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The loss of our youth in soc iety is tnil y a tragedy. In thi s regard, Gerald Adams's work on depression and suicide in yo uth was greGtly appreciated ("Who I Am," December 1995 issue). But r would like to offer some of my personal observa ti ons becau se I think the conclusions of Adam s's studies are only <l part of the problem. The lack of identity, va lues and comm itment in our youth could be a rellection of the lack of identi ty, values and co mmit ment in society. The media not only portray thi s, but also sha pe it in the harrage of violence, infideli ty and Obscen ity on the screen s and airwaves today. Adams argued that the form of the family is an intrin sic part of the values of society. Few thin gs are more disturbing to children than their rea liz.ati on that discord exists betw een th eir parents and that a separation or divorce is pendin g. Th ere i s little se nse of be longing in a family that is falling apart. Our security in life is not ultimately the responsibility of others around us. The loss of governmcnt safety nets Im.ly , in part , be a result of someth ing we have bccome overly depencle nt on. Our identity is not a government sa fety nct. Similarly. the recogni ti on of our' identity by friend s, family and peers is importan t, hut if thi s fai ls to develop. we should be we ll grounded enough to find others who will recogniz.e our identity and support us. [t seems to me that in Adam s's pGrticipant there is an element or victimizat ion. Personal fulfilment is ultimately one's own respons ihility. Lif'c is difficult. Life is unfair. It means eve ['y thing to be loved. But there h<ls to be struggle to ach ieve worth in life. The mec hani sm of depression ari ses not out 01- the hopelessness that li fe brings us, but out of the failure to take one's own responsibility for persona l fulfi lment. Tim Pasma , B.Sc.(Agr.) '92

A pat on the back Ed Stoltz, who started at OAC wi th the Class of '39. has been a f<lithful reader of th e Guelph Alumnus for' many years. He wrote to tell us how man y memories were stirred by our December 1995 issue. On the cover was a watercolor painting of Johnston G['ee n th at made a contribution to th e discussion in his retirement art class. A p,1ge devoted to the Alma Mater Fund made Stolt z feel glad that he had responded to a letter from class president Lcs Laking to make an annual contribut ion to the University . I n the campu s sec ti on, he recognized Ken Murray , BSA '50, in the photo of GUARD's board of directors as the former head of 1.M. Schneider Inc. of Kitchen er. As a boy, Stoltz helped his dad deliver hogs by wagon to Schneidcr's from th e family farm on the Waterloo-Wilmot town line. Years later, Stoltz worked with members of the Schneider family to launch thc Chicopee Ski Club. In the column on alumni authors, he picked out Ana/oll1v ofa Winel}' by Don Ziraldo, B.Sc.(A gr.) '7 1, for Christmas gift giv ing. And he recognized classmate Donald Fletcher in the photo of inductees to the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame. Sad l y. he also recog ni zed two other classmates li sted in the ob ituaries, but remem bered fondl y how one of th em, Cedric L.lrrson, had defeated him in the election for trea surer of their first-year class. "So you see," says Stolt z, " I have gone from cover to cover, as I have over the years, and look forward optimistically to many more." Thank you, Ed Stoltz, for sharing your memories. Stirring up memories is part of our job. Cue!plt Alumnus

Budget cuts touch everyone In the largest-ev er cut to uni vers ity tran sfer grants, th e Ontario Mini stry of Education and Training left U of G with a $ 19.6-million shortfall in its [996N7 operating budget. No one on campus is untouched by the so luti ons that will be implemented to makc up the shortfall. Some are creati ve - refinanci ng the $7.2-million repayme nt schedule for '96/97 to cover the special deficits created by the 199 [ reorgani zation of the non-teaching units and the 1994 early retirement pro gram : access in g the U of G I leritage Fund to finance replacement of c ritical co mputi ng systems: new reve nue-generating initiati ves; and an enhanced student financial aid progra m. Many are painfu.l- $8.9 millIon in reorganiza tions and reducti ons in the teach ing and non- teach in g units; 121 posi tion s e li mina ted, 9 [ of them thro ugh volun tary bu yo uts and cancell at ion s of va ca nt positions and 30 layoffs: and II 20-per-cent in crease in tuition fees. On e so lution requires an act of fait h - a one-time $2-million clawback to the teach ing and non-teach ing units until an addition al $2 million in new tuiti on revenue is generated. Beginning thi s fa[l, U ofG wi ll adm.it an addit io nal 350 to 400 first- yellr students each year. Still , $700,000 mu st be found to co ver the re main ing shortfa [1. Admi nist rators are counting on discus sions with employee gro ups to identify thi s sav ings. President Mordechai Rozans ki admit s these so lu ti ons are paint'lIl and wiJl result in increased work loads for fac ult y and stall, bigger classes and hi gher tuition for students. some service disruption s and vis ible reduct ions in building and grounds maintenll nce. But " we remain hopeful that th roug h the dedication ancl crea ti vity of ollr faculty, staff and stuci en ts, the Univers ity will endeavor to meet these new and for midab [e chall enges ... susta ining the quality of the University under constra ined circumsta nces."

Good news on the scholarship front U of G has good news for studen ts facing hefty tui tion increases thi s fa ll. • A $200,000 endowment fro m the late Fred Metca lf, a member of the U of G Heritage Fund board of trustees, secures the II th of 13 $20,000 President's Scholarships awarded annually to enter ing students. A pionee r in the development 01' cable television in Canada, Metcalf was pres id ent and CEO of Maclean -Hunter Cable TV Ltd . from [977 to 1994. He also co-founded radio stati on CJOY in G uelph and served as it s general manage r from [947 to 1953. He and hi s wife, Kathleen, e ndowed the scho larship only months before his dea th Feb . IS. To date, more th an 100 students from across Can ada have received President's Scholarships on the ba si s of acade mic achievement and contributi ons to sc hoo l and community. Oth er donors to the program are: P<l trick Lett, B.Sc. '74 ancl M.Sc. '75, presid ent Cue/pli AI'II'II'II'

The annual Speed River Clean-Up has been one of the most visible environ mental efforts of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) since it be gan operations on campus in 1976. OPIRG has planned a number of events this summer to celebrate those 20 years of social, political and environmental activism (see page 25). Photo courtesy OPIRG

U of G president Mordechai Rozanski accepts the en dowment of a new entrance scholarship from Paul and Aileen Clarke of Blenheim, Ont. Photo by Marilyn Robinson

of Pierrepont B<ln co rp Ltd. , who supports three sc hol arships !lamed fo r former Gryphon footbal l coach Dick Brown; the fa milie s of Hank, BSA '65, Art and Peter Vander Po l, owners o f Rot-land Farms Lim ited, who ha ve endowed two scholarships: Ceci l H. Franklin, former chair of the Boa rd of Governot's, and Ingrid Frank lin ; the es tate ofCh<lrlcs Humphrey. former president of Hart Chemicals: the estatc o f Jack Longstafie, I'o rlller exec uti ve or Renfrew El ec tri c: and the estate of Li Ilian Stewart Usber, DH E '34. In additi on. U of G has named one scholarsh ip for Burton Matt he ws, BSA '47 and HON '89. who initialed the sc holar:-.hi p program in the l11id-1 980s cluring his term as president of U of G. • Paul an d Ai .leen C larkc and their fi ve chi lclren - Ja nis, Paula , Julie, Jon and Greg - hllve created a new ent ra nce scholar<; hip . providing $10,000 ove r four yea rs to a student with high acadcmic achieve ment and a record of leade rship and co mmunity pllr ticipation. Th e sc hol arship endowment is given in memory of Paul's parenh, the lale Blanche and Jllck Clark e, who fann ed in thc Blenheim, Ont.. area. and will give preference to candidates (ro m Blenheim dis tri ct and Kent Cou nt y who were rai:-.ed on <l farm. Thi s scho larship is also onc of the fe w at Guelph tlnll considers a student' s fi nancill l need. Paul Clarke is an engi neer who was an exec lI ti ve wi th Ford MOlor Co mpan y in Windsor from 1953 untll his retire ment in 1982. He taught phys ics at U oC G in the late J 940s and carly 19S0s. Ai Ice n Cla l'k, who grew up in the Guelph are a, is a daug h ter of tbe latc Robert MolTatt , former bead o( the: Phy ~ics Departlllcnt.

Financial aid Softens tuition punch Enlering and in-co urse undergraduate and " raduate sluden ts at Guelph wil l be able to lap into a million dollar prog ram to help cope with the 20-per-cent tuiti on fee increasl.: next year. The program, which includes entrance awards, enhanced bursari 'so teaclling a ~~ istant s h ip~ and an ex.p,mdeci work/study program, wi ll be fund ed through increased tuition re\·cnu cs . or r ha~ ~e t a ~ id e 18 per cent of the antici paled llnd I'graduate and graduatc tuiti on revenue increase fur sludent assistanc '. "nli~ i~ nearl y dou hie the 10 per cen t required by the province.

Multidisciplined honors U of G awarded an honorary degree to Harvard nive rsity botani st Barry Tomlinson durin g wi nler co nvocation cere mon ies l-eh. I and :2. Retired Fre nch studil.:s pro!'e:,sor Leonard Ada m" wa~ named proi'l:ssor emeritus. and the John BI.:I I Teach in g Award was prl.:~ ented to chemistry profe ~,o r Gordon Lange.

The world is watching our garbage In the garbage world , Gue lph is a well -known name. The city ha, been a Canada-wide leader in recyc ling and wa,te-managc ment pro gral1l ~ for 20 years, and the University i, its willing accomplice . o f ( j ,topped pU lling everythin g into garbage bags in the mid 1980s , and we'vc gone fwm truck ing an all-time high of 7 toones or garbage to the landfill eac h week in 19:-;6/87 to 41 tonne~ today, Th<Jt tonnage will de crease again b) as much as 50 pe l ce nt as L of G join~ thl.: city' s wet/d ry pi lot project, a fj rst in Nort h I\l11e riL' J. All buildi ng. on campus. in dud ing rc~ id e n ce" will be equipped wit h wet and dry receptacles to keep conlpo: tablc materi als ~e parate from elry gar bage, whic h is fu rther di" ided into recycl ah les and non-recyclable mate rials. On ly th e latter rind ~ ih way to landfi ll. It ', an alnbitiou ., pro ject that depend, on edu cation , e ~ p eciall y lor first- year stuLienh, who Hi\; often lrom out of to \\,n <l nci newcomer, to till.: wet/dry syst m. '<ly ~ l' of G w a~ t e - l11anagellle n t co-ordinator Alex I-I all . But the niversity mak s a we ight y contribu tion to the projec t and s tretchc ~ beyond local environmental benei'it s, he says. "The world is watchin g Guclph."

Tree counters wanted N ine hundred vo lunteers arc still needed to help record tree popu lations acro~s ntario lor a tree atlas project l a unch e cl l a~ t year by tht: Univer\ it y's Arboretum and the Onta ri o Forest Re~ea rc h Instit ute . Some nOO volunt er, are al read y al 'vi ork , each one survey ing a I OO -squ are- kil ol1lctre plot of land and recordin g the variou <; tl'ee pc'cies and ablil ldance. 'The project wi ll giv l.: us a ~ n ap ~ h nt 01 tree di stribution and ahundan ce frolll the turn of tl1\: ce n tury:' says pro ject ~ up e rv i sor Alan Wat son. lirec tor of the ArboretulTl. "II it had bee n clone in the p a~t , it migh t hav l.: givc n us an understand ing or lree popu la tion s in Ontari o, and it IIli ght have becn h ' Ip[ul in de tennin in g the qu c~ tion of global warm in g:' For more information ahout tlte PI'ojcCI. call the Arhoretuill at 519-X24--I-120. Ex l. -'6 15. ..

Addressing the ethics of new technologies A creative pil ot project to de ve lop undergradu:Jte courses that the ethi cs and ~oc jeta l impl ication ~ or nc w technol ogy has bce n launched at Guelph and thc Universit y 01' Waterloo. The catal yst i ~ 1950 0 ' graduate Ke n Murra y, who was 'hair or Cjuelph '~ Boa rd of Governors fro m 1970 to 1979 and rece nt ly served a, intcrim vice-president fo r Universit y affairs and clevelopm 'nl. r Ie provided an initial $ 100,000 to e~ t ab lish the t wo - ~ ' ;I i' teaching. re~e arch and clllTIm unication s project. which i ~ (ai led "Scic nce and Society. " In addition to incorporating unde rgraduate teaching modules into the c urriculum at (,iuclph and Wnkrioll . the project wil l conduc t applied researc h on societal aspects 01' tl.:chnologic<l1 change and develop public comm unications guidelines to ex plain r search and deH' lopl11ent ae ti vit y and associated techno logical innovation, Thl' academic bJ~1.: I'm Sc ience and Soc iC'ty i ~ the De part ment of hlod Scie nce at Guelph and the Centre for Soci ety . Tech nology and Valucs at V aterloo. " T hi ~ i, a grl.:at prll. ject, n: lkctive 01 Ke n' , innovation and 'big pict ure' lhin [.;i ng about the ethica l diil1 e n si on ,~ 01' science <lnd tcc hnol ogy in soc iety," says preside nt \t1o rcl chai R ()z an~['; i ... "> nd I am e llthu s ia ~t ic about the collab()ration with \Va te l'loo. It ' s a grea t u ni v er ~ it y, and we are wur[.;ing lIard to gethe r to be creativc and to build on 'uch coll aborati ons in a tim' 01 se \e re di , inveslll1ent in uni vl.: rsiti es . r am part icularly deli ghted that Kcn has r ' in forccd o ur cOlllmitme nt to integrat ing teac hing and re<;eareh at lhe underg raduatc le vel." \t1urmy . who is loriller C I-:() or J .~·1. Sc hneider in Kitchenc r, will be rt:cog:n i/cd for h i~ cont r ibutinn ~ to the food- pn)cc\\i ng indu... try .lI1d to uni vl.: r::.ity tcaehing and r ' ~e a re h whe n he i, awa rd ' d an honorary degree from U of G at spri ng convoca tion June 7.

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Extraterrestrial Canada Something new in classical music The Departmerrt of Music will inaugurate a summer mu sic institute on ca mpu s June 23 to 28 to give string players an opportunit y to stud y mode rn and historical playing techn iques on violin, viola, ecHo, viola da ga mba and double bass. A distinguished fac ulty of mu sico togis ts fro m Europe, the Uni ted States and Canada will offer mas te r c lasscs, lectures and chambe r music coach in g. The institute will also present a number of pub lic concerts. Specia l guests will be Jacques lsraelievitch, concertmaster of the Toronto Symph ony Orchestra , and Jaap Schroedcr, a conductm and baroq ue vio lin ist from Ams terdam . Thi s new mu sical initiati ve was madc possib le through a gift from the Alm a Mater Fund . For more information , ca ll the Department of Mu sic at 519 824-4120, Ext. 3127, or se nd e- maiJ to mc yr@a rts.uog uelph .ea,

The lady with the lamp Florencc Nightin ga le is widely known as the heroic frolH-line nurse who saved thousands of Briti sh sol die rs' li ves during the Crimean Wal·, but few are aw are th at she was also a bri lliant soc ial scientist. She lobb ied I'm reform of "Poor Laws," wh ich fmced the poor into workhouses, fought Icgislation that scapegoated pros titutes in an effmt to control sex ually tran smitted disease, and enunciated the prin ciples of medica re as early as the I860s. Guelph professo rs Lynn McDonald , chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and O,P. Dwiveci i, Political Studies, are collaborating with resea rchers in the United States and Scotland to pull together Nighti nga le's collected wo rks. Nightingale was a prodigiou s wri ter and an outspo ken advocate of soci al rerorm , ye t she is re mem bered romantically as the "' lady with the lamp," McDon ald suggests that stereotyping of women and the radi ca l nature of Ni ghtingale 's ideas ex plain wh y her intellectual contributions have been forg otten,

"Cop in g with Canadi an winte rs is the closest thing to living in ou ter space." So says hort icultural sc i ence professor Mike Dixon, who recentl y launched a research pro ject to stud y the life cycle of plaI1ls in a sea leci en vi ronment - something li ke living in u ,pace stati on, Soybea ns wil l be the first plant species studied. although hundreds of dif ferent plants. mostly ed ib le speci es, will eve ntu all y be moni tored as part of a com plex and sy n ergi stic ecosy stem. Because the ecosys tem mu st be totally self- su ffi cient, except for the injec tion of minute amounts of ca rbon dioxide and atomi zed pure water, eve rything must be recycled, The five-year project is expected to make contribu tion s to recycli ng and envi ron ment al co ntrol. Because of our frigi d climate. tbe Can adian gree n hOLlse industry already has a lot of expertise in these areas and is on the way to deve lopi ng an ex traterres trial life-support system , says Dix on,

Taking horse sense to the Olympics You' ll have to ge t up ea rly to watc h li ve coverage of the three -day eq ues trian ev ent at the 1996 , ummer Olympics in Atl anta, Ga, Olymp ic organi ze rs vow to ha ve the horses out on the course as early as 7 a.m. to finish the da y' s events before the heat reaches its peak, around noon, In addition, some events will be run in the shad e.

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Facts & figures • T he University of Guelph cOnLributes almost $400 mil lion annually to the local economy . • U of G students spend about $42 million each year. • Ove's large- and smail-ani mal clinics treat more than 12.000 animals on campus each year, and the farm serv ice tends 14,000. The Wild Bird Cli nic cares for about

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Mike Dixon stands in front of a stainless steel chamber built for the five-year Sealed Life·Support Systems Re search Project. Photo by Kerith Waddington

500 birds and provides educa tional programs for school children . • With $67.3 million in re search funding, Guelph is one of anada's most research-in te nsive universities. • The Arboretum nature trails and environmental education programs attract 73,000 visi tors each year. • U of G is the city's number one supporter of the United Way.

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These changes are the result of an intern ational equestrian research project commissioned by the American H orse Shows Association and the Federa tion Equestre Internationale. Researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College and the Equine Research Centre were part of the project, looking specific<llly at equ ine exercise peJformance in different climate condi tions and the abili ty of horses to adapt to heat and humidity. Their results have affected not only Olympic events, but training regimen s as well. Equestri an team s hil ve been advi sed to provide electrolyte sup plements and increased tluid intake as they prepare horses to perform in the sauna-like conditions temperatures up to 32 C and humidity as high as 85 per cent - that charac terize Atl anta in July. Although the Olympics provided the initiiltive, this milssi ve, co-operati ve scientific effort on behal f of the eq uine athlete will have far-reaching implications ror equestrian competition and animal welfare.

Helping others Fifteen U of G student vo lunteers spent reading week in Florida building hou ses for hurricane vic tims as part of the Habitat for Humanity initiative.

Entries must be postmarked or delivered to the Guelph Alumnus by July 15, 1996. Submissions by fax will not be accepted.

The idea originated when fOllrth-year plant biol ogy major David Rekker spoke with camp us pastor Ed Den Haan abo ut forming a group to help build housing for the needy in th e Guelph area. A campu s chapter of Habitat for Humanity was formed, with the stude nts workin g under professional superv ision on loca l projects.

The Guelph Alumnus will not enter into any discussion or correspondence with entrants other than the winners.

The group organized the trip to Florida to gai n a better understanding of the program by helping vol unteers there.

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rest stops will be introduced, including a IS-minute halt before the demanding cross-country begins. These ilre just so me of the changes being made to lessen the effec ts of Atlan ta' s intense heat and hu midity on the horses that will participate in the grue l ling competition.

Dennis Fitzpiltrick, B.Sc. '75 ancl M.Sc.·77, presI dent of the Canadian Federation of Biol ogicill Socie ties, encourages scientists to invite their local MP to visit their laboratory - not as a subject, but as an ob server. Fitzpatrick, who comp leted his gr<lduate work in human nutrition, says most of the people who deter mine science policy in Canada have never been in a lab. Speaking at OVC in March, he urged scien tists to encourage the government to con sider research as an investment rather than an expense. CUe/ph AlwlIl1US

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o mputer technology has been a part of university ca mpu ses for decades - in research labs, student records, accounting offices and inventory controL librane s and other areas where we deal with la rge amoun ts of information . They' re also a fixture in many class rooms - dealing with masses 0 1' data in geograph y courses. comp uting complex problems in math and ph ys ics, repl ac ing science labs and documenting re search in the humanitie s. It is now vi rtuall y imposs ible for a student to earn a degree at Guelph without becoming co mputer-liter ate. And we' re not alone_ According to a rece nt articl e in the U.S. -based Chronicle ol Hi f!, her Educatioll, comp uter technologies have ac hieved the critica l mass on uni versit y and co ll ege ca mpuses th at they need to spread througho ut higher educati on. The author quoted an anllual survey that shows nearly 24 per cent of co llege and university co urses are laught in computer-equ ipped classrooms. Th e surprising part is that the figures are up I'rom 15.8 per cent just a yea r ago. The Internet has made the difference, cau sin g the use of tec hnology to spread beyond computer enthu siasts to professors in the mainstream who no\-v be lieve that high-tec h tools can enhance their teaching. Some, like Gue lph profcssor Tom Carey, might sugges t that there's ne ve r been any do ubt about the widespread acce ptance of compute r-enhanced lea rn ing . Carey is a membcr of the Depa nmcnt of Com puting and Informati on Sc ie nce and director of the Lca ming 'l'l'chnologics Group at Guelph. He has been workin g with other facult y for more than a dec ade to dev elop co mputer-based lea rning mate rials. Well -des igned co mputer mod ule" and presentations make teachers more efficient and improve the learn ing process for stude nts, says e lrey_ Tec hn ology has it s greatest impact on learn ing when professors deve lop interacti ve tools that re quire student~ to so lve problems and exp lore con cepts on their own_Professors fUll ction less as sou rces of knowledge and 11101-e as coaches. This means a shift away from focus on the teacher and the physica l class room to focus on the learner _ Sound familiar'J That ' s one or the kcy recommen da tions coming out of U of G's strategic-p lann ing re port - a continuation of the effort to put student needs fi rst. Anyone fa mili nr with today 's job market will ver ify the importance of giving uni versi ty student s the opportunity to build tec hn ologica l skills. Toda y' ~ graduates nre stcpping into a marketplace where com mu nication technologies 3re expanding by the min ute. The amount of money in ves ted in knowledge based work is increas ing, and our uni vers ities are eager to find reso urces to prepare students for that world of work.

Interactive computer programs, including text based and multimedia presentations, are here to stay. They can help students learn more material more quickl y and gain the ~k ill s they'JJ need in today'sjob market. Usin g tec hnology can also create new oppo r tunities for di sta nce [earne rs and attract top students. In developing learning materials, U of G is leading the way, says Carey, but we have work to do to en hance our ability to deliver those materials to stu dents. There are now more than 1,000 comp uter terminals on campus ['or student use, but there's al most always a lineup to use them. Fortunately, Guelph's alumni are comin g to the resc ue. The prior ity project for the 1996 Alma Mater Fund campaign is the establishment of new computer labs. This pro ject will help U of G meet its commitment to stu dents without requiring them to buy their own compute r. Perhaps the bi ggest chan ge brought abo ut by tech nology-based learning is not what happens in front of the computer screen, but what it allows to happe n

in the class roo m. Many faculty ha ve fo und that offer ing computer rcsources fo r lab and out-of-c1ass use makes it possible 10 use in-class time more profit ably. Th e computer can provide access for up-to date factual material, so the professor can devote more time in class to di scussion rather than instruc tion. The biggest adjustment for stud en ts may be the need to change expectation s about the learning proc css. Students who approach learn in g passive ly "Here T am, pour in the knowledge" - will have to change their way of thinkin g, says Carey. Technol ogy- based learning dcmands that students accept re spons ibility for their own learning - another of Gue] ph's stra tegic directions. Thi s doesn't mean students are left on their own. A computer is a powcrfullearnin g tool, but it's just a tool. It 's up to the professor to create the learning ac tivity and stimulate the debate that ultimate.ly gener ates understanding.

What are the benefits technology can give students?

Practical skills OAC, the Department of English and the Learning Resou rce Centre collaborated on the design of a i'irst yea r co urse in problem-based writing. The st udent takes on the role of public relations official in an agri food company and is assigned to write a press re lease that es pouses the company's point of view on a political issue. Each student prepares an outlin e, then a draft of the press release, with immediate feedback from the prol'essor and other students . The final draft is likewise crit iqued and marked. The exe rcise requires writing sk ill s, but also de mands critica l thinking, team work and the ability to com municate ideas.

Instant replay Computers never get tired of repeating the same in format ion over and over, so the y're a natural tool for classes where students grapp le with difficult con cepts or ask for explanations to be repeated. Clin ical studies professor Doris Dyson uses a vari ety of computer programs to supplement her lectures and provide an extra learn ing aid for students. Her Toolbook program uses animation and interactivity to exp lain procedures such as anestbetic uptake and distribution, trauma, fluids, colic and C-sections. Besides allowing students to decide what they want to learn or review, eac h program can be used re peated Iy for practice and has accompanying class notes availab le at the touch of a button.

Outside expertise U of G is a longtime leader in video confe rencing and shared links with oth er uni ve rsiti es. The five iO

year-o ld video link between Guelph and the Univer sity of Waterloo was expanded in 1994 to includ e McMaster University in Hamilton. A visiting lecturer in one of the three classroo ms - or hooked up by long-distance video link - pro vides expertise that would be too costly to bring into each separate classroom. Conducted in real time, such video links also give students the opportunity to carryon a discussion with the lecturer and each other. U of G' s two interac ti ve classrooms <Ire usually booked from 8:30 a. m. to \0 p.m . fi ve days a week. Th ey're used to offer cour~e;, in political studies, phi losophy, physics and eve n mu sic. Video links have also proven effec ti ve for dell ver ing continuing ed ucatio n courses. The first course mounted by OVC via video demonstrated surg ical techniques and g<lve e<lch viewer a close-up look at the procedure.

Greater resources Since 1992, Guelph students have had access to the world's larges t arch ive of soc ial science research data . It contain s more than 9,000 listings of original research data on economics, geogra phy, politics, so ciology and psychology. It can be accessed from a li bral"y terminal. a campus computer lab, a residence room or a home computer equipped with a modem.

Private tutoring Students who need extra he lp can find it in tuto rial progrmns designed as teac hing <l ids. A we ll-designed tutori al is interactive and more engaging than a te xt book. Cuelph

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The most wide ly used lab module o n eampu \ is an Engli sh Co mpos ition Workbook des igned by associ ate vice-pres ident (academic) Constance Roo ke to leach writing and comprehension skil ls. The interac tive workbook req uires students to master each con cept as they move through it. The workbook is used by about 600 Guelph students each se mester, as weJl as studen t:-; at severa l other universiti es and at (;uelph 's C .: ntennial Collegiate Secondary School. Thi s summer, the Lea rning Teehno logil's Group at Guelph plans to put it on the World Wide We b.

Accessible resources The ("unction of the College of Arts media lab (for merly the language lab) was expanded over a year ago to make it acce<;s ible to all humanities students. Those studying languages use it for video-disk in struction and computer-based language modules, but ot hers are using it to acccss CD-ROM progra ms that feature anci ent Greek texts, maps and photographs of archeological si tes, sculpture and pOllery. The co llege also added a sa tellite dish to its teach ing tools thi s winter to benefit the European studies program. Students can pick up news and in formation from Europe and other countries 24 hours a day. This is good news for students In international pro grams and languag e ~ who access internati onal news programs as part of class work.

Reduced costs t of G was one of the first sc hools in Canada to tak e course curriculum and put it into digitized multime dia forms suc h as slides and photographs, audio tape, movies and 3-D animati on. Prof. Sandy Mid dleton teaches an introdu cto ry zo ology course that uses multimedia teaching: modu les to complement the hanus-on lab work. Dissecti on, for example, is now done with a digital mouse in stead of a scalpel. Thi s saves money and cu ts down on the use of animal specimens - frogs and fetal pigs - that wo uld Ju st be thrown away.

Shared resources BIOED \iET. a project supported by the Ontario Min istry of Education and Training (MET), is develop ing a database for bi olog ical science departme nts at all universiti es in the province. Based at Gue lph , tbis consortium cncourages th e sharing of resources to take advantage of brO;lcier ex pertise. The primary goa l is to develop a database of images and photos, so und bites and vi ual clips. The database will be availab le on CD-ROM or via the In ternet.

More opportunities Introductory biology students can take a two-hour field li'ip to the Arctic without leaving the comt"ort of their computer lab . Through the magie or computer graphics. students fly to the Arcti c via helicopter and meet sc ie ntific ex perts at their ,,·';.:a rch t"ield sitc. Provided with an in teracti ve knapsack , the stud ents conuuct fi l' ltl researc h as journalists stud yi ng the ecosystcm. The y ask que <; tion s of the ex perts and can aec e~s maps. boo ks and a notepad at any ti me . At the end of the field trip , the y write an article hased on their rcsearcb. One advantage of interactive multimedia is that students are forced to "und erstand the concepts be fore they proceed , in stead of [lipping through the pages of a book," say s zoo logy professor Pat Wrigh t, co-ordinator of the design team. Students must an swer random qui l questi ons in each section of the program before proceeding on to th e next sec tion .

Decision-making skills More learning in less time Students in zoology professor Gerry Mackie's intro ductory course on aqua tic envi ron ments used to spend .lab periods wading the shoreline of Guelph Lake and the Speed Riv er to locate plants and fish es . Now they wade into aquatic env ironments around the world - via compu ter - and come awa y with a much broader understanding of the importance of the Ea rth's aquatic ecosystems. Mackie 's interacti ve program uses photographS. movies and 3-D animatio n as well as te xt. A lab tech nician is always available to answer questions, and students can review the program as many times as they like. This multimedia lab wi 1.1 make its third appearance on campus this fall and will be offered for the first time as a distance education course for off-campus students. Cuelph AIUI'"Il1S

The exploration of case studies has been a valuable teac hing exercise in many disciplines and lends itself well to technology tools. Whether the subject is com puter design. landscape architec ture, veteriniJrY diag nos is, hotel management or family therapy, students can benefit from online preparati on. Most faculty wouldn ' t consider replacing a live practice sess ion , but the y ca n see benefit s in a teach ing module that helps students ana lyse informati on in preparation for class stud y. One example is a ne w teaChing modu le being de sign ed by clinical studies professor Danny Butler. Most OvC students come from urban backgrounds and are unprepared for the task 0[: handling large farm an imals. More importantly , they can' t tell when an animal' s behavior presents a danger to their own safety. The new computer module wi ll help students learn cues to watch for in an aggressive animal.

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Interfacing is a course requirement Access in g the World Wide Wcb beca me part of a course req uirement for first- year stu de nts in Prof. John Dutcber's physic s cla sses in the last academic yea r. It is used mainl y to provide a resourec for stu dents, including access to class outlines, course cal endars, weekly stud y guides ane! , accordin g to Dutchcr, one of tbe students' favorites, "Hot Lines of the Wcc k." Students using "Hot Lines" are con nected to sites around the world that are related to the matc ri al being studied that week. Dutcher add s that students have little difficulty ac cess ing the in fo rmation on Netscape through the Physics Department's microcomputer labs alld other labs on campu s. One final proof of the popu larity of thi s a pproac h with students is the fact that Dutcher so meti mes rece ives messagcs from students workin g at 4 a. I11 . 1 Seve ral oth er ph ysics courses use computer mod ul es to deli ve r tutorial and remedial program s, and ProL Jim Hunl will soon have arts students access ing the Internet in an astronom y class. Ne w curriculum for as tronomy majors is also being de vel oped around the usc of the " in fo rmati on highway. "

Distance learners go online Flexibility is thc key to designing distance educati on courses, and that means exlensive use of computer based techn olog ies. Prof. AI Lauzo n has been using computers in his di stance education co urse "The Communicati ons Process" since 1987 . The number of "online" stu dents has va ri ed from 40 to 130, says Lauzon , and student evalu ations have been " very positi ve ." Stu dents have enrolled from as far away as Vancou ve r and North Caro lina. Students are di vided into groups of 20 for di sc us sion and even smaller groups of five for projects. Lau zo n presents probing qu es tions like those that would be presented in a typical lecture, and students use these for their disc uss ions. The enlire class is never online at th e same time, but some of the smaller groups may be. The confercncing system helps overcome the iso la tion tha t many di stan ce learners feel. Course design ers ha ve turned to tec hno logy to help them feci more in vol ved with tbe ca mpu s. An introductory video fea turing the professor has proven to be a powerful mo tivational tool. In Prof. Ernie McFarl and 's introductory ph ysics 12

course, where Polan yi Pri ze-winning physicist Elisabeth Nicol demonstrates on videotape how to use the home experiment kit. In her " Introduction to Mu sic" course, mu sic chair Mary Cyr plays her viola da gamba and provides students with listening exer cises invol ving audio CD. Land resource science pro fe ssor Stewart Hilts is des igning a virtu al fie ld trip for hi s course " Introducti on to En vironm ental Stew ardship" that will guid e students thro ugh the develop ment of an environmenta l assess ment. And computer-based technology is at the forefront of plans to develop distance edu cati on MBAs in agri food and hospitality. Alberta', Ath abasca Univer sity, whicb already offers an MBA through di stance, wi II provide the earlier course s in the program; Gu e lph faculty will pro vide specia lized courses .

Teaching research techniques Gradu ate students in the Department of Engli sh were introduced to e-mail, the World Wide We b, CoSy conferencing and list servers as part or a reva mped research methods course last fall. Held in the information roo m of the library, the hand s-on course recognizes the need to move from traditional researcl1 methods to those that are more techn ologically based, says Prof. Catherine Kerri gan , who designed and taught tbe course. She worked closely with librarians, wh o did a great dea l of resea rch into topics that could be accessed through computers. Students were able to access in fo rmati on from other uni versities, li st serves and other librari es, including the National Library of Congress. They also learned how to wk e information from e-mail and place it in other documents. Kerri gan hopes [0 see tbi s introducti on to resea rch th ro ugh techno logy become part of an orientation prog ram fo r new graduate stud ents.

Students want interactive learni ng Land scape architecture stucienls are using a multime dia approach in the course "Fundamental s of Land sca pe Enginee ring" taught by Prof. Ron Stoltz. The computer progra m fits well into the stud ents' pre fe lTed lea rnin g style , says Stoltz, who is also director of In stru ctiona l Development in Teachin g Support Services. Landscape architecture facult y have tested student learnin g preferences amon g their undergradu ates, graduate students and faculty over the past eight yea rs. Results show that man y landscape architectu re Guell'''

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stude nts favo r a learn ing style di fferent from that of th e genera l public, says Stoltz. They prefer to learn concepts rath er than facts, are ex troverted and learn better in co-operative groups. They al so prefer inter acti ve learning over lectures. Stoltz was able to find a co mputer program de signed at Ohio State Uni ve rsity tha t allows stud ents "s timul atio n vali ation" while studyi ng topics such as roadway ali gnme nt and storm- wa te r ma nage ment. He says the favo rite module is parkin g- lot design and layout because it depicts the real-life conse quences to cars parking in an ill-designed lot.

lVIeeting the competition head on Top of /h e House, a computer program that simulate s a hotel bu siness, has been part of HAFA pro fessor Don Mac Laurin' s firs t- year "Lodgings and Opera tions" course for the pas t fi ve yea rs. The program's goal is to he lp students "gai n in sight into marke tplace positi oning - the art of ba l ancing a hotel' s appea l to va rious marke t segments - while address ing the dail y concerns of occ upanc y an d budget constrai nts," Mac Laurin says. St ude nts in last semester's course we re div ided into eight te ams of fi ve and told that their hotel was one of eight in a mid-size city. During eight ro und s of competition, they es tabli shed goa ls and made dec i sions acco rdin g to their hotel's "preferred customer mi x" and ass igned roo ms based on these preferences. They also inves ted capital in the hote l, set budge ts fo r operating, sales and adveI1i sin g, and set room ra tes fo r the ir major custo me r segments. Eac h round, which re prese nts one fi scal quarte r, is eva luated by Mac Laurin , who uses a mas te r disk to assess the decis ions made. U of G is the only Canad ian uni ve rsity using thi s program, says MacLaurin. He pl ans to have th e pro gram on the Internet by fall , so stude nts can compete with hotel manage ment students in other uni ve rsities around the world.

New on CD-ROM CD-ROM tech no logy is the key to a Canada-wide project th at will cre:He a uniqu e fau nal at las of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Co-ordin ated by zoo logy chair Paul Hebe rt, the project in volves LOologists from severa l other in stitu tio ns and has received fund ing of $205,000 from the Ma x Bell Found ation and $50,000 from Human Reso urces Development Can ada. The project still needs to rai sc $ 100,000. The fau nal atl as will docu men t every an imal spe cies in the Great Lakes, including fisll, birds, am phibians, repti les, mollu scs, plankton, worms and parasites. It will incl ude photograph s of all spec ies, keys to their ident ificatio n and vignettcs about the spec ies. CD-ROM tec hn ology ma kes it possibl e to assem bl e and cross-refere nce informat ion in a grap hic, fl ex ible fashi on. It also makes thi s an afford able proj ec t in co mparison with a print version and will make the atlas availabl e to every hi gh sc hoo l in Canada, as Guell'h

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we ll as univ ersities and the general public. The faunal atlas is part of a planned $ I-million Great Lakes ecosystem atlas project th at wiJJ create the first encyclopedic database of informati on on the Great Lakes .

Research benefits computer-based learning Gu elph also has a major role in researc h on co m puter-based learn ing. Prof. To m Ca rey, Computing and In forma tion Sci ence, is part of the ne w TeleLearning Resea rch Net work (TL-RN ), which will ('ece ive $1 3 milli on over the nex t three years, to be shared by ISO resea rchers at 20 uni ve rsiti es. TL-RN is part of th e Netwo rk s of Centre of Exce ll ence program designed to enco urage collaboration by supporting researchers who build cross-coun try links. Th e network ap proac h also encourages knowledge transfer between un ivers ities and the priv ate sector. "We expec t to form partnerships that will allow in du stry to co llaborate in our researc h and create a new form of open learnin g," says Carey. Carey supervises five teams across th e co untry as co-leade r o f the network ' s theme area workpl ace learning. Loca lly, he is workin g with 20 gradu ate stu dents and researchers from Gu elph , Waterloo and TorontO to create soft wa re too ls for the co ll aborat ive des ign and deve lopment of new interactive learning environ ments. Even tually, these will allow people to construct computer-based lea rning aid s and learning support systems more e ffic iently.

History takes to the Web In the last term at Gue lph , fourth-y ear hi story stu dents purs ued the stud y of Canadian urhan hi story by using the Web and prcsenting their research on line in professor Gilbert ' telte r' s co urse on Canadian urban histo ry. Stelter designed the course last year, with the help of PhD students Richard Go rrie and James Calaha n. It has created interest in many coun tries , but especially wi th his colleag ues in the U.S., and it was their e ncou ragcme nt th at eventually co n vinced him to put the course on the Web. According to Ste lte r, the course is an atte mpt to use a general theme to stud y loca l co mmuni ties, wbicll in this parti cular course is Gu elph . Stetl e(' con tac ted coll eagues in Sco tland. Au strali a, Japan and other places req uestin g their assistance in ac tin g as mentors for stud ents doing research. Studen ts were then able to use e-mail to research in formatio n fro m the men tors'a reas of expertise. The course itself is arranged into 12 modu le s, which include information on how to use the Web, as we ll as leclUre mate ri al on particular top ics. Stu dents meet once a week fo r seminar discllssions of the ma teri al cove red online. Research projects are presented onllne, and di sc ussion s of the m also take place during the seminar part of the co urse. J3

Technology boosts 'Ii:brary access

Michael Ridle y, BA '75, remembers rifling through dra we rs full of index cards lO find a library book when he was a student at U of G, but he doesn't remember ever see ing a computer termin al in the library ... or in any of his classroom s. "Computing wasn't a component of our studies," he say s, "and the library still used a manual system to check out books." Now back on campus as chief librarian, Ridley says most stud ents use a computer every day. They ce rtainly do eac h time they visit the library. Even though Ridley didn't see them, lhere we re computer hackers at work on ca mpus in the early 1970s. T wo years after he graduated , Guelph became the first uni versity in North America to have a fully in tegrated online library system. The card catalogue Ridley remembers wa s replaced by computer tcrminals that let students type in the name of a book. the auth or, the subject matter or the general area of inter esl ... and immediately see on the screen a comp lete listing of everything in the li brary that fit the catego ry. Under the direction of fonner chief li brarians Margaret Beckman and John Black, Guelph's GEAC and SearchMe catalogue systems were developed and so ld lO dozens of other uni versity librari es They made money for the Uni versity and .gave Guelph an internalional profile in the develop ment of technologies to manage the operational side of librari es. But now, the commercial world bas caught up, says Ridley, and il' S lime lO turn Guelph's unique talents to work in the academic arena. He predicts the next 20 years will bring enormous change in the way primary material is acccssed. Dri ve n by the global nature of the In ternel, technology is moving to the point where students can recei ve lheactu al infor mation on co mputer, not just the ca ll num ber. The permanent material is not a book on a shelf, bUl a computer di sk or an elec tron ic blip over the airways. The first sign of change on the academ ic fron t was the influx of abstracts, scie ntific indexes and journals on CD-ROM disks. Th ey are cheaper to produce, cheaper to buy and actually get used more often be cause of the search capability of CD-ROM. As more publications are deli ve red elec tronically - by disk or over the Inlernet libraries wi ll be helping their users get ac cess to information that rests outside the li 14

brary, virtuall y anywhere in the wo rld. With the uni versities of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier, Guelph also has a tri-uni versity library consortium in co llections de velopment, and students have access - via computer - to more than seven million volumes in the three library catalogues. "In fact," says Ridley , "we're moving loward a single catalogue system."

Material is now routinely exc hanged through inler-library loan, and the three uni versitics will soon establi sh a centra l SlOr age facility for seldom-used materials. Students wiJl be able to search the on line cata logue and request ajournal art iele, which will be fa xed from one of the other li braries or the storage facility. Such access and retrieval wo uldn 'l be pos sible without loday's computer technologies. Students can also use electronic publica tions available in each library. Already , Guelph students can access about 50 elec tron ic journals. In the fulure, universitics and jjbraries will become electronic pub lishers. Guelph is already doing that by pub li shing the results of facult y research and course material offered online. In another arena , U of G is ha ving preliminary di sc us sions with Agriculture and Agri-Food Can

ada and the Ontario Mini stry of Agricul ture. Food and Rural Affa irs to establish lh e campus as a publisher of agri-food lit erature and information. "We wan t to create an electronic environ ment for the many publications we all pro duce in the ag l'i-food area," says Ridley. of G cou ld produce and maintain the collection and ensure its preservation." Th e realm of electronic publi shing is dy namic and progress ive, but not without its problems. Studcnts will benefit from global access to ongo ing research, where informa tion is being constantly upd aled. Bul publi cations in flu x don't provide a baseline for comparison and leave li braries with the problem of how to preserve a document when it has no beginning or end. Libraries will also be called on to give credibility to online publication s. Whether the medium is print or electronic. the principJes of publish ing are the same, says Ridl ey. "We still have to weed ou tlhe renegadc publishers and the bad matcrial. " An author ca n post a documcnt to the Internet on hi s or her own , but readers wi II know th at and ca n acce pt or reject the materi al on its own merit, he says. "The bonu s is that e lectronic publish in g is more affordable and gives sludenlS access lo more diverse opinions on thc In lemel than we cou ld ever hope 10 have in print publishing. " Sludents can get lheir own id eas out into lhe public realm and receive immediate criticism in relurn. "Criti ca l debate is a norm on the lnlernel," Ridl ey says. He sees an extension of library access go ing hand in hand wi th U of G' s plilns to ex pand distance education and open lea rning. The Uni vcrsity may ha ve students who are never see n on 'Campu s, but they require the sa mc resources. Di stance ed ucation is also an area where co mputer tec hnolog ies may create greater links betwee n academic and co mmunity libraries. Th e purpose of a library is to help stu dents get acccss to informa tion. Tradition ally. this has meanl bringin g resources (books) into the library, wh ere students can use them. BUI more and more, the library is go ing to its users. Studenls can go on lin e at the U of G Library from a classroo m, resi dence room, office or even from home. The library of the [ulure ma y nOl be a ph ysica l place, but a resource that is in constant nu x. It will be affected by our attitudes and the way we use information and gain knowledge, Ridley says. Cue/ph Alumnus

Are we changing the fabric of Canadian society? Guelph scholars look at government programs under fire

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Ottaw a's plan to overhaul old-age benefits by 2001 will attempt to eliminate a 50-year-old "cu lture of en titlement" that has entrenc hed th e rights of se nior citi zens in the very fabric of Canadian soc iety. . Since establishment of the universal old-age pen sion In 1951 , Canadians have never questioned whether the e lderly were entitled to financial sup port, says history professor Jamie Snell. But the fed eral budget tab Jed by Finance Mini ster Pa ul Martin March 6 has put th at right in jeopardy. The minister announced plans to replace the c ur rent o ld-age security and guaranteed income supp le ment with a new seniors' benefit plan that will base pension payments on income. Seniors w ith retire ment income below $40,000 a year may receive highe r pensions; those wi th retirement income above $52 ,000 wilJ be cut off fro m old-age benefits. The govern ment 's plan to initiate a means tes t will not go un c hallenged by Canada's ever-growing " grey lobby," predicts Snell, who has researched the history of the e lde rl y in Canada and the development of the old-age pension. In March , he published a book ca lled Th e Citizen 's Wage, whi ch traces that history and the rise of a powerfu l se niors' lobby . Snell has investigated the respon ses of the state, th e elderly themselves and their families to the cha nging perceptions of the e lderly in 20th-century society. In the early 1900s. the elderly began to be re garded as a distin ct group with shared charac te ri sti cs and " problems." Old people te nded to be poor. lacked adeq ua te res ources and tended to be unable to help them se lves. New ways of treating th e e lderly, or at least those e lderl y in need, devel oped. Sepa rate "homes" for the elderly poor, for example, were es tablished by provin cia l gove rnments and charities. Con tributin g wr it ers: Margaret Boyd, Kerith Waddington a nd Mary Dickieson Cuetph Alumnus

To compen sate fo r growing age discrimination in the workplace, new ways of supporting the needy e lderly were necessary, says Sne ll. In the early 1920s, most provin c ial governments adopted legisla

tion forc ing adult ch ildren to support their elderly pa re nts in need. This simply enforced what had long been the primary so urce of support for the needy eld e rl y - th e family. For th e most part, it was unneces sa ry legislat ion, say s Snel l. Hi storical evide nce poin ts to th e fact th at families were caring for e lderl y parents. In 1927. another tactic was adopted wi th th e pas sage of the first o ld-age pension in Canada. It was based on a means tes t, which ca used all so rts of ma noeuvring by the elderl y and their famili es to ga in eli gibili ty, says Snell. Paul Martin a nd the Liberal government mi gh t do well to look at the lessons of history. To qualify for the pensi on, many elderly found ways to hide family assets or to give them away to yo un ger family members. The legis latio n ac tually e nco uraged youn ge r people to withdraw finan cial support from their parents. There arose w hat Snell calls the "cultu re ot· entitle ment." The elderly and their famili es were basically saying th at "the governmen t owes us because we've built thi s society" and "we have contributed to th e state coffers, and the more taxes we have contrib uted, th e more we should be ge ttin g back." In addi tion to individu al manoeuvring, the grey lobby began in the 1930s. Seniors started to acquire a gro up consciousn ess and to accept the c harac teri stics they were becoming labelled with, says Snell. The gro up cu lture was particularly noticeable where related socia l movements we re already in place - Briti sh Columbia, the Prairies and Nova Scotia. A number of leaders of the grey lobby brou ght with them experience fro m farm ers' mov e me nts and organized labor. The grey lobby gave greater force to the culture of en title ment, says S nel l. The organized elderly, who began to call themselves " senio r c itizens," p us hed the state to recognize th e ir "rights" - to pay them a "citizen's wage." Durin g the 1940s, the elderly won important victo ries as the regulations for the old-age pension were relaxed, a nd more and more elderly joined the pro gram. This Jed to establi shment of a universal o ld age pension in 1951. In addition, sen iors' discounts

and medical support for pensioners began to appear. By 1951, the claims of tbe elderly for state support bad become e ntrencbed. Those cla ims have bee n ac ce pted by th e elderly themselves a nd by most yo unger Canadians, who look forw ard to collecting th e ir own pensions. T oday, there are 3.7 million seni o r c iti ze ns in Can ada, but that number is expected to rise to e ight mil lion by 2030. The federal government's planned overhaul is based on the premise that there aren't enough younger Canadians working to support the escalati ng pension bill. Snell predicts the iss ue will be met head on by a grey lobby growing in numbers, while younger Canadians will be forced to re think the c ulture of entitlement. Will protecting the policy of uni versa lity guarantee the ex istence or the elimina tion of an old-age pension for th e next generation of senio rs')

Federal government examines UI Employees are 50 to 60 per cent more likely to leave a job o nce they've wo rked long enough to qualify for unemploy ment insurance, but they ' re also more likely to be laid off by their emp loyers than to quit voluntar ily. That's what economics professors Louis Christofides and Cllris McKen na discovered while participating in the first complete evaluation of Can ada's UI program. Spon so red by Human Resources Deve lopment Canada (HRDC) in 1994/95, the study was o ne of 25 conducted at universities nationwide. These studies are now forming tbe sc holarly bas is for the government 's current exa mination of how to refo rm the program. Researc hers focused on suc h areas as UI income distribution and living standa rd s, Ul and the labor market and the effects or ur o n employer and worker behavior. McKenna and Chri stofides say their study of em ployment pattern s and Ul- completed by evalu at ing data from tw o labor-market activity surveys yielded a few surpri ses. " It is conceivable that so me work attachments last ju st long enough to qu alify for UI benefits, but they are not always termin ated by workers wishing to take a period of subsidized leis ure, as it is corrunonly believed," says McKen na. "This study reveal s for the first time that both s ides of the labor market are equally involved in separa tions, a finding that puts a whole new spin on the issue of UI program design ." Christofides and M c Kenna hypothesize that em ployers are involved in the se parations for reputation purposes. It's probably eas ie r for them to hire from tIle local labor market if it 's known that the ir firm keeps workers employed until they qualify for Ul. It may also enable e mpl oye rs to hire at lower wages. Of the 60,000 people surveyed, results indicate 16

that job durations are about SO-per-cent shorter than they would have been had UI benefits not been ava il able. In other words, a ll else being equal, se para ti on after j 0 weeks wo uld have occun'ed eight weeks later tban it did. McKenna is ca reful to point out, however, that the results cannot be studied in isolation . "The usefu Iness o f the UI program and tbe direc tion it takes will be guided by tbe amalgamated re sults of all the studies. It is important to also note that wherever UI entrance requirements are se t, there will be res ults like this, so movement of the qualifica tion date is not necessarily the answer. " Personal and job characteristics were a lso studied for their effect o n job duration . McKenna and Chri stofid es found that job duration is generall y lon ger for older workers, for those making higber wages and for those with a reasonably high level or education. Gender made no significant difference in job duration, but the size of a firm, uni onizati o n and coverage by a collective bargaining agreemen t all prolonged e mployment time. Chri stofid es adds that it should not be assumed that lo nger job durations are better. "It is reaso nab le to expect that from a policy point of view, lengthening the time at which UI qualifica tion occurs will prolong employment durations, may discourage marginal labor force invo lve me nt and may redu ce turnover rate ," he says. " But keeping em ployees at a job when they don ' t want to be there is not really a ste p forward. Productivity goes down, and emp loyers may come undcr pressure to keep workers, thus incurring higher costs. So manipu la tion of ur qualification time will hav e only so much impact on the effectiveness of the labor force in the country and the usefulness of the program itself."

Politicians do have vision Political stu di es professor Willi am Chri stian recognizes that there is a widespread view in C anada that the country' s political parties don't stand for anything in particular, but he takes exception to that view in a new book called Parries, Leaders and Ideologies in Callada. "This book is an attempt to show people that the leaders of these parties are not driven merely by the desire for power," says Christian , " but do have a vi s ion of the kind of co untry they want to li ve in . And that there are essential differences at the heart of each political party." Written in collaborati on with Toronto lawyer Colin Cal1\ rbell, the book looks at the development and articulation or political beliefs in a Canadian con text. It also de scrihcs and assesses changes occurring in national parties and pol itica l thinking over the past few years. Christian belie ves the tex t rend ers compre hens ible

the many gyrations in Canadian politics.

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The

uccess Historically, there have been times when the demand for ginseng has rendered it more valuable than gold

Chinese consumers look for ginseng root shaped like a hu man body. In fact, the name "ginseng" comes from the Chi nese word meaning "man root."

Story by Kathy Wal/is. a{reelance IVriter ill Komloops, B.C., alld Mary Dickiesoll. editor of the Guelph Alumnus. with thanks /0 horticultural science professor John Proctor lind the Guelph grads who work in the Canadian ginsen,r; indllstry. GI/elpl. A//II/lm",

t looks like a gnar le d, shrivelled parsnip. But ginseng is the single most valuab le he rb in oriental medici ne and one of the most profitable agricultural c rops in the world. It has been harvested and exported from Canada since thc 1700s and cultivated in Ontario for more than 100 year,. y tat least 90 pCI' cent 0(' our production is still exported to the Ori ent. Most of the other 10 per cent is sold to Chinese communi ties in Canadian cities. The picture is beginning to change. however, as western so cieties become more open to alternative medical practices ancl the use of herbal remedics. You ' ll probably find an array of gin seng products at your neighborhood health-food store and may be able to buy dried root at the local grocery store. You can even buy seeds for planting in your OWII garden. Growing ginseng is one area where Canadians do have a sig nificant history. as well as an international reputation for the production of a quality product. Ginseng has been the root or ~uecess for some of Ontario' s most daring fanners and a sub ject of study at the University of Guelph since the early days or cultivation in the late 1890s. Ginseng has been llsed in Chinese holistic medicine since Emperor Shell Nung recommended the herb more than 5,000 years ago as a general tonic for promoting longevity. virility and enlightenment.

Ginseng s a f cky plant ea ng little marg nfor erro and makIng bg demands on labor and capItal

istorically, there have been times when the demand for ginseng has rendered it more valuable than gold. It is be lieved to be one of the reasons for the Mongolian raids into China and, consequently, a factor in the decision to build the Great Wall of China. In Canada, the export of wild ginseng from Quebec and On tario once ri valled the fur trade. American ginseng, which is indigenous to the hardwood for ests of the eastern United States and Canada, is prized in the Ori ent as a companion to the Asian s pecies native to Korea and northe aste rn China. Ginseng was first di scovered in Quebec in 1704, but it was about 17 16 when a Jesuit priest, Fathe r Lafitau. recognized its valu in trade wilh China. The French soon exploited the plant, hiring the native Iroquois (who werc already ramiliar with the herb) to help in the harvest. The Chinese paid up to $5 a pound for the dried root. By 1890, the export value of Ontario ginseng was about $100,000, but the wild plant was increasingly difficult to find. Human harvesting and disease had nearly wiped it out of the for es t. This slow-growing perennial rel)uires two years for seed to sprou t and up to six years to produce a mature plant. The wild popula tion has never recovered its original status, and ginseng re mains an endangered species in Canada. Prof. J.H . Panton of the Ontario A"ricultural College wrote a bulle tin on grow ing ginseng in a hard \ ood forest that was pub li shed by the Department of Agriculture in 1891, a year before the fi rst successful attempt to c ultivate the herb in Ontario. Although a New York farmer had successfully transplanted gi nseng a ~ w ye, r~ earlier, it was Clarence Hellyer who plantcd wild seed o n his southern Ontario farm in 1892 and finally saw it gro w a year late r. Hellyer's d iscovery of stratification - the seed lies dormant for li p to 18 months beror sprouting - opened the door to com mercial prod uction. H formed a partnership with his brother. Al bert , and they began by taking secd from the biggest and hea lthiest plants the y could find in the hardwood bush ncar W at rfo rd . The business was passed on to Albert's sons, who built the first forced -air dryer in 1921 and stuck it out during the Depres s io n w hen prices fell to $2!1b. and many of the othe r growers abandoned their gardens. The Hcll yer family continued to dominate the Ontario indus try un til the 1960, and passed their expert.ise on to a third genera ti on \ hen Walter Hellyer bought out the business in 1962. He c nti nued to contribute to the industry ' s dcvelopment and served a: 01 fi rst president of the Ginseng Growers Association of Cun ad a whcn it was formed in 1983. At th at time, g inseng production in Ontario was about 150,000 pounds o f dri ed root. In 191}5 , 380 growers harvested 2.25 mil lion pounds, just inching past Wisconsin to claim the title (for that year at \east) as the world leader in North American ginseng production. T he farm-gate value of that crop was $80 million, a figure that means more when compared with other Ontario vegetable crops. The current farm-gate value of field tomatoes. for example. is about $95 million. Fo r potatoes, it's $65 million. Ontario pro /8

duces $55 million worth of apples each year, and mushrooms are val ued at almost $98 million (1994 figures from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs).

he Canadian ginseng industry expanded rapidly after 1980 as prices rose above $40/lb. The University of Guelph was poised to help after a decade of research aud extension activity spear headed by horticultural scientist John Proctor and environmental bi ologist Robert Hall in the areas of seed germination, temperature tolerance, shade management and disease prevention, particularly root rot. In 1982, Proctor guided Chai-Na-Ta Ginseng Products through the iirst commercial seeding of five acres of ginseng ncar Lytton, H.C. Guelph graduate Michael Wallis. M.Sc. ' 86, assumed responsihility for the new gardens in 1986 and was chief plant agrologist for Chai Na-Ta until 1990, when he became vice-president of production for

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Roy Van Wyk Michael Wallis Paul Wismer

Clockwise from top left: Michael Wallis oversees the planting of gin seng at Monte Creek, B.C.; a ginseng garden under polypropylene screen, which eliminates 70 per cent of the sun's rays; an aerial view of a 185 acre ginseng garden near Lytton, B.C., statistically the holiest place in Canada; and the typical topography of a southern Ontario ginseng opera tion. Photos courtesy Kathy Wallis, Robson Rogan and John Proctor

Canadian Imperial Ginseng (CIG). These two public compa nies arc now the largest ginseng producers in Canada. Wallis works with agrologists Paul Wismer, M.Sc. '94, and Roy Van Wyk. B.Sc.(Agr.) '94, in an operation with 200 acres of ginseng at all stages of cultivation. Their efforts are directed at expansion and an intense program of disease and pest con trol, in'igation and fertilization. The B.C. operation harvested 40 acres last year. The B.C. industry has grown to about 3,000 acres and 130 growers. although Ontario's estimated S.OOO-plus acres still lead the pack. Smaller ginseng gardens are taking root in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward fsland and Newfound land. From a high of $70/Ib. five years ago, the average price fell to about $32/1b. last year and now stands around $40. Such volatility in the marketplace is typical of the whole ginseng in dustry. It·s risky and "not for the faint of heart," says OMAFRA ginseng adviser Jan Schooley, M.Sc. '70, whose background is in pest management. Before assuming her cur rent position in 1994, she was a research assistant at U of G in plant pathology, then leader of an OMAFRA team working on integrated pest management of cole crops. They produced a manual that will be published this summer. Schooley says ginseng is a finicky plant that leaves little mar gin for error. "It is not the kind of crop you can grow by trial and en-or," she says, and long-term success depends on effec tive management. That's the responsibility of people like Wallis in B.C. and Rob Geier, B.sc. ' S3 and M.Sc. 'S6, who is vicc-president of operations at CIG's Ontario site. Gcier was a nursery herbicide specialist with thc Ministry of Natural Resources, then taught at Olds College in Alberta and ran his own consulting Ilrm be fore turning to ginseng in 1994. He is responsible for about 200 acres of ginseng in the Burford, Onl. , area and works with a horticultural team that includes Don Colcuc, B.Sc.(Agr.) '91 , Robson Rogan, B.Sc.(Env.) '93, and Bob Poetz, ADA '78. Colcuc's background is in a family nursery business. Rogan recently completed a contract position at the Arboretum work ing on the Ontario Tree Atlas Project (see pagc 6), and Poetz was a tobacco farmer. Ginseng has taken root on many tobacco farms in southern Ontario. and Schooley says it's been a good move. ll1is group of Ontario farmers has risen to the challenge of growing gin seng despite its temperamental nature and its high demands on labor and capital. she says.

ommercially grown ginseng starts from a seed and is grown under aJ1ificiai shade and straw mulch to repli cate the conditions found in its native forest habitat. Geier says the ideal growing site would offer stone-free sandy loam soil and a long gentle slope to provide drainage. Ginseng is usually grown in a raised seed bed to improve root-zone drainagc. Seed is either green or strati tIed . Green seed from three- or four-year-old plants is harvested in the fall and covered in sand for a year to complete its dormancy requirements. Once strati Guelph Allllllnus

Promising medical research is under way to test the value of ginseng as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and cancer lied, the seed is planted in the garden and covered with two to four inches of mulch. In the spring, as the sun warms the soil and the ginseng plants emerge, the beds are covered with either wood lattice or polypropylene cloth shade. The shade material filters 70 per cent of the sun's rays to create an optimal growing environ ment, but it increases the risk of disease. H0I1iculturai staff literally "garden walk" on a daily basis to check on such things as insect damage, disease, weed popula tions, nutritional status alld moisture. The shade cover is removed in the winter to allow for snow cover, and the cycle continues until the crop is harvested, usu ally in the fall of the third or fourth year. Specialized potato harvesting equipment is used to dig up the root, which is then placed in cold storage for up to two weeks before washing and drying. This process is cmcial in ginseng production Occause quality can be quickly reduced if not carried out correctly. Ginseng consumers value the crop by its appearance, looking for a cl ean, well-shaped root that has good color throughout. Ginseng growers in Ontario average 1,800 to 2,000 pounds of dried root per ac re, although yields up to 3,500 pounds have been reported. With ginseng selling for $40/lb., growing the herb looks pretty tempting . But Iikc most agricultural ventures, there is a flip side to the coin. Besides market price fluctua tions and the risks of disease and weather, the capital invest ment needed to plant a ginseng garden is staggering - as much as $60,000 over the four years it takes to bring a crop to harvest. "Nothing about this crop is easy," says Proctor. And that in cllldes talking the banker into financing a new venture. In addition to shaded ginseng gardens, some Ontario grow ers also use bush gardens. The natural habitat lessens the likeli hood of disease and saves the $4,OOO-an-aere cost of polypropylene shade material, says Proctor. but it usually takes longer for a crop to mature, and the yield is lower. Schooley estimates that the net return from Ontario ginseng production varies from $4,000 to $7,000 per acre per year, de pending on just about everything.

inseng is not a forgiving plant in many respects, and disease often claims up to 30 per cent of a crop. Dis ease control and prevention have been a primary locus of the research efforts of Proctor, Hall and others and continue to be a priority area, along with post-harvest handling, seed stratifica tion and germination, plant nutrition and replanting. There are currently about a dozen Guelph faculty and graduate students involved in some facet of ginseng production and use. Schooley credits these U of G scientists and the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research station at Delhi, Ont., tor pro viding "virtually all of the basic expertise used to produce gin seng. Without them, we would never have the industry in Ontario that we have now." One of Proctor' s cun·ent projects involves the use of growth 20

regulators and the effect that removing the !lower head will have on root yield . In addition, some interesting graduate projects are under way : • Hall is assisted in his work on disease control by M.Sc . student Monique Ziebold, B.Sc. '93 . • Marilyn Hovius, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 94, is working with Proctor on the use of growth regulators that make seeds mature faster, in an at tempt to shorten the stratification/germination period . • Botany professor Larry Peterson and Jacob Hovius, B.Sc. '94 (Marilyn's brother), are looking at the effects of mycorrhizae on ginseng growth. • Julie McCarthy , B.Sc. ' 94, working under the supervision of Prof. Cynthia Scott-Dupree, Environmental Biology, has completed mas ter's research on the use of honeybees to pollinate ginseng. • Fran~~ois Quesnel works with Prof. Paul Voroney, Land Resource Science, to identify and evaluate soil amendments for the manage ment of soil-borne diseases of ginseng. • Proctor and Xiaolan Wang are using tissue cultures of ginseng to try to produce small plants and, eventually, artificial seed. Guelph AlulI/lIUS

Don Cotcuc

Rob Geier Robson Rogan

Bob Poetz

Clockwise from top left: Picking seed from three-year-old ginseng plants; har vesting four-year-old ginseng root with a modified potato digger; an experimental bush garden in southern Ontario; and Guelph graduate students Marilyn Hovius, left, and Xiaolan Wang with Prof. John Proctor and an assortment of gin seng products - candy, soap, tablets, tea and fruit beverage. Photos by Kathy Wallis and Mary Dickieson

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inseng is priced as a luxury item, but many Asians see it

as a necessity. It is sold as fresh and dried root and in

processed forms - teas, tablets, tonics, fruit and mineral drinks,

liquid extracts, gelatin capsules, candies, powders, shampoo and

soap. Asian consumers prefer to buy ginseng as a graded whole

root product.

[n traditional Chinese medicine, physical and spiritual well-be

ing is achieved when there is a perfect balance of the comple

mentary forces of Yiu and Yang . Oriental herbalists have

classified the American variety of ginseng as Yin and consider it

a perfect complement to its oriental Yang cOllnterpart. Although

both varieties have many similar qualities, North American gin

seng is said to have an anti-stress and cooling effect, whereas

Asian ginseng has a stimulating and warming erfect.

Sickness and disease are believed to arise when Yin alld Yang

forces are out of balance.

Ginseng is said to produce a general sense of well-being by

keeping internal organs working well. Believers claim that reg u

lar use will reduce stress, increase physical stamina, improve

blood tlow, help in the control of blood sugar and cholesterol

levels, strengthen the metabolism, stimulate the immune system,

vitalize glandular functions and slow the degeneration of cells.

Although ginseng has been accepted in China for centuries,

the North American mind set demands scientific evidence to sup

port such claims.

The active ingredients in ginseng arc a group of closely re

lated ginsenosides (hormolles) that are produced and stored in

the plant. Because ginseng products are not monitored under the

Food and Drug Act, manufacturers are not required to list the

amount of active ingredients on the label. That worries some

farmers and the Ginseng Research Foundation, an organization

set up with a mandate to evaluate the eflectiveness of ginseng in

treating medical problems.

Proctor and Guelph food scientist Yukio Kakuda have been in

volved in the first step of that evaluation. Kakuda uses high-per

formance liquid chromatography to separate a product's

compounds according to its chemical makeup. The process en

ables him to quantify the amount of ginscnosides present. This

work is important to other scientists studying ginseng's effects on particular ailments, slIch as hypertension (McMaster Univer sity), Alzheimer's and Parkinson 's diseases (University of Al berta) and athletic endurance (University of Toronto). It's also important to growers and producers of ginseng products who arc trying to expand markets in North America. Despite efforts to increase the domestic market, Proctor says China still offers the greatest opportunity for Canadian growers to expand their industry. There is some concern about the 1997 takeover of Hong Kong by mainland China because almost all North American ginseng is exported to Hong Kong, wherc it is auctioned, graded and resold to China. But both Proctor and Schooley say those concerned predict it wiH be "business as usual" even after 1997. [n addition to being the largest consumer of ginseng, China has the fastest-growing economy in the world. The World Bank predicts that by 2005, China will have the single largest econ omy in the world, a positive indicator for continued growth in the demand for ginseng. 21

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bv Don Stephenson Universiry AfJ17 irs and Development

he fede ra l budge t tab led March 6 has made a number of changes and adju stmen ts in the personal tax a rena. Some of th e m eas ures cover c harit ab le donatio ns, re tirement sav ings, child 'uppo n , dedu ctio ns for child-care e xpenses, educatio n cred its, investments into labor-spon sored ven ture capita l corporati o ns. and se niors' benefits. The foll ow ing comme nts prov ide highlights only.

Planted in history Fo r Carole Ann L acroix, B.Sc. '80, each day brings pressing bu siness. That 's because she' s assistan t c urator of U of G's herbarium , whic h holds about 88,000 sa mples of pressed plants, trees, shrubs, sedges and ferns from aro und the world - and is ex pandin g by about 2,000 sa mp les a yea r. Loc8 ted in the basement of the AxeJrod Buil ding, the L IS-year- old herba rium is used for reference and identifica tion pu rposes by faculty, stud e nts, a rea farmers, the OPP and garde ne rs a like. It 's a lso an in va lua bl e research reso urce, says l .acroix. "The gatheri ng, pressing and s to rage of plant sa m ples from a particular area ove r time form a run ning record of what has bee n in place, what is there now an d how cha nges in the envi ro nme nt may be affec t ing th e pla nts' dis tributi o n." O rigi nally co llected fo r th e stud y o f medici nal uses and for esthetics suc h as coffee-table books, plant co llections are now stored in loose-leaf form on closed cab inet shelves in evo luti o nary order for easy access and refere nce. Mounted on 100-pe r-ce nt rag-con ten t paper, pressed specimens ca n last indeFi nitely, says Lacroix . The herbarium is funded by U of G 's Plant Biol ogy Council, fro m a herbariu m tru s t fund se t up by Lacroix and From customi zed plant-id entification works hops she gives to inte res ted g roups. Money from the trust fund and works hops is used to hire stu dents who help in th e herbarium' s upkeep. "The tru s t fund is an inv est me nt in the future of no t o nl y th e herba rium, but al so th e students Lca n hire as a result," she says. " Youn g peop le are getting pract ica l ex perience tha t w ill he lp prepare the m for future posi tions, ancl the collection is be ing cared for, Llsed and added to i n such a way that it w ul be a valu abJe reso urce for years to come ." App o intmen ts to use the herbarium ca n be made by calling Lacroix atSI9-824-41 20, Ext. 8S81.

Charitable donations Donations made directly to th e Uni ve l'. ity of Guelph are now gov e rn ed by more ge nerous rules. The an nual contributi on claim limit has inc reased from 20 per cent to 50 per ce nt of net income. G irts of a ppre.:iated property ca n be claimed up to 100 per cent of in come resultin g from th e gift. Girts in thc yeur of death and in the immed iate ly preceding ta xa tio n ycar, including bequests, can a lso be claimed up to 100 per cent of th e net incom '. Note: Charities with foundation s dee med agen ts of the Crow n, s uch as the U ni vers ity of Guelph Founda tion. were providing lhese benefi c ial limits to do no rs long befo re th e 1996 federal budget. In fact, the a n nual con tribution claim limit for do llatio ns to the U of G Foundation is more libe ral at 100 pc r ce nt vers us the new SO-per-cent leve l.

Retirement savings Annual contribution limits to RRSPsfRPPs (registe red retirement sav in gs plans and regi tered pen s io n pl an s) have been froze n at $ 13,500 until 2004. The ca rry -forward of unused RRS P co ntribution room has been changed fro m seve n yems to an in definite pe riod . Thc maturity age of 7 I for RRSPs, RPPs an d DPSPs (deferred profit-s harin g pl ans) has bcen re duced to 69.

RRSP a nd RRIF (regis te red re tireme nt income funds ) admini stra ti ve fees paid o utside plans are no longer tux-ded uctible . No n-resiJcnt Canadian s receiv ing pension income ca n elect to fil e a Canadi a n tax return to minimi ze the 2S-per-cent flut rate of Cana dian tax o n thi s inco me . The fac t th at worldwide inco me will be taken into account may offset thi s elective option.

Seniors' benefits 1n 200 I , o ld age securit y and tb e g uaranteed income s uppleme nt will be replaced by a s ing le tax- free monthly bene fit. Clawback leve ls now appl y at !TIuch lower inco me levels than pre viou sly. For a single indi vidu al, the c law bae k starts at an annual income level of $40.000. Benefits wi ll be red uced for every do llar earned above thi s level and eliminated whe n ann ua l income e 'ceeds

$S2 ,000. For co uples, the benefit is climi nated whe n annual combined in co me exceeds $78,000.

FREE information for you U of G has published a fi nan cia l planning news le tter called Par/n ers s ince 1989. It includes hum an-inter es t stories and covers finan cial- and retirement-planning iss ues, esLate planning, ta x-saving s trategies , in ves tme nt tips a nd charitabl e-g ift planning. T o receive your co mplime ntary issue of Partners, to j oi n o ur news lette r ma iling li st or to obtain infor ma ti on about the Un iversity of Guelph Foundatio n, wri te o r call Don S tephenso n, Beques ts & Planned Giving, nive rs ity Affa irs an d De velopment, Alumni Hou se. Univers ity of Guelph, Gu e lph , On tario N I G 2 W I , 51 9-824-4 120, Ex t. 653 1.

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AMF makes good things happen A message from Dave McEwen, DVM '67, Chair, A MF Advisory Council

One of the advantages of bei ng cha ir of the Alma Ma ter Fund Advi sory Council is having the opportunity to see first hand ho w alumni contributions benefit the University and its students. Last yea r, that meant help ing to open new headquarters for the Office of First Year Studies in Day Hall. Jt was a crowded, happy affair. I was proud to know that the AMF helped make it happen, U of G's first-year studies program has been met with enthu siasm by the students it serves, but it has also received accolades from afar. This program is the first of its kind in North America, and other uni versities and colleges across the continent have recog nized it as an ou tstanding initiative to help students adju st to the rigors of university life. In addition to the Office of First-Year Studies, the AMF contributed to a number of other worthwh ile program s last year, including sc holarships and stu dent leadership activities. Gifts to the 1995 Ann ual Fund totall ed $1,872 ,284, exceeding the targe t at 102 per cent. It's rewarding to see that support for the AMF is continuing to grow. We rece ntl y comp leted a teJephone thank-a-thon, call ing first-time donors to let them know how valu able their support is and how much it is appreciated. We are also moving forw ard to achieve other AMF goals, meeting in forma lly with other alumni , college representatives and deans to share our plans and re ceive thcir input. We continue to meet regularly with pres ident Mordechai Rozanski and enjoy a good worki ng relationship that helps to ensure that our ef forts reach the University's greatest needs.

As a resu lt of these meetings, we've set a ncw goal for 1996 - $1.875 million. Your AMF contributions thi s year will help establ ish computer laboratories for student use. With a growing student body and new demands for online teaching aids, these are facilities that will help students complete course work and de velop new skills. As with last year's first-year studies project, the al location of alum ni con tributi ons tow ard s student needs will help position our student population to bet ter meet the cha llenges of thei r chosen occupations. Thank you for your support of the A Ima Mater Fund in 1995 and please think of us again as you make your plans for 1996.

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Peter Ilnyckyj, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78, stopped Mother Na ture in her tracks when he donated and in stalled a new roof on McNabb House. He says he thou ght of the University when he was looking for a home in Guelph to test and showcase hi s new zinc shingles. The donation saved U of G about $25 ,000 in renova tion costs for a roo I' that will last 100 years. Ilnyckyj says he bec ame an entrepreneur by acci dent. He and hi s wi fe, Anna Ballantyne, a 1984 hor ticu ltura l science graduate, bought a farm near Dclhi in 1986 and began renovating, Botb were workin g for the Ontario Mini stry of Agricu lture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA ), IIn yckyj in fruit and vegetab le inspection and Ball antyne as a horti cu Itu rali st. They wanted to replace the old steel roof on their newly purcha sed century ho me, but couldn ' t find a metal roofing product that was durable, attractive and suited the de. ign of their house. So IlnyckYJ de veloped hi s own product and eve ntually found him

U of G president Mordechai Rozanski, left, and AMF chair Dave McEwen did the honors last fall at the official opening of Day Hall facili ties for the Office of First Year Studies. The T-shirts represent orientation and academic programs offered by the office. Photo by Mary Dickieson

sel f in the bus iness of manufacturing metal shingles. He launched Steel -tite Roofing Systems in 1991, and is cLIrren tly on leave from OMAFRA. For more information., call IlnyckYJ at 1-800-566-5585 .

Flies attract people Fly-tying aficionado Jan James, B.Sc.(Agr.) '82, was a big hit at College Royal when he brought SIt'eel LeRol star C. David Johnson to campus to help demonstrate fly tying, James also invitcd pas sers-by to solve a word pu zz le he developed as a fund-raising project to he.lp support U of G' s new aquatic sciences facility.

Designed lor arm-chair fl y-fishing du ring the off season , James' s pu zz le contains the names of 23 1 flies . Some, like the New Zealand Maori white wnker, date back to the 1800s. If yo u' re up to the cha llenge, call James, a profes sional fly -casting instructor, at Balmoral Feathers and Flies, 5 [9-836-5770 , or toll free at 1-800-24 1 5544. 23

Keep making memories at Alumni Weekend June 21 to 23, 1996

Celebrating leadership

Special events: Golden Anniversary Dinner 25 th-ann iversary ce lebra tion

Something for everyone: Register at Alumni House Campu s tours Sio-pitch tourna ment Arboretum nature wal k Alumni picnics Farewe ll brunch

Don 't miss: Mac '56 quilt prese ntati on & fas hi on show

OAC '43 opens compute r laboratory World Wide Web dem on stration

Annual meetings: + UGAA + Mac-FACS + OAC + HAFA + A ward presentations: Alumnus of Honor

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For informat ion on Alumni Weekend events, ca ll Sue Lawrenson at 519-824-4120, Ex t. 6963, e-mail: suel @aiumni.uogueiph .ca.

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Family trees At U of G, we' re used to family trees with many alumn i branches , but the SquirreIJ/Weeden fami ly tree is one of the largest and will add alumnu s num ber 13 on June 7 when SU7,anne Weeden graduates with a B,Sc( Agr.) in natural resource manage ment. Her Guelph family co nnect ions date back to great great-grandt'ather William Abraham Squirrel!. a gar dener at OAC. Hi s son William John graduated from the diploma program in 1897, earned a BSA in 1907 and became a professor of ficlcl hu sbandry in 1910. William John 's ch ildren were Lloyd, DVM ' 34, and Doroth y, DHE '34, who is Suzanne's gra nd mother. Dorothy married Stanley Malkin , BSA ' 32. Their daughter Ma ry, BA '71 , manied Gordon Weeden, ADA ' 70. And along came Su za nne, who may have a Guelph romance of her ow n, but isn't ta lking. Su za nne's connec tions also include great- uncle Ray Malkin , BSA '3 2; unck James Weedcn , B.Sc(Eng.) '7 1 and M.Sc, ' 86; two Cirsl cousin s once remo ved , Joe l Rumney, B.Sc. '7 5, B.Se.(Agr.) '78 and DVM '83, and Leonard Weeden, ADA '54; and Leo nard 's son, Kevin , ADA '81.

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Tn 1996, U of G will ce lebrate the 30th an ni ve rsa ry of the University of Guelph Alumni Associati on. The Gu elph Alumnus magazine wi ll mark the event by recogni zing the conttibutions of alumni who have used their education to make a difference in society. Pres ident Mordechai Rozanski says a university's ultimate goa l mu st be to use its unique re sources for the good of society at large . And its alumni foml the largest body of resource material. Help us recogni ze 30 U of G alumni who have used thei r educat ion for the benefit of others th rough profes sional acti vities , personal co mmit ments or volun teer work. "Thirty Who Have Made a Differe nce" wi II be publ is hed in the September 1996 issue of the maga zi ne. Send you r reco mmendation by Jul y I, 1996, to Mary Dickieson, Editor, Guelph Alumnus , University of Guelph , Guelph, Ont. N IG 2W I; 519-824 -41 20, Ext. 8706; fax : 519-8 24-7962; e- mail mdickics@exec.admin .uogue lph .ca.

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May 8 - OAC Alumni Foundation AGM, Arboretum, 7:30 p.m. May 16 - Alumni-in-A ction annual meeting and spring luncheon at the Arboretum. Guest speaker is Hank Vander Pol, B.Sc.(Agr.) '65. For more int'or mation, caUSue Lawrenson at Ext. 6963. June 17 to 19 - "Women and Sexuality" is the theme of the 1996 Guelph Conference and Training In stitute on Sexu ality. To receive a copy of the conference program, contact the Office of Open Learni ng, tele phone: 51 9-767 -5000; fax: 5 19-7 67-111 4; e-mail : info@openlrng.uoguelph.ca. June 21 to 23 - ALUMNI WEEKEND. (See facing page) June 22 • OAC Alumni Association AGM, 9 a.m., Macdon ald Hall 149. The board will bring forward a revi sion of the assoc iation's con stitution for membership di scussion and ratification. • Mac-FACS Alumni Association AGM, 9 a.m., FACS loun ge. • HAFA Alumni Association AGM , 9 a.m., HAFA lounge. June 22 - Presen tation of the Mac' 56 wall hanging, 2 p.m., FACS loun ge. Event will include a fa shion show of the' 50s. June 23 - UGAA AGM , 10:30 a.m., Cree lman Hall . June 23 to 28 - Summer Mu sic InstituLe, with five evening concerts featu ring students and guest artists, $10 each. (See page 7.) For registration and ticket information , ca ll 519-824-4120, Ext. 3127, or e-mail to mcyr@ arts.uoguelph.ca. July 8 to 27 - A series of one-day orientation programs are offered for parents of students entering first year at Guelph this fall. For more information, ca ll Ext. 665 7. Sept. 27to 29- HOMECOMING ! To receive a sched ule of events, ca ll Laurie Malleau at Ext. 2102 or e-mail tolauriem@alumni.uoguelph.ca.

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Class of '71 marks 25 years Relive campus memories and ca Lch up with class mates and friend s at the 25th-anniversary reunion celebration Jun e 22. Events include a campus tour and an evening reception, followed by a banquet and vid eo presentation . A hospi tality room will be open all day. For details, ca ll Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 or e-ma iltocarlab@ alumni.uoguelph.ca.

OPIRG celebrates 20 years June 2 - Bike-a-thon June 6 - Speed River appreciation night June 8 - Speed River cleanup September -Open house September - Dedication of Rosalie Bertcll arc hives Fall '96 - Reunion for board, staff and vo lunteers Fall '96 - OPIRG Pu blic Interest College

To get involved, call OPIRG at Ext. 2129 , fax to 519-824-8990 or e-mai l opirg@uoguelph.ca.

Attention, FACS '85 Your cl.assmates are planning a Saturday afternoon reunion ge t-together for late September. Plea se up date your address so you wo n' t be left out (see page 36). For more information, call Eleanor (Fic ld ) Copping at 905-827 -6970.

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During Homecoming Weekend , specia l alumni reunions will be held Sept. 28 I'or: • grad s of the 1980s and '90s • everyone who has lived in Lambton Hall • former reside nce -lite staff (residence assistants and ma nagers, program di rectors an d hall and house advisers). Call Elizabeth Marshall at Student Hou sing Services for details, Ex t. 4893. 25

Elaine (Viau) Beer, DHE '64, is retired from a career in food services and lives "the quiet life" in Canoe, B.C, with her husband, Ervin, They were married Dec. 30, 1995.

Thomas Carrothers, BSA '68 and M.Sc. '70, is tech nical director for KIK Corporation, a Canadian-owned chemical specialties company.

Gordon Campbell, ADA '21, lives in retirement in Listowel, Ont. His daughter, Elizabeth Smith, says he is still interested in the Guelph campus. "His very favorite mail comes from U of G. He is 94 and is very proud to have been a graduate of 1921. He follows with interest the news of all friends that he knew."

Margeree Edwards, B.H.Sc, '64, realized a drcam in 1994 when she left her job in public health and opened her own company. INME Communicates is a so cial marketing and infol'mation packaging company in Peterborough, Ont. The company offel's video produc tion, radio work, manual production and workshops. "As a single parent, I was apprehensive to take the plunge," says Edwmds, "but being an entrepreneur has been a I"ascinating and, so far, successful experience. I encourage others to try it, All it takes is a lot of cour age, stamina and patience."

Arthur Musgrave, BSA '20, has seen a century come and go. At age 10 I, he is residing in Clarksburg, Ont. His Mac bride, Victoria (Marsh), DHE ' 14, died in 1970, lola (Walker) PoHer, DHE '36, Jives in London, Ont. She still keeps in touch with close friends from MAC '36 and likes to keep up with news from U ofG.

Judy Hone, B.Sc.(Agr.) '66, recently retired as the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Af t'airs (OMAFRA) agricultural rcpresentative for the Al goma district and moved to Rutherglen to farm.

Carmen Ciphery, BSA '49, moved to Alberta after graduation and ran a commercial beekeepi ng operation until he retired in 1993. After the death of his first wife, Ina, he married Rheita Frost, the widow of an Austra lian beekeeper. They now live in Harooma, Australia, where Ciphery says their life is one continuous honey moon down under.

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Bruce Hunter, BSA '62, M.Sc, '63 and PhD '70, has been named a fellow of the Crop Science Society of America, The award l'ecogni7.es his contl'ibutions to corn breeding, physiology and production, He is man ager of research ror the Canadian division of Ciba Seed, Bruce Hutchinson, B,Sc,(AgL) '64, assumcd new du lies in Novembel' as director of research services at Qucen's University, He continues on a part-time basis as managing director or Insect Biotech Canada Jnc.

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Richard Goodwin, B.Sc.(Agr.) '58, has retired after more than 37 years with the London Life Insurance Company, He and his wife, Sandy, live in Collingwood, Ont.

William Humblays, ADA '53, retired from the On tario government service in 1992 and moved to Victo ria,B.C Clarence Smith, DVM '51, and his wife, Margaret, recently returned from a volunteer month in Harbin, China, where they worked with Li Hongduo, M.Sc. '88, at the Heilongjiang Livestock Breeding Station and Artificial Insemination U nit. Clarence served as a scien tific adviser, and Margaret taught English to postgradu ate students.

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vincial potato adviser working out of OMAFRA's Bar rie office. In November, he received an Amethyst Award, the Ontario public service's highest honor, for his dedication to clients and contribulions to the indus try. Squil'e plays a key role in guiding Ontario's seed potato upgrading and distribution program.

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JeHe Anesen, BA '75, has opened a new private school in Rockwood, Ont. Wellington Hall Academy serves students from Junior kindergarten to Grade 8 and also offers tutoring services and cOlll'ses in social and life skills. The teaching staff includes two other G uelph graduates, Randy Dewey, B,Sc.(Agl.) '76, and Paula Manford, B,Comm, '78.

Jo-Anne Bechthold, BA '79, was I'ecently ap Margaret Beare, BA '68 and MA '71, was appointed associate profes sor of sociology at York Un i versity in September. She is author of Crimi·

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pointed registrar at Queen's University. She's been a staff member at Queen's since completing an MBA there in 1982, She is also an adjunct instructor in the university'S business school.

Ruth Beilin, ADA '74, BA '78 and M.Sc. '84, is a lec turel' in environmental horticulture at the University of Melbourne in Australia, She is also working on a PhD in conservation practices and does extension work. She Cuelph AILImnus

and her Australi un husband , James Dammun, li ve with their three chi ldl'en in a temperate rainforest area about an hour from Melbourne. Angela Benoliel, B,Comm, '77, works as a reta il manager at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ont.

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Jonie (Bruce) Boccia, BA '79 , says she and her hu s ban d, Lou , Just ce lebrated the first year or their honey moon, She is head or visual arts at John haser Secondary Schoo l in Mi ssissa uga, Onl

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Mary (Thomson) Butler, BA '79 , is ra ising 10- year old twin SO ns in Gowri e, Australia. She says she's al most obsessed with crafts: she runs a dried-flower bu siness and teaches folk an. Judith (Main) Carson, BA '75, is no w a professor at Seneca College in Toronto, but in the early 19905, she taught her way aro und the wo rld , spendin g fOllr months at Charl es Uni versity in Pr,lIwe before mov ina on to Singapore , Malays ia, Ausu';lia, New Zea lan/and Ha wa ii . She eventuall y returned to Prague to teach English to medical student s. Linda CoateS-Markle, B.S c. '79 and M,Sc. '82, re cently accepted a position with th e Montana Bureau of Land Management. She 's the state special ist in wild horses and burros Jndmanage r or the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. Established in 196R, the ran gc pro tects a herd of 150 Pryor horses, whi ch are uniqu e in their ge netic link to the original hor.ses brought to North America by tllc Span ish in the 1500s . Coates-Ma rkle is an affi li ate faculty mcmber with Montana State Uni ver sity and is compl eting a PhD at Oregon State. John Core, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 70 and M.5c. ' 72, was re elccted chail' of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) in Janu ary. He is pan of a fa mil y dairy opnati on in Larnbton Count y and has bee n an elected membe r of DFO since 19RI. Wayne Cross, BA '72, is superintendent or ed uca tion , human reso urces, for the Lincoln Cou nt y Board of Educa tion in SI. Catharines, Om, Linda (Forster) Davis, BA '70, is head librari an of the Weston, Ont.. library branch and co-ordinator of publi c re lations for the City of York Public Library. John De meter, B.Sc.(AgL) '75, and hi s wifc, Susa n (Langdon), BA '73 and MA ' 77, recentl y expanded thei l' Kitchener carpct bu siness by opening a second Carpet Store in Guelph.

Doug Derksen, B,S C.(Ag r,) '77 , PhD '91 , is a re search sciemi st in weed eco logy. Hi s Agriculture & Agri -Food Canada pl'Ogram was rece ntl y transferred from Indian Head , Sas k , to Brandon, Man .. to jo in the new nationalcentre of excellence for research in the black-soil zone of Western Ca nada. Marny Forrest, BA '79, is a high schoo lteacher and li brarian at th e Canadian Forces Base in Petawawa Ont She is married to Major Ed Gagnon, RCA, and li ;es a 90-acre bee f-catt le far m near Pembroke,

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dents ofte n ask n er. She laughs beca use she asked the same qtlesti on when she was in high school and throu gh out her uni vers ity studies at Guelph . She eamed a B.Sc, (HK .) in 1988 and an M .Sc, in 1990. ".I expected that all of the co urses 1 took would be prac tical and pre pare me for a jo b," says Berkl11orte l. But some seemed too tec bnica l and some too theoret ical to appl y to her life, and she often wondered how they wou ld fit int o a future career. "Jr wasn't until after gradu atio n that I sta rted to put the pieces o f the puale together Mary Berkmortel in Tanzania , photographed by her hus and fi gure out ho w th ose uni band, Grant Heuchert vers ity courses we re relevant that of other prima tes to rea l life. [n th e yea rs to fo llow my Beca use chimps share more than 95 'schoo l da 7.e,' I ca ught myse lr on nu per .cent of human gene tic materi ,tl merous occasions saying: 'O h yea h, I they can catch our diseases an d we ca n re member learnin g about thal. ' " theirs - visitati on in Gombe catch One of those occasion s happened Stream Park is se ve rel y restri cted, And last summer in the jung les of Tan za it' s ex pe nsive - $ 100 US pe r da y. nia, where Berk mor te l and her l1U s Visitors travel by boat from Kigo ma band, Grant Heuchert, were 24 kilometres north to tile parI-.. bou nd chape roning a group of stud ents from ary on the east shore of Lake Tangany the Munich Inte rnational Schoo l. It ika , the lo ngest freshwa ter lake in tllC was the finale of a year's teaching as world . signment at the German sc hool dUrin g a leave or absence I'rom her permane nt BerkmOrlel says she was awed by job in London, Ont the chimps in the ir natural hab itat and " As I wa lked up the stee p hill s of thrilled by th e chance sighting of rare the Gombe Stream Nation al Park , I chimpan 7,ee twi ns, But ,15 exc iting as it chuckled to myse lf and thou ght: ' II' was, this was n' t her first jungle experi on ly some ot' my professors could see ence, She had prc viously visited Bukit Ine now.'" La win g in Indonesia , whe re there is a The park is home to the ch impan reh ab ilitati on program to reintroduce zees of Jane Good all and Dian Fossey captive orang utans back into th e wild . fam e, Their pioneering work On the be Berkmorte l says it was her inquisi havior a t' wild chimpanzees is wei I tive nature that led her into a sc ience known becau se of their National Geo caree r and has takcn her halfway graphic films, artic les and lectures, around the wo rld to complcte the links Berkmortel studied their work as part between knowledge and real-life ex pe of a hum an biolog y course that she ri ence, and her U at' G classmates affection " It 's funn y how those broad theoreti . atel y ca ll ed the "monkey" course, It

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Ginty Jocius, S .Sc.(Agr.) '70, of Gue lph (see page 39) was named 1995 Agri-M ar 'cter of' the Year by th e Canadian Agri -Marke ting Assoc iati on. l ocius was hon ored for his leadershi p and commitment to agricultu re, spec ifically his initiati on of the Outdoor Farm Show near Burfo rd, Ont oThe 1996 show ru ns Sept. 10 to 12.

Teresa Milden, BA '73, is a di strict resource teac her for gifted stlldents in the Vancou ve r school district. She teaches special classes and co-ordin ates a mentorship program for eleme ntary schoo l students. Tim O'Driscoll, B.Sc. '77 and M.Sc , '79, and his fam il y have been li ving in Switze rland sin ce I'vLlrch 1995, will move to Germ any in June and pl an to I'etuw home to Connecticut in Ju ne 1997. Irvin Penner, ADA '79, graduated from Laval Univer sity in 1990 with a B.Sc. in fores t resource manage ment. He's now wo rkin g on Briti ~ h Co lumbi a's west coast as a private consult ant. Douglas Walton , S.Sc .( Agr.) '7 1, has se rved a~ a fisheries bio logi st in LaRongc, Sa:,k .. sin ce 1978, but re ce ntly took. on a position as legislation and plannin g co orclinalor for the fi sheries branch 01' the Sask. atchewan Department of Environmental Res ource Manage ment. His fam il y will move to Regina this summer, Anne Pickering, SA '79, works as a co un se llor in pri va te practice and at a wome n' s health ce ntre in Wesl Australia, where she li ves wit h her f'our-yea r- olu son, Michael. Ann (Pitt) McLean, B.Sc. '79 and M.Sc,'SI, works in sa les for Ortho Biotech in Don Mills, Ont. She and her hu sband sha re their home wi th three I'escued anima ls from thc Humane Society. Po/rick Quinn, BA '72. recently moveu to Oxford shire, England , to assume a pos iti on as proCessor of Eng lish literatu re at Nene Co llege in I\orthampton . The appointment culminated several months of intensc activ ity th at included a BSC broadC<h t or 11)$ rad io play Casuu/(ies o(WlJr, publication 01 his book The Creal War and 117(> Missing Mus(> and th e organization of two international cemenary conferences in honor of Engli sh wri ter Robe rt Graves. Qu inn is also ge nernl euitor or the 24-volume ('omp/ele Robel'! C ,m·e.\', now bcing re leascd in Englancl.

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Gwen (Faint) f?ussell (formerly Spraklin), BA ' 75, is doing contrac t research o n pain int erventi o n for chil dren for' th e Uni versit y of Saskatchewan College of Nursin g in Saskatoo n. She li ves with her partner, Linda Bardutz, her two children, Ryan and Erica. and Dex ter lhe cal. James Shun-Hoi Ho, M.Sc . '74, is a business ma n ager in Kuala Lumpur, M,l la ys ia, looking to the hu ge Chinese market abo vc him. Shelagh Stevens, BA ' 79, is a major in th e Canadi an Forces and ser ves as military finan ce officer. He has bee n posted to val'ious locations in Ca nad a and COO1 pletcd peace keepin g mi ss ions in Egypt, Namibia and the ("ormer Yu gos l,lVia. He will be workin g at UN head quarters in New York for the next two years. Thomas Tobin, PhD ' 70, was named 1995 Man of th e Yea r by th e Nati onal Horse men ' s Benevo lent and Pro tect ive Associ ati on in the United States in recognition of hi s work on impl ementin g no-effec t thresho ld s in th e equinc indu stry. He is a university professorlresearcher in Lex ington , Ky. Peter Weilandt, B.Sc . ' 77 , is a fores t ecosyste m spe c ialiq with the B.C. Ministry o f Envil'Onmen t in Kalll loops. Brian Wilson, B.Se.(A gr. ) ' 73, is manager o f th e agri cu ltul'al department of CIBC in Pembl'Oke . Ont. He so ld hi s Bun smas ter bake ry business and return ed to th e bank las t Septembe l·. Anne (Ferris) Wright, BA '72 , ow ns Briarwood Con sulting in Arthur, Ont .. and spec ializes in training and de vel op lne nt. Sally-Lin Adams, B.Sc. ' 89. and Brian Metson, BA ' 89, were mar ried in Se ptember 1995 and are livin g in Brmn pton, Ont. She completed an 11,t1. Se . at the Universit y of Toro nt o in 1992 and work s in th e neurosc ience re search dep artment of AlIe lix Biophar milceult ca ls in Mi ssiss<1u ga. He co mpl eted an LLB at Quee n's Univ er sity in 1993 ,md is working in a Bram pto n law fil-m. Wendy (Cadeau) Agnew, BA '88 , earned a B.Ed . [rom Memorial Uni versit y in 1989 and man'ied Steph en Ag new in 1994. She has been teac hin g seco ndal'y school in Toront o fo r seve n years. Gordon Alexander, BA ' 88. is a co nsul ta nt for Can ada TI-ust's work group techn ology departm ent He works at the com pan y' s corporate office ill Toronto, but li ves in Guelph with hi s wife , Hazel (Phillips), DVM ' 90, who is co mpletin g a D. V.S c. degree in virology.

Larry Atwood, BSc. ' 89. has been in England for six yea rs with th e Sc ience and Engin ee rin g Re scarch Coun cil , but is rel oca ting to Ne ne Coll ege in Northampton as a scnior research administrator. He Ji ves in Worces ter with hi s partner, Jac ky Swan . Debbie (Hyde) Aufleger, BA. Sc . '85 , is inventol Y planning ma nager for Nabi sco Ltd. She lives in Cale don Eas t. Ont .. with her hu sband. Al bert. and in fa nt so n, Thomas. Janet (Lowe) Beauchamp, BA ' 87 , ow ns her own business ca lled Art Etleets, spec ialiLin g in graphic art C I/elp" Alulllnl/S

and computer gr<1 phi cs. She and her hu sband, D,w id , .b ve in her home to wn o f SlO utlville, Ont

Karen (Landry), BA Sc. '85. an d Cameron Beemer, ADA '85, have bee n living in Yukon for five years. He owns a wood wo rkin g/carpentry bu sin ess in Whitehorse; she is an elementary sc hoolteac her. The y have one daughter, Teaga n. John Berges, B. Se. ' 87 and M.Sc. '89, is mo vin g fro III the Broo kh ,lVcn Nat ional Lab in Upton, N.Y., to Qu ee n's Uni ve rsit y in Belfast, Northcrn Ire land . wh ere he will jo in thc ['ac ult y in aqu ati c cn vironme ntal bi ol ogy. Beverly Bevermann-King, BA '89 , is a res idence lil'e co-ordinator in Mi ssissau ga, Ont. She and Rodger King, BA ' 90, wel'e marri ed in 1991. Barf Bilmer, B.Sc. ' 87. has work ed as a co mmunica tions office r and bi otec h rcgul atory o ffi ce r with th e Biotech Strategi es and Co-ordination Offi ce of Agricu 1 ture & Agri-Food C<1nad a for more than three ye ars. He Ji ves in Orl ea ns. Ont .. and wel co mes ca.lls fro m form er noor mates and c lass mates. Bill Catton, B.Sc.( Eng.) '84, is an env ironment al eng i nee r in Kin ca rdine, Ont. He writes that he mi ~se s all the peo ple he kn ew at Guc lph , enJ oys visiting the ca mpu s occasionally and wo uld li ke to hear from lost friends . Janette (Cartwright) , BA.Sc. '89 . and Doug Clark, B.Sc. '89, were married in 1992 and li ve in Georgetow n, Ont. She is a teucher, and he is co-foundel' witil Jan den Dulk, B.Sc. ' 89, o f EcoTec Envi l'O n me ntal Con sult ants Inc. Their b u ~ in e ss is also in Geo r getow n. Vicki Dickson, B.Sc. ' 80, is nation al sa les managel' for Fourni er Phal'lna . She lives in Eden Milb, Ont.. wi th her three children. DeVOll. Mac and Hanna h. Jane Drouin, B.Sc. '80, is ,Ill athl etic therapi st who spent part of 1995 in South Afri ca at the WOl'ld Cup of Ru gby. She was l11~r r i e d last Au gust to Robert Stack. Michele DuCharme, BA . 81, and her husb and , Ian Cro ll. ha ve fo ur cilildren, Emilie. twins lain and Zoe J nd Aimee, who gi ve DuCharme u full-time job at home. She is <1l so an avid geneal ogist. plays socce r and is tryin g to rec apture her passion for writing. Martha Farkas, PhD ' 89. is prod uct man agc r for ,I pest-manage ment I-egulatory ([ ge ncy in Ontari o. Brenda (f?einders) Foster, B.S c.(Ag r.) ' 89 , unci hel' hu sband. Larry, li ve in MarJ,;daJe , Ont., where thc y oper ate a famil y dairy farm with Brcnda's brother. Henry, B.Sc.(Ag r.) ' 8 1, an d his wife, Shirley . The Fostcrs ha ve tw o d ~lU g hter s: the Reinders huve fOllr children. Alan Fung, B.Se. ' 84, lives in Ue psuban g Jaya, Malay sia , whel'e he is exec uti ve di rec tor o f Pi koIll , a vo lun tary trade ass oc iation re pl'ese ntin g the co mput er industry. Joseph Gillis, B.Sc. '82, is an assi stant research scien tist in psychol ogy at the Uni versit y o f Califo["[ll i[, Davi s. He co mpleted a PhD in clinical psyc ho logy at Queen 's Universit y in 1991 and a postdoc toral fe ll owship in AIDS/HIV resea rch at Colull1bi<l Uni ve rsity in 1993 Hc i, currcntl y directin g a project on the psyc ho logical co nsequc nces of hate-crime victimizati ons for lesbia ns , 29

Lost grads If you know an address or phone number for any of the following alumni, send it to us so they, too, ca n rece ive the Guelph Alumnus. Write to Alumni Re cords, Alumni House, Univers ity of ,ue lph, G uelph , Ont. N I G 2W I. Fax: S19-822-2760. E-m ail: jeanw@alumni. uoguelph.ca

gay men and bisexuals, and is writing a seri es of articles and a chapter on cultural heterosexism and the family. He invite. friends to write to him at the uni ve rsity in Davis. Calif. 95616. Tom Goodwin, B.Se. '84 and BA '85, has been pro viding employment for Guelph students and alumni for 10 years, while offering recreational and edu cational crui ses for visitors to ova Scoria 's Long Island . Ocean Explorations Whale Cruises take visitors by Zodiac in natable boat into the Bay of Fundy to watch for whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and seabirds. Originally from Grave nhurst, Ont., Goodwin spent summers in New foundland resc uing whales caught in fishin g nel'). He also worked on whale research projects and whale guid ing. After graduation, he joined the Internat ional Fi sher ic ' Observer Progra m, but is now expanding hi s cruise business, which includes a by-the-sea bed and break fast and wildli fe gallery/gift shop. He invites friends to con tact him by e-maiLattgoodwin @c1an.Tat1anNet.ns.ca or to write him at Box 719, Tiverton, N.S. BOV IGO.

Gaelan Ayollc, B.Sc. (Agr.) ' 91

Heather Burrows. B.Sc. '91 Dana Castle. B.Se. ' 9 1

John de Long, B. Sc. '9 1 Sunila D oobay. BA '92 Jose Erneslo Egui za Rendo ll , M.Sc. '9 1 Kelly FitzgLTa ld , BA '91 Michele Gross, BA ' 9 1

Pamela Kaufman. MLA '92 Kathleen Lyons, B.Sc. '91 Andrew Motz, BA ' 9 1 Fio na Muriuki , BA ' 9 1 Li sa-Marie Newslead, B.Sc. '9J Rhonda Niles, BA '91 Andreas Orphan ides, M.Sc. '92 Krista Pain, BA '9 J Steve n Pajunen , BA '9 1 Deni se Rafti s, B.ASc . ' 9 1 Geeve Sandhu, B.Co mm. '92 Do uglas Sandwell, B.Sc. '92 Olga Tkachuk-Saad, M.Sc. '91 Myles UlIy, ODf-! '92 Annene Wozniak , BA '92 Yanping Xie, M.Sc. '92 Yu ss if Yakubu, M.Sc. '92

Tiina Kurvits. B.Sc. '85, is an envi ronmental co nsult

ant in Ottawa. She and her husband , Mark Jowell, had a

son, Robert Al eksander, in Janu ary.

Andre, B. Sc.( Eng.) '83, and Pirjo L'Esperance,

BLA ' 81. recentl y relocated to Onoh vilJe, Mich ., with

their children, orey and Karina. He is manager of

product engineering with Stanley Door Sys tems, and

she operates a landsca pe arc hitecture business.

Desmond Layne, B.Sc.(Agr.) '86, co mpleted mas

ter's and doctoral progra ms at Michi gan St.llc Uni ve r

sity and is now principal investioator in horticultu re and

curator at the USDA National lonal Germplasm Re

pos itory for Asimi nu spp. at Ken tucky State lni ve rsity .

He recently rece ived a • DA grant of $276,000 to fur

ther his research on developing pawpaw as a new fruit

crop for farmers in Kcnll1cky and other parIS of th e

United States. He and his wife, CheryL have tlu-ee sons,

Stephen, Michael and Daniel.

Mark Daynard, BA '92

James Jutte, B.Sc. '92

Richard Kloe/. B.Sc.(AgL) '84, is a certified general

accoun tan t working for Jamesw~y Inc ubator Com pany

Ltd. in Cambridge . Ont. For severa l y ea r~, Jamcsway

h~s supported of G research in poultry in cubation.

Kloet has been with the company since 1987 and was

recently promoted to controller. He and hi s wi fe, a rry,

have tlu'ce children.

Michel Lalonde, B.Sc. '81, earned a doctor of chiro

practic degree in 1988 and now owns a private family

practice in Cornwall. Ont. He and his wife, Gin elle,

have one dau ghter, Dominique.

Akule Azu, BA '92

Brien Han scn, BA '9 J

Bernice Janssen, B.A.Sc. '81, and her husband,

John de Wa ll', have a grain farmin g operation in Bow Is

land, Alta. She ~I s o runs a home business called Paper

Creations, spec iali zing in paper sculpture and scher

enschnitte. They have two children, Alana and

Cameron.

The view from one of Tom Goodwin's Zodiacs in the 8ay of Fundy.

Irene GUZOWSki, B.Sc. '80, is a registered nurse working in the operating room at Victoria Hospi tal in London, Ont. Ingrid Gysbers, BASc. '83, has been working for Sears Canada Inc. for the past 12 years and recently moved to Montreal as nation al retail marketing manager for women's sportswear/signature clothing. Brad Hager and Teresa Westergaard, both BA '87, were married in 1991 and have a two-year-old son , Braeden. Hager works as a sa les manager in Brant ford, Ont., Westergaard is a skat ing in structor. Susan (Hallas) Hayes, B.Sc. '80, is a tutor in human anatomy and physiology at Nelson Polytechnic in Nel son, New Zealand. Norman Holbrook, ADA' 80, hi s wife, Maija, and two so ns are returning to lumia, Nepa l, after a five-year absence. He is an agricultural miss ionary for United Mi ss ion in Nepal, where he teaches livestock husbandry and does extension work in remote vill.ages. Chris Horbasz, B.Sc .( Agr.) ' 83 and M.Se. '88, is man ager of OMAFRA 's fat'm tax-rebate program. He 's looking forward to completion of the ministry's new head offices in Guelph , scheduled for later this year.

Monique LeI/ere, M.Sc. '82 and PhD '87. recently

acccpted a faculty position in the env ironmental ph ys ics

laboratory at th e Uni ve rsit y of Georgia in Williamson.

She and her hu sband, Jesus Mata, have two children.

Ken Lenz, ODH '89, wo rks fur the parks and recrea

tio n departmen t in Windsor, Ont. He and his wife,

Laura, have one daughter, MichelIe.

Larry Litzgus, B.Sc. '89, is an elementary sc hool

teacher at Canadian Martyrs' School in Burlington,

Onto He and his wife, Sherry , had their first child in

March.

John Loi, M .Se. ' 8 J, is a se nior land reso urces officer

with th e Department of Primary Industries in Bri sbane,

Australi a. He started with the company in 1989. Hi s

children, Jane and Kenny, are both at uni versit y study

ing pharmacy.

Lawrence Lucin, B.Sc. '86, is a cab driver in

Buriin gton,Ont.

Diane (Scheue rmann) Meyer, BASc. '85, is a clini ca l dietitian at a community hospital in Tremont, Ill.. the home town of her husband, Steve. Bruce, BA '81, and Evelyn MacPherson, BA '9 1, live on a hobby farm near Chatsworth , Ont. , where they raise golden retrievers, Kaeshonds and Canadian sport horses. Bruce is a teacher and was recently appointed a principal with the Grey-Bruce Separate School Board. Cuelph Alumnus

Jocelyn Maggs, B.Sc '80 and DVM '85, has moved her hat to the Guelph Cot Clinic. She ' s managin g the downtown clini c wh ile her co-owner, Rob Butler, DVM '88, manages their first enterprise, the Guelph Animal Hospital. Pam (Crompton) Mitchell, BASe. '89, recently left a positi on as dietitian at Doctor's Hos pital in Toronto to join her husband, John, in Saskatoon, whel'e he is working with the Saskatchewan Energy Conserva ti on and Developme nt Authority. Theil· daught er, Tanya, is a ~econd - year student at U of G. Peter Morrison, B.Sc. '8 I and M.Se. '84, says he mi sses a good Ontario blizzard at Chl'i stmas whe n it's 40 C in Kensington, Australia, where he works as a ma I'ine biologist. Chris Murfin, B.Sc. '79 and DVM 'R3, wo rks at the Dixie Animal Hospi tal in Missi ssauga, Ont., anci re ce ntl y stal·ted a house-call practice in Kitchener-Water 100. He and his wife, Janet, ha ve two daughtCl's, Allison and Stephanie. Rosa Nyboer-Peterzon, BA '86, teaches French and Engli sh in Peterborough, Ont. Her hu,band, Andy, works for the Quaker Oats Company of Canada , and they have a two-year-old son, Aaron. She welcomes calls fro m old friends, especially th ose hom SAC and French Hou se. Michael Oldham, B.Sc. '80, is a botanist and hCl'pe tologist working for the Nntural Heritage lnformmion Centre in Petuborough, a branch of the Oillario Mini s try of Natural Res ources (M NR) . The cen tre is one of 68 conservation dm<1 centres in the world that gather in forl11a tion on signi ficant species and botanical areas, maintaining a database and atlas of natural areas. The data are used by M N R fi e ld olTi ces , conscrv3 tion authorities. other government agencies anci naturalist or ganizations. Helene Paquet-Young, B.Comm . 'R4, li ves in Or leans, Om., with her hu ~ban d, Christopher, and two sons, Phillip and Al exandre. She is finance manager for the Canadian Soccer Associati on and says she apprec i ates hearin g U of Goo news through the Guelph Aillm IlIIS.

Diane Purser, B.A .Se. '80, works in consumer pack age goods mari--eting for Ault Food s in Etobieoke, Ont. Mary Lynn (Zehr), BA.Se. '84, and Stephen Redmond, B.Se.(Agr.) '84, recently nlovcd to !lder ton , Ont., to work as sales representat ives for Pioneer Hi-Bred Ltd. They ha ve two ehiJdl'en, Stephanie and Luke. Sylvia Reimer, B.5c. 'WI, is self-employed and li ves in Nel son, B.C., with her husb,lIld , Kerry Hiebert. Brian Robinson, B.Sc.(Agr.) '84, is an agricultural consultant in Halifax with Land Mark Resource Con su it<1nts Ltd. , a company that specializes in the use of geographic information sy ste m ~ and the development of decision support sys tems. He and his wife, Michelle, have two children, Michelle <1nd Ale xa nder. Lynn Roblin, BASe. '80 and MSc .( H.K.) '82, is a former public-health nutritionist who is now managing a family of six and her own freelance nutrition consult ing business. She was in charge of tile creative team re spons ible for developing the ncw Callada's Food Guide Cue/I'"

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Fae and Fred Jerome

A gift in progress

a student at Guelpb, Fred Jerome, BSA '33 , spen t much of his spare time drawin g portraits, <1 talent he attributes to his mother, who was also a sk ill ed ama teur artist. Although he pursued an academic career, it was his love of an that led Jerome to eSlab li sh a trllst fund in 1968 to help build the University'S collec tion of Cana dian art. With the patience of both an arti st and scientist, Jerome built the fund over time to a current balance of $6,000, with the interest being used to purc llase artworks - 45 in a[l, with a current monetary va lu e of about $30,000. Judy Nasby, director of the Univ el' sity co llection , says Jerome recogn ized the tl'emend ous growth of the art com munity in Ca nada by specifying that as many works as poss ible be purcha sed from young artists. Man y of those art ists are now wel.l-estab li shecl ancltheir works are hi gh ly valued. Some outstanding exampl es include Ken Danby 's si lksc reen The Skales; Diego Drawing, a lithography by Jaek Chambers; Fighling B('ors, a pencil drawing by Inuit <1rtist Parr; Gen e Chu's delicate Spider Series; a hi ghl y co lored si.1 ks eree n by Robert Young; and Pages from JIll." NoleiJook, <1 14

page Jo urnal of notations and events by J.C He ywood. There is also a sma ll bron ze by John MieeLnikowski. The sculpture 0 1' a sma ll hen, it ['eminch us that Jerome's passion fo r art grew alongside a di stin guished career in sc ience. He was a facult y member in ge neti cs and animal scie nce from 1949 until his retirement in 1973, and worked as a consultant for Shaver Po ult ry Farms in Cam bridge. He travell ed to every continent ex cept Africa and lat er served as faculty advi ser to severa l of thc young sc ien tists he met on th ose trips who eventu ally came to Guclph to do graduate wo rk. Tn total, be super vised 17 gradu ate students and shared wi th th em his anisl', eye for detail- an asse t in any scientific endeavor. He was also an active member of the OAC Alumni Assoc iation and served on the board of the OAC Alumni Found ation. Thanks to Je ro me and othel' alumni w ho support the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, U of G now owns one of the largest coiJections of Canadian an in th e pI·ovince. Paintings and sc ulp ture from the collection are rcgul arly displayed at the centre.

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Mark Segsworth, B.Sc.(Eng.) ' R4 , and hi s wifc. Louise (Mackay), SA '86, li ve in Sydenham , Ont. , with their so ns. SI,lir and Patri ck Mark is director of o pe rations for the City of Kingston and. in hi.s sp are time . ~aves the occasional puck from ge ttin g in th e crease.

Tim a nd Susan (Ireton) Sib bald, both B.Sc '89,

live in London, OnL.. with the ir ch il clren. Katie , Maxwell and new an'ival [sob e l. Rhonda Simmons. BA '87. rec e ntly mov ed to New Zea land with hel' partner. David Ho clg es. She hopes to

continue her teaching career there.

Linda (Newland) Stather, 8.Se (Ag r. ) ·S2. is a full

tim e mom to Katlyn. S<J rah a nd Mitch e ll and a part-time

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Cynthia Stuart, B.A.Se 'SR , is a prac titi o ne r o f th era

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The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest, located at the n iversity of Gu el ph's Arbore tum was establis hed in recogni tion of th e severe depletion of our forests. The Me morial Fo res t P ro gra m n ot only provides a n opportuni ty to commemorate the life of a loved one by p la n ting a tree, it al so assures a better environment for generatio ns to come.

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is an as. ist<1nt professo r or' animal science at Michigan Statc University. He , crved 21/2 ycal's on the faculty at Loui siana Swte Uni v ~ r s ity after earning his PhD in liail-y science at th e Uni ver, it y of Wisconsi n-Madi so n in 1993. He and his wi fe, Sus ie. have two sons, Rya n and Jos hUa .

Rob Tonus, B.Se. 'SS, says he's received inquiries fro m seve ra l Gue lph g rad s s inec the Cllell)h Ahlll1/1l1 .1 hi ghli g hted hi s work with the Fata l Li g ht Awarencss Progra m (FLAP) in Se ptcmbcr [995. M any a luillni have asked fo r more information about the environ mcnta l elTort to preve nt migrating birds from flying into skysc rnpers and oth er building s. 11 you're inter ested, wt'ite to FLA P at 1 Guelph Road, Erin. Ont. NOB ITO.

Babette Turner-Underwood, B.Sc. '86, is a data base administrator and moth er of tw o-yea r-old Spencer and four-year-o ld Jasmine. They live in Glouces ter, Onto

grant to prepare her thesis for publ ication. She was a sessional lecturer at Guelph after graduation and is now teac hin g in Kingston, Onto

Chris Tyson, BA '87 , is ru nnin g hi s ow n business and working for the Mite l Corporati on in Kanata, Onto He li ves in Car leton Pl ace, where he 's enjoying the single life and all kinds of sports . Tyson says he'd li ke LO he ar from other J986/87 grads .

Sharon Bailey, BA '94 , is working in th e production. department of McClelland and Stewart publishers in Toronto. At U of G, she ed ited the Peok newspaper for a year and was prod uction ma nager of the On/arion.

Mary Jane (Ebel) , B.A .Sc. '89, and Scott Uiens, ADA '86, live in Barrie , Ont., where he is president of Te lematrix Inc. , an outdoor-adverti sing production agency in Toronto. He a lso works on the matri x boards at Sky Dome. She is at home with their chi ld ren, Alexander an d Jessie. Timothy Volk, B.Sc.(Agr.) '86, is pUI'suing a PhD at SUN Y College of Environme ntal Science and Forestry in New York. Earlier, he ea rned a mas ter' s degree in naturall'esources and spent three years co nducting agro forestry projec ts in Nigeria with th e Mennoni te Central Committee. Ted Wells, ADA ' 82, is sales manager for United AgriProducts, a di stributor of agricultural chemicals in th e northeastern United States. He and his wife, Holl y, hav e lived near Rochester, N.Y., since 1989. They have two children, Emil y and Lindsay, and in vite fl'iends to stop by and say hello when in New York State. Ann West, DVM' 82, is an anim al-health veterinarian with Agri culture & Agri-Food Canada. She and her hus band, Bill Mori arty, are building a new home near Owen Sound, Ont. Gillian (McCarthy) Whamond, B.A.Sc. '82, is a regi stered nurse at Soldiers Memori al Hospita l in Oril li a, Ont. She an d her husband, Davi d, ha ve two chil dren, Jon at han and Jeshua. Leslie Whittington-Carter, B.Comm. ' 89, is a dieti tian at the Beaver Foods hom e office in London, On t. She an d her husband, Scott , have two ch ildren , Brea nne and Stephen. Caroline Williams, B.Sc . '8 5, has bee n workin g in Switzerland fo r seven yea rs and rece ntl y accepted a po sition as software engineer for the Union Bank of Swit zerland in ZUlich. James Willick, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 8 1, is stud ying for th e Roman Catholi c priesthood at St. Augustine's Seminary for the diocese of Charlottetown, P.E.l. Jim Winterbottom, BA '89, was rece ntly appointed hea lth sci ences librarian with Northeastern State Univer sity in Tahlequah , Okla. He says: "Cheers to friends and rime passed at the Keg."

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Brenda Allen, B.Sc. '93, com pleted an M.Sc. in mathematic al 1110d elling and numerica l analysi s at Ox ford University and is now in her second year of a PhD program there.

Hugh Anderson, BA '94, is a cus tomer-service officer with Canada Trust in TorOI1lO. Valerie Ashford, MA '95 , was recentl y aw arded an Ontario Arts Council grant through Brick magazine. She was the first U of G English student to successfu Ily defen d a th esis in creative writing and will use the OAC Cue/ph A/w/lnus

Jeff Barlow, B.Comm. '90, is executive hou se keeper at the five- sta r Renaissan ce Prague Harel. Adam Bergman, BA ' 93 , graduated in October from the London Schoo l of Economics wi th an M.Sc. in Ru s sian and post-Soviet studies. Hi s research focused on vari ous aspects of the transition from Communi slll in east ce ntral Europe and the former Soviet Union . Sheila Boudreau, BLA '93, worked as a lancl scape tec hnician for the City of Waterloo before returning to sc hool full time. She is working on an MA in urban and regional planning at the Uni versit y of Waterloo and is married to fe llow student Gerarcl Gransau ll. Kelly (Brewster), B.Se. '92, an d Russ Barry, B.Sc. '9 1, li ve in Ottawa, where she works as a dietitian and he is a pharmace utical sales representative . Flora Maria Buitrago, BA '88, has been appo inted visiting lecturer in Spanish at Lehi gh Uni versit y in Pennsylvania. She has also taught at univ ersities in Kan sas and Ontario and is enroll ed in a doctoral program at the Univer's ity of Kan sas, with special interest in Mexi can, Span ish and Lati n American literature. Stacey Burke, BA '92, ran three Ironman triathlons last summer, e nding with the Gatorade world champion· ships in Hawaii in Oct ober. He pl ans to return to Ha wa ii next year ancl wi ll be aiming for a spot on the podium. He will graduate this August from Logan Col lege of Chiropractic in St. Louis, Mo. Ed Clayson, B.Sc.(Agr.) ' 90, is a finan cial advi ser in Guelph . Charlene Ward Coats, BA ' 93, Jjves in Guelph wit h her husband , Charli e, and tw o daughters, Charmaine and Jacquelin e. Ch.a d ene is an applicant services c luk at th e Ontario Co llege Appli cation Serv ice in Guelph . Linda Coulthard and Kurt Hatherly, both BA ' 92, were married last October and live in Mi ss issau ga, Ont. They met at the Bullring during h os h Week 1988. She is a customer- service manager for a financial agency, and he is key account man ager for COll Beverages. Graham Cromar, M.Sc. '93, worked for a year after graduation as a cancer research technician at Sunny brook Health Science Cen tl'e in Toronto, the n retrained as a programmer/analyst and is now worki ng at a com puter consu lting firm in Mississauga.

Anna-Lisa Culli, BA '92, writes to co ngratulate her frie nds Julie Collins, BA '92, and Bart Maves , wh o were marriecllast July . " U ofG is where our wonderful fri e ndship began," says CuJJi , who is a te ac her with th e Wei land Roman Catholic Separate Sch oo l Board. CoHins also teac hes, but for the Niagara South Board of Educa tion. Dianne (Fortier), BA '94, and Shoun Dowling, B.Sc.(El1g.) '95, celebrated the birth of their first chiJd , Calvin John , Jan . 23, J 996. 33

Chantal Dufour, B.Se. '94, is a customer-service rep resentative with cmc in Vancouver, but she also spends nwny voluntee r hours at the Vancouver Aquar ium, helping gracle-scl1ool s!LIdents learn about nl<Jrine invertebr<Jtes - in French I Suzanne Dyke, ODH '9 1, is an art ist <Jnd fo rmc r teacher who has turned hcr home on Geor'gian Bay into a painting/vacation SpOI. She offers lessons in painting an d provides an opportu nity for birding, plant identifica tion and photograph y. f-iu bed and breakf:Jst is located on the Bruce Trail, five kilometres south ot'Tobermor-y. Brigitte Franyo, BA 'n , has been in Canmore, Alta, since gr<Jduat ion and was married nea rl y two ye<l1's ago to Joe Kaulbaek. She's involved in an improvisational theatre group that performs <Jround the Bow Vall ey, teaches childl'en's thea tre classes in Banff and toured last summer wi th a non-profit environmental group She loves outdoor spo rts and says she makes a gr'edt e<Jppuc cino at the local e<Jfe Barb Groom, BA '95, is a recruit er for Toyota Can ada's manufaetuJ'lng plant in Cambridge , Ont. Leonard Handley, B.Sc.(H .K.J '91, is a chiropr'aetic student in Chicago. He and Karen Wilson, B.Sc.( H.K.) '92, will be married in August :Jnd plan to return to Ont81'io when he completes his degl'ee. She hopes 10 return to a teaching job in Belle ville. Campbell Horn, B.Col11m . ' 93, and hi, wi t'e, Lisa Whitehead, live in Toronto, whcre he works for the Yonge Street Mission training street kids in food serv ices to give th em an ellJp loyable skill. Brian Hume and Heather Dickens, both BA '93 , were marned last August in Burlington, Oill. They me both teaChing, he in Hamilton and she at the Woodlands Ch ilclr'en's Centre in Burlington. Tammy (Roth) Kaufman, BA ' 92, is a teacher in Ox ford Co un ty. She ;lJld her husband, Greg, live in Tavi s toek , Ont., with their infant daughter, Kaylee . Stefan Kremer, B,Se. '9\. completed a PhD in eOll1 puter science at the University of Alberta in 1995 and is now wo rking as a research scientist in Ottawa.

Campbell Horn and Lisa Whitehead

Judith Lancaster, BA ' 90, ea rn eli an MA in sociol ogy from the Uni ve rsity of Windsor in 1992 and is back in school again, st udy ing occupati onal therapy at McMaster University. She writes that she was married twice in 1994 - to the same man , of cou rse - when she and Lars Kristen se n ti ed the knot in Denm.ark in January and in Canada in July. Janice (Elliott) and Paul LeBoeuf, both B,Sc.(Agr.) '92, were married in February. He is go lf supe rinten dent at Rochester Place Resort near Belle River, Ont., and she is an agronomist and tomato manager with Kerr Farms Ltd . in Chatham. Chris Lewis, B.Se.(Ag r. ) '92, recently accepted a posi tion as compliance officer for Midland Walwyn , after working for both the Ontario Mini stry of Environment and Energy and the Ontario Securities Commi ss ion.

Janet (Sampson) McMichael, BA '9 1, and her husb and, Riehar'd, moved last summer to COCOllut Grove, Fla. , where she hopes to resume her career as a teacher. She wo ul d love to hear from Theta sisters. Michael Milburn, PhD '91 , Jnd Moren Oelbermann, B.Se. '9 J, have been doing consulting wo rk in the field of e lectrormrgnetic tic Ids since 1990. He is ;1 hiophysicist and sh e is a biologist at I-:LMAG, a research and consu lting firlll in Watel'loo, Ont. They are authors of the book EI<:c/I'()l/wgl/C'lic Fi eld., lIlid YOUI' Healll!, which examines th e growi ng contl'Oversy over health hazards ca used by electricity . In the book, the y look at electromagnetic fi eld res<~ ar'ch and olfer ad vice on how to minimi ze environmenta l risks. It wa, publish ed by New Star Books of Vancouver. Peter Moir, BA '92, started his own sign business in Kitehe ner, Ont. in 199:1 and says he is "bu<,y, bu sy, busy." He made some of thc donor recognition plaques displayed in various e,lInplis buildings . David Morton, B.Sc.(A!,!r.) '92, spent tl'\c summer or 1992 with the Shastr'i Indo-Canadian Instirut e in .India, taking part in a de vel opment exch:Jllgc wit h 19 other Canadian students. He has since completed a gradll<Jte program in environmenwi planning at til e Uni versity of TmolllO. Last sunliller. he went to France to guide cy cling trips in the Dordogne Region, then returned to Canada only to land a Job wi th a British co mp;lIlY caJled EuroForum. He moved to London in the fall. Other Guelph graduates in the London area are invited 10 call hlill at /71-79 3-1230 or send e-mail to 102347.2561 @compuserv .com. Carolyn (Simpson) Naccarato, BA '90, worked after graduation as a re sidential counsellor fo r develop mentally handicapped adults, but is now a full-time homcmaker. She and her' hu sb and , CII'JJline, li ve in Oakville , Ont. , with their' three-year-old son , Anthony. Nancy Nauta, BA '90, teaches Grade :3 at Conestoga Public School in Brampton, Ont. Valerie Netterfield, M.Sc. ' 9..\, is a clinical Liietitian at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg, specializ. ing in prenat:J1 and ne onatal illlensive-care nutrition. Kristina "Tina" Olson, B.A.Sc. '93 , recently returned to Toronto after two years in London , England, She works for Hugo Boss Canada. Jill (Patterson) Onno, B.Comm. '92, is part of the management tea m at Emerald Links Golf and Country Club in Ottawa's greenbelt area and run s Pallerso n Place Bed and Breakfast in a modern Tudor-style home overlooking th e 10th hole. She and her husband, Roben, were married last September at the country club and have a lso made their home "on th e links" at Gree ly. Classmates and friends are invited to call when visiting 0Ilawa, 6 13-822-6353 .

Theo Lewis, B.Sc. '90, works in research in Winnipeg and will be marrying Sean Byrne June 22 .

David Palmer, B.Sc.(Agr.) '90, was ma rri ed in De cembe r in Stillwater, Okla ., and graduat ed the next day wi th a PhD in plant pathology from Oklahoma State University. He rece ived the res earch ex ce llence award as th e top graduati ng student.

Carrie McLaughlin, BA '95, is complet ing an M.Se. in student affa irs/higher educati on at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Ann Marie Raos, BA '93, works at th e Hong Kong Bank in Vancouver, where she :Jnd Ryan Martin, B.Comm. ' 93, plan 10 be married thi~ September. Gue/ph Alumnus

Thomas Rodney, R.Sc. '92, is a computer consultant for Kell ogg Canada Ine. , wOI'king out of Lond on, Ollt.

Stephen Ross, B.Se. '93, spent a year ill Puerto Rico doin g. r e~c a re h wad, on rhc''LIS monkey s, but is IJ O W back in Cunada wo rking a, <1n animal behaviorist at the Agriculture & Agri-Fuod CanadJ ex pcrimental farm in Ollawa. Jennifer (Paterson) Sanderson, BASe. '93, is a suppl y tcache[' with thc Peel Bo:m.1 or Education. She and hl~r hu,band, Jim , have one chi Id, Je s~ e Emannucl. Catherine (Pettigrew) Semenzin, B ' 92, earned a commercia l art ceni ficate fJ'll1l1 George Brown Col lege in 1992, l11ovedlO [tul l' und murried Dennis Senlenl. in in 1995, The y a['e la unch ing an il1lpo rt/export bu siness, and Catheri ne says she 's counti ng on her U or G degree to help ens ure it s success . Merrill Stephen, R.Sc.(H K) '91 ;lIld M.Sc. '94, li ve, ahoard a 27-foo t sa il boat ill Bren twood 13 :.1 )" B.C. . with her partner. Jeft' William,. Both work as fi sh Tics o!J servers on Canadian traw lers 1'0 1' Archipelago .V\;.I [·ine Rescarch . Stephanie Taylor, BSc.( HK ) '92 compl eted a B.Sc. in physiother<Jpy at the LJ niversity or W.:stcrn Ontario and is now working at St. Michael' , Hospital in Toronto. She met her i'iane': . \1urk Bead le, at Westem. but will have U of G rri l'nds Carol Spring, BSq H K.) '92. and Suzanne Moroz, R. .Sc. '93. attend'ln l' at her wedding th is Ju ne. Her rather. Wayne Taylor, ADA '61 and B.Sc.(Agr. ) ' 65 , will give the bride uway . Jeffrey-Thompson , B.S(;. '92, is a tox icologist wi th Lakefield Re.'.carch in Peterborough , Ont. He wa, mar ried in 1995 to Patricia Burns Michele Thorn-Abbott, BASe. '9 I, is a fo ster-cure , oc ial worker wit h the hildrcn ' s Ai d Society in the Oltllwa area. She and he[' husband . Alistair, li ve in :-Jepean Marlin Tinker, B.Se. '9 1. own, Terrestrial Marine Consultin g Se rvi ce.'. and is unuer contract witll the Uni vcr, it)' of Californ ia, Sant a Crul, to co nduct a stud y 01' seat Oller ec ology in the Aleutian bland " in associa tion with the l '.S. Fish and Wil dlife Servi ce . Leslie (Bauman) Turcotte, n .A.Sc. '90, teaches drama in Port Elgin, Onl. .' he ha, a message for Guclpll fri c lld ~ Ka ren. Chrissie. Igcl and Mike: " Where arc you gu y ~ ')"

Julianne Francis-Vandenheuvel, BA '92, li vc ~ in Guel rh wit h her husba nd, Don, and tcach es f()[· the We l lington County Roman Catholi c Separate School Board. Tina Vonhof, \1 .Sc. '9 1. is a geront(llogist who rc centl y co-authored the book Oll e Do\' at {( rilll e: JIm ,' FOlll ili!' s Mw w gc IIII' £ 1'1) ('1'/('11('(' (~ rf)(,/lI el1l i(/ wit h Carolc-Ly nne LeNavcncc. It was publ ished by Au burn llo u,e in February. Jill Whiteley-Lama, R.Sc. '92, attended Moh awk College ufter grad uati on and i, now <Jl1 X-ray I.::chnolo gi M in Brant i'uru. Onl. Wendy Whitfield, BA ' l).'\, comp leted postgr<lduatc work ill Illuseum stud ics at Tren t L nil'crsi ty and i ~ no\\' the Canad ian archival cOllsu lwnt for an il1l.:rn ational ar chi val compan y. Glle/ph ,1 11/11/111/ \

Modern-day country vet I)\' Norl,m PlI/'ych, B.Se. ' 7/

:\ow thatlier son , All ister, is fi ve, Anita Niessen is finding li re a little ea, ier. Unt il recent ly, she could n' t ge t thl! snow cleared from her lane, her chi[llney cleJncd or her barn chores done wi Lho ut such modern conven iences as a roo m monitor and a cord I ' ,s telephone. I f Alli ster wer ' tu get in <.I pickle. she 'd be able to hear hi m. Ir she got in onc. she' d be ab le to phone for he lp . Suc h are the diffic ul ti es of being a

single 1110m/hobby farl11er/ v t~ te rinariun.

Njcssen, B.Sc. 'S 2 and DVM ' '13 7,

lost her husband, Peter Smith, DVM

'86, to lung cance r in July [99 1. just nine month s after Alli ster was born . Anita Niessen Since then , she's jugg leclthe responsi ce nt vis it , she ga ve numerous rout ine biliti es of raising her son alone, look s h ot ~. ched:ed pets for par;J Si lc ~ . re in g after a 265-aer " fa rm on Sl. mo ved sti tches, prescribed antibiotics, Joseph ' s Isl:ll1d near Sault Stt:. Mclrie, provided adv ice on tra ve lling with a a nt. , and mainta ining a ve terin a['y hype r tlog and made a[Tangemellt s to practice. have the tartar removed from a ki tty's As a cou ntry ve t empl oyed by the teeth back in Dcs barats. Algoma Veteri nat·y C linic in Des Being in m ed icine meanS keepin g barats. Niesse n hel ps care fOt' every up wilh ad vances in technology and re thi ng fro m Lhasa a psos to ll amas. Hl!r ~ carc h . In IlJ93, Nie"sen hought a port territory ex tends from Scarchfllol\ t, 80 able ultrasound m<Jehine that sl1e ancl kilometres to the north , to Bli nd Rive[', her co lleag ucs usc to d iag nose e ve ry 90 km to the cast. thin g from bladd n stones in pet s to She wo rk s with Dave Croskery, tencion injuries in horses. DVM '69, and Keith Good, D M It also opens the door to numerous ' 83, ow ners of th e Algoma clin ic, and possibilities in reproductive medicine. Barb (Lingg) Good, DV ~ ' S3 . Applyin g the techno logy to horse Nicsse n ~a ys thi s team has made it pos breedi ng is ' j e s~ c n' s ke n intcn:st. Ul sible for her to work C1e xib lc hours. trasou nd i, usc[ul for confi rming and They've abo relieved her of overnight monitori ng lJatural prcgnancie . and it duty, sparing her from bc ing rootcd increase" the suceess rate of 'Irt ificial o ut of bed at 3 a. l11. to attend to emer inse mi nat io ll bc call ~e . cans can hel p gency ailments and deli veries. Sti ll , dete rt1line the pr' c isc ,>tage oj' I he pro she puts in anywhere from 25 to 45 spective mot h r' ~ f'pro ducti ve c ycle . hou rs a wee k. r[ or, e~ may b ' her bread and bUlter, When she heads in the Sault di rec but they've renwi ned the ~ p i c e in her tion. most of her patient' <Jre like ly to lilc as we ll . . he owns , e\'eral. inc lud be horses. but they also inc lude eat tlc , ing on ' he u.s s for p leasure rid ing , heep, g. o at~ anti the m;e3sion al ex otic. and ano ther tha t pull s a cut ter. "One of th ' more memo ra ble mi Ik fe At 37. Nie"cll find~ 11'1' li lC 11 <.1 n't

vcrs [' ve at tcnded \ a<; a ve ry cran ky gonc as pl anned . Rut she wouldn't

<tk," shc says. want to be ~ce Jl as e ither a heroine or a

Once a week . , he heads (,<.1s t to the vict im - JU Sl <;OlTIeOl1e so metimes

~a tdJit e clinic in Bli nd River. making ' trugg ling. someti me.., soari ng. but al

f;JrI 11 c;) lI s <lIon " the way amI treat ing way., stri ving to do her hcst , I '; a 1110111

,md as a vel.

f,1ll1il y pets at the c linic. During om: re35

What's in your future?

Stephanie Wilken, BA '95, is studying wellness and lifestyle management at Centennial College in SCal'bor足 ough, ant. She will graduate in Mayas a certified well足 ness educator/consultant. Lisa Wi/son, BA '93, is a reseal'ch cO-OI"dinator in Mal'kham, ant. Kirk Wolter, g,Comm, '91, spent some time after graduation ;;tudying Swcdish in Swccien, but has since moved to England and married and is now training to be an accountant. Kallisto Wong, BA '92, is dircctor of financc anci ad足 ministration for I-Tech Technologies Limited in Hong Kong, Sl1e's responsiblc fOl" company officcs in China anci Hong Kong, In October, she married Anthony Ma, an environmental managcmcnt consultant. Doug Woods, B,Sc, '90, was married in 1995 to Jill Kelcey, Tl1ey live in Bmrie, Ont., and teach in Simcoe County,

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Guelph, Ontario NIG 2WI, fax: 519-822-2670,

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Gordon Agar, BSA '35 , J 992.

Martin Agney, BA '90, Feb. 29 , 1996.

Kathryn (Geddes) Alexander, DHE Dec. 15 , 1995.

Edwin O'Reilly, ADA ' 39, 1990.

Gerald Philip, ADA '29, Jan. 28,1995.

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Barbara (Wilson) Anderson, DHE '3 7, N ov. 18, 1995. Arthur Armstrong, ADA ' 35 , Dec. 1994. Ronald Bagg, BSA '39, No v. 17, 1995 . Harriet (Mcintosh) Bannerman, DH E '20, N ov . II , 1994. James Bechtel, BSA ' 55 , Sept. 14, 1995. Haines Bellman, BSA '52 and MSA '63, March 14, 1996 . Vernon Bradley, ADA '31 and BSA ' 40, Sept. 1995. Helen (Bucke) Brigham, DHE '33, Oct. 15, 1995. Harry Brown, BSA '46, Dec. 15 , 1995. Paul Brun, ODH ' 95, date unkn ow n. William Brydges, DVM ' 50, March 16, 1996. Douglas Burley, DVM ' 38, OCl. 2, 1995. Humphrey Carver, HDLA '87, Oct. 19, 1995. Helen (Wolfer) Clements, DHE ' 32, N ov 1,199 5. David Corfield, BA '72, Apn19, 1993. Ernest Cowan, BSA '28, Jan. J 8, J 996 Mary (Hoover) Dawson, DHE '33 , Feb . 10, 1996 . Bessie Dickinson, DHE '20, date un known. Hanif Dhanani, BA ' 82, September 1994. Jennie (McCartney) Durant, DH E ' 24 , Sept. 7, 1995 . . James Edgett, DVM ' 38, Feb. 22, 1995 Richard Farion, M.Sc. (Agr.) '72, Ja n. 26, 1996. Clarence Fleming, DVM '34 , Jan. 3 1, 1996. Elmo (Masson) Franklin, DHE ' 3 1, N o v. 17, 1995. Arthur Grubb, ADA '38 and BSA '41, March 2,1996. Diane (Sheridan) Guthrie, B.H.Sc. '66, Oct. 24 , 1995. Charles Hagyard, DVM ' 24 , June 14 , 1995 . Wilson Henderson, DVM '47, N ov. 17, 1995. Fred Hindle, ADA '34 and BSA '38, 1995 Carol Hosking, BSc.(HK ) '86, March 5, 1996. Alvin Hunter, BSA ' 42, Sept. IS , 1995 . Robert Jefferson, BSA '35, May I , 1995. George Klain, BSA '54 and MSA '5 6, Nov. 13, 1995. Chester Lane, ADA '24, Aug. I, 1995. Aileen (Underwood) Lewis, DH E ' 39, March 22, 1995. Ida Marshall, DH E '26 , Feb . 19, 1996 James McCague, BSA '40, Jan. 19, 1996. Gretta McGugan, DHE '25, No v. 24, 1995. Brian Mills, DVM ' 77 , Jan . 6, J996. Jessie Moyer, DH E ' 27, Feb. 16, 1995 William Nankivelle, ADA '40, Nov . 12, 1995. James Nicol, BSA '42, Oct. 7,1995. Guelph Alumn us

Allan Rabjohn, DVM' 50, Jan. 17, 1996.

Herbert Ransom, BSA '42 and '43, Jan. 16, 1996.

Robert Ranson, ADA '62, June 7, 1995.

Brent Read, B.Sc.(Agr. ) '67, Oct. 6, 1995 .

Arthur Redshaw, BSA ' 62, Jan . 7, J996.

Herbert Reuber, DVM '44, April 28, 1995.

Mary-Louise (Harrison) Ruttan, DHE ' 37,

Ma rc h 23, 1996 Carlyle Smith, ADA '38 and BSA '41, No v. 17 , 1995. Wendell Snow, BSA '49 and MSA ' 58 Feb. 19, 1996. ' Grace (Archibald) Stagg, DHE '32, date un known . Jean (Whiteside) Stephens, DHE '35 , Marc h 13, 1996 Ronald Stewart, BS A '36, Dec. 13, 1995. Frank Strong, BSA ' 37, Jan. 16, 1996. Margaret Taylor, DHE '33 , Feb. 22, 1996. Willa Thompson , DHE ' 25, Nov . 1, 1995. John Tweedy, BA ' 76, N o v. 2,1995. Norah Vicars, DHE ' 29, Dec. 23,1995. Victor Warren, BSA '43, Dec. 21, 1995. Howard Watson, BS A '29, April 1991.

Donations given in memory of Arnold Werner, AD A '2 1 and BSA ' 23, deceased alumni July 22, 1995. will help support Mary (Graham) Whitelock, DHE '36, Feb. 17,

scholarships at the 1996.

University of Guelph Gunther WOlff, A DA '5 1, Sept. 23, J995 .

if directed to the Helen Young, DHE ' 28, Jan. 9,1996.

Alumni Memorial Victoria Bloomfield, BA '90, died Feb. 11 , 1996, in

Fund. Send clo a car accid ent. A PhD gradu ate of McMaster Uni vcr足

Alumni House, sity, she is sur vived by her parents, Gerald , a facu lty

member In U of G' s Depart ment 01' Geograph y, an d

University of Guelph, Elizabeth, BA '8 1, and a tw in brother, And re w.

Guelph, Ont. Stanley Curtis, BSA '4 5, o f Truro, N.S., di cd Nov. 5,

N1G 2W1. J995. He spent most of hi s career on th e facult y of the

For information, call No va Scoti a Agric ultural College, retirin g in J982. He

IS sur vived by his wife, Jean.

519-824-4120, William Ewen, BS A '35, of Guelph, died March 15,

Ext. 6183. Holton Webster, DVM '45, Oct. 16, 1995 .

1996. He spent hi s e11lire career as a professor of soi l

science at OAC and maintained contact with many fo r足

mer students now scattered ltuoughout the world. He

was a member of se veral professional bodi es and a pas t

preSident of the Guelph Chamber 01' Commerce. [n hi s

honor, a memorial fun d has been established at U ofG

and a tree will be planted in the Arboretum's Wall-Cus足

tance Memori al Forest.

Norman Fish, DVM ' 42, o f Guelph died Jan. 8, 1996.

Hi s career was spent teaching veterinary medi cine at

OVC, and he is survi ved by hi s wife, Eva, and son,

Kenneth, BA ' 7 J. A tree will be planted in Dr. Fi sh' s

memory at the Arboretum' s Wall-Custance Memorial

Forest.

Williard Fish, BSA '43, of Newmarket, Ont., died Oct. 26, 1995 . His teaching career at the high sc hool in New market spanned 35 yea rs and two ge neratio ns of stu dents. He was also a community worker, with man y years of invol vement in the Children's Aid Society, Ca nadian Cancer Society, St. John' s Young at Heart Club and the Horticultural Society. He is survi ved by two ch ildren and two grandchildren. Keith French, BSA ' 60, died Dec. 7, 1995 , in Ham il ton, Onto A mechanical engineer and teacher, he coached track and field and was a Canadian Masters champion in steeplechase, Canadian and North Ameri can champion in orienteering and a strong participant in cross-country ski ing. He retired as head of science in 1994, but continued to run a cash-crop farm operation with his wife, Gwenn, BSA '61, He is also survived by three sons, Tim, Nevin and Liam. Donald Gamble, DVM '39, died Jan. 10, 1996. He was a veterinarian in the Ollawa area and one of the founders of the Glengarry Highland Games. He is sur vived by his wife, Violet, and daughter, Susan. Marinus Getkate, MA '90 and PhD '94, was killed Dec. 8, 1995 , in his homc in Ottawa. His wi fe, Li lian, has been charged with first-degree murder in the case. Mr. Getkate was one of U of G's first PhD graduates in industrial psychology and, at the time of his death, was working for the RCMP. He is survived by his parents and two children: Dara, 9: and Kevin,S. A memorial fund established in his name will support a scholarship in the Department of Psychology. Send contributions c/o Paulette Salmon, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. N IG 2W I. Donald MacDonald, DVM '59, of SUIl'ey, B.C., died Dec. 2, 1995. He practised in White Rock for 35 years ,wd served a six-year term as Ina yor. He is sur vived by his wife, Pat , children and g randchildren . Kenneth Marcellus, ADA '4 1 and BSA '43, died Jan . 12, 1996. He was th e so n of former Guelph poultry science professor Ken Marcellus, ADA ' 09, BSA ' I I and DVM '46, and is su rvived hy hi s wife, Jane (Turner), DHE ' 4 1, and two sons, Stuart and David, John Parsons, M Sc, '77, died Oct. I, 1995 , in Dart mouth , N.S. Originally from Hud so n, Que., he moved to Nova Scotia III 1. 978 after comp leting his Guelph de gree. He pursued a CMeer in wildlife biology and be came one of the foremost experts on mal'ine mammals in Eastern Canada , particularly ring and harbor seals. He is survived by his cumpaniol1, Arlene, and parents, Hu gh and Mal')'. Mark Redston, BA '83, of Thuoe!er Bay, Oot., died Aug. 26, 1995. After Guelrh, he earned an MA and PhD in psychology from Quecn's University in King ston. At the time of his death, he was a psychologist at Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital. He is survivee! by his wife, Susan Sundberg, and one son, Zachary. Gladstone Ridler, BSA '35, of ])on IvIill s, Ont. died Nov. 23, 1995. A graduate of OAC's anima l science program, he is sUl'vi ved by his wife, Ruth (Hartley), DHE '34, aod his chi ldt'en, James, Eli z.abeth and Roland. Memo ri al donations may be sent to the Alma Mater Fund , c/o Paulette Samson, Alumni House, Uni versity of Guelph, Guelph , Ont. N I G 2W I. 38

Stephen "Chuck" Rowe, B.Sc .(Agr.) '8 1, died Feb. 26, 1995, at his home in Waterford , Ont. He was a horti cultural crop adviser with the Ontario Ministry of Agri culture, Food and Rural Affairs aod is survived by his parents , Malcolm and Marilyn, a sister, Stephanie, and two brothers, Jonath an and Jeff. Peter Seidl, M.Sc. '80, is remembered by his family through the estab li s hment of a memorial scholarship at U of G. An environmental sc ientist with the World Bank, he disappeared early in 1994 while travelling and working in the Far East. Donations to the sc holarsh ip can be directed to the Alma Mater Fund , clo Paulette Samson, Alumni House, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont. NIG 2WI. Frederick Stevens, ADA '40, BSA '42 and '43, e!ied Dec. 15, 1995, in Rochestel', N.Y. After graduat ion, he workcd in a Canadian government laboratory for a few years, then moved to Ncw York State. He was director of research for the Tobin Packing Company for more than 20 years, th en started his own company, Upstate New York Chemical Lab, and later, F..I . Stevens In c. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn (Hare), DHE '40, three sons and 10 grandchildren. John Steele, DVM '40, ot' Suney , B.C., dicd in OC[O bel' 1995. He worked as a government l11eat inspecto r, then opened the Blue Cross Animal Hospital in Vancou ver. He later worked for the City of Vancouver, becom ing director of environment:]1 health. He was the offici al veterinarian for the Hastings Park race track for four years. He is survived by hi s wife, Joycc, and tour chi l dren. Donald Watson, BSA '34, of La Jolin , Ca lif. , died Dec . 29, 1995. Consid ered one of the foremost horticul tural ee!ucators in the United Swtes, he was formerly head of ornamental horti cu lture ill Michigan State Uni vers it y ,Illd a former chair of horticulture at the Univer sit y of Hawaii , where he retired as professor emeritu s. He is survived by one sister, Nora Stewart, DHE '40, and two brothers, Harry, BSA '43. and Lynn, BSA '50

Faculty & Staff Jakob Amstutz., a retired faculty member in the Depart ment of Philosophy, diee! Nov. II. 1995. William Brown, who taught oq,anic chemist ry at Guelph from 1946 to 1979, dice! \Iov. I, 1995, in Guelph. Don Amichand, former international student adviser at U of G, died Jan. 23, 1996. He served the needs of Guelph's international students from 1968 to 1994.

Board of Governors Former Chief Justice Emmell Hall, who was chancellor of U of G from 1971 to 1977, died Nov. 12 in Saska toon. A member of the bat' since 1957, he was ap pointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1962. He made a major contribution to Canadian society when he chaired the royal commission whose 1964 report led to the introduction of medicare. He was also co-author of the Hall -Dennis Report, wh ich recommended sweeping changes in the Ontario educational system in the 1960s.

Justice Emmett Hall Guelph A/wl/l1uS

Ginty and Lorie Jocius pre served part of Guelph's herI tage when they renovated a historical home as office space for their consult ingfmarketing firm. Photo by Vern McGrath

Alumni and friends When Ginty Jociu , B.Sc.(Agr.) '70, wa. a student at OAC, he talked the Ontario In titutc of Agrologist into backing a promotional film about the college. It was the tart of a career in marketing and a lifelong commitment to his alma mater. Jociu has cominued to promote the UniverilY of Guelph, has hired it graduates to work in his Guelph con sulting firm and ha given from hi heart and his pocket book to suppon the campus. On June 22, 1996, we'll ay ·'thank you" when the Uni versity of Guelph Alumni A ociation names Jocius the 1996 Alumnus of Honor. The honor comes not only because of Jociu 's involve ment with the Univer ity, but also because of his leader ship in business, industry and the community at large. He erved as executive assistant to two Ontario ministers of agriculture and i stiU active in provincial politic . Hc is a director of the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network and donates hi time and talent to serve farm communities outside Canada. He helped launch Rotary Canada's Gift of Wing projcct and led the Guelph Rotary Club in a suc-

cessful $ I-million fund-rai ing campaign. In partnership with hi<; wife, Lorie, B.A.Sc. '72, Jocius established a successful consulting company in Guelph, catering to the need. ofthe agri-food industry. In 1994, he launched the Outdoor Farm Show - an annual . howcase event near Burford - and was recognized by the Cana dian Agricultural Marketing Association as Marketer of the Year in 1995. Both Ginty and Lorie have encouraged young people through their participation in career-related event organ ized by the University and other profe ional groups. They have promoted the an through conuibutions to the Macdonald Stewart An Centre. And they have served the cause of education through their involvement with Guelph's alumni organizations and the newly e tablished GUARD Inc., which will bring economic benefits 10 U of G through the development of new technologies. In all these endeavor, Jociu has brought recognition

not only to himself, but also to his aJma maler, his commu nity and agriculture.

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