods . Not all foal s requ ire 24-hour inten­ sive care, but those that do are as closely watched and monitored as human ba-

ave's neonatal unit often treats foals like this one suf­ fering neurological damage caused by difficult birthing.

Photo by Ray Geor

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When Everest was admitted to the leu in early March, his thoroughbred mother proved to be as diligent as the veteri nary students on Foal Watch. In this photo, first-year students Jeff O'Dell, left, and Enna Dzedets, right, watch as Kim Drysdale prepares to tube feed Everest, who was too weak to stand and suckle on his own. Dzedets milked the mare prior to the feeding.

Photo by Trina Koster

bies in any medical hospital ' s neonatal unit.

Newborn babies and new born foa ls have muc h in commo n, says Geor. Some o f their immediate heal th problems are similar, and many of th e treat­ men t proced ures used at ove are bon-owed from human neonatal med icine.

Breathing problems (due to underdevelo ped lu ngs) and septicemia (bac teri al infec tion in the bloodstream) are concerns for both premature in­ Guelph Alumnus

fa nts and foa ls. The equ ine immune-system disease called isoerythro lys is is simi lar to a co ndition in hu­ man babies associated wi th the R h-negative factor.

Newborn foa ls s uffering asph yx ial inj ury may re­ q uire oxygen for several days and may need to be tu rned frequentl y to keep the ir lungs from collaps­ ing. Healthy lu ngs have a s UIfac tant coating inside that makes it easier for the airways to open. Pre ma­ ture foa ls or foa ls with pneumon ia often lack surfac ­ 15

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foals are highly valued in emotional rather than monetary terms .

One of the ways OVC tries to keep costs down is by using the Foal Watch team. Most of these stu­ dents are pre-vet or first-year OVC students like Enna Dzedets who want to gain experience han­ dling and caring for horses. She says the paycheque is secondary.

tant, so breathing is difficult and lungs don't expand fully. Geor and the nursing team supply oxygen and try to duplicate the warmth of the womb, and they're working to develop new ways to replace the missing surfactant.

Difficult or prolonged birthing may cause a rup­ tured bladder, more commonly seen in male foals, and neurological damage that results in neonatal maladjustment syndrome. Because of their soft bones, newborns can develop Olthopedic problems.

And some suffer meconium impaction, when their bodies fail to pass first feces. This can be success­ fully treated w ith fluids and/or an enema.

One of the most common - and potentially most serious - threats to newborn foals is failure to suckle or absorb colostrum. Without the antibodies provided in the colostrum, the foal will be unable to fight infections like septicemia. Septic foals may re­ quire a transfusion of blood plasma to provide im­ munoglobulin.

Despite the fact that OVC' s foallCU is usually a last resort for its patients, the survival rate is better than 50 per cent. Geor says the unit is seeing fewer but more serious cases than in its early years, pri­ marily because vets in the field are becoming more skilled in neonatology. After seven years of opera­ tion, the lCU has helped train many new practitio­ ners who are now treating less severe problems without hospitalization.

The decision of whether or not to refer a foal to OVC can be difficult in view of the cost, which can run as high as $500 a day. Yet financial considera­ tions often fall second behind the sentimental attach­ ment owners have for their horses, says Geor. Many 16

Dzedets grew up in Toronto and decided in her early teens that she wanted to go into veterinary medicine. She joined Foal Watch while completing a degree in biology and is now a team captain, in charge of filling shifts when a vet orders 24-hour care.

Above left: Veterinarian Ray Geor and technician Colleen Hill are pictured with a foal about to be dis­ charged from avc's foal ICU after successful treat­ ment of a meconium impac­ tion. Above right: Still underweight and frail, this septic foal is nevertheless on the road to recovery.

Photos by Trina Koster and Ray Geor

Foal Watch students are trained by veterinary technicians in the lCU and work under the supervi­ sion of head nurse Lorna Wojcicki. She says Foal Watch is an important part of the ICU, and students are usually eager to sign up for the four-hour shifts.

"They quickly become attached to the foals, which are nicknamed alphabetically as they arrive," says Wojcicki.

One orphaned foal , EtheL bonded closely with a Foal Watch student and became more than a little bit spoiled . She had a temper tan trum when moved from foam rubber to a straw-lined stall and wouldn ' t lie down until the technicians gave in and put a sheepskin on top of the straw.

"Foal Watch students learn a lo t about the nature of horses," says Wojcicki. They also pick up many practical ski ll s that they'll need later on in veteri­ nary training - like how to manipulate an oxygen line and feeding tube and how to monitor healt and respiratory rates.

For Dzedets, working with foals has helped her see how classes in physiology, anatomy and repro­ ductive biology fit together in a clinical setting.

"And it's one of the few ways that a veterinary stu­ dent in first year can have a direct effect on an ani­ mal's well-being," she says. "I enjoy the personal satisfaction of knowing that I, too, can make a dif­ ference. "

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Photos by Trina Koster and Ray Geor

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Story by Mary Dickieson

With a single beam of Photos by Trina Koster light, we can measure the size and structure of very tiny particles of matter - too small to be seen with a microscope - that make up things like milk, paint and peppermint flavoring. In fact, light scatter­ ing can be used to measure the particle size of just about anything. And that' s the first step on the road to understanding the physical properties of matter, then being able to harness them to build better prod­ ucts. All kinds of products, from yogurt and chew­ ing gum to cold medications .

The fundamentals of light scattering were first de­ veloped in the 1870s, but the development of ad­ vanced techniques had to await the laser and computers capable of lightning-fast computations.

Work on a method called dynamic light scattering (DLS) began on this campus in 1972 when physics professor Ross Hallett redirected his career toward lasers and light scattering. Today , he's recognized around the world for his contributions to the matura­ tion of DLS. To explain the principle, Hallett draws an anal­ ogy to a familiar sound experience. If you stand at the side of a highway, yo u' ll notice that a passing car has a higher frequency pitch when coming to­ ward you than when moving away. In high school physics, you learned that this is called the Doppler effect. The same kind of process happens with light and is the basis fo r the DLS technique, which , in es­ sence, measures very tiny Doppler shifts.

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Shine a narrow fixed frequency (a laser beam) on particles in suspension and a portion of that light will be scattered at higher and lower frequencies, depending on whether the particles are diffusing to­ wards or away from the detector. By measuring how fast a particle diffuses, you can determine its size. DLS can be used to measure the particle size of anything that form s a suspen sion in water­ milk particles, proteins, sperm, latex paint, vesicles, colloids.

One of the real advantages of light scattering is that it enables you to look at particles in their natu­ ral state. Electron microscopy is another reliable way to determine particle size, but this technique re­ quires that the particle be freeze-dried and frac­ tured. Light sc attering doesn't distort the particle, and you can look at it over and over again.

In the early 1970s, DLS was being used in poly­ mer research and in work on protein structure, but Hallett' s laboratory was the first in Canada to use DLS to look at large motile cell s like algae and sper­ matozoa. It doesn't matter whether the particle is diffusing or swimming - you still get the Doppler effect, he say s.

An early project for United Breeders Ltd. of Guelph looked for a way to test the fertility of sperm samples, comparing fertility with cellular mo­ tility. This project helped launch the careers of Tom C raig, M.Sc . ' 78 and PhD '81, and Tom Racey, M.Sc. '76 and PhD '82.

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Craig worked as a com pute r specia list in the De­ partment of Phy sics be fore joining the Wellington Co unty Board of Ed ucation in Guelph. Racey is a professor at the Roya l Military College in Kin gston.

Some of Racey 's research has looked at the pote n­ tia l for using light scattering to detect airborne toxic gases and/or bacterial agents und er battle condi­ tions. The proble m is trying to se parate and measure the conce ntrati on o f spherical droplets from other bits of dust and particles in th e a ir.

Afte r bull seme n came trout sperm atozoa and a project that used the talents of Andrew B labe r, B.Sc. '84 and M.S c. ' 86. He went on to co mplete a PhD in neurop hysi cs at M c Master Universit y and is now a research associate for Canadian astronaut and neurol ogist Roberta Bondar, B.Sc.(Agr.) '68 and HDSC '90.

Some o f the techniques developed by these scien ­ ti sts are used today in hu man fertili ty program s.

During the 1980s, Guelph researc h in DLS co ntin­ ued to im prove partic le-size analysis and deve loped many of the techniques now used worldwide to do complete part ic le -size distri butions. They can also be used to determine the purity of a solut ion.

This is an area still under investigation by Rafat Ansari, PhD '86, who is studying protein crystal­ li zation at NASA's mi crograv ity re sea rch lab in Cleveland. DLS ca n tell yo u whether you have the very clean protein solutions that are needed to grow crystals. T hey are difficult to grow, but theoreti ­ call y, they s houl d gro w more q ui ck ly in o uter 18

space, where the gravitational pull is lessened.

Good crysta ls are essen tia l to X-ray crystal­ lography, whi ch is used to identify the position of at­ oms in protei n. It's one of the first steps in determining the way a protein or enzyme fu nctions.

Hallett says his former grad student has also used DLS to de ve lop a d iagnostic method for detecting cataracts. NASA needs a good monitoring sys tem for the disease, which can be ca used by ultrav iolet radi ation. Astrona uts run a grea ter risk of exposure to UV. In thi s application of DLS , a flbre-opt ic spec­ trometer measures partic les in th e cornea and lens of th e eye .

Over the years, the lab at Guelph has looked at gro und- water colloids for the Ground-Water Re­ search Centre in London, insu lin parti c les for T o ro nto's Hospital for Sick Children and vario us dru g compa ni es , and the composition of dairy prod ­ ucts. The dairy work is being don e in collaboration with Prof Doug Dalglei s h, who holds the dairy re­ sea rch c hair in the Department of Food Science.

One ana lysis found its way into court in a case of patent in fringe me nt. A dairy p1'Ocessor claimed that another co mpan y was using its patented process for making powdered milk. DLS was used to show th at the particle sizes in both products were ide ntic al.

Ha llett 's lab has also ana lysed clay particles in suspension in a study of sediment in lakes a nd con­ tribu ted to a Ministry of Energy , Mines and Re­ sources project to determine the size of oil droplets in sea water after a spi ll of Bunk er C fuel.

The light-scattering team working in Prof. Ross Hallett's research lab are, left to right, Hallett, grad students Jianhong Wang, Gisele White, Marcela Alexander and Jeremy Penner and, sitting in front, technician Jackie Marsh.

Marsh, who retires in May, has developed specialized skills in light scattering dur­ ing her 23 years in the De­ partment of Physics. She was recently awarded a Sigma Xi medal for excellence in technical support of research.

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Light-scattering work at Guelph used DLS to ac­ complish comp lete particle-size analysis wit h spherical or globu lar particles and with long-rod particles (like chromo somes). The latter involved the work of Prof. Bob Keats, Chemistry and Bio­ chemistry, a specialist in microtubules.

Then , Guelph researchers did the sam e thing with static li ght scattering (SLS). Whereas DLS is based on the Dopp ler effect, SLS works on angu lar de­ pendence, using the intensi ty of scattered light as a function of angle.

Kevin Strawbridge , B.Sc. '87, M.Sc. 90 and PhD ' 93, took some of the techniques developed for DLS and applied them to these a ngular measure­ ments. He built a fibre-optic spec trom eter that meas­ ures light scattered a t 20 different angles . Although SLS has been used s ince the I 920s, it had yielded onl y a mean particJe mass. Strawbridge's apparatu s allowed the research team to do a co mplete particle­ size distribution - the same results they wel'e get­ ting with DLS, on ly faster becau se it was based on fibre optic s.

From gradua te and postdoctoral work in a base­ ment lab in the MacNaugh to n Building, Straw­ bridge has taken hi s skills to new heights with Environment Canada. One of his first assignments was a . ASA project using a type of light scattering ( lidar) to detect atmospheri c changes and weather pattern s during a 1994 shuttle flight. (See next page. ) Graduate s tudent Marcela Alexander is now building yet another spectrometer for low-angle SLS that will look at larger particles like aggreg ates and bacteria . You can stud y the se under a micro­ scope, but on ly a few at a time. The spectrometer will look at up to a million particles a t one time, pro­ viding much better statistical data . .. and it doesn't destroy the sample.

Much of the developmental work centred in Hallett's lab has drawn on the expertise of other Gu e lph faculty a nd colleagues, including Prof.

Bernie Nic kel , a theorist whose talents have bee n key to the calculations needed to analyse data.

Hallett and several others are now usi ng particle size to look at the mechanical properties of sus­ pended partic les. What makes them grow and fa ll apart~ How fast d o they disintegrate~ What are they sensitive to?

Since 1990, campus researchers have done a lo t of work with ves icles - phospholipid membranes with a structure similar to that found in biological cells. The ves icle is really a thin shell made of liposomes. You can put things in side it. Insert a drug into the core and it becomes a time-released capsule. Load it with flavor and chewing gum lasts longer. Fill it with color and latex paint fade s more slo wly.

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Most of these studies are performed join tly wit h Prof. Janet W ood, Microbi ology , and Gisele White, a graduate student in the GueJph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry. They are cur­ rentl y st udying the permeability of liposomes ­ how stable they are and wheth er or not the mem­ brane will stretch and leak if the core is loaded with a so lute. The y can tell thes e things by measuring changes in its scattering properties.

Profs. Frances Sharom and Rod Men-ill, Chemis­ try and Bi oc hemistry , and John Thompson, dean of science at the Univ ersity of Waterloo , collaborate in the use of light sca ttering to study vesic les.

The Depaltment of Physics also boasts an impres­ s ive body of re sea rch in neutron scattering, a tech ­ nique that's being used by gradua te stude nts J ianhong Wang and Jeremy Penner to provide even more detailed measurements of the scattering prop­ erties of vesic les.

"With a wavelength sma ller than li ght. neutrons shou ld tell us how much water is in the membrane under conditions of stress," says Hallett. "It wi ll give us much finer details. and we should be able to find out if the water content cha nges a5 the mem­ brane stretches ." Penner will work o n thi s project over the s ummer with John Katsaras, M .Sc. ' 86 and PhD ' 9 J, at Chalk Ri ve r Laboratories.

The potential uses for vesic les are unending, says Hallett. They may be used to deliver herbicides ­ a n oily coat ca uses the chemical to be ab­ sorbed faster by the weed - or to fight can cer. The disease may one day be treated by chemical agents contained in "stealth" liposo mes made of a membrane that will bind only to \ tum or cells.

It 's ano ther awe­ so me idea, but such ideas wou ldn ' t come to light without the kind of deve lopmen­ tal work done at Guelph . A laser is a hi-tech ruler that can be used to measure many things , but even it cannot meas­ ure how far the tec hn o logy will eventuall y take us.

Jeremy Penner and Jianhong Wang have made good use of the fibre-optic spectrometer built by alum­ nus Kevin Strawbridge for his Ph. D. reserach in phys­ ics. The instrument meas­ ures back-scattered light at 20 different angles, transmit­ ting the data via wire to a nearby computer station for computation and analysis.

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Space reflects

Earth's climate

by Mary Dickieson

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n Sept. 16, 1994, w hile the NASA space shuttle Disco very was orbiting the Earth, a Canadian Convair 580 traced part o f the shuttle 's path up the coast of C alifornia from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Flying at a he ight of six kilometres, th e Convair took an hour and a hal f to make the trip. The shuttle , trav e lling at 140 nautical miles from Earth , covered th e route in about two minutes.

Both the shuttle and the aircraft direc ted a laser beam do wn to ward the Earth's surface as part of a long-awai ted NASA experiment in lidar technol­ ogy. The results of that light-scatte ring experiment may lead us to a more accurate picture of how the Earth's climate is affected by green house gases, in­ du strial pollutants and natural pheno men a like du st stonns a nd volcanic eruptions.

In the way radar use s radio waves, lid ar uses light to determine the presence of tiny particles - wate r dropl ets, dust and gases - that may be great dis­ tan ces away. Laser light backsca ttered by th e atmos­ phere is collected by a te lescope, and measurements of light intensity and a ngle provide information about the location (distance from the Earth), size and concentration of such particles.

Although atmospheric sc ientists have explored the use of lidar for nearly 30 years, this was the first Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE).

The $50-million pa yload on board Discovery in­ cluded a three-wave-length Nd: Y AG laser, a one­ meter-diame ter telescope and a co mputer system that recorded and transmitted an accumulated 45 hours (60 gigabytes) of data.

The task of analysing all that data is shared by sc i­ entists around the world , including three-time Guelph gradu ate Kev in Strawbridge, who was named to the NASA project Jess than a year after joining Environment Canada's lidar re searc h group.

Atmospheric physics seems to be a natural exten­ sion of the ligh t-scattering work he did at Guelph, w here he desig ned and built a.fibre-optic spectrome­ ter to measure the particle size of submicroscopic cells and vesicles.

Home base for the Canadian lid ar group is the Centre for Atmospheric Research Experime nts (CA RE), a hilltop facility located in a rural area 20

south of Barrie, Ont. CARE is operated by the Atmospheric Environme nt Serv­ ice to monitor changes in the atmos­ phe re and to serve as a testing site for new meth ods of meas uring air pollution, climate and we athe r condit ions.

The lidar research is headed by R.M .

Hoff, with Straw bridge as project scie n­ tist. Two tec hnician;; round out the group. They re ly on a portable lase r and a telescope mounted in a mobile home for ground-based experiments or trans­ ferred to a pl ane for airborne studie s like the NASA project.

C anada 's Nationa l Research C o un c il pro vided th e Convair and flight crew, but Environment Ca nad a's lidar and c loud physics groups o utfitted the ai r­ craft fo r atmospheric resea rch. The plane repeated its rendezvous 10 times be fore the shuttle landed at Ed wa rds Air Force Base Sept. 20. T wo NASA planes flying off the Atlantic Coas t, two European Space Agenc y aircraft over Europe and more th an 50 international ground­ based systems al so traced the orbital footprint in an effort to validate the accuracy of the shuttle read­ !I1gs.

No one was di sappointed, says Strawbridge.

Even the preliminary data are so impress ive th at many people at NASA are ready to prioritize the launch of a free -flying satellite-based !idar unit.

Kevin Strawbridge out side the CARE facility in Egbert, Ont. Photo by Mary Dickieson

"Lidar is a phenomenal way of meas uring small particles ," says Strawbridge. It picks out particles that have rou g hly the sa me waveleng th as th e laser beam. Because the LITE laser had a smaller wave­ length, cou pled with a more powerful tele scope, it was actually more sens itive and recorded more de ­ tail than did the lidar uni t aboard the Convair.

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The ex periment was further e nh anced w hen th e shuttle' s laser beam penetrated th e eye of a hurri­ cane and skirted a volcano as it erupted.

Looking at the ra w shuttle data is something like trying to read an EEG or a polygraph. But Stra w­ blidge interprets the gra ph to show w here the shut­ tle's lidar picked up a thin cloud layer at 10 km above the Earth 's surface . Lid ar pro vides an accu Cuelph Alumnus

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rate way of mapping cloud-top height, and because of its wave len gth and small footprint, it can pene­ trate optically thin clouds and travel through holes in the cloud layer to detect multiple layers, measur­ ing cloud hei ght to within 12 metres. " We've never . been able to do that before," says Strawbridge.

Cloud-top height is an important factor in the on­ going debate about climatic change and the gree n­ house effect. As greenhouse gases build up, they absorb infra-red radiation and cause a heating ef­ fect. But as the Earth's sUliace gets warmer, other mechanisms kick into gear. Heat creates more con­ densation and more clouds, so more radiant energy is absorbed and reflected by cloud cover before it reaches the Earth. That causes a cooling effect.

Because of the complexity of the atmosphere, there is still much uncertainty as to what long-term effect greenhouse gases will have on the environ­ ment. Many eXperiments are under way worldwide ' to improve our understanding of the climatic effects of clouds. Lidar systems have been used recently to study ozone depletion in polar reg ion s and the dy­ namics of the middle atmosphere. A lidar technique called DIAL (differe ntial absorption lidar) is com­ monly used to study ozone concentrations.

Strawbridge says the LITE graph also pinpoints plumes of airborne pollutants at a height of two km

as they were blown away from Los Angeles and San Francisco. There was a low-pressure area in sou thern California in mid-September, which al~ tered the normal west-to-~ast wind pattern. The li­ dar graph clearly shows both plumes of gas being blown throug h the atmosphere and out over the ocean to the north .

Strawbridge believes !idar may be able to fill the gaps in information about the characteristics and the global distribution of both natural and arti ficial aerosols. We know that dust storms originating in the Sahara ca n affect large re gions of the Atlantic and Caribbean and that sulp hate particles from the 1991 eruption of Mount Penatubo are stl11 affecti ng climatic patterns over large areas of North America.

But how much radiative energy do they reflect,) How does the cooling effect caused by a du st storm interact with the healing effect of C02 bui ldu p? [n September, the CAR E team will be flying over the Bay of Fundy and the G ulf of Maine to further study the interaction of rad iation , aerosols and clouds. Strawbridge is confident that these projects - and others yet to come - will .lead to a better Ull­ derstanding of the cycle of materials and improve our ability to model the coupling between ocean and atmosphere.

A NASA scienti st prepares the massive UTE telescope for launch. Originally de­ signed for a 1968 astro­ nomical mission, the one-metre-diameter tele­ scope was recycled for use as a laser light receiver on the September 1994 Discov­ eryflight.

Photo courtesy of NASA

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AMF Flagship In the past three years. the Alma Mater Fund has co ntributed more than $360,000 to help renov a te W ar Memorial Hall. That project complete, the AMF Advisory Council has chosen the Offi ce of first -Year Studies as its new flagship project for the coming year. Studies at Canadian and American uni­ versities show that students who get off to a good start in the critical first year usually go on to a suc­ cessful university experience. N ew students - and their parents - are invited to summer and first -se­ mester orientation programs. The Office of First­ Year Studies is also responsible for Akademia , an integrated arts a ncl scie nce program ; a cou rse cal led Introduction to Hig her Learning; a nd University C ollege Connection , wh ich gives firs t- year s tudents the opport unity to participate in g roup learning.

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T he I J ,000 wome n and men who graduated from the University of Guelph in the past five years re­ main united by the mem­ ory of their experiences at Guelph. Their degrees give each of these young alumni a vested interest tn the future of the Uni­ versity, and many have Joined together under the leadership of chair Tim Tim Mau Mau, SA '9 2 , to help pro vide future generations of students with the ~ ame quality of education they enjoyed at U of G .

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Report Thank You I'm happ y to have this o pportunit y to say thank you to the many a lumni don o rs and volu nt ee rs who helped pu sh the 1994 Annu al Fund over th e top. A tota l of $ 1,810,70 I was rai sed, $648,996 thro ugh the Alm a Ma ter Fund.

The AMF was es tablis hed as the primary fund ­ raising ve hicl e for a lumn i and faculty in 1969. Con­ tribution s in that inaugura l year amoun ted to $7 1,000. It 's reward ing to see tha t afte r 25 years of fund rais ing, supp ort for the AMF is still growi ng.

More th a n 300 alumni vo lunteers are involved eac h year in fund raisi ng and managing the co l­ lected reso urces. The AMF Advi sory Council is made up of an execu tive committee and two repre­ sentatives from each co llege alumni as soc iati o n, The ir fu nc tion is to e nsure the integrity of th e fu nd and to co-ord inate and e ncourage alumn i gi ving.

Accountable to all dono l's , th e cou nc il sets AMF priorities, ass ists in fund raising, al locates dona­ ti ons and ensures that recipi e nts recog ni ze those who donate to the AMP. W e have se t so me ambitiou s goal s fOl' 1995: • ach ieve a 20- per-cen t participat io n rate by

a lumni ;

• help raise $ 1. 83 million for th e Annual Fund ; • inc rease cam pu s recognition o f th e AMF; and • beco me a more significa nt partner in th e U ni ve r­ sity by workin g with the p reside nt to prov ide fund s for evo lvin g priorities.

It' s important for us to se t goals co mmen su rate with the Universit y', needs. [n particular, the budget res trictions fac in g un iversi ties as a resu lt of c ut s in govemment funding mea n our a lma mater must look elsew here fo r s upport. To help meet th e cha llenge, we are re focusi ng o ur energ ies and direc­ tio n.

Student volunteers Laree Walters, left, and Julie Colbourn show Alma Mater Fund chair Dave McEwen their appreciation for a $6,000 grant.

Photo by Martin Schwalbe

Your continued he lp is all the mo re important. ho pe we ca n count on you in 1995.

Dave McEwen, DVM '67 Chair, AMF Ad visory C o unc il

Raithby House University of Guelph Society

The Uni versit y of Guelph Society is the umbrella or­ ga nization that recognizes all donors to th e Uni ver­ sity . O ve r the pa st 25 years, alumni have been responsible for more the n $7 million of th e tota l $17 mil li o n g iven to the Annual Fund . Indi vidual donors are recog nized thro ugh these gift ca tegories: - $10,000+ Gove rnor' s Counc il Chancellor' s Circle - $5,000 to $9 ,999 Preside nt' s Council - $1,000 to $4 ,999 Dea n's Associates - $5 00 to $999 Cen tury Club - $100 to $499 Membe r - un der $100 F or more infOimat ion, call th e Develo pment O ffice at 519-824-4120, Ext. 3605.

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The 1882 ston e cotlage we know as Raithby Ho use serves as home base for a range of prog rams com mit­ ted to helping stude nt s. Am o ng them is the Centre for Co mmuni ty Leadersh ip and In volvement Program , which has received a $6,000 gra nt from the Alma M a­ ter Fund to imple ment a resource centre. Others in­ clude a studen t-run F irst-Aid Response Team, an after-hours help and safety phone line ca ll ed Contact , the Ho use Drop-in Centre, Volunteer Connec ti ons and a sate lli te of the Univers it y'S Well ness Centre .

Staffed by stu den t vol untee rs under the direc ti o n of campus coun se llor Dorothy G oettler, the house ope ned in October 1993 and has already de ve loped a reputatio n as a safe an d welco min g place.

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Students he lpin g stu­ den ts is the purpose of Class Act, a fund-ra is­ in g effo rt in which each yea r's grad uatin g c lass leaves a legacy to the Uni versity. The CJass of ' 95 has se t a goal of $95,000 .

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U of G President Mordechai Roza nski, chats with Ross Brons on, BSA '54, at the Florida Alu mni Picnic on March 8. Bronson and his wife, Anne (Trueland), MSA '55, organized the event.

About 80 people attended, with OAe '47 having the most members present.

The earliest graduates were Ge rtrude (Burnett) Stewart, Dip '30 (Mac), and Pat Scollle, DVM '28.

A message to our alumni: This iss ue of the Guelph Alumnus comes to you as I complete my second year as pres ident of the Univer­ si ty . In that time, I have personaliy met more than a thousand of Guelph 's alumni and - believe it or not - have already welcomed more than 5,000 new graduates as members of our alumn i fa mily.

With each handshake, I've learned a little bit more about the University, its history and the very strong relationship that links you - our alumni ­ to this campus.

Whether I'm speaking in War Memorial Hall, watching a foot ball game in Alumni Stadium or congratulating a new group of scholars hip winners, I am reminded of the unending contributions you have made.

Although I very much appreciate your strong fi­ nan c ial support, I am not speaking here about money, but about the kind of a lumni loyally that re­ members class mates, the school spirit that raised a stadium and an ongoing commitment to the educa­ tion of future generations.

Ju st recently, I had the opportunity to thank sev­ eral alumni entrepreneurs who came to campus to talk to students in the classroom and at career ni g hts. They came to share their in sights about job prospects and to offer advice on how students can prepare themselves to meet the challenges they will face after g raduation. This is just one of the many ways that alumni offer their service and expertise.

We value greatly your interest and in vo lvement with your alma mater and with our current students.

To encourage those activities and make it a little easier for you, I have ananged for our alumni office to provide parkin g passes for those of you who come to campus to work with us.

Although it is a small gesture in the overall

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scheme of things (un less you remember the hass le of parking from your studen t days), I hope it serves to let you know that we recognize and want to do what we can to stren g then our unique rela­ tionship.

Over the past two years, I've had many con­ When you arrive o n campus, versations with alumn i about the University's stop at Alumni House to ob­ fu ture. We 've also talked about the role alumni tain a parking pass, Hand the can play in helpin g us reac h Guelph's goals. pass in to a parking atten­ I've met many of you here on campus, some dant, and you'll receive a on your farm s in southern Ontario and others "Park Free" decal you can in yo ur company boardrooms, at gatherings in u e in any of the Univer­ the United States and during a trip I made to sity's black and orange park­ China. ing zones. It can't be used And I plan to continue mee ting as many of for metered spot., and those you as poss ible in the years a head. I hope you designated for service vehi­ will continue to share with me your ideas about cles and reserved parking. how Guelph can better involve its alumni in For more details or direc­ campus life . I'm sure there are many ways, yet tions, call 519-824-4120. unrealized, that the University and its students Ext. 2102. can benefit from your collective wisdom.

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Now you see it Now you don't Alumni who trave ll ed to the jungles of Costa Rica in Marc h learned first-hand about the ability of tropical birds to camouflage themselves. Nevertheless, these dedicated birdwatchers identified more than 150 species during the to-day ecosafari.

Rosemary Clark, B .H .Sc . '59 , direc­ tor of advancement programs , co-o rdi­ nated the alumni trip and recorded their jungle adventures on film. A follow-up tour is planned for 1996 . For details, contact Clark throu g ll Alumni House .

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Alumni visit Costa Rica In March , a group of 15 alumni and friends tramped the tropical jungles of Costa Rica during a lO-day ecosafari that included a tour of EARTH, a unique school specializing in tropical agriculture.

Escuela de Agricultura de la Region Tropical Humeda is a private intemational school dedicated to training professionals in agriculture for the humid tropics. EARTH professor Fritz Elango, M.Sc. ' 76, in­ vited the Guelph group to visit the facility, which is home to 400 students and 40 professors from around the world. Each year, five students from U of G also spend a semester there.

EARTH was just one of the highlights of a trip that included hiking and horsebac k riding in the moun­ tains, boat rides accompanied by dolphins, and a mid­ night walk on the beach to watch giant leatherback turtles lay their eggs.

Accompanied by Arboretum director Alan Watson, B.Sc. ' 77 and M.Sc. '79, the group also visited the sanctuary of Alexander Skutch, author of a definit ive book on the birds of Costa Rica.

Rosemary Clark, B .H.Sc. ' 59, director of advance­ ment programs, co-ordinated the trip and arranged for a farewell dinner with Elango and seve ral other alumni who live in Costa Rica -- Judith (Robson)

Wanamaker, Dip.(Mac) '39, her husband, Temple, her son, Sandy Pirie, and her daughter, Judy Pirie Waid, Dip.(Mac) '61; Donald Longworth, BSA ' 47 , and his wife, Anna, their so n, David Longworth, B .Sc.(Agr.) '84, and their daughter-in-law, Marilyn; and Robert Aspinall Murray, B.Sc.(Agr.) '84.

Friends need friends With a provincial election on the horizon, Friends of Ontario Universities (FOU) is seeking the support of university graduates across Ontario to help deliver its message to Queen's Park hopefuls.

FOU is a province-wide association of university graduates who share a goal of strengthening the posi­ tion of higher education in Ontario. Organized with the support of Ontario' s university alumni associa­ tions, 16 universities and many individuals, FOU is working to establish a riding-based program of educa­ tion and communication from constituents to MPPs in each of Ontario's 130 electoral districts. FOU is currently recruiting riding co-ordinators and 12 re­ gional chairs to implement its education program.

The message FOU is delivering to candidates in the upcoming election stresses the erosion of fman­ cial reso urces over the past J 5 years that puts Ontario universities at a comparative disadvantage to institu ­ tions in other jurisdictions.

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.25TH Z Trish Walker, U of G's director of Alumni Affairs and liaison between Guelph alumni and FOU, notes that Ontario's per-student operating expenditures are the lowest in Canada - eight per cent below Que­ bec' s and nine per cent below Alberta's.

Walker says FOU is asking voters to question can­ didates about their commitment to postsecondary edu­ cation and public support of universities. The organization advocates a move towards deregulation of tuition fees, which would allow universities to raise fees to achieve a ratio of 2: I between public and private funding. The current ratio is 3: 1.

Complementary to thi s recommendation, FOU is calling for an income-contingent student loan repay­ ment plan integrated with Canada' s income tax re­ gime, says Walker. This would link repayment to a university graduate's capacity to repay.

These are some of the issues FOU hopes university graduates will di scuss among themselves and with candidates in the coming provincial ejection. For more information or to get involved in the Friends or­ ganization, contact Walker at Alumni Hou se, 519­ 824-4120, Ext. 2102, e-mail alumni@uoguelph.ca.

Retirement sparks leadership fund An endowment fund is being establi shed at U of G to honor the contributions of Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc .

'59, who retires thi s spring as director of advance­ ment programs. The fund will support leadership training for alumni volunteers, especially those in­ volved with the UGAA and Alma Mater Fund Advi­ sory Council.

Clark joined Guelph ' s Department of Alumni Af­ fairs in 1971 and was director from 1985 until 1991, when she moved into advancement programs. She has been an adviser to the UGAA, college alumni as­ sociations and the Alma Mater Fund.

During her tenure, Alumni Weekend and Home­ coming activities for alumni were expanded. Sup­ ported by alumni association volunteers, she also introduced several new programs, including winter ski weekends, a night at the races, Maple Symp Days, educational travel programs and the North American Life Insurance, MasterCard and long-distance jONOROLA affinity programs.

Clark is a friend to hundreds of alumni who know her through their association with the University and a valuable resource for her colleagues in University Affairs and Development.

The Rosemary Clark Volunteer Leadership Fund will ensure that alumni volunteers can participate in conferences, workshops and other leadership pro­ grams focusing on alumni and fund-raising activities.

Donations to the fund can be made payable to the University of GuelphIRosemary Clark Volunteer A ward and mailed to the Development Office at Alumni House, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ont. NIG2Wl. Gu elplJ Alumnus

· .. you could buy a great Danish at the

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had butter and coffee stains on it.

· .. the drinking age was still 21, but smoking was in. .. the campus looked like a permanent constmction site.

CELEBRATION

Taste again the University experience.

Only at Alumni Weekend, June 16 to 18.

For information , call 519-824-4120, Ext. 21O'L,

fax to 519-822-2670 or send e-mail to

alumni @uoguelph.ca.

Coming events May 17 - Alumni-in-Action annual meeting and spring luncheon at the Arbore tum Centre, with guest speaker Jean Steckle, B.H.Sc. '52, 1993 Alumnus of Honor. For details, call Ext. 2102.

June 16 to 18 - ALUMNI WEEKEND Friday - Welcome barbecue OAC Alumni As sociation past presidents' dinner Saturday - Arboretum nature walk, 10 a.m.

Slo-pitch tournament, all day Class reunion lunches, noon Horse-drawn wagon tour, afternoon Golden Anniversary Dinner, 6 p.m .

Alumni association annual meetings: Mac-FACS , 9 a.m.

OAC, 9 a.m.

CSS, 10 a.m.

OVe, 10:30 a.m.

HAFA, II a.m.

CBS, I :30 p.m.

Sunday - Alumni House tours, all day UGAA annual meeting, 10: 15 a.m.

Farewell bmnch, II: 15 a.m.

Alumnu s of Honor presentation Gord Ni xon Leadership Award presentation Locations will be announced in the Alumni Weekend brochure. Or call Alumni House at Ext. 6936.

June 19 to 21 - The 17th Annual Guelph Confer­ ence and Training Institute on Sexuality deals with the theme "Sexuality: Towards Equality." For detail s, call 519-767-5000 or fax to 519-767-1114.

July 15 - Deadline for the Guelph Alumnus­ ScotiaMcLeod writing competition. See page 30 for details.

August - We're coming to a town near you I Alumni Affairs is hosting annual student send-off par­ ties in Barrie, London, Windsor, St. Catharines and Ottawa. Join the gathering and help welcome young people from your conununity to U of G. If you're in­ terested in attending, call Alumni House at Ext. 2102.

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Sept. 15 - Annual OAC Alumni Association Golf Tournament at the Victoria West Golf Club. For de­ tails, call Sarah Nadalin, Ext. 6533.

Sept. 30 -

HOMECOMING

Nov. 24 to 26 - Alumni Career-Planning Weekend Workshop. For details, call Karen Maki, Ext. 3412.

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DV M and B.H.Sc. '48, of Bolton, a nt. , celebrated their 47th wed­ ding anniversary in January with a vacation in Portugal. Three of his classmates accompanied them so that OVC ' 48 could " take the Algarve by storm a only '48 vets can." They were Mary and Myles Smith of Burlington , ant., Helen and Bruce Mair of De­ troit and Edith and James Mitchell of C hatsworth, Ont. W illiams also sent us news of other OVC ' 48 snowbirds wintering in Florida: Tom Allman and his wife, Elizabeth (Hughes), DV ' 51 , of Brockville, a nt.; William Cresswell and his wife, Jean , of Aylmer, a nt.; Grant Savage and his wife, Mary , of Waterville, M aine; and John Gallagher and hi s wife, Wilma, of Le wiston, Maine.

Doug Maplesden . DVM ' 50, and his wife, Joan, are celebrating the publication of their first co­ authored novel. Published under the pen name J .D. Maples, Deadly Design is a mystery set in their home town of Fort Lau­ derdale, Fla., that draws on their combined exper­ tise in recreational boating. Both authors are mem­ bers of the U.S. Power Squadrons, ho ld the grade of navigator and are frequent contributors to Southern Boating magazine . Maplesden is a former professor and dean of OVe. He and Joan hope to publish a second suspense novel in the near future. Distrib­ uted in Canada by Cannon, Deadly Design is avail­ able to alumni in the University Library.

Ken Hammill, BSA '51, retired general manager of Blount Canada Ltd ., has been honored by the company and the Blount Foundation through th e es­ tab lishme nt of a scholar­ ship at U of G . First-year physics student Stepha ni e Swayne of Kitchener is the first re­ cipient. Hammill is a long-time supporter of the Un iversity. He helped co-ordinate the regional corporate campaign of Gu e lph's capital cam­ paign in the late 1980s and developed a close al­ liance with the Office of Research through in­ volvement with the National Research Council. He has al so made himself available to graduate stu­ dents and encouraged their initiatives.

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Enjoying a sangria in Portu­ gal are, left to right, Bruce Mair, Bob Williams, Helen Mair, Fiona Williams, Mary Smith, Edith and Jim Mitchell and Miles Smith.

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Bob Culbert, B .Sc.(Agr.) '61, wrote to us after reading about the OAC ' 53 fly-in reuni o n last sum­ mer at the Brussel s, Ont., farm of Jim Armstrong, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 53. Culbert, who lives in Missis­ sauga, Ont., and is a senior Airbu s A320 captain with Air C anada, sent news of several other OAC pilots. He rem e mbered Dave Gilmour, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 59, who flew with the RCAF reserve, and Don Ward, B.Sc.(Agr.) '61, who has retired to Calgary with hi s wife, Fern (Read), Dip.(H.E.) '60, after a career in RCA F Air Transport Com­ mand. George Richards, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 61 , who served with Culbert as a flying instructor on two RCAF base s in Wes tern Canada, is now a seni or 767 captain with Ameri can Airlines and lives in Sparta, N.J., with hi s wife, Joan (Akey), Dip.(H.E. ) '60.

John Fondse, OHD ' 64 , and his family will be returning to their home in St. Thomas, ant., as this issue of the Guelph Alumnus goes to press. They have been working as missionaries in Papua New Guinea for the past 10 years. "We have enjoyed our work here very much ," says Fondse. "The cli­ mate in and around Goroka is nearly perfect spring­ like weather year round." They travelled back to Canada via Singapore, Holland and orthern IreJand.

Ken Hammill congratulates scholarsh ip winner Stephanie Swayne.

Vicki Harrison, B.H.Sc . '65 , and Brenda Davis, B .A.Sc. ' 83 , have co-authored a book called Becoming Vegetarian that is now in its third printing. The two Vancouver writers also give workshops and seminars on vegetaria n cooking and healthy eating.

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r Top 10 reasons Ellen (Subject) Boynton, B.H Sc. '69 , of e pea n, O nl., received the Canadian Home Ec o­ nomics Association's 1994 Honor A ward. ncr serving as the assoc iation's executive director for 7 112 years, she has resigned to join her husband on a posti ng to Devo n, England.

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Jim Schiedel, B.Sc .( Agr. ) '68, li ves near Hun ts ille, Ont., where he h a~ tu rned a seasonal home o n Lake of Bays into a permanent residence.

He' s also busy with a new business, South Portage Group Inc. , which sell s promoti onal ad vertising and products to resorts and industry.

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Steve n and Jeff.

Anne-Louise (Nichols) Denmark, BAS c.

'73, her hu sband, Don , and thei r children, Allison, Matthew and Jonathon , have settled into a new life­ style in EI Reno, just outs ide Oklahoma City, Okl a.

Originally from Blenheim, Ont., De nmark says they mi ssed Ontario's snow at Chri stmas, but are enjoying the small-town friendliness of EI Reno.

Li fe is never dull when you decide to " bloom where you are planted," she says.

John Duff, B. Sc.(Agr.) '73 , is an internatio nal co nsultant/planner/agronomist who work ed with U of G's Sulawesi Project for five years and is now back in Indo nesia on a two-year ass ignment with the Asian Development Bank . He and his wife, Komang, also ha ve a home in Nova Scotia.

Barry McCarthy, BA '75, was a featured artist at the Kitchener-Wate rloo Art Gallery in January during an exhibition preview of his major works. In 199 1, the class of O AC ' 51 commi ssioned a McCarthy painting of an Ontario fann scene to co mmemo rate its 40th anniversary. Prints are still avai lab le for $100 each from Alumni House, with proceeds going to the OAC Alumni Association.

Roy Collver, BA '76 , is preside nt and owner of Mec hanical Systems Marketin g Ltd. in Calgary. He and his wife, Nancy (McCloskey), BA ' 77 , live in the famous stampede city.

James F. Follwell, B.Sc. (Agr.) '76 and M .Sc. '80 , was appointed policy analyst with th e National Liberal Ca uc us Research Bu reau in Ottawa last Oc­ tobe r. His respon sibilities inc lude the areas of agri­ culture, rural iss ues and natural resources. and he will work with the Hou se of Commons S tanding Committee on Agriculture and Agli-Food . Fo ll well was with the researc h branch of the Library of Par­ liament fro m 1980 to 1982, then worked for the P.E. I. gove rnment until 1988. ver the pas t eight Guelph Alumnus

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Alumni association annua l meeti ngs will be short.

You and yo ur spouse can sleep in the same reside nce roo m,

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You'll see more of th e Arboretu m now that you can't jog so fast.

We ' ve ord ered all of your fav orite cafeteria food.

Your old flame may be here .

Your wife's old flame may be bald by now .

The grass on Johnston Green will stil l tick le your fa nny.

You can fi nally enjoy all those athletic facilities you vo ted for

when you were a student.

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The Guelph Alumnus/ScotiaMcLeod writing competi­ tion accepts short stories, personal essays and po­ etry, An individual may submit only one entry in each category, Entries will be eligible for one of three prizes: $500 for first overall, $300 for second and $200 for third, The competition is open to all writers who have not had a book published in the category of their entry, Members of the Guelph Alumnus advisory board and employees of the University of Guelph's Department oj University Communications are ineligible, Short stories and essays are limited to 4,500 words, Poetry entries may include a single poem or a group of poems, but are limited to eight pages, Entries must be typed double-spaced on 8 1/2- by 11­ inch bond paper and must include a cover sheet that contains the title and the author's name, address and telephone number, Entries will be returned only if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included, Entries must be original and unpublished, Manuscript changes will not be allowed after submission, Entrants agree to allow the Guelph Alumnus maga­ zine to publish their stories, essays and poems, along with their names, photographs and biographical infor­ mation, No pseudonyms will be allowed, Entries must be postmarked or delivered to the Guelph Alumnus by July 15, 1995, Submissions by fax will not be accepted, The Guelph Alumnus will not enter into any discus­ sion or correspondence with entrants other than the The decision of the judges is jinal. Winners will be no- . tified in September 1995, with prizes awarded by ScotiaMcLeod Inc, Send entries to the Editor, Guelph Alumnus, Univer­ sity Communications, Guelph, Ont. N1 G 2W1,

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years, he was an economic con sultant to such or­ ganizations as the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency a nd Natural Re sources Canada and to pri­ vate business, Follwell's family history links O AC to the agli­ cu ltural industry and the political scene in P.E.I. His father, Frank, was mayor of Belleville and MP during the Loui s St. Laurent era, representing a rid­ ing that included part of the constituency now repre­ sented by Lyle Vanclief, B,Sc.(Agr.) '86, Follwell and his wife, Jane, have two children , Emily Jean and Frank Anthony, Their P.E.I. home is next door to the hi storical Jones Farm, which was the homestead of fonner P,E.I, premier and senator Walter Jones. His so n B.B. "Bus" Jones gradu­ ated from OAC in 1940 and carried on the family's innovative cattle business. He was a classmate of Follwell 's uncle James H. Follwell, B,Sc.(Agr.) '40, who played football for the Toronto Argo­ nauts, then went on to become an entomologist.

(Note: Frank, Walter, Bus and James H. are all de­ ceased.)

Douglas Kelley, B,Sc. ' 76, is director of group marketing at the worldwide headquarters of Miles Inc, in Tarrytown, N ,Y. He was previously with Miles Canada Inc, in Etobicoke, Ont. , but relocated to the United States in 1993, He and his wife, Elaine, have two children , Philip and Janine,

David Brown, B,Comm, ' 77, and his wife, Julie, celebrated the bil1h of their first child, Destin ' ee Lane, on Nov, 13, 1994, They live in Ottawa.

Catherine Moloney, BA ' 77, teaches in Cam­ bridge , Ont., for the Waterloo Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board,

Greg "Joe " Tarry, BA ' 76 and M,Sc, ' 77, earned a B,Ed, from Simon Fraser Uni versity in 1980 and is now at th e University of Minnesota, He was recently awarded the prestigious Wilson Learn­ ing Gradua te Fellowship to complete his field­ based doctoral dissertation in exten sion and adult education, Tarry would li.k e to hear from hi s many U of G friends who might be travelling through Minnesota. Contact him at the Department of Voca­ tional and Technical Education, 210 VoTech Build­ ing, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Ave" SI. Paul, Minn, 55108, telephone 612-624-1221.

Carol (Ellis) Major, BA '78, and Richard Carter, B.Comm. '79, live in Sydney, Australia, Major is editor of the Australian journal Connex­ ions a nd is trying to find time to continue creative writing, Carter is a lecturer in the school of market­ ing (hospitali ty management) at the University of New South Wales.

Susan (Hamula) , Dip,(Agr.) '7 9, and Don Low, M.Sc , '79, live in the farming area of Creston, B.C., with their two children. Susan run s their cherry and apple orchard and Don works as a district agricultu ri st.

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Pamela (White) White, BA '79, lives in Kelowna, B.C., with her husband, Robert, and their children, Timothy and Kathleen.

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Jim Luscombe, B.Sc. '80, is marketing manager for Hoechst Celanese Inc. in Toronto.

Ellen Foster, B.Sc. '81, has

worked for Imperial Oil in Toronto for 10 years, working in systems, business planning, human resources and sales training. She was recently married to Jim Wiswell.

Kathy (Litchfield) Groh, BA.Sc. '81, lives in Huntsville, Ont. , with her husband , Michael , and two sons, Trevor and Steven. The Grohs operate Muskoka Country Furniture and Gifts . She invites fellow alumni to stop in and say hello when travel­ ling through the Muskokas.

Bruce Johnston, Dip.( Agr.) '8 1, read in the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus about U of G's first grad (Dorothy Zencykowski, BA ' 92) to live in Poland and wrote to tell us that he is the second I Johnston is co-ordinating a joint Poland/Canada dairy project near the city of Siedlce, about an hour east of Warsaw, and will be there for the next two years. Funded by Foreign Affairs and International Trade and administered by Agriculture and Agri­ Food Canada, the project is des igned to increase profitability on Poli sh dairy farms.

He was a dairy speciali st with the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation in Guelph before moving to Poland. His four siblings - all Guelph graduates - keep him up to date on what's happen­ ing in Canada. His si ster, Nancy Roth well, B.A.Sc. '87, is a nutritioni st with Beaver Foods in London, Ont. Brothers Doug, Dip.(Agr.) '87, and Dave, Dip.(Agr.) '89 , operate the home dairy farm near Listowel. Brother Jim, Dip.(Agr.) '82, is general manager of the Saskatchewan Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation.

Paul Larmer, B.Sc.(Agr.) '81, was appointed gen­ eral manager of United Breeders Inc. of Guelph in March. He moved from the feed indu stry to United Breeders 10 years ago, starting as a si re an alyst. He was chosen to head up the marketing department in 1990 and joined the senior administrative staff group in 1994.

Larmer has served as chair of the market develop­ ment committee of the Canadian Association of Animal Breeders, travelling extensively in support of offshore semen marketing, and is respected inter­ nationally as a judge of dairy cattle. The University has benefited from his involvement with the UGAA and the OAC Alumni Association. He and his wife, Margaret (Devorski), BA.Sc. '90, have one daughter, Catheri ne.

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Hockey brings alumni together

Their U f G degrees span 30 years from 1964 to 1994, but when these 19 women donned Gryphon un i­ fonn:; last Thanksg iving, they played as a team in the first Sh irley Peterson University of Guelph Women's Varsity Alwnni Hockey Chall nge. The tournament hosted .JO teams, with Concordia l ni ver­ sity taki ng both the alumni and var­ sity trophies .

Many of these women donned un ifonns again in December for the annual Intramural lu mni HOCkey Tournament. w hich hosted 26 teams.

OAC ' 90 won the men 's com­ petitive title; the soc ial di vision ended in a tie betweeu OAC ' 79A

and the Klcillburg P igs. The Idi opa­ thies look top spot il the women 's division.

The tournament ended with a rec­ reational skate tor families. John Smith. B.Sc. (Agr.) '83, chaired the organi zi ng committee and pre­ sented the Universi ty's Department of Athletics with 200 new hockey sweater. tor its intramu ral program .

Both tournaments will run in 1995. For information on the women's hockey challenge in Octo­ ber, ~all Sue Scherer, BA '83, at Ext. 6138: for the Dec. I to 3 intra­ mural tournament, call Blinn Tapscott, B.Sc.(Agr.) 'SI , a15 19­ 824-2185 or Mike Van Beek, B.Sc.(Agr.) '81, at 5 19-8 33-2734.

Darlene (Hazel), B.A.Sc. '81, and Raymond Ster;cker, BA '82, live in Brantford , Ont. , with their daughter, Laura. He is a computer program­ mer at Dofasco, and she is a dietitian at Brantford General Hospital. In 1991 and 1992, respectively, she earned bachelor' s and master' s degrees in elec­ trical engineering from McMaster University.

Kathryn Cald well, B.A.Sc .'82, and her hu s­ band, Robert Miller, B.Sc. '82, are both teachers living in Osgoode, Ont., with their one-year-old daughter, Eleanor Louise. Caldwell teaches for the Leeds-Grenville County Board of Education; Miller is with the Carl eton Separate School Board.

Rex Eng, M.Sc . '82, is the horticulturist for TPL Phytogen, a Vancouver company that grows medici ­ nal plants. He is now growing yew trees for the ex­ traction of taxol, an herbal medicine used in cancer-fighting drugs.

Richard Guiot, B.Sc. '82, has served 10 years with the Ontario Provincial Police and is now sta­ tioned in Barrie with the tactical rescue unit. He and hi s wife, Anne, have two children. Thomas and Michelle.

In February, the U of Gwomen's varsity hockey team won the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Ath­ letic Association title for the first time in 21 years.

Coached by Sue Scherer, the team ended its season with a 3-2 win over the University of Toronto Blues.

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Vand al and her hu sband have three dau ghters: Samantha, 11 ; Mega n, 9; and Katie , 4 .

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has been teachin g kinderg arten in Smiths Falls, Ont. , for seven years. She and her hu sband, Ge rald, have two children: Megan, 9; and Nicholas, 4.

Melissa Campbell Prager, BA '83, is a free­ lance writer li ving in the small brewery village of Creemore, Ont. , with her writer husband, Jerry, and son, Jamie. Prager also works as an auctioneer's as­ sistant, refinishes antiques and writes a column in several Simcoe County newspapers. She says U of G ga ve her both good me mories and friend s.

Murray Skeaff, B.Sc. ' 83 and PhD ' 88, and his wife, Sheila (Dunthorne), B.Sc. ' 84 and M.Sc. ' 88, both lecture in the department of human nutri­ tion at the Uni versity of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Sheila writes that they are taking adv an­ tage of the beautiful scene ry in New Zeal and , spending a lot of time trampin g, ga rdening a nd cy­ cling . Their daug hters, Laura, 6, and Julia, 4, ac­ companied them recently on a week-long cycling/c amping trip. The girl s travel in bike trail­ e rs.

Joanne Veerman, B.Sc. '83, moved from the

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Rick Bogaert, BLA ' 84, is a senior landscape ar­ chitec t with Houg h Stan sbury W oodland Naylor Dance Ltd. in Etobico ke, Ont. He has been stee ped in history recently while working o n a desi gn for a park in Charl ottetown , P.E.! ., to commem orate the birthpl ace of Confederatio n. He li ves in Acton with hi s wife, Robin (Porritt), B.A.S c. ' 86, and their two daughters.

Jane Fergusson, BA '84, is in her third ye ar of teaching in Pangnirtung, N.W .T. She teaches art and Engli sh at Attagoyu k School.

Sherri-Lynn Herd, BA '84, works in community development and child protection for the Ohiaht Band on a reserve in Bamfield, B.C. Guelph Alumnus

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Jane (Toenjes), B.A.Sc. '84, and Mark Palmer, B.Sc.(Eng.) '86, have du sted off their skis and moved to Collingwood, Ont. Mark is the senior environmental water-resources engineer at Tatham & Associates Ltd.; Jane is a full-time mom managing the skating and skiing sc hedules of their two sons, Andrew, 5, and Eric, 2.

gist. But after several years of always being cold, wet and muddy , she switched to a career in comput­ ing. She is now a computer analyst, lives in London and has a one-year-old daughter, Erica.

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Lesley (Smith) Bechtold, B.Sc. '87, has been

Jeffrey Yow, B.Sc. '84, is an embryologist for

working as an electron microscopist for Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, P a., for more than two years and was previously at the Fox Chase Can cer Centre. Last fall, she was married to Robert Bechtold in Nova Scotia. They live just outside Philadelphia.

Pivet Laboratory in Malaysia. His work involves all aspects of inferti lity .

Steve Mercer, BA '85, and his wife, Brenda (Stewart), B.s.Ac. '87, li ve in Cambridge Bay, N.W.T., with their three-year-old daughter, Jessie.

After five years of teaching, Steve recently became a career development officer with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Brenda is office manager for Natik Plumbing and Heating.

Peter Blazecka, B .Sc. '87, went from Guelph to the University of Calgary for master's studies in or­ ganic chemistry. He worked for two years at Parke­ Davi s research laboratories in Ann Arbor, Mich. , returning to Canada last year to accept a research position at ACIC (Canada) Inc. in Brantford , Ont.

Ida Kaastra Mutoigo, B.Sc. '85, has been

Mark Coulthard, Dip. (Agr.) '87 , has proved

working in international development in Uganda, but is now taking an extended leave to study human resource management at McMaster University. Her hu sba nd, James, a Ug andan lawyer, is studying to practise in Canada . They have one son, Bryant.

that hard work ca n tum a failing bu siness into a flourishing success . Coulthard had a Guelph di­ ploma in horticulture behind him when he and hi s wife , Christine, bought a Weed Man franchise in Goderich, Ont. , about five years ago. The risk paid off; their bu siness was recently honored by the com­ pany as Canadian Weed Man of the Year.

Bruce Read, B .S c.(Agr.) '85, was recently ap­ pointed general manager of the Kaw3I1ha Consum­ ers Co-operative Inc. in Lindsay, Ont. The company provides agricultural services and oper­ ates a large lumber and retail business. Read moved from the Ottawa area to the Kawartha Co-op in March 1994 as agri c ultural services manager. He and his wife, Rebecca, are expecting their third child thi s summer.

Deborah Foster, M.Sc. '87, is a family therapist in Edmonton and teaches at Athabasca University.

She has one son, Evan.

John Fluke, BA '87 , works for MacMillan Bloedel as a lumber trader for the Atlantic prov­ inces. Hi s home base is Halifax.

Margaret (Price) Soroye, B.A.Sc. '85, lives in

Greg McWatt, DVM '87, is a partner at Bay­

Brampton, OnL, with her hu sband, Foluso, and in­ fant son, Peter, who was born last ApliL

wood and Simcoe veterinary hospital s in Barrie and Midhurst, Ont. He and his wife, Una, have two chil­ dren: Sean, 4; and Alanna, 2.

Kate (Cammidge) and Paul Ingram, both B.Comm. '86, live in Kitchener, OnL, with their two daughters. She's a member of the sales team at CKCO-TV; he' s an associate manager for Mutual Life Ass urance Company in Stratford.

Margaret (Frances), B.Comm. '86, and Lome Kellaway, B.Sc. ' 85, celebrated the birth of their second son last September. They live in Kanata, Ont., where Lorne Kellaway is an accountant.

Tammy (Dobson) Smith, BA ' 86, and her hus­ band, Kevin, live in Chapleau, Ont., with their two sons, Jacob, 2, and Joseph, born in February. Smith earned a B.Ed. from Nipissing University in 1988 and teaches French-immersion senior kindergarten at Chapleau Public SchooL Margot (Duxbury) Swindall, B.Comm. '86, and her husband , Paul, B.Sc. '85, live in Missis­ sa uga, OnL, where she recently launched a new bus iness, Pilot Foodservice Management. She says she'd love to work with other HAFA grads.

Frances (Gates) Wilson, BA ' 86, moved to

England after graduation to work as an archeolo­ Guelph Alumnus

Connie Walker-Attard, BA '88, is fini shing her third year in the sign-language interpreter pro­ gram at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont. Her hus­ band, Alex Attard, BA '89, is a marketing analyst for the Canadian Tire Corporation.

Jeffrey Boland, B.Comm. '88, recently com­ pleted a postgraduate degree in tourism at the Uni­ versity of the West Indies in Nassau, Bahamas, and is now operations manager for SunS wept Resorts.

He is responsible for resort hotels in St. Lucia and Grenada, the West Indies.

Carl Paton, B .Sc. '88, is an environmental scien­ ti st who spent four years working in the wilds of northwest British Columbia before moving to Saskatoon with his fiancee. He now works for Cameco Corporation.

John and Veronica Bagasel, both MA '89, and the ir children are living in Papua New Guinea.

They invite friends to write to them at P.O. Box 120, University, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.

If you know an address or phone number for any of the following alumni, send it to us so they , too, can re­ ceive the Guelph Alumnus.

Alum~i Records, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont NIG 2Wl Fax: 519-822-2670, e-mail: velma@vax 1. alumnLuoguelph.ca.

1971 Antony Breuer, BA Mary Bullen B.Sc. Diane Claus, BA Dale Cruickshank, BA John Esmon, BA Steven Fountain, BA Peter Gladwin , BA Jo-Anne Harper, B.H.Sc. Stephen Hoare, BA Dav id Hudson, B.Sc. Margaret Irwin. BA Patricia (Grubb) Kemp, BA Anthony Knox , B.Sc .

John Lockhart. BA Cathie Mallard, BA Marion (Lampman) Matthews, B.H.Sc .

Pamela McCormick, BA Ma xwell Mitchell, BA Brian Mountjoy, B.Sc .(Eng.)

Sandra Netherby. BA

Laurie Pelton , B.Sc.

Michael Ramsay, B.Sc.

Gerald Ruby, B.Sc.

1986 Joann Allward, BA

Debra Bakowsky,

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Lori Bell, B.Comm .

Caroline Cole, B.Sc.

Patricia Cust, BA

Marnie Hayes, BA

Sean Irwin, B.Sc.

Linda Kalina . B.A.Sc.

Marsha Kierstead , B.Sc.

Ronald Laurin, Dip.(Agr.)

Glenda Livingston,

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Penny-Jane Mattson,

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John Meiser. B.Sc.(Agr.)

Patricia Nas h, B .Sc.

Deborah Penrose, BA

Alexander Ramsay , B.Sc .

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Back to Ontario in the fall of 1990, King began working as a microbiologist in Scarboroug h and Thompson got a job as a child-protecti on worker in Sarnia. A year later, they both found jobs in Alli s­ ton, an d were married in July 1992.

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David Klassen, BA '89, spe nt 10 weeks last year working with Rw and an refugees in eastern Zaire and travell ing throu g h Zaire, Burundi and Rwanda.

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Michael Jaeger, BA '89, and Diane Page, B.A .Sc. '87 , were married last September and now live in Stratford, Ont., where Jaege r is an associate law yer at the firm Mountain, Mitchell.

their two-year-o ld dau ghter, Cassandra. Both work for the Ministry of Natural Resources, he in Chatham and she in Aylmer.

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Ria (Ligata) Islamovic, B.Sc . '90, has been working in researc h and development as a food tech­ nologist for E.D. Smith & Sons Limited in Winona, Ont., since graduatio n. She was married in 1992 and had her first ch ild, a daughter, last December.

Debra Stewart, B.A.Sc. '90, is a public-health dietitian with the Huron County Health Unit.

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Eric Bretsen, BA '9 1, received hi s CA in Decem­ ber and now works for Ern st & Young in Toronto.

Christine Comiske y, B.Sc . '91, completed an education degree at Mount Alli son University in 1993, taught last year in Burgeo, Nnd. , and is now teaching special education in Corner Brook.

Mark Fabro, B.Sc. '91, is a scienti st with a musi­ cal bent and vice versa. After gmd uating from U of G , he spent two years at th e University of To ronto doing resea rch in astrophysics. But he's now playing bass for the prominent death-metal band Self and is touring the United States and Europe with Gut Sonic.

Scoff Lee, B.Sc. (H .K.) '91, has ju st finished his intern year and will graduate in May from the Cana­ dian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.

Cong ratulat ion s are in order, says Kim Bertling, B.A.Sc. '94, whose romance with Lee has a lot of Johnston Hall memories. He was a residence assist­ ant; she worked on the porter's desk.

Vesna Ranisavljevic, B.Sc. '91 , was in Guelph last December and enj oyed a brisk 6 a.m. walk across campus. "It was incredibly nostalgic," she says. "The campus filled me with such a wondeli'ul feeling." She lives in Vancouver and teaches high school in Richmond.

Cheryl Lewis, B.Sc.(H.K.) '92, says she'IJ even­ tually return to her interest in prosthetics, but right now she' s havi ng too much fun working as a sales manager fo r The Event Transportation System!

GroupTix. The co mp any is tour operator for the Rolling Stones VooDoo Lounge across North America and th e Pink Floyd tour and handles group sa les for shows like the Ice Capades, Stars on Ice, the Canadian Open and th e Moscow Circus.

Andrew Marchal/, B.Sc.(H.K.) '92, was mar­ ried last September to Barbara Brittain, BA '92.

They live in Guelph, where he works for Ford New Holland Cred it and is pursuing an MBA. She works in Mississauga in human resources with World Vi­ sion Canada.

Richard Wheelhouse, B.Comm.'92, a nd Lynda Hunter, BA '93, were man-ied last Octo­ ber. The y live in Guelph, where Whee lhou se is swing manager for a local restaurant.

Bruce Bonham, BA '93, says he 'd recommend the U ofG Krakow semes ter to any student who'd like to combine trav e l and study ... and perhaps ro­ mance . He met hi s Polish wife, Anna, during the 1992 Krakow semester. They were married in Po­ land, but are now li ving in Prescott, Ont., where Bonh am is news editor of the Prescot! Journal and editor of the Grenville County Business News.

Kerri Latham, BA '93, and Eric Duck, BA '94, had to learn to use a machete to build the thatched Guelph Alumnus

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doctora l program in philosophy, recently ac­

cepted u pelmane nt position as professor at

the Pontifical In. ti tute for Arabic and blamic

Studies in Rome. He is th first Muslim ever

to have been offered a position in the Vati­

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ayed began hi ~ uni versi ty career at Guel ph in the School of Engineering, earning a B.Sc.(Eng.) in 1985 before transferr ing to the College of Arts to do graduate work in philosophy. He earned an MA in 1987; and a PhD in 1994.

cabana in whi ch th ey are now Jiving in Belmopa n, Belize. They are seven months into a year-long trek through Central America and report tha t they've been tra ve lling by ricke ty bus, cooking on a pro­ pane stove and learning to do laundry in the river.

They 've als o been visiting 1,200-year-old Mayan caves, but ex pect to return to Canada in September.

Charmaine Avery, BA '94, is a case worker and recrui tment co-ord inator with Big Brothers in the Woodstock, Ont. , area.

Jeff Bowra, DVM '94. works at Fraser Heig hts Animal Hospital in Surrey, B.C. He and hi s wife , Toni (Darrell), BA ' 88 , were married in 1992 and ce le brated the birth of a daughter. Chloe Joh anna , las t June . They live in Coquitlam.

Craig Chandler, (En g. '94), works for Porter Dillon Ltd .. an environme ntal engineering firm in Sydney, N.S. Wendy Gauntherand Stephen Decker, both B.S c. '94, received PhD sc hol a rships from the University of Albel1a. She' s enrolled in the bio­ chemistry program; he 's in chemi stry.

Abbreviations

BA = Bachelor of arts

B.A.Sc. = Bachelor of applied sc ience

B.Comm. = Bachelor of co mm erce

B.H.Sc. = Bachelor of household science

BLA= Bache lor of landscape architecture

BSA = Bachelor of science in agriculture

B.Sc.(Agr.) = Bachelor of science in agricu lture

B.Sc. = Bachelor of sc ience

B.S c.(Eng.) = Bac hel or of science in engineering

B.Sc.(H.K.) = Bachelor of science in human kinetics

DVM = Doctor of veterinary medicine

Dip.(Agr.) =Associate dipl oma in agriculture

Dip.(H.E.) = Diploma in home economics

ODA = Ontario diploma in agric ul ture

ODH = Ontario dipl oma in horticulture

PhD = Doctor of philosophy

GD = Graduate diploma

MA = Master of arts

M.Agr. = Master of agriculture

MLA = Master of landsca pe architecture

M.Sc. = Master of Science

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The following deaths have been reported since the

Margaret "Molly" (Mitchell) Newman, last issue of the Guelph Alumnus. Full notices,

B.H.Sc. ' 53, Feb. 3, 1995. which are usually submitted by family or class­

Pemberton Page, frie nd of OAC '43, mates, may appear in thi s issue or in a later one.

Feb. 26, 1995.

Donald Awde, BSA '35, Dec. 31,1994.

Donald Paul, BSA '37, in April 1994.

Gordon Bell, BSA '40, Nov. 23, 1994.

Wallace Pigden, BSA '48, Nov. 4,1994.

Louisa (Hill) Bishop, Dip.(Mac) '31, Dec. 4,1994.

Laurie Plancke, BA '89, Feb. 13, 1995.

Roy Botterill, Dip.(Agr.) '34 and BSA '36,

Edwin Powers, DVM '35, Dec. 30, 1994.

Dec. 10, 1994.

Sir Karl S. Popper, HDLE '71, Sept. 17, 1994.

Herbert Burton, BSA '36 and MSA '49, Ruth (Barns) Regan, Dip.(Mac) '3 1, Oct. 6, Dec. 12,1994.

1994.

Norah (Hargan) Card, Dip.(Mac) '37, Allan Rennie, Dip.(Agr.) '40 and BSA '49,

Jan. 9, 1995.

Nov. 20, 1994 .

Bruce Cowan, Dip.(Agr.) ,49, Dec. 14, 1994.

Ernest Roberts, Dip.(Agr.) '47, date unknown .

Donald Craven, BSA '60, April 27, 1994.

Robert Sanderson, BSA '42, Jan. 28,1995.

Arthur Douglas, BSA '32, April 19, 1994.

Robert Schultz, DVM '39, July 12, 1993.

Agnes (Kellock) Eybers, Dip.(Mac) '3 1, Alan Scott, B.Sc.(Agr) '84, Feb. 23, 1995 .

Jan. 23, 1995.

Orville Seaton, BSA ' 58 and MSA '59, Thomas Ferguson, DVM ' 50, Dec. 28, 1994.

Nov. 13,1994.

Laurel (Agur) George, B.H.Sc. '57, Robin Smith, BLA '76, Dec. 18,1994.

March 14, 1995 Wilbert Stoddart, Dip.(Agr.) '3 1A and BSA '34, Anne Laidlaw Isa, DVM '45, July 8,1994 Nov. 22, 1994.

Gordon Good, Dip.(Agr.) '27 and BSA '29, John Syme, Dip.(Agr.) '56, Feb. 10, 1995.

Oct. 11, 1994.

Mary (McTaggart) Tisdall, Dip.(Mac) '25, Helen (Clark) Grant, Dip.(Mac) '32, Nov. 10, 1994.

Feb. 4, 1995 .

Donald Tweedell, BSA '4 1, Sept. 12, 1994.

Fay (Lipsit) Gray, Dip.(Mac) '33, Feb. 28,1995.

Ronald Wessman, B.Sc.(Eng.) '66 and M.Sc. Blake Grier, BSA '50, Sept. 8,1994.

'68, Feb. 10, 1995.

Evelyn (Woods) Hayes, Dip.(Mac) '32, Helen (Sharp) Wetmore, BSA '35, March 7, 1994.

April 21, 1994.

Elizabeth (Wright) Hampe-Drozda, Dip.(Mac) Sharon Barrett, BA ' 71 , of Toronto, died Oct. 15, '47, Aug. 20,1994.

1994, of leukemia. She is survived by her husband, Michael Moles, and three chi ldren.

James Hughes, BSA '51, Dec. 4, 1994.

Garnet Hyslop, DVM '47, Nov. 10, 1994.

Alan Jewson, BSA '45, Dec. 13, 1994.

Doris (Taylor) Johnston, Dip.(Mac) '47, Dec. 4, 1994.

Michae/Joseph, B.Sc. '82 and DVM '86, Dec. 5, 1994.

Donald King, DVM '51, Nov. 5, 1993.

Joel Koegler, B.Sc. '80, in 1991.

Jack Lees, friend of OAC '32, Jan. 28, 1995.

John Lindner, DVM '73, Feb. 7, 1995.

John McConachie, BSA '32, Feb. 19, 1995 .

Margaret (Girvan) McDonald, Dip.(Mac) '4 1, June 3, 1994.

Robert Moore, BSA '48, Dec. 29,1994.

Shelagh (Campbell) Murrie, B.Sc. '77, Nov. 10, 1994.

Arthur Neff, BSA '42, Jan . 29, 1995.

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Christopher Beaudoin, BA '86, died Feb. 24, 1995, in South Africa, where he was working as a construction forema n. He is survived by his parents and two sisters.

Everett Biggs, BSA '48, of Brampton, Ont., died Feb. 2, 1995. He served as Ontario's deputy minis­ ter of agriculture and food for 11 years, dairy com­ missioner for nine years, assistant deputy minister of agriculture for one year and deput y minister of the environment for one year. He also served on the Canadian Agricultural Services Board, co-ordinat­ ing improvements in the agricultura l education and research services delivered by Ontario.

He was instrumental in establishing the overall dairy policy for Canada. He also played a role in creating the University of Guelph and the Agricu l­ tural Research Institute of Ontario.

Mr. Biggs recently served as president of the OAC Alumni Association and as chair for a study on the future of the college. He was honored by the

Everett Biggs

Guelph Alumnus

Canadian Seed Growers, the Agricultural Institute of Canada and the Province of Quebec. He gave his home town of Brampton a lifetime of service through his many associations, including a commit­ ment to Rotary.

This year, he is being honored posthumously as U of G' s 1995 Alumnus of Honour recipient at Alumni Weekend. He is survived by his wife, Irene, and son, Jamie. Memorial don atio ns can be made to the OAC Alumni Foundation, c/o Alumni Hou se .

Cynthia Blizzard, Dip.(Mac) '63 and B.H .Sc. '7 1, died suddenly in Ottawa on Nov. 14, 1994. She worked for the Department of National Defence and is survived by her sisters, Flora Francis, Norma Inniss and Lynette Ng, B.Sc.(Agr.) '65, and broth­ ers, Lennox, B.Sc.(Agr.) '69, Lloyd and Stephen.

Lyman Chapman, BSA ' 30, of Clarksburg, Ont., died Nov. I, 1994, in Mississauga. He was employed at the Ontario Research Foundation (ORF) in Toronto for more than 40 years, was a consultant for Consolidated Sand and Gravel and operated an apple farm near Thornbury until 1992.

Active in alumni affairs, Mr. Chapman was OAC '30 class agent and received the OAC Centennial Medal in 1974. Predeceased by his wife, Edith, he is survived by one daughter, Alison Fleming . A me­ morial fund will be established in his memory, and donations may be sent to the Development Office c/o Alumni House.

Hugh Elliott, BSA '23, of Paris, Ont , died March

17, 1995. Before attending OAC, he served in the

Canadian military and, after graduation, faImed in

North Dumphries Township, where he was active

in municipal affairs. He was township clerk and

treasurer for 38 years and was secretary-treasurer

for local school districts between 1946 and 1967. A

volunteer for several historical and conservation

groups, he was awarded the Canada Centennial

Medal in 1967. Predeceased by hi s first wife, Jean

Barrie, he is survived by his wife Irene Fink, two

daughters and a stepdaughter, nine grandchildren

and three great-grandchildren.

Stuart Foster, DVM '49, of Fergus, Ont., died

Feb. 25, 1995. He ran a veterinary practice in Fer­

gus for many years and completed 26 years of serv­

ice with the health of animals branch of Agriculture

Canada at 1.M. Schneider in Kitchener. He is sur­

vived by his wife, Marion, and five children.

Brion Kennedy, an associate professor in the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, died Nov. 27, 1994. A professor in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science since 1981, he is sur­ vived by his wife, Sandy, and two children, Meghan and Eric. Memorial contributions may be made through the Development Office at Alumni House. A tree will be planted in his memory in the Wall-Custance Forest at the Arboretum.

Benjamin Leach, DVM '35, of St. Albans, Ver­ mont, died March 3, 1993. Born in Fairfield, Vt. , he Cuelph Alumnus

received a commission in the U.S. army after gradu­ ating from OVC and continued to serve as a mili­ tary officer until his retirement in 1961. He is survived by a sister, Charlotte Barry of St. Albans, Vt., who has established a memorial scholarship at OVC in her brother's name.

Judith (Jude) McConney, B.Sc.(Agr) '80, of Calgary, died Feb. 19, 1995, as the result of a mo­ tor vehicle accident. She was an agronomist with Beiseker Agriculture Services at Beiseker, Alta., and is survived by her parents, Mary and Bob McConney, BSA '48, one sister, Sheila, and three brothers, Garnet, B.Sc.(Agr) '77, Sandy, B.Sc. '79, and Fraser.

Francis Newbould, Dip.(OAC '32) and BSA '36, of Guelph died Nov. 16, 1994. Much of his work as a Guelph professor laid the foundation for many of the current mastitis research programs around the world . Professor emeritus at U of G, he is survived by his wife, Jean and two dau gh ters .

Jock "Goomer" Raithby, BSA ' 51, died Dec. 30, 1994 in Campbellville, Ont. In 1955, he became manager of Clover Meadow Creamery Ltd. in Toronto and retired as president in 1985. More re­ cently, he worked for Nelson Dairies. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Nancy (Matthews), B.H.Sc. '53 , and four children. His late father, George, BSA '23, was a former professor at U of G.

Margaret (Holes) Starkey, Dip.(Mac) '29, died March 14,1995, in Gue lph. She had worked as a dietitian at the Simcoe General Hospital and was a member of the Arke ll Women 's Institute. Prede­ ceased by her husband, Richard, she is survived by her sisters, Eleanor Mitchell, Dip .(Mac) '36, and Catherine Smith, and her brother, Alt Holes, BSA '34.

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Hugh Wathke, B.Sc.(Agr.) '89, of Winnipeg (for­ merly of Port Elgin, Ont.) died suddenly May 20, 1994, as the resu lt of a boating accident. He is sur­ vived by his father, George, DVM ' 64, his friend Carol Durscher, sisters, Lisa Butchart and Brenna Eadie, B. Comm. '92, and a brother, Philip.

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