Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Fall 1995 by University of Guelph

Dinosaurs on demand

f you saw Jurassic Park, yo!.) saw the work of Guelph fine art

graduate Peter May. It took May three months to build the dino

saurs for the movie. And how did he get the job? "I called Steven Spielberg to tell him [ could build hi s dinosaurs, " May says. "[ build di nosaurs. That 's my work." He does that work for the great museums o f the world - New York 's Museum of Natural Hi ~ tory, the Briti:h Muse um o f Natural His tory and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, just to name a few. May admits he wasn't big on dinosaurs as a kid. "I missed that phase:' he says, " but that didn't stop me from applying for a jo b to build dinosaurs at the ROM after I graduated in 1977." Still a research associate for the museum , he now has his own company, Research Cast ing International in OakviUe , Ont. He works with the world's top pale ontologists, creating casts of dinosaurs from fos sil remains of animals that became extinct more than 100 million years ago. "I can create anything using the skills I was taught at Guelph:' he says. "It was an excellent background" In recent years, May has become increasingly involved in museum design and display planning. Photographer Trina Koster, BA ' 94, caught him and his prehi storic pals in Gananoque, Ont. , at the opening of a travelling dinosaur exhibit he designed and built. The mobile dino saurs spent last winter touring Nova Scotia and Vermont and will be on display Nov . 18 to Jan. 7, 1996, at the Natural History Museum in St. John ' s, N.B. You can also see May ' s work o n permanent display at the museums listed above ... and M a theatre near you.

September 1995 Editor Mary Dickieson Executive Editor Sandra WcbslCr. BA

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Contributors Margaret Boyd Jenni fer Bumell Barbara Chance. BA '74 John Harris Re nee Tava,cin, BA ' X5 om ' of Research Designll'roduclioll Mary Dickies!)n Linda Grahalll , BA '77

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Prairie warbler

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Inside What ' s one of easlern Ontari o' S songbirds doing in the Yucatan') You' ll find oul when you take a walk

Spawning a new industry

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More romance on canlpus: Editor's note: After our May 1995 story about romance on campus, we heard from several more Guelph couples, including Bob and Daisy Keith of Orangeville, Ont., who told us yet another boy-gets-girl story. In the 19205 and '30s, the most common and accepted way for men to mee t wome n on campus was at the twice-weekly ha lJ hour dances at Mac donald Hall. Even shy fellow s like Bob Keith , BSA '3 2, we re ab le to screw up their courage and ask some one - like Daisy Richards, Dip .(H.E. ) , 31 - to dance. After Bob met Dai sy, he was easy prey for the pranksters who shared the Redmen unifonTI with him. Even Coach Baldy Baldwi n got into the ac t. Wheneve r Photos: Bob in his Redmen uniform and Daisy as a new bride in 1936. the team went 10 Lon don to play Wes tern, Baldw in wou ld ha ve the bus driver stop in front of Daisy's house on When I, good fri e nd s, went to OAC,

Richmond Street so the l'd an appeti te fres h and hearty.

players could s in g: "Dai sy, Daisy , g ive me But I was as many young Aggies were,

your an swe r, do. J'm An impecun ious party.

hal f crazy, a ll for the I'd two pairs of pants and ajacket of blue,

love of you." Fellow A hat with a bit of a fe ath er,

Redman Alf Hales, BSA A couple of s hirts and a ti e or two

'32, says it sure embar And shoes of so me kind of leather.

rassed Bob, but it also put the whole football At Macdo nald Hall I often dan ced,

team in good spirits for I felt il was only my duty.

the game to follow. I was sure I would find from amo ngst the lot

Those '32 Aggies A young lady of particular beauty.

were romantic and full To accomplish thi s end and win the maid

of f un, and man y of Certain ly took mu ch time and stud y.

them even wrote poetry . I pressed my pants and shined my s hoes,

The verse tl1at follow s is So I'd be less of a fuddy dudd y.

Bob's de scription of how one shy Aggie man One th ing I did note, it was plain to see,

aged to meet the Mac Was the luck of th e foo tba ll player.

girl of hi s dreams. He would manage very well, party or dance,

He was quite th e fema le slayer.

So I donned my c lea ts, my helme t and pads

And I strutted around in my sweater.

I scre wed up my courage a notch or two

Poem by Bob Keith, BSA '32 And it wasn't long till I met her.

An old Aggie reminisces

Through the Guelph Alumnus, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to the UGAA board of direc tors and all alumni for es tab lishing the Rosemary Clark Vol unteer Leadership A ward. With cu tb acks in govern ment fundin g to universities, it ha s not been possible in recent years to support alumni participation in con ferences and wo rk sho ps offered by such organiza tio ns as the Counc il for the Advancement and Support of Education and th e Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. I am delighted th at this award may help ou t. Any o rganizatio n is onl y as strong as its leader ship. Alumni vo lunteer leaders a re highly motiv ated and offer ext raordinary expertise. They wield the in fluence to get things done and can ofte n force dec i sions, settle issues and effec t change in ways Ihat staff members cannot. I hope this award can provide fund s each year for at least one volunteer to learn about th e work of alumni association s at othe r institu tions and brin g back ideas that will strengthen the UGAA and , th roug h it, th e constitu en t organizations. Assoc iations have made a habit of stea li ng each olhe r's ideas and adapting them. When planning a lumni act ivities , I always be lieved it was important for a program to have an ed ucational purpose and to be in so me way related to the Univer sity. Eve n beyond our participation rates an d bottom lin e. a lumni programming has an extre mely impor tant purpose related to what we ca n ac complish for Gue lph, as well as how we can e nri c h the lives of the individual alumni who participate. Over th e years, we've become tec hni ca ll y co mpe tent at running meetings, providin g program s an d marketin g affinity programs , but I hope we always re main ph ilosophically att uned to th e true purpose of alum ni a ssociat ions. which I believe is to provide sup port to the University . It has been a pri v ilege fo r me to work with so many wonderful a lumni and coll eagues, both a t Guelph and other in stitutions, over the past 24 years. With each new board of directors came new chal le nges a nd opportuniti es. Thank you, everyone I Rose mary Clark, B.Sc.( H .E.) '59 Guelph,Ont. I can't help but observe that in yo ur May 1995 issue, "Grad News" begin s with the 19405. That's fine, but shou ldn 't you p ut a line of exp lanation under the head ing? Here is my suggestion . GRAD NEWS: For news of those who grad uated prior to 1940, please consult "O bituaries." Dan Lave ry, BSA '39 Danvi Jle, Ill.

Editor's note: Our thanks to Dan Lavery for re minding us that our pre-1940s grads are alive and well and full of fun. We try to print all "Grad News" items that are submitted to us and would like to hear from more of our golden anniversary alumni. Send your news to the Guelph Alumnus, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. Nl G 2Wl. Guelph Alumnus

SPC report goes to president Making Change: Th e Straleg ;c Plan for the Univer sity of Guelph, the final re port of the Strategic-Plan ning Commiss io n (S PC), was p rese nted to president Mordechai Ro zansk i and distribu ted to th e Univer sity community earl y thi s sum mer. Alumni ca n re cei ve a copy by ca lling Uni ve rsity Communications at 519-824-41 20, Ext. 658 1. The report presents a stra tegic vi sio n of what Guelph should loo k like in LO years and a strategic pl an that will move the Uni ve rsi ty toward s th at VI sion. The plan is built around a miss ion state ment and 53 recomme nd ati ons that foc us o n peopl e, strate gic directions , academic programs and stru ctures, re source allocation and reco nfig urin g the University. In July, Rozanski gave hi s initi al assess ment of the report. "I wholeheartedly e nd o rse the proposed pri mary and secondary stra teg ic directions - learner centred ness, research-intensi ve ness, co lla bo ration , internationalism and o pe n lea rning," he said . "These are the components we ca n weave togeth e r to ac hie ve lasting streng th and d istincti o n." He noted that altho ug h the strategic pla n ca n' t an swer all the questi ons the Uni versity will face in dif fic ult times, it will provide a fra mewo rk fo r dec is ion m akin g. " It is not - a nd it was no t m y inte ntio n that it should be - a fin a nc ia l pla n for U of G . But it has, as I reques ted, g ive n us a vis io n of excelle nce within the context of budgetary co nstraints." Rozanski said implementati o n of the strategic plan will be a community effort and th at peopl e through out the University will be asked to help . Reco mmen dations that fall within the mandate of the pres ide nt and provost will be acted on qui c kly, he said. These includ e the establishment of a transpa rent reso urce a ll ocation mechanism , a learnin g en hancement fund and a rese arch enhancement fund . So me reco mmendations in the repo rt requ ire fur ther de libe ration and appro va l by Senate a nd ot he r campu s committees, said R ozanski . "My reco mme n datio ns will be sent as earl y as poss ible to the app ro priate gove rning bodies fo r the ir co nsidera ti o n and appro va l. M y stron g ho pe is that thi s approval proc ess can be co mpleted in the fa ll semester."

Alumni at the vanGUARD of success Alumni and friends of U of G have he lped launc h GUARD with a commitment of almost $500,000. GUARD - an acronym for Guelph University Alumni Research and Development - was fo rm ed to com me rcialize U of G technology. In th e sp rin g, GUARD 's boa rd of directors decid ed it must attrac t initi al investme nt from a core of al umn i and fri e nd s be fore p roceeding with other in vestme nt pl ans using an Ontar io Sec urities Commissio n seed capita l ex em pti o n and an initial public offering. Th rouab h an effo rt led by Debo rah Whale, c ha ir of. the fo undin g in vesto rs' g roup, a nd Ron Moses, pres I de nt, GU ARD received $ 10,000 each from 48 in ves to rs. "GUARD 's 48 founding in vestors are people of Gu.elph Alumnus

Smiling in the rain It rain ed this year o n.the a nnual U of G Community Barbec ue, the first time

in 21 years thal Mo ther Nature has n't smiled on the e vent. Initiated in 1974

by the Ce ntral Student Associa ti on (CSA), the barbec u~ has become a to~n - .

and-gown traditi o n, bring ing peopl e from the commulllty to cam pus to enJoy

the festivities .

Each year, the CSApn:;sentsthe Community Service A:-vard to som.eone

who gives their tirile selflessly for th e betterme nt of the WIder ulll vem.ty com

munity. This year's recipi e nt was Indira Ganaselall, U of G 's human n g hts

adviser. In the photo, clockw ise from lower left. are: CSA s pokesp~rson Lance Morgan, peer lle lper Eri Y amada, CSA human ri ghts co-ordll1 utor mill

kaur, students nathalie youngl ai and Sabina Chaltelj ee, G anase lal l, Lynne

Jenkins of the Women's Resource C e ntre, employme nt equity ad vise r

Heather Heath, associate vicecpreside nt (academic) Constance R. o ke a nd

Sharon HalTis of the Human Ri ghts Office. Photo by Trina Koster

vis io n, willing to ta ke a ri sk to make a diffe re nce," says Whale. " Each o ne a pprecia tes the value of the resea rc h a nd de velopme nt of tec hno logy-based prod uc ts be ing done at the Uni versity." GUARD was initially conce ived by the OAC Alumni Foundation and the O ffice of Researc h as a way to strengthen waning re sources fo r researc hers throug h better commercialization of Gu elph inven tio ns and technologies. GUARD is accepting private corpo rat io ns as fo undin g in vestors until the end o f Se ptem ber 1995. In a few weeks' time, the launching of the th ird phase in the financing strategy wi ll o pe n th e way fo r oth er alumni a nd friend s o f the Uni vers ity to p3l"tici pa te in th e initi al publi c o ffering. Thi s will a lso be th e stage w here GUARD will attrac t in stitutio na l in vestors suc h as ba nks , pe nsio n fund s a nd ve nture capi ta l inst iLUtio ns.

An yone in terested in learning more about G UARD sho uld call Moses at 51 9-767 -5 022. 5

Uof Gtakes a new partner The University has teamed up with a high school in Scarborough, Ont., in a pilot project designed to help reduce barriers to higher education and contribute to the diversity of U of G' s student population. As part of Project Go, Guelph faculty, staff and students will work closely with students in Grades 7 through 10 at L' Amoureaux Collegiate In stitute and its feeder public schools, Silver Springs and Sir Er nest Macmillan , on an ongoing series of educational opportunities, exchanges and special events. Project Go reflects U of G ' s commitment to educa tional equity, says president Mordechai Rozan ski, who had experience with a similar program in the United States. "We know our entrance standards are high and they will remain so. Students must take re sponsi bility for their own academic success, but by mentoring their progress early, we can show that ac cess and excellence are mutually reinforcing." L' Amoureaux was selected because it is one of the most multicultural schools in Canada, with more than 80 countries represented in its student body.

Almost 2,000 graduate in June During spring convocation ceremonies, U of G awa rded six honorary degrees and bestowed three University professor emeritus honors and one Uni versity fellowship. About 1,800 undergraduate and 170 graduate students received degrees during the seven ceremonies June 6 to 9. Honorary degrees were awarded to microbiologist Julian Davies, computer scientist Ben Shneiderman , sociologi sts Jean Burnet and Helena Lopata, scien tific philoso phef David Hull and agricultural entre preneur Donald McQueen Shaver. The title of University pfofessor emeritus was be stowed on thfee retired faculty - biomedical scien ti st Pafvathi Basrur, land resource scientist Murray Miller, BSA '53, and crop scientist Jack Tanner, BSA '57 and MSA '59. Former OAC dean and dep uty agriculture minister Clay Switzer, BSA '51 and MSA '53, was named honorafY fellow.

United Way donates to Uof G The University of Guelph has a long hi story of fund rai sing for the United Way. In a unique reversal of roles, the charitable organization has given back to the University with a one-time donation of $25,000 to Raithby House. Raithby Hou se is a drop-in centre that was estab lished in 1993 to fill the void in after-hours support services for students cau sed by gradual cutbacks in funding. The house is open to those in distfess on an informal basis after regular hours and without ap pointments. It also provides space for the telephone help and safety line CONTACT and several volun teef and safety-oriented organizations geared to im proving the quality of life for students while on campus. 6

Grad spearheads endowment Hank VanderPol, a 1965 graduate of OAC, has made his commitment to education a family affair. The whole VanderPol family has joined forces to provide a $400,000 en dowment that will sup port two President's Entrance Scholarships. The VanderPols oper ate Ro-Land Farms Lim ited of Blenheim, Ont., a leader in the production of mushrooms , vegetable seedling transpl ants, processing tomatoes and seed corn. Longtime s up porters of U of G, the family has hosted many OAC student groups and faculty at the farm. And Hank VanderPol has served his alma mater on many occa sions. He is a former member of the OAC Advisory Board, supported the establishment of the George Morris Centre, was entrepreneur-in-residence at OAC and won the college's Outstanding Service Award in 1991. He now sits on the board of GUARD. VanderPol announced the endowment gift in May when U of G hosted its major donors at the annual Preside nt's Council luncheon . The council was estab lished 10 years ago to recognize donors whose an nual gift to the University exceeds $ 1,000. Since then, its donors have given more th an $7 million, with $1.5 million of that going to the Pfesident' s En trance Scholarship Endowment Fund. Major donors have al so supported capital projects, the library, Pet Tru st, works of art, the Arboretum, the Gryphon Club and numerous class projects.

From left are Lynn, Hank and Eric VanderPol, Sue O'Brien and Art, Judy and Peter VanderPol. Photo by Trina Kasler

Campbell's supports FACS Campbell Soup Company Limited of Toronto has pledged $100,000 towards the FACS Building addi tion, which will be officially opened Sept. 29 during Homecoming Weekend. The Campbell pledge, to be provided over five years, will support an applied hu man nutrition laboratory. Campbell 's has been a generous supporter of the University since 1968, says Marilyn Robinson , B.H.Sc. '55, director of donor relations. Over the years, it has supported Guelph' s matching-gift pro gram and College Royal and gave $100,000 toward s construction of the Bovey Building and renovation s to the Food Science Building. The thfee- storey addition to FACS represents the first phase of a staged plan to improve and increase teaching and research space. The $3.2-milliol1 pro ject involves more than $2.6 mi.llion in project costs and about $570,000 to establis h an endowment fund to cover future operating costs. Cuelph Alumnus

Irban wildlife nee shelp, too Nathalie Karvonen knows she needs a vacation, but if

she takes time off, some of the animals in her cure

might suffer and the other \/olunteers at the Toronto

· Wildlife Centre would be overwhelmed. "i startedthe . · centre,".s he says; "so I' m the one responsible for car ing for the animal s." Housed in a warehouse Oil Dundas Street East at River Street; the wiidlifecentre sometirues has several . hundred animals on site at one time. Now in its third

year of Operation , the c~J1tre has seen its patient nUl11- .

bets grow from 1,000 animals the tirst year to more

than 2,000 last year. . . .

"And v;re' re biJsier than ever," savs Karvonen a

1989 biology graduate of U of O. S'he .usedher, ~wn

savings to stat1 the centre after working for several

years with the Toronto Humane Society, which she

says was inundated with wildlife. "The ci.tyneedeci

more facilities to help care for injured wildlife."

Karvonen h~ cared for more than ' I30 ciifferenlspe

cies,. including coyotes, foxes, flying squirrels, bea

vers, herons, l()ons and swans. Many of these have

been babies ~ a songbirq tbat was "saved" from the

family cat, squirrels found crying in .the attic two days

after theirrnother was trapped and moved, a raccoon

rhat had been dressed in pink ribbons and playedwith

fOJ'SeVeral months until it became too aggressive.

The cirtumstanq:s thathringpatients loth.e Toronto

Wildlife Centre poiill out the desperate need for public

education, says Karvonen. She'd like people to know

tbatthey can put that tiny bird hack into the nest (it' s a

myth that the mother hird won't. accept it) and th;at

· they should pur the .cat inside so the mother bird can Karvonen spends 10 to 12 hours ada)' ,six days, continue to feed the fledgling until it's able to fly. . , a week, caring for injured (ir abandoned wildlife. She ~ilso says that relocating nuisance animals is riot "I haven: t had a paying jobror four years, bot I get , a happy solutiOn. As many as 70 percent will die a lot of support fl'om my family and friends," she wjthin the first three months, and their orphaned ba says. In facl, the centre rel'ies on v()ll.tnteers for all bies, if found, mustbe reared and reintroduced to the its needs. Last SUmtHer, the centre received fundwild. In reality, most of the babies left b~hind starve to . illgunder a studen~ empioyment program 'to begin death because no one knowswherc they are. the groundwork on a sChool education program, Th~ problem of~oisance animals is best solved by but Karvonen knows already the demand will be disrupting them with a light and. a radio, ' she says. The great,e r than the time she wi\lhavetoVisii schools: squin;el probaply moved into the attic in the first place Still sbe believes educating children about wil~l!ife because itwasquiet and dark. could be one of the best ways to protect both . . Large cities like Toronto provideu wide range of The annual summer rabies scare is a case in habitats for wildlife, says Karvonen. Open water, point. Each year. she receives dozens of qlls from wooded areas and deep ravines invite even larger ani people 'who fear a raccoon or a.fox in the backyard malslike foxes and coyotes to penetrate urbiinareas, . mearis rabies epidemic. Although the disease where food is p.lentifui. . . does exist in Ontario, it's been 50 years since any Each spring, the wildlife centre seesara~h of squir one died fro111 it (and that victim was bitten by a rel s and birdspoisoned by herbicides and pesticides ' pet kitten). "When people are afraid'of animals Or that i~eyeat along with nuts, seeds and insects. The centre treats birds thilt cOllidewi-thbuildings, baby rab . afraid for their childretl' s safety , they do desperate things 10 wildlife," she says. bits attacked by cats, animals that have beenhit by · cars and occasionally an animal injured by a leg-hOld If you 'd like 10 lend a helring hand to the trap, even though the trap is illegal in Ontario. Toronto Wildl.ife Centre,caIl416-214 c 1624.

Nathaliekarvonen feeds an orphaned baby raccoon with a syringe. , Pholo by R. LaulensJ Toronto Slar

Guelph Alumnus

Changing tunes in the rainforest

Young vislters to Killbear Provincial Park watch as Chris Parent implants an electronic tag in the tail of a Massasauga rattle snake. The rest of the snake is squirming safely inside a transparent plas tic tube . Photo courtesy Chris Parent

Frogs in the Amazon rainforest are singing a chorus of distinctly unique oral histories, and Guelph re searchers are listening closely. Deep in the heart of the Amazon, Guelph zoolo gist Jim Bogart and PhDst.udcnt Andrcw Chek are stu lying the mating calls of frogs to gain a bettcr understanding of evolutionary processes. They say it will help them make recommendations for more responsible management of the endangered rainfor est, through the identification and preservation of cruc ial habitats. T heir work focuses on "speciation" - when . ome members of a population break off to become a separate new group. It's a normal and healthy evo lutionary process, but it's being threatened inmuch the same way that existing species are facing eXtlnc c tion because of the destruction of rainforest habitats. Tro pical rainforests cover only about seven per cent of the Earth s surface, but contain 50 per cent of the world's known plant and animal species. With about 1,800 hectares of rainforest being clear cut every hour, some scientists estimate that as many as 27 ,000 species extinctions occurin the Amazon each year. In a companion project. Bogart and former gradu Me student Chris Zimmerman, B.Sc. '79 and M.Sc. ' 82, are working with the Kayapo Indians to estab lish a scie ntific research station in Kayapo territory, which coyers 500,000 hectares. Zimmerman is an ecologist with Conservation International and, like Bogart, an expert in aquatic species, particularly am phjbians. They are part of a group of scienti sts who hope to develop ways the Kayapo can profit from the rainforest without clear-cutting it.

Please brake for snakes First-time visitors to Killbear Provincial Park near Parry Sound, Ont., may be taken aback by snake-crossing signs. But a fter a visit to the in terpretive centre and a chance meeting with Chris Parent, B.Sc. '94, most lose their fears and become protec tors of the park's population of Massasauga rattlesnakes. Parent has been work" ing in the park for the pastsix summers, first as a park naturalist and now as a researcher studying the effects of human disturbance on

the snake population for a master's degree at Carle ton University. He catches five or six rattlesnakes every week, then weighs, measures and tags each one. Pregnant females receive an ultrasound test to determine how many young they're carrying. Ontario's population of Massasauga rattlesnakes has dwindled due to loss of habitat and because many have been killed by humans. Although poi sonous, the Massasauga is not an aggressive snake, says Parent, who uses surgically implanted radio transmitters to track the movement of snakes within the park. He's watched several hundred people walk within metres of snakes curled up at the edge of a hiking twiland never know they were there . Many of the park's more than 200,000 annual visi tors would be surprised at thc close encounters they have unknowingly had with rattlesnakes, he says. Yet in his six years at the park, no one has ever beenbittenby a rattlesnake. In contrast, two people have been struek by lightning. Part of Parent's research is to determine whether snakes exposed to a lot of human traffic react differ ently from those living in more isolated arcas. Pre liminary data suggest the rattlesnakes choose to live where the habitat is best suited to their needs. regardless of the number of human i1cighbors.

Save the plants David Galbraith, B.Sc. '82 and M.Sc. '86, sits at the hub of one of the largest Canadi an initiatives to save plant life, particularly plants native to Canada. He is co-ordinator of the new Canadian Botanical Conservation Network, launched this spring as a joint project of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton , Onl., McMaster University , Environ ment Canada and several corporate sponsors. The purpOse of the network is to link botanical collections across the country and help them work together to savedwindling plant species. The goal is to get Canada' s "green" housc in order, says Galbraith. Worldwide, plant species are succumhing to habitat destruction caused by develop ment and other hu man endeavors. If the current ratc of extinction contin ues, one-quaJ1er of the world's plant spccies will be gone within 30 years, he says. Those could be plants offering fu ture cures for diseases like AIDS and cancer or po tential sources of food. Based at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Galbraith is already working 011 the creation of a Canadian bo tanical conservation database for the network.

Guelph Alumnus

From Moo .U to the zoo Reading .a magazine on an airplane, Dan Nuttall came across an article about a U.S. man whose job title was zoo designer and whose work involved design" ing environments for di placed animals."tf . he can .do it for the Un.i ted States," thought Nuttall, ''fcould do it fo r C"nada." In I 993, he created a ZOOlogical design team at Marshall Macklin Monaghan - 3 cons.ult ing firm pf engineers, planners and landscape architects - and went

to work imlnediately on an African savannahprojeci

at the Metro Toronto Zoo. The largest desigri project

ever undertaken by the zoo, the$14-million. S8 c acre

'avannah development wiII create a habitat sensitive

to the needs of such species as lions, elephants , antc

lopes, baboons, birds and reptiles. One of Nuttall's

contributions to the project is a philosophy of design

that is based on sensitivity to animal welfare.

Nuttall has challenged opinions offered by design ers and academics who said zoo design " had already . been done." When he came to Guelph to begin a mas ter' s program in landscape architecture in 1991, he did so with the intent to change the course of zoo dc sign in Canada. He recognized that no model exi sted fo r zoo desi.g nersto use to help them create the best e nv ironment for wild animals raised in captivity. Tra- . ditional approaches to environmental design were · based on human-ceil'tred values and nceds . But grow ing concern about animal welfare among animal rightsgroups and zoosthemselves convinced him that a fundamental shift in environmental design for ani~ rnals was ,necessary. . uttall developed an animal-as-dient (AAC) phi losophy while at Glielph.."ln the past, we have tended to emphasize the needs of the zoological institution and zoo visitor," he says. "We need to create a para · dig m snift that. at a minimum, places the animal o n equal footing with institutions and visitors. The AAC des ign philosophy LlseS the animal as the star1ing · point and foc us for design;" . . . His theory considers the life history, behavioral pat- . · terns and development of the displaced animal. He · hopes that by studying these aspecN ofthe animal in its natural habit,il , zoo designers will be able to en

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The security of animal welfare in zoos and aquari ums is the driving force behind Nuttall 's theory. "I w,int to affect the outc0111e of the animal-rights and zoo debate," he says. "[ want to see animal-rigbts ac tivists and zoos agree on an approach and resolve the issue." ·· . .

Dan Nuttall at the Metro Toronto Zoo. Photo by Trina Koster

Nuttall alsowants toaid in the actual success of zoos. Although opponents of zoos question the valid ity of their very existence, he argues that there isa need to displace animals . He says the zoos regulated by thc Canadian antl Americ(1n Associati<)n of Zoo, logical Parks and Aquariums strive to fl.llfil the goals . of recreation, education, con~ervation and research. To reach these goa ls. animirl welfare must be Illaxi~ mized, he says.' "Animal we lfare is context- based alld depends on the quality of environlUlO;nL Quality ofen\'ironlllent is . a direct re~ult of design. TIlliS, zoo success is i.nti mately related to the design of envirollll1ents for ani mals , Good design ci'eates a successful zoo." At every oppol1unity, Nuttall has bee n injecting thi s philosophy into the African savannah project in Toronto. " In future, almost arI wild vertebrates will be contained in areas that are (l11iculated by the pres ence of the human species ~ only the scale will vary . Whether the spaces are environments in zoos or wild life preserves, we must still have an understandin g of each animal ' s na~urallife history." Con $traints <)f budgets an.d lime and the reluctance of people to embrace change arc some of the factors that work againstimplenientation o( the AAC theory. · But Nuttall believes all zoos will eventually realize that their evolution and survival depelld on their abil ity to anticipate tUldmakedecisiolls that will benefit the welfare of displaced animals and inipj·ovc public perceptions ofzoos as stewards of al'lil11als.

Managing Mexico's forests When Marc Patry fli es from Toronto to Mexlco' s'Yucatan Peninsula, he . often shares the plane with Cailadians . headi ng for the sun ny beaches of Can cun. Patry' s dest inat ion, howe ver, lies at the e na of a fiv e-ho ur drive inland intothe heart of a 380,000-hect<lre tJopical fores t. Patry manages Canada's contribLI tio n to the: Calaklll ul Model Forest, part o f the lnte rnational Model Forest ,Network la unc hed in 1990 under the Co nse rvati ve government' s Green Plait Identi fied forest m'eas have be co me sites of practical research to tl nd ways of dealin g witli forestTe sou rces to manage themsustainably , .. Ten il10del forests were established in Canada, but the plan abo called for lauild1ing forests outside the co untry , At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, fOl'~ mer prime minis ter Brian MlIlrOliey . offe red $ 10 million towards this end : Mexico, Malaysia and Russia were selected as the sIte for nc\vi110del fo rests. In Mexico;'Canada ' s oller coincided with a gncs rooi realization Ihal new ma nage ment techniques were needed to ensure sustainability of the forests. Faced wi th a mu ltitude of probleJ'lls -farmer$ us jng imprope r cultivation methods, unemployment caused by the closure of a sawmill that had cx hausteclthenatllral stock of mahogany 1)pd cedar trees, a disastrous drought and an invasio n of killer bees -'-.- the people of the Yucatan area feJrlned a gi'oup known as the Regional Ejidal Council of X' Puj il. 'T bey con fro Ii ted such problcl11s asthe promo tion of sustainable agriculture and sustain,ible for estry," says Patry. " It was 011£1 very small seale because they did not have muh in the way o f re- . sources . And that' s where we came in." Patrycompleled a master' s degree at the niver sity School oeRund Planning and Development .in 1992al10 was hired by the Eastern Ontario Model ~ores t as a twinning co-ordiuator for the Mexican project. He spends about one-quarter of the yeai' in Mexico an d is involved in every level of the opera tion from working wi th Ihe local people to meeting wi th govern ment offi cials. B ack home, he ~ee. himself as "the ambassadqr of the Calakm ul Model Forest," dealing with such issues as fUhding a nd research. The Mexican gov ernment Inatches Canadian funding and encourages th e active invo lvement of local people and inst itu lions like the niversity of Campeche. The project has c reated a partnership between the two conn tries and an imporiant two-way exchange of inform,lIion thnt Patry hopes will alter the relationship be twee n the people and the forest.

The Cala kmul Model For e$t is peppered with ru ins of the great Mayan civilization, dating back more than 1,000 years. With the support of tile model forest, local in habitants hope to.pro mote ecotourism opportunities based on the rich archeological heritage of their land. Photo courtesy Mark Patry

Historically, agricultute and a lumber industry have been the pri mary economic activities, but he ' ~ . looking beyond these traditional extractions to other economic pos sibilities . More than 100 products, including medicines, gums, fruits , resi.lls, spec;ialty woods and spices, ' can be extracted from the tropical forest. The forest and the rich cul tural heritage of the area - it's the site of LOOO-year-old Mayan ruins - suggest many opportunities for ecotouri sm . Patry says management of the Calakmul Forest is allthemoreim ~ ponant because it lies adjacent to the 780,000-ha Calakmul Bio sphere Reserve, the largest block of uninhabited , untouched tropical forest in Celltral America. "To pro c teet its long-term integrity, it is irn poi'tan! taudopt sustainable fores try ancl agricultural practices today in the surroullding lands," he says . The success of these forests will Bot only benefit the local people, but will also help Canada' s im age, says Patry. "Forests have been critical ill the development of this couhtry and remain very im portant. In today ' s world, there is.a lot of publicity on forests, and Canada is in a sensitive position. There are stories that weare clear-cutting all of our forests, and (here are threats to boycott our prod llcts. This is a way for Canada to take a leadership role in forest management , not only within its bor ders,but also promoting [he idea of international su stainable forestry." Patry invites Canadians to learn more about their 'c ountry ' s involvement illintemational fore);try management. "A visit to the Calal<l11ul Forest might be a nice diversion from sitting on the beach for seven days," he says.

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by l11 i ng ceptible. ach and pOls T he ban ann ounced Environment Minister Sheila C pp- Jul 24 came none too soon for concerned Canadian biologists. It will be imposed in aJ:l federally regulated wetlands by fall 1996 and throughout Canada the follow- . ing year. Cu elph AlulIlllus

Paws for the cause A team of U of G researchers doe sn' t believe in letting sleeping bears lie. T hey ho pe th at by st udy ing what happen ' during hibernation, they can in crease undcrsta ndin g of protei.n and fa t me taboli 111 in ther ani mals. Zoology and pat ho l ogy professor Pat W righ t is leading a . mu ltidisciplinary team compiling a bl ack bear blood data bank . The projec t is aimed at understanding the physio logical fu n tions of bcars during hibernation. specificall y how the ani mal' recyc le pot Illially harmful nitrogen waste. "Black bears possess the unique capability of not eating, drinlJ ng, urinating or defecatin g for about five months wi thout accumu lati ng nitroge n waste product. like urea," says Wri ght. S he and loologist Jim Ballaotyne and animal scientist Jim Al" inso n are conducting blood tests on black bear' at Chapeau. Olll .. and analysing the samples in Guelph . They hope the che mical mai<eup of the blood will tell them more about wastc-e limination processes.

ity lights threaten birds In the pre-dawn hours of a foggy pring moming, Rob Tonus. B.Sc. ' 87. can be found patroll ing the ~ tr 'ets of Toronto'~ downtown bu iness district. Officc bu ild i ng~ with ~ idew a l k - t o- roo ftop light ing LOwer above him, but Tonus has his eyes on the pavemen t, looking fo r the casual ties of arc hitec tural design. He inay find the bodies o f se v ral dozen bird killed by tl ying into one of the glass- box build ings . Those that are only inj ured or d isorien ted he turns over to a rehab centre li ke Nathalie K<lrvonen ' s Toronto W ildlife Centre, wh ich pro vides treatmen t and release ' them back into the wild. Tonu: is a member of th Fata l L ight A ware nc 's Program (FLA P). a vol unteer grou p started in Toronto in 1993 10 try to stop the fatal itics and inju ries su ffered by migrating birds that crash into office lowers. With its wooded rav ines and islands, Toronto is a pIi me res t area for birds on th eir way to and from nesting ground in centra l and northern Can ada. Unfortun atc ly. the ity's offi ce towcrs. smokestacks an d other struc tures m ake it a dead ly obstacle course , Migrati ng birds navigate by the stars. but arc unable to distinguish arti fi ial ligh ts from th e constell atio n" especi ally on cloudy or foggy nights. As a resu lt, they often fI directly

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into the build ings , On one espe ia ll y overcast . ni ght. FLAP volunteers recovered more than 100 birds in a single courtyard at the Toronto Domin ion bu ildin g and 200 at the base of the CN Tower. FLA P voluntcers ha ve found more than 90 spe c ics of birds. Most are warbl ers and sparrows, but it ' s also commo n 10 find hummingbirds, wood peckers, vireos and even the occasional owl. Tonu s says half of the 2,000 birds collected in . Toronto last year were dead, another quarter needed treatment and the remai nder were simply trapped in the maze of buildings. He notes th at window-kill ed birds are a g lobal problem and that Toronto's situation is not uJlique , Some experts sugge t th at gla, s poses a greater threat to birds th an any oth er human product or ac tivity, with as man as one billi on birds kill ed an ' nu<lll y in orth Ame rica alone . In comparison, the Eu oll Va ldez disas ter killed about 300,000 marine bi rds. Any window is a hazard, espec ially if ther e are tree" or shrubs nearb y, and strikes happen at all times of th e day and night. Plate gl ass is in visible to birds, so they try to fl y through it or into th e trees they see refl ected in the glass , Death is usu On a pre-dawn patrol of ally caused not by a broken neck. as is commonl y downtown Toronto, Rob th ught, but by ra pid swellin g o f the brain, which Tonus holds a bird killed results in ne ural damage and stroke. when it collided with the re flective surface of an office FLAP volunteers try to mai ntain an aggressive tower. campaign to educate building owners and tenants, Photo by Trina Koster office wo rkers and c ity officia ls and to co nvince the m to turn off the li ghts. It 's not an easy task; all sorts o f eco nomic. structural, legal and pol itical obstacles get in rhe way. But there ha\!e been som e successes. Cadillac Fairview installed a red stJObe light outside the lobby of o ne of its building ', and a num ber of offic e workers have started to close window blinds . The onl y action that will result in a penna nellt solution, ays Tonus. is a chan ge in lighting system s that ensures light are turned off from dusk to daw n.

FLAP welcomes the help of voluJJtee rs, pro fessionals and building owners who can help accomplish thi s goal. For more informati on, call 905-83 I-FLAP. }}

Thespaw-n

of a new- industry

The University of Guelph and its graduates

are helping to launch Canadian aquaculture into global waters

by John Harris

o Gary Chapman, executive director of the Ontario Aquaculture Association (OAA), it seems like only yesterday that he'd drive across Ontario to attend economic-development brainstorming sessions uninvited, unknown and un wanted. Actually, it was closer to 10 years ago. That's when Canada's aquaculture industry - the cultivation and harvest of freshwater and marine plants and animals - was set to take off and when the University of Guelph was positioning itself as an aquaculture launching site. Two images dominate a profile of aquaculture's commercial history in Canada. One is the rapid-fire growth of a cottage industry into a major economic concern; the other is the parallel growth in aquacultu ral expertise at Guelph. That the two are intertwined is no accident. U of G began pioneering work in aquaculture in the 19605. The impetus for the 1969 opening of Guelph's Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory was a request from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Re sources to develop new fish-food formulas for its fish-culture stations. During the next decade, the research effort on cam pus expanded to include nine disciplines in four col leges - biology, engineering, animal health, reproduction, genetics, economics, food science, toxicology and food quality. At the same time, Guelph was graduating signifi cant numbers of students from its programs in aquatic sciences and fisheries, who carried with them a desire to expand the industry. In the I 980s, in creased consumer demand for fish encouraged more entrepreneurial activity, and both public and private sectors lined up at the launching site. "Aquaculture research fits this university like a tai lor-made glove," says Richard Moccia, a professor and researcher in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science and director of the Alma Aquacul 12

ture Research Station. Alma has become a cross roads for public- and private-sector research collabo ration and a cornerstone of Ontario's aquacultural skills and technology infrastructure. The Alma facility didn't officially open until 1990, but it was 1985 when the University began planning for the station, made a greater financial commitment and took a more co-ordinated approach to aquaculture research. "The big push was on," says Moccia, who gradu ated from Guelph with a B.Sc. in marine biology in 1976 and an M.Sc. in aquatic sciences in 1978. He worked out of the Ontario Veterinary College for five years as a trouble-shooter for Ontario ' s nascent aquaculture industry (a.k.a. fish farming) before moving to the private sector as a consultant. In 1987, he returned to U of G as co-ordinator of the Guelph/Ontario development of the Alma sta tion. Decision makers on campus and at Queen's Park, specifically in the Ontario Ministry of Agricul ture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), were an ticipating major advances on the fish-farming front. " We wanted to get ahead of the industry," Moccia says. "We believed the next decade would see a growth spurt." They were right on the money. According to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, aquaculture was a $7-million-a-year in dustry in Canada in 1985, with a scattering of big op erations but a predominance of small and isolated enterprises. Today, the industry generates more than $289 million in farm-gate revenue, while providing jobs for more than 5,200. A decade ago, aquaculturists weren't invited to economic conferences, says the OAA's Chapman , a one-time fish-farm owner who graduated from Guelph ' s zoology program in 1980. "If we showed up, we'd have to introduce ourselves and explain from the beginning what a fish farm was. Nobody re ally cared."

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Today, Chapman is a featured speaker on the eco nomic conference circuit as a private-sector aq uacul ture consultant. ''I'll go to economic planning sessions in Northern Ontario and aquaculture is at the top of the agenda," he says. "It's as though the at titude changed overni gh t. They know now that fi sh farming is more than a couple of ponds in the back yard. We're talking hundreds of jobs and real eco nomic activity. That catches peoples' attention." Chapman says consumers will "em brace aquacul ture when they realize it is a move away from in tense ly subsidized fish industries to an entrepreneur-driven industry." Ju st a few years ago, he says, the industry in On tari o was dominated by small two-person operations on inland spring-water si tes, typically within a 100 mile radius of Guelph. Today, although many of those ventures continue, Ontario is shifting its em phasis to massive cage-based operations in the Great Lakes, each capable of producing hundreds of thou sands of pounds of fish. Chapman, for exa mpl e, is workin g with an abo rigi nal group operating a trout cage facility on Mani toulin Island . Two years after its launch, the facil ity produces 500,000 pounds a yea r. Despite its growth sp urt and annual revenues of $15 million, Ontario ' s aquac ulture indu stry ranks a di stant third to British Columbia' s ($ I 50 milli on) and New Brunswick's ($ 100 million). But insiders predict a $50-million indu stry by 2000 in Ontario, which is now in the early stages of developing a long-range strategy to co-ordinate uni versity re search, government policy and private-sector inter es ts. Chapman says that collaborative approach will give Ontario an edge. "Credit has to go to OMAFRA," he says. "The ministry has reached out and championed aq uacul ture." As a new industry, straddling the line betwee n fishing and farming , aq uaculture is being counted on as the wave of the future. Global demand for fi sh and seafood is expected to grow steadily to 120 mil lion tonnes by the end of the century, whereas wild fish harvests ha ve peaked at around 100 million

tonnes and are in decline. By 1991 , 19 per ce nt of all fish and seafood consumed globally was produced through aquaculture. A 1995 federal report profiling the Canadian industry's emp loyment, food-produc ing and ex port potential pred icts that by 2000, " if cer tain critical success factors are fulfilled," aquaculture will have ex ploded into a $680-million industry.

here is , however, a fly in the ointment. An outdated - some say "oppressive" - gov ernment regu latory framework is seen to be restricting aq uaculture 'S homegrown potential while opening the door to the import of other countrie s' aquacultural product and the export of thi s country's aquaculture people. Chapman says an "overly co m plex" legisla tive envi ronment is holding back On tario' s aquaculture industry in particular. Moccia blames the "outdated thinking" of policy makers for "stifling thi s industry. They don't have a background in aquaculture. Much of the legislation regulating the industry is necessary, but so me simply isn't. Government needs to be shown that aquacul ture can actually so lve env ironmental problems, not create more." He cites Chile as an example of a country that has taken advantage of the opportunities offered by aq uaculture. "In the 1980s, there was no aquaculture industry in Chile. Today, it' s the second largest

Richard Moccia views arctic char used in a study de signed to adjust protein re quirements and lower the cost of feeding this species and, in turn, lower their cost to consumers. Arctic char were released from the quar antine unit at the Alma Re search Station in 1992 and are now being bred on about 20 Ontario fish farms. Photo by Trina Koster

.Ancient aquaculture t\qll3culrllre'S ciriginsgo back thousands . ofyea.:s, withthefirslscholatly work on . . the subject reportedLy written in China in " the fifth <;:erttury B.C. . . . : Canada's firs:t fishfat'm ~ia~ launched in the I 86Qs; For the next Century In this COUlltfY, aq uaCUlture was primarily a gov ernment pursuit,. with fish raised for spe cies rehabilitation lind for sport and '. commercial fishing opportunities . . In .19()2, when changes (0 the federal . OameandFish Act allowed forprivate Cuelph Alumllus

sector culture and sale of fish, COllllner" cial aquaculture began in Ontario. The pro,;,ince produces primarily rainbow trout, although the Urriversity of Guelph is helping to introduce Atlantic salmon, arctic char and tilapia. The industry is ac tive in every province and the Yukon, and the species base inc!udesoyste'rs, ITIUS- . . sels, dams and plants . . Kcy to the success of aquac ullure re search at Guelph is [be University'S effort to transfer technology ;1l1'c\ infomiation

the industry. Examples include the openc fo[mu la fish feed developed at Guelph and work in the fi sh nutrition ancl diagnos tic .health labs. In 1993, the Aquaculture Association of Canada (AAC) named U ofG thc inslitutional winner of its first . Aquaculturist ofthe Decade award. "Ttie aquaculture industry is only 15 years old . in Canada," snid then AAC president . Julie Delatibio, B.Sc, ' 78, "but IheJistof Guelph grac!u,ltes that me involvedin ·to day's indnstry is most impressive." 13

Aquaculture at U of G FisbinginAlma The Alma Aquaculture Research Station is one of the busiest centres of interdisciplinary research at the University of Guelph . Fundedby the Ontario MiDislryof Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the station houses a plethora vf fish-related pro jects and is the only quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario. In 1992, the .station made the neWS when it Cleared arctic char, Atlan Ii ' salmon and spring-spawning rainbow trQut fish never beforc raised in Ontario :- for use by proviilcial fish farmers. Parts ()ftwo certificate courses and an M .Sc. progral)l j'naqllacu [tore are . ~taged at Alma. So are inpustry workshops and prod~ICttrials, And the facility has become an integralpatt ofTechnol ogy transfer and training in the aquaculture field.

Fast.~f()od fish In the noFloo-distant future, the fllst food ·of hoice may not bc tvw all-beef patties but a healthy salmon burger; Prot', Tanya MacLaurin of the School of Hotel ancl Food Admill1srration is ··working witll New 8runswick ' s Fufford~Fundy Fish FarmsLtd. to develop new (and nutrhious) salmon prod ucts. That could lnclude everything from Ji]](~t ai1d fish steaks to salmon mousse or pate. She is ex ploring severaiavenlle~ to develop new produc ts- borrowing recipeS from restaura leurs"marketing the fishinnOIl-lractitional forms and introducing it intofasl-food restalll:ants.

Ticker power Two or Ihreefish dinners a weekco!.!Id keepthc tic ker iilbetter running order,s~ys nutritional sci ences professor Bruce Holub, an expert inlheefc . feets of consuming Omega-3fal\y acids such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapen laenoic acid (EPA} These are found .in high con centrationsin many spccies ofCanadian fresh~ water fisb. High levels of DHA are necessary in menlalano ,visual functionin g, and both pPAand DHA'4ppeat to significantly re(tuce thetiskof ' card iovascular disease. "Peoplc sh()uldknow more aboutOmega-3s and their avai lability in On tario's freshwater fish," says Holub.·"Thereis evi dence suggesting that we uitderconsulne fish."

Caring for ffsh At. U ofCl, fish are LJsedmore than any other animal for teaching and research. They make LIp a fullAO per ce nt orall species involvedinstudies acrosstheUniversily . "To us, fish aJ'ecvery bit as significa nt as other species," says Denna Benn,:dic rector Of AnimaJ-CareServices, She: says animal welfare policies and procedures developed at Guelph are now used across the country. U of G ' s leadership J'Q1einanimal weI fare was recognized in 199':2 .when .Guelph received. the Canad ian Council on Animal Care's Award of Excellence. 14

producer of farmed Atlantic salmon in the world," (Norway, which has an extensive track record in salmon production, is the largest) Chilean prod ucers, unlike Canadian fi sh farmers. ha ve received full government support to enable them to expand the indu stry, says Moccia, "Next yea r, Chile will prod uce more than twi ce as much sa lmon as Canada. And some of it will be marketed here." But he's not ready to count Canada out of the run ning. Even without federal support, th e industry has doubl ed in th e past five years, and many politicians acknowledge that aquacu Iture' s expJosi ve growth has outpaced efforts to legislate con sistent guidelines regulating slIch iss ues as fish health, product safety. waste management and environmental protection . Ottawa 's two-punch solution is to review the rules and retrain the rule makers, Along the way, there's the confusion in volved in harmonizing product safety and inspection rules un der free trade, and co-ordinating investment, technol ogy development, production efficiencies and market intelligence in a much bigger industry - one that is constantly evolv ing. Moccia says that in overcoming th e myriad chal lenges that aquac ulture faces, U of G has an intcgral role as "an honest broker. This industry is trying to accompli sh in a decade what traditiona l agricul ture had a century to work out." He fears that during the transi tion stage, Canada in general and Ontario in particular may miss the boat " I know of many potent ial investors who ha ve seen the regulatory roadblocks and turned away. They go where the door is open, " And that door is open wider in other Canadian provinces and in other countri es. "There are

Above: Michael Burke, man ager of the Alma Research Station, plucks a 20-pound female Atlantic salmon from an outdoor circular tank. The overhead screening pro tects the fish from ultravio let radiation. Below: Lights and a camera aimed at the tank behind Gregory Page are used to monitor the be havior and feeding response of fingerling trout. Page is working on a behavioral study with Joshua Neuland; both are M.Sc. students in aquaculture. Photos by Trina Koster

Guelph Alumnus

Even 'fish

University of Guelph graduates building the in du stry in British Colum bia , in the United States, in Europe and in So uth America," Moccia sa ys.

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too rich

Feed costs make up from 35 to 50 per cent of the

overall unit cost of rai sing fish. So ilwas weI·

, come news when U of G nutritional scientist Bill Woodvlard 'found Ulat fish farmers could reduce ' feed costs by cutting back on the nutrients imd vi tamins added to the feed and still get top results. He ' s found thal some popular aquacultural diets ;:lI'eba~ed on recoJllmendations from fhlwed , stand;ml developed by the U.S. National Re- , , search Council (NRC) , Using methodsde\'eloped at Guelph , Woodward has fOlInd that suggested levels of supplemental vitamins in the U .S . recom mendations can be reduced by up to 10 times without affectjng gro'wth or health. His findings were recently adopted by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) for us ~ in provincial fish hatcheries. And the NRC has uscd thcm to re vise its recommendations for rainbow troLlt.

Ut not everyone trained here has le ft. Alvi s Foge ls and Sue Barker met as U of G stu de nts, graduated in 1976 with master' s degrees in fi sheries scie nce and ma rine biology, married and staked the ir future on a fi s h farm they built fro m the ground water up in Ontario's Grey County near Owen Sound . That was 18 ye ars ago, and their busi ness, Springhills Trout Farm, is still going strong, with annual production of 80,000 pounds of custom cut rainbow tro ut - smoked , fro zen or fres h, de liv ered to marke t fo ur ti mes a week. Their nich e marke t, they say , is the " white table cl oth trade," the hi g her-priced restaurants of Toro nto (about 80 per ce nt of the ir sales) and Collingwood (20 per ce nt). "When the stock market does well , we're boom ing," says Fogel s, who has his fin ge r on the pu lse of another business ind ica tor. "Ou r competition comes around in fiv e- year cycles . Others see our business , spot an opportunity and jump in . It takes about fiv e years for th em to reali ze they ' re not going to get ri ch. Then they drop OUl." Barker says two motivatin g facto rs steered the cou ple into aquac ulture - opportunity and lac k of op tion s. "There weren't really a lot of career option s in Fie ld work for women back then," she says. "We had the know-how and the e ntreprene ur ia l zest, so we created our own opportunity." And at the time, the market was virtuall y the irs for th e taking, says Fogels. "The re was no big push to find custome rs. Buyers came in trucks to bulk buy all we had. They wanted product. " Barker and Fogels scoured the entire Niagara Es carpme nt area befo re choos in g the ir ISO-ac re prop e rty of rolling pasture and abundant spring -wate r sources. They used personal savin gs and fami Iy lo ans as start-up capital. They didn ' t need much seed mone y. As marginal farmland , the property was cheap, and they built their fac iliti es with their own la bor and with he lp from family and fri end s in a stage by-stage manne r as money all owed. The 198 1/82 recess ion changed eve rything. "W e could have gone under right the n," says Fogels. In stead, they rethou ght the entire bu siness. Bulk sales were out; value-added was in . They bought a fi sh smoker, learned the labor-intens ive process o f bon ing trout, impro ved their fish-breeding skills, started selling directly to their restaurant c ustom ers and

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Research began here Sue Barker debones rain bow trout to prepare a fresh bullerfly product for one of Springhills' regular restau rant customers in Toronto. Trout prepared this way are also processed on site in a hot smoker that yields a ready-to-eat fish product. Photo by Mary Dickieson

Aquaculture resean.;h in Canadaessentiall.y began

in 1969 with (he opening of Guelph' s Fish Nutri

' tion Research Laboratory ulider the direction of two nutritional scientis ts, the late StanJey Slinger and Prof. C. Young Cho. One of the lab's most important achievements has becn theestab lishmcnt of an "opcl~-formula concept" offish ~ feed formulation. The lab publishes complete formula ' information annually. That allows , , aquaculluri sts to buy feed targeted to the type oJ fisll they ' re I'ais.ing. , , "Farmers used to have to pay more Jornutri , ents that were in ·c·xeess of the amount required by the tish, and that wouidsimplyend up being ex creted and wasted,"snys Cha.. The open:forll1ula conccp! is a proven success;

the lab's feeds are currently used by 95 perce nt

of o'ntario government fish-culture stations and a

' majority of private farms ..Tbis efficient lab/pro~ ,

ducer re lationship is l)nique t9 the aquaculture inc

dustry. "Our f~ed formulasarctile only fi sh diets

in the world comm,e rcinl market in which compo- '

, sitionsare completely oiJen," saysCho. . .

Homegro\Vn trout are best In a study designed to help improve the genetic

background ofbl'eeds ~Iscd in aquaculture; Prof.

hinMcMilian and research ,associate Liiura

McKfIY, Animal and Poultry Science, monitor,eu

the development of various 10cal and imported

. strains rainbow trout: TheyFound that locally developed strains fared best. They comp.a red , growth arid sexual ITlaturatioll rates to' help, local " fish farmers understand which :~pring-spawnillg strains would..best comple ment existilig raW winter-spawning programs. , '" , Ultimale ly, they hope their findings will create

more year-rQuhd fishproduGtion the industry

uses successful. breeding strategies from otner ag j'icuHural sectors. ' ,

"Fish have sOme unique characteri stics, but we

would like to adapt breeding programs currently

'used in areaS such as cattle and ,swine so they

could be used in a fish situation ," says McMillan. ,

Disease-control partnership o f G pro fessor Meg Thorburn is an epidemiolo- . g ist in the Department of Population Medicine who says future growth in aquaculture relies. in pan , on the exc han ge of information between sci en ti sts and farmers. "We're tryin g to idenlify the best ways of milli mi z ing losses d ue to disease," she says . "As epi demiologists, om ability to do so depends entirely on Lhe goodwill of the fish farm e rs who provide . us with the background information. In return, we provide them with information on aquacultural subjec ts like disease control and help them de velop record-J:;eeping methods for inventory and heal th-management purposes."

Waste not · Aru mugam Ku maragu fll, PhD '83, lives in Madura i, Indi a, a city of more than a million peo ple w ith a poor system of garbage collection and . a food ind uslry th at produces 100 tonnes of waste each day. Now a n a. sociate professor at MaduTai Kamaraj University , he is using hi s Guelphback7 ·. ground in fish research to develop a way torecy cle that moun tain of food was.tebyrurning it into fish food . Such a process wO~lld have applicatiOll. . beyond waste milflage mcnt. lntensiveaqtlaculture . hasn' t been praCLised in Kumaraguru's region of lJldia, Im'get y because tbere' s been lio domesti c cally manufactured fi sh feed. If it canhe con verted, the w aste from Madurai alone would p rovide eno ugh feed to start a signific;ant aquacul~ tu re ind ustry in the region. Pre li m inary tests' wirhtilapia (an important food ftsh ill his I'egiq n offndia),show that the growth rate of fish fed the waste -based food is . comparable with that of fi sh raised on com mer ciallyavaila bie fee d. Andfish.fed the new prod- .. . uet seem to stay as healthy as those feel cOD1UleJ'cial feed .

Sick fi sh When fish are sick, the fi.s hdiagnosis laboratory in ove w ill dQ e verythirig needed to get a diag no is -,. fi h xamination , water-quahtyanalysis, pathogen iso lation, cvcn consuhatiOnover the pho ne. Well know n to aq uacullurists, aquariums and re searchers, the lab is the only one in Ontario that prov id s this kind of full seniice ... and dou bles a,a research resource. "Our rcsearch is dri veii by th e diagnos ticserv~ . ice, .0 we al ways work on relevant problems," says path ol ogy professor Hugh Ferguscill. "We're the only lab in the world that h as .been successful .. . at experime ntall y repr0l1ucing bacterial gill dis ease." Ferg uson' s lab has isolated ,the bacterium that causes the disease, which is a proble m in hatc her ies worldwide, and has determ-ined the conditions under whichihe fish contracts it, pav ing th e way to stud ies ill treatment.

Research bits provided by Jennifer Clllt~,A llne LeBold a1ld Steve O 'Neill, Guelph students· hOIl ing their jOlll'llaJistic skills by writillg about cur rent U ofG research {IS p(irt of a program co-ordinated by the O.fficeof Research, 16

Alvis Fogels spends about 20 hours a week sorting fish. The dividing panel in the middle of the raceway lets smaller fish swim away, but in the end, it's hands-on work with a net and a good eye that ensures a consistent size to Springhills' fish products. There is great variability in the growth rates of trout, so it will take up to four months to market the 20,000 fish in this raceway. Photo by Mary Dickieson

began packaging co ntroll ed-size portions - custom-o rdered and delivered fre sh from farm tank to dinner plate. "W e can ' t emphasize enou g h ho w much help the Uni ve rsity of Guelph has been ," says Fogel s, wh o points to the Un ive rsity ' S o n- site exte nsion se rvices , camp us workshops and willingness to go to bat for the indu stry again st over stric t regulatory agencies as esse ntial business building blocks. Today, with three part-time employees and a full-time man ager, in addi ti on to the ir ow n full-time contributi o n, Fogel s and Barker see themse lves in much the sa me pos ition as a ny moderately sllccessful farm e nterpri se. Indeed, as the couple sits at coffee break in the processing area adjacent to th e kitchen in their 1904 stone farmhouse, the talk turns to famil ia r territory -long hours, fe w vacation s, self-taug ht accounting, marketing, business management and fixer-upper skills. Barker ca lls the ir pro perty and husiness investment "our RRSP." Sounds like fanning. But this farm has no herd of cows, no pigs or ch ic ken s or sheep. Instead , there are a quarter of a million fis h in tanks. Springhills has 12 raceways that hold up to 30,000 fi sh eac h, plus hatch e ry tanks, incubatin g faci liti es and an intermediate reari ng area. T he fi sh are packed in tight in th e shallo w tanks, much like a sc hoo l of fi sh in a confined area, and the water surface is a constantly moving mass of ripples and tiny s plashes. In a sepa rate tank is the brood stock, abou t 150 15- to 20-pou nd fe males c hose n - li ke an y fa rm brood stock - for certa in carefully monitored characteri stics . In this case, it ' s tlesh qu ality, size consiste ncy, good adap tation to th e rough- and tumble tank environment and the ease with whi c h eggs ca n be hand-culled. " I ge t prett y intimate with the fish at spa wni ng tim e," says FogeJ s. During the spawn ing period from August to No vembe r, he anesthetizes th e females to c ull the eggs, strips the sperm from selec ted males (w hi c h are expe nd ab le and la ter butchered), then incubates the fe rt ili zed eggs . Fish go to market at o ne to two years o f age. T heir waste is Llsed as feed by th e area's mink farme rs, who initially paid for the wa ste , but now tru ck it away o n a no-charge/ no-pay basis. Fogels say s fi sh prices ha ve remained virtually unchanged ove r the years they've been in business. In 1992, acco rdi ng to fe de ral statistics, the average fa rm-gate wholesa le price of Ontario trout was $2.30 a pound. A s for a taste compariso n of wild ve rsus farmed, "not even a fi sh aficio nado could tell th e difference," says Fogels, who couots himse lf and his family in the aficion ado class. Members of th e Fogel s/Barker clan are big-time fish ea ters. And in hi s free time, Fogels pursues his favo rite hobby. He goes fi shing. Gue/ph Alurnnlls

The face of adoptiOI\ iSRO loagera straager by Renee Tavascia

nne Ottenbrite was 24 and about to be mar . ried when she found out she was adopted. . . It was a school friend and neighbor in her home town of Whitby, Ont., who finally broke the news. "Her parents knew and she knew," says Anne. "I think it was a spur-of-the-moment thing when she told me. 1 thought at first she was making this up." Ottenbrite, who coaches the University of Guelph's women's varsity swim team, wrestled with the revelation for five months until her new husband, Marlin Mulin (a U ofG football coach), convinced her to confirm the news. She first contacted her older brother, but waited another year before questioning her adoptive mother. She admits the unspoken knowledge put a strain on their relationship. "1 didn't want to be confrontational when I talked with my mother, but of course it ended up that way." In the end, they both felt a great sense of relief, says Ottenbrite. "She told me she had tried to tell me a number of times, but couldn't, and she thinks my birth mother would have liked to have had more con tact." The truth confirmed many of the suspicions . Ottenbrite had as a child that there was "something different" about her place in the family . She finds it amazing that her adoption was kept quiet for so long, especially considering her high pro file in the community. She was a star swimmer as a youngster, winning a number of international events and , in 1984, three Olympic medals. "I was always in the spotlight, and my father was a promi,nent busi: nessman," she says, "Everyone knew the Ottenbrites in Whitby." Ottenbrite's experience is typical of children adopted 20 to 30 years ago, says Guelph family stud ies professor Kerry Daly. Social service agencies shrouded public adoptions in secrecy, and adoptive parents were often afraid to tell their children about their origins, feming they would prefer their biologi cal parents . "All parties in the adoption, at some level, were afraid of openness," he says. Adoptive parents wanted to hide their infertility; adopted children wanted to keep their illegitimacy secret; and birth parents sought protection from society's disapproval of children born out of wedlock. Today, that's all changed, says Daly, co-author of Guelph AlulIlnus

a 1993 report on adoption in Canaoa with Guelph psychology professor Michael Sobol. Most adop tions now emphasize openness for everyone 'in volved. This is retlected in an increase in private adoptions and a decline in the more traditional pub lic adoption process, which has been slower to adopt a more open approach. For their report. Sobol and Daly surveyed public and private practitioners. teens and their parents, doc tors, guidance counsellors and clinicians across Can ada. They macie 34 recommendations that encourage openness in both public and private adoptions.

Unbeknownst to each other, Anne Ottenbrite's birth mother and adoptive mother both chose the same name for her - Anne Marie. Photo by Mary Dickiesoh

In the past two decades, there has been a progres sive shift from secrecy to freedom of information, says Sobol. "We now talk to our children who are adopted about their begi,nnings." The early passive registries that discouraged contact betw,een birth par ents and children have been replaced by active regis tries. Once an adoptive party has signed up, employees of the government registry are charged , by law to contact the other party to see if they will 17

mat ch up with her daughter. Today, she works in U o f G ' s Career S ervices, but when she di scovered she was pregnant al age 17, !>he was unmarried , scared and cou ld not finan ciall y sup porI a child. " I was Ii ing at h me . My parents were supporti ve, b ut they bOlh worked and I had to work. There was no one to look after a baby . The father wasn' t supporti ve ullt il it was 10 0 late. It was hard." She concedes lhal things mi ght ha ve been d iffer ent if there had been more support syslems tll n, In the 1970s, pregnant girl s had few alternatives. Indeed , Sobol and Daly found there are many fac tors today tha t ma ke single parenling more reali~ti c . The sti gma attached t children born out of wedlock has decrea sed , al ong wi th the seer y surround ing il legitimacy. More emo tional sll ppon is availab le from pare llts and peers. an d more financia l assist an ce can be ob t, ined from g vemmenli nstitlltions and spec ial-interesl groups.

Judy Delmore's son, Brett, is.happy about the prospect of one day meeting his older sister, Photo by Mary Dickieson

proceed wi th exchangl: o f informat ion. Ottenbri te was adopted thro ugh the Child ren' s id Society and ha signed up wilh the provincia l regi Iry, She' , now waiting to see if any of h r birth r la lives have made an [fort to find her. If not, , 0 ial workers will eventually try to locate the m to ask if they would like a meeting, Originally. all she knew about her birth mothe r was that she was a nu rsing stud nt who had a brief relation hip and wanled to onlinue with her duca lion and car cr. R cently. however, Otlenb rite ' s adoptive mother obtained her bi rth certificate. so he now knows the names of her birth parents. But . he' s n rvou abo ut pur uing the information. " I believe my birth mother wen t away to work withou t anyone evell know ing ~he was pregnant. I don' t waUl 10 barge into the ir lives . I th ink a letter from the birth parent to the child would be a ni . thi ng. A note saying: 'Yes. do come and find me ' or 'No, th is is the situation.' so ou' ll know if you' re doing the right or the wrong thing," Ottenbrite would like to mee t her birth mother to "thank ber for the gift of life." he'd also li ke her to ' know about her sw imming areer - tha t he wa the first anadi an woman to win an O lympic gold medal in sw imm ing. " l th ink that wa ~ prelly special. It both ers me that she doesn't know, amI this motivates me to continue to search." While Oltcnbrite, ear hes for her hirth mother, Judy De lmore tries 10 locate the daughter she gave up adoption in 1972. Li ke Otlenbrite, Delmore has entered her (lame in the registry and is hoping 10

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ell~ore'8,dau~hter was ado pted through th e

hrldren s Aid SOCie ty at th ree weeks of age , and De lmore has had no contact w ith th e adopli ve parent s. S he gave up lega l custod y, and "there was no option at that lime to recl aim her. Once we went 10 COU11, it was out of my hands." S he began bel' search two years ago wit h the local branch of Pare nt Finders . B ut even if her daughter has also put her name in to Parent Fi nders, Dehnor may wail lip to e ight years for a match. She b n couraged, however, by the strength she has fou nd wilhin the organization. It has a su pport grou p that he lps rut her hopes and fears into words . Delmore is now a single parent to an ighl-year old son, bUl her ir um, tances are vastly different. She li ved w ith the boy's father for mallY years, and he is still a part of his son ' s life. S he also ha' a olid career and malllri ty on her ' ide. Her SO il , Brett , was happy wh n she r 'cenll tol d him he has an o lder si . tel'. " I explained the situa ti on and said maybe you ' II get to mee t her someday." She be lieves th e trutll ultimately benefit. everyone. " I belie in honesty, then yo u don' t have to worry abo ul anyth ing later on ." Yet, she ad m its she is " lorn" over the issue of openness vers us privacy in adop tions. " Yes, more openness would be good if [ could know m ore about her fa mily. I just wan t to know lha! they' re good p 0 p ie and she ' s okay. But as far as where she' s localed - no. The child is the im portant person." Del more's i w: are supp 11ed by o bol and Daly's fi ndings. Contra ry to popu lar belief, a binh mother who is in volved in her mid's placement doesn' t hecome an "a lbatross around the neck of the ado pli ve famil y," ' ays Sobol. The gr ater accc.~s she ha ', the more she realiz s that the b st in terests of her child are being served and she can ach ieve clo sure. She will want to c. tablish he r own life , separate Gue/ph AIlIllIlItI.\·

from her child, he says . "So open

ne S, in fact, leads to morc pri vacy."

Sti ll , from the either end of the · spectrum, adoptive parents and pub · tiagenciesare slower to accept that trut h. Daly believes this fear is rooted

in the adoptive parents, but says it

has been SUPlJOrted by public~ageney

facilitators who were concerned that

if birth parents had early involveineill

in their cru ld's welfare. they would

eventually ifY to regai'ncostody.

. By 1990, for every '10 adoptions

conducted bypi-ivate practitioners.

onl y se en \\le.'e d(lne through public

agencies. The inteni ofbirth mothers

· wa s clear. They wanted tei be a sig nificanl part of the deCision-making process. This included reviewing file . interviewing prospective appli. cants, negotiating an exchange of in.

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adoptive parents at the birth ofthe child . . The SobolfDaly survey found~ lhese changes have come more quickly in , t he private sector. "Within public parent decides on placement. But p'dvate can also .. agencie , there are many more constraints," says . mean a licensed pri\ctitioner. D aly. "Public organizations are llluch slower to Many of Daly and Sobol's recommendations have change ano are reluctant to surrender their ideas of been given serious consideration in British Colum what protects <;hildren." bia, where the adoption process is most progressive. For adoptive parents, one-of the keydeterminaJ)ts in choosing between private and public adoption is

the lime involved. The i /uiting time for those who

use pub lic agencies tends tobe longer - averaging

arou nd six years. This time is cut in haH for adoptive

obol aud Daly 's survey found that the l1uin

paren ts who go 'through a private or independent

berof birth parents choosing adoption as an · agency 'o r practitioner where no fee is charged (a . optton has dropped sharply over the pastdec church, hospital. private sponsor, etc.). The waiLing

ade. So has the number choosing abortion . In 198 1,

period is redliced even further - to less than 2 I

me re than five per cent of all pregnancies of single

months,- if an independent agency is paid for

women under 2S led to adoptiQn. By 1989, this fig

assistance.

ure had fallen to 2.2 pcr cent. Abortion fell from So bol notes that one of their recommendations 48.8 per cent to 37.9 per cent. Obviously. more birth

was that public adoptions cont.inuc, but with a parents are 'raising their children.

greater emphasis on openness, The researchers are The researchers cited several' reasons fo r this

concerned that people who ate not financially secure change_ Birth parents no longer feci stigmati zed for

may be excluded from the adoption process because being single parent~, they fa ce 1110re pressure from

they can' t affo rd the cost of private practitioners. their fn milies to keep the child, and the ad vice they

j'eeeive from social workers sometimes overlooks

They also recommended the licensing of all pri adoption as a viable option. "Quite often, adoption

vale practit.ioners and agencies. "We feel if people are working outside the traditional domain of public gets the short end of the stick in terms of pr~gnancy

resolution options," says Daly. "Becaose it is so in

facilities, we must ensure accountability to all par frequently chosen, some facilitators almost take it

ties," Sobol say);. for granted that birth parenrs wouldn ' t be interested

Currently, Ontario is theonlyprovince that re

in that option. So Lhe facilitators [o.cus on abortion or qu ires licensing of all private practitioners. A few

parenting." provinces - Newfoundland, Quebec an'd Manitoba

- have outlawed private adoptions. Conversely, In their report, Sobol and Daly recommended that

SOme provinces license agencies, but not individual.s. family-life programs in<:lude more information abOUt

Even the deti nition of "plivate" vmies. In Nova Sco- . adoption. Tbey were surprised to find Lhat teenagers

ti a, for example, private placement ii1eans th~ birth Were not as negative about ,.doption as many people

Katherine Ellioll and Trevor Friesen have. filled their home with Guatemalan pho tos to keep the natural heri tage of Natalie and Nicholas , alive. Photo by Trina Koster

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Above: Karen Korabik with Michelle, whose first word was "Hi," spoken into the TV remote control. Photos by Trina Koster

to both throughtheir Guatcmahm lawyers. "We did not want to adopt a child if we had any doubt that . the birth mother was not fully aware of the adop tion," 'says Elliott. She suspects, however, that both the politica l situation andsociaLperceptions in Gua- . temalainay have kept the birth mothers from meet ing them. In sonie South American countries, men are seen

as cowardsifthcy raise a child that is not biologi

cally rel ined tf) them, so many of the l:hildren born

out of wedlock there become available for interna

tional adoption.

Elliott hopes to return to Guatemala this fall and, . with the help of an intermediary. meet with the birth parents. " We want to be able to tell our children we hied to make a contact that would las!; It' s very illl~ portant that children have the opportunity to seek out their personal histories." Sobol and Daly agree. "Openness is important be cause!t allows people to develop a sense of who they are as individuals," says Sobol. "The m,ore in formation you have about your early beginnings, the. more you are able to articulate an umlerstandil'ig DI' . bow you became the person you are." Afterthe adoptions of Nicholas and Natalie, Elliott met Jan Feduck of Family and Children's Services and Cheryl Lamerson, an adoptive mother and Guelph graduate student, and tbey started a local chapter of Canadop!. The nrganization began in 011 tario 20 years ago after the onset of Korean adop- . tions. Canadoptaddresses such issues as the learning needs of adoptive p<)rents, hosts discussions of their experiences and offers seminars on searchingJor thought. But young people have .no idea how to carry birth parents ..The group is concerned tIm! adopted out an adoption 'plan, they say. . children retain their cuilural heritage. To that end, The researchers also believe thatpcrceptions i'he group plans to offer classes in language and cul about public c hildcwelfare agencies Illust be tural studies. changed. They found a significant aillount of stigma Elliott illld Friese;1 see many benefits to interna attached to child-welfare agencies providing adop tional adOplicll1, including a sharing of cultures. "I lio n services. Daly says these agencies have a "trou fee! Iikel have aconnection to these birth mothers;" bled image" with young birth parents, who associate says Elliott. "I've had to get to know more about · their services with welfare and family Instability. their country. Alld my childre n arc my family . "One of our recommendations was that there They're not the cbildrenoCmyblood,bunhey' re the nee(ls to be some publi<.: re lations work and a<.:tually . children of my heart" , some reorganization of how that service is deli vered to disassoc iate itse lf from those kinds of negative im ages," he says. International adoption is another trend noted by the reseaf<.:hers. Although some families are moti" vated by hUl11anitarianreasons, others are drawn to . the expediency of such adortions. For Katherine Elliott and Trevor Fliesen, it reduced the waiting pe riod to a matter of months. Nicholas, 3 112, and Natalie, 2, were adopted from Guatemala when each ' was I I months old. Katherine works in U of G' s Of fice of First-Year Studies. Trevor is a PhD student in the Department of Zoology. Although they have not met either of the birth mothers, Elliott and Friesen extended the invitation

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ben Sobol advise. d his cOllea. gu.e . Karen Korabik that she would probably not be able to adopt in Canada, she also opted . for international adoption. " I was over 35 and single - a double whammy," says Korabik, an assistain profe~sor of psychology . Like Etliott, she learned about intemational adoption through the SUCl:esses otherpci>ple. She spent two years trying to adopt a child from Poland - her ancestral home - but failed in the final hours of the a pproval process when a political incident caused Poland to stop all dealings wirhOntario.

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Two'years later, she contacted Support for Parents Raising Adoptive Kids (SPARK) in Toronto, SPARK originally covered Roumanian adoptions, but now holds an annual symposiunl on international adoptions, When , he learned that China was now open for adoptions, she placed an application there, , After several months, Korabik received a descrip tion and photo of her daughter-to-be, She left for China May 4, 1995, and adopted 13-month-old Michelle Xiaoling. The number of children available for adoption in Ch ina is high because of the country's policy of one child per family. For thisreason , it's unlikely that M ichelle will ever meet her birth parents. They would risk severe penalties for exceed ing the one child law and for abandonment. Michelle was found at the Department of Civil Affairs with a note listing her birth date, Although adoptive parent ' me often frustrated by the waiti ng involved in the approval process, Korabik thinks the "checks and documentation" are good becau e they serve the best interesL~ of the child. Sbcial workers make potential parents "think about tough issues" to ensure they're well-prepared. She says the true indicator of a person's dedication to adopt is an infin ite willingness. " You' re ready if you' ll go thtough anything to make it happen."

, T r a ditionallY, society has focused on the , e vents leading up to the placement of the child in an <)dopted home. After the child was pl aced, the role of the birth pare nts was deemed non-existent: Although Daly believes that scenario tiU exists, the trend loward greater openness has de manded a differen t kind of service, one that "treats adoption not as this small window or event that hap pen. alone point in time. Adoption is an ongoing proces , 0 the placement is one event among a much larger process," He and Sobol see a move aC rQss Canada towilrds considering more open p olicies; In light of this, the two wer not surpri ed by the recent Ontario prQvin cial Court ruli ng on adoption by same-sex couples, The little research that has been done in this area .in dicates that children grow ing up in gay and lesbian homes don ' t differ in terms of sexu,d identity from children who grow up in heterosexual homes, al though Sobol concedes that people may disagree wi th th is posit io n on "religious or other value-laden ground '." The va t majority of same- 'ex applications are for step-adoptions, where one, parent is the biological parent of the chil d and the other is a step-parent. [n these cases, the birth parent wants his or her partner to adopt t he child to provide stability as a guardian, The Ontario ruling may have offered hope to gay and lesbian couples, but it has not yet been imple mented through legislation. Cunent legislation states , Cite/ph Alum/lus

that although two unrelated people cannot adopt a child, once they are deemed common-law, they may do so, This is not the case in gay and Icsbian relation ships. They (lJ'e not afforded the rights of "as if' mar ried couples in civil law, The greater barrier, however; may be rooted in the very openness that allowed the Ontario ruling. Sobol and Daly agree it's unlikely that gay and lesbian cou ples will be sllccessful in a non-relative adoption be cause of stereotypical percepti ons held by birth parents, who now have a much greater role in choos ing the adoptive parents. "This is nothing more than a rellection of the pre vailing stigma within the society at large about non traditional relationships," Daly says . In their report, Dal y and Sobol noted that adoption practitioners al 0 bring their prejudices about gay p(lJ'enting into the decision-making prQcess. "Both adoption facilitators and birth parents re flect the values of the prevailing culture," says Sobol. "If those val ues change, [ suspect birth par ents will also make changes in line with society." As the definition of family continues to diversify, so must the stillctures that Sllpport it, he says. " As long as we have notions that adoption is simply the transfer of ownership rights and of property , we dis tort relationships between people within adoptive families." All of the people interviewed for this story would agree that although open adoptions suit some birth families and closed adoptions suit others, what' s re ally important is what serves the child, "Adoption is not about finding children for fami lies," says Elliott. "It's about finding families for children."

Kerry Daly, left, and Michael Sobol made more than 34 recommendations that en courage openness in both public and private adoptions in Canada. Photo by Trina Koster

Alumni celebrate Age of Aquarius They came to U of G during the Age of Aquarius and graduated at the dawn of a new decade. The Class of 1970 ce lebrated its 25th anniversary during Alumni Weekend June J6 to 18 wi th a nostalgic look back at the campus du r ing the I 960s. About J00 people from the Class of '70 started a new annual tradition at the first-ever 25th-anniversary dinner. And they made plans for a spec ial class gift to the University, se tting a fund-raising goal of $ J40,000 to en dow a dean's honor roll scholarshi p in each of the seve n colleges. Across campus, grad uates of SO years or more were also reminiscing at the annual Golden Anniversary Din ner; the earlies t class represented was

1922. In total, about 1,200 alumni came back to cam

pus for the weekend.

Highlights included presentation of the Alumnus of Honor award to the late Everett Biggs, BSA '48. The citation was presented to his wife , Irene, by Bob Murray, BSA ' 49. Gord Boylan, DVM '46, received the OVC Distinguished Alumnu s Award. Four stu dent groups received Alma Mater Fund awards named in honor of former AMF chair Gord Nixon, BSA '37. The Centra l Veterinary Students' Association received $1,250 to bring guest speakers to a cam pu s symposium; the National Association for the Promotion of Stud ent Journalism was awarded $6,000 to buy computers and printers for the Canadian Observer; the Student Federation of OAC received $ 1,250 fo r guest lec turers at the Agri Vision Conference; and the Stude nt Senate Caucus was awarded $ 1,500 for development.

Alumnus of Honor When the University of Guelph was created in 1964, Everett Biggs was in the midst of an I J -year term as Ontario's deputy mini ster of agric ulture . He was pre viously Ontario dai ry commissi oner and assistant deputy minister of agricultu re . He also served a year as Ontario deputy mini ster of the environment. Biggs played a significant role in de veloping the overall dairy policy fo r Canada and the current On tario Mil k Marketing Board. He took bold steps to expand trade in agricultural products and to improve the serv ices of the agriculture ministry. He helped guide the formation of the University of Guelph and the unique research contract between the University and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. He also helped lau nch the Agricultural Research In stitute of Ontario and has been honored by a Canadian Centennial Medal and induction into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame. 22

Outside of governmen t, Biggs was recognized for his community work, receiving the highest honor of Rotary International. He was a member of Bramp ton's race relations committee and a member of the board of the Canadian National Exhibition and the Sports and Hockey Halls of Fame. He graduated from OAC in 1948 and remained a loyal Aggie until his death in February 1995. He served as chair of the OAC Alumni Association and directed a recent study on the future of the college.

ave Distinguished Alumn us After graduating from OVC, Gord Boylan spent 10 yea rs in a mixed veterinary practice in Dresden , Ont., then moved to Diamond Laboratories in Des Moines, Iowa. Working witl1 researchers from the University of Colorado, he produced one of the first vacci nes for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Boylan wen t on to join the senior advisory staff of the Bureau of Veterinary Medicine in the federal De partment of Health, then the animal division of COll naught Laboratories. In 1982 , he became genera l manager of Langford Laboratories of Guelph.

Top left: Irene Biggs ac cepts the U of G Alumni As sociation's Alumnus of Honor award for her late husband, Everett, from his fellow Aggie Bob Murray. Top right: Canadian actor Jim Millington (of ENG fame), centre, was emcee for the 25th-anniversary din ner, which took alumni on a nostalgic tour of campus as it was in the late 1960s. Here he gives centre stage to cur rent U of G president Mordechai Rozanski, left, and Bill Winegard, who was president during Millington 's student days. Bottom left: avc distin guished alumnus Gord Boylan. Bottom right: Slo pitch high five at Alumni Weekend. Photos by Martin Schwatbe

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her a unique insight into th e educational needs of each sector. Since 1986, she has worked as a senior consultant with Ecologistics Limited in Lucan , Ont.

Volunteer gets her wings

Above: Gord Nixon, centre, poses with representatives of student organizations that received Gord Nixon Leadership Awards. From left are Heather Gray of the Central Veterinary Students' Association, student journal ist Susan Lindsay, Dean Ribey of the Student Federa tion of OAC and student senator Natalie Kontakos. Right: Jane Sadler Richards and Florence Partridge. Photos by Martin Schwalbe

Conservationist receives medal During spring convocation ceremonies in June, Jane Sadler Richards was awarded the 1995 Unive rs ity of Guelph Alumni Medal of Achievement. A 1980 graduate ofOAC, Sadler Ri c hards has al ready made a sig nificant contribution to agricultural soil and water conservation in Ontario. Her work as an agrologist, consultant and communicator has en couraged the adoption of con servation farming sys tems by Ontario's producers. She began her career working on a project to ad dress flood-conlrol and water-quality issues on the Tha mes Ri ver basin. She helped her hu sband, Dou g, operate a swine operation near Brussels, Ont., and worked as a provinc ial soil conservation advi ser while working on a master's degree, which she earned in 1985. She is currently completing a PhD in plant sc ie nce at th e University of Western Ontalio. Sadler Richards has conducted several research studies under Ontario's Soil and Water Environ mental Enhance ment Program aimed at improving the manageme nt of conservation tillage and cropping sys tems. She has also carried out trials in support of lhe regi stration of pesticides, fertilizers and seed va rietie s. She set up the first inde pendently run quality assessment/quality-control programs for monitoring pesticides and environmental contaminants under field conditions. Her experience encompasses the agricultural pro duction sector, extension work and research, giving Guelph Alumnus

Former U of G libraria n Florence Partridge was hon ored by the UGAA May II as recipient of its 1995 Alumni Volunteer Award. The award was presented at a reception at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre for all alumni who volunteer for the University. Partlidge received a framed citation from Doug Hoffman, chair of Alumni-in-Action, and a U of G lamp from Clay Switzer, then chair of the UGAA. In accepting the award, she displayed her familiar wit when she likened herself to the Crimean War hero ine Florence Nightingale. "We share the sa me first name, Florence. We're both bird s, Partridge and Nightingale. And now people can refer to me, as they have referred to her, as the lady with the lamp." A 1926 graduate of Macdonald Institute, Partridge also holds a degre e in library science from the Uni versi ty of Toronto. She was librarian at the OAC li brary in Massey Hall, then ch ief librarian for U ofG until her relirement in 1971. Her tim e since then has been filled with volunteer work. She has been invol ved in a number of civic pro jects, including the Guelph Muse um, and was awarded the Guelph Chamber of Commerce Award of Merit for community contributions in 1982. In 1993, she received the federal government' s Lescarbol Award for outstanding service as a cul tural volunteer in Guelph. Partridge was the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre's first docent and is an important benefactor of the U of G art collection. She was a founding member and served as secretary of Alumni-in-Action and was UGAA Alumnus of Honor in 1990. Partridge is just one of many alumni who volun teer their time and expertise to the University. Volun teers prepare oral hi story tapes, donate labor to the library archives, se rve on campus and UGAA com mittees, and partic ipate in academic and athletic pro grams. Many serve as speakers at career nights and get involved in career-mentoring programs for st u dents. U of G fund-raising activities benefit from alumni volunteers, and many have contributed to the University'S strategic-planning exercise.

Alumni volunteers park free Alumni who volunteer the ir time on ca mpus,

whether it be in the library or on admini strative co m

mittee work, can obtain a parking pass at Alumni

House. Give the pass to a parking a ttendant and

you'll rece ive a one-day "Park Free" decal you can

use in any of the University' S black and orange park

ing zones. Sorry, it can't be used for metered spots

or those designated for service vehicles a nd reserved

parking. For more detail s or for direc tions to Alumni

House, cal I 519-824-4120, Ext. 6936.

Class of '54 insures U of G's future Members of the OAC Class of '54 met with presi dent Mordechai Rozanski last summer to present a unique long-term gift to the University. The class has named U of G as the beneficiary of a $130,000 life insurance policy on two of its members. The unusual donation began as a 40th-anniversary project at the suggestion of Reg Lane. "We came away from OAC feeling really good abo ut what hap pened to us here, from both an academic and a social standpoint," he says. "We lived in residence, became friends with our classmates and built networks that have contributed to our professional lives. I think we all had a desire to support that kind of growth and maybe enhance it for future generations." The class began to look for a way to support their alma mater in a specia l way. "We recognized that the University is faced with a continuing decli ne in government fu nd ing and realized that the re is some thing we can do abou t it ," says Lane. The life in sur ance policy provided both flexibility - it doesn't ma tter how man y class members participate or how much eac h one gives - and growth. There is a sig nificant mul tiplier effect, so the actual value of the insurance po licy when paid out will be much greater than the $130 ,000 face value. Thi s project is over and above ann llal gifts to the Alma Mater Fund. Class president Charles Broadwell hopes the Class of '54 gift will set an exam ple for other cl asses. "The University of Guelph has fond memories for all of us," he says. "As we malUre, the sense of camarade rie see ms to grow, and when we get together, it's marvellous to be able to share that. A good friend is usually a lifelong friend." Lloyd Ross says hi s reasons for con tributing to the class project incl ude fami ly connection s. "Many of us ha ve ch ildre n who are graduates of the University and help to maintain our continued interest in th e campus.

If you're logged on, look us up Alumni who trave l the Internet can keep in touch with campu s in severa l ways: • Access U of G' s computer information system , GRIFF, through the site name gritT.uoguelph.ca . • Look up the U of G home page on the World Wide Web at http://www. uoguelph.ca. • Read At Cuelph and media releases on WWW.ac cessible from the U of G home page. • Check out the Ontarian Web site to find out what today' s students are talking about.The site name is http://tdg.uoguelph.ca/-ontarion. Or access it through the Uni ve rsit y' s home page. • Direct comments and questions to the Un iversity or the UGAA through e-mail to alum ni@ uogue\ph.ca. • To upd ate your address or to send in a "Grad News" item, send e-mail to velma @vaxl. alumni.uoguelph.ca. 24

If you're not logged on to the Internet, but want to be, ca ll U ofG 's Comput ing and Communications Services (CCS) to fin d out how yo u ca n get con nected to the University's alumni system. There's a one-time connection fee of $25 and ongoin g fee s of $ 10 a month for 15 hours of use. Above tha t, it's $ 1 an hoUl". Users ca n get up to a month's free service to tryout the system. Alu mni who live outside the Guelph loca l calling area will also be subject to long distance charges. CCS will prov ide documentation to the main ele ments of the Internet to help users get started explor ing the electronic frontier. For more informati on about the free trial and using the Internet , call CSS at 519-824-4120, Ext. 8013, or send e-mail to ckin g@ uoguelph.ca.

From left: Lloyd Ross, Charles Broadwell, U of G president Mordechai Rozanski and Reg Lane gather for the OAC '54 presentation. Photo by Mary Dickieson

Get on the career track The University of Guelph Alumni Association and the U of G Office of Open Learning wiII host an other Alumni Career-Planning Weekend Workshop Nov. 24 to 26. Past pa rtic ipan ts have rated the week end as one of the best investments they have made in their caree r. Many said their onl y regret was not hav ing done it sooner. Althis year' s workshop , you will conduct a life sty le anal ys is, explore career alternatives, Jearn abo ut career information resou rces and improve net wo rking skills. The cost is $225 for U of G alumni, $325 for others. (Thi s includes adm ini strati on and tab ulation of the Strong-Campbell Intere st In ven tory and the Myers-Bri ggs Type Indicator, materials and two lunches .) For more information , call 519-767 5000, fax to 519-767 -1114 or send e-mail to kmaki@oac.uoguelph.ca.

For grads in the Big Apple The Canadian Club of New York invites yo u to a cocktail reception Oct. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. at its mid town Manha tta n locat ion at 15 West 43rd St., just off Fifth Avenue. Last year, more than 500 Canadian university gradu ates came out to support their school, meet fellow alumni an d relive old times. Dress is business attire; cost is $15 . RSVP by Oct. 12 to 212-5 96- 1320. Cuelph Aluln.nus

New roads ahead for UGAA Loo king to the year ahead, the University of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation 's new pre sid e nt Eli za beth O'Neil says the UGAA and the constituent alumni associations will take a new direction in fulfilling their rol es . The Uni ve rsi ty' s strategi c-planning re port (see page 5) has recom mended that alumni col laborate more ex te nsively in the work of the Uni versity, says O'Neil, and tha t collaboratio n has already begun . Earlier thi s year, th e boards of all alumni associa tions met to discu ss the future direction of alumni ac tivities an d coll ec tive ly agreed to est ablish severa l new committees based on cross-const ituent repre sentati o n. One com mittee will net wo rk with students to g ive them a better und erstandin g of workplace and jo b opportunities. A second will brin g work place experience into c urriculum design an d involve alumni in c lass roo m lea rnin g ac tivities. The third will coll aborate in the des ign of open learnin g pro grams across campus. And for the fi rst time, the preside n t of the UGAA will make an annual report to the University Senate, ex plainin g th e nature and extent of alumni involve ment in activities rel ated to U of G's acad e mi c mis sion. In addition, O 'Neil says alumni can ex pec t to see a co ntinuation of the exce lle nt prog rams and a lumni activi ties the co llege associations are respected for. "W e are committed to fo stering co mmunica tion among and between all college a lumni associations." O ' Neil in vites alumni to s hare their com ments a nd suggesti ons with mem bers of the UGAA board, di rectly or through Alumni Ho us e. Those on the Internet ca n contac t her at eoneil@uoguelph .ca. M e mbers of the 1995/96 executive are: President: Elizabeth O'Ne il, B.A .Sc . '74 and M.Sc. '83, an education con sultant who runs her ow n com pany in Mississauga, Onto Past president: C lay Switze r, BSA ' 51 a nd MSA , 53 , for mer OAC professor an d dean who now owns a con sultin g company in Guelph. First vice-president: Haro ld Whiteside, BA ' 82, vice- presiden t, financ e, and controller for Euc lid Hitachi in Guelph. Second vice-president: Dal e Downey , B.Sc.(Eng.) '77 , a water resources engineer who ow ns his ow n consultin g company in Concord , Ont.

Board mem be rs represe nting va rious alumni g roups are: Honorary president: Mordecha i Rozanski Alumni-in-Action: Doug Hoffman , BSA '46 and MSA '49 College of Arts Alumni Association: Heather Whittington, BA '85

CBS Alumni Association: Rebecca DrolOs, B.Sc.

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CPS Alumni Association: TBA

CSS Alumni Association: M ark Stevenso n, BA '93

Mac-FACS Alumni Association: Shirley Allen,

B.H. Sc . ' 58

OAC Alumni Association: Dou g Wagner,

Dip .(Agr.) '74

OVC Alumni Association: Ron Downey , DVM ' 6 1.

Engineering Alumni Association: Da vi d Wismer,

B.Sc.(Eng.) '85

HAFA Alumni Association: Julie Gray, B .Comm.

Caught on the steps of Mac donald Hall after the UGAA annual meeting during Alumni Weekend are, back row from left: UGAA past president Clay Switzer, cur rent president Elizabeth O'Neil, member-at-large William Gregg and first vice president Harold Whiteside. Front row: Treasurer Gwen Paddock, secretary Lori Jocius and Trish Walker, director of Alumni Affairs. Photo by Martin Schwalbe

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Gryphon Club Hall of Fame . inductees for 1995 Donald Fletcher, Dip.(Agr.) '36and BSA ' 39, track, boxing, soccer, fenc ing . Jim MacMillan, BSA '64 , fOellball and wrestling yavinCarrow, SA '85, wrestling

Michelle Tui-lcy , BA '86, fi e ld hockey

Tom Dimitrofr, football coach, ·1979 to 1983

Secretary: Lo rie Jocius, B.A.Sc. '72, vice-president of Ginty Jocius & Associates, a cons ultin g and mar keting firm in Guelph . Treasurer: Gwen Paddock, B.Sc.(Agr.) , 85, an agri c ultura l officer with the Roya l Bank in Elmira, Ont. Elected members-at-Iarge: Michael 0' Keefe, BA '76; William Gregg, BSA '53 and DVM '61 ; Tim Hings ton, B.Comm. '85; and Rita Sterne, B.Co mm.

Mee t and congratulate the athletes and builders of the Gryphon C lub at rhe Hall of Fame dinner Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in Peter Clark HaIL · Tickets are $50: to reserve, call 519-824-4120, Ext. 6 133 .

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Human Biology Alumni Association: Steven Hill , B.Sc.(H .K.) ' 90 Graduate Students' Association: Dou g Ramsey Central Student Association: Lance Morgan AMF Advisory Council: Frank Restoric k, BA '92 UGAA Senate Liaison: TBA Director of Alumni Affairs: Trish Walker, BA '77 and M.Sc. '90 Alumni Office rep: Sarah Nada lin, BA '82 Alumni are invited to contact any UGAA board member directly or th rough the Department of Alumni Affairs at Alumni House, University o f Guelph, Guelph, Onto N I G 2W I, fax : 519-822-2760, e-mail: alumni@uoguelph .ca .

Get your career on track U of G Career Services offers a tw o-way service to alumni - persona l career planning and employee re cruitment. The Job Bulletin newsletter is a weekly publi ca tion that outlines position s open in both the profit and not- for-profit sectors. There is no c harge to em ployers; alumni look ing for work can buy a six month subscription for $50. For more infor mation , call Bonni e Patteso n at 519-824-4120, Ext. 2394. The annual University/College Grad Recruitment Fair, hos ted by the uni versities of Guelph, Wate rloo

a nd Wilfrid Lauri er and Conestoga College, will be held Oct. 4 at the Kitch ener-Waterloo Auditorium . Employers from both the public a nd private sec tors, franchise organization s and ed ucational institutions will showcase their world of work. Admission is free, and shuttle buses wi ll run reg ularly from Guelph's Uni ve rsity Centre throu ghout the day. The Career Ce ntre in the UC has information on careers, furth e r education. job-searc h techniques, e m ployer directories. employmen t listings and publica ti ons. Computerized career-pl a nnin g programs, videos and a resume-critiquing service are also avail able to new graduates. During th e fall and winter se mes ters, Career Serv ices run s career-d evelop men t programs. including workshops on vocati o nal a nd skills assessmen t, resumes and cove ring le tte rs, inter vie w skills and jo b-sea rch strategies. Emp loyer organization s can make use of on-ca m pus rec ruitin g services that inc lude job postings, in terviewing rooms and equipment. This service is used for both temporary and permanent posilions. The University 's co-ope rative educati on program has students in agricu ltu re, science. engineeling. ho tel and food admini stration and human servi ces ava il able for four- and eig ht-mont h work period s. The co-o p e mployment process for nex l wi nter and spring wi ll begin this Octobe r. Interested employers should contac t Career Services at Ext. 22 13.

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Sept. 14 - OVC annual student/alumni barbecue from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the isIand pavilion at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area. Spon so red by the CVSA, the Alma Mater Fund and the OVC Alumni Associa tion , this eve nt is an opportunity for alumni and current stude nts to meet. RSVP to Sharon Andratis via the OVC dean's office, Ext. 4411. Sept. 15 - Annual OAC Alumni Association Golf Tournament at the Victoria West Golf Club. For de tails, call Sarah Nadalin , Ext. 6533. Sept. 17 - Members and donors to the Children's Forest at the Arboretum are invited to a spec ial guided walk throu gh the fore st. For mo re information, call Ext. 2358. Sept. 20 and 27 - A two-evening workshop spo nsored by the Arbore tum will focus on developing skills to identify mi gra ting hawks, falcons, vultures, eagles and osprey. Cost is $39 and payment must be received by Sept. 13. Call Ext. 4110. Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 - HOMECOMING I Sept. 24 - Wall Custance Funeral Home annual me morial forest dedication se rvice at the Arboretum 2:30 p.m. ' Sept. 28 - The Department of Music sponso rs a free concert every Thursday at noon in MacKinnon 107. 'The concert series begins Sept. 28 with Lennart Ogren and Lennart Rabes, baritone and piano, and continues Oct. 5 with Rosemary Parks and David An gles, flute and piano ; Oct. 12, George Gao, Chi nese violin; Oct. 19, Ralph Elsaesser, piano; Oct. 26, Howard Spring and Jeff Bird , guitar a nd double bass; Nov. 2, NUMUS Concerts; Nov. 9, Michae l Stein berg and Dorion Carmichael, violin and piano ; Nov . 16, the Meridian Ensemble with Kent MacWilliams. Oct. 4 - University/College Grad Rec ruitment Fair, hosted by the un iv ersities of Guelp h, Waterloo and Wilfrid Lauri er and Conestoga College. Employers will showcase their world of work at the K-W Audi torium . Admiss ion is free , and shuttle buses will run from the University Centre throu ghout the day. Oct. 6 to 8 - Women 's Varsity Alumni Hoc key Chal lenge. For information, call Gryphon coach Sue Scherer, Ext. 6134. Oct. 13 - Theatre: Wingfield 's Folly, 8 p.m., War Memorial Hall. For tickets, call E xt. 4368. Oct. 19 - Cocktail. reception for alumni of Canadian universities at the Canadian Club of New York, 6 to 9 p.m., 15 Wes t 43rd St.,just off Fifth Avenue. Dress is business attire; cost is $ 15. RSVP by Oct. 12 to 212-596-1320. Oct. 20 - Concert: BalTa MacNeil s, 8 p.m., War Me morial Hall. Call the box office at Ext. 4368. Nov. 16 to 19 - Fair November juried craft show and sa le in the University Centre, free admission. Open Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m ., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday II a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 20 and 21 - Concert: John McDermo tt , 8 p.m., War Memo ri al Hall . Call the box office at Ext. 4368. Nov. 24 to 26 - Alumni Career-Planning Weekend Works ho p. Call 767-5000 or fax to 767- 1114.

Nov. 25 - Vanier Cup at the Sky Dome, 3 p.m.

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Homecoming Weekend! Sept. 27 • Homecoming kickoff at noon hour concert and barbecue. Sept. 28 • New-student barbecue at Alumni House, 5 p.m., hosted by the UGAA. • Observatory tOLirs. For time and information, call Ext. 6302. Sept. 29 • Gryphon Club Hall of Fame dine ner, 6:30 p .m., tickets $50. To or der, call Ext 6133. • Welcome wagon , 6 to 9 p.m., sta dium parking lot. • Official opening of the F ACS ad dition, 3 p .m. Alumni who plan to attend the 3 p.m. ribbon cutting are asked to notify David McGee at Ext. 6756 to ensure adequate ' seating. • Carnival rides and games, Alumni Stadium parking lot, 7 to II p.m . • Aggie social for alUmJli and stu- . dents, hosted by Student Federa tion of OAC, with proceeds to non-profit organizations support ing agriculture, 9 p.m , Athletics Centre main gym. • All-ages dance, 9 p.m., P42. Sept. 30 • Welcome wagon, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m ., Athletics Centre. • Alumni swim meet, 8:30 a.m. For information , call Alan Fuirweather, Ext. 2220. • Human Kinetics/Human Biology Alumni Association annualmee( ing, 9:30 a.m., Powell Building. • Engineering Alumni Association meeting, 10 a.m., Thornbrough 100. • Ribbon cutting at Day Hall for new home of the Office of First-

Year Studies, 10:30 a.m. . .AIlllnni House open house, . 10 a.m. to I p.m., with dedicatioJl of the building's new outdoor landscaping at 11 :30 a,m . • Gryphon Marketplace, open-air bazaar and food court, stadium parking lot, 11 :30 a.m. to 7 p.m . • Carnival rides, noon to 10 p.m. • UGAApast presidents' and direc- · tors ' reunion barbecue at Alqmni ' House, II :30 a.m . . • Walking parade , begins at . Johnston Green, 12:30 p.m : • Pep r;llly featuring Griff and Uof .' G cheerleaders, stadium, 1:30 p.m. • Football game, Gryphons vs. York; 2 p.m., stadium, tickets $3 in advance. • . ALI-ages concert with licensed ·area.8 p.m .. Athletics' Centre . main gym. Alumni admitted at student pric~s. Call the UC box .office, Ext. 4368. . • Cimoll' Baker in concert at War Memorial Hall, 8 p.m., tickets

. $22. To order, call Ext. 4368.

Oct. 1 • Arboretum nature walk, 2 p.m. Pi<;k up an alumni card from Alumni House anytime during :the weekend. Bring it with ID for licensed events. Pick up aHomecoming tabloid and eOl,lpon book at the welcome wagon. For information, call 519-824:4 120,

Ext. 2102.

Dec. 1 - Intramural Alumni Hockey Tournament, twin - pad are na. To register a team , call Brian

Tapscott at 519-824-2185 or Mike Van Beek at 5 19 833-2734.

March 6, 1996 - Alumni Florida Picnic at North Port Yacht Club. For an in vita tion to the picni c, call Alumni Affairs, Ext. 2122.

To find out more about these events, call the Uni versity of Guelph extension listed at 519-824-4120. 27

college and university alumni associations. " I am proud to be an agro logist," said Rose at hi s elect ion thi s spring. "The major development that has taken place in the agricultural indu stry is the re sult of profess ion al agrologi sts in the field s of ed uca tion , research, business and extensio n wor king in partnership with innova tive farm people. " Paul Watson, BSA ' 51, operates Poplar Lane Farm Horse Exchange from hi s farm in Ches ley, Ont., where he deal s in all classes of horses fo r ex port and the domestic market. WalSon is also act ive in his com mun ity as a di rector on the Saugeen Valley Con servation Authority and an elder in the Geneva Pres byterian Church.

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Ian Taylor, DVM '43, was hon ored by the State of Illinois this summer when the governor pro clai med June 19 as Dr. Ian Tayl or Day. Tayl or was recogni z.ed for hi s contribution s to veterinary medi cine, the Li ons Club and hi s home community of Wheeling. In 1993, Taylor was honored by his alma mater when he rece ived OVe's Di stinguished Alum nus Award. Arthur Bennett, BSA ' 51, is o ne of thi s year's winners of the Distin guished Agrologist Award from the Ontario In stitute of Agrologists (OIA). The award rccogni zes his contribution s to ag riculture through hi s involvement wit h the OIA , the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (O MAFRA), the Canadian Internati onal Development Age ncy, the Farm Debt Review Board , U ofG ' s Senate, the OAC Alumni Association and the Ontario Agricul tural Hal l of Fame Associ at ion. Dan Rose, Dip.(Agr.) ' 57, BSA ' 60 anel M.Sc. '67 , is the new president of the OIA. Raised on a farm in Bruce County, he is well known in Ontario agricul ture for hi s work with OMAFRA - as an agricul tural representative in the Rainy River Di strict , a farm managemen t specia list in Bruce, Grey, Duf ferin and Simcoe counties and now regional man ager for central Ontario. While at OAC, Rose was a member of the U of G team that wen t to the Uni ver sity of Gha na to launch a training program for exten sion workers. He is still active as a member of the 28

The members of Mac '35 got together on Alumni Week end to celebrate their 60th anniversary. And despite the 30+ temperature, some members visited the Arbore tum to view a park bench do nated last summer as a class project.

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Queen ' s University and recently guided the school th rou gh a restruc turing of its MBA program. The schoo l now offers a degree pro gram off site in Ottawa and in more than a dozen Ca nadian cities by video link. Included in the restructur ing is a unique income-contin gent repayment plan that, in effect, guara ntees graduates a job paying at least $50,000 a year. Graduates begin to repay their tuition fees only after landing a job that pa ys more than $50,000. Byron Beeler, MSA ' 63, received the OIA' s Di stin guished Agrologist Award earli er thi s year for his work in promoting Ca nadian agric ulture. During hi s career with Ciba-Gei gy, Stewart Seeds and OM AFRA, he has worked to bridge the ga p between cons umers and agriculture, both in hi s job and through volunteer acti vi ties. Richard Groen, B.Sc.( Agr.) '68, was recently named manager of the chemical and ag ri cu ltural prod ucts divi sion of Abbott Laboratories Ltd . He is respon sible fo r all of Abbott' s Canadian ag ricultural products, including insecticides used in the agricul ture and forestry industrie s. He works from a home based offi ce in Freelton , Ont. Ernest Hochhalter, BSA ' 62, is a re tired teacher in Porters Lake , N .S. , who has becomc an ambassa dor for the Maritimes, wo rking as a tour guide for German tourists visiting the East Coast. He li ves on the shore of Lake Echo in a house he built in 1986, sings in a French choir, Les Voi x d' Acadu e, and is a mem ber of the River Oaks Golf Club. John Macklin, BSA ' 64, is reti red fro m his job as a high school sc ience teache r and is now do ing vol unteer work in the educati on field. He is al so an in spirationa l speaker on topics such as the 2 1st century, evo lution and religion. Wanda Quirk, BA '69, retired this summer fro m the Canadian Forces after servi ng "25 years, nine months and 26 da ys." She was commissioned as an officer one month after graduating from Wellington College with a hi story degrec. Guelph Alumnus

George Robinson, Dip.(Agr.) '65, cele brated the 30th anniver sary of his own graduation by congratu lating his twin sons, Greg and Jeff, who re ceived their OAC diplo mas at June convocation . Robinso n is U of G's manager of research sta tion services. Donna Woolcolt, B.A.Sc. '69, was last year' s re ci pient of the Ontario Dietetic Assoc iation's AWilrd of Honor. She is chair of the Department of Family Studies at Guelph and a public health associate with the Hamilton-Wentworth Department of Health Serv ices. Before joining U of G's [ilculty in 1979, she was a public health nutrition consultant with the On tario Ministry of Health, il lecturer at the Univers ity of Manitoba and a nutrition ist with the Nutrition Canada survey conducted by Health and Welfare Canada. Involved in numerous profess ional associa tions, she recently served as'cha ir of a communica tion s/implementations committee during the re-evaluation and update of the Canada Food Guide.

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Peter Hodson, PhD '74, has been appointed direc tor of the School of Environmental Studies at Queen's Uni versi ty. He will hold ajoint appo intment as professor in the Department of Biology. For the past three years, he has been working as a researc h scienti st in ecotoxicology and head of the ecosystem health asses sment project for the National Water Re search In stitute, a branch of Environment Canada. Prior to that, he was at the Great Lakes Fisheries Bran ch in Burlington , Onl., and the Maurice Lamon tagne In stitute in Mont-Joli , Que. A speciali st in fish toxicology, he focuses on the identification of com pound s in pulp-mill eftluents that induce toxic reac tions in fi sh. His work contributed to Environmen t Canada' s new regulation s and monitoring programs for pulp-mill efnuents.

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Art. He assumed the posi tion Sept. I, returning to Ontano from Van couver, B.C., where he had been president of the Emi ly Carr Insti tute of Art and Design since 1986. Earlier posts in cluded dean of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, assistant professor at the University of Leth bridge in Alberta and lecturer at Kingston Upon Hull College of Art in Hull , Yorks hi re. Originally from Belleville, Ont., Barkley is a gradu ate of OCA as we ll as Guelph and is now completing a PhD at the University of British Columbia. OCA's new presi dent is al so a working artist, with commissions and exhibition s since 1968 in Canada, the United States and Britain. Geoff Carpenter, B.Sc. '73, is a supervisor with the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy in Toronto, with responsibility for waste management, planning, pesticides and environmenta l assess ment. He is also the father of three children: Tammy, 16; Scott, 14; and Tim, 12. 'y

Proud dad George Robinson congratulates sons Greg, left, and Jeff.

call ed Cosmic Hub Caps, inspired by the three dimensional circular shape of hub caps. Especially for the Stuttgart exhibiti on, she created Harmony, an integrated dis play of eight paintings and seven cos mic hub caps. Dancey is the artist, but her German bom husband , Wi] , provides tec hnical support during the installa tion of large exhibiti ons. They are already planning a return visit to Stuttgart for a second exhi bition in 200t. Fred Flieler, B.Sc.(Eng.) '76, recently moved with hi s wife, Donna Findlay, B.A.Sc. '75 , and their children, Jeff and Jennifer, to England, where he as sumed a new posit io n as vice- president of Eu ropean agricultu re for Pepsi Foods International. He was for merly with Frito Lay in Dallas, Texas.

Chris and Wi! Dancey in front of Harmony, an inte grated display of paintings and cosmic hub caps. Photo by Hardy Zurn

Donald Howell, Dip.(Agr. ) ' 75, moved from Port Dover, Ont., to Ca liforni a in December 1992 to work as production manager for Pajaro Valley Green hou ses in Watsonville. His job includes supervising 1.5 million square feet of greenhou se floral crops and 100 acres of ou tdoor floral crops. Alias Kamis, M.Sc. '78 , completed a PhD in zool ogy at the Uni versity of Wales in 1983 and is no w a

Chris Dancey, Arts '74, of Aylmer, Ont., put to gether a spec ial exhibition of her work called "Cos mic Connections" fo r a Showing this su mmer at the Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium in Stuttgart, Germany. The first Canadian to exhibit paintings in the planetar ium, Dancey has been planning thi s exhibition si nce 1989, when she was living in Germany. An artist and teacher. she has travelled and worked in more than 50 countries. "Cosmic Connections" was co m posed of three subseries of works, inc luding one Guelph Alumnus

life in Indonesia; their sons, Shiran and Sean, are studying at Iowa State Univers ity.

Carl Wake, B.Sc. '76, is prison chaplain at the Ottawa-Carleton Dete ntion Centre, where he works in the francophone treatment unit, the only drug treatment program for francophone offenders in the Ontario correctional syste m. He and his wife, Wendy, live in Embrun with their four ch ildren : Andrew, II ; Catherin e, 7; Leah, 4; and Peter, born in Janu ary 1995 . .. .An untitled installation by Guelph alumnus David Gelb in a video store window. Photo by Paul MacDonald

Art on the street . Last spring, a number of alumni art ists took partin a unique exhibit of "art outside the gallery," which fea tu red 24 installations scattered around Guelph's downtown area. The ex hibit included a mixed media installation in a stairwell by . Judy Bowyer, BA '94,a flower gar den built in and on a parked car by Lisa Fedak, BA '86, a 35mm film collage by CharLie Fox, BA'75,vi ny I banners attached 10 street lamp by Roberta McNaughton, BA'9·4, drawings mounted inside <;ity buses by Ian Cauthery, BA '92, a video by David Gelb, BA '94, a constl1lction made of empty · insulin vials in a drugstore window

by Loretta Paoli, BA '86, a mixed media installation on the street by Sara Angeluccl, BA '87, video art by Kevin Hogg and Pauline Sinclair, botb BA '81, a table sc ulp ture by Nora Hutchinson, BA '75, black and white photographs by Paul MacDonald, B.Sc. '94, and classified ads in the daily newspa per by Prot Ron Shuebrook, Fine Art. The artists have produced a 30 minute video and a photo catalogue documenting the exhibit. Both are available for $5 each from Insta ll . Art Collecti ves, P.O. Box 1617, Guelph, Ont. NIH 615.

professor and depu ty dean of research at the Facu lty of Life Sc iences at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malay sia in Bangi.

Brendan Kane, BA '76, has bee n in Cal ga ry since 1979 and is the wes tern sales manager for Toronto based Star Ex pansion Shielos.

Mary Lane, B.A. '74, is an elementary sc hool teache r with the Hami Iton- Wentworth Separate School Board. She li ves in Stoney Creek, Ont. , with her son s, Cory, 15, and Christian , 10. Sharon McMorran, B.H.Sc. '70, rec ently received the Chapter Di stinguished Service Aw ard of the Cer ti f ied General Accountants Assoc iation of Ontario for her leadersh ip and service to the Kitchener/ Waterloo chapter. A four-year membe r of the chap ter's board , she has served as c hai r and has contributed to many committees. McMorran is man ager of financial services for the Centre in the Square and is a volunteer with the KIW YWCA.

Reginald Nathaniel, M.Sc. '7 1, is an interna tional tea agronomist ju st beginning a four-year con sultancy assignment in Jakarta for the Indonesian Department of Agri culture. Oliginally from Sri Lanka, Nat haniel sa ys he and his wife are enjoying

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Odette Barr, B.Se. '82, is a teacher and assis tant principal in the North west Territories and will be spending the coming schoo l year in Gri se Fiord, Canada' s most northern settlement.

Stephen Bellinger, BA '81, and Gigi Farrell, B.A.Sc . '83 , write to us from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., with news of "another outstanding example of U of G's matchmaking abilities." They were "soulmates in '78, roommates in '84, partners for life in '93 ... oh , where would we be with out the U ofG')" Bellinger says he shifted gears from geograpby to health care in 1987 and spent a few ye ars in hospital admini stration before jumping into the midst of health-ca re reform as a senior planner w ith the Al goma District Health CounciL Farrell has practised c li nica l dietetics for th e past II yea rs at the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital and has been instrumen tal in introducing video ~luoroscopy for swallow ing disorders and dev eloping home tube-feedin g proto cols. She 's also worked for the recognition of dieti tian s in the Ministry of Health's Northern Outreach Progra m for rehabilitation professional s.

Nancy Carruthers, B.A.Se. '87, is engaged to be manied in September to Colin Hawkins of Beaver Harbour, N.B. She works for Norte! (formerly North ern Telecom) in Ottawa as a customer/user ser vice representative and is involved in introducing new products. In Jun e, she received Nortel's President 's Award for repre se nting th e se miconductor compo nents group to cus tomers in the switChing and trans mission business.

Patrick Dowds, BA '88, teaches Grades 3 and 4 for th e Hal ton Roman Catholic School Board in Burlin gton, Ont. He and hi s wire, Vicki , have two children . Katharine Cunnington, B.A.Sc . '88, was married

this summer a nd li ves in Golden, B.C, where she

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Marilyn (Wigle), BA '87, and Philip Friedmann, MA '87 , live in Etobicoke, Ont., with their two chil dren, Philip, 3, and Jordan, five months. The Friedmanns both work in T oro nto, where he is re giona l manager for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and she is marketing planning director for the U.S. operation s of Manulife Financial. Cuelph Alumnus

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Louise (Giroux) Hastie, BASc. '87, still has time to write letters, despite the fact that she is the mother of twin boys about to enter the " terrible two's." Scott and Michael were born in June 1995 , giving Mom a short break from her job at Procter & G amble Inc. in Whitby, Ont. She is a sales analyst, but has al so worked for the company in consumer services and market aoalysi s. She welcomes news and le tters from other FACS '87/88 grad s. Fred Havel, B.Sc.(Agr.) '81, is an international brewmaster who started his career with the Canada Malting Co., then joined Carling O ' Keefe in Mont rea l and later moved to the Mol so n plant when the two companies merged . He is now in Moscow, help ing to create what will be the larges t malting and brewing company in Ru ss ia. Yap Kim Hin, B.Sc.(Agr.) '85, is a material con trol ler for a new factory operation in Malaysia. Semicon duct o r Miniature Products is a joint venture betwee n Philips and Motoro la to produce semico nductors in Malay sia. Colin Holmes, B.Sc. '87, went on from Guelph to complete a PhD in neuroa natomy at McG ill Univer sity, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Montreal Neurological In stitute, where he' s bee n working in the field of brain imagi ng. In November, he will begin a one-year placement at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Elinor Humphries, B A ' 83, is the first full-time fund rai se r and pu blic re lations co-ordinator for the Ontari o 4-H Council. She bega n her job in Feb ruary, coming to the coun cil from Fleishman Hillard , where she was a public relation s coun sel lor. Shc has also worked as an editor for AfS Com munications, known for its Agri-Book series of Elinor Humphries magaz ines published for the agricultural industry. She has joined the 4-H Council in the 80th-anniversary yea r of 4-H in On tari o.

Will, Dip,(Agr.) ' 77, alld Marlene Van Baalen of Langley, B.C , and Michael, Dip.(Agr.) '86, and Gayle Whittamore (If Markham, Ont., were named outstanding young farmers in 1994 by the Junior Cham ber of Cotlllnercc of Canada. The Whiuamore berry farm was the re gionalwinner forcentral Ontado; the Van Baalen floriculture busine~s cap(ured the national aWal'd. The Van Baalensoperate 80,000 square feet of greenhouses, special izing in potteel cyclamens and or~ chids. They started Brookside Green.houses in 1985 with 20,000 . sq~are feet of greenhouse space, but' .quadrupled production within rive years. Ini1ovation has been one of the keys to their suu.:ess. They were the' first company to develop the year~round rnai"ket for cyclamen. Lntheir third year of.opcration, they installed an environmental con trol system thatregu fates heat, .light, humidity, ail: exchange and the de . livery offenilizer <\nciil'rigation. [n addition'to its year-round produc~ tion capabilities; the new system cuts energy dClllands 'by 40 per cenL

ing end of Brookside. She also . chairs the Greater Vancouver gional District Agricultural Advi . soryCommiitee. TheWhiltamores represent afam iIy operation started in 1957 by Michael's pilrents , Gilbert "Gib," BSA ' 49, mid Evelyn. Today, the Will designed and nlWv markets a 330-acre operation is managed by .. Michael and his bothers, Dave and recirculating sub-ilTigation system Frank, Dip:(Agr.) ' 88, and their that reduces the demand on ground waterby 50 per cent over conven families . They produce 100 acres of tional systems and prevents run-off . I() different Ihlits and vegetables, il) . or leachate that could.callse grnuod , eluding 43 acres of strawberries and water contamination, 25 of raspberries. will is a direcloi' ofbolh Flowers Cinada and the United Flower Growers Co-op in Burnaby. Marlene is a community plallner and CO~O\\lller of a consul~ing firm . and marUlges the finanQiallm3rket

Service is their molto, and organi zation is sometimes the key to suc- . cess. From June to November, the pick-yollr-own berry farm employs up to 100 people and ~'elcol11es · 75,000 customers through the farm gate. Gayle devotes a lot of tim" to staff training to try to ensure that everY .Cllstomer leaves with a smile.. Michael's job is to maintain high crop productivity. Through vatiety selectiOns <lOd improyecierop man- ,· agement, he has doubled berry pro- . duclion, making the fMm more · efficient. .

Len Kahn, B.Sc. (Agr.) ' 85 and M.Sc. '89 , has opened a new marketing agency in Guelph that will fo cus on marketing communicati o ns services for small- to mcdium-s ized agribusinesses. Kahn has more than 10 years of experience as an agricultural economist and marketer, most recently with Ginty Jociu s & Associates. His new company, Kahntact Market ing, will provide core services in strategic plannin g, market research and data base mar keting.

Jennifer LaChapelle, BA '8 1 and MA '83 , was recen tly named to a three-yea r term on th e Simcoe County District Hea lth Council.

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About 80 per cent or the farm pro duction is marketed as pick-yolll: own or ready-picked fresh produce through the farm Slore. They also market v;lJ, u e~added products such .asjams, pies and frozen fruit-fla vored yogurt. Another 10,000 pounds of fruitsand vegetables .. move fre sh through local retailers.

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Linda Lennon, BA '82, is currently serving as a member of the National Parole Board and is enjoy ing a new role as Grandma to l8-month-old Nicholas. Scott Murdoch, B.Sc. '89 , and Christy Grinfon, B.Sc. '90, are fisheries biologists in Kamloops, B.C. They operate thei r own environ mental consulting company and work for the Min istry of the Environment. They will celebrate their first wedding anniversa ry in October. Ann Orr, BA '87 , is an Internet Web site special ist for Zenox Communications in Toronto. She lives at Camp Borden with her fiance, Michael Hartry, three children (Tyler, Tannis and Kimber), two Dalmati ons, two cats and two birds. E-mail her at mahartry@bconnex .netJ- mahartry. Vilis Ozols, B.Sc. '85, is president of the Ozols Business Group in Evergreen, Colo., a business train ing and consulting firm that helps companies across the United States and Canada mo ve to a participatory management style. He completed an MBA at the University of Colorado in 1992 be fore starting the company. Last year, he presented work shops to more than 10,000 people in nine of the 10 provinces. Hi s cli ents include local and fed eral government branches as well as private com panies. And CBC Radio has call ed on him as an ex pert on teams and team management. Ozols says much of his motivation comes from a back ground in sports. He was a member of the U of G varsity volleyball team and the Canadian national volleyball team and was a pro beach vo lleyball tour competitor. Tobin Peever, B.Sc. '85, continued his studie s after U of G, earni ng an M.Sc. from the U ni versity of Toronto in 1987 and a PhD from Cornell Uni versity in 1993. He is currently a postdoctoral as sociate at Cornell, working on the population genetics and evolutionary biology of pl ant patho genic fungi. Aldolfo Perujo, PhD '87, left Guelph for Bel gi um, where he completed a postdoctoral fellow ship in phy sics at the Central Bureau for Nuclea r Measurements, part of the Join t Research Centre (JRC) of the European Union (EU). He is now head of the fu sion materials studies sector at the European Tritium Handling Experimental Labora tory, a JRC facility in Ispra, Italy . His research area is the interaction of tritium with materials of interest for the fusion community. Customers of his data include the planned International Thermo nucl ear Experimental Reaclor, a four-parr collabo rative effort of the EU, the United States, Japan and the Russian Federation. Canadian physicists participate in the EU effort. Data from the Ispra group is also used by fusion test reactors in the United States and Great Britain. Perujo was mar ried in 1989 to Irish-born Veronica Holland. They have two daughters, Carol and Noemi. Cuelph Alumnus

Rob Ridley, B.Sc. '89, has been working for five years as a seasonal park ranger in Alberta's Kananaskis Country. He writes to say he misses his Guelph friends, but lo ves Albelta. Margie Scherk-Nixon, DVM '82, deserves con gra tulations for recen tly passing a new category of practice board certification auth orized by the Ameri can Board of Veterinary Practitioners. She was the only Canadian among the 22 practitioners who passed the exams held last February at the Western States Veterinary Meeting. They each wrote two peer-reviewed case reports in the stringent standards of veterinary journals. Nixon is a small-anima l practi tioner in Vancouver who started one of the earliest feline practices in Canada. In May, she also spoke at the prestigious American College of Veterinary Inter nal Medicine meeting in Florida abo ut her work on the use of transdermal fentanyl patches in cats. This is a novel non-invasive and long-lasting form of anal gesia, which has many uses in veterinary medicine. Andrew Simons, B.Sc. '8 8, has gone on to earn a master's degree at McGill University and is now en rolled in a PhD program in evolutionary biology at Dalhou sie University in Halifax.

Rachel (Mitten) Sixt, BA '83, lives in Waterloo, Ont., with her husband, Andrew, and two-year-old son, Gregory. She teaches for the Waterloo County Board of Education.

Lisa (Carl) Smith, B.A.Sc. '88, is a day-care su per visor in Aurora, Ont. She and her husband , Jeff, are celebrating the birth of Caley Elizabeth on April 15, 1995 , a granddaughter to Wayne Smith, DVM '62.

Angela (Medemblik) Smylie, BA '86, sends greetings to friends who spent the summer of 1983 on campus. She is a fuJI-time homemaker living near Brockville, Ont., with her husband , John, and three children: Ian , 8; Lindsay, 6; Jessica, 4; and Megan, 1. Kim (De Luca) Stephenson, B.A.Sc. '81, and her husband, James, recently purchased Scott Veteri nary Clinic ill Brantford, Ont. They have three chil dren: Matthew,S; Andrew, 3; and an infant daughter, Sara. Hayo Van Der Wert, M.Sc. '89, completed a PhD at Wageningen Uni versity in the Netherlands in 1994 and is now fill ing a postdoctoral position in France at the Centre de Recherches de Colmar. Hi s work deals with the eva luation of pesticides in farm ing systems; his PhD research focused on the crop physiology of fibre hemp. Van Der Werf and his wife, Agnes, and their two daughters live in the city of Colmar and invite U of G friends to write them at B.P. 507, 68021, Colmar, France.

Behind the scenes at the Metro Toronto Zoo, you 'll find many Guelph graduates, including these four zookeepers who care for large animals native to the African savannah. From left are Lisa Veit, B.Sc. '94, Erin McMurray, B.Sc. '90, Heather Tomaso, B.Sc. '81, and Valeria Bowler, B.Sc. '85. Tomaso heads up the group and the zoo's cheetah breeding program. Pac ing behind them is Chiquita, the nervous mother of six newborn kittens, whose maternal status has made her a celebrity. Cheetahs suffer an 80-per-cent mortality rate in the wild, says Tomaso, and those bred in captivity rarely have more than three kittens per litter. Photo by Trina Koster

daughters. After U of G, she earned a B. Ed. at the University of Toronto and did so me travelling before settling down to teaching and married life.

Heather (Royale) Young, BA '80, says that in 15 years of living in Florida, she's only met one other Guelph grad uate. Unbelievable' There are hun dreds of Guelph alumni in Florida and many in Fort La uderdale, where she lives with her husband and two children. Young says she' d like to hear from other West Indian Guelph grad s and from those who li ve in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. Send her a postcard at the hum an resources department of Macy ' s Department Store in Fort Lauderdale.

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Trevor Adams, Dip.(Agr.) '9 1, and hi s wife,Janette, ot' Kitch~ner , Ont. , a re statIOned III Gungu, Zalre, working for the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Because of th e Ebola virus outbreak in nearby Kit wit Uust 100 kilometres from Gungu), they mov ed in May with their two-month-old baby, Cameron , to the capital city of Kinshasa. MCC reported that sev eral hundred people have died in Kitwit, with medi cal staff being hard est hit by the virus. Spread through contact with body fluids, it ki lis some 80 per cent of those infected. Daniel Ball, M.Sc . '91, has moved with his wife and daughter to a town called Mongu in the western province of Zambia. He is managing director of the Zambia Wetlands Development Agen cy, a private age ncy working in the ZambiaJBarotse floodplains and surroundin g area.

Daryl Vanderburgh, B.Sc. '83 and M.Sc. '86, is

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Abbreviations BA =Bachelor of arts BA-?c. == Bachelor ofapplied science ' B.Comm. = Bachelor of commerce B.H.Sc. = Bachelor of household science BLA = Bachelor of landscape archite~tur~ BSAiB.Sc.(Agr.) = Bachelor of science in agriculiure B.sc. = Bachelor of-science B·.Sc.(Eng.) ~ B~chelor of science il1engiJ~eering . B.Sc.(H.K.):" Bachelor ofscience in human kinetics DVM = DoclOr of veterimuymedicine Dip.(Agr.):: Associate diploma in agriculture · Dip.(H·.E.) = Diploma in home economics ODA :: Oilt~rio diploma in agriculture ODH =Ontario diplomain horticulture · PhD = Doctor of philosophy . GD-= Graduate diploma MA = Master of arts M.Agr. = Master of agriculture MLA = Master of landscape architecture M.Sc. = Master of Science Guelph Alumnus

tor, co-ordinated a residence life conference and served as program assistant for University College Connection. She also worked as a high schoolliai son officer before moving to St. Francis Xavier.

Ryan Martin, B.Comm. '93 , is completing an MBA at the University of British Columbia in urban land economics and is involved in the development of two residential subdivisions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.

Stephanie (Fitzpatrick), Dip.(Agr. ) '91 , and Paul McCannell, Dip .(Agr.) '90, recentl y cele brated their first wedding ann iversary. They live in Orangeville, Ont., where Paul works on the family dairy farm. Stephanie work s in the pharmacy at Pee l Memorial Hos pital in Brampton.

Cameron McKee, BA '93, graduated in May from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a mas ter's degree in interior and furniture des ign . Andrea Osberg, BA '9 1, caught the e ntrepre neurial spirit and is now co-owner of a Tim Horton franchise in Mississauga, Ont., at the corner of Bri tannia Road and Hurontario.

Sean Pratt, BA '95, put his drama degree to good use over the s ummer working for the Paramo unt Ac tor Program at Canada's Wonderland.

Lena (Redden), BA '91 , and Chris Reilly, BA '93, met at U of G in 1988 and were marTied last Oct. 15 . They live in Whitby, Ont. , with their dog, Gryphon. Lena works as a vocational counsellor and Chris is a quality tec hnician .

Barb (Kormos) Robinson, B.Sc.(Agr.) '87, has worked for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for the past five years as a primary products in spector in the Toronto food-production and -inspection branch. She and her husband, Scott, live in Burlington with their two Children, Rebecca, 6, and Kri sta , 2.

Kathy Svistunenlco, B.Sc . '95, is working as a physiothera pi st at Laurentian Hospital in Sudbury, Ont. She also has a B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario and says she misses her U of G friend Sandy Kofalvi, PhD '94, who is completing a postd oc in Bordeaux, France. Chris Thorne, B.Sc.(Agr. ) '90, recently joined Barrow Communications of Guelph as account man ager. He was one of the found ers of the Small Bu si ness Consulting Servicc at U of G, then moved on to earn an MBA from York University . He worked for Deloitte and Touche Management Consultants for five yea rs before joining Barrow, where he has re sponsibility for market rcsearch and the company's database-relationship marketing prac tice. Janice Van Kampen, BA '9 1, ex panded her Guelph degree in business administration and psy chology by com pleting an MA in clinical psychol ogy. She is now enrolled in the medi.cal program at McMaster University.

Anne Shields Williams, BA '92, teaches Grade 8 in Richmond Hill, Ont., for the York Region SepaCuelph Alumnus

Ella Stone using aVoice-activated computer.

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Determination overcomes disability , When Ella Stone lost her fine commodation cameat Guelph, motor skills in an accide~t 10 years throu gh the Centre for Students 'with Disabilities: Studeill volun-' ago, hel: employerdecided she . ' cQuld no longer perform her office teers served as runners to get re duties and put her on a disability search papers ou t of the Ii brar)' for pension . . her. The Depa(tment of Philosophy "I was devastated," says Stone, provided her with a tape recorder " ) feluhat-l had lost some of my " to tape iectures and a computer to . value as a person by losirig my use when marking undergraduate job." She' betameangry ,tJien de papers . And her professors ac- " pressed, then deternlined to give eepted the challenge of giving her new meaning to her life . oral. rather than written ~ examina She took some high school tions . .. equivalency'courses, earned ail un- . "They never 'm ade me feel sub dergraduate degree ai the Univer stanqard, but looked for ways to ac- ' sity of Prince Edward Island and, commodate me, to let me this spring, a master's degree in demonstrate that I knew the mate philosophy frori1 the University of " rial," she says. "The caring that fac-, Guelph. She now worksat Queen 's .ully displayed for students was Park as acting co-ordinator of the remarkable. They made my time at workpl,ace.discriminatioll and har Gue lph a success and influenced ' assment prevention office in the my life dramatically." . . . . M.inistry oflhe Attorney Gerieral. Today', Stone works to ensure , Stone's disabilitymakcs it al the same kind of respectt'ul work ' most imposs ible for her to write environment for provincial govern with a pen, but she's leauled that hlent employees. Her job i s 'to' es where.there's'a will, there '.s a way. tabl,ish policies and programs to She uses voice-activated com prevent discrimination and barass puter with a special track ball in Tnent in the workplace .and to en stead ora mouse to access key sure that ministry gU'idelines are , files. This, she says; i'san examplc implemerited. She says the rea ljoy . of accommodation in the work c , in her work is being able to make place that creates ,a n'open, respect ful environment for all workers: difference and seeing that "soine- ' time'S the system really does work." , Stone's first experience ~i.th ac

rate School Board . Her husband operates a boat building business, and they have a one-year-old daughter, Sheila.

Michael Wilson, MA '94, is a probation/correc tions consultant for th e New Brunswick so licitor ge n eral. He works in Saint John on projects related to incarceratio n facilities and programs for young of fenders in the province. 35

The following deaths have been reported since the last issue of the Guelph Alumnus. Full notices, which are usually submitted by family or c lassmates, may appear in this issue or a later one .

Joyce (Roberts) Anderson, Dip.(H.E.) ' 64, May 10, 1995 Janet (Henderson) Archdekin, Dip.(H.E.) '40, May 28, 1995.

J. Reid Murray, BSA '49, Jan. 6,1995. Jack Nazar, BSA '45, April 8, 1995. John Nickle, B.Sc. '91, March 29, 1995. Hazel (Innes) Noble, Dip.(H.E.) '26, Sept. 4, 1994. Patrick Ong, DVM ' 68, date unknown. Anson Pickell, DVM '41, June 19,1992.

Laura Behrns, Dip.(H .E.) ' 28, March 5, 1995.

John Reeds, B.Comm. '78, March 30, 1995.

John Bennie, Dip.(Agr.) '36 and BSA ' 38, Sept. 13, 1994. Wayne Brown, BA ' 74 and MA '79, October 1994.

James Robertson, DVM '73, June 27, 1995. Gordon Roulston, Dip.(Agr.) '38, Nov . 8, 1993. Ronald Rudd, BSA '46 and MSA '48, March 26, 1995. Joseph Scott, DVM '41, June 23,1995.

Mansell Chapman, BSA '45, April 3, 1995. Ruth Crawford, Dip.(H.E.) '3 1, March 26, 1995. Allan Dawson, BSA '37, May 26, 1995. Darrell Dolson, BSA '50 and MSA '52, May 4, 1995. Dorothy (MacFadzean) Dougan, Dip(H .E. ) ' 33, June 10, 1995 . . Hugh Duncan, Dip.(Agr.) '47 , May 27, 1995 . Oscar Film an, BSA ' 37, Dec. 28, 1994. Ernest Gent, BA ' 70, March 25, 1995. Larry Gonda, B.Sc.(Agr.) , 89, Feb. I , 1995. Patrice Gorman, BA '93, 1993. Arthur Harrison, BSA '29, March 25 , 1995. Grant Hagerman, B.Sc.CAgr.) '67, Marc h 21 , 1995. Mildred (Tucker) Hepburn, Mac ' 30, Nov. 23, 1993. Clarence Hovey, BSA '50, Dec. 27,1995.

Henry Hudson, Dip.(Agr.) '32, May I, 1995.

George Jacques, BA '74 , March 13, 1995.

Robert James, Dip.(Agr.) '57, Oct. 29,1994.

Margaret Ketchen, Dip.(HE) ' 23 , April 5, 1995.

Floyd Lashley, BSA ' 28, June 5, 1995.

Forman Lawrence, BSA '43, March 24, 1995.

William Stiles, DVM' 42, March 16, 1994. John Stock, BSA '44, May 17, 1995 . Robert Turnbull, DVM' 45, Dec. 6, 1992. Donald Tweedle, Dip.(Agr.) '52, Feb. 28 , J995. Viola Walberg, Dip.(H.E.) '37 , March 30, 1995. Joyce (Gray) Whyte, Dip.(H.E.) '48, May 6,1995. Marjorie (Karn) Wilde, Dip.(H.E.) ' 28, August 1993. Margaret "Meg" Crosskill, BA '72, died Feb. 17, 1995. She was a probation officer in Colling wood, Ont., and is survived by a brother, Bill; two sisters, Jean Rhiness, B.H.Sc. '65 and M.Sc. '66, and Frances Still; and five nieces and nephews, Kelly Burrows, Heather and Jeremy Crosski II, Nevil Still and Pamela Provoost, B.Comm. '95.

Grant Demore, BSA '38, of Wind sor, Ont., died April 27,1995. His career included positions as dis tiller for Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Limited of Wa terloo and manager of Calvert's Distillery in Amherstburg and Montreal. He was employed by the Wind sor Board of Education at the time of his re tirement. He is survived by his wife, Helen (McLeod), Dip.(H.E.) '37; a daughter, Jane Muir; and a son , Jack.

Peter LeSlie, BA '79, June 10, 1995.

Stuart Foster, DVM '49, of Fergu s, Ont., died Feb. Mary (Main) Lewis, Dip.(H.E.) ' 34, date unknown . 25, 1995. Born in Saskatchewan, he served in the Pa tricia Canadian Light Infantry during the Second James McElroy, BSA '49, June I, 1995.

Robert McFarlane, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,

May 17,1995. Ralph McKenzie, Dip.(Agr.) '21 and BSA ' 23, May 3, 1995. Patricia (Garratt) Mills, BA '75, Feb. 17,1989. Peter Milne, BSA ' 56, April 17, 1995. Alexander Morrison, BSA ' 33 and ' 34, Au g . 29, 1994. Sue Munnoch, B.A.Sc. '76, April 18, 1995 . Robert Munroe, Dip.(Agr.) '74, Dec. 8, 1994. Dorothy (Smyth) Murdoch, Dip.(H.E.) ' 30, April 18, 1995. 36

World War, then enrolled at OVe. He practised vet erinary medicine in Fergus for many years and com pleted 26 years with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Health of Animals Branch at Kitchener ' s lM. Schneider. He was a member of Canadian Le gion Branch 275 and many other community organi zations, including the Masonic Lodge and lacrosse and figure skating clubs. He is survived by his wife, Marion, five children and seven grandchildren .

Ivan Hill, BSA ' 23, of London, Ont., died April 23 , 1995. Predeceased by his wife, Mary , he is survived by two sons, David, BSA . 50, and Elmore, BSA , 56, and one daughter, Barbara Holland, Dip.(HE) '58.

Donations given in memory of deceased alumni will help support scholarships at the University of Guelph if directed to the Alumni Memorial Fund. Send c/o Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1. For information, call 519-824-4120, Ext. 6183.

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Wolfer Hopewell, BSA '40, died July 20, 1994, a month after he and his wife, Elizabeth (McBride), Dip.(H.E.) '40, celebrated their 50th wedding anni versa ry. Mr. Hopewell began his career at Suffield Experimental Station near Medicine Hat, Alta., but moved to Ontario in 1956 as a federal research scien ti st involved in forest insect control. He is survived by his wife, four children, eight grandchildren and a great -grandson. Richard Hungerford, Q.c., a former member of U of G's Board of Governors, died May 13, 1995. His home was in Guelph, where he was a partner in the law firm Hungerford , Guthrie and Berry. Anthony Kingscote, DVM '28, died April 12, 1995, in British Columbia. He was a faculty member inOVCfrom 1929 to 1963.

Anthony Kingscote

Born in England, Dr. Kingscote moved with his family to British Columbia at the age of four. He de veloped a lifelong interest in natural history and ma rine biology , which led him away from home at age 17 to try his hand as a sa ilor on the Prince Rupert and Union steamships and an enlistment in the RCMP. His desire to become a veterinarian brought him to Guelph. Following graduation and a brief stint in private practice, he joined the OVC faculty as a lecturer. This led to the founding of the depart ment of parasitology and a distingui shed career as a teacher and researcher. During the Second World War, he served - as Major Kingscote - with the Royal West African Frontier Force and the Indian Army and became chief of the Scientific and Techno logi cal Branch. During hi s time in Guelph, Dr. Kingscote won many awards for his gardening abilities and spent several years building a log cabin on the shore of the Eramosa River. He named the valley below his Rocky Roost home Spirit Valley, and th ere he raised Arabian horses, fed squirrels and birds from his pock ets and developed his talents in Chinese paintings. Two of his paintings are housed at the Macdonald Ste wart Art Centre, and many of hi s writings can be found in OVC historica l files. He retired to B.C. and died at age 92 after a fall from his bicycle. He is survived by two daughters, Robin and Phoebe.

Dorothy (Lester) LeBel, Dip.(H.E.) '32, died in Belleville, Ont., June 17, 1995. After Macdonald In stitute, she earned a bachelor of house hold science from the University of Toronto in 1933. She settled in the Niagara area, where she worked as a cooking demonstrator for the Provincial Gas Company in Weiland and a dietitian at the Niagara Falls General Hospital. In 1962, her family moved to the Belleville area, where she was head dietitian at the Camp bellford General Hospital and an acti ve community volunteer. She donated her time to the Kirk School for the mentally challenged, Eastminster United Churc h, the University Women's Club, the Hastings Histo rica l Society and the Quinte Arts Council. Mrs. LeBel was an amateur painter, a yoga enthusiast and Guelph Alumnus

a world travelle r. Predeceased by her hus band, Harry, she is survived by two sons , Peter and Laurence; two grandchildren, Scott and Stephanie; a brother, Jack Lester, BSA ' 40; and two sisters, Merle Longworth a nd Emily Smith.

Emmanuel Macdonell, BSA '42, di ed Nov. 15, 1993. He had retired in 1982 as head of the science department at Englehart High School , was active in Kiwanis and was predeceased by hi s wife, Estelle, in January 1994.

Clare (Howard) MacKenzie, Dip.(H.E.) '33, of Ingersoll, Ont., died April 18, 1995. Predeceased by her husband, Donald, she is survived by three chil dren and six grandchildren. Stan Malkin, BSA '31, died May 27, 1995, in New market, Ont. Retired principal of Saugeen Di sHict High School, he is survived by hi s wife, Dorothy (Squirrell), Dip. (H.E.) , 34, and two daughters, Nancy Dodds and Mary Weeden, Arts '7 1.

Melville Palmer, BSA ' 50, of Alexandria, Ohio , died April 23, 1995. Rai sed in Ontario, he serv ed in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, but left Canada to pursue graduate st ud ies in agricultural enginee ring at Ohio State Univer sity and the University of Wi sconsin. He joined the faculty at Ohio in 1955 , working as a water-manage ment consultant in extension until 1987. He also served one year as a Ford Foundation consultant at Punjab Agricultural Universi ty in India and organ ized study tours in Europe and Finland. He was a member of many professional organizations. Ohio State named him professor emelitus at retirement, and he was named to the International Drainage Hall of Fame in 1988. He is survived by hi s wife, Shirley. Florence (McGregor) Peel, Dip.(H.E.) '5 I , of Fenelon Falls, Ont., died March II, 1995. She is sur vived by her husband , Milton; her daughter, Lynn; and two sons, Ronald and James . Susan Pengelly, B.Sc.(H.K.) '93, died in March 1995 in a diving acc ident in British Columbia. She was a production s manager at Christi e' s Caniage House Publications in Victoria and is survived by her parents, Frances and Barry; one sister, Cathy; and her fianc e, Bryan Maltby.

Donald Reynolds, Dip.(Agr.) '66, of Peterbor ough, Ont., died May 4, 1995. He was empl oyed at Smith and Smith Drugs Ltd. and is survived by his wife, Lynn. John "Jack" Roe, DVM' 45, died May 21 , 1995. He was owner and operator of Roe Feeds and Roe Farms near Li stoweJ, Ont. , and is survived by hi s wife, Bertha; two sons, John and Paul; and a daugh ter, Linda, BA '74.

Jay Vsetula, Dip.(Agr.) '93 , of Blenheim, Ont., died Fe b. 25, 1995. He worked for Sharpe Farms of Guelph right after graduation, but had spent the past year in his father 's business in Ridgetown. He is sur vived by hi s parents, Judy and Jerry , and one sister. 37

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